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Pediatrician talks COVID and kids

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

The Canyon Apartments at Humboldt State University on July 18.

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The cost of living?

CSU makes expensive mistake

By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Thousands of students at California State University may lose out on affordable housing because the Cal State system misread the fine print of a new state student housing program.

The error — uncovered by CalMatters and acknowledged

by Cal State officials — is straightforward but costly. In filling out paperwork required to get its portion of the $2 billion Gov. Gavin Newsom set aside for student housing, Cal State incorrectly assumed that it could use that money — and only that money — to build dorms and apartments for lowincome students.

In reality, state rules allow Cal State to combine this limited pot of state money with outside funds, such as dollars from bonds the university regularly issues. Using a mix of funds allows a campus to either build larger structures to include more beds or combine projects to house more students.

The consequence for Cal State’s blunder: Unless state lawmakers intervene, as many as 3,000 students will be

deprived of affordable housing.

CalMatters discovered the discrepancy by reviewing building applications, official correspondence and other documents related to the threeyear, $2 billion Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program that the Legislature approved in this year’s state budget. Over that three-year period, Cal State is slated to

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NEC Society laces up for marathon

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UCD catalogs research’s impact

By Caleb Hampton Jennifer Canvasser is running in today’s California International Marathon in honor of her son Micah, who passed away from NEC.

By Aaron Geerts Losing a child is one of the most devastating experiences imaginable. That’s what makes necrotizing enterocolitis – or NEC – so awful, because it takes the lives of hundreds of infants every year. It’s because of the unimaginable pain this disease causes families that Jennifer Canvasser started the NEC Society that endeavors to build a world without NEC. Back in 2014, Canvasser endured the nightmare of losing a child. Her twin boys were born

non-profits and community organization.

“After Micah died, I searched for groups that were fighting against NEC. There were studies

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prematurely and Micah passed away from his initial NEC infection. Rather than let grief consume her, Canvasser channeled that energy and used it start the NEC Society. An undertaking she tackled with a background in

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Enterprise staff writer From COVID-19 vaccine trials to discoveries related to the role dead trees play in fueling wildfires, research conducted at UC Davis over the past year has had far-reaching effects on medicine, industry, the environment and other spheres of life, according to a research impact report for fiscal year 2020-21, which was published this week.

During the campus’ last fiscal year, which ended June 30, UC Davis secured a record $968 million in research funding. Research conducted by the campus led to the

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Authorization of a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 sent many parents scrambling for appointments as soon as possible early in November.

In Yolo County, about one in four children in that age group received their first dose since the vaccine was authorized a month ago and about 8 percent are now fully vaccinated, according to county data.

But that leaves 75 percent of the county’s 5- to 11-year-olds still without protection against the virus, prompting UC Davis pediatricians to weigh in on Thursday on why children should get the vaccine as soon as possible.

Speaking during a zoom forum organized by Healthy Davis Together, Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, noted that “a lot of people have concluded that, for children, there’s no risk of COVID. And that’s just not true.”

“As a pediatric diseases specialist,” he said, “I see the pediatric patients who are admitted to the hospital for COVID, for complications, in the ICU.” Nationwide, he said, 1.9 million children ages 5 to 11 have been infected with COVID and more than

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Briefly Pint visits ‘Timeout Radio’ College football with its sea of fans, raucous crowds, college bands, and adrenaline rush is a staple of higher education in the United States.

Hear about unique college football traditions, starting with Pint, the tee retrieval dog for the UC Davis football team.

Pint is a third-generation Davis resident and is retiring after 10 seasons of retrieving the kickoff tee.

On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio,” host Rohan Baxi talks to Pint’s owner, UC Davis veterinary professor Danika Bannasch, who tells listeners about Pint’s career and his post-retirement plans.

“Timeout Radio” airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

Shop for a cause at gift market Davis Community Church will host a three-week “Shop for a Cause!” holiday gift market through Dec. 19.

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t’s hard writing a column for this newspaper. The competition is stiff.

The mayor has a column. The chancellor has a column. Michael the beer guy has a column.

Susana, the wonderfully wise wine woman has a column. The swim master has a column. There are more columnists on the sports page than I have fingers and toes.

Marion has a column, which is a must-read. Julie has a column.

Derrick has a column, which is a complete treat every time out.

Wish I could see Derrick in print seven days a week.

My friend Rich Rifkin has a column that always makes me think and usually raises my blood pressure. He can be insightful and inciteful. Often at the same time.

A master creating masterpieces.

I laugh every time I read Tanya’s columns, always honest and dropdead funny. She should write a book.

We also have, or have had, the likes of Bruce and Annie and Dan and John and Preston and Tom and Sara and Maya and Natalia and Craig and Tracy and Jean and Don and Evelyn and Jann and Del and G.L. and Jacci and Jay, and, on very special occasions, the late great Herbert Bauer.

Mike and Mark and Kim keep us swimming in sports opinions, while Tom and Heidy and yet another Dan are full of surprises with the printed word.

We’ve had Owen giving us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth without a single Oxford comma to slow things down. We know he’ll be back one day, once he gets his PhD at a prestigious university south of the Tehachapis.

There’s some dude named Doug who has worked with more bigtime athletes than anyone I know and has the stories to prove it. He’s always one step ahead of the news.

Even the Red-Headed Girl of My Dreams has a column, and I know she’ll win a Pulitzer long before I will.

And, for heaven’s sake, does anyone on earth have more readers than Wendy Weitzel?

Special to The Enterprise WOODLAND — Tuleyome is once again providing a Certified California Naturalist course in partnership with the University of California. Tuleyome’s Naturalist course, which begins in January 2022, introduces students to the wonders of California’s unique ecology and engages them in the study of, and fosters a sense of stewardship of, our region’s natural communities.

The program uses handson learning, problemsolving, citizen science and volunteer service to build an appreciation for and deep understanding of the Northern Inner Coast Range Mountains and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument region.

No special degrees or previous naturalist experience is required. Class time is set aside to help students learn how to accurately

identify some of the region’s most common plant, animal, and insect species.

Participants are also eligible for four academic credits through UC Davis Extension for an additional fee.

Tuleyome’s 2022 naturalist classes start January 14, 2022 and continues for 10 consecutive Fridays from noon to 4 p.m. To keep all students safe and healthy, Tuleyome is offering students the choice to attend classes in person or via Zoom.

In addition to the 10 classroom dates, students are required to attend three field trips, scheduled for Saturdays during the class.

These in-field classes help students understand and apply what is learned in the classroom and how to collect data and interact with nature.

Visit Tuleyome’s website at www.tuleyome.org/ projects/calnat for more information and to sign up.

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o there I was reading this very newspaper on a Sunday afternoon, sitting in the comfort of my East Davis living room.

Or at least as comfortable as one can sit in an East Davis living room. And as I turned the pages, there was the photo of our beloved mayor next to the title “Gloria Partida, Mayor’s Corner.”

I could have sworn a handsome man named Brett Lee was the author of the “Mayor’s Corner,” but I guess one day we had to let him go and hire Gloria Partida in his place.

Chancellor May’s compelling column is called “Chancell-ing.”

Makes me wonder if I ought to call my column “Bobbing.”

Long ago we had a columnist named Archie Moore who managed to pound out five local columns a week, even though the

town was much, much smaller than it is now. How she produced so much copy in a town the size of Winters is a mystery.

Archie knew where all the bodies were buried and wasn’t afraid to share that knowledge with the rest of us. She knew who was married, who was getting divorced and who was going steady at the high school.

If Fred and Frieda were visiting from Fargo, Archie had it covered.

She had a pleasant pen, not a poison one. You could see her pounding the pavement downtown, stopping to chat with every merchant, learning who was pregnant, who had a new job and who wasn’t expected to make it through the night.

She never won a Pulitzer, but she should have.

The competition between columnists is fierce. We’re not colleagues or comrades or kissing cousins. No, we’re combatants in a war of words.

Some of us learned our craft on manual typewriters. Others have only seen a manual typewriter in the Smithsonian.

No matter, they are all welcome here.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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I guess all this prolific opinion sharing should be expected in a town where half the folks have a Ph.D. and the other half think they should.

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UCD: Most dog breeds Input sought on gender equity in youth sports “All children, regardless of their suffer from inbreeding Special to The Enterprise

By Trina Wood Special to The Enterprise Dog breeds are often recognized for distinctive traits — the short legs of a dachshund, wrinkled face of a pug, spotted coat of a Dalmatian. Unfortunately, the genetics that give various breeds their particular attributes are often the result of inbreeding.

In a recent study published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, an international team of researchers led by University of California, Davis, veterinary geneticist Danika Bannasch show that the majority of canine breeds are highly inbred, contributing to an increase in disease and health care costs throughout their lifespan.

“It’s amazing how inbreeding seems to matter to health,” Bannasch said.

“While previous studies have shown that small dogs live longer than large dogs, no one had previously reported on morbidity, or the presence of disease.

This study revealed that if dogs are of smaller size and not inbred, they are much healthier than larger dogs with high inbreeding.”

The average inbreeding based on genetic analysis across 227 breeds was close to 25%, or the equivalent of sharing the same genetic material with a full sibling.

These are levels considered well above what would be safe for either humans or wild animal populations. In humans, high levels of inbreeding (3-6%) have been associated with increased prevalence of complex diseases as well as other conditions.

“Data from other species, combined with strong breed predispositions to complex diseases like cancer and autoimmune

diseases, highlight the relevance of high inbreeding in dogs to their health,” said Bannasch, who also serves as the Maxine Adler Endowed Chair in Genetics at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

The researchers partnered with Wisdom Health Genetics, a world leader in pet genetics, to obtain the largest sample size possible for analysis. Wisdom Health’s database is the largest dog DNA database in the world, helping researchers collect data from 49,378 dogs across 227 breeds — primarily from European sources.

So, what makes a dog breed more inbred than others?

Bannasch explained that it’s often a combination of a small founding population followed by strong selection for particular traits in a breed — often based on looks rather than purpose.

While she has always had an interest in the population structure of some of these breeds, she became particularly interested in the Danish-Swedish farmdog several years ago. She fell in love with their compact size, disposition and intelligence, and ended up importing one from Sweden.

Bannasch discovered that Danish-Swedish farm dogs have a low level of inbreeding based on their history of a relatively large founding population of 200, and being bred for function, rather than a strong artificial selection for looks. And according to the insurance health data on breeds collected from Agria Insurance Sweden and hosted online by the International Partnership for Dogs, the farmdog is one of the healthiest breeds.

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The city of Davis is seeking input from residents on youth sports as part of a larger effort to ensure gender equity across citysponsored youth sport programs as required under state law.

An online survey available in both English and Spanish asks questions about which competitive sports girls and those who identify as girls are most interested in and which they play, including new and emerging sports. The city will also reach out to current and past participants of city recreational programs, youth co-sponsor groups and community organizations.

The survey is available in English at https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/GenderSports and in Spanish at https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/generoespanol AB 2404, known as The

gender identity, should have equitable opportunities available to them to play competitive sports if they so choose.”

Gloria Partida Davis Mayor Fair Play Act, is a California law that requires local governments to provide girls and boys with equal opportunities to participate in youth sports programs. The law also requires that all competitive youth sports be given equitable treatment and benefits, such as athletic fields and sports equipment.

A press release from the city on Thursday said, “the city of Davis recognizes the importance of providing balanced opportunities in

all areas of city-sponsored youth sport programs. It is the city of Davis’ goal to increase athletic opportunities for all while maintaining our existing youth sports programs.”

