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Second Yolo case turns up hours later BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer
UC Davis musicians rehearse at the Mondavi Center, where music is slowly coming back. MICHAEL PETRIS/ COURTESY PHOTO
Music beginning to return to Mondavi’s Jackson Hall BY JEFF HUDSON
2005 two-CD set of the Handel oratorio “Messiah” in Jackson Hall, back when the Mondavi Center was still quite new.
Enterprise correspondent In the past few weeks, the sound of orchestral music has started to be heard again in the Mondavi Center’s elegant Jackson Hall, after more than a year of silence and empty darkness due to the COVID pandemic. Several orchestral ensembles have come to Jackson Hall recently to record videos, which they will be making available online. These groups include the American Bach Soloists, a top-notch Bay Area early-music group that recorded its well-regarded
For their recent recording session at Mondavi, the American Bach Soloists recorded a program of early Baroque era music by composers from Italy, Germany, France and England by composers including Johann Pachelbel, Jean Baptiste-Lully, and Henry Purcell (among others). Other ensembles that have recently recorded at Mondavi are the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, as well as the Oakland Symphony from
the San Francisco Bay Area. And the UC Davis Sinfonietta — a recently formed chamber orchestra featuring members of the larger UC Davis Symphony — has started rehearsing on the Jackson Hall stage. Conductor and UC Davis faculty member Christian Baldini recalled, “The orchestra’s last rehearsal in Jackson Hall had been in March 2020, when we played Beethoven’s oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 (with soloist Andrei Baumann of Davis) and UCD composer Laurie San
Martin’s “what remains” (which was a world premiere).” Baldini added that after some months when the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra couldn’t rehearse — anywhere — due to the pandemic, “It was very special to be back rehearsing at the Mondavi Center again.” Of course, the pandemic hasn’t gone away entirely yet. So conductor Baldini is wearing a face mask (not a common practice for conductors under ordinary circumstances) and the string players are seated in widely spaced seats positioned here-and-there around the spacious Jackson Hall stage. “The brass and woodwind
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Coalition urges creation of Public Safety Department BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A coalition of community and labor leaders has penned an open letter to Davis city leaders, urging them to create a Department of Public Safety that addresses public health and proactive services. The Davis for Real Public Safety Coalition delivered the letter to Mayor Gloria Partida Monday outside Davis City Hall. “Many Davis community members have been re-thinking public safety after episodes of police brutality and a long-time lack of adequate services for mental health issues, drug use, and houselessness,”
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the letter says. “These issues have exacerbated racial disparities, which are particularly pronounced in Davis.” It’s been signed so far by more than 500 Davis residents, including current and former elected officials, faith leaders, grassroots activists, medical and mental health professionals, local business owners, teachers and professors, concerned parents and attorneys. The group seeks a public-safety department that operates independently from the Davis Police Department, employing social
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State hits vaccine goal; county still in orange tier BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer California has hit its goal of administering 4 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the state’s hardesthit communities, making it easier for counties to progress through the color-coded, tier-based blueprint by relaxing case-rate metrics. But the change won’t have an immediate impact on Yolo County, where the adjusted daily case rate of 2.3 per 100,000 residents on Tuesday still exceeds the revised yellow tier metric. The county will remain in the orange tier until at least April 21, according to Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson.
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Briefly Incarceration initiative starts Beyond the Barriers, a new initiative at UC Davis to address mass incarceration in California through teaching, research and service, will hold a launch event via Zoom from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8. There will be talks from Beyond the Barriers leadership including faculty, staff and alumni from 3 to 4 p.m., and time for conversation from 4 to 4:30 p.m. Members of the public are invited. For more information and to register, visit https:// beyond.ucdavis.edu/ news/beyond-barrierslaunch-celebration.
Preparing for wildfires eyed State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host a virtual town hall at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, on wildfire preparedness and prevention featuring a panel of experts including the state’s top firefighter, CalFire Chief Thom Porter. The town hall will be broadcast live on KSVY Sonoma Radio/TV and streamed across multiple channels. Panelists will join Dodd in answering submitted questions and calls from viewers. Live audio will be at KSVY.org. Video will be at https://sd03.senate. ca.gov and https:// www.youtube.com/ user/SonomaTV/. Email questions to townhall@ksvy.org, or call 707-933-9133.
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Everyone, like me, loves a parade T hey say that everyone loves a parade. I know I certainly do. However, when the parade has your name on it, it can play on your mind and your nerves and challenge you to be much, much better than you know how to be. “Longtime local columnist to be honored with show, parade,” said the headline in the newspaper where I’ve earned my daily bread for all of my adult life. Of course, that story ran on April 1, so it may be this whole thing is just a really bad April Fools’ joke. I mean, a parade, seriously? Has anyone invited John Philip Sousa to provide some marching music? Suppose they throw a parade and nobody comes. Note that the headline did not say “Pulitzer Prize winning columnist to be honored.” Or “Olympic Gold Medalist to be honored.” Or “MacArthur Genius Recipient to be honored.” No, none of the above. The only two modifiers before my title of “columnist” were “longtime” and “local,” which pretty much means I got older and never left town. Hardly reasons for a parade. “Community members are invited to celebrate Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning’s unprecedented 51-plus-year career by viewing a virtual show on Friday, April 9, and by participating in a socially distanced vehicle
claimed many times in print to have done both of those things. I also wrote that I once hit a home run off legendary major leaguer Bob Feller, but that didn’t happen either.
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parade on Saturday, April 24,” the story begins. Fifty-one years sitting in the same chair and pounding the same keyboard. Yes, I have entered that career no-man’s land known as Area 51, when your hard-nosed editor sends you off to interview aliens on the Nevada desert with orders not to return until you have the goods in hand, with photos. “The virtual celebration, which runs from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday can be seen at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=d8JQBnfTOAc.” That should be easy to remember. “It will feature highlights of Dunning’s long and storied career, including his tennis match with Bobby Riggs, his many hosting gigs for nonprofit organizations, highlighted by a visit by legendary comedian Bob Hope.” I can’t imagine people still believe that stuff after all these years. For the record, I never played Bobby Riggs and I certainly never met Bob Hope, even though I
ou see, I have this thing about people named “Bob” and I just can’t help myself from saying I did all these wild and crazy things with them. It’s not lying really, it’s just my personal version of bob-bob-bobbing along. “On Saturday, April 24, the celebration will take to the streets with a vehicle parade beginning at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Center parking lot.” I’d really like to be there, but now that I’m fully vaccinated, I’ve made plans to be in North Dakota that day to celebrate my grandmother’s 130th birthday. “Cars, bikes and other wheeled contraptions are welcome and decorated vehicles are encouraged. Participants are asked to arrive before 11 a.m. for the line-up, then the parade will make a huge loop featuring 1.4 miles of right turns only.” Right turns only in a left-leaning city? Is this a good idea? “Coming out of the parking lot, vehicles will head west on 14th Street, pass Dunning and his family on the corner of 14th and Oak Avenue, turn north on Oak, then east on Covell Boulevard, south on F Street and west on 14th. Vehicles
UCD Health expands vaccines Those 16 and older eligible BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer On Tuesday, UC Davis Health began allowing anyone over the age of 16 to schedule an appointment at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The health system announced its expansion of vaccine appointments Monday evening on social media. The appointments are open to everyone older than 16 regardless of health insurance coverage or affiliation with UC Davis. Both patients of UC Davis Health and nonpatients can sign up to get vaccinated. The announcement that all adults can get vaccinated at UC Davis Health came 10 days before the State of California’s April 15 deadline for all adults to be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced that all U.S. adults will be eligible for the vaccines by April 19. “We are ahead of schedule,” UC Davis Health spokesperson Pamela Wu said Monday in a Facebook comment, clarifying that
the health system’s vaccine appointments are now open to all regardless of age — for those over 16 — or occupation. (The vaccines are not currently available to anyone under 16 because researchers are still working to ensure it is safe for younger teens and children.) While the health system has expanded vaccine eligibility, it remains limited by its supply of doses. (UC Davis is using all three COVID-19 vaccines — made by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — that have been approved for use in the U.S.) As of Tuesday afternoon, the appointments were fully booked. UC Davis Health said more slots will open up in the coming days. “We have received an overwhelming response to our COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and appointments,” UC Davis Health said Tuesday in a Facebook post. “Thanks to a huge interest in getting vaccinated, our appointment slots for this week have been filled. We will add more appointments at either the end of this week or beginning of next week, when we are able to ensure vaccine supply.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton @davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.
Pair busted for attempted car theft BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis police busted two Sacramento-area men on attempted vehicle theft charges despite one suspect’s attempted ruse. Officers responded on March 31 to a report of a car being broken into in the 4100 block of Chiles Road and found two men still on
the scene, Lt. Art Camacho reported Monday. “During the investigation, one of the suspects claimed he had recently purchased the vehicle, but that turned out to be false,” resulting in both men being placed under arrest, Camacho said. Scott Allen Rhodes, 50, of Rancho Cordova; and
Shane Andrew Patterson, 41, of Sacramento; both were booked into the Yolo County Jail on attempted vehicle theft, conspiracy and drug-possession charges. Camacho said Patterson, who allegedly made the false ownership claim, faces an additional forgery count.
UC Davis LIVE discusses return to school Special to The Enterprise Millions of schoolchildren have been out of classrooms for more than a year, but now most communities are working to get at least some children physically back in school before the summer. The Davis Joint Unified school district will reopen on April 12. Alongside masks, physical distancing and weekly testing, Davis schools will use HEPA air filters in all classrooms to clean the air. In addition, Healthy Davis Together is piloting air-filter sampling and surface testing in some schools to be able to track possible infections down to the room level. UC Davis LIVE will talk with John Bowes and David Coil, two people involved in these efforts getting Davis children back to school safely. The conversation, hosted
by Soterios Johnson, will be streamed live on UCD’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitter beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 8. Bowes is the superintendent of the Davis school district. Before joining the district in 2016, he was the assistant superintendent of human resources in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District and spent more than 24 years in the Los Angeles Unified
School District serving in teaching and administrative roles. Coil is a research scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center who has been involved in local efforts to control the pandemic, including the free testing offered through UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together. Questions can be submitted via Facebook and Twitter either in advance or during the show.
