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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Woman, pets escape Olive Drive blaze

Council votes to restrict water usage

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By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Enterprise staff writer A Davis woman, her cat and dog escaped safely from a fire that destroyed an Olive Drive mobile home Wednesday afternoon.

As the Davis Fire Department investigates the cause of the blaze, Diana Powell’s neighbors and friends are rallying to get her back on her feet.

“Everyone came together and were just wonderful,” Powell said during an interview Thursday outside the charred remains of the place she’s called home for about 13 years.

In the hours after the fire, Powell’s supporters have offered the greatgrandmother places to stay and set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding page, among other assistance.

The fire broke out shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Davis Mobile Estates, 1027 Olive Dr. Firefighting crews arrived to find unit number 23 fully involved in flames and threatening two

According to an economic impact

The Davis City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of an urgency ordinance adding the state’s new water usage restrictions to the city’s municipal code.

The new restrictions include no washing of buildings, structures, patios, parking lots or other hard-surfaced 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 public; and no filling or toppingoff of decorative lakes or ponds unless they have a pump that recirculates water.

The restrictions also prohibit homeowners’ associations or community service organizations from enforcing actions or imposing or threatening to impose fines for residents reducing or eliminating the watering of vegetation or lawns during

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Aggie Square moves ahead Innovation hub slated to open in 2024

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer On Wednesday morning, leaders from UC Davis, the city of Sacramento and development company Wexford Science and Technology celebrated breaking ground on the $1 billion Aggie Square project at a ceremony in Sacramento.

The 1.2 million square-foot

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campus and innovation hub will host research and academic activities, continuing education and job training, and business startups, especially those working in the fields of life science, technology and healthy communities, and bring substantial economic investment to Sacramento.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said he began talking with

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg about establishing an innovation hub in Sacramento before he took up his post at UC Davis in 2017. “We agreed that creating such a dynamic space would be good for the economy, the business community, students, faculty and residents,” May said at Wednesday’s ceremony. “Today, I’m happy to say, ‘We made it.’”

Students protest at district office

By Aaron Geerts

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Lo becomes first female, Asian fire battalion chief

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Davis High and DaVinci students raised their posters and voices in discontent Wednesday morning over the new bell schedule voted on by the board of trustees.

Although the board remains steadfast in their decision, it has not deterred students, teachers and parents who want to retain a two-block schedule.

It all started when Senate Bill 328 passed, requiring the district to adjust its bell schedule. A scheduling advisory committee was formed, and lengthy deliberations ensued on which course of action would most benefit all parties

The Davis Fire Department announced the promotion of Capt. Emily Lo, a 31-year veteran of the department, to the rank of battalion chief, the first Asian American woman to reach that rank in the department.

Born in Taiwan, Lo immigrated to the United States with her family in 1981 and began her fire service career with the encouragement of a family friend who worked for the Vacaville Fire Department.

She earned an associate’s degree in fire technology from American

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Students, teachers and parents carry signs Wednesday at the Davis School District office on B Street. involved. With statistics and preferences gathered, the committee declared schedule one as the preferred bell schedule which

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Lo joined the Davis Fire Department in 1991 after serving a year an a half in Fairfield, later earning the rank of captain in 2002.

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Briefly Bill would boost cancer vaccines SACRAMENTO, CA — On Thursday, Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, introduced Assembly Bill 2516, to require that all health insurance programs, including Medi-Cal, Family Planning Access Care Treatment (Family PACT) and private health insurance providers cover the costs of the cancer-preventing vaccination for the human papillomavirus.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 13 million Americans become infected with HPV each year. While some HPV infections will go away on their own, infections that don’t go away can cause certain types of cancer.

In fact, HPV is a leading cause of cervical cancer, which is one of the most preventable cancers.

There is no cure for HPV, but a vaccine exists to protect against infection. Since the vaccine has been in use, HPV infections and cervical pre-cancers have dropped significantly. The CDC says as many as 93% of cervical cancers could be avoided simply by screening and receiving the HPV vaccine.

AB 2516 would require that all of the state’s public and private health insurance programs include the full cost of the HPV vaccine within their covered health services.

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Aggies lend a hand to one of their own

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large and passionate group of former Aggie football players has come together to help one of their brothers who has been stricken with a devastating disease.

And they are making their appeal for help to all us who may have sat in the bleachers at Toomey Field on a chilly November night and watched Jim Speck work his magic with a football.

Sadly, Jim has come down with ALS, the same “Lou Gehrig’s disease” that has already taken the lives of his mother Dorothy, brothers Paul and Larry, and sister Cathy.

Jim Speck is a native son who grew up in Davis along Oak Avenue, just a block or two from Davis High School, where he was a star quarterback for the Blue Devils before graduating with the Class of 1973.

He could have gone to college anywhere, but he elected to head two blocks in the other direction from the family home and attend UC Davis.

Jim Sochor may have had a hand in that decision.

Jim Speck was an immediate superstar on campus, starting as a freshman in the fall of 1973 and throwing for a school-record 419 yards along with three touchdowns in a near upset of powerhouse Boise State in the final game of the season.

A four-year starter, Jim led the Aggies to four straight Far Western Conference championships and a league record of 19-1 during that stretch, throwing for 4,900 yards and 34 touchdowns in his career.

In 1976, his senior year, Jim was named UCD’s Most Valuable and

Inspirational player and was also team captain and conference MVP. He was inducted into the Cal Aggie Athletic Hall of Fame in 1984.

I received a note yesterday from Paul Sallaberry, one of Jim’s teammates who proudly wore the Blue and Gold.

“Time for Aggie Pride to be displayed to the world and we will take the lead,” Sallaberry wrote to many of Jim’s gridiron band of brothers.

“There are a ton of expenses associated with this disease and there is a near-term one where we can make a difference.”

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im’s family is working to purchase a used handicap van for him in Boise, where he now lives, and Sallaberry hopes to raise the funds to make that possible by engaging what he calls “the entire Aggie Football Family.”

“The idea is to get 100 former Aggies to donate $100 each and post a comment of support on the GoFundMe page. This will not only raise the funds, but will provide a huge emotional boost to Jim, Niese (his wife) and the kids.”

Sallaberry emphasizes that the note may well be more important than the money.

“This initiative will hopefully reach out to former Aggies from

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Jim Speck grew up in Davis and was a star quarterback for the Blue Devils and Aggies. each decade and garner significant traction and support.”

Truth be told, Sallaberry is hoping to far exceed the stated goal in order to fully help the family with all the care Jim will need in the days ahead.

“This disease is brutal on the patient and the entire family,” he adds.

“It’s time to rally the Aggie Family since this won’t be the last teammate that we support. Having a brotherhood that is willing to support each other is a special bond and hopefully many will contribute to Jim’s cause and others in the future.”

It’s wonderful to see the oftcited Aggie Pride take a path to what can only be described as Aggie Love.

Jim Speck will turn 67 on

March 5. Many of us remember him for his exploits on the field of play, but the life he has lived since those glory days has been one of giving and sharing, values he learned so well as a member of Davis’ cherished and beloved Speck family.

The GoFundMe link is https:// www.gofundme.com/f/jimspecka-fellow-aggie-in-need.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net

Three Davis schools have student vaccination rates below 50%

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer All but three of the Davis Joint Unified School District’s campuses have student COVID-19 vaccination rates above 50 percent, the threshold recommended by Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson for lifting the outdoor masking requirement at K-12 schools.

The district has been urging families to submit proof of vaccination this week in order to lift the outdoor mask mandate effective Feb. 22.

Based on data received by the district — and being presented to the school board Thursday — vaccination rates are lowest at elementary schools, where an average of 58 percent of students are vaccinated, and highest at secondary schools, where 71 percent of students are vaccinated.

The districtwide student vaccination rate is 65 percent.

King High, the district’s continuation high school, has the lowest vaccination rate in the district at 29 percent, according to school district data.

Also below the 50 percent threshold are Davis School for Independent Study at 38 percent vaccinated and Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School in South Davis at 39 percent.

Tiny Fairfield Elementary School west of town has the highest vaccination rate in the district at 85 percent. Just five elementary schools have rates above 60 percent: Fairfield, as well as Birch Lane (61 percent); Korematsu (61 percent); North Davis (62 percent); and Willett (60 percent).

Among secondary schools, Da Vinci High School (80 percent

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vaccinated) and Da Vinci Junior High (79 percent vaccinated) have the highest rates, followed by Davis High School and Emerson Junior High, both at 76 percent.

Sisson last week announced she was changing her recommendation for outdoor masking on school campuses, saying where a majority of students are vaccinated, she would no longer recommend masking outdoors.

Earlier this week, the school boards in Woodland and West Sacramento voted to eliminate their outdoor masking requirements.

According to the state, just 36 percent of elementary school students (ages 5 to 11) countywide are vaccinated and 55 percent of secondary school students (ages 12 to 17).

Even as school districts lift their outdoor masking requirements, the state continues to mandate masks indoors on all K-12 campuses at least through the end of February.

In a press briefing on Thursday, Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s secretary of health and human services, reiterated that the state will be evaluating conditions on

Feb. 28 and he expects to announce then a date for lifting the indoor masking requirement on school campuses.

