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Water-resources engineer Lauren Alkire, left, of the DWR Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit and Sean de Guzman, manager of the unit, conduct the third media snow survey of the 2022 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on March 1.

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State uses more water as dry year looms By Rachel Becker CalMatters Californians used 2.6% more water in January compared to before the drought emergency was declared, a sign that urban residents are ignoring the state’s pleas to take the drought seriously and cut back. The increased water use in California’s cities and towns came during the second-driest January on record, as the Sierra

Nevada snowpack continues to dwindle — and another dry summer looms. The new data, which details urban water use statewide, shows that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s repeated pleas for a 15% voluntary cutback in water use are failing to reach people in cities and towns. Yet Newsom has stopped short of issuing a mandatory order. “With the voluntary call,

some areas were doing okay, others not so well. The message gets pretty garbled. With a mandate, it’s a very clear message about the need,” said Heather Cooley, research director with the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank. Newsom spokesperson Alex Stack declined to answer whether Newsom intends to set a mandatory conservation order.

In January, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted emergency regulations allowing water providers to bar certain wasteful water uses, such as hosing down sidewalks with drinking water. But water use nevertheless ticked up statewide in January compared to January 2020. The biggest increase was 19% in the desert region that includes

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Parks commission votes to relocate Sky Track By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The city’s Recreation and Park Commission voted Wednesday to keep the Sky Track zip lines in Arroyo Park, but asked city staff to conduct community outreach to determine where in that park the equipment should be relocated. Since 2019, the popular Sky Track has been located on the southern edge of the park, near houses on Imperial Avenue. But a noise study conducted two years ago showed use of the equipment, which produces a metallic clanging sound, violated the city’s nighttime noise ordinance, impacting those residents living nearby. City staff began locking up the Sky Track at night, but repeated vandalism, including damage to

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the locks and chains, as well as a more recent sound study that indicated the equipment also violates the city’s daytime noise ordinance in that location, prompted staff to close the Sky Track altogether as a decision is made on where to move it. Two Recreation and Park commissioners wanted city staff to look beyond Arroyo Park for other locations in the city where the equipment could be relocated, but a majority of the commission voted to keep it at Arroyo, albeit in a new spot. The more recent sound study provided options for that new spot, with city staff recommending two locations near the pool complex — and further from homes — where they said sounds produced by the equipment would not violate the city’s noise ordinance.

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The Davis City Council on Tuesday voiced unanimous support for Mace Boulevard redesign concepts aimed at alleviating traffic congestion along that thoroughfare in South Davis. Elements of the redesign include restoring a second lane in each direction of Mace south of Cowell Boulevard; making changes to the intersection at Mace and Cowell; and testing how well a traffic light at Mace and Tremont Road or Mace and Montgomery Avenue will disincentivize drivers from leaving I-80 to travel on surface streets through South Davis. Tuesday’s vote marked the latest step in a years-long saga that began with a $3 million grant from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to improve bicycle and pedestrian safety along Mace. Elements of that project included

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Davis tops cities with highest ratio of Gen Z renters By Caleb Hampton

Once it is moved, new play equipment would be installed in the Sky Track’s original location. City staff will be surveying community members on what the new park amenities should be, as well as which location the Sky Track should be moved to. Commissioner Erik Vink made a motion during Wednesday’s meeting to have staff bring back further analysis of potential Sky Track locations in other city parks prior to doing a community survey, saying, “frankly, I think there are other locations that would be more serving of a greater number of people and have the potential for fewer impacts.” Commissioner David Siegel seconded that motion, saying that any neighborhood would

No city in the United States has a younger population of renters than Davis. That’s according to a new analysis conducted by RentCafé, a nationwide apartment-search website, which found that 69% of Davis’ renters in 2021 were Generation Z, meaning that they were born between 1997 and 2012. “Davis boasts the most impressive share of Gen Z renters in the nation, thus managing to secure 1st place in our top cities for Zoomers,” RentCafé communications specialist Joanna Truscan said this week in a press release. According to the company’s analysis, which looked at more than three million rental applications across the country, Gen Z, the youngest

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Briefly ‘Timeout Radio’ goes to market Farmers markets are places where local produce and foods are sold directly by farmers to consumers. Some are small with just a few stands and others span many city blocks. On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio” hear how farmers markets started more than 5,000 years ago, why their numbers grew in the mid-2000s and how they benefit our food system. Host Rohan Baxi talks to Randii MacNear, manager of the Davis Farmers Market, who will talk about the origins of the Davis Farmers Market, how she decides which vendors are selected and how the market navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode’s travel segment, listeners will learn about Lancaster, Pa., home to the oldest continuously operated public farmers’ market in the United States. Find out why Lancaster was the capital of the U.S. for just one day, and how the area became the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish community. “Timeout Radio” is a radio show and podcast based in Davis for youths. It airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Saturdays. Episodes are archived at https:// kdrt.org/program/ timeout-radio. Follow on Instagram at @ timeout.radio and Facebook at @TimeoutRadio.

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Bringing home too much bacon? “L ove bacon?” began the headline in The Sacramento Bee a while ago over the bylines of Andrew Sheeler and Benjy Egel. “Here’s why you’ll soon pay more for it in California.” No, I’m not one of those folks who has to have a bacon-wrapped maple bar every morning at the doughnut store or four slices of bacon on my cheeseburger. But I do make the best BLT in the world, thanks partly to excellent thick-sliced bacon, but mostly to Best Foods Mayonnaise and a good toaster. Come on over and I’ll prove it to you. Honestly, I’d be more worried about the price of mayonnaise spiking than I’d be about the price of bacon. “Californians love their bacon,” the story begins, though I’m not certain we love it any more than do North Dakotans or Oregonians or Saskatchewanians. “The Golden State accounts for 13 percent of the nation’s pork consumption, according to the California Pork Producers Association.” And, according to the 2020 U.S.

census, California accounts for approximately 12 percent of the country’s population, so our pork consumption is not particularly extraordinary. Plus, that 13 percent figure is about pork, not strictly bacon. I mean, there’s pork chops and pork roast and shredded pork tacos and even pickled pigs feet. Some Walmarts in California sell whole pig heads in their freezer section. “But that appetite for pork is likely to get more expensive. Economists and pork industry insiders say that California consumers can expect the price of bacon, sausage and other pork products to go up in the new year as a provision of a 2018 ballot initiative takes effect.” Yes, this is a California initiative that theoretically affects the price of pork here, but nowhere else. It passed with 63 percent of the vote,

which means we did this to ourselves. So here’s the deal. “One of the provisions of the initiative requires that breeding pigs be able to stand up, lie down, turn around, extend their limbs and have 24 square feet of space to move around in.” Based on some of the pigs I’ve seen at the Yolo County Fair, even 24 square feet doesn’t seem very generous.

o, any pork being served in California has to meet those requirements, which much of the U.S. supply doesn’t. Thus the U.S. supply will go anywhere but California and we’ll basically have to rely on what we raise ourselves. Apparently, California does not raise enough pork to feed its own citizens — call if a pork deficit — thus prices are bound to rise. How much is anyone’s guess. “In March 2021, Rabobank released a report predicting that Proposition 12 would have a major impact on the pork supply chain for the state. The report found that less than four percent of U.S. breeding pig housing meets the standard set by Proposition 12.”

Furthermore, “Rabobank predicted in the report that a shortfall in compliant pork would split the U.S. market, leaving California will less available, higher cost pork while generating a surplus of pork for the rest of the country.” Or you could always form a buying club and once a week go over the hill to Reno in a great big truck and bring back thousands of pounds of the cheap stuff. According to Sung Won Sohn, a professor of finance and economics at Loyola Marymount, the rise in prices indicates that “people are going to look for alternative sources of protein” Alternatives sources of protein? As if any of us seriously regard bacon as a source of protein. When I eat bacon, it’s a treat that is exceedingly satisfying. I don’t look at it as a source of protein. I don’t think any of my fellow Californians do either. If treating pigs better results in higher prices, so be it. It’s a fair trade-off that apparently 63 percent of us are willing to tolerate. Just as long as they don’t mess with the price of mayonnaise. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Yolobus restores express Council passes resolution in support of Ukrainian sister city routes to Sacramento By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution in support of sister city Uman, which sits in the center of Ukraine, and condemning Russia’s invasion of that sovereign nation. Davis and Uman have been sister cities since 1988. The resolution passed unanimously by the council on Tuesday notes that the two cities “have developed deep and meaningful bonds of friendship through past cultural exchanges of residents, Davis and Uman residents staying in each other’s homes and sharing in each other’s lives.” “We stand in unison here,” Councilman Will Arnold said on Tuesday. “The city of Uman itself has not been spared, including an explosion that killed a young person on her bicycle in Uman, if you want it to hit particularly close to home for us here in Davis,” said Arnold, who also noted a mayor, “a dulyelected local leader … usurped by an implanted, pro-Russian mayor in a city in Ukraine.” “We are so fortunate to be at peace here in the city of Davis. There but by the grace of dictators go we as well,” said Arnold. Noting the horrors unfolding in Ukraine,

Councilman Dan Carson said, “it’s easy under these circumstances to feel hopeless and powerless. It’s easy to just fall into the deserved anger at the dictator that would do something like this to people with random missile and artillery fire that would cause this devastation. “But probably the best thing we can do is try to redirect that anger into helping those folks, including the people of Uman, our first sister city, that sits right in the middle of all that carnage.” Carson said that members of the Davis sister-city committee “are working very hard, trying to make connections, trying to see how we can help, how we can help refugees. “We need to do what we can, as we can, to help now millions of refugees as well as the people that will not leave their homeland,” said Carson. “We have to recognize the criminal actions that are occurring there and hope that some day there will be justice served for what’s going on.” Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs noted that while the resolution “is very much about affirming our support for our sister city, it’s also important to note that the resolution really targets the acts specifically perpetrated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Specifically, the council’s

resolution states: “Whereas the country of Ukraine is facing unprovoked aggression and unconscionable military attacks from Russia; and “Whereas the Ukrainian people have shown the world their spirit, resolve, patriotism, in light of these attacks on their sovereignty, and therefore should be celebrated; “Be it resolved that the Davis City Council, on behalf of the city of Davis and the citizens of Davis, recognizes the horrors of the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding upon the Ukrainian people, including those in the city of Uman; condemns the violation of Ukraine’s sovereign nation status, independence and territorial borders; and opposes the tragic and unnecessary loss of life this unprovoked armed conflict has caused.” The resolution also states the City Council and Davis citizens “commit ourselves to provide and encourage humanitarian aid to address the critical needs of the beleaguered people of Uman and Ukraine and to support refugees forced by this oppressive war waged by Russian President Vladimir Putin to leave their beloved homeland.” — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

Abbanat moving to county transit job By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The city’s senior transportation planner, Brian Abbanat, has been hired as senior planner for multimodal projects at the Yolo County Transportation District. Abbanat has more than 26 years of experience in transportation planning and his work in multimodal transportation planning and policy management “has helped improve the city’s transportation systems function more effectively, efficiently and equitably for Davis and Yolo County residents,” according to a press release from YCTD this week. "Bringing in a seasoned planner was important to us, but bringing in someone who also understands the needs of the community was crucial,” said YCTD Executive Director Autumn Bernstein. “Brian is the exact person the district needs right now

to help move forward key mobility projects for Yolo County.” Abbanat will help the district as it proceeds with the Yolo/I-80 Corridor Improvements Project, intended to ease congestion, speed up transit and improve bicycle travel between Davis and Sacramento, and he will also lead the district in planning the RAISE Intercity Trails project. That project aims to develop a modern, safe and accessible network of intercity bicycle paths connecting cities and rural

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Yolobus express routes suspended in September due to a driver shortage will resume on April 4, the Yolo County Transportation District announced Wednesday. The express routes, which provide direct service for Yolo County residents to downtown Sacramento, include the 43 and 43R between Davis and Sacramento; the 45 express route between Woodland and Sacramento; and the 230 express route between West Davis and Sacramento. All four express routes were suspended last fall due a severe driver shortage. In a press release issued Wednesday, YCTD said

the routes are now returning “thanks to actions taken by the YCTD board of directors and considerable hiring and training efforts from the district’s bus operation contractor, TransDev.” The express bus fare is $3.25 each way for riders ages 19 to 61. Riders ages 62 and older and those with disabilities ride for $1.50 each way, and youth up to age 18 ride free. Monthly passes for regular riders are also available through the Connect Card, with more information available at https://www.connecttransitcard.com. Information on Yolobus services, routes, and schedules is available at https://yolobus.com or by calling (530) 666-2877.

