The Davis Enterprise Sunday, April 17, 2022

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SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022

Stepping up

County, former sheriff’s sergeant settle lawsuit

City Council to present environmental awards

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

Davis Community Meals and Housing, which provides community meals, shelter and other assistance to vulnerable individuals, was recognized not only

Yolo County and its Sheriff ’s Office have settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former sheriff ’s sergeant, agreeing to pay $350,000 to resolve allegations of employment retaliation and discrimination.

According to the settlement agreement signed in November and obtained Friday by The Davis Enterprise, Dean Nyland also will receive identification classifying him as a retired sheriff ’s deputy.

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by the Sheriff ’s Office, which had denied Nyland’s claims, but rather an effort “to avoid the substantial expense, disruption and inconvenience of further litigation,” the document says.

Reached for comment Friday, Nyland said he was satisfied with the outcome.

“Obviously I wanted my job back, but that probably wasn’t the best for everybody,” he said. “That was my life, my career, and it was devastating to be terminated under those circumstances.”

Yolo County Sheriff Tom Lopez referred questions about the settlement to the Yolo County Counsel’s Office.

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Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council on Tuesday will present the 28th annual city of Davis Environmental Recognition Awards, with recipients ranging from Bike Davis to Tree Davis, Dos Coyotes to Davis Community Meals and Housing and several individuals.

The awards were recommended by the city’s Natural Resources Commission.

The award ceremony will take remotely during Tuesday’s council meeting and an in-person event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Peregrine School, 2650 Lillard Dr. The celebration will recognize award winners from 2020, 2021 and 2022, as 2020 and 2021 award recipients did not have an inperson event due to COVID-19 restrictions.

“The city honors the work of this year’s Environmental Recognition Award recipients,” said Mayor Gloria Partida. “More than ever, we need people willing to stand up for sustainable practices and the stewardship of

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Tree Davis and its many volunteers will receive the Environmental Legacy Award for more than 30 years of enhancing the city’s urban forest. our resources.”

Nonprofit Two organizations received awards this year in the nonprofit category — Bike Davis and Davis Community Meals and Housing.

For 15 years, Bike Davis has provided a valuable service in

the Davis community through civic engagement, bike education and advocacy efforts. Its work includes infrastructure improvement, ensuring safe biking for all ages, and advocating for the long-term investment in biking for our community. Bike Davis has brought resources, expertise, creativity and innovation to

increase biking and reduce transportation-related greenhouse gases in Davis, according to the city’s announcement.

State backs off vaccine mandate for kids The Vault remains open

For Davis skateboarders

By Elizabeth Aguilera CalMatters Although more than three-quarters of California adults are vaccinated against COVID-19, opinions are more divided when it comes to vaccinating children. That sentiment played out Thursday when first, the author of a bill that would have mandated vaccines for all children pulled the legislation, and then again when state health officials pushed back the date of their student vaccine mandate.

It was a striking shift for a state that had been the nation’s first to announce a planned K-12 COVID-19 mandate.

The bill by Sen. Richard

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Amaya Palestino, 6, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at one of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center mobile health clinics in Los Angeles on March 16.

Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who chairs the Senate Health Committee, would have granted no personal belief exceptions to the

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requirement that all children get the COVID vaccine to attend school or

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After five years as an Air Force fireman, Starnes worked part-time at the Ground Zero board shop while he went to school. In that time, the shop changed its name to The Vault. Then one day the owner, Seth Sternin, told Starnes he was looking to retire and — quite literally — handed him the keys to The Vault.

While Davis’ asphalt is used to the hum of bicycle wheels, the iconic rumble of skateboards rolling over it has been present for decades. That’s why Jake Starnes grinds to keep The Vault Board Shop open to serve the Davis’ skateboarding community.

Since he was just a kid, Starnes had a healthy infatuation with skateboarding. From trying new tricks with his friends to playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater on his Nintendo 64, his passion for skateboarding only

“I went from part-time student to business owner, it was crazy,” Starnes explained how he took over five years ago.

“It was a trial by fire, but

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Farewell, it’s great to get to know you

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or some strange reason a chap named John Garamendi keeps filling up my email with all sorts of friendly banter and even includes a photo of his handsome self along with a picture of an unknown bridge rising over an unknown body of water.

Apparently, he is my Congressman, but if what I read is true, he’s been assigned to another district in California and will one day be representing a bunch of folks I’ve never met.

That won’t happen, of course, unless he’s the top vote-getter in November, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

I do remember that Mr. Garamendi gave one of my teenage daughters a wonderful tour of his office when she visited Washington, D.C., several years ago, so I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for him.

But of all the unsolicited guided missives I’ve received from him, one in particular stands out, sent my way a number of months ago.

It had to do with the seemingly never-ending pandemic, which even today seems to once again be rearing its ugly head.

The Congressman wanted to let us know, even back then, that help was on the way.

“Dear Mr. Bob J. Dunning,” John began awkwardly, reminding me that I do indeed have a middle initial, though I have no idea what

it stands for.

“As your voice in Congress,” he went on.

That’s when I remembered that I had seen John on TV with Rachel Maddow, the phrase “(D-California)” behind his name.

In addition to his headquarters in the Capitol, I think he has a satellite office in downtown Davis right next to that chicken place.

I remember sending him an email during the discussions about stimulus checks and never heard back. I even checked the box saying “I would like a reply,” but maybe he was busy.

“I want to ensure you can properly express your interests and priorities so I can effectively address them in Washington,” he went on, which is fine as long as he doesn’t call me “Mr. Bob J. Dunning” again.

“That’s why each week I will be sending a constituent survey.”

I guess that’s better than sending me a constituent.

“This week I would like to know what are the issues you would like

to see prioritized in Congress and how you or your family have been impacted by remote learning.”

Fire away, Congressman.

“Are you familiar with the American Rescue Plan COVID-19 relief package?

Yes. We got so many checks in the mail that we figured it was a scam and burned them all in our fireplace. Are you telling me that was real money?

I’ve been trying to convince our local City Council to use the funds it received to buy everyone in East Davis a new car, but so far no luck.

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oving right along, Mr. Garamendi wanted to know “Do you have a child in school.”

How about four? (I had to create my own box for that answer.)

Saving the best for last, the Congressman asked “What issues would you like to see prioritized in Congress?”

What followed were 13 issues that John and his staff came up with off the top of their heads, plus the catch-all “Other (please specify).”

I think I’d like to combine two of John’s suggested issues — Tax Reform and Senior Issues — into one.

My suggestion is to make Social Security benefits tax-free. It’s crazy that seniors were forced to pay into this plan all their lives, but when they finally got a Social

Security check, they were taxed on it. If that isn’t a tax on a tax, I don’t know what is.

That extra money for seniors would immediately be returned to the economy, since seniors are no longer saving for a rainy day. For them, the rainy day has already arrived.

In many cases, working seniors are still paying into Social Security even as they’re drawing Social Security. Makes me dizzy just thinking about it.

I think folks call that “robbing Peter to pay Paul,” but actually, it’s robbing Paul to pay Paul. Peter has his own problems.

The Congressman also listed “Voting Rights,” which is at the top of my list as well.

I don’t know if Mr. Garamendi has noticed, but it’s a rainy night in places like Georgia and Texas and Arizona as the immoral “If you don’t like how people vote, keep them from voting” campaign marches ever onward.

It’s a nationwide movement, actually, and it could destroy our country.

“To continue receiving these surveys and to participate each week, please subscribe to my digital newsletter here.”

Count me in, John. Thanks for asking.

And good luck in your new district, wherever that might be.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

MANDATE: Support for bill has been wavering for several weeks From Page A1 child care. In sidelining his own bill, Pan said the focus needs to be on making sure families can access the vaccine for their children.

Within hours, the California Department of Public Health announced it will not begin the process of adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of mandated childhood vaccines for K-12 public and private school students because it

has not been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Previously the state had intended to require it for the upcoming 2022-23 school year, but now that won’t happen until at least July 1, 2023.

The health department said in a statement that even after COVID vaccines for kids receive full approval, it would also consider the recommendations of a Centers for Disease Control vaccine advisory

committee and the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Family Physicians before issuing a school vaccine requirement.

Support for Pan’s bill has been wavering for several weeks. Last month, another member of the Senate Health Committee, Democratic Sen. Connie Leyva of Chino, told the group Stand Up Ontario, in the Inland Empire, that she was not going to vote for the bill.

She said she told Pan, “I just don’t think it’s the right time. We are too divided in the community,” she said. “I think this bill is too divisive.”

GOP political consultant Mike Madrid said legislators pull bills for many reasons, including a lack of support or because there is another way to reach the same goal.

“If a better way to solve it is access without the acrimony of mandate that is

fine,” he said. “The point isn’t to disagree, it’s to get to a point where we have public health protections.”

Pan’s bill was one of eight aggressive COVID bills introduced as part of a slate from the Legislature’s vaccine working group, made up of Democratic legislators. Among the bills still alive, one would allow 12to 17-year-olds to get vaccinated without parental consent.

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Hikari Sushi & Omakase to open May 3 T he much-anticipated Hikari Sushi & Omakase will open to the public on Tuesday, May 3. The high-end sushi bar fills the former Cookies N Cones (CREAM) space at 110 F St. Tuesdays through Thursdays, Hikari will be a traditional sushi bar, offering dine-in, takeout and curbside pickup from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, it’s omakase style, requiring a reservation for an exclusive chef ’s choice sushi dinner. Those hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Advanced orders will be available for a weekly featured meal as well.

Prices for the sushi bar will be competitive. The Friday and Saturday seatings, which last 90 to 120 minutes and require a reservation, start at $110 per person.

Diners will witness their food being made, with the chef explaining the ingredients and methods for some 16 to 19 courses.

Some highlights include A5 Wagyu beef nigiri; uni (sea urchin) from Hokkaido, Japan; sterling caviar; and seasonal black truffles. Also, Korean, French and Italian dishes like Hoedeopbap (sushi bowl), carpaccio, lobster scampi and halibut meuniére.

Owner Zin Khine and her husband Sithu Tun ran the Mermaid Sushi business inside the Davis Food Co-op from 2006 to 2021. They have a 10-year lease with Presidio Properties, which owns the property and Hilton Garden Inn. The Myanmar natives live in Woodland and have two teenage daughters who attend Davis High. This concept is more suitable for their work and home life. At the Co-op, they were responsible for fresh sushi seven days a week.

“We are only two people, and handmade sushi is very laborintense,” Tun said in October.

With a commitment to sustainable seafood, omakase style has the flexibility to cater to what’s fresh and available. It’s a smart way to build a menu – basing it on supply rather than demand.

“Whatever is available … the freshest and cleanest,” Tun said.

In some cases, “if we don’t get good enough seafood, we’ll have something vegan and vegetarian.”

Hikari translates to “light” —

something the community needs these days, Tun said. In omakase tradition, the patron lets the chef choose. It will focus on Tokyostyle nigiri sushi (Edomae), and a few international specialties.

The Edomae style of sushi is growing in popularity in the U.S. “It’s so simple but you need to be skilled,” said Tun, who has been a sushi chef for more than two decades.

“Our plan is to slow down a little bit and enjoy the moment with others,” he said. He’s eager to teach patrons about sustainable seafood, share tips on his process, and even provide recipes.

The 900-square-foot restaurant has seating for 20 patrons inside: eight at the bar and 12 between the two booths. Outside tables will be available only during sushi bar hours, as they do not work with the interactive dining experience.

“We’re not just putting food on their plate,” Tun said. “We make sure everyone knows where their food is coming from.”

———— Foodies is leaving the Lodge.

