Issuu

enterprise THE DAVIS

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

Housing Element update goes to council BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

Davis High graduates toss their hats in the air to celebrate their long, strange journey through the school system.

ran through a list of activities the seniors had taken part in, overcoming the limitations of the year, which affected sports, music, drama, fine arts and speech and debate. Davis school board president Joe DiNunzio spoke next, and talked about gratitude, resilience and happiness as key themes. “Each of you deserves a full life however you decide to define and live it,” DiNunzio said. “I’m hopeful that the time you’ve spent with us in small ways and not so small ways have helped you define that path forward. Throughout the year you’ve shown a commitment to compassion, to kindness and to

How much housing to build in Davis, where to put it, who it should serve and how to make it affordable are regular topics of discussion in this city, and frequently contentious ones at that. The last few months have been no different. Faced with a requirement to provide 2,075 additional dwelling units over the next eight years, city staff, commission members and residents have been discussing all of that and the City Council will weigh in on Tuesday. Under state law, all jurisdictions are expected to provide a certain amount of housing serving all segments of their populations and to outline their plans for doing so in a Housing Element that must be updated every eight years. The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) determines statewide projected housing needs and allocates new housing unit targets to regional councils of governments. Locally, that’s the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. Agencies like SACOG then assign a fair share of the region’s housing construction need to each city and county. For Davis, in the midst of preparing the 2021-2029 Housing Element, that comes to 2,075 new housing units. Those 2,075 units are split up by income category, requiring the

SEE JOURNEY, PAGE A4

SEE HOUSING, PAGE A4

OWEN YANCHER/ ENTERPRISE PHOTO

At last, journey’s end Davis High School seniors graduate in two joyous ceremonies BY EDWARD BOOTH Enterprise staff writer Half of the graduating seniors from Davis High School gathered Thursday, and the second half gathered Friday, at the Ron and Mary Brown Stadium for a festive graduation ceremony following a year of COVID-19 restrictions. Attendees wore masks and sat at assigned seats in the football field that was positioned to allow for social distancing. The field was filled Thursday, and the ceremony, as with the others this week, was live streamed for

anyone who couldn’t make it. The ceremony officially began as the blue-robed graduates walked into the stadium and proceeded to the bleachers surrounded by the traditional notes of “Pomp and Circumstance.” The seniors, who filled almost the entirety of the bleachers, settled into their socially distanced seats and the Davis High School Advanced Treble Choir sang the National Anthem in a recording. Then DHS principal Tom McHale took to a central podium and gave the first speech of the night.

McHale began by acknowledging the difficulty of the past year and he asked the crowd to hold a moment of silence for loved ones that have been lost. McHale then thanked many specific groups that had helped make the school year and the graduation possible. He gave a specific shout out to the Support Our Seniors 2021 committee, a group of parents who helped organize “An Enchanted Forest Ball” last month in lieu of an official senior prom, and the carnival-style “Senior Sunday” in the place of the traditional Davis Grad Night celebration. McHale then launched into congratulating the class of 2021 while noting that the seniors’ experience at DHS has been like no other graduating class. He

UCD celebrates students’ persistence BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students took the stage this week in a series of commencement ceremonies that were modified to respect health and safety precautions. The ceremonies, which required participants to show a negative COVID-19 test or proof of vaccination, were some of the first large events held at UC Davis since the pandemic closed down the campus last spring and forced last year’s

graduation ceremonies online. On Thursday, 800 Graduate Studies students celebrated at an in-person ceremony, followed by 600 Graduate School of Management students who celebrated Friday. Roughly 4,400 undergraduates are expected to walk in commencement ceremonies held from Friday through Sunday. The events are limited to 400 students, plus two guests apiece, and staggered |over three days to accommodate all the

SEE UCD, PAGE A3

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Graduating senior Alex Curtin walks to the stage Thursday at Da Vinci Charter Academy’s ceremony — the schools first-ever, on-campus graduation event.

Da Vinci grads fly toward the future BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise correspondent Da Vinci Charter Academy sent about 95 newly minted high school graduates — wearing green caps and gowns (plus facemasks, in keeping with recommended health precautions in this pandemic year) — out into the world on Thursday night, in an out-

VOL. 124, NO. 71

door ceremony at Da Vinci's high school branch on the Valley Oak campus in East Davis. Various speakers referenced the obvious reality that the 2020-21 school year was unlike any other year that Da Vinci students have experienced since the school was launched in 2004 ... and indeed, the

INDEX

Business . . . . . A5 Forum . . . . . . . B2 Op-Ed . . . . . . . .B3 Classifieds . . . .B5 Living . . . . . . . .B6 Sports . . . . . . .B1 Comics . . . . . . .B4 Obituary . . . . . . A4 The Wary I . . . . A2

same could be said for every school in Davis. School board president Joe DiNunzio acknowledged this when he remark to the new graduates, "This was not the senior year you imagined" when entering high school. "But this year, you've drawn on inner strength, and found agility"

SEE DA VINCI, PAGE A3

WEATHER To Today: Sunny aand warmer. High 90. Low 61. H

CALEB HAMPTON/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

UC Davis graduates and their guests made their way from Hutchison Field into The Pavilion on Friday in the first of a series of modified in-person commencement ceremonies.

HOW TO REACH US www.davisenterprise.com Main line: 530-756-0800 Circulation: 530-756-0826

http://facebook.com/ TheDavisEnterpriseNewspaper http://twitter.com/D_Enterprise

SUNDAY • $1.50

Local

A2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Briefly Thriving Pink plans activities Thriving Pink is offering three opportunities this month for those with a breastcancer diagnosis. At 7 p.m. Monday, June 14, Dr. Claudia DeYoung will lead a Zoom workshop on “What is Survivorship? How Do We Navigate a New Normal?” DeYoung runs the Breast Cancer Clinic at South Sacramento Kaiser Permanente and oversees the cancer survivorship program in the oncology department. A Social Walk will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 19, at the UC Davis Arboretum. The group will meet at the shovel archway by the parking lot. All are welcome. At 7 p.m. Monday, June 28, Dion Wiedenhoefer, a traumasensitive yoga facilitator, will lead a gentle yoga workshop via Zoom. RSVP to these events at info@thrivingpink. org for the Zoom links and more information.

For the record Davis School For Independent Study graduate Pietra Curro’s name was misspelled in Friday’s article about the DSIS graduation. We regret the error.

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

Water deal may require negotiations

on’t look now, but that Stormwater Fee ballot may cause some stormy moments in a number of otherwise happy and healthy Davis households. Thanks to my good friend John at John51.com, which may or may not be a Bible verse, I now know our upcoming Stormwater Fee vote has the clear potential to stir up family strife. I don’t take such matters lightly. “I noticed our ballot was sent in both my wife’s name and mine, since we both own our University Estates home,” John begins. “But, as I see on the ballot, only one signature line appears for voting. “ Presumably that’s because each “property” gets one vote, even if two or more people happen to be co-owners. “Although both my wife and I agree on most issues, this ballot appears to allow only one voice to be heard.” You got that one right, John. “The city could double the yes

respect that a middle initial commands.

I voices if both homeowners voted. One person, one vote. This ballot does not appear to follow that rule. Rather, it’s one parcel, one vote applies here.” On the flip side, of course, the city could just as easily double the no vote if it allowed both husband and wife to cast a ballot. John’s letter caused me to find my own ballot and there it was, addressed to “Dunning Robert J and Shelly.” Not only did the city misspell my Sweetheart’s name, they didn’t even give her credit for having a middle initial. Maybe you have to live in this town more than 50 years before they give you the

mean, imagine if “JFK” had simply been “JK.” He probably would never have been elected president. The same for LBJ. Like a number of married couples, the aforementioned Robert J and Shelley and joint tenants, which means they both own the joint. I think the legal term for this is “roommates.” There are something like 16,000 households in Davis, many of which are in the same stormwater boat as Robert J and Shelley. Certainly, in some of those households there is going to be a difference of opinion. Maybe even a strong difference of opinion. Which may mean the first one to find the ballot — or hide the ballot from the other — is the one who will cast the official vote for that household. “Dear Bill — While you were on the golf course this morning, I filled out, signed and mailed our Stormwater Fee ballot. I know you wanted to vote ‘No,’ but I just read

we’re in the start of hurricane season and it’s supposed to be a bad one. I’ll see you after my hot yoga session — Rachel.” While Robert J and Shelley have not spent a great deal of time on the Stormwater Fee debate, we do realize that $13.10 a month is not chump change on our side of the tracks and we’re not sure if the Mighty Putah is an imminent danger to our well being. Then again, if this fee can help to keep a few people employed with full benefits, it’s a small price to pay. The city addresses the question of one ballot for two or more people by stating on the back of the ballot itself “If the property is owned by more than one person, any one owner may sign for all.” That’s all well and good, but what if every owner wishes to vote? Asks John, “Could this be a lawsuit in waiting?” Most likely, my friend. It’s the way of the world these days. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Police investigate suspicious object in West Davis BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Davis police shut down a West Davis intersection for several hours Friday following the discovery of what resembled — but turned out not to be — an explosive device in the street. “We’re still trying to identify what it was, but it was not anything explosive

or dangerous,” said West Sacramento police Lt. Jason Winger, who also serves on the Yolo County Bomb Squad that conducted the investigation. The object — described as a small aluminum pipe with caps on both ends and a wire protruding from it — was found at about 9 a.m. at the intersection of Shasta Drive and El

Capitan Street, Davis police Lt. Mike Munoz said. Deeming the item suspicious, police cordoned off the area and called in the Bomb Squad, which sent in a technician to X-ray the object, then used a water cannon to render it safe. It was then collected for further testing. Police fully cleared the shortly before 2 p.m.

COURTESY PHOTO

A Yolo County Bomb Squad technician inspects the object.

About us 2021 Member

Certified Audit of Circulations

California News Publishers Association

The Davis Enterprise is published Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays by The Davis Enterprise Inc., 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616. Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Prices is Pending at Davis, CA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617-1470. Phone 530-756-0800 ———— R. Burt McNaughton Publisher Taylor Buley Co-Publisher Sebastian Oñate Editor Nancy Hannell Advertising Director Shawn Collins Production Manager Bob Franks Home Delivery Manager

SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR CARRIER DELIVERY

(plus tax) Home delivery .............$3.69 per week Online.........................$3.23 per week 12 weeks ................................ $44.84 24 weeks ............................... $89.30 48 weeks .............................. $159.79

MAILING ADDRESS Please send correspondence to The Davis Enterprise P.O. Box 1470 Davis, CA 95617-1470 or The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street Davis, CA 95616 HOME DELIVERY If you do not receive your Enterprise by 5 p.m. on Wednesdays or Fridays or 7 a.m. on Sundays, please call 530756-0826. Missed issues will be delivered on the next publishing day.

HOW TO REACH US PHONE, MAIL OR IN PERSON

Dads, get ready to read this Father’s Day Special to The Enterprise Shopping for Father’s Day can be difficult. From tools to tech toys, some gifts are used over and over again, but thoughtful gifts that match your dad’s interests can make this year’s present a memorable one. From advice for hands-on projects to thrilling mysteries and exploration of the challenges many dads face every day, and these book picks can provide a reminder of you every time he sits down to read another chapter. Find more stories to share with your dad at Facebook.com/ WilliamMorrowBooks. Practical ‘Dadvice’ for everyday tasks From the host of the YouTube channel that went viral, “Dad, How Do I?,” comes a book of the same title that’s part memoir, part inspiration and part DIY advice. Rob Kenney wished he had someone who could teach him the basics — how to tie a tie, jumpstart a car, unclog a drain, use tools properly — as well as succeed

GETTY IMAGES

If Dad likes to read, there are gifts that will connect with any interest or hobby. in life. In this book, he shares his story of overcoming a difficult childhood with an absent father through the strength of faith and family, and offers words of inspiration and hope. In addition, he provides instructions for 50 practical DIY projects, illustrated with helpful line

drawings, as well as the occasional dad joke. A riveting race against time “New York Times” bestselling author Linwood Barclay returns with a riveting thriller, “Find You First.” Diagnosed with a terminal illness, tech millionaire Miles Cookson begins a search for the

JUST FOR

DAD

June 18 to June 30

Home delivery: 315 G St., 530-756-0826 Delivery phone hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sun. 7-10 a.m. Business office: 315 G St. 530-756-0800 Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

10% 30% OFF

FAX

Advertising . . . . . . . . . .530-756-7504 Home Delivery (Circulation). .756-7504 News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756-1668

EMAIL News . . . . . .newsroom@davisenterprise.net Sports . . . . . . . .sports@davisenterprise.net Home Delivery circulation@davisenterprise.net Classifieds . . . classads@davisenterprise.net Advertising . . . . . . .ads@davisenterprise.net Legal Notices . . . legals@davisenterprise.net Obituaries . . . . . . obit@davisenterprise.net Production . . . graphics@davisenterprise.net

ON THE WEB www.davisenterprise.com

All Recliners

We also have ﬂavored pellets and sauces!

