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New mayor, vice mayor to be sworn in Tuesday By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The new mayor and vice mayor of Davis will be sworn in on Tuesday. The City Council will kick off its evening meeting with Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs taking the mayoral oath of office and Councilman Will Arnold the oath for vice mayor. That will be followed with a ceremony of appreciation for outgoing mayor Gloria Partida, who has served in the position for the last two years. Frerichs’s term as mayor will run through the end of 2023, but given his election to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, he will be departing the council at the end of 2022, leaving his colleagues to name a replacement mayor who will serve out the rest of the term. The council will also have to either call an election for his replacement on the council or appoint a successor, something they will discuss at their July 19 meeting. Tuesday’s council meeting regular agenda is brief — the only other item before the council is presentation of the results of the 2022 resident satisfaction survey.
Community resource Campaign aims to raise remaining funds for new Yolo Crisis Nursery By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer For more than 20 years, a 1,400-square-foot house on a quiet residential street in Davis has served as a safe haven for young children with families in crisis. Just in fiscal year 2021 alone, the Yolo Crisis Nursery provided 2,400 safe stays for children ages 0-5 whose parents were struggling with everything from homelessness to domestic violence. In this small building, stretched to capacity, children received emergency overnight care and day care among other services. The demand for those services has
grown relentlessly thanks to the pandemic, economic insecurity, homelessness and more. In 2021, the Yolo Crisis Nursery served 67 percent more families than the year before and the need is only expected to grow. That’s why an effort is underway to build a new home for the nursery, one that can serve more families and provide more services. Land has already been deeded to the nursery at another location in the city and a capital campaign — the Brighter Tomorrows Campaign — is underway to raise the remaining $1.5 million of the $9.5 million needed for construction of a new 9,000-
square-foot home and more services. Thanks to the generosity of some large donors, as well as American Rescue Plan funds committed by the city of Davis and Yolo County, the campaign has already secured $8 million and is now turning to the community to help fill the remaining gap. Among the large donations received so far: n $2.5 million from Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; n $1.1 million in ARP funds from the county; n $500,000 in ARP funds from the city of Davis; and n $500,000 from Sutter Health The gift from Sutter Health was announced last week, with Tammy Powers, chief administrative officer of Sutter Davis Hospital, calling support for
programs like the crisis nursery integral to Sutter’s mission. “As a not-for-profit integrated network, community benefit is at the core of what we do,” said Powers. “It allows us to understand the urgent needs of the most vulnerable populations in our community. “It is particularly meaningful to be a part of the Brighter Tomorrows effort supporting the Yolo Crisis Nursery.” Elected officials present at a campaign kick-off in June echoed the importance of the crisis nursery to the community. “The Yolo Crisis Nursery provides a place for children during difficult periods so parents can get back on their feet,” said Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis. “Helping children is our most
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A capital campaign to raise the last $1.5 million of the $9.5 million needed for construction of a 9,000square-foot home for the Yolo Crisis Nursery. Courtesy image
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Jackson sets sights on School Board By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer He’s talked the talk, and now Hiram Jackson is going to walk the walk as he’s announced his intent to run as a candidate for the DJUSD governing board seat for Area 1. Full of experience, combined with enthusiasm, his campaign trail leading to the November elections has only just begun. Jackson has called Davis his home since 1988 and has been a parent volunteer for the district since 1998. He and his wife, Ximena, have had three children go through the DJUSD school system and they also cofounded the Mariachi Puente performance group
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which won them both the 2018 Covell “Citizens of the Year.” Also JACKSON within Long record Jackson’s of service résumé of service to the district spanning over 20 years, he’s been an active music booster parent, chair of the Davis Senior High School Council, been a member of the DJUSD Local Control Accountability Plan Advisory Committee and been on the Superintendent’s Parent Advisory Committee. Now, Jackson seeks to
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add DJUSD board member to his CV. “I’ve been engaged in the life of the school district as a parent-volunteer for more than 20 years since 1998. I’m an educator myself at a community college and am interested in what the schools produce in the way of students graduating,” said Jackson. “I began to feel this is the right time to run because all of my kids have graduated from the Davis schools, and now I feel like my experience would be an asset to the board. Many of the trustees right now have, overall, less experience with the school district than I do.”
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Healthy Davis Together program winds to an end By Caleb Hampton Enterprise stafff writer On Thursday, after more than 19 months, 869,668 tests conducted, 15,767 cases identified, frequent national media coverage and numerous accolades, Healthy Davis Together collected its last saliva sample from a community test site. “The Healthy Davis/ Yolo Together project has ended,” the joint initiative between UC Davis and the city and county said Thursday in a social media post. “Together, we helped reduce the spread of COVID-19 and contributed to a safe, gradual
return to city and campus life. Thank you for continuing to do your part to keep our community healthy.” Launched in September 2020, Healthy Davis Together used a highthroughput testing system developed at UC Davis’ Genome Center to screen students, staff, faculty and the wider community for COVID19. It also relied on a vast team of researchers, staff, administrators, student ambassadors, public health and medical professionals, and the participation of residents.
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Briefly Police enforcing fireworks laws As Independence Day weekend approaches, Davis police remind the community that fireworks are illegal within the city limits, except at permitted events. Nonetheless, police have fielded multiple reports of unlawful fireworks being set off over the past several days, including a dozen reports between midnight and 1 a.m. Thursday from several locations about town. Lt. Ilya Bezuglov said patrol officers are “specifically enforcing” two fireworks laws this time of year: 12677 of the Health and Safety code, which makes it a misdemeanor to possess dangerous fireworks without a permit; and 12305 H&S, unlawful possession of an explosive, which is a felony. The Davis Municipal Code defines fireworks as the following: Firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, roman candles, toy pistols, toy cannons, detonating canes, blank cartridges, sparklers, squibs and other devices designed and intended for pyrotechnic display.
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County gives former inmates a voice By John Fout Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Public Defender’s Office introduces you to Project Free Write, an eight-week storytelling workshop created for systemimpacted persons with a mission to bear witness to their voices, their experiences and their common humanity. The pilot Project Free Write workshop launched this spring with clients from the Day Reporting Center, a county program that provides comprehensive evidencebased services to men and women on probation, parole or releasing from the local jail. Project Free Write was founded on the fact that every person has a story and every story is worth listening to, investing in and sharing. The power of written expression plays a critical role for systemimpacted persons and the community where they live, facilitating a process of healing.
Throughout the workshop, participants experience different forms and genres of storytelling, such as prose, poetry, photography and artwork. Two Public Defender client advocates, Eliana Swerdlow and Benjamin Hernandez, serve as instructors and guide participants in a discussion about various stories and forms of expression. The discussions from the workshop yielded insightful and profound lessons to both the participants and instructors. “I remember one participant saying that every person he passes on his way to our class is a story — not just that they have a story," Swerdlow said. "We are stories hoping to be heard.” Swerdlow recently published her story, and a participant will soon publish his story. Instructors often facilitate by asking participants thoughtprovoking questions: What makes you feel free? What do you think about when you close your eyes at
night? Where is home, and what does home mean to you? These discussions occur every other week. They focus on an example piece’s form, theme and memorability, leading participants to develop, understand the meaning and learn from cause and effect. Participants spend the entirety of the alternating week’s course freewriting their own stories in any form they choose. Participants often incorporate what they have learned from the previous week’s discussion into their pieces, and instructors and classmates support one another through the storytelling process. As the eight week workshop nears its end, participants are invited to publish their stories through the Public Defender’s Office and share them with the community. To tell a story is to take a risk. Just as storytelling can inspire empathy, it can also invite judgment. Participants took this
risk by engaging in the pilot workshop. “We hope that in the distribution of these stories and other works, community members pay attention to our participants’ various identities and concerns,” Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson said. “Past and future storytellers are mothers, fathers, daughters, brothers, dreamers and more. They are people.” The Public Defender and the Day Reporting Center plan to host another eight-week Project Free Write workshop in the fall, as it was well-received by participants. “I highly recommend to anyone wanting to improve their writing skills and creative abilities. Project Free Write motivated my inner writer," one participant said. For more information about Project Free Write, contact Eliana Swerdlow at Eliana.Swerdlow@ yolocounty.org or Benjamin Hernandez at Benjamin.Hernandez@ yolocounty.org.
Recycling bill clears committee Yolo assessment roll up Special to The Enterprise SACRAMENTO – Legislation has advanced from California Senate President Pro Tem Toni G. Atkins, D-San Diego, and state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, to add wine and distilled spirits bottles to California’s recycling program. “California can increase the recycling rates of millions of bottles that would otherwise wind up in our landfills or be illegally discarded,” said Sen. Dodd. “This is a common-sense bill that benefits our environment and consumers. I look forward to seeing it pass the full Assembly and be signed by Gov. Newsom.” The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, established in 1986, encourages consumers to recycle beverage containers by requiring them to pay a deposit for eligible bottles. According to a 2019 report, curbside programs received approximately $172 million from the so-called Bottle Bill in 2017, including
“This is a common-sense bill that benefits our environment and consumers.” State Sen. Bill Dodd On recycling bill SB1013 $15 million that is annually provided from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Although the program includes beer, it does not include wine or spirits. It is estimated that California generates more than 500 million wine and spirits bottles each year, with less than 30% being recycled and over 300 million wine and spirits bottles going into landfills. Under Senate Bill 1013, wine and spirits bottles would be added to the program, leading to more recycling, increased business for recycling centers and reduced processing costs. The expansion would also cut greenhouse
gas emissions by almost 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide while reducing litter of wine and spirits containers, a visible and dangerous component of urban litter pollution. SB1013 is supported by a number of groups including Californians Against Waste, Heal the Bay, California Association of Local Conservation Corps, Monterey Regional Waste Management District, National Stewardship Action Council, Northern California Recycling Association, California Teamsters Public Affairs Council, The 5 Gyres Institute, the Plastic Pollution Coalition and Zero Waste USA. It has no formal opposition. It passed the Assembly Natural Resources committee on June 27 with unanimous, bipartisan support. Dodd represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all or portions of Napa, Solano, Yolo, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties. Learn more at www.sen. ca.gov/dodd.
Feds will help fund UCD grape research By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, announced that funding he requested for UC Davis’ Smoke Taint Research Project was included in the Fiscal year 2023 funding legislation released by the appropriations subcommittees. “Each year, vital programs in our community have the opportunity to receive necessary funding through community funded projects,” Thompson said Wednesday in a
press release. “I am proud to submit requests for each county in California’s Fifth District to fund their priorities, and Yolo County’s project will support critical agricultural research. I look forward to forward to seeing the impact of this research on our local wine and agriculture community.” Thompson secured inclusion in the appropriations bill for $1.2 million for the UC Davis Smoke Taint Research Project, which will enable the campus to purchase a Gas
Chromatography Triple Quadruple Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) and an Ultra High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (UPLC-QTOFMS) to conduct research on grape smoke exposure.