The catering business, which operates out of the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge commercial kitchen as well as a food truck, is closing at the end of the month.

It’s weekly pre-ordered meals concluded on April 14.

Owner Sarun Kao is returning to his roots to be a chef at The Buckhorn and Putah Creek Cafe in Winters. “I used to be Buckhorn’s catering chef, pre-pandemic, so I’m returning to the same company but in a different capacity,” he said Thursday.

Kao started Foodies in 2017 with Michael Sutton. They took over Odd Fellows’ catering in 2019. Sutton left Foodies in September to open the mobile Handheld Sweet & Savory Pies.

———— Dunloe Brewing is “still plugging away on a permit,” for its downtown taproom, owner and brewer Brennan Fleming said Thursday. “We’re getting closer,

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Hikari Sushi & Omakase will open to the public on Tuesday, May 3, at 110 F St. in Davis. but it’s taking way longer than it should.”

The taproom is coming to 610 Third St., longtime home of B&L Bike Shop before it closed at the end of 2020. The brewery is at 1606 Olive Drive. Dunloe would still serve beer at the brewery once the downtown space opens.

The change will allow the brewing operation to expand while exposing more people to the well-made beer.

Meanwhile, the connecting bike and pedestrian path just opened between Pole Line Road and Olive Drive, which should help people navigate to the hardto-access area of Olive Drive.

———— El Toro Bravo is still prepping to reopen. The Mexican restaurant at 237 D St. has been closed since February 2020.

On Thursday, owner Derar Zawaydeh said, “I keep trying to open but it proves to be more difficult. At this point I’m estimating 1½ to 2 months.” That could mean by mid-June.

———— A Better Place to Bead had a grand reopening on Saturday at its new location, 1520 E. Covell Blvd., Suite 2. It’s in Oak Tree Plaza, between Nugget Market and CVS. The craft store was in Mansion Square, at 132 E St., Suite 150, for 27 years. Hours at the new location will remain 11 a.m. to 6

PBE hosts candidates forum Wednesday Special to The Enterprise The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will be inviting various candidates to speak at its lunchtime meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 20.

The PBE meets regularly at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. No. 113 in Davis.

The confirmed guest speakers will be Lucas Frerichs, running for Yolo County

Supervisor District 2; Cynthia Rodriquez, running for Yolo County district attorney; and Jesse Salinas, for Yolo County assessor/clerk-recorder/elections (ACE). The public is invited to these free, open-forum events to hear first-hand from these folks.

Contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-2191896 or e-mail G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org for information.

Edward Jones makes Fortune 100 list, again Special to The Enterprise For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For link ranking by Great Place to Work and Fortune magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.

The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For award is based on responses from more than 4.5 million U.S. employees working at Great Place to Work-Certified organizations.

Survey statements collectively describe a great associate experience, defined as high levels of trust, respect, credibility,

fairness, pride and camaraderie. Additionally, Great Place to Work measured the differences in survey responses across demographic groups and roles within each organization to ensure each company is creating a great workplace for all.

In 2022, Edward Jones also was named to Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies and in 2021, was ranked as a Best Workplace in the Financial Services and Insurance Industry.

Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in St. Louis, provides financial services in the

U.S. and, through its affiliate, in Canada. Every aspect of the firm’s business, from the investments its financial advisors offer to the location of branch offices, caters to individual investors and businesses.

The firm’s nearly 19,000 financial advisors serve more than 7 million clients with a total of $1.8 trillion in assets under care.

Visit edwardjones. com or the recruiting website at careers.edwardjones. com. Member SIPC.

p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.

———— Orangetheory Fitness, filling former Round Table Pizza spot at 2151 Cowell Blvd., Suite A, finally got back to me. On Thursday, a corporate spokesman said they don’t have an anticipated time frame for opening the 3,878-square-feet gym.

———— The Club Pilates coming to The Marketplace plans to open in June. It’s at 1361 W. Covell Blvd. in the former GNC spot next to Jamba. The owner said she’ll know more next week.

———— Pho Tasty, the Vietnamese restaurant at 301 G St., is back open after some minor remodeling.

———— A new plant store The Growing Groves is now open at 219 E St., Suite A, above the former de Vere’s Irish Pub. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays. Visit https://thegrowinggroves.com/.

———— On Thursday, I reached out to the following businesses for updates, and have not heard back: Chando’s Tacos (filling former Redrum Burger), Estelle Bakery & Pâtisserie (for the Konditorei space), Mamma (in the former Bistro 33 site), Water Pig (former Mochi Mochi space),

and Yolo Beer Ranch (filling the former Satiety Winery building).

Construction around Raja’s Tandoor is making progress but the restaurant owners have not confirmed their plans. And a spokeswoman for Brixmor Properties said they will check on the progress of University Mall and get back to me before my next deadline.

———— There appears to be a new wine and appetizer bar coming to downtown Winters. A sign just went up for L’apéro Les Trois at 22 Main St. I’ll try to learn more. I’m making assumptions about the concept based on the name.

———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Coming soon, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, and more.

Email me (address below) to suggest updates.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail.com.

Yolo Federal welcomes new member-service center supervisor Special to The Enterprise Yolo Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce the promotion of Monica Angulo to Member Service Center Supervisor.

Angulo began her career at Yolo Federal in 2014 as a part-time teller at the main branch and then transferred to the Sycamore Pointe Branch as a full-time teller. After joining the Member Service Center, she was promoted to senior member support specialist in 2020.

“Throughout her career with Yolo Federal, Monica has demonstrated that she is genuinely interested in helping members achieve financial success,” said Rosalinda Flores, member service center manager. “She is exceptional at building rapport with every member and strives to provide the highest level of personalized service.”

“What I like most about working at Yolo Federal is building relationships

with our members,” Angulo said. “I love knowing that I have helped members save money.”

In 2021, she won an internal award called The Yolo Alliance Award for her dedication to being “Accountable, Adaptable, Ambitious, Authentic, and Awesome.”

“Monica’s promotion to Supervisor of our Member Service Center is well deserved. She has demonstrated her commitment to excellent service during her time at Yolo FCU, both to our members and teammates,” said Kelley Jacobsen, VP-Marketing and Operations. “We are proud to have her on our team and are excited for her growth in our organization.”

Yolo Federal Credit Union has been serving the local communities since 1954. Membership is available to anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school in Yolo County. Yolo FCU is federally insured by the NCUA.

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YOLOdiy Summer gardens begin

By Don Shor

Special to The Enterprise

“I have a great idea for a column. You should just give us some pointers about all the vegetables and especially tell us what your favorite varieties are and why.”

A timely suggestion since the most active planting time in our summer vegetable gardens is right now! MidApril through May. Here in order of popularity are our summer vegetables.

Tomatoes

Water deeply, train the plants up off the ground. Plant a good mix of varieties. Hybrids are generally more consistent than heirlooms here. There are many more to choose from! See my previous Enterprise articles (http:// redwoodbarn.com/PDF/Donspicktomatoes.pdf). Here’s a short list of tried-and-true types.

• Champion — Reliably produces large red fruit all season, sets well in higher temperatures, fruit holds up well very late in the season, great flavor, very high yields. Lives up to its name!

• Early Girl — California favorite that sets early, with lots of medium-size red fruit, and also sets a late crop. Flavor favorite that’s very reliable.

• Chefs Choice Orange — Very large (often 1 lb.) fruit is firm, holds well, beautiful golden orange, and very sweet.

• Juliet — All-purpose tomato shaped like a pear, about the size of a cherry tomato, very meaty and flavorful.

Freeze it, peel it, make salsa or sauce; the plant yields prodigiously.

• Special uses — Costoluto Genovese — for sauce, rich and meaty. Principe Borghese — for drying and sauce, very flavorful • Heirloom tomatoes mostly yield better in the eastern U.S. than here in our hotter, drier climate, but Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter and Pineapple are heirloom tomatoes that do well for me.

• Cherry tomatoes — Very easy to grow and quite productive. Plan for a big vine!

Sungold is a favorite variety everywhere. Sweet, tangy, productive.

• Sweet Million, Barry’s Crazy Cherry, and even the old-fashioned Red Cherry tomato yield very well.

• Michael Pollan, a variety from Wild Boar Farms, is tangy and sweet with interesting green-yellow mottled fruit.

• Wild Boar Farms tomatoes — Introduced by local farmer Brad Gates, they’re striped, colorful, unusual, extra-flavorful. Some of my favorites for unique character are: • Sweet Carneros Pink — phenomenal yields, very juicy, few seeds, great flavor for sauces • Pork Chop — one of the best yellow tomatoes I’ve found, really good for salsa • Yellow Furry Boar — Sweet, juicy fruit on a plant with very high yields.

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These ripening Gypsy peppers have very productive yellow-green fruit that ripens quickly to red and gets even sweeter.

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These ripe red Carmen peppers are smaller, very productive sweet hybrid varieties.

green fruit ripens quickly to red and gets even sweeter. Always one of my earliest and latest producing varieties.

• Long green peppers — Sometimes called “frying” peppers: you just slice them longways and put them on the grill or in the pan briefly with whatever you’re cooking. Excellent for fresh eating as well.

• Italian Long: these are long, narrow peppers with thick flesh and very sweet flavor.

• Spanish Sweet: like Italian, but smaller.

• Carmen and Jimmy Nardello are smaller, very productive sweet hybrid varieties of this long type.

• New Mexico Hatch — Seed strains going back generations in the Hatch Valley of New Mexico. Tall plants yield a lot of fruit late in the season, ripen well, and can be dried just by hanging the peppers in your kitchen.

There are some hybrids like NuMex Big Jim, and you can buy seed of strains that are mild or hot.

Anaheim is a California variety of this type, slightly hot and quite versatile for cooking. My mother’s favorite variety for chiles rellenos.

• Fresno — Like a jalapeño (also reliable here), great for a hot pepper that most people can handle. Attractive plant is very productive.

• Garden Salsa — Amazing hybrid that produces lots of peppers very quickly and then just keeps going and going. They ripen fast and taste very good.

Cucumbers

Cucumbers need even moisture and shouldn’t be drought stressed. They’re quite compatible with peppers for irrigation. Train them up onto a fence or large tomato cage.

I don’t grow regular green cukes because they’re most prone to bitterness.

• Lemon cucumbers are favorites for their sweet flavor. Harvest early, just as they turn color, for best flavor. They tend to peak out of production quickly.

• Persian cucumbers are very productive over a long season (so long as you keep up with picking them), rarely bitter, with great flavor. These are some of the best for home gardeners.

• Some of the thin-skinned, nearly

Peppers

Yield best in full sun, but the fruit may get scorched during heat waves, especially bell peppers.

Some gardeners have taken to shading their plants, at least from the west side to protect from the hottest sun.

It might reduce yield, but if there’s more usable fruit than the tradeoff is worth it. I do very well with peppers in containers with daily watering.

Peppers need even moisture. Drought stress reduces fruit size and yield.

• Gypsy — Very productive yellowish

New Mexico Hatch peppers yield a lot of fruit late in the season, ripen well, and can be dried just by hanging the peppers in your kitchen.

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They always tell you to pinch off the flowers to keep it producing, but bees love basil flowers, so I just let them bloom and keep planting more intermittently through the summer.

• If you want regular pesto you want to plant Sweet, Italian or Genovese basil.

• Thai and Sacred basils flower quickly and over a long time, making them very popular with pollinators, and they stay much shorter than the culinary types.

• There are dwarf types for containers, and new hybrids that don’t flower.

seedless types that are sold as “burpless” do very well here.

• Diva is a new hybrid cucumber that has really caught on. It’s almost seedless, rarely bitter, very productive, and tolerant of powdery mildew.