Rotary hosts event for child abuse prevention Special to The Enterprise The Rotary Club of Davis Big Night Fundraiser is coming up. This year's event, "Big Night: Have a Heart for Children" will be in two parts: first as an online auction from March 25 through 9 p.m. April 2. The second part, on April 9, will be an in-person outdoor vineyard experience at the Great Bear Vineyard on the outskirts of Davis, held to recognize Big Night supporters. It will be an evening gathering from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. There will be plenty of shade, wine, water, and nonalcoholic beverages. In addition, heavy hors d'oeuvres will be provided by the fabulous caterer, Simply Satisfied. For the last 20 years the club has raised more than $750,000 during this event to help prevent

child abuse in Yolo County. The beneficiaries this year are The Yolo Crisis Nursery, the Yolo County Children's Alliance and the Multi-Disciplinary Interview Center (MDIC). These nonprofits were selected by the Big Night Committee for their ongoing high standards of care, as they work together to prevent, ameliorate, and abolish the tragic problem of child abuse and human trafficking in Yolo County. Consider becoming a sponsor, either by purchasing a sponsorship level, or by offering an item for the auction. Visit the Big Night Online Auction at http://app. galabid.com/bignight for information. The club is adding auction items through March 25 so check often. For information, call co-chairperson Nicole Davis at 314-750-0010.

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spreys are one of the most widespread birds of prey. They are found in every continent except Antarctica. Feeding almost exclusively on fish, ospreys nest and inhabit areas with waterways large enough to sustain them. Being exclusive fisherman osprey have many adaptations that help them with catching their prey as well as behaviors that help them to live and thrive as well. Like all birds, osprey have wings and feathers that give them the ability to fly. They also have incredible eyesight. An osprey can see a fish under the water while it is nearly 100 ft in the air! Then the osprey will dive feet first into the water to catch its prey. Some dives will submerge the bird completely under the water, but a special coating of oils help prevent the wings from getting too waterlogged and the osprey can fly back out and eat their catch while drying out. One of the unique adaptations osprey have for catching fish is having a reversible outer toe on each foot. This toe can face forward or backward and helps to increase grip on fish when in the backwards position. They also have backwards-facing scales on their toes that act as hooks for helping to hold onto their slippery prey. Most ospreys will return to their same nesting site each year to raise their

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young, and most osprey pairs are monogamous and will mate for life. During the breeding season, the male osprey arrives to the nesting site first to chase off any rivals or dangers. When the female arrives they will both update and repair the nest for this year’s clutch of eggs. An osprey will lay between 2-4 eggs a few days apart and the eggs will hatch in this order after incubation. The female will do most of the incubating relying on her partner to either bring her food or to incubate while she hunts. When the eggs hatch the female will protect and care for the hatchlings while the male will do the hunting for everyone. About six weeks after hatching, both parents will begin hunting again, and teaching the young ones how to feed themselves. After only eight weeks from hatching, young osprey will be much bigger and strong, with fully developed feathers. At this time, they will begin learning how to fly and hunt from their parents, so they will be able to fend for themselves during the winter migration. Even though most osprey will winter apart, most pairs will meet again at the same nesting site each year to raise another clutch of eggs. ———— In last week’s Explorit

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A pair of ospreys renovates their nest at Smith Mountain Lake State Park in Virginia. article, we misstated the name of our partner in a recent hands-on workshop, the UC Davis Art/ Science Fusion Program. We apologize for the typo and any confusion it may have caused. ———— Exploit's coming events: n Spaces are still available for our Summer Science Camps for those entering grades 3-6. All camps run from 9 a.m. to noon Monday-Friday and will have both indoor and outdoor components. Price is $175 Members/$200 Non-Members. 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 1-4pm, 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. * 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.

WATER: Biggest increase in the desert From Page A1 the Palm Springs area and the Imperial Valley. The South Lahontan region, spanning the Sierra Nevada, mountain communities of Southern California and Death Valley, had the second highest increase, at 9%. Residents of the Los Angeles basin and San Diego County used 1.8% more water, while those in most of the Central Valley used 6 to 7% more. The only regions that slightly reduced water consumption were the San Francisco Bay Area, which used 1.4% less, and the southern San Joaquin Valley, which used 0.2% less. Overall, Californians from July of last year through January conserved about 6.5% statewide compared to 2020, according to state data — falling far short of Newsom’s requested 15%. Several years into the last devastating drought in 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown authorized state regulators to order reductions from water suppliers to conserve 25% more water across California. Now, a year after Newsom declared a drought emergency in hard-hit northwest counties, some experts say a state mandate is critical to keeping enough water in storage to survive a drought that could last a number of years. Newsha Ajami, a longtime water researcher, said the mandate should have happened months ago, when reservoirs were low and there was no precipitation in sight. “Having a mandatory water restriction is in everyone’s benefit,” said Ajami, who is the chief strategy and development officer for research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The new state data only includes water use from urban water districts, not rural irrigation districts that serve farms. At a Sacramento press conference last week, California’s Natural Resources

Secretary Wade Crowfoot thanked residents for their efforts but reiterated a plea for voluntary cutbacks. “I'm also here on behalf of Governor Newsom to ask all of us to do more,” Crowfoot said. “It's once again time for Sacramentans, residents of this region, Californians to step up and help us navigate through this drought.” Under the statewide mandate issued during the last drought, water suppliers were required to conserve 25% statewide — with regions assigned a certain percentage of water depending on their existing use — or face escalating consequences that could result in fines. Californians responded: They cut their water use by 23.9% between June 2015 and February 2016, compared to the same months in 2013, according to water board staff. Cities and towns still use less water daily than they did before the last drought began: about 17% less per person. This time, however, many water suppliers have relied on ramping up outreach and rebates rather than imposing new restrictions or fines. Ordering California’s water suppliers to cut back further is likely to be a controversial move. State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat from Hanford, is skeptical that it would work. “If we’re still not even over the (COVID-19) vaccine mandate and the testing mandate, and now you're going to ask people to cut down on water consumption? That you should take less showers and you can’t get a new pool or whatever it may be?” she said. “Yeah, no, that's going to make people really angry.” Hurtado called for structural and technological changes — like developing more drought-resistant crops and fixing canals damaged by subsidence — over behavioral ones. Those, however, take time. Water providers caution

against reading too much into the low January conservation numbers: It’s harder for Californians to squeeze out additional savings during the winter, when many already cut back on watering their yards. In December, which had record-setting storms, Californians used 15.6% less water compared to the previous year, with the greatest savings in southern parts of the state. It was the first time Californians statewide crossed the 15% water conservation target that Newsom urged residents to meet last July. Since July, the greatest savings came from the hard-hit North Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area. The least, from the inland mountains and deserts of central and southeast California. Water systems on the North Coast “were the canary in the coal mine,” said Marielle Rhodeiro, research data specialist with the water board’s conservation program. “They were the first to start running out of water. I think there's a little bit more awareness up north, probably because we're closer to the immediate problem.”

Mandates may not be enough For some water systems, even mandatory calls for conservation haven’t been enough to weather water shortages. By May 2021, in the small coastal hamlet of Mendocino, residents and businesses were required to use 40% less water than their allocations. Wells still went dry, water trucked from other districts climbed in cost when it was available, and restaurants in a town reliant on tourism were forced to weigh whether staying open was worth the expense of washing the dishes. Ryan Rhoades, supervisor for the Mendocino City Community Services District, said he filled buckets

of creek water to keep relatives’ toilets flushing. He said most residents managed to stay below the mandatory target, but estimates that about 5% didn’t. The county and state stepped in to help, subsidizing trucks to haul water 60 miles from Ukiah to a reservoir in nearby Fort Bragg to bolster the coastal towns’ supplies. Rhoades said he’s awaiting word from the state on possible funding to tie into the local school district’s water supply, drill more wells and increase storage. The wait, he said, is “frustrating and challenging, because people are aware that we have a problem, and we need help.” The state budget last year included $5.2 billion for drought response and water resiliency. Since the drought began, the Department of Water Resources has awarded more than $195 million to projects aimed at addressing shortages and bolstering emergency and longer-term supplies.

likely enjoy having the equipment but “it would be helpful to have a little more data.” However, other commissioners were adamant about keeping the Sky Track at Arroyo. Commissioner Timm Herdt noted that the Sky Track was enthusiastically received by Arroyo Park users and questioned the idea of moving the equipment to another park, saying “who is going to load up families in the minivan just to use the Sky Track? “I’m not enthusiastic about … moving it to whatever park might be the most distant from residences.” Commissioner Mieko Chambers noted that the Sky Track is accessible to individuals with physical disabilities and said, “we really need to take that into consideration because removing that from Arroyo Park would limit options for those kids.” Public comment on the issue was largely in favor of keeping the Sky Track where it is. The Sky Track saga, going on for several years now, has been heated, with former Mayor Joe Krovoza and his wife, Janet, taking the brunt of criticism from members of the public. The Krovozas, who live within about 100 feet of the current location, have been urging the city to relocate the equipment for a while. On social media and during hearings on the Sky Track, they have been accused of using their influence to get the city to move the equipment, though the city has declined to do so up until now. On Wednesday, Joe Krovoza told the commission that “many other people have the same concerns, that live close, but they don’t want to be shouted down and have hate spewed at them simply for asking for tranquility in their home.” His public comment was followed by that of Darci Silbaugh, who had just recently resigned from the commission, and earlier in the week had urged residents in a social media post to weigh in in support of keeping the Sky Track in Arroyo Park. On Wednesday night, she went after the Krovozas. “In my opinion, the city has prioritized trying to appease bullying, privileged elitists in lieu of doing what is best for the community,” Silbaugh said. “The city has again and again bent over back-

wards for one family. I would like everyone to imagine if this one family was a family of color, of low socio-economic status, that wasn’t able to threaten city staff (with) lawsuits every step of the way. They would not have been treated in the same way,” she contended. However, the Krovozas' complaint has not just been about the noise produced by the Sky Track, but also about the need for the city to follow its noise ordinance, which is intended to protect all residents from excessive noise levels. Still, others in public comment questioned the precedent being set by moving park equipment based on the noise produced by both the equipment itself as well as the users. According to Robert Woo of Acoustics Group, Inc., which was hired by the city to conduct the second sound study, the highest noise levels reached on the SkyTrack at its current location were produced by teenagers who were also screaming and shouting. One public commenter, Jesse Catlin, said, “if I go out and start yelling on any piece of equipment in the city… would we then move that equipment? “I honestly don’t have a problem with moving it in the park. I have a problem with the process and the reasoning. Because I think it sets up a dangerous precedent that the city’s going to have to live with,” said Catlin. But Janet Krovoza said the sounds of children playing have never been the issue. “My house is only 100 or so feet from the zip track,” she told commissioners. “I’m very familiar with the noise it makes. I can hear it in virtually every corner of my house, regardless of the season or the time of day. It’s loud, it’s metallic, it’s clanky. “Frankly I have no issue with children yelling… It is the mechanical abrasive clanging,” she said. Davis City Councilman Dan Carson, who represents West Davis on the council and serves as council liaison to the Recreation and Park Commission, said he supported the staff proposal to move the equipment within the park. “The Arroyo Sky Track ride is a popular piece of play equipment that many Davis families in our community love and enjoy,” said Carson. “I am disappointed that we must temporarily close down the ride, but I support the city staff proposal for it to be relocated within Arroyo Park as soon as possible.”

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MACE: Freeway traffic keeps up its constant pressure From Page A1 reducing traffic lanes on Mace from two in each direction to one in order to add protected bike lanes and eliminating channelized right-turn lanes in the Mace and Cowell intersection, among other things. But residents of the area immediately began expressing frustration about traffic congestion they believe was caused by the project. Further compounding the problem has been use of mobile apps like WAZE that divert drivers from I-80 onto Tremont then north on Mace where they get back on the freeway. While there continues to be disagreement about what the underlying causes for the congestion are, and a number of community members have spoken out in support of the bicycle safety improvements, the City Council decided in early 2019 to make changes. After multiple community meetings and council hearings where consultants outlined possible improvements, the council on Tuesday voted in favor in staff recommendations to take the following actions: Phase 1a would include: n Restoration of a second southbound traffic lane between Cowell and North El Macero

Drive, with a one-way protected bike lane and modified median; n Restoration of a second northbound lane between North El Macero and Cowell; n Modifications to striping between San Marino Avenue and North El Macero to accommodate two northbound travel lanes while maintaining bike buffers; n Modifications to the protected intersection at Cowell and Mace to improve the radius for turning trucks; n Reduction or reconfiguration of the islands at San Marino Avenue and replacement of the flashing red beacon with a “less obtrusive device”; and n Modifications to on-street parking on the west side of Mace south of El Macero to San Marino to accommodate access. The cost estimate for all of that work ranges from $2.5 million if it’s all done as a single project and $3.2 million if done as standalone projects, according to the staff report. Phase 1b will involve a pilot project where a metering traffic light would be placed first at Tremont and Mace and 30 days later at Montgomery and Mace to see if slowing traffic that way would reduce the number of drivers leaving I-80 in Dixon and using Mace to get back on the freeway before the causeway.

