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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2021 B3
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hat a week that was, and I don’t mean about what was happening in Washington, though I guess that also factors in. I’m talking about the avalanche of news reports coming out about car companies and their plans for the future. Friday, Jan. 29, the New York Times headline read, “G.M. Decision To Go Electric Rocks Industry” with the lead paragraph reading: “The days of the internal combustion engine are numbered. General Motors said Thursday that it would phase out petroleum-powered cars and trucks and sell only vehicles that have zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a seismic shift by one of the world’s largest automakers that makes billions of dollars today from gas-guzzling pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.” Further on, the carmaker’s action is “evidence that even big businesses have decided that it’s time for the world to begin to transition away from fossil fuels that have powered the global economy for more than a century.” This is big news, and not just through the lens of tackling the climate crisis. It affects a lot of people very directly. General Motors is a major part of an industry that employs more than a million workers, not including those who currently fix transmissions (electric cars don’t have one) and need oil changes (mechanics). Also, how will the nearly 200,000 “service stations” in the U.S. adapt when “fill ’er up” means plugging in rather than pumping gas, turning them into essentially convenience stores selling fast foods to travelers?
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The transition that needs to happen will have significant and unavoidable echoes throughout the economy. Backing up a few days on the calendar, the GM announcement followed President Biden (oh, that sounds good) indicating he would reinstate fueleconomy standards implemented by former President Obama but axed by the most recent occupant of the White House; require that the federal government purchase electric vehicles when replacing its quarter-million passenger vehicles and, where possible, its more than 400,000 trucks, install a half-million charging stations; and propose incentives and rebates for customers to purchase electric vehicles. He is certainly getting the ball rolling. Sidebar: Bloomberg Businessweek reports that “despite all the buzz about how electric vehicles will reshape transportation, the real transformation in the auto business has been consumers’ race away from traditional cars and to so-called light trucks (which include not only pickups, but also SUV’s and minivans). Few people these days drive what we think of as a “car.” In fact, 76 percent of all vehicles sold in 2020 were these so-called trucks. Moving on to Jan. 30, a Page 1 N.Y. Times story indicates that General Motors is putting its money where its mouth is, committing $27 billion just between now and 2025 to come up
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avis citizen scientists are serving us once again for the Great Backyard Bird Count, the 24th Annual GBBC. Participants anywhere in the world are asked to count birds for as little as 15 minutes on one or more days of the fourday event and submit a checklist to e.bird.org. Last year, more than 160,000 participated. It’s a real-time snapshot of bird populations, which are always shifting and changing. You can watch real-time checklists submissions at e.bird.org. Professionals use these sightings for science and conservation. At North Davis Ponds, a team of five bird experts — Ed Whisler, Chris Dunford, Ken Ealy, Joshua Greenfield and Kelli O’Neill — socially distanced, spread out and recorded for two hours. They spotted 52 bird species and many tree toads. Jo Ellen Ryan reported from Friends of West Pond where they held the 11th year of their two-day count. A team of eight birders spotted 34 species at the West Ponds on Saturday. They counted 40 species on Sunday. They saw more yellow-rumped warblers than expected — 41. A flock of seven hooded mergansers flew in to land on the pond at dusk like clockwork. We are fortunate because we are on the Pacific Flyway where each spring and fall birds migrate through. The Central Valley is a critical stopover for the birds. There is great variety as to what can be seen in February. I wrote my first column 18 years ago in February and that column featured river otters putting on a show at the Northstar Pond. The river otters came every year for a long time. I guess we don’t see them now since John Whitcomb, the developer, is no longer stocking fish in the Northstar Pond. I checked back on columns in February for the past 18 years to note variations on what has been at the ponds and what events were held. On Valentine’s
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Northern flickers were counted at North Davis Pond and West Pond. This is a bird Davis residents can see now in their neighborhoods. Listen for its piercing keew. Day in 2005, we had a pair of white pelicans. In 2006, Larry Rembold watched two large otters cross F Street, headed toward the ponds. They are able to climb the fence. Otters were common along with goldeneye, killdeer and canvasback in 2007. In 2009, we had earlyarriving Swainson’s hawks and gray foxes. In 2014, we had our first Friends of North Davis Ponds meeting and began organizing the monthly first-Saturday bird strolls. They are still happening during the pandemic, but with only five people per bird expert. Active hummingbird nests and 100 cedar waxwings were noted in 2015. The first western bluebird was sighted in 2016. We knew her name, that she had been born near Old Davis Road and who
