The Davis Enterprise Sunday, October 2, 2022

Sweet melodies at DHS

Candidates sound off on district elections

By Anne ternus-BeLLAmy Enterprise staff writer

The city of Davis will complete its move to district-based elections for City Council when voters in East and West Davis elect their district repre sentatives for the first time in November.

World-renowned violinist joins Baroque Ensemble for benefit show

By AAron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

The Davis High School Baroque Ensemble will put on a benefit concert featuring world-renowned violin virtu oso Rachel Barton Pine. Not only is this concert an exhibi tion of musical excellence, but a fundraiser for the DHS Baroque Ensemble’s 2023 European concert tour.

Alongside DHS and Holmes

orchestra director, Angelo Moreno, the Baroque Ensem ble will travel through Eng land, Belgium and France. The itinerary is teeming with things to do including pit stops at his torical sights, learning oppor tunities at museums and an experiential crescendo of play ing five to six concerts at some of the most beautiful cathe drals in Europe. Of course, fun necessitate funds which is why

“Rachel has such a busy schedule as one of the leading virtuosos in the world playing with professional symphonies, chamber orchestras and baroque ensembles and is all over the country and in differ ent countries all the time. The reason she’s drawn to Davis to perform with my group is, this group was the first public school baroque ensemble of its kind that was designed and implemented into a public

‘Fill the Boot’ to help families in need

By LAuren keene Enterprise staff writer

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school in the country,” explained Moreno. “One of her great passions is early music education, and about 15 years ago I met her through an out reach program through the Sacramento Philharmonic. They reached out and said, ‘We have Rachel Barton Pine solo ing with the philharmonic this weekend. Would you like to have her come into your class room and meet your students?’ I said, ‘Yes! Thank you.’”

During her visit, Barton Pine played soothing classical for

Two years ago, residents in the city’s three other districts voted for their council members, electing Vice Mayor Will Arnold in District 2; Mayor Lucas Frerichs in District 3; and Councilman Josh Chapman in District 5.

On Nov. 8, residents in District 1 will choose between Councilman Dan Carson, Kelsey Fortune and Bapu Vaitla, while voters in District 4 will choose between Councilwoman Gloria Partida and Adam Morrill. Carson and Partida were first elected four years ago in the city’s final atlarge election.

The city moved from electing all five council members at large to dis trict-based elections in 2019 after being threatened with a lawsuit under the California Voting Rights Act.

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UCD study shows promise for wine grapes’ resilience to climate change

By cALeB HAmpton Enterprise staff writer

Given the highly specific climate required to grow quality wine grapes, climate change poses unique chal lenges for grape growers in California and similar regions across the world. Wine grapes need sunlight to pro duce good wine. But too much heat, like California has seen in recent years, can create overly sweet wines that are high in alcohol and sugar and lack acidity.

Barton Pine is playing at the benefit concert on Oct 14 and donating all the proceeds to the Ensemble’s European tour.

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Rachel Barton Pine, seen here with her daughter Sylvia, will play with the Davis High School Baroque Ensemble at a fundraising concert.

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A Davis firefighter welcomes a donation at a prior “Fill the Boot” fundraiser for Thanksgiving food baskets.

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This sport just keeps getting cooler

NBA stars LeBron James, Kevin Love and Dray mond Green agree to buy pickleball team,” screamed the headline over a CNN story by Ben Morse and Issy Ronald.

My oh my, what has happened to the wide world of sports?

“Yes, you read the headline cor rectly,” came the opening para graph, reading my mind exactly.

“NBA superstar LeBron James is once again expanding his sports portfolio, this time into the US’ new favorite pastime,” the story went on.

“James is part of a consortium which is buying an expansion franchise in Major League Pickle ball (MLP) as the competition grows from 12 to 16 teams.”

Major League Pickleball? Seri ously?

What’s next, professional corn hole? Wait, you say that’s already happened? And who was it that was playing pickleball while Rome burned?

Will there be fans in the stands eating popcorn and watching instead of playing, which defeats the idea of pickleball being a way to get sedentary people off the couch and onto the court to par ticipate in a “sport” anyone can

play without a lesson or practice.

Perhaps LeBron realizes his days in the NBA are numbered and he’s looking for a league where he can excel well into his 90s.

One immediate problem with a 16-team league is mascots. I mean, with the explosion of fran chises in a variety of men’s and women’s sports, we’re simply run ning out of suitable nicknames.

A minor league baseball team in Oregon is already known as the Portland Pickles, so that’s out, but I suppose the Des Moines Dills, the Boston Bread-and-Butters, the Grand Rapids Gherkins, the Pittsburgh Pickled Peppers, the Corvallis Cornichons, the Savan nah Sweets, the Chicago Sours, the Rochester Relish and the Dubuque Cukes are still possibili ties.

“The basic aim of pickleball, like with other racket sports, is to hit the ball over the net and prevent an opponent from hitting it back.”

No, the basic aim of pickleball is to convince city councils all over the country to convert every single public tennis court into two pick leball courts. The drumbeat won’t stop until that is accomplished in full.

Of course, pickleball at night in a neighborhood park might vio late a noise ordinance in a way that chess or checkers on a picnic table doesn’t. We’ll have to see how that goes.

“Pickleball began life inauspiciously in 1965 when future U.S. Con gressman Joel Pritchard and his friend Bill Bell attempted to enter tain their bored children on holi day.”

So, instead of dressing up as Santa Claus and Tinker Bell, they gave the kids a ping pong paddle and a wiffle ball. Genius.

“The ping pong paddles were deemed too small and substituted for larger plywood paddles they fashioned themselves and a nonvolley zone seven feet from the net on either side was created to deter smashing”

Courthouse evacuated after bomb threat

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A bomb threat at the Yolo County Courthouse emptied the Woodland building for about two hours Friday.

According to a Yolo County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post, staff at the Main Street courthouse received the threat via phone call at about 11:25 a.m.

“The courthouse was evacuated by sheriff's office personnel and a thorough

search was conducted,” the post said. Nothing suspicious was found, and court operations resumed that afternoon.

“Thank you to our law enforcement part ners at the Yolo County Bomb Squad and their K-9 partners who assisted us with keeping everyone safe,” sheriff’s officials said. “This threat will be thoroughly inves tigated by the Yolo County Sheriff's Office.”

Contact the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office at 530-668-5280 with any infor mation.

Bats Postpone DHS Homecoming Dance

By aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

Although a seemingly outlandish circumstance, bats have indeed post poned the Davis Senior High School homecoming dance that would have

taken place this past week.

Of course, bats are known to congregate under the West Covell Blvd overpass, but these flying, furry invaders have made a temporary home out of the rafters of the main DHS gymnasium.

The district was unavailable for comment regarding this incident.

DHS staff was also unavailable for comment.

Yes, you must deter smashing. Otherwise, you have tennis. Not to mention broken wiffle balls.

“The non-volley zone, or ‘kitchen,’ is what gives pickleball much of its distinctiveness.”

I think “distinctiveness” is much too strong a word for this non sense.

Pickleball “minimizes running, allowing older players to be just as competitive as younger, fitter play ers and diminishes the role of power so children can play along side adults”

Apparently, the game lasts until one side reaches 11 points.

Everyone plays, nobody loses, exertion is limited, talent makes no difference. Just don’t turn your ankle trying to make an athletic move.

Hey, why don’t we go sit in the shade, sip lemonade and just flip a coin instead of actually playing so no one’s feelings get hurt?

Then again, if it’s truly a game anyone can play and be as good as everyone else, I’m contacting LeB ron right away and plan to turn pro myself.

Just as soon as I learn to count to 11, that is.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Thieves strike twice at downtown convenience

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Davis police are seeking the suspects in two recent break-ins at a downtown convenience store, and believe they may have been related.

At about 5:30 a.m.

Wednesday, a lone suspect used a rock to smash a win dow at the Fast & Easy Mart, 140 B St., police Cpl. Morgan Hatcher said.

Security video showed the thief stole about $150 worth of cigarette products.

Two days later, around 2:20 a.m. Friday, two sus pects entered the same

store after using a hammer to smash another window. This time, their take totaled about $1,400 in cigarette products as well as phone chargers, Hatcher said.

The store reported addi tional losses of about $2,000, the cost of replac ing the damaged windows.

In both incidents, the suspects were light-skinned and of average build, wear ing dark clothing and black face masks to conceal their identities, Hatcher said.

Anyone with informa tion about either of these crimes is asked to contact the Davis Police Depart ment at 530-747-5400.

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Bereavement art group helps kids

SACRAMENTO The UC Davis Child Life and Creative Arts Ther apy Department will host “Remembering Together: Virtual Bereavement Art Group,” focusing on grief and processing loss through selfexpression and art for children and teens next month.

The group dates and time will be based on age:

n Ages 6-11: Oct. 25, and Nov. 1 and 8 from 4-5:30 p.m.

n Ages 12-16: Oct. 27, and Nov. 3 and 10 from 4-5:30 p.m.

Each workshop will be facilitated by a certi fied child life specialist and a registered art therapist, trained in bereavement and child development.

To register, fill out the family question naire by Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. If you have ques tions, email remember ingtogether@ucdavis. edu.

The group is funded by New York Life and is provided free of charge to the public.

Craft and bake sale on Oct. 6

The Sutter Davis Hospital Auxiliary will host a fall fundraiser for the SDHA Scholarship Fund with its outdoor Craft and Bake Sale from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.

All proceeds go to the auxiliary’s scholarship fund to help local stu dents attend college with a goal of a health science career.

No entrance inside is necessary, the sale will be under the portico at the main entrance of Sutter Davis Hospital, 2000 Sutter Place in Davis.

Project Linus gathers Oct. 12

Join Project Linus to make blankets for chil dren who are seriously ill, traumatized or oth erwise in need on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Members take home donated fabrics and yarn each month to complete a blanket. All are welcome to attend the meeting and help sew Linus labels.

Contact Diane McGee for info at dmmyolo@gmail.com.

Odd Fellows resume Thursday Live! music series

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The Davis Odd Fellows are excited to bring back their monthly music series, Thursday Live!

Admission is free, but donations for the musicians are strongly encouraged. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Davis Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in downtown Davis.

The next Thursday Live! show on Oct. 6 features The Familiar Strangers.

Coming from the Bay Area, The Familiar Strangers brings an Americana grab-bag of roots music from western swing to country, bluegrass, folk, blues and even a little bit of Gypsy jazz.

This is a band with a big person ality that both gets the audience up on its feet dancing and tugs at your heartstrings. Their musical palette runs from Doc Watson to Django

Governor signs law to aid domestic abuse victims

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SACRAMENTO —

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, announced this week that her Assembly Bill 1726, legislation to update the state’s 23-year-old confi dential address program, “Safe at Home”, has been signed by Gov. Gavin New som.

Safe at Home is a confi dential address program administered by the Cali fornia Secretary of State's office that offers survivors of domestic violence, stalk ing, sexual assault, human trafficking and elder and dependent abuse, as well as reproductive health care workers, a substitute mail ing address to receive first class, certified, and regis tered mail. This address is also accepted by California state, county, and city gov ernment agencies in lieu of a residential or other mail ing address where a victim can be tracked down, keep ing the residence address confidential and out of the hands of someone who might want to do them harm.

“The Safe at Home pro gram serves thousands of Californians who fear for their safety. This program has successfully provided protection as part of the safety plan for survivors of, or those at risk of, violence and abuse, since 1999,” said Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters).

”AB 1726 will update this critical program so we can continue to protect into the future.”

AB1726 updates the pro gram in several ways to work better for participants

and provide greater acces sibility for applicants.

n Survivors should feel confident enrolling in the program without worrying that their participation will negatively impact their ability to retain custody. AB 1726 clarifies that partici pation in the program is not an indicator that chil dren are at risk in the par ticipant’s care, an important clarification to protect survivors in custody or dependency case pro ceedings.

n The bill keeps program participants’ home loca tions confidential is at the heart of the Safe at Home program.

n AB 1726 expands timelines for court docu ments to be served if the person is a Safe At Home participant

n AB 1726 provides pro gram participants with additional time to notify the Safe At Home program of any change in address or legal name changes with out risking termination from the program.

n The bill requires the program to attempt to con tact a participant via phone or email before terminating the participant because mail was returned as unde liverable.

n AB 1726 creates clear timelines for a program participant’s termination from the program if they move out of the state.

Aguiar-Curry represents the 4th Assembly District, which includes all of Lake and Napa Counties, parts of Colusa, Solano and Sonoma Counties, and all of Yolo County except West Sacramento.

credits include “The Tonight Show,” where she backed Tammy Wynette and Clint Black, as well as “American Idol,” “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” “Dancing with the Stars” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Tim Sarter plays bass, with Kevin Russell on guitar, Sean Allen on guitar and lap steel, Tim Gaha gan on percussion and Dave Zirbel on pedal steel guitar.

The Odd Fellows bar will be open for beer, wine and other bev erages.

For more information, or to be added to the Thursday Live! email list, contact Juelie Roggli at juel rog@gmail.com. The Davis Odd Fellows follow all local mandates for COVID-19. Masks are not required, but all attendees should be fully vaccinated if possible.

Thursday Live! is sponsored by the Davis Odd Fellows Music Com mittee.

Apply now for Biberstein grants

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Nonprofit organizations are invited to submit applications to the Biber stein Social Action Fund for grants in support of projects addressing pov erty, discrimination, abuse and neglect issues in Yolo County.

The Biberstein Social Action Fund was estab lished in 2002 by the Board of Directors of Con gregation Bet Haverim to honor Ernie and Hannah Biberstein, who are among the founding members of CBH, and who devoted much of their lives to community service and social justice.

Hannah passed away in April 2011.

2022 marks the 20th Anniversary of the fund, and, even more impor tantly, Ernie’s 100th birth day in November.

The goal of the annual awards made from the Biberstein Social Action Fund is to help Yolo County organizations in their efforts to meet unful filled needs.

“In light of all the bud get cuts in social services, we hope that grants like ours can make a differ ence,” Hannah Biberstein had said. “It means a lot to us that real individuals

benefit from our grants.”

Special consideration is given to new or innovative projects.

An annual Request for Proposals is released in the fall every year. Grants ranging from $500 to $2,000 are awarded each November.

A committee of Bet Haverim congregants reviews grant applica tions. Current Biberstein Fund committee members are congregants Ernie Biberstein, Anne Gieseke, Amy Abramson, Sandy Jones, Joan Sublett, and Shoshana Zatz.

Information about the Biberstein Award, includ ing a link to the applica tion, is available on the CBH website: https:// www.bethaverim.org/ engage/committees/ biberstein-social-actionfund.

Grant proposals must be submitted no later than Oct. 28. Direct questions to the Biberstein Social Action Fund at: cbhbiber steinfund@gmail.com. Awards will be announced in December.

The Bibersteins were among the founders of Davis Community Meals and Housing (DCMH), where they served as board members and

officers. They have also been active in a variety of interfaith groups, including Care for God’s Creation, Yolo Interfaith Immigration Network, and Celebration of Abra ham, which brings together Jews, Muslims and Christians. In recog nition of their services, they received several civic awards.

Ernie Biberstein is a professor emeritus of the UC Davis School of Veteri nary Medicine. Hannah Biberstein was a mediator in the original city of Davis mediation program, was chair of the city’s Social Services Commission, and served on the Affordable Housing Task Force.

“We are looking forward to the annual distribution of these funds for good works in Yolo County,” said Ernie Biberstein.

In 2022, the fund handed out a total of $17,315 in grants.:

Contributions to the fund may be made through Congregation Bet Haverim, 1715 Anderson Road, Davis, CA 95616. Please note that the dona tion is for the Biberstein Social Action Fund.

Reinhardt and more. The band comprises top-shelf veterans of the Bay Area music scene. Members have played with the likes of Maria Muldaur,

Commander Cody, Clint Black, The Rhythm Rangers and more. Candy Girard, on fiddle, will be inducted into the Western Swing Hall of Fame this October. Her TV

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The Familiar Strangers band headlines the Davis Odd Fellows’ resurrected Thurs day Live! music series on Oct. 6.

County opens Northern Recycling composting facility

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Local leaders hosted a ribbon cutting on Wednesday for the Northern Recycling Composting Facility at the Yolo County Cen tral Landfill.

The new facility increases Yolo County’s capacity to produce organic compost from 52,000 tons to 182,000 tons annually. The facility also combines con struction, demolition, and inert material recycling and eliminates the need to truck those materials to Sacramento for sorting.

“Yolo County leads the way in our region to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gases, safely reus ing of waste while providing nutrient-rich compost for com munity members to use at their homes, businesses and farms,” said Yolo County Supervisor Angel Barajas. “Converting waste

products to compost and energy will immediately provide com munity and environmental bene fits, which will last for generations.”

The central landfill spent a decade researching, planning and solving regulatory issues before its grand opening.

The composting facility is the first of its kind in the region, employing an emissions-reducing composting process called

Covered Aerobic Static Pile. The CASP creates optimal compost ing conditions through positive aeration, automatic irrigation, advanced temperature control and a biofilter layer.

CASP reduces odors and air emissions, such as volatile organic compounds and ammo nia, during the process and reduces water use. It also elimi nates the need to use industrial vehicles to turn the compost,

which reduces air pollutants from such equipment.

Barajas was joined at the grand opening by Supervisors Gary Sandy of Woodland and Don Say lor and Jim Provenza of Davis, as well as other local officials.