395-A E. Monte Vista Avenue, Vacaville

Check out The Enterprise online at www.davisenterprise.com!

children he’s never known. Somewhere out there, after having been a sperm donor, he has nine unknown kids who might be about to inherit both the good and the bad from him – maybe his fortune, or maybe something much worse. One by one, Cookson’s heirs are vanishing — every trace of them wiped, like they never existed at all. An Exploration of the challenges fathers face Growing up in Columbia, South Carolina, Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC News’ “Today,” had a fraught relationship with his father. Lawrence Melvin was a distant, often absent parent due to his drinking as well as his job working the graveyard shift at a postal facility. A powerful, intimate exploration of fatherhood, addiction and resiliency, “Pops: Learning to Be a Son and a Father” is the story of their long journey to reconciliation and understanding, as well as an investigation of the challenges facing all dads.

www.GalleryOfFireplaces.com

385 MERCHANT STREET • VACAVILLE • 707446-9008 MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-6PM • SATURDAY 10AM-4PM • CLOSED SUNDAYS

707.449.6385 LaineysFurnitureForLiving.com

Local

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021 A3

Yolo heads into reopening with low COVID case numbers BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County may not have made it to the leastrestrictive yellow tier in the state’s COVID-19 blueprint, but the county heads into the statewide reopening on Tuesday with the lowest number of daily new COVID-19 cases in a long time. Over the last two weeks, the county has reported an average of five new cases per day, about half as many as were being reported during the three weeks prior. Yolo County is seeing about as many positive cases now as it did around this time last year when much of the state was still shut down and before the summer surge began in late June. The county’s case rate was not what kept it out of the yellow tier in recent weeks; rather, it was the test positivity rate in the

most disadvantaged communities that was too high. Yolo County met that metric last week, though, and likely would have finally entered the yellow tier on June 16 (after more than two months in the more restrictive orange tier), but the state is ditching the whole tier-based system on June 15 and lifting restrictions on businesses and activities for all counties. For Yolo residents, that means an end to capacity limits indoors at restaurants, bars, movie theaters, gyms and fitness centers and more. Additionally, vaccinated individuals will be able to go mask-less in most public settings though the unvaccinated will be expected to continue wearing face coverings. ———— According to the latest data from the state, 77 percent of residents in the

95618 zip code in Davis have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and 67 percent are fully vaccinated. The numbers are not quite as good in the 95616 zip code in Davis, where 64 percent of residents have received at least one vaccine dose and 55 percent are fully vaccinated. Elsewhere in Yolo County, the 95776 zip code in Woodland shows 81 percent of residents have received at least one vaccine dose and 63 percent are fully vaccinated. In Woodland’s 95695 zip code, 62 percent of residents have received a COVID-19 vaccine dose and 48 percent are fully vaccinated. West Sacramento, where vaccination rates have been the lowest, has shown improvement, with 51 percent of residents in the 95605 zip code having received a vaccine dose and

41 percent fully vaccinated. Doing better are residents in that city’s 95691 zip code, where 65 percent of residents have received at least one vaccine dose and 55 percent are fully vaccinated. Meanwhile, 60 percent of residents in the Winters 95694 zip code have received at least one vaccine dose and 44 percent are fully vaccinated. ———— As of Thursday, 14,049 Yolo County residents had tested positive for COVID19 during the pandemic, including 2,184 Davis residents. Over the course of the last 15 months, 209 county residents have died due to COVID-19. The city of Woodland continues to account for the most new cases and 42 percent of all cases since the pandemic began. West Sacramento accounts for nearly 28 percent of all confirmed cases and the city of Davis just over 15 percent. Winters and unincorporated areas of the county account for the remaining 15 percent of cases.

Woodland has also seen the most COVID-19 deaths — more than half of the county’s total, including many nursing home residents who perished early in the pandemic. The city of Davis has lost 17 residents to COVID-19. ———— With the end of the school year and reopening of the state and county, Healthy Davis Together’s COVID-19 testing will be available at five school sites as well as at Mondavi Center during the summer. Four of the school sites will be open to all community members beginning June 21 while one (Korematsu Elementary) will serve only staff and students in the Davis Joint Unified School District. Mondavi will continue to be a community testing site. Healthy Davis Together will be ending testing at the Veterans Memorial Center and Davis Senior Center as those facilities transition back to regular (nonCOVID) community uses. Friday, June 18, will be the final day of testing at both those locations.

City Hall to reopen to the public on Tuesday BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Effective Tuesday, Davis City Hall will open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents can visit City Hall for everything from building permits to camp registration, utility bill payments to business licenses. Online systems and services will continue to be available as well. Meanwhile, public meetings, including those held by the City Council, city commissions and others will continue to be held via Zoom until further notice. Face coverings must be worn indoors in all city facilities by all unvaccinated visitors and all city employees.

UCD: Virus protocols still in effect From Page A1

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Ninety-five Da Vinci Charter Academy seniors set a course for winds of fortune Thursday during the school’s on-campus graduation event.

DA VINCI: Principal embraces role From Page A1 — an experience that may prove useful as the new graduates advance into adulthood, with all the aspects it entails. "As you face new challenges, lean into the resilience you developed (this year) at Da Vinci." Life, after all, has a habit of throwing you an unexpected curveball every now and again. "This is a diverse class, warm and kind, willing to reach outside their normal circle to make friends," DiNunzio added. Da Vinci principal Tyler Millsap and his colleague Scott Stephen Bell (who holds the distinctive job title "teaching vice principal"), framed their remarks in aviation terms. Speaking of the school as "Da Vinci Airlines," Millsap (moving momentarily into the role of "Captain Millsap," while introducing Bell as his "copilot") then reviewed the aircraft's safety procedures, explaining the unidirectional walkways to be used by the audience of graduates and family members, seated in strategically arranged chairs on the sun-drenched grass of the school's athletic field, with plenty of social distancing between the seated attendees.

Millsap added that the graduating seniors were sitting up front, "in the first class cabin." And he mentioned that in lieu of inflight meals, the crew was prepared to pass out "masks, water bottles, and sunscreen" on request. "This has been a fairly unique flight. There has been some turbulence (this year)," Millsap added, with a bit of a sparkle in his eye. "While you have sometimes veered off course, or bounced around in your seat, you have persevered." And Millsap told the new graduates that "You are what this complicated, dynamic and sometimes crazy world needs" in the years to come. Several graduates received special awards: ■ Gyrlande Holm received the Davis Rotary Scholarship. ■ Tovia Keele recieved the Da Vinci Alumni Network Scholarship, in recognition of an elaborate quilt she made by hand this year, which celebrates various

aspects of the school and the present times. ■ Ashton Perfecto received the Da Vinci Booster Essay Scholarshop. ■ Grace Allen received the Da Vinci Compass Award. In keeping with what is now a Da Vinci tradition, as each graduate stepped forward for recognition, a 15-second video (created by that graduate) was shown. With nearly 1oo graduates this year, this made for a rather long graduation ceremony, but it underlined the close interconnections that Da Vinci (designed as a small learning community favoring project based learning, in which all of the students and all of the teachers get to know each other pretty well) makes a point of fostering. The Da Vinci graduation was attended by about 550 people (including staff and the event's production crew), with another 300or-so people following the even online via a livestream.

participants. Graduates and their guests gathered Friday at Hutchison Field for the first of the undergraduate ceremonies. After reporting to a COVID-19 screening tent, groups of students and guests, spaced 6 feet apart from each other, crossed the field and entered The Pavilion where the graduates’ names were read and photographers captured the moment. The ceremonies, which are not featuring any speakers, are livestreamed on the UC Davis commencement website. In addition to the inperson events, a virtual commencement was held Friday featuring remarks from Chancellor Gary S. May, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan, distinguished alumni and others. The virtual event highlighted the perseverance and achievements of this year’s graduating class. “This past year you faced unimaginable challenges and were put to the test in ways few other graduating classes have, yet you persevered,” Jen-

nifer Siebel Newsom, filmmaker and spouse of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said in a prepared video recording. Not only did students make it through the pandemic, Newsom added, they went above and beyond. “Many of you took care of loved ones. You volunteered at food pantries. You marched for racial justice. And you served on the front lines to get your community vaccinated all while pursuing your degree,” she said. Over the past year, UC Davis repeatedly made national headlines for its response to the pandemic. Students helped staff testing sites managed through the Healthy Davis Together initiative. Later, medical students organized vaccine clinics for underserved communities. “You are a truly special group,” University of California President Michael V. Drake said. “I’m so proud of your strength and resilience over the past year. Few classes have faced such an array of unexpected challenges, yet you forged ahead.” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May also

applauded the graduating class for its perseverance and ability to adapt to unexpected challenges. “The class of 2021 persevered during COVID-19 by adapting quickly to new ways of learning. You persevered while practicing social distancing and sheltering in place. Many of you balanced work, family, financial or personal challenges with the demands of your studies. Throughout, you never gave up,” May said. “Throughout the pandemic, I’ve seen Aggie heart, spirit and determination. I’ve seen students jump into action to help others by volunteering at local food banks and sewing masks for essential workers. I’ve seen many of you eager to volunteer at testing sites and become Aggie Health Ambassadors to promote safe practices among your peers. You’ve demonstrated time and again that you’re ready for this moment,” the chancellor said. “This is the moment to embrace the wide world of possibility that awaits.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at

DESIGNING SPECTACULAR KITCHEN REMODELS! (530) 760-6625 527 G STREET, DAVIS LORAINDESIGN.COM

DAVIS GLASS & SCREEN Call us first for

SERVICE & REPAIRS • Window/Patio Door Hardware • Screens (New + Rescreen) • Mirrors/Shower Doors • Failed/Broken Dual-Pane Windows

530.758.0910 • www.DavisGlass.com 920 3rd St., Suite D • Downtown Davis

Mon-Fri 8am-5pm (Wed until 6pm) • Sat 8am-12pm Contr. Lic# 990121

Call for a

JUMBO LOAN Estate Planning|Probate Trust AdministraƟon Special Needs|Elder Law

quote.

I can beat most other lenders.

21 Court Street Woodland, CA 1652 W. Texas Street &ĂŝƌĮĞůĚ͕

www.bsoninlaw.com

(530) 662-2226 Caring for our clients, ProtecƟng their assets™

Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act. NMLS #1141.

