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Andy Reising and Anthony Burdock, engineers in the state’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, and Sean de Guzman, right, the unit’s manager, begin the measurement phase of the second snow survey of the 2022 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on Feb. 1.
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account the myriad ways climate change is reshaping California, from warming temperatures to soil dryness. The stakes are huge: The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about a third of California’s water supply. “If you’ve changed the climate and then you try to use statistics — which relies on what happened in the past — to predict
Nearly two years after the arrival of COVID-19, when so many local businesses were largely shut down and the city faced a steep loss of revenue, things are now looking up. “The revenue trends have been going in the right direction in terms of our two major revenue sources — property tax, and sales and use taxes,” Davis City Manager Mike Webb said Wednesday during the annual State of the City event hosted by the Davis Chamber of Commerce. But even as sales taxes are improving, property taxes have held steady and cannabis taxes have injected much-needed revenue into city coffers, economic development remains key to the financial health of the city down the line, Webb and other city leaders said. And key to that economic development, they said, is voter approval of the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus. “It’s a project that I hope you’ll all support vigorously,” said Councilman Dan Carson. “For the city to have stable revenues to support the services that we
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Warming changes math on water By Rachel Becker CalMatters Packed onto the slopes of the Sierra Nevada is a precious source of water for California — a frozen reservoir that climate change is already transforming. As the planet warms, the spring snowpack is dwindling. The snow is creeping up mountainsides to higher elevations, melting earlier in the year and
seeping into dry soils rather than washing into rivers and streams that feed reservoirs. The risks are no longer futuristic or theoretical: The state’s projections for how much water to expect from the Sierra Nevada were so far from reality last spring that reforming the process has become increasingly urgent. The calculation for the Sacramento River region was off by 68%, leaving the state’s
reservoirs with far less water supply than expected. “If you’ve changed the climate and then you try to use statistics — which relies on what happened in the past — to predict the future, you’re already running into an issue,” David Rizzardo, manager of the California Department of Water Resources’ hydrology section, told CalMatters. State officials are altering their forecasts to take into
UCD gets record number of applicants By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer More than 110,000 students applied for undergraduate admission at UC Davis, either as freshman or transfer students, for fall 2022, the campus announced Thursday in a press release. The pool of applicants is the largest ever, representing a 4.1% increase over last year’s 105,850 applicants. “UC Davis is an exceptional place to live, learn and grow,” said Robert Penman, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions at UC Davis. “This is an incredible group of applicants, and we’re very excited to welcome our next
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class in the coming weeks.” Most of the applicants — more than 94,000 — applied for freshman status, an increase of 8.7% from last fall, while about 15,000 applied for transfer status, a decrease of 17.4% in the number of transfer applicants. According to campus officials, the decrease in transfer students corresponded with a decline in community college enrollment. “UC is aware of the decrease in transfer applications and California Community College students across the system and is working to ensure that this critical group is supported in their efforts to apply at our campuses,”
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said Han Mi Yoon-Wu, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions at UC. “We are committed to having a strong and diverse pipeline of students.” Meanwhile, the University of California Office of the president announced Thursday that the UC system also received a recordbreaking number of undergraduate applications for fall 2022. According to a university press release, systemwide undergraduate application increased by 0.5%, rising from 203,700 last year to an all-time high of 210,840 this year.
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Yolo County reports four more COVID deaths By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County reported four more COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, including a Davis resident over the age of 85. The other deaths involved one resident of West Sacramento and two Woodland residents, according to the county's online COVID-19 dashboard. The county has lost 26 residents to COVID-19 in the last two months and 292 since the pandemic began. On Thursday there were seven COVID-19 patients in Yolo County’s two hospitals, four of
whom were in intensive care. Meanwhile, the county’s case rate continues to decline, down to 24.9 cases per 100,000 residents on Thursday. Last Friday, the case rate was 42.1. Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson has strongly recommended that all residents continue to wear face masks in indoor public spaces until the case rate falls below 14 per 100,000 residents. ———— The UC Davis Genome Center, which processes
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Briefly Beating lands local man in jail Davis police arrested a man on felony burglary and battery charges after he allegedly attacked his exgirlfriend’s new boyfriend. Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said David Humberto Hernandez, 25, broke into the woman’s F Street residence shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday “and assaulted her current boyfriend who was sleeping in bed.” Hernandez then left the scene, leaving the victim with facial injuries that required medical treatment. Hernandez, 25, remained at large until Tuesday afternoon, when he turned himself in at the Davis police station, Bezuglov said.
Probation search finds firearm A convicted felon spent time in two jails in the past week after authorities allegedly found weapons in his Drake Drive residence, Davis police said. Mason Allen John, on probation in Solano County, underwent a routine search on Feb. 17, when probation officers reported finding a loaded .40-caliber pistol and .22-caliber ammunition, Davis Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said. John, 23, was booked in the Solano County Jail, where Davis police took him into their custody on Tuesday for weapon-related charges to be filed in Yolo County, Bezuglov said.
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s sports betting becomes legal in one state after another, it seems inevitable that California will soon join the club so the state gets a cut of the action instead of all the profits heading to those running illegal gambling sites. At last count there were four separate sports betting proposals headed for the California November ballot. Or is it 40? Californians, of course, have always been able to head to Nevada to place legal sports bets, which might be handy if you live in Truckee, but not so handy if your home is in the Bay Area. Why it’s been legal for decades to bet on horse racing in California, but not football, is anyone’s guess, but that will soon change. For years, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and virtually every major professional sports league opposed legalized gambling. Now they are openly embracing it. Apparently, they all realized that TV ratings increase dramatically when fans have something riding on a game. Which only
And, because the state figures to get a substantial piece of the pie, it’s now in the position of actually encouraging people to bet.
L makes sense. If you didn’t attend either Cal or Stanford, you aren’t likely to watch the Big Game. But toss a hundred bucks on Stanford to cover the spread and suddenly you’re glued to the TV until the final gun. Colleges and universities are now partnering with gambling outfits in exchange for cold, hard cash, and are openly encouraging fans to place a bet on their alma mater. As unseemly as that might appear, the reality is that gambling is easier to control if it’s brought into the daylight, but it’s also true that gambling can become destructively addictive to certain individuals.
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Enterprise staff writer An alleged hit-and-run collision sent a 27-year-old man to jail Wednesday night, according to the Davis Police Department. Police were dispatched at about 6:30 p.m. to H Street between Second and Third streets, where a pedestrian reported he’d been hit by a Toyota Highlander whose driver initially got out of the vehicle and apologized. “He told the pedestrian he was going to pull over, and got back in the car and left,” Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said. But not before the pedestrian took
Responding officers spotted the Highlander near Second Street and Faraday Avenue and conducted a traffic stop. The driver, Adrian Paul Skinner of Somerset, was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run, driving with a suspended license and on two drunken-driving warrants, Bezuglov said. The pedestrian, who sustained minor injuries, was treated and released at the collision scene.
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“Once the leak was detected and confirmed, school staff pulled the fire alarm pull station which then prompted the evacuation of students and faculty,” Lo said.
Davis High School students and staff returned safely to their classes late Wednesday morning after a gas leak prompted a campus evacuation. The Davis Fire Department received a call at about 10 a.m. about a possible leak, which crews traced to the roof area near a heating, ventilation and air conditioning unit, Battalion Chief Emily Lo said. The leak then traveled to a utility
PG&E workers also responded to the campus to repair the leak, allowing students and staff to return to classes and offices as scheduled in their usual locations for the start of sixth period at 12:58 p.m. No injuries were reported.
