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By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County has seen a steady decline in daily new COVID-19 cases over the last 10 days and now finds itself on the verge of yellow. The county could enter the leastrestrictive yellow tier of the state’s color-coded blueprint next week, provided case numbers and test positivity rates remain low. Moving to yellow will allow for greater indoor capacity at many businesses, including gyms and fitness centers, movie theaters and museums. However, the county’s stay in yellow would likely be short-lived — the state is poised to ditch the tier-based system altogether just three weeks later, lifting all restrictions on businesses and activities on June 15. Nevertheless, moving to yellow marks a step forward for Yolo County, which has been reporting stubbornly high case rates for a couple of weeks, something officials had blamed in part on the UK variant circulating locally. But in the battle of vaccines versus variants — which is playing out across the globe — vaccines seem to be getting the upper hand in Yolo

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Newsom goes big on spending By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer Gov. Gavin Newsom released the entirety of his state budget proposal for the 2021-22 fiscal year on May 14, after a week of him revealing pieces of his $100 billion California Comeback Plan. The governor’s plan is supported by an estimated $75.7 billion in budget surplus this year and about $27 billion in federal support. The surplus stands in stark contrast to a $54.3 billion shortfall that was estimated last year. Newsom said in his budget presentation Friday that the

There is, however, contention about how much money the state actually has to spend. On Monday, the state legislature’s budget analyst estimated that the state has a $38 billion budget surplus to allocate. The difference between the estimates, according to a report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, is that the governor’s estimate includes “constitutionally required spending on schools and community colleges, reserves and debt payments.” Funds required for those categories aren't considered surplus by the office because they need to be allocated for specific purposes,

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The Davis school board on Thursday will hear an update on the district’s plan to create ethnic-studies programming, a presentation on the district’s return to in-person learning and will consider compensating district employees with one-time stipends of $2,500 for extra work they’ve done during the COVID-19 pandemic. The board will also hear an update on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently proposed state budget, and will consider adopting expanded learning

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The University of California Board of Regents discussed a proposed tuition increase this week. The limited fee hike would go into place in fall 2022 without continuing to increase in the following years. At the regents’ virtual board meeting Thursday, UC President Michael V. Drake said the proposal would make a UC education more accessible for many low-income students by raising funds for financial aid.

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The plan would also help stabilize the UC’s finances as state funding has failed to keep pace with the university system’s enrollment growth, Drake said. Over the past two decades, the number of students in the system has increased by 67% while state funding per student has decreased by 33%. “It doesn’t take much to recognize that this is just simply not sustainable,” Drake said. The proposed tuition increase would raise fees for incoming students beginning next fall and then remained unchanged for

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up to six years. California residents beginning at a UC next fall would see an increase of $642 from the current cost of tuition of $12,570. Incoming classes in the following years would face a similar increase that would be tied to the rate of inflation. Much of the money gained from the tuition hike would be used to help low-income students. More than half of California residents in the UC system already pay no tuition based on their financial need. Under the proposal, more than

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Apartmentfire victim succumbs to injuries By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The wife of a UC Davis graduate student has died from injuries she sustained in a May 8 apartment fire on campus, UCD officials announced Tuesday. Hissah Almousa was married to UC Davis graduate student Mohamed Alkaoud. The couple lived at the Solano Park Apartments, a student-family housing complex on Solano Park Circle where multiple crews from the UCD and city of Davis fire departments responded to the 11:30 p.m. blaze. Firefighters rescued an unresponsive Almoussa from the burning apartment, performing CPR both at the scene and during her transport to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. She succumbed to her injuries last week. “We offer our heartfelt condolences to Mohamed and his extended family and friends. We grieve with you,” campus officials said in Tuesday’s announcement. “We ask that the community respect Mohamed’s privacy during this difficult time.” UCD Fire Chief Nathan Trauernicht described the fire as "moderate" in size, but causing extensive heat and smoke damage that affected several neighboring apartment units as well.

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We’re all on the honor system now G ive me your tired, your poor, your huddled maskless, yearning to breathe

free. Yes, we all yearn to breathe free, just like the Statue of Liberty proclaims. But many of us have become so accustomed to wearing a mask in public places that it may be a while before we leave our masks at home, no matter what the CDC guidelines say. I recently did a radio interview with a mask on, which was not required. I had simply forgotten to take it off. The producer told me he thought it actually improved my voice. I accused him of mask hysteria. And yes, these are guidelines, not rules or regulations. I’m certain, though, that the CDC hopes its recent easing of mask recommendations will convince the hesitant to finally get vaccinated when they see how much fun everyone else is having. Private businesses, of course, can continue to do whatever they wish. If an airline says everyone has to wear a mask in flight, that will be the rule on that flight. But

it will be up to the airline to enforce it. I was intrigued by a recent newspaper headline that stated “Trader Joe’s drops mask requirement for fully vaccinated customers.” But, in the spirit of America, Trader Joe’s added “We do not require proof of vaccination, as we trust our customers to follow CDC guidelines.” Good luck with that, Joe. Do you really think that a Faucihating, Fox-watching, anti-vaxxer who thinks Bill Gates planted tracking devices in the Pfizer vaccine is going to willingly follow CDC guidelines? Like it or not, what we’re going to need is a foolproof system to identify the vaccinated from the

unvaccinated. I suggest classy forehead tattoos with a “Pf ” for Pfizer, a massive “M” for Moderna and a stylish “J&J” for Johnson and Johnson, Just imagine, the folks at Johnson and Johnson made “No More Tears” a household expression years ago and now with their vaccine they may one day claim — at least in California — “No More Tiers.”

ome states have stellar public health departments who are pulling out all the stops to get people vaccinated, usually with little success. So they’ve turned to bribery. In Billings, Mont., thanks to a $20,000 gift from an anonymous donor, people are being offered $50 cash to get vaccinated. Down the road in the historic mining town of Butte, the philanthropic owner of the legendary Town Pump chain of gas stations and convenience stores has upped the ante considerably. With a donation of $525,000, Butte will have a once-a-week lottery for those who have finally been vaccinated.

Each week, two Butte citizens will receive $10,000 apiece and three others will receive $5,000 each. That’s $35,000 a week for the next 15 weeks for a total of 75 winners in all. Nothing like cold, hard cash to change one’s perspectives and priorities. Maybe ever their politics. Not to be outdone by a bunch of upstart Montanans, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has announced a similar lottery for the newly vaccinated that will award five Ohioans $1 million each. Teenagers can win full-ride scholarships to public universities in the Buckeye state. Although I am fully vaccinated, I have put in a job application at The Montana Standard in Butte with a certainty that I can augment my salary through the vaccination lottery. I mean, has the CDC specifically said I can’t get vaccinated again and again and again? If I don’t win in Montana, then it’s on to Ohio. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Dunning earns Aggie Legacy Award Shooter convicted in Special to The Enterprise Bob Dunning, a former UC Davis tennis player and a writer, editor and columnist at The Davis Enterprise for more than 50 years, will receive the Aggie Legacy Award during the 2021 Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame inductions this fall, the intercollegiate athletics department announced Tuesday morning. The ceremony will take place on Friday, Oct. 1, on the eve of the Aggies’ home football game against Idaho. Inaugurated in the 201011 school year, the Aggie Legacy Award honors former UC Davis studentathletes who have achieved in sports or a sports-related field since their departure from the university in a manner that brings honor and prestige back to the athletics program. Dunning starred for the Aggie tennis teams of the mid-1960s under the tutelage of coaches Will Lotter and George Stromgren, earning Far Western Conference Player of the Year honors and becoming the program’s first player to compete in the NCAA postseason. After graduating with a degree in political science in 1968, he attend Oregon State for graduate

school, but quickly returned to Davis, first to serve as an assistant coach for his alma mater, then to assume the helm as the Enterprise sports editor. His employment began on Jan. 27, 1970. While performing his duties as the award-winning newspaper’s primary sports scribe, Dunning completed his juris doctor degree from UC Davis’ King Hall School of Law. In 1976, he launched a popular daily column called “The Wary I,” in which he offered commentary on subjects ranging from city officials to, of course, college football. The column widened Dunning’s presence in the community. Dunning’s skills on the tennis court, first developed at nearby Davis High School and sharpened to great success as an Aggie, also landed him a unique opportunity. Sacramentoarea restaurateur Eppie Johnson launched a tennis club in South Davis, and brought in Bobby Riggs — four years removed from his “Battle Of The Sexes” showcase with Billie Jean King — as a celebrity attraction for the grand opening. Johnson recruited Dunning as Riggs’