Ghaly did not set a vaccination threshold for lifting indoor masking at schools, instead saying a collection of data, including case rates and test positivity, along with vaccinations, would be evaluated prior to making a change.

On Wednesday, the state lifted its universal mask mandate for indoor public places with some exceptions, including K-12 schools, where mandates remain in place. Vaccinated Californians are now highly encouraged to continue wearing masks in indoor public spaces but are no longer required to.

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last summer, the UC Davis Genome Center detected no cases of the Delta variant in the most recent week of reported data, Jan. 30 to Feb. 5.

During that week, the genome center reported 550 cases of the original Omicron variant and six of the BA.2 variant which is believed to be more infectious. A total of 27 BA.2 cases have been detected locally since the beginning of January.

The original Omicron variant remains most dominant but numbers have dropped sharply in recent weeks, from an estimated 3,276 cases during the first week of January down to the 550 cases for the most recent reporting period.

The genome center processes all tests conducted

by Healthy Davis Together and on the UC Davis campus. That testing continues at high levels, with more than 40,000 asymptomatic tests performed each of the last three weeks.

New cases detected by HDT testing continue to decline and have now reached the lowest point since Omicron arrived. Test positivity also continues to fall, down to 1.72 percent for the five-day period of Feb. 10-14.

On the UC Davis campus, test positivity has dropped to 0.51 percent as cases there also continue to decline.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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Briefly NAMI hears from caregivers NAMI Yolo County is exploring whether to form a new Senior Caregiver Support Group to provide an opportunity for people who are 60-plus and caring for a family member with a serious mental illness to share resources and develop a community of support.

To understand the need for and interest in this support group, NAMI Yolo County is asking people over 60 who are caring for a loved one with a serious mental illness to fill out a brief survey at www. namiyolo.org/SeniorCaregiverSupportGroupSurvey.

NAMI Yolo County defines a serious mental illness as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depression or any mental illness which requires care from another adult to ensure the individual can achieve recovery and live their best life.

Please forward this survey to anyone you feel may be interested in this support group.

Auxiliary offers scholarships Sutter Davis Hospital Auxiliary Scholarships for 2022 will be awarded to residents of Yolo County and Dixon who intend to pursue a human-health related career. High school seniors, college students, Sutter Davis Hospital campus employees, and change of career/re-entry applicants are eligible for consideration.

Applications will be available at https:// feedback.sutterhealth. org/f/153619/1f58/.

The deadline for the receipt of all applications is March 31.

For information, call Barbara Drushell, scholarship chair, at 530-753-5730.

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UC Davis Chancellor Gary May speaks Wednesday at the official groundbreaking of Aggie Square in Sacramento as Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, center, gets his own notes ready.

SQUARE: Project worth billions From Page A1 report completed in 2020, Aggie Square will add nearly $5 billion per year to the local economy and generate 25,000 new ongoing jobs. Construction of the project will add an additional 5,000 jobs and $2.6 billion to Sacramento’s economy.

“Aggie Square is the city’s most transformational economic development advance in decades,” Steinberg said Wednesday.

Other speakers at the ceremony included Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, state Sen. Richard Pan, Wexford Science and Technology President James Berens, and University of California regents Eloy Ortiz Oakley and Jose M. Hernandez.

The project, slated to open in December 2024, is in Sacramento’s Stockton Boulevard corridor near the UC Davis Medical Center. “Construction on Phase 1 of the project will begin this spring. This phase includes two buildings designed for science, technology and engineering and a Lifelong Learning

Building dedicated to classrooms and public programs,” UC Davis’ news service said in a press release Wednesday.

While Aggie Square promises economic growth, local organizations have raised concerns about gentrification and increased housing costs the project could bring. A community activist group and a local union chapter filed lawsuits against the UC Board of Regents over the project, demanding assurances that economic gains from Aggie Square benefit the community and not displace local residents.

Last year, the lawsuits were resolved and UC Davis and the city of Sacramento announced a community benefits agreement that includes money for local housing and infrastructure and a guarantee that local residents are prioritized for jobs that come out of the project.

Per the agreement, UC Davis and the city of Sacramento committed $50 million to create an affordable-housing fund for the Stockton Boulevard corridor, which will be used to build affordable housing

and to stabilize housing costs in existing residential areas. The Aggie Square campus will also include 200 beds of student housing in order to ease the demand for off-campus housing.

The university also promised that 20% of the new ongoing jobs at Aggie Square will be filled by nearby residents. Those include entry-level and higher-wage jobs that the project will create. After 10 years, the share of new jobs allocated to local residents will rise to 25%.

“Great cities find a way to ensure that the communities who have too long borne the burdens of disinvestment are the lead beneficiaries of new transformational investments,” Steinberg said.

“The Aggie Square innovation center is the definition of inclusive economic development.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

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retired Fire Chief Rose Conroy — in promoting and recruiting women in the fire service,” Davis Fire Chief Joe Tenney said in an announcement sent out to city staff.

Conroy became California’s first woman to lead a municipal fire department when she was appointed in 1995.

Following in those footsteps, Lo’s leadership service has included positions as a co-chair and commissioner with the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee’s (CFFJAC) Commission to Recruit Women for the Fire Service.

She is married and well supported by her husband, Rob, and her two children Austin, 14, and Lola, 11. The family lives

in Davis and is active in the community.

“After being in the fire service for 30 years, Emily still looks forward to coming to work every shift,” Tenney said. “The fact that she makes a small, positive difference in people’s lives by providing the highest level of service has never waned.

She counts her blessings every day for her job, union, and working with a great group of people.”

“Please take an opportunity with me to congratulate Emily on her achievements and promotion to battalion chief,” Tenney added. “I am very confident that she will continue to unselfishly serve the Davis Fire Department, Local 3494 members, the city of Davis and the whole Davis community.”

From cacao to chocolate on ‘Timeout Radio’ Special to The Enterprise Each year people in the United States buy 58 million pounds of chocolate.

As you devour this "food of the gods", Timeout Radio tells you about its long transcontinental journey starting as a bitter and inedible bean called cacao thousands of miles away. Nine countries — Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador, Cameroon, Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic — produce 93% of the world’s cacao.

On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio,” host Rohan Baxi talks to plant scientists David Mackill

and Don Livingstone who tell us about their research in making cacao hardy enough to withstand climate change, drought, pests, and disease.

In this episode’s travel segment, listeners will learn about Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast, a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

“Timeout Radio,” hosted by 15-year-old Rohan Baxi, is a radio show and podcast based in Davis for youth. It airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

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Banning retail weed fuels illicit market

By Tiffany Devitt Special to CalMatters

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n 2016, 57% of voters in California backed Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. There can be no doubt that voters expected legalization to increase access to regulated cannabis while helping rid the state of a dangerous illicit market.

But the five years since have proved once again that reality rarely lives up to expectations.

This “disappointment gap” has very real negative implications. Prop. 64 began with the blunt statement: “It is the intent of the People in enacting this Act … to take nonmedical marijuana production and sales out of the hands of the illegal market.”

And yet, today, there are fewer licensed retail outlets in the state than there were in 2015; legal cannabis sales are declining, and an emboldened illicit market is growing.

At the heart of the issue is the dual licensing structure that was implemented while converting Prop. 64’s broad agenda into a regulatory framework.

This not only required cannabis businesses to be licensed by both the state and a local jurisdiction, but also allowed municipalities to opt out of licensing cannabis businesses altogether.

In doing so, it precipitated the closure of thousands of medical cannabis dispensaries and the creation of new “dry” zones across the state.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Newsom, DeSantis set up preview

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he governors make it sound almost like an advance presidential debate, Florida vs. California, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vs. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

This argument is all about the merits of how the two men, both up for reelection this year and each the almost absolute boss of his state’s response to the coronavirus, have handled the pandemic from its inception about two years ago.

Thundered DeSantis, who will have serious Democratic competition this fall, “Across the nation (he means California), we see students denied an education due to reckless, politically motivated school closures, workers denied employment due to heavyhanded mandates and Americans denied freedoms due to a coercive biomedical apparatus.”

Responded Newsom, “With respect, we’d have 40,000 more Californians dead if we took (the DeSantis) approach … I do not look for inspiration to that particular governor.”

It sure sounds like these two are running against each other. But as they each without doubt contemplate running for president, both have big obstacles blocking the way in their own party.

For DeSantis, it is exPresident Donald Trump, to whom he shows almost blind

deference. For Newsom, it’s the sitting president, Joseph Biden, plus his vice president, former California Sen. Kamala Harris. Newsom and Harris both began as proteges of former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and have so far managed to avoid opposing each other’s ambitions. It’s anyone’s guess how long that can continue since both Newsom and Harris evince every sign of wanting America’s top political job.

But if we imagine for a moment we can see ahead to a time when the obstacles have disappeared and DeSantis and Newsom essentially share the battlefield, it’s useful to look at their respective claims.

There is a strong mathematical argument for Newsom’s claim that his tactics of shutdowns and widespread mandatory vaccinations have saved 40,000 lives compared to what would have happened had California followed the Florida path of open stores, offices and businesses, with little mandatory masking or vaccination.

Start with basic population numbers. At year’s end, Florida had 21.7 million people and California 39.2 million.

That means California has 1.8 times the population of Florida.

Florida in early February had seen 5.04 million cases of COVID-19 and its variants, California 6.87 million.

