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The parking structure at 101 F St. was targeted by vandals.

Tag — we’re it City slammed by graffiti vandals

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Davis has experienced a substantial uptick in graffiti vandalism that the city’s police chief describes as “pretty alarming.”

“We are getting absolutely killed with tagging,” Chief

Darren Pytel said. Based on the various types of markings, “we appear to be dealing with a significant number of taggers, and they’re hitting a lot of public and private property.”

Park restrooms, benches, play structures, business exteriors,

utility boxes and freeway underpasses all have fallen prey to the vandals, who also struck the parking structure at First and F streets Tuesday night.

While Davis has dealt with graffiti-related vandalism for as long as Pytel can remember, “the numbers have increased greatly over the past couple of months,” he said.

“We’ve quadrupled the number of cases,” Pytel added, noting that more than 20 tagging incidents were reported between Friday and Monday alone.

Pytel said it’s cost the city about $10,000 in labor and materials over the past month

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Omicron variant detected in Yolo County

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Healthy Davis Together and the UC Davis Genome Center have identified the first known case of the Omicron variant in Yolo County — a vaccinated West Sacramento resident with recent domestic travel.

The individual is in isolation and contact tracing is underway, the county reported.

The genome center sequences all positive COVID-19 test samples collected via Healthy Davis Together and has previously identified other variants locally.

Much remains unknown about the newest variant, Omicron, including how contagious it is,

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Davis police made two arrests Thursday in another case of organized retail theft, this latest incident occurring at East Davis store that also was targeted just last week.

Four more suspects hit the same store Thursday night as a police detective conducted follow-up on the morning incident, according to Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov.

The detective confronted them, but the foursome fled the store and got away.

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how sick it makes people and how well vaccines work against it.

But the presence of the variant locally, while not unexpected, has raised concerns.

“The detection of the potentially highly transmissible Omicron variant is concerning, especially with more people traveling and visiting with friends and family for the holidays,” said Dr. Aimee Sisson, Yolo County’s

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The Davis Planning Commission is recommending approval of a 30-unit housing development on a vacant lot on Pole Line Road.

The site is the former location of the Sierra Health Care Center convalescent home, which sat abandoned for several years before developer Dan Fouts purchased the property and demolished the buildings in preparation for what he originally intended as a 52-unit apartment complex before putting forward the current plan for 30 for-sale homes.

Planning commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend the City Council approve Fouts’ proposal, but not before adding a few conditions, including widening the sidewalk that runs through the cul de sac.

The project currently proposes a three-foot-wide sidewalk, rather than the city standard of six feet.

Fouts has sought flexibility from the city on standards related to sidewalks and setbacks in order to maximize density in the infill project, which would feature 30 for-sale, attached, single-family homes, three of them designated as affordable.

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Grant will fund trails between Davis, Winters, Woodland

Crash leads to DUI arrest

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

Davis police arrested a Sunnyvale man on drunken-driving charges Tuesday night after he reportedly struck an occupied parked vehicle downtown.

Officers and fire personnel responded at about 8:15 p.m. to Fourth and F streets, where a Honda Accord struck the parked minivan, which was then pushed into another parked car, Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said.

Five people were in the minivan at the time but were unhurt in the collision, Bezuglov said.

The Accord’s driver, 21-year-old Oliver Christopher Fleming, was taken into custody on DUI charges and booked into the Yolo County Jail.

CSLD presents winter cabaret The Center for Spiritual Living, Davis will present a “Mid-Winter Cabaret” from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Davisville Apartments in the Community Center, 1221 Kennedy Place in Davis.

The joyous MidWinter Cabaret features some of the most talented singers in the region, singing your favorite holiday songs — accompanied by CSL Davis’ new musical director, Billy Larkin.

Admission is free; donations will be accepted. Masks are required.

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Enterprise staff writer Yolo County has been awarded a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Transportation planning grant to fund the development of a bicycle and pedestrian trail network connecting communities within the county to each other.

Priority projects identified in the grant application include a bicycle/ pedestrian trail between Davis and Woodland; completing the trail between Davis and Winters; and connecting West Sacramento and Clarksburg.

The grant awarded to the Yolo County Transportation District is the second received from the Department of Transportation this year.

Back in June, YCTD was awarded an $86 million grant for improving Interstate 80 through Davis and across the causeway.

Speaking of the trail network grant during a joint meeting of city and county officials on Wednesday, Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor said, “this is a very unique opportunity for us.”

The plan for the grant, according to YCTD executive director Autumn Bernstein, “is to essentially build upon the existing network of multi-use trails to help address barriers to mobility and create connections to jobs and transit, particularly for some of the more isolated communities in our county.”

Safety is a key component.

“We have an extremely high rate of bicycle/pedestrian collisions ... around our rural roads,” Bernstein said. “You have high-speed traffic going 50, 60 miles an hour with just a three-foot bicycle lane on the side. It’s just a recipe for, unfortunately, a lot of accidents.”

In fact, she said, “between 2015 and 2019, there were 218 collisions involving pedestrians with 30 fatalities in Yolo County and 515

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A cyclist heads down the path to Winters from Davis along Russell Boulevard before it was repaved in 2020. collisions involving bicycles with five fatalities.”

With the $1.2 million grant in hand, the YCTD is now embarking on a three-part process.

First, Bernstein said, there will be an existing-conditions analysis with robust community engagement, “looking at the entire county, including some of our more rural isolated communities and identifying where the greatest needs are for trails connecting communities to one another.”

Next will come development of a countywide trails plan that would identify the priority trail segments.

“And then design and engineering of up to three priority trail segments,” Bernstein said. “That gets us to the point where we can actually apply for funds to build those projects.”

In addition to the segments between Davis and Winters; Davis and Woodland; and West Sacramento and Clarksburg, another priority segment identified in the grant application is between Davis

and West Sacramento, something that could also be funded via the larger grant received by the transportation district.

“Those are the four segments that have been identified preliminarily as priorities but, again, the first step is to build a countywide trails plan and to do that kind of robust existing-conditions analysis to then help inform and refine those priorities,” Bernstein said.

With federal infrastructure funds expected to roll out pretty quickly, Bernstein added that, “our hope would be to advance one or two of these priority trail segments as quickly as possible so we can go and apply for funding to actually get them constructed during this current administration in the next couple of years.

“This is all fairly new and we have a lot of work to do to roll it out,” she noted.

Davis Mayor Gloria Partida called the plan “really exciting.”

“Those segments are actually the ones on my mind,” she said.

Hopes get dimmer for salmon spawn in Putah Creek

By Todd R. Hansen McNaughton Media WINTERS — The poor water quality that killed off dozens of Chinook salmon in the lower end of Putah Creek continues to persist, and hopes that salmon could still make their way up the creek in the latter weeks of the spawning season are souring fast.

Rich Marovich, the retiring streamkeeper for the Lower Putah Creek Coordinating Committee and the Solano County Water Agency, said in a phone interview Friday that the water in a 9-mile stretch of the east levee toe drain into the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area remains high in organic material and low on oxygen.

The area of concern is from Interstate 80 to the stair-step area of the refuge.

Testing of the Prospect Slough area of the drain on the other side of the

interstate and in the stairstep area is good, Marovich said.

Marovich, in an interview during the first week of November, had hoped the situation would be resolved by now, and had it been, it would have left plenty of time for at least a partial salmon run through December into January.

“We may get lucky. We could get a real cold snap, which would help, or we could get another rain event,” Marovich said.

He said the Solano County Water Agency, which actually has no authority over the affected area but has invested millions into creek restoration — in part — to improve salmon spawning habitat, is looking into other alternatives.

But just releasing more water to flush the system is not a “prudent option” for the district.

One option is to find a partner to trade water so

more would be available to help flush out the system.

Marovich said chaining open the flaps at the Lisbon Weir also could help the situation by allowing more tidal push into the area.

But ultimately, Marovich said, the issue is to find a way to manage agricultural water practices.

There are 23 entities that take water from the toe drain, but they are under no regulatory obligation to monitor how much organic material they are putting back into the drain — affluent known as “black water.”

The microbes that eat the organic material also use up the oxygen in the water, creating a dissolved oxygen level that cannot support fish — especially salmon.

But even the hardier carp and striped bass did not survive this event.

Just keeping the water on the fields for a while longer might be a solution, Marovich noted, adding the Suisun Marsh had a

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“Especially as you’re going over the 505 into Winters, that’s always been in need of safety and connection. So I’m really pleased to hear that.

“And, of course, getting people from Davis to Woodland has become much needed with so many people moving out to ‘north North Davis,’ (also known as Spring Lake in Woodland).”

In awarding the grant, the Department of Transportation said it will fund “the development of an active transportation network plan, based on community outreach, prioritization of underserved communities and areas of persistent poverty, and an assessment of e-bike and scooter charging feasibility.”

The grant will provide conceptual design plan and cost estimates for the full trail network, along with full design and engineering for the highest priority segments.

“The project area currently lacks safe routes for many non-motorized users, with narrow shoulders, obstacles, and lack of dedicated pedestrian infrastructure common,” the department noted in awarding the grant, adding that “safety will be an important consideration in designing the network.”