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opponent for the event. As for UC Davis, Dunning served as the athletics but missed. He fled the By Lauren Keene department’s primary beat scene and remained on the Enterprise staff writer writer into the 1980s, and lam for more than nine resumed that role in the WOODLAND — More years until his arrest. mid-2010s, but maintained than a decade after his But defense attorney a finger on the Aggie pulse crimes, a Fairfield man was Michael Chastaine said through his column and convicted last week of mur- while Ibarra’s death was occasional sidebar work. der and other charges “an absolute tragedy,” He continues to recur as a stemming from a 2011 bar authorities set their sights popular master of ceremoshooting in Woodland. on the wrong man. nies for team banquets and A jury also found Jose Gomez-Arreola “is an the annual Causeway ClasLuis Gomez-Arreola, 36, innocent man who is sic Luncheon. When the guilty of three counts of accused of this crime that attempted murder and department held a celebrahe did not commit,” Chaseight counts of assault with tion-of-life event for legtaine said in his opening a firearm following a endary Aggie football coach remarks. The real killer “is month-long trial in Yolo Jim Sochor in April 2016, still out there.” Superior Court. Dunning was the obvious Chastaine says it was Gabriel Ibarra, 30, of choice as emcee. “rumor and innuendo” Williams, died during the In 1986, Dunning was passed among witnesses violent brawl outside presented with the A.G. — some who were at La Woodland’s La Finca de Brinley Award for meritoriFinca that night, and othRivera nightclub. Witous service to the Davis ers who weren’t — that led nesses identified the guncommunity. He entered the to Gomez-Arreola’s identiman as Gomez-Arreola, Davis High School Hall of fication and arrest, despite who evaded arrest for more Fame in 2012. Earlier this conflicting statements than 10 years until his capspring, Dunning was belatgiven to police. ture in Idaho in July 2020. edly honored for his 50th “You’ll have to figure out, Gomez-Arreola was year of service at the Enterwhat did people actually known as “the man in the prise, with a scholarship see, or what did they regurpink shirt,” whose group of fund established in his gitate based on what other friends triggered a disturhonor. bance soon after arriving at people talked about?” The CAAHOF induction the First and Bush streets Chastaine said. ceremony is open to the Complicating matters, venue, Deputy District public. Tickets and RSVP Chastaine added, was the Attorney Alex Kian told information will be availjurors during his April 12 “complete chaos” at the able at ucdavisaggies.com, shooting scene, as well as opening statement. while questions about the Also inside La Finca memories rendered fuzzy event may be directed to were Ibarra, his brother by alcohol and drug concaahof@ucdavis.edu. Francisco and several of sumption. Some witnesses reported their friends. seeing two shooters, while “They were just going to have a good time,” Kian others recalled the shooter said. But trouble began wearing not a pink shirt, inside the bar and spilled but rather a black leather into the street outside, jacket, a white tank top, a applicants based on how where two of Gomez- polo shirt, or no shirt at all, their education, knowledge Arreola’s friends scuffled Chastaine told the jury. or experience would conThe defense attorney with Francisco and one of tribute to the committee’s suggested it was another Ibarra’s friends. work. At one point Ibarra also man, “Raul,” who fired the The first meeting of the ventured outside, after one fatal shots after breaking advisory committee is of Gomez-Arreola’s friends bottles and spraying other scheduled for June 2, from told the defendant, “Hey, patrons with beer inside 5 to 6 p.m. go f— up those guys in the the nightclub, then fightThe board presentation ing with Francisco out in cowboy hats,” Kian said. defines the field of ethnicThat’s when Gomez- the street. studies as “focused on the Some witnesses reported Arreola allegedly retrieved study of four racial ethnic a .45-caliber handgun the shooter was “the man groups of color: Native from his truck and started who was involved in that Americans, African Amerishooting, striking Ibarra fight,” Chastaine said. cans, Asian Americans, and with fatal shots to his chest Gomez-Arreola “didn’t do Latina/o/x/ Americans, the and back. Another man got it, and the evidence will field of ethnic-studies hit in the hip, while one support that.” explores the identities, bullet grazed a woman’s But the jury disagreed, institutional racism these leg, according to Kian. handing down its convicgroups have faced, their The prosecutor said tion on Thursday. Gomezresponses or resilience, and Gomez-Arreola fired more Arreola faces life in prison their diverse contributions shots at Francisco and at his Aug. 12 sentencing to our multicultural socianother friend as they tried hearing before Judge ety.” to stop him from leaving, David Reed. A timeline included in the agenda documents suggests that the recommendation will be developed over the coming months and then presented in November this year. Planning for the implementation of the ethnic-studies program will go from this year into next year, which is when the program will be implemented, according to the presentation. 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BOARD: Future gets a bit clearer From Page A1 opportunity grant plans. The return to campus presentation is lighter than in past meetings, only containing an update on COVID-19 conditions in Yolo County, graduation dates and times and the district’s plan to enter full in-person learning next school year, starting Aug. 25, while also offering a virtual academy option. Yolo County met the COVID-19 metrics this week to enter the leastrestrictive yellow tier in the state’s color-coded Blueprint for a Safer Economy, but will only enter the yellow tier if conditions remain stable and will remain in the orange tier for at least another week. California is set to drop the restrictions of the system on June 15 and fully reopen the economy.

Compensation The stipends to district employees will all come from the COVID-19 relief funding and add up to just below $4 million in total, according to the agenda. The payments result from agreements the district made with its two employee unions late last month. Davis teachers will also be receiving 37 hours of compensation at $41 an

hour for self-directed professional learning and preparation times. Employees covered by the California School Employees Association will also receive some compensation for professional development. Other employees, such as cohort leaders — who’ve been providing support to students on school campuses since around late December — and long-term substitute teachers will receive the stipend if they’ve been employed by the district since January, according to an email sent to district employees last week.

Ethnic studies To prepare for an ethnicstudies program recommendation in the fall this year, the district is seeking to create an ethnic-studies Advisory Committee with interested members of the community. The purpose of the committee — which is supposed to consist of 15 students, staff and the community members — is to help create the district’s ethnic-studies program recommendation and review its definition of ethnic-studies. Applications, which can be found on the ethnic-studies page of the district website, are available until May 26, and district staff will consider

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How to keep things clean in the kitchen R ather shockingly, not every question can be answered by the interwebs. Or it can be answered, but with several startlingly different answers, some very wrong answers or some answers that don’t make any sense. What’s a body to do? In many cases, the answer seems to be “ask Julie.” Since I really like answering questions (not math questions, mind you) that’s just fine with me. Q: How do you get someone who is a Tasmanian Devil in the kitchen to learn to clean as they go? A: People who have worked in professional kitchens do this reflexively — having a clean station at all times is critical to success. If you can’t get your Tasmanian Devil a gig in good kitchen, all you can do is model good behavior. You can invite them to help when you’re cooking together — “can you put this back in the cupboard for me?” “I’m just going to wash the cheese grater before I do the next thing” which will effect slow change. You can also make sure they’re the one to clean up the whirlwind of a mess! Q: Iceberg lettuce — A good lettuce or a great lettuce? A: Iceberg has a bad rap, but it’s delicious and versatile. Look for organic iceberg, and buy heads that seem heavy for their size. If you’re lucky enough to find some at the Davis Farmer’s Market it should be crisp and ready to eat. If your iceberg has travelled, it may not be at the height of perfection. In that case, cut it in half and chill in a water bath overnight for perfect crispness. A quarter head of iceberg drizzled with homemade ranch dressing and sprinkled with crispy bacon bits or sunflower seeds makes an awesome salad. Any extra lettuce gets shredded to go in tacos or submarine sandwiches, or added to our slaw mix.

Ranch Dressing Mix Ingredients: ¼ cup dried parsley, crushed

2 teaspoons dried dill 2 tablespoons onion powder 2 tablespoons garlic powder 2 tablespoons sea salt 2 tablespoons dry, minced onions 2 tablespoons buttermilk powder Putting it together: Whiz everything together in a blender until finely powdered. Add 1 tablespoon ranch dressing mix to 2 cups yogurt, mayo or sour cream for a dip; thin with milk to make salad dressing.