for 10th year in a row By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The total assessed value of all real and business property in Yolo County increased by 7.23 percent over last year, the county announced Friday. The annual assessment roll hit $33.81 billion as of Jan. 1, according to Assessor/ClerkRecorder/Registrar of Voters Jesse Salinas. “Local entities and services depend on property tax revenue to operate, including public schools, community colleges, cities and the county,” Salinas noted. “We as a community rely on these invaluable resources and the timely and accurate completion of the assessment roll.” This is the county’s 10th consecutive year of growth and is due largely to the surge in demand for single-family housing as well as a strong market growth in commercial and industrial properties throughout the county, Salinas said. The largest increase came in the city of Winters, which experienced a 12.05 percent growth. West Sacramento and Woodland experienced
the second and third largest increases within the county at 9.18 percent and 8.34 percent, respectively. The city of Davis increased by 5.59 percent and unincorporated areas of Yolo County grew by 5.07 percent. Detailed figures for every area within Yolo County are available at https://www.yolocounty. org/home/showpublisheddocument/73881. “Taxpayers should know that we’re closely monitoring the rapidly changing real estate market,” Salinas said. He encouraged all taxpayers to review their assessed value and contact the assessor’s office with questions or concerns at 530-666-8135 or by email at assessor@ yolocounty.org. Appeal applications will be accepted through Nov. 30. For questions regarding assessment appeals, call the Yolo County clerk of the board at 530-666-8195 or visit www.yolocounty.org/ assessment-appeals. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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Obituaries Larry Allen Dell
July 2, 1940 — June 22, 2022 Larry Allen Dell of Davis died June 22, 2022, at the age of 81 after a lengthy illness. Larry was born July 2, 1940 in Elwood, Iowa, to Harlan and Mary Dell. Much of Larry’s childhood was spent working on his beloved Uncle Myron’s farm, something that was a great joy to him and a big influence on his career choice later in life. After four years in the Navy, the completion of undergraduate studies at Cal Poly and graduate studies at UC Davis, Larry began his career as an agricultural statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Larry and his first wife, Twyla, had two sons 17 months apart while he completed graduate school. He was a tireless supporter of their academic and athletic achievements and often coached their teams. Larry spent 31 years with the USDA and Federal Crop
Insurance based at various times in California, Washington, D.C., and Kansas City. He enjoyed his work and was proud of his achievements, including serving as western DELL regional director of the four-state region in the 1980s and ’90s. One of his superpowers was to identify a crop at any distance. He loved the land and what it produced. He retired at the age of 54. Larry and his second wife, Lois, settled in Davis in 1984 and loved their home in Northern California. Larry and Lois travelled extensively across the United States in retirement. They both loved hiking, camping, visiting family, and seeing all the beautiful sights of their country. He and Lois volunteered at STEAC, a community service organization in Davis, and Larry was a fixture
Robert Brooks d. March 11, 2022
Robert R. Brooks, born August 1931 went to heaven on March 11, 2022. Robert Ryan Brooks — beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend to many — passed peacefully surrounded by family while listening to Willie Nelson’s “Stardust” album when his heart finally stopped beating. Robert was born in Chino to Otis and Elva Brooks, and grew up in Chino where athletics was a major focus of his life. He graduated from Chino High School where he lettered in football, basket ball, track and tennis. His teams were “Small School” Southern California Champions. After high school he attended Mount San Antonio College, where his football team was the first team state football champions. In 1949 Robert was voted Player Of The Year. His coach Archie Nesbit recommended him to UC Berkeley, where he played football in 1951 and 1952 and was a proud “Pappy’s Boy.” At the same time he became an outstanding rugby player and had an opportunity to play professionally in England (unfortunately the Draft Board said no!). After graduating from Cal, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where he played football for the Navy between his tours of duty on
the USS Green Fish and USS Caiman submarines. His football team became Island Champions and he was selected to play in the Hula Bowl against the College All-stars from the mainland. He was the leading ground gainer in the game as running back with quarterback Otto Graham handing him the ball. After his service, Robert returned to UC Berkeley where he earned a master’s degree in education. During this time Robert met the love of his life and married Marilyn Van Heuit. In 1957, he began his coaching and teaching career at Miramonte High school in Orinda, where he was the head football and wrestling coach, and assistant track coach. In between his coaching and teaching Bob played club rugby on a CAL team that won the National Club Championship. In 1962 Robert was hired by UC Davis as an assistant coach in football and track. From 1964 to 1966 he was an assistant coach in football and wrestling. When wrestling and football overlapped, he chose wrestling and coached the UCD wrestling team from 1967 To 1990. In 1964, Bob started the rugby team at UCD. For many years he served as the administrative director of AAU Wrestling Camp. He served five summers at the Olympic Training Center in
at UCD football games over the past 30 years. Larry was an avid tennis player, pocket-knife collector, and dog lover. Larry was a man born of very humble beginnings who, through his own focus and efforts, created a positive and substantial contribution to our world. He was smart, thoughtful, and engaged in his community. He was a sentimental father and grandfather who kept every card given to him by his family. He and his wife Lois were devoted to each other until their deaths, which occurred just 17 days apart. He was a loving husband, brother and father and will be dearly missed. He is survived by siblings Nancy, Marianne, Butch, Steve, Terry and Harry; sons Brennan and Gavin; grandchildren Austin, Zoe, Cameron and Jordan; and faithful dog Fritz. An online gathering on July 23 will share memories and celebrate his life. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made at steac.org on behalf of Larry.
Colorado Springs and became a Team Leader for the USA GrecoRoman BROOKS wrestling team at the World University Games in Bucharest, Romania. During this time, he was elected President of the Division II Wrestling Coaches Association and hosted the D2 Wrestling Championship Tournament at UCD. In 1959, Bob and Marilyn had their son, who was soon followed by his three sisters. The family made many wonderful memories camping at the North Coast, Kern River and Mammoth as well as camping their way to Michigan State for a sabbatical in 1972. Bob was also a part of the Davis Kids Summer Sports School program that ran for 10 years during the summer, where he taught wrestling and football, and drove a bus to transport kids between “classes.” In the ’60s and early ’70s, with other Davis families, Bob and family hosted a summer camp for children in foster care, matching each child with a Davis High School student mentor for a week of fun and adventure in the Sierra. After retirement from UC Davis in 1990, Robert and Marilyn continued to have fun, and whether it was attending a concert or traveling to exotic countries they were always game for a new
adventure. Robert and Marilyn traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world, including Canada, Western Europe, Romania, Indonesia, Japan, French Polynesia (by sailboat) and spent their 50th Wedding Anniversary in Hawaii with their family. One amazing thing about our parents was they could meet someone in a restaurant on their travels and by the end of the meal they were lifelong friends. Robert was preceded in death by his parents, his loving wife Marilyn and brother Phillip. He is survived by brothers Stan and Steven and sister Laura Lou, his brother in law Robert Van Heuit (Marilyn) and his children: Paul Brooks (Rhonda), Mary (Rich) Carolyn and Ellen (Mike). He is also survived by numerous grandchildren and a great-grandson. Our family would like to thank all of the the medical professionals and care givers at Gloria’s Country Care in Woodland. A memorial service will be held in his honor in the second half of July. Submit an email to Robert BrooksService2@yahoo. com and we will reply with the date, time and location. In lieu of flowers, make a donation to a charity of your choice in his honor.
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Surviving burglary suspect makes plea deal By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer A woman whose boyfriend was fatally shot when they intruded on a rural Yolo County property admitted last week to second-degree burglary charges stemming from the July 2021 incident. America Inez Sanchez and Osbaldo Ponce twice went to the County Road 45 property “with the intent to commit theft,” Deputy District Attorney Michelle Serafin said at the plea hearing Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court. During the second theft attempt, the armed homeowner fired at the pair in self-defense. Ponce, 39, died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, while Sanchez was hospitalized for her shooting injuries. Sanchez, charged with burglary following her recovery, appeared in court Wednesday to plead no contest to the two counts. The plea agreement calls for a two-year, eight-month “split sentence,” served with a combination of jail time and supervised release. But when Judge Tom Dyer asked Sanchez to confirm her no-contest plea, she responded with a lengthy silence. Her attorney, Rod Beede, tried to nudge her along, telling Sanchez “you’re going to be out of here before you know it and back home.” “Yeah, but someone died that day,” a tearful
Sanchez replied. “It was a horrible event, there’s no question about it, but you didn’t. So let’s go on with life, OK?” Beede said. With that, Sanchez entered her no-contest pleas. She returns to court July 27 for sentencing. The week before will mark the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting on the Guinda-area property, which resulted in multiple 911 calls to the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office. “One of the callers was the homeowner, who advised the dispatcher he had shot an intruder on the property,” sheriff’s officials said in a news release at the time. “When deputies arrived, they located an unresponsive male and a responsive female adult that had both sustained gunshot wounds.” The homeowner, identified only as an elderly male, also was on scene and was cooperative with investigators. “The homeowner had returned to his residence earlier that afternoon and discovered a recent burglary had occurred at his residence. Tools and a firearm were stolen during that burglary,” which occurred several days earlier, sheriff ’s officials said. Several hours after his discovery, the homeowner spotted headlights from a 3vehicle on his property, after which the two intruders confronted him and were shot, officials said.
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Robert John Grigg
June 1, 1939 — June 3, 2022 On June 3, 2022, Robert John Grigg passed away peacefully at his home after a battle with Parkinson's. He was with his family. Robert was born in Peoria, Ill., on June 1, 1939; the youngest child of Fred and Marie Grigg. Robert, even from a young age, showed an unbridled enthusiasm for biology, entomology, nature and history; all of which influenced him throughout his life and career. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in art from Bradley University, Robert enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving from 1961 to 1964. He spent most of his service in Germany. His record was noted for his exemplary conduct and proficiency as a sharpshooter (M14). He spent much of his
downtime reading and touring the many historical sites of Europe. Robert went back to school, earning his master’s degree from University of Illinois, GRIGG Urbana-Champaign, and his doctorate in the history of art of early Christian, Medieval and Northern Renaissance from the University of Minnesota in 1974. His studies involved several archaeological digs in Yugoslavia, further fueling his love of scientific discovery and history. In 1973, he accepted a teaching position at UC Davis. Robert taught art history there for the next 24 years, amassing dozens of internationally published articles in art history. After his official retirement in
Leonard Martin Hjelmeland May 2, 1948 — July 12, 2021
On Monday, July 12, 2021, Leonard M. Hjelmeland passed away at the age of 73. Hjelmeland, known as Larry to friends and family, was born in Atascadero on May 2, 1948. Larry was the youngest of three born to Leonard T. and Vesta “Betty” Hjelmeland. The family lived in Paso Robles for the majority of Larry’s younger life. Though he would go on to be a good student later in high school, his younger years were more about going to the beach with family and keeping his mischievous side in check. Larry graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and chemistry. He continued his education at Stanford, graduating with a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry in 1976. He then moved across the country to work at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., where he met his wife, Mary Kay. While at NIH, Larry patented his first
invention — a non-denaturing, zwitterionic detergent he named CHAPS. It is still in use today by molecular biologists around the world. In 1986 Larry and his family moved to Davis, where he would ultimately become a full professor at UC Davis, teaching biochemistry to undergraduates and medical students in the School of Medicine. His research focused on eye diseases, something he understood from a personal perspective as he lost his eyesight in 1982. Larry added another invention to his résumé with his discovery of a cell line, ARPE-19, which has helped further the study of the eye and is being used to develop therapeutic approaches for eye disease. Larry had a lifelong love of music, especially in live venues — the San Francisco Opera, Country in Bakersfield, Jazz in Blues Alley, Rock in Wolf Trap. His love for music began with falling asleep to the sound of this father playing classical
1994, Robert continued teaching and publishing part-time. With more free time, Robert also dove into his passion for World War II history, particularly the life of his uncle Aloys Vogel who was unfortunately killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Robert also rekindled his love of fishing, waking up his son early on his days off to go to Cache Creek and other fishing holes. Robert is survived by his wife of 50 years, Barbara, daughter Alyssa, and son Daniel. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Fred and sister Thelma. Robert was an exemplary serviceman, professor, husband and father. He will be sorely missed. Special thanks to caregivers Evia, Cecilia and Yolo Hospice. Private services were held at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon.
pieces on the piano. In addition to music, Larry loved to dance — both he HJELMELAND and his wife won best dancer in high school. He loved to laugh and had a wonderful sense of humor. He was admired for his ability to meet any challenge. He was an eternal student with an unquenchable love of learning, a characteristic he leveraged in his scientific work — a true love of his. Larry also loved to read poetry, mythology, literature and classic philosophical works. He loved food and wine from all over the world which was informed by his many travels internationally. He was known for his empathy for others and often referred to himself self-effacingly as an armchair psychiatrist. Family and friends would call Larry often for advice on relationships, what wine to pair with what food, health issues, or for a good laugh. He mentored graduate
students and postdoctoral scholars who he maintained lifelong friendships with. A true family man, Larry was a proud father and husband who took pride in providing for his family. Though not an effusive man, he had a deep, profound love for his family. His family was his selfprofessed greatest achievement. Larry was preceded in death by his two parents and oldest sister Linda Ruth Sparling. He is survived by his wife and best friend of 42 years, Mary Kay Hjelmeland, daughter Anna Kirsten Hjelmeland, son Todd Lamont Hall, middle sister Janet Louise Vondra, and many loving nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Larry and Mary Kay Hjelmeland Fund for Basic Research in Ophthalmology. Details are online at https://give.ucdavis.edu/ MOPH/123857 A “Celebration Of Life” ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Walter E. Buehler Alumni Center, 530 Alumni Lane in Davis.
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Lillian Hosken McHenry Nov. 3, 1924 — June 20, 2022
A remarkable and dearly loved woman, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother found a peaceful end following a fall that quelled her strong desire for independence. She adored her daughters Lyndie (Roger) Boulton and Laurie (Mark) Radcliff; grandchildren Katie (AJ) Ramsey, Thomas (Tiffany) Radcliff, Christina (Jason Lowe), Andrew (Edward) and Cameron (Ashley) Boulton; and great-grandchildren Mia and Nic Ramsey, Lauren and Jace Radcliff, Audrey and Jackson Lowe, and Arlo Boulton. She delighted in knowing Arlo will have a baby sister in October. Her husband Jim, parents William M. and Vera Medau Hosken, and brother William E. Hosken predeceased her. She is also survived by five Hosken
nieces and many other family members. Her family is especially McHENRY grateful for the devoted support offered by caregiving friend, Sahara Damore and Yolo Cares. Lil’s ashes will be buried next to her beloved Jim at Meadow Valley Cemetery near Bucks Lake where they both met as teens and later vacationed every summer at their cabin. A celebration of life will be held in late September. Further details and Lil’s full obituary can be found at Smith Funeral Home (Davis). Donate to YoloCares (Hospice) or another organization as you wish.