David Heard, Branch Manager NMLS #244146

530.902.3725 www.daveheard.net · dheard@mmcdcorp.com

It is time to relax with great food, family and friends! Tuesday-Saturday Lunch: 11:30am-1:30pm Dinner: 5:00-7:30pm Free Private Parking Reservations Required Village Homes Located in West Davis oﬀ Russell Boulevard

2657 Portage Bay East #8 • Davis • (530) 758-1324 email: osteriafasulo@sbcglobal.net • www.osteriafasulo.com

From Page One

A4 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

HOUSING: Obstacles still there

JOURNEY: Party split over 2 nights

From Page A1

following: ■ 580 very low income units ■ 350 low income units ■ 340 moderate income units ■ 805 above moderate income units There are several housing developments either approved by the city already or in the planning process which are anticipated to be built during the 2021-2029 Housing Element period, providing a total of 2,409 housing units, according to city staff. However, those projects do not provide enough low-income units to satisfy the RHNA requirements, requiring the city to look elsewhere for additional sites for 323 lower-income units. In the Housing Element update, which must be approved by HCD, the city is required to demonstrate sufficient land is zoned to provide that housing capacity or, when there is not enough land, to identify an inventory of potential sites suitable and available for re-zoning. Because Davis does not currently have enough vacant land appropriately zoned for the housing shortfall, staff identified an inventory of sites that could be rezoned to meet the need: ■ 1100 Kennedy Place ■ 1021 Olive Drive ■ 3300 Chiles Road ■ 3425 Chiles Road ■ 2950 Chiles Road ■ 315 Mace Blvd ■ 4600 Fermi Place ■ 480 Mace Blvd ■ 1000 Montgomery Ave “Inclusion on this list does not necessarily mean that a property will be rezoned, and consent of the property owner to do so is required,” city staff have said. Meanwhile, the city is considering a variety of strategies for meeting the re-zoning obligation, including: ■ Implementing the Downtown Davis Specific Plan, which is currently in the environmental review

process and assumes hundreds of housing units will be built in the core area. ■ Rezoning nonresidential land (such as business parks and offices) ■ Up-zoning of nonresidential designations that allow for residential uses ■ Annexing unincorporated land. Constraints on those strategies include the city’s land-use zoning as well as Measure J/R/D, which requires a vote of residents on projects that would develop open space or agricultural land, and the city’s 1 percent growth rate cap. The Housing Element Committee, comprised of city commission members and council appointees, passed a series of recommendations last month targeting some of those constraints. The committee recommended, among other things, exploring whether to remove single-family zoning from the zoning ordinance to allow for more dense housing and multifamily housing throughout the city; removing parking requirements from residential development in the city; removing the city’s 1 percent growth rate cap; rezoning strip malls to mixed-use designation to allow housing; and placing a measure on the ballot that would exempt the Wildhorse Ranch and Mace Curve from the requirement of having to subsequently be approved by a Measure J/R/D vote. Not surprisingly, many of those recommendations drew criticism from members of the public. Dozens called in to recent Planning Commission meetings to oppose the recommendations and planning commissioners ultimately chose not to formally endorse those recommendations, though they did endorse two others related to the Housing Trust Fund. The first calls on the council to add a draft Housing Trust Fund proposal as an appendix to the Housing Element. The second calls on the city to develop a Housing Trust

OBITUARY Lonnie Harrison Johnson 1930 — 2012

Born in Bieber, in 1930 to Charles and Vera (Cook) Johnson, Lonnie Harrison Johnson passed on May 4 in Davis. Lonnie graduated from Elk Grove High School in 1949; all his children also graduated from Elk Grove High. He served as a staff sergeant in Korea, where he earned a bronze star for cooking on the front lines. After discharge, he joined the Florin Fire Department. Lonnie was a career firefighter, rising up the ranks, teaching fire science, and becoming a deputy fire chief. Lonnie was proud of the years spend serving his community. He continued to do so as a member of Sutterville Heights Optimist Club. He enjoyed cooking for their annual crab feed. His favorite activities were reading and going out to eat a good meal.

He was predeceased by his wife, Beverly, his parents, and his brother JOHNSON Clifford. Lonnie leaves behind his daughter Cindy (Ken) True, sons Bruce (Robin) Johnson and Patrick (Gayleen) Johnson; grandchildren Allison True, Marshall True, Vincent Reali; and two greatgrandchildren. The family would like to thank Carlton Senior Living in Davis for the years of care and support. The service will be at 2:45 p.m. Monday, June 14, at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon. A great meal will follow at 3:30 p.m. at Cattlemens in Dixon.

Fund program that clearly identifies the needs of the community that will be addressed, the programs that will be funded, how the fund will be administered and to develop an oversight committee to ensure Housing Trust Fund dollars are being used to meet the affordable housing needs of the community. Planning commissioners had different takes on the draft element itself. Commissioner Darryl Rutherford said the draft “has come up pretty short on what its purpose and goals should be" and said, "the process has been weak, the document itself it kind of weak.” Commissioner Stephen Mikesell disagreed, however, saying “it responds to the RHNA requirement and it responds to state law. “In general, staff has done a good job of creating an element that does what it’s supposed to do and is likely to be approved by the state… This is a very important hoop that we have to jump through.” Commissioners Cheryl Essex and Greg Rowe both cited properties they believe should be included in the inventory of sites that could be used for housing, including the vacant Hibbert Lumber property, the Shriners property on the north side of East Covell Boulevard and the Signature property inside the Mace Curve. Rowe also called out what he said is an overly optimistic reliance on the housing the draft Downtown Specific Plan assumes will be built. “The draft Housing Element is counting on the downtown area alone to provide well over a third of the units needed in the next eight-year RHNA cycle, which may be completely unrealistic relative to the current real estate market, rising construction costs and land costs,” said Rowe. He and others also called on UC Davis to build more on-campus housing for students and staff in order to free up more housing in Davis for everyone else.

empathy. These are great cornerstones for a happy life to come.” Two student speakers, Lyah Fitzpatrick and Alexander Di, spoke after DiNunzio. (On Friday, two other students, Nolan O’Hara and Matteo Nouve, gave speeches as well.) Fitzpatrick, the DHS senior class president, addressed her speech to the seniors and said the lows of the year gave them a greater appreciation for the highs. Starting each sentence with “here’s an ode to,” Fitzpatrick ran through a list of general anecdotes and scenes familiar to the class of 2021 — the sunrise on Aug. 26 2020 as the school year began, flipping pancakes while learning poetry analysis over distance learning, the relief felt after submitting a college application, the extra minutes of sleep students got as they rolled out of bed with two minutes to go before class, and many more. “And here’s an ode to every college decision, every plan and every absence of plan because sometimes you’ve got to live life a bit untethered,” Fitzpatrick said. “Class of 2021 graduates, forever remember this year. It wasn’t the lowest that brought you to this moment sitting side by side, it was the highest.” Di, in his speech, focused on the importance of continuing to take steps forward in the face of difficulty, which he said will certainly arrive in the years to come. He said the seniors, especially during the past year, had shown their ability to continue moving forward despite the circumstances, and despite failure. He said that though the seniors may never again have to use the quadratic formula or recall the symbolism of “Lord of the Flies,” they should take their “blue wizard costumes and square hat” with them because their represent the seniors’

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Davis High senior Emily Chapman celebrates after receiving her diploma Thursday night. Chapman is the co-recipient of this year’s Gordon True Service Cup — the highest honor bestowed on DHS students. ability to continue taking steps forward in the face of difficulties. “You will undoubtedly experience defeat and so will I,” Di said. “I remember very clearly when I watched a Batman movie for the very first time. I leapt off the couch, ran to my mom and said ‘mom’, when I grow up I want to be Batman. She looked at me and said, ‘son, grow up. You graduate next week.’ ” Di added: “If there is anything you take away from today, remember that access and greatness are not measured by money or fame, but by your ability to take that extra step forward, because often it’s that one extra step that changes a defeat into victory,” he said “Class of 2021, the world awaits you. Go ahead and take that extra step forward, and just maybe someday you might become Batman.” Eric Bastin, a teacher at DHS, also gave a speech about the challenges of the past year — which he said will hopefully be a once in a lifetime type of challenge — and life going forward for the seniors. He told the seniors that graduation is truly a milestone and they shouldn’t let the pandemic rob them of recognizing

that. “The very word commencement means beginning and that’s exactly what this is,” Bastin said. “It’s a beginning for all of you, where you pass from being under the thumbs of your parents and teachers and integrate into a whole new world filled with opportunities. Imagine a future where you never again have to ask for permission to pee. For many of you the responsibilities that go along with these opportunities may appear scary, but all of you are ready whether you realize it or not.” Bastin recounted aspects of pandemic life and distance learning over the past year, commenting upon pet cats walking across Zoom screens, students who always had their cameras turned off and walking his dog countless times. He said it makes sense for the graduates to be feeling anxious about the future, and added that there’s nothing wrong with making changes, even for those who feel that they’ve mapped everything out. Bastin added that the seniors are still young and have a lot of life in front of them. “Making mistakes is a given,” Bastin said. “What matters is whether or not you learn from them.” After all the speakers were done, and as night fell, the graduating seniors lined up in two lines to a recorded rendition of Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day, sung by the Davis High School Choral program, and made their way to the central dais. The graduates’ names were read, one after another, to raucous cheers from the crowd, as they walked up to receive their diplomas. McHale stood at a central off ramp to give COVID-safe nods to each of the graduates. And then the seniors joined up again in the bleachers, one more time, to move their tassels from the right to the left and complete the ceremony.

Business

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021 A5

FNB adds assistant vice president Valerio promoted in First Northern’s agribusiness commercial loan team Special to The Enterprise

DIXON — First Northern Bank announced Friday that Karen Smith joined its Small Business Loan Team as assistant vice president/small-business loan officer. First Northern Bank, the Sacramento Region’s local leader in small business lending and customer satisfaction, underwrites and funds a full range of business lines of credit, equipment loans and leases, owner and investor commercial real estate loans, construction loans, Commercial & Industrial loans, SBA 504 and 7A loans, letters of credit, and business acquisition loans throughout Yolo, Solano, Placer, El Dorado and Sacramento Counties, as well as the East Bay Area Region. Smith’s 25 years in the financial services industry includes, business and personal banking, relationship management, marketing, sales, and SBA 504 and 7a loan originations, and

business development in the Solano, Yolo and Napa county markets. Prior to joining SMITH First NorthJoins Small ern Bank, Business Loan Team she served as Business Relationship Officer for Travis Credit Union in Vacaville. In her new role, Smith will evaluate and serve the needs of existing and potential business customers seeking small business loans, deposit accounts and treasury management products. She will assume overall responsibility for her small business banking relationships. Smith is the former president, vice president and treasurer of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, and while on the board, she participated in launching a culinary training to provide program employment skills for

people graduating from a rehab program. She also served on the board of Kiwanis Club of Greater Napa, and during that time they partnered with the Napa Police Officers Association to raise money for the “Shop with a Cop” back to school shopping for low-income families, sponsor 13 scholarships a year, and volunteer at Lighthouse for the Blind’s Enchanted Hills camp for the blind and vision impaired. Smith is a third-generation Napa Valley native where she lives with her husband. She enjoys training her Siberian Husky in urban mushing and attending motor speedway races like the Indy 500, Daytona 500, and sprint car races. Her office is in First Northern Bank’s Vacaville Financial Center at 555 Mason St., Suite 100. Available by appointment, she can be reached at 707-4692122 or 707-953-8252 (cell), or ksmith@thatsmy bank.com.

Insurance group names UCD grad executive vp Special to The Enterprise WALNUT CREEK — CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA insurer, announces the appointment of UC Davis graduate Julie Brown to the position of executive vice president of commercial insurance. Brown will be responsible for the distribution of commercial insurance under the Mobilitas brand, launched in 2020 to provide commercial insurance

solutions for the sharing economy and mobility sector. “Julie has a successful track record of insurance industry leadership and we’re excited to welcome her to help diversify and drive growth for our commercial business,” said Tom Troy, president and CEO at CSAA Insurance Group. She has more than 32 years of experience in the insurance industry, encompassing commercial and all

aspects of the business, including underwriting, operations, product management and distribution. Brown previously served as senior vice president of distribution strategy at IAT Insurance Group, and in diverse leadership roles during her tenure with Safeco Insurance and Liberty Mutual Insurance. She has a bachelor’s degree in managerial economics from UC Davis.

Check out The Enterprise website at www.davisenterprise.com!