In addition to the survey, the city will also collect data relating to participant opportunities in competitive youth athletic programs, inventory city facilities and resources and provide training to staff and user groups on gender equity. The city may undertake additional activity as a

result of the survey and inventory.

“All children, regardless of their gender identity, should have equitable opportunities available to them to play competitive sports if they so choose,” said Mayor Gloria Partida.

Currently all city-run youth sports are open to all, regardless of the sex or gender of the prospective participants.

“The city strives to ensure compliance with AB 2404 so that there is no discrimination against any person on the basis of sex or gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources that support or enable these programs,” the press release stated.

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Advent and Christmas at Davis Community Church Special to The Enterprise Davis Community Church will resume a Sunday schedule with two services beginning Sunday, Dec. 12, and, in the interest of public health, will implement a requirement that all who attend indoor events at DCC provide proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test conducted within 72 hours of the event.

Sunday services will be at 9 and 10:30 a.m. in the church sanctuary at Fourth and C streets in downtown Davis. Those who attend will be asked for proof of full vaccination or testing, either printed or digital.

Masks will be worn and the area will be well-ventilated. Attendees are asked to be considerate of others’ personal space and seat themselves at a reasonable distance from one another.

For those who prefer, the church offers a livestream broadcast of its 10:30 a.m. service on YouTube.

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On Dec. 12, a number of Advent events will provide an array of options for the holiday season.

The DCC Gift Project provides gifts for hundreds of children from a number of community organizations including Progress Ranch foster home, Empower Yolo, Pamma’s Shoe Closet, Yolo Crisis Nursery, and others. Avid Reader bookstore and Avid & Co. Toys on Second St in downtown Davis are partnering with DCC on books and gifts for this project.

Gift tags are available in the church entryway or at Avid Reader for those who may be shopping downtown.

Unwrapped gifts may be brought to Sunday services or delivered to the church office at 412 C St. — open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — by December 14.

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At 5 p.m., DCC will offer Blue Christmas, a simple service of prayer, readings and music for those who find themselves feeling blue during the bustle of the season. The service is in the church sanctuary.

DCC will offer three Christmas Eve services. A family service in Fellowship Hall at 4 p.m. is designed for families with children and requires that all who are eligible, both adults and children, be fully vaccinated. At 7 and 9 p.m., the church will offer Candlelight Christmas Eve services.

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LACES: With no organization to join, she founded her own From Page A1 being done, but I found no organizations advancing research or advocating for it,” Canvasser explained the charity’s genesis.

“Since starting the NEC Society, it’s become an internationally known organization. We’re the only non-profit in North America focusing on NEC. We also have partners in the UK, Australia and Brazil. NEC is not rare, but this shows we’re one of the few people working on this disease.”

Essentially, NEC is an intestinal disease that primarily affects babies born prematurely.

Although surgical NEC survival rates are improving, there’s still much more research needed to fully understand NEC and how to prevent it. That’s where the NEC Society shines brightest, as it not only bolsters research, education and advocacy, it stands as a beacon of hope by providing educational information for families going through what Canvasser and her family went through years ago.

“It’s been incredibly inspiring.

Just seeing the number of people who care and generously give and get involved to help raise awareness, advance research and keep this from happening to other families,” Canvasser talked about the charity’s journey.

“When you go through it, it’s a very isolating experience. My family had never heard of this disease, and you feel very alone and that nobody understands what you’re going through. So to come out of that and build this international community that cares and is willing to give expertise, time, dollars and donations is really inspiring.”

A notable fund- (and awareness-) raising effort by the NEC Society is their participation in this year’s California International Marathon. They assembled a team ready to run 26.2 grueling miles in honor of 26 kids battling NEC. Canvasser and her team are also running in honor of a young boy, Oli, who attended César Chávez Elementary School and recently passed away from Wilms’ tumor.

“I’ve always enjoyed running, and after Micah died, it was the way I coped and processed the loss. It’s how I keep him present in my life and gives me time and space to think through those difficult concepts. Running’s been important in grieving and in hope,” said Canvasser. “The marathon has been a unique way to involve other people in the community to run for a cause and remember other children affected by this. It means the world to all our families that people remember them, it’s meaningful to our runners, and in my own experience, it’s nice that people are remembering and celebrating our children. So far, we’ve raised $11,000 dollars from the marathon efforts.”

For Canvasser, the NEC Society is more than a charity advocating research, it’s a way to keep Micah in her and her family’s life. He lives on in memory, with his presence felt in every dollar donated, every second spent volunteering and every time a family receives information about this disease, for they know they’re not alone in the fight.

Micah’s twin brother, Zachary, is now in the fourth grade and sees plenty of photos of he and his brother when they were babies.

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Jennifer Canvasser with her infant boys, Zachary and Micah. Micah’s early death from necrotizing enterocolitis gave Canvasser the impetus to start the NEC Foundation to fight the disease.

Zachary also has a new little brother, Elijah, who’s middle name is Micah. Canvasser talks about Micah often with her boys, cultivating his memory while addressing the harsh reality of death.

“I’m grateful to the team that’s made this possible and the community of support that make the NEC Society expand and grow,” Canvasser said. “People can visit necsociety.org to get involved, donate and find all ways to help.

Because it helps not just families affected by NEC, but anyone affected by prematurity.”

With love and empathy fueling this charitable enterprise, there’s hope that one day we’ll live in a world without NEC.

necsociety.kindful.com/262miles-for-a-world-without-nec2021/262-for-a-world-withoutnec.

To donate to the NEC Society’s “26.2 For a World Without NEC” one can log onto https://

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2021 A5

After 20 months, Delta of Venus rises

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elta of Venus, the Bohemian coffeehouse and brunch spot at 122 B St., reopened on Thursday for the first time since the pandemic shuttered it in March 2020.

Relaxing Thursday afternoon after his cafe’s first shift in more than 20 months, owner Lee Walthall said it felt great to see locals return.

“We experienced a lot of joy today. … People are happy Delta of Venus is back, and Delta of Venus is happy Delta of Venus is back.”

Walthall knew word would spread quickly through the community, even without a formal announcement of the soft opening. He didn’t want to overwhelm his six employees – all of them returning staffers. There was a steady flow of customers on Thursday.

The B Street bungalow, porch and patio have been a Davis gathering place since 1993.

Walthall, who grew up in Davis, has owned it since 2001. “This place really represents the town I grew up with,” he said.

He likened Delta of Venus to a public house or European pub where people go to eat, drink, socialize and occasionally hear live music. The music and later pub hours are still to come, he said. “We’ll gradually add all of the other things people enjoy and expect from Delta of Venus.”

He likes offering a place for people to connect – a safe space where they can be themselves.

“Social distancing is almost antithetical to what Delta of Venus is,” he said. “People are really missing that in their lives.”

The restaurant offers plenty to please vegetarians, vegans and omnivores. Brunch eats feature eggs, scrambles, omelets, breakfast burritos, potatoes, tofu, yogurt parfaits, granola and oatmeal. There are sides like beans, avocado, bacon, sausage, roasted vegetables, whole wheat walnut toast and bagels. Mimosas are sold by the glass or the pitcher.

December hours are 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. It will be closed Dec. 20 through Jan. 6. See the full menu at http://deltaofvenus.org/.

———— CVS Health announced late last month that it plans to close 900 of its standalone stores over the next three years. The specific store closures have not been revealed. As the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., it’s apparently focusing on healthcare more than toiletries. It merged with Aetna ­­— one of the largest health insurers in the country — in late 2018.

Davis has two CVS stores — at 1550 E. Covell Blvd. and 1471 W Covell Blvd. There’s also a CVS Pharmacy inside the Target at 4601 Second St. However, a CVS

spokesman told the New York times that the company did not expect the pharmacies inside Target stores to be affected.

CVS has more than 9,900 stores in the U.S. — 1,176 of them in California. The closure would affect about 9 percent of its stores.

According to a news release, the company “has been evaluating changes in population, consumer buying patterns and future health needs to ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations for consumers and for the business. … The company is committed to offering impacted colleagues roles in other locations or different opportunities as part of its overall workforce strategy. These changes will begin in the spring of 2022.”

———— On Nov. 1, Kaya Yoga moved to 1403 Fifth St. Its previous studio was at 612 Fourth St., downtown.

Owner Kia Meaux said, “I was actually evicted from my downtown space because I couldn't continue to pay the high rent.

Our new space is actually perfect, albeit much smaller.”

Kaya’s new space is 700 square feet, compared to the previous 1,500. It fills a spot formerly occupied by Holistic Health Center. Meaux called it a “beautiful, light-filled room with large windows (and) cork floors.” It’s quiet, and has more dedicated parking than downtown.

“We are very happy and grateful to be in a more affordable space that will ensure the survival of our studio and therefore our yoga community,” Meaux said in an email. “We have been able to stay open and offer yoga classes during the entire pandemic crisis because of the generosity of our members, who want to see small businesses such as ours continue to thrive and serve the Davis community.”

She said the studio follows county health mandates on indoor masking, and asks people “to please be vaccinated before coming to class.” There is an air purifier and fans running during sessions.

———— June and Simple is a new popup jewelry and gift shop in University Mall, temporarily filling the former Starbucks site at 825 Russell Blvd., Suite 24.

Owner and creator Hadas Kol was an interior architect in Tel Aviv before moving to Davis a

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Front-of-house manager Blake Hurzeler is happy to welcome customers back to Delta of Venus. dozen years ago. She started a jewelry business a few years later.

She works with gold-filled, goldplated brass, bronze and resin to make bracelet, bangles, earrings, necklaces and rings. The store also sells handmade soaps, lotions, candles and room-andlinen sprays.

“My collections show my love for simple shapes and natural elements such as gemstones and botanical features,” her website, https://juneandsimple.com/, says. “Like my architectural projects, my jewelry is modern, minimal, practical and elegant.”

Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. She plans to close the store by the end of the month — or a couple of days before.

———— Another pop-up is Shop for a Cause, a holiday gift market at Davis Community Church, 412 C St., through Dec. 19. The event runs from noon to 6 p.m.

Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, there will be a children’s shop on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

It features local nonprofits Purple Tree Cafe and Do Good Shop, plus Black-owned businesses Zim Cuisine (sales benefitting TESE Foundation) and Queen Sheba Crafts. All organizations and businesses are run by women.

———— Across town, Sutter Davis Hospital Farmers Market is open with holiday markets on Thursdays through Dec. 11. Hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., outside the hos-

pital entrance, 2000 Sutter Place. Items include fresh produce, baked goods, gifts, crafts and more.

———— In Woodland, a Sprouts Farmers Market will come to the corner of East Main Street and Highway 113. The supermarket is expected to open in fall 2022, according to a story in the Sacramento Business Journal.

The company, based in Phoenix, has more than 350 stores in the U.S. — 130 of them in California. The 23,275-square-foot grocery will anchor the Main Street Marketplace, the story said. There is an additional 11,420 square feet of additional space at the shopping center, for two shops and a drive-thru eatery. Other tenants have not been announced.

———— Gallery Coffee Roasters opened Nov. 19 at 420 First St. in Woodland. The owner is Benjamin Canevari, a Woodland native and photographer. His photos are displayed at the cafe.

According to its website, Canevari worked as a barista for a decade. He began roasting his own beans with his family, starting with a popcorn air-popper.

That evolved to a homemade fluid-bed roaster, then a home roaster and, finally, a 1-kilo professional roaster. He initially used that to sell coffee to local cafes and restaurants. Canevari sources his coffee from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico and Ethiopia.

Initially open just morning hours, it planned a grand open-

ing on Friday (coinciding with Woodland’s First Friday), after which daily hours were scheduled for 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Its website is https://www. gallerycoffeeroasters.com/.

