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Planners to get townhome proposal BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer A single-family home on Russell Boulevard currently occupied by student renters would be demolished and replaced by four townhouses under a proposal currently undergoing city review. The University View Townhomes project is tentatively scheduled to go

before the Davis Planning Commission on Jan. 8 for review and recommendation to the City Council. The proposal requires a General Plan amendment to rezone the property from residential low-density to high-density and split the existing lot into four separate parcels. Currently a single-story, three-bedroom, two-bathroom house, the property at

335 Russell Blvd. — between Oak Avenue and College Park — would become home to four twostory, single-family townhouses in two duplex buildings. Each townhouse would have three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. “The proposed project will attract university faculty, staff and graduate student residents with its

family-friendly amenities and high-end finishes,” according to the application by Maureen Guerrieri and RMDBT Properties. Parking for the proposed townhouses is two spaces for each unit in attached garages under the second floor of each unit and two additional uncovered guest parking spaces on site.

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The owner of a single-family home on Russell Boulevard — currently occupied by student renters — is seeking city approval to replace the house with these four townhouses.

County continues its modest growth

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A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, nectars on catmint in the summer in Vacaville. This little guy could be worth a cold brew to the first to find one.

UC Davis prof back with annual beer-for-a-butterfly contest BY KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY Special to The Enterprise Suds for a bug? Collect the first cabbage white butterfly of the year in the three-county area of Sacramento, Solano and Yolo and

win a pitcher of beer or its equivalent, compliments of Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology. Shapiro is sponsoring his 48th annual Beer-for-a-Butterfly Contest and it’s all in the name

of research to determine the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae. Since 1972, when he launched the contest, the first flight has varied from Jan. 1 to Feb. 22, averaging about Jan. 20. The butterfly inhabits vacant lots, fields and gardens where its host plants, weedy mustards, grow. The male is white. The female is often slightly buffy; the “underside of the

hindwing and apex of the forewing may be distinctly yellow and normally have a gray cast,” Shapiro said. “The black dots and apical spot on the upperside tend to be faint or even to disappear really early in the season.” The contest rules include: ■ It must be an adult (no caterpillars or pupae) and be

Yolo County added an estimated 814 residents in 2019 — an annual growth rate of 0.56 percent — according to figures released by the California Department of Finance on Dec. 20. This put Yolo pretty much in the middle of the pack among California’s 58 counties (No. 28). Yolo County posted more modest rate of population growth than several adjacent counties to the north and east, including Sacramento County (15,867 new residents, an increase of 1.03 percent), Colusa County (223 new residents, +1 percent) and Sutter County (2,243 new residents, +2.21 percent). However, Yolo County grew at a somewhat faster rate than Coast Range counties to the west, including Lake County (-131 residents, -0.20 percent) and Napa County (-511 residents, -0.36 percent). Solano County, to the south of Yolo County, added residents at a virtually identical rate, with Solano County adding 2,170 new residents, +0.57 percent. California’s most populous county — by far — continues to be Los Angeles County, with 10,260,237 residents, accounting for just over 25 percent of California’s population as a whole. Los Angeles County, by

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Thousands stolen from Woodland Salvation Army BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A Grinch paid a visit to The Salvation Army Service Center in Woodland this past week, damaging two doors and stealing more than $2,400 in kettle donations meant to aid people in need. Sam Jarosz, public relations director for The Salvation Army’s Del Oro division, said the vandalism and burglary at

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413 Main St. occurred sometime between late Tuesday, Christmas Eve, and 12:30 p.m. Thursday, when employees returning from their Christmas holiday discovered the losses.

injured, this is far from a victimless crime,” said Jarosz, who noted that the theft of $2,413 in kettle donations and nearly $1,000 in damages “represents a real impact to the community.”

The crimes were reported to the Woodland Police Department and remain under investigation. Anyone with information is urged to contact the department at 530-661-7800.

“Money raised during The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign, which happens between Thanksgiving and Christmas, helps fund crucial community programs all year long,” Jarosz said. “This year,

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with Thanksgiving falling a week later than usual, The Salvation Army had less time to collect donations and was already behind on its goal.” “These crimes push the service center further away from its fundraising target and could mean some people in need may not be able to receive services,” Jarosz added. Meanwhile, The Salvation

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Briefly Methodists look at science, faith 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 series is scheduled for Jan. 5, 12 and 26, and will continue intermittently through March. Each session features a 20-minute video followed by discussion. For information, visit www.davisumc.org or contact the church office at davisumc@ davisumc.org or 530756-2170.

UCD hosts author Russell The UC Davis Humanities Institute’s Book Chat series welcomes Eric 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 conversation will be moderated by Jaimey Fisher, a professor and the institute’s director. For more information, contact Suzi O’Rear at suzi@ihouse davis.org or 530-7535007.

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West Sac, finally getting its due ... F or years I’ve talked about Davis being a sort of oasis in Yolo County, trying to hold the line against rampant growth from the dreaded “Three W’s” that surround us — Woodland, Winters and West Sacramento.” I mean, you head 12 miles north, you hit Woodland. You head 12 miles west, you hit Winters. You head 12 miles east, you hit West Sacramento. There’s another “W” — Willowbank — on our southern flank, but it’s hardly dreaded, even if the folks there are proud of the fact they are outside the Davis city limits. Our late, great and very dear mayor, Julie Partansky, once looked a city official from West Sacramento in the eye and curiously asked, as only Julie could, “exactly where is West Sacramento?” She clearly needed to get out more. Woodland, which is allegedly the county seat, used to be the biggest city in the county by far before the University Farm in Davis became a general campus and people decided it might be a nice place to settle down and raise a family. Still, Woodland has an opera house and we don’t. It has the Yolo

County courthouse and we don’t. It has all sorts of historic Victorian homes and we don’t. Winters has an opera house, too, and even Davis’ greatest cultural invention, the Palms, eventually moved to Winters. Nowadays Winters has several high-end restaurants that attract hordes of Davisites on a regular basis, plus a fancy new hotel right downtown. Davisites have been known to ride their bicycles all the way to Winters to grab a cup of coffee at Steady Eddy’s, given that there are no coffee outlets whatsoever in Davis. For heaven’s sake, some folks are now regarding Winters as a “destination” city. As for West Sacramento, once described as the armpit of the capital city on the east side of the Sacramento River, I call your

attention to the latest issue of AARP the Magazine. A publication of the American Association of Retired Persons, it bills itself as “The world’s largestcirculation magazine, with more than 47 million readers” that “helps people 50-plus live their most fulfilling lives.” In the Family & Friends section of AARP the Magazine is an interesting story titled “Great Places to Live in the U.S.”

nly five cities nationwide are featured and already I’m sure you are wondering, as I did, where in the top 5 the city of Davis ranks. The answer would be nowhere on the list is the city of Davis ranked. However, right at the very top — yes, the very top — is “West Sacramento.” I scanned the story quickly, wondering if maybe there was a West Sacramento in another state they must be talking about. After all, there are Sacramentos in Nebraska, New Mexico, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Colorado. Surely one or two of those states must have a West Sacramento as well, and just as surely one of

those is the West Sacramento cited by AARP the Magazine. That thought was dashed when the photo accompanying the story included a photo of what was unmistakably the Tower Bridge that connects West Sacramento to real Sacramento. Other cities on the list, in order, were Minneapolis, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Boston, but apparently none of those can hold a candle to West Sacramento. Turns out AARP “dispatched journalists to five cities that are winning acclaim for their innovative work toward increased livability, to discover what every community can learn from their efforts.” Coming in for high praise from the AARP team was West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, who has certainly been a driving force in improving the lives of the citizens who have chosen to live in his city. The praise is well deserved. However, how much do you want to bet that those enterprising journalists who wrote this story headed across the causeway to enjoy the wonders of Davis after their day’s work was done? — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

County education employee charged with embezzlement

Drum circle offers tribute to King

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The ninth season of Sunday(s) @ I-House, an ongoing musical fundraiser organized and presented by local producer and singer James Williams, doesn’t officially start until March 1. But, it’s getting a preseason bump with a unique community event. The community is invited to join master West African drummer Mamadou Traore for the fourth annual Drum Circle & Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at International House Davis, 10 College Park. Doors will open at 6 p.m. Guests are requested to bring a dish for six to contribute to the communal meal, served from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The drum circle is open to all ages and abilities. No drumming experience is necessary. Some drums will be provided, but guests are encouraged to bring their favorite drums or percussion instruments. Malinke Community Drum Circles and Sunday(s) @ I-House are collaborating to present

Enterprise staff writer A former Yolo County Office of Education employee is facing a felony embezzlement charge, accused of using a workissued credit card and false mileage reports to bilk her employer of more than $23,000 over four years. Lori Perez, 32, of Woodland, officially was charged with the single felony count of embezzlement on Friday, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release. She is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 6 in Yolo Superior Court. Perez, who no longer works for YCOE, had been employed by the agency since 2005, most recently as the director of College and Career Readiness. According to the DA news release, YCOE became aware in October 2018 of the potential embezzlement activity, which was believed to have spanned several years. The Woodland Police Department launched an investigation with cooperation from YCOE officials. “During the course of the investigation, it was discovered that a YCOE credit card had been used to make

unauthorized personal purchases and that mileage claims had been falsiPEREZ fied,” the Charged on news Friday release said. Total losses, which dated back to 2014, came to more than $23,000. Perez could not be reached for comment. A Woodland phone number listed in her name has been disconnected. Reached by email Saturday, Yolo County Superintendent of Schools Garth Lewis said the YCOE “is cooperating with law enforcement officials handling this ongoing matter. Accordingly, YCOE is not at liberty to comment further at this time.” Transparent California, an online California pay and pension database, shows Perez received total compensation of $132,557 in 2017, which included $108,937 in pay and $23,620 in benefits. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise. net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

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West African drummer Mamadou Traore will lead the fourth annual Drum Circle & Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King on Sunday, Jan. 19, at International House, Davis. this fundraiser, supported in part by a grant from the city of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs program. The suggested donation for this event is $10 for adults and free for kids, but any size donations are appreciated and no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. All proceeds will benefit International

House, Davis. The Sunday(s) at I-House series will start on March 1; and will continue on March 29 and on the first and last Sundays of April, May and June. For more information, call James Williams at 916-541-8980 or email him at jw.createsart@ gmail.com.

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‘No Party Preference’ voters may need to reregister to cast vote for president BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

Today ■ 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 ■ 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 NAMItrained peer facilitators.

Wednesday ■ 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. ■ The first Davis Flower Arrangers meeting of the new year will begin at 7 p.m. at International HouseDavis, 10 College Park, with a brief business meeting prior to the evening’s program. Visitor passes for this program are available at the door for $10 or $40 for the year’s membership which runs through May 2020. Katsuko Theilke will present for the first time in Davis. For information, contact president Molly Hillis at m3hillis@gmail.com.

Friday ■ 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.

Yolo County voters who believe they mistakenly received a notice in the mail from the county election office indicating their options for voting in the March 3 presidential primary election as a “No Party Preference” voter may need to reregister in their party of choice or request a crossover ballot. The Yolo County Elections Office recently sent out postcards to voters registered as “No Party Preference,” or NPP. Some voters who received the postcard questioned whether it was authentic because they did not recall registering as NPP. Voters may have unknowingly had their party registration changed to “No Party Preference” as a result of automatic voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, the elections office said Friday.

