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Former UCD coach reunited with long-lost wedding ring
Options expand as voter centers open in Yolo County
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Jerry Hinsdale isn’t quite sure when his wedding ring slipped off his finger. “I looked down one day and it was gone,” said Hinsdale, who figured he lost the gold band while working on the sprinkler system or building a backyard arbor at his then-Oak Avenue home. “I looked all over the place, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.” When the Hinsdales — Jerry, his wife Jane and their children Jill and John — sold the home in 1986 to move to Elmwood Drive, they figured the ring was gone for good. Fate, however, had other plans. Fast-forward to Oct. 26, 2022, some 36 years later. Leslie Carroll, whose family bought the Oak Avenue house from the Hinsdales, had hired Americo Meza of Americo Handyman to work on some household projects. Meza had pushed aside a bush to rinse off his tools with the front-yard hose when he saw a circular object come loose in the dirt, where it had been wedged against the base of the house. “He called me out and said, ‘Look what I found.’ It was this ring,” said Carroll, who
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Jerry Hinsdale holds both his long-lost wedding ring, right, and the one that later replaced it.
UCD chancellor stresses affordability By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer SACRAMENTO — With all the pomp and circumstance of an energetic rally, UC Davis Chancellor Gary May and Yvette Gullatt, University of California chief diversity officer, addressed the CK McClatchy High School class of 2025, who got a flurry of advice on how to prepare now for admission to the University of California system. UCD’s mascot, Gunrock the Mustang, ran up and down the aisles as balloons of the UC’s colors of blue and gold framed the entryway of the campus. A college fair engaged students at lunchtime with college
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With Election Day just a few days away, Yolo County voters now have more options for getting their ballots in on time. On Saturday, 10 voter assistance centers were scheduled to open throughout the county, including three in Davis, adding to the three centers that have been open since Oct. 29. With traditional neighborhood polling locations now a thing of the past, voter assistance centers have become the place to cast a vote in person, drop off a completed ballot, receive bilingual assistance, register to vote and cast a conditional registration ballot, and more. In Davis, voter assistance centers will be open Saturday through Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial Center multipurpose room, 203 E 14th St.; UC Davis ARC ballrooms A and B, 760 Orchard Road; Montgomery Elementary School multipurpose room, 1441 Danbury St.; and Emerson Junior High School
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admission information. And, the CKM sophomores also heard from MAY alums who UC Davis now chancellor attend UCD. While the event was billed to include UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., a 1967 CKM alum, due to unforeseen circumstances, he could not attend. Gullatt encouraged students to look into admissions requirements and financial aid options. The message was that college is for everyone and
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that the UCs shouldn’t be written off because of a high price tag. On the stage, inside the 788-seat Visual and Performing Arts theater, May promoted the more than 100 different majors at UCD whereby the 41,000 students are studying the major issues of our time. “We're also empowering students for great success after they graduate and helping them to find their dream career. We want each of our students to have a job offer in hand before they graduate or have plans for graduate school in place. And one thing that excites me here today is such a diverse student
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Teachers keep up push for compensation at meeting By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer Davis public-school teachers showed no signs of wavering in their resolve for higher compensation at the Davis School Board meeting on Thursday, Nov. 3. While the board trustees stuck to the agenda of the meeting, the teachers once again took center stage, highlighting not only their lack of compensation, but the district’s dire staffing issues as well. Angry, upset and enraged would be putting mildly the emotions poured out by the district’s teachers and
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parents at the meeting. DTA President Victor Lagunes called out more than the lack of compensation, however. To Lagunes, compounding that issue are the numerous teaching vacancies which only add more weight and stress to the workload of existing teachers, which trickles down as adverse effects on the students they serve.
“There are over a dozen vacant positions that are still open, and all the others are filled by longterm subs and interns.
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Briefly Homeless camp fire snarls trains A fire at a local homeless encampment delayed train travel through the area Friday morning. Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief Emily Lo said no one was injured in the blaze, which broke out at about 5:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of Olive Drive, just south of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. “There was extensive mop-up, and we had to shut down the trains for a while” in order to lay water hose lines across the tracks, Lo said. Crews remained on scene for more than two hours. Amtrak spokeswoman Olivia Irvin said multiple trains experienced delays as a result of the fire, which according to Lo damaged some communication lines near the tracks. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, Lo said.
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Why I always keep my powder dry E verywhere I look, politicians are urging me to vote early. This is not some sort of patriotic urge to save the democracy. No, these folks want to be sure they have my vote all locked up in case the day before the election they get charged with embezzling campaign funds or kicking the family dog in a homemade video leaked by a former partner. I, unfortunately, am virtually alone in my desire to wait until 7:59 p.m. on Election Night to cast my ballot. With the vast majority of my fellow citizens voting ahead of time — at least those who haven’t lost their ballot under a pile of newspapers and bills on the kitchen table - there are no last-minute door-hangers telling me that Candidate X is a card-carrying communist who actually cast a write-in ballot for “Vladimir Putin” for town mayor in the last election. I miss those full-page ads on the Sunday before Election Day — today, actually — where candidates list every name in the Davis phone book among their supporters. I especially miss those ads because they help to pay my seven-figure salary with the floating decimal point. Races for national offices on the local ballot — Congress and the presidency — are never any fun because in the People’s Republic of
Davis at least, the House race always involves a super-safe seat, the U.S. Senate is similarly preordained and 100 percent of California’s electoral votes for president will all go to one candidate even if the “loser” gets 49.99 percent of the vote. Or, oddly, if the presidential field has more than two candidates, the “winner” can claim 100 percent of the electoral votes with just 40 percent or maybe 30 percent or even 20 percent, just as long as he or she is the top votegetter. If you call that crazy, you would be right. So no, I haven’t voted yet, even if my mind hasn’t changed much since five ballots arrived in our humble East Davis mailbox three or four weeks ago. I plan to vote all five of them, which would be just four felonies, since I’m legally allowed to vote one of them. Our supposedly “non-partisan” City Council race is usually interesting, so I went to the city of Davis website to check out the
official “Candidate Statement” of each person seeking to sit in the high-back chairs that loom over the sometimes crowded council chambers. By law, no one in officialdom can mess with a Candidate Statement. Not even if the candidate misspells his or her own name. Not even if the candidate thinks he or she is running for a seat on the Dixon City Council.
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ope, the candidates will have to live or die with their own words, no matter how badly they butcher the language. The reasoning behind this rule is sound. If someone at City Hall could willy-nilly “correct” a candidate’s statement, the meaning might change, whether intentional or not. Thus, the no-touch rule remains in effect. One council candidate who couldn’t afford a proofreader stated “I will to work with local businesses.” Who knows, maybe he’ll pass a “Will to Work” ordinance where people who don’t have the will to work don’t have to. Another demerit for using an Oxford comma and a final shake of the head for attaining “carbon neutrality” with “concrete steps.” Last time I checked, you don’t achieve carbon neutrality
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The public is invited to attend the Davis Bike Club’s monthly membership meeting and social at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame at Third and B streets in Davis. For information about the club, see www.DavisBikeClub. org or outreach@ davisbikeclub.org.
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with concrete. I mean, we’re talking about five simple paragraphs here. Another candidate gets tossed for migraine-inducing misuse of the simple colon. The whole statement could use a colonoscopy. Yet another candidate claims to “work to ensure that Davis moves towards,” when I’d rather vote for someone who moves Davis “toward” our certain goals. And what can you do with a candidate who is absolutely in love with the utterly meaningless semicolon? “Hell, I don’t know how to punctuate this stupid paragraph. Let’s just toss another semicolon in there and see if it works.” It doesn’t. A final council candidate apparently has Oxford commas for breakfast along with his or her morning coffee. Frankly, after reading these statements, I can’t vote for any of them. But guess what? I can’t vote for any of them anyway because thanks to district elections, none of them are even listed on my ballot I wonder if the Yolo County Elections Office can run my shredded ballot through its voting machines when the polls finally close and it’s time to start counting the votes. — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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From left, Luci Brusca, Isla Robertson, Rosie Ostrem, Kyla Schumann work at the Central Park carousel.
Moms, daughters back philanthropies Special to The Enterprise “What are we doing for T.R.O.T.R. today, Mom?” she asks. “Helping with pony rides and the petting zoo.” “Oh right! Awesome! That’s always fun.” Whether it is volunteering for T.R.O.T.R. (Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track Rehabilitation) by giving pony rides, staffing the Yolo Crisis Nursery’s recent Barn Dance fundraiser, helping with the Davis Schools Foundation carousel at Central Park, or cooking breakfast for Davis Community Meals, NCL mothers and daughters are actively giving back in the Davis/Yolo community. “We are eternally grateful to our NCL partners!” said Debbie Shoup, Volunteer Coordinator for T.R.O.T.R. “They have helped us in so many ways: staffing adaptive riding clinics, ranch clean up on Saturdays, etc. They have been a huge part of keeping T.R.O.T.R. open.” Sharon Schauer of Yolo Crisis Nursery adds,
“We have always appreciated NCL’s contributions to our organization. They truly are a valuable asset.” The National Charity League is a national group that aims to foster the mother-daughter relationship through serving communities together. The Davis Chapter was started in 2013. NCL members are girls seventh through 12th grade and their mothers. M ichael Riera, Ph.D., author of “Staying Connected to your Teenager”, discusses the importance of staying connected to teenagers through their adolescence. He notes “During adolescence teenagers need to extend away from their parents, all the while staying connected to their parents. Their job is to extend; your job is to connect.” NCL provides a great vehicle to support this effort through leadership opportunities that develop skills and confidence, serving communities in partnership with local and national nonprofits, all the while strengthening the motherdaughter bond.
“It’s been a great experience. I especially enjoy volunteering with my Mom at the ‘Friends of the Davis Library’ book sales, and am excited about being the VP of Philanthropy for my class this year,” said Beatrice Taormino, Class of 2025. NCL Davis Chapter members reside in or attend school in Davis or surrounding areas. They provide more than 3,500 philanthropy hours annually across the 20-plus nonprofit organizations they support. The Davis Chapter is recruiting new members through November and December and will hold an information night on Dec. 7. The application deadline is Jan. 15. To learn more, visit https://www. nationalcharityleague.org/ chapter/davis/ or email membershipdavis@nclonline.org.
The 2022 Davis Film Festival takes place Sunday, Nov. 6, from 2 to 9:30 p.m. at the Veteran’s Memorial Theater, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis, featuring movies from around the world and Northern California’s own back yard. Local filmmakers whose films will be shown include Tony Wisneske, gayle k. yamada, Ryley Sakai, Jezer Serafica, Andrew Ishak, Frank Woods, Claire Langton and Elise Marie Hodge, Melissa Muganzo Murphy, Nick Anderson, Ethan Connor Ireland, and Kevin Carpio, all from Davis or Sacramento. Other films come from the Bay Area, including Sonoma and Contra Costa County, plus works from the East Coast, as well as films from Turkey and France. See the full lineup at https://davisfilmfest.org. Doors open on Sunday at 2 p.m. Renee and Richard from the band According to Bazooka will be
playing live music during the dinner break from 5:30 to 6:30 pm. Pizza, popcorn and other concession items will be sold throughout the day. For more info and to check out the film lineup, go to www. davisfilmfest.org. A big thanks to Temple Coffee Roasters for their donation, and to FedEx Kinko’s for their help with posters and programs. Tickets are $10, general admission and $8.50 for students/seniors, for the afternoon or evening films, and $15 for a Festival Pass (savings of $5). All children under 12 will get in free for the familyfriendly Sunday afternoon films. Tickets are on sale now at Armadillo Music in Davis, online at filmfreeway.com, and will also be sold at the door. The festival needs two volunteers to take tickets at the door and assist with concessions. Email Judith at davisfilmfest@gmail. com if you are interested. Each volunteer will receive a full Festival Pass.