Special to The Enterprise Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them is Harley (A192265), a male border Collie puppy who is almost 3 months old. He is quiet, cute and likes to sit back and watch other dogs at play — he is always very sweet. Also hoping for a good home is Biscuit (A192183), a 2-year-old terrier mix that arrived at the shelter with his twin sibling Bagel. Both dogs are shy around new surroundings and meeting people and will do best in a home that will give them time to get comfortable. For information on adopting, contact adopt ycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are up-todate on vaccinations,
Biscuit microchipped, and spayed or 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/yolovolunteer app. Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @ yoloanimalshelter. At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find
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created Arizona Department of Gaming. What the state really needs to pump up gambling revenue are losers. In September, Arizonans placed $291.2 million in wagers and were returned $258.9 million in winnings, leaving the operators with a nifty profit of $31.6 million. According to a report from Capital Media Services, a chap named Jeff Weninger, who is a Republican state representative out of Chandler who sponsored legalized gambling in the House, “People of Arizona are responding and embracing this.” Added state Sen. T.J. Shope, a Republican from Coolidge who sponsored the legislation in the Senate, “You need to entice people into the door to get them interested in doing something that they may have never done before.” Honey, I’ve decided to start gambling with some of our hardearned money. And when I lose that money, it will help the state. Glory hallelujah. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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ast August our friends in Arizona legalized sports betting in the hope that it would lead to many millions of dollars pouring into the state, not from taxing a person’s winnings, but from taxes on the gambling operation itself. Of course, those taxes must come out of profits, and profits come about only when Arizonans lose money gambling on sports. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a law that allowed gambling operations to offer free bets as a way to entice people to gamble. In other words, the state is now in the business of creating new gamblers who may never in their lives have placed a bet on sports before. I’m not sure that’s a direction any state should be going. The free bets are “basically a way to jump-start the market in the state,” explained Max Hartgraves, a spokesman for the newly
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Mercedes Mercedes, a 2-year-old spayed female Pekingese cross. She is a super-sweet, people-friendly girl that loves to play with other dogs. Mercedes is cratetrained and would love to be your new best friend. Bentley is a 5-year-old neutered male Maltese mix. He is very bright and alert. He plays well with other dogs and is people-friendly. This boy weighs about 12 to 15 pounds so is easy to take places. His photo was before his bath, so he is much more handsome. The next Rotts of Friends' adoption event is
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From Page A1 “The University of California remains an institution of choice for so many hardworking prospective undergraduates,” said President Michael V. Drake, M.D. “This diverse group of students has shown their commitment to pursuing higher education and we are thrilled they want to join us at UC.” In comparison to last year, UC Davis received 7.3% more freshman applications from California residents, which account for nearly 70% of all freshman applications for fall 2022. Among California freshman applicants, 36.3% are from historically underrepresented groups, which includes African Americans, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, Chicanos and Latinos. UC Davis saw an increase of 7.1% among African American applicants, 5.4% among Chicano and Latino applicants and 55.4% among American Indians. Roughly 44% of all California resident applicants, including freshman and transfer students, are from low-income families, and 40% would be
in the first generation of their family to graduate from a four-year college. UC Davis received a total of 20,366 applications from international students, a 6.2% increase over last year. The number of applications from students who live in U.S. states other than California also increased, rising by about 12%. “Undergraduate Admissions is now evaluating applications and plans to notify applicants of admissions decisions in mid-March for freshman status and in April for transfer status,” UC Davis said in its press release. “The university will offer admission to fewer students than those who applied, and a smaller number of students will accept those offers and become a part of the fall 2022 entering class.” According to campus officials, for fall 2021, the campus received roughly 87,000 freshman applications and 18,000 transfer applications for a total of 105,000. UC Davis then offered admission to about 42,000 freshman and 9,000 transfer applicants. Ultimately, about 10,000 new students enrolled.
COVID: Cases of omicron subvariant on the rise From Page A1 all tests done by Healthy Davis Together, reported an increase in the Omicron subvariant, BA.2, last week. After reporting fewer than eight cases of BA.2 each of the last six weeks, the Genome Center reported 40 cases for the period of Feb. 13-19. BA.2 is reported to be more infectious than the original Omicron variant and last week made up more than 20 percent of cases sequenced by the Genome Center. The center has not seen a case of the Delta variant in three weeks and cases of the original Omicron variant continue to decline, from a high of over 3,000 the first week of January to 152 cases last week. ———— Cases of COVID-19 on the UC Davis campus also continue to decline, with both the case rate and the test positivity rate approaching levels last seen before the Omicron surge. For the period of Feb. 15-23, the campus reported 65 new cases and a test positivity rate of 0.41 percent. The Davis Joint Unified School District is also reporting declining cases of COVID-19, with 16 active cases among students on Thursday and seven among staff members.
So far in the month of February, the district has reported 149 cases among students and 29 among staff members. Those 149 student cases are the most during any month of the pandemic except January, when 959 cases were reported.
love, we need a successful business sector and the jobs and the economy that come along with that.” During Wednesday’s virtual chamber event, Webb and Mayor Gloria Partida outlined where things stand for the city currently. “With COVID,” Webb said, “we’ve been a bit more fiscally conservative in our revenue assumptions, not knowing exactly when the end of the pandemic would come and how quickly our revenue streams would recover from that. “But… both property taxes and sales tax are on good trajectories in the right direction (and) our projection is the numbers are going to continue to increase.” However, he said, the city’s long-range forecast shows those revenue sources aren’t enough. “The city has a financial forecast model that looks out 20 years,” said Webb. “(Even) with revenues trending in the right direction, it doesn’t mean that we aren’t wanting or needing for additional revenues.” Webb said the city has unmet infrastructure funding needs that total about $137 million over the next 20 years. “So revenue generation is crucial, because that translates to about $6 million to $7 million a year in unmet needs,” said Webb. “Diversifying our revenue base through economic development, through ensuring the business community is in good condition and is resilient to changes and to pandemics, becomes crucial.” Thats why city leaders are really pushing DiSC. “(I)t’s important we diversify our economic profile through development efforts such as DiSC and other areas that we can bring in taxes,”
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said Partida. The city has had some successes on the economic development front, she noted, including the Mars facility on Fifth Street and the Nugget headquarters at Alhambra Drive and Mace Boulevard. “And if we could get (DiSC) to be a success at the ballot, it would fit into that larger strategy of supporting economic development that draws on our talent and creates goodpaying jobs and … also encourages young families, young people who are graduating from UC Davis, to settle in our school district. “Our school district of late has seen declining enrollment and that’s largely due to the fact that young families can’t afford to live here,” Partida said. “So this is an important project and we worked very carefully … with the applicants and the county. And I think that we put forward a very good project for the voters and we worked very closely on making sure the development agreement for this project was going to be very beneficial to the citizens.” That includes, she said, protecting the city’s existing retail businesses. “There’s going to be retail on this site but there is a
requirement for there to be a market-demand feasibility study so that there is not an over-saturation, for instance, of retail. I think that’s an important piece for our current businesses.” Voters, who turned down a previous iteration of DiSC in 2020, will see a slimmeddown version on the June ballot, one that is about half the size of the original project, with about 450 housing units and 1.3 million square feet of space for research and development, offices and other uses. And while the fate of DiSC remains to be seen, the city has also been pursing other revenue sources, including grant funding for a variety of projects. “We are really good at grants,” said Partida, who noted the city brought in almost $10 million in grants in 2021. “And they really take a huge burden off of our budget,” she said. “They helps us accomplish many of the things we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.” Examples she gave of recent successful grant applications: Improving the I-80/Richards Boulevard intersection; building the Olive Drive/Pole Line Road bicycle/pedestrian connection (which is expected to open soon once the lights arrive and are
installed); and revitalizing Central Park, including with the addition of a new splash pad. In addition to grants, the city has also benefitted from $19.6 million in American Rescue Plan funds during the pandemic. Of that $19.6 million, a little over $6.8 million has already been allocated by the City Council for the following items: n Paul’s Place: $1 million n Continued community testing by Healthy Davis Together: $750,000 n City employee furlough salary restoration: $832,000 n Creating a new Department of Social Services & Housing: $790,000 n Creating a new Crisis Now program: $1.17 million n City revenue backfill in the 2020-21 budget: $2.3 million The City Council next week will discuss how to allocate the remaining $13.8 million in ARP funds. Now, as the second anniversary of the COVID-19 shut-down approaches next month, city officials are optimistic about what lies ahead. “Our sales tax is going to rebound very strongly, our property tax has held very, very strong consistently through this pandemic — but also through prior economic downturns we’ve had — and that is in large part because Davis is an extremely high-quality community that holds its property values well,” said Webb. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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Byzantine water F laws will leave us high and dry By Richard Frank and Holly Doremus Special to CalMatters
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t’s been said that California is confronting a 21st century water crisis armed with 20th century infrastructure and 19th century laws. That’s indisputably true. California’s water rights system was created in the latter half of the 1800s. It has changed surprisingly little since then. In a state that prides itself on environmental innovation, it’s alarming that California’s calcified water rights system is out of sync with current needs. That’s especially problematic in light of the linked phenomena of climate change and drought. Climate scientists predict that the state’s decades-long drought is a harbinger of even worse things to come. As California’s population continues to grow, less water will be available to meet urban, agricultural and environmental water needs. The predictable, and already apparent, result? Constant conflict and crisis. It needn’t be this way. Critically important water law reforms are possible. Over the past year, water law experts convened under the auspices of the Planning and Conservation League Foundation to develop ideas for revising California’s antiquated water laws. Earlier this month, the group submitted its recommendations to the California Legislature with the hope that they will be enacted into law. We identified a number of needed reforms. Here are some of the most pressing: Protecting drinking water wells. California farmers have traditionally increased groundwater pumping during droughts to make up for surface water shortages. But this increased pumping dried 2,000 household wells in the 2012-16 drought. We recommend that groundwater pumpers be required to protect or replace wells, and cover increased energy costs where deeper wells are needed. Verifying private water rights. California’s system of surface water rights is based primarily on a “firstin-time-first-in-right” principle, in which “senior” water users who secured their water rights earlier have priority. The problem is that this priority is based primarily on self-reporting and the honor system. The State Water Resources Control Board needs the authority, funding and staff necessary to verify the accuracy of water claims, some of which date back a century or more.