———— The discount clothing retailer Marshalls is coming to the Woodland Gateway shopping center on Bronze Star Drive, going in near HomeGoods. The existing Marshalls, at 45 W. Main St., will move there when the mall spot is complete, according to published reports.

An opening date has not been announced for the 22,000-square-foot store. Marshalls’ parent company, TJX Cos. Inc., also owns T.J. Maxx and HomeGoods.

———— 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, Coming soon, Businesses-retail, 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.

Giving tree in Woodland supports Yolo CASA kids Special to The Enterprise Tan Orthodontics will host its annual Yolo County CASA giving tree for local foster children, and this year 85 wishes hang on the tree. Personalized holiday ornaments are available with a child’s specific gender, age and requested wish.

The community is invited to stop by Tan Orthodontics (301 Cleveland St. in Woodland) to take an ornament off the giving tree, and return the requested gift by Wednesday, Dec. 15.

Tan Orthodontics has made hosting the Yolo County CASA giving tree a longstanding holiday tradition. Last year, 95 wishes

were fulfilled by patients, staff and the local community. This year, 85 wishes need to be fulfilled for the children who are a part of the Court Appointed Special Advocate program. Yolo CASA and Tan Orthodontics are counting on the kindness of the community to help fulfill all the wishes that hang on the tree this holiday season.

“Tan Orthodontics is proud to continue to host the CASA giving tree again this holiday season,” said Dr. Alan C. Tan, orthodontist. “The immense support this program receives from our patients and community friends is truly amazing

- many have made fulfilling these giving tree wishes an annual holiday tradition.

With the large number of ornaments on the tree again this year, we’re counting on the continued generosity found in our local area to brighten the holidays for these children. These gifts bring immense happiness at a very difficult time in their life. We’re so grateful to all those who make it possible to fulfill every wish on the CASA tree.”

“From the moment a child is placed in foster care, their life is filled with uncertainty and choices are taken from them,” said Tracy Fauver, executive director of Yolo County CASA. “Our CASA volunteers restore their voices and teach them that

what they want does matter through highly trained advocates. The holiday season is a perfect time to illustrate that by empowering these children to go shopping with their advocates and pick something out of their very own. This is often

one of the only items a foster child will shop for themselves.”

Dr. Tan was a member of the founding board of directors of Yolo County CASA from 1995 to 2000.

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PEDIATRICIAN: Myocarditis threat looming From Page A1 8,000 ended up hospitalized.

Approximately one third of those hospitalized ended up in intensive care and more than 2,000 ended up with multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).

“Those kids are scary sick,” Blumberg said, “and that’s most frequent in this age group, the 5- to 11-yearolds.”

There have also been 94 deaths in this age group due to COVID, he added, “and that means it’s tied for the eighth-leading cause of death over the past year.

“So for individual children, it’s very important in this age group, the 5- to 11-year-olds, to get them vaccinated … there is no question that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh any risks of vaccination.”

———— One of the risks concerning many parents is myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle and an extremely rare side effect linked to COVID vaccination.

Blumberg said it’s likely the cases of myocarditis following vaccination are linked to the spike protein contained in the virus since the heart condition is occurring at a relatively high rate in individuals infected with COVID-19.

“That’s the commonality between the vaccine and COVID itself,” he explained. “It’s the spike protein. So there’s something about the spike protein that somehow causes that inflammation to occur.”

Blumberg said he has seen several patients with myocarditis following immunization.

“They generally have chest pain, shortness of breath, and this responds very well to anti-inflammatory medication and sometimes stronger antiinflammatory medications that are given intravenously,” Blumberg said.

“If somebody gets myocarditis following vaccination,” he added, “the prognosis is excellent. They’re generally in the hospital for a day or two. The heart function usually is not affected. If it is affected, it’s mild and generally responds to treatment.”

However, he said, “if somebody has myocarditis following COVID infection, which occurs at a greater rate compared to following vaccination… it tends to be more severe.

“Those children end up being in the hospital longer and they end up requiring more treatment and they may have longterm consequences from that.”

Myocarditis is 100 times more common from a COVID infection than from vaccination, Blumberg said, and occurs more than 1,000 times more frequently with multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children compared to vaccination.

“So any parent that’s worried about myocarditis in their child, choose

vaccination,” he said. swelling at the injection “That’s the best way to pro- site, fever, fatigue and tect them against getting headache, “and they do myocarditis.” tend to occur less freOf those who developed quently in children 5 to 11 myocarditis following vac- years of age compared to cination, the highest rate the older children, 12- to has occurred among young 17-year-olds, and adults,” males between the ages of Blumberg said.

12 and 29, Blumberg said, “Most of these side and there were no cases of effects last a day or two. If myocarditis reported in the they are severe, for example clinical trials for children 5 if your child has such a bad to 11. headache they need to be in As for any other possible bed, and they just can’t COVID-19 vaccine side function, they generally effects, they would have respond very well to antiinflammatory medication turned up by now, he said.

“In the history of vacci- such as ibuprofen… and nation, the longest-term they do resolve within a day side effect that’s ever been or two.”

———— seen has occurred five weeks following immunizaLooking ahead, Blumtion and that was with the berg said he expects a vacsmall pox vaccine, a vaccine cine to be authorized for that had a lot of side effects children under the age of 5 so it’s not routinely used sometime in the first quaranymore in the general ter of 2022. public,” said Blumberg.

As for what everybody’s “And that vaccine did cause talking about — the Omiinflammation of the heart cron variant — Blumberg five weeks following vacci- was optimistic. nation.”

“This variant is of conWith the COVID cern,” he said, “and vaccine, “I’m confithe reason it’s of dent that we concern is it’s got haven’t seen any more than 50 longterm side mutations comeffects, its been pared to the origimore than five nal strain and more weeks, we’ve got a than 30 of those lot of experience mutations are on with these vaccines the spike protein.

BLUMBERG -- more than 7.8 “And we know on Urges action billion doses the basis of experiadministered world wide ence with these mutations and more than 460 million in other strains that some doses administered in the of these specific mutations U.S. -- so I’m confident are associated with we’re not going to see any increased transmissibility, longterm side effects.” some of them are associBut there are longterm ated with the virus being side effects for some chil- more contagious and some dren who are infected with of those mutations are COVID-19, Blumberg said. associated with avoiding “Long covid does occur neutralizing antibodies in children,” he said. from either vaccination or “Children sometimes do previous infection. experience prolonged “So what we don’t know symptoms including is how transmissible it is. fatigue, fevers, not able to We have predictions that do their normal functions. it’s more transmissible but They have fuzzy thinking, I can’t give you a number. headaches and things like We knew the Delta variant that. It appears to occur was about 90 percent more less often among those transmissible compared to children who are vacci- the original strain, but we nated compared to unvac- don’t know that for Omicinated individuals.” cron. We don’t know how With those breakthrough much immunity is affected infections, Blumberg said, in terms of previous vaccior infection, long covid appears about nation half as frequently as in whereas we do know that those who are unvaccinated for Delta. We know that vaccination resulted in and were infected.

“It also appears to be less about 5 to 10 percent less common in children than protection against Delta adults but we’re still learn- compared to previous ing a lot about long strains. So not that much COVID,” he said. “We still different; vaccination was need more information still very beneficial. But we about that. Specifically, don’t have numbers to associate that with Omihow long it often lasts.”

The short-term side cron.

“We’ve got more queseffects of vaccination in children ages 5 to 11 are tions than answers right similar to those seen in now,” Blumberg said. “All I teens and adults, Blumberg can say about it is it’s of said. Namely, pain and concern and we need those

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That said, Blumberg added that he is confident there will be at least partial protection with the current vaccines.

“And when you get the booster shot, the antibody response is extraordinarily strong, extraordinarily high, so I’m confident there will be some protection with getting …. boosters.”

As far as updating current vaccines to target Omicron, Blumberg said, it’s going to take a couple of months for them to become available.

“I’m sure they’ve already made the vaccines,” he said.

“This mRNA technology is so fantastic you can just swap out the gene for the spike protein from one strain to another so I bet they did that earlier in the week.

“But then they have to make the vaccine, and then you want to test it to make sure it’s safe and effective.

So for that you’re going to want to get 100,000 people who are vaccinated, wait a few weeks after they are vaccinated, draw their blood, make sure there’s good immune response, analyze the data… that’s going to take a couple months to do that.”

Blumberg noted that there is a kind of “gloom and doom” with the emergence of Omicron, but that the truth is “we’re in a much better place than we were a year ago.

“We have abundant vaccine available. We know that the vaccines work. We know that they’re safe, they’re effective. We have abundant diagnostic tests.

We’ve got treatment for people who are admitted to the hospital. We’ve got monoclonal antibodies available for those 12 and older… if they’re at risk for progression to more severe disease. We’ve got antiviral pills that are going to be available soon for outpatients.

“So we’re in a much better place now than we were a year ago,” he explained.

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RESEARCH: University zeroed in on pandemic From Page A1 founding of nine startups, 130 records of invention and more than 1,500 new patents.

“As the world struggled with a global pandemic, extreme environmental strains, wildfires and complex social challenges, our researchers leaned into the challenge to provide insight and solutions to help the world move forward,” UC Davis vice chancellor for research Prasant Mohapatra said in the report’s introduction.

Research conducted at UC Davis played a role in responding to many facets of the pandemic. The UC Davis School of Medicine was a site for multiple COVID-19 vaccine trials, including the vaccines made by Pfizer and Novavax, and conducted studies on individuals who received the Moderna vaccine.

Currently, the School of Medicine is recruiting for clinical trials of experimental drugs used to treat COVID-19, including remdesivir, the monoclonal antibody cocktail made by Regeneron, and an IV drug made by Pfizer.

Research done at UC Davis also contributed to a broader understanding of the pandemic’s impact.

One study found that lowincome communities face significant obstacles in isolating and physically distancing, largely due to the nature of their work.

Another study explored the efficacy of different types of face coverings. A third study analyzed the risk of COVID-19 infection for different animal species.

Beyond the pandemic, research conducted at UC Davis linked exposure to traffic-related air pollution to an increased risk of

Alzheimer’s disease. A different study found that dogs experience more joint problems if they are neutered too early.

Researchers at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis found that listening to personalized music playlists decreases the need for antipsychotic medication in dementia patients.

UC Davis researchers also explored social inequities. A study conducted by data and computer scientists, ecologists, pathologists and legal scholars analyzed racial biases embedded in artificial technologies like facial recognition, which uses algorithms to detect anomalies.

“Since anomaly detection is often applied to people who are then suspected of unusual behavior, ensuring fairness becomes paramount,” said UC Davis computer science professor Ian Davidson. “If one of these algorithms is used for surveillance purposes, it’s much more likely to identify people of color. If a white person walks in, it would not be likely to trigger an anomalous event. If a black person walks in, it would.”

In 2020-21, UC Davis received $514 million in federal research grants, according to a breakdown of the campus’ research funds. The federal grants accounted for more than half of UC Davis’ overall research budget. UC Davis also received $164 million from the state of California and $116 million from businesses.

More information about research conducted at UCD over the past year is at https://2021research impact.ucdavis.edu/.

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COST: Cal State ‘misinterpreted’ key state regulations on financing From Page A1 receive $600 million from the grant program to build housing at low rents for students.

The error comes after a Cal State assistant vice chancellor implored the state to change the rules to accommodate more flexible spending.

The state housing program is seen as one way to defray much of the costs of college attendance.

More than half of Cal State and UC students from California don’t pay for tuition, but campus rent can tack on as much as $11,000 a year for Cal State students, though federal grants can help cover those expenses.

