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Cello my baby Cho returns for free concerts

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Cellist Eunghee Cho organizes concerts featuring musicians Cho befriended while at the New England Conservatory of Music.

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School board OKs budget, reports on listening tours

BY EDWARD BOOTH Enterprise staff writer The Davis School board on Thursday approved the district’s budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year, reported the results of the listening tour carried out by board trustees and approved the district’s Local Control Accountability Plan for 2021-24.

As it was the last board meeting of the 2020-21 school year, the trustees also shared their thoughts on the year and district staff gave an update on local COVID-19 conditions and the district’s progress in fully returning

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to campus at the start of the next school year.

Additionally, superintendent John Bowes said the district will continue to serve meals to children 18 years old or younger throughout the summer break. Meal service is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m, Monday through Friday each week, at Montgomery Elementary, Patwin Elementary, Harper Junior High and Davis Senior High.

Summer school and summer enrichment programs have also been kicking off this month,

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BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Earlier this month, a judge in federal court in Sacramento dismissed one of the two counts filed against Juan Tang, a former visiting cancer researcher at the UC Davis Medical Center.

Tang was arrested last year and charged with lying on her visa application and lying to the FBI when two agents questioned her at her Davis apartment in June 2020.

U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez threw out the count of lying to the FBI, ruling that the agents violated Tang’s Miranda rights by neglecting to inform her she had the right to remain

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silent or to end the questioning at any point.

Because of that failure, any TANG statements No Miranda Tang made warning during that interview with the FBI must be “suppressed,” the judge ruled.

“At the time of the interview, she had no experience with the American justice system,” the judge wrote in his order. “A reasonable person in her position would not have felt free to terminate the interrogation or to ask the agents to leave.”

Prosecutors argued that

they did not take Tang into custody that day and that their interaction was cordial and not intended to be confrontational. One of the agents spoke Mandarin with Tang and they brought a toy for Tang’s child to play with, the prosecutors said.

“Because Tang was not in custody at the time of the interview, she was not advised of her Miranda warnings nor was Tang advised that she was not compelled to speak with the agents or could end the interview at any time,” prosecutors wrote in court filings.

After interviewing Tang, the agents served a search warrant at her residence

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Public Health and the Department of Technology unveiled the digital vaccine cards at a press briefing on Friday morning.

“While CDPH recommends that vaccinated Californians keep their paper (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) card in a safe and secure place, we recognize that some people might prefer an electronic version,” said State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan. “And if one of the state’s nearly 20 million vaccinated Californians misplaces their paper card, the Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record provides a convenient backup.”

State officials said the digital record follows national standards for security and privacy, was built by the state and provides Californians a way to view and save their vaccine record.

“We worked with CDPH, tech industry leaders, and consulted with California’s top businesses, service and event purveyors to create a system that works well for all sectors,” said Amy Tong, CIO and director of the

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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Californians who misplace their COVID-19 vaccination cards — or don’t wish to carry them around — can get a digital vaccination record from the state now.

Launched Friday, the California Digital COVID19 Vaccine Record provides vaccinated residents with a QR code along with name, date of birth, date of vaccinations and vaccine manufacturer — all of the information contained on the paper cards. The state is urging users to screenshot the information provided and save it on their phones.

Obtaining the digital record requires a visit to myvaccinerecord.cdph. ca.gov.

There residents can enter name, date of birth and an email address or phone number associated with their vaccine records. After creating a four-digit PIN, users receive a link to their vaccine records that will open upon re-entry of the PIN. State officials from the California Department of

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Davis-raised cellist Eunghee Cho — who recently completed is doctorate in cello performance at the highly respected New England Conservatory of Music in Boston — returns to his hometown annually for the Mellon Music Festival, a chamber-music series that Cho organizes, featuring young professional musicians whom Cho befriended while at the conservatory.

Given the pandemic (the four string players wear facemasks), this year’s trio of Mellon Music Festival concerts were recorded in May. They will be posted online over the next week or so, and will be available to the public for free viewing at mellonmusicfestival.org between June 22 to 30. (After June 30, there will a $10 charge, which will give viewers access to all three concerts).

The first program, titled “Grief Transfigured,” will go up on June 22 at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80, which Felix Mendelssohn composed during the all-too-brief interval between the death in May 1847 of Felix Mendelssohn’s beloved sister Fanny (a composer and pianist who died after several strokes), and Felix Mendelssohn’s own death (following a series of strokes) in November 1847. Also on this first program will be the Allegro Assai movement from Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G (arranged for piano and string quartet).

The second program, titled “Nostalgia,” will go up on June 24 at 7:30 p.m. On the program will be several pieces between

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Briefly Fall-prevention webinars set A free two-day webinar series on how to prevent falls in the senior community is planned from 1 to 2: 30 p.m.

Monday and Tuesday, June 28 and 29. Participants will learn about fall risk factors, ways to mitigate risk and changes to a home that can help reduce falls.

The event will include information about recent research on fall prevention and Yolo County resources, followed by the opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

Fit Deb Training’s Deborah Eernisse will demonstrate muscle strengthening and fallprevention exercises for participants to practice at home.

Each webinar will be held live via Zoom with a call-in option available. Both webinars also will be recorded and distributed via the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance website, the Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance YouTube channel and broadcasted on cable through Davis Media Access.

To join on Zoom, use the following link for both days at 1 p.m.: https://bit.ly/2S8kvzK. Registration is encouraged, but not required, by going to https://www.yolo healthyaging.org/ events. To register without a computer, contact Sheila Allen at 530757-5583 or Sheila. allen@yolohealthy aging.org. Spanish translation is available upon request.

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Bauer’s legacy is still alive and well M y friend Amy on the west side of town took out a pen with real ink and a sheet of paper off her yellow legal notepad and sent me an honestto-goodness handwritten letter, with a U.S. Postage stamp and everything.

How incredibly refreshing.

“I read your columns. I enjoy them most of the time,” Amy begins encouragingly, even if I nevertheless anticipate a big “but” coming my way.

“But never more than when Herb Bauer contributed something to your column.”

Herb Bauer, for those who may be new to Davisville, was the long time “Conscience of Davis,” who was known far and wide for his short, pithy, wry observations on life in general and our city in specific that frequently ended up as one-paragraph letters to the editor in The Davis Enterprise.

They always came typed, singlespaced and error-free from Herb’s manual Smith-Corona portable typewriter.

I lovingly referred to them as “Herb’s herbs.”

Herb Bauer died in 2013 in his longtime home on Oeste Drive at

consider printing Herb’s column again some day soon. Its wisdom would be refreshing. Also, I wonder if you could send it to the Washington Post so people could see in there, too.”

I the age of 103.

Shortly after his death I wrote “In terms of having something to say, Herb was never at a loss for words. His letters to the editor were legendary, always to the point and just sharp enough to make you say ‘ouch’ without actually breaking the skin.”

Adds Amy of the beloved Dr. Bauer, “His humor was delightful, but his wisdom, as seen in the clipping I’ve enclosed, was evocative.”

Indeed, Any enclosed a clipping of an entire column penned by Herb Bauer in 2008 and filling this space as part of the Annual Contest to Replace the AbovePictured Columnist.

“Because we have endured so much on the subject of politics in America, I would like to ask you to

Pavement rehabilitation planned throughout city

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Davis summers mean hot temperatures, fewer students around town and, it turns out, a lot of roadwork.

The city’s annual summer pavement rehabilitation project has gotten underway and over the course of the next couple of months, will impact main roads throughout the city as well as the downtown area.

Residents and business owners who live or work on affected streets will receive a project letter and a door hanger 48 hours before work is scheduled to begin, “but we want to make all residents aware of the work because it will affect many residents’ travel routes within the city,” according to an announcement from the city.

Impacts will include daylong road closures.

The city will send updates and reminders to the community about the work phases on social media as well as on the city website.

Work began this week at 4th & F streets, where the sidewalk will be closed and

there will be noise.

Other areas that will be impacted over the course of this summer include: ■ Covell Boulevard from the Save Mart shopping center west to Highway 113 ■ F Street from First Street to Covell Boulevard ■ G Street from Third Street to Fifth Street ■ First Street from A Street to B Street ■ Second Street from E Street to the train station ■ Second Street from 2121 Second St. to 2727 Second St. (approximately from the Recology site to Sudwerk) ■ East Eighth Street from 2317 E. Eighth St. to 2418 E. 8th St ■ Cantrill Drive from Second Street to Fifth Street ■ Pole Line Road from Eighth Street to Loyola Drive ■ Arlington Boulevard from Calaveras Avenue to Shasta Drive For a full list of streets and a project map, visit https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/improvementprojects. Click on “Pavement Rehabilitation 2021.”

Class of ’90 plans reunion Special to The Enterprise The Davis Senior High School graduating class of 1990 will hold a reunion from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 7, at Great Bear Vineyards in Davis.

Tickets cost $20 per person, include admission plus the evening’s first glass of wine, and are now available online at https://greatbear vineyards.com/store.

Food from the Buckhorn BBQ truck may be purchased at the event.

This will become the third official class reunion for the DHS class of 1990.

Previous events were held at Central Park in 2000 and at the former Bistro 33 in 2010. An “unofficial” reunion also took place in July 2015. A 30th-year reunion was initially planned for Aug. 8, 2020, but organizers canceled the event due to COVID-19.

Details may also be found on a public Facebook event page at https://www. facebook.com.

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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The state’s face-covering rules may have been relaxed for vaccinated individuals as of Tuesday, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it in Davis.

Throughout the city, vaccinated customers and workers at many businesses including grocery stores, hair salons and more continued to wear face masks this week.

The reasons given ranged from concerns over the local presence of the more contagious and deadly Delta variant to respect for those who have not yet been vaccinated, particularly children under 12, and those who are immunocompromised and may not have the same level of protection against COVID-19 that other vaccinated individuals do.