• Armenian cucumber is a type of muskmelon but tastes and is used like a cucumber. They’re very mild flavored, remain crisp even when large, and the vine and the fruit can indeed get quite large. A great way to cover a fence or wall for the summer.

Beans

If you’re really into green beans, plant the pole types, but you must keep up with the harvest. Bush beans are short vines that sprawl out a couple of feet, flower heavily and set a couple of dozen green beans, and then they’re done. Plant beans every few weeks for steady harvest.

Green beans need even soil moisture for best yield and quality.

I have grown many different types of green beans and keep coming back to Blue Lake and Royal Burgundy, both in the bush form. They stay tender and have sweet flavor.

Okra

Don’t plant until the soil is very warm, usually end of May or anytime in June.

Okra is in the mallow family, with a flower that resembles hibiscus. The plants and flowers are quite ornamental.

My attitude about okra was changed by a long-time local gardener. He was buying what seemed to me like a rather large number of plants, so I asked him what he did with it. I expected him to say soup (gumbo) or sautéed, or one notable reply involved batter-frying it in bacon fat. None of these techniques lessens the mucilaginous character of okra.

“I just eat it.”

“Say what?”

“Yeah. Just break it off, wash it and eat it.”

Revelation: okra is not slimy when it’s raw. I’m not saying the flavor is very memorable, but it has a crisp texture.

There don’t seem to be flavor differences between the few okra varieties

Need room to run!

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There are literally hundreds of varieties of corn to choose from. My sentimental favorite is Silver Queen. It’s very tender and quite sweet for an old-fashioned sweet corn. Jubilee is an excellent, old-fashioned yellow corn. Modern hybrids have more sugar but less corny flavor. on the market, so it’s mostly a choice of how scratchy the plants are (Clemson Spineless is popular) and whether you want colorful fruit and foliage such as with Red Burgundy.

Corn

Not the most space-efficient thing to grow (you get one ear per plant per square foot) but worthwhile for the fresh-picked sweetness. Plant in blocks, not rows, to get proper pollination. Corn needs lots of water.

• There are literally hundreds of varieties of corn to choose from. My sentimental favorite is Silver Queen.

It’s very tender and quite sweet for an old-fashioned sweet corn. Jubilee is an excellent, old-fashioned yellow corn.

Modern hybrids have more sugar but less corny flavor.

Summer Squash

I do not find it necessary to grow zucchini as I grew up with a father who planted six plants every spring. I have had my lifetime allotment. I much prefer firmer squash that holds up better in cooking.

• The yellow version of patty pan squash called Sunburst is great. It’s easy to spot down in the plant, so the fruit is less likely to get overlooked and turn monstrous. And even if that happens, it makes a cool autumn display.

But it’s got flesh that’s firm enough to go into soups and doesn’t soften as quickly as zucchini.

• Tromboncino squash is another favorite for the same reason, and it has a unique nutty flavor. They grow into quite bizarre shapes if you let them grow out full size.

Basil

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Red Burgundy okra provides colorful fruit and foliage.

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Contrary to popular belief, basil isn’t a houseplant. Nor does it like temperatures below about 50 degrees. It’s a summer annual.

What basil loves is heat, and the more sun the better.

Melons

• Ambrosia, a muskmelon, reigns supreme for flavor. Drawbacks: it’s softtextured and ripens very quickly. I like to plant some other melons to extend the season.

• Honeydews yield well and extend the season.

• Charentais melon has small fruit, very aromatic and rich flavored. You can grow them up on a tomato cage to conserve space.

• Watermelons are fun but not space efficient. They need full sun, deep watering, several feet to run in all directions from where you plant them.

Don’t plant them until the soil is quite warm, late May or into June. Modern hybrid watermelons have more tender flesh, more sugar, and fewer seeds than heirloom types.

• Sugar Baby is probably best for most people as it’s a compact grower.

It has very good fruit that are “ice box size.”

• Klondike is a good producer if you have a little more space (i.e., about 40 sq ft per plant).

Winter Squash

Misnamed, these are not grown in winter! They are grown in summer and mostly have tough skins so you can store them to eat in winter. The vines take up a lot of space but look rather iconic running through old stalks of corn as autumn comes around. Plant in warm soil and give them room to spread.

• Hubbard and Acorn squashes are some of the traditional ones, quite easy to grow if you have the space.

• Sweet Meat has large fruit, very

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Thai basil flower quickly and over a long time, making them very popular with pollinators, and they stay much shorter than the culinary types. dense and rich flavored. You can use it for soups and stews and pies.

Pumpkins

Pumpkins need a LOT of space, and deep watering. Drought curtails fruit expansion and reduces size. I’ve found them compatible with tomatoes for irrigation.

They will happily run up into shrubs and trees, festooning your yard with big, lush leaves and intermittent fruit.

A more sedate plan is to let them run around behind the rest of the vegetable garden. Let them run and don’t cut the growing leader: that’s what sustains the rapidly expanding fruit.

• I grow a lot of pumpkins every year, and my favorite hands-down has become the one sold in the U.S. as Cinderella and elsewhere as Rouge Vif d’Etampes. It’s from the 19th century and it looks like a storybook glowingorange pumpkin.

• You can make pies from Cinderella, but if that’s your main goal then the old variety simply sold as Sugar or Pie pumpkin has finer-textured flesh, and the smaller fruit are easy to work with.

• For pumpkin seeds for roasting (pepitas) there are types with hull-less seeds that are more tender such as Godiva and Naked Bear.

Plan and plant now for summer bounty!

My favorite pumpkin has become the one sold in the U.S. as Cinderella and elsewhere as Rouge Vif d’Etampes. It’s from the 19th century and it looks like a storybook glowing-orange pumpkin.

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What I learned about writing in the class I taught

H

ow do I write what I want to write while keeping a promise not to write too much?

Recently, I promised my students that I would not write anything personal about them. The situation was this: I was teaching a class for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute that I titled “Hide and Seek: Exploring Personal Writing.”

This was my first return to teaching since my years as an English composition instructor at UC Davis during the ’80s and early ’90s.

In those days, my students were between 18 to 20 years old.

This time they were mostly retired, like I am, some recently, some long ago. That’s quite a difference.

The “hide and seek” in my course title acknowledges that when people write about themselves, they often have to make tough decisions about what to include and what to leave out, especially regarding family members and friends. Sometimes compelling stories end up omitted.

That’s the same problem I face today because I’m eager to tell you what I learned from teaching older students but — and it’s

a significant “but” — I promised my class that I would not share their personal information. Fortunately, I am realizing that I can share some things that are universal.

I’ll start by describing one moment from our last class meeting, involving a student who said it was OK to share this.

———— I was talking about my experience as a writer, and I mentioned a nugget of newspaper knowledge I acquired when I began writing for The Davis Enterprise in 1995. I learned that the person who writes the article doesn’t choose the headline.

In the old days of newspapers, and even sometimes today, headlines are selected for reasons of size more than content. How many words fit in the space above the article?

“I used to be a headline writer,” my student volunteers, mentioning her employer, a city newspaper back east.

She elaborates on the constraints facing headline writers, and it is soon obvious that she also remembers remarkable detail, actual measurements used when letters were sized and counted.

She remembers, even though

she was a young woman of 20 when she had the job.

We seniors spend a lot of time thinking about memory and worrying that we’re losing it, but there is much to relish in what we do remember, and many people’s memories are totally intact.

Students told me they enjoyed sharing with each other because our oldest stories — many very well-remembered — come out of the same picture frame, the same historical moment: post-World War II. ———— What we share, however, is more than that.

At every meeting, class members benefit not only from shared history but also from each other’s expertise in other areas.

A traveler writes humorously about French door keys. The poet among us shows how much you can say in few words. An

attorney tells us about the personal toll of working for civil rights.

We all talk about audience: who are we writing for and what does that mean we should leave in or take out?

Some say they plan to write about their lives for their children, grandchildren or other descendants. One hopes to pen a TV script. Another says, “I want at least one human being to know my truth.”

———— Here’s the thing about older students, the thing I most want to tell you.

I am both their teacher and their equal. They are both my teachers and my equals. This is not the same as teaching college students, where I find a big gap in life experience.

Sitting in a room full of grayhaired students, I realize that everyone is wise. We are wise in our individual ways, depending on what life has handed us in terms of career or family, good luck or misfortune. We have learned on purpose, or sometimes in spite of ourselves, but we have learned.

I have experience with writing, so I teach that. Others have different expertise and, if they

want, they could teach, too.

The feeling of equality in the room moves me. The personal sharing does, too.

———— All of us older people think about the future and how we will face it. We all know we have a deadline (what a word!) but we don’t know when it’s coming.

This group has in common having decided that writing for others, or simply for themselves, may be helpful at this time in life.

It touches me to recognize the gumption it takes to make some of the choices older people make.

Revealing yourself by writing is a choice. Choosing what not to reveal is another choice, often an important one, depending on who your audience might be. In class, we talk about wanting to protect our loved ones but also wanting to share our truth.

I am lucky to be with these people as they think this through. I am lucky to be with these people, period. I wish a larger number of others could see the wisdom that hides beneath gray hair.

— Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years.

Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Decomposers needed for a healthy environment

By Sara Thompson Special to the Enterprise

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ollinators are essential for keeping our plant life alive and thriving.

However, worms, beetles, flies, and other creepy crawlies are often frowned upon and often exterminated.

Association with death and the decay of plant life gives these creatures a bad reputation and they are avoided in most circumstances. Even though these creatures have a bad reputation, they are just as important as pollinators to the ecosystem.

When leaves fall from trees or plants wither and die, they need to be recycled into the environment, otherwise they would continue to pile up and up each year. Named for eating detritus, detritovores are the ones that help to

Explorit Science Center break down the decaying plant matter and help to restore it to the soil for recycling.

There are countless detritovores, but the most recognizable ones are worms, millipedes, springtails, woodlice and slugs.

These creatures live in and eat dead leaves and other decaying plant life. Many of the detritivores will eat the dead leaves and the surrounding soil and will excrete a small pellet that gets mixed in with the surrounding soil to help with nutrient replacement.

Worms moving through the soil also help aerate it, furthering to help with gas exchange and soil health.

Detritovores are not just terrestrial but live in our

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A participant of the OPAL Soil and Earthworm Survey holds an earthworm found in the survey. waterways as well. Marine vegetation and fauna also need help decomposing and that is where marine detritovores come in.

Creatures like sea cucumbers, some sea stars and fiddler crabs will eat and help to break down the dead vegetation and larger animals that sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Decomposers also help with the breakdown of detritus, but they use different means. Where a

detritovore will manually eat the dead plants with its mouth or mouth-like apparatus and have organs used in digestion, a decomposer will use chemical and cellular means for breaking down the detritus.

Decomposers like fungi, bacteria and protists will use external means for the breakdown of nutrients.

They do not need a mouth or organs to get the nutrients they need to survive and leaving the remaining nutrients to be reabsorbed into the soil. Algae mats and other microscopic organisms are decomposers in the ocean.

Even though the organisms that are detritovores and decomposers are often creepy to look at and are associated with death and decay, they are an essential part of any ecosystem.

Without them the

breakdown of dead plant life would take much longer, and nutrients would not be recycled back into the soil.

———— Exploit’s coming events: n Big Day of Giving is less than a month away!

Please consider contributing to Explorit on May 5 and help us celebrate 40 years of hands-on science education to the community! n Limited spaces are 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. n Explorit is open to the public on Fridays from 1 to

4 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. Explorit Members, ASTC, and those age 2 and under free. Explorit strongly encourages all guests to wear a mask while indoors. n A Membership to Explorit 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.

