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Commission approves South Davis car wash

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

CTE discoverer Dr. Bennet Omalu addresses UC Davis’ graduate studies 2019 commencement at the ARC Pavilion on campus. Now, the university aims for its first full-scale graduation ceremony since the pandemic began.

Caleb Hampton/ Enterprise file photo

UCD plans outdoor commencement

the in-person event.

June 10, 11 and 12.

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer UC Davis’ class of 2022 will celebrate their graduation with three outdoor commencement ceremonies at UC Davis Health Stadium, the campus announced this week. The ceremonies are scheduled from 8 to 10 a.m.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday,

A plan to consolidate undergraduate commencement from seven indoor ceremonies at The Pavilion (now called the University Credit Union Center) to three larger ceremonies at UC Davis Health Stadium was initially unveiled in 2019 — and scheduled for June 2020 — before the pandemic disrupted

UC Davis’ commencements for spring and fall 2020 were held virtually. In spring and fall 2021, modified limited-scale ceremonies were held in-person, with each event limited to 400 students, each of whom was allowed a maximum of two guests. The graduates and their guests each had to stay in their own pod 6 feet from other pods.

The spring 2022 commencement will be the first full-scale

graduation ceremony since the pandemic began.

According to a UC Davis news release, Chancellor Gary S. May wanted to shift to fewer and larger ceremonies to emphasize a ‘UC Davis’ commencement, rather than having smaller ceremonies divided by college or major.

“Our students are graduating from ‘UC Davis,’ and we want

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Newsom offers the state a pep talk

By Alexei Koseff

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The Davis Planning Commission gave the green light on Wednesday for an express car wash to be built next to the intersection of Mace and Cowell boulevards in South Davis.

The currently vacant site at 480 Mace Blvd. has been home to the annual Boy Scouts Christmas Tree lot for a number of years and the applicants said they have been working with the scouts to find a new location.

In approving a conditional use permit for the express wash, planning commissioners praised the project design, including the water-saving elements, and the fact that the applicants are longtime Davis residents.

Those applicants, Evan Lyon and his father, Thomas Lyon, said the Davis Express Car Wash will bring the first certified WaterSaver car wash to Yolo County. To be certified as a WaterSaver, businesses need to use 40 gallons of water or less per car wash.

The Davis Express Car Wash would use about half that per car, Evan Lyon told planning commissioners.

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County schools superintendent seeks re-election

CalMatters

By Aaron Geerts

Even as the coronavirus pandemic finally appears to be receding, Californians are in a funk.

They are nearly evenly split on whether the state is headed in the right direction, according to a survey released last month by the Public Policy Institute of California, and gave poor marks to Gov. Gavin Newsom on almost every policy issue, from wildfires to crime to homelessness, in another poll published a few weeks later by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.

So on Tuesday evening, Newsom turned his annual State of the State address into a defiant pep talk, assuring wary residents that, in a world unmoored by

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autocratic leaders and attacks on voting and abortion rights, the “California way” is still a beacon.

California for inspiration,” he said. “Now, in the midst of so much turmoil, with the stacking

On Jan. 7, 2019, Garth Lewis officially became the first African American to serve as the Yolo County SuperLEWIS intendent.

Now, Ready for more after years of hard work — and not to mention a pandemic to contend with — Lewis has announced he’s running for re-election.

While COVID could easily mar anyone’s experience as superintendent, Lewis took the challenge in stride and lauds not his individual efforts during this time, but the community collaboration and prioritization of the needs

“People have always looked to

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Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during his State of the State speech in Sacramento on March 8.

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Briefly Son accused of striking mother Davis police arrested a 38-year-old man Wednesday after he allegedly struck his mother and threatened her with a knife.

Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said the mother summoned police to her South Davis home after her son slapped her and threatened to stab and strangle her as he pointed a large kitchen knife at her face.

Arriving officers found the son, identified as Chevy Rushing, inside the mother’s vehicle when they arrived on scene and took him into custody.

He was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and elder abuse, Bezuglov said.

Driver grazes dealer worker A woman is under investigation for assault after allegedly grazing an automotive service employee with her vehicle, Davis police said.

The Shoman Motors employee contacted police at about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, reporting that the woman picked up her BMW after servicing and refused to pay the bill, according to Lt. Ilya Bezuglov. The worker said the vehicle grazed him as he tried to stop her from leaving the Chiles Road business.

No arrest was made, but the case has been forwarded to the district attorney.

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Enough to make you go to Taco Bell T HE READERS ALWAYS WRITE ... My mom taught me long ago that if someone writes you a letter, you write them back. That, of course, was long before email, but the sentiment still holds, even now.

And yes, Sally on the Bird Streets wrote me many months ago and I’ve yet to respond, so I’ll do it now. Sally, it seems, wants to know if she is “the only one who cringes every time the McDonald’s breakfast commercial is aired that starts with ‘from Northern California to the Central Valley.’ ” I remember that ad well, though I haven’t seen it for a while. Fingernails across the blackboard for me, too, Sally.

“Central,” she goes on “is an east/west designation, and half of the Central Valley is in Northern California, so they aren’t separate destinations.”

Agreed. Reminds me of the time a local newspaper referred to Yolo County’s farm-to-fork creations as “Northwest Cuisine.” Then again,

Olive Pit in Corning, Granzella’s in Williams and Harris Ranch outside Coalinga.

There may even be a McDonald’s or two along the way.

F I guess we are north and west of Turlock.

Adds Sally, “ ‘From the Redwoods to the Central Valley’ would have worked, as would ‘From the North Coast to the Central Valley,’ but an Easterner wouldn’t know that. Maybe the marketing firm that produced the commercial is from somewhere between Manhattan and New York City.”

No doubt true. As every Californian who has lived through summer scorchers and winter tule fog knows, the Central Valley runs all the way from Cottonwood to Weedpatch, with plenty of charming stops in between. Like the

ACEBOOK IS FOR BRAGGING RIGHTS ... Everyone claims to be concerned about privacy, but you’d never know it from the intimate details they share about themselves and their loved ones, including photos on Facebook and other forms of social media.

You know what I’m talking about — the endless and hopelessly repetitive pictures of the happy couple sharing a hammock under a swaying palm tree with the message, “Bill and I are celebrating our anniversary at the Maui Zowie Hotel, drinking Primo Beer to wash down our macadamia-encrusted Spam and having the time of our lives.”

Basically a “we’re-in-Maui-andyou’re-not” message of social superiority.

Odd Fellows Encampment sponsors city camperships Special to The Enterprise The Davis Encampment, a part of Davis Odd Fellows, is providing grants for local children to attend City of Davis recreation programs during the summer of 2022. These grants are needs based to allow families who might not otherwise be able to send their children to summer camp.

The city of Davis offers a variety of recreational opportunities which are provided for children from about 3 to 16 years of age.

Some of the programs included are: swimming lessons, alternative recreation for persons with disabilities, gymnastics and dance programs, outdoor education, specialty camps, special interest classes, teen programs and youth sports.

Again this year, the city is not selling family pool passes. Rec swim will be

through online signups for a 90 minute session.

You can view the full list of available programs on the city of Davis’ Parks and Community Service website. Summer in person registration dates are: March 16th for the first session and March 30 for the second session.

You will find the Davis Odd Fellows Encampment grant application on the Davis Odd Fellows website at davislodge.org. You can fill out the application and the City of Davis Waiver forms online and email them back to oddscholarships169.org or mail or drop off at: Davis Odd Fellows Encampment Summer Scholarships 2022, 415 2nd Street, Davis, CA 95616.

Applications must be received by July 15.

After notification from the Encampment of a scholarship award, it will

be the family’s responsibility to sign up for the class at the city of Davis Parks & Community Service Department or by calling them at 530-757-5626. You cannot apply online to access your scholarship.

City of Davis phone registration will open on April 18.

All programs and activities offered by the city of Davis require that participants follow the COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines imposed by the Yolo County Health Officer, or other local, State or federal guidelines, at the time of registration. The city will inform participants of these restrictions and guidelines and will update participants if they are modified after registration is complete.

Contact Juelie Roggli at oddscholarships169@ gmail.com for more information.

HOW’D YOU LIKE LINDSEY FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR? ...

A kind reader sent me a link to a long-ago appearance by Lindsay Graham on Fox News Sunday.

Lindsey, who has gone silent in recent months, proudly noted that “I own an AR-15. If there’s a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can’t protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one the gang will come to, because I can defend myself.”

I think this deeply religious man should spend more time with Matthew 25.

SHEER BEAUTY ... Quick, before they’re gone, the three small trees in full bloom on the east side of L Street as it connects with Claremont just short of Covell are beyond spectacular.

Mother Nature at her finest, with an assist from God. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

UCD police seeking gun-wielding motorist

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A man brandished a gun at a motorist who honked at him Tuesday night on Hutchison Drive, according to a UC Davis campus crime alert.

Police said the victims were driving eastbound, approaching the traffic circle at Hutchison Place, when they encountered a silver Nissan Sentra parked in the middle of the road at about 8:20 p.m.

"When the Nissan did not pull through the traffic circle, the victim honked the horn and a white male adult exited the Nissan holding a

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shot at the victim multiple times with a BB gun through the front passenger window."

Enterprise staff writer UC Davis police are seeking information about a person who fired BB pellets at a bicyclist Tuesday night.

According to a campus crime-alert bulletin, the cyclist was traveling westbound on Hutchison Drive near Extension Center Drive shortly before 9 p.m. "when an occupant of a silver SUV, passing westbound,

The victim reported being struck once in the leg but did not require medical attention, said police, who have classified the incident as a battery.

Anyone with information about this incident or the involved SUV, which had at least two occupants, is asked to contact the UCD Police Department at 530-752-1727.

DMTC youths present a tale as old as time Special to The Enterprise Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers’ Theater presents the timeless fairy tale, “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Junior,” from March 12 to April 3, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive No. 10, in Davis.

Based on the featurelength Disney animated movie, this Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Tim Rice and Linda Woolverton musical tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress.

If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former

self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his castle staff will be doomed for all eternity. The show is filled with all the wonderful music from the Disney animated classic, including: "Be Our Guest," "Gaston," and the title song "Beauty and the Beast."

Morgan Bartoe will direct and choreograph, with Steve Isaacson and Montana Monce on musical direction. Young performers featured include Jarron Erba as "Beast," Elizabeth Perez as “Belle,” and Eloise Tobey as "Mrs. Potts.”

Actors will wear masks on stage during performances. Audience members must show a COVID vaccination card (or photo)

or a negative test within 72 hours and wear masks.

“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Junior” plays at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12, Saturday, March 19, and Saturday, March 26; at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1; and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2, and Sunday, April 3.

Tickets are $8, plus $2 facility fee. They can be purchased at the theater, online at dmtc.org or by calling (530) 756-3682.

For additional information, visit dmtc.org or call (530) 756-3682.

The man then returned to his vehicle and drove away, and was last seen heading south on Hutchison Drive towards Highway 113. Police described him as being a white male in his 40s, wearing a white unbuttoned baseball jersey. The gun appeared to be a semiautomatic pistol.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the UCD Police Department at 530-752-1727.

History exhibit remembers town of Monticello Special to The Enterprise

Bicyclist shot at with pellets on campus

handgun," the crime alert said. "The male subject approached the driver’s side of the victim’s vehicle and while pointing the firearm in her direction, cursed at the victim."