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Q: What’s the difference between baking soda and baking powder? A: Baking soda is a base that reacts to an acid — think buttermilk pancakes — to produce gas which makes your baked goods rise (again with the pancakes — watch right after you flip them and see them rise up). Baking powder is that same base with tartaric acid added to it so it provides its own reaction when you add liquid. Double-acting baking powder has two types of acid, and the second one reacts to heat, giving you more lift when you cook your whatever. Baking powder and soda don’t keep forever. To test baking soda, put a teaspoon full in a tall glass and add a glug of vinegar — if it foams, you’re good to go. Test baking powder with the same method but substitute boiling water for vinegar. Q: How long do different types of produce last in the fridge? If you have a big mix you’re trying to get through before it goes bad, what do you use first? How do you help stuff last longer? (I’ve had success adding a paper towel to

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Let’s have a Negroni, served up with a big glass of ice water on the side. greens to wick away the moisture) A: As a rule, hard vegetables (carrots, beets, celery) last longer than tender vegetables (lettuces, herbs, summer squash) in the fridge. As you’ve discovered, proper storage can extend the life of produce. Plastic bags should be open a bit and paper towels wrapped around tender greens help prevent the dreaded slime. Remove greens from carrots and beets and store separately. Herbs can be treated like cut flowers and kept with their feet in a jar of water in the fridge or the counter. With the exception of lettuces, which you should just eat up as soon as you can, produce that needs to be used up can be cooked (to stop the enzymatic reaction) and then refrigerated for up to five days. If you’re going to reheat it, cook it a little under. You could also make a giant pot of vegetable soup and then freeze individual portions, which I guarantee your future self will thank you for! If you have a produce box and want to preserve vegetables for future use UCD has a lovely page on food preservation with links to all manner of resources at https:// ucfoodsafety.ucdavis.edu/ consumers/food-safety-home/ home-food-preservation.

Q: I need a signature cocktail (or mocktail) for each summer month. Four ingredients or less, please! A: What a lovely idea as we gradually move back into socializing. For May, let’s have a Negroni, served up with a big glass of ice water on the side. The deliciously bitter taste of Campari always makes me think of spring tonics, and the admixture of loweralcohol ingredients ensures sipping rather than gulping.

Negroni Ingredients: 1 part gin 1 part Campari 1 part vermouth Optional garnish: lemon peel Putting it together: Stir gin, Campari and vermouth together with ice. Rub lemon peel around the rim of a glass; strain drink into the glass and garnish with a twist.

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Q: Is it permissible or deplorable to microwave a tub of ice cream for just a few seconds to make it easier to scoop? This activity nearly caused a riot at my last Christmas get-together. I’m

gonna need you for back up this 4th of July. A: My goodness! Did your guests want to stand around awkwardly staring at the ice cream until it softened? Are their homes full of spoons damaged by attacking too-hard ice cream? Unless you’re making an ice cream dessert (cake, baked Alaska, etc.) that requires hard ice cream, you need to somehow soften your premium ice cream for service so it’s nice to eat. Depending on the amount of fat and over-whip in your brand and the temperature in your kitchen, that means 20 to 30 minutes in the refrigerator, 5 to 25 minutes on the counter or 15 to 45 seconds in the microwave. Q: Any reason to buy crème fraiche when you have sour cream in the fridge? A: For general eating, no — sour cream is a little sharper, crème fraiche is significantly fattier. For sauces you may want to go with crème fraiche, because the fat content will keep it from breaking. Q: How about easy pandemic get-together shareables that comply with social distancing but taste great? Bonus if they can be taken to a park or picnic gathering. A: As we now know, surfaces aren’t a big vector for COVID transmission. They’re still an awesome vector for food-borne illness, however, so let’s keep up with the sanitizing! At outdoor parties particularly, serving food in a way that reduces multiple hands touching it is ideal. While I don’t like silicone cupcake liners for baking, I adore them for picnics — scoop your potato salad into the liners at home, then carry them in your cupcake holder to the party. Paper cupcake liners are compostable and work great for things like chips and help us avoid the allhands-in-the-bowl problem. Tongs, small reusable bowls and plates and squeeze bottles are all inexpensive purchases that can help keep a picnic safer for all. — Have a question? Visit Julie on Facebook at The New Home Ec or email jacross@dcn.org.

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on Jakob and I share a quest for the holy grail. In our case, it’s not the vessel itself (though I continue to search for the perfect wine glass — you know, the one that cleans itself) but the perfect pinot noir to put in it. Like that illusive chalice, the perfect pinot is more idea than reality; but that, of course, is the fun of a quest. How close does this bottle come to the ideal? And what is the ideal anyway? So when Jakob and Sarah gave me a bottle of pinot as a Big Birthday present last week, I knew it would be good. I suppose I should have saved it for the next momentous occasion, but after a certain number of Big Birthdays, being alive and healthy and hungry seems occasion enough. So I made a pinot-friendly dinner to accompany it (mushroom and leek lasagna), let it breathe for a while, and set to. The bottle in question was from the Anderson Valley winery Baxter. A 2017, the grapes for this pinot came from the Valenti vineyard on the Greenwood Ridge, a location above the fog line with lots of good sunshine and ocean breezes. Phil Baxter, who made his first vintage in 2003, is committed to making wines with a firm sense of place and minimal intervention. Partially whole-cluster, this pinot is far from the sweetish, oaky bottlings that dominate the California scene. The oak (neutral French) is entirely restrained and the minerality bright. Summer strawberries, cherries and rose petals make it both happy and intriguing. One critic called it “lean, mean and texturally complex,” a description I love and agree with but that might suggest something less approachable and

friendly than this lovely bottle, which so nicely balances its lively summer fruit with something deep, savory and earthy. Baxter’s smallproduction pinots are expensive, though, mostly in the $50 range, but really worth a splurge for a Big Day of any sort. And if this bottle is typical, I can heartily recommend a visit to their Philo tasting room. One winecritic visitor said, “ ‘knocked me out’ is an understatement” and that “everything poured was beautiful.” All that for a modest $15 tasting fee. I wasn’t anticipating the many wonderful wines bestowed on me in honor of the above event. While I sometimes struggle to find a new, exciting wine to recommend to you, right now I have an abundance. Another birthday red, perfect for late spring, hails from Washington State (via the Pip in Dixon — Amy came to my door twice to deliver birthday bottles). Savage Grace Cabernet Franc. The grapes come from one of Washington’s best cab sites, Two Blondes Vineyard in the Yakima Valley. Winemaker Michael Savage named the cab franc appropriately, not just because it combines his surname and his wife’s first name but because the wine, to my mind at least, is both wild and full of grace. It has lots of spice and a hint of green pepper (characteristic of cab franc, and one of things I love about it) and maybe even rhubarb (though I do have rhubarb on my mind right now, especially after my many-candled strawberryrhubarb birthday pie — thanks, Allegra). It also tastes rich in fruit, maybe red raspberry, despite its lightness and

low (12%) alcohol. And tastes, too, as the best wines will, subtly different with every sip. We drank the wine while looking out over the ocean on the Mendocino Coast and eating spinach-basil pesto pizza from the excellent Cafe Beaujolais. While I have to admit that most any wine would taste pretty good under these circumstances, this one was downright exuberant. Thanks, Gordon and Bruce. Had I known that I would receive in one of those surprise Pip deliveries a beautiful bottle of white burgundy (2017 Domaine Jerome Galeyrand “Cuvee Alligotay” Aligoté), I might not have purchased — from Kermit Lynch in Berkeley, $27 — a special Italian

bottle for a birthdayweek dinner of fresh local butterfish. I sautéed this Farmers Market treat in butter, garlic and lemon zest and served it over linguine. (It turned out to be such a wonderful match to the Kermit Lynch wine that I decided to try the dish with the white aligoté as well. And it, too, was an amazing partner, a bit more subtle and elegant, perhaps, than the white I bought — thanks, Lisa.)

’m not sure what drew me to the Kermit Lynch bottle except that I can’t resist an Italian white from a grape heretofore unknown to me — in this case, minutolo. This version, the 2019 Rampone, comes from I Pastini, a small, organic

family-run winery in east central Puglia. It’s 100% minutolo, a native to this region known as Valle d’Itria. The grape can produce wines like this one with its fragrant blossomy nose and a palate that beautifully balances flowers, fruit, herbs and the salty sea. Minutolo, interestingly, was almost extinct 20 years ago but was brought back by dedicated local growers like father-and-son Donato and Gianni Pastini. This wine’s lightness and low alcohol (12.5%) is confirmation of my longtime contention that hot weather doesn’t necessarily lead to alcohol bombs. Kermit Lynch, by the way, still has free shipping on $125 worth of wine — an excellent deal — and regularly discounts wines from a specific region.

Check out their website for the latest offers and to sign up for their fun and informative monthly newsletter. Enough gloating over birthday bounty. I have work to do. Like planning spring meals to complement my other bottles, each meal a further celebration of 1) spring, 2) the reemergence of unmasked faces, 3) another day of life and 4) another season to carry on the quixotic quest for the elusive grail filled with perfect pinot. Or would it taste better sipped from my birthday pair of beautiful Jancis Robinson wine glasses? Thanks, Rebecca. Now if only they’d clean themselves. — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail. com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.

