The Davis Enterprise Friday, July 28, 2023

DAVISt City looks to bring back e-bikes

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

After about three years, rentable e-bikes, and this time e-scooters, will be hitting the streets of Davis as “the collegiest college town” in California once again will bustle with students in a couple of months.

At its July 18 meeting, the Davis City Council unanimously voted to authorize the city manager and city attorney to finalize and execute a memorandum of understanding for a three-year contract with SPIN micromobility and UC Davis.

Starting in August, Spin plans to grow their fleet in Davis to have 400 e-bikes and 200 scooters ready to ride the week of Sept. 18. All users must be 18 and over, a requirement met with scorn from public commenters.

SPIN micromobility would be the second of its kind in Davis. In 2018 Jump, then owned by Uber, provided 120 to 180 e-bikes that served both UC Davis and the city of Davis until the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In February 2020, Jump ceased their operation and removed all their e-bikes from Davis. In spring of 2020, Uber sold Jump bikes and scooters to Lime, which took over the

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Expert: Suspect not competent for trial

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — Carlos

Reales Dominguez “is a textbook example of schizophrenia,” according to the courtappointed psychologist who evaluated the former UC Davis student to determine whether he’s mentally competent to

stand trial for a series of violent Davis crimes.

Dr. Juliana Rohrer says she based her opinion, which she just recently narrowed from the “schizophrenia spectrum” to a specific schizophrenia diagnosis, on her own three-hour evaluation of Dominguez in the Yolo County Jail, along with

other supporting evidence.

Those included witness statements, jail medical records, other doctors’ evaluations and video of Dominguez’s nearly eight-hour interview with Davis police following his May 3 arrest in connection with the stabbing deaths of David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm,

as well as the attempted killing of Kimberlee Guillory.

“He is not competent at this time,” Rohrer testified under questioning by Dominguez’s public defender, Dan Hutchinson, who has the burden of proving his client’s incompetence.

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Dynamic duo leaving DHS athletics department

By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise correspondent

Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson. Administrative Assistant Laurie Williams.

Together, this dynamic duo has greased the skids to allow Davis High teams and individual studentathletes to earn more 150 section championships in the past 10 years — topping the total of any other Sacramento Valley school.

But last month, after 18 years and working with four different ADs, Williams told colleagues about her departure after the 2023-24 school year.

Now comes word this week that Lorenson also will depart DHS; he’s headed to the Sac-Joaquin

Section as assistant commissioner, effective immediately.

“I’ve always been drawn to the work the section office is doing … and now I feel like I can make an impact on a larger scale,” Lorenson, 42, explained.

“Professionally, this is the next step in my career, and (the opportunity) came at short notice.”

But Lorenson says his decision is bittersweet:

“I love Davis. I love the community, the students and their families, the coaches. It’s those people I’ll miss.

“From Day 1, I always felt accepted as a member of

Amateur theater never has been this much fun!

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Carlos Reales Dominguez, charged with fatally stabbing two men in Davis and wounding a third victim, appears at Yolo Superior Court on Monday in Woodland as Judge Samuel McAdam presides over a trial where a jury will decide if he is mentally competent to face charges.

High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson stands next to the synthetic turf installed at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium

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Davis cops make firearm arrest

Davis police arrested a local man suspected of brandishing a shotgun toward his roommate.

The alleged incident was reported shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, sending officers to a home in the 1200 block of Chestnut Lane, Lt. Dan Beckwith said.

“Officers arrived and after investigating the dispute, located a firearm that was possessed by one of the parties,” Beckwith said.

Police arrested 28-year-old Geron Dupree Earnest on suspicion of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition. He was booked into the Yolo County Jail.

About us

We knew she could write, but this is magic

Kim Orendor has done it again.The journalistturned-novelist has hit a home run with her second book, “To Whom It May Concern,” a story about a boy named Logan who learns on the eve of his 13th birthday that he had been adopted at birth. Even harder, he received the news from a cousin he despised.

Orendor spent over 20 years covering a variety of sports for both The Sacramento Bee and The Davis Enterprise, winning more state and national awards than I have fingers and toes.

I remember her as a talented and dedicated sportswriter who knew a ball from a strike and a first down from a touchdown, but I had no idea she could spin a compelling tale that I couldn’t put down until I had read the last paragraph on the last page. This, even though it is apparently aimed at a youth and young adult audience.

Turns out, Kim was adopted herself, but at two-and-a-half months, not 13 years. She grew up

knowing she was adopted.

As Kim told me recently, hers was a much different story than some of her friends, who didn’t find out until later in life that they were adopted, sometimes upending their worlds.

She often wondered what her life would have been like if she had learned about her adoption from someone other than her parents. How would she react? How would she feel? That curiosity, coupled with her love of storytelling, led to the novel we are now discussing.

Kim’s interesting career path took an unexpected and dramatic turn in 2006 when she began a five-year teaching stint at Sias International University in China’s Henan Province, where she

taught classes in journalism and reading.

That led to her first book, a thoroughly entertaining memoir, “Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China.”

Not one to rest on her keyboard, Kim this time around tells the story of a young boy’s quest to find his birth mother. It’s a story you can’t help but follow from start to finish.

After learning the truth in disturbing fashion from his least-favorite cousin, Logan retreats to his bedroom with the realization that he was born in Kansas, not California, a revelation that also rocked his world.

Alone in his room, Logan’s eyes focus on three words printed on a blue-and-gold button on his backpack.

“Made in California,” they say, causing Logan to muse, “It was the cornerstone of my someday-to-be-launched X-Games career. California’s Golden Boy brings home the gold. Now, it was a lie. I was some freakish

transplant from Kansas.”

Not sure how those words will play with the audience when Kim takes her book-signing tour to Topeka, but that one sentence stuck with me all through Logan’s many and varied adventures.

Logan soon confronts his parents.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” he pleads, trying to be mad, but restrained by his clear love for the parents who raised him.

“I didn’t want to be anybody’s son but Jill’s,” he says to himself.

“I thought she was my real mom. She was the woman who raised me, bandaged my knees, calmed my fears and encouraged me to dream. But, it turns out, she’s not my mother.”

And thus begins his quest to find his birth mother.

I won’t spoil it by telling you more.

But trust me, this book is worthy of your time and attention.

(Kim’s website is Kimorend orwriter.com)

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Thompson announces $40M for NorCal water infrastructure

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Thursday that two water storage and conveyance projects in Northern California — Sites Reservoir and Los Vaqueros Reservoir — will receive $30 million and $10 million, respectively, in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. “Reliable sources of water are vital to our communities as we face extreme drought and weather events,” Thompson said.

“The funding for Sites and Los Vaqueros announced as part of the Investing in

America agenda will help provide our families, farmers, and communities with the water resources we need to combat drought and live healthy lives.

“When I was in the state Senate, I appropriated the first funds for the Sites Reservoir, and this funding will help move the project forward. Proud to have voted for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is part of the largest investment in climate resilience in our nation’s history.”

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is providing:

n $30 million for the Sites Reservoir Project to

pursue off stream storage capable for up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water in the Sacramento River system located in the Coast Range mountains west of Maxwell.

The reservoir would utilize new and existing facilities to move water in and out of the reservoir, with ultimate release to the Sacramento River system via existing canals, a new

pipeline near Dunnigan, and the Colusa Basin Drain.

n $10 million for the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Phase to efficiently inte- grate approximately 115,000 acre-feet of additional water storage through new conveyance facilities with existing facilities. This will allow Delta water supplies to be safely diverted, stored and delivered to beneficiaries.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is investing a total of $8.3 billion over five years for water infrastructure projects, including water purification and reuse, water storage and

conveyance, desalination and dam safety.

The Inflation Reduction Act is investing an additional $4.6 billion to address the historic drought.

Thompson represents California’s 4th Congressional District, which includes all or part of Lake, Napa, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo counties. He is a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means; chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force; and co-chair of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Wine Caucus.

UC Davis nematologists excel at international gathering

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Special to The Enterprise

Doctoral students in the laboratory of nematologist Shahid Siddique, associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, excelled at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists (SON), held July 9-14 in Columbus, Ohio.