her mother was due to the bands put on as part of the Putah Creek Nestbox Trail. In 2015, my grandson made wood-duck nest boxes and they are now a regular presence. This GBBC, we counted seven wood ducks. In 2016, we got new editors for our Facebook Friends of North Davis Ponds, who created over several years many videos you might want to check out. You will see seasonal birds with identification, accompanied by music. And then there was the bear that visited the West Pond in 2020. Nature’s surprises keep coming. In 2019, we added 14 nestboxes for western bluebirds and tree swallows installed from the Veterans Memorial Center to the Northstar Pond. We counted six bluebirds on
our GBBC, but there will be more. One set of parents nested three times in the Northstar Pond nestbox. In 2020, we began planting and weeding the new Open Space Uplands on F and Anderson. Friends of North Davis Ponds work out there every Thursday morning on habitat restoration. And nestboxes were added there. Melanie Truan, Ph.D. research ecologist at UC Davis and Alison Ke, a graduate student, gave a final report on the 2020 Davis Nestbox Network: Covell Greenbelt/North Davis Ponds/Davis Uplands Trail season-end report: It was a very successful year, despite the Covid restrictions, producing — out of only 20 nest boxes — 85 banded Western bluebird and tree swallow fledglings from 22 clutches. The five new Davis Uplands boxes were taken up immediately, which is unusual, attesting to a need for nesting sites in our parks and open spaces. As in 2020, Alison and I look forward to monitoring the trail and banding the fledglings in 2021
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Cedar waxwings peppered the trees at North Davis Ponds. They especially like the tree next to Tandem and the path. Listen for their unusual buzzy high sreee note in irregular rhythm.
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Public Notices ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2021-0061 1. Md Nazmul Huda & Mst Rashida Akter on behalf of Rushdan Huda Najib, a minor, filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Rushdan Huda Najib to Rushdan Najib Huda 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 3, 2021 Time: 9 a.m. Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: January 14, 2021 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17 1131
Malia Rose Lee-Leung 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 3, 2021 Time: 9 a.m. Dept: #9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: January 14, 2021 Daniel M. Wolk Judge of the Superior Court 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17 1032
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 21, 2021 FBN Number: F20210062 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Wolfgang Services 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 880 Alvarado Ave., Apt. 139 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR Davis, CA 95616 CHANGE OF NAME 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Case Number: CV2020-1751 1. Megan Rose Mel Kun Lee & Matthew Robert Connor Wolfgang Kearny James Leung on behalf of Malia Rose 880 Alvarado Ave., Apt. 139 Leung, a minor, filed a petition with this Davis, CA 95616 court for a decree changing names as 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The follows: Registrant(s) commenced to transact Malia Rose Leung business under the fictitious business to
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name or names listed above on: January 1, 2021 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Robert Connor Wolfgang Kearny 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17 1136
1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Syrendell 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 2754 Ganges Place Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Jennifer Tan Ricardo C. Tan FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2754 Ganges Place STATEMENT Davis, CA 95616 Filed: January 25, 2021 4. Business Classification: FBN Number: F20210068 A Married Couple 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Genied 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Registrant(s) commenced to transact Principal Place of Business in California. business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 2008 Business is located in Yolo County. “I declare that all information in 3558 Mono Place this statement is true and correct.” Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be Residence Address, State, and Zip false is guilty of a crime.) Ayon Kabir 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 3558 Mono Place Jennifer Tan Davis, CA 95618 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 1146 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Registrant(s) commenced to transact STATEMENT business under the fictitious business Filed: February 1, 2021 name or names listed above on: N/A FBN Number: F20210095 “I declare that all information in 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) this statement is true and correct.” Just Like a Dream (A registrant who declares as true 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of information which he or she knows to be Principal Place of Business in California. false is guilty of a crime.) Business is located in Yolo County. 6. Signature of Registrant(s): 1557 Griffith Drive Ayon Kabir Woodland, CA 95776 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24 1145 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Residence Address, State, and Zip STATEMENT Michele Hardy 1557 Griffith Drive Filed: January 8, 2021 Woodland, CA 95776 FBN Number: F20210023
4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Michele Hardy 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3 1152
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: February 16, 2021 FBN Number: F20210146 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Homes by Intencia 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California. Business is located in Yolo County. 990 Central Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Intencia Garard 990 Central Street West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.) 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Intencia Garard 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10 1159