Additionally, the network design “will factor in travel demand data to attract new users who might otherwise drive single occupancy vehicles, increasing environmental sustainability.

“Finally, the project will address equity by focusing on historically underserved areas and engaging with local communities, improving quality of life.”

The Yolo County Transportation District is one of 27 jurisdictions nationwide to receive one of the planning grants and the only one in California.

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By Lauren Keene Two Sacramento men face weapon-related charges after allegedly firing from a vehicle within earshot of Yolo County sheriff ’s deputies Tuesday.

According to a Sheriff ’s Office Facebook post, the deputies were investigating an abandoned stolen vehicle in the area of County Road 118 and Old River Road, east of Woodland, when they heard several gunshots and observed a vehicle traveling in the area.

“More gunshots were heard, and it was apparent to the deputies that the shots came from an occupant inside that same

moving vehicle,” the post said. “It was unclear as to what their intended target was at that time.”

The deputies conducted a “high-risk” traffic stop of the vehicle, arresting both occupants and seizing a 9mm handgun and several other firearms, multiple high-capacity pistol magazines, more than 200 rounds of ammunition and

similar issue some years back and that was one of the solutions then.

The good news is that it has reached a point in the season that water diversion and release back into the drain is all but over, and that will help, too.

Marovich credits the water agency, and specifically Alex Rabidoux, the principal water resource engineer, for taking on the issue and investigating possible solutions when the agency is under no obligation to do so.

“This is all a discretionary effort by the agency,” Marovich said. “They do see some self-interest in this, but it was not inevitable or obvious that they would have to take the next step and investigate the water quality in the toe drain.”

In the meantime, it does not seem likely there will be a salmon spawn this winter.

Marovich said what that means for the years to come

is uncertain, but he said there should be enough fish that were born in the creek in recent years that should be making their way back into the creek. Stray fish also could repopulate the creek, he said.

“But our goal is to have natal origin fish,” Marovich said.

Fish born in the creek that return four or five years later are specifically imprinted to Putah Creek, creating its own species of salmon and strengthening the line for years to come.

Seventy-six salmon were killed when the heavy Oct. 24 rains dislodged loads of organic material and caused an overflow from the east levee toe drain into the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. It is possible that as many as two dozen of the fish, however, perished because beavers had stopped the flow of water before their dams could be breached, Marovich said at the time.

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two-plus pounds of marijuana, officials said.

Arrested were Edward Lopez, 21, on suspicion of possessing high-capacity magazines and cannabis possession; and Eduardo Leon, 22, on charges of negligent discharge of a firearm and possession of high-capacity magazines.

Both went to the Yolo County Jail.

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Fergie & Diana

Pets of the week Special to The Enterprise Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among them is Starfire (A177019), a sweet, 2-year-old female gray tabby cat. She will do great in a home with other cats or as your one and only. She is a love bug.

Also hoping for a good home is Romeo, (A190789) a male blackand-white shorthair cat.

He is true to his name and an absolute lover boy.

Romero wants 100% of your love and adores you in return for all the attention.

For information on adopting, contact adoptycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Starfire The shelter is closed to the public for non-emergencies but the staff is available to assist at 530668-5287 during new temporary hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

For information, visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/woodland /yolo-county-animalservices-ca283.

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holidays. They can be adopted together or separately. They are up-todate on vaccines and Rotts will spay or neuter when they are old enough.

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Bring proof of homeownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, please bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

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Special to the Enterprise Humans occupy much of the world’s landmasses.

Many of those places have very cold winters for part of the year.

For survival we have invented and adapted numerous ways to live in the cold. This includes how to stay warm and ways to easily move around in the snow. Some of these techniques we learned from nature by observing animals, others were invented out of necessity and convenience.

One of the most important things about winter is staying warm. Many animals that live in the cold have several layers of hair and fur that help trap warm air close to the body.

By layering our clothes, we are doing the same thing, tapping the warm air closer to our bodies.

Observing animals burrow and den under the snow helped people to discover that snow is an insulator.

By using snow and ice as building materials, a person could make a small enclosure to keep warm from the elements.

Once keeping out the cold was solved, transportation was the next obstacle. Walking through snow

Explorit Science Center is no easy feat. Our weight causes us to sink and snow just a few feet deep is nearly impossible to walk through and would get the person’s feet and clothing soaking wet. Again, looking to nature, we invented snowshoes.

The snowshoe hare has large hind feet that help prevent it from sinking into the snow. Nearly 6,000 years ago, people began strapping wide, flat materials to their feet for walking on top of the snow. The construction and material of snowshoes have changed and evolved, but the concept has not.

Snowshoes work the same way with the hare as they do with us. A large base distributes our weight more evenly on the top of the snow, preventing sinking. This gave our ancestors the ability to travel, hunt, or gather plants in places with deep snow.

Sledding and skiing are other forms of fast, winter fun. These were invented more by convenience rather than necessity. Carrying supplies or people long distances would tire a person down quickly. By

‘Timeout Radio’ looks at future of hunger crisis Special to The Enterprise There are 13 million children and teens in the United States who don’t have enough to eat. The COVID-19 pandemic put a huge burden on alreadystruggling families, and childhood hunger is at its highest level ever.

The latest episode of “Timeout Radio” is about hunger and food insecurity.

Host Rohan Baxi talks to Maria Segoviano about how Yolo Food Bank connects people with healthy, high-quality food.

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placing them on a sled to glide over the snow made the process much easier.

Both sleds and skis work by gliding on a thin layer of water at the very top of the snow. The water is generated in part by the heat generated by the object sliding on the snow and that the water molecules at the topmost layer act more water-like than ice-like.

Come visit our Winter Wonderland and get pictures with Father Christmas; included with regular admission on Saturday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m to 2pm and Sunday, Dec. 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

———— Explorit's coming events: n Want to keep your students engaged during the winter break? Sign up for “The Science of Winter” camp. Explore the fun frosty phenomena of the winter season! Explorit campers will learn about the winter sky, frozen chemicals reactions, and amazing animal adaptations to the cold. Join us for science activities, games, and take-home crafts. Dec. 20-22, 9 a.m. to noon for grades K-2; Dec. 27 to 29 9 a.m. to noon for grades 3-5. Members pay $100, the public

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Commentary Utility reform would be a fine gift Redistricting will J impact climate ust in case California legislators are looking for best, longest-lasting Christmas present they could possibly give this state’s millions of consumers, it’s this: Make the state’s currently uncontrolled regulators into elective officials. That’s the logical solution to what’s happening right now, when almost all are the virtual property of utility companies and other interests they are supposed to supervise.

It’s true regulators serving on the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Air Resources Board (ARB) and Energy Commission are duty-bound to make sure prices and other rules allow for long-term survival of big companies whose practices they have the power to direct and change. So long as those companies behave prudently.

Here’s the dictionary definition of prudence: “acting with or showing care and thought for the future.”

Companies like PG&E, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Ford often don’t act that way.

So any obligation to keep them alive and thriving, with guaranteed profits for the utility companies in particular, should vanish. Irresponsible behavior by PG&E has killed more than 100 persons via wildfires hitting after company actions demonstrated little or no care about

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ecisions in the next month will shape California’s future for the next decade.

Our state is undergoing a process to redraw the lines of our congressional, state Senate and Assembly districts. This work is being done by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Since June, the commission has been holding hearings and gathering input from the public. By year’s end, they must finalize maps and determine how communities are grouped together; this will shape how Californians are represented in government for the next decade.

Unfortunately, the commission’s draft maps so far can only be charitably called a “hot mess,” to borrow from their own comments about their work in San Diego. It seems that in the commission’s rush to finish draft maps, substantial parts of the state were disregarded.

In Northern California, the Karuk Tribes’ historic lands have been split among districts, against the recommendations of tribal leadership and community organizations. In Southern California, cities in the San Gabriel Valley are split among two House districts, ignoring calls from the Asian Pacific Islander community to unite this area. All three districts in the Sierra Nevada dip into the Central Valley, disregarding the input of local residents.

In San Diego and Orange counties, two sets of communities — the coastal communities from San Clemente to Solana Beach and the inland city of Fallbrook — have been drawn together. This is against the input of almost all involved, including San Diego County resident and Commissioner Patricia Sinay. There is still time to fix this but the commission must act quickly.

There is too much at stake not to make this right. After all, redistricting will help determine if we fight or fold in the face of the climate crisis. Scientists have repeatedly told us that we only have until 2030 to prevent the most severe impacts of the climate crisis.

Since the redistricting process is only done every 10 years, the people who are elected to represent these new districts will determine how we respond leading up to the 2030 deadline.

Unfortunately, Californians are not wellrepresented in the fight against the climate crisis. In recent years, most bills to address climate change have died in the state Legislature, and that’s because corporate interests are calling the shots in Sacramento. Seventy percent of the Legislature accepts campaign contributions directly from oil companies or from oil industry Political Action Committees.

There is a disconnect between what is happening in Sacramento and the priorities of Californians. Polls show that Californians want their leaders to prioritize addressing the climate crisis. Redistricting is an opportunity for Californians to raise their voices and remind our leaders of this priority.