“It just feels weird to me after taking all these precautions,” said Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Health.

“I’m fully vaccinated and I’m concerned about going in to the grocery store or the farmers market — even though it’s outdoors, but it’s pretty crowded — and being without a mask,” he said.

On the other hand, Blumberg said, “I don’t want people looking at me and saying, ‘Well, he’s wearing a mask, so he must be unvaccinated.’ So I really haven’t figured out the optics to this yet.”

Under the state’s latest guidelines, fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear a face covering except in certain situations, including on public transportation; in K-12 schools or other

youth settings; in shelters; and in healthcare settings.

Unvaccinated individuals must wear face-coverings in all indoor public settings.

Face-covering rules in workplaces also changed this week to largely mirror what’s happening elsewhere.

Fully vaccinated employees do not need to wear face coverings on the job though employers must document the vaccination status of employees if they go mask-less.

Employees are explicitly allowed to wear a face covering without fear of retaliation from their employers. Likewise, no California residents can be denied service or be discriminated against for choosing to wear a mask “so that is absolutely an option that will continue to be available to everyone regardless of their vaccination status,” said Dr. Aimee Sisson, the county’s health officer.

“People will sort of find their own comfort level,” Sisson said.

“If they feel more comfortable keeping it on, particularly as we move into fall and winter, and we’re in cold and flu season, that mask is going to protect you against other diseases.

“Sometimes over the last year we’ve been operating like COVID is the only thing we need to protect ourselves against,” she said, “but we have, through our masking, been protecting ourselves from other diseases and some people may want to continue doing that.”

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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to protect you from having to suffer through another campaign torture as we experience right now.”

Herb, of course, was wrong. He was still with us and happily firing off letters to the editor during the following presidential campaign in 2012.

In his 2008 column he attacked one particular provision in the U.S. Constitution that plagues us to this day.

Wrote Herb, “The Electoral College, useful when transportation over a distance was still a problem but at best useless now, will be abolished. I want to vote for a president, not a delegate. In the ballot count, neither political party nor state should matter. One voter, one count, whether you vote in Davis or if you vote in Florida.”

On that request, Herb Bauer did not get his wish, which was rare.

So I’d like to thank Amy for taking the time to write and for sending Herb’s thoughts along to be shared once again.

As Herb would not doubt say, let’s keep on trying until we get it right.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Concludes Amy, before turning it over to Herb, “Would it be too much to ask members of Congress to see themselves as Americans first, representatives of their constituents second and members of their political parties third, if at all?”

With Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer running things, I’m afraid the answer to Amy’s question is a sharp “No.” Herb’s column, written when he was a babe of 98, opens with the words “Since in all human probability this is the last presidential campaign of my life, please allow me to accept Bob Dunning’s challenge and make one more attempt of a substitute column in an effort

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Hey everyone, it’s time to head downtown I f you haven’t checked out the new Centennial Plaza in front of the Hunt-Boyer mansion at 604 Second St., you should. The highlight is artist Susan Shelton’s 6.5-foot bronze Davis Centennial Seal, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the city’s vote to incorporate. The plaza includes bricks and new landscaping that highlights the historic mansion and its porch, which city officials hope to use as a mini performance venue.

Sinisa Novakovic, owner of Mishka’s Café next door, is using some of the space to expand outdoor seating, and is “determined to restart jazz nights at the cafe that we had going for a few years a long time ago.”

He’s also bringing back a beerand-wine license soon, and “trying to establish possibly the largest seating area in downtown Davis.”

It’s nice that Mother Nature waited until after June 15 to bring this present heat wave.

Now we can dine inside — without restrictions or masks — if we are fully vaccinated. When temperatures are moderate, I prefer the outside seating, however.

As I noted in my June 6 column, the G Street closure between Second and Third streets will continue at least through the end of August — hopefully longer. Davis Downtown removed the tents in the E Street Plaza parking lot at the beginning of the month, freeing up spaces. The picnic tables that

were under the tents moved to nearby businesses.

———— Two Davis moms are in the process of opening Davis Refillery, delivering cleaning and personal-care products in refillable containers. They hope to launch their online store in mid-July.

“At some point, we intend to open a brick-and-mortar storefront so people can come get refills and shop in person, but will be starting off with a webstore and delivery service,” said Katie McCann, who owns the business with Amanda Banks. They plan to focus on sustainability and use local suppliers.

“Our shop provides a way for our customers to eliminate the need for single-use plastic containers in their various daily care routines. When you are finished using them, place a new order, leave out your empty containers, and we’ll come pick them up and replace them with full ones.”

In addition, the web store will carry environmentally friendly items like wool dryer balls, cloth napkins and cloth snack bags.

It’s prioritizing local suppliers that are owned by women and minorities.

The online store is still preparing to launch at https:// thedavisrefillery.com. It’s also on Facebook and Instagram as @TheDavisRefillery.

———— Davis Coworking is adding a second co-working space: at International House, Davis, 10 College Park.

There are “18 affordable coworking spaces that come with fair-use access to a conference room, WiFi, 24/7 access, printer, kitchenette and outdoor patio,” a social media post said. The collaboration with I-House also gives Davis Coworking members access to event space reservation.

Davis Coworking’s other space is in University Mall. For information, visit https://www. davis-coworking.com/.

———— Due to popular demand, the Davis Farmers Market extended its Wednesday hours, at least through the summer. The Wednesday market is open 3 to 7 p.m. (instead of 6 p.m.).

The market is smaller than the flagship Saturday market, which is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Central Park. Wednesdays feature several food vendors, including Bare Juices, The Buckhorn, Dumpling House, Fat Face pops, The Hotdogger, Kathmandu Kitchen and Raja’s Tandoor.

Live music and alcohol are no

longer a part of the market, and the market is not providing tables or chairs. Patrons are welcome to picnic on the lawn, but open alcohol containers are prohibited.

———— Do you know about the Big Blue Recycling Barn at the Yolo County Landfill? It celebrated five years with an event Friday and Saturday. The thrift store is open to the public on the third Friday and Saturday of each month, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 44090 County Road 28H in Woodland.

The Big Blue Recycling Barn was developed to reduce the county’s carbon footprint and waste. It created an opportunity to repurpose items that might otherwise have gone to the landfill. Proceeds from the store are used to educate residents on related programs.

Since its creation, the Big Blue Barn has diverted 458,000 pounds of waste from the landfill, according to a Yolo County news release.

Meanwhile, the county announced a new partnership with Visions Recycling, to sell recycled paint products. Visions takes paint that is discarded at the county’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility and remanufactures it into new gallons of paint. Additionally, the discards from the paint-recycling process and old carpet fibers are used to make garden stepping stones and flower pots.

———— There’s a new salon in town.

Fringe Salon opened May 1 at 129 E St., Suite C1, in the space long occupied by David’s Haircutting. Stylist Hannah Marion specializes in colors, cuts and smoothing treatments.

Marion has been a hairstylist for 17 years, but this is her first time as a business owner.

“I thrive in detail-oriented balayage, foil services, gray coverage, long and short layered cuts, men’s cuts, Brazilian blow outs, and blond transformations,” she said. “My favorite part of every appointment is the blow-out finish, giving my clients exactly what they came for.”

The phone is 530-391-4432.

———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businessesretail, Businesses-service, and more. Email me (address below) to suggest updates.

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

UCD Children’s Hospital ranks high First Northern Bank welcomes new Special to The Enterprise WASHINGTON, D.C. — UC Davis Children’s Hospital has been recognized as a Best Children’s Hospital for 2021-22 by U.S. News & World Report.

The annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings and ratings, now in their 15th year, are designed to assist patients, their families and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions.

UC Davis Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked among the nation’s 50 best in these four specialty care areas: ■ 25th nationally in nephrology ■ 29th nationally in neonatology ■ 22nd nationally in orthopedics ■ 37th nationally in urology The orthopedics and urology rankings were awarded in collaboration with Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California, UC Davis Children’s Hospital’s longstanding partner in caring for children with burns, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic disorders and urological issues.

For 2021-22, U.S. News ranked the top 50 centers in each of these 10 pediatric specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and

gastrointestinal surgery, neonatology, nephrology, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung surgery and urology.

“When choosing a hospital for a sick child, many parents want specialized expertise, convenience and caring medical professionals,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis and managing editor at U.S. News.

“The Best Children’s Hospitals rankings have always highlighted hospitals that excel in specialized care.”

The Best Children’s Hospitals methodology factors objective measures such as patient outcomes, including mortality and infection rates, as well as available clinical resources and compliance with best practices. To calculate the Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, U.S. News gathered

relevant data from children’s hospitals in early 2020 and from pediatric physicians and other healthcare organizations in 2021; because of the pandemic, data collection from children’s hospitals was not repeated in 2021.

RTI International, a North Carolina-based research and consulting firm, collected and analyzed data from 118 children’s hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists. More than 100 pediatric specialists and other experts provided input through methodology working groups.

This year’s rankings will be published in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2022” guidebook, available in stores Oct. 5.

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and seized Tang’s passport and electronic devices. Federal prosecutors later charged Tang with lying to the FBI during that questioning. The judge has thrown out that charge, but Tang is still charged with lying on her U.S. visa application.

The case against Tang hinges on whether she concealed her alleged affiliation to the Chinese military and the Communist Party of China. On her visa application, Tang said she was not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and had never served in the military, statements U.S. prosecutors say were false.

Internet searches conducted by the FBI revealed a 2019 article about Tang’s medical research, which included a headshot of her wearing a military uniform that bore the insignia of the Civilian

In a Statement of Probable Cause, the FBI cited three news articles that list Tang’s employer as the Air Force Medical University (AFMU), formerly known as the Fourth Military Medical University (FMMU), in Xi’an, China.

“Juan Tang was a visiting researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, a study-based exchange program affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education and Xijing Hospital in China,” UC Davis Director of Media Relations Melissa Lutz Blouin said last year in an email to The Enterprise.

