Over at UC Davis, love is in the air on campus. Collected annually by the UC Davis’ social media team, students, staff, alumni and friends are responding to #AggiesInLove with their “love origin story.
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In honor of the holiday for lovers, it seemed apropos to highlight some UC Davis love stories.
Collected annually by the UC Davis’ social media team, love stories from students, staff, alumni, and friends are coming in in response to the hashtag #AggiesInLove with their “love origin story, and where it all began.” Showcasing where lovers first fell in love, their favorite area of study, or perhaps where they first met the person
who has become their special someone, Aggies in Love.
Over the last few years, hundreds of Aggies have shared their stories for the social media team to put in their “Aggies in Love” map. The call for submissions for this year began on Jan. 17 and will stay open through Feb. 24. With the help of a partner in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and the UC Davis Esri support team, a new and improved map will be unveiled on Valentine’s Day across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so folks
can interact with the map, filter stories by type, etc. “Aggies in Love” so far has received 120 submissions this year.
A few comments from the Aggies in Love team regarding the process are as follows:
n “I feel like people took us on their journeys, and it was very heartwarming.”
n “I’ve loved learning about all the little places on campus where people have found their passions, friends, and loves. AIL takes a place as simple as the CoHo and turns it into a movie scene.”
Back in 2021, when mortgage interest rates were plumbing all timelows, Caitlyn O’Connell and her fiancé nearly closed on a home in San Luis Obispo.
They backed out of the deal after discovering major issues with mold, she said. Over the course of the next year, the cost of a typical mortgage payment in California increased by as much as 56% in some markets, according to housing data firm Zillow.
O’Connell feared she and her now-husband were locked out of homeownership forever. This year they abandoned their search.
The developer who will build 150 affordable apartments for seniors in the Bretton Woods senior housing community expects to break ground in summer 2024 at the earliest with occupancy coming in 2025.
Some of the surprises along the way for the team were the handful of stories where the couples stated that their kids also went to UC Davis. “Even though we know Aggie Legacy families happen, it’s always a joyful surprise to read! We even had a story where Gunrock (the mascot) made an appearance at the wedding,” explained UCD Interim Director of Social Media Karla W. Fung.
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AlishA Jucevic/cAlMAtters photo Caitlyn O’Connell, in her apartment in Venice on Feb. 7, started looking for a home in 2021 but gave up shortly after because prices were too high.
“If we stay in California, we will have to be renters,” said O’Connell, who lives in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach neighborhood. “I don’t
know, it really just feels like we’re stuck.”
Tens of thousands of
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Stephan Daues, consulting director for Mercy Housing, the nonprofit affordable-housing developer tasked with building those units, told members of the city’s Senior Citizen Commission on Thursday that once the city has approved design review, pursuing financing — a time-consuming process for projects like these — will begin.
“What we are leaning toward at this point is to finance the development in two phases, 75 units each,” Daues said. “Phase one would be the eastern-most building — 75 units and the community building — and the second phase, we’ll be pursuing that financing at the same time, so it would likely lag behind by six months to a year if all goes well.
“We will most likely need the rest of this calendar year to assemble all of the various funding pieces that are required and we would likely break
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Yolo Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in an arson case after jurors failed to agree whether the defendant intentionally set three rural wildfires.
Meanwhile, a second trial begins Tuesday for Ronald Christopher Stevens, who also faces unrelated battery and vandalism charges.
Stevens, 64, was tried on three felony arson charges in connection with the June 2021 fires, which prosecutors alleged he set on rural Guinda properties after he argued with his neighbors and
got evicted from the outbuilding he rented on County Road 41A.
The first blaze scorched 34 acres and destroyed several structures, while two other fires set three days later caused wildland damage but no structural losses. Authorities arrested Stevens in the area of the latter incidents, reportedly finding him in possession of a butane lighter.
“These fires were not acts of God,” Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Gustavo Figueroa told jurors in his closing argument. “The lighting of these fires was willful and malicious, to get back at
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Awhile ago, 10 years to be precise, I pounded out the following words for Super Bowl Sunday on my trusty typewriter, Manual, who has been my companion through thick and thin and rewards me with a happy little bell every time I complete a full line of copy.
Remembering back to the first time they called the game we’ll all watch today the “Super Bowl,” I wrote, “I can’t tell you how silly it sounded at the time. Many of us grew up with the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. Heck, Sacramento even used to have the Camellia Bowl.
“But Super Bowl? Which goofball came up with that name? Still, much like that poor newborn saddled with an odd and unfamiliar 'family' name, Super Bowl stuck. And today, even to me, it doesn’t sound strange anymore.
“I don’t know of another sporting event witnessed by so many people who know absolutely nothing about the game they’re watching. Only real fans watch the World Series or the NBA finals or the Masters or Wimbledon or the Indy 500.
But everyone, by law in some
states, watches the Super Bowl.
“There will always be the diehards who hang on every play, but for most everyone else it’s a social event at which the game is secondary and the seven layer bean dip commands center stage.
“The dirty little secret of professional football is that its sky-high television ratings are fueled by this nation’s thirst for sports gambling. And no sporting event of any kind comes close to the kind of wagering the Super Bowl brings.
“You can literally bet on the coin flip, with heads bringing better odds than tails. You can also bet on the length of the National Anthem and which color of Gatorade will be dumped on the winning coach's noggin.
“The legal bookies in Reno and Las Vegas — as opposed to illegal bookies every place else — offer a
whole pamphlet full of “propositions” that go way beyond the point spread or the highly popular over/under.”
Flash forward to today, 10 years later, where Super Bowls are now known by the ever-changing Roman numerals behind the name and the day itself has become known as Super Bowl Sunday.
Growing up Catholic, I knew about Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. but I never imagined we'd have a Super Bowl Sunday. At least they have the decency to start the game at 3:30 in the afternoon so we can all get to Mass and safely back home. It's a closer call for churchgoers on the East Coast. No one in the country, of course, actually cares who wins the Super Bowl other than the residents of Kansas City and Philadelphia. One by one over the last month, pretenders to the throne fell by the wayside, taking their fans with them.
When the 49ers dropped out because they ran out of quarterbacks, all of Northern California lost even the slightest bit of interest in today's game. After
quarterback No. 4 went down against the Eagles, Kyle Shanahan called me to see how far I could throw a spiral and how fast I could get to Philadelphia, but the game was over before the ink on my contract was dry.
Of course, there are folks beyond Kansas City and Philadelphia who have bets on the game — some of them massive — and they'll be living and dying with every bounce of the oddest-shaped ball in all of sports. But they're not fans. They're gamblers.
Interestingly, after years of fighting gambling, the NFL has now openly embraced it. Gambling is now encouraged and sports betting has suddenly become legal in a number of states, but not California. You can even bet online while the game is in progress, with the odds and point spreads changing with every play. It's likely to eventually kill the sport, but for now, gambling and sports go hand in hand.
For those who care about the outcome, financially or otherwise, a prediction is in order.
Philadelphia 27, Kansas City 17.
You can bet on it.
— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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Under the settlement agreement, slated for approval Friday by a San Diego Superior Court judge, hourly employees who worked for Woodstock’s between April 2020 and June 2022 will receive roughly $10 for each week worked, unless they opted out of the action.
Davis Woodstock’s employee Shelby Lowry filed the lawsuit in April 2021, alleging multiple violations of California’s
“Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendant failed to pay all wages, including minimum wages, regular wages, overtime and double time; failed to properly calculate overtime and double time wages; failed to provide meal breaks (including without limitation first and second meal breaks) each day based on the hours worked by each employee, including meal breaks that were short, late, interrupted, and/or missed altogether; failed to authorize and permit legally compliant rest breaks each day based on the hours worked by each employee, including rest breaks that were short, late, interrupted, and/or missed
altogether; failure to provide and/or pay paid sick leave; and failed to timely pay all wages during employment each pay period for every employee,” according to the settlement agreement.
As the class representative, Lowry receives up to $10,000 of the settlement amount, the agreement says.
Woodstock’s owners Jeff and Laura Ambrose denied the lawsuit's allegations, noting in the settlement agreement that they’ve agreed to resolve the action to avoid “protracted and expensive” litigation.
“As stated in the notice of pendency, ‘Woodstock's strongly denies any and all
allegations and claims alleged in the action, and denies any and all wrongdoing and liability,’ ” owner Laura Ambrose said in an email to The Davis Enterprise. “We continue to ensure that our policies and practices comply with changing federal, state and local laws. Our team and our guests are our top priorities at Woodstock’s.”