“The Northern Recycling part nership will help us produce organic soil for a wide array of resources the community depends upon, including landscape suppli ers, residences, large agricultural sites, and also generate recyclables from our construction and demo lition waste,” said Sandy.

Mainspring Energy and the central landfill simultaneously announced the installment of a 100 percent landfill biogas linear generator pilot project (see Page A5). The linear generator will run on biogas — collected from meth ane emissions — produced by the

UCD studies social media’s effect on vax rate

By Karen niKos rose Enterprise staff writer

Despite vaccine availabil ity, vaccine hesitancy has inhibited public health officials’ efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, which has killed more than 1 mil lion people in the U.S. and nearly 6 million people worldwide.

Researchers from UC Davis looked at how the politically polarized nature of COVID-19 information, and misinformation, on social media has given rise to anxiety, sadness, anger and hostility that feed inci vility. This information can help public health profes sionals tailor messages to address these underlying emotions, researchers sug gest.

The study, “Emotions and Incivility in Vaccine Mandate Discourse: Natu ral Language Processing Insights,” was published earlier this month in the journal JMIR Infodemiol ogy.

“Although some elected officials have responded to the pandemic by issuing vaccine and mask man dates, particularly when accessing public places, others have amplified vac cine hesitancy by broad

casting messages that minimize vaccine efficacy,” explained the study’s lead author, Hannah Stevens, a doctoral student in the Department of Communi cation.

Stevens and her coauthors investigated three psychological processes that predict incivility on social media — namely, anxiety, anger and sadness.

Specifically, anxiety was significantly associated with identity attack and profanity, and sadness was most associated with making threats or threat ening remarks, researchers said.

Filtering through more than 375,000 tweets online between Sept. 14 and Oct. 1 of last year, they identified 8,014 that contained vac cine mandate-related words.

As expressed in tweets, anger predicted the odds of profanity, insult and severe toxicity to a greater extent than identity attacks and threats.

For example, a user may post profane content because they are anxious, whereas a user might make an insulting comment because they are angry, illustrating that there were different dimensions of

incivility expressed on the social media platform, Ste vens said.

Vaccines and ‘freedom’

“The freedom to travel, remain employed, socialize in groups, eat in restau rants, go to the gym and more is increasingly deter mined by one’s vaccination status,” Stevens said.

“Thus, mandates that prohibit the unvaccinated from participating in the relationships and activities available to those who are vaccinated may exacerbate existing sadness and depression brought on by existing disruptions caused by the pandemic.”

Policies, then, that mandate the hesitant to get vaccinated inhibit the ability to escape the threat, and as a result, indi viduals may react with incivility, researchers said. Indeed, the added stress and anxiety have been demonstrated to predict a

wealth of uncivil behaviors, including cyber aggression and bullying during COVID-19.

The researchers used two tools, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count computational tool and the Jigsaw Perspective applica tion programming inter face (formerly Google Ideals) to analyze the tweets. They suggest that platform managers use such tools.

This could help the man agers identify uncivil or misinforming tweets in real time and allow them to provide feedback to social media users.

They also suggested that public health officials should take extra steps to combat such misinforma tion, and further that they should assess the emotions people are having to design persuasive appeals that target the fear, anxiety and even anger exhibited by vaccine-hesitant individu als.

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landfill to generate a renewable electricity source for site opera tions and supply the power to the grid. Yolo County generates enough power from landfill gas and biogas for more than 3,000 homes.

“We are excited to partner with Mainspring and continue to dem onstrate the production of renew able electricity using a new and innovative technology that has the potential to increase the effi ciency of electricity production and reduce air emissions,” said director Ramin Yazdani.

The landfill is offering free compost to Yolo County residents only during September and Octo ber. To learn more, visit www. yolocounty.org/government/gen eral-government-departments/ community-services/integratedwaste-management-division.

“Yolo County leads the way in our region to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gases safely reusing of waste while providing nutrient-rich compost.”

Angel Barajas Yolo County supervisor

UCD brewing program launches crowdfunding campaign

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Hazy IPAs, pale ales, sours, lagers … there are hundreds of different types of beer, with new tastes, combinations and hybrids being created every day.

But the diversity isn’t always reflected in the brewing industry itself. Fifty-one percent of the U.S. is female, but according to a recent survey by the Brewers Association, less than 8% of brewers are women. Similarly, while people of color make up 38% of the population, they rep resent less than 11% of brewers in the country.

To help increase representation in the brewing industry, UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education is launching its 2022 UC Davis Tapping Potential Fund campaign, a crowdfunded, diver sity-focused scholarship program to support full-ride scholarships to the prestigious UC Davis Online Master Brewers Certifi cate Program and other online brewing courses.

“There’s room in brewing for a broader range of people, perspec tives and experiences. By educat ing a more diverse pool of brewers, UC Davis will help make that happen,” said Dr. Glen Fox, academic director of the UC Davis Master Brewers Certificate Program. “By supporting the UC Davis Tapping Potential Fund, beer enthusiasts create opportu nity. They give students around the world access to the incredible expertise and resources of UC

Davis brewing.”

The UC Davis Tapping Poten tial Fund campaign runs Sept. 29 through Oct. 31 and has a goal of $30,000. Last year’s campaign raised more than $21,000.

From breweries to suppliers, the brewing industry has been extremely supportive. Industry sponsors for the 2022 UC Davis Tapping Potential Fund include Barebottle Brewing Company, United Malt Group, Sudwerk Brewing Co., North Coast Brew ing Company, Touchstone Brew ing Company, the Sacramento Area Brewers Guild, El Segundo Brewing Company, CLS Farms and Amager Bryghus.

"As a brewery in San Francisco, we're fortunate to serve one of the most diverse populations in the country,” said Lester Koga, cofounder of Barebottle Brewing

Company. “We're committed to making sure our crew reflects our environment and are thrilled to be supporting the UC Davis Tap ping Potential Fund. We look forward to seeing the next gener ation of diverse brewers and own ers emerge from the program."

Koga is also a member of the UC Davis Tapping Potential Fund Advisory Council. He’s joined by Dr. J Jackson-Beckham (Brewers Association, Equity & Inclusion Partner), Dr. Missy Begay (Bow & Arrow Brewing, Co-founder), and Garrett Oliver (Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster and founder of the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Dis tilling).

“There are equity and opportu nity gaps in professional brewing, and the industry has been actively working to address that by iden

tifying and removing barriers to access and advancement,” said Jackson-Beckham. “Increasing access to professional brewing education is an approach that has an immediate impact on individ uals and a lasting, systemic impact on the industry.”

The scholarships will be avail able to students who are commit ted to diversity, have experience and/or understanding of the bar riers traditionally faced by people of color and demonstrate a high potential for leadership in pro moting cross-cultural under standing in the brewing industry.

Scholarships cover all fees and materials for the Online Master Brewers Certificate Program, including a week-long, in-person bootcamp at UC Davis’s state-ofthe-art August A. Busch III pilot brewery and Sierra Nevada

Brewing Science laboratory. Indi vidual course scholarships will also be offered, giving brewers at all stages of their career the opportunity to grow their skills.

Mariana da Silva Schneider, the 2021 scholarship winner, said, “You’ve changed my life. The goal to change the industry is absolutely amazing, but you’re also changing lives along the way. You are helping build the roads to people’s dreams - in more ways than you can imagine.” With the help of Global Ladies of Wort, a diversity-based group she founded, da Silva Schneider brewed a limited-edition pale ale which benefits the UC Davis Tap ping Potential Fund.

For nearly 30 years, the UC Davis Master Brewers Certificate Program has been providing stu dents with an in-depth under standing of brewing science and brewery engineering and prepar ing them to enter the brewing industry with the potential to rise to the highest levels of leadership within it. To date, the program has graduated more than 850 students from more than 20 countries.

For more information on the UC Davis Master Brewers Pro gram and how to support its efforts to increase diversity in the brewing industry, contact Dr. Jon Hughes, Director of Brewing and Sensory Science at UC Davis Con tinuing and Professional Educa tion (jghughes@ucdavis.edu).

Mainspring announces biogas project in Yolo County

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MENLO PARK — Cleanpower generation provider

Mainspring Energy announced Thursday that it has entered into an agree ment with Yolo County to pilot a Mainspring linear generator running biogas at the Yolo County Central Landfill.

In its first 100% landfill biogas pilot project, to be deployed in the upcoming weeks, the Mainspring product will run on biogas produced by the landfill to generate electricity that can be used for site operations or exported to the grid.

Landfill biogas, a natural byproduct of the decompo sition of organic material in

landfills, when not con trolled, produces significant amounts of methane emis sions. Municipal solid waste landfills are the third-larg est source of human-related methane emissions in the U.S. These landfills provide an important opportunity to capture and sustainably use this significant energy resource to generate renew able electricity. In turn, this can reduce emissions and prevent methane from migrating into the atmo sphere and contributing to local smog and global cli mate change.

"One big advantage of a fuel-agnostic generator design is the ability to con vert biogas from a number

of agricultural and waste management operations into useful, renewable elec tricity," said Shannon Miller, CEO and Founder of Mainspring. "We are hon ored to be working with an innovative municipality like Yolo County to unlock the potential of Main spring's technology in this important global use case."

The pilot project will pro vide important real-world system experience as Yolo County evaluates the fuelflexible linear generator technology in its biogas system.

"We are excited to part ner with Mainspring and continue to demonstrate production of renewable

electricity using a new and innovative technology that has the potential to increase efficiency of electricity pro duction and reduce air emissions," said Ramin Yazdani, Director of Inte grated Waste Management at Yolo County.

The YCCL has made sig nificant innovative strides over the last 30 years to reduce the amount of waste going into the landfill, to capture emissions, and to provide a myriad of recy cling and reuse services for the surrounding commu nity. The YCCL operates with an average annual budget of $39 million that encompasses landfilling operations, green & food

Business group hears from Carson, ‘No’ on Prop. 29

The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet from noon to 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in West Davis.

The primary speaker will

Wendy Weitzel is taking the week off.

Comings & Goings will return next week.

be Dan Carson, who is run ning for re-election to the Davis City Council as the representative for West Davis, District 1. The second speaker will be Norb Kum agai, who will be speaking about Proposition 29, Kid

ney Dialysis regulation. He will talk about his experi ences as a kidney dialysis patient and why he is opposed to Proposition 29.

The public is invited to hear these speakers. Contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-

219-1896 or e-mail G. Rich ard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org for information.

waste composting, landfill gas control and electricity production, environmental compliance, capital improvements, and admin istration. The Mainspring project is the latest in a series of efforts by the YCCL to increase power genera tion and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Biogas systems

Landfills represent just one type of biogas system. Biogas systems recycle organic waste of many

kinds into renewable energy, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the American Biogas Council, the U.S. today has 2,300 biogasproducing sites in 50 states, including landfills, farms, wastewater treat ment facilities, and systems that digest food scraps. The U.S. currently has the potential to build 15,000plus biogas systems, creat ing an infrastructure capable of producing enough electricity to power nearly 10 million homes.

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Newsom signs state abortion protections into law

By Kristen Hwang

CalMatters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of 12 bills Tuesday, estab lishing some of the stron gest abortion protections in the nation — a direct reac tion to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal abortion guarantees earlier this year.

Collectively, the new laws aim to improve access and protect patients and clini cians by strengthening pri vacy safeguards, ensuring providers and patients can not be sued or prosecuted and funding procedures and travel costs for lowincome individuals. They also seek to shore up the state’s network of abortion clinics as more patients from states where abortion is now severely limited or banned seek procedures in California.

“An alarming number of states continue to outlaw abortion and criminalize women, and it’s more important than ever to fight like hell for those who need these essential services,” Newsom said. “Our Legisla ture has been on the front lines of this fight, and no other legislative body in the country is doing more to protect these fundamental rights — I’m proud to stand with them again and sign these critical bills into law.”

Newsom first announced the signing privately to stakeholders, and Jodi Hicks, CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said many in the virtual room got emotional.

“It’s been a long year of a lot of hard work,” Hicks said. “You could see a lot of emotion and pride.”

The package was sup ported by the California Future of Abortion Coun cil, a 46-member coalition of reproductive rights and health and justice groups

convened by Newsom in 2021 to identify abortion shortcomings and recom mend policy solutions.

Tuesday’s announcement also included Newsom signing a measure making over-the-counter birth con trol more affordable.

“It is certainly by design that we are leading in this effort and backing up our values,” Hicks said.

Without the council’s work throughout the legis lative session, lawmakers would not have been able to respond so quickly to the Supreme Court’s ruling, Hicks said. Many of the bills included amendments reacting to bans and restrictions announced in other states.

“My entire generation has lived with Roe v. Wade being the law of the land, so it’s not like we had a map on how to navigate a sys tem without those protec tions,” Hicks said.

“It really took everyone coming together to design this collection of bills to become a reproductive freedom state and beacon of hope.”

This week, an Arizona judge reinstated a near total abortion ban dating to 1864, and Southern Cali fornia abortion clinics are already preparing for an influx of patients.

Newsom vetoed one bill in the package last week, citing “lower-thanexpected revenues” and the need for fiscal responsibil ity. That bill would have required the state to fund reproductive health pilot programs in five counties.

Although fiercely opposed by a minority of religious groups and con servatives, the measures sailed through the Demo cratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legisla ture.

Voters will decide in November whether to add a state constitutional amendment protecting the right to obtain an abortion.

Newsom has made abor tion a central part of his re-election campaign, drawing on California’s reputation as a reproduc tive health “safe haven” in his frequent attacks on other states’ politics. Like wise, many Democrats bat tling for a seat have hopped on abortion as the defining issue of the upcoming state and midterm elections. In June, Newsom approved a budget investing more than $200 million in reproduc tive health services. He also spent $100,000 in cam paign money on billboards in conservative states pro moting California as an abortion sanctuary.

The most contentious pieces of legislation were AB 2223, by Assembly woman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and SB 1142, by state Sens. Anna Cabal lero, D-Merced, and Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.

Wicks’ measure abol ishes the requirement that coroners investigate still births and prohibits the prosecution of anyone who ends their pregnancy even if the abortion is selfinduced or happens outside of the medical system. Pro testers outside the Capitol and conservative lawmak ers claimed the legislation would legalize infaticide, which Wicks has character ized as “disinformation.”

In a statement following the measure’s signing, Wicks said Californians will no longer have to fear having their “pregnancy policed by state systems.”

Caballero and Skinner’s measure introduced the $20-million Abortion Practical Support Fund to help women pay for travel, lodging and other expenses that advocates say create access barriers. Although the money was secured in the state budget, Newsom restricted its use to Califor nia residents, a move abor tion advocates rallied hard to overturn in the final days of the legislative session. Last-minute amendments to the health omnibus bud get bill allow out-of-state residents to receive grants from the fund.

Caballero and Skinner’s measure also required the state to create an abortion information website detail ing state laws and resources, which Newsom launched two weeks ahead of the bill’s signing.

The website has had

immediate impact, Hicks said, adding that colleagues in other states have shared how difficult it is for people seeking abortion to find information.

“The website, I tear up every time I look through it. For a patient that doesn’t know where to go or what to do the impact is immedi ate and huge,” Hicks said.

Other measures in the package allow nurse practi tioners to perform some abortion procedures with out the supervision of a doctor; provide loans and scholarships for cliniciansin-training who commit to providing reproductive health care in underserved areas; and prohibit law enforcement, medical pro viders and California-based tech companies from coop erating with law enforce ment in states where abortion is criminalized.

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Move to district elections came under duress

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argued that at-large elec tions in Davis had pro duced racially polarized voting.

His evidence: data from the 2018 election where Partida finished first in a field of nine candidates and was the first Latina elected to the council but per formed less well in pre cincts with lower percentages of registered Latino voters. The secondplace finisher in that race — Carson — performed better in those districts, Rexroad said.

“When Latinos vote, she did better and Carson did worse,” Rexroad said back in 2019. “You can easily see how Gloria Partida benefits from Latino (turnout) while Dan Carson suffers.”

Other jurisdictions throughout the state had already made the move to district-based elections — or lost costly legal fights under the voting rights act — prompting the change in Davis.

But the Davis City Coun cil members who unani mously voted to move to district elections back in 2019 — including Partida — did so reluctantly.

Partida said at the time that “Rexroad claims that our current system dilutes minority vote. I’m unclear how districts will fix this. Any system in Davis will dilute minority votes because minorities are, by definition, a smaller por tion of the population. In

Davis, they are also pretty fairly evenly distributed.”

When she ran for council in 2018, Partida said, she heard from members of the Latino community that they were glad to be able to vote for a Latina.

Under district elections, she said, “many of (them) will not be able to any lon ger. And if a Latinx person in their district does run, they may not have enough people in their district to vote them in.”

Former Mayor Brett Lee, who was on the council at the time, said he found Rexroad’s threat “fairly offensive and I don’t think it was really coming from a place of sincere desire to improve governance of Davis or improve the repre sentation of traditionally unrepresented groups in Davis.”

On the spot

Opinion on district elec tions remains divided among Davis residents, as it is among the council can didates on the November ballot.

Fortune, who is seeking the District 1 seat in West Davis, said during a candi date forum sponsored by the League of Women Vot ers on Thursday that she “will absolutely be working to change that. We should be electing our council members at large in our community.”

“Unfortunately, we ended up with districts, not

from community process, but through a response by council to the threat of a lawsuit. They took that into their hands, so here we are with districts. To be honest, I don’t think that districts are a good thing for Davis.”

