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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Health officer urges indoor masking to continue By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Students relax on campus at UC Davis on Feb. 2. The state is rewarding students who spend their time volunteering, but administrative costs are eating into the program. Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters
Student volunteers get (some) cash Overhead takes up a big slice of funding By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters A new California program to financially reward college students for volunteering has drawn national attention — but less than half of its budgeted money is going to actual student aid. The California Volunteers
College Corps program, backed by $159 million in mostly state money, promises to award up to $10,000 to 6,668 lowincome students who volunteer in K-12 education, on climate action or to reduce food insecurity. That only works out to $66.7 million for students, though. So where is the other $92 million going? Mostly, it’s going to hiring and administrative costs
despite no guarantee the program will continue past 2024. Some experts think that money split makes sense because students could benefit from training and there’s a chance the program would get additional funding in the future. Other experts think the money should go directly to students, so fewer of them will have to work on top of their other responsibilities. “I think this is a classic
question of is it better to give a person a fish or teach them how to fish,” said Nora Silver, a professor who studies nonprofits at UC Berkeley’s business school and herself led a volunteer program. To her, the program does both: It gives students money directly and includes a lot of programming to train students and connect what they learned
See VOLUNTEERS, Page A7
Accused freeway shooter in court Tuesday By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The charges filed against an Elk Grove man who allegedly fired gunshots at two motorists in Davis indicate he was in possession of an assault rifle, despite his convicted-felon status, which prohibits him from having one. Andre Chevill Wilson, 53, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court on two counts of attempted murder and multiple weapon-related charges, according to staff at the Yolo County Jail, where Wilson remained on a no-bail hold Friday morning. Wilson stands accused of shooting at the two vehicles following an apparent road-rage altercation on westbound Interstate 80, the California Highway Patrol reported.
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The driver of the first vehicle later made contact with police dispatchers, reporting that the rear window of his vehicle had been “shot out.” Officer Rodney Fitzhugh said Wilson opened fire on the first vehicle after he and the other driver exited the freeway at Mace Boulevard, then shot at a second car that was traveling northbound on Mace. Neither motorist was injured. The driver of the first vehicle later
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made contact with Davis police dispatchers, reporting that the rear window of his vehicle had been “shot out,” WILSON according to the Facing charges Davis Police Department’s online crime bulletin.
Beginning Wednesday, vaccinated residents of Yolo County are no longer required to wear face coverings in indoor public places. But Yolo County’s health officer continues to urge everyone to do so anyway, at least until the county’s case rate SISSON falls below seven cases per 100,000 County health officer residents per day. On Thursday, the case rate was about 70, according to Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson. That was down from an all-time high of 242 in early January, but still above any point prior to the Omicron wave, higher even than the 66 that marked the highest point in January 2021. But Sisson said she expects the county’s case rate, which has been falling by about 10 cases per 100,000 residents per day, to drop below 14 on or about Feb. 16 when the universal face mask mandate is lifted. Should the COVID-19 situation in Yolo County worsen in the future — possibly due to a new variant that causes severe disease or evades immunity from vaccines and prior
See MASKING, Page A6
Water restrictions on council agenda By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Following the shootings, Wilson got back onto westbound I-80 but lost control of his Dodge Ram pickup, which crashed through a fence along the north side of the freeway and came partially to rest on the adjacent bike path, Fitzhugh said. Wilson reportedly fled on foot from the wreckage.
The Davis City Council on Tuesday will consider an urgency ordinance enacting the state’s new prohibitions on wasteful water use during the drought. The new restrictions would include no washing of buildings, structures, patios, parking lots or other hardsurfaced areas with potable water unless for health and human safety; no potable water use for street cleaning or construction site preparation unless no other method can be used to protect the health and safety of the
See SHOOTER, Page A4
See AGENDA, Page A6
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