It was the lab mates’ first-ever conference, and they brought home firstand second-place awards, in addition to a secondplace tie in the Cobb Bowl competition which memorializes Nathan Cobb (1859-1932), the father of nematology.

Alison Coomer Blundell, who will be a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Plant Pathology this fall, won first place in the threeminute student competition with her presentation on “Trade Offs Between Resistance Breaking and Fitness Cost in Root-Knot Nematodes.” She received a

$250 award and a plaque.

Ching-Jung Lin, who will be a fourth-year doctoral student this fall, won second place in the 12-minute category with her presentation on “Elucidating the Role of MigPSY Peptides in Interactions Between Plants and RootKnot Nematodes.” She received a $250 prize.

The six-member Siddique lab team, “Meloidogyne Gang Gang,” which included Blundell, Lin, third-year doctoral student Pallavi Shakya, and secondyear doctoral student Veronica Casey, tied for second place in the Cobb Bowl, a jeopardy-like competition that can include both students and postdoctoral fellows on the teams.

“I am very humbled by the award and recognition but am very proud of seeing all my lab mates accomplish their presentations and get good feedback and recognition as well,” said Blundell, who seeks a PhD in plant pathology. She holds two undergraduate

degrees — a bachelor’s degree in biology and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry — from Concordia University, Seward, Neb.

“I was first introduced to nematodes in my undergraduate studies where I maintained C. elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans) cultures, but was introduced to plant parasitic nematodes when Dr. Siddique reached out to me about becoming a member in his lab,” Blundell said. “This was my first time at SON, and for all my lab mates. SON has allowed me to meet people I have heard about or have talked to on Zoom, email, or twitter and also make new connections with many U.S. states and universities.”

Lin enrolled in the UC Davis Plant Pathology doctoral program, with a designated emphasis in biotechnology, in 2020. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 2015 from the National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, and her

master’s degree in plant biology in 2018 from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. She recently received a twoyear, $32,000 Ministry of Education Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (GSSA).

Lin, a first-generation international student, credits co-principal investigator Professor Gitta Coaker of Plant Pathology and the Coaker Lab with mentoring her, offering presentation suggestions. “It was very much appreciated,” she said.

Six teams competed in the Cobb Bowl. The study material is based on six decks of nematode trading cards created by Jon Eisenback, professor in Virginia Tech’s School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. He also hosted the game as “SmartAlex EisenTrebeck.” He asked questions in the form of an answer, such as:

Question: “The Guava root-knot nematode.”

Answer: “Meloidogyne enterolobii”

Question: “First report of root-knot nematodes.”

Answer: “Who is Miles Joseph Berkeley?”

“The most difficult question, said team member Veronica Casey was: “The color of the first edition of the Journal of Nematology.”

“The answer was simply, ‘What is orange?’ but many teams thought it was green,” Casey related.

“Another difficult question was The University of Idaho team won the Cobb Bowl. The UC Davis team, which also included a postdoctoral fellow from the University of Illinois and a graduate student from Montana State University, tied for second place with two other teams: AlohaNema, comprised primarily of students from the University of Hawaii, and Nemafolks, comprised of students from a number of universities, including Michigan State, Oregon State and Texas Tech. The other two represented Florida and Ohio State.

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UCD saves champion dressage horse with colic surgery

By Rob Warren Special to The Enterprise

It was a typical Saturday several months ago when 19-yearold Kaitlyn Bonis completed a dressage workout with Sunny, her 24-year-old Arabian horse. But the next day, her family received a call from Sunny’s barn that he didn’t appear well, and the veterinarian was on his way. The horse Kaitlyn had owned since she was 11 was fighting for his life.

Sunny’s primary veterinarian performed a colic work-up, but the horse showed no improvement. He felt this was beyond a colic episode and knew there was nothing more he could do locally.

The best option would be to get Sunny to the UC Davis veterinary hospital’s Large Animal Clinic. He called ahead to make the referral as the Bonis family loaded up Sunny for the 2-hour drive from Chico to Davis.

Kaitlyn and Sunny have always had a special bond. Throughout their six years of competing together, their harmony was often noted by judges.

“As our special bond has gotten even stronger over the years, our hearts beat as one at practice and in the show ring,” Kaitlyn told United States Dressage Federation’s YourDressage publication in July 2021.

The two began their journey together competing at hunterjumper events in 2016, with varying results. It wasn’t until their trainer suggested moving to dressage, however, that Sunny truly found his calling.

They won their first dressage competition at the Training Level, as the overall high point champion both days.

“Sunny turned out to have been born for dressage, and I loved the challenge of the discipline equally,” said Kaitlyn. “We have never looked back.”

The team moved quickly through the levels, and Kaitlyn

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earned her USDF Bronze Medal on Sunny. The pair won four regional championships at Second and Third Levels on the Arabian circuit, and reserve national champion at Second Level.

Had Sunny been younger, Kaitlyn feels he could’ve succeeded at Fourth Level and maybe beyond.

But in 2022, at age 23, Sunny semi-retired from competition.

Kaitlyn’s mother, Andrea Bonis, describes Sunny as the kind of horse who doesn’t come along very often — Kaitlyn’s “horse of a lifetime.”

It is clear they were willing to do whatever it took to save Sunny.

Upon arrival at UC Davis, Sunny was immediately examined by an extensive team of faculty critical care and surgery specialists, residents, technicians, and students. He appeared uncomfortable and showed signs of colic with a distended abdomen. A belly tap revealed peritoneal fluid with signs of septic peritonitis, a potentially lifethreatening inflammation of the abdominal cavity.

Due to Sunny’s persistent pain, an exploratory colic surgery was performed. Faculty member Dr. Isabelle Kilcoyne, assisted by surgery residents Drs. Bridget Ratliff and Mitja Miklavcic and intern Dr. Marta Horna, discovered a lipoma, a fatty abdominal tumor. More common in older horses like Sunny, lipomas strangulate the intestine, cutting off the blood supply until the tissue dies.

In Sunny’s case, the lipoma had strangulated eight feet of his small intestine, which had to be removed if he was to be saved.

“Due to the seriousness of his condition, the anesthesiologists maintaining Sunny under general anesthesia had to work extremely hard to keep him alive while we performed the surgery,” said

Wayne G. Walgenbach

May 14, 1947 — June 29, 2023

Wayne G. Walgenbach passed away peacefully on June 28, 2023, following a long illness. Wayne was born on May 14, 1947, and was a lifelong resident of Davis. He attended local schools and was a high school athlete and football star at Davis Senior High. He also played football for the UC Davis Aggies.

In 1966 Wayne was drafted into the U.S. Army and subsequently selected to attend Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. Upon receiving his commission as a second lieutenant, Wayne was assigned to Fort Ord, California, as an infantry officer. Wayne often spoke of his service at Fort Ord on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula as a very happy time. After duty at Fort Ord, Wayne was sent to Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader with the 4th Infantry Division. He had considerable combat experience especially during the Tet Offensive and was cited for valor when he rescued several of his men under heavy fire.

After his discharge from the Army, Wayne attended Sacramento State University. He joined the family business, Jake’s Plumbing, in Davis. After several years Wayne and his wife Susan opened their own business, Walgenbach Appraisal, which served several towns in the area.

Among his many activities, Wayne was an early member of the Winters Theatre Company. He

began working backstage but soon became a major performer, acting in many lead roles for over ten years. Wayne was also devoted to his family and their activities including serving as coach for a local women’s softball team for which his wife and several sisters-in-law played.

Wayne was preceded in death by his wife of 35 years Susan McDermott Walgenbach. He is survived by his daughter Ashley Barnard of Tempe, Ariz., and his granddaughter Alexandria Barnard; daughter Nicole Rockwell and grandchildren Dillon and Lila Rockwell of Davis; and siblings Germaine Hupe of Davis, Gary Walgenbach of Woodland, Judith Braden of Providence, R.I., and Susan Telford of Oconomowoc, Wis. The sixth of eight children, Wayne is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews and relatives by marriage.

Kilcoyne, chief of the Equine Surgical Emergency and Critical Care Service. “Drs. Harriet Flynn and Manuel Fernades-Barrientos did a tremendous job in helping to save Sunny’s life.”

