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Tree goes after fatal drop Removal equipment marks the site where an evergreen ash tree was taken down Friday, more than seven weeks after a large limb fell from the tree and caused fatal injuries to Davis mother Jennifer Comey on the windy morning of Feb. 23.

City officials ordered the removal on the advice of an independent arborist who noted the tree’s proximity to the playground.

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UK variant cases rise across Yolo County

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer With the more infectious and deadly UK variant now making up two-thirds of all new cases of COVID-19 in Yolo County, health officer Dr. Aimee Sisson is urging residents to double down on protective measures, including getting tested and vaccinated.

Otherwise, she said, Yolo County could end up with “a surge that could look like Michigan, where hospitalizations from COVID are climbing and experts predict a surge worse than the fall surge.”

Yolo County has been averaging more than 15 new COVID-19 cases a day for the

last several weeks, numbers that at one time would have kept the county in the most-restrictive purple tier of the state’s color-coded blueprint.

“That trouble is in the form of growing numbers of more infectious variants,” Sisson said in a video released by the county on Friday.

But with blueprint metrics relaxed in recent SISSON months, and the county County health earning a bonus for testing officer more than the rest of the state, businesses here have reopened indoors — with some restrictions on capacity — and the least-restrictive yellow tier beckons.

The UC Davis Genome Center, which is checking for variants of concern in every positive test picked up by Healthy Davis Together, identified the county’s first case of the UK variant (B.1.1.7) in early February.

Initially, Sisson said, the number of cases identified as B.1.1.7 remained low.

BY TODD R. HANSEN McNaughton Newspapers FAIRFIELD — A proposed $3.3 billion bond that proponents argue will “accelerate California’s economic recovery and build a healthier, more equitable and resilient food and farm system,” cleared the Assembly Agriculture Committee Thursday.

Assembly Bill 125 — the Equitable Economic Recovery, Healthy Food Access, Climate Resilient Farms and Worker Protection Bond Act — cleared the committee on a 10-0 vote.

“COVID-19 has exposed many vulnerabilities and inequalities in our state’s food

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supply chain and infrastructure, and AB 125 will get at the heart of these issues,” bill author Assemblyman Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, said in a statement released by the California Climate and Agriculture Network, one of 15 sponsors.

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For the first time since the pandemic started, UC Davis graduates will get to celebrate their accomplishments at in-person graduation ceremonies this spring, UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May announced Friday. While the commencement ceremonies will be limited in scale, with public health precautions required, the chancellor celebrated the news as a step forward.

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The bill would go before voters in the fall of 2022 if it clears the Legislature.

The bond would provide $60 million “for grants to develop meat processing facilities and expand or upgrade

Healthy Davis Together, which is sampling air filters at two Davis elementary schools for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19, has reported a positive result from a classroom at Korematsu Elementary School.

The positive sample was picked up on Tuesday and reported on Thursday, according to the school district.

The classroom involved will remain open for in-person instruction and students and staff using that classroom will not be required to take a COVID-19 test but will be encouraged to do so.

In a letter to the Korematsu community, Associate Superintendent Laura Juanitas said, “a positive detection of SARS-CoV-2 on the classroom portable HEPA filtration unit indicates that at least one infected individual was present in the classroom prior to the air filter sampling date and was releasing the virus into the air.

“Additional safety protocols we have implemented — including increased classroom ventilation, daily disinfection, student masking and physical distancing — help reduce exposure to the virus even if an

“But they’ve risen significantly in recent weeks,” she said. “According to data from the UC Davis Genome Center, two-thirds of

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Briefly Reading features Merwin’s poems Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe has a new audio poetry reading online at soundcloud.com/ james-lee-jobe.

Jobe reads a selection of poems from W.S. Merwin’s collection, “The Moon Before Morning.” This reading is free and familyfriendly. Jobe can be reached with questions at jamesleejobe@ gmail.com.

Yolo Dems honor Schelen The Yolo County Democratic Party will host a Zoom fundraiser at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 21, to toast Bob Schelen’s 12 years of service as party chair.

To donate and join the event, go to bit.ly/ Schelen. For more information regarding the Yolo County Democratic Party, visit yolodemocrats.org.

For the record Friday’s story on the Davis school board misstated a pair of dates.

The Sunday meeting when the board first discussed the five-day model was March 28.

The exposure at Emerson Junior High was on Monday, April 12, and the positive test result came back on Tuesday.

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ity: No authority over Bretton Woods rules,” said the front-page headline over Anne TernusBellamy’s story in Friday’s Enterprise.

I don’t know about you, but when a local issue is so full of twists and turns that it makes me dizzy, I turn to Anne for comfort and understanding.

Bretton Woods is the warmand-fuzzy name for the West Davis Active Adult Community, the initials (WDAAC) of which sound like the noise a duck might make. And trust me, there are ducks all around these “Woods.”

Duck, everyone, here comes another one.

This project was sold to the voters in 2018 as being primarily for seniors either living in Davis or who have a current or past connection to Davis. Like they once ordered a Bonus Jack at the drivethru in Downtown Davis. Or they watched the Aggie football team play in the Boardwalk Bowl on national television in 1972.

In these days when inclusion has hopefully become the norm, projects that tend to exclude whole classes of people — nonDavisites, in this case — are on shaky ground from the get-go.

Even though the project passed comfortably at the ballot box, the Bretton Woods folks came up with a disclaimer to the “Davis-only”

In other words, forget all this Davis-connected nonsense and simply state that you do not wish to answer the question concerning your connectedness to the City of All Things Right and Relevant and Sometimes Restrictive.

provision to ease the fears of those who might feel excluded. And who, incidentally, might just decide to file a lawsuit.

Said the disclaimer, in an apparent end run around the Davisbased goal, the project will “Implement policies and processes that achieve aforementioned (Davis-connected) objectives, but do so in a manner that will not intentionally or unintentionally prevent the sale, directly or indirectly, of housing or otherwise result in housing being unavailable or restricted because of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability, familial status, marital status, sexual orientation or any arbitrary basis.”

Bretton Woods brass then devised a questionnaire where folks would have to basically prove their Davis connection — wearing Birkenstocks and a bike helmet to the model home tour, for instance — with one glaring loophole.

“Anyone who selects ‘decline to state’ will have their privacy respected.”

W. Sac postal employee sentenced for drug thefts Special to The Enterprise Celeste Pang, 42, of Olivehurst, was sentenced

by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to six months in prison and a $2,000 fine Thursday for embezzlement of mail by postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

According to court documents, Pang, a postal employee at the West Sacramento post office, identified what she believed to be drug parcels and rerouted them to her personal residence. For over a year-anda-half, Pang stole parcels from the post office by

replacing the original tracking label with an insured tracking label and replacing the original address label with a label bearing her home address.

Agents intercepted one of the stolen packages before it reached Pang’s residence. That package contained 10 pounds of marijuana.

This case was the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron L. Desmond prosecuted the case.

Pang is scheduled to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 24.

Search warrant leads to child-endangerment arrests

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis police arrested a local couple Thursday afternoon on charges of child endangerment.

According to Lt. Art Camacho, Yolo County sheriff ’s deputies serving an unrelated search warrant at the pair’s Valdora Street residence encountered illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia inside, along with several young children.

City police officers were summoned to the scene, where 36-year-old Jessica

Marie Torres was taken into custody on childendangerment and drug charges. Michael Bekele, 35, who had left the residence prior to the search, was stopped and arrested at Richards Boulevard and Research Park Drive, Camacho said.

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ith that loophole in hand you can be from Moscow, Idaho, or Moscow, Russia, and sail through the Bretton Woods interview process like a delta breeze on a summer night in Davis.

That very loophole, however, caught the attention of our local Planning Commission, which presumably exists to have a say about such things.

This is where my friend Anne Ternus-Bellamy comes in to walk us through the weeds. And the Woods.

“The city has no authority to approve or reject a revised version of the Bretton Woods Davis-based buyers program that departs significantly from what many voters thought they were approving back in 2018, city officials said this week,” Anne writes.

As my old friend Ralph Kramden used to say, “What a revolting development this is.”

“What was marketed in 2018 as a requirement that 90 percent of all buyers in the proposed West Davis Active Adult Community have a pre-existing connection to the city of Davis has been revised

to allow all prospective buyers to decline to state whether they have that connection or not,” Anne adds.

“The revised version of what is now called the Davis-connected buyers program was brought before the Davis Planning Commission on Wednesday evening, but purely as an informational item, with commissioners told by city staff they have no authority to accept or reject the plan.”

And who knew our city commissioners have no teeth? “ ‘This is not an enforceable obligation in the development agreement as between the city and the developer,’ City Attorney Inder Khalsa told planning commissioners.”

Furthermore, “Commissioner Stephen Mikesell expressed some frustration that such a significant component of the Bretton Woods project would come before them purely as an informational item. “ ‘It’s mystifying to me, frankly,’ he said. ‘Somehow or other, the process got goofed up.’ ” One day, no doubt, Amy Coney Barrett and her buddies in the black robes will have a say on all this. Until then, though, we’ll all just have to scratch our heads and wonder how the Smartest City in America ever got itself into this mess.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

SPCA adds kid-sized masks to fundraiser Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County SPCA’s “Spring-has-Sprung” facemask collection now including kid’s sizes for its fundraiser for the Community Cat Kindness Fund.

There are three brandnew fabric patterns, including a dog pattern.

The children’s masks have adjustable elastic via beads and are available in size small for 3- to 4-year-olds and a medium child’s size for 5- to 12-year-olds. The new patterns come in adult sizes, too.

Yolo SPCA encourages ordering early while it has the widest selection available since some of the original fabric designs are in limited supply. To cover its costs, the organization asks for a minimum donation of $15 per mask.

These masks are easily mailed to gift recipients inexpensively.

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The Yolo County SPCA’s “Spring-has-Sprung” collection now including kid’s sizes. mask allows a small “pocket” of space on the inside of the double cotton fabric making them very comfortable to wear, with the kitty-themed or neutral fabric designs on the front.

YSPCA thanks the team of sewing volunteers who helped make many of these masks and special thanks to Julie and Perla who have continued to help making the masks including the new fabric designs. Photos of these new fabric patterns and more of the early-spring adult masks in 13 fabric patterns are posted on the Yolo SPCA website at

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VARIANT: Officials want more testing COMMENCEMENT: UC Davis From Page A1 new cases in Yolo are now B.1.1.7. This is concerning because the B.1.1.7 variant is 50 percent more infectious than the normal strain of coronavirus and also causes more severe disease and death.”

The variant also is behind the current surges in Michigan as well as much of Europe, she said. Two other variants of concern — P.1 out of Brazil and B.1.351 from South Africa — have also been found in Davis, but it’s the UK variant that currently concerns Sisson.

“If total cases are flat, why am I worried about B.1.1.7?” asked Sisson. “Two words: Exponential growth.”

“Numbers may be small now, but as they double, and double again, small numbers quickly become big numbers.

Our cases may be flat because the increase in B.1.1.7 cases is being covered up by a decrease in cases caused by the normal or wild-type virus,” said Sisson.

And as B.1.1.7 cases accelerate, Yolo County could end up with a surge similar to that seen in Michigan as well as in Europe, she said.

But a surge is preventable “if we double down on current protective measures, testing and vaccination.”

All of the authorized COVID-19 vaccines work well against the B.1.1.7 variant, Sisson said, “so we can fight the growth in B.1.1.7 by getting more people vaccinated.

“I strongly recommend that everyone 16 or older get vaccinated unless they have severe allergies to vaccine components. Vaccines are

free, they work and they are safe.”

Meanwhile, “until you are vaccinated,” Sisson said, “it is important to get tested regularly, even if you are not sick.

“Forty percent of people who are infected have no symptoms, so the only way to know you aren’t infected with COVID is to get tested.”

As Sisson noted, there are free public testing sites in Woodland, West Sacramento and Winters, in addition to Healthy Davis Together in Davis, and at numerous pharmacies in the area.

“They all provide results in one to two days,” she said.

Sisson also cautioned that individuals who develop COVID symptoms should get tested even if they’ve been vaccinated.

“Please don’t assume your runny nose and sneezing are due to allergies because they could be COVID,” she said. “If your child is participating in in-person learning at public schools, I strongly encourage them to participate in free, regular on-site testing. This testing allows us to keep a close eye on cases in schools to make sure that students and staff aren’t spreading COVID on campus.

“If people don’t get tested, we won’t know if they have and are spreading COVID.” Both testing and vaccination become even more important as Yolo County joins the rest of the state in moving forward with more reopening. Since Thursday, the state has been allowing larger gatherings, including private indoor events. However, Sisson said, “indoor events and activities pose a higher risk of COVID trans-

mission than outdoor events and activities.

“Just because the state allows an activity, does not guarantee that activity is completely safe when it comes to COVID,” she said. “This is especially true where more contagious COVID variants dominate like they do in Yolo County.

“I strongly recommend that organizations, businesses and individuals that host indoor events require all participants to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test, even when not required by the state.”

Even better, she said, would be to hold events outdoors, where ventilation reduces the risk of coronavirus transmission.

“We are very close to a time when we can get back to something resembling normal,” said Sisson. “But we aren’t quite there. And if we aren’t careful, we may find ourselves in another surge. So as we reopen, please get tested, get vaccinated and opt outside.”

To find free COVID-19 testing in Woodland, Winters or West Sacramento, visit https://lhi.care/covidtesting or https://www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus.

Those who live or work in Davis can use Healthy Davis Together’s free saliva-based testing. Make an appointment at https://healthydavis together.org.