Bowes said.

Laura Juanitas, associate superintendent of student support services, started her presentation on local COVID conditions by noting that California lifted most restrictions on physical distancing, face coverings and the number of people who can gather for indoor and outdoor settings.

If the state’s tier-based, color-coded Blueprint for a Safer Economy were still around, Juanitas said, Yolo County would have moved into the least restrictive yellow tier.

Even so, she said, some restrictions still remain when it comes to schools, childcare centers and other youth settings.

Juanitas said district staff, students and visitors are still required to wear face coverings when indoors.

Furthermore, children must maintain 3 feet of social distance while adults still must maintain 6 feet, unless the individuals are outdoors and 6 feet of distance is possible.

COVID-19 vaccines still aren’t approved for children age 12 or younger.

Juanitas said the district had two instances of

“It appears that Tang is part of a civilian cadre whose members are considered active-duty military personnel,” the criminal complaint states. FBI agents said in the complaint that Tang told them she, like others at AFMU, wore the uniform as was required and was unaware of the insignia’s meaning.

According to a UC Davis spokesperson, Tang came to Davis through an exchange program affiliated with Xijing Hospital, which has been part of the Air Force Medical University since 1954 and is one of

According to Tang’s federal defender, Alexandra Negin, the pieces of evidence cited by federal authorities as proof of Tang’s secret military connections “lend themselves to many innocent explanations.”

“Ms. Tang apparently attended a prestigious medical school that is run by the military in China.

That does not mean that she was ‘in the military,’” said Negin.

CONCERTS: Talented lineup performs on the web From Page A1 the late 1800s and early 21st Century, including a string quartet arrangement of the “Romance” by Amy Beach, a New England composer who wrote this piece (originally for violin and piano) for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago; also an arrangement of “The Fruit of Silence” by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946); “Pannonia Boundless” by Aleksandra Vrebalov (born in 1970, in what is now Serbia, now living in New York); and “F.C.’s Jig” by American violinist/fiddler/ composer Mark O’Connor).

The third program will feature the Piano Quintet by César Franck, composed in 1879.

Performers in this year’s online Mellon Music Festival are violinists Stephanie

Zyzak (who earned a bachelor’s and master’s at the New England Conservatory under Miriam Fried, and is now completing a doctorate at City University of New York) and Kate Arndt (who studied at the New England Conservatory under Miriam Fried, and is now working on a master’s at Yale under Ani Kavafian); violist Tanner Menees (who earned a master’s degree studying under Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory, and studies with Nobuko Imai at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid); Cho, who has received a number of prizes in international competitions, on cello; and pianist Evren Ozel (a New England Conservatory student who received second prize at the 2020 U.S. National Chopin Competition).

positive COVID-19 cases in students that fall into the 12 or under category, and two subsequent classroom closures in the final week of school.

“We need to remain vigilant with our health and safety measures throughout the summer and well into the fall,” Juanitas said.

Local COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to rise, she added, and 44% of Yolo County residents are now fully vaccinated.

The district has also held several vaccination clinics, and will continue to have them throughout the summer.

Students will be able to benefit from having their vaccination status known, Juanitas said, because the district has to quarantine anyone who’s unvaccinated that’s exposed to someone who tests positive.

The trustees presented on their listening tours, which occur annually and involve the trustees visiting several classrooms to hear directly from students.

Bowes noted that the tours both this year and last year have focused on the student experience during the pandemic. The trustees, he said, were able

to ask questions to both in-person and online students. Much of the feedback given related to distance learning and how well the pandemic adaptations worked for the students, according to the trustees.

Trustee Tom Adams said he visited César Chávez Elementary, Harper Junior High and Davis High School. The students at Chávez, he said, expressed happiness for being able to come back to the school campus in April. They also found themselves greatly improved in their ability to use computers and technology, Adams said.

Amari Watkins, associate superintendent of business services, said the state passed a placeholder state budget earlier this month to satisfy a constitutional deadline, and negotiations will continue until a final budget is signed on June 30.

The placeholder budget includes a few modifications, such as extending pension relief beyond the current fiscal year, that will put the district into a better financial place. The board will be able to approve revisions to the budget in August, Watkins said.

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Officials said the state system is similar to the Excelsior pass used by New York.

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OBITUARIES Helen Elizabeth Harris Voss Nov. 18, 1933 — June 13, 2021

Helen Elizabeth Harris Voss was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Nov. 18, 1933, and passed away at home in Woodland on June 13.

She graduated from Waco High School in 1952 and was one of the first woman architectural students at Rice University.

She married Robert Robertson Jr. in 1955 and lived two years in Hawaii while her husband served in the U.S. Navy. She married Pierre (Pete) Loiseaux in 1967. They moved from Austin, Texas, to Davis in 1971. Helen married Ronald Voss in 1982, recently celebrating 39 years of marriage.

In 1989, Helen and Ron moved to Lamb Valley, near Esparto, where they grew citrus and provided a natural sanctuary for a multitude of wildlife, including a large population of peafowl. Helen returned to UC Davis and completed her bachelor's degree in studio art in 1989 with associated honors including Phi Beta Kappa and delivering the Student Presentation at the College of Letters & Sciences Commencement.

She was preceded in death by her father, Evan Harris and mother Elizabeth Wood Harris Cudd, and brother William Harris. She is survived by daughters Susan Robertson and Shelley Robertson, stepsons David Loiseaux, Kendall Loiseaux and Ron (Sue) Dwyer-Voss, stepdaughter Susan (Kris) Voss-Rothmeier, specialson David (Natasha) Asbury, grandchildren Katherine/ Katie (Quentin) McClure, Noah Dwyer-Voss, Sierra Dwyer-Voss, Henry VossRothmeier, Rachelle/Ellie Voss-Rothmeier, greatgrandchildren Peyton Emerson, Jaelin Voss, Kairo Voss, and numerous nephews, nieces and inlaws.

Helen was an artist, an architectural designer, project manager, and perhaps most of all an activist

and professional volunteer.

She started her activism in the early 1950s with participation in and organizing of civil rights and multi-racial activities in Texas. Her art includes several themes regarding sexism in religion, Latin American refugees, war, and other social issues. She lived in Houston in the early Space Age days and became friends with the original Mercury 7 Astronauts and their families.

Some of her art reflects related events. Sculpture was her favorite medium, thanks to her mentors Bob Arneson and Manuel Neri.

She also created a variety of paintings and drawings.

Her strongest legacies may be her commitment to community, volunteerism and associated management. When the Sacramento County Hospital transitioned to the UC Davis Medical Center, she organized the nationally recognized volunteer program at the UCD Medical Center Hospital.

When she and her husband, Ron, moved from Davis to Esparto in 1989, she said she couldn’t live in a town without a library. So she organized and was the founding president of the Friends of the Esparto Regional Library. Ten years later, a new Yolo County library was built in Esparto.

She immediately turned her attention toward building a swimming pool and recreation center for the Capay Valley Region. She organized and was the founding president of the Western Yolo Recreational

Center Association. The new swimming pool and recreation center was VOSS opened in 2018. She served as a trustee of the Esparto Unified School District, as foreperson of the Yolo County Grand Jury, on the Boards of the Yolo County Fair and Heidrick Ag History Museum, and was active in numerous other community organizations.

Helen loved to travel and was a lifelong learner of geography, history and cultures. She traveled to all 50 states and more than 50 countries on five continents, rarely taking organized tours. She preferred to experience cultures through personal contacts and self-explorations.

A graveside service will be held at the Capay Cemetery near Esparto at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 24. A celebration of her life, including a showing of some of her artwork and art created in her honor and memory will be held following this service at the Woodland Hotel beginning at Noon. All are invited to this celebration, and an intended RSVP would be appreciated to https://celebrationoflifeforhelen.rsvp ify.com by Monday, June 21. One of Helen’s passions and joys was art by children and young artists. Anyone who considers themselves to be one of those is invited to bring a drawing or painting to the celebration.

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Margaret Hanna Salm

March 25, 1933 — June 6, 2021 Margaret Hanna Salm (Peggy), a longtime Davis resident, passed away peacefully at home early Sunday morning, June 6.

Peggy was born on March 25, 1933, in Oakland. She was the youngest daughter of Gordie Consyntine Hanna (Jack) and Delia Brown Webb, and the baby sister of Helen Jacqueline Schwarz Robbins (Jackie).

As a very young child, Peggy lived in Rio Vista and on Ryer Island and attended Rio Vista Grammar School. In 1941, the family moved to Davis where she attended elementary school and graduated from Davis High School.

Peggy, began her UC Davis career working on the switchboard in 1949.

She was a member of Sigma Kappa Sorority and enjoyed swimming in the Aquacade.

Peggy graduated from UC Berkley in 1955, with a bachelor’s degree in Latin American history.

She enjoyed time spent in Ecuador, where Jackie and her husband Carlos were living, soaking up the

Latin American culture and spending time with her first niece.

In 1956, while working at Pan American World Airways, Peggy met and married William E. Salm.

They married in Davis and made their home in San Francisco and San Mateo.

Their one and only child, Margaret Denise (Denny), was born in November 1957.

Peggy and Margaret returned home again to Davis in 1961, where Peggy resided until her passing.

Peggy began a long career at UC Davis in the undergraduate admissions department and retired in 1996. She then began a career volunteering for many years at the Shriners Hospital in Sacramento.

Peggy grew up in the Davis Community Church, she was a Soroptimist and came from a Masonic family. She was a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star and was honored to receive her 50-year pin on June 4, just two days before her passing.

Throughout her travels with Eastern Star, Peggy made hundreds of friends and held many, many

offices, including Grand Representative to Missouri.

She visited chapters SALM up and down California and throughout the U.S. Peggy loved to travel and had many memorable trips and cruises with family and friends.