The surgeons successfully removed the 8-foot section in the middle of Sunny’s small intestine, connecting the healthy ends together. A horse’s small intestine can be up to 70 feet in length, so Sunny can survive normally without the 8-foot section.

Following surgery, Sunny received around-the-clock care in the Equine Intensive Care Unit and remained at UC Davis for 10 days until he was well enough to return home.

In the first month of recovery, he was kept on strict stall rest, with only short hand-walking after two weeks. During his second month, Sunny was allowed

He was loved by his family and friends and his loss is deeply felt. He will be remembered for his sense of humor, his kindness and generosity. He will be honored for a life well lived.

A memorial service celebrating Wayne’s life will be held on Saturday, July 29, at 11:30 a.m. at the Stonegate Country Club in Davis. A military service will be held at the Sacramento

access to a small run. In the third month, he gained access to a large paddock. He completed all levels of recovery without complications.

“He’s our miracle horse, and we owe this to the UC Davis team — he couldn’t have been in better hands,” said Andrea. “Everybody was very kind, understanding, and professional, and they all took excellent care of our little boy. For a horse who was given a 10% chance to make it, you’d never know by looking at him now what an ordeal he underwent.”

Sunny recently celebrated his 25th birthday, and Kaitlyn is riding him once again. She hopes to enjoy Sunny as a pleasure horse for many years to come.

— UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Valley National Cemetery in Dixon at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 31. The family requests that donations in Wayne’s memory be sent to the YoloCares Hospice, 1909 Galileo Court in Davis.

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Kaitlyn Bonis and Sunny enjoy their first ride after his successful colic surgery at the UC Davis veterinary hospital.

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Sunny being welcomed home to his barn after successful colic surgery at the UC Davis veterinary hospital.

E-BIKES: Technology has changed since last attempt at concept

e-bike, and elsewhere also scooter operations.

Headquartered in San Francisco, SPIN, a subsidiary of Ford Mobility, operates in many cities and colleges. On their website, SPIN addresses campus audiences with the question: “Considering scooters on your campus? Our scooters come at no cost to university administration.”

According to the city of Davis, SPIN is providing UC Davis with a 3-year, $120,000 commitment to support research between SPIN and UC Davis. SPIN and the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies will study the campus’ high density and high ridership. SPIN will provide scholarships for transportation and sustainability research for three years ($9,000). SPIN will also invest $65,000 each year in back-to-school free ride credits. SPIN is committed to hiring five UC Davis students to serve on the operations team.

This week, Caltrans Division of Transportation Planning and the UC Davis Bicycling Plus Research Collaborative recurring workshop “Planning Horizons” featured speaker UCD Research Faculty Dillon Fitch-Polse spoke on the “American Micromobility Panel.” The “Planning Horizons'' seminar discussed a study conducted by UC Davis on the impact of micromobility services on travel behavior and its outcomes such as mode shift, car ownership, access, equity, safety, and physical activity. The largest study of shared micromobility services in the United States, this study had two different surveys on bikeshare or scooter-share users: a 21-day smartphone-based travel diary of shared micromobility users and an online follow-up survey of travel diary participants.

This UCD study, according to the seminar announcement, provides information for local and

regional agencies as they plan for or promote micromobility services. Initial results suggest transit connections are rare. Many car-free people use micromobility. Car trip substitution is much lower than prior studies have reported. Micromobility services help between 20 to 25% of users sell, delay purchase or not purchase a car. Selfreported benefits of micromobility include mental health and physical activity.

In the Q & A at the end, Fitch-Polse stated that when the data is weighed, the results hold on average that car substitution is “much lower than reported in literature.” He added in terms of transit connections, a lot more needs to be done to incorporate micromobility.

“We need to make driving more difficult and give people more options, but we haven’t measured that specifically yet.”

While talking about

equity issues, according to the study, micromobility has encouraged trips more within the Black population than any other group.

“We have to start thinking beyond car replacement as the primary goal of micromobility services and think broadly about how these services can transform people’s lives and provide better access, not just reduce car use,” he said.

The city highlighted the following points about SPIN’s pricing and technological advances:

n Pricing. $1 to unlock any device and 32 cents a minute. Monthly passes for $20 a month, include 167 minutes of service to anyone with a UCDavis.edu email or a member of Yolo Commute. Yolo Commute members in Davis include the City of Davis, UC Davis staff and faculty, Ken’sBike-Ski-Board, the Yolo Solano Air District, and Unitrans. Low income residents will be charged 50

cents to unlock and 10 cents a minute.

n Parking Technology.

Since JUMP left Davis in early 2020, parking technology has changed significantly in the shared micromobility industry.

Now, operators have technology to enforce rules related to parking, riding on the sidewalk, slow zones and no ride zones. If devices are ridden or parked in areas where they are not permitted, the device will send a message to the rider that they need to stop and relocate. Spin also has the ability to slow down devices and shut off the motor as the person continues to operate the device in a no ride area.

n Adaptive devices. During test rides, Spin’s adaptive devices were the best compared to the other vendors. Spin provides

three adaptive devices for people. Spin is providing a motorized 3-wheel electric, scooter with seat and rear basket, a 2-wheeled e-scooter with a seat, and a motorized wheelchair attachment. All of these devices are available for free rental and delivered free of charge within 30 minutes.

n Messaging can include safety information and quizzes, age verification checks, and riders’ cognitive tests to check for riding or scooting while impaired.

n Redistribution of Device. One of the objectives of the shared micromobility program is to “alleviate crowding” at Unitrans bus stops, especially at stops closest to the campus. Unlike other vendors, Spin stated they will provide continuous devices at these locations during peak times to help.

To all interested persons: Petitioner: LEAH SIMONE GREEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present name a LEAH SIMONE GREEN to Proposed name LEAH SIMONE OLSON

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause if any why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: 9/12/2023 Time: 9:00 a m Dept : 14 Room: T h e a d d r e s s o f t h e c o u r t i s S u p e r i o r C o u r t o f C a l i f o r n i a C o u n t y o f Y o l o 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least o nce each 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

Date: July 18, 2023

David W Rosenberg Judge of the Superior Court

Published July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 2023 #2368

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BEATRICE J SANCHEZ aka BEATRICE JUANITA SANCHEZ and BEATRICE SANCHEZ CASE NO PR2023-0148

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of: BEATRICE J SANCHEZ aka BEATRICE JUANITA SANCHEZ and BEATRICE SANCHEZ

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DENISE SANCHEZ-HUME in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo

The Petition for Probate requests that: DENISE SANCHEZHUME 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-

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Room: Located at 1000 Main Street Woodland CA 95695

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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) of the California Probate Code, or (2)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2023-1347

To all interested persons:

Petitioner: Eduardo Johnathan Lopez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present name a Eduardo Johnathan Lopez to Proposed name Eduardo Johnathan Flores

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause if any why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed the court may grant the petition without a hearing

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Date: August 30 2023 Time: 9:00 a m Dept : 11 Room: T h e a d d r e s s o f t h e c o u r t i s S u p e r i o r C o u r t o f C a l i f o r n i a , C o u n t y o f Y o l o 1000 Main Street Woodland CA 95695

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at l east once each 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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CAROL JEAN RAYSHEL CASE NO PR2023-0167

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of: CAROL JEAN RAYSHEL A

DUO: Longtime Davis High stalwarts leave big shoes to fill

the Davis community. Throughout my time here, that feeling has been solidified over and over and over.

“The relationships, friendships

I’ve built … the camaraderie with the coaches. Honestly, all that made it a really, really difficult decision because (the friends and relationships) are what’s important to me.”

Lorenson is currently the SacJoaquin Section board representative and vice president of the California State Athletic Directors Association CSDAD).

He starts at the section office in August.

“We’re excited to have Jeff joining our staff,” Section Commissioner Mike Garrison said in a prepared statement. “He’s done great work as the athletic director at Davis High and with CSADA. We know we’re getting a good one.”

Lorenson, wife Christi, daughter Kalynn, 14, and son Jaxson, 11, live in Natomas. He explained that this career move will galvanize family life, as the section office is now located in Elk Grove.