Since 2010, the California Environmental Voters Education Fund has been partnering with community organizations around the state to encourage participation in the redistricting process. Repeatedly, we hear that Californians want environmental impacts and concerns factored into how the commission organizes districts.

If California doesn’t have district lines that group communities based on common climate concerns, priorities and impacts, then these neighborhoods won’t have elected representation that delivers for them.

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his is not about who wins or loses elections. This is about drawing district lines that reflect the unique needs, struggles and values of each California community to ensure their representation also reflects them.

And the climate crisis and compounding threats like environmental racism will impact the lives of Californians more than any other issue in the next decade.

In other states, district lines are drawn by the legislature. This process favors whatever party is in power. We are lucky to have a nonpartisan process that gives all of us the opportunity to make our voices heard — but the commission has to deliver on maps that truly reflect community input and priorities.

— Mary Creasman is the CEO of California Environmental Voters and the California Environmental Voters Education Fund. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works.

Our healthcare system is broken. It’s morally urgent that we fix it. People can’t get the care they need and it’s too expensive. Our system leaves people without care and facing bankruptcy. They lose a job, they lose healthcare. The U.S. spends more on healthcare as a share of the economy—nearly twice as much as the average of the 11 high-income countries — yet has the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates among them.

Now is the perfect time to change things. In January, AB1400 Cal Care, Medicare for All, a single payer healthcare for California will come before the Assembly and the speaker decides if they will debate it. We need people power now to write the speaker and make sure they debate.

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the future. PG&E, for example, over the 50 years before 2010, diverted to bonuses and profits more than $65 billion in money customers paid monthly for supposed maintenance work.

There were no penalties for this or parallel misdeeds by other companies. Similarly, no automaker has ever been penalized for repeated delays and stalling in building cleaner cars, which they falsely and loudly declared impossible before finally meeting California requirements.

By far the worst offender among California regulators is the PUC, which gives utilities vast sums of new consumer money via rate increases while excusing or forcing customers to subsidize negligent behavior. One example is the 2019 creation of the state Wildfire Fund, designed to pay billions of dollars in damages for future fires the PUC and the utilities expect the companies to spark because of many years of poor maintenance.

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U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, called on the PUC to shut down the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage site, which leaked methane gas onto the Porter Ranch portion of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles for more than four months in 2015 and 2016.

More than 1,000 households had to relocate, two schools closed for long periods and the Southern California Gas Co. eventually paid a $1.8 billion settlement to more than 35,000 persons sickened by the leak, no big deal for that behemoth company.

But no one ever claimed the leak was permanently plugged, even as SoCalGas kept Aliso Canyon and similar sites open indefinitely.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown declared this situation an emergency and Newsom told the PUC to close the site.

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ut because the PUC answers to no one, its members serving sixyear terms and almost impossible to remove, Aliso Canyon stayed open. Then, just last month, the PUC voted unanimously to increase amounts of gas stored there.

The reason listed was a supposition that only stored gas can prevent the kind of interruptions in home heating that have plagued Texas in recent winters, when many Texans endured sub-freezing

in all which sends a message they want to end our current profit-driven system in favor of a single payer health care system that would guarantee comprehensive health care services of all California residents. Where’s our Davis council on this?

Don’t let people tell you it will cost more. That’s a lie. It will save money and cover everyone. Already, 40% of our healthcare is federally funded. Federal law allows for waivers. This would not have to go before Congress. California could lead the way.

The California Nurses Union, the largest union of registered nurses with over 100,000 members, is actively supporting it. They experienced working through the pandemic with shortage of proper protective equipment, dangerous work and long hours. Over 460 healthcare workers died in California. Nearly 75,000 people have died from COVID in California.

Preventable deaths.

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temperatures in their homes.

Yet, there is no evidence that Aliso Canyon or other SoCal Gas storage sites are needed to avert heating problems. These have never occurred here and there is little evidence for claims there might be blockages this winter on pipelines bringing natural gas to California from the Permian Basin of Texas and Oklahoma or the fracking fields of Wyoming and western Colorado.

So the latest PUC action on Aliso Canyon is another in a half-century string of decisions where regulators favor monopolistic companies over customers.

The only way to change all this is by fundamentally altering the rules by which regulators operate in this state. That would take a constitutional amendment making the regulators elective officers who answer to voters (consumers).

It’s high time legislators got started on that, especially since they could right now legitimately present any such measure as a Christmas gift to consumers that would keep on giving indefinitely.

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City receives state grant to renovate Central Park; add water feature The site of the demolished Sierra Healthcare Center would host 30 attached single-family homes under a developer’s proposal.

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PROJECT: Praise for proposal From Page A1 limiting on-street parking to six spaces, all on one side of what would be called Pole Line Lane.

But planning commissioners on Wednesday urged Fouts to eliminate that on-street parking in order to widen the sidewalk.

“I think we need to go at least 3½ (feet wide); four would be better,” said Commissioner Stephen Streeter, who noted the challenges individuals in wheelchairs or using a walker would have encountering someone coming the other way on the sidewalk.

“I understand the site is compressed and I don’t want … any lots lost, but I think the sidewalk deserves some more attention,” Streeter said.

Commissioner Emily Shandy agreed, noting that the situation would be exacerbated on garbage days when residents would place their bins on the sidewalk rather than on the street as contained in the proposal.

“I see providing an adequate sidewalk that meets the city standards as a higher priority than providing six on-street parking spaces,” she said.

“If you take the eight feet that’s currently allocated to on-street parking, you get four feet per side, you could do a seven-foot sidewalk if you wanted or a standard six-foot sidewalk and have two-feet wider of clear travel lanes,” Shandy said, noting as well that on-street parking is available on Pole Line Road and each housing unit would have two parking spaces — in a garage and on a driveway.

Commissioners also said that what the city ultimately approves for this infill project will set a tone going forward.

“There is so much to really like about this project and so much we all really appreciate,” said Commissioner Michelle Weiss, who praised Fouts for his “long history in Davis.”

“I think that this, as an infill project, is one I would really support.

Obviously there wasn’t much here to begin with; it was in disuse for a number of years and the notion of 30 families finding housing here warms my heart. I think it’s a good thing to do.”

But the city does have an opportunity “to do things right here, and to do things in a way that sets a tone and establishes what we really want to see here in Davis (and) to make it more perfect and better for these residents.”

Removing the six onstreet parking spaces, Weiss said, sets that tone.

“We’re trying to encourage alternative means of transportation … it’s why words matter, why things are symbolic and in a way we’re setting that.”

Shandy agreed, saying “this is an opportunity for us to set the tone on what good infill development should look like in Davis going forward.”

Commissioner Greg Rowe also agreed, noting that “the location lends itself to people being able to get around perhaps with fewer cars.

“I think we can meet the identified need for a wider sidewalk in front of all of the properties by simply eliminating on-street parking entirely… We pretty much would be in agreement with this project if those two changes were made: widening the sidewalk and getting rid of all the on-street parking.”

Fouts replied that he personally does not have a problem with removing the on-street parking,

though “potential residents might dislike it.”

“But they can … decide whether or not they want to buy in this location,” he said. “So I don’t have any problem reconsidering the street profile, working with staff … but to reconfigure that street, I think that would be a fine improvement.”

The commission ultimately voted unanimously to recommend City Council approval of the project but with the condition that a six-foot-wide sidewalk be required and that trash and recycling bins be placed in the street on collection days rather than on the sidewalk.

Rowe congratulated Fouts for bringing the proposal forward.

“This is exactly what we on the planning commission, City Council and the public in Davis have been asking for for some time, (and) that is accommodating the ability of more people to own homes in Davis through higher density and I think for the most part (Fouts) has hit a home run in that regard.”

The project would designate three of the homes as affordable — one for an extremely low-income household, one for a very low-income household and one for which the income level is yet to be determined.

The 30 homes would range in size from 1,517 square feet to 3,236 square feet with three floor plans and six distinct elevations. All of the homes would have at least three bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms and 24 of the 30 homes would have fully accessible bedrooms on the first floor.

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THEFT: Police looking at bigger picture From Page A1 Meanwhile, the suspects in the earlier theft the allegedly stole multiple products from the CVS at 1550 E. Covell Blvd., shortly after apparently targeting another CVS store in Woodland, Doroshov said.

Losses totaled about $1,000 between both retailers. No injuries were reported.

According to Doroshov, employees at the just-burglarized Woodland CVS alerted staff at the Davis location “and, sure enough, the suspects got in here and started stealing items,” Doroshov said.

That led to a 9 a.m. report of a theft in progress to Davis police, who arrived on scene as the suspect were fleeing the scene, Doroshov said. An officer followed and stopped their vehicle as they began merging onto eastbound Interstate 80 at Richards Boulevard.

Antioch residents Dorian Adams, 19; and Taveon Thompson, 18; both were booked into the Yolo County Jail on burglary, conspiracy and organized retail theft charges.

Doroshov said police are investigating whether they’re also connected to

a pair of Nov. 28 retail thefts at the East and West Davis CVS stores that led to more than $14,000 in combined losses.