A second phase would add an additional northbound travel lane from Redbud Drive to San Marino. Also to be considered in the second phase is the addition of a traditional four-way light at San Marino and Mace and possibly adding a right-turn lane northbound at Cowell. The estimated cost for those elements would begin at $1.1 million. While the council vote on Tuesday was unanimous (minus Mayor Gloria Partida who was absent), the consensus in the community about the approved redesign is not. The city’s Bicycling, Transportation and Street Safety Commission has raised concerns that the restoration of additional vehicle travel lanes on Mace will encourage more drivers to cut through from I-80 and reduce safety for bicyclists. At their February meeting, BTSSC members unanimously recommended that the council “return this to a representative group of Davis residents and bicycle and transportation organizations to review recommendations and work done with additional clarification or recommendations to date and come forward to the City Council.” And the two people who weighed in during public comment on Tuesday night expressed

similar concerns. Allowing the redesign to move forward, said Andy Furillo, will reinforce a culture of auto dependence. He urged the council to to follow the recommendation of the BTSSC, saying “your decision tonight is one that will define transportation in Davis and the region for years to come, so please do the right thing.” Alan Hirsch also weighed in with a focus on the I-80 corridor. Plans are underway, funded by a federal grant, to widen I-80 through Davis and on the causeway in an effort to reduce traffic congestion, which city and county officials have said should help the situation on surface streets like Mace. However, Hirsch said, “there should be no assumption that congestion on I-80 will ever be relieved. You widen the freeway, they will come. “It’s denial to believe we can build our way out of highway congestion.” But council members were unanimous in moving forward. Councilman Will Arnold remarked on the minimal public comment Tuesday night and credited the community outreach process for that. He said he doesn’t “pretend to think that there’s uniform satisfaction about

either the action we’re taking tonight or about any of the proposed actions. “But it was not all that long ago that there was a lot of upset folks commenting on this issue and I’ve certainly talked to many folks who live around that area, travel frequently throughout that area … and there is a lot of frustration still out there,” said Arnold. “But I do believe we are working toward a solution that honors the goals that we had set out to achieve when we were first venturing to address some of the undeniable connectivity issues that existed with the previous design, including the lack of facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians.” Arnold noted that the city was receiving complaints about traffic on Mace even before the 2019 redesign. “Whether the redesign exacerbated it or made it worse in very specific ways is open to debate,” he said. Arnold also acknowledged Hirsch’s comments about induced demand on the freeway, saying, “it is a real phenomenon. We’ve experienced it throughout California as we are very much known for our tradition of automobile dependence and our built environment that has led to a favoring of automobiles throughout the state.

Obituaries June Marie Barcroft Prowell April 29, 1927 — March 11, 2022

June Marie Barcroft Prowell, the only child of Thelma and Harry Barcroft, died on March 11, 2022. She was born on April 29, 1927, in Los Angeles, and grew up in Southern California. She attended local schools in the area, experiencing a memorable event for her first year when the Long Beach earthquake of 1933 damaged schools so severely that the students had to attend school in tents for a year. June graduated from Montebello High School during World War II. The war accelerated many college programs, so she started at USC the week following graduation from MHS. Her goal was to become an RN and obtain a bachelor’s degree, which she accomplished in 1949, graduating from USC and the California Hospital School of Nursing. Marriage followed that same year, which meant a move to Escondido near San Diego. She started work as a school nurse which she enjoyed very much, and was sad to leave. But her husband, wishing to take advantage of the GI Bill, enrolled at UC Berkeley, so this meant a move to Northern California. There

a position was available at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in the Well Baby Clinic in Oakland. Working with seven pediatricians was a wonderful learning source for later raising the four Prowell children, Grover, Susan, Sherie and Laura. In 1972, the family moved to Merced County, where they settled on an almond ranch in Atwater. When the children were in school, June returned to part time work at the local hospital, and was surprised to be recruited for the director of the Vocational Nursing Program position by Merced High School Adult Education. Since the high school had agreed to turn the program over to the brand-new Merced College, this meant the same schedule the children had. She enjoyed the combination of teaching and working with students in the local hospitals. June and her staff were very gratified to graduate over 500 vocational nursing students in her 20 years at Merced College. Retirement resulted in a move to Davis to help in the care of dearly loved granddaughters Megan and Julia Rodman. She enjoyed living in Davis, volunteering with Sutter Davis Hospital

Donald ‘Dutch’ Martinich d. Monday, Feb. 21, 2022

Donald “Dutch” Martinich left Davis on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, for the great music hall in the sky. You’ll find him dancing to Count Basie, or Cajun and Balkan tunes, or just sitting at a table with a beer and listening in appreciation to West Coast jazz and bebop. He was 84. Dutch’s father was from the Dalmatian island of Brac and his mother was from Kentucky. His and his sister Toni’s earliest years were in San Pedro, before his family moved to San Francisco and then to the Peninsula. Raised in a Catholic family, Dutch attended St. Joseph’s Military Academy in grade school, along with the Pelosi brothers, but graduated from Menlo-Atherton high school. His love of the sea was inbred and he served in the U.S. Coast Guard on the Mendocino coast and in Hawaii. Following his military service, he returned to Menlo Park, married, had a son, and held various jobs, working as an arborist, a postman, a sports car mechanic and at Ridge Vineyards, where he learned winemaking and viticulture. He was an avid cyclist in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a member of the Pedali Alpini. He particularly enjoyed passing cars on the steep descents on his Cinelli Supercorsa. Dutch arrived in Davis in 1971 to study Environmental Horticulture, and never left. We were all the better for his presence. Dutch folk-danced and was

Auxiliary for over 20 years, and ushering at Freeborn Hall and the Mondavi PROWELL Center. As a member of Davis United Methodist Church, June served on the Board of Trustees at one time, and on the first committee involved in building the new sanctuary. Travel was high on June’s agenda. She enjoyed a sabbatical spent in Denmark studying mental health. Other travels enjoyed were to Japan, and cruises to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean, Australia, and the Panama Canal. She is survived by son Grover Prowell (Meca); daughters Susan Braden (Dexter), Sherie Corley (Mike) and Laura Rodman (Bryan); grandsons Dustin (Megan) and Chris Braden; and granddaughters Megan and Julia Rodman. A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 30, at the Davis United Methodist Church. In lieu of gifts or flowers, the family requests donations be made to one of June’s favorite charities: Sutter Davis Hospital Auxiliary Scholarship Program, Yolo Crisis Nursery, Doctors Without Borders, or the American Red Cross.

an early member of the Davis Bike Club, completing the Double Century several times and serving on “sag” wagons once he passed 60 years old. Dutch was a “jack of MARTINICH all trades” (and master of many), holding various jobs during his 50-plus years in the community. Early on he spent several years doing archeology on the Old Town Sacramento “dig.” Later, he was a staff research assistant in the pomology department, collecting data on the effect of drought on almonds. He helped his friend, Frank Alviso, establish the Clockspring Vineyard up in Plymouth and later worked a crush at Cary Gott’s Montevina Winery. He was the founding chef at Maurice’s American Bar and Café on Broadway in Sacramento, where for two years he ground fresh beef each day for the hamburgers, a task much too important to be outsourced, and rendered beef suet for the hand-cut French fries, which were, of course, twice fried (and delicious). Following his time at Maurice’s, Dutch spent several years as an environmental monitoring technician. He later used his photographic and design skills to build and maintain websites for local businesses. An excellent amateur photographer, Dutch specialized in the landscapes of California, with a particular focus on the Central Valley. He knew pretty

Elizabeth E. Bradford

May 20, 1934 — Dec. 22, 2021 Elizabeth E. Bradford of Davis passed peacefully from this life at age 87 on Dec. 22, 2021, with family at her bedside. She was born May 20, 1934 to Walter and Marion (Withey) Engelke in Madison, Wis., and grew up in a strong, loving family with her parents, two younger brothers and a large extended family. In her freshman year at the University of Wisconsin she met Eric Bradford, a Canadian graduate student. They married in 1954 and moved to Quebec when Eric started as an assistant professor at McGill University; two children were born to them in Quebec. In 1957 Eric joined the animal science department at UC Davis, where he served on the faculty for 50 years. Elizabeth and Eric built a full and happy life in Davis centered around family (two more children were born in California), education, friends, music and community involvement. Elizabeth finished her bachelor’s degree in English at UC Davis in 1965 and later a TESOL Certificate. She helped her friend Jerrie Peek start a language-learning preschool for international children, a precursor to UCD’s Early Childhood Lab School. She also worked as a TESOL Teacher’s Aide in Davis public schools and volunteered in many capacities at Davis Community Church: Deacon, Elder, Youth Leader and pastoral search consultant for other Northern California Presbyterian congregations. Elizabeth was politically astute and an active member of League of Women Voters, PEO and other organizations supporting women’s education and international students. In addition to singing with the Davis Comic Opera Company, Davis Chorale and her church’s Chancel Choir, she encouraged her children’s varied musical pursuits. Elizabeth built a strong and loving home where family, friends and many

much all of the obscure towns and mining villages in California and had probably photographed them. He loved to cook for large groups of people, and if you were lucky enough to have attended a lamb roast, you will smile at the memory. A convivial man and knowledgeable on diverse and arcane subjects, Dutch was an excellent drinking companion, who always had a new joke and an amusing story to pass on. He often could be found at his Davis bar of choice — the Antique Bizzare or the Wooden Ship in the early years, later at some place a bit closer to home. Prior to COVD, most mornings he was at Mishka’s, enjoying a hot chocolate and conversation. COVID ended that for Dutch, causing this very social man to confine, alone, at home for most of the past two years. Dutch is survived by his son, Anton Martinich, and his ex-wife, Kathy Martinich. His sister, Toni, had passed on six months earlier. The family plans to scatter Toni’s and Dutch’s ashes together at sea, somewhere off the California coast, in a private ceremony. No public memorial is planned. He would probably have approved of a donation in his memory to either the Davis Bike Club or the California Native Plant Society. A less expensive way to remember Dutch is to simply lift a glass of your favorite beverage (a Ridge Zinfandel comes to mind as a possibility) and to drink to his memory. This can be done more than once. RIP, our marvelous friend.

newcomers to Davis felt welcomed. She loved to entertain, cook, sew, write poetry and craft beautiful and increasingly complex quilts treasured by all. She and Eric enjoyed their retreat home on the MenBRADFORD docino Coast, traveling and spending time with friends made around the world. In 2017 Elizabeth moved to Carlton Senior Living (Davis) where she continued to enjoy visits from family and friends, good books and films. She was preceded in death by the love of her life, Eric (to whom she was married for 53 years) and son-in-law Don Aumann, both in 2007. Elizabeth is survived by brothers Daniel (Jean) Engelke of Flower Mound, Texas, and Robert (Susan) Engelke of Madison, Wis.; children Anne (Harry) Harris of Madison, Ken (Patricia) Bradford of Davis, Margaret Aumann (Bryan Plude) of Chico and Ellen (Phil) Javete of Pleasant Hill; and grandchildren Alexander and Benjamin Harris, Peter and Emily Aumann, and Payton and Fiona Javete. Embracing her chosen roles as wife, mother, grandmother and friend, Elizabeth expressed her love for family and friends to the end of her life. A Memorial Service will begin at 3 p.m. Friday, March 18, at Davis Community Church. The church’s COVID precautions require that all who attend are fully vaccinated including a booster shot for all who are eligible, or a negative PCR COVID test within 72 hours of the service. Please wear an N95, KN95 or KF94 mask and preregister at https://dccpres.simplechurch crm.com/external/form/555d84e1-80ce469f-b548-3762fa9fe478. This service will also be livestreamed on the Davis Community Church YouTube channel. No preregistrations required. Elizabeth gave generously to many charitable causes; to honor her memory, gifts may be sent to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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More help for homeless animals By Evelyn Dale Special to The Enterprise

alifornia is becoming a better place for unhoused people and their pets thanks to recent and upcoming legislation. In 2019, the Pet Assistance and Support Program provided $5 million in grant money to upgrade shelters to accommodate pets as well as their people. Unfortunately, this highly successful program quickly ran out of funding, thus leaving many shelters for the unhoused without resources for people’s pets. Since 2019, there has been an unprecedented increase of unhoused people in California, so the need for pet resources at shelters has grown substantially. The national non-profit “Feeding Pets of the Homeless,” estimates as many as 25% of today’s unhoused people have pets. In many cases, these pets are their lifeline providing companionship, emotional support, and security. Caring for pets also gives purpose and normalcy to a sometimes chaotic and unpredictable life. For these and many other reasons, many unhoused people refuse to go to a shelter where pets are not allowed. In 2022, things are looking better for unhoused people with pets. On Jan. 25, Drs. Kate Hurley and Julie Levy announced that the Million Cat Challenge is now the Million Pet Challenge with the goal of keeping all pets with their people whenever possible. On Valentine’s Day things got even better for California pets when Governor Gavin Newsom announced a $50 million initiative to improve animal sheltering through funding as well as consultations and staff training. Dr. Hurley, Director of the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, will oversee this important effort. California state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, authored Senate Bill 513, “Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services.” This bill builds on the 2019 Pet Assistance Program by developing a permanent grant program

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Melissa and Ron Collis’ pups, Cairo (left) and Bella, say, “Everyday is a holiday when you are with your best friend.”

