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Supes get Bills look to boost building update on hate crimes

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

DJUSD projects smaller shortfall

By Edward Booth

With attacks on Asian Americans top of mind of late, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors received a presentation on hate crimes and hate incidents on Tuesday.

The presentation was requested by the board when it passed a resolution several weeks ago condemning and promising to combat hate incidents directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Mariko Yamada, a former county supervisor and state lawmaker, told the board on Tuesday that the resolution was important because it “set a standard that’s public and clear.”

However, “we all know we have to do more. We have to do more because the incidents haven’t subsided,” said Yamada, citing the mass shooting in Atlanta last week as well as other recent incidents.

“What we have to do is ensure that all governing bodies and our everyday citizens are equipped with the tools and the resources

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coronavirus pandemic is under control.

The state needs 1.8 million new housing units by 2025, but is only producing about 80,000 units on average each year, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The number of homeless people in California increased to more than 161,000 before COVID-19. Then, the pandemic put ambitious proposals on hold.

On Thursday, Housing California and other advocates for affordable housing and the homeless plan to unveil what they call a comprehensive 10-year strategy to address the

The Davis school board on Thursday received a presentation on the district’s second interim budget report, indicating that a previously projected large future budget cut will be much smaller than initially anticipated.

Amari Watkins, associate superintendent of business services, gave the budget report, which covers the financial activity of the district from July 1 last year through January 2021 and includes multi-year projections.

In the first interim budget report, presented in December, the district projected that $6.3 million in budget reductions would be needed to maintain a state-mandated 3% reserve in the 2022-23 school year. In the second report, those cuts have dropped to about $100,000, Watkins said.

The main reason for this drop is because the cost of living adjustment in the

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California needs 1.8 million new housing units by 2025, but is only producing about 80,000 units on average each year, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Legislation aims at housing crunch

By Nigel Duara CalMatters California housing is crowded, expensive and difficult to find, but if a package of bills proposed by prominent Senate Democrats becomes law, some cities could look very different a decade from now.

Duplexes and small apartment buildings would spring up from single-family lots. Public housing projects, effectively stifled since the 1950s, would dot the landscape of the state’s larger cities. Housing developments would emerge in the carcasses of vacant strip malls and

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abandoned big-box stores.

What that means in practice is wresting more control of housing from cities and counties. Local officials don’t plan to go along quietly. This battle of wills stretches back years, but some of the most aggressive legislation to give the state more control will be taken up in this year’s session.

Supporters say the bills are even more important amid a pandemic and rolling lockdowns that have put as many as 2.1 million Californians at risk of eviction and highlighted the state’s affordable housing crisis, which will continue long after the

County officially moves to orange tier today

Gunfire incident reported inside Davis apartment

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

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Enterprise staff writer Restaurants, gyms and movie theaters can increase indoor capacity beginning Wednesday now that Yolo County has moved to the orange tier.

The county made the move based on COVID-19 numbers for the week ending March 13, numbers which included an adjusted case rate of 2.7 per 100,000 residents; a countywide test

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positivity rate of 0.5 percent and a test positivity rate in the county’s lowest health quartile of 3 percent, according to Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson.

Davis police are investigating a report of shots fired inside an Alvarado Avenue apartment.

No one was injured in the alleged shooting, which generated two Sunday morning calls to the Davis Police Department — first at around 2 a.m., and again more than five hours later.

The first caller, a resident of the Casitas Apartments

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Climate walk video available Davis Climate strike organized a Walk for Climate Justice on March 11. The event was organized in conjunction with Greenfaith’s “Sacred People, Sacred Earth Day of Climate Action,” https://greenfaith.org/take-action, and was part of climateaction events held on six continents. Walkers visited with elected officials and community leaders throughout downtown Davis to discuss their climate-action policies and plans.

Local community media center Davis Media Access recorded the walk. An 11-minute program is now airing on DCTV Channel 15 Comcast in Davis, at Menu 99 on AT&T’s U-verse system, and is also on-demand at DMA’s YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/ HyJv3wxl3u0.

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Is it really, truly goodbye this time?

S o I opened Sunday’s paper and there staring back at me was my old friend and colleague Bruce Gallaudet, a true comrade-in-arms on the localjournalism front for the last 40 years.

Bruce was writing about a lengthy to-do list that included suspending his Twitter and Facebook accounts, donating his vast collection of neckties, giving away all the treasures in the top-secret lower righthand drawer of his desk and attending a Davis High baseball game without a scorebook.

Now why would he be doing all those things?

Well, I guess I was a little slow to catch on, but as I continued to read, I realized this was Bruce’s way of saying goodbye.

So long. See ya later. I’m outta here. It’s been a nice ride but it’s time to get off the merry-goround. I’ll be at my office-awayfrom-the-office at Plainfield Station, wolfing down “the usual.”

Bruce has tried going cold-turkey before. Several times, in fact.

But the local sports scene always drew him back for one more season, one more playoff run, one more feature about the local kid who overcame all odds to become

Plainfield Station and I don’t want it to get cold.”

I’m considering asking the Yolo County Superior Court for some sort of injunction that will fit Bruce with an ankle bracelet and allow him outside The Enterprise newsroom only to interview athletes or attend and report on local sporting events.

a bona fide All-American.

This time he says he’s serious.

Which is what he said last time.

And the time before that.

I’ll believe it when I tell him the Aggie women’s basketball team is in the Final Four in San Antonio and there’s a seat along press row with his name on it and he says simply “No thanks, I’m done.”

I’ll believe it when I tell him the Davis Little League all-stars have just earned a trip to Williamsport and there’s a private jet waiting to take him there and he says “Can’t do it, I’m playing with the grandkids today.”

I’ll believe it when I tell him Davis High’s Steve Smyte has been named California coach of the year by the National Football Foundation and we need someone who knows Steve to write it up and he replies, “I’ve already ordered my cheeseburger at

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ruce’s first “retirement” was almost exactly three years ago today. We all pitched in our nickels and dimes and gave him a new Cadillac Escalade, a lifetime rent-free condo in Maui, season tickets behind home plate at Giants games, a lifetime pass for all events at Golden One and a $5 Starbucks gift card.

Pretty much the next day, Bruce said “just kidding” and he was back in the saddle with his boots on.

At the time, I wrote of Bruce and his sweetheart for life, Debbie, our former managing editor, “Many journalists come to a small, hometown newspaper with their eyes on a bigger prize. They plan to stay for a few years and then move on to brighter, greener pastures.

“Not so for Debbie and Bruce.

They were lifers from the start.

Community journalism — where

you have the opportunity to interact with your readers on a daily basis, whether at school or council meetings or church or civic events or times of celebration or times of grief, or even simply at the grocery store — is what made their hearts beat strongest.”

Of Bruce, I added, “Folks in the sports department are still trying to figure out how Bruce can be at two events at once, one at home and the other on the road. He would gladly cover PeeWee hopscotch in Turlock if Davis kids were involved.”

And then I noted, “Above all, the thing that made Bruce special to both the athletes and the fans in this town is that he fully understood that even though these were simply games that kids were playing, for many of them it felt like a life-or-death experience.

“He respected that passion and purpose, and his writing reflected his belief that all these athletes, whether superstars or secondstringers, were much, much better off for the experience, no matter what the scoreboard might say.”

Godspeed, my friend. May our paths cross again one day soon.

Hopefully in the newsroom.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

More than a third of Davisites have received vaccine

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer More than 37 percent of Davis residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, well above the countywide vaccination rate of 27.1 percent.

None of the county’s other cities — Woodland, West Sacramento and Winters — have topped 30 percent, according to data provided to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday by Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson.

Woodland is closest, with 29.5 percent of residents having received at least one dose, followed

by West Sacramento at 21 percent and Winters at 20.8 percent.

The city of Davis has a 37.5 percent vaccination rate.

In addition to West Sacramento and Winters, unincorporated areas with vaccination rates below the county average include Dunnigan (19.3 percent), Capay (26 percent), Esparto (24.1 percent), Knights

Landing (20.6 percent) and Madison (21 percent).

Sisson also reported vaccination rates by zip code, with the 95605 zip code in West Sacramento having the lowest vaccination rate of all at 15.5 percent. That zip code includes the Bryte and Broderick neighborhoods.

The county is targeting that area this week, Sisson said, with a West Sacramento farmworker clinic and also by providing more than 300 doses to community clinics there.

But language barriers and vaccine hesitancy continue to be issues, including among primary Russian and Spanish speakers, Sisson said.

“We also need to address access to technology to make a vaccine appointment and transportation to get to a vaccination site,” she added.

On the other end of the spectrum is Davis, where 37.5 percent of residents have received at least one vaccine dose.

“It’s important to keep in mind that many factors shape these numbers, including where occupational groups prioritized for vaccine live,” said Sisson, “along with access to technology to sign up for an appointment and transportation to get to a vaccination site.”

The large number of healthcare workers and educators in Davis “likely plays a role in the high proportion of Davis residents who’ve been vaccinated to date,” said Sisson.