The San Diego-based Woodstock's operates seven locations in California college towns including Davis, Chico, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo and Isla Vista.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
The new wine shop Wines in Tandem had its soft opening last month. Now it’s planning a grand opening weekend with tastings, discounts and music. The event is noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 26. Saturday will feature sparkling wines.
Until then, hours are noon to 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays.
After the grand opening, hours will be noon to 5 p.m. Sundays through Wednesdays, and noon to 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. It’s at 222 D St. Learn more and check out the week’s tasting menu at https:// www.winesintandem.com/.
Beach Hut Deli is under new ownership. The sandwich and catering shop is at 4515 Fermi Place, across from Target Sierra Bennett is the new owner, as of March 2022. She purchased the Davis franchise from Hope Morgan, manager Lauren Gunther said. Bennett upgraded the patio seating and added a lounge area and fire pit.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
I swung by several places that are on my “coming soon” list. Here’s what I know:
■ Peeking inside the longplanned Water Pig at 2120 Cowell Blvd., Suite 143, it’s a mystery why the project has stalled for so long. It looks ready, with tables
set and trays stacked in the kitchen. The beer and wine license announcement is no longer posted in the window. I’ve been trying to reach owner Calvin Liu for some time but my messages have not been returned.
■ I can’t see any major work being done at the future site of Yolo Beer Ranch. I haven’t received a recent update on the project, which will fill the former Satiety Winery space at 40101 County Road 25A. Plans are for a taproom of local brews and space for games and family fun.
■ These restaurants are in the hiring process: Sit Lo Saigon (Vietnamese food coming to the former Thai Nakorn space) and Happy Mochi, filling the former Kaya Yoga space.
■ Work has not begun on Orangetheory Fitness, filling the former Round Table Pizza space in South Davis, or at Wayback Burgers, coming to The Marketplace. Same for Bober, a boba tea shop coming to Davis Commons. Work on Frenzy Coffee Co. is on hold at 305 First St.
■ Lots of work is underway remodeling the interior of MT BBQ House, which was closed by county health inspectors on Jan.
20. It’s at 229 G St. It may be a month or two before it reopens.
■ I’m crossing my fingers that two big downtown projects, Mamma (filling Bistro 33) and Bull ’N Mouth (filling De Vere’s) will open this spring.
■ And still no word — or visible work — on Estelle, which will replace Konditorei
Later this month, I will have
an update on plans for Sudwerk Brewing Company’s restaurant, which could reopen in a few weeks.
Before you message me about the status of an ongoing project, check my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at https:// bit.ly/DavisBusinesses. Look for
SACRAMENTO — How can medical residency training programs improve diversity and, consequently, the quality of health care?
UC Davis Health researchers have some suggestions, backed by evidence.
In a study published today in JAMA Network
Open, a team of researchers analyzed more than two dozen residency programs across the country. All employ strategies to boost diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The team then compiled their findings to share widely with Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs seeking to diversify the physician workforce.
The study is believed to be the first of its kind to compile a comprehensive list of data-driven approaches to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in GME programs.
“We have created a guide to help GME programs move forward in improving their DEI efforts,” said Stephany Sanchez, a co-author of the study and associate clinical professor of internal medicine at UC Davis Health.
“This is intended for programs that are very early in their journey toward diversifying, to be able to apply foundational strategies we highlighted,” Sanchez said. “And it’s also intended for programs that are much farther along in their path,
so they can have a more aspirational list of strategies to consider.”
UC Davis has long been a model for its commitment to diversity and inclusion. The School of Medicine ranked No. 3 in diversity for medical schools across the nation, according to the 2023 U.S. News & World Report’s list of “Best Graduate Schools.”
GME, commonly referred to as residency, is the training required for medical school graduates before they become eligible to take board exams for certification in their chosen specialty field. GME can last anywhere from three to seven years, most often at an academic medical center like UC Davis.
Nationally, GME programs are striving to increase the number of physicians from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine. However, challenges exist. These trainees, from Latino, Black, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations, are less likely to be offered placement in GME.
“Closing the diversity gap is critical to ensure equity in medical education and health care quality,” the
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The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet from noon to 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in West Davis. The primary speaker will be Matt Williams, a former
City of Davis Finance Commission member. He will speak to the financial health of Davis for the future.
For information, contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530219-1896 or e-mail G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org.
authors stated. “Nevertheless, evidence-based strategies and best practices to improve DEI in the biomedical workforce remain poorly understood and underused.”
Studies show that patients have better health outcomes when they are cared for by doctors who understand their culture, who look like them, or speak their language. Authors of the study released today say that diversifying GME programs is critical to diversifying the physician workforce.
Implementing DEI strategies is fairly new to GME, and a common challenge among program leaders is not knowing the steps to take at becoming more diverse.
“GME programs really want to be more inclusive,” said co-author Tonya Fancher, the UC Davis associate dean for workforce innovation and education quality improvement. “But I think programs don’t always know how to do it, so this work offers a menu of successful strategies to choose from.
There is a dearth of information about what most GME programs are
doing to increase diversity and inclusion, but the authors found a creative way to tap into the information: They received permission to access the submission forms of GME programs that have vied for the annual Barbara Ross Lee, D.O. Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which is given out by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education.
The study was based on 29 award applications submitted between Aug. 17, 2020, and Jan. 11, 2022. The applicants described in detail what the programs were doing to boost diversity. This included efforts among trainees and faculty and staff, as well as the overall culture of the institutions.
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Dixon lost a part of living history when Dorothy Wallace died peacefully at home in late November 2022 after her 101st birthday and a brief illness. Born to Fay and John Dawson, she grew up on the family chicken ranch at a time when roads to town were unpaved and trains still stopped in Dixon.
She played with her cousins at her grandmother’s house just north of the old grammar school and visited her uncle’s “Cigar Store” (Dawsons) with her mother during Prohibition. Traveling in a Model-T Ford, she visited her grandparents in Canada. Later she learned about the Depression as she watched her mom feed fried egg sandwiches to hungry itinerants who had wandered onto the ranch looking for water, work, food or clothing after jumping off the railroad. The arrival of her brother, John, nine years after her birth was a welcome adjustment. They loved adventuring together by train to Tennessee.
After graduating from Dixon High School, Dorothy left Dixon to attend business college and work for an attorney in Placerville. She met and married a handsome butcher named George Wallace. They returned to the chicken ranch to help during the worker shortage of World War II. They joined George’s large family for Fourth of July picnics, birthday parties, and Christmas dinners.
When their daughters Fay and Bobbi started grade school, Dorothy and George encouraged reading books, going to the Carnegie Library,
performing family piano, saxophone, and trombone concerts at home, and playing in the marching band. From the ’40s to the ’60s, the Dixon Dance Club was where George and Dorothy cut a rug with their friends. They taught Fay and Bobbi to dance to early TV music and dance programs. Meanwhile, Dorothy worked in the egg room at the ranch and drove the girls to after school events. In the early ’60s she began a 20-year career with the U.S. Soil Conversation Service in Dixon, during an era of expansion of the irrigation and drainage canals in the Berryessa watershed.
Dorothy’s relationships with her immediate and extended family, George’s siblings and their children, and lifelong friends are what sustained her through the long years of her life. Although George predeceased her in 1983, they shared 42 years of marriage and many memories. They rejoiced as Fay married Jerry Hulbert of Colusa in 1963 and when Bobbi married in Wisconsin. Dorothy was buoyed by memories of family camping vacations, summer stays at Donner Lake, and trips with George to Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Holland.
At home, she enjoyed conversations with the farmers who raised row crops on the family property. Over the last 15-20 years, a major source of joy and entertainment was playing bridge with dear friends almost every week. Staff from Advance Health Care Solutions cared for Dorothy the past few years; their willingness to share friendship
Dec. 26, 1921 — Jan. 14, 2023
Rose Calabria of Davis passed away in her sleep on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. She was 101 years old.