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Almonds are the top crop in Yolo County.
Value of county’s ag production up 13%, with almonds leading the way By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The gross value of Yolo County’s agricultural production increased by 13.9 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to the county’s 2021 crop report, with almonds back on top as the county’s most valuable crop. Total value for all agricultural production in Yolo County in 2021 was more than $811 million, up from $711.8 million the year before. Almonds contributed $137 million to that total, followed by tomatoes at $136.6 million. Rounding out the top ten commodities were wine grapes, organic production, rice, walnuts, alfalfa hay, sunflower seeds, pistachios and apiary. All saw an increase in value except rice, which dropped from $67.6 million in 2020 to $38.7 million in 2021, and sunflower seeds which dropped from $33.4 million to $30 million. According to Yolo
County Agricultural Commissioner Humberto Izquierdo, although there was an increase in total crop value, “2021 was a challenging year due to water shortage." “This is reflected primarily in a 45 percent decrease in rice acreage,” Izquierdo wrote in the crop report being presented to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “Seed crops were also down,” he said. “The overall value of our primary crop increases were due to strong pricing and an increase in almond production due to maturing trees.” Almonds were the county’s most valuable crop in 2018 and 2019, but were supplanted by tomatoes in 2020. Prior to almonds ascending to the top of the list, tomatoes held the number one spot for nearly six decades. But 2020 was a tough year for both almond and walnut growers, according to a report last year from the Yolo County Farm Bureau, which said the
price of walnuts was regarded by most as below the cost of production and almonds at or below production costs. The total value of almonds decreased from $157.7 million in 2019 to $98.2 million in 2020 before rebounding to $137.1 million in 2021. Likewise, walnuts dropped from $35.8 million in 2019 to $27.5 million in 2020 before jumping to $37.5 million in 2021. The county’s almonds and walnuts are in demand around the world, joining tomatoes, hay and seeds as the county’s top five exported commodities, according to the crop report. Crops grown in Yolo County were shipped to 258 countries in 2021 with exports to Japan, China, India, Mexico and Australia leading the way. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
TEACHERS: Staffing at issue, too From Page A1 Students rely on educators for their academic and social-emotional growth. Without teachers, counselors, nurses, school psychologists and every other position left vacant, kids aren’t getting the instruction and guidance they need and deserve,” said Lagunes. “One-time monies do nothing to address the problems that are impacting our students. And furthermore, to site one-time monies to members of the public as part of the justification for how much you’re compensating your employees is misleading. It sounds like excuses and it’s damaging your reputation with our community.” The public comment section was filled with more teachers echoing passionate discontent for all the aforementioned issues which are yet to be resolved. ———— Alongside the discourse was a career technical education update presented by Associate Superintendent of Instruction, Rody Boonchouy — his last before he
takes up the position of superintendent of the Winters Joint Unified School District. Boonchouy covered the CTE mission, the available state funding and support, community demand, the district’s facilities master plan, as well as student data. “We built a broad coalition of CTE advocates and drafted a common vision and purpose where all students, particularly those furthest from opportunity, engage in learning aligned with our passions and values and contributions through hands-on, real-life opportunities by accessing pathways, internships and our network of community connections,” said Boonchouy. Following that update was feedback from the Special Education Program review by West Ed, presented by the associate superintendent of administrative services, Julie Corona. Community survey results from 39 responses showed a want for clarification of program acronyms as well as the next steps in the planning and implementation process.
Responses also included recommendations to address the staffing shortages, focusing on training/ mentoring teachers, student behavior safety and professional development for all staff. Also taking place in the meeting was a public hearing regarding the energy services agreement for solar facilities. Executive director of capital operations David Burke gave a breakdown of the district’s 2019 commitment t0 install solar production facilities at all district sites with the intent of meeting an 80% offset of electrical use. Phase one of this process began with the public hearing. After the hearing and a breakdown of the implementation phases, the board voted unanimously to move forward with the solar project and approved the corresponding contracts. With that, the meeting came to an end with the next scheduled for Nov. 17. — Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@mcnaughton.media.
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RING: Was lost, but not gone forever From Page A1 noticed the ring’s inscription: “To Jerry, all my love forever, Jane. 6-20-65.” Meza thought the ring belonged to Carroll, but she told him, “This is not my husband’s name!” he laughed “I thought, oh my goodness, this must belong to the people we bought the house from in 1986,” Carroll said. Although Carroll had met Jane Hinsdale, she never knew Jerry, who coached men’s swimming and water polo at UC Davis for 33 years before his retirement in 1994. The Hinsdales, both sailing aficionados, spent their retirement years on a sailboat in Mexico, as well as visiting their children and friends across the country (John lives in Montana, Jill in Rancho Cordova). Carroll embarked on a mission to track the Hinsdales down. She posted a Nextdoor social media post about the ring’s recovery, which caught the attention of a friend of Jill Hinsdale. The friend connected her with Carroll. Jill then relayed the good news to her 86-yearold father, who moved to Isleton after Jane passed away in 2019. On Wednesday, Jerry and Jill Hinsdale, Jerry’s niece Kelley Dahmen and his companion Virginia Bendure traveled to Davis
body. At the University of California, we welcome students from all backgrounds all walks of life,” he said. Gullatt, whose mission is to keep the 10 UC campuses as diverse, accessible and equitable as possible, earned her bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. “We're here to encourage you to plan ahead for your college and to think about pursuing your dreams at the University of California,” she said. Putting herself in their shoes, Gullatt remembered listening to people just like her telling her she could go to college. “And you know what, I didn't believe that. I didn't believe that. My family didn't have any money,” she said. “But somebody did take me in and they showed me the way and I went to college, not to the University of California at first, but eventually. And you know what? I got my degrees there. It opened doors to change lives not just for me, but for my entire family.” Promoting the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, Gullatt explained that undergraduates who have an annual family income of less than $80,000 will have their tuition and fees covered. UCD student Adamaris Perez-Venegas said she has been able to attend UC Davis because of the aid. UCD student Claire Mitchell said that she received the Middle Class Scholarship. “My family's financial position is super fortunate, but it's still not enough that we have $35,000 lying around to
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Jill Hinsdale, middle, greets handyman Americo Meza with a hug as her father, Jerry, and his companion Virginia Bendure look on. to retrieve the ring. Before long, they’d embarked on a trip down memory lane. “It’s like coming home, really,” Jill said of her childhood house, where she lived until age 18. Dahmen immediately focused on the backyard pool, where “you taught me how to swim,” she reminded Jerry Hinsdale. The group gathered in the backyard to share their fond memories of the home and photos of the Hinsdales’ wedding day and retirement years. Then came time for the big reveal. Carroll handed the ring to Meza, who slipped it
back onto Jerry Hinsdale’s finger. “Where are we going on our honeymoon?” Hinsdale laughed, but he grew emotional as he read the ring’s inscription for the first time in decades. Although he’d purchased a new wedding band, “this one has a lot more meaning. I never thought I would see it again.” “This is a beautiful moment, really,” Meza said. “It was my pleasure, and it’s such a beautiful story.” — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
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Photos show Jane and Jerry Hinsdale during their retirement, top, and on their wedding day in 1965.
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pay for my tuition in full every year. The Middle Class Scholarship allowed me to pay for school, like without putting too much strain on my family,” Mitchell said. She said that UCD gave her the most aid out of all the six UCs she was accepted to. According to the UC Financial Aid office, for students with family income up to $191,000, and household assets of no more than $191,000, the Middle Class Scholarship will cover between 10 percent and 40 percent of systemwide tuition and fees. Similarly, UCD student Alice Atiegav said as an immigrant student, her family started as low and then middle income. She got the most benefits from Cal Grant aid, the academic scholarship (GPA verification). “UC Davis also gave me a great healthy package compared to UCLA. And I always knew I wanted to go to Davis,” Atiegav said. In a private meeting with UC officials, politicians, and Sacramento City Unified School District administrators, State Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento said this past year, the state of California expanded Cal Grant eligibility for community college transfer students. “If (people) applied for their FAFSA forms, they're guaranteed Cal Grants if they make you know roughly under $100,000 and they have at least 2.0 GPA. “I bet you a lot of kids in our high schools don't even know that and so it's incumbent upon all of us to be part of that message of upward
mobility and higher education.” Also in attendance was Pediatrician and former UC Davis educator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), who spoke to a gathering of educators, politicians, and administrators before the event with the students, and expressed the need to help students not fall through the cracks. “We cannot let this COVID generation get lost, right?” He stated, "How are we going to be sure that those students might have struggled, whose families struggled, that we don't write them off?” He worries that students taking a break between high school and college may have difficulty getting in when the time is right for them. During lunchtime, a preselected cohort of about a dozen students sat at the table with May at one end and CKM social science teacher Lori Jablonski at the other. The students had questions such as: “What was your high school
experience like? And, what did you do in high school to better yourself?” May, who has a background in engineering, recalled becoming a part of a program called Develop Engineering Students that was set up for minority students in his hometown of St. Louis. He played tennis and was involved in student government at a Lutheran high school. Jablonski said May was very straightforward in his responses to the students: “I sense the honesty in addressing student questions about the University's racial and ethnic diversity and what it is doing to increase the number of Latinx, Black and Indigenous students.” She asked her students afterward what they thought. “All said that they learned a lot ... One said she was less nervous about the process now.”