Paws for Thought to upgrade shelters for unhoused people so they can provide pet housing, food, and basic veterinary services. On Jan. 20 our state Senate approved SB 513 unanimously. It is now in the state Assembly waiting for a vote. Why is SB 513 good for our community? Keeping pets with their people serves two important purposes. One, regardless of their economic status, people love and need their pets. Consequently, many unhoused people remain on the street because they refuse to abandon their beloved pets. Two, when people are able to keep their pets with them, fewer pets end up in animal shelters. Reducing the number of pets and their care at animal shelters reduces the financial burden on animal shelters which, in turn, can reduce costs communities need to pay for sheltering animals. It’s

a win for people and their pets, a win for animal shelters, and a win for communities! Want to support the passage of SB 513 in the California State Assembly? n Find contact information for your Yolo County Assembly representatives: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, 4th District, or Kevin McCarty in the 7th District at https://www.yoloelections. org/officials/lookup_ elected/@@officials_ nstate. n Follow the progress of SB 513 “Homeless shelters grants: pets and veterinary services” @ https:// leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ faces/billStatusClient. xhtml?bill_id= 202120220SB513.

Happy Tails Thanks to Melissa and Ron Collis, Bella and Cairo are best friends in a loving home. Melissa writes, “Bella came to us on July 10, 2012. She was found in a field in Dixon, CA. She

looked so sad in the cage at the animal control on Claybank in Fairfield. We wanted to meet her. When she was brought out, she immediately rolled on my husband’s feet and we knew she was meant for us. “Bella needed a friend as she was only one and a half. We heard about Cairo, who was four years old and being brought to the shelter. His owner was moving to another state and didn’t want to take him. We took Bella to meet Cairo to make sure they were a good fit. Bella gets along so well with other dogs. And we took Cairo home that night in October of 2012. They are the best of friends and we couldn’t have asked for two better additions to our family.” — Evelyn Dale of Davis is a volunteer and advocate for shelter animal welfare. Contact her at pawsforthought.comments@gmail.com. This column appears monthly.

GEN Z: College towns need diverse housing From Page A1 generation of renters, was the only generation that increased its rental activity over the past year. The age group now accounts for more than a quarter of all lease applications nationwide. RentCafé emphasized the economic boost young renters have given to cities, especially in the context of the labor shortage caused by the pandemic. “Zoomers are swarming large urban hubs that promise job opportunities, bringing new life into cities that were once considered doomed due to the pandemic,” the company wrote in a summary of its analysis. College towns dominated the top ranked cities with the highest proportions of Gen Z renters. From 2020 to 2021, the percentage of Davis renters who were Gen Z increased from 63% to 69%. That was enough for Davis to surpass Boulder, CO, as the city with the

largest Gen Z renter majority. Some of that change may have had to do with a 1.1% increase in enrollment at UC Davis from 2020 to 2021, during which time enrollment at the University of Colorado-Boulder saw a 1.2% decrease in enrollment. Equally or more important to attracting Gen Z renters, according to experts, are life and work opportunities available to young people after they graduate. “A college town needs a diverse offering of jobs, particularly good-paying entry-level jobs,” Nicholas P. Dempsey, associate professor and department chair of sociology at Eckerd College, told RentCafé. “Further, towns with more amenities, which can include anything from access to wilderness parks to diverse options for dining and entertainment, are more attractive to young renters.” Nationwide, the number

of lease applications by Gen Z renters increase 21% between 2020 and 2021, while lease applications from Millennials declined by 8%. Last year, San Francisco saw the largest increase of any city in the country in its rate of rentals by Gen Z, whose rental applications in the city more than doubled. Other cities that saw sharp increases in lease applications from Gen Z renters include Jersey City, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston and San Jose. While Sacramento doesn’t have as great a share of Gen Z renters as Davis — less than a quarter of its renters are younger than 25 — the city saw a greater increase in young renters than Davis did last year. From 2020 to 2021, the number of Sacramento lease applications from Gen Z renters increased by 19%. “Like their Millennial peers who headed for the big cities in the years following the Great

Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland. Among them is Bo (A192660), a black, 1-year-old Labrador retriever with a happy personality. Bo seems to be housetrained, loves to walk on a leash and is friendly with other dogs. Bo loves to play and likes to sit next to you, lean in and be close.

Recession, Gen Z renters are now moving to large urban areas that provide job opportunities and a vibrant social scene, after a one-year hiatus in their college towns or their families’ small towns in 2020,” RentCafé said in the summary of its analysis. — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.

Bo Also hoping for a good home is Osi (A193882), a sweet 6-year-old male orange cat, who is a perfect gentleman. His owner was not able to care for him or his siblings, so he is looking forward to finding a new family. For information on adopting, contact adoptycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are upto-date 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 Jag, a “completely adorable,” 2-year-old neutered male terrier. He loves to play with other small dogs. Jag was very shy when he first arrived but he is getting better each day. He is little guy so he will do best in a family with

Jag no young children. Vern is a 3-year-old neutered male wirehair terrier. He is peoplefriendly, crate-trained and easy to walk on leash. This boy weighs about 50 pounds. He is smart and playful but doesn’t jump up. Vern doesn’t do well with other dogs or small animals so he needs to be in an “only pet” home. The next Rotts of Friends' adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it. Bring proof of 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/ rottsoffriends.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022 A7

So, what’s rhubarb good for, anyway?

: What to do with rhubarb? Q: I’m getting bored with beer and wine. Do you have any mixed-drink ideas? A: I usually make a puree, which can get stirred into yogurt, used as a sauce or made into a lovely cocktail. It also freezes nicely. The process is simple whether you have two stalks or 20: Wash well, pare off any leaves and slice it very thinly. Place in a pot and add a quarter cup of water, a pinch of salt and a bit of sugar. Cook, covered, on medium until juicy and mostly dissolved, 15-20 minutes. Taste and add sugar based on your intended use. I hit mine with the stick blender, but you could push it through a sieve or let it cool a little and run it in the big blender, too. For yogurt I like two ounces of puree to six ounces of yogurt, with a little vanilla stirred in. For a fantastic low-alcohol cocktail, shake a couple of ounces of well-sweetened puree and a dash of lemon juice with an ounce-and-a-half of dry vermouth and some ice; pour into a glass (strained or not to taste) and top with fizzy water. (For a high-octane version, add an ounce of gin to the shaker.) Freeze the puree in jars or flat pack in bags. Q: You’re always telling us to freeze stuff, but I feel like a lot of what I freeze ends up ruined — it forms ice crystals or gets freezer burn or just doesn’t taste good. Advice? A: Freezing is a science well worth learning! When we both contracted COVID last month, we were really happy that our freezer was stocked with homemade soup, since no one felt like cooking. (We are fine now. #vaccineswork #getboosted) Good freezing is all about excluding air, because the more surface area exposed to air the more moisture can be drawn out to turn into ice crystals. Your primary tools for this are: fat covering the exposed surface, wrappings covering the entire surface, and air drawn out of the package. Fat covering the surface works well for soups. We package ours in quart containers (either canning jars, which very occasionally crack, or clean plastic mayonnaise jars, which should not be heated because plastics.) Add warm (not hot) soup to containers leaving just an inch of space at the top. The fat will rise to the top and form a nice air-exclud-

ing cap, and the inch of space will allow for expansion as the soup freezes. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight, or stand the jar in a tub of water until it melts enough to slide into the soup pot. Wrappings covering the entire surface is the method of choice for baked goods. I usually bake on parchment paper, then wrap the cooled baked goods in the same paper. I wrap the paper in a layer of foil, then slide the whole thing into a plastic bag. Press as much air out of the bag as possible before sealing. Thaw baked goods in their wrapping on the counter. Drawing the air out of the package or vacuum sealing is a fantastic way to freeze foods. We had one of the big machines that both drew out the air and sealed the bag, but we hated throwing away so much plastic. A better choice for our household is reusable sous vide bags with a tiny USB-charged unit that draws the air out of a one-way valve. We’ve been using it regularly for over a year and just had the first bag finally tear after multiple uses. If you’re freezing wet foods, fill the bags and freeze flat, then vacuum seal. You can also vacuum pack cheese to keep it longer, and open packages of things like crackers so they don’t go stale. Q: A question that’s long festered:

whenever I make some kind of batter — e.g. pancake batter, banana bread batter — the Rombauer “mix with a few swift strokes” dictum never works for me. I always get large clumps of unmixed flour that I have to smush against the side of the bowl in order to complete the mixing. Since more stirring makes for a tougher product, this always dismays me. I generally use bulk all-purpose flour. Should I be using something else? A: In retrospect, I wish Ms. Rombauer had selected a different phrase. “Swift” makes people think they should do it quickly, and “a few” to most of us means “not many” which is not particularly accurate. When we’re making quick breads, we don’t want the gluten to develop because it can make the end product tough. Gluten develops through the addition of liquid and motion, which is why we don’t beat the pancake batter. Instead, use a nice broad spatula or spoon in a bowl with plenty of room, add the wet ingredients to the dry, and stir gently, drawing the flour up from the bottom in an up-and-over motion. Take your time, but don’t stir vigorously or beat the batter. Q: Why does water destroy chocolate when it melts? Is there anything you can do about it? A: Chocolate has no liquid in it — it’s all fat and cocoa solids — and adding a tiny bit of liquid will cause it to turn into sludge. The term for this is “seizing” and it’s traumatic. Fortunately, adding more liquid will correct the problem. If you’re making a recipe that has more liquid in it, just add the warmed liquid to the

chocolate and continue heating and stirring. If your recipe doesn’t use more liquid, pop the seized chocolate into a container to use later for chocolate sauce, and start again with fresh chocolate. Q: I’m stocking the freezer before the baby comes. Any suggestions? A: Excellent plan! You’re going to want a lot of foods you can eat one-handed. Sweet and/or savory muffins, burritos, breakfast sandwiches, veg turnovers, empanadas, sausage rolls or pigs in a blanket. Q: What is the best or easiest thing to do with lemon peels? My shrubby Meyer lemon has produced over 200 lemons. I love lemon zest on veggies but no idea if it freezes…or should I sugar the peels? Or alcohol? Or salt? A: You can get as elaborate as you like: preserved lemons, marmalade, lemon curd, candied peel. Since you specify easy, the freezer is your best bet. Wash your lemons, then use a microplane to take off the zest. Spread it out on a sheet of parchment or silicone to freeze, then pour into a freezer bag to store. Roll the zested lemons on the counter to break them down a bit, then juice. Freeze in ice cube trays, then pop out into a bag once frozen. Q: What’s the best way to include good protein and nutrients into my meals for a vegetarian who is a picky eater who won’t eat the common proteins available such as tofu, soy, seitan, eggs sans cheese and yogurt? A: Most Americans, including vegetarians and vegans, get enough protein from their diets. Adults need about 0.36 grams per pound of body weight. Supposing your vegetarian needs 50 grams daily, they’d get 13 grams, or almost 25% of their needs, from my current favorite granola with milk —

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Ever have Rhubarb yogurt?

assuming they ate only one serving of each, which is not very likely. I’m with your vegetarian on not eating soy or seitan, and I like my eggs with cheese, too. Egg whites used as a binder in things like homemade veggie burgers add a lot of invisible protein. Nuts and seeds are a great resource — I toast pepitas and walnuts to add to anything that wants crunch and protein. Avocado toast thickly sprinkled with pepitas is one of my favorite breakfasts! A spoonful of nut butter is a great boost for smoothies and sauces in both flavor and protein. Check your ingredients on nut butters and choose one that doesn’t add sugar so you can use it in savory dishes as well. Beans are a great source of protein, fiber and nutrients. Bean soups, hummus, nachos, enchiladas, salads – there are a hundred ways to prepare beans and dozens of flavor profiles. These fritters include egg and nuts to boost flavor and protein. They would be nice served with a yogurt-based sauce or dip. — Have a question? Visit Julie on Facebook at The New Home Ec or email jacross@dcn.org.