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

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Voters who believe they are impacted are encouraged to reregister to vote to make sure that their records are up to date before the March 2020 primary. “We want to inform our voters that if you received this No Party Preference (NPP) postcard and would like to vote for a presidential candidate this March, you need to take action to either request a crossover ballot or reregister with your preferred party,” said Jesse Salinas, Yolo County’s clerk-recorder/assessor/ registrar of voters. The specific action needed by NPP voters will depend on the party of their preferred presidential candidate. The NPP postcards that were mailed out, which are required by the California Elections Code, outlined what steps are needed to cast a crossover vote in the March 2020 Presidential contest. The only parties allowing

crossover voting for the March 2020 Presidential Primary are the American Independent, Democratic and Libertarian parties. NPP voters who wish to cast a ballot in the presidential primary for any of those parties may request a crossover ballot. Voters registered as “No Party Preference” that do not request a crossover ballot will receive a ballot that does not include candidates for president. The Green, Peace & Freedom and Republican parties opted to not allow crossover voting. NPP voters wishing to vote for those parties must reregister with that party. Voters may check their registration status online at https://voterstatus.sos.ca. gov/ and reregister online at registertovote.ca.gov. Regular registration for the 2020 March Presidential Primary Election ends Feb. 18. After that, voters may register or reregister at

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■ 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.

BY ERICA HELLERSTEIN Mercury News When she went to La Clinica de la Raza health center in Oakland for a routine checkup, the 54-yearold immigrant told her doctor she was under a lot of stress. Work had begun to dry up for her husband, a day laborer, and money was tight. Marta, who asked to be identified by a first name only, has chronic diabetes, and the doctor noted her high blood pressure. So the physician gave her an unexpected prescription: a $10 voucher for locally sourced produce, which Marta could redeem at La Clinica’s monthly food distribution. The prescription was her gateway to what organizers call a food pharmacy — a new program aimed at improving the health of low-income patients in Alameda County by connecting them with fresh produce. Unfolding in the backyard of the local food movement, these pharmacies are part of a new push to bring produce into primary care. The goal is to stave off poor health outcomes and reduce nutrition-related diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Instead of farm to table, you could call it farm to clinic. “I think medicine is trying to grapple with social determinants of health now in a way that it never did before,” says Dr. William Chen, chief medical officer

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 Eric 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. Events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Suzi O’Rear at suzi@ ihousedavis.org or 530753-5007.

at ALL IN Alameda County, a county-wide effort to combat poverty. “There’s many social determinants of health: housing insecurity, food insecurity, transportation insecurity. Food insecurity is something you can do in the clinic. It’s a low-hanging fruit that has lots of upsides.” La Clinica’s food pharmacy is part of what experts and organizers say is a burgeoning “food is medicine movement” unfolding nationwide amid a growing consensus that access to fresh produce can improve the health of underserved communities. It’s an approach that’s gaining traction across the country, with clinic-based food pharmacies popping up in recent years everywhere from Philadelphia to Houston. The Bay Area has been at the forefront of the movement. In 2016, San Francisco piloted a food pharmacy program that has since expanded to 10 clinics across the city and Marin County. The South Bay launched its first food pharmacy the same year of out the Samaritan House Free

Clinic in Redwood City. Alameda County’s program now has five pharmacies under way at La Clinica, Hayward Wellness, Native American Health Center, West Oakland Health Center and Roots Community Clinic, with plans for several more in the coming year. Alameda County’s initiative was Chen’s brainchild and is part of County Supervisor Wilma Chan’s “new war on poverty,” a multi-pronged effort launched in 2014. The initiative hopes to improve health outcomes for the county’s most economically disadvantaged residents by making it easier to get fresh, healthy food — often a barrier for people living paycheck to paycheck. Experts say the need in Alameda County is profound. According to a recent report by the Alameda County Food Bank and the Urban Institute, roughly 1 in 5 people are either food insecure or at risk of hunger. Yet nearly half of those residents make too much money to qualify for food stamps. That gap brings many of

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the county elections office in Woodland and vote using the Conditional Voter Registration process. There will also be a satellite office located at the UC Davis campus on Election Day where voters will be able to register and vote using the Conditional Voter Registration process. However, if you need to reregister, the election office encourages you to do so prior to Feb. 18. For more information on crossover voting, visit https://www.sos.ca.gov/ elections/voting-info/howvote-president/?#* To contact the Yolo County Elections Office, visit https://yoloelections. org or call 530-666-8133. The office is in the county administration building at 625 Court St., Room B-05, in Woodland. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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the hungry and those struggling with health issues to food banks such as Alameda County’s, where 20% of the households it serves have at least one member with diabetes and 39% have at least one member with high blood pressure. But organizers say food banks don’t have a doctor on-hand to advise clients on eating habits to manage certain health conditions. That’s where food pharmacies come in. At the health centers where they operate, providers screen patients for food insecurity at routine checkups and then prescribe a list of produce to address their specific health needs, from hunger to diabetes, obesity to hypertension. Patients can then take their prescription vouchers and use them to pick up $10 of locally sourced produce at the clinic’s monthly food distribution. — Erica Hellerstein is a Mercury News reporter who is part of The California Divide, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.

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BUTTERFLY: Remember, beer giveway is for science From Page A1 captured outdoors. ■ It must be delivered alive to the department office, 2320 Storer Hall, UC Davis, during work hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, with the full data (exact time, date and location of the capture) and your name, address, phone number or e-mail. The receptionist will certify that it is alive and refrigerate it. (If you collect it on a weekend or holiday, keep it in a refrigerator; do not freeze. A few days in the fridge will not harm it, Shapiro says.) ■ Shapiro is the sole judge. Shapiro, who maintains a research website at http://butterfly.ucdavis. edu, usually wins his own contest and did so again in 2019. He collected the winner near the Suisun Yacht Club, Suisun City, Solano County, at 1:12 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25. Shapiro has been defeated only four times, and all by UC Davis graduate students. Jacob Montgomery defeated him in 2016, and his graduate student, Adam Porter, won in 1983. His graduate students Sherri Graves and Rick VanBuskirk defeated him in the late 1990s. The list of winners, dates and locations since 2010: ■ 2019: Jan. 25: Art Shapiro collected the winner near the Suisun Yacht Club,

Solano County ■ 2018: Jan. 19: Art Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento, Yolo County ■ 2017: Jan. 19: Art Shapiro collected the winner on the UC Davis campus ■ 2016: Jan. 16: Jacob Montgomery, UC Davis graduate student, collected the winner in west Davis ■ 2015: Jan. 26: Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento ■ 2014: Jan. 14: Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento ■ 2013: Jan. 21: Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento ■ 2012: Jan. 8: Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento ■ 2011: Jan. 31: Shapiro collected the winner in Suisun, Solano County ■ 2010: Jan. 27: Shapiro collected the winner in West Sacramento The 2019 winner was the earliest recorded in Suisun City in 47 seasons, said Shapiro. His notes from Jan. 25 read: “Very little in bloom: many dandelions, one Eucalyptus, three hirschfeldia (mustard), two raphanus (radish), many malva (mallow) and a few picris (sunflower family). Site still 30 percent flooded. I went to all the usual vanessa (butterfly) places and found nothing. I searched more than 100 Malva plants for larvae and found nothing. But near the Suisun Yacht Club (703 Civic Center Blvd.,

Suisun City) at 1:12 p.m. I saw a rapae. It didn’t land and I had to take it in the air. It’s a small and very heavily infuscated male.” It had just eclosed that day, he said. The UC Davis professor has monitored butterfly population trends on a transect across central California since 1972 and records the information on his research website. His 10 sites stretch from the Sacramento River Delta through the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada mountains to the high desert of the Western Great Basin. He visits his sites every two weeks “to record what’s out” from spring to fall, weather permitting. He has studied more than 160 species of butterflies in his transect. The largest and oldest database in North America, it was recently cited by British conservation biologist Chris Thomas in a worldwide study of insect biomass. He and illustrator Timothy D. Manolis co-authored “A Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions,” published in 2007 by the University of California Press. Shapiro is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Entomological Society, and the California Academy of Sciences. For information, contact Shapiro at amshapiro@ucdavis.edu.

City invites proposals for grants Special to The Enterprise The city of Davis expects to distribute about $1,000,000 to help local groups provide affordable housing and social services to low- and moderateincome Davis residents in the coming year thanks to Davis’ share of Federal Community Development Block Grant and Housing Investment Partnerships programs. The funds are provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Department and are distributed by the city to local, nonprofit organizations that deliver critically needed services such as meals, shelter, transportation, elder care services and healthcare to lowincome residents. The city expects to receive about $700,000 in CDBG and $300,000 in HOME funds for the fiscal year 2020-21, although exact amounts will not be known for several months, when Congress appropriates funding. The city will host an applicant workshop at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the City Hall Community Chambers, 23 Russell Blvd. in Davis, and strongly encourages all potential

applicants to attend. The workshop is expected to last at least an hour. Grant applications are due to the city by 5 p.m. on Jan. 27, either via email to mrice@ cityofdavis.org or at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, if paper applications are required. The city’s Social Services Commission will recommend funding amounts in

March, and in April the City Council is expected to decide which groups will receive grants. Download an application from the city’s website at www.cityofdavis.org. For information, contact Mary Rice, grants management analyst at the City Manager’s Office, at 530-7575623

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The existing house on Russell Boulevard.

TOWNHOME: Commissioners aim to save oak trees on property From Page A1 Access would be from a shared driveway off Russell Boulevard. Immediate neighbors of the site include two singlefamily homes and a sorority housing UC Davis students. According to the project application, the proposal is justified by the city’s identified need to increase density around the UC Davis campus. However, the application notes, “at the same time, there is strong neighborhood sentiment in the College Park/Russell Boulevard neighborhood to maintain the family residential character of that neighborhood. “The University View Townhomes project is specifically designed to

accommodate families,” the application states. “The units are, in fact, four single-family attached units. Each on its own separable lot. The project will convert one large lot into four separate lots, each with its own home. Thus providing a (moderate increase) in density in keeping with the character of the neighborhood.” The applicants met with neighbors last month, including six of whom live on either Oak or College Park, as well as the neighbor who lives immediately west of the site. “All neighbors in attendance seemed pleased with the development and two neighbors said they would like to purchase,” according to the application. The applicant also met

with a handful of planning commissioners at the site and the primary concern expressed was about saving the two large valley oak trees on the property, the application states. In response, a registered consulting arborist was hired to provide advice on saving those trees. For more information on the University View Townhomes project, as well as to view site plans, visit https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/communitydevelopment-andsustainability/development -projects/university-viewtownhomes-335-russellboulevard. — Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Briefly Deos campaign hosts party There will be a house party for Yolo County Supervisor Candidate Linda Deos from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6, at the home of Morrie Kraemer. Deos is a longtime consumer-protection attorney and smallbusiness owner. She serves on the Yolo County Cannabis Business Tax Citizens’ Advisory Committee, the Davis Utilities Commission and the Board of Directors for the Yolo Basin Foundation. For address of event and more information, contact Elizabeth Lasensky at elasensky @gmail.com, 530-8485436.

I-House hosts winter qigong Do your plans for 2020 include reducing stress or taking better care of yourself? Qigong can help. This ancient Chinese movement practice is still used today for health, vitality and longevity. Western research has confirmed the many benefits of this moving meditation practice. The gentle, slow, accessible movements of this body/mind practice support the organs, enhance immunity, improve flexibility, increase energy, reduce stress, calm the mind and lift the spirit. Qigong can be adapted for all ages and fitness levels. Beginning and experienced participants are welcome. Classes are held at International House, 10 College Park. Ten-week class session begins Monday, Jan. 13, and continue on Mondays from 5 to 6 p.m. Session fee for 10 classes is $160 ($150 for I-House members). Drop-ins welcome if space permits, at $20 per class. Space is limited and early registration is recommended. To register, contact instructor Rebecca Pope at qigongfor health@gmail.com or 530-792-7127. Pope is a certified master of medical qigong, a branch of Chinese medicine, and has trained in the U.S. and China.