In her update to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sisson also said that while eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine has been expanded, the supply of vaccines has not.

Nearly all of the vaccine supply available this week to the county was used for second-dose clinics, she said.

All told, 88,391 vaccine doses have been administered to Yolo County residents. n 60,196 county residents have

received at least one dose n 28,195 county residents have received two doses n 22,659 residents age 65 and over have received at least one dose Groups currently eligible for the vaccine through the county, healthcare providers, community clinics and other sources include: n Those 65 and over n Those ages 16 to 64 with certain underlying medical conditions or disabilities n Healthcare workers n Education and childcare workers n Food and agriculture workers n Emergency services workers n Transit workers n The homeless n Those who are incarcerated — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net.

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Person killed by train identified Store confrontation

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The man whose body was found along the railroad tracks near Davis’ Cannery neighborhood earlier this month has been identified as Nobu Iwasa, a 72-year-old Davis resident, Yolo County coroner’s officials said Monday after

notifying his next of kin.

Iwasa died of blunt-force trauma after being struck by a passing freight train, according to Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya. His death has been ruled a suicide.

Davis police responded to the scene shortly after 3:30 p.m. March 12 after Iwasa’s remains were

discovered along the California Northern railroad tracks just west of the Cannery’s dog park area.

Investigators believe Iwasa’s death occurred sometime earlier that day, although the exact timeline remains under investigation, Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov said Monday.

Immigrants can now access assistance Special to The Enterprise WOODLAND — Eligible immigrants and their families residing in Yolo County can now safely access CalFresh and MediCal assistance programs without impacting their current immigration status.

The federal policy that forced millions of immigrants to forego vital health and economic support services was successfully blocked on March 9, when the U.S. Department of Justice dropped its legal defense of the 2019 Public Charge Rule. The Public Charge Rule was a means of denying someone a green card, visa, or admission into the U.S. based on how likely they would become dependent on government benefits.

CalFresh is a nutrition assistance program for Yolo County’s low-income households, including households of mixed immigration status. The program provides a monthly financial allotment to help households put healthy and nutritious foods on the table.

Medi-Cal provides

needed healthcare services for Yolo County’s lowincome individuals and families, including individuals with unsatisfactory immigration status. For individuals that do not meet established income guidelines for Medi-Cal, they may be eligible for the County Medical Services Program (CMSP) that has higher income guidelines.

Residents may find out if they’re eligible and apply for both services online by visiting: www.mybenefits calwin.org, calling directly at 1-855-278-1594, or

going in-person Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to any of the four following locations at 25 N. Cottonwood St. in Woodland, 500A Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento, 600 A St. in Davis or 111 E. Grant Ave. in Winters.

Yolo County residents interested in discovering other assistance opportunities or have questions regarding their current benefits are encouraged to visit the County’s Welfare Services webpage or connect by phone at 1-855278-1594.

leads to robbery arrest

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A man suspected of robbing a local grocery store found himself under arrest Saturday after he returned to the scene of his alleged crime.

The suspect, identified as Scott Alan Nelson, reportedly stole merchandise on March 16 from the Save Mart store on Anderson Road, Davis police Lt. Art Camacho said.

He allegedly pushed an employee who confronted him, the physical act escalating the offense from a shoplifting to a strongarm robbery.

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Officers were in the process of moving the man along when the same employee alerted them that the same man had robbed the store four days earlier, “and he had the video to prove it,” Camacho said.

Nelson, 33, of Chico, was arrested on suspicion of robbery and booked into the Yolo County Jail.

The Davis Police Department online arrest log shows he also was arrested on suspicion of vandalism at the same shopping center on March 17.

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From Page A1 that are needed to report and to ensure that hate crimes and hate incidents are addressed and prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” she said.

To that end, District Attorney Jeff Reisig brought in experts on hate crimes and hate incidents to educate the board and the public.

As currently written, state law defines a hate crime as a criminal act committed in whole or in part because of one or more of the following actual or perceived characteristics of the victim: disability; gender; nationality; race or ethnicity; religion; sexual orientation; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

“You have to have an underlying crime or there’s no hate crime. It’s a crime, plus you have to prove a bias motivation beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Nancy Appel of the AntiDefamation League.

“But we also talk about hate crimes as message crimes,” she said, in that “it is a message of hate and terror not only to the individual who has been targeted because of a certain trait, but to everyone else in the community that shares that exact trait…. It’s what makes hate crime distinctive, this message of terror that’s sent to communities.”

As an example, she used the crime of graffiti.

“If I take a can of black spray paint … and I go to a local Chinese restaurant and on an exterior wall I spray ‘Nancy was here,’ that’s vandalism.”

But if she takes her can of paint and sprays “China virus” on that restaurant’s wall, that’s something else.

“They’re both vandalism. One is annoying. The other … is a message of hate to them and to the entire community and it is more powerful and deserves a more powerful response both from a law enforcement perspective, but also from the rest of the community to send a countervailing message back,” said Appel.

Then there are hate incidents, which are non-criminal acts motivated by hatred or bigotry.

“It’s basically speech, for the most part,” said Appel. “It’s hateful, it can pack a similar emotional wallop for the community, but under the First Amendment, it’s protected.”

Recent examples would be a message on a restaurant receipt targeting a waitress with the words, “we only tip citizens,” or a Nazi flag hung in a window targeting the family across the street, said Appel. Or an incident a few years ago at UC Davis when a flyer for the Center for African Diaspora Student Success was covered over with a sticker that said, “It’s OK

to be white.”

The acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phil Talbert, noted that offensive speech or acts that don’t break the law are protected by the First Amendment.

However, a threat — a serious communication of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence against a particular individual or group of individuals — is not protected.

Nor are hate crimes.

“These crimes target not just the individual victims that the crime is directed at, but really the entire community. It’s really an assault on the idea that we can live in a peaceful, diverse community and in enjoyment and safety with everyone else,” Talbert said.

“Also, hate crimes, in particular, tend to be more violent than other crimes because… they’re message crimes,” he said. “So they are the types of crimes that we’re very concerned about.”

Talbert said his office does substantial community outreach “in particular to vulnerable communities throughout the district.”

And a key message to people is to contact not just local police when an incident occurs but also the FBI if it’s a suspected hate crime, he said. That number to call is 1-800-CALL-FBI. In addition to encouraging people to report hate crimes and incidents, education will remain key, members of the public — and county supervisors — said.

Lisa Yep Salinas, who spearheaded passage of resolutions by governing boards throughout Yolo County after being targeted multiple times herself, said Tuesday that “the big work” lies ahead.

“Education, training and reporting,” said Salinas.

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis agreed.

“In this country we still have people who will target you based on the way you look and make assumptions that are just so wrong and so harmful and so damaging and that’s where we have to get together and we have to constantly be educating and supporting communities.

“The remedy of hate crimes is one answer,” he said, “but also education and coming together to let all communities know that whenever anyone is singled out, that we will all band together to support them.

“We’re going to work together to make sure that Yolo County is not a place of hate but a place of love and a place where people live together in harmony,” said Provenza. “That’s the goal and it’s just so important that we achieve it.”

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net.

state budget last year — for the local control funding formula, which determines much of school district funding from the state — was cut to 0%. But because state revenues didn’t suffer as much from COVID-19 as originally anticipated, the COLA was reinstated and temporarily increased to compensate for the previous lack of a COLA. The required budget reductions, though smaller than originally projected, will only maintain a 3.1% reserve. And, Watkins said, the district faces an additional financial hurdle: decreasing enrollment.

State funding is tied to enrollment in California school districts. The district’s enrollment has been declining each year by about 100 students per year, Watkins said, and an additional 200 this year related to COVID19.

The district is currently “held harmless” by the state, meaning that it will be funded on 2019-20 school year attendance data for the current

and next fiscal year, Watkins said. Once attendance assessments start happening again, arriving first for the 2022-23 school year, the impact of the multi-year decline in students will begin to be felt.

“Our fiscal sustainability is dependent on annual increases in state funding,” Watkins said. “Continued declining enrollment as well as deficit spending is a fiscal distress problem for school districts.”

Trustee Betsy Hyder said the new COLA represents a substantial financial relief that makes it so the district won’t have to make deep cuts.

Trustee Tom Adams said if the district didn’t have to handle constantly increasing pension costs, or if the state provided consistent relief for those costs, the district’s budget would be in much better shape. Board president Joe DiNunzio said pension costs are the single biggest source of variability and uncertainty in the district’s budget.

“These are monies that were earned by our teachers and staff and owed to them,

but the unpredictability of what that level’s going to be in the coming year can really wreak havoc with the budget,” DiNunzio said.

The budget presentation also contained information on how the district has been spending money on COVID19 mitigation measures. The district has spent about $4.7 million out of roughly $4.9 million currently awarded on providing internet connectivity devices; addressing learning loss; professional development for distance learning; and providing personal protective equipment and supplies for cleaning school facilities, among others.

Extra funds for combating COVID-19 are also on the way, including an estimated $7 million coming from a $6.6 billion state budget package signed into law by Newsom early this month and about $2.4 million in federal funds.