— 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.

UCD Children’s Hospital names ‘champion’ Special to The Enterprise Each year, Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals across the U.S. and Canada identify a “champion” in their local community to represent kids treated at the local children’s hospital. This year, Orangevale resident Avery Cunha has been named the CMN champion for UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

As the face of CMN at UC Davis for 2022, Avery and her family will support campaigns that benefit UC Davis Children’s Hospital, the only CMN Hospital in the area.

Avery was 19 months old when she fell into a pool and nearly drowned. She was transported via helicopter to UC Davis Children’s Hospital, where doctors told her parents she might not make it.

After months of care in the Pediatric Cardiac and Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) and comprehensive rehabilitation, Avery was discharged.

Now 5 years old, Avery has been able to live a full life with the help of CMN donors, her UC Davis Children’s Hospital care team and her parents, Amber and Ben Cunha. They are excited their daughter is the 2022 champion.

Amber still cries when she thinks about how her life changed that February day.

“We were so scared, but they provided such great

Name Droppers support to us, in addition to giving the best medical care to our daughter,” she said of the UC Davis Children’s Hospital care team.

“We are so grateful.”

“Without UC Davis Children’s Hospital, we don’t think Avery would still be here,” added Ben Cunha.

The family has been sharing their story in support of CMN at UC Davis for years now. Now, as the 2022 CMN champion family, they can reach even more people in UC Davis Children’s Hospital’s 33-county service area.

“We are thrilled the Cunhas have agreed to continue helping other families,” said Michelle Tafoya, program director of Children’s Miracle Network at UC Davis. “Who better to represent what we do here at CMN than Avery? Her story is so compelling. It is a cautionary tale, but also one of hope and miracles.

It is sure to resonate with people and help save lives.

That’s what we are here to do.”

———— The students who have made the Scholastic Honor Roll Winter 2022 have been announced by Oregon State University.

A total of 7,732 earned a B-plus (3.5) or better to make the listing.

To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of

course work.

Students on the Honor Roll included Davis residents Caroline L. Brennan, freshman, psychology; Na Leifson, freshman, zoology; Samuel S. Luxa, junior, political science; Hallie R. Perlman, junior, zoology; and Matthew G. Young, freshman, finance.

As one of only three universities in the nation designated as a land, sea, space and sun grant institution, Oregon State serves Oregon and the world by working on today’s most pressing issues. More than 34,000 students come from across the globe, and its programs operate in every Oregon county.

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Science. What is the most common sort of carnivorous amphibians seen as environmental bellwethers?

2. Words with Tones. What A-noun means reparation for an offense or injury?

3. Taxes. The U.S. office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue was created during what war in which the United States took part?

4. California Towns. The town of Dixon, Calif., is found in what county?

5. Crowded Streets. A “schilderwald” is the German word for a street crowded with so many road signs that people traversing it become what?

Answers: Frogs, atonement, U.S. Civil War, Solano County, lost.

— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon.

Find out more at www.yourquizmaster. com.

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LAWSUIT: With department for 14 years From Page A1 County spokesman John Fout noted that “it is important to note that the current sheriff was not named individually, and the majority of the allegations occurred prior to the current sheriff ’s tenure.”

“As such, the current sheriff did not participate in settlement negotiations as settlement authority was solely within the County’s risk management authority, YCPARMIA (the Yolo County Public Agency Risk Management Insurance Authority),” Fout said.

Nyland filed the lawsuit in October 2020, alleging he was terminated from the agency the month before “for opposing sexual harassment and discrimination,” as well as exposing his supervisor’s efforts to cover up the conduct. He had been with the Sheriff ’s Office for 14 years.

The complaint aired allegations that Nyland’s then-supervisor, Capt. Hernan Oviedo, drove his work vehicle while intoxicated, and that another deputy, Charles Hoyt, threatened and sexually harassed female employees.

It also contends his senior

managers, including Oviedo and Lopez, acted with “discrimination, retaliation, hostility and contempt” based on Nyland’s age — nearly 62 at the time — replacing him with a “younger, less qualified employee.”

Nyland claimed he was in his fifth year as a detective, under Oviedo’s supervision, when in early 2015 he “developed serious concerns about Oviedo because Oviedo admitted to driving his county vehicle while intoxicated, he made inappropriate comments regarding female employees and told deputies about confidential conversations between Oviedo and former Sheriff (Ed) Prieto.”

But when Nyland objected to Oviedo’s conduct, “Oviedo responded by threatening to shoot Nyland in the head because he answered questions from Sheriff Prieto regarding a murder investigation,” the lawsuit says.

Further conflict arose in 2017, according to Nyland, when he learned of a sexual relationship between Hoyt and a sheriff ’s records clerk, and that Hoyt “had threatened the clerk to keep her mouth shut about the relationship” that included the pair having sex in a patrol vehicle. Management was

aware of those details “but did not care and would not take any corrective action.”

So Nyland took it upon himself to report the sexual harassment allegations, as well as those of a young female deputy who told Nyland in 2018 she too had been harassed by Hoyt, by then a sergeant, and other members of his patrol team, according to the lawsuit.

Both complaints ultimately were dismissed following internalaffairs investigations, during which “a well-respected deputy approached Nyland’s office, pale white and visibly upset, and told Nyland that Hoyt had asked him to lie to the IA investigator about Hoyt’s treatment of female officers,” the document says.

For his efforts, Nyland claimed, he was denied promotions to detective sergeant and boat patrol sergeant, then transferred to the graveyard shift “in retaliation for his protected acts.” His subsequent complaints to his superiors led to him being “shunned,” placed on administrative leave and ultimately fired after he refused to resign with three months’ pay.

Sacramento man killed in Woodland-area crash

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The California Highway Patrol is investigating a Thursday night collision west of Woodland that claimed a Sacramento man’s life.

According to a CHP news release, the victim was driving his Honda Civic westbound on Highway 16 and collided with a Chevrolet Impala whose driver was heading northbound on County Road 97 shortly after 11 p.m.

The impact caused the Civic to strike a power pole on

June 19, 1944 — March 24, 2022

Alexander was born in New Haven, Conn., and grew up in East Haven, Conn., with his parents Alexander and Mildred Draffan (Johnson) grandmother Anna Johnson (Dambrouckas), three siblings, and a village of aunts, uncles and cousins. A 15-year cancer survivor, Alex benefited greatly from ongoing advances in cancer treatment.

He received his bachelor’s degree in biological

sciences at Fairfield University. During high school and college Alex worked as an aide in the emergency room at Yale New Haven Hospital, gaining knowledge that would guide his future. Graduate studies at Adelphi University and Stony Brook University led to a long career in clinical diagnostics. Places of employment included Cold Spring Harbor, Carter Wallace, Melloy Diagnostics,

Cetus Corp., American Microscan and Hycor Biomedical. Alex and his DRAFFAN wife of 53 years, Merry, have lived in Davis with their family since 1985.

Alex loved his family and friends, flying a small plane, riding his red Honda scooter and driving through the back roads to

the northwest corner of the intersection, while the Impala hit a utility box and rolled onto its roof.

Prajal Bista, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 25-year-old Woodland man who was driving the Impala went to the UC Davis Medical Center with major injuries.

The cause of the collision remains under investigation, although neither drugs nor alcohol are believed to be factors, the CHP reported.

For the record Enterprise staff April 3’s front-page story “Forward vision on stage” did not credit the illustrator of “Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?” — the source

Obituary Alexander George Draffan Jr.

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see what was growing in the fields and to see the sunset. He had a strong love of the desert, especially Anza Borrego State Park.

Alex will be loved forever by his wife Merry; sons Alexander E. (Staci) of Elk Grove and Jonathan of Davis; grandchildren Tyler, Alexis and Ethan Draffan; sisters Joyce Krupp (James) of Wallingford, Conn., and Denise of Hamden, Conn.; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother Douglas.

material for the locally produced play “Sankofa,” which ran at the Veterans Memorial Theater earlier this month.

The book was illustrated by former Davis resident Lela Kometiani.

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AWARDS: No shortage of worthy winners From Page A1 for the diversion of waste in the community, but for the range of services that DCMH offers, including salvaging coffee grounds from UC Davis Coffee Shop, providing services “where people in need are” and managing an extensive volunteer network.

Individuals In the category of individuals and groups, two awards are being presented this year — to Eric Newman of Friends of the North Davis Channel and Sherri Sandberg, a Davis High School science teacher.

Newman led the North Davis Channel native landscape restoration and his efforts have helped to retain and improve ecologic and aesthetic values, create habitat, curtail invasive plants and clean up trash, according to the city. His ongoing work and dedication has made the channel more

accessible and enjoyable to hundreds of people for recreation and environmental education.

Sandberg integrates local environmental issues, resource conservation, sustainability and climate change awareness into the curriculum of her classes at Davis High School, influencing thousands of students during her career. Sandberg works to improve the habitat, learning environment and aesthetics of the DHS campus and participates in extra-curricular opportunities to further educate and involve students in environmental issues.

Business This year’s recipient in the business category is Dos Coyotes Cafe.

Dos Coyotes started with a single restaurant in Davis 31 years ago. The popular restaurant, now with two Davis locations, provides a visible and significant role model for sustainable business

practices and support of community events and organizations, such as Cool Davis and Davis Farm to School, according to the city.

Young activist A special environmental award is going to youth activist Eliot S. Larson.

Larson, a Davis High School student, is being recognized for leadership in the community, and for inspiration to youth and adults. Speaking up and showing up to address the severity of climate change and to influence the choices made by each of us has been Larson’s mission through the work of the group Climate Strike Fridays, the city said.

Legacy Tree Davis is the recipient of the Environmental Legacy Award.

The work of Tree Davis has contributed significantly to the Davis community’s

quality of life, environmental stewardship and sustainability over the past 30 years, the city said.

The mission of Tree Davis is to enhance and expand the urban forest by teaching the community to plant and care for trees. A wide network of dedicated volunteers has been planting, monitoring and caring for trees in the Davis area since 1992, with over 5,000 volunteers who have planted over 12,000 new trees. Also, Tree Davis has now expanded its efforts to include Yolo County, Woodland and other areas in the region, demonstrating the kind of regional integration that is highly necessary to be successful in addressing climate change.

In recent years, Tree Davis has focused educational and outreach efforts on “Climate Ready Landscapes.”

Tuesday's council meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. with a joint discussion between the council and

VAULT: Lifetime experience finds expression From Page A1 Seth was a great mentor. He was always available if I had questions and was here from May to November just helping me out and making sure I had a good start.”

Although a daunting task for anyone to take the reins of a business, this savvy veteran combines his love of skateboarding with a discipline derived from the crucible of military life to own the challenge – and the business. It’s this same tenacity that also helped The Vault weather the COVID storm.

“I was a firefighter in the military, and I think that translated over, too.

Just always being ready and having contingency plans. Coming from an emergency management background, that’s sort of ingrained in my head,” said Starnes. “I don’t like failing, and

I wasn’t going to let the skate community down and I was going to do everything I could to keep this place going.”

With COVID now in the background, Starnes’ focus resides with making The Vault a warm and welcoming place for novices to get their start. On the flip side, it’s also a place for pros — who’ve actually visited — to come in, talk shop and stock up on top-tier equipment.

“I really try to get people started with skateboarding on the right foot so they can continue doing it. It’s not like, ‘come in, buy a board, see you later.’ I genuinely care about every customer,” Starnes said. “Getting into skateboarding can be daunting, but once people get over that hump, it’s such a welcoming community and it doesn’t matter how good you are.

That’s the best thing about it.”