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GROWTH: Yolo in the middle of the state pack From Page A1 itself, has more residents than 41 of the 50 states in the United States of America. California’s least populous county continues to be Alpine County, hugging the Nevada border on the east side of the crest of the Sierra Nevada to the southwest of Lake Tahoe, with just 1,128 residents in a county that covers 743 square miles. (To express this statistic in more local terms, Alpine County has significantly fewer residents than the communities of Dunnigan or Esparto in Yolo County.) Several coastal counties — generally noted for higher-thanaverage home prices — actually lost population in the past year, according to the California Department of Finance figures, including Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Los Angeles county are down by less than 1 percent. Other coastal counties — including Del Norte, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Orange and San Diego counties — added residents at modest rate of +0.50 percent or less. Several of the state’s more thinly populated interior “mountain counties” likewise lost residents, including Modoc, Nevada, Shasta, Siskiyou, Mariposa, Inyo, Calaveras, Sierra, Tuolumne and Alpine, which were down by as much as 0.53 percent. Hardest-hit in terms of population losses were in the state’s northeast corner, including Lassen County (-647 residents, -2.12 percent) and Butte County (-10,388, -4.57 percent). The steep population decline in Butte County was largely attributed to the 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed about 95 percent of the structures in the community of Paradise, most of

Does it feel crowded? Expect more of the same as Yolo County continues to grow, albeit slower than some neighboring counties. SUE COCKRELL/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

which were consumed by flames in the fire’s first four hours. And s it turned out, the California county that added the highest percentage of new residents (Sutter, +2.21 percent) and the California county that lost the most residents (Butte, -4.57 percent) were adjacent — likely related to the Camp Fire as well. Glenn County, likewise adjacent to Butte County, likewise experienced an increase of +1.54 percent, likewise also related to the Camp Fire. California as a whole experienced the lowest growth rate in percentage terms since 1900 — +0.35 percent, reflecting an overall increase of 141,300 residents. The California Department of Finance referenced a declining birth rate (425,200 births) and a negative net migration rate (-39,500 residents, with more people leaving the state than moving in from abroad and other states), as factors in this trend. Other interesting statistics from the California Department of

Finance’s population estimates: ■ Counties that are home to a growing number of commuters into the San Francisco Bay Area (but not historically considered a statistical part of the San Francisco Bay Area) recorded some of the highest population growth rates in percentage terms, including Sacramento County (15,867 new residents, +1.03 percent), San Joaquin County (11,390 new resident, +1.50 percent) and San Benito County (1,345 new residents, +2.19 percent). ■ Interior counties adjacent to the Los Angeles area likewise experienced population growth, including Riverside County (22,740 new residents, +0.94 percent), San Bernardino County (18,710 new residents, +0.86 percent) and Kern County (10,324 new residents, +1.14 percent). ■ The 10 most populous counties — Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Alameda, Sacramento, Contra Costa and

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Fresno — each had over 1 million residents and together these 10 counties accounted for 72 percent of California’s population. ■ Counties in the San Joaquin Valley continued to add residents, including San Joaquin County (11,390 new residents, +1.50 percent), Stanislaus County (3,779 new residents, +0.68 percent), Merced County (3,975 new residents, +1.43 percent), Fresno County (11,123 new residents, +1.10 percent), Tulare County (4,143 new residents, +0.87 percent). ■ Counties in the northern Sacramento Valley likewise continued to add residents as well (albeit fewer new residents than counties in the San Joaquin Valley), including Colusa County (233 new residents, +1 percent), Glenn County (442 new residents, +1.54 percent) and Tehama County (725 new residents, +1.12 percent). — Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8055.

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Army has launched a fundraising website to cover the lost donations. To contribute, visit https://give-do. salvationarmy.org/give/ 266165/. The Salvation Army Service Center in Woodland provides food for those in need through its food pantry. The nonprofit also offers Christmas, rental and utility assistance and helps send children to camp. The nonprofit also operates emergency shelters, transitional living centers, workforce development programs and adult rehabilitation programs in Northern California. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.

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A man of intellect, great humor, compassion and, most of all, a deep love for his family and friends, Cliff will be missed by all. Cliff was preceded in death by his parents, Eugene and Ella Simes. He is survived by sons Michael (Alison) and Daniel (Lylah), grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Services for Cliff will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at University Covenant Church, 315 Mace Blvd., in Davis. Reception to follow at the church.

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Cliff Simes passed away peacefully at his home in Dixon with Donna, his wife of 60 years, by his side. Cliff taught history, auto shop and wood shop at Davis High School until he retired in 1993. Cliff and Donna have enjoyed retirement with many years of cruising, road trips and Marine Corps reunions. He was a member of the Woodland Elks and a volunteer restoration worker at the Heidrick Agricultural Museum in Woodland.

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avis Commons remains a common conundrum. Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, the longest-lasting tenant at the 500 First St. center, closed on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the vegan fast-food restaurant Burger Patch hopes it has the right recipe, as it plans to fill the former Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli space. And Xfinity opened a store in the center on Dec. 13. Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are two of many businesses that have come and gone at the center, including anchor tenants Borders, Whole Foods and The Gap. Mikuni is the biggest success story, recently expanding and moving to a larger space, which will add outdoor dining soon. On Monday, Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announced its impending closure with a sign on its door. It had limited hours for its final two days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unfortunately, after nearly 2 decades, Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will be closing its doors,â&#x20AC;? the flyer read. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We appreciate the community of Davis and its support during our tenure.â&#x20AC;? The sign included an email, catering@loveplutos. com, for â&#x20AC;&#x153;parties interested in bringing Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to the areaâ&#x20AC;? or to contact for event catering services. General Manager Mike Raub said they hope the closure is temporary. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for options that are less costly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully we can have something back open soon to serve the town. We appreciate â&#x20AC;Ś our loyal guests that have made us great for so many years.â&#x20AC;? My Facebook and Instagram announcements of the closure inspired one local landlord to reach out to Raub on Monday. Maybe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope our dwarf planet (and my favorite salad place) wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fade off into the solar system. The restaurant came under new ownership last summer. Dave Hayer of Benicia purchased the remaining chain stores, and brought in new management. Eateries in Roseville, Sacramento, San Jose, San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marina district, Chico and San Luis Obispo have closed. Two remain: in Palo Alto and San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunset district. For years, it remained a popular fast-casual restaurant. Its menu focused on custom salads, sandwiches, hand-carved meat

dishes and comfort sides. When I met friends there for lunch, we usually tried to get there before noon, when the lines got long. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Can Burger Patch help patch things up at the Commons? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find out when it fills the former Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli space at 500 First St. in early 2020. The plant-based chain launched in 2017 with pop-ups at local events and music festivals. It was the first to serve the Beyond Burger in Sacramento. It has a stand inside Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden 1 Center, and opened its first store, at 2301 K St. in midtown Sacramento, in spring. Phil Horn, who co-founded The Burger Patch with his wife, Danea, said they expect to have it open in early 2020. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re overjoyed to have the opportunity to answer the call from our customers with our expansion to Davis,â&#x20AC;? Horn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Davis is an incredible community that fiercely supports local brands, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited to support them back.â&#x20AC;? Phil Horn is a former Sacramento Kings executive who received a â&#x20AC;&#x153;40 Under 40â&#x20AC;? award in 2015 from the Sacramento Business Journal. In 2013, he donated a kidney to Danea, and they attribute their healthy eating as a factor in their good health. The chain anticipates more growth, Danea Horn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Davis was a special choice as our next location for me. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been pursuing my Ph.D. at UC Davis (in agriculture and resource economics) for the last three years, and I just love the community. Stay tuned for more announcements, though. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re far from done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exploring new ways to scale this and bring our plantbased goodness and mission to more people,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The creativity is endless in such a

Tables sit empty in front of the vacant Plutoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant at Davis Commons on Friday. The longest-lasting tenant of the center closed on Tuesday. OWEN YANCHER/ ENTERPRISE PHOTO

rapidly growing space, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited to be at the forefront of it.â&#x20AC;? The 1,500-square-foot restaurant will feature seating for approximately 60 as well as shared space throughout the Davis Commons property. That includes the one-acre semicircular commons and a demonstration garden. The Davis store will be the first Burger Patch to offer beer and wine. Burger Patch has a Patch Match donation program, where it chooses a local nonprofit each month. The nonprofits receive a contribution from every burger sold. It has a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gril Powerâ&#x20AC;? (sic) initiative, calling for equal opportunity for women for leadership and skill-based positions. The Davis restaurant will employ about 25 people in full- and part-time positions. The menu focuses on plantbased alternatives, organic and non-GMO ingredients. It uses sustainable packaging, and urges reduction of animal-based food consumption to help the environment. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Xfinity Store opened earlier this month, filling the former Bath & Body Works space. It offers Internet, TV, mobile, home security and voice home phone services. Comcast customers can also manage their accounts and bills at the store. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Tuesdays and Thursdays through Saturdays. Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 5

p.m. and Wednesdays are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; On Dec. 20, Sudwerk Brewing Co. reopened its kitchen and started serving snacks and simple entrees. Meanwhile, its banquet room was fixed up and rebranded as a beer hall, with lounge areas and a screen. Patrons order at the bar and receive a number, for delivery indoors or out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all through breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taproom, The Dock, 2001 Second St. Co-owner Trent Yackzan said the soft opening is a chance to get feedback from patrons. The brewery hired Chef Irie Gengler, who serves about 10 items, including pulled pork sliders, brats and snacks like soft pretzels. There are also items geared toward childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appetites, like a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hop Dog,â&#x20AC;? chicken strips and veggies. Adding food (beyond the occasional food truck) means the brewery can serve wine. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working with Yolo County wineries, and serving eight varieties, Yackzan said. The kitchen opening is the first phase of what owners hope will evolve into a restaurant, to make use of the former Sudwerk brewpub space and back patio. The company is still raising money for that â&#x20AC;&#x153;go-big plan,â&#x20AC;? Yackzan said. The kitchen is open when The Dock is: 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 4 to 9 p.m. Fridays, 2 to 9 p.m. Saturdays and 2 to 6 p.m. Sundays. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open this weekend but closed

Monday through Wednesday this week for the new yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holiday. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After six years, Elan Image is closed. The formalwear and alterations storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last day was Dec. 21. Owner Lydia Chu retired. She plans to travel and to move to Thailand in 2021. Chu, the former owner of Executive Cleaners, opened Executive Alterations and Formalwear in 2013. She changed the name to Elan Image after she sold the cleaners, which has two Davis stores. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel very fortunate to have done this in Davis,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I appreciate all of the support people have given over the years.â&#x20AC;? The landlord is in negotiations with a prospective tenant for the space but it is not finalized. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Habit Burger (another former Davis Commons tenant) has its sign up at 1368 E. Main St. in Woodland. It will fill the former Del Taco location that closed in May. A company spokeswoman said Tuesday that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking to open in early February. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have an exact date in a couple of weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column publishes on alternate Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail.com.