Vaccine appointments are available to all residents ages 16 and up. Visit MyTurn.ca. gov.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davis enterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

seeks to bring sense of normalcy From Page A1 from the world is the inability for many students to mark the end of their academic journeys with a commencement ceremony,” May said.

“Thankfully our university and city community has been incredibly diligent and cautious, and we can now enjoy the benefits of our hard work.”

As before the pandemic, separate in-person ceremonies will be held for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for students at professional schools.

Graduates participating in the inperson ceremonies will be limited to bringing two guests, each of whom must bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result from the previous 72 hours.

Additionally, any graduate traveling from out of state to participate in the ceremony must show proof of vaccination. Graduates and guests will be required to where face masks during the event but will be allowed to remove them at times to take photos.

With many students residing outside Davis during the pandemic, UC Davis plans to livestream the entire event so that anyone unable to attend can watch the ceremony.

The details of the ceremony will be orchestrated to maintain public heath while also featuring some of the same elements of a traditional commencement ceremony. However, because of public-health regulations on gatherings, there will not be any speakers addressing the graduating class and groups will not be permitted to linger. Instead, graduates and guests will be spaced out 6 feet from each other at all times while they make their way through a series of steps in the ceremony.

“First up, a photo-op tent will be filled with fun opportunities for selfies and family photos. Then, each group will proceed to the main stage, where the graduate will receive a

ceremonial scroll (without shaking hands) and have their name read aloud in front of a group of campus leaders. A professional photographer will be on hand to document this special moment,” May described in a press release.

To limit the number of people gathered at once, multiple ceremonies will be held from June 10 to 13, with each event limited to 300 students.

“While the current state of COVID-19 infections and spread in our area has improved dramatically, the pandemic is not over and we must still be cautious,” May said.

“Our commencement celebrations will be limited to comply with regulations and to keep our graduates, their families, our faculty and staff, and the broader community safe.”

Do to restrictions on public gatherings, UC Davis said it is unable to include the class of 2020, which graduated during the pandemic without an in-person ceremony, in the festivities planned for the class of 2021. “Rest assured a more traditional celebration for 2020 graduates will take place as soon as it is safe to do so,” May said.

In addition to the in-person graduation ceremonies for the class of 2021, UC Davis is also planning a virtual graduation ceremony for 2021 graduates who cannot or choose not to attend in person. May added that the in-person ceremonies are contingent on dynamic public health metrics and direction from state and local health officials.

“We must continue to be vigilant and cautious,” May said, “but I hope these commencement events will provide a small relief and prove that the light at the end of the tunnel is indeed getting brighter.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net.

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City hosts climate-action workshop on Earth Day Special to The Enterprise The city of Davis announced it will hold its first Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Virtual Workshop at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 22. The Zoom meeting link is https://zoom.us/j/ 94281640401.

“We need to hear from the community on this critical community issue,” Mayor Gloria Partida said.

“Climate change, which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable people,

touches so many aspects of our lives — public health, employment, agriculture, housing, regional planning and transportation just to name a few.”

“We need to hear from the community.”

The 2020 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Update supports City Council actions to assess greenhouse-gas-reduction progress made since the 2010 CAAP adoption, identify physical and social vulnerabilities, establish and prioritize climate action and carbon reduction policies toward carbon

Gloria Partida Davis mayor neutrality and bring the city into compliance with current state legislation.

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Jacob Alexander Lee

May 2, 1989 — March 31, 2021

Nathan was born in Oroville, grew up in Poway, and then moved to Davis in 2001. He attended Willett Elementary, Emerson Junior High and Davis High, a 2008 graduate. His college studies were at Sacramento City College and Cosumnes River College. He took courses in video production. Nathan went to his heavenly home on March 31.

He began receiving staff support from Community and Employment Services in spring of 2012. The Communication Technology and Education Center in Sacramento hired him and his CES team to produce instructional videos for speech-device users from 2016 to 2018. He was grateful for the support of Davis Media Access.

Nathan participated with the junior high, high school, college and young adult groups through University Covenant Church. Some of his favorite things to do were spending time with friends in person or via Facebook; facilitating a speech-device users group called Digital Chatter Hour; and visiting local and regional locations via buses. He represented the city of Davis from 2017 to 2020 on the Yolo County Transportation District Citizens Advisory Committee.

He loved watching and playing baseball.

He played on Challenger Little League teams in Poway and Sacramento. Other

Jan. 6, 1998 — April 11, 2021

favorite pastimes were having books read, playing video games and watching football games and Food Network shows. He learned to swim with Easter Seals volunteers at Childrens’ Hospital in San Diego. Meeting Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” was a highlight of his life.

Nathan was a sensitive and loving man.

He was intelligent, observant, humorous and creative. As a final gift reflective of his faith, new life was given to multiple recipients through organ and tissue donations.

We are grateful for the prior care provided by the staff of Sutter Care At Home and Yolo Hospice, then the recent care provided by the staff of Sutter Davis Hospital and Sierra Donor Services.

Nathan is survived by his mother Nancy J. and his father Steve of Davis; his aunts Karen Jones of Davis, Sue Flerlage of Maple City, Mich., Connie Waranius of Shasta, Nancy E. Streeter of Redding, Doreen Timmons of Palo Cedro; his uncles Tom Streeter of Oakley, Tom Flerlage of Maple City, Mich., and Kenny Waranius of Shasta.

A Celebration of Life will be held later in the year. Contributions in Nathan’s honor may be given to Progressive Employment Concepts (progressiveemployment.org), Yolo Hospice (yolohospice.org) or University Covenant Church (ucov.com).

A tender heart was released from this world on Sunday, April 11.

Our beloved Jacob Alexander Lee (Jake), age 23, passed away in his Davis home due to an accidental drug overdose.

Jake was living a life he loved. He had a wonderful apartment where he was surrounded by orderly stacks of the vinyl albums and books he treasured.

Most prominent among his personal pictures were photos of Jake with his arm around his older sister, Shayna, who showed him unwavering love and support.

He spent as much time as he could hanging out with his friends, talking, teasing and laughing. Jake generously shared details of his long-time struggles with depression and anxiety. His years of work to understand himself and build a life made him a sensitive friend and non-judgmental confidante.

Jake was an English major in Arizona State University’s online undergraduate program and was steadily progressing toward graduation. He worked at a local restaurant, where he shared his warmth and dry wit with co-workers and many regular customers, some of whom had known him since childhood. Among his earlier milestones was his bar mitzvah at age 13 in Davis.

His sly, quick sense of humor was his calling card, as were the evocative, sometimes esoteric T-shirts he wore.

He could completely disarm with an astute observation.

And he always carried a book.

David Foster Wallace was a favorite, but he was just as likely to report that he had finished something by Shakespeare, was embarking on a 19th- or early-20th-century author such as Marcel Proust, or was enjoying the irreverent humor of Hunter S. Thompson.

He is survived by his sister, Shayna Alexis Lee; his mother, Kristin (Little) Lee; his father Richard L. Lee; his grandmother Marian L. Little; uncle Sandy Little; aunt Kelley Blewster; aunt Molly Little; uncle Jeremy Lee; uncle Michael Lee; aunt Cynthia Tarkanian-Lee; and numerous extended family members. He was preceded in death by grandparents Ruth Lee Wise; Jack Lee; and Mac Little; and by his step-grandfather, Henry Wise.

A graveside service will be held for Jake at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 22, in the Jewish section of the Davis Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Smith Funeral Home. Those who wish to sign a guestbook online may do so at www.smith-funerals.com, where information about charitable donations will be posted.

Peter Alexander Kazaks Feb. 22, 1940 — April 2, 2021

Father of six, grandfather of seven, Peter Kazaks died peacefully on Good Friday, April 2, in Davis, his home for the past 23 years.

Peter, the oldest of three sons of Alexander Kazaks and Zigrida (Meijers) Kazaks, was born in Latvia, a Baltic republic, as WWII was beginning. The young family fled the war and emigrated westward, first to refugee camps in Germany and then to Manitoba, where Peter’s father had found work as a farm laborer.

Peter’s earliest memories were of his family’s time as refugees. They sometimes moved on foot, with Peter’s mother pushing Peter’s youngest brother Janis in a baby carriage that eventually lost a wheel. Also, one time, Soviet warplanes buzzed them, causing them to take cover in a ditch.

Things improved for the family in Canada when they moved to Montreal and eventually Ottawa after Peter’s parents found professional work. Peter learned English and French and graduated from McGill University, studying physics.

He came to the U.S. for graduate school, first attending Yale University. Peter followed his adviser to California and earned a Ph.D. in pPhysics from UC Davis. There he made friends with fellow residents of Ash Hall, friendships he rekindled when he returned to Davis decades later.

In Davis, Peter also met Alexandra Hazen, whom he married in 1968 and with whom he had six children over sixteen years: Julia, Emily, Karl, Kris, Hazen and Maia.

The couple moved to Ohio and then New York, before settling in the Sarasota, Fla.,

area. Peter worked as a physics professor at New College, later part of the University of South Florida. He took sabbaticals at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University, pursuing his interest in geophysics as well as his core field.

At New College, Peter enjoyed building up the new institution and fostering the college’s liberal approach to study. He volunteered at the Sarasota Opera and began a longtime vocation as a soccer referee. He canoed the waters of the Sarasota Bay, the Manatee River and elsewhere in Florida, and played pickup basketball with New College students and faculty.

Peter’s interest in canoeing began in his youth in Canada. He spent at least one summer as a camp counselor where canoeing was a major activity. As a young canoeist, Peter began the habit of recording observations of his journeys, with notes and drawings. He read avidly of the lives of the early American explorers such as Jedediah Smith.

While living in Florida, Peter made two summer canoe voyages to the Canadian North, venturing even to the Canadian Arctic. These journeys involved navigating rapids, crossing large lakes and physically punishing portages over land. Peter’s friend George Luste was the party leader for the first four-person trip and Peter and George completed the second trip as a duo.

In 1997, Peter and his family left Florida and moved back to Davis. His three older children had already gone to college

Michael Ritchie Parker Sept. 27, 1943 — March 18, 2021

Michael R. “Mike” Parker, beloved husband, father and grandfather, was an educator and school administrator for over 42 years, and a respected coach. He was born on Sept. 27, 1943, and went to eternal rest on March 18.

Mike, the eternal southern gentleman, was born in Mobile, Ala., but moved to Memphis, Tenn., as an infant. He graduated from Kingsbury High School and the University of Memphis.

He went with his fraternity brothers to Yosemite National Park in the summer of 1964 to work. He worked 11 seasons at Camp Curry as an auditor, bellman and manager, and even did the firefall call. It was there in 1971 that he met and pursued the love of his life, Michele Malato. They married in Yosemite in May 1972. Yosemite was his second home where he continued to work seasonally until 1978 and stayed connected by even working the reknowned Bracebridge Dinner.

Mike and Michele resided in Davis from 1973 to 2019, when they relocated to Rocklin to be closer to their grandchildren.

They had two children, Brooke and Brian.

Mike will be forever remembered for his

love for his family and friends, his keen sense of humor, his passion for educating children, being an avid golfer and a dedicated fan of the Memphis Tigers, San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers.

He is known for his unwavering humor and quick wit, kindness and compassion for others; he never met a stranger. His ability to remember every play and detail of games watched or attended will not be forgotten. Mike loved to read, travel and listen to music, especially banjo and the Kingston Trio, and enjoyed a good Jack Daniels drink.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Bobbie and Bill Parker, and leaves behind his partner for life, Michele, daughter Brooke Fahey (Chris), son Brian (Kimberlee) and five grandchildren: Madeline and Sophia Fahey and Nathan, Aubrey and Matthew Parker.

A private mass was held at St. James Davis with burial planned for a later date.

Donations for a memorial bench with Mike’s name to be placed at Davis Municipal Golf Course can be made to: Jerry Lilliedoll, 1010 Bienville, Davis CA 95616, or to St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis.

and beyond, but his three younger children graduated from Davis High School before moving on to their adult lives.

In Davis, Peter enjoyed the ballet performances of his children Kris and Maia at the Davis Arts Center.

He also joined writers’ groups and wrote books about his canoe travels: “From Reindeer Lake to Eskimo Point” and “Lands Serene.” He wrote a historical novel, “An American in California,” inspired by the lives of California pioneers, especially Jedediah Smith, in which Peter sought to illustrate the terrible cost the whites’ westward expansion and Spanish colonialism wreaked on Native Americans.

Peter also made two return trips to Latvia, visiting extended family members. He stayed in touch with them and the family of his youngest brother Janis, who lives in Ottawa, and with the family of his brother Klavs, who predeceased Peter in 2000.

Peter enjoyed the convivial company, vigorous intellectualism and unsparing politics of his classmates in the weekly “Reading the New Yorker” program at UC Davis’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Peter attended his last session with the group one week before he passed away. His friend Barney Ward was a precious part of Peter’s later life together with Tom Farver, Art Harris and Kent Erickson, all of whom were soccer referees. Peter also spent cherished time with his friends of 56 years from Ash, Birch and Cedar residence halls at UC Davis.

Like many older people, Peter managed

a variety of physical ailments in his later years; pancreatic cancer, detected late, was the ultimate cause of his death. The last weeks of his life he was aided by goodhearted caregivers, as well as his children, which brought him great solace.

Peter is predeceased by his parents Alexander and Zigrida, his brother Klavs, his in-laws Norval and Elsa Hazen, and his brother-inlaw Harvey Hazen, as well as his aunts and uncles who had also emigrated to Canada.