While stereotypes paint skateboarders as no-good, rule-breaking hooligans, the reality is far more zenlike. Skateboarders are part of a welcoming community who engage in a passion-fueled activity. Albeit may involve cuts, bruises and broken bones, what’s life without some scars and stories?

“Skateboarding gives you that outlet and gets your mind off of things. It does this by forcing your brain to focus on one thing at a time,” said Starnes.

“That’s a great thing about it, when you’re in that mode and skateboarding with others who are also in that mode, nothing but good times happen.”

To engage in this passion shared by millions around the nation, one can stop by The Vault Board Shop at 227 G St., check out their wares by logging onto the vaultboardshop.com, or follow their socials by searching @vaultboardshop.

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Davis High School student Eliot Larson, center, is being recognized for raising awareness about climate change. the Natural Resources Commission, followed by the ceremonial presentations at 6:30 p.m.

Council meetings, still being held remotely, are accessible to the public

cable Channel 16; online at https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/citycouncil-meetings/meetingvideos or via Zoom at https://us06web.zoom. us/j/87504828072.

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Some Aggies miss roar of Picnic Day fans E VERYBODY LOVES A PICNIC ... With Picnic Day coming up on Saturday, many UC Davis athletes will be in action over a variety of sports.

Unfortunately, some of them will be competing out of town and will not only miss a huge day on campus, but also the opportunity to display their talents in front of large crowds they don’t normally see.

Among the missing will be the entertaining UC Davis softball team, which will be at UC San Diego as part of a three-game Big West Conference series.

I realize individual schools

have little say in the scheduling of conference games, but wouldn’t it be great if the Big West allowed each league member to declare one day a year when it would be guaranteed that all its athletes would be playing at home?

For UC Davis, logically, that would be Picnic Day. I remember my long ago days on the Aggie tennis team when for a normal match the crowds consisted of mom and dad and the family dog, but on Picnic Day the bleachers were packed.

Win, lose or draw, it was a thrill to once a year play before a crowd like that.

All Aggie athletes should have such an opportunity.

SPEAKING OF UC DAVIS SOFTBALL ... If you haven’t had a chance to watch Aggie softball, you’re missing out on a highly competitive team that is in the thick of the Big West race.

Sophomore pitcher Kenedi Brown from Sheldon High School in Elk Grove is in a league by herself.

Entering weekend play, she had a stellar 1.20 earned run average, with 168 strikeouts in 134 innings of work.

She recently threw all 13 innings in a dramatic win over Long Beach State as her pitch count reached 233. This after throwing a complete game against Long Beach the day before.

Sophomore Anna Dethlefson from Bella Vista High School provides the power with a .331 batting average and six home runs.

Sophomore Sarah Starks from Gilroy has five home runs, while senior Delaney Diaz from Camarillo has three.

WAY BACK WHEN ... Many years ago Picnic Day was home to a popular high school track meet, with over 1,000 athletes from nearly 100 schools competing on Toomey Field.

It was billed as the biggest one-day high school track meet in the world. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, but to my young eyes it sure seemed that it must be.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Matadors are double-trouble for UCD

BY MIKE BUSH Enterprise sports editor Taylor Fitzgerald had a strong performance in the circle for the UC Davis softball team.

Her Aggie teammates generated offense in Friday’s Big West Conference nightcap against CSUN. In particular the final three innings of the game.

But the Matadors made their last at-bat count, as they turned a close game into a 7-2 win over the Aggies at LaRue Field.

“Through six innings, we had 10 batters with a runner in scoring position, and we got 10 outs,” said UCD head coach Erin Thorpe, who currently sits at 397 career wins. “It was kind of one of those things where we have the right people up in the right situations, and today was not their day.”

UCD (18-20 overall, 6-8 BWC) scored its only runs of the game in the bottom of the seventh inning with one out. Sommer Kisling, who was 2 for 2 and reached base three times in the game, singled to right field. She moved to third when teammate Sarah Starks doubled down the left-field line.

After Libbie McMahan flew out for the second out in the inning, Reese Mattley drove in the Aggies’ first run thanks to the Matadors’ defense. Mattley hit into what appeared to be a routine grounder, but CSUN shortstop Aaliyah Swan misplayed the softball for an error. That allowed Kisling to touch home plate and moved Starks to third base, making the score 7-1.

UCD designated player Delaney Diaz beat out an infield single, racing toward first base to beat

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UC Davis catcher Grace Kilday high fives starting pitcher Taylor Fitzgerald in the second game of Friday’s doubleheader.

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UC Davis first baseman Sarah Starks connects with a pitch against CSUN on Friday. out the Matadors’ first baseman, who fielded the ball between first and second base. That allowed Starks to score and now it’s 7-2.

But the Aggies’ chances of a come-from-behind win ended with a fly out to Matadors right fielder Alexa Landeros for the final out.

“We have to get more consistent with coming through with those opportunities,” said Thorpe, “and, being prepared to get the job done.”

CSUN (15-26, 5-9) added five runs to its 2-0 lead in the top of the seventh frame.

The Matadors took advantage of three hits from Alexis Lemus, Jaymi Steward and Vinessa Nunez, all singles. The Aggies contributed toward the visitor’s runs with an error.

Fitzgerald, a sophomore who is a 2019 Rocklin High graduate, was solid in the circle in the fourth through sixth innings for the Aggies.

She gave up no hits to CSUN. Before those frames, she yielded six hits in the first three innings.

“I think she did well,” said Thorpe. “I think she’s coming off a couple of tough

performances and I think it was really good to see her come out struggle but get out of somethings early with minimal damage. And then to kind of really start to feel that flow, which is what I think she really needed to do is to feel those couple of good innings to build her confidence up a little bit.”

CSUN led 2-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Aggies had their chances to score in their at-bat in the same frame.

McMahan singled to left field and Mattley walked to put runners at first and

second bases. Then the Aggies loaded the bases with one out when Bella Pahulu was hit by a pitch.

But the Matadors got out of the jam on an infield fly rule for the second out and an Aggie batter striking out looking for the final out.

The Aggies were, once again, knocking on the Matadors’ door in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Once again, UCD had runners in scoring position but couldn’t send them to home plate.

Grace Kilday singled and moved to second on Anna Dethlefson’s single to left field. But Kilday was out at third on a fielder’s choice for the third out, as Dethlefson was left stranded on first base.

The Aggies had another scoring opportunity come and go in the bottom of the fourth inning with one out.

Mattley and Diaz had backto-back singles. But CSUN ended the Aggies’ threat on a double play that had Diaz out at second and Pahulu, who hit into the double play, out at first.

The Matadors scored a run in the top of the third

and first innings.

In the third, Steward smoked the softball over the Aggies’ left field fence for a 2-0 score.

Steward singled to right field in the top of the first frame. She would later score on Kaylee Escutia’s double.

UCD and the Matadors had 10 hits each.

They also committed two errors each.

CSUN 3, UCD 1 The Aggies’ only run in the first game of the doubleheader came in the bottom of the third inning. Dethlefson was hit by a pitch and later scored on McMahan’s single to right center field.

UCD had four hits in the game. Kisling, along with Aggie teammates Delaney Diaz and Sarah Nakahara, each had a hit.

CSUN jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

The Matadors scored their final run in the top of the third before the Aggies scored their only run in the third.

The Aggies play at Cal on Tuesday. Game time is 3 p.m.

Record day as Blue Devil girls capture Delta League title Enterprise staff The Davis High girls swimming team are the Delta League champions.

But taking the crown was not easy, according to Blue Devils head coach John Varley.

“This was a hard-fought meet and the girls were prepared for it,” Varley said. “The weather conditions were far from comfortable and the warmups/cooldown conditions were also pretty rough.

Regardless, the team came out and crushed it.”

Davis won with 636 points. St. Francis was in second place at 566 points, Pleasant Grove third at 269, Franklin of Elk Grove fourth at 192, Cosumnes Oaks fifth at 164, Sheldon sixth at 87 and Elk Grove seventh at 1.

In addition, the Blue Devils won all three relay events.

The 200-medley team of Sanne Dequine, Makena Leacox, Iz Meraz and Madison Walker won with a time of 1 minute, 44.50 seconds. The 200-freestyle team of Sarah Bennetts, Walker,

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Davis High’s Sarah Bennetts, seen swimming in the final home meet, broke a 25-year-old DHS 100-breaststroke record at the Delta League meet. She won the event in 1:02.18. She also won 100 freestyle in a school-record 50.15.

Leacox and Meraz took first place at 1:35.48.

Davis’ 400-freestyle relay team, consisting of Bennetts, Ava Portello, Audrey Portello and Dequine won, clocked at 3:26.12.

Bennetts, a junior, set two school records in the 100 freestyle at 50.15 seconds and the 100 breaststroke at 1:02.18.

“I foresee several more records being broken this year by the

girls,” Varley said.

Audrey Portello was a doublewinner in the 200 IM at 2:01.64 and the 500 freestyle at 4:53.06.

Dequine captured the 100 butterfly at 54.70.

Varley is proud of the girls’ accomplishments. But the Blue Devils are thinking of the postseason, which begins with the Sac-Joaquin Section Championships. The trials will be held Thursday, May 5, and the finals Saturday, May 7. The California Interscholastic Federation State Swimming and Diving Championships will be at the Clovis West Aquatic Complex from May 12 to 14.

“This was an incredible display of our talent, but we are not finished yet,” Varley said. “We have Sections coming up ... and then States. The girls are pumped up and ready to slay it.”

The Davis junior varsity girls swimming also captured the league title. The Blue Devils won with 627.50 points, St. Francis second at 355.50, Pleasant Grove third at 228, Sheldon fourth at 141 and Elk Grove fifth at 47.

The results of the Davis High boys swimming team were not available at press time for Sunday’s print edition.

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lthough California’s population growth began to slow in the 1990s after exploding in the previous decade by 6 million people, both official and independent demographers continued to see relatively strong growth for decades to come.

In 2007, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s in-house demographers projected that California would have 39.9 million residents by 2011. It didn’t happen.

Five years later, then-Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012-13 budget projected that the state’s population would be “over 39.6 million” by 2016. That didn’t happen either.

In 2016, with the state’s population estimated at 38.7 million, the Public Policy Institute of California declared that “California will continue to gain millions of new residents in each of the next two decades, increasing demand in all areas of infrastructure and public services — including education, transportation, housing,

water, health and welfare.”

“By 2030, PPIC said, “California’s population is projected to reach 44.1 million.”

That’s not going to happen either.

The 2020 census pegged the state’s population at 39.5 million and a recent report from the Census Bureau says California had a net loss of more than a quarter-million residents between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021.

“California appears to be on the verge of a new demographic era, one in which population declines characterize the state,” PPIC demographer Hans

Johnson writes in a new analysis.

“Lower levels of international migration, declining birth rates, and increases in deaths all play a role. But the primary driver of the state’s population loss over the past couple years has been the result of California residents moving to other states.”

Since 2010, Johnson continued, “about 7.5 million people moved from California to other states, while only 5.8 million people moved to California from other parts of the country.

According to Department of Finance estimates, the state has lost residents to other states every year since 2001.”

Instead of zooming past 40 million to 45 and then 50 million by mid-century, as earlier projections indicated, California may remain stuck just under 40 million indefinitely.

That said, a stagnant population doesn’t mean a lack of demographic change. Declining birth rates, the aging of the large baby boom cohort and rising

death rates — three other components — mean, for example, that as a whole, California’s population is growing older. We’re already seeing sharp declines in public school enrollment from the state’s baby bust.

The state-to-state migration patterns Johnson cites also affect the composition of an otherwise stagnant population. Overall, he says, those leaving the state tend to have low to moderate incomes and relatively low levels of education while those moving here have higher levels of education and income.

