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UCD enrolls adolescents in Novavax trial BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
The Davis school board and Superintendent John Bowes pose for a groundbreaking photo at North Davis Elementary. DJUSD/COURTESY PHOTO
School district begins MPR work BY EDWARD BOOTH Enterprise staff writer Major construction funded by the Davis Joint Unified School District bond program has kicked off in recent weeks with three groundbreaking ceremonies, and one more to come, to begin the construction of four new elementary school multipurpose rooms. All the MPRs — which are going up at North Davis Elementary, Birch Lane Elementary, Willett Elementary and César Chávez Elementary — will be finished in about a year, and several other bond construction projects will be going on over the next few years. The projects include the Pamela
Mari Tech Hub at Da Vinci Charter Academy; an earlylearning center at Korematsu Elementary; an aquatics center and a STEM building at Davis Senior High School; science labs at Da Vinci and Emerson Junior High School; and a few projects focused on career technical education. Deputy superintendent Matt Best said all the projects will be done by 2024, with the biggest projects likely finished by the summer of 2023. Groundbreaking for the César Chávez Elementary MPR and the Da Vinci Tech Hub is planned to occur this summer, and construction of the science labs and earlylearning center is currently in the process of finishing up.
The school construction projects are funded by $150 million the district gained from Measure M, a bond measure passed by voters in 2018, and an additional $85 million from other sources, such as grants and matching funds. Still, the district’s Facilities Master Plan identified a district-wide need of about halfa-billion dollars, according to David Burke, executive director of capital operations. “Our bond program is just the first bite of that, our bond program is not going to address all of our identified facility needs,” Burke said. Money from school bonds can only be spent on brick and mortar projects, such as construction and renovation of
school facilities. Bonds are essentially a debt voted on and paid for over years, often decades, by taxpayers through an increase to local property taxes. Through selling bond tranches earlier than initially planned, and taking advantage of lowered interest rates at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the district will manage to save taxpayers $79 million in debt that won’t have to be repaid, according to Best. But that also means the district has had to fast track the construction projects, and so many of the projects are occurring simultaneously. The district has
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What virus level in wastewater is — and isn’t — telling us BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Levels of COVID-19 in wastewater collected from West Davis — which had increased during the last two weeks of April — dropped back down to previous levels last week and officials from Healthy Davis Together say they are still working on how to interpret what it all means. Since November, wastewater samples have been collected at multiple locations throughout the city’s sewage system and analyzed in a lab at UC Davis. Because the virus that causes
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COVID-19 can be shed in the stool of infected individuals, monitoring sewage provides an indication of virus levels in different areas of the city, though results are not isolated down to individual households. In announcing the expanded wastewater monitoring system in late March, Healthy Davis Together said the goal was to provide an early warning system that will alert officials to an increase in virus activity among both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals and better direct individual testing efforts. “Davis is one of few cities to
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of elevated levels of virus in their neighborhood’s wastewater. For example, sampling done during the last week of March showed virus levels increasing in one particular region of the city, Old East Davis/Wildhorse. Elsewhere, virus levels stayed the same or even decreased. In mid April, an increase was seen in West Davis. In both instances, levels subsequently declined. “We’ve had a lot of meetings and a lot of discussion about
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UC Davis health is enrolling children ages 12 to 17 in a trial of the Novavax coronavirus vaccine, the health system announced Friday. The Stage 3 clinical trial — UC Davis Health began testing the vaccine on adults in January — is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and locally led by Stuart Cohen, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at UC Davis Health. The pediatric portion of the trial will be led by Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. There are currently more than 100 different COVID-19 vaccines in different stages of development around the world. During the first two stages of vaccine development, small groups of people receive the trial vaccine. In
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Board names tech hub after Mari BY EDWARD BOOTH Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board on Thursday heard updates on the district’s facilities bond program, COVID-19 conditions, summer school, summer enrichment programs and graduation ceremonies. The board also unanimously voted to name the Da Vinci Charter Academy Tech Hub after Pamela Mari, a longtime district employee who served as the first principal of the school. The new facility, which will begin construction in the summer, will be referred to as the “Pamela Mari Tech Hub.” And the board unanimously voted to appoint Amanda Cattivera and Andrew Cullen to the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. Deputy Superintendent Matt Best said Mari had also been a teacher in the district, vice principal at Davis Senior High School and the assistant superintendent of student services before she retired after 30 years working in the district. All school board trustees voiced their support for the recommendation.
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Four wheels, stop; two wheels, go ... “C yclists could roll through stop signs under plan moving through California Capitol,” said the headline over Andrew Sheeler’s story in The Sacramento Bee. That struck me as odd, since cyclists in Davis have been rolling through stop signs for years now, and the last time I checked, Davis was still in the state of California. In fact, I’ve regularly witnessed cyclists do a bit more than “roll” through stop signs. “Blast” might be a better word. And I’m not talking about those who slow down almost to a stop and go through all sorts of gymnastics in an attempt to never put a foot on the ground. They’re still basically following the rules and aren’t a danger to anyone, including themselves. I realize it’s a pain to work up a degree of hard-earned momentum on your bicycle and then have it all taken away by a silly stop sign. Especially since a number of Davis streets are crowned in the middle for easy drainage, requiring those on bikes to pedal uphill once they start up again.
I know the feeling. Every time I’m on a bike and just cruising along with the wind in my face, I am severely tempted to blow through stop signs, especially if there are no cars around. A few years ago one of my young daughters and I went to the corner of East 8th and J Street — one of Davis’ busiest intersections — to catch the five o’clock rush. It’s a four-way stop, with most of the traffic heading eastbound on 8th from Real Davis into East Davis. The intersection is complicated by a couple of left turn lanes that can create a situation where six cars — or bikes — are all first in their respective lines and all trying to figure out whose turn it is to enter no-man’s land.
Police arrest suspects in bank robberies, burglary BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Woodland police credit investigative work and tips from the public for the arrest of a suspect this week in connection with four armed robberies at a Yolo Federal Credit Union branch. Ervin Omar Vargas, a 27-year-old Woodland resident, was identified as the person who allegedly confronted bank customers at the West Main Street bank’s drive-up ATM, then forced them to withdraw money from their accounts at either gunpoint or knifepoint, Sgt. Victoria Danzl said. He was taken into custody Wednesday evening. Vargas pleaded not guilty at his Yolo Superior Court arraignment Friday to six counts of first-
degree robbery with an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon, online court records show. He remains on a no-bail hold at the Yolo County Jail. Police also arrested a man suspected of breaking into a Woodland Bank of America branch early Friday morning. A bank security officer contacted police shortly before 3 a.m. to report a person who had entered the bank’s 50 W. Main St. branch and was attempting to open a vault, Sgt. Dallas Hyde said. Officers soon spotted a man matching the suspect’s description in the parking lot across the street, Hyde said. Michael Mori, 39, of Woodland, “was in possession of items that positively linked him to the burglary.”
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To Ian, with love: Today is Mother’s Day, and you in fact were born on Mother’s Day 38 years ago, and it seems only fitting as the mother of your children, that I should celebrate you on this very special day as well. When others ask why you are so tired, they can look at our two beautiful boys, or they could also look at your linked in page, as I did for the first time two weeks ago, and see all that you have accomplished in the last six years within Yolo County, and then they would not have to wonder anymore. Your innovative and transformative work is an example to our State, as to how we should care for some of our most marginalized residents. I am amazed at all that you are able to do at work, and all that you are able to do at home, and all the while keeping your calm and treating everyone with respect and love, and teaching our boys to do the same. Ian, we have grown so much together these past 13 years, and as the closest person to you babe, let me be the first to say that you have accomplished your dream of becoming a vital member of this community, just like your grandfather, Thomas Yates Cooper. I love our relationship, and all that you do for me and the kids, and I will never stop. I hope we continue to grow together and help our community for another 50+ years. Happy 38th Birthday my love. Now let’s get your grandpa’s ‘66 Tbird fixed up, so we can cruise around downtown like your grandparents used to. Written from the heart by Amanda Evans P.S. If anyone out in the Davis world has a picture of Dr. Thomas Cooper in front of his Tbird, we would love for you to send it to us, as we have not been able to find one of our own.
Despite the rush-hour congestion, my daughter and I witnessed a large number of cyclists ignoring whichever stop sign was supposed to slow them down, though the vast majority of lawbreakers were headed eastbound on 8th as they sailed across J Street. “California lawmakers are advancing a bill that seeks to make intersections safer for bicyclists by allowing them to roll through stop signs,” the story begins in head-scratching fashion.
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mean, how does allow bicyclists to roll through a stop sign make things safer for them? “Its backers say it’ll work by giving cyclists enough momentum to get through an intersection quickly, while it creates predictable behavior for drivers to follow.” In other words, the drivers of all six cars heading in six different directions at the intersection described above will now expect bicyclists to ignore stop signs and will wait and wait and wait until no bikes are present. (And then all six drivers will likely try to move their cars at once.)
Said bill sponsor Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath, “I think when you make bike behavior predictable for cars, you make it safer for everyone.” If it’s predictability you want, Assemblywoman, why don’t we make everyone stop at stop signs just like we make everyone pay for their groceries before they leave the grocery store? “But opponents, including bicycle-safety advocate Pat Hines, say that the stop sign is part of the ‘glue’ that holds together the social contract between cyclists and motorists.” I don’t know about glue and social contracts, but the next time we plan a city, it would be wise to build bike paths entirely separate from city streets so we don’t even need to have these debates. Until then, as long as cars and bikes share the same patch of asphalt, it’s best that both follow the same rules of the road, which should unofficially include kindness, caution and courtesy. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
TRIAL: Shot doesn’t need to be so cold From Page A1 Stage 3, the vaccine is given to thousands of people to further test it for safety and efficacy. The two-year pediatric portion of the Novavax study aims to enroll up to 3,000 adolescents in the U.S., including 100 participants at UC Davis Health. Overall, researchers working on the Novavax vaccine plan to enroll up to 30,000 people at sites in the U.S. and Mexico to participate in the Stage 3 trial. The vaccine testing will be done as a randomized double-blind trial. Some participants will receive the vaccine and others will be given a placebo. Similar to the Pfizer and
Moderna vaccines, the Novavax vaccine is given in two doses. In the case of the Novavax vaccine, the doses are given as an injection in the upper arm 21 days apart. (Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the Novavax vaccine is not yet approved for emergency use in the U.S. It is under review by the Food and Drug Administration.) Should it be shown to be safe and effective, the Novavax vaccine would have an advantage over the Moderna and Pfizer shots when it comes to storage and distribution. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, which use a messenger RNA model, must be stored at subzero temperatures. The Novavax vaccine
uses a more traditional vaccine model and it can be stored at temperatures between 36 and 46 degrees. To enroll in the trial, children must be between the ages of 12 and 17, healthy, not have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past and not be participating in other COVID-19 research trials. Participation in the trial will require visits to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and the consent of the participants’ parent or guardian. “Thousands of children have been hospitalized and hundreds have died due to COVID-19. We need to vaccinate children both to protect them and to decrease transmission,” Blumberg said.
