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Coroner releases first autopsy in North Davis incident

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

The Davis man shot by police officers last week after allegedly confronting them with a knife succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds, Yolo County coroner’s officials confirmed following an autopsy Monday.

Christopher Joseph Gray, 29, died at the scene of Thursday morning’s confrontation inside his family’s home in the 400

block of Avocet Avenue in North Davis, where officers responding to a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute arrived to find Gray’s mother fatally wounded inside the residence.

An autopsy for Carol Ann Drenkow Gray, 62, is scheduled for Tuesday, Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said.

Carol Gray is believed to have summoned police to the residence at about 3:40 a.m. Thursday, saying her son was being

“verbally aggressive and making non-specific threats” to her, according the Davis Police Department’s online log. Police have reported having multiple prior contacts with the family.

Officers spotted Carol Gray lying injured on the floor through a front window and went inside to render aid. That’s Chris Gray allegedly confronted them with the knife in the home’s entryway and was shot at by more than one officer, police said last week.

Specific details about the type of knife have not been released.

Carol Gray also died at the scene from her injuries, the nature of which are expected to be revealed following Tuesday’s autopsy.

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said Monday that crime-scene investigators completed their processing of the Avocet Avenue house, with the next step being detectives’ review of all the collected evidence.

The department also plans to have audio and video recordings of the incident redacted for public release, the date of which hasn't been determined. State law requires the release of that footage within 45 days of an officerinvolved shooting or use-of-force death.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

City honors Eichorn with Covell Award

Brinley Award goes to Trapp and Ryan

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

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There is no shortage of worthy causes in Yolo County.

Nonprofit and advocacy organizations focused on everything from preserving habitat to rescuing abandoned dogs to feeding families in need all thrive thanks to local residents generous with both their time and money.

But few have likely contributed to as many different causes as Kim Eichorn.

A lifelong Davis resident, Eichorn entered the real estate business with her mom, Peggy Eichorn, who always bought her clients a gift when escrow closed.

But who really wants a vase from their real estate agent, Eichorn remembers thinking.

She began asking her clients to pick a charity to which she could contribute instead.

“I started doing that and it just felt so good, and a much more meaningful way to honor them than buying them a fruit basket,” Eichorn said.

“There are so many amazing organizations and causes, you never feel like you can do enough,” she added.

Her donations to local charities on behalf of clients have frequently topped $15,000 a year since Eichorn became a Realtor in the mid-1990s.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to her contributions to Davis.

“For years, Kim has quietly supported countless non-profits, community events and worthy projects,” said Davis resident Kate Bowen.

“In fact, she will often call me and ask, ‘How can I help?’ when I am planning an event.

standardized testing (due to equity issues), and to subsidize Advanced Placement exam fees for lowincome students (other subsidies already are available).

The most significant set of revisions to the state’s charter-school law in more than two decades capped this year’s list of new education laws, putting new curbs on a segment of public schools that has grown over time, particularly in cities, to enroll more than 600,000 California kids.

The new laws are expected to

Retirement for Gene Trapp and Jo Ellen Ryan was a beginning, they say, not an end.

After 30 years — he as a professor of biological sciences at Sacramento State University and she at UC Davis’s Shields Library — the husband-and-wife duo could now focus on volunteer work.

Specifically, they could volunteer weekdays and weekends with local nonprofits like the Yolo Basin Foundation and Yolo Audubon Society, including helping with educational programs and leading local wildlife tours.

But in 2006, a series of arson fires near the West Davis Pond, not far from their home, prompted the couple to concentrate their energy in that location, in particular.

“We began to see that we should also focus on the wildlife habitat just down the street,” Ryan said.

But they didn’t just want to become a neighborhood watch program, she added.

“We wanted to turn it into something positive.”

And so they did.

With permission from the city, the couple spearheaded efforts to convert a

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Gov. Gavin Newsom visits Nicole Etchison’s second grade class at Paradise Ridge Elementary School in August. A father of four, the governor’s first-year priorities pointedly emphasized kids.

New laws for education

BY RICARDO CANO CalMatters School kids can’t vote, but Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered for them in his first year in office, signing laws to fix their crumbling classrooms, address the issue of schoollunch shaming and let them sleep later on school days, while boosting spending for K-12 schools and early childhood programs.

Though a high-profile battle over charter school rules drew most of the attention, hundreds of proposals were introduced this year with potential impact on public

education. As with most legislation, only a fraction made it to Newsom’s desk.

High-profile bills to lower local parcel tax thresholds and prohibit schools from hiring teachers through third-party programs such as Teach For America fell short of passage, for instance. Newsom also vetoed some in the final days before the Oct. 13 signing deadline.

Among them: proposals to mandate full-day kindergarten (because of the expense), to let high-school juniors take the SAT and ACT in place of the Smarter Balanced

‘Nutcracker’ goes full circle

BY GENNA OLAVARRI Special to The Enterprise The theater breathes life. Teen leaders step in for absent groups and flounce across the stage.

Stage manager Christopher Sortor jogs back and forth from flipping the music on the phone at the corner of the stage to wielding grumbling power tools.

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A large, iridescent purple plum stands in the back, adjacent to a low-set painting of a mountain range sweeping the back wall. Little kids bustle with excitement and energy. And this is just the rehearsal.

time on Dec. 5. Director Ann Smalley, settled in the center of Row E, is nearly as excited as all the children. She directs kids on where to go and what to do from her seat, commanding yet kind and personable.

With less than a week until the show opens, “The Davis Children’s Nutcracker” is in crunch

She is invariably positive, saying please and

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Christmas in a galaxy far, far away ■ Editor’s note: Merry Christmas! This column first ran in December 2014.

None of them said that it was very good, just that they had seen it. Nevertheless, I was thrilled at the attention and certain that a Pulitzer could not be far behind.

Ted is no longer 4 years old, but he now has three little boys of his own, all of whom marvel at the wild collection of Star Wars toys that Ted has lovingly held onto from those wonderful days so many years ago. o, at the risk of being accused of self-plagiarism, here is that piece from Christmas of 1978.

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the void, not a creature was stirring, not even a droid; The stockings were hung in the Starship with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; Chewbacca was nestled all snug in his bed, while visions of Stormtroopers danced in his head; And Princess Leia in her kerchief and I with my pipe, had just settled down for a long winter’s flight; When out on the X-Wing there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my command post to see what was the matter; Away to the window I flew like a blazer, threw open the shutters and pulled out my laser; What to my wondering eyes

should appear, but a miniature Landspeeder and eight tiny reindeer; With a little old driver so lively and quick, I feared for a moment this was a Darth Vader trick; Soon up to the Starship so quickly they flew, with a Landspeeder full of toys and St. Nicholas too; I drew in my head and opened the latch as jolly St. Nicholas squeezed through the hatch; He was dressed all in fur from his toes to his snout, and his clothes were all tarnished with meteor fallout; He had a broad face and a big black shoe, and his body was so round he looked like R2-D2; But the wink in his eye and the dimple on his chin soon gave me to know the Force was with him; He drank all our milk, but he ate just one cookie, then unpacked his gifts for C-3PO and Wookiee; He spoke not a word but left piles of toys, then roared off in his Landspeeder to a deafening noise; He took to the sky without giving his name, but before he disappeared I heard him exclaim; “For the children of the universe these toys are well suited, but I’m sorry to say, batteries are not included.”

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net

The basic beliefs and scriptures of the Christian faith emerged at a time of limited scientific knowledge about life, our planet and the universe. How should our beliefs and understandings of scripture respond to the past 500 years of advances in scientific knowledge?

“ProFuture Faith: The Prodigal Species Comes Home,” will be shown and discussed at the United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Ave., beginning Sunday, Jan. 5, from 9:45 to 10:50 am. The eightpart video curriculum was developed by Rev. Michael Dowd, an ecotheologian, author and TEDx speaker. The series continues Jan. 12 and 26, and then intermittently through March. Each session features a 20-minute video followed by discussion.

For information, visit www.davisumc.org or contact the church at davisumc@davisumc. org or 530-756-2170.

few days ago I received an email from a man who is both an English professor and a freelance writer in Cleveland. He said he was conducting some research for an article he was writing for the “official Star Wars website” and had somehow tripped across a column I had written at Christmas time in 1978.

The column was titled “The Night Before Christmas in a Galaxy Far, Far Away” and was written as Star Wars mania was sweeping the country.

My newfound friend from Cleveland wondered “whose idea was it to incorporate Star Wars into a Christmas carol?” and also wanted to know “how did you come up with it and why did you write it?”

The answers to those questions are simple. The idea came about because my 4-year-old son, Ted, was incredibly taken with Star Wars, and his unbridled enthusiasm pulled me along as well. I wrote it as a Christmas present of sorts that I could read to him.

Because Ted was much more attuned to Star Wars than I was, he served as my technical adviser on the project, which started on a Saturday afternoon and stretched

Talk with author Russell planned

UC Davis colloquium explores tea and wine

The UC Davis Humanities Institute’s Book Chat series welcomes Eris Louis Russell, author of “The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia: Unraveling Anti-LGBTQ Speech on the European Far Right,” from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at International House Davis, 10 College Park. The free conversation will be moderated by Jaimey Fisher, a professor and the institute’s director.

For more information, contact Suzi O’Rear at suzi@ihousedavis.org or 530-753-5007.

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almost to the stroke of midnight.

Much to my surprise, the day after the piece ran in The Enterprise, the folks at United Press International called and wondered if they could “put it on the wire.”

In those pre-internet days, this would be the equivalent of posting it online, given that UPI was a large news service that many newspapers across the country subscribed to.

No, it didn’t go “viral,” but the first evidence I received that it had traveled beyond the Davis city limits came in a phone call from my Uncle George that he and Aunt Sally had seen it in the Ukiah Daily Journal in Mendocino County.

Soon thereafter came reports from aunts, uncles, cousins and friends in Oregon, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota and deep in the heart of Dixie that they too had seen it in their local newspapers.

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Special to The Enterprise The Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science plans its fifth annual colloquium beginning at 9 a.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 16 and 17, at the UC Davis Conference Center. This year’s event, “The Great Debate: Discussion on Tea and Wine,” is co-organized with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

Panels will delve into the history and various attributes of tea and wine — considering site, terroir, appellations, sensory aspects, aesthetics, collecting and developing markets. In addition to UCD faculty, speakers will come from France, Germany, Indonesia and Japan, as well as Brown and Cornell universities.

Select lectures include: ■ “Collecting Tea: A Conversation,” by James Norwood Pratt, author of “The Tea Lover’s Companion,” and Roy Fong, founder and proprietor of San Francisco’s Imperial Tea Court, the first traditional Chinese teahouse in America; ■ “Collecting Wine,” by Jim Gordon, editor-atlarge of Wine Business Monthly and contributing editor for Wine Enthusiast; ■ “Site, Terroir, and Appellations — Tea,” by Fitrio Ashardiono, UCD visiting scholar and senior researcher at Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka Ibaraki Campus; and ■ “Site, Terroir, and Appellations — Wine,” by Ron C. Runnebaum, UCD assistant professor of viticulture and enology.

Special events include: ■ An enactment of the Tang dynasty text, the “Debate between Tea and Alcohol” (Cha Jiu lun) by members of UC Davis’ theater and dance ensemble, at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16; ■ A panel on new tea and wine trends by industry professionals; ■ A session on internships and careers with tea industry professionals and interns; ■ An exhibition of tea and wine books and materials in UC Davis’s Shields Library; and ■ “Old Traditions, New Trends: Tea and Wine in Japanese Art,” an exhibition in the UC Davis Conference Center.

Other activities include networking, company showcases and beverage samples. Attendees will be composed of students, scholars, members of the international tea and wine industries and the general public.

Tea, as well as wine, at left, will be the topics at the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science’s fifth annual colloquium, set for Jan. 16 and 17.

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“As indicated in the charming Tang dynasty text, the ‘Debate between Tea and Alcohol’ with which we begin this year’s colloquium, tea and alcohol have long been recognized as ‘social beverages,’” said Katharine Burnett, Global Tea Initiative founder and associate professor of art history and expert in Chinese art and culture.