As Williams points out, being AD at Davis High meant many long nights, emergency calls and lots of travel, often far out of the region during playoffs.

“I think what I’ll miss most is his calm energy,” Williams notes. “Big events and craziness could

be happening around us and we’d just shrug and keep going.

“It’s nice to work with someone who is calm under pressure. I guess that’s why we made such a good team these past 10 years.”

Williams added: “It’s been awesome. We connected really well as a team. He’s made a lot of great improvements in the Athletic Department. It’s heads and tails above where it was years ago.”

Williams and Lorenson worked in lockstep to codify expectations for student-athletes, coaches and parents. The pair worked on improving communication within the department and ensuring fair sharing of athletic facilities.

With 28 sports hosting almost 80 teams, this work could seem 24/7.

“I owe Laurie Williams more than words can speak,” Lorenson says. “Just be able to have a colleague/partner that you can trust, that you can call on any day, any weekend or holiday, has been the

biggest blessing of this position.

“And the services she provides to students, to coaches, to staff, to parents … I can’t say enough. She’s made (my) job that much easier. Laurie has meant the world to me and this program.”

Soon, the partnership ends. What’s next on the horizon for the department?

As soon as Lorenson’s resignation is processed (probably this

week), the district office will list the AD position on EdJoin. com. With the fall sports season close at hand, one would guess that filling Lorenson’s big shoes will be a priority.

The loss of Lorenson hit coaches hard

“Jeff’s leaving?

OMG, he has raised the bar for AD — professional, diligent and attentive. A monumental loss for DHS,” texted teacher/coach Tracy Stapleton, whose swim and water polo teams have won 12 SJS championships.

Jenn Morris, entering her 16th year at the Blue Devils girls lacrosse helm, praised Lorenson for his commitment:

“Jeff was the fourth AD I worked with at DHS and by far the most hard-working and dedicated to his job.

“He did a really good job trying to balance the many sports (especially in the spring) and made things as fair and equitable as possible.”

Morris was especially pleased that Lorenson was able to give

sports another season (in 2021) right after the pandemic eased and praised him for being “the only AD that drove to the Bay Area for our road section games. That was really appreciated.”

Morris’ teams, in concert with department support, have won more than 200 contests.

“I will definitely miss all the help he provided our team,” Morris told The Enterprise.

While Lorenson is proud of “high quality, very competitive athletic program at Davis High,” he adds: “ I really had nothing to do with wins and losses and section titles, that’s for sure.”

Jeff, there is a whole community that would argue with that comment.

Notes: “The important thing that needs clarification is that I announced first that I was leaving,” laughs Williams. “Just so everyone’s clear: I did not announce that I was leaving just because Jeff Lorenson was leaving. We had a joke between us: ‘You leave, Jeff, I leave. I can’t train another athletic director.’ ” … Williams and her husband Danny are building a house in Shasta County. Their offspring, Mitchell and Megan, are both Davis High graduates after accomplished careers as studentathletes.

— Bruce Gallaudet is a former managing editor and sports editor of The Enterprise. Reach him at 530-320-4456.

TRIAL: Prosecutors insist defendant capable of participating in case

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Yolo County prosecutors have challenged Rohrer’s conclusions, however, and the case is now before a jury to determine whether Dominguez, 21, has the mental capacity to stand trial or requires hospitalization to restore his competency.

The legal system defines competency as understanding the nature and purpose of the court proceedings, the defendant’s own status in those proceedings, and having the ability to assist their attorney in presenting a defense in a rational manner.

According to Rohrer, Dominguez demonstrates multiple symptoms of schizophrenia — delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behav-

iors, plus a lack of emotions and motivation — that, even though he denies having them, interfere with his ability to function.

She cited his belief he’s still a UCD student despite being expelled two days before the stabbings began, his disheveled and nearcatatonic state, as well as his stunted, monotone answers to questions that indicate a “poverty of speech” and general lack of trust in people that’s hobbled his relationship with his defense team.

The illness commonly emerges during the late teens to early 30s, with the early 20s being the peak onset for males, Rohrer said.

Frequently, Dominguez answered “yes,” “no” or “I don’t know” to Rohrer’s

questions, even to openended queries. Asked who wrote the play “Hamlet,” Dominguez answered “Dr. Seuss,” which prosecutors in their opening statement said showed the defendant likely was “messing” with Rohrer and simply didn’t want to “go along with the program.”

But Rohrer saw it “almost like a loose association” of Hamlet and the Dr. Seuss tale “Green Eggs and Ham.” “He wasn’t laughing or toying with me. What he did was struggle to answer,” she said.

Rohrer added that her evaluation included tests for possible malingering, or exaggeration of symptoms, which led her to conclude he wasn’t faking it.

“He had a profile that indicated he was trying to present himself in a

positive light. It’s the opposite of malingering,” said Rohrer, who also noted Dominguez’s tendency to sit rigidly still for hours at a time — another possible sign of schizophrenia — which “I would think would be one of the hardest things to fake.”

Prosecutors, meanwhile, contend that while Dominguez may well suffer from a mental disorder, that doesn’t necessarily render him unable to stand trial.

“Not every individual that has schizophrenia is incompetent, correct?”

Deputy District Attorney Matt De Moura asked the witness.

“That is correct,” Rohrer said.

In his cross-examination of Rohrer, De Moura cited the knowledge of certain

legal terms Dominguez demonstrated during his evaluation, such as attorneys’ roles, the purpose of a trial, and that he likely faced “life or death” in his case, suggesting an understanding of the court process.

De Moura also noted that Rohrer’s report concluded that Dominguez “may” have the capacity to act as his own attorney — as he once requested in court — if given additional legal training, which Rohrer conceded she wrote.

Does he have that capacity now? “No, he does not,” she said.

“He knew a fair amount … at the time that I saw him,” Rohrer said of their May 28 meeting. Back then, “it seemed to me he had been improving” but

later “spiraled down even more.”

Rohrer said she based that observation on other doctors’ reports, and acknowledged she did not meet with Dominguez again after her own evaluation, since the court didn’t ask her to.

“I didn’t know that I could do that. I felt that I had enough data to go ahead with my opinion,” she said. “There’s a mountain of evidence showing he has symptoms affecting his ability to function, and those symptoms are evidence of schizophrenia.”

The trial resumes Friday in Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel McAdam’s courtroom.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

Covered California announces biggest increase in premiums since 2018

By Kristen Hwang CalMatters

Premiums for health insurance sold through the state marketplace will increase by nearly 10% next year, the highest rate hike since 2018, Covered California officials announced Tuesday.

The projected 9.6% hike is the result of a “complicated time for health care,” Covered California

Executive Director Jessica Altman said during a media briefing, but many Californians will be shielded from the increases as a result of federal and state financial assistance.

About 90% of enrollees qualify for some type of federal or state financial aid and 20% will see no change in their monthly premium, officials said. About 1.6

million Californians turn to the marketplace for health insurance, which offers plans that cost as little as $10 a month.

The rate increase, however, represents the return of a troubling trend: runaway health care costs, experts said.

“We’re seeing even larger increases in the private market. It’s worrisome,” said Anthony

Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocate group.

“Individual consumers need health coverage and they need help now.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an influx of $3 billion from the federal government helped dampen the effect of rising health care costs in California.

Covered California premium increases held below 2% between 2020 and 2022.

The federal government extended assistance for two more years, but the 2024 increase reflects post-pandemic inflationary pressures, such as higher drug costs, more people going to see the doctor, labor shortages and wage costs, Altman said.

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Laurie Williams has worked for four different athletic directors over 18 years at Davis High School.

Bird beaks are useful tools to carry around

By Sara Thompson Special to The Enterprise

Bird beaks come in all shapes and sizes. The variation allows different species of birds to feed on different things. This can help reduce the need to compete for resources when birds live in the same ecosystem. Go around your house and find the following items: a nail, pliers, a skewer, a spoon, a staple remover, a strainer, a straw and tweezers. Now image or find the pictures of the following birds: duck, eagle, great blue heron, hummingbird, pelican, robin, sparrow, and woodpecker. Now try to match up the tool to the bird and their beaks.