or decades, it’s been a truism of California life and politics: The more development pushes out into formerly wild lands, the more damaging the forest and brush fires that follow. This has played out to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in damage and more than 100 lives lost over the last five years, with fire after fire destroying homes and cutting off escape routes. But still, development continued virtually unabated. Until early this year, when a judge in sparsely populated Lake County said “No!” to a 16,000-acre luxury mixed use project on land partly singed by past fires and partly deemed likely to flare up in future ones. Most seriously, Lake County Superior Court Judge J. David Markham wrote in his landmark ruling, the development could close off or overcrowd fire evacuation routes, dooming many to death, as happened during the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County. Markham also noted that parts of the land involved in the putative Maha Guenoc Valley project have burned in 1952, 1953, 1963, 1976, 1980, 1996, 2006, 2014, 2015 and 2018. It’s hardly surprising that such a landmark ruling comes in Lake County, which since 2012 has been victimized by the Cache
Fire, the Clearlake Fire, the Ranch Fire portion of the Mendocino Complex, the Jerusalem Fire, the Pawnee Fire, the Valley Fire, the LNU Lightning Complex Fire and the August Complex Fire, which covered 1.032 million acres by itself in Lake, Glenn, Mendocino, Tehama, Trinity and Shasta counties after originating as 38 separate blazes. The judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and several environmental groups claiming the project could prove disastrous to both its own future residents and guests but also to present area residents. So Lake County and the developer are back to Square 1. This project won’t happen unless it is reduced, with major design changes and perhaps more roads. Other judges had previously struck down smaller developments in both San Diego and Los Angeles counties due to fire risks, but the likelihood is that they will ultimately proceed, with a few changes. The fate of the Lake County project is less certain.
What is certain is that every time a major fire burns hundreds or thousands of homes, California’s serious housing shortage gets worse. But state legislators don’t even try to be innovative or forward looking about this. Their steady answer for housing problems: More new development. That was the thinking behind last year’s SB 9 and SB 10, which all but eliminated single-family zoning. They are now law, allowing virtually every current onehouse lot to be split, with six new units replacing today’s one. But those new laws require no new parking, no new water supplies, no new school buildings, no traffic mitigation — none of the measures developers of new tracts have had to provide over the last few decades.
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he only way to keep these laws allowing massive amounts of piecemeal new housing from becoming permanent is to qualify a currently circulating ballot initiative for the November ballot and pass it, thus returning local land use decisions to locally elected city councils and county supervisors. State lawmakers, many of whose campaigns are funded in large part by developers, assiduously ignore the fast-expanding vacancies in office buildings all around the state. These
are created when white collar workers at law firms, insurance companies, stock brokerages and many other concerns shift to working at home, as happened en masse when the coronavirus pandemic began two years ago. Now a huge part of California’s work force says it will continue working at home indefinitely, and major companies from Google to Twitter to Hulu are saying OK. Meetings and conversations happen virtually, and employers say efficiency has not suffered much, if at all. Some conversion of the office space left vacant by all this has already begun. But it needs to happen on a much larger scale if it’s to put a real dent in the housing problem. Maybe, just maybe, the increasing difficulty of building near the convergence of wildland and urban sprawl will force legislators to make OKs automatic for the much less expensive conversions, even if that mean less profit for their developer patrons. — Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It” is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www. californiafocus.net.
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roviding the water board with timely response authority. Current law often prevents the State Water Board from taking timely action to protect the environment and senior water users due to outdated and undue procedural requirements. We recommend that the water board be given express authority to act quickly to enforce state water laws against those who seek to violate or circumvent them. Requiring real-time water reporting. Under current law, water users report their water diversions annually, for the previous year. California should require real-time reporting, and use computer and satellite technology (as a number of other states already do) to track diversions. Doing so would allow state water regulators to make timely water allocation decisions. Safeguarding the Delta. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, heart of California’s water delivery system and the West Coast’s largest estuary, is crashing. To protect its future, the state must update and implement its 25-year-old plan to ensure enough freshwater is flowing through the Delta to sustain fish, wildlife and communities. Accounting for climate change in water planning. We recommend that decisions on new water projects and water allocations explicitly consider the effects of climate change upon California’s water system, using the best available current scientific information. It’s long overdue that California’s water rights system be brought — kicking and screaming, if necessary — into the 21st century. Our recommendations attempt to provide a clear road map for the Legislature and other state policymakers to do just that, and we are pleased to see lawmakers pursuing needed reforms through Assembly Bill 2108, introduced by Assemblymember Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Salinas; Assembly Bill 2639, introduced by Assemblymember Bill Quirk, a Democrat from Hayward; and Senate Bill 1205, introduced by Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Redondo Beach. There’s not a moment to lose or a drop of water to waste. — Richard Frank is a professor of environmental practice, who teaches water law at the UC Davis School of Law. Holly Doremus is a professor of environmental regulation, who teaches water law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.
Letters On ‘current politics’ Here’s my partial reply to the question of “what’s the difference?” Masks and vaccines were a mandate under emergency measures by one person who declared an emergency. Seatbelts, traffic laws, etc. were created by the Legislature, whom we voted in to make laws. Marcia Kasabach Davis
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Smartphone multitasking, Davis-style It’s important to know when and where, in order to save time, to compulsively stare at one’s phone. Here’s what I’ve consistently observed downtown: The best time to stare, looking down the entire time: crossing the street. Second-best time to stare, looking up occasionally: riding a bicycle (after dark is ideal, because it’s easier to see the screen). Third-best time to stare, while occasionally glancing around: riding a skateboard or electric scooter. Using the sidewalk while obsessively looking at your phone? It doesn’t save time, but it does offer the opportunity to meet new people. When you bump into them. Eric Warp Davis
Future of Mace Bob Dunning presents an unbalanced view on resolving the Mace
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Boulevard issue. Pointing back to “the way it was” will not relieve the congestion as many articles in The Enterprise have stated. Giving voice to those who ignore what they are told doesn’t move the discussion forward. Dunning raises two issues that are really non-issues. First, facilitating escape from El Macero in the very unlikely case of a wildfire in the neighborhood won’t be solved by reducing congestion on Mace. The easy and very low-cost solution in that situation is to stake a police car further south on Mace to stop all oncoming traffic. Second, Dunning writes very oddly “(g)enerally, on ramps have just one lane and cars take them single file. But this ramp, for unknown reasons, has two lanes.” He then answers his own question, “ the left-hand lane, which is for cars with more than one occupant, the drivers don’t have to stop at all.” The left lane is a high-occupancy vehicle or carpool lane! And these types of lanes are very common — they are present at almost every highway entrance in Los Angeles and Sacramento has many. The point of these lanes is to get people out of their individual cars and, more importantly, to reduce congestion! There’s the solution to the Mace Mess. Richard McCann Davis
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WATER: Old certainties washed away by new realities From Page A1 the future, you’re already running into an issue,” David Rizzardo, manager of the California Department of Water Resources’ hydrology section, told CalMatters. State officials are altering their forecasts to take into account the myriad ways climate change is reshaping California, from warming temperatures to soil dryness. The stakes are huge: The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about a third of California’s water supply. Some California water watchers wonder: What’s taken so long? “We’re way past the time when we could ignore climate change,” said Peter Gleick, a climate and water scientist who co-founded the Pacific Institute, a global water think-tank. “The water agencies really need to get on the ball here. Can you tell I’m a little frustrated?” The process is complex, requiring a massive expansion of data collection from the state’s snowpack and watersheds, and an overhaul to the forecast calculations. “We’ve been forecasting since 1930. This is a complete overhaul,” said Sean de Guzman,
manager of the state’s Department of Water Resources’ snow surveys and water supply forecasting section.
How it’s measured When the weather warms and the rain stops, melting snow courses into waterways, then into reservoirs, faucets and sprinklers — supplying California’s homes, farms and wildlife right when they need it most. To keep close tabs on this precious resource, engineers like de Guzman plunge tubes into the snow to gauge its depth and water content, blanket remote mountains with sensors and weather stations and scan the snow cover from planes flying over watersheds. De Guzman’s team plugs the snow measurements, along with information about rain and streamflow, into their calculations to forecast how much snow is expected to melt and run off into rivers and reservoirs. The federal California Nevada River Forecast Center calculates its own forecasts in parallel, he said. The results are critical for managing California’s precarious water supply year-round.
Reservoir managers use them to determine when to hold on to water and when to let it flow. Operators of state and federal water supplies rely on them to determine how much water to send to the cities, growers and water suppliers dependent on water pumped south through the Delta to hundreds of miles of canals, tunnels and pipelines. Weekly forecasts from February through mid-June help the powerful Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural water agency in the nation, game out the year ahead — planning how much supplemental water to buy and how much to charge growers. “Those forecasts drive all the finances in our estimates, when we set rates at the beginning of the year,” said Jose Gutierrez, Westlands’ chief operating officer. Flood control, power generation and maintaining water quality for people, ecosystems and threatened and endangered species all rely on the runoff forecasts. Even outdoor enthusiasts benefit from the snowmelt predictions. “We get a lot of calls saying, ‘Hey, you guys must know when the waterfalls in Yosemite are going to be
going,’” Rizzardo said. The problem? The forecasts haven’t yet factored in how climate change has altered snowmelt. “Climate change,” Rizzardo said, “has thrown a monkey wrench at all this.”