Arguably hundreds of thousands of California university and community college students struggle to afford a stable place to live. University housing is typically cheaper than off-campus housing in the surrounding communities.

Fix may be difficult The Cal State paperwork snafu directly affects the initial $150 million portion of funds carved out for the university system in this year’s state budget.

Applications for using the funds were due by Oct. 31. Because the deadline came and went, a doover for Cal State is tricky, said Rebecca Kirk, a project manager at the Department of Finance, an agency of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that is overseeing management of the student housing grant money.

“Because that initial filing round had an established deadline of Oct. 31, that was kind of the cut-off on the initial rounds,” she said in an interview. Fixing the error would be “a pretty significant potential change” to the proposals, Kirk said.

The department has until March 1 of next year to submit to the Legislature a list of recommended housing projects the state should fund. From there, lawmakers and the governor will ultimately decide what gets funded in either the state’s budget process or a standalone bill.

It’s unclear whether lawmakers could allow Cal State to come up with new construction plans to make better use of the money. The law governing these funds is silent on whether lawmakers can deviate from what campuses initially proposed in their applications.

“If CSU erroneously submitted

their application based on a bureaucratic misunderstanding, we should give them every opportunity to correct it,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting, a Democrat from San Francisco who is chairperson of the Assembly’s budget committee, one of the two committees that’ll receive the Department of Finance’s recommendations. “Student housing is too important of an issue to let bureaucracy stand in the way.”

The speed at which the decisions have to be made is intentional: The law prioritizes affordable student housing projects that can start construction by the end of 2022.

The Cal State system owned up to its error when asked by CalMatters. The university “misinterpreted” the guidance that the Department of Finance gave campuses as “intending for the program to fund the student housing grant project in its entirety,” Vi San Juan, Cal State’s assistant vice chancellor in charge of construction, wrote in a statement. The Department of Finance’s guidance, shared with the state’s public higher education systems Oct. 7, said that “proposals that include funding contributions from other sources

will be considered.”

Kirk said the system could revise its remaining proposals that aren’t funded in the first year of the program in the funding rounds for 2022 and 2023.

Mixing funds The potentially massive setback for students comes as a result of a misunderstanding of the rules by the Cal State system that has persisted for weeks. On Nov. 8, Robert Eaton, the Cal State assistant vice chancellor who oversees financing, mistakenly told lawmakers in a public hearing that the student housing grant program’s funds cannot be combined with other money. He then urged lawmakers to change the program’s rules to allow for that.

Doing so “would spread the grant dollars over a larger number of projects, thereby potentially providing affordability benefits to an even greater number of students,” Eaton said. The Cal State system can easily borrow money through its existing construction bond program.

Eaton said that already about a third of Cal State’s $8.8 billion construction bond debt is for financing student housing.

Experts say now’s an especially ripe time to plan for housing construction because borrowing rates are so low. The savings from near-zero interest plus state housing dollars drive down the cost of construction, which leads to student savings because campuses can charge less for housing.

Jack McGrory, a Cal State trustee, said in an interview that if the system were allowed to use a mix of funds, it could build 5,000 to 6,000 beds rather than the roughly 3,300 it proposed.

McGrory, a building developer in San Diego, spoke with CalMatters before it became clear that the flexibility Cal State sought was already built into the state student housing program.

It’s a tactic the University of California knew to pursue in its state student housing applications. UCLA, for example, wants to use $35 million in state grant money and $29 million of its own to build 179 doubles with private bathrooms. Because of the new housing grant’s affordability rules, rents per student will be $600 a month when the project is completed in 2025 — about a third of what UCLA typically charges for such accommodations, the UC application said.

Obituaries John (Jack) Barry

July 18, 1934 — Nov. 15, 2021 Our father, GrandJack, Great-GrandJack, John “Jack” Willard Barry, 87, slipped away in the early hours of Nov. 15, 2021, at home in Davis. He fought for sixteen-years with Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia — a rare blood disease, which was in remission at the time of his death. However, his body was tired after living a life of extensive interests and a passion for knowledge.

Jack arrived on July 18, 1934, in Columbus, Ohio, to George and Sylvia Barry.

He learned how to save money after growing up with parents who lived through the Great Depression. In 1947, when his mother saved enough money, his family packed their ’46 Chevrolet and headed across country stopping at historical sites before visiting Yellowstone National Park.

Through ROTC, he attended the University of Cincinnati graduating in botany. During college summers he worked in Yellowstone Park (’53-’56) climbing the ranks to become a park ranger.

While working there, he met Patricia Arends, they married late 1956 and headed straight to Williamsburg, Va., where he reported to duty as an officer in the army. In Williamsburg their daughter Cynthia was born in 1959.

When she was 6 months old, they visited Yellowstone, and left the park right before the big earthquake of ’59.

Their second child, Sandee, was born at the army base in Dugway, Utah, in 1961. There our parents made lifelong friends. After three years living in the dry desert our mother was thrilled when we moved to Salt Lake City when the army transferred Jack to Fort Douglas. In Salt Lake our father taught us how to ski, rock hunt, and to appreciate the Rocky Mountains. When he bought a rustic cabin near West Yellowstone, Mont., he taught us the value of hard work and rewarded us with horseback riding at the Diamond P Ranch.

Growing up we took

many trips to the Southwest visiting historical sites and Pueblos. Once at Santa Clara Pueblo, Jack jumped out of the car, knowing it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and introduced himself to the great Maria Martinez (famous for her black pottery).

Another time he was the only Anglo at a traditional Pueblo wedding.

In 1975 we moved to Davis. His knowledge for Pueblo pottery flourished, and in 1980 his book “American Indian Pottery” was published. Our parents divorced in 1985. Fortunately, he found Valerie Turner; they were a perfect fit, and married in 1987 on the rim of the Grand Canyon then backpacked with friends and family to the archeological site, Keet Seel cliff dwellings. For 20 years he enthusiastically led tours through Southwestern historical sites and Pueblos sharing his passion for Native American cultures. In retirement he and Valerie made two to three trips a year to New Mexico and Arizona. For over 40 years he influenced the success of talented native and non-native artists encouraging their talents connecting them to collectors and galleries.

Our father worked for the U.S. Army and Forest Service from 1956-1997 (in Ft. Douglas, Utah, 19651973) as an aerial application specialist to save forests, including forests in Montana, from invasive species. He earned the highest U.S. Department of Agriculture award for

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excellence in technology management and was profiled in Who’s Who in the West.

Between work and travel his enthusiasm for: furniture restoration, collecting, reading history, photography, gardening, and journaling about his travels and the people he met, including visiting family and fly fishing in Montana in July, never faded. Partly because of his family’s road trip to Yellowstone in 1947, 10 of his descendants now live in Bozeman, Mont.

We appreciate the love and care Valerie gave him for 34 years. He was preceded in death by his granddaughter, Storey Anne Mills, in 2006, and survived by children, Cindy Wilkinson (Pete), Sandee Barry Mills (John); grandchildren Hayden Mills, Meredith Johnson (Nate), Zackary and Taylor Wilkinson, and great-grandchildren Mabel, Hadley and Eloise, all of Bozeman, Mont.; grandchild Thaddeus Wilkinson of California; stepchildren Sara White and Carrie Pitkin (Richard); and step-grandchildren Morgan, Lillian, Caralena, Savannah and Stephanie of California.

Memorials in Jack’s name may be sent to www. iWMF.com or www.EagleMount.org (Bozeman) A memorial will be held later in the spring. Condolences may be shared at www. smith-funerals.com.

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Stella Frances Deas Pfanner Sutter Oct. 29, 1928 — Nov. 16, 2021

Stella Frances Deas Pfanner Sutter was born on Oct. 29, 1928, in Yreka and was raised on a dairy ranch in Montague. Her mother Frieda was a Swiss immigrant, and her father Frank was a Californian of Portuguese-Azorean descent. She had a sister, Vera, who was a year younger.

Raised during the Great Depression, Stella always had the dream of becoming a registered nurse. In 1946 she went to the Mercy College of Nursing at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento. In those days, student nurses lived in dormitories behind the hospital. There, Stella made lifelong friendships with her fellow nurses and graduated in 1949. She practiced nursing until she married Ernest Pfanner Jr., from Davis, in 1951.

At that point, Stella put her nursing career on hold and raised seven children on the family dairy ranch

outside of Davis. In 1970, the marriage ended, and Stella went back to nursing at the UC Davis Student Health Center. She worked there for 10 years — and made even more good friends until she moved to San Francisco, where she worked at UC Moffet Hospital.

In 1985 Stella married Martin Sutter and they moved to Cloverdale when she retired in 1988. Stella made even more friends in Cloverdale, where she and Marty were very active in the local community.

When Marty died in 2011, Stella moved back to Davis at the request of her children. She maintained a small condominium, made even more friends playing bridge, and continued her loyal support of the San Francisco Giants.

Stella was a lifelong member of the Catholic Church, was involved in the PTA at Plainfield School, and

Wendell Phillip Jacob July 17, 1929 — Sept. 29, 2021

DAVIS, Calif. — “Davis has gone dark” would be the headline that was, in an mirthful way, envisioned by Wendell P. Jacob for this occasion.

Born in Woodland and raised in Davis, Wendell Jacob passed away peacefully Sept.

29 at the age of 92 at his family home in College Park surrounded by his daughter, daughter in-law, son and his fiancé.

A gifted storyteller with a wealth of knowledge, he related tales of shenanigans at Davis High School, and early jobs and as a 35mm projectionist at Davis’ first Varsity Theatre, where his love of the movies was born. Following his service in the United States Air Force and electronic engineering at RCA, he was a well-respected business owner for the last 45 years.

He was known by many as the “Music Man” as he saved, restored and installed in

functioned as a community leader at the West Plainfield 4H Club.

She loved to travel SUTTER and was very proud of her family.

Stella left this world on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, with a smile on her face and is off on a mission to make a lot more friends in an even better place. There will be a memorial mass at St. James Catholic Church at 11 on Friday, January 14, 2022, with a remembrance gathering at 12 p.m.

Her son Hans predeceased her in 1981. She is survived by six adult children: Jim Pfanner of Los Angeles, Louise Gallup of Mission Viejo, Bill Pfanner of Davis, Heidi Adamski of Davis, Ann Sisson of Linden, and Brenda Casady of Red Oak, Texas. She also has 12 grandchildren and 17 greatgrandchildren.

his home the Moller lobby organ from the Fox Theatre, San Francisco. “Our father went to be with his maker. As the heavens make way for a new soul, may he be welcomed with comfort and the angels’ ensemble,” said his son, JACOB Phillip Jacob.

Wendell Jacob was preceded in death by his parents who were among College Park’s first residents in 1929.

He is survived by his partner, Patricia Fitzgerald; daughter Cynthia Jacob; son Phillip Jacob; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

Services will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon. In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Joseph’s Indian School at www. stjo.org are welcomed. Those who wish, may sign a guestbook online at: www.smithfunerals.com.

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Gilliam gave his heart, soul as an Aggie F AREWELL TO ONE OF THE GREAT ONES ... Jaws dropped all over Aggie Nation when news broke that UC Davis superstar running back Ulonzo Gilliam had entered the NCAA transfer portal.

Gilliam came here as a highly regarded studentathlete out of Merced High School in the fall of 2017. Since that time he has excelled in the classroom, on the field and in the community.

He is the very definition of what that familiar expression “Aggie Pride” is all about.

We don’t need to repeat the numbers here, but let’s just say in the 102-year

history of UC Davis football, he ranks second in rushing yards and ninth in pass receptions. He also ranks first in inspiration.