He is survived by Alexandra; by Julia and her husband Judd Volino and their two children Clay and Lucy; by Emily and her husband Chris Prosise and their sons Theo and Lance; by Karl and his wife Jane Shaw and their children Henry, Orion and Lily; by Kris; by Hazen; by Maia; by Klavs’ wife Jacqueline; by Klavs’ and Jacqueline’s son Alex and his wife Asa and their children; by Klavs and Jacqueline’s son Peter and his wife Lori and their children; by his brother Janis and Janis’ wife Kristina; by Janis’ former wife Angela; by Janis and Angela’s son Gunars and his wife Sarah; and by Janis and Angela’s son Olavs and his wife Jen and their children.

The family will remember Peter via a private ceremony and encourages Peter’s friends to remember him as they choose. Those interested in making a charitable contribution in honor of Peter may wish to consider one of the following: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Davis; Hugo Bustamante AYSO Playership Fund; Tree Davis; International House Davis; Latvian-American Society; National Park Foundation; Davis UNICEF, or PBS member station KVIE.

Todd Andrew Winters March 21, 1960 — March 8, 2021

Todd Andrew Winters, a longtime Davis resident, has passed away at the age of 60. He died suddenly at his home in Davis on March 8.

Todd is survived by his 91-year-old father Wallace, who was a UC Davis professor, his brother Scott and sisters Lisa and Nancy, all former students of Davis High School.

Todd was a band member and played basketball and

rugby while he was at DHS. He was a trained computer technician and his last term of employment was at On Site Power in Davis. Todd will be remembered as a fun-loving guy with a passion for music, spending time on his boat and being with friends on the Sacramento River.

He joins his mother Shirley Jean, who passed away in 2014, to rest in peace for eternity.

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De Vere’s in process of hiring for its return D e Vere’s Irish Pub is on the comeback. It’s hosting walk-in interviews on Wednesday for front and back of the house teams. Henry De Vere White told me they are looking to open the pub in another month or two, depending on how soon they can fill positions.

The Davis pub, at 217 E St., has been closed since August, noting that pub atmosphere was not conducive to sidewalk service.

One of the biggest challenges to restaurants is finding enough employees. And with most UC Davis students out of town until fall, it’s even harder in Davis.

“We are looking for amazing people to join our crew. Don’t worry about résumés or experience, just show up and chat with us!” De Vere White said on Facebook. “We want to build a team of people that want to help us crush it!”

———— Local fitness expert Jennifer Miramontes recently left FIT House to focus on her business Cancer Champion Fitness.

Miramontes is a tough personal trainer who has a knack for helping people improve their wellness through exercise, nutrition and mindfulness. She especially loves to direct her positive energy toward helping those with cancer, knowing that movement and diet can have a big impact on a person’s energy, stamina and outlook.

In 2019, she formed Cancer Champion Fitness, focusing on the program she’d shaped for clients and both of her parents.

One of those clients was her friend Ann Murray Paige, who died of breast cancer in 2014 at age 48, but credited Miramontes with giving her “five extra years.”

On the company’s website, Miramontes pays tribute to Paige: “Because of you, I found the courage to create the program you inspired.”

Among her many credentials, Miramontes has a medical exercise certification with an emphasis on cancer, and recently became one of 500 worldwide to earn a cancer exercise specialist certification.

The online program offers whole-food nutrition plans and workouts for all levels, for people undergoing or recently completing cancer treatment. Visit https://cancerchampionfitness. com/. There are four trainers and two nutritionists.

The program provides 5-, 10-, 20- and 30-minute workouts and hundreds of specially designed recipes, her website bio says. Clients also get weekly Zoom calls with Miramontes and nutritionist Damian Bramer.

Miramontes and Lisa Herrington founded the fitness center FIT House in 2010. Along the way, Caryn DeMoura and

Blanche McNaughton became partners. It continues to operate at 302 G St., on property owned

by McNaughton Newspapers, publisher of The Davis Enterprise.

———— Indoor dining returned to UC Davis on April 12. The Silo, Scrubs Café and Sage Street Market and Café in West Village have limited indoor seating, along with the Tercero and Segundo dining commons, according to UC Davis News Service.

However, only meal-plan holders may eat inside the dining commons. Anyone may purchase food to go.

———— The new Vietnamese restaurant Pho Tasty didn’t open on April 12 as originally planned. It now has a soft opening set for Monday. It replaces Taste of Thai at 301 G St. To begin, hours will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

That property is also owned by McNaughton Newspapers.

———— There’s a new tenant for the former Davis Chamber of Commerce site at 604 Third St. Realtor Jeremy Higgins is the lessee through broker eXp Realty. He hopes to have doors open to the 1,352-square-foot space by the end of May. Higgins and his team were formerly part of GoodHome Group RE/MAX Gold at 334 Madison Place. “Shortly after the onset of the pandemic, I left RE/MAX to join eXp Realty, (which) has a robust virtual platform that worked well for

remote work.”

The Chamber closed its office in March, and ended its lease in December. Executive Director Cory Koehler said at the time that the organization was looking for something smaller and less expensive, noting that 60 percent of its income came from events, which remain on hold.

———— There hasn’t been much activity at the former Watermelon Music site at 207 E St., where Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is coming.

The company confirmed in a social media post that it still plans to open in Davis later this year. They said to keep up by checking the “Coming Soon” section of its website, where Davis is not yet listed.

Watermelon Music moved to 1970 Lake Boulevard, Suite 1.

———— Davisville Express Lube, 2014 Lyndell Terrace, changed hands and names as of this month. It’s now Oil Changers. The Bay Area company has more than 55 shops in California and Hawaii.

Ron Lautzenheiser said he and his Davisville partners sold the business and the property, which includes Subway. There are no changes to the sandwich shop.

Lautzenheiser and partners purchased Center City Automotive last year. Though the former Davisville manager and some of the employees moved to Center City, the majority will stay employed at Davisville.

Oil Changers specializes in full-service oil changes.

Davisville also offered mechanical, brake and tire repairs.

———— The food truck for Chando’s Tacos, which parks at 1111 Richards Blvd., has had inconsistent hours. Originally advertised as 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, readers have been reporting that is not the case.

Owner Chando Madrigal said Thursday that they’re “still working at it,” referring to a consistent schedule. “It has been a bit spotty due to prior commitments.” On Thursday, the truck was there from 3 to 8 p.m., according to Facebook. Check social media for updates.

Chando’s still plans a permanent Davis location later this year, after upgrades are made to the former Redrum Burger site at 978 Olive Drive.

———— I keep track of affected Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and more.

Email wendyedit@gmail.com to suggest updates.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.

Nugget Markets is named a Davis consultant accepted top workplace once again into Forbes Coaches Council Special to The Enterprise Nugget Markets earned a place on Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the 16th year in a row, ranking No. 24 in the nation.

This comes on the heels of the local, family-owned company adding their 16th store in March, making the news doubly sweet.

Known for its dynamic culture and work-life balance, Nugget Markets has been a leader in safeguarding the health and safety of its associates, guests and communities through the pandemic, which is part of what earned them a spot on this year’s list.

“Trust is everything,” said Eric Stille, president and CEO of Nugget Markets.

“Though 2020 has been a very trying year in so many ways, we at Nugget Markets continue to rally through it together, finding — and often fighting for — the silver lining through every new challenge. When times are at their toughest, it provides us with an even greater opportunity to make a positive impact, and we are humbled to be a leader not just in our industry, but in our communities and for our associates, as well.”

Taking care of its team has always been a priority at Nugget Markets, which offers industry-leading wages, benefits, flexible work schedules and zero healthcare premiums for full- and part-time associates.

During COVID-19, they were early adopters of rigorous cleaning and mask protocols. Also, Nugget Markets was one of the first companies in the nation to

“Though 2020 has been a very trying year in so many ways, we at Nugget Markets continue to rally through it together, finding — and often fighting for — the silver lining through every new challenge.”

Eric Stille Nugget Markets president and CEO offer additional “thank you” bonus pay for associates, which has continued, uninterrupted, since March of last year, while many retailers quickly curtailed their bonus pay.

As an essential business, Nugget Markets attributes its success through these difficult times to its “worldclass team and unwavering culture of positivity, camaraderie and fun,” according to a news release.

Not only did the company maintain its record of never having a layoff in its 95-year history, it also went on a hiring spree when the pandemic first started to help those who lost their jobs elsewhere. As a grocer with gourmet and organic

offerings created in-house and a new store in the family, Nugget Markets is consistently hiring a variety of positions ranging from entry-level roles to experienced chefs, bakers, butchers and more.

“Our associates inspire us every day with their cando spirit, positivity and fun-loving mindset that is the essence of our family culture,” said Mary Muller, director of human resources. “From new hires to veterans, our Nugget family is a unique blend of talent and diversity and we are proud to have faced the challenges of the past year together, growing and strengthening the bonds that make our culture so special.”

Family-owned and operated since 1926, Nugget Markets is a full-line grocery store in Northern California that provides perishables and organics, chef-prepared foods, specialty grocery items and conventional goods in a European marketplace setting. The family of stores includes 13 Nugget Markets in Northern California, Fork Lift by Nugget Markets in Cameron Park, Food 4 Less Woodland and Sonoma Market in Sonoma. For more information about Nugget Markets’ ranking, read the Great Place to Work review at https://www.greatplace towork.com/certifiedcompany/1000398.

Special to The Enterprise

Davis resident Holly Burkett, a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach and an associate of the ROI Institute, has been accepted into Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches.

Burkett manages a performance consultancy in Davis that focuses on helping organizations, teams and leaders implement measurable, sustainable change for improved engagement, retention and performance.

As a new member, she was vetted by a review committee and selected based upon her track record of impacting successful business growth as well as her professional achievements as a talent coach, human-resources consultant, change leader, international speaker and award-winning author.

“We are honored to welcome Holly into the community,” said Scott Gerber, founder of Forbes Councils, the collective that includes Forbes Coaches Council.

“Our mission with Forbes Councils is to bring together proven leaders from every industry, creating a curated, socialcapital-driven network that helps every member grow professionally and make an even greater impact on the business world.”

“I’m excited and honored to join the community of exceptional business

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Burkett holds a doctorate in human capital development and is a certified senior professional in human resources.

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“The classroom remains open for in-person learning and students are allowed to continue attending class until a confirmed student or staff case is confirmed,” Juanitas said.

However, the school district will not require that every student or staff member using that classroom be tested.

Instead, Juanitas said, when a positive air-filter sample is detected, testing will be “strongly recommended” by the district and Yolo County’s public health department.

“If someone in the class tests positive, the entire class will be notified and we will need to quarantine the classroom and shift to distance learning for 10 days,” she said.

Healthy Davis Together only began testing air samples in two Davis schools — Korematsu and North Davis Elementary School — on Monday.

Both schools are part of a pilot project during which air filter samples will be collected once a week from the portable HEPA filtration units in some of the classrooms and taken to a UC Davis lab for testing.

“Detection of the virus in an air filter indicates that someone in that space was actively releasing virus particles into the

“The classroom remains open for in-person learning.”

Laura Juanitas Associate superintendent air. If the virus is detected, teachers, staff and student families will be notified and the protocol for a positive detection will be implemented,” Healthy Davis Together notes on its website.

That protocol, according to Healthy Davis Together, includes a recommendation that everyone in the classroom be tested as soon as possible and if the test is negative, then individuals should be tested again a few days later.

“In addition, HDT will increase the frequency of environmental monitoring in that classroom to watch for spread of the virus.”

The pilot projects at Korematsu and North Davis will be used to determine the need and feasibility of expanding air-filter testing in all K-6 schools, according to Healthy Davis Together.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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BOND: Climate goals range widely From Page A1 meat processing facilities to increase meat processing capacity,” the bill language states.

“It is time for a better food system in our state — one that is more resilient, more sustainable, and more just,” Rivas said in the statement. “AB 125 will make major investments in both rural and urban areas of the state to increase worker safety, decrease hunger and promote sustainable agriculture practices that will help us remain resilient in a changing climate.”

Rivas chairs the Ag Committee, which also includes Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, who is listed as a co-author of the legislation.

Bond resources, proponents said, also would invest in “wildfire and climate resilience” efforts.

The bond would provide $40 million “for farmers and ranchers to support prescribed grazing infrastructure to support wildfire prevention, improve livestock management, and enhance biodiversity, including fencing and water stations for livestock.”

An additional $50 million would go toward projects and programs preventing wildfires and promoting fire resilience, funding that includes $20 million to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to prevent wildfires and increase fire resilience through the use of prescribed and cultural (tribal) burns.

The funds could be used for equipment purchases, constructing facilities for equipment storage and funding related to infrastructure costs.

Another $30 million would go to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the development of workforce housing to support year-round housing for land management workers.

“This bill will provide the resources that farmers and ranchers need to cut climate pollution and maintain a viable and sustainable agriculture in California,” Jeanne Merrill, policy director with CalCAN, said in the statement.

“It’s time to invest in our food and farming infrastructure of the future.”

There is also $100 million earmarked for the Department of Food and Agriculture “to restore, upgrade, modernize and improve state and county fairgrounds to serve as community centers, exposition sites, emergency and evacuation shelters, food and agriculture education centers, and farm incubator and food business centers.”

Another $75 million is earmarked for groundwater protection, $50 million of which would go to the Department of Conservation for grants to groundwater sustainability agencies, counties and others “for development or implementation of local programs supporting or facilitating reduced use of groundwater and multibenefit land repurposing at

the basin scale.”

Other general funding categories include: ■ $780 million for improving agricultural resilience and advancing sustainable agriculture.

■ $482 million to the Department of Food and Agriculture to improve the climate resilience and sustainability of agricultural lands.

■ $273 million to the Department of Conservation to protect agricultural land and support improved climate resilience.

■ $25 million to the Department of Food and Agriculture “to support workforce development.”