multipurpose room, 2121 Calaveras Ave. These centers are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, and from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday. A list of all voter assistance centers in Yolo County is available at https://www.yoloelec tions.org/voting/polling_ place and voters can check the wait time at any of the centers by visiting that web page as well. The elections office has also been operating a mobile vote center in rural areas of the county. The mobile center has already visited Guinda, Madison, Zamora and Yolo and will be in Clarksburg on Saturday, Dunnigan on Sunday and Knights Landing on Monday. As with the voter assistance centers, the mobile option has elections workers available to assist with registering to vote, casting a ballot, getting a replacement ballot and using an accessible ballotmarking device. Meanwhile, voters can also continue dropping off their completed ballots in ballot drop boxes located throughout the county, including at four sites in Davis. Two of the Davis ballot drop boxes are outdoors and accessible 24 hours a day: outside City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd., and on the UC Davis campus at 282 Tennis Court Lane. The other two are indoors at
the Nugget Markets at 409 Mace Blvd. and 1414 E Covell Blvd. Those drop boxes are available from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Ballot drop boxes will be open until 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots mailed back to the elections office via the postal service must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by Nov. 15 to be counted. Voters can track their ballots easily using the “Where’s My Ballot” tracking service offered by the county and the California Secretary of State’s Office. Sign up at https:// california.ballottrax.net/ voter/ in order to receive an automatic email, text or voice call with notifications about ballot status, including whether your ballot has been received and counted. The Yolo County Elections Office in Woodland began processing and counting vote-by-mail ballots on Friday and observers are welcome. “The processing and counting of vote-by-mail ballots is open to the public and we welcome anyone who is interested in observing,” says Jesse Salinas, assessor/clerkrecorder/registrar of voters. Anyone interested in observing should email elections@yolocounty. org. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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Dah Bao opens; Woodstock’s is next month
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he tea and Asian street food eatery Dah Bao opened Tuesday in Fifth Street Plaza. The restaurant specializes in pork and veggie buns, beef noodle soup, and Zhajiang Noodles. There are also rice bowls with pork belly, chicken or garlic eggplant; and sides like popcorn chicken, fried tofu, fried lotus roots, cucumber salad, stewed cabbage and egg. It offers fruit, milk and tea drinks, with a focus on fruit teas, customizable with toppings. There’s also matcha drinks and ice cream shakes. Majority owner Hal Zhang said he’s most proud of their noodle soup, which slowly stews beef in a bone broth over two days at a controlled temperature. Other dishes will be added next year. Dah Bao is at 2880 Fifth St., Suite 140. Soft-opening hours are 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. It plans a grand opening in January, after which Zhang plans to expand hours to 11 to 11. ———— Woodstock’s Pizza is slated to open its new location in the third week of December. It’s moving across the street, from 219 G St. to 238 G, which last housed Ketmoree. The December transition will be a soft opening, co-owner Laura Ambrose said Thursday as she traveled to Davis. She and her husband live in San Diego. They plan a grand opening in January. “We have a huge pile of new equipment stacked in the back of the current restaurant, with more arriving every day. The new ovens we’re installing will be able to
handle even more volume than before, allowing us to feed 1,000 or more hungry pizza lovers at one event. Wait times should be reduced.” Inside, a “Davis-centric” mural will be painted on the north wall of the pizzeria, extending into the northeast corner as a backdrop for live music. Mural work is set to begin on Nov. 13. A bar, featuring a 24-tap, double-sided beer tower, will be in the center of the restaurant, where they’ll also serve wine, cocktails and slushies. Other features inside the new restaurant include chandeliers crafted out of bicycle rims and what looks like red Solo cups, and a water-vapor fireplace that mimics a fire pit but doesn’t put out heat or emissions. Wooden booths from the current restaurant are being refinished to reinstall in the new one. “We will have nearly as much outside dining as inside,” she said, “along with heaters and fire pits.” They will paint the exterior to replicate “the original 1937 Davis Lumber color (a shade of white) with the same striped awnings, while maintaining the (butterfly) mural on Third Street,” she said. And, “This will be the place to watch sports on TV, with our quad multiplexer that will allow
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Barista Sophia Tong, left, and majority owner Hal Zhang show off some veggie and pork buns Thursday at Dah Bao, which began its soft opening on Tuesday. us to have one huge screen or four different games at the same time. This is in addition to 20 other televisions placed throughout the restaurant.” ———— Mamma, the Italian restaurant filling the former Bistro 33 site, is done with initial permitting. On Thursday, co-owner Michael Galyen said contractors will begin work in a few days. He said he and the other owner, chef Arnaud Drouvellé, have already been building furniture. They hope to open Mamma by early 2023. A fire a year ago was one of the major delays to the project, along with “some challenging new regulations that old buildings have to
comply with,” Galyen said. The Mamma menu and full bar will offer simple, customizable pasta and pizza dishes. The adjacent City Hall Tavern site will operate as an Italian market and deli. They’re both at 226 F St. Galyen and Drouvellé live in Napa. Galyen grew up in Davis, and owns NapaSport, a steakhouse and sports lounge in Napa. After Mamma opens, they plan to focus on another Davis project, Craft, which will fill the former Uncle Vito’s space at 524 Second St. It will sell beer and wine, with a menu of barbecue, roasted and fried foods. They say both Davis menus will be affordable. ———— Work is under way at the future
Yolo Beer Ranch. It will replace the former Satiety Winery & Cafe barn at 40101 County Road 25A in Woodland. The concept is for a gathering place with games, outdoor fun, and a wide selection of local beer. Owners are Gregg Herrington and Tim Beeman. I left a message for Herrington on Thursday but did not hear back before my deadline. ———— Also on Thursday, I tried to check in on Bull ’N Mouth, the American restaurant filling the former De Vere’s Irish Pub space at 217 E St., but didn’t get a reply. ———— There is still no action inside the future Orangetheory Fitness site. It’s filling the former Round Table Pizza spot at 2151 Cowell Blvd., Suite A. The company has not returned my recent messages but its building permit was under review by the city as of last month. ———— I am taking next week off. Comings & Goings will return for the Nov. 20 edition. ———— Missed a column? Wondering when a new Davis business is opening? Check my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email her at wendyedit@gmail.com.
Travis Credit Union recognized for diversity efforts Special to The Enterprise VACAVILLE — The Council for Inclusion in Financial Services recognized Travis Credit Union for its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The award is given to cross-specialty influencers, businesses and organizations that have spearheaded initiatives to change the face of their industry by fostering diversity, facilitating an inclusive culture or advocating for underrepresented groups. TCU received the Catalyst Award, an honor granted to individuals and organizations for
accelerating positive impact in DEI through philanthropic efforts and initiatives that support underrepresented groups. TCU Community Relations Director Damian Alarcon received the award on behalf of the credit union. “The honorees have all impacted both the Financial Services Industry and the community at large by sharing their passions and talents to stress the importance of togetherness,” said Keith Murray, President of the Council for Inclusion in Financial
Services. “We applaud their work and are excited to honor these influencers.” TCU has a long legacy of supporting local communities by forming alliances with organizations that enable the credit union to provide financial education to diverse and economically vulnerable populations. In 2021, more than 19,560 adults and youth received financial education through TCU, including more than 500 Spanish speakers that participated in TCU’s seminars. Also during this time, TCU
supported 450 foster and homeless youth by providing them with free college workshops and resources. “Travis Credit Union embraces principles like diversity, inclusiveness, respect, and support for those who need it the most on a daily basis,” said Alarcon. “We all work hard to provide a safe, nonjudgmental, and uplifting environment for our members and communities. “All of our outreach and educational initiatives demonstrate our dedication to serve some of the most diverse communities in the
country. While supporting, valuing and embracing our own individuality, we also support, respect, and cherish the diversity of our members.” Additionally, Travis Credit Union is a finalist at the Inaugural Credit Union Times LUMINARIES Awards in the category of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. The award ceremony will be on Nov. 9 in Washington, D.C. This recognition is given to individuals and organizations for dynamic and inclusive ways they are driving the credit union industry forward.
UCD Health performs first procedure guided by new hologram software
‘Unfold’ podcast looks at Knights Landing clinic
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SACRAMENTO — Structural heart physicians at UC Davis Health performed the first MitraClip procedure using EchoPixel’s Holographic Therapy Guidance. Dr. Edris Aman led the image acquisition, while the Dr. Gagan Singh, director of the Cardiovascular Research Unit, performed the procedure utilizing the HTG guidance. MitraClip is a procedure that approximates the mitral valve leaflets thereby addressing an incompetent valve that is regurgitating, also known as “leaking.” Significant mitral regurgitation prevalence rates are estimated to be up to 10% to 25% in patients in their seventies. During the procedure, operators implant one or more clips onto the valve leaflets with real-time echocardiographic imaging. Clinical data suggests MitraClip helps improve symptoms and survival in appropriately selected patients. “The procedure went smoothly thanks to this new technology,” Singh said. “As a group, we feel HTG has the
potential to increase procedural efficiency and simplify many complex structural heart procedures in addition to MitraClip.” EchoPixel’s HTG technology is the first turnkey solution that is FDA approved and allows doctors to manipulate a real-time 4D hologram to guide their procedure. The software platform uses standard medical images to create a digital twin of a patient, enabling doctors to experience it as a 4D interactive hologram, interacting with the patient’s organs and tissues as if they were actual, physical objects. This technology enables real-time accurate situational awareness of catheters and implantable devices in relation to complex anatomy. “I am honored to work with the innovative team at UC Davis Health,” said EchoPixel founder and CEO Sergio Aguirre. “I look forward to continue expanding these and other relationships as practitioners increasingly recognize the value in solutions like ours.” Headquartered in Silicon Valley, EchoPixel is a venture
capital-backed startup and a pioneer in creating the operating room of the future. The company’s technologies include the first pre-operative True3D planning platform and intra-operative Holographic Therapy Guidance software, which allow physicians to interact with patient-specific organs and tissues as if they were actual, physical objects. EchoPixel’s True3D software platform has already become the standard of care at world-leading congenital heart defect and structural heart centers. Learn more at echopixeltech. com. UC Davis Health is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships with the community. As the region’s only academic health center, UC Davis Health is a hub of innovation that’s focused on discovering and sharing knowledge while providing the highest quality of care.
Special to The Enterprise In the newest Season 4 episode of “Unfold,” a UC Davis podcast, learn about the Knights Landing One Health Center, a clinic in an underserved community that treats people and pets. About 1,000 people live in Knights Landing, a rural agricultural area in Yolo County. Because of its small size, the community lacks most services, including doctors and veterinarians — except on one Sunday every month. This episode of “Unfold” looks at the Knights Landing One Health Center, where veterinarians, physicians and students team up to help some of the most vulnerable and underserved animals and people in the county. The episode features Kristin Jankowski, faculty director, Knights Landing One Health Clinic, and access-to-care chief at UC Davis veterinary hospital;
Eichorn sponsors shredding event Special to The Enterprise
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Susan Adams, associate professor, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Health; and Erik Olstad, assistant professor, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. The award-wining podcast will launch episodes every week through Nov. 15. “Unfold” is available free, on demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Google Podcasts, on your smart speaker or wherever you get your podcasts. Original music for “Unfold” comes from UC Davis alumnus Damien Verrett and Curtis Jerome Haynes. Follow on Twitter at @Unfoldpodcast.
Davis realtor Kim Eichorn will sponsor her 13th annual shred event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. Bring your confidential paperwork and it will be shredded onsite by Viking Shred in the parking lot behind Lyon Real Estate, 401 Second St. Access by entering the alley on D Street across from the Pence Gallery next-door to Hunan Restaurant. Drive through, and any bags and boxes will be unloaded. The event is free, but will accept cash or check donations for STEAC.
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Girl Scouts build blessing box for mutual housing
Calendar Today n "Dragonflies Rule!" will set the theme for the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house from 1 to 4 p.m. The event, free and family-friendly, takes place in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building. 455 Crocker Lane, and will feature noted dragonfly expert Rosser Garrison of Sacramento, widely recognized as one of the current leading experts of the taxonomy of New World odonata.
Wednesday n Project Linus will gather at the Davis Senior Center from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. to sew Linus labels on handmade blankets for Yolo County organizations that serve children in need. For general information, drop-off location questions or fabric and yarn donations, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@ gmail.com.
Friday n The UC Davis Arboretum hosts a Folk Music Jam Session from noon to 1 p.m. Folk musicians are once again invited to bring their acoustic instruments and play together informally during this jam session at Wyatt Deck (next to the redwood grove). Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes, squeezeboxes (you name it) and join your fellow musicians for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer and world music over the lunch hour. All skill levels welcome and listeners are invited. Short-term parking is available in Visitor Lot 5 on Old Davis Road at Arboretum Drive. Hourly rates start at $1.75.