There was a thriving agricultural town on the western side of the Sacramento Valley … that is until 1957.

In the Berryessa Valley, snuggled into Sacramento Valley’s western foothills, existed the town of Monticello. It was razed and burned by the Bureau of Reclamation to flood the valley and build Lake Berryessa. This town was vibrant with life. Farmers cultivated fields, men rode horses in an annual rodeo, youngsters rode bikes throughout town, locals played music at the local tavern, kids went to school, families met at the local restaurants, and everyone swam in the Putah Creek swimming hole. While there are few folks who are still alive who remember those times, they are still grieving their lost Valhalla. But their memories of a town, now 75 years old, are still very much alive.

Next month, their sister city of Winters is resurrecting those memories. The Historical Society of Winters has chosen to gather photos, artifacts, and

speakers to commemorate the lost town of Monticello because they share common history. The high school students from Monticello attended Winters High School. Many of the Winters Youth Day Sweethearts were from Monticello.

There will be a Grand Opening of this exhibit on April 8 at 1 p.m. at the museum, 13 Russell St. in Winters. Come see this exhibit any Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. after the opening.

Private tours are available. Call 530-204-8563 for more information or to schedule a sneak preview.

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Briefly OLLI offers help picking a bike Join Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for an entertaining session to discuss the latest trends in bicycle travel, local bicycle groups, information and examples of electric bicycles, modifications for riders who are concerned about safety and ergonomics and how to determine what bike suits you. This course is geared toward those age 50-plus.

Free tickets to the Davis Bicycle Hall of Fame will be available to class participants, as well as swag bags. This course is scheduled for Thursday, March 31, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, 303 Third St. in Davis.

OLLI Membership fees are not required to participate in this class.

Sign up now at https:// cpe.ucdavis.edu/course/ right-bike-you-friendsfitness-and-fun.

Time travel with Google Earth The Davis Genealogy Club invites the public to attend a free virtual presentation, “Time Travel with Google Earth,” by genealogy expert and blogger Lisa Louise Cooke.

The meeting will be from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, via Zoom.

Davis Genealogy Club meetings take place on the third Tuesday of most months, and guests are welcome as capacity allows. For a guest pass, email Presi dent@DavisGenealogy. org.

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Soroptimist Ruby Award goes to Tese founder Special to The Enterprise Soroptimist International of Davis is proud to honor Dzokerayi Minya with its 2022 Ruby Award, which honors local women who inspire other women and girls.

The award and $1,000 grant recognizes women who ­ — through professional or personal efforts ­— make extraordinary differences in the lives of women and girls. Honorees are women who inspire and encourage other women and make a significant impact through their work.

Previous recipients are Gloria Partida of the Davis Phoenix Coalition, Tracy Fauver of Court-Appointed Special Advocates and Robin Dewey of TEAM Davis. The grant goes to the nonprofit of the recipient’s choice.

Minya is the founder of the Tese Foundation, formed in 2015 to support the education of rural girls in her native country of Zimbabwe. She came to the U.S. as a college student, and now lives in Davis with

her husband and three children.

According to nominator Cathy MINYA Farman, Ruby Award the Tese winner Foundation helps girls in Zimbabwe who don’t have access to free schooling, and whose families can’t afford boarding schools. The girls stay home to work, and are often offered into marriage well before adulthood. Tese pays for school, books, supplies and clothing for these pupils, and has funded some 750 scholarships since 2015.

Tese raises funds through an annual tea which celebrates the talents of African women; as well as Minya’s catering company, Zim Cuisine, which specializes in Zimbabwe food.

She also “engages tirelessly in local social justice movements to improve the lives of people of color in her community,” Farman

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Dzokerayi Minya, bottom left, hands out panties to girls in Zimbabwe, so those who menstruate can attend school. wrote in her nomination form. Minya is a founder of Women in Leadership, Davis, which supports and promotes women of color who seek leadership positions. She also speaks at local events honoring Black history.

Region, to compete with other club winners across Northern California and Nevada. The regional winner receives another $1,000 prize to the nonprofit of the winner’s choice, awarded April 3 in Reno.

Minya’s nomination went to Soroptimist International Sierra Nevada

Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and

girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. The service club was founded in Oakland in October 1921.

Soroptimist International of Davis was chartered in 1954. Another local club, SI Greater Davis, formed in 1985. Local members join some 75,000 Soroptimists in 122 countries and territories to contribute time and financial support to community-based projects benefiting women and girls. Its core values are gender equality, empowerment, education, diversity and fellowship.

Besides its Ruby Award, SI Davis offers cash Live Your Dream Awards to female heads of household seeking education or training, and assists King High students through its Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls program. It also funds high school scholarships, grants to nonprofits that align with the Soroptimist mission, and antitrafficking efforts. Visit sidavis.org to learn more.

Donation expands access to autism social-skills training Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO — Jamie Anderson knows how important social skills training can be for an autistic child.

“I have a 17-year-old son, Nick, who is on the spectrum. He went from barely speaking at age 4 to now being a fully engaged high school student who loves being in the band.

A big part of his amazing journey was the social skills intervention that he got when he was younger,” said Anderson, who lives in Davis.

That’s why, when her parents wanted to make a donation to a worthy cause, she suggested the UC Davis MIND Institute’s social skills training group program.

“I know those resources are hard to find and we wanted to do something to support families of kids with autism that don’t have the resources to get these life-changing services,” she said.

Nick’s grandparents, James and Jill Anderson, made a generous donation to create a fund that will help pay for participation for multiple families who can’t afford the program. It’s called the Autism Social Skills Program Support Fund.

“We’re hoping it will be seed money and that other people will also support this need by adding to this fund,” she explained. “And we want families from all different kinds of backgrounds to know that this help is there.”

The gift was made in honor of Jamie, her husband Michael and their son, Nick.

“It gets me teary,” she said, her voice breaking a bit, “but my parents ended up doing it in my son’s name, as well as me and my husband, since it impacts the whole family. Our family is very proud to provide more access to people who wouldn’t have that opportunity.”

Though Nick did not take part in the MIND Institute’s program, he has taken part in numerous research studies at the MIND Institute over the years, including the Cognitive Control in Autism study.

“This has been on our wish list for years and we are so grateful!”

exclaimed Marjorie Solomon, research director of the social skills program. “It’s a fee-for-service program. Though some insurance programs cover it, some families do not have adequate funding. Every year some are unable to take part.

This fund will enable those families to access the program and increase our potential to reach out to underserved communities.”

Many autistic children and teens face social challenges, such as difficulties making friends or having two-sided interactive conversations. The MIND Institute’s social skills group training program has been teaching practical skills in a group setting since 2001.

— UC Davis Health News

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Unspoken factor in solar fight Restore salmon A runs before it new judgment day arrives soon for rooftop solar development in California, with the state’s Public Utilities Commission due to issue a rewrite of its abortive attempt to dun current and future residential solar owners unprecedented sums, thus discouraging development of home-based solar energy.

Never mind that more than 1 million homes in this state have solar panels, making California a world leader in localized use of energy from the sun.

Never mind also that cutting back expansion of rooftop solar would compel utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to buy ever more energy from solar thermal plants in remote parts of the state’s vast and sun-drenched deserts.

There’s nothing these privately owned, profit-driven utilities want more than that.

For them, buying power from distant solar farms means vast profits. That’s because getting the desert’s solar power to cities requires hundreds of miles of new transmission lines, which cost many billions of dollars.

Since the private utilities get a guaranteed rate of return (e.g. profit) on capital investment that usually varies between 10 percent and 14 percent per year for 20 years, the more desert-based

gets too late

By John McManus, Special to CalMatters

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ast summer and fall the vast majority of juvenile endangered Sacramento River winter run Chinook salmon were killed by lethally hot river temperatures while a handful of agriculture operators got the lion’s share of available water. This was made possible by water rules established in the 19th century before salmon regularly faced threats from drought and overheated rivers.

Many Sacramento River fall run salmon — the backbone of California’s billion-dollar salmon fishing industry – were also lost to hot water. So too were a significant number of threatened spring run salmon. A recent announcement from the federal Bureau of Reclamation suggests a repeat of the fish kills is likely again this year unless we do something different.

One immediate action is to move the salmon to colder water.

Central Valley salmon are currently limited to the 10% of their historic habitat remaining below dams down on the Valley floor. But this is where the water is heating up. To deal with climate change, regulatory agencies must do everything they can to make the rivers downstream of the dams cold enough for salmon to survive. They also need to give all four Central Valley salmon runs access to higher-elevation habitat, above the dams in reliable coldwater reaches of river.

That should start with returning winter run salmon to their native McCloud River — and to the Winnemem Wintu tribe. This reintroduction has been stalled for years.

On the Feather River, it means moving beyond a deal agreed to 15 years ago but never implemented. In 2007, the Feather River Habitat Expansion Agreement was negotiated around a simple idea.

solar thermal, the more money they collect from customers.

So it was no wonder the utilities all lined up behind the PUC’s clumsy first attempt at cutting back rooftop solar. They even financed the largest “citizen” group pushing for that change.

The attempt, killed just before it could be adopted in late January, would have assessed new monthly fees for owning rooftop solar, also reducing payments to owners when they send excess energy to the state’s overall electric grid.

Opponents call the present system a “subsidy” of the rich by the poor and others, including renters who don’t control their rooftops. And it is, to a degree. But those folks would pay far more in rate increases from new solar thermal transmission lines than they now pay in unofficial subsidies to rooftop solar owners.

Not a single official analysis of the PUC’s now-dormant proposal even mentioned this key fact. The precise amount of new rate increases to

assure utilities profit from new power lines remains unknown, because no one can yet predict how much more solar thermal power they will buy.

Because the PUC’s plan did not mention this reality, it was incomplete and deceptive. Similarly, when PG&E happily applies for rate increases to pay for undergrounding many of its fireprone lines, it also won’t mention its guaranteed new profits.

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ov. Gavin Newsom also didn’t mention this when he demanded the PUC change its proposed new solar pricing system. He responded only to complaints from rooftop owners who disliked the planned new structure and to complaints it would cost thousands of “green” solarinstallation jobs.

But there is no doubt the PUC knew it was ignoring a vital factor in the pricing of solar power.

Said a February 2021 PUC study on electric rates of the last 10 years and the next decade, “The growth in rates can be largely attributed to increases in capital additions…in transmission and distribution.”

The study went on to forecast a 10-year average annual price increase for power from PG&E at 3.7 percent. The figures were 3.5 percent for Edison and 4.7 percent for SDG&E.

That would give each company guaranteed rate increases just about the same as those they’ve gotten over the last nine years, when PG&E prices rose by 37 percent and SDG&E rates by 48 percent, according to the report.

It is plain dishonest for the PUC and critics of the present rooftop solar program to ignore this reality and claim the pulled-back proposal would have meant savings for renters and lower-income electric customers.

But dishonesty rarely stops the often scandal-plagued PUC. It has played ball with the utility companies, in matters as varied as wildfire expenses, by reportedly not collecting fines it claims to assess and by forcing customers to pay for the Edisoncaused shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station (SONGS).

The discredited rooftop solar plan was part of that old song, and the new plan will be, too, unless it strongly factors in utility profit increases and rate hikes that would follow decreased rooftop solar installations.

— 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 soft cover fourth edition.

