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LAFCO OKs adding DiSC site to city’s sphere

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The proposed Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus cleared another hurdle Thursday when the Yolo Local Agency Formation Commission approved an amendment to the city’s sphere of influence to accommodate the project.

The commission voted unanimously to add a 118.5-acre site east of city limits to Davis’s sphere of influence and will take separate action on the city’s annexation of the property should voters approve the project June 7.

Included in the sphere of influence are the DiSC site itself as well as land to the south that includes Ikeda’s Market, the city water tank and the park-and-ride lot. Not included is the the 85-acre parcel to the immediate north of the DiSC site that was part of the original DISC project turned down by voters two years ago.

The new iteration of DiSC, on the June 7 ballot as Measure H, would develop about 102 acres east of Mace Boulevard and north of I-80 with 1.1 million square feet of office, laboratory and advanced manufacturing space, as well as 460 housing units, retail, a hotel and green space.

Last month, the city and county

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UC Davis held a ceremony Thursday evening to honor the 136 Aggies who have lost their lives while serving in the U.S. military.

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UC Davis honors Gold Star Aggies

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Ahead of Memorial Day, UC Davis held a ceremony Thursday evening to honor the 136 Aggies who have lost their lives while serving in the U.S. military. The ceremony, which took place in the Memorial Union’s North Courtyard, was the first in-person event honoring the Gold Star Aggies since the pandemic interrupted the annual ceremony two years ago.

The ceremony featured

several traditional components, including the playing of taps, the reading of the names of the Gold Star Aggies, and a daylong tribute to them by placing one American flag for each of them on the Quad.

Air Force and UC Davis Health, delivered the keynote address.

In March 2020, Stuart was serving as the lead emergency physician at Bagram Airfield in northern Afghanistan when the pandemic began.

ASUCD President Ryan Manriquez served as the emcee for the event, with provost and executive vice chancellor Mary Croughan delivering welcome remarks.

“(Stuart) quickly helped form a plan to protect military personnel from the virus,” UC Davis’ news service said in a release. “That plan included quarantining people upon arrival and closing dining halls and other gathering places.”

Lt. Col. Rory Stuart, who splits his time between the U.S.

Death of student under investigation

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The UC Davis student who died following a collision with a garbage truck has been identified as Trisha Nicole Yasay, a junior majoring in plant science at the university.

Yasay had attended UCD since the fall of 2020, campus spokesman Andy Fell said. She was from Loma Linda in Southern California, according to her LinkedIn professional networking page.

UCD police reported that Yasay collided with the garbage truck shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday while riding her bicycle at Hutchison Drive and Dairy Road.

She succumbed to her

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Stuart earned a Bronze Star for his role in implementing these public health precautions.

“We are all challenged and changed by our service and ultimately to some extent all of us pay that debt of sacrifice,” Stuart said in his address. “Today, however, is not about those of us who are here. It’s about them — it’s our 136 Gold Star Aggies and countless other men and women who’ve given their life,

Genome Center reports possible subvariant cases

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

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A memorial on campus marks the location where a UC Davis student was killed after colliding with a garbage truck. injuries at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

Mourners created a memorial to Yasay on a

WEATHER Today: Sunny and pleasant.

High 81. Low 55.

bench near the collision scene, placing flowers, snack foods and a “ghost bike” — a white bicycle

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The UC Davis Genome Center detected 16 possible cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants between May 8 and May 21, according to data from Healthy Davis Together.

As part of HDT’s free COVID-19 testing operations, all positive COVID19 samples from Yolo County are routinely screened by the Genome Center for variants, including Omicron and other variants of concern and variants of interest.

BA.4 and BA.5 have been deemed variants of

concern by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and are believed to have driven recent COVID-19 surges in several countries, including South Africa.

According to the European CDPC, the growth advantage being seen with BA.4 and BA.5 is likely “due to their ability to evade immune protection induced by prior infection and/or vaccination, particularly if this has waned over time.”

However, the agency said, “there is currently no

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Voting rules just aren’t consistent I realize many of you may have already voted even as we speak, but this election is so darn interesting that I can't help writing about it right up until the final vote is counted on Election Night.

But wait, according to the State of California Official Voter Information Guide that was signed, sealed and personally delivered by Secretary of State Shirley Weber, there are different rules on voting depending on which county you live in.

Yes, despite the fact this is a statewide election that also includes some national races, in some California counties you can vote in person early and in others you can't.

That seems odd to me. I understand that voting requirements and/or restrictions vary from state to state, but I've never heard of them varying within a state.

So much for equal protection under the law.

person up to 10 days before the election, and registering to vote and voting on the same day.

Since every registered voter in California automatically receives a ballot before every election, regardless of county, some of those options are available to all Californians.

California has 58 counties, but in only 27 of them can you cast an in-person vote before Election Day. "More Days, More Ways to Vote with the California Voter's Choice Act," screamed the top of Page 5 headline in the Voter Guide.

"Vote in person up to 10 days prior to Election Day," it continued with a list of lucky counties that decided to go this route.

"Living in a Voter's Choice Act (VCA) county means more options when it comes to voting."

Among those options are voting by mail, using a drop box up to 28 days before the election, voting in

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he big difference is the ability of people in those 27 counties to vote in person up to 10 days prior to Election Day. For some, that's a big deal.

For those poor souls in the other 31 counties, it's no deal at all.

Again, so much for equal protection.

But here's the interesting part.

The overwhelming majority of the 23 California counties that Donald Trump carried in 2020 have refused to allow their citizens to vote in person up to 10 days before Election Day. And conversely, the overwhelming majority of the 35 California counties that Joe Biden carried in

2020 decided to indeed allow their citizens to vote in person up to 10 days before Election Day. You think this was a non-political decision in all those counties?

The early in-person voting counties are clustered together in the northern Sacramento Valley, the Bay Area and the Southern California coast, plus Riverside County.

The no early in-person voting counties are nestled together in the San Joaquin Valley and all counties north of Butte County all the way to the Oregon border.

Take a look at the map on Page 5 of the Voter Guide and see for yourself. It's common sense that all citizens of California should have the exact same rights and privileges and conveniences when it comes to voting, no matter in which county they live.

Our politicians seem to think otherwise.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Study: Campus food pantry use linked to improved health

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Access to on-campus food pantries is making a difference for college students in California, according to a study conducted by researchers at four University of California campuses, including UC Davis, and the University of Arizona, Tucson.

The study, which was published this week in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, suggests that emergency food access on college campuses is associated with selfreported improvements in student health outcomes, including decreased depressive symptoms, better sleep and improved perceived health.

The study was authored

by Suzanna Martinez of

UCSF, Gwen Chodur of UC Davis, Erin Esaryk of UCSF, Sevan Kaladijian of UC Irvine, Lorrene Ritchie of UC Berkeley and Michael Grandner of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

“Until more long-term solutions that improve student nutrition are developed, food pantries may be filling a gap,” the authors wrote.

The study was based on responses from 1,855 students across the 10-campus UC system who completed an online survey in summer 2019. Students who completed the survey reported the number of campus food pantry visits they made in a typical week or month and retrospectively rated their perceived health, depressive symptoms and sleep sufficiency before and after

having access to a food pantry.

“For 60% of students struggling with food insecurity, the pantry may have provided some emotional relief. Therefore, they may have experienced fewer depressive symptoms such as stress, anxiety, hopelessness, and feeling overwhelmed,” the authors wrote. “For other students, pantries may have provided a way to supplement their diet, particularly when living on a limited budget.”

According to prior research, nearly half of UC students who visited campus food pantries did so to prevent themselves from running out of food, while 37% used the pantries to supplement their dietary needs and 22% used the pantries because they had run out of food and lacked

transportation to buy more.

Food insecurity is widespread on college campuses across the country. Since the Great Recession of 2008, as much as 44% of students enrolled in higher education in the U.S. have experienced food insecurity, a rate more than four times that of the general population.

According to a separate study that also surveyed students across the UC system, students who were food insecure had poorer self-perceived health, higher body mass index, slept worse and exercised less. Studies have also linked food insecurity with adverse academic outcomes.

The UC system has made targeted efforts to address food insecurity in its student population over the

past several years. In 2014, the UC President's Global Food Initiative funded efforts to estimate food insecurity among UC students. In 2017, state funding was allocated to expand campus food pantries along with SNAP (commonly known as food stamps) outreach and assistance. By 2019, there were food pantries on all 10 UC campuses.

The study’s authors said their findings present compelling evidence to support the establishment of food pantries on more campuses across the country. “These findings could be used to advocate for state or federal funding mechanisms to support the work required to establish food pantries on college campuses,” the authors wrote.

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Briefly Highway race ends in fatality A highway race preceded a fatal crash that killed a 30-year-old man in West Sacramento on Wednesday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Tighe Mullins of Rodeo was at the wheel of an Infiniti that was racing a white sedan westbound on Highway 50, “traveling in and out of traffic” at speeds “well in excess” of 65 mph, a CHP news release reported.

As the vehicles approached the Harbor Boulevard exit, Mullins made an unsafe lane change and struck the rear of a big-rig “and became temporarily lodged under the trailer,” the news release said.

Mullins died at the scene of the 7 p.m. collision. The other driver left the scene and has not been identified, CHP officials said.

Man allegedly violent in hospital A man used a pen in a stabbing attempt Wednesday night inside Woodland Memorial Hospital, Woodland police reported.

Lance Hale Jr., 36, of West Sacramento, had been waiting in the hospital emergency room for several hours before the alleged assault, which was reported to police at about 10 p.m.

The victim was in the waiting room.

Arriving officers arrested Hale on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and booked him into the Yolo County Jail.

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Crash kills four in Lawyer questions homicide defendant’s mental competency rural Yolo County

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — Trialsetting proceedings for a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler were delayed once again Monday after the defendant’s attorney expressed a doubt with his client’s mental competency.

Yolo Superior Court Judge Peter Williams ordered evaluation proceedings for Derrick Dimone Woods to determine whether he understands the nature of the court process and can assist his attorney in preparing his defense.

A further review is scheduled for July 18.

Woods, 44, was arrested in February 2021, a day after he allegedly beat 16-month-old Amanda Owens and her 3-year-old brother Elijah Washington in a West Sacramento motel room. Amanda died of her injuries.

The children’s mother, who had been away from the motel to borrow money from a friend to pay the

rent, returned to discover the brutalized siblings.

Woods, meanwhile, fled the scene with the aid of his mother Annette Womack.

According to previous court testimony in the case, Womack drove to Silvey’s Motel on West Capitol Avenue on the morning of Feb. 15, 2021, after receiving a phone call from Woods.

A cousin who accompanied Womack to the scene told police they went inside the motel room to find Amanda “cold to the touch” while her brother Elijah was “tore up.” The cousin said she implored Woods and Womack to call 911, but her pleas were ignored.

Instead, the women parked their car nearby and waited for Woods’ departure.

“I took it too far,” Woods told investigators after his arrest the following day, according to court testimony. He said he started to discipline Elijah that morning for misbehaving and got carried away, turning his anger onto the toddler

girl as well.

Womack, who according to prosecutor lied to police about her son’s whereabouts after helping him flee the crime scene, later pleaded no contest to being an accessory to a felony.