■ $637 million toward

protecting the health and well-being of farmworkers.

■ $750 million for expanding healthy food access and combating hunger.

■ $700 million to strengthen regional food economies, including $500 million to the Department of Food and Agriculture “for grants to enhance local and regional food and fiber infrastructure. in response to changing climate conditions.”

■ $10 million to support 21st-century ecological pest management.

■ $200 million to reduce food waste and increasing compost production.

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I need to adjust my post-COVID outlook I learned something surprising the night my husband and I ate a meal inside a restaurant for the first time since COVID-19, but I need to give a little background first.

The date was April 11, and going inside a restaurant was not something we planned to do yet. We’re vaccinated but somehow an indoor setting without masks while you eat feels a little scary.

In the last year, I’ve gone to grocery stores, to a few other places of business, and even on an airplane, but never without wearing my mask.

When I imagined eating maskless in a restaurant, it felt like one of those dreams where I forget to wear clothes. Not a good feeling.

But it’s Sunday night, we’re late coming home from our country place, and after a day of kayaking, I’m starving. Bob reminds me about the Korean restaurant near Bradshaw Road that he used to frequent. “The food is good and the owner knows me,” he says. “She’s really friendly. I hope they’re doing OK.”

I am hungry and my heartstrings have been pulled. Of course, we go there.

———— We settle in and everything is delightful. There is good separation between the diners, the owner is indeed a sweetheart, and the food is speedy and tasty.

Only towards the end of our meal does the restaurant “fill up,” to a grand total of five tables, including one large one. Not many patrons, really, but a bit challenging for the husbandand-wife owners who are working alone.

After we finish our meal, my husband says, “I’ll make a pit stop while you get the check, OK?” He leaves but the check does

not come. He returns and sits down but still the check does not come. Time passes. The wife, who acts as server, is in the kitchen, out of sight.

“I’ll wave to her,” Bob says, but she doesn’t emerge.

Unfortunately, I am not the sort of person who settles in patiently when she has to wait.

On the contrary, I become a bit grumpy when I’ve finished eating and I want to go home.

———— The combination of no check and my desire to leave brings the moment of surprise I told you about. I realize that I have forgotten something really major about dining out: it can be slow, and that can be annoying.

Sometimes you have to wait for a table, or for your entree or for your check. Sometimes you watch as the party who arrived after you, which often includes a good-looking woman, gets their food before you do.

Sometimes you’re eating something hot and spicy and you’re out of water and no one refills your glass. Or you’ve finished your beer and want

another, but your server doesn’t notice.

On one memorable occasion my husband and I were eating at a pretty fancy restaurant. Our food was served (and cooling rapidly) but there was no salt on the table. When we were finally able to catch the waitress’ attention, she told us that the chef didn’t approve of adding salt.

All of these examples are just small things that can go amiss in a restaurant, but honestly, until last Sunday I did not remember that there were any negatives to dining out at all.

On the contrary, I’ve been romanticizing — even dreaming of — the pleasure of eating new foods, away from home, in an environment where someone’s job is to serve me.

But it turns out that eating out, just like eating at home — or like any other experience in life — has both positives and negatives. How could I have forgotten?

In a way, living with one person in our home for a year has allowed me to scrub the world of minor annoyances, except of course, anything and everything

annoying that my husband might do.

Am I out of practice dealing with real life?

The other day in Nugget Market I spontaneously hugged a dear older friend. Then I felt apologetic and confused. Did I do the wrong thing? Yes, I am out of practice. We all are.

———— An article that appeared in the New York Times the day after I went to the restaurant reminded me that a huge number of Americans will re-enter the world not only “out of practice” but also needing compassion as they deal with loss and grief they never anticipated.

As I interact with more and more new people, in restaurants and everywhere else, I won’t know who has been lucky throughout the pandemic (like I have been) and who has suffered.

I do know that I want to be kind.

Maybe I could start by being more patient when my restaurant check is late.

— Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years.

Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Want to feel better? Get out and volunteer

BY CRAIG DRESANG Special to The Enterprise

F

or the past several months, many of us have been social distancing ... staying at least 6 feet away from most humans and masking up in public settings. However, the added stress of steering clear of hugs, handshakes and the occasional kiss from grandma has contributed to a shared sense of deep isolation.

Some groups have been hit particularly hard with isolation during the pandemic. The elderly, people who are chronically or seriously ill, and those who lost their jobs face additional layers of anxiety.

Some of them have turned to volunteering as a strategy to stay connected to other people, and as a way to become part of something bigger than themselves.

Our volunteers are a good-hearted group. They find joy in helping others.

However, they also receive a significant benefit from their volunteerism.

Research suggests that volunteers are not just helping the communities they serve. People who volunteer actually experience a boost in their mental health — good news at a time when more than a third of Americans report feeling symptoms of anxiety or depression.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, an international peerreviewed journal devoted to theoretical and applied advancements in all areas of well-being, researchers examined data from nearly 70,000 subjects. Participants answered survey questions about their

YOLO HOSPICE & CWC volunteering habits and mental health, including their distress and functioning in everyday life.

Those who participated in the survey provided feedback every two years for nearly two decades.

Compared to people who did not volunteer, folks who served as unpaid workers in the past year were more satisfied with their lives and rated their overall health as better.

Additionally, the researchers found that people who volunteered more frequently experienced greater benefits: Those who volunteered at least once a month reported better mental health than participants who volunteered infrequently or not at all.

According to Ricky Lawton, associate director at Simetrica Research Consultancy, volunteering appears to be intrinsically rewarding — when we help others, we tend to experience what researchers call a “warm glow.” In addition, volunteering is likely to help boost a sense of social connection. Older adults in particular, can stay engaged with others long after retirement by volunteering.

Volunteer work can also be a way to build professional skills and try out leadership opportunities, which is especially relevant to young adults. In the study, researchers found that participants ages 16 to 24 and 55 to 74 were especially likely to benefit from volunteering, perhaps because of the opportunity to build social connections and new skills.

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Volunteers from Brooks Painting in Davis recently spent an entire weekend to paint the Yolo Hospice & Citizens Who Care building on Galileo Court.

For more than 40 years, volunteers have helped define the character and substance of both Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care. When these two organizations were just an idea on paper, it was the vision, work, and generosity of community volunteers that breathed life into these community treasures.

Now, each year, nearly 100 goodwill ambassadors support patients through routine visits that may include reading, taking walks, writing letters, bringing music or flowers, documenting stories, and facilitating life reviews. Volunteers also assist caregivers and family members by providing respite support, shopping, light household assistance, and by allowing the caregiver to simply have some time alone.

Other volunteers assist with bereavement and children’s programs, community education, fundraising, and administrative work.

Even during a pandemic, volunteers have found ways

to support patients by making phone calls, dropping off floral bouquets on doorsteps, and helping families stay connected through Zoom or other technologies. Garrett Wu, a 21-year-old Yolo Hospice volunteer, says, “Volunteering helps us stay connected to our roots ... to the founding reason why we exist in the first place.”

It is with deep gratitude that Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care acknowledges those who choose volunteer work as their vocation. Current volunteers serving our community include: Phoebe Anderson Annie Armistead Jan Arnold Katherine Bai Diane Bamforth Deborah Barlow Ronald Bell Fertac Bilge Nancy Bramberg Brooks Painting Carson Cable Ashley Cha Harriett Chermak Rose Cholewinski Paula Chulada

Jazmin Collier John Constantine Betty Cooper Judy Cotham Rhonda David Lisa DeSanti Marsha Dienelt Steve Ekstrom Ethan Feil Jan Ferrian Ken Firestein Elena Fishman Marion Franck Tom Frankel Bob Gonzalez Pat Gonzalez Lynn Gore Patricia Grieshop Manulya Gunasekera Stephanie Gwiazdon Nancy Hardaker Larry Harris Diana Hatch Christye Hatfield Cynthia Havstad Judith Heberle RoseMarie Hendrickx Lynn Hilliard Jenny Hsiao Elias Jbeily Trish Jimenez Svitlana Johnson Virginia Joyce, MD Roy Kaplan Tracy Keenan Jesse Keenan

James is new chief of victim services Enterprise staff Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Katie D. James, 51, of Woodland, as chief of the Office of Victim Services at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where she has served as acting chief since 2020.

James held several positions at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 2006 to 2020, including assistant chief and staff services manager at the Office of Victim Services.

She was an analyst for the Special Processing Unit of the Board of Parole

NAME DROPPERS Hearings from 2005 to 2006. She also held several positions at the Board of Prison Terms from 1996 to 2006, including victim assistance coordinator and executive assistant. She was senior legal typist for the Department of Personnel Administration at the California Department of Human Resources from 1994 to 1996.

———— Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Giselle “Gigi” A. Matteson, 57, of Vacaville, as warden at California

State Prison, Solano, where she has served as acting warden since 2019.

Matteson served in several positions at the prison from 2013 to 2019, including chief deputy warden and associate warden. She held several positions at San Quentin State Prison from 2007 to 2013, including staff services manager, chief support executive and health program manager.

She was an analyst at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Reception Center Mission from 2006 to 2007.

She held several positions at the California Medical Facility from 1996 to 2006.

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Mottos, Slogans and Taglines. What 2001 film used as its tagline, “You Won’t Believe Your Eye”?

2. What is the odd number of cities in Alaska that have a population larger than that of Davis?

3. I’m thinking of an “M” verb that means to think about something deeply and at length.

Name the word.

4. Pop Culture — Television. What British crime television series featured Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin

Freeman?

5. Another Music Question. “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” is the spicy title of the third studio album by what American music duo?

Answers: “Monsters, Inc.,” one (Anchorage), mull, “Sherlock,” Simon and Garfunkel.

— Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.”

Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquiz master.com.

Steve Kitlas Ania Kossakowski Helen Koto Janet Krueger Jan Lee Meaghan Likes Nicole Martin Sheila McGrath Jennielee Mia Cindy Jo Miller Cathy Neuhauser Taylor Ngo Ann Noble Barbara Nucklos Mary Olander Madalon O’Rawe Amenta The Passerini Family Shivani Patel Colleen Perry Laura Petitt Dawn Myers Purkey Janene Ramos Joan Randall Anne Richardson Maressa Rodriguez Amy Sanchez Marianne Sandrock Badyah Senussi Sohail Sethi Jasmin Shah Julie Sheehan Tovah Skiles Selene Soto Ashley Spicer Allison Spreadborough David Steinhorn, MD Janet Sterling Gabrielle Tabor Allison Tang Emma Thornton Sam Thornton Nicole Thornton Trish Timothy Victoria Tousignant Carmen Villalpando Joey Patrick Villar Keith Volkerts Keith von Borstel Steven Weinbaum Pete Wilbur Garrett Wu Frank Yapp Lisa Young For information on volunteering, contact Yolo Hospice and Citizens Who Care at 530-758-5566.

— Craig Dresang is the CEO of Yolo Hospcie and Citizens Who Care.

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Helping from the sideline Say bye to spring football T

he question of the day is, “Should we have permanent spring football?”

You know, I was watching one of those Football Championship Subdivision “spring” football games on TV the other day (not UC Davis) and the two announcers were positively giddy over the idea of football in April.

It could be their joy was caused by the fact there had been virtually no FCS football last fall, leaving teams with more than 15 months on the sidelines. Maybe it had nothing to do with playing in the spring, just that absence had made the fan’s heart grow fonder.

Nevertheless, the two began musing about the FCS moving all football action permanently to the spring, leaving the fall to the big boys of the sport like Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson and those high-flying Oregon Ducks.

They pointed out, accurately, that despite the high quality of football in the FCS, the big names of the Football Bowl Subdivision absolutely hog the spotlight every fall, relegating the FCS to junior-varsity status, deserved or not.

Maybe, they suggested, if the FCS had the field all to itself in March, April and May, with a national championship playoff in June, this “lower” division would get the respect and fan following it so richly deserves.

We’ve seen attempts at professional football in the spring with disastrous results. Several leagues couldn’t even complete one season. Whether that was because folks aren’t ready for spring football or because they changed so many rules that the game was unrecognizable is unclear.

As much as I enjoy the game of football, I doubt that the average fan who loves watching USC take on UCLA, or Cal battle Stanford, will be as enamored with Northern Arizona playing Weber State.

Weber who?

Well, they’ve only won or shared the last four Big Sky Conference championships.

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t should be noted that the athletic programs at all FCS football schools do compete with the bigger names of the NCAA Division I in all other sports, which means FCS schools playing spring football may well have a basketball team in the Big Dance at the same time.

UC Davis, for example, hosted a men’s football game at the same time the women’s basketball team was in San Antonio preparing for a firstround battle in the NCAA tournament.

FCS football in the spring would also be competing for fans with college baseball, though some creative scheduling might allow the two to co-exist.

Truth be told, however, a number of early-season football games every fall feature FBS-FCS matchups, usually — but not always — won by the FBS schools.

UC Davis, again, is the exception to the rule, with memorable September football wins over the likes of Stanford and San Jose State.

In the years ahead, the Aggies have Cal, Washington, Oregon State and Tulsa on the fall menu, games their fans look forward to, but games that would be unavailable in the spring.

There’s no way anyone wants to give up those early-season matchups.

Without question, spring football at the FCS level is a one-shot deal in response to a canceled fall season. It will never be repeated.

Football in the fall spans all that Mother Nature has to offer. Preseason practice in the 100-degree heat of August, but perhaps ending with snow flurries falling on the field of play in early December.

Put simply, football in the fall is as God intended it to be.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Chambers was a force off the field for Blue Devils

BY WILL WYMAN Enterprise staff writer The Blue Devil football team’s senior core was its cornerstone this spring. With personnel numbers waning as the campaign progressed, players like Donovan Garvin, Zach Brooks and Patton Miller shouldered more and more responsibilities, playing on both sides of the ball most of the season.