For more Elias columns, go to www.californiafocus.net

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ather than return spring run Chinook salmon — listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act – to the upper Feather River, the Department of Water Resources and PG&E, which own the dams on the Feather River, agreed to restore adequate spring run habitat below the dams. Since DWR and PG&E failed at this, the National Marine Fisheries Service should use its authority to make the parties move adult salmon above the dams and trap and move their offspring back downstream.

This can’t happen soon enough, given that the National Marine Fisheries Service is considering reclassifying spring run as endangered, instead of threatened, due to the mounting threats they face.

There are similar successful reintroduction models in Oregon and Washington for California to build on. This approach has been embraced by leaders of state and federal fish agencies. After 15 years of stalling on the Feather River, it’s time to act.

Other opportunities to allow salmon to expand their spawning habitat include the Eel River, where PG&E’s unwanted salmon-blocking Scott Dam should come out. The small, obsolete dams on Battle Creek that PG&E owns, but no longer wants, should come out as well, allowing natural spawning for multiple salmon runs in this cold-water creek.

On Putah Creek, a bypass channel is needed to allow fish to swim around a small, salmon-killing dam. On the Yuba River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should allow spring and fall run salmon to pass Englebright Dam to reach upstream habitat.

These effective ideas to expand salmon habitat are not new, but they’ve been stalled or have been overlooked for years. The health of our salmon runs, our rivers and California’s salmon fishing industry requires us to get these gridlocked opportunities moving to improve salmon climate resilience.

— John McManus is president of the Golden State Salmon Association. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

Letters Time to step up Gas prices on the way to $5-plus per gallon, America is on the way to a crisis.

Ukrainians are leaving their country in the millions; deaths of civilians are occurring as Putin advances his invading Army. A crisis beyond any financial struggles Americans may have paying for gas. Let’s all step up and make any and all sacrifices needed to support Ukraine in this time of need. Let the White House and Congress know that Russian oil has no place in America.

John Clark Davis

Bingo is back For 10 years the community of Davis has looked forward to Second Sunday Bingo at the Odd Fellows Lodge Hall.

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Odd Fellows Second Sunday Bingo is now back on Sunday, March 13,

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at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in Downtown Davis. The general public is invited. Bingo is open only to adults.

Doors open at noon, Bingo games begin at 1 p.m., and typically wrap up around 4 p.m. Fifteen games are played with cash prizes for the winners of every game, including $250 for the winner of the final Blackout Bingo game. Every Second Sunday Bingo has a beneficiary of proceeds (after winners are paid) and the beneficiary for March 13 is YoloCares (formerly known as Yolo County Hospice). The Davis Odd Fellows Lodge has hosted Bingo, officially sanctioned by the Davis City Council, for the past 10 years, providing cash prizes to players and tens of thousands of dollars to our community beneficiaries.

Players can purchase a packet of Bingo cards for $12, or a double-packet for $20.

The packets allow players to participate in all 15 games on Sunday. Instant winner pull-tabs are also available. And the Bingo Committee operates a snack bar for the convenience of players.

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Thirty years April 10, 2022, marks 30 years since a drunken driver hit me when I was 16 years old. I had a four-month-long coma, broken bones, paralysis and brain injuries. My gait and speech is not perfect, and I read lips.

Years of therapy and personal strength paid off. Inspiring people is my goal.

In 2006, I started speaking at Every 15 Minutes retreats with First Responders and at schools and groups in six cities for fourteen years teaching teenagers to not drink and drive.

The 21st century made history like no other. California had disasters: bankruptcy, drought, inflation, pandemics, smash and grab robberies, supply chain shortages, wildfires (e.g., Creek Fire), etc.

People are tired of the “new normal.”

My uphill struggle brought unexpected outcomes for my work: three certificates and a prestigious medal from the law enforcement. Adapt to the changes and the future will benefit you.

Lori Martin Tracy

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WASH: No enforceable tree guarantee SUPERINTENDENT: Sees opportunities

From Page A1 By comparison, he has said, gas station and manual car washes use between 50 and 75 gallons of fresh water per vehicle.

The desire for an express wash in Davis was evident in the public comments made Wednesday night. Of the 41 people who called in to the Zoom meeting, only five spoke out against the project, with another handful urging the commission to include as a condition of approval a voluntary agreement worked out between the applicants and local activist Alan Hirsch (known as “the Lorax”) focused on a tree and landscape plan.

Safety issue The commission did receive numerous written comments opposing the project, with many voicing concern about traffic safety, particularly for children traveling to and from Pioneer Elementary School that would pass in front of the Cowell entrance and exit of the car wash. There is a second planned entrance and exit on Mace as well.

Commissioners expressed concerns about that safety issue but also praised the Lyons’ for their plans to mitigate traffic hazards as well as their willingness to listen to and act on community concerns, including at a recent community meeting the applicants held with residents.

“Every project is going to have some issues, some problems,” said Commissioner Michelle Weiss.

“I was very impressed with the way the applicant conducted the public meeting,” she said. “I think that could be really a model for others in terms of listening skills, not just sort of listening to placate people, but saying, ‘Give us a better answer, work with us on how to make this go better.’

“I have to say I was impressed with that.”

“I’m also a bit of a sucker for a local investment and people who live in the community wanting to invest in the community, put their dollars here and raise their kids here,” said Weiss.

Commissioner Georgina Valencia agreed, saying, “I also like the idea of it being a local business. That always keeps more money here.”

Valencia praised the water-saving aspect of the business, but also acknowledged the safety concerns related to children on bicycles.

However, she said she believes the majority of traffic will go out the Mace exit rather than the Cowell exit where children would be passing by during the school commute.

That parcel on Mace Boulevard is currently zoned for automotive purposes, though not an express car

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Thomas and Evan Lyon’s proposal for a car wash in South Davis got back from the Planning Commission on Wednesday. wash specifically, which is why the applicants needed a conditional use permit to move forward.

Several commissioners noted that any of the uses currently permitted there would be just as likely to bring traffic to the area.

Commissioner Emily Shandy said when the city first began receiving public comments on the proposal several weeks ago, including concerns expressed by parents about their children biking past the car wash, “I shared a lot of the initial reaction of, ‘Oh my Gosh. Gosh no. Why would we put a car wash there?’

“But in thinking about it and understanding what this site is zoned for, that’s permitted use, that would not require our review, would not have gotten this attention from the community, would not have resulted in a community meeting, I’m not sure a car wash on this site is worse from a traffic perspective than an auto dealership that has people in and out all day, as well as people test driving cars, in and out all day,” said Shandy.

“I don’t see this project as posing a significant danger to people biking and walking, any more so than the adjacent apartment complex driveways and others children have to navigate on this route. The reality is it’s a driveway crossing… and there’s not a whole lot that can be done aside from promoting visibility of the bike facility, which they’ve done with green markings and refreshing bike lane striping and providing buffered bike lanes on both of these streets.

“Overall,” said Shandy, “I think the positives for this project are worth supporting and I believe the applicant has made good effort to address the concerns raised by the community.”

Planning Commission Chair Greg Rowe also voiced support, saying, “it’s going to bring a lot of benefits."

“When you look at what is allowed under the General Plan and the zoning for auto service center, that includes things like automobile parts stores, drivethru restaurants, a gas

station, even a bowling alley. All those things would generate traffic.

There doesn’t seem to be anything you can allow there that wouldn’t generate traffic within the confines of the current General Plan and zoning code.

“I think the owners, the applicants, have done an admiral job of addressing the community’s concerns.

I think they’ve listened carefully,” said Rowe.

But Commissioner David Robertson, who ultimately voted against approving the conditional use permit (along with Commissioner Cheryl Essex), was unconvinced.

“Explain to me how we’re not going to have all sorts of conflicts,” he said, particularly between cars and cyclists.

“I see real problems with this,” said Robertson.

The Lyons, he added, “are good citizens. Their heart’s in the right place. I think they bent over backwards to try to make a project that is good as you can make a project. But sometimes even when you make a project as good as it can be, it’s still not the right project…

“And the traffic issues I see as far as access to this site don’t make me comfortable.”

Root and branch Essex wanted the agreement reached between Hirsch and the applicants on tree protection to be included as a condition of approval for the project, but the rest of the commission declined.

That agreement includes measures intended to improve planning, planting and longterm care and survival of the project’s trees.

But who would enforce the agreement was an issue for planning commissioners, as was a lack of vetting by city commissions prior to Wednesday’s meeting, though several members of the city’s Tree Commission did weigh in during public comment in favor of including the agreement as a condition of approval.

“I don’t think it’s something that we should be dealing with tonight,” said

Valencia. “I think the topic is important, but maybe it’s something that we can ask … to go back to the Tree Commission and they spend some more time on it and they work with staff to clarify some of the pieces of this that I don’t think we’re going to be able to get to tonight.”

Weiss noted that if the tree agreement was not included as a condition of approval, “it doesn’t mean they can’t continue to work on it.”

“That is correct,” said Sherri Metzker, interim director of community development and sustainability for the city.

“Whether you put this in as a condition or not, the Tree Commission has its own agenda and its own efforts that it's undertaken to update the tree ordinance… so they’re already on that track.”

Said Rowe: “This was something that was negotiated by a private citizen with the applicants … I don’t know when or how long ago it was negotiated.

We just got it yesterday. So here it is tossed in last minute and we’re sort of being put in the position of saying, ‘Well, this is a lastminute thing and it was negotiated by a private citizen operating outside the purview of any particular city commission. And the applicant, out of the kindness of his heart, said, ‘OK, I’ll do it.'

“And I feel pretty uncomfortable adding this as a condition under those circumstances,” said Rowe. “I would like to see it vetted through some normal city process somewhere.”

Ultimately the commission voted 5-2 in favor of the express wash with Essex and Robertson voting no.

“Congratulations to the applicants,” said Rowe.

“From the public comments we received this evening, it seems like a number of people in the community are anxious to see this type of facility.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

of the youths. That’s why the pandemic was not so much a dark spot in his time as superintendent, rather a bright one that highlights the can-do spirit of the leaders and community members of the county.

Another bright mark on Lewis’ experience was the Sacramento Bee naming him one of the ‘Top 25 Black Change Makers’ in the Sacramento area.

“My intent is to, has been and continues to be one of the best county superintendents, and the fact that I’m the first African American to hold this post is a special honor,” said Lewis. “My lived experiences mirror what our students live through and mirror what our families experience.

Education has been a tremendous avenue of opportunity for me and because many of my lived experiences are motivators for my work, I want to open those avenues of access for those who have been historically underserved.”

In Lewis’ 26 years of educational experience, he’s been a paraeducator, a principal, a teacher, a district administrator, an assistant superintendent and — of course — a superintendent.

Even through his vast amount of experience, and with educational opportunity and equity remaining of paramount importance, Lewis has learned how invaluable it is to nurture humanity in his work.

“I’ve continued to learn the importance of maintaining our humanity at the center of our work and that simply checking in with folks has become a highly valued part of our interactions,” Lewis responded when asked about what he learned from his first term as superintendent.

“Although my direct responsibilities are

focused on academic performance of students and their health and wellbeing, first and foremost our children and families are human beings. I don’t think that could be understated, the importance of centering our humanity in all that we do.”

Making Lewis stand out amongst other candidates isn’t just his humancentric approach, it’s the connections and relationships he’s forged over his years of service as well.

“I’ve had a chance to serve in Yolo County for 17 years now. During that time I’ve been able to develop tremendous relationships across the various child youth and family serving sectors.