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Outgrown relationship Dear Annie: I’ve been in a relationship with “Stuart” for almost three years now. In that time I’ve grown a lot, working to become healthier physically, mentally and financially. I eat healthily and work hard at my job. I no longer drink alcohol. I want to be the best version of myself. However, Stuart is in a different mindset. He smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and marijuana several times a day and in his free time is glued to Facebook or games. He wakes up daily hacking up the gunk in his lungs. I’m concerned for his health; my dad died when I was 17, and he had similar issues. I’ve brought this up with my boyfriend but he acts like I’m nagging. He seems to have no motivation. He is content as he is, and I don’t feel comfortable forcing him to change. I don’t want to hurt him because he has been wonderful to me during tough times. But I feel we have grown to be very different people. Or maybe just I have changed. How do couples continue if one is evolving and the other is content as is (even if unhealthy)? — Sad in Illinois Dear Sad in Illinois: From your letter, it sounds as though you are emotionally intelligent, with keen self-insight. Because of that, I believe you will recognize the right choice for yourself (and be able to act on it) once you develop just a little more self-confidence. Toward that end, I strongly encourage you to read “Codependent No More” by Melody Beattie and to attend a few meetings of a support group such as Nar-Anon (www.nar-anon.org), LifeRing Recovery (www.lifering.org) or Co-Dependents Anonymous (coda.org). I have a feeling you’ll recognize your story in others’ there, and that solidarity will give you the strength to keep growing,
whether or not that means replanting yourself elsewhere. ——— Dear Annie: I just read your response to “Yuletide Usurper,” who had a falling out with her sister over a fight on Christmas years ago, and I agree with you wholeheartedly. From personal experience, it is worth taking the time to mend fences now before too much time passes. Not too long ago, my younger sister pushed me out of her life. My husband and I had moved about six hours away for his job, and that seemed to deeply upset her. Over the next five years, I called, sent cards to the kids, did whatever I could, but we never reconnected. One night, I was trying to look up my niece online to see if she’d graduated high school. Instead, I found my sister’s obituary. She had died a month earlier of a chronic illness. For years, she’d been sick, and I never knew. She excluded me from her obituary and had no services. I’ve tried calling my brother-in-law, wrote to them, begged my niece or nephew to call me. It’s been three years — nothing. The moral of the story is this: Don’t let another day go by without making up. In retrospect, I should have driven the six hours and made her listen to me. She was only 56 years old, and I always thought we’d reconnect at some point. It never happened. — MM Dear MM: I am so sorry for the loss of your sister and the way things were between you two when she died. Your point is well taken: We should do all we can to mend fences with family members. But for what it’s worth, it
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Ditch cheating boyfriend Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been together for 10 years. Everything was good until three years ago when a woman contacted me to tell me that she’d been seeing him. She apologized to me for it. After we got off the phone, I found her on Facebook and realized that they’d been “liking” each other’s posts for years. She even posted a photo of them together, and someone had commented making a sexual joke about them. They’d both replied and laughed. So, I confronted my boyfriend, and he stopped — or so I thought. Then, six months ago, I found charges on his credit card statement for some local hotel! I confronted him, and he brushed it off, said it hadn’t been him. We have smart security cameras at our front and back door, and ever since I confronted him about the middle-of-the-night hotel charges, he’s disabled my ability to access the camera feeds from my phone. But I can always tell when he’s with her because he won’t answer his phone. (Otherwise, he always answers his phone.) I just hate the thought that the last 10 years were for nothing. — Had It Up to Here Dear HIUTH: Make decisions based on your future, not on your past. You’re caught up in the sunk cost fallacy — continuing your
who had attempted to teach me to use one — my husband, my techie son and others — didn’t “see” things the way I did. However, beyond finding an instructor with dyslexia, my solution is: Get an iPad or other tablet. Anybody can use an app, even small children. Now I’m a wiz and even teach my husband how to do it! And I just pretend that I only use an iPad because it’s a far superior device — ha! — A.F. Dear A.F.: I’m happy to share your practical tip for “In a Quagmire.” If anyone else has suggestions, I’ll print them here, too.
Choosing positivity Dear Annie: Just wanted to say thank you for including the letters from people who really love and appreciate their spouses. Life has been difficult lately for many of us, and reading positive words is uplifting. Dwelling on people’s often-petty complaints makes me feel down while reading inspiring words of love and appreciation makes me feel hopeful. — Keep the Positivity Coming! Dear Keep the Positivity: Thank you for your kind words. Cheers to positivity. The conscious brain can only hold one thought at a time, so choose a positive one whenever you remember. ——— Dear Annie: Please tell “Lost in Love” to get out of that toxic relationship immediately. It’s not worth another minute of her time. She may love him “with every fiber” of her being, but that love is not being returned. Any respectable man would not take money from a relationship to pay his mortgage and give nothing in return. I promise you, she will never regret leaving, only staying one more day. — Been There Dear Been There: Thank you for sharing your advice based on a similar experience.
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current relationship just because you’ve already spent so much time in it and don’t want it to have been a waste. The thing is, it wasn’t really a waste. Consider the good moments you’ve had, even with your boyfriend. Consider the tough, character-building moments, too. It’s all added up to a meaningful period of growth and lessons you can take into the next decade — after leaving this lecher in the last. Which you must do, pronto., ——— Dear Annie: In response to “In a Quagmire,” the gentleman who had difficulty using a computer: Computers confound me to no end. I enjoy my games and texting on my phone. I tweet a bit. But when it comes to any task where I’m expected to have the least amount of computer skills, it’s incredibly frustrating — as frustrating as not being able to get a “real” person on the phone to help me. I graduated high school summa cum laude but that has no influence on my computer skill, and “In A Quagmire” needn’t question his smarts. I just accept it as a place where I need help. Self-professed computer geeks are usually willing to step in and help. And in this day and age, if you have a child, grandchild, niece or nephew, they’re often able to help. — J. Mac Dear J. Mac: I heard lots of sympathetic feedback for “Quagmire,” including the following practical tip for adults who have struggled to get the hang of computers despite years of trying and lessons. Dear Annie: To “In a Quagmire,” his problem might be that he’s being taught by people who are not dyslexic! It takes one to teach one. We come at things differently. I’m about his age and also graduated from college with honors. And I’m dyslexic. I managed to somewhat teach myself to use a computer. The other people
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highlights of the ordinance; to obtain a full understanding of its provisions a reading of the document in its entirety The proposed budget will be available may be necessary. A certified copy of the for review online at www.ysaqmd.org full text of the adopted ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 beginning May 9, 2021. Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ All interested parties are invited to or copies may be obtained at a nominal participate. charge. Date:May 9, 2021 5/9 1291 Administrative Services Manager 1283 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME PUBLIC NOTICE Case Number: CV2021-779 1. Chong In Nah filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY Chong In Nah NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on April 20, to 2021, the City Council of the City of Joseph Chongin Nah Davis, California, introduced, and on May 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons 4, 2021, the City Council unanimously interested in this matter shall appear adopted the following entitled ordinance: before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the ORDINANCE NO. 2601 petition should not be granted. AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THE NOTICE OF HEARING FOUR ORIGINAL DAVIS BICYCLE Date: 7/15/2021 Time: 9:00 a.m. LANES – (THIRD STREET FROM B Dept: #9 Room: N/A STREET TO K STREET; J STREET, FROM THIRD STREET TO EIGHTH The address of the court is STREET; SYCAMORE LANE FROM 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 RUSSELL BOULEVARD TO WEST 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause EIGHTH STREET; AND WEST EIGHTH shall be published at least once a week FROM SYCAMORE TO A STREET), AS for four successive weeks prior to the LANDMARK HISTORICAL RESOURCES date set for hearing on the petition in PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 40.23 OF THE the following newspaper of general DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE circulation, printed in this county: The following description summarizes The Davis Enterprise the aforementioned ordinance adopted 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: 5/5/2021 by the City Council: Daniel M. Wolk The ordinance, pursuant to Section Judge of the Superior Court 40.23.070(c), (f) and (i) of the Davis 1293 Municipal Code, will designate the four 5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30 original Davis bike lanes listed below as Landmark historical resource:
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his past week when I was in my older son D’s room straightening his comforter — because the dog appears to sneak onto his unused-whilehe’s-at-college bed when nobody is home — I remembered a disaster of my own making. Side note about the dog. She is not allowed on our beds, although we let her on the couches. This past spring break, my younger son, T, got up quite late in the morning, surprising the dog, who was lying on my husband’s side of the bed with her head on his pillow! T snapped her photo and texted it to me for proof, with the caption, “Bad dog.” But back to D’s room. When I was there, my eye landed on a souvenir he purchased in Venice, Italy: a little gondola in a bottle. Cue waves of guilt. About four years ago, I’d been waging a minor battle with D and T about where they were leaving dirty dishes. Hint, everywhere. But for some reason, the
place that bugged me the most was the office where both used computers to play video games. They were encroaching on their already-limited desk space with mostly drained glasses of water, crumb-covered plates, ice creamcoated bowls, etc. Obviously, I asked them to pick up said dishes, and then I demanded and even fined them. But it wasn’t motivating enough. I ramped up my offensive by putting the dishes on their keyboards, or on their office chairs as a reminder to put them in the dishwasher right now! And I swear, they would move them back to the desktop, precariously stacked, to attract ants and drive their mother insane. So I took a stack of dirty dishes from D’s desk area, carried them upstairs, and put them
in his bed. I pulled the sheets up over the dishes, and then shook the comforter in a parachuting way to gently cover everything. And I flung it right into the gondola-in-a-bottle from Italy, smashing it to the floor. I nearly started to cry, because D was going to be so upset. He is the type of person who really thinks carefully about what he will allow to become one of his possessions; he is a rare combination of someone who doesn’t like to get rid of things while also not wanting to have an abundance. Example: When D was about 4 years old, I was sorting through his sock drawer, with a plan to get rid of holey ones. When I told him what I was doing, he teared up, saying he needed to keep them “for his precious childhood memories.” So yeah, it was kind of a big deal that the glass gondola was on the floor in pieces. Of course, this souvenir from the glass-blowing island of Murano, Italy, had been laboriously chosen by then-10-year-old D. We looked in so many shops so he could pick just the right
between the gondola-in-a-bottle and this piece of glass with fish swimming around. Now it was detached from its glass base, but thankfully, it was only in two pieces. Before I could even tell D I had done this heinous thing — I was in the process of asking an artist I knew if he could recommend someone who repairs glass; and a huge thanks to Mark Abildgaard in Woodland! — he noticed the glass fish missing from his shelf. Literally, he noticed the day it happened. Busted. Today the two glass items sit on the shelf where they have since 2007 — well, where a version of them has since 2007 — and I steer clear of that area, even as dust and cobwebs infiltrate. Although he has forgiven me — again! — I don’t think D’s precious childhood memories could withstand another incident. — Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.
glass memento. In a panic, I cleaned up the broken glass — and took the dishes out of the bed! — then got on the internet to search for an identical one. My plan was to replace it and not tell D about the mishap until a long time later, so he would have been comfortably living with the new one, not even noticing it was different. But somehow, when the new one arrived, it was about twice the size of the broken one. Maybe I could have fooled a toddler with it, saying it had magically grown overnight, but my young teen would not be duped. When D got home from school that day, I confessed the whole story. I think my guilt and remorse kept him from being too upset with me. He forgave me and said the bigger one was a fine substitute. And I swear this is true. About a year after that incident, I was shaking out D’s comforter over his bed, and I knocked off his other souvenir from Murano — the one we had secretly bought him after he’d anguished
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have my stuff and I have my brother. That’s all I need.” A foster child said these words to his CASA volunteer not long ago … and that CASA volunteer has always advocated for him to be with his brother. Every court date, every opportunity … that CASA volunteer was there talking about the close relationship the brothers shared, and how much stability being with his brother offered her foster child. She repeatedly emphasized to the judge how crucial it was for his wellbeing that a priority be placed on the brothers staying together. While there is always an emphasis on keeping siblings together in foster care whenever possible, it’s not a guarantee. In fact, siblings are often split up whether it be due to shortages in foster parents available, or differences in needs that each child in the sibling pair has. In other words, odds that siblings will stay together are iffy. Social workers and attorneys have big caseloads. If a social worker were a lifeguard, for example, that lifeguard would be watching the water for many children. Enter the CASA volunteer. Now imagine the CASA volunteer is a lifeguard just for their foster child. That child already has a better chance at being heard, at having their needs met, and at feeling more secure about the uncertainty
in their lives. After all, that child now has a lifeguard of his very own … especially during this past year when the pandemic caused so much isolation that the water was hard to see … When you look at it this way, it’s easy to see how the presence of a CASA volunteer improves the odds that a foster child will have her needs met. A CASA volunteer advocates for one foster child over the long term. Through their weekly visits, they get to know what’s most important to the child so that they can help advocate for them in school, court, and life. There is no other relationship in a foster child’s life like a CASA volunteer. Two days ago, you stepped up in a big way on
the Big Day of Giving. Your generous support enables us to continue to grow and to continue to provide these lifeguards to children who greatly benefit from the improved odds that CASA volunteers yield them. From the bottom of my heart, I’d like to say thank you. Thank you for funding the CASA volunteer who kept her foster child with his brother. Thank you for funding the CASA volunteer who brought cupcakes to a child’s class on her birthday for the first time. Thank you for funding the CASA volunteer who was with her foster child through four placements
and five schools. Thank you for funding the CASA volunteer that was with her foster child through his father’s death. Thank you for funding those one-on-one relationships that all children deserve but not all children have. Your generosity makes a vast difference in the lives of children who need it most … children who are happy with “just a few things and their brother”… but are not guaranteed even that. For more information, please visit www.yolocasa. org. — Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.