Sunday, Nov. 13 n Ryan Janke will lead a Yolo Audubon field trip to the Cosumnes River Preserve from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. This preserve has an array of important valley floor bird habitats including wetlands, floodplains, agricultural land, and rare valley oak riparian. Birding at the interface of these habitats provides a unique opportunity to view a diverse list of species with relative ease. The trip will entail a walk along the flat and wellmaintained trails through these habitats to view woodpeckers, raptors, wetland birds, wintering sparrows, ducks, geese, and shorebirds. The field trip also will explore the agricultural fields along Desmond Road which is renowned for Sandhill Cranes. For reservations, go to yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/yoloaudubonsociety. n The Episcopal Church of St. Martin, continues its free Seeds of Justice lecture series
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online at 4 p.m. John M. Liu, professor emeritus in the departments of Asian American studies and sociology at UC Irvine will offer a presentation on “How Manifest Destiny Changed the Color of Labor.” Learn more at https:// churchofstmartin. org/2022/08/03/savethe-date-seeds-of-justice-continues/.
Monday, Nov. 14 n The public is invited to attend the Davis Bike Club’s monthly membership meeting and social at 7 p.m. at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame at Third and B streets in Davis. This month’s gathering will feature free docent-led tours of the Bicycling Hall of fame and the opportunity to meet enthusiastic bike riders. For information about the Davis Bike Club and its weekly rides, see www.DavisBikeClub. org or contact Maria, outreach director, at outreach@davisbikeclub. org.
Wednesday, Nov. 16 n The Yolo Audubon Society invites the public to join its monthly program meeting via Zoom. Marc Hoshovsky will speak on the history of the South Fork Preserve, which is along Putah Creek, a few miles southeast of downtown Davis. The preserve is a publicly accessible city of Davis open-space area. This 192-acre preserve is one of the best examples of riparian and floodplain forest along Putah Creek. For reservations, go to yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/yoloaudubonsociety.
Thursday, Nov. 17 n Soroptimist International of Davis invites community members to join its annual Soup Night and Silent Auction at Davis Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The silent auction begins at 6 and closes at 7:30 p.m. Fill up on members’ best soups, breads and desserts while getting a jump start on holiday gifts. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, along with non-alcoholic beverages. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. The evening’s proceeds benefit SI Davis programs and projects. Learn more at https:// www.sidavis.org/.
Saturday, Nov. 19 n The annual Davis model train display will be up and running at the Davis train station at 840 Second St. in downtown Davis. Admission is free. Any donations received will be directed to local charitable programs. The electric train display will be open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Special to The Enterprise Davis Girl Scouts Mikaela Nouve and Sophie Webb of Troop 1559 recently built and delivered a blessing box to the Adelante Mutual Housing Community at 2050 Fifth St. in Davis. The girls wanted to help local families who were struggling, and in their research learned about the idea of building a blessing box, or “little free pantry,” through which community members could share supplies. They approached the city of Davis to ask for a helpful location for their project, and Dana Bailey, director of social services and housing for the city of Davis, connected them with the Adelante Mutual Housing complex, which is home to numerous families with children. After visiting the complex and taking measurements, the girls set to work renovating a large cabinet that could be used as a blessing box. Using the funds they had raised last winter by making and selling crafts at the Davis Girl Scout Holiday Boutique, they purchased a used
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Sophie Webb, left, and Mikaela Nouve deliver a Blessing Box to the Adelante Mutual Housing Community. cabinet in need of work, and removed the glass inserts from the doors in order to install plexiglass for safety. Applying the Girl Scout law of using resources
wisely, they gathered as many materials as they could from the Big Blue Barn at the Yolo County Landfill. They spent many weekends sanding the piece down in order to
completely repaint and repurpose the cabinet, which they were able to present to the Adelante community on Sept. 28, along with a first delivery of nonperishable foods, cleaning products and supplies, toys, and books. Mikaela and Sophie, who are ninth-graders at Holmes Junior High School, were very grateful for the welcome the Adelante community gave their project. “It was a lot of work to complete but ended up so worth it to see the happy looks on the residents faces and to see that it is getting its use!” Sophie said. “The blessing box project is important to me because it gave me the chance to share something with the Davis community,” Mikaela added. The girls are soliciting help or partnership from local residents and organizations to keep the blessing box supplied, and are hoping to establish a monthly rotation of donor groups. If you are interested in helping or donating, email Nicole Rabaud, troop leader, at nicoleinbox@ gmail.com.
UC Davis: Climate models neglect effects of water vapor By Kat Kerlin Enterprise staff writer Clouds are notoriously hard to pin down, especially in climate science. A study from UC Davis published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that air temperature and cloud cover are strongly influenced by the buoyancy effect of water vapor, an effect currently neglected in some leading global climate models. Global climate models are the primary tools used to study Earth’s climate, predict its future changes and inform climate policymaking. However, climate models often differ on the precise degree of future warming, largely due to their representation of clouds. “Climate models are the best tool we have to predict future climate change,” said lead author Da Yang, an assistant professor of atmospheric science at UC Davis and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. While conventional wisdom has it that hot air rises, the reverse is true in the tropical atmosphere,
the study notes. Previous research by Yang and his colleagues proposed that cold air rises in the tropics because humid air
is lighter than dry air. This effect is known as vapor buoyancy, and it regulates the amount of low clouds over the subtropical ocean.
The study reported that six of the 23 widely used climate models analyzed do not yet include this effect.
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Odd Fellows welcome back Santa for breakfast Special to The Enterprise It’s almost that magical time of year again. Tickets go on sale Thursday, Nov. 10, for the annual Breakfast with Santa in Downtown Davis. This year’s event, sponsored as always by the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge, will be held on Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in Downtown Davis. The 2022 Breakfast with Santa marks the 15th year that the Davis Odd Fellows have hosted event. This year, the breakfast will be served in the Odd Fellows’ Upper Hall, and Santa and his elves will be on hand to spend time with each child. Seating is limited and tickets are not sold at the door. The ticket price is $12 per person. Breakfast with Santa includes pancakes, sausages, orange slice, etc., for breakfast, a goodie bag for each child with a stuffed animal and other surprises, and an opportunity to take a photo with Santa. The $12 per person charge applies to each adult and to each
child, and all children must be accompanied by adults. Tickets are available for purchase only online at EventBrite. The QR code provides the link to purchase tickets. Due to the extreme popularity of this event, there will be three seatings and tickets may be purchased (subject to availability) for any of the seatings: the first at 8 a.m., the second at 9:30 a.m. and the last at 11 a.m. Co-chairs of the event are Lea Rosenberg and Nan Klein. More than 50 members of the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge volunteer to get the Lodge Hall ready and serve breakfast. “We continue a community tradition and are delighted to once again present this fun event for the children and families of Davis. But only 110 tickets are available for each seating and they go very fast,” said Rosenberg,
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Santa Claus will be back in the Davis Odd Fellows Hall for breakfast on Dec. 10. now in her 15th year of chairing this event. In past years, tickets have sold out within two weeks.
The Odd Fellows have arranged for a professional photographer to take photos of each child with Santa, however, adults are
encouraged to bring their own cameras to record their child’s moments with Santa and the Elves.
Gallery visions Special to The Enterprise Galley 1855 presents the artwork of Marguerite Schaffron and Bunny Cunningham through Nov. 30. The galley, on the grounds of The Davis
Cemetery at 820 Pole Line Road, is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, call 530-756-7807, email judy@ daviscemetery.org or visit www. daviscemetery.org.
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Marguerite Schaffron uses mylar reflections to photograph how nature and individuals merge into one.
LEFT: Schaffron’s sculpture uses recycled items from nature. “I strive to transform the objects into thought provoking, sometimes whimsical, assemblages,” she said. RIGHT: “I find my surroundings as a constant and unlimited source of design inspiration,” artist Bunny Cunningham said.
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Universities can’t yank financial aid from students with scholarships By Alyssa Story CalMatters As Dixie Samaniego prepared for her first semester at California State University Fullerton, she had one focus: finding a way to pay. “I knew that my family wasn’t going to be able to pay, or help in any way financially,” said Samaniego, now a senior, “so I started applying to scholarships everywhere.” As a low-income student, she qualified for a federal Pell Grant and a state Cal Grant, but still had a substantial balance to cover. After hours of applying, writing essays, and interviewing, she received a $5,000 award for her first year from a private foundation that aimed to help students who faced barriers to college. But then, Samaniego said, she got some unwelcome news from Cal State Fullerton’s financial aid office: Adding the scholarship to her financial aid package would reduce the amount of aid she was getting from the university. Confused and disappointed, Samaniego decided not to accept the scholarship she’d worked hard to earn. “I didn’t know a single thing about higher education. I didn’t know a single thing about financial aid,” said Samaniego, who is the first in her family to attend college. “I got all this money, and then I had to make some really difficult decisions.” What Samaniego says she experienced has a name: scholarship displacement. The practice occurs when a student receives a scholarship after their initial financial aid award and their college or university reorganizes their institutional aid package, often leading to a net zero gain for the student. And starting next fall, it will be banned in California for low-income students who qualify for a Pell Grant or for state financial aid under the California Dream Act. California is one of five states in the U.S. with such laws, and only the second in the nation to bar scholarship displacement at both public and private colleges and universities. It’s difficult to quantify how many students scholarship displacement affects, or how much money they lose. But a 2013 study by the National
Scholarship Providers Association found that 20% of colleges nationwide reduce institutional grants when a student earns a private scholarship, even if a student still has demonstrated need. Advocates for low-income students say the practice can be a significant barrier to college affordability. A spokesperson for Cal State Fullerton said federal privacy law prevented the university from commenting on a specific student’s financial aid package. But the Federal Student Aid office’s guidelines instruct universities and colleges to re-negotiate financial aid awards if there is a possibility of funds exceeding either the cost of attendance or the student’s need as demonstrated on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The rules also give financial aid officers some discretion in working with students to package their awards, however, and colleges have their own policies that they follow in addition to federal law. “Inside the financial aid office, the details are more complex,” said Christina Tangalakis, president of the California Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. “Some students are very successful in their college funding searches and are offered more assistance than they have costs to support” under the federal government’s methodology, Tangalakis said. But schools vary in their response to so-called “overawards,” she said. Complicating the issue is the debate over whether colleges are accurately calculating the cost of attendance in California, where living expenses have skyrocketed in recent years. Colleges and universities are required by the government to provide “reasonable” estimates for costs accrued during a school year, according to the Federal Student Aid Handbook. Most schools use averages of expenses in a region when calculating estimated costs for housing, transportation and supplies, which can skew the results. Yet it’s exactly those nontuition expenses that place the heaviest burden on students. A 2021 study on college affordability by the Public Policy Institute of California concluded that
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Krishan Malhotra, President of Cal State Student Association. “for a majority of students attending public postsecondary institutions in California, the combined cost of housing, fees, books, and transportation is greater than tuition.” “We believe that California leads the nation in providing financial aid to students… but the total cost of education, and specifically the non-tuition costs, are being unmet by financial aid programs. So students have to rely on external sources,” said Marcos Montes, policy director for the Southern California College Attainment Network. With the new law, Montes said, students will be able to maximize the use of scholarships. ”A student can use that money to pay for their housing, their books, their food, transportation, a new device, a new computer.” Montes, himself, dealt with the stress of scholarship displacement while an undergraduate at California State University Los Angeles. Schools often calculate different costs of attendance for students based on their living situations. As a commuter student living at home, Montes was in the lowest category for cost of attendance. But he still needed money for textbooks and car maintenance. “I was receiving a scholarship as a student government representative,” said Montes. “And when that scholarship hit, I was expecting a check of money to come to me so that I can use it to cover some nontuition expenses, and that check was not coming.” The school’s financial aid office told him he had maxed out on the amount
of aid the school was willing to offer, Montes said. To access the funds, Montes was forced to move out of his parents’ home and change his residency status. He was able to use the scholarship – though not in the way he’d intended. “I found, you know, a little one-bedroom place where I could live, and I used that money to pay for rent,” he said. Before the law’s passage, Southern California College Attainment Network and other advocacy organizations were already working one-on-one with students who faced scholarship displacement. Counseling those students can take hours and requires studying the financial aid award letter, understanding which dollars have been displaced, and working with counselors to find strategies to recover the funds. And not all students even realize what has happened to their financial aid package, or know where to go for help, said Mer Curry, executive director of the Northern California College Promise Coalition. “It’s inefficient to be
(advocating) student by student, but it’s also inequitable,” Curry said. “What we were finding from students is that they felt lucky, privileged, they were in a program, or had someone that explained to them what the issue was so that they could even go through a process of advocating or asking for help.” Cal State Student Association president Krishan Malhotra said he didn’t receive any explanation from his university’s financial aid office when he lost $5,500 in aid after getting a stipend for his work in student government – money he was counting on to pay for digital textbooks. The new law, passed by the Legislature in August and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, will allow the most vulnerable students who are able to secure additional funds for postsecondary education to have more freedom in how they use their funds. The Cal State Student Association worked with advocacy groups to pass the law, and the California community college system signed on in support. Scholarship providers,
frustrated that their funds were not always reaching the students who needed them, also weighed in. “Scholarships play an integral role, not only with increasing access, but reducing student loan debt,” said Mike Nylund, president and CEO of Scholarship America, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that helps students find and manage scholarship funds. “This new law will ensure that those students most in need will not lose their critical private scholarship funds.” Tangalakis said the new rules might cause confusion at first, but would ultimately cause some schools to reprioritize aid policies to accommodate scholarships. “Students will benefit from more consistent treatment of scholarship funds, and fewer adjustments to their institutional funding,” she said. The scholarship displacement ban does leave out some students, however: those who aren’t lowincome enough to qualify for Pell Grants or the California Dream Act, but still might have financial need. “The bill has limitations. It doesn’t apply to everyone,” said Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton, director of higher education for Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm that backed the bill. And students will still need to be informed about the issue so they can monitor their financial aid packages and ensure colleges are complying, she said. “It still puts the burden of fixing this on students.” With the bill set to start protecting low-income students during the 2023-24 academic year, its sponsors are eager to ensure those students are educated and prepared. “I think next is focusing on the implementation,” said Samaniego.