The bird who has a beak like a nail will pound it into trees to find insects underneath the wood. The bird with a plier-like beak likes seeds and nuts and uses them to crack open the shells. The skewer-like beak helps this bird catch fish. The bird with the beak like a spoon will scoop up some water with their fish prey.

The bird with a beak like a staple remover used is to tear off pieces of meat to eat and feed to their chicks. A bill like a strainer

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helps this bird filter out small things to eat from the water it swims in. The bird who has a straw-like beak uses it to suck sweet nectar from flowers. The bird with a beak like tweezers uses it to pluck worms from the ground.

The campers this week at our Something Wild camp learned about different animal groups, including birds and their diverse beaks. Campers also investigated owl pellets, felt mammal pelts, and met our live reptiles.

Beak Tool Answers: Nail — woodpecker; pliers — sparrow; skewer — great blue heron; spoon — pelican; staple remover — eagle; strainer — duck; straw — hummingbird; tweezers — robin.

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Explorit’s coming events:

n Explorit will be CLOSED to the public Aug. 19 to Sept. 1 for the installation of our next exhibit.

n Last day to visit our exhibit “Explorit Rocks!” and explore rocks, fossils, minerals, and

Pets of the week

Special to The Enterprise

Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among them is Presley (A147419), a precious, senior black-and-white pit bull waiting for a loving family to live out her sunset years with. Presley is sweet and still silly and especially loves taking leisurely walks. Presley’s soulful eyes and loving loyal nature will win you over.

Also hoping for a good home is Sally (A203281), one of the many kittens waiting at the shelter. Sally is 12 weeks old, cute and cuddly and will purr

nonstop when you give her lots of attention. Sally can be silly, too, when she gets the zoomies. But Sally settles right back down for a calmer playdate or to watch the world from a big window.

For information on adopting, contact adoptycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-668-5287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals,

crystals is Friday, Aug. 18. Open to the public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. Explorit Members, ASTC, and those age 2 and under free.

n Now is a great time to donate and help Explorit continue to educate and inspire the scientists of tomorrow: https:// www.explorit.org/donate

n A Membership to Explorit grants the recipient free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, discounts on events, summer camps and workshops, and gives you ASTC benefits to visit other museums throughout the world. To purchase or for more information visit https://www.explorit.org/membership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.

n Now booking school

Just think, birds can do all the things these tools can.

programs for the 2023-’24 school year. For more information, please visit https://www. explorit.org/programs. To reserve call 530-756-0191. — Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http:// www.explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www.facebook. com/explorit.fb.

visit friendsofycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/yolovolunteerapp. Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @ yoloanimalshelter.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Harry, a handsome 1½year-old neutered male German shepherd. He is good on leash, mellow and super sweet. Harry is crate trained, dog and people friendly and smart as can

be. All he needs is a person or family to be his new best friend.

Bonnie is a beautiful 9-week-old spayed female pit bull mix puppy! This girl is as cute as they come. Her mom came to the rescue ready to give birth so Bonnie has had excellent care since the day she was born. She’s sweet, well socialized and full of personality. She comes with free lifetime obedience

training classes and is fully vetted and microchipped.

The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, July 29, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland.

Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

Bring proof of homeownership, such as a

mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook.com/rottsoffriends.

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‘Theater Camp’: Story gets an 8; laughs earn a 10

Acting coaches are hilariously skewered in this comedy

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

This is one of the most sarcastic — yet affectionate — films I’ve ever seen.

Also one of the funniest.

Granted, theater people are an easy target, with all their quirks and ostentatiously sincere eccentricities. Co-directors Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman clearly know their way backstage, and their script — co-written with Noah Galvin — explores territory that’ll instantly be familiar to any parent whose adolescent child has been bitten by the stage bug (along with all the other adults who’ve politely endured community theater productions).

Gordon and Lieberman’s mockumentary was a smash hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and took home the coveted U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award.

So … let the curtain rise!

With summer approaching, AdirondACTS founder Joan (Amy Sedaris) and general manager Rita (Caroline Aaron) once again scout local school theater productions, in order to entice kids to attend — and their parents to help fund — their scrappy upstate New York theater camp. Alas, this undertaking proves calamitous; the strobe effects during a production of “Bye, Bye Birdie” send Joan into a shock coma.

(The fact that this crisis is milked for humor, gives a sense of how edgy the script will be.)

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PG-13, for occasional profanity and drug references

Starring: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Jimmy Tatro, Noah Galvin, Caroline Aaron, Ayo Edebiri, Nathan Lee Graham, Owen Thiele, Amy Sedaris, Patti Harrison, Bailee Bonick, Donovan Colan, Luke Islam

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the summer’s activities therefore falls to Joan’s oblivious “crypto bro” son, Troy (Jimmy Tatro), a clueless failure-to-launch who probably didn’t graduate junior high school. His arrival coincides with busloads of eager young thespians, which horrifies Rita and the rest of the staff, notably drama instructors Amos (Ben Platt) and Rebecca-Diane (Molly Gordon). Their goal: to keep Troy the hell away from day-to-day activities.

Alas, Troy is so dense that he can’t take even sledge-hammer hints. His effort to introduce himself to the assembled children, on the first morning, totally fails to quell the eager chatter of reuniting friends and eager newcomers.

Then Amos takes grabs the microphone and croons “Oh, what a beautiful morning…”

…at which point, all the kids snap to attention and sing, in unison, “Oh, what a beautiful day!”

Right then, the film becomes can’t-miss captivating.

Additional key staff members include Gigi Charbonier (Owen Thiele), the outrageously flamboyant costume designer; the

equally overstated dance instructor, Clive DeWitt (Nathan Lee Graham); and Glenn (Noah Galvin), the overworked stage manager who always is on hand when desperately needed, and appears to have his own untapped yearnings for the spotlight.

As if the beloved Joan’s departure isn’t bad enough, Troy learns that the camp is inches from financial ruin and receivership. This detail also is possessed by smug Caroline Krauss (Patti Harrison), representative of a rival, upscale-snooty neighboring camp — “All their kids get iPads” — that has long coveted the land on which AdirondACTS resides.

Troy, idiot that he is, fails to understand the implications of the “partnership offer” that Caroline dangles, as a supposed financial lifeline.

This behind-the-scenes complication remains unknown to most staff members, who set about auditioning kids for a

season that will include “Damn Yankees,” an immersive version of “Cats” and “The Crucible Jr.”

Additionally, Amos and RebeccaDiane always write an original musical each season; this year’s entry — “Joan, Still” — will honor their founder.

Amos and Rebecca-Diane — long-time best friends, but never romantic partners — have suffered for their art: Juilliard failures making the most of the adulation they get as AdirondACTS instructors. Platt and Gordon’s rat-a-tat timing is impeccable, although Amos and Rebecca-Diane’s pretentious interactions sometimes make them sound more like frenemies than colleagues. He’s overly bossy and condescending; she channels the past lives of her students.

Galvin’s handling of the somewhat androgynous Glenn is intriguing. He seems more a shy backstage pixie than a conventional human being; his

perceptive gaze and insightful advice always are right on the mark.

Tatro is a stitch. He makes Troy a bundle of useless energy: a goof who believes himself to be an awesomely clever social media influencer.

Tatro totally nails this dim-bulb dweeb.

A handful of the kids are equally talented standouts, starting with Bailee Bonick’s Mackenzie Thomas, who can hold a musical note for an astonishing length of time. Shy camp newcomer Devon (Donovan Colan) hopes to emerge from his shell, while Luke Islam’s Christopher towers over everybody else, and is one helluva vocal belter.

All the set-pieces are marvelous: from the inevitable audition montage, to Troy’s lame effort to raise some $$$ by “renting” some kids out to cater a restaurant dinner event, having persuaded them that it’s an interactive theater exercise.

The film budget couldn’t have been far north of $1.97. Jordan Janota and Charlotte Royer’s production design is modest — filming took place at the former Kutz Camp in Warwick, New York — and Nat Hurtsellers’ cinematography is old-school grainy. But these touches actually add to the film’s charm, reflecting the spitand-bailing wire community theater budgets that necessitate inspiration.