Rose was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Joseph Calabria. She is survived by daughter Donna Provenza and sonin-law Jim Provenza of Davis, son Rick Calabria of Tracy, and son Ron Calabria and daughter-in-law Nancy Calabria of Vista. She is also survived by her sister-in-law and close friend Pauline Calabria; grandchildren Nick, Matthew, Jennifer, James, Chelsea and Dominic; and great-grandchildren Joey, Bella, May, Clara, Lily, Dominic, Bryson and Hayden. Rose was born on Dec. 26, 1921, in Brooklyn, N.Y. As a young woman, she was trained as a seamstress and cutter/draper, and she worked in Manhattan making clothing during World War II. Throughout her life, she continued to sew
beautiful clothing and crochet gorgeous blankets. She hand-hemmed her granddaughter’s wedding dress and, in later years, enjoyed spending her days making crafts at the Davis Senior Center and coloring with colored pencils.
After World War II, Rose married her childhood friend, Joseph Calabria. She said she knew he was the one when he came home from the army and went to see her before he went to see his own mother. In the 1950s, Rose and Joe moved to the San Fernando Valley in California and had three children. In 1987, Rose and Joe moved to Las Vegas, along with many of their friends and relatives, where they resided for many years. In 2002, after her husband had to go to a nursing home, Rose moved in with her daughter and son-in-law in Davis.
Rose was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF WILLIAM SHAW CASE NO PR2023-0015
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of: WILLIAM SHAW WILLIAM A SHAW
A Petition for Probate has been filed by:
ELIZABETH RAFAEL in the Superior Court of California County of: YOLO
The Petition for Probate requests that:
ELIZABETH RAFAEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action ) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 03-16-2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 11 Room:
Located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695
If you object to the granting of the petition you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney
If you
and affection helped sustain her. Sutter Solano Hospice provided excellent support in November.
Her beloved Fay predeceased Dorothy in 2021. Dorothy’s survivors include daughter Bobbi; devoted sonin-law Jerry; grandchildren Steve Hulbert (Julie), Katherine Weldon (Ed) and Elizabeth Brazelton (Hutson); and great-grandchildren Michael, Madison, Ward, Noah, Ben, Fay, Ruby and Nora.
She frequently talked with the grandchildren about their lives in Vacaville, Hawaii and Southern California. She went to their sports, dance and musical performances and traveled on many family adventures. They all loved her warmth, compassion, willingness to listen, and generous support. Dorothy is also survived by her brother John Dawson (Maxine) and his children, Jerry Dawson, Cristy Rathjen (Tom) and Diane Dawson, and their children. She loved them all.
Dorothy was the longtime secretary/ treasurer of both the Angus Madden Memorial Trust and the Muriel M. Morris Educational Foundation. Both provide scholarships for Dixon High School graduates to continue their education. Memorial contributions can be made to the Madden Memorial Trust, PO Box 243, Dixon, CA 95620. If you prefer, contribute to the Sutter Solano Hospice program or to a charity of your choice.
A private family service will be held at Silveyville Cemetery. A public memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. on March 3 at the Milton Carpenter Funeral Home on North First Street in Dixon, followed by a 3 p.m. reception at the Olde Vets Hall at 231 N. First St.
was a wonderful cook and was known for her incredible eggplant parmigiana, homemade tomato sauce and other Sicilian delicacies. She loved to tell stories of her youth in Brooklyn to her great-grandchildren and to spend time coloring with them and talking.
Rose had a fun-loving spirit and a zest for life that charmed everyone she met. She was always cracking jokes, smiling and laughing. She liked to joke about her “afternoon cocktail” (really just a glass of Sprite with a splash of white wine), which she enjoyed daily. She also enjoyed an ice cream sundae cup before bed each night. When asked the secret to
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n The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet from noon to 1 p.m. at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in West Davis. The primary speaker will be Matt Williams, a former City of Davis Finance Commission member. He will speak on the financial health of Davis for the future. For information, contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-219-1896 or e-mail G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@ dcn.org.
n This month’s Yolo Audubon meeting features Alison Ke, a Ph.D. student in ecology at UC Davis. Ke will share highlights on three different nest box research projects that she’s been involved in. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 via Zoom. For details on how to join, go to yoloaudubon.org or facebook. com/yoloaudubonsociety.
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her long life, she replied, “After I turned 90, I just decided not to worry about anything anymore.” May we all take Rose’s advice and live as long and happy a life as she did.
Rose will be interred at the Davis Cemetery next to her husband, Joe. The family plans to have a private memorial in their home at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Friends of Adult Day Health Care at P.O. Box 1964 Woodland, CA 95776.
In the words of Frank Sinatra, Rose’s favorite singer, “I’ve lived a life that’s full. I’ve traveled each and ev’ry highway; But more, much more than this, I did it my way.”
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Delilah Schelen CASE NO PR2023-0027
To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Delilah Schelen A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Yolo County Public Administrator in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo
The Petition for Probate requests that: Yolo County Public Administrator be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action ) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as fol-
lows: Date: 03-07-2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 11 Room: Located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695
If you object to the granting of the petition you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney
If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b)
n The Davis Friends Meeting will sponsor a talk by Craig McNamara about “Coming to Terms with the Legacy of My Father Robert McNamara, One of the Architects of the Vietnam War,” at 7 p.m. at 345 L St. in Davis. Craig McNamara, a Winters-area farmer, will discuss his recently published memoir, “Because Our Fathers Lied,” which is a moving reflection upon his relationship with his father. Craig relates in his
memoir his life’s journey from protesting the Vietnam War, learning agricultural practices from indigenous farmers in South America, studying agriculture at UCD, and starting his own farming business.
n The Poetry Night Reading Series will feature Robert Thomas and Beverly Burch at 7 p.m. on the first floor of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St.; in Davis. An open mic will follow the featured performers. Open mic performances will be limited to five minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. Find out more about the Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis at http:// www.poetryindavis.com.
n The UC Davis Arboretum hosts a Folk Music Jam Session from noon to 1 p.m. Folk musicians can 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. Short-term parking is available in Visitor Lot 5 on Old Davis Road at Arboretum Drive. Hourly rates start at $1.75.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Robert Charles Schelen CASE NO PR2023-0028
To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Robert Schelen
A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Yolo County Public Administrator in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo
The Petition for Probate requests that: Yolo County Public Administrator be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action ) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority
A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 03/07/2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 14 Room:
Located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695
If you object to the granting of the petition you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing Your appearance
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first-time California home buyers saw their homeownership ambitions fail last year as mortgage interest rates doubled after the Federal Reserve began its inflation-fighting campaign last summer.
While the frenzied bidding wars that have defined parts of the state’s housing markets for more than a decade may have subsided, the monthly costs of a mortgage have left the state’s market more unaffordable than at any point in the last decade, particularly for lower- and middle-class families.
In December, the state’s median home price dropped to $774,580, according to the California Association of Realtors, a 2.8% annual decline likely not significant enough to make a meaningful contribution to housing affordability.
The prospect of higher monthly mortgage payments means many sellers can’t afford to trade-up, agents and economists said, resulting in too few economically priced homes. The situation is a considerable change from the last housing downturn, which began in 2007, when home foreclosures and other distressed sellers triggered big price declines and opened a rare affordability window.
These days California’s housing market is characterized by both high prices and much higher mortgage interest rates than buyers and sellers are accustomed to.
“There’s this crisis of confidence,” said Selma Hepp, chief economist at housing data firm CoreLogic. “Sellers don’t want to give up the price that
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they thought they were going to get, or had in mind, and they also have locked in mortgage rates that are incredibly cheap.”
Nine months into 2022, only 18% of households could afford the state’s median priced home, the California Association of Realtors reported. And the estimated minimum annual household income needed to buy a median priced home increased from $148,400 to $192,800 over that time period.
“It’s gonna be tough for first-time buyers, because of higher interest rates, because of tighter supply, and also because of the fact that there might be some uncertainty in the economy,” said Oscar Wei, deputy chief economist at the Realtors group.
the UC Davis Facebook page before she started working there in 2016 were posts about a Google Map collecting love stories from around campus.
“Fast forward to 2020, we officially relaunched the Aggies In Love Map to start sharing many of these wonderful stories. The past two years, we’ve had a great time collecting and sharing the breadth of stories that now include other types of love, like hobbies or passions. This year, we are creating a much more interactive map and moving away from Google Maps,” she said.
A couple of stand-out submissions include S (’93) and J who met while working at Woodstock’s, and their daughter is now a UCD sophomore. “He worked for Woodstock’s,
and I was hired as a delivery driver. Back in 1989, it was the ‘thing to do.’ He grew up in Davis and knew all the haunts. I grew up in San Francisco and went to UCD for undergrad. We knew each other for a while before moving in together, merging our dog families, and eventually, we were married. Twentyeight years later, we’re still within an hour from Davis, and our youngest daughter is a Sophomore at UCD. We’ve come full circle (but she’s not working for Woodstock’s ... yet).”
