The Davis Enterprise Friday, March 13, 2020

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Partida to become Davis mayor

City implements coronavirus guidelines

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

Frerichs will be vice mayor

Enterprise staff writer The emails came one after another on Wednesday announcing cancellations.

City commission meetings, a city/county 2x2 meeting, even the annual Youth in Government day scheduled for later this month where dozens of high schools students were to shadow city officials and employees.

City gymnastics classes have been canceled, as has an after school program run by the city at the Stephens Branch Library and the Citizens Academy run by the Davis Police Department. All canceled for the same reason: “In accordance with Yolo County health officer recommended precautions related to COVID-19 (coronavirus).”

On Tuesday, Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman issued a series of guidelines for Yolo County residents, businesses, schools and organizations to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Recommendations call for the cancellation of large events and gatherings, for people to stay home from work or school if they are ill, and for businesses to allow employees to telecommute where possible.

The bottom line, according to Chapman: people need to put some space between themselves and others — some social distancing — to help stop the spread of the virus.

The bottom line for the city of Davis: “We’re still open for business,” according to City Manager Mike Webb.

But that business will look a little different at least for the rest of the month,

SEE GUIDELINES, PAGE A4

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

Last month, while President Trump was on a state visit to India, rioters in New Delhi killed 53 people. Most of the casualties were Muslim. Police were documented participating in the riots, in one video forcing a young Muslim

A changing of the guard is coming.

PARTIDA Takes gavel The Davis City Council in July voted unanimously on Tuesday to appoint Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida as mayor and Councilman Lucas Frerichs as vice mayor beginning July 1.

Both would likely serve two-year terms in those positions, though Frerichs’s term would be dependent on his winning re-election to the council in November.

Partida will not be on the ballot again until November 2022.

City staff will return to the council before June with an ordinance actually creating the new vice mayor position and the council still must decide how mayors and vice mayors will be selected in the future.

For years, the title of mayor was bestowed on whoever received the most votes for council in at-large elections.

Partida received the most votes in the June 2018 City Council election and was sworn in as mayor pro tem with the expectation she would assume the role of mayor two years later.

Things were thrown into flux with the city’s transition to by-district elections, however.

Beginning in November, council

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UC Davis students marched on campus against Hindu nationalism, a political ideology championed by India’s current regime that espouses that India should be a Hindu state.

UCD students protest Hindu nationalism

BY CALEB HAMPTON

in certain instances singling out the country’s roughly 200 million Muslims.

Enterprise staff writer UC Davis students and faculty protested on campus last week, speaking out against Hindu nationalism — commonly known as Hindutva — a political ideology that espouses that India should be a Hindu state. The students sang songs, recited poetry and shared personal testimonies outside the Memorial Union.

Founded in 1947, India is a pluralistic democracy whose constitution guarantees equal protection for religious minorities, which comprise about 20 percent of the country’s population.

Over the past year, India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has rolled back some of those protections,

UC Davis undergrad Manisha Koneru, who lives in India when not studying in Davis, said the protests are personal for her. “That’s my home,” Koneru said. “The very fabric of South Asian society is at stake. If you know what’s happening and you don’t say anything about it, that’s just as bad as being part of it.”

Schools limit gatherings over COVID-19

County’s unprocessed ballots exceed 32K

BY JEFF HUDSON

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

Enterprise staff writer The Davis school district; St. James School in Davis; and the school districts in Woodland, Winters and elsewhere around Yolo County announced new policies this week in response to the spreading COVID-19 virus.

Davis school district The Davis school district announced that: ■ All international travel through the summer is canceled.

■ All field trips between now and April 30 are canceled. Site principals will determine if rescheduling of a field trip is feasible.

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■ Staff travel for conferences, professional development and related activities are canceled through April 30.

■ All school dances through April 30 are canceled. Site Principals will determine if rescheduling of dances is feasible.

■ Student assemblies through April 30 are canceled or will be modified to allow for social distancing.

■ Large professional learning events through April 30 are canceled. The DJUSD Instructional Services Team is working to determine whether the meeting format may be changed in light of social-distancing efforts.

■ Parent education and information events through April 30 are canceled.

Site Principals will be working to find

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Arts . . . . . . . . . .B4 Forum . . . . . . . . A6 Pets . . . . . . . . . A4 Classifieds . . . . A7 Home/Garden B1 Sports . . . . . .B10 Comics . . . . . . . A8 Obituaries . . . .B6 The Wary I . . . . A2

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Enterprise staff writer What was a tough task in the days following the March 3 presidential primary — counting all of the 24,869 unprocessed ballots that remained the morning after the election — only got harder for Yolo County elections staff.

Thousands more voteby-mail ballots arrived in the eight days since the election, bringing the estimated total not included in the published election night returns to 32,024.

They include 25,068

vote-by-mail ballots, 2,956 provisional ballots and 3,109 conditional ballots.

Another 891 ballots were damaged or required further review.

The additional ballots received in the last week include those that were postmarked by Election Day and arrived in the elections office by last Friday as well as ballots dropped off in other counties that were sent on to Yolo County.

“Until the canvass process is completed and the election is certified, these figures are only estimates,” the elections office noted

on its website.

Meanwhile, updated vote totals posted on the county elections website Thursday evening showed one significant change in a county race — Woodland City Councilman Angel Barajas has pulled ahead of incumbent Supervisor Duane Chamberlain in the rural 5th district.

In the 4th district race, with 4,286 additional votes counted, incumbent Supervisor Jim Provenza's lead over challenger Linda Deos had decreased slightly —

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WOODLAND — The Yolo County Probation Department is seeking community members to serve on a Community Review Board in Woodland.

The goal of Community Review Boards is to divert low-level offenders, currently under supervision but in violation of their probation terms and conditions, from further incarceration by providing them an array of communitybased services with the ultimate objective of preventing repeat offenses. The Probation Department is recruiting members dedicated to community reinvestment and prevention to serve on a Community Review Board in Woodland. The time commitment to serve is one evening a month.

Apply at www.yolocounty.org/law-justice/ probation/communityreview-boards. For information, e-mail Sergio.Pimentel@ yolocounty.org.

Authors’ reading is Saturday

Two area fiction writers with unique takes on California will be featured guests at a free reading and book signing at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the home of Scott Evans, 327 12th St. in Davis.

Bill Pieper’s collection of linked stories, “Borders and Boundaries,” is set in the high desert of northeastern California and western Nevada.

Anne Da Vigo’s thriller, “Bakersfield Boys Club,” unfolds in the San Joaquin Valley of the 1970s.

The public is welcome.

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Better not to wait too long on virus I truly like and respect our current School Board members and the work they do in this community. So I offer the following as encouragement, not hostility.

I realize these are strange and difficult times, unlike what most of us have ever faced. And there are some serious differences of opinion in our community over how to handle the current crisis.

I am not a medical doctor and won’t presume to give medical advice to others or second-guess the experts.

Still, it is up to the Davis School Board to make the decisions that will affect the lives of our kids — and their parents — based on the best medical advice available.

What I can’t believe is that we are willing to wait until this thing gets really bad before taking action, when it may well be too late. Davis should lead, not wait.

The warnings we’re getting about unexcused absences if we decide it’s too risky to send our kids to school are demeaning and insensitive to parents who are trying to do the right thing for the health and welfare of their kids and family.

they are fully capable of bringing the virus home from school to make a parent or grandparent or neighbor or friendly grocery store clerk very sick by passing it on.

That is indeed how the virus is spread by people who are seemingly healthy or only mildly affected.

Notes DJUSD on its website, “Unless your child is currently sick or has a doctor’s note excusing them from school for medical reasons, the absence is considered unexcused.”

That’s not exactly the warm and fuzzy message we expect from our leaders as we try to figure out how best to protect our children from a virus that is sweeping the nation and seems particularly active in our area.

Adds the District, “The Yolo County Public Health Department is not recommending school closures at this time because individuals under 18 years of age have not been shown to be a high-risk group for serious illness from this virus.”

Yes, kids have a decidedly lower risk of getting seriously ill, but

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he bottom line here is lives are at stake. We’re not talking about a controversial curriculum offering or class sizes or having enough money to fix up the old auditorium.

No, we’re talking about our very lives. It’s time to close our schools and see how much of this deadly bullet we can dodge.

Missing a few weeks of school during a declared pandemic is not the end of the world. Perhaps there is no absolutely “right” answer here, but shouldn’t we err on the side of caution rather than risk a serious miscalculation?

Kids move around from class to class on any given day. They touch multiple surfaces and doors and handles that might be contaminated.

They eat lunch with each other.

They go to sports practice or choir

Man booked for battery at library

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A Davis man is facing criminal threats and battery charges related to a confrontation this week at the Stephens Branch Library, police said.

Davis police Lt. Art Camacho reported that officers were dispatched at about 8:45 p.m. to the East 14th Street library to

investigate reports of a man inside the building who was “making staff members feel unsafe and talking about a ‘shooting.’ ”

scene revealed that Wyatt threatened library staff members with physical force prior to the Davis PD’s arrival.”

The man, identified as 58-year-old Victor Wyatt, “became uncooperative with police officers soon after being contacted and was subsequently subdued,” then arrested, Camacho said. “An investigation at the

Wyatt was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of making criminal threats and battery against a peace officer, Camacho said. No injuries were reported or weapons used, he added.

Mondavi Center cancels events

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Events at the Mondavi Center have been canceled through the end of the month due to public health concerns, director Donald F. Roth announced in a press release Thursday.

“Out of respect for the health and safety of our campus and community of arts lovers, as of today the Mondavi Center is canceling all public events through March 31,” the press release stated.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued new state-wide guidelines to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which has infected more than 1,500 people in the United States and killed at least 39.

All gatherings with more than 250 people should be canceled or postponed and

smaller gatherings should only proceed if organizers can implement six feet of distancing between people, Newsom announced.

According to Roth, ticket holders for March events at the Mondavi Center have been contacted and refunds are in progress. “Due to the high call volume we are experiencing in our Ticket Office, we encourage patrons to visit our website for updated information on cancellations,” the press release stated.

“Going forward, the Mondavi Center management team will meet weekly to assess the current recommendations from campus and Yolo County, and determine the viability of forthcoming events,” Roth stated.

“Though we are steeped in the adage that “the show must go on,” our focus now is playing a role in protecting our community, on

Farmers Market stays open

campus and off.”

Events affected include: March 13: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; March 13-14: Dreamer’s Circus; March 17: Sharon Shannon and Socks in the Frying Pan; March 20: Mnozil Brass; March 21: Alfredo Rodriguez & Pedrito Martinez; March 29: Women & Philanthropy.

The Davis Farmers Market continues its regular schedule while taking additional precautions in light of COVID-19 concerns.

The market added a third hand-washing station, and remains vigilant about cleaning all surfaces and vendor tablecloths. Sellers stay home if they are ill.

“Shopping outdoors is a relatively low-risk environment, and our farmers and

producers look forward to sharing their weekly harvest and fresh products,” Executive Director Randii MacNear said. Those who have concerns about being in crowds are encouraged to shop the first hour of the market when it’s less crowded.

“We’ve always had a clean, safe farmers market that complies with stringent health codes,” MacNear said.

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practice or a million other activities. They are exposed to hundreds of their classmates on any given day. “Social distancing” is a myth in this age group.

Here’s an example of how convoluted some of the “rules” are as we keep our schools open. This was a guidance we were given recently. Whether it remains the current guidance is anyone’s guess.

If your kid happens to play volleyball, the games will go on, but parents cannot attend. Too risky.

OK, that’s fine.

But, if you volunteer to be a driver to an away volleyball match, you will be allowed to attend the game. Obviously, that makes no sense medically.

If it’s too risky to attend a home game, it’s too risky to attend an away game. But if you’re willing to be a driver, by golly, we’re going to give you a little reward and allow you into the gym to watch your kid play.