Another senior, Xavier Chambers, was supposed to line up alongside them for his final year at Davis High. But an unfortunate hiccup — a knee injury he sustained during preseason training — sidelined the 5-10 wide receiver/defensive back.

Despite the injury and his inability to suit up for the Blue Crew, Chambers still managed to serve a big role for his team off the field.

Still present at practices, the wideout offered advice and guidance to Davis’ relatively green roster — his experience from playing football since age 8 combined with his reps as a varsity starter helping give perspective to the younger class moving up through the ranks this season.

“I started when I was around 8 doing flag football,” Chambers

says. “I had to beg my parents for me to play and they finally let me play tackle at 11.”

Starting with the Junior Blue Devils, his impressive work on the turf led to a varsity call-up when he was still just a sophomore. Between grades 10 and 11, Chambers racked up 591 receiving yards, scoring six touchdowns. He also scored twice on kickoff returns, toting balls into the end zone from 90 and 91 yards back.

“This year, we had a very young team,” he points out.

“Guys were either coming up from JV or had played little to no football at all.”

According to his head coach Steve Smyte, Chambers’ support from the sidelines is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Blue Devil’s impact, both for the team and beyond football.

“He has been the consummate teammate and leader,” Smyte says. “Even though (he’s) injured, he’s been attending practice and helping our young receivers.

“He is such a positive person who wants to help any way he can and show leadership through example.”

Chambers’ senior group, Smyte says, has “reinforced the culture of leadership and commitment to excellence” that’s elevated the DHS football program in the classroom, the community and on the field. Along with Brooks and Garvin, he’ll be receiving a National Football

Davis High wide receiver Xavier Chambers breaks loose from an Elk Grove defender during a 2019 Blue Devil football game.

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Foundation Award this year recognizing both academic and athletic feats as well as leadership.

“I can’t say enough about Xavier’s contribution,” Smyte added.

Chambers’ football acumen and character have drawn interest from several collegiate programs, all hoping to secure the talents of the Davis receiver. At this point, however, Chambers has narrowed his post-graduation choice down to three schools: Lewis & Clark College (Oregon), Carroll

College (Montana) and UC Davis.

All three programs offer their own unique perks and qualities, but they all share an important factor for Chambers: “The most important thing for me is people,” he says. “Just the connection with the coaches that I felt and the staff or people that I met on campus. At a couple of the schools, I got to meet some of the students and current players. (And) off of that (those are places) where I felt

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Aggie punter has the right stuff Whelan opts for 5th year at UCD; NFL can wait

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise sports editor UC Davis has an NFL draft prospect. Though you probably can’t guess his position.

He’s only made six tackles during his four-year career. But some might say that’s quite impressive considering he doesn’t play offense or defense.

He’s the Aggie punter, Daniel Whelan. And if the stars align next spring, he may just end up on an NFL roster heading into fall training camp in 2022.

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO Will he be a first- or secondUC Davis punter Daniel Whelan boots the ball during the Aggies’ comeround pick? Probably not.

But might he get snatched up from-behind 31-27 victory over Idaho State in late March. Whelan is No. 2 in the twilight hours of The in the nation in average yards per punt.

League’s selection show?

Those who’ve seen him boot (47.95) — with seven of those wasn’t improving, I was just the ball say it absolutely could balls traveling 50-plus yards and doing the same thing over and eight landing inside opponents’ over, expecting results.” happen ...

20-yard lines. Among his FCS The past three seasons, howEarlier this year, UCD counterparts, that’s tops. ever, he’s been Mr. Details. A head coach Dan And among all punt- strict UCD training regimen, Hawkins told the Palm ers at the Division I FBS coupled with offseason work Springs Desert Sun he’s level, Whelan ranks No. with punting guru Adam Perez “100% confident” that 2 overall in the NCAA and kicking specialist Chris Whelan will get a shot in — trailing only Georgia Sailer has led to nearly four the NFL, whether he’s Tech’s Pressley Harvin, additional yards per punt. drafted or not: who averaged 48.02 Standing 6-foot-6, Whelan “He just does some yards per punt. has been named to the All-Big things and you go, WHELAN “My attitude and work Sky lists each of the last two ‘That’s unbelievable. Just Part of solid amazing.’ ” Aggie tradition ethic has changed a lot,” years. His name also graced the Whelan says. “I kind of inaugural FCS Punter of the During the Aggies’ recently wrapped up five-game came in (to college) thinking, ‘I’m Year Award watch list in 2019. spring operation, the senior aver- gonna be starting.’

But pro-football pundits? aged just under 48 yards per boot “And that bit me in the butt. I They haven’t given him

the time of day.

But then again, which ones ever pay attention to punters?

“I still get treated just like any other specialist,” Whelan says.

“Most people don’t understand half of what punters do.

“It’s not just a kick. It’s a fieldposition battle. Usually, I’ll explain the job to people who ask about iy by saying, ‘It’s all about flipping the field.’ ”

Draft dreams There’ve been just over 70 kickers and punters selected in the NFL Draft since 2001, according to Pro Football Reference. The majority of specialists make their way onto teams through training-camp tryouts, often signing deals for the league minimum.

Two Aggies that predate Whelan: Colton Schmidt and Colby Wadman, both went that route.

Schmidt, who graduated in 2013, spent a pair of preseasons with the San Francisco 49ers before eventually landing a job in Buffalo. He was the Bills kickoff man and punter for four seasons, collecting more than $3.1 million before being released in 2018.

Wadman tried his luck with the Raiders back in 2018. But the 2017 UCD alum was cut prior to the season’s start.

He ended up getting his big break from the Denver Broncos, who signed him last-minute that same year after releasing their Pro Bowl punter Marquette

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Float like a butterfly Blue Devil Sofia Dahlgren swims the butterfly leg of the 200 Individual Medly during Friday’s swim meet against Sheldon. Dahlgren won the girls 100 free in 1:04.00. The Lady Devils sunk the Huskies 123-25. For more results, see the DHS roundup on page B2.

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Former Aggie Rolf Benirschke did it first P ackers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wrapped up his two-week “Jeopardy!” guest-host stint this past Friday. He’s not, however, the first NFL player to try his hand in the host’s chair.

Rolf Benirschke, who kicked for UC Davis and then had a long career with the San Diego Chargers, worked a year (1989) as the “Wheel of Fortune” host. The story is here: tinyurl.com/ 576d4j6f . Thanks to Rob Demovsky and ESPN.com.

■ The Yankees recently traded shortstop Thairo Estrada to the Giants for “cash considerations.”

Since when did the Yankees need money? According to Forbes, the franchise is baseball’s highestvalued at $5.25 billion.

■ Retired S.F. Examiner/ Chronicle sports editor Glenn Schwarz was the Giants beat writer who followed some awful teams in the 1970s. This week’s published attendance figures for the Giants’ Monday and Tuesday night games against the Reds were each in the neighborhood of 3,500.

“I covered any number of games with gatherings that intimate at the ol’ Stick back then,” Schwarz recalled.

Today, of course, attendances of any size are COVID-mandated.

Fifty years ago, it was home team performance-related.

■ The term “team chemistry” has several applications, whether it’s in business, athletics, nonprofits, neighborhood associations, etc. Even Hollywood.

Some excellent observations on how team chemistry comes about and can flourish are found in a new book, “Intangibles,” by Bay Area author Joan Ryan. Ryan’s book is dedicated to Mike Krukow, and it was Giants first baseman Brandon Belt who came up with its title.

■ No North American sports franchise has had a rougher COVID-related problem than the Vancouver Canucks, who have not been able to play a game since March 24.

■ It is most depressing when people of a certain age spectrum have no idea who Chuck Berry was.

■ In this day and age, why doesn’t the MLB Players Association take action against the Yankees and their outdated, outof-touch ban against beards on players? According to the city of New York, such a ban is illegal.

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Former UC Davis kicker and 1983 NFL Man of the Year, Rolf Benirschke, seen here with Vanna White, hosted Wheel of Fortune for a single season in 1989, temporarily replacing Pat Sajak.

■ Congratulations to the Sharks’ Patrick Marleau. Last night, Marleau tied Gordie Howe for most NHL games played: 1,767. Marleau will break the record Monday night when San Jose plays at Vegas.

During his Sharks career, Marleau has played with 335 different teammates and 3,009 total opponents. The 41-year-old has spent 21 of his 23 seasons in San Jose, with two years in Toronto and a handful of games

last year with Pittsburgh.

Overall, he’s scored 566 goals to go along with 630 assists. Howe played more games than anyone in history, 2,186, combining his 1,767 NHL and 419 World Hockey Association games. Howe’s career spanned from 1946-80.

■ The Sharks will admit fans into SAP Center on a limited basis beginning April 26. At that point, Los Tiburones will have six remaining regular-season games.

■ Sports teams no longer use

the word rebuild. Too many negative connotations. These days, the term is reset.

■ Very few of us wear business attire on the weekends. Simply because we live and work in a much more casual environment, brought on partially by the pandemic. So why do weekend TV anchors, news, sports and weather, still dress up?

■ The next time you’re near Oracle Park, don’t look for the Willie McCovey statue, which normally is found in back of right field. It’s in temporary storage as the construction at Mission Rock continues around the ballpark.

■ The late slugger Dick Allen had a brother, Hank, who trained thoroughbred horses. Thus, Dick had an affinity for all things equine and was a regular at tracks (and betting windows) around the country, wherever he happened to be playing.

Asked his opinion of artificial turf, so prevalent during his playing days, Allen said, “If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t care to play on it.”

— Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields 2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts.

Reach him at DKelly1416@aol. com.

DHS baseball swept by Franklin; girls lacrosse blanks BV Enterprise staff The Davis High baseball team almost avoided a series sweep on Saturday at Franklin, but fell to the Wildcats, 2-1, for the third time this week.

DHS falls to 6-3 overall and 0-3 in league while Franklin jumps to 9-3 overall and 3-0 in the Delta.

Four solid innings from starter Rockwell Lybbert — who struck out five and allowed two runs — couldn’t carry the Devils.

Davis hitters managed just three hits — one each from Saul Israel, Jordan Painter, and Brian Chin. DHS managed a run in the top of the fourth when two walks to Israel and Lybbert, a bunt single from Chin, and a wild pitch brought home Lybbert.

Senior Jack Wright came on in relief for Lybbert, and tossed two scoreless innings while allowing one hit.

Next up, the Devils return home to host McClatchy on Tuesday at 4 p.m. for a non-league game.

The Lions have played just two games this year, and a high-octane offense has powered them in both.

McClatchy beat Inderkum, 18-6, and Forest Hill, 21-0, last week.

Girls lacrosse Bella Vista couldn’t catch a break Friday as the DHS girls lacrosse team roasted the Broncos, 22-0, in both schools’ season opener.

The win marked the largest margin of victory by the Blue Devils since a 20-goal decision against Casa Roble in 2016.

Meilla Blissett, Colette Quaas and Gabby Laugero tallied hat tricks, while Amara Higgins, Tory Agnew and Stella Cardenas fired in deuces. Makena Fix, Kate Nelson, Sidney Skinner, Charlotte

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in goal from netminders Mason Johnston and Sawyer Schoen, who split time between the pipes.

“Half the guys on our varsity team are underclassmen,” pointed out Schulz, who will attend UC San Diego and study biomedical engineering. “So I loved seeing a ton of teamwork this early in the season, which is promising.”

DHS (1-0) hosts Granite Bay next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Bowler, Grace Scheuring, Peyton Schoen and Jessie Finkelor rounded out the Devil scoring deluge.

In goal, Cardenas made a pair of saves while Devon Morris stopped three shots in her secondhalf relief between the pipes.

Agnew won six draw controls in the match, Laguero collected six ground balls and Ella Heringer led the locals with a pair of takeaways.

Davis faces the Broncos again, this time on the road, on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Swimming

Badminton Punking Fairfield on Friday, the Blue Devils capped a three-match homestand with a 9-0 victory over the Falcons.

The win came on the heels of a heartbreaking, 5-4, loss to Vacaville on Thursday.

Melissa Lee was electric at No. 1 singles, downing FHS top gun Angelica Riggins, 21-6, 21-9. Lisa Wang was equally impressive at No. 2, taking down her Falcon counterpart, 21-10, 21-4.

Other winning Devils were: Chiara Wu (21-9, 21-1); Kako Hayashi (21-12, 21-5); Helena Wei (21-7, 21-9); Sarah Park (21-23, 21-14, 21-9); Alicia Joo (21-14, 21-11); Angela Li (21-9, 21-11) and Dua Hassan (21-15, 21-19).

The Devils hit the road on Tuesday for a rematch with league rival Armijo. DHS fell to the Royals, 6-3, in their meeting earlier this month.

Girls basketball In their season opener Thursday night, the Lady Devils fell to visiting Antelope, 72-36, at the

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Davis High midfielder Walsh Klineberg (20) chases down Rocklin’s Josh Cooke (11) during the Blue Devils 11-1 victory over the Lightning Friday night.

DHS North Gym. Sister duo Skylar and Tessa Schouten led the Blue Crew with 8 points each and Mara Bledsoe added 6, but no Devil reached double digits in the 36-point loss.

In a hole early on, DHS trailed the Titans 26-10 after the opening quarter of play. By halftime, Davis had fallen behind, 49-16.

Fresh off a 50-point win over Roseville High last week, Antelope was led by Jzaniya Harriel’s game-high 26 points, while her teammate Samaya Dillard tossed in 12.