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BlueBarrel helps battle against drought By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer Although the drought remains dire and disheartening, it’s not a helpless situation. With BlueBarrel Rainwater Catchment Systems, one can harvest water — and hope — to help hydrate California’s future. Starting back in 2012, BlueBarrel was the brainchild of Davis native and DHS graduate Jesse Savou. Her road to starting this business, however, was anything but easy — or direct. After college, the corporate world she worked in for several years did nothing to placate her passion. Rather than endure the uninspired, day-to-day monotony, she left it behind and pursued a master’s degree in sustainable design. Unfortunately, the projects she was working on in that career path also failed to fuel her zeal, and she made the fateful decision to leave that behind as well. It wasn’t until she decided to take a year off of her career and join AmeriCorps (similar to the Peace Corps) did she unwittingly built the blueprints for BlueBarrel. “I got assigned to a lot of farm and garden projects and it was sort of a coincidence that I was given a project with a partner to
come up with a rainwater catching system design for a farm,” explained Savou. “So, one thing led to the next and it wasn’t my intention to start a business, but we came up with a really unique design and it started catching on. People wanted me to do workshops and show them how to build it and eventually that led to the launch of BlueBarrel.” While Savou now lives in Santa Rosa, BlueBarrel is an online business with customers all over the United States, all of whom get a DIY experience that’s as practical as it is innovative. “We have a very unique design using recycled barrels which are the blue drums that come out of the food manufacturing system, so we partner with food producers and container recyclers all over the country. Also, when people purchase from our website, we have tools to help them customize the multi-barrel system. This helps a suburban homeowner get the kind of water storage capacity one might get in the country with a big tank,” said Savou. “So, customers get our DIY RainKit to customize their setup and when they’re ready to order they enter their zip code and get choices of the local barrel suppliers we have. You get to choose where you want to pick up your barrel and when you
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A BlueBarrel rain collection system can capture 600 gallons of water for every inch of rainfall on a 1,000-square-foot roof, Jesse Savou says. checkout, you’ll get a voucher to go claim it.”
Garamendi introduces legislation to protect American shipping industry Caleb Hampton
exports and to help our Valley's Enterprise staff writer agricultural econOn Wednesday, omy recover.” Rep. John GaraThe American mendi, D-Walnut Port Access PriviGrove, and Rep. Jim leges Act would Costa, D-Fresno, codify current introduced the Courtesy photo preferences for American Port military, Jones Act Access Privileges Rep. John and other U.S.Garamendi, DAct in the House of Walnut Grove. flagged vessels at Representatives, many American which would prioriports. It would tize access for U.S. exportalso establish a secondary ers at American ports. The berthing preference for new legislation builds on ocean-going commercial Garamendi’s Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which vessels servicing multiple President Joe Biden signed ports in the U.S. “This new preferential into law on June 16. “Foreign exporters’ berthing will reward ocean access to the American carriers that serve both market and our consumers importers and American is a privilege, not a right,” exporters by moving those Garamendi said Wednes- vessels to the front of the day in a press release. queue for unloading and “Cargo ships looking to loading,” Garamendi said offload foreign-made prod- in a press release. “It will ucts and profit off West similarly incentivize ocean Coast ports must provide carriers to make second-leg opportunities for Ameri- voyages to ports like the Port of Oakland, which is can exports in return.” According to the law- critical for California’s makers, the proposed leg- agricultural exporters.” The bill would also islation would help address ensure that the new prefersupply chain issues that have especially plagued the ential berthing for exportcarrying vessels would not agricultural sector. “Supply chain disrup- interfere with U.S. Coast tions are hurting California Guard orders for commerfarmers and exporters like cial vessels, port safety, or never before,” said Costa. collective bargaining agree“We need to remove bottle- ments for port workers. It would require that necks and mitigate congesvessels tion at our ports to carry export-carrying out American exports like seeking preferential berththe food grown in the San ing report cargo bookings Joaquin Valley. I'm proud at least seven days in to introduce this legislation advance to port operators with Congressman Gara- and would authorize mendi to boost American the U.S. Department of
“Foreign exporters’ access to the American market and our consumers is a privilege, not a right.” Rep. John Garamendi D-Walnut Grove. Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics to collect data on berthing and cargo practices at U.S. ports. “This will evaluate ocean carriers’ practices for port calls and cargo bookings, as well as the impact of preferential berthing afforded under the bill,” the press release stated. The bill is endorsed by the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC), the National Milk Producers Federation and the California Farm Bureau Federation. “Congressman Costa’s and my legislation would put American exports at the front of the line at our ports to support American businesses and workers,” Garamendi said. “Congress must restore fairness at our ports for American exporters to help reduce the United States’ longstanding trade imbalance with countries like China.”
The fact California is in a drought is an inescapable truth.
To Savou, however, the notion that there’s not enough rainwater to harvest is simply a misconception. “A lot of people in California are under the impression that we don’t even get enough rain to harvest. A single inch of rain falling on a 1,000 square foot rooftop surface is going to generate over 600 gallons of high-quality irrigation water. That’s water that would be running down the storm drain otherwise and doing nothing for the community. That’s enough to fill 11 of those barrels,” said Savou. “It doesn’t need to be rainy year-round, we just have to be prepared for when it does rain. People also collect off of garden sheds, garages and solar panels, you really just need standard gutters and downspouts to connect to.” Needless to say, the water collected from rooftops isn’t quite safe to drink. It’s good for garden irrigation, though, which feeds into the sustainability aspect of BlueBarrel. For information on Savou’s BlueBarrel Rainwater Catchment Systems — and bolstering the drought mitigation efforts — check out their website at www. bluebarrelsystems.com. — Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@mcnaughton. media.
TCU names scholarship winners Special to The Enterprise VACAVILLE — Travis Credit Union awarded 20 local high school students $2,000 scholarships as part of the Mary Keith Duff Memorial Scholarship program. TCU provides these annual scholarships to its young members to help them cope with the rising cost of higher education and to reinforce the credit union’s commitment to the financial wellness of our country’s future leaders. Along with the $2,000 award, scholarship recipients received a $175 gift card to celebrate the exciting news with their families. TCU board members and executive leadership coordinated live Zoom sessions with the winners and their families to announce their awards. To date, TCU has awarded $497,000 in scholarships over the past 18 years, assisting hundreds of students in their educational pursuits. To qualify,
students must be collegebound high school seniors, have a GPA of at least 3.0, and submit a 500-word original essay on their plans for the future. The applications are evaluated based on an essay, grades, test scores, financial needs, extracurricular activities, and community involvement. "These scholarship recipients have tremendous potential. Despite the difficulties that many of them faced over the last two years as a result of the pandemic and the transition to virtual learning, they continued to thrive,” said Kevin Miller, president and CEO of Travis Credit Union. “TCU is proud to financially support these extraordinary young men and women in their educational pursuits and believes these students will go on to make a genuine difference in our communities." The selected scholars will be studying a range of
subjects this fall, such as psychology, nursing, astrophysical sciences, molecular cell biology, film and music, and economics. These freshmen will be attending UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, Princeton, Cal Poly, San Jose State, and other colleges. Headquartered in Vacaville, Travis Credit Union is a nonprofit cooperative financial institution serving those who live or work in Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, Sonoma, Colusa and Merced counties. Travis Credit Union is the 12th-largest credit union in California, with 225,000 members and more than $4.7 billion in assets.
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By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Violent threats derailed a planned “drag queen happy hour” Thursday night at a Woodland bar, although the show ultimately went on. Mojo’s Lounge & Bar, 428 First St., scheduled the event to commemorate the final day of Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ community. However, the business reported receiving multiple threats by phone and on social media prior to the show, which resulted police foot patrols being deployed to the area for scene security. “Several people showed up and were disruptive while making derogatory comments about the event and the LGBTQIA+ community,” the Woodland Police Department reported on its Facebook page. Police also reported “deescalating” an altercation at
the lounge’s entry door, where video posted online showed someone inside the business dousing the agitators with pepper spray when they tried to enter the bar. It did not appear to be an officer, however. At first, Mojo’s decided to call the show quits. “We worked closely with Woodland Police Department and local Security Services to make everyone as safe as possible,” owner Christy Hayes posted on social media announcing the event’s cancellation. “Unfortunately, organizers and performers still did not feel comfortable putting the event forward with the recent escalation from Hate Groups in and around Northern California towards Drag Events,” the post said. The show was resurrected on a smaller scale, however, when a large number of community members turned out in support of the event.
Although no arrests were made, police say they are reviewing surveillance video from the area and working with the FBI “to determine who made the threats.” “We want to be clear that the Woodland Police Department does not tolerate threats or discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation or religion,” their Facebook post said. “We support the right to peaceful free speech and self-expression.” Mojo’s, meanwhile, declared the scaled-down show a success, and Hayes says she hopes to schedule future drag events like it. “Thank you to all for the support and love through this. We definitely got a lot more LOCAL Love than we did Hate!” her Facebook post said. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterp rise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
SWORN: Council takes pulse of voters From Page A1 That survey of 500 residents by EMC Research was conducted during the week of April 12-19 by telephone, text and email. Questions focused on how Davis residents perceive their quality of life, what they most value and what areas of concern they have. Participants were also asked about their sentiment regarding public safety, specifically law enforcement, and what specific issues concern them. They were also asked about their sources of information on city
communications and how well the city communicates with residents. The staff report prepared for Tuesday’s meeting indicated more than two-thirds of Davis residents are optimistic about the direction of the city; more than 75 percent are satisfied with city services; and affordable housing, homelessness and public safety are the top three areas of concerns for residents. Tuesday’s council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers at City Hall. Meetings are now being held in person but continue to be televised on city of
Davis government channel 16 and live-streamed at https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/city-council/ city-council-meetings/ meeting-videos Individuals may make public comment in person or by calling a dedicated phone line — 530-7575693 — and leaving a voicemail message that will be played aloud during the meeting. Comments are accepted until 4 p.m. on the day of the meeting. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
As Jackson’s lived in Trustee Area 1 — west of highway 113 — since 1998, he maintains a familiarity not only with the schools, but the people on that side of the community. To Jackson, Area 1 has been historically underrepresented on the school board, a fact which also fuels his fire to catalyze change within the district. “These days, there’s a lot of discussion around social and emotional learning and I would like to promote that discussion and see if there can be a more expanded understanding of what that means. If you go to the district website, a lot of aspects on social and emotional learning are focused on certain class routines. Whereas to me, social and emotional learning can apply more broadly to how students participate in the life of the school,” Jackson broke down the challenges he wants to address within the district. “The district has a great music program, strong athletic teams, the robotics team is popular and that also extends to student government to the high school newspaper staff; all of these are ways students engage in the life of the school beyond what
Hiram Jackson tutors a cello student as part of the Bridge program in 2016. Wayne Tilcock/ Enterprise file photo
you learn in class. I think that’s becoming more important and appreciated in schools, because that kind of thing was missing for a lot of students during the pandemic. I think the trajectory of schools has been trying to focus on raising test scores, and social and emotional learning encompasses a lot of what’s not tested.” Beyond that, Jackson would like to have the district engage in surveys that discover what students have done in the years after graduating from Davis schools. Ultimately, he wants to see students’ post-graduate success and community engagement rather than focusing solely on gaining higher test scores which don’t always necessarily yield desired outcomes. “Another issue is I’ve been concerned about the response of the school district to certain issues. I
sense a certain avoidance addressing these issues openly, for instance the block scheduling of the high schools and the decision to not offer French in junior high,” said Jackson. “As a trustee, I think there’s a role they play in mediating conversations between the community and the school district so the community feels an ownership of the district. It’s another opportunity for an agenda item to be out in the open, and to be explained fully about what’s going on..” With his intent declared and candidacy papers to be filed in late July or early August, Jackson is ready to begin his campaign. Jackson’s currently creating a webpage and social accounts for his campaign, but for now, if one wants more information on Jackson or how to support, they can reach out to him directly at hiram4 schools@gmail.com.