“Few, however, know that they have many other important similarities, such as site/terroir, chemistry profiles, sensory aspects and collecting. By collaborating with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, this year’s annual GTI colloquium brings the two

beverages together for stimulating discussions over two days.”

This year for the first time, the Global Tea Initiative is collaborating with the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on the conference.

“The Robert Mondavi Institute is pleased to partner with the Global Tea Initiative in support of our joint commitment to elevate the profile of beveragerelated research and expertise on the UC Davis campus, and to celebrate the significant roles both wine and tea play in cultures worldwide,” said Andrew Waterhouse, director of RMI. A part of the College of

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make it easier both for local school boards to deny new charters and for highperforming charter schools to stay open. Charter schools will have to operate within the boundaries of their authorizing districts, and charter school teachers will also have new credentialing requirements.

But that legislation — which followed a expensive election in which charter schools were a flashpoint between school reformers and unions anxious to slow the growth of the largely non-unionized sector — was only part of the picture.

Here are some other new California education laws to know:

Late-start times

The law: Senate Bill 328 by state Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge.

Responding to what supporters and physicians have deemed a public health crisis, California became the first in the nation to mandate later school start times for older students.

Under the new law, which had been vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, California high schools will be required to start their days no earlier than 8:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. for middle schools.

SB 328, among the last batch of laws to be signed by the governor, had been one of the most hotly debated education proposals at the Legislature: While experts and advocates have pointed to a growing body of research that shows that later start times helps combat sleep deprivation among teens and help lead to bumps in student achievement, groups representing local school boards and teachers opposed the measure because it takes away the decision-making from school districts.

The new law will be phased in over three years and rural schools will be exempt from the law, though the proposal does not further specify which schools would be affected by exemptions. State analysts predicted that the new law could “potentially” add millions of dollars in extra costs for schools to implement later start times.

Charter schools The laws: Assembly Bill 1505 by Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach; Assembly Bill 1507 by Assemblywoman Christy Smith, D-Santa Clarita; and Senate Bill 126 by state Sen. Connie Leyva, D-Chino.

After months of negotiations and heated debate,

new rules are coming for California’s sector of publicly-funded, independently-operated charter schools. All charter teachers will be required to hold a state teaching credential, and local school boards have broader discretion in approving or denying charters, though charters can still appeal to counties and the state.

Charter schools also will be required to follow the same open-meeting laws as school districts under a proposal that was among the first bills Newsom signed as governor. And a loophole will close that had allowed so-called “far-flung charters” to operate far from the often-tiny school districts that had authorized — and were being paid to oversee — them.

Suspensions The law: SB 419 by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley.

Largely cheered by civil rights groups, SB 419 permanently bans California public schools from suspending students in first through fifth grades for willful defiance – a justification for suspension and expulsion that advocates for the bill characterize as too subjective and one that is disproportionately imposed on black students and LGBTQ youth.

Once implemented in the 2020-21 school year, the ban on willful defiance suspensions will be temporarily extended to students in sixth through eighth grade through 2025. The initial version of the bill had called for including high-school students in the temporary ban on willful defiance suspensions, but was amended before Newsom signed the bill.

State bond The law: AB 48 by Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach.

On March 3, voters will decide whether to approve a $15 billion state bond for K-12 schools, community colleges and universities after Newsom approved a proposal that amounts to the largest school construction bond in California’s history.

K-12 schools would reap the majority of the earmarked funds — $9 billion — and, unlike previous state bonds, this measure would prioritize school modernization projects over new construction.

Community colleges and the state’s two public university systems, the California State University and University of California, each will receive $2 billion.

The proposal passed

with near-unanimous support in the Legislature as supporters stressed urgency to provide more support for schools to modernize facilities. Researchers have estimated California’s school facilities needs would total $117 billion over the next decade.

Youth football The law: AB 1 by Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove.

Youth football programs in California now are now limited to two full-contact practices per week amid an ongoing public debate over football safety and mounting concerns that have helped lead to significant dips in participation at the high-school level.

After successfully lobbying against a previous proposal that youth football advocates deemed too extreme because it would have outright banned tackle football at the youth level, a coalition of coaches and parents went on the offensive and mobilized behind AB 1.

Child-care union The law: AB 378 by Assemblywoman Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara.

Providers for children who receive statesubsidized care will now have the right to organize a union and bargain with the state. Advocates cheered the move because they believe it will help improve pay and working conditions for a profession that largely employs women of color.

Advocates point to this oft-cited research point as reason for more investments in preschool teachers and childcare providers: More than half of California’s early childhood workforce relies on public assistance.

Smartphone use The law: AB 272 by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance.

Local school boards will now be allowed to ban or limit students’ use of smartphones while at school except under emergencies or specific circumstances, such as medical reasons. Though educators and experts note that smartphone use can be disruptive to classroom instruction, most of the state’s districts already have policies that address smartphones, according to the California School Boards Association.

— CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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She applauds and exclaims the phrase “wild applause” each time a dance finishes, then moves on.

Thirty years ago, Smalley was a parent volunteer with the production. The city of Davis invited her to step in as director. She replied, “Yeah sure.”

At the time, her son, Kellen Smalley, and daughter, Jen Smalley, were both in the production.

Kellen was playing Fritz one of those early years. On the last night, he dressed up as Santa, burst onto the stage and said, “Uh-oh! Wrong house!”

Each year, the “Nutcracker” cast continues the tradition of playing a joke on Smalley.

Another year, on the final night of the run, the elegant Sugar Plum Fairy sat in her throne with her hair in curlers, reading a magazine. Smalley was shocked to see her dignified lead out of costume and instead with slippered feet and wad of pink bubblegum in her mouth.

“At the time I was like ‘oh my goodness!’” Smalley said. “(But now) I look back on it very fondly.”

Jen Smalley remembers her mom stepping into the role of director around the time she aged

out of acting in the play.

As a teen leader, she loved that the other kids saw her mom in the same way she did.

“She is the kindest, most loving, most accepting person I’ve ever met,” Jen Smalley said. “And I’m not saying that just because she’s my mom.”

Many people have been touched by Ann Smalley’s kindness and dedication to the program. Smalley cares deeply about the production and everyone in it , which is evident in the way she recalls everyone’s names.

Sophomore Alicia Joo went to her preschool, Ann’s Nursery School, from which Smalley has since retired. On the first day 10-year-old Joo came to the auditions for “The Nutcracker” in 2014, Smalley remembered her and called her by name.

“She makes everyone feel valuable,” Joo said.

Sophomore Paige Carlock was a cast member for four years and a volunteer for two years.

When Carlock would come into rehearsals on sleepy, winter afternoons, Smalley would always ask her how her day was or how she was doing whether she was a little cat at age 8 or a 14-yearold volunteer.

New kids make the production a bit different each year and Smalley adapts the show to the

interests of each group.

She tries to make it relevant by adding popular dances and music.

“I had to tell her to maybe not have the clowns dab (a couple of years ago),” sophomore Dean Fulks said.

While Smalley benefits the program, the production has also helped her.

Three years ago, her husband suddenly passed away from cancer at age 65. “He was my best friend,” Smalley said. “(He) always supported me.”

“It was devastating,” Jen said. “(He) was such a big-presence … (Now) there’s a hole.” While the family banded together to support one another, “The Nutcracker” also helped to alleviate some of the anguish. “(It was) a light in my grief,” Ann Smalley said.

“The Nutcracker” is more than just a show for the Smalley family. “(It is) ingrained in my family’s blood,” Jen Smalley said.

Now, Ann Smalley’s grandchildren are doing “The Nutcracker.” In fact, Jen Smalley’s daughter played Clara in last year’s production just as she had done when she was younger.

“It’s fun to see it come full circle,” Jen said.

— Genna Olavarri is a Davis High School student and a staff writer at the Blue Devil Hub.

West Plainfield firefighters lead effort to aid victims of Thanksgiving-week blaze

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A Yolo County family that lost all its belongings in a Thanksgiving week fire got a happy holiday after all, thanks to West Plainfield firefighters who rallied aid from the community.

According to a post on the West Plainfield Fire Department’s Instagram page, the unidentified family of five — with a sixth on the way — awoke shortly after midnight on Nov. 25 to discover flames and smoke inside their home.

“The family lost all of their belongings, but not their spirit,” the post says. “After surveying the losses, one of our members reached out locally to see if there was anything that could be done to help this family out during this holiday season.”

The result was a gathering last Wednesday during which the family opened brightly wrapped gifts and celebrated with others the season of giving.

“The gracious and selfless efforts of the staff of Dignity Health’s Woodland Healthcare were able to raise money, gifts for the children, and items to assist this family in rebuilding, moving forward, and getting ready for their new arrival,” says the Instagram post.

Others who contributed toward the effort included Erik Komula of Firehouse Entertainment, Tricia Valenzuela, Vincent Bravo Garcia, Willow Oak Fire Protection District E7A, the commissioners of the West Plainfield Fire Protection District and members of the West Plainfield Fire Department, including Fire Chief Cherie Rita.

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BRINLEY: Award for service to Davis From Page A1

half-acre of bare ground into a pollinator garden, planted and maintained by a team of volunteers who still meet weekly.

They created a butterfly and hummingbird garden, encouraged placement of memorial benches around the garden area, and lead regular tours to observe the wildlife, conduct annual bird surveys and organize clean-up days.

“This project provides a beautiful natural area in the midst of our city,” said Davis resident Gayna Lamb-Bang. “It’s an important local region where Davis citizens can learn about plants and wildlife.

“Over time, Gene and Jo Ellen have created an active and loyal community of volunteers,” added LambBang, one that extends to the community in general as nearby residents stroll by the gardens, stop, chat, and more often than not, pitch in to help.

For the couple’s dedicated work on behalf of the West Pond, Lamb-Bang nominated Trapp and Ryan for the Brinley Award — an award established by John W. Brinley in 1969 in honor of his father, Samuel Brinley.

The Brinley Award recognizes outstanding service in a particular area, such as in the arts, education or health, or in a major project that benefits the city.

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Gene Trapp and Jo Ellen Ryan, below, spearheaded efforts to convert a half-acre of bare ground at the West Davis Pond into a pollinator garden, planted and maintained by a team of volunteers who still meet weekly.

The West Pond certainly fits the bill, and for their efforts, Trapp and Ryan will be recognized with the Brinley plaque next month.

The many volunteers they have recruited over the years believe they are more than deserving.

“When I was new to Davis, I researched places to walk and view wildlife and found West Pond,” said Kerry McKallip. “I met Jo Ellen and Gene working in the garden and they instantly made me feel welcome. That was over five years ago and I am still happy to get out and volunteer in the garden whenever I get the chance.”

Trapp and Ryan, said McKallip, “are meticulous about maintaining a visually pleasing stroll through what was once a sad excuse for a green space.

“With so many pollinator populations in decline, the West Pond garden is a great benefit, not only to neighboring home gardens, but to nearby farm fields as well.”

A few months after moving to Davis, John Vaughn

came across the couple as they were watching over a hawk’s nest to ensure it wasn’t being disturbed.

He returns to the gardens weekly now, and said it’s obvious Trapp and Ryan put in a great deal of time, effort and their own money to make West Pond what it is.

“Beyond that, they are very generous and patient with me in explaining the

flora and fauna,” Vaughn said. “I knew little, but really appreciate their knowledge they share.”

Since creating Friends of West Pond, Ryan and Trapp have steadily recruited volunteers to visit the gardens weekly to prune, weed and plant, Lamb-Bang said.

On the first Wednesday of each month, she said, the couple leads a birding walk

COVELL: Eichorn support ‘unwavering’ From Page A1

“Kim’s support to our community is unwavering.

I frankly can’t recall an event where she didn’t make a contribution or donation on behalf of the cause,” said Bowen.

That’s why Bowen nominated Eichorn for the C.A. Covell Award earlier this year, and why Eichorn will receive the award during a celebration in January.