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OBITUARIES James (Jim) Richard Welch Aug. 28, 1945 — Jan. 19, 2021
James Richard Welch passed away peacefully at home at the age of 75 on Jan. 19, 2021. Jim Welch was born to James “Ted” Edward Welch and Doris “Polly” Evelyn Culbertson on Aug. 28, 1945, in Charleston, S.C. Jim was the middle child of two sisters, Nancy Welch and Wendee Welch Smith. Jim had a great laugh and enjoyed making others laugh, too. He was deeply curious, enjoyed sharing ideas, watching sports, his dachshunds and was passionate about current affairs. He took great pride in maintaining an impeccable yard and beautiful garden. He felt a deep sense of patriotism and morality and was steadfast in his values. Jim was a reputable, outstanding small business owner for over 35 years. But more than anything else, Jim enjoyed spending time with those he loved. He was a great storyteller with a wonderful sense of humor and loved to share fond memories of growing up with his sisters, childhood friends and college roommates, travels and the annual family camping trip. After graduating from Davis High School in 1963, he attended the University of Oregon for two years before transferring to UCLA where he graduated with a degree in psychology in 1967. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, he attended the University of Michigan Ann Arbor where he received a master’s of business administration in 1970. He started two businesses throughout his career. Jim married his highschool sweetheart, Deirdre Elaine Lemert, in 1966 and together they had one son, James Kent Welch. Jim later married Andrea Jeanne Welch, his closest friend and dearest love, in
January 1977 in San Francisco. Together they had one daughter, Rebecca WELCH Anne Welch. They lived, loved and worked side-by-side for more than 35 years as they fulfilled their dream to start and run their own business. They were proud to have bettered their community by providing jobs for many people who started as employees and became friends throughout the years. They were married and loved each other deeply for 44 years. Jim was preceded in death by his father Ted Welch and his sister Nancy Welch. He is survived by his wife Andrea Welch and his two children and their spouses: Kent Welch and Diane Szabo, and Rebecca Welch and Robert Macon. He is also survived by his mother Polly Welch, sister Wendee Smith, brother-in-law Doug Smith, niece Amanda Smith, and three grandchildren Jack Welch, Emelia Macon and Addalyn Macon. The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky. Are also on the faces of people going by. I see friends shaking hands, saying “How do you do?” They’re really saying, “I love you.” I hear babies cry, I watch them grow. They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — By Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
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June 20, 1962— March 30, 2021 The world lost a giant this spring when Peter Nils Brostrom died of a sudden heart attack on March 30. Peter was working on an environmental mitigation project at the Salton Sea when he had a heart attack and died before he reached the hospital. He leaves behind his wife, MaryClaire Robinson, and two daughters, Teaghan and Piper Brostrom, all residents of Sacramento. Peter was born on June 20, 1962, in Cleveland, the oldest of four siblings. His father, the Rev. J. David Brostrom, served as pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church in East Cleveland, Ohio, and his mother, Sharon Brostrom, worked in education. In 1974, when Peter was 12, the family moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where his parents worked as Lutheran missionaries. Despite it being a tumultuous time in Ethiopia — six days after the family arrived, Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown and the country was rocked by violence and revolution — the family loved their four years there. This time, and a subsequent year in Ghana, sparked a lifelong passion and curiosity for Africa in Peter. He traveled extensively, even as a youth, throughout Ethiopia and East Africa; after graduating from college, he returned to Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer doing agricultural extension and research to benefit subsistence farmers in Burkina Faso. And just three years ago, he introduced MaryClaire and the girls to East Africa in an extended vacation. Peter and his family returned to the United States in 1979 and moved to California.
Peter graduated from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, and then attended UC Davis, where he received a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and a master’s degree in soil sciences. He started rowing at Davis, which grew into another lifelong passion for Peter, and he forged some of his closest friendships through the sport. As head coach for the UC Davis Men’s crew in 1988, he guided the team to its first Cal Cup championship at the prestigious San Diego Crew Classic. He continued this love of rowing in coaching and leadership roles at the River City Rowing Club in Sacramento. After graduating and his time in the Peace Corps, Peter returned to the Sacramento Valley to manage an organic farm in Pleasant Grove that grew popcorn, almonds and rice. He also spent time as a research farmer at UC Davis. It was during this time, and through UC Davis friends, that Peter met MaryClaire Robinson, the Aggies’ women’s varsity soccer coach for over 20 years. They married in 2003, and settled in Sacramento. Teaghan was born in 2004 and Piper in 2006. In 2001, Peter began a career as a water resource scientist with the California Department of Water Resources, tackling California’s environmental challenges, particularly in drought resiliency and in urban and agricultural water use efficiency. In 2020, he joined the firm of Formation Environmental, bringing his practical experience working the land and his water resource expertise to bear on a number of important projects throughout California.
Peter’s colleagues admired his innovative yet practical approach to many BROSTROM complex issues. It’s no surprise that many of his colleagues were also lifelong friends. Outside of work, Peter and the family loved Echo Lake, where Peter managed a cabin for his friends (and former crew coach) Morry and Pat Lax. He led many extended family adventures in the Desolation Wilderness, during all seasons, and guided his girls and myriad nieces and nephews, up Ralston Peak to celebrate tenth birthdays. Peter and his family were committed and very involved in the work of their church, St. John’s Lutheran. He took incredible delight in cheering on his girls in their feats as competitive swimmers on the Spare Time Aquatic Sharks swim team, and as students at the Language Academy of Sacramento and St. Francis High School.
Peter was a gentle, loving, hard-working soul, committed to doing what was right and making the world better for those with whom he lived life. He had tremendous curiosity, fueled by voracious reading, which he translated into plans and action. He was generous with his time, energy, and spirit, and we are all greatly enriched for sharing his life with him and seeing his example. Peter was preceded in death by his parents, David (1986) and Sharon (2017). In addition to MaryClaire and his daughters, he is survived by his brother Nathan (Caitlin) of Berkeley, sister Molly (Todd Schafer) of Oakland, sister Natalie (Larz Burney) of Santa Cruz, and 13 nieces and nephews. A celebration of life will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 20, at the Putah Creek Lodge at UC Davis (RSVP requested at celebration forpeter.rsvpify.com). Gifts in Peter’s honor may be made to the Teaghan and Piper Brostrom Education Fund (www.gofundme. com/f/teaghan-and-piperbrostrom-educationfund).
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NorCal Boxer Rescue helps keep old dogs in good homes Special to The Enterprise When her family adopted senior dog Xena from the Davis-based NorCal Boxer Rescue, she came with up to $1,000 of post-adoption support for reimbursable veterinary care during her first year in her new home. Last year, thanks to a grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization, NorCal Boxer Rescue was able to provide the same safety net to 10 families. NorCal Boxer Rescue was recently selected to receive an additional $12,000 grant from The Grey Muzzle Organization to launch an innovative program to help keep senior dogs out of shelters and in good homes where they will be loved for the rest of their lives. “We’re looking forward to building on our existing services to help more families in our community give a senior boxer the second chance they all deserve,” said Karen Heald, executive director of NorCal Boxer Rescue. “We know that many people have a soft spot for frosted faces but that the cost of caring for a senior boxer may give them pause when it comes to adopting one. We hope this support will provide the peace of mind needed to open your heart and home to a beautiful old soul.” According to Heald, the new grant will focus on
helping people who are considering surrendering their senior boxer or adopting one from a shelter, including the Yolo County Animal Shelter. In addition to NorCal Boxer Rescue, One Tail at a Time in Chicago and the Asheville Humane Society in North Carolina also received Grey Muzzle grants to pilot programs that help senior dogs and the people who love them stay together. “These grants are part of Grey Muzzle’s year-long Learning Partnership focused on testing innovative strategies to better address the needs of senior
dogs and build on the findings of our Saving Senior Dogs national study,” said Lisa Lunghofer, executive director of The Grey Muzzle Organization. “We look forward to sharing progress and challenges with the goal of developing and replicating successful model programs to ensure senior dogs stay out of shelters and in loving homes.” The national nonprofit The Grey Muzzle Organization improves the lives of at-risk senior dogs by providing funding and resources to animal shelters, rescue organizations, sanctuaries, and other
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Senior boxer Xena was adopted by a Sacramento family. Thanks to a Grey Muzzle grant, Xena came with up to $1,000 in reimbursable veterinary care during his first year in her new home.
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MPR: Like a school’s town square WASTEWATER: Data, results are limited From Page A1 also received $3.4 million more proceeds than initially expected from Measure M, and the district is saving money by using essentially the same design for all the elementary school MPRs. “The thing that I think we’re really proud of is that we’re really I think being good stewards of the money, we’re going to get the most bang for our buck really making smart financial decisions on the taxpayer’s behalf,” Best said. “And so we hope whenever that time comes again that there’s an ask for a bond, (Davis residents are) going to see beautiful buildings being used all the time and remember how we saved the taxpayers a lot of money.” When compared to the current MPRs, the most prominent change coming with the new MPRs is space, Best said. School board president Joe DiNunzio said the current MPRs on the four elementary school campuses have been undersized for quite some time. Each new building will be able to accommodate all students from their schools in an assembly setting, and can hold up to 650 students overall, Best said. “When we went through the programming with our principals, that was their number one priority: ‘Please give us a space big enough to accommodate our entire student body in one place at one
time,’ ” Burke said. DiNunzio, who attended the MPR groundbreaking ceremonies, said the new MPRs are designed to serve their purpose for the next several decades. None of the old elementary school MPRs are being demolished, DiNunzio said, and they’ll be repurposed for other uses. Best said the new MPRs will be outfitted with a stage — audio and lighting equipment included — so the schools will be able to hold dramatic plays, concerts, movie nights and other productions. There will also be a classroom attached to the MPRs, Best said, that will primarily be for music classes. Burke added that the MPRs will be equipped with dedicated musical instrument storage areas so the classroom can be used for other activities without the instruments getting in the way. Best added that for many Davis schools built in the 1950s and 1960s, there’s no real center to the campus. The old current MPRs, he said, were designed for schools that had around 300 students, and often assemblies have needed to be split up because not every student at the school would be able to fit. “There’s a missing piece to many of our schools to have a sort of communal culture where the whole school can be together to celebrate, to watch performances, to do
awards, to do promotions,” Best said. “All those things can’t be done at one location in most of our schools.” The new MPRs also represent an asset to the community in several ways, Best said. In terms of space in Davis, there are few areas able to hold hundreds of people, and many of the spaces that have the capacity to hold a lot of people are located on the UC Davis campus. Best compared the situation with the new elementary school MPRs to the All Student Center — essentially the MPR on the Davis Senior High School Campus. Best said the All Student Center has seen a ton of use since it opened in 2018. With the old Davis High School MPR, he said, there were usually only about 40 or 50 students sticking around at lunch, and everyone else left because the place wasn’t built to foster community. “It’s the equivalent of a small-town central square,” Burke said. “And our schools don’t have that now. It’ll give them that feel.”