Williams sentenced her to three years in Yolo County Jail, of which she was expected to serve about a year due to time already served prior to her plea.

She remained in custody as of Wednesday with an anticipated June 19 release date.

“There is a baby who is either dead or dying. There is a boy who’s been brutally beaten, and she does nothing to call 911,” Williams said. “To me, I feel like that lacks the kind of humanity I would hope that most of us would find in a similar situation.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise. net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

Sheriff’s deputies investigate shooting report out of Dunnigan

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Yolo County sheriff ’s deputies searched several hours for a gunman Thursday night after someone reported a shooting in the rural town of Dunnigan.

Lt. Juan Ceja said the Sheriff ’s Office received a call shortly before 8 p.m. of shots being fired at two people in the 500 block of County Road 99W. No injuries were reported.

“The suspect was identified as the exboyfriend of the caller,” Ceja said. The man was still near the scene and fled on foot

when deputies arrived.

During a search for the man, officers canvassed the area and found no signs of bullet impacts or spent shell casings. “They talked to some witnesses in the area, and no one reported hearing any gunfire,” Ceja said.

Deputies were unable to find the man, and they cleared the scene at about 11:30 p.m. During a second attempt to track him down Friday morning, he fled again when officers tried to contact him.

“We don’t know exactly what happened, but we know he was there,” Ceja said. The investigation is continuing.

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The California Highway Patrol is investigating a collision that killed four farmworkers and injured seven others Thursday afternoon.

Officer Armando Ocampo said the crash occurred shortly before 3 p.m. on County Road 14 between Interstates 505 and 5, west of the town of Zamora.

A Ford van, carrying the 11 farmworkers home to Yuba City, left the roadway and struck a tree, Ocampo said. No other vehicles were involved.

“It’s unknown why the driver drifted off the roadway,” Ocampo said.

Three people were

declared dead at the scene, and a fourth passed away at the UC Davis Medical Center. The seven others were transported to area hospitals with varying injuries.

Yolo County coroner’s officials identified the three who died at the scene as Yuba City residents Ruth Hernandez Lopez, 20; Antonio Yanez, 25; and Noelia Esperanza Cuevas, 51.

The fourth victim’s identity had not been released as of Friday afternoon.

Ocampo said the driver was one of the four who perished in the crash, and an investigation is underway to determine whether alcohol or drugs were a factor.

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DISC: LAFCO praises opportunities from project CASES: Only 10 other From Page A1 agreed to a tax-sharing agreement, another component of the process required for annexation, that divides property and sales taxes from the project between the two jurisdictions. City and county officials, along with DiSC developers, also signed a memorandum of understanding related to traffic mitigation.

Those agreements satisfied the concerns of the two Yolo County supervisors who represent Davis residents — Jim Provenza and Don Saylor — who earlier this year had voiced reservations about putting DiSC on the ballot without having reached agreements first.

On Friday, Saylor said LAFCO’s actions, “coupled

with the recent approvals by both the Davis City Council and the Board of Supervisors of a revenue sharing agreement and additional mitigations, (addressed) the concerns earlier expressed by Yolo County… I greatly appreciate the commitments made by the city and the project applicants.”

Saylor, who serves as LAFCO commissioner, also said the DiSC project “brings many opportunities to the Davis community and our larger region.

“The approval of the modified sphere of influence by LAFCO is another significant step in the planning for this area near the city of Davis.”

DiSC project manager Dan Ramos called LAFCO’s approval “an important step forward for DiSC.”

“We look forward to coming back to the LAFCO with an annexation application after Davis voters approve Measure H. We’re also appreciative of the leadership of Supervisor Saylor and Supervisor Provenza on the tax-share agreement and Mace Boulevard traffic improvement plans,” Ramos said.

According to LAFCO staff, the DiSC site, given its proximity to the Mace Boulevard/I-80 interchange, means, “there will be ongoing development pressure at this location and urbanization would be appropriate to take advantage of this freeway access and visibility.

“The city of Davis has not grown significantly in the last 20 years, and growth at the (DiSC site) would be relatively controlled

because the site is surrounded to the north and east by land in dedicated conservation easements …

“The area also represents a sensible place for growth that does not extend beyond the easternmost and northernmost portions of the city,” LAFCO staff said.

Whether the project itself is sensible to voters remains to be seen.

Many DiSC opponents remain skeptical that the proposed traffic mitigation will do exactly that and argue a large development at that location will only exacerbate congestion on I-80 as well as on Mace Boulevard and other surface streets.

Objections also remain over the loss of farmland, greenhouse gas emissions and other issues.

AI predicts life threatening disease in dogs

By Rob Warren Special to The Enterprise Leptospirosis, a disease that dogs can get from drinking water contaminated with Leptospira bacteria, can cause kidney failure, liver disease and severe bleeding into the lungs. Early detection of the disease is crucial and may mean the difference between life and death.

Veterinarians and researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine have discovered a technique to predict leptospirosis in dogs through the use of artificial intelligence. After many months of testing various models, the team has developed one that outperformed traditional testing methods and provided

accurate early detection. The groundbreaking discovery was published in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.

“Traditional testing for Leptospira lacks sensitivity early in the disease process,” said lead author Krystle Reagan, a board-certified internal medicine specialist and assistant professor focusing on infectious diseases.

“Detection also can take more than two weeks because of the need to demonstrate a rise in the level of antibodies in a blood sample. Our AI model eliminates those two roadblocks to a swift and accurate diagnosis.”

The research involved historical data of patients at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital that had been tested for leptospirosis.

Routinely collected blood work from these 413 dogs was used to train an AI prediction model. Over the next year, the hospital treated an additional 53 dogs with suspected leptospirosis.

The model correctly identified all nine dogs that were positive for leptospirosis (100% sensitivity). The model also correctly identified approximately 90% of the 44 dogs that were ultimately leptospirosis negative.

The goal for the model is for it to become an online resource for veterinarians to enter patient data and receive a timely prediction.

“AI-based, clinical decision making is going to be the future for many aspects of veterinary medicine,” said Vet-Med Dean Mark Stetter.

counties with higher rates From Page A1 indication of any change in severity for BA.4/BA.5 compared to previous Omicron lineages.”

Locally, the BA.2 Omicron variant remains dominant, responsible for 92 percent of the 959 positive cases screened by the UC Davis Genome Center during the twoweek period of May 8-21.

Six percent were caused by the original BA.1 Omicron variant and the remaining 16 cases possibly caused by BA.4 and BA.5. Four of those cases were detected during the week of May 8-14 and 12 during the week of May 15-21.

On Thursday, Santa Clara County public health officials confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle the presence of BA.4 and BA.5 in wastewater samples in that county.

———— Forty-two percent of on-campus isolation and quarantine housing units on the UC Davis campus were occupied on Thursday, up from 30 percent just a few days ago.

Those units are being used by some of the 227 UC Davis students who have tested positive for

COVID-19 in the last seven days.

Rising cases at other University of California campuses have prompted the return of indoor mask mandates: Both UCLA and UC Santa Barbara announced Thursday mask mandates would return the following day.

Masks are not currently required at UC Davis.

Meanwhile, the Davis Joint Unified School District in the last week has reported 109 new student cases and 19 new staff cases. Since May 1, the district has reported 415 student cases and 55 staff cases.

Countywide, the COVID-19 case rate continued to rise this week, up from 30.5 cases per 100,000 residents on Tuesday to 34.6 on Friday.

The number of COVID19 hospitalizations in Yolo County also increased from one on Monday to four on Friday. No new deaths were reported, however.

As of Friday, just 10 of California’s 58 counties had higher case rates than Yolo.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ ATernusBellamy.

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Obituaries Gerald ‘Jerry’ Adler

Dec. 7, 1931 — Sept. 29, 2021 Gerald Jay “Jerry” Adler died in his El Macero home on Sept. 29, 2021, surrounded by family.

Jerry was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 7, 1931, to loving parents, Jack and Ann (Chuven) Adler.

From an early age, lifelong values were set — family, honesty, education and service. He excelled as a student, played stickball and chess, collected stamps and coins, and particularly enjoyed traveling by trolley car with his father to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers play at Ebbets Field.

Jerry attended Cornell University, receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in 1953. He was active in his fraternity, Tau Delta Phi, and joined the Air Force ROTC. Following graduation, Jerry proudly served his country in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of captain as a senior navigator.

In 1954, he married Sonya “Sonnie” Clairfield of Houston, Texas. The life of a military officer kept them on the move. During their first 12 years of marriage, they were stationed at 16 air bases.

Jerry’s military career was cut short on January 24, 1963, when the B-52 aircraft he was aboard crashed in rural Maine, killing seven of the nineman crew. Jerry was able to eject from the plane, although his parachute failed to open. He came

through tree branches landing upright in deep snow. He was rescued by helicopter 24 hours later after spending the night in temperatures that dropped to 30 degress below zero.

He sustained significant physical injuries and was hospitalized for 14 months.

As a result of his injuries he retired with full disability in 1964.

Jerry continued his pursuit of higher education at the University of Houston.

He earned his juris doctor, was editor-in-chief of the Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. At New York University and Columbia University he received additional advanced degrees. Recruited by the founders of the newly formed UC Davis King Law School, he joined the faculty in 1968 and moved his young family to Davis.

In 1974, he entered private practice with the Crow Law Firm. For 34 years he worked on difficult and complex cases, primarily representing victims (or their families) in cases of product liability or medical malpractice.

Jerry loved Davis. He was active in local government. On the Planning Commission he was among the visionary leaders who formulated a long-term General Plan for the city. It focused on controlled growth which helped to preserve Davis’ small-town character. He was elected three times to the City

Council (19801992) and presided one term as mayor.

Jerry was active ADLER in many civic and community groups including the Rotary Club, Mealson-Wheels, Chamber of Commerce, Senior Center, American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, Citizens Who Care and Sutter Health’s Cardiac Rehab program. He was a member of Temple Bet Haverim (and served as President in the early days of the Jewish Fellowship of Davis).

Jerry and Sonnie were married nearly 54 years and were devoted parents to their three children.

They frequently crisscrossed the country in the old station wagon to visit family or see the sites. Following Sonnie’s death in 2007, Jerry married college sweetheart, author Nancy Tesler. They cherished 12 loving years together, years filled with theater, travel and family.

Jerry is survived by wife Nancy Tesler; children Sheree Adler Blundell (Bill) of Edmond, Okla., Karen Adler (Susan Simpkin) of Placerville, and Jonathan Adler (Vikki) of Long Lane, Mo. Jerry leaves five grandchildren — Kristen Blundell Burns (Matt), Billy Blundell, Matthew Blundell, Torri Adler Ernst (Allen), Alexis Adler Gilbert; and five great-grandchildren. Jerry is also survived by stepsons, Ken (Bianca), Bob (d. Inga) and

Doug (Leslie). He was much loved and respected and will be forever missed by family, friends and colleagues.

Jerry was preceded in death by first wife Sonnie; parents Jack and Ann; sister Elaine (Adler) Smith; and infant daughter Felicia.

On October 3, 2021, Rabbi Greg Wolfe presided at Jerry’s burial and graveside service at the Davis Cemetery. He received full military funeral honors.