Special to The Enterprise DIXON — Alicia Valerio was promoted to loan specialist for First Northern Bank’s Agribusiness Commercial Loan Team. She joined First Northern Bank in 2016 as a financial services representative for the Dixon branch where she could always be counted on to deliver a superior level of service and build strong relationships with the bank’s consumer and business clients. The asset size of the Dixon branch has grown 34% since she joined the bank. In her new role, Valerio

will provide operational support to the team, which will include processing commercial VALERIO loan appliIs now a cations and loan loan specialist advances, ordering and reviewing loan documentation, ensuring regulatory compliance, assisting with agricultural inspections, and interfacing with clients, lenders and branch employees as the Agribusiness Commercial Loan Team’s primary contact for

operational and administrative support. Matt Peyret, senior vice president and Agribusiness Commercial Loan Team manager, said, “We are extremely excited to have Alicia join our Agribusiness Loan Team. She has over 24 years of banking industry experience, with the last five spent at First Northern Bank. “She has proven herself to be an amazing resource for her clients and she very much enjoys building long-term relationships. Alicia will be a wonderful addition to our team.” Her office is at the Bank’s Dixon branch, 195 N. First St.

2020 Water Quality Report

Now Available!

Available to view online City of Davis tap water meets all State and Federal drinking water standards water sources, contents, and other VISIT

CityofDavis.org/WaterQuality

CityofDavis.org/WaterQuality Water@CityofDavis.org

Design Your Perfect Bedroom | Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm

Espresso Finish Solid Maple Wood Bed

Dark Cherry Finish Solid Maple Wood Bed

Did you know we spend a third of our lives sleeping? Sleep is considered one of the most important body functions. Finding an amazing bed for your mattress is just as important as finding the perfect mattress. As you set out to furnish, renovate, or update your bedroom, think of mattresses and bedframes as a dynamic duo. A great night's sleep depends on choosing quality options for each! Stop in today and let us help you design the bedroom you dream in. Plenty of Parking Available!

2300 Fifth Street | (530) 756- 4187 | www.DavisHomeTrends.com Enjoying The Enterprise print edition? You can also follow us on social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram!

A6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

LET’S RECLAIM HUGS & KISSES. We’re all excited to start gathering safely again with our loved ones. It’s important to get vaccinated and keep getting tested, even after being vaccinated. By taking those precautions and following local mask and gathering guidance, we can all get back to the moments we miss with family and friends.

#HealthyDavisTogether

COVID-19 TESTING AND VACCINATIONS ARE AVAILABLE. WALK-INS WELCOME.

HealthyDavisTogether.org/testing COVID-19 TESTING SITES Tests and parking are free!

Davis Senior Center

Mondavi Center

646 A Street Davis, CA 95616

523 Mrak Hall Drive Davis, CA 95616

Veterans Memorial Center

Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School

203 East 14th Street Davis, CA 95616

1441 Danbury Street Davis, CA 95616

sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

B Section

Forum Op-ed Comics Dial-a-Pro Living

B2 B3 B4 B5 B6

DAVIS HIGH ATHLETES OF THE YEAR

Top Devils Rose to Hall is no sure bet

’m not really interested in whether Pete Rose should be honored in Cooperstown. If the criteria is his performance on the field of play and all those hits he amassed at the plate, how can you keep him out? On the flip side, is the fact he gambled on baseball games while he was a manger for the Cincinnati Reds, so how can you let him in? Maybe we should have another criterion, like how polite and forthcoming was he with sportswriters during his postgame interviews? I’ll let others decide Rose’s fate with the Baseball Hall of Fame. But now that virtually every professional sports league in America has suddenly engaged in a fullbodied embrace of legalized sports betting, there is one part of the Pete Rose story that has been misunderstood by his defenders. Rose finally admitted some time ago that he did indeed bet on Reds’ games, but insisted that he bet only on his team to win the game, not the opposition. Therefore, folks say, his intentions were pure. In fact, if anything, Rose was doing everything a manager should do to ensure that the Reds won the game.

Brooks, Higgins are the Blue Crew’s top performers for 2020-21 BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG

told The Enterprise. And Higgins, the daughter of Drew and Eileen HigDavis High honored gins, made sure to menZach Brooks and Amara tion the whole family. Higgins with the Ath“I have two younger lete of the Year Award brothers so that was on Monday as an really tough for them to unusual and challengmanage all my sports ing year of Blue Devil and events ... to help me athletics came to a close. develop as a player. I Both recipients play HIGGINS feel like it really multiple sports — Will suit up for acknowledges all the Brooks suited up for the Black work that I put in, but DHS football and wresKnights also a lot of the work tling, while Higgins that (my family) put in.” captained Blue Devil Brooks, the son of lacrosse and field Jeremy and Kelly, also hockey. reflected on the people “I think both of them that have gotten him to exemplify what Blue this point. Devil athletes are all “I’m so honored, and about,” athletic director super grateful,” Brooks Jeff Lorenson told The said. “I couldn’t have Enterprise. “Just a high done it without the suplevel character, excepBROOKS port of my coaches, my tional athlete, unbelievMulti-sport family, and my teamable in the classroom, threat at mates along the way.” and overall good leaders Davis High The two student athfor the entire school and letes had to wait a little longer community.” For Brooks and Higgins, the for their senior seasons when award is a testament not just to the pandemic threw a wrench their dedication and hard work, into athletics. “This year there’s definitely but also to the energy put in by been a lot more adversity and the people closest to them. “It’s a really, really big deal, certain things we’ve had to overespecially to my family, with all come,” Brooks said. “But I think the work ... behind the scenes, every year, whether it’s a normal and just my parents giving up so season or a COVID season, much time and effort,” Higgins teams and athletes have a lot to

Enterprise staff writer

Amara Higgins has been a force on both the DHS lacrosse and field hockey teams over the past four seasons. The Davis High senior will attend Army West Point next school year. OWEN YANCHER/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

shoulder and deal with.” Brooks, DHS football’s leading tackler the last three seasons, has carried the Blue Devil defense on his shoulders for three seasons. The Jack-of-all-trades slotted in at running back, linebacker, tight end, guard, and more as he earned an All-Delta League selection and the Delta League Defensive MVP in 2019. That season, Brooks racked up a team-leading 123 tackles and four fumble recoveries while leading Davis to the Delta

bviously, it’s a much different story if Rose bet against the Reds. There are, of course, skeptics who simply don’t believe Rose’s story, but let’s take him at his word and analyze what that means in light of the way sports betting works. Unknown to the average American who does not participate in sports betting, there’s much more to this activity than simply selecting who is going to win or lose a certain baseball game. You can also bet whether the first pitch of the game will be a ball or a strike. Seriously. “Hey, Billy,” says the hypothetical manager to his starting pitcher before the game, “let’s be wild with your first pitch so the batter thinks you will have control problems.” Ball one. Bet collected. Another bet you can make concerns whether the home team will score at least one run in the bottom of the first inning. A manager could bet “no” without actually betting on his team to lose, then send up his 7-8-9 hitters to try to win that bet. Another bet concerns how many strikeouts the team’s starting

SEE DUNNING, PAGE B5

Davis High’s Zach Brooks returns a forced fumble against Gregori on Nov. 8, 2019. MIKE TRASK/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

League championship. In this year’s abbreviated season, he led the squad again with 35 tackles (20 solo), three sacks and three forced fumbles. Brooks’ illustrious Blue Devil tenure includes 270 career tackles, 1 interception and three touchdowns. When he wasn’t doing it all for Steve Smyte’s Devils, Brooks midnighted as a wrestling star. In 2020, he finished in the top 10 at the CIF state wrestling meet — the top finish by a DHS boys wrestler in over a decade. The now-graduated senior was also selected as a 2020 National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete. This fall Brooks is headed to Whitworth University in Washington, where he will be joined on the Pirates gridiron by fellow Blue Devil Patton Miller. Higgins is east-bound — come fall she will attend the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and play lacrosse (“Go Army, beat Navy,” adds Higgins). Higgins’ time as a Devil spanned three seasons on varsity lacrosse and varsity field hockey. This spring, she tallied 34 goals and 13 assists while leading the girls lacrosse team to a 13-3 record. Her career numbers are even more eye-popping: 10 hat tricks, 60 goals and 25 assists. That’s all with the crosse. With the field hockey stick, Higgins earned a unanimous All-Eastern Athletic League selection for field hockey in 2019 and was a fourtime Eastern Athletic League Champion in field hockey. After overcoming an ACL injury her sophomore year, she helped the Devils maintain a perfect, 48-0 record across her DHS career.

SEE DEVILS, PAGE B5

ESPN should run the College Football Playoff

hen, not if, the College Football Playoff expands from its current four-team format to 12 teams, that will likely be the death knell for the bowl-game system as we know it. Since the CFP’s formation in 2014, those who run the bowl system have grappled with how to keep the non-CFP games relevant. That process became more and more difficult each year. There were (and are) too many bowls — games often being of little or no importance, played in front of few fans. The only relevance for coaches were (and are) the extra practices bowl participants receive, plus the financial bonuses in their contracts. Bowl games that won’t be affected: Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach and Alamo — all games that feature goodto-great matchups, played in large stadiums. Those on the critical list are any of the “medium tier” contests that will never be part of the enlarged

CFP. ESPN owns and operates 13 lower-tier games, which it uses mainly for live programming. Speaking of which, perhaps ESPN buys up all the bowls not mentioned above and runs the bowl system itself. ■ There’s an adage in baseball that good-to-great players do not become good-to-great managers. While that is true in some cases, it does not apply universally. Three men have 1,500-plus career hits and 1,500-plus career managerial wins. Collectively, this trio played for or managed 17 of the 30 MLB teams. Answer below. ■ The original USFL played from 1983 to 1985 and produced such stars as Jim Kelly, Steve Young, Reggie White, Herschel Walker and several others who later played in the NFL. Kelly, Young and White are all in the Hall of Fame. Now, backed by a TV contract with FOX Sports, USFL II plans

accomplish the feat. In fact, Earl is the only skipper since 1974 to get tossed twice in a day. Here’s the all-time list:

to play in the spring of 2022 as an eight-team league in cities to be named. There has always been a market for springtime professional football, even if countless leagues tried and failed to succeed. Will this USFL do what the others didn’t or couldn’t? Stay tuned. ■ MLB teams don’t play many doubleheaders anymore. If they do, it’s a separate admission daynight affair or a late-season makeup of a previous rainout. Thus, it’s doubtful we’ll ever again see a manager get kicked out of both games of a doubleheader. It last occurred 36 years ago, and it’s only fitting that Earl Weaver was the last to

Sept. 4, 1911: Fred Tenney (Boston Braves) June 9, 1946: Mel Ott (New York Giants) July 27, 1946: Frankie Frisch (Pittsburgh Pirates) June 6, 1954: Jimmy Dykes (Baltimore Orioles) Aug. 3, 1958: Paul Richards (Baltimore Orioles) July 21, 1963: Walter Alston (Los Angeles Dodgers) Aug. 4, 1963: Johnny Keane (St. Louis Cardinals) July 14, 1974: Billy Martin (Texas Rangers) Aug, 15, 1975: Earl Weaver (Baltimore Orioles) Aug. 29, 1985: Earl Weaver (Baltimore Orioles)

■ Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, who once played at thenRaley Field as a Triple-A player, raised a good point this week. His proposal to allow pitchers to doctor baseballs via various foreign substances, may help hitters

stay safer than they are now. “What bothers me more is a 98-mile-an-hour fastball coming at my head, thrown by a guy who really doesn’t know how to pitch,” Alonso said. Practically since baseball was invented, pitchers have always looked for any edge they could get. In recent years, scuffing the baseball has been popular and there are all kinds of ways to doctor balls. The latest is getting rosin from every mound’s rosin bag mixed with a small amount of sunscreen that makes the spin rate of the ball accelerate. The higher the spin rate, the more difficult the ball is to hit. ■ Quiz answer: Joe Torre, Dusty Baker and Lou Piniella. — The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Reach him at DKelly1416@aol.com.