I remember one warm summer evening last July when I took a walk out past the football stadium on campus and

saw a lone athlete working out as the sun was about to set. I stopped to say “hi.” It was, of course, Ulonzo Gilliam.

Yes, he was a freshman All-American in 2018 and this past season a first-team All-Big Sky selection. There are 13 schools in the Big Sky Conference, but only two running backs were named to the first team.

He is also a two-time team captain, but most importantly, Ulonzo Gilliam is “All-Aggie,” a guy who gave his heart and soul over five seasons to help his teammates be the best they can be.

He will be missed, but we wish him well wherever his educational and

athletic journey takes him.

Godspeed, Ulonzo. And thanks for the memories.

THEY’RE CALLING IT THE SHOCKER IN EUGENE ... In case you missed it, that women’s basketball final score last Wednesday night was not a misprint: UC Davis 64, Oregon 57.

This is, without a doubt, the greatest win in Aggie women’s basketball history.

The Ducks have been a national power in recent years and entered this game ranked No. 18 in the country.

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Blue Devil forward Alia Cordone (13) drives to the basket in Davis High’s Dorothy Speck Memorial Tournament win over Woodcreek on Thursday.

Davis High guard Kate Nelson drives to the basket in the Blue Devils’ 70-51 win over Woodcreek in opening game of the Dorothy Speck Memorial Tournament on Thursday.

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Folsom beats Davis High Big night for Bledsoe Enterprise sports editor One night after winning the opening game of the 48th annual Dorothy Speck Memorial Tournament, the Davis High girls basketball team was looking to take another step toward playing in the tournament championship game.

But the Folsom High squad had other ideas, and the Bulldogs started early on their way to a 90-21 victory over Davis (1-1) on Friday.

“Tough loss, but we’re going to take it as a learning opportunity,” said Davis head coach Heather Highshoe. “ The win sent Folsom into Saturday’s tournament title game against McClatchy of Sacramento, which posted a 49-44 win over Whitney of Rocklin.

That game was scheduled to tip off at 4:30 p.m. in the South Gym. Davis and Whitney ere set to play in the third-place game, also in the South Gym, on Saturday at 3 p.m.

In the early minutes of the first quarter of Friday’s semifinal game, Davis showed signs of strong rebounding inside the paint behind Alia Cordone and Malia Abrenica. Cordone was fouled on one of her rebounding attempts. Then, she sank one of two free throws, which gave the Blue Devils a very short-lived 1-0 lead with 6:44 on the clock.

Then the visiting Bulldogs took

charge the rest of the way.

Thanks to a full-court defense that harassed any Blue Devil player who had the basketball in her hands, Folsom, which took a 2-1 lead after Cordone made one of her free throws, forced three turnovers. That led to three baskets, which expanded the lead to an 8-1 score.

At the end of the first quarter, the Blue Devils were guilty of eight turnovers. They had 26 in the game.

Meanwhile, Folsom held a comfortable 24-3 after the opening quarter.

Davis’ only other score in the quarter was from Cordone, who finished with seven points.

Folsom continued its domination on defense in the second stanza. That led to Davis committing eight more turnovers, which helped give the Bulldogs a 58-12 halftime lead.

And by the end of the third quarter, Folsom held an 80-19 advantage.

A running clock was used in the fourth quarter.

Davis center Tessa Schouten, a sophomore, finished with nine points in the game. Guards Pauline Anasco had three points and Kate Nelson finished with two.

Four Folsom players scored in double-digits. Sophia Mindermann had 17 points, Jada Tupou 15, Charlotte

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Enterprise staff writer Mara Bledsoe went off for 28 points and the Davis High girls basketball crew bodied Woodcreek, 70-51, on Thursday in the first day of the Speck Tournament.

It was the senior forward’s career-high scoring night, which carried the Blue Devils (1-0) to their first win of the season.

Senior guard Kate Nelson added 16 points, also a career high, and sophomore center Tessa Schouten chipped in 12.

Bledsoe, Schouten and sophomore forward Alia Cordone formed a fearsome inside presence, as Davis took advantage of its size against the smaller Timberwolves (2-2).

“For us, offensively, if Mara or Tessa or Alia get positioning, that’s where we wanna look to feed the ball,” said Davis head coach Heather Highshoe of her bigs. “Mara had a great, solid, just strong game today — rebounding, finishing.”

The two squads went back and forth in the first quarter as the Devils battled the Woodcreek full court press. Heading to the second quarter, the Timberwolves held a narrow 16-15 lead.

Without a press to break, Davis found their stride. Bledsoe muscled for three layups and got to the line. Junior guard Malia Abrenica hit two shots, Nelson, Cordone, and senior guard Pauline

Anasco each added buckets, and the Devils went into halftime leading 37-16.

Davis held a double-digit lead the rest of the way, but Woodcreek threatened in the fourth quarter. Clawing back, the visitors drilled four straight treys to cut the lead to 10.

But Nelson responded. The senior scored 8 fourth-quarter points, repeatedly driving from the left side and using a nifty right-handed finish.

When the dust cleared, the Timberwolves had finished with nine shots from behind the arc, while the Blue Devils scored all of their points in the key or at the line — where they shot 8-12 — and finished without a single three-pointer.

But the most important box score stat went to Davis: the win.

“It just feels great,” Bledsoe told The Enterprise. “We had high energy; we’re all pumped to do our best in every game … I gotta credit finishing (the game) to our defense. We kinda fell off but we got a hold of them towards the end.”

The Speck tournament, which continues on Friday and Saturday, is the longest-running girls hoops tournament in the country.

It returned for the first time in two years, after having gone on hiatus during last year’s pandemic season.

This tourney is also the first one at which Blue Devil superfan Cathy Speck

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"Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley"

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nebraska outpacing California Remembering I a pioneer in energy E

By Llewellyn King

Special to The Enterprise

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ichard A. “Dick” McCormack, a commanding figure in the energy industry for five decades, died last month at 90.

When I first met Dick, I felt, “That is an executive; that is a leader.” It was a feeling I had no occasion to change after nearly 50 years of friendship and shared adventures.

We met, as I recall, at a press event in 1973 at the Georgetown Club in Washington. Dick was a young vice president at Combustion Engineering, then a major presence in steam technology and the burgeoning nuclear industry. The others were Westinghouse, General Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox.

It was a bustling, vibrant time for the nuclear industry. Dick, a Stevens Institute of Technology engineering graduate who had served as a Navy officer, was in the business of selling power plants.

Two of his sales stand out: the twin San Onofre nuclear reactors in California and the Ravenswood fossil fuel-fired plant in Long Island City, N.Y. Those sales were in the time of the energy crises and all energy was good.

Dick was tall and good looking in a man’s-man kind of way. His grin was emblematic of his whole can-do persona: It was the grin that made you feel everything was possible. The force of his presence was such that people wanted to be on his team, help with his projects, and be in his company. Dick made everyone feel important.

He was lured away from Combustion Engineering in 1974 to become president of General Atomic Power Systems Company, then owned by Gulf Oil and Royal Dutch Shell. Nuclear power was a hot ticket and the oil companies wanted in on it.

General Atomic was promoting gascooled reactors, and the future looked bright for what many believed would be a winning technology.

Nuclear power lost its sheen after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Dick left General Atomic and began a life as a serial entrepreneur, mostly in cutting-edge energy projects, including energy storage through chemical reactions, utility plant safety, and green renovation of homes.

His consulting included a massive study of gas-cooled reactor technology for the Department of Energy. I worked with Dick and David Fishlock of The Financial Times on the executive summary.

We worked together on two other projects. The first was an attempt to bring independent and dependable facts and analyses to the ongoing energy crisis in the 1970s. We conceived an energy institute which would be a repository of facts. Irrefutable truths.

I

t was a time of wild conspiracy theories about energy and its technologies. Ralph Nader, for example, said nuclear reactors could burst open like rotten melons. Others said there would be incredible mutations near reactors, with two-headed babies for starters. It was believed that the oil companies had flotillas of tankers lying off the East Coast, waiting for prices to rise. Also, it was believed that the oil companies were inhibiting water vapor technology that would double the mileage for any car.

Dick and I went about raising money for the institute. We visited C-suites of oil companies, electric utilities and their suppliers. We got turned down repeatedly, but Dick always cherished the idea.

I am glad to say that the DOE’s Energy Information Administration performs today much as we had hoped the institute would.

Another project of ours involved Dick’s desire to launch a newspaper in Hartford, Conn. I was a director and small investor.

He ended his extraordinary career working in association with U.S. Generating.

Throughout his life, he supported many charities and even helped resettle Syrian refugees.

In Dick, the energy world had a general who sometimes served as a foot soldier.

— 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.

t’s time again for some fun with numbers.

When the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment and unemployment numbers for October, they revealed a huge disparity.

Nationally, the unemployment rate had dropped to 4.6%, virtually identical to where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic eviscerated the economy 21 months ago. But state jobless rates ranged from a low of 1.9% in Nebraska to 7.3% in California and Nevada.

Nebraska’s unemployment rate was not only the nation’s lowest in October but the lowest rate recorded by any state since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking job numbers in 1976.

“Nebraska has struggled with a chronic worker shortage since even before the pandemic, and it has driven up wages and made it difficult for employers to hire and expand,” the Associated Press reported. “Earlier this month, the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry released a survey of its members where 92% said finding skilled workers was a top priority.”

“We have a lot of manufacturers across the state that

Supporting women and girls Soroptimist International of Davis would like to thank the Davis community for supporting our recent Soup Night and Silent Auction. Historically this event was in-person, and all community members were invited to come for soup and fellowship, and to bid on items in our silent auction. This year, due to COVID19, the event once again consisted of an opportunity to support us by purchasing a dinner at a local restaurant and bidding on items in our online auction. This year we partnered with Dos Coyotes restaurant who very kindly offered us 20% of the proceeds over two evenings when our supporters presented the flyer. Thank you very much to Bobby Coyote and the Dos Coyotes Davis teams.

We would like to extend thanks to our sponsors: Lea Rosenberg, Chapman Consulting LLC, Julie Otto (RE/MAX Gold), Focused Path Coaching and Randii MacNear.

In addition, we are grateful for the generous donations of many local businesses, including Baker Optometry, Sudwerk Brewing, Crème de la Crème, Zumapoke & Lush Ice, Creative Hair & Spa, FIT House, Upper Crust Baking, Jeff Likes Clean Windows, Davis Food Co-op, Karen Lemcke (Lyon Real Estate), The Davis Enterprise, Sola Bee Farms, Strelitzia

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are finding it difficult to expand their operations” in the face of rising consumer demand, Bryan Slone, the chamber’s president, told the AP. Unemployment rates were even lower in Nebraska’s two largest metropolitan areas — 1.7% in Omaha and 1.3% in Lincoln.

Let’s put that in context vis-à-vis the California economy. In October, 19 million Californians, just under half of the state’s population, were counted in the labor force and 17.6 million were employed, while 1.4 million were jobless. That resulted in the 7.3% unemployment rate, nearly twice as high as it was before pandemic struck.

While Nebraska’s major urban areas are thriving, California’s largest — the Los Angeles-Long-Beach-Anaheim region — has the highest jobless rate of the nation’s major metro areas.

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enterprise President and CEO

If California had Nebraska’s 1.9% unemployment rate, 1.1 million more Californians would be working, supporting their families, enhancing the state’s economic production, and paying taxes.

Publisher Editor

Official legal newspaper of general circulation for the city of Davis and county of Yolo. Published in The Davis Enterprise building, 315 G St., Davis, CA. Mailing address: P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617.