wishing to depart the parade may go straight or left at any point.” Best not to go straight where northbound Oak hits Covell or you’re likely to crash into the first floor of a beautifully appointed apartment building. And what of those vehicles that are not part of the parade in the first place but are somehow trapped in this Bermuda Rectangle of organized mayhem? I have been told on good authority that they will receive a police escort directly onto northbound Pole Line Road and not allowed to exit until they reach Woodland. “Bob Bowen will serve as the parade announcer.” He will do so while riding a unicycle in ever-widening circles. “Lastly, donations are still being accepted to endow a scholarship in Dunning’s name. An annual $1,000 grant will be awarded to a graduating senior in the Davis school district who is considering a career in journalism.” As the kind woman bagging a head of broccoli at Nugget said to me the other day, “I want you to know that I contributed to the Bob Dunning Memorial Scholarship.” I told her the contribution was wonderful, but I think I’d like to wait on the “Memorial” part a while longer. Like another 51 years. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
Indoor conferences, receptions to resume BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The sorts of gatherings and events that have long drawn out-of-town guests to Davis could be returning in just weeks under new state rules allowing for larger indoor gatherings. Beginning April 15, private events such as receptions or conferences in Yolo County can be held indoors with up to 150 people if all guests are tested for COVID-19 or vaccinated. Once the county has moved to the yellow tier (which could happen as soon as April 14), indoor events can include 200 people, provided they have been tested or vaccinated. Additionally, outdoor events in the orange tier can include 100 people, increasing to 300 if all guests are tested or vaccinated, and go up to 200 people in the yellow tier, 400 if guests are tested or vaccinated. Attendees will have to self verify by bringing proof of vaccination or a negative test result. Pre-purchased tickets or defined guests lists and assigned seating are required in all tiers. Meanwhile, live indoor events and performances will also be able to resume April 15, including theater and sports. The rules: ■ In counties in the orange tier, venues with a capacity up to 1,500 people can welcome 15 percent of capacity or 200 people. If all guests are tested or vaccinated, capacity increases to 35 percent. ■ In the yellow tier, venues with a capacity up to 1,500 people are limited to 25 percent or 300 people, increasing to 50 percent capacity if all guests are tested or show proof of vaccination. ■ Venues with a capacity above 1,500 can welcome 10 percent
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of capacity or 2,000 people in the orange tier, increasing to 35 percent capacity if all guests are tested or vaccinated. ■ In the yellow tier, those larger venues also have a capacity of 10 percent or 2,000 people, going up to 50 percent if all guests are tested or vaccinated. ■ Physical distancing, advance ticket purchases, designated areas for eating and drinking and limiting attendance to in-state visitors will be required in all tiers. Additionally, the state’s mask mandate remains in effect. The changes announced by the state on Friday follow increasing vaccination rates and decreasing test positivity across the state. The update, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, “is a result of the progress we are making both in vaccinations and in controlling the spread of COVID-19. “By following public health guidelines such as wearing masks and getting vaccinated when eligible, we can resume additional activities as we take steps to reduce risk.” The state will also increase the permitted size of outdoor gatherings on April 15. In the orange tier, up to 50 people may gather outdoors and in the yellow tier up to 100. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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players are actually seated behind me,” Baldini added. In an area in front of the stage at the audience seating level. “It might be tricky to get used to that, both for the musicians to watch me from behind, and for us to get used to hearing the musicians playing from different places.” Baldini has posted two short videos taken as the musicians warmed up for the rehearsal on Facebook at https://fb.watch/ 4zMOL2TKtP and https: //fb.watch/4zMQCVIJGd. Presently, the Sinfonietta is rehearsing several works by prominent 20th Century American composers Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland (his original chamber orchestra version of “Appalachian Spring,” which was first composed as a ballet score), There’s also another well-known ballet score (“The Four Temperaments”) by German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). And there’s a new work for bassoon and strings by UCD student composer Matthew Rasmussen, who is also the
Sinfonietta’s principal bassoonist. Baldini added that no public performances are planned at the present time — that will have to wait until the pandemic subsides and the Mondavi Center is cleared to once again offer host performances attended by an actual audience (imagine!) But Baldini thinks that the Sinfonietta will probably be releasing a video of a Sinfonietta performance in the meantime. Rob Tocalino, the Mondavi Center’s director of marketing,” confirmed that plans for a 2021-22 Mondavi Center concert season are underway ... the season could be announced sometime in June, but of course everything depends on the status of the pandemic, and the approval of resuming concerts in Jackson Hall by the state and local health authorities. The Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Studio Theater — serving as a COVID testing center, under the auspices of the campus/ community-sponsored Healthy Davis Together program — probably won’t figure in the Mondavi Center’s 2021-22 performance plans.
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Special to The Enterprise A year ago, a global pandemic began claiming the lives of what would end up being more than 500,000 Americans. In an effort to keep themselves, their loved ones and their communities healthy and safe, healthcare workers began doing the impossible. This included innovating on their feet to treat a virus the world knew very little about; wearing layers of protective gear not normally needed to carry out their job; in some cases, isolating themselves to reduce exposure at home; and, not to mention, adjusting to the pandemic’s byproducts of lockdowns and distance learning. While no amount of “thank you’s” will ever be enough, Dignity Health wants to honor the thousands of extraordinary healthcare workers for going above and beyond the call of duty. From that desire, the #Orange RibbonHeroes campaign was born. The multiphase campaign began in March with
the erecting of large signs expressing gratitude for health care workers, now on display at Sacramentoarea Dignity Health hospitals and select clinics. The second phase will provide an opportunity for community members to share their appreciation by submitting notes on either a specific care-team member, department or facility. The messages will be featured across Dignity Health hospital social media pages, videos and some will be printed and turned into lawn signs. “Over the past year, there has been an overwhelming amount of support shown by our communities for our healthcare workers, and what we found to be most moving for them, were the words of encouragement and messages of appreciation,” said Dr. Todd Strumwasser, Northern California Division president for CommonSpirit Health. “We want to keep that momentum alive and create visual reminders of these heartfelt sentiments. Our hope is that as they walk into work every day, these words inspire them as they continue to carry out their critical work.” As the last phase of the
campaign, Mercy Foundation, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation and Woodland Healthcare Foundation will be providing opportunities to send messages of gratitude accompanied by a donation. Funds will be used uniquely by each foundation and include the purchase of cancer center equipment, employee appreciation and wellness and more. “Like everyone, healthcare workers navigated their own COVID losses and struggles, but with an armor of PPE gear, the uncertainty of their own safety, and the fear they could harm their families just by coming to work. This past year has felt like an eternity at times,” said Dr. Nicole Braxley, Mercy San Juan Medical Center emergency room physician
and medical director. “Words of encouragement and the heartfelt thanks from the community kept us going through the darkest days. This campaign is a wonderful way to give your thanks to the heroes behind the masks.” To participate in the campaign, follow local Dignity Health hospital pages and watch out for #OrangeRibbonHeroes posts. The community is invited to share messages of gratitude — and they might see their sign up at a local Dignity Health hospital/clinic. If Yolo County residents would like to make a gift in honor of the Orange Ribbon Heroes, and have a message of gratitude shared with them, visit www. supportwoodlandhealth care.org/ORH.
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Joseph Austin Bettencourt passed away suddenly in a traffic accident on March 26. Joseph was born on May 15, 1998, to Christina Pesola and Mark Bettencourt. Joseph was athletic and was into fitness, as well as getting outdoors. He enjoyed long walks, just hanging out with family, gaming with his friends, playing chess, boxing and watching the sport. Joseph and his brother Kenneth loved to push each other on long-distance runs including two marathons and an ultra-marathon, and often went out for runs just to spend time and talk. What Joseph probably loved most was leisurely spending time with his sister Nona, having fun together, being silly and talking with each other. Joseph was a handsome boy and did not need much to enjoy himself, and he never missed out on an opportunity to get together with his cousins when they were in town. Joseph had an extremely easy-going, engaging personality, and never had a mean thing to say about anyone. He was known to make silly, quirky jokes and light-hearted, off-the-wall comments. He was always ready with a laugh and a smile. Joe had a strong bond with his family, he loved to eat, he ate a lot and was the tallest in the family; his older-little brother Kenneth loved to call him “big dog” and Nona would call him “Joe-Joe”. He worked several jobs and was most proud of his time at Save Mart where he was cross-trained for multiple departments just out of high school. He also worked in the family business, Bedrock Construction, and there he learned quickly. When he put his mind to something, he worked hard to do his best and finish the job. From a child, Joe loved helping his
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Grandpa on the property whether it be harvesting grapes, olives, and almonds, or making wine, working on building projects, picking fruit, pulling weeds, digging holes or anything in between. He had a special connection with his grandfather, Giacomo Pesola. He loved to eat mounds of his grandpa’s pasta and homemade sauce and said that when he was at his grandpa’s house everything felt right. Joseph had a natural way with people, he was inquisitive and always wanted to see himself and others do better. Joseph loved his parents. In just a few words, his mom remembers Joseph as thoughtful, loving, kind, gentle and playful. His dad loved his honesty; “he told you the whole story, bad or good.” He will be so gravely missed that words cannot express it; Heaven could not come quick enough. He believed in God and put trust in Jesus Christ. His time was much too short to see the man he could have become or to measure the grandeur of his life by the length of his achievements. Joseph is survived by his mother Christina, his father Mark, and his siblings, Robert Bettencourt, Daniel Bettencourt, Michael Bettencourt, Trisha Morgan, Kenneth Calvin Jr. and Nona Bettencourt. The place Joseph held in his family’s and loved one’s heart is one only he could fill. Our beautiful, loving Joe — may you rest in peace. The funeral services will be held Saturday, April 10 at Calvary Cemetery & Funeral Center on 7101 Verner Ave. in Citrus Heights to begin at 10:30 a.m. The reception will follow the funeral service at Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Ave., Carmichael. The service is open to family and friends.
Richard (Dick) Davis, born Aug. 22, 1934, in South Dakota, took his final flight west into the sunset on March 7. He was at home with his much-loved wife, children, grandchildren and furbaby all by his side. Dick spent most of his childhood in Davis until joining the U.S. Air Force to serve his country. For the next 21 years, he was privileged to serve many places around the world, flew the F100 and F-4 as a fighter pilot and spent a year in Vietnam. After retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, he taught aircraft safety and accident investigation and prevention for 19 years at the University of Southern California. He met Leah (Menifee) Davis, his wife of 63 years, in Phoenix. Ariz. They have two
children, Andra and Scott (Leigh Anne Oden) and two grandchildren, Joshua and Aleya Burg. Dick is also survived by his brother Donn (Skip) and his wife Judy, sister-in-law Harriette, and brother-in-law Paul Menifee, along with many beloved friends, cousins, nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by Elenore and Elvin (Scotty) (parents), and his brother Charles (Chuck). His family will forever remember him as a deep-thinking, storytelling, loving, generous, dog-loving man with the best smile ever! Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123. A celebration of life is planned for the near future.
Donald George Miller March 8, 1932 — March 4, 2021
Donald George Miller, Lt. Colonel USAF (retired), passed on March 4 following a long debilitating illness. He was born in Madison, Wis., to Albert and Lauretta Miller and was the youngest of five children. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Allen, sister Beverly, and identical twin sisters Alberta and Roberta. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Claramae “Clancy’’ H. Miller; five adult children, Mathew V. Miller, Michelle D. Miller DDS, and triplet daughters: Christine W. Miller, Kelly K. Miller Schultz and Tracy C. Dunn; and three grandchildren, Aidan, Reese and Macy.
Following Air Force retirement he received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, an MBA from University of Southern Illinois, and a JD from McGeorge School of Law. After law school and passing the bar, he flew 747 cargo planes for UPS for 25 years. For the past three years, he and Clancy have resided at University Retirement Community in Davis. Don was well known for his wry sense of humor and his amazing Trivial Pursuit and fantastic bridge playing skills. Interment will be at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Davis, following a small private ceremony.