Peggy loved her family and was the matriarch of a large village. Margaret and Martin Jacobs gave her her greatest gifts, four grandchildren, Heather (Captain Michael Cates, USMC), Matthew (Yvonne), Aaron (Nichole) and Kelly (Rodney) who in turn presented her with nine great-grandchildren, plus one arriving any day.

Included in the numerous family and friends Peggy leaves behind are her only sister, Jackie, and her three children, Molly, Cathy (Ed) and Paul (Sue).

An Eastern Star Memorial service will be held for Peggy at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, at the Community Presbyterian Church in Vacaville. Donations may be made in her name to Shriner’s Hospital, the Hospice Society or the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

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Nobody can say ‘nobody knew’ this time W

hy is it that in such a saturated information environment, we, as a country, can’t seem to all agree on simple facts, notably about the climate crisis?

This lack of acceptance of science has always been a problem, of course, but much more so now, and the answer includes some level of misinformation and disinformation that seems to gain traction in some circles, but also a seemingly willful resistance to anything that doesn’t fit a preconceived world view. It seems to me to be a measure or definition of a fair mind that it be open to new information and adjusting one’s opinions accordingly.

But there seems to be no generally accepted arbiter of facts, and some have even asserted it’s OK to have an “alternate sets” of facts. In my opinion, this is not one of those false equivalencies where both sides are labeled with blame.

Rather, misinformation comes like an avalanche from those who seem to have small regard for science.

This lack of agreement on facts can be traced directly to efforts from people of influence, position, self-interest and power. Our former president was blatant in telling all of us not to believe anything

we are told by anyone other than himself; all else is fake news.

Sometimes this would take the form of just asserting that a line he drew with a sharpie on a map was, in fact, notwithstanding what experts said, the true path of a hurricane. He worked hard to undermine any narrative about the climate crisis and other issues not aligned with his self-interest.

Not to dwell too much on this one source of misinformation but, to further explain, this was a source of information that many people trusted and believed, notwithstanding multiple times there was an admission of finding out something that he didn’t know, and of course would indicate no one else knew either.

Consider a few examples. These quotes may not be precise but they get the point across. “Nobody knew health care could be so

complicated.”

“Nobody knew about Osama Bin Laden until the World Trade Center.”

“Nobody knew that Lincoln was a Republican.”

“Nobody had ever heard about emoluments.”

“Nobody had ever heard of Ebola.”

“Nobody knew about Juneteenth.” And, “Being President was a lot more work than anyone knew.”

You’d think that this litany would be reason enough to question whether the source was a trusted messenger.

There’s something about willfully ignoring facts that seems important to some people’s mental health or position in a group or culture. One example might be making fun of or ridiculing vegans and vegetarians. Easy to do, but few would visit a factory to witness the process of turning animals into meat. Not to say such a visit would change eating habits, but it would at least indicate an awareness and acceptance of the complete picture.

Another example is the rejection of science and information about the climate crisis; facing it and accepting it could require

potentially making what might be unwanted changes in one’s life while also annoying one’s friends, family and colleagues.

So, with all this as prelude, my friend Wendell sent me a link (https://nyti.ms/3vmDWCs) to a New York Times article titled “The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof: Definitive answers to the big questions.”

It’s often hard to talk about the climate crisis with friends and even family, not to mention strangers one might meet at a party or on the bus. This rather lengthy article is not the be-all and end-all for explaining the climate crisis, but it seems to offer a reasonable amount of easily digested ammunition for such discussions and possibly fewer uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinners.

The authors of the 30-page document propose that, “The Science of climate change is more solid and widely agreed upon than you might think. But the scope of the topic, as well as rampant disinformation, can make it hard to separate fact from fiction. Here, we’ve done our best to present you with not only the most accurate scientific information but also an explanation of how we know it.”

The text is easy to read and

provides information in a straightforward and easily digestible format by addressing basic questions such as, “How do we know climate change is really happening?”, “How do we know climate change is caused by humans?”, “Wildfires and bad weather have always happened: How do we know there’s a connection to climate change?” and “What will it cost to do something about climate change versus doing nothing?”

Also of interest might be the “Debunking Handbook” written

by John Cook and Stephen Lewandowsky as a “Quick guide to responding to misinformation,” a primer on how to hold your own while supplying facts and science in the face of conspiracy theories and disinformation.

The bottom line is that unlike our former president, the world as a whole, and we as individuals, will not be able to comfortably hide behind “who knew” and “nobody knew” should the climate crisis be allowed to continue its march towards a very uncomfortable future.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday in The Davis Enterprise. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@comcast.net.

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migrate and historically use the area as a winter refuge.

In the mid-1800s when early settlers were trying to homestead in the Sacramento area, they were met with some inconveniences.

It was hot and dry in the summer months and during the winter months, the land became a marsh.

To build their communities and grow food, they developed the Glen-Colusa Irrigation District to divert water from the overflowing Sacramento River and direct it to where it could be

Located in the Central Valley, the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex is made up of six National Wildlife Refuges including Sacramento, Colusa, Delevan, Butte Sink, Sutter and a stretch of the Sacramento River from Red Bluff to Princeton.

The complex adds up to 10,819 acres and was originally established by Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 27, 1937, as a Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. Waterfowl using the Pacific Flyway to

used for farming. As a result of this and other projects, the acreage of wetlands available to migrating waterfowl decreased by 90%. In the Sacramento area alone, wetland acreage dwindled from 5 million acres to less than 320,000 acres.

Although acres of natural wetlands were converted to agriculture, rice farming practices still provided food for the hungry and tired migrating birds. In fact, the throngs of hungry birds could eat up a devastating 40 acres of rice crops in a single night. In response to the conversion of wetlands and the destruction of

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Geese and ducks swim at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. crops, the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex was created.

The establishment helped to manage wetlands specifically for wildlife and other plants and animals, deter rice crop depredation, create endangered species habitat, provide recreational

and environmental education/interpretation opportunities and provide research opportunities.

As a result of rice crop devastation, a cooperative rice-farming program was established but later failed.

As a result, it was decided that all crops should be removed from the SNWR and replaced with managed wetlands. As the water draws down in the spring, seed-producing plants germinate and provide food for wintering waterfowl and other wildlife.

Today, the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge is home to over 400 species of

plants, 300 species of birds and 500 different species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians. It has the greatest concentration of waterfowl per acre in the entire world and has more than 7,500 acres of managed wetlands supporting peak populations of 850,000 migrating waterfowl.

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Former UCD coach takes DHS reins

BY WILL WYMAN Enterprise staff writer After the retirement of longtime head coach Steve Smyte this spring, the Davis High varsity football squad was looking for a new leader. That hiring has finally come, in the form of former UC Davis defensive coordinator Mark Johnson. The Vacaville native was a staple on the Aggie sidelines between 2009 and 2012 and followed a successful coaching career alongside Bob Biggs with an enriching stint as a physical-education lecturer.

But just like Smyte’s time in charge at DHS, all good things must come to an end. Following the controJOHNSON versial decision to do away Played and with UCD’s historic coached at physical-education proUC Davis gram this past fall, Johnson was on the lookout for a new opportunity.

And the timing couldn’t have been better.

Johnson reached out to his old friend and former coworker Smyte to discuss pursuing a teaching credential in special education.

Johnson was hoping to learn more about the teaching side of things when Smyte informed him of the job opening.

Johnson now had a chance to continue doing what he loved and get certified to continue his teaching career.

Through a pre-service program, he will be able to simultaneously coach football and serve as an intern teacher en route to receiving his credential in the next two years.

The former Aggie is excited to continue the work of someone he knows so well:

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Former UC Davis defensive coordinator Mark Johnson, seen here celebrating against Cal Poly in 2011, has been tapped as the next head football coach at Davis High.

“It always helps to follow somebody that you have a lot of respect for and that you know did things the right way, coached kids and worked with kids to help them get better,” Johnson told The Enterprise on Friday.

“So you’re kind of walking into a program that is ready to go, except for the last year, it’s been so weird with all the stuff that’s going on.”

Johnson will be taking over a Blue Devil program that had something of a renaissance under Smyte, overcoming years of losing records to claim a Delta League title in 2019. The established excellence that the now-retired Davis frontman left behind is not something Johnson takes lightly.

“My job is just to carry on the program that Steve built here,” he says. “Hopefully, we continue to nurture it and grow it.”

The coaching change will solidify itself when the Devils take the field this fall — the team’s first time playing at the regularly scheduled time since 2019. And with Johnson’s bevy of experience and connection with Smyte, things are looking up once again on the Davis gridiron.

Johnson, who played at UCD from 1985 to 1989 under Jim Sochor, served as a defensive coordinator and head coach for the freshman team from 1990 to 1992 and coached the linebackers on the varsity from 1993 to 1994.

He then spent a year as a graduate assistant

at the University of Oregon in 1995, helping the Ducks advance to the Cotton Bowl. Johnson mentored San Jose State’s running backs in 1996 before returning to Davis for the 1997 season to coach the defensive line and linebackers.

He later returned to the Division I ranks, serving as defensive line coach at Boise State from 1998 to 1999. Johnson helped the Broncos win the 1999 Big West Conference Championship and beat Louisville in the Humanitarian Bowl. He then joined the staff at the University of Nevada in 2000 and 2001 coaching linebackers and coordinating special teams before making his third stop at UCD as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator from 2002 to 2004. After the 2004 season Johnson became the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Utah State University from 2005 to 2008.

Most recently, Johnson was head coach at Woodland Christian (2014-18). His daughter Olivia is a forward on the DHS girls soccer team.

Davis High is scheduled to kick off its season at home against Granite Bay on Aug. 27.