Conversely, Morrill — who is challenging Partida in District 4 — said, “I know a lot of people didn’t like switching to districts, but there are some benefits to it.

“It forces our leaders to be more accountable. You have a lower voter-to-rep resentative ratio so they’re going to listen a lot better.

“Maybe if we’d had them sooner,” Morrill added, “we wouldn’t have had Measure H (the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Cam pus) show up before the voters twice and be rejected twice.”

The DiSC proposal was located in District 4 and placed on the ballot by a unanimous City Council. When it was defeated in June, Morrill said he decided to run because “the council is just too detached from the public.”

Fortune and Morrill were responding to a ques tion during Thursday’s forum during which the candidates were asked, “although you will govern all of Davis, you are being elected by voters of a spe cific district. How will you address the top needs of your district?”

Their responses:

UC Davis Transplant Center reaches a kidney milestone

By CaleB Hampton Enterprise staff writer

UC Davis Health reached a milestone this summer when its transplant center surpassed 5,000 kidney transplants performed over the past three-plus decades, the health system announced this week. The center was established in 1985.

In 2021, the UC Davis Transplant Center was one of the top 10 centers in the country for kidney trans plants, performing 282. The milestone at UC Davis Health came shortly after the United Network for Organ Sharing announced that the United States had surpassed one million kid ney transplants, more than any other country in the world. The first kidney transplant in the U.S. was in Boston in 1954.

“We celebrate the one

millionth organ transplant patient in the United States, and we are extremely proud to have achieved our own mile stone in serving 5,000 patients with a kidney transplant,” said Richard V. Perez, medical director of the UC Davis Transplant Center. “This is a testament to our dedicated team members who have helped us develop innovative ways to help patients achieve a transplant. It is that dedi cation that has led us to be recognized as one of Amer ica’s top transplant cen ters.”

One of the patients to benefit from the UC Davis Transplant Center was Daniel Cuevas. Last year, Cuevas received a kidney as part of a six-way “chain” kidney transplant facili tated by UC Davis Health’s paired kidney exchange

program. The program connects incompatible donor-recipient pairs with other pairs so that they can exchange donors.

“To be the recipient of a kidney is very humbling. There is no way to repay that other than taking the best care of this new organ I have that is going to help me live and spend time with my family,” Cuevas told UC Davis Health’s news service. “Kidneys are a small commodity – as there are almost 100,000 people on the kidney trans plant waitlist. I feel fortu nate to have had the care I received at UC Davis and have this opportunity to extend my life.”

For information about kidney transplants or becoming a donor, visit the Sierra Donor Services or UC Davis Transplant Cen ter websites.

Bapu Vaitla

“The campaign has really taught me that there is no substitute for face-to-face contact,” said Vaitla. “There are a lot of disadvantages to the district system, frankly, but one of them is that your primary responsibility is to the neighborhood around you, to the district around you.”

That means walking neighborhoods and hosting district forums, he said, “issue-based forums as issues come up on infra structure, on water conser vation, on the climate, on housing.

“So this kind of outreach is now a part of the game plan, I think, for districtbased City Council mem bers... doing a whole lot of door-knocking, a whole lot of arranging forums and doing active outreach to make sure groups that are particularly underrepre sented are included.”

He added that Davis resi dents with the time and resources and confidence to speak in public “are the ones who are able to come to council meetings and com mission meetings and state their views, but really there’s a lot of people who would like to be engaged, who have great ideas, and it’s on us to go to them instead of forc ing them to come to us with their views.”

Dan Carson

“We have to strike a balance,” Carson said. “I

wrote a resolution after we were forced under threat of a lawsuit to go to district elections that said we weren’t going to be divided as a city. We were going to govern as one. As just one example, we say that if somebody in another area reaches out to me for help, I’m not only allowed to help them, I’m obligated to help them.

“But this new approach definitely does mean that we are going to have more focus on neighborhood meetings. And we’re already seeing results,” he said, citing improvements in District 1 recently related to streets and parks that he helped facilitate.

“Part of it, I have no doubt, is our focus on and paying attention to what’s going on in our districts, that will be a part of our life going on. And we are hear ing from them all the time, about what their concerns are, and I am dedicated to meeting those needs.”

Gloria Partida

“This is about communi cation,” she said. “You have to be in communication with your district.”

“I’ve lived in my district for 25 years,” she said, “and see a lot of my neighbors when I’m out and about. But I also think that every policy that we act on as a city, for the entire city, is an opportunity for us to think about our district and think about how that particular policy will affect our

particular district. And then advocate for things in that policy that will be ben eficial for our district or to speak up and say, ‘This policy is going to be maybe detrimental to my district.’

“I’ve done a number of things for my district even before we had districts,” Partida added, citing a request from residents in the Rancho Yolo senior mobile home park who wanted sidewalks out of the park, “and I made that hap pen.”

Adam Morrill

“I’m going to have meetand-greets out in the park, show up, bring something to share if you want. That way you’re getting the pulse of the community a lot more effectively and you know what’s important to them.

“But there are obviously issues that span the entire community,” he said, “things like homelessness, affordable housing, so of course we’re still going to be advocating on behalf of everyone for solutions to problems that affect every one in the community.”

To find what district you reside in, visit https:// www.cityofdavis.org/cityhall/city-clerk/elections/ district-elections.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

UC Davis women open tennis season in Berkeley

Enterprise staff

The UC Davis women's tennis team officially opens its 2022-23 season at the Cal Fall Invitational at the Hellman Tennis Complex in Berkeley. Fourteen teams will be represented in the annual sin gles and doubles event, which begins today and runs through Sunday.

Matches started today and will pick up again at 9 a.m. on Satur day and Sunday.

The field joining the Aggies in the Cal Fall Invitational include Arizona State, BYU, host Cal, Cal Poly, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Iowa State, Pacific, Sacramento State,

Saint Mary's, San Francisco, San Jose State, Santa Clara and Stan ford.

The Aggies return a strong squad this athletic year, welcom ing back their top three singles winners from the spring 2022 season. Senior Yana Gurevich will anchor UCD this season as she earned All-Big West second team honors after a 14-5 singles record in the spring, primarily at the No. 2 spot.

Jumping onto the scene a year ago and gearing up for her sopho more season is Arianna Stavro poulos, who led the Aggies with 15 singles victories, including six

in Big West competition. Stavro poulos garnered honorable men tion accolades at singles during her rookie campaign.

Senior leader Lauren Ko also earned All-Big West conference accolades, teaming with Sara Tsukamoto for the doubles' rec ognition.

A decorated Aggie and leader, Tsukamoto will be a loss for UC Davis but also marks the only student-athlete from a year ago to not return this season.

Senior Kristina Evloeva posted nine singles victories last season and has a lot of tennis under her belt and will be joined by an

experienced group of Olive Maunupay, Carly Schwartzberg and Michelle Zell. The trio com bined to play 32 spring matches in 2022. Also returning for the Ags is Daisy Maunupau, Claire Galerkin and Maddi Page.

The Aggies welcome San Juan Hills High standout Kaia Wolfe to the program. The San Clem ente native was tabbed a four-star recruit by TennisRecruiting.net and was ranked as high as No. 25 nationally in the 2022 class. Wolfe was ranked No. 1 in South ern California for singles, dou bles, and mixed doubles simultaneously over her career.

Volleyball

Davis High sweeps Sheldon on the court

By ReBecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent

The Davis High volley ball team is back in the win column after sweeping Delta League opponent Sheldon High on Thursday night in the South Gym.

After back-to-back losses to Cosumnes Oaks High on Sept. 20 and Pleasant Grove High on Tuesday, Davis (4-3 in the Delta League, 13-5 overall) defeated Sheldon (0-6 in the DL, 5-11 overall) in three sets. The final scores were 25-18, 25-20, 25-17.

“We played consistently and with a lot of energy,” said Davis head coach Julie Crawford. “We executed well on out-of-system balls. It was nice to get a win tonight after losing a cou ple. It picked up our spirits and shifted our energy. It’s always nice to get a big win at home. We served well and passed well. Many girls got an opportunity to play and contribute to the win.”

The Blue Devils consis tently held the lead in the first set of the match. Kills by DHS and out-of-bounds balls by SHS were aplenty, allowing the Blue Devils to secure the win in the first set.

The Huskies gave DHS a run for their money in the second set. Sheldon held the lead for most of the first half of the set but after a timeout, the Blue Devils used a mixture of kills and out-of-bounds balls to come back and take a 2-0 lead in the match.

Sheldon was once again competitive in the third set. A 5-0 run by the Huskies in the beginning of the set gave them a 7-2 lead over the Blue Devils.

Near the end of the set, the Blue Devils went on a 6-0 run that sealed the vic tory for DHS.

Davis had 38 kills in the match. Lena Sundin led the Blue Devils with 12 kills.

Michelle Kang recorded seven and Marlena Van Boxtel had six. Juliana Van Boxtel and Tessa Schouten had five each. Nicole Risch recorded three.

Thirty-eight was a popu lar number for the Blue Devils, who also recorded 38 digs in the game.

Marlena Van Boxtel led with 11 total digs. Olivia Kim had seven, Risch had five and Alejandra Serrano had four. Juliana Van Box tel and Sundin had three apiece. Ella Obegi had two, while Kelsey Huntington, Maya Delaney and Schouten each had one.

Thirty-two assists were cataloged in the match. Risch had 30 and Delaney two.

Davis’ next matchup is set for Friday in a nonleague away match at Los Banos High.

The Blue Devils’ next league game is Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Elk Grove High. Match time is set for 6:30 p.m.

— Follow Rebecca Wasik on Twitter: @BeccaFrom TheBay.

Take Jesuit, St. Francis out of Delta League

Mark your calendar for Jan. 17, 2023.

That is when the Sac-Joaquin Section is going to have its first meeting on the 2024-28 league realignment cycle at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton.

The section has five meetings scheduled regarding league realignment. But the completion of league realignment has been resolved in three and four meet ings in the last 20 years.

Davis High, which has an enrollment of 2,849 students, is one of about 200 high schools in the section that stretch from Yuba City to LeGrand.

In all likelihood, Davis will probably stay in the Delta League, which it has been a member of the Division I league since 2014. Davis is part of the seven-school league that include five Elk Grove schools in Cosumnes Oaks, Elk Grove, Franklin, Pleasant Grove and Sheldon. Jesuit and St. Francis, both Catholic schools, round out the league. Jesuit is boys-only and St. Francis is all girls.

It's no secret that there are Davis and Yolo County area par ents and families who have sent in years past, are sending today and will be sending their teenage

children in the future to Jesuit or St. Francis.

Anyone in the Davis area, Yolo County, the Sacramento region and Northern California who is a part of high school athletics, be it as a coach, student-athlete or fans, know that Jesuit and St. Francis have the best of the best in student-athletes playing for their athletic programs.

Jesuit and St. Francis have dominated the Delta League in most sports since Davis joined in 2014 — now it's time to move Jesuit and St. Francis to another league. Period. No ifs, ands or buts.

Here are suggestions how Delta League could be like for 2024-28.

n Move Jesuit and St. Francis to the Sierra Foothill League, a D-I league that currently has six schools with Oak Ridge, Folsom, Granite Bay, Del Oro, Rocklin

and Whitney of Rocklin.

The new SFL will become one of the most powerful D-I leagues in not only the section, but in NorCal and probably California. The league would be more pow erful with the addition of Jesuit and St. Francis.

Now the Delta League becomes a six-school league with Davis, Cosumnes Oaks, Elk Grove, Franklin, Pleasant Grove and Sheldon.

This would be perfect for foot ball teams. Everyone can play five non-league games, have their bye week before the start of league and then start Delta action.

n Move Davis into the SFL — for boys and girls water polo only.

Other than Davis, Jesuit and St. Francis, only Franklin has a water polo program in the Delta League.

For more than two decades, the Davis boys and girls teams have played one of the toughest preseason schedules in the sec tion. The Blue Devils' deep runs in section playoffs that have included many titles speaks vol umes.

So, move Davis to the SFL for water polo only. Now the SFL becomes an eight-school league

for boys and girls water polo.

* Move Franklin into the TriCity Athletic League for water polo only. But it's a mystery if the TCAL, which consists of Lodi and Tokay and in Stockton schools of Lincoln and St. Mary's and Tracy and West of Tracy, will remain the same or go through changes for the next league realignment cycle.

n Move Monterey Trail, another Elk Grove school, back into the Delta League.

Monterey Trail was in the Delta League from 2014 until 2018. The Mustangs were, reluc tantly, moved to the Metro Con ference, which is D-II, for this current cycle. The school has an enrollment of 2,398 students.

During the 2018-22 league realignment meetings in early 2017 — the current cycle was extended to 2024 because of the pandemic — Monterey Trail made it perfectly clear that it wanted to remain in the Delta.

But the section's league realign ment committee voted in favor of relocating the Mustangs into the Metro Conference.

n Move Monterey Trail and Grant into the Delta League.

Grant has an enrollment of 2,088 students. The Grant foot ball team is currently 2-0 in the

Metro Conference and 4-1 over all. The Pacers had the bye on Friday, and return to action at River City on Friday, Oct. 7.

But Grant was in the SFL for football only during the 2018-24 league realignment cycle; it returned to the Metro Confer ence for football this season.

Grant made the playoffs in 2018 while in the SFL. But then the Pacers had losing records, before and after the pandemic. Simply put, the entire SFL domi nated Grant.

The question becomes: Could Grant survive the Delta League?

The remaining Metro Confer ence schools could scream in protest if Grant stayed in the conference and Monterey Trail moved to the Delta. Grant could dominate in football and boys basketball, another sport in which it is strong, and other sports.

n Grant and Monterey Trail could also remain in the Metro Conference.

But the waiting game will go on until the middle of January 2023.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Fol low on Twitter: @MBDavis Sports.

Above, Davis setter Nicole Risch (15) sets up the volleyball for middle blocker Tessa Schouten (11) in Thursday’s Delta League match against Sheldon.

Blue Devil setter Juliana VanBoxtel stays focused on getting ready to hit the volleyball.

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John powers/UC DaVis athletiCs-CoUrtesy photo

UC Davis women’s tennis player Yana Gurevich and her teammates start their season this weekend.

Our View

Go with these two council candidates

We feel like we’re old hands at this dis trict-election lark. After years of citywide votes, November 2022 will be Davis’ sec ond election where voters will pick single candidates based on geography. This time around it will be District 1 (west of High way 113, and the area around University Mall) and District 4 (East Davis and Wild horse, east of Pole Line Road). Districts 2 (north, west-central), 3 (east-central) and 5 (south the Union Pacific railroad) will have to wait another two years.

We always say we’re lucky in this town that we have so many qualified citizens willing to step up on serve in local govern ment. As usual, it’s an impressive slate that will greet voters on the ballot.

IN DISTRICT 4, we can’t help but admire the work that Councilwoman Glo ria Partida has put in over the past four years. First elected in 2017, she hit the ground running and impressed with her energy and attention to detail at council meetings — especially in pursuit of her priorities: affordable housing, homeless ness and economic development.

She took over as mayor just in time for the COVID pandemic and, shifting council business to the world of Zoom meetings, provided critical leadership during rough times. The partnership with UC Davis to respond to the pandemic, Healthy Davis Together, is still getting national attention for its effectiveness in slowing the spread of the disease in this community. And she sees that collaboration as something that the city can build on.

“We learned a lot about communicating and sharing resources,” Partida told The Enterprise, “getting people to come out to test and get vaccinated and that translates a lot to any other issue that we are going to tackle in the future.”

As the founder of the Davis Phoenix Coalition, she has a longstanding commit ment to social justice. On the homeless issue, she helped push for a city Depart ment of Social Services and Housing, as well as pragmatic, real-time solutions like housing vouchers. This dovetails with her work on affordable housing, which she sees as a way of making Davis a more inclusive, welcoming community.

She said she sees economic development as a way to fund that goal. “We have to make sure that we have economic develop ment that is going to be able to sustain us and that is diverse,” she said.

IN DISTRICT 1, scene of a lively threeway race, we are backing challenger Bapu Vaitla, whose ideas and perspective offer a new take on Davis concerns.

A UCD grad, Vaitla returned to Davis five years ago and has been served on the city’s Social Services Commission, the Davis Homelessness Alliance steering committee and Cool Davis. Now he’s ready to take the next step into elected office.

Like Partida, he speaks often of inclu sion, and the idea of making a more wel coming community drives as a major theme through his position. He does not shy away from the issue of racial demo graphics; “Many people of color, many low-income families can’t afford to live here,” he said to The Enterprise. “When folks who are taking care of our children can’t afford to live here, or when folks who are the first-line response to emergencies can’t afford to live here, I think we’ve got to recognize that we have a moral problem.”

This concern for equity also informs his view on the environment, where, rather than limiting growth and staying small, he envisions a growing community better able to scale up its climate response to have a bigger impact on the overall picture. Like wise, his economic vision for a more sus tainable budget built around growing revenues through a local economy focusing on agriculture and energy systems. That sort of 360-degree thinking would make a great addition to the council.

Is California headed for recession?

California’s economy exploded as the state emerged from a rela tively brief but severe reces sion caused by business shutdowns that Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered in 2020 to battle the COVID-19 pan demic.