But be sure to first wash your hands, and, if you feel the urge, remember to always cough into your sleeve.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Arrest follows fight between brothers

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A fight between brothers, who also are roommates, ended with one sibling being arrested on assault and weaponrelated charges Wednesday, according to the Davis Police Department.

Officers responded late that morning to a home in the 600 block of Isla Place in North Davis, where a resident had reported a man was breaking property inside, Lt. Art Camacho said.

They arrived to find the two brothers and a female roommate.

“After conducting an investigation, it was suspected that a dispute had occurred between the three in light of their common living situation,” escalating to the point that one brother injured the other with a “sharpedged weapon,” Camacho said.

While the injured brother was medically treated for a minor hand injury, the other — Ehul Miles Davis, 22 — was lodged at the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a weapon, Camacho said.

Notice of Public Hearing The City of Davis City Council will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Municipal Code amendments, as described below, at a meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 in the Community Chambers, City Offices, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California. Please contact the Department of Community Development and Sustainability for the approximate time this item will be heard.

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Project Description: The proposal is to make amendments to the City Municipal Code to: 1) add a new article regulating sidewalk vending operations in Davis in compliance with new state law SB 946; and 2) add a new article regulating food vehicle vending operations (food trucks), to expand opportunities for mobile vending in compliance with economic development and public health and safety objectives.

Specifically, the proposed Ordinance would make changes to the following Municipal Code provisions: add Article 28.05, “Sidewalk Vending,” and Article 28.07, “Food Vending Vehicles” to Chapter 28; amend the title of Chapter 28; and amend sections 22.08.210 and 35.01.040 to ensure consistency with these new regulations.

Purpose of Proposed Municipal Code Amendments: Current City regulations prohibit all mobile vendors from stopping on public streets or sidewalks for more than 10 minutes unless they have a City approved encroachment permit, street use permit, or special event permit. The proposed Ordinance would amend the City’s requirements as applied to sidewalk vending, in order to comply with new state law (SB 946) that requires communities in California to allow sidewalk vending throughout their communities, including parks, and allow “roaming” sidewalk vending in single-family residential areas.

SB 946 also allows communities to establish a permit process and apply local regulations necessary to protect public health and safety. New Article 28.05, “Sidewalk Vending” will establish new City regulations and permit process for sidewalk vending.

In addition, the proposed Ordinance includes amendments to the food vending vehicle (food truck) regulations, to increase local entrepreneurial and microenterprise opportunities, diversity in food options and economic activity. New Article 28.07, “Food Vending Vehicles,” will establish new City regulations and a permit process for food trucks.

Finally, an amendment to section 22.08.210 will delete requirements that would conflict with articles

28.05 and 28.07, and an amendment to section 35.01.040 will clarify that obstructing a street or sidewalk is prohibited, except as authorized by a valid City permit.

The proposed amendments are subject to the review and approval of the City Council.

Environmental Determination: The adoption of the Ordinance is not considered a “project” and is not subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines, as it can be seen with certainty that the proposed amendments to the Davis Municipal Code do not have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment.

Availability of Documents: All project documents and the staff report are available for review at the Department of Community Development and Sustainability, Planning Division, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, 95616. Staff reports are available through the City Council website at: https://www. cityofdavis.org/city-hall/city-council/city-councilmeetings/agendas. Staff reports for the public hearing are generally available five (5) days prior to the hearing date and may be available by contacting the project manager.

Public Comments: All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting or send written comments to Sarah Worley, Business Engagement Manager, City of Davis, Department of Community Development and Sustainability, 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite 2, Davis, California, 95616; or via email at sworley@ cityofdavis.org, no later than noon the date of the meeting. For questions, please call (530) 747-5882.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings.

Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or for some other acceptable means of recordation.

Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation.

If you challenge the action taken on this matter in court, the challenge may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Director of Community Development and Sustainability or City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing.

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Briefly New Avid Reader owners on radio Erin and Brett Arnold bought the Avid Reader and Avid Reader Active this winter from longtime owner Alzada Knickerbocker. On the current edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” they talk about the store, bookselling, downtown, co-existing with Amazon, and their plans.

Printed book sales in the United States fell to 689 million units in 2019, off 1.3 percent from the year before, according to Statista, a data and statistics company based in Germany.

However, sales are nearly 100 million higher than they were in 2012, the recent low.

“Davisville” is broadcast on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. The interview began airing Monday, will be broadcast through March 21, and is available online anytime at http://kdrt.org/davis ville or on Apple podcasts.

Virus cancels several events With health officials urging a halt to large gatherings in the wake of the COVID-19 virus’ spread, several planned community events have been canceled in Davis.

■ Israel Peace Alternatives has canceled the showing of the film “Disturbing the Peace” on

Sunday, March 15, at Congregation Bet Haverim.

■ The Davis Community Church has canceled the Spring Solstice Labyrinth and Sound Bath on Friday, March 20, and the “Tsuru for Solidarity” paper-crane folding event on Saturday, March 28.

■ Organizers have postponed the Davis Cherry Blossom Festival, originally scheduled for April 4 to 5, likely until October. The annual free, allages weekend includes music, food, art, culture and beer, presented by the nonprofit Davis Cherry Blossom Festival, Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan, and Sudwerk Brewing Co. ■ The Davis Odd Fellows announced on Wednesday the cancellation of Breakfast with the Bunny on April 4. “The Easter Bunny, along with our two dozen Breakfast with the Bunny volunteers, look forward to serving our community next year,” a news release said. “We thank the community for recognizing this difficult decision.”

Ticket holders may return their tickets to Avid Reader for a refund.

■ The Odd Fellows also canceled their 150th anniversary celebration on April 11 at the Odd Fellows Hall in downtown Davis. “Since its still 150 years at any time in 2020, the Odd Fellows will reschedule later in the year when we get the “all clear” from health professionals,” the group said in a statement.

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Museum celebrates pi on 3-14

BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise The symbol π, or pi, is very important in math and science because it helps us solve problems that involve circles and other round shapes. The circular measurement of a circle is called the circumference, if you chop it in half and measure from one side to the other is called the diameter, and half the diameter is the radius. If we were to know one of those measurements, we could use pi to solve all the other parts.

Pi is an irrational number, which means it cannot be expressed as a fraction, and its decimal numbers never repeat or have any pattern. Even though super computers have calculated pi’s decimal digits to the trillions, most of the time we use 3.14159, or even just 3.14, to do the calculations we need.

Before pi was discovered or widely used, many scientists would draw a

sided shape closely around the circle, such as a hexagon or octagon, and calculate the area of that shape and figure it was close to the circle. Some cultures likely used an accurate approximation as far back as 2500 BC, and each one chose their own symbol.

The Greek letter π was used early because it was the abbreviation of the work “periphery” and would be used as a ratio fraction with diameter or ratios for circle calculations. One of the earliest uses of π was in the early 1700s by mathematician William Jones. Others had used it before him as ratios, but he was one of the first to use it on its own to represent 3.14.

After this, the use of the

Greek letter π became more and more common place as many mathematicians were in communication with each other and more and more adopted the symbol to represent 3.14.

Now we use π to solve math and science involving circles. To figure out the circumference of a circle, we just need to use the simple equation of C= πd, or the circumference is equal to pi times the diameter. Because π is a constant, all you need to know is one other piece of the equation to solve the rest of it. The circumference of a circle will always be 3 times the diameter, plus a little bit more.

Come by Explorit on Saturday, March 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to celebrate Pi Day with us!

Admission is $6 for members, $8 for non-members and free for ages 2 and under. We will have a variety of activities and crafts that are themed around pi and circles. Complete a

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circle scavenger hunt around our exhibit spaces.

At 3:14 p.m. we will have a drawing for two free pies, courtesy of Ikeda’s Market. Come by, have fun and help us celebrate pi!

———— Explorit’s coming events: ■ Summer Science Camp registration is open!

Weeklong camps from 8:45am-12pm for kids entering grades K-6, with one evening camp for grades 6-10. Prices are $125 Members/$150 NonMembers. Registration available online at http:// www.explorit.org/ programs/summer-camp/ summer-and-vacationclasses.

— Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-7560191 or visit http://www. explorit.org.

Scouts will be collecting food for STEAC Special to The Enterprise Local Davis Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are hosting a food drive to benefit the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee’s food closet.

Any resident who receives a flyer can help STEAC by leaving a food donation out by the curb by 9 a.m. Saturday, March 14.

Scouts will come by between 9:30 a.m. and noon that day. Residents

who don’t receive flyers may live in areas the Scouts cannot cover, but they can still participate by bringing donations to the drop off site at 642 Hawthorn Lane between 9:30 a.m. and noon Saturday, March 14.

Scouts will be there to gather donations.

The STEAC food closet

needs include canned fruit, fruit and applesauce cups, nut-free granola bars, canned spaghetti, peanut butter and small containers of vegetable oil.

STEAC distributes almost 130,000 pounds of food annually, providing over 80,000 meals to those in need.

Last year the Davis Scouting for Food drive collected more than 10,000 pounds of healthy food.

With the community’s help, they would like to match or break that mark this year.

To make regular donations to STEAC, find information at steacfoodproject. org.

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NOTICE OF PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY’S REQUEST TO INCREASE RATES FOR ITS ENERGY RESOURCE RECOVERY ACCOUNT COMPLIANCE APPLICATION (A. 20-02-009) SUMMARY On February 28, 2020, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) filed its 2019 Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) Compliance application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

Each year PG&E forecasts its fuel and purchased power costs for the following year in the ERRA and Portfolio Allocation Balancing Account (PABA). PG&E recovers these costs with no markup for return or profit.

The application also includes a request to increase rates to recover $3.996 million in costs related to the seismic (earthquake) studies performed at Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this ERRA Compliance proceeding is to review PG&E’s costs associated with obtaining energy for customers and to review program costs noted above. The CPUC will review PG&E’s costs to ensure compliance with the previously approved forecast and energy purchasing plans.

HOW WILL THE APPLICATION AFFECT ELECTRIC RATES? Most customers receive bundled electric service from PG&E, meaning they receive electric generation, transmission and distribution services.

Based on rates currently in effect, the bill for a typical residential nonCARE customer using 500 kWh per month would increase from $124.08 to $124.10, or 0.02%.

Direct Access and Community Choice Aggregation are unbundled electric service customers who only receive electric transmission and distribution services from PG&E. On average, these customers would see an increase of 0.04%.

Another category of nonbundled customers is Departing Load. These customers do not receive electric generation, transmission or distribution services from PG&E. However, these customers are required to pay certain charges by law or CPUC decision. The impact of PG&E’s application on these customers is an average increase of 0.4%.

Actual impacts will vary depending on usage.

HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT PG&E’S PROPOSALS? If you have questions about PG&E’s filing, please contact PG&E at 1-800-743-5000. For TTY, call 1-800-652-4712.

If you would like a copy of PG&E’s filing and exhibits, please write to PG&E at the address below: Pacific Gas and Electric Company 2019 ERRA Compliance Application (A. 20-02-009) P.O. Box 7442 San Francisco, CA 94120 A copy of PG&E’s filing and exhibits is also available for review at the CPUC’s Central Files office by appointment only. For more information, contact aljcentralfilesid@cpuc.ca.gov or 1-415-703-2045. PG&E’s application (without exhibits) is available on the CPUC’s website at cpuc.ca.gov.

CPUC PROCESS This application will be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge (Judge) who will determine how to receive evidence and other related information necessary for the CPUC to establish a record upon which to base its decision. Evidentiary hearings (EHs) may be held where parties will present their testimony and may be subject to cross-examination by other parties. These EHs are open to the public, but only those who are formal parties in the case can participate.