Winter Squash Fritters Serves four as an appetizer or two as a main. Ingredients: 2 cups pureed winter squash ½ cup minced onion (about ½ an onion) ¼ cup finely chopped pecans 1 cup fine bread crumbs 1 egg 6 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon nutmeg olive oil Putting it together: Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Add just enough olive oil to coat to heavy frying pan. Drop fritter batter by the teaspoonful into hot pan. Cook over medium heat until golden brown (about 4 minutes). Turn and cook other side until brown, 2-3 minutes. Repeat, adding more oil to pan, until all fritters are cooked. Pureed winter squash: One pound raw squash equals roughly 1 cup cooked pureed squash. Wash squash and cut carefully in half. Scoop out seeds and strings. Put cut side down on a lined cookie sheet and bake in a 350-degree oven for about 1 hour, until squash is soft. Let cool. Scrape squash from rind and puree in food processor, put through a food mill or mash with a potato masher.

Whose ox gets gored at the end of all the drama?

any years ago, I spent a month traveling through the Baltic States and Russia. I don’t remember exactly when, but McDonald’s had appeared in Moscow and Putin had not; so, I’m guessing the late ’90s. Of course, I indulged in the local brews of which Baltika was the best and most popular and most readily available and biggest seller. To my surprise, I saw American beers advertised but I never saw any on sale. The Russian word for beer is pivo. I was amazed at the Russian beer-drinking culture at that time. Beer was quite cheap and widely available. Most interesting were kiosks that were common on street corners and would automatically dispense a can or bottle of beer in exchange for a few rubles, as a Coke might be sold here. There were also no regulations about open containers and Russians enjoyed a beer wherever they wished — on the street or on a park bench or on a bus, for that matter. I found those things strange and was not very comfortable with them. With rare exceptions, I also never felt comfortable in Russia. I had the feeling I was resented and disliked

for being there and I should shove off and go home because my presence was an embarrassment. Mostly this showed up as appallingly bad service in shops, restaurants and bars, or unsmiling stares on the streets, or trains or buses or stores. I have recently become aware of Mandela’s view that “There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated.” Perhaps my presence was a humiliation to ordinary Russians and to Putin, too. Since those days of the 1990s, Russians have embraced beer, which is now by far the most commonly drunk beverage, by volume, outselling vodka by a factor of 10. Of course, vodka may be 10 times more alcoholic than beer and so they have a more or less equal share of alcohol intake at nearly 40% each. The remaining 20% of the alcohol market is wines and brandy. Incidentally, Russians adults still consume some 11 liters (nearly

3 gallons) of pure alcohol per year. The Russian beer market grew rapidly to a maximum of well over 100 million hectoliters per annum by 2007 but thereafter has been shrinking. This is the result of increased taxation, reduced access and tighter regulation with a view to increased government revenue, reducing alcoholrelated diseases and early deaths. There has been a significant improvement in all these statistics with substantially increased average life expectancy for Russians, especially men. I can imagine Putin’s apparent interest in physical fitness had something to do with this.

f course, in the late ’90s, the prospect of an expanding market in the new open Russia was catnip to all the major players in the beer industry and, in various ways, they entered that market. They made significant investments there to support their ambitions. Heineken and Budweiser grew to be very popular beers just behind Baltika in sales. Over the years craft breweries have appeared and brewpubs that make

ales of various kinds. So the evolution of the brewing industry has been slow and late but has followed a quite normal path. These days, of course, Russia is at war with Ukraine, and, in many ways, with most of the rest of the world. While we do not experience falling bombs, we experience rising prices. All of the major brewing enterprises that have become so intimately entwined with the Russian market now seek to curtail their Russian operations. I think it may not be as easy as they would like it to be. Heineken has recently withdrawn from operations in Russia, where it owns eight breweries. They point out that there is a distinction between the actions of the Russian government and army and their numerous employees. They will therefore continue to support their employees, but they will refrain from new investment, or production, marketing and sales of their multiple beer brands. Heineken will “ring-fence” their Dutch operations from any financial benefit from their Russian operations. This is a pattern many entities have adopted (including Budweiser as an ABInBev subsidiary.) I hope they can make that stick.

It would be relatively easy to shut down sales of Heineken (or any other brand or any other product) in Russia if that beer were made at HQ in Zoeterwoude (close to Leiden, in the Netherlands) and simply loaded onto trucks or trains bound for Russia. They could simply stop loading. But, despite withdrawal, Heineken-owned breweries in Russia possibly could continue to operate for many years making Heineken beer. They can brew without any input from HQ because the technology and knowledge has been transferred to local brewery workers and managers and suppliers. To various extents, this applies to all the other companies that

have opted out of Russia, but employ Russians and own significant tangible assets there. Those businesses that operate under franchise arrangements also may choose not to close. Furthermore, if Mr. Putin nationalizes departing companies, Heineken and many other companies will be seriously out of pocket. This is most obvious in the case of aircraft. Aeroflot does not own its aircraft but leases them. Most of them (over 500) are parked in Russia and will represent a loss to leasing companies of some 12 billion dollars. So, we might ask: Whose ox is being gored? — Reach Michael Lewis at waleslewis792@gmail. com.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022

Don’t miss miracles happening right now I mmense fields of purple lupine flowers bloom a couple of miles before the Berryessa Dam on Road 128 and are stunning. Those fields were burned and then rain hit in December at just the right time. In 51 years of traveling through Winters, up to the big dam, never have I seen such a gorgeous monoculture display. There are also rock walls of golden poppies. Saturday, we were stunned again at Jepson Prairie Preserve, site of vernal pools on 1500 acres purchased in 1980 by the Nature Conservancy, now owned by Solano Land Trust. It is also part of the UC Davis Natural Reserve System to oversee research and college class visits. At least 90% of California’s historic vernal pools have been converted to farms and houses. Most of the remaining10% are protected. From now until Mother’s Day, tours happen every Saturday and Sunday from 10-12 and you don’t need to sign up in advance to see the vernal pools. Be there early to sign waivers. A$5 donation is requested. And although there is new, awesome signage, the tours are a great help. There are docent dippers with special permits to display critters from the rapidly drying up ponds, critters that live only until the water dries. Their eggs may remain dormant for 15 years or more. And the docents tell you about the tons of tiny flowers. [gallery size="full" type="slider" ids="985835,9858 36,985837,985839"] We were awesomely interrupted multiple times by a cacophony of honks— thousands of snow geese flying right above us and settling on the pond. The long-time volunteers had not seen such numbers before. They are gorgeous white geese with black tipped wings only visible when they fly. Then before our tour ended, the geese all took off, so many, so dense that they hid Mount Diablo in the distance. I was fortunate to have tour leader Kate Mawdsley, a retired UCD librarian, who has been a volunteer at Jepson Prairie for 34 years. Another docent called

her the Patron Saint of Docents. She introduced us to so many flowers: blue dick, star-shaped lavender filaree, butter and eggs, fiddleneck, goldfields, muilla, teeny, tiny blue lupine, tiny woolly marbles that look like cauliflower plants, yellow carpet, alkali vetch, popcorn flowers and more. We had a session with C.J. Addington, 24 years a docent, a high school physics teacher who loves the aquatic life in the rapidly drying up pond that is a biological treasure. He showed us tadpole shrimp that are about 1” long and look like a horse shoe crab and are both male and female. We also saw California clam shrimp and aquatic beetles which are land or water animals, back swimmers and more. The endangered fairy shrimp had completed their life cycle for the season, but CJ told us that the cysts deposited this year, may not mature for 5, 15 or 50 years. They are completely dormant in the cyst stage. Scientists don’t know what triggers a cyst to mature in a given year. There is a story about a faculty member in Utah who had a clot of 70-year old mud on his shelf. They put the mud in water, he had fairy shrimp. Then there’s the story of fairy shrimp cysts taken up in space; when they came back down and were put in water — they matured normally, We also saw larvae of California tiger salamanders, which breed in the murky water of the large playa pool. As larvae, they have gills but hopefully, the water lasts long enough for them to mature and develop lungs. The adult salamanders live in gopher holes in the surrounding area where they eat insects and co-exist with the gophers. Some have been recorded living as long

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Huge fields of lupine are in bloom starting about 2 miles before the Berryessa Dam. It is the biggest bloom seen in the last 51 years. as 12 years. We often heard the California meadowlark and saw American avocet and black-necked stilts foraging in the ponds. In the distance was Davis long-time volunteer in numerous capacitiesCharlie Russell hosting another group of visitors. There is not much walking. We were never out of sight of our cars. To reach Jepson Prairie Preserve, take Highway 113 South from I-80. Twelve miles south of Dixon, where 113 turns east at an overhead warning light, go straight onto the gravel road, Cook Lane, cross the railroad tracks, and continue to the parking area near the eucalyptus trees. Closer to home, see some blooming tall purple lupine and yellow fiddleneck right on F and Anderson at the North Ponds Upland Open Space Park at 3500 Anderson. And meet there for the first-Saturday bird stroll April 2 at the 8 a.m. firstWednesday bird stroll on April 6 at West Pond. Meet at west end of Isle Royale Lane. Bird strolls led by local bird experts. Volunteers make the world go round in

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Lawrence’s goldfinches were hanging out in the fiddleneck flowers at the North Davis Ponds Upland area on F and Anderson. Davis and surrounding regions. — Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her columns appear

monthly. Got a story, correction, comment? Contact: JeanJackman@gmail.com.

UC Davis researchers uncover a new leaf for redwood trees By Kat Kerlin Enterprise staff writer Redwoods are among the most well-studied trees on the planet, and yet their mysteries continue to surprise and delight scientists and nature lovers. Scientists from UC Davis discovered that redwood trees have two types of leaves, and those leaves have completely different jobs, according to a study in the American Journal of Botany. Together, these functionally distinct leaves allow the world’s tallest trees to thrive in both wet and dry parts of their range in California, without sacrificing water or food.] The peripheral leaf spends its working hours making the tree’s food — converting sunlight into sugar through photosynthesis. Its colleague, the axial leaf, does almost nothing to help with photosynthesis. Instead its specialty is to absorb water. In fact, the study found that a large redwood can absorb

up to 14 gallons of water in just the first hour its leaves are wet. How does that compare to other trees? Scientists don’t know. This is the first study estimating wholecrown water absorption in a large, mature tree. Because large redwoods have over 100 million leaves, this absorption record may prove hard to beat. In wet forests, photosynthesis can be inhibited by films of water covering leaf stomata when they get wet. For redwoods, the different leaf types allow the trees to get wet and still be able to photosynthesize. The peripheral leaves have a waxy coating that slows water absorption but may help them continue photosynthesis throughout the wet season. “I’d be surprised if there weren’t a lot of conifers doing this,” said lead author Alana Chin, a Ph.D. student in ecology with the UCD department of plant sciences at the time of the

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The peripheral leaves on the left make a redwood tree’s food. On the right, the axial leaf specializes in absorbing water. study. “Having leaves that aren’t for photosynthesis is in itself surprising. If you’re a tree, you don’t want to have a leaf that’s not photosynthesizing unless there’s a very good reason for it.” The study also found that leaves can shift their “office space” along the tree depending on whether the environment is wet or dry. In the wet, rainy north coast, the water-absorbing leaf type grows on the tree’s lower branches, leaving the

upper, sunnier levels to the photosynthesizing leaf type. That dynamic flips for redwoods in their southern range: The water-collectors live among the tree’s higher levels to take more advantage of fog and rain, which occur less often in the drier environment. To arrive at their

findings, the authors collected shoot clusters from six redwood trees at five forest locations stretching from wet Del Norte County to the dry Santa Cruz Mountains and exposed them to experimental fog. They estimated the water absorption potential for seven additional trees — including the tallest living tree — and took samples at varying heights. They then compared the anatomy and measured photosynthesis of the peripheral and axial leaves to understand their function. They also developed a physics-based causal model that allowed them to determine the leaf traits that regulate absorption rates. Amid all the findings, Chin is most excited to have found an easy and effective way to indicate redwood

trees’ ability to access fog. Researchers can monitor how and if redwoods are adapting to climate conditions and a future, drier world by simply looking at the visible waxes covering the two types of leaves — something that could be captured on a cell phone camera and shared by other scientists or even members of the public. “The cool thing here is their ability to thrive under all these circumstances and adjust themselves to these different environments,” said Chin, who grew up near the redwoods in Mendocino County. “That things like this can be happening right under our nose in one of the beststudied species out there — none of us assumed this would be the story.” — UC Davis News