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County’s COVID case rate rises again; one new death reported By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The state reported another COVID-19 death in Yolo County on Friday as the case rate increased again to 45.8 cases per 100,000 residents, up from 40.8 on Tuesday. Five individuals were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the county’s two hospitals. Yolo County currently has the sixth highest case rate in the state, trailing Del Norte, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo and Solano counties. However, Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson noted Tuesday that Yolo County has continued to test at a higher rate than most other counties, leading to a higher case rate. However, she also said, reported case rates represent an
undercount as positive results from home antigen tests are not included in the data. In any case, testing in Yolo SISSON County was already declining County health officer prior to the end on Thursday of Healthy Davis Together’s free asymptomatic testing, with total tests performed by the UC Davis Genome Center during the week of June 19-25 a fraction of those performed earlier in the pandemic. One finding from that work: the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants now account for more than half of all new cases locally. Those sub variants are more
infectious than previous versions of Omicron and are causing a high rate of reinfection even among individuals who previously contracted Omicron, said Sisson, who continues to urge everyone to mask up while in indoor public spaces. With the June 30 ending of COVID-19 testing by Healthy Davis Together, the county issued a reminder Friday about other testing resources available for free or low cost to the community. Retail pharmacies have home antigen test kits available for purchase and insurance companies, including Medicare and MediCal, are required to reimburse each member for up to eight tests each month, the county noted in a press release. Many pharmacies bill insurance directly so customers pay nothing out of pocket. All
U.S. households can also order three rounds of free COVID antigen test kits through the U.S. Postal Service at www.COVID. gov/tests for home delivery. Yolo County has developed two additional options for antigen tests. First, residents can go to their local library to pick up a free test kit. Second, Yolo County will launch a pilot program later this month with five antigen test kit vending machines at locations in Davis, West Sacramento, Woodland, Esparto and Winters. Tests in the vending machines will be free and residents are asked to take only what they need to ensure tests are available for everyone. Meanwhile, the state-sponsored OptumServe test-to-treat site continues to operate Thursday through Sunday at 2780 E.
NURSERY: ‘This program is so phenomenal’ From Page A1 important goal in the community. I cannot think of anything more important.” Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, echoed that. “This program is so phenomenal,” she said. “We can take care of the children in our community and make sure they have a better life. We can make sure moms and dads have the tools to be good parents.” More of that will be possible in a new, larger facility, including: n More than triple the number of beds for housing children overnight n Designated spaces for preschool classes, training sessions, and meetings n Private offices for parent counseling and other wraparound services n Space for medical assessments, targeted therapy, parenting training, and expanded services n Outside playground
space, with designated separate age-appropriate areas n Improved facilities and equipment, from an efficient, modern kitchen to critical security systems n Administrative spaces, storage, and entry areas to provide more effective services Heather Sleuter, executive director of the Yolo Crisis Nursery, expressed gratitude Thursday for all of the donations that have come in so far and said the next “$1.5 million will be extremely important.” Individual donations will be key, just as they have been throughout the history of the nursery, including eight years ago when the nursery faced an uncertain future. For years, EMQ FamiliesFirst had operated the nursery but pulled out in June 2014, citing the cost of running the nursery as well as fallout from issues at its other Davis facility at
the time — a group home on Fifth Street for troubled youths that had been shuttered. Alarm bells rang and the community came through, with donations pouring in from all corners — from Davis firefighters and local businesses to children’s bake sales and private foundations, as well as from individual residents.
Next steps Now a standalone nonprofit, the Yolo Crisis Nursery is turning to the community again. Sleuter said the new facility will be life-changing for the staff and the families they serve. Currently that staff works in a crowded livingroom space, overnight beds are limited and even the small backyard requires that children go outside to play at different times. And serving all the children who need crisis care in
Yolo County has grown increasingly challenging. In announcing the tribe’s $2.5 million donation for the new facility, Yocha Dehe Trial Chairman Anthony Roberts noted that the nursery “transforms lives.” “By protecting children, supporting parents in crisis and preserving families, the nursery breaks general cycles of abuse and neglect,” Roberts said. “We’re proud to partner with Yolo Crisis Nursery and enable this critical expansion of their work.” Locals interested in joining that effort can make donations at https:// yolocrisisnursery.org Plans call for construction on the new nursery to begin next spring on a oneacre parcel in South Davis. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
Gibson Road in Woodland. In addition to offering testing, the site has telehealth consultation and antiviral treatments available on site for those who test positive and are at high risk of severe COVID-19 disease, including people 50 and older and/or who have underlying conditions. “We have developed a variety of tools to help stop the spread of COVID, including widely available antigen tests that provide nearly instantaneous results. We no longer need to rely on PCR tests,” said Sisson. To find information on COVID-19 antigen tests, Test to Treat, and other COVID information from Yolo County, visit www. yolocounty.org/covid. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davisenter prise.net.
HDT: Program evolved in time From Page A1 As the pandemic evolved, so did Healthy Davis Together. The program administered more than 16,000 COVID-19 vaccines, processed tests for more than 50 Yolo County K-12 schools, and distributed gift cards to local stores and restaurants to incentivize testing and vaccines while boosting small businesses hit hard by the pandemic. Altogether, the UC Davis Genome Center has analyzed more than 2 million COVID-19 samples from the campus, community, schools, UC Merced and other partners. The center will continue to process asymptomatic tests at least through the end of the year for members of the campus community. Healthy Davis Together will also continue to monitor wastewater for local COVID-19 levels. Last month, the project
received the Presidential Excellence Award from the International Town Gown Association. In 2021, it won the Beacon Leadership and Innovation Award from the Institute for Local Government and the Research Response to a Community in Crisis Award from the Association of Public and LandGrant Universities. “Through our combined efforts, we not only prevented the spread of COVID-19, but we also saved lives,” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said this week in his monthly Enterprise column. “Moving forward, the success of Healthy Davis Together shows we have the capacity to find solutions and make a difference in any challenge we might face.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.
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Delta League should consider SJAA’s path O ne league in the Sac-Joaquin Section is being creative heading into the upcoming high school football season. The question becomes: Could Davis High and the Delta League follow the same format come 2024? Yes, it could happen. But we could know more come spring/summer 2023. The San Joaquin Athletic Association is a Division-II league that has eight high schools, which are all in San Joaquin County. Those high schools, mostly in Stockton, are Bear Creek, Chavez, Edison, Franklin of Stockton, Linden, McNair, Stagg and Weston Ranch. There are two high schools in the section that have the name Franklin, as Franklin of Elk Grove is a member of the Delta League. On Friday, Oct. 7, all eight teams will have their bye week — at the same time. That will be Week 7, out of an 11-week regular season. Then the teams resume
action on Friday, Oct. 14, until Friday, Oct. 28. The SJAA will follow the same format for the 2023 season. “We tried to find a week that was common because even though the school districts take a fall break,” said Randy Snider, who is the SJAA commissioner. Attendance at games when schools are having their fall breaks was a factor, Snider pointed out. Snider also noted some schools have limited number of faculty to help supervise football home games
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the week of the fall break. In the past, Lodi schools have taken two-week breaks. The Stockton schools took only a week break. Your truly saw that during my time as sportswriter at the Lodi News-Sentinel for about five years, before arriving at The Enterprise a year ago. During my time at the News-Sentinel, there were some Lodi and Tokay football home games where there were fans, but more before and after their fall break. The SJAA has eight schools that are members four different school districts. Bear Creek and McNair are in the Lodi Unified School District. Chavez, Edison, Franklin and Stagg in the Stockton Unified School District. Linden in the Linden Unified School District and Weston Ranch in the Manteca Unified School District. The SJAA was six schools in Bear Creek, Chavez, Edison, Franklin, McNair and Stagg since the start of the current
league realignment cycle that started in 2018. Most high schools in the section start the new school year from toward the end of July to early August. Then they have a fall break after the first grading quarter. The Delta League has eight high schools in Davis, plus Elk Grove schools in Cosumnes Oaks, Elk Grove, Franklin, Pleasant Grove, Sheldon of Sacramento, Jesuit and St. Francis. But Jesuit is an all-boys Catholic school and St. Francis is an all-girls Catholic school. So, there’s only seven schools for football. Could the Delta League have eight high school football teams for the 20242028 league realignment cycle? The section will hold public meetings for the next cycle beginning in January 2023. Monterey Trail of Elk Grove could fill
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Youth Basketball
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At top, Dino Clark (front) shows a group of boys on protecting the basketball from a defender during the Hot Shots basketball camp at Harper Junior High School on Friday. Below, a group of youngsters dribble the basketballs up the court. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.
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Former Davis High boys water polo player Ryan Pfeifer (top photo) and Jonny Vochatzer look to pass the ball to a teammate during a Sac-Joaquin Section playoff Division I quarterfinal game against Delta League rival Jesuit at Tokay High’s swimming pool on Nov. 10.
Two more Blue Devils earn AllAmerican status Enterprise staff Add two more Davis High water polo players who have earned All-American status. Ryan Pfeifer and Jonathan Vochatzer, both of whom guided the Davis High boys water polo team to winning the Delta League title last fall, made the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association’s All-America teams. The former Blue Devils were on the third team. Pfeifer and Vochatzer graduated from DHS in June. “Both players comprised the bedrock of our team, providing leadership and great flexibility in playing multiple positions as needed,” said Davis boys head coach Tracy Sapleton. “They were a very significant reason we finished as Delta League champions.” Pfeifer started at the attacker position for the Blue Devils. Vochatzer was at utility position. The duo led the Blue Devils to a 17-12 record last fall. Davis’ wins in league were against rival Jesuit. The Blue Devils beat Turlock in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs after winning the league title. But Jesuit got revenge on the Blue Devils in the second round of the playoffs, barely posting a 10-9 victory at Tokay High’s swimming pool in Lodi. Recently, four Davis High girls water polo players earned All-American status. Lindsay Taylor and Maddie Walker were named to the first team. Kenzie Walker, Maddie’s younger sister, was placed on the third team. Malaya Wright rounded out the list by being placed on the fourth team.
Hot Shots had fun times on the court By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent When Dino Clark speaks, the kids listen. President of the Hot Shots basketball program, Clark has spent nearly three decades sharing his wealth of basketball and life knowledge with kids from Davis and the surrounding areas. The latest opportunity for kids to learn from Clark came last week, as the Hot Shots held their annual basketball camp on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Harper Junior High School. The basketball camp was divided up into two sessions. Grades third through sixth went for the first 90 minutes before grades seventh through ninth took over for an equal amount of the time. The kids participated in drills, competitions and scrimmages. Also running the camp was Romero Nickell, a student at UC
Davis and an assistant coach under Clark for the Davis High junior varsity Boys Basketball team. “I think it’s great for kids just to have the opportunity to come and learn the game, especially at a young age,” Nickell said. “It’s important for kids to learn the fundamentals when they’re seven, eight, and nine years old.” However, making kids into good basketball players isn’t Nickell’s top priority as a coach. “I like to just make sure the kids have fun,” Nickell said. “I think that’s the most important thing.” Clark praised Nickell for his ability to lead younger athletes. “He’s really good at that because he’s a lot younger than me and he makes the energy higher,” Clark said of Nickell. For the younger players, there was an emphasis placed on listening and following directions, which follows the Hot Shots’
philosophy of helping kids on-andoff the court. “My basketball program teaches life skills,” Clark said. “We teach players the fundamentals of basketball and life.” The same values were instilled into the older kids, but Clark coached them with more intensity and detailed instruction. “With the older camp we strictly went to the fundamentals and if they didn’t do it the right way, we corrected them,” Clark said. “We have them work on skills over and over until they get it right.” While Clark has spent nearly 48 years in basketball, he admits it wasn’t his first love. “I come from a baseball family,” Clark said. “My dad and brothers were professional baseball players. But when my mom moved to Oakland and I spent time there, I
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learned behavior I suffer from is a terror of snakes. Ter! Ror! I owe this to my beloved mom, who made it clear from the get-go that snakes of all kinds are disgusting, screaminducing monsters that plotted humankind’s demise. Or at least that’s what I took her heebie jeebies to mean when a snake appeared on television during my childhood. I think I’m unique among snake-a-phobes. I’m equally put off by the most dangerous serpent in the world as I am the most harmless. I’m not afraid of being killed by a snake’s venom; I’m afraid of seeing a snake of any sort and having a complete collapse of all my body’s systems. No more heartbeat, no more brain connectivity, no
muscles able to function, just a bag of Tanya heaped limply on the ground. This is not all that impractical most of the time because we don’t live in the desert or a snake vivarium (shuddering as I type this). But somehow, mountain snakes are now an issue. I mean, maybe mountain snakes have always existed, but until a few years ago, I willfully believed that no snakes lived at the 6,500-elevation level because snow! Everybody knows that snakes don’t live where there’s snow! Except the snakes. So we have a family cabin in the Soda Springs area, and
starting a few years ago, neighbors up there started sharing stories about rattlesnake sightings. My first thought was, “Nah. That’s not possible.” Or maybe, “Someone must have accidentally brought a rattlesnake with him from a trip to the desert.” In no way did I think native rattlesnakes were living this far above the snow line. (Note: No need to send me links to stories about snakes in the Sierra. I won’t read them because I need to be in my fantasy world of a snake-free zone.) Worse in my book, is that people reportedly sometimes see snakes swimming in the couple of small lakes near the cabin. “Oh, don’t worry,” they say when they see my horror, “they are the harmless kind.” Because nonsnake-a-phobes seem to think it’s perfectly fine to be swimming in a lake alongside snakes as long as they aren’t poisonous.