“It’s been going on for years,” John Ebensteiner, longtime manager of the West Covell Boulevard CVS, told The Davis Enterprise last week. “It’s been getting more bold, though, and it could be encouraged from what’s going on around the country.”

He was referring to the recent escalation of retail crimes in which in which multiple suspects enter stores — recent targets have included Home Depot, Nordstrom and Apple stores — and brazenly steal

thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise over the course of several minutes.

While the thieves targeted his store’s cosmetics section last week, previously they’ve taken “anything they damn well feel like taking, because they know they can’t be stopped,” Ebensteiner said. “They don’t care what they destroy along the way.”

Anyone with information about these or other similar thefts can call the Police Department at 530747-5400.

“We’ve got detectives dedicated to this activity, and we’re continuing to investigate it aggressively,” Doroshov said.

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Changes are coming to Central Park in Davis.

The city announced Wednesday it has received a $2.78 million state grant to renovate Central Park and create an interactive water play feature near the existing universal play structure and restroom.

The Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization grants aim to expand access to parks in underserved communities with new or enhanced parks. A total of 112 communities statewide received grants totaling $548 million.

“We are thrilled to receive this grant that will add so much to Central Park,” said Davis Mayor Gloria Partida.

“In addition to the interactive splash pad water feature, there will be new pollinator gardens, tree planting, new public art, added seating as well as a renovation of the park’s lawn with a new, waterefficient irrigation system.”

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amenities includes: n Interactive water feature and gathering space for all ages n New water-efficient irrigation system utilizing recycled water from the interactive water feature n Solar-powered, ultraviolet disinfection system, eliminating the need for chemical treatment of the water n Biofiltration basins near the interactive water feature to capture stormwater and increase groundwater recharge n Creation of new pollinator gardens n New native plant identification signs and an educational display about drought-tolerant, native landscaping n New public art n Added benches and low-wall seating n Increased number of shade structures n Planting of six new trees n Fencing to allow more seating in grassy area “This project’s features will significantly improve the health and quality of life for Davis residents and

visitors by providing a safe opportunity to play outdoors,” said Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs. “The water play feature that is free and inclusive will help keep everyone cool during the hottest months of the year, creating a social destination for people of all ages.”

Creating a new water feature in Central Park has been a priority for a while now.

Former state Sen. Lois Wolk, who chairs the Splash Pad Committee that collaborated on the grant, said, “The splash pad will be a perfect addition to Central Park and the Davis Farmers Market, the bikepowered carousel, and the Hattie Weber Museum.

“Thank you to the committee members who supported the effort and who look forward to the updating of this well-loved gathering area,” she said.

“Kudos to the City Council and city staff for its successful efforts.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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Police Chief Darren Pytel said it’s cost the city about $10,000 in labor and materials over the past month to clean or paint over the graffiti.

TAG: Parents urged to be vigilant From Page A1 to clean or paint over the graffiti — much of it “nonsensical” scribblings done in spray paint and black or colored markers.

None of it appears to be gang-related, he added.

Pytel is seeking the public’s help in curbing the problem by reporting

in-progress tagging to the Police Department’s alternate emergency number, 530-758-3600.

Parents, meanwhile, are asked be on the lookout for spray paint or other graffiti-related tools in their kids’ possession.

If caught, the alleged vandals could face felony charges if the damages total

more than $400, Pytel said. Anyone convicted also could be ordered to pay restitution costs.

Meanwhile, the cleanups continue, nearly fully occupying a full-time and two part-time code enforcement officers.

“This is happening all over town,” Pytel said. “It’s pretty alarming.”

OMICRON: Genotyping identifies viruses From Page A1 Every positive COVID19 test conducted by Healthy Davis Together is automatically screened by the UC Davis Genome Center for all currently known variants of concern so that immediate action can be taken to alert and protect the community, a press release from the county noted.

“We use a process called genotyping that allows us to quickly and inexpensively identify viral mutations of interest. Using the pattern of mutations, we can usually tell what variant (e.g., Alpha, Delta, Omicron) the virus is. If necessary, as in this case, we follow that up with viral genome sequencing for

confirmation,” said David Coil, project scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center.

“Through this process, we are able to swiftly identify not only positive COVID cases but also specific variants of concern so that infected individuals can isolate and reduce the spread in our community.”

three days prior to and three to five days after traveling or gathering. If you aren’t vaccinated yet, it’s important to get tested regularly. With the recent approval of the Pfizer vaccine for children from 5-11, HDT strongly encourages everyone 5 years and older to get vaccinated.”

Getting vaccinated, getting a booster when eligible, getting tested and following local mask guidance are the most important things people can do to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including the Omicron variant, the county advised.

For current testing locations and hours throughout Yolo County, including West Sacramento City Hall, visit HealthyDavisTogether.org/testing/.

Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are accepted at most testing locations. Parking is free.

“If you are vaccinated and planning to travel or gather, it’s recommended that you get tested one to

To find vaccination locations in Yolo County, visit www.yolocounty.org/getvaccinated.

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From street vendor to crypto artist How digital assets can offer new opportunities

By Jacqueline Garcia CalMatters Jesús Martínez finds inspiration on his morning runs around his neighborhood of Eagle Rock in Los Angeles: a sunrise, a street vendor or a landscape.

When the 24 year-old artist sits down at home, he goes to work on a tablet and stylus pen.

Martínez, who grew up selling flowers on street corners with his parents, recently made his way into the world of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which are unique digital assets bought and sold using cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin. The crypto artist’s biggest sale so far is a digital artwork titled “Genesis life,” which sold for $38,000 and is now valued at around $80,000.

As decentralized investing gains popularity, Martínez has also found a nontraditional way to generate wealth. He’s not alone.

The Harris Poll found 25% of Black Americans and 15% of Latino Americans have purchased NFTs, compared to 8% of white Americans.

And USA Today reported over summer that minority investors are more likely to outpace white investors in owning digital currency.

Martínez is still amazed at venturing into this world since, until a few years ago, he worked alongside his parents, who emigrated from Mexico.

“We would sell flowers on street corners or for graduations,” Martínez said. “I stopped selling flowers after high school,

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A digital art piece by Jesús Martínez, who sells his work as NFTs.

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Jesús Martínez, an NFT artist and crypto investor, looks out his family’s home in Eagle Rock on Dec. 3. but that helped me learn about work and humility.”

Martinez’s passion for digital illustration took hold in high school. Three art classes introduced him to graphics software such as Sketchbook Pro,

Photoshop and After Effects. He went on to study communications at California State University, Northridge.

Martinez had heard about Bitcoin as early as 2012 but didn’t dive into

digital assets until this year.

He published his first digital artwork in May and has sold about eight pieces ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 NFTs. The most expensive was purchased by a collector who appreciated the story behind the artwork.

“The collector told me: ‘What made Picasso and Mona Lisa interesting was not the painting but the story behind the artists and you have a beautiful story and I would love to be a part of that,’” Martínez said. “That’s when he bought my piece for a lot of money.”

The young artist said his work has caught the attention of other collectors.

Among them Gil Weisblum, who is a web 3.0 advisor and part of the office of iconic fashion

designer Diane Von Furstenberg.

“Gil was among the first to say that my story is what is going to achieve record sales in the NFT space,” Martínez said, “and that would give me recognition as a crypto artist.”

Martinez now works full time on his digital art. He hopes one day to become a philanthropist to help worthy causes, such as building schools in third world countries or providing student scholarships.

Martinez is also serving as a strategic advisor for an initiative of Time Magazine.

Even in the world of cryptocurrency, Martínez strives to stay grounded.

He hopes to buy his father, who works as a janitor, a new car.

“He has never had a new car,” said Martinez, the

youngest of two children.

Martinez advises young people who are interested in cryptocurrency to investigate closely because these investments are risky. Don’t be afraid to ask experienced cryptocurrency investors for help.

“I recommend that you make sure you do your due diligence, spend a lot of time doing your research before investing money, and don’t just put money in because you read it online,” Martínez said “Take the time to read and (understand) why people are investing.”

— This article is part of the California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequality and economic survival in California.

New state smog rules target lawn equipment, big-rig trucks

By Rachel Becker CalMatters Big rig trucks and lawn equipment face stricter pollution requirements under a suite of landmark rules approved today by California’s clean air regulators.

Manufacture of new, polluting models of lawn and garden equipment will be phased out in 2024 under the rule unanimously adopted by the California Air Resources Board, despite opposition from gardeners and landscapers.

And in a separate rule, big rigs will have to undergo periodic smog checks, just like cars, except most trucks will undergo the tests remotely through onboard diagnostics.

California is the first in the nation to require heavyduty trucks to undergo smog checks or mandate zero-emission lawn equipment.

Together, the two rules are expected to avoid 8,400 premature deaths linked to air pollution and result in health benefits of more than $84 billion. The trucks rule alone “is the largest emissions reduction measure since the truck and bus rule, and that was 2008,” said Jason Hill-Falkenthal, an air resources supervisor with the board’s mobile source control division.

The total cost to comply with the two rules: An estimated $8 billion spread over more than 20 years.

Zero-polluting lawn mowers, leaf blowers Under the new lawn equipment rules, manufacturers must meet zeroemission standards for new models of yard equipment, including weed whackers, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and smaller chain saws, in three years.