From Page A1 what the wastewater is telling us,” said Dr. Brad Pollock, chair of the public health sciences department at the UC Davis Medical School. When wastewater sampling is done building by building, the results can be very informative. For example, Pollock told the City Council last week, when students moved into dorms at the University of Arizona last fall, all were screened for COVID-19 beforehand. “Well, they did the wastewater monitoring on the dorm buildings themselves and one of the buildings lit up. They had a signal there. They went in and they tested all of the students living in that dorm and sure enough, there were two asymptomatic cases that were not caught. “So that’s one extreme, where you have a building you’re monitoring,” said Pollock. The other extreme is monitoring a water treatment plant. “Well, Davis has one treatment plant. If you see a signal there, it means
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somebody in Davis, at least one person in Davis, had the virus,” he said. “That’s not very informative.” What Healthy Davis Together is doing locally falls somewhere in between — collecting sewage samples from various locations within the city’s system in order to monitor neighborhoods. “And we do see variation,” said Pollock. “Things flip up and down and so on. Do we know what causes that? Well, you have to have COVID for that to happen. But we don’t know whether that’s just one person shedding a lot of virus on a certain day or it’s a few people who are shedding less virus.” And just as HDT’s pioneering work on asymptomatic testing and wastewater monitoring will likely contribute to a wealth of scientific knowledge down the line — not to mention a whole lot of published research — so, too, may its other form of
environmental monitoring, air filter sampling. However, checking air filters for the virus in elementary school classrooms — as Healthy Davis Together has been doing — has its limits if the whole community isn’t participating. “It’s an imperfect research project because we don’t have 100 percent of subsequent testing to follow up with,” said Ken Burtis, chief executive officer of Healthy Davis Together. “The only way we’ll know if the air filter is a reliable sentinel is if we can go through and do 100percent testing afterwards and prove that every time we have a positive air filter, we found a positive student.” That said, “it’s worth doing,” Burtis added. However, he said, “individual testing cannot be replaced yet with anything remotely like the air filters or even the wastewater yet.”
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UC Davis women’s basketball coach Jennifer Gross isn’t going anywhere ... After leading the Aggies to five consecutive Big West Conference regular season titles, a pair of conference tournament crowns, and five postseason appearances, Gross has signed a contract extension that could keep her on the UCD sidelines for the next decade. The five-year deal runs through the 2025-26 season and includes five years of additional automatic renewals beginning in 2026-27 that would keep Gross at her alma mater through the 2030-31 campaign, marking the longest contract ever given to a Davis head coach in the history of the department.
UCD did not disclose the financial terms of the signing package. “I’m thrilled to have coach Gross at the helm of our women’s basketball program for many years to come,” UCD Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca said in a prepared statement Friday. “Her commitment to her student-athletes, her coaching staff, and UC Davis is a tremendous asset to our department, and I look forward to watching our program continue to thrive in the years to come. “Coach Gross embodies what it means to be a great leader and has truly built an Aggie family that extends beyond a studentathlete’s time at UC Davis, forging a foundation that sets these young women up for success in their professional pursuits.” Added Gross: “I would like to thank Chancellor Gary May, Athletics Director Rocko DeLuca, and Associate Athletics Director
Trying very hard to keep my press-box cheering in check
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he first rule of sports journalism is there is no cheering in the press box. That was an easy rule when I first started covering high-school sports for the major metro across the Causeway. I knew the coaches and top players on my beat, but rarely covered the same school twice. Relationships were all business.
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UC Davis women’s basketball head coach Jennifer Gross shakes hands with legendary Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma prior to a 2014 game at The Pavilion. Maggie Fenton, for their continued support of our women’s basketball program. I’m fortunate to have the most incredible coaching staff that has invested so much over the years to make this an amazing place for our student-athletes.
“Our goal is to provide a unique and fun experience where we help our players grow into confident leaders, maximize their capacity on the court, compete for championships, and make
Sure I had coaches that I liked more than others — mainly because they returned phone calls in a timely manner — but the only cheering I did was for quick games that ended in regulation. For two years, I was able to follow that cardinal rule. And then in 1994 I was hired by The Davis Enterprise and the rule went out the window — or at least took a seat on the sill. Covering one team for an entire season year after year allowed me to build a relationship of trust with the student-athletes. I saw them on their best days, cutting down championship nets, and on their worst days, burying their tear-streak faces in towels. It was
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Blue Devils are armed to the teeth BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG Enterprise staff writer Before the pandemic hit last year there was a quiet hum of excitement about the Davis High pitching staff under new head coach Ethan Guevin — at least in Blue Devil baseball circles. The newly refurbished coaching corps was supposed to usher in a new era for DHS baseball — one that focused on arm health and mechanics to an obsessive degree and urged pitchers to reach their maximum potenDHS baseball tial. It was takes three going to be from Sheldon. a miniFor game story, revolution, see Page B3. akin to the large-scale one that has major-league hurlers touching the upper 90s with ease and striking out batters at a historic pace. But then the Davis High season grounded to a halt, along with every other sport in the world. This season, the Devil arms are making up for lost time. Davis is off to a 14-5 start. And despite the locals’ 4-5 Delta League record and fifth-place spot, DHS pitchers lead the conference in earned run average. Their minuscule mark of 2.02 is also ninth in the crowded SacJoaquin Section.
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Blue Devil pitchers, from left, Cy Larson, Joby Antony and Griffin Szymoniak practice throwing in the bullpen. And they are striking out batters at a major-league level clip: 135 Ks in 132 innings, good for a rate of 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings. “Our starting pitching has been phenomenal,” Guevin said recently. “I don’t think there’s been a (time) where we haven’t been in the game because of our pitching. “I think we kind of have videogame numbers.”
Blue-and-White hurlers are not just getting more outs, they’re also going deeper into outings — the Devils have nine starts of five-plus innings. Senior Luke Carrell owns five of those and leads the starting rotation. In his fourth year on varsity — and headed for UC Davis to join his brother Zach next year — Carrell has thrown a team-high 33 innings to go with 32 strikeouts and a slick 1.26 ERA.
“In high school there’s a lot of pitchers where they’ll beat themselves, and that’s not Luke,” Guevin explained. “He’s gonna force a team to do it because he’s gonna throw the ball in the strike zone with multiple pitches and keep teams off balance. “But as a kid, he’s the type of guy you want,” the coach added. “ ’Cause he’s a leader. He leads by example, and he’s always working to get better.”
Also in tow is senior Rockwell Lybbert, committed to play at Brigham Young University next fall. The 6-foot-4, 185 pound future Cougar has chalked up 24 innings, 29 Ks, and sports a 1.17 ERA. Jack Wright epitomizes the Devils’ depth this season. Wright owns a 0.88 ERA, yet could be characterized as Davis’ third starter (behind Carrell and Lybbert), though high-school baseball rarely designates roles so specifically. Last week, the senior went eight innings and allowed just one earned run against Pleasant Grove while striking out seven. “A lot of high school rosters don’t even have 20 guys,” Guevin said. “But we have legitimately 20 guys that we feel good when they step on the mound that we can throw strikes and compete.” Guevin is not joking. The Devils have had 20 different pitchers grace the bump this year; eight of whom have thrown five-plus innings. Senior Dante Romero (1.17 ERA), Brian Chin (1.45), Zach Altorfer (3.32), Joey Traverso (2.47) and Matt Young (5.40) give the Devils all kinds of looks to throw at opponents. The Davis pitching staff has not been this deep in years — maybe ever. It’s a credit to the new methods implemented by this DHS coaching staff — plyocare, band routines, Driveline techniques —
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UCD first to endow both water polo coaches BY MARK HONBO From left, the parents of two UC Davis water polo alumni, Linda Olson and David Hodgens, and former Director of Athletics Kevin Blue, break ground on the Team Center at Schaal Aquatic Center in 2019. The two have now provided the financial support to endow UCD’s women’s water polo head coaching position. MARK HONBO, UC DAVIS ATHLETICS/ COURTESY FILE PHOTO
Special to The Enterprise Thanks to the generosity of the family of two former Aggie student-athletes, the UC Davis women’s water polo head coaching position has been endowed and renamed as the Coach Jamey Wright and Hodgens Family Director of Women’s Water Polo, the intercollegiate athletics department announced Friday morning. This marks the second time an Aggie head coaching post has been endowed, joining the Child and Meisel Families Director of Men’s Water Polo in 2017. UCD is the only public university to have both water polo coaching positions endowed. The new title is named in honor of the current Aggie head coach, who completed his 38th overall season at the helm this spring; and the family of Tiffany and Brian Hodgens, who played for the Davis
“The status that this brings to our department will have a profound, positive ripple effect.” Jamey Wright UCD water polo coach women’s and men’s teams during the early 2000s. Their parents, David Hodgens and Linda Olson, provided the financial support to endow the position. “We are overwhelmed with gratitude for the support that David and Linda are providing with this gift,” said UCD Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca. “Thanks to this head coaching endowment, our women’s water polo program is well positioned
to to continue its leadership in our conference as we strive to compete nationally. “In addition, their desire to honor the incredible tenure and impact that Jamey Wright has had here at UC Davis makes it that much more significant. I could not think of a better tribute to Jamey’s positive influence with the hundreds of student-athletes who have participated on his teams over the last 30-plus years.” Wright, a USA Water Polo Hall of Fame enshrinee for his pioneering work in growing girls’ and women’s water polo, has served as the Aggies’ head coach since its early club days. Still a student with the university’s King Hall School of Law, he took over the helm in 1982 and coached the club while working as a full-time attorney. When women’s water polo was elevated to varsity status
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NE GREAT DECISION ... The first bold move of the Rocko DeLuca era at UC Davis came when the newly minted director of athletics signed women’s basketball coach Jennifer Gross to a 10-year deal that ensures Aggie excellence for the next decade. Yes, 10 years. A regular fiveyear contract followed by a fiveyear option that tells this outstanding coach and human being exactly how much her alma mater treasures her. It’s no secret in the world of Division I women’s basketball that Gross is a hot commodity after five straight Big West Conference championships and numerous postseason appearances. Her name was at or near the top of a number of lists around the country. Instead, she chose to stay at a school she loves and to live in a community she and her family cherish. But make no mistake, this
contract is not about all those championships and her remarkable win-loss record against rugged competition. No, this is about citizenship, sportsmanship and scholarship, lifelong qualities that Gross instills in her players and for which UC Davis is the acknowledged leader nationwide. Trust me, Aggie fans, the best is yet to come. SPRING BALL ... I don’t know about you, but it’s been fun watching the FCS spring football playoffs that will culminate in an asterisk-laden “national championship” next Sunday in Frisco, Texas. Yes, it was a short season for many schools, and many others chose not to participate this spring at all, but the two teams remaining — South Dakota State and Sam Houston State — are capable of putting on quite a show. Whether either team will have
any juice left in the tank when the 11-game fall campaign kicks off in a few short months remains to be seen. And thanks to the good folks at ESPN and ABC for giving the FCS the kind of national exposure it rarely enjoys. SPEAKING OF NEXT FALL ... In addition to a full eightgame slate of Big Sky Conference games, the UC Davis football schedule this fall includes nonconference games at FBS Tulsa and FCS University of San Diego, and home against FCS Dixie State of Utah. It would be great if somewhere
down the line the Aggies could again set up a home-and-home with some of the powers of the Missouri Valley Conference such as South Dakota State, North Dakota State, North Dakota and Northern Iowa. They’ve played all of those schools before, including North Dakota and North Dakota State two weeks apart during the 2019 season, both on the road. THE READERS ALWAYS WRITE ... Last Sunday in this space I discussed the great sport of golf, specifically the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. My point, basically, was that watching professional golf on television is about as exciting as watching tomatoes ripen in your garden. Among my suggestions to make the professional game more interesting was to ban caddies. “Golf is the only sport where players are allowed to bring along a hired hand to do
the heavy lifting and give them advice,” I wrote. Well, a kind chap named Greg took exception to my wellchosen words and fired a guided missive my way. “Being an avid golfer and, at 77 years of age, enjoying the slow pace of golf, I did not enjoy your column.” I appreciate the kind words, Greg, but I wasn’t talking about you, unless you are a 77-year-old golfer on the PGA tour. I mean, I’ll bet you never had a caddie carry your clubs for you even once in your life. And I’ll bet if you spent 10 minutes lining up a putt, the course monitor would tell you to “move along.” As for “stocking water hazards with alligators, sand traps with scorpions and the trees lining the fairway with buzzards that feast on slow-moving mammals,” I stick by my words. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
GROSS: 5-time Big West Coach of the Year ORENDOR: A great job From Page B1 lasting friendships and memories. UC Davis is such a special community, and I am thrilled to continue doing what I love at such an awesome university.” Recently wrapping up her 10th season at the helm, the five-time Big West Coach of the Year — and finalist for the 2018 United States Marine Corps/WBCA National Coach of the Year award — has guided the Aggies to a 186-113 (.622) overall record and a 107-49 (.686) mark in Big West play during her tenure, boasting the highest winning percentage among all active league coaches. Heading up the longest-tenured coaching staff in Division I women’s basketball along with associate head coaches Joe Teramoto and Des Abeyta, and assistant coach Matt Klemin, her 186 victories ranks third in school history and fifth on the league’s all-time list, while her 107 conference wins are seventh in the Big West annals. Just in the last five years alone, the Aggies are a combined 108-37 (.745) overall and 64-10 (.865) in Big West play, with the next closest schools in terms of wins being Long Beach State and CSUN at 65 victories overall and the Beach at 42 league wins. Meanwhile, the five straight regular-season titles make Davis one of only four active schools to have won at least that many along with UConn (seven in the American Athletic Conference, one in the BIG EAST), Baylor (11 in the Big 12) and
Gonzaga (five in the West Coast Conference). Under Gross, the Aggies have notched six wins over “Power Five” teams, including five over Pacific-12 Conference opponents, while her five postseason wins in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament are the most of any school in the history of the Big West. UCD’s dynastic run continued in 2020-21, through the COVID-19 pandemic and a two-month lay-off from competition as the Ags claimed a fifth consecutive Big West regular season title — the program’s sixth overall — en route to its second consecutive tournament title and subsequent NCAA Tournament berth. Led by Big West Player of the Year and tournament Most Valuable Player Cierra Hall, Big West Defensive Player of the Year Sage Stobbart and All-Conference honorees Mackenzie Trpcic and Kayla Konrad, Davis finished the not-so-ordinary 202021 season with a 13-3 overall record and a 9-1 mark in conference play. The Aggies were then seeded No. 12 in the postseason — the highestever NCAA Tournament seed in the program’s Division I history and the highest for a Big West school since 2004 — facing off against No. 5-seeded Missouri State in the opening round in San Antonio. It marked the program’s eighth postseason appearance in 14 years as a Division I program. During her tenure, Gross has coached a total of 12 All-Big West first team selections, eight second
team honorees, and seven honorable mention choices, as well as 10 Big West all-tournament selections, seven Big West All-Freshman Team members, and four Big West AllDefensive Team honorees. In 2019, Big West Player of the Year Morgan Bertsch became the first Davis player to be drafted into the WNBA (selected by the Dallas Wings in the third round with the 29th overall pick) after setting the school’s scoring record and finishing her career ranked third all-time in the history of the BWC with 2,422 career points. She is one of a number of Gross’ proteges who have gone on to professional careers overseas including: Pele Gianotti (Germany and Luxembourg), Katie Toole (Spain), Nina Bessolo (Greece), Sophia Song (Great Britain), Sydnee Fipps (Portugal and Australia), Alyson Doherty (Germany), Celia Marfone (Germany), Kelsey Harris (Germany), and Brianna Salvatore (Switzerland). Off the court, and in the classroom, the Aggies have shined. Dani Nafekh was honored as the winner of the university’s W.P. Lindley Award as the outstanding scholar-athlete of the year, as well as being named the school’s Big West Female ScholarAthlete of the Year, in 2017, and a CoSIDA Academic All-District second team honoree in 2018. Gross’ student-athletes have gone on to earn a total of 48 Big West AllAcademic Team citations. Her and her husband Joe live in Davis with their son, Joshua, and daughter, Amelia.