Virtually overnight, more than 2 million Californians lost their jobs and the state’s unemployment rate skyrock eted to more than 16%. How ever, once the restrictions were eased, the jobless rate slowly drifted downward to pre-pandemic levels, under 4%, and California employers found it increasingly difficult to fill their jobs.

The state’s ride on a dizzy ing economic rollercoaster may not be over.

Inflation is hitting rates not seen in decades, more than 8%, largely because massive amounts of federal spending, meant to counteract the eco nomic effects of pandemic, has overheated the economy, upsetting the supply-demand balance.

The Federal Reserve Sys tem is rapidly increasing interest rates in hopes of cool ing down the economy but its hope for a “soft landing” is very uncertain and there are growing fears of a recession. In a sense, it becomes a self-

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fulfilling prophecy as employ ers curtail hiring in anticipation of a recession and those actions trigger a decline.

As the nation’s largest state, California is particularly exposed to national and global economic currents. When the U.S. economy catches a cold, California’s often contracts pneumonia.

The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, warned of the state’s vulnerability last May while reviewing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised bud get.

“Predicting precisely when the next recession will occur is nearly impossible,” Petek told the Legislature. “Histori cally, however, certain eco nomic indicators have offered warning signs that a recession is on the horizon (and) many of these indicators currently suggest a heightened risk of a recession within two years.”

Citing inflation, a national

decline in economic out put, dropping home sales and other factors, Petek noted that “in the last five decades, a similar collec tion of economic condi tions has occurred six times. Each of those six times a recession has occurred within two years (and often sooner).”

Newsom’s budget, how ever, assumed that the state’s economy would continue to expand and generate billions of tax dollars. Newsom boasted of a nearly $100 bil lion surplus and he and the Legislature energetically fig ured out ways to spend it.

In the three months since the $308 billion budget was enacted, the signs of slow down — or perhaps the beginning of recession — have increased. Inflation has con tinued to rage, the Federal Reserve has continued to raise interest rates, the oncehot housing market has cooled, the stock market has taken a beating and Califor nia tax revenues have fallen several billion dollars short of the budget’s rosy assump tions.

This month, Petek released an updated, and somewhat downbeat, review of the state’s economy and the likeli hood of a revenue shortfall.

commission, to develop a ten-year plan to reverse the decline.

“At the time of our May outlook, we cautioned that economic indicators were suggesting a slowdown could be on the horizon,” Petek reminded lawmakers. “More recent economic data has continued to point in this direction. Consistent with this, our updated estimates suggest collections from the state’s ‘big three’ taxes — per sonal income, sales, and cor poration taxes — are more likely than not to fall below the Budget Act assumption of $210 billion.”

After the budget was enacted, the Legislature sent dozens of bills to Newsom that, if signed, would add as much as $30 billion in new spending. Citing that esti mate, the governor has been vetoing spending bills with this warning: “With our state facing lower-than-expected revenues over the first few months of this fiscal year, it is important to remain disci plined when it comes to spending.”

That’s a remarkable change of tone in just a few months.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

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I urge voters in City Council District 1 to re-elect Dan Carson, because I’ve seen him in action on behalf of our commu nity.

As a member of the city’s Finance and Budget Commission (here speaking for myself), I’ve seen that Dan has a deep understanding of the city’s finances and government funding in general. He chaired the finance commission before he was elected to the Council and continues to attend all our meetings. No one worked harder or came up with more ideas to improve the city’s precarious financial situation.

Both on the Council and earlier on the finance commission, he tackled the sorry state of the city’s roads and bike paths. Advocating a fix-it-first approach, he recognized that it would save money if the city could find funding to get ahead of these problems, understanding that it’s much cheaper to fix a road or bike path early rather than wait while deterioration continues. As a council member, he worked with then-Mayor Gloria Partida, city staff, and the chair of the finance

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Dan also played an important role in bringing about an enforceable agreement with UC Davis that provides additional funding for road and bike path improve ments within the city, compensates the city for taxes lost when the university leases property within city limits, and commits both the university and the city to develop additional student-oriented housing as the campus population increases.

I believe that keeping Dan on the Council will help us get through the inevitable financial stresses that lie ahead. Please vote for Dan Carson on the November ballot.

Paul Jacobs Davis

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Bapu Vaitla came to Davis as an under graduate feeling isolated and alone but soon was warmly embraced by faculty and other students. Grateful for this engagement and inclusion, Vaitla wanted to give back to Davis when he returned here after years of work around the world. His service includes serving as member and chair of the Davis Social Services Commission and on the board of

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Cool Davis. His connections with our world class university have made him see the value in building more partnerships between the city and UC Davis.

Encouraging community cooperation and involvement is one of Bapu Vaitla’s primary goals. He does this even while campaigning. At a “meet and greet” event, he starts by asking all present to share their hopes for Davis. Not only does this contribute to everyone feeling heard but hearing your neighbors’ concerns makes valuable new connections for everyone present. After listening, Vaitla shares his ideas and plans relative to the concerns he’s heard. It is apparent he is already modeling how he will bring the community together to move Davis for ward.

I share Vaitla’s view that finishing the city’s General Plan should be a primary concern so that Davis knows what kind of community it wants to be in 20 to 40 years. As he is demonstrating while cam paigning, Bapu can build community.

Let’s elect him to our City Council. We need Bapu’s abilities, vision, and values.

Vote Vaitla for City Council in District 1 (west of Highway 113). For more infor mation, please go to his website: bapu 4davis.org.

Barbara Clutter Davis

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Why DiSC matters for City Council vote

By RoBeRta Millstein Special to The Enterprise

In a recent interview with the Davis Enterprise, Gloria Par tida said that “I know that people right now are very focused on what happened with Measure H” but that being a member of the City Council is “not a one-issue job.”

However, Measure H repre sents a large number of central and key issues that future Davis city councils will have to weigh in on. It would have been bad for Davis in variety of ways, as Davis citizens widely recognized when they rejected the project by an almost 2-1 margin.

Thus, a candidate’s stance on Measure H speaks volumes about their values and how they would govern. Partida (District 4), Dan Carson (District 1), and Bapu Vaitla (District 1) were strongly in favor of Measure H. In contrast, Kelsey Fortune (Dis trict 1) and Adam Morrill (Dis trict 4) strongly opposed Measure H.

As the No on Measure H cam paign emphasized in its ballot arguments and campaign litera ture, each of the following issues was relevant to the proposed project. In no particular order:

n Affordable housing DiSC barely met the minimum afford able housing required by the city, a percentage that was already reduced. A true proponent of

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affordable housing would have pushed for a higher percentage.

The housing location was like wise poor, as it would have been adjacent to unhealthy manufac turing activities and I-80.

n Housing crisis — DiSC would have had far more employees than it could house, adding to Davis’s housing woes.

Proponents of DiSC who said that housing was a reason to vote for the project were not doing their math (more than 2,000 new employees but only about 460 housing units, with no guar antee that employees would be housed on-site).

n Agricultural land use — All the candidates now claim that they value agricultural land, but the project wouldn’t have just been on any ag land, it would have been on officially desig nated prime agricultural land, the sort of land that we will be increasingly relying for local needs and carbon sequestration.

Candidates who claim to care about ag land but who were in favor Measure H should not be believed.

n Habitat land use — The site where DiSC would have gone is known to be habitat for species of special concern, such as bur rowing owls and Swainson’s hawks. How will candidates who favored DiSC handle such land

Youthful tales from a Star Wars fanboy

By andy Jones Special to The Enterprise

A friend recently suggested that Star Wars has replaced the Western in cinematic culture, and I suppose he’s right. I told my friend that I had three Star Wars stories to share, perhaps like the yarns spun by cowboys around the campfire. Here they are in reverse chronological order.

In 1983, when “Return of the Jedi” came out, I had two summer jobs: I was working as an usher at the Tenley Circle movie theater in Washington, D.C., and I was baby sitting a young man named Micah. Micah’s mom was highly protective of the sort of content her 7-year-old son saw at the movies, but she approved of the latest Star Wars film, so the young man and I saw it together at least a half-dozen times.

And because of my movie-the ater connections, the tickets were always free. We had to pay for our own popcorn.

My “Empire Strikes Back” story was more momentous and thus more memorable. Because my father, Davey Marlin-Jones, was the film and theater critic for the local CBS affiliate in D.C., he was invited to openings, screenings and gala events of all sorts. When “The Empire Strikes Back” had its U.S. premiere on May 17, 1980, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, my dad offered to bring my younger brother Oliver and me along.

As soon as we arrived, Oliver and I saw an opportunity. Each of us grabbed a Star Wars paper plate from the buffet and proceeded to pester all the celebrities attending that event for autographs. Except for Sir Alec Guinness and Anthony Daniels, who was sick, the entire cast was there, and we got to meet them all, including Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams and Kenny Baker. I especially enjoyed chatting with Mark Hamill and Frank Oz, both of whom seemed attentive to my fan boy questions.

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You would think I couldn’t top that, but actually my first Star Wars memory is my favorite. Jack Valenti, then President of the Motion Picture Association of America, took my dad aside at some function in the mid-1970s and told him that he thought his son Andrew would really enjoy this new space opera which would be released soon, so my dad took me to the critics’ screening room at the American Film Institute to see it.

Just as the room was darkening and the curtains were parting, I asked my dad this question: “Dad, what’s the name of this movie again?” He responded, “Son, I don’t remember.” Then I looked up at the screen and saw these words:

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...

My youthful imagination could not easily process everything I was experiencing, but I do know that I had never felt more enthusiastic about a film. That said, because I was likely the first child in America to see “Star Wars”, I had no one but dad to talk to about it. None of the kids at school had any patience for my talk of Wookiees, “Luke Sky walker” or “Darth Vader,” whatever that was, but they would.

Star Wars, Marvel, and to a lesser extent, The Muppets, came to dominate cinematic culture for the coming four decades. Disney bought up all these foundational intellectual properties of my youth, and because the folks at The Walt Disney Company are experts at creating sequels and other forms of narrative repackaging, my children and I, and youthful enthusiasts of subsequent generations, will likely continue to turn for entertainment and magic to Star Wars stories for the rest of our lives.

— Andy Jones is a lecturer in the UC Davis University Writing Pro gram, and a former Davis poet laureate.

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n Traffic — The area around Mace is already gridlocked and DiSC would have added 12,000 cars per day according to the EIR. Some candidates like to downplay the importance of traf fic, but when it’s a matter of picking up a child from school, getting to an essential appoint ment, or making it to the hospi tal on time, it’s more than a quality of life issue. Also, the traffic that the project generated would have dramatically con tributed to the city’s carbon out put, which leads to the next item.

n Climate change DiSC would have increased Davis’s carbon footprint by almost 5% and thwarted the ability for Davis to achieve the goal set by its “Resolution Declaring a Cli mate Emergency,” mandating carbon neutrality by 2040. Again, all candidates say that they care about addressing cli mate change, but that doesn’t pass the sniff test for those who supported DiSC.

n Transportation — DiSC was, by design, a freeway-oriented project. It had little to nothing in the way of non-automobile-ori ented transit. Driving is Davis’ No. 1 contributor to climate change (79% of greenhouse gas emissions); the City Council should be working to improve that situation, not worsen it.

n Peripheral land use/sprawl

The location of DiSC on the

outskirts of town made the traf fic, climate change and transpor tation problems almost inevitable. Why should we think that candidates who supported DiSC would prioritize infill development over sprawl?

n Downtown Davis — The DiSC EIR unambiguously admits DiSC would have com peted with existing local retail, office and hotel space, especially in downtown Davis. If continu ing to have a vibrant, centrally located downtown was not a pri ority for those that supported Measure H, how would they vote on issues that affect the down town in the future?

n City commission process

Almost every commission pleaded for more time to exam ine the project, but city staff rushed the process through. Will candidates who supported Mea sure H take the time to make sure that future projects are thoroughly vetted?

n Listening to citizens — Almost the identical project had been rejected by voters just 18 months earlier. The City Council could have insisted that the developer engage with citizens and make changes to the project accordingly. What does it say about candidates who supported a project in spite of previous voter rejection? As council mem bers, would such candidates lis ten to citizens?

n City Planning — The DiSC

project is not in Davis’ General Plan, yet the city prioritized put ting DiSC on the ballot twice instead of making long overdue updates to the General Plan. Approving massive projects like this without a plan is like going on a cross-country trip without a roadmap — it is easy to lose your way and take a wrong turn. Should we believe candidates who supported Measure H but now claim that they would not support development outside the General Plan?

n Upholding democracy & independence from developers — Endorsing Measure H meant endorsing the bad behavior of its campaign, which famously included the free-speech squelching developer-funded lawsuit led by Carson. None of the candidates who supported Measure H have made a strong and clear denunciation (or any denunciation at all) that shows they understand why what Car son and the Yes on H campaign did was so problematic.

In short, there is no reason to believe — and much reason to disbelieve — that candidates who supported Measure H would do a good job of steering Davis forward through many of the most important issues it will likely be facing in the coming years.

— Roberta Millstein is a Davis resident

Real hero breaks through in new book

By llewellyn King Special to The Enterprise

Winston Churchill used to advise young people to read “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” the oftupdated compilation of brief quotes from just about anyone who said something memora ble. Of course, Churchill added more than a few of his own. He may have added more to the storehouse of aphorisms than any writer since Shakespeare.

But others have been no slouches. If you want to go back a bit, Napoleon wasn’t unquotable, and such writers as George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde were prolific with wit and wisdom served up in brevity. Mark Twain was a treasury of quotable sayings all by himself. In our time, Steve Jobs has made some pithy additions, and Taylor Swift, in her lyrics, has some arresting and quotable lines.

The quote, to me, is distilled wisdom in a few words, often funny, whether it came from Dorothy Parker, Abraham Lincoln or the Beatles. A pic ture may be worth a thousand words, a quote believed to have been first formulated by Henrik Ibsen, but a well-cho sen aphorism is worth many more than a thousand words.

So, it is thrilling to know that Victoria Yeager, widow of Chuck Yeager, aviation’s great est hero, has collected his say ings into a book, “101 Chuck Yeager-isms: Wit & Wisdom from America’s hero.”

Yeager came from the small town of Hamlin, W.Va. Even today, it has a population of just over 1,000. Being from one of West Virginia’s famous hollows, Yeager said of it, “I was born so far up a holler, they had to pipe daylight in.”

When the town erected a statue of Yeager, he said, “There wasn’t a pigeon in Hamlin until they erected a statue of me.”

The journey began modestly with Yeager joining the Army

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as a private after high school and led to his success as a fighter ace with 11.5 kills — one involved another U.S. air craft and, hence, the half — but Victoria Yeager told me there were more not officially recognized. She said he may have shot down as many as 15 German aircraft over Europe.

Shot down himself over France in 1944, the Germans watched his parachute float down and went out to find him. Yeager said, “There ain’t a German in the world that can catch a West Virginian in the woods.” And they didn’t.

In an interview for “White House Chronicle” on PBS, Victoria told me that Yeager always insisted that there be fun in everything, whether it was aerial fighting, flying through the sound barrier, or flying aircraft that might kill him. “You gotta have fun in life, whatever I did, I always included fun,” he said.

Yeager, Victoria said, main tained critical aircraft like the X-1, in which he broke the sound barrier himself. That way, he knew and there would be no excuses. He said, “In the end, or at the moment of truth, there are only excuses or results.”

Victoria told me the impres sion given in the movie “The Right Stuff” of Yeager as a reckless daredevil who rode a horse up to his aircraft, took off, and broke the sound bar

rier was pure Hollywood. Yea ger was a consultant to Tom Wolfe during the writing of the book “The Right Stuff” to ensure accuracy. In fact, Victo ria said, it was on the ninth flight that he broke the sound barrier. It is true that the hori zontal stabilizer on the plane wasn’t working, but Yeager was able to control the plane with a manual trim tab, she added.

Yeager fought in World War II because it was his duty to fight, as he saw it. After being shot down, he wanted to keep fighting; when the military wanted to send him home, he appealed the decision all the way up to Gen. Dwight Eisen hower and won the right to fly in combat again. He said of duty, “You’ve got a job to do, you do it, especially in the mili tary.”

Yeager’s philosophy may have been summed up in this quote, “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing; you back up, but you don’t give up.”

That is the spirit that kept Yeager flying for pleasure until his death at 97.

In our carping, whining, blaming times, it is a tonic to read the thoughts and some thing of the life of a real hero. Thank you, Victoria Yeager, for assembling this book.

Llewellyn King is execu tive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for Inside Sources.com.

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When the Girl Scouts got stuck in Conshohocken

Today I begin with some thing that happened long ago and led to an insight that is very recent.

The year was 1958 or 1959. I was a Girl Scout, 11 or 12 years old, not yet chafing against the limitations of scouting for girls, and not yet aware that Boy Scouts were doing cooler stuff.

I was all in for our troop.

So were most of the girls, and perhaps more important, so were our parents, who were rais ing us in a middle-class suburb of New York. When it came to educational experiences for their daughters, these parents were eager to go the extra mile.

Our troop decided to take a trip that involved extra miles and then some.

We would drive 3½ hours from Eastchester, New York, to Lan caster, Pa., in one day to visit the largest Amish settlement in America. The Amish, who still populate the area, are known for living simply and disdaining modern conveniences, even elec tricity. They ride in horse-pulled buggies.

Observing people with a unique lifestyle should have made an impression on me, but I find that I don’t remember what

we saw or even if we got to talk to Amish people.

All my learning, it seems, occurred on the ride home.