After considering all proposals and evidence presented during the hearings, the assigned Judge will issue a proposed decision which may adopt PG&E’s proposal, modify it or deny it. Any of the five CPUC Commissioners may sponsor an alternate decision. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted on at a scheduled CPUC Voting Meeting that is open to the public.

The Public Advocates Office (CalPA) has reviewed this application. CalPA is the independent consumer advocate within the CPUC with a statutory mandate to represent customers of investor-owned utilities to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with safe and reliable service and the state’s environmental policy goals.

CalPA has a multidisciplinary staff with expertise in economics, finance, accounting and engineering. For more information about CalPA, please call 1-415-703-1584, email PublicAdvocatesOffice@cpuc.ca.gov, or visit CalPA’s website at www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov.

STAY INFORMED If you would like to follow this proceeding, or any other issue before the CPUC, you may use the CPUC’s free subscription service. Sign up at: subscribecpuc.cpuc.ca.gov. If you would like to learn how you can participate in the proceeding, have informal comments about the application or have questions about the CPUC processes, you may access the CPUC’s Public Advisor’s Office (PAO) webpage at consumers.cpuc.ca.gov/pao/.

You may also contact the PAO as follows: Email: public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov Mail: CPUC Public Advisor’s Office 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Call: 1-866-849-8390 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-2074 TTY: 1-866-836-7825 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-5282 Please reference 2019 ERRA Compliance Application (A. 20-02-009) in any communications you have with the CPUC regarding this matter. All public comments will become part of the public correspondence file for this proceeding and made available for review by the assigned Judge, Commissioners and appropriate CPUC staff.

Notice of Availability of a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) and Notice of Public Meeting to Provide Comments on the SEIR The Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) (SCH # 2014112012) for the Aggie Research Campus (ARC) Project is now available for review.

Public comment on this document is invited for a 45day period extending from March 13, 2020 through April 27, 2020. More information is provided below.

PROJECT LOCATION: The annexation area is located northeast of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80, on both sides of County Road (CR) 32A, within unincorporated Yolo County, east of the City of Davis city limits. The approximately 229-acre annexation area consists of: • 187-acre privately-owned ARC site (Assessor’s Parcel Numbers (APNs) 033-630-009 and 033-650-009); • 25-acre City Parcel (APN 033-650-029-6); • 16.5-acre Mace Triangle site (APNs 033-630-006; -011; and -012).

For CEQA purposes, the “ARC Site” is comprised of approximately 194 acres, and defined as the 187acre privately-owned property containing the Aggie Research Campus development footprint, and a proposed 6.8-acre easement on the City Parcel to satisfy the City’s 150-foot Agricultural Buffer requirements along a portion of the project’s northern boundary.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The ARC Project is anticipated to include up to approximately 2,654,000 square feet of innovation center/business uses, of which up to 260,000 square feet may be developed with supportive commercial uses. The ARC Project also incorporates up to 850 housing units on-site.

The City of Davis has included the Mace Triangle within the overall project boundaries to ensure that an agricultural and unincorporated island is not created and to allow the continuation and expansion of existing uses. The SEIR evaluates the potential for expansion of the Ikeda’s farm stand and additional urban development on the Ikeda’s parcel and adjacent agricultural parcel. Specifically, this SEIR assumes development of up to 71,056 square feet of general commercial uses, including up to 45,900 of research, office, and R&D, and up to 25,155 square feet of retail.

Generally, the following approvals for the ARC Project are being requested from the City of Davis at this time: General Plan Amendment, prezone, development agreement, and action by the City Council to set the baseline features of the project and call for an election. In addition, the ARC Project would require a Combined Municipal Service Review (MSR) and Sphere of Influence (SOI) Amendment in order to bring the 229-acre project site, including the Mace Triangle Site, within the City of Davis’s SOI; annexation of the entire 229-acre project site, including the Mace Triangle Site, into the City of Davis; and detachment of the entire 229-acre project site, including the Mace Triangle Site, from the East Davis County Fire Protection District. The City will need to issue additional discretionary approvals for the ARC Project prior to any on-site development being allowed.

SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS: The SEIR identifies significant impacts for the following California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) environmental topic areas: Aesthetics and Visual Resources; Agricultural and Forest Resources; Air Quality; Biological Resources; Cultural Resources; Geology, Soils, and Mineral Resources; Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy; Hazards and Hazardous Materials; Hydrology and Water Quality; Land Use and Urban Decay; Transportation and Circulation; Utilities; and Cumulative Impacts related to the foregoing topic areas. However, the SEIR includes mitigation measures that would reduce impacts related to Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Geology, Soils, and Mineral Resources, Energy, Hazards and Hazardous Materials, Hydrology and Watery Quality, Land Use and Urban Decay, Utilities, and select areas of Cumulative Impacts to a less-than-significant level.

The SEIR determined that the project would have certain impacts to Aesthetics and Visual Resources, Agricultural and Forest Resources, Air Quality, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transportation and Circulation, and Cumulative Impact areas that would remain significant and unavoidable even after implementation of the feasible mitigation measures set forth in the SEIR. Furthermore, as this is a Subsequent

EIR, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, the environmental document also compares the ARC Project to the originally proposed Mace Ranch Innovation Center (MRIC) Project, in order to identify whether the above-noted significant impacts are new or substantially increased in severity, when compared to the MRIC Project.

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS/WASTE ON SITE: The project site does not contain any sites listed on State data bases compiled pursuant to California Government Code Section 65962.5 ADDRESS WHERE COPY OF SEIR IS AVAILABLE: The SEIR and other project materials are now available for public review and download on the City of Davis website at: https://www.cityofdavis.org/cityhall/community-development-and-sustainability/ development-projects/aggie-research-campus. Printed copies of the SEIR, as well as the Certified Final EIR for the MRIC Project, are available for public review at the following location during normal business hours: City of Davis Department of Community Development and Sustainability 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite 2 Davis, CA 95616 Should an electronic copy of the document be required, members of the public may bring a thumb drive to the Department of Community Development and Sustainability to copy the document onto.

PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD FOR THE SEIR: March 13, 2020 to April 27, 2020 All comments on the SEIR must be received by the City no later than 5:00 pm on April 27, 2020 to be considered. Pursuant to Section 15088(a) of the CEQA Guidelines, late comments will be considered only at the City’s discretion. Comments must be directed to: Sherri Metzker, Principal Planner City of Davis Department of Community Development and Sustainability 23 Russell Boulevard Davis, CA 95616 smetzker@cityofdavis.org SEIR COMMENT MEETING: The City of Davis Planning Commission will conduct a public meeting to solicit input and comments from public agencies and the general public on the SEIR for the ARC Project. The meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 22, 2020, starting at 7:00 PM. However, please contact the project planner to confirm the meeting time and date. This meeting will be held at the City of Davis Community Chambers, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Other applicable City Commission meetings may be held separately for review of the SEIR or the proposed project.

There will be no transcription of oral comments at these meetings. Comments received will be summarized by staff for inclusion in the Final SEIR. Those who wish to have their verbatim comments incorporated in the Final SEIR must submit their comments in writing.

If you have questions regarding this notice, please contact the Project Planner, Sherri Metzker, at smetzker@cityofdavis.org. Meeting facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. By request, alternative agenda formats are available to persons with disabilities. To arrange an alternative agenda document format or to arrange aid or services to modify or accommodate persons with a disability to participate in a public meeting, contact the City Clerk by calling 757-5648 (voice) or 757-5666 (TDD).

NOTICE REGARDING CHALLENGES TO DECISIONS Pursuant to all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation, California Government Sections 65009, 66020, and/or California Public Resources Code Section 21177, if you wish to challenge in court any of the above decisions (regarding planning, zoning and/or environmental decisions), you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing(s) described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the city at, or prior to, this public hearing.

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Pets of GUIDELINES: Meetings trimmed the week From Page A1

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

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Among them is Zuma (A1778474), a 1-year-old female domestic shorthair cat. She’s a ray of sunshine and loves toys.

Also looking for a

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good home is Sid (A176771), a super-goofy pit bull. “Everyone falls in love with him,” a shelter volunteer said, “so we can’t understand how’s he’s been at the shelter 121 days.”

All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered. The shelter is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays (closed for lunch from 1 to 2 p.m. each day).

For information on how to adopt a pet, call 530-668-5287 or visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/woodland/yolo-countyanimal-services-ca283/.

Beans

Over at Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Beans, a big, fluffy gentle giant. He’s a 1-2 year old neutered male great Pyrenees.

He’s very playful and affectionate. Beans is obedience-trained and walks well on leash.

Rotts just got in two 6-month-old white purebred German shepherd puppies, a spayed female and a neutered male. They don’t even have names yet but they are moldable and playful. The pair can be adopted separately or together.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 14, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog.

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spelled out in a release from the city on Wednesday afternoon.

Indoor events open to the general public will be canceled with some exceptions made on a case-bycase basis by the city parks and community services director.

Indoor events not open to the general public, like a private rental of a city facility, may proceed, though the city reserves the option to cancel on short notice.

Similarly, outdoor events may proceed under the same conditions.

For example, youth soccer games played on city fields may proceed, Webb said, “but we’re advising those organizations to look at the health officer’s guidance … so they can reach their own conclusions.”

All fees paid to the city for use of city facilities will be refunded if events are canceled, Webb added.

Meanwhile, city commissions and 2x2 meetings will proceed only for essential or time-sensitive matters and those that are held will provide options for remote participation.

Both the Bicycling, Transportation and Street Safety Commission and the Senior Citizen Commission canceled their March meetings on Wednesday.

As for the next City Council meeting, scheduled for March 24, the agenda will be trimmed — as it was for Tuesday’s meeting — with ceremonial presentations and receptions canceled.

“Alternative methods of providing comments will be highlighted for those wishing to provide comments but not attend City Council and commission meetings in person,” the city press release said.

As far as protecting the health of city staff, Webb notes that the city is largely a service-based organization so eliminating all interaction between staff and the public isn’t possible, but “whenever there are opportunities to use emails, telephone calls, conference calls… we’re really pushing that with contractors and the general public,” Webb said.

“We’ve been providing staff with guidance on social distancing strategies… all consistent with

(Chapman’s) recommendations, like avoiding handshakes, washing hands, minimizing in-person meetings.”

Staff that can telecommute will do so, Webb said, but most city staff cannot.

Road crews, utility crews, police officers and firefighters will all be operating largely in business-as-usual mode.

“We’re not curtailing services,” Webb said. “The county’s guidance is trying to ensure we’re doing as much as we can to slow the spread (of the virus), and all of the measures we’re talking about here are geared toward that end.”

Those measures will remain in place through the end of March at which time Chapman will determine whether they should continue into April.

Said Mayor Brett Lee: “The health and welfare of our community and employees is the city’s key concern at this time.

“We are following guidelines set down by Yolo County Public Health to help stop the spread of COVID-19 with social distancing measures for public gatherings.”

SCHOOLS: Policies shifting constantly From Page A1 alternative meeting formats in light of our social distancing efforts.

■ School Open House events are canceled through April 30. Site Principals will determine if rescheduling these events is feasible.

(Note, Kinder Registration will continue this week).

■ The 8th Grade Career Fair is canceled. The Instructional Services Team will determine if rescheduling this event is feasible.

The rescheduling of events or amendments to the Davis school district’s guidance will be dependent on changing circumstances in Davis and in our region over the coming months.

In addition, the Davis school district announced that: ■ Outside use and rentals of school district facilities will be canceled through April 30. Exceptions will be made on a case-by-case basis.

■ Junior high and high school athletic events will be held in the largest appropriate venue on campus to promote increased social distancing.

■ Performances (music, theatre, etc.) for all grade levels will be held in the largest appropriate venue on campus to promote increased social distancing.

