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Celebrate Pride at festival June 11-12 By Wendy Weitzel Special to The Enterprise Davis will fill with rainbows this month, especially June 11 and 12 with a weekend of activities that celebrate International LGBTQ+ Month. Drag queen singer Ada Vox and pop music’s OneUp Duo will headline the June 12 Davis Pride Festival. Vox was a semifinalist in ABC’s “American Idol” in 2020, and the runner up this year on the Paramount+ drag queen singing competition “Queen of the Universe.” OneUp Duo is a Detroit-based pop/soul vocal combo comprised of husbands Adam and Jerome BellBastien. The team was a finalist on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2018, serving under coach Kelly Clarkson. Celebrate Davis Pride with several events, June 11 and 12 in Central Park, 301 C St. Produced by the Davis Phoenix Coalition, activities include: ■ Diva Disco Skate Night, 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, under the Davis Farmers Market Pavilion. The night will include music, lights and food trucks. Donations accepted. ■ Run/Walk for Equality, a 5K run or walk from the park, and a 1K Rainbow Run for youths — and those who prefer a shorter trek — on Sunday, June 12, beginning at 8 a.m. Costs after June 5 are $30 for the 1-mile run/walk and $40 for the 5K, and comes with a rainbow headband. 5K participants also

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Rainbow flags were prevalent at the 2021 Davis Pride Festival. receive a tech T-shirt. ■ The Davis Pride Festival begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 12. It includes performances by several local and international music acts, a drag queen revue, educational booths, food, drink and vendors. The Davis Pride Committee is working in partnership with the Davis Craft and Vintage Market.

■ Rainbow crosswalks painted around Central Park. ■ Throughout the month, the city has rainbow light post banners up around town, and flies the rainbow flag at Davis City Hall. The city is a sponsor of the Davis Pride Festival — awarding it money from its Arts

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Davis Pride events Central Park, downtown Davis n Saturday, June 11: Skate Night, 7 p.m. n Sunday, June 12: Run/ Walk, 8 a.m.; Festival, music, vendors, crafts, 11 a.m.

Officials detail response to deadly collision By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer At around 8 a.m. on May 25, Trisha Yasay, a 19-yearold undergraduate at UC Davis, was biking to a poetry class when a garbage truck collided with her on campus, near the intersection of Dairy Road and Hutchison Drive, knocking her off her bicycle. She succumbed to her injuries later that day. Over the past week, her death has shaken the UCD community. Dozens of people have left flowers and notes for Yasay at a makeshift memorial at the southwest corner of Dairy and Hutchison. Students have also sought answers, asking how such a horrifying

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collision could have happened, and after it did, whether campus personnel responded appropriately. On Thursday, UCD Police Chief Joseph Farrow and police officer Maria Rodriguez provided a detailed account of the collision’s aftermath in an hourlong interview with The Enterprise. The sequence of events the police laid out was based on Rodriguez’s recollection and Farrow’s review of her officer’s report and of video footage sourced from her body camera, a camera mounted in her patrol vehicle, and multiple building surveillance cameras that captured the scene. (UC Davis turned the

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investigation of the collision over to the Davis Police Department’s Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team, which has more advanced technology for investigating road accidents than the campus police department. The Enterprise submitted a request seeking the video footage. Under California’s public records laws, agencies can — and typically do — withhold records that are part of an active investigation for up to 45 days.) At 8:08 a.m., Rodriguez received a call from the oncampus 911 dispatcher reporting a garbage truckbicycle collision at Dairy

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The Yes on Measure H campaign has spent more than 10 times the amount as the No side since January. Fueled by sizable contributions from Buzz Oates LLC and Ramco Enterprises, the Yes team reported $558,111 in expenditures between Jan. 1 and May 21, according to the latest campaign finance documents filed with the city. Buzz Oates and Ramco are the developers behind the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus which is on Tuesday’s ballot as Measure H. If passed, the vote would pave the way for development of 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. Opposing the project, the No on H team reported spending $54,049 between Jan. 1 and May 21, with funds raised from nearly 200 individual contributions by residents of Davis and El Macero. The large difference in spending

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Pacifico low-income housing plan goes before supervisors By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Plans for using two vacant buildings at the Pacifico property in South Davis for low-income families are moving forward. The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will vote on a five-year lease agreement with the city of Davis to place a CalWORKS Housing Support Program at the property. CalWORKS is a state funded program that provides housing and support services to primarily low-income women and

children until permanent housing can be secured. If the proposal for Pacifico is approved, the two unused buildings at the site, following refurbishment, will provide housing for up to 38 families, primarily small households of three or less and generally including young children. Also on-site would be case management offices, laundry facilities, a group room for education and therapy activities, an employment center and career lab, as well as overnight rooms for child

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Party’s over, time to do our part

K, it’s time to vote. It’s certainly not the most exciting ballot I’ve ever looked at, but it’s all we have this time around. I will say my interest in Davis City Council elections has waned considerably after a Woodlandite of all people got our council to bow down and carve our town into five tiny pieces in order to institute district elections that nobody wanted. Now, instead of having a say in all five council races, I can vote in only one race. And instead of being able to participate in the council election every two years, now I can participate only every four years. For instance, let’s say you and I just voted for our lone council member, then several months later an unforeseen problem like the Mace Mess emerges. Or a developer proposes constructing a 98-story apartment building in College Park and takes it to the council. I won’t be able to vote in another council race for four long years. And you won’t be able to either. Trust me, this will lead to a dramatic decline in civic participation. Be that as it may, I am now looking at a ballot with more names listed than there are

almond trees in the Capay Valley. And I’m not talking about a “Practice Ballot” in the Official Yolo County Voter Guide. No, this is the real thing. These votes will count. Governor Newsom, who seemingly was on my ballot just last week in a failed recall election, faces a formidable field, including Republican Cristian Morales, who lists himself as the “Director of Operations” without telling us at which hospital he performs surgery. Reinette Senum, meanwhile, is a “4th generation Californian,” which is not particularly impressive to the native Oregonian pictured above. Reinette claims to practice the “7th Generation Principle,” whereby every decision made today should still be valuable seven generations from now. That’s all well and good, but add that seven to “Reinette’s four and we’ll be so far down the road that Earth will probably have already

exploded. There’s apparently no City Council race, at least not on my ballot. But how would I know if there’s a council race elsewhere in our beloved burg? I guess I’ll have to read the newspaper. Six people are running for something called “Controller,” including a chap named Steve Glazer, who keeps bombarding me with colorful brochures stating “He can’t be bought. He won’t back down.” And I don’t even know what a controller does. I mean, what little kid grows up dreaming “I want to be the controller of all of California”? If you ask me, it sounds like a position more powerful than the governor.

he big-ticket item on our local ballot, at least based on the weight of the brochures stuffed into my mailbox in the last several weeks, is Measure H. Proponents say it will put a chicken in every pot. Opponents say it will put pot in every chicken. Which side to believe? Mace traffic jams will disappear or traffic will get so bad that people will have to helicopter into town. The competing claims are wildly different, and Very Important People have lined up on both sides of this political tug-o’-war. Homeowners, who paid $9,598

for that Oeste Manor starter home that is now worth something north of a million dollars, want things to stay as they are. Renters, who fear they are about to be permanently shut out of homeownership in Davis, are more likely to think building some houses is a good idea. It’s a never-ending battle that has visited our town many times before. When our family moved here from Portland in 1951, Davis had 3,550 people according to the United States census. Now we have 20 times that many. Most of today’s Davis voters didn’t live here when we were the newcomers in town. I’ve watched as one development after another filled up our open spaces but brought a number of amenities as well. Elmwood, Mace Ranch, Covell Park, University Farms, Wildhorse, Aggie Village, Village Homes, Stonegate, Davis Manor, Green Meadows, Oakshade, the Cannery, Rancho Yolo and many many more. Things have changed, for sure. But in my mind and in my heart, Davis is still Davis. No matter what happens on June 7, the sun will still shine brightly on our town come June 8. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning at davisenterprise.net.

Cyclists, drivers shot at with BB gun

Fire damages train trestle, power lines

By Lauren Keene

Enterprise staff writer Davis police are on the lookout for a BB gun-wielding shooter who injured a motorist last week, and are seeking additional victims as well. Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said police received a call around 6 p.m. Wednesday from the victim, who reported he was struck twice in the face with BB pellets while stopped at the intersection of Pole Line Road and Fifth Street. The shooter, who fired through open windows into

the victim’s car, was in the back seat of a black Toyota Camry at the time. Bicyclists and other motorists in the area were targeted as well, according to the report. Bezuglov said the victim briefly pursued the Camry over the Pole Line Road overpass but lost sight of the car at Cowell Boulevard. The incident, classified as an assault, remains under investigation. Others who may have been targeted are asked to file reports with the Davis Police Department at 530-7475400.

Enterprise staff writer Woodland and Davis firefighters battled a two-acre vegetation fire Thursday night that damaged power lines and a train trestle. Investigators are looking into the cause of the blaze, which began at about 7:30 p.m. in the area of County Road 100A near Willow Slough, east of Highway 113. “Fire crews on scene are working to fully extinguish and mop up the fire,” the Woodland Fire Department wrote in a Facebook post. Firefighters remained on scene for more than eight hours to tackle hot spots.

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A train trestle went up in flames Thursday northeast of Davis. No injuries were reported. Officials warned the smoldering trestle could produce smoke over Woodland.