Residents and workers, however, can continue to use and repair their gaspowered equipment.

Gardeners and landscaping associations raised concerns about higher costs to buy the equipment and additional batteries needed for a day’s work.

“The cost to transition would be significant and probably kill my small business,” Elizabeth Burns, president of Zone 24 Landscaping Inc., based in Torrance, said today at the hearing. “One other issue is the technology is not yet

there for battery life and that’s super important.”

Also, under the new rules, new portable generators must meet stricter emission standards in 2024 and reach zero-emissions for modelyear 2028 generators.

At a three-hour public hearing today, much of the opposition came from the RV industry and owners, who urged the board, unsuccessfully, to exempt their generators. Also, rural officials warned that alternatives to portable generators are cost prohibitive and do not perform adequately.

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moderate to low-income rural residents to do without power for extended periods to achieve small emission reductions in these areas that are already in attainment is unconscionable.”

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‘Home for the Holidays’ returns as a live event

By Jeff Hudson Special to The Enterprise The annual “Home for the Holidays” concert — to be held this year at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 21, in the Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis — began 18 years ago with an idea from local musician Bill Fairfield, a founding member of the longtime local band Mumbo Gumbo.

Fairfield noticed that many of his colleagues in the local musical community — some of whom toured far and wide several months each year performing at clubs and music festivals — converged on their home base in the Davis area during the holiday season in late December.

Fairfield recalls, “I felt that Davis needed a ‘hometown’ holiday musical gathering, and that all the touring musicians were themselves ‘Home for the Holidays.’ In the spirit of generosity and giving that accompanies the holiday season, Fairfield realized that this hometown show should also be a benefit fundraiser for a worthy cause. “So, since many of us (musicians) had kids in school, or had gone through the local school system (and studied music

in school along the way), the Davis School Arts Foundation was a cause close to our collective heart(s),” Fairfield added.

Fairfield’s novel concept caught on, and it has morphed into a local tradition: a well-attended (and in many years sold out in advance) event that both performers and audience members came to look forward to each year around this time.

The pandemic, of course, through a big curve at everybody in Spring 2020, musicians included. Sam Misner, of the popular Americana duo Misner and Smith, remembers when he and Megan Smith realized that with many music venues closed during the initial pandemic lockdown, they needed to reorganize their plans, pronto.

“Along with all the shows that were put on hold or canceled, we were also getting ready to go into the studio to record a new album,” Misner said. “We haven’t been able to get back to that new recording yet, and we’re still navigating how to approach things moving forward in this new landscape.”

So Misner and Smith (who’ve released five albums and various videos)

quickly adapted, and started playing weekly livestreamed shows from their living room. “We’ve done over 80 of them at this point,” Misner said. “We’ve been touched by how people have responded and the feeling of comfort that the live-streamed shows took on.”

During 2021, music venues and festivals slowly began hosting live events again, and Misner and Smith have gradually started going on the road again. Misner said “one of the shows we missed playing most over the past couple of years is Home for the Holidays, and the way it has always made us feel connected to our community here in Davis. We’re so happy to get the chance to be part of it again in person, and to be able to come together and lift each other up with music.”

Megan Smith (of Misner and Smith) personally embodies some of those community connections.

As a high school student, a few years back, she sang with the Davis High School Madrigal Singers (and her mom was an active leader in the high school PTA).

So it’s particularly appropriate that the Davis High School Madrigal Singers

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Above, The Davis High Madrigals will highlight the Home for the Holidays concert on Dec. 27. Right, Young Harpist Alaina Rose is always excited for the holiday concert. (founded way back in the 1970s) have been featured performers at the Home for the Holidays lineup of artists a number of times, and will perform once again this year. The pandemic forced all sorts of high school music ensembles (including a choral group like the Madrigals) to abruptly shift their methodology for both rehearsals and performances, often with online sessions that brought students together.

Singer/songwriter Rita Hosking is also connected to the local education system — she once taught at Emerson Junior High in

Davis, before turning her energy toward musical full-time.

Through the years, Hosking (who’s released ten albums) says she’s realized that “We all benefit from live music, whether it’s in school, at home, or a venue.

While the pandemic has made live music more difficult, it has also made clear its extraordinary importance. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating and supporting live music at this year’s Home for the Holidays!” Hosking will be appearing as part of a trio

that also includes Sean Feder and Bill Dakin — Hosking and Feder recorded a live album earlier this year, titled “Live from Lockdown,” that was recorded at a Grass Valley venue, and is currently available on Hosking’s website.

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By Natalie Nelson Special to The Enterprise

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his December, the Pence is hosting three festive exhibits that are sure to bring a smile to your face, and all three will be open during the Dec. 10 ArtAbout reception from 6 to 9 p.m. We are collaborating with four other venues to bring back this important community event to both artists and the larger public after the COVID-19 shutdown. To learn more about what’s on display, stop in at the Pence to pick up the flyer for the event.

The Holiday Market, now in its 17th year, is our annual showcase of art and crafts created by 30 regional artists. There are playful ceramics in all shapes and sizes that are perfect for holiday gifts. We also are showing jewelry by many fantastic local jewelers, including Alison Morse, Sara D., and a special section for vintage jewelry. We have creative furniture by E. Hendren and scarves and even children’s toys as well.

The Pence is open daily (including Mondays) through December 24th, and we are happy to put your purchases in a free festive gift bag.

Upstairs, our Andresen Learning Center Gallery has a wonderful exhibit of ceramics and art quilts by regional artist Daphne Gillen. Her exhibit, titled “A Whitman’s Sampler,” is on display until Dec. 26. These quilts show comic scenes such as animals engaged in

Courtesy photo Copyright Estate of Roy De Forest/Licenses by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Roy De Forest’s Untitled print from 1978 shows two playful canines, one of his favorite subjects.

Pence Gallery playing jokes on each other, or getting into trouble.

Gillen’s ceramics are equally full of humor and sharp wit. She especially enjoys making teapots decorated with her paintings of dancing animals in black and white. Her Barnyard Teapot is a large-scale porcelain vessel that has a multitude of cats, a rabbit, dogs, a goat, and a horse or two, covering both sides.

In the Main Gallery, our exhibit of lithographic prints by UC Davis Professor Roy De Forest is ongoing through Jan. 7. This exhibit, “Primary Impressions: Early Prints by Roy

De Forest,” is a unique look at a donated collection of De Forest’s prints from the early 1950s. De Forest used printmaking throughout his career as a means of distributing his phantasmagorical world to others, by creating a more affordable range of work for his growing base of collectors.

The later prints by De Forest highlight his favorite subjects, such as dogs, rabbits, horses and other farm animals, mixed together in a chaotic storyline that is anything but normal. De Forest enjoyed using his love of drawing in these prints, and by the late ’60s, his work starts to include human figures and animals.

“The Artist” shows a man outfitted in bellbottoms and a safari hat, looking toward the other characters in the space. A dog looks out at the viewer, his tongue out as if in greeting. De Forest had a series of Australian shepherd dogs as beloved pets, and before he went into his art studio, he always took a walk with one of them in Port Costa, where he lived while a professor at UC Davis from 1965 to 1992.

Up in the air is a spirit

Daphne Gillen’s Barnyard Teapot is a riot of action, and is part of our current exhibit. dog in a circle, and it’s almost as if the other dog is remembering him. Next to the dog is a man who has a rabbit head and tail, who is pouring out dust onto the ground. It’s a colorful scene with bright reds, blues, and yellows, but it’s hard to know if the artist is showing us something joyful or not.

As De Forest probably would have said, that part, the viewer has to figure out on their own.

Happy Holidays to you all, and thank you for your

continued support of the Pence. We’ve been here 46 years, and we couldn’t have done it without the resources of our community. Especially during this time of giving, we want to show our gratitude for Davis and the people who have worked so hard to keep the Pence a free, community gallery.

— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2021

‘West Side Story’: A totally captivating tale

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Director Steven Spielberg nails this classic play’s pulsating new adaptation: honorably faithful to the 1961 film, while also demonstrating its own, equally dynamic personality.

Screenwriter Tony Kushner — who earned Oscar nominations for his two previous collaborations with Spielberg, 2005’s “Munich” and 2012’s “Lincoln” — retains the essential late 1950s/early ’60s setting, while adding focus to the “urban renewal” (i.e. slum clearance) that puts additional pressure on the Jets and their rivals, the Puerto Rican Sharks. No wonder they jockey ever more furiously for control of their rapidly shrinking turf.

The opening “call to arms,” set against Leonard Bernstein’s classic overture, is led by Riff (Mike Faist), who propels the expanding cadre of Jets toward an equally large gathering of the Sharks, led by Bernardo (David Alvarez). The unison dance moves are feral, taunting and gracefully balletic; choreographer Justin Peck, of New York City Ballet, clearly quotes Jerome Robbins’ original dances, albeit with even more intensity.

Peck’s staging of subsequent numbers, as the story proceeds, is audaciously clever. The showstopping “America,” always a highlight, has been moved from a nighttime rooftop to the San Juan Hill’s daytime streets, where it explodes into a massive neighborhood block party of store merchants and passersby, in addition to our main characters. It’s a breathtaking sequence that gets progressively bold and colorful, the moves ranging from Robbinsesque ballet to Caribbean pachanga.