Additional DHS scoring Thursday came via: Emme Eisenman (4); Pauline Anasco (4); Bella Oliva (2); Maddie Buzbee (2) and Malia Abrenica (2). The game marked the first varsity appearances for Tessa Schouten, Anasco, Oliva, Abrenica and Alia Cordone.

DHS (0-1) will look to rebound from the loss on Tuesday when the Devils travel to Roseville for a

7 p.m. clash with Woodcreek.

Boys lacrosse Senior Henri Schulz had the hot stick Friday night as the Blue Crew blew past visiting Rocklin, 11-1, at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.

Schulz netted a hat trick in the win, while teammates Ben Buettner and Adam Perry each scored two apiece. Chase Johnson, Dominic Freedland-Wolford and brothers Holt and Walsh Klineberg added single goals in the effort.

“It was a great showing,” Schulz told The Enterprise after.

“We had a lot of younger guys step up. I haven’t been the best shooter in the past, so (scoring three) was exciting. My coach Mikie Schlosser is always telling me to run it and gun it, so that’s exactly what I did.”

Defensively, the Devils got help

In water action Friday, the Devils splashed over Sheldon, with the DHS boys beating the Huskies 134-14 and the Lady Devils earning a 123-25 win.

Gianna Smoot won a pair of girls events, winning scoring heats in the 50 free (29.27) and 1oo breaststroke (1:28.63). Kevin Sarti was a double-event winner for the Blue Devil boys, touching first in the 100 fly (57.16) and 100 back (1:00.53).

Winning girls relay squads included: Clara Ault, Elizabeth Bond, Natalie Bercutt and Emily Chapman in the 200 medley (2:14.00), Sophia Dahlgren, Ault, Bond and Chapman in the 200 free (1:51.39); and Alyssa Waterson, Amy Schroeder, Julia Miles and Sarah Bennetts in the 400 free (3:48.93). The top boys relays were: Joshua Davis, Ben Rayls, Adam Ferguson and Dennis Fineberg in the 200 medley (1:52.07); Davis, Ferguson, Fineberg and Ben Myo-Flores in the 200 free (1:40.02); and Joseph Zhou, Brock Sippola, Andrew Wong and Joshua Shaw in the meet-concluding 400 free (3:38.01).

Pleasant Grove is up next on the DHS schedule. The Devils will face the Eagles on the road on Wednesday.

HELPING: Looking at options PUNTER: He’s a multi-sport athlete From Page B1 would be the best fit personally.”

If Chambers chooses to take his talents to the Pacific Northwest next season, he will face some familiar faces between the hashmarks. Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., is a part of the Northwest Conference.

Whitworth College, a member of the same league, has also been recruiting players from Davis High. Zach Brooks and Patton Miller committed to play for Whitworth, offering a potential Davis-on-Davis matchup in the coming years.

“I think it would be interesting to play those guys,” Chambers says. “A little bit scary to play on the other side of the ball from them, but it would definitely be a good experience.”

Football has been a huge part of Chambers’ life since he first suited up for flag football in elementary school. His injury has not hampered his ability to make an impression in his final high-school football season, only amplifying his tremendous presence off the field.

One way or another, Chambers’ football career will extend past DHS. The only question remaining is what that’ll look like be it, between competing against his top-notch former teammates, suiting up to play completely new faces or on the sidelines as a coach. Chambers says he’ll take his lessons learned throughout his youth career and specifically this season to keep improving both on and off the gridiron. “(This sport ...) I’d say it’s probably one of the biggest things that defines me,” Chambers says. “Football is a game of life, it teaches you great lessons.

“It’s something that has matured me and made me into the person I am today. I think there are lessons you can learn in football that you can’t learn in any other sport.

Whether that’s going through adversity, sticking it out with your brothers, hard work, coordination, team work, all those types of things. I think that football is life-changing.”

— Reach Enterprise staff writer Will Wyman at wwyman@davis enterprise.net.

From Page B1 King four weeks into the season.

Between Whelan, Wadman and Schmidt, all three are SoCal natives: Wadman hailing from Thousands Oaks, with Whelan from Rancho Mirage and Schmidt from Bakersfield.

“I have talked with Colby,” Whelan says. “And we’ve punted together, too.”

The elder Aggie apparently encouraged Whelan to take advantage of the extra year of NCAA eligibility offered to college athletes due to the pandemic.

And Whelan reports he will indeed be back in Davis come fall to finish up his Sustainable Environmental Design degree.

“I haven’t even thought about the NFL yet,” Whelan says. “I’m just focusing on doing the best I can for the Aggies next season. And whatever comes with that, comes with that.”

Emerald Isle If Whelan’s still got any traces of an accent, they’re tough to recognize. But the Aggie punter was actually born in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Growing up, he played almost every sport they’d allow him to: “Cricket, rugby, tennis, field hockey, soccer,

swimming,” Whelan lists. “And there were definitely more I’m forgetting.”

He was 13 years old when his mother, Anne Marie, got a job offer to work in Palm Springs.

“It was me, my mom and three big suitcases,” he remembers. “And that was it. We left.”

This week, eight years later, he’s finally eligible to file for U.S. citizenship.

In the States, Whelan played soccer, tennis and ran cross country, catching the eye of Rancho Mirage head coach Larry Matthews when he was already a sophomore. The Rattlers’ coach saw him launch a soccer ball end-to-end across the pitch and knew he had to have him.

“His potential is huge,” Matthews told The Desert Sun. “He’s so young in the sport but has such incredible physical abilities, and his work ethic and desire to be great is something you wish all players had.”

Added Whelan: “People kept telling me I was good. So I played, I went to camps and then I was recruited by coach (Tim) Keane and Hawk.”

He is good. NFL good. And pro scouts who haven’t already, ought to start taking notice.

Notes: Nicknamed the “Irish Wolfhound,” Whelan’s Rancho Mirage team finished 11-3 in 2016 and won a DeAnza League title. He earned All-Southern Section, All-DeAnza League and special teams MVP as a junior and senior, averaging 43.8 yards per punt.

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Husband talking to my best friend Dear Annie: I own a bar with my best friend. We work great together. I’ve been married for five years, and yesterday, my business partner showed me messages from my husband. He gave her his phone number and said if she ever wants to talk, she should call. He is in no way associated with our bar. They are friends through me. I am very upset he did this. I confronted him, and he said he was just being nice. However, I’m still mad and hurt he did this. Should I just overlook this as his being friendly, or do I have a reason to be upset? — Aggravated Dear Aggravated: These sorts of situations can function as Rorschach tests for relationships: What you see can reveal a lot about your headspace. There’s nothing inherently wrong with your husband reaching out to your business partner, so it’s worth asking yourself why your first instinct was to suspect something inappropriate. Are there past trust issues that you haven’t resolved? (Remember that “trust” doesn’t just mean trusting each

other not to cheat but also trusting that you can be vulnerable.)

Or perhaps your husband knew that your friend would show you the messages, and he was trying to get your goat. Or maybe he was flirting with her, as you suspected.

Whatever the case, the only way you’ll find the real answer — and a real solution — is through open and honest conversation with your husband. Marriage counseling can create the space for that to happen, and it can also help you identify the path forward. Give it a try.

Dear Annie: I understand “Employee for the Moment’s” concerns about having to work in unsafe conditions during the pandemic. Before she judges her

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employer so harshly, however, I believe she should consider how difficult it has been keeping a business going during a pandemic. Her employer has to look at the bottom line and fight to keep his product (whatever it is) selling in a difficult market. Perhaps he, like so many business owners, is facing layoffs and even shutting the doors of the business. Perhaps she should consider that he had to get tough to survive and that he was fighting to maintain her job and paycheck as well as his own.

That does not justify unsafe conditions but may explain why a respected employer would appear to consider the business before the employee. As you said, there is redress for unsafe conditions. If she considers these things and still feels the same, she should move to a new job.

— Not Business as Usual Dear Not Business as Usual: You bring up a great point: Small-business owners have been put through the wringer this past year, and it’s not right that so many should lose everything they’ve built because of circumstances outside their control.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 03/24/2021 FBN Number: F20210260 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) JDM Organic Farm 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

34254 County Road 19 Woodland, CA 95695 Mailing address: 630 Lincoln Avenue Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Windmill Vineyards LLC 34254 County Road 19 Woodland, CA 95695 4. Business Classification: Limited Liability Company 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 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): Jeffrey D. Morgan Manager, Windmill Vineyards LLC 1212 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 03/18/21 FBN Number: F20210248 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Nina’s Spray Tan 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

936 Campbell Circle Woodland, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Karina Morales 936 Campbell Circle Woodland, CA 95776 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: 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): Karina Morales 1213 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-413 1. Alicia Odalys Hernandez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Alicia Odalys Hernandez to Alicia Odalys Casanova 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: 5-6-21 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: 9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: 3/11/2021 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25 1220

If you’re a small-business owner and haven’t researched the aid available to you lately, I encourage you to visit the following website: https://www.sba. gov/funding-programs/loans/ coronavirus-relief-options. You can also call the U.S. Small Business Administration at 800-6592955.

Unable to use computers Dear Annie: I am 74 years old.

Back in my 40s, I tried learning an up-and-coming new skill: how to use a computer. Well, my attempts were fruitless. I could never figure it out. My wife tried teaching me, but I just couldn’t get the hang of it. Later, my boss appointed a staff member (a computer “geek”) to give me lessons. After weeks of trying with daily one-on-one instruction, he gave up trying to teach me. For me, it was nothing but frustration.

I seem to be an otherwise intelligent person. Fifty-three years ago, I even graduated college with honors. I did well with networking and keeping up with the latest news, until computers became ubiquitous.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 04/02/2021 FBN Number: F20210294 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) ESC LANDSCAPES 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1028 Cross Street Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Eduardo Sanchez Castillo 1028 Cross Street Woodland, CA 95695 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: 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): Eduardo Sanchez 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25 1221

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: 03/15/2021 FBN Number: F20210234 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) BERENGUERS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

34895 County Road 16 Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Robert Gabriel Macias 34895 County Road 16 Woodland, CA 95695 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: N/A “I declare that all information in STORAGE LIEN SALE this statement is true and correct.”

Auction at Stonegate Self Storage, (A registrant who declares as true 2772 W Covell Blvd, Davis, CA. 95616. information which he or she knows to be When? 4/28/21 at 11:00 AM. This and false is guilty of a crime.) enforcement is authorized by Chapter 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 10, commencing without warranty or Robert G. Macias guarantee for cash only. We reserve the 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2 1231 right to reject any or all offers. Purchased FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME items must be removed from property STATEMENT immediately following the sale. The following is a general description of the Filed: 04/02/2021 items to be sold: Guitar, Electronics, FBN Number: F20210295 Clothing, and Household Goods. Unit 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) CONTINUUM # and Name: 1058 Chloe Simko Buck RIVER DISTRIBUTION BOND #0342850 4/11, 4/18 1224 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

PUBLIC NOTICE 3121 Evergreen Ave., Ste 100 Springlake Fire Protection District West Sacramento, CA 95691 Notice of Public Hearing Mailing address: Attn: Adrian Lambie Be advised that the Springlake Fire 200 Spectrum Center, Ste 300 Protection District Governing Board will Irvine, CA 92618 hold a public hearing on the 2021 Weed 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Abatement Program.

Residence Address, State, and Zip River Distributing Co., LLC All property owners having any 600 California St., Ste 600 objections to the proposed removal San Francisco, CA 94108 of weeds, rubbish, refuse, and dirt are 4. Business Classification: hereby notified to attend a meeting of Limited Liability Company the Governing Board of the Springlake 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Fire Protection District to be held on Registrant(s) commenced to transact Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 2:00 pm business under the fictitious business at the City of Woodland Police & Fire name or names listed above on: Headquarters at 1000 Lincoln Avenue, 9/18/2015 Woodland, California, where their “I declare that all information in objections will be heard and given due this statement is true and correct.” consideration.

(A registrant who declares as true 4/18, 4/25 1227 information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

PUBLIC NOTICE 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Chris Candelario NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Senior Vice President, Sales FOR UNITRANS PUBLIC TRANSIT River Distributing Co., LLC PROPOSED SERVICE CHANGES FOR 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2 1232 2021-2022 The Unitrans Advisory Committee (UAC), a committee to the Davis City Council, will hold a virtual public hearing on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 4:00 PM on proposed Unitrans service changes that, if approved, would go into effect on Monday, August 2, 2021. Meeting information will be available 72 hours in advance of the meeting at https://www. cityofdavis.org/city-hall/commissionsand-committees/unitrans-advisorycommittee.

I know dyslexia is a recognized learning disability that affects otherwise intelligent people who can’t learn to read. Do I have something like that — something that is a recognized learning disability? Am I the only one in the world with this problem?

— In a Quagmire Dear Quagmire: I have a feeling there are other people out there who have dealt with this problem, and I hope to hear from some of them. In the meantime, if this is causing you distress, ask your doctor to refer you to a specialist who can screen for cognitive disabilities.

For what it’s worth, far too many of us are overly dependent on our computers and smartphones. I don’t mean to trivialize what you’ve gone through; I understand that it’s been enormously frustrating. But you’ve likely been more present for life than many of us.