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Who doesn’t want to escape today’s reality? L et me start by saying I am not a video-game person. And I cannot stand 3D movies – they make me nauseous. But I loved the new virtual reality escape room at Davis Cards & Games. In January, Davis Cards & Games moved its game store to a new, larger space at 1790 E. Eighth St., making room for more tournaments and merchandise. Owners Melissa Showalter and her daughter Gretchen kept their former store spot at 654 G St., converting it into an escape room with virtual reality features. It just opened, and I got to try it. The escape room was super fun, especially with a group of four. I brought my husband, Scott, along with Enterprise reporter Lauren Keene and former Enterprise sports editor Marc Erwin. I’m a VR newbie, but it was easy. You are fitted with a Quest 2 headset that covers your eyes, as well as handsets, each with a single button that controls each “glove.” We could see our friends (in character) and speak to each other, as we solved the puzzles and decided when to use our two hints. We had the choice of six escape themes: “Space Station Tiberia,” “Dragon Tower,” “Depths of Osiris,” “Time Travel Paradox,” “Manor of Escape” and “Pirate’s Plague.” We chose the sea adventure, Depths of Osiris, which gave us virtual diving helmets and mesh gloves. It was impressive how real it felt. An employee said difficulty ranges with the themes. Osiris was middle of the bunch, and we succeeded. New themes will rotate in, adding variety and encouraging people coming back. You spend about 45 minutes solving the puzzle. After that, we had a bonus round in a different reality. It was a Star Wars-type game that gave us light sabers and shields to defend our base from robot attackers. It wasn’t scary or violent; just great enter-

tainment. Keene was a fan, too. “This is such a fun addition to Davis. I didn’t quite know what to expect, but our virtual experience was very realistic, and we had a great time working as a team to solve all the clues. We’ll be going back for sure.” Motion sickness wasn’t a problem. “The sickness that some feel when using VR is caused by the sensation of seeing things move, while your body is standing still,” its website said. This one has no artificial motion, “so the discrepancy between what you feel and what you see does not happen.” It creates an environment around you, and matches your moves. The Davis Cards & Games VR Escape Room and Mystery Games Retail Annex is open from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 2 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays, and 2 to 7 p.m. on Sundays. Private parties may be arranged at other times. Multiple teams can play at once. Prices for the hour of entertainment start at $30 per person with a group of four (the max per game), to $40 per person for two. It’s recommended for ages 12 and up, unless accompanied by an adult. Visit https://daviscardsandgames.com/. ———— As of late May, The Davis Enterprise has a new address. But it won’t be hard to find. It’s right next door. It moved from 315 to 325 G St. In recent memory, the creamcolored house served as the circulation office, a hair salon, and a sales office for a new apartment complex. “The change reflects a reduced

19p10 Participants wearing virtual reality headsets and hand controllers try out the new escape room at the Davis Cards & Games at 654 G St. Courtesy photo

need for office space in a remoteflexible hybrid work environment,” said Taylor Buley, chief technology officer, publisher and general manager at McNaughton Media. “We continue to hope to find a renter for our large building (with ample downtown parking) at 315 G, which would allow us to continue to focus our resources into the local media company.” The building at 315 G St. is 7,900 square-feet. The new office at 325 G has 870. Buley added, “Sales, circulation, and itinerant editorial office work will continue from 315, and we have opened up two new community kitchen tables for meeting with customers and the public.” Brothers Foy and Burt McNaughton of Davis own the company started in 1961 by their father, Dean. The portfolio also includes The Daily Republic in Fairfield, The Mountain Democrat in Placerville, The Winters Express, El Dorado Hills’ Village Life, Cameron Park Life, and The Divide’s Georgetown Gazette. In Davis, it owns the properties from 301 G St. (leased by Pho Tasty) down to 325 G St., along with the former pressroom and parking lot at 302 G St., leased by FIT House.

Buley, Burt’s son-in-law, continued, “Along with other businesses in this changing world, The Enterprise continues to evolve, and today we offer a full spectrum of marketing services, in addition to print advertising.” Thank you for subscribing. ———— Work is under way inside the future home of Woodstock’s Pizza, filling the former KetMoRee space at 238 G St. Co-owner Laura Ambrose said they hope to have it ready in October. Once finished, it will move from its present location at 219 G St. The exterior will be restored to its streamline moderne style of art deco architecture. It originally planned an extended patio that altered the sidewalk design but that’s on hold. “We’re still lobbying city officials to see if we can get approval,” Ambrose said. Inside, there will be a bar in the middle of the restaurant, and four dining areas – each with a different vibe. Groups could reserve areas for parties or meetings. It’s adding a mezzanine that will have speakeasy feel. Downstairs will have a sports bar atmosphere, with familiar wood booths lining two walls. At least one side will have a TV wall, with

Travis Credit Union sponsors youth business-plan competition Special to The Enterprise VACAVILLE — Travis Credit Union recently sponsored Napa Valley College’s 16th Annual Youth Business Plan Competition, allowing over 150 students to get insight into what it takes to build a successful business model. The annual competition provides an opportunity for high school and college-age students to research and write a business plan and enter the Business Plan Competition. The competition paid tribute to Charlie Monahan, who worked with Napa Valley College for more than 20 years and served as the associate dean, career pathways & economic and workforce development. “Youth have the opportunity to develop business ideas with the support of community mentorship,

small business advisors, business professors, and local high school instructors,” said Claudette Shatto, Napa Valley College professor, and Business & Entrepreneurship program coordinator. “This is a great chance for youth to gain valuable skills — and maybe even a plan for a future business.” Travis Credit Union is proud of all of the exceptional students who participated in the competition and challenged themselves by developing wellthought-out business plans. We applaud all the American Canyon High School winners: ■ Victoria Cannaday and Rafael Ely took first prize with their business idea, Tilted Time Photography. ■ Christopher Hampton placed second with Chef Froggy-Personal Chef.

■ Alexia, Trinity, Katie, and Roslin, took third place with Sweet Treats with Handmade Desserts. ■ Mateo Devera, Merryck Fababier, Rudy Noble, Roche Suspene, and Chad Ho‑Malasan tied for third place with their proposal, L’epargne Clothing, which offers a clothing subscription service. “We place great emphasis on educating young adults about the significance of money management and helping them develop as financially responsible adults. The Napa Valley College Youth Business Plan Competition provides an excellent opportunity for students to design challenging scenarios and get a glimpse of the future they can create for themselves,” said Kevin Miller, President, and CEO of Travis Credit Union.

Travis Credit Union’s commitment to the local community goes far beyond the Annual Youth Business Plan Competition. TCU is dedicated to providing financial literacy workshops in classrooms throughout Napa County, including its financial education boot camp, Mad City Money, at Napa Valley College.

multiple monitors that can be used for one large picture or separate ones. Another area will have a circular fireplace and cozy seating. The southwest corner of the restaurant will have an area that can be used for live music. ———— Before KetMoRee, there was a longtime tenant at 238 G St.: Strelitzia Flower Company. It moved to 4614 Second St., Suite 1, in 2006. Today, it’s outgrown that 5,500-square-foot space, and is asking for help finding a new one — 8,000 to 10,000 square-feet, please. Janice Labadie, who owns the shop and warehouse with husband Dean, said they’ve been searching without much success. They want to stay in Davis but it’s expensive. Most parcels they’ve seen need too much work. Their business needs parking but does not rely on foot traffic; most of their sales come from calls or online orders. Real estate agents have been pointing to Woodland for lower rents, but they want to stay in the town where they started 50 years ago. It marked its anniversary with an event in November. “You celebrate 50 years, and you have to leave? We don’t want

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Davis Pride

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PRIDE: Bike Party Davis Ride with Pride on Friday, June 24

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The Diva Disco Skate night is Friday, June 11.

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Above, skaters take a break for some shave ice during the 2021 skate night. Drag queen singer Ada Vox, right, and pop music’s OneUp Duo, lower right, will headline the June 12 Davis Pride Festival. Vox was the runner up this year on the Paramount+ drag queen singing competition “Queen of the Universe.” OneUp Duo is a Detroit-based pop/soul vocal combo comprised of husbands Adam and Jerome Bell-Bastien.

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Compassion is key to breaking pandemic cycles like HIV, COVID By Wendy Weitzel

From Page A1 Cultural Affairs Fund. ■ Business owners are asked to show their support by hanging a rainbow flag poster in their window. Posters are free, and available by emailing admin@davisphoenixco.org. ■ Other events include a Bike Party Davis Ride with Pride on June 24, and a Drink with Pride Night at Sudwerk Brewing Company (date to be determined). The Davis Phoenix Coalition is a nonprofit working to foster diversity, eliminate intolerance, prevent hatemotivated violence and support LGBTQ+ youths. It was founded in the aftermath of a 2013 anti-gay attack on Davis resident “Mikey” Partida. Proceeds from Davis Pride support the coalition’s anti-racism and anti-bullying campaigns, support to LGBTQ+ youths and their families, and outreach with area police departments, churches and schools. To donate, go to https://davisphoenixco. org/donate. The event To learn more, visit https://www. davispride.org/ and follow Davis Pride on Facebook and Instagram.