Forum

B2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

COMMENTARY

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

Charter-school war continues

Time to extend W the eviction moratorium BY TRACY DELANEY AND ZENEI TRIUNFO-CORTEZ Special to CalMatters

s public health and health care leaders, we are overjoyed to see diminishing numbers of COVID cases. But that isn’t the only number we need to watch as we recover from the pandemic. Across California, people have lost jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. Thousands of Californians are behind on rent, facing evictions and accumulating debt that will haunt them for years or even decades. An estimated 700,000 households are behind on rent in California, and as it comes due, research by the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) shows that many will cut back on medicine and food or lose their homes entirely. It is impossible to repair damage done by the coronavirus when we are leaving so many behind. If legislators do not act, California’s COVID-19 tenant protections — and the hope they offer — will end on June 30. We agree with BARHII’s analysis — a wiser option is to extend Senate Bill 91, which regulates the eviction moratorium and federal COVID-19 recovery funds, and make the bill airtight, closing the loopholes that exclude many tenants. Extending the moratorium will give renters time to access rent relief programs and will allow us — nurses and public health practitioners — to focus our attention on healing individuals and communities. If the Legislature fails to act, even our best nursing and public health efforts won’t ward off this preventable crisis. Public health data are clear: Eviction protections save lives. Despite state and local governments’ best efforts to get rent relief programs running quickly, tenants face immense barriers applying and are still waiting for relief. Some landlords are already serving eviction notices. The same communities that faced the highest exposure to COVID-19 — such as essential workers working for low wages — now face an epidemic of evictions, which are deeply tied to higher suicide rates, heart disease and hypertension. Because Black, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latinx and other communities of color have often been locked out of higher wages and stable, affordable housing, these evictions also will increase racial health inequities. What gives us hope is the clear evidence about what provides a foundation for better health. BARHII’s recent research shows that rent relief and eviction protections save lives, increase well-being and put us on a path to recovery that includes, rather than excludes, tenants. Polls show strong support for an extension of the rent moratorium and for getting relief to tenants. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature must: ■ Extend eviction protections until unemployment among low-wage workers has dropped to prepandemic levels and the state has expended available rental assistance funds; allow cities and counties to pass their own stronger protections; and keep protections that have worked, such as longer evictionnoticing periods so that tenants have enough time to apply for rental and legal assistance. ■ Protect tenants by ensuring that they can access 100% of the rent relief program regardless of landlord participation and are safe from negative credit reporting that would deny them homes in the future. ■ Remove barriers that disproportionately affect immigrants, Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander and Indigenous people, such as documentation requirements and exclusion of tenants who paid rent but piled on loan and credit card debt to do so. ■ Invest deeply in community-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate outreach and application assistance. While state agencies are working on this, the eviction moratorium’s looming June 30 deadline means tenants are running out of time. We’ve made so much progress recovering from COVID-19 that it’s unconscionable to think we’d turn our backs on Californians and head straight into another health crisis caused by a wave of evictions and insurmountable rent debt that is just around the corner. We are gravely concerned about the cascade of sicker, shorter lives we will see if legislators are not urged to extend SB 91 quickly. The positive effect of extending the moratorium and ensuring residents can access rent relief will ripple out across California. When people can stay in their homes, they are more financially stable, their children do better at school, they are healthier. The Legislature must act so that everyone can be part of California’s recovery. — The Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative contributed to this commentary, conducted data and research on the impact of the eviction moratorium and rent relief on the health of Californians, and provided policy recommendations. Dr. Tracy Delaney is executive director of the Public Health Alliance of Southern California. Zenei Triunfo-Cortez is president of the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

hen Gavin Newsom succeeded Jerry Brown as California’s governor two years ago, it reignited the Capitol’s long-running conflict over charter schools, which receive public funds but operate independently of traditional public school systems. As mayor of Oakland, Brown had founded two charter schools — the Oakland Military Institute and the Oakland School for the Arts — and during his second governorship was protective of the charter alternative. However, the publicschool establishment, led by the very powerful California Teachers Association, saw Newsom as a potential ally in its yearslong effort to suppress, or even eliminate, the charterschool movement. Advocates of charter schools, parents particularly, see them as workable alternatives for students that aren’t succeeding in traditional schools but critics portray them as elitist institutions that siphon money away. The fact that many charters are nonunion is a big factor in the conflict, perhaps the dominant one. During Newsom’s first year in office, the anticharter coalition mounted a major assault which

ended with some new regulations but fell short of strangling charters, which now enroll more than 10% of the state’s public school students and have been growing as traditional schools have seen enrollment declines. Everything went on hold during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic as all public schools shut their doors and tried, with varying degrees of success, to conduct classes at home through the internet. However, a pandemic-induced school finance measure aimed at shoring up school district finances did take a bite out of money for charters. The conflict flared up again this year with the introduction of Assembly Bill 1316, carried by Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, a former teacher who chairs the Assembly Education Committee and is closely aligned with the teachers’ union and other anti-charter interests.

LETTERS Mariachi Puente grateful Mariachi Puente expresses deep gratitude to YoloArts for awarding our organization an arts grant derived from CARES Act COVID funding earlier this year. With this grant, we were able to remain viable and active under the pandemic quarantine restrictions that we had to follow. Although we were not able to perform live and in person, we were able to rehearse one-on-one with our students once per week. About once a month, we were able to produce a video of our students performing a song in our repertoire. The COVID Arts grant helped to pay our coaches to work with our students so that they would be prepared to record their videos. A recent highlight project was a video collaboration with the Woodland Latino folkloric dance group, Folklorico Latino de Woodland. You can find these videos by searching for Mariachi Puente on YouTube.com. Mariachi Puente is a Davis school district after-school student club that works with secondary-grade students in order to bring more representative

enterprise A McNaughton Newspaper Locally owned and operated since 1897

Foy S. McNaughton

R. Burt McNaughton

President and CEO

Publisher

Taylor Buley

Sebastian Oñate

Co-Publisher

Editor

Official legal newspaper of general circulation for the city of Davis and county of Yolo. Published in The Davis Enterprise building, 315 G St., Davis, CA. Mailing address: P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617. Phone: 530-756-0800. An award-winning newspaper of the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

Ostensibly, the bill would reform oversight of charter schools that offer home instruction, rather than classroom schooling, citing a scandal in San Diego. Operators of a nonclassroom charter called A3 were accused of fraudulently obtaining at least $400 million in school money and two pleaded guilty earlier this year. However, the California Charter Schools Association saw it as a broader union-backed effort to undermine the movement with multiple new oversight mandates and ginned up a campaign to block the bill.

he measure reached the Assembly floor but behind-thescenes dickering among stakeholder interests, including Newsom’s staff, resulted in a compromise of sorts. The bill was placed on the Assembly’s “inactive file” and a temporary moratorium on new non-classroom charters, imposed last year, was extended until 2025 in a “trailer bill” that will be attached to the new state budget this month. “AB 1316 would have reduced and diverted education funds away from students and classrooms to be spent instead on bureaucracy and would have

participation into the Davis school music program by rehearsing and performing mariachi music in the local community. YoloArts has been essential in facilitating Mariachi Puente to continue its work during a very challenging time. Hiram Jackson co-director

Thanks for making Pence sale a success This year, the Pence Gallery was forced to cancel its annual Garden Tour due to COVID restrictions. But as with art itself, there are work arounds and this year we adapted the Garden Tour into an outdoor Art in the Garden event. Twenty artists created wonderful art to enhance gardens and delight garden owners. There were more than 200 items available, and their sale helped not only local artists, but the Pence Gallery itself. Upstairs in the Andresen Learning Center, the “Natural Abundance” exhibit featured garden paintings from 18 artists. Fresh bouquets of flowers, fabulous theme baskets, plants and free seed packets from Hedgerow Farms, all contributed to the festive theme. So many sponsors supported this new

Speak out President The Hon. Joe Biden, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

limited flexibility and educational opportunities,” Myrna Castrejón, president of the California Charter Schools Association, said in a statement. “It would have effectively forced many schools to close down.” Despite the respite, the conflict will continue and perhaps become even sharper because overall K-12 enrollment is dropping due to a declining birthrate and other demographic factors, and the pandemic has significantly and perhaps permanently altered the state’s school system. Advocates of traditional schools worry that having experienced the ups and downs of distance learning, more parents and students might be attracted to charters, particularly those offering at-home instruction, thus shifting even more state school dollars. It’s a high-stakes competition for students and money that both sides see as existential — their institutional lives at risk — and Newsom will be feeling the heat from both as it continues. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to cal matters.org/commentary

event: Tandem Properties, Bill and Nancy Roe, Kim Eichorn of Lyon Real Estate, MAK Design & Build, John Lescroart, Richard McCapes, Recology, Pam Marrone and Mick Rogers, Henry and Kathy Thornhill, Dr. Wayne Schrader, Kristin Kelleher Wong, Roger and Claudia Salquist, Jim Gray and Robin Affrime, Diane Lardelli and Cynthia Gerber, Mike and Judy Davis, Mary Brooks, Anne and David Hawke, and Bonnie and Kit Lam. We would like to send our appreciation to the superb Pence Gallery staff, artists, sponsors and board members who helped with the event. Special thanks goes to Bob Dunning for his column on our fundraising event, and Carbahal & Co. and the Davis Bike Club for lending their essential pop-up tents. So many volunteers created an enticing courtyard display for a very successful fundraiser. We are all very grateful to those of you who purchased art or sponsored the event. Proceeds from the event went to maintaining our facility, supporting our education and exhibit programs, and covering staff costs for our nonprofit organization. We hope to see you at the Pence soon to visit the latest exhibits and our wonderful gift shop. Sue Smith and Eileen Hendren Event co-chairs

202-224-3553; email: padilla.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

We welcome your letters

House of Representatives

Addresses and phone numbers should be included for verification purposes; they will not be published. Limit letters to 350 words. Anonymous letters will not be accepted. We reserve the right to edit all letters for brevity or clarity. Mail letters to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617; bring them to 315 G St.; fax them to 530-756-1668; or email them to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.

Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880. District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact/ email

Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: visit https://govapps.gov. ca.gov/gov40mail/

Op-Ed

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021 B3

One man’s recycling was treasure for two teens

omething wasn’t quite right. “I think I drew the X too big,” I said to my friend Dylan. “It looks fine, man.” he chirped back. “Let’s go, we’re gonna be late.” “Polka-dot tie?” I asked. “Of course,” he yelled, already halfway out the door. I tucked the giant piece of cardboard under my arm and ran out after him, hopping into the passenger seat of his white 1997 Toyota 4Runner. The audio system had probably been non-functional since 2009. Using a red Solo cup as an amplifier, he was playing rap music out of an iPod. Hours before, we’d spotted a large box in the street on Cowell Boulevard. In the minds of two 15-yearold boys, the former housing of a Panasonic 65-inch plasma display was the perfect thing for us to turn inside-out and convert into a makeshift sideline television booth for the high-school basketball game that night. We’d commandeered a pair of blue, extra-thick permanent markers from someone’s sister’s art supplies. And, in a haste, we’d begun to scribble on the cardboard box the FOX Sports logo.

Only halfway through the process did we realize we’d drawn FOX too large and that there wasn’t going to be any room left for the word ‘Sports’ below it. “It’ll be fine,” Dylan reassured me. “People will still think it’s hilarious.” “Who should be our sponsor?” I asked. We decided it should be local: Hunan Bar & Restaurant. Wearing two of my late grandfather’s woolen suit jackets (that felt like they weighed 20 pounds, because they did), we made our way into the Davis High gymnasium, grabbed a pair of frontrow center-court seats, and set up shop, draping the hulking piece of cardboard over our laps. Shortly after, our friend Spencer joined the mix. He supplied each of us with the crucial Xbox 360 headset necessary to truly capture the broadcasting crew persona.