So Florida has had proportionately far more cases than California. Florida had seen 63,158 deaths to California’s 77,966. If you did the math, you would see that if California had followed the same tactics as Florida, it would likely have 113,684 coronavirus deaths. That’s a difference of 35,718, only slightly fewer than Newsom said.

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ut DeSantis would argue that many of those extra dead would have come from among the very frail denizens of nursing homes before vaccinations became almost universal in assisted living facilities. Most of them, this argument goes, would not have lived much longer anyhow, so Florida’s lack of strong action didn’t really do much harm.

You might get a different sense from the families of those nursing home patients.

But no matter. The differences between the Newsom and DeSantis approaches continue steadily and could presage future debates between them — if the

Republican Party lets its presidential candidates continue the quadrennial debates that have been a key feature of American politics since 1960.

DeSantis in mid-January deplored “authoritarian, arbitrary and seemingly neverending mandates and restrictions” due to the virus, Newsom at almost the same moment requested a budget allocation of $2.7 billion to expand testing, boost hospital staffing and give workers more paid leave when sick.

It’s a direct contrast of government action and control vs. a laissez-faire version of almost complete freedom of choice. That would make for a classic presidential race.

In fact, if the race becomes a Biden rematch with Donald Trump, that could likely also be a major theme.

No one can precisely project the future, but folks who like to fantasize about it and read tea leaves indicating what may be ahead can heartily thank both Newsom and DeSantis for providing a possible look ahead.

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It’s time we recognize the unintended consequences of Prop. 64 and this Prohibition Era thinking, which reduced access to medical cannabis and opened the door wider to the illicit market.

Despite popular approval of Prop. 64, only 85 of the state’s 500 municipalities allow retail cannabis sales.

This leaves 82% of the state’s towns unserved or under-served and their residents between a rock and a hard place: forced to travel long distances to purchase legal cannabis or buy unsafe products from illicit dealers.

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ooked at another way, under California’s medical marijuana program, there were thousands of nonprofit medical dispensaries in operation prior to Prop. 64. Today there are a mere 800 or so licensed cannabis retailers in the state.

That means California has just two legal dispensaries for every 100,000 residents while other long-established recreational markets (Oregon and Colorado) have 7 to 9 times that many.

Regulators have issued a series of press releases highlighting efforts to increase the number of licensed businesses in the state.

That’s well and fine.

However, the reality is that most new retail licenses are being issued in jurisdictions that are already adequately served.

So, rather than expanding access to regulated cannabis, the increase in licensees is simply destabilizing existing retailers by increasing competition without opening the market.

Many municipalities chose to opt out of the state cannabis program because they feared such businesses would invite crime and diminish the quality of life for residents.

The irony is that it is retail bans that have done this. In the absence of reliable access to regulated cannabis, California is ceding control of the market to illicit operators and putting people’s health at risk.

It is time for California cities and counties to rethink our approach to protecting and serving constituents and to contemplate who really wins when cannabis businesses are banned.

— Tiffany Devitt is chief of government affairs at CannaCraft, a California cannabis company. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters California rain I am a ninth-grader at Harper Junior High School and I wrote a letter that I would like to submit for your paper. Here is the letter: Last year, California experienced a drought worse than any in the past hundred years and, since 2000, half of California’s water years have been droughts, but things are looking up. In California, the rain season starts on Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. 30 as the winter months tend to produce more rain.

According to the National Weather Service, in the last three months we have had more rain than we did in the 12 months before that. Since October, 33.9 trillion gallons of precipitation have fallen in California. During the entirety of the last rainy season, California got 33.6 trillion gallons of rain. However, even with all of the precipitation in the past three months, we are not out of the woods yet.

This rain season is a normal one, and a

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year of normalcy does not make up for the recent lack as far as precipitation goes. Still, this rain season is off to a good start.

Source: Los Angeles Times (latimes.com).

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Neuroscience and politics I received an email this week from “Davis Dems” (Davis CA’s grassroots democratic group) promoting a webinar about using neuroscience to help structure communications designed to stimulate a certain segment of potential voters to vote, and in this case to vote in a way that aligned with progressive democratic (the political party’s) values. The methods used by the organization called Galvanize Action, and an explanation of the research on which their methods are based, can be viewed here: https://docsend.com/view/6mvgqc7ik23y jr3a I happen to agree to a large extent with the progressive “values” that Galvanize Action seems to represent. I worry though that “the tailored messages” that Galvanize Action “tests and deploys” are developed by essentially weaponizing a combination of

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

neuroscience and big data.

Galvanized Action proclaims that these messages are “targeted to select voters,” with the objective of moving these voters along the trajectory of “their values.” But I fear that the arms race surrounding targeted political messaging of this sort is leading in a very dangerous direction for our democracy. The ammunition, these neurally empowered messages, when targeted and fired, cause(s) people to vote, and to vote in a certain way. This militarization, occurring at the cutting edge of political activism, strikes me as profoundly morally neutral; the entire political spectrum of our country, as well as enemies seeking to influence our democracy to their own ends, can and will make use of these weapons.

I fear we have already begun to slide down a very slippery slope. While it is likely too late to slow or stop the use of the rhetorical weapons that have already been developed, or to control the strategic means by which the message payloads are delivered, it is clear that a full public discussion of this phenomena, and how to respond to it, is long overdue.

Andrew Majeske Davis

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Draw a heart around the healthy snacks.

Draw an X through the unhealthy ones.

February is Heart Month and Dental Health Month. Use the tips on today’s page to exercise your heart and be sweet to your teeth!

Jumping rope is fun and it is good exercise. It is a workout for your legs, your arms and your cardiovascular system (your heart and lungs)!

Jumping rope is a sport you can do almost anywhere!

Try it – you’ll LOVE it!

Your heart is a muscle. And, like all of your muscles, it works best when you exercise, rest, drink water and eat healthy. Love your heart, and your heart will love you!

Do you feel with your heart?

Are you making pictures of hearts and giving little heart-shaped candies to friends for Valentine’s Day? When you make a promise you really, really mean, do you “cross your heart”? Or, do you listen to songs about broken hearts?

We see and hear about hearts everywhere.

Long ago, people thought our feelings came from our hearts. Maybe because strong feelings can make our hearts beat faster. Now we know feelings come from the brain, not the heart.

Standards Link: Health: Recognize the fitness benefits from various types of foods.

My Funny Valentine

Make a Valentine Puzzle for your special Valentine.

Cut a heart shape out of some pink or red paper.

Write a message on your heart. Then cut the heart into four or five puzzle pieces. Put all the pieces in an envelope and give it to your Valentine!

Standards Link: History/Social Science: Understand the purposes of and events honored in holidays.

Broken Heart Puzzle

Cut out these shapes. Can you put them together to make a heart? What does the Valentine message say?

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

7 - 12 - 12 - 7 - 19 - 25 - 9 - 6 - 8 - 19

Every day a terrible troublemaker hides in your teeth, waiting to carve holes in them – PLAQUE! (Say it like plak, rhymes with tack.) You must remove it everyday, or else it will cause your teeth to decay.

How do you get rid of it? Use the secret code to to find the names of the Mighty Plaque Fighters and you will learn how to keep your smile dazzling!

How fast can you find all of the letters of the alphabet in order?

ZA B Y X 2 1 26 C 25

W 3 24 D 4 23 E V5 22 U6 21 F T 7 20 G 19 S 8 H 9 18 R 10 17 I Q 11 12 13 15 16 J 14 P ONML K

21 - 15 - 6 - 12 - 9 - 18 - 23 - 22

21 - 15 - 12 - 8 - 8 7 - 12 - 12 - 7 - 19 - 11 - 26 - 8 - 7 - 22

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word HEART in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row.

Some spaces have been filled in for you.

Do this after every meal to keep germs off your teeth:

25 - 9 - 6 - 8 - 19

Standards Link: Health: Understand good personal hygiene practices that include caring for teeth.

Jill and Phil are pals. They like many of the same things. How many ways can you find that Jill and Phil are the same?

Look through the newspaper for ads and/or articles that encourage you to eat or drink things that are bad for your teeth. Can you find anything in the newspaper that encourages eating and drinking things that are good for your teeth?

Standards Link: Recognizing similarities and patterns in objects.

Standards Link: Health: Recognize foods that promote good health.

SWEET HEART EXERCISE VALENTINE PLAQUE CANDIES PICTURES SECRET PAPER DAZZLING SNACKS CARING TEETH SMILE PALS

Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

L O S E I D N A C E

G N I L Z Z A D S N V E U Q A L P I E I

S H T E E T C L R T

C A Y E E M O R T E

The noun rate means the amount of something measured in units.

N S E C R E T E I A

Jane walked at a rate of three miles per hour on her way to school.

K P A P E R I T U N A L W X S U R A C L

S G N I R A C H P V

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognizing identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

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

Valentine Surprise

Have a Heart!

Look through the newspaper for an example of someone who was “heartless” or totally lacking compassion or caring. Is there a way they can make up for their behavior?

ANSWER: “I find you very attractive.”

Standards Link: Social Science: Recognize behaviors that demonstrate good character.

RATE

Make up a story about a Valentine’s surprise. Who was surprised? Use five or more adjectives in your story.