Upended calculations As climate change drives temperatures ever hotter, the snowpack is retreating up mountain sides to higher altitudes and melting earlier in the season. And the wet season is contracting into a shorter, sharper period of storms. The future, said state climatologist Michael Anderson, will continue to bring more rain and less snow and shift the surviving snowpack from the north’s lower peaks to the central and southern Sierra’s higher elevations. The shift will mean having to change water infrastructure to manage snowmelt storage and increased flood risks from rain mixing with snow. “If you think of Lake Tahoe, we’ll get to a future where at lake level there won’t be any snow but in perhaps the mountains, there still will be snow,” Anderson said.
“And then we watch it start to move upslope.” Scientists predict that in the next 35 to 60 years, if carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue unchecked, the West’s snowpack could shrink even more substantially and even disappear for a decade or more at a time. California already has seen a preview of this future, said Andrew Jones, a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In April 2015, former Gov. Jerry Brown watched as state staff measured a snowpack that didn’t exist — right when it should have been at its peak. It was the height of the last drought, which stretched from 2012 through 2016, and Brown stood in a field patched with dry grass. Behind him rose the bare slopes of what should have been snowcapped peaks. “To know that this change is happening, and yet we’re all just living our lives and turning on the tap and using water as we always have done…it gives me a sense of appreciation for the fragility of the system that we have,” Jones said.
Obituaries Milena Gilbert
Sept. 28, 1923 — Feb. 12, 2022 Milena Gilbert, 98, of Davis passed away Feb. 12, 2022 in Woodland. She had been a Davis resident for nearly 60 years. Milena was born Sept. 28, 1923, in Yugoslavia to Bela and Emilia Matuska. Along with her sister Juliana, the family later emigrated to Windsor, Ontario. While a student at Patterson Collegiate Institute she won a gold medal for “The White Trillium,” a poem celebrating Ontario’s floral emblem. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1945 with
first-class honors in classics, also winning the McCaul Gold Medal. She later studied classical Greek at Columbia University. She married Neal W. Gilbert in 1952 and they moved to Davis in 1962.
They had two children: Avery N. Gilbert (Susanne) of Fort Collins, Colo., and Lenore Phyllis Gilbert of Davis. Milena earned a teaching credential from UC Davis, taught school for a few years and then went to work for the
Stephanie Brown Fehm 1940 — 2022
Stephanie Brown Fehm, a 50-year resident of Davis, died on Jan. 26, 2022, after bravely living with cancer for over two years. Stephanie was born in October 1940 in Pittsfield, Mass., to Barbara (Nath) and Chester Brown. She grew up in Kent, Conn., and spent summers in Campton, N.H., at her beloved family home on Mad River. She attended St. Mary’s School for Girls in Peekskill, N.Y., and later Northampton School for Girls, in Northampton, Mass., from where she graduated in 1958. After graduation, she entered the nursing program at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut from which she graduated in 1961. She continued to practice as a registered nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital. The family moved to Florence, Italy where her husband, Tony, worked on his Ph.D. in Art History. After returning to the United States, the family settled in Davis, California, and she always returned to New Hampshire for as many summers as possible. In California Stephanie continued to practice nursing and later became a nurse practitioner. She was a member of one of the first classes to graduate from the UC Davis nurse-practitioner program when it was established in the 1970s. Stephanie worked as a nurse practitioner in rural health clinics and in vulnerable communities during her clinical career. She went on to become a labor representative for the California Nurses Association until she retired in 2005. Through her hard work, along with all the dedicated people at CNA, nurses in California have safer working conditions, higher salaries, better benefits, and more secure retirements. Stephanie was a lifelong FDR Democrat and an ardent women’s rights advocate. Over the years she worked for numerous candidates both on the local and national level. She
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was passionate about her civic obligation to be an informed voter and an active participant in the democratic process. In retirement she became deeply involved with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program in Davis. She served on a variety of committees and enjoyed a host of friends and courses. In one of her OLLI writing classes, she wrote: “I would want to be remembered as a good and loyal mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. I hope that I would be remembered as a fair person, one who tried to treat all people equally. It would please me if others would remember me for two absolute rules: never cross a picket line or buy art to match the furniture!” Stephanie was also an active and devoted grandparent to her three granddaughters. When they were young, she picked them up from school, took care of them when they were sick, and attended every school function and athletic event. She was a powerful support and role model. Stephanie was predeceased by her father (Chester); mother (Barbara); brother (Jonathan); and sister (Katharine). She is survived by her daughter, Gretchen (Ian) Blake, Sacramento, California; her granddaughters, Anna Blake, Portland, Oregon; Allison Blake, Berkeley, California; Elizabeth Blake, Santa Cruz, California; her sister, Susan Norris (Tim),
Andover, New Hampshire; and her nephew, Matthew BROWN FEHM Norris, Seattle, Washington along with many cousins. Stephanie’s family could not have managed her final weeks without the loving care, professionalism, and unwavering support from Lisa Saephan, RN and Vihn Tran at Honest Living. We will be forever indebted. Her family would also like to express gratitude and thanks to Mercy Cancer Center, Sutter Home Health, Sutter Hospice and Sutter Davis Medical Group for their commitment and dedication to Stephanie’s care. Stephanie was a woman of substance, determination, and kindness. She was greatly loved, will be hugely missed, and long remembered. New Hampshire was always in her heart, and Stephanie’s hope was to get back again for a visit. There will be a summer family gathering and remembrance at Mad River Cemetery, Upper Road, Campton. For all her friends and family in the Davis area, there will be a celebration of her life at a later date. For more information, please email Steph. Brown.Fehm.Celebration @gmail.com.
those who knew and loved her.
California State Department of Education, Child Development Division. She began as a clerical employee but was promoted to the level of consultant, retiring from the department in 1990. Milena was honored with a special plaque from the department on May 14, 1990, for “20 years of Dedicated Service to the Children of the State of California.”
In addition to her children and two granddaughters, Alice Holley Gilbert of Los Angeles and Lydia Grace Gilbert of Brooklyn, N.Y., she is survived by her niece Lois Marklevitz of Wayland, Mich., as well as cousins Paul Pavlovich and Marija Pavlovich McCarthy.
During her lifetime, Milena enjoyed reading, listening to classical music, spending time with friends and family and traveling. She will be greatly missed by all
A funeral service for Milena will begin at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb 25, at the Smith Funeral Home. Milena will be interred at the Davis Cemetery.
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March’s Kitchen Chat by a Yolo County Master Gardener will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 5, on Zoom only at https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763. Join Treva Valentine, an accomplished Master Gardener, as she presents how to plan your garden for year-round harvesting. Valentine will highlight seedstarting supplies and techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to have their questions answered during the presentation. This presentation is free and open to the public. Yolo County Master Gardeners are available to answer questions via the Help Desk phone line at (530) 666-8737 or by email mgyolo@ ucdavis.edu. Questions are answered on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Genealogists do the hard part Gena Philibert-Ortega will present “25 Tips for Researching Your Female Ancestors.” at the next meeting of the Solano County Genealogical Society. The virtual presentation begins 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 5. Philibert-Ortega has specialized in researching the women in family trees and the lives they led. She holds master’s degrees in interdisciplinary studies andreligion. Her published works include three books and numerous articles in magazines and online. Guests are welcome to attend this free event. If interested, email the society at scgs@scgsca. org no later than 4 p.m. on Friday, March 4, and request an invitation.
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ur world is constantly changing and adapting to new challenges. Facing those challenges and finding solutions are those in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, or STEM, fields. Because of this, careers in STEM are in high demand. Despite the overall growth in these fields, women still only make up 28% of the workforce. Women have been making progress in equality in the workplace. Despite making up half of the population and earning more than half of all bachelor’s degrees earned, women continue to face challenges and pushback when pursuing STEM degrees. One of the biggest challenges is overcoming social stereotypes. Many educators and professors would make assumptions that girls would struggle more in math and science, even in girls as young as kindergarten. In higher education, failures and mistakes from male students were used as teaching moments, whereas the same mistakes from women were used as proof of their inability to thrive in the environment. Even
Explorit Science Center women that do manage to gain employment in STEM, continue to be overlooked for promotions and oftentimes earn less in wages than their male counterparts. This can be seen in the healthcare industry where nearly 80% of the workforce is made up of women, but only about one third are doctors, and only around 20% are executives or board members. Despite all the challenge, women continue to pursue their passions and try to break down the challenges and stereotypes for those that come after them. Many organizations offer scholarships and support for those women who want to study in STEM fields. Girls and women today also have more role models and mentors than those from a few generations ago. With more support and encouragement, women will continue to pursue equality in the workforce in STEM fields. Explorit is calling all girls, and their friends and family. Have you dreamed of being a scientist? Explorit is hosting an afternoon of handson activities and
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opportunities to meet women working in STEM fields. Our event, “See it to be it, Girls in STEM” will be Saturday, Feb. 26, from noon to 2 p.m. Featuring tabletop demos from UC Davis groups, Girl Scouts Mobile STEM trailer, and more! All are welcome and the event is included with regular weekend admission of $5 per person. We hope our future women in science will come and “see it to be it”! ———— Explorit’s coming events: n Explorit is open to the
public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. Explorit Members, ASTC, and those age 2 and under free. n Family Pollinator Garden Art Class on Saturday, March 5. $15 per person includes the 90-minute art class and admission to the museum between 2 and 4 p.m. No art skills required! n Spring into Science Camp for grades K-2 is March 21-25 from 9 a.m. to noon each day. Jump into an exciting science topic each day with Explorit.
Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Women’s History Month committee will celebrate Women’s History Month with a free outdoor event at the Gibson House on March 26. The national theme this year is “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” as a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history. “Although our annual luncheon is still on hold,” committee
chairwoman Dotty Pritchard said, “we look forward to visiting with everyone at the Gibson property as we honor our Yolo County women of ‘hope and healing.’”
public health; and Julia Levine, UC Davis Poet Laureate, who will discuss her background and read some of her poems as they relate to “hope and healing.”
Featured speakers for the occasion are Mel Russell, Historian and former Yolo County Archives Coordinator who will talk about the role that Yolo County women played as community members and Red Cross nurses, both on the home front and abroad, in promoting healing and providing hope during WWI; Dr. Amy Sisson, Yolo County’s Health Officer, who will discuss her role in
The committee will partner with Woodland Community College and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, both of whom will provide commentary at the event. Additionally, the Yolo County libraries, Woodland Public Library, Yolo County Historical Collection, Yolo County Archives, Woodland Community College, Department of Special Collections of UC Davis, and Yolo Arts will have
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Benefits of arts education Why does art matter? This is a question that has given philosophers and artists food for thought for centuries. From their earliest years, many children communicate and learn through artistic expression. Songs help them learn words and repetition to develop speech and reading skills. Drawing, painting and crafting helps to solidify motor skills. Houston’s Arts Access Initiative, in conjunction with Houston
Education Research Consortiums, found a substantial increase in arts educational experiences had remarkable effects on students’ academic, social and emotional outcomes. Students who participated in arts education experienced a 3.6 percent reduction in disciplinary infractions, an improvement of 13 percent of a standard deviation in standardized writing scores, and an increase of 8 percent of a standard deviation in students’ compassion for others.
displays at their institutions and at the event related to the theme this year. The celebration will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Gibson House, 512 Gibson Road in Woodland. Light refreshments will be provided at the event. For general information about the committee, or the celebration, contact Louisa R. Vessell at 916-4512113 or email at lvessell@sbcglobal. net or visit www.ycwhm.org. Proceeds from the event will benefit the public libraries and women organizations in Yolo County.
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Camp will take place indoors, masks required, daily temperature checks and health survey, and campers must bring their own water bottle and snack. Price is $175 Members/ $200 for Non-Members, sign-up as space is limited. n Now is a great time to donate and help Explorit continue to educate and inspire the scientists of tomorrow: https://www. explorit.org/donate. — Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http://www.explorit. org.
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If you can’t make it to the French Quarter to indulge in a hurricane or two this Mardi Gras, fear not. Hurricanes are a relatively simple concoction that amateur mixologists can whip up at home or wherever they’re spending Mardi Gras this year. According to Liquor.com, hurricanes can be traced to New Orleans tavern owner Pat O’Brien, who dreamt up the boozy concoction in the 1940s. Legend has it that O’Brien needed a way to offload the rum he was forced to purchase from local distributors. The now beloved concoction known as the hurricane, so called because it was initially served in hurricane lamp-shaped glasses, is now available at various establishments throughout the French Quarter. That includes Pat O’Brien’s Bar, which has been open since 1933.
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UCD report shows that farm life is for the birds By Kat Kerlin Special to The Enterprise A supportive environment can bring out the best in an individual — even for a bird. After an E.coli outbreak in 2006 devastated the spinach industry, farmers were pressured to remove natural habitat to keep wildlife — and the foodborne pathogens they can sometimes carry — from visiting crops. A study published Tuesday from UC Davis shows that farms with surrounding natural habitat experience the most benefits from birds, including less crop damage and lower food-safety risks. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, was conducted at 21 strawberry fields along California’s Central Coast. It found that birds were more likely to carry pathogens and eat berries without surrounding natural habitat. The authors said a better understanding of the interplay of farming practices, the landscape, and the roles birds play in ecosystems can
help growers make the most out of wild birds near their fields. “Bird communities respond to changes in the landscape,” said lead author Elissa Olimpi, a postdoctoral scholar in the UCD department of wildlife, fish and conservation biology at the time of the study. “As birds shift in response to management, so do the costs and benefits they provide.”
The driver The study looked at how different farming practices influenced the costs and benefits that wild birds provided on the strawberry farms. The scientists combined nearly 300 bird surveys and the molecular analyses of more than 1,000 fecal samples from 55 bird species to determine which birds ate pests, beneficial insects and crops, and carried foodborne pathogens. They also ranked birds to see which were more likely to bring benefits or costs to farmlands. Barn swallows, for instance, got a “gold star” in the study, Olimpi
said. Their mud nests are commonly seen clinging to the underside of barn eaves, from which they fly out to swoop over fields, foraging on insects. But rather than resulting in a list of “good” and “bad” birds, the study found that most bird species brought both costs and benefits to farms, depending on how the landscape was managed. The presence of natural habitat was the single most important driver differentiating a farm where wild birds brought more benefits than harm. “Nature is messy, and birds are complex,” Olimpi said. “The best we can do is understand how to take advantage of the benefits while reducing the harms. Growers will tell you it’s impossible to keep birds off your farm — you can’t do that and don’t want to from a conservation perspective. So how can we take advantage of the services birds provide?”
Win-wins The study is one of
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A horned larked makes itself at home amid agriculture. several publications from UCD professor Daniel Karp’s lab highlighting the environmental, agricultural, and food safety impacts of conserving bird habitat around farms. A related study in 2020 found that farms with natural habitat attracted more insect-eating birds — and fewer strawberry-eating birds — so that farmers experience less berry
damage on farms with more habitat nearby. Such habitats also bring greater numbers of bird species to the landscape. “All together, these studies suggest that farming landscapes with natural habitat tend to be good for conservation, farmers, and public health,” said Karp. Additional co-authors of this study include Karina Garcia and David
Gonthier of University of Kentucky, Claire Kremen of UC Berkeley and the University of British Columbia, William E. Snyder of University of Georgia, and Erin Wilson-Rankin of UC Riverside. The research was funded by the USDA and UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology.
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‘Cyrano’: Period piece is love’s labors lost By Derrick Bang
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Enterprise film critic Director Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” is adapted from Erica Schmidt’s new 2018 stage musical, with Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett reprising their starring roles; Schmidt also handles the script. Alas, the result is an awkward beast. Many of Aaron and Bryce Dessner’s songs aren’t memorable, and several interrupt/interfere with the on-screen action in the manner of all clumsy musicals. On the positive side, Dinklage owns this film; his performance is a masterpiece of carefully nuanced expressions and body language. He puts heart and soul into even the most trivial of lines, and his frequent displays of silent, earnest anguish — it’s that sort of story — are heartbreaking. Bennett’s work is similarly charismatic, albeit on a different level. Her Roxanne shimmers with giddy, joyous delight at everything she encounters: most particularly when she swoons over her desire to be swept away by passionate, souldeep love. Wright’s touch, with the accomplished assistance of frequent cinematographer colleague Seamus McGarvey, is stunning. All of their visual tricks are in evidence: the sliding walls and lengthy tracking shots; the arresting framing of scenes and characters; and the expansive, ethereal depiction of war. When things work here, they work extraordinarily well. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen often enough. The setting is Paris, the year 1640. Roxanne attends a stage performance in a theater hosting an audience that ranges from the cream of Parisian society to thieves, pickpockets and cutpurses. She’s escorted by the powerful Duke De Guiche (Ben Mendelsohn), who craves her in a way that is slimy from his first words; Roxanne flirts
Cyrano (Peter Dinklage) has long loved Roxanne (Haley Bennett) from afar, but kept silent out of the fear that she’d find his worship comical or insulting. She, in turn, has eyes only for a new King’s Guard recruit glimpsed only briefly in a crowd.