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

ORANGE: Change will help Yolo businesses From Page A1 for which the state provides a bonus.

The bottom line for Yolo County is good news for local businesses. Effective Wednesday, the following will occur: n Retail businesses can return to 100 percent indoor capacity n Places of worship can expand indoor capacity from 25 percent to 50 percent n Movie theater capacity can expand from 25 percent or 100 people (whichever is fewer) to 50 percent or 200 people (whichever is fewer) n Gyms and fitness centers can expand indoor capacity from 10 percent to 25 percent n Restaurants can 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 can open indoors at 25 percent capacity or 100 people (whichever is fewer) n Bars can open outdoor service without serving meals n Family entertainment centers such as bowling alleys can open indoors at 25

percent capacity n Museums, zoos and aquariums can expand capacity indoors from 25 percent to 50 percent n Outdoor live events, including sports, can 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.

Moving to the orange tier “means that there will be more opportunities to be exposed to COVID and to spread it to other people,” county public information officer Jenny Tan said Monday. “So we all need to keep up the same actions that we’ve been doing, including wearing masks in public and not gathering with others.

This is the first time Yolo County has entered the orange tier since the state created the color-coded system late last summer. The orange tier 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 socio-economic zip codes, the blueprint will change again. At that point, an adjusted case rate below 6 will meet the metric for the orange tier.

Yolo County will have to remain in orange for a minimum of three weeks and meet the metrics of the yellow tier for two consecutive weeks before progressing further.

“The orange tier is uncharted territory for Yolo County and, like any explorer, we would be wise to enter this foreign land with caution,” Sisson told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

“While more businesses can be opened indoors and outdoors, and more activities are allowed in orange, it’s critical to remember that the virus that causes COVID-19 has not gone away,” she said. “If we want to stay safe, stay in orange and get our rates low enough to qualify for yellow, we need to continue the same preventive measures that allowed us to move from purple to red, and red to orange.

Obituaries Larry Richard Brown March 12, 1956 — Feb. 10, 2021

Larry Brown was a kind, generous and thoughtful man who lived an exemplary life, devoted to his family and to the conservation of the natural world. He was born on March 12, 1956, in San Gabriel to Marilynn and Gordon Brown.

Larry met his wife Lisa as an undergraduate student at UC Irvine while playing pool at the student union. Living in Davis, they were together for 42 years, raised two children, Arwen and Ian, and in later years became enthusiastic grandparents to their three grandchildren, Evander, Kaylee and Fiona.

Larry was a renowned research scientist who was recently acknowledged by a Stanford study as among the world’s top 2% of scientists in his field. Larry’s research career got its start at UC Davis where he obtained a Ph.D. in ecology in 1988 and continued as a postdoctoral researcher, working closely with the eminent California fish biologist Dr. Peter Moyle.

He headed a five-year project studying the effects of invasive species on the native fishes of the Eel River, especially salmon and steelhead. One of the products of this research was discovering that coho salmon, once an important sport fish in California, were in severe decline in all streams along the California coast. He was the lead author on the detailed paper on this finding, which led to the highly valued coho being listed as a threatened species and to conservation actions to restore the streams in which they lived.

In 1991, Larry joined the U.S. Geological Survey as a research scientist, an association that lasted the rest of his career. One of his first projects was to examine contaminant effects on algae, invertebrates,

and fish in the lower San Joaquin River. This work demonstrated the severity of the pollution problems in the river and provided essential information needed for the on-going restoration of the river. This was expanded to include many other rivers in California (and elsewhere) and then, starting in 2003, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, an area rife with controversy.

Typical of Larry, he began his involvement with an important paper asking “Will tidal wetland restoration enhance populations of native fishes?” This paper is now required reading for anyone involved in restoration projects and fish conservation in the San Francisco Estuary. This was just the first of his important papers on fish ecology in the estuary.

Impressive as Larry’s accomplishments are, the first thing that comes to mind when Larry’s name comes up with his colleagues is, well, collegiality. Many of his colleagues described him as “a rock” because you could always count on him.

He was always willing, with a genuine smile and a good dose of humor, to review drafts of papers, talk about ideas and offer suggestions for addressing research questions. He loved to mentor junior colleagues, student assistants, graduate students at Sacramento State and anyone else who needed positive feedback. He was, above all, a kind person with a positive attitude toward life who made life better for all who knew him.

Larry is survived by his wife, children, grandchildren and mother. The family asks that memorial donations be made to the Nature Conservancy or an ecological charity of your choice.

John Allen Emery July 12, 1939 — Feb. 4, 2021

We lost our dad, Dr. John Allen Emery, on Wednesday, Feb. 4. He was 81. John was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on July 12, 1939. He grew up in Charleston, W.V., and moved to Redondo Beach, California in 1956. He raised a family and practiced medicine in San Diego and passed away in Davis, California.

John often shared stories of his life growing up in Charleston, W. Va., and his formative years in and around Los Angeles. He was a proud graduate of UCLA and UCSF Medical School, and did his urology residency at OHSU. He shared his life stories in his book, “A Surgeon’s Life with Bipolar Disorder.” His first book was “U.S. Medical Care and Related Factors in the Vietnam War” (both

by John A. Emery, M.D., F.A.C.S., and available on Amazon.com).

John’s proudest moments stemmed from his loving childhood, playing football for UCLA, graduating from UCSF with his esteemed medical class, interning at Los

Angeles County Medical Center, treating people hurt in the L.A. riots, serving his country as an M.D. with the Navy and a tour in Vietnam with the Marines, training in urology under Dr. Clarence Hodges, and being a loving son, father and grandfather. He was a lifelong golf enthusiast and club collector, hitting the links any chance he got.

“Grandpa John” is survived by his children: a daughter Colleen (Colin) Gants of Des Moines, Wash.; son Dr. Scott (Heather) Emery of Mercer Island, Wash.; grandchildren India Gants, Beau Gants, Garrett Gants, Meara Gants, James Emery and Caroline Emery; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Ethel Emery, his sister Judy (Emery) Carne and his former wife Victoria Emery.

His family is hosting a funeral service via Zoom, followed by interment and military honors at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Wash., this spring.

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here has been a real sense of hope in the daily phone calls we have received at McGeorge School of Law’s immigration clinic since President Joe Biden’s election.

The majority of calls have been from undocumented individuals and families seeking legal assistance to apply for DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

On Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order to stress his support of DACA and to take all necessary and appropriate actions to preserve and fortify it. This is particularly significant in California where 27% of our residents are immigrants and 1 in 8 children in our K-12 schools has an undocumented parent.

Currently, DACA does not provide a pathway to permanent resident status, but it does provide approved applicants with work permits and the protection against the initiation of removal proceedings in two-year increments. Applicants must establish that they came to the U.S. before age 16; are currently in school or graduated from high school or honorably served in the military; have resided in the United States since 2007; and have passed a rigorous background check.

DACA has been a successful program for the recipients and the United States. The National Bureau of Economic Research found that DACA recipients have lower teen birth rates, increased high school graduation rates and an increase in college enrollment rates compared to other undocumented youth. In California, and generally nationally, DACA recipients on average came to the United States at age 7 and only know the United States as their home. Showing their strong ties to the community, more than 72,000 U.S. born children in California have at least one parent who is a DACA recipient.

In California alone, DACA holders pay $1 billion annually in state taxes and $2.1 billion in federal taxes. At a time when we critically need our essential health care workers, 29,000 DACA recipients work in the health field nationally. Without DACA, all of these individuals would not be eligible to work legally and would be subject to removal from the United States.

hat we think of as the 20th century did not begin in 1901. It really started in the years after World War 1. That is when farms became mechanized and labor moved to the cities.

It was the 1920s when the automobile rose up and slowly but surely replaced railroad transportation.

Most homes built prior to the Great War in American cities did not have a garage to park the family car. If a house was on a farm, it likely had a barn to park the family horse.

As people filled in the map of the United States in the decades following the Civil War, they did so along railroad lines. That is exactly how Davisville was invented in 1868 — the first train from Vallejo arrived and the owners of the railroad immediately plotted a town on the former land of Jerome C. Davis.

Along with the arrival of automobiles for the masses in the 1920s came the need for municipal planning — building paved streets for cars, sidewalks for pedestrians to avoid being hit by cars, spaces and places on each lot to park cars and storm drains so drivers would not be deluged.

In the 1920s, Davis adopted its first general plan and its first zoning laws.

Almost all cities and counties in California — followed by the rest of the United States — fell in line with the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act of 1926 and the Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1928.

The second half of the 20th century accelerated the epoch of the automobile, as two-lane highways that ran through downtowns were replaced by

super freeways and interchanges that ran all across our country.

It was the building of interstate freeways — like our own I-80 — that spawned suburbs and allowed people to live 20, 30 or more miles from work and to commute by car.

With men and women working, their homes required garages big enough for two or three cars. Municipal plans and zoning laws were designed around this reality. And since land was cheap in burgeoning bedroom communities, codes were drawn to deny density.