I’ve also had a great experience partnering and collaborating with other leaders in services of creating conditions for our children to thrive,” said Lewis. “I’m excited about what the next four years hold and to be at a point in our experience with the pandemic where there’s a significant pivot to the main priority of helping students and joining arms with our education community.”

Lewis also stated he’s excited for the upcoming Transitional Kindergarten initiative, as well as bolstering the mental health and wellness for students in a developing partnership with Yolo County Mental Health Services. Alongside that, he’s very much looking forward to full year of inperson classroom instruction.

Lewis can point to a past filled with copious experience, a present radiating passion and drive, and a future teeming with ambition, to show what kind of candidate he is to remain Yolo County’s superintendent of schools.

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

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Museum adds artwork in garden

By Sara Thompson Special to the Enterprise

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

Among them is Max (A176840), a happy-golucky 4-year-old male black Labrador retriever who enjoys his playtime.

Max is fun and friendly and can’t wait to go on adventures with his new family.

Max Also hoping for a good home is Annette (A192863), a 1-year-old calico kitten. She and her sister Mercie came to YCAS with 20 other siblings. Although shy at first, Annette is looking for a patient family who is loving and would consider adopting her with Mercie whom she adores.

Mercie had surgery to remove an eye and is timid about meeting new friends, but is expected to fully recover.

For information on adopting, contact adopt ycas@gmail.com.

All shelter animals are up-todate on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530668-5287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsofycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl. com/yolovolunteerapp.

Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Fiat, a 2- to 3-yearold neutered male Pekingese mix. This little guy loves playing with other small dogs. He wasn’t well cared for in

Fiat his previous home but is getting more trusting and lovable each day. He is curious and will keep you laughing. Fiat will do best in a home with no small children.

Vixon is a gorgeous, blue-eyed 1- to 2-year-old spayed female Australian shepherd mix. She is super-friendly, playful, athletic and smart. Vixon will do best in an active home. She needs training but Roots can fix that with the free lifetime obedience training classes that come with adopting her.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

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

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, up-to-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obediencetraining classes.

For more information, visit facebook.com/rott soffriends.

Vixon

ast weekend Explorit partnered with the UC Davis Art Fusion class to create a ceramic mosaic mural for the new Explorit Pollinator Garden. Families were helped by artists from UCD and the community to create bees, butterflies, and flowers to be added to the art piece.

Families participating in the art class made ceramic tiles that will be part of a larger mural featuring local plants and their pollinators. The finished art piece will be put on display during a Pollinator Garden Dedication later this spring and participants are invited to attend.

During the class, participants not only learned about art, but also our native plants and their pollinators. They learned that pollinators are not just bees and butterflies but can also be birds and mammals as well. Each plant relies on specific pollinators to collect pollen to spread to other plants for reproduction. A loss of the pollinator could result in the destruction of the plant species. Similarly, a loss of a plant could reduce the food supply for pollinators and could eradicate that species as well. Both plants and their pollinators are in a delicate balance, and both need to be maintained.

Leading the class was Diane Ullman, Gale Okumura and Lisa Tell. Ullman is a recent recipient of the UCD Distinguished Teaching Award for her outstanding teaching of the undergraduate classes.

She is a co-founder of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion program and leads courses in scientific art.

Okumura is a continuing lecturer for the Design Program in the Collect of Letters and Science at UCD. Her years of experience and dedication to helping not only students but her community has her involved on the boards of various area organization and non-profits. Tell is part of UC Davis’ veterinary sciences department.

She provided participants with information about our local pollinators, particularly hummingbirds.

Explorit wants to thank everyone involved in putting these art classes together, especially Explorit board member Julie Langston, who did the majority of the planning and collaboration for the classes. A big thank you to Ullman, Okumura and Tell for leading the classes.

Additionally, thank you to Heather Eckels, Valerie Jones, Sarah Rizzo and

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Families participating in Explorit’s art class made ceramic tiles that will be part of a larger mural.

Here, the first kiln-load is laid out and assembled.

Explorit Science Center Teresa Slack for all of their assistance during the classes, and preparations made before and after.

We look forward to featuring the mural in our Pollinator Garden for all guests to view and enjoy, while they learn about our local plants and their pollinators.

———— Exploit’s coming events: n Spaces are still available for our Summer Science Camps for those entering grades 3 to 6. All camps run from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday and will have both

indoor and outdoor components. Price is $175 Members/$200 NonMembers. Register for summer camp at https:// www.explorit.org/camps.

Camp spaces are limited, so sign up now! n Explorit is open to the public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., and 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. Masks will continue to be required for entry. n A Membership to Explorit not only supports us but grants the recipient free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, discounts on events, summer camps and workshops, and

gives you ASTC benefits to visit other museums throughout the world. To purchase or for more information visit https:// www.explorit.org/membership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191. n Like many small businesses the closures have had a significant impact on our income and sustainability. 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 530-7560191 or visit http://www. explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www. facebook.com/explorit.fb.

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NEWSOM: Uncharacteristically brief speech from governor From Page A1 of stresses and dramatic social and economic change, California is doing what we have done for generations: lighting out the territory ahead of the rest, expanding the horizon of what’s possible.”

Newsom touted better job creation and lower coronavirus death rates than other states, an ongoing expansion of prekindergarten to all 4-year-olds and billions of dollars in additional funding for homelessness services during his administration.

But there’s only so much comfort to be found in troubled times.

In an 18-minute speech — uncharacteristically brief for Newsom — the governor could not entirely ignore the unfolding war in Ukraine, which he noted at the top of his remarks mattered far more to most people than anything he had to say, or looming challenges such as rising public anxiety over crime.

The only new policy announcement came during an acknowledgment of spiraling gas prices, which have recently surpassed an average of $5 per gallon in California.

After previously calling in January to pause the annual increase to the state gas tax scheduled for July, Newsom pledged to work with legislative leadership on a plan for a tax rebate for drivers.

“Now it’s clear we have to go farther,” he said, though he rejected calls from the oil industry and some lawmakers to ramp up oil drilling in the state.

The governor provided no further details about who would receive financial relief or how much. At a post-event press conference, Dee Dee Myers, the governor’s top economic adviser, said

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What a difference a year makes. This was the scene at Dodger Stadium when Gov. Gavin Newsom gave the 2021 State of the State address on March 9, 2021. the plan, which is not yet complete, would likely distribute billions of dollars to California residents who had registered their cars with the state.

“We want to make sure that the money gets into the hands and pockets of the people who are paying these gas prices, and not into the hands of companies who might take advantage of a moment to increase profits,” she said.

The speech in the auditorium of the California Natural Resources Agency, where Newsom unveiled his budget proposal in January, was a far cry from last year’s slicky-produced kickoff of his recall defense at Dodger Stadium — or even the usual pomp and circumstance of an annual event that is typically held in the majestic Assembly chamber at the state Capitol.

A bipartisan phalanx of legislators and other state officials filled the auditorium, which had been lightly decorated for the occasion with live plants onstage — native California species, naturally.

Attendees were required to show proof of vaccination and test negative for COVID, but with a statewide indoor mask requirement recently dropped, face coverings were sparse.

Republicans, before and after the event, put out a series of videos and statements on the “real state of the state,” slamming Newsom and fellow Democrats for policies that they said had made California unsafe and unaffordable.

Seeming to anticipate those criticisms, Newsom nodded a handful of times to the issues that voters have consistently ranked as the most pressing in the state,

COMMENCEMENT: Going outside From Page A1 the world to see them as UC Davis grads,” May said in 2019. The change was made after consultation with students, deans and other faculty members on the new format.

At UC Davis Health Stadium, the university can accommodate for roughly 2,500 students plus guests for a total of about 10,000 people per ceremony.

“The graduates will be seated on the field, and the audience will wrap around them, in the stands and in seats behind the graduates on the field,” the UC Davis news release said.

Eligible undergraduates who wish to participate in

the spring commencement ceremony can register online and order tickets — for up to four guests — beginning Monday, March 21.

“Students will be divided by majors into the three ceremonies, and will learn upon registering when their majors are graduating, i.e., Friday, Saturday or Sunday,” the news release stated. “Any student with multiple majors will be asked to select one of them for commencement.”

UC Davis will also host several other in-person commencement ceremonies this spring: The School of Medicine ceremony will take place

May 13 at 10 a.m., the School of Law on May 14 at 11 a.m., the School of Veterinary Medicine on May 27 at 3:30 p.m., the School of Education at June 8 at 4 p.m., and the School of Nursing on June 9 at 10 a.m., all of which will take place at the Mondavi Center. In addition, Graduate Studies will hold a commencement ceremony June 9 at 3 p.m. at the U Center and the Graduate School of Management will hold a ceremony June 11 at 3 p.m. also at the U Center — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.

Obituary Frank Trau 1924 — 2022

Frank Trau died peacefully at home in Davis at the age of 97 of natural causes. He was born in Akron, Ohio, to Mabel and Frank Trau, and attended boarding school throughout his childhood.

He ventured west when he was drafted into military service during World War II. He joined the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor and the experience took him to the Philippines and Hawaii among other places. He enjoyed entertaining on his harmonica or the piano when on shore leave during this time.

After the Navy, he used the GI Bill to complete his college education at UC Berkeley, becoming a lifelong Cal fan.

He married Marilyn Wales and started a family, settling in the Bay Area in the ’50s. His working years spanned a variety of ventures, but he enjoyed a long career as a real estate broker in Davis, Sacramento and the Bay Area continuing to work well into his 80s. Of his multiple interests, he greatly enjoyed skiing, sailing his 35-foot sailboat in the San

Francisco Bay, learning to play the banjo (at age 75), photography, following Cal and 49er football or Giants baseball, and his daily serving of bacon!

Eight years ago, he and Marilyn moved to Davis, living independently in their home nextdoor to their daughter. Despite failing eyesight and hearing, he remained as active as he could with a personal trainer multiple times weekly and enjoyed socializing and keeping up with current events.

Frank is preceded in death by his beloved daughter Mary Ann, younger TRAU brother Joe, and many relatives and friends.

He is survived by his life partner, Marilyn Trau, daughter Katie Horn (John) of Davis, five grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.

Private services will be held in March. Donations in his honor can be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

including homelessness and public safety. He touted his commitment to violence-prevention programs and a recent proposal to establish county mental health courts, among other solutions that he said would not repeat the failures of the past.

But his focus was largely on the grander scheme. He repeatedly presented California as an alternative to the anger and fear dividing not just the country, but the planet.

“California does democracy like nowhere else in the world. No other place offers opportunity to so many from so many different backgrounds,” Newsom said.

“The California way means rejecting old binaries and finding new solutions to big problems.”

His best hope at overcoming those “binaries” in the near future may be his rebate proposal, which

follows weeks of loud pleas by Republican legislators to suspend the state gas tax.

Their early reaction was muted, however. GOP leaders said they were willing to work with the governor on the policy while also dismissing it as another half-baked plan from a man with lots of ideas and not enough follow-through.

Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk of Santa Clarita said it was “humorous” to hear Newsom speak loftily of democracy and inclusiveness during the State of the State.

“He just completely forgoed all the realities of what’s happening in this state,” Wilk said. “He is not addressing the needs of everyday Californians.”

Democrats, who hold a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature and could act without any Republican votes, were more receptive to Newsom’s proposal on relief for gas prices, applauding loudly when he announced it during his speech.

Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins of San Diego and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon of Lakewood, who have been cold on the governor’s pitch to suspend the gas tax increase, released a joint statement after the event promising to “put the state’s robust revenue growth to work by returning substantial tax relief to families and small businesses as fast as possible.”

In an election year where the sour mood could be a significant liability for Newsom and fellow Democrats across the ballot, the rebate is potentially a major political gift. For all of Newsom’s attempts to cheer up gloomy Californians on Tuesday evening, the biggest serotonin boost was likely experienced by members of his own party.

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Innovative ceramics take over the Pence Special to The Enterprise

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ecently, I asked a wellknown artist from the Bay Area to tell me how long it took him to create one of his 8-foot tall ceramic sculptures.

He looked at me strangely and said, “I’ll tell you what Alexander Calder said when he was installing his giant mobile at the National Gallery in Washington. Calder said, ‘The piece took about six months. But it really took me 50 years of work to be able to do it.’ ” But this time spent working is mainly invisible from the artgoing public, thus most of us tend to value what we can measure, like the amount of hours it takes to make a painting.

At the Pence, we install about 20 art exhibits a year. That’s a lot for a small organization; most galleries display about five to six exhibits per year. So, chances are, if you’ve stopped by the gallery, something is being taken down or put up. Our preparator Tim Barrera installs (and de-installs) the exhibits, and his work includes a lot of problem-solving, from how to hang something, to how to pack an artwork. In short, he makes the rest of us, and the art, look effortless, like the art just floated in and rested on a white pedestal, ready for the visitor to enjoy.

This month, it’s taken us two weeks to install two exhibits that represent years and years of artists experimenting and working in their studios to make some

extraordinary pieces. These exhibits generally take me about two years each to plan and execute, including some extensive fundraising to support the endeavor. I have always thought it strange that you pay to see a performing artist sing or dance, but with many small art galleries it’s free to view an artist’s work. That’s where retail sales help, sponsorships of exhibits, and general donations.

So next time you stop by the Pence, try to imagine the years of schooling, of work and experimentation, that it took the artist to arrive at that high level of artistic ability. So rather than asking visual artists how long a particular piece took them, as that kind of implies a value attached to the hours in creating the piece, asked them what inspired them to make it, or how they arrived at that concept.

Trust me — it will be a much more interesting conversation!

And you might want to drop a few dollars in the donation box after your next museum visit.

This month at the Pence, sculptor Jeff Downing’s ceramic diptychs address the critical water shortage affecting the natural habitats of the Western United States.

His exhibit, “Tinderbox: Water in the West,” is on view through April 24, has a reception on March 11 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Downing’s paired sculptures feature imagery symbolic of the severe drought conditions in our

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region that are exacerbated by the overuse of available natural water resources. The artist delves into the complex issues of water shortage, wildfire devastation, ecosystems, and conservation surrounding this ongoing crisis through his sculptures. His early interest in maritime culture has led to his installation work in various bodies of water, both locally and internationally, where his elegant stelae function as markers of the water’s ebb and flow over time.

Downing lives in San Rafael, and is a professor of art at San Francisco State University, where he chairs the ceramics department. The Pence is happy to welcome him for his first solo exhibit at the Pence, but locals will be very familiar with his monumental dog in front of the Gallery, “The Keeper,” installed in 2009.

In our Dowling Community Gallery, Marsha Schindler’s installation explores the connectivity between the human and the natural world, inviting viewers to become immersed in the observation of animals, plants and other creatures that she creates. The entire space has become a forest of sorts, with birds flying overhead, as well as a bevy of foxes, beavers, deer and a very large bear.

Schindler has a background in science and art, and is fascinated by the interconnection of the human, animal and plant worlds.

She has sculpted “tree women,” with their bases resembling birch trees, and their crowns full of birds and butterflies for this display. Not

to be missed is a network of ceramic tubes and circles that spans a whole 20-foot wall of the gallery, representing the mycelial network (or fungus) that transports water and nutrients between trees.

Her exhibit, “Life Whispers, Listen Carefully,” is up from March 11 to May 15. The opening reception is March 17 from 5 to 9 p.m., and all are welcome.

This month, our exhibit “On the Edge: CCA Clay” opens on March 16. This exhibition pays tribute to the innovation and experimentation that sculptor Viola Frey fostered as head of California College of the Arts’ ceramics studio, and that has thrived at CCA. Sculpture by alumni Frey, Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson, to work by more recent generation of graduates, spans 70 years of groundbreaking ceramic education. Participating CCA alumni include Tracy Ren, Victoria Jang, Woody De Othello, Derek Weisberg, Crystal Morey, Claudia Alvarez, Mary Alison Lucas, Carmen Lang, Alan Chin, Jay & Rie Dion, Robert Brady, and Squeak Carnwath. Work by former and current faculty such as Chair Nathan Lynch, Arthur Gonzalez, Erik Scollon, John DeFazio, Cathy Lu, Maria Porges, Nancy Selvin, John Toki, Kari Marboe, Art Nelson, and Dennis Gallagher, exemplifies the diverse range of expression that the ceramic program has maintained during Lynch’s leadership.

It features over 27 pieces that

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Robert Arneson’s “Bob as Chef” is a self-portrait of the artist in the guise of a chef, and is part of the Pence’s CCA Clay exhibit. span from the late ’60s to the present day, and is a tour de force of ceramic history in our region and beyond. The NCECA reception is March 17 from 5 to 9 p.m., and all are welcome. The exhibit is open until May 15, so there’s plenty of time to see it. Also not to be missed is the beautiful catalog of the exhibit and new video interview of Squeak Carnwath on Viola Frey’s influence.

In all, it’s a busy month at the Pence! Stop by soon to enjoy our new ceramics exhibits; we are open Tuesday-Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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

Three distinctly different shows come to Mondavi for the weekend

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent The Mondavi Center hosts three remarkably diverse performances during the coming week: n An evening of 21st Century music, performed on very modern, singularlyexotic electro-acoustic instruments (created in Northern California) ; n An evening of favorite orchestral works from the 1800s, performed by a touring British orchestra led by a famous American violinist; n And an evening of traditional Mexican folklórico dance and music, with nearly 30 colorfully-costumed dancers, backed by stirring melodies from a large mariachi-style band.

Dresher Davel Invented Instrument Duo On Friday, March 11, and Saturday, March 12 — both at 7:30 p.m. — the Vanderhoef Studio Theater will resonate with the unusual sounds of curiously designed modern instruments, as the Dresher Davel Invented Instrument Duo comes to town for two nights.

There’s the Quadrachord, which resembles a 15-foot long, waist-high tool bench, outfitted with

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The Dresher-Davel Invented Instrument Duo will bring their unique contraptions to the Mondavi Center this weekend. strings (about 13 feet long) that “can be plucked like a guitar, bowed like a cello, played like a slide guitar, prepared like a piano, and hammered on like a percussion instrument,” according to composer/ instrument builder Paul Dresher (who likes to push the musical envelope, so to speak).

The Quadrachord’s lengthy strings “offer unique opportunities to explore alternative tuning systems,” added Dresher.

Then there’s the Hurdy Grande, another project Dresher cooked up in his Bay Area workshop. “It’s inspired by its namesake, the hurdy gurdy, which is a medieval folk instrument

with guitar-like instrument strings” played by handcranking a wooden wheel.

Dresher’s Hurdy Grande is much larger than its medieval predecessor — about 10 feet long — and the Hurdy Grande’s strings are “bowed by a variable speed motor... leaving the performer’s hands free to play melodies, chords and rhythms,” Dresher said.

Percussionist Joel Davel plays the Marimba Lumina with Buchla Lightning, introduced in 1999 by the late electronic music pioneer Don Buchla (19372016). Davel was Buchla’s close associate. The traditional marimba has a set of wooden bars stuck by hand-held mallets. (You’ve

probably heard the ubiquitous “marimba ringtone” emanate from cell phones).

The Marimba Lumina involves a special assortment of electronicallyenhanced mallets to generate notes via a “control surface” featuring a lineup of “bars” that resemble the layout of the original marimba.

Aided by additional electronics, Dresher and Davel are able to create rich, complex sonic layers that create an almost symphonic sound. Close your eyes and you’ll swear there must be more than two musicians onstage.

Tickets are $35 general, with discounts for students.

Seating is limited, but a few tickets were still available earlier this week for both performances.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell American violinist Joshua Bell has been the artistic leader this venerable English chamber orchestra for a decade, and they’ve come to the Mondavi Center on an almost annual basis (except for the pandemic years).

This year’s program — Saturday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. — features familiar mainstream 19th Century European standards,

including one of the most popular concert-openers of all time: Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to “The Barber of Seville,” dating from 1816.

American music will be represented by “Adoration, “ a brief musical vignette by the once-neglected African American female composer Florence Price (1887-1953), whose music has achieved posthumous prominence over the past decade.

The two big works on the program will be the Violin Concerto of Antonín Dvorák, dating from 1879 (and it is one of the relatively few big 19th-century violin concertos by a European composer that Joshua Bell apparently hasn’t recorded, at least thus far); plus the energetic, colorful “Italian” Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn (a musical memento of the composer’s European ‘grand tour’ in the 1830s.)

Only 34 widely-scattered seats (out of roughly 1,600 seat in the hall) were still available at the Mondavi box office on Monday afternoon, though a few turned back tickets always seem to materialize on the day of the concert. $89-$165 general, with discounts for students, MondaviArts.org.

Ballet Folklórico de

México de Hernández

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This long-established company, founded in 1952, has appeared at the Mondavi several times in years past. Their performance in Jackson Hall on Friday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. will be an extravaganza involving nearly 30 costumed dancers, backed by a band with 15 costumed musicians, featuring considerable stagecraft (lighting, projected images, etc.).

It’s worth recalling that present-day California was a Spanish colony from the mid-1700s until Mexico gained independence in 1821; California was a Mexican province until shortly after the 1849 Gold Rush. That heritage is reflected in numerous California place names — the six most populous municipalities in California today (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno and Sacramento) all bear names that originated in the Spanish language.

As of Monday, there were fewer than 10 seats still available (out of 1,600 seats) for this folklórico dance performance, $35$65 general, MondaviArts. org.

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Briefly Local TV show up for awards Two episodes from the “Yolo YoYo’s” cable television show, produced by Chris Hennessy of Woodland, are WAVE TV awards Western Region Finalists — Both are top-five programs among 55 TV stations.

The Season 2 premiere episode, “Miracles on College Street” is a short documentary to bring awareness to Hennessy’s upcoming memoir, “Touched By Hannah: A Man with Cancer, His 1 lb. Newborn and their Fight for Life.”

In The Season 2 finale, “The Stage: Following our Wildest Dreams,” the Yolo YoYo’s try to bring live entertainment back to the lonely stage. Catch “Yolo YoYo’s” on Davis Cable Channel 15.

The winning episodes will be announced at the 2022 ACM West Region Conference and WAVE Awards Ceremony on April 1 at the Holiday Inn San Jose – Silicon Valley.

Live pop rock with Cold Shot Local favorites Cold Shot will perform a live concert of catchy poprock covers at Cloud Forest Cafe at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12.

The duo offers up a dynamic selection of upbeat songs that span decades. Featuring Richard Urbino (vocals, bass) and René Martucci (vocals, guitar), their show recently got attention with 2020 and 2019 nominations for best cover band by Sacramento News & Review (SAMMIES).