The Covell Award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding service to the community, over time, in a number of areas.

Initiated by L.N. Irwin, it was first awarded in 1944 to C.A. Covell, longtime mayor of Davis, for whom the award is named.

In nominating Eichorn for the award, Bowen noted Eichorn’s contributions to the community date back to her time as a Davis High School student when she served on student government every year and was awarded the True Cup — the school’s highest honor — for her loyalty, service and commitment to the school.

“A commitment that continues today,” said Bowen.

Eichorn’s roots run deep in Davis. A third-generation Realtor, she entered the business in 1994.

“My mom invited me into the business … as a way to escape the challenges of being a stay-athome mom while giving my then-retired dad, Art Eichorn, some exclusive grandpa time with my two young daughters,” Eichorn recalled earlier this year.

Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine becoming so involved in the real estate business that she would become the county’s top agent in 2018.

Her mother taught her the importance of reputation and relationships, she said, and seeing themselves not as salespeople but as service providers.

“People forget that it’s

along the entire West Pond walkway.

They also maintain a bulletin board there that lists events, species and other helpful information.

“They coordinate the annual Clean-up Day at the Pond, in tandem with National Clean-up Day,” Lamb-Bang said in her nomination letter.

“This local event is part of a statewide effort to clean beaches, waterways and open spaces, sponsored by the California Coastal Commission and the city of Davis. Volunteers are allowed into the pond area to collect trash and cut back invasive plants.”

The pond itself is an enhanced wetland wildlife habitat, although its primary purpose is to retain storm water runoff and help prevent flooding.

“During dry months, when possible, water is provided by a supplementary city well,” said LambBang.

“If the pond fills during the winter, water is pumped to channels that eventually

lead to the Sacramento River. Gene and Jo Ellen carefully monitor water levels in cooperation with the city of Davis, which helps city staff know when to run water in — or out — of the pond.”

Volunteers from around the region have joined the couple’s efforts “because this is a special place,” said Ryan.

And those volunteers, in turn, have become valued friends.

“Working next to someone, you see conversations start that would never happen,” said Ryan. “We have a lot of fun out there.”

Said Trapp: “People walk by and we start to chat and they become friends.

“We’ve gotten so much out of this.”

Next month, the couple will be recognized for their years of dedication to the West Pond, and to the community as a whole.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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Few Davis residents have likely contributed to as many different causes as Kim Eichorn. not always a happy time when a client decides to sell a home, and about twothirds of my business is in the role of listing agent.

Often a challenging life event or crisis occurs such as divorce, death or financial struggle which prompts the need to sell. To be able to step in to help and support a client through that process is extremely fulfilling for me,” Eichorn said.

Equally fulfilling, if not more so, is the service she provides as a community volunteer.

Eichorn currently serves on the board of directors of the Short-Term Emergency Aid Committee, spearheading STEAC’s bi-monthly food pick-up, and organizing the inaugural TopGolf STEAC event this year that raised more than $19,000 for the nonprofit.

“Kim has also contributed to countless local events raising thousands of dollars for Davis and Yolo County,” said Bowen.

That includes being a member of the Founding Circle for the Davis Schools Foundation (pledging an annual donation of $5,000 per year for local schools).

For Eichorn, service to her community is a family value.

“I was raised to give back for sure,” she said. “Way back when I was a kid, we always did the STEAC adopt-a-family (program).

It’s kind of in my blood.”

She says she’s found “the more you give, the more it all comes back to you in a meaningful way.”

But over the last year, she found herself wanting to do even more.

That’s why she signed on to become a volunteer with Court Appointed Special Advocates.

After completing her training early next year, Eichorn will become an advocate — and much more — for a foster child in Yolo County.

“I’ve never done something like that,” Eichorn said. “I’ve been a big donor of money, and worked on projects and event planning … but this is a bigger commitment, obviously, to a human being.”

It was during a CASA fundraiser over the summer that it hit Eichorn that as great as her checks are, “there are (hundreds) of foster youth in Yolo County and only half have a CASA…. I started asking myself, ‘How can I not do that?’

“My own kids are now grown and really thriving

Big event Recipients of the Covell and Brinley awards will be honored at the Davis Chamber of Commerce’s annual installation gala on Saturday, Jan. 11. The gala will be held in the UC Davis ARC Ballroom from 5:30 to 10 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.davis chamber.com or call 530-756-5160. and I don’t have any grandchildren in my life right now, so it makes sense.”

“It’s just a few hours a week, but it really makes a difference for a child,” she added.

And that, in a nutshell, is why Eichorn will become the city’s next Covell Award recipient: because what to her is a few hours here, a few hundred dollars there, adds up to something immeasurably valuable to the community.

“And she’s only getting started,” said Bowen.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

The city of Davis announced that several city offices will be closed or have altered hours during the winter holidays.

The following offices will be closed starting Tuesday, Dec. 24, through Wednesday, Jan. 1: ■ City Hall (City Manager’s Office, Community Services-Parks and Recreation, Finance, Community Development and Sustainability and Public Works permit counter).

■ Community Services Corporation Yard, 1818 Fifth St. ■ Fire Business Office, 530 Fifth St. ■ Public Works Utilities and Operations, 1717 Fifth St. ■ Public Works Engineering and Transportation, 1717 Fifth St. ■ The Senior Center, 646 A St, will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 1. Meals on Wheels will provide services on Dec. 24, 26, 27, 30 and 31.

■ Veterans Memorial Center (Closed with the exception of private rentals).

Davis Community Transit will continue to operate regular service hours.

Parks and Public Works emergency services will

continue uninterrupted.

For emergencies or issues that cannot wait until the next business day, such as a downed tree, sewer backup, water leak, or water quality issue, call Davis Police Dispatch non-emergency line at 530-747-5400 and press 5 to speak with the dispatch operator.

The Police Department’s front counter/ business office will be closed Dec. 24, 25, 27 and 31 and Jan. 1. All other weekdays they will maintain normal business hours of 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Public safety operations will continue unaffected. In the case of an emergency, call 911 or 530-758-3600 from a cell phone.

All city offices will resume normal business hours Thursday, Jan.2.

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The meatless burger — it’s for real

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f you haven’t already done so, go try one of the meatless burgers that are becoming available in supermarkets and fast-food restaurants.

Do so with an open mind. At least try.

And once you have, you’ve earned a merit badge and can join the conversation.

Quite a conversation this is.

It’s all over the major media these days. “Saturday Night Live” even did a long skit about it. If this is all new to you, ask younger people. They’ll explain.

The meatless burger is what we call a “disruptive innovation” in business speak. The plantbased industry that developed this product is trying to elbow into the diet of people who frequently eat hamburgers, but maybe fret that they shouldn’t eat so much beef.

Bill Gates is an investor. The major players in the food industry — Cargill, Kellogg and others — have jumped in. All the major fast-food restaurants have plantbased burgers available or coming in the near future. Just as dairy milk has been sent into decline by soy milk, almond milk, oat milk and other variants, this product will tear into the hides of beef producers.

Two high-profile companies are leading the drive: The Impossible Burger and Beyond Burgers.

I figured my first duty was to cook and eat a meatless burger.

Red Robin, Carl’s Junior and others are selling them inside a bun with all the fixins’, but I wanted to try the naked thing.

I bought a handsomely packaged pair of raw, quarter-pound Beyond Burgers at the Davis Food Co-Op. They resembled raw hamburger. Critics have said they smell like dog food, and it did bring to mind the canned dog food of old we opened as children for Mr. Chips and Kurt.

They fried up in a Teflon pan, four minutes a side, without any oil or butter in the pan. No

negative smell. They darkly resembled a grilled hamburger — appealing to the eye. The texture was similar enough, although devotees of rare hamburgers might be disappointed.

The taste was good.

I would eat them. And many people are.

The marketing approach is certainly not based on price, because hamburger meat is a lot cheaper. No, the meatless burger industry is out to save the planet.

And that appeals especially to people younger than me who will have to wrestle with the consequences of climate change in their long lives.

Amazingly, roughly 15 percent of global greenhouse emissions come from raising livestock, primarily beef.

You want to do something positive. Eat less beef, that’s the message.

Steven Chu, a noted scientist and a Secretary of Energy under President Obama, said this in The New Yorker back in September. If all the cows on earth were a country, their emissions “would be greater than all of the E.U., and behind only China an America.” Cows’ stomachs generate methane that they belch into the atmosphere; methane is 25 times more heattrapping than carbon dioxide.

The beef industry isn’t standing by idly. Ranchers and state legislators in 30 states have joined forces to initiate bills to prevent anything from being

labeled “burger,” “sausage,” or “hot dog” if it isn’t truly meat.

Some legislation has passed. At the national level, when this meatless initiative was in a proposed Green New Deal from progressive Democrats, the President labeled it a plot “to permanently eliminate cows.”

Trump has got it right, if he’s referring to Impossible Foods.

Its founder and CEO, Pat Brown, has said that “we see our mission as the last chance to save the planet from environmental catastrophe.”

The cattle industry’s lobbying position is that the meatless burger isn’t all that healthy, whether

that health-conscious vegetarians and vegans have eaten for decades.

But it’s not a competitive taste test. If a meatless burger is not significantly unhealthy, and it reduces beef consumption— that’s the point, says the plantbased industry. Less water used, less alfalfa, fewer feedlots, less methane going into the atmosphere, which is far worse than carbon emissions.

The cattlemen’s associations turn a blind eye to set of facts because it’s not a winnable argument.

Actual cattle ranches, most family owned, number about 800,000 across the

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it’s the Impossible Burger or Beyond Burger. They have a case. These plant-based burgers are highly engineered and ultra-processed, with far more salt than a hamburger. These should not be mistaken for the vegetable patties

U.S. And beef production, surprisingly, is the No. 1 land use in California. A great many ranches are fourth- and fifth-generation operations, which in this state scratch by, for the most part.

Their lives might eventually be

plowed under by this onslaught.

There should be empathy for their situation in the partisan discussion.

Of course there’s that other side of the beef industry, and it’s big business. We see it driving by the feedlots at Harris Ranch on I-5, where those animals are turned into 150 millions pounds of beef annually. That too offers employment for real people, but do you really sanction processing like that?

I believe plant-based burgers will prevail, and beef consumption will go down as the impacts of global warming become even harsher. Remember how people shifted from red meat to chicken and pork some years ago, due to health concerns in that instance?

I lived on a farm for a time when I was younger. Eight or nine dairy cows, Hereford cattle in a slightly larger number, including Alfred the bull. Milking time. Accompanying the Herefords to grazing spots up the hill. Wrestling with the young ones after they’d put a little weight on, trying to get them up a ramp into a pick-up truck. (Bend their tails to prompt them forward.) But this accounts for a very tiny percentage of the cattle industry.

Up in Montana every summer, I sometimes fish streamside on private ranches. Large herds turn their very liquid, innocentlooking eyes my way — stock still, all of them — until I’m farther along, neither a puzzle or a threat. They have no idea what’s ahead. They graze.

One of my sons said to me, about this issue, that there will come a time when people say, “Oh, you used to eat beef?”

— Daniel Kennedy has a long history with the earth’s bounty and is an adviser to the Davis Farmers Market. Reach him at kennedy46@gmail.com.

Recollections of a childhood christmas

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y childhood (preteen) years were taken up with World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Most things were rationed and what was not rationed was in short supply. The celebration of Christmas was therefore somewhat muted. Nevertheless, for a small boy it was a magic time and, to tell the truth, Christmastide has always been my favorite part of the year.

Christmas in our little home began long before the season itself because the main traditional foods that set Christmas apart had to be prepared during September. That’s when my mother scrounged to assemble the materials for the traditional Christmas cake and Christmas pudding and mince pies. As far as I could tell these were made from more or less the same ingredients though the cake was baked and the pudding steamed.

Ingredients were not so easy to acquire and I remember on one occasion my mother being delighted with a jar of Maraschino cherries that she snared by trading with a neighbor.