Next-gen Marrone product gets good news in field trials Special to The Enterprise Marrone Bio Inc., a Davis-based company specializing in sustainable bioprotection and plant health solutions, announced on Dec. 16 the results of new U.S. field trials of its nextgeneration nematicide/ insecticide, which showed superior control of yieldrobbing insects and nematodes in corn. Research trials conducted at six Midwest locations confirmed higher yields and cost-effective control of insects and nematodes equivalent to or better than current industry chemical standards. This next-generation product is derived from Burkholderia rinojensis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a new

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SAN RAMON — The rhythm was missing Saturday night in Contra Costa County. Riding an 11-game win streak, gunning for No. 12, the Davis High boys basketball team topped 75 points for the seventh straight game, but couldn’t contain the hot-handed Dougherty Valley Wildcats in an eventual 100-76 defeat. Davis’ first loss of the season, the lopsided Holiday Classic Championship contest came the night after DHS had topped one of the most highly touted teams in Northern California, Folsom, 87-71, in a comefrom-behind victory. “We’re 11-1,” Devil head coach Dan Gonzalez said after. “And I can’t ask for much more. It’s a great start to our season. “It was just a bad shooting day for us.” Davis also was missing a key piece in the lineup with Devil center Theo Seng nursing a leftankle injury he sustained Thursday. The 6-foot-8 big man watched from the sidelines in a soft cast for the locals’ final two contests. An ugly opening half Saturday saw the Blue Crew go 2 for 14

DIXON — Davis High girls basketball’s identity shift is complete. The Blue Devils tallied their sixth straight win in Saturday night’s Dixon Ram Jam championship game by beating the hosts, 48-26. This, after starting the season 1-5 and losing four straight games just two weeks ago. Defense — the key component of Davis’ recent run— was at its remarkable best on Saturday. DHS (7-5) held a 3-point lead, 26-23, entering halftime. After intermission, the Devils permitted the Rams just 3 total points, and zero in the fourth quarter. You read that right: three points in a half. “That’s how we see ourselves as a team,” said Surina Beal of her team’s defensive identity. “So it was really great to have that be what sealed the win for us, sealed the championship for us.” Beal, who finished with 5 points, nabbed tournament MVP honors. Sophomore forward Caitlin McMillan led Davis with 12 points, also earning her all-tournament honors.

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Davis knocked off Folsom in fine fashion, 87-71. To read full game coverage, visit Davisenterprise.com from 3-point land, while the Wildcats knocked down nine (on 10 attempts) from beyond the arc. Meanwhile, Dougherty’s University of Montana commit Robert Beasley was sizzling, tossing in 14 points between the first two quarters, hitting four shots from downtown.

The 6-foot-3 senior guard led all scorers with 30 points, while Ryan Hakl topped Davis’ stat sheet with 17. “We had some good looks early,” Gonzalez added. “But when they didn’t go down and theirs did, it put us behind.” Joey Voss (9 points) and Joey Asta (8) received all-tournament honors along with Beasley. Voss had netted a season-high 24 points in Friday’s win over Folsom. Asta and CJ Fabionar had tossed in 11 apiece in that victory.

“With Theo out, we had to shift a lot of guys around to play the five (spot),” Voss told The Enterprise on Friday. “So it was kind of like a chain-reaction of guys moving around, but everybody stepped up.” Saturday’s game marked Davis’ fourth consecutive appearance in a tournament title contest this preseason. Delta League play kicks off for DHS on Wednesday, Jan. 8, when the Devils travel to Elk Grove to take on Cosumnes Oaks (7-5).

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UC Davis forward Cierra Hall (with ball) goes to the basket in first half of Saturday’s 67-55 loss at Stanford. Hall finished with eight rebounds and 6 points.

STANFORD — With the No. 5 Cardinal up by 10 points just 6 minutes into the game, it looked like a repeat of last year’s first round of the NCAA Tournament, where Stanford opened a 29-9 first-period lead on UC Davis and cruised to victory. But not this time. Aggie freshman guard Evanne Turner promptly hit three straight 3-pointers, and when Katie Toole hit a trey at 5:58 of the second quarter, Davis was ahead, 23-22, and in the middle of a 21-5 outburst. Leading by as

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many as 6, UCD wouldn’t be caught until Haley Jones’ 3-pointer with less than 2 minutes left in the third period. Jones started a Stanford 10-1 run and the Pac-12 power escaped with a 67-55 decision. The loss dropped Davis to 4-8, while the Cardinal improved to 11-1. Turner, a 5-9 guard by way of Etiwanda High (Fontana), did all her damage from beyond the arc, hitting 5 of 8 from distance for a career-high 15 points. Turner started for the injured Sophia Song. “She’s been playing with a lot of

confidence, so we went with her,” Aggies coach Jennifer Gross said of Turner. “It paid off. I’m proud of her. I think this game will give us confidence (knowing) we can play with anyone in the country.” Toole tallied 13 for Davis with Mackenzie Trpcic adding 10 and six assists. Kayla Konrad had seven rebounds and four assists, and Cierra Hall scored 6 points and had eight boards. Next up for UCD is a New Year’s Day free-admission game with visiting William Jessup at 2 p.m.

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arly this past fall, I profiled the UC Davis athletics equipment operations crew — a team of five tireless Aggies under the direction of assistant athletic director Robert Jones. Working diligently seven days a week, at often-unusual hours from the depths of Hickey Gym, the squad quietly helps keep all things Blue-and-Gold running smoothly and in style around Aggieland. Priding themselves on doing a job that, when executed smoothly, goes entirely unnoticed, the silent heroes got me thinking this holiday season about the many others who do their work behind closed doors when the cameras, fans and sports scribes aren’t watching. So I started looking beyond the playing field at Aggie football, field hockey and volleyball matches. And it was then that I

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discovered Micah Sokolsky. Everywhere I went, he seemed to be as well — always sprinting around, walkie-talkie in hand, shuffling around equipment, directing student workers, once even operating a power sprayer to remove a mysterious fungus that had begun to spread across the surface of Aggie Field Hockey Facility. I asked around ... As UCD’s Facilities, Operations & Events Coordinator, it turns out, Sokolsky oversees close to everything. Among his responsibilities are: the field hockey complex, Aggie Soccer Stadium, Dobbins Baseball Field, the Athletic Department’s Cowell offices, Hickey Gym (as well as the gymnastics, basketball and administrative offices), Toomey Field (including its track and weight room) and the guy has his hand on UC Davis

Health Stadium. “And the new beach volleyball courts,” Micah remembered while chatting with me last week. “It’s a lot.” No kidding. Sounds like a ton. “Yeah,” he laughed. “(Sometimes) my phone’s ringing at 6:30 a.m. and a pipe might have burst. So I’ll have to make some phone calls, coordinate with facilities and go out myself to help clean up or assess what needs to be done. “Then, if I have some time, I’ll stop into my office and start

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working on a list of things to do: fixing holes in walls, installing new equipment, tightening nets. Lots of stuff.” Did I mention he’ll often get in a 10- to 15-mile jog at dawn before heading to work? The dude’s a machine. Any break for lunch, Micah? “Sometimes,” he said. “But it’s usually while I’m out working. I’ve got a white board in my office with every task broken down by facility and what needs to get done that week.

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ut once you cross one thing off, two more things need to be added. The list never gets much shorter, but I always try to attack it.” A Eureka High graduate, Sokolsky studied sports management at Drexel University in Pennsylvania before a circuitous journey led him to UC Davis. Job

stops at both Bradley and Temple universities, a stint teaching English in Spain and a handful of internships with both the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer and the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball’s Camden Riversharks helped him find his passion. “I did everything,” he says. “I was working in management offices, dugouts, compliance, facility ops, merchandise, traveling around, you name it. I was even dressing up as Finley the Rivershark.” But in facility operations he found a niche — and when a position here in Davis opened up, he sprang on it two years back. And because no one’s held his job post before (it’s brand new), the role is constantly evolving.

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n engineering there are credible and incredible failures. Nuclear power plants were designed against what was believed to be a “maximum credible accident.” Then came Fukushima, incredible. In early December, a report from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) raised the possibility that a huge electric failure, the result of a concerted cyberattack or other event, could knock out electric supply in large swaths of the country for an extended period, weeks even months. A failure with consequences that would have been beyond thinkable before the computer age. The report, which comes from an advisory council whose mission is to inform the president, has a weight that a think-tank study, for example, would not have. Here, it is the voice of the energy establishment speaking. I found in reading this report and talking to people in the industry and in academia, it is easy to predict the end of social order as we know it. It is a painful mind game to try to think how long families could survive without electricity. First off, you would be hot or cold, every appliance in the home would not work. Even if you have a generator, in short order the fuel, natural gas or gasoline, would be gone. How much non-perishable food do you have? I suspect most families would be going hungry after a few days. I would. Cell phones would run down and stay down, and the networks would collapse. We would be reduced to living like animals without the skills that are inherent to animals. In bad scenarios, families with guns would outlast families without — for a few days. Survivalists would be proven right as they hung on, maybe for a few months, hunting for fresh food, hoping for clean water, and living off the non-perishable food they have stockpiled. Rumor would dominate as communications failed. Electric utilities live in a world in which their realities are changing. Wildfires in California and Australia have pointed to a new liability for the companies: accidental ignition through falling lines, likely to get more serious as weather gets more aberrant and droughts become the normal in a time of climate change. That, together with cyberattack, puts them in a place of vulnerability they never anticipated. Utilities are proud of their expertise — and justifiably so — in responding to shortterm outages, even major ones. They rush crews to the scene, and with military zeal get the lines up and the power flowing. Then came Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria, which gave an inkling of what happens when the grid fails: total devastation and maybe as many as 2,975 lives lost.

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he NIAC report cites Puerto Rico and emphasizes cascading blackouts as the grid begins to fail. As it is, utilities fend off daily cyberattacks, and every executive I have interviewed has emphasized that cyberattack is “what keeps me awake at night” — as Jacqueline Sargent, general manager and CEO of Austin Energy, told me recently. The utility industry, often keen to be reassuring, was part of the preparation of the NIAC report. Scott Aaronson, point man in the industry’s trade organization the Edison Electric Institute, was involved in the report and has been raising the alarm in interviews since its release. A new seriousness in the federal government, particularly in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy and the Pentagon, shows that the threat is real and credible. The White House has said nothing. In the new year, the invisible enemy will be engaged more than ever. But who knows what is enough? In the NIAC report, insiders have sounded the alarm about their own defenses. That is serious, credible. — Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

s oft-noted in this space, those in California’s state government — governors, legislators and agency directors — have an unfortunate habit of starting programs and projects that are never fully implemented. These governmental orphans fall roughly into two categories, those that have some valid rationale and those that don’t. For instance, applying technology to public services makes perfect conceptual sense, but we’ve lost count on how many “information technology” projects have consumed billions of dollars without delivering the promised benefits of better service delivery and better data. The latest poster child for half-baked IT projects is FI$Cal, which is supposed to consolidate numerous financial management and reporting systems into one, but has already cost more than $1 billion and shows no signs of working anytime soon. Using technology still makes sense, but if the state bureaucracy is incapable of implementing it, it’s just money down a rathole. Speaking of which, many billions of dollars are also going down that dark hole for projects that made no sense in the first place, with the state’s bullet train a

prime example. For decades, a certain segment of California’s population has swooned over the notion of an uber-fast northsouth rail system, à la those in Japan, China and Europe. However, advocates never provided a logical rationale, given that traveling up and down California is relatively easy while movement within urban areas is our toughest transportation problem. Eleven years ago, thenGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other advocates persuaded voters to pass a $9.95 billion bond issue, assuring them that the system could be built for about $40 billion, would attract outside investors, and be operationally self-supporting. None of that has come to pass. The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority is now more or less building about 100 miles of track in the San Joaquin Valley, using money from bonds and $3.5 billion in federal grants. In January, a newly inaugurated Gov. Gavin Newsom

LETTERS Thanks from KDRT On behalf of the 40-plus volunteers at KDRT 95.7 FM — Davis’ community radio station — and the staff at Davis Media Access, we send a hearty thank you to our listeners, supporters and local businesses who helped make our Rootstock 2019 Fall Fundraiser a resounding success! In honor of our 15th anniversary this fall, we spent a week along the “Grassroots Trail” with events throughout the region, focusing on venues that support live local music and provide a welcoming gathering spot for their communities. We are grateful to our longtime partners for their continued generosity, including Chris and Lori Nicolini Miller with Berryessa Brewing in Winters, and Ted Parks with Woodstock’s Pizza Davis, and the musicians who repeatedly have provided support at these venues, including The Muddy Waders and The West Nile Ramblers. We also enjoyed the energy and hospitality of Lindsey Hickman, owner of Dixon’s The Barn & Pantry and its new weekly Open Mic Night Tuesdays, hosted by Hattie Craven.