From Page B1 hard not to develop a personal connection. My first major beat at UC Davis was the women’s basketball team. I spent countless hours watching the Aggies dominate teams in the Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association. Under the watchful eye of head coach Jorja Hoehn, the Aggies crushed teams with their stifling “Jaws” defense. And the player leading the assault— Jennifer Gross. It was so fun to watch her play. At the time, most conference point guards were about 5-foot-4, and Gross towered over them. She made passes that for most would have been turnovers turn into assists. Her court IQ was off the charts, and she was also a great interview. Watching her lead the Aggies to the Elite 8 — with an eventual third-place finish — was amazing. I cheered for her and the Aggies quietly in my mind and an occasional fist pump under the pressbox desk. She graduated, like UCD student-athletes are prone to do, and moved on to other endeavors. A few year later, I, too, moved on to explore other areas of life.
I returned to The Enterprise in 2011 and was able to pick up my old beat to find myself interviewing first-year UCD head coach Jennifer Gross. I was happy that she remembered me and that all the trust we’d built years before was still in place. Seeing her on the bench training up the next generation of Aggies seemed perfectly natural and how the sports gods intended things to be. She not only maintained the ideals of Aggie Pride but also pushed the program forward into a Big West Conference powerhouse. On Friday — in my living room — I was able to cheer out loud as I read “Gross inks deal to remain at Aggie helm” on the UCD website. This five-year deal with five oneyear extensions could see Gross leading the women’s squad to 10 more BWC titles and NCAA Tournament appearances. As a journalist, I look forward to telling the stories that come from the next decade of Aggie basketball, while I keep my inner fan in check, kinda. — Kim Orendor is an associate sports editor for The Davis Enterprise. Reach her at kim.orendor@mcnaught on.media. Follow her on Twitter at @KOrendor.
Summer signups for a variety of camps are now open Speical to The Enterprise Davis Tennis Academy is accepting registration for summer junior tennis camps. The weeklong camps are from 9 a.m. to noon and held at the Davis High Tennis Complex. For information, go to www.davistennisacademy. com or call coach Dale Hersch at 530-220-2728.
FC Davis/AYSO United FC Davis and AYSO United Davis have teamed up to offer a summer camp at Nugget Field the week of June 28 to July 2 from 9 to 11 a.m. for athletes ages 6 to 13. Players from FC Davis men’s and women’s teams will run sessions and special guest coaches will connect with campers throughout the week.
LOCAL ROUNDUP To sign up or for more information visit: footballclubdavis.com// summer-camp. Davis AYSO will begin registering for fall 2021 soccer on June 1 with registration closing July 1.
Swimming DART Swimming offers summer swim options for children ages 4 through teens. Two sessions are available: June 14 to July 9, and July 12 to Aug. 6. Summerdarts (ages 6 to teens) offers an introduction to competitive swimming for new, novice and intermediate swimmers in a low-key and fun approach. Practices lasting 45 minutes are offered three days per week at Community Pool in
morning and afternoon sessions. Minidarts (ages 4 to 7) introduces younger swimmers to competitive swimming with fun 30-minute sessions two days per week at Community Pool in the morning and afternoon. Optional Saturday morning swim meets are also offered. For information and to register, visit www.aquadarts. org or email davissummerdarts@ gmail.com.
Youth Lacrosse The Davis Youth Lacrosse Association put together a successful spring season and despite COVID saw a record-high number of players register to play lacrosse, many for the very first time. DLA was able to field U10, U12 and U14 teams for both boys and girls. The
DLA spring season wraps up in May, with plans for a Summer Camp to be held in August. Visit the Davis Lacrosse website (davis lax.org) for updates or to join the DLA mailing list.
Stonegate Tennis Tennis camps for kids at Stonegate Country Club will begin June 14, Monday through Friday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Full day options are also available. Email coach Zack Juhre at camps@stone gatecc.com or call 509-638-7563 for information.
Transatlantic Soccer Transatlantic Soccer will be offering weeklong camps at Nugget Field during five different
weeks over the summer; starting June 14, June 21, July 19, Aug. 2 and Aug. 9. Camps will be held in the morning from 9 to 11 a.m. These camps are about improving players’ technical ability and knowledge of the game. Campers will work on positioning, decisionmaking and more. For information, visit transatlanticsoccer.com.
Baseball clinic Yolo Post 77 will host a free baseball clinic on Sunday, May 16, and Tuesday, May 23, at 5 p.m. at Clark Field in Woodland. The clinic is open to boys born on or after Jan. 1, 2002. For more information, call head coach Dave Ryan at 916-247-2426 or manager Frank Eakle at 530-8676641.
ENDOW: Olson and Hodgens also donated to build Schaal Center From Page B1 for the 1996-97 school year, Wright retired from law and became the program’s fulltime head coach. Between the club and varsity programs, Wright has coached dozens of AllAmericans, including Tiffany Hodgens, who scored 355 goals and won five total All-America awards during her career from 2000-04. She entered the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. Brian Hodgens followed his sister to Davis, playing for the Aggie men from 2002-04.
Wright said he is “humbled beyond words” by not only the endowment donation, but that his name was included in the position’s title. However, that was a major source of the motivation for Olson and Hodgens in making their gift, according to their donor statement: “The name ‘Coach Jamey Wright’ conjures for us warm feelings for someone who provided patient guidance to our daughter in addition to hundreds of young women and to thousands of UC Davis students. It is out of gratitude for those that we make this gift.”
Furthermore, Wright says the donation from Olson and Hodgens will raise the profile of the athletics department and the university, as endowed coaching positions remain rarities — particularly at public schools. “This builds stability upon which you can continue for decades without the extra worry about how to fund the position or sport,” said Wright. “The status that this brings to our department will have a profound, positive ripple effect. It’s obviously great for our team, but it’s great for our department
vis-à-vis the rest of the university, and for our university vis-à-vis other universities. I don’t think we can even measure how far the ripple will go.” Olson and Hodgens were previously two of the lead donors for the team center at Schaal, which opened its doors two years ago. More recently, Olson penned “Gone: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life,” a memoir of her experience of coming back from a harrowing accident in which she lost her right arm and both of her legs to a successful life as a
mother, wife and radiologist. “Gone” also includes contributions from David, Brian and Tiffany, making it a true family project. The endowment announcement comes on the heels of another honor for Wright, who was bestowed with the UCD Foundation Faculty and Staff Stewardship award. This honor recognizes those who demonstrate excellent results in engaging with and acknowledging supporters, even though they may not serve as development officials for the campus. The Office of Development and
Alumni Relations and the UCD Foundation Board Stewardship Committee selects a winner in each of the areas of lifetime achievement, faculty stewardship and staff stewardship. Wright was honored for his work on Schaal Aquatics Center and that facility’s Aquatics Team Center. He is the first member of the athletics department to earn one of DEVAR’s Faculty and Staff awards. The Aggie women finished 11-8 overall in 2021, climbing as high as No. 9 in the national coaches’ poll.