The Christmas cake was a giant fruitcake encased in marzipan and then armored with a layer of hard white icing. The Christmas pudding was loaded into basins and covered with cloth that was tied in a special way and steamed for hours.

Puddles of condensation gathered below every window in the house.

I remember those fall evenings of chopping and weighing and mixing and grating things like nutmeg and the great lump of white suet brought from the butcher that morning.

Then, for the liquid part of the batter, came the bottles of Guinness and brandy, which were otherwise a rare sight in our more or less abstemious household.

Everyone had to stir the batter, for good luck. I was an enthusiastic stirrer and liked to stir in the gravy browning that gave the cake its dark color. It was heavy work and I wondered by what alchemy this massive glutinous glop would ever become cake.

The baked cake was wrapped in brandydampened cloth and put to mature for a month before the marzipan layer and, later still, the hard icing was installed.

As meat was rationed, it could have been a thin feast. Fortunately, we had friends who owned a farm in Lincolnshire and they always sent two large chickens. Perhaps for this reason I have never considered chicken less than a celebratory meal.

Then it came time to decorate the house. The tree was a sorry little thing that sat on the piano as there was no floor space to accommodate even the most modest real tree-like tree. Nevertheless, it carried the entire load of home-made ornaments and memorabilia and was festive enough by the time we were done with it.

We spent hours making cockle shells by cutting strips of crepe paper of

whatever color we could find and folding them together to make long streamers that ran from the wall to the center light fixture. That’s where dad tied a large old storebought bell that cast a long shadow.

There was holly tucked over every picture and over every window and tinsel everywhere that the stupid cat ate and was sick. Mistletoe guarded the entrances to our home from witches and demons, a pagan touch perhaps, on which my mother was oddly focused.

Dad cleaned the chimney so that Father Christmas could visit unsullied, which made sense to me.

Our household fires, usually a forlorn smoldering mass with work to do, at Christmas were allowed to burn bright with real leaping flames as described in books. As I was (and still am) something of a pyromaniac that was a special delight and I was admonished often to not play with the fire.

An apocryphal family story records that I once burned the contents of a cash box of money and important papers, but I have no recollection of doing that.

I remember best the family party when we gathered for a traditional noson llawen (happy evening) of song and storytelling. Auntie Gwen played the piano (inevitably called the joe-anna) and accompanied each performer’s party piece. Then my assembled Welsh uncles and aunts, all English speakers, would sing the songs in Welsh that they learned as children to

I remember best the family party when we gathered for a traditional noson llawen (happy evening) of song and storytelling.

Auntie Gwen played the piano and accompanied each performer’s party piece. teach them numbers and colors and shapes and common phrases.

I recall the songs were immense fun that left the

sweaty uncles and aunts in heaps laughing like drains.

It was very warm in our little house.

I remember particularly a song called “Counting the Goats” (try YouTube) that was not really a counting song but about colors. It is a tonguetwister. The first lines are “Oes gafr eto? Oes heb ei godro?” or roughly “Is there another goat that needs milking?” Uncle Tommy sang this asking verse slowly as a tenor solo. It preceded each answering verse.

The answering verses, sung by all, went through gafr wen (white goat), goch (red), las (blue), ddu (black) and finally pinc (pink). The song took a long time because after each asking verse the whole list had to be repeated and going faster and faster. It took a good deal of effort and followed always by a new round of drinks and bathroom

breaks and loosening of tight clothing.

I knew the evening was coming to an end when we sang “Ar hyd y nos” (“All through the night”) quietly and reverentially as a carol. The evening always ended with the most beautiful and saddest song there is, of unrequited love and parting. Uncle Tommy sang it beautifully: “Paham mae dicter, O Myfanwy?”

“Why are you angry, Myfanwy?”

Well, it turns out, she is dumping the singer who takes it well, with love and dignity but great sadness.

The last word is “Ffarwel.”

Not a dry eye in the house.

May you enjoy a memorable Christmas full of love and family and good cheer!

Nadolig Llawen ac Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! — Reach Michael Lewis at cymro@sbcglobal.net.

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■ Folk musicians are invited to play together informally during a noon acoustic jam session on the Wyatt Deck of the UC Davis Arboretum, on Arboretum Drive next to the redwood grove. Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes, squeezeboxes (you name it) and join your fellow musicians for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer, and world music over the lunch hour.

All skill levels welcome. Listeners welcome! The event is free; parking is available for $9 in Visitor Lot 5, at Old Davis Road and Arboretum Drive. For information, call 530-752-4880 or visit https://arboretum.ucdavis. edu/events.

Saturday

■ The Stephens Branch Library hosts The Republic of Secret Saturdays at 3 p.m. at 315 E. 14th St. in Davis. For teens who want to get together for social activities. Activities rotate for each meetup. Contact Davis Teen Librarian at Katrina.laws-ewald@yolo county.org for details. For ages 13-18.

Sunday

■ The Stephens Branch Library presents a Family Movie at 2 p.m. at 315 E. 14th St. in Davis. All children and their families are invited to view a family friendly movie (G or PG) and enjoy popcorn at the library. For movie title call 530-757-5596.

Thursday, Jan. 2

■ NAMI-Yolo, the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will hold the next Davis meeting of the Connection support group from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Community Room at César Chávez Plaza, 1220 Olive Drive in Davis. The group meets every Thursday at the same time and place. NAMI Connection is a free, 90-minute support group run by people who live with mental illness for other people who live with mental illness. The group is led by NAMI-trained peer facilitators.

Wednesday, Jan. 8 ■ Join Project Linus to make blankets for children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center on 646 A St. to share ideas, patterns and lots of good conversation.

All are welcome to attend the meeting and help sew Linus labels on handmade blankets that will be given to Yolo County organizations that serve children in need. Project Linus members may take home donated fabrics and yarn each month to complete a blanket. Finished blankets can be brought to the next monthly gathering or at the Joann Fabric store in Woodland. For general information, drop-off location questions, or fabric and yarn donations, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@ gmail.com or 753-3436.

Saturday, Jan. 11

■ The Yolo County Master Gardeners will offer chance to see fruit tree pruning firsthand at Polestar Farm, 25491 County Road 21A in Esparto.

Friends of the Esparto Library and UCCE Yolo County Master Gardeners will sponsor this event from 10:30 a.m. to Noon. Master Gardeners Steve Radosevich and Karina Knight will demonstrate how to prune fruit trees, and provide tips on how to encourage fruiting and improve the health of trees. You will also learn about common fruit tree pests and how to control

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them. In the event of rain, the workshop will be held at the Esparto Library.

Monday, Jan. 13 ■ The Thriving Pink speaker series will begin at 7 p.m. at University Covenant Church, 315 Mace Blvd. Dr. Davis “Sandy” Borowsky will present “The Role of the Pathologist in Breast Cancer.” Borowsky is professor in the Center for Comparative Medicine, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center He will answer the question “how does the doctor you never see participate in breast cancer treatment and diagnosis?” Call 304-2746 for more detailed information.

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Wednesday, Jan. 15 ■ The Genealogical Association of Sacramento will hold its regular monthly meeting at 11 a.m. in the Belle Cooledge Library at 5600 South Land Park Drive in Sacramento.

The speaker will be Bill Cole “Hidden English Records and Unknown Treasure Troves.”

■ The UC Davis Humanities Institute’s Book Chat series welcomes Eris Louis Russell, author of “The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia: Unraveling Anti-L GBTQ Speech on the European Far Right,” from 6 to 7 p.m. at International House Davis, 10 College Park. The conversation will be moderated by Jaimey Fisher, a professor and the institute’s director.

The series celebrates the artistic and intellectual accomplishments of the Humanities Institute’s faculty and allows them to share new publications, performances or recordings with the Davis community.

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May my holiday fails bring you joy

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f all has gone well today, you’re reading this while wearing your pajamas and sipping your favorite morning beverage.

However, I also realize that today can come with troubles and frustrations.

So, my gift to you is sharing some of my holiday fails to lift your spirits. If you’re already in a good place, these should bring extra joy.

When I was a kid, we moved to Fraser, Colo. Nestled in the heart of the Rockies at a lung-sucking 8,573 feet above sea level, this Los Angeles native (elevation 285) tried to adjust to life in the wilderness.

When I lived in SoCal, we’d jump in the faux-paneled station wagon and head to the local lot to pick out a Christmas tree. As the temperature hovered in the high 60s, we meandered in our long-sleeve T-shirts through the lot looking for just the right tree.

In Colorado, our house sat on an acre that was full of trees — massive trees that reached well above the roof top. I don’t know what possessed Mom and me that winter as the temperature sank to the low 30s to don our parkas and go out and cut down our own tree.

Yes, that’s right. A 30-something mother and an 11-year-old girl armed with sharp cutting tools took to the backyard to fell a tree. We cut away and away and away … 30 minutes later … and away and away...

Finally, we heard the tree crack. I yelled, “Timber,” because that’s what you do, and we ran.

It fell and fell and … of course got hung up on the branches of some other trees and stayed there until Dad came home and finished the job of lumberjacking.

He sawed off the top part, which suffered major damage on the way down, and that was our holiday tree. It wasn’t quite Charlie Brown ugly, but it didn’t look as pretty as it had when it was standing atop the whole tree earlier that day.

(Note: Since moving back to California, we’ve had a pre-lit artificial tree. No more roughing it for us.)

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ast forward a decade or so, and I’m playing elf to my dad’s Santa. For the past few years, he’d delivered gifts to our friends children — who were awaked by their parents so they could quietly watch as the Jolly Fellow put the gifts around the tree. They were convinced he was the Big Man from the North Pole. Granted, they were 6 and 4 years old.

As those kids grew older, everyone was concerned they were catching on to my dad, so we switched it up with some of my cousins filling in a few years. Santa, going from a paunchy 5-foot-8 to a trim 6-3, really threw them for a loop.

Then the grand idea was hit upon that I should be Santa. I’m all for breaking barriers, but by now the boys are older and pretty sure there isn’t a Santa Claus, and how to explain that Kriss Kringle is now 5-0 and Christina Cringle?

Giving into peer pressure, I donned the suit, hat and beard and jumped into my Jeep-sled. The whole outfit was quite warm and my glasses were fogging up as I entered the home.

I threw out some, “Ho, ho, hos” but I could hear and feel the boys getting closer and calling out guesses as to the identity of the stranger in the suit. I double-timed my tasks, which amped the heat level and completely fogged over my spectacles.

I placed the gifts around the tree, hiked up my pants and found the lowest voice register for my final, “Ho, ho, hos” and exited the house with the boys hot on my trail. I ran

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For the Davis High girls hoops squad, the early preseason was about finding the right combinations.

With only two starters returning from last year’s team, the Devils were still looking for rotations that gelled as they limped to a 1-5 start. A deficiency of proven scoring options presented another hurdle for DHS, which averaged just 38.2 points per game in those five losses.

But the pieces seem to be coming together for the Devils, who have rallied for three straight wins while averaging 51.6 points an outing.

Now heading into the annual Dixon Ram Jam tournament on Thursday, it’s peanut-butterand-jelly time for the Devils.

The key ingredient for Davis has been the emergence of junior forward Skylar Schouten, whose scoring surge has coincided with the Devils’.

Schouten’s 25-point, 12rebound performance kicked off the streak in a DHS win over Bishop Manogue, and she went for 13 more in a gritty 45-41 victory over Whitney last Wednesday.

Those two wins sandwiched a

Next game: Thursday vs.

Pioneer, first round, at Dixon High 12:30 p.m.

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Blue Devil Maddie Buzbee drives to the hoop in a game against Whitney. victory over McFarland to close the Vista del Lago-Folsom tournament. Emme Eisenman — another breakout Devil — went off for 16 in that win, her sixth double-digit outing this season.

“The way that this group works together is exciting to watch,” said head coach Heather Highshoe. “I think finishing that Folsom tournament with

two wins was huge for us.

“We’re getting a lot of contributions from a lot of different players. I think ultimately that just makes our team collectively more of a threat.”