Notes: Prior to the pandemic, Johnson had taught physical-education courses at UCD since 2013. He is a certified USA Weightlifting coach. In addition to his sociology degree from Davis, he also has a master’s in recreation administration from Sacramento State. Johnson and his wife Amy also have a son, Cooper. ... The Blue Devils’ head coaching position comes with a $4,705 annual stipend. ... This past year’s junior varsity head coach Paul Hasson will return this fall.

— Reach Enterprise staff writer Will Wyman at wymanw26@gmail.com. Follow him via Twitter at @wyman_why.

Too many teams spoil the league B

ack in May of 2019 the Big Sky Conference announced its full league football schedule for all teams through 2023, just in case you wanted to make hotel reservations for an Aggie away game in Ogden, Pocatello, Flagstaff, Greeley, Moscow, Missoula, Bozeman, Cheney, San Luis Obispo, Cedar City or Portland. Or even Sacramento.

Since that time, however, the 2020 schedule was scrapped in its entirety due to COVID, a throwntogether spring season in 2021 had five teams refusing to play at all and a sixth drop out after three games, and Southern Utah announced it would soon join North Dakota as a “former” member.

Thus, when the fall 2021 season concludes — if it’s played as expected — the Big Sky will be down to 12 teams from its previous high of 14. “As a result,” the league brass explained in a press release, “the previously released scheduling format for the 2021 through 2023 seasons has been scrapped.”

Strong words from a proud conference. In other words, it’s back to the drawing board with the fall 2021 schedule the only one still in existence.

Now, I’m one of those college football fans who doesn’t like cochampionships. I want a clear winner at the top of the league standings.

I also believe that when college

football teams begin conference play, there should be a level playing field, which means everyone plays the same schedule.

Unfortunately, the Big Sky Conference, where UC Davis is a participant in football only, still has so many members that it’s impossible for everyone to play everyone during the same season. Unless you played 11 league games and no nonconference games at all.

With 12 members, each team plays eight league games, which means in any given year you’ll miss three teams altogether.

Depending on who those three are can make a huge difference in a team’s success.

Additionally, each team has two so-called “rivals” that they will play every year as part of their eightgame schedule, without exception.

For the Aggies, the rivals are Cal Poly and Sac State. This system guarantees inequality, since your rivals aren’t the same as another team’s rivals.

The schedule does rotate every year so you are not playing the same eight teams every season, with the exception of your two rivals. This is all according to some top-secret formula hidden in a vault at the base of a mountain near conference headquarters in Utah.

By comparison, the Aggie basketball team competes in the Big West Conference. Every team

sharp end of the stick, playing each of the Big Sky’s FCS playoff teams in Weber State, Sacramento State, Montana and Montana State. That’s not sour grapes, it’s just a fact.

I in the Big West plays every other team twice; once at your place and once at their place. That’s about as fair as fair can be. It would be inconceivable to play some league teams and not others.

Missing so many teams each season has led to a great number of co-championships, because there’s no guarantee that the conference’s best teams will even play each other.

In 2018, the Aggies shared the Big Sky championship with Weber State and Eastern Washington.

The 2019 season featured a twoway championship between Weber State and Sac State.

Several years ago, North Dakota and Eastern Washington shared the crown, both with 8-0 records, which proves how futile the current system is.

For my money, if you go undefeated, you ought to be the undisputed champion. Unfortunately, North Dakota was not on Eastern Washington’s schedule.

In 2019, the Aggies drew the

n another year, they’ll shuffle the deck and you might be playing four bottom-dwellers and not a single top-tier team.

This fall the Aggies play road games at Weber State, Idaho State, Cal Poly and Northern Arizona. Home games welcome Idaho, Northern Colorado, Eastern Washington and Sac State.

It’s not that the current formula intentionally favors or disfavors any particular teams, it’s just that it does guarantee inequality of scheduling every single season.

Some of the league’s coaches sounded off about this very subject a while back in a piece written by Bozeman Chronicle sports editor Colton Pool.

“It needs to be fixed,” said Montana head coach Bobby Hauck.

“Everybody needs to play everybody, somehow. The idea that everybody doesn’t play everybody, we don’t really have a conference champion. It’s a mythical conference champion.”

Noted then Montana State head coach Jeff Choate, “I think that we’ve got to take a long, hard look at what the benefits are of having a large conference in a playoff

division. My personal feeling, and I’ll probably get in trouble for saying it, I don’t think it’s wise.”

Added Weber State head coach Jay Hill, whose team has shared or won the last four titles, “There’s 13 teams (for now) and they’re all really great and deserve to be here, but the reality is I don’t like that we don’t play everybody every year. It’s hard. I hate that.”

Trust me, Coach Hill, there are a number of Big Sky teams who are happy they don’t have to play Weber State every year.

Solutions aren’t easy. I suppose the league could expand to 14 teams and split into two divisions, with a championship playoff between the two division winners.

That wouldn’t guarantee you’d play everyone in the entire league, but you would at least play everyone in your division.

Of course, you’d have to start the season a week earlier so the league championship game wouldn’t conflict with the start of the FCS playoffs. You might also need a waiver from the NCAA both to start earlier and to allow an extra game for the two division winners.

The current system is frustrating for fans and participants alike.

And it’s flat out unfair to the teams involved.

It needs to be changed.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Celebrating all the sporty fathers this weekend

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efore we go any further, Happy Father’s Day! During his 23-year MLB career, Carl Yastrzemski hit seven grand slams. His grandson, Mike, hit his first last Tuesday when the Giants overcame a 7-0 deficit for a 9-8 victory. But Carl and Mike share one slam thing in common: each has hit one that brought the Red Sox/Giants from three runs down to take the lead.

■ There are five granddad, father, son combos all-time: The Bells (Gus, Buddy, David, Mike); David currently manages Cincinnati. The Boones (Ray, Bob, Brett, Aaron); Aaron currently manages New York Yankees. The Colemans (Joe, Joe Jr, Casey); The Hairstons (Sammy, Jerry, Jerry Jr, Scott). Then the Schofields (Ducky, Dick and Dick’s son-in-law Jayson Werth).

■ Condolences to the family and friends of onetime UC Davis defensive lineman Rick Mohr.

Mohr played for the Aggies from

1977 to 1980, mentored by legendary D-line coach Fred Arp. He had stints in the pros with Green Bay in the NFL and Toronto in the CFL. Mohr passed away suddenly while on a weekend golf outing earlier this month.

■ In the high-tension, highwire act that is NHL playoff hockey, it’s not how many goals your team has, it’s how many goals the other team needs to beat you.

■ There’s no better hockey playoff atmosphere than that in Montreal. Your scribbler experienced it once.

■ Beginning tomorrow, umpires will check the gloves, caps and uniforms of all pitchers, searching for the dreaded “foreign substances” all pitchers seem to be using. This is all well and good, save for one thing. If a “foreign substance” is both odorless and colorless, it is unlikely ever to be found. For all anyone knows, such a substance may

already be available or is being processed in some lab. Players in all sports cheat. It’s about looking for an edge, and the cheaters are invariably ahead of the testers/ checkers.

■ How to beat the shift, Chapter 392: Rod Carew was a .328 lifetime hitter with the Twins and Angels from 1967-85. Of his 3,053 career hits, he bunted successfully for a base hit 91 times in 126 at-bats. That’s a .722 bunting batting average. Today’s players should take note. Thanks to column co-conspirator Dave Sims for this small-ball tidbit.

■ The addition of verifiable Negro League records to the Official Baseball Record Book is

a most welcome addition to the game’s statistical landscape.

Though long overdue, Negro League ballplayers are finally getting the recognition that has long eluded them.

Josh Gibson, for example, was as good or better than any catcher who ever played the game. Many remember Satchel Paige, who pitched from 1927 to 1953 and won 118 games. He was with Cleveland and the St. Louis Browns from 1948-53. Paige later pitched three innings, allowing one hit, for the 1965 Kansas City A’s. At age 59 years, 2 months, 18 days. He faced 10 Red Sox hitters, retiring nine. Lone hit allowed was a double by Carl Yastrzemski.

Paige is the oldest player ever to play in a MLB game.

■ There is a compelling article, “In Search of a Lost Pastime,” in which author Rowan Ricardo Phillips traces the Negro Leagues history from beginning to end. In The New York Times Magazine piece, Phillips spoke

with Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City: “For me, the statistical aspect of this is almost secondary,” Kendrick said. “It’s the recognition and the atonement that comes along with the acknowledgment of the Negro Leagues as what it was: a major league.”

■ The last full-time major league ballplayer to first make his mark in the Negro Leagues?

Hank Aaron, who at age 18 played for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League. In 1952, the Boston Braves paid $10,000 for the rights to sign Aaron into the National League.

The rest, as they say, is history.

— The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Reach him at DKelly1416@aol.com.

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he severe drought gripping the Western states looks set to reach into all lives in the nation and into every pocket.

The unbearable heat for those living in the West, with record-high temperatures stretching from Wyoming to the Mexican border and from the Pacific to the Mississippi, will impact the rest of the country as well.

Scientists have classified this monstrous baking as a megadrought. There hasn’t been regular rain or mountain snow in the West for more than 20 years.

To call it a scorcher is to underestimate a catastrophe that has the possibility of reaching near-biblical proportions. This is big and there is no quick fix. None.

The drought means epic disruptions, merciless rearrangement.

First, of course, there is no water, which means much economic activity may slow or cease. Farmers won’t be able to grow crops or raise livestock. Food prices that are already high from the pandemic’s disruptions will go even higher.

The electricity supply will be strained and may be curtailed because of reduced hydroelectric production. The 13 Western states get more than 22 percent of their electricity from hydropower dams, located mostly in Washington, according to the National Hydropower Association.

In today’s world, farmers depend on electricity to water crops and livestock, milk cows, dry grain and freeze produce.

The first measurable disruption of the summer will be from breakdowns in the California food supply chain. Prices in supermarkets will reflect the impact of the drought on California, which acts as the nation’s truck farm. If you eat it, it grows in California, but only when there is water for irrigation.