Movie-going is always about happy surprises, and this one’s a delightful treat.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.

Gallery 625 will host solo show

YoloArts and Gallery 625 present ‘Mahsan Ghazianzad: The Wisdom of Silence’

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Poulos’ Quilts go on display at URC

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“One Quilter’s Odyssey,” a show of 12 new quilts designed by Debbie Nichols Poulos and made by JoAnn Diel will be up from now through Oct. 22 at University Retirement Community, 1515 Shasta Drive in Davis.

All quilt sales will benefit the URC Foundation.

Poulos draws inspiration for her quilts from the wide pallet of colors and patterns in her “stash” — her extensive fabric collection.

Over the past 13 years, without buying any more fabric, she estimates that she has made 10-20 quilts a year, and says, “My stash is still ample.”

To begin a new quilt, Poulos selects what she calls her “focus fabric” (a piece of fabric that will serve as a visual keystone for the entire quilt). She then selects pairings of light and dark fabrics that are harmonious with the

focus fabric. Diel, her friend and partner in making all these quilts, cuts the fabrics, and after several steps, 9.5-inch squares are constructed of two rightangled triangles (stitched on the diagonal), each triangle composed of 1 of the pairing fabrics. The quilt size depends upon how much fabric she can find in her stash to coordinate with the focus fabric.

The process of combining different fabric pairings into squares will produce 4 to 9 unique sets of squares. The final step in the design process Poulos calls the “quilt dance,” because it requires someone to move the blocks around on her living room carpet according to her directions. She says it’s “when the magic happens” — because it’s when the design first takes shape. The first step in the dance is to create a “hook” in the center of the design utilizing the focus fabric.

Once the hook has been established, Poulos selects from the squares of dark and light triangles to create a maze of contrasting colors and patterns. None of the designs are predetermined — the designs only become apparent during the quilt dance. After the dance is complete, the squares are carefully collected, assembled, and quilted. The quilting is done by Pat Fryer of Viillarosa Designs.

Poulos began quilting in 1999, when a teaching colleague at Patwin Elementary School started a quilt group. Her early quilts followed traditional patterns. But as her ability to sew decreased (she was diagnosed with ALS in 2006), she devised the simple halfsquare triangle block designs. She believes these maze designs are unique to her. She expects to continue to make these quilts until her stash is gone.

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The contemplative paintings of Mahsan Ghazianzad, will be on display in a new solo show premiering at YoloArts’ Gallery 625 on August 4.

The series of works exhibited in the show, “Mahsan Ghazianzad: The Wisdom of Silence,” is inspired from the time the artist spent in a state of contemplation, she says in her artist statement, particularly during the pandemic.

She says during that time “I set aside all means of distraction and reconnected with mother nature exploring sceneries and natural beauties to find real-life inspirations.”

Ghazianzad grew up in Iran’s capital city,Tehran. Surveillance by the government in Tehran was a given during her teenage years, and free speech was not. Rooftops were the only places she and her friends felt they could talk without being spied on and she painted views from there. She went on to attend Tehran’s Soore University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Art. She pursued an MFA at the University of Nevada, Reno and is currently an adjunct art professor at American River College in the Los Rios Community College District. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and artist talks nationally and internationally.

Ghazianzad uses color, line and shape in harmonies and abstract compositions to express emotions, thoughts, and sensations. A wide variety of sources influence her artwork including personal history,

poetry, philosophy, music, and the works of artists she admires.

While she has some stories to tell, she is not really a narrative painter, taking an approach akin to what a poet might use. A favorite quote of the artist is from the Greek poet Simonides who said, “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.”

The titles of her paintings in this show reflect the contemplative nature of her work, such as, “Silence, has much to say; Listen!” and “Untouched by Words.” Primarily interested in works that convey personal meaning, Ghazianzad works to capture the essence of her experiences through her paintings.

Ghazianzad will attend the opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, coinciding with the downtown Woodland First Friday event.

Timothy Pia will be performing a collage of instrumentals from several genres including folk, pop, country and traditional. His array of instruments includes finger-style acoustic guitar, mandolin, ukulele and Native American flute.

Light refreshments, including Yolo County wine, will be available.

The artwork can also be viewed online at yoloarts.org/online-galleries.

“Mahsan Ghazianzad: The Wisdom of Silence” continues at Gallery 625 through October 3, 2023.

Gallery 625 hosts exhibitions and receptions every other month. New exhibitions typically open on the first Fridays of February, April, June, August, October, and December.

Gallery 625 is at 625 Court Street in Woodland, in Yolo County’s Erwin Meier Administration building and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information, contact YoloArts at 530-309-6464.

Quilts by Debbie Nichols Poulos will be on display at University Retirement Community through October.

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“Untouched by Words,” acrylic on canvas by Mahsan Ghazianzad.

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While the young cast members stare in nervous astonishment, Amos (Ben Platt) and Rebecca-Diane (Molly Gordon) interrupt a rehearsal to indulge in another of their many artistic arguments.

Full circle on mental illness treatment

By Alice Feller Special to CalMatters

Robbie, our young patient at the county hospital in San Mateo, believed his parents were trying to poison him.

He refused to come into the house and foraged in the neighbors’ garbage cans for all his meals. Nevertheless, since he was able to survive on garbage, he was judged no longer in need of treatment.

I was shocked. It was so callous – such a breach of our usual standard of care. But then I spent a year working as a staff psychiatrist at the county hospital in Oakland.

I learned that Robbie’s experience was not out of the ordinary; it was the usual state of care in California.

In the 1960s, American psychiatric hospitals began to close their doors. The movement began in California, first with the large state hospitals and then the small community hospitals as well.

By 1994 nearly half-a-million former patients had been sent back to live with their families, who were often unable to care for them. A quarter-million newly discharged patients ended up on the streets or behind bars.

So many were incarcerated that jails and prisons have become our de facto mental hospitals. Today, the vast majority of inpatient psychiatric care in America is provided behind bars.

“Deinstitutionalization,” as the movement to close these hospitals is known, began as a cost-saving measure. In 1965 the federal government abruptly withdrew its financial support for the state hospitals, as well as the small community hospitals providing psychiatric care.

This was accomplished through a littleknown law, the Medicaid IMD exclusion, passed by Congress in 1965 along with the creation of Medicaid. The provision forbids the use of Medicaid dollars to pay for care in a mental hospital. Any psychiatric hospital with more than 16 beds is forbidden to take Medicaid.

Hospital treatment for severe mental illness can mean the difference between life and death, but because of this law such treatment is specifically denied to the people who need it most. No other severe illness is subject to such discrimination.

We have come full circle from the early 19th century, when Dorothea Dix campaigned to rescue the mentally ill from the prisons where they languished, often under shockingly inhumane conditions. Due to her work, people with mental illness were rescued from prisons and cared for in hospitals.

But today that trend has been reversed.

Once again, Americans with serious mental illness are being warehoused out of sight in our prisons. And many more are living unsheltered on our streets. A third of our homeless population today suffer from untreated severe mental illness, most commonly schizophrenia.

Lives are derailed. Suicide is common.

Treatment requires early intervention by a specialized team of clinicians who collaborate on patient care. Unfortunately these dedicated programs are rare. Despite mountains of evidence showing their effectiveness, insurers refuse to cover early intervention programs.

While hospital care can provide stabilization and enable the patient to use outpatient treatment, insurance coverage for inpatient treatment is rare.

California can rectify this situation by obtaining a waiver of the IMD exclusion. We need to restore hospital care to stabilize our patients and enable them to use outpatient treatment. We need to mandate early intervention programs and require insurance coverage for this vital treatment.

These two interventions would do more than anything else to help our mentally ill homeless citizens. It is not a simple lack of housing that leaves so many homeless. Like Robbie, our patient who ate out of garbage cans, they are unable to use available housing due to their mental illness.

— Alice Feller is a psychiatrist and writer based in Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, East Bay Express, Laney Tower and the opinion pages of the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times.

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State court keeps AR-15 ban

There’s a reason why California has seen fewer mass shootings in recent years than other places like Texas and Kentucky: This state still bans private ownership of militarystyle AR-15 semi-automatic rifles.