The Blue Crew received fiveplus points from five different players in the wins over Bishop Manogue and MacFarland.

Guards Surina Beal (7.3 ppg)

and Sydney Skinner (6.2 ppg) have a bevy of options to choose from, whether it is Lily Hessl, Maddie Buzbee and Courtney Rutherford on the wings, or Mara Bledsoe and Caitlin McMillan down low.

But Highshoe stresses that Davis’ brick-wall defense is to credit for the offensive outbreak.

“Right now our defense is really carrying us, and so that creates a lot of opportunities for us offensively.”

The Devils are hoping to keep the mojo alive heading into Delta League play next month.

(A road game at Cosumnes Oaks on Jan. 7 kicks off the league slate.)

Pioneer High (11-2) awaits Davis at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday to kick off the Ram Jam. The Patriots, who ride in on an eight-game win streak, are led by senior guard Zenevieve Coronado-Casebolt and her 18.4 points per game.

“We’re anticipating playing against a zone, which has kind

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UC Davis head gymnastics coach John Lavallee spots Aggie Jamie Panchak during a recent practice.

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BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor John Lavallee is a coach who goes to the mat for his team members. Always has ... And given his unwavering enthusiasm for the future, always will.

Lavallee, who is about to enter his 13th season as headmaster of the UC Davis women’s gymnastics ensemble, is preparing for the advent of the 2020 season and looks at what’s ahead with the same fervor as he’s reviewed what has happened in the Aggie past.

Lavallee lights up when he talks about his newest incoming student-athletes — a group of seven freshman headed here from Encinitas to Napa and many points in between.

That same internal blaze is stoked when Lavallee gets a chance to talk about who came before — Katie Yamamura, Anna Shumaker, Alexis Brown and current performers like Kelley Hebert, Gabby Landess and Sarah Liddle.

“Watching a college gymnastics meet live is very, very exciting,” says Lavallee, a Vermont native who followed his brother Marty’s footsteps into the sport when in junior high. “It’s a lot of fun, especially if it’s a

multiple-team meet. That’s As training ramps up, rouwhen it’s a four-ring circus, tines become more crisp and basically.” the hours of classroom and gym responsibilities become UCD under Lavallee extends ever more entwined, Lavallee the excitement even further took some time before a recent when he invites honorary assisteam workout to tant coaches from chat about all around campus, things Aggie provides ingymnastics. match activities for fans and Q. What kind knows his women of student-athlete can be counted on is “the fit” for you to exhibit good at UC Davis? old-fashioned Lavallee: “Acaathleticism with a demic peace at heavy pinch of UC Davis is really theatrics thrown our starting in. point. Where are “It’s exciting you at academinot only as a fan cally? Are you experience, but ready to take on for the studentthe challenge of athletes’ experiacademic and ences as well,” athletic excelsays the one-time John Lavallee lence. Because Yale assistant.

UCD gymnastics coach that is really what we’re all about.

Blink and the regular Aggie “We don’t want gymnastics campaign will be people to come to Davis and here. On Jan. 5, UCD heads to survive. We want people to be Sacramento State for a 2 p.m. able to come to Davis and engagement. The following thrive, do well and leave here week, Cal, Stanford, San Jose and go on to the next phase of State and the Hornets visit The their lives with every possibility Pavilion for the 2020 NorCal of taking off and launching to Classic. the next point …

“For me the future is very exciting. I am just as, if not more, excited about UC Davis gymnastics now as I was 13 years ago.”

“… Whether that be the business world or professional graduate school, whatever they choose.”

Q. You spent three years at Yale. How does the Ivy League and UCD differ?

Lavallee: “When I was at Yale, we recruited largely from the same pool of applicants as we do at UC Davis. And it’s a relatively small pool. By and large the prospects we’re looking at, I’d say 80 percent of the time, are looking for an Ivy League-type of experience, academically.

“Yale, Davis? It’s equal footing. The service academies as well. Same approach.

“One of the beauties of UC Davis, though, is that we have 100 different majors, so we can broaden our scope a little bit more than even Ivys in that respect.”

Q. How does the recruiting process begin?

Lavallee: “We start with the transcript, then we look at what they’ve accomplished in gymnastics.

“There’s a lot of recruits who will send you videos of them doing big tricks … But I always

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A real Christmas miracle

All we want for Christmas I

BY DANIELLE FODOR, LUPITA TORRES AND ADELITA SERENA Special to The Enterprise

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s, we, mothers, mark Christmas today, there is a lot to celebrate — closeness of loved ones, the sharing of gifts, the rituals of family traditions — but there is also a sense that what we truly desire for ourselves and our families feels unattainable. For what we want more than any gift is a world which prioritizes our children’s health, safety and future.

Here is our Christmas list — from each of our hearts.

All we want for Christmas is for all children to be safe to breathe the air outside.

We do not want Central Valley smog to settle in our children’s lungs in the summer or the smoke and ash of burning homes to darken the skies in the autumn. We do not want to hear children coughing at night.

We want young, active children who love the outdoors to be free to ride bicycles and walk the dog without risk to their health.

All we want for Christmas is to teach our children about the wonders of the natural world, without talking about the impending extinction of life. We want to show our children pictures of coral reefs and tell them they could visit them someday, without lying. We want to find bull kelp on the beaches of California again, and play with its long leathery tubes before these ancient, underwater forests are lost forever to sea warming. We want to swim in the sea without worrying about toxic pollution or the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, military testing or disasters such as Fukushima.

All we want for Christmas is to be able to travel to work or school, and to see family and friends without driving in a car. We want to have true choices in transportation — safe paths for walking and biking, and affordable public transit to take families where they need to go without polluting the air.

All we want for Christmas is to tell our children that they can trust adults to make good decisions for their future, decisions that will protect the air, water, and soil and prevent the imminent extinctions of plants and animals that we share the earth with.

All we want for Christmas is for our politicians to stand up for what is right, even when it’s not popular. To defend the world for our children and future generations. To keep oil, coal, gas and uranium in the ground and out of our lungs and water. To stop investing in problems (like bigger, wider, newer roads) and start investing in solutions (like buses that run on time and affordable trains). We want our politicians to acknowledge that survival and respect for the planet is a more important goal than economic growth.

All we want for Christmas is for our fellow citizens to realize we cannot solve this problem alone. It is not enough to recycle or buy an electric car (if we can afford it), nor to elect a Democrat who believes in climate change. We must take to the streets, the ballot box, the phones, and demand more, every single day, week, month and hour if we want a livable, equitable and compassionate future for our children.

We want our collective human wisdom to grow, in solidarity with indigenous nations, learning from and supporting traditional ecological knowledge. All we want is for our collective efforts to uplift the plants and the animals and their nations too, as they have only our voice to advocate for them. They are our relatives and should be respected as all our relations.

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ll we want for Christmas is for global leaders to stop exploiting natural resources for the benefit of an elite few, and to start protecting them so all children can have a thriving ecosystem that supports all life.

All we want for Christmas is to feel hope, to know that the world is ready to act and to start working together in solidarity to begin healing the planet and all living beings, before it is too late.

— Danielle Fodor is a community artist, activist, and homeschooling mom; Lupita Torres is a concerned Davis parent and native rights and environmental justice activist; Adelita Serena is an organizer with Mothers Out Front and an indigenous woman and educator based in Woodland.

’ve never been a deeply religious soul.

I have pondered the inexplicable, marveled from afar as the seemingly impossible has happened and recently, at age 72, begun to weigh my own mortality.

All that said, I still know a miracle when I see one.

Let me introduce you to Chloe Rose Gallaudet ... my granddaughter.

Born on Dec. 10, 2018, she came into the world at 1 pound, 6 ounces. Her birth was an emergency C-section delivery because her mother, my daughter-in-law Julie Beegle, was suffering from severe pre-eclampsia, a lifethreatening blood-pressure disorder.

The world had stopped for my son Nick. Both his beloved wife and impossibly tiny daughter were in the hospital — one recovering from a troubled pregnancy, the other clinging to life by the proverbial thread.

The travails that transpired tested my family’s resolve.

Julie was hospitalized for more than a month. Little Chloe remained in the UC Davis Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit for 147 days.

Now, a year later, I thank God every day for Julie’s health — and the continued good fortune bestowed on rascally Chloe Rose, who just turned 1 year old while also having turned the corner.

Stronger parents I’ve never seen. Greater support from both sides of a family there has never been.

Somebody knew if there was a test to be given, it might as well be given to people who could handle it.

Blessed are my son and daughter-in-law.

Wait. I’ve caught myself here using words like “miracle” and “blessed.” On this Christmas Day, I have a confession: I believe.

I’ve always had faith, but thanks to Chloe, Julie and Nick, I believe.

But, really, the main point of this story today was to have been the generous gesture that my son’s Harper Junior High AVID ninthgraders made toward the other parents of premature

and struggling babies in the UCD Med Center’s NICU. Julie and Nick know the anguish, hope and daily emotional ebbs and flows of having a newborn in intensive care. I dare not invade their privacy in an attempt to share what they went through ... are still dealing with.

However, with Chloe rising to the occasion these days, Nick’s Harper kids recently put together 50 care packages containing snacks, a notebook and pen, Chapstick, hand sanitizer and lotion, children’s books and instant coffee — all delivered before the holidays to those parents hoping for even little signs of encouragement.

Now, Julie’s and Nick’s emotions are of relief and joy that Chloe Rose is growing up.

“We wanted to celebrate and pay it forward by creating these care packages for NICU parents because even little gestures meant a lot to us while we were in the NICU,” Nick says. “We would also look at the pictures they have of past preemies and that would give hope, so we were aiming to share that hope with Chloe’s story.”

In a card enclosed in each gift bag, Beegle talked about trying to make those parents’ ordeals hopeful, less stressful ... “(It’s) a small gesture of support in honor of Chloe’s first birthday, from our family to yours with help from Mr. G’s Harper Junior High AVID class.”

Julie went on to tell me: “We made the gift bags because we remember being comforted by even the smallest gestures of support during an incredibly difficult time.”

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LETTERS Homeless respite in our neighborhood While I have served the needy through my work as a public health nurse for over 25 years, I am not in favor of a respite center for the homeless population in West Manor. The neighborhood I have my home in is already a byway for street people going from the Outlet Bargain and Goodwill stores, to the 7-11 on L Street.

The parade of bicycles and pedestrians cursing and frightening the homeowners and their children is already at an alltime high. Do we get to suffer more selfmedicated, angry individuals? Is that the price we pay? What about the price the rest of Davis pays? Why does our family neighborhood need to suffer? Put the Respite Center further on the outskirts of town.

Margaret Kerro Davis

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Father and daughter “hold hands,” above, on Dec. 26, 2018 — shortly after Chloe Rose Gallaudet was born at 26 weeks.

At right, Chloe delights in celebrating her first birthday this month.

Born on Dec. 10 last year, the new baby weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces upon arrival.

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academic and social support, and they will rise to the challenge of college or a vocation in the real world.

With an emphasis on organizational and study skills, AVID focuses on students with B, C and even D grades who have the desire to go to college and are willing to work for it.

“I think (the gift bags) are really cool and a really good idea,” said ninth-grader Anna Kelly. “It was a very sweet thing to do. I know Chloe was in the hospital for a while.”

Fellow student Ciena Barrera echoed Anna’s sentiments: “It’s really cool that a school can come together and achieve something like that for others. It shows the type of teachers and students at our school and it’s kinda cool.”

Nick’s class stood tall in helping share Chloe’s story ... and maybe even got some ideas for a future career path.

“I think we’re always given things and we really don’t think about why we get to be given those things over

financial dangers our state faces from sea-level rise (https://lao.ca.gov/Publica tions): Between $8 billion and $10 billion worth of existing homes and businesses will be under water within 30 years and another $6 billion to $10 billion will be at risk from high tides.

They estimate our sea levels will rise 1.5 to 7.1 feet by 2090. With a 6-foot rise “California would probably have to build as many as 100,000 additional (housing) units annually ... in addition to the 100,000 to 140,000 units typically built in the state annually.”