The rivers of the West are running dry.

The reserves of water in the great dams on the major rivers, especially the Columbia and the Colorado, which act as the lifelines of much of the West, are way below normal.

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anufactured goods from Western states will be affected if power shortages are extended and widespread. Wildfires will abound and have already started their annual scourge.

In quality-of-life terms, electricity shortages will be particularly brutal for the people living in areas served by the grid in the West, known as the Western Interconnection. Without air conditioning, many people will feel like they have taken up residence in hell. Lives will be lost.

The historical move of Americans from the Northeast to the South and Southwest will be in question, if not reversed.

Droughts aren’t ended because it rains. It takes years of sustained precipitation, ideally falling gently, to restore that which the heat has taken away.

According to those who keep track of these things, the West isn’t the only part of the country suffering drought. Most states are reporting reduced rainfall, including the traditional soggy regions of New England.

No one can predict when the Great Western Drought will break, but political fights breaking out over the distribution of what water remains, followed by litigation, are foreseeable.

Living through drought is a uniquely joyless experience as clear blue skies change from being emblematic of nature’s bounty to being the cruelest of deceptions, the smiling face of betrayal.

Science can come to the rescue, as it did in the record speed with which COVID-19 vaccines were developed. But usually, it takes a long time, as with fracking which changed energy shortage to energy abundance. That took decades.

Finally, beware of brave talk about desalination. That takes a lot of energy and, if it is to be done at a meaningful scale, a giant new environmental problem results: What to do with millions of tons of salt?

We used to worry about climate change in Africa, an electrical engineer in San Francisco told me, but now we have to worry about it in California. Actually, everywhere.

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

hysicist Albert Einstein is widely, albeit erroneously, thought to have said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” but regardless of its source, the aphorism accurately reflects California’s attitude about wildfires.

Year after year, destructive fires whip through communities in the “wildland-urban interface,” often killing those who cannot or will not leave their homes and causing untold billions of dollars in property losses.

The frequency and severity of wildfires appear to be increasing as our climate changes, droughts persist and greenery dries and becomes explosive fuel. What was once a relatively brief fire season in late summer and early fall has morphed into a yeararound peril.

And yet, more often than not, burned-over land soon sprouts new housing whose owners and tenants once again place themselves in harm’s way.

A new study by UC Berkeley’s Center for Community Innovation, commissioned by the think tank Next 10, attributes this seemingly loony practice to misguided state and local policies that incentivize reconstruction in

fire-prone areas.

“Wildfire threatens the lives and homes of more than one-quarter of California’s population,” F. Noel Perry, the founder of Next 10, said in a statement that accompanied the report. “We must overhaul local and state policies and planning procedures to ensure that we are not incentivizing actions that elevate wildfire risks.”

The study found that replacing current homes in high-risk areas would cost at least $610 billion and that huge number scares insurers.

As they pay out huge sums to burned-out policyholders and the danger of future catastrophic losses increases, insurers either shun coverage altogether or impose steep hikes on premiums.

“With climate-fueled wildfires scorching hundreds of thousands of acres, causing the loss of life and property, wildfire insurance availability has shrunk while

the premiums charged have increased,” a commission appointed by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara declared recently.

Insurance is required by mortgage lenders and many property owners, unable to purchase coverage in the private market, have turned to a statewide insurance pool of last resort that has high premiums and limited coverage.

The Next 10 study recommends that the wildfire risk be approached by overhauling land use policies that lack “incentives to avoid building in fire-prone areas” and thus are “contributing to the persistent and increasing risk of significant economic and human costs associated with wildfires.”

Land use in California is largely controlled by state and county governments through zoning and construction permitting. The state’s housing crisis has demonstrated that those governments are often reluctant to approve highdensity housing, especially that meant for low- and moderateincome renters, within urban areas.

However, as the Next 10 study points out, they tend to be more supportive of housing, especially single-family homes, in urban peripheries, which also tend to be the

areas of the highest wildfire risk.

The report proposes “moving homes out of the WUI (Wildlands-Urban Interface), incorporating greenbelts and wildfire buffers, increasing density in existing commercial cores, adding gentle density in the form of ‘missing middle’ housing and accessory dwelling units to areas not in the WUI, and embracing manufactured housing as an affordable-by-design approach.”

Lara’s commission, meanwhile, suggests insurance premiums based on forecasts of future peril, rather than past experience, blanket policies that spread risk, rewards for making homes more resistant to damage and other steps that can mitigate not only wildfire impacts but the less obvious risk of destructive flooding.

Both studies underscore a fact we ignore at our existential peril: Despite its many attributes, living in California means living with constant threat of catastrophe.

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

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LETTERS No to stormwater tax increase Please vote no on the Davis Stormwater ballot.

The Davis city council spends Davis taxpayer funds without restraint.

With record home prices and strong vehicle sales, Davis government is receiving record tax revenue, yet they still try to extract enough ever more from Davis residents.

Where is all this money going? When I moved to Davis two decades ago, Davis city fees were $90 every two months, $45 per month, now the fee is $300 per month. Is Davis providing more services?

No, now months go by without yardwaste pickup.

Davis City Council, start managing your budget and stop trampling over Davis taxpayers.

Stanley Baker Davis

Protect democracy I have a favor to ask of my fellow Davis citizens, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padillia. If you are concerned about the voter suppression laws being enacted in State houses all over the country please step up and do your part to protect democracy.

Engaged citizens and caring members of congress can do it together. Please do your part to promote the passage of S1, the For the People Act, which passed the House in March and will be introduced in the Senate on June 22.

It will protect voting rights and access, get money out of politics and bring ethics back in. It will roll back many of the onerous voting restrictions being implemented in State Houses all over the country.

According to Ezra Levin, co-director of Indivisible it is the most important piece of legislation since the 1960s.

I know the pandemic is winding down and many people are reconnecting with family and friends and enjoying much needed vacation and playtime. Can you take a few moments now to check out the Indivisible Yolo webpage and become an everyday activist?

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Five or 10 minutes a day from now until the summer recess in mid-July is all we ask. We explain the issue, we give you a sample call script and phone numbers and we host two virtual meetings a week so that you can meet us and see how it works.

Will our Senators speak out in favor of this important bill? Senator Padillia has done so but Senator Feinstein is missing in action. Senator Feinstein, as our senior Senator from California, you say you support S1 but then said (on June 10) that you “do not think democracy is in jeopardy.” Well it is! Are you asleep at the wheel?

As for the filibuster, in 1964, it took overcoming a 54-day filibuster to pass the Civil Rights Act in the Senate. This time, if we shall overcome, it will only be if you step up and end it to protect the rights of minorities of color rather than minorities in the Senate.

Please, Senator, the time is now!

Megan Murphy Davis

Left out a song On June 10, my family and I were most fortunate to be able to attend the 2021, in person, Davis High School 94th Commencement exercises. I was there with my grandson’s parents to honor and celebrate his graduation.

The article in your paper was well written and included an in-depth description of the overall commencement proceedings.

The evening festivities opened with the

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singing of the “The Star Spangled Banner,” followed by the singing of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

In the article there was no mention of the singing of this song. It was omitted from an otherwise very descriptive and complete written article. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson in 1900, and later set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson in 1905. It has, through the years, been adopted as the Black National Anthem. As a courtesy when it is sung people are usually encouraged to stand.

At the beginning of the program, Principal Tom McHale requested that the audience remain standing for both musical selections. My family and I remained standing until the completion of the songs or anthems.

At the end of “The Star- Spangled Banner,” there was some confusion or hesitancy to stand or sit for the Black National Anthem. I don’t fault the audience for being confused as they probably knew very little or nothing about the history or origin of this song.

Usually, as I previously mentioned, the audience is encouraged to stand. Except for the above stated omission, I would like to thank the Davis Senior High School Principal Tom McHale and staff for making this a happy and outstanding memorable occasion for the graduates and all of the families and friends in attendance.

Reginald White Davis

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The goofiest split-state idea of them all I

t’s no secret that plenty of folks in California’s rural northern counties would love to leave the Golden State and form one of their own — the most persistent such plan has been called the State of Jefferson since the notion first appeared in the 1940s.

Rural residents in counties from Lassen to Lake have long felt dominated in setting policies affecting their rivers, timber and other essentials by the urban masses of the San Francisco Bay area and Southern California.

This feeling took off in earnest in the 1960s, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s “One Person, One Vote” decision deprived northern counties of the kind of strong representation they previously enjoyed, where square miles often counted as much as population. No longer could those counties shape the entire California freeway system, as the late state Sen. Randolph Collier did during the more than 20 years he represented several North Coast counties, for just one example.

Then most of Southern California gradually became as politically liberal as the Bay Area, and rural counties felt even more forlorn.

They’ve devised scheme after scheme to split away into their own state. The problem has always been that they’d need a “yes” vote from the full state — not just their part — in order to do this, and that’s not in the cards.

So there’s never been a statewide vote on this issue, which nevertheless doesn’t stop ideas from percolating.

The newest has trickled south from rural eastern Oregon, whose denizens now have begun to feel similarly toward the Portland/Salem/Eugene areas of the Willamette River Valley as

some Northern Californians do about California’s coastal counties from Marin south. They’d like to become part of consistently conservative Idaho, five Oregon counties said in votes last fall.

Oregonians pushing for new boundaries want to free themselves from the parts of their current state most infested by emigrating former Californians and their liberal ideas.

They’d like to take with them California counties that have flirted with the State of Jefferson idea.

If realized, their plan would create a Greater Idaho taking in some of the most scenic, most mountainous, timber- and riverrich parts of the American West.

This plan has several big differences from the state of Jefferson, which upsets Democrats because if it happened, it would likely give Republicans two new seats in the U.S. Senate, making Democratic control there and in the Electoral College significantly less achievable.