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Aug. 3, 1943 — March 29, 2021 Margaret passed away at home, surrounded by friends and family, of lung and GIST cancer. She also had end-stage kidney disease from an inherited gene mutation that causes Alport Syndrome. She is survived by her husband of 25 years, Murray Levison; her son Drew (Lisa) Teufel and adored grandchildren Leland and Emmy; stepsons Kyle (Charlotte) and Austin Spiller; sister Mabel (Tommy) Ligh; sistersin-law Mary, Mei, and Ellen Ong; numerous nieces and nephews; and a huge team of family and friends in the US and Mexico. Born in San Francisco, Margaret also lived in Oakland, Tucson, Cincinnati, China Lake, and Berkeley. She moved to Davis in 1979 and to Woodland in 2016. Margaret met Murray in 1992 while taking personal development workshops in San José, where he lived. Although she never planned to marry again, she knew right away that Murray would be her life partner. Murray changed jobs and moved to Davis in 1994, and they were married on a smooth jazz cruise in 1996. After graduating from St. Francis nursing school in San Francisco in 1965, Margaret started a wonderful 45-year nursing career. She used her nursing skills in the Peace Corps in Bolivia (1966-1968), then followed her then-husband Bill Teufel to several assignments. After striking out on her own in Davis with Drew, she worked in
Sacramento for several hospitals before finding her niche in the Emergency Department at Kaiser Morse Avenue, from which she retired after 25 years (1983-2008). For several years, she was the only nationally Certified Emergency Nurse in the Morse Avenue and Roseville EDs. She was the social director of the Morse ED retirees group. Not wanting to work full-time in the busy Kaiser ED, she was hired to lobby the State EMS Authority to amend the regulations to allow automatic defibrillators to be used outside a hospital setting. Having accomplished that, she started selling portable defibrillators. After her first year of sales she was recognized for selling the most units nationally for her company. Other salesmen were certain there was a man helping her, not believing that a woman could be so successful. One day while making a sales call to Sacramento Fire Chief Gary Costamagna, he asked what else he could do to improve pre-hospital medical care for the city’s residents. Margaret encouraged him to begin a paramedic program that would provide a continuity of quality care from the time 911 was called to the time the patient arrived at the hospital. Given only 6 months to build the program, Margaret worked with a dedicated team to write job descriptions,
develop qualifying tests, write care standards and medical protocols, and establish relationships with nine hospitals. For 20 years she worked as a consultant, and briefly as an employee (2005-2010), for the City of Sacramento. As former Fire Chief Ray Jones wrote, “I counted on you to jumpstart projects that were difficult, time-consuming and sometimes even treacherous. While the rest of the team was complaining, you were in my office making plans.” Never the stereotypic quiet Asian woman, Margaret often was described as a force of nature and fearless. She always was up for an adventure with those close to her. Whether it was chartering a plane to take friends to an LA Rams game; taking family and friends to Hawaii, Paris, and China; hosting numerous Chinese New Year’s banquets; or trying out new restaurants with her exercise buddies, she simply enjoyed being with people and would always fight for the check to pay the bill. Margaret’s greatest achievement was being a compassionate, persistent, and generous family member, friend, and community member. She took the time to learn the names of those who waited on her wherever she did business, and they often became new friends. She supported numerous charities, volunteered at clinics, cooked
for a homeless shelter, was an enthusiastic supporter of school and team fundraisers, bought shoes for employees in Mexico, remembered the details of her family’s and friends’ lives and celebrated their life events, worked to influence elections, and spoke up about injustice. Even in her final days she was delivering presents to people and making a list of projects for Murray to complete. Her 70th birthday party served as her celebration of life and there will be no additional services. After cremation, some of her ashes will be placed at the winter refuge in Cabo San Lucas she loved and so enjoyed with Murray. Special thanks go to Jan Ebert, who donated a kidney to Margaret, and to Dr. Satpreet Sekhon and Dr. Gwen Ho, who took a strong personal interest in providing excellent care to Margaret over many years. In lieu of flowers, consider a donation in memory of Margaret to the Kaiser Sacramento Nephrology or Oncology Departments at https://is.gd/5B0bis, or to the Alport Syndrome Foundation at alportsyndrome.kindful.com. Alternately, join us in donating to a fund supporting Kyle’s COVID medical challenges at www.gofundme.com/help-for-kyles-medical-bills. Fond remembrances may be sent to PO Box 128, Davis 95617. As Margaret often said, “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and live life to the fullest.”
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n 1972, the first BART train departed Fremont station for Oakland. But that light-rail line was not the first intercity electric passenger railroad in Northern California. Thirty-one years earlier, the last electric passenger train of the Sacramento Northern Railway — that served travelers on main lines from San Francisco to Sacramento and Sacramento to Chico — passed through Yolo County on its way to the railyards of the state capital. Inside cities, these trains with overhead wires operated as streetcars. That is how the Sacramento Northern system began as the Chico Electric Railway in 1904. The CER was built to transport workers from their homes in Chico to the Diamond Match factory in Barber, south of town. But a year later, the owners of the railroad had bigger ideas. In 1905, they opened the Northern Electric Railway from Chico to Sacramento. In 1910, a different group started an electric rail service in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and they built a line connecting Oakland to Sacramento by way of Solano County in 1913. Eventually, the urban and interurban SN system had branch lines to Woodland, Oroville, Colusa, Vacaville and Oxford. The electric railway from Sacramento to Woodland began around 1910. According to Wikizero, “The electrified Woodland branch line left the Oakland bound main line at West Sacramento and ran 16 miles straight west toward Woodland. “The track proceeds across a very long elevated wood viaductbridge over the wide Yolo flood plain to enter Woodland and go
down Main Street to the Woodland Opera House where the interurban cars turned around.” By 1925, under the name Sacramento Northern Railway, all the electric passenger trains running to and from Sacramento’s Union Station were owned and operated by one company, Western Pacific. Recently, I visited one of those ghost train stops in Yolo County, named Lisbon. It’s also known as Arcade. If you venture to the eastern end of the Yolo Bypass 6.6 miles south of the causeway, you will come to Lisbon, where a lonely gravel road runs west-by-southwest from Prospect Slough to Saxon. That was the path of the old Sacramento Northern tracks. In that area, trains ran on an elevated trestle over marshland owned by cattle rancher Thornton S. Glide, whose descendants still own property in that area and at the T.S. Glide Ranch on Russell Boulevard west of Davis.
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rom Saxon, the rail line ran southwest to stations called Yolano, Libfarm, Delhi, Belleair, Bunker and Vale. On satellite images of that area of Solano County, you can clearly see a diagonal line — used today for an irrigation ditch and electric power lines — that runs southwest to northeast from Vale to Saxon. That is the course of the old railroad.
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A Sacramento Northern electric train, likely in Solano County. I’ve been out there on bike rides scores of times, and I’ve looked for track remnants or other signs of its existence and never found any. The Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista Junction, however, owns and operates several miles of old SN track south of what was once the Denverton station. From Vale, the track continued southwest to Dozier, Olcott and Creed, where the branch line to Fairfield and Vacaville split off. The mainline to Oakland turned south from Denverton to Chipps Island at the east end of Suisun Bay. It was elevated over extensive marshland on a long trestle. There was no bridge over Suisun Bay. Instead, a boat called the Ramon ferried entire trains to a stop near Pittsburg known as Mallard station. Largely following the course taken up by BART in the 1970s, the SN had 27 more stops from
Mallard to Oakland, including Concord, Walnut Creek and Moraga. It passed into Alameda County through a tunnel in the Oakland hills. Beginning in 1939, in the Sacramento Northern’s final two years of passenger service, train travelers between Oakland and San Francisco rode on electric rails on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge, where they connected with San Francisco’s extensive electric streetcar system.
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ust before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into Wold War II, several factors combined to kill the electric passenger train in Northern California. These included better and more affordable family automobiles; the Great Depression; the mechanization of agriculture which in turn depopulated rural communities; and the improvement of intercity highways paid for by gas taxes.
Letters Voter suppression In this last election, I was fortunate to partner with local Sister District and Indivisible chapters to join an enormous nationwide effort to facilitate voting in communities where many had not consistently voted, nor registered. Those included primarily voters of color and very often lower income. I was moved and inspired by the enthusiasm I heard over the phone by citizens who were now voting for the first time or had been inconsistent voters. Who now felt they had an important role in the election in 2020 and were exercising their sacred right to choose their state and national leaders. Because of losses in the elections, Republican legislators in Georgia and many other states have now introduced numerous bills to make voting much more difficult, and in essence, to stifle the voting process and reduce voter turnout. Why? Despite completely false claims of voting irregularities, these public servants are simply petrified that if there are too many voters, they will lose their jobs and power. They make ridiculously false claims of voter fraud that have been consistently rejected by scores of judges. We are very fortunate now that the House of Representatives has passed legislation (HR1) to facilitate voting nationwide and help stop the greedy self-serving work of both parties in drawing state congressional district lines. We now need the Senate to vote in favor of the accompanying bill S1, the “For the People Act.” The stumbling block in the Senate is the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to bring bills to a vote. Republicans led by Mitch
McConnell will stop consideration of S1, unless there are substantial alterations to the filibuster rules. Senator Diane Feinstein has yet to commit to its elimination. She has in the past supported the Senate filibuster rule, but has softened very recently suggesting that she may be open to its reform. This is after hearing of powerful support for HR/SR1 from her constituents. Please add your voice to the chorus of calls for voter rights by calling or emailing Senator Feinstein. Numbers and addresses are available on her website www. feinstein.senate.gov. Don Morrill Davis
Make democracy a priority On Jan. 6, the nation watched as the District of Columbia was near powerless to defend itself because it lacked the authorities and powers of a state. This is just one example of the democratic
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inequities that exist for the District’s 700,000 residents. Though larger in number than the populations of Vermont and of Wyoming, residents have no voting representation in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. The issue of statehood for D.C. is about more than safety and security — it’s about the promise of our democracy. It is also about racial justice. The population of the District is majority Black and people of color. Their ongoing disenfranchisement stems from our nation’s shameful history of denying Black and brown people political power. Two new senators would work to rebalance the Senate from entrenched minority control — another vestige of white supremacy in our government. A dedicated federal district would be created to encompass the relatively small area of the city that houses the offices of government, enabling the rest of the district, largely residential, to form our 51st state.