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Young jazz keyboardist plays Mondavi on March 25 Whitaker brings fresh energy to UCD stage By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent No doubt about it ... a young musical prodigy can attract plenty of attention. This year seems to be that kind of moment for 20-year-old jazz pianist and Hammond B3 organist Matthew Whitaker, who performs with his quintet at the Mondavi Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25 (tickets $37-$60 general, with discounts for students, online at MondaviArts. org). Whitaker was born on April 3, 2001, in Hackensack, N.J., which is to say that he’s roughly the same age as countless undergraduates at UC Davis and other universities. Whitaker began displaying uncommon musical abilities at an early age, which has already propelled him to performances at famous East Coast venues including Weill Recital Hall (part of the Carnegie Hall complex), Lincoln Center, and the Apollo Theater in New York, as well as the Kennedy Center in the nation’s capital. He’s been praised by jazz writers, and profiled on television’s “60 Minutes.” He’s already released three albums (most recently 2021’s “Connections”). He’s presently on a tour that includes his dates at the Mondavi Center and with the Cal Performances series in Berkeley. And he’s still a tad shy of his 21st birthday (which will be

April 3, 2022). Readers of a certain age may recall playwright Lorraine Hansberry (who wrote the classic American drama “A Raisin in the Sun,” as well as the memoir “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”) and Nina Simone, whose song “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” got a lot of attention when it released in 1970. Viewed in a somewhat broader context, Whitaker is a talented Black keyboard player who happens to be blind (since birth), which almost automatically invites comparisons with Ray Charles (1930-2004) and Stevie Wonder (b. 1950), both of whom started performing when they were very, very young. Given his ability to improvise and compose, you could also think of Whitaker in the context of someone like Mozart (a child prodigy at the keyboard) or the blind French cathedral organist/composers like Louis Vierne (1870-1937) and Jean Langlais (1907-1991). Whitaker, by comparison, is steeped in the music of Black American churches, rather than the musical of French cathedrals, but Whitaker’s keyboard work clearly draws inspiration from religious themes (with a bit of American funk and blues on the side). All of which means that no small number of interviewers are seeking the opinions this talented young jazz keyboard player, who might very well prefer to let his keyboard playing do most of the talking. Whitaker offered these observations in a late 2021 profile on Ebony.com

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Matthew Whittaker, has released three albums, including “Connections”) and “Now Hear This.” He brings his attention-getting jazz stylings to the Mondavi Center on March 25.

“The fact that I use my visual cortex to process music is really cool. From my point of view, I never thought that I would use a part of my brain like that.” Matthew Whitaker pianist (which originated as Ebony Magazine in 1945): n “I started playing when I was 3 years old. My grandfather gave me my first keyboard and I feel that I have been blessed with a gift from God. I absolutely love sharing my gifts with everyone. By the age of five, I started taking classical piano lessons at at the Filomen M. D’Agostino

Greenberg Music School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. When I turned 7, I started listening to jazz for the first time and that love of melody grew into teaching myself the Hammond organ at 9.” n “I don’t let my disability stop me from doing what I love to do. I say that to anyone regardless of being differently abled or

not. Don’t give up! Stay positive and never let anyone take you away from your purpose. Follow your dreams and have fun while you’re doing whatever you want to do — whether it’s music, singing, playing instruments or whatever.” Whitaker has also participated in a research program that indicated his brain operates in unusual ways. “When my family and I saw the MRI scan, we were all shocked,” he told Ebony. “The fact that I use my visual cortex to process music is really cool. From my point of view, I never thought that I would use a part of my brain like that, but that goes to show that the way that scientists are able to discover these

things and present it in a way that made sense is uniquely cool as well.” ———— Bringing a young artist like Whitaker to Davis fits right in with the Mondavi Center’s tendency over the years to present a mix of youthful jazz phenoms (like pianist Joey Alexander, b. 2003, and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, b. 1989), established artists in mid-career (the Brothers Marsalis, Terence Blanchard) plus a few elder statesmen (Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, among others). This will be Whitaker’s first visit to Mondavi, and people are curious to check him out.

Artery will host jewelry exhibit as part of ArtAbout Special to The Enterprise The Artery presents Hadas Kol’s jewelry exhibit, focusing on three collections: The Wire Collection, The Geometric Collection and The Natural Stones Collection. All three transform her architectural concept into statement pieces celebrating both function and beauty. This show extends from April 1 to April 18, with a reception on Friday, April 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. Hadas states, “While transitioning from a career of many years as an interior architect in Tel Aviv, my longlived passion for art, design and architecture led me to creating handcrafted jewelry.” She moved to California 12 years ago and a few years later established her jewelry business. Hadas’s Wire Collection gives a minimalist and delicate touch to a wearable architectural design. Her wire pieces radiate

movement and joy. The simple geometric shapes in the Geometric Collection capture a floating structure of forms and balance. Hadas simplifies the concept of space and construction as she sets basic geometric shapes into layers of resin. The Natural Stones Collection brings together the artist’s passion for architecture with inspiration from nature. Hadas uses natural raw crushed stones positioned in resin, building architectural compositions from beautiful natural elements. The Artery, 207 G St. in downtown Davis, is open seven days a week, Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. The Artery will be open until 9 p.m. on April 8 for the reception of “Nature & Architecture” to coincide with the Davis Second Friday ArtAbout.

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Hadas Kol’s jewelry exhibit at the Artery will focus on three collections: from left are the “Turquoise” necklace from the Natural Stone Collection, “Blue” from the Geometric Collection and “Tower” from the Wire Collection.

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‘More Than Robots’: Impressively inspirational You won’t believe what today’s teenagers can do By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic Documentarians — particularly those who track their subjects in real time — are at the mercy of unexpected developments. This somewhat uneven film therefore isn’t quite what actress-turned-director Gillian Jacobs set out to make … but that doesn’t detract from its uplifting charm. Jacobs set out to track four high school teams participating in the annual FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC): from kickoff announcement and “kit reveal,” through regional competitions, and concluding with the championship face-offs. One or two students and mentors are profiled from each team; we get a sense, through their eyes, of the respective robotics units. (Davis’ stellar Citrus Circuits team, alas, was not among the chosen few. Which simply means that Jacobs didn’t look hard enough.) Teams from throughout the world attend the January 4 kickoff event — either in person or remotely — which is hosted by (among others) actor Mark Hamill and FIRST founder Dean Kamen. (Kamen comes by this involvement honestly; he holds more than 1,000 patents and is perhaps best known for inventing the Segway and iBOT, along with portable dialysis machines and insulin pumps. He founded FIRST — “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” — in 1989, as a means of inspiring students’ interest in STEM fields.) The challenge changes each year; this particular season is dubbed “Infinite Recharge.” Each team is given an identical

‘More Than Robots’ Rating: Not rated, and suitable for all ages Starring: A gaggle of ferociously smart teenagers Available via: Disney+ “build kit”; how the components are used is up to individual ingenuity. Cue a classic quote by Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” The scenario concerns a futuristic city that must activate a protective shield before an asteroid strike. This is accomplished by student-built robots that scoop up and shoot “power cells” (yellow foam balls) into targeted holes, to activate the “shield generator.” The shield then must be manipulated via a control panel, and — finally — two robots must “park” by hanging themselves from a balance beam, with extendable “arms,” so that both robots are wholly off the floor. The teams greet the details of each year’s challenge, Kamen explains, with equal parts “excitement and terror.” Terror, because the teams have only six weeks to build their robots. We first meet Jacob, a spectrum student at one of Los Angeles’ Da Vinci Schools. He’s camera shy but endearingly candid, acknowledging his fascination with classical music (“It’s pure math”). Stumbling across his school’s FRC classroom one day was sheer happenstance, and — that quickly — he found a home as a member of Team 4201: The Vitruvian Bots. Team 4201 has money, resources, 16 members and an impressive shop; they’ve been doing this for years. Their facility with 3D printers, lathes, coding and all manner of power tools is jaw-dropping: almost beyond the ken of us mere mortals.

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Sakura Tempesta’s mentor, Kanon — seated, third from left — watches apprehensively as their robot tackles its required tasks, during a test run performed in front of a room filled with sponsor spectators. In stark contrast, Team 6904 — Terawatts, based at Los Angeles’ David Starr Jordan High School — is new to the game, having debuted in 2018. The Watts-based school’s resources are meager; the four-member team, lacking even a classroom in which to work, sets up in a hallway. They nonetheless boast a resident genius: Aaron, a jockturned-coder and astonishing jack-of-all-trades whose instincts and knowledge are flatout amazing. He’s adorably humble on camera; he certainly impresses his mentor/science teacher, Fatima, who marvels at what her students can accomplish, with so little. Recognizing their limitations, the Terawatts team ignores the shooting mechanism, instead focusing on building a robot capable of the “hanging park.” This sort of “specialization” is valuable, because an important FIRST element is “coopertition.” Following first-round heats during regional competitions, twoteam “alliances” are formed. Ergo, a team with robots that are

weak in the “hanging park” will find value in a team that has solved that problem. We then travel to Chiba, Japan, to meet Kanon, mentor of Team 6909: Sakura Tempesta. She’s a remarkably busy young woman who attends college in St. Paul, Minn., but returns to Japan each winter in order to mentor the FRC team she founded in 2017. Kanon has made a point of “giving back” because, recalling her childhood, “I’d never seen a female engineer.” Sakura Tempesta has formidable presence: enough to secure backing from numerous sponsors, which is a rare feat for a Japanese high school. Mexico City, finally, is home to Team 4010: Nautilus, founded in 2012. The effervescent Mariana leads their “chairman’s team,” a support group that embodies FIRST’s core mission. These “auxiliary” squads vie for the coveted Chairman’s Award, which honors the team that best helps transform the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect for, and youth

involvement in, STEM fields. Mariana and her teammates work with children in foster care facilities. “We build a legacy,” she proudly explains. The six weeks pass; regional competitions begin. Terawatts and the Vitruvian Bots wind up in the same Los Angeles-based event, along with numerous other teams. Tension runs high. And this is where I reveal that we’re talking about the winter of 2020. As the world shuts down, and all subsequent FIRST events are canceled, Jacobs might have been left without a means of finishing her film. But no: She’s granted a heartwarming detour. Because what so many of these undaunted, take-charge FRC teams do instead, as the pandemic spreads, is simply amazing. It’ll bring tears to your eyes. Superb save, Ms. Jacobs. — Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenterprise.com.

Find sanctuary with Opera House’s ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ By Jennifer Goldman Enterprise theater critic This is a must-see show! Woodland Opera House’s production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is a thought-provoking musical that explores the distinction between men and monsters. It is based on Disney’s animated film and Víctor Hugo’s novel. The story centers on Quasimodo, a visibly disabled bell-ringer locked up in the Notre Dame Cathedral. Esmeralda, a beautiful Romani woman, acts as Quasimodo’s rescuer, but is is unfortunately also preyed upon by his evil master and uncle Frollo. Will good win over evil? Beauty over ugliness? Piety over sin? You’ll have to see the show for yourself to find out! I felt very lucky to get seats for opening night of the show at the Woodland Opera House. This was the first main-stage show in years where the actors were allowed to fully emote without any annoying face shields. The costumes were great, the acting superb, and

choreography was spot-on; however, the music was the star of the show. “Hunchback” has music with harmonies that pierce your very soul. It reminded me of going to hear concerts in Prague and Budapest inside of the historic churches, where the best of the best sang and played music to tourists from all over the world. Bravo to Music Director Ryan Lee. This cast has worked so hard and achieved a brilliant balance thanks to the direction of Bob Cooner. It is definitely an all-star cast, and the dances were a hit with the audience. The slow motion dance first had the audience burst out laughing, only for them to stop and be awed by the magic as it progressed. Audiences will love the rowdy and energetic ensemble during “Topsy Turvey,” and will recognize the Disney hit “God Help the Outcasts.” Although the entire cast played their parts with passion and perfection, I must applaud the principal actors. Eddie Voyce (Qua-

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Eddie Voyce, left, is Quasimodo, and Jori Gonzalez plays Esmerelda in Woodland Opera House’s production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” simodo) did an outstanding job and nearly brought the audience to their feet during his many emotional numbers. After two years of COVID, we can all relate to the hunchback’s desire to get out of his “sanctuary “ and join in the festivities. Frollo (Rick Eldredge), who claimed he was bewitched by Esmerelda,

was fighting his inner demons and sang about his struggle to avoid the fires of lust and sin feeding his addiction to possess Esmerelda. He uses his power to get special permission from the flamboyant king (Danny Beldi), to terrorize the Roma and those that may be hiding Esmerelda.

Eldredge was riveting. The very talented Jori Gonzales (Esmerelda) played the strong female lead practically perfectly. Her beautiful voice, tambourine dancing and spoton acting were a joy to watch. The best dancer by far was Jenny Plasse, whose crisp pirouettes and athleticism have grown more

and more impressive over the years. A.J. Rooney (Phoebus) played a very handsome male love interest in a remarkably believable fashion. The only thing that felt lacking was that the set, though beautiful, never changed on stage. I also would have liked to see the bells move when they were supposedly ringing. Because of the choice of set design, it was hard to follow whether the actors were in a dungeon, roaming a graveyard, or on a roof. However, I loved the costumes( Denise Miles) and the quick changes on stage — from townspeople to gargoyles, for example — were very clever and effective. Overall, I truly enjoyed seeing this production. The incredible standing ovation it received sums up the spectacular nature of the show. Get your tickets now before they sell out. “Hunchback” runs Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. now through April 3.