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elp, a couple of weeks ago older son, D, called with a diabolical sounding glee in his voice. “Want to hear about how much fun we had using your paddle board?” he asked. D explained how he and girlfriend, E, were able to share the paddle board, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting and paddling as if on a boat. They enjoyed using it as a floating dock in the middle of the lake to swim from, although they were a little creeped out having seen a snake swim by. I grilled D for details. “Where were you when you saw the snake? How close was it? Were either of you afraid? Are you saying this to be mean?” He reported that it was kind of cute and it was just trying to get to land.
But wait! There’s more! As D and E were both sitting on the board, E warned D to be a little careful because a snake had climbed up on the board between them and curled up. They were now separated on the paddle board by a sleeping snake that came up from the water. And the apocalypse is complete … For the snake-lovers among you, D was gentle as he scooped up the snake with his paddle and flung it toward the shore. And obviously, I have burned down the family cabin because there is no need to ever return now that snakes swim up from the lake and hitch rides on paddle boards. — 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.
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he practice of trauma-informed yoga has increased benefits of traditional yoga practices maintaining physical and mental health benefits to improve and maintain overall health, but it also addresses the unique needs of trauma survivors. In the past, Empower Yolo offered traditional yoga classes to clients, but classes were canceled due to the pandemic. Empower Yolo is now excited to offer clients trauma-informed yoga through its Empower Yoga program. “This yoga series will be different from most yoga classes you may be familiar with because it is traumainformed,” says Jess Lucia Empower Yolo SART advocate and yoga instructor. Trauma-informed yoga is an alternative healing practice for people who have experienced trauma. It is a combination of alternative choices, wording, and poses that facilitates healing and autonomy. “As we know, trauma and the brain are very complex. This yoga series will allow room for our survivors to connect their feelings with their body and their mind and allow something I like to call, embodiment, to happen. Embodiment is the practice of feeling safe in our bodies and feeling grounded. Understanding what we need to be safe in our bodies and connect with ourselves is a huge part in anyone’s healing from trauma,” says Lucia. Every two weeks there will be a different theme and idea that will be focused on. Weeks 1 and 2
— Stabilize — will focus on what we need to feel safe in our own bodies during yoga as well as outside of yoga. Weeks 3 and 4 — Metabolize — focus will be on our mind-body connection. We will explore in our yoga practice and life, where do we need support? How can we support ourselves and our healing? Weeks 5 and 6 — Visualize — put the focus on seeing our future selves and what that looks like regarding our healing and being safe in our bodies; (there may even be room for visualizing our inner child and what we can tell them with the wisdom and knowledge we know now). Finally, Weeks 7 and 8 — Alchemize — will emphasize turning what happened to us into wisdom and self-care to continue to support our healing and our worth. At the beginning of every session, the class does a meditation based on the theme of the day. Yoga will be held once a week for eight weeks in a closed group to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence or human trafficking. Each session will be about 60 minutes and will be held at our Woodland location. The group currently has five survivors and because it is a small group, it allows for oneon-one and group support. “Trauma-informed yoga practice can be helpful for clients who have felt ‘out of their body’ since an assault. This yoga practice is beneficial to survivors in helping them gain their power back, feel more in their bodies, and it aids in their autonomy and
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Empower Yolo is excited to offer clients trauma-informed yoga through its Empower Yoga program. choosing what to do and what not to do based on their needs and wants. The goal for this series is to provide a safe space to be who they are and to heal from things that were done to them,” Lucia says. Part of what makes this yoga series unique is the amount of special training a trauma-informed yoga instructor goes through to be prepared to lead classes. Lucia took a 200-hour trauma-informed yoga instructor training course last year with School Yoga Institute. School Yoga Institute is a registered Yoga Alliance school. They have a variety of yoga instructor courses available, most are in-person, but some are virtual or hybrid. “School Yoga institute has been so honored to partner with Empower Yolo in supplying yoga
“Trauma-informed yoga practice can be helpful for clients who have felt ‘out of their body’ since an assault. This yoga practice is beneficial to survivors in helping them gain their power back, feel more in their bodies, and it aids in their autonomy and choosing what to do and what not to do based on their needs and wants.” Jess Lucia Empower Yolo SART advocate and yoga instructor props for their incredible work in the yoga community!” said Keri Nelson Pennell from School Yoga Institute. “Through this partnership, we have been able to provide ease and access to the major healing
Welchans named chief counsel at Department of Forestry Enterprise staff Name Droppers Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Kelly Welchans, 41, as chief counsel at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Welchans has been a deputy attorney general in the Natural Resources Law Section at the Office of the California Attorney General since 2017. She was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP from 2007 to 2017. Welchans earned a law degree from UC Davis. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $185,004. Welchans is a Democrat. ———— Mattie Boehler-Tatman, a 2007 Davis High School graduate, obtained her medical degree and a master’s degree in public
administration from Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School in May. Founded in 1764 in Providence, R.I., Brown is a leading research university home to worldrenowned faculty, and also an innovative educational institution where the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of students drives academic excellence. Boehler-Tatman accepted a residency in obstetrics and gynecology from Kaiser San Francisco. ———— William Faust of Davis was selected by the Grammy Organization as one of 81 high-school students from 69 U.S. cities across 18 states to participate in its 18th annual
Grammy Camp program. Reyna Roberts, Silversun Pickups, and Lauren Spencer-Smith will be this year’s guest artists; they will discuss their career paths and help students prepare for the music industry. The signature music industry camp for U.S. high school students will be from Tuesday, Aug. 2, to Saturday, Aug. 6, at the University of Southern California’s Ronald Tutor Campus Center. “Grammy Camp is a prime example of the Grammy Museum’s mission and education initiatives,” said Michael Sticka, president and CEO of the Grammy Museum. “We’re thrilled that the program is back in person and will continue to be one of the most immersive summer camps for high school students interested in a career in music and
continues to give young people the opportunity to study with music industry professionals.” Grammy Camp will focus on all aspects of commercial music and provide instruction by industry professionals in an immersive and creative environment. The program features seven music career tracks: audio engineering, electronic music production, music business, music journalism, songwriting, vocal performance and instrumental performance. Applications for Grammy Camp 2023 will be available online in September at www.grammy camp.com. — Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenterprise.net.
benefits of yoga for all survivors.” If you are interested in their courses, visit their website at schoolyogainstitute.com. Empower Yoga is currently open only to survivors of sexual assault,
By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Know Your States and Territories. What is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any U.S. territory or state name? 2. Great Americans. Who is the most famous American to be miscredited for having invented the rocking chair? 3. Unusual Words. “Estivation” is also known as sleeping through the what? 4. Indigenous Staples. “The Three Sisters” refer to the three main agricultural crops of various Indigenous peoples of North America: they were
domestic violence, and human trafficking. Participants do not have to be current clients to join, but they will be asked to fill out an Empower Yolo and yoga intake form. If you would like more information on days, times, and how to sign-up feel free to call our front desk at 530661-6336. The community can help support this program by spreading the word to all survivors. Financial donations can be made any time at empoweryolo.org and are always welcome to provide journals, self-care items, positive affirmation cards, and other yoga items to help promote healing for survivors. — Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.
beans, corn and what? 5. Film. According to the American Film Institute, two Billy Wilder films are among the 15 greatest films ever made. Name one of them. Answers: Q, Benjamin Franklin, summer, (winter) squash, “Sunset Boulevard” or “Some Like It Hot.” — Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.
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artin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German king and his German mercenaries. Walker — who now lives in France and writes the hugely successful “Bruno” detective books set in the Perigord region — once told me, “It’s exciting living in a country where the president can order up an aircraft carrier to settle a dispute.” He, an Englishman, and I, a former British colonial, shared our admiration for the United States. For America’s birthday, I have counted some things I most like and admire about this country of endless experimentation. Also, alas, I admit it is getting harder to feel as proud of it as I once did. America, for me, has always embodied a special freedom: the freedom to try. The wonderful thing about it is that you can try a business, an idea, a way of living, or even a way of thinking. I read in “The Waist-High Culture,” the 1958 book by Thomas Griffith, that Europe was a “no” culture and the United States was a “yes” culture. So true. In my first year here, I wrote to a family member in England, marveling at the size and scope of the American market. I wrote to her, “You could make a fortune here making glass beads, so long as they were good glass beads.” I still believe that. The other great freedom, which I treasure, is that you can move across the country and start all over again. If you feel you have failed in New York, you can take a fresh sheet and try again in Chicago, Austin or San Francisco. You can have failed in marriage, in business, in a career, and in some very public way, but you can go on anew somewhere else. You can’t do that in what are, in many ways, city-states — for example, in the way England is dominated by London and France by Paris. There is geographic freedom in the United States that has an exhilaration all its own. I was intoxicated by America from the first. I didn’t dwell on the sins of the past, from the cruelty of the Puritans, the pioneers and the planters to the folly of Prohibition. When I arrived, I embraced all that was in the present; the civil rights movement was underway and gathering strength, and it was possible to believe that the United States would continue to be the shining example of how you get it right, how you correct big and small errors, and how you let people prosper. John F. Kennedy was president, and it was a new day. When I covered Congress, I was enchanted with it: the committee power centers, the indifference to party discipline, and a system where you really did need majority approval to get a law passed. Overall, members of Congress were among the hardest-working (and some were the hardest-drinking) around. They sought to understand issues from atomic energy to cancer. Congress wasn’t perfect, but it aspired to get things right. For many years, I participated in the Humbert Summer School — a think tank — in the west of Ireland. I used to enjoy talking up the presidential system as superior to the parliamentary one, where a simple majority can wreak havoc. Now, alas, Congress is experiencing the evils of parliamentary government and none of the virtues, particularly swift legislating. Party discipline — as in the case of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California shunning Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming — has supplanted the old tolerance for differences within the party. It began with the 1994 Gingrich Revolution, abetted by the proliferation of single-point-of-view talk radio. Like all unchecked decay, it has gotten worse. America the Beautiful, I wish you a happy birthday. I thank you for your generosity over these decades, and I say sincerely, “Mind how you go.” The world needs your seeking to be fair and just, and full of possibility, not divided and rancorous, and a threat to yourself. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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alifornia’s K-12 schools and their nearly 6 million students received a multi-billion-dollar additional infusion of cash in the budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators enacted last week, raising per-pupil spending to a record-high level. In all, the budget will provide schools with an average of about $24,000 a year for each student, doubling what it was just a few years ago, with a formula that provides extra allocations to school districts with high numbers of poor and English-learner students. Those extra funds are being distributed via the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a plan adopted a decade ago to close what is called the “achievement gap” between those children — roughly 60% of the state’s K-12 students — and the more privileged 40%. Spending $24,000 per student appears to propel California into the upper ranks of the states, although making such comparisons is tricky. Different organizations use different numbers, some adjust numbers for the cost of living, and the data are
Letters Whose side is the AG on? On the surface, Jack Goldsmith’s New York Times column, “Put yourself in Merrick Garland’s shoes” (June 20) is nothing but a defense of the AG’s lack of action in regards an ex-president, even as the Jan. 6 Committee presents days of evidence against Trump and even as Fulton County, Ga., has proceeded with a grand jury to investigate and advise on indictment of this former president for voter fraud and political coercion. But on a deeper level, consider Goldsmith, a member of the pro-Trump Federalist Society supporting Garland’s inaction. Is Garland’s inaction a gift to Trump? If so, this is surely a betrayal of Democrats who voted for Biden, the antiTrump candidate. And if so, that Garland remains in office at the pleasure of the president is astounding. In the interest of fair and credible journalism, the Times owes its readers another piece along the lines of “An ethical, courageous and aggressive defender of democracy steps into Merrick Garland’s shoes.”