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For decades, a certain segment of California’s population has swooned over the notion of an uber-fast northsouth rail system. more or less abandoned the notion of a statewide system, citing lack of money, and then more or less backtracked and said he wanted to slightly lengthen and complete the San Joaquin Valley section.

resident Donald Trump’s administration, always on the prowl for ways to ding blue California, then held up nearly $1 billion in grant funds and demanded that money already sent, and partially spent, be returned because the underlying contract had been violated. Defying federal officials and its own peer review committee, the bullet train board this month decided to solicit bids from three firms to electrify the track now under construction and build a maintenance garage to service the system. The Federal Railroad Administration warned the

Traveling up to Woodland to Blue Note Brewing, we appreciated the dedication to local musicians that JonEmery Dodds displays by organizing their Sunday Sessions Live. Similarly, we commend the Root of Happiness Kava Bar for hosting their monthly second and fourth Wednesday Jazz Nights, that often features the talents of the next generation’s jazz players. We also thank Jason with Parkside Davis for co-hosting the kickoff to the Blue Mango 40th anniversary celebration in October, along with veteran musicians, the Bill Scholer — Jan Peters Reunion Band. Our gratitude also goes out to artist and KDRT alum Gregory Shilling, who created our Rootstock 2019 graphic, featured on special edition T-shirts, tote bags and posters that will be delivered at the first of the new year. Finally, we greatly appreciate the many listeners who recently donated, for this support is truly what allows us to continue to produce our 24/7 local broadcast programming and streaming. Thank you for valuing Davis’ grassroots community radio! Craig Blomberg, Clyde Bowman, Jim Buchanan, Diane Crumley, Doug and Jess Kelly, Pieter Pastoor and Jeff Shaw KDRT operations committee

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state not to move forward, saying in a letter, “It is premature for (the rail authority) to undertake another major design-build contract. The current construction packages continue to face significant and continuing delays building the necessary civil construction.” There’s not enough money in the kitty to do what’s now contemplated, and proceeding seems to be a defiant gesture by Newsom, who fancies himself a leader of the antiTrump “resistance,” and a political wager that Trump will be replaced by a friendly Democrat a year hence. It also sets up a confrontation with legislators, such as Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who see the bullet train as a loser and would like to tap the bonds for improving urban commuter service. Some of the money has already been siphoned away to electrify commuter rail service along the San Francisco Peninsula and Rendon wants a similar allocation for Southern California. That makes much more sense than completing a mini-bullet train to nowhere. — CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmatters.org/ commentary.

Thank you, downtown Davis The other afternoon I stopped in at Davis Lumber — sorry, Davis Ace! — to pick up a couple of last-minute gifts for friends’ pets. As I walked through the store, I felt so much gratitude that it is still here. Smaller, yes, but it hasn’t disappeared, and it continues to carry almost anything I need, staffed by friendly, helpful people. It wasn’t the only downtown business I paid a visit to over the past few weeks, and for each one, I was thankful that despite the competition from Amazon and big-box stores, my town remains a place where I can not only buy things but meet up with friends while I shop, have a meal or a cup of coffee, and enjoy a sense of community. So, a shout-out to the Avid Reader (may it live long and prosper), Pinkadot, the aforementioned Davis Ace, Sole Desire, Davis Food Co-op, Mishka’s, Crepeville, and all the other shops and spots I wandered into and felt welcomed. And to The Davis Enterprise, for providing a place to send this thank-you note — thank you to all for being here. Barbara K. Anderson Davis

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A love letter to Señora Dopico Valley Clean Energy

ear Señora Dopico (beloved César Chávez Elementary School teacher), I recently learned you took your own life seeking rest from your courageous struggle with depression. I knew I had to write this love letter to you and to my entire community. The fact that my children, who attended Chávez, never formally had you as a teacher, and yet I remember you so vividly as a light, a presence of life and curiosity and love, says everything about who you were and are to so many of us in your beloved Davis. Your life matters and will always matter to me and thousands more. I love you. I wish you had known that even a couple of people removed, you lifted me up. You encouraged my efforts as a parent at our school working for social justice and trying to make our school a place where bullying could not survive, was not inevitable. Tears come again as I remember my own vulnerability, lifting my head to see you silently encouraging me. I hope you knew how much I appreciated that … I just did not say I appreciated that. You prioritized this socioemotional training toward community, toward connection, toward respecting the weight, the value of each person’s humanity. I think you would want your beloved community to be aware of those walking among us, who are hurting as badly as you were, from lethal sadness or hopelessness. You were not alone in this. Abraham Lincoln episodically suffered from such deep and unrelenting depression that his friends had to gather around for suicide watches, according to Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of “Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged A President and Fueled His Greatness.” Despite the funny stories he was known for, his considerable success despite humble beginnings, his dedication to others beyond himself, Lincoln like you, Señora Dopico, lived through long dark nights of the soul. Many of us have known the depths and relentless companion of depression. I have known these depths. It was when my youngest was 3 months old, after an extended anxiety attack during the Christmas holidays, trying desperately to give my exhausted super-best

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to my 4-year-old as well. I gave up struggling against a reality that had gnawed at me and mentored me and came to me not infrequently since my teenage years. A couple of months before this, I had asked for a prescription, but not filled it. Then I filled it, but did not take it. I needed help. I resisted this realization through my young adulthood, telling myself if I just prayed harder and had a “quiet time” every day, I would know hope and be healed of this burden. My girlfriends told me not to start medication or I would get dependent on it. In my cells, I did not have the strength or pattern of neurochemistry they had. I chewed on the lie that I was weak and giving up. The hardest lie to resist? The altruistic rationale that says those around me would be better off without me. Within a week after starting an anti-depressant, I surprised myself with a smile. Yep. A smile caught me off guard! At the end of my postpartum period, I was prepared to beg my internist to continue the prescription, which he did … no begging needed. Thankfully, anti-depressant medication means I am not in danger of taking my life. I was one of the fortunate ones. In disclosing this part of me, I know I risk being seen as broken and pitiful. I will take that risk. Because the secrecy nurtures shame. Shame causes isolation. Your incredible, loving husband, Chris Jones, told us you were afraid of telling others. Given the hundreds of children and adults who came to your memorial to say how much they loved you, the fact that you felt you had to protect yourself from what others would think is a heart-wrenching irony. Folks shared that “you supported the people who were not supported in our community,” that you could not stand the thought “that a child would be in a place of not feeling love,” that you hated to think there were “those who felt excluded from the community they were a part of.” Maybe there are those who would use your final act to justify

(All Are Welcome) When: Sunday, Jan. 26, 3 to 5 p.m. Where: Davis Community Church, 412 C St., Davis Donations in Señora Dopico’s honor can be made to the Davis Phoenix Coalition at https:// davisphoenixco.org/donate or by mail at P.O. Box 1902, Davis 95617 their disdain for whom you were trying to be in the world. As Chris taught at your memorial, what I hope comes from this moment, especially for your second graders and other children, is a generational shift in behavior and belief that mental illness is nothing that should be hidden or ashamed of. I hope this is the generation that makes it okay to say: “I’m hurting.” However many times it takes. Our community has lost a light we can no longer see but one that we can always feel and learn from. You will continue to teach us to care for each other. That those near and far from us deserve to be recognized, must be recognized for our common humanity, that they are a part of us as individuals and as a collective. Señora Dopico, I like to believe you have joined a great cloud of witnesses coaching us on to our best selves. I love you. ———— If you would like to honor this extraordinary teacher and what she stood for, including antibullying efforts in Davis schools, consider making a donation to the Davis Phoenix Coalition (https://davisphoenixco.org/ donate). Señora Dopico was an active member. Also, join us on Sunday, Jan. 26, for an Ethnic Studies TeachIn from 3 to 5 p.m. at Davis Community Church at 412 C St. Even given the success of the optional “Race and Social Justice in U.S. History” course at Davis Senior High School, Señora Dopico passionately believed there should be an ethnic studies graduation requirement for Davis students, as there is in many school districts across California and the nation. — Jann Murray-García, M.D., M.P.H., is a Davis parent and pediatrician. She shares this column with Jonathan London. Reach her at jmurgar@comcast. net.

POEM OF THE MONTH The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. Oh, I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections, and my tribe is scattered! How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends, those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face. Yet I turn, I turn,

exulting somewhat, with my will intact to go wherever I need to go, and every stone on the road precious to me. In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.” Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes. — Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006 Two-time American Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz lived be 100 years old, so it is safe to assume he learned something of change and transformation. How many lessons confront each of us on our individual journeys? How many losses, how many gains? Can we learn to “live in the layers, not in the litters?” As we move into a new year I wish each of you a fine journey. Very few of us are done with our changes. — James Lee Jobe, Davis Poet Laureate

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he end of each calendar year offers an opportunity to sit back and reflect on the goals reached over the past 12 months and to look forward to a new year of possibilities and challenges. At Valley Clean Energy — your local nonprofit electricity provider — we’re working hard to fulfill our mission to deliver clean electricity, energy product choice and greenhouse gas emission reductions, all with local control at competitive prices. Since June 2018, we’ve been serving 55,000 customers in the cities of Woodland and Davis plus the unincorporated area of Yolo County. That number will grow when customers in Winters are enrolled after the city became an official member of VCE this month. Thanks to the creativity and dedication of our professional staff, and the visionary leadership of my colleagues on the board, the past year has been jam-packed with accomplishments. Here’s a brief review: ■ Higher renewables: An audit of our first year of electricity purchases reveals that we have fulfilled our promise to buy the cleanest, greenest power we could afford for our customers. In fact, we exceeded our own expectations! While we pledged a minimum of 42 percent renewable energy, we found that our portfolio actually contained 48 percent renewable energy, compared to 39 percent for PG&E. Furthermore, a growing number of VCE customers are “opting up” for our UltraGreen 100 percent renewable portfolio, for an additional cost of only 1.5 cents per kilowatt hour. ■ Early loan payback: Gaining approval for a $500,000 start-up loan from each of our jurisdictions — Yolo County and the cities of Davis and Woodland — was quite a victory for VCE, allowing us to launch in June 2018. The only thing better than landing those critical loans has been our ability to pay them back early; that’s exactly what we accomplished this past October. It is with tremendous pride that our board has repaid this $1.5 million investment far ahead of schedule, particularly since VCE has absorbed financial impacts related to state regulatory actions affecting community choice aggregation utilities. However, our board continues to make wise decisions that represent the best interests of our customers while helping us to meet our environmental sustainability goals even sooner. ■ Welcome, solar customers: We’re thrilled to begin enrolling our legacy solar customers — those who installed their solar systems prior to VCE’s launch — starting in January. Solar customers (both residential and commercial) have already demonstrated a financial commitment to renewable energy, and it will be terrific to have them in the VCE fold. We appreciate their patience as we have delayed their enrollment while we worked through some

unforeseen program and budgetary constraints. If you own solar panels, you’ll be automatically enrolled in VCE’s Net Energy Metering (NEM) program during your true-up month in 2020. And here’s one exciting difference between our solar program and PG&E’s: VCE will pay you one cent more per kWh for the excess power you generate. ■ Customer dividend program: This program, which launches in 2020, is designed to reward our customers for their loyalty and support, and to share VCE’s positive financial performance with customers. A dividend will be credited to residential customers once per year (on their October bill) and to commercial customers twice per year (on their April and October bills), after specific financial targets are met. These dividends are among the many ways in which VCE gives back to its local communities. ■ Bid for PG&E assets: On Oct. 18, VCE offered PG&E $300 million to purchase its physical assets — poles, lines and other infrastructure — in Yolo County. The board sees PG&E’s bankruptcy filing as a unique opportunity to take over these assets and rebuild a safer, more stable, more reliable, and cost-effective electric utility in our service area. We are among numerous communities throughout the utility’s Northern California territory to consider taking control of our electric systems after PG&E shut off power to millions of customers this fall — including many in Yolo County — to avoid the risk that high winds would damage its equipment and spark wildfires. While our offer was initially rejected, a final decision could be made by the court overseeing PG&E’s bankruptcy rather than by the management of the San Francisco-based utility. ■ Winters joins VCE: Our neighbor to the west is the fourth local jurisdiction to join VCE, with the decision made official this month by the VCE board. Adding Winters to our service territory further strengthens our locally controlled power agency. The West Sacramento City Council also has voted to join VCE as an associate member, giving that city a seat at the table as discussions continue concerning PG&E’s future. On behalf of the board and staff of Valley Clean Energy, I wish you all happy holidays as we look ahead to an exciting new year. As always, if you have any questions about your local electricity provider, please visit our website at www.valleycleanenergy.org, email us at info@valley cleanenergy.org, stop by our administrative office at 604 Second St. in downtown Davis or call us at 530-4462750. —Tom Stallard, a member of the Woodland City Council, chairs the Valley Clean Energy board of directors. For more information about VCE, visit www.valleycleanenergy. org.