Bob Dunning penned a tribute in the Davis Enterprise: “Goodbye to My Friend, Jerry Adler.” The article concluded, “As always, Jerry Adler should have the last word in this discussion of his life. Asked once to respond to the topic ‘What I like about Davis,’ Jerry replied simply, ‘Everybody always tries to do the right thing about everything. The interesting aspect of that is nobody agrees to what is right.’ Well done, good and faithful servant. This town (and your family) will miss you dearly and remember you always.”

Robert H. Alton

Nov. 1, 1946 – April 26, 2022 Robert H. Alton, a resident of Davis, lost his battle with bone cancer on April 26. He grew up in Lafayette and Oakland where he attended Skyline High School. In 1968 he graduated from UC Davis. He was a big fan of Cal sports and anything to do with UC Davis.

After graduation, Robert spent many years in Sweden exploring the country, learning the language and making new friends. He

worked there as a medical clerk and researcher.

Eventually he returned to the ROBINSON U.S. and spent the rest of his life in his favorite town, Davis.

He is survived by his brothers, Byron and Bruce, and by his niece Christina.

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De Vere’s and Uncle Vito’s have new tenants

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’m back from vacation with lots of breaking news for you.

Work is underway to fill the former de Vere’s Irish Pub space with a pub restaurant. The yet-to-benamed eatery is owned by World Famous Fare, which has seven other restaurants, including Fanny Ann’s Saloon in Old Sacramento, and Madison Bear Garden and Mom’s Restaurant in Chico. Four of them are in Nevada: Red’s Old 395 Grill in Carson City, Red’s Bar & Grill in Fernley, Red’s Golden Eagle Grill in Sparks, and Little Waldorf Saloon in Reno.

CEO Jack Sterling, who owns the Chico-based restaurant group with his wife, Darien, said the Davis pub will have a different name than those above.

(He and company President Brandon Keith have differing opinions, but “we’ll let you know who wins,” Keith said.)

One thing they do know: they plan to bring a little of everything they do best to the Davis restaurant. “We have a breakfast place (Mom’s), and Fanny Ann’s and Madison Bear Garden are known for their burgers,” Sterling said. “In Nevada, we’re known for our barbecue.”

And they have lots of experience attracting college students. Madison Bear Garden is a popular student hangout, just steps from the Chico State campus.

They expect to serve things like ribs, steaks, hamburgers, salads, and offer a full bar with lots of regional draft beers. They may narrow down the food choices once they see what’s popular here.

“Guests will vote with their purchases,” Sterling said.

They hope to open the restaurant in late August or early September. Hours would be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. or midnight, with earlier breakfast hours on the weekends.

Sterling said he’s excited to have a restaurant in Davis, with its a vibrant downtown. “It’s a beautiful

place. I like the fact that there is a little bit of something for everyone down here. We can’t wait to get going.”

The Sterlings live in Chico with their twin 17-year-old daughters. One of the girls is interested in attending UC Davis.

Madison Bear Garden and Fanny Ann’s are heavily decorated with movie props and other paraphernalia. That oversized décor won’t work for the Davis spot, Sterling said. “We don’t have the ceiling height to add a lot of things above. It will be very Daviscentric,” with colorful, artistic collections and the obligatory bicycle art.

I saw the inside on Wednesday. Much of the wall décor is already up, while crews work to rearrange furniture and make other building improvements. Antique beer cans are stacked near the ceiling along the walls of the dining room. In the back "library" room, shelves feature antique typewriters on one wall and a collection of ceramic Jim Beam bourbon bottles on another.

The large hutch that served as a wall in the center of the de Vere’s dining room has been moved to the library. Two large TVs ­— arranged back-to-back – will replace it in the front room.

No matter the name or décor, Sterling said the focus will be on providing good food.

———— The bad news is Uncle Vito’s is closed for good.

The good news is the owners of the upcoming Mamma restaurant and market have signed a lease for the Vito’s space at 524 Second St. Mamma is a pasta and pizza restaurant and Italian market that’s filling the

former Bistro 33 and City Hall Tavern sites. That hasn’t changed. The name and concept for the Uncle Vito’s replacement has not been announced. But it won’t compete with Mamma, which is on track for an August opening at 226 F St. Uncle Vito’s Slice of NY opened in Davis in October 2008. It had a steady stream of business with its quick-serve pizza and beer specials. When COVID temporarily shut down eateries in March 2020, Vito’s was one of the few Davis restaurants that didn’t reopen. Its two Sacramento restaurants remain, owned

by Paesano’s Restaurant Group.

Napa restaurateurs Michael Galyen, who grew up in Davis, and chef Arnaud Drouvellé, a native of France, are the owners of Mamma. Galyen owns NapaSport, a steakhouse and sports lounge in Napa.

They like Davis, and continue to look for additional restaurant opportunities here.

Galyen said the original plan was to purchase the full liquor license from Uncle Vito’s. But the space and location were attractive too. They signed a fiveyear lease with an option for a five-year extension.

The business partners are still finalizing the food concept, which will focus on takeout and affordability.

Galyen said Vito’s had 10 seats at the bar, while Mamma has 30. “It’s a totally different scale. (The full alcohol license) just makes more sense (at Mamma).”

They plan to reapply for a beer-and-wine-only license for the Second Street restaurant, and open it by December or January.

Plans call for a facelift but not much heavy construction.

“Mamma is a handshaker. We’re going to be there,” he said. The Vito’s space is smaller and a different style of restaurant.

Its pizza ovens will be great for making bread and buns

for the restaurant.

Mamma was set to make its concept debut at BottleRock Napa Valley, a three-day music festival this weekend. The food booth is called Mamma Davis, selling penne and rigatoni pastas with marinara, ragu or alfredo.

“Davis” was added to the name for identification purposes (it’s the name of the LLC) but the Davis restaurant will simply be called Mamma.

Meanwhile, Galyen said he’s excited about the plans for Mamma, and is working with some Davis High School buddies to make it happen. They’ve added a “pasta theater” in the back of the upstairs, where diners will get to watch chefs make handmade pasta and breads.

———— Wayback Burgers is coming to The Marketplace.

The Connecticut-based company has 166 restaurants in 35 states. The menu features burgers, cheesesteaks, sandwiches, chicken tenders, salads, sides and milkshakes.

According to a story in the Sacramento Business Journal, Wayback plans to open around October and employ 30 people. It’s at 1351 W. Covell Blvd., Suite A, between Petco and See’s Candies. When I checked on Wednesday, I didn’t see any work being done yet inside the space.

Its Facebook page states, “Wayback Burgers is about serving delicious and fresh, hand-made burgers and hand-dipped milkshakes, and more amidst an atmosphere that hearkens back to a simpler place and time — a time when ‘customer service’ meant something, and everyone felt the warmth of the community.”

The shopping center previously had a burger restaurant, Krush Burger, from 2014 to 2017.

———— Davis Barbecue Pit closed on May 20. Originally citing repairs, it later posted comments on Facebook saying there was a disagreement between the

Brady, Carbahal to lead First Northern’s board Special to The Enterprise DIXON — First Northern Community Bancorp, holding company for First Northern Bank, announced that Patrick R. Brady was elected to a two- year term as chairman and John M. Carbahal was elected to a one-year term as vice chairman at its recent 2022 Organization Meeting of the Board of Directors.

Together, Brady and Carbahal bring over 35 years of First Northern directorship experience to their leadership positions.

Brady joined First Northern’s Board of Directors in 2013 and served as vice chairman of the board from 2021 to 2022. He currently serves on the bank’s Loan, Compensation, and Profit-Sharing Committees. He also serves as chairman of the bank’s Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee.

Brady retired as CEO of Sutter Roseville Medical Center in 2018. He had been involved with Sutter since 1981. Brady served as the CEO of Sutter Solano

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Medical Center (SSMC) for approximately six-and-ahalf years. Prior to SSMC, he served in a variety of executive level positions with Sutter Health in the greater Sacramento Area and in hospital management in Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona.

Brady has a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Minnesota. His professional activities include leadership roles in healthcare associations and advocacy groups. He has participated actively in local and regional affairs through a variety of community boards. Brady’s service on boards both in the private and public sectors, and experience as a

Chief Executive Officer, have provided him with extensive knowledge and experience in financial management, corporate governance, and risk management.

Carbahal has served on the board since July 1996.

He served as chairman of the board from 2013 until 2016. He currently serves on the bank’s Loan, Nominating & Corporate Governance, and Asset/Liability Committees. He also serves as chairman of the bank’s Audit Committee.

Carbahal is a Certified Public Accountant and since 1984 has been a principal and shareholder of Carbahal & Company Inc., an accountancy corporation. Carbahal received his undergraduate degree in business administration — accounting from Chico State University and his MBA from Golden Gate University. He is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Carbahal is very involved

in the community as a member of the Winters Rotary Club. He is a past board member of the Yolo County Land Trust, and past president of the Winters Rotary Club and the Yolo County Chamber of Commerce.

First Northern Bank is an independent community bank that specializes in relationship banking. The bank, headquartered in Solano County since 1910, serves Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer and Contra Costa counties, as well as the west slope of El Dorado County.

owners. Posts said part or all of the business was for sale. Some of those posts have been removed. On May 23, it announced the business was closed.

Reached by phone on Wednesday, partner J.R. Anderson said he didn’t want to go public with what he called internal problems. Gerald Bond and his wife Shaari are the other partners. Anderson called it a turn-key business, for sale as is. On Facebook, Bond disputed a post that said the business was 100 percent for sale, saying the number should be 60%. On Thursday, Bond told me via text that costly, extensive repairs were a factor.

The barbecue restaurant closed five months after it opened on Dec. 15, 2021.

It was the third barbecue restaurant at 640 W. Covell Blvd., Suite D. The partners purchased Davis Barbecue Pit from Kristin Johanson, who opened it in March 2021. A Dickeys Barbecue Pit franchise was there before that, and McDonalds Express preceded that.

The Bonds are Woodland residents. They won barbecue cook-offs across the country before opening the Davis restaurant.

After Gerald retired from a career as a crane operator, they joined forces with Anderson, a longtime friend who owns a construction business in Loma Rica.

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In preparation for its Davis restaurant, Broderick Roadhouse closed its Midtown restaurant and bar as of late Friday. According to The Sacramento Bee, it also plans to reopen its original West Sacramento restaurant, which has been closed for two years.

The Davis eatery replaces D Street Steakhouse, which closed this spring.

The story said the new Davis restaurant – also not named – will source ingredients from the Davis Farmers Market. It plans to offer healthier options, including vegan dishes, and focus on grilling more than frying. The roadhouse is known for burgers and fries.

Responding to a Facebook post, Broderick said it planned to open in Davis in early June. I’m waiting for a reply to my interview requests.

———— The franchise owner of the Club Pilates coming to The Marketplace hopes to have a soft opening on June 30 and a grand opening on July 5. It’s at 1361 W. Covell Blvd. in the former GNC spot next to Jamba Juice.

Work is underway inside the space.

———— I’m getting lots of requests for updates on Yolo Beer Ranch, which will replace the former Satiety Winery & Café barn at 40101 County Road 25A in Woodland.

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Race-blind charging bill passes state Assembly

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The California Assembly passed a bill Monday that seeks to implement a statewide race-blind charging system already underway in Yolo County.

Assembly Bill 2778, sponsored by Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, passed through the Assembly floor with a unanimous 72-0 vote, according to a DA news release.

