The Davis Enterprise Friday, May 20, 2022

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FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022

Robbery or tall tale? Judge upholds kidnap charges By Lauren Keene

From left, Jimih Jones, Jason Kishineff and Matt Brock take questions at the congressional debate Wedneday on the UC Davis campus.

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inflation, criminal justice, immigration, foreign policy, wild fire prevention, education and climate change, with each candidate making his case for why he would be the best person to represent District 4 in Congress. Multiple candidates spoke in their opening remarks about wanting to work together and bridge divisions in society. What followed was in large part an exhibition of disinformation, propaganda, cynicism and conspiracy.

Water District, called COVID19 a “bad strain of the flu.” Jones said the vaccines developed to protect against the virus were not genuine. “Anything that’s a true vaccine doesn’t need a booster over and over and over again.” And Republican Scott Giblin offered a solution: Send your kids out to “go roll in the mud for a while,” he said. “That’s what kids do. They get dirty. They get messy. That’s what gives them the immunity that they need.”

Republican Matt Brock, an operations and maintenance supervisor for the Contra Costa

(COVID-19 is a respiratory

WOODLAND — The victim admitted he’s no angel. On the witness stand in Yolo Superior Court, he acknowledged having prior convictions for vehicle theft, firearm and drug offenses, and being in ongoing treatment to kick his heroin habit. But A.M., as he’s identified in court documents, denied allegations that he manufactured his story of being kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint last month inside a UC Davis apartment. Attorneys for Antonio Juan Delcastillo and Mason Allen John, who face multiple felony charges in connection with the April 6 incident, accused A.M. of creating the story to shield the fact he’d been spending time with a woman who was not his girlfriend. The victim “absolutely concocted this to cover his behind,” said defense lawyer Rob Gorman, whose client Delcastillo is charged with holding A.M. at gunpoint until the victim paid him $1,000 in cash. UCD officials previously reported its officers learned about the incident after it had concluded. A brief press release disclosed the arrests of John,

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Congressional candidates square off By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer If men are opposed to abortion, they should work on their “pullout game,” said Jimih Jones, a pro-choice Republican and Toyota dealership employee, in response to an audience question about abortion rights at a congressional primary debate held Wednesday evening at UC Davis. “Once the man decides to give his power to the woman by not protecting himself,” he said, “he leaves it up to the woman.” Jones, a longtime Woodland

resident, is one of six candidates vying to represent California’s new 4th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Five of those candidates participated in Wednesday’s debate, which was hosted and moderated by Davis College Republicans. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, who currently represents California’s 5th district, was unable to attend the event due to congressional duties in Washington, D.C., a spokesperson for Thompson told The Enterprise. Topics covered in the debate included public health,

City announces Huynh awards n Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series. The recipients of the Golden Heart Awards will be featured in Sunday’s Enterprise.

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Two horrific acts of violence that took the lives of two Davis Joint Unified School District students nine years apart are remembered every year in part through annual awards bestowed by the city of Davis on adults and youth who have given much to the community. This year is no exception. The city announced this week the 2022 recipients of the Thong Hy Huynh

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awards, given in memory of Huynh, who was stabbed to death on the Davis High School campus in 1983, and the Golden Heart Awards, given in memory of Andrew Mockus, a 14-year-old Holmes Junior High School student who was killed in 1992 by a group of Davis teens who beat him, robbed him and pushed him into the path of a moving train. Those being honored with these city awards include adults, community organizations and teens who have contributed to the city in the areas of civil rights and community service as well as for one teen, overcoming personal challenges to make a

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difference in her community. All of the award recipients will be honored during a recognition ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday before the City Council meeting.

Thong Hy Huynh Awards It’s been nearly four decades since Huynh, a 17-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack on the Davis High School campus. Huynh died in the arms of a Davis police officer in a

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UC Davis ‘Big Shift’ project marks a milestone By Caleb Hampton

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The project involves converting building heating systems so that they use hot water generated by electricity — a renewable resource — rather than steam heat generated by natural gas.

UC Davis is set to complete an important phase of its effort to convert the campus’ heating systems to a more environmentally sustainable design, chancellor Gary S. Mary announced Friday in a message to the campus community. The $56 million project, called “The Big Shift,” is a “large-scale infrastructure construction project that literally lays the groundwork for ultimately moving our university closer to becoming carbon neutral,” UC Davis’

“We’re about to mark a major milestone on the Big Shift, with completion of the first district,” May said in his message. “This monumental effort involved laying four miles of hot water pipes throughout the core of campus, replacing our steam-heat system.”

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