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Time to make a resolution, if I remember ■ Editor’s note: Marion is taking the day off. Today’s column appeared in 2006.

ast week, I ran into an acquaintance who got quite worked up when I told him that I didn’t remember what he had written in his book. I’d read it a few years ago and forgotten even the most basic information. To my surprise, it wasn’t my forgetting that bothered him. Quite the contrary. He was concerned about my tone of apology. I felt I had done something wrong by forgetting, but he said, “Absolutely not.” “People should read for pleasure,” he insisted. “Whether they remember or not doesn’t matter. Too many people give up on reading because they don’t remember well, but what counts is the experience of reading, whatever you take from it. If you don’t remember, that’s OK.” Our conversation took me back to a column I had written in 1998 about my struggles with memory. The column was about New Year’s resolutions and memory, so I rerun it today, slightly revised. ————

Here’s what I’ve learned about New Year’s resolutions. You make ’em. You break ’em. You make ’em again. What’s different in my case is that in between, I forget them. I don’t know if this happens to other people because I learned long ago that my memory, although normal in most respects, has some odd holes. My family finds this amusing, particularly when it comes to movies. Three days after we saw “Conspiracy Theory,” for example, they were giggling about a black helicopter they spotted over the freeway, and I had to ask what they were laughing about. I had already forgotten a recurring joke from the movie. After two weeks, I forget major themes. After a month, I forget the characters or the

actors who played them. The fact that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, paired in “You’ve Got Mail,” previously teamed up in “Sleepless in Seattle” was news to me, even though I saw both movies. I also have trouble remembering books. One of my past resolutions was to read more books, and although I’ve kept that resolution, I wonder what I’ve accomplished. A few weeks after I finish a book, I forget the names of the characters, the main incidents, and sometimes even the theme. The only part I don’t forget is the overall feeling of “I liked that one” or “I didn’t.” This could lead a person to wonder how I got a BA and an MA in comparative literature, which involved a lot of reading, much of it in French and Spanish. Strangely, the languages have stayed with me but the books are gone. I liked “Madame Bovary.” It was in French. Don’t ask me anything else about it. How did I pass tests? Like any person with a disability, I found ways to compensate. My copy of “Madame Bovary” has circles around the characters’ names and handwritten notes on every page. Not profound thoughts about literature, mind you, but a

simple plot summary such as you might find in Cliffs Notes. Every time I took a test, I flipped through every page of every book that would be covered, until I had pulled information back into short-term memory. After the test, the details would fly away again. Embarrassed about my poor memory, I kept it secret. Privately, I tried to understand it. I noticed that after seeing a movie a second time or reading a book twice, I remembered it better. A third or fourth repetition secured it in my brain as well as in anyone’s. After 20 viewings of the “Davis Children’s Nutcracker,” I can recite every line. I also noticed that my mental process while watching movies or reading books is somewhat unique and may interfere with memory. I tend to think about current concerns, whatever they may be. For example, as I watched “You’ve Got Mail,” my mind jumped repeatedly to a friendship I maintain via email. I wondered if my friend and I know each other less well than we think, because so much of our contact is disembodied. Or, on the contrary, do we touch the essence of each other, as Hanks

and Ryan do in the movie? As you can imagine, these musing — happening in the theater — take me away from the movie, sometimes far away, which contributes to my forgetting. ———— My New Year’s resolution is to become more open about my spotty memory. Even among the few people I’ve already told, I have found several others with idiosyncratic memory problems that they hide from the world. These maladies are not as serious as other problems people conceal, such as eating disorders or the inability to read, but like any secret, they affect the way you greet the world, particularly in a high brow town like Davis. Being more open will make it easier for me to relax when readers remember my columns better than I do. And the next time someone comes up to me and says, “I loved your last column, but I don’t remember what it was about,” I’ll be able to smile and say, “I know just how you feel.” — Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

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unning into a burning building is not something many young people would want to do,” Davis Fire Captain Bobby Weist smiles as he reflects. “I always knew I wanted a hands-on career to serve my community. My team will run into any building day or night.” More than 35 years ago, Weist completed the fire academy program at Solano College, graduating at the top of his class. Ever since then, he has been a dedicated firefighter at the Davis Fire Station. Davis Fire Captain Emily Lo shares how this recent fire season more than tripled the call volume since she first started. Like many firefighters, she would stay up all night, away from her family, with multiple cups of coffee when needed. “This is the job I signed up for and I knew what I was getting into…I am simply grateful.” Weist adds, “This is our home — where we’re sworn to protect our neighbors and fellow citizens — and we take that to heart in how we serve our community.”

Firefighters go pink One of the many ways they serve their community is with their commitment to support the nonprofit Thriving Pink to help local women fighting breast cancer. “Every family has been touched by breast cancer, including mine,” Weist said. My mother had a cancer scare and schedules frequent scans, and my mother-in-law was diagnosed and had a double mastectomy. Breast cancer hits close to home for me and many firefighters.” Men can be diagnosed with this disease, too. “Those firefighters who risked their lives to save others at ground zero on 9/11 face a much higher risk of cancer, including breast cancer.” The local firefighters have really rallied for this cause. This is the third year Davis Firefighters Local 3494 will host an annual crab feed to benefit the local nonprofit Thriving Pink. The very popular event, to be held on Jan. 25 at the Veterans Memorial Center, is growing every year and is again sold-out early. Weist wears a classic

THRIVING PINK pink suit with tie to help MC the event and raise a glass for a toast, “Here’s to you all. In life, we need friends and heroes. As I look out upon all of you today, I raise my glass and say to you: I am glad I can call you both.” The event is an extraordinary effort led by an amazing team of local firefighters. Davis Firefighter Matt Galloway, a key event organizer, shares how they are exploring bigger venues for the future and seeking opportunities to raise more funds for this worthy cause. Everyone steps up to pitch in. “Matt and his parents work magic in the kitchen with the buckets of crab, there are a ton of great raffle prizes, and amazing volunteers serve everyone. The firefighters really are our local heroes for hosting this major fundraiser.” shares Mary Yin Liu, Executive Director for Thriving Pink.

Why we do what we do All proceeds directly benefit Thriving Pink and the core programs offered

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Davis firefighter Matt Galloway and Fire Captain Bobby Weist are part of Firefighters Local 3494’s annual Crab Feed supporting Thriving Pink. at no cost to support local breast cancer survivors. Recently, we received a call from a local survivor, Min Lee, to say thank you. “The Thriving Pink community has really been a lifeline for me,” Lee said. “My husband and I recently

immigrated here by ourselves a few years ago without any family. I was stunned to hear the diagnosis. While undergoing treatment, I couldn’t work full-time and my health insurance was limited. You provided me with a

financial grant to cover my prescriptions which were skyrocketing in cost. I also met other women at support groups and workshops who were diagnosed like me, just further along in their journey. They gave me hope that someday I can be healthy enough to start a family. You have held my hand and walked me through such a difficult time. I do not know what I would do without you.” This is the reason why we do what we do, and why the Crab Feed, a major fundraising event, is so important. We are a small, local nonprofit trying to make a big difference. A heartfelt thank you to Davis Firefighters Local 3494 and all our community partners for embracing our cause and our mission to help local breast cancer survivors. To learn more about Thriving Pink, visit www. thrivingpink.org and follow our Facebook or Instagram page. Community members can still donate raffle prizes and sponsor the Crab Feed event by emailing info@thriving pink.org. — This article was written by the Thriving Pink Board of Directors.

Let new trends guide your 2020 travel Special to The Enterprise While there’s plenty to be said for taking the proverbial road less traveled, fellow tourists can provide a wealth of knowledge to help shape a trip filled with lifelong memories. Whether you expect your travel plans for 2020 to take you near or far, having a pulse on how and where others enjoy spending their travel time may help narrow down your options. Start planning your next getaway armed with the findings of a trend report compiled by vacation rental app and website Vrbo, especially when it comes to selecting a destination and accommodations.

Unique accommodations Traditional vacation home favorites like beach houses, cabins and condos still reign supreme, but adventurous American travelers are staying in some unusual options. In fact, 71% of millennial travelers said they would consider staying at a non-traditional vacation rental. In addition to barns, castles and treehouses, properties on wheels and properties that float join the ranks of unusual accommodations travelers are booking. Travel demand for houseboats, yachts, RVs and travel trailers is up 30% year-over-year.

Surf’s up Portugal’s reputation for affordability, primo surfing and sunshinefilled climate make the country a desirable place to explore. That may explain why seaside locales in Portugal took three of the top five spots on the list of hottest international beach destinations for American travelers. Chania, Greece, took the top spot, followed by three Portuguese destinations: Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto and Lisbon. Catania, Italy, rounded out the top five. For those seeking to stay stateside, four of Vrbo’s top five United States destinations this year are beaches, including: Gulf Shores, Alabama; Miramar and Rosemary Beach, Florida; Panama City Beach, Florida; and Maui, Hawaii.

Same-city stays Rental demand data in Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta and a number of other urban destinations showed the single largest traveler origin market for each city was that same city. “ ‘Cele-cations,’ when people seek accommodations to host and spend time with groups of family and friends for milestone events like weddings, birthdays and anniversaries,

may be fueling the trend of people booking vacation homes in the same cities where they live,” said Melanie Fish, Vrbo travel expert.

Up-and-coming spots Their names may not be familiar to the masses, but each of the top emerging domestic vacation destinations shares one thing in common: outdoor appeal. Places that appeal to families and other groups of travelers looking to explore the great outdoors are seeing a major surge over the past three years. If an outdoor getaway is your ideal trip, consider destinations like Terlingua, Texas, located just a short distance from Big Bend National Park; Bella Vista, Arkansas, situated in the Ozarks near majestic lakes; Westport, Washington, surrounded by a bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west; Cherry Log, Georgia, which sits in the heart of Chattahoochee National Forest; and Edisto Island, South Carolina, a charming beachside retreat 1 hour from Charleston. “This is the third year in a row travelers’ desire to be outdoors has filled the up-and-coming destinations list,” Fish said. Find the trends and accommodations at vrbo.com. — Family Features

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Oils and Such. What do the letters WD in WD-40 stand for? 2. Sports. New England and Green Bay had the best record and third-best record of all NFL teams from 2010 to 2018. Who had the second-best record, at 94-49-1? 3. Unusual Words. What two-syllable G-word is a synonym for the noun “celebration”? 4. Art History. Who drew The Vitruvian Man, so-called, in about 1487? 5. Pop Culture — 1969 Animated Christmas

Television Shows Starring Jimmy Durante. What such show was Durante’s final film performance? Answers: Water displacement, The Pittsburgh Steelers, gala, Leonardo Da Vinci, “Frosty the Snowman.” — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at 7 p.m. Mondays at de Vere’s Irish Pub, 217 E St. in downtown Davis. He is the author of the new book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People,” now available at The Avid Reader. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster. com.