Authored by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, AB 2778 requires the California Department of Justice to establish a race-blind charging system for adoption by all state prosecutors by January 2025.

“Specifically, the process would require removal of all race data from police reports for any suspect, victim or witness when a case is initially reviewed for charging,” the news release said.

AB 2778 models a program the Yolo County DA’s Office unveiled in September 2021 in cooperation with the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, which designed computer technology that automatically redacts police-report details that could identify an individual’s race.

The program works like this: Prosecutors start out by reviewing the redacted police report. Previously, one might read this way: “Lucy Johnson reported that a Black male with brown hair, wearing a black jacket, assaulted her in Midtown, next to Johnson’s home. She reported the incident to Officer Lee.” Under Stanford’s raceredaction algorithm, the

revised report looks like this: “(Victim 1) reported that a (race) male with (hair color), wearing a black jacket, assaulted her in (neighborhood), next to (Victim 1’s) home. She reported the incident to Officer Lee.” After reading the scrubbed report, the prosecutor answers several questions prompted by the computer program. The first rates the narrative as “good” or “bad,” indicating whether it contained unredacted words that identified race. If it’s deemed bad, the prosecutor must explain why.

From there, the prosecutor indicates how likely they are to charge the case — very likely, likely, unlikely or very unlikely.

Finally, the prosecutor reviews the unredacted report and determines whether to modify the charging decision. If so, they again must explain why.

Reisig said he explored implementing the program after hearing concerns from the Multi-Cultural Community Council, a citizens’ advisory board to the DA’s Office focused on diversity and equal justice, which requested policies and measures ensuring that a person’s skin color did not affect the fairness of the criminal-justice process.

In January, Reisig met with Bonta to seek legislation that would take the program statewide.

“The partnership between my office, the Attorney General, District Attorneys’ offices across the state, and the Stanford Computation Lab has been amazing,” Reisig said. “I am proud of the state of California for being a trailblazer on this issue.”

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Antique beer cans line the wall near the ceiling of the dining room of the former de Vere’s Irish pub. A yet-to-be-named restaurant will open this fall, run by the owners of Fanny Ann’s Saloon in Old Sacramento and Madison Bear Garden in Chico.

COMINGS: Even more news to report below From Page A5 Owners Gregg Harrington and Tim Beeman are not returning my calls and emails.

I drove to the site on Wednesday, and it doesn’t appear that much work has been done. Last I heard, they were working on permits. The concept is for a gathering place with games, outdoor fun, and a wide selection of local beer. They

originally hoped to open in June but that doesn’t look achievable.

———— Believe it or not, I have even more news to report, but not enough space here. Look for details next weekend on the impressive new virtual reality escape room opened by Davis Cards & Games, info about The Davis Enterprise’s move next door, and more.

———— I have a Google spreadsheet that

keeps track of more than 325 Davis businesses that are open, closed or coming soon. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses.

— 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.

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Nature incomplete without the animals n Editor’s note: Marion is taking the

day off. This column first ran in April 2005.

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need animals. Wild animals.

Animals whose presence and behavior can’t be predicted. A river otter. A fox. Even a rabbit.

No surprise pleases me more than the unexpected appearance of an animal.

I don’t know if other people are affected by wild animals in the same way. Perhaps for some people, it’s the dog or cat they live with that gives them that special rush. For others, maybe, it’s the first daffodil of spring.

But for me it’s animals. I remember places I’ve been by the animals I saw. The marmot in Alaska. The skinny cow in Nigeria. The bald eagles on Cache Creek.

I’ve skied in Tahoe many times, but because I didn’t see animals, the trips run together in my mind.

Out in nature, I’m so eager to see animals that my behavior changes. My eyes sharpen, my pace slows. I often pause and wait.

I listen for a bush to crackle, a seed to drop, a note to sound overhead. In return, I want a rustle, a footprint. Heck, I’m happy with scat.

———— One day last winter, I got what I wanted.

I was walking next to the American River, near the property we own in Coloma, talking with my friend Maggie who was seeing my special place for the first time.

We had just finished winding through tall wild shrubs and were approaching a grove of incense cedars and Ponderosa pines that covers the south side of my neighbor’s property. The trees canopied above us and the river trickled next to us as Maggie and I spoke softly with each other.

Suddenly, something above us shook a high branch, a bird maybe, or the wind. The sound registered with me, but I didn’t look up.

Then the rustling grew louder.

Maggie and I paused and peered up into the tree. My eyes took a

while to focus, as they always do when I don’t know what I’m looking for. A branch shook. I saw something move. Mountain lions are not unheard of in this area, so I felt a shiver of fear.

But this was no lion.

Instead, a big brown rump was coming our way, moving back and forth, like a ball on a tether, as a very large animal shimmied backwards down the trunk of the tree.

A bear.

In all my years visiting Coloma, I never heard of bears in the area.

When I started out there as a river guide in the 1970s, we gathered our passengers around us before the trip and, like forest rangers, warned them solemnly about rattlesnakes and alligators.

(You got points for the number of people who believed you about the ‘gators.) We didn’t mention mountain lions, because these cats are smart enough not to show their faces around 25 people wearing bright orange life vests.

When that bouncing brown rump presented itself, I doubted my eyes, but Maggie’s reaction convinced me it was a bear. Suddenly, she was eager to leave my “special place.” She didn’t seem particularly happy to discover that nothing immobilizes me like the

chance to watch a new animal.

We tugged at each other like a comedy team: Maggie trying to flee, me trying to stand still and watch. We did agree on two things. Look big. Make noise.

That worked, I guess, because the bear hit the ground running in the opposite direction, and he didn’t look back.

I felt disappointed he was gone, but elated that he’d been there.

“My husband isn’t going to believe this,” said Maggie. “But what a column.” (She writes for the Winters Express.)

For the next half hour two supposedly sophisticated writers babbled like babies who just learned a new word.

Bear?

A bear.

Bear?

Yes, a big, brown bear.

When we got back to Davis, I told everyone. I told so many people that pretty soon I no longer believed it was true. Could I have really seen a bear?

Two days later I went back to check.

Citing vague other plans, Maggie said she wasn’t available, so I drove up alone. I took the same walk, approaching the cedar tree with a flutter of excitement in my

heart. I walked quietly, because I didn’t want safety, I wanted a bear.

He was gone. I was able to walk right up to the tree and peer into its branches.

I circled the tree looking for scratch marks, but the bark was tough and gnarly and refused to give up its secrets.

I hung my head with disappointment.

And then I saw what I needed to see. Dark on the ground, berry seeds running through it, a big pile.

The scat of a bear.

———— I have been to Coloma hundreds of times. I have taken people down the river dozens of times. I’ve had them return to me 10 years later and recount every incident of their trip, especially if they fell out of the boat. I’ve smiled the pleasant, half-vacant smile of the unshared memory.

The visits run together after a while.

But I’ll never forget the day of the bear.

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

Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Mediterranean-inspired dinner parties made easy Special to The Enterprise Over the past two years, home chefs have had time to explore new recipes, ingredients and cooking techniques, which is why it is no surprise dinner parties are, at long last, a way to celebrate together in 2022.

Now is the perfect time to share your newfound skills with family and friends.

It can be easy to get caught up in hosting duties, but few hosts want to spend all their time in the kitchen when they could be enjoying a great meal. Gail Simmons, food expert and TV personality, has tips and tricks you can bookmark to help turn your dinner party from good to great.

■ Reach for Trusted, HighQuality Shortcuts: When entertaining, always use the best ingredients you can find that don’t require a lot of fuss, but still feel special.

Made with premium cuts of hand-filleted, wild caught yellowfin and albacore tuna, a time-saving ingredient like Genova Premium Tuna is high in protein, a great source of omega-3s and has a uniquely rich and savory flavor that offers a taste of the Mediterranean in every bite.

■ Host a Themed Party: To host a fun and fresh Mediterranean-themed party this summer, decorate your table with blue and white patterned plates, delicate olive oil and vinegar bottles, cutting boards and fresh ingredients such as lemons and greenery instead of traditional centerpieces. When paired with a flavorful seafood recipe, like this Tuna Romesco Salad Board, your guests will feel like they’re

enjoying the Mediterranean all summer long.

For more dinner party inspiration, visit GenovaSeafood.com.

— Family Features

Tuna Romesco Salad Board Recipe courtesy of Gail Simmons on behalf of Genova Tuna Servings: 4-6 Ingredients Romesco: 3 large Roma tomatoes 1 roasted red pepper, skin removed and seeded (or from jar), coarsely chopped ⅓ cup roasted salted almonds 1 garlic clove, chopped 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar ¼ teaspoon sweet smoked paprika ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional) 1 teaspoon kosher salt ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil Tuna Board: 2 cans Genova Yellowfin Tuna in Olive Oil 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided 1 bunch scallions kosher salt, divided freshly ground black pepper, divided 1 zucchini, sliced half-inch thick on bias 1 red bell pepper, sliced lengthwise into 1-inch pieces ½ cup roasted salted almonds ½ cup marinated artichokes, drained, patted dry and halved 1 bunch radishes, halved ½ cup green olives ½ cup black olives 4 ounces manchego cheese, sliced into triangles

2 tablespoons flat leaf parsley, chopped Putting it together To make romesco: Preheat broiler. Cover sheet pan with parchment paper or foil. Place tomatoes on sheet pan and broil until well charred on both sides, 2-4 minutes per side.

Transfer tomatoes to bowl; cool slightly then remove skin, core, seed and coarsely chop.

In blender, combine tomatoes; roasted red pepper; almonds; garlic; vinegar; paprika; red pepper flakes, if using; salt; and pepper until chunky paste forms. With blender on high speed, slowly drizzle in oil, scraping down sides of blender as needed until mixture creates rustic texture. Transfer romesco to bowl and taste for seasoning. Let romesco sit covered at room temperature 1 hour.

To prepare board: In bowl, drain tuna; set aside.

Set grill on medium-high heat and brush grates with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Grill scallions until charred and tender, about 4 minutes per side. Remove to large plate and season with salt and pepper. Toss zucchini and red pepper in olive oil then season with salt and pepper. Grill until charred and tender, about 3 minutes per side. Remove to same plate to cool slightly.

To assemble: With large spoon, scoop generous amount of romesco into center of board. Using back of spoon, spread romesco into circle with well in center. Gently pile tuna into well. Arrange zucchini, pepper, roasted almonds, artichokes, radishes, olives and cheese around romesco and tuna. Sprinkle tuna with chopped parsley before serving.

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Tuna Romesco Salad Board.

MIND Institute prof gets state appointment Enterprise staff

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Aubyn Stahmer, 54, of Sacramento, has been appointed to the State Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Stahmer has been a Professor at the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the UC Davis MIND Institute since 2015. She was Associate Professor at UC San Diego from 2013 to 2014. Stahmer was Director and Psychologist at the Autism Discovery Institute at Rady Children’s Hospital from 1996 to 2013. She earned a Ph.D. in psychology from UC San Diego.

This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no com-

Name Droppers pensation. Stahmer is registered without party preference.

———— Dixie State University recently celebrated the achievements of the institution’s largest-ever graduating class of 2,684 degree candidates at the university’s 111 Commencement Ceremony in St. George, Utah.