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always a few years out of date. The main problem with such comparisons, however, is they assume that spending money equates to educational outcomes when, in fact, they don’t. If one takes any list of what states spend on schools and compares it to results of the federal government’s academic testing program, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), there is absolutely no correlation between spending and achievement. Some states that spend heavily, such as New Jersey, also excel in NAEP’s measures of reading and mathematics competence, but others, such as neighboring New York, are mediocre at best. Likewise, states that are below average or even at the bottom, of spending lists are often in the academic upper tier, such as Iowa, Utah and Colorado. But some low-
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spending states also rank poorly in testing, such as Mississippi. Washington, D.C., schools have the highest per-pupil spending in the nation but are dead last in academics. California, until recently, was mediocre in spending and mediocre in NAEP tests. The state’s big increases in spending could bring better academic results, but only if the money is laser-focused on lifting up children who have been left behind, rather than subtly diverted into other purposes, as various independent studies have indicated, including a scathing 2019 report from the state auditor’s office. After delving into the finances of three representative school districts, auditors castigated the state Department of Education for sloppy oversight of LCFF funds. They also criticized school districts for issuing indecipherable and inaccurate reports on how funds were being spent, and county offices of education for not fulfilling their designated roles as LCFF monitors. “We are particularly concerned that the state does not explicitly require districts to spend their
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Roe Roe has been overturned. This will not change much in California and many other states, but abortion may be banned in some states. In those states, abortion will become more expensive and inconvenient as women will have to travel to states that have not banned abortion to terminate a pregnancy. The Democrats are rushing to pass legislation to protect abortion rights. This is a very bad political strategy. The smart political strategy for liberals would be to leave the defense of abortion to referendums, the direct vote of the electorate. That way a vote for a Democrat would no longer be a vote for abortion rights and a vote for a Republican would no longer be a vote for the right to life. The majority of the voters in a referendum are likely to support most abortion rights, but Democrat politicians lose far more votes than they gain on the abortion issue. Most voters who switch parties because of the abortion issue are pro-life.
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supplemental and concentration (LCFF) funds on the intended student groups or to track their spending of those funds,” the report declared. “Without a means of tracking how districts use funds, state and local policymakers and other local stakeholders lack adequate information to assess the impact of those funds on the outcomes of intended student groups.” Moreover, a CalMatters investigation into how the state’s schools spent $33.5 billion in one-time state and federal funds to help their students cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that much of it was diverted into programs, equipment and other purposes that had little or nothing to do with countering the devastating impacts of at-home schooling. So will the extra money that Newsom and the Legislature are pumping into the schools really make an academic difference? The record to date is not encouraging. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.
Voters know that it is extremely unlikely that they will cast the deciding vote in an election. So even if the outcome of an election will affect them and their family their vote is not likely to affect them or their family. On the other hand, many religious people believe that a vote for a politician who supports abortion rights will endanger their eternal salvation and almost no one believes that voting for a politician who supports the right to life will result in eternal damnation. Both logic and empirical science tell us that temporal, this world, self-interest has little influence on voting but religion is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful influence on how people vote. Before Roe was decided the income distribution in America was becoming more equal. 1973 was the year that income distribution was most equal. Since Roe income distribution has become more unequal and is about as unequal as it has ever been in American history. If the supporters of abortion rights would use referendums rather than legislation this trend might be reversed. Richard Bruce Davis
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hriving Pink appreciates all the medical providers and professional facilitators for their monthly “Pink Speaker Series” workshops. These workshops are informative, open to the general public, and provide a much needed network of support and resources for those in Yolo County diagnosed with breast cancer. An open Q & A session is available at the end of each workshop as well. Our upcoming workshops include a Thriving Pink Spanish speaking Breast Cancer — Know Your Options Workshop from 7-8:30 p.m. on Monday, July 11. The workshop will be presented in Spanish and led by Thriving Pink board member Dr. Alivia Silva, a surgeon at Sutter Hospital. The presentation will cover detection and treatment options. Thriving Pink Monthly Morning Walk from 9-10 a.m. on Saturday, July 19, at North Star Pond in Davis (Parking at Tandem Properties, 3500 Anderson
Thriving Pink Road, Davis). This is a scenic, short loop, at your own pace (about 1.5 miles or more). Thriving Pink Peers will be helping to lead the walk for the group. Thriving Pink Health & Wellness Workshop from 7-8:30 p.m. on Monday, July 25, led by Dr. Karen Mo, a family physician with UC Davis Health System. This workshop is for breast cancer survivors and anyone interested in achieving their optimal health through self-care modalities, including sleep, pain management, supplements and nutrition. RSVP to info@thrivingpink. org to attend, and receive the Zoom link for the virtual monthly workshops. We are looking forward to opening a new Pink Place (Office & Community Room) soon in Davis downtown by early October this year at 501 2nd Street! We will be hosting and leading support groups, educational
workshops, our financial assistance grant program, and one-on-one pink peer mentoring support for newly diagnosed women in-person (with virtual options). The good work of Thriving Pink is made possible by our wonderful and caring community of volunteers. This summer, as we prepare for October, a time which focuses on breast cancer awareness month activities, we are seeking additional volunteers to help us with our core programs, from outreach at various community events to distributing comfort bags at local hospitals and healthcare
Not the right way to atone for real historical wrongs Special to CalMatters
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n April, University of California President Michael Drake announced that, beginning this fall, the university will waive tuition for “California residents who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian, and Alaska Native tribes.” That may seem a laudable way for UC to atone for the facinorous means that, beginning in 1850, the State of California employed to clear the public domain of the Native Americans who had been occupying it. But it is not. “Federally recognized tribe” is a legal status conferred on a group of individuals of Native American descent by treaty, act of Congress or by the secretary of the interior acting with authority delegated by Congress. In 1852, the U.S. Senate decided it would not ratify any treaties with Indian groups in California. With a single exception, no act of Congress has created “federally recognized tribes” in California. However, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs says there are 109 groups in California that are “federally recognized tribes.” While every “federally recognized tribe” has a blood quantum requirement for membership, in 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that tribal membership is a political, rather than a racial status. When asked to explain the rationale for the new tuition-waiver policy, a spokesman for President Drake cited that court decision. But the reality is that tribal membership is a proxy for race, which the California Constitution prohibits UC from using to grant preferential treatment. President Drake admitted as much when he assured students of Native American descent who are not members of a “federally recognized tribe” that “tuition scholarships for California residents from California’s nonfederally recognized tribes may be available through external organizations.” The governing body of a “federally recognized tribe” has exclusive authority to decide who is a member of the tribe and who is not. For example, the Seminole Tribe of Florida requires its members to have “a minimum of one-quarter Florida Seminole blood.” But in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation allows anyone to be a member who has a scintilla of Cherokee blood because the individual is a descendant of a Cherokee listed on an 1898 census. Which is
why the Cherokee Nation has 400,000 members. So UC is delegating to tribal councils — many corrupt and many that enroll and disenroll their members in ways that are arbitrary and unfair — blank-check authority to decide who will get free tuition and who will not. The new tuition-waiver policy also does not require a “federally recognized tribe” to be located in California. For example, of the 400,000 members of the Cherokee Nation, 141,000 live in Oklahoma. How many of the other 259,000 live in California? In 2018, there were 25,000. So a student will receive free tuition for no reason other than that he or she is a member of the Cherokee Nation because he or she had a great-great-great grandparent who traveled west to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears? Of the 109 groups in California the Bureau of Indian Affairs says are “federally recognized tribes,” 73 operate casinos that contain 70,000 video-gaming machines. In 2020, those tribes received gaming revenue that totaled $8 billion. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says that how much of that revenue those tribes give out to their members as payments is no one’s business but the tribes’. But in 2008, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, which operates a casino near San Bernardino, was paying its members $100,000 a month. So a student who annually may receive $50,000 or considerably more a year gets free tuition for no reason other than that he or she is a member of a “federally recognized tribe”? When he announced the new tuition-waiver policy, President Drake touted it as a way for UC to acknowledge “historical wrongs endured by Native Americans.” While in California during the 19th century Native Americans endured grievous historical wrongs, this attempt at atonement is an ill-considered woke gesture that the Board of Regents should direct President Drake to rethink. — Donald Craig Mitchell is an attorney, a nationally recognized expert on federal Indian law and the author of “Wampum: How Indian Tribes, the Mafia, and an Inattentive Congress Invented Indian Gaming and Created a $28 Billion Gambling Empire.”
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’ve made my own choices along the path of life — spiritual, mental, physical. I declared myself a non-believer in my parents’ religion at age 16. I’d just read the book “Exodus,” by Leon Uris, and couldn’t tolerate the church’s teaching that all non-believers, including all Jews, were going to hell. Bye bye, church on Sunday. My mother was devastated, but we slowly came to terms with one another. On a family vacation that summer, as we were driving on the Chicago Skyway, the radio announced a tornado warning. Mom later wrote a published essay that ended thus: “Three Christians and one agnostic prayed.” In other words, we found a space beyond life’s cultural certainties to reconnect. We loved each other; that’s what mattered. This transcended all the proclaimed certainties of religion. I’ve been exploring this realm — the Great Beyond, you might say — ever since. The final paper I wrote in high school, my “senior paper,” was titled “Is a Man’s Mind His Own?” My primary references were George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” Yes, I decided, staring directly into the flabbergasted eyes of Big Brother, I am the final determiner of what I believe, what I value. This doesn’t mean things were easy — just the opposite. This was the mid-’60s. Social change was beginning to percolate and I was mostly naïve, mostly in sync with White America: the status quo of the time. It wasn’t so much that I believed in it as that I was only slowly coming to notice it. My parents were Eisenhower Republicans. I had been gung-ho for Nixon in the 1960 election. But the civil rights movement began penetrating the news I read (beyond the sports pages, which wasn’t much). Hmmm. Where did I stand? As I shuffled off to college, the Vietnam war was revving
up. As a college student, yeah, I was exempt from the draft, but mostly my focus was on personal matters: Yikes, calculus! What career am I going to have? That girl who works in the cafeteria is so-o-o pretty! But the larger world did begin to slowly penetrate my awareness. I attended official, professorial debates about the war. I also, by the end of my sophomore year, decided to stop cutting my hair. By 1967 I had moved off campus — a big first! In essence, I had just entered — so it seemed — a parallel universe, which was very much under construction. I could be one of the creators. Marijuana? OK, I’ll try it. I still remember smoking that first joint. Will I get high? Suddenly I was hungry. We made toast, buttered it and then, oh, I remember this so vividly, I began spreading grape jelly and my life changed. Jewels of grape jelly! It was unbelievable. And then, that fall, a bunch of friends and I went to the first march on the Pentagon. It was all connected, right? I remember strolling across the grounds of the Pentagon and suddenly a group of soldiers charged toward us. I got bonked in the head with a rifle butt. Ah, my red badge of courage. My friends and I eventually decided not to get arrested; we walked back to the guy’s apartment where we were staying, drove back to Michigan the next day. And then I dropped out of school. Is a man’s mind his own? Yeah, definitely, or so I thought. This was the late ’60s and the hippies were changing the world. I was now vulnerable to the draft, but I didn’t care. I had bigger matters to deal with, like painting a Bible verse across the side of my Volkswagen bus: “Let the day’s own troubles be sufficient for the day.” Yes, this was my illusion of the moment. I thought I was involved in creating, you know, peace. A bunch of us drove across the country to San Francisco — to the
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Haight, of course. But eventually the Army starting coming after me and I wound up hitchhiking back to Kalamazoo, my college town, where I sought the help of a draft counselor (and friend). Things got rather strange. On her advice, I wrote a letter to my local draft board, requesting an in-person visit, which was granted. What I did was write a paragraph-long life philosophy, mostly quoting Fyodor Dostoevsky. I declared that I was Raskolnikov. The draft board guys told me I needed to see a psychiatrist. And instead of getting arrested and going to jail for my beliefs, I wound up getting a 2-S, a temporary deferment. I was relieved at the time, but later began feeling guilty — not that I hadn’t joined the Army, endured basic training and then gone off and killed some Vietnamese, but that I hadn’t taken a clear, definite stand and endured the consequences. I remained in a state of uncertainty for a number of years. I went back to school, got my bachelor’s degree (no big deal). I starting shifting my belief system in certain ways — I started washing dishes on a regular basis, for instance. I found work painting houses, driving a taxi. Eventually I got a job at a small-town newspaper. In other words, I started growing up. I got married. But I nonetheless felt a vague, looming need to ... What? I toss this question out into the world because I think it’s unavoidable, and related to such matters as young-male gun violence, not to mention ongoing war. There’s an aching male need to move from childhood to manhood, not in some hohum, automatic way (you know, getting older), but with purpose, with deep belief and effort. — Robert Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”
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ater in this column, you will see what its lead item had been, but UCLA’s and USC’s eventual departure from the Pac-12 supersedes all. n It’s not difficult whatsoever to figure out Thursday’s events, culminating with the 20-megaton explosive dropped on Pac-12 headquarters. The issue? Several. Two in particular. National collegiate athletics relevancy and, not coincidentally, money. Lots of it and a lot more where that came from. The next round of TV contract negotiations will reap more cash than ever before. The Pac-12, through mostly its own fault, had become irrelevant, especially in football. Relevancy in any collegiate sport is achieved only by a consistent pattern of winning. USC doesn’t do irrelevant. UCLA doesn’t do irrelevant. While the bombshell was shocking in its timing, it should not be construed as surprising.
