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Deli delight

Study: Zoning stifles Davis housing By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer

This all-beef pastrami is slow cooked for hours on end and is

The Sacramento region, and Davis especially, have limited options for increasing housing supply due to a vast majority of residential land zoned exclusively for single-family homes, according to a new report published Wednesday by the UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute The greater Sacramento area examined in the report includes six counties featuring 22 municipalities, which are collectively home to nearly 2.5 million people. Across the region, about 77% of residential land was exclusively reserved for single-family housing, the researchers found. In Davis, that figure was 81%. In Yolo County, it was 73%. “Zoning ordinances throughout the Sacramento region are exceptionally hostile to density,” the report said. The Othering and Belonging Institute previously conducted similar research in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, where they found similar zoning practices. A handful of studies conducted in other parts of the country, include Minnesota and Connecticut, also found the percentage of residential land zoned

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Lorin Kalisky of Upper Crust Baking, center, with his mom and dad for help, puts together some genuine East Coast-style pastrami sandwiches to supplement a recent pizza night. Aaron Geerts/ Enterprise photo

Upper Crust Baking features pastrami in the rye By Aaron Geerts

taste of East Coast tradition.

Enterprise staff writer

Upper Crust’s artisan pizzas served on Wednesdays are a tradition unto themselves. Made with locally sourced ingredients and baked in a 10-ton hearthstone oven, this family business would be hard pressed to outdo this delicacy. After finding a top-notch

A delicious, pastrami-on-rye sandwich showed up at Upper Crust Baking’s pizza night on Wednesday, June 29, at 634 G St. in Davis. And although they don’t know when this savory sensation will return, the sandwiches gave Davis palates a

source of pastrami, however, it very well may have. “We’ve been making our special rye bread for a long time. It’s a very traditional, east coast style rye bread you’d find in the best delis in New York. It’s a tradition my parents and I grew up with,” explained Upper Crust Baking owner, Lorin

Kalisky. “We’ve been talking about doing sandwiches for a long time and would like to start doing more prepared food. Then we found this pastrami from a supplier that serves well-known Jewish delicatessens in L.A. So, we figured why not?”

Body found a week after crash Official ID pending

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It was a little over four years ago, in June 2018, that Gloria Partida and Dan Carson were first elected to the Davis City Council in what would be the last at-large election in which city residents could cast votes for any council candidates. With two open seats on the council that year, Partida and Carson finished first and second in a field of nine candidates, with Partida winning 21 of the city’s 34 precincts and Carson finishing first in 12. Partida went on to

After a weeklong search following a vehicle crash that left a Winters teen missing, the Solano County Sheriff ’s Office announced it found the body of a deceased male in Lake Solano. On the evening of Sunday, July 10, the SCSO posted on social media that its Marine Patrol recovered a deceased body from the water, and that more details will be released pending a positive identification. As of publication, it is yet uncertain whether the body is the remains of

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An Alameda County Sheriff’s Office crew assists in the search Saturday for Winters teen Eduardo Fierros, who had been missing since a vehicle crash on July 3. Eduardo Fierros. Fierros, 18, has been the subject of a weeklong search of Lake Solano and Putah Creek since shortly

WEATHER Thursday: Sunny and Hot. High 97. Low 59.

after midnight on July 3 when the truck he was traveling in with 18-yearold Julio Vasquez left the

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serve two years as mayor before handing the gavel over to Lucas Frerichs earlier this month. Now both Partida and Carson are seeking reelection on Nov. 8. But this time around, they will be running in district elections — Carson in District 1 in West Davis and Partida in District 4 in East Davis. Back in 2020, voters in Districts 2, 3 and 5 elected their representatives in the first by-district council elections. Now it’s the District 1 and 4 voters’ turn. Indications are they

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Briefly Park altercation leads to arrest A group of young adults was assaulted by multiple suspects at Community Park early morning, resulting in one arrest, Davis police said. The victims reported being physically attacked around midnight by the unknown suspects, Lt. James MacNiven said. Officers later apprehended one person, 18-year-old Vernon Alphonse Jospeh III, who faces a misdemeanor battery charge. MacNiven said the incident remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530747-5400.

Police nab home burglary suspect Police arrested a man suspected of burglarizing a South Davis residence Monday afternoon. According to Lt. James MacNiven, 30-year-old Argentina Xiong gained entry to the occupied Los Robles Street home through a recently opened garage, took a pair of yard shears and went into the back yard. That’s where officers took Xiong into custody around 4 p.m. and transported him to the Yolo County Jail, MacNiven said.

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UC system is the kingdom of secrets R EGENTS WITH NO TEETH ... The answer is a firm “No” to the dozens of folks who have asked “Doesn’t the UC Board of Regents have to approve a move by UCLA athletics to the Big Ten?” According to a report on ESPN, “UCLA leadership informed UC President Michael Drake that discussions between UCLA and the Big Ten were occurring, but he was not involved at all in these discussions or any negotiations.” But shouldn’t he, as president of all UC campuses, at least have alerted the folks at Cal that this was in the works? Especially since such a move would directly affect the athletic fortunes at Berkeley and leave Cal in a substantially weakened financial position when it comes to athletics. Furthermore, “A spokesman for the University of California Office of the President told ESPN in an email that decisions related to

conferences in a number of sports without the approval of the Regents. Seems strange, but those are the rules. Or lack of rules.

T athletics are formulated and executed at the campus level. There is no requirement for a decision from the University of California Board of Regents or the Office of the President.” Apparently not even when the Big Ten switch is likely to result in $100 million headed to UCLA in TV rights and other benefits and may well destroy the conference in which another UC school competes. SPEAKING OF SWITCHING ATHLETIC CONFERENCES ... UC Davis, in fact, has switched

HERE’S ALWAYS A LOCAL ANGLE ... When the world of college football was stunned by the departure of Pac-12 members USC and UCLA for the Big Ten, two names with Davis connections emerged. Word has it that USC Chancellor Carol Folt was a prime mover in the switch. Folt got her Ph.D. at — you guessed it — UC Davis Following the hurried announcement by the Pac-12 that it was now looking for schools to replace the Los Angeles rebels, Fresno State Athletic Director Terry Tumey was on the phone to any Pac-12 president or chancellor who would take his call, pitching his Bulldogs as a natural fit. Tumey was formerly the athletic director at — you guessed it

again — UC Davis.