During the ceremony, held on May 6 in Greater Zion Stadium on the DSU campus, the university honored the Class of 2022.

Candidates ranged from 16 to 79 years of age and included students from 49 states and 15 countries.

Cody Williams from Winters was among the

graduates recognized at the event.

“What a tremendous honor it is to celebrate the achievements of our graduating Trailblazers,” Dixie State University President Richard B. Williams said.

The featured speaker at the event was Carly Fiorina, founder and chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and former CEO of Hewlett Packard.

Dixie State University is a premier open-enrollment teaching institution that offers more than 200 academic programs at one of the lowest tuition costs in the Western United States.

———— Southern New Hampshire University congratulates the following students on being named

to the Winter 2022 President’s List.

Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above are named to the President’s List. Full-time status is achieved by earning 12 credits; undergraduate day students must earn 12 credits in the fall or spring semester, and online students must earn 12 credits over two consecutive terms (EW1 & EW2, EW3 & EW4, or EW5 & EW6).

They include Nichol Lomack of Davis, Angela Bruch of Davis and Jason Eggleston of Woodland.

— Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenterprise.net.

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Firearms. How many firearms are there in America for every 100 people: 12, 60, 120, or 240?

2. Science. What M-word do we use for an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain?

3. Sermons. In what year did the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. give the sermon titled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”?

4. Books and Authors.

Albert Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel

Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the secondyoungest recipient in history. In what year ending in a zero did Camus die?

5. Countries of the World. The world’s largest island country and the 14th-largest country by area is made up of over 17,000 islands.

Name it.

Answers: 120, mesa, 1968, 1960, Indonesia.

— 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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Pearls Before Swine

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Dilbert

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Yolo County launches summer reading program

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

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The Yolo County Library will host a free Juneteenth Holiday Celebration on Sunday, June 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

Library hosts Juneteenth celebration Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Library invites residents to attend a free Juneteenth Holiday Celebration on Sunday, June 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas, origin in 1865, the observance of June 19 as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. In 2021, it became the eleventh holiday recognized by the federal government.

The Juneteenth theme for 2022 is “The Road to Freedom Day” and will honor Black artists and artisans, performers, elders, and musicians.

The family-friendly celebration will include live entertainment, educational presentations, art displays, activities for youth, giveaways, artisan vendors, food trucks, sponsor tables and more. Residents can learn more by visiting: https://www.yolojuneteen th.org.

The event will feature a variety of performances, including music, drumming, spoken word, and dance performances.

Among them: M’Ster Lewis, a JTL Production fashion show, the Grant High School Drumline, and renowned artist TheArthur Wright.

Additionally, Master Quilter Khristel Johnson will display her history quilts at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Johnson’s quilts are visually stunning and meticulously designed using African fabrics, beads, and textures that create a unique 3D effect illustrating African American history through personal stories and significant events.

Guest speakers include Davis Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs; Renetta Garrison Tull, UC Davis Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; and Vickie Gomez, UC Davis Director of Campus and Regional Community Engagement.

“We are very excited to offer a community youth art project for the celebration,” said Youth Services Librarian Katrina LawsEwald.

Those 18 and under of any cultural background are invited to create an art piece exploring the Black/ African diaspora. The “Make Black Art” project is a new experimental community learning experience that asks youth to research and discover a Black art subject of interest, then create or replicate that subject in any art form that their ability allows as a show of appreciation for the culture.

The Juneteenth Holiday Celebration is made possible with the support of the Yolo County Library, the city of Davis Human Relations Commission and Arts & Cultural Affairs Pro-

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An investigation by the UCD, Davis and West Sacramento police departments remains underway.

Fell said the timeline of the investigation remains unclear, pending factors including the completion of a coroner’s report.

Sacramento County Coroner’s officials initially classified the fatality as a “criminal” motor vehicle accident on its website, although Coroner Kimberly Gin said its cases

HONORS: UCD aims for shared experience From Page A1 the ultimate sacrifice, for this country.”

The Memorial Union houses UC Davis’ Golden Memory Book, a collection of biographies of the Gold Star Aggies, who were lost in both World Wars, the Vietnam War and other conflicts.

“Too frequently we celebrate as communities and grieve as individuals,” Stuart said. “Let today be a shared day of grieving.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.

receive that classification when it’s unknown whether charges will be filed, and the classification could later change.

UCD has not released information about the garbage-truck driver, other than to note the person is a campus employee who has a California commercial vehicle license underwent training required by both the California and U.S. Departments of Transportation.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

gram, Culture C.O.-O.P., NJ Mvondo and Multiculturalism Rocks, Friends of the Davis Public Library, Yolo County Office of Education, Travis Credit Union, Yolo Federal Credit Union, Davis Media Access, CommuniCare, UC Davis Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Davis Media Access will record and post the celebration on YouTube on June 19.

The UC Davis Conference Center is located at 550 Alumni Lane and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is located across the street at 254 Old Davis Road. There is free parking on Sundays in the garage and surrounding lot next to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. There are still spaces available for vendors, and volunteers are needed.

Please visit yolojuneteenth. org for more information.

For questions about participating in the event, contact Sandy Holman at 530-902-4534 or sandy@ thecultureco-op.com.

Tax-deductible donations can be made at tinyurl.com/YoloJuneteen th or by sending a check to the Friends of the Davis Public Library, P.O. Box 91, Davis, CA 95617 For more information about Yolo County Library’s programs and resources, residents can visit their local library, or the library’s website, https://yolocount ylibrary.org

The Yolo County Library annual summer reading program begins June 1. This year’s theme: Read Beyond the Beaten Path.

Children, teens and adults can participate by logging their reading, earning prizes and enjoying summer-camp-style programs and activities.

Everyone registering for the program at https:// yolocountylibrary.org/ summer will receive a free book and welcome bag.

And everyone who completes their summer reading challenge by earning 1,000 points will receive a free book and prize, plus an entry into a final drawing for additional prizes.

This year’s theme, Read Beyond the Beaten Path, evokes summer camp vibes, and the summer reading challenge activities relate to typical camp events, like arts and crafts, campfire, “flat on bunk” (quiet time), science and nature, and sports and recreation.

In-person indoor and outdoor activities will be offered at many Yolo County Library branches, and all branches will provide take-andmake kits for all ages.

Content changes monthly, and kits will be available while supplies last.

Participants aged 0-5 will also receive an activity

booklet designed to engage young learners in fun pre-literacy activities, and thanks to a grant from the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club, children ages 6-12 will get a Summer Badge Book filled with reading prompts, enhancement activities and stickers to log their reading. The program has even more rewards: every week, participants will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift card, courtesy of Nugget Markets, Raley’s and Target.

Everyone who joins the Summer Reading Program is encouraged to participate digitally through the Beanstack platform on the web or via the app. Participants can track the books they have read, log reading hours and books, earn badges and prizes, and discover great books.

Parents or caregivers can sign up and quickly log their own and their children’s reading under one primary account.

Instructions are available on the ibrary’s website, https://yolocountylibrary. org While Yolo County Library has been fine-free since April 2021, participants who still have old overdue fines on their account can select to have up to $10 in fines removed from their account in place of their finisher prize. Books and prizes

can be picked up in person at any Yolo County Library branch. Prizes are available until Sept. 30 or while supplies last.

According to the library, research indicates that summer reading programs help children and teens retain and enhance their reading skills over the summer, provide a haven for community readers, and develop reading enthusiasm. Additionally, adult participation encourages caregivers to play a strong role in their child’s literacy development by reading aloud with their child and modeling good reading behavior. Kids read more and enjoy reading more when they can choose what they read.

As poet and author Maya Angelou noted, “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

The Summer Reading Program is free and sponsored by the Yolo County Library Foundation and the various Friends of the Library groups. For more information or to sign up, visit your local Yolo County Library branch or online https://yolocountylibrary.org/summer.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ ATernusBellamy.

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his column is for the 25 Davis High senior student-athletes who participated in Wednesday’s College Signing Day inside South Gym. If you’re a family or friend of one or some of the Blue Devil seniors who have written the final chapter of their high school athletic careers, strongly suggest to them to read my column on The Enterprise’s Website at www.davisenterprise.com or Sunday’s print edition.

First off, congratulations on putting in the time in the classroom and your sport.

That helped colleges see the signs of your characteristics and what you’ve achieved, which was a grade point average above 3.0 and better and what your accomplishments in your sport.

I’ve had the opportunity to watch the majority of you shine in your sports the last 10

months. I could list those student-athletes I’ve seen play in pre-season, Delta League, SacJoaquin Section playoff and California Interscholastic Federation State regional playoff games.

But I would not be fair to the seniors who I didn’t watch and cover their Blue Devil teams because I sent one of my freelance writers to cover their game, I was covering another DHS or UC Davis game or at The Enterprise office designing sports pages.

On Friday, June 10, at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium, those Blue Devil student-athletes will join their fellow classmates in DHS’ Class of 2022 graduation ceremony. After each of you receive your high school diploma, the final chapter of your high school lives officially ends.

Then on Saturday, June 11, a new chapter begins in each of your lives.

For the 25 Blue Devil seniors who are, or should be, reading this column, please pay attention for what I am about to tell you. n First off, enjoy this summer post high school. Build up your memories, take as many trips as you can and share some or all of your words and photos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok and other social media outlets. n Some of you are now the

legal adult age of 18. The rest of you who are not 18 will be turning that age in upcoming weeks and months.

Go out and buy some lottery tickets. Keep in mind that if you buy a winning lottery ticket that makes you a millionaire, I take 10 percent of your winnings. BTW — or By The Way for those of you reading who don’t know what BTW means — I’m joking. n Being a young adult until you turn 21 can be loads of fun.

I still remember going to college, working part-time at two different restaurants in the Turlock area and finding time to hanging out with family and friends. Plus, meeting new friends. n Whatever your college coaches tell you to do to prepare for your season, no matter if you’re going to play in your first year or you’re going to redshirt

and retain your four years of eligibility, just do it.

As you enter college, be it four-year or junior college, you’re entering a new world of education and life. n You must have an open mind when it comes to learning and meeting new people who come from different backgrounds. n You must have an open mind when it comes to trying new things in life, in both college and life as you get older. n Last piece of advice for Blue Devil senior athletes and their classmates. It’s an age-old saying that has been around for a long time.

When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net.

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Kathy DeYoung stands at LaRue Field in February 2003. She coached UCD women’s sports teams for four decades.

Successful Aggie coach falls to cancer Enterprise staff Kathy DeYoung, a Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Famer who led three different UC Davis programs during a coaching career that spanned four decades, died on May 16 after a battle with cancer at the age of 68.

DeYoung, who was at the helm of the most successful run in Aggie softball history from 1979 to 2004, also guided the volleyball team from 1978-87 and was the inaugural coach of the women’s golf program from 2005-08.

“When you think about excellence at UC Davis, it is hard to find a more perfect example than Kathy DeYoung,” UC Davis Director of Athletics, Rocko DeLuca said.

“Her positive impacts on our softball, volleyball, and women’s golf programs are still very much felt to this day, and her winning attitude was absorbed by so many of our (now) student-athlete alumnae.

“We will miss seeing her around campus, at the golf course and at special events. Her legacy is strong and will forever be felt in our athletics department.”

The versatile DeYoung first brought national prominence to UCD at the helm of the Aggie women’s volleyball program.