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HIV and COVID-19 have a lot in common. Both are viruses that led to pandemics. And in each case, as the infections spread, so did the misinformation and hate. A UC Davis virologist says we can learn from these experiences. “Even though the biology of the (COVID) virus is very different (than HIV), so much depends on how we respond to it,” said Koen Van Rompay, core scientist at the California National Primate Research Center. The veterinarian’s research led to development of the top HIV treatment in the world: tenofovir. Recently, he studied COVID vaccines in infant monkeys – part of groundwork for Moderna’s preliminary COVID vaccine for human infants 6 months to 5 years old. Van Rompay said these pandemics exposed weaknesses in our society, where some people put politics before facts. “We have

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Veterinarian and virologist Dr. Koen Van Rompay poses at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis. to trust the research and the way it has developed.” For International LGBTQ+ Month, local scientists and community activists see the celebration as a chance to strengthen community bonds, and acknowledge lessons learned. Davis Mayor Gloria Partida

said there are uncanny parallels between the two health emergencies, notably in their social impacts. “Both pandemics have caused marginalized groups to be targeted,” she said, referring to hate directed at Asians and immigrants as COVID-19 emerged, and at gay men for HIV. She said

supporting – not stigmatizing – the victims, and discouraging misinformation are social ways to contain today’s pandemic. She retired in 2019 from UC Davis, where she was a lab manager in the department of neurobiology, physiology and behavior. She founded the Davis Phoenix Coalition in 2013 after her oldest son, who is gay, was badly beaten in an incident classified as a hate crime. Two of her three adult children identify as LGBTQ. For the eighth year, the Davis Phoenix Coalition is coordinating Davis Pride events. Partida said events like International LGBTQ+ Month in June, and the Davis Pride Festival (June 11-12), support community conversations and celebrations of diversity. Van Rompay agreed. “We have to show compassion for others. It’s our power if we work together toward our future.” In 1999, he founded nonprofit Sahaya International, which aids education, social, medical and environmental projects in developing coun-

tries. In Sanskrit, “sahaya” translates to “help.” He said Princess Diana was an example of such empathy when, in 1989, she was photographed in a New York hospital picking up and hugging a 7-year-old boy who had AIDS. Though there was lots of misinformation when HIV emerged in the 1980s, there was no internet to strengthen its reach. With COVID, “there is so much false information about vaccines and masking,” he said. People need to be aware that their actions can hurt others. “Don’t believe everything you read on social media. Trust the scientists,” he said. “When my car breaks down, I don’t try to fix it. I take it to a specialist who has the knowledge and experience to deal with it.” Young adults tend to have less fear of COVID, but they are not immortal, Van Rompay said. A caring community looks out for everyone, like those who are

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COMINGS: Local Kitchens delayed CYCLES: ‘Done a really amazing job’ From Page A3 to do it,” she said. If you have suggestions, leave a message for at the shop at 530-758-5050. ———— Local Kitchens, the micro food hall filling the former Pluto’s space in Davis Commons, won’t open this spring. Equipment issues are causing delays, a spokeswoman said. It’s slated for a July opening, but the date is still fluid. It plans to offer eight restaurant brands in one space. The first five have been announced: Señor Sisig, The Melt, Sushirrito, Oren’s Hummus, and Nash and Proper. Davis Commons is at 500 First St. ———— Davis Downtown’s plans are coming together for its music in the park event, called Thursdays in the Davisphere. It plans to launch on July 21, followed by another event on Aug. 18. In September and October, it will be twice a month, then go on hiatus until spring. The goal starting in 2023 is to have a weekly event in Central Park, May through October. It will include food, music

and a fenced beer garden. No outside alcohol will be permitted. In 2020, the Davis Farmers Market discontinued the music, alcohol and extended hours at its Wednesday market. ———— The former Chicken Hawkers space is rebranding into another Thai restaurant, Paste Thai. It’s in the El Macero Shopping Center, at 417 Mace Blvd. Chicken Hawkers opened in November 2020 and closed in March 2021. I’ll provide an update when I learn more. ———— Sudwerk Brewing Co. is in the permitting phase for its full restaurant at 2001 Second St. Plans call for a modern beer garden (the fenced patio that faces Second Street), and a barbecue restaurant with vegetarian and vegan options. Co-owner Trent Yackzan said a September debut would be ideal, but October or November may be more realistic. ———— El Toro Bravo is still prepping to reopen. The Mexican restaurant at 237 D St. has been closed

since February 2020. On May 25, owner Derar Zawaydeh said he didn’t have an estimated opening date. Before that, it looked like mid-June. Employee hiring has been a challenge. ———— Hooby’s Farm was set to reopen for the season on Saturday, June 4. It’s 24830 County Road 95 in Davis. It includes food trucks, live music, and beer from its Winters brewery. ———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses. Email me (address below) to suggest updates. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail.com.

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said, calling it an example for the country.

immunocompromised or too young to receive a vaccine. And we still don’t know the consequences. “Coming from a research point of view, there is more and more data coming out that people with mild symptoms still have the risk of entering long COVID — where it enters the brain,” he said. Davis is fortunate to have the university, and the Healthy Davis Together free testing and vaccination program, Van Rompay

“We’ve done a really amazing job but nothing is perfect.” Though hospitalizations have dropped significantly, we still don’t know the long-term effects. Meanwhile, he’s masking in public indoor spaces, and hoping compassion is the biggest contagion. To learn more about the Davis Pride events, including how to volunteer or become a sponsor, visit https://www.davis pride.org/.

PACIFICO: Neighbors fed up with situation From Page A1 welfare purposes, according to county staff. On-site staffing would include case management workers, contract security personnel as well as afterhours staffing. The city of Davis owns the property and the Davis City Council voiced support for the plan last summer. Pacifico, adjacent to the Putah Creek bike path on Drew Circle, was originally designed as a 112-bed cooperative housing development for students, but it went into

foreclosure and became public housing more than a decade ago. The complex has four buildings, only two of which have been occupied by low-income tenants. The situation has drawn the ire of Oakshade residents who have complained about negative impacts, including drug use, property crime and verbal and physical harassment of neighbors by residents of and visitors to Pacifico. There have also been complaints about property management and oversight at

Pacifico, something City Council members last summer said could be improved by having the CalWORKS program there. The Board of Supervisors meets at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Meetings are now being held in person, though a Zoom option remains available for those who prefer to participate remotely.

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RESPONSE: Rumors fly on social media after campus tragedy From Page A1 and Hutchison. At 8:10, she arrived at the intersection in her patrol vehicle and saw a person laying in the middle of Dairy Road roughly 70 feet south of Hutchison. UC Davis police officers are trained to establish “scene safety” when they respond to an incident, ensuring that any victims and first responders are out of harm’s way. When Rodriguez arrived, the roads remained open, with southbound traffic halted at a red light. “The intersection was packed with cars,” Farrow said. “Every time the light is green, people are driving down there.” Rodriguez, who graduated from UC Davis in 2018 and has worked for the campus police department for more than two years, turned on her vehicle’s emergency lights, drove around a lane of cars and parked perpendicular across Dairy at the southern edge of the intersection. “I immediately park in the lane to block it,” she said. There remained about 60 feet between her vehicle and the injured cyclist, enough space for the team of paramedics that

Rodriguez knew was on its way. The first-aid training that UCD police officers receive focuses on basic life support. Officers are taught to check for breathing and consciousness. They know how to control bleeding and give chest compressions, but do not have extensive medical training or equipment. “If we are going to provide medical assistance, we provide it until relieved by a higher (medical) authority,” Farrow said. The UCD Fire Department, which shares a building with the Police Department, has a team of paramedics that typically responds to incidents in tandem with the police. After parking, Rodriguez removed her keys from the ignition, hooked them on her belt and approached Yasay empty-handed. “I kneel down next to her,” she said. “The first thing I do is to check if she is responsive.” Yasay remained on the ground, but she was alert, breathing, and showed no signs of bleeding. She wore a helmet and knee pads. Until the Fire Department arrived, Rodriguez said she prioritized comforting Yasay and keeping her still. “I didn’t want to

SPENDING: DiSC backers add to effort From Page A1 between the two sides is nothing new for Measure J/R/D campaigns, where one side generally has the deep pockets of the developers and the other a smaller more grassroots group in opposition. But the spending by the Yes on H team this year is significantly higher than back in November 2020 when a larger version of DiSC was on the ballot. The Yes side back then spent around $323,000 during the 2020 calendar year. It was a different sort of campaign to be sure, given the pandemic limited the door-to-door outreach typical of campaigns. Also new this time around are legal expenses related to a lawsuit filed by Davis City Councilman Dan Carson seeking to change the wording of the No on H ballot argument. That lawsuit, which named as real parties in interest six individual residents of Davis who signed the ballot arguments, was paid for by the Yes on H team. Defending against the lawsuit put a crimp in the No on H campaign’s much smaller coffers. But on Wednesday, Yolo Superior Court Judge Daniel Maguire ordered Carson to pay more than $42,000 in legal fees to the No on H team. ———— In the Yolo County races for sheriff and district attorney, both incumbents have largely out-fundraised and outspent their challengers, according to

campaign finance forms filed May 26. The documents cover the campaign period from April 24 to May 21. Tommy Hayes, a Yolo County sheriff ’s deputy seeking to unseat one-term incumbent Sheriff Tom Lopez, raised $6,495 during the latest reporting period and $13,663 total for the 2022 calendar year. Lopez, meanwhile, collected $15,040 in donations during the four-week reporting period and $57,150 for the year, taking in $91,000 in loans as well. The bulk of his campaign’s $54,804 in expenditures for the year came during the latest reporting period, totaling $43,791. In the district attorney’s race, longtime attorney Cynthia Rodriguez, challenging four-term incumbent Jeff Reisig, garnered $29,683 in donations for a total war chest of $89,714 for the calendar year. Her campaign has spent $113,204 in all, $61,052 during the latest reporting period. Reisig’s campaign took in $73,109 in contributions and spent $132,784 during the latest reporting period, bringing his totals to $212,710 in donations and $251,968 in expenditures. His campaign also has benefited from an independent committee, the Davis Police Officers’ Political Activities Committee, which raised $5,381 and spent $6,346 on Reisig’s behalf this year, according to finance reports on file.

leave her side,” she said. “I wanted to make sure I was there for her — to keep her calm and keep her from moving around and potentially causing more damage.” Three other people stood nearby. When Rodriguez asked Yasay her name, one of them spoke up, answering the question. Rodriguez, remaining next to Yasay, asked how they knew her name and whether they were her friends. The bystander said Yasay had spoken to them in the moments before Rodriguez arrived. Rodriguez then asked if they had seen what happened. Any information she could give the paramedics might help them determine the type of care she needed. In total, 68 seconds passed between the time Rodriguez arrived on scene and the time paramedics got there and relieved her. At that point, she left Yasay and moved aside. “We give (the paramedics) their space to do what they need

to do,” Rodriguez said. Another police officer arrived around the same time. While the paramedics tended to Yasay, he, Rodriguez, and eventually a third officer spoke to bystanders who might have seen the collision. They talked to the garbage truck driver and began doing investigative work, Farrow said. After a few more minutes, an ambulance arrived to take Yasay to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. At 2:58 p.m., UC Davis’ news service published a release saying a student had died following a traffic collision on campus. “On behalf of UC Davis, we share our deepest condolences with her family. We share in the pain of their loss,” Chancellor Gary S. May said in the news release. “In this time of grief, I do want to thank our first responders who worked heroically at the scene as well as the UC Davis Medical Center team

who did everything they could to save her life.” The following day, UC Davis Police Captain Mark Brunet spent several hours on campus with Yasay’s parents and grandparents. Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan also met with her family. Chancellor May spoke with them on the phone. The Department of Plant Sciences, where Yasay studied, collected notes from community members to give to her parents and published a tribute to her.