Each house had to have a large yard and a big garage.

Nosy neighbors’ houses could not be too tall or too close.

Yet the defining feature of 20th-century development — the personal, gasolinepowered car — looks like it is coming to an end. And so we need to plan for a different 21st century that is just starting.

Three developments spell the end of the earlier epoch: ride-sharing apps; the advance of electric cars; and most importantly the invention of self-driving vehicles.

Put together, it’s not hard to see a world where most people don’t want, need or own cars.

A woman has to go to her office? She hails a vehicle on an app. It arrives at her house, she hops in and the car, with no driver, takes her to her job.

En route, she can be unworried and productive, planning her day, preparing for meetings and phoning her colleagues. Were she driving herself, she would have the stress of traffic, other drivers, bad roads, the need to stop for gas and so on.

Autonomous cars and buses will also serve the needs of youths too young to drive, some disabled people and seniors who are no longer capable.

Unlike in an Uber of today, where most of the cost is hiring the driver, an autonomous car will be substantially cheaper. Commuters won’t have to put out thousands of dollars to buy, insure and repair their cars. In that they will be electric, fuel costs will be minuscule compared with gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles; and the societal cost of their direct effluents will be zero.

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nce most of the cars on the road are driven by robots, crashes caused by bad drivers, bad choices and excessive speeds will plummet.

Even today, before self-driving cars are fully refined and widely available, the testmodels are safer than the typical driver.

Computer-driven cars won’t drive drunk; suffer from poor eyesight; lose their reflexes and concentration as they age; or unintentionally change lanes when they reach down to turn on the radio. They won’t fail to use their turn signal; they won’t drive too fast or too slow for conditions; they won’t be distracted by their passengers or a pretty woman walking down the street.

With the convenience, affordability, safety and reli-

ability of the epoch of electric cars that drive themselves, the need for parking lots at workplaces, shopping centers, downtowns and almost everywhere else eventually disappears. All that will be required is a loading and unloading zone, where cars arrive, drop their passengers and depart.

Whenever a shopping mall or office complex is now built, one big consideration written into municipal plans is for sufficient on-site parking. At Target on East Second Street, the 2006 plan, approved narrowly by voters that year, permitted 12 acres of asphalt, most of that parking for shoppers and workers.

But once the 21st century gets going, all that shadeless tarmac becomes unnecessary.

Perhaps of even greater consequence, residential parking loses its raison d’être. If mom and dad and their teenager no longer need or want to have their own cars, why does their house need that three-car garage?

Twentieth-century parking requirements for houses and apartments are the single largest factor in suburban sprawl.

More than maximum height and floor-to-area regulations, having to build parking for cars reduces potential density and thus forces us to grow out, not up.

So as we move into the new century, we need to adjust our municipal plans. Slowly but surely we need to stop requiring garages and parking lots.

We will need new plans to know what to do with all that space that was planned and built for the last century.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.

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urrently, approximately 650,000 people have DACA status in the United States, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Migration Policy Institute reports that there are almost that same number of individuals who qualify for DACA but who do not have DACA status.

In 2017, the Trump administration stopped allowing initial DACA applications and these initial applications were not reinstated until December 2020, under court order.

The CATO Institute reports there are at least an estimated 100,000 individuals who were prevented from applying because they aged into the program during that time.

Many of the people we have helped at our Immigration clinic since the election fall into this category.

Another significant obstacle preventing many of our clients from applying is the requirement to establish physical presence in the U.S. since 2007. This was difficult enough in 2012 when DACA was first initiated, but it is practically impossible for many in 2021.

Applicants must cover each month with no gaps larger than three months. The youngest applicants currently eligible to apply, would have been only 3 years old in 2007.

To fully preserve and fortify DACA, the Biden administration needs to update the requirements and change the start date of required physical presence to a more recent date to make the application process more manageable, and allow for affidavits and other forms of evidence regarding presence — especially for periods when applicants were not in school and have a harder time documenting physical presence.

There is bipartisan support for DACA, and this is an area where a legislative solution is possible. DACA should be codified by Congress to provide lawful permanent resident status to DACA holders and put an end to the uncertainty of this program. While DACA is beneficial, it needs congressional action to provide a pathway to permanent resident status and citizenship.

The American Dream and Promise Act passed by the House of Representatives is a positive step in the right direction.

— Blake Nordahl is a law professor at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and the director of the Immigration Law Clinic in Sacramento.

Letters No pyramid needed On Aug. 25, 2020, the City Council approved a $50,000 arts grant for social justice programming in response to last summer’s convulsions. The contents of this grant deserve a second look.

The first part of the grant funded elements of the 2020 International Festival: a cultural resource directory and the live streaming of the festival. Additional funds went to pay I-House staff, “cultural advisors” selected on the basis of race, and artists selected on the basis of race. I love the International House and I think this kind of discrimination should be beneath them.

The second part involves erecting a public artwork and organizing associated activities in the vein of the pop-up shrine in Central Park, only this time the shrine will be permanent and the organizers and other activity participants, selected on the basis

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of race, will be paid. Of course, Davis already has many diversity murals, apparently to palliate the neurotic consciences of local progressives. We don’t also need a pyramid in Central Park to observe a mortuary cult.

The third part asks for $10,000 to fund “anti-racism” workshops to train nonprofits to be less racist and to help them begin building an anti-racist bureaucracy, led by a facilitator selected exclusively on the basis of her proximity to Davis and her race.

Fortunately, we don’t need anti-racism workshops, just like we don’t need workshops to help people stop desecrating the host. Given the approval of this grant, the need for cultivating an anti-racism bureaucracy seems equally absent.

Rather than refashioning the arts department into an arm of the critical social justice movement, city staff should focus on economic development, facility management, and partnerships with UCD. There is work to do. But anti-racism isn’t it.

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Re: Parent Coalition article I would like to thank Edward Booth for the informative article on DJUSD’s return to hybrid school and the group bullying the school board. It was particularly illuminating to find that the leader of this group gave up on distance learning after 1½ weeks.

That is seven or eight days of school.

He missed a golden opportunity to teach his children some basic, important life skills: persistence, patience, empathy, resilience, respect and humor. Instead, he decided he could do a better job. Looks like he changed his mind. I agree it did take a couple of weeks to get the kinks worked out with technology, etc. But now, both from my view and what my students and parents tell me, it is going smoothly and the kids are enjoying school.

Of course it is not ideal; everyone in the world wants this to be over. But we are doing an amazing job under the circumstances; Robert Van Ostrand wouldn’t know.

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HOUSING: Cities gear up to take on state legislation GUNFIRE: From Page A1 crisis. They say their plan goes further than the bills this session and would remove hurdles to construction in places with little or no union labor, such as the Inland Empire.

On the state’s present course, the problem will only get worse.

A sweeping bill to create more affordable housing and reduce local governments’ control over zoning has failed repeatedly. First introduced in 2018 and again in 2019 and last year, this idea would have allowed triplexes and four-plexes in single-family neighborhoods statewide and encouraged apartments near transit centers and job hubs.

Supporters hope this session’s more limited bills have a better chance of passage and can put a dent in California’s affordable housing shortage.

The 2021 bills break down into three broad categories: changes to zoning to allow more dense housing at affordable prices, creating exceptions to the state’s strict environmental review process to permit new and denser housing and building affordable housing using bond money. The bills are expected to be heard in committees beginning in mid-April.

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failed efforts, San Francisco Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, says the Legislature and public are more ready for changes to affordable housing than even a few years ago.

“As disappointing as it was not to pass (Senate Bill 50), it left me quite optimistic about what we will be able to do in the future,” Wiener said in an interview. “The fact that a bill four or five years before (SB 50) would not have probably even gotten a hearing in a single committee, but then we were able to get it through two committees and almost off the Senate floor (means) there is actually very, very broad and deep support for a pro-housing agenda.”

That bill failed in large part because Los Angeles Democrats, spurred by the opposition among low-income tenant advocacy groups, opposed it.

Despite the optimism of supporters, opposition is already mounting to elements of the 2021 housing bills package, with critics suggesting that the changes will amount to the end of not only single-family zoning, but indeed a wholesale ban on all new subdivisions.

The broadest changes in the housing bills package are to zoning – and they’re also likely to draw the most fire from the

local governments protective of their rights to determine their own land use and development.

Perhaps the most significant proposed change comes from Senate leader Toni Atkins of San Diego, who introduced SB 9, which would allow homeowners to put a duplex on single-family lots or split them without requiring a hearing or approval from the local government. Affordable housing and rental properties would be exempt from the changes.

Local municipalities are already gearing up for the fight.

The city of Seal Beach, for one, has already announced its opposition to SB 9 (while the headline, “City opposes housing bill,” could be applied in almost any jurisdiction in California).

“Allowing this to occur will result in development at a density and intensity well beyond what is currently experienced in or intended for the City’s singlefamily residential zoning districts,” Community Development Director Les Johnson wrote in a report to the Seal Beach City Council on March 8.