In her 10-year career with UCD volleyball, she

led the Aggies to three fifth-place NCAA finishes, a pair of berths in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national semifinals, and an overall record of 16897.

“Kathy was a leader every step of the way from the time Title IX was passed in the early 70s to continuing to advocate and provide opportunities for girls and women in sports until she retired in 2008,” said retired UCD coach and administrator, Pam Gill-Fisher. “Her professionalism and determination to do the right thing was admired by all.”

While leading the volleyball program, DeYoung enjoyed her greatest coaching success on the softball diamond, where she finished her fantastic softball career with an overall record of 777-402-2.

That win total was 11th all-time for Division II and tied for 34th among all divisions upon her retirement from the program. n To read the rest of the story on Kathy DeYoung, visit www.davisenterprise. com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story. n Visit Kathy’s Caring Bridge site (https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/kathydeyoung) for additional details and information about a celebration this fall.

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UC Davis batter Nick Leehey gets ready to smack the baseball in Friday’s Big West Conference home game against Long Beach State. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and find the story.

Long Beach State shows now mercy

By Rebecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent Thirteen is considered an unlucky number.

This proved true for the UC Davis baseball team on Friday at Dobbins Stadium.

In a second-to-last Big West Conference home game against Long Beach State's squad, the visiting Dirtbags dropped the Aggies by a 13-1 score.

The game was called after eight innings because of the mercy rule.

Both coaching staffs agreed to a 10-run lead mercy rule after seven innings for this series.

UCD starting pitcher Bryan Green pitched five innings. He gave up four hits, one earned run and struck out four.

Nolan Meredith pitched the final three innings of the game. He gave up 10 hits and eight earned runs.

Three of LBSU’s runs were unearned.

After loading the bases with no outs in the top of the first, the Aggies were able to escape the jam and

leave all three runners stranded.

This would not be the case in the rest of the game, though.

The Aggies scored their sole run in the bottom of the third inning.

With the Dirtbags leading 2-0, UCD catcher Omar Plascencia drew a walk. J.D. Mico then grounded out with a sacrifice bunt to move Plascencia to second base.

Next, James Williams III singled up the middle, which allowed Plascencia to score and help UCD (5-24 in the Big West, 6-34) cut LBSU’s lead to 2-1.

Then LBSU added another two runs to its tally in the fifth frame, one run in the sixth, and another in the seventh. Going into the eighth inning, the Dirtbags led 6-1.

The top of the eighth inning is one the Aggies likely want to forget.

Back-to-back singles to lead of the half for the Dirtbags were followed by a triple to right field by Tanner Carlson.

After another set of back-to-back singles, Rocco Peppi smashed a home run to clear the bases and give the Dirtbags the 12-1 lead.

Those six runs were recorded all with no outs.

After getting two quick outs after Peppi’s home run, LBSU hit three more singles in a row.

Long Beach State added its final run of the game on Javier Rosales’ single due to a throwing error at shortstop by Kyler Arenado.

The Aggies had six hits in the game and left six on base.

Williams III, Raul Sandoval, Jonah Henrickson, Nathan Peng, Arenado and Plascencia each had one hit in the contest for the Aggies.

On Thursday, Long Beach State posted a 5-4 win over the Aggies in 11 innings.

UCD's season closed out its season on Saturday against LBSU. The Aggies were going to hold a pregame Senior Day ceremony, honoring seniors in Arenado, Sandoval, Mico and Nate Lemos.

— Follow Rebecca Wasik on Twitter: @BeccaFromTheBay.

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his column is mostly about sports, music, bands and other — I hope — items of interest.

Yet, there are times when it’s appropriate to lead with another message.

This is Memorial Day weekend, a time when we all should reflect, and be thankful for, the countless number of American citizens who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our nation free and preserve the freedoms we all too often take for granted.

Heroes come in many forms. Our military personnel, our law enforcement individuals, our firefighters, our first responders. Please take a moment after you read this to say a silent prayer for all those who keep us safe. Thank you. n In his own quiet way, former San Francisco Giants second baseman Joe Panik has announced his retirement.

Panik was a key component of San Francisco’s 2014 World Series championship team as a rookie and played six seasons in San Francisco. His at-thetime teammates often said he might make a good coach or manager. Time will tell. n While Steph Curry is arguably the best clutch 3-point shooter ever, check out Elena Delle Donne of the WNBA Washington Mystics sometime. She can shoot the triple. n The Giants’ reluctance to sign Kris Bryant to a long-term contract looks like a prescient move.

Now with the Colorado Rockies, Bryant this week was placed on the injured list for the second time in two months.

The Rockies signed Bryant to a sevenyear, $182 million deal after the 2021 season. n Happy 74th birthday to Fleetwood Mac and current solo performer Stevie Nicks, who has entertained audiences the world over since the mid1970s.

She’s appearing June 12 at Shoreline Amphitheatre. n If a batted baseball strikes any of the two poles down the left and right field lines, the batter is credited with a home run.

Any runners on base and the batter scores.

Yet the pole is known as the “foul” pole. Huh? n Not sure why baseball grounds crews at every level continue to paint first and third base coaches’ boxes. No one ever uses them. n President John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917. That’s 105 years ago. n The San Francisco 49ers and Giants — baseball — each have a major question confronting them.

Can Trey Lance take the reins as the Niners starting quarterback? Can the Giants’ JoeyBart snap out of his, to date, season-long batting slump as the team’s starting catcher?

n Don’t know how Comrade Weitzel does it, but she offers up more information on Davis eateries and sipping establishments than a certain San Francisco news sheet I know of. n Paid a visit to Oracle Park on Wednesday. Sat among the folks in the sun-splashed outfield seats with a longtime friend I had not seen in some time due to the pandemic.

We each marveled at the fact that the Giants’ park is now 22 years old and looks just as good as when it opened in 2000. n To read the rest of Doug Kelly’s column, visit www.davisenterprise. com and click on the Sports tab.

— 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.

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FC Davis soccer player Wumi Aladetimi (center) gets the ball away from an Academica SC in a Cowtown Classic contest on May 21.

FC Davis looking to build momentum

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent If the FC Davis men’s soccer team was down 1-0 at halftime during its May 21 match with rival Academica SC, the confidence of the Golden Lions made it difficult to tell.

“Honestly, the one-nil lead, it was a bit of a fluke goal,” said FC Davis forward Ty Shikashio. “We had our (scoring) chances in the first half, so we all knew that we had a goal coming.”

While his sentiment may seem arrogant, Shikashio was proven right as two second-half goals gave FC Davis (3-3-1) a 2-1 home victory over Academica SC (3-4-1).

The first of the Golden Lions’ two goals came in the 53rd minute when forward Wumi Aladetimi hit a low cross from the right wing that Axel Ramirez tapped in for the game-tying goal.

The match remained competitive as the half continued but a red card issued to an Academica SC player for dissent quickly shifted the momentum to FC Davis. With a one-man advantage, the Golden Lions were able to aggressively

attack their opponent’s defense until Soroush Salari-Namin scored the go-ahead goal in the 88th minute.

With the matchup being dubbed the “Cowtown Classic” for the rural roots of Davis and Academica SC’s home of Turlock, the Golden Lions took back the Milk Can Trophy after suffering a 1-0 loss to their rival on April 9.

The win propelled FC Davis to the No. 4 spot in the Golden Gate Conference of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL).

The club hosted first-place Sacramento Gold FC (6-1-1) on Saturday at Playfields in Davis. When the teams last faced off on April 30, the Golden Lions fell to the Gold 4-2. n To read the rest of Henry Krueger’s story on this year’s FC Davis men’s soccer team, visit www.davisenterprise. com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

— Henry Krueger is a sophomore at Gonzaga University and an intern for The Enterprise this summer. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.

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merica, spare me your thoughts and prayers. Get off your backsides and do something. Wringing hands over the gun lobby, lamenting the love of guns by so many Americans, these won’t do anymore.

The best argument against a bad argument is a better argument. Let us unpack that argument and make it.

I understand the love of guns. I grew up in Africa and I enjoy firing them, love handling them, thrill at their majesty, and admire their craftsmanship. When you handle a firearm, you are handling something awesome, refined power in a form that you can carry.

Therefore, let us start the argument for a new gun regime by eschewing any idea that we are going to ban guns outright, take them away from their owners and collectors who treasure them; no federal marshals will be going door to door confiscating weapons.

You can dream of that, but it won’t happen.

You can dream that like Australia, Britain and most of Europe, guns will be kept under lock and key for the enthusiasts. It won’t happen either, though we can start down that road by ending the disingenuous claim that guns make you safe.

Instead, dream of a country where certain guns aren’t available to the public; where guns have better safety devices; where our children aren’t slaughtered, whether it is in Uvalde, Texas, or Newtown, Connecticut; and where the Constitution is honored as written.

First, we should clamp down on assault rifles, designed for use in war, not for sport or self-defense. We should cherish marksmanship, even teach it in schools, which is where I learned to shoot one round at a time. We should inspire the National Rifle Association to return to its original purpose: teaching marksmanship and gun safety.

We should disentangle masculinity, patriotism, fear of government and love of freedom from the possession of automatic weapons, now so promiscuously available. Buyback schemes could take millions of them off the streets.

I offer these as ideas, but they’re not prescriptions. Before we solve the gun carnage in homes, in schools and other places, and on the streets of our great cities like Chicago, we need to think. We need to think about what can be done, not what is inarguably out of reach: With 400 million guns in private hands, to think about confiscation is insane.

Some more thoughts: Traditionally, social engineering has been practiced through taxation: Introduce it to guns. Tax gun sales heavily, just as we tax liquor and tobacco. But exempt gun clubs, where weapons are kept safely, as happens in many countries.

Then tax ammunition equally severely, but exempt ammunition used at ranges and in controlled gun-sport environments.

Draw a firm line between sporting weapons and automatic weapons of mass destruction, which is what they are. A quail hunter in Georgia shouldn’t have a problem applying for and getting a tax exemption on a shotgun and ammunition.

Take the profit out of selling guns. Eight states operate liquor stores. That worked fine when I lived in Virginia, and it did offer society some control; a kind of check on excess because there is no pressure to make a profit.

If you think nothing can be done because of the Second Amendment, go to the Constitution and read it. Over the decades, it has been alleged to extend a banal entitlement for all and any to carry the latest military weapons. The framers couldn’t have intended that because they couldn’t have conceived of the vast improvement in the lethality of weaponry that has occurred over time.

The bit about “a well regulated Militia”?

Let us have some realistic originalism about what the framers meant.

It is a tough thing to do, but the media can make the case for gun-smarts by showing the shattered bodies of the little victims: torn limbs, scattered brains, young, beautiful, innocent, precious blood everywhere.

If we don’t get gun-smarter, this will be a new normal: dead children, randomly slaughtered, sometimes by children.

Thoughts and prayers will neither save their lives nor ameliorate the unbearable suffering of their parents. They are weeping today in Texas. Where will they weep tomorrow?

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSoura

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s a third year of drought continues, California officialdom is increasing pressure for more water conservation.

Last week, the state Water Resources Control Board imposed a statewide ban on watering of “non-functional” turf, such as grass around commercial buildings, and directed local water agencies to implement water use restrictions.