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In 2019, for the first time ever, House Democrats passed HR51, the DC statehood bill, a first in our nation’s history. In this new Congress, Democrats have the opportunity to continue this work and pass it in both chambers of congress. After campaigning on a promise to Build Back Better, Democrats now have an obligation to deliver. Statehood and equal representation for the citizens of the District of Columbia should be the first step. Marina Oshana Davis
Made in Taiwan My fifth-grade teacher in Taiwan told us that even though women cook at home, all successful chefs are men. I went to visit my beloved grandmom. I was so happy to see her that I wrote a poem about spring. Another teacher accused me of plagiarism. I didn’t even think the poem was good. In the U.S., I learned that a
Yet the end of passenger service was not the end of the Sacramento Northern Railway. On the main line from Sacramento to Oakland, freight service continued to 1957; and with dieselpowered trains, components of the SN continued until 1983, when Western Pacific was folded into the much larger Union Pacific Railroad. The Sacramento Northern’s freight service took a big blow, nonetheless, on Tuesday, July 24, 1951. That is remembered as the day of the “great Lisbon trestle collapse.” The SN X650 train was pulling 21 cars loaded with steel from West Sacramento to the U.S. Steel mill in Pittsburg. It would have crossed Suisun Bay in three trips aboard the Ramon. It never made it that far. While on the 4-mile long, 20-foot elevated railway over the Glide property between Lisbon and Saxon, the trestle collapsed into the mud. Section after section fell like dominoes. Four members of the crew were badly injured, but none died from the crash. By 1954, the trestle was rebuilt. But by then all the Sacramento Northern trains in operation were powered by diesel. SN freight train service through rural Yolo and Solano counties finally ended three years later when the ferry boat, the Ramon, was taken out of service. Although the Sacramento Northern is long gone, a few remnants remain as other train lines and rights-of-way. And for gravel-bike riders, some bygone rails live on as today’s trails. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.
teacher inspires students to dream big instead of assuming the worst of them. I also wrote that I wanted to be a movie star when I grew up. The teacher told me that I would change my mind. I don’t want to be a movie star anymore. But I want to create something beautiful. In the U.S., I learned that it is possible to do that no matter your age, race or gender. Everyone can find simple beauty in and with our lives. Everyone can share love and spread joy, pandemic or not. When my husband went to Taiwan to marry me, my mom yelled at me, “No Taiwanese man would marry you if that American divorces you.” One relative said, “How lascivious to marry an American.” Most Taiwanese women who married Americans were bar girls. I wasn’t even qualified to be one. One Taiwanese man told me, “You are too short, too flat and have too many freckles.” Asian women were objectified even in their home countries. When I went for a job interview in Taiwan, the boss touched my bottom and asked me strange questions like, “How do you give yourself pleasure?” He also said, “You need to sleep with me if you get this job.” I would be just like millions of Taiwanese women feeling ashamed if not for my professor Mei-Li Choy in the philosophy department at my university. She wanted to teach feminism, but the all-male faculty did not allow her to do so because they said, “Feminism is not philosophy.” She taught it anyway by changing the name of the course to “Modern Philosophic Topics.” She changed my life. I was made in Taiwan but freed in the U.S. Sandy Tsai Davis
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Dilemma: Too many wines, too little time I ’m a fickle lover. I can’t commit. And why would I when so many charming, seductive wines keep coming into my life? Sometimes they’re simply new vintages of old favorites. I spent some years, for example, quite enamored of all things sauv blanc — from the grassy New Zealand versions (that some folks say taste of cat piss) to the restrained French examples to the rounder, fruitier California and Oregon bottlings. I may have overdosed, though, because I then went for many seasons without buying a single one. But when I saw on the Co-op shelves the current vintage of Domaine du Savard “Unique,” an old Loire favorite from importer Kermit Lynch, I picked up a bottle and wondered why I had so long neglected this versatile variety. Anthony Lynch (son of ) keeps coming back to it, too. Not a complicated wine, he says, but “an exuberant burst of fragrant guava and juicy citrus that unconditionally cleanses and refreshes.” I’ve gone back for more (at $14) twice now, and I suspect it will accompany many of our summer meals. Domaine du Savard has been worked by five generations of the Delaille family — currently brothers Emmanuel and Thierry — famous for their simple, elegant, delicious sauvignon blanc.
And speaking of sauv blanc, local Berryessa Gap’s 2019 vintage just won a “Gold” in the SF Chronicle wine competition, especially notable because it’s such a competitive category. Congratulations to winemaker Nicole Salengo. My current crush, though, is Italian white. Not pinot grigio — that ubiquitous grape that most of us think of first in this category — but the more obscure grapes (of which there are many, several in every region of the country). Not that a well-made pinot grigio can’t be delicious, but why neglect local gems like erbaluce? This is a grape native to the Piedmont region, famous for the much better known and revered nebbiolo. This white counterpart should be revered, too, I now think, especially if it’s as good as the Cieck Erbaluce di Caluso. Cieck is a project of Remo Falconieri, now in his 80s but still making wine with his daughter Lisa and Domenico Caretto;
they’re known for their elegant and sophisticated interpretations of this native grape. Crisp and lively, the wine’s well-structured and immensely flavorful with pronounced minerals. In fact, if you want to experience what wine writers mean by “minerality,” this is a great place to start. It’s enormously foodfriendly. I drank it with a variety of small dishes that included goat, sheep, and cow’s milk cheese, some fish, and lightly sauteed greens; it was different but excellent with each of them. Another Piedmont native grape, cortese, also produces mineral-driven wine, like the 2019 Ercole Bianco Monferrato, 80% cortese with a bit of both chardonnay and sauv blanc. Less sophisticated than the erbaluce, it’s nonetheless a delight — balanced, light, dry, full of exuberant summer fruit and perfect for an afternoon sitting on the porch and enjoying the gradual return of neighborhood life. Or sipping with a simple white pizza topped with pesto, fresh mozzarella and several handfuls of baby arugula. I wrote earlier about Ercole Barbera, also delicious. The Ercole project is part of a generations-old wine cooperative in the Monferrato regions, a project championed by the excellent small importer The Piedmont Guy, whose slogan is “We do Piedmont. We only do Piedmont. We
always only do Piedmont.” They also import the Cieck Erbaluce di Caluso. Like the Barbera, the white blend comes in a liter bottle, which leaves me plenty of wine for a nice asparagus risotto. All three of these wines are available at The Pip in Dixon — $18 for the liter bottles and $21 for the erbaluce.
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wo bottles I’ve purchased over and over during my ongoing Italian white addiction I have already written about but I’ll remind you of them — the Donna Fugata “Lighea” (zibibbo) and the Balestri Valda Soave Classico. The former is $17 at the Co-op and the latter $15 at the Pip. Pip proprietor Amy Grabish must be as in love with Italian whites as I am because in her limited selection of fine wines she carries so many intriguing ones, including a pecorino, a godello and a grillo that I haven’t yet tasted. But I like to roll the words around on my tongue and imagine Italy and all its glorious variety of regional grapes that I’ve never heard of. By the way, those sheep, goat, and cow milk cheeses I mentioned also came from The Pip. The cow’s milk is Snowdonia “Red Storm” Leicester, which my best beloved, an Anglophile of sorts, has proclaimed the best Leicester she has ever had. So I got this far in the column
and promptly fell in love with an altogether different wine — Broc Cellars NV Got Grapes. Got Grapes is a series that Chris Brockway started in 2017 “because of a blended wine made accidentally during a hectic harvest.” Subsequent releases have been various, more deliberate, blends — this one carignan, mission, valdiguié, syrah, cabernet franc, cabernet pfeffer and zinfandel. In other words, a representative of almost every vineyard and grape Broc works with. It’s the perfect spring red — fresh, light, eminently chillable (in fact, I strongly recommend chilling for a half-hour). It smells like heaven and tastes of raspberry and strawberry and blueberry and acid and spice and earth — what a California table wine should taste like, practically bursting out of the glass and making you (well, me) happy. At least for an hour or two. Don’t put off trying a bottle (it’s quirky so do try before you buy) because although Chase at the Co-op liked it so much he ordered five cases, there will be only four after I put in my own order. But maybe a case is too much like a commitment. — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana @gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise. com.
VACCINE: Not yet in yellow From Page A1
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Davis Mayor Gloria Partida speaks outside City Hall where community members delivered a letter signed by more than 600 residents urging the city to create an independent department of public safety.
SAFETY: DPD chief speaks tonight From Page A1 workers, mental-health care professionals and civil servants to handle the city’s nonviolent calls for service including mental and behavioral health calls, welfare checks, code enforcement issues, traffic enforcement, and noise and parking complaints. “We urge you to be bold leaders in responding to these issues by creating a department that prioritizes the well-being and safety of our community, particularly our most vulnerable,” the letter says. “Such a department would take a twofold approach by first expanding access to social services such as free mental healthcare and programs to
support houseless Davis residents.” Coalition leaders say the letter has received endorsements from 25-plus local organizations, groups and businesses such as Yolo People Power, Yolo Democratic Socialists of America, UAW 2865, Indivisible Yolo and Parents of African American Children Davis. The letter delivery comes a day before the Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel’s scheduled appearance before the City Council to respond to the “Reimagining Public Safety” report released back in December by a subcommittee that issued nine recommendations for local policing reforms. “Despite all our
organizing, the April 1 city report, written by the police chief, tries to undermine the need for reforms entirely. The document says ‘In almost all respects the ‘Police Department’ really is a ‘Community Safety Department,’ which is simply untrue,” said Morgan Poindexter, a community activist and organizer with the Yolo People Power research team. “I hope City Council reads our letter, sees the diversity of endorsements and understands how much support there is for meaningful reforms in Davis.” — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
Had the county met the yellow tier adjusted case rate metric of 2 or less this week, it could have moved to the less-restrictive yellow tier as soon as next Wednesday, provided it met the metric again next week. Instead, the case rate remained too high and both the countywide test positivity rate and the health-equity quartile (which measures test positivity in the county’s most impacted communities) rose during the week ending March 20. The test positivity rate increased from 0.5 percent to 0.6 percent and the health equity quartile increased from 1.9 percent to 2.3 percent. Only the countywide test positivity rate meets the requirements for the yellow tier. Moving to yellow would allow for increased indoor capacity at gyms, wineries and breweries and family entertainment centers and would allow bars to open indoors at 25 percent capacity. And while the county will likely remain in orange for the next two weeks at least, additional activities will be allowed come April 15. On that date, gatherings, private events and indoor seated live events will be able to resume with modifications. In the orange tier, gatherings will be permitted outdoors for up to 50 people and indoors for up to 25 people or 25 percent capacity, whichever is smaller. However, the
state continues to discourage indoor gatherings altogether. Large private events can be held outdoors for up to 100 people (increasing to 300 people if guests are vaccinated or have a negative COVID-19 test result) and indoors for up to 150 people provided all are either vaccinated or tested. Indoor seated live events may also resume on April 15. Venues with capacity of up to 1,500 in the orange tier can open for 200 people or 15 percent capacity, whichever is smaller (35 percent capacity if all guests are vaccinated or tested). And venues with capacity over 1,500 can admit 10 percent of capacity or 2,000 people, whichever is smaller (or 35 percent of capacity if all are vaccinated or tested). Capacity for private events and indoor seated live events would increase once the county moves to the yellow tier. The mask mandate remains in effect in all tiers. Other changes announced Tuesday include those to Yolo County’s local health orders, including: ■ Masks are no longer required at outdoor gyms if participants are at least six feet apart ■ The requirement that only members of the same household share a restaurant table will apply just to indoor dining Meanwhile, the state has set a goal of June 15 as the date when the state as a whole will move into a new phase where “everyday activities would be
allowed with commonsense risk reduction,” according to Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services. Achieving that goal will depend on vaccine supplies increasing and the statewide mask mandate will remain in effect. But at that point, the state will do away with the whole tier-based system. Speaking to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sisson said she remains “optimistic about the status of COVID-19 in Yolo County.” “Case rates remain low, testing positivity remains low and over one-third of the population has at least partial protections from vaccination,” Sisson said. “Vaccine supply is expected to increase soon and eligibility will become much simpler on April 15 when everyone 16 and older becomes eligible. “I’m optimistic, but cautiously so,” Sisson added. “We can still screw this up if we stop following the protective measures that got us where we are today. More infectious variants are out there waiting for us to get complacent. We must continue to mask, to distance, to avoid large gatherings and to do activities outdoors whenever possible, and, finally, to get vaccinated when offered the chance if we want to keep the virus in check.” — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
VARIANT: Robust testing program identifies dangerous variants quickly From Page A1 Tuesday, Yolo County’s health officer, Dr. Aimee Sisson, said she had been notified by the California Department of Public Health that another case of B.1.351 was confirmed by a different lab in a Yolo County resident. “We haven’t had a chance here at the health department to investigate that, but it appears that we now have two cases of B.1.351 in Yolo County,” Sisson told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. B.1.351 is the second COVID-19 variant of concern that scientists at the
Genome Center have identified. The B.1.1.7 variant, also known as the UK variant, was identified and confirmed in early February. “The detection of the B.1.351 variant is concerning given its high transmissibility and studies in the lab that show that vaccines may not work as well against this variant,” said Sisson. “Even if real-world studies eventually show that vaccines are effective against the B.1.351 variant, the majority of Yolo County residents are not yet fully vaccinated. Until most of the population has
immunity, we need everyone to continue taking protective measures against coronavirus. Masking, distancing, avoiding large gatherings and regular testing are as important as ever,” Sisson said. The Davis resident with the positive variant finding is in isolation and contact tracing efforts were started immediately, according to Healthy Davis Together. “Our genotyping protocol is working as intended,” said Dr. Richard Michelmore, director of the Genome Center. “All samples identified as positive for SARS-CoV-2
by the testing lab are now genotyped immediately to identify all currently known variants of concern. Samples that have genotypes different from the common strain are sequenced to confirm the genotyping,” he said. “If there is a known variant of concern in our testing pool, we’ll find it and alert the community as quickly as possible to try to prevent spread.” The South African variant was first detected in California in early February with cases found in Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Since then, eight additional cases have been reported in the
state as of April 1. Meanwhile, more than 850 cases of the UK variant have been identified in the state, along with 35 cases of the P.1 (or Brazilian) variant and nearly 10,000 cases of the state’s homegrown variants, B.1.427 and B.1.429. This week also brought news that a variant first identified in India has been found in California. The widespread prevalence of the virus means that evolution of new strains is inevitable, Healthy Davis Together noted. The test used to genotype virus samples in Davis is
being done on the same instrument that Healthy Davis Together uses to test saliva samples. The IntelliQube PCR System, which was designed as a genotyping instrument by LGC Biosearch Technologies, permits rapid genotyping of all positive samples. All positive samples are now routinely tested for more than seven diagnostic Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). The first week of use revealed a virus sample with the N501Y substitution and 69/70 deletion, two of the mutations associated with B.1.1.7 or UK variant.