Online rumors On May 27, a popular Instagram page, which primarily posts UC Davisthemed memes, shared an account of the collision’s aftermath that criticized the conduct of the first police officer on the scene. The account, which claimed to be an eyewitness testimony, was sent anonymously to the Instagram account holder. It accused

the officer of being unhelpful and May of peddling “pro-police propaganda” in the campus’ news release by thanking the first responders at the scene. The anonymous testimony was reposted on at least three separate social media platforms. One of the posts, which called for the officer to be fired, was liked more than 3,600 times. The Enterprise contacted the Instagram page that first shared the testimony and invited the person who wrote it to speak to a reporter. After multiple inquiries, the Instagram account holder, who also insisted on remaining anonymous, told The Enterprise the author “would still like to remain anonymous about the situation,” implying that they had declined the invitation to talk to the newspaper. “This was a tragic accident,” Farrow said. “Real people responded to it. They did the best they could.”

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What it’s like to have COVID for 16 hours W orking on campus at UC Davis has meant COVID PCR tests every 14 days for the past school year. I’ve been grateful for this because of the peace of mind it gives. I’ve also been grateful because I’ve never tested positive. That all changed on Wednesday. After my Tuesday visit to Healthy Davis Together at Veterans Memorial, on Wednesday I got my emailed results which read “inconclusive.” I hadn’t seen that before, and the bold, red words that shouted my do-I-or-don’tI? status were a little unsettling. If you haven’t gotten this message from HDT, “An inconclusive result is neither positive nor negative. This result can occur from inadequate sample collection, very early-stage infection, or for patients close to recovery. With an inconclusive result, collecting and testing another sample is recommended.” Buh. I didn’t have time to run back out and get another PCR test when I read this, but luckily I had eight rapid tests at home. (Thanks, U.S. government! Get yours here: https:// special.usps.com/testkits) So I quickly swabbed my nostrils, swirled the swab

in the solution, and squeezed three drops onto the at-home-pregnancyesque stick, right before I had a series of afternoon Zoom meetings. My test immediately showed the “C” line, and in my hurry to jump into a meeting with my boss, I misinterpreted the results to mean I had COVID. Because, I mean, “C” is the first letter of COVID, and the other choice was a “T” for, presumably, “noT sick”? Seriously, I had a meeting in three minutes and had no time for analysis. In case someone is unwisely using this column for medical advice, let me be clear: On the COVID tests mailed to you for free by the U.S. government, two lines need to be present to indicate the presence of COVID infection — both the C and the T. Three minutes after my “diagnosis,” I told my boss the crappy news, and she commiserated with me about quarantining and offering to drop things off

at my house if I needed. And then I asked my department’s human resources representative for the proper protocol on notifying UCD. Because, of course, I’d been in the office that day. In the few minutes between a packed afternoon of meetings, I texted my husband and sons, the UCD students I mentor whom I’d seen that day, my mom, my in-laws whom I’d had a dinner plan with that night, my friend who I had a lunch date with the next day, and my rowing team. Shout out to all those people! What nice sympathy messages I got from everyone, without an ounce of blame insinuated. “I hope you stay feeling OK, Tanya,” etc., they said, as opposed to, “Why would you go out in public if you might be sick?” For the record, I didn’t feel ill at all and had only done the PCR test because work required it. Husband S, who was in San José when I shared the news, admitted he was a bit worried. He made me promise I would go to the emergency room if I noticed anything problematic. So after my meetings

were all done, I had time to think about actually having COVID. I was impressed by how fine I felt. I truly did not have even one symptom at all. But I imagined starting to feel worse, and needing to stop all activity and quarantining alone. The thought of impending misery was ominous. I thanked the universe for the fact that I had been vaccinated four times and that this wasn’t an infection from two years ago when it was a much less understood and more dangerous illness. Think how scary it was to get a positive COVID result in June of 2020! But I mostly felt sorry about the people I’d certainly infected. While I was not required to tell them, I had a wave of guilt over the people I’d seen in the office that day whom I’d exposed. I should tell them, I admonished myself. I should apologize and make sure they get tested. Oh! I needed to tell Bob Dunning, whom I’d talked with at the Post Office that day! Still, I didn’t tell any of them. I just wasn’t sure how to do the proper legal thing as well as the proper moral thing. Was this my COVID brain causing me to lose my ability to make decisions? I would sleep on

it and have a better sense of what I should do in the morning. But hallelujah that I didn’t tell more people, because when I woke up on Thursday and checked my phone messages, there was one from S with a photo of his rapid COVID test stick. His had one line visible below the “C,” and his message asked me how I was feeling.Me: “UGH! You’re positive now?” S: “No, that’s negative.”Me: “Wait! Mine might have been negative ... hold on.” (I’d taken a photo of the previous day’s test results for unknownto-me reasons.)I texted the photo to S, who so kindly said, “That’s negative. It’s labeled poorly because it has a C.”Of course I immediately took another rapid test that was “C”learly negative, as was the day’s before. As I started the process of un-telling everyone, I

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Great Americans. Who’s the only U.S. president to earn a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University? 2. Food and Beverages. What is the most-consumed manufactured drink in the world? 3. Big City Mayors. What American politician served as the 109th mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021? 4. Science Fiction Authors. What American-Irish writer known for the “Dragonriders of Pern” science-fiction

tried to get a handle on my embarrassment. Seriously, I felt like such an idiot having, A. misread the instructions and B. worrying people unnecessarily. But, I reasoned, it was better to be embarrassed than to have to quarantine and possibly get very ill.Besides gratitude for my health, my main takeaway has been that it’s too soon for me to feel like “the pandemic is over.” I’m back to wearing my mask in the grocery store without bitching about it, and happy hour dates with friends will be outside for the foreseeable future. Also, I’m gonna study harder so I get the correct answers on those rapid tests! — Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @ californiatanya.

series was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award? 5. Science. What do we call a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral? Answers: Woodrow Wilson, tea, Bill de Blasio, Anne McCaffrey, an atoll. — Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.

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Big list for all-Davis Enterprise Sports team By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

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oston Celtics 1, Golden State Warriors 0. The Celtics have the lead on the Warriors entering Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals. On Thursday, the Celtics scored 40 points that led to a 120-108 win over Golden State inside Chase Center in San Francisco. Can the Warriors win that game to even the series and take the series? If the Warriors win Sunday, it could be a series. Should the Celtics win, local Warrior fans should be a little concerned, as the Finals shift to TD Garden in Boston. Enterprise Editor Sebastian Onate is a huge Celtics fan. He chimed in his thoughts on the Finals. “As a Celtics fan, watching this team that was .500 at midseason put it all together and make a charge for the finals has been inspiring,” Onate said. “First-year coach Ime Udoka has presided over a wholesale culture change that completely changed the team from promising up-andcomers to real contenders. “The question is whether they can learn to finish off an opponent. Several times during the playoffs, the allowed the Bucks or the Heat back into games or series that they seemed to have wrapped up. Learning to win always seems to be the last step.” Onate concluded, “As scary as the Warriors are, are dangerous on offense as they are, it will be nice to go against a team that actually plays basketball, and doesn’t just goon it up. I won’t miss the Heat.” Rachel Kreager, who The Enterprise hired as our new photographer and page designer in April, is a Warriors fan. She feels strongly about her Warriors winning as Onate does with his Celtics winning. “I think this year’s NBA finals will be very tense and long,” said Kreager, who is a former UC Davis gymnast. “The Celtics have a strong, young team this year; however, the Warriors are no stranger to this experience — this marks the sixth Finals appearance in eight years. “The Celtics will be the best defensive team the Warriors have faced during the postseason, but with big time play-makers, Steph (Curry) and Klay (Thompson), and healthy, and young guys, Jordan (Poole) and Andrew (Wiggins), I predict the series will be 4-3 Warriors.” Enterprise staff writer Bob Dunning, who was the sports editor here for many years, is a Warriors fan. He, too, shared his thoughts. “Warriors, 4-2,”

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Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson said that there were about 1,450 students who participated in athletics this school year, on all levels. Out of that group, there was many Blue Devils who shined in various sports. The bulk of those studentathletes helped their teams produce winning records, Sac-Joaquin Section and California Interscholastic Federation regional and state playoffs berths. In recognition of their great performances the last 10 months, The Enterprise has named 62 athletes to the second annual All-Davis Enterprise Sports Team. Former Enterprise Sports Editor Owen Yancher, who is continuing his college education and living in Southern California, started The Enterprise's firstever sports team in 2021. This includes DHS' Athletes of the Year, both seniors. On top of that, there are Blue Devil girls and boys co-head coaches of the year. Below is the list.

Badminton Melissa Lee, Alexia Asuncion.

Baseball Grafton Shorts, Brooks Ochoa.

Boys basketball Jackson Isidor, Keaton Carpenter.

Girls basketball Mara Bledsoe, Tessa Schouten. Mike Bush/Enterprise file photo

Cheerleading Eryn Bonner, Cristina Kim

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Davis High girls water polo player Lindsay Taylor looks to pass the ball in front of a group of St. Mary’s players in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I semifinal playoff game at Johansen High of Modesto on Nov. 9, 2021. To view more photos with this story, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

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Davis High quarterback Trajan Clark runs in for a touchdown against Pleasant Grove at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Oct. 15, 2021. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com.