“California is facing a drought crisis and every local water agency and Californian needs to step up on conservation efforts,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a supportive statement.

Despite the official ballyhoo, last week’s actions were tepid at best, stopping well short of the mandatory reductions that Newsom’s predecessor, Jerry Brown, imposed during a previous drought.

It appears that Newsom, running for re-election, does not want to be the guy who tells Californians they can’t water their lawns as much as they would like. He’d rather leave it to local water officials to crack down.

However, no matter how they are framed, the new directives are highly unlikely to have more than a marginal impact on California’s increasingly dire

Letters Are you turned off by politics and politicians and manifest your disgust by, at best, voting in presidential elections?

Sadly, this only amplifies the current problem in the U.S., rule by minority. It’s during midterm elections, when turnout is low, that a motivated minority party makes it’s gains. This strategy has put minority politicians into governorships and state legislatures where they can cement their position of power by gerrymandering and restrictive voter laws.

By activating their base to turn out and vote even in midterm elections, Republicans have ensured that legislation that would benefit all of us never reaches the finish line. Arcane rules such as the Electoral College and the filibuster, paired with ubiquitous lobbyists, deliver the coup de grâce. Among a long list of other inequities, it has given us an unrepresentative Supreme Court.

If you are frustrated by the current state of affairs, give midterm voting a try and encourage others to do likewise. I find both parties deficient but usually can select a person who is more representative of my views. If enough of us do this, we can get back to majority rule.

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water shortage for the simple reason that residential use is a relatively tiny factor in the water equation. California’s largest-in-the-nation agricultural industry is by far the largest user of developed and managed water supplies.

The larger question is whether the state is doing anything to confront the longerterm gap between water supply and water demand as climate change alters precipitation patterns. Conservation will help, particularly more efficient use of agricultural water, but we need more storage, such as the long-delayed Sites Reservoir, to take advantage of wet years.

Newsom’s latest budget proposal claims to make big investments in improving water security, but most of the money would go to small-scale projects that tinker on the margins. It proposes just a half-billion additional dollars for water storage while dumping several

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billion more dollars into the state’s ill-conceived and illmanaged bullet train project.

If we’re serious about dealing with semi-permanent drought conditions, the most important — and the most controversial — step would be to reconsider how limited supplies are allocated among agriculture, urban users and flows needed to support endangered species such as salmon.

By necessity, such a comprehensive approach — more or less starting with a clean sheet of paper — would require a fresh look at the state’s bewilderingly complex water rights.

Those who hold such rights consider them to be sacrosanct.

But drought is so severe that even senior rights holders are feeling the pinch, as CalMatters writer Rachel Becker details in a recent article on drought’s impacts in the Sacramento Valley.

Reconsideration of water rights seems to be gaining momentum in water policy circles.

A water policy paper issued by the state Senate leadership this month proposes that the state purchase rights from agricultural holders to provide more water for habitat

I voted for Dan Carson for City council because I liked his platform and his apparent integrity.

My opinion on the latter has now been destroyed. I planned to vote Yes on Measure H. However if a public official needs to cross the line of ethics in an attempt to get the measure passed, I will now vote No on H. Beyond all the presumed benefits of the plan, it now does not pass the smell test.

John E. Moren Davis

Support Lucas in a changing world The coming decade will be difficult with a myriad of challenges for Yolo County and the state. Many of the challenges will be due to climate change and its impacts, but there are other concerns such as homelessness and mental health, and these will be exacerbated by climate change as well.

The person running for Yolo County Supervisor District 2 who I believe can best handle these challenges is Lucas Frerichs. As a resident of Woodland with long term interest in fighting climate change, I have watched Lucas Frerichs in several roles including his position as a founding board member and former

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improvement as part of a $7.5 billion plan “to build a climate resilient water system.”

As the state water board was pushing for more conservation last week, a coalition of Indian tribes and environmental groups demanded that it become more aggressive about enforcing water quality standards in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta “and restructure water rights as necessary to implement these standards.”

The demand cites the history of white settlers appropriating water supplies from native peoples in the 19th century and suggests that water rights can be reconfigured under the state constitution’s provision that only “reasonable use” of water is legal.

The water board had been considering such direct action, but put it on hold while the Newsom administration has attempted to forge so-called “voluntary agreements” that would divert more water from agriculture to enhance river flows.

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chair of Valley Clean Energy. In this role, he routinely and continuously emphasizes the importance of clean electricity and associated programs in mitigating climate change via limiting GHG emissions.

At a recent VCE board meeting when a program was being discussed, he made the point that for climate change, we need to use all the tools in the toolkit.

Very true. Additionally in 2020, he and another VCE board member, were instrumental in the drafting of an environmental justice statement for VCE. Yolo County has set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2030, not an easy task, and this experience and focus on reducing emissions will be important to Yolo County efforts.

Not only do we need to limit the rise in GHGs, we also need to deal with the many impacts of climate change such as increased heat and drought, wildfires and associated smoke, etc. that are already impacting Yolo County. Through both his seat on many boards as well as his legislative background, he has the experience and knowledge to help Yolo County deal with these issues and to form collaborations with others.

The coming years will be hard and there may be challenges we do not know yet. I feel Lucas is well suited for the task.

Christine Kimball Shewmaker Woodland

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ecades of federal and state transportation policy and funding have focused primarily on the automobile — and the roads and highways needed for us to get around in them. While this focus produced many benefits, it also ignored or created significant problems, such as greenhouse gas emissions, a key driver of climate change. Today, half of all greenhouse gas emissions in California come from transportation.

Agencies and processes have been built to support this focus.

Caltrans and regional transportation agencies receive federal and state funds not only to build and maintain, but also to develop highway and road improvements — doing the planning, public engagement, preliminary design, environmental and other work needed to get projects ready. It can take years for major projects to make it through the approvals required before construction can start.

Significant resources are dedicated to this annually, and there are statewide structures in place

to carry it out. It is necessary work in order to have a pipeline of projects ready to be implemented when funding becomes available.

No parallel system is in place for public transit and rail projects, however.

Much of this structural disconnect flows down from decades of federal policy and funding constraints. For the most part, public transit and rail improvements are a series of one-off projects, with local agencies on the hook to develop and advance them. Unless the governor and Legislature address this, California’s ambitious climaterelated goals for increased public transit and rail will not be realized. If the state wants to change the outcomes, then it is vital that it change the processes and funding that produce the outcomes.

California has recognized the need to move away from our heavy reliance on cars and toward a more balanced transportation system. In the last decade, the state has taken important steps to reduce

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transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, including through creation of the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP), funded through the cap-and-trade program. Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued executive orders calling for the state to use its funding to create a shift in transportation and has proposed boosting funding for TIRCP with surplus funds.

For all the progress, an important problem hasn’t been addressed: the disconnect between statewide policy goals and funding structures. The lack of dedicated funding and structures to develop transit and rail projects — as compared with the well-established funding for highways — particularly undermines our ability to make systemic, strategic investments that can have broad, statewide benefits.

Significant state resources are going into transit and rail. But the “C” in TIRCP stands for “Capital” — meaning construction. State law effectively limits the use of TIRCP funds to the construction of greenhouse gasreducing projects — those that local agencies have been able to

advance to readiness. The restriction means that the state is not able to support the growth of a pipeline of projects that can result in meaningful change — especially major transformative projects that maximize the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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or example, both the state and the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission have identified a new transbay rail crossing as a critical investment for Northern California to meet both mobility and climate goals. But neither has ongoing dedicated funding to plan and develop that project, as they would for a major highway improvement. As a result, local agencies — in this case BART and the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority — are left to track down and secure funding to advance a state and regional priority project. Ironically, once a project like this gets through the planning and development process, funding for actual construction is more readily available.

The state can take steps to better align policy and funding, including: n Taking full advantage of

recent changes in federal programs that allow funds to be used to support the development of transit and rail projects n Investing in the resources needed to develop a pipeline of transit and rail projects, as is done for highway and road projects n Expanding the eligibility of state funding programs to allow for the development of projects n Dedicating a portion of federal and state transit and rail funding to the development of a pipeline of projects.

As part of its climate change strategy, California has set visionary statewide goals for transit and rail. But it needs to put resources and focus behind a statewide push to achieve those goals.

— Jeff Morales, managing principal with InfraStrategies LLC, is the former CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority and former director of the California Department of Transportation. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Poem of the month The Orgasms of Organisms Above the lawn the wild beetles mate and mate, skew their tough wings and join. They light in our hair, on our arms, fall twirling and twinning into our laps. And below us, in the grass, the bugs are seeking each other out, antennae lifted and trembling, tiny legs scuttling, then the infinitesimal ahs of their meeting, the awkward joy of their turnings around. O end to end they meet again and swoon as only bugs can.

This is why, sometimes, the grass feels electric under our feet, each blade quivering, and why the air comes undone over our heads and washes down around our ears like rain.

But it has to be spring, and you have to be in love—acutely, painfully, achingly in love— to hear the black-robed choir of their sighs.

— Dorianne Laux from “Smoke,” (BOA Editions, 2000) reprinted with permission of the author ———— Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, “Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems” was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Her fifth collection,The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, “Facts About the Moon,” won The Oregon Book Award and was shortlisted for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of “Awake; What We Carry,” a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; “Smoke”; as well as a fine small press edition, “The Book of Women.” She is the co-author of the celebrated text “The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry.”

Laux is one of the most accomplished poets I know. This beautiful poem illustrates much of what I love about her work: its compression of image and meaning, the comic and erotic nature of her subject, and the ecstatic, divinely humane turn the poem takes at its end.

Laux is a poet that sees the world deeply and never shies away from shadow, but more often than not, she chooses to celebrate the miracle of our time on this planet.

You can see this joy in the poem’s wonderful title, “The Orgasm of Organisms.” (Laux has previously stated that this title is borrowed from a poem by the late Adam Zagajewski, who is himself a poetry master). From there, Laux

wastes no time launching into a description of a lawn alive with mating beetles that are not only skewing “their tough wings” to join, but are chaotically, frantically, oblivious to the humans gathered alongside and beneath them.

As the insects “light on our hair, our arms” and “fall twirling and twinning/ into our laps.”, we can see these mating bugs, feel them, and even hear something of their frantic activity in the rhythm Laux employs to enhance the ceaseless movement, the rise and fall, the joining and opening of these tiny creatures.

Further expanding on this wildly alive situation, Laux suggests that the orgasmic sounds of the beetles’ pleasure is audible. In fact, their awkward joy animates the grass with erotic energy until the very “air comes undone over our heads/ and washes down around our ears like rain.” This kind of amplification of a scene through both careful description and wonderful imagination is one of the central gifts that a poet like Laux can deliver to her reader.

But there is more! Laux now moves into the poem’s turn. A turn, which generally occurs at the end of a poem, is a way of opening the poem into a larger, unexpected, meaning. In the final sentence of this poem, Laux now turns from the sensory descriptions into an explanation of this improbable scenario.

Laux lets us in on a beautiful revelation: that we can only hear the bugs little ahs of joy, or feel the grass made electric with erotic charge, if we, the reader, are in love. And furthermore, we must not simply be in love, but must feel desperately, completely, painfully in love. We must be lost in love. Only then will we be able to hear the black robed choir of their sighs.