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UC Davis forward Christian Anigwe (4) gets ready to drive around a CSU Northridge player during a Big West game at the University Credit Union Center on Feb. 26.
New faces on UCD men’s hoops squad By Bob Dunning Alessandra Trask/Special to the Enterprise
Davis High football players A.J. Hasson (52), Dominick Jackson (61) and a group of their teammates bring down a Jesuit running back in the Devils’ Delta League finale on Oct. 29.
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DHS coach evaluates his team By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor
On Friday, the SacJoaquin Section football playoffs started in six of the seven divisions. Could the Davis High football team have been one of the teams playing in Division I or II? It’s something no one will ever know. But one game in Delta League play, Davis head coach Nick Garratt lamented, changed the direction of a team looking for its first playoff game since 2019, when the Blue Devils won the league title and advanced to the quarterfinals of the D-I playoffs ... ———— Now the season is over, and the Blue Devil players have turned in their equipment. The question becomes: Can Davis be a part of the section’s 2023 playoffs, no matter if it’s D-I or D-II? That will depend on how hard returning players work out in preparing for the 2023 season. What’s more important to Garratt and his coaches in the program is the development of the players on and off the field after the players graduate from Davis High in the spring of 2023 and upcoming years. Davis finished the 2022 season with a 2-8 record, which included an 0-6 mark in league. “We’ve looked back at what we’ve done and a lot of our goals,” said Garratt, who took over the program in July. The program, he noted, had to reestablish itself. After all, the Blue Devis have gone through nearly a
half-dozen head coaches since spring 2021. Steve Smyte, who coached in the program three different times, stepped down after that spring season, thanks to the pandemic. Then Mark Johnson, the former UC Davis football defensive coordinator who had winning seasons with the Woodland Christian High football head coach in the mid-2010s, took over entering the 2021 fall season. But he resigned shortly after the season ended last November, after the Blue Devils went 1-8. Then Smyte returned in January to guide returning players in off-season workouts. He was projected to return as head coach, but was offered and accepted the job as offensive coordinator for the Sacramento City College football team. But Smyte would only take the job if the DHS administration could hire a new head coach. Enter Garratt, 36, who has coached football on the professional, collegiate and high school levels. He kept the base structure on
offense, defense and special teams that Smyte was planning to use, blended with new strategies. “Many of the guys adapted so fast,” Garratt said. One of the things that the players liked, according to Garratt, was how practices were conducted this season. “They liked the way that practice (s) was structured this year,” Garratt said. “All the feedback was that there was a lot of good technique work.” ———— Fast-forward to the Blue Devils’ second league game of the season against Cosumnes Oaks at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Sept. 23. The Blue Devils and Wolfpack traded touchdowns faster than two boxers trading punches in a championship bout. But Cosumnes Oaks prevailed with a narrow 25-21 win. Davis was 2-3 and 0-1 in league entering its game against Cosumnes Oaks. “That was the game that could have been a turning point,” Garratt said. “There
was a lot of enthusiasm, there was a lot of great atmosphere around the game. We, literally, came within one yard short. Sometimes, that’s how a season can be won or lost. I think that game spoke more to our ability to prepare.” The Blue Devils lost their remaining league games by three or more touchdowns. Many players contributed to the team during the season. Blue Devils running back Cole Broussard was the heart and soul of the team. He stepped up when running back Jude Vaughn went down with a hamstring injury in his left thigh shortly after the start of league play. He didn’t play for the rest of the season. There was also AJ Hasson, a junior who started at tight end/fullback and defensive tackle. Hasson, who stands 6-foot-4 and 255, was one of many linemen who the Blue Devils had plenty of depth. Other Davis players who
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Davis wide receiver Braulio Acevedo (1) gets ready to block Jesuit cornerback Noah Sanchez (21) in a Delta League game on Oct. 29.
Enterprise staff writer With seven new faces joining eight returnees, the UC Davis men’s basketball team will kick off its rugged 2022-23 schedule against the California Golden Bears Monday at 8 p.m. in Berkeley. “We always try to set up some good tests with our non-conference schedule,” said Aggie head coach Jim Les as he launches his 12th season leading UC Davis. “We like to schedule teams with different styles to prepare us for league play. When we get on the plane for Hawaii to open the Big West season on December 29, this nonconference schedule will have us ready to compete.” Les, not to mention the Aggie fan base, is also excited that he managed to schedule Pac-12 power UCLA on Dec. 21 in historic Pauley Pavilion. “They’re probably going to be one of the top five teams in the country this season,” Les noted. The Aggies open their home schedule Wednesday, Nov. 9, against Cal Maritime of Vallejo in a 6 p.m. game at the University Credit Union Center. Arkansas State, University of the Pacific and Holy Names are also on the home non-conference schedule, with road games at Loyola Marymount and Eastern Washington, plus games against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Southeast Missouri and Boston University at the Milwaukee Tournament over Thanksgiving weekend. Also on the schedule is the annual Causeway Classic against Sacramento State Nov. 22 at the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento. The Aggies, 13-11 overall and 5-6 in the Big West last season, play a full 20-game home-andhome league schedule. “There are really no favorites in this conference,” Les added. “There are six or seven teams who all think they
have a shot at this thing. We’re excited and optimistic that our group is going to be right in the mix come February and March.” While leading scorer Elijah Pepper (15.1) and leading rebounder Christian Anigwe (5.7) return, a huge and unexpected loss was point guard Ezra Manjon, who transferred to Vanderibilt. “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed,” Les noted. “There is definitely a sense of frustration when you lose someone like Ezra. The reality of the transfer portal is we just have to deal with it. It’s a way of life and there’s not anything we can do to change that. “Three years ago, we recruited Ezra out of high school, and he grew and developed here. It would have been nice to see that development continue here, but we talked about this and there was nothing adversarial. He just wanted to give this a try. He’s a great young man and the bond is still there. We still talk and text and we wish him all the best.” Les, too, went to the portal to add depth to his squad. “When you lose guys either to graduation or the portal, you have to look at your roster and say here are the weaknesses, here are the gaps we need to fill. No one person is going to replace Ezra, but we feel we’ve brought in some people who are going to contribute right away.” Division I transfers include 6-3 Ty Johnson from Loyola Chicago, 6-3 Robby Beasley III from Montana, 6-7 DeAndre Henry from Nevada and 6-9 Niko Rocak from UC Santa Barbara. Other newcomers are 6-7 freshman Joaquin Strong from Playa Del Rey, 6-9 Jac Mani from Beverly Hills and 6-7 Sam Manu from College of San Mateo. Noted Les, “We feel we have six guards who can really play, plus the
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att Zachan, head coach of Davis Aquatic Masters, thinks there is a brute in all of us. The 14th annual Ross Yancher Brute Squad, named in honor of the beloved former DAM head coach, is set for this month. To bring out the Brute, DAM created a version of Brute Squad for everyone: regular, lite, and non-competitive. Regular Brute is 200-yard butterfly, 400 individual medley and 1650 freestyle. Lite is 200 fly, 200 IM and 500 free. Then there is non-competitive, where you can wear fins or whatever or even do the butterfly with one arm. You will still be a Brute.
In a sense they are all noncompetitive since you are allowed to stop at any time knowing rest periods will be added to your time. You will need to find a counter, someone to note your times after each lap. For me this may not be easy. My time for the Brute Lite
last year was 32 minutes, give or take. After your swim, make sure you get credit for what you did! After you finish your Brute Squad event, you then enter your times on Club Assistant. When you go through the entry process, you will submit all your splits and times. Non-competitive Brutes do not have to enter splits. The event is nationally sanctioned. Any swimmer can enter on the Club Assistant website. If you don’t want to swim, you can support one (or more) of your teammates by signing up to be a timer/counter. Contact Lynda Yancher at yancher@aol. com.
*Walnut Creek: DAM finished third overall (outscoring the fourth-place time by nearly 900 points) in the Pacific Masters Short Course Meters meet in Walnut Creek. Our 24 swimmers combined to break 34 individual records and 13 relay records. Our swimmers were Owen Yancher, Vivian Crow, Arthur Koehl, Joanna Griffiths, Matt Zachan, Matt Roper, Helene Nehrebecki, Jackie Chow, Aimee Tannehill, Brad Winsor, Emma Garforth, Michelle Goldberg, Ted Krovetz, Patricia Bryant, Joan Crow, Jennifer Phalen, Jane Russell, Dave Woodruff, Stu Kahn, Sally Guthrie, Ted
Deacon, Andy McPherson, Peggy Reedy, and Leslie Westergaard. *Water polo blowout: The most exciting water polo game I’ve ever seen went down at Schaal Aquatic Center on Sunday. My UC Davis Aggies beat the University of Pacific Tigers 12-11 after three overtimes, the decisive one was sudden death. Still recovering. — Mark Braly’s Masters Swimming column is usually published the first Wednesday of each month. It is running in today’s edition. Contact him at markbraly@sbcglobal.net.