David (’92) and Buffy (’91): “We got married at the end of winter quarter our senior year. We called up a bunch of our friends on a Wednesday night and invited them to join us at the Yolo County Courthouse in Woodland to watch us get married by a Justice of the Peace. Our good friend
Dave, who was a Student Manager at the Craft Center, made our wedding rings as a wedding gift.”
Besides romantic love and dates at the Arboretum or meeting one another in residence halls or labs, there have been posts about finding one’s passion. For Dr. Miriam Markum, that was the filamentous cyanobacterium called Nostoc punctiforme (a microbe). “I started my post-doc in the lab of Dr. Jack Meeks in 2004 and fell in love with the filamentous cyanobacterium called Nostoc punctiforme! It can differentiate into photosynthetic vegetative cells, nitrogen gasfixing heterocysts, hardy
akinetes, and small chains of cells called hormogonia that glide toward cycad plants and form a symbiosis with them.”
Other than the magic of the stories themselves, Fung said it’s most enjoyable collaborating on this project with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and the UC Davis Esri support team in using ArcGIS Online to host the #AggiesInLove Map. Before this year, this was just something the social media team handled.
To get on the map, fill out a form online at https://alumni.ucdavis. edu/aggies-love-submissions.
ground in the summer 2024 at the earliest,” he said.
When it is all built, the affordable apartment complex will feature two fourstory buildings with courtyards and a community building in between.
The 150 units will include 16 studios; 118 one-bedroom apartments and 16 two-bedroom units. Elevator access will be available for all floors.
“These are rental units, they’re not for sale,” noted the city’s senior planner, Eric Lee.
A third of units will be reserved for extremely lowincome tenants, another third for very low-income and a third for low-income.
The update to the Senior Citizen Commission on Thursday came as work has gotten underway on the full Bretton Woods project, including grading and subdivision improvements.
“Once winter is over, the rainy season, we’ll start seeing more development,” Lee said.
Bretton Woods was
approved by Davis voters in 2018 when it was known as the West Davis Active Adult Community. At full build-out, it will have up to 580 housing units, including those 150 affordable apartments.
The 70-acre site sits north of Covell Boulevard and west of Sutter Davis Hospital, with the affordable apartments on the southwestern corner of the development, on Covell.
Those apartments are expected to be in high demand.
Daues said Mercy Housing will probably start an interest list when ground is broken for the apartments, “and depending on how
fast that interest list grows, we will either have an application process that involves a lottery, which is very common where we have extremely high demand for units, which we would expect here, or, if it’s more modest, we would open up a type of first qualified, first served process.”
“(T)he initial outreach that we conduct during construction will be quite strategic and timed to coordinate with our ability to receive the responses,” he added. “We will definitely work with the city to identify a strategic local outreach that begins in the city and then the county.”
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these people who made his life so difficult.”
Martha Sequeira, Stevens’ public defender, argued that while prosecutors may have shown the fires weren’t accidental, they failed to prove her client set them, and did so deliberately.
“There area lots of different ways the fires could have started that are reasonable, and that the government didn’t exclude,” Sequeira said in her closing remarks. As for the lighter, “everybody has a lighter in the hills. They’re smoking
dope, they’re smoking cigarettes, they’re smoking weed.”
Jury deliberations in the case ended Feb. 2 with votes of 3-9 in favor of acquittal on the first arson count and 9-3 for guilt on the second and third. The District Attorney’s Office is weighing whether to retry the case.
“We spoke to the jury to get feedback and we are conducting some further investigation,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said. “Additionally, we are looking at the additional cases
for crimes he was charged with while in custody. We hope to make a decision in the near future.”
Stevens’ other cases involve incidents that allegedly occurred while he was awaiting trial at the Yolo County Jail, including multiple counts of battery by gassing — that is, using feces or bodily fluids — and property vandalism.
Jury selection begins Tuesday in the battery case, while the vandalism charges are slated for trial later this month. Stevens has pleaded not guilty in both actions.
LET THE DEBATE BEGIN
... Serious sports journal ists are spending a lot of time these days arguing whether LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of all time.
We know he has now scored more points than anyone in NBA history and if he plays a couple more years at anywhere near his current scoring pace, his record will never be broken.
Tom Brady, of course, has already been declared the greatest football player of all-time, partly based on his impressive stats, but also on all those Super Bowl rings. Does Joe Montana — or Bart Starr or Johnny U. or Jim Brown — have anything to say about that? Baseball? Who knows? Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams?
Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Pete Rose, Ichiro Suzuki?
For some of us who started following baseball as kids, there will always be just one Mickey
Mantle and one Sandy Koufax. Could Ben Hogan go head-tohead in match play with Tiger Woods? Could the great Bill Tilden even make a Division I college tennis team these days?
As far as LeBron goes, if he’s not No. 1, he’s certainly No. 2 or No. 3. Or maybe a shared No. 1 with several others.
But wait, if we’re talking about championships, as we do with Tom Brady, how on earth did Bill Russell win 11 NBA championships while playing only 13 seasons?
And you can add two NCAA
national championships to Russell’s total. While we’re at it, add three NCAA championships to whatever criteria we’re using to judge Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s place in history.
Russell, of course, played at a different time in a decidedly different game in a much smaller league. But, my oh my are all those championships hard to ignore.
And didn’t Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in a single game, while no one else in the history of the game has scored more than 81?
Jordan, Kobe, Magic, Shaq, Bird and so many others. My dad would have voted for George Mikan, and others might include Bob Cousy and Pistol Pete.
Would the oldtimers who were the best in their day be able to raise their game if they were confronted with today’s athletes who are generally
playing at a higher level?
We can argue about it forever, which is yet another reason why sports are so intriguing to so many of us.
STRICTLY NO CONTEST ... I realize it’s Super Bowl Sunday, but does anybody west of Winnemucca really care who wins today’s game?
Still, it says right there on Page 2 of the Sportswriters Code of Ethics that anyone blessed enough to make a living sitting in press boxes all over the land must make a public prediction on the outcome of this game.
Two great, young quarterbacks, one of whom will emerge as the game’s MVP and make endless Subway commercials for the next 12 months.
Eagles 27, Chiefs 17.
COACHING MADNESS
The head football coach at
Florida State, in addition to making $8 million a year to roam the sidelines, will pick up an extra $950,000 if his team wins the national championship. And he won’t even have to strap on a helmet.
Not sure how much he’ll get if all his “student-athletes” graduate from college, but you can bet it’s chump change if it’s mentioned at all.
PICKING THROUGH THE
PORTAL ... Football and basketball coaches are spending a lot of time these days searching through the transfer portal for quarterbacks and point guards, but wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear one of them say, “We’re looking for several math majors and a couple of pre-med students to round out our roster.”
— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
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Mark Wolbert, an outfielder on the UC Davis baseball team, was named to the 2023 Big West Baseball Preseason Coaches’ Team, as announced by the conference Friday.
A sophomore from Petaluma, Wolbert is coming off a historic season in which he was named the Big West Freshman of the Year, All Big West First Team, and also receiving honors from Collegiate Baseball as a Freshman All-American.
Wolbert was the only freshman field player to be honored by Collegiate Baseball in the Big West this past season.
Davis High midfielder Nicolas Montano (10) goes after
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Being the top seed in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I soccer playoffs has its rewards. Just ask anyone who is a member of the Davis High boys and girls soccer squads.
The section released the playoff brackets for all six divisions on Friday afternoon.
Here is the breakdown of the playoffs for the Blue Devil teams, which begin action on Monday.
Davis (15-0-2), which won the outright Delta League title at 12-0, will host No. 16 seed River City at Ron and Mary Brown
Blue Devil forward Sabrina Hazel (20) chases after the soccer ball in Wednesday’s Delta League finale against rival St. Francis. Hazel, a junior who started as a sophomore during the 202122 season, and DHS will hosting a Californi Interscholastic Federation Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff game on Monday. Mike
Stadium on Tuesday at 7 p.m. River City (13-7-2) captured the Metro Conference title with a 9-2-1 record.
The Blue Devils and Raiders did not face each other this season.
The River City-Davis winner plays the No. 9 Edison of Stockton at No. 8 St. Mary’s of Stockton winner on Thursday, Feb. 16.