Mike Bush/Enterprise file photo

Blue Devil Zachary Ayers eyes the finish line to win the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I boys race at Willow Hills on the Folsom High campus on Nov. 13, 2021.

TEAM: Four Blue Devil coaches share honors this school year From Page B1

Boys cross country Zach Ayers, Ryan Mitchell

Logan Green, Ryan Firpo.

Girls golf Saera Ojha, Sydney Tuss.

Boys lacrosse

Boys snowboard

Girls tennis

Boys water polo

Tyler Steenbergen, Jaxon Kamisky.

Mikaela Hinton, Hannah Proctor.

Jonny Vochatzer, Brennan Fuchslin.

Girls snowboard

Boys track and field

Girls water polo

Izzy Yan, Kate Phillips.

Zachary Ayers, Ray Oldham.

Girls cross country

Holt Klineberg, Mason Heard.

Norah Dulaney, Grace Dwyer.

Girls lacrosse

Girls field hockey

Julie Thomas, Devon Morris.

Julie Thomas, Emma Brayton.

Boys soccer

Girls swimming

Boys volleyball

Football

Zach Anderson, Zachary Agnew.

Audrey Portello, Sarah Bennets.

Owen Buzbee, Mick Dunning.

Trajan Clark, A.J. Hasson.

Girls soccer

Boys tennis

Girls volleyball

Boys golf

Una Keller, Mia Simmons.

Gabriel Lopez, Jared Umphress.

Kate Nelson, Veronica Roe.

Softball Isabella Lester, Naomi Kalanetra.

Boys swimming Tate Cutler, Harry Ross.

Girls track and field Norah Dulaney, Nellee Bitners.

Lindsay Taylor, Malaya Wright.

Boys wrestling James Davis, Sam Reising.

Girls wrestling Brooke Cienfuegos, Avangeline Turner.

Boys Athlete of the Year Andrew Baum, football and track and field.

Girls Athlete of the Year Madison Walker, water polo and swimming.

Girls Co-Coaches of the Year Doug Wright, DHS water polo and Heather Highshoe, DHS basketball.

Boys Co-Coaches of the Year Zeb Becker, DHS golf and Spencer Elliot, DHS track and field. — Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise. net. Follow on Twitter: @ MBDavisSports.

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Thu 6/09 Rotary Club of Winters Weekly Lunch @ 12:15pm / $5-$20 Buckhorn, 2 Main Street, Winters

Editor's Pick Adam Aldama: The Red Corvettes (Prince Tribute) at Powerhouse! @ 10pm

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Mitch Woods

Folsom

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

Sat 6/11

@ 5pm CURATOR’S CORNER: Gallery Cu‐ rator Emmanuelle Namont in Con‐ versation with artist and educator Arielle Rebek, a deeper look into the artist’s practice and a dis‐ course about the photographic medium. CHUNG | NAMONT, 4071 24th Street, San Francisco. info@ chungnamont.com, 415-795-1643

@ 8:30am / $25 Hit The Trail then Play the Table at this Texas Hold’Em Inspired Bike Ride and Tournament The Way‐ mark Apartments, 101 Pringle Av‐ enue, Walnut Creek. chuck@nwpo litesociety.com, 206-660-0678

Thursday Jun 16th

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@ 2pm Audio Nightclub, 316 11th St, San Francisco

The Beer Scouts: Beer Scouts Rock El Dorado County Fair!

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Salvage Title @ Concord Tap

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SPACE YACHT: Schadefornia SF

The Beer Scouts are Rob Ruiz (12 string bass/vocals), Howard Vatcher (guitar/vocals) and Kenny Susan (drums, vocals). They play straight ahead rock and roll original and cover tunes in�uenced by artists such as the Beatles, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Brownsville Station, Cheap Trick, the Smithereens, Grand Funk Railroad, Chuck Berry Santa Jam Vó Alberta: and even the Monkees! In their careers the members of the Beer Scouts have shared the stage with the biggest SANTA JAM | US Tour names in rock music, including Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Bob Dylan and many more. The Beer Scouts are on a mis‐ San Francisco | On Street sion to �nd a few good bars in their quest to bring the fun back to rock ’n’ roll music. Their motto: “Will Rock For @ 2pm Beer”! Hayes Valley Art Works, 295 Oak St, San Francisco Concord Tap House, 3513 Clayton Rd,, Concord

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Adam Aldama: The Aces at SacPRIDE! @ 11am Capitol Mall, Sacramento

Will Breman: Live @ SacYard Community Tap House w/ Lindsey Marie @ 3pm

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@ 8:30pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

@ 7pm Vesuvio Cafe, 255 Columbus Ave, San Francisco

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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

Better Together: A Concert Bene�ting buildOn w/ Michael Franti and John Forté

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@ 5pm / $35 @ 1pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, County Fair Vallejo's See Michael Franti perform in San “SINGULALRIS” - Exhibition of Comedian Gianmarco San Francisco @ 8pm Francisco on 6/15 and support Unique Photographic Works by 32nd //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Soresi Solano County Fair Association, global nonpro�t buildOn's work Bay Area artists ARIELLE REBEK Annual @ 7:30pm / $11.50 "The Paper Dreams of 900 Fairgrounds Dr, Vallejo with Bay Area youth! Salesforce and RON MOULTRIE SAUNDERS Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐ June‐ Harry Chin" Park, 425 Mission Street, San Fran‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// at CHUNG | NAMONT art gallery in bus Ave, San Francisco @ 7pm / $17.50-$30 Well-Strung teenth cisco. info@buildon.org Noe Valley. On view from May 10 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post @ 8pm / $45 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// July 9, 2022. CHUNG | NAMONT, Celebra‐ Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐ 4071 24th Street, San Francisco. Music City Entertainment tion, Saturday, June 18, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// son Street, San Francisco info@chungnamont.com, 415-795SF: Jose Canchola @Off Rotary Club of Davis //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2022, Martin Luther Sam Harris: "Openly Gray" 1643 the Grid Pleasant Hill Weekly Lunch + Program @ 8pm / $49 Tomo Nakayama //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// King, Jr. Park @ 5pm @ 12:15pm Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐ @ 8pm JourneyDay Music @ 11am Off the Grid: Pleasant Hill, 138 Tre‐ See website for details . University son Street, San Francisco Russ Room, 730 K St, Sacramento @ 1:30pm lany Rd, Pleasant Hill Vallejo Juneteenth fea‐ Park Inn and Suites, 1111 Richards //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Aquarian Plants, 114 W D St, Beni‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// tures live music and enter‐ Boulevard, Davis. jen.kukis@ed Alyssa Cowan: Stand-Up cia Barrio Manouche: Gypsy tainment, food and mer‐ wardjones.com, 530-564-4655

Mon 6/13

Sabotage

@ 8pm Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St Suite 130, Sacramento

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@ 6pm Curio, 775 Valencia St, San Fran‐ cisco

Temple Veil @ 7pm Calvary Chapel | Woodland, 1580 Case Pl a, Woodland

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@ 8:30pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐ farrell St, San Francisco

"The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin"

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

Mustache and //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Cleavage Woods live at @ 8:30pm Hooby's The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Brewing Francisco @ 4pm //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Hooby's Brewing, 24830 Co Rd 95, Davis Pub Golf San Francisco: GolfaCon Pub Crawl 2022 @ 4pm / $25 The Of�cial Pub Golf Crawl in San Francisco! Mayes Oyster House, 1233 Polk Street, San Francisco. info@crawlsf.com, 415-515-5220

Joe Purdy @ 7pm The So�a, 2700 Capi‐ tol Ave, Sacra‐ mento Cellus Hamilton @ 7pm / $12 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

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@ 9pm JaM Cel‐ lars, 1460 First St., Napa

Fri 6/10 JourneyDay Music @ 7pm Napa Barrel Project, 1040 Clinton St, Napa

@ 7pm Come on out and skate the night away with some of the Divas of Disco. Tickets are by donation, please pay what your heart feels. 401 C St, 401 C Street, Davis. ad min@davisphoenixco.org, 530304-0548

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" @ 7pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

Katie Skene at Boom Boom Room @ 9pm Boom Boom Room, 1601 Fillmore St, San Francisco

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An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein

Sinister Creature Con 2022

St, San Francisco

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Tue 6/14

Embassy Suites by Hilton Napa Valley, 1075 California Blvd, Napa

Thu 6/16

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Tim Bluhm & The Cof�s Brothers - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco

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Vansire @ 8pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

@ 12:15pm / $5-$20 Buckhorn, 2 Main Street, Winters

The Setup at The Palace Theater @ 9:30pm / $28 The Palace Theater (The Speakeasy SF), 644 Broadway Street, San Francisco

Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St, San Francisco

@ 2pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

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Sat 6/18

Delta of Venus, 122 B St, Davis

JourneyDay Music

Vile Aesthetic

@ 10:30am Krupp Brothers Winery and Estate, 1094 Hardman Ave, Napa

@ 5pm Knockout, 3223 Mission St, San Francisco

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Brandi Carlile

@ 11:30am Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St, San Francisco

@ 7pm Oxbow RiverStage, 1268 McK‐ instry St, Napa

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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" @ 1pm / $59-$279 Curran Theater, 445 Geary Street, San Francisco

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The City of American Canyon in partnership with American Canyon every night for over 10 years in Arts Foundation will celebrate the downtown San Francisco. Shelton history and culture of the African Theater, 533 Sutter Street, San American community through mu‐ Francisco. improvgoose@ sic, artist and speakers. Main gmail.com, 415-517-6900 Street Park, HWY 29 and Eucalyp‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// tus, American Canyon. Bren daknightevents@yahoo.com, 7074B 319-4773 @ 9:30pm /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St, Sacramento "Harry Potter and the

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@ 9pm Public Works, 161 Erie St, San Francisco

"Don Giovanni"