“The Yolo County Public Health Department and the Davis school district are not recommending closing schools,” superintendent John Bowes announced. “If a staff member or student in a specific school is confirmed to have COVID-19, the Superintendent and Yolo County Public Health officials will consider, based on the specific facts and circumstances of that case, whether closure of that school is warranted.

“The Yolo County Public Health Department is not recommending school closures at this time because individuals under 18 years of age have not been shown to be a high-risk group for serious illness from this virus. Should the Public Health Department and Superintendent determine a school closure is warranted, the duration is likely to be the length of time needed to conduct cleaning protocols and determine readmission criteria.”

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Bowes added, “Events currently scheduled to occur after May 1, may be postponed, modified or canceled as circumstances and conditions change between now and the end of the school year. Such events include, but are not limited to Senior Week events and Senior Showcase/Awards; school dances; graduation and promotion ceremonies; field days; and summer school.”

“We appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate this challenging time, and want to underscore the importance of working together and encouraging the respectful treatment of one another. Our interest is to provide a safe and healthy environment for learning,” Bowes concluded.

Woodland According to a press release, the Woodland public schools are: ■ Recommending social distancing strategies be used through April 30.

■ Canceling trips, events or public gatherings on a case-by-case basis.

■ Cancel rental/use of district facilities by outside agencies or vendors for indoor or outdoor use on a case-by-case basis.

Athletic events (practice and games), Junior and Senior Prom, and musical performances will continue, however, audience participation shall be significantly reduced.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

Yolo courthouse, jail address virus concerns

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — The Yolo County Courthouse in Woodland, where large groups of people typically gather each day for matters such as jury duty and court appearances, has developed a three-level plan for addressing the coronavirus outbreak.

Precautions also are being taken at the Yolo County Jail, where nearly 300 inmates were in custody as of Thursday afternoon.

“We are currently at Level One,” Yolo Superior Court Executive Officer Shawn Landry said in an email to The Davis Enterprise on Wednesday.

A day later, Landry updated the situation to note that all jury trials are being postponed except those that are constitutionally mandated or for defendants who have not waived time, a development that followed a meeting Thursday involving court officials, the District Attorney and Public Defender’s offices and the county’s conflict attorney panel.

Courthouse practices already implemented include: ■ Encourage social distancing, avoid touching faces and provide links to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Yolo County Health and Human Services websites.

■ Hand sanitation and deployment of sanitizers and tissues in all staff and public areas.

■ Display best practices for washing to prevent spread of germs from the CDC. These are posted in all restrooms and some common areas of the courthouse.

■ Encourage staff to stay home when sick (developed FAQs).

■ Re-examine janitorial supply list to ensure products are on approved list to

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St. James School St. James School — a private Catholic school associated with St. James Church in Davis — announced that they will: ■ Suspend whole-school Holy Mass. (Parishes are continuing with daily Mass; this only applies to students).

■ Suspend schoolwide assemblies.

■ Arrange classroom desks into rows (not pods or other groupings).

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■ Implement jury staff to accept all postponement requests where possible.

■ Developed special COVID-19 link on website that encourages online payments, phone options, jury duty rescheduling number, telephonic appearance requests and self-help remote assistance via email.

Further actions that could be taken in the event of a level 2 or 3 response to the outbreak include reducing court calendars to essential matters only, electronic submission of warrants by law-enforcement agencies, closure of the court’s self-help center and, in the most extreme case, a full closure of the courthouse, according to Landry.

At the Yolo County Jail in Woodland, there have been no suspected cases of the disease and inmate visitations remained unaffected as of Thursday, said Lt. Matt Davis of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office, which operates the facility.

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MAYOR: Frerichs to be vice mayor PROTEST: Students worry about family From Page A1

members will be elected only by voters in the district in which they reside. Three of the city’s five districts will be on the November ballot.

Normally the highest votegetter in that election would become mayor pro tem and succeed Partida as mayor two years later.

But as city staff noted in a report prepared for Tuesday’s council meeting, “the district election process precludes the city from having an equitable single highest ‘vote getter,’ ” in part because each district has a slightly different voter population, thus affecting the total possible number of votes that can be obtained.

Some council members on Tuesday were reluctant to make a decision now on how future mayors will be selected but were unanimous in moving forward with Partida becoming mayor this summer.

As Mayor Brett Lee noted, that was what voters expected in 2018.

“We’ve kind of honored what the expectations were at the time of the elections,” said Lee. Councilman Will Arnold agreed; “I’m happy to support that,” he said.

Frerichs’s selection as vice mayor came from a suggestion made by Councilman Dan Carson last year that with district elections, the best way to choose a future mayor would be to have the most senior member of the council who has not yet served as mayor assume the role. In the case of the current council, that would be Frerichs.

Council members unanimously agreed on Frerichs being appointed vice mayor, but differed on what to do going forward. Still to be determined: how to fill the gap between June 2022 and November 2022 when both Partida’s and Frerichs’ terms

as mayor and vice mayor, respectively, will end; how future mayors FRERICHS and vice mayors will New position be chosen; and when that decision should be made.

Lee said he was comfortable having the next council — which will likely be seated in December — figure that out but added that he is “not a fan of the rotation system.”

Such a system would simply rotate the title of mayor among the five districts, leaving open the possibility that someone is elected and immediately assumes the role if it’s that district’s turn.

“I’ll just be candid, with the district election system coming online, we might have people who have a lot of experience in bodies such as this and they would sort of seamlessly take over as chair,” said Lee. On the other hand, he said, it may be someone who has never served on a commission or council who gets elected in November and has to take over as mayor the next month “and it would be nice for them to find their feet and get settled in before having the challenge of running the meeting while also trying to be an active participant.”

Partida agreed, saying, “I like the idea of choosing not in rotation but choosing by tenure, except there should be discretion amongst the council members who are voting. Maybe the person with the most tenure is not the person that you really want to seat as mayor.”

Carson suggested that seniority could continue to guide who becomes mayor “with a coin flip used whenever you have folks with equal seniority.”

He also cited existing city

ordinance under which, he said, “the mayor and the vice mayor (if we change the title) serve at the pleasure of the council.”

“A council majority would retain the discretion to change its presiding officers at any time it deemed that action necessary. So if we went down that track with someone with less seniority and we had a problem, we could by three votes change the lineup of who the presiding officers are. That exists right now and we haven’t had any occasion to use it but I think it’s an important check and balance there,” Carson said.

Carson also argued for setting a process in place now, rather than leaving it to the next council, saying, “this is just the kind of issue that leads to slights and divisiveness.”

But others, including Lee and Frerichs — both of whom are up for re-election in November — indicated they preferred leaving the decision to the next council.

“I officially know I will be in office sometime through December of 2020,” said Frerichs. “I do not know if I will be in office beyond that.

And also several people up here … may or may not be in office as well.”

The only guarantees going forward are that Partida and Carson will be in office through November 2022.

Arnold, Frerichs and Lee are all up for re-election in less than eight months.

Arnold and Lee are both residents of District 2 and Frerichs lives in District 3.

No current council member lives in District 5, which will also be on the November 2020 ballot. That district encompasses most of South Davis.

Frerichs faces at least one challenger in District 3 — Larry Guenther — while Dillan Horton has announced his candidacy in District 2.

From Page A1 man to sing India’s national anthem while they beat him. The man later died of his injuries.

“Because of bigotry and religious discrimination, India is imploding from within,” said UC Davis graduate student Nimra Farooq.

Critics of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is a lifelong member of Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), have drawn parallels between the recent riots and events in Modi’s past. While serving as Chief Minister of the State of Gujarat in 2002, Modi is widely believed to have ordered police and soldiers to stand by while rioters killed more than a thousand people, the majority of them Muslim.

Modi was banned from the U.S. for nearly a decade for his role in the 2002 riots.

Since his election to India’s highest office in 2014, Modi has upended decades of conventional policy.

In August 2019, the Indian government

revoked the semiautonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir, a majorityMuslim state that borders Pakistan. India then enforced a months-long internet blackout in the region, home to 8 million people, and sent in tens of thousands of troops.

“People are in a lot of fear,” said UC Davis undergrad Kanwaljit Singh, who grew up in Kashmir and whose family lives there.

“They don’t know what’s going to happen now.”

During the internet shutoff in Kashmir, Singh lost contact with his family for four months. He said he was motivated to protest on campus by a desire to raise awareness about recent events as well as about Indian repression of Kashmir that he has experienced his entire life.

UC Davis undergrad Shreya Deshpande was visiting India in December shortly after the government passed a citizenship bill that could render millions of Indian Muslims stateless. The bill sparked widespread protests in India, which inspired Deshpande to organize with other students after

returning to Davis. “We’re creating noise about this on campus to raise awareness,” they said. “It boils my blood that we can’t do more.”

Deshpande said students at Davis plan to push for a local resolution condemning policies implemented by the Indian government, as some U.S. cities have already done. More than sending a message to India, the local measures are intended to counter the vocal support Modi enjoys from a large segment of Indian Americans.

Millions of Indians living abroad, including many in California, provide significant diplomatic support and campaign contributions to the BJP. Since 2001, Hindu nationalist groups in the U.S. have sent millions of dollars to partners in India, according to a 2014 report. Ahead of Modi’s reelection in 2019, BJP-affiliated civil society groups in the U.S. organized phone banks, placing calls to people in India to ask them to vote for Modi.

“Fascism is really strong over here as well as in South Asia,” Farooq said.

“We need to do much, much more to counter it.”

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leads Chamberlain 51.19 percent to 48.81 percent.

Provenza now has 49.30 percent of the vote to Deos’s 37.71 percent and David Abramson’s 12.98 percent, increasing the likelihood of a runoff in November.

Meanwhile, Provenza is hoping to avoid a runoff in November by receiving 50 percent of the vote plus one additional vote. The morning after the election, based on 7,135 votes counted, he had 49.49 percent and that had decreased slightly Thursday with 4,286 additional votes counted.

Every county has 30 days to complete the task of counting all unprocessed ballots and reporting final tallies to the California Secretary of State’s Office.

However, Jesse Salinas, Yolo County’s assessor/clerk-recorder/registrar of voters, said Wednesday he hopes to complete the process sooner.

Hanging in the balance are some races that were too close to call the day after the election, including the 5th district county supervisors race, where Barajas now

Measure G, a parcel tax to raise funds for teacher salaries in the Davis Joint Unified School District, had 65.69 percent of the vote as of Thursday. It had 65.06 percent of the vote after Election Day and, with an additional 6,271 votes counted, has increased but remains short of the two-thirds needed to pass.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

Census ball now in our court Will virus jolt us B into new reality?

BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

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dark cloud is passing across the nation and the world. When it passes, how will we have changed? How will we react after this national jolt?

In Britain after World War II, there was a period, at the end of the 1940s and into the 1950s, of idealism and common purpose. It ushered in as its prime minister not Winston Churchill, who had won the war, but milquetoast Clement Atlee. One lasting and revered reform of the Atlee government was the introduction of the National Health Service.

In America there was a new confidence, aided by legislation like the GI Bill, which led to the expansion and general contentment of the 1950s.

The tumultuous, jolting 1960s left us changed. Sex was considered an entitlement, the environment an ethic, civil rights a moral obligation and women gained nominal equality. Reverence for institutions was out, and all expertise was suspect. “Some things are too important to be left to the experts,” said the young people who had hated the Vietnam War. In the 1970s, the revolutionaries of the 1960s were gradually absorbed into the bourgeoisie. Mostly, they seemed slightly embarrassed about who they had been and what they had done.

The killing of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the riots that followed, engulfing major cities from Baltimore to Los Angeles, looked momentarily like a national wake-up call that would unite the nation. Instead, we got a measurable jolt with white flight to the suburbs.

The energy crisis of 1973, which remained with us for two decades, also jolted the American body politic. Here was an external force that could not be internalized: The oil we needed could not be produced domestically.