Those were the weapons used in school massacres from Sandy Hook in Connecticut to Uvalde, Texas. An AR-15-like gun was used to kill eight in early May in Allen, Texas. The mass killing list goes on, growing steadily, and now stands at record levels for any single year.

The good news for Californians interested in keeping this state safer than many others is that early this spring, a state appeals court in Sacramento found a way around the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that struck down some state laws that restricted concealed weapons carry to people who could demonstrate a specific need to bear arms for selfdefense.

But in its mid-May ruling, the Third District Court of Appeal said high capacity rifles like AR-15s, which can be fired repeatedly without reloading, are “not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.”

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many such weapons.

This discussion came about the time when California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein authored a similar federal ban that significantly reduced mass shootings for the 10 years it was in force after being signed by then-President Bill Clinton.

not stand even a year, especially if the Supreme Court takes up one or more cases involving AR-15s and other semi-automatic weapons.

That contradicts the reasoning of the National Rifle Assn. (NRA), which has often claimed AR-15s are primarily used for hunting. No one contends these are not used for hunting, but the appeals court said that does not mean they’re not “dangerous and unusual” weapons, which a 2008 Supreme Court ruling still allows states to regulate.

Last year’s decision by the new, more conservative Supreme Court majority and written by the ethically compromised Justice Clarence Thomas, did not deal with this issue. The Sacramentobased appeals court ruled in the case of Alex Bocanegra, a San Jose man who drove to the Central Valley city of Manteca to fire an AR-15 style gun at the home of a former friend then in a relationship with Bocanegra’s wife. That is one of the specific situations California legislators discussed before passing the state’s 30-year-old ban on

Team Davis thanks Rebekahs

I am writing on behalf of Team Davis, our local nonprofit that provides sports, recreational, educational and social activities to youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Yolo County, to thank the Davis Rebekah Lodge for all they are doing to support our organization. The Rebekah Lodge is part of the Davis Independent Order of Odd Fellows. To learn more about Team Davis, visit our website at team-davis. org.

Team Davis has only one part-time employee who handles our many administrative tasks. All of our activities and events are run by volunteers.

That is why we are so grateful when individuals and groups step up to offer their help. The Davis Rebekah Lodge is providing our participants with a number of social activities. These include movie days and a Halloween party for our Juniors (ages 6-16) and dinner dances for our older participants (16-adults). I appreciated what the Rebekah Lodge was doing so much that

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But the California law is currently threatened by gun interests around the nation who claim last year’s Supreme Court ruling invalidates assault weapons bans even though it did not mention them or negate the language of the 2008 decision. A federal appeals court in New Orleans early this year endorsed this interpretation, saying specific gun bans like California’s are “not part of U.S. historical tradition.”

Of course, neither are mass shootings in schools, homes, banks and stores, all of which have been occurring very frequently since the 1994 federal law expired without much hope for renewal by a Congress under heavy NRA influence. One published count of multiple-shooting episodes claimed 242 occurred around the nation in just the first five months of this year.

It’s possible the California appeals court decision may

I recently became a member after being an Odd Fellow member for years. Thank you Davis Rebekah Lodge for your support of our mission!!

Robin Dewey President, Team Davis Board of Directors

Let’s ditch districts

I completely agree with Bob Dunning’s excellent Sunday column. When Donna Neville, Bapu Vaitla and Gloria Partida were elected, I sent each of them the following e-mail:

I strongly hope you will put into discussions with your fellow council members a plan for going back to at-large elections. Our brief history with district elections has clearly shown that they make it harder, not easier, for communities of interest to be represented on council due to the homogeneity of our demographic dispersal in Davis.

This is coupled with the requirement that a candidate can only come in first in order to be elected, while in at-large elections they can come in first, second, and even third and still earn a seat at the table.

There is nothing to prevent the Council from taking the necessary first steps toward a Council Ordinance rescinding

The Hon. Joe Biden, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: https://www. feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/ e-mail-me

Sen. Alex Padilla, 112 Hart Senate Office

Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202224-3553; email: https://www.padilla. senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

House of Representatives

Rep. Mike Thompson, 268 Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-3311. District office: 622 Main Street, Suite 106, Woodland, CA 95695; 530-753-5301; email: https:// https:// mikethompsonforms.house.gov/contact/

Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/ gov40mail/

And yet… even the majority Republican legislators in Texas, long opposed to gun controls, this spring backed an increase from 18 to 21 in the minimum age for buyers of AR-15s and their clones. This was the direct result of the Uvalde and Allen killings, plus another incident in Cleveland, Texas where five died in an immigrant-onimmigrants shooting.

So there is the possibility the steady horror of this year’s early months will move both courts and politicians to moderate anti gun-control stances at least somewhat.

Meanwhile, the Sacramento appeals court ruling is binding on most other California courts unless or until the state Supreme Court or a federal appeals court overturns it.

— Tom Elias is author of the current book “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” now available in an updated third edition. His email address is tdelias@aol.com.

the prior decision that put District elections in place. The city’s lawyers will no doubt counsel with an abundance of caution, fearing a lawsuit, but I am of the opinion that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

The major difference between now and the time of the Rexroad threat is that Rexroad had a good chance not only of winning his lawsuit, but also winning a judgment for court costs and legal fees. With the recent Santa Monica case on the books, the chances of a judgment for court costs and legal fees is severely reduced, and that means any lawsuit would be very costly to the plaintiff. Given Santa Monica, the plaintiff might even find themselves (if they lose the case) facing a judgment to pay the city’s court costs and legal fees. That makes the decision to sue much, much, less attractive.

Further, it is likely the original plaintiff has moved on, so any lawyer contemplating a suit would have to find a party with standing willing to put their name on the line.

So Bob Dunning is right, it is time for our City Council to show leadership and proactively stand up for democracy!

Matt Williams Davis

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Schulz

UC Davis women’s water polo honored

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. — UC Davis lacrosse has been named an Academic Honor Squad by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association for the 2023 season after its outstanding performance in the classroom.

To qualify for this team prestigious honor, the squad must have posted a 3.2 or higher team GPA for the academic year. It is only the third time since 2009 that UC Davis has been honored as a team, earning its first award in 2015 before earning the recognition again in 2021.

Aggie players Alex Agnew, Julie Bryne, Lauren Hart, Mia Lawerence and Sierra Lizerbram were named to the Division I Academic Honor Roll after posting a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or greater during the spring.

To receive this award, the student-athlete must be a junior, senior, or graduate student. UCD saw five student-athletes named to the honor roll, which is the second-most in program history.

In 2024, the Aggies will join the Pac-12 for the upcoming season.

NFL hosting first-ever Flag All 32 Summer Invitational

Enterprise staff

For the first time ever, the NFL will host the Flag All 32 Summer Invitational, a two-day tournament that will showcase NFL FLAG youth teams from across the country.

The tournament will be played across two leagues of flag football, 14U Coed and 17U Girls, with each league comprised of 32 teams, each representing a different NFL club.

The Invitational, activated by RCX Sports, marks the first time that every club will be participating in a youth event together to promote participation in flag football and will take place on the RFK Campus in Washington, D.C., on Saturday and Sunday.

“The NFL FLAG All 32 Invitational gives each NFL club an opportunity to celebrate flag football as well as allowing participants to compete with players from their home market,” said Roman Oben, NFL Vice President of Football Development. “The tournament also

gives fans an opportunity to see a growing group of flag players and how they stack up against their peers.”

The 32 flag football teams in each of the 14U Coed and 17U Girls leagues will compete in eight divisions across two conferences, where each team will compete against the other teams from their NFL clubs’ division.

Each of the four division winners as well as four wild card winners from each conference will move into an NFL-style playoff format, a single-elimination tournament until there is one representative from both conferences remaining.

In each of the two leagues, the championship games will crown the 2023 NFL Flag All 32 Summer Invitational Champions.

All flag football teams in the Invitational must be participating in an active NFL FLAG league.