Urbino and Martucci have shared the spotlight on stage for years, playing all kinds of venues and trading off singing lead and harmony. Urbino’s deep register has a lively edge and his solid bass lines are the foundation for Cold Shot’s groove.

“The Lovely René,” a smooth alto singer, is equally happy to showcase on guitar.

Together, these two musicians keep a busy schedule doing what they love best.

See more at www. coldshotnow.com.

Hear Poetry Under the Oak Woodland Shakespeare Club, in cooperation with the Woodland Tree Foundation, will host the second annual Poetry Under the Oak extravaganza at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 13, in celebration of California Arbor Day Week, March 7th through March 14th.

The club invites anyone who would like to read a poem, either one they love or one they have written, to do so.

The chosen poem should not be too long and should focus on trees, parks, nature, springtime, seasonal changes or, of course, Shakespeare.

The event will have a microphone available and organizers ask that everyone respects the Yolo County COVID protocols. The event will be held under the Shakespeare Oak Tree in City Park, 629 Cleveland St. in Woodland.

Bring your own chair if you would like.

Sign in on the day of the event or contacting Patt Pavao at ptpavao@ sbcglobal.net or David Wilkinson at coordinator@woodlandtree.org. ahead of time.

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‘Turning Red’: We’ve all been there Animated charmer a clever depiction of teenage angst

Having poofed into a giant red panda at precisely the wrong moment, Mei (the panda) waits anxiously to see how her friends — from left, Abby, Miriam and Priya — will react to this admittedly unusual development.

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic The folks at Pixar love to tackle big topics, and they do so with humor, perceptive wit and clever storytelling.

They gave us an ingenious explanation of human emotions, in 2015’s “Inside Out,” and an equally astute depiction of human purpose, in 2020’s “Soul.” Both garnered well-deserved Academy Awards.

Pixar now has embraced an even greater challenge: Female puberty.

The boldly inspired result — directed by Domee Shi, from an original script by Shi and Julia Cho — is both a remarkably apt metaphor, and an absolutely hilarious depiction of one young girl’s maturity crisis.

The setting is Toronto, in the early 2000s. Thirteen-year-old Meilin “Mei” Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) is an exuberant, mildly dorky, over-achieving force of nature who proudly excels at school. She’d likely be exasperating, except that her potentially patronizing edges are softened by her loyal posse: Miriam (Ava Morse), Priya (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and Abby (Hyein Park).

Mei also is a model daughter at home, cheerfully helping her mother Ming (Sandra Oh) tend to the ancestral family temple, in Toronto’s Chinatown.

Everything is regimented into a familiar and carefully controlled routine. As Mei giddily tells us, at the top of this film — mildly breaking the fourth wall — “This is gonna be the best year ever, and nothing’s gonna get in my way.”

Wishful thinking.

Like the flip of a switch, Mei suddenly becomes obsessed with the hunky guys in 4*Town, the hottest, coolest band of all time (which, defying its name, has five members). Her three besties share this passion, and their out-of-control enthusiasm turns them into giddily

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‘Turning Red’ Rating: PG, for mild intensity Starring (voices): Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Hyein Park, Orion Lee, Tristan Allerick Chen, Wai Ching Ho Available via: Disney+ shrieking fangirls.

As a result — in a whimsical nod to Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” — Mei wakens one morning in the form of a an eight-foot-tall, bright red panda. Unable to control this new body, she becomes inadvertently destructive, messy and smelly.

(Sound like any teenagers you know?)

The obvious challenge is to somehow conceal this transformation from her parents and friends, which isn’t entirely impossible; Mei quickly learns that if she can calm down, and control her emotions, she’ll poof back to her normal self. (The dense, bubbly pink poof clouds are an adorable effect.)

But it simply isn’t possible for a 13-year-old girl to control those raging hormones, and — inevitably — Mei poofs in the presence of her besties. Shi holds on this moment, and we wait breathlessly for the girls’ reactions; all becomes well when Abby, overcome by all this adorable red fuzziness, hurls her-

self into a massive hug.

On the home front, Mei’s sudden rebellious streak puts her at odds with her refined, immaculately dressed and carefully poised mother. Ming, a creature of rules and discipline, can’t begin to fathom this sudden change in her daughter; in a cleverly subtle touch, Ming’s “cool” emerald green outfits are a specific contrast to Mei’s fire-red panda self.

But Shi and Cho are after much more than angst-generated humor, and their story takes an intriguing turn in the second act. Suffice to say, Mei’s panda counterpart isn’t a random choice from the animal kingdom.

The best Pixar films always blend a captivating premise and plot with the emotional heft emanating from scrupulously constructed characters.

Mei’s scholastic prowess notwithstanding, she’s just a little bit weird, just a touch awkward, and quite vulnerable. She can’t control her energy; she constantly draws in a secret sketchbook, carefully hidden from her mother.

Totally endearing.

Ming’s stiff severity is wholly at odds with the hurricane her daughter has become: a disparity further enhanced by their respective appearances. Mei is soft and rounded, while her mother is tall, boxy and even sharp; Ming’s insistence on control also is reflected in Oh’s cultured vocal performance.

Mei’s friends are a refreshing novelty, thanks to the absence of any mean-girl behavior. The tall,

tomboyish, disheveled Miriam is the group’s cut-up: quick to say the right thing at a moment of crisis, and blessed with instinctive sensitivity. She’s also something of a rebel, which puts her at odds with Mei’s mother, who regards Miriam as a threat.

The artsy Priya is the group’s stoic: cool, solemn and serious. She rarely cracks a smile, and her deadpan delivery adds considerable humor to her one-liners and arch observations. Abby, finally, is a firecracker: a headstrong little warrior who’ll charge recklessly into anything.

Ming’s mother and sisters — Grandma (Wai Ching Ho), Auntie Chen (Lori Tan Chinn) and Auntie Ping (Lillian Lim) — join events in the third act, enabling Mei to better understand her mother, after seeing the dynamic between her and Grandma.

Ludwig Göransson’s energetic score is punctuated by 4*Town’s hit song, “Nobody Like U,” written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell; it’s a catchy pop anthem.

This is a marvelous coming-ofage saga, with a parallel focus on the complexities of mother/daughter relationships: all wrapped up in a wacky but shrewdly insightful package. Growing up is indeed a beast.

Chalk up another hit for Pixar.

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

‘Urinetown’: When you gotta go, you gotta go

By Jennifer Goldman

joining Bobby and the rebellion.

Enterprise theater critic To pee or not to pee … that is the question!

Despite its grotesque name, DMTC’s production of “Urinetown the Musical” is flush with humor.

The show’s premise is that due to years of drought, citizens must pay for the privilege to pee instead of using private toilets. The public restrooms are run by a greedy corporation, which puts a lot of “pressure” on its poorest residents. If the people break the law by refusing to pay to pee or urinating elsewhere, they are arrested and sent to the dreaded Urinetown.

While the show is filled with a plethora of funny songs and dances, it presents a very pertinent message about how we all need to take better care of our precious resources.

If you are a fan of musical theater, you will get a kick out of all the musical

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The peasants are revolting, which is typical for a show called parodies of other famous Broadway shows that Mark Hollmann’s music and Greg Kotis’s lyrics reference. For example, the Act I finale is based on the style of “Les Misérables.” Later, in Act II, there are plays on “Fiddler on the Roof ” and the famous “Cool” dance from “West Side Story.”

Alongside the parody, this show squeezes in so many jokes that you could see it three times and still laugh at something new.

Director Steve Isaacson

was thrilled to present Paul Mollitt (Bobby Strong) all the way from Britain.

Bobby and Sierra Isola (Hope Cladwell) took their place as the romantic and heroic couple. Bobby tries to save his parents and the poor from getting thrown into Urinetown, which culminates in a revolution against Urine Good Company.

Poor, idealistic Hope, who falls in love with Bobby, is torn between joining her father or

Kyle Jackson was the show’s musical director and also led the incredible four person orchestra. The whole audience was laughing hysterically during my favorite song “Don’t Be the Bunny.” In the song, Mr. Cladwell (Clocky McDowell), the greedy CEO of the Urine Good Company, and his staff the creepy Mr. McQueen (Evan Millis) and sex kitten Mrs. Millennium (Katrina Lynne Pitts) all sing about their “philosophy of survival” while the cast hops around the stage like rabbits. Sherilyn Turton’s choreography worked seamlessly with the music and brought a smile to every face in the theatre.

In contrast to the Urine Good Company, Ms. Penny Pennywise (Morgan Barton) ran the Amenity No. 9, the poorest, filthiest urinal in town. Clad in an absurd outfit complete with a coin dispenser, crazy hair, and a dirty plunger always in

hand, she was a real standout in the show for her incredible acting and singing talents. All of the “poor” were also dressed in dirty clothes with smudges on their faces. In the age of COVID-19, I had to suppress my desire to to take a handi-wipe and clean them up.

Officer Lockstock (Hugo Figueroa) narrated the show and schooled the “pee-dancing” Little Sally (Marie Nearing). He drew all attention with his commanding voice, which reminded me of the old Dragnet show. You will enjoy the many surprises in this show and the adventures at the Secret Hideout where the ensemble does a great job with the musical number “Snuff That Girl".

If you like puns and would like to escape the fear and anxiety of real life, if only for a couple of hours, come down to see DMTC’s “Urinetown the Musical,” playing now through March 27.

DHS presents ‘Firebringer,’ a prehistoric musical Special to The Enterprise The Davis High School theater department is pleased to present its spring musical, "Firebringer."

The show opened last weekend and continues with three more performances this Thursday through Saturday, March 10, 11, and 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 general admission, $8 students and are available at bluedevilonlinestore/ graystep.com or at the door.

Due to strong language and adult themes, this play is intended for mature (13-plus) audiences.

At the dawn of humanity, one tribe of cave-people survives the many trials of prehistoric life under the wise leadership of Jemilla, The Peacemaker. Jemilla taught her people to express themselves, rather than bashing each others' heads with rocks and eating each

others' babies. But one member of the tribe doesn't seem to fit in: Zazzalil. She's always trying to invent things to make life easier … for herself.

While out hatching her latest scheme, Zazzalil stumbles upon the most important discovery in history. One that will pit her tribe against wooly mammoths, sabertoothed tigers, and change the world forever. She'll travel from omega to alpha, and become … the Firebringer!

Since the pandemic hit and shut down everything including the production of “Clue” that opened in March 2020, the DHS Drama Department has inched its way back to live theater, first with radio plays produced in isolation, then moving to an outdoor production of the musical “Heathers” last

spring, and to an indoor limited audience production of “Comedy of Errors” last fall.

"In choosing our plays for the season," notes Director Chad Fisk, "we wanted to find works that celebrate and feed on the live aspect of theatre and leave audiences uplifted." “Firebringer,” a work born through Chicago's Starkid Productions, fit the bill perfectly. Though the language is sometimes a bit coarse, the message is pure: value the differences and contributions of all members of your tribe and we can make the world a little better.

With music direction from Krissy Schwerin and choreography

by Kat Painter, the Firebringer cast features Ella Del Favero as Jemilla, Paige Jennes as Zazzalil, Marina Greenwood as Keeri, Ila Oakley Bremson as Emberly, Greta

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The Davis High drama department presents “Firebringer” through this weekend.