Phone: 530-756-0800. An award-winning newspaper of the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

ven if California were to get back to the 3.9% unemployment rate it had before the pandemic, it would mean about 650,000 more Californians would have jobs. Were California to match the national rate of 4.6%, a half-million more would be working.

Let’s look at the October job numbers in an even larger context, that of political orientation.

Eight of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates in October, including Nebraska, voted Republican in the 2020 presidential contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The only exceptions were Vermont and New Hampshire.

Conversely, nine of the 10 of the states with the highest jobless rates, including California and Nevada, voted Democratic. The only exception was Alaska.

It could just be coincidence, of course, but maybe those red states with low

Flower Company, Seasons Restaurant, Boheme Hip Used Clothing, Armadillo Music, Brooke Mills, Karen Duncan, Yolo Berry Yogurt, Davis Golf Course, Heretic Brewery & Distillery, Jacuzzi Family Vineyards and Cache Creek Casino Resort.

We also express gratitude to the many Davis High School art students who donated their ceramic soup bowl creations. Our supporters look forward to purchasing them every year.

Thank you also to all the community members who participated by donating, purchasing items though the silent auction or buying a dinner.

Soroptimist means “best for women” and our focus is on helping local women and girls achieve economic empowerment through access to education and training.

To find out about joining, visit https:// www.sidavis.org/. Donations are still being accepted by texting “sidavis” to 88793.

Lori Hansen Soroptimist International of Davis

Hands off our benefits I retired from Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1994 with over 20 years service, and worked under Social Security for over 20 years. Between the two systems, I believed I would have a comfortable retirement. Not true. After 10 years of civil service, the WEP was passed and takes away two-thirds of my Social Security benefit. So much for a comfortable retirement. Ironically, I qualify for

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

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

unemployment rates have regulatory and tax policies that encourage job-creating investment and maybe California and the other blue states with high jobless rates are perceived as being hostile to business. Certainly they tend to be states with relatively high tax burdens — not only California, but New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

If nothing else, this exercise in numerology is a reminder that California, for all its Hollywood glitz and its Silicon Valley flash, is a state with a fundamental socioeconomic problem. We have way too many workers without jobs and way too many families living in or near poverty, unable to pay the high costs of housing, utilities, fuel and the other necessities of life.

Or to put it another way, the “California comeback” that Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts is way short of what it needs to be. The folks in Nebraska are enjoying the real comeback.

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

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subsidized housing. Please eliminate this very unfair law.

As a retired federal employee I am writing to raise awareness of the devasting effects of the Windfall Elimination Provision experienced by nearly 2 million people.

This policy reduces the earned Social Security benefits of local, state and federal retirees who worked in Social Security-covered private-sector employment, and who also earned an annuity from their non-Social Security covered government employment.

The WEP can result in a monthly Social Security benefit that is $498 lower than deserved, causing undue financial distress.

Why should we be penalized for working hard for our country?

Additionally, spouses are feeling the burden of the Government Pension Offset, a similar penalty, which prevents them from collecting the Social Security benefits their spouses earned from private-sector jobs due to their public service. The GPO affects 716,662 beneficiaries, 47 percent of which are widows or widowers, and 83 percent of whom are women.

We rightfully earned these benefits in exchange for our dedication and hard work to the nation, and, as such, I am inviting other retirees affected by the WEP and GPO to join me in calling on Congress to repeal these unfair provisions. It's past time to stop punishing us for our public service and allow for us to collect what we rightfully earned.

Norma Buckley Vacaville

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

We welcome your letters

House of Representatives

Addresses and phone numbers should be included for verification purposes; they will not be published.

Limit letters to 350 words.

Anonymous letters will not be accepted. We reserve the right to edit all letters for brevity or clarity.

Mail letters to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617; bring them to 315 G St.; fax them to 530-756-1668; or email them to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.

Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880.

District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact/ email

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

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© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 28

Meet Mercury

Woodword is cruising by Mercury this week.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun in our solar system. Replace the missing words in his interstellar text message.

Dear Kid Scoop Readers -

Mercury’s surface is covered with deep craters.

Circle the first 3/5 of this word:

Mercury is very much like our _________. It is dry, airless and ___________ of craters.

Because there is nearly no _________, or atmosphere, around Mercury, flying space rocks called meteorites and asteroids have ______________ into the planet’s ___________ leaving behind deep craters.

Earth’s atmosphere slows down meteorites and asteroids that hurtle towards us, and nearly all __________ up before they hit the ground.

To find out the answer to the riddle, find the letters asked for in each step and write them in order.

Photo courtesy NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Institute Washington

Circle the last 2/5 of this word:

Circle every third letter for the answer.

Circle the first 2/6 of this word:

Mercury has an enormous crater called the Caloris basin. It was formed by a really big flying space rock. The impact was so strong that it formed _____________ on the other side of the planet!

Circle the middle 2/4 of this word:

Your spacey friend, Woodword Use the comparison chart at right to answer these questions.

Circle the last 2/5 of this word:

1. About how many Earth days does a day on Mercury last?

24 59 99 2. About how many times in one Earth year will Mercury orbit the sun?

4 6 10

This page was fun! I wonder what books the library might have about Mercury?

Mercury has no atmosphere to protect it from the sun’s heat, or to capture and hold in the heat on the dark side.

… wondering about and exploring our world and beyond.

Mercury’s sunny side can heat up to 750°F (399°C). The dark side is much, much colder with a temperature that can go down to -328°F (-200°C).

Mercury Adjectives Look through the newspaper to find five adjectives that describe Mercury.

Find the differences between the hot side and the cold side in this silly picture.

Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word YEAR in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you.

Standards Link: Language Arts: Follow simple written directions.

Mercury zips around the sun every 88 days – faster than any other planet. It gets its name from the quickest of the ancient gods – Mercury, the messenger of the gods.

Mercury was depicted as wearing sandals with wings on them, the secret to his great speed.

All but one of these running shoes has an exact match.

Can you find it?

Standards Link: Earth Science: Students know about the sun, planets and stars.

Numbers Game

Find and circle as many numbers as you can find on one newspaper page. What is the largest number you can find? Add up your numbers. Find the average of your numbers.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

ATMOSPHERE MESSENGER ASTEROIDS FRICTION MERCURY CRATERS HURTLE ORBIT SPACE ROCKS EARTH DARK BURN GODS AIR

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This week’s word:

ATMOSPHERE

The noun atmosphere means the gas surrounding a celestial body.

After the fire, the atmosphere was filled with smoke.

Try to use the word atmosphere in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family.

When I Grow Up

What do you want to be when you grow up? Write a paragraph about the job you would like to have one day and why you would be good at it.

Living

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Slack trivia at work is not actually slacking off

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ore than 20 months ago — on March 25, 2020, to be exact — my UC Davis colleague Aaron Cheesman established our Slack Friday Trivia channel and its rules. Wrote Aaron, "This is the very beginning of the friday_ trivia channel. Description: Join in the trivia fun every Friday.

Win bragging rights. Feel like a smartypants."

A note about Slack: It's an instant-messaging system that many workplaces use, ours included. I am a big fan, in part because it's very casual and you can be a little chattier, a little pithier there than you would in an email. It's the perfect place for trivia teams to go head-tohead.

It's hard to overstate what a bright spot this weekly trivia game has been during this strange, unstructured, workfrom-home era. For me especially, who had only worked at UC Davis for 10 months before the pandemic sent us home, I didn't know a lot of my colleagues in any way other than from weekly meetings or collaborating on monthly reports.

Aaron had it even worse, having joined UC Davis only a few

with us during quiztime. They are honorary players.

months before we all packed up our cubicles and holed up at home. He admits this has helped tremendously for some workplace connection.

For 20 months now, Friday Trivia has connected a very busy group of 15-20 co-workers for some lively banter. Aaron encouraged teams of up to four players early on, explaining, "Nobody’s got all the answers or likes feeling like a dummy. As a team, you can feel less self-conscious, build on each other’s strengths, and even challenge misguided assertions."

Our main rule, as you can guess, is to not cheat. Aaron laid down the basics early on: "This is an honor system quiz. Don’t Google answers. Don’t phone a friend. Don’t ask anyone outside your team." We can, however, ask people who are in our houses

UCD med school adds research dean Special to The Enterprise Kim Barrett, distinguished professor of medicine at UC San Diego and director of the division of graduate education at the National Science Foundation, has been appointed vice dean for research at the UC Davis School of Medicine, effective Nov. 1.

In this role, Barrett will be charged with creating an innovative vision for the future of research at the School of Medicine that emphasizes collaboration to transform health.

She will be responsible for implementing key initiatives and fostering partnerships across UC Davis Health, and with other schools, centers, and colleagues throughout UC Davis. Barrett will also lead the medical school’s collaborative efforts to develop UC Davis’ Aggie Square research program.

Barrett is an internationally recognized scholar in gastrointestinal physiology and has published extensively and received numerous awards for her academic contributions as well as her teaching, administrative skills, and mentoring. These include the 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award for Basic Science from the American Gastroenterological Association.

“I am extremely pleased that Kim Barrett has been appointed as vice dean for research at the School of Medicine and I am confident she will play a key role in expanding UC Davis’ robust research portfolio,” said Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis vice chancellor for research and co-chair of the recruitment advisory committee. “I look forward to working with her to foster new collaborations that leverage the broad range of expertise across our campus.”

A native of the United Kingdom, Barrett received her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from University College London. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, she joined the faculty of UC San Diego School of Medicine in 1985 and became a professor of medicine

Name Droppers in 1996.

During her tenure at UC San Diego, Barrett held numerous leadership roles including the dean of the Graduate Division and the vice chair for research in the Department of Medicine.

———— All four of the local units of the Davis Odd Fellows (Davis Odd Fellows Lodge No. 169, Davis Rebekah Lodge No. 253, Davis Encampment No. 21, and Canton Davis No. 7) have conducted their elections for 2022. All will assume their offices in January at their respective Installation Dinners. Officers are elected for one-year terms.

Trustees are elected for three-year terms. Here are the officers and trustees elected for terms beginning in 2022: Davis Odd Fellows Lodge: Noble Grand Kurt Roggli Vice Grand Larry Guenther Secretary Juelie Roggli Treasurer Kathy Hemness Financial Secretary Beth Dovi Trustee Dave Rosenberg Davis Rebekah Lodge: Noble Grand Charlene Sailer Vice Grand Joel Mandel Secretary Terry Toy Treasurer Beth Dovi Financial Secretary Sharon Hale Trustee Dave Reed Davis Encampment: Chief Patriarch Kevin Sitz Senior Warden Charlene Sailer Junior Warden Matthew Elliott High Priestess Lea Rosenberg Scribe Ann Filmer Treasurer Duff Devine Financial Scribe Sharon Hale Canton Davis: Captain Kevin Sitz Lieutenant Matthew Elliott Ensign Sharla Cheney Clerk Sheryl Cambron Accountant Joel Mandel — Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy?

Email it to newsroom@ davisenterprise.net.

The general process is that Aaron posts a quiz on our Friday Trivia Slack channel each Thursday late afternoon or Friday morning. And then fun chit-chat ensues.

It turns out that colleagues in a similar field have wildly diverse interests, hidden hobbies and curious overlaps. You find out quickly who is obsessed with Star Wars, or 1980s punk or English mysteries. Aaron sometimes uses an online archive of Jeopardy questions, and sometimes we have a theme.

On occasion we also have guest quizmasters, who tend to like themed-quizzes. For example, one of our social media managers who works with undergraduate admissions put together a quiz about Gen Z, the age of most UC Davis students.

Sample question: Millennial Pink is to Gen Z ___. (OK, I didn't know Millennial Pink was a thing, and I also didn't know Gen Z's statement color — yellow.)