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4 Blue Devils named NFF Scholar-Athletes F our Davis High football players were named last night as 2020 National Football Foundation ScholarAthletes at the annual NFF banquet: Zach Brooks, Luke Carrell, Xavier Chambers and Patton Miller. The honorees also included UC Davis’ Jared Harrell. FOX 40 sports director Jim Crandell hosted the affair, as he has for moer than a decade. ■ It only took 52 years for an Orioles pitcher not named Jim Palmer to pitch an individual no-hitter. Left-hander John Means this past Wednesday retired all 27 Seattle Mariners he faced; he would have had a perfect game but for a third inning, third-strike wild pitch. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Means is the first pitcher to throw a nonperfect no-hitter with no walks, hit batters or errors. Palmer is quite a story in his own right. He’s been employed by the O’s from 1965 to today as a Hall of Fame pitcher, then as a
broadcaster — a career he began as he wound down his days on the mound. Notable: Over 575 appearances, including 17 in the postseason, Palmer never gave up a grand slam, nor did he allow back-to-back homers. For his career, Palmer won 268 games, his first at age 19, the last at age 38. Tip o’ the cap to longtime O’s fan and column co-conspirator Chris Pika. ■ Former Aggie punter Colton Schmidt continues in his quest to return to the NFL. Schmidt is playing for the Jousters in The Spring League. TSL’s website describes it as an eight-team “elite professional development league.” Its season lasts six weeks, plus playoffs and games are televised on FOX and FS1. Schmidt’s team is in action today at noon on FOX. Schmidt played in 67 games for Buffalo between 2014-18 and has tried out since then with several teams. ■ There are no longer any living members of the Boston
Braves. Del Crandall played a year with the Giants (1964) in addition to Boston/Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. He was a Brave for 13 seasons and later managed the Brewers and Mariners. Crandall, who had Parkinson’s disease, was 91. ■ The Seattle Mariners are batting .201 as a team. Former Giant Chili Davis, a highly respected hitting coach, is suddenly on the market, cut adrift by the Mets. So why not bring Davis to the Pacific Northwest? ■ The stalemate between Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers continues. Green Bay is a conservative community, and Rodgers’ often blunt
comments have been off-putting to some locals. The communityowned franchise has done itself no favors, either, with its “Players play, coaches coach, GMs are GMs” philosophy that’s been outdated for decades. Times have changed. Rodgers does not want to be GM. Would you, when you have megazillions in your bank account? What he does want is input into the drafting/decision-making process concerning the roster. Few players do enough in their careers to merit this. Rodgers is one of them. Let him have meaningful input. The objective for each side is the same: a Super Bowl championship while the team’s QB is still playing at a high level. Green Bay is a small enough town that everyone knows everyone else’s business, and there are no secrets. (Full disclosure: I’ve been there frequently over the years). The breach can be fixed. So do so. Soon. ■ The quick-witted Groucho
DHS baseball sweeps Sheldon Szymoniak’s smack leads Devils to win
the fifth and Guevin tapped Dante Romero, his go-to, get-out-of-a-jam guy. Romero got a ground ball to first baseman Saul Israel and covered first to escape the inning. BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG “He’s got a little bit of ice water in Enterprise staff writer his veins out there,” Guevin said of Blue Devil baseball is heating up at Romero. “He just comes out, does his just the right time. thing, and he enjoys doing it. And we Davis High (14-5 overall, 4-5 enjoy watching it — he did a great job league) completed the sweep of Shel- out there.” don with Saturday’s 6-3 comeback In the sixth, Israel led off and laced win at home and is set to a single to right and went to face Jesuit (9-8, 6-6) in a second on an error. Then four-game series starting Rockwell Lybbert ripped a Tuesday. ball through the five-six hole The Devils trailed early, to tie the game. Luke Profaci but came back to tie the con- Next game: (in as a pinch runner for test in the bottom of the Tuesday vs. Israel) beat the throw home, sixth. Griffin Szymoniak Jesuit, 4 p.m. but swallowed most of the smacked a two-run triple right-handed batters box in over the right fielder’s head an aggressive head-first to put Davis ahead for good. slide. “It’s great to get the sweep, we After Grafton Shorts reached on an haven’t done that yet this year so error, Szymoniak ripped his pinch-hit that’s really nice,” said skipper Ethan triple and scored on a ground ball by Guevin. Brian Chin. The Devils kicked the ball around “That was awesome to see, he’s in the first — committing four errors been working hard and he was — and trailed 3-1 after two frames. rewarded for his efforts,” Guevin said But DHS shaved off a run when fresh- of Szymoniak’s piece. man Gizaw Baker doubled to open “I think this game showed the best the third and scored on a Husky error. and the worst of us,” Guevin said. “We The DHS bullpen showed out yet gave ’em seven outs in the first inning again, as Matt Young entered to pitch and for the first couple innings we three-plus shutout innings. Sheldon weren’t really crisp on defense. I put two runners on with two outs in thought our pitchers did a great job of
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Marx is among the funniest people ever. For 11 long-ago years, he hosted a quiz/interview show “You Bet Your Life” on NBC. You can find it on YouTube. In one episode, Groucho chats up a young woman, who is single. “It says here that you’re not married,” Marx says. “Why is that?” The lady replies, “I’m waiting for Mr. Right.” Groucho: “Wilbur or Orville?” ■ Four guitar players I’d liked to have seen on the same stage: Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Ronnie Van Zant. ■ Happy 90th, Willie Mays! Best all-around ballplayer ever. May you live forever.
— The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Reach him at DKelly1416@aol.com.
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just pounding the zone. Our defense let us down early and then we kind of flipped the switch there in the fourth. Again our pitching kept us in it.”
From Page B1 and to the institutional knowledge of the coaches who predate Guevin. “With coach (Marc) Kenner as the pitching coach — he’s been here forever — pitchers are always prepared,” Guevin said. “They know how to have success.” Lybbert has seen the shift in Devil pitching philosophy from his sophomore season to now. The results are evident — Lybbert says he, Wright, and Carrell now regularly touch the high 80s with their fastballs. And Lybbert knows the gospel of Kenner as well. “He just knows so much about the strategy, pitching-wise,” Lybbert said. “He has a great baseball IQ when it comes to pitching and also the whole game — defensive positioning, offense. But especially with pitching it’s been super helpful to have a great baseball mind out there with us.” If the Devils are going to climb back into Delta League contention, it will be behind their pitching. And the next two weeks will be a test, with eight games scheduled against conference powerhouses Jesuit and Elk Grove. Those teams will have their work cut out for them. Carrell can give them fits. Wright can overpower them. Lybbert will have them falling over. And don’t forget the other 17 guys. —Reach Enterprise staff writer Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail.com. Follow him via Twitter at @levgoldenberg.
Baker made a couple nice catches in right field and went 3-for-4 to up his batting average to a team-high .483. Davis hosts Jesuit at 4 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and heads to Carmichael for a double-header on Saturday. The Devils sit in fifth place Grafton Shorts in the Delta League, two games behind fourth-place Jesuit. Notes: Of Baker, Guevin said: “The moment hasn’t been too big (for him). He does an excellent job of controlling what he can control, you know. He knows himself as a hitter, he doesn’t try to do too much, and then he can situationally hit. I was beginning to think he was a machine until that last at bat (a strikeout) there.” ... Jack Wright, who Lybbert said touched 90 mph last week, closed out the seventh for Davis with a scoreless frame.
Devils seek football coach; harriers win distance relay Enterprise staff Following veteran head coach Steve Smyte’s retirement announcement earlier this spring, Davis High is seeking a replacement for the pigskin mentor. Smyte, who coached the Devils in a pair of stints over eight seasons, told The Enterprise he might have retired after the Blue Devils went 10-2 and won a 2019 Delta League title and playoff game, but when the pandemic hit last spring, “I didn’t want to leave the guys then.” The school is now accepting applications for the varsity coaching position, which comes with a $4500 annual stipend. The job posting is available via edjoin.org. DHS athletic director Jeff Lorenson says the Devils hope to have the position filled several weeks prior to the start of summer conditioning workouts.
Track and field Racing at one of the most prestigious high-school track events in the nation on Friday, Devil harrier Ansel Tucker’s 9:18.01 effort in the 3,200 was good for a personal best and 10th place at the Arcadia Invitational. But the highlight of Tucker’s weekend came in the 4,000 distance medley relay as he banded together with teammates Ryan Mitchell, Connor Cougevan and Zach Ayers to win the event in 10:29.37 — nearly a second ahead of second-place Rancho Cucamonga. Shay Hawkes and Ray Oldham also competed in the high jump, though neither placed. Also running was Diego Perez, who clocked in at 1:55.15 in the 800, finishing ninth overall. Davis hosts Cosumnes Oaks at Brown Stadium on Wednesday.
DHS ROUNDUP Girls water polo A day after shellacking Granite Bay in a 21-goal decision, the Lady Devils did the same to Monte Vista, trolling the Broncos, 13-2, in Danville. Malaya Wright led all scorers with six goals. Kenzie Walker added four with other scores from Lindsay Taylor, Alyssa Waterson and Claire Miller. Lucie Lapuz and Sara Kos had two assists each and Maddie Walker made a season-high 16 stops in goal. DHS hosts Vintage on Monday at Arroyo Pool at 6:45 p.m.
Softball It was a wild finish Friday with both teams combining for 12 extra-inning runs as the Devils fell to River City, 12-8, at the Davis High softball diamond. When the Raiders scored three runs in the top half of the seventh, the Devils responded with a pair of their own via Halle Gabriel and Sarah Griffiths to tie the contest, 4-4. Next, pitcher Zoe West worked out of bases-loaded jam in the eighth before Gabriel’s RBI bop to right field scored Naomi Kalanetra. But the RC bats stayed hot, scoring eight extra-inning runs. DHS will be on the road Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Pleasant Grove.
Boys water polo Trey Doten scored seven goals for the second straight match, but the Devils fell to Monte Vista, 22-12, Friday. Doten added a pair of steals and Joshua Davis dished out two assists, but the Broncos’
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Davis High senior Emma Bordios grapples with an Armijo wrestler during the Blue Devils’ meet against the Royals on Saturday. high-octane offense was tough to contain despite the Devils holding MVHS scoreless on its seven power play opportunities. In between the pipes, Devil netminder Juan Ramirez tallied eight saves, while Jonny Vochatzer (two), Alex Cordone, Ryan Pfeifer and Jackson Harris added goals. The Devils host Vintage on Monday at 5:45 p.m.
Girls basketball Mara Bledsoe dropped a season-high 22 points in a 57-40 DHS victory over El Dorado. It was the 5-foot-10 juniors second straight ballgame with 13-plus points and her third double-digit outing of the spring. With the win, Davis improved to 5-4 overall heading into next Tuesday’s 7 p.m. away contest at Cordova. Alia Cordone and Skylar Schouten each added 13 points in the win, Tessa Schouten popped in 9 and Emme Eisenman scored 4.
Wrestling In a home scrimmage versus Pleasant Grove on Friday, seniors Noor Mashiana and Tristan Wollrich and freshman Alex McClintock each won by pins. Ethan Rosendale and James Davis also won matches in what served as the Blue Crew’s home opener. Kosta Christopulos also came close, falling to his Eagle sparring mate in a one-point decision. “Several of our kids gave up 20-25 pounds,” Devil head coach John Rosendale explained after. “But they still wrestled extremely well. We’re just trying our best to get time in matches.” Wollrich’s match lasted 44 seconds with a pair of takedowns followed by two near-falls. Mashiana’s work on the mat lasted 1 minute, 11 seconds as he chalked up a pair of takedowns prior to his round No. 2 pin. The Blue Crew returned to the mat Saturday morning for a scrimmage against Armijo, with
Jack Bork winning all three of his matches. Other top performers included Andrea Gonzalez, who pinned her Armijo opponent, as did freshman Wyatt Bluecoat in the second period of his match. Juana Peralta and Emma Bordios also drew praise from their coach. “Traditionally we haven’t been able to wrestle at home a lot,” Rosendale explained. “So I continue to be super-appreciative for what we have this year. Davis High has worked so hard to give these kids an opportunity to wrestle.” Rosendale’s son, Ethan, a senior, won his match, 14-1, Saturday, tallying a pair of takedowns, a reversal and three near-falls. “I continue to tell kids that in our program and especially an individual sport like wrestling, development and continued growth is far more important than wins and losses,” the elder Rosendale added. “And we’re seeing that here. The kids are all focused on being just a little bit better than they were yesterday and the matches are taking care of themselves.” The Devils have back-to-back outings next week starting Friday at Jesuit before hosting Franklin Saturday at 10 a.m.
Boys lacrosse Henri Schulz netted the Devils’ lone goal Friday as Davis was trounced, 16-1, at Granite Bay High. It was the second straight loss for the Blue Crew, following a 14-3 setback against Jesuit on Tuesday. Walsh Klineberg scored a pair in that loss and Schulz netted one. DHS hosts Vista Del Lago on Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. clash. The Devils fell to VDL, 10-3, in their previous meeting.
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Virus eases, but housing gets worse
Confessions C from a man of no degree BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise
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n case you don’t know, it is, the White House has announced, Older Americans Month. They say, in the newspaper game, “Write what you know.” I find I know about being “older.” That sounds just a bit kinder than the bald “old.” Chalmers M. Roberts wrote a wonderful book, “How Did I Get Here So Fast?: Rhetorical Questions and Available Answers from a Long and Happy Life.” Quite so. I was the youngest at everything for a long time. I didn’t go to college, so I got a head-start in journalism. Leaving school at 16 wasn’t then considered a life sentence of being second-rate. In those days and that place, southern Rhodesia, a college education was a rarity; and people who had one were regarded as wise, even if they were stupid, as they frequently were. There was a different social dynamic in London, where I launched myself on the legendary Fleet Street four years later. Few had been to college and those who had were regarded in the popular press not with reverence, as they had been in Africa, but with hostility. I was even hired at the BBC. When a very nice man, Roger Wood, became editor of The Daily Express, there was consternation. He was a university graduate and, to make matters worse, from Oxford. The end of our hallowed way of life (phony expenses claims, heavy drinking and bad food) was at hand. En masse, the denizens of the newspaper world went to the pubs to mutter darkly about the imminent collapse of civilization. Change often is greeted with the sense that civilization is over. Years later, I told Wood about the near insurrection his appointment to the popular London newspaper’s editorship had caused. He was surprised. The discontent had never reached the editor’s office. In my next stop, New York, I was told, “No degree, no work.” At least not in television, and not at The New York Times. All three television networks wouldn’t grant me an interview even though I had been a scriptwriter at the BBC. Perplexingly, The New York Times told me I could be an editor, but I could never hope to write in the newspaper because of my lack of a college degree. Go figure! You can’t write here, but you can fiddle with what others have written. These days, a heavy burden is put on people who don’t get at least two years of a college education, and an even heavier one on those who leave high school. Here, the language is indicative of the social stigma: You don’t “leave high school,” you “drop out.” The social pressure for an orthodox education is immense. The Biden administration, in its endless good intent, may be adding to the pressure on those who, for many reasons, took a different route in their lives. The role of the universities isn’t blameless. They have a predatory streak. They are as money-hungry as any corporation, shaking down the alumni and justifying it with moral superiority. Treating formal education as the foundation of a social class is pernicious and destructive at all levels.