With the sky growing dark, we start home in cars driven by our troop leader and two other moms.

My driver, Mrs. Allen, is in last position. An hour into the drive we suddenly hear a loud “clunk” and her car loses power. With good instincts, Mrs. Allen simul taneously leans on the horn and pulls to the shoulder.

We wait for the moms ahead of us to stop, but they don’t. Can’t they hear us? For several minutes we sit, hoping for them to come back, but they never do. This is, of course, long before cell phones.

We still have 2½ hours to go. We are near an off-ramp, how ever, which is very lucky. Mrs.

Allen walks us up the ramp where, with continuing good luck, we find a gas station.

It is a lonely outpost with only a cashier on duty.

Borrowing the phone, Mrs. Allen quickly learns that no one will be fixing her car, or even looking at it, any time soon. One girl says she wishes we had a horse and buggy.

To her credit, Mrs. Allen buys us candy and does not cry.

“The others don’t know where we are,” she says. “Even if they notice we’re gone, they won’t come back.

“We need to call someone,” she continues. “We need someone to come and get us.”

That person is going to have a tough job. Our phone call will wake them from sleep and require them to drive 2½ hours to a town with a clunky name we have just learned: Con shohocken, Pa. Once our rescuer arrives, he or she will need to turn around and drive us 2½ hours home.

I’m not sure why staying over night is not a possibility, but the reason may be financial or a lack of motels.

Mrs. Allen’s husband can’t come because the family has no

second car. I look at her for only a moment before I say, “My father will do it. I know he will.”

Although my dad is an “early to bed” person, I know he will arise and come. I know he will find ways to keep himself awake on the roadway. I know he will find Conshohocken.

Mrs. Allen believes me. She makes the call.

For 2½ hours we huddle and catnap in the neon lights of the gas station office. With no way to get updates from the road, we just wait. I know my mom will call the other parents, so no one is worrying exactly, but it’s a long wait.

Never am I so happy to see our green Buick. My father, tall with thick glasses, emerges, greets us, and buys gas before we girls squeeze into the back seat and sleep our way home.

In the many years since then, a much more complex portrait of my father grew in my mind. He was a devoted dad, a faithful provider, but also frequently unmindful of my mother’s feel ings, and immensely stubborn when crossed on even minor things. When my mother died, he remarried so quickly that you

would have thought he was changing socks.

Last week I was on a boat in Alaska with 11 other travelers, when somehow the topic of Pennsylvania came up. We were sitting close together in the only room big enough to hold us when I suddenly found myself talking about Conschohocken and telling my story from more than 60 years ago.

I hadn’t meant to say anything personal, but here I was talking about my dad.

The story says something about the father I always had, now gone almost two decades with the anniversary of his death coming next month. He was a reliable man. Even as a child, I knew that some other kids didn’t have that.

Perhaps I’ve been unforgiving of some of his later choices. These things are complicated. But here’s what moves me now:

In the night, in Con shohocken, Pa., when I was only 11 or 12 years old, I knew my dad would come.

— Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

Go purple for Domestic Violence Awareness

By Natalia Baltazar

Special to The Enterprise

October is annually rec ognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and National Bully ing Prevention Month. Oct. 1 marks the beginning of Empower Yolo’s eighth annual “Paint Yolo Purple Month of Action” cam paign, back in person this year.

October’s “Paint Yolo Purple” (the color purple representing Domestic Vio lence Awareness) campaign is meant to raise awareness about domestic violence and anti-bullying, and help fund Empower Yolo’s essen tial services for survivors of abuse and their children.

Although progress has been made toward prevent ing and ending domestic violence and providing sup port to survivors and their families, important work remains to be done as 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe phys ical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). In 2021 there were 164,608 domestic vio lence-related calls for assis tance in California. See Crime in California 2021, DOJ report, page 3, dataopenjustice.doj.ca.gov/ sites/default/files/202208/Crime In CA 2021_0. pdf.

This year’s efforts focus on broadening awareness in the local business commu nity and throughout Yolo County. “Incidents of domestic violence dramati cally increased during the COVID pandemic. This sad reality highlights the need to bring attention to the activities of Domestic Vio lence Awareness Month, as well as to find ways for our community to support the work of organizations like Empower Yolo,” says Lucas Frerichs, Mayor, City of Davis.

Despite the pandemic, Empower Yolo’s efforts to help survivors of domestic violence have been success ful. In 2021 Empower Yolo provided safe shelter to 221 survivors (of which 133 were children) of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking for 17,509 bed nights. In addi tion to shelter, Empower Yolo also offers many other services to survivors of abuse including 24-hour crisis intervention, legal advocacy, confidential counseling for adults and children, support groups, housing services, youth ser vices, financial empower

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ment services, case management, food, cloth ing, and so much more.

This year, the “Paint Yolo Purple” campaign began with the executive board’s outreach event to busi nesses in Davis, Woodland, and Winters. Each business was given information about Empower Yolo, and DVAM, and asked to put up a window cling showing their support of survivors and Empower Yolo. Several business owners supported the event and recognized the need to support domes tic violence awareness in our community.

“We (Corner Drug Co.) are proud to support the important work of Empower Yolo, providing resources and assistance to some of the most vulnerable in our county. I’m inspired by their commitment to not only offer immediate assis tance to survivors but to build resilience in our com munity with important ser vices such as legal assistance and counseling,” says Erik Daniells, owner, Corner Drug Co., Wood land. Empower Yolo is looking forward to being one of Corner Drug Co.’s nonprofit partners for its 1st street window project in 2023. For more info visit: cornerdrugco.com. Other businesses in Woodland that supported the event are Local Inspirations, My Sisters Closet, Emil’s Shoe Store, Embellish Décor & Gifts, and Nina’s Spray Tan.

In Davis, Sassafras Beauty has been a longtime supporter of Empower Yolo. “Sassafras Beauty sup ports Empower Yolo with a yearly silent auction of pro fessional skincare, hair care, cosmetics, and local gifts. As a local woman-owned boutique, I love being able to promote a safe healthy, and resilient community through Empower Yolo. Empower Yolo is the best!” says Danielle Crane, owner, Sassafras Beauty in Davis.

Sassafras Beauty is celebrat ing its 10th anniversary this year from Oct. 5-9 offering discounts and gifts. A cele bratory party will be on Oct. 9; for more info visit: sassafrasbeauty.net.

Thank you to all the gen erous and conscientious business owners that have already shown their sup port for survivors in our community and Empower Yolo. If your business is interested in supporting Empower Yolo during DVAM, contact info@ empoweryolo.org.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19

Empower Yolo will be the beneficiary of Mojo’s Celeb rity Bartending event. We are excited the event will be back in person at Mojo’s Lounge & Bar, 428 1st street, Woodland from 5-7 p.m. Please join Empower Yolo and our three amazing celebrity bartenders: City of Woodland Mayor, Mayra Vega; City of Davis Mayor, Lucas Frerichs; and City of West Sacramento Mayor, Martha Guerrero. All three mayors plan to be at Mojo’s from 5-5:30 p.m. for some supportive words in recog nition of DVAM. Empower Yolo will also benefit from Mojo’s October “Cocktail for a Cause.” Thank you to Mojo’s for hosting this fun event for Empower Yolo.

Empower Yolo is grateful for the support of our local elected officials. “Helping to support vulnerable popula tions is one of my key responsibilities as an elected official, and Empower Yolo is a partner in leading this essential work throughout our com munities in Yolo County,” says Mayor Frerichs.

Other events and activi ties for DVAM include: a month-long babies needs and women’s undergar ments drive (donations can be made any time in Octo ber at our Woodland or Davis offices during office hours) for a full list of needs visit empoweryolo. org. Wear Purple Day in support of survivors is on Thursday, Oct. 20; take a selfie and tag Empower

Yolo on social media to show your support. On Fri day, Oct. 28, local law enforcement will partici pate in the “Battle of Badge” bowling tourna ment. Empower Yolo will also participate in a few outreach events during the month including “Take Back the Night” march in Sacramento on Oct. 15. Stay tuned for the West Sacramento Police Depart ment video in partnership with Empower Yolo on ser vices for survivors in recog nition of DVAM.

October is also National Bullying Prevention Month. Empower Yolo’s After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) program will be running a month-long awareness campaign for its students at Woodland High School. Some activities and workshop topics include “What does it mean to stand up for others?”, “Cre ating Inclusive Spaces”, and “Healthy Relationships.”

The ASSETs team will be engaging with students and the school community on these topics and will pro vide resources and support.

A special thank you to our sponsor, Alpha Chi Omega at UC Davis; they will be hosting their “Run way” event in October to help support Empower Yolo’s domestic violence programs.

For dates and details of activities, a full calendar of events is available at empoweryolo.org. Follow

us on Facebook @empow eryolo, Instagram, and Twitter @empower_ yolo. Help us “Paint Yolo Purple” in this Month of Action by following us each day in October to learn more about domestic vio lence, and how you can support survivors of abuse.

The community can help by supporting survivors, raising awareness, partici pating in DVAM activities, donating to domestic vio lence programs, and sup porting local businesses that support Empower Yolo.

All survivors deserve

access to culturally respon sive programs and services to increase their safety and self-sufficiency, and all communities deserve access to prevention programs to improve overall community health and safety. You can help by donating online any time this month at empow eryolo.org in honor of or in memory of survivors you know who have been impacted by domestic vio lence, and to help support our emergency shelter, and run vital programs for our clients and the community.

Empower Yolo continues to respond to the rising needs of victims and fami lies in our community, but we cannot do this work without you. We are thankful for the support of our local elected officials, business community mem bers, and donors who have supported Empower Yolo to ensure that victims of abuse and vulnerable fami lies have access to what they need to stay safe and healthy. Join us in the con versation and movement to end domestic violence.

“Domestic violence often goes unreported or unrec ognized, but it is a serious health crisis that affects both the physical and men tal health of our commu nity. By reducing stigma and having honest discus sions we can focus on breaking the cycle of vio lence. It is an opportunity to learn about the signs of domestic violence, to advo cate for survivors, and remember those who were lost,” says Daniells.

Natalia Baltazar is the director of development and community relations for Empower Yolo.

By aNdy JoNes

Special to The Enterprise

1. Davis Schools. Which of the following is closest to the driving distance between the Davis schools Pioneer Elementary and Fairfield Elementary: three, five, or nine?

2. Name the Year. “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” were the first and 17th top-grossing films of what year?

3. City Centers. Intra muros (Latin for “inside the walls”) is the 0.26square-mile historic walled area within what capital city of 1.8 million people?

4. Books and Authors. 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of what

T.S. Eliot poem?

5. Mottos and Slogans. Starting with the letter U, what company has used the slogan “Right Equipment. Lowest Cost”?

Answers: 10.7 miles, so nine; 2018; Manila, the capital of the Philippines, “The Waste Land”; U-Haul.

Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.your quizmaster.com.

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Danielle Crane, owner of Sassafras Beauty in Davis and a long-time supporter of Empower Yolo, puts up a window cling at Sassafras to show her support for domestic violence survivors and Empower Yolo.

ACROSS

1 ___ Network, onetime HGTV spinoff

4 “Never thought I’d see the day!”

Rock variety

Bit of album info

Temporary decline

Where to see the big picture?

19 ___ Nkrumah, first P.M. and president of Ghana

Prepare (oneself)

Flat topper

First Stuart king of England

Trees that canopy Central Park’s Literary Walk

Kind of health

Super-useful item?

Lay down, in a way

Where jobs may be on the line

Religious group affected by the Edict of Nantes

Disney’s Splash Mountain, for one

See 49-Down

“Chicago” performance

Gig for a caterer, maybe

Word before double or after heavenly

Superhero with a lightning bolt on his costume

Trigonometry meas.

Helps out with a lift

Habitation

Venue for computer chips?

group

which Tyler, the Creator got his start

Rio maker

residents

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Seated position?

“Yes, this has been brought to my attention”

might hold different positions on

Show some hesitancy

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from “Twelfth Night”)

Reach quickly, in a way

of sauce made with peanuts

North Carolina county whose seat is Jefferson

Vibe

1890 admission to the Union: Abbr.

Makes nervous

Edited by Will

Ambitious

Complete

the numbers 1 through 9. No number will be repeated in any row, column or outlined

PUZZLE BY ANDREW LINZER

By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis

Dilbert

By Scott Adams

Classic Peanuts

By Charles M. Schulz

Walt

"Kinky Boots" @ 8pm / $15-$22.50 Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco

LOWLIVES

@ 8pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 9pm / $45-$47.50

Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Night Tales @ 9pm / $20

The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

50th Anniversary of The Domes @ UC Davis

@ 3pm / Free

Bad

Discovery Park, 1600 Garden Hwy,

ART HOE: VOL II - Watch Me @ 7pm / $10 Oasis, 298 11th Street, San Fran‐

cisco

Ritualz @ 7pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

Garrett + Moulton Dance 20th Anniversary Season @ 7:30pm / $28

Garrett + Moulton Productions (GMP) celebrates its 20th anniver‐sary October 6-9 with the world premieres of a new work by chore‐ographer Janice Garrett and an an‐imated �lm by Charles Moulton. ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco. info@garrettmoul ton.org

"Passengers" @ 7:30pm / $30-$110

A.C.T.'s Geary Theater, 415 Geary St., San Francisco

Westside Boogie @ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Beth Leavel: "It's Not About Me"

@ 8pm / $54 Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐son Street, San Francisco

"Kinky Boots" @ 8pm / $15-$22.50

Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco

Songs @ 8pm Feinstein's at The Nikko, 222 Ma‐son St, San Francisco

"Bad Hombres" @ 8pm / $7.50-$12.50 Theatre Rhinoceros, 4229 18th Street, San Francisco

"Zac & Siah, Or Jesus in a Body Bag" @ 8pm / $20

Phoenix Theatre San Francisco, 414 Mason St., San Francisco

Gem

the Founders of the Domes along with Domies of every era at the Domes to celebrate 50 years of alternative living on UCD campus. Baggins End Domes, 7 Baggins End, Davis. jason@schadavis.org, 916-642-9447

LaRussell's Album Release Concert @ 3pm Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia Street, Vallejo

Yerba Buena Night @ 6pm Yerba Buena Night is Bigger Than Ever with a Showcase of Free Live Music, Dance & Performances at Jessie Square, Yerba Buena Lane, Yerba Buena Gardens, Museums, Galleries, & Restaurants—Down‐town SoMa Jessie Square, San Francisco. info@ybcbd.org, 415644-0728

Tierra Legacy & Malo

@ 7pm Crest The‐atre, 1013 K St, Sacramento

Neal Brennan @ 7pm

Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Ave, San Francisco

Eshu Tune (Hannibal Buress) & Friends @ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Metric - The Doomscroller

Tour @ 7pm / $36

Ace of Spades, 1417

St., Sacra‐mento

Metric @ 7pm Ace Of Spades, 1417

St, Sacra‐mento

Waylon Payne

@ 8pm / $18

Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St., San Francisco

Ritviz

@ 8pm August Hall, 420 Mason St, San Francisco

Da??i Freyr

@ 8pm

The Regency Ballroom, 1290 Sut‐ter Street, San Francisco

Iceage

@ 8pm

Great American Music Hall, 850 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Wed 10/12

Jagged Little Pill

@ 1pm Golden Gate Theater, 1 Taylor St, San Francisco

CaringtonSwing: Le Jazz Hot Trio @ 5pm Scopo Divino, 2800 California St #101, San Francisco

Napa Valley Wild�re Forum with Napa Firewise @ 6pm / Free Wild�re is Inevitable. Preparation is SMART. We’ll Show You How! Zoom Webinar on wild�re risk and what you can do to make your home more wild�re resilient. Napa. eden@napa�rewise.org, 707-3451947

John Calvin Abney

@ 7pm The Lost Church, 65 Capp St, San Francisco

Saturday Oct 8th

The Alpine Camp: Plac‐erville, CA

@ 7pm The Green Room Social Club, 251 Main St, Plac‐erville

"Kinky Boots" @ 8pm / $15-$22.50

Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco

The Pleasure Routine @ 8:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 9pm / $45-$47.50 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

D-Program @ 9pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th

The Drowns @ 7:30pm Gold�eld Trading Post, 1630 J St, Sacra‐

mento

Benny Green @ 7:30pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Kenny Barron @ 7:30pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Johnathan Blake @ 7:30pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Henry Rollins @ 7:30pm

Crest Theatre - Sacramento, 1013 K Street, Sacramento

Booze & Glory @ 7:30pm Gold�eld Trading Post, 1630 J St, Sacramento

Kiyoshi Kitagawa @ 7:30pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Katie Von Schleicher @ 8:30pm

Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

BIT @ 9:30pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco Resis‐tance Films by Judith Ehrlich: "The Boys Who Said No!" @ 7pm / $7.50

Presidio Theatre, 99 Mor‐aga Ave, San Francisco

Little Monarch: Tiny Tour @ 7pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Wendy DeWitt Queen of Boogie Woogie @ 7pm

People In Plazas, Battery Bridge Plaza, San Francisco

Cuchulain

@ 7pm The Lost Church, 65 Capp St, San Francisco

Jagged Little Pill @ 7:30pm Golden Gate Theater, 1 Taylor St, San Francisco

Dresage @ 8pm

Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Ivan & Alyosha With Evan Bartels and Alec Shaw @ 7pm Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