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alifornia is entering a critical phase in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. After a yearlong struggle that has claimed more than 62,000 lives, we are beginning to see signs of a return to normal. Last month, I was finally able to hug my mom for the first time in over a year! Last week, I went for a walk with a friend and was able to hug her goodbye without the nagging fear of passing on a potentially deadly virus. But you don’t have to be a hugger like me to benefit from social connection. Research shows that people who feel more connected to others have lower levels of anxiety and depression, higher selfesteem and greater empathy for others. It is literally good for our mental and physical well-being, and it’s something that’s been absent from us all for so long. That fulfilling feeling of connecting with others — in-person and safely — is something I want every Californian to be able to have. But the only way it’s possible, the only reason we can reopen our businesses and restaurants and make post-pandemic memories with friends and family in-person again, is by reaching community immunity with the help of the three highly effective vaccines we have available to protect us. Getting vaccinated is not just about protecting ourselves. It’s about protecting our family, our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors. That’s why we call it public health. The only way we can get through this pandemic is together. That’s why we need the participation of every Californian, along with continued coordination and cooperation on a statewide scale. In the last few months, the state has made great strides. California now has one of the lowest infection rates in the U.S. Just a few months ago, our state had close to 60,000 new COVID-19 cases daily and well above 500 deaths per day. Those numbers have plummeted to fewer than 1,400 new cases and fewer than 100 deaths daily. We’ve administered more than 33 million vaccines across the state — and more than 6 million of those doses have been administered in our most vulnerable communities.

omelessness is a massive problem in California. But not all homeless are the same. There are different reasons people are not permanently sheltered. We need to attack the crisis in different ways for different people. For starters, 28 percent of the 161,000 unhoused in our state are chronically homeless; the rest are temporarily without a residence. Those who have been homeless for a year or longer need more help. The shortterm homeless may have assets that — with some help from friends and relatives, charities or government — can get them on their feet again. Among California’s homeless families, only 20 percent are unsheltered. It’s the opposite for individuals: 78 percent live outdoors. We have never before had the combination of political will and resources to attack this problem as we have today. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he wants to spend an additional $12 billion — equal to $75,000 per homeless person — to “functionally end family homelessness” in the next five years. I take it he does not think that is enough money to end individual homelessness, which is 84 percent of our problem. Fortunately, finances for the state of California have had an amazing turnaround from a year ago, when Newsom announced we had a $54 billion budget deficit. Most of the “found” money is from personal income tax — largely paid by the richest Californians. In May 2020, it was estimated the state would take in $76.8 billion from personal income taxes for the 2020-21 fiscal year.

This May, the estimate is $123.3 billion for 2021-22. Over that 12-month period, sales and use tax revenues have climbed from $20.6 to $29 billion; and corporation tax from $16.6 to $18.1 billion. According to an Associated Press article, “Newsom’s proposal includes $8.75 billion to expand a California program created during the pandemic that converts hotel and motel rooms and other properties into housing for people in need. “Roughly half of that money would go toward creating housing where mental health and other behavioral services are provided on site to people living there.” For the most part, the services needed are for psychiatric diseases, drug abuse and alcoholism. In 2019, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that 36 percent of the chronically homeless were severely mentally ill, had a substance-abuse problem or both. Insofar as the state, local governments or nonprofits build or acquire new housing for chronically homeless people who need psychiatric or substance-abuse services, these facilities should not be integrated into regular rental developments, the way lowincome apartments are a part of new multi-family apartment complexes. Services must be the quintessence of these supportive

housing complexes or group homes. It’s better for those in need of service and for those providing it that they are one and the same. It’s a recipe for failure to put people who have severe schizophrenia, for example, into an apartment complex with children, and expect the psychiatric patients to be responsible to go somewhere else to get counseling and anti-psychotic medications. Likewise, it makes sense to have alcohol and drug treatment centers inside of group homes or apartment complexes exclusively for those who suffer from substanceabuse disorders. Of course, once a person is “in recovery” it then might be a good idea to move him into an ordinary apartment.

or many homeless, the problem is simply poverty. In such cases, we need to look at this issue from at least two directions. The first is our lack of lowincome housing. We need more of it. Since the end of California’s local redevelopment agencies in 2012 — which set aside 20 percent of RDA tax money for affordable housing — there has been too little funding for new places for low-income people to live. This has been an especially big problem for Californians with special needs — including those with physical and mental disabilities. Clearly, if we have more low-income units available, we would have less homelessness. It’s just been a question of having and prioritizing the money to provide those accommodations. We also lack market-rate rental housing in our state. According to the Department of Housing and Community Development, California needs 1.8 million new housing units by 2025. We

are only building about 80,000 units on average each year. This has created a supply and demand imbalance that harms all renters, especially lower-income residents. Too many people for too few units drives up rents. If we approved and built more housing — especially highdensity developments located near mass transit and workplaces — rents would fall and fewer people would need setaside “affordable” units. A related issue for some homeless people — especially those with criminal records — is no one wants to rent to them, even if they have a Section 8 voucher. Landlords would be much less picky if we had many more units on the market. The second direction to look at our homeless issue is one of income. Our principal approach in California has been to raise the minimum wage. That might be beneficial to most low-income workers. A higher wage — now $14 per hour — could help a worker afford her rent. However, high minimum wages also make it impossible for businesses to employ unskilled workers, especially people with intellectual or physical disabilities. So in those cases, we should have the state pay part of the minimum and the employer the rest. That would then make jobs and housing viable for more people. Even if the fiscal good times in our state don’t last, providing more housing specifically for the homeless will have a lasting impact — for the good — for everyone in our state. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.

ne of the most important responsibilities of government is to make sure that our most vulnerable residents receive equal protection, especially during a crisis. So, as we charge ahead with delivering vaccinations as safely and quickly as possible, equity continues to be a central focus of our strategy. Today, everyone age 12 and over is eligible for vaccination — an estimated 2.1 million newly eligible individuals. Clearly, as millions more become eligible, there are steps we must take to ensure we continue to reach the hardest hit communities as effectively and efficiently as possible. First, we must provide access and support to make it easy to reach Californian’s who are disproportionately affected by this disease. That could include transportation assistance, extended hours, language support and resources to reach homebound and unhoused Californians. Second, we must come together as a community to build trust in these lifesaving vaccines so that as many Californians as possible will choose to become vaccinated. Across California, those in positions of trust — clergy and teachers, neighbors and friends, business leaders and co-workers — should urge all those around them to learn the facts about the coronavirus vaccines. They have been proven, first in large clinical trials, and now in the broader population. They are safe. They are effective. It’s clear that the benefits of getting vaccinated far outweigh the risk of side effects. Most importantly, they are our path out of this darkness. They are the means through which we can fully reopen our state, reconnect with friends and loved ones and put an end to this pandemic. — Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is the surgeon general of California. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters Continue the fight; do the work I know what you’re thinking — Donald J. Trump is no longer president, the pandemic seems to be mostly handled, we’re back as a country, and we can go back to paying very little attention to political things. I beg to differ. I, like many, was shocked into action with the election of our 45th president, spending much volunteer time and significant sawbucks over the last four years to support progressive candidates and causes. I worked with and met many fine activists working with local chapters of the national organizations Sister District (SD CA-3) and Indivisible (Indivisible Yolo).

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In 2017, we helped dramatically change the Virginia legislature from twothirds Republican to nearly even. In 2018, we helped with the “blue wave” that brought Democratic control of the House as well as flipping hundreds of state legislative seats. In 2019, we helped flip the Virginia legislature, resulting in a variety of progressive policies being enacted. In 2020, we helped defeat Donald Trump and helped get to razor-thin Democratic control of the Senate. So, though we’ve accomplished a lot, we cannot yet just sit back and enjoy our lives. We cannot yet rest on our laurels. Think of the January attempted coup. Margins in the Senate are paper-thin and margins in the House are not much better. We must continue the effort to save our Democracy — our current position is still much too fragile and frightening. What to do? Get involved in Sister

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YELLOW: Test volume NEWSOM: Infrastructure, telehealth get boost helps Yolo numbers From Page A1

From Page A1 County, where 52 percent of all residents have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and cases are now declining. The county’s adjusted daily new case rate this week was 1.8 per 100,000 residents, down from 3.3 the week before. The countywide test positivity rate also declined from 0.7 percent to 0.4 percent, and the health equity quartile metric, which measures test positivity in the county’s most disadvantaged areas, declined from 1.9 percent last week to 1.6 percent this week. All three metrics now meet the requirements of the yellow tier. The county continues to benefit from the enormous amount of testing done by Healthy Davis Together and on the UC Davis campus. The state gives a bonus to counties that test more than the state average, a bonus that drives Yolo County’s actual case rate — which

at 3.5 currently meets the orange tier metric — down to an adjusted case rate that meets the yellow tier metric of below 2 per 100,000 residents. Absent that bonus, the county would not be on the verge of yellow but would remain in orange like a couple neighboring counties that have actual case rates the same or lower than Yolo. Napa County, for example, also has an actual case rate of 3.5, but because that county administers significantly fewer tests than Yolo — 487.8 per 100,000 residents versus Yolo’s 1,187.3 tests per 100,000 residents — Napa’s adjusted case rate of 2.6 keeps the county in orange. Colusa County has an actual case rate below Yolo’s — 2.5 per 100,000 residents — but tests far less than Yolo (212.5 per 100,000 residents) keeping its adjusted case rate at 2.5. The statewide actual daily new case rate is 3.2, below Yolo’s 3.5.

