How to get your kid into Davis Youth Robotics — Page A3
One fewer race means hope for this horse — Page A5
Our future Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame inductee — Page A2
enterprise THE DAVIS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2021
Yolo backslides, won’t yet move to yellow tier Vaccination By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
consecutive weeks, so the soonest Yolo can move to yellow is now June 9, which is just six days before the state plans to ditch the tier system altogether, lift restrictions and reopen completely.
Enterprise staff writer Yolo County will not be moving to the yellow tier this week as the test positivity rate for the county’s most disadvantaged communities jumped above the threshold required for the leastrestrictive tier. That metric — the health equity quartile — increased from 1.6 percent last week to 2.7 percent this week. Moving to the yellow tier in the state’s color-coded blueprint requires a health equity quartile rate of 2.2 percent or less. Moving to the yellow tier also requires that the county meet all three metrics (including the adjusted case rate and countywide test positivity) for two
After being stuck in the orange tier since late March, Yolo County had begun making progress toward yellow in the last couple of weeks, including meeting all three yellow-tier metrics last week. But while the adjusted case rate and countywide test positivity rate met the yellow tier thresholds for a second consecutive week, the health equity quartile did not, meaning restrictions on businesses and activities that have
See YELLOW, Page A6
pace slows
County risk levels Counties
Population
Substantial
8
3,740,561
Moderate
35
18,765,828
Minimal
15
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
9.3% 46.8%
Enterprise staff writer
Despite the recent expansion of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to more Yolo County residents — and a plethora of available vaccine doses — the pace of vaccinations administered throughout the county has slowed in recent weeks. In the city of Davis, where residents have been most enthusiastic about vaccination, 67 percent of all residents had received at least one dose through May 17, according to Last Updated 5/25/2021 Jenny Tan, the county’s public inforcovid19.ca.gov/Enterprise graphic mation officer. But that was only up from 63.1 As shown in this visualization of county-level risk, much of the Sacramento percent of residents two weeks earValley region has stayed in “moderate,” orange status. Yolo County has lier. By comparison, in the seven days been in the orange tier since late March and remains so after backsliding. before that, the percentage of Davis residents who had received at least % CA Population Coone vaccine dose increased from 57.2 percent to 63.1 percent The city of Woodland saw the percentage of vaccinated residents increase from 49.9 percent to 53.7 percent between May 3 and May 17, while the city of Winters had the smallest increase in residents with at least one vaccine dose, from 46.3 percent on May 3 to 49.2 percent on May 17. West Sacramento, meanwhile, continues to lag behind the rest of the county when it comes to vaccinations, but that city did see the percentage of residents who have received at least one vaccine dose increase from 38.8 percent to 42.6 percent. Local health officials have said that 43.9%
17,622,771
See PACE, Page A3
Wendy Weitzel/Courtesy photo
Davis Pride volunteers move stencils on May 10, 2019, while painting temporary chalk on a Fifth Street crosswalk in Davis.
Rainbows at the ready Special to the Enterprise
On Thursday, May 27, Davis Phoenix Coalition representatives will speak at the virtual Davis Chamber of Commerce meeting. The presentation will offer practical tips on how businesses can be welcoming to LGBTQ+ individuals. Participants will receive a rainbow poster to hang in store windows that show their support
Rainbow crosswalks, live music, drag queens and skating are all on the calendar as Davis celebrates June is Pride Month. The Davis Pride Festival will be Sunday, June 13, in Central Park, 401 C St., Davis. Several activities lead up to and follow that celebration:
VOL. 124 NO. 63
of Pride Month. The popular rainbow crosswalks will be painted around Central Park on Sunday, May 30. Volunteers will begin spraying the temporary chalk paint at 6 a.m., and continue until about 11 a.m. To volunteer, go to http://bit.ly/rainbowcrosswalks. Meanwhile, the city will hang
SACRAMENTO — Jack Ray Snyder, a world-renowned equine surgeon and former UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine professor who pleaded guilty to tax evasion last year, was sentenced in U.S. District Court Monday to six months in prison.
Business owners are asked to show their support by hanging a rainbow flag poster in their
Snyder, 63, also must serve six months of home detention and pay $134,497 in restitution — the amount of his unpaid taxes — and a
See PRIDE, Page A6
See TAXES, Page A3
HOW TO REACH US www.davisenterprise.com Main line: 530-756-0800 Circulation: 530-756-0826
Is Your A/C Healthy?
Medical Professionals get a FREE tune up and FREE Freon!
Voted Best Bank of Yolo County
HURRY, OFFER ENDS SOON
Senior Real Estate Specialist REALTOR®, CalDRE# 01273735
530.304.4947
530-304-4208 marthabernauer.com marthabernauer@yahoo.com CA #365955
Davis/Winters: 530.753.1784 Woodland: 530.666.1784
Wednesdays: 3-6 Saturdays: 8-1
www.iTrustGreiner.com
CA DRE# 01196250
Central Park thatsmybank.com Equal Housing Lender | Member FDIC
JIN-YING SHAW
530.400.5643
18 Consecutive Years
kimeichorn.com keichorn@golyon.com
WED • FRI • $1
http://facebook.com/ TheDavisEnterpriseNewspaper http://twitter.com/D_Enterprise
Shop safe. Shop local.
Call Greiner Stat to Schedule Your $69 Precision A/C Tune-Up and Get up to 2 Pounds of Freon FREE!
GoLyon.com
Enterprise staff
Davis Pride rainbow banners throughout town, on display throughout June. The Davis City Council passed a resolution allowing the rainbow flag to be flown at City Hall as well.
INDEX
Business Focus �������������������A6 Education ���������������������������B1 Sports ���������������������������������B2 Classifieds �������������������������B5 Obituaries ���������������������������A3 The Wary I ���������������������������A2 Forum ���������������������������������A4 Legals ���������������������������������B3 Comics �������������������������������B4
MARTHA BERNAUER
Former vet prof. sentenced for tax-evasion
DavisFarmersMarket.org
ELITE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Voted #1
jyshaw8@gmail.com www.jyshawhomes.com Lic.# 01471258/02071505