COURTESY PHOTO/WES YOUNG

When ESPN’s busy, Fox Sports steps in to broadcast Davis High basketball games. Slowly, the student section began to fill in around us, each of our classmates laughing out loud as they entered the building and saw our spectacle. The wool suit jackets remained on for about 10 minutes before we came to the realization we were going to melt if

we didn’t remove them. As the players began to wrap up their pregame warm-ups, one of the referees trotted over to our “booth.” “Guess the game wasn’t important enough for ESPN?” he wise-cracked. “Territorial rights,” Spencer

fired back. I recall absolutely nothing about what actually transpired in that basketball game, let alone whether or not Davis even won. We spent the entirety of the contest cracking jokes, cheering for our best friends on the team and, occasionally, posing for pictures. It’s one of my favorite highschool memories ... The last two school years, it’s broken my heart that students haven’t been able to pack the stands or bleachers as they once did. Athletes that in a regular situation would have their names chanted after sinking a huge 3-pointer or scoring a game-winner instead receive a silent response from a mostly empty gymnasium. With California set to lift COVID restrictions on June 15, I’m hopeful this upcoming fall will be a different story for local students. There’s nothing quite as magical to an athlete as walking into a gym or stadium filled with fans. But it takes the support of a community to make that so. — Reach Enterprise sports editor Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

Palestinians deserve better than deflection Special to The Enterprise

COMMENTARY

alestinians’ demands for the same rights that we in the U.S. take for granted deserve our full attention, not to be dismissed as Rich Rifkin did with distracting games of whataboutery (“Blaming Israel is about bias, not justice”). Whataboutery is a classic tactic anyone concerned with social justice faces if they raise any issue of concern. Whataboutery seeks to deflect attention, ignores the underlying big picture and fails to provide solutions. Rifkin’s column is a classic example. Rather than look at the root causes of the violence in Israel and Palestine — which as ever lies in deepseated injustice — or seek to advance ideas on how to move forward, we get the classic trope that other (Arab) countries are worse, that Hamas is reactionary, and that those criticizing Israel are largely anti-Semitic and singling out Israel. This is dishonest deflection. Anti-Semites exist and must be unequivocally denounced, but everyone I have met who is concerned about Palestinian rights are anti-racists and concerned about injustice everywhere. We get similar attempts at deflection, when people raise the ways the U.S. has been and continues to be shaped by its history of slavery and genocide of Native Americans. Thankfully, more and more people are acknowledging and being honest about this past, and thinking about how we can move forward practically to address it. We need a similar honesty

and critical self-reflection about Israel and Palestine. Rifkin asks why Israel is being singled out? It’s not activists that do it. The real singling out is by the U.S. government that provides Israel with the single largest amount of military aid, including the bombs and planes that killed 222 people in Gaza, 63 of whom were children. And the U.S. has used none of its vast leverage over many decades to require Israel to abide by international law, to end its occupation, and reverse laws that have enshrined what Israeli human rights organizations have defined as apartheid. For decades, U.S. policy has effectively declared that Palestinian lives do not matter. The painful truth that has to be grappled with is that the establishment of the Israeli state in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust involved the mass dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians and the continued occupation of and discrimination towards those Palestinians who stayed. It is a unique, traumatic and complex history but it doesn’t help to just point the finger elsewhere when this dispossession has been consistently and wholeheartedly supported by U.S. military, financial and diplomatic aid. To have any chance of a lasting peace in the region requires us not to deflect attention, but confront this history of oppression and the U.S. role in perpetuating it. — Nick Buxton is a Davis resident.

BY NICK BUXTON

From your Jewish neighbor in Davis Special to The Enterprise

COMMENTARY

Did you know May was Jewish American Heritage month? Did you also know that hate crimes against Jews have risen by over 400% since the outbreak of violence in the ongoing Israeli–Hamas war a month ago? The FBI Annual Report on Hate Crimes notes that Jews are the victims of 60.3% of all religiousbased hate crimes in the U.S. and this was before the most recent surge. Davis is known for its small-town atmosphere, excellent academics and progressive values. Recently, a local activist responsible for organizing beautiful murals celebrating diversity and inclusion, crossed the line from legitimate criticism of Israel into Jew hate. They wrote on their social media that Palestinian children “are being kidnapped as we speak” in reference to the most recent IsraelPalestine conflict. This is not accurate, it’s inflammatory, disrespectful, and is being used to justify anti-Semitism here and worldwide. This comment was posted within a

popular Davis parenting group and I and the Jewish members watched for over a week as not a single person pointed out the racism or even asked her to clarify. Surely, our neighbors would challenge such an outrageous provocation. Anti Semitism, or Jew hate, can only survive the way a virus does, by mutating. Blood Libel is an Anti Semitic canard falsely accusing Jews of murdering or kidnapping children and has been used to justify violence for millennia. It was used in the Middle Ages where entire Jewish populations were wiped out based on our religion and mutated into the 20th century where we were ethnically cleansed across Europe and the Middle East based on our race. Today, we are witnessing white supremacists in America stoking hatred of Jews and immigrants in our country with an updated version of “replacement theory.” Blood libel and replacement theory should not become acceptable in our town.

BY ALTA FRANCO

ICYMI: OUR TOP 5 STORIES OF THE WEEK News ■ Former police sergeant admits to embezzlement: http://wp.me/p3aczg-40P7 ■ State gives business owners three options under new mask rules: http://wp.me/p3aczg-411z ■ Alleged DUI crash kills car passenger in rural Yolo County: http://wp.me/p3aczg-40Rk

When I finally challenged the aforementioned post, my social media account was flooded with comments and private messages calling me a “psychopath,” accusing me of not being a “Jew of conscience.” The real irony was being told that blood libel never existed while in the same breath being called a “bloodthirtsy Zionist.” I chose not to respond but felt confirmed over the fact that this local activist’s followers, my neighbors and fellow townspeople, could now witness the lived experience of a Jew calling out dangerous anti-Semitism and the audience to which they serve. As progressive allies, we must not demand or expect emotional labor from oppressed minorities, and this applies to Jews. As a community we must do the work and learn how to identify and dismantle racism including the ethno-religious racism against Jews. I ask my neighbors, friends, and fellow Davisites to please honor our progressive principles and listen to our lived experiences. You don’t have to be

an expert on the wars in the Middle East to stand up against Jew hate at home. Our community has a target on our backs unlike any other time in U.S. history and we need your support now. Please speak up against dual-loyalty tropes, against demonization of Israelis and Jews, and against historical revisionism. Please don’t dismiss us when we defend ourselves or argue that our lived experiences are invalid. Challenge those who engage and indulge in anti-Semitic tropes and inflammatory rhetoric. American Jews are being attacked in real life and in real time. Jew hate is an indisputably deadly virus and it can only thrive if unchallenged by decent people. When you hear it, see it, or read it, please speak up. Defending the values of inclusion and respect for all in our town makes us stronger. Hatred and bigotry can only flourish in silence. Please speak out with patience and fortitude against the lies that seek to divide and weaken our community. — Alta Franco is a Davis resident.

Editors’ choice for web comment of the week

Sports

Feature

“My senior daughter came home with a carnation tied with a bow from LAX senior night at St. Francis. It was such a sweet gesture.”

■ Sixty-four Blue Devils named to 2021 All-Davis Enterprise honor roll: http://wp.me/p3aczg-40z5

■ Birch Lane students bury time capsule: http://wp.me/p3aczg-40Z5

From Heather Marshall Mariano

THESE WERE THE MOST CLICKED-ON NEWS, SPORTS AND FEATURE POSTS AT WWW.DAVISENTERPRISE.COM BETWEEN SATURDAY, JUNE 5, AND FRIDAY, JUNE 11

In response to “Bob Dunning: Four tickets to paradise”

Comics

B4 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Baby Blues

Dilbert

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Pearls Before Swine

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

By Stephan Pastis

By Scott Adams

Zits

By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Saturday, June 12, 2021

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Crossword ACROSS

1 Supreme court member?

11 III, e.g., in “Richard III”

14 Number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun

16 It becomes another question when its first letter is moved to the end 17 “Wall Street” catchphrase 18 Chump

19 Just a bit

20 Like the last in a line 21 Wear

23 Day to post a throwback picture on social media: Abbr.

28 Perfumery compound 30 Actress Shields, mother of Brooke 31 One stoner to another 32 Satisfied sigh 34 What a shrug might mean 36 Was up, in a sense 39 Nibbles 40 Cheap cab, perhaps 42 Org. with an annual Codebreaker Challenge 43 More than suspicious of 44 Be in the works 46 Irish name that’s a Slavic name backward 50 The old you? 51 Like some unpleasant comments

53 Kind of trip taken solo 54 Utah’s “Industry,” e.g. 56 Camper’s gear chain 57 Throw (together) 58 It can lay a one-and-a-halfpound egg 59 “Hold on!” 63 Calculator button next to cos 64 Words after “The end”? 65 Lead-in to stars or daylight 66 Soft, green food

Edited by Will Shortz 1

No. 0508

0508

0510

11 15

Classic Peanuts By Charles M. Schulz

32 36

31 34

35 39

42 45

56 60

DOWN 65 66 1 Void 2 Once-in-alifetime events PUZZLE BY DAVID STEINBERG 24 What a nod 3 Get too old might mean 22 Noodle dish 52 Celebrity 37 Correction for a 4 “I’m right here” whose name portmanteau wild pitch 27 ___ bowl 5 Business letters indicates its beginning in 38 “Marriage Story” cuisine 2012 6 Horizontal ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE Oscar winner 24 Steaming 7 Walt Whitman 55 Accept the blame 40 Dumpster fire wrote one A P P S D R A W R I C A N for 25 Club type beginning “Lo, M A R I R E N O O N I C E 41 Lacks 26 Pumbaa’s friend ’tis autumn” 57 Impertinent sort P L O T I A G O O S T E R in “The Lion 8 Turn right, say 45 Ring in the O U T O F L E F T F I E L D King” 60 Archery need holiday spirit? 9 Years ___ C A D E N T L E O D D A Y 29 Goes on a dinner 61 Grocery store A L E R T T O R Q U E The New 10York Sorority letter Syndication 47 Flood date, e.g. Times Sales Corporation found in I T S S O Y O U U R B A N 620 E 11 “How adorable!” Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 33 They may be Michigan? 48 Annual genre N O T P E P T E L A V I V For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 used in a pinch 12 It involves much writing award F I A S C O S S I N E 62 Pete Buttigieg’s Forear-tugging Release and Monday, June 14, test 2021 35 Composition S T A R C R A F T R E D O S 49 Common home state: head-shaking 36 Easy friendliness complex rule Abbr. H O S E N I C E J O B 13 Grade-A I N P E R I L B A C A R D I 15 Notable Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past R E U B E N B A N K L O A N examples of puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). T U R I N G A G U I L E R A crossing a line, S P E E D S E S S E S E T in brief Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Crossword

ACROSS 1 Desktop computer covered by AppleCare 5 Opposite of buys 10 PBS science show since 1974 14 ___ Raton, Fla. 15 Clothing crease 16 Like the climate of Death Valley 17 Easy-to-peel citrus fruits 20 Sherri’s twin sister on “The Simpsons” 21 Stockpile 22 Main ingredients in meringue 26 Verbal shrug 29 Warmly welcome, as a new era 30 Whack on the head 33 “Do not ___” (blackboard words) 35 Variety

36 Big name in tractors 38 Shapes of Frisbees and tiddlywinks 39 Welcome gift upon arriving at Honolulu International Airport 40 Mascara mishap 41 Sore, as after a workout 42 NASCAR champion Hamlin 44 Apt name for a car mechanic? 45 Scientist’s workplace 46 Facial expressions 48 “Do you ___ my drift?” 49 What many children begin to do in kindergarten 51 Practice for a bout 53 Website with trivia quizzes

56 “Medicine” that doesn’t actually contain medicine 59 Axed 60 Love to pieces 62 Estate beneficiary 63 Coffeehouse dispensers 64 First episode in a TV series 65 Change for a five 66 Try out 67 Cherry throwaways 68 World capital where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded

DOWN 1 Creator of Watson on “Jeopardy!” 2 Protective trench 3 Target of the skin cream Retin-A 4 Close-knit group 5 Bits of parsley PREVIOUS PUZZLE'S ANSWERS (UPSIDE DOWN) ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 6 Man’s name hidden in N B A A L L S T A R A C T “reliableness” E I G H T Y E I G H T W H O 7 Man’s name G R E E D I S G O O D S A P hidden in A T O M N T H S P O R T “reliableness” T H U I G E T I T A C A I 8 Language akin to Thai E S T E R T E R I D U D E A A H N O M A T T E R 9 Low-altitude clouds B A T T E D N O S H E S H O U S E R E D N S A 10 Grannies O N T O B R E W A I D A N 11 A.C.L.U. and others T H O U S N A R K Y E G O M O T T O R E I S L A P 12 Fights (for) E M U W A I T A M I N U T E 13 Commercials S I N N I G H T Y N I G H T 18 Has a war of S E E M A S H E D P E A S words

Edited by Will Shortz 1

19 21

22 27

29 34

38 41

46 49

No. 0510

44 47

48 52

56 61

Ambitious Sudoku 1 Complete the grids so that every row, column and outlined 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9. No number will be repeated in any row, column or outlined box.