checks to state residents making less than $75,000, and much more. On Friday, Newsom highlighted new areas of his proposed budget and expanded upon areas he’d discussed earlier in the week. One major area Newsom talked about was the climate. Newsom’s proposed budget includes $2 billion in emergency preparedness investments for wildfires, which includes purchasing new equipment for firefighting and for land and forest management projects. The proposed budget includes $3.2 billion to help accelerate the state’s goal of phasing out gasoline-powered cars and reducing the state’s reliance on fossil fuels by 2035. And the budget includes $1.3 billion in preparing

the state for sea level rise, extreme heat and environmental justice, such as oil well capping, toxic site cleanup and pollution control. The plan would also invest $5.1 billion in drought support, water supply and natural landscape projects around the state. Additionally, the plan would invest $300 million into environmental justice, and $385 million into sustainable agriculture, covering such areas as equipment replacement, soil management and sustainable groundwater management. The proposal also focuses on infrastructure, with a $7 billion allocation for expanding broadband infrastructure and $11 billion for building “roads, bridges, high-speed rail, ports and public transportation,” according to a press release. Additionally, the proposal includes

$4.4 billion for emergency response to COVID-19, which includes funding for testing, contact tracing and vaccines. And the proposal includes investments into mental health — about $400 million for school-based mental health services, $202 million for residential mental health facilities and $304.5 million for people incompetent to stand trial, along with an anticipated $500 million from the federal government for addressing mental health and substance abuse. For the healthcare system as a whole, the proposed budget includes a $94.8 million investment into expanding and maintaining telehealth services, which have been used extensively during the pandemic. And the plan includes a $25 million investment into the state’s Master Plan for Aging.

TUITION: Regents split on timing, opticts of proposal From Page A1 and for the university.” UC student leaders criticized the proposal. “In our eyes, the plan before you today only guarantees a predictability of profit for the university while maligning future students to a predictability of precarity for years to come,”

UC Student Association President Aidan Arasasingham said. He said the plan failed to account for students who miss out on in-state tuition and grants for one reason or another, such as undocumented immigrants, lowincome nonresidents and LGBT students who have been financially cut off by

their parents. The proposal also faced criticism from regents, with Eloy Ortiz Oakley raising concerns about tying the tuition increase to inflation, as it could result in an unexpectedly steep fee hike. Regents also questioned the message it would send if the university raised tuition at the same time

that it is receiving federal relief funds related to the pandemic and expecting additional funding from the state’s $75 billion surplus this month. Earlier this year, Newsom restored more than $300 million in pandemicrelated cuts with the expectation that public universities not raise tuition.

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A world of discovery awaits this summer By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer In Davis, summer isn't a time to just turn off your brain and laze by the pool or veg out in front of the computer playing video games. There are myriad opportunities for cultural, physical and educational enrichment for children (and adults). Citrus Circuits Spots are still available for the Davis Youth Robotics RoboCamps summer sessions hosted by the local high school robotics team, Citrus Circuits. Registration ends June 30 and sessions are filling up. Intended for students entering fourth through eighth grade, the 2021 RoboCamps will be a virtual hands-on robotics experience. All participating students will need a computer, internet connection, and an open area at home to work. Camps will run virtually through Zoom and encourage a collaborative learning environment led by experienced Citrus Circuits students and adult mentors. Each camp runs for one week and will be held from June 14 to Aug. 6. There are eight total sessions available for registration. For information, visit https://www.citruscircuits. org/robocamps.html. Davis Arts Center The Davis Arts Center will provide two options: an All-Day Summer Arts Camp and take-home Art Camp Kits. The Summer Arts Camp, for kids aged 6 to 12, runs on four weeklong sessions from July 19 to Aug. 13, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each pod of 10 campers will stay together throughout the week, with the same teaching artist and counselor team and have a dedicated space in the Arts Center. Art Camp Kits, for children 6 and older, include most of the materials needed, an activity checklist

for parents and campers, written project instructions, and online how-to videos from Davis Arts Center teachers and other arts organizations. Kit 1 pickup is on June 22 and 29; kit 2 pickup is on July 20 and 27. For information, go to https://davisartscenter. org/summer-2021/. Davis Summerdarts and Minidarts Dart Swimming offers summer swim options for children ages 4 through teens. Two sessions are available: June 14-July 9, and July 12-Aug. 6. Summerdarts, for ages 6-teen, offers an introduction to competitive swimming for new, novice and intermediate swimmers in a low-key and fun approach. Forty-five minute practices offered three days per week at Community Pool in both morning and afternoon sessions. Minidarts, for ages 4-7, introduces younger swimmers to competitive swimming with fun 30 minute sessions two days a 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. Davis Kids Klub Summer Camp Davis Kids Klub begins enrolling for summer

camps at Patwin and Pioneer elementary school, June 14 through Aug. 13, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Activities include daily arts and crafts, the public library reading club, language arts, fitness and team games, STEAM projects, and field trips. For information, call 530-220-4731, email office@daviskidsklub.com or visit daviskidsklub.com. Explorit Science Center Explorit’s Summer Science Camp is back for 2021. Beginning in June and running through to the beginning of August, its camps are filled with fun, hands-on science activities. Summer camp runs from 8 to 11:15 a.m. Monday-Friday. Fee for summer camp is $175 for members and $200 for nonmembers. Available camps are designed for grades K-3, 1-4, and 4-6. Visit https://www.explorit.org/camps for more information and registration. Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop The Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop offers multiple dance camps and integrated arts camps, an internship/summer training program and a dance intensive in August. It also offers a week of “Moving Words” which uses movement activities to enrich language and writing

skills, and inspire young authors. While most of its camps are for school-age children 6 to 12 years old and run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (with an early drop-off window for working parents) — it also has a half-day camp for younger participants. In “Adventures in the Arts,” participants ages 5 to 8 will explore movement, art, story-telling and theatre games. That camp will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. While many activities take place inside, the studio space is open and airy and the studio is limiting the number of participants for each camp. It's also part of the Yolo Green Check Program and Healthy Davis Together and follow multiple safety protocols including, temperature checks, frequent handwashing, wearing masks, and physical distancing. Seven weeks of summer dance and integrated arts camps begin Monday, June 14, and run through Friday, Aug. 6. The camps are designed for children who take multiple weeks of camps as well as those who take only one. The dance intensive, for dancers ages 9 and up who are dancing at a level 2 level or higher, will be held the week of Aug. 11 to 15. Find more details at www.trokanski.com or call 530-756-3949 for info.

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Offers an introduction to competitive swimming for new, novice and intermediate swimmers in a low-key and fun approach. 45 minute practices offered three days per week Monday-Friday at Community Pool in both morning and afternoon sessions.

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Introduces our younger swimmers to competitive swimming with fun 30 minute sessions two days a week Monday-Thursday at Community Pool in the morning and afternoon.

Optional Saturday morning swim meets are also offered.

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Celebrating our seniors Sneak peek into graduation ceremonies for the class of 2021 By Mia Croff HUB Staff

important celebration for both students and family, and I’m really glad that we got the go-ahead and that safety protocols allowed it.” “(I wouldn’t want a virtual graduation) because that’s just disappointing,” senior Olivia Sozio said. “I want to have a graduation just like the one in (the movie) ‘High School Musical 3.’ That’s what I always dreamed it would be like as a kid.” Although allowed an in-person graduation, some seniors are disappointed that they cannot graduate with their entire class. “I wish it was one graduation event with everybody included because I want to be graduating alongside all of my friends instead of (being) separated,” senior Avital Schwarz said. “It’s gonna be weird not getting to see a lot of my friends and peers graduate and them not getting to see me”. Vasquez sympathizes with students experiencing mixed emotions about how graduation will be conducted, but reminds all to appreciate what has been allowed. “I bet students are split on split graduation,” Vasquez said. “I can completely empathize with being sad that you can’t graduate with the whole

group. (But), we should all remind ourselves to stay grateful. It’s too human to assume we deserve something we were just recently allowed.” Senior class President Lyah Fitzpatrick has been assisting in planning graduation: choosing science teacher Eric Bastin to be the keynote speaker, assembling English teachers Eileen Guerard and Gwyneth Bruch to read names at both ceremonies, and collaborating with senior class Vice President Nolan O’Hara to write a speech. According to Fitzpatrick, the speech is called “Ode to 2021.” “It’s a positive, uplifting speech that I hope will give everyone a little nostalgia but also cheer everyone up,” Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick and O’Hara will give the same speech at their respective graduations. “(Graduation is) a moment to pause and reflect, celebrating what’s been achieved. Our lives are overwhelmingly either spent in memory or anticipation, so moments to be mindful should be cherished,” Vasquez said.