Two special ceramics exhibitions open at Gibson House galleries Special to The Enterprise YoloArts hosted receptions Thursday for two exhibitions at the Gibson House and Property in Woodland. The Barn Gallery features the group exhibition, “After Viola.” Inside the Gibson House is “Side-by-Side: Historic and Contemporary Ceramics.” Both shows open are part of the 2022 National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference being held at the Sacramento Convention Center, March 16-19. The conference theme is “Fertile Ground” and pays homage to the Farm to Fork movement that originated in northern California, and annually

celebrated by YoloArts’ Art and Ag Project. According to the organizers of the conference, “Fertile Ground invites us to gather around an expansive and inclusive table for continued sustenance and dialogue through ceramic art, teaching, and learning.” Along with the Crocker Art Museum, CSU Sacramento, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and other galleries in the region, The Barn Gallery and Gibson House will be part of the NCECA conference bus route and visited by conference participants and collectors from all over the country. “After Viola” is a group exhibition at The Barn Gallery featuring

the artwork of Bay Area artists who have come together to create new works in conversation with the archives of Viola Frey, the renowned California artist known for her colorful, robust, largerthan-life sculptures. The exhibition is in collaboration with the Artists’ Legacy Foundation. Artists exhibiting their work: Ashwini Bhat, Nicki Green, Cathy Lu, Nathan Lynch, and Kari Marboe. “After Viola continues” at The Barn Gallery through June 11. “Side-by-Side: Historic and Contemporary Ceramics” includes artwork from earthenware to

porcelain and invites visitors to look at items from the Yolo County Historical Collection through the lens of contemporary artists as they draw inspiration and reframe history through their work. Artists participating in the show are: Shenny Cruces, Zen Du, Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, Ianna Nova Frisby, Ray Gonzales, Michelle P. Kern, William Peterson, and Sandy Whetstone. “We are excited to be one of the conference venues showcasing contemporary ceramic artists in the region in the historically significant and visually enticing environment of the Gibson family's historic home,” said Iulia

Bodeneau, museum and exhibition curator. “Side-by-Side” continues at the Gibson House through June 24. The Barn Gallery and The Gibson House will have special open hours Saturday, March 19, from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Up to date details and more information about the exhibitions can be found at yoloarts.org. Ongoing regular open hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:30 to 5 p.m. and select Saturdays 12:30-3 p.m. The Barn Gallery and the Gibson House at 512 Gibson Road in Woodland. For more information contact YoloArts at 530-3096464 or ya@yoloarts.org.

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alarmed by this. OEDNA believes that the city should have some discretion, but should not be allowed to ignore planning and zoning rules when they are inconvenient.

f cities can interpret, and reinterpret, planning documents with virtually unlimited discretion, then community-based planning processes — which led to the Downtown Davis and Traditional Residential Neighborhoods Design Guidelines, and will in the coming years lead to a new General Plan — become toothless and meaningless. Unlimited discretion means that investor-developers may buy a property, intending to build a project larger than planning documents allow, with confidence that a development-oriented city council will reinterpret the policies to allow for the larger project to be built. This should never happen, but it has and it does. OEDNA welcomes appropriate development that fits with the neighborhood character: We support a three-story to one-story transition, conforming to the design guidelines and zoning law, at the Trackside site. A conforming building would provide commercial space and more than twenty dwelling units, densifying the Old East neighborhood and adding housing near the downtown core. Supreme Court review is OEDNA’s one remaining venue for challenging the city’s overreach in the Trackside matter, as well as the nearly unlimited discretion granted to the city by the appeals court. Our request for review is not only for our neighborhood, but for every neighborhood in California that values its sense of place. No matter the final outcome, OEDNA will strive to protect the setting and feeling of our neighborhood, support sensible growth, and advocate for other neighborhoods at the grassroots level, citywide. — Larry Guenther is the board president of Old East Davis Neighborhood Association.

LETTERS Rooftop solar On behalf of all who have rooftop solar, I was to thank Tom Elias for keeping an eye on the PUC and PG&E. His March 11 column disposed the argument that rooftop solar is unfair to people who can't afford it. What they can't afford is PG&E's plans for remote centralized solar plants at the end of long, expensive transmission lines. Mark Braly Davis

NATO and Ukraine In the March 3 letters section, the letter titled “Ukraine,'' the author wrote, “NATO is not a protector at all.” I was a U.N. Peacekeeper in Croatia in 1995. Peace was impossible to keep while Slobodan Miloševic, the leader of the Serbs, advocated “ethnic cleansing” — a clinically sounding phrase that resulted in the murder of over 100,000 people, the displacement of over 1,000,000 people, the raping of tens of thousands of women and girls,

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Dear Annie: My husband has control issues. He is aware that he has them, and he really tries hard to keep them in check. We are finally at a place in our marriage where I can make decisions about our home, such as interior decorating and small remodeling jobs, and act on them, and it feels wonderful! I have a design and merchandising degree, and I am the one who manages the home while he works in an office most days, so it makes sense to both of us for me to be “in charge” of these things. I do small projects maybe two or three times a year. These are not expensive or overwhelming. For example, buying a new couch (not the one he enjoys sitting on; I’m leaving that one alone) and selling the old one for just a bit less than the new one cost. However, he gets super grumpy, testy and short-tempered when I’m planning and executing a change — ANY change! I am good at keeping to our budget, and he has always liked the changes I’ve made once they’re finished. What can I say to him to remind him (kindly) that we have both agreed to let me go with my design choices and that he should try to at least be nice during the process? — Tired of Mr. Control Dear Tired: The good news is that you are both aware of his control issues. Congratulations on working together and communicating what is important to each of you in the marriage. Next time he starts to get grumpy or shorttempered, call him out on it. Try calmly talking to him about his behavior and how his words are making you feel. There’s always the chance that he doesn’t realize that his

knee-jerk complaints about anything new are really wearing you down, and he might be willing to change. ——— Dear Annie: I am turning 38 this year. I’m a father of two with a third due in November — this time, a girl. I’ve always had an exciting life and liked to party hard with my friends and sometimes with my wife. I like to live on the edge, but recently, things are changing. My friends think they want to chill and not do the same things we have done in the past. My wife says I need to chill, too, and just take it easy. I feel different this time around. I feel upset when they don’t want to hang out and just have boys time. I can’t sleep sometimes, and I fight with my inner self from time to time. I do still go out and make new friends, but it’s not the same, and they’re not like my old ones. I don’t feel happy about this whole situation. What should I do? — Man-child Dear Man-child: It sounds like your friends are experiencing a shift in priorities. Having a family doesn’t mean giving up what makes you happy, but it is about compromise and putting others’ needs above your own.

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Perhaps it’s time to reexamine your priorities, too. As a father of almost three, you should put being a good role model and taking care of yourself to better support your family at the top of the list. Commit to balancing boys time out with more boys time at home with your sons, and girls time with your wife and daughter when she arrives. Partying hard is not good for your health, anyway, and it doesn’t set a good example for your kids; they need their father around. Spend time and hang out with your old friends, of course, but give the toned-down activities they’re into these days a shot.

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Neglected by husband Dear Annie: I’m tired. I have been in a six-year relationship with talks of marriage but no engagement yet. He was married before, while I have never been married. My boyfriend is 47, and I’m 41. I have given him six years of my life. He knows by now if he wants to spend the rest of his life with me. We don’t sleep in the same bed because he snores and I’m a light sleeper. He likes to drink beer daily, while I’m a social drinker. We have lots of fun together, but I feel like I deserve an engagement ring and marriage. I love him, and he loves — Stuck in a Rut me, but I’m discouraged. Dear Stuck: When a car is stuck in the mud, drivers are told to move it gently forward and back, rocking the vehicle until momentum frees it. You’ll be stuck in your rut forever if you don’t start rocking a little. Set aside time to have a quiet moment with your boyfriend and tell him how important it is to you to get married. If it is something that he doesn’t want to do, then you might be better off finding someone else. ——— Dear Annie: I’ve been married for nearly 30 years. After our first year of marriage, my husband lost interest in sex with me and refused to discuss his reasons. We were in our late 30s at the time. This situation has continued for our entire marriage except for brief periods of interest, which quickly disappear, leaving me more lonely and depressed. The pattern of our marriage quickly became one of me trying to guess what would make my husband desire me and turning myself inside out to become whatever that was, but none of that has sparked any interest, and he has steadfastly responded to my pleas, questions, requests to attend couples counseling and so forth with complete silence. Over the years, I have lost weight, changed my hairstyle, worn more and less makeup, changed the way I dress when he comments how attractive some woman’s outfit is, become more sexually assertive and consistently shown him how attractive I find him. I know he finds women attractive because he admitted after we’d been together 20 years that he used pornography often to find sexual release. I’m not perfect. I’m sure some fault must lie with me, but I’m now feeling sad and resentful for the years of platonic marriage. I’ve spent years in counseling trying to hold onto a sense of self-worth in the face of his decadeslong rejection. He tells me he loves me often, is a great stepfather and grandfather, and shares many of my interests. Should I finally just give up and call that “enough”? Should I just be grateful for a long-term relationship when so many women my age are widowed or divorced? I’ve forgiven the neglect over and over, yet the lone-

liness comes back as years pass in this state. Saying all this out loud makes me seem pathetic, but I’m open to hearing your thoughts. — Neglected Spouse Dear Neglected: Nothing that you said in your letter is pathetic. Please don’t be so hard on yourself. Changing your physical appearance will not change your husband’s desire to have sex with you. You can’t control his actions, but you can control yours. The fact that you wrote this letter shows that you are ready for a change. Don’t allow his sexual desire for you to determine your sense of self-worth. You are so much more than that. I’m not sure that staying with him, which seems to be making you more sad and lonely, is any better than being on your own and finding someone who desires and deserves you. It’s time to have a conversation with your husband about going to couples counseling together. You can’t keep going on like this, nor should you have to. ———

Overwhelmed by ice cream Dear Annie: I read your column every day, and I read with great interest the letter from the wife whose husband had an affair 20 years earlier. She was bitter that none of her friends told her about it. I found myself in a similar situation, only I was the friend, and I DID tell her that her husband was cheating on her. This was 35 years ago. Remember the old expression about killing the messenger? That’s what happened to me. I had struggled with what to do with this information for several days. I knew she’d be devastated, but I believed she deserved the truth. She was my best friend, and I felt I’d be lying to her face every time I saw her if I didn’t tell her. I practiced for days trying to come up with the most supportive way of talking to her. I went and saw her, and we talked for about an hour, and it was very, very difficult. I left knowing that she had a lot to process and sort out, and I gave her some space. After a few days, I called but could not reach her. I left messages, but I never heard back from her. Fifteen years later, I got a rather incoherent and angry letter from her, blaming me — for what, specifically, wasn’t clear. The wife who wrote to you complaining that no one told her might have reacted differently 20 years ago if someone had let her know. If I had had a crystal ball and known our friendship would be over if I told her, would I still have

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told my friend at the time? I think so. I still believe hiding it from her would have been worse, a betrayal. — Killed Messenger in Pennsylvania Dear Killed Messenger: Thank you for your letter. I suppose it was easier to get mad at you than her husband who had betrayed her. Just know that her meanness came out of pain and that hurt people hurt people. ——— Dear Annie: Why do Americans have so many ice cream products? I went to the supermarket, and there were 10 new ice creams to choose from, and I was just about to finish off trying them all from the prior week. I’m not fat — yet. Yes, even with the problems of supply, they somehow still manage to pack the refrigerators with new choices. I find myself spending at least five to 10 minutes trying to choose an ice cream that is healthy, economical and tastes good. In my country, we have fewer ice cream choices, but they all taste good. Should I check myself to see if I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, or should I be concerned that we indeed have too many choices in America? Another crazy complaint, if I may: I recently found out that a famous ice cream brand with a European label is not actually European. The first time I found this product, I happily told the clerk, who often sees me hanging around the ice cream aisle, that I had found a European ice cream. He didn’t seem surprised but actually looked concerned. I felt like an idiot after I found out it’s made by an American corporation. No wonder he looked concerned. So, this has been my problem, and I need a solution. Maybe you can help? — Too Many Choices Dear Choices: Isn’t America great? The complaint in many countries is that there aren’t enough choices, while your concern about this country is that we have too many choices of ice cream. That’s a sweet thought. In all seriousness, you bring up a good point that too many choices can actually be detrimental to your wellbeing. Psychology professor Barry Schwartz argues that having an infinite number of choices can be exhausting. We can set unrealistic expectations and then think we might have made the wrong choice. Next time you go to the supermarket, make up your mind on the flavor you want before you enter, and don’t let all the choices seduce you into swaying. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Blue Devils too much for the Tigers By Mark DeVaughn Enterprise correspondent North America’s oldest organized sport had something for all ages Wednesday night in Davis. A gathering of Davis Youth Lacrosse players saw Davis High boys lacrosse team race to an 18-0 victory over Roseville High. The night featured a festive halftime scene. Armed with their own gear, the grade schoolers ran wild and held an impromptu practice session on the field. The official game featured Mason Bennett, Holt Klineberg and Finn Shields scoring three goals apiece for the Blue Devils (4-3, 1-1 Sacramento Valley Lacrosse League). While mingling with their guests in the postgame, the victors said they appreciated the chance to provide the right example. “It’s good to show the kids what’s happening at the high school level,” said Klineberg, a junior. “It feels good. You definitely want to show up for them, and show them what you can do.” Lacrosse dates to the indigenous peoples of Canada in the 17th century, according to the Smithsonian. The game combines a regimented nature with fastpaced action. Opponents feature 10 players on field: three apiece at attacker, midfield and defense, together with a goalie. Davis High features a young team intent on forming a cohesive unit. Shields is a dynamic sophomore attacker with a cannon shot. Klineberg brings speed and high energy to the midfield. The defensive side benefits from veteran starter Adam Perry.