Other teams in the same bracket as DHS are No. 12 Bella Vista of Fair Oaks at No. 5 Oak Ridge and No. 13 Lincoln of Stockton at No. 4 Modesto.
In the opposite bracket, No. 14 McClatchy of Sacramento plays at No. 3 Inderkum of Sacramento, No. 11 Gregori of Modesto at No. 6 Central Valley of Ceres, No. 10
Enochs of Modesto at No. 7 Sheldon of Sacramento and No. 15 Franklin of Stockton at No. 2 Whitney of Rocklin.
Blue Devil forward Simon Vaca-Lorenzi has 13 goals this season. Forward Rigo Guerra follows at 11 goals and midfielder Nicolas Montano five.
Davis forward Lucas Liu has nine assists this season. VacaLorenzi has six and Guerra four.
Blue Devil goalie Declan Fee has 5.4 saves per game.
Davis (12-0-2) won a share of the Delta title with St. Francis at 10-0-2. The two teams tied 0-0 on Wednesday and 1-1 on Jan. 18.
The Blue Devils begin their
playoff run Monday at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium, when they play the winner of the No. 17 Edison at No. 16 West of Tracy that will be played Saturday. Tuesday’s game time is 5 p.m. before the Blue Devil boys’ playoff contest.
The quarterfinal contest would be played on Wednesday.
Other teams in DHS’ bracket are No. 12 Pitman of Turlock at No. 5 Inderkum of Sacramento and No. 13 Monterey Trail of Elk Grove at No. 4 Oak Ridge.
In the opposite bracket, No. 14 River City plays at No. 3 Franklin of Elk Grove, No. 11
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Starting the season opener last year in right field, Wolbert quickly made his way to being the everyday center fielder for Aggie head coach Tommy Nicholson, and figures to assume the same role for the 2023 season.
Slashing an astounding .410 batting average in conference and .351 during the season, Wolbert was consistently causing problems for opposing pitchers.
He was one of just seven players to post an OPS over 1.000 during the conference slate with a 1.060 OPS.
Looking to be a key cog in the revamped UCD this upcoming season, Wolbert is hoping to repeat his success from last season and carry that over to more wins.
Wolbert also enters the season with high expectations from those within the professional ranks after being tabbed as the top prospect in the Big West for the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft by D1Baseball.
Also announced by Big West officials were the projected standings for the 2023 season. After tallying votes from all of the coaches, the Aggies are projected to finish ninth place.
Last year’s Big West title winners UC Santa Barbara, received the most first place votes and heads into the season as the team to beat.
Sixty years ago, construction workers in the San Joaquin Valley began two major infrastructure projects that did much to build modern California: the State Water Project and Interstate 5. Backed by strong support in Sacramento, including adequate funding, the freeway connected drivers to Los Angeles in 1972, and the aqueduct began delivering water to Southern California in 1973.
Today another major infrastructure project rises in the San Joaquin Valley.
The high-speed rail project is as essential to 21st-century California as the aqueducts and interstates were to the 20th century, enabling fast travel powered by clean energy to some of the state’s most populated places. Countries around the world have built or expanded their high-speed rail systems in recent years, carrying large numbers of passengers and reducing the need for carbonintensive travel by airplanes or cars.
Unfortunately, California’s high-speed rail project has struggled. Unlike the aqueduct or the interstate, high-speed rail has never enjoyed more than tepid support in the state Capitol, even as it maintains majority support among California voters. The lack of legislative support means the project has never been fully funded. It has been trapped in a morass of land use regulations and lawsuits from project opponents that delayed construction and helped drive up costs.
Delays and rising costs have given an opening for critics to try and defund it, even if it means leaving unfinished infrastructure in the San Joaquin Valley. Some critics claim that the problem was a route serving cities like Fresno and Palmdale rather than a more direct path between San Francisco and L.A.
Even if one overlooked the millions of potential riders in those cities, any alternative route chosen would still lack sufficient funding and would still have been subject to environmental lawsuits.
Still, it would be a mistake to abandon this crucial project now, leaving concrete guideways in the sky empty of tracks, trains and travelers. No other form of transportation works as efficiently at connecting people across the distances of the Golden State as high-speed rail. Airplanes may make the trip from gate to gate in an hour. But when you add in travel times to and from the airport, a trip from downtown LA to downtown SF takes roughly the same amount of time on a bullet train as on a plane — yet the plane spews far more carbon.
Driving is simply not competitive. Without traffic, it takes 5-6 hours to drive from L.A. to SF. With traffic, it can take a lot longer. I remember a New Year’s Day drive from L.A. to Berkeley that took 10 hours in the early 2000s. Even if Californians switch en masse to electric vehicles, it will still take most of the day to drive from the Bay Area to Southern California. And that’s without the comforts of a train — the ability to stand up, walk around, get food, use the bathroom and work remotely.
Global experience has proven that if you build it, they will ride. High-speed rail systems connecting cities of 500 miles’ distance or less typically grab a majority of the market share on that route away from airlines. That includes Amtrak’s Acela train connecting Washington, D.C., and New York.
The evidence is clear that California should finish the job and complete the highspeed rail service between S.F. and L.A. Yes, the cost has increased but the project remains more affordable than expanding airports or freeways. Its carbon emissions reductions will be essential to achieving the state’s climate goals.
Neither the State Water Project nor the interstates were cheap. But they proved their value many times over during the last five decades. California’s high-speed rail project will prove its value many times over during the rest of this century — if political leaders in Sacramento commit to its completion.
— Robert Cruickshank was president of Californians For High Speed Rail from 2009-11. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.
The long-simmering duel between California’s state and local governments over housing is entering a new and more confrontational phase.
Local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area had until Jan. 31 to submit plans for meeting their stateimposed quotas for facilitating housing construction, and many of them missed it. They were supposed to identify enough land for the required number of housing units and the steps they were taking to make development feasible.
While declaring state, regional and local housing needs has been underway for decades, until recently there was virtually no backlash for failure. However, the most recent version, aimed at adding 2.5 million housing units by 2030, a million of them affordable to low-income families, is different.
The state Department of Housing and Community Development has embraced more critical oversight of the plans submitted by city and county officials, rejected those it deemed insufficient and threatened penalties for noncompliance, such as a loss of state housing funds.
The official pressure is clearly aimed at blunting the
ability of local not-in-mybackyard (NIMBY) activists to persuade local officials to resist the state quotas or impose conditions on housing projects that would make them unfeasible.
That syndrome is most evident in the Bay Area’s many small enclaves of wealthy families living in multi-milliondollar homes. Simply put, their residents don’t want to have their neighborhoods’ bucolic ambience altered by apartment houses for what Victorian novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton described as “the great unwashed” — ordinary folk lacking upper-class education and wealth.
On Jan. 31, the last day possible, the city council of the tiny, very wealthy San Francisco Peninsula community of Atherton adopted — with obvious reluctance — a plan for 348 new housing units. It acted over the objections of
While I am appalled at the idea that Daniel Marsh should be set free at the age of 25, I do think that, in all fairness, Senate Bill 1391 should apply to him as well.
If the judges rule that way they would just be following the law.
The real problem is the law itself. It is totally misguided to pass a law like this that allows no exceptions for particularly heinous crimes involving torture and a perpetrator who is clearly a sociopath.
He murdered two really nice elderly people, who I knew personally, torturing them to death. Chip played in an old-timey bluegrass group. Daniel stabbed them dozens of times. None were post mortem, which means that only the last one was fatal, and the others were simply torture.
He admitted to the police that he enjoyed this and was proud of his handiwork.
If he is released at any point, it should be under very, very strict supervision. A literal ball and chain. And he should not move in next door to me under any circumstances.
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many high-income NIMBYs, including Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. Whether the plan will pass state muster is still uncertain.
Across the bay in Orinda, another upscale community in Contra Costa County, city officials were on the verge of adopting their 1,359-unit plan when it was revealed that one of the parcels it designated for housing was just one foot wide.
The schemes to evade state quotas have largely been uncovered by pro-housing groups, which tip off local news media, and the publicity then forces officials to backtrack. However, the “yes-in-my-backyard” (YIMBY) groups don’t just blow whistles. Last week, a few days after the Jan. 31 deadline passed, a coalition filed lawsuits against 12 local governments that had failed to meet it.