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ventually, on this planet of increasing population and not inexhaustible resources, the issue of sustainability will take center stage. We talk about it now, but my guess is that not too far in the future the discussion will take on a more serious and urgent place in what we do as individuals, and as collections of people in cities, counties, states and nations. How do we fashion a world in which each of us, from individuals to countries, can set aside selfinterest in order to collectively agree on economic, environmental and equitable behaviors, actions and policies that don’t reduce the ability of people in the future to use a given resource, or, more broadly, all resources? One key, in my view, is to realize and accept that achieving sustainability is not possible in isolation. Sustainability necessarily implies connectivity; relationships with others that provide some of what we need and have no control over ourselves. One example is electricity. Recent events in Texas provide a stark demonstration of what can happen when we don’t have power. It is not just lights going off, the inconvenience of not being able to watch TV or charge a cell phone. Really essential stuff, like water, also relies on electricity at some point in its journey to our faucets. Thanks to Valley Clean Energy, our city and much of the county can justifiably claim to be nearly independent of fossil fuels for the production of our electricity. Still, we rely on sources outside the city and county for electricity produced from renewable resources. The sustainability of our electricity supply is dependent on our connectivity to generators of electricity and its transmission and distribution. Another key element of sustainability is resilience, the ability to anticipate and react positively to disruptions or unforeseen conditions. The recent grounding of a huge container ship in the Suez Canal disrupted the entire world economy due in large part to an economic model of reliance on “just in time” delivery of goods rather than investing in stockpiling enough inventory to ensure supply in the event of a disaster. Or, another example along the same lines of policies and practices that limit resilience might be automakers shutting down car assembly plants due to a shortage of computer chips caused by people wanting more phones, games and other personal chip-dependent devices while stranded at home It may not be possible to anticipate events like a pandemic or a ship blocking a critical shipping lane but resilience would seem to argue for planning for unforeseen circumstances generally. It would seem reasonable to also presume that sustainability requires building in some level of redundancy, so that if anything goes haywire, be it inside our outside our bubble, we can still
count on minimal adverse impact. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Again looking at what could be considered a pillar of sustainability we might consider cooperation. In some cases, cooperation is coerced through laws and regulations, shared rules that provide all parties involved in an interconnected system a stable platform for working together. Another word for this form of cooperation is governance. One very huge and serious obstacle to sustainability is the current reality, at the global level, of governments more or less pursuing their own self-interest rather than an agreed-upon common good in actions and policies, in effect competing more than cooperating. Of course, the same is true in the private sector; competition and profits are the clear motivators. It’s hard to envision a sustainable world that doesn’t reflect resilience, redundancy and cooperative governance. That sounds pretty gloomy, but there is a bright side. There are many examples of governments and companies acting on those three pillars of sustainability. Of course, there is our own Valley Clean Energy, which brings together city and county governments in shared governance of what is essentially, and in many ways formally, a partnership with a private-sector company to provide electricity. Another example, and one that speaks directly to the issues of resilience and redundancy, is a project in the tiny town of Briceburg near Yosemite in Maricopa County that brings BoxPower Inc., a Grass Valleybased company, together with PG&E to provide a microgrid to that remote area. BoxPower has developed a solar generation unit that fits inside a shipping container and also includes a backup battery. The company intended it for areas in Alaska, where they have set up a microgrid near the city of Deering, as well as Hawaii and Puerto Rico in areas where there is no electrical grid. This partnership, however, grew out of the disastrous wildfires that have devastated large portions of rural California that have in many cases resulted in interruption of the utility’s ability to provide electricity. According to an article in the Sacramento Business Journal (forwarded to me by a reader, Dan) PG&E is assessing placing “operational remote grids” at 20 sites by the end of 2022 “in high-fire threat districts in El Dorado, Fresno, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Yuba and Sierra counties.” — John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Send comments, and thoughts, to john mottsmith@comcast.net.
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Teachers prepare for a return to campus By Shira Kalish & Priscilla Lee HUB staff With a return to campus approaching on April 12, teachers are scrambling to prepare for the changes. This is the third time since March 2020 that teachers have faced a dramatic shift in their job. The first change came when schools shut down at the start of the pandemic, and teachers transitioned to a distance learning model with each class meeting once a week. The second change came at the start of this school year with a full remote model with teachers meeting with their students live during the school day. And now comes the third change: a modified in-person model that gives students the option to return to campus or stay virtual. New modified in-person models for all grades in the Davis Joint Unified School District were approved at the Board of Education meeting last Thursday with a 3-2 vote. As Yolo County maintains its position in the orange tier, the school district is now transitioning to Phase 4 of the five-phase re-opening plan. Noteworthy features of the new secondary schedule include: start time of 8:30 a.m. and a five day return for in-person students instead of being split into cohorts that only go to campus for two days a week. The initial results of the Return to Campus Family Selection Survey revealed that 73 percent of district families chose to return to in-person learning, while the remaining 27 percent chose distance learning. However, duplicate results from families changing their minds in the survey window combined with other
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English teacher Anthony Vasquez prepares power strips for his students returning in-person. anomalies prompted the district to ask parents to verify their instructional model choice. The finalized results as of March 29 revealed that across enrolled students in the district, excluding King High School and Davis School for Independent Study, around 61 percent of secondary students, grades 7-12, are planning on going to campus. To compare, 69 percent of the entire district chose in-person and 31 percent opted for distance learning. After the turbulent past year, many teachers are optimistic about the new plan and look forward to seeing students inperson. “I am feeling very happy to see the stu-
dents again. I think it is time to go back now that the teachers are in the process of being vaccinated,” Spanish teacher Janice Candelario said. “We will be thrown into a new environment with last minute training so I hope the students and community realizes that it will not be perfect,” Candelario said. Social studies teacher Holly Istas also looks forward to “meeting at least some of (her) students face-to-face for the first time.” For other teachers, the unfamiliar learning model raises a slew of uncertainties. Modified in-person learning is an entirely new way of instruction. On April 1, teachers across the district received
Enrollment rate for DJUSD projected to decline By Sarah Kim HUB Staff Davis Demographics presented statistics about the future enrollment rate during the March 4 school board meeting. The data shows a declining birth rate in Davis, as well as declining enrollment in K-12 schools over the next five years. However, Davis Demographics also predicts out-ofdistrict students will increase. According to Davis Demographics senior project manager Scott Torlucci, these numbers provided during the board meeting “(help) planning by giving the district an idea of what the enrollment rate will be in the future so they will effectively plan their budget and provide appropriate facilities that will be needed to house the kids in the right location,” Torlucci said. The projected numbers are alarming to school officials, as low enrollment would lead to many unwanted decisions. Board of education president Joe DiNunzio believes the shortage of housing, declining birth rate, high cost of housing as well as a lower number of young families in town all have contributed to the declining number of local students’ enrollment rate. According to DiNunzio, these low
training on how to simulcast their lectures. In-person students will receive instruction while students in distance learning will watch in real time through their computers, meaning teachers will need to simultaneously engage both groups of students. Social studies teacher Caitlin Butler is concerned about how this will play out. “I have all of these questions running through my head: What will students at home be able to accomplish vs. students in the classroom? What resources will both groups need? What will need to be put on Canvas? I also need to work on setting up my classroom to be able to help the students online and the students in the room,” Butler said. She said that modified in-person learning will be a lot of work, but the use of Canvas and other online programs used in the past year will be helpful with the transition. “Teachers at the high school have done amazing things this year and adapted to situations we never thought possible. As a teacher I always feel like I need more time and resources, but no matter what, it is time to welcome back students,” Butler said. With all of the uncertainty about how teaching will work, it is understandable that some students may be unsure about which option will be the best for their health and education. According to Davis High head counselor Catherine Pereira, students can try out inperson instruction and change their minds if they feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Likewise, if a student chooses to remain in distance learning they can later decide to return to campus.
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Davis Demographics projects a decline of resident enrollment over the next five years. enrollment rates over the past few years have made the funding DJUSD receives from the state lower in comparison to surrounding districts. This meant the average daily attendance funding (ADA) for DJUSD schools would be lower than other districts due to the low enrollment rate and students attending schools. Along with low ADA funding, DJUSD does not get as many grants as districts with more high need students, as the number of students in high need in DJUSD is about 25 percent compared to the state average of 55 percent. To counteract this gap in funding, the district can rely on Davis voters to help bridge the gap through parcel taxes or increase enroll-
ment of out-of-district students. Without these measures, the effect could be dramatic. Deputy Superintendent Matt Best says the primary effect of low enrollment would be cutting staff, classes, teachers and potentially shutting down schools. “(The) more full our classrooms are, the more stable our finances are. When enrollments start to decline over time, you face these painful contractions… because you may not have enough students in a given class to pay for the teacher,” Best said. However, Best and DiNunzio say increasing enrollment of outof-district students in DJUSD can solve the finance and budget
problems. “(It) looks like more out of boundary students would come for more employment in UC Davis and the attractiveness of DJUSD,” DiNunzio said, as many out-ofdistrict students have guardians or parents who work in Davis, and this allows them to attend DJUSD schools. While some Davis residents note that outof-district students do not pay parcel taxes, Best provides a different perspective. “Filling the seats with out-ofcity students is by far the smartest move,” Best said. “Because if you don’t, the reductions are quite painful.”