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ost people who move across state lines do so for housing, job, or family reasons,” Johnson writes. “Since 2015, among interstate movers who cite housing as the primary reason, California has experienced net losses of 413,000 adults (according to the Current Population Survey).

“Net losses among those who cite jobs as the primary reason

totaled 333,000 and among those who cite family 239.000.

The PPIC Statewide Survey finds that 37% of Californians have seriously considered leaving the state because of housing costs.”

While the differences between incomers and outgoers would seem, at least superficially, to be a net positive for California, they have some very negative effects, including a worsening shortage of workers and widening the state’s already immense economic divide.

“The state’s high cost of living, driven almost solely by comparatively high housing costs, remains an ongoing public policy challenge — one that needs resolution if the state is to be a place of opportunity for all of its residents,” Johnson concludes.

Amen.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

Letters Plastic pollution My name is Jackson Gould, a third-year political science major at UC Davis with an interest in environmental policy. A recent study from the World Wildlife Fund shows that plastics in our oceans are projected to quadruple by 2050 and microplastic levels will grow more than 50-times by the end of the century.

As long as I remember there has been trash along the beach at the high tide line.

When I was young I was excited to look for “treasures” in the trash, but as I’ve grown older and learned more about the impacts of plastic, this has become a cause for significant concern.

Plastic pollution is a global problem that has a statewide solution. Assembly Bill 2026 would eliminate single-use plastic packaging, think bubble wrap and foam peanuts, from online retail shipping. If passed, this bill could be a first step towards protecting the environment from plastic.

Jackson Gould Davis

Support Jeff Reisig I am writing in support of our district attorney, Jeff Reisig. He is an innovative and forward thinking DA. He is proactive and is totally dedicated to Restorative Justice in Yolo County. He believes that prisons are not the right place for those suffering from mental illness or addiction problems. He is committed to working with mental-health professionals, substance use disorder therapists, judges and others to provide more appropriate and effective options for the seriously mentally ill and addicted people. He was a major driving force in creating the Mental Health Court, Addiction Intervention Court and the Yolo Restorative Justice Partnership. I helped start the Veterans Treatment Court in Solano County and know firsthand how effective these specialty courts can be.

The Mental Health Court improves treatment engagement, reduces recidivism, reduces jail bed days, and decreases state and local hospital bed stays. The Addiction and Intervention Court uses a similar approach to people with addiction who commit crimes. This court, in conjunction with the DA’s Office, the Public Defender and the Courts, addresses the addiction in the same progressive way that the Mental Health Court treats participants, by confronting the root cause of the behavior instead of punishing that person.

Jeff ’s office is also a major contributor to the Restorative Justice Partnership that has four goals in dealing with offenders in lieu of jail time. This program has goals of restoring the victim, restoring the community, restoring the offender and educating the offender. This process has proven to be much more effective than simply locking up a salvageable person in jail.

Lastly, Jeff has been a major force in tracking down and prosecuting ghost gun manufacturers and sellers. These guns are the poison that can turn a misdirected

person into a killer. Jeff has aggressively investigated, prosecuted and held accountable the manufactures and sellers of these ghost guns in Yolo County.

Please support Jeff Reisig for DA and keep Yolo County as safe as it can be.

Ted Puntillo Former Davis City Council Member

much sense as an electronics store saying, “Gee, nobody’s buying these eight-track players. It must be because we don’t have enough. Let’s order another truckload …”

Vote No on Measure H. (The “H” stands for “Huh?”) Curtis Fritz Davis

DISC proposal

Electric army would quickly short-circuit

The DISC development proposed in Measure H, and its hand-waving predictions for the supposed economic boon of this massive project, betrays brash ignorance of the current business climate.

One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic of the last two years was the epiphany among businesses and corporations that the conventional model of employees assembling in the same physical office space Monday through Friday is passé, unnecessary, and financially burdensome. Corporate owners and managers realized that by shifting to a whole or partially remote work program they can slash costs and boost employee morale without compromising production and profits.

A recent Forbes article indicated that a quarter to a third of the nation’s workforce will permanently shift to a work-fromhome model. This mass exodus from the traditional office space has left in its wake ghost towns of surplus vacant buildings across the country, including Davis.

Among the ubiquitous Davis properties with “Space Available” signs featured on their front lawns is a cluster of buildings at the corner of Mace Boulevard and Alhambra that have remained unoccupied since they were built three years ago.

If no one wants these 14,000 square-feet of pristine prime facilities, by what logic do the DISC supporters imagine that they will fill 100 times this volume of empty space literally across the street? The DISC proposal displays a daft disregard for the most basic principle of supply and demand, familiar to any student of Economics 101.

This outdated and illusory business need that DISC purports to fulfill makes about as

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I applaud Congressman John Garamendi’s concern over the environment. I would hope, however, he reconsider his current proposal to mandate Army nontactical vehicles convert to only electric vehicles. If he were to overlay charging stations and infrastructure on a global map, he would notice that the vast majority of the globe would not have sufficient infrastructure should we have the need for expeditionary operations.

The military requires many NTVs behind the combat zone for supplies and movement. Imagine if we were forced to island hop again in the South Pacific if bad events happen, we would not find enough generating capacity on many of the remote points to properly have freedom of movement.

I would recommend that he, instead, focus on the discussion on whether the our domestic General Services Administration fleet convert to electric than to de-energize the tip of the spear.

Ryan Baum Davis

community members.

In contrast, our current district attorney just seems to lock everybody up. I have heard him contradict expert testimony at a County Board of Supervisors meeting on community mental health and addiction treatment, insisting a locked venue is most appropriate. It is not. He has told the Taxpayers Association he believes most homeless people are drug-addicted and just looking to commit crimes to “feed their addiction.” We cannot afford this misguided and misinformed view in the DA’s office, a view which tends toward incarceration as an answer, exposing our current DA’s bias toward seeing some of our most vulnerable citizens as criminals.

I agree with Rodriguez when she challenged Reisig at a debate. He said he should be re-elected because of having personal relationships with many law enforcement officers in the area. “We can’t afford to have conflicts of interest when it comes time to investigate police departments,” Rodriguez said.

Please vote for Cynthia Rodriguez this June. She will work hard to keep all of our communities safe. Learn more at cynthia 4yolocountyda.com Pat Moore-Pickett Davis

Bill the city

I am supporting Cynthia Rodriguez for District Attorney. She and her family are grounded in Yolo County, and she brings a wealth of experience in the judicial system to the job. She understands effective methods to reduce recidivism and effectively handle mental health crises. She will use evidence-based methods to reduce crime and increase safety for all Yolo County

According to the city of Davis website, the most common code violation in the city of Davis is uncontrolled grass or weeds in public view lacking regular maintenance.

This is a perfect description of the city medians and walkways!

If the city can enforce code violations on business and property owners it is only fair that property owners demand the same standards of the city. Maybe a grassroots (pun intended) effort to take matters into our own hands is needed. Maybe concerned citizens should start removing the weeds in our neighborhood and send the city a bill!

Mike Curro Davis

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New boots ... and a new lease on life Special to The Enterprise

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rank is a 62-year-old man who was living at a shelter when he was first introduced to YoloCares. He had uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, no primary-care physician and no established relationship with a healthcare system.

Frank’s situation is not uncommon and, unfortunately, this sort of disenfranchisement usually leads to grim health outcomes. Frank had already suffered from a challenging array of health conditions, including a toe amputation from his unmanaged diabetes.

When the YoloCares palliative care team first met Frank, they knew he would need more than just medical support in order to regain control of his health. With the help of an interdisciplinary team (including a physician, social worker, nurse, and professionally trained volunteer), Frank was able to establish himself at a permanent apartment at Fourth and Hope, a transitional housing development in Woodland. His team of healthcare navigators also helped him enroll for, and receive, CalFresh benefits, also known as food stamps.

No longer worried about housing or having food to eat, Frank could now focus on other aspects of his wellbeing. Still, with so many health concerns, Frank would need to visit multiple physicians and specialists— a daunting task for someone just returning from the brink of homelessness. But his YoloCares team quickly proved that they were up

to the challenge of helping him restore both his health and his dignity.

Before Frank was referred to YoloCares as a palliative care patient, he was missing nearly all of his medical appointments.

His spotty track record with healthcare providers meant that his care was unmanaged, fragmented, and not tailored to his unique challenges or needs. When his new care team realized that Frank was not checking his blood sugars before self-administering insulin, his YoloCares nurse advocated with his physician to immediately change his once injectable insulin to pill form. This simple change has made it easier for Frank to manage and effectively self-administer his own medication.

Tanya Yoo, director of palliative care, explained, “When we first asked Frank to review his medication list, he brought us three large gallon-sized plastic bags filled with prescriptions and medications.”

At the time, he had no idea what was in the bags full of medication, or which ailments or conditions were to be treated with each prescription.

Yoo says, “He took medications randomly and not according to any prescribed schedule.”

No one ever sat down with Frank to review and discuss his medications or to periodically check in with him to see how he was managing his prescriptions or his own health journey.

As a result, Frank was not taking any of his

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medical and financial situation meant that he was eligible to benefit from the agency’s donor-sourced fund (called the Gwendolyn Kaltoft Asperity Fund) which supports a patient’s special needs or end-of-life wishes. This fund allowed the team to purchase a new mattress, bed frame, bedding, and pillows for Frank.

“Now that Frank’s basic needs have been met, he has time to focus on his hobbies,” according to Yoo. “He loves assembling realistic models of cars which he builds one hundred at a time before donating them to children’s wards at local hospitals.”

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Frank, a Woodland resident, sits on a new bed provided by the Gwendolyn Kaltoft Asperity Fund at YoloCares. Since becoming a palliative care patient, Frank’s diabetes and hypertension have become manageable and he has regained the ability to focus on hobbies that are important to him. medications as prescribed, nor did he understand what he was taking. Meanwhile, his hypertension was out of control.

Within days, his YoloCares team had collaborated with his physician to streamline his roster of medications and to develop strategies to ensure that he takes all of his required prescriptions on time.

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taff have also worked closely with Frank to secure needed medical appointments, and to accompany him when he visits his primary care provider. Medications are now delivered to his home and organized by the time of day he is to take them.

Both his blood pressure and his diabetes are now under control.

During a recent visit,

During another routine visit, Frank’s nurse noted that his shoes had seen better days. In fact, the toes were missing from his well-worn boots. The palliative care team again dipped into the Gwendolyn Kaltoft Asperity Fund to purchase a new pair of steel-toed boots for Frank, who was thrilled to receive the new shoes. When asked about his experience with YoloCares, Frank said, “No one has ever helped me the way your team does.”

Frank’s nurse navigator learned that he wasn’t sleeping well — a result of a worn, old mattress that he inherited from a friend.

When his palliative care team learned that his insomnia was related to the lack of a proper bed, they sprang into action to find a better solution for Frank.

Each year, YoloCares receives over a thousand donations, many made in memory of a recently passed loved one, all of them made by people who were touched by the services that YoloCares provides. These donations enable YoloCares to offer the types of care that Medicare or other insurances don’t reimburse for — programs that are a lifeline to those who need it most.

The unusual and dire combination of Frank’s

— Craig Dresang is the CEO of YoloCares

Listening without agenda the first step to positive outcomes Special to The Enterprise

Yolo CASA

pril marks child abuse prevention month, which is a very important month for us here at CASA, especially this year. As we emerge from two years of the isolation and sometimes poverty brought on by the pandemic, awareness of the signs of child abuse have never been more important.