"Indecent" @ 7pm / $15-$70 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

Methods Body @ 8pm Peacock Lounge, San Francisco

The Emo Night Tour: San Francisco @ 8pm / $16-$19 The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

Crying Time @ 8pm Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th St, San Francisco

ART HOE: VOL II - Watch Me @ 10pm / $10 Oasis, 298 11th Street, San Fran‐cisco

Fri 10/14

Monica Da Silva @ 5pm Andaz Napa

By Hyatt, 1450 1st St,

Magician Jay Alexander @ 6:30pm / $45-$47.50

Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Tina D’Elia: "Overlooked Latinas" @ 7:30pm / $12.50

The Marsh Upstairs Studio Theater, 1062 Valencia Street, San Fran‐cisco

Cabaret Macabre 2022 @ 8pm / $17.50

The Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stock‐ton Blvd., Sacramento

City of Vacaville presents Tower of Power @ 8pm / $75

The City of Vacaville presents Tower of Power. Vacaville Perform‐ing Arts Theatre, 1010 Ulatis Drive, Vacaville. info@vpat.net, 7070469-4013

"Zac & Siah, Or Jesus in a Body Bag" @ 8pm / $20 Phoenix Theatre San Francisco, 414 Mason St., San Francisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 9pm / $45-$47.50 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

James McMurtry @ 9pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Winters Food

6pm

Hotel Win‐ters, 12 Abbey Street, Winters

2nd Friday ArtAbout! @ 6pm Join us at the Pence Gallery for our 2nd Friday ArtAbout reception on October 14, 6-9 PM (free admis‐sion). We will have three fantastic new exhibits on display! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pence socialmedia@gmail.com, 530-7583370

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus @ 7pm The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Ln, Orangevale Bisi: Afrobeats + Reggae Flow @ 7pm Ground�oor, 455 Valencia St, San Francisco

JourneyDay Music @ 7pm The Saint, 1351 Main St, Saint He‐lena

Wendy DeWitt Queen of Boogie Woogie @ 9:30pm The Saloon, 1232 Grant ave, San Francisco

Bisi X Gavin @ 11pm Folsom Street Foundry, 1425 Fol‐som St, San Francisco

Sun 10/16

Bisi: Sunday Streets @ 11am GLIDE Memorial Church, 330 Ellis St, San Francisco

Second Bite: the Wisdom of the Apple, technofeminist immersive art at the Internet Archive in SF. @ 12pm / Free A unique fusion of technology and gender, Second Bite: The Wisdom of the Apple is a large-scale im‐mersive art installation showcas‐ing women and female experiences from around the world and across time Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco. info@sec ondbite.net, 530-205-3047

Speakeasy Love @ 7:30pm

Social House Speakeasy, South Lake Tahoe

Comedy Night at the Valencia Room

@ 8pm / $8

The Valencia Room, 647 Valencia St, San Francisco

We Own the Laughs @ 8pm / $20 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Avenue, San Francisco

Thu 10/13

The Groove Objective

@ 5pm The Ramp, 855 Terry A Francois Blvd, San Francisco

CaringtonSwing: Le Jazz Hot Quartet @ 6:30pm

Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio, 39 Fell St, San Francisco

TELEFONE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE HOOKS @ 7:30pm Amados, 998 Valencia St, San Francisco

World Premiere of "Invoking the River" A New Kathak Dance Work @ 8pm / $20

The world premiere of a new kathak dance work exploring the con�uence of history, religion and the environmental changes of some of the India’s most sacred waterways. ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco. info@ chitreshdasinstitute.org

World Premiere of

UC Davis Women & Philan‐thropy: A Conversa‐tion With Glennon Doyle @ 1pm / $65

Join us for a symposium featuring a panel discus‐sion with dynamic women leaders and a one-on-one conversation with Glennon Doyle. Mondavi Center, 523 Mrak Hall Drive, Davis "Zac & Siah, Or Jesus in a Body Bag"

2pm / $20

Phoenix Theatre San Francisco, 414 Mason St., San Francisco

"Indecent"

2pm / $15-$70

San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

Meices

4pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 6:30pm / $45-$47.50

"Trick R Treat" (2009) @ 7pm / $5 Crest The‐atre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento

Kevin Carducci: Hotel Utah w/ Nick Gamer & The Midnight Angels @ 7pm Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th St, San Francisco

Tina D’Elia: "Overlooked Latinas" @ 7:30pm / $12.50

The Marsh Upstairs Studio Theater, 1062 Valencia Street, San Fran‐cisco

The Emo Night Tour - San Francisco @ 7:30pm

The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

Sat 10/15

Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐

St., San Francisco

Psyclon Nine

7pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

Seven Factor

Lounge, 375 11th St,

davis.edu, 530-754-6349

Room,

Drew Harrison: In The Spirit of Lennon @ 7:30pm Downtown Theatre, 1035 Texas St, Fair�eld

Drew Harrison's intimate acoustic celebration of the life and music of John Lennon — featuring Tommy Cosentino on piano, presented by Frazier-Trager. Although inspired by great music across many genres, his �rst and foremost inspiration came from The Beatles and in particular, John Lennon.

Miranda Love:

About time: Flag football replacing Pro Bowl

TheNFL this week did something it should have done 20 years ago.

It pulled the plug on the Pro Bowl and replaced it with some sort of skills competition. This way, deserving players still get a week in the sunshine, and the TV networks get something to show people living in the Snow Belt.

Like the long-ago College All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl over the last decade-plus lost whatever relevance it had left. Players voted to the game sud denly came down with phantom injuries, but they could still take part in the festivities. No one wanted to take a chance on get ting hurt.

A flag football game will be part of the new format. Since the NFL has a lot invested in flag football for children around the country, it makes a lot of sense.

*With major companies flood ing the TV airwaves during NFL games, it is certainly hoped that

bands like Fleetwood Mac and others are being properly com pensated for their music as part of the commercials.

*Spotted at last week’s UC Davis home game: Retired head trainer Jeff Hogan, long-ago Aggie receiver and later Raiders executive John Herrera, plus retired executive director of mar keting Larry Swanson. Good friends all.

*The Beach Boys have had many reincarnations over the years. But in this, the 60th anni versary of the band’s original members, they are Brian Wilson, Mike Love, the late Carl and

Dennis Wilson and David Marks.

Marks left the band, and Al Jardine would take his spot, though Marks did return later on.

*Not much of a country music guy but could listen to Miranda Lambert all evening. She’s playing two to three shows a week in Las Vegas. Go to miran dalambert.com for full informa tion.

*Oakland A’s catcher Stephen Vogt is retiring from baseball and will make it official at a press conference on Tuesday. Vogt is one of the game’s class acts, and it’s expected he’ll manage a major league team sooner than later.

*The Sacramento River Cats ended their 22nd season Wednesday with a 5-0 shutout win in front of 9,920 sun-soaked fans.

The team, ballpark and sur rounding land have been sold to

the Sacramento Kings.

It was not a stellar season for the River Cats on the field, but a salute to the late Art Savage, his wife Susan, and son Jeff for all they did to bring baseball back to Sacramento in 2000.

First as an A’s affiliate, and now as the San Francisco Giants top farm club, the organization has been top-flight in every respect. The franchise is the most valuable in minor league baseball.

As new owners, the Kings need to recognize and continue the River Cats legacy of putting fans first.

*Since “bullpen” games are likely here to stay, one man’s opinion of the all-time bullpen pitching staff.

One caveat: must be modernera players, one inning pitched, and at least one currently active player: First inning: Sandy Kou fax. Second inning: Bob Gibson.

Third inning: Juan Marichal. Fourth inning: Max Scherzer.

Fifth inning: Nolan Ryan. Sixth inning: Tom Seaver. Seventh inning: Greg Maddux. Eighth inning: Steve Carlton. Ninth inning: Mariano Rivera.

For their collective brilliance, only Koufax, Gibson and Rivera pitched entirely for their original team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, respectively.

“Auld Lang Syne” has been recorded by a great number of differing genre artists notably Mariah Carey.

A slightly different version “Same Old Lang Syne” is the late Dan Fogelberg’s recollection of a chance encounter with a former lover on New Year’s Eve. Good stuff.

The longtime radio and tele vision color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and man aging general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.

Davis High girls tennis sweeps Cosumnes Oaks in Thursday’s matchup

Enterprise staff

The Davis High girls tennis team took care of business on Thurs day.

The Blue Devils swept Cosumnes Oaks' squad in two matches on the Wolf pack's tennis courts. Davis (6-0 in the Delta League) won the make-up match 5-0 and the regularly scheduled match by an 8-1 score. The first match was shortened to start the sec ond match and to finish by nightfall.

The first match between Davis and Cosumnes Oaks was cut short earlier in September because of the heat wave.

Blue Devil singles play ers May Edmonds, Char lotte Sloane and Macey

LocaL roundup

Foncannon posted victo ries in their matches.

The Blue Devils doubles' teams of Inkyung HwangNatalie Hersch and Lea Lamoureux-Sami TullySmith also won their matches in one set each.

Five of the six Davis sin gles players won their matches in the regular scheduled match.

Hannah Proctor, along with Davis teammates Maria Anderson, Ellie Chang, Edmonds and Sloane, won in straight sets.

Davis swept the doubles matches, as Alena Voss-Cloe Lamoureux, Hwang-Lamoureux and

Foncannon-Amelie Ingram went one set each.

DHS girls golf

The Davis High girls golf team recorded another low team score in a Delta League match on Wednes day, but St. Francis won the contest 208-219.

Alessandra Trask carded a 38 for the Blue Devils. Saera Ojha followed with a 42, Brooklyn Bolnik and Sydney Tuss 45 each, Esha Kajley 49 and Ashlyn Swanson 52.

UC Davis football

IRVING, Texas — UC Davis graduate linebacker Jayce Smalley was named one of 156 semifinalists for

the 2022 William V. Campbell Trophy, college football's premier scholarathlete award, the National Football Founda tion & College Hall of Fame proudly announced Wednesday.

The UCLA graduate transfer, who earned his degree in just three years in Westwood, has already etched his name on an MBA degree in Davis and is working on another graduate degree in profes sional accountancy. Smal ley boasted a 3.82 GPA in his MBA program.

On the field, the Kaneohe, Hawaii, native bided his time, and it has paid off for the Aggies. Smalley has started the first four games of the

2022 season at the middle linebacker position and recorded 13 tackles with one for a loss and a quar terback hurry.

The NFF will announce 12-14 finalists on Oct. 26, and each of them will receive an $18,000 post graduate scholarship as a member of the 2022 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments.

The finalists will travel to Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for the 64th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 6, where their accomplishments will be highlighted in front of one of the most powerful audiences in all of sports.

Nominated by their

schools, which are limited to one nominee each, can didates for the awards must be a senior or gradu ate student in their final year of playing eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football abil ity as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citi zenship.

The class is selected each year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is includes a nationally rec ognized group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics administrators.

October

Stroll through History

Stroll through History

Mid-Century Modern homes featured in 33rd “Stroll”

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Mcnaughton Media

Since 1989, the city of Woodland has celebrated its unique architectural legacy through an annual “Stroll Through History,” where visitors are invited to participate in tours of selected homes and neighborhoods.

There are private home tours, docent-led walking tours, bike tours and more, all of which provide a glimpse into the city’s history and how it evolved over the years.

This year’s tour, on Saturday, Oct. 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., marks a bit of a departure from past tours, however, giving some love to Mid-Century Modern homes.

Previous open houses on the strolls have focused on a traditional mix of historic styles, including Victorians and Craftsman bungalows, and there will plenty of those during this year’s walking and biking tours, but this year’s stroll features private tours of five more modern homes.

Created after World War II, the Mid-Century Modern design featured minimalist principles of Scandinavian design as well as lots of windows and sliding glass doors to let in natural light.

One such home, deemed by organizers as the best example of mid-20th century modern exterior in Woodland, is that of Woodland City Councilman Tom Stallard and his wife Meg.

The interior of the home has Frank LloydWright-inspired features and the exterior features a Japanese garden designed by a Japanese master who also worked in the Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park.

The Stallards’ home as well as four other MidCentury Modern homes will be open for private tours during the stroll.

Tickets for the open house tours can be purchased at https://strollthroughhistory.com/ tickets/.

Neighborhood tours

Then there are the docent-led biking and walking neighborhood tours.

Walking tours are free and led by trained docents able to explain the architectural features and history of stops along the way. Each tour lasts up to an hour.

A new walking tour this year will take participants through three blocks bounded by Cross, Pendegast, Third and College streets.

One block on First Street was subdivided in the 1880s and features Victorians, while the block across the street wasn’t subdivided until the 1910s and has a variety of house styles from the first half of the 1900s.

“The contrast in architectural styles from one

side of the street to the other is striking, awaiting to be discovered by strollers,” according to the Stroll Through History website.

That tour begins on the southwest corner of Second and Cross streets at 8:30 a.m.

Another walking tour focuses on College Street and its variety of house styles, from Victorian to Queen Anne to Bungalow, as well as the first modernist home built in Woodland in 1912.

“Join docent Barbara Graham, who has intimately studied this neighborhood over the INDEX

“Birds eye view of Woodland,” 1871.

Yolo County Archives

course of leading this captivating walking tour for many years, for a step back in time to experience Woodland’s formative years,” the website says.

Participants will learn not only about the houses themselves, but also who lived in them during the early days of Woodland.

“From a United States Congressman, a bank president, an author and a Women’s Christian Temperance activist, College Street was home to incredibly interesting and influential people,” organizers say.

That tour begins at 8:30 a.m. on the southeast corner of College and Lincoln streets.

Other walking tours focus on neighborhoods with Victorians, Craftsman and Bungalows and new tours this year even focus on unique barns, alleys and parks.

See the full list of walking tours, as well as times and locations, at https://strollthroughhistory. com/events/neighborhood/.

For those who prefer to pedal their way through history, there is also a free docent-led bike tour that will take participants through an exploration of the city’s trees, including many designated as city landmarks.

That tour begins at 10 a.m. at City Park, located on the corner of Oak and Walnut streets.

Landmark building tours

Even landmarks get some love on the Stroll Through History.

The Historic Woodland Train Depot will be open for tours from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and this year will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Sacramento Valley Historical Railways.

The Yolo County Administration Building at 625 Court St., will host an exhibit on Yolo County during World War I, with docent-led tours held hourly beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m. Staff from the Yolo County Archives will be available to answer questions.

Other landmark tours include St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, the Woodland Opera House and more. Learn more at https://strollthroughhistory. com/events/landmark-tours/.

Stroll Through History features more than just tours, though. Other activities planned for the day include a pancake breakfast on Main Street as well as presentations throughout the city.

While most events are free and don’t require tickets, that’s not the case for the five houses open for private tours. These homes, organizers say, are “all unique expressions of a Mid-Century Modern style that began in the late 1940s and is still called “modern” today, more than 70 years later.”

Learn more about all of the events during Stroll Through History at https://strollthroughhistory. com.

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Stroll through History

Woodland historic homes open for tour

321 Bartlett Avenue

Owner: Dixie Clark

Exterior: The exterior of this Mid-Century Modern home is both dramatic and unique. It was considered quite avande-garde and innovative as compared to other homes built in this era. Much of the façade is exposed cinder masonry blocks. The front room is bounded by seven floor-to-ceiling windows. Designed by Woodland builder, Gus Riede, in 1961-62, his daughter tells stories of Gus sitting at the kitchen table with drafting paper and photos of Frank Lloyd Wright’s (FLR) later “Usonian” home designs. Inspired by the mass productions of post-WWII Levittowns, Reide dreamed that his design could be the prototype for low-cost mass-produced Mid-Century Modern Levittowns. (Riede also designed and built three more homes further west of 321 Bartlett.) The flatroofed second floor is recessed behind the front room, leaving a first impression that this could be a single-story home in the FLR single-story Prairie style. The entryway features an open decorative cinder block wall that creates a private entryway under a covered breezeway. Square offset blocks outline a massive fireplace inside.

Interior: The front room features a floor-length fireplace and is full of light. The family had visited Japan in 1978. Their visit inspired a collection of many Japanese-style prints and screens and some Asian ceramics. These are interspersed with family memorabilia. In 1999, they began an extensive renovation, moving major walls, creating more livable spaces and updating a terrazzo family room. The kitchen and family room received new light-colored birch cabinetry which brightens the look and provides wonderful storage space. The footprint of the kitchen was enlarged to increase its utility. The kitchen, family room and first-floor bedroom all have large windows that let in wonderful light and provide broad views of the back yard. The stairs to the second floor are very steep and are therefore closed to the tour.

Gardens: The attractive backyard features an inviting free-form pool in the center and a Koi pond/water feature in the back left corner. These key features can be viewed from all of the firstfloor rooms. Look at the back of the home from the Koi pond to appreciate the unique Mid-Century Modern profile.

Ownership: Gus Reide and his wife, Norma, lived in the home for a year before selling to Tony and Sue Barber. They, in turn, sold to Jerry and Virginia Ernst. Then, Dixiana and James Clark purchased the home in 1975. Father James was Rector of St. Lukes Episcopal Church for 13 years.

This Mid-Century Modern home at 321 Bartlett Avenue was designed by Woodland builder Gus Riede in 1961-62.

Open Homes ticket information

Online and downtown tickets

Tickets are $30 online or in-person at the locations listed below. Tickets are $35 on the day of the Stroll — Saturday, Oct. 8 — and only available in person at Heritage Plaza at the Opera House. All sales are final; refunds are not available.