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ben Mendelsohn, Monica Dolan, Bashir Salahuddin, Joshua James Rating: PG-13, for strong violence, dramatic intensity and brief profanity Available via: Movie theaters as a means of enjoying his wealth and status, while having no intention of marrying him. She chances to lock eyes with newly arrived King’s Guard recruit Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), buried within the rabble-rousing theatergoers. The connection is instant and electric, but he’s swept away by the crowd. The play begins, with its grotesque star veracting to a preposterous degree that enrages a voice from the rear, who demands that this artistic mountebank exit the stage. Thus we meet Cyrano (Dinklage), an unexpectedly refined theatrical purist — and skilled, long-admired warrior in the King’s Guard — whose subsequent antics enrage De Guiche’s companion, Viscount Valvert (Joshua James). The witty, tart-tongued Cyrano wins the subsequent duels of arch words and then swords, albeit with unfortunate consequences. (Schmidt’s wordplay throughout this film, between various sets of characters, is delightfully clever.) Cyrano and Roxanne have known each other since she was a child. She regards him as her best friend; he has long carried an unspoken torch. The first of Dinklage’s many marvelous scenes comes the following day, when he finally works up the courage to
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confess his feelings: encouraged by her rapturous declarations of love, little realizing that she’s directing such feelings not at him, but about the briefly glimpsed Christian. Roxanne is equally adept at wordplay and double entendres, and this byplay is quite amusing … until, suddenly, it isn’t. Dinklage’s forlorn expression, when comprehension dawns, is heartbreaking. And then Cyrano rallies, just as quickly, when Roxanne begs him to “look after” Christian. He’s her best friend; of course he agrees. With agony radiating from his gaze. Not that she notices. Two elements become clear in Schmidt’s innovative handling of Rostand’s play. The first has been obvious since Dinklage’s initial appearance: The unusually long nose, which has characterized all previous Cyranos — the “blemish” that has made him feel unworthy of Roxanne — has been replaced by Dinklage’s stature. This switch is ingenious, and it certainly doesn’t
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In addition to many concert appearances, Tanenbaum has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since the 1980s, where he has served as the head of the guitar department for some years. Tanenbaum is also a prolific recording artist, with a particular
revenge could be catastrophic. This eventually leads to the most powerful song — “Wherever I Fall” — sung by several members of the King’s Guard: notably one played by Glen Hansard, the singer/actor best remembered as the male lead in 2007’s charming “Once,” and whose eloquent voice here will draw tears from stone. Alas, Wright and Schmidt lose their hold on us, midway through the third act. De Guiche unexpectedly vanishes — rather odd, considering his looming presence earlier — and the conclusion is jarringly abrupt. As the screen faded to black, Constant Companion and I exchanged identical glances of confusion: Seriously? That’s it? This “Cyrano” certainly deserves to be seen for Dinklage’s performance. I only wish the entire film had lived up to his work. — 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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Special to The Enterprise Classical guitarist David Tanenbaum, a prominent figure in the Bay Area music scene for decades, will be a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento in a concert in Davis at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Episcopal Church of St Martin, 640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis.
interfere with the story’s key romantic triangle. The second is more subtle, and revealed gradually by Bennett’s carefully shaded performance. We begin to wonder if Roxanne — despite her intelligence and wit — is too vain, too superior, too unintentionally cruel and too shallow, to be worthy of any of these potential suitors. Meanwhile, we’re treated to the delightful charade that has reappeared in countless literary, stage, TV and film riffs of Rostand’s play: Cyrano’s reluctant agreement to ghostwrite the impassioned but under-educated Christian’s many letters to Roxanne. Alas, Christian is the least of Cyrano’s problems. The bitterly jealous De Guiche, determined to have Roxanne by any means necessary, thunders his intentions with a well-staged song (“What I Deserve”). And with the oftmentioned, ongoing FrancoSpanish War (1635-59) looming in the background, De Guiche’s
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Classical guitarist David Tanenbaum plays with the Chamber Music Society on Saturday, Feb. 26. interest in the guitar music of contemporary composers including Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, and John Adams, as well as transcriptions of lute music by J.S. Bach, John Dowland, and others from centuries past. For his program with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, Tanenbaum and the musicians of the Chamber Music Society will be performing music by Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian 19th Century
violinist and guitarist Niccolo Paganini, and contemporary composer and guitarist Javier Contreras, who was born in Chilean Patagonia. Also on the program will be a flute sonata by French 20th Century composer Francis Poulenc, and a string quartet by Antonin Dvorak (Op. 105). Tickets are $30 general, $25 seniors (60+) and $12 students with ID/ children, available online at cmssacto.org and at the door.
Logos Books, 513 Second St. in downtown Davis, will host an exhibit by Quesstonnal Reed, a mixed-media artist who creates unconventional fashion art. “Being a practicing professional in fashion design, vestiges of the industry accost me,” she said. “Canvas becomes paper to be painted and fibers demand to embed themselves through processes I constantly endeavor to discover. Pearls and rhinestones desire to add their charm and a touch of romance to some of my pieces. Even buttons show up unannounced, ready to include their beauty into the foray.” After earning a bachelor’s degree in apparel marketing and design, Reed pursued a career as a fashion professor. She eventually began to apply paper and jewels to canvas as an outlet for unrestricted design. “I wanted a canvas without seams to explore how I could shape fashion out of paper and still keep the trimmings.” Her unique personal style is inspired by Venusian, Vintage, and Victorian royalty. Reed’s artwork has been shown in the northern California exhibitions “Fine Art Holiday Show” (Kondos Gallery) and” Inner Soul Show” (Uptown Studios) where she designed a miniature paper shoe encrusted with gold chains and beads.
Check it out Artist: Quesstonnal Reed Title: “Victorian Chic” Media: Fashion paper collage Where: Logos Books, 513 Second St., Davis Exhibit: March 5 to April 1 Reception: Friday, March 11, 6 to 8 p.m. She has served as a member and a Program Director on the Sacramento Center For The Textile Arts governing board. You can view her work at https://www. facebook.com/profilephp?id=1000775598 78858. You can contact her at Magnaphera@gmail.com. Reed will present a trunk show at the public reception that will contain artwork not shown in the exhibition — keepsakes, greeting cards, and smaller works — that will be available for purchase. This exhibit runs from March 5 through April 1. There will be a public reception for the artist on Friday, March 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Public receptions for local artists will also be held at various venues on that same evening in conjunction with the Davis Downtown 2nd Friday ArtAbout, face book.com/davisartabout.
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Of rivers and bridges Galley 1855 presents the photography of Terry Holter, through the month of March. His works inlcude, above, “Steamboat Slough Bridge,” and below, “Along Highway 84.” The galley, on the grounds of The Davis Cemetery at 820 Pole Line Road, is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, call 530-756-7807or visit www.daviscemetery.org.
WTC seeks actors for 1-act plays Special to The Enterprise Winters Theatre Company will audition for five one-act plays that will be produced in April for a special “Jubilation of Spring, an Evening of Music and Theatre.” Organizers are looking for male and female actors ranging in age from 20-plus. Auditions will be held in Winters, on Monday, March 7, and Wednesday, March 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. Contact Linda Glick at lhzglick@gmail.com or at 530-304-1511 for more information and to make an appointment to audition.
The historic Woodland Opera House is proud to announce its next main stage production, the spectacular musical, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Based on the Victor Hugo novel, and with songs by the Academy Award-winning team of Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, the show is a must-see. The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in 15th-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be free, observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, he escapes and joins the crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but a beautiful gypsy woman, Esmeralda. Quasimodo’s infatuation with her leads to his quest to protect her and all of the gypsies from those who want to destroy them. “This compelling production with hauntingly beautiful music and dance sequences, an incredible set and costumes, not to mention superb acting, will leave you on the edge of your seat,” the Opera House
CRC exhibit explores fluidity of identity Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — The Cosumnes River College Art Gallery hosts eight ceramic artists who take on identity in the newest exhibit, Real ID, beginning Feb. 22 and running through March 29. The gallery will be open for in-person viewing for the first time since the pandemic closed campus facilities at 8401 Center Parkway in Sacramento. The sculptures will address the themes of identity and connectivity to the earth and include artists Shenny Cruces, Arthur Gonzalez, Pancho Jiménez, Jessica PutnamPhillips, Kevin Snipes, Stan Welsh and Wanzin Zhang. Ceramic art from Northern California and across the country was selected by art professor and curator Linda Fitz Gibbon of Woodland. “The theme arose from thoughts about how, as rich and diverse as we are as humans, identity can be used to create boundaries in today’s society. What does a Real ID card really signify? Identity can be multi-faceted and fluid,” said Fitz Gibbon. Held in coordination with the annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference, Real ID is an
NCECA Venue Originated Exhibition. The mission of the NCECA is to cultivate learning, leadership and excellence in the field of ceramic arts through programs, exhibition, opportunities and resources. This year’s conference, Fertile Ground, is being held for the first time in Sacramento. “I hope that viewers will be able to see themselves reflected in some aspect of the artworks. The goal is to create deep thought and dialogue about what signifies a person’s identity. In addition, visitors to the exhibition will be able to take a clay ID card embedded with wild flower seeds. The act of planting the card is symbolic of the break down of these barriers to create new growth,” Fitz Gibbon added. An artist reception during NCECA will take place 5 to to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 17. Regular gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday or by appointment by calling 916-691-7561. Since 1970 Cosumnes River College has provided outstanding academic and vocational training to the region. CRC’s main campus is located in south Sacramento County, with a new college outreach center in Elk Grove.