“As a senior and as one of the captains, I feel like I’m asked to provide more of a leadership role,” said Perry, who scored a goal and had three assists. “There’s a lot of other guys stepping up, too. Everything we’re doing in practice, we’re finally bringing to the field at gametime.” Davis moved past the .500 mark for the first time since a season-opening win against Rocklin. Ten Blue Devils found the back of the net. Bennett recorded three assists to go with his trio of goals. Dominic Freedland-Wolford scored twice and added three assists. “From three weeks ago, it’s a different team,” Klineberg explained. “We’re getting a lot better.” The home side held possession for a vast majority of the contest. With Davis up 16-0 to begin the second half, officials moved the game to a running clock. The Blue Devils held a 5-0 edge after one quarter. Sophomore goalkeeper Sawyer Schoen made several impressive saves in goal. Other times, he moved no more than any of the food trucks parked inside. A former UC Davis lacrosse player who teaches at Natomas High, Davis head coach Nick Juri is in his 12th season. “We’ve been on the other side of it a couple times this season,” Juri said. “We’re continuing to build and learn. We have strong pieces we just want to bring everyone (along) so they can contribute at different roles in the game. One thing I’ve learned: we haven’t quit. We know what we need to do better. We’re going to work on it. Our goal is to continue improving.” — Follow Mark DeVaughn on Twitter: @OrangeMarkD.

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Davis High midfielder Hunter Massey waits for the ball in Wednesday’s game at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. The Blue Devils jumped out to an early lead and posted an 18-0 victory over the Tigers.

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Davis High girls keep on winning Enterprise staff The Davis High girls lacrosse team improved to 3-0 in the Sacramento Valley Lacrosse League and 7-1 overall with a 15-2 road win at Roseville on Wednesday. Colette Quaas had four goals for the Blue Devils. Teammates Grace Scheuring and Kate McMullen had two goals each. Ella Heringer, along with Davis teammates Ruby Adler, Alee Holman-Evans, Olivia Kim, Taylor Lubin, Devin Hawkes and Gabriella Laugero had one each. Davis had 38 shots on goal in the game. Quaas and Adler had five each. Scheuring and Lubin had four each. On Friday, Davis will host Woodcreek of Roseville at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

DHS girls badminton The Davis High girls badminton team lost its first match of the season on Tuesday, as Armijo of Fairfield posted a 9-6 win. Davis won four of the seven

doubles matches. Blue Devil winners were No. 2 team of Dua Hassen-Helena Wei, No. 5 squad of Kelly Su-Sarah Park, No. 6 squad of Cameron St. Andre-Emi Cech and No. 7 duo of May Wang-Tselmen Anuurad. All four teams won their matches in straight sets. In the singles matches, Rowan Baar and St. Andre won their matches in three sets.

UC Davis men's tennis The UC Davis men's tennis team competed in the final day of the Golden State Invitational against University of San Francisco at the Marya Welch Tennis Center on March 12, where the Dons posted a 4-3 win. Aggie players Ryan Torres and Ryan Morgan continued their hot start to the season, as they won both of their singles matches. Torres pushed his winning streak to eleven matches while Morgan won his fifth straight and has 12 victories this season. Mitchell Davis also won his match for the Aggies in three sets. UC Davis host Idaho State at the Mayra Welch Tennis Center.

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THRILLER: Teams play again Saturday when he laid down a perfect bunt to bring in Koen Carston, who reached on a walk, stole second base and moved to third on a single from Chin. Cosumnes Oaks’ starting pitcher, Jordan Rodriguez. then allowed three straight walks, walking in one run on the second walk issued. With the bases loaded, Will Ackerman smacked a single to bring in Scheiber and Martinez. Shorts followed with another single, scoring Ochoa. DHS went into the fourth frame with a comfortable 5-0 lead, but it did not last long. A single from the Wolfpack’s Gannon Castle was followed by a double from Montanez, moving Castle to third. After two strikeouts, Nicholas Watkins drew a walk, loading the bases. Tyler Leong drove in Castle and Montanez on a single. Brody Airoldi then pounded out another

HONOLULU, HI. — The UC Davis beach volleyball team competed in three duals at the Outrigger Queen's Cup held on Queen's Beach on March 12. The Aggies won their quarterfinal match against Nebraska, 3-2, but fell in the semis to No. 3 TCU, 4-1, and No. 9 Hawai'i in the third place dual, 3-2. Ashlee Goycoochea and Rose Holscher secured the Aggies' win over Nebraska, fighting in three sets at No. 3. The pair downed Bekka Allick and Lexi Rodriguez, 24-22, 20-22, 15-10. Goycoochea and Holscher also won the lone point for the Aggies against TCU. Tabitha Mitchell and Kylie Miller earned the first victory of the day for UC Davis at the No. 4 spot while Madelin Smith and Sam Lazenby followed with a win at No. 5. Every match went three sets except the 21-18, 21-10 victory from Mitchell and Miller. The Aggies went toe-to-toe with host Hawai'i as Morgan Coolbaugh and Megan Luly, plus Smith and Mia Olen nabbed wins. Senior Nicole Andrade earned the Aloha Spirit Award, handed out by tournament officials. UC Davis returns to the sand to face Stanford at the UC Davis Beach Volleyball Courts on Monday.

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Davis High batter Max Scheiber gets a cut of the baseball in the bottom of the second inning of Thursday’s Delta League home game against Cosumnes Oaks. Scheiber and the Blue Devils rallied to beat the Wolfpack by an 8-7 score. The two squads face each other again on Saturday.

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single, bringing Watkins home. Ethan Hung hit Cosumnes Oaks’ third straight single, loading the bases once again. Rodriguez then knocked a double, scoring Leong and Airoldi to tie the game at five runs apiece. The Blue Devils took the lead back in the bottom of the fourth inning. After Carston and Chin drew walks to lead off the inning, they each stole a base to get into scoring position. This paid off when Baker smacked a single to score Carston. Going into the fifth, Davis led the Wolfpack 6-5. Davis’ lead was once again short-lived. For Cosumnes Oaks, a leadoff walk was followed by two doubles by Montanez and Chance Moore. This gave the Wolfpack the 7-6 edge until DHS tied the game in the bottom of the sixth. — Follow Rebecca Wasik on Twitter: @BeccaFromTheBay.

Day. The Giants will be hosting the St. Louis Cardinals. On Saturday, July 30, former Giant first baseman Will Clark will have his No. 22 jersey retired. San Francisco will host the Chicago Cubs. n Maybe it's just me, but I'm going to miss seeing pitchers batting for themselves in the National League. But at the same time, having the designated hitter in the NL could be a huge boost. We'll find out in upcoming weeks and months. n The Kings hosts the Boston Celtics on Friday. The Kings will close out their four-

game homestand against the Phoenix Suns. As for the Kings and the NBA Play-In Tournament for the playoffs. No need to talk about the Kings and the playoffs for this season anymore. Honestly, the Play-In Tournament is a waste of time. Let's just get straight to the top eight teams in the West and East playing each other, with the final two winners from each side playing for the NBA Championship. — Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter: @ MBDavisSports.

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Mark your calendar M y random thoughts as the Sacramento Kings play two more home games Friday and

Sunday. n Do you want to know what teams that year's UC Davis football team is going to host this season? You’ve came to the right place. UC Davis plays its first two games at Cal on Saturday, Sept. 3 and a rematch with South Dakota State on Saturday, Sept. 10. The Aggies faced the Jackrabbits in the Football Championship Subdivision playoff game on Nov. 27, which South Dakota State posted a 56-24 win. Then the Aggies play their first home game at UC Davis Health Stadium against San Diego on Sept. 17. Then UC Davis opens Big Sky Conference play at home versus Weber State on Sept. 24. The Aggies' next home game will be against Northern Arizona in another conference game on Oct. 15. Cal Poly pays a visit to UC Davis on Oct. 29 and play the final home game against Idaho State on Nov. 5. UC Davis will close out the regular season in the Causeway Classic against Sacramento State on Nov. 19. n What does UC Davis football assistant head coach/running backs coach Mark Speckman have in common with one of the writers here at the Enterprise? (Other than Speckman knowing me since my freshman year in high school.) You will find out in an upcoming column. n The Davis High football team has made two changes to its preseason schedule this upcoming season. The Blue Devils will play four nonleague games before entering Delta League play. Davis will open the season against Vacaville at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Friday, Aug. 19. Then Davis plays at Granite Bay on Friday, Aug. 26. Now, Davis will host Oakmont of Roseville on Friday, Sept. 2. The Blue Devils close out the preseason at Fairfield on Friday, Sept. 9. Gone from the Blue Devils' schedule is

Rocklin, which was runner-up in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I championship game, and Grant of Sacramento. Davis and Grant had their non-league game canceled last season after a Blue Devils player tested positive for COVID-19. Davis opens Delta League action at Franklin of Elk Grove on Sept. 16. Then the Blue Devils will play three league games, have the bye week, and play their remaining three league games. Davis will close out the regular season at Jesuit on Saturday, Oct. 29. Yes, local football fans, Davis High and UC Davis football squads are playing on Oct. 29. So, you can get your football fix two days before Halloween. That certainly is a treat, right? There is going to be an upcoming story and photos on Steve Smyte, who has returned as the Davis High football head coach, and what his players have been doing in recent months and will be doing in upcoming months to prepare for the upcoming season. n What is going to happen to Jimmy Garoppolo, who is still the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers? That will also be addressed in an upcoming column. n Are you happy that Major League Baseball players and coaches are back on the diamond? Same here. If you're a San Francisco Giants fan like yours truly, then you're looking forward to the upcoming season. There are two home games at Oracle Park that you may want to consider checking out. The first one is Saturday, May 7, which is going to be Buster Posey

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Davis High batter Houston McCray gets ready to make contact with the baseball in Thursday’s Delta League home game against Cosumnes Oaks.

Davis wins thriller By Rebecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent A walk-off triple catapulted the Davis High baseball team to victory on Thursday. Offense was the name of the game against Cosumnes Oaks High in a Delta League contest on the Blue Devils' field. The score fluctuated often with Davis (2-4 overall, 2-0 in the DL) and Cosumnes Oaks (1-5 overall, 0-2 in the DL) trading leads back and forth as the contest went on. In the bottom of the seventh inning with the game tied at 7-7, Davis’ Grafton Shorts hit a triple to the centerfield wall to bring home Brooks Ochoa and thus take the contest, 8-7. Ochoa led off the half inning with a single and moved to second base on a groundout by Dillon Rockwell. “It’s good to be on the right side of one of these walk-offs,” said Davis High head coach Ethan Guevin. “I

thought our guys did a really nice job of battling through some adversity. When we needed the big hit, we got it. That’s an improvement from earlier in the season.” After the Wolfpack were held scoreless in the top of the sixth inning, the Blue Devils tied the game in the bottom of the sixth. Brian Chin led off with a walk and moved to second base on a groundout bunt from Gizaw Baker. On another groundout from Max Scheiber, Chin moved to third. Cosumnes Oaks’ third baseman Manuel Montanez was called for obstruction while fielding another groundout from Enrique Martinez, allowing Chin to cross home. The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when DHS scored five runs, working through its entire lineup with Houston McCray batting twice. Baker began the scoring spree

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