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@ 8pm / $10 The Wilkerson Theatre, 1723 25th Street, Sacramento

Ben Anderson

SkiiTour

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@ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐ farrell St, San Francisco

@ 8pm Amado's, 998 Valencia St, San Francisco

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@ 12:30pm / $7.50-$10 @ 8:30pm Scottish SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, Rite Ma‐ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// San Francisco sonic Center, 6151 H St., Secret Improv Society //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Billy Howerdel of ‘A Perfect Sacramento @ 8pm / $20 Circle’ The Bay Area's best comedy se‐ Juneteenth Celebration @ 8pm / $35-$179 cret, Secret Improv Society, has @ 1pm JourneyDay Music The Independent, 628 Divisadero Changüí Majadero

@ 10am Games and bike repairs for kids at the library to kick off the summer read‐ @ 8pm ing challenge. 5050 Busi‐ Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐ ness Center Dr, 5050 Busi‐ farrell St, San Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ness Center Drive, Fair‐ Bottler �eld. 866-572-7587 @ 8pm Rotary Club of Winters Popscene, 155 Fell St, San Fran‐ Weekly Lunch

@ 8pm / $17.50-$30 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

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It my be Summer of Discontent, but the sun will shine By Llewellyn King

Special to The Enterprise

ll the portents are that 2022 will be a summer to remember — and not in a good way. It will be a summer of shortages, high prices, possible electric blackouts, and severe and unpredictable storms. It also promises to be a summer of political ugliness, where civility and facts are missing. National unity and cohesion, which usually can be expected in times of crisis, isn’t in sight. We are gracelessly at each other’s throats. Also missing will be any sense that there is strong leadership anywhere; not in the White House, Congress or among our allies. Given these tribulations, caused by a dangerous war in Ukraine following the COVID-19 pandemic, and you are entitled to be despondent. All this wasn’t in the playbook — the events that shape the world never are. But don’t reach for the arsenic. For most of us, glorious summer, so important to the North American lifestyle, will be as it always is with crowded beaches, jammed highways, chaotic airports and painful sunburn. We will have summer; and summer will have its joys, its rituals and its happiness. For Americans, these aren’t the worst of times. They are just very trying times. We will feel them directly in the wallet, painfully so. Gasoline and other fuels will be very expensive, and heating oil will be a big-ticket item next winter. House prices are still stratospheric, and rents are going up. The markets are shaky. Americans are feeling that all isn’t well and that things are coming unstuck — reliable, everyday things. In democracies, we seek relief by changing the government. All the indications are that we will do that in the midterm elections just months away. The Democrats are likely to take a drubbing. The Republicans will joyfully seize victory — and they won’t know any better what to do about the great stresses that are shaking the nation and the world. Instead, they will be tempted to double down on social issues and a raft of things that will exacerbate the divisions in the country, further curb the rights of women, mess with education curricula, seek to influence social media platforms and keep the government firmly in gridlock. President Biden and his unlucky administration will get the blame if the Democrats are routed in the midterms. Indeed, it should, even though the alternative may not be better. Certainly, a Democratic White House and Republican Congress suggests just one thing: crippling inaction. Biden hasn’t been a proactive president but a reactive one. He has waited for the water to rise before he has acknowledged that it is happening, and it is time to start bailing. Take, for example, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. When Biden tried to get ahead of the news, to identify an issue and resolve it before it mugged him, he got it terribly wrong. It was a foreign policy calamity of Biden’s making, and it seems to have curbed his enthusiasm for pre-empting issues. Mostly, Biden has sought to balance things. His reaction to outrageousness is a sedate, genteel sense of horror. You expect him to say to the Supreme Court, or the gun lobby, or Russian Vladimir Putin, “Look what you have done!” One gets the feeling that Biden doesn’t have a grip on much except his decency. Everyone who knows him will tell you what a decent man he is. Decency supports, but it doesn’t lead. Decency isn’t a policy. It isn’t a way forward. It isn’t a solution. After the midterms, Congress likely will be in the hands of two ruinous vacillators, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the even more wobbly Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California. Both have shown themselves captive to former President Donald Trump’s vengeful malevolence and have twisted the truth in their servitude to him. Politics are sour, prices high, the future bumpy, but summer is glorious. Revel in it, celebrate it, and bask in its untroubled rays. I plan to do just that. Thoughts of politics are worse than sunburn. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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t is with a sense of melancholy that I write this last Mayor’s Corner. Two years have flown by as years tend to do. It did not help that the bulk of that time was filled, worrying about, coordinating about, and trying to recover from a pandemic. It was also filled with some of the most rewarding work I have ever done. There have been highs, approving the development of a new department of housing and social services, and lows, the shooting of officer Natalie Corona. Both are examples of how little our city is immune to the greater issues our Nation grapples with. They are also examples of how willing we are to rise to challenges. I am proud our city stepped up to the challenge of having the hard conversations around policing when it was needed. I

Letters Although I take exception to all the arguments in favor of Measure H as put forward in literature funded by its supporters, I will focus on the one that reads “Yes on H creates STEM internship opportunities for Davis High School and college students.” My long experience tells me that such “opportunities” will be virtually nonexistent for the following reason(s). ■ DiSC envisions creating an environment to foster biotech/hi tech start-up companies. ■ Such start-up companies are under tremendous pressure not only to meet milestones set by the venture capitalists who fund them, but also to minimize the “burn rate” of their cash, i.e., using these funds to pay for salaries, supplies, infrastructure. A consequence is that they are unlikely to provide internships, even unpaid ones for (at least) two interrelated reasons. ■ First, the time required to train the students, who will lack the required skills necessary to perform at the expected level, will divert the effort of salaried, highly trained and skilled employees. ■ Second, the length of such internships will likely be far too short to justify such an effort. This was my experience as a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where I served as associate dean for natural sciences. I see no reason to think that DiSC will be any different. Richard Schultz Charles and William L Day Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology University of Pennsylvania

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am also proud of the fact that one of the first things I participated in on council was the decision to prevent firearms from being sold locally. This small action clearly cannot prevent the horror that happened in Uvalde, Texas, or even here, but it affirms our commitment as a city that denounces gun culture and gun violence. Regardless of whether the items on the agenda are proclamations declaring public works month or messy issues such as resident turkeys, I can always depend on a high level

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of community engagement and the clear love our citizens have for Davis. It has been difficult at times to navigate competing needs, but I have always considered it a privilege to listen to people’s concerns and try to find solutions. This month is often one of the busiest in Davis and the needs are typically the happiest. For the first time in a long time our hotels are full of people arriving for graduations and in person celebrations from Juneteenth to Pride to Rotary barbecues are trepidatiously restarting. It is also an election month and by now people are ready to vote and get on with the summer. Having been a participant in the election system I have deep respect for all that have chosen to put forth an issue or themselves as candidates. In a

I have been impressed with Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs since we first met. His understanding of city, county, regional and state issues is as remarkable as his energy and determination to solve challenges. Lucas is a great listener, which is another reason why he is a valuable leader. Whether you are a farmer, student, businessperson, laborer, government employee or retiree, he wants to hear your perspective on the issues of the day so he can work towards solutions that are the best for the whole community. Lucas has also been a strong supporter of community organizations that advance the public good, from co-ops to churches, local media to the arts, and schools to recreation, including services to lift the poor and disadvantaged. Even when Davis moved to district elections, Lucas considered the impact of his decisions on the entire city and region. His efforts to combat climate change through his leadership on the Capitol Corridor JPA, Sacramento Area Council of Governments and Valley Clean Energy, for example, continue to positively transform our region for this new reality. I know Lucas will be an effective and trustworthy Yolo County Supervisor! Dennis Dahlin Davis

Less water for us? How much water will DiSC demand for construction and operation? How does that demand compare with current water demand on that property? I have read six official documents available on the city of Davis website and have not found this information. Those six documents do not contain even a qualitative comparison of estimated DiSC water use with current water use on those 102 acres. Does this

Speak out President The Hon. Joe Biden, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

time when the right to vote is finding the need to be defending in some places, we must not take for granted our access and ease to make our voices heard. Some voices may be louder than others in our public spaces, but our votes give all voices, even the quietest, the power to define who we are as a community and to say who will speak for us. Finally, my deep gratitude to our city staff. All staff had the same worry of keeping healthy and the logistical gymnastics of work and family we all did. On top of this they worked to ensure we had a community to return to when the lock down was over. In addition, they have never failed to respectfully guide the direction my council colleagues and I wish to go and find ways to get us there. — Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

estimate exist? If so, where can we find it? During this historic drought, these questions need answers. Bottom Line: Will water for DiSC mean less water for us? The proposed DiSC, as described in Resolution No. 22-010, does not mention the water needed for the construction and operation of DISC. It does state that “Runoff shall be captured and conveyed onsite … to filtrate and clean the run-off and maximize groundwater recharge”. It does not describe the source of the runoff nor estimate the amount of groundwater recharge. An addendum that adopts a statement of overriding considerations for mitigation monitoring and reporting, Resolution No. 22-009, Series 2022, does not even contain the word “water.” The Statement of Overriding Considerations Related to the DiSC 2022 Project Findings does not mention water use; that is, the water required to construct and operate DiSC. Ordinance No. 2616 rezones approximately 118.5 acres located at the intersection of I-80 and Mace Blvd. There is no mention of water consumption requirements due to the new land use. Ordinance No. 2617 discusses water conservation that reduces project demand on groundwater and potable water. There are no estimates of the amount of water demanded by the project nor the percent of that water demand that would be reduced. Resolution No. 2020-XX is the city resolution to adopt the statement of overriding considerations for mitigation monitoring and reporting. It mentions “water” 69 times: stormwater, water quality, runoff, wastewater, and other non-quantified aspects of the project. There is no estimate of the water that will be required to construct and operate the project. Madalene Ransom Davis

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Celebrating 45 years at our open house Special to The Enterprise