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used to fly light aircraft with a brilliant pilot — the best I have ever known. But despite skills and knowledge far above average, he was precluded from getting hired by the airlines: He didn’t finish college. Instead, he went off to fly airplanes. A scientist of real ability, a friend of mine, who climbed high in Big Pharma was sidelined not because she was a woman, but because she didn’t have a doctorate, only a master’s. So she became an administrator. Now that I am an “older American,” I wouldn’t deprive anyone of a joyful life, as I have had, by limiting their opportunities with rigid orthodoxy about college. The university mission should be learning, not class branding. I was lucky. I dodged the branding industry, known as college. — 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.
alifornia’s COVID-19 crisis appears to be diminishing, with declining infection rates and rising vaccination rates. If those trends continue, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged, the state’s economy will be fully opened next month. However, some effects of the pandemic will linger indefinitely and one is a worsening of California’s already severe shortage of housing, particularly for low- and moderate-income families. Many of those families lost their incomes during the public health crisis and fell behind on their rent and mortgage payments. Whether to extend a state moratorium on evictions beyond its current June 30 expiration date is one of the knottiest issues facing Newsom and legislators. “It remains to be seen if there’s appetite in Sacramento to extend the protections past June 30,” David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat who wrote the original eviction moratorium legislation, told CalMatters. “But I don’t think any of my colleagues have an interest in seeing a wave of mass evictions.” The moratorium may be extended for another brief period, but it can’t go on
forever because landlords large and small have their own financial obligations and can’t survive indefinitely without rental revenue. Underlying that thorny issue is another: even if their jobs had not been erased during the pandemic, many working families would be struggling to keep roofs over their heads because an overall shortage of housing had driven housing prices and rents to atmospheric levels. Chiu and other legislators have proposed a variety of measures aimed, they say, at relieving the underlying shortage that drives Californians’ housing costs everupward and is the primary reason why the state has the nation’s highest poverty rate. Housing bills generally fall into two categories: providing money to increase supply or lubricating the regulatory processes for housing developments. Both
LETTERS SOS thanks community The Supporting our Seniors Class of 2021 group of volunteers would like to acknowledge and thank all the awesome businesses that took part in our March “Goodies for Grads” event, including Blaze Pizza, Boheme, Burger IM, Cenario’s Pizza of Davis, Cindy’s, Cloud Forest Cafe, Coldwell Banker, Common Grounds, Cultive, Davis Creamery, Davis Noodle City, Davis Swim and Fitness, Dos Coyotes (both locations), El Patio, Jack in the Box, Jamba Juice, Lamppost Pizza, Lazy Cow, Lu’Ro Jewelers, Mountain Mikes, Mr. Pickles, Noah’s Bagels, Panera, Pink Dozen Donuts, Pizza Guys, Posh Bagel, Share Tea, Steve’s Pizza, Subway (on E. Covell), Sweet and Shavery, Taqueria Davis, Teabo Cafe, The Candy House of Davis, The Hotdogger, Tres Hermanas, Upper Crust Bakery, and Yolo Berry. This was truly a win-win event. For our DJUSD seniors, a chance to get out, to have something to go, and to see one another was a welcomed breath of fresh air and many of the participating businesses have let us know how thankful they were for the additional visibility and patronage. Please continue supporting these awesome Davis businesses and DJUSD seniors. Raychel Kubby Adler SOS Class of 2021
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approaches, however, are severely limited. Doubling California’s anemic rate of housing production, now well under 100,000 units a year net, would require spending tens of billions of dollars more each year and state and local governments are capable of generating only a tiny fraction of those funds. Obviously, therefore, the key element in meeting the state’s goal of 180,000 units a year is attracting private capital. That’s the declared aim of measures to ease restrictions on new developments or push local officials to resist anti-development pressures from their constituents. Chiu offers one of the latter approaches in Assembly Bill 215, which would put some teeth in the housing quotas that the state periodically issues for regions and their local governments. It would have the state closely monitor whether those governments are zoning enough land for housing and revising other local regulations that inhibit construction. The state could intervene when locals drag their feet and reward communities that are meeting their quotas. “At the end of the day, the only way to solve the housing
crisis is to put more roofs over people’s heads,” Chiu argues, and that’s absolutely true. However, even if every city and county in California diligently met the state’s quotas, which have been increased sharply for the next eight-year planning cycle ending in 2030, that alone would not solve the problem. Attracting enough private capital to meet California’s housing needs involves many other factors, such as the availability and cost of building materials, supplies of construction labor and the California Environmental Quality Act’s (CEQA) burdensome processes. Some factors are obviously beyond political control, but Newsom and legislators have been reluctant to deal with those they can affect, such as CEQA reform. We’ll know that politicians are serious about housing when they tackle CEQA, which Newsom’s predecessor, Jerry Brown, once called “the Lord’s work.” — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.
Tobacco a global epidemic
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We are calling on residents of Yolo County to work together to stop Big Tobacco. Over the last year, our world has drastically changed due to the global pandemic. We have all taken precautionary measures and done our best to protect our loved ones from COVID-19. Now we must focus our efforts on another deadly global epidemic. Even now, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Fortunately, Yolo County has had support from the Board of Supervisors and community members to fight against Big Tobacco. Recently, Yolo County took steps to protect our community’s youth by restricting retailers from selling any flavored tobacco products. The tobacco industry uses these tempting and fun flavored products to hook a new generation of nicotine addicts, but it is far from their only strategy. Although this law has been monumental, your help is still needed to make bigger changes. What can you do to keep our communities protected from the tobacco epidemic? If you have an interest in joining the Yolo County Tobacco Prevention Coalition, please contact Steven Jensen with the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency at 530-666-8616 or email steven.jensen@yolocounty.org. Sarah Hellesen Yolo County Tobacco Prevention Coalition
The members of Soroptimist International of Davis are grateful to the community for supporting our first LUNAFEST fundraiser April 23-25. The series of short films ¬– by and about women — was virtual this year. However, we hope to host an in-person event in 2022. We extend sincere thanks to our sponsors: Julie Otto (RE/MAX Gold), Memmott Consulting, Carbahal & Company, Best Western PLUS Palm Court Hotel, Aggie Inn, and University Park Inn & Suites. Special thanks go to Derrick Bang for reviewing the films, and The Enterprise for publishing his positive review. Also, thanks to Target Davis and Mariani Nut Company for providing donations for our movie snack goodie bags. Thanks also to all the community members who participated by watching the films and/or making a monetary donation. We hope you enjoyed the films as much as we did, and look forward to seeing you in person next year. Soroptimist means “best for women” and our focus is on helping local women and girls achieve economic empowerment through access to education and training. To find out more about volunteering with our club or making a donation, please visit https://sidavis.org. Lori Hansen Davis
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Dream on: Open loops and closed mouths Special to The Enterprise
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topics in choir practice, and I was so late for a meeting that I didn’t realize that my bicycle had no brakes.
BY ANDY JONES once heard a comedian say, “Unless your name is Martin Luther King Jr., I don’t want to hear about your dream.” Freud, astrologers, imagehungry poets, and new significant others are interested in a dream from the previous night, but most of us zone out, perhaps starting to check our mental “to do” lists, when someone insists on telling us their dream. Ironically, I review my “to do” lists in my dreams, and then get to work solving absurd problems. Just last night, for example, I asked former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to run to the deli to pick me up a sandwich, I enlisted my students to come up with pub quiz question
I suppose some people have short, or even absent, lists of action items, and thus they don’t have what some productivity specialists, such as David Allen in his book “Getting Things Done,” call “open loops.” But those of us who foolishly try to remember in our heads everything that has to get done, instead of depending upon an airtight system, such as what David Allen espouses, will find ourselves haunted by symbolic representations of our various practical obligations in our dreams.
Perhaps this is why Wallace Stevens said, “A pension is the salary we earn for all the work we do in our dreams.” Of course, other poets resented Stevens for his insurance agency vice president salary and his pensions, for he was the most well-off of all American poets, meaning that he could afford to say that “Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.” So with a busy life and a busy dreamlife of errands and obligations, I find it such a relief to join a group of friends in Chestnut Park in Davis every Sunday morning at 9 for an hour of meditation. While walking the one and a half miles to the park, maskless, near no one, I seemed to inhale every known allergen that the stiff winds could blow my way. But when I sat down
Davis housing crisis — how you can help BY GEORGINA VALENCIA, VERA SANDRONSKY, BAPU VAITLA AND DON KALMAN Special to The Enterprise
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he city of Davis, like cities throughout California and the country, has long recognized that lack of affordable housing is a huge problem. Inadequate housing leads to unemployment, illness and other costs for individuals, families and the entire community. The city has a Housing Trust Fund with limited revenues to fund a variety of housing needs. Examples of housing needs that the HTF has funded include the repair and maintenance of Twin Pines and Pacifico, existing affordable-rental housing developments, and BerryBridge, an affordable for-sale housing development. Davis makes decisions for the HTF in response to specific needs, but this approach has its limitations. For example, Community Development Block Grant money was allocated for affordable housing at the Cannery, but because Davis did not have a mechanism for reallocating these funds, $1,000,000 was lost. Another example is the development agreement for Grande Village in North Davis that required affordable housing to be offered first to DJUSD teachers and staff. There were several teachers who qualified for a monthly mortgage, but they did not have the funds for the down payment. Davis has no program or funds to help them. During the COVID-19 pandemic, some households have been at risk of losing their rental housing. The HTF does not have money for vouchers to subsidize rental payments, another tool that could be used to support housing needs in our community. The purpose of the Housing Element, which is part of the Davis General Plan, is to establish the community’s priorities around housing. The
COMMENTARY Housing Element Committee — whose appointed members include individuals on city commissions, city staff and consultants — has been provided the draft HTF as input for the Housing Element of the Davis General Plan. The Housing Element Committee voted to include the draft HTF, developed by the Social Services Commission, as an addition to the Housing Element. The next opportunity for the public to comment on the Housing Element will be during the 60-day review that started Monday, May 3. This 60-day public review is the community’s only opportunity to provide comments prior to the city submitting the Housing Element to California’s Housing and Community Development Agency for approval. Without community input there will be no real representation of what the community wants to see as priorities in housing. Residents of Davis can make a significant contribution to addressing the community’s housing issues by sending in public comments in support of the draft HTF to mailto:HEC@cityofdavis. org. An example of what can be stated in an email or phone in comments is here. The objective of the draft HTF, proposed by the SSC and to be presented to the Davis City Council, is to sustain housing programs the community identifies as important. The draft HTF describes housing needs as a continuum to support three groups: the unhoused, renters, and buyers. The draft HTF also recommends an allocation process for programs to address the housing needs of these three groups. In addition, the draft HTF identifies revenue sources for growing the HTF. You can help solve the
housing problem in Davis by doing the following: ■ Making donations for specific uses, such as increasing emergency non-congregate (individuals housed separately) shelter capacity, funding down payments for firsttime home buyers and developing a website to offer a centralized source of information for affordable housing applications. You can also make public comments by emails and phone calls for the meetings listed below. ■ Emailing your comments prior to the Housing Element meeting on May 20 at 6 p.m. to jlynch@cityofdavis.org and HEC@cityofdavis. org. ■ Emailing your comments prior to Planning Commission meeting on May 26 at 7 p.m. to PlanningCommission@ cityofdavis.org. Phoning in your comments to the Planning Commission on May 26 between noon and 6 p.m. to the Public Comment Line, 530-757-5693 (refer to the Planning Commission agenda for information; agenda links are at https://wp.me/p3aczg3ZVw). ■ Emailing your comments prior to City Council meeting on June 15 at 7 p.m. to citycouncil members@cityofdavis. org. Phoning in your comments to the City Council meeting on June 15 between noon and 6 p.m. to the Public Comment Line, 530-757-5693 (refer to the City Council agenda for information). ■ Emailing your comments prior to the Social Services Commission meeting on May 17 at 7 p.m. to SSC@cityofdavis. org. Phoning in your comments to the Social Services Commission on May 17 between noon and 6 p.m. to the Public Comment Line, 530-757-5693 (refer to the Social Services Commission agenda for information) ■ Sharing this call to action through your email contacts and social media.
amid (but at least 6 feet apart from) a group of meditators, the mask I wore protected my closed mouth not only from unlikely COVID-19 exposure, but also from whatever was making me sneeze so violently during my travels. The feeling of relief, of sanctuary, was mental, as well as physical. Beneath the swaying trees, I heard the gong sound and then settled into myself, finally able to breathe easily, and to focus on my own sense of attentive belongingness. Noting and slowing my heartbeat, I began to count my breaths in cycles of 21. This may sound like an easy task, but in my first months of meditating, my mind would inevitably wander off before I got to 10 or even 15 breaths, resulting in my having to start over.