“Such an allowance would have the potential of adversely impacting quality of life in these areas of our community, including demand upon emergency services, public infrastructure,

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When Sacramento’s City Council approved a draft plan in January that would allow multifamily units in any residential area, a homeowner who opposed duplexes in her neighborhood of 5,000-square-foot homes told NPR she wants “lower density and less intensity.”

Another new bill, SB 10, authored by Wiener, would allow cities to rezone transit centers and job hubs to allow as many as 10 units per parcel.

Proximity to public transit would theoretically lead to fewer cars on the road, bringing the state closer to its goals to reduce climate change.

Those are accompanied by another of Wiener’s bills, SB 478, which takes aim at local ordinances that limit the construction of housing based on lot size, which effectively erases any chance of building small apartment buildings on land that is already zoned for multifamily housing.

The bill would end cities’ and counties’ practice of setting an artificially low cap on the size of a house, and instead allow a building to be at least 1.5 times the size of the lot, which generally means allowing multi-story units instead of just a singlefamily home.

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But police returned to the apartments shortly after 7:30 a.m., when a man called to report the shots had been fired inside his own apartment, although during a later time frame of between 3 and 4 a.m., according to Camacho.

“He said a group of three to four people were inside his bedroom and fired a gun at him,” Camacho said.

“He fled with his family and drove to Sacramento, and then he decided to return and contact the police department.”

The man did not provide descriptions of any of the people who were in the apartment.

Camacho said the report remains under investigation. “Based on the information that we have, this is an isolated incident and does not pose a threat to the general public,” he added.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

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THE PETITION requests authority in its bid must be made in compliance to administer the estate under the with section 5100 et seq. of the Public Independent Administration of Estates Contract Code. In response to COVIDAct. (This authority will allow the personal 19, Davis Joint Unified District will open representative to take many actions its doors for two (2) hours prior to bid without obtaining court approval. Before deadline at 1919 5th Street, Davis, CA taking certain very important actions, 95616. The window will be 11:00am to however, the personal representative will 1:00pm on April 22, 2021. There will be a be required to give notice to interested time clock stamp in the lobby, timestamp persons unless they have waived notice your envelope (if the envelope doesn’t fit or consented to the proposed action.) there will be directions on how to time The independent administration stamp your document) and drop it in the authority will be granted unless an basket/bin, staff will not be taking it from interested person files an objection to your hands. The Bids will be opened and the petition and shows good cause why processed by staff only. Bid opening will the court should not grant the authority. occur at 1:30pm via Zoom, 30 minutes A HEARING on the petition will be after the bid posting has closed. held on April 14, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Attendees of the mandatory pre-bid Department TBD Room: TBD located at conference will be sent the invite and 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695. link for the bid opening.

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The Davis Joint Unified School District passed Resolution 46-21, “Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,” on March 4.

All five board trustees voted in favor of its passage.

“There have been more vicious attacks reported

by API across the country, in our region, and in our city of Davis ... I think that (the resolution) is a very important first step and should not be the only step that we take,” trustee Vigdis Asmundson said.

The resolution was started by Lisa Yep Salinas, a Chinese American woman in Yolo County who was attacked by antiAsian racists six times since COVID-19 started. People verbally attacked her, called her racial slurs, and blamed her for COVID-19.

Some even tried to physically harm her, forcing Salinas to defend herself with a

grocery cart.

“Being attacked is just absolutely traumatic. It’s horrible. I cannot go shopping by myself, and that’s what I would do for my family,” Salinas said.

In order to combat this, she worked on a resolution condemning antiAPI racism and contacted the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, who passed it. As Salinas shared her story, she learned many others had similar experiences. Since then, other districts, now including the DJUSD, have also passed resolutions.

Chinese American junior Rebecca Chang believes the resolution is a

“really great step.” Chang was at the public library with a couple of her Asian friends shortly after schools closed when she met a student who was “ranting loudly about how Chinese people caused the pandemic by eating trash and how Chinese Americans shouldn’t be in America and other antiChinese rhetoric,” Chang said.

“Thankfully he was only ranting and didn’t physically do anything, but my friends and I were really scared ... I was afraid to get involved because he might physically come after one of

us,” Chang said.

Since COVID-19, students have experienced microaggressions in the form of “bat eating jokes.”

Chinese American senior Riley Liu has also heard people calling COVID-19 the “China virus.”

“Just because people don’t get hate-crimed in Davis doesn’t mean people can’t be racist towards Asians and other POC (people of color). So I urge students at the high school … to speak up when you see these microaggressions,” Liu said.

DJUSD climate coordinator Kate Snow explained that it is difficult to measure Asian

discrimination in particular since not many people have started conversations about it.

“African Americans … have felt, known, talked about, screamed about, been activists about … anti-black racism. And yet when George Floyd was killed, it kicked off a whole bunch of new conversations. A whole lot of people stopped being able to ignore it ... I think the same is true about antiAsian discrimination and harm,” Snow said.

Salinas, who started the resolution, shared that she deeply appreciated all the support from her city and county representatives and hoped to impress on students “to register to vote and to vote because your voice is so powerful and important in making sure that … your rights are protected,” Salinas said.

To report discrimination or harassment, students can start an official complaint at the Student Support Services Office.

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Connecticut photographer Mike Keo started the #iamnotavirus hashtag to combat longstanding stereotypes and COVID-based hate toward Asian Americans.

Coaching stipends differ from sport to sport

By Lyah Fitzpatrick HUB Staff According to a stipend list provided by Derek Brothers, Davis Joint Unified School District Director of Personnel, coaching wages are categorized into four classes.

Class I, with a rate of $4,705 per year, includes most head varsity coaches. Class II, with a rate of $3245 per year, includes the remaining head varsity coaches, as well as assistant varsity coaches and JV coaches for Class I sports.

With an even lower rate of $1,785 per year, Class III encapsulates the remaining assistant varsity and JV coaches, while Class IV

($992) applies to junior high coaches.

DJUSD Deputy Superintendent Matt Best says the categorization is determined by factors such as team size, competition frequency and season duration.

However, Davis High track and field coach Spencer Elliott finds that “there doesn’t seem to be a logical pattern to who gets paid what.” For example, the district allots one stipend to track and field, a sport technically made up of four different teams.

To

fund the necessary amount of assistant coaches for track and field, Elliott relies on “booster donations” from team members. “What should be the burden of the district has to be the burden of the families,” he said.

The DHS women’s varsity lacrosse coach Jennifer Morris also regards some of the wage disparities as unreasonable. She is granted a Class II wage rate, one that matches the wage rate of assistant varsity coaches for sports

like basketball, field hockey and wrestling.

“It’s frustrating because you see other coaches doing the exact same job I do, and you know that they’re making a decent amount more,” she said.

When attempting to discuss the issue with administration, Elliott ran into an obstacle. “(Funding) is negotiated through the union, so admin can’t just change things,” he said.

Best said that the categories were first

established with the Davis Teachers Association in the late 1970s. “I think that there will always be differences between the levels of coaching positions,” he said.

Morris has “kinda just (given) up because it just goes back and forth and nothing ever changes.”

Despite their frustration, both Morris and Elliott make clear that money is not their main purpose for coaching.

“For me, at least, it’s not necessarily a financially driven decision,” Elliott said. “I could make a lot more money just doing something else.”

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To determine Davis High coaching pay, sports are divided into four tiers; lacrosse varsity head coaches are a Tier 2 salary.

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By Lewis Herring-Tillman HUB Staff The Davis school district will receive $6,269,000 from the federal government, according to the office of Congressman John Garamendi.

The federal stimulus package has authorized the transfer of trillions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury. The $170 billion of education funds will be passed down from the US Department of Education, to the California Department of Education and finally to the individual school districts.

“These layers of bureaucracy mean it’s difficult to know for certain exactly how much money districts will receive,” DJUSD public information officer Anthony Volkar said.

According to the Senate Budget Committee, The total $170 billion dedicated to schools in the American Rescue Plan is subdivided into $126 billion dollars for K-12, $40 billion for higher education (such as colleges and universities), and $2.7 billion for governors and state administrations. It is up to the district to decide how the money they received should be spent.

The total amount of education funding in the American Rescue Plan is five times more than that of the CARES act passed in March of 2020, and twice as much as was in the December relief package.

“This is going to be huge for us,” Volkar said. “It’s going to be very helpful.”

DJUSD, along with many other school districts across the country, had previously failed to use the majority of the funds they were allotted in 2020, especially the funds given in the early weeks of the pandemic.

“Because, once again, it can take a while for funds to be allotted, by the end of May only about 1% of the stimulus funds passed down to California school districts had been spent,” Volkar said.

However, the nature of spending is different this time around. In the beginning of the pandemic, much of the funding that came to school districts went to supporting distance learning and alleviating a gaping deficit in spending. Now, the relief is targeted towards helping schools reopen; all Davis public schools will be reopening in a hybrid model the week of April 12.

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UC Davis promotes DeLuca to permanent AD Enterprise staff Following a national search, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May has selected Rocko DeLuca as the Aggies’ next director of athletics.