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mpower Yolo welcomed the community into its home at its main office at the Dowling Center, 175 Walnut St. in Woodland, from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, for its anniversary open house celebration. Guests enjoyed food and music, toured offices at the old Maxwell School, learned more about agency programs and services, and met with staff and board members. “Throughout the past two years our staff has responded to the pandemic by adapting our services to the county’s needs, the anniversary celebration gave us the opportunity to highlight some of their work and thank them for stepping up when they were most needed,” says Lynnette Irlmeier, Empower Yolo executive director. We would like to thank the elected officials who attended and made proclamations to honor Empower Yolo’s work in the community for 45 years. On behalf of Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor, Tara Thronson, Supervisor’s Deputy, made a proclamation. Gloria Partida, City of Davis Mayor attended the event. On behalf of the Davis City Council, Lucas Frerichs, Vice Mayor presented a proclamation. Vicky Fernandez, City of Woodland, Council Member also supported the event. To mark the occasion, a commemorative picture was taken of current and former board members. This year, in honor of Empower Yolo’s 45th anniversary, our housing department set a goal of permanently housing 45 survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking. To date, our housing department has housed 41 survivors and their families helping them find safety and stability in their new homes. Donors who donated $45 or more wrote personal messages of encouragement to survivors moving into permanent housing. The notes will be presented to clients on special key chains when they receive the keys to their new homes. Donors that donated $450 or more pulled the rope to ring the old school bell! Monique and Angelina Sotelo on behalf of Cache Creek were the first

supporters to ring the bell. Empower Yolo’s sponsors and donors have been very supportive to us and we are grateful to them. “We want to thank the donors and local foundations who have supported us over the years and continue to do so,” says Irlmeier. Thank you to our event sponsors, Hanlees Toyota and Lyon Real Estate, in Davis. We appreciate their support. As Empower Yolo board and staff members celebrated their hard work and accomplishments over the years with the community they also remembered the survivors and families in need that have come to the agency during the most difficult times in their lives. Many were able to start over and begin new lives with their children, but we continue to preserve and work harder in honor of the many that were not able to start over. We know the important work we do for victims of violence, marginalized groups and the underserved population must continue together with the help of our community. “The 45th anniversary open house allowed us, if only for the briefest moment, to celebrate our achievements and honor the survivors who have used our services. Unfortunately the work to end violence continues, recent events in Uvalde and Buffalo remind us that there is much more work to do,” says Irlmeier. Thank you to all the community members who attended our special anniversary event. For those who were not able to attend, but would still like to support the important work Empower Yolo is doing in the community, please donate any time at: empoweryolo.org. Any donations made through the end of our fiscal year, June 30 Empower Yolo’s board of directors will match up to $10,000. Your support truly makes a difference, and helps Empower Yolo continue in its mission of promoting safe, healthy and resilient communities. n Supporting youths in our community through Empower Yolo’s summer camps: As we close the chapter of our milestone anniversary celebration, we begin anew by supporting the youths in our community.

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Letters Another empty victory The "Silent night operation" netted a string of nefarious drug dealing gang members and major narcotic drug dealers, and they have been sentenced to various lengthy prison terms! Yay! So now, I assume, we have solved the methamphetamine and heroin dealing problems in our area! Hooray! Or is it possible that there is a whole crowd of other nefarious individuals waiting in the wings who are swooping in to take their place? So after a huge financial expense we will be back to square one. We need to accept that our approach to the narcotic drug problem is not working. We have incentivized illicit drug dealing, by making it very profitable. We spend billions of dollars on programs that achieve nothing. Our attempts to slow the trade and stop the supply totally fail, while billions of dollars bleed out of the country. Most of that money originates from other crimes. it goes into the hands of the worst people, cartels, terrorist organizations like the "Shining Path, and the Taliban! If a government agency manufactured and distributed the drugs to addicts that would save us vast billions and pull the rug out from under these operations. Buy the Coca from the source in Peru and grow the

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Current and former Empower Yolo board members line up to commemorate the organization’s anniversary. As we enter the summer months Empower Yolo is planning two summer camp programs for the children residing in Empower Yolo’s safe house for the summer and for other children in the community. n Kids Camp at Empower Yolo’s safe house: Kids Day Camp at the safe house is an 8-week program packed with fun activities for the children staying there during the summer. Campers will have the opportunity to play, create, and explore while in a safe and supervised setting by Empower Yolo’s trained staff. “We have the opportunity this year to go on fun and educational field trips to colleges, tours of wildlife refuges and stem-based facilities. We will have sports, arts and crafts all while incorporating social life skills,” says Natalia Villagomez, lead child advocate, Empower Yolo. Camp counselors assisting the child advocates will be members of Empower Youth, a local teen service group with clubs at Davis High School and Emerson Junior High School that support Empower Yolo and organize monthly community service projects for the kids at the shelter and the community; they also provide a tutoring program throughout the year to support the children at the safe house. Empower Youth teens will strengthen their leadership skills and continue to serve their community. Summer activities at the safe house are so important to provide for the children. “Camp allows children to experience

opium in Kentucky. The mass migrations of asylum seekers would go away when the gangs and cartels go away. Establish clinics where addicts can register, and we will provide them with the drugs they desperately need, for which they would beg borrow steal and murder to get. A condition could be that they submit to a free periodic medical exam, which would help us and them. The street prices would drop like a stone, and there would be no point anymore for anyone to sell them. With the vast amount we save we can easily then provide real rehab opportunities and counseling. Work smarter, not harder. Gabe Lewin Davis

No trust in promises We’re used to dubious claims from developers, but “Yes on H” has set a new standard of meaninglessness. Going beyond carbon neutrality, DiSC backers advertise that “Measure H will create a carbon-free community.” Some want to make the decision on this measure hinge on who you can trust. A claim like “carbon-neutrality” can be examined, based on available evidence and projections about the future. Freedom from all carbon, though, is literal nonsense. Perhaps the developer can control what

activities that they may not have access to outside of the safe house. It allows positive social interactions and allows the children to develop strategies to navigate social situations and empower them to make decisions,” says Villagomez. The community can support Empower Yolo’s Kids Days Camp at the shelter by donating snacks, water, outdoor toys and activities, gift cards for lunch, or sponsor a fun Friday for the kids like movie tickets and tickets to local community pools. Donations can be made at Empower Yolo’s Davis or Woodland offices during office hours. For questions about donations contact Natalia at nataliamaria@ empoweryolo.org. n After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) Kids Day Camp: During the summer ASSETs will host its annual three-week Kids Day Camp from July 20-August 5. This year, the program will be held at Woodland High School for children in the community ages seven through twelve years old. During the camp, students will engage in two arts and crafts activities and two physical activities each day led by high school students who are volunteering their time during the summer to mentor young kids. “The Kids Day Camp is an opportunity for young children in Yolo County to connect with older mentors and gain new social and creative skills through engaging with leaders in their community of various ages and backgrounds,” says Tony

mix of electricity sources is used by a new manufacturer or laboratory. But they can’t control what fuel people use to drive to DiSC’s retailers or offices, or whether a resident buys a carbon-fiber-frame bicycle, or how the batteries are charged in a guard’s flashlight. If, in some fashion, they keep their promise about “100% renewable energy,” still “carbon-free” is a ridiculous overstatement, “objectively and verifiably false and/ or misleading,” and a poor excuse for a “model for California.” This is after Yes on H honorary chair Carson’s lawsuit successfully struck one word from the No on H ballot argument. I am against peripheral developments on agricultural land, so I am against Measure H. It feels gratuitous to add this, but as a past victim of violent crime in Davis, I support Cynthia Rodriguez for district attorney. Her background and experience means she can balance public safety, accountability, and the needs of the most vulnerable in administering this important office. Doug Walter Davis

Juliette Beck for supervisor Climate change is not the only urgent issue we face in Yolo County, but failure to finally get serious about it, really serious, will undermine progress on just about every other issue people care about.

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Morales, Empower Yolo ASSETs site coordinator, Woodland High School. Participants will also have the opportunity to go to the community swim center for three days out of the nine-day camp. This program is completely free to the community and is funded by Empower Yolo. “We provide leadership skills for our high school volunteers through training that helps them take on responsibilities, develop soft and hard skills, and helps foster a passion for giving back to the community,” says Morales. For young participants the camp is an opportunity to combat summer learning loss and helps keep them engaged with peers while staying active and maintaining healthy habits. “Many of the participants in the camp come from families who utilize Empower Yolo’s services and also those who are already connected to the ASSETs program. Nevertheless, we are open and happy to serve any families interested in participating,” Morales said. The community can support the program by sharing information about the camp. Registration for the Kids Day Camp is currently open and families can sign their children up by either filling out a registration form at Empower Yolo’s main office at 175 Walnut Street in Woodland or through the online Google form. To register online go to: https://forms.gle/ZyrUdR8ec5 axDD9D6. If you have any questions about the ASSETs Kids Day Camp contact Tony Morales at antonio@empower yolo.org. The great thing about both the Kids Day Camp at the safe house and the ASSETs Kids Day Camp is that they invest in the youths of our community from the young participants learning social-emotional skills and developing creative skills to the teen volunteers fostering leadership skills and giving back to their community. To learn more about Empower Yolo, or to support our summer programming any time visit: empoweryolo.org. — Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.