Other things can’t — shouldn’t — be touched. Tony and Maria still have their first close encounter on the fire escape of her tenement building, where they exchange a tentative kiss and croon the rapturous “Tonight.”

‘West Side Story’ Starring: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno, Mike Faist, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera, Iris Menas Rating: PG-13, and generously, for strong violence, strong profanity, attempted rape and dramatic intensity Available via: Movie theaters Aside from being staged in a manner that showcases Elgort’s athletic grace, this scene most vividly cements the story’s origins in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

The story is bare-bones simple.

Despite belonging to opposite factions, Tony and Maria fall in love, as the Jets and Sharks prepare for a nasty rumble that’ll decide local turf control. Bernardo’s awareness of this “forbidden” romance — Maria is his younger sister — enrages him even further, and puts additional pressure on the upcoming battle.

Although Tony co-founded the Jets, back in the day, he has returned to the neighborhood a changed man, following a year in prison. He’d rather make peace (and love) than war; this disappoints Riff, who feels that his longtime friend is betraying the cause.

Elgort and Zegler have the showcase roles, and it’s refreshing to enjoy stars with strong acting chops and gorgeous singing voices.

(Natalie Wood, it must be remembered, was notoriously dubbed in the 1961 film.) Elgort has a lovely tenor voice, which he puts to ample use in “Maria” and his enchanting duet numbers with Zegler, “Tonight” and “One Hand, One Heart.”

Zegler is radiance personified.

Maria is sweet, charming and passionate to a degree that would feel

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This can’t end well: Although the school gym is supposed to be neutral territory, the white kids (left) and Puerto Ricans clearly aren’t sizing up each other’s dance moves … even though this sequence quickly explodes into one of the film’s many amazing production numbers. syrupy in lesser hands, but Zegler sells it; she’s the epitome of a young woman exhilarated by her swooning first love. Later, when things go wrong, Maria’s anguish is shattering; her duet on “A Boy Like That/I Have a Love” is heartbreaking.

As Anita — Bernardo’s lover and Maria’s best friend — Ariana DeBose’s work is marvelously subtle. In the first act, Anita is feisty and flirty; she radiates sensuality when around Bernardo, and is quite snarky about his notions regarding their future (albeit with a twinkle in her eye). Her transformation is Act 2 is breathtaking, DeBose channeling grief and fury to a degree that’s palpable.

Alvarez makes Bernardo a tightly wound coil of seething rage: a guy no longer willing to tolerate the unspoken — and often spoken — assumption that Puerto Ricans are lower forms of life. When

Bernardo’s fury finally erupts, Alvarez is flat-out scary.

The biggest narrative shift concerns the drugstore/soda shop where the Jets hang out, and where Tony has been given a job. The place traditionally is run by an elderly gent dubbed Doc, for whom it’s named; the role has been gender-shifted here and crafted for Rita Moreno, returning to the film she made 60 years ago (!).

She plays Valentina, Doc’s widow, which grants a strong maternal element to her protective relationship with Tony. Moreno also is given a song, “Somewhere” — traditionally sung by other cast members — which Valentina delivers with touching pathos, against a montage of dire developing events.

Although all of the songs are marvelous — clever and forever memorable — “Gee, Officer Krupke” and “America” have the

sharpest lyrics and most inventive rhymes: a reminder of the recently departed Stephen Sondheim’s genius. (Amazingly, he began his career with “West Side Story”: certainly one of the most auspicious debuts in Broadway history.)

Considerable chutzpah was required to even conceive of a fresh look at “West Side Story”; it’s a third rail of remakes akin to tampering with “The Wizard of Oz” or “Citizen Kane.” But Spielberg embraced the challenge and persevered, as he has done so many times in the past. This opulent musical is as vibrant, colorful, intense and dramatically powerful as it was six decades ago.

Quite cool!

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.

HOME: Craven will again be MC From Page B1 During this year’s Home from the Holidays concert, Hosking’s daughter Kora Feder (who’s released a full length album and several other songs) will come onstage with the Rita Hosking Trio, in addition to performing a few original songs on her own. After attending local schools, Kora Feder lived in New York for a time. Nowadays she’s back in California, living in the Bay Area, where she has several upcoming gigs. Feder usually returns to Davis for the holidays to see family, and likes to perform here when the opportunity arises. “Home for the Holidays is always a highlight of my holiday season,” Feder said. “I’m excited to play some new and old songs, hear friends play, and celebrate the arts community. (Because of the pandemic) we couldn’t be together (to play) last year, so this will be extra special.”

Also featured will be the band Boot Juice, an energetic ensemble that formed locally in 2016 and now performs at clubs (including those with dance floors) and festivals around the Mountain West. Boot Juice is seven piece band that features electric and acoustic guitars, several vocalists, bass, drums, trumpet and alto sax, performing music that is informed by bluesy rock ‘n’ roll, progressive bluegrass and Americana songwriting.

The band’s members are Connor Herdt, Evan Daly, Jess Stoll, Brett Worley, Caleb Sanders, Micah Marmorstein, Billy D. Thompson and Alvaro Garibay.

Their second album, “Shifting Gears,” was recorded and released earlier this year; several of their videos (including “Cider Sessions” recordings during the pandemic) can be seen on YouTube.

Youthful harpist Alaina Rose has appeared at Home for the Holidays several times. She grew up in the greater Sacramento region, and nowadays she is pursuing studies at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. And yes, as a college student temporarily residing far from home, Aliana Rose is looking forward to playing here again.

“I love this annual concert,” she said, “how the community and musicians of various genres come together to support the arts in schools. It’s always a highlight of the holiday season!” You can check out her harp playing on YouTube, where she’s posted numerous tracks (short highlights from classical works, transcriptions of pop songs ranging from Antonio Carlos Jobim’s jazzy “The Girl (Boy) from Ipanema” to the rock band Journey’s anthemic “Who’s Crying Now?” The program’s musician and master of ceremonies will once again be Joe Craven, who’s been the MC at this

concert from the very beginning.

Reflecting in a cosmic moment on nearly two decades of introducing the many performers at Home for the Holidays, Craven noted, “The number 18 represents, in many cultures and faiths around the world, prospects for a successful and long life ... Now in it’s 18th year, Home for the Holidays celebrates a proven tradition of entertainment in financial support for the arts. With the teaching of all arts as a key ingredient in the scholastic curriculum of the Davis Joint Unified School District, this upcoming event speaks to artful living’s ‘pursuit of possibility’ importance for all people, young and old, today and for the times ahead.”

Craven (who sports a pretty nifty handlebar mustache, and has released a panoply of recordings) will also be enjoying his role as a proud dad, because the program will feature a group fronted by daughter Hattie Craven, who (you guessed it) attended the Davis schools.

Hattie Craven released her debut album, titled “Eleven” (because she was elevenyears-old at the time) back in 2013, and she’s since released two more albums.

Hattie and the Moon Howlers, as Hattie’s trio is known, also includes Jessica Malone and Daniel Roholt on various instruments and vocals, as well as “a steady rotation of guest musicians.”

Expect to hear some original songs with smooth vocal harmonies from this group.

Founder and organizer Bill Fairfield, whose photo does not appear on the concert poster as a featured artist, will probably pop up on stage, playing a keyboard instrument.

Having helmed “Home for the Holidays” through 18 Decembers, Fairfield observed “The show has became a nice way for the extended family of local musicians to get together, and give back to the community.” And after a pause, he added, “We’re all family, in a sense.”

———— The Veterans Memorial Theater is at 203 E. 14th St. in Davis. Tickets are $25, available at Armadillo Music, 205 F St., and Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd. Armadillo can take orders over the phone at 530-758-8058. There may or may not be tickets available at the door, depending on advanced ticket sales.

This will be a fully vaccinated show, with proof of vaccination required.

Masks required if the county mandate is still in place.

Proceeds will go to the nonprofit Davis School Arts Foundation, which supports visual and performing arts education, and will be matched by funds from the Davis Unified School District. For further information, visit www.billyfairfield.com or call 530-7582455.

Pianist Adrian Zaragoza, the DHS Concerto Winner, be the solois on the Warsaw Concerto

by Richard Addinsell at Friday’s Winter Concert.

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Davis High Winter Concert is tonight Special to The Enterprise The Davis High School Winter Concert will begin at 7 p.m. this evening, Dec. 10, at the DHS Richard Brunelle Performance Hall. The concert is free to the public, but donations are accepted in the lobby.

The concert will feature performances by soloists Michale Wang (violin) and Yuki Kurita (viola), the DHS Orchestra String Quarters, the DHS Orchestra Piano Quintet; the DHS Baroque Ensemble, the DHS Chamber Orchestra, and the DHS Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Adrian Zaragoza, the DHS Concerto Winner, will be the soloist on the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell.

Zaragoza was named a National YoungArts Finalist in Classical Music for 2022. He has won awards from the Singapore International Piano Competition, Nordic International Piano Competition, Chopin International Piano Competition, Arthur

Fraser International Competition, and Arizona Piano Institute Piano Competition.