It seems to me that Laux is making a comparison between a church choir in black robes singing to the divine mystery with the wildly mating beetles. This wonderful elevation of insect life underlies her transformation of beetles in their black carapaces into a mysterious, joyous act of divinity and love. This is the gift of the poem, how organisms like beetles can act together, can be driven together, in a way that suggests a larger presence. Most times we miss these moments.

We swat the beetles away and move indoors. But a poet like Dorianne Laux hangs on in the scene until we believe her, especially in spring on planet earth, and especially if we ourselves are attuned to such miracles because we are dissolving, desperate, achingly in love!

— Julia Levine Davis Poet Laureate

Letters Davis needs lab space It appears that the No on H are outmarketing the Yes on H with sky is falling messages. Here’s why I think DISC is a good project: We don’t have enough R&D space for homegrown entrepreneurs so they drive (totals of several hundred of cars each day) to locations such as Woodland (e.g. The Lab at Agstart) and West Sacramento.

Recently, the Sac Business Journal reported this about a UC Davis spin-out chocolate company: “But California Cultured needs to expand, (CEO) Perlstein said. It has 17 employees now, and the scientists sometimes work in shifts to have lab space. Perlstein said California Cultured will likely have to move out of Davis because it’s so difficult to find lab space in the college town, and the company will likely grow to 45 employees by the end of next year.”

Scientists need labs to do their work; they can’t do lab work remotely on zoom (as suggested by one No on H letter writer) and they need adjacent offices while waiting on experiments. I looked at many open office spaces available in Davis; DISC is highly unlikely to cannibalize existing space, as it is is simply not suitable for applied life science companies. The manufacturing space in the project will not allow polluting, dirty businesses (as No on H suggested) but is expected to include fermentation (we already have that in the city with Sudwerk) and formulation of natural materials.

R&D-based jobs means more people to eat at Davis restaurants for lunch. Note,

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during COVID lockdown, many of us with Davis businesses bought our employees (Marrone Bio has 65 employees in Davis) lunch at a different Davis restaurant each week to help keep them in business. A UCD sustainability prof informed me that the project connects two important habitats, now a disconnected patchwork, therefore improving the current ecosystem. We need affordable housing and this project requires to contribute both in and outside the project.

These are just some of the many reasons why I support Measure H. Pam Marrone Davis

Open letter by former mayors I’m writing to express my sadness with the level of discourse that our community has sunk to under the ordinance that requires a vote on annexation of land into the city. The recent attack on a sitting city council member by six former mayors represents a new low.

While condemning Dan Carson for breaking protocol to respond to public comment the signers were comfortable enough with the Chair of the No on H campaign using public comment to call Carson “A bully and a thug” among other things, that their letter didn’t bother to mention what was said that provoked Carson’s response.

Certainly our elected officials should be held to high standards but shouldn’t the leaders of election campaigns also be expected to conduct themselves with some level of decency in our public discourse?

Apparently these six former mayors aren’t concerned about that.

Ron Glick Davis

Editors’ choice for web comment of the week “Great news, and so glad they will be using existing building(s) for their expansion!”

From Susan Kirby Thomas

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Unanswered prayers Dear Annie: This letter is addressed to all those who think back on a first love and believe their feelings are undiminished.

I did that and had the ability to discreetly check back on that love. I found that he had told his wife he was glad he married her because he never could have married an independent woman, which is what I am. I also found out that he had spent the last several years of his life in a facility as an Alzheimer’s patient.

There’s a country song with the lyrics “thank God for unanswered prayers.” I certainly did. Sometimes, the past shouldn’t become the present.

— I’m Thankful Dear Thankful: Yes, living in the past or fantasizing about what might have been with a love from our youth seems to be a part of human nature, but it can be a dangerous part if taken to extremes. As you discovered, you were right to let it go.

——— Dear Annie: I’ve never written to an advice column, but I read them often. I am writing now because one letter spoke to me so loudly. It was from the woman whose husband was not listening when she talked to him.

My husband and I are under 40, and this has been my problem. There is no physical hearing loss issue with him, but my husband is finally exploring getting tested for attention deficit disorder. He doesn’t listen to me, and I have to repeat things constantly. Sometimes, he repeats exactly what I just said as if it were a brand-new thought.

He says “OK” and “mm hmm” as if he is listening, but I know that his entire brain just wandered away.

It only happens when he’s talking with me, and

not at work or with friends.

There have been many fights. It is a constant topic at therapy as it reaches the point where it feels like gaslighting, when he claims I’m lying about having said something three times already.

I hope your reader will consider seeing a therapist to convey how this makes her feel. She may be at an age where she doesn’t want to explore the ADD side, but guided therapy can help.

— Selective Hearing Dear Selective: ADD can certainly be a cause of a person not being able to focus on what the other is saying. Thank you for sharing your experience.

——— Dear Annie: The letter from “Ready to Die” has me in tears. As a mom of a bipolar child, I just want to give him/her a hug, some soup and a good lawyer. Is there a way we readers can help them?

— Want to Help Dear Want to Help: Your letter alone will do something to help all of those who are suffering know that they are not alone.

Continue helping your son or daughter, and maybe start a group for moms of children with bipolar disorder and reach out to others suffering in similar situations.

Left out of family fun Dear Annie: I am a single mother to my one daughter, who is now 29.

She moved from our hometown because that’s where she met her husband, and she now has a son, my grandson, who is 1 1/2 years old. She asked me when she first got pregnant if I would move down to

where they live to babysit Monday through Friday for them. Long story short, I did move. I left all my friends and family behind, although they are only two hours away. And now she decided to have him in day care, so I only babysit on an as-needed basis.

It has been and still is very hard for me being in this new city. I don’t know anybody and am still single, having left my companion when I moved down here.

And it seems like the only time I see my grandson is when she needs me to babysit him.

Recently, she signed him up for toddler soccer, and I told her that I wanted to go to see him play. This past Saturday, they went, and she never asked me to join them. Her husband sometimes has to work on Saturdays, and it seems like she only invites me to things when he is working and not able to attend. I am feeling kind of hurt about this but don’t want to bring it up to her because I don’t want to start a huge conversation.

I have been lonely and have been living here for a year now. I’m thinking about moving back to my hometown but I’m torn because of not being able to see my grandson as often.

My question is, do you think I am being unreasonable to feel hurt that she doesn’t ask me to attend things when her husband is going? Should I move back to my hometown, which is two hours away, so I can have a social life?

— Homesick Dear Homesick: It sounds like freaked-out first-time mom was the one who requested you move to her neighborhood. Now

that she’s in the groove of her parenting duties, she no longer needs the extra hands — which doesn’t mean she doesn’t appreciate you but does mean she is preoccupied with her immediate family.

Move back to your hometown and reconnect with your partner. Sitting by the phone waiting for invites does not make for a fulfilling social life.

——— Dear Annie: My son’s father has recently told me he wants to do everything he can for our son, who is almost 4. However, ever since our son was born, I have barely had any help.

All he did was go to work in the morning and come home to play video games.

Our son used to go to his father to spend time with him only to be pushed away and told “no” because his father was busy playing a game. For that, my son is a mama’s boy, which is fine with me.

Now I’m with someone else who sees my worth, and we have a little girl due. We are also engaged.

I’m not sure how I feel about my son’s father suddenly wanting to be in our son’s life and claiming he will do whatever it takes.

You don’t choose when you feel like being a parent. Any advice?

— Stressed-Out NY Mom Dear Stressed-Out Mom: Yes, his paternal instinct is kicking in four years late — but for your son’s sake, it’s better late than never.

He’s already missed out on moments he’ll never get back. But don’t let your resentment toward him prevent your son from ever getting to know his father.

An imperfect parent is better than an absent one.

Start small. Invite your son’s father to join your family for dinner once a week. If his commitment to your son is indeed more than just a phase, gradually

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Resources for depression Dear Annie: Please tell “Ready to Die” that she can get disability payments because she has a mental health disorder. The problem is that people tell the disability examiners how badly they feel. But that is not the examiner’s job to assess. They want to know how dysfunctional your daily life is.

I am writing to offer suggestions to her and others who suffer from mental health issues but do not know how to secure disability benefits.

For instance, let’s take depression and how she might answer questions posed by the examiner: Can you drive yourself to the doctor? No, I can’t drive. Do you keep your house clean? Yes, but it takes me two weeks to vacuum the floor. The dishes pile up until they smell, so I only use paper plates and plastic silverware. Do you go grocery shopping? No, but a neighbor picks up what I need. I don’t eat much.

Here are some examples of how she might address manic phases: Can you drive? Sometimes, but I speed and can’t concentrate on safety. Do you clean your house? Yes, but I stay awake for three days and then fall back into lethargy.

Do you dress yourself? Yes, but I throw on anything that’s on the floor. Sometimes, people laugh at me for how I’m dressed.

People with mental illness need someone to practice with them before they are examined. They are focused on their suffering, for good reason.

Find an experienced disability lawyer. They can often help you to prepare for an examiner’s interview.

Some attorneys might be sleazy, but there are also

some fine, dedicated lawyers. Your case will move forward much more quickly, even if that feels like a long time. Remember that when you do get Social Security Disability Insurance, they will pay from the date of the application, not the date of approval.

Get a case manager or someone to help you through this process. Any psychiatric records are helpful. Do not say you drink, or whatever, to medicate. The way you should frame it is to explain that you have an addiction problem.

So many individuals fail to get the benefits they are entitled to because not even most therapists or psychiatrists understand how this system works.

— Ph.D. Dear Ph.D.: I always love when professionals reach out with advice, including the next letter about finding a psychiatrist and an attorney.

——— Dear Annie: This is about the unfortunate individual with severe treatment-resistant depression, who will definitely qualify for total and permanent disability.

She should see a competent psychiatrist ASAP, and they will help her with the most modern effective management of depression.

In addition, they will be able to write appropriate letters to the Social Security Administration and other agencies so that she will receive total permanent medical disability, which she richly deserves.

— Right to an Attorney Dear Right: Thank you for sharing your advice.

Let’s hope it helps all readers who are suffering from depression and who have, so far, not been able to secure disability payments.

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Memorial Day should not be confused with Veterans Day. Memorial Day is a day to _________________ and honor those who died while serving their country. Veterans Day celebrates those who served in the _______________.

Memorial Day was originally a day to honor the nation’s Civil War dead by decorating their graves.

It had a different name to begin with. To find out what Memorial Day was originally called, circle every third letter on the flagpole. The first one is done for you. Write the letters on the lines below.

On Memorial Day, the U.S. flag is ___________ to full staff and then ___________ lowered to half-staff, where it will remain until noon. It is raised at _________ to show that the sacrifice of lives was not in vain and that we will continue to fight for liberty and justice for all.

The USS Arizona Memorial is the final resting place for many of the ship’s 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on Dec. 7, 1941. The 184-foot-long Memorial structure is above the mid-portion of the sunken battleship which still rests below the water’s surface. The names of those killed are engraved on a marble wall.

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Standards Link: Visual Art: Know how subject matter, symbols and ideas are used to communicate meaning.

Create a collage of newspaper words and pictures to illustrate Memorial Day. Display the collages and discuss how they honor the past and the memories of fallen soldiers.

Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

Many men and women have given their lives to protect our freedom.

Write about what this means to you.

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