“The All 32 Summer Invitational is another opportunity for our team to highlight the amazing youth

talent that NFL FLAG is developing throughout our leagues,” said Izell Reese, CEO and Founder of RCX Sports and a Flag Football Ambassador. “By inviting and funding competitive teams from across the country to join this breakthrough tournament, we are able to take away the financial barrier that some competitive teams may face.”

Flag football is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports disciplines, played by over 20 million people in more than 100 countries, across every continent.

It is the most inclusive and accessible format of football, played by people of all ages and genders, with female athletes driving some of the fastest growth.

Reese and fellow Flag Football Ambassadors Torry Holt and Tony Richardson, will appear at the 2023 NFL Flag All 32 Summer Invitational to promote the growth of flag football and bring awareness to the Invitational.

HASTINGS: Played golf with teammates

and four touchdowns last season.

Trent Tompkins, another junior, is listed as a wide receiver but ran and caught the football last season.

Justin Kraft, another senior, played in nine of the Aggies’ 11 games in 2022.

“Pretty awesome,” said Hastings of his offensive weapons.

Hastings and the Aggies also have three preseason All-Big Sky Conference selections in offensive lineman Jake Parks, defensive lineman Zach Kennedy and defensive back Rex Connors.

Other than summer

workouts and taking two classes for summer school, Hastings continues to work out on the greens — the golf course.

“A lot of us on the team like to golf,” Hastings said. “A large amount of the team likes to play golf. We get some good groups out there and good times whenever we hang out.”

He does admit one thing about his golfing game.

“I’m not a very good golfer,” Hastings said. “I gotta work on the driver, definitely.”

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @ MBDavisSports

Fall SportS

Blue Devil teams begin practices on Monday

Enterprise staff

The Davis High football team held its first practice at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Monday.

This Monday, all but one sport will begin practices. This includes girls flag football, which the California Interscholastic Federation approved earlier this year.

Davis High volleyball, cross-country, girls tennis and girls golf teams will join the Blue Devils girls flag football in holding practices.

High school water polo will start on Monday, Aug. 14.

There will be a new face in the Davis High water polo program. Aria Lindsay, an agriculture teacher at DHS, will be the new girls water polo head coach.

According to the Sac-Joaquin Section’s

BaSeBall

website – www.cifsjs.org – high school fall athletic teams, except water polo, can compete in scrimmages starting on Friday, Aug. 11.

All fall sports teams, except for water polo, can play in their first game starting on Friday, Aug. 18.

High school water polo teams can conduct their first scrimmage on Aug. 18.

The Davis High football team will kick off its season with a non-league home game at Vacaville on Friday, Aug. 18.

Then the Blue Devils will play their first home game of the season, also nonleague, against Del Campo of Fair Oaks on Friday, Aug. 25. Davis plays two more non-league games at Oakmont of Roseville and hosting Fairfield before starting Delta League play in September.

River Cats lose game by one run on the road

Enterprise staff

ALBUQUERQUE,

N.M. — Trailing by one run heading into the ninth on Thursday, the Sacramento River Cats had nearly sent the contest into extra innings but saw the game’s tying run thrown out trying to advance resulting in a 4-3 win for the Albuquerque Isotopes.

All scoring in the game was contained within two innings, with Albuquerque (42-57) finally breaking through in the third with four runs.

That came after Bryce Johnson cut down a run at the plate in the first with an excellent throw from right field, and Sacramento (44-54) starter Kai-Wei Teng stranded another pair of base runners in the second.

Consecutive doubles started the home half of the third for Albuquerque, leaving runners at second and third to score on a subsequent three-run homer by Cole Tucker that just cleared the wall in left field. That was the first home run allowed by Teng in his time with Sacramento.

A pair of flyouts had Teng one out from escaping the inning, but a single that deflected off the glove of Teng kept the inning alive for Jonathan Morales who hit the third Isotopes’ double of the inning that scored Morales from first.

In the fifth inning the Sacramento offense started to awaken, and it came with a jolt as Jakson Reetz mashed his second Sacramento home run on a 2-2 pitch out to left field.

In the very next at-bat, Donovan Walton continued the power with his own solo shot to left center on a 1-0 pitch, the third time this season that the River Cats have homered in consecutive at-bats. The last instance came when Luis Matos and Brett Wisely did so during the third inning of an 18-2 victory on June 11 over Las Vegas.

Seemingly heading for a bigger inning after a single and walk put a pair on, a double play quickly changed the outlook of the frame. With a runner at third, a hard-hit ball to third base by Bryce Johnson was misplayed for an

FootBall

error, resulting in the run scoring.

Outside of that third inning, Teng looked sharp as he allowed just three hits in the other four frames. He closed his line having allowed four runs on eight hits in 5.0 innings, striking out three and walking two in the process.

Nick Swiney and Erik Miller were tasked with keeping the contest separated by only a run, a task they accomplished as Swiney went 2.0 innings with two hits and two punchouts while Miller faced the minimum despite allowing a hit with one strikeout.

For Miller, he has allowed just a single run on the road in 15.0 innings of work for a 0.60 ERA.

The Sacramento bats cooled down until their final trip to the dish, putting the tying run on base thanks to a walk by Reetz.

Down to their final out, Ricardo Genoves hit a high fly ball that ended up falling for a single in shallow left field thanks to the nodoubles defense by Albuquerque.

Trying to score all the way from first was Reetz, but he was thrown out trying to score which preserved the victory for the Isotopes.

Finishing off the contest for the Isotopes was Tommy Doyle, his second of the series and fifth of the season, striking out one during the ninth.

It secured the win for Albuquerque starter Josh Rogers (3-6), who allowed two earned runs (three total) on four hits in 5.0 innings.

All five Sacramento hits came from different bats, which included the pair of home runs by Reetz and Walton.

It was the ninth time this year that Sacramento had homered in the same inning, and Walton became the 14th River Cat to homer in back-to-back games.

Staying hot in July was Armando Alvarez, as his single gave him a hit in 13 out of 17 games this month.

Sacramento will aim to level the series when the teams take the diamond today, with first pitch of game four scheduled for 5:35 p.m.

Hastings, Aggies ‘excited’ about new season

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

Miles Hastings has good reasons to be very optimistic.

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound senior quarterback on the UC Davis football team has been working on his skills throughout the summer in preparation for the upcoming season.

“We’ve been doing a lot of the team workouts,” Hastings said. “We’ve been able to get some practices. Get the timing down with the receivers.”

Hastings has a plethora of returning Aggie players back on offense. That group was part of the 2022 team that posted a 6-5 record.

The Communications major has also been working on another game that he’s been trying to master when not on the gridiron.

Hastings and UCD start training camp on Monday. The base of their hard work they have put in during the spring and summer workouts continue, in preparation for the season opener at Texas A&M University — Commerce on Thursday, Aug. 31.

The quarterback described the summer workouts have been like during recent weeks.

“Super high energy,” Hastings said. “Everyone is excited for the season.”

Hastings has spent plenty of time dissecting the Aggies’ playbook in recent months. Plus, he’s been working with new offensive coordinator Mike Cody, who takes over for Cody Hawkins, now the new head coach at Idaho State University.

The two have been working with new quarterbacks coach Quinn Shanbour.

“Molding with them and seeing what they like and doing the best that I can, getting ready for game one,” Hastings said. “They are awesome.”

Hastings enters his third season at starting quarterback. But let’s take a look at his 2022 stats, which are very impressive.

He and the Aggies averaged 36 points per game in 2022. He passed for 3,048 yards and 20 touchdowns.

Hastings, who is from San Marcos, will have plenty of weapons to move the football and could keep defenses guessing.

There’s Lan Larison, a junior running back who rushed for 486 and four touchdowns in 2022.

Wide receiver C.J. Hutton, a junior, had 47 catches for 506 yards

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Hastings (7)gets ready to hand off the football to running back Lan Larison (3) in a game against Weber State at UC Davis Health Stadium on Sept. 24, 2022. On Monday, Hastings and Larison, along with a large group of returning UCD players start training camp.

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Davis High volleyball player Tessa Schouten (11), a 6-foot-2 middle blocker seen here is a Delta League home match last October, is one of the returning players projected to return to practices on Monday.

Mike BuSh/ enterpriSe File photo