DeLuca has been serving as the interim AD since Jan 1.

DeLuca came to UCD in 2016 when former AD Kevin Blue hired him to be deputy director and lead external relations and fundraising efforts. He set record fundraising levels each year and since 2016, increased annual giving 150 percent. DeLuca also significantly increased capital gifts, from $2 million in 2016 to $7.2 million in 2020 and was instrumental in corralling private gifts for the Edwards Family Athletics Center, which is set to open in 2022.

“Rocko has shown tremendous leadership in a range of areas, including ensuring the success of programs like our Student-Athlete Outcomes, and Aggie EVO program,” May said. “Most

importantly, Rocko puts the academic success of our studentathletes first and prioritizes meaningful relationships with students across campus. He’s formed strong relationships with our coaches and with students, faculty and staff across both the Davis and Sacramento campuses. I know he’ll build on the foundation that athletics has strengthened in recent years.”

Previously, DeLuca was senior associate athletic director and executive director of development at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for six years. There he was responsible for raising $26 million and for the planning and funding of $75 million in athletic facility projects. He was assistant athletic director at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for four years before that, where he created the Buff Club Cabinet, an annual donation level of $25,000 that comprised 68 members generating $2.7 million in contributions.

‘Full confidence’ Scott Carrell, faculty athletics representative and professor of economics, chaired the athletics director recruitment advisory committee.

“Rocko served as deputy AD for five of the most prosperous years for UC Davis Athletics,” Carrell said. “In addition to his strength in fundraising, he’s increased attendance at competitions and overhauled the fan experience. I have full confidence that Rocko will be a great AD.” As director, DeLuca will report to the chancellor on policy matters pertaining to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Big West Conference, Big Sky Conference and other applicable conferences.

Davis’ Intercollegiate Athletics program employs more than 75 full- and part-time coaches and more than 50 full- and part-time

support staff. DeLuca will be responsible for the eligibility and welfare of student-athletes, program operations, short- and longterm fiscal planning and management, marketing and promotions, corporate sponsorships, television and radio contracts and public relations with Intercollegiate Athletics constituents.

“I would like to thank Chancellor Gary May, search chair Scott Carrell and the recruitment advisory committee for entrusting me to lead this exceptional organization in which so many share our Aggie Pride,” said DeLuca, who earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master’s degree in sports administration from the University of Northern Colorado.

“I am honored to work alongside our outstanding coaches and staff as we serve and inspire our student-athletes. I look forward to working with our campus partners,

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UC Davis director of athletics Rocko DeLuca paused for a photo with Pint the Wonder Dog at last Saturday’s UCD-Cal Poly football game. students, donors, alumni and fans as we build upon our tradition of ‘Togetherness’ and find new ways to elevate our profile.”

DeLuca will officially assume his new role starting April 1.

Aggie trio snags conference honors

By Bob Dunning Enterprie staff writer As the No. 8 UC Davis Aggies look forward to Saturday’s 1 p.m. home game against Idaho State, they have a bit of good news to high-five about.

Indeed, for the first time in UC Davis’ football history in the Big Sky Conference, the Aggies swept all three of the league’s Player of the Week awards after a 73-24 rout of Cal Poly last Saturday at UC Davis Health Stadium.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that instead of a full slate of Big Sky games last weekend, the Aggie-Poly matchup was the only thing on the docket, and after a 49-point win, sweeping the awards was a lock.

In other words, no other Big Sky coaches are going to raise a hand in protest and say, “What about one of my guys?” because their guys were all sitting on the sideline.

Nevertheless, the three Aggies named for the awards would all be strong candidates in a normal week.

Topping the list is junior quarterback Hunter Rodrigues, who was in full command of the UCD offense all afternoon, completing his first 16 passes and finishing with 19 hits in 23 attempts for 265 yards and three touchdowns.

Rodrigues, the Offensive Player of the Week, was quick to credit his teammates, who “show up to work every day and put us in a position to succeed.

“We have six quarterbacks,” the Whitney High alum said. “And any one of them could have had this

UC Davis offensive coordinator Cody Hawkins (orange shirt) chats up his unit on the sideline during Saturday’s record-setting 73-24 win over Cal Poly.

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kind of success.”

One of those six quarterbacks, Trent Tompkins, rushed for two touchdowns, one on a scintillating 86-yard race to glory with nearly the entire Aggie roster following him down the sideline.

It was the kind of run diehard fans will remember for years, except there were no fans in the stands, diehard or otherwise.

COVID restrictions assured an empty stadium.

Another quarterback, Miles Hastings, had a 12-yard scoring strike to Blake Thorpe, and a fourth signal caller, Gunnor Faulk, was 3 for 3 for 48 yards.

“It was great to see so many guys get a chance to play,” offered Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins. “Everyone has worked so hard for so long

and it was fun for them to get some action.”

Also collecting Player of the Week awards were senior linebacker Cole Hansen and senior defensive back Isaiah Thomas.

Hansen, the Defensive Player of the Week, had seven solo tackles, including two sacks, as the Poly offense was bottled up all afternoon long. Thomas, the Special Teams Player of the Week, had a 30-yard punt return and added three solo tackles in his usual standout performance.

Not even close The 73 points against Cal Poly were the most chalked up in the 102-year history of Aggie football, coming exactly in the 1,000th game UCD has played. The old record was set in a 65-12 rout of

Early exit for women’s hoops Enterprise staff SAN ANTONIO— Having a two-month layoff due to coronavirus restrictions in Yolo County was a double-edged sword for the UC Davis women’s basketball team.

ESPNU commentators calling the Aggies’ NCAA first-round tournament game Monday against Missouri State debated whether the 15 games UCD played before entering March Madness gifted them with fresh legs or hindered them with lack of game experience.

The answered appeared to be both depending up which stretch of the game a fan tuned in to watch. UCD’s streaky play kept the Aggies (13-3) in the contest for the first half, but No. 5 Missouri State (22-2) pulled away with consistent play for a 70-51 win.

Big West Conference Player of the Year Cierra Hall brought the 12th-seeded Aggies back from the brink — a 15-point deficit — but the Lady Bears didn’t blink. The No. 12 seed was the highest ranking for the Aggies in their three NCAA

Tournament appearances.

Scoring eight seconds after the Aggies’ go-ahead basket, Missouri State built another lead, this time insurmountable, eliminating the locals from postseason play at Greehey Arena. The MSU win bounced UCD from the tournament and put a pin in the Aggies’ COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign — a 13-3 overall effort that during one stretch featured a 59-day layoff due to Yolo County health restrictions.

“It would’ve been easy when things got shut down for us to just pack it up,” said Hall, who netted 14 of Davis’ points. “But that was never a thought in anybody’s mind.

“We had 100-percent sacrifice and 100-percent heart,” the Cyprus native deadpanned.

“Everybody was dedicated (to) get back to the position we are and (back) to the game we just played in.”

And while the Aggies didn’t walk away with the win Monday, 10th-year head coach Jennifer Gross said it was a result they could stomach.

San Francisco State in 1985.

Montana State holds the record for the most points scored at UC Davis Health Stadium: 77 in a 40-point blowout of the locals in 2014.

The Aggies also set a school record with 768 yards of total offense, eclipsing the old benchmark of 697 produced against Mesa State in the 2000 NCAA Division II quarterfinals.

UCD had 14 players catch a pass during the game and 13 gain yards rushing. UCD number crunchers are still trying to determine if those impressive figures are also school records.

And finally, there’s Daniel Whelan. The 6-foot-6 Aggie rocket launcher is clearly one of the best punters in the nation. But he’s

Aggie point guard Mackenzie Trpcic (00) dashes past Missouri State’s Paige Rocca (22) during UC Davis’ NCAA tournament clash with the Lady Bears in San Antonio, Texas.

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“We can always live with it when we know we put everything into it and played our absolute hardest,” the Big West co-Coach of the Year told the postgame media. “We asked our team to empty the tank before the game.

And we found ourselves in holes and kept on fighting.”

A see-saw affair, the five-time BWC champs began the contest up 5-0. But momentum shifted in an instant inside the St. Mary’s University auditorium.

MSU’s Elle Ruffridge began the game 3 for 3 from the field, nipping the Aggies on a pair of makes from beyond the arc as part of a 21-6 Lady Bears scoring

surge. Davis trailed 19-11 at the end of the opening period.

But that Aggie grit Gross referred to eventually narrowed the gap.

Storming back on the shoulders of their leader Hall, Davis emerged from the locker room following intermission and nullified their 33-25 halftime deficit. The Aggies went ahead 34-33 following back-to-back three balls courtesy of Hall and Evanne Turner, who finished the outing with a team-high 16 points. Hall and Turner finished the game with four trey each, tying a UCD record set by Stobbart in 2019.

having a hard time showing it.

The Aggies, you see, were so dominant on the offensive side of the ball Saturday that Whelan’s services were never called upon.

Not once.