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BLAZE: ‘The good part of humanity’ From Page A1 neighboring units, Battalion Chief Mike Porter said.

Powell, who was home at the time, said she had just wrapped up a visit with a friend and was tidying her yard when “I smelled smoke, and I saw smoke billowing out the front door, which was open.”

She grabbed a garden hose and tried to douse the flames, which appeared to come from the bathroom, “but there was too much smoke and I could see it was out of control,” she said.

Porter said the firefighters on scene, from the Davis and UC Davis fire departments, quickly controlled the blaze before it could spread, although one of the neighboring units, a recreational vehicle, did sustain some exterior “charring.” No injuries were reported.

For now, Powell is staying in another unit on the property with her dog, Sugar. Her all-gray cat, Buster, fled from the scene during the commotion and had yet to return as of Thursday afternoon.

A Bay Area native, Powell arrived in Davis in 2009 after retiring from her banking career. She spent two years as a campground host in the Tahoe National Forest and was traveling

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A pile of charred belongings sits piled outside Diana Powell’s Olive Drive mobile home, which a fast-moving fire destroyed Wednesday. Flames also charged the RV next door. back to the bay one day when she happened to stop for a meal at the In-N-Out Burger on Olive Drive.

Across the street, “I saw the sign, ‘Spaces Available,’ and it just happened from there,” said Powell, who enjoys one of the few spots at the Davis Mobile Estates with yard space.

She spent much of Thursday trying to salvage family mementos that survived the flames, and used a borrowed laptop to try to replace the ID and bank

cards that were in her nowdestroyed purse.

While Powell knew of her neighbors’ kindness and willingness to lend a hand, “I’ve never really experienced anything like this.

It’s very moving,” she said.

As one of her three daughters told her on the phone: “You are seeing the good part of humanity.”

In addition to financial help, the GoFundMe page is seeking a donated RV to serve as Powell’s new home.

The site had raised just

under $2,000 as of Thursday evening.

“These are trying times and I’m so grateful to those that have read her story and are willing and able to help,” wrote friend and neighbor Erica Kuehl, who set up the GoFundMe page.

“Diana has always been there for me and many other people in our community so now is the time for us to be there for her.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise. net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

PROTEST: Teachers express frustration From Page A1 of the periods.

However, the board of trustees opted to vote for a three-block schedule to be implemented the following school year. Subsequently, the weeks following the vote have been filled with teachers, students and parents voicing discontent at board meetings, signing petitions and — most recently — protesting in front of the district office itself.

“My trust has been completely destroyed,” said 30-year DHS teacher, Gwyneth Bruch. “School-board members are elected to support students, staff and parents. And they did not just ignore, but gave us the finger when both high schools’ staff, students and parents spoke up that schedule one is the only viable schedule that we can use. It’s a betrayal.

“We’re spread so thin and so emotionally exhausted from serving our very anxious, depressed and sick students who want to be back in school.

This is so much worse than unfair. We need and deserve to be heard and respected.”

With passions flaring, DHS teacher, Jean-Paul Whittall — a member of the scheduling advisory committee — expressed the same feelings of being unheard, and that teachers might be less keen on joining future committees because of it.

“I’ve never seen our staff as demoralized as we are now,” said 26-year DHS teacher, Sherri Sandberg. “The scheduling committee voted on schedule one and when they didn’t choose it, it was a shock to all of us because surveys showed that schedule one was the favorite of teachers, students and parents. It’s tough for the staff when we feel like our voices aren’t even listened to.”

Students also voiced their opinions much like they have been the past few weeks at the board meetings.

“There are hundreds of students and teachers who disagree with this

schedule,” said DHS junior Elliot DeJong. “We’ve been looking at this for weeks now, and the decision for this schedule hasn’t shown to have any founded evidence or any favoritism from the parties affected.”

A parent was also in the protest line side-by-side with the students and teachers.

“I looked at the schedule and made no sense of it,” said Ron Glick. “To accommodate certain privileged stakeholders, they’re going to make all students suffer through this absurd schedule where many kids won’t know from one hour to the next where they’re going.”

While no changes to the new schedule have been made, expect the public-comment portion of future board meetings to be flooded with the voices of the district’s students, teachers and parents on the subject.

— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron. geerts@mcnaughton.media.

the drought emergency proclaimed by the governor in October.

A number of other new state prohibitions are already in place in Davis, including on the use of hoses to wash cars unless they have a shut-off nozzle; on washing sidewalks or driveways with potable water; and on use of potable water for irrigation of turf on public street medians.

The new emergency regulations were adopted by the state Water Resources Control Board Jan. 4 as the year began with a high-pressure ridge leading to belownormal precipitation for the month of January and the outlook for February just as dry.

The emergency regulations do not include a mandatory reduction in water usage, though the call for a voluntary 15 percent reduction passed by the City Council in October remains in effect.

During public comment Tuesday evening, Davis Planning Commissioner Greg Rowe said the city’s actions don’t go far enough.

“My concern is that on any given day you can travel through virtually any neighborhood in Davis and see water coming off lawns, washing across sidewalks, going into the gutter, down the storm drains,” said Rowe.

“People water their lawns at any given time of day, regardless of the guidelines from the city, and water also on the days they’re not supposed to. I would suggest that public education is not going to be nearly sufficient to get us out of this drought and to ensure adequate water for the future.”

Rather, he said, “I think the city should take a serious look at drastically raising the water rates …”

But Councilman Dan Carson noted that, “we can’t just raise water rates” under Proposition 218.

“We can charge for the capacity cost, we can charge for the usage of water, and, of course, if somebody uses water prolifically, they will pay

more on their bill.”

Adrienne Heinig, assistant director of public works for the city, agreed.

“If the city cannot demonstrate that it costs more to provide water to a customer that is using water in excess, then that is not something we can use as the basis for a rate,” she told the council.

“I will say that the city’s water rate structure is highly volumetric. We do have customers that see considerable differences in their bills, depending on how much water they are using.”

Davis, she added, is “one of the more highly volumetric in the area.”

Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs said he appreciated Rowe’s comments “regarding the need for potentially… more stringent requirements as it relates to water usage, but also the issue of public education maybe not being quite enough in terms of making adjustments in behavior.

“But I do think both are needed,” Frerichs said.

Under the state’s new regulations and the city urgency ordinance approved on Tuesday, the following restrictions on water use are in place: n No more than incidental runoff from landscapes. n Hoses used to wash motor vehicles must have a shut-off nozzle. n No washing of sidewalks, driveways, buildings, structures, patios, parking lots, or other hard-surfaced areas with potable water unless for health and human safety. n No potable water-use for street cleaning or construction site preparation purposes unless no other method can be used to protect the health and safety of the public. n No use of potable water for decorative fountains, lakes or ponds unless they have a pump that recirculates water. n No watering during and for 48 hours after measurable rainfall of at least a quarter-inch. n No potable water may be used for the irrigation of turf on public street medians.

Obituary Elaine Fingerett 1951—2021

Elaine Fingerett was a woman with an amazingly broad set of talents, interests, and accomplishments.

She was born in Hollywood in 1951 and grew up in the Los Angeles area, graduating from Birmingham High School in 1969. Her first two years of college were at UCLA, but she then found a true home, graduating with a bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Cruz in 1973.

In 1974, she began graduate school at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Alan Hastings was sitting behind her in a class that fall and was immediately smitten.

Elaine stood out in Ithaca as the Californian always wearing sunglasses.

Already in Ithaca, Elaine displayed her musical talent, singing in a local, successful, rock band, but the late nights and smoky bars

were not to her liking.

Elaine and Alan married in her parents’ back yard in 1977 and in an act of great bravery (and love) Elaine immediately moved with Alan to Pullman, Wash., without ever having seen the city. Elaine finished her master’s degree in botany at Washington State University. Together with Alan, Elaine moved to Davis in 1979.

In Davis, Elaine was back in her habitat, Northern California, and she spent the rest of her life there. Riding a bicycle, growing vegetables and fruit, and making good trouble in the name of a variety of progressive causes, Elaine found Davis to be the perfect home. Her day jobs ranged from working in the rape prevention education program to more than a dozen years at the

UC Davis Arboretum.

At the Arboretum, she facilitated numerous FINGERETT wonderful public programs and played a central role in the Learning by Leading Program and was adored by all the students.

There she incorporated both her scientific and artistic sides, establishing the folk jam at the Wyatt Deck and partnering with many to facilitate programs that emphasized both science and the arts. What is now Davis Shakespeare got its start there with help from Elaine. She retired in 2018.

She taught herself accordion (and marimba and ukulele and more) and played her accordion regularly at the Davis Farmer’s market with the Davis Klezmer Orchestra, and more widely with the Freilachmakers, a Sacramento based group. She also played Irish music, and everyone got a birthday chorus from her with the ukelele!

On the political side, she was an early leader of the Yolo County chapter of the National Organization for Women, worked to make Davis a pro-choice city, pushed to get broad nondiscrimination laws passed in the city, worked to get the plastic bag ordinance passed (helped with a song she wrote and performed)

and much more. She ran for Yolo County Supervisor, but did not win.

Elaine and Alan together raised two wonderful children, Elaine was a loving mother, passing on her passion for tikkun olam, “repairing the world” to them both. Especially after the children were grown, Elaine and Alan enjoyed travel around the world, finding a particular love for Hawaii which seemed to be a perfect match to Elaine’s sunny disposition and love of music and of nature.