Farnum as Tiblyn, Amanda Archer as Schwoopsie, Ruby Shwerin as Chorn, Paige Telles as Molag, Morgan Hendrix-Chupa as Grunt, Django Nachmanoff as Ducker, Helena Wei as Smelly Butt, Finley Warner as Clark, Tessa Clifton as Claire, Alisa Clayton as Nicolai and Hanna Futrell as the Kid.

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Girlfriend changed tune Dear Annie: I’ve been in a relationship for about three years.

Both of us are estranged from our spouses. We stayed in marriages because of our children and are still married now for other reasons. We both struggled with spouses who slept around.

Neither of us had a relationship outside of our marriages until now.

Before we met, my friend slept in a room in the back of their house, crying herself to sleep every night. I slept on the sofa,

taking antidepressants and seeing a counselor. (I moved out three years ago.)

My friend lives overseas. We text and email constantly, with occasional phone calls and Zooms. Prior to COVID-19, we saw each other about every three or four months.

Around the time COVID-19 started, my friend’s son-in-law died, leaving behind a pregnant wife and young child. My friend and her estranged husband got together and took their daughter and her family in.

In doing so, they all became very close, and my friend reconnected with her husband. She now sleeps with him. I’m having difficulties with this. Knowing that my wife slept around was difficult for me, and I find this situation challenging, too.

I told my friend that I just want her to be happy, and if being with her husband makes her happy, I’m OK with that; I’ll go. She ignored what I

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2022-329 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Katrina Alexandra Hernes filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name Katrina Alexandra Hernes to Proposed name Katrina Alexandra Klippstein THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

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had to say. We continue to text and are looking forward to seeing each other again.

She is constantly saying that she loves me and wants a future with me. And she reminds me that I’m better off being in a relationship with her now than I was before. That’s true. I was really unhappy before and have never been so happy as I am now with her.

We previously talked about a future together and had plans.

Now when I ask her about that future and when we should act on it, I’m ignored. I’m not sure where to go from here.

I’ve considered looking for someone else, but I’ve never been much for dating. And I continue to deal with depression. It’s all really difficult to sort through.

I’m not sure where to go or what to do — any thoughts?

— Missing My Girlfriend Dear Missing: Where you go from here is up to you, especially because you are in a hurtful relationship right now. Your girl-

friend is back with her husband and not with you. Next time she tells you that she loves you and wants a future, pay more attention to her actions and not her words.

For now, cut off communication with her while you are dealing with your own life. It is understandable that you are depressed when you thought you were in a relationship with a future. The good news is that once you realize and accept that she is not the one and that you will be better off without her, you can move on.

In moving on, continue your treatment for depression and try to see that the ball and chain of her lies are now gone and you are free to find someone who loves and accepts you. Set her free so your special someone can find you. She is out there just waiting for you to be done with your exgirlfriend. You sound like a caring man, and I have no doubt you will find someone.

———

Dear Annie: I have to object to your language about how grandchildren “intuitively” love their grandparents in your note to “Family Scapegoat.”

Unless the grandparents are the children’s primary attachment, there is no reason for children to connect with them except as a reflection of the parent’s relationship with the grandparents. Saying otherwise is outdated and not in line with attachment theory.

Parents should be allowed to cut unhealthy and unsafe relationships out of their children’s lives — even if those relationships are familial.

— Unimpressed by Greatness Dear Unimpressed: You’re correct, and if a grandparent’s behavior is unhealthy or unsafe, they should be kept away from their grandchildren. If the issue is not so black and white, and the behavior is more annoying than unsafe, then parents should set boundaries for the interactions rather than cut them off altogether.

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UCD women win opener over Long Beach State

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer HENDERSON, Nev. — After winning five straight Big West Conference regular-season championships, the UC Davis women’s basketball team struggled with consistency this year and slipped to an 8-8 mark and a sixthplace finish.

None of that mattered Wednesday night at the brandnew Dollar Loan Center as sixth-seeded UC Davis entered the post-season with a convincing 55-45 win over No. 3 Long Beach State in the quarterfinals of the Big West Conference tournament that determines the league’s representative to the NCAA’s Big Dance.

The Aggies, 15-12 overall, advance to a Friday semifinal date with No. 2 UC Irvine, which moved along with an 80-68 win over Cal State Fullerton. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

“We’ve had our ups and downs all year, but our goal has always been to be playing our best basketball in March and I think we showed that tonight,” said Aggie head coach Jen Gross.

“We came in with a championship mindset and played with great confidence. I couldn’t be prouder of how we responded to their pressure and how gritty our defense was when it stepped up and several times came up with two or three stops in a row.”

Although the final margin was 10 points, the game was closer than that much of the way, with Long Beach cut-

ting what once was a 12-point Aggie lead to a single basket at 36-34 midway through the third quarter.

That’s when Aggie center Sage Stobbart stepped up and buried a 3-point bomb and Cierra Hall added two free throws to push the count to 43-36 entering the final 10 minutes.

The final dagger came when Evanne Turner hit a trey from her favorite spot in the right corner, giving the Aggies a 51-43 lead entering the final two minutes.

Earlier in the game Turner hit four straight threepointers and ended up leading all scorers with 19 points.

Noted team leader Cierra Hall, “When she (Turner) is shooting, I don’t have to worry about getting the rebound because I know she’s going to make it. Stars play their best in the biggest games and that’s what she did tonight.”

Speaking of stars, freshman guard Sydney Burns consistently overcame Long Beach’s relentless pressure as she brought the ball upcourt and somehow pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds.

“I’m incredibly proud of how she’s played this year,” said Hall of Burns. “She’s one of the best guards in the conference.”

This game was a slugfest from the start, and both head coaches agreed with the assessment that this could well have been the championship game.

UCD turned in perhaps its best defensive performance of the year, holding Long Beach to just 29.8 percent from the field and 15.8 percent from three-point range.

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UC Davis forward Kayla Konrad (23) grabs a rebound in Wednesday’s game against Long Beach State.

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Elijah Pepper had a pair of baskets and Ezra Manjon and Christian Anigwe one apiece to cut the deficit to 45-37, as Fullerton went into a scoring drought that lasted over six minutes.

The Aggies, however, could come no closer, as the Titans went on a 12-3 streak and led by at least 15 points the rest of the way.

“Davis is a great team and we knew they’d make a run, so we called a timeout and emphasized getting back to doing the things that got us the lead in the first place,” said Fullerton head coach

Dedrique Taylor, a 1997 UC Davis graduate.

Led by Damari Milstead, Fullerton hit 11 of 19 from long range, including several at critical times.

To read the entire UC Davis men’s basketball story, visit www. davisenterprise.com — Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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“She is a consistent pitcher,” said Gibson. “She’s gonna hit her spots and she’s gonna put the ball in play and rely on her defense to get outs. She didn’t have any walks. I think she hit two batters. She doesn’t give away too many free runners. She did a great job today.”

Davis began its hitting spree in the first inning. After an infield single and stolen base by Cloe Lamoureux, she moved to third base on a single by

Carolena Morales.

Another infield single from Naomi Kalanetra resulted in Lamoureux getting thrown out at home and Morales moving to second base.

A passed ball by Kennedy’s catcher Michaela Nelson moved Morales to third and Kalanetra to second base.

Blue Devils catcher, Isabella Lester then hit a clutch single that allowed both Morales and Kalanetra to score.

— To read the rest of the Davis-Kennedy softball story, plus view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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Davis tops Cosumnes Oaks in DL match

By Mark DeVaughn Enterprise correspondent Three varsity seasons.

Three head coaches.

During his time with Davis High boys volleyball, Owen Buzbee has seen a lot of things — a winning season not included.

New head coach Rachel Hinojosa has the junior captain believing. Wednesday’s four-set home win over Cosumnes Oaks inside the Blue Devils' South Gym saw the hosts prevail in comeback fashion. After their first Delta League victory of 2022, several Davis players raved about their new boss.

“I think she’s really focused on us. You can tell she really cares about us and who we are as people,” said Buzbee, who served up a team-high five aces in the 22-25, 25-10, 25-20, 25-18 win.

Ethan Wells smacked 13 kills and Mick Dunning dished out 13 assists for Davis (1-1 in the Delta League, 3-1). In the pandemic-shortened 2020 and 2021 seasons, the Blue Devils went a combined 7-7.

“I think she helps bring the intensity-level up in practice,” junior hitter Anthony Edson said. “That really helps.”

Led by their military wife head coach, Davis showed off its newfound discipline in the pivotal fourth set. The Wolfpack grabbed a 16-14 lead before the Blue Devils claimed 11 of the match’s last 13 points.

Those who shied away from danger earlier rose up to make a difference. Edson swatted a pair of kills on key points. Classmate Zenniko Moore added a timely block.

“I made one good play, and something just switched

on in my head,” Edson said. “I was getting kind of down, but I think I put it together, and — like the rest of the team — brought the intensity up as the match went on.”

Gabriel Crawford added 10 assists for Davis, while teammate Marcus Blewett added five kills. The effort helped dull the memory of what occurred two days earlier. Davis opened league play Monday with a five-set loss to Elk Grove.

Hinojosa — who’s also the JV girls head coach — gives the Devils a unique authority figure. She once produced a talk radio show in Houston. She went on to coach high school volleyball in Dover, Del., where husband Jose was stationed with the Air Force.

He now flies C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft out of Travis Air Force Base (and attended Wednesday’s victory). His wife wields helpful discipline.

During Tuesday’s practice scrimmage, the Blue Devils coach ordered players to say supportive things about teammates — after they lost a point.

“You say things like, ‘hey, man, you got the next one,’” explained the head coach. “Volleyball’s a momentum game. You have to keep your head on straight, and your keep memory short. Chemistry is so important.”

Hinojosa interviewed for a Vacaville High volleyball coach role before accepting the Davis role, she said.

“It’s nice to take what I’ve learned and implement it for the guys,” she said. “I love coaching in Davis. I’m using a part of my coaching brain I didn’t even know existed, because everyone is already so focused and disciplined.”

— Follow Mark DeVaughn on Twitter: @OrangeMarkD.

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Davis High opposite hitter Marcus Blewett (12) and Anthony Edson (11) go up for the block in Wednesday’s match.

Big West Tournament Blue Devils win easily Aggies loses to Titans

By Rebecca Wasik

Enterprise correspondent

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer HENDERSON, Nev. — There’s a saying in sports that it’s hard to beat a team three times in the same season, but Cal State Fullerton proved that theory wrong by overwhelming UC Davis, 73-55, in the quarterfinals of the Big West men’s basketball tournament Thursday night at the Dollar Loan Center.

The win advances the Titans to the Big West semifinal round Friday night, while the Aggies finish their season at 13-11. The tournament champion claims the Big West’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament that begins next week.

“The abrupt ending to a season is hard to take, but I am just so thankful that God has blessed me to be around these guys for so long.,” said UC Davis head coach Jim Les. “They are high character individuals and they work hard on and off the court and the ending is never easy to accept.”

Fullerton owned wins of 74-58 and 62-59 over the Aggies in the regular season and proved their dominance once again Thursday night.

The Aggies led 14-8 early, but Fullerton quickly rallied and took the lead for good at 23-22 on a basket

by E.J. Anosike.

A 3-pointer by red-hot Tray Maddox completed a 10-3 run that gave the Titans to a 37-27 advantage at the break.

“You have to give credit to Fullerton,” Les added.

“They played extremely well and contested a lot of our offensive opportunities. We didn’t play our best game and they did, which is what the outcome showed.