He won first prize in the United States Open Music Competition, the American Protege International Piano Competition, the Solano Symphony Concerto Competition (where he performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Solano Symphony Orchestra), the MTAC Festival of New American Music, and the MTAC Memorial Scholarship Competition.

The event is sponsored by the DHSHolmes Orchestra Boosters. All proceeds go to directly support the DHS Orchestra Program. The concert will stream live online at https://youtu.be/r1S8TXYpZzk. Order CD, DVDs, and/or Blu-ray of the concert at https://dhs-holmes-orchestras. org/store/product-category/concert-record ings/. “Like” the Facebook Events Page at https://www.facebook.com/events/ 931607284135428/

ArtAbout returns to Downtown Davis today Special to The Enterprise Local galleries are bringing back the Second Friday ArtAbout to Downtown Davis today, Dec. 10.

The Artery is celebrating the community this month — the 65 artists in the gallery have produced extraordinary arts and gifts for everyone.

The shelves and walls are adorned with beautiful selections handmade by local artists. Drop by between 6 and 9 p.m. to 207 G St. Logos Books will feature watercolors by Students of Lucy Cain Sargeant through Jan. 7. A reception will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at 513 Second St.

The inspiration for these pieces is derived from nature, still life, landscapes and semiabstract images. Many students have had several years of tutelage by Sargeant.

The artists on display are Laure Baria, Teresa Bunn, Shari Dayton, Sandra DeVault, Ann Franke, Robert Fretwell, Fern Friedman, Joyce Goldman, Mary Holland, Kathy Hayes, Jane O’Meara, Karen Reiser, Eydie Turner, Carolyn Underhill, Teresa Wegener, Roni White, Barbara Wilhelm and Futaba Wood.

Bohème presents “Nutcracker Dreams” by Katherine Berdovskiy from 6 to 8 p.m. at 409 Third St.

Bohème’s storefront will be decorated with a collection of character drawings

by Katherine Berdovskiy, 12.

The Paint Chip will have paintings by Stasia Tikkanen and Andrew Dorn.

The reception is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday at 217 F St. in Davis The Pence Gallery features “First Impressions: The Early Prints of Roy De Forest,” through Jan. 7; “A Whitman’s Sampler: Quilts & Ceramics by Daphne Gillen” through Dec. 26; and the annual Holiday Market through Dec. 24. A free public reception runs today from 6 to 9 p.m. at 212 D St.

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Keep your relationship problems private Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been talking about moving in together for a very long time. I became pregnant and had our baby, but he didn’t move in with me because he was upset that I was talking to other people about our problems.

Well, finally, almost a year later, he has moved in his dresser and bookshelf.

But he is mad at me again because he did it all on the weekend, unannounced, and that upset me, and I told my dad that it concerned me. Apparently, my dad asked him about it, and he is upset with me again.

This is driving me crazy because he stays over here 80% of the time, but when he is mad, he just takes off.

He told my brother he is done. I’m so tired of this, but I love him. It’s constant back and forth.

I want stability and not to suffer. He has done this even before we had kids.

He just takes off, and we can’t talk through our issues without him getting mad. At this point, I am wondering, should I continue to work on things — to keep trying? Is the pain and suffering going to be worth it in the end?

— Highly Frustrated Dear Highly Frustrated: Regardless of if you stay or go, you and your boyfriend will experience some pain and uncomfortable feel-

ings. The real question is, can you make that pain and discomfort productive?

The best way to do that is to get into counseling for the two of you.

With the help of a professional, he can’t just storm off when he is upset; he has to stay in the room and work through his feelings.

I know you are going through a hard time, and talking to your father about it might feel like a nice relief in the moment, but it doesn’t really help your relationship with your boyfriend. Try to keep the problems in your relationship between you and your boyfriend and your therapist. In the end, you owe it to your baby and yourself to try to work it out.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF PATRICIA LYNN KELLEHER, Case Number: PR2021-0248 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of PATRICIA LYNN KELLEHER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Kathryn A. Minta in the Superior Court of California, County of Yolo The Petition for Probate requests that Kathryn A. Minta 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: Date: 12/28/2021, Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept. 10 Address: 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.

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——— Dear Annie: Long story short, my husband has one sister who just thinks that she can do no wrong.

“Kathy” and her husband are very strict with their kids and think we are not strict enough with ours. I hear through the grapevine that Kathy says nasty things about my parenting style. My daughter had a boyfriend when she was 14, and Kathy didn’t approve of that. But as long as her parents (us) know, then what does it matter to her?

In my view, Kathy needs to tend to her own family, who are far from perfect — believe me. I just want her to mind her own business

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— Big Sigh Dear Big Sigh: It’s interesting that you say you couldn’t care less what anyone thinks, when your entire letter says otherwise.

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The Yolo County SPCA will virtually host its 2021 annual meeting on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

The election of Board members and officers will be held during the annual meeting. The nominees for the Board as of the date of this notice are: Shelley Bryant, Pam Carroll, Lydia Caronna, Pam Runquist, and Nissa Stephenson. Their statements of qualification will be available during the meeting.

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THE PETITION requests the decedent's lost WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The lost 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: 01/05/22 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.

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FILED IN YOLO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE Jesse Salinas, Yolo County Clerk/Recorder F20211036 12/02/2021 Business is located in YOLO County Fictitious Business Name: DAVIS WILLS AND TRUSTS Physical Address: 2810 5th Street Davis, CA 95618 Mailing Address: Names of Registrant(s)/Owner(s): Jennifer Bretschneider 38243 Patwin Terrace Davis, CA 95616 Business Classification: Individual Starting Date of Business: 8/1/2011 s/ Jennifer Bretschneider Official Title: Corporation Name: Published December 10, 17, 24, 31, 2021

FILED IN YOLO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE Jesse Salinas, Yolo County Clerk/Recorder F20211026 11/29/2021 Business is located in YOLO County Fictitious Business Name: SESAME Physical Address: 213 E STREET #A DAVIS, CA 95616 Mailing Address: Names of Registrant(s)/Owner(s): 1) Meili Lei 825 Sycamore Ln. Davis, CA 95616 Business Classification: Individual Starting Date of Business: 11/29/2021 s/ Meili Lei Official Title: Owner Corporation Name: N/A Published December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 #1599

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-2088 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Alena Pafelova on behalf of Naum Lyustiger filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Naum Lyustiger to Proposed name Naum David Lyustiger 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: 1/19/2022 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.

Date: 11/20/2021 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court Published December 3, 10, 17, 24, 2021 #1601

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF HIROKO KOWTA CASE NO. PR2021-0269 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: HIROKO KOWTA A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Matthew Kowta in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Matthew Kowta 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 on January 20, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 9 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.

Signed: Matthew Kowta, Petitioner 1639 Joshua Tree St. Davis, CA 95616 530-219-0682 Published 12/10, 12/12, 12/17 #1604

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Hawkins named to 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute class Special to The Enterprise UC Davis football offensive coordinator Cody Hawkins was named to the American Football Coaches Association 2022 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute class the organization announced on Monday.

The 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute is a program aimed at identifying and developing premier, future leaders in football coaching. Selected participants are invited to attend a one-day institute that features a curriculum of interactive lectures focused on topics specifically tailored to emphasize leadership in the coaching profession, ethics, influential

UCD roundup responsibilities, career progression and family balance.

This year’s class was chosen from a field of over 200 applicants.

“First and foremost, it is the hard work of our players and staff that have put me in the position to be selected for such an honor,” Hawkins said. “I am so thankful to be a part of the UC Davis community. Our primary goal is to create the optimal student-athlete experience, while honoring the great legacy of Aggies that have come before us. I look forward to taking this recognition and maximizing the

opportunity to learn, collaborate, and grow with some of the best in the business.”

This season marked Hawkins’ fifth as a member of the Aggie coaching staff and second as the offensive coordinator. Hawkins teams have averaged over 30 points per game in each of his seasons and were the secondranked rushing attack in the Big Sky at 175.8 yards per game, the highest single season average since the 2002 season.

Men’s basketball Sophomore Elijah Pepper is the first Aggie to be named a conference Player of the Week as

the Big West announced this week’s winners on Monday.

Pepper earned this week’s honor by leading the Aggies to back-to-back wins over Pacific on Dec. 1 and UC Merced on Dec. 4.

Against the Tigers, Pepper scored a game- and season-high 30 points. With the score tied at 52-52 with 2:34 to go, Pepper drilled three 3-pointers over the rest of regulation and scored UC Davis’ final 11 points to clinch the win. He shot 50 percent from the field and went 6 of 11 from deep, adding five rebounds and two assists to his sheet.

Pepper followed that performance by scoring 11 points against UC Merced with four

rebounds and four assists in UC Davis’ most lopsided win of the season.

Men’s water polo LOS ANGELES — Aggies senior Nir Gross and sophomore Aleix Aznar Beltran were named to the NCAA championship alltournament second team on Sunday, following the conclusion of the national championship at UCLA’s Spieker Aquatics Center.

The pair become only the second and third Aggies to ever earn the honor, joining former standout Mike Gotelli, who was named to the team following the 1997 championship.