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Eddy Voyce, left, plays Quasimodo and Jori Gonzalez, right, plays Esmerelda in Woodland Opera House’s production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” said in a statement. Appropriate for audiences aged 13-plus (PG-13 rating: some material may not be suitable for children under age 13). Performances run from Friday, March 11, to Sunday, April 3, with shows on Fridays Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Reserved-seating tickets are $25 for adults, $23 for seniors (62-plus), and $12 for children under 17. Balcony tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for children 17 and under. Purchase tickets online at www.woodlandopera house.org, by phone at
530-666-9617, or in person at the Woodland Opera House box office, 340 Second St. in Woodland. Box office hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. In accordance with the updated indoor mask requirements from the State of California and Yolo County, patrons who are vaccinated will no longer be required to wear a mask in the Woodland Opera House facility. Vaccinated individuals are allowed to self-attest that they are in compliance prior to entry.
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y random thoughts as the Sacramento Kings enter a fivegame road trip starting on
Saturday. n Athleticism runs in the family for UC Davis women’s basketball player Kayla Konrad, a redshirt senior forward who has started or played in all of the Aggies’ 22 games this season. She is averaging 7.7 points per game. Konrad’s uncle is Greg Bishop, an assistant coach on the Lodi High football team. Bishop was an offensive tackle for the New York Giants (1993 to 1998) and Atlanta Falcons (1999). In 2004, Bishop was inducted into the University of the Pacific Hall of Fame. Bishop, a Lodi High graduate, played in Pacific’s football program in the early 1990s. Bishop’s sister and Konrad’s aunt, Erin Aitken, is an assistant principal at Lodi High. Five years ago, Aitken was the school’s athletic director but resigned when she was promoted to a higher role
in the school’s administration. In the 2000s through the early 2010s, Aitken had a successful run as the Lodi High girls basketball head coach, which included winning league titles and successful runs in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs. In the early 1990s, Aitken was a Lodi High girls basketball player standout. Before coming to The Enterprise last June, I was a sportswriter at the Lodi News-Sentinel for almost five years. So, I had a chance to work with good people in Aitken and Bishop, who has been
coaching football at Lodi High since the early 2000s. They care about their student-athletes of present and past. Height runs in the family as well. Bishop stands at 6-foot-5, Konrad 6-foot and Aitken 5-11. n Speaking of the University of the Pacific, Bethany Hammer, a pitcher/ infielder on the college’s softball team, is going to be highlighted in an upcoming column. Hammer and the Tigers play UC Davis in a non-conference game in Stockton on Tuesday, March 29. n Hammer has something in common with former Hilmar High and Placer High football head coach Jerry Van Lengen, whose Hilmar football teams held California’s longest winning streak at 46 games from 1986 to 1990, former Linden High football head coach and current softball head coach Mark Miller, Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, former NFL head coach Tom Flores, Los Angeles Chargers
owner Alex Spanos and musician Chris Issak. They all graduated from University of the Pacific. Hammer earned her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy last spring. She’s expected to earn her master’s degree this spring. n Modesto Junior College football head coach Rusty Stivers, a former UC Davis running back in the early-mid 1990s, played his final high school football game of his career on the University of the Pacific’s football field in 1990, in the Lions All-Star Game. Then Stivers played in the MJC football program in 1990 and 1992 — he took 1991 off to coach youth football and basketball — and then transferred to UC Davis. Stivers was a starting running back and defensive back on the 1988 and ’89 Hilmar football teams under Van Lengen. n On Saturday, the Davis High track
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Above, Davis High boys soccer player Zach Anderson (10) waits for the Oak Ridge player to bring the soccer ball up the field in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff game at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Feb. 15. Below, Blue Devil Simon Vaca-Lorenzi (17) keeps the ball in front of him and away from two Trojan players in the same playoff game.
Davis soccer players honored Enterprise staff Three of the seven members on the Davis High boys soccer team earned top Delta League honors. Zach Anderson, a senior, was named the league’s Player of the Year. Blue Devils named to the allleague list were Kai Peris, Daniel Jebri, Evan Stafford and Justin Rager For team awards, Davis’ Simon Vaca-Lorenzi won the MVP offense award and Rager got the MVP defense award. Earlier this month, the Blue Devils
won the DL title with a 10-2 record, and 14-3 overall. Davis earned the top seed in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs. The Blue Devils knocked off Chavez of Stockton 5-1 in the first round and Oak Ridge 1-0 in the quarterfinals. Modesto, which played Whitney of Rocklin in the D-I title game at Heart Health Park in Sacramento on Thursday, ended Davis’ playoff run with a 1-0 win on Feb. 17. The Blue Devils scored 53 goals this season and gave up only eight.
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UC Davis forward Aaron Murphy (3) stretches out with UC Santa Barbara forward Robinson Idehen (24) for the loose basketball in Thursday’s Big West Conference game at the University Credit Union Center.
Aggie men lose a tough game in overtime By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer UC Santa Barbara hit eight straight free throws down the stretch, including six in the last 25 seconds of overtime to take a dramatic 76-69 Big West Conference men’s basketball win from UC Davis Thursday night at the University Credit Union Center. The loss snapped a three-game Aggie win streak and dropped UCD to 4-4 in league play and 11-8 overall. UCSB is now 5-5 and 13-10 and in a tie with the Aggies for sixth place. The top six teams earn a first-round bye in the conference tournament slated for March 8-12 at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nev. Elijah Pepper gave the Aggies their final lead of the night at 67-66 on a 3-point bomb from the corner with 1:35 left, much to the delight of the crowd of 1,383, the largest of the season. However, it was all Gauchos after that. Amadou Sow gave Santa Barbara the lead for good with two free throws at 1:11, then freshman sensation Ajay Mitchell hit four straight from the line to put the game away. Despite the loss, Aggie head coach Jim Les was pleased with his team’s effort, especially in the second half. “I really appreciated our fight,” Les said. “We came out flat to start the second half and had every reason to just lie down and give in, but that’s when we really started to fight and it gave us a chance to win. Santa Barbara made some tough shots and we had some good
looks that didn’t fall, but I really liked our intensity in the second half.” The Aggies were without the services of Caleb Fuller, who was injured in last Saturday’s win over Cal State Bakersfield, but will presumably be back before the end of the season. “We had to make adjustments,” Les added, “but our bench gave us some great minutes.” The Aggies play their final home game of the year Saturday at 5 p.m. when CSU Northridge comes to town. UCD’s final two games of the regular season come on the road at Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton, the top two teams in the conference. If the Aggies finish in the top six in conference play, they will earn a firstround bye in the Big West tournament and begin quarterfinal play on Thursday, March 10. If they finish seventh or below, they will play a first-round game on Tuesday, March 8, and will have to win four straight games to claim the tournament championship and earn the Big West’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Mitchell, who put the Gauchos on his shoulders down the stretch, led all scorers with 31 points, while Pepper had 21 for the Aggies and teammate Ezra Manjon added 19. In other Big West action Thursday night, Long Beach State stopped UC San Diego, 103-87, UC Riverside crushed CSUN, 79-57, and Cal State Fullerton slipped past UC Irvine, 66-64. — Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning @davisenterprise.net.
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UC Davis women’s hoops records road win Enterprise staff NORTHRIDGE — Cierra Hall scored 15 points and Kayla Konrad added 10, as UC Davis used a big third quarter to defeat CSU Northridge 58-50 in a Big West Conference women’s basketball game on Thursday night. Trailing 15-8 after the first quarter, the Aggies outscored CSUN 21-11 in the second and 17-7 in the third to lead 46-33 going into the fourth. UC Davis (7-6 in the BWC, 13-10) started the second quarter on an 18-4 run, punctuated by a Hall three with 1:40 until the half that gave the Aggies a 26-21 lead. The Aggies then scored the first nine points of the third quarter and never looked back. Sydney Burns had a career-high three steals to go along with seven points, three rebounds and four assists. Sage Stobbart added eight points and a gamehigh 11 rebounds. UC Davis will travel to UC Santa Barbara on Saturday. Game time is 2 p.m.
Former DHS baseball player Former Davis High and UCLA shortstop Ryan Kreidler is in full swing in the Detroit Tigers’ Minor League minicamp, despite Major League Baseball owners and players are still dealing with their lockout. Kreidler, now playing third base, enters the workouts in Lakeland, Fla. as one of the top prospects entering this season, according to a story from Jason Beck on MLB.com’s Website. Last season, Kreidler (6-foot-4 and 208-pounds) played for the Toledo Mud Hens, a Triple-A affiliate of the Tigers. He batted .270 with an on-base percentage of .349. He had 58 RBIs, 22 home runs and 15 stolen bases. In 2019, the Tigers drafted Kreidler in the fourth round. The Chicago Cubs initially drafted Kreidler in the 2016 MLB Draft in the 35th round but opted to attend and play at UCLA.