Elaine loved going to plays, and to museums, insisting on taking any tour offered.

Elaine will be remembered for her smile, her enthusiasm, her boundless energy, her commitment to justice and community

building, and much more.

She is survived by her loving husband, Alan, her children, Sara and Toby, her four grandchildren that she adored, and her sister Judy.

Elaine was buried in Davis, with a graveside ceremony, shortly after she died in December after a long illness. Many got to say goodbye in person at the funeral with more on zoom. If you feel moved to donate in Elaine’ memory, the family suggests either a favorite charity, a radical political cause, or the Elaine R. Fingerett Learning by Leading Endowment at UC Davis, https:// give.ucdavis.edu/ AARB/125040.

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New York artists hold stage at Mondavi Center Lebowitz and famed dance company

Lebowitz will begin with a 30-minute onstage conversation with writer and educator Mark Danner, followed by an audience Q&A, and a book signing. Tickets are $75-$25 general, with discounts for students, MondaviArts.org and at the door.

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent The Mondavi Center will host two very different presentations by artists from New York next week, with an appearance at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 24, by author and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, followed by a return visit by Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, a Dance Company on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m.

Fran Lebowitz Lebowitz began writing for small, trendy New Yorkbased magazines in the 1970s, then moving up to larger periodicals. She made a name for herself with comedic essays, written in a sardonic/ascerbic style, offering her take on assorted topics from something of a New York|centered point of view.

She also befriended a number of prominent artists, including the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Her first book, “Metropolitan Life,” was published in 1978, and

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Fran Lebowitz. a second book, “Social Studies,” came out in 1981.

Lebowitz also became a popular guest on tv talk shows, and a prominent socialite, with her quick quips and witty reflections on the art world, politics, books, fashion, and other topics. A heavy smoker, she was often photographed with cigarette in hand.

She hasn’t published much in the way of new books in recent decades — in the 1990s, she famously developed a notorious case of writer’s block — but she still writes occasionally for magazines, and appears as a speaker at venues like the Mondavi Center. She was profiled in The New Yorker in 2020, in an article titled, “Fran Lebowitz Is Never Leaving New York” and

subtitled, “The writer on growing old, life in quarantine, and the sadness of seeing her city shut down.”

When asked “How have you been spending your time in self-isolation?”

Lebowitz responded, “It depends on how much you count the time you spend sulking.”

Lebowitz and filmmaker Martin Scorsese did collaborate on a Netflix docuseries released in 2021, “Pretend It’s a City,” which was nominated for an Emmy award. Scorsese, a longtime friend, said, “Her voice cuts through the din of contemporary discourse.

I want to know what she thinks about pretty much everything.”

For her appearance at the Mondavi Center,

Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE Choreographer Ronald K. Brown founded his company in Brooklyn back in 1985, and has brought the company to the Mondavi in past years.

Brown is well known for combining traditional African dance with modern dance.

For this visit, Brown will be offering a “first glimpse” of a new piece, “The Equality of Night and Day,” which “examines the concepts of balance, equity, and fairness.” Initially inspired by the music of John Coltrane, the new piece features an original score by pianist/ composer Jason Moran, spoken word elements by activist Angela Davis, and costumes designed by longtime collaborator Omotayo

Wunmi Olaiya. (“The Equality of Night and Day” will formally premiere in late June/early July at the Jacob’s Pillow dance center, located in the Berkshires region in western Massachusetts.

Also on the program will be two pieces by Brown that have not been performed in Davis until now: n “Mercy” is a 2019 piece that “focuses on seeking compassion, which leads one to have mercy ... the

dancers embark on a physical journey towards justice in response to assault that resolves in joy and surrender.” n “Upside Down” (1998) was created after Brown’s company first performed at the well known Jacob’s Pillow dance center in Massachusetts back in 1994, and it is one of the pieces that helped Brown and his EVIDENCE company establish their national and international reputation.

Tickets are $65-$25 general, with discounts for students, MondaviArts.org and at the door.

Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, a Dance Company performs at the Mondavi Center on Sat. Feb. 26.

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Ann Marie Dragich and Edward Talton-Jackson in “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant.”

Ann Marie Dragich and Tersa Salas in “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant.”

UC Davis stage performance explores time and the cycle of life The UC Davis department of theater and dance will present “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant,” a collaborative performance project, from March 3 to 5 in the Main Theater, Wright Hall.

Devised by Granada Artist-inResidence Shinichi Iova-Koga, the project follows the birth and death of a species, an empire, a universe, a flower. Time unfolds on stage like a revolving wheel represented by an automated turntable. Vibrations — sounds created by the cast and musicians — emerge to shape the earth, rocks and people. Clouds from a

Crumbling Giant teems with movement, spoken text, song and sound.

“The materials begin the process,” said Iova-Koga. “The place, the people, the machinery, the zeitgeist. The environment offers clues for how a stage work will unfold. Our research touches on creation theories, political structures and concepts of time. The most fundamental part of the work is the exchange with the student performers, musicians and artists to synthesize an experience that converses with this moment, this place and each audience.”

The performers include UC

Davis graduate and undergraduate students and San Francisco Bay Area musicians Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Jon Raskin.

The production’s scenic environment has been coordinated by Catherine Kunkel, staff scenic technician, and created in conjunction with students from DRA 126A: “Topics in Entertainment Engineering” who, under the supervision of instructor Steven Schimdt, have installed a large turntable with full automation on the stage.

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Yams are loaded with vitamins Metro

Sweet potatoes, which are sometimes referred to as “yams,” are widely associated with Thanksgiving. But these starchy tubers are so nutritious that people may want to consume them more often.

Sweet potatoes are loaded with fiber and an assortment of vitamins, including vitamin A and vitamin C, as the online medical

resource Healthline.com notes that a one-cup serving of baked sweet potatoes with the skin still on can provide as much as 65 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C. And the benefits of sweet potatoes don’t stop there.

A 2015 study published in the medical journal Food & Nutrition Research found that anthocyanin, an antioxidant found in sweet potatoes, can protect eye cells from damage.

up coordinator Rebecca A. Valentino; and guest composer and music director Dan Cantrell. Four graduate students are working on the project: Ann Marie Dragich, assistant choreographer/cast member; Edward TaltonJackson, movement coach/cast member; Miriam Wolodarski, dramaturge; and J.R. Yancher, musician/cast member.

Iova-Koga is the artistic director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat. The company has received five San Francisco Izzie awards and has toured in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Iova-Koga’s approach to mobility, composition and time

stems from his experience with Anna Halprin, Daoist Internal Arts, Butoh dance, Aikido, improvisation and Noh theater.

(Content warning: “Clouds from a Crumbling Giant” contains adult language and the production employs fog effects.)

Performances begin at 7 p.m.

Adult tickets are $10, faculty/staff tickets are $8 and student/senior tickets are $5. Tickets may be purchased at the UC Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone 530752-2471 during the same hours, or online at arts.ucdavis.edu/ theatre-and-dance.

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UCD offers $50M program for shelter animals Special to The Enterprise A Valentine’s Day kick-off event marked the beginning of a fiveyear project to improve the lives of at-risk animals in the state and provide much-needed resources to shelters that serve this vulnerable population.

This unique state-funded initiative was made possible in 2021 when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed budget legislation that includes $45 million in one-time support for a statewide Animal Shelter

Assistance Program, an augmentation to $5 million earmarked earlier that year.

The initiative — administered by the Koret Shelter Medicine Program at the UC Davis Center for Companion Animal Health — will provide critical funding for shelters, perform onsite and virtual consultations, and offer expert-led training. The program represents a promise kept and emphasizes the governor’s commitment to help communities realize the state’s long-held policy

that “no adoptable or treatable animal should be euthanized.”

“I pledged that all California communities would have the resources they need to ensure that no healthy or treatable animal dies in a shelter and I have not forgotten, we have not forgotten, that promise,” said Newsom.

“Both then and now it’s clear that we must take action to protect the most vulnerable among us.”

KSMP California State Director Allison Cardona said she knows firsthand from her experience at

the largest sheltering system in California that these funds are needed now more than ever.

“Communities are struggling, and shelters are, too,” Cardona said. “These funds promise a brighter tomorrow. We’re excited to partner with shelters to find creative solutions within their communities to help keep pets in their homes whenever possible and provide the best care inside the shelter when it’s not.”

You can read more about the Animal Shelter Assistance Act

at https://esd.dof.ca.gov/trailerbill/public/trailerBill/pdf/398.

For a history of the governor’s original proposal, see Governor Newsom Proposes a $50M Investment to Help California’s Homeless Animals at Sheltermedicine.com. Visit California for All Animals to find out more about grants available now.

To be kept up to date about developments, please sign up for the California for Animals mailing list at http://eepurl.com/ gSLnmb.

Pets of the week Special to The Enterprise

Roofus

Bea

neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-6685287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsofycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/yolovolunteerapp. Follow on at @ ycas.shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

Casper

Wally

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Bea, a big, adorable 11-month-old puppy. Her mom was a purebred Rottweiler and dad was probably a hound. Bea is very kind, friendly, curious and fun-loving. She knows some commands and has blossomed at ROF. Roofus is a handsome, 15-month-old pit terrier looking for a permanent best friend. Roofus is very friendly and likes playing with other dogs. He has a real zest for life and is a happy-go-lucky boy. He needs a round of training but ROF provide free obedience training classes for the lifetime of the dog.