We've had a Texas-themed quiz from a guest quizmaster who hails from the Lonestar State, and an amazing musicthemed quiz from a guest host who came up with questions for the many bands she has seen perform live. So many fun Slack conversations happen after you find out that one of your colleagues likes the Beastie Boys, Adele and Willie Nelson.

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y favorite part of trivia is finding out how riotously funny some of my colleagues are. A few months ago, my teammate sent this to our team's channel hours before the quiz was posted: "Hey, quick heads up that I’ll be out this Friday, so here are my answers in advance: Michigan; clockwise; Peter Cushing; 412; almonds; San Diego; Austria; a lamp shaped like a woman's leg; magnesium; and peeled and deveined shrimp." Literally l-o-l'ed.

My next favorite part is Aaron's recent inclusion of a "Super Duper Bonus Point" where each team tries to get as many items in a category correct to earn one extra point. For example, one SDBP question was "How many recurring Simpsons characters can you name?" One of my

teammates is a Simpsons savant and got 112 characters(!!!), of the supposed 280 that Wikipedia says there are.

Other fun SDBPs have been male/female duets to have hits No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, EGOT winners, and the leading 10 countries in worldwide beer production (in 2019).

I truly believe that Friday Trivia has been the best cultureand team-building activity that could have happened to an office during this unimaginable time of isolation.

And, I promise this is true, I have to end this column now because my team's answers are due in 45 minutes and I'm the one who usually wrangles and submits them. We still have a blank for this one: “A book of essays by Sacramento native Joan Didion has this same title as a Beatles LP.” If you want to set up a workplace trivia game, feel free to email me and I'll give you some pointers from Aaron.

— 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.

Livingston reflects on fight for ethnic studies

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

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uite simply, Richard Livingston is one of the pioneers that brought ethnic studies to Davis decades ago. With ethnic studies now implemented into the school district curriculum, Livingston reflects on a lifetime of advocacy for the program and telling the history of the country in its entirety.

Born in Los Angeles in 1933, Livingston grew up in a working-class community known as Cyprus Park.

The diversity he was surrounded by in and out of school, however, provided fertile soil to cultivate his budding cultural ambition.

It wasn’t until he met his friend, Jack D. Forbes, in high school that Livingston would — unknowingly — begin taking steps towards bringing ethnic studies to Davis.

“I started just out of high school under Jack’s influence going to bookstores and getting involved with local democrats,” said Livingston.

“We got interested in politics, then that boosted our interest in Native American studies. After that, Jack went and made it his entire career.”

According to Livingston, Forbes was a major component to bringing ethnic studies into the educational limelight. He was a prolific writer who came up with manuals on how to teach Black Studies, Native American Studies and Chicano Studies. It was also Forbes who influenced the powers that be to finally create a Native American Studies department. The only question remaining was, where?

“They said, naturally, to do it at

Berkeley, but Jack wanted to look around at other options,” Livingston explained. “When he came back, he decided Davis would be the best place. Then Davis became one of the first universities in California to establish an Ethnic Studies program.”

All the while, Livingston was teaching history in Los Angeles while Forbes continued to send him materials from the Native American reservation press. Livingston used these materials to create a Native American council at his high school.

Although Livingston had no intention of leaving L.A., there was no shortage of pleas from his good friend, Forbes, for him to move up to Davis and help the department flourish. And in 1970, he finally did.

“Jack said if I wanted to live and teach here, then go with Davis High.

I said ‘fine,’ and Davis gave me an opportunity,” Livingston explained his move to Yolo County. “They didn’t have any Native American, Chicano or Asian studies, but they did start a Black studies class a year or so before I got there. It was taught by math teacher, Bill Calhoun. He was a good friend of mine.”

It didn’t take long for Livingston’s knowledge of histories to distinguish itself. So much, in fact, the principal of Davis High tasked Livingston with developing a

Ethnic-studies mavens Richard Livingston, left, and Jack Forbes, together in downtown Davis.

Courtesy photo

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Internet Culture. Jack Dorsey has recently stepped down as the CEO of what social medium?

2. Newspaper Headlines. The first U.S. case of the Omicron coronavirus variant was found in what U.S. state?

3. Famous Brothers.

What is the last name of the two brothers who directed Fargo and The Big Lebowski?

4. Science. In vertebrates, cholesterol is formed primarily in what internal organ?

5. Unusual ThreeSyllable Adjectives that

start with the Letter H. What such word has the following synonyms: Disorganized, unsystematic, careless, slapdash, helterskelter?

Answers: Twitter, California, Cohen, the liver, haphazard.

— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.”

His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster. com.

Native American studies curriculum.

A task he tackled with his contacts at UCD and, of course, his good friend Forbes.

During this time in the ’70s, Livingston also became a part-time lecturer at UCD where he and Forbes would bolster the Ethnic Studies movement. Richardson also played a part in creating Chicano and Asian studies programs.

The return of Ethnic Studies, however, is bittersweet to this pioneer.

“On one hand, it’s very good we’re doing it in Davis, but I’m a little perplexed that we already had a program developed in the 1970s,” Richardson expressed lamentation.

“I left on a sabbatical back then and when I got back, they weren’t teaching it at all.”

Richardson’s career path took him to Sacramento State, then to Solano Community College where he developed and taught Ethnic Studies.

After 51 years of teaching, Richardson finally decided to retire and return to his love of playing the piano.

Although he laments the departure of the program decades ago, solace can be taken in the fact that Ethnic Studies is being implemented into the DJUSD curriculum.

— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron. geerts@ mcnaugh ton.media.

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Anxiety after loss Dear Annie: My husband passed away in April after suffering for many years from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. I was his caregiver for over a year, along with hospice. It was very hard on me. Since he passed, I have been lost, depressed and have a lot of anxiety.

I don’t have much of a support system because my family members have all passed away. I stay at home, grieving terribly. I have suffered from depression for many years. Now the depression and anxiety feel overwhelming. I have been unable to get my meds right, which is very difficult to say the least.

I want to get a job so I can get out of the house and have contact with people, but I stress terribly about looking for a job every time I even think about it. I have a lot of insecurities, and I have had trouble with the interview questions on those occasions when I reached out.

I just want to get back to a somewhat normal life. My husband was always there for me when I went through difficult times, and now he’s not, of course. I never had anxiety like this, and it’s getting worse. In the past, it was just nervousness. Any suggestions?

— Grieving Widow Dear Grieving Widow: I am so sorry for your loss.

You have every right to feel sad and anxious. You just lost your partner and best friend. Speaking harshly to yourself about your insecurities is not going to help.

Instead, praise yourself for what an amazing wife you were to your husband. Getting your medications right and having the right therapist to support you during

this difficult transitional time of life is very important. Take each day one at a time.

Once you get the proper treatment for your anxiety and depression, you can join a grief support group, where you will start to feel better.

In time, there is a good chance that you will find a job that will help you “get back to a somewhat normal life.” But we must learn to walk before we can run.

Dear Annie: The letter you printed from “To Let It Go or Not,” about an old friend’s bringing up the time years before when he accidentally walked in on the letter writer’s husband with a naked girl, really burned my buns.

Believe me, the “friend” didn’t just accidentally let that info slip. Chances are he deliberately brought up the undesirable incident of the past to throw a monkey wrench into their happy marriage. I have seen this done hundreds of times by family members who bring up wrongdoings of other siblings in front of their children, by co-workers who can’t wait to expose a mistake that otherwise would have gone unnoticed by others, by friends who embarrass others under the guise of joking. It makes me sick to think that these people are so inwardly miserable and insecure that they need to rain on someone else’s happiness.

Shame on this “friend” for stooping so low as to try to deliberately hurt their mar-

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-2100 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Nancy Susan Campbell filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Nancy Susan Campbell to Proposed name Tonya Beth Campbell THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: 1/12/2022 at 9:00 a.m. Dept. 10 Room: Zoom The address of the court is Yolo Superior Court Clerks Office - Civil 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each 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.

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loves her and communicates with her, she will be much better off and glad you ended it. You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole, and right now, it sounds like you two don’t fit.

But give family counseling a try before calling it quits.

You may find the love and happiness that you both felt when you were married.

Dear Annie: Our grandson is getting married at a resort that only allows 40 guests. His wife has decided they need to invite friends instead of family. However, her family members are included.

We are his only living grandparents, so our feelings are hurt. We are not estranged from him; we see him occasionally.

We have not even received an announcement. My husband doesn’t think we should even send a gift. I don’t know how to handle this.

— Hurt Grandmother Dear Hurt Grandmother: The bride is practicing a double standard by keeping your grandson’s family away.

That is not a recipe for a happy life. You have every right to feel hurt. At the end of the day, it is her decision.

Whether you send a gift is up to you. If you feel moved to and there is something you want your grandson to have on his wedding day, then, by all means, don’t be petty, and send him the gift.

riage. Shame on the wife for permitting him to steal their happiness. At least now they can recognize this “friend” for what he really is: a jerk!

— Living Happily Without Those Kinds of Friends Dear LHWTKF: Well, that’s an aspect of that letter I hadn’t considered. Thanks for sharing your experience.

I’d like to think there aren’t that many false friends and saboteurs out there, but you never know.

——— Dear Annie: I have been married for nearly three years. I am not happy, and I am pretty sure my wife isn’t either. Our communication is terrible, especially on my end because I tend to shut down when I am upset.

Marriage has not been fun for me. My wife is very insecure and jealous, and she doesn’t want me to have any female friends. I really just want out without breaking her or her 8-year-old son’s heart. How can I break it to her that I want a divorce?

A year ago, I mentioned divorce to her, but I took it back because I felt sorry when I saw her crying. I just want to move on with my life.

— Unhappy Dear Unhappy: If you keep shutting down when you are upset rather than trying to have open communication with your wife, there is no hope for your marriage. Would it make sense to try family counseling so you could analyze your need for female friends and your wife’s jealousy issues? I would suggest that you try, if only to relieve your feelings of guilt.

However, if counseling does not work, then by setting yourself free, you will be setting her free. She doesn’t deserve to be married to a man who doesn’t want to be married to her. It may hurt her temporarily, but in the end, when she and her son find someone who really

Dear Annie: My wife “Monica” has been having a mostly texting affair with “Mike” for almost two years. There are emails where they address each other with, “Hey, babe.” It is disgusting. I accidentally discovered this years ago, and again recently after I thought they had not talked for years.

Upon this discovery, I

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texted Mike angrily — he is not someone I actually know, but I took his number from my wife’s phone — and my wife claims that it’s “over.” I’ve heard this before.

My wife asked me not to contact Mike’s wife because “they would probably divorce if she found out.”

Why would I care about that? My wife thinks Mike is “a friend” and wouldn’t want to see him hurt. I am sure he’s not “a friend” and obviously wants something more.

Why should I honor my wife’s wishes here? Doesn’t Mike’s wife deserve to know that he’s in love with another woman? (His words, expressed in an email.)

Why do I have to be the only person who knows about this situation? I feel like someone else knowing — Mike’s wife, or maybe my wife’s mom — might shock either of these two people into realizing that they are risking too much by carrying on this way. We have kids, as do Mike and his wife.

Why shouldn’t I tell Mike’s wife? Doesn’t she have a right to know about her husband’s infidelity?

— Let the Truth Out Dear Let the Truth Out: Yes, Mike’s wife has a right to know about her husband’s infidelity — if, in fact, he has been unfaithful to her. Mike has to be the one to tell her about his feelings for your wife instead of you. Rather than focusing on someone else’s relationship, continue to focus on your own.