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Despite the difficulties and limitations of the past year, Davis High’s class of 2021 will be able to experience an in-person graduation surrounded by peers, family and school faculty. However, graduation plans had to be adapted in order to “appropriately accommodate the CDC health and safety guidelines,” according to vice principal Sonam Singh. The biggest change: instead of having the traditional, large graduation ceremony with the entire senior class present, the event will be split into two ceremonies that will take place during the second week of June. The first ceremony will include seniors with last names starting with the letters A through K and will take place on the last day of school, June 10, at 8 p.m. at the Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. The second ceremony will take place the following day at the stadium at the same time for seniors with last names beginning with L through Z. In order to keep the event safe and in accordance with CDC guidelines, all attendees will be required to wear a mask, graduates and families will be

appropriately spaced and seating will be assigned. Additionally, seniors are only allowed to invite four guests to attend graduation to comply with the stadium’s adjusted pandemic capacity. With smaller senior class sizes, Da Vinci Charter Academy, Davis School for Independent Study and King High School will each be holding one graduation ceremony. The Da Vinci ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. on June 10. The DSIS ceremony will start the morning of June 9 at the Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. The King High School ceremony will be on the evening of June 9. Despite these changes, the majority of the senior class is still looking forward to celebrating the event in a more traditional manner, instead of having to settle for a virtual graduation like the class of 2020. “I remember earlier in the year, people were quite upset when an ‘in-person grad’ was only a remote possibility,” DHS activities director and teacher Anthony Vasquez said. “It is a very

Post-graduation plans A message from the HUB By Renee Xiang

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In a year filled with firsts, students in the Davis High journalism program faced the unprecedented possibility of not being able to produce a print newspaper for the 2020-21 school year. Thanks, however, to a collaboration with The Davis Enterprise, the HUB has been able to expand its readership to include not only the DHS student body, but also thousands of Enterprise readers with its weekly Wednesday pages. This partnership has allowed members of our team the unique opportunity to work alongside professional journalists and learn from the best in the industry. It has been an endlessly educational experience, and we are happy to announce that we plan to continue this collaboration with The Enterprise in the upcoming school year. We would like to take the time to thank the staff members at The Enterprise for giving us a space to publish our work, as well as the readers who continue to show us support and make our print issues possible.

With this year’s graduation coming up in just three weeks, the HUB spoke with Davis High seniors about their plans for after high school.

“I’m going to Whitworth University to play football. They recruited me, and when I visited I really liked the school, the campus and the whole environment of it. I’m planning on majoring in health sciences. Zachary Brooks “I’m going to a four-year college, McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It seems like a really interesting place (and a) really cool opportunity, definitely a different feel than going to a UC. I’m hyped. It’s about to be cold but should be fun.” Samuel Koenig “I’m taking a gap year before continuing my education. I plan to spend this time traveling through a program called WWOOF that allows people to live and work on organic farms around the world and learn about different sustainable farming methods.” Emma Nansen “I’m planning on going into the Marines on the reserve side, then to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to study business after boot camp. It seems like a good option. I pretty much get paid to go to school, and I also get real world experience.” Tai Hackett

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New man on deck The UCD punt that landed in Dixon

ews that UC Davis superstar punter Daniel Whelan was just named as a firstteam All-American prompted Aggie great Gary Carlson to send a quick email my way describing the longest punt he can remember from his playing days. Carlson was a four-year letterman from 1960-63, playing on a team that went 0-8-1 his freshman year and finished with a Far Western Conference championship under Will Lotter in 1963. Carlson’s email about a long-ago punt was also addressed to Bruce Gallaudet and Owen Yancher, a couple of youngsters who have contributed mightily to The Enterprise sports department over the years, but who will have no memories of happenings in the early 1960s. I mean, Yancher clearly wasn’t born yet and Gallaudet was still in Southern California riding a bicycle with training wheels. In 1960, the year in question, I was a proud ninth-grader at Davis Junior High School who wouldn’t dream of ever missing an Aggie home football game. “As I remember,” Carlson begins, “in the early ’60s we were playing a night game, the north wind was howling down the field.” Ah yes, the north wind. Some things never change, do they? “Dick Carriere dropped back to kick.” Carriere, who brought his football talents to UC Davis from Glenn County along with his older brother Herb in the days when we were known fondly as the “California Aggies,” was a four-year starter at quarterback, team captain, twotime all-Far Western Conference first-team selection and a 1983 inductee into the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame.

UCD names Macedo as head coach for swimming and diving A veteran of more than a decade of collegiate and international coaching experience, Matt Macedo has been appointed as UC Davis’ head women’s swimming-and-diving coach, Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca announced Tuesday. The Aggies become Macedo’s fourth University of California connection: he was a 20-time All-American as a student-athlete at Cal, then made highly successful coaching stops at UC San Diego (2008-14) and UC Santa Barbara (2014-21) prior to his arrival in Davis. The 2003 Golden Bear graduate replaces Barbara Jahn, who served as the UC Davis swimming-and-diving head coach for 46 years until her retirement this spring. “I am both honored and humbled to follow coach Barbara Jahn to lead the Aggies’ swimming and diving program,” Macedo said. “UC Davis has a rich tradition of academic and athletic excellence. It was clear to me throughout this process that the department is committed to its staff and student-athletes. “Having competed against UC Davis in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation the past seven years, I’m focused on continuing the program’s quest for conference championships and success in the NCAA postseason.”

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Added Macedo, “I’m excited for my family to join the incredible Davis aquatics community and appreciate Rocko’s commitment to my vision for the program. I know I have big shoes to fill and cannot wait to get started.” Macedo comes to Davis from MPSF rival UC Santa Barbara, where he served two seasons as an associate head coach followed by the last five as the Gauchos’ head coach. During that stop, he earned back-to-back MPSF Coach of the Year honors, thanks to men’s team championships and women’s runner-up finishes in the 2016-17 and 201718 seasons. Overall, Macedo’s swimmers won a total of 61 individual and relay championships at the MPSF meet, with a schoolrecord 11 competing at the 2016 Olympic Trials. Furthermore, five current MPSF championship records come from his five years as the Gaucho head coach. Before his stop in UCSB, Macedo served as the head men’s swimming-and-diving

coach at UC San Diego from 2011-14. In just three seasons, his Triton studentathletes set three NCAA Division II records, won 16 national titles and garnered 125 AllAmerica awards. Eight of his swimmers participated at the 2012 Olympic Trials — a UCSD program high — including former Aggie Matt Herman, who placed in the top 20 in the 1,500-meter freestyle. Macedo arrived at UCSD in 2008 as an assistant coach, then was elevated to the head coaching helm in August 2011 following the team’s second-place finish at the NCAA D-II meet. Macedo coached for two top clubs before entering the collegiate coaching ranks, including the The Race Club in Islamorada, Florida. As an assistant to Mike Bottom, he prepared 13 athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including medalists Nathan Adrian (400 free relay) and Milorad Cavic

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DHS boys capture Delta golf banner By Owen Yancher Enterprise sports editor

n 1960, Crip Toomey was the UC Davis athletic director, but “Aggie Field” had not yet been renamed in his honor. “The line of scrimmage might have been our 25 or 30-yard line. The kick went end over end about 25 yards in the air,” Carlson noted. “But then it hit the ground, bounced, and the wind took it past the return man and down the field, through the south end zone and over the running track. As I recall, there was no fence on the south end of the field and the ball might have gone another 100 yards or so over the grass practice field. I believe it stopped in the parking lot of what was then the Chemistry Building, although I couldn’t actually see that far at night. I believe it was the longest punt ever, roughly 200 yards.” Carlson then asked me, “Do you have a recollection of that game, that punt and who we were playing?” I remember it well, Gary. The opponent was the fearsome Wolf Pack of Nevada from over the hill in Reno. It was best not to put the ball into their talented punt returner’s hands. When I saw that football leave Dick Carriere’s strong right foot and start its southward journey into the dark night sky, carried along by that hurricane-force north wind, I grabbed a flashlight, hopped on my ’56 Schwinn and began to chase it through the campus, across Putah Creek and into Solano County. Because UC Davis was so small 61 years ago, there were few obstacles to slow this ball’s southbound path. It rolled and rolled like a runaway tumbleweed, finally bouncing crazily through the front door of El Charro in Dixon, where it came to rest on a giant platter of that restaurant’s world-famous chiles rellenos. It was indeed a night, and a punt, to remember. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

After nearly seven years at UC Santa Barbara, two-time MPSF Coach of the Year Matt Macedo is joining the Aggie ranks as UC Davis’ women’s swimming-and-diving head coach.