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UC Davis forward Kayla Konrad goes up for a shot against UC Irvine on Feb. 12.
FAMILY: Track teams in action Saturday From Page B5 and field teams, boys and girls, will be at Lodi High to compete in a nonleague tri-meet that includes Turlock. Now that California high school athletics are getting back to normal for the most part from the pandemic, three of the top Division I track and field programs in the section will compete against each other on Saturday. That meet should give Blue Devil track and field
members and coaches an idea of how they could compete against the host Flames and Bulldogs at the section’s D-I trials and finals at Oak Ridge High and the Masters, which Davis High is hosting again, in May. Yours truly remembers that second day very well. When I was at the News-Sentinel, I covered the second day in which all of us media members were huddled under a tent because of the rain. Good thing I had my zoom lens with my
camera to take photos. n What record do you think the Kings will have after they play at the Denver Nuggets, which will be on Saturday, followed by games at Oklahoma City Thunder, New Orleans Pelicans and the San Antonio Spurs? If the Kings produce a 3-2 or better record, they are still in the playoff talk. Should they go 2-3 or worse, the odds of breaking a not making the playoffs will probably shrink deeper. n This final paragraph
I’m writing is to fill in some space. How many of you are wishing the Major League Baseball owners and players can get their act together and resolve their differences to end the lockout? Raise your hands. That’s what I thought — most of you. Join the club. Let’s get the season. — Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise. net. Follow on Twitter: @ MBDavisSports.
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Tipping across the pond Dear Annie: After 32 years of marriage, I still battle daily with what the truth is. My husband, who I have been with since I was 17 (over 36 years), had the “shining star syndrome.” Many of his co-workers found him to be their go-to guy when having relationship troubles in their lives. Only after being told by some female co-workers who were not in his fan club of his lies, disrespect and family-changing damage did I start to connect the dots. I’ve had difficult times in my life, such as the diagnosis of a chronic illness, the death of a twin sibling, the death of my mother and a stressful job. It was only after he could not handle the difficult moments that affected me that I realized his behavior was narcissistic. My biggest heartbreak was that I thought that I was not good enough, and the same for our children. I am grateful to those who finally spoke up about his friendships with other women. I work at saving our marriage every day, and he has become accountable. It took years for him to realize the amount of damage that he caused our young adult children. I will never be completely secure, but I am not a quitter. I am glad I can stop blaming myself for not handling everyday realities like Superwoman. Any hurt partner should know the truth. It actually saved our marriage and — Grieving Loved Ones and Lies our family. Dear Grieving: Thank you for sharing your letter. So many people feel trapped in narcissistic relationships and need to hear that there is a way out of them and a path to freedom. It’s great that you acknowledged all the people who helped you along the way. Congratulations. ——— Dear Annie: I’m here to offer the European perspective on tipping. In Europe, there is no tipping. People are paid much better wages to begin with, so they know how much money they will earn and can budget accordingly. The price paid is higher over there so the workers don’t have to rely on tips. Did you know that tipping in the United States actually
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dates back to slavery? I have read that the feudal system of aristocrats helping the poor — the idea of noblesse oblige — has been described as the origin of tipping. When restaurants were hiring newly freed slaves after the Civil War, they hired them as tipped workers so they could pay them next to nothing.
The United States needs to do away with this practice like the Europeans have. — Offering a Tip Dear Tip: Thank you for offering a history lesson and your perspective on tipping. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.
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Selling your home can feel overwhelming, whether you’ve done it many times before or find yourself moving for the first time. There is a complicated process of paperwork, to say nothing of packing up everything you own. Here’s a step-by-step guide to get ready:
Get an agent You’ll have to find the right person to market and showcase your property, and that might take a while depending on your familiarity with the local business community. They are critical figures, in particular for first-time sellers, since they’ll bring a wealth of expertise in what’s selling right now, competitive pricing, all of the required signatures and disclosures, even local lenders and inspectors. They can also help you set a timeline for when you’ll move out. Talk to your neighbors and check out online reviews, if you’re unsure of who to hire.
Create a budget Decide how much you’re asking for in order to sell your home, based on a variety of metrics including how much you paid, how much equity you have in the home, and what homes of similar age and size are selling for in your market. Consider creating a second price point for any additional items the seller may be interested in, including furniture and accessories. You can then more comfortably set a price range for your next home purchase. Keep in mind that there are often extra expenses along the way, including movers and inspections.
Contact a lender If you’re buying another home, start by discussing your pending sale with your own bank. If you’d prefer to use another lender, ask your agent or trusted friends for recommendations. You’ll want to secure funding from a lender even before looking for your next house, because many homeowners require a pre-approval letter before entering into an agreement to sell. You’ll need a host of personal documents — including pay stubs, tax returns and all relevant paperwork regarding your debts — as well as a credit check. All of that, obviously, can take time to gather and complete. —HomeWise
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When to replace common items REAL ESTATE 101
Homeowners have gotten in the habit of changing their fire detector batteries and air conditioner filters. Smoke detectors themselves should be replaced every 10 years, according to the National Fire Protection Association, since they tend to lose sensitivity. But many other critical items in your home require scheduled maintenance, as well. Here’s a look.
First-aid kits We all tend to put together a firstaid kit, store it away and forget about it. Then something happens, like a sliced finger or oven burn while cooking, and you remember how long it’s been since you reviewed the contents. Check in on your first-aid kit annually to make sure it’s fully stocked and ready for action. Summer is a great time for this regular inspection, since that’s when we’re most active — and most likely to have a minor accident.
Water filters We often overlook the filter in our refrigerator’s water dispenser, since it’s tucked away inside the appliance. But bacteria, bits of captured trash and excess chemicals can build up in there. Experts recommend replacing these filters once every six months. Reminders attached to the refrigerator door with a magnet can help keep you on schedule.
Sponges Most people tend to be very contentious about cleanliness in the kitchen and bathroom, much more than the other rooms in your home. Yet spong-
es, a key tool in cleaning, are often too often ignored. Since they’re used for cleaning, and so often damp, sponges provide an easy breeding ground for bacteria. Keep a stockpile, or consider sanitizing them with white vinegar or in the dishwasher.
Fire extinguishers Every home should keep at least one fire extinguisher on hand — especially if the property includes a gas stove or a wood-burning fireplace. Modern-era fire extinguishers are rechargeable, but still have a limited lifetime. Check the tag for an expiration date, and make a note with information on when this issue needs to be addressed. Monitor pressure gauges more regularly to make sure they’re in working order.
Dehumidifiers Dehumidifiers play a key role in keeping things like mold at bay, and can be particularly helpful for those who suffer from breathing problems. Companion-piece humidifiers help others with their own unique symptoms. But both have filters that must be checked regularly for any build up of mold, dust or mildew. —HomeWise
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Home trends for 2022 REAL ESTATE 101
As a global pandemic continues, the top design trends have remained focused on comfort and ease of living. At the same time, the hottest color choices are softer, earthier.
For many, our homes aren’t just a refuge for the last third of our day anymore. They’ve become the principal setting for life, both in terms of play and work. That’s led many to shades of brown, leathers, terracotta, and gently shaped accent pieces — all of which are, above all, warm and pleasing. Curved forms, both in furniture and architecture, create a more inviting atmosphere — while also recalling the outdoors. At the same time, functionality remains front of mind. The more time we spend at home, the more every element has to work in concert, and with purpose. So, domestic tech is hot, while the all-white look of the recent past is not. It’s simply too cold, too minimalistic and too prone to stain. Besides, browns have never been more exciting. Throw pillows, comforters, rugs, towels and linens are re-emerging in burnt umber, caramel, cognac and — the trendiest of them all for 2022 — chocolate brown. The key is not to pair these colors with tired ’70-era relics like orange (in particular shag carpeting!), but instead work with shades and hues. Extend this
look all the way to the floor by experimenting with patterned jute, abaca and rush matting. More rooms are pulling double duty, as the farmhouse dinner table now serves as a conference room, or the guest room becomes a Zoom studio. Functionality is key, but all of this time spent indoors has some seeking to reconnect with nature — and 2022’s design trends reflect that, too. Stoneware, wood, travertine and terracotta will find a place not just on countertops and backsplashes, but also in decorative objects. Plaster wall finishes are still in vogue, but with a more lived-in or antiqued look. These raw, imperfect surfaces add visual intrigue to any home, and a little soul by mimicking the ambiance and calm of nature. Larger indoor plants are also part of this trend, up to an including Southern magnolias and black-olive trees. Clay pots complete things, celebrating both earth and art. Accent pieces for the soil might include a touch of magic or whimsy, like exotic stones, mushroom ceramics, or sparkling crystals. —HomeWise
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