“There’s no excuse for these cities to be in violation of state law,” Sonja Trauss, executive director of one group, YIMBY Law, said. “Cities have had years to plan for this. They’ve also received resources and feedback from us, our volun-
The recent article, “Planning Commission OKs R&D facility for Second Street” elicited a number of comments on The Davis Enterprise’s Facebook page where the article was posted. Of these comments, the one that was picked as the “Editors’ choice for the web comment of the week” stated “In a town that’s absolutely jam-packed with know-it-alls somebody will come up with an objection.”
Why did the editors pick this comment out of all the others?
Surely the Second Street project is exactly the sort of infill project that most Davisites preferred when they voted overwhelmingly to defeat the sprawling peripheral DISC project. I for one have no objection to it.
Will someone object? No doubt. Name me one issue that all Davisites agree on. I am guessing that there is no such issue.
But that isn’t really the point of the “Editors choice” comment, is it? The point is to denigrate Davisites who dare to raise objections to developer’s projects. Or maybe it’s just to denigrate Davisites more generally.
So, I ask again, why would the editors choose to reprint this comment in the newspaper? Is this the sort of discourse
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teer watchdogs, and HCD. These cities are trying to push the responsibility onto other communities and avoid having to welcome new neighbors. It’s time for them to be held accountable.”
The suits mirror those filed by housing advocates in Southern California when cities in that region missed their deadline last fall.
One goal of the Bay Area actions is to establish that the targeted communities are subject to one of the many new pro-housing laws, dubbed “builder’s remedy.” It exempts low- and moderateincome housing projects from local design control if the local governing body doesn’t have an approved housing plan. Whether the pressure on local communities actually results in 2.5 million units is very questionable. That would require more than a doubling of current housing construction and other factors, such as interest rates, material costs and the supply of construction labor, tend to discourage construction.
— 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.
that the Davis Enterprise wants to promote? And if so, why?
We can do better and so can The Davis Enterprise.
Roberta Millstein DavisIt appears California is trying to trick the taxpayers into thinking they are getting something for nothing. People have paid a substantial amount of tax on the gasoline they have purchased.
People suggested we put a hold the state gas tax. However, the legislators did not listen to what the people wanted. A hold on the gas tax would have relived the high price of gasoline instantly, but the state did not want to give up the residual income from the gas tax. It took forever for the state to get the refund issued because they issued the refund in alphabetical order.
So we have a tax on tax by issuing a 1099MISC, making the taxpayers pay tax on something which has already been paid. The state seems to have a major problem managing the taxpayers’ money and looking out for the well being of the people.
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Ihave gone over. All the way.
I have fallen in love with artificial intelligence. We need it and I’m on board.
My conversion was sudden. It happened on one memorable day, Feb. 8, 2023. It was a sudden strike in a well-worn heart by Cupid’s arrow.
My love life with technology has been either unrequited or messy. I was always the one who blew the relationship, I admit that.
It started with computer typesetting. I was a committed hot type man. I didn’t want to see that painted lady, computer technology, destroying my divine relationship with hot type. But she did and when I tried to make amends she was, er, cold, froze me out.
Likewise, as an old-time newspaperman, I was very proficient and happy with Telex. Computer technology separated us.
The worst of all was my first encounter with the internet.
I was pursuing the story of nuclear fusion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
A lab technician tried to interest me in the new device he was using to send messages: The internet. I blew it off. “That is just Telex on steroids,” I said.
Ms. Internet doesn’t care to be scorned and she nearly cost me my manhood — well, my publishing company — when she took her terrible revenge. She killed print papers as well as hot type. She was a vengeful siren that way.
My conversion to AI began innocently enough. I was
listening to a reporter on National Public Radio explaining how Microsoft’s new AI search engine would not only change the world of online searching but would also give Google a serious run for its money — billions of dollars, I might say parenthetically.
The writing’s on the wall for Google unless it can get its AI to market fast. I was intrigued.
The illustration used by NPR reporter Bobby Allyn was that of buying a couch and carrying it home in your car. The new search engine, Allyn explained, will tell you if the couch you want to buy will fit in your car. It will know the dimensions of the car and, maybe, of the couch, too. Wow!
Then I went on to watch a wild, unruly hearing before the House Oversight Committee. A long-suffering panel of former Twitter executives faced some pointed abuse from the Republican members. Some of those members never got to pose a question: Their time was entirely taken up castigating the witnesses over alleged collusion with the Biden administration and over Hunter Biden’s laptop — the holy grail for conspiracy theorists. It was a performance worthy of a Soviet show trial.
The worst aspects of the new House were on display. Alexandria OcasioCortez, D-N.Y., was visibly flustered because she wasn’t in her seat when her time to question the witnesses arrived. She rushed back to it and was so
excited that she was nearly incoherent.
Then there was Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who was adamant that Twitter was advancing a political agenda by accepting the science that vaccines helped control the COVID-19 outbreak. She claimed Twitter had a political objective when it denied her free speech rights by suspending her account, after frequent warnings about her dangerous public health positions opposing vaccinations.
The lady’s not for turning. Not by facts, anyway. That was clear. Any Southern charm she may possess was shelved in favor of invective. She told the former
Twitter executives that she was glad they had been fired.
The clincher in my conversion to AI had nothing to do with the brutal thrashing of the experts, but with the explanation by Yoel Roth, former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, who with forbearance explained that there were then and are now hundreds of Russian false accounts on Twitter aimed at influencing our elections and reaching deeply into our politics. Likewise, Iranian and Chinese accounts. That is when it occurred to me: AI is the answer. Not the answer to the mannerless ways of the House hearing, but to the
whole vulnerability of social media.
We have to fight cyber excess with cyber: Only AI can deal with the volumes of malicious domestic and foreign material on the net. Too bad it won’t resolve the free speech issues, or the one that emerged at the House hearing: the right to lie without restraint.
This AI doubter is now an enthusiast. Bring it on. Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com and you can follow him on Twitter @LlewellynKing2. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
What you put on your skin is as important as what you eat and breathe. Just like using an air purifier or avoiding inflammatory foods, what you put and do not put on your skin improves your health and quality of life.
If you want to improve your health, choose skincare products that:
n don’t have harmful ingredients, n do have ingredients in forms and concentrations your body can use, n are made by manufacturers you trust, and, ultimately, n restore your skin health to where you no longer need to use the product, n or you use very little of it to maintain your skin health.
One of the easiest ways to significantly improve your health is to avoid skincare products where the description or ingredients include “fragrance,” “flavor,” “peptides” or trademarked and patented ingredients, such as:
n Phyto Radiance Infusion (Vintner’s Daughter)
n Stimuplex (L’Oreal)
n Matrixyl 3000 / Peptides (Crunchi, Mad Hippie, Cerave, Olay) These terms are intentionally created to describe complex mixtures and hide substances that can make you sick. These terms are intended to protect manufacturers, their trade secrets and their profits,
and, specifically, not you.
“Fragrance” often includes endocrine disruptors, such as phthalates, or known allergens.
Trademarks and patented terms are most likely Trojan-horse terms for ingredients that functionally act as drugs, but are not FDA-approved drugs, such as Matrixyl.
Matrixyl is found in anti-aging and firming skincare products.
Matrixyl is composed of synthetic peptides that signal changes to your skin’s metabolism, making it, functionally, a drug. But unlike FDA-approved drugs, Matrixyl, as a cosmetic ingredient, has not undergone any of the same testing for toxicity and side effects.
So, while we know it works well to increase collagen synthesis and change protein structure in your body over the course of two months, we don’t know what it does to your body over the long term.
When in doubt about an ingredient, ask the manufacturer (if possible).
Ideally, skincare formulations should contain everything your skin needs
and nothing else.
It’s important to find out whether the ingredient in question benefits your health or merely the shelf-life and stability of a product, or something else.
For example, I use a “proprietary blend” in my products, which rightly should raise a red flag. If you ask, I’m more than happy to tell you what is in that particular “proprietary blend.”
I use the phrase because it’s quicker, easier, and cheaper to print labels that way, and it allows me the flexibility to make formulations tailored to each individual (bespoke).
Most important is whether the product is effective without the Trojan-horse ingredient, because then you can still determine product safety.
Here’s what else to consider when choosing skincare products for health:
n Does your definition of beauty pose a risk to your health?
The skin-care industry focuses on a narrow definition of beauty, “young and flawless-looking.”
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beauty for more.
n Is the product you’re considering described with scientific-sounding terms that are inaccurate or meaningless?