PUZZLE BY ZHOUQIN BURNIKEL

19 Changes, as the Constitution 23 Fritters (away), as time 24 Montana’s capital 25 Peeving

26 Purple Heart, e.g.

27 TV journalist Hill 28 Crispy breakfast side dish 30 Salad base similar to Swiss chard

31 Speak from a podium, say

32 Two-time presidential candidate Ross

34 “The ___ is falling!” (Chicken Little’s cry) 37 Angsty music genre

42 Worked out in a pool 43 “We should do that!” 46 Rug cleaner, informally

47 Spot for a mud facial 50 ___ & Young (accounting firm) 52 “Bless you!” elicitor 53 Closed 54 Father, in French 55 Make tweaks to 56 Dance with a king and queen 57 Actress Jessica of “Hitchcock” 58 Approximately 61 Fútbol cheer

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Diabolical Sudoku 2 See the Sudoku solutions in today's classifieds.

H O T M E S S N E G A T E

B O N H O M I E B I R T H S

A U T O T U N E A G E O U T

A L L H T Y E D I M N I G E R A A H T T E S E R O B U S T O W A N I M

S T A R E I G H S G O O T H E T I T T E R I N O M D N O E D N R E W N A R K R E I I T A M G H T Y A S H E

A C T W H D S A S P O R A C A D U D A T T E S H E S S A A I D A Y E G S L A I N U T N I G H D P E A

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 35 Variety

trivia quizzes

N O P E T S T O P T I E R

4 Clos 5 Bits 6 Man’ hidd “reli 7 Man’ hidd “reli 8 Lang Thai 9 Lowclou 10 Gran 11 A.C. othe 12 Figh 13 Com 18 Has word

Sports

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021 B5

DEVILS: Many thanks DUNNING: It’s too much of a gamble to take From Page B1 “There’s a lot of people that have helped me get to this point,” Higgins added. “I know for sure I would probably not be playing (lacrosse) if it were not for coach Suzanne Isidor … Her encouragement really helped me grow a love for the game. And then just all my teammates and peers, like Alex Agnew, she has always been a role model for me.” Isidor, the head lacrosse coach at UC Davis, coached Higgins in youth lacrosse and now coaches Agnew, the 2019 Blue Devil Athlete of the Year and current

Indigo Hammond + Playle Architects is looking for talented individuals who have a passion for beautiful and sustainable architecture! Competitive pay, good health and dental benefits, retirement plan, and personal leave policy. Check out www.indigoarch. com. Please send resume and portfolio to Bruce Playle at bplayle@indigoarch.com.

RENTALS & REAL ESTATE OLD EAST DAVIS WELL-MAINTAINED HOUSE

HELP WANTED Elementary School Student Activities Supervisor 6 hours/day. $15-20/hour depending on experience.

Start ASAP. 530-220-4731

pitcher will have, so let’s say you bet he’ll have six or more. Again, you’re not betting against your team. In fact, you’re actually betting that your pitcher will have a good game. However, let’s further say as the game progresses the team you manage has an 11-0 lead after six innings. Your starting pitcher has thrown just over 100 pitches and should logically be removed to save his arm for another day since the outcome is no longer in doubt.

EMPLOYMENT HELP WANTED For enology and viticulture research journals. Compose page layout, maintain competency in peer review process, maintain publication schedule. Proficient in proofreading, InDesign, PhotoShop, graphic files, HTML; PC-oriented. FT w/competitive salary and benefits. Send resume to PO Box 1855, Davis, CA 95617-1855 or email to resume@asev.org.

Your Puzzle Solutions Sudoku 1

(upside down)

Sudoku 2

$2800/mo. 4bd, 2ba, Central H/A, Fireplace, Large shady low-maintenance backyard. Walk-out/ walk-down deck via Great Room. 2-car garage with washer & dryer hookups.

The only problem here is that he has struck out only four batters at that point and you need him to strike out six or more to win your bet. So you leave him in.

gain, you’re not betting against your team, but you’re certainly putting your pitcher’s health in jeopardy so you can win a bet. Same score, 11-0, as you enter the ninth inning and you have a bet that the opposition will not score a run in that inning. Instead of saving your ace reliever for another day and bringing in a rookie who needs some work, you

stick with the ace so you can win the bet. You may not be betting against your own team, but you are certainly betting against your team’s best interests. Sports betting has been taking place ever since sports were invented. In fact, some would argue that sports came into being so people could bet on them. Legalized sports betting may well help control the fixing of games by bringing the whole process into the light of day, with appropriate oversight and regulations.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-0788 1. Angel Del Valle Short, Jr. filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Angel Del Valle Short, Jr. to Angel Del Valle 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 7-1-2021 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: #10 Room: ZOOM The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: 5-10-2021 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 1336 5/30, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20

Contact: Sherri 530-902-8383

BLAKE’S Heating & Air Conditioning

46 Years in Davis!

Replacement Specialists FREE ESTIMATES Complete sheet metal shop Servicing all makes

CONSTRUCTION

DOLL REPAIR

ALTA QUALITY PAINTING 530-450-9717

• Painting & Construction • Interior/exterior painting • Cabinet painting • Attention to detail • Professional painting • Drywall repairs • Deck and fence sealing • 15% off on complete exterior job • Insured bonded LIC #1043878

Fran’s Doll Care & Repair

(530)758-4030 Lic. #299969

High quality service for the fairest price

FREE ESTIMATES

Antique - Vintage - New “Every Doll Is Special” (530) 750-9926

BATHROOMS/KITCHENS

ADDITIONS/REMODELING CONTRACTOR

DRYWALL

Clean z Polite z Locally Owned

******************* Bringing Quality Home

(530)681-5548 PERFORMANCE HOME IMPROVEMENT • Custom Kitchen/bath remodeling • Cabinets, tile, counters • A+ BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU RATED! performancehomeimprovement.com

$500 OFF Full Remodel

(530)756-6061 Custom homes, remodels, commercial work. Fair price, quality work, timely completion. FREE DETAILED ESTIMATES.

Davis Resident Since 1969. Eisele Construction Lic. #628459.

Lic# 709993

******************* BATTERY SERVICES

CA Lic #767832 Jeff Goeman Goeman Construction New Construction & Remodeling Residential/Commercial Additions, Kitchens & Bathrooms Plumbing, Electrical, Concrete, Decking, Dry Rot Repair, Window Replacement

Batteries Delivered & Installed STARTING AT $99 BigHogBattery.com Call or Text 916-613-7641

CERAMIC TILE

MICHAEL BROCK TILE Custom remodeling and repairs. Kitchens, baths, floors. Lic. #713728 (530)661-0053

Full Service Contractor Design & Build Member of BBB Over 30 Years Experience Office: (530)787-3717 Cell: (916)995-6159 Email: goemanjr@yahoo.com

• New constructions • Remodel • Additions • Kitchen & bathroom remodels • Patio & decks Call today for FREE ESTIMATES! (530)400-5817 (530)750-9094

DESIGN J. Roy Construction & Design Residential Design Services Remodels, Additions, New Homes, Exterior Features Concept to Construction Documents

(530)758-2673 http://www.jroyconstruction.com

GARDEN/LANDSCAPE

General yard work. mowing, edging, trimming, weeding, hauling trash, repair sprinklers. Reasonable rate.

FREE ESTIMATE Residential/Commercial. Call Mike

(530)400-5670 (530)756-9394

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenter prise.net.

FREE & FOR SALE

FOR SALE

Queen Size Bed Please Call for Details 530-661-1134

PUBLIC NOTICE Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District Public Hearing Notice Rule 2.31, Solvent Cleaning and Degreasing The Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District (District) Board of Directors will consider the following rulemaking actions and approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). • Amendments to District Rule 2.31, Solvent Cleaning and Degreasing The District proposes to amend Rule 2.31 to remove an exemption from federal regulations that has prevented inclusion of the Rule in the State Implementation Plan. The proposed rule and staff report are available on the District’s website (www. ysaqmd.org) or may be obtained by contacting Staff Engineer Kyle Rohlfing at (530) 757-3672. The public hearing will be held via teleconference on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. and can be accessed by going to: https://ysaqmd.me/3vc2TQO The District invites written public comments to be submitted to Engineering Manager Benjamin Beattie at the above address. Comments are to be received by the District by July 5, 2021. 6/13 1357

Hire Local. Hire a Pro. • Place Your Ad Today: (530)756-0800 AIR COND./HEATING

But if coaches and players are allowed to wager on these very games, all bets are off.

Public Notices

Immediate openings for Architects, Designers, and Apprentices in Davis

EMPLOYMENT

From Page B1

• E-mail your public notice to legals@davisenterprise.net • Be sure to include your name and phone number

EMPLOYMENT

Aggie lacrosse stud. “Whenever I am put in a leadership position I always try to utilize the skills that she taught me to help those around me,” Higgins said of her former teammate. What’s the name for a situation like that? “It is a what-wouldAgnew-do,” Higgins said, laughing. Perhaps future Blue Devils will practice the what-would-Higgins-andBrooks-do method. —Reach Enterprise staff writer Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail. com. Follow him via Twitter at @levgoldenberg.

Call The Enterprise to Boost Your Ad with Online Display

PAINTING

PLUMBING

*******************

Bringing Quality Home

(530)681-5548 PERFORMANCE HOME IMPROVEMENT • Highest quality, lasting protection • Excellent references • Free estimates

Leo (707)359-9629 LIC# 1056049

ROOFING

performancehomeimprovement.com

$500 OFF Full Remodel

United Drywall Full Service installation & repair.

FREE ESTIMATES 30 years experience (530)668-1450 or (530)666-4959

Lawn service, tree service, fence service, sprinklers, bricks, and pavers. Free estimates.

Lic#BL008702

(530)383-4634

License# 782347

GARAGE DOORS Woodland-Davis Garage Door Commercial-Residential Service All makes and models Locally Owned Best Prices Guaranteed (530)758-7952 LIC# 830181

GARDEN/LANDSCAPE

UNIVERSITY LANDSCAPING Specializing in Residential Monthly Maintenance Lawn mowing - edging - blowing - pruning weeding Repair sprinkler/drip systems One-time cleanups and hauling Aeration/weed control Power washing

FREE ESTIMATES (530)753-0752 SERVING DAVIS SINCE 1994 (530) 207-7798

BG Landscape & Full Yard Maintenance Mowing, edging, blowing, trimming, weeding, fencing, sprinkler, tree work, one-time cleanup. Gutters, hauling, commercial, residential. Free estimate. Bonded/Insured. CA Lic#918309. Call BOB (530)308-2804

Always Paradise Gardening

FREE ESTIMATES (530)848-7805 Mowing, blowing, edging, sprinklers, trimming, weeding, clean-ups, hauling trash.