Fullerton came out of intermission determined to put the game away early, roaring away to a 45-29 lead

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An impressive offensive showing secured the Davis High softball team's 13-3 victory against Kennedy High on Thursday.

The game was called after six innings because of the 10-run mercy rule.

That was good news for Davis (2-5) in its win over Kennedy (0-2).

According to Davis head coach Tyler Gibson, his team has been working on their offense, and it showed Thursday.

“These are things we have been working on for the last three days,” said Gibson. “The first pitcher (Leah Self of Kennedy) was a little bit slower, and we have not been very good at making adjustments between fast pitchers and slow pitchers. We did a pretty good job in the first inning, then a lull there in the middle. We got it back though and that was encouraging to see.”

Blue Devils starting pitcher Sydney Tuss pitched a complete game, giving up six hits and

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Davis High softball player Naomi Kalanetra touches home plate in the bottom of the third inning in Thursday’s non-league home game against Kennedy.

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Home tax credits you can take REAL ESTATE 101

Homebuyer credits can make first-time home ownership more than just a dream for many Americans.

Keep reading to learn more about how to take advantage of federal and other incentives to help homebuyers make their dreams a reality.

Who is a first-time home buyer?

Raid your IRA

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says a first-time homebuyer is someone who: • Has not owned a principal residence during the three year period ending on the date of the property purchase (and also their spouse).

• Is a single parent who has only owned a home with a former spouse while married.

• Is a displaced homemaker who has only owned with a spouse.

• Is someone who has not only owned a principal residence not permanently affixed to a permanent foundation in accordance with applicable regulations.

• Has only owned property that was not in compliance with building codes and which cannot be brought into compliance for less than the cost of constructing a permanent structure.

You can use up some $10,000 of portfolio earnings out of a traditional IRA or Roth IRA without paying the early withdrawal penalty if you’re a first-time homebuyer using it to buy a home. In this case, the IRS defines a first-time homebuyer as someone who hasn’t owned a persona residence in two years. This is different from HUD, who requires three years.

What is HUD?

Of course, first-time homebuyers can also take advantage of programs that are available to all homeowners. These include a tax deduction for your home mortgage, limited to interest paid on $750,000 or less for people that are married and filing jointly and $375,000 for those married and filing separately. Also, this deduction is only for those that itemize, and a 2021 bill increased the standard deduction to make it less likely that you’ll itemize your taxes. Still, it’s there, and you’ll get a 1098 form from your lender showing how much you paid.

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development administers programs that provide housing and community development assistance. It also enforces fair and equal housing laws. HUD, as it is known, was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program.

What first-time homebuyers should know is that HUD grants funds for first-time home buyers to groups with IRS tax-exempt status.

So your first-time homebuyer grants through nonprofits and other organizations may well originate from HUD.

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Good faith estimates REAL ESTATE 101

Good faith estimates are a mandatory part of every property sale, as required by the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act — commonly referred to as the RESPA. The document ensures that you understand and agree to take care of all of the fees and costs associated with buying the home. Of course, this arrives in a mountain of paperwork, only adding to the possibility of confusion.

The good faith estimate is simply intended to aggregate what you’ll be expected to pay. If you’ve never seen one, it might be best to acquaint yourself with the standard items that will be found there. Here’s how the good faith estimate break down.

Settlement and lender fees Your estimate itemizes the financial transaction between clients and lenders. One portion of these fees goes to lenders, and the rest are fees and costs associated with closing — including legal and real-estate costs. When you apply for a loan, the broker is required to provide this estimate within a threeday period. Dates when payments are due are outlined in the document.

When called in to review your good faith estimate, take the time to examine everything and remember that no question is too insignificant. If there are any disagreements, formal written changes can be made; you may also walk away from the deal. Be aware of the reality of the situation, though: They call this a good faith estimate for a reason. It might not be accurate down to the penny, so the law allows for a margin of error at 10% when estimating fees and costs. Still, this agreement is legally binding, so once it’s signed, the deal is done.

What's included Borrowers are entitled to more than one good faith estimate before completing this process. You don’t have to accept the first pass. So, study the list found on the good faith estimate sheets. Many of the various charges won’t compare to your larger closing

costs, and the bottom line could fluctuate depending on the outlines of your mortgage. Origination fees and closing or escrow fees make up the bulk of your costs, but the estimate will also include smaller fees like notary services too.

Other costs associated with closing include attorney’s fees, the title search, transfers and taxes, title insurance, recording the deed and perhaps incidentals like pest control. Originating fees cover everything from securing credit reports, application fees, document drafting, wire transfers, processing and appraisals, among other things. Admittedly, this is a long list. But a qualified real-estate agent can help you sort through it all.

Why it matters Your good faith estimate is a critical element in precisely itemizing your sale. You’re locking in the total purchase price for the property, and will be walking away with the clearest possible idea of where the money is going.

Evaluating this document line by line ensures that you have enough cash to move forward. If anything seems confusing, or out of order, have your real-estate agent evaluate the estimate.

And if things still don’t line up, remember that this is your last chance to decide against buying.

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Navigating a hot market REAL ESTATE 101

It has been a boiling hot real estate market.

Inventory has been low and competition has been high. For a buyer, shopping can be more imposing than a meet up with Andre the Giant.

NerdWallet offers a few tips for navigating a hot market. First rule: be patient.

Start with a stroll — or a scroll

Expect to compromise

Don’t fall in love with a house at first sight. Doing so might lead you to overlook problems and, if you make an offer that’s declined, suffer heartache. In a hot market, “it’s more like dating than getting engaged,” said agent Brent Landels of Re/Max Key Properties in Bend, Oregon.

“Don’t get emotionally involved in anything you’re looking at until you’re further down the road.”

Rather, spend some time looking at what’s available before you get serious.

Take note of how long homes are listed before a contract is pending. You might also want to look at recently sold listings online to get a sense of how much homes are really going for compared to their listing prices.

Holding out for “the one” may not be an option in a hot market. It may be smarter to approach home shopping by thinking about ways you could make a “good enough” home work.

Flexible expectations can give you more options in a hot real estate market. “People say, ‘I want to be in this neighborhood,’” and we have to say that’s great, but we have two weeks’ worth of supply,” Landels said.

If there aren’t many properties available that fit your criteria, you may need to find aspects where you can compromise.

Think about what’s most important to you now, and if you see this as your potential forever home. Maybe a third bedroom can be a home office for now, and a nursery later when you’ve got a little one.

Have your financing lined up Compare mortgage interest rates from several lenders, and get a mortgage preapproval from two or three lenders. Official loan estimates will help you compare interest rates and costs to find the best deal.

Find a good real estate agent You want someone who’ll alert you to listings as soon as they hit the market, if not before. Also, a good agent will know how to make your offer stand out.

“I was a brand-new agent at one time in my career, too,” Landels said, “but in a market like this, there is no margin for error.” If you’re thinking about hiring a newer agent, he recommends choosing someone who works closely with a more established broker.

Interview more than one agent, and don’t hesitate to ask for (and actually check out) references from recent clients.

Offer a can't miss closing Especially if you’re competing with cash offers, you’ll want to show sellers that you can definitely close the deal. A preapproval gives you a leg up here because it demonstrates that lenders find you creditworthy. Making a larger down payment can also be enticing to sellers.

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Should you remodel?

REAL ESTATE 101

Remodeling has become all the rage as homeowners seek to improve living spaces because they’re spending more time than ever at home. Here’s a look at some of the benefits associated with changing where you live rather than changing neighborhoods: Create your own style Many people live in older homes and some of them date back several decades.

In the meantime, we oftentimes have learned to live with fixtures, wallpapers, paint colors and room configurations that have long since gone out of style.

This is an opportunity to update your treasured house with the look and feel of today. Knock down a wall or two, and you’ll have the open floor plan that comes standard with most new builds in this era. Create a front porch or deck space for friends and family to gather.

Even something as simple as new paint or new lighting can make all the difference in a world with an older home – and you’re adding value to a potential sale price with every swing of the hammer.

Grow your home instead Houses that once comfortably fit your lifestyle can become cramped and difficult to navigate. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to call the movers. Why not add space in order to accommodate things like a growing family or remote employment? It may be possible to convert a garage or other extra space into a new bedroom, game room, gym or office. If you’d love to host more parties or family get togethers, expanding the den can create additional space to have everybody over to your house for the holiday season. Bringing the inside out is also all the rage, so consider building or expanding a deck. That’s perfect for outdoor kitchens, viewing spaces for sports or simply establishing more room to lounge. Enclose it in glass, and that livable space adds equity through additional square footage.

Save money, and the planet Remodeling your home also provides an opportunity to rethink how you live – and not just the layout of your home. Consider replacing your old windows with new energy-efficient models or your hot-water heater with a tankless version. New earth-friendlier appliances will make an environmental difference while having a huge impact visually, too. In some cases, there are incentives or other tax advantages to going green, especially with solar. But you’ll be lowering your bills either way. There are also new tech options that make life more convenient, including lights, thermostats and various home features that you can control with your mobile phone or tablet.

Creating home value In many cases, the equity gained by these changes is obvious — in particular when it comes to adding square footage through remodeling and cutting expenses by lowering your electric bills. But expanding and updating your home also becomes a major selling point, in particular with buyers who are looking for something that is move-in ready. You may now have one of the larger homes on your block or be able to entice someone looking for the latest tech. Best of all: In the meantime, you’ve created a comfortable, more affordable living space to enjoy.

—HomeWise

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The Davis Enterprise, Friday, March 11, 2022

Going the extra yard REAL ESTATE 101

Some 94% of top real estate agents said curb appeal adds dollars at closing, according to a HomeLight survey. And in the meantime, you’ll get to extend your living space into the great outdoors.

Here’s how to get the most out of your yard.

Planning

Outdoor features

Homeowners can get as much as a 215% return on landscaping investments, according to Bankrate.com.

But these improvements aren’t made overnight, and the seasons play a key role in what you plan and went. You’ll want to time certain plantings based on when they’ll thrive, keeping in mind that some months in summer and winter are simply too harsh for young plants to take root. Pay attention to whether they’ll receive full sun or not, as well. Start by cleaning up the yard, removing clutter, weeds, branches and other excess items, then begin designing your new space. A landscape professional can help complete your vision.

Backyards, decks and patios are made complete with options like fire pits, fountains, outdoor kitchens and well-placed lighting systems. Not all of it will necessarily help with resale because some buyers won’t use an outdoor kitchen, for instance. But in the meantime, they’ll turn a backyard into your own little paradise.

If your budget allows it, up the ante by choosing cobblestone instead of poured concrete for the patio, or stacked stone instead of railroad ties for a retaining wall.

Plants Landscaping should draw your eyes to the door, whether in front or back. Plant or place pots with blooming flowers along walkways toward the porches. Select trees, bamboo or climbing plants to hide unsightly places in the yard, or to create privacy if homes in your neighborhood are too close together. Trees add value aesthetically, while also providing shade and insulation that helps with utility bills.

Maintenance Regular maintenance will ensure that your new landscaping continues to look as good as it did on that very first day. Make sure downspouts are clear and functioning properly, and that any drain pipes are not exposed or leaking. Standing water can create a home for pests, and eventually damage hardscaping. Monitor everything for incursions from roots, including walkways, patios and fencing. Be aware of any loosening railings or steps, and secure them quickly. If you planted nut- and fruit-bearing trees, be aware that they require a lot of attention.

—HomeWise

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