Roofus is tall, healthy and full of energy. He’d make a great jogging partner.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday,

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

Among them is Casper (A190980), a very beautiful 1-year-old white husky who is friendly and affectionate. Casper is a snuggler and great on walks.

Casper always appreciates a nice back rub, too.

Also hoping for a good home is Wally (A191698), an energetic 3-year-old male pit bull who meets you with a smile. Wally likes toys, treats, belly rubs, walking and is cratetrained.

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

Feb. 19, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland.

Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

Bring proof of

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Distractions affect efficiency METRO

Busy workdays are the norm for many professionals. Though most workers undoubtedly would prefer to feel busy rather than bored, it’s easy for professionals to succumb to burnout if they don’t get periodic breaks from the demands of their careers.

Burnout is a significant issue for working professionals. Various factors, some of which are beyond individuals’ control, can contribute to burnout.

Professionals who want to avoid burnout without taking a step back

Paws for Thought

Happy Tails

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Watson and Kai Play on the beach. comprehensive in-person shelter assessment.

• Consultations and mentorships for veterinary clinics and shelters.

Support for agencies focused on keeping people and pets together through shelter and veterinary care.

Agencies may be a shelter, a clinic, or provide both services.

• Learniverse and Bootcamps.

Learniverse is an interactive, online learning community hosted by animal welfare experts where participants explore innovative ways to improve animal sheltering. Bootcamps vary in content and length. The 4 Rights Bootcamp is the longest and most comprehensive. Other Bootcamps focus on specific topics. SPOT (SelfPaced, On-demand, Training),Modules offer training and resources along with an opportunity to share ideas on Maddie’s Pet Forum.

• Shelter Consultation Mentorships. Through self-study and onsite work with a consultation team, animal welfare professionals learn how to help shelters become more efficient, safer, and better at helping animals and their people.

• Supporting Team Wellbeing. Due to the number of animals taken in and their vulnerability, many animal

from their careers can look for ways to be more efficient during the day.

• Smartphones: A 2015 CareerBuilder survey found that employers cited smartphones and texting as the biggest productivity killers in the workplace.

• The internet: The CareerBuilder survey found that employers believed the internet is the second biggest productivity killer.

• Emails: Emails are another significant distraction during a typical workday.

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By Evelyn Dale

Valentines Day 2022 has come and gone, but Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge: Teaming Up For Pets and People is something to love for the next five years!

A January 25th Maddie’s Fund webinar hosted by Animal Welfare Strategist Dr. Sara Pizano, announced that the highly successful Maddie’s® Million Cat Challenge has become Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge: Teaming up for Pets and People a community-centered animal sheltering and care campaign for dogs as well as cats.

With a five-year $7.4 million grant from Maddie’s Fund, Dr. Kate Hurley, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, Dr. Julie Levy, Fran Marino Distinguished Professor of Shelter Medicine at the University of Florida, Open Door Veterinary Collective, and Team Shelter USA are working together to develop a new normal that provides every animal with the Four Rights: the Right Care in the Right Place, at the Right Time, and with the Right Outcome.

Towards that end, animal shelters and veterinary clinics can apply for grants to receive pro bono learning opportunities, shelter consults, online bootcamp training, sustainable access-to-care mentorships, and programs for veterinarians and students as follows.

• Access to veterinary care.

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• Shelter consultations. Pro bono shelter consultations may focus on a single topic such as intake policies, housing/enrichment budgeting, spay/neuter programs, or on a

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For more information, visit facebook.com/ rottsoffriends.

welfare professionals suffer secondary traumatic stress. Organizations interested in supporting staff wellbeing and building a culture of caring are offered live webinars and self-paced online classes led by expert facilitators.

Get some love and inspiration! View the Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge launch video @ https://vimeo. com/669606856/151bc1512d Learn more @ https://maddies millionpetchallenge.org.

— Evelyn Dale of Davis is a volunteer and advocate for shelter animal welfare. Contact her at pawsforthought.comments@gmail. com. This column appears monthly.

When Melissa Turner first met Watson, he was an anxious but “very loving” big dog.

Melissa now writes, “Watson has grown into a young man who loves to play ball. I have to get up early in the morning and play with him and when I get home from work we go to the dog park and play ball.

“He gets along with my son Cody’s German shepherd.

Kai is like a brother Watson never had. They’re best friends when they’re together. Watson does not like to be alone so we have to make sure the little dog, ‘Misty,’ is with him.

“When we’re home during the day, the door stays open because he loves to go outside. I sleep in the front room with him and he snuggles with me.”

Melissa continues, “He also thinks he’s a lap dog. At night he jumps up in my chair and tries to curl up with me. I’ve never had such a loving dog and I wouldn’t give him up for the world.”

For Watson and his family, every day is Valentine’s Day!

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‘Licorice Pizza’: Sweet love story nearly lost in narrative weirdness

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Well, this one’s all over the map.

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson always is more concerned with atmosphere, attitude and location, than anything remotely approaching credible human behavior. And there’s no denying that “Licorice Pizza” nails its 1973 San Fernando Valley setting: the clothes, cars, strip malls, seedy pop-culture palaces, and the vibrant, awakening youth culture sense that anything was possible, and anything could happen.

This is a kinder, gentler Anderson: possibly because — in his typically outlandish way — he intends this film as a valentine to the area where he grew up. The on again/off again mutual crush that bonds this saga’s two primary characters is quite sweet at times … even as everything around them becomes aggressively weird.

(The film gets its title, by the way, from a once-famous chain of record stores that ruled Southern California from 1969 to ’85.)

Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a 15-year-old child star, meets cute with 25-year-old Alana Kane (Alana Haim) at his high school’s yearbook portrait day; she’s assisting the photographer. He boldly chats her up, much to her initially amused annoyance … but he’s so selfassured, so persistent, that she can’t help being curious.

Gary is an anomaly, in that all the adults in his orbit respect him as an equal (even if some roll their eyes when he leaves the room). He’s on familiar speaking terms with the manager at the iconic Tail o’ the Cock restaurant; Alana finds it hard to resist when he suggests that she meet him there, and she surprises herself by accepting.

Although Hoffman’s Gary ostensibly dominates what subsequently transpires — frequently through sheer force of personality — this really is Alana’s story; she’s

‘Licorice Pizza’ Starring: Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Milo Herschlag Rating: R, for sexual candor, drug use and considerable profanity Available via: Movie theaters the character trying to figure out how to become a better version of herself, whereas Gary never really changes.

Alana is a failure-to-launch decades before that phrase became a thing, still living at home with her parents and two older sisters (Haim’s actual sisters, Danielle and Este). Initially, she’s seduced more by Gary’s lifestyle and environment, than the boy himself. She agrees to become a combination chaperone/ handler, leaving his mother Anita (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) more time to focus on the business side of his career.

Gary is a smooth-talking hustler and opportunist, forever hoping to take well-timed advantage of The Next Best Thing. Their bond subsequently becomes tighter, when Alana joins him as a partner in such schemes … but it’s all business (they insist, to each other). As time passes, both go out of their way trying to fall in love with other people, as a means of denying the fact that they’re falling in love with each other.

Both young actors are vibrant and impressive, in their feature film debuts. Hoffman is the son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who made several films with Anderson; the young man has his father’s charisma and bravura, guy-on-the-move assurance. His Gary is impossible to ignore, even when we frequently groan at his

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Alana (Alana Haim) surprises herself by agreeing to act as chaperone and driver for her new “business partner,” Gary (Cooper Hoffman), and his younger brother, Greg (Milo Herschlag) in “Licorice Pizza.” trying-too-hard efforts to be hip and cool.

Haim does him one better; she has presence. The camera absolutely adores her, Jewish nose and all (a detail I mention only because the film repeatedly does so). She has the breathless, je ne sais quoi radiance of an ingénue just waiting to be discovered (which she clearly has been, in this film).

All well and good … until their escapades turn increasingly random and bizarre.

What are we to make of an encounter with the thuggish police officers who drag Gary out of a convention center, savagely rough him up, and then simply cut him loose — without a word of apology — when it becomes clear that a mistake has been made? Is this Anderson’s brazen indictment of cops in general, or are we supposed to believe such treatment was par for the course

in 1973?

Subsequent interactions with “Hollywood elites” also are quite peculiar. Sean Penn pops up — persuasively full-throttle — as Jack Holden, a hard-living movie star gone to seed, perhaps in the Robert Mitchum/Burt Lancaster mold (although neither of them ever was this unpleasant in real life). Holden’s lecherous attraction to Alana is beyond creepy.

Bradley Cooper arrives a bit later, as famed hairdresserturned-producer Jon Peters, who was dating Barbra Streisand at the time. Unlike Penn’s Holden, Peters is a real person (still with us) who must have a thick skin and healthy sense of humor, because Cooper’s flamboyant, over-the-top performance — equal parts humorous and terrifying — qualifies as character assassination.