These days, I notice when my mind wants to go somewhere — to attach itself to some past or imagined moment of delight or anguish — and then I gently usher it back to the task at hand, observing the breath, and adding one more incremental step towards 21. The time is fleeting, but I appreciate these rare moments of equilibrium, and relief from the attention one pays to the world’s woes, and to one’s increasingly complex duties. When one can’t realize true respite, even in sleep, the meditator’s cushion becomes a life preserver. — Andy Jones is a lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Program, and a former Davis poet laureate.
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ike so many of the young adults I helped apply for advanced degrees, Lana Amerie was a bundle of energy and ambition. She visited my office about every three months, waiting patiently in the lobby area until I was free, then following me along the corridor and settling herself down in the chair opposite my desk to tell me about a new twist in her personal story. Lana wanted to be a doctor, and her path was bumpy, yet she was ready to overcome any challenge that came her way. Persistent, resilient, determined — these were all words I used to describe Lana and the other students I encountered in the years I worked as the director of a UC Davis pilot project, the Guardian Professions Program. My goal was to assist California’s former foster youth and other independent and emancipated students get into graduate and professional schools. I helped them decide on what degrees to pursue and how to find suitable programs, funded their test prep and exams, then worked with them on the resumes and essays for their applications. Eager to embark on careers, they were attentive to my advice and together we created narratives of their lives, describing their future goals and making sure they told stories that faculty admissions committees would understand. My students were capable and smart but they were often burdened by their pasts. Sometimes we wrote addendums to explain their substandard grades or test scores, artifacts of the adversity they had faced in their early years as children and teenagers in the system or in abusive homes. Lana’s story did not come from the annals of foster care, but she was still a member of this community as she was without familial support. She had spent her childhood in southeast Asia in a small village where she was
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COMMENTARY witness to a kind of suffering that could have easily been resolved with basic healthcare, a fact she explained to me just after we met. This motivated her interest in pursuing a medical degree when her family moved to the States, but her traditional parents became angry when she and her sister expressed an interest in leading modern American lives. So they left, ending up in the Bay Area. Once there, Lana lived in a homeless shelter, attending community college and working various jobs until transferring to UC Davis. Her GPA was good and she had work experience in a lab, yet the MCAT was a stumbling block as she had not learned English until adolescence. Still, she just kept going and I nurtured her aspiration. Over the course of four years, I worked with undergraduates across the entire state, building on the success of specialized support programs like the Guardian Scholars Program at UC Davis. Programs like the GSP are now available at all of California’s public universities and some community colleges. I left the position when the pilot was complete and UC Davis refocused the GPP to a campus-based project, but before I departed, 80 young adults had gained admission to advanced degree programs, all of them moving on into careers as teachers, lawyers, doctors, professors, business analysts, MSWs, and psychologists, among others.
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his past summer some of these young professionals and I collaborated to create MAPS (Mentoring for Academic and Professional Success), a nonprofit organization with the same purpose as the original UC Davis pilot. We are continuing the statewide mission and promoting the growing interest in advanced degrees among California’s young adults with lived experience in foster care and those who
are members of the university undergraduate support programs and without familial assistance. In our inaugural year we are celebrating the acceptance of 11 students to graduate and professional degree programs and the number of exclamation points in the subject line of the emails we receive attests to our students’ enthusiasm. I got in to Berkeley Law!!!! I’m going to UC Davis!! I got in!!!!!!! I can’t believe it!!!!!! Thank you so much for all of your help!!! MAPS, and the pilot project that jumpstarted its existence, have proven that a little encouragement goes a long way. Yet too often our students are on the receiving end of low expectations. California’s support programs are doing a great job helping students successfully complete their undergraduate studies but for those preparing for an advanced degree in law, medicine, social work or teaching, additional assistance is needed. Our students succeed when given the coaching and mentoring to create competitive applications, and MAPS offers proof that neither lived experience in foster care nor a lack of familial support holds you back from a professional career. We are a bridge to graduate programs and a California innovation. Recently, I received a message from Lana, who succeeded in gaining admission to medical school a couple of years ago. “I just wanted to say hello and thank you for all the help you provided me. You supported me throughout my struggle, and I would not be where I am today if it weren’t for your help. I am almost done with my third year. It has been a difficult journey but I am loving it so far.” — Sylvia Sensiper, Ph.D., is a Research Affiliate at UC Davis. She is cocoordinator with Arnice St. Remy, MS, of MAPS (Mentoring for Academic and Professional Success).
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B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE
SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021
City hands out enviro awards Special to The Enterprise The city of Davis announced today that the following organizations and individuals were awarded the 2021 27th annual Environmental Recognition Awards. The awards were recommended by the city’s Natural Resources Commission and awarded at the April 20 City Council meeting. The Legacy Award, initiated five years ago, recognizes programs and events that have impacted the environment and community quality of life over a significant timeframe in Davis history. The awards were accompanied by the city of Davis 2021 Earth Day Proclamation. Earth Day is celebrated annually to honor the beauty of the planet, recommit to promoting a healthy environment, and maintain a peaceful, just and sustainable world. “Our city is grateful for these award winners that step up to care for our environment in word and action,” said Mayor Gloria Partida. “Thank you to them for contributing to the quality of life in Davis.” ■ Nonprofit category: Peregrine School and the Episcopal Church of St. Martin. Peregrine School serves more than 200 children toddler age through sixth grade at two sites. Respect for the environment is an organizing principle of the school, demonstrated through both the school’s curriculum and physical design and evidenced by a commitment to community outreach. Peregrine students received a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Schoolyard Habitats Program grant to transform a soccer field into a native plant learning garden last year, and a Whole Kids Foundation grant to develop a “pioneer garden” to teach California agriculture and grow farmers’ market crops. Peregrine offers an annual Girls in Science event, with up to 30 women scientists doing hands-on activities in support of science and environmental awareness, encouraging girls (and boys) to pursue careers in science. “Programs such as these have inspired a new generation of skilled and experienced environmental stewards with an environmental focus directly benefiting community families beyond the walls of the school,” said Peregrine director Lorie Hammond. St. Martin’s Church is a leader demonstrating environmental action that improves the lives of the congregation and inspires the Davis community. Accepting the award, Rector Pamela
Dolan noted the importance of community resiliency and equity in addressing climate change. The church has a long history of action on environmental stewardship with notable efforts in 2020 to move toward zero carbon emission for the entire campus. The physical design improvements have included electrifying heating and water systems, reducing waste, and encouraging active transportation. Additionally, the Care for God’s Creation Committee, established in 2011, coordinates sustainability efforts and outreach. The church has provided information and support for these efforts by sponsoring invited speakers on subjects, such as environmental justice and climate action and partnering with groups including Davis Community Meals and Housing, Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice and Cool Davis. ■ Individuals and groups: Dave Pelz. Pelz served the city of Davis from 1964 until his retirement in 1999, with his last 27 years as public works director. Many of Davis’ environmental accomplishments occurred through his initiative, support and facilitation. Further, he took this message to the state, initiating many transportation reforms and setting Davis as a model for California. He represented the League of California Cities on the Caltrans Bicycle Advisory Committee, was a steadfast advocate for bicycle and bus transportation and a loyal supporter of the public works profession as a 1965 charter member of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Public Works Association. This award is being given posthumously; Pelz passed away last March. His contributions to the city’s environmental progress were exceptional and multifaceted, including participating in or leading the development of bike lanes and paths, under and overpasses and regionally connected bikeways; establishment of the citywide bus service, Unitrans; and working with Davis Waste Removal to create one of the first recycling programs in the nation in 1970. Notably, Pelz developed and implemented an innovative, bike-only traffic signal that was adopted statewide. Also, he was involved with the groundbreaking design of the Davis water treatment facility, relying on natural pondage and using little energy for the secondary treatment step as a result.
■ Business category: West Yost Associates West Yost Associates, a consulting firm founded and headquartered in Davis, has worked with the city of Davis as a trusted adviser over the past 30 years to help the city reach its environmental goals. Projects have included safe and sustainable water, wastewater and drainage services. Most significantly, West Yost has been a leader in efforts to respond to climate change through their internal policies and programs, and through encouraging staff participation, outreach and community volunteering on their own time. ■ Environmental Legacy Award: Village Homes Village Homes, a 70-acre subdivision started in 1975 and located in West Davis, is internationally recognized for its planned sustainability and ecologically beneficial features, and has been visited by luminaries such as former French President Francois Mitterand and First Lady Rosalyn Carter. It was designed to encourage both the development of a sense of community and the conservation of energy and natural resources by principal developers Mike Corbett and Judy Corbett. Construction in the neighborhood involved many different architects and contractors over a number of years. Now completed, the development includes 225 homes and 20 apartment units. A number of design features help Village Homes residents live in an energyefficient and aesthetically pleasing manner, including orientation that encourages passive solar design, narrow street widths that minimize pavement, interconnected pedestrian/ bicycle paths and common areas with a natural drainage network of creek beds, swales, and pond areas and a landscape that supports edible plantings. In addition to the common areas between homes, Village Homes also includes two parks, extensive greenbelts, two vineyards, several orchards, and two large common gardening areas, which overall make up 23 acres of the community. An extensive system of paths for pedestrians and bicyclists runs throughout, linking up in each direction with other city pathways adjacent to the project, with bridges over small stream beds ready to handle rainwater, in lieu of a storm drain system. For more information about the awards, contact Kerry Loux at kloux@cityofdavis.org.
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Program pairs minority farmers, school districts Special to The Enterprise Last month, local nonprofit Yolo Farm to Fork secured a coveted Farm to School Incubator Grant from the California Department of Food & Agriculture. They were one of only 14 nonprofits statewide to be awarded. The $250,000 grant will be used to create a new program, Partners in Education for Agriculture in Schools. PEAS seeks to empower new minority farmers to deliver healthy, fresh produce to food services for students in Woodland Joint and Washington Unified school districts. Participating farmers will contract 6 to 12 months in advance for the delivery of freshly harvested produce for meals and snacks paid for by the National School Lunch Program. Farmers may secure additional income by teaching their climatesmart farming strategies to students in the schoolsite edible gardens. PEAS will focus on supporting new, small farms owned and managed by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, veterans and immigrants. Dozens of such farms have
been created throughout Yolo County in the past five years. While many new small farms can’t yet afford to be certified organic, the program will have an emphasis on climate-smart agricultural practices. This “essentially means sustainable and regenerative farming practices,” said Yolo Farm to Fork Executive Director Anya PerronBurdick. “Climate-smart agriculture helps mitigate climate-change effects through practices like soil carbon sequestration and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Finally, the program will offer support for school kitchen staffs transitioning from pre-packaged foods to culturally relevant meals, many cooked from scratch. Karri Pina, the director of food services for Washington Unified School District, said, “The sudden changes in food delivery from meals served at school sites to grab-and-go pick-ups forced us to provide heat-and-serve meals not in line with our nutritional values.” Learn more about PEAS at yolofarmtofork.org.
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