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Senior Engineering Assistant, Public Works – Engineering & Transportation Salary: $5,992.22 $7,283.59 Monthly; City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Davis, CA 95616. FFD: 01/13/2020. See job bulletin at www.cityofdavis.org for min. req. or call (530) 757-5644, TDD (530) 757-5666; City emp. appl. req. EOE.

NVTA The Napa Valley Transportation Authority (NVTA) is seeking a fulltime Senior Financial Analyst. This position performs a full range of complex fiscal activities involving budget, accounting, finance, programming, and grant activities, including cash management, payroll, and budget administration; prepares financial statements and reports, revenue projections and cost estimates, and fiscal cost/benefit analyses; responsible for programming federal, state and regional transportation funds and securing funds for capital projects and operation functions. The successful candidate must be able to multi-task, meet deadlines and work independently and as part of a team. Salary range DOE. Filing date deadline is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 24, 2020. Application and full job description available: https://www.nvta. ca.gov/careers

NVTA The Napa Valley Transportation Authority (NVTA) is seeking a fulltime Program Manager-Public Transit. This position is responsible for the day-to-day development and implementation of the transit-related activities for the NVTA; overall responsibility of long and short range service planning, overseeing and monitoring the contracted transit service provider; regulatory compliance, customer service, oversees studies, prepares analyses, and performs other related duties. The successful candidate must be able to multi-task, meet deadlines, and work independently and as part of a team. Salary range DOE. Application, supplemental questionnaire, cover letter, and resume must be submitted by 4:00p.m. January 24, 2020. Application and full job description available at: https://www.nvta. ca.gov/careers

Employment

Employment Country Club Manager Community Health & Athletic Facility Salary: $3,333.33 $4,583.33 Monthly; Stonegate Country Club, 919 Lake Blvd., Davis, CA 95616. FFD: 1/5/2020. See job announcement at www.stonegatecc. com for min. req. or call (530) 7567653, Resume’ can be sent to clubmanager@stonegatecc.com, appl. req. EOE.

Female Caregivers Wanted: Most are UCD students. High school jrs/srs or non-students fine. 3 shifts: 10-11am, 4-5pm, 8:30-9:30pm split 3-4 @ $15/hr. Help at toilet. Need 5’5”+ & strong. Need qtr breaks & summers. Debbie Poulos, at URC, 74, w/ ALS. Ideal for medical career prep. Contact at dnpoulos@urcad.org.

Employment

Commercial Glazing Contractor seeks experienced glaziers for Journeyman, Foreman & Superintendant positions. Work ranges from Multi-story office buildings to retail storefronts. Each journeyman candidate should have experience in the following; • Commercial Storefront • Curtain Walls • Aluminum Entrances and Hardware • Reading and interpreting blueprints All applicants should have their own trade specific hand tools, valid clean CDL and drive to succeed. We are a growing company with room for growth in knowledge and compensation for the right candidate. We offer full benefits. Please submit your resume to whayes@archgs.com

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Cable Installers No experience necessary. WE WILL TRAIN. Must have clean DL. Call 707-317-3467 to apply

Engineering Technician I – Public Works E&T, Temporary Part Time Salary: $3,925.46 $4,771.43 Monthly; City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Davis, CA 95616. FFD: 01/02/2020. See job bulletin at www.cityofdavis.o rg for min. req. or call (530) 7575644, TDD (530) 757-5666; City emp. appl. req. EOE.

• E-mail your public notice to legals@davisenterprise.net • Be sure to include your name and phone number

Finance Authority (the “Authority”) of its revenue bonds in one or more series in an amount not to exceed $25,000,000, including but not limited to revenue bonds issued as part of a plan to finance the facilities described herein (the “Bonds”). The proceeds of the Bonds will be used to: (1) finance the acquisition, construction and equipping of a 38-unit affordable rental housing facility located at 2050 5th Street, Davis, California; and (2) pay certain expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds. The facilities are to be STORAGE LIEN SALE owned and operated by the Mutual STORAGE LIEN SALE Housing 5th Street, LP, or another There will be a lien sale at 2nd Street Storage, limited partnership to be established by There will be a lien sale at South Davis 2525 2nd Street, in the City of Davis, County Mutual Housing California, or an affiliate Storage, 4836 Chiles Rd, Davis, CA 95618 of Yolo, State of California 95618. of either (collectively, the “Borrower”). On: THURSDAY January 9th, 2020 at 10 am This enforcement is authorized by Division TUESDAY, JANUARY 14TH AT 1:30 PM The Bonds and the obligation to pay 8, Chapter 10 of the California Business & (PST). This enforcement is authorized by principal thereof and interest thereon Professions Code, commencing without Division 8, Chapter 10 of the California and any redemption premium with warranty or guarantee for cash only. Business & Professions Code (21700 et respect thereto do not constitute Purchased items must be removed seq. California Self-Service Facility Act). indebtedness or an obligation of the Items from sale must be paid in full, City of Davis, the Authority, the State immediately following the sale. with cash only at the time of purchase. of California or any political subdivision The personal Property stored with the All purchased items are sold “as is” and thereof, within the meaning of any must be removed at the time of sale constitutional or statutory debt undersigned by: with unit swept clean. Sale is subject to limitation, or a charge against the general UNIT: D28- William and Nichole Arnold: cancellation in the event of settlement credit or taxing powers of any of them. Desk and cabinet, totes of clothes, between owner and obligated party. The Bonds shall be a limited obligation dresser, dresser drawers of clothes, mini Certain terms and conditions apply. of the Authority, payable solely from refrigerator, end table. certain revenues duly pledged therefor UNIT: G12- Risto Pelivanov: Desk, chair, The Personal Property stored with the and generally representing amounts undersigned by: cabinet paid by the Borrower. BOND#0342850 12/29, 1/5 655 Unit# 206 H.J. SMITH: tools, suitcases, The hearing will commence at 6:30 collectibles, stools, lamps, bedroom p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter furniture, clothing, bedding, dresser, can be heard, and will be held in the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME carpet/flooring, toiletries, bookcase, City Hall Community Chambers, City STATEMENT magazines, office supplies, mixer, 10+ of Davis, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, bags, 10+ boxes. Filed: December 19, 2019 California. Interested persons wishing FBN Number: F20190165 to express their views on the issuance BOND# 7900390179 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) of the Bonds or on the nature and Meg’s Ceremonies location of the facilities proposed to be 670 financed may attend the public hearing 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of 12/29, 1/05 Principal Place of Business in California. or, prior to the time of the hearing, Business is located in Yolo County. submit written comments. PUBLIC NOTICE 1129 Pamplona Ave. Davis, CA 95616 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Additional information concerning the 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), above matter may be obtained from, and Residence Address, State, and Zip NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on written comments should be addressed Margretta H Gurley Tuesday, January 14, 2020 a public to, City Clerk, City of Davis, 23 Russell 1129 Pamplona Ave. hearing as required by Section 147(f) of Boulevard, Suite 1, Davis, California 95616. Davis, CA 95616 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 will 4. Business Classification: be held with respect to the proposed Dated: December 29, 2019 Individual issuance by the California Municipal 12/29 672 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: September 16, 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): Anacleta Thorne President, Aumakua Ventures Inc 12/15, 12/22, 12/29, 1/5 651

5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the ﬁctitious business name or names listed above on: October 21, 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): Margretta H Gurley 12/22, 12/29, 1/3, 1/10 663

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Puppy love helps tired parents

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$950 Downtown Davis Individual Offices for Rent Beautiful, quaint, and quiet off-street location lo-cated in the heart of downtown. Hardwood floors and lots of light. Rent is all inclusive: City Services, PG&E, maintenance of the facilities, and care of grounds. In addition, it includes the use of two different conference rooms, photocopy machine as well as a stamp machine. Call Amy Harris for a tour at (415) 806-3821! Master Bedroom for Rent $800/month. No smoking. No pets. One person only. Washer & Dryer included. WSG included. Not a party house. AVAILABLE DECEMBER 3rd. First, last and Security required. Call 530-758-1785 Room for Rent Female. 1 bedroom. Own Bath. In a 4 bed 4 bath custom built home in Wildhorse. Two pianos and pool. No pets. Non-smoker. First, last & Security. $750/month. Text only 530-848-1610

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Dear Annie: I had to respond to the letter, “Sleepless in Los Angeles,” about the 6-yearold who insisted that her parents sleep with her. My husband and I had a similar problem. I was a nurse and worked on the swing shift, which meant I did not get home till 11:30 at night. Dad had to feed our four kids and see that they had their baths and got to bed. The youngest decided she was afraid to stay in the bathroom by herself to take a bath. Dad thought long and hard how to deal with this and he came up with a plan that worked out great. He would fix the water for her and instead of him staying with her, our dog, Snowflake, would be in the bathroom with her. Our daughter loved it, and Snowflake stayed with her during bath time until she out grew her fear of being alone. Maybe if this family has a dog or cat that could fill in for mom and dad, then that would solve their problem. Just an idea! — Dog to the Rescue Dear Dog to the Rescue: Thank you for idea. You are onto something. Both cats and dogs can be very therapeutic. ——— Dear Annie: I wish to offer a helpful book on grieving: “Healing After Loss, Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief ” by Martha Whitmore Hickman. I lost my son last year. He was 37 at the time of his death. This book has been a source of comfort for me, as the writing reflects so much of how I have felt throughout the year. The book is not religious, but it is deeply spiritual. I would recommend it to anyone who is experiencing the loss of a loved one. — Grieving Mom Dear Grieving Mom: I am so very sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing a tool that helped you heal. ——— Dear Annie: I would like to correct the misconception you stated in your response to “Eating and Satisfied.” As a biologist, I read scientific literature on a variety of topics. There have been multiple animal studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of intermittent fasting. And no, animals — and humans — with less time to eat are not eating fewer calories. In the controlled studies, animals, such as rats, were given free access to food during the day, or access only during a limited number of hours. In these studies, animals took in the same number of calories throughout the day, no matter which regimen they were on. The results were clear. Intermittent fasting resulted in weight loss, and clearly your reader has experienced this truism. The hours spent fasting change the body’s metabolism in multiple ways, so that excess weight is lost over time. Your reader is not eating fewer calories; his or her body is just using them more wisely! — Your Friendly Biologist Dear Friendly Biologist: Thank you so much for your letter. I always love hearing from people who have data to back up what they’re sharing. ——— Dear Annie: When we are the last table at a restaurant and the staff is waiting for us to go home, I feel we should get up and leave within 20 minutes. However, the other night,

my husband and two other couples continued to talk for at least an hour. The staff gave hints by cleaning our table and vacuuming. I was so embarrassed. My husband and friends feel they spent money for dinner and drinks and are thereby entitled to stay as long as they’d like. I used to waitress and find this very rude. What is proper etiquette? — Concerned New Yorker Dear Concerned New Yorker: If your husband is looking for a place to indefinitely hang out with friends at his leisure, he can try your living room. Seriously. Maybe dinner parties at home are a better idea. It is absolutely rude to linger more than 20 minutes after finishing your meal when a restaurant has closed, and you can tell him I said so. ——— Dear Annie: My stepfather volunteers for community work. He spends most of his free time working booths, going to meetings, serving at soup kitchens and helping in many ways. But it leaves the house chores to my mom. My brother and I help when we can, but we’re also swamped with school and work. My mom works, too, and I can see that she’s torn about my dad’s involvement. She supports him because she understands his needs, but she is completely overwhelmed with cooking, cleaning, organizing and yard work. I can see that she is starting to resent my stepdad for not helping around the house more. He thinks that it’s not enough that we take care of ourselves; we need to help in the community. I see both sides. — Torn in Tallahassee Dear Torn in Tallahassee: It sounds like your mom should start her own charity — a group that is focused on helping overworked and neglected moms with house chores, cooking, cleaning and yard work. Maybe then your stepfather would get the picture. While it is commendable that your stepdad volunteers for the community, he needs to help out his own family first. It’s time to have a straight talk with your stepfather. Perhaps he likes to be assigned tasks. Give each member of the family a list of chores that they are responsible for. You can have fun with it. The other option would be to ask your stepdad to organize the list and assign the chores, and make sure he includes himself in some of them. ——— Dear Annie: I am writing about thoughtfulness and help regarding illness or death in the family of friends. I have some suggestions because I have been in both situations. Well-meaning friends will say: “Let me know if I can help. Let me know if you would like a meal, a ride, grocery shopping, etc.” Thoughtful friends will say: “I am bringing dinner over. What day and time would be best? I am going grocery shopping. Give me your list. I will pick you up for your doctor’s appointment. What day and time?” Most of the ill or bereaved are not going to ask for help. I hope that this is a wake-up call for the “well-meaning.” — Actions Speak Louder Than Words Dear Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Thank you for taking the time to write, and let’s hope that your suggestions will help people to do more and say less when it comes to helping out a friend in grief.