After all, these are major drivers of the mental stress that cause child abuse in the first place. Add to that the almost unprecedented tension in the world right now and its awareness is more important than ever. Or, as we say, “If you see something, say something.”

Not only are CASA volunteers crucial to spotting red flags in their foster children’s lives currently, but the advocacy that they teach and provide lasts a lifetime. Through listening without agenda, building trust, and providing guidance, a CASA volunteer enables a child to become a self-advocate and speak up for their needs. This is another way that CASA volunteers help to prevent future abuse and neglect… through empowering the child to break it themselves.

I invite you to follow us on Facebook and throughout this month as we will be talking about child abuse and giving you tips on how to spot and prevent

it. We will also be sharing quotes from our CASA volunteers that illustrate the unique impact they have on the lives of foster children … both in preventing adverse outcomes and encouraging positive ones.

Speaking of preventing adverse outcomes, the advocacy that our volunteers provide sometimes extend to places they may not have expected. We often talk about the advocacy role that our CASA volunteers pay in dependency court, but what happens if a foster child finds his or herself in dependency court? I share this quote often because it illustrates another vital advocacy role that some CASA volunteers have filled for their foster children: “My current CASA youth was almost charged with a crime he did not commit, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and fit the profile of the suspect. I could have easily discounted what he said like others had, but I truly listened and it just wasn’t adding up. I knew he was innocent and helped him navigate a really complex situation. Listening without agenda and building trust and strong relationships are key to so many things in life but absolutely crucial for foster children.”

Again, listening without

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The advocacy that CASA volunteers provide sometimes extend to places they may not have expected. agenda and building trust… most of us have someone in their lives who fill that role, but it’s not always easy to come by for a foster youth. And as illustrated above, if it hadn’t been for the CASA volunteer, the CASA youth’s life may have been much different.

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erhaps another quote from a local volunteer illustrates why: “I became a CASA nearly 15 years ago because I wanted

to understand the foster care system and play a positive role in the life of a foster child. The experience of foster care is so different from mine, in which I had siblings and two stable parents. I thought moving homes once during my childhood was an ordeal. Foster kids can move several times in a year, tossing their belongings back into a garbage bag each time.

“I’ve found that the appreciation they have for a stable, caring

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relationship through those confusing and uncertain times is beyond measure.”

Thank you to all of our CASA volunteers who spot red flags, and give advocacy and stability to kids who need it most. If you or someone you know is interested in joining us as a CASA volunteer, more info is on our website at yolocasa.org.

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the Executive Director of Yolo County CASA.

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Suicide’s not the answer Dear Annie: I am a 43-year-old woman who has had severe treatment for resistant bipolar depression, with psychotic features, my whole life. At 10, I tried to hang myself. At 16, I attempted suicide with pills

and alcohol, and again at 25.

I am an only child, and my parents were all I had. I lived with them for a large part of my adult life because I was so sick. They were and are my everything. My mother died seven years ago of brain cancer. My father died suddenly of COVID-19 18 months ago.

I am unable to work because of my illness, yet I keep getting denied disability because it is a mental health issue.

The family friends who were the executors of my father’s estate royally screwed up my trust fund and cost me tens of thousands of dollars on expenses they never gave me the price for. Now I am in a very bad place. My health is bad because I self-medicate since meds don’t work. I’ve tried transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy and talk therapy. NOTHING works.

I do not leave my bed. I have been suffering bone-crush-

ing depression my whole life and can honestly say that my life has been a horror show because the chemical imbalances in my brain keep me locked in a cycle of depression, mania and delusions.

Suicide is the only answer.

Everyone says it’s selfish, but I think THEY are the selfish ones for wanting to torture me just so they won’t miss me.

How can I express that, by guilting me into staying alive, they are putting me through unbearable hell? — Ready to Die Dear Ready to Die: Suicide is NOT the answer. Please go to this site https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/helpsomeone-else/. Please call 800-273-8255. The fact that you wrote your letter tells me that a part of you wants to live. Your father’s sudden death was a great shock to your system, and with professional help, you will be able to process the loss and move forward with less pain and depression. You don’t want to die; you want the pain to die.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022 Dear Annie: I am curious about your thoughts and advice on a moral issue that my friends and I are debating.

The issue is that a woman was sleeping with a married man. After a few years, they ended things amicably. Now, a year later, the “other woman” is struggling with the question of whether she should apologize to the wife for her actions and tell her what happened. She is torn.

— Wise or Ignorant Dear Wise or Ignorant: It sounds like half the town knows about the affair. I’m not sure how “amicable” the breakup was if the “other woman” is willing to jeopardize her ex-partner’s marriage. I vote for silence.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Sacra‐ mento River Cats vs. Okla‐ homa City Dodgers @ 6:45pm / $12-$67 Sutter Health Park, 400 Ballpark Drive, West Sacramento "Water by the Spoonful"

World Premiere of Mark Izu's "Songs for J-Town" @ 11:30am / $25 A Japanese American Jazz con‐ cert dedicated to the artists’ and communities’ grandchildren’s chil‐ dren and the ancestors who carry them. Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco. info@pre sidiotheatre.org

The Music of Cream Perform Disraeli Gears & Clapton Classics

@ 8pm / $27.06-$40.82 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// South Shore Room at Har‐ Tony Saunders Bassist & rah's Lake Tahoe, 15 Hwy Producer: Tony Saunders 50, Stateline and the Noteworthy Band Twrp @ 11:30am Alemany Farm, 700 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco

84th Annual Winters Youth Day Parade and Celebration @ 9:45am Downtown Main Street, Winters. wintersyouth day@gmail.com

@ 7:30pm Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes St, San Francisco

@ 10am Sacramento State Planetarium, 6000 J Street, Sacramento ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Saturday Apr 30th

Editor's Voice

@ 8pm Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St., San Francisco

Youth Day celebrates its 84th birthday with one of the �nest parades in Northern California and a day full of fun and festivities. Many events are being planned for the big day in addition to the parade. Including a Kiddie Pa‐ rade, a free Kiddie Faire, Alumni Baseball Game, Fundraising concert, contests and many Food and Craft Booths in the City Park. Plan to spend the day with us in Winters!

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

@ 7pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

@ 7pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

DakhaBrakha @ 7:30pm Miner Auditorium, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco

Editor's Pick Las Cafeteras @ 7:30pm Mondavi Center, 523 Mrak Hall Dr, Davis

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B3B4 at Club Deluxe @ 8pm Club Deluxe, 1511 Haight St, San Francisco

Ballroom Thieves

@ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 850 O'‐ Farrell St., San Francisco

Ravi Coltrane

Rotary Club of Davis Weekly Lunch + Program

@ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 850 O'‐ Farrell St., San Francisco

@ 7pm Retro Junkie, 2112 N Main St, Wal‐ nut Creek

STARR CULLARS

@ 8pm / $12 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Mike Greensill

@ 7:30pm Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Napa

Lady Lamb w/ The Ballroom Thieves

Fleetwood Macrame: Fleetwood Macrmé: A Tribute To Fleetwood MAc

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@ 7:30pm SFJazz Center, 201 Franklin St, San //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Francisco

Mon 4/25

@ 7pm / Free-$30 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

@ 6pm Pete's Restaurant & Brewhouse, 4571 Gateway Park Blvd, Sacra‐ mento

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Community Music Center World Premiere of Maestro Curtis' "A Song of Triumph"

Seth Kaminsky

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Hector Moralez

@ 9pm Monarch, 101 6th St, San Fran‐ cisco ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

together PANGEA @ 8pm Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

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Christian Martin

@ 9pm Halcyon SF, 314 11th St, San Fran‐ cisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ 12:15pm @ 1pm /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// See website for details . University The world premiere of a new work King Gizzard & The Lizard Park Inn and Suites, 1111 Richards by acclaimed composer-per‐ Bottom Dwellers Wizard //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Boulevard, Davis. jen.kukis@ed former Maestro Curtis. Yerba @ 9pm @ 8pm / Free Jeff Litman, Guitarist/Multiwardjones.com, 530-564-4655 "Harry Potter and the Buena Gardens, 750 Howard Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐ Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus Instrumentalist: Live in the //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Street, San Francisco. info@ mento Cursed Child" Avenue, San Francisco Vineyard 2022 (w/ Private Immersive Frida Kahlo /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// sfcmc.org @ 7pm / $59-$279 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Event w/ Brooke Moriber) Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco Fresh Veggies Micro Brass @ 12pm San Francisco @ 2pm Nationwide Wild Horse Featured @ 8:30pm Live in the Vineyard, Napa //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SVN West San Francisco, 10 South Freedom Rally California The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Van Ness Ave, San Francisco Keb' Mo' @ 1pm Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Public awareness rally for inhu‐ @ 7:30pm Asher E Stern //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Immersive Frida Kahlo SFJazz Center, 201 Franklin St, San mane treatment of our wild horses. @ 5pm BAD LUCK California State Capitol, 1315 10th Francisco Andaz Napa - A Concept By Hyatt, San Francisco @ 8:30pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Street, Sacramento. terihall1957@ 1450 1st St, Napa @ 3pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// yahoo.com, 804-339-2685 SVN West San Francisco, 10 South Meredith Edgar + Paul San Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Van Ness Ave, San Francisco Grif�ths @ The Rite Spot Jameson Rodgers: Live in //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ 8pm the Vineyard 2022 Taking Meds Featured Rite Spot Cafe, 2099 Folsom St, @ 6pm @ 8:30pm Featured San Francisco Live in the Vineyard, Napa Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// San Francisco

Wed 4/27

Del

@ 9pm Monarch, 101 6th St, San Fran‐ cisco

Featured

@ 9pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

"Mamma Mia!" In Concert

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@ 2pm / Free Sacra‐ mento The‐ atre Company -- Main‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// stage Theatre, 1419 H Street, Sacramento Two Small Pieces of Glass - OG A Skylit Drive: 4/22 530pm Swanfest 2022 Cosmic Gate

@ 10pm The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St, Sacramento

Fri 4/22

Fri 4/29 UCSF Radiation Oncology Update: Patient-Centered Radiation Oncology

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Immersive Frida Kahlo San Francisco @ 4pm SVN West San Francisco, 10 South Van Ness Ave, San Francisco Matt Dorrien

The Lehman Trilogy

@ 7pm American Conserva‐ @ 7pm tory The‐ @ 10:30am @ 7pm The Starlet Room, 2708 J St, atre, 405 Geary Street, Sacramento State Planetarium, Papa Murphy's Park, 1600 Exposi‐ Sacramento San Francisco 6000 J Street, Sacramento tion Blvd, Sacramento //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Comedy Night at the Jake Xerxes Fussell Two Small Pieces of Glass - RagTag Improv Presents: Valencia Room @ 7pm 4/22 830pm @ 7pm / $10 The Mullet!

Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 @ 1:30pm Sacramento State Planetarium, 6000 J Street, Sacramento

@ 8pm / $7.50 Stage Werx, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Lyon St, San Francisco

Reaching Higher 2022

@ 8pm The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St, San Francisco

The Valencia Room, 647 Valencia

@ 8am / $50-$350 Apr 29th - Apr 30th This course will feature discus‐ sions that focus on how novel technologies such as IMRT, SBRT, and other advanced technical- and imaging-based planning and treat‐ ment approaches can bene�t pa‐ tients. San Francisco. info@ ocme.ucsf.edu, 415-476-4251

DJ A.J. Bee: DJ AJB @ Andy's Pub (Vacaville, CA) @ 9:30pm Andy's Pub, 519 Main Street, Vacaville Mossmoss

@ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// San Francisco

Winters Duck Derby

@ 5pm Rubber ducks �oat down Putah Creek in the 7th Annual Winters Duck Derby! Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Avenue, Win‐ ters. wintersyouthday@gmail.com

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Jimmy B @ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

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Presidio Theatre Presents //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Zak Fennie

Jazz Vocalist Kitty

Margolis St, San Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ 7pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ 10pm / $15 Napa Barrel Project, 1040 Clinton mor ve ötesi - US 2022 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Apr 30th - May 1st //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// St, Napa Tony Saunders Bassist & Tour In her �rst hometown appearance Mount Tamalpais College //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Charlotte Sands @ 8pm Producer: Pro_Jam @ 6pm / $50-$200 A community celebration and ben‐ e�t celebrating the of�cial accredi‐ tation of Mount Tamalpais College.

The Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street, San Francisco. de velopment@mttamcollege.org, 415-455-8088

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Mother Hips

@ 9pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

in three years, vocalist Kitty Mar‐ golis demonstrates the place she has earned in the legacy of leg‐ @ 7pm / $59-$279 endary jazz innovators. Presidio //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue, San San Francisco Locals Night: Pro OpenFrancisco. info@presidiothe //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Mic Jam Night w/ Tony atre.org

@ 7pm Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Napa @ 8pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Saunders & the

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Featured

@ 9pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Sun 4/24

(Anna Tivel) @ 8pm The Starlet Room, 2708 J St, Sacramento

@ 7pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

@ 7am Sacramento State Planetarium, 6000 J Street, Sacramento

Anna Tivel

Bone Cootes

@ 8pm

@ 7pm Morgan's Mill, 1059 Court St STE 105, Woodland Hogan Brothers feat.

Christelle Durandy

@ 7:30pm / $20-$32.50 A.C.T.'s Strand Theater, 1127 Mar‐ ket St., San Francisco

@ 7:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

1 800 Pain, Cali Cartier

@ 8:30pm / $15 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Thu 4/28

@ 12:30pm Yerba Buena Gardens, 750 Howard St, San Francisco

Featured

Frances Ancheta: Outer Sunset Farmers Market and Mercantile

Jimmy Becker: Rocking Curtis Park!

@ 5pm Track 7 Brewing Company, 826 Professor Ln #100, Sacramento

@ 8pm / Free-$30 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

Featured

Outer Sunset Farmer's Market & Mercantile, 1994 37th Ave, San Francisco

Obsidian Son

Musical

@ 6pm / $30.50@ 8pm $70.50 Jan's Lounge, 9222 Greenback Ln, SACRA‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Orangevale MENTO //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Asher E Stern @ 3pm MEMORIAL AUDITO‐ GrooveSession @ The San Francisco Brewing Co., 3150 RIUM, 15th and J Streets, Torch Club Polk St, San Francisco Sacramento @ 9pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐ Asher E Stern Tube & Berger mento @ 6pm @ 3pm Oxbow Commons, 1268 McKinstry St., Napa

James Patrick Regan @ 7pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// singer/ Embassy Suites by Hilton Napa Halcyon SF, 314 11th St, San Fran‐ Zeker: Gold Bloc Presents: Valley, 1075 California Blvd, Napa guitarist: cisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Get Busy James //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ 9pm Editor's Pick Future Twin: Power of Patrick Regan @ DecoDance Bar, 1160 Polk St, San Harry Potter and the Sun�ower: Livestream Francisco Heretic Brewing //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cursed Child Bene�t for Ukraine Fair�eld @ 7pm Light Rail Studios, 672 Toland Place, San Francisco

Smuin's Dance Series 2 "P.S. Forever Smuin" @ 2pm / $34-$39 Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., San Francisco

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Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers @ 3pm / $20-$40 Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs @ 8:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Hot Skillet Lickers

@ 6:30pm / $20-$40 Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

The Setup at The Palace Theater

Cursed Child"

@ 9:30pm / $25 The Palace Theater (The Speakeasy SF), 644 Broadway Street, San Francisco

@ 7pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

DJ A.J. Bee: DJ AJB @ Andy's Pub (Vacaville, CA)

@ 7pm / $40 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐ bus Avenue, San Francisco

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Michelle Wolf ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Kenny Frye Band at Jan's Lounge

@ 1pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

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@ 12pm ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

"Water by the Spoonful"

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

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Tue 4/26

Baywav at Love + Propa‐ ganda (San Francisco, CA)

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@ 8pm / $11 Ray Fulcher: Live in the Jean Hen‐ Vineyard 2022 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// derson Per‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ 10am forming Bay Area Science Festival Live in the Vineyard, Napa Arts, 607 Discovery Day at Oracle //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Pena Dr., Davis Park Tiffany Austin Music: Rotary Club of Winters @ 11am Joey Avery Tiffany Austin at Yerba Weekly Lunch The Bay Area Science Festival @ 8pm Buena Gardens Festival @ 12:15pm / $5-$20 blooms April 21-30 with 50+ superDon't Tell Comedy - San Fran‐ (outdoors) Buckhorn, 2 Main Street, Winters @ 10:30am Trinity Baptist Church, 401 W. Monte Vista Ave., Vacaville

charged STEM-tastic events for all ages around the Bay Area, includ‐ ing the free Discovery Day at Ora‐ @ 7pm cle Park April 24 Oracle Park, 24 Stow Lake Boathouse, 50 Stow Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco.

Lake Dr E, San Francisco info@bayareasciencefestival.org ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

"Fefu and Her Friends"

Sacramento

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@ 10pm Love + Propaganda, 85 Campton Pl, San Francisco ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Boot Juice Trio at Mor‐ gan's Mill

Cursed Child"

Birth of Planet Earth - 4/24 2pm

Liberty Quartet

Dan Hoyle: "Talk To Your People"

@ 7pm / $17.50 The Marsh San Francisco Main‐ Stage Theater, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

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Editor's Pick

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

@ 7pm Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St, San Francisco

@ 6:30pm Heretic Brewing Company, 1052 Horizon Dr, Fair�eld //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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@ 9:30pm Andy's Pub, 519 Main Street, Va‐ caville

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Pom Pom Squad

@ 8pm ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Sat 4/30

Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

Tantra Speed Date - San Francisco! (In-Person Singles Event)

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@ 5:30pm / $35-$60 Tired of Swiping? Tantra Speed Date is not your average singles event, and it's back in person! The Center SF, 548 Fillmore Street, San Francisco. help@tantrany.com

Kelz @ 8:30pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

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Michelle Wolf

@ 9:15pm / $40 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐ bus Avenue, San Francisco ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Editor's Pick Bell Brothers @ 6pm Luccas, Benicia

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Michelle Wolf @ 9:15pm Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐ bus Ave, San Francisco

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B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022

Bad move denies Kershaw chance at perfection

“T

here is no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality.”

Humphrey Bogart, in the 1950 film “In A Lonely Place” uttered those words 72 years ago.

I was reminded of that phrase this week when Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts lifted starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw after the seventh inning of what was a perfect game at Minnesota on Wednesday. Roberts and the Dodgers front office, among other excuses, cited the 27-degree temperature in Minneapolis as one rationale for the decision.

No stranger to questionable pitching maneuvers during his tenure as Dodgers manager, Roberts’ decision was met with considerable disdain. Kershaw, for his part, sided with his manager but that’s not the point. The point is, Kershaw had thrown only 80 pitches. He should have been allowed to continue his quest for one of the most difficult things to accomplish as a pitcher.

There have been just 23 perfect games in baseball history.

Said Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson in a tweet, “What’s the game coming to? One of the era’s best (Kershaw) and you take him out with a perfect game in the seventh?”

Kershaw is coming off an injury-filled 2021 season and, with spring training cut in half due to the lockout, was on a pitch count. There are, however, exceptions to any pitch counts. A chance at a perfect game is surely one of them.

Besides, if the Dodgers were so concerned about Kershaw’s health, why was he starting the game in the first place when it was 33 degrees at first pitch? n One San Francisco Giant (Matt Cain) and two Oakland A’s (Catfish Hunter, Dallas Braden) have pitched perfect games. n Reader Evan Goldberg informs this corner of Davis product Owen Millward, a goaltender for the Janesville

(Wis.) Jets of the amateur North American Hockey League.

Wrapping up his second Jets season, Millward is 42-21 overall, with a 2.98 goals against average. In 2021-22, he’s 29-13 with six shutouts.

Says Millward, “My initial goal is to earn an NCAA Division I scholarship. Beyond that, hopefully, live out the dream and play professional hockey.” n Onetime Sacramento Surge defensive coordinator Jim Haslett has been named one of eight head coaches in the XFL, which begins play a year from now.

Haslett played in the NFL as a linebacker from 1979-85 with

UCD baseball falls to Fullerton Special to The Enterprise FULLERTON — Despite getting early leads in back-to-back games, the UC Davis baseball dropped the first two games of three-game Big West Conference series against Cal State Fullerton.

The Aggies were up 3-1 on the Titans entering the bottom of the eighth inning, but the hosts quickly knotted the score, 3-3, and went on to win 4-3 with an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.

On Thursday, Cal State Fullerton posted a 9-3 win.

After falling behind 2-0 after the first inning, the Aggies’ Raul Sandoval hit a two-run triple in the top of the second that scored Kyler Arenado and Nick Iverson to tie the game. Mark Wolbert followed with an RBI single to drive in Sandoval for a 3-2 lead.

However, the Titans went on to score six unanswered runs the rest of the way.

Wolbert had two hits, raising his average to .370 and his hitting streak to eight games. Sandoval now has back-to-back multi-hit games after going 2-4 on Friday.

Arenado broke an 0-8 stretch with two hits.

UCD (3-19 ovearll, 2-12 BWC) played

Aggie roundup for the second time in three days. The Aggies went 11 innings at Pacific on Tuesday and posted a 14-11 victory. UCD spent Wednesday traveling to Orange County.

Men’s tennis UCD took on UC Riverside at the Marya Welch Tennis Center, where UC Riverside won four singles matches en route to the 4-2 victory.

In singles competition, the Aggies’ Ryan Torres won his 16ty straight singles match and 20th on the season with a 6-4, 6-2, victory over Antreas Djakouris.

Andras Necz was tied on court two with Nolan McCaig of UCR, 6-3, 4-6, before their match was called.

In doubles competition, Torres and Ryan Morgan won their second consecutive doubles match, 6-3. Brett Brinkman and Necz won their No. 2 doubles match at 6-3.

UCD plays UC Irvine on Saturday at the Marya Welch Tennis Center at noon.

the Buffalo Bills. He’s a twotime NFL head coach with the St. Louis Rams and New Orleans, and has coached defenses for the, then, Los Angeles Raiders, Pittsburgh, Washington, Cincinnati and Tennessee. n Sacramento River Cats home games on Saturday nights are televised on KMAX-TV with Johnny Doskow and West Sacramento native Steve Sax on the call. Every River Cats game, home and away, is carried via the team’s website, www.rivercats.com. n With the retirement of Joe West, the senior Major League Baseball umpire is Jerry Layne.

A crew chief since 2010, Layne is now in his 33rd season. n Besides the basketball Final Four, its ice hockey equivalent is the Frozen Four. Denver University won its ninth national championship, 5-1 over Minnesota State. The Pioneers tied Michigan for the most titles in NCAA history.

n Been hearing and reading a lot of late about baseball’s “unwritten rules.”

Since they are “unwritten,” someone, in this case the San Diego Padres, is keeping track regardless. Seems the Padres took exception last week to Giants manager Gabe Kapler having a runner steal second with a 10-run lead and another lay down a bunt for a hit with an even larger lead.

Like several current managers, Kapler is a new-age thinker who doesn’t always go by “the book” or the “unwritten rules.”

The moral of the story: Don’t fall behind by 10 runs after two innings. And pay close attention to the 16 remaining games between the two teams.

— The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.