We were at the mercy of foreign powers, like Saudi Arabia and Iran. All the raw materials we had needed up that point appeared to be domestic. Now we had joined the world community in a way frightening to us. Fortress America was breached.

We thought that crisis would change the way we lived. Amitai Etzioni, then a professor at Columbia, and a Wall Street Journal columnist, predicted that we would all have less of everything — and be just as happy, if not happier. We would all wear jeans as daily dress, ride bicycles and drive very small cars.

Detroit-made some small cars — and they were awful. But the move to smaller cars — no more land yachts with acres of chrome and fins — can be seen on the streets today.

Something seminal had jolted us and spurred our engineers to do better.

Another jolt was 9/11: an attack of wartime proportions. It fed a new nationalism, an inward turn, with a profound distrust, even dislike for people of different cultures who want to come here from elsewhere. It stirred a somnolent patriotism.

Now, in the time of COVID-19, we are enduring another great national jolt that will have consequences in the decades ahead.

After this pandemic, it is a fair guess, we will be more inclined to believe the experts and to value medical science the same way we have worshiped computer technology. In addition, stock markets might come to be eclipsed by a more representative measure of the national well-being.

Particularly, the indifference we have felt to predictions of existential calamity may be taken way more seriously than before COVID-19. Predictions of disasters that did not happen, like the Y2K computer alarm, have lulled us into thinking bad things will not really happen: A fix would be found.

Now we are struggling with an assault that will be seminal in its impact, personally frightening and economically devastating.

We cannot buy or fight our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. An immunization is a year and half away. Will it work?

I would put at the top our list of existential threats climate change and cyberattack. Sea levels are rising, and coastal cities are under pressure. That will get worse. The security of the electric grid also is under a daily attack.

Experts are and have been warning of the possibility of parts of the country being blacked out for long periods.

Going forward, we dare not think it cannot happen here because it can. It is happening here now.

— 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.

ecause the U.S. Supreme Court essentially laughed President Trump’s arguments for a citizenship question out of its courtroom last summer, the start of America’s once-adecade official head count at the beginning of next month will be far from an April Fool’s joke.

Once the Census Bureau begins mailing out questionnaires, sending operatives to knock on doors and puts its forms on the Internet, much of California’s fate will be in the hands of its people, residents of every size, shape, color, belief and ethnicity.

If we want our schools fully funded, if we want our roads and infrastructure properly maintained and rebuilt, if we want the significant voice we deserve in both public policy and the Electoral College, it will be up to us to make sure we get counted.

For a while, it appeared that Trump’s administration might insert a citizenship question among the standard queries to be answered by almost everyone who gets counted. But Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican appointee of exPresident George W. Bush, became disgusted last July with lies told by Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, as he tried to explain why a citizenship question should be used for the first time in 70 years.

Ross said the question was

needed to fully enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an absurd claim since that law has never been enforced under Trump.

Roberts wrote that this falsehood demanded he cast a rare vote with the high court’s four-member liberal minority and that deep-sixed the question.

This was a vital issue for California and other states with large numbers of undocumented persons because long experience and every Census expert indicated that including the question would encourage many unauthorized residents to evade getting counted at all costs.

Now they have no reason to avoid answering questions, since it will be impossible to identify non-citizens if immigration authorities somehow get hold of Census forms despite laws forbidding it.

Such compartmentalizing is needed to assure that the constitutional purpose of the Census is carried out: counting every human being in the country, citizen or not.

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LETTERS Physical education We all need more activity.

It has been proven that physical activity releases hormones that promote the feeling of happiness. With all of the uncertainty that is going on in our world, who doesn’t want to find a bit of happiness?

Children are especially in need of physical activity. They do not always know how to express why they are feeling stressed or anxious. Now, more than ever, is the time for our school district to find funding for our P.E. programs.

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Eliminating P.E. position I was shocked and so disappointed to read in Sunday’s paper that the Davis School Board is eliminating the P.E. teaching position at Birch Lane Elementary School.

We are all aware of the alarming statistics with respect to childhood obesity and

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Congress and the Electoral College hinges on that count.

So does distribution of myriad types of federal grants and other funding.

This still does not assure it will be easy to count everyone. For example, there is California’s homeless populace of at least 150,000 people, counted in an unofficial canvass every January.

There are also under-theradar undocumented immigrants who often share motel rooms and other transient quarters.

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ltogether, the Seattlebased Marguerite Casey Foundation estimates California has more than 15 million people classed as hard to count.

To see that its interests are properly served, the state in 2018 budgeted $187 million to get everyone here tallied.

Some of that money went to private organizations now reaching out to folks they serve.

“Our goal is to reach 2.7 million people (in the Los Angeles area),” said Esperanza Guevara, coordinator of the Census campaign about to start from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, which also tries to get health care and other services for the undocumented.

“We’ve developed a comprehensive campaign in our Latino, refugee and limited English communities to (give

sedentary lifestyles. Having kids exercise every day while at school is vitally important to creating healthy habits that last a lifetime!

How shortsighted of our elected officials to consider P.E. “non-essential” to a child’s education and therefore something that can so easily be eliminated from the school day.

I urge the school board to reinstate the P.E. position at Birch Lane Elementary School.

Gretchen Coyle Davis

Close the high school If you shouldn’t gather with 150, why should you gather with 1,750?

UC Davis has restricted gatherings to 150 people or less to decrease spread of novel coronavirus, COVID-19. One mile up the road, 1,750 Davis High School students gather daily — nearly 12 times the number that UC Davis is avoiding.

They laugh, they hug, they sneeze on each other, they cough in close quarters and they change desks every 50 minutes, seven times a day.

This age group is the most likely to asymptomatically shed and spread virus

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

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

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House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880.

District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me

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

them) the support and resources to understand these forms,” she added.

And Thomas Saenz, president of the activist Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, told his group’s affiliates that “Information about immigration status will not be asked of anyone… In fact, the easiest way to avoid further contact from the Census Bureau is to fill out the form completely at the start of the process.”

One message many such outfits will be circulating widely: It is illegal to use information on Census forms in immigration enforcement.

Violating this confidentiality carries criminal penalties up to $250,000 and five years in jail per incident.

It’s still unknown whether all this will be enough to ensure the full count California needs in order to get its fair share of money and representation.

But for sure, the Trump administration’s initial efforts to skew the count have been thwarted, leaving much of this state’s fate in the hands of its residents. All of us.

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to their parents and grandparents without knowing. Additionally one in six teenagers have asthma in the U.S., potentially qualifying as an underlying condition that could make COVID-19 worse as this is a chronic lung disease.

Halting gatherings is the most cost effective way to prevent spread of COVID-19, decrease deaths and reduce hospital overwhelm in caring for critically ill patients. Overloaded hospitals at some point are unable to take in more patients, meaning critical patients die, waiting for care.

Testing is not yet easily available in Northern California and kids are least likely to show signs they are infected.

Waiting to close schools until kids are showing symptoms of COVID-19 is not practicing preventive public health care.

It is closing the barn door after the horses have run out. The solution comes far too late to help.

Things one does to prepare for an epidemic may seem too much ahead of time but often appear too little after the fact. I personally would rather us be overprepared and save some more lives.

Angela Glasgow Davis

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

Filed: February 11, 2020 FBN Number: F20200142 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) CACHE CREEK CONSERVANCY 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

34199 COUNTY ROAD 20 WOODLAND, CA 95695 Mailing address: PO BOX 8249 WOODLAND, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip CACHE CREEK CONSERVANCY 34199 COUNTY ROAD 20 WOODLAND, CA 95695 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: February 6, 1996 “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): Nancy Ullrey Cache Creek Conservancy, Executive Director 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 722

Filed: FEBRUARY 10, 2020 FBN Number: F20200139 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) MALLARD AND MARKEY CONSTRUCTION 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

836 ATWELL CIRCLE WOODLAND, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip MALLARD AND MARKEY 836 ATWELL CIRCLE WOODLAND,CA 95776 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Christopher Mathews PRESIDENT, MALLARD AND MARKEY 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 747

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-250 1. Erica Villalobos and Juan Jose Diaz Villatoro filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Jennifer Elizabeth Diaz to Jennifer Elizabeth Villalobos Diaz 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 2, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: 10 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: February 19, 2020 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 745 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: January 30, 2020 FBN Number: F20200109 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) DELTA ELECTRIC 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

22 W HACIENDA LN WOODLAND, CA 95695 Optional mailing address: 7604 SARA LYNN WAY CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA 95621 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip ERIC WAYNE RUDI 22 W HACIENDA LN WOODLAND, CA 95695 ALEXANDR SILCHUK 7604 SARA LYNN WAY CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA 95621 4. Business Classification: General Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): ERIC WAYNE RUDI 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 746

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-240 1. Tamara Tachele Garcia filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Marley Carmelo Lewis to Marley Carmelo Garcia Lewis 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 26, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: 10 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 3. b) Mother shall personally serve the father or other parent and file proof of service.

Date: February 13, 2020 Samuel T. McAdam Judge of the Superior Court 2/28, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20 751

a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. All checks payable to Prestige Default Services.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 7302727 or visit this Internet Web site https:// www.servicelinkasap.com/default. aspx, using the file number assigned to this case 19-2870. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 3/2/2020 PRESTIGE DEFAULT SERVICES 1920 Old Tustin Ave. Santa Ana, California 92705 Sale Line: (714) 730-2727 Briana Young, Trustee Sale Officer A-4720709 03/13/2020, 03/20/2020, 03/27/2020 759 PUBLIC NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR SUBCONTRACTOR BIDS FOR LEASE-LEASEBACK PROJECT Landmark Construction is requesting subcontractor bids for the Winters Joint Unified School District Winters HS Twelve Classroom Building project, which includes: construction of a new 18,500 SF classroom Building B and associated site improvements.

Interested subcontractors must submit sealed bids on or before March 26th, 2019 at 2PM, to Landmark Construction via fax at 916-663-1867 or frontdesk@ PUBLIC NOTICE landmarkconst.net. Contract Documents are available for download at www.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.: landmarkconst.net/plan-room/.

19-2870 Loan No.: ******5366 APN: 034192-002 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF Disadvantaged Business Enterprises THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT (“DBE”), Small Local Business Enterprise ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT (“SLBE”), Small Emerging Local Business UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED Enterprise (“SELBE”) and Disabled 10/20/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION Veterans Business Enterprise (“DVBE”) TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY firms are encouraged to provide a BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED proposal for this project and shall be AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF afforded full opportunity to submit.

THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public Questions regarding this bid must be auction sale to the highest bidder for directed to frontdesk@landmarkconst. cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state net. or national bank, check drawn by a state 3/6, 3/13 760 or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized Arleigh Hudspeth to do business in this state will be held CASE NO. PB20-6 by the duly appointed trustee as shown To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, below, of all right, title, and interest contingent creditors, and persons who conveyed to and now held by the trustee may otherwise be interested in the will in the hereinafter described property or estate, or both, of: Arleigh Hudspeth under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been described below. The sale will be made, filed by: Sue Hostman previously, Sue but without covenant or warranty, Wiscombe in the Superior Court of expressed or implied, regarding title, California, County of: Yolo possession, or encumbrances, to pay THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests the remaining principal sum of the that: Sue Hostman be appointed as note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, personal representative to administer the with interest and late charges thereon, as estate of the decedent. provided in the note(s), advances, under THE PETITION requests the decedent’s the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest will and codicils, if any, be admitted to thereon, fees, charges and expenses probate. The will and any codicils are of the Trustee for the total amount (at available for examination in the file kept the time of the initial publication of the by the court.

Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated THE PETITION requests authority to be set forth below. The amount may to administer the estate under the be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Independent Administration of Estates ROBERT W. WEIR, TRUSTEE OF THE Act. (This authority will allow the personal ELIZABETH R. WEIR SURVIVING SPOUSE’S representative to take many actions TRUST, ESTABLISHED APRIL 7, 2002 AS without obtaining court approval. Before AMENDED AND RESTATED JUNE 26, taking certain very important actions, 2009 Duly Appointed Trustee: PRESTIGE however, the personal representative will DEFAULT SERVICES Recorded 11/2/2009 be required to give notice to interested as Instrument No. 2009-0034330-00 in persons unless they have waived notice book , page of Official Records in the or consented to the proposed action.) office of the Recorder of Yolo County, The independent administration California, Date of Sale: 4/3/2020 at 12:45 authority will be granted unless an PM Place of Sale: At the rear (North) interested person files an objection to entrance to the City Hall Building, 1110 the petition and shows good cause why West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, the court should not grant the authority.

CA 95691 Amount of unpaid balance A HEARING on the petition will be and other charges: $1,109,250.77 Street held on March 30, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Address or other common designation Department 10 located at 1000 Main of real property: 887 LINDEN LANE DAVIS Street, Woodland, CA 95695 California 95616-1763 The undersigned IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of Trustee disclaims any liability for any the petition, you should appear at the incorrectness of the street address or hearing and state your objections or file other common designation, if any, shown written objections with the court before above. If no street address or other the hearing. Your appearance may be in common designation is shown, directions person or by your attorney. to the location of the property may be IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent obtained by sending a written request creditor of the decedent, you must file to the beneficiary within 10 days of the your claim with the court and mail a copy date of first publication of this Notice of to the personal representative appointed Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: by the court within the later of either If you are considering bidding on this (1) four months from the date of first property lien, you should understand issuance of letters to a general personal that there are risks involved in bidding at representative, as defined in section 58(b) a trustee auction. You will be bidding on of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60

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Filed: February 4, 2020 FBN Number: F20200118 Original FBN Number: 2016-948 The person(s) or entity listed below are abandoning the use of the following fictitious business name(s): Name of Business(es): AJ DESIGN IN MACHINE EMBROIDERY The fictitious business name was filed in Yolo County on February 4, 2020 and is being ABANDONED by the registrant(s) listed below: Andrea Jo Markley 3400 Mono Place Davis, CA 95618 and John Bruce Markley 3400 Mono Place Davis, CA 95618 Corporation or LLC name & address and county of the principal place of business: N/A The business was conducted by: A Married Couple I declare that all information is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Registrant Signature: Andrea Jo Markley 2/21, 2/28, 3/6, 3/13 737

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Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Signed: Marissa Sirota, SBN 283391 Attorney for petioner 2062 John Jones Road, Suite 130 Davis, CA 95616 530-231-5853 TITLE ADDRESS PHONE (MAYBE) 3/11, 3/13, 3/18 768 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 13473L NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) to the seller(s) are: FORTUNA AUTO AND TRUCK PARTS, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, 745 11TH ST., FORTUNA, CA 95540 Whose chief executive office is: 2910 BELLOWS COURT DAVIS, CA 95618 Doing Business as: FORTUNA AUTO & TRUCK PARTS (Type – AUTO PARTS STORE) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: NONE The name(s) and address of the buyer(s) is/are: GDMI ENTERPRISES, INC., A GEORGIA CORPORATION, 624 SOUTHEAST L ST. GRANTS PASS, OR 97526 The assets to be sold are described in general as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, AND EQUIPMENT and are located at: 745 11TH ST., FORTUNA, CA 95540 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 958212665 and the anticipated sale date is APRIL 7, 2020 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided.]

The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC., 3838 WATT AVENUE, SUITE F-610 SACRAMENTO, CA 958212665 and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be APRIL 6, 2020, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

Dated: MARCH 5, 2020 GDMI ENTERPRISES, INC., A GEORGIA CORPORATION, Buyer(s) LA2488997-C DAVIS ENTERPRISE 3/13/2020 3/13 770 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Intent To Abandon Rail Service Sierra Northern Railway gives notice that on or after March 13, 2020, it intends to file with the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC, a petition for exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903, et seq., permitting the abandonment of an approximately 0.70 mile line of railroad between approximately milepost 3.10 and approximately milepost 3.80, which traverses through United States Postal Service ZIP Code 95691 in Yolo County, California. The proceeding will be docketed as No. AB 874 (Sub-No. 1X).

The Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) will generally prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA), which will normally be available 60 days after the filing of the petition for abandonment exemption. Comments on environmental and energy matters should be filed no later than 30 days after the EA becomes available to the public and will be addressed in a Board decision. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the EA or make inquiries regarding environmental matters by writing to OEA, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC or by calling OEA at (202) 245-0291.

Unless the Board determines otherwise, appropriate offers of financial assistance to continue rail service and requests for environmental conditions, public use conditions, or rail banking/trails use can be filed with the Board. An original and 10 copies of any pleading that raises matters other than environmental issues (such as trails use, public use, and offers of financial assistance) must be filed directly with the Board’s Office of Proceedings, Washington, DC [See 49 CFR 1104.1(a) and 1104.3(a)], and one copy must be served on applicants’ representative [See 49 CFR 1104.12(a)]. Questions regarding offers of financial assistance, public use or trails use may be directed to the Board’s Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and Compliance at (202) 245-0238. Copies of any comments or requests for conditions should be served on the applicant’s representative: Sally Mordi, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, 1330 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036; phone: (202) 429-6287.

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Baby Blues

Comics

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

Dilbert

By Scott Adams

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis

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Making a home the most important place in your world with a remodel

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It is a luxury to be at home, whether to feel personal contentment or to experience the joy of watching your children grow up. Creating a floor plan that works well within an existing home or adding onto it can improve aesthetics as well as the emotional feelings that each area of a home evoke.

Concept to completion your designer/builder should work to make the home a most important place in your world.

Projects begin with an assessment of the home.

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A 2016 survey from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service found that more than 45 million people in the United States watch birds around their homes and away from home every year.

While birding trips can help birdwatching enthusiasts see birds they otherwise may never see in person, bird feeders can be a great way to bring more birds into your own backyard. Choice of bird feeder can affect just which birds come to your back yard, and the following are some bird feeder options for birding enthusiasts to consider.

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Exterior renovations can enhance the appearance of a property and make it more enjoyable for homeowners. Certain renovations have the potential to add value to a home, while others may do the opposite.

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Low-maintenance lifestyle When choosing materials for projects, those that offer low-maintenance benefits can be preferential.

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Fire pit A fire pit can be used for much of the year. In the spring and summer, the firepit is a great place to congregate to roast marshmallows or sip wine and gaze into the fire. In the fall, the fire pit can make for a cozy retreat. A fire pit that has a gas burner is low-maintenance, and the National Association of Landscape Professionals says that most can recoup about $4,000 of their $6,000 average price tag.

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Outstanding performers in ‘Camelot’

BY BEV SYKES Enterprise theater critic

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rom the court of King Arthur to the administration of John F. Kennedy, “Camelot” evokes something beautiful, opulent and democratic.

Steve Isaacson’s set design for the musical, currently at Davis Musical Theatre Company, may be a bit less than opulent, but it at least gives the impression of a castle. Yet thanks to the outstanding costumes of Jean Henderson, the stage is indeed beautiful and opulent.

Jori Gonzales alone, as Guinevere, had nine costumes throughout the three-plus-hour show. All are wonderful, but her first costume, simple with no jewel adornment, is tailored so perfectly and the material so beautiful that it was my favorite of the night.

Gonzales, happy to be performing her third Julie Andrews role, is exceptional. A beautiful, clear voice that can sing opera as well as musical theater, she embodies the character so well that the chemistry between her and King Arthur (Joe Alkire) seems so real that one wonders what she sees in Lancelot (A.J. Rooney).

Alkire is a wonderful, down-to-earth king, still not quite sure how he became king and uncomfortable about his upcoming

(Jori) Gonzales, happy to be performing her third Julie Andrews role, is exceptional. A beautiful, clear voice that can sing opera as well as musical theater, she embodies the character. marriage (“I wonder what the king is doing tonight”).

He and Guinevere warm to each other and over the next few years he not only grows into his marriage but into his role as king as well.

Lancelot arrives at Camelot so arrogant that Guinevere hates him and arranges for him to battle three of her best knights, but when he beats all three, killing one and then bringing him back to life again, her heart is changed and they begin a secret affair.

It’s an odd affair since both Lancelot and Guinevere love Arthur and Arthur loves both of them, accepts their affair and pretends not to notice so that when

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Editor’s note: As of press time, all DMTC shows were expected to go on as planned, but we recommend checking DMTC’s website before heading to the show.

What: Davis Musical Theatre Company’s “Camelot” When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, March 6 to 29 Where: Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive, Suite 10, in Davis.

Tickets: $18 general and $16 for students and seniors, available at dmtc.org or by calling 530-756-3682.

Guinevere is tricked into revealing their relationship and is sentenced to death, Arthur helps the lovers escape, even though it brings down the beautiful democracy that he worked so hard to create.

Joel Porter plays Merlin, Arthur’s mentor. It’s amazing that he can speak through that huge mustache that totally covers his mouth (does he eat?).

After he is lured away from Camelot by the enchantress Nimue (Andrea Borquin), the actor returns

The absolutely evil Mordred (Tomas Eredia) stirs up trouble in the kingdom in DMTC’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s classic “Camelot,” running through March 29. Tickets are $18 general and $16 for students and seniors, plus a $2 per ticket facility fee.

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as Pellinore, a bumbling and endearing old man who becomes a permanent guest of Arthur and Guinevere. His buddy Horrid the dog (played by a confused looking Mrs. Bigglesworth) is very cute.

Arthur’s illegitimate son Mordred is played by Tomas Eredia (who, somehow, is not listed in the

program for that character). Eredia bursts on stage with a high level of energy and dominates his scenes, earning the boos his villain character receives.

Young Matthew Vallero is Tom of Warwick, the child who comes to join the Round Table, reminding Arthur of the ideals he was able to create, if only

temporarily. Vallero, 10, has been in all the youth productions for the past two years but is making his main stage debut and is excellent.

This is a very long show that drags in spots, but overall is a beautiful production with some outstanding performance.

Remembering Little Charlie: Bluesman passes away “He was the elder statesman of the Davis musical family. Having known him for many years, it’s hard to believe he’s gone. He was a musician’s musician, one who practiced and perfected his playing every day and was respected by all.”

BY JEFF HUDSON

Enterprise staff writer

The local music community is mourning the loss this week of a beloved friend and highly respected musician. Popular bluesman Charles “Little Charlie” Baty — a fixture in the regional music scene — died on Friday, March 6, in Vacaville, following a heart attack. He was 66.

Baty released 14 albums over the course of his career, including nine albums on the Alligator Records label. Along the way, he appeared onstage alongside celebrated blues musicians including Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Los Lobos and others.

Rock critic Robert Christgau, writing several years ago in the Village Voice, described Baty was “one of the swiftest, most fluent guitarists working in any genre.”

Blues legend John Lee Hooker complimented Baty some years ago, saying “You’re dangerous with that guitar, man. They’re going to put you in jail.”

Baty was regularly featured in the annual

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The local music community is in mourning over the passing of Charles “Little Charlie” Baty.

December “Home for the Holidays” concert in Davis, a fundraiser for local music programs in the public schools.

Bill Fairfield, who organizes the annual “Home for the Holidays” concerts, remembers him fondly as a

person and a musician.

“Charlie was a superb guitarist and major figure in the regional music scene for years. He performed at nearly all of our Home for the Holidays benefits, and he loved to showcase his Charlie Christian-inspired

arrangements of classic holiday songs. No vocals allowed, just hot instrumentals from a tight combo with Charlie leading the way. Backstage they used to jam for an hour, and it was a lively scene,” Fairfield said.