Two-thirds of the United States population lives in the Eastern and Central time zones. If you are trying to acquaint people with mainstream Pac-12 franchises (football, men’s and women’s basketball primarily), you don’t do it starting games when much of the country has gone to bed. The Pac-12 has just two total appearances in the College Football Playoff. Bottom line: Its teams just haven’t been good enough. In the not-so-distant past, West Coast recruiting was dominated by the Pac-12. The SEC in particular and later the Big Ten each saw California for what it is: A
treasure trove of well-coached football talent and players who wanted to play for schools they believed had a chance at a national championship. What’s next? Who knows? What will a revamped Pac-12 look like? Not just football, but all sports, men and women. This much is certain. There will be more movement and realignment. The Pac-12 is soon to lose its cornerstones. Replacing them will be a tall task.
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ow, to our previously scheduled material. n Baseball and the Fourth of July; they go hand-in-hand. Maybe it’s the hot dogs, in abundance at all ballparks and on your outdoor grill as we celebrate our nation’s birthday. n Hard to understand why all 30 MLB teams aren’t playing on July 4th. On Monday, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles Angels and the New York Yankees aren’t scheduled. n ”Whoever wants to know the heart
and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.” A quote from longtime French and U.S. historian Jacques Barzun, who lived to be 104 years old. n Two well-known, and often confrontational sports owners were born on July 4th: Al Davis and George Steinbrenner. n Only one member of the Baseball Hall of Fame was born on July 4. It is 1880s pitcher Mickey Welch, who won 307 games, mostly for the New York Giants, in the dead-ball era. n To read the rest of Doug Kelly’s column, visit www.davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab. — The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.
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the void. The Mustangs are currently in the Metro Conference, which is D-II. During public meetings for the 2018-2022 league realignment cycle in Stockton in early 2017, Monterey Trail made it clear it wanted to remain in the Delta League. The Mustangs were a member from 2014 until 2018, then moved to the Metro Conference. In 2021, the section extended the current
league realignment cycle through spring 2024 because of the pandemic. Should Monterey Trail return, some notable items to keep in mind. One, Davis and all the schools would play three non-league games before starting league play. Two, if the Delta League officials opt for the bye week for all teams, when would it be held is the question. The bye could be held Week 6 or 7 in 2024 and 2025. If Week 6, an even
four games left in the regular season. If Week 7, three games remain on each school’s schedule. Another plus for the Delta League is that each football team would not have an advantage over their next league foe entering the following week when they face each other under the lights. There are many sevenschool leagues in the section. Each of those schools are at a disadvantage. A bye week for all
schools could be a topic of discussion for Davis High and the rest of the Delta League, should Monterey Trail return come summer 2024. The Delta League should seriously consider following the SJAA’s path, which could be setting a new trend for leagues and conferences in the section for high school football teams. — Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise. net. Follow on Twitter: @ MBDavisSports.
started playing basketball.” After joining his eighth-grade basketball team, Clark realized he had a natural talent. “When I picked that ball up, it was like God gave me a gift,” Clark said. “I worked very hard at every level I played in so every time I played basketball, it was always a challenge for me to get better and better.”
Clark played high school basketball at Burbank High of Sacramento before continuing his career at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento and Cal State East Bay. n To read the rest of Krueger’s story, visit www.davisenterprise. com and click on the Sports tab. — Henry Krueger is an intern for The Enterprise this summer. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.
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What Makes America Great What makes this country great is that you can find unity within every culture here in the United States of America. Betsy Ross knitted our Red, White & Blue flag so that today it's known for the freedom and land of opportunity this country represents. The beauty of all the nationalities is seen as a “melting pot” as we walk alongside one another heading for the common goal of “Doing what needs to be done to make America Great.” We Love ourselves so we can love others, especially our children As we guide them into the future. — Jason Charles Jones Sr.
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Peter Leon-Guerrero: A heart of service By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
In 2017, after growing up in a military family, which meant that he frequently moved, Peter Leon-Guerrero put down roots in Norther California, settling in Vacaville with his family as he took up the position of director of planned giving at UC Davis. This month, Leon-Guerrero, 39, began a second, simultaneous communityservice-focused role as president of Davis Rotary’s Noon Club. “I’ve always been in some sort of service to the communities I’ve lived in,” he said. During college, LeonGuerrero helped organize events for the American Cancer Society. After graduating, he worked with a nonprofit serving the homeless in Hawaii. “When you’re working with a grassroots organization, you really get to see the impact of what you’re contributing,” he said. “That’s what I fell in love with.” Over the past decade and a half, he hasn’t changed course. As director of planned giving at UCD, Leon-Guerrero has helped raise funds for the campus’ Manetti Shrem Museum, the Mondavi Center, the School of Law, the School of Nursing and UC Davis Health’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. “For me, being a conduit for the donors that I work with is what’s rewarding,” he said. “I’m not the person who’s donating the money but it’s exciting to be part of that journey.” At UCD, Leon-Guerrero often helps people create legacy gifts using deferred assets like wills, trusts, and retirement accounts. “To a person who’s trying to make a greater impact, this serves as an opportunity for them to do that,” he said. “This is a way for them to not only provide for their family members and the people they love but also for the charities they love.” When he moved to Vacaville five years ago, Leon-Guerrero, a father of three, began searching for ways to connect with the town where he worked. “I was looking for a way to get plugged in,” he said.
“When you’re working with a grassroots organization, you really get to see the impact of what you’re contributing. That’s what I fell in love with.”
That’s when he got involved with the Davis Rotary Club, where he has served as presidentelect for the past year. (Davis Rotary is actually three clubs, Sunrise, Noon and Sunset, each of which refers to the time of day its members meet.) “Things really took off,” Leon-Guerrero said. “I got really passionate about what the Davis Rotary Club was focused on.” Rotary International, a worldwide humanitarian service organization with clubs all
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For Peter LeonGuerrero, Davis Rotary provided a welcoming environment and a way to connect with the local community.
over the world, is both a philanthropic and community service organization. Davis Rotary partners with many local initiatives, including the Yolo Crisis Nursery, the Salvation Army, Meals on Wheels and other service-oriented programs. It has a particular focus on child abuse prevention, an issue Leon-Guerrero said was especially meaningful to him. “The Rotary Club really aligned with the things I wanted to do,” he said. Recently, the club raised money for a relief fund for Ukrainian refugees. While its community service mission has remained a constant, Rotary has gone through significant transitions. Formerly a male-only organization, in the 1970s, Rotary International revoked the charter of one of its California clubs because it admitted three women. The dispute ultimately resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which held that the organization had to admit female members. “We have members in our Rotary Club who were some of the first women Rotarians,” LeonGuerrero said. Today, Rotary is still striving to become more inclusive — a mission Leon-Guerrero plans to incorporate into his goals as president of the Davis Rotary Noon Club. “One of the important initiatives for our club is to invite more members of the community to join us and to really have an organization that reflects the community that we serve,” he said. The noon club currently has about 60 members. One challenge in attracting younger members from more diverse backgrounds is the annual dues all members pay. “Especially for younger members of the community, those could be an obstacle,” Leon-Guerrero said. To make the club more accessible, the noon club has slashed the fee from $250 to $125 for all members under age 40. (The dues contribute to Rotary’s community service initiatives.) For Leon-Guerrero, Davis Rotary provided a welcoming environment and a way to connect with the local community. “They embraced me with open arms,” he said. As president, Leon-Guerrero hopes to continue serving the community and providing a way for likeminded people to join those efforts. “I think that being a Rotarian magnifies the impact you can make as an individual,” he said. “You are immediately connected to other people. If you have a heart of service and a vision of making a difference, this is a great organization to do that with. Our door is always open to all members of the community.” — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.
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Acme Theatre, the top of the heap By Pamela Trokanski Special to The Enterprise
For almost four decades, Acme Theatre has provided meaningful experiences in diversity for young people throughout our community. This organization uses theater to teach both important skills in acting, writing, construction work, and theater technology in addition to using theatre to address important topics of the day. Their programs are free and open to all ninth- to 12th-graders throughout Davis. Importantly, the plays that they choose to produce deal with many current event topics such as women’s rights and sexism, gun control, race, and recognizing the LGBTQ community. They are also sensitive to the community around them and, since 2017,
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Acme Theatre produced Peter and the Starcatcher, above, in 2019 and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, right, this year.
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have acknowledged at performances the indigenous peoples on whose land their events take place. But wait, there’s more! They spoke out during the BLM movement to support Black individuals and give 9th - 12th graders a safe place to identify and talk about their experiences with race, gender and relationships, with no judgement. Born out of Dave Burmester’s classroom at DHS back in the 1980’s, Acme Theater Company has become one important brick (out of many!) in the building of the Davis community. They not only create a safe place in which our young people can explore who they are and how they fit into the broader community but they also help educate our community about both local and global concerns, through their productions.
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Far left, Wren Arellano Calderon performs in The Servant of Two Masters in 2021. Middle, Acme Theatre produced The Burials in 2020. Above, Jamie Aldas and Grey Turner perform in the 2019 Acme Theatre production of Peter and the Starcatcher.”
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Enterprise staff writer For Ilya Bezuglov, immigrating to the United States exposed him to a number of new experiences — including carpeting, of all things. “I’d never seen it before,” Bezuglov, a Davis Police Department lieutenant, said of the worn floor covering at the West Sacramento apartment he shared with his family. The year was 1994, several years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bezuglov, then 23, came to America on a refugee visa with his sevenmonths-pregnant wife and his mother-in-law after growing up in Uzbekistan. He recalls his first trip to a grocery store, the local Safeway, as “a religious experience.” “I never knew there was more than one pack of cheese,” Bezuglov said. But it was another opportunity, while attending Sacramento City College, that would end up shaping the trajectory of his life. A public safety recruitment program directed Bezuglov to the Los Rios Police Academy, from which he graduated in 1998. His father, who along with most of his family worked in the medical field, “didn’t speak to me for a year.”
Davis Police Department Lieutenant Ilya Bezuglov, originally from Uzbekistan, plans to retire from the agency to pursue another new opportunity — coordinating the Los Rios Police Academy that recruited him nearly three decades ago.
Accustomed to corruption in law enforcement, Bezuglov’s father shunned his son until he paid a visit to the U.S. “and saw that things were quite a bit different,” Bezuglov said. His academy graduation led to a job with the West Sacramento Police Department, and he later moved to the Davis Police Department in 2001. “I fell in love with the community,” Bezuglov
said. “It’s a really great department.” Twenty-one years later, Bezuglov plans to retire from the agency to pursue another new opportunity — coordinating the Los Rios Police Academy that recruited him nearly three decades ago. “I’ve done everything I wanted to do,” said Bezuglov, who has worked patrol and
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investigations, served on the SWAT team and run the department’s training unit as he moved up the ranks. He’s also taught part-time at the Napa Community College police academy since 2016, which exposed him to the joys of teaching others who are eager to learn. “You’re their 007,” he said of the aspiring officers. “The opportunity to change someone’s life is very fulfilling.” “Training officers has been Ilya’s passion for a long time, and his skill and dedication will really be missed,” Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said. “After he does the training I always hear how much the participants enjoyed learning from him and how much they learned.” “He leaves big shoes to fill, but the good news is he is going to stay active in training police officers even in his retirement from Davis PD,” Pytel added. “He has tremendous experience and a great understanding of people and policing. Imparting that knowledge to new officers is so critical in these times.”