“Dermatologist-tested,” “organic,” “non-toxic” and “clean” are terms specifically intended to provide an illusion of safety and to create expectations rarely backed up by the ingredients, and, perhaps, worsened by them.
For a more comprehensive list of terms deemed meaningless by the FDA, go to https://bexiphd. com/pages/fda-definitions -of-meaningless-termsand-coinages.
n Does the product make claims that seem too good to be true? Do the ingredients back up the claims in such fashion that they are health risks?
Terms such as “instant,” “fast-acting,” “boosts collagen synthesis,” “contouring,” “clinically effective” should send up red flags.
If the ingredient list contains substances that function as drugs, I avoid it.
For an example of how a product that functions as a drug is legally sold as a cosmetic go online to https://bexiphd.com/ pages/misinformationmisbranding-misbehaviour-and-mischief.
n How is the product packaged?
Plastics leach endocrine disruptors and other toxins. Products packaged in clear glass without airtight
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seals are exposed to air and light, which degrade the products, making them less effective.
n Is the product volume and full ingredient list stated on the package?
These are required by the FDA. If you don’t see them, the product is out of compliance, and there’s a reason (and it’s probably not a good one).
n Does the product contain drugs masquerading as nutrients or plant extracts?
Just like supplements, nutrients (peptides, vitamin C, niacinamide) and plant extracts (bakuchiol, essential oils) used at unnaturally high concentrations, in isolation, or with modifications to their structure, functionally act as drugs, but are not FDAapproved drugs.
n When it comes to ingredients, more is not better.
It’s easier to bury harmful substances and drugs in a list of 50 ingredients than in a list of five. There are also more chances for 50 ingredients to react with each other and irritate your skin than there are with five.
But one ingredient, like coconut oil, isn’t enough to significantly improve the
“This
long-term health of dry skin. What’s best is the right amounts of nutrientdense ingredients in forms that your body can recognize and use to restore and support your skin health.
n Who endorses the product and what do they get out of their endorsement?
Celebrities, wellness influencers, doctors and advocacy organizations may genuinely care about their followers, believe in the product, and want them to benefit from it, but the fact remains that the process is usually driven by the skincare company’s desire and ability to purchase endorsements, promotions, and sponsorships.
n Is one of the selling points of the product fashion and beauty awards, e.g., Allure, Vogue, Glamour?
Fashion and beauty awards are specifically created to promote the illusion of skin health, not actual skin health. The more beauty awards a product has, the more I avoid it.
— Rebecca “Bexi” Lobo, Ph.D. is a nutritional biologist and biochemist
If you don’t see an ingredient list, the product is out of compliance, and there’s a reason (and it’s probably not a good one).
Here’s what you don’t have when you drop your cellphone one too many times: no maps; no messaging via multiple methods; no entertainment in the form of reading or audio; and oh so many other niceties and necessities.
And here’s how that manifested earlier this week.
Out to dinner with S in Chico on Wednesday night (yes, Chico ... read here if you didn’t catch this story: https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/are-wethere-yet-trading-i-680-forca-70/), I dropped my multi-dropped phone on a very unforgiving concrete floor. As I picked it up, I was relieved to see there weren’t any cracks in the screen. Whew, I thought, disaster averted!
As we walked back to our rented apartment, I realized I might not have been as lucky as first suspected. The phone, in fact, appeared to be super broken because its screen was doing absolutely crazed things. It would flicker a very faint, slightly greenish image on just the bottom half of the screen. When staring at it, I could kind of make out visions of people screaming or a ghost-skeleton hybrid creature. Or maybe a scene from a horror movie I would never see but read every detail about, aka “Skinamarink.”
Anyhoo, I’ve dropped so many
phones and had very obvious screen breaks in the past that this seemed way past a broken screen issue. This phone was dead, plus possessed.
At the apartment, I Googled on my laptop for a solid hour any tricks that might help my phone kick back into life. I will spare you those things that didn’t work, but I was hopeful by the phone’s little vibrations it made when I was squeezing and pushing and holding buttons in various combos.
Still, having self-diagnosed the phone as beyond salvation, I found a replacement phone in stock at a Chico Best Buy store and bought it.
On Thursday morning, I remembered before heading off to retrieve my new phone that I wouldn’t be able to use Google Maps to find the store. I had to chart my route from the apartment to Best Buy, and from Best Buy to our cell carrier store in case they could transfer info from the broken phone to the new phone. And I had to write all the directions down on paper,
like an animal!
Side inconvenience: I also didn’t have satellite radio in the car because I have a subscription through my phone. Learning about a new town through its local radio options is probably not the best way — I’m aware that commercial radio has a very specific niche — but I was a little disconcerted by the amount of country music/religious preaching/conservative talk diatribeing being broadcast.
The biggest inconvenience, however, was the lack of any kind of messaging to people I’m in regular contact with. Besides the many family members and friends I couldn’t tell I was off the grid, there was work.
I use texting and email and Slack and phone calls to talk with my EdSource work colleagues and students; beyond the first email of the morning sent from my computer, I couldn’t update them on my progress/lack of progress galavanting around Chico.
My galavanting was a result of a series of unfortunate decisions I made that took a while to reveal themselves as unfortunate. For starters, picking up my new phone at Best Buy was quick and easy. I changed the SIM card and thought I was back among the connected. But when you don’t have your
old device to transfer stuff from, you have to log in to everything afresh. You know what passwords I know by heart? None of them. On the new phone I couldn’t get into my multiple email accounts, or Slack or even send texts. Honestly, I don’t recall why texts weren’t sending because while I was sitting in the car trying to set up the phone to Google Map my way to a Trader Joe’s, the brand new phone started heating up terribly.
Still thinking I could somehow figure out how to cool this phone, I Google Mapped my way — I mean “our” way, because the dogs were in the car all this time since they bark at all the new apartment sounds — to a cellphone repair shop in hopes they’d be able to migrate my stuff to the new phone.
At the cellphone repair store, I explained my now-multiple issues with a hot new phone and a poltergeist-possessed old phone. As the wonderful man at the shop did a quick assessment of my old phone, he announced, “This is just a broken screen. See the cracks?” And it was fixed an hour later!
But not before I’d returned the Best Buy phone, warning them it seemed to have a defect that made it get very hot while charging.
Back at the cellphone repair
shop, I thanked them profusely and got in the car to text the fam, and my students and colleagues that I was back among the connected!
But the phone wouldn’t send these messages. I tried and retried, and finally noticed the little scrawl at the top saying “emergency calls only.” What in the actual what?
OMGod!!! I left my SIM card in the defective phone I’d just returned to Best Buy.
On the plus side, I now knew how to drive to a few places in Chico without a map!
Back at Best Buy, practically frothing now, I found the woman I’d returned the phone to and retrieved it from the stash of defective stuff, returning my SIM card to me.
And now I was officially connected again.
So let’s recap ... If your phone is broken, why not start at the repair shop? You probably aren’t the expert you think you are in what a repairable phone is and isn’t. I am definitely not.
And maybe you should also own a map? Have some CDs in the car? Wear a watch? Carry a book?
— 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.
Special to The Enterprise
February brings many opportunities for reflection, especially when it comes to foster children and CASA volunteers.
February is Black History Month and in honor of this, I’d like to talk to you about Black children in foster care. Black children enter the dependency system at higher rates than children of other races in proportion to the general population. We are aware of this and working in collaboration with child welfare and other system partners to create change.
In tandem, we are also trying especially hard to recruit Black volunteers so that the diversity of our volunteers matches the diversity of the population we serve.
February also brings with it Valentine’s Day.
When I think about Valen-
Yolo CASA
tine’s Day, I think about all different types of love … and that includes the love and gratitude we have for our CASA volunteers. We are truly grateful for them.
From one of our local CASA volunteers: “I’ll never forget when I went to surprise my two-year old CASA at his preschool. He yelled my name so loud and ran from across the playground to give me the biggest hug. When I began volunteering at CASA, I planned to do something for someone else with no expectation of receiving anything in return. Obviously, it didn’t turn out that way. The power of this experience has given me more than I ever imagined.”
Sometimes showing up in our daily lives with no expectations can heal us in ways we never imagined. Can you remember a time in your life where having
Courte SY photo Genuine relationships require belief and trust. An integral part of a CASA volunteer’s job is to build self-confidence and trust again among children who have been through unimaginable circumstances.
no expectations led to some of your greatest memories and experiences?