Seek marriage counseling with your wife. Try to understand why she needs an emotional connection with another man via texting instead of you. Maybe

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Elaine Ann Kasimatis CASE NO. PR2021-0258 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Elaine Ann Kasimatis A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Katja Kasimatis in the Superior Court of California, County of Yolo.

The petition for Probate requests that: Katja Kasimatis be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 01/05/2022 at 9:00AM in Dept. 10 located at 1000 MAIN STREET, WOODLAND, CA 95695 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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you will learn something. I know you are hurting about the texts you found — and I am sorry for that — but hurting Mike’s wife will not make it better.

Instead, focus on repairing your relationship. Let Mike figure out his own stuff.

When we lie to the ones we love, we only hurt ourselves, so my guess is that Mike is already suffering.

Best of luck to you and your wife.

——— Dear Annie: Your answer to the parent of the 4-yearold who is not interested in books and can’t sit still left out a possibility. Mom needs to talk to her pediatrician about the possibility that her son has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. The description would make me, a retired pediatrician, very suspicious. If the pediatrician agrees that the boy has ADHD, the pediatrician can help for now with some behavioral management suggestions, but if the child starts having behavioral issues in school — often in first grade — medication may be very helpful and save the kid’s educational progress.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIAM MARSHALL MURPHY, JR.; AKA: WILLIAM M. MURPHY CASE NO. PR2021-0252 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of WILLIAM MARSHALL MURPHY, JR.; AKA: WILLIAM M. MURPHY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Rui Chen in the Superior Court of California, County of Yolo.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Rui Chen be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 01/4/2022 at 9:00AM in Dept. 10 located at 1000 MAIN STREET, WOODLAND, CA 95695 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner John B. Palley 1555 River Park Drive, Suite 108 Sacramento, CA 95618 916-920-5983 Published November 28, December 5, 12, 2021 #1579

Sports

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Does Notre Dame football need changes?

T he college football world continues to reverberate around the multimillion dollar contracts that enticed coaches Lincoln Riley to go from Oklahoma to USC and Brian Kelly to flee Notre Dame for LSU. Where will this madness end? It may never end, says a man who foresaw this back in 2019.

Former UC Davis athletic director Kevin Blue wrote a white paper that year entitled “Rising Expenses in College Athletics and the Non-Profit Paradox.” In it, Blue wrote of the rapidly escalating costs that were crippling college sports in general and football in particular.

This week, Blue spoke to Sports Illustrated. “For presidents and athletic directors, popularity is the most important form of job security. The fans want you to spend the money, so you do it to remain popular with the fans. It’s a

really difficult political situation. They can’t make the decisions they need to make because they’re trying to maintain their positions.

“The behavior is rational,” Blue goes on. “What is irrational are the people who can have influence and who are not standing up and doing something – the people with the reputational currency. The people attached to the big brands have to stand up and be accountable.

I was a guy in my mid-30s writing papers while working at a mid-major (school). I tried.”

Blue is now the chief sport officer at Golf Canada, an organization designed to grow

domestic participation in golf and enhance Canada’s presence in global golf. n Make no mistake: UC Davis’s women’s basketball team beating Oregon in Eugene is a monumental achievement. Quite possibly a precursor of bigger things to come. n Notre Dame football will be better off in the short and longterm with elevated defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman and not Kelly as head coach.

Last add, Kelly: Aggies head man Bob Biggs was 2-2 when Kelly coached at Grand Valley State.

Because an Irish player will eventually go public and reveal what Kelly told the Notre Dame players as to the reasons he was leaving them for LSU. All three minutes, 40 seconds of it.

When Kelly bolted Cincinnati for Notre Dame, he did so with a police escort in the meeting room. n In addition to the Irish,

nice to see Washington State retain staffer Jake Dickert as Wazzu’s head coach. Dickert was 3-2 as interim coach with wins over Arizona State, Arizona and Washington and 2-point loss to BYU. n The times, they are really a-changing.

In 1977, Stanford hired Bill Walsh as its head football coach at a salary of $40,000. Current Stanford coach David Shaw this year made $8.9 million and finished 3-7.

Thanks to Gary Cavalli for the item. n East Coast reader Russell Friedman likes Jerry Garcia as his favorite rock guitarist. Sister Nancy checks in with Lindsay Buckingham, former Fleetwood Mac frontman. n Current Washington Football Team quarterback Tyler Heinecke retired last year after being cut by the St. Louis Battlehawks, an XFL team.

But when Alex Smith was still injured, and others were ineffec-

tive, Heinecke delayed completing his degree at Old Dominion, signed with Washington and is now the starter.

He’s steered the WFT into the thick of the NFC East race and is taking online classes at ODU. n The Sacramento Valley chapter of the National Football Foundation will be represented by chairman John Volek at the annual NFF banquet on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Due to the pandemic, the event was not held in 2020, so both the 2020 and 2021 Hall of Fame classes will be honored.

The group includes players, coaches and administrators at all levels of college football.

The full list is available at footballfoundation.com.

— 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. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.

Credit union makes deposit in soccer club Enterprise staff Yolo Federal Credit Union announced a multi-year sponsorship with FC Davis for $30,000.

FC Davis uses soccer as a platform to gather, grow, and create a better community. This sponsorship demonstrates Yolo Federal’s commitment to the community’s prosperity and the credit union motto of people helping people.

“Supporting a semiprofessional soccer team in Yolo County helps bring people together over their shared love of soccer,” said Jenee Rawlings, Yolo FCU President/CEO. “These types of local programs ultimately create a stronger and safer community and are a fun way to spend time with family and friends. I am looking forward to watching FC Davis take the field.”

FC Davis plays a valuable role within Yolo County by creating a bridge to success for local communities through soccer.

“Yolo Federal Credit Union’s support of FC Davis is a positive move in developing our local soccer ecosystem and enhancing our region,” said Adam Lewin, owner of FC Davis. “Their support of FC Davis allows us to fulfill our highest aspirations as an organization, and we are excited to build a platform of excellence to inspire student-athletes to achieve their most inspirational dreams on and off the field.”

The club uses soccer as a vehicle for social good. It is committed to developing players on and off the field as well as identifying and supporting local talent from local youth programs.

“The pandemic severely

Local roundup impacted many athletic programs. We want to do our part to help programs like FC Davis thrive in our community,” said Kelley Jacobsen, Yolo FCU vice president of marketing and operations. “FC Davis is an excellent community-based organization, and I’m personally excited to attend a game with my family and share in the enthusiasm.”

Yolo Federal Credit Union has been serving the local communities since 1954. Membership is available to anyone that lives, works, worships, or attends school in Yolo County.

UC Davis volleyball Middle blocker Josephine Ough was named to the All-Big West Conference first team for the second consecutive year, while freshman Olivia Utterback earned both first team and allfreshman team honors, as the league announced its postseason awards on Wednesday.

Ough became the first twotime All-Big West selection for the Aggies since Mahalia White did so in 2017 and 2019 and the sixth UC Davis player overall to accomplish the feat, joining White, Kaylin Squyres (2014-15), Devon Damelio (2012-13), Betsy Sedlak (2010-11) and Alison Whitson (2010-12).

In addition, Ough was a force at the net for the Aggies en route to her second straight first team honor, ranking fifth in the league in hitting percentage (.376) while leading the Big West at 1.29 blocks per set at the end of the regular season. Both rank fourth

on the school’s respective singleseason charts.

Nationally, Ough finished the regular season ranked No. 24 in the nation with 1.29 blocks per set, No. 29 in total blocks (134) and No. 45 in hitting percentage (.376).

Utterback picked up her first career all-league award and became the 11th UC Davis student-athlete to be named to the all-freshman squad, the first since Ough earned the honor in 2018.

A six-rotation player, Utterback ranked among the top 20 in the league in hitting percentage (12th — .274), kills per set (18th — 2.71) and points per set (11th — 3.41), while standing third with 0.37 service aces per set.

She finished with 13 matches with 10 or more kills, including a season-high 17 against Cal Poly on Nov. 12, and posted double digits in the category in seven of her last nine matches to end the season.

The Plainfield, Ind., native also led the team with 40 aces, finished second on the team with 293 kills, and added 212 digs and 71 blocks to her final stat line. Utterback’s 368.5 points also ranked second on the team.

Utterback’s 134 total blocks also rank fourth on the school’s single-season list and she finished second in the league with 24 solos. Utterback, an El Cerrito native, posted the top three single-match block performances in the Big West this year: 12 versus UC Santa Barbara on Oct. 16, another 11 at Sacramento State on Aug. 27, and 11 against Cal Poly on Nov. 12. The 12 blocks against the Gauchos are tied for the second-highest total in a

Aggie punter Daniel Whelan (37) kicks Classic at UCD on Nov. 20.

Mike Bush/Enterprise photo

Aggie punter up for award Enterprise staff UC Davis football player Daniel Whelan is one of 10 national semifinalists for the 2021 FCS Punter of the Year Award the Augusta Sports Council announced on Friday.

Whelan, a senior, is one of three candidates from the Big Sky Conference and was chosen from a field of 37 nominated punters.

The candidates were evaluated by the FCS Punter of the Year Award committee on their overall statistics and contribution to the team.

Particular emphasis was placed on net punting average, number of times a punt was downed or kicked out of bounds inside the opponent’s 20-yard line, total yardage punted, average returned yardage and percentage of punts not returned. The winner must display team leadership, self-discipline and have a positive impact on the team’s success.

A national voting body of FCS sports information directors, conference representatives and sports writers will choose the winner from the 10 semifinalists. The winner will be announced on

Monday, Dec. 13.

Whelan turned in another outstanding season in 2021, his fifth at UC Davis, and cemented himself as arguably the greatest punter in school history. He averaged 46.25 yards per kick on 55 punts this season, the highest average in program history ahead of the previous record of 44.48 yards per punt set by Colton Schmidt in 2012.

Whelan is now the school record holder in career average with a career per kick average of 44.01 over 206 punts, shattering the previous mark of 41.12 yards set

by Schmidt from 2009-12.

He had seven punts greater than 60 yards this season, with a long of 65 at Cal Poly on Oct. 23 and averaged over 50 yards per punt three times this season.

Whelan set his career long of 67 during the spring season on March 27 against Idaho State.

Sacramento State’s Sam Clark is another semifinalists. Clark and the Hornets played South Dakota State in an FCS playoff game at Hornet Stadium on Saturday.

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was not cheering from the stands. The local icon — whose mother, Dorothy, the tourney is named for — died in April.

“It is our first one without her,” Highshoe said.

“But I’m just very grateful to put on the tournament again, in her honor and in her family’s memory.”

On Thursday, Speck’s Blue Devils put their first

“Overall, I was really pleased with their game tonight,” Highshoe said.

“It was a gritty win, they battled for it, Woodcreek almost came back to within ten. And we were able to close it out, so I think that shows a lot of promise for the team.”

If you want to know how big women’s basketball is in Eugene, note that there were over 7,000 fans in attendance, with finals week just around the corner.

Wins like this are no surprise under the leadership of head coach Jen Gross and her talented staff.

— Follow Lev Farris Goldenberg on Twitter at @levgoldenberg.

Not satisfied with knocking off No. 18, the Aggies will host Stanislaus State Dec. 13.

Then they travel to meet defending national champion Stanford on Dec. 15, followed by a home date Dec. 19 against national power Gonzaga.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

Climenhage 12, and Chelsea Ching, coming off the bench, had 10. Ava Rawlins had nine points.

In the tournament opener on Thursday, which was also in the South Gym, Davis knocked off Woodcreek 70-51.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise. net. Follow on Twitter: @MBDavisSports.