Instead, the new Greater

Idaho would still have only two senators, the Senate itself would hold at 100 members and the Electoral College wouldn’t change much. And getting the rural counties of both Oregon and California away from political control by urban Democrats might give those rural places far more power to determine their own policies on water, renewable energy, smog control and many other issues where their voters consistently disagree with current state governments.

But analysis reveals this plan as even goofier than the State of Jefferson, which has yet to prove it could be economically viable if it should ever come to exist. Also, for the rural counties of both Oregon and California to join Idaho, they would need yes votes from the full electorates in all three states involved — not a very likely prospect.

Urban Oregonians are no more likely to approve the departure of the tourist tax dollars produced along the Columbia River and in the Cascade Mountains than coastal Californians are to part

willingly from the ski resorts, national parks, forests and other tourist enterprises of the northern Sierra Nevada and the North Coast.

But the State of Jefferson state of mind is not going away. “Rural people and rural counties no longer have a voice,” Mark Baird, one of the new plan’s advocates, told a reporter. “If this (new idea) turns out to be the shortest route to liberty and representation, I’ll give it a go.”

Yet, the greater Idaho plan is even less likely to succeed than the State of Jefferson ever has been. Which nevertheless won’t prevent anyone from longing for the “good old days” when rural counties were the sparsely populated little tails that wagged the big urban dogs.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It," is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.

What happened to the Republican Party?

COMMENTARY

BY DEBORAH NICHOLS POULOS Special to The Enterprise

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epublicans used to be proud American conservatives, patriots wrapping themselves in our national flag, standing up for law and order, fighting for justice and the “American Way.” Now they have descended to a catastrophic low.

A majority of Republicans in the House and Senate have abandoned these values to embrace a Trump agenda. They want one party control of our country. If they succeed we will live in an inevitable Fascist Autocratic Dictatorship.With that the “American Experiment” of creating a democratic country will have failed.

But the current Republican leadership does not care. All they care about now is power and holding onto it. They think continuing to hold onto Trump, and his lies, is the only way to do it. They have lost confidence in themselves.

Their reasonable, aware, traditional Republican constituents, ”old fashioned Republicans,” must stand up to them and get them back on the right track before we run out of time.

We must encourage these reasonable Republicans to lobby their legislators to come to their senses.

Our country is on the brink of falling into the chaos of Republican leaders who have lost their way.

They have already tarnished and shamed the proud name “Republican.”

How do they even call themselves Republicans? They are a mockery to traditional Republicanism.

■ Instead of fighting for Democracy they are fighting to take away voting rights from millions of Americans. Most of these voting restrictions, hundreds of them across the country, are aimed at people of color. They are a return to the restrictions of the Jim Crow era. They will erase the gains in voting rights of the last 60 years, and pervert the bedrock of our Democracy…what should be a sacrosanct process of “free and fair elections.”

■ Instead of standing up for voting rights, they refuse to support the Congressional Voting Rights Bill.

■ Instead of fighting for truth and justice they are spreading the big lie that Trump won the election.

■ Instead of acknowledging that a mob of racist white power insurrectionists — like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, attacked our nation’s Capitol to stop certification of the presidential election, carrying Trump and Confederate flags, wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirts, smashing windows and doors, yelling “Hang Mike Pence” and “Kill Nancy Pelosi,” and killing five people — they say it was just a group of tourists.

Some even say it was “Black Lives Matter” and “Antifa” protesters. They deny and ignore what is recorded in a video for all to see.

The video is undeniable testimony of the truth. Republican lawmakers won’t even support a bipartisan commission to investigate what happened on 1/6.

■ Instead of law and order they are passing gun laws that allow anyone to, not only, buy guns, but also to buy assault weapons, with no background checks, when every day around our country mass shootings are taking place. Many of these shooters have mental health issues, but without background checks they are free to buy guns. Thousands of Americans are killed every year.

■ Instead of working to solve the issue of police violence, especially against people of color, they refuse to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. I’m sure there are many Republican voters who are ashamed of their elected representatives. You must urge your representatives to abandon these Trumpian lies and come back to the truth. I believe you are the only ones who can help save our Democracy for future generations.

You must act forcefully and quickly to declare your support for Republican candidates who stand for truth before the 2022 election, before it’s too late, or all will be lost. We are teetering at the edge of a precipice and are about to fall off. Our democracy depends on you to act now!

— Deborah Nichols Poulos is a former Davis City Council member, former Davis teacher and author of “The Conscious Teacher: What all teachers and engaged parents need to know to be more effective.”

Make June 19 a paid holiday Special to CalMatters

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anta Clara County is making history today as it becomes the first county in California to recognize Juneteenth with a paid day off for county employees. California should follow Santa Clara County’s lead — and that of the federal government — by making June 19 a paid holiday for state employees.

This week, in an unusual and, to be frank, surprising show of bipartisanship in Congress, lawmakers swiftly created the nation’s 12th federal holiday — Juneteenth National Independence Day — to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.

President Biden signed it into law and made today a paid day off for federal employees.

Banks and other private businesses that haven’t already made it a paid holiday for their employees are likely to follow suit.

It is remarkable and gratifying that our leaders were able to unite on something so important when our nation is so divided.

Observance of this holiday will help us collectively reckon with our racist past and help place equity at the center of our efforts to build a brighter future for everyone.

Making Juneteenth a federal

holiday is one of the most powerful tools we have to raise awareness, because it demonstrates a welcome and overdue commitment to remembering, honoring and understanding what the day represents.

Juneteenth recalls June 19, 1865, the day the news of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation nearly two and a half years earlier reached Texas — the last recalcitrant corner of the country. In recent years, Juneteenth has gained prominence, with 48 states and the District of Columbia observing it as either a ceremonial or a state (when state offices and schools are closed) holiday.

This growing awareness gives me hope, as it is critical that we recognize that Black history is American history and that its connection to modern-day issues — such as police brutality and economic inequality — render Black liberation elusive.

“As much as we invest in the Fourth of July, it must be that and more for Juneteenth,” said Milan Balinton, executive director of the San Josebased African American Community Service Agency, which helped advocate for making Juneteenth a paid holiday in Santa Clara County.

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Ensuring that we talk about all of our nation’s history — the good and the bad — speaks truth to power, and in turn, builds power for those who historically haven’t had it.

This will move us toward a more equitable society.

Too often, the power to determine a community’s future is held by a small and unrepresentative group of people. To advance equitable policies that will drive systemic change, we must ensure that those who historically haven’t had power get a measure of it.

Movements such as the California Black Freedom Fund, which directly supports Blackled power-building organizations across the state, do this.

Recognizing the injustices of our history adds to that effort.

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We shall overcome because the arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I’m hopeful that everyone takes this new holiday as an opportunity to see, hear and value others — Nicole Taylor is president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, ntaylor@siliconvalleycf.org.

She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

Editors’ choice for web comment of the week “In junior college I prayed for 6 inches of snow on the Friday before Christmas break to delay taking a physics test.”

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May is new Big West Chairman of the Board

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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

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May was elected Chair of the Board of Directors for the 202223 academic year during the Big West Conference’s spring meeting, as announced by league officials.

May will replace outgoaing chair Framroze M. Virjee, President of California State University, Fullerton, who was selected last spring and begins his term on July 1, 2021.

“Fram Virjee and Gary May represent the Board’s strong commitment to the ongoing improvement of the (BWC) and steadfast support for creating experiences for (all),” said Commissioner Dan Butterly.

May became the seventh chancellor of University of California, Davis in 2017 and leads the most comprehensive campus in the University of California system, with four colleges and six professional schools. UC Davis enrolls more than 39,000 students, brings in nearly $850 million annually in sponsored research and contributes at least $8 billion annually to California’s economy.

In 2010, May was named “outstanding engineering alumnus” of UC Berkeley, where he earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Throughout his career, May has championed diversity and mentorship in both higher education and the workplace by developing nationally recognized programs to attract, mentor and retain underrepresented groups in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

In 2015, President Barack Obama honored May with the Presidential Award for Excellence in STEM Mentoring; in 2021, he received the prestigious Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for demonstrating extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in the fields of science and engineering.

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‘I might as well’ is quite motivating advice A t 24 years old, my friend Pablo Loayza is one of the most self-motivated individuals I know. Why? I wondered. I know lots of 24-yearolds who could never push themselves like he does. So I asked him.

First, though, let me tell you why I even thought about writing a column on Pablo.

About a month ago, Pablo texted me a “potential timeline” for three jobs he’d applied for — one in San Francisco, one in Miami and one in a remote desert area of California. His timeline was a list of things he’d like about each scenario. He’s big on accountability, so he regularly makes these written or verbal to-do lists.

I read it to my husband, S, and said, “I need to tell Pablo that a list of only positives is not the best way to do a cost-benefit analysis. He needs to think about the cons of each opportunity, too.”

“No he doesn’t,” S said. “If he thinks one of these jobs is his future, why point out to yourself what you wouldn’t like about it?

Why not focus only on the positive?”

Hmm. As I thought about this, I realized this is why I admire my young friend so much.

Pablo was one of my four undergraduate writing fellows during my first year working at UC Davis. Although there was a strong applicant pool of students

who wanted to land this fellowship, Pablo’s stood out because, well, he said he spent 8 hours on his application but then realized he didn’t meet one of the requirements to apply. He emailed me his application anyway, with an added comment: “If it turns out this fellowship is not for me, perhaps you would consider meeting with me to advise on alternative ways in which my writing can be improved.”

Obviously, he got the position and we had a great working relationship from September 2019 to June 2020. When he finished the fellowship, we realized we didn’t want our weekly meetings to end and we became friends.

A note about that: I asked Pablo, the age of my older son, why he thought we were friends.

“I have friends from other age groups,” he said, adding, “I’m friends with lots of my friends’ moms,” including one where he’s lost touch with the original friend but kept in touch with his mom. Same for me ... I consider many of my sons’ friends my own.