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Davis High seniors Ishan Malik (left) and Braeden Schimmel receive a celebratory dousing after their ninth-hole finish at Wildhorse Monday, which secured the Blue Devils their first Delta League title since 2017.

Braeden Schimmel cringed Monday as the ice water trickled down his back. But his frown lasted just a second as the Davis High senior erupted into laughter along with his teammate Ishan Malik. The two had just been given a surprise celebratory ice shower following their finish at the ninth-hole at Wildhorse Golf Club — their round capping Davis’ undefeated Delta League campaign and first conference title since 2017. “It’s a talented group,” Devil head coach Zeb Becker said. “And they came out and performed like they should.” In six Delta duals this spring, the Devils held a clean slate — winning by an average of 44 strokes. Monday’s 190-235

victory over Pleasant Grove was icing on the cake, but it was Davis’ three-stroke upset of Jesuit last week, 188-191, at Carmichael’s Ancil Hoffman Golf Course that served as the season’s crowning achievement. “Being able to take them down was a great feeling,” Schimmel said, after carding a round of 38 against PG. “We battled through some adversity this year. But guys stepped up when we needed them to.” One of those stepper-uppers was freshman Andre Zhang, who week-in, week-out posted the Devils’ low score. The Z-man was out nursing a hand injury Monday, but told The Enterprise he’ll be back in swinging shape in just a few weeks. In his stead, David Kim filled in, chalking up a 44 along with Malik.

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UC Davis announces 2021 HOF inductees Enterprise staff Five former UC Davis student-athletes from three different decades have been selected for 2021 induction into the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place on Oct. 1, the Friday before the Aggies’ home football game against Idaho, during which the inductees will be guests of honor. Alphabetically, the new inductees are swimmer Cookie Arrighi, basketball player Sydnee Fipps, basketball player Corey Hawkins, lacrosse player Katie McMahon and football player Marc Manfredda. The first-ever recipient of the Hubert Heitman Award for the university’s female athlete of the year, Arrighi starred for the UCD swim program from the first years after the passage of Title IX. She qualified for the World University Games as a freshman in 1973, won three conference titles in 1974-75 and competed at the AIAW Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as a senior co-captain in 1975-76. Arrighi also served on Title IX committees for the

State of California and the university, while also joining the selection committee that hired Barbara Jahn as the program’s first full-time head coach. Fipps earned three Big West Conference first-team nods during her career from 2011-12 through 2014-15, becoming just the third player in school history and the 17th player in league history to achieve such a feat. She ranks third in the school record book with 1,636 career points, with a total of 32 games of 20 points or more. Fipps also rates among UC Davis career leaders in field goals made (fourth) and 3-pointers made (second), among other categories, and was just the third player in Aggie history to reach her 1,000th career point before her senior season. She later went on to play professionally in Germany and Australia. Formerly a transfer from Arizona State, Hawkins reunited with childhood friend Tyler Les to transform the Davis men’s basketball program during his career from 2012-13 through 2014-15. He put up point totals of 569, 539 and 586 in his sophomore through senior

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Former UC Davis guard Sydnee Fipps drives against UConn’s Moriah Jefferson (4) during a basketball contest at The Pavilion in 2014. Fipps has been named as one of five 2021 Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame inductees. seasons, earning such honors as Big West Newcomer of the Year (2013), CollegeInsider.com Lou Henson Mid-Major All-America (2013), NBC Sports All-America (2014) and Associated Press All-America honorable mention (2015). Hawkins also won three All-Big West nods, including Player of the Year as a senior; and twice captured the Colby E.

“Babe” Slater Award as the school’s male athlete of the year. He later played pro ball in the NBA G League and overseas in Belgium and Latvia. McMahon continues to dominate the Aggie women’s lacrosse record book, with such career benchmarks as 252 goals, 321

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I’m calling a foul on this spring sports schedule

never thought I’d find myself praying for the end of a sports season. Even back in 2016 when I was covering the Davis High boys basketball team, in the midst of a 15-game losing streak at the time, I still wanted the Blue Crew’s season to go on. The down-and-out Devils would suffer a 40-point loss and I’d still be happy as a clam, scribbling down rebound and assist tallies in my little spiral notebook and heading back to The Enterprise office late at night to pump out a story, on deadline, for the following day’s paper. But this spring has been different. Very different. Between DHS and UC Davis, nearly 50 sports seasons have overlapped this spring (44 total). Thankfully, at the high school,

seasons have been broken up into blocks, which do extend into one another, but at least give already strained facilities a bit of break. At Davis High, athletics administrator Laurie Williams deserves one of the school’s Employee of the Year honors. How in the world she’s managed to schedule gym and field time between lacrosse, football, field hockey, track, soccer and so many more sports baffles me. And I didn’t even mention all the programs clamoring for space at facilities DHS shares with the city, like water polo, tennis, golf and swimming. As the lead photographer at the paper, I’ve attended most of the DHS athletic events this spring, often only sticking around for 15 to 20 minutes — long enough to get a few photos, but short

lacrosse loss a few weeks back (I exercised my editorial judgment in a decision to omit that from our results in order to allow more page space for another sport’s results) every one of Davis High’s bajillion varsity athletic contests has been recapped.

enough to allow for me to hit the seven other sports games happening every afternoon. With the help of sports reporters Will Wyman and Lev Farris Goldenberg along with editor Kim Orendor, tracking down the 10 to 15 high-school game recaps every night has been manageable, even as we operate under restraints at The Enterprise brought on by the pandemic. With the exception of an 11-goal

nd I have to tip my cap to the entire Blue Devil coaching staff, including athletic director Jeff Lorenson and DHS trainer Andrew Superak, for helping that be the case. Even after tough losses, all of them made themselves available to The Enterprise in order to recognize the accomplishments of their athletes, day in, day out. For the first time, I haven’t been able to get to know athletes on teams like I normally would. Simply put, the multitude of

sports happening all at once prevents it. Which is exactly why the insights from coaches and parents this spring have been invaluable to our reporting. Never before have we had high-school basketball, UCD baseball, DHS soccer and the NCAA golf tournament all occurring concurrently. Sprinkle in some FC Davis soccer, Little League baseball and the San Francisco Giants holding alternate site games in West Sacramento at the River Cats’ stadium and you might just find this sports editor mumbling incoherently in a corner. It’s a spring like no other. — Reach Enterprise sports editor Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

Blue Devils shut out league-leading Thundering Herd Enterprise staff Luke Carrell toed the mound at 4 p.m. on Tuesday just like he does every week. An hour-and-a-half later, he walked off with a complete-game shutout, carrying the Davis High baseball team to a 1-0 win over visiting Elk Grove. The Devils (16-7 overall, 6-7 league) handed the league-leading Thundering Herd (18-4, 11-2) just their second loss in the Delta. Prior to Carrell’s masterpiece, Elk Grove was ranked No. 1 in the Sac-Joaquin Section and No. 7 in California — their only losses were to powerhouse schools Jesuit, De La Salle and St. Mary’s. “That was as good of a pitching performance as you’ll see,” said head coach Ethan Guevin. “Against the top-ranked team in the area. Luke … that’s what he does.” Facing the Herd lineup — which averages a Delta-leading 7.5 runs per game — Carrell allowed two hits and six total baserunners while striking out four. Two Elk Grove hitters reached to lead off the first when the Devils made two errors on consecutive pop ups. From then on, Carrell was practically unhittable.

Boys water polo Christian Davis chucked in a career-high six goals and Ryan Mayeur posted a hat trick Monday as the Blue Devil boys water polo

DHS roundup team outlasted River City, 15-10, at Arroyo Pool. JT Doughty dispensed a team-high five assists and Alejandro Johnson made eight steals as DHS improved to 9-1 overall. Asher Reising added a pair of goals along with Johnson and Dennis Fineberg.

Girls volleyball Outside hitters Kate Nelson (nine kills), Emma Thompson (10) and Grace Heringer (11) spearheaded the Davis attack Monday as the locals tossed aside Antelope, 3-0 (25-19, 25-9, 25-11). Caroline Brennan added a team-high 11 digs, while Thompson tallied 10 and Nicole Risch, eight. Risch also led the Devils with four aces in the win. Olivia Kim pounded down two.

Boys volleyball The Blue Crew fell to Antelope away from home on Monday night in four sets: 25-8, 22-25, 25-19, 25-15. Rowan Keller and Owen Buzbee inflicted the most damage for the Devil offense, earning five and three kills, respectively. The pair also led the way defensively, with 14 digs supplied by Buzbee and 11

digs as well as a block via Keller. Colin Reeve also recorded three aces on his serves. The squad will continue its road trip Wednesday when DHS travels to Cosumnes Oaks for a league match up. Devil head coach Chris Sortor’s unit own a 1-2 record so far this season.