Then there’s the matter of film’s signature cliché: running. Even if

this is intended as metaphor — running toward and away from each other, emotionally speaking — the actual huffing and puffing is overdone. It’s like a bad musical, but instead of “Oh, gawd, they’re gonna sing again,” it’s “Oh, gawd, they’re gonna run again.”

Ultimately, the arbitrary nature of all these disconnected vignettes — and our inability to relate to them, or most of these characters, on any level — becomes tedious.

In a word, this film becomes boring: a flaw not helped by its overly indulgent 133-minute length.

Finally, the fact that it’s a Best Picture nominee is absurd, as are the parallel nods for director and screenplay. What are Academy members smoking these days?

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

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Dear Annie: This is in response to “Explaining to Our Children,” who wondered how to tell their young children about the death of their dog. My husband and I had a wonderful golden retriever before having children. Then we had two daughters. When the children were in elementary school, they kept asking for a cat. We were not “cat people.”

We told the girls a fib — that we couldn’t have a cat because we had a dog. That seemed to suffice. When the dog was 14, he became quite ill and frail, and we had to make the decision to put him down. We were devastated and worried about how the girls would respond. Their response: “We don’t have a dog anymore; can we get a cat now?” Children are very resilient. More so than adults. — Cats and Dogs Dear Cats and Dogs: Losing a pet is difficult for any of us at any age. You’re correct that adults hurt as well, and perhaps even more than children. So, did you get a cat?

Is the problem physical or mental?

Dear Annie: I’m struggling with a situation I can no longer handle. My husband has a long history of periodically “falling ill” with mystery illnesses the doctors treat as minor everyday issues, but which inevitably result in his being unable to function.

He is not able to work, help with chores, attend family functions or care for our kid. It’s most likely to happen when a commitment is coming up, such as the holidays, a work deadline or issues with my own chronic pain from stage 4 endometriosis.

We’ve adjusted our lives to accommodate this. First, he was a contract worker instead of 9-5; then, he was a stay-at-home dad.

It’s been stressful to constantly have to carry all the weight, but he’s otherwise a lovely, funny, caring and supportive man. And when he’s well, things are wonderful.

Things came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic. I needed emergency surgery, and within minutes of hearing that a date was set, he announced he had a severe injury and basically checked out. I had to send my young son to stay with my parents for six weeks during my recuperation because I could not trust my husband to care for us both. It resulted in my caring almost entirely for myself during a very rough recovery.

After this, my motherin-law approached me because she had come to believe his health issues were more psychological than physical. I agreed, and we started planning for an intervention.

Cue major mystery health issue — one so severe he’s basically bedridden and can only eat and perform basic functions through the constant consumption of various types of medical marijuana. This episode is so severe that doctors have

FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 2022 B5 spent the last several months testing him for many very scary conditions. It’s been terrifying and exhausting.

The doctors think he has a minor condition causing a lot of pain, but one that the doctors can’t seem to find a cause or treatment for. We all suspect that at least some of his doctors no longer take him seriously. I know from my own medical experience that doctors can minimize chronic pain, but you need to be a strong and persistent self-advocate or you are unlikely to get effective treatment.

I’ve started pushing hard for a diagnosis and treatment plan. Ultimately, it’s difficult to know whether I should be asking for a psychological evaluation instead of pushing so hard for a treatment plan.

I’m utterly and completely exhausted from working full time, caring for our son when he’s not in school, handling both of our medical issues, and the general day-to-day. It’s affecting my own health in serious ways, and my career is in free fall. I don’t trust my decision-making on this. I’m too emotional and tired. — Burnt Out Dear Burnt Out: If our bodies can be compared to car engines, yours is running on empty. You need to put some premium gas into your engine.

What type of emotional and physical help would take off the pressure, and then act on that. Chronic pain may stem from unresolved anger. “The MindBody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain” by Dr. John Sarno is a book that I would highly recommend for both of you.

If your husband is not interested, give it to yourself as a gift. Be selfish, at least until you feel filled up and can figure out how best to move forward. Even if his physical pain stems from the mind, he is clearly in emotional pain and needs help. But constant marijuana consumption is the worst possible solution for him.

Is this friendship worth keeping?

Dear Annie: I’ve been with my significant other for almost three years now.

We live together and have a pretty good life. I have a child from a previous relationship who’s in high school. My significant other has no kids, but he is very involved with extracurricular activities and is a perfect example of a parent. When we first met, I was advised that “not wanting more children” is a deal-breaker on his end, and I, at the time, kinda said, “We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”

Well, we are there, and I now know for certain I no longer want any additional children. What should I do?

— Screwed Dear Screwed: Communication is key — especially with a life partner. You can’t expect them to read your mind. Tell him how you feel, and do it soon. It’s not fair for him to keep believing in a future you’ve already written off.

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UCD women pound Cal Poly Special to The Enterprise

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Blue Devil Quentin Wallace (20) races up he field ahead of a Modesto player in Thursday’s Sac-Joaquin Section semifinal match. Davis High fell 1-0 to the visiting Panthers.

UC Davis senior Cierra Hall finished her third straight game with at least 20 points, collecting a game-high 22, Evanne Turner added 14 more points, and every Aggie who entered the game scored at least 2 points, as the Aggies topped Big West Conference rival Cal Poly, 85-55, on Thursday night at the Mott Athletic Center in San Luis Obispo.

The Aggies won their third straight game to improve to 12-9 overall on the year and 6-5 in league play, while the Mustangs fell to 3-16 overall and 2-8 in league.

UCD’s 84 points were a season high, breaking the previous mark set in an 84-55 win over Stanislaus State earlier this year.

After posting back-to-back 20-point games in wins over UC San Diego and UC Irvine last week, Hall did herself two points better on Thursday night, finishing 8 of 10 from the field with a careerhigh five 3-pointers, adding seven rebounds and five assists in 24 minutes.

The appearance was the 132nd of her career, matching Morgan Bertsch’s mark

set in 2019, while the 22 points give her 1,216 points for her career — just six points behind Pele Gianotti for 11th place on the school’s all-time list.

Turner finished 5 of 9 from the field — four of those from beyond the arc — en route to her 14 points, adding a pair of rebounds and three assists in just 18 minutes. Senior Sage Stobbart finished with 8 points, six rebounds, and four blocked shots, sophomore Campbell Gray added 9 more points, while sophomore Kenedy Lilly finished with a career-high 8 points on 4 of 4 from the floor.

UCD opened the game on an 8-0 run out of the gate and added another 10-0 burst following a Mustang three pointer, hitting its first eight shots of the contest and never looking back. The Aggies led 28-8 after the first quarter, held a 30-point, 50-20 lead at halftime, and led by as many as 39 points at 64-25 with 5:17 remaining in the third quarter.

The 50-point first half was the largest half of the season for the Aggies and the team’s first 50-point half since scoring 58 in the second half against William Jessup on Jan. 1, 2020, in a 96-32 victory.

BOYS: Devils had strong season

GIRLS: Squad left it all on field

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In the 76th minute, Blue Devils co-captain Zach Anderson missed another very close shot.

Davis players were visibly upset over the tough loss after the conclusion of the game.

Throughout the match, the Blue Devils did a solid job keeping the ball on Modesto’s side of the field.

They continued to push on offense until the final second.

Davis won the Delta League championship, finished the regular season with a 14-2 mark and was awarded the No. 1 seed in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs.

The Blue Devils defeated Chavez High of Stockton in the first round and Oak Ridge High of El Dorado

Hills in the quarterfinals on Tuesday.

Modesto High secured its spot in the CIF championship game and will face No. 2 Whitney — which defeated No. 6 Lincoln, 3-0, in the other semifinal — on Feb. 24 at Heart Health Park in Sacramento.

— Follow Rebecca Wasik on Twitter: @BeccaFromTheBay.

Davis gave itself a chance to advance. Seven minutes before halftime, midfielder Una Keller found herself with possession, room to dribble — and a prime scoring opportunity from 25-yards out. The junior’s right-footed blast had the look and sound of a goal.

Riley Johnson’s diving save prevented one.

“She’s a ball-winner,” Stone remarked of Keller.

“She played well. Everyone played hard, but she helps us so much in

winning (possession) and gives so much defensively.”

The injury bug struck Davis two minutes before halftime. Junior Olivia Johnson collided with an opponent while fighting for a contested ball. She recovered from the hit but sat out the remainder because of concussion protocol, assistant coach Ashley Stone said.

Freshmen Miya Almares and Mea Williams impressed their head coach with their tenacity. “I like their ability to battle and not back down,” Sara Stone said.

The 43-mile drive to El Dorado County’s manicured reaches put Davis in a familiar place.

A father-daughter duo, Ashley and Sara Stone coached a handful of current Oak Ridge players on the Davis Legacy club team. The Blue Devils relished the playoff opportunity.

“Since it was our last game, we wanted to put everything out there,” the Blue Devil goalkeeper said.

— Follow Mark DeVaughn on Twitter: @OrangeMarkD.

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Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs

Rough day as Devils’ postseason runs end Boys soccer edged in semi

Girls soccer falls to top-seed Oak Ridge in second round

By Rebecca Wasik

By Mark DeVaughn

Enterprise correspondent

Enterprise correspondent

A single goal by Modesto High brought the Davis High boys soccer team’s season to a close on Thursday at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.

The No. 4 seed Panthers upset the top-seed Blue Devils in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinals in a shutout, 1-0.