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Is California strangling its golden goose? C A iting a Bloomberg News article, Gov. Gavin Newsom crowed last month about the probability that California would soon pass Germany to become the world’s fourth largest economy. “While critics often say California’s best days are behind us, reality proves otherwise — our economic growth and job gains continue to fuel the nation’s economy,” Newsom said. Throughout his governorship, Newsom has been obsessed with bragging that California is a global leader in just about every human activity — and subtly suggesting that he’s the reason for its success. It’s not surprising, therefore, that he didn’t mention another recent Bloomberg article, reporting that California is faltering in a major economic indicator it had long dominated — initial public offerings of stock by expanding corporations. “Only nine companies headquartered in California
went public during the first three quarters of 2022, compared with 81 that launched IPOs during the same period last year,” Bloomberg said in an analysis of filings. “Even more dramatically, California’s share of US IPO proceeds fell to 2% through Sept. 30, compared with 39% for 2021.” Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor, told Bloomberg that California’s meager IPO activity “is almost entirely” due to declines in valuation among Silicon Valley tech startups. This is no small thing. The formation of new companies,
Letters Gloria Partida has been a gift to the city of Davis. She chose to move here as a single Mom with her children to pursue higher education, raise her kids and become an active community member. I have admired her positive approach to important and often difficult issues in Davis. I was particularly impressed, when a terrible hate crime was committed against her family member and her response was to create The Phoenix Coalition to support young LGBTQ kids and educate us all. Gloria was key to the success of Healthy Davis Together and I was so proud to have a scientist as our mayor during the pandemic. She was also instrumental in implementing the recommendations of the Reimagining Public Safety work where I served as a co-chair. I have had the opportunity to work with her on the Davis Human Relations Commission and appreciated her focus on reaching out to unheard voices in our community. Now, after four years, she is willing to continue to serve our community and put to work the lessons she has learned and we have learned with her. We may not always agree on each decision but there is too much at stake for our future. My District 4 vote is going to Gloria Partida who is a proven leader, a great listener, and someone who has put the time into making Davis a better place for all of us. Sheila Allen Davis
new report from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution provides evidence that the goose may be flying away. The report by Joseph Vranich, whose company advises firms on relocation, and Lee E. Ohanian, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, says “the number of companies relocating their headquarters out of California in 2021 occurred at twice the rate of 2020. Our findings show that 352 companies moved their headquarters to other states just in the period from Jan. 1, 2018, through Dec. 31, 2021 … “ Some of those relocations have been spectacular, such as McKesson, the nation’s ninth largest corporation, and Tesla, the leading maker of electric cars, from California to Texas. The report covers only shifts of corporate headquarters, but there are other corporate moves,
such as the Walt Disney’s relocation of 2,000 jobs from Los Angeles to Orlando, that are also negative indications. And corporate decisions not to locate in California or expand operations in the state are never publicly reported. California may replace Germany on the global list of economies but that statistical exercise is far less important than the possibility that California’s economy has peaked. Newsom is too smart not to know what the Bloomberg IPO article and the Hoover report imply. It may explain why he opposes Proposition 30, which would hike California’s marginal income tax rate to more than 15% and give investors another reason to shun the state. — 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.
With Partida and Vaitla, Davis wins Davisites have the opportunity to elect two truly outstanding candidates to the City Council this year who would provide exactly the leadership Davis needs for the next four years. Gloria Partida, our first Latina mayor, hits every qualification for reelection to the Davis City Council: thoughtful, intelligent, hard working, moral, and caring. I have worked alongside Partida since 2016, just months after I moved to Davis, and have seen her character in situations from organizing Davis Pride annually to handling disagreements between kids as a yard duty at Montgomery. Gloria’s priorities are fairness, equity, and results. She listens to all sides of an issue seriously and is committed to finding solutions that will work. Her record speaks for itself: the Healthy Davis Together program, the Department of Social Services and Homelessness, our roads undergoing repair, and a long history of advocacy for people who need support the most. I will proudly vote for her in District 4! In District 1, Bapu Vaitla is the right person at the right time for Davis. We are facing dual, interrelated crises: a climate crisis, and a humanitarian crisis as a warming planet makes life harder for marginalized communities the most. Vaitla’s unique combination of education and experience — both abroad and locally in Davis — make him eminently qualified for the Davis City Council. But additionally, Davis urgently needs Vaitla right now as we face these issues. His deep knowledge of innovative housing solutions, his work alleviating hunger worldwide, his dedication to balancing human and environmental needs, and his actions as chair of the Social Services Commission and as a member of the Davis Homelessness Alliance position him perfectly to help our city navigate the challenges we see on the horizon. I strongly urge my District 1 friends to vote for Bapu on Nov. 8! Anoosh Jorjorian Davis
Why Morrill for council? Under the current economic conditions, it is more important than ever for the city to focus all of its efforts on practical, achievable solutions to our problems. We have all witnessed funds from the city’s coffers being squandered on projects that were impractical, poorly planned, or not adequately monitored to assure the desired results within budget. Changing these practices is one of the primary reasons that Adam Morrill is running for District 4 on the City Council. A city that is part and parcel of a University of California campus has its own challenges, in addition to those common to any city: homelessness, maintenance of infrastructure, affordable housing, sustainable land use and protection of our environment, but none can be solved by simply throwing money at it, without
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demanding concrete results. Adam is a firm believer that elected officials don’t have all the answers for all our problems and issues, so he looks forward to considering input from the community, as well as the other council members, to address them. A vote for Adam is a vote for working together to face the challenges and opportunities ahead. Don Rudisill Davis
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followed by IPOs, has been a feature of the Silicon Valleybased technology sector for decades, creating untold billions of dollars in new wealth that filters through other sectors and generates immense amounts of income tax revenue for the state. “We are already seeing an immediate effect,” Brian Uhler of the Legislative Analyst’s Office, told Bloomberg. “And it does appear to be significant.” In September, California employers’ income tax withholding payments were down 5%, or $354 million, from a year ago with diminished IPO activity a driver of the decline, Uhler said. During the first three months of the state budget’s fiscal year that began July 1, state revenues were nearly $5 billion below expectations, virtually all of it in income taxes. The precipitous decline in IPO activity once again raises the question: Are California’s high taxes, high living and business costs and ever-tightening
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Fortune for ending district elections I am voting for Kelsey Fortune. That is, I would be if Davis didn’t have district elections. If you’re a student you should vote for Kelsey Fortune. Make a special effort to vote, because as a student you’ll be represented by someone who was recently at UCD and understands your interests. If you are a renter you should vote for Kelsey Fortune. She is renter herself, and renters, though 55% of Davis, are rarely represented on the City Council. Renters and young adults — you should be represented! If you like representatives who are not swayed by special interest money, vote Fortune. Unlike her opponents, she took no money from the firefighters union, nor did they offer. Did they know she would not buy them a new firetruck for Christmas? If you like independent thinkers, vote Fortune. Many people like a predictable pro-growth or anti-growth vote . Fortune considers each project on its own merit. That is my kind of candidate. If you like someone who isn’t part of the ‘Davis machine’ vote Fortune. One of her opponents had their photo taken with two current and one former council member, smiling ear to ear. Is that photo supposed to impress me? Rather, that image spooks me. I don’t want more of the same — I want a fresh thinker. Ask yourself: why has the Davis City Council denied Fortune a seat on any city commission, commissions representing the very subjects Fortune is educated
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in with advance degrees? [Economics & Transportation] Maybe the other Council members are afraid of her savvy. Maybe they should be. Most importantly, Fortune is the only candidate openly calling for discussions on a process to end district elections. If there is one subject every person in Davis agrees on, it is putting an end to Davis Council districts. If you live in District 1, please vote for Kelsey Fortune — so that in the future, all Davis voters can vote for Kelsey Fortune! Alan C. Miller Davis
Think locally I was caught by surprise by the content and impressed by the significance of Mr. Rifkin’s article (Oct. 19). It lays bare the dubious talk of two of the candidates for the Davis City Council in the Nov. 8 elections, Mr. Vaitla and Ms. Partida. I have read much praise for both of them by some of their supporters for the “great” ideas they have for ... saving the world and the planet by way of Davis. However, none seem to be bothered by the fact that both candidates have received financial support from those whom they are meant to negotiate with on behalf of the taxpayers on City financial matters. It took Mr. Rifkin to articulate the obvious, that this is a serious issue. Or are we to assume that they are above and beyond such ... trivial things, which may be of concern only to the ... simpleminded among us? Before they embark on their trip to save the planet, I suggest they look at some of the city’s many problems.
It appears the city is close to bankruptcy; some of our streets, such as Covell, get flooded almost after every serious rainfall; many other streets are in miserable shape; and the pathways in some of our parks are hard to negotiate, to mention only a few. And one should not brush aside Ms. Partida’s past legal problems, which were pointed out by her opponent in her district. The legal procedure by which a felony was reduced to a misdemeanor, and the subsequent restitution are all within the existing legal framework. However, the intent of committing the punishable crime, and the actual carrying it out cannot be written off. She was unlucky to be caught, nevertheless, she was caught. So much about the two savers of Davis and the planet! George G. Roussas Davis
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I cannot claim to have been highly engaged in Davis city politics in the past, nearly all of my voting history has been influenced by recommendations from friends whom I trust. Getting to know Bapu Vaitla has changed that mindset for me, reminding me of what Davis can, and needs to be — to everyone that lives here, wants to live here and is struggling to stay here. I also believe a vote for Bapu Vaitla isn’t just about this year’s election, that his work history, values and ability to build relationships will have a lasting impact on Davis for a long time. Travis Milner Davis
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RETRIA, Greece — The sites of horror — the places where mass murder happened — are seared into my memory. Holocaust sites like the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz, or Kigali, where the Hutus butchered the Tutus, or the Falls Road in Belfast, where many died over the decades of strife. A new one has just been fixed firmly in my memory: Distomo. These sites of slaughter trigger the sense of how fragile human society is — and such slaughter is taking place this day, this hour, this minute in Ukraine. I am not enthralled by history per se. My lens is mainly confined to what happened in my lifetime, whether as a small child during World War II or the years since. That way, I know that it can and will happen again and again.
The horrors of the past aren’t confined to the past. They leak into the present as new bleak chapters on human conduct are written. I say this because I have just visited Distomo, where barbarity reached a crescendo on June 10, 1944. There, for two hours, the Waffen-SS killed villagers with machine guns, bayonets and with any weapon at hand. They killed the unborn, infants and older children, women and men. They beheaded the village priest. If they paused, it was to rape. The Association of European Journalists, the 60-year-old organization with sections spread across Europe, had invited me to its annual congress in central Greece. After two busloads of delegates had visited the Oracle at Delphi, we stopped at Distomo: a trip from the celes-
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tial to the bestial. My mind is set afire with questions at these World War II sites. If I had been a young Jew swept up by the Nazis, would I have been killed in a camp? If I had been a young German guard, would I have participated in the killing, and how much enthusiasm would I have brought to the work? I wonder how the young men who did the butchery at Distomo lived with themselves afterward. Did they dream of bayonetting pregnant women, of old people begging to be killed instead of their spouses, children and grandchildren? In the end, few were spared — only those who were left for dead. Conservative estimates are that 238 people died in the massacre. My journalistic colleagues and I went from the foibles of the Greek gods of antiquity to the horrors of humans in the
20th century. I was just a child during World War II, but I feel especially connected because this and other Nazi atrocities happened in my lifetime.