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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 in this court on 5/20/2021 at 9:00 A.M. in Dept. TBD Room N/A 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: DAVID Y. PARNALL, HARTOG, BAER & HAND, APC, 4 ORINDA WAY, SUITE 200-D, ORINDA, CA 94526, Telephone: 925-253-1717 4/16, 4/18, 4/25/21 CNS-3460358# THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE 1234

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-635 1. SOLCIRE KUNNER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: BROOKE LYNN ROUSSEL to BROOKELYNN KAI KUNNER 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: 6/2/2021 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general PUBLIC NOTICE circulation, printed in this county: NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER The Davis Enterprise ESTATE OF 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 MARY ESTHER CAMPBELL Date: April 9, 2021 CASE NO. PR2021-0075 Daniel M. Wolk To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, Judge of the Superior Court contingent creditors, and persons who 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9 1243 may otherwise be interested in the will FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME or estate, or both, of: MARY ESTHER STATEMENT CAMPBELL AKA MARY E. CAMPBELL AKA Filed: 03/18/2021 MARY CAMPBELL A Petition for Probate has been filed by FBN Number: F20210246 LORI ANN CAMPBELL in the Superior 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) STAR COMMUNITIES Court of California, County of YOLO. The Petition for Probate requests that 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of LORI ANN CAMPBELL be appointed as Principal Place of Business in California. personal representative to administer the Business is located in Yolo County.

154 Inner Circle estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to Davis, CA 95618 administer the estate under the 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Independent Administration of Estates Residence Address, State, and Zip Act. (This authority will allow the personal John D. Burmester

144 Inner Circle Davis, CA 95618 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: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): John Burmester, Owner 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9 1244 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that the County of Yolo Community Services Department, Division of Integrated Waste Management, will receive sealed bids for construction of WASTE MANAGEMENT UNIT 6H SUBGRADE, until MAY 11, 2021 @ 2 P.M., at 44090 County Road 28H, Woodland, CA 95776. Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents, which can be downloaded along with all bid documents at www.bidsync.com at no cost. It is the bidder’s responsibility to register at www.bidsync.com to ensure notification of all addenda. It is the bidder’s responsibility to arrange for printing services. For more information, send questions through www.bidsync. com. There will be an OPTIONAL pre-bid meeting at 2 P.M. on April 22, 2021at the Yolo County Central Landfill, located at 44090 County Road 28H, Woodland.

Each bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code in the following classification(s) throughout the time it submits its bid and for the duration of the contract: class A The successful bidder shall furnish a payment bond and a performance bond, each in the full amount of the contract price.

These bonds shall be executed by a surety specified in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.310. Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by the County to ensure its performance under the contract.

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the County in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wage rates are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this project, available for review at Yolo County Central Landfill, 44090 County Road 28H, Woodland, California and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ internet web site at http://www.dir. ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The successful bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be mandatory upon the bidder to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractors, to comply with all Labor Code provisions, which include but are not limited to the payment of not less than the said specified prevailing wage rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract, employment of apprentices, hours of labor and debarment of contractors and subcontractors. Pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 and 1771.3, contractors and subcontractors who intend to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No proposal will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

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lance up and around and you’ll know the horizon is changing. From Canada to South Africa, Brazil to China, windmills and solar panels are telling a story of change.

In the United States, the landscape is collecting a kind of 21st-century raiment.

Wind farms, solar farms and just stray windmills and solar panels on roofs are signaling something big and different.

When they were making “Tom Jones” in 1963, the very funny film based on the Henry Fielding classic, the big problem was finding English villages which dated from the 18th century and still looked it. The filmmakers found plenty of appropriate villages, but all the skylines were despoiled with television aerials. No filmmaker today can avoid windmills and solar panels, and computer graphics will have to come to the rescue for period dramas.

Alexander Mirtchev, a respected member of the Washington foreign policy establishment and vice chairman of the Atlantic Council, in a new book based on a study he conducted for the Wilson Center, names this changed horizon for what it is: a megatrend. In doing this Mirtchev joins other megatrend energy spotters of the past, including environmentalist Amory Lovins and economist Daniel Yergin. Mirtchev’s book is titled “The Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition.”

Energy has been shaping society and the relationship between nations since humans switched from burning wood to coal. The next step after that was the Industrial Revolution, ushering in what might be called “the first megatrend.”

Mirtchev builds on how energy supply changes relationships and looks to a future where the balance of power could be upended, and energy production could affect neighbors in new ways. For example, I have noted, the Irish are unhappy about British nuclear activity across the Irish Sea. There also is tension along the border between Austria and Slovakia: the Slovaks favor a nuclear future, and the Austrians are into wind and opposed to any nuclear power. As a result, windmills line the Austrian side of this central European border.

Mirtchev’s book is a serious work by a serious scholar which pulls together the impact of alternative energy on national security, the interplay between great powers, and the changing landscape between great powers and a few lesser ones. It is wonderfully free of the idealistic tropes about alternative energy as a morally superior force.

There also are changes within countries.

Recently, I wrote about how Houston — the holy of holies of the oil industry — is seeking to rebrand the oil capital as a tech mecca as well as holding onto its oil and gas status as those decline.

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f you look at the world, you can see how President Joe Biden can stand up to Saudi Arabia in a way that other presidents couldn’t do. Saudi oil reserves don’t mean what they once did. They aren’t as essential to the future of the world as they once were. There is more oil around and the trend is away from oil. Historic coal exporters like Poland, Australia, South Africa, and the United States are losing their markets.

Other losses, including U.S. technological dominance in energy technology, are more subtle. For example, although jubilation over solar and wind is widely felt in the United States by environmentalists, it should be tempered by the fact that solar cells and wind turbines are being provided by China. China has seized manufacturing dominance in alternative energy, endangering national security for dependent countries.

Mirtchev’s arguments have found powerful endorsements. A number of big-name, international security thinkers have come forward to endorse the concept of a realignment caused by the megatrend of alternative energy.

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

e Americans are blessed with abundant — even overabundant — consumer goods and services and often take that fact for granted.

We assume that when we pull into a service station its pumps will dispense fuel, that when we go to a grocery store, we will find full shelves, or that when we flip the switch on the wall the room will light up.

We tend to forget that the goods and services we want or need involve complex supply chains that begin with basic resources, proceed to industrial processes and culminate in delivery on demand.

Even products and services deemed to be “green” are not exempt. Solar power panels and battery-powered cars, for instance, require sophisticated industrial processes and rare minerals such as the lithium, which must be mined or extracted from brine.

That’s why we should be skeptical of politicians who pretend that we can interrupt those supply chains, in the name of environmental protection, without negative consequences.

That was the underlining issue last week when the state

Senate’s Committee on Natural Resources and Water took up Senate Bill 467, which was aimed at shutting down much of California’s oil industry by banning fracking and other extraction processes.

The bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, argued, “California cannot continue to have the image of an environmental beacon while we are actively poisoning our citizens and destroying our state.”

Wiener introduced the bill after Gov. Gavin Newsom called for ending the sale of petroleum-fueled cars by 2035 and asked the Legislature to ban fracking. However, now facing a recall election, Newsom didn’t lift a finger to help Wiener move his bill, apparently because labor unions were adamantly opposed, citing elimination of high-paying union jobs.

Without Newsom’s support, moderate Democrats on

the committee refused to vote for the bill and it failed. “This one really does go to shut down the oil industry in California,” state Sen. Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, said. “We are not getting away from oil or gas in California in the next 10 years.”

She spoke the simple truth that the vast majority of California’s 30-plus million vehicles run on petroleum-based fuels and despite Newsom’s declaration about 2035, that fact will continue indefinitely.

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alifornia supplies about half of the petroleum it consumes, importing the remainder from oil-producing nations across the globe. Shutting down production here would make us more dependent on other suppliers, with a massive loss of jobs and exports of consumer dollars.

The same dynamics hold true in the other commodities that a modern society needs to prosper.

We need, for example, to double housing production, but construction requires immense amounts of lumber, concrete and steel, plus electrical fixtures and plumbing made of copper. These materials begin as raw resources, such as trees, limestone and

copper and iron ores, which are then processed and transported to building sites via railroads or diesel-powered trucks.

Occasionally, we are reminded that electricity doesn’t come from the walls, gasoline doesn’t come from pumps, lumber doesn’t come from Home Depot and toilet paper doesn’t come from the supermarket.

We got such a reminder last summer, when a severe heat wave overcame the state’s electrical supplies, with air conditioning demand peaking in the late afternoon, just as solar power arrays were beginning to fade.

In response, the state suspended plans to phase out natural gas-fueled power plants, implicitly deciding that going green isn’t worth experiencing blackouts. We expect the juice to be there when we need it, and politicians such as Newsom will feel the heat — pun intended — if it’s not.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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LETTERS Neighborhood court I am a panelist for the Yolo County Neighborhood Court and would like to encourage Enterprise readers to join as well.

The premise behind this program is “Restorative Justice” — making things right between someone who has “offended,” often through mistakes and lapses in good judgment, and the community.

This program is deeply fulfilling to me, as it feels like a direct and genuine way to give back to our community and offer our participants a new lease on life.

Panelists represent the community, listen to the rationale of the offender who is vetted and referred to us by the District Attorney, and then work with our participant to address underlying issues and develop a plan to restore the harms and avoid repeat offenses in the future.

Offenses can include shoplifting, minor assault, drug offenses, petty theft, offenses that can result in fines, jail, probation and more. If participants successfully complete the Neighborhood Court obligations, their offenses are dismissed and they get to start fresh, so it is also huge for me to get to know them and feel like I can be part of a solution to a problem in their lives.

The program provides training, support during each panel, and a strong work-force and infrastructure that ensures success. These days, the panels are over Zoom and the program is expanding, so there is a need for more panelists. I hope more people can join — it’s easy to find more information by just googling Yolo County Neighborhood Court.

Janet Foley Davis

Police reform I listened carefully to the City Council discussion on reimagining public safety. I was glad for the decision to table and further investigate the concept of forming a new city department, by removing from the Davis Police Department homeless services, code enforcement, parking administration and any other city services deemed suitable.

Here are some basic questions that should be asked: What problem is forming a new department trying to solve?

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How will it reduce racism within the Davis Police Department? I am not seeing the connection. Is this going to cost the city dearly, at a time when tax revenue is severely reduced because of COVID? We have potholes galore not getting fixed, and other maintenance and repair needs within the city going unaddressed.

I am a strong proponent of the mobilecrisis-team approach to decrease mental health calls to the DPD. This would entail a working partnership with county mental health services and Communicare.

Such a plan can easily be justified as a common sense and fiscally responsible strategy to reduce the need in a crisis for 1) armed police, and 2) needless trips to the emergency room. The less police have to respond to 911 calls, the less chance there is of potential racial bias entering the picture. And county mental health services is slated to receive a boatload of money for just this sort of thing, so why not take advantage from the city’s fiscal perspective?

I also commend the notion of looking at youth programs as a deterrent to crime. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If we can keep our children from ever entering the criminal justice system in the first place, it would solve a lot of problems, including lessening the chances of our loved ones getting entangled with law enforcement and possibly hurt.

As they go through the process of looking at police reform, I strongly urge the City Council to pose solutions that are not merely feel good actions that change nothing, but actually can be shown to address identifiable issues needing to be addressed.

Elaine Roberts Musser Davis

Time for teachers The article, “Schools to move to 5-day schedule,” leaves out a huge and very important time segment. That missing segment is the time teachers actually spend on lesson preparation, reviewing and grading classwork, meeting with colleagues and parents, and lots more. This is early mornings, late afternoons, evenings, weekends, and during summer and holidays. With the pandemic, teachers are asked to do more, so they need more time.

I find it unintentionally insulting to teachers that the article says distance learning is “cut short” on Wednesdays so teachers can “collaborate or hold a staff meeting.” It’s the teacher collaboration time that is cut short, not the distance learning time.

Do you have a friend or relative who is a teacher? Ask her or him how much socalled personal time they use to do their job. Teachers are the heart of education in Davis and everywhere. To achieve good results takes time, teacher time. Davis schools have dedicated, smart, hardworking teachers, and we should support them at every opportunity, and especially now.

Claudia Kirch Davis

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‘Progressive’ Davis still segregates itself COMMENTARY

BY RICHARD ALCAUSKAS Special to The Enterprise

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avis is typecast for its progressive views. Black Lives Matter signs throughout. Overwhelming righteous indignation in response to acts of discrimination against minorities; segregationists know to look elsewhere. An oasis of liberalism in a surrounding desert of conservatism. It all makes my Jerry Brown bones feel strong, more importantly, morally justified.

That is, until I start to look to see how many people of color own homes in Davis. It’s hard to find many Blacks and browns who live in Davis, much less own homes here (props and no disrespect to those who do). I asked my white neighbor if he knows any non-white homeowners in town. His response — “Of course I know some; at least one or two of my friends are Black/brown.”

Honestly, I don’t actually know a lot of Black or brown homeowners in Davis. Why, I don’t know, it’s a failing on my part, I’m sure. In my 40 years as a lawyer in Yolo County, I’ve met Black/brown homeowners in Davis, just not that many.

Some facts: Blacks are 6.5% of the state population, while in

Davis, they make up just 2.2%.

Hispanics are only 13.6% of Davis, while statewide, they number 39.4%. You get the picture. Davis homeowners are very un-Black, non-brown. Compared, no, contrasted to California’s makeup, those numbers are embarrassing, non-defensible.

And that raises the question — “Is Davis a segregated city we’d like to believe it is not?”

In the post-reconstruction South, Davis would fit in nicely.

We in Davis have proper conversations about how much we care about all races, but as I look around, I see many pretty welloff whites, but not many Blacks or browns of any income level.

We sincerely believe we are not prejudiced against people of color; we honestly espouse a philosophy of being welcome to all, regardless of skin color. In examining Davis closely, though, it just ain’t so.

Somehow, notwithstanding our avowed openness to all and a reputation in neighboring communities as being progressive, looking at these numbers, Davis is not the inclusive town we imagine it to be. That’s hard to read, much less believe, I’m sure.