So Pablo — who is one class shy of graduating with a degree

in environmental planning and management — and I have had weekly conversations for the past couple of months about job prospects. We talk about places he’s applied and interviews he’s done, critiquing the experiences.

Among his many charms, Pablo is a great conversationalist; even though he is the one heading off into all of these new directions, he is interested in my goings on.

As we end each conversation, he often requests we each make a goal to accomplish and share at the next week’s call.

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ecently, I asked him why he thought he could handle moving to New York City right from his Southern California high school. “I just felt like that was the only logical step,” Pablo responded, “an inner knowing, almost.”

In NYC, Pablo got a job at Urban Outfitters, and his “super peppy and happy” demeanor, as he explained it, caught the attention of someone from Ralph Lauren, where he then worked for the next year or so, learning much about business.

His “inner knowing” then carried him from NYC back to SoCal, where he attended community college, then “transferred to UC Davis where I applied for the fellowship and met you.”

About that, I asked him, “Why did you think you could ask a person you didn’t know to waive one of the fellowship requirements?” (To be fair, the

requirement was that applicants had completed an upperdivision writing course at UC Davis, because we’d overlooked the possibility that new transfer students might apply.)

“I had already worked on (the application), it already existed, so I might as well,” Pablo said. “I had done this in the past, sending little notes … knowing you are connecting to a real person behind that screen” gave him the confidence.

He continued, “For me, a big part of ‘should I do it, should I not do it?’ is that even having one opportunity work out, the effects accumulate” Somehow, this young man doesn’t take defeat as a sign that he shouldn’t have bothered. In fact, he accumulates many positives from just trying.

Case in point: He recently borrowed money and bought a Mercedes Sprinter van, which he had converted into a luxury camper and sold for a huge profit. He’s 24 years old! “Why did you think you could do this?” I practically demanded of him.

Pablo explained that he when COVID-19 struck in March 2020, “I was living in my Davis apartment alone and had a much easier workload. I didn’t feel super intellectually stimulated, so once my lease ran out, I moved back to LA.” Then, he said, he was “really bored. I might as well start a business.”

Pablo continued: “Seeing all the ‘van life’ stuff online seemed

like a good place to start.” With his parents’ encouragement — “My dad is a big cheerleader, to the point of annoyance,” he said with a laugh — he got going by watching a slew of YouTube videos on van conversions.

“I made a general business plan,” Pablo continued, “then went on Reddit” to read more details about people’s experiences converting vans. He ordered all the parts for the project, then found a crew in Tijuana to do the construction — Pablo’s family is Peruvian and he speaks Spanish fluently — and, let me skip to the punchline: He recently sold the van business for $100,000 and paid off $60,000 in student loans.

Pablo thinks one of his secrets of success is bouncing ideas off people. “The biggest thing,” he said, “is I always tell people my business ideas, then I get feedback. When I was telling people about the van, they said, ‘That’s such a great idea, it’s so cool, and now’s the time because of COVID (making people want to travel and get away) ... having people I trust be so excited about it fired me up.”

Truly, I’m fired up every time I talk to him, and “I might as well” is becoming my mantra.

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday.

Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

Unleashed: How a doggie day care was the perfect fit Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — This is a story about hope, opportunity and a Chihuahua named Bruiser. It takes place at Cha Cha’s Doggie Daycare in East Sacramento, where 34-year-old Ashley Robertson has been working since October of 2020.

“I’m usually more of a cat person,” she said, but then quickly added, “but I like dogs just as much.”

Robertson has autism, and her job at Cha Cha’s is supported by Progressive Employment Concepts, which assists businesses that hire people with developmental disabilities. Progressive is a partner of the Northern California Business Advisory Council, part of the Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the UC Davis MIND Institute.

The collaboration introduces business to qualified applicants who have disabilities, which increases diversity, equity and inclusion at regional workplaces. Job options for people with developmental disabilities are very limited.

So the Business Advisory Council acts as a bridge between employers and the

agencies that can provide support to businesses through the onboarding and training process.

Cha Cha’s owner, Desalene Jones, was moved to contact the MIND Institute when she noticed that an after-school center next door, where kids with autism used to gather, closed due to the pandemic.

“I wanted to know how I could help; how I could be the change,” she said. The Business Advisory Council discussed her vision and connected her with Progressive Employment Concepts, and they introduced Robertson as a possible hire.

But working at a doggie daycare isn’t for everyone, Jones warned. “The dogs are loose here and running around and it’s different from a lot of typical kennels when you have 30 dogs jumping on you. Ashley walked through and was interested, and it seemed like a good match.”

And it has been. Robertson now works 16 hours a week.

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Ashley Robertson hangs with Bruiser, her favorite dog at Cha Cha’s Doggie Daycare. duties at Cha Cha’s, while nuzzling her favorite dog at the daycare.

“I like this little Chihuahua named Bruiser because he’s really sweet,” she explained, in between cuddles. “I like to play with the dogs and I also like to do nap time with them. They’ll lay down in whatever space they can find, and I usually sit with them. I also do leash work, feed the dogs their lunches and I also often clean up their messes,” Robertson said.

Of course, that comes with the territory at a place whose website proudly proclaims #MustLovePoop.

“If you want to cuddle with a dog, at some point you’re going to wash a wall.

Even if you’re not in this industry, if you want to cuddle with a dog, you’re picking up some poop, so they go hand in hand,” laughed Jones.

As part of the arrangement with Progressive Employment Concepts, Robertson makes a regular wage and has a job coach, Marlene Mangabat, who joins her at work part of the time. Cha Cha’s also receives financial assistance while Ashley is being trained. The goal is to gradually decrease Mangabat’s role until she’s not needed.

“One of the biggest rewards of being a job coach is to see the changes,” said Mangabat. “With Ashely, we were worried about her learning the dogs’ names, but she learned them quickly and then was able to give them commands, so just to see her improvement, it’s like — ‘wow! — you can see the confidence growing.”

Long-term relationships That growth is one of the benefits of the program, said Steve Ruder, the community health program

supervisor with the Business Advisory Council. He noted that an employee’s development opportunities often lead to a successful, long-term relationship.

“Employers tell us all the time that these hires are incredibly competent, that they are loyal and that they are oftentimes the face of the business,” Ruder said.

“Some have been with their company for a decade or longer.”

In 2016, the Business Advisory Council reviewed workers supported by two partner agencies and found that of the 91 employees, 22 had worked for the same company for a decade or longer, and eight had worked for the same employer for at least 20 years. “Many of these companies are in the service industry,” explained Ruder.

“The fact that a third of these employees have been at the same company for ten or more years is truly astounding.”

Jones noted that Robertson is still in learning mode, and so are her other employees. “She’s still developing her skills and is doing well with specific tasks, such as cleaning. I think it stretches her a bit when little things happen,

like a dog attacking the mop, but she’s doing really well,” she said. “As a business owner it’s helpful to have someone that enjoys doing those tasks.”

Jones said a recent training session with her whole team and Mangabat via Zoom was very helpful, too.

“I didn’t realize what a benefit that would be. It improved communication between Ashley and my other employees, but much of what we all learned could be used outside of work, too, in terms of communication and universally helpful concepts,” she said.

In fact, it’s been so successful that Jones has now hired a second employee with developmental disabilities through Southside Unlimited, another supported employment agency that works with the Business Advisory Council. Her advice to other employers considering the idea is, “Do it!”

As for Robertson, she says the job at Cha Cha’s has helped her to realize how much she enjoys working with animals and plans to continue doing so.

“The job is very rewarding, and I see it as a blessing — and a success,” she said.

— UC Davis Health

BY ANDY JONES

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5. Know Your American States. Juneteenth began in what U.S. state?

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Sometimes called “The Father of Our Country,” how many biological children did George Washington have: Zero, two, nine?

Answers: Alameda, Vermont, Chris Paul, polypeptide, Texas, Zero.

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UC Davis students named to Phi Kappa Phi Enterprise staff The following students from UC Davis recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, known as the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

They are Aref Aboud, Annie Breger, Ally Deremer, Aristide Fertig, Anna Marrero, Arteja Smith, Ann Meyer, Abigail Weir, Blake Fonda, Cristavel CamachoGutierrez, Chistina Cruz, Marshall Comia, Yuyan Kuang, Diego Placido, Griffin Hart, Zhenglin Zhang, Ian Lawrence, Iliana Souza, Jack Binter, Jack Friedrich, Jessica Gerson, Jillian Jordan, Joshua Paaske, Jonathan Byers, Ming-shi Joy Chu, Kristopher Mortensen, Weigang Yi, Keely Ji, Ziying Zhang, Leslie Nelson, Madison Ganas, Madison Barker, Melanie Yoon, Nathaniel Lim, Howard Zhang, Sarah Finkel, Sean-Michael Ezenwugo, Steffi Prajogo, Shiven Mian, Sarah Cavar, Shobha Khanna, Stephanie Warrior, Terek Walker, Victor Rivas, Wenjie Zhou, Wanyue Zhai, Xiangyu, Xinyi

NAME DROPPERS Gao, Xiaoxuan Hu, Yifeng He, Yuqing Wang and Ziang Zhang.

The UC Davis students are among approximately 30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year.

Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter.

Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership.

Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.

The society has chapters on more than 325 campuses in the United States and the Philippines.

Phi Kappa Phi’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

———— Caitlyn Lindner, a student at Western Governors University, was awarded a P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education Grant from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by P.E.O. Chapter FI of Woodland.

The program was established in 1973 to provide need-based grants to women in the U.S. and Canada whose education has been interrupted and who find it necessary to return to school to support themselves and/or their families.

P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) has been celebrating women helping women reach for the stars for more than 150 years. Since its inception in 1869, the nonprofit organization has helped more than 116,000 women pursue educational goals by providing more than $383 million in grants, scholarships, awards and loans. The Sisterhood also owns and supports Cottey College.

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