Boys tennis Shutting out Sheldon for the second time this spring, DHS rolled the Huskies, 9-0, Tuesday in Elk Grove. At No. 1 singles, Ian Hwang secured his point. 6-0, 6-2, as did Nikhil Chander at the No. 2 spot, 6-3, 6-2. Other singles pointearners were: Ayden Morgan (6-1, 6-1), Julian Dunn (6-0, 6-0), Nico Perez (6-0, 6-2) and Elias Toy (6-0, 6-1). With only six players available, the Huskies forfeited their three doubles matches. Thursday’s upcoming dual between DHS and Cosumnes Oaks will determine the conference champion, with a share of the Delta League title on the line for the Blue Devils. After dropping a match to Jesuit last week (Davis had beaten the Marauders in the two schools’ first meeting), DHS can tie the Marauders for first place. However, a Devil loss will give CO its first-ever conference championship.

Softball Halle Gabriel belted out a teamhigh three RBI, hit a triple and finished 2 for 4 at the plate Monday. But the Lady Devils let one slip, 9-8, on the road against Dixon. Jordan Zuniga also came up big at the plate, driving home a run, while finishing 2 for 3. Madison Rutherford, Stevie Spencer, Olivia Waldren, Alex Zurborg, Isabella Lester (two), Sarah Griffiths, Gabriel and Carolena Morales each had hits. Gabriel, Zoe West, Lester, Spencer and Rutherford each scored. The Devils play Franklin in their season finale on Thursday at 4 p.m. in Elk Grove.

Boys soccer The DHS boys drew 1-1 with Franklin on the road Tuesday. The Blue Devils’ lone goal scorer was Simon Vaca-Lorenzi, whose solo effort was enough to stay level with the Wildcats. The result extends the Devils’ unbeaten streak to seven. Davis now sports a 5-0-2 overall record. DHS will host Franklin on Thursday to complete the season series between the two squads.

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Zoe West winds up against St. Francis earlier this spring. The Blue Devil pitcher scored one of Davis’ eight runs Monday against Dixon. the Lady Devils fell, 1-0, at home against the visiting Wildcats. It was only the second league loss for DHS since 2015. Despite out-shooting the visiting Wildcats, the Blue Devils were not able to breach the Franklin net. Davis will have a chance for redemption when the locals travel to Elk Grove for a rematch with Franklin on Thursday. The loss brings the Devils’ record to 5-1-1 on the season.

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“I would like to thank Anissa Nachman, the recruitment advisory commit(100 butterfly). Macedo then made tee and our senior staff for guiding a the trip to Beijing as the head coach competitive search. I know our alumni for Trinidad and Tobago, and fans will enjoy getting to mentoring George Bovell III know Matt and his family as to an 11th-place finish in the we welcome them to the Davis 50 free. and Aggie community.” “We are excited to welcome As a collegiate studenta coach with Matt’s experiathlete, Macedo won 20 total ence and philosophy to the All-America awards at four UC Davis family,” said NCAA championship meets, DeLuca. “His record of sucincluding consecutive 400 MACEDO cess at UC Santa Barbara and Coached All- free relay titles in 2001 and UC San Diego speaks for Americans and 2002. He competed at the itself, and we have no doubt 2000 Olympic Trials in the Olympians he will continue the tradition 50 and 100 freestyle events, of excellence with our swimming and reaching the finals (sixth) in the former. Macedo ranked among the diving program.

world’s top performers in the two sprint free events, garnered Pacific Swimming Swimmer of the Year (2000) and swam for the U.S. National Team (2001-03). Notes: A San Jose native, Macedo starred for Leland High School and Almaden Swim & Racquet Club. His arrival to the Aggies also serves as a homecoming: his wife, Ashley Macedo, nee Miller, starred for Davis High in swimming and water polo before matriculating to Cal. She is the daughter of former UCD water polo player and longest-serving (active) member of Davis Aquatic Masters, Curt Miller... Macedo’s UCD head coaching position comes with a $93,000 annual salary and three-year contract.

HOF: Induction ceremony open to the public From Page B2 total points and 131 caused turnovers during her stay from 2004 through 2008. She remains the only player in program annals to break the double-century mark in career goals, while her single-season totals of 66, 69, 56 and 61 held the top four spots in school history until Sorana Larson broke up that superfecta this spring. McMahon won three All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation awards, including Newcomer of the Year in 2004; while taking

three All-America accolades during the program’s final Division II season. The literal and figurative center of the Aggies’ offensive line during its final Division II seasons, Manfredda started 34 straight games in his career from 2001 through 2004. He earned All-Independent Football Alliance honorable mention as a sophomore in 2002, then captured All-Great West Football Conference firstteam distinction as a senior co-captain two years later. Manfredda also became

Davis’ seventh all-time selection (second among O-linemen) for the EastWest Shrine Game after his senior year. And while offensive linemen have no individual stats, his contributions resulted in a more important number: 31 total wins, including three in the NCAA postseason. Sadly, Manfredda passed away at the age of 38 after an accident in 2020. He will become the CAAHOF’s first posthumous inductee since Vern Hickey entered the Hall in 1996.

The CAAHOF selection committee also chose a recipient for the Aggie Legacy Award, which honors former student-athletes who have gone on to outstanding careers in sports or sports-related fields. The 2021 Legacy Award winner will be announced at a later date. The induction ceremony is open to the public. Tickets and RSVP information will be available at ucdavis aggies.com, while questions about the event may be directed to caahof@ ucdavis.edu.

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From Page B2 Sophomore Ryan Firpo was another steady presence, along with junior Logan Green, who was named conference MVP Tuesday by Delta League coaches. The two fired off match-low rounds of 35, while Josh Galindo tied Schimmel’s 38. With a drive to the putting green, Green eagled the par-4 second hole Monday in two. Freshman Rowan Shankarrapa and sophomore Garrett Tanguay also contributed to the conference title-winning effort. “Looking back to the first day of practice,” Becker began, “I remember all the huge smiles (guys) had on their faces. “And that didn’t change all season. With these guys, there’s a glow.”

“I get to see them all, every single day, working hard to improve their game,” Becker added. “But when you actually stop to talk to them and get to know them as well — they’re awesome people. “These kids’ parents are raising their children right and it shows.” Besides Schimmel, the Devils’ four graduating seniors include Malik, Joseph Fields and Alan Favela. Upon graduation, Schimmel will attend Texas Christian University. Malik is headed for UC Irvine. Fields will take his talents to Boise State and Favela will head north of the border to continue his studies at Oregon State. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

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uch has been said, and continues to be said, about natural gas being a bridge from coal to renewables such as solar and wind in efforts to slow or stop the climate crisis. While it is true that burning natural gas instead of coal reduces carbon emissions it is also true that natural gas is not a silver bullet. Methane (CH4) is the main component of natural gas. According to the EPA, it has 80 times the climate warming power of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the first 20 years it is released into the atmosphere and is responsible for approximately one quarter of climate warming driven by human activity. A report from the United Nations concludes that no matter how much the world is able to trim emissions in the near term, the CO2 currently in the atmosphere, as well as what is now and will be added from burning fossil fuels, will be there for long periods of time. Some is absorbed into the oceans but much remains in the atmosphere for potentially hundreds of years. The report, as described in a recent New York Times article, concludes that “unless there is significant deployment of unproven technologies capable of pulling greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, expanding the use of natural gas is incompatible with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the International Paris Agreement.” Small side bar on “carbon capture”: the now famous XPRIZE Foundation, in conjunction with Elon Musk, has kicked off a new contest, with a prize of $100 million, the largest incentive prize in history, for development of a successful carbon capture system at a scale that will pull more carbon from the atmosphere than we are putting into it. Unlike CO2, methane is removed from the atmosphere through chemical reactions in a decade or two and the report argues we would do well to increase attention to reducing emissions of this much more potent gas. So, how can this be done? There are a number of ways. The UN report highlights the fossil-fuel industry “as holding the greatest potential, to cut its methane emissions at little or no cost.” Indeed, the Obama administration had imposed regulations requiring fossil fuel companies to find and fix leaks of methane from gas wells and in the pipes that are used to send the gas to states all over the country. Although the last president apparently didn’t see waste as an issue and cancelled those regulations, President Biden is poised to put them in place once again. Interestingly, many in the fossil-fuel industry supported the Obama regulations, on the theory that if waste became a public issue it would be more difficult to sell the idea that natural gas is a legitimate “bridge” to a renewable-energy future. California, in conjunction with NASA, the U.S. space agency, Planet, a satellite company, and four other institutions

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