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hen I visited Auschwitz and saw the hair, the shoes, the toys and other jetsam of children, my thought wasn’t that it could have been me, but that those could have been my friends, my playmates, and every Jew I have been close to, and there have been many. At the Distomo museum, they show a graphic film with eyewitness accounts of those who survived, those who bore witness, like the woman who describes scooping the brains back into her dead toddler’s head and carrying him home — but her house, and nearly all those in the village, was burned by the SS. That is what she did and lived to
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Fortune the climate expert we need The climate crisis is already upending lives and harming millions of people - from Pakistan to Northern California — yet our city council continues with “business as usual” favoring car-centric, carbon-emitting development projects like DISC/ Measure H. We need to elect leaders like Kelsey Fortune — running for City Council in West Davis — for a new, bold approach that will respond in a just way to the climate emergency. Kelsey has dedicated her life to acquiring the expertise — the skills, knowledge and analytical tools — to serve our community in this time of existential crisis. As a UC Davis economist specializing in transportation, energy and climate policy, Kelsey will implement pragmatic, cost-effective, evidence-based solutions — policies like affordable overlay zoning to attract affordable housing developers, taxing rental vacancies, and incentivizing the switch to home electrification instead of imposing costly, ineffective mandates. With limited time to act to avoid dangerous climate tipping points, electing the right leaders is crucial to securing a livable future. Please join me supporting Kelsey Fortune for Davis City Council who is the climate expert we need to advance a just transition to a sustainable, equitable community. Juliette Beck Davis
Bapu for Davis It is Davis’ good fortune that Bapu Vaitla is running for City Council in District 1. I’m professor emerita of soil microbial ecology at UC Davis and have followed Bapu’s career, and shared his friendship, over the past decade. Bapu’s unique combination of keen intellect, compassion, courage and commitment to community are just what our city needs to tackle the complex problems we face today. Many of our problems are interrelated — take affordable housing and climate action — yet posed in opposition to one another. Focusing on single issues is shortsighted, unrealistic and blinds us to opportunities for leveraging and synergy. Bapu’s approach is holistic, finding interconnections, honed by his breadth of experience, but foremost guided by the needs of our
tell — to tell of that butchered child. She said in the film that she couldn’t forgive. Who with that memory could? The young men who carried out the Distomo killings, under their 26-year-old leader, SSHauptsturmfurer Fritz Lautenbach, did so in reprisal for attacks on German troops. After visiting many killing fields — and I don’t seek them out — I wonder what I would have done? Would I have followed orders? Would I, in seconds, persuade myself that what I was doing was right? What would I do if I were on the Russian frontlines in Ukraine today? There is savagery equal to Distomo going on right now in wars in many places, carried out by people just like us. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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community. He approaches his work with open ears and an open heart. Bapu listens like few I know and is committed to making space for all. And he finds solutions — he’s demonstrated this through his leadership on the Social Services Committee and Cool Davis. Guided by the science and always in cooperation, Bapu does the hard work to bring positive change. Bapu writes, “I believe that good change depends on commitment to place — to a community of loved ones and to the land.” Bapu loves Davis. He knows that the health of our human communities and the health of our natural world — our soil, our air and water, our trees — are intertwined. Bapu’s candidacy has renewed my hope that Davis can grow sensibly, become far more inclusive, protect our environment and grow resilient as our climate changes. Please join in supporting Bapu Vaitla for City Council! Kate Scow Davis
Morrill for City Council I, like many other Davis residents, strongly support Adam Morrill for City Council because of his positions on the issues and his commitment to reaching out and engaging with the community. He had the good judgment to oppose the DISC projects, as well as opposing the outrageous CAAP residential electrification mandate, unlike his opponent. Another attribute setting Adam apart is his clear independence from special interest groups, and
prioritizing our community’s needs. Adam has a broad background and experience in decision-making and problem-solving. He has worked for years in environmental protection work for the protection of wildlife and habitat. He also worked for the State on Emergency Medical Service regulations and disaster planning. Adam has lived with his family in East Davis for over two decades and understands the neighborhood issues. He has been a volunteer soccer coach, a volunteer parent at St. James School, and has served as a volunteer Emergency Medical Tech /Firefighter for Winters for 10 years. We need council members who will dig into the issues to find solutions, but also who will make the time to talk to and listen to us. Most importantly, we need a council member who will take our concerns seriously and advocate for us and vote for, rather than against the public input that the community takes the time to give the City Council. It is disappointing that Councilwoman Gloria Partida has not engaged with the community when residents have asked her to discuss issues, and she has voted against the will of the people in so many cases. Furthermore, why was there no “Town and Gown” public meeting with UCD as promised in the city of Davis-UCD MOU when Gloria was mayor? We need change and we are fortunate to have Adam, who is such a qualified candidate, running for City Council. Please vote for Adam Morrill because he will the time to study the issues, listen
to our concerns, and help find solutions, rather than approving anything that comes before him. David McGlocklin Davis
City in good hands with Carson Being on the Davis City Council is not an easy job. Trust me, I know. It takes vision, energy, sound judgment, a spirit of cooperation and a commitment to public service to do it well. I believe Councilman Dan Carson has displayed all those traits during his term on the council, and I commend his re-election. When he first ran for the council four years ago, Dan asked voters to evaluate him on the issues of the day, of course, but also to consider how a candidate’s experience and judgment would serve the city when unexpected issues arose in the future. Of course, COVID came along to prove the wisdom of that counsel. The response in Davis was exemplary. The city partnered with UCD and community organizations in the Healthy Davis Together collaboration that became a national model for community testing. I’m not suggesting Dan should get credit for that. But I do know that these kinds of cooperative partnerships don’t happen unless all parties involved have smart and sensible leaders who are willing to work together for the common good. I think our city is in good hands with leaders such as Dan Carson. Voters would be well served by
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We have lived in Davis for more than 30 years, and Bapu Vaitla has brought us a new ray of hope and inspiration. We met Bapu at the beginning of his campaign for Davis City Council in District 1. After talking with him and observing his innate ability to truly listen to and respect each person he encounters, we are quite inspired to support his goal of serving our community on city council. His platform of housing equity, climate action and community involvement resonates deeply with our values, and those of many in Davis. Bapu Vaitla brings a deep wealth of experience and knowledge to Davis, along with his ability to understand the complexities and the inter-relatedness of so many issues facing Davis and beyond. We are continually impressed with his wide-ranging knowledge about so many topics that community members express concern about, and also his willingness to say “Tell me more, I’d like to know more about that.” Bapu has already shown that he can bring vision and knowledge and critical thinking together to make change happen, as he has done so well on the Social Services Commission, as one example. While voting has always been important and critical to us, Bapu’s campaign has brought us a new level of excitement, with the prospect of a great leader in Davis and the belief that we can create change locally, better the lives of all within our community, and serve as a model for others. His vision for Davis to be innovative, collaborative and compassionate inspires us, and we hope it inspires you too. He has already shown that he has the skills to turn vision into action! Please join us in voting for Bapu Vaitla for Davis City Council in District 1. Amy and Gil Medovoy Davis
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n interesting dynamic in the Perez family is that S has an ability unlike any I’ve ever experienced to make himself do stuff he doesn’t want to. I mean, think of the least desirable task for yourself — let’s say a three-hour student concert where the objective is to play your instrument and sound like fingernails on a chalkboard. Combine this with having had an exhausting day, a headache, a 100-mile drive to get to this hideous concert, and an early morning meeting the next day with your boss for an annual review. S would not hesitate for a second to attend that concert. No amount of excuse-making from me on his behalf would convince him to sit this one out. This translates to a bit of bafflement for him about the rest of us lazy slackers — aka his wife and kids. It’s hard for him to relate to a person who cannot just get over it and do crap he doesn’t want to do. I’m not complaining at all, though; I’m wowed by this trait. Also, I have completely benefited from his superior level of
self-motivation for the past 30-plus years. He is an amazing role model and encourager. And, to be fair, he has grown to understand that he is superior in his ability to make himself do the hard stuff. I bring this all up because recently I had to do an erg test. Ergometers, more commonly known as rowing machines, are an unpleasant part of being on a rowing team. At various times throughout the year, my coach at River City Rowing Club wants to see where his team is, strength- and abilitywise. Thus, certain on-the-water practices are replaced with seeing how fast you can complete 5,000 meters on an erg. When our team had an erg-test practice in September, I was on a trip and missed it. So I psyched myself up to do the 5K on my erg
at home. And here is the text I sent three friends on the team after that failed endeavor. (I’d also sent a screenshot of the erg’s monitor showing that each attempt lasted between five and six minutes: A 5K takes me around 23 minutes.) My text: LOOK AT THIS BULL#*@%! I can’t make myself keep going for the 5K Test!! I keep thinking of reasons to stop. The music stopped and I have to fix it. I’m gonna barf. I should watch a pacing video. I need to poop. My friends sent excellent motivational texts back, and one, who had already completed her erg test, generously volunteered to meet me RCRC the next day to do the test again with me. It’s hard to overstate how much erg-test misery loves company. The next day, my awesome friend and I met and cranked out that 5K erg test. And it was awful, every single stroke of the way. At the two-minute mark, I thought, “I can’t do this. I have to stop, it’s too awful!” And I thought it every, single pull of those handles for the next 21 minutes until we
were done. I never got to a sweet spot where I was “in the zone.” I was only miserable and on the verge of quitting. In fact, I burst out crying when we finished and had a hard time settling down. I was so disgusted with myself for wanting to quit and couldn’t even revel in the fact that I’d finished it. Why couldn’t I just do hard stuff with a better attitude like S does?
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hen I left practice that morning, I called S, who was in San José, and I was choking back tears of shame as I told him of my success. He, of course, was proud that I’d done it and said all the right things. But the funk of my near selfdefeat did not lift all that day, and I felt weepy throughout. I I asked S to meet me for dinner, halfway between Davis and San José, for some pep-talking. As we were eating, I was crying while telling him how disgusted I was with myself for not being able to make myself do this without being such a whiner. I’m not a crier in general — I average about once a year — so this added ele-
ment made an impression on both of us. Why was I so upset about this? S, the king of doing hard stuff, was so supportive. For starters, he reminded me, I did do the dreadful task. I could be proud that I pushed myself past the “I don’t want to!” phase and got the drudgery done. Also, he said with great gusto, “Erging is awful! You shouldn’t want to do it because it sucks, and I can’t make myself do it for more than five minutes ever! And you did it! You did the terrible thing!” And that’s when the funk started to lift. I had the admiration of the most admirable person, who wasn’t just sweet-talking me with false flattery. He was actually impressed by my ability to do the hard thing. “Oh, and hey,” S added, “do you want to go with me to a fingernails-on-a-chalkboard concert next week?” — 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.
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week By Natalia Baltazar Special to The Enterprise Hunger and homelessness continue to be serious issues for many community members in Yolo County. A recent survey of data from 2017 to 2019 discovered Yolo County had 20.9% of its residents living in poverty — the highest rate in California according to a Yolo County 2022 press release. Empower Yolo has been a beacon of hope for our neighbors struggling with food and housing insecurity. Empower Yolo’s housing department and food distribution centers have been continually supporting clients, their children, and other vulnerable community members experiencing food and housing insecurity throughout the pandemic and beyond.