Action now saves money. The report estimates that every $1 California spends today preventing disasters saves $6 in post-disaster recovery.

The costs of climate change add up, and the longer we wait, the higher the cost. A recent analysis in Nature Climate Change https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org /2019/04/climate-change-could-cost-u-seconomy-billions/estimated that following business as usual and allowing global temperature to rise 8 degrees F by 2090 will cost $224 billion more each year than allowing “only” a 5 degree F increase.

Let’s do the fiscally conservative thing.

Passing the revenue-neutral Energy Innovation and Climate Dividend bill

Speak out President Hon. Donald J. Trump, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate

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someone else,” Anna said.

“Being able to recognize that we have these opportunities and privileges that allow us to help other people lets us ... help other people to have the same opportunities.”

Hiroshi Griffin and Logan Ibarra both believe giving back is a feel-good experience, with Hiroshi adding: “I think giving back to those in need is an interesting experience, and it really allows you to express yourself in a certain way that you might not normally do.

“Being generous is a good thing, and it’s a good feeling to help someone with a new child. (What we did) definitely can make the experience easier.”

About 13 years from now, I wonder what Chloe’s special project will be?

I know that since Dec. 10, 2018, I’ve been a more generous, trusting and faithful grandpa.

Chloe has given me an everlasting Christmas gift — I believe.

— Reach Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

will save us billions of dollars. With its incentive of carbon fees returned to households we can cut CO2 emissions 40 percent in 12 years. It will improve air quality and save lives.

If a complex package of climate change legislation is a step too far in our currently fractured political situation, this bipartisan bill is a way to begin the essential action of building a national climate change policy Purely from a dollars-and-cents perspective, the time to act is now.

Elisabeth Robbins Woodland

Pilot respite center

I support the respite center for the people who are experiencing homeless at the proposed pilot site at L St. near Fifth.

I live in Davis Manor near the proposed site and think this location would be a good one to work with, with the following caveat — that there be mitigations for the houses that back up to the N Street Park walk-through path, which could include additional lighting, cameras, a higher wall and tree trimming for city trees that reach into their yards.

Linda Cloud Davis

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Flaky freshman friends

Dear Annie: I’m about to be a sophomore in college, and I am on summer break. I have not really talked to any of my friends from college since we have all been busy with internships and traveling. It makes me nervous that we will lose the connections we made throughout the school year. I have tried to talk to some of my friends through FaceTime, but we always seem to flake on the call.

It makes me wonder if we were only friends because we were together 24/7 in school, and not because we have a true connection.

I also notice that I connect and trust my friends back at home more because we grew up together and experienced similar hardships in the ‘hood that some of my college friends can’t relate to at all. My ‘hood friends are also more supportive, caring and closer to my family. They make me feel like I can do anything, and they’re definitely ride or die.

How do I ease the nervousness of potentially losing friends? How do I navigate the two different worlds of my hood friends and college friends? I thank you in advance for your response.

— Concerned Sophomore Dear Sophomore: Your childhood friends sound like a true gift. Anyone who makes you feel like you can do anything is worth keeping. Research shows that much of one’s success or failure in life is determined by the people we associate with most of the time.

You are on the right track to surround yourself with those types of friends.

As far as losing touch with your new college friends or worrying if they were really your friends at all, only time will tell.

If you lose a friend by being apart for a summer, then he or she was never really a long-term friend to begin with.

True friendship lasts a lifetime and can withstand distance. You have already shown that you have good judgment with your high school friends, which is a good indicator that you will likely attract, and have good judgment with, your new college friends.

——— Dear Annie: As another 76-year-old woman, I totally disagree with the opinion of the 76-year-old woman who had a real problem with aging.

This is the best time of my life! I have the freedom to enjoy doing things with my family and friends, travel, read, play cards and just enjoy my time. Since I am now on a fixed income, I also enjoy getting the senior discount.

The majority of my friends all say this is

the best time of their lives, too, as long as their health holds up.

I appreciate it when people have good manners and respect their elders. Many of us who are seniors have problems that are not easily seen, such as arthritis, heart disease and other ailments. It is greatly appreciated when other people will hold the door open, give up their seats or do other things that make life easier for those of us who have some health conditions.

If the woman with the problem would just say, “No, thank you,” she would be able to politely refuse any assistance that she did not want.

I am happy to be a senior citizen and hope that I will have many more years to enjoy as a senior.

— Happy for a Senior Discount Dear Happy For a Senior Discount: Congratulations on living your best life!

May you enjoy many more years of health and happiness.

——— Dear Annie: My boss considers me a friend. A couple years ago at a work-related dinner, he badgered me about having children of my own. I was in a long-term committed relationship with a woman who refused to have children, something he was aware of from previous uncomfortable conversations. I had no interest in discussing this with him, especially with the professional company we had at the table. I mostly ignored him and eventually told him to stop talking about it.

We didn’t discuss it again.

Recently, I was at another work-related social event with my boss, and I brought the same girlfriend. We’ve been together for many years and had hit a rough spot that we were successfully working through.

When I walked away for a moment, he started badgering her. According to him, he told her that I have given up too much to be with her. That she wasn’t being fair to

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and the decision has not gotten any easier.

I’ve been dating my boyfriend for well over a year now and we’ve talked about getting married in the future. We also plan on getting engaged in a couple months. While I have no doubt in my mind that’s what I want, it’s what comes after that I’m struggling with.

My parents are very supportive and have paid for my college. In return, I am paying them back once I get a full-time job after graduation. For custody reasons with his daughter, my boyfriend is planning on moving back to his hometown in January and very much wants me to join him (which is seven hours away). Not only do I want to be there with him, but also I know there are a lot more job opportunities there than where I currently reside.

While my parents are aware of his situation and support it fully, they aren’t sure whether I should join him. My debt could be paid faster if I lived with my parents for a year before we get married. My boyfriend also assured me that even with him I wouldn’t have to worry about bills until I paid off my debt, as he makes enough money to cover everything and then some.

Even though my boyfriend supports whatever decision I end up making, I’m still torn on what I should do. I want to follow my heart, which is to follow him, but I also don’t want to disappoint my parents by not following their advice.

I’ve been very stressed out ever since these decisions came to light. I’ve even started losing sleep wondering where I’ll end up and whether I’ll be hurting people I love in the process. As you can see, I need a third party’s view on the situation. Any advice is very appreciated.

— Tossing and Turning Dear Tossing and Turning: Your heart is telling you to follow your boyfriend after graduation, but what is your gut telling you? I ask because I’m not convinced it’s just your parents giving you pause. When it comes to making a life decision as major as this, you should be so self-assured in it that nothing can stop you.

If I am correct that you, deep down, are not 100% sure you want to move in with him just yet, then wait. It’s always better to err on the side of taking things too slowly than too quickly. He’s not going anywhere.

Ultimately, it’s not about what I, your parents, or your boyfriend wants for you. It’s about what you want for yourself. Because no matter what anyone else thinks is right for your life, you’re the one who actually has to live it. Trust your gut above all else.

Public Notices • E-mail your public notice to legals@davisenterprise.net • Be sure to include your name and phone number NOTICE OF AUCTION SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a mobilehome, registered RUBEN V. MORENO, JUANITA MORENO, Legal Owner GREENPOINT CREDIT LLC, Interested Parties GLORIA RIVERA, JUANITA LOVE, GLORIA BARRERA, RAMON RIVERA, RICKY LOVE and described as a 1997 WOODFIELD mobilehome, Decal Number LAY7491, Serial Number 17700336KA/17700336KB, Label/Insignia Number ULI455837/ULI455836, and stored on property within the Casa del Sol MHP, at 709 East Street, Woodland, CA, County of Yolo, 95776 (specifically the space designated Space #26 within the park), will be sold by auction at the mobilehome park at the Casa del Sol MHP, at 709 East Street, Woodland, CA, County of Yolo, 95776 (specifically the space designated Space #26 within the park), on January 2, 2020, at 11:00 a.m., and such succeeding sales days as may be necessary, and the proceeds of the sales will be applied to the satisfaction of the lien, including the reasonable charges of notice, advertisement, and sale.

This sale is conducted on a cash or certified fund basis only (cash, cashier’s check or traveler’s checks only). Personal checks and/or business checks are not acceptable. Payment is due and payable immediately following the sale. No exceptions. The mobilehome and/or contents are sold as is, where is, with no guarantees.

This sale is conducted under the authority of California Civil Code 798.56a and Commercial Code 7210.

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me and I would never be able to break up with her so I could be truly happy with children. After a few beers, he is very persistent, bullying and basically won’t shut up. I’m an adult, and I have decided that I don’t want children. When he reported the conversation to me after the fact, he asked if he was out of line.

The relationship with my girlfriend went into a free-fall that night, and I could not recover it. We ended our relationship within a couple of awful weeks following his speech. I failed to convince her that I don’t want children.

I’m so angry toward my boss, on top of the feelings of the breakup. I have mentioned it to him, and he told me that it’s a personal matter. No remorse.

I’m not sure I can work around him anymore. What do I do?? I feel so much stress and anger toward him. I could lose a longterm relationship and a long-term career in the same month. I’m not sure where I went wrong.

— Older and Single Dear Older and Single: While it stings right now, you might be better off without either in your life. Your boss especially. He was way out of line to start badgering your girlfriend once you left the table. My guess is that he knew he was, and that is the reason that he waited until you weren’t around. He sounds like a coward and a very unhappy person who possibly has a drinking problem. Bullying anyone while having a few beers is never a helpful thing.

I hope when he asked you if he was out of line, you said, in no uncertain terms, YES. The fact that he feels no remorse is reason enough to polish off your resume and start looking for a new job.

As for your girlfriend, while it is understandable to blame your boss, it sounds like your relationship was on shaky ground. If a drunk boss at a social gathering was enough to end a long-term relationship, there was more going on. If you are not sure what went wrong, you have to ask her. If she says it was that she was upset about that one conversation, then tell her that is not enough of an explanation. If she refuses to open up to you, then it sounds like you should also put on your dating shoes and look for someone new.

——— Dear Annie: I graduate from college in December (hopefully), and before then I have some important decisions to make about my future. I’ve been thinking about the outcomes for several months already,

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4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: December 16, 2014 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Anand R. Neupane 12/25, 1/1, 1/8, 1/15 667 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: December 20, 2019 FBN Number: F20190168 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Vaziri Bookkeeping Advisors 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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1051 Berryessa Lane Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Elizabeth Vaziri 1051 Berryessa Lane Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 2019 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Elizabeth Vaziri, Owner 12/25, 1/1, 1/8, 1/15 668 PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that the Yolo Habitat Conservancy will receive sealed 646 bids for the “Elderberry Seedlings and Native Associates Planting Project” until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, January 13, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 2020 at 611 North Street, Woodland, CA STATEMENT 95695. Project located at 15960 County Road 95B, Woodland, CA 95695. A Filed: December 2, 2019 Mandatory pre-bid job walk will be FBN Number: 2019-1000 held at 8:00 AM on January 6, 2020 at 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) the project site. Each bid must conform OM-MANTRA 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of to the requirements of the Contract Principal Place of Business in California. Documents, which can be downloaded along with all bid documents at www.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2019

This gardener left a big impression

BY DON SHOR Special to The Enterprise

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orn in Oklahoma, James Noble escaped long before the Dust Bowl and headed off to go to Harvard.

Actually, he was on the train to the University of Chicago, but “met some chaps on the train who were going to Harvard.

And they said, why don’t you come along with us instead?” So, he did. In those days you could just walk in and register.

He always had lots of stories like this, told with great timing and a dry smile and low chuckle that came just at the end.

After college and the first World War, and married now, he embarked on a career in mining geology.

First he worked in silver and copper mines high in the mountains of Peru in the early 1920s. Then he got a job as chief geologist at the famous Homestake Gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which for many years was the most productive gold mine in the world. The 1930s in Lead, S.D., were prosperous, unlike the rest of the country, but it was a remote place to raise a family. It’s definitely a great place to be a geologist.