EVEN MORE LOCAL ANGLES ... A while ago it was announced with much fanfare that UC Davis had scheduled a football game against UCLA in 2027 in the famed Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the Bruins’ home stadium. At the time of the announcement, UCLA had never played a school from the second-tier Football Championship Subdivision, the level at which the Aggies compete. While the Aggies have on a number of occasions faced off against a Pac-12 school, they will now be playing their first game ever against a Big Ten school. That is, if the game actually happens, which is unclear at best given that schedules are being redrawn even as we speak. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

CANDIDATES: Lawsuit forced change to district elections From Page A1 may have multiple candidates to choose from. Bapu Vaitla, a data science fellow at Data2X/ United Nations Foundation and currently a member of the city’s Social Services Commission, filed a candidate intention statement with the city clerk’s office last week, indicating he may challenge Carson in District 1 (candidate intention statements must be filed before raising, soliciting or spending campaign funds). Meanwhile Kelsey Fortune, associate executive director for Purple Tree Cafe, who unsuccessfully ran for City Council in 2020 (in District 5, where she lived at the time), said on her website that she, too, plans to run in District 1. And over in District 4, Adam Morrill confirmed Tuesday that he will be running for the council seat currently held by Partida. Morrill works for the city's Department of Public Works handling environ-

mental compliance for solid waste and water waste. More potential candidates may yet emerge. The nomination period for council candidates runs from July 18 to Aug. 12. During that time, nomination papers may be issued by the city clerk to any eligible candidate that is a resident and elector of the district they are running for. District boundaries were revised slightly earlier this year following the 2020 Census and can be found at https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/city-clerk/ elections/district-elections

Court maneuvers The move to by-district elections came under threat of a lawsuit in fall 2019. Woodland attorney and former county supervisor Matt Rexroad had contended the city’s at-large elections for council violated the California Voting Rights Act and the council, though disagreeing with

that contention, voted unanimously to move to by-district elections rather than risking millions of dollars in legal fees by fighting the lawsuit and possibly losing. District maps were subsequently created and approved by the council in late 2019 and the first bydistrict elections were held in 2020, electing Will Arnold (now vice mayor) in District 2; Frerichs in District 3; and Josh Chapman in District 5. Those three districts will be back on the ballot in 2024, though well before then, at the end of this year, Frerichs will have moved on to the Board of Supervisors seat he was elected to in June and will have been replaced either via special election or council appointment. In the meantime, voters in Districts 1 and 2 will have made their choices. The upcoming November election for those districts will follow a contentious municipal election in June when

Measure H — the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus — was on the ballot. The current council had voted unanimously to place DiSC on the ballot and Carson ultimately served as honorary campaign chair for the Yes on H team. It was in that capacity that Carson sued over the ballot argument opposing DiSC, naming six Davis residents who signed those arguments as real parties in interest. Carson contended five sections of the No on H ballot argument were false or misleading. A Yolo County judge ultimately ordered two changes to the ballot argument but left the rest of it intact and later ordered Carson to pay the real parties in interest $42,000 in attorney fees. There was vocal backlash to Carson's actions among many residents and former council members, and in his own motion seeking attorney fees, Carson had noted he was well aware of what the consequences of

his legal challenge could be. That motion, filed back in May, said Carson “has been the subject of numerous public attacks, including through comments made on social media platforms and comments made during the public comment portion of City Council meetings. “These attacks include a proposal that he be recalled from office (and) a call for candidates to oppose his re-election this November …” and added that Carson “undertook the risk to his political career and reputation and chose to pursue this action despite knowing he would be on the receiving end of this criticism because of his commitment to truth in politics.” Now voters in District 1 will decide whether to keep Carson in office or not and voters in District 4 will do the same regarding Partida. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

COVID deaths up in Yolo County UC nurses vote to By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County saw an increase in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations over the last four days, with three new deaths reported and eight individuals hospitalized in the county’s two hospitals as of Tuesday. Four were in intensive care. Total new cases and the county’s case rate both declined, while the test positivity rate increased to 10.7 percent, a 2.1 percent increase over the last seven days, according to the state. The county case rate declined from 44.6 per 100,000 residents on Friday to 32.5 on Tuesday. None of that is surprising, according to Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson, because of the end of ubiquitous testing by Healthy Davis Together (and Healthy Yolo Together) on June 30. “The end of HYT testing means a significant decrease in PCR tests being conducted each day, and when you do fewer tests, you find fewer cases, and, unsurprisingly, our case rate has dropped significantly since HYT testing ended,” Sisson told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “The testing positivity rate has also increased since HYT testing ended. Neither of these changes reflects a change in disease burden, which remains high as evidenced by high wastewater levels of virus.” Tod Stoltz, chief operating officer of Healthy Davis Together, told supervisors that “wastewater monitoring is clearly going to be the most important component

of community monitoring going forward. The most recent variant data from Healthy Davis Together, reflecting the final week of PCR testing, showed Omicron sub-variants like BA.5 comprising a majority of new cases between June 26 and July 2. Total tests performed by the UC Davis Genome Center that week — 7,151 — represented less than one-fourth of total tests being performed weekly during 2022. But that testing still turned up 239 new cases, 57 percent of which were Omicron sub-variants including BA.4 and BA.5. Sisson noted Tuesday that the end of Healthy Yolo Together testing on June 30 “represented a major transition point in the pandemic response.” “HYT was instrumental in controlling COVID spread in Yolo County,” she said. “But widespread PCR testing is no longer the only way to slow viral spread. Antigen tests are now widely available for free and provide accurate results in 15 minutes. And these home antigen tests now serve as the backbone of COVID testing in Yolo County.” Sisson outlined five options for accessing free home antigen tests:

n Three rounds of four to eight free tests can be ordered online at COVID. gov; n Insurance company payment or reimbursement — “Insurance companies are required to pay for up to eight antigen tests per member per month and many retail pharmacies made it easier for people to use their insurance to pay for the tests upfront rather than requiring the customer to pay out of pocket and submit paperwork for reimbursement,” Sisson said; n Yolo County libraries are now serving as distribution points for free home antigen tests; n Vending machines are coming to five locations in the county as part of a pilot project that will make free antigen tests available in outdoor locations 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and n The state-sponsored OptumServe test-to-treat location in Woodland continues to operate Thursday through Sunday, providing testing and treatment under one roof. Sisson also reiterated her strong recommendation that everybody wear highquality masks (N95, KN95 or KF94) indoors when around others.

ratify new contract By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Registered nurses who work at University of California facilities across the state voted last week to ratify a new three-year contract with the university system, the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United announced Saturday in a press release. The nurses’ union said the new contract reflects a successful effort by both parties to reach a successor agreement “that recognizes the service and sacrifice of nurses during this moment.” It added that the new agreement addresses patient care and workplace safety issues and focuses resources on recognizing, recruiting and retaining nurses across the UC system. “UC nurses are proud to ratify our new contract with the university,” said Dahlia Tayag, an RN and bargaining team member who works at UC San Diego. “This agreement recognizes and rewards registered nurses for our service and commitment to our patients

and communities across the UC system, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.” Over the past two years, burnout of health care workers has made headlines across the country. Highlights of the new contract include improvements to patient care, workplace safety, and union rights, including protections from potential subcontracting. The agreement also establishes two joint labormanagement committees focused on Health, Safety, and Emerging Infectious Diseases and on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. “Nurses have been leaders throughout this pandemic,” said Tayag, who is also a member of the CNA Board of Directors.