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Bezuglov’s family still resides in Russia, having moved there after he left Uzbekistan. His father and sister, both dentists, opened their own clinic in St. Petersburg. There, near the Finland border, they’ve remained largely removed from the conflict stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “but at the same time the economy is collapsing,” he said. With no legal method for assisting his family financially, “god forbid something happens and they need my help.” Bezuglov last visited his relatives this past November, and he’s unsure of when — or if — he’ll be able to return. “I don’t even know the reason they invaded Ukraine, and it doesn’t really matter,” he said. “If you enter another country and start killing people, I don’t care what the reason is. It’s a human tragedy.” Reflecting on his law-enforcement career, Bezuglov said he enjoyed his detective role the most, and the problemsolving skills it required to bring cases to justice. Those that stand out include the murders of Oliver Northup Jr. and Claudia Maupin by then-15-year-old Daniel Marsh; the drowning of Tatiana Garcia, 5, by her mother Aqueline Talamantes; and Darnell Dorsey’s fatal beating of his girlfriend’s 20-month-old son Cameron Morrison. Tatiana’s case “was probably the hardest,” said Bezuglov, father to two
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Ilya Bezuglov hopes to incorporate a wellness program into the Los Rios Police Academy, where he’ll be in charge of recruitment, curriculum and trainings, having the benefit of more than two decades of personal experiences to guide him. daughters. “It was one of those cases where I couldn’t comprehend why.” All three of those cases occurred within a year’s time in 2013-14, when Bezuglov was a new sergeant overseeing five young detectives. In retrospect, he wishes he would have required the investigators to undergo a mental-health assessment in response to the tragedies, something he believes law-enforcement agencies should provide to help officers — and their families — process the job’s daily stressors. “I’d want to see it at least on an annual basis,” Bezuglov said. “I don’t know if you can mandate that, but I would.” He hopes to incorporate a wellness program into the Los Rios Police Academy, where he’ll be in charge of recruitment, curriculum and trainings, having the benefit of more than two decades of personal experiences to guide him. “That’s a dream job,” he said. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
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Cathie Carson Bullis helps Davis pick it up By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Some people just complain about the things in Davis that bother them; others take action. Cathie Carson Bullis would fall in the latter category. The longtime Davis resident and retiree walks regularly in her neighborhood and after changing up her route one day, began noticing all of the litter and trash along the way. “I just thought, ‘This isn’t good,’” she said. So she went home to get a trash grabber and a garbage bag and “just went around the block and up and down the street… and I felt really good about it.” She began doing it almost every day and people would notice, stopping to thank her. She also began venturing beyond her neighborhood, picking up trash in the parking lot of the South Davis Nugget, at TJ Maxx and Target as well. She was on Cowell Boulevard one day, picking up everything from used needles and drug paraphernalia to razor blades on what is a regular bike-to-school route for children. A member of the group Sacramento Picks It Up saw her and pulled over to tell her about the efforts in the capitol city and provide information on how to organize and put together a group here. That was back in March, when Bullis started spreading the word among friends and created a
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There are more than 120 members of Davis Picks It Up who collect trash along around Davis almost every weekend, including Second Street, above.
Facebook page and email list. She put up flyers at Target and Common Grounds and even made up business cards to hand to the folks who stop her on the street. “And now we have over 120 members and we’ve just been all over Davis. We’re out almost every weekend and a couple times during the week,” Bullis said. Some pick up garbage on their own; others work in small groups with their neighbors; and more join in clean-ups organized by Bullis herself -families, UC Davis fraternity members, and folks from all walks of life. “And it’s just turned into this big fun event and we’re seeing some progress already,” she said. “I wanted to do something for the city and for the community and I just thoroughly enjoy it.” Bullis is now working with the city, including the police department, and others are seeking out the group’s help, including the Chamber of Commerce, which asked if Davis Picks It Up would help with clean-up following Celebrate Davis in Community Park last month. In exchange, the chamber offered to spread the word about the group. The city, meanwhile, picks up the bags of
“It’s just turned into this big fun event and we’re seeing some progress already.” Cathie Carson Bullis Davis Picks It Up founder
THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE garbage the group collects. The Davis Joint Unified School District has also connected with Davis Picks It Up, which cleaned up the Davis High School campus following graduation. There are strict rules for participating, Bullis said. “We’re very much safety oriented. Everybody’s got to wear gloves, sturdy shoes. I have sharps containers, battery containers. We have a first aid kit at every event. We report illegal dumping and encourage the buddy system and children are supervised by a parent or a guardian.” “We watch out for the unsheltered, too,” she added. “We leave their space alone but I’m working with (the police department) to see if they would allow us to clean up small, abandoned encampments. And they’re going to work with us.” “It’s really taken off and people are very excited
Voices of America from Davis about it. So there’s more and more people picking up all around and I’ll tell you, there’s a big difference between four months ago and today,” she noted. Recently the group focused on the Park-andRide off Mace Boulevard and ended up collecting 19 bags of garbage on a single day, including a whole lot of used needles. Downtown and shopping centers throughout the city have also benefitted from Davis Picks It Up, not to mention roadways, parks and more. “We’re just trying to keep Davis clean and safe,” Bullis said. Reach Bullis at DavisPicksItUp@gmail or find the group on Facebook, where all planned events are announced. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ ATernusBellamy.
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There are strict rules for participating. “We’re very much safety oriented. Everybody’s got to wear gloves, sturdy shoes. I have sharps containers, battery containers. We have a first aid kit at every event. We report illegal dumping and encourage the buddy system and children are supervised by a parent or a guardian,”Bullis said. Courtesy photo
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APAPA celebrates 20 years with litany of endeavors Courtesy photo
Special to The Enterprise The Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs association celebrated 20 years in 2021. It’s important to take a moment to celebrate our continued growth on the national level as well as locally through our Davis Chapter, which serves Yolo County and UC Davis. Through engaged and robust grassroots efforts, APAPA is committed to advancing our API communities through increased leadership and civic engagement. This past year, APAPA chapters, including Davis, were at the forefront of planning and leading the Unity Against Hate movement, which included 18 rally locations nationally. APAPA chapters collaborated with diverse organizations, thousands of elected officials, and community leaders to create awareness and fight escalating hate crimes, address systemic racism, and provide opportunities for our collective voices to be heard. Additionally, we’re proud to highlight some key events and activities that the Davis Chapter championed during the past few years in order to advance its mission. For example, we organized: • Leadership development programs for both the public and the APAPA UC Davis group through
Members of the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA) association board include (from left): Sharon Guo, Board Chair; Brett Lee, former Mayor of City of Davis; Alan Wei, Board Member; Ruth Asmundson, Board Member; and Wei Zhang, Board Member.
webinars and mentorship • Donation drives to support firefighters, police officers, and the food bank with face masks, food
items, and monetary donations • Voter Registration in Davis Farmer’s Market • A webinar, called “How to Protect Your Rights
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C14 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE in the Workplace,” presented by Professor Xi Xiaoxing and Attorney Mr. Joseph Walker • Highlights of the historical and contemporary contributions of AAPI in building the United States Recently in Davis to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month for 2022, the APAPA Davis Chapter held a special event to honor Davis API leaders and UC Davis Asian student groups at the International House. The event — Leadership Award & Asian Heritage Celebration — was put on by the APAPA Davis Chapter and APAPA at UC Davis. The celebration featured past Davis elected officials, business leaders, educators, students, and community members and raised funds that will be used to further APAPA’s internship programs that provide opportunities for students to work with local and state elected officials and gain invaluable leadership skills. Special remarks were made by former AAPI Mayors of the City of Davis, Ruth Asmundson and Brett Lee, as well as APAPA Davis Board Members Sharon Guo, Wei Zhang, Christina Vo, Andrew Kim, Alan Wei and Aaron Wedra. Other Davis Chapter board members include Lisa Salinas, Carla Datanagan, Gurkern Sufi, Mary Yin Liu and Donglan Tian. UC Davis student group awardees, recognized for their outstanding contributions, included the UC Davis Bayanihan Clinic, the UC Davis Hmong
For the remainder of 2022 and beyond APAPA, both nationally and locally, will continue to push forward with our mission to inspire, engage and empower ...
Student Union, and the UC Davis Vietnamese Student Association. Davis Leadership Awards were given to Kevin Wan, Davis Downtown Business Association Vice President and owner of Sophia’s Thai Kitchen; Emily Lo, Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief; and the entire team at Newstar Chinese School. Attendees also enjoyed two dance performances by iDance Sisters and Red Maple Cultural Connection. For the remainder of 2022 and beyond APAPA, both nationally and locally, will continue to push forward with our mission to inspire, engage and empower through: • Developing and supporting the next generation of API leaders through our internship program • Partnering with legislators and public officials at the local, state and federal levels of government
SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2022 to advance our mission • Building strong coalitions with other diverse local and national organizations to expand our programs • Opposing prejudice, racism, xenophobia, hate crimes, and discriminatory actions against API Americans and other individuals • Increasing voter participation, registration and engagement • Supporting policies and legislation which advance civil and human rights, and opportunities for API Americans to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all Learn more about our non-profit at www.apapa.org. Get involved directly with the Davis Chapter serving Yolo County and UC Davis by contacting us at apapadavischapter@ gmail.com.
How to publicize your event in The Enterprise Enterprise staff Bringing the news of our community to others is what The Davis Enterprise is all about. We are dedicated to promoting activities that will enrich our community. But as we strive to help publicize activities offered by local organizations, we have a responsibility to all of our readers to provide news that is balanced, timely and newsworthy. Thus, the basic criteria for deciding what will be printed in a newspaper are two: newsworthiness and reader interest. Keeping that in mind, here are some tips on how to submit news releases:
Preparing a release
You don’t need to be an accomplished writer; it’s up to
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Revisiting Fourth of July memories of July juices flowing was reading Bruce Gallaudet’s account of the 10-year-old slugger from Woodland who hit three
* Editor’s note: The following is an updated repeat of one of Bob Dunning’s favorite Fourth of July columns.
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or a variety of reasons, the Fourth of July ranks right up with Thanksgiving when I’m asked about my favorite holidays. While most holidays come and go, my memories of the Fourth go back to my days as a kid growing up in this very small town that had but one elementary school and absolutely no stop lights. There was a kiddie parade in those days, but it was always led by the flag-bearing color guard from the local ag campus. I presume they were in ROTC, but I can’t say for sure. One year, however, they got called away at the last minute, and my brother, who was carrying a very large flag as part of a family “Spirit of ’76” entry, was summoned into service to lead the parade. It was the first peacetime draft in American history. In the evening, we’d all gather at Aggie Field (now Toomey) for all sorts of “community” awards, plus the fireworks. The high school was practically across the street, but it didn’t have a suitable place for people to get together. As they went through the several awards, the tension would mount about who would win. I think I was all of 8 when I realized that batting .237 in the Davis Little League was not going to earn me “Davis Athlete of the Year” recognition in this decidedly hometown ceremony. My Fourth of July experiences haven’t all been in Davis, though they seem to have been remarkably similar no matter where I was. One exception was the Fourth I spent on a tennis excursion in Scotland, where the locals kept referring to me and my playing partner, a Davis legend named Brett Stone, as “Yanks.” They also
served haggis for dinner and there were absolutely no fireworks to be found. But at least the natives were friendly despite having ugly Americans in their midst. One other year I found myself on foreign soil in Victoria, B.C., with my red-headed bride of six days, expecting to celebrate the Fourth in proper style. We had been there three days earlier for an incredible Canada Day celebration where we sang “O Canada” with the crowd at the Inner Harbour and met Joe Canada himself. We decided to stay over for the Fourth, only to learn that it’s not a particularly big holiday in the Great North. My birthplace of Portland is another great place to spend the Fourth, what with the greatest fireworks display on the West Coast erupting for nearly an hour from the exact geographic center of the Columbia River separating Oregon and Washington. I’ve had memorable Fourths in Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls and Elko and Bend, not to mention getting hopelessly lost on a dirt road at the top of Goat Mountain in Colusa County with the RedHeaded Girl of My Dreams. If you’re going to get lost as darkness falls on the Fourth of July, she’s not a bad choice of company. But what really got my Fourth
consecutive home runs in a tight win over the Davis National 9- and 10-year-old All-Stars. Reminded me of that legendary Davis Little League phenom Jimmy Keylor, who also smacked three home runs in a single game long ago as the Davis AllStars took three giant steps toward Williamsport before finally falling. (It was single elimination in those days.) In an exhibition game
between a pair of Davis teams on the Fourth of July of that same year, I was on the mound in relief, nursing a 5-3 lead — mostly off the powerful bat of Larry Caster — when Keylor came to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the final inning.
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Keylor was short and compact and incredibly powerful. He used a redwood tree instead of a baseball bat. He was the most feared Little Leaguer in the Sacramento Valley. I actually considered walking him intentionally to avoid the inevitable. Sure, it would have forced in a run, but I’d still have a 5-4 lead and at least a theoretical chance of pulling out the win. As the crowd sat in hushed silence I threw my very best fastball — at least 25 mph —
straight down the middle. Keylor smiled as it arrived and blasted it halfway to Dixon, but I did manage to shake his hand as he rounded third and headed for home. Lucky for me, he later became my teammate. As much as I wished at the time that I’d been able to set him down on strikes or at least induce a long fly ball to center, when I look back now, I wouldn’t change a thing. What he did that day was memorable. For both of us. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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