Prior to event

• Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stroll-through-history-2022-tickets-415743659477.

• Corner Drug Co. at 602 Main St.;

• Vintage House by J at 519 Main St.;

Music

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

— Kevin Twitchell

1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

— Mike Ward

• Matthew Taylor’s Home at 510 Main St.

If you have purchased a ticket, either online or at a local store, you will bring your voucher/re ceipt to the Information Booth at Heritage Plaza on Stroll Day. The Information Booth opens at 8 a.m. The table will be next to the Heritage Plaza Clock. There, you will exchange your vouch er/receipt for an Open Homes Tour Ticket and Booklet. The volunteers staffing the information table will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the day’s events.

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5 Hermosa Place

Owner: Bill Means

Exterior: As you approach the stately Means family home, its Mid-Century credentials are immediately obvious, thanks to its horizontal design, glass-faced entry and solid front door with knob at its center. Board and batten siding is made of clear redwood and the bricks are from a former Woodland hotel. Visitors might note a small, jalousie window at the upper left looking down on the entry. It was designed to allow homeowners, standing on a fireplace hearth, to see who is ringing the doorbell and even talk to the guest, making it sound like the voice is coming from an intercom.

Interior: This house is filled with wellmaintained original details, thanks to the stewardship of several generations of the Means family. The entry hall showcases a gorgeous Victorian fireplace and mirror which — though not indicative of decor for a home of this era — is nevertheless a vintage treasure because it was saved from a local historic house when it was demolished. Built-in storage is a notable feature throughout the home, lining hallways and spacious rooms. The house is flooded with light from large and numerous windows which illuminate interior features. Among them are an attractive kitchen whose vintage stove and plaid formica counters have survived intact for 66 years. A counter-height pass-through between the kitchen and family room offers safe passage for food and beverages and is blessed with sliding doors to separate the spaces, when desired. Bathrooms boast tile, tubs and design typical of the ‘50s decade. A grill and separate rotisserie, built into the family room and still used today, showcase the entertainment-focused lifestyle of the period. Woodland’s hot summers are bearable thanks to central heat and air conditioning, allegedly the first of its kind in Woodland when installed. And, a car can still be washed at home, regardless of outdoor conditions, due to a wellplaced drain in the garage floor.

Gardens: A large lot provides room for plenty of outdoor living, including a pool, patios and fruit trees. Of interest may be the solar system, which offers two distinct units: one from an earlier decade that still works to warm the pool, and a second, more modern system, remotely controlled through desktop and computer. Near the exit gate is an area with a sign that signals it was “Grandpa’s Garden,” where chrysanthemums once flourished.

Ownership: The current owner, William Means, purchased the house from the estate of his father, Les Means, in 2009. It was originally commissioned by Les and his wife Ev, whose brother, Al Thomas, designed it. Dale Warren was the general contractor. Mr. Means was Deputy DA

in Yolo County for three years before WWII intervened. Afterward, he returned to Yolo County and was elected DA from 1948 to 1956. He then went into private practice in the firm that is now known as Gardner, Janes, Nakken, Hugo and Nolan, Yolo County’s oldest law firm.

The entry hall showcases a gorgeous Victorian fireplace and mirror which — though not indicative of decor for a home of this era — is nevertheless a vintage treasure because it was saved from a local historic house when it was demolished.

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This house is filled with well-maintained original details, thanks to the stewardship of several generations of the Means family.

1730 Cottonwood St.

Woodland Haven Preschool

Exterior: The original building at 1730 Cottonwood was built in 1972 by Jim and Bill Streng as part of their Streng Park subdivision in southwest Woodland. Working with architect Carter Sparks, the Streng Brothers built more than 3,500 homes in Yolo, Sacramento and Placer counties. The builders offered homeowners about 50 different combinations of floor plans and features, many of which can be seen on the homes around Haven. These “contemporary” homes — as they were called at the time — were designed to have character, but be affordable.

This structure maintains the original exterior design, including the pitched roof and domed skylight. The garage was removed as part of its repurposing as a school.

Interior: The home includes an atrium, brick fireplace and the master bedroom is now the office. Walls were added and the other bedrooms were removed as part of the conversion to being a school. Multiple skylights provide natural light in the two main rooms.

Ownership: Pamela Hillis purchased the new home in 1972 with the intent of turning it into a school. She also purchased the two empty lots to

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the south and ultimately built the second building at 1738 Cottonwood in 1975. This second building was purpose-built to be a school, but designed to reflect the style of the original house. A Montessori school operated at this site from 1975 until 2021. The center is now owned by the AokiSlaven Trust and a non-profit organization operates Woodland Haven Preschool. The preschool opened its doors in August and is expected to provide care for approximately 100 children from 3 months to age 5.

Working with architect Carter Sparks, the Streng Brothers built more than 3,500 homes in Yolo, Sacramento and Placer counties, including this one at 1730 Cottonwood St.

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The preschool opened its doors in August and is expected to provide care for approximately 100 children from 3 months to age 5.

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212 Toyon Drive

Owners: Erik Daniells and Sara Shelley

Exterior: Built in 1963, this wonderful example of Mid-Century design was in major need of not just TLC but major renovation and retrofitting of its vintage features when acquired by its present owners in 2021. A new metal roof replaces the original composition shingles. Intact characteristics such as the angled roof, pillars, stone and plated glass are now complemented by newly installed concrete hardscape and lush landscape that harmonizes with the home’s linear modern design, welcoming you to its gracious entry.

Interior: Architectural firm Studio Oxeye and Stony Creek Construction were called upon to reimagine and rework this home without compromising the integrity of its original features, many of which were created by Ray Colombara, whose custom wood craftsmanship has been a source of Woodland pride since 1955. The terrazzo floors were a welcome vintage find, as were well-maintained wood accents like the foyer’s walnut doors disguised to hide floor-toceiling storage. Likewise, a carved screen that separates the entry from a spacious dining room is still an eye-catcher. Lighting in the dining room is provided by three new George Nelson fixtures chosen for their era-appropriate look. In the kitchen, the ceiling has been raised and a skylight added. New mahogany sapele cabinetry designed and built by Ray’s son, Craig, of Colombara’s Cabinet and Millwork, provides for modern-day family enjoyment. The living room boasts a massive stone fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows and a wet bar showcasing an original Nutone system whose radio is still in use. A “brain room” created from a garage closet contains two tankless hot water heaters, a whole house water filter and other “techy” additions. Walls have been strategically moved in the master bedroom suite to accommodate a contemporary style bathroom, with heated floor. Slight shifts in the original floorplan also allow for laundry and a mudroom that open to the pool. The pool and patio additionally benefit from an innovative reconfiguration of the guest bathroom to provide easy access from the outdoors.

Gardens: The gardens surrounding this lovely house are a work in progress, as the owners focus on the home’s interiors for a near-term move-in date. As with other aspects of the thoughtfully designed property, the outdoors will reflect the comforts and lifestyle of the mid twentieth century. Included will be a pool lounge, outdoor shower and spa.

Ownership: This house was originally built for Orville and Elizabeth “Betty” Geer, but most of the remaining history of the property is difficult to trace due to the complexities of a trustee sale,

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foreclosure and brief corporate ownership. It is believed that there have been three or four distinct owners, but their identities are not well documented, except for that of present owners Erik Daniells and Sara Shelley, whose restoration is creating a new chapter… and new lineage … at 212 Toyon Drive.

The living room boasts a massive stone fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows and a wet bar showcasing an original Nutone system whose radio is still in use.

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Many of its original features were created by Ray Colombara, whose custom wood craftsmanship has been a source of Woodland pride since 1955.

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10 Toyon Drive

Owners: Tom and Meg Stallard

Exterior: This is perhaps the best example of Mid-Century Modern architecture in Woodland. The best views are from the backyard showing a dramatic horizontal massing, a wide profile with a flat roofline, floor to ceiling windows, and a screened-in pool / patio lanai combination. The south end features multiple elevations while the main home is single story. The street façade is, in contrast, reclusively understated with plain masonry walls and high clerestory windows along the roofline.

Interior: The interior is mostly finished with clear-grain redwood walls, cedar ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows. Shoji screens adorn most doors and other closures. Full-length windows surround the interior pool and patio. (There is almost no visible drywall.) Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired features include a cantilevered balcony extending from the music room above the first floor and submerged bathtubs. The Stallards have added strategically-placed skylights in several rooms and a sitting room, with reproduction stained glass, along the back west wall. Decorative highlights include two full-wall Japanese screens and an antique caned chair and desk. Ask about the renovated 60s bomb shelter and the hidden “Nancy Drew” door accessing the basement.

Gardens: The Japanese Garden was designed a Japanese master who also worked in the Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park. The Koi pond is fed by a stream and has a waterfall. Carefully placed rocks, tailored cypresses and three temples surround the pond. Finally, a protective wall of bamboo screens the garden from the rest of the world.

Ownership: The home was designed by Robert Crippen and built in 1961 for Lynn and Elinor Keys. Tom and Meg Stallard purchased the home in 1984. Their love for their 20th century modern home is just part of their appreciation of unique architecture. They have been “Heritage Heroes” for their work in restoring (and rebuilding!) many of Woodland’s 19th century downtown buildings to their former glory.

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Perhaps the best example of Mid-Century Modern architecture in Woodland, the home at 10 Toyon Drive was designed by Robert Crippen and built in 1961.

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Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired features include a cantilevered balcony extending from the music room above the first floor and submerged bathtubs.

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Our Community Forest: Landmark Trees Bike Tour

This 10 a.m. tour, led by docents Steve Radosevich and Rolf Frankenbach of the Woodland Tree Foundation will begin at City Park, at corner of Oak and Walnut streets. Bicycle helmets are required to join the tour.

Trees, they symbolize Woodland — the “City of Trees.” This has been Woodland’s motto since at least 1930. But the community’s identification with its trees stretches back to 1861 when the town’s godmother, Gertrude Freeman gave Woodland its name. Some of the monarch valley oaks from that era still remain, although they are gradually disappearing due to old age, disease, development and removal. Once the scene of thousands of valley oaks, today, Woodland contains less than 900 of these native oaks of appreciable size, mixed among a wide variety of trees planted in abundance by

Woodland citizens throughout its history.

Some of these prominent tree species — including valley oak, cork oak, American elm, paradox walnut and Canary Island palms — have been designated city landmarks.

Discover these fascinating trees and others by strapping on your helmet and following Steve Radosevich on a leisurely ride around the core area as he discusses current efforts to preserve and expand the community forest to combat global warming.

Learn where Woodland’s largest and oldest trees are found, how the age of large oaks are determined, and where world-renowned horticulturalist Luther Burbank’s walnut tree is planted, and efforts to reintroduce oaks to Woodland.

Look for acorns to collect, germinate and plant to contribute to the growth of Woodland’s community forest as we work together to cool our planet.

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Bicycling Strollers tour historic Woodland in 2021. Docent Steve Radosevich and Rolf Frankenbach of the Woodland Tree Foundation will lead a tour of Woodland’s landmark trees.

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Enjoy a neighborhood walking tour

Special to The Enterprise

Free guided walking tours are small groups led by trained docents who are able to explain the architectural features and history of stops on the tour. Tours pass by homes but do not allow access. To see this year’s selection of five private residence interiors, purchase tickets for the Open Homes Tour at strollthroughhistory.com/tickets.

Each stroll lasts approximately 45 to 60 minutes. All terrain is flat on city sidewalks. Wear comfortable shoes and bring your camera. Stroll walking tours start at times and locations noted below.

“Lots of Time” or How Woodland’s Historic Neighborhoods Were Created — New tour

This 8:30 a.m. tour, led by historian Jim Lapsley, starts at southwest corner of Second and Cross streets.

Architecture is a form of fashion, and styles go in and out of fashion. Much of the reason for a neighborhood’s dominant architectural style depends upon when the land was subdivided into lots, allowing home construction. This fascinating tour walks though the three blocks of “Bynum’s 1871 Addition to the City of Woodland” bounded by Cross, Pendegast, Third and College streets.

One block on First Street was subdivided in the 1880s and is still largely populated by Victorians, while the block across the street wasn’t subdivided until the 1910s and has an array of house styles from the first half of the 20th century. The contrast in architectural styles from one side of the street to the other is striking, awaiting to be discovered by strollers. Take a deep dive into Woodland’s history as you stroll through different eras of architecture while discovering how Woodland neighborhoods were created.

College Street Pioneers and Preservationists

This 8:30 a.m. tour, led by historian Barbara Graham, starts at the southeast corner of College and Lincoln streets, at historic Woodland Christian Church.

College Street has a variety of upscale house styles, including Victorian-era Italianates, Queen Annes, Craftsman Bungalows, and the first Modernist home built in Woodland in 1912. Join docent Barbara Graham, who has intimately

studied this neighborhood over the course of leading this captivating walking tour for many years, for a step back in time to experience Woodland’s formative years. Learn about these upscale, renovated houses and who lived in them during the early days of Woodland. From a United States Congressman, a bank president, an author and a Women’s Christian Temperance activist, College Street was home to incredibly interesting and influential people.

Fabulous First Street’s Architectural Treasures: Parts 1 and 2

Note: This tour will be divided into two parts to capture the grandeur and beauty of the entire street.

The 9 a.m. tour, starting at the corner of First and Lincoln streets, is led by Chris Holt, architect, artist and Woodland Planning Commissioner. The 10:30 a.m. tour starts at First and Cross streets in front of Gable Mansion, and is led by Mary Aulman, of the Yolo County Historical Society.

Richly diverse with a wide array of Victorians — including the California State Landmark Gable Mansion — First Street contains a stunning variety of well-preserved architecture spanning the period from 1860 to the present, epitomizing Woodland’s extraordinary cultural heritage and social history. The homes set along this beautiful tree-canopied street have been lovingly restored by many homeowners over the last 50 years, including the Victorian at 638 First St., winner of a Great American Home Awards Grand Prize for restoration work, and the fabulous Gable Mansion. This exceptional tour will capture Woodland’s extraordinary social and economic history embodied by its exceptional architecture.

Using Color to Preserve Character: Woodland

Painted Ladies — New tour

This 9:30 a.m. tour starts at the northwest corner of First and Lincoln streets. It is led by Don Easton, professional house painter.

Authenticity in architecture expresses period, value, history and enhances its place in our community. Inspired by the colorist movement sparked by San Francisco’s “Painted Ladies” and the New England preservation and restoration society, Woodland-based house painter, Don Easton, has painted many of Woodland’s charming historic homes. He will lead a tour of several Victorians discussing exterior home colors

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Above, Strollers discuss the 1890 Queen Anne Victorian built by Seattle architect Edmund R.Lowe located at 458 First St.

Right, Don Easton will lead the “Woodland Painted Ladies” tour that will discuss “Using Color to PreserveCharacter.”

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and the Craftsmanship Operating Procedures. Learn craftsmanship tips and techniques used then and now to preserve the integrity of some of Woodland’s architectural treasures.

Craftsman and Bungalow Heaven: Pendegast and Elm Street Tour — New tour

This 10 a.m. tour, led by architect Chris Campbell, starts at the northwest corner of Pendegast and College streets.

This educational tour winds its way along Pendegast Street filled with rustic Craftsman style houses and beautiful gardens, ancient oak trees and revival-style houses from the early 1900s, lovingly restored by their owners. Stroll by a historic school site that began with Oak Street School in 1889 and continues today as Dingle School — originally built in 1924 as Woodland Grammar School. An ancient oak on campus is now designated a city landmark. There is a colorful mural on the multipurpose building. The Dingle neighborhood features many fine examples of bungalows from the 1910-20 period.

Barns, Alleys, Oaks and Hidden Surprises

— New alleys added

This 10 a.m. tour, led by Mark Aulman, starts at the corner of Second Street and Dog Gone Alley, just south of Main Street.

This fun tour is full of surprises that kids (and adults) will love. This stroll will begin at Dog Gone Alley, one of Woodland’s two downtown alleys, and weave its way into hidden residential alleys. Strollers will discover some of Woodland’s seldom seen places and observe several barns and carriage houses from the horse and buggy days. Towering native valley oak trees and other specimen trees planted by families from bygone days will be discussed.

Beamer Park Tour

— New tour

This 10:30 a.m. tour, led by Jim Bohan, starts at the Beamer Arches at Third and Beamer streets.

Shortly before World War I, Bay Area developer, Hewitt Davenport, subdivided the old Richard and Rebecca Beamer homestead and hired prominent landscape architect, Mark Daniels, to design something different for Woodland: an upscale, master planned enclave with curved streets and round-about with fountain, an architectural gateway, a public park-and pricey home lots set among ancient valley oak trees. A private train

was chartered from Sacramento to promote the grand opening of Beamer Park in June 1914. The complete build out of the Park took more than 40 years, interrupted by WWI, the Great Depression and WWII, and accounts for the broad range of housing styles. Several talented builders left their mark on Beamer Park, including William Fait and Joseph Motroni, whose works will be highlighted on this tour. Recent improvements to the public park and tree-scape will also be discussed.

The Beamer House — an elegant colonial plantation style home at 9 Palm Avenue — is the oldest recorded home in Woodland, dating from 1860, and was built by Richard L. Beamer, a cabinet maker from Virginia. The Beamer Park neighborhood was established when the home’s acreage was sold in lots to the Keystone Development Group in 1914 by his son, R. H. Beamer.

Ken Trott leads the Barns, Alleys, Oaks and Hidden Surprises walking tour.