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Rocko-vision: A chat with the Aggie AD ■ Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a two-part Q&A series with UC Davis Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca. In this segment, DeLuca discusses the state of UCD athletics and plans for the future.
BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise sports editor It’s hard to find a smoother transition than one that doesn’t involve any transition at all. That’s why UC Davis hit the jackpot last month when Chancellor Gary May named thendeputy athletic director Rocko DeLuca as the university’s next director of athletics.
A five-year veteran in the department, DeLuca is a wellknown personality around campus, having overseen athletics communications, development, ticket sales, sponsorships, marketing and event presentations. His fundraising efforts have seen Davis’ capital gifts jump from $2 million in 2016 to $7.2 million last year. He had been serving as interim athletic director since December, when former AD Kevin Blue resigned to take a position with Golf Canada. Between pitches at one of last week’s UCD baseball games against UC Riverside, DeLuca fielded questions about all things
“There’s no (seismic) shift. We’re enhancing.” Rocko DeLuca UCD athletic director Aggie athletics. Here’s what the always-busy athletics administrator had to say: What items are some of the top items on your priority list when it comes to UC Davis athletics? “That’s sort of the beauty of this transition. A lot of the
groundwork and vision that Kevin and I worked on, along with our senior staff, to build is already in place. “There’s no (seismic) shift. We’re enhancing. You see that in construction projects, the new video boards, both at UC Davis Health Stadium and now at The Pavilion. “I think the students, once things get back to normal, are going to have a whole lot of fun at UCD athletic events. “We’re also going to continue to elevate the Aggie EVO program and make sure our students aren’t just graduating, but are launching successfully into a
great job or grad school after graduation.” You’ve talked about continuing to improve UC Davis’ visibility on the national stage. What are some of the actions you’re looking to take in order to do that? “The pandemic has demonstrated a need for putting out more content online, so we’re going to invest pretty heavily in our digital footprint moving forward. That’ll be through video, social media and creating content for our website. “Next school year, we’re going
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UCD football grew in spring season Coaching staff unsure of impact five-game slate will have on fall
Trent Tompkins (18) led the Aggies, scoring a team-high four touchdowns this spring. The redshirt freshman QB from Fresno averaged 10 yards per tote.
BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Any lingering thoughts UC Davis football fans may have had about the Aggies participating in the FCS playoffs ended when Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca announced this week that “We are officially done for this spring season. (Coach) Hawk and staff are already working on prep for the fall.” The Aggies thus finish this short, odd and unique campaign with a 3-2 mark after dropping a 32-22 decision to Eastern Washington last Saturday at UC Davis Health Stadium. A sixth scheduled game against Cal Poly was scrubbed when the Mustangs dropped out midseason, citing injuries. Despite the loss to Eastern Washington, the Aggies finished the year still highly respected in the three polls that track FCS football. UCD finished at No. 15 in both the American Football Coaches Association and Athlon polls and No. 13 in the Stats FCS poll. Those numbers are likely to change in the final two weeks of the regular season before the playoffs begin for 16 teams on April 24. “Our guys have been playing football for three academic quarters in a row,” explained UC Davis head coach Dan Hawkins. “When we got into this thing, everyone wanted to play even if it was only one or two games. I thought four games was sort of the sweet spot and we ended up playing five.”
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Hawkins said it’s “unknown” how play- this year,” Hawkins added. “We came back ing a number of games in the spring will against Idaho State and Idaho, won on the affect a team’s performance in the fall road and battled Weber State. There were because it’s never been done before. a lot of redeemable things this spring.” “We’ll just have to wait and see,” The first of those comeback wins he noted while citing a number of came in the season opener against lessons learned during the ups and Idaho at the Kibbie Dome in Mosdowns of the school’s first-ever cow. spring season in 102 years of playThe Aggies trailed 17-7 late in ing football. the third quarter, but quarterback “If you’re going to play champiHunter Rodrigues had scoring onship level football, it comes passes of 7 yards to Jared Harrell down to details and raising your and 11 yards to Carson Crawford to HAWKINS standards in everything you do,” Optimistic for give UCD the lead, before freshHawkins said. man Lan Larison scored on a 9-yard run to produce a 27-17 vic“So whether it’s a mistake or a penalty, those things have to get cleaned tory. up, because when you play good football The tables were reversed the following teams, the margin of error is really small. week at Weber State, where the Aggies That’s a lesson we’ll take with us. were dominant in taking a 10-0 lead at “I thought we did a lot of positive things halftime, but faded in the second half in a
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with his brother Brennan from tiny — less than 1,000 students — Berthoud High in 2019. “(But that was) mainly just run offenses.” Garvin’s 40 yards on the ground coupled with Turner’s 83 led the Devils’ newish run-centric offense. The offensive paradigm shift wasn’t too tough, as Davis had sported a strong run game through its first several contests, creating big gains out of rushing situations. “I’m not the biggest thrower,” Garvin admitted. “Though I can. When we switched up the playbook, I wasn’t too surprised because we have a really strong line when we work together.” Despite being run-heavy and, by his own admission, not as much of a threat
Even Angels have a tough day at the plate when Luke Carrell is on the mound. The Blue Devil starter hurled six shutout innings, carrying Davis High baseball to a 2-0 win over visiting Alpha Charter on Tuesday. Carrell flummoxed Angels hitters all afternoon, striking out 10 and only allowing a single hit. “Luke looked great,” said DHS head coach Ethan Guevin. “He was comfortable throwing all his pitches in any count, which is the mark of a good pitcher. I tell these guys all the Next game: Friday time, ‘If we control the at Vanden, 4 p.m. count, we’re gonna have success,’ and he did a good job of doing that today.” Carrell and Angels starter Isaac Hawthrone dueled until the bottom of the third, when Koen Carston singled home Grafton Shorts to give Davis the lead. Carston led the Devils with two hits, including a double. Davis extended their lead in the fifth when Jason Henkel, Carter Stoltz, and Shorts drew walks to load the bases. Luke Profaci, in as a pinch-runner for Henkel, stole home on a wild pitch to give Carrell some breathing room. Shorts and Saul Israel each recorded hits for the Devils. The Angels (1-2) are no slouches. In their last full season, they went 20-3 overall and
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BY WILL WYMAN Enterprise staff writer It was a win. But it didn’t come pretty. On the road against Sheldon High last Friday, facing off against a fierce Husky football team, Davis High came away with its first victory — a gritty 14-0 decision. Big Blue’s established signal caller, Trajan Clark, led Davis downfield for its first drive of the game, resulting in a touchdown shot to wideout Donovan Garvin. But on that same drive, Clark sustained a big hit — a stinger that sidelined him for the remainder of the game and caused the locals to pivot offensively for the remaining 42 minutes. Since 2015, the Devils have played with contact sensors inside their helmets. The Riddell units are triggered when enough force is sensed and immediately indicate to staff the need to initiate concussion safety protocols. With Clark unable to re-enter the contest (as part of safety precautions), head coach Steve Smyte turned to his backup option: the guy who had hauled in the previous touchdown pass. Garvin took over for the rest of the game, leading DHS to the win, but said after that he still would’ve preferred having his teammate under center.
disappointing 18-13 loss. The only non-competitive game of the short season came against Cal Poly, which missed a number of preseason practices due to COVID-19 and was clearly not ready for prime time. The Aggies set school records for points and total offense in routing the Mustangs, 73-24, while running up 768 yards. Rodrigues hit his first 16 passes and finished with 263 yards and three touchdowns through the air, Ulonzo Gilliam rushed for 101 yards and backup quarterback Trent Tompkins added an electrifying 86-yard touchdown run. Gilliam also had a touchdown reception, as did McCallan Castles and Lance Babb, and quarterback Miles Hastings connected with Blake Thorpe for a 12-yard score.
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Blue Devil Zach Brooks (44) helps the refs out after a rushing touchdown by quarterback Payne Barksdale in the Blue Devils’ 27-14 victory over Cosumnes Oaks High in 2019. “I love Trajan,” began Garvin. “I love having him back there. He’s got a really strong arm and a really good head on his shoulders, too. “Having him is a definite plus in the game and losing him was really a mental setback.” But the backup Devil QB didn’t dwell on the team’s misfortune. Instead, the senior kicked into high gear. Garvin commanded the DHS offense, scrambling for gains and making option reads with Aaron Turner alongside him in the Devil backfield. His new role as a running quarterback was something he had some experience with, albeit a long time ago: “I played quarterback for three, four years in Little League,” said Garvin, a Colorado native who transferred along
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Devil Nation will never forget Cathy Speck Enterprise staff Blue and White Hall of Famer and former Davis High basketball star Cathy Speck died Monday. A pioneer for girls basketball in Northern California and a regular face in the crowd at Lady Devil hoops events over the decades, she was 61. Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease at 52, Speck battled ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) — the same deadly disease that took the lives of her mother, Dorothy, and two brothers, Larry and Paul. The longest-standing girls basketball tournament in the state, Davis’ annual Speck Tourney, is named for Dorothy. During her time as a Devilette (as they used to be called), Cathy’s DHS cagers went 71-5 and made multiple CIF championship appearances between
1975 and 1977. She went on to play college ball at Chico State. “Be here, now,” Speck would often say. “Appreciate the moment. Bumper sticker thoughts are true.” Devil nation will never forget her.
Softball ELK GROVE — Stevie Spencer tripled in the opening inning Tuesday, but the Lady Devils couldn’t find any kind of rhythm in a 14-0, five-inning, mercy-rule setback against Delta League powerhouse Sheldon. Zoe West pitched three innings for DHS and had two strikeouts, while Erika Wenner provided an inning of relief. The Devils will look to bounce back on Thursday when they
DHS ROUNDUP travel to Sacramento to take on rival St. Francis. First pitch is set for 4 p.m.
Badminton FAIRFIELD — Sweeping Fairfield High, 6-0, in singles play, the Blue Devil badminton team picked up its first win of 2021 on the road Tuesday. “You could tell the girls were a lot more comfortable playing than they were in our last match,” Devil head coach Michele Salisbury said. “A lot more steady and a lot more confident.” Melissa Lee (21-13, 21-12), Chiara Wu (21-5, 21-5) and Kako Hayashi (21-4, 21-8) took down their Falcons opponents at the Devils’ 1-2-3 spots, while other
singles wins came via Sarah Park (21-15, 21-19), Helena Wei (21-4, 21-2) and Alicia Joo (21-13, 20-22, 21-19). “Alicia played against their one boy player,” Salisbury said. “And they battled that out, but she beat him. So that was fun.” The DHS birdie bashers host Armijo on Thursday for a 2 p.m. meeting.