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Bits and pieces of good news on climate T he news about climate has been pretty gloomy lately. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) warned that CO2 in the atmosphere is higher than its been in millions of years (421 parts per million in May). Put another way, humans have never experienced levels this high and, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist, “we are still racing at top speed towards a global catastrophe.” And the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to knock the legs out from under efforts to turn things around. More on that another time. For now, I’m thinking why not take this opportunity to share some news, some off the radar stuff that doesn’t make headlines but which seems appropriate to label as “good news.” Here we go. The Los Angeles city council has been busy. A councilman recently stated, “We are ending oil drilling in Los Angeles. We are moving to all-electric new construction. And we are building toward fossil free transportation.” Not pausing to rest on their laurels, they are also now considering following the lead of our neighbor city Petaluma to ban construction of new gas sta-

tions. The theory being why encourage the gas guzzlers? Meanwhile, here in our little energy conscious town, the city council has responded to drought conditions by banning residents from washing cars in our driveways. Water and energy are linked. It takes energy to pump, distribute, and provide clean water to our homes and businesses. Many of the gas stations in town will also wash our cars. Wherever we get our cars washed, the job uses much less water than if we did it in our driveway. The Carlsberg beer company has also been working on sustainability, chiefly by brewing beer with barley grown organically using regenerative agriculture practices that improve soil health and promote carbon sequestration in the soil. Pretty good, right? But they’re not stopping there. According to a recent article, they are testing a bottle “made from wood fibers on the

outside and plant-based polymers on the inside. The entire bottle is both biobased and recyclable with the exception of the cap” but they’re working on that. Moreover, the wood fibers come from a certified forest that plants two trees for every tree cut down. Sounds serious to me. According to another recent article, scientists at Rutgers and Harvard have apparently developed a “scalable technology” using food waste and a heating device that resembles a hair dryer to create a “biodegradable, plant-based coating for foods.” This process effectively “shrink wraps” foods of any shape or size and is advertised as a “smart and green” alternative to plastic packaging. Speaking of plastics, according to another article, scientists have come up with a half-inch robot fish powered by a laser that can find and pick up microplastics from cracks and crevices in rivers and creeks. These microplastics are becoming ubiquitous in waterways. This tiny but potentially massively important development was reported in the journal Nano Letters, a forum for reporting original results on applied and emerging research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The South China Morning

Post has revealed a plan by that country to collect the sun’s energy in space and beam it to earth; sending solar power from space. The US Air Force is apparently looking into this as well. So far, just pie in the sky. Lots of potentially show-stopping technical issues to solve, but China’s goal appears to be a space station that is providing as much energy as a current nuclear power plant, and at affordable rates. Anybody else out there not enthusiastic about possible other uses for beams of concentrated energy from space?

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eanwhile, back on planet earth, methane emissions from a variety of sources are a serious contributor to the climate crisis. More about this in a future article. For now, an article in the newsletter EcoWatch reports on an interesting development from down under in New Zealand. According to the article “In New Zealand, sheep (26 million) and cattle (10 million) outnumber people (5 million). All that livestock passes gas (from both ends) which means emitting more methane into the atmosphere.” So, what to do? “The country has proposed to tax farmers starting in 2025 for their livestock’s emissions.”

Join the stargazing in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Special to The Enterprise Enjoy a stargazing tour of the night sky in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area with astronomers from the Davis Astronomy Club from 7 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, This nighttime tour includes a short talk and viewings of constellations, star clusters, galaxies and some unusually colored stars. View the first-quarter moon with its stark craters, setting planet Venus and rising planet Saturn with its beautiful rings. As the sun sets, the group will enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

The Davis Astronomy Club is made up of local amateur astronomers who love to share their passion for astronomy. They bring astronomy events and information to the public through lectures and stargazing parties at Explorit Science Center in Davis and outreach events in Yolo County and surrounding areas. For more information about the Davis Astronomy Club, visit www.explorit. org/astronomy-club. For more information and to register for this special event that benefits the Yolo Basin Foundation, visit

https://www.yolobasin.org/explorer/ Registration will close on Aug. 3. The Explorer Series is a series of science-based field trips and workshops for adults who want to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the world around them. Our guest hosts include experienced naturalists, professionals and leaders in their field who enjoy sharing their talents and knowledge with others. The Explorer Series is a series of fundraising events for the Yolo Basin Foundation, which helps to support environmental education programs for all ages.

There appears to be a carrot and stick process being negotiated, including incentives for adding seaweed to cattle feed. In 2020 Australian researchers found that replacing 3% of a cow's diet with seaweed resulted in up to an 80% decrease in methane emissions. This was corroborated by UC Davis researchers in 2021. Lastly, The Hill, a newsletter on Equilibrium/Sustainability, reported on the journey of a ship across the Atlantic. This was no ordinary ship. First, it was named The Mayflower Autonomous. Second, it departed from Plymouth England aimed for Plymouth Rock in the U.S. Third, it was powered by a “solar-driven hybrid electric motor” with a diesel backup generator. Fourth, there was no one onboard. It was “steered by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other technologies.” This was the first autonomous ship to traverse the Atlantic, and a possible look at the future though it’s hard to imagine a massive container ship powered by the sun, no mater how it’s steered. — John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@comcast.net.

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o, we didn’t hear banjo music. For almost a week our ears were graced with the buzz of cicadas, the whistle of wind through narrow sandstone canyons and the steady rhythm of our paddles pulling through the wild river, propelling our canoe east. And there was silence. A vast, peaceful and oddly comforting quiet, interrupted only by our own voices and the sound of the wind and the wildlife that call Montana’s Upper Missouri River home. In 1805, Lewis and Clark traveled up the Missouri River in their quest for the Pacific Ocean. Sixty-two years later Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce crossed the Missouri at Cow Creek in their futile and heartbreaking attempt to flee to Canada. In 1976, the 150-mile section of river between Fort Benton and US 191 was designated a Wild and Scenic River, and in 2001, President Bill Clinton named the 375,000 acres surrounding this section a National Monument. Most recently, on Aug. 8, 2020, my 15-year-old son Mick and I packed our Honda Odyssey with camping gear, drove to Fort Benton, Mont., rented a canoe and paddled 110 miles down this Wild and Scenic section of our country’s longest river, the mighty Missouri. I love nature and outdoor adventures. Some might call me “outdoorsy.” Some might even refer to me as an enthusiast. But the truth is, I am a chicken. A scaredy-cat. A nervous Nelly. When it comes to hanging out in Wild areas (with a capital W), I have a deep respect (also read as paralyzing fear) for things that are not within my control (examples being wild animals that are bigger than me, water currents that are stronger than me, strange men with guns, and so on). When I camp at Donner Lake or Tuolumne Meadows, I sleep with the van keys and bear spray under my pillow, and I always introduce myself to the families on either side of my campsite, sharing sweet treats. I’m not being neighborly, I just need to know I’ll have allies in the middle of the night when the bears and gun-toting men show up. It is no small accomplishment, then, that Mick and I not only survived but thrived, on our sixday, self-guided, Wild and Scenic Missouri River adventure. We did not drown and we did not get eaten by wolves. We heard a few gunshots, but nobody killed us. Most importantly, we did not end up in Kansas City.

As the summer of 2019 ended, and months before we would hear the words coronavirus or COVID, Mick and I had gone for an evening walk. We were sad to see summer ending and we talked about all the things we wanted to do the next summer. Among a hundred potential experiences that made our list was “Canoe the Missouri River in the paddle strokes of Lewis and Clark.” It was more of a fun addition to our dream list than a plan. But as August 2020 approached, and Mick and I realized this odd summer was passing us by, we remembered that entry on our list. With nothing to lose, we packed our dry bags, tent, camping gear and cooler and headed out, camping our way through Idaho and Montana to Fort Benton. We arrived at the outfitter headquarters on the morning of Aug. 10, paid for our boat, made arrangements for our van to be shuttled to the James Kipp Recreation Area, where our trip would end, and drove another 45 miles east to Coal Banks where our canoe was waiting for us. Armed with our Bureau of Land Management maps, Mick took his seat at the front of the boat. He would serve as the navigator for the next week, identifying the geological formations and islands marked on the map and pinpointing our exact location by river mile. I spent my days steering from the back of the boat, making sure we cleared big rocks, stayed upright in the rapids and battled the winds that pushed us every direction but forward. When we put our canoe in the water on that first morning, we had a plan for where we would camp each night: Eagle Creek, Slaughter River, Lone Pine Rapids, Gist Bottom, Hideaway. It was a thoughtfully planned itinerary, for sure. Remember that Woody Allen quote, “If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans”? God had some good belly laughs during the second week of August. On our first night, before Mick had perfected his map-reading skills, we mistakenly sailed miles past our intended camp of Eagle Creek. Instead, we spent the night under a huge cottonwood tree in the shadow of Hole in the Wall. Having paddled more miles than we had planned on Day 1,

Mick Dunning navigates the Missouri River. Shelley Dunning/ Courtesy photo

we adjusted our destination for our second night, thinking we would “wing it.” Just before dark and near tears, having found no other places to pull up our boat, we settled on a rocky sandbar, barely big enough for our tent. We drifted to sleep with water rushing on three sides of us and to the sound of a small animal clawing under the plastic floor of our tent between our sleeping bags.

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rom the peaceful green valley lined with cottonwoods at the start of our ride to the stunning White Cliffs to the ruggedly beautiful Badlands, it felt like we were traveling through an interactive nature museum, designed just for us. I had to repeatedly remind myself that the scenes surrounding us were not divinely inspired works of art. They were not the toppled ruins of ancient temples or the remains of monumental marble sculptures. They were, rather, the result of tens of millions of years of glacial flows, volcanic eruptions and the folding and faulting of the Earth. There were too many geological landmarks to describe — Hole in the Wall, Steamboat Rock, Seven Sisters — all of them perfectly named. But one formation that stunned us as we came around a bend was Dark Butte and the Archangel. The butte, dark and foreboding, loomed over the river. Directly in front of it, almost like a guardian protecting us from the

doom of the butte behind it, was what appeared to be a towering, white sandstone angel, her massive wings spread to the sky. It was like nothing I had ever seen, breathtaking and awesome. I wish I had photos of all the animals and strange bugs we saw. There were too many bald and golden eagles to count, sometimes nestled high up in the shade of the sandstone cliffs and other times soaring down over the river to snap up lunch. One of the benefits of paddling into the evening was seeing the deer and bighorn sheep come down to the water for a drink. One night, we watched as beavers came out from their dens to retrieve dinner for their families. The babies remained on the bank, pushing their little faces out from the sticks and reeds as their parents swam to the middle of the river. Other than deserted homesteads, an abandoned ferry landing that once accommodated bootleggers headed to Canada and a few worn trails leading to spectacular views, this land remains as it did when Lewis and Clark explored it. In fact, everywhere you look you will see and hear things that Lewis and Clark wrote about in their journals. The pesky prickly pear, gnats, mosquitoes, eagles, coyotes and mud. So much mud. In six days, we didn’t see one piece of litter or trash. Not one beer can or candy wrapper. Other than my sunglasses resting quietly on the murky bottom at river

mile 112, you would be hardpressed to find any sign of human life left behind. In a time when it is difficult to feel comfortable with the world, be assured, when it comes to the Missouri River National Monument, things are as they were meant to be. There is so much more to share. I want to tell you about the meteor showers in the darkest, clearest night sky I’ve ever seen. I want you to hear the coyotes barking and howling at each other in the middle of the night. I want to share the disappointment we felt when we reached Judith Landing on our third day and found there was no snack bar. Designated as a “Developed Access Site” on our map, we had allowed the hot sun and wishful thinking to influence us into believing there might be a place we could pick up a Diet Coke and some Doritos. Apparently, “developed” means it has a vault toilet and a fire ring, but no snack bar. No Doritos. Mostly, I want to tell you that you should go. That you should pack up your camping gear, grab your favorite people, reserve a canoe and go paddle the Missouri River. It wasn’t expensive. It didn’t require any special skills, equipment or even planning. It was completely achievable and it was the adventure of a lifetime. And if a scaredy-cat like me can do it, surely you can, too. — Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four. Reach her at dunningsm@gmail.com.

Hot and bothered? Try these cooling wines M y Chinese-medicine-trained spouse reminds me often that “hot and bothered” is symptomatic of summer, the “yang” season, season of heat and light and high energy. Sounds good, but, well, everything in balance. These last weeks have been entirely unbalanced — too hot, especially combined with the recent aggressive and eye-rolling antics of the Supremes, the continuing war in Ukraine, the revelations of the Jan. 6 Committee and environmental collapse everywhere (oh, and I almost forgot the everchanging, yang-in-overdrive little plague that shows no signs of slowing). So, yes, I'm hot and bothered. It doesn't help at all to see the plethora of “wellness” advice everywhere you look: “Four ways to end negative thinking”; “Five steps to financial and mental security in a recession”; “Six habits of productive people”; “Seven ways to navigate chaos”; “Eight blood-pressure lowering tips”; “Nine stretches to relieve back pain.” That simple? Most of these articles repeat the same advice over and over,

foremost of which is get enough sleep. Sleep? How can I sleep with new crises every minute of every day? (Yes, I've completed the “10 steps to a better night's sleep” — turned off my screens, avoided food or drink after dinner, darkened the room, etc. etc.) Oh, poor me. My selfpity grows in the heat a lot faster than my basil. Luckily we aren't facing crucial food shortages (yet) and the summer fruits and vegetables at Farmers Market are as beautiful and stressreducing as ever. Peaches, plums, figs, corn, eggplant, basil, sweet peppers, spring shallots, gorgeous greens (check out Picnic Table Farm). Lots of fresh-laid eggs as well. Just seeing this bounty lowers my heart rate and tamps down my curmudgeonly tendencies, always fully alive in the season of 100-plus. As I plan the week's

meals, I think about the huge variety of fun and energetic wines — mostly whites and rosés in the heat — to accompany them. My favorite of late is the 2021 Domaine de Fontsainte Gris de Gris Rosé. Kermit Lynch has for decades imported this wine, and every summer I look forward to the new vintage, in part because it was this very wine that, many years ago, won me over to rosé. The 2021 seems to me even better than usual. Its wonderful berry aromas announce its lively and delightful fruit flavors, followed by lots of citrus and crisp, persistent acidity. The grapes here — 90% grenache gris, 5% carignan, 5% mourvèdre — are all from the Corbières region, vineyards originally planted by the Romans. Imagine! Its beautiful salmon color suggested dinner — fresh Coho salmon sauteed with garlic, lemon zest, basil, and wine served over pasta, a quickly made, elegant meal that the wine elevated even further. While light — just 12%

alcohol — this wine manages to be quite rich and intense, a welcome change from some of the relatively tasteless rosés I've had of late, and a perfect accompaniment to summer fish and vegetable dishes. The Co-op just got this wine in and is selling it for $17, a remarkable bargain for a complex, first-class rosé. Less expensive (and less complex) — $12 at the Co-op — is a lively white from northern Italy, a pinot grigio that's quite unlike both the sometimes watery run-of-the mill Italian ones and the fruitier, sometimes flabby California versions. This Guinigi 2020 has good dose of peach and zesty citrus on the front and then some distinctly Italian minerality shows up at the end. I usually serve our Friday night pizza with a light red, but the Guinigi went beautifully with the last one, which was topped with a huge bunch of spicy arugula. California has long been home to all manner of Italian grapes, including pinot grigio. Folk Machine bases its energetic 2021 White Light wine on friulano

(from Mendo, not Friuli). This is the seventh vintage of White Light, but as winemaker Kenny Likitprakong says, the “goals have stayed the same — bottle something fresh with acid and some mineral and retain that sort of salty, briny character that the friulano has but tone it down with the fruit and aromatics of riesling and verdelho and a touch of gewurztraminer this year.” Yum. Kenny uses grapes from a variety of vineyards, some of them in Yolo County, and makes his wines as naturally as possible. He also puts in a good deal of effort to make them affordable. This one is $14 at the Co-op. I served this White Light with a big platter of smashed potatoes, a side of smoked albacore, and a couple of toppings like artichoke heart pesto. It would also work with almost any summer vegetable, light fish and meat dishes, and nachos on the patio. If you're in the mood for a hot-weather red, I'll let New York Times wine columnist Eric Asimov recommend one for you. I've recommended it myself

numerous times, so I thought I'd invoke Asimov on its behalf — it's his only domestic pick for his July “wine school” tasting of “chillable reds.” What is it? The 2021 Broc Cellars Love Red, of course. This year Love Red is a blend of 51% carignan, 25% syrah, 12% valdiguié, 5% mourvèdre, 3% zin, 2% petite sirah, and 2% grenache noir — delicious as always (Co-op, $20). If you want to stick to whites and rosés right now, try Broc's Love White and Love Rosé, the latter my favorite of the 2021 rosés I'd tasted until the Domaine de Fontsainte. Now I'm torn, so you'll have to try both and let me know. Chinese medicine sees any alcohol as warming, but these light wines, in addition to the fresh foods they accompany, certainly tamp down my summer aggression, anger, and irritation with the universe. Maybe I should pass these recommendations on to the Supremes. — Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana@gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise. com.

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PASTRAMI: A culinary experiment CRASH: Search was regional effort From Page A1 essentially a beef brisket. Ordinarily a very fatty cut of meat, the hours of slow cooking melts away the fat leaving behind nothing but flavor in a melts-inyour-mouth kind of bite. Meanwhile, the delectable pizzas could only look on in envy as the sandwich pre-orders sold out within days. “It’s the first time we’ve done pastrami sandwiches, and will be the last time for a little while at least. This was sort of a beta test, if you will,” Kalisky explained the rare occurrence. “The idea was to try it out and see what the response was from customers, and we did it in adjunct to our pizza night. And the pastrami sandwiches seemed to have passed the beta test because all the feedback we got was mostly positive.” Some of the feedback reflected palates that weren’t quite attuned to the East Coast culinary style. “Some people weren’t used to certain aspects of the meal. The pastrami is not super-thin cut. It’s a thicker cut, which

is typical of what you’d find at East Coast delis. It’s also served with this cabbage salad that’s like a coleslaw, but it’s a little bit sweet. We also have with it what’s called a ‘half-sour pickle,’ which is a pickle that’s a little different than the dill pickles out here,” Kalisky said. “Both of those things in addition to the sandwich are very typical of east coast delis and the recipes that we used are very traditional recipes for those two things. We did get some feedback that the pickles weren’t pickled enough, or the salad wasn’t like the coleslaw they’re used to. But, I think the criticism that we got were from folks that’d never had this type of pastrami sandwich or this particular cabbage salad or half-sour pickle.” To stay up-to-date with Upper Crust Baking and its specialty items, one can sign up for its email list at www.ucbak ing.com. There, one can pre-order a pizza on Wednesday Pizza Nights and be in-the-know when the pastrami sandwich makes its return into Upper Crust’s artisan arsenal.

From Page A1 roadway, clipped a tree and plunged into the water. Both teens were Winters High School Class of 2022 graduates. The body was recovered 200 to 300 yards downstream from the crash site, according to Sergeant Rex Hawkins, who spoke to the Winters Express by phone on Tuesday morning. After the accident, Vasquez was located by sheriff’s deputies on the south creek bed near the east end of Lake Solano County Park and Putah Creek Road, west of Canal Lane. Vasquez told first responders that Fierros was still in the truck. When reaching the submerged truck, first responders found it to be unoccupied. Vasquez received medical aid and

first responders transported him to the hospital. Solano County Search and Rescue teams searched the waters of Lake Solano Park with regional affiliates throughout the day and into the evening of July 3 without finding Fierros. The Solano Office of Emergency Services is the designated lead in the rescue effort while the California Highway Patrol is heading the accident investigation. Authorities and volunteers returned daily throughout the week while family and friends stood vigil. On Saturday, a large search effort took place, with the Solano County Sheriff’s Office reporting assistance from 70 personnel from regional agencies and volunteers. Area sheriff departments

and search-and-rescue teams from Sacramento, Yolo, Alameda and Napa counties helped search on land and water. Marine patrol boats and watercraft, divers, underwater cameras with sonar, underwater and airborne drones, dogs, a helicopter and shoreline patrol were all deployed throughout the week in search of Fierros. Hawkins told the Express that shortly before 4 p.m. on Sunday, a deceased body surfaced in the water while a marine patrol boat and personal watercraft were searching in the area. The Solano County Coroner’s Office is working on the identification, and, as of late Tuesday morning, a positive identification had not been made.

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ZONING: Diverse cities have more multi-family housing From Page A1 for single-family use to be between 70% and 80%. “As various regional analyses continue to be produced, it appears that the percentage of single-family-only zoned areas of residential land continues to fall within a remarkably consistent range,” the UC Berkeley report said. Single-family zoning ordinances are rooted in racial segregation and continue to be highly correlated with it. In the Sacramento region, as in other places, cities with a high percentage of residential land zoned for singlefamily housing had more white residents, while cities with more multi-family and mixed-use zoning had a greater share of Latino residents, the study found. “Single-family-only zoning has a racially exclusionary appearance,”

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the report concluded. Single-family zoning was also correlated with higher income and education levels, lower rates of environmental contaminants,

and better opportunities for economic mobility. According to the report, children born into families living in communities with 95% single-family-only zoning

made roughly $10,000 more per year as adults than children born into families living in communities with less than 60% singlefamily-only zoning. Jurisdictions with higher percentages of single-family zoning also had higher home values. “This relationship suggests that restrictive zoning plays a role in making housing more expensive,” the report said. While Davis’ percentage of single-family zoning was higher than average, the city topped the chart in regional home values. Factors outside of zoning ordinances, such as the presence of UC Davis and perceived desirability of living in the town, as well as geographic constraints restricting outward expansion, increased local housing costs and property values, the report said. “Increasingly, the Sacramento region faces pressure from a

growing population as rising housing costs in the nearby Bay Area and the city of Sacramento itself force residents to more affordable suburbs,” the report said. However, with so much of the region’s residential land zoned for single-family-only housing, there are limited options for increasing housing. “As with the San Francisco Bay Area and the greater Los Angeles regions, Sacramento’s residential areas are dominated by singlefamily-only zoning, stifling the development of denser housing options, perpetuating racial and economic segregation, and shaping communities and the distribution of opportunity for millions of Californians,” the report said. — Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

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Davis American edges Davis National in thriller By Rebecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent VACAVILLE — The Davis Little League American League 10-12-year-old All-Stars are the District 64 Tournament champions. After six innings of play, Davis American defeated the Davis National League All-Stars 11-10 at John Arlington Park on Sunday. Davis American went undefeated in the tournament. “This team has the heart of champions,” said Davis AL All-Stars manager Marc Ross. “We had a good run last year and we were really looking forward to taking it to this next level this year.” Since both Davis teams made it to the championship game, many players were playing friends and teammates from their regular season teams. “It’s mixed feelings for us,” Ross said. “All of us love those kids in the other dugout. We wanted to see everyone succeed and play some great baseball.” The match-up was close and came down to the final out. Davis National held a 7-6 lead until

the fifth inning. Then Davis American scored five runs to take an 11-7 lead. Joaquin Espinoza led off the fifth for Davis AL with a walk. Christopher Thompson came in to pinch run for Espinoza. Jackson Wallace then followed with an infield single, moving Thompson to second base. Next, Sebi Ehrlich loaded the bases with another infield single. Eli Meis then smacked a double to score Thompson and Wallace and moved Ehrlich to third base. That gave Davis AL an 8-7 lead. Xavier Becker was then walked to put runners on the corners. Tristan McElhern flied out to center field, allowing Ehrlich to score and Meis to move to third. This gave Davis AL the 9-7 lead. Tyler Ross followed with an infield single to bring home Meis and move Becker to third. Davis AL then held a 10-7 lead. Colin Campbell brought home Davis American’s final run of the game with a single, scoring Becker for an 11-7 score.

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Davis National League’s Zeef Barrios slides into home plate in front of the throw to Davis American’s Tyler Ross in the District 64 Tournament on Sunday.

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t may not be Three Dog Night’s most well-known song but ‘Out In The Country’ is one of the group’s best tunes ever. “Whenever I need to leave it all behind ... Or feel the need to get away ... I find a quiet place, far from the human race ... Out in the country ...” n In baseball circles, whenever a star major leaguer goes on a rehab assignment, protocol dictates that the player picks up the tab for the team’s postgame meal. Let’s just say Max Scherzer has officially set the bar very high. Scherzer made two starts for the Binghamton (New York) Rumble Ponies, the New York Mets DoubleA affiliate. During his brief stay, Scherzer treated all the players, coaches and staff to a $7,000 meal. In addition, he provided everyone with an Air iPod headset. Scherzer makes over $40 million a year; nonetheless, his generosity is refreshing. Scherzer returned to the Mets rotation on July 5 after being on the injured list for five weeks. n The state of sports journalism: When USC and UCLA told the world they were departing the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten, the bombshell announcement flew totally under everyone’s radar. That included the Los Angeles Times, which was caught completely flatfooted. Kudos to Jon Wilner, the San Jose Mercury-News columnist who broke the story and is the most tuned-in national journalist when it comes to the Pac-12. No one has more reliable sources in the college football world than Wilner. n Now that the San Jose Sharks have hired Mike Grier as the team’s new general manager, his first two orders of business were this week’s draft and then the hiring

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Davis High outside hitter Lena Sundin goes up high to send the volleyball over the net during the Blue Devils’ open gym workouts inside the South Gym on June 28. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

Open gym focused on fundamentals By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor Davis High volleyball head coach Julie Crawford was impressed with the open gym workouts held during the recent spring and summer weeks. That gave her an idea of how many girls are planning to try out for the varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams come the beginning of August. “Our spring/summer open gym numbers ranged from 25-45 girls,” Crawford said. “These open gyms are always optional, so the numbers ranged from week to week.” Crawford, who is entering her ninth season running the program, described the girls’ workouts that were held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “Open gyms are an optional opportunity for the girls to get touches on the ball leading into tryouts,” Crawford said. “It’s also a great way for the coaching staff to get an idea of who will be trying out, and also, meeting new potential players and incoming ninth graders. “The open gyms focus a lot on basic fundamental reps and a lot of game style play. It’s an opportunity to see the variety of skill level heading into tryouts.” Crawford noted that this year’s seniors, who were juniors on the 2021 DHS squad that posted an 18-9 record, have been attending the workouts. That’s a big plus for the Blue Devils, who are now in the dead period per the Sac-Joaquin Section bylaws. Last year’s squad had eight seniors who graduated in June. There have been five incoming seniors who were regulars during the open gym workouts. They were setters Nicole Risch, outside hitters Lena Sundin and April Seeger, defensive specialist Olivia Kim and middle blocker Michelle Kang.

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emocrats don’t seem to understand the law of unintended consequences. Or perhaps they don’t comprehend the fierce determination of Republicans to eliminate women’s reproductive rights. Either way, the California Legislature just made a huge mistake by opening the door for anti-choice voters to deny women’s reproductive rights granted for the past 50 years. Now, a woman’s right to abortion is dependent upon the majority of Californians voting “yes” on California Proposition 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, in November. State lawmakers recently passed a ballot measure allowing voters to decide whether to codify access to abortion and contraceptives in the state Constitution. It’s a dangerous and unnecessary move, because California already has a sweeping right to privacy in its Constitution. Since 1972, this constitutional amendment has been widely interpreted as the right for women to access abortion, the right for minors to get an abortion without their parents’ permission, and the right to fund abortions in the state’s Medi-Cal program. California legislators just put those rights in jeopardy. California Democrats don’t seem to understand that we’re no longer living in the 1970s, when two Republican presidents (Nixon and Ford) endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment, which, if ratified by the states, would guarantee protection against sexual discrimination (38 states have ratified it). Today, we have a radical GOP and a U.S. Supreme Court majority working to take away women’s reproductive rights. The Legislature is overconfident about how widely the Golden State’s progressive ideology is embraced by its population. Consider the power of Kevin McCarthy, the five-term U.S. representative from Bakersfield and the House minority leader, who is championing the religious right’s efforts to take away women’s rights. The Legislature has a short memory: Remember Proposition 8? In 2008, Prop. 8 allowed voters to take away rights of samesex couples to marry. It passed and opened a Pandora’s box of legal wrangling. It took two years for Prop. 8 to wind its way through the state and federal courts, where — ultimately — the U.S. Supreme Court’s then-liberal majority ruled there was no compelling state interest in denying the LGBTQ community the fundamental right to marry. The same argument of no compelling interest applied to a woman’s right to choose in California would not be deemed constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

hen Orville Wright was born in 1871, his hometown, Dayton, Ohio, had about 30,500 people—less than half the size of Davis, today. It’s surprising then that in addition to Orville and his brother Wilbur — who was born four years earlier in Millville, Ind. — Dayton produced another great American, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mr. Dunbar — for whom at least seven American high schools, including one in Dayton, are named — was born 150 years ago, June 27, 1872. Like most Black Americans of his generation, he rose up from poverty. Paul’s parents were born into slavery in Kentucky. His father, Joshua, escaped and made his way to Canada during the Civil War. He then volunteered to fight on behalf of the Union for the the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, portrayed in the 1989 movie, “Glory.” Dunbar’s mother, Matilda, absconded to Ohio in 1863 by way of the Underground Railroad, following President Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Not long after the birth of the Dunbars’ second child, their marriage ended and Matilda raised Paul and his sister alone. Certainly, America was rife with racism in the late-1800s. Yet reportedly Paul had no trouble getting along with his white peers growing up in Dayton. He was the only African American student during his time at Central High School. Paul was unusually intelligent and industrious. He was president of Central’s literary society, the editor of its high school newspaper and a debate club member. His first poems were published in the local newspaper when he was just 16 years old.

Due to poverty, Dunbar could not afford to go to college after high school, and as a result of prejudice landing a job that paid a living wage was next to impossible.

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o while he continued to write, he worked as an elevator operator in Dayton. When he was 20, his first book of poetry, “Oak and Ivy,” was published in Dayton by the United Brethren Publishing House. The Wright Brothers had suggested that local Methodist company to their friend. Meeting potential customers in his elevator in the Callahan Building, Dunbar supplemented his income selling them his book. The Oak section of this first collection of poems was written in traditional verse; the Ivy in African-American dialect. Throughout his career, he wrote both standard English and in dialect. Coincidentally, the psychology professor who in 1973 coined the term “Ebonics” for Black American dialect, Robert Williams, was a graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In writing Black dialect, Dunbar was conforming to the tradition of earlier white authors including Mark Twain and Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”). Many other African-Americans followed in Dunbar’s footsteps. Yet in his day and later, the use of dialectical English was seen by some as stereotyping

and derogatory. Dunbar had mixed feelings on employing a uniquely Black voice. He believed it was an authentic way to tell their stories. Yet he never wanted to be pigeonholed into only writing in dialect. In his time and since, he has mostly been credited as a brilliant poet. He was praised by literary journals and massmarket publications, including the New York Times. Civil Rights activist, ambassador, NYU professor and NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson, wrote this praise of Dunbar in his 1922 anthology, “The Book of American Negro Poetry.” “Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. “He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form.” From 1892 to 1906 Paul Dunbar wrote 12 collections of poetry. From 1898 to 1903 he wrote four novels and four collections of his short stories. While his poetry was lauded, his fiction was mostly, but not universally, panned. In his short lifetime, he became famous to readers, Black and white, across the United States. He befriended Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and many other great Americans of his time. Dunbar also was hailed internationally. While on a sixmonth tour of Great Britain,

promoting his books, he met Queen Victoria and befriended the Afro-English conductor and composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. “Lyrics of Love and Sorrow” is an example of a Dunbar poem written in standard English. Here is an excerpt I like: The light was on the golden sands, A glimmer on the sea; My soul spoke clearly to thy soul, Thy spirit answered me. Since then the light that gilds the sands, "And glimmers on the sea, But vainly struggles to reflect, The radiant soul of thee. “Lover’s Lane” demonstrates his poetry written in dialect: Summah night an’ sighin’ breeze, ’Long de lovah’s lane; Frien’ly, shadder-mekin’ trees, ’Long de lovah’s lane. White folks’ wo’k all done up gran’— Me an’ ‘Mandy han’-in-han’ Struttin’ lak we owned de lan’, ’Long de lovah’s lane.

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hen Dunbar was 28 years old in 1900, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, then a mostly fatal disease. His doctors recommended drinking whiskey to alleviate the pain. They also suggested he move to Colorado, where the climate was dry and believed to be favorable to his ailing lungs. Their prescription didn’t help. Dunbar went to the Rockies, but became a violent alcoholic before succumbing to TB at age 33. Despite his short life, societal racism and other obstacles, his brilliant poetry lives on 150 years after his birth. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.

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he Republican money machine and theocratic social media brainwashing onslaught will land soon on California, confusing the electorate and persuading many that some limits on a woman’s right to her body are reasonable. If a slim majority of Californians vote “no” on the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, the wider debate will begin: Does the existing 1972 Right to Privacy Amendment to the state Constitution actually include women’s reproductive freedom? The Legislature is making a mistake in letting voters decide. California is the prize for anti-choice zealots aiming to push a radical form of Christianity on Americans. Once the religious right gets hold of California, a woman’s right to her own body will be lost for generations. All we can do is hope every single prochoice Californian shows up Nov. 8 to vote “yes,” passing the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment by a wide margin and enshrining abortion and birth control rights in the state Constitution. — Wendy Voorsanger is the author of “Prospects of a Woman,” a historical novel about women in the West, and has won 10 indie literary awards.

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UCD Athletics

Aggies enjoyed plenty of success in 2021-22 Enterprise staff The accomplishments on the field for UC Davis athletic teams were bountiful during the 2021-22 athletic season. There were championships, AllAmericans and national recognition were all just a part of the successes the athletic department showcased this past school year. Off the field, the athletic department continued its pursuit of enhanced championship resources to support Aggie student-athletes. The record numbers showed just that. Despite the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic and other off the field issues presented to collegiate athletics, UCD raised over a record $7 million in cash giving for the second consecutive year, while 24 athletic programs exceeded their annual donation goals. During the 2021-22 fiscal year, the Aggies brought in $7,055,355 from over 2,100 households, exceeding total funds raised and average household giving from a year ago. The state-of-the-art Edwards Family Athletic Center, which will be the epicenter of Aggie athletics, boasted a total fundraising pledge of $14,268,914. The over $14 million raised well exceeded the $12 million goal for the facility that is set to open in mid-august. The consumption of Aggie sports grew across the board in 2021-22. Ticket sales increased by a department record 31-percent, highlighted by recordsetting attendance numbers in football in both students and general fans. Two new UC Davis Health Stadium records were broken last football season, hitting a high of 12,315 against Sacramento State with an average of over

11,000 in attendance across the five home games. Ticket revenues experienced a six-figure increase from previous seasons. The student body set new game day records as well, with over 8,000 entering the gates for their first game back in over a year and a half. Fans were also able to watch the Aggies in record numbers from the comforts of their own homes in large part to the new broadcasting unit within the athletic department. The department streamed 54 full ESPN+ events and five outsourced ESPN+ football games. Over 137 Aggie sporting events were streamed in some capacity in 2021-22. This year also marked the 50 Years of Title IX Celebration that culminated on June 23, where Aggie student-athletes from equestrian, women’s water polo and women’s swim & dive gathered with Assembly members at the state Capitol for a Press Conference. Throughout the year, UCDAggies.com launched a nine-part feature series on Title IX, while also facilitating two round table talks, a National Girls and Women in sports day student-athlete reflection series, promotional games and a full celebration website dedicated to displaying the proud UC Davis history of Title IX. Aggies also enjoyed unique promotions throughout the year, including the second Gunrocks Gallop 5k. Over 400 runners participated in the virtual event, spanning over 13 states and 104 cities. Of the 410 participants, 27 percent were current students. The 5k raised $3,894 for the ASUCD Pantry, equating to 11,800 meals.

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UC Davis kicker Isaiah Gomez gets ready to boot an extra-point during the Aggies intrasquad scrimmage at UC Davis Health Stadium on April

BUCKS: Are the Oakland Athletics playing for the upcoming years? From Page B1 of a new coaching staff. Grier is the first Black general manager in National Hockey League history. His brother, Chris, is general manager of the Miami Dolphins and his father, Bobby, held several NFL front office positions. Mike Grier played 14 NHL seasons with several teams, including a threeseason stint with the Sharks. Since retiring, he’s

spent time as both a scout and an assistant coach. n Let’s be clear about USC and UCLA choosing the Big Ten over the Pac12 come 2024. Plain and simple, the Trojans and Bruins followed the money. The Big Ten is on the verge of signing a megazillion television rights deal. It will pay Big Ten schools upwards of $100 million per year.

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Blue Devil Nicole Risch (center) sends the volleyball over the net in open gym workouts inside the South Gym on June 28.

GYM: Tryouts Aug. 1 From Page B1 “I appreciate their dedication to the program, leading by example with the consistency of making attending open gyms a priority, as well as the leadership demonstrated,” Crawford said. All of this adding up to the start of tryouts that begin on Monday, Aug. 1. “I think high school season is always something the girls look forward to,” Crawford said. “It’s fun, competitive, they get to play with their friends and represent their school.” Crawford, who teaches PE at the campus, is looking forward to the

upcoming season. “I am always excited heading into a new season,” Crawford said. “Fresh energy, enthusiasm and a new squad. Each season is a process, and I am excited to get started. “I think there is always some sort of momentum going into each season, coming off an off season, club season and summer break. “The girls are eager. The coaches are ready. And the DHS volleyball program is something awesome to be a part of.” — Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter: @MBDavisSports.

That’s double what the Trojans and Bruins would have gotten had they stayed in the Pac-12. With UCLA looking to dig out of a nine-figure athletics deficit, the move makes even more sense. The Pac-12 is in dire straits. The conference will add some schools, sure, but none with anything resembling the fact that both USC and UCLA reside in college football’s premier TV market.

It’s also a big boost for the Big Ten Network. n Due to free agency, Golden State lost five players off its 2021-22 NBA championship roster. That would be insurmountable for most squads, but don’t underestimate the abilities of general manager Bob Myers and head coach Steve Kerr. n A look at the baseball standings tells the

obvious. The A’s are playing for the future, whether it’s in Oakland or some other city. The San Francisco Giants are struggling. Too many people can’t seem to let go of 2021, when the team won 107 games. No matter what sport at whatever level (high school, college, pro), a comparison from one year to the next is pure foolishness.

No two seasons are ever alike. One year a team goes relatively injury-free, the next has half the roster on the injured list. n The American Century celebrity golf tournament wrapped up Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe. No matter what his “score,” former NBA star Charles Barkley is always the event’s premier attraction.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2022

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Davis National shortstop Theo Rogers ready to put the tag on Davis American runner Bannon Abrams at second base in Sunday’s District 64 championship.

THRILLER: Plenty of scoring for both teams From Page B1 A comeback began for Davis National in the top of the sixth inning. Aiden Thomas led off the frame with a single. Next, Marcus Millar was walked. Tate Saban then laid down a superb bunt to load the bases for Davis NL. Zeb Payne followed with a single, bringing home Thomas and keeping the bases loaded. Davis AL still held an 11-8 lead. Theo Rodgers was then hit by a pitch, allowing Millar to cross home. This cut Davis AL’s lead to 11-9. Saban then scored on a wild pitch. This gave Davis AL a one run lead, 11-10. Zeef Barrios was intentionally walked. But a ground out to first base to seal Davis American’s victory. Tyler Ross and Bannon Abrams split time on the mound for Davis American. Barrios and Payne each split time on the mound for Davis National. To lead off the game, Rogers of Davis NL hit an infield single, stole second base and moved to third on a wild pitch. Barrios was then safe at first on a swinging strikeout in which the catcher lost track of the ball. He then stole second base. Bruno then hit into a groundout, allowing Rogers to score and Barrios to move to third. Davis NL took the early 1-0 lead. Barrios was able to score as well on a wild pitch. Going into the bottom of the first frame, Davis NL lead Davis AL 2-0. Davis American answered right back and scored five runs of their own in the bottom of the first. Becker led off the half inning with a single. McElhern was then walked. Next, Ross smacked a double, bringing home both Becker and McElhern. This tied the game at 2-2. After Ross moved to third base on a wild pitch, Abrams drew a walk. Another wild pitch allowed Ross to score and Abrams to move to second. Davis AL then took the 3-2 lead. Espinoza hit an infield single, moving Abrams to third. A Jackson Wallace double allowed both

Espinoza and Abrams to cross home, giving Davis American a 5-2 lead going into the second inning. After a scoreless second inning, Davis National tied the game back up in the top of the third. Rogers led off with a walk, followed by an infield single from Jono Wood. On a wild pitch, Rogers moved to third base, but Wood was caught in a rundown and tagged out. Barrios then hit a double, scoring Rogers. This cut Davis AL’s advantage to 5-3. Bruno then hit Davis NL’s second double in a row, bringing home Barrios. Davis American still led 5-4. Next, Thomas hit a single, moving Bruno to third base. Bruno then scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at five runs apiece. Davis American took the lead back in the bottom of the third inning. Thompson led off the half inning for Davis AL with a single. He then moved to second base on a wild pitch. Wallace followed with another single, moving Thompson to third. A failed pickoff attempt at third allowed Thompson to score. This gave Davis American the 6-5 lead going into the fourth frame. Davis National took the lead back in the top of the fourth inning. After Wood drew a walk, he moved to second on a wild pitch. Next, Barrios was hit by a pitch. Bruno followed with a single, moving Wood to third and Barrios to second to load the bases. Thomas then hit an infield single, to score Wood and keep the bases loaded. The game was then tied 6-6. Saban followed with another infield single, allowing Barrios to cross home. This gave Davis NL the one run 7-6 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, Davis American was held scoreless by Payne, who recorded three strikeouts in the half inning. Davis American defeated Vacaville American on Friday, Vacaville National on July 6 and Woodland National League on July 5. — Follow Rebecca Wasik on Twitter: @BeccaFromTheBay.