His boys weren’t very interested in rocks and wildlife, but the daughter was. She accompanied him on geology field trips all over Wyoming and South Dakota. She had a special interest in biology, so he built her a little “laboratory” (really just a shed) of her own at the cabin the family built in Spearfish Canyon.

He fished every day he could and caught his limit of trout (12) nearly every time. Tied his own flies, of course. He sketched and learned the wildflowers and appreciated the fresh produce you could buy locally during the summer.

“When you buy corn, start the water boiling as soon as you get home. The fresher it is when you cook it, the sweeter.”

After the war, he moved to Pasadena to teach mining geology at CalTech.

Though he was teaching science, he was an engineer by training. And engineers are very, very methodical about the things that they do. Which served him very well in the next subject that captured his interest.

People like to make fun of the Los Angeles area.

It’s the poster child, to many, of everything that is wrong in urban and transportation planning.

But what most people don’t know is what a beautiful place the L.A. basin was in the mid-20th century, what a diverse range of climates it has, and what a truly wonderful place it has always been to garden. With just enough winter chilling, some frost and an occasional dusting of snow, just enough summer heat, and relentless sunshine, it must have seemed like paradise.

Living less than a mile from Huntington Gardens, he saw all of what a serious gardener could grow in that mild climate. And he embraced that with all the gusto of a man entering the second half of his life looking for a new passion.

Camellias. Roses. Cactus, succulents. Aloes.

Orchids.

Bromeliads attached to a great trunk of a cork oak he’d acquired somewhere.

A glass house for cactus off the breakfast room. A semi-automated greenhouse for orchids of all kinds, strategically located where it was shaded in the afternoon.

By the time I met him as a gardener, he had several dozen roses and camellias.

He had bought a little cottage in Palm Springs and planted a cactus garden there. He exulted, as much as a man characterized by great reserve and dry wit could exult, in the latest rose, the new orchid hybrid. There were always orchids in bloom. If you admired one, there was a division potted up and waiting for you at the next visit.

And each division came with its own little 4-by-6 card, showing the provenance and the full botanical name, and the dates of division, transplant, and

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Some species of cactus bloom only at night, an adaptation to pollination by night-flying moths and bats. “Night-blooming cereus” is actually a common name for several species of cactus, including the epiphyllum shown here. Below, Chrysler Imperial is an exceptionally fragrant red rose. Introduced in 1952 by Descanso Gardens in Southern California, it quickly became popular and was awarded the American Rose Society Selection in 1953. Yes, it was named after the car. bloom. Final entry: “given to Don.” Like an epitaph, I thought.

“Learn to write things down when you’re young,” he would say, “so when you get old, you’re in the habit.”

I can still see his whole garden, in my mind’s eye.

As many times as I walked it with him, I could probably draw a map of it today from memory. Every tree had a story, and apparently I was the only one interested enough to hear them all.

His yard and gardens were perfectly orderly. The thing that really strikes me in hindsight is how well balanced it all was, and how artfully designed considering he had no training in that regard. The view from the patio was of a goldfish pond gracefully shaded by a Drake elm. A casual walk along the lawn took you to groups of roses in the sunny spots, or camellias in filtered shade, all set in between groups of big tobiras casting their lemony scent in spring.

Two enormous sycamores towered over the west side of the two-story stucco house that had the obligatory Pasadena red tile roof.

The vast dichondra lawn was his pride and yet the bane of his existence. He mowed it to ½ inch so the family could play croquet on it at Christmastime, and he fought endless battles to keep it perfect.

Together we became experts on flea beetles and die-out, and never resolved his oxalis issue.

This man never swore, except when he saw that the raccoons had trashed his fishpond again. The Drake elm over the pond?

A beautiful mistake due to the constant litter to be netted out. He could bring in a bouquet of roses for his wife whenever she wanted one. Camellias thrive in Pasadena. He didn’t care about herbaceous perennials. He was more likely to group some echeverias or aloes to separate the beds of flowering shrubs.

Despite the climate and many possibilities, he didn’t really grow food plants. Well, except for a Mexicola avocado and a kumquat, and the Seville orange that he planted along the sidewalk. Partly that one was a practical joke on passersby who might snatch the sour, bitter fruit. But he loved marmalade and ate it every day. So, of course he grew his own Seville oranges, since that is what real marmalade is made from.

What he really liked, and wanted to grow to perfection, were the showy flowers. His nightblooming cereus covered

the west-facing wall of both stories. He dragged his grandson out of bed in the middle of the night to show him the blooms. His goal was the perfect longstemmed rose, and I hesitate to list the products he used to achieve that. Those were different times; when DDT was banned, he drove to every garden center in the area to stock up for his orchid pests. He loved unblemished camellias floating in a bowl, huge gaudy blooms of cactus, and especially the fussy paphiopedilum orchids.

He was very loyal to brands: always drove a Chrysler, ate Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and bought Scotts products for his lawn. He was very loyal to the garden center that gave him great service.

Their prices were fair because they were good and reliable. Boy, was that a useful lesson for me to learn.

What amazes me to this day is how respectful he was of my knowledge, considering we were about six decades apart in age and he had far more

experience than I did. He was nearing the end of his gardening years as I was embarking on my nursery career. But he treated me like an expert. Was there something new that would work better on his roses?

And what about the damn dichondra? Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to swear.

Finally, his wife gone and children moved away, it was time for this chapter of his life to end. He sold the house, moved back to the Black Hills to fish for

trout for as many of his remaining days as he could. We were sad to see him move away from this home and garden, but I knew it was what he wanted to do. He couldn’t care for the garden to his level of perfection, and it was time for someone else to enjoy it. It seems I was about the only person who understood that.

“You could hire someone. Your gardener does a good job.”

No, that’s not the point.

It’s not having the garden that matters, it’s making it and keeping it going.

Doing it right.

When I was first learning to garden, and when I first went into the nursery business, I learned a lot from amazing old gardeners like James. Some taught me to appreciate plants, that it was ok to be fascinated by certain kinds of flowers. Some, the scientists I grew up with, taught me why we did certain things. That’s how scientists are.

But engineers? They know how to do things, the one most effective and efficient way to get the job done. That’s what engineers are like.

You can grow anything if you just know how.

Measure, follow a schedule, do it this way, keep records.

Write it down. Obsess a little. It’s OK. Christmas Day has two distinct plantrelated memories for me: a Dancy tangerine in the toe of the stocking each year, and playing croquet on a perfectly manicured dichondra lawn.

And I’ll never forget those cactus blooms at midnight.

— Don Shor and his family have owned the Redwood Barn Nursery since 1981. He can be reached at redbarn@ omsoft.com. Archived articles are available on The Enterprise website, and they are always available (all the way back to 1999) on its business website, www.redwoodbarn.com.

A year full of climate activism comes to a close

BY LESLIE CRENNA AND LYNNE NITTLER Special to The Enterprise

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he year 2019 has been one of remarkable progress for climate advocacy. Educational and civic entities declared “climate emergencies” coupled with dramatic forward revisions of carbon neutrality goals.

Announcements of divestment from significant fossil fuel asset portfolios by similar entities ensued, and youth demonstrations and activism blossomed on a sweeping scale, all accompanied by a year of increasing social and environmental impacts.

Climate emergency declarations The wave of climate emergency declarations, including one by the city of Davis, washed over the globe in a short period, organized in part by The Climate Mobilization. Such efforts culminated locally with an emergency declaration resolution here in Davis in March, due to the work of several local climate leaders, adding weight to existing plans and moving our local timeline for full carbon neutrality forward to 2040 from the original 2050.

Another climate emergency letter, signed by the California State University and University of California systems, including UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, declaring a climate emergency in the name of 7,000 educational institutions worldwide was issued July 10 by the Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education, Second Nature, and

the UN Environment’s Youth and Education Alliance.

Embedded on a page titled “The SDG Accord,” the letter lays out a three-point plan that captures a collective commitment to address the climate emergency: mobilize more resources, commit to carbon neutrality, and increase delivery of related education. As of mid-October, the number of institutions represented had reached nearly 9,000 and approximately four million students.

The University of California set an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2025 as long ago as 2014, now five short years away.

Chancellor May commented in November via email request: “Climate change is one of the most important global issues of our time. I’m proud that UC Davis is on track to be carbon neutral by 2025. We are also working on a zero waste plan that will be under review in the coming months.”

Fossil fuel divestment As part of a three-year divestment campaign led by Fossil Free UC, as well as numerous student and faculty leaders, academic senates for all 10 University of California campuses including Davis passed a memorial urging the Regents to divest its fossil fuel assets.

The memorial, which had previously received a 76.7 percent affirmative vote from the full Academic Senate, averaged across the campuses, was presented July 17 by faculty representative and chair of the full Academic Senate, Robert C. May. The UCD Academic Senate

voted 70.1 percent in favor of divestment, the lowest total among the 10 campuses; UC Merced voted 93.3 percent in favor, the highest total.

May, a distinguished professor of philosophy and linguistics at UCD, said, “UC faculty have joined many others in the UC community, including researchers who have made groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of climate change and students who have often spoken at Regents meetings.

Divestment would represent the ongoing, significant reduction of fossil fuel in UC holdings and an increase in investments in renewable and green energy.”

Professor May added that a “thousand years from now, this generation would only be remembered for what it did or did not do to address the climate crisis.”

Exactly two months later, Jagdeep Singh Bachher, UC chief investment officer, and Richard Sherman, treasurer and chairman of the UC Board of Regents’ Investments Committee, authored an opinion piece in the LA Times, saying, “We believe hanging on to fossil fuel assets is a financial risk. That’s why we will have made our $13.4-billion endowment ‘fossil free’ as of the end of this month, and why our $70-billion pension will soon be that way as well.”

According to Bachher and Sherman, the UC system will be divesting approximately $150 million in oil, coal, and natural gas investments. “The reason we sold some $150 million in fossil fuel assets from our endowment was the reason we sell other assets: They posed a long-term

risk to generating strong returns for UC’s diversified portfolios,” Bachher and Sherman wrote.

Teachers’ retirement fund

Youth activism growing

For a number of years, the nonprofit Fossil Free California has urged the California State Teachers Retirement Service (CalSTRS) board to consider divesting its fossil fuel assets.

CalSTRS is the retirement fund for California public school teachers, whose $241.3 billion dollars in assets — the largest teacher retirement fund in the country — presently includes over $6 billion in fossil fuel assets.

As part of the last four bimonthly board meetings, youths from Bay Area groups Earth Guardians and Youth vs Apocalypse, as well as members of the UC Davis Climate Reality Project and Sunrise Movement, have testified during public comment, urging CalSTRS to consider their futures and divest.

At the September 4 meeting this year, California Treasurer Fiona Ma, who sits on the CalSTRS Board, announced her support for divestment. In a later press release, Ma stated, “Where we invest our money reflects our values, and we should be valuing a clean energy future for California. These brave and passionate students are reminding us of that.”

— Leslie Crenna is Communications Manager for Cool Davis and member of Water Wise Davis; Lynne Nittler is a founding board member and continuing volunteer with Cool Davis who plays many other roles in our community as a community activist.

A few days after the UC Academic Senate memorial was presented, peaceful climate strikes kicked off worldwide, throughout the week of Sept. 20 to 27, organized by youths and the Fridays for Future movement, which was started by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg.

According to 350.org, 7.6 million people poured into the streets in 185 counties, including 1,000 at Davis Central Park here in Davis. Local youth of all ages were energized and mobilized on the issue like never before.

Following the first student strike, local students gathered September 27 with 14-year-old Alexandria Villasenor, an international climate youth leader who has moved her home base back to Davis after months of striking at the United Nations in New York.

Many youths have continued striking on Fridays, and some have begun or continued striking at the Capitol. Both Sunrise Movement and the local Climate Reality Project groups on the UC Davis campus have been very involved in the strikes and are committed to sustained and, in some cases, aggressive action.

After the strike, DJUSD parents focused attention on the development of two MPR buildings at Chavez and Birch Lane campuses, advocating for all electric and energy-efficient approaches.