Boys tennis ELK GROVE — Devil head coach Dale Hersch said “it was great first match” after his squad took down Pleasant Grove, 8-1, Tuesday. “Overall the guys looked good,” Hersch said. “We started a little sluggish and little slow. But they slowly started picking it up.” At No. 2 singles Alan Cao beat
PG’s Rishi Menon (6-4, 6-4), while Joshua Xu won at the Devils No. 3 spot (7-6, 6-2). Other singles wins came via Madduz Madayag (6-4, 6-4), Dorado Barrios (6-1, 6-3) and Jared Umphress (6-3, 6-3). In doubles action, Itai Kelman and Adam Wu dispatched the Eagles No. 1 team (6-2, 7-5). Other two-men winners included Ian Hwang/Ayden Morgan (7-6, 6-1) and Arjun Penmesta/Nico Perez (6-2, 6-4). “There are a few teams in our league that are not particularly strong,” Hersch went on, “but Pleasant Grove is not one of them. So it was great for us to get this one under our belt right away.” DHS (1-0) heads back to Elk Grove Thursday to face Elk Grove High at 2:30 p.m.
VISION: Exciting changes in store for UCD student- athletes and fans From Page B2 to have over 60 games broadcast on the ESPN (family) of platforms. And that’ll be across a variety of sports. We want to put the best face forward for a top-five public institution in the nation that we can. “Any time we can have HD-quality video, whether it’s reaching recruits, parents, grandparents or potential students — all those things matter.” Checking in about the pandemic ... Initial reports were that UCD athletics dodged a major bullet. Is that still the case? What’s the financial state of the department currently? “We’re fortunate to be in the place we are. I give a lot of credit to our senior staff and coaches for being good stewards of the resources we have — after a lot of them were put on the shelf starting last spring through this January or later. “The savings in travel
and leaving 13 different positions in the department unfilled allowed us to not take some of the really punitive measures most of our peers had to do across the country — in terms of furloughs or layoffs and staff reductions. “None of that has happened here at Davis and I have a lot of gratitude for our staff helping make it work so well. “We’ve done a great job of investing strategically over the last couple of years and that’s something I’m really proud of. We’re going to continue doing that so we’re setting this program up for future success.”
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Fans got to watch Aggie football last week, in limited numbers. Can more expect to attend games in the future? “Football (last) week was a great opportunity for us to test-drive how things work with limited fans. The student pick-up rate was even higher than anticipated. And what we did have left to sell on the Wednesday before the game sold out in 90 seconds. “That’s an indication of how much people love to see live sports right now. “If we continue to move through the color tiers, we’ll hopefully be able to change the percentages of fans we can allow inside events. We’ll still need to have discussions about restarting things like concessions as we get there. “But we want to be dialedin and have things ready for as close a return to normal as we can for fall.” Notes: In Friday’s Enterprise, DeLuca discusses department needs and how the Edwards Family Athletic Center building project is progressing on Hutchison Drive.
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of professional scouts with a punting average of 47.9 yards, with a long of 67, and seems The next week, Cal Poly lost to Eastern certain to be given the chance to continue his Washington, 62-10, and decided that was football career on Sunday afternoons in the fall, should he choose to do so. Whelan has enough humiliation for a single season. In a thrilling 31-27 win over Idaho State, said he plans to return in the fall along with Tompkins scored the winning touchdown long snapper John Aloma. Sophomore Isaiah Gomez was deadly out of the wildcat with a 4-yard sprint up the middle with just 0:08 on the clock. Larison, accurate as a placekicker, hitting 4 of 5 fielda freshman from Caldwell, Idaho, kept Aggie goal attempts, with a long of 40 yards, and hopes alive along the way, using his break- converting 20 of 21 PATs. Connor Airey led the away speed on touchdown Aggie defense with 37 runs of 40 and 33 yards. tackles, including 18 The Aggies were always solos, while Cole Hansen one step behind in the seahad 24 solos, Chris Venson finalé against Eastern able 18, Isaiah Thomas Washington after trailing 17, Teddye Buchanan 15, 16-0 at half. Jordan Perryman 15 and On three occasions, Jehiel Budgett 14. UCD cut the deficit to a Hansen and Bryce single touchdown. But Rodgers had two sacks each time EWU responded each, and Thomas added with a score of its own to to his defensive prowess stretch its all-time series with two interceptions. record against the Aggies Because there was no to 9-0. football last fall, the Gilliam, UCD’s standout shortened spring season running back, had two Dan Hawkins did not count against a 100-yard games in three UCD football coach player’s eligibility, thus starts, but missed the final everyone who played will two games of the season still be eligible come September. with a toe injury. The Aggies open the 2021 season on Rodrigues finished the season with 65.6-percent passing accuracy for 931 yards Thursday, Sept. 2, at Tulsa. They follow that with a road game at Uniand eight touchdowns, with four intercepversity of San Diego before returning home tions. Larison was a pleasant surprise in relief of to take on Dixie State of Utah on Sept. 18. UCD’s Big Sky schedule has many of the Gilliam and ended up as UCD’s leading rusher with 333 yards, four scores and a 5.8- same opponents as in the spring, with games at Weber State, Idaho State, Cal Poly and yards per carry average. Crawford led all receivers with 24 grabs Northern Arizona, and home dates against for 276 yards and three TDs, while Babb had Idaho, Northern Colorado, Eastern Wash13 catches for 186 yards and Castles had ington and Sacramento State. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@ three touchdowns among his 12 receptions. Daniel Whelan continued to catch the eye davisenterprise.net.
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Blue Devil second baseman Dante Romero ranges into shallow right field to make a diving catch late in Davis’ 2-0 victory over visiting Alpha Charter.
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then we played really good baseball.” Davis was originally slated to play 10-0 in the Sacramento Metropolitan Vista del Lago on Tuesday, but had to League. find a new opponent when Vista canceled But the Devils had Carrell, and moved at the last minute. to 4-0 on the young season with the win. “(We’ve been) doing some schedule DHS also had its own angel in the out- gymnastics,” Guevin said. “But our guys field on Tuesday night — and it happened have been working hard, they’ve been out to be an infielder. Second baseman Dante here putting in the work at practice, and Romero sprinted into notthey know that they so-shallow right field to have to stay ready to make a diving catch and beat good teams and hold an Angels base runner they did that.” at first base in a crucial The Devils will look sixth inning. to continue their winRockwell Lybbert delivning streak when they ered another defensive gem visit Vanden of Fairfield at shortstop, ranging to on Friday at 4 p.m. nab a sharp ground ball up Notes: Carrell, who the middle and spinning to got the win for Davis, throw out the runner at has been almost unhitEthan Guevin first. table this year ... In 16 Lybbert entered in the DHS baseball coach innings, he has allowed seventh inning to slam the just two earned runs door and record the save, striking out two and six hits against 22 strikeouts … in a spotless frame. Davis’ game last Friday against “That was a really good team effort McClatchy was also canceled … Six against a really good team,” Guevin said. McClatchy players tested positive for “They’re well coached, they play hard, COVID, prompting the school to quaranthey’ve got, I think, five Division I com- tine their football and baseball teams … mits, so that’s a game that we were As of now, the game has been rescheduled excited to add at the last minute. And to April 20 at Davis High.
“That was a really good team effort against a really good team.”
REVAMPED: Defense is flawless From Page B2 as a passer, Garvin still connected with his receivers for 39 yards at key moments Friday. On the other side of the ball, following a week of practice where defensive coordinator Ty Brown emphasized flawless play, Davis did just that. Spearheading an aggressive play-stopping squad, Garvin was the Devils’ main man on both ends — hauling in an interception and
dragging down seven tackles. The shutout was a testament to the effort and execution that the Blue Devil D has been working towards all spring. Brown said he wanted his crew to put together a complete performance on the defensive end, and the squad delivered. The stifling Blue Devil effort led to Garvin’s pick, Zach Brooks’ pair of forced fumbles and Andrew Baum, Chris Mochizuki and Frank Yates each recovering
Sheldon fumbles. The Blue Crew will host their long-awaited home debut Saturday at 7:30 p.m., when Cosumnes Oaks will square off against the Devil defense and rush-based offense — barring the return of the more traditional dualthreat QB Trajan Clark. But if Garvin is still taking snaps this weekend, Davis can hang its hat on the versatility of its stand-in leader. — Reach Will Wyman at wwyman@davisenterprise. net.
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Tossing Grandma’s gifts Dear Annie: My grandchildren are not allowed to receive gifts from me. I crocheted a scarf, and it was tossed in a dumpster. I bought earrings, and the post was broken. You get the picture. So, I have been putting money in the bank instead. Problem solved? No! Now when a passbook indicates that my grandchild has
Legals@DavisEnterprise.net $7,000 in the bank, there is a sarcastic comment that it won’t even be enough to buy a book in college. I ignore the statements because I know where they come from, and there is no reason for me to upset my son. Problem solved? No. Now, I understand that the problem is that he feels ignored in my company. It’s not that we don’t speak to one another. We do. I think that the attention-getting tactics are frustrating for my son because they no longer warrant a reaction from me. They’re predicable after so many years. Why bother addressing such behavior? It only
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— Hurt Grandma Dear Hurt: You keep addressing the problem behavior because it is just that — a problem behavior. Without tackling it head-on, it will continue to be a problem. Being so rude, dismissive and ungrateful as your son sounds can’t make him feel good about
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV202-0342 1. Ann Cimella Ragsdale filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Ann Cimella Ragsdale to Cimella Ann Ragsdale 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 4-27-21 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: #10 Room: Zoom Ct. The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: 3-2-21 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7 1198 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: March 16, 2021 FBN Number: F20210238 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) JE CARE 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 3735 Topaz Road West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Nithit Umnartyutithum 3735 Topaz Road West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/16/2021 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Nithit Umnartyutithum 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7 1199 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: March 11, 2021 FBN Number: F20210221 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Tango Tours 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 3150 Maui Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Mark Davis 3150 Maui Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/1/2018 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Mark Davis 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14 1203 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Notice is hereby given pursuant to California Business and Professional Codes #21700-21716, Section 2328 of the UCC of the Penal Code, Section 535 the undersigned, Storquest Express Self Storage of Woodland, will sell at public sale by competitive bidding the personal property of unit: Joseph Hernandez, Richard Harder (2) property to be sold: household goods, furniture, appliances, clothes, toys, tools, boxes & contents. Auctioneer Company: www. storagetreasures.com The Sale will end at 10:00 AM, April 15, 2021 Goods must be paid for in CASH at site and removed at completion of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Storquest Express Woodland 1610 Tide Ct. Woodland, CA 95776 (530) 338-3531 03/31, 4/7 2021 1211 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 03/26/2021 FBN Number: F20210272 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Alma Language & Literacy 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 2055 Anderson Rd. Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Alma Speech Language Pathology 2055 Anderson Rd. Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The
himself. The way he is speaking to you, or how he treats your gifts, is unacceptable. If he can’t stop making rude comments about your gifts, then you might stop your generosity. But if you do that, the ones who would be hurt are your grandchildren. Try to have a serious and noncritical conversation with your
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Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Jessica Carrizo, President Alma Speech Language Pathology 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/21 1217 STORAGE LIEN SALE There will be a lien sale at South Davis Storage, 4836 Chiles Rd, Davis, CA 95618 On: MONDAY April 19 2021 at 11 am This enforcement is authorized by Division 8, Chapter 10 of the California Business & Professions Code, commencing without warranty or guarantee for cash only. Purchased items must be removed immediately following the sale. The personal Property stored with the undersigned by: CAJERO ANGEL ANTONIO FIRST UNIT B02 (Bicycle, Mower, Walker, TV, Cloth’s, Bedding) The personal property stored with the undersigned by: SECOND UNIT I48 MENESES DANIELA A (Storage Bench, kitchen ware, Suitcase, Shoes, purse, 2 Portable fans, kids toys, Baby stroller, artificial Christmas Tree, TV, 1 bin msc, Bag of cloths, Bedding ) BOND#0342850 3/31, 4/7 1215 PUBLIC NOTICE 00 11 16 – NOTICE INVITING BIDS 2020/21 PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECT CIP No.8250 1. Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis (“City”) invites and will receive sealed Bids between the hours of 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM on April 22, 2021, at the City Clerk’s office of the City Manager, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616, for the furnishing to City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the 2020/21 PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECT (the “Project”). At said time, Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Office. Bids received after said time shall be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date. BID OPENING PROCEDURE The bids shall be opened according to one of the following procedures: 1. Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will be allowed to sit in the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements. 2. Outside of the Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will be allowed to sit outdoors near the Council Chambers but at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing requirements. 3. Taped Video. City staff will record the bid opening and make viewing of the video available to bidders to view in separate rooms at City facilities. 4. Live Video Feed. City staff will broadcast the bid opening by live video feed. For this project, City staff have determined that bid opening procedure No. 1 will be employed. If the live video feed is selected, then results of the bid opening will be scanned immediately and made available on the City’s website for viewing by all bidders, Yolo County Order on COVID-19 You are hereby reminded that, pursuant to Section 10.c of the March 18, ORDER OF THE YOLO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER DIRECTING INDIVIDUALS TO SHELTER IN PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND RESTRICTING NONESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK, WITH EXCEPTIONS AND EXEMPTIONS, AS SPECIFIED (full order is attached), individuals may leave their residence to perform any work necessary to the construction, operation, and/or maintenance of “Essential Infrastructure”, as defined, provided that they carry out that work in compliance with Social Distancing Requirements, to the extent possible. The full order is available here: pdf of the March 18 order https://www.yolocounty.org/home/ showdocument?id=62366 Yolo County main page for updates https://www.yolocounty.org/healthhuman-services/adults/communicabledisease-investigation-and-control/ novel-coronavirus-2019 Social Distancing Requirements are defined in Section10.j of the Order as follows: For purposes of this Order, “Social Distancing Requirements” includes maintaining at least six-foot social distancing from other individuals, washing hands with soap and water for at least twenty seconds as frequently as possible or using hand sanitizer, covering coughs or sneezes (into the sleeve or elbow, not hands), regularly cleaning Order of the
son, and make sure that your attention is focused solely on him. He might open up. If he remains cold and hostile, then encourage him to seek professional help or offer to go to family counseling. If he refuses to go, seek therapy yourself as a way to sort out what’s really going on between you and your son.