“We will miss him at this year’s show. He was the elder statesman of the Davis musical family. Having known him for many years, it’s hard to believe he’s gone. He was a musician’s musician, one who practiced and perfected his playing every day and was respected by all.”

In 2018, Baty remarked in an interview with The Enterprise, “If you practice scales, then your playing sounds like scales. If you start second-guessing, you end up musically introverted. You cannot have fear as a guitar player.”

Baty was born in

Birmingham, Ala., in 1953, and was playing blues harmonica by age 12. Baty eventually settled in the San Franciso area, then migrated to the Sacramento area in 1975.

Baty is survived by sisters Katherine and Laurel, and mother-in-law Mary Montiero. He was preceded in death by sister Page and his wife Sylvia.

Private funeral services will be held on Monday, March 16.

To read an in-depth profile on Baty that ran in The Enterprise on April 20, 2018, go to https://wp.me/ p3aczg-3keb.

Schaffrom’s work on display at Gallery 1855 Special to The Enterprise Gallery 1855 presents the artwork of Marguerite Schaffrom through March.

While earning her bachelor’s degree in art from UC Davis, Schaffrom was known as the “dumpster diver” — raiding the large, steel boxes of discarded art projects and other goodies.

“I knew they contained objects that could, and would, live again,” she said.

“Post one MFA show, the artist tossed his Mylar house away and that was when I came up with the reflective, pliable nature of the Mylar and it became key to my photography, and still does.”

After graduating in 2001, her life of repurposing discarded objects continues, be it the fruit of a dumpster dive or the discarded paint, wooden tennis rackets, clay or thrift store discoveries.

The galley, on the grounds of The Davis Cemetery at 820 Pole Line Road, is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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For more information, call 530-756-7807, email judy@daviscemetery.org or visit www.davis Marguerite Schaffrom’s artwork uses repurposed discarded objects. cemetery.org.

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■ Editor’s note: Due to concern about the spread of the Coronavirus, many sponsors of public events have issued recommendations to attendees about how to protect themselves and others from disease.

Some organizers, however, are choosing to cancel events. As of the Arts section press time, all events below were still scheduled as planned. To doublecheck, contact the sponsoring organization or consult its website.

Galleries

■ “Pushing the Limits,” The Artery’s member group show, celebrates the gallery’s 45th anniversary from March 20 to April 19.

A reception is from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 10, where guests will enjoy the music of “Fuzzy Dice” with Heidi Bekebrede and Diana Craig. The Artery, 207 G St. in Davis, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays and until 9 p.m. Fridays. For more information, call 530-7588330, email artery@att.net or visit www.theartery.net.

■ The Art of Painting in the 21st Century, an annual conference and exhibition in its 12th year, showcases artists from around the world at the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis.

Among the many painters presenting are Gregory Kondos, Chester Arnold, Richard Whitten, Glenn Brill, Tom Colcord and Cynthia Sitton. The Art of Painting Exhibition is a month-long exhibition, through April 11, that showcases work by professional artists as well as up-and-coming collegiate painters. This year, a collegiate exhibition of the top 20 young college student painters will be on display. More details can be found at https://www. natsoulas.com/aop2020/.

■ In honor of Women’s History Month, YoloArts will be showing two March exhibitions at the Gibson House and Property, 512 Gibson Road in Woodland. The Barn Gallery will feature the group exhibition, “Women Eco Artists Dialog: The Legacy of Jo Hanson” through June 18.

Inside the Gibson House, women’s clothing from the turn of the 20th century will be featured through June 26 in “Fashion Forward: Women’s Wear and Social Reform,” a collaborative exhibition with Yolo County Archives and the Paul W. Hollingshead Archives, courtesy of Bill and Sharon Dianne Hollingshead. More information can be found at yoloarts.org, at 530-3096464 or at ya@yoloarts.org.

■ The artwork of Marguerite Schaffrom through the month of March. The galley, on the grounds of The Davis Cemetery at 820 Pole Line Road, is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday. For more information, call 530756-7807, email judy@ daviscemetery.org or visit www.daviscemetery.org.

■ The Pence Gallery presents its first-ever juried exhibit of watercolor paintings by master artists from across the U.S., selected by artist Sandy Delehanty. “Water + Color National Juried Exhibit 2020” features 38 paintings completed exclusively in watercolor or gouache (opaque watercolor) by 20 artists through March 31.

In the upstairs gallery, “The Printed Realm” is a group exhibit featuring 21 artists who all work in printmaking. Also at the Pence is Liz Webb and Laurelin Gilmore’s exhibit, “The Stories We Tell Ourselves.”

■ A variety of traditional textiles from around the world will be on view in the UC Davis Design Museum exhibition “Appreciation and Adaptation: Homage to Global Textiles” through April 18. This installation features items such as rugs, garments and cloth purses from Africa, Asia, South America and Central America, all collected by Paul J. Smith, director emeritus of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, during his travels around the world. It also includes contemporary work by UC Davis Design students. The museum is in Cruess Hall, Room 124. It is free and open from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 2 to 4 p.m.

Sundays. For more information, visit arts.ucdavis.edu/ design-museum.

■ The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis presents “Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End,” the pioneering Conceptual artist’s first U.S. museum solo show in 40 years, running through May 10. “NEW ERA, an Installation by Doug Aitken” continues through June 14.

“Gesture: The Human Figure After Abstraction |Selections from the Manetti Shrem Museum” features 25 works by UC Davis art department firstgeneration faculty artists Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Ruth Horsting, Manuel Neri, Roland Petersen, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley, through 2020.

The museum is at 254 Old Davis Road. Admission is free. For more information, call 530-752-8500 or visit manettishrem.org.

■ “Postal Migration” features the mixed-media artwork of June Daskalakis through March 31 at YoloArts’ Gallery 625, at 625 Court St. in Woodland. The gallery is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and by appointment. For more information, contact YoloArts at 530309-6464.

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Linda Cloonan’s “The Three Graces” is in the “Water + Color National Juried Exhibit 2020.” Cloonan won third prize in the Pence Gallery competition, as judged by painter Sandy Delehanty.

Stories of female strength on view

BY NATALIE NELSON Special to The Enterprise

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rt serves so many distinctly different purposes in life. I’ve long accepted that what I assume motivates one artist, such as fame and fortune, doesn’t even show up on the horizon for other creatives.

The important aspect of art-making for Liz Webb and Laurelin Gilmore, whose current exhibit, “The Stories We Tell Ourselves,” is on display at the Pence Gallery through March 29, is its ability to re-tell stories about our own worth and our connection to the natural world. It’s perfect that this exhibit falls in March, Women’s History Month, since both artists honor women’s experiences.

Webb is a mixed-media sculptor who uses ceramic figures to create small narratives of quiet power. The size of her pieces makes them almost like dollhouse scenes, in which the stylized female figures anchor their surroundings. Bits of branches and re-purposed frames form the background upon which her women greet others, such as her “Welcome” sculpture, with its cheery attitude.

As Webb writes, “These pieces are moments, feelings from every-day, little simple, quiet, beautiful moments that make me smile.” It’s that familiarity that captivates the sense of the extraordinary beauty of sitting with a book or the simplicity of drinking a

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Gilmore’s paintings also tend to focus on the female body; she is a master at using realism to force the viewer to “suspend disbelief ” and to see the connection between the human world and the natural order of things.

Her “Asterfro” is a portrait of a woman who is decked out in sumptuous silks, crowned by a head full of aster flowers (Not afro but ‘Aster-fro’) and hummingbirds. Perched on her shoulders are two tabby cats that guard the woman with their furry presence.

In her current series, she blends animals with the human form “to expand on themes of feminine power, totem and spirit animals, and the habitation of the planet and the body.”

Gilmore’s ability to render skin, fur, scales, and other surface textures is extraordinary, as is her combination of surreal elements into a natural environment.

Downstairs, the Pence exhibit celebrating the power of watercolor painting continues through March 31. “Water + Color National Juried Exhibit 2020” is an expansive display that includes 38 paintings by 28 artists from across the U.S., including portraits, landscapes, still-life subjects and abstract themes.

It’s an impressive display of the many ways that

The Artery celebrates 45 years with group show Enterprise staff “Pushing the Limits,” The Artery’s member group show, celebrates the gallery’s 45th anniversary from March 20 to April 19.

A reception is from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 10.

As one of California’s oldest cooperative art organizations, the gallery is marking 45 years of fun, friends and artistic excellence. To celebrate, the gallery will be filled with members’ art that “pushes the limits,” giving a new perspective of the world and its possibilities.

In the ’70s era of disco, bell-bottoms, and olivegreen shag carpet, a group of avant-garde Davis artists and craftsmen staged an art auction. This was a resounding success, allowing them to open their first store/gallery on G Street.

It grew in numbers, added more artists from beyond Davis and has held a unique spot in the Davis community. The goal has

always been to offer highquality fine art and contemporary crafts at fair prices.

The 59 members work to support each other and the community, hoping that The Artery will always be a place where people meet to enjoy many forms of art.

At the April 10 party, guests will enjoy the music of “Fuzzy Dice” with Heidi Bekebrede and Diana Craig.

The Artery, 207 G St. in Davis, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m.

Sundays and until 9 p.m.

Fridays. For more information, call 530-7588330, email artery@att. net or visit www.theartery. net.

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Linda Bird’s mirror of dichroic kiln-worked glass is among the artwork on display in “Pushing the Limits,” The Artery’s member group show.

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Laurelin Gilmore’s “Asterfro” is one of her pieces focusing on the female body. Below, Liz Webb’s “Curious” is among her mixed-media scuptures that feature ceramic figures to create small narratives.

watercolor paint can be used to capture light, color, reflection and texture. It’s a medium that is rarely chosen by most painters, as many painters consider it just to capture impressions or sketches from life, not as a medium capable of capturing great concepts or themes in its own right.

In fact, watercolor is arguably the most difficult of all painting media to master, and it’s unforgiving of mistakes and requires one to visualize the painting backward, laying down the light colors before the dark ones, and keeping areas of the paper blank to convey highlights.

Save the date: The Pence Gallery Garden Tour returns for the 29th time to Davis from noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 3. This selfguided tour through eight spectacular spring gardens in town is our annual fundraiser to support the Pence, a nonprofit art gallery serving the community through the display of art exhibits and education programs.

Garden Tour tickets go on sale April 3 at www.pence gallery.org, Newsbeat and Redwood Barn.

— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.

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Briefly Teens sought for comedy show

Acme Theatre Company invites all ninththrough 12th-grade students to audition for the upcoming free comedy-in-the-park production “The Metromaniacs,” an all-rhyming rom-com farce.

Auditions are planned for March 19 to 21, with 10-minute audition slots from 3:45 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, and callbacks from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday, March 21.

Rehearsals begin April 13, with performances on Memorial Day Weekend.

For more information and to sign up to audition, visit www. acmetheatre.net/ auditions or contact stagemanager@acme theatre.net.

Audition for ‘Robin Hood’

The Winters Theatre Company is holding auditions for a special dinner-theater musical version of “Robin Hood” at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, March 23, and Wednesday, March 25, at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters.

Auditions will consist of improvisation and a cold reading.

“Robin Hood” will take place from Friday through Sunday, May 15-17, incorporating tunes from the ’50s and later.

For more information call 530 -7954014, or email winters theatre@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020

‘I Still Believe’ is worship overload Biographical saga blends music with melodrama

Why attend classes, when you can sit on the quad and make music?

Despite herself, Melissa (Britt Robertson) can’t help being attracted to the relentlessly cheerful Jeremy (K.J. Apa) and the songs that flow effortlessly from his fingers.

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic This film, based on powerhouse Christian musician Jeremy Camp’s 2003 memoir of the same title, clearly takes a deferential approach to his story.