Juliette Beck, candidate for Yolo County Supervisor District 2, has made climate change a top priority of her campaign. Her website presents concrete proposals to address both its causes (fossil fuels and an economy that depends on them) and its effects (increasing drought, wildfires, heat waves, and much more). I attended the candidate forum in Davis on May 7, and while both candidates talked about climate change, it was Beck who said, “We are on the front lines of an epic, unprecedented climate crisis.” And it was Beck who said, “The three most pressing issues for Yolo County are climate, climate and climate.” Beck has a long history of activism on climate change and related issues, including her work to help establish the Yolo Climate Action Commission. Beck does not have the extensive experience in government policymaking that some voters may like in a county supervisor, but she more than makes up for it with her community organizing experience, innovative policy proposals, and inspiring vision for a just and sustainable future. Beck would also be the first woman to serve on the Board of Supervisors since 2010. When the candidates were asked about the main obstacle to tackling climate change, Beck said, “Leadership. We cannot address the climate crisis if we continue with business as usual.” I couldn’t agree more. Mark Brown Davis

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Letting go doesn’t mean you lose Dear Readers: Thank you for all your responses to “Letting Go Is Hard to Do.” We have undeniably wonderful parents among our readership. Here are two of my favorite letters. Dear Annie: This is in response to “Letting Go Is Hard to Do,” who was worried about the choices her daughter might be making at college after seeing a questionable bank transaction. I am also the mom of a college-age student. We have had a joint account ever since my son was a senior in high school. I made a promise to myself to not allow our joint checking accounts to be a way to peek into his world. Trust me, it is very hard not to look — especially when I am transferring money to his account. If his spending info pops up, I look away and put my hand over so I cannot see. It is a don’t-see-don’ttell trust that I never told him I had in place. He is very independent, and if I’d have questioned things, he would have started to mistrust me. There is always a way teens get around roadblocks; it’s called taking cash out of the account and spending it that way or buying a Visa gift card with the cash. It gets easier as they get older to not look. I encourage you to think about why you need to look at how she spends her money. My son was no angel for a good four to five years. But he trusts me now, and when the really hard/big things come up, he comes to me for comfort and direction, and to ease his fears. Let a little more of the string go, and when your bird flies, you will be rewarded with trust and honesty. — Money and Trust Dear Annie: I want to be as polite as I can in this reply to the mom who’s concerned about her 18-year-old daughter essentially just being an 18-year-old away at col-

Legals@DavisEnterprise.net lege. With all due respect, Letting Go — because you sound like a great mom and you seem to have a good bond with your daughter — maybe drop the “God’s gift” talk, stop thinking about what your religion teaches about birth control and just ask your kid if she’s OK and let her know you’re there to talk. She may not be as interested as you are in what God and your religious community’s leadership thinks about her sex life. Meanwhile, here on Earth, you’re both humans who love each other. Lead with that. In terms of sex addiction and so-called addictive behaviors, aka symptoms of a disease called addiction, which aren’t “behaviors” in an addict but rather compulsions, again, be honest. Talk about it head-on. Don’t minimize it if you’re truly worried. And if you’re not, let her live her life and keep your opinions to yourself. You can either have a relationship that is close, honest and real or have some mix of hope, denial and religious idealism. But the half-measure of trying to have both almost guarantees the first will be lost, which would be a shame. Keep your life between you and God, her life between you and her, and trust God to know how to handle the rest. God is too

busy caring for billions of souls to really care much about birth control and sex toys. Take God’s lead. — Dad of a Teen, Too

Testy about takeout Dear Annie: Both my adult daughter and her husband are employed. Since they do not cook, when my husband and I visit them, which is approximately four times a year, they send out for food and ask us to pay our share of the bill, or, on occasion, she will use my credit card to pay for the whole bill. When we go out to eat at a restaurant, I always pick up the check, which I feel is almost expected on their part. Am I asking for too much by wanting them to entertain us when we visit them, as I have done for the past 20 years when they visit us? — Lunch With a Bill Dear Lunch With a Bill: When it comes to parents picking up the tab, sometimes old habits die hard. If you’ve been paying for meals since your adult daughter was a child, she probably doesn’t think twice before passing you the check. Excuses aside, it’s bad manners to charge guests

for their portion of a meal. Next time she tries to charge you for lunch, just say, “You take care of this one, and I’ll treat us all to dinner tonight.”

Living without my wife Dear Annie: My wife of 44 years passed away after a nine-day bout with cancer. We started dating at 16, went to college together, married at 20 and graduated at 21, when we started our life together for real. “Sally” passed away two months after her 65th birthday. I will turn 65 in a month. I was to retire in three months, while Sally was already retired. Our house is paid for and sits by a beautiful creek in small-town Georgia, and moving has been suggested. I like it here. All our plans for traveling and having a life together in retirement disappeared in a matter of days. We had saved a pile of money to do all we couldn’t do until we retired. Now I don’t know what to do. I was her George Bailey, and she was my Mary Hatch. I never had a wandering eye. I don’t have a long-lost girlfriend from high school. Our circle of close friends is small and mostly live out of town. My daughter and son are grown and pretty much have their own lives. I

refuse to spend the last 20 years alone without female companionship. I liked being married. Single life is not my cup of tea. I know I can’t replace my wife. Some accuse me of that. She was educated, a retired teacher. She knew who Emily Post was and watched Julia Child. Together, we watched “Jeopardy” nightly. She loved to travel, saying, “Travel feeds the soul.” She played bridge, volunteered at the hospital and church, and sent food to shut-ins. She would watch football with me and enjoy it if I would watch Hallmark movies with her. During the pandemic, I began teaching myself guitar, and she would let me practice in the bedroom while she sat in bed reading. She remarked, “I would rather have you with me making a racket than somewhere else causing a racket.” Should I try to forget her now that she is gone and look for another type of person to spend my life with? Should I look for another woman like her? Should I pursue her first cousin with similar qualities who lost her husband last year? Are there women out there like her who are good-hearted and looking for a stable, educated man with whom to have a good

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2022 B7 time? How do I connect with them? I can’t go back to the neighborhood frontyard football game again, be tackled by her, injure my shoulder and have her be the first girl to come to my house worried about me, which is how our love affair began. Help! — Lost at Potato Creek Dear Lost: Your love affair sounds like something out of the movies. I am so sorry for your loss. Of course you are lost and confused, and that is understandable. You are not supposed to have all the answers to what the future will look like right now. Find other widowers who can understand what you are going through and help you work through your grief. The healthier you get with your own emotions, the healthier your next relationship will be. You will never replace your wife. You will now have a new normal, which will look different from your old normal, and that is perfectly natural. Instead of trying to find a replacement for your wife, try to remember all of your beautiful memories, which will live inside you for a lifetime. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

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Enthusiasm growing GO: Who are Kings fans rooting for? From Page B1

n my many decades of covering sports of all kinds, I don't think I've ever heaped praise on a baseball team — or any team — that finished the season with just six wins and 35 losses. Today is the exception. The UC Davis baseball team, coming off a complete program suspension due to a serious hazing scandal last year, finished the season at 6-35, including 5-25 in the Big West Conference. Those are obviously not awardwinning accomplishments but given the fact that many folks thought 0-41 and 0-30 were distinct possibilities before the season began, things finished much better than they started. The Aggies were picked to finish last by every head coach in the 11-team Big West Conference. They finished 10th. Small victories count big when you're trying to pick yourself up off the ground. Down the stretch the Aggies won their first - and only - conference series by taking two of three games from a strong UC San Diego squad. This is a conference that has produced three College World Series championships, all thanks to the efforts of Cal State Fullerton. Earlier this season Long Beach State took two of three games from defending national champion Mississippi State and was ranked as high as No. 6 nationally. UC Davis didn't even have a new head coach until mid-December when the talented Tommy Nicholson was hired away from a top assistant's job at national powerhouse Stanford. It was much too late to recruit even a single player. He came into a decimated program cold, knowing for a season at least, he would have to play with the hand he was dealt. And play he did. Because the roster had been dramatically depleted due to uncertainty surrounding the program, Nicholson held tryouts on campus for anyone who had ever fielded a batted ball or hit a home run in Little League. It's unheard of at the Division I level of college baseball to hold tryouts a month before the season begins, but that's the situation Nicholson faced when he took over this program with eyes wide open. Because of numerous cancellations, the non-conference schedule was thin, which means the Aggies were not afforded as many live-game situations as their conference opponents before league play began.

Nicholson made it clear from the start that he was here to build a program, literally from the ground up. He had no illusions about what the win-loss record might be in this first incredibly difficult year. He said all he wanted from those who made the roster was 100 percent effort at all times. Come to practice. Learn. Play hard. Don't worry about the score. Don't worry about the record. Just compete as if every outing was the seventh game of the World Series. Not surprisingly, he got exactly what he asked for. While the Aggies lost their first 15 games, including a 13-12 heartbreaker against UC Riverside despite a late 12-8 lead, for the most part every game seemed better than the last. Sure, there were losses of 17-1 to Hawaii, 13-1 to Long Beach State and 11-0 to Cal Poly over the course of a fourmonth season, but the breakthrough into the win column came a month and half in when UC Davis scored five runs in the top of the ninth to subdue UC Riverside, 12-8. After the final UCR batter was retired in the bottom of the ninth, you might have thought the Aggies had indeed won the seventh game of the World Series. Nicholson is about as straightforward as a college coach can be. He knows he has signed on for a major rebuilding project, but his optimism is contagious. He is met with enthusiasm on the recruiting trail after putting the difficulties of the last year so far out of mind that they no longer show up in the rear-view mirror. The focus is now on the future, not the past. This team will be better next year and even better the next. The trajectory is clearly upward. I won't be surprised to see a team that won fewer than 15 percent of its games this season to at least crack .500 next spring. Maybe even higher. Go Ags.

Dunning said. “Unless, of course, Oakland legend Bill Russell decides to put on his old silky green Celtics uniform and pull down a rebound or two.” If you’re a Sacramento Kings fan, are you rooting for the Warriors or Celtics? On one hand, new

Kings head coach Mike Brown, who is the associate head coach of the Warriors, could be starting his tenure in capital city with an NBA Finals ring. That could fuel the Kings, be it the final roster come September when the 2022-23 season begins, to ending the 16-year playoff drought. But on the other hand,

a Kings fan rooting for the Warriors is like a San Francisco Giants fan cheering for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A San Francisco 49ers fan rooting for the Los Angeles Rams. My take — let it go to seven games. — Contact Mike Bush at mike @davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter: @ MBDavisSports.