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Sports

B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Calendar TODAY Davis High & UC Davis No events scheduled.

THURSDAY Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys vs. TBA, at Dougherty Valley Holiday tourney, Dougherty; Devil girls vs. TBA, at Ram Jam tourney, Dixon.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

FRIDAY Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys vs. TBA, at Dougherty Valley Holiday tourney, Dougherty; Devil girls vs. TBA, at Ram Jam tourney, Dixon.

WRESTLING — Devils vs. TBA, No Guts No Glory tourney, Rocklin, noon.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

SATURDAY Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys vs. TBA, at Dougherty Valley Holiday tourney, Dougherty; Devil girls vs. TBA, at Ram Jam tourney, Dixon.

WRESTLING — Devils vs. TBA, No Guts No Glory tourney, Rocklin, 7 a.m.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie women at Stanford, 2 p.m.

Listen: KDVS 90.3 FM. SUNDAY Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie men at New Mexico Albuquerque, 1 p.m. Listen: Sports 1140 KHTK. MONDAY Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

TUESDAY, Dec. 31 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 1 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie women vs. William Jessup, 2 p.m. Listen: KDVS 90.3.

THURSDAY, Jan. 2 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

FRIDAY, Jan. 3 Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil girls vs. Pleasant Valley, 6 p.m.

WRESTLING — Devils at Joe Rios Memorial Tournament, Chico, all day.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie men vs. Holy Names, 7 p.m. Listen: KHTK 1140 AM. Watch: BigWest.TV. SATURDAY, Jan. 4 Davis High WRESTLING — Devils at Joe Rios Memorial Tournament, Chico, all day.

UC Davis SWIMMING — Aggie women, Aggie Open, 10 a.m.

SUNDAY, Jan. 5 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis GYMNASTICS — Aggies at Sacramento State, 2 p.m.

MONDAY, Jan. 6 Davis High SKIING/SNOWBOARDING: Devils at Alpine Meadows.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

TUESDAY, Jan. 7 Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil girls at Cosumnes River, 7 p.m.

SOCCER — Devil girls vs. Pleasant Grove, 4 p.m.

Playfields Park.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8 Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil boys at Cosumnes River, 7 p.m. Devil boys vs.

Franklin, 4 p.m. Playfields Park.

SOCCER — Devil girls at Franklin, 3 p.m.

UC Davis No events scheduled.

THURSDAY, JAN. 9 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie women at UC Riverside, 7 p.m. Listen: KDVS 90.3 FM. Watch: BigWest.TV. Aggie men vs UC Riverside, 7 p.m. Listen: KHTK 1140 AM. Watch: BigWest.TV. FRIDAY, Jan. 10 Davis High BASKETBALL — Devil girls at Elk Grove, 7 p.m.

SOCCER — Devil boys at Pleasant Grove, 3 p.m.

WRESTLING — Devil boys at Tim Brown Invitational, Devil girls at Wrestler Classic, Napa.

UC Davis TENNIS — Aggie men at Stanford, 3 p.m.

SATURDAY, Jan. 11 Davis High WRESTLING — Devil boys at Tim Brown Invitational, Devil girls at Wrestler Classic, Napa.

UC Davis BASKETBALL — Aggie women vs.

Hawaii, 2 p.m. Listen: KDVS 90.3 FM. Watch: BigWest.TV. SUNDAY, Jan. 12 Davis High No events scheduled.

UC Davis GYMNASTICS: Aggies vs Cal, Stanford, San Jose State and Sacramento State, 2 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2019

Ambitious slate for UCD polo Special to The Enterprise As a new decade approaches, UC Davis women’s water polo head coach Jamey Wright has announced an ambitious 2020 schedule — rife with challenging, high-level tournaments.

Two of those events will be at Schaal Aquatics Center while the Aggies get two trips to Hawaii in the new year.

Featuring six tournaments along the West Coast, the Aggies are scheduled for nearly 30 games this season. Starting with the Davis Challenge on Jan. 19 (in which UCD takes on Santa Clara and Fresno Pacific) and all the way through April 23-25 during which the locals are in Honolulu for the Big West Conference brackets, the Aggie schedule promises highlights with every splash.

The Aggies are in the Bay Area for back-to-back weekend events — the Cal Cup (Jan. 25-26) and the Stanford Invite (Feb. 1-2). At the Cal Cup, UC Davis picks up a match against the reigning NCAA champion Stanford, before facing the host Bears in concluding the first day of action. On Sunday, the Aggies take on Golden Coast Conference foes Fresno State and San Jose State.

Scheduling of the Stanford Invite remains similar to previous years, with matchups against Indiana, Cal and Michigan. Last year, the Aggies upset then-No. 8 Michigan in a 12-11 thriller to highlight play in Stanford.

Traveling south, Davis is set to participate in the Triton Invite, awaiting its draw based on the

national rankings heading into that week, before turning attention back to Schaal for the Aggie Classic. In that one, Davis will host Stanford and Pacific, along with several other regional opponents. The Aggies take on Cal in the third matchup between the two UCs in the season, before playing a familiar Spartan team to round out Saturday’s action. A lone match against the Fresno State Bulldogs highlighting Sunday’s play.

Concluding the tournament portion of the season, the Aggies are slated for the Barbara Kalbus Tournament, a prestigious three-day contest with brackets again dependent on national rankings.

The Aggies begin their Big West regular-season title bid at Schaal, hosting UC Irvine at

noon on March 7 (one of eight home contests).

Following a road game at Sonoma State on Mar. 24, UCD returns home to face Long Beach State (Mar. 28), leading into a three-game road swing.

As luck would have it, the Aggies are headed to Hawaii for a regular-season matchup on April 4, before returning to the islands for the BWC shootout.

Wrapping up conference play, the Aggies travel to CSUN (April 10) and UC Santa Barbara (April 11), returning home to close the regular season at Schaal with a Senior Day game versus newly-minted Big West opponent UC San Diego in their inaugural year in the conference. For the complete slate, visit ucdavisaggies.com/sports/ womens-water-polo/schedule.

Women’s hoops gifted 3 standouts Special to The Enterprise The three-time defending Big West Conference champion UC Davis women’s basketball team got stronger in December when coach Jennifer Gross announced the signing of three high school standouts for next season.

Bria Shine, a 6-foot-1 guard out of Christian Brothers High, Allie Carreon, a 5-foot-10 wing from San Diego Christian and Mazatlan Harris, a 6-foot-2 forward from Cathedral Catholic High (San Diego) have all committed to UCD. “We are very excited to add Allie, Bria and Mazzie to our Aggie family,” Gross said.

“These three players are skilled, athletic and versatile. They each bring something unique to the court and will continue to enhance our program’s strong culture. They also are all driven academically, which makes them a perfect fit here at UC Davis.”

Two Aggies honored UC Davis sophomore Nir Gross became the second Aggie in as many seasons to earn All-America second-team honors, while junior goalkeeper Jonah Addington was named to the honorable mention squad, as the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches named its 2019 Division I men’s

UCD ROUNDUP All-America squads this month, Gross follows in the footsteps of graduated Aggie Ido Goldschmidt, GROSS the program’s first fourAll-American time All-American who second team became the first UC Davis men’s water polo player to earn higher than third-team status with his own second-team nod last year.

Addington, who became the first Aggie goalkeeper to earn All-America honors since Kevin Peat was named to the honorable mention team in 2011, picks up his first All-America honor, giving the Aggies multiple All-Americans for the first time since 2015 when Goldschmidt, Sean Grab and Sasa Antunovic were all named to the honorable mention team.

Nominated and voted on by head coaches across the nation, the honors are divided into seven-member (six field players, one goalkeeper) first, second and third teams, with 43 student-athletes collecting honorable mention honors. A total of 22 institutions earned at least one selection this season, with UC Davis standing as one

of 17 schools to collect multiple honorees.

Israel native Gross, a first-team all-Western Water Polo Association selection led UC Davis with 58 goals and tied for the team lead with 61 ADDINGTON points, finishing with 116 Honorable shots and a .500 shooting mention percentage to go with an average of 4.83 shots per game. He also drew 40 exclusions, which ranked second on the team, and led the team in both 6-on-5 goals (14) and 5-meter goals (seven).

Addington of Hanford was an allWWPA second team honoree and was named the Most Valuable Player of the WWPA Tournament after pacing a defense that limited UC San Diego to just 5-of-25 shooting while making 14 saves himself en route to the title, finishing with 32 saves and a .653 save percentage of the tournament.

He was second among WWPA regulars with a 9.94 goals against average.

Ending the season ranked No. 9 in the nation, UC Davis won its third WWPA title in the last four seasons en route to a 16-8 overall record and a 7-0 league showing.

FLIPPING: Each recruiting class is a step up from last From Page B1

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UCD gymnastics coach John Lavallee works with Aggie Alyssa Ito on the uneven bars.

look at it as ‘What meets have you won? What meets have you qualified to? Have you gotten to the highest-level meets in the country — have you gotten to Junior Olympic Nationals?’

“When we get past that initial phase, then we start looking at what is important to them. What do they want to accomplish, both and athletically and academically.

See if they’re really a fit for how we do things.

“At the same time we have to be cognizant of the fact that they’re interviewing us at the same time.

So, we have to be able to present ourselves and our program in the right way as well.

“When I was interviewing for the job 12 years ago, (then-UCD Athletic Director Greg Warzecka) told me ‘John, if you can just get the kid and her parents on campus, this place sells itself.’ ” Q. And the future? You’ve said you like your current team, so what’s ahead?

Lavallee: “Our recruiting classes continue to be — from a competitive standpoint — (each year) more competitive.

“For me the future is very exciting. I am just as, if not more, excited about UC Davis gymnastics now as I was 13 years ago. It makes it easy to get up in the

morning and go to the gym.

There’s a continued push and drive to make UC Davis gymnastics better every day … that all comes from the student-athletes and the work they put in and everything they do.

“Bottom line is they are UC Davis gymnasts. I’m just the guy who vacuums the gym.”

Notes: Born and raised in Burlington, Vt., Lavallee participated in four sports in high school (including being an all-state football defensive back). ... He and his wife Teri were both Division II AllAmerican gymnasts (Springfield College and University of Alaska, respectively) before Lavallee opened the Sterling Academy of Gymnastics in Massachusetts. Teri once assisted her husband at UCD but is now a MSPT with campus Student Health and Counseling Services. ... The Lavallees have two offspring: Carson, 19, who performs with alternative rock group The Five Thirty, and Davis High junior Isabel, a former gymnast who is pursuing aerial art. ... John Lavallee was a D-II national runner-up in floor exercise, ironically tying Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame gymnast Thom Sterling (1984-87) for the honor. ... Lavallee is a six-time Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year.

— Reach Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

ORENDOR: No drama STREAK: Girls are prepped this year, knock wood and ready for Pioneer From Page B1 down the cul-de-sac and jumped into the safety of the Jeep. (Thankfully, they were still young enough that they weren’t allowed to run out of the cul-de-sac.)

Today, the sight of a big red suit still causes my heart rate to rise.

This year, the pre-lit tree

went up like a dream, the only Santa is a ceramic cookie jar and I’m relaxing in new flannel PJs. Cheers!

— Kim Orendor is a staff writer for The Davis Enterprise. She was a very good girl this year. Reach her at Kim.Orendor@gmail.com and follow her on Twitter at @KOrendor.

From Page B1 of been a struggle for us so far this year,” Highshoe told the Enterprise on Monday.

But the Devils have not been lounging by the fire over the holidays.

“We’ve had four great practices where we focused on our zone offense, where we’ve focused on different options and how to

break down that kind of defense,” Highshoe added. “We’re feeling really good that we’ve done what we need to do to prepare.”

Joining Davis and Pioneer at the Ram Jam are Pierce (8-3), Will C. Wood (1-7), American Canyon (6-5), Vacaville (3-8), Sutter (10-2) and the host squad, Dixon (5-3).

— Reach Lev Farris Golden berg at levfg2000@gmail.com.