Finally, February is a time to celebrate past presidents of our nation. In honor of President’s Day, I
Enterprise staff
Dean Helene Dillard of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will gather with fellow scientists, staff and students at the 2023 World Ag Expo in Tulare from Feb. 14-16, to chat with farmers, prospective students, alumni and leaders throughout the agricultural industry.
More than 100,000 people are expected to attend this three-day event, where 1,400 exhibitors display cutting-edge agricultural technology and equipment throughout 2.6 million square feet of show grounds.
“I’m delighted to attend this incredible agricultural exhibition,” Dillard said. “I look forward to discussing the college’s latest developments in agricultural research, meeting prospective students and reconnecting with alumni and friends from the Central Valley and beyond.”
Dillard will be at the UC Davis booth — located in the Ag Careers and Education Center — from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15. She will be joined by Jason Bond, the associate dean for agricultural sciences and an entomology and nematology professor.
Several college experts
in viticulture and enology, engineering and economics will be available to discuss agricultural issues and visit with attendees. Aggie Ambassadors and undergraduate student advisors will also be on hand to answer questions about UC Davis majors and campus life.
“Prospective students can learn about our majors and the career paths they provide,” said Sue Ebeler, associate dean of undergraduate academic programs and a professor in viticulture and enology. Ebeler will be at the UC Davis booth on Feb. 16.
In addition to Dean Dillard, Bond and Ebeler, college experts attending the expo include:
■ Karen Block, director of industry relations in viticulture and enology
■ Luis Diaz-Garcia, assistant professor in viticulture and enology
■ Rachael Goodhue, department chair and professor in agricultural and resource economics
■ Larly Lee, program coordinator in viticulture and enology
■ David Block, professor, viticulture and enology department chair and
chemical engineering professor
■ Fadi Fathallah, professor and department chair in biological and agricultural engineering
■ Ali Moghimi, assistant professor of teaching in biological and agricultural engineering
■ Anita Oberholster, professor of Cooperative Extension in viticulture and enology
UC Davis is ranked first in the nation for agriculture, plant sciences, animal science and agricultural economics. The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences enrolled more than 2,000 new students in the fall of 2022, many of them from California’s Central Valley. The college offers 27 majors—from agricultural and environmental technology to nutrition to global disease biology.
“The World Ag Expo is an incredible event,” Ebeler said. “We get to meet with leaders from around the world, as well as with the passionate young people who are the future of agriculture.”
— Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.
would like to share this quote with you by Abraham Lincoln: “I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
If we replace the word “friend” with CASA volunteer, it would still ring true. Genuine relationships require belief and trust in one another. An integral part of a CASA volunteer’s job is to build self-confidence and trust again among children who have been through unimaginable circumstances. One of our volunteers shared the following:
“Being a CASA volunteer is really important. These kids need stable adult relationships so they can trust again. Many just don’t, and that trust needs to be built
and repaired. Once that happens, they have the space they need to open up and confide in an adult again.”
For these children, just having someone who believes in them is pivotal to their growth so that they can build healthy, confident, and trusting relationships with themselves and others.
Much of our world involves belief and trust: Trusting that our grocery store sells us fresh food, trusting our people to show up, trusting our colleagues to follow-through with work. Whatever it may be, we can’t really do much successfully in life without it.
So often, CASA volunteers start their relationships with trust building. Sometimes the child craves
someone to trust and it happens quickly, but most of the time it takes a lot of time and a lot of baby steps. Watching our CASA volunteers is inspiring. I am so grateful that as you’re reading this column, there is a CASA volunteer out there in our county, helping their youth gain trust… trust that will take that youth through life confidently. Trust that will help that youth heal from the unimaginable circumstances that brought them into foster care. Will this be the year that you help a youth learn to trust again? If so, we encourage you to learn more on the volunteer section of our website at yolocasa.org.
— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the Executive Director of Yolo County CASA.
name and title to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Rome’s first Emperor?
By Andy Jones Special toThe Enterprise
1. Science. What threesyllable word do we use for a baby platypus?
2. Great Americans. Born in 1884, what U.S. president said, “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”?
3. Unusual Words.
Starting with the letter B, what new word has been
coined to express regret for voting Britain lo leave the EU?
4. Countries of the World. The eighth-most populous country in the world shares land borders with India to the west, north and east, and Myanmar to the southeast. Name the country.
5. Roman Emperors.
Starting with the letter A, what was the ancient Roman title given as both
Answers: Platypup, Harry S. Truman, “Bregret,” Bangladesh, Augustus. Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquiz master.com.
Among the current group of young NFL quarterbacks, who’s the one most likely to have his number retired down the road?
Methinks, he owns a small portion of an MLB team and works across the parking lot from the ballpark. Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, No. 15.
n Apologies to Bay Area, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Dallas and fans in other cities, but the two best teams in the game are meeting Sunday in Super Bowl LVII. Kansas City and Philadelphia.
Eagles are a 1.5-point betting favorite.
n Worrisome stat for Chiefs fans: Eagles led NFL with 70 quarterback sacks.
n Each team represents two food choices, whose total legitimacy is found only in KC and Philly: Barbecue and cheesesteaks.
Go to Arthur Bryant’s in KC for barbecue.
Go to Pat’s, Jim’s or Geno’s in Philly for cheesesteaks. Period.
n Teams wearing white jerseys in the Super Bowl have won 36 of the previous 56 games played.
The home team alternates by confer-
ence for each Super Bowl and that team has its choice of dark or white jerseys.
A few years back, Tampa Bay was the home team and elected to wear white.
Kansas City wore red.
The Chiefs are the visiting team in this year’s big game.
n FOX Sports’ Super Bowl ad inventory is sold out. A 30-second spot went for $6,000,000-plus. Anheuser-Busch led the field with six commercials covering three minutes.
n The American Gaming Association estimates that $16 billion dollars will be wagered on Super Bowl LVII. This includes legal and illegal gambling as well as bets between friends.
n Just got a look at the game program/ magazine for the game. It is 288 pages of game stories on the Eagles and Chiefs, a
From Page B1
Pleasant Grove at No. 6 Turlock, No. 10 Enochs of Modesto at No. St. Mary’s of Stockton and No. 15 Stagg of Stockton at No. 2 Rocklin.
Davis and Edison also did not play each other during the regular season.
“So great,” said Davis head coach Sara Stone. “I’m happy for the team. We talked about putting (ourselves) in the best situation, which required being prepared for every league game.”
The Blue Devils gave up only one goal this season, which was to St. Francis.
“Scoring 47 goals and
conceding 1 goal has been quite an accomplishment,” Stone said.
Davis’ climb into the top seed is huge from last season.
The Blue Devils were the No. 8 seed in the 2022 playoffs. They beat River City in the first round 1-0, then Oak Ridge ended the Blue Devils’ run with a 2-0 victory in the quarterfinals.
Sites for the section title games will be announced at a later date on the section’s website.
— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter: @MBDavisSports.
week-by-week wrap-up of the regular season and a whole lot more.
Check out superbowlprogram.us for complete details.
n Mahomes and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce have connected for 13 touchdown passes in postseason play. They trail only the New England duo of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, who have 15.
n Travis Kelce enters Super Bowl LVII ranked second in receptions (127) and receiving yards (1,467) and tied for second in touchdown receptions (15) in postseason history, trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer and former San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice in all three categories.
n Three sets of brothers have appeared in the same Super Bowl. Kelce and his Eagles brother Jason become the fourth.
Jason is the Philadelphia center. Between them, the Kelces have nine allpro first team selections, the most of any brotherly twosome in NFL history.
n Something the Sacramento Kings would rather forget. When the franchise had the No. 1 pick in 1989, the team selected Pervis Ellison, a center from Louisville.
Ellison lasted just one season in Sacramento before he was traded to the Washington Bullets, now Wizards. He did piece together an 11-year NBA career, mostly with Washington and the Boston Celtics.
Now 55 years old, Ellison works with the New Jersey Scholars, an elite AAU program sponsored by Nike. He is responsible for overall basketball and team operations.
n Tom Brady will never be as revered in New England as Joe Montana still is in San Francisco. Twenty-five years after Montana finished playing.
n Roger Staubach turned 81 on Feb. 5. Who would think that?
n Who wins today?
A hometown call for OTTOTW: Chiefs 34, Eagles 31.
Enjoy the game.
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.