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Yolo County Health Officer to Shelter in a certified or cashier’s check, or Bid Place Page 7 of 7 high-touch surfaces, and Bond secured from a surety company not shaking hands. satisfactory to the City Council, the amount of which shall not be less than You are hereby directed to cause all ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total workers and subcontractors on the Bid Price, made payable to City of Davis Project to comply with Social Distancing as bid security. The bid security shall be Requirements, to the extent possible. provided as a guarantee that within five 2. Requesting Plans And Specifications (5) working days after the City provides the successful bidder the Notice of Plans and specifications (not including Award, the successful Bidder will enter standard specifications and other into a contract and provide the necessary documents included by reference), and bonds and certificates of insurance. The proposal forms, may be obtained by bid security will be declared forfeited logging on to www.blueprintexpress. if the successful Bidder fails to comply com/davis or by calling BPXpress within said time. No interest will be paid Reprographics at (916) 760-7281 The on funds deposited with City. The Bid cost is $120 per set (plus shipping and Bond submitted shall be provided handling) and is non-refundable. Any by a surety duly authorized by the bidder that fails to purchase a complete Insurance Commissioner to transact set of plans, specifications and proposal surety business in the State of forms from BPXpress Reprographics California. prior to the bid opening date and time OR is not included on the BPXpress plan 7. Performance Bond and Labor and holder list shall have their bid deemed Material Bond non-responsive. In other words, the The successful Bidder will be required bidder must purchase the plan set from to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond BPXpress Reprographics AND be on the and a Labor and Material Payment Bond BPXpress plan holder list to be deemed each in an amount equal to one hundred responsive. The only exception shall percent (100%) of the Contract Price. be in the event a bidder’s name is not Each bond shall be in the forms set forth included on the plan holders list but the herein, shall be secured from a surety bidder can produce proof of purchase company that meets all State of California of the plans, specifications and proposal bonding requirements, as defined in forms from BPXpress Reprographics with California Code of Civil Procedure Section a purchase date that occurred prior to the 995.120, and that is a California admitted close of bidding. Any bid produced from surety insurer. plans, specifications and proposal forms obtained from sources other than those Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public purchased from BPXpress by bidder shall Contract Code of the State of California, be deemed non-responsive. Only bidders the successful Bidder may substitute on the plan holders list shall receive certain securities for funds withheld by addenda notifications City to ensure its performance under the contract. It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to pay the fee and download and 8. Labor Code Requirements print all Bid Documents for review and to Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1773, verify the completeness of Bid Documents City has obtained the prevailing rate before submitting a bid. Any Addenda of per diem wages and the prevailing will be posted on www.blueprintexpress. wage rate for holiday and overtime com/davis. It is the responsibility of each work applicable in Yolo County from the prospective bidder to check the BPXpress Director of the Department of Industrial Reprographics website listed above on Relations for each craft, classification, or a daily basis through the close of bids type of worker needed to execute this for any applicable addenda or updates. contract. A copy of these prevailing wage The City does not assume any liability rates may be obtained via the internet at: or responsibility based on any defective www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/ or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing In addition, a copy of the prevailing of the Bid Documents. Information on rate of per diem wages is available at BPXpress Reprographics may change the City’s Public Works Department and without notice to prospective bidders. shall be made available to interested The Contract Documents shall supersede parties upon request. The successful any information posted or transmitted by bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be BPXpress Reprographics. mandatory upon the Bidder to whom Bids must be submitted on the City’s the Contract is awarded, and upon any Bid Forms. To the extent required subcontractors, to comply with all Labor by section 20103.7 of the Public Code provisions, which include but Contract Code, upon request from a are not limited to the payment of not contractor plan room service, the City less than the said specified prevailing shall provide an electronic copy of the wage rates to all workers employed by Contract Documents at no charge to the them in the execution of the Contract, contractor plan room. employment of apprentices, hours of Contract documents will not be available labor and debarment of contractors and for inspection or purchase from the City subcontractors. by potential Bidders. Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and 3. Description Of The Work subcontractors that wish to bid on, be In general the work included in the listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a rehabilitation and reconstruction contract to perform public work must package includes mobilization, public be registered with the Department notification, traffic control; hot-mix of Industrial Relations. No Bid will be asphalt (HMA) patches and base repairs; accepted nor any contract entered into concrete improvements, including curb without proof of the contractor’s and ramp replacements for ADA compliance, subcontractors’ current registration sidewalk and curb and gutter repairs; with the Department of Industrial bike and pedestrian path reconstruction Relations to perform public work. If requiring removal of asphalt concrete awarded a contract, the Bidder and its pavement and underlying subgrade subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain materials; cold-milling asphalt concrete active registration with the Department pavement, regrading of intersections to of Industrial Relations for the duration adjust cross slopes at crosswalks for ADA of the Project. Notwithstanding the compliance; cold in-place recycling of foregoing, the contractor registration asphalt pavement (CIR); reconstruction requirements mandated by Labor Code of bike paths with aggregate base (AB) Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 shall not and HMA; HMA and RHMA paving and apply to work performed on a public overlay; slurry seals; adjusting utility works project that is exempt pursuant to covers to grade, installing traffic striping, the small project exemption specified in marking and markers, and replacing Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1. traffic loops. This Project is subject to compliance All work shall be performed in accordance monitoring and enforcement by the with the Contract Documents and all Department of Industrial Relations. In applicable laws and regulations. bidding on this Project, it shall be the 4. Engineer Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with Engineer’s Estimate: $ 5,380,000 all labor compliance requirements under Project Engineer: Franz Haidinger, PE this contract and applicable law in its Bid. 5. Contractor’s License Classification 10. Retention and Subcontractors Pursuant to Public Contract Code section Unless otherwise provided in the 7201, the City has made a determination Instructions for Bidders, each Bidder that the project described herein is shall be a licensed contractor pursuant substantially complex, and therefore a to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business retention of 5 % will be withheld from and Professions Code in the following payment until after the work is complete. classification(s) throughout the time it submits its Bid and for the duration of 11. Substitution Requests the contract: Class A, or a combination Substitution requests shall be made of C12 and C8. within 35 calendar days after the award Subcontractor Substitution requests shall of the Contract. Pursuant to Public be made within 35 calendar days after Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City the award of the contract. Pursuant to may make findings designating that Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the certain additional materials, methods or City may make findings designating that services by specific brand or trade name certain additional materials, methods or other than those listed in the Standard services by specific brand or trade name Specifications be used for the Project. other than those listed in the Standard Such findings, if any, as well as the Specifications be used for the Project. materials, methods or services and their Such findings, if any, as well as the specific brand or trade names that must materials, methods or services and their be used for the Project may be found in specific brand or trade names that must the Special Conditions. be used for the Project may be found in 12. Award the Special Conditions. City shall award the contract for the . Bid Security Project to the lowest responsive, Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash, responsible Bidder as determined by
the City from the TOTAL BID PRICE (SUM OF BASE BID AND ALL ADD ALTERNATIVES). City reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. 13. Notice to Proceed This Project, if awarded, will be awarded for a June 2021 start date. The Notice to Proceed shall be issued no later than June 14, 2021. 14. Further Information/Questions For further information, contact Melissa Marshall, PE, Senior Civil Engineer, MMarshall@cityofdavis.org. Questions will only be considered and answered via email. Questions will not be considered or answered 48 working hours prior to the bid opening. 15. Time for Completion As defined in the Contract, section 00 52 13 CONTRACT b., the time for completion for this project is 100 working days. 16. Pre-Bid Conference No Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled for this project. ————————————————— Deliver Bids To: CITY OFFICES - CITY CLERK’S OFFICE 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616-3896 (Building is located on the corner of Russell Boulevard & B Street) *NOTE* If you choose to mail your Bid Proposal via any of the overnight/express services, the preferred services are FedEx, UPS, and USPS and the delivery MUST be a timed delivery. The delivery service MUST deliver the bid during the TIME WINDOW stated below to the City Clerk’s Office. Both the outside and inside envelope MUST be clearly marked as “SEALED BID FOR: 2020/21 PAVEMENT REHABILITATION PROJECT, CIP No. 8250. DELIVER IMMEDIATELY TO CITY CLERK’S OFFICE” TIME WINDOW TO DELIVER BIDS (either by delivery service or dropped off in person by bidder): Thursday April 22, 2021 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. No bids will be accepted outside this window. DEADLINE: April 22, 2021 2:00 PM. See Notice Inviting Bids for details. ————————————————— END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS 1222 4/7 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ROY J. BUTZ CASE NO. PR2021-38 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROY J. BUTZ A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: ROY N. BUTZ in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: ROY N. BUTZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 13, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Signed: ROY N. BUTZ Petitioner 4205 Lamont Street, Unit 1 San Diego, CA 619-204-8281 1223 4/7, 4/11, 4/14
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