All Property Maintenance FREE ESTIMATES Handy man for: • Yardwork • Electrical • Plumbing • Painting • Fence & Gates • Sprinklers • Appliance repair, removal, & installation.

Lic.#709993

*******************

ALTA QUALITY PAINTING 530-450-9717 • Painting & Construction • Interior/exterior painting • Cabinet painting • Attention to detail • Professional painting • Drywall repairs • Deck and fence sealing • 15% off on complete exterior job • Insured bonded LIC #1043878

High quality service for the fairest price

FREE ESTIMATES PLUMBING

FREE ROOF INSPECTION ****$200 off new roof **** All your roofing needs! Roof/Gutter cleaning Certified low & steep slope installers Residential & Commercial License #736384

ALLSTATE ROOFING

(916)900-8134

L&L Roofing • All types of roofing • Residential & commercial • Gutter & downspout installations • Roof repair • Water proofing • Seamless roofing Call today for FREE ESTIMATES! (530)400-5817 (530)750-9094

530-216-3371 (530)220-5522 Dave (530)666-5522 AFFORDABLE LANDSCAPE AND GARDENING. Mowing, edging, trimming, blowing, weeding, fencing, gutter cleaning, sprinkler repair, tree work and one time cleaning. FREE estimate.

We Install Tankless Water Heaters, Tubs, Shower Replacements, Water Line Replacements, Remodels, Fixtures, Sewer & Drain And Much More! CSLB# 913295

(707)249-6159 HARDWOOD/FLOORING

SCL#327777 Davis Hardwood and Carpet DBA Floors Too Hardwood Laminate Installation Sand/Finish Repairs 30+ Years in Davis. ASK ABOUT available carpet and installation

Plumbing Doctor

TREE SERVICE

Alliance Tree Service

(530)219-5199 http://alliancetrees.com Tree & Stump Removal Pruning • Thinning • Shaping FREE ESTIMATES CA State Lic.#832084

Service & Repair Sewer & Drain Cleaning *Pruning and Shaping *Tree removals *Stump Grinding *24-Hour Emergency Service Certified Arborist #WE-9302A CA Contractor’s #1000444

Lic#909693

The Feel Good Plumbing Experience! (530)756-2209

(530)545-1110

http://www.plumbingmd.com

Reasonable Rates Free Estimates *10% off when you mention this ad* Budget Tree Service (530)756-TREE (8733) Cell (707)249-9207

Living

B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2021

I seek an answer to my daytime dilemma I t’s crazy to want permission to do something that is perfectly normal, perfectly human and totally acceptable. And yet, when I lie down with a book, especially a novel, in the middle of the day, I feel as if I am doing something indulgent, lazy and vaguely wrong. I want someone’s permission to do it. This little bit of nuttiness might finally leave me thanks to my recent visit to a Davis book group with amazing longevity. The message I got from the members couldn’t have been more clear: Go ahead and read! The Davis group, who call themselves the Tuesday Noon Book Group, started in 1970. Almost 30 years later I interviewed them in 1998 for a piece I wrote about groups in Davis. Recently Judy Gabor, a founding member, emailed me to say that they are now celebrating 51 years in existence. Wow. The group, all women, meets monthly, except in summer. Books are chosen by a rotating subcommittee of three people, alphabetically selected, who decide on the titles for three months at a time. When I visited them a few weeks ago, they were reading “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren, a memoir, but they told

me that they mostly choose novels, paperbacks preferred. ———— In 1970 the group was created by a few physicians’ wives, new in town, most with young children. At some point in that decade, they tried including husbands, but that only lasted about a year. When I interviewed them in 1998, the meetings were often huge, with as many as 24 women at a gathering in someone’s home, and included lunch. Now the group numbers 15 and due to COVID, they have been meeting less frequently. They’re considering dropping lunch. “Schlepping chairs is work; lunch is work,” one of the members told me. “We’re going to simplify.” The history of the group, however, is not simple. Judy Gabor showed me her list of members over the last 51 years, which she

describes as “pretty accurate”. In total, Judy believes that 86 women belonged to the group at one time or another. Members come and go over the years, depending on their other activities. Some have died, and more than half of the current members are widows. Several names were familiar to me, because the members included women who are active in the nonprofit world or politically, like Susie Boyd and Helen Thomson, former members, and Nancy Keltner and Lois Wolk, current members. ———— The most important thing I learned while sitting with these women, however, had nothing to do with the facts I’m giving you. What I learned about was passion, the passion to read, which was as solid and visible in the meeting as the tables in front of us. “We don’t let chitchat take over,” they told me, as they’ve heard happens in other book groups. They socialize for the first half-hour, but then it’s down to business with someone leading the discussion, offering information about the book and author, and keeping the group on task. As we talked, I thought about

my own long-lived group, a women’s discussion group that grew out of ’70s feminism and has met weekly for 40 years. I asked if the book group members were knowledgeable about each other’s personal lives, as we are in my group, and I was surprised at the response. No, they told me, they prefer to focus on books, but they still achieve intimacy as they become familiar with each other’s reactions to what they read. One person added, “We are the most wonderful support group when someone has a problem.” I could see that books, too, serve as support. “Reading saves you,” one woman said. Another recalled a bookmobile that was her source of comfort when she was a little girl. Some mentioned reading when wakeful at night, while others find special pleasure in reading books twice. “You can have a completely different reaction the second time,” they told me. Given the longevity of their group, these women are not young. The oldest current member is 99 and the youngest are in their 70s. My optimism bucket, which has frequently run low or almost dry thanks to COVID, got a big refill from watching a spirited

discussion among women of that age. It’s my age, too. We all know how difficult circumstances can become as we get older, but this group provides a stellar counterpoint, not to mention the permission I need to sit down and read. ———— I came home, pulled a few “old friends” from my shelves and rearranged the pillows on my sofa. My path was clear, my visit to the book group like a beacon on the water. I was ready to read. Then my phone beeped, which led me to look at its face where I learned about something in the New York Times that needed my attention and a kayaking trip that was coming together for the weekend. I’m more scattered than I used to be — I’m not sure why — but it took me a while to get to my book. Although my problem isn’t solved, I say hats off to the Tuesday Noon Book Group. I admire your passion and your longevity, your warmth and your fun. I’m as fascinated by a group that endures half a century as I am by any book. — Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Volunteers improve the odds one child at a time BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise

s you read this column, many high school seniors across America have graduated from high school just hours ago. While graduation day is extremely special for everyone, it’s an accomplishment that defeats the odds for a foster child. Foster children graduate high school at a lower rate than even children who are identified as disadvantaged … in California, that rate is around 58% according to the California Department of Education. Many of our CASA volunteers play an integral role in helping their foster children defeat these educational odds. Some even hold the educational rights of their child. Here is a quote from one of our local volunteers: “We worked hard to get her back on track. She really needed someone to motivate her and cheer for her. When she graduated high school, it was one of my happiest days. We had

YOLO CASA done it and I knew her life would be very different from where she was originally headed.” This life-changing advocacy is why we do what we do every day, and we’d like to take a moment to thank you — for your financial support, for your volunteer time, for spreading the word. All of these activities matter greatly to our ability to train and retain CASA volunteers for foster youths whose lives differ so greatly than their peers. To drive this point home, read this quote from an aged-out foster youth, “I think I would have graduated (from high school) eventually, but it may have taken a year or year-and-a-half longer because my focus was directed on my brother and not myself.” A foster youth should not have to have their chances at graduating from high school be impeded by the fact that they are playing a mothering role to their brother,

COURTESY PHOTO

For a foster child, graduation means beating some long odds. but this is the reality. Thank you again for helping us improve the odds — one child at a time. Speaking of odds, I’d like to highlight that June is national Pride month, and shine the light on the difficulties that LGBTQIA+ youth in foster care face. According to child welfare.gov, LGBTQIA+

youths are overrepresented in foster care. Some of this is due to rejection by their families and other caregivers. Here is a link to a study on the matter https://www.childwelfare. gov/pubPDFs/LGBTQ youth.pdf. From our own experience, we find this research to be true. In fact, we incorporate issues that

LGBTQIA+ individuals face in all of our CASA trainings. After all, imagine questioning your sexual orientation or gender identity and suffering from feelings of rejection and isolation all at the same time you are transitioning into foster care. It’s a lot for a youth to bear — and the presence of a compassionate advocate is essential.

We hope that we are coming closer and closer to a day where the LGBTQIA+ community does not face as much adversity — whether or not they are in foster care. And in the meantime, we are grateful to our advocates and those youth who are courageous enough to move the needle toward inclusion and equality. Graduating from high school, figuring out one’s sexual orientation and gender identity — these are big and heavy things for youths in general. For foster youth, they can feel insurmountable among all the other trauma they’ve experienced without the proper support. If you’ve ever thought of becoming a CASA volunteer, our Summer Training starts on July 22 and we are now accepting applications. Head on over to our website at yolocasa.org. It might be one of the most meaningful experiences you’ve ever had. — Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.

Davis author a grand-prize winner in best-indie-book awards Enterprise staff Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group has named the best indie books of 2021. Davis author Meera Klein’s latest book, “Seeking Ceremony” was among the three Next Generation Indie Book Awards’ Grand Prize Winners in Fiction. This is the largest international book awards program for independent publishers and selfpublished authors. According to the most recent (October 2019) report by Bowker, publisher of the Books in

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Mottos and Slogans. Which credit card company launched its “Priceless” campaign in 1997? 2. Internet Culture. As we learned last week, the new MacOS is going to be called which of the following: Memphis, Millipede

NAME DROPPERS Print database, the number of titles self-published in the United States grew to more than 1.6 million in 2018, an increase of 40% over the previous year. Worldwide, as of 2021, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization estimates more than 2.7 million books are now being published in a single year. Klein’s “Seeing Ceremony” (Homebound Publications) was the overall

or Monterey? 3. Newspaper Headlines. If we now include Joe Biden, what prime number of sitting U.S. Presidents has Queen Elizabeth II met? 4. California Counties. The cities of Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano are both found in what California county of three

third-place winner, earning her a $500 prize. The book also was named a finalist in the Multicultural Category and winner in the Second Novel Category. Top books were named as winners and finalists in more than 70 publishing categories ranging from Action/Adventure to Young Author. The top books will be reviewed for possible representation in distribution, foreign rights, film rights, and more. A complete list of 2021 winners and finalists is

million residents? 5. Ferris Wheels. In what country was the first Ferris wheel built? Answers: MasterCard, Monterey, 13, Orange County, The United States of America. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Dr. Andy is now also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster.com.

available at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards website at indiebookawards. com. ———— Yikai Zhang of Davis earned a master’s degree in statistics this spring from the University of Iowa. He was among 5,300 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who received

“PEOPLE TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE…”

their degrees under the difficult circumstances of a pandemic. Go to https:// stories.uiowa.edu/getknow-spring-2021graduates to learn more about this year’s graduates. ———— Maximiliano Pedraza of Davis graduated with a

bachelor’s degree in community and international development from the University of Vermont during commencement ceremonies in May. — To submit Name Droppers, send an email to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.

Looking to right-size? Proposition 19 allows homeowners 55 and better to transfer their current tax base. Scan or snap a photo of this to sign up for our newsletter!

Trenchless Sewer Pipe Rehabilitation – Pipe Bursting Repair or Replace • Water • Gas Sewer • Garbage Disposal Drain Cleaning • Water Heaters Video Camera • Slab Leaks Jetter Services

For more Prop-19 information, please visit www.yolocountyhomeﬁnder.com/prop19/.

Residential and Commercial Service 24/7 New location in Vacaville to better serve Vacaville, Dixon, Winters & Davis

(707) 368-4055

www.BeniciaPlumbing.com CA Lic. #329632

Lori Prizmich

530.845.3325 • lori@loriprizmich.com XXX ZPMPDPVOUZIPNFàOEFS DPN r XXX MPSJQSJ[NJDI DPN