No white Davis homeowner I know is racist or overtly discriminates; none perceive Davis being closed to Blacks/browns.

It’s a commonly held belief.

Davis is open to anyone who can afford to live here. Aha, there’s the problem!

It’s not skin color that makes Davis a predominantly onecomplexion town; it’s the richly green color of the dollars required to live here that make it so. Many Blacks and browns can’t afford to buy as much house in Davis as they can in surrounding communities. So, they live elsewhere, where their dollars provide them more house.

It’s currently just too expensive for many to buy a home in Davis. Available houses are beyond reach of many Blacks and browns who might want to live here. Many reasons are given why Davis housing costs so much. No matter the rationales one uses to explain those lofty prices, they nevertheless result in a discriminatory imbalance in Davis of white homeowners over non-whites.

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avis has rejected housing projects for many reasons — too much traffic, negative impact on the environment,

business taken away from downtown, our view of the Sacramento skyline blocked (really?). Unless we change this voting pattern and, instead, reflect on how these housing project rejections have restricted access for many Blacks and browns, Davis will continue to be an un-integrated, nondiverse white island in an ocean of more multicultural communities.

Putting up a sign encouraging inclusion of all races is admirable. But is it better than allowing building of homes in Davis actually affordable to the less affluent? Isn’t it time to open our community to more Blacks and browns (and now that I think about it, lesser-incomed whites as well) who have been coming to Davis to clean our homes, maintain our yards, teach our children, serve us at restaurants?

By rejecting housing developments, we have disinvited many who would love to live here to enjoy the wonderful Davis life you and I do.

Think of the diversity we are missing, the opportunities to learn from other cultures. Let’s face it, fellow financially comfortable, white Davis citizens, as liberal and open-minded as we think we are, by our voting

actions on housing projects, we have unkindly discriminated against Blacks, browns and lesser-incomed whites. Not on purpose perhaps, but by our actions in turning down housing projects.

Developers, take another chance. Bring Davis new housing projects, and this time include more affordable housing.

In deciding to vote your project up or down, Davis voters just might consider what I’ve written here and decide differently — approval or disapproval based not only on historical arguments, but also using a fresh, updated attitude that Davis needs to open its housing base to other than well-fixed white people.

How different would it be to have neighbors reflecting the actual makeup of California?

Let’s stop keeping them out with our limited housing availability.

Let’s not perpetuate de facto segregation against Blacks, browns, and lesser-incomed whites any longer. It’s probably naïve to believe it will happen, but couldn’t we at least try to make Davis a more multicolored, income-diversified community where we’ll be prouder yet to raise our families?

— Richard Alcauskas is a Davis resident.

California’s public colleges shape nation’s leaders

BY DICK ACKERMAN AND MEL LEVINE Special to CalMatters

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he election of Vice President Kamala Harris and the appointment of several Californians to top posts in the new administration signal not only the state’s renewed clout in the nation’s capital but also the influential role our world-class public higher education system plays in shaping leaders and expanding diversity at the upper echelons of government.

Harris, a graduate of the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, is the nation’s first woman, first person of color and first UC-affiliated person to ever hold the vice presidency. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus, is the first woman to hold that powerful position, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas graduated from UC Berkeley and is the first Latino and immigrant leader of the Department of Homeland Security.

These appointments and others underscore how California’s public higher education system creates strong and diverse leaders and helps combat economic and social inequities. But leaders at UC, California State University and California Community Colleges recognize they need to do more to increase diversity among faculty, staff and the student population. Each is moving forward with initiatives to achieve these goals, and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal to increase funding for these initiatives deserves the Legislature’s support.

Among these initiatives, California Community

COMMENTARY Colleges, the state’s primary entry point into collegiate degree programs, has already met its 2022 goal of a 20% increase in students receiving credentials, and it is narrowing the achievement gap for students of color. California Community Colleges also is increasing flexibility in its courses, credit and support to meet the needs of an older and increasingly diverse student population. And it’s working to help struggling students secure housing and food, so they can focus on learning and reaching their goals.

CSU Board of Trustees and UC Board of Regents have developed multi-year plans to eliminate achievement gaps, with CSU seeking to eliminate gaps by 2025 and UC by 2030.

Graduation rates at CSU, one of the nation’s largest and most diverse public universities, are at an alltime high, granting 62% of all bachelor’s degrees earned by California’s Latinx students and 47% of all bachelor’s degrees earned by the state’s Black students.

For the fall 2020 semester, UC enrolled more Latinx students than before and increased the admissions of low-income and first-generation-tocollege students. The trend is continuing. UC reports a record number of undergraduate applications for the upcoming fall semester, a surge in applications from Latinx and Black students applications and continued growth in California Community Colleges transfer applications.

The governor’s budget proposal would continue these gains by providing state funding to CCC, CSU

and UC to help close equity gaps, promote completion, fuel innovation and support students’ upward economic mobility. A recent agreement with legislative leaders would also restore previously enacted reductions, effective July 1, for UC and CSU. And the governor’s proposal assumes no increase in tuition and fees in 2021-22.

While the budget proposal won’t make up for all the funding losses over the past several years at the state’s colleges and universities, it will help them continue to provide the ladders to success for students from backgrounds and train the diverse leaders we need.

Over the past year, the U.S. has faced a long overdue reckoning of the racial and economic divides that persist in our nation. This moment in time demands urgent action to achieve equity in higher education to give students from all walks of life equal access and opportunities. Now is not the time to falter or fail. Now is the time to invest in all our young people.

— Dick Ackerman is co-chair of the California Coalition for Public Higher Education. He is a Republican and a former California state senator and assemblyman from Orange County. Mel Levine is co-chair of the California Coalition for Public Higher Education, MLevine@ gibsondunn.com. He is a Democrat and a former member of Congress and state assemblyman from Los Angeles. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

LETTERS Make COVID testing opt-out The first known case of the B.1.351 (South African) COVID variant was recently detected in Davis. This variant is highly transmissible. Free COVID testing in Davis couldn’t be easier through Healthy Davis Together. Testing sites are located at many school campuses.

Mandatory COVID testing is required for at least two private schools in the region in order to attend school in person and DJUSD should do the same. LAUSD, the largest school district in California, is requiring students be COVID-tested to attend in person.

At DJUSD, all students could automatically be opted-in for weekly COVID testing, with a way for parents to opt-out for religious and other protected reasons.

The burden would then be on parents to opt-out instead of opting-in. Testing and detection of positive cases (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) is incredibly important to protect our community and keep schools open.

Amy Hiss Davis

Respond to racist behavior The Uniting for Racial Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis strongly condemns the racism and xenophobia directed at the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.

Our faith calls us to affirm the worth and dignity inherent in every person because everyone matters. We believe

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that violence, xenophobia, harassment and other racist actions directed at one community affects all of us.

Unfortunately, anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander racism and xenophobia is not a new phenomenon. It has been part of American history for a long time, and it has manifested itself against different A/API communities in numerous ways over the years. As the coronavirus pandemic has escalated, we have seen more harassment, discrimination and violence directed at these communities.

We must all respond to incidents of hate while also addressing the root causes of violence and bigotry. Ways to take action include: ■ Check in with your Asian-American neighbors and friends ■ Speak up when you see someone being harassed or bullied, when you hear a bigoted comment or “joke,” or when you see cruel messages on social media ■ Make your support visible to your community by sharing social media posts on your personal feed ■ Speak out if you witness a hate crime or incident ■ Take an online Bystander Training Intervention course at https://www. ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention.

The Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities deserve to live peacefully, without fear of threats, violence or prejudice. We cannot let the forces of hate prevail. We must reaffirm our compassion and responsibility for one another.

Barbara Clutter Chair, Uniting for Racial Justice Committee, Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis

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Next Poet Laureate sought

On Monday, April 19, Alyx Land and Lupita Torres will create “Water Is Life,” a painted river flowing through the cracks in the pavement on G Street, between Second and Third streets. This computerized image shows what the completed project might look like.

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Artists paint the Earth Pavement paintings ask for climate action Special to The Enterprise Local artists are bringing two pavement paintings to downtown Davis this weekend, in honor of Earth Day. Focusing on food and water, the art pieces invite viewers to take action to protect the planet.

On Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18, at E Street Plaza, Anya McCann is painting “Eat A Rainbow,” a celebration of plant-based foods. McCann hopes that it will inspire visitors to eat more plants to “help keep the planet and their bodies healthier.”

The top personal impact any individual can have to save the planet from climate change is to eat more plant foods and fewer animal products, McCann said. “This is something that most people have control over — their diet.”

McCann is the founder of COOL Cuisine, a Davis organization that hosts meet-ups to advocate for more plant-based options in local restaurants. The mural is dedicated to her father, George S. Wolfberg, who died last year. Earth

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More information and resources about plant-based eating can be found on the Cool Davis website at www. cooldavis.org/cool-solutions/ plant-based-eating/.

A few blocks away, on Monday, April 19, Alyx Land and Lupita Torres will create “Water Is Life,” a painted river flowing through the cracks in the pavement on G Street, between Second and Third streets. The words “Mní Wicóni” will be painted alongside an acknowledgment of the Wintun Nation, with leaves and flowers growing out from the river. “‘Water is Life’ can be understood by all people,” Land said. “Clean healthy water is crucial for every single person and applies to so many different contexts related to protecting the earth, including oil pipelines, fracking, dammed-up rivers and plastic pollution in the ocean. ” “Mní Wicóni” means “Water is Life” in the Lakota language. This phrase has been used to raise awareness of the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation, which started in 2016.

“Many people think the fight against DAPL is over,

but it’s not!” Land said.

“Five years later and we are still battling this oil pipeline,” Torres said. “We need to ask President Biden to honor indigenous sovereignty and protect our water by shutting down DAPL.” The murals will be at their best and brightest on Earth Day, April 22, and will slowly fade as the elements of rain, wind and foot traffic wear them away.

Artists assisting with the project include Candice Foster, Danielle Fodor, Drucella Miranda, Jen Nachmanoff and Judy Catambay.

The public is welcome to watch the murals being painted, April 17-19, while physically distancing and masking.

This project, part of the Community ArtShare for the Earth (and All Her Creatures) is supported, in part, by a grant from the city of Davis Arts and Cultural Affairs program.

Helping hands were provided by the Davis Food Co-Op, the Sierra Club, Cool Cuisine, Cool Davis, the Davis Arts Center, Mothers Out Front, Climate Strike Davis, the DSIS Eco Club, the Sunrise Movement and the Da Vinci High School Environmental Club.

Nominations are now being accepted for the city of Davis’ next Poet Laureate.

In October 2009, the Davis City Council established the position of c+ity of Davis Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate program brings the power and beauty of poetry to the Davis community while increasing awareness of the literary arts through community engagement and outreach. Nominations for a new poet are being accepted through May 21.

Davis residents may nominate themselves or another candidate for the position. The Poet Laureate must be at least 18 years old and a resident of Davis.

Additionally, they must be able to serve the two-year term and have demonstrated a commitment to and passion for poetry and embrace the opportunity to engage in civic discourse.

Nominators must submit a brief letter describing the qualities and skills that make their nominations excellent candidates for the position as well as three original works of poetry and the nominee’s resume or CV. Application information and nomination guidelines can be found on the city’s website at https://www.cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-manager-s-office/artsculture/arts-initiatives#poetry.

All nominations must be received no later than 5 p.m. Friday, May 21, and can be submitted by email as a single PDF to rhartsough@cityofdavis.org or by mail, Attn: Rachel Hartsough, City of Davis/ CMO, 23 Russell Blvd, Davis, CA 95616.

The Poet Laureate is a liaison, advocate and leader who will leverage their artistic excellence and literary achievements to inspire the diverse residents of the Davis community to read, write, perform and appreciate the written and spoken word.

This honorary two-year position celebrates the art of poetry and its impact on the Davis community.

Allegra Silberstein held the position from 2010-2012; Eve West Bessier from 2012-2014; Dr. Andy Jones from 20142018; James Lee Jobe is now serving an extended-term from 2018 and ending in September 2021.

Duties include representing the city of Davis and the art of poetry through outreach activities, presenting original works of poetry at official city events throughout the year, writing and submitting poetry about Davis for publication, presenting and discussing poetry at community events and celebrations, in schools or with community groups, and acting as a resource for poetry and literary activities in Davis.

“The Poet Laureate of Davis has the important job of contributing creative expression not only to our City Council meetings but also throughout our community,” Mayor Gloria Partida said. “The existence of this title supports our collective commitment to the literary arts as a community. We have been fortunate to have James Lee Jobe working collaboratively with city arts staff to enrich our community with public poetry programming for the past two and a half years and are excited to build upon these creative projects moving forward.”

A panel comprised of members of the Civic Arts Commission and community members will review applications and select finalists. The Civic Arts Commission will review the committee decision and make a recommendation to the City Council for final approval of the City’s next Poet Laureate.

For more information, contact: Rachel Hartsough at rhartsough@cityofdavis. org.

All invited to ‘Color of Law’ book study Special to The Enterprise The Uniting for Racial Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis and Congregation Bet Haverim invite the community to join in a four-week interfaith conversation in which they ponder historical insights from “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein.

Following an overview

hosted by Congregation Bet Haverim from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, May 2, (register at https://www. bethaverim.org/resources/ conversations-about-racialjustice) the group will meet online from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays, May 10, 17 and 24, to discuss why many live in such different realities and how faith compels people to

reexamine individual and collective choices.

Each session will include a short documentary clip, chapter overview and discussion.

To receive a Zoom invitation for Sessions 2, 3 and 4 and a weekly reading guide for Rothstein’s book, contact Leanne Friedman at leannefriedman@gmail. com.

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