Whelan did, however, get to kick off 11 times during the outing, but his punting numbers are what have NFL scouts drooling. In recent years, UCD has produced two NFL punters in Colton Schmidt (Buffalo Bills) and Colby Wadman (Denver Broncos).

The Aggies jumped from No. 12 to No. 8 in the Athlon poll, one of three ranking systems in play during this unusual FCS spring season.

Three-time defending national champion North Dakota State, which has won eight of the last nine titles, moved back to its accustomed No. 1 spot after demolishing former No. 2 North Dakota, 34-13, before over 9,000 fans in the Fargodome. Other Big Sky teams in the rankings include No. 2 Weber State, No. 13 Eastern Washington and No. 24 Idaho.

The Aggies, now 2-1, will host Eastern Washington, also 2-1, April 3 in a game that may well decide one of the 16 bids to the FCS playoff that begins April 24 and concludes with the National Championship game May 15 in Frisco, Texas.

In addition to the Aggie-Idaho State matchup, other Big Sky action on Saturday features Northern Arizona at Weber State, Southern Utah at Idaho, and Cal Poly at Eastern Washington.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

DHS powers

by Vacaville Enterprise staff VACAVILLE — Sophomore pitcher Carter Stoltz picked up the win Monday as the Davis High baseball team topped Vacaville, 13-5, on the road for its first win of 2021.

Relieving starter Luke Carrell, who toed the rubber for three frames, Stoltz, Joey Traverso and Zach Altorfer each tallied a strikeout, with Altorfer earning the save.

“Offensively, we started off hot,” Devil skipper Ethan Guevin told The Enterprise. “Out of the gates, we loaded the bases.”

DHS added a five-run surge in the seventh inning to pad the lead.

Seniors Jordan Painter (three runs) and Mikey Finerty (two) each finished 3 for 5 at the plate, while Brian Chin and Grafton Shorts each plated three runs.

Rockwell Lybbert, Koen Carston and Saul Israel each added a pair of RBIs and Dillon Rockwell swiped two bases in the Opening Day win.

“We’ve been really good with our protocols, mask-wearing and all that so we could have this opportunity,” Guevin added. “Just to see high-school kids out there playing baseball and enjoying themselves — that was a lot of fun.”

DHS hits the road again Friday for a 6 p.m. clash with Yuba City.

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Discovering Davis’ best hot chocolate

By Vivian Crow and Andy McPherson Special to The Enterprise

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ife during this past year amid a pandemic has certainly forced us all to look at life a little differently. It has slowed us all down, making us appreciate one another and the time that we do get to share together.

One thing that my friend and I have done to pass the time (and look forward to something each week together) is to put our taste buds to the test.

As two hot chocolate enthusiasts, we decided to make an experiment out of it. With my love for the sciences and his architectural design brain, we thought we would try to find the best hot chocolate in Davis.

Every Saturday around 12:30 p.m. we make our way to downtown Davis to try the week’s elected coffee house or cafe for our sweet, chocolatey science experiment. Since the first week of January this year, we have kept our tradition of trying somewhere new (and sometimes unknown) to order our favorite seasonal drink.

For each visit, I bring a small notebook and, as we sip our cocoa, we go through our various categories of evaluation. Of course, for our controlled variables, we make sure that we are timely within a slight margin on a Saturday afternoon with our drink orders of two hot chocolates (one almond milk and one regular

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Germ-bubble friends Vivian Crow (right) and Andy McPherson, enjoy Cloud Forest Cafe’s hot chocolate on a cloudy afternoon. How appropriate. milk), neither with whipped cream. We didn’t want any extra fluff or distractions — just give it to us straight!

As a reference, our evaluated categories include initial drink temperature, chocolate-to-milk ratio for flavoring, price, service/ client touches, indoor atmosphere/space, outdoor environment and seating, noise levels, crowd levels and attracted demographic, safety awareness for COVID, waiting area, wait-time and order-time, online ordering, and then any other various uncontrollables or notes that didn’t quite fit into a category. While seemingly excessive or extensive, we assure you, that each of these factors played a fair

role in our ultimate decision. Through our testing, we have found that the environment truly affects the experience of the hot chocolate.

In order to keep a compiled log of our adventures, we used a couple of fun tools.

For a visual of the task we set before us, we organized a map with all our locations, later decorated with our weekly outing selfies in front of the store sign as a commemoration of our visit.

To track the categories of which we evaluated each experience by, we set up a spreadsheet with all our categories and locations nicely organized by time of visit.

Yes, this is just the

objective and possibly some subjective opinions of two local Davisites, but we wanted to share some of our results so that come winter, others may be able to find the best hot chocolate to tickle their taste buds, too!

Each destination has brought both of us joy and amusement as we have continued to set forth on our task to seek out the best cup of hot chocolate in Davis.

Mind you, this is not only about taste, but also about the environment, the people, the atmosphere. Drinking a hot chocolate is meant to be an experience, and we wanted to be able to share our experimental results with other Davis locals as well.

Here is a small collection of results that we have concocted thus far (as of March 13).

Top 5 overall hot chocolate experiences: 1. Black Frog Coffee (431 G St.) 2. Cloud Forest Cafe (222 D St., Suite 10) 3. Starbucks Coffee (623 Second St.) 4. Pachamama Organic Coffee (130 G St.) 5. Philz Coffee (521 Second St.) Top 3 best customer service (also called client touches): 1. Black Frog Coffee 2. Cloud Forest Cafe 3. Pachamama Organic Coffee Top 3 best hot chocolate temperature (we like it hot!): 1. Temple Coffee Roasters (239 G St.) 2. Starbucks Coffee 3. Black Frog Coffee Top 3 best chocolate flavor: 1. Black Frog Coffee (Ghirardelli chocolate powder!)

2. Cloud Forest Cafe (DaVinci chocolate syrup!)

3. Starbucks Coffee Top 3 best environment or atmosphere: 1. Cloud Forest Cafe 2. Mishka’s Cafe (610 Second St.) 3. Black Frog Coffee Other locations evaluated, but not mentioned included: Three Ladies Cafe (130 G St., Suite A), Peet’s Coffee (231 E St.), and The Posh Bagel (206 F St.).

This list, while considerable, is only the start of our journey. More locations yet

to be visited in the weeks to come include: Common Grounds Coffee, Dutch Bros., Konditorei Austrian Pastry, Teaspoon Cafe, Scrubs, Village Bakery, and eventually The Coffee House and Delta of Venus which are both temporarily closed.

Even though there are warm, even hot days, approaching us in the near months, we still plan to try and find the best location for hot chocolate by continuing on in the fall or winter again. Maybe we might try expanding our experiment to Winters or Woodland. Dare I be as ambitious as saying in all of Yolo County? This could take a while.

But regardless of the length of time that it takes us, we always look forward to our Saturday hot chocolate adventures together, while also supporting the local businesses that have kept their generous doors open during this whole crazy year.

Thank you to all the coffee houses and cafes that have welcomed us and served us delicious hot chocolate. Our smiles would not be as sweet without your service.

If any readers come across any unmentioned locations in Davis, we would love to hear any suggestions or recommendations for our upcoming visits. We hope this article is helpful as well as sparks the inner scientist to go out and try to find your own “best of something” from our local restaurants and coffee houses.

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orthspur Brewing (“Delicious, craft beer made with Californian craft malt”), project of “kid” Jakob and his spouse, Sarah, opened shortly before lockdown. In the way of most California businesses, it has opened and closed and closed and opened in various permutations ever since, as Jakob and Sarah try to figure out how to keep the place afloat.

A small, excellent, local, affordable wine list has been a part of the Northspur plan since the beginning, but dropped away while they figured out how to can beer for take-out, create a second outdoor space, heat it, stay safe, and pay their employees. They have, though, recently assembled a very limited list of wines by the glass.

Committed as they are to making beer that is as healthful and sustainable and local (and, of course, delicious) as possible, they seek the same qualities in the wine they carry. Two of their early choices, I’m pleased to tell you, are wines made by Kenny Likitprakong — one his red blend, Parts and Labor, and the other the Camp Cabernet Sauvignon.

In the last few months, my own most-purchased red has been Camp Cabernet Franc; I like it so much that I didn’t even

bother to taste the cab sauvignon. I’m not a huge fan of the grape anyway (only, I suspect, because I’ve tasted so many Napa cab fruit bombs). When I asked Jakob what decided him on the wine, the first thing he said was that it smelled and tasted like a classic cab but wasn’t a fruit bomb. High recommendation from my neverhyperbolic son. So I bought a bottle.

Since it happened to be Pizza Night, I thought we might as well just pop the cork. It’s delicious — and the butternut squash pizza liked it, too.

Camp is one of Kenny’s many labels; he uses it for his Sonoma wines. He sources these cab grapes from several organic vineyards in the county, along with a few in Mendocino. This year he added 12% merlot from Sonoma Valley and 2% malbec from Alexander Valley. He fermented the grapes in stainless still and aged them nine months in neutral French oak, so if you’re expecting a big oak burst, be assured that the oak is barely detectable (as it should be, to my mind). Instead, this wine is all about bright lively black currant and raspberry and some spicy pepper to tease the taste buds.