Ten minutes into the first half, Davis missed a close shot to the right of the net.

Two minutes later, Blue Devil Simon Vaca-Lorenzi’s shot was stopped by Modesto’s goalie.

In the 13th minute, the Panthers sunk the lone goal of the game at the top of the net to take the lead.

Blue Devils goalie Declan Fee made a nice stop in the 21st minute to prevent another Modesto goal.

Midway through the first half, Blue Devil Caleb Yoon sent a shot over the goal.

Two minutes later, Davis’ Daniel Jebri sent another kick over the goal on a penalty kick.

At the 26-minute mark, a penalty kick by Holt Klineberg was caught by the Panthers’ goalie.

With less than two minutes left in the first half, a Modesto player was yellow

EL DORADO HILLS — Skylinne Avalos made huge saves in goal.

Rebecca Blum smiled and choked back the tears on the sideline.

After an entertaining Sac-Joaquin Section playoff game Tuesday, the Davis High girls soccer teammates reflected on a hard lesson learned.

A 2-0 loss in the Division I second-rounder against Oak Ridge showed what separates the No. 9 seed Davis (7-35) and the bracket’s top team: a pair of goals — and one extra gear. The top-seed Trojans’ superior stamina overwhelmed Davis, which allowed the decisive scores midway through the second half.

“It’s hard to keep going, especially when you’re down and you have to find the fight to keep going,” said Blum, a senior starting defender.

The Davis backline worked overtime in the first 52 minutes. The Blue Devils kept the match scoreless while turning back a barrage of Oak Ridge (11-0-3) scoring chances. Ten minutes into the second half, Avalos

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Blue Devil Simon Vaca-Lorenzi (17) battles for position in front of Modesto’s goal in Thursday’s Sac-Joaquin Section semifinal. However, the Panther’s goalie deflected the ball away. carded. Davis’ free kick was stopped by the Panthers’ goalie.

As the first half was winding down, Davis had two corner kick opportunities thwarted and went into halftime down by one.

One minute into the second half, Jebri missed a close shot to the left of the goalpost.

No. 4 Panthers 1, No. 1 Devils 0 End of season

Fifty minutes into the match, another Modesto player was yellow carded, but Jebri missed the free kick.

Two minutes later, Fee

made another great stop on a Modesto penalty kick.

At the 61-minute mark, Jebri kick sailed slightly left and ultimately missed the net.

With eight minutes left in the game, a penalty kick

by Jebri was caught by the Panthers’ goalie.

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No. 1 Trojans 2, No. 9 Devils 0 End of season.

collided with a Trojan attacker while making another sprawling save.

The constant pressure “was, honestly, kind of like an honor,” said Avalos, a sophomore goalkeeper. “I just love doing it. I think our team has so much heart for the sport. Even though we lost, we just kept going. Our love never stops for (soccer), and that’s what makes this team so special.”

With 12 minutes gone in the second half, Oak Ridge finally broke through. Iman Mustafa volleyed home Olivia Chimienti’s corner kick. A sequel arrived 16 minutes later. Samantha Torres’ header put Davis in a 2-0 hole. Hannah Heinlein’s perfect cross breached the tired Davis defense.

“The whistle blows and it all sinks in,” Davis head coach Sara Stone said.

“It’s always hard for the seniors, right? You win and you keep playing — but you lose, and you go home. They know it’s the finality for them.”

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Girls basketball squad unable to rally against Monterey Trail

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor ELK GROVE — Members of the Davis High girls basketball team found their shooting rhythm against Monterey Trail’s squad in Thursday’s Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff game.

On top of that, the Blue Devils corralled the Mustangs to single-digit scoring.

But Monterey Trail had already done its damage early and often.

A smothering defense broke open a close game. That led to No. 9 Davis seeing its turnaround season come to an early end, as No. 8 Monterey Trail recorded a 62-39 victory.

Davis (10-13) took second place in the Delta League after finishing its preseason with a 1-9 record. Monterey Trail (18-8) moves forward and plays at top-seed Oak Ridge, which destroyed No. 16 Pitman of Turlock, 70-13, also on Thursday.

“The adversity this team faced all season long, and how they bounced back and responded to a 1-9 start, says a lot about this team’s character,” said Davis head coach Heather Highshoe.

“They gave everything to me, the coaches, each other and this season.”

Monterey Trail held a 50-24 lead entering the fourth quarter. But the

No. 8 Mustangs 62, No. 9 Devils 39 End of season

Blue Devils outscored the Mustangs by a 15-12 margin. Davis forward Mara Bledsoe scored 7 of her 12 points in the final quarter that included a layup and turnaround jumper and making both ends of free throws.

In the third quarter, Davis stepped up its efforts on defense by forcing the Mustangs into almost a half-dozen turnovers. That helped the Mustangs score only six points in the quarter.

“I was extremely proud of the defensive effort and performance in we put on in the second half,” Highshoe said.

Monterey Trail, a member of the Metro Conference, had nearly a dozen offensive rebounds in the quarter. But it could not convert on second and sometimes third chances at the net.

The Mustangs held a commanding 44-19 lead at halftime.

In the first half, Monterey Trail pressured the Blue Devils inside the paint and trying to keep Bledsoe, along with front court players in center Tessa Schouten and forward Alia Cordone off balance.

“Monterey Trail’s pressure was the difference for us tonight,” Highshoe

said. “We had a hard time getting into our offensive sets.”

The Blue Devils entered the second quarter trailing 16-5. But the Mustangs galloped to an 11-2 run for a 27-7 lead, thanks to their defense forcing Davis into turnovers at midcourt and inside the paint.

Davis had its own run at 7-3 for a 30-14 score with 2:02 left in the quarter. However, Monterey Trail flexed its muscles again on defense, holding the Blue Devils to five points the rest of the quarter to build up its huge halftime lead.

Schouten, only a sophomore, was the Blue Devils’ leading scorer with 17 points. Bledsoe concluded her final year of high school basketball with 12 points and Cordone 8 points. Davis guard Pauline Anasco had 2 points.

Monterey Trail’s scorers were guard Lakayla Hale, who had 18 points, and forward Paris Brown with 12 points.

Although Davis’ playoff run ended sooner rather than later, Highshoe is proud of the team’s success in league.

“Finishing second in the Delta League is something to be proud of, too,” Highshoe said. “They worked selfless, resilient, worked extremely hard through difficult times and had fun all season long.”

Davis High center Tessa Schouten (11) takes a shot over a Monterey Trail player in Thursday’s Sac-Joaquin Section D-I girls basketball playoff game inside the Mustangs’ gym.

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Big numbers for UC Davis women’s basketball

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y random thoughts as we enter the NBA AllStar weekend. n UC Davis women’s basketball player in forward Cierra Hall was honored before the Aggies’ Feb. 12 Big West Conference and home game against UC Irvine.

A fifth-year senior, Hall became the sixth player in the program’s history of scoring 1,000 career points. There have been only six players who have reached that plateau.

During the ceremony, Hall, a Cypress native, dedicated the season to Steve Kavaloski, her maternal grandfather who died in November.

Hall is averaging 14.4 points per game and 8.3 rebounds per game.

If you’ve seen her play this season, then you know how talented the 6-foot Hall is on the court. If

you haven’t seen her play, UC Davis still has two more home games left on the schedule. n UC Davis women’s basketball head coach Jennifer Gross has notched 112 wins in the BWC, which moves her into sole possession of fifth place on the all-time conference wins list.

On top of that, Gross has 197 career wins. She is three wins shy of 200 career wins, making her only the fifth head coach in Big West history to reach 200 victories as a member of the conference.

Would it be cool if Gross could get her 200th victory in front of the home crowd at the University Credit Union Center? Yes. But in all likelihood, looks like Gross will get her victory on the road.

Starting on Thursday, the Aggies begin a four-game road trek, which started at Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo in a BWC game.

Then UC Davis plays its next three games at CSU Bakersfield on Saturday, at CSU Northridge on Thursday, Feb. 24, and at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday, Feb. 26.

The Aggies’ remaining home games will be against Long Beach State on Thursday, March 3, and Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, March 5.

Then UC Davis begins action in the Big West Conference tournament, which will be held at

the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nev., on Tuesday, March 8. n Today at 2:30 p.m., the UC Davis baseball program begins a new chapter.

New Aggie head coach Tommy Nicholson and the Aggies play their first home game of the season against Saint Mary’s at Dobbins Stadium.

He and assistant coaches Zack Thronton, Andrew Ayers and Sky Valenzuela and their 30-player roster will host Saint Mary’s again on Saturday at 1 p.m. On Sunday, the Aggies close out the three-game set with the Gaels in Moraga.

Last July, the entire Aggies baseball program was suspended, and the coaching staff was placed on administrative leave due to allegations of misconduct of alleged hazing incidents.

Matt Vaughn resigned as head coach last November. n If you’re an NBA fan, let me ask you some rhetorical questions.

Do you really care about Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, which will be played at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio?

Do you really care who plays on Team Durant and Team LeBron?

Let’s go back to the true meaning of an all-star team, and that’s West vs. East.

All of the other events leading into the all-star game is fine with me.

A prediction of who will win this year’s all-star game? The team with the most points.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net.

Follow on Twitter: @MBDavis Sports.