MAT: Blue Devils’ roster is packed with veteran boy and girl wrestlers From Page B6 six girls; juniors Astraea Bluecoat and Kelsey Bordios, freshman Brooklin Cienfuegos, sophomore Andrea Gonzalez, junior Juana Francisca Peralta and sophomore Avangeline Turner.

Turner has been ranked nationally. She competes in the sport year-round.

There were eight seniors on last spring’s team.

“They were probably the best class of wrestlers we’ve ever had at Davis High School,” Rosendale said.

Three of those wrestlers were ranked at the start of the shorten spring season, the coach pointed out.

“It was hard for them to have a season in the spring,”

Rosendale said. “One of the things I was really impressed with those wrestlers is that they came in and helped the next generation of wrestlers. Every single one of them came in and put time, energy and effort on the mat to help grow the Davis High wrestling program. It was really impressive.”

This year’s team has a mixture of freshmen, sophomores and juniors, most of whom were in the program last spring.

“A bunch of those kids are still here,” Rosendale said. “Generally speaking, the kids that are on the wrestling team are definitely hungry to compete.

They are definitely hungry to get after it.”

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Davis High’s Theodore Rogalski (left) works on flipping his River City opponent in Tuesday’s nonleague match at the Raiders’ gym.

Rogalski won by pin.

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Blue Devils ready to take it to the mat

By Mike Bush

Blue Devils wrestler James Davis (top) locks up the arm of his River City opponent in the 182-pound class in Tuesday’s nonleague match at the Raiders’ gym.

Davis, a senior, won by pin.

Enterprise sports editor A mixture of experience and new faces make up the Davis High wrestling program this winter season.

There are 31 Blue Devil grapplers whom are out this season.

Joshua Prudhomme, a junior who competes in the heavyweight class, is one of the returning matmen. As a freshman during the 2019-20 school year, Prudhomme earned a berth in the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships. Prudhomme didn’t compete in Tuesday’s nonleague match at River City of West Sacramento.

Another returnee is James Davis, now a senior. Against River City, Davis competed in the 182-pound class.

“James is an excellent competitor,” said Davis High head coach

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John Rosendale of Davis after Tuesday’s match at the Raiders’ gym. “He wants to push all the time. It’s been an honor to have him on the team.”

Rosendale described Davis as a “physical wrestler” and that he’s “really fun to watch.”

“He kind of has a little bit of an unorthodox style,” said Rosendale of Davis. “It’s like madness and mayhem, and then James is scoring points. He’s really an exciting person to watch.”

Another factor about Davis that Rosendale pointed out is in

past matches, both last spring and before the pandemic, is he’s trailed in matches that he would rally to win.

Vance Tangren is another returning matman for the Blue Devils. Rosendale said Tangren, another senior, is recovering from

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Ayers in national finals Enterprise staff

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor FOLSOM — Three points separated the Davis High girls basketball team from Vista del Lago’s squad in their opener at the FolsomVista Classic.

But the Eagles pulled away from the Blue Devils in the second half. That led to Vista del Lago posting a 54-41 win over Davis (1-4) at Folsom High on Thursday.

The loss dropped Next game: Today Davis into the loser’s vs.North, second-round bracket. On Friday, of the Folsom-Vista the Blue Devils will Tournament, 5:30 p.m. play North of Torrance, which lost 55-25 to Oak Ridge in the other bracket game, at 5:30 p.m.

The winner of the Davis-North game would play for the consolation title Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The loser of the same game would play for seventh place, also Saturday, at 10 a.m. All games would be played at Folsom High.

Vista del Lago (5-0) held a 31-25 lead halfway through the third quarter. Then Davis cut its lead to 31-28 on a three-point play at 3:31.

Blue Devil forward Mara Bledsoe, who was the team’s leading scorer with 13 points, was fouled while scoring a bucket inside the paint with 3:31 left in the quarter. Going to the freethrow line, she sank the shot to trim the Eagles’ lead.

“It was a very close game,” said Davis head coach Heather Highshoe. “I was happy with the way we were playing the first quarter and a half.”

Davis led for most of the first half at 6-3

an injury. Tangren did not compete in Tuesday’s match. Tangren and Davis, along with Prudhomme, qualified for the SacJoaquin Section’s Masters Tournament during the 2019-20 season.

John Bork, a sophomore, was in the program last spring. Aoui Pacheco-Delfi, who played on the Davis High football team this past season, is out for wrestling for the first time. Pacheco-Delfi is a senior.

“He’s just a real athletic kid and we love having him on the team,” said Rosendale of Pacheco-Delfi.

Christian Merola, a foreign exchange student from Italy, is the last senior on the squad.

“We’re happy to have him,” said Rosendale of Merola.

Part of the nearly three-dozen Blue Devil wrestlers out includes

Eagles 54, Devils 41

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Davis High forward Mara Bledsoe (right) eyes the basket in the first quarter of Thursday’s game against Vista del Lago at the Folsom-Vista Classic at Folsom High. with 2:32 left in the first quarter, 12-10 at 5:50 in the second quarter and 14-12 at 4:14 in the same quarter. Then Vista del Lago center Kira Sadler caught on fire from the field, scoring seven of her game-high 23 points.

Returning to the third quarter, the Blue Devils would get to the Eagles the rest of the game.

For the rest of the quarter, the Eagles forced the Blue Devils into multiple turnovers. Blend

in a 3-pointer from Vista del Lago’s Ella Skrzyniarz toward the end of the quarter, and the Eagles soared to a 42-28 lead.

“Then our turnovers hurt us big time,” Highshoe said. “All of the teams that we have been facing lately, they capitalize on those.

They either cut everything down or they take the bigger lead, which hurts us. Our turnovers,

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Zachary Ayers will be competing at one of the biggest high school cross-country races in the nation on Saturday.

Ayers, a senior who was on the Davis High boys crosscountry team during the fall season, will be competing at the Eastbay Cross-Country Championships National Finals — formally knowns as the Foot Locker Cross Country — at Morley Field, Balboa Park in San Diego.

The race features the top 10 boys and the top 10 girls who were standouts in their regionals. Ayers competed at the West Regional at Woodward Park in Fresno on Dec. 4.

At the West Regional, Ayers had a time of 15 minutes, 17 seconds for a sixthplace finish. That earned him an automatic invitation to compete in the National Finals.

This will not be his first time on the Southern California course. He was at Woodward Park on Nov. 27. but competed at the California Interscholastic Federation State Cross-Country Championships. Competing in Division I boys, Ayers took fifth place at 14:55.6.

In October, running in the Clovis Invitational that was also at Woodward Park, Ayers took fifth place with an even time of 15 minutes.

UC Davis Health Stadium sets uncommon attendance marks Special to The Enterprise When the gates of UC Davis Health Stadium opened to UC Davis football fans on Sept. 18 against Dixie State, it marked a milestone for more than just Aggie athletics.

After successfully navigating a return to competition over the previous year, the obvious next step for the department was providing that same level of normalcy and safety to the community.

And there are few things more normal on a fall day in Davis than Aggies football.

“I think it starts months, years in advance,” said UC Davis Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca.

“The formula is pretty simple but this year presented some big challenges to figure out how we were going to message and get things done in a safe way. I think on the heels of the pandemic, people were so excited to get together and celebrate something like a football game and that helped feed into it. But you look around the area and that wasn’t the case everywhere so I think it was a lot

of hard work by our external staff to message and communicate some of those pieces.”

Leveraging the efforts of athletic department staff and campus clubs and partners, UC Davis Athletics was able to create a game day environment with vaccine checkpoints and engaging promotions that would allow fans to return to public gatherings safely while feeling more a part of the action than ever.

The Davis community responded to those efforts in droves.

“I just think the campus community and the community at large really did a nice job sort of rallying around the return of live sports in the fall and we’re hoping that continues into this winter,” DeLuca added.

Despite not being able to host large scale events for a full year and not allowing more than 10,000 fans in the gates until the second home game on Oct. 2, UC Davis’ entire season attendance net 11,000 more fans than 2019.

The Causeway Classic against Sacramento State on Nov. 20

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Tatum Burris relaxes before she and Maggie the Aggie gallop onto the field at UC Davis Health Stadium before the start of the football home game against UC Davis and Dixie State on Sept. 18. saw a stadium record for attendance and average attendance over five home games surpassed

10,000 spectators.

In the Oct. 2 home game against Idaho, the Hall of Fame

and Legacy Award winners were announced.

All of that turnout translated to a 29-percent increase in revenue over the 2019 season. That included two record-setting single-game revenue marks in homecoming on Oct. 16 and the Causeway Classic.

It wasn’t just the Davis community that was eager to get back inside UC Davis Health Stadium.

Twelve campus groups hosted events at games including the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, Avenue B, the College of Letters and Science, the School of Law, the Chicano Alumni Association, Supply Chain Management, the Veteran Student Center, Phi Beta Sigma, Staff Assembly, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the Davis Christian Fellowship and the College of Engineering.

Through the efforts of the athletic department and its partners doing everything from staffing vaccine checkpoints to working as members of the ball crew on the field, 161 campus and community groups were able to attend Aggie football games this fall.