Low alcohol for a cab sauv (13.1%), it’s medium-bodied and

eminently food-friendly.

Now, alas, I can’t decide whether I prefer the cab franc or the cab sauv, so last time I was in the Co-op, I just bought both (they’re available at The Pip as well), excellent bargains at $18.

New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov called the Camp Cab Sauv “an old favorite” when he included it in his 20-under20 list. For me, it’s a new favorite, and I can’t think of a cab under $20 that’s anywhere near this good.

While I was searching the shelves for the two cabs, I noticed a bottle with a really delightful label and discovered it was another Kenny-made wine, one I hadn’t seen before — the Folk Machine Rosé. I grabbed a bottle of that, too, realizing that it would be my very first 2020 rosé. I’m not sure it was a good one to start with—now all the others will have to live up to it.

It’s terrific. Fresh, crisp, and

vibrant, it’s 100% gamay, made (“naturally” of course) with Arroyo Seco grapes.

In this second vintage of rosé, Kenny decided on a green bottle with a much higher percentage of recycled materials than last year’s clear glass. So you don’t get to see the lovely rose tint until you pour, but it’s all the more surprising and satisfying for that. Only 359 cases were made, so don’t put off trying a bottle — it has already sold out in many places.

This would be a wonderful partner to almost any spring holiday dinner you’re planning. You might not think, for example, of rosé to accompany an Easter ham but this one would work well.

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nd speaking of spring holidays, The Pip Wine Bar (in Dixon, with Saturday delivery to Davis) has three EZ button bundles to go with your holiday meals. (“EZ Button” being Amy Grabish’s shorthand for “one click and you’ve ordered all three or four bottles.) There’s a 4-pack Passover selection ($70), and one 3-pack for an Easter lamb, another for Easter ham (both $50).

I’ve tried almost all the bottles included, and written about

many, so I can recommend them without hesitation. One I haven’t tried is the intriguing-sounding Szekszard Kéfrankos from Hungary. Blaufränkish is the more common name for kéfrankos, but I’m a big fan of this pinotlike grape, whatever you call it, so I ordered a bottle to arrive with my next delivery. Stay tuned for an update. (And here’s an update from the last column: I mentioned Matthiasson’s Tendu blends as excellent “clean” bargains; in one of wine maven Jancis Robinson’s recent international newsletters, she praises both the red and white Tendu blends in a shortlist of “low in alcohol, high in flavor” wines.)

If your spring holiday plans include a trip north rather than dinner at home (yet again), do stop at Northspur in downtown Willits and tell Jakob and Sarah I said hi. And try a glass of the Cab, while you’re at it, or one of Jakob’s new brews. I’m especially excited to sample “Mendo Summer,” a Kolsch-style ale, and to enjoy my usual favorite, Northspur Amber.

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

Former mayor new impact and innovation officer for Yolo Food Bank Special to The Enterprise Bringing with him a unique background in community-based health and nutrition, program development, and public policymaking, former Davis Mayor Robb Davis has joined Yolo Food Bank in the newly developed role of impact and innovation officer.

“The pandemic has worsened inequality of all kinds,” Davis said.

“Combine that with the still-high costs of housing in Yolo County and we can see that to reduce food purchases — and, therefore, food intake — is the only option for many residents to make ends meet. This is the very definition of food insecurity. And, despite living in one of the most productive farming regions on the planet, we have neighbors and friends who

Name Droppers lack food. That is the very definition of an inequitable food system.”

“Joining the Yolo Food Bank team places me in a dynamic environment devoted to understanding these challenges and opportunities, and engages me in designing creative approaches to addressing the challenges,” Davis continued.

As the impact and innovation officer at Yolo Food Bank, Davis will work closely with executive director Michael Bisch and other members of the executive team to ignite and inform organizationwide activities and partnerships that create enhanced outcomes for residents facing poverty and food

insecurity, by advancing an equitable, sustainable local food system. A high priority will be placed upon tracking and metrics, impact evaluations and research, and relationships with researchers, academic institutions, think tanks, and other strategic partners supporting these outcomes.

“Yolo Food Bank is committed to ending hunger, reducing poverty, and meaningfully addressing systemic social and environmental injustice throughout Yolo County,” Bisch said. “As we continue to reimagine and expand our community impact, we are thrilled to have Robb join the Yolo Food Bank team in this new role. Robb has a proven history of driving social change in our community, and we are excited to give him a platform

to expand upon his impactful work to improve the lives of our marginalized neighbors.”

———— Martin Carriere of Davis was named to the dean’s list at Bates College for the 2020 fall semester. This is a distinction earned by students whose grade-point average is 3.88 or higher.

Carriere, the son of Michael D. Carriere and Jennifer A. Carriere, is a 2019 graduate of Davis High School.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender,

race, religion or national origin.

Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.

———— Savanna Moore of Davis earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Wyoming.

The University of Wyoming provides undergraduate and graduate programs to 12,249 students from all 50 states and 88 countries. Established in 1886, UW is a nationally recognized research institution with accomplished faculty and worldclass facilities. Offering 200 areas of study, UW provides an environment for success.

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Justin Miller shows off the elusive permit, caught on the saltwater flats of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Fly fishers will eye Yucatan Peninsula

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The Fly Fishers of Davis will hear from Justin Miller, who will be presenting on fly fishing the saltwater flats of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula at this month’s Zoom meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30.

Mexico offers a one-of-akind experience for everyone, whether an angler is looking to catch his or her first bonefish or hoping to target the elusive permit fish. While most anglers visit Mexico in the winter and spring, the often-overlooked late-summer and fall season can be extremely productive. Miller will explore the species available, the tackle and equipment needed and some of the best lodge options.

After graduating from Chico State University, Miller started his career at The Fly Shop in Redding in 2004 as a counselor at the acclaimed FishCamp program. After that first summer, he was hired to work in the store full time.

He started guiding the rivers of Northern California

for The Fly Shop in 2006, swinging flies with spey rods for steelhead. He started guiding the Kamchatka Peninsula in 2008 and has spent all summer, every summer, learning the rivers of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Add all that time up and Justin has spent over a year of his life on the ground in Russia.

Outside of Russia, Justin spends his time making plans on when and how to chase steelhead and then actually chasing steelhead, immersed in his rivers in every conceivable condition, good or bad, all around the Pacific Rim and the world. Meeting attendees will be caught up in his purely infectious enthusiasm for anadromous fish.

Miller works in the international travel department at The Fly Shop. While he specializes in spey fishing trips for steelhead and salmon, he also spends a lot of time in the jungles and saltwater flats.

To register for this Zoom webinar go to https://bit.ly/ 399GonA.

Residents can get a bulky-waste voucher Special to The Enterprise The city of Davis announced that due to the continued impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city and Recology will offer a bulky-waste one-time voucher for the second year in a row in lieu of the typical bulky items drop-off days in April for Davis customers.

The one-time voucher will be valid from April 1 to the end of November and will be mailed out to all Davis residents at the end of March.

The voucher is the “ticket” for the program, so residents are encouraged to watch their mail and hold onto their vouchers as they will need to bring them with them when they go to the landfill.

Each voucher will allow a Davis household to dispose of one free load of bulky waste at the Yolo County Central Landfill. The load

can be up to a full-size pick-up truck bed, fullsized van or small trailer (no more than three feet high or eight feet long) in size. Disposal of additional items must be paid for by the customer. The vouchers will have additional details on what materials will and will not be accepted.

This voucher will be valid only for city of Davis residents; commercial haulers and business materials will not be accepted. Only one voucher will be accepted per household, and proof of residency within the city of Davis will be required at the landfill (ID, utility bill, etc.).

For more information on the voucher, check the Recology Davis website at Recology.com/RecologyDavis/News-Events.

Residents can also contact Recology at RecologyDavis@Recology.com or 530-756-4646.

County’s transit director announces retirement Special to The Enterprise Terry Bassett, executive director of the Yolo County Transportation District, has announced his retirement, effective April 2, after more than 39 years of overseeing transportation fixed-route bus and paratransit services in Yolo County.

Bassett began his career in Yolo County in 1981, as the transit coordinator in the Yolo County Public Works Department and has been associated with Yolobus since it began in 1982.

In 1994, he was appointed to the position of executive director. In this capacity, he has managed the YoloBus system and served in a wide range of regional transit roles.

During the course of his

tenure, Yolobus has provided nearly 42 million rides, exceeding the equivalent of California’s entire state population. If all these riders stood touching fingertips, they would encircle the earth 1.7 times.

Jesse Loren, Winters City Councilmember and chair of the Yolo County Transit District Board of Directors, said, “Terry Bassett has, over the years, through imagination, innovation, vision, hard work, and leadership, indelibly stamped his mark on transit in Yolo County, and by his example, motivated the YCTD staff to become resources to all Yolo County residents and jurisdictions, and beyond. The board wishes him the very best in his well-deserved retirement.”

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