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Corner Drug celebrates 125 years of service

Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

Fine wines the world over are turning green with envy as they can only dream of aging as well as Corner Drug in Woodland. Come November, this — quite literal — brick-and-mortar business will celebrate 125 years of service and stands as a testament to generations of unparalleled work ethic in Yolo County.

Corner Drug’s 125-year story begins back in 1897, when it was opened by a man named Wallace Pond. Since then, Corner Drug’s gone through renovations, endured pandemics, world wars, big-box competition and has had a handful of owners. Right before the turn of the century in 1999, Karl Hanke sold ownership of Corner Drug to his daughter, Lisa — who was also a pharmacist.

Like mother like daughter, Lisa’s daughter, Sara, became a pharmacist as well and is now one of the managers along with her husband, Erik Daniells.

“I met my spouse, Sara, when she was going to pharmacy school at UOP in Stockton and she’s a third-generation owner. Her grandfather was a deliver boy and clerk back in the ’40s. Then he went to pharmacy school, got his license, bought in and became an owner. Then Sara’s mom, Lisa, became an owner and a pharmacist, so it was kind of destined for Sara to become one as well,” Daniells said. “I joined up around 2016 when there was a break in my theater schedule and started helping with deliveries and cashiering and have been an owner now for a couple years. Sara and I also have a little girl named Iris, who’s 3. We call her the junior intern because she hangs out here sometimes.”

While many pharmaceutical entities can’t be trusted as far as they can be thrown, Corner Drug has been building trust with customers for generations. Although this trust isn’t indicated by any Internet poll, it rings loud and clear through the innumerable anecdotes older customers bring with them through the doors. For Daniells, it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of being an owner of this historic business. Of course, it all rounds

To celebrate its 125 year milestone, Corner Drug is having a celebration on Friday, Nov. 4. The revelries will be taking place from 5 to 7 p.m. and will include live music, giveaways as well as speeches and dedications from distinguished guests.

back to the selfless service Corner Drug has not only provided Woodland, but Davis as well.

“What’s really important for us, we try to reduce barriers to access. It’s difficult for some people to come down to the pharmacy and get their medication. So, we started delivering to Davis nursing homes, facilities and also residences a number of years ago before COVID,” Daniells explained Corner Drug’s connection to Davis. “We had to close our doors during the pandemic, and switched to curbside pickup and did free deliveries. That really ramped up our Davis deliveries, and that’s when we expanded to Winters and other outlying communities trying to make it easier for people to access the medication they need. And it’s still free delivery, too.”

Delivering since before delivery apps, Corner Drug used to bicycle customer wares across the county. With that sort of effort and dedication to their customers, it’s no wonder Corner Drug is dubbed “The Store of Service.” Of course, service not only applies to taking care of customers, but the employees as well.

“It’s an honor to carry on the legacy because so many people have worked here. Not just the previous owners but the clerks, the delivery drivers, pharmacists, it’s been a team effort for, really, that whole 125 years,” Daniells said. “I love people who come here for the first time because we have these old pharmacy antiques in our mini museum in our store. The other part is our regulars who come in and share stories of our history. It’s just special to hear those stories of, ‘oh I came in here when I was a kid,’ or ‘I used to work here in the seventies and take naps in the basement.’ My mother-in-law has so many of those personal stories working here over the years.”

From their old-school candies to their over-thecounter section to their wide variety of toys and free gift wrapping, Corner Drug is as handy and helpful in 2022 as it ever was over the past 125 years. To celebrate this milestone, Corner Drug will have a celebration on Friday, Nov 4. The revelries will run from 5 to 7 p.m. and will include live music, giveaways as well as speeches and dedications from distinguished guests.

To stay up-to-date on The Store of Service, one visit their website at cornerdrugco.com, visit their social media accounts by searching @cornerdrug on Instagram and Corner Drug Co on Facebook. Or visit the store in person at 602 Main St. in Woodland.

“It’s an honor to carry on the legacy because so many people have worked here. Not just the previous owners but the clerks, the delivery drivers, pharmacists, it’s been a team effort for, really, that whole 125 years.”

Erik Daniells Corner Drug Store owner, pharmacist

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Corner Drug has been building trust with customers for generations in Yolo County.

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Landmark building tours and events

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Historic Woodland Train Depot

1120 Lincoln Ave.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Historic Woodland Train Depot will be open for tours from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the Stroll Through History. This year we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sacramento Valley Historical Railways, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates the Historic Woodland Train Depot. In addition, we will be celebrating the restoration of the Southern Pacific Section Tool House funded by a generous grant from the Stroll Through History.

Visit www.WoodlandTrainDepot.org and follow on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ SacramentoValleyHistoricalRailways.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

515 Second St.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This Gothic-Revival style church has graced the corner of Second St. and Lincoln Ave. since 1912. Don’t miss the three stained glass windows above the altar. They were created by the world-famous Louis Tiffany Studio and installed in 1922. There will also be a 30-minute organ recital by Dean Mora at 11:30 a.m.

Woodland Opera House

Main and Second streets on Heritage Plaza

10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Opera House will be open for tours. Tickets are also available to see the play “The Ghost of the Woodland Opera House.” Check woodlandoperahouse.org for ticket availability and times.

Woodland Christian Church

509 College St.

The church and museum will be open for tours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This Mission Revival style church was dedicated on October 16, 1949. The museum tells the history of the church and also of Hesperian College. Don’t miss the picture of the college as it looked when it was dedicated at the exact hour of Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861.

Boy Scout Cabin

515 Lincoln Ave.

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open house and a rummage sale. Ken Byes/Enterprise photo

The Woodland Opera House will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For ticket information about the play “The Ghost of the Woodland Opera House” visit woodlandoperahouse.org.

Chapman University Archives/Courtesy photo Hesperian College building, constructed in 1860-61, Woodland, ca. 1862. Chapman University was founded by members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as Hesperian College in Woodland on March 4, 1861.

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Stroll Through History downtown events

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There will be a lot to see downtown on Stroll Day. To start the day, the Kiwanians will be serving their famous Kiwanis breakfast of pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and bananas – FREE –beginning at 8 a.m. in the Plaza. Main Street will be closed from First to Third streets. There will be four antique firetrucks on display, as well as Model T and Model A antique cars.

Yolo County and WWI exhibit

Yolo County Administration Building, 625 Court St.

The County Administration Building is hosting an exhibit on Yolo County and WW1. Docent-led tours through the exhibit will be held on the hour from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each tour lasts 40 minutes. Anyone is free to walk through the exhibition on their own.

Staff from the Yolo County Archives will be on hand to answer questions about Woodland’s history and also to help anyone doing research on their historic house or Yolo County history. Cookies and lemonade will be provided.

Lil Porter, the Smallest Theatre in the Wild West and Museum of Local History

Porter Building 329 College St.

11 a.m. to noon

Visit the tiny museum of local history including Woodland movie houses, Porter family, Dead Cat Alley and Old China Town and the future home of Opryolo. Occupancy is limited to four at a time. Presented by Woodland Parlor 30, Native Sons of the Golden West docents Dani Schaad and Barbara Cotter.

Asa and the Holstein Queen, Tilly Alcartra

Freeman/Schmauderer Bldg., 539 Main St.

11 a.m. to noon

Tilly Alcartra was Yolo County’s most famous milk cow. She was not only a local celebrity, but an internationally-renowned milk production champion who set world records from 1914-1920. Learn about the life and times of Yolo County’s Holstein Queen (also to be celebrated at TILLYfest, Bluegrass Woodland on Nov. 5). Presented by Woodland Parlor 30, Native Sons of the Golden West docents Rich Westphal and Ellie Dolan.

Porter Theatre, 1945, showing the location of Lil Porter, 2022.

Photo by Richard Mann published in David Wilkinson’s book “Hollywood Comes to Woodland” (available from Yolo County Historical Society).

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Tilly Alcartra at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, 1919, taken by Lynne Gough, author of Asa and the Holstein Queen.

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A stroll through tree history

By Don Shor Special to The Enterprise

As you stroll through older neighborhoods, take a moment to look up. Much of the charm and ambience is provided by the large trees that form a canopy above you.

Many of the trees providing shade, cooling the pavement, reducing the sun’s glare and making healthier air, were planted way back when those neighborhoods were first built.

Davis, Woodland and Winters have many trees that were planted in the early part of the 20th century. Here and there, even older trees remain.

What are our historical trees?

When European immigrants came to the Sacramento Valley in large numbers at the time of the Gold Rush, they found enormous oaks, Western sycamores and cottonwood trees. There were California black walnuts, and in our region stream willows along the creeks, and Valley oaks.

“When New York Tribune correspondent and author Bayard Taylor passed through in 1850, he reported that Sacramento’s ‘original forest trees, standing in all parts of the town, give it a very picturesque appearance. Many of the streets are lined with oaks and sycamores, six feet in diameter, and spreading ample boughs on every side.’”

Unfortunately, the newcomers often destroyed those grand old trees by cutting them down or due to fires.

“By 1854 Sacramento had become the state capital, and roaring conflagrations had destroyed even more of its original giant sycamores. The fastgrowing native cottonwoods planted in their place were unleashing drifts of irksome white silky down from their seed pods that snagged and littered, clumping up on sidewalks and streets.”

Fortunately, tree plantings began in earnest wherever new homes were built. New residents planted the familiar elms, oaks, ash and maple trees they knew from back east, all of which flourished here with adequate water. Our native black walnuts were joined by English walnuts as well as hybrids.

Do trees live hundreds of years?

Some species can. But drought, flooding, increased heat and encroachment by housing and farming take their toll. Some of the oldest and biggest trees locally:

• Some we know the exact age: the Shakespeare Oak in City Park in Woodland is a Valley oak that was planted by the Woodland Shakespeare Club in 1916.

• A Paradox walnut — a hybrid (English walnut crossed with black walnut) created by Luther

Our native Valley oaks (Quercus lobata), right, are some of the biggest, oldest trees in our area.

Planted in your landscape, they can grow moderately fast and eventually attain great size.

The male variety of Chinese pistache called ‘Keith Davey,’ left, is bright red (and fruitless). A new hybrid pistache called Red Push features colorful spring growth as well as fall color.

Burbank — was donated to Woodland by Burbank and planted on Arbor Day in 1925 at the corner of Oak and Walnut Streets, also at City Park. There is a grand specimen of Paradox walnut in Davis at the Lutheran Church on E. Eighth Street, probably planted around 1950.

Paradox has been used as a rootstock for English walnut (some walnut orchards use Paradox rootstock; others use regular black walnut rootstock) and occasionally the rootstock overtakes the top. An enormous Paradox walnut on my farm likely originated that way from the 1920s.

• Ages of other trees can be estimated: two Valley oaks shown on the Tree Davis Great Tree Search are at least 380 years old.

The grand old trees that you see in older neighborhoods are likely several decades to a century old. College Park, the lovely leaf-shrouded neighborhood directly across from the entrance to UC Davis on Russell Boulevard, was established in 1923 (outside the city limits at the time) and many of the older trees in that neighborhood were probably planted then.

Where did the elms go?

Most of elms, alas, died out from Dutch elm disease in most parts of the U.S., and removed due to elm leaf beetle in our area, in the 20th century. I remember a few great tall specimens in downtown Davis in the 1970s and 80s. At least one great American elm, probably a century old, remains on Third Street in Woodland.

Good news for elm lovers: several generations of tree scientists have worked to select and develop new, disease- and beetle-resistant elm varieties suitable for urban tree plantings. Performance trials include a site at UC Davis and several of these new elms have become available at nurseries. Elms are returning to America’s cities.

Elm alternatives

Zelkovas, which are in the elm family but don’t share the disease and pest issues, were often planted as substitutes, starting in the 1940s when the elms began to die out. They are the trees shading Elmwood Drive in Davis.

Many species of oaks, such as this London oak (Quercus robur) , are well adapted here for drought and heat tolerance. Just keep in mind that they grow to be very large trees.

Also in the 40s, Chinese elms (Ulmus parvifolia), resistant to the pest and the disease, became popular especially in Southern California. Drake elm is a very graceful, spreading form of the Chinese elm. Ulmus parvifolia has become an important parent in hybridizing new resistant varieties.

Sometimes great trees are destroyed by mismanagement. Black walnuts were planted along Russell Boulevard in Davis (then Lincoln Highway, US 40) by the LaRue family around 1876.

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The trees were topped a hundred years later, began to decline and have gradually been removed. A few black walnuts have been replanted among the older ones, and over the last two years Tree Davis has planted a hundred oak trees of four species, from Highway 113 all the way to the city’s edge, to provide a new tree canopy along Russell Boulevard for future generations.

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Many species of oaks, uch as this Shumardi oak, right, are well adapted here for drought and heat tolerance.

A spate of tree plantings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided the canopies of trees that shelter our oldest neighborhoods now.

Sycamores and plane trees, ash, Chinese pistache and walnut trees were widely planted decades ago. An interesting addition to the area tree population occurred after WWII when many cork oaks were planted in the late 1940s on and off the UCD campus. There are excellent examples on Olive Drive in Davis, on the Quad on campus, and here and there throughout older neighborhoods in both Woodland and Davis. Cork oak, an evergreen species native to Portugal, is well adapted to our region as it is tolerant of drought, able to subsist solely on our winter rainfall once established.

London planetree is the most widely planted tree still around in large numbers in Davis, Woodland and Winters. An inventory of the city trees of Davis showed London planetree makes up the highest percentage of Davis trees in numbers and species importance value (a measure which includes the leaf area). Our native Valley oak is second in that measure, followed by coast redwood, Chinese pistache and Chinese and European hackberries. Chinese pistache is a significant part of the canopy of older neighborhoods in Valley towns and provides much of our fall color.

Some other widely planted trees include crape myrtles, and locally and a little surprisingly, Canary Island pines. For some reason these upright pines with the drooping needles were planted a lot, especially in east Davis, in the 1960s. They’ve done very well since Canary Island’s climate is like ours. Another horticultural import, from those lovely islands off the coast of Morocco, is the Canary Island date palm — that monstrous palm you see around old farmhouses.

Improved varieties

Diseases and nuisance factors sometimes show up when a species is widely planted. Planetrees from the original hybrid get mildew and anthracnose blight on the leaves, causing significant leaf drop in spring. Resistant varieties such as ‘Columbia’ have been introduced. The fruit litter and reseeding of Chinese pistache are obviated by the popularity of ‘Keith Davey,’ a male cultivar which has the added attraction of bright red fall color. A new pistache hybrid called ‘Red Push’ is becoming available as well which could help with species diversity.

Another tree popular for fall color is Ginkgo biloba, below, the Maidenhair tree. Ginkgo trees are very tolerant of a wide range of growing conditions.

The London planetree (Platanus x acerifolia), left, is thought to be a cross between the Old World plane and the American plane trees that occurred as a natural hybrid, a couple of hundred years ago, when they were growing near each other. Exceptional pollution tolerance has made it a common city street tree everywhere, and they can achieve great size and age. New varieties are very disease resistant.

More brilliant fall color comes from the lovely ginkgo tree. Many decades ago, Ginkgo biloba was grown from seed and heavily planted in the eastern U.S. (there are several thousand in Washington D.C. alone). Ginkgo trees are dioecious (separate sexes), so half of those trees produce fruit that contains butyric acid. One article describes this as having “the scent of rancid butter,” which is one of the more charitable descriptions.

Ginkgo trees are impervious to pests and diseases and can live hundreds of years, growing slowly to enormous size, but with female trees dropping putrid fruit, their greatest threat is from an axe or chain saw. Make sure the tree you plant is a grafted male cultivar.

There have been some unfortunate choices in tree plantings.

Chinese tallow trees and Calleryana pears, planted in large numbers in the 1970s and 80s, proved problematic and are no longer recommended, nor are the varieties of ash trees that have come along over the years (Modesto, Moraine, Raywood ash). Those each have problems, and now with the Emerald ash borer moving inexorably toward us (found in Oregon in July 2022, evidently established there), ash trees are no longer recommended at all. They do make up a lot of the tree canopy in some neighborhoods, and some have lovely fall color. Planning to replace the ash trees in Sacramento Valley cities should be happening now.

Coast redwoods, — popularized by Dr. Elliot Weier for whom the redwood grove in the UC arboretum is named — were widely planted from the 1940s and are especially common in neighborhoods from the 1970s and 80s when selected cultivars were introduced. Unfortunately, Coast redwood is not drought tolerant even when mature, and thus isn’t suited to our hot interior climate without summer irrigation. Trees in parks near irrigated turf are doing okay, but when lawn watering stops, a lot of redwoods are dying after several years of drought. Deodar cedars and the native Incense cedar are better conifer choices for us going forward.

Planting for the future

Adaptability to climate change is a key factor in selecting trees to plant. The goal is a mix of species capable of growing and thriving despite greater extremes of drought, heat and flooding.

Davis and Woodland maintain lists of Landmark Trees: outstanding specimens identified for age, size, historic value, or being of a unique species.

• The City of Woodland has honored Landmark Trees and preserves their history here: https:// www.cityofwoodland.org/1189/Landmark-Trees

• The City of Davis keeps a roster of Landmark Trees and Trees of Significance here: https:// www.cityofdavis.org/home/showpublished document/3244/637740329754600000

• Tree Davis maintains a map showing significant trees in both cities, and in Winters, here: https://www.treedavis.org/tree-map/

What are the old tree species that are still with us?

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