Scripters Jon Erwin and Jon Gunn set this saga in a world of perfect harmony, where people never get angry or argue with each other; where everybody calmly expects and accepts the inevitability of destiny; and where almost everybody is white. Even in Southern California.

(Which, it must be said, is ridiculous.)

We meet Jeremy (played with sincerity by K.J. Apa) as he’s about to leave his Indiana home to attend Calvary Chapel Bible College, in Murrieta. Money is tight, but Jeremy’s parents — Tom (Gary Sinise) and Teri (Shania Twain) — nonetheless send him off with a gorgeous new guitar.

Freshly arrived at college, Jeremy has no trouble evading security to get backstage at a concert by Christian rock/worship band The Kry, where he impulsively chats up lead singer Jean-Luc LaJoie (Nathan Dean), who immediately takes a shine to this brash young fellow, and allows him to be part of the off-stage crew.

(Uh-huh.)

During the concert, Jeremy locks eyes with an adoring fan — Melissa Henning (Britt Robertson,

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at 30 a bit long in the tooth for this role) — and boom, that’s it. When they subsequently flirt, and she gently rebuffs his eager overtures, he pulls out the ultimate response: “What if God wants us to be together?”

In the real world, that line would earn a scornful glance and quick departure. (It certainly garnered an “Oh, brother” from viewers during Tuesday evening’s preview screening.)

But that’s par for the course here, and you gotta just roll with it. After all, this is a movie where Jeremy and Melissa never are seen attending class — except once, briefly, and solely for another romantic exchange of glances — and where they don’t seem to have any other friends; even their respective roommates remain ciphers.

This is a very enclosed universe.

Indeed, this film’s first act suffers from almost unbearable saccharine overload, both from Erwin

and Gunn’s maudlin script and from the similarly beatific atmosphere delivered by Jon and Andrew Erwin (known professionally as The Erwin Brothers).

They and cinematographer Kristopher Kimlin favor tight-tight-tight close-ups, the better to showcase Apa’s radiant smile.

Truly. Jeremy always smiles, no matter what the circumstance or line of dialogue. He’s just, well, a naturally cheerful and accommodating guy. All the while, he’s also writing songs and playing that guitar; Jean-Luc naturally is impressed, and even (surprise!) allows Jeremy to perform a song during one of The Kry’s subsequent concerts. Where this newbie upstart is greeted with ear-shattering cheers.

Things just work out, well, perfectly. (Don’t they always?)

Robertson exudes a similar glowing sincerity, although Melissa’s life is a

wee bit more complicated; Jean-Luc is sweet on her, and she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings. That’s as close to “tension” as this film gets, and it doesn’t amount to much.

Things take a turn in Act Two, thanks to an unexpected crisis, ratcheting this story’s “faith” aspect into high gear. After which, the melodrama is ladled on with a trowel.

In fairness, Apa and Robertson are endearing together, particularly during brief sequences that feel real-world genuine. She persuasively sells Melissa’s fondness for the local planetarium and her insistence that nothing compares to seeing a nighttime starry sky from an ocean-bound sailboat. That sentiment circles around later, to maximum impact.

By which point, I confess to being moved. Somewhat.

But — alas — even that was spoiled, by a sermonizing finale that applies The Moral with a sledgehammer. (Faith-based cinema

‘I Still Believe’ Starring: K.J. Apa, Britt Robertson, Gary Sinise, Nathan Dean, Shania Twain and Cameron Arnett Rating: PG, for no particular reason

isn’t known for its subtlety.)

Given the appropriate mindset, this can be viewed as a sweet, heartfelt little film with a poignant message: not a bad thing, in these divisive and cynical times.

Still, this story’s atmosphere is too rarefied — frankly, too false and contrived — to be taken seriously. Even though it’s Based On Actual Events.

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

OBITUARIES Elizabeth Carolyn Abbott

Things just aren’t the way they used to be.

Aug. 20, 1946 — Jan. 25, 2020

Beth Abbott died Jan. 25 — unexpectedly but peacefully — at her home in Davis.

Elizabeth Carolyn Abbott was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Aug. 20, 1946. She attended primary and secondary schools in upstate New York, Northern California and Arizona. She graduated from the University of Redlands in 1968 (bachelor’s degree in psychology).

Her professional career was dedicated to public service. That service began with a long career with the Social Security Administration, culminating with her appointment as manager of the Social Security office in Sacramento. She then joined the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where she served as a regional administrator in San Francisco, directing Medicare and Medicaid in California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and the far Pacific.

She left federal service to join Health Access California, a nonprofit health-advocacy

Al passed unexpectedly and suddenly on Wednesday, Feb. 12th, after spending the previous evening celebrating the 41st birthday of his son Tim. On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, his devoted family fulfilled his wishes by visiting Sierra at Tahoe where he had met his wife Donna Cay Tweltridge 46 years ago.

In celebration of this auspicious meeting while skiing many years ago, their son Ryan Deans Tweltridge, his wife Katherine Noel Mikal Tweltridge and children Benjamin Mikal, Zachary Deans and Nolan Ryan; son Timothy Cameron Tweltridge; daughter Lisa (AKA Liza) Cathleen Tweltridge O’Sullivan, her husband Aaron Brady O’Sullivan, their two children Brady Deans and Lindsey Cay (AKA Izzie); along with Donna Cay Tweltridge and her brother B. Douglas Bull enjoyed a beautiful family day in the sun and snow.

An impromptu ceremony was held in the forest. Al was honored with a red rose and branch of lichen which were “planted” in a snowy mound surrounded by a crescent of three large boulders.

Al loved cabin life, traveling the world, and most of all his family and extended family. He unconditionally supported Donna’s commitment to the Unity Center of Davis. Annually, he and Donna set up the Lionel trains from his childhood to share with children young and old.

Each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, family gathered for a “Tweltsgiving” feast at their home, which he loved very much. The model train layout would be set up by then and stay until after Christmas for everyone to enjoy.

organization as the director of administrative advocacy. She was next appointed by Governor Brown to be the patient advocate for the State of California and she recently retired as the director of the Office of the Patient Advocate.

She continued to serve in her retirement as a member of the Yolo County Health Council and had just been elected to the Stonegate Homeowners Association.

She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Don, and two much-loved hound dogs, Arabella and Copper.

There will be a celebration of her life from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Stonegate Country Club, 919 Lake Blvd. in Davis.

No flowers please, but consider donating in Beth’s name to organizations dedicated to social justice, individual rights, environmental defense and animal welfare.

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Albert Loyn Tweltridge, III Sept. 24, 1943 — Feb. 12, 2020

It gave Al great pleasure to host international students including Humphrey and Fulbright Scholars in his home, creating lasting friendships.

Born in Harrisburg, Pa., to Albert Loyn Tweltridge Jr. and Florence Irving Deans.

Al graduated from Jacksonville University which lured students from the north with the phrase, “Bring your swimming suit”.

In 1966 his number having come up for the draft, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He served 4 years active duty attaining the rank of Captain. Subsequently, Al enlisted in the Air Force Reserves. Dedicated to excellence he worked tirelessly to bring the 45th Aerial Port Squadron (APS) to “readiness”. They trained at bases worldwide deploying personnel and serviceable equipment providing augmentation-stand-alone APS support.

He was appointed to Command the 82nd APS. Under his leadership the 82nd won the Air Force Reserve Aerial Port Squadron of the Year Award as well as a National Transportation award for Excellence.

The result of his leadership was a unit that was truly ready when it was called to serve during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

“Colonel T” retired March 20, 1997.

He is remembered by those who served with him, “We are proud to have served with him. He will be our brother and friend forever.”

Al held many positions with the state of California where he offered his leadership

skills, financial expertise and policy analysis abilities in administering various programs and receiving accolades for excellence.

From 1973 to 1980 Al served in the California Department of Finance as fiscal consultant overseeing several state department budgets: Kindergarten through 12th Grade, Fish and Game, Water Resources, Water Resources Control Board and Air Resources Board.

In 1985, Al received the Sustained Superior Accomplishment Award from State of California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Bill Honig.

From 1980 to 2005 Al worked in the California Department of Education where he served in the following positions: 19801987 Executive Assistant to the Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction; 1987-1996 Assistant Director, a Career Executive Appointment (C.E.A.) of the Child Nutrition and Food Distribution Division and Administrator of the Child Nutrition Programs; 1996-1998 Education Program Consultant managing School District Apportionments in the Education Finance Division; and, 19982005 Educational Administrator I for the Regional Occupational Centers and Programs and Workforce Development Unit in the Secondary, Postsecondary, and Adult Leadership Division In 2003 Al was appointed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O’Connell, to represent him on the Califor-

nia Apprenticeship Council.

From 2003-2008 Al served on the California Construction and Education and Research Foundation Board.

In the spring of 2005 Al retired from state service after a total of 32 years as a public servant.

From 2005-2019 Al continued offering his talents by serving as a consultant for the California Fire Fighters Joint Apprenticeship Committee on a part time basis.

His children and grandchildren were Granddaddy’s pride and joy, each unique and each treasured. Al was a wonderful partner and provider. Being quirky, funny, generous and loving, he was Donna’s co-conspirator in creating a wonderful life, Tweltridge traditions, and a beautiful family. He will be missed by cousins, nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, Donna’s extended family, and dear friends.

If you would like to make a donation in his honor, Al would have liked people to remember him by choosing to support one of the following organizations which are especially meaningful each to one of his children: Progressive Employment Concepts; Sacramento Fire Department Relief Association-Widows and Orphans Foundation; Sacramento Waldorf School Scholarships.

All are invited to A Celebration Of Love For A Life Well Lived at 11 a.m. Monday, March 16, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 27074 Patwin Road in Davis.

Following a private ceremony including Military Honors, interment will be at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon.

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Youths to present ‘Junie B. Jones’ Special to The Enterprise

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Hotel Winters, 12 Abbey St. in Winters. The ongoing exhibition features contemporary paintings that celebrate the landscape of Northern California.

The show includes large finished paintings and a selection of smaller works will be available for purchase. More information about the artist and her works can be found at https://www.annelincoln. com.

Dance

■ Davis native Julia Feld-

man is among the dancers in the Sacramento Ballet’s “Homegrown: A Festival of New Works,” presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26 to 28, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave. in Sacramento. Tickets are $65 general admission, available at bstreettheatre. org or by calling The Sofia box office at 916-4435300, ext. 1. The show includes world premieres by choreographers Jennifer Archibald, Nicole Haskins and Isaac Bates-Vinueza.

A pre-performance chat with Artistic Director Amy Seiwert will begin one hour before each performance.

For more information visit www.sacballet.org.

Theater

■ Davis Musical Theatre Company presents “Camelot” at 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through March 29, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive, Suite 10, in Davis. This production is suitable for all ages. Tickets are $18 general, $16 for students and seniors 55 and older and $14 per person for groups of 10 or more (There will be a $2 per ticket facility fee added on). Tickets may be purchased online at dmtc. org or by calling 530-7563682.

■ Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers Theater presents “Junie B. Jones, the Musical,” at 2 p.m. Saturdays through April 4, plus 7 p.m. Friday, April 3, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 5, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive, Suite 10, in Davis. Tickets are $8, plus a $2 facility fee, available at the theater, online at dmtc.org or by calling 530-756-3682.

■ “Of Mice and Men” is on stage at 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 15 at the Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St. in Woodland. The show is recommended for mature audiences. Reserved seats are $25 for adults, $23 for seniors 62 and up and $12 for children 17 and under.

Balcony tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for children.

Tickets are available online at www.woodlandopera house.org or by calling 530-666-9617.

■ Acme Theatre Company invites all ninth- through 12th-grade students to audition for “The Metromaniacs,” a free comedyin-the-park production.

Auditions are in 10-minute slots from 3:45 to 6 p.m.

Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, and callbacks from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