B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Baby Blues

Comics

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019

Dilbert

By Scott Adams

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis

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He wrote “All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream”

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019 B7

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B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2019

UCD MEN’S BASKETBALL

Renewal of fortune at hand?

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

Call it a renewal of fortune. Back on Nov. 26, when UC Davis men’s basketball lost at Cal, 72-66, the Aggies fell to 2-6 and — to at least the casual observer — the future looked bleak. But veteran Aggie coach Jim Les saw something he liked ... “Our practice habits — the attention to detail, the intensity, aggressiveness, especially on the defensive end — have really improved,” said Les, now in his ninth season at Davis. Even in a 77-73 loss at Utah three days later, the coach reported on good things ... he just wished his guys could start games with greater authority. Given their ability to recover in the second half, Les and his Aggies were looking for a complete game.

On Dec. 4, they got it. A solid first 10 minutes and a 19-point shellacking of Northern Arizona after the break translated to an 85-66 UCD victory in Prescott, Ariz. It was arguably the locals’ best showing this season. “Everyone played well tonight; this was a complete team win,” said Davis guard Joe Mooney after scoring a career-high 35 points that day. Les was delighted with the effort ... “When you do the little things, like dive for a loose ball or take a charge, it is amazing how the ball finds you and ends up through the basket,” the coach said. It hadn’t been since Cory Hawkins set the program standard by scoring 40 points at Hawaii in 2013 that UCD basketball had seen such a prolific outing.

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Holy Names at UCD Friday, Jan. 3, at 7 p.m. “Coach (Les) says it all the time, ‘If you focus your energy and effort on defense, good things will happen,’ ” Mooney said. “And that took place (against NAU). I played aggressively, and with confidence ... and I found opportunities to attack the basket, whether it was around the rim or from three.” Mooney leads all Aggies in scoring, averaging 16 points a game. Three other Davis players are hitting for more than 8 points

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Lobos (tipoff is at 1 p.m. PST on KHTK 1140 AM). The matchup is the first in 41 years for the two schools and only the third ever (New Mexico leads, 2-0). The Lobos enter the contest 12-2 and are already 2-0 in the Mountain West. New Mexico is paced by AllAmerican candidate JaQuan Lyle, the 6-5 guard who is averaging almost 18 points a game with 64 assists. He is a senior transfer from Ohio State. UC Davis comes home to meet Holy Names on Friday (7 p.m.) before girding up for another competitive Big West Conference schedule. The Aggies open the circuit with a visit from UC Riverside on Jan. 9. — Reach Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

Can’t get past 59 in new tradition

From Page B1 Davis started hot, forcing turnovers that led to easy transition buckets while fashioning an early lead. But Ram point guard Talia Medalle (7 points) found holes in the Devils’ man-toman defense, and Dixon pulled to within 1 just before at the break, but McMillan nailed a buzzer-beating sky hook off an inbounds pass to end the first half. “We knew we had to mix it up a little bit,” said DHS head coach Heather Highshoe. “And so we changed up our press, and we changed up our half-court defense.” Switching to a zone set up after intermission, the Devils held Dixon scoreless for the final 15 minutes of the play. The locals won the turnover battle as well, 27-19. “The second half was huge for us,” said Highshoe. “To hold a team to 3 points and zero in the fourth quarter is pretty remarkable, so hats off to the girls.” Another key to the Devils’ recent turnaround: free-throw shooting. Davis went to the line 30-plus times in each of its first two Ram Jam tourney wins. But the Devils struggled from the freethrow line in the first half, shooting just 5-of14. During crunch time in the fourth quarter, the Blue Crew shot 8-of-11 from the stripe. Emme Eisenman finished with 9 points for DHS, Skylar Schouten added 8, Maddie Buzbee chipped in 5 and Mara Bledsoe and Lily Hessl each had 4. In an all-around performance for Davis, Highshoe highlighted the effort on the glass: “I think our rebounding efforts collectively were great, but Mara, Caitlin and Skylar, they did a great job of dominating the boards this weekend.” This is a new-look squad, and Highshoe

— sensational freshman Ezra Manjon (10.7), post Matt Neufeld (10.6) and guard Stefan Gonzalez (8.5). In Davis’ last seven games, it is 3-4, beating NAU, Northern Illinois and Loyola Marymount while losing to Cal, Utah, San Diego and, most recently, San Francisco. In the Aggies’ nine losses in 2019, the schools they’ve played have a 69-45 record (.605 win percentage). Les says he knew it might take awhile to find the right combinations, given that four starters graduated from last year and six newcomers would take time to acclimate. Davis has 10 freshmen and sophomores in all. Now standing at 5-9, the Aggies travel to New Mexico today for a nonconference meeting with the

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Blue Devil Surina Beal, right, was named MVP of the Ram Jam Tournament on Saturday. adds that there is even more work to be done. “You can tell that they’re just really invested in doing whatever we need to do to win,” the coach added. “And so it’s been a lot of fun to watch them play.”

s I was growing up my family had very few traditions for the holiday season. The only one I can actually recount is that my brother, my mom and I would watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on Christmas Eve. And I’m sorry to say that I haven’t done that in a few years for various reasons, because I truly enjoyed it — especially when Charlie Brown throws his megaphone at the floor and it makes the most ridiculous sound. Really, I should have been there the last few years just to enjoy that sound with my mother. But, out of all of my family, having only her in the area has forced me to adapt and create new traditions with what I would call my adopted family: my friends. Of course, there’s no replacement for actual family and I cherish every moment I get during the holiday season when I’m able to visit them — this year I was too sick to visit with my elderly grandma, who still lives at home in Vacaville. Side note: Whenever I take her out to lunch, we always pass by a nursing home and she tells me, “That’s where the old people live.” She’s in her 90s and still making comments like that, a state of mind I hope to have in 60 years. Never lose your wit, Grandma. However, for the past five or six years, my friends Nick, Danny, Devin and I have created something of a tradition of our own, and it’s one that I could not be more thankful for. I think, and I don’t know, but Danny (who introduced me to the game of golf which I love and at which I suck) used to have an annual Christmas Eve game with his family. One year, years ago, he invited me out to play with his family and I said, “No.” From there, for some reason, our foursome started going out every Christmas Eve at Wildhorse. In a scramble format, we try to shoot a 59. Are we playing against anyone? No. Does anything in any of our golf games matter during that day? No. Is it the most fun I have playing golf

every year? Yes. Our first year, we shot a 60. We had four 10-foot putts for a 59 and missed all of them. I blame myself because I’m usually the last putter and I lipped out my attempt. This gave us a certain confidence that we would easily be able to accomplish that in the near future. Of course, we haven’t gotten close since. This year’s 64 was a team worst because having a four-man scramble and only hitting eight birdies is awful. I think we’ve actually added a stroke every year since the first, other than last year when just Nick and I were able to make it to the course because the other two were sick.

wo years ago, we shot a 62, so it fits that this year 64 was our number. We may never shoot a 59. If we do, it will require the improvement of pretty much everyone who plays in my team except for Dan, who is a very good golfer. I actually hope we don’t, though. This is my favorite holiday tradition and I don’t know what we would do if we actually accomplished an arbitrary goal that we set out to tackle. Like, if we shoot that 59, where do we go from there? Do we try for a 58? I don’t know, but the score isn’t actually what’s important to me. What I really care about is waking up super early with my friends on the day before Christmas and having an amazing time with no stakes. For three hours or so — we get the first tee time because no one plays golf faster than us — we’re on the course with no distractions. There’s nothing else in the world except for us and The Quest for 59. It’s the best three hours of my year every year. I can’t wait for next Christmas Eve (and I usually hate the holidays). So thanks, Nick, Danny and Devin. I hope this tradition never ends. — Evan Ream’s column publishes Sundays. Reach him at eream@davisenter prise.net or follow him on Twitter at @EvanReam.

DHS grapplers end year on high note Enterprise staff writer OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Aggie Facilities, Operations & Events Coordinator Micah Sokolsky comes up for air at Dobbins Stadium, the Phil Swimley Baseball Field on campus at UC Davis.

YANCHER: Equipment general From Page B1 “As our department has grown, I’ve added on more and more responsibilities,” he explained, using beach volleyball’s new sand pits as an example. “And that can make some days a little wild.” Translation: Sometimes three sports teams needed something yesterday. But his crew gets the job done, prepping facilities, even in the dark of night, to get them in pristine shape for both student-athletes and Aggie fans. “We’re all about getting things back up and in running order before anyone notices they ever weren’t,” he said. Besides Sokolsky , the entire operations staff has six full-timers in Maggie Fenton, Ella Forest, Jordan Grays, Darren Spiritosanto, Dino Piazza and Allison Zohn. The

gang directs anywhere between 10 to 15 student staffers, split up and spread around between countless events and the many UCD facilities. “It’s a learning experience every day,” Micah admitted. “Often there’s no one, single right approach and between different (colleges) everyone seems to take things on a little differently. “And that makes things challenging, but also fun — figuring out how best to allocate resources. I’m never at my desk and that’s one of my favorite parts of my job — being on site and making things happen.” Who knew? Hats off to Micah Sokolsky and all the other silent heroes involved with UC Davis athletics. — Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

Participating in the final event of 2019, the Davis High wrestling team put together a pair of solid performances at the No Guts, No Glory Tournament this past weekend in Rocklin. Overall, the boys squad finished 11th out of 44 teams despite bringing just four athletes, while the girls picked up a 35th-place finish out of 47 schools. “It’s slow improvement, but what we’re doing is

working,” said head coach Johnny Rosendale. “The focus on the team is on improvement instead of winning matches, so winning takes care of itself.” Leading the way for the boys was star junior Aaron Turner, who went 3-0 to finish first, while classmate Zach Brooks finished 2-1, only losing to the topranked 220-pound wrestler in the state. “That’s the best I’ve ever seen him wrestle,”

Rosendale said of Brooks. “I think that we’re moving in the right direction and doing all the right things at practice and having the right mindset at tournaments.” Also placing for the Devils was Vance Tangren, who went 3-1 to finish third, while Marcus Fabro finished 3-2. On the girls side, Emma Bordios (2-3) and Astraea Blue Coat (2-3) each led the way for a short-handed DHS squad.

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