Housing support “The housing department team continues to work hard to house our victims of abuse and homeless clients,” said Lorena Palomar, housing director at Empower Yolo. Access to information and resources is important to providing effective services for clients. “The housing department has created walk-in hours for clients at Woodland, Davis, and West Sacramento every week to be able to reach our unhoused community that has no way to contact us. Housing advocates are available to speak with clients and answer any housing questions,” says Palomar. New issues have arisen for clients experiencing housing insecurity. In June the state rental support program “Housing is Key” closed. Since then, the housing department has seen an increase in clients who were not approved and now owe larger sums of past-due rent. “We have met with clients and referred them to Legal Services of Northern California to collaborate and assist when possible,” said Palomar. Rising utility costs have also been a burden for clients. “We have seen an increase in people seeking assistance with utilities as they have experienced an increase in the cost of their monthly utility bills that they struggle to meet,” said Palomar. Empower Yolo staff can assist with PG&E Relief for Energy Assistance Through Community Help (REACH) services, or North Coast Energy Services Home Energy Assistance
Empower Yolo Program (HEAP) depending on the client’s need. Empower Yolo’s housing services have been effective and successful for clients. In 2021 548 clients were provided rental assistance and housing support. Year to date Empower Yolo’s housing team has housed 122 households with 198 household members; and assisted 10 households with homeless prevention, allowing 26 household members to remain housed. Working with agency partnerships is also important in the process and success of housing clients. “We continue to collaborate with Yolo County Housing Authority, community partner agencies (Fourth and Hope, Davis Community Meals, Hope Cooperative, Yolo County Children’s Alliance, Rise Inc., and Yolo County Health and Human Services), property management companies, and landlords. Housing advocates meet with clients to create a housing plan on a case-by-case basis to best meet their specific housing needs,” says Palomar. Currently, the housing team is helping clients move into Tiny Homes. The Tiny Homes project is an extension of the grant that was approved for the new homeless shelter at Fourth and Hope. 61 Tiny Home units were built at the 1801 Beamer Street location in Woodland to provide housing to the unhoused community. Fourth and Hope completed the application process and Empower Yolo’s housing team has assisted clients with financial support for the move-in costs. “We have currently assisted 25 of the approved clients with financial support to move into the new units. We have collaborated with case managers at Fourth and Hope, Yolo County Children’s Alliance, Hope Cooperative, and Yolo County Health and Human Services to set meetings with their clients to process them for movein which is exciting for clients,” says Palomar. The community can help support our unhoused clients by donating roomsto-go to help clients with move-ins. Gift cards and gas cards are also always a huge help to our clients. “Looking forward, the housing department’s goals for the new year are to continue to assist as many clients as possible with a housing plan and
continue to collaborate with our community agencies on wrap-around housing services to ensure our clients obtain and retain housing,” says Palomar.
Food distribution In 2020 the food insecurity rate in Yolo County was 10.6%, 23,210 people (overall, all ages) were experiencing food insecurity, see map.feedingamerica.org. Food insecurity means having limited, uncertain, or inconsistent access to the quality and quantity of food that is necessary to live a healthy life. Having sustained access to enough food is tied to positive social, physical, and mental health outcomes, see nourishca.org/GeneralNutrition/CFPAPublications/ FoodInsecurity-Factsheet-2019.pdf. To help prevent food insecurity for clients, vulnerable families, and harder to reach populations, Empower Yolo continues to provide weekly food distribution in partnership with the Yolo Food Bank’s Eat Well Yolo program in Davis, Knights Landing, and the town of Yolo. “Our partnership with the Yolo Food Bank allows us to reach communities that might otherwise not have access to these resources,” says William Irlmeier, facilities manager, Empower Yolo. Empower Yolo food distribution staff report that food distribution numbers are higher now since the height of the pandemic. In 2021 the Davis Resource Center provided food for 2,689 duplicated households. Knights Landing Resource Center and Yolo together provided food for about 10,400 duplicated households. If you or a community member are experiencing food insecurity please come to one of Empower Yolo’s food distribution sites: Davis Resource Center: 441 D St., Davis; 530757-1261; 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. Knights Landing Resource Center: 9586 Mill St., Knights Landing; 530-668-0690; every Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Town of Yolo: 37817 Sacramento St., Yolo; 530-6680690; every Thursday at 9:30 a.m. All sites provide food while supplies last. When available food distribution boxes are also offered to clients without requirements. The boxes vary each time with seasonal vegetables, canned goods, pasta, dry beans, rice, milk, and meat. The
An Empower Yolo housing client moves into a tiny home. Courtesy photo
goal of Eat Well Yolo is to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Every week is different, sometimes people receive food boxes, and other times they receive frozen meat, milk, or other dairy products. It varies based on what the Food Bank has available. In addition, Empower Yolo provides a basic food pantry at the main office in Woodland. The office pantry is not meant to provide groceries; it’s for people who just need a meal or two. Pantry items vary each week, but it often has fruit, vegetables, cereal, pasta, or soup. We ask people to only take what they need. Friday food bags donated by Woodland Third Thursday Humanitarian are also available at the main office pantry. These bags have no-cook meals for the homeless who ask for them. “We are able to help families stretch their budgets at a time where everything seems to cost more,” says Irlmeier. All of Empower Yolo’s food resources are on a firstcome, first-serve basis; the food is given away until it runs out. Empower Yolo strives to support community members that are harder-toreach or underserved. “People in Yolo are really appreciative and when they come in for food, it gives us the opportunity to tell them about other resources,” says Irlmeier.
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week Empower Yolo will host a Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week November 12-20 to raise awareness for the problems of hunger and homelessness through educational, service, fundraising, and advocacy events. For more information about our awareness week events, and how you can help support those experiencing food and
By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Great Americans. What was the first name of the Serbian-American inventor Tesla? 2. Highways. Interstate 80 is the secondlongest interstate in the United States. What is the longest?
housing insecurity visit: empoweryolo.org. Join Empower Yolo as it continues to be a beacon of hope for the unhoused community and our hungry neighbors. For more information about Empower Yolo and a full list of services, please visit us at: www.empoweryolo.org. — Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.
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Veterans Day is a day to honor all veterans! It is a time to remember and thank veterans for all they have done for all of us and our country.
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Color the poster above and display it where lots of people can see it to say thank you to the veterans in your community. Or give it to a veteran in your family or neighborhood.
Turn this chart at right into a bar graph. It shows the number of veterans living in the U.S. as of September 2015. A veteran is a __________ who has served in the armed forces. The armed forces _________ the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Both men and women can be veterans.
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Some veterans have _______ in times of war and have fought for our _________. Others have served in times of _________ to protect our country in other ways. All veterans make sacrifices to help keep our country _____.
The Purple Heart is the oldest medal awarded in the U.S. military. It is awarded to someone injured or killed in action against an enemy. Use the code to discover the famous American general whose profile is on the Purple Heart.
Find 10 words in today’s paper that are related to Veterans Day such as service, hero and honor. Write the words here in alphabetical order.
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Serious series: Five homers and a no-no T his year’s World Series has been unique, to say the least. Five home runs by the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 3, a Series record; followed by a Houston no-hitter in Game 4. The other no-run, no-hit games in Series history is Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956 for the New York Yankees over the Brooklyn Dodgers. n Don’t be surprised if the San Francisco 49ers trade off more than a few players in the coming months. They spent considerable draft capital, such as choices, in the Trey Lance and Christian McCaffrey trades. Latest to go was Jeff Wilson, a dependable running back, shipped to Miami. n A concert that we’d like to see happen: Heart with Ann and Nancy Wilson, followed by Carole King. n Recommended reading: “The Book of Joe: Trying Not To Suck at Baseball and Life.”
The author is Joe Maddon, a three-team MLB manager with the Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Angels. Maddon is brutally frank about what he thinks is right about baseball and what isn’t. His co-author is FOX journalist Tom Verducci. Maddon managed the 2016 Cubs, who won the World Series that ended a 108-season drought on the North Side of Chicago. n It is never a good sign when the federal government is looking into your finances and business practices. That is what is currently happening with the NFL’s Washington Commanders, whose owner,
Daniel Snyder, is also under investigation. It is more than likely Snyder at some point soon will have to sell the franchise. Being that the team is located in our Nation’s Capital, the price tag will be hefty. That won’t discourage a bidding war, by any means. Forbes magazine, which publishes valuations for every major pro sports franchise, has the team valued at $5.6 billion dollars. n Ray Guy, widely considered to be the best punter in college and pro football history, died Thursday at age 72 after a long illness. Guy played his entire NFL career with the Oakland-Los Angeles Raiders, retiring in 1986 and returning to his Hattiesburg, Miss. home. He was the first pure punter selected on the first round of the 1973 NFL Draft and also the very first punter inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Late Raiders coach John Madden presented Guy for Hall induction and said simply, “Ray Guy was a football player who punted.” n As the World Series winds down, one San Francisco Giant, one St. Louis Cardinal and two Yankees have each hit three home runs in a single Series game. Who are they? Answer below. n For the better part of fiveplus decades, the Detroit Lions have been one of the NFL’s worst franchises. Many Lions diehards attribute this to “The Curse of Bobby Layne.” The Lions obtained Layne in 1950. A swashbuckling QB who played just as hard off the field as he did on it, Layne kept the Lions respectable during that decade, but management eventually tired of his antics and traded him to Pittsburgh in 1958. The Steelers in those days were the dregs of the league, much like Detroit, 1-6, entering
this weekend’s play. Never one to mince words, Layne bellowed, “They won’t win for 50 years.” Layne was wrong. It’s been 65 years. The Lions have never played in a Super Bowl, much less won one. They last won an NFL championship in 1957. Layne once was asked his later-life’s ambition. “Simple,” he said. “I want to run out of air and money at the same time.” Quiz answer: Pablo Sandoval with the Giants in 2012, Albert Pujols with the Cardinals in 2011, Reggie Jackson with the Yankees in 1977, and Babe Ruth with the Yankees in 1926 and 1928. n Whatever you do on Tuesday, get out and vote! — 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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stepped up at various points during the season were wide receivers Daimyun Luevano and Sawyer Schoen, linebacker Sonny Huitron, and sophomore quarterback Braulio Acevedo. There was also CJ Millican, Will Walsh, Elijan Conlan, Anthony Edson, Howie Smith, Dominick Jackson, Ben Martin and Aidan Sheehan. “I still commend the efforts from Cole and a lot of others that really contributed,” Garratt said. ———— Now it’s time for the 18 juniors and four
sophomores, including Acevedo, Prince Flores, tight end Alex Gasca and lineman Diego Preciado, to hit the weight room for offseason workouts. There are also sophomores on the Davis junior varsity football team, which went 3-7 this season. Next will be workouts in the gym during the fall, winter and spring months heading into next season. “What we’re trying to do here is shape young men with integrity,” Garratt said. “And with compassion, and empathy, and have the courage to make great changes in the world. I truly mean that. That’s what we’re out here to do.”
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Davis High quarterback Sawyer Schoen looks down the field to run in a Delta League game at Jesuit on Oct. 29. Schoen, a junior, is a wide receiver who ran the offense in recent games.
leadership of this group is excellent, with Elijah and Christian at the head of that list. Kane Milling really started to come around at the end of last year and Ade Adebayo is great at playing multiple positions. Those four are a really solid foundation.” The Aggies played four games in Europe in August, a trip that the NCAA allows a team to take once every four years. UCD went 4-0 on the tour, playing in Croatia, Italy and Bosnia. “It was very good for us,” said the Aggie coach. “We feel because of the
trip we’re a little bit ahead of schedule. It really helped us as a team to travel together like that. It was the perfect complement to our summer workouts. In addition to working on our basketball skills, we really rely on the relationships we built during that trip.
“I feel that really good things are going to happen with this group. I like their willingness to be coached and ability to play an uptempo pace on both ends of the floor. The work ethic and the practice ethic of this team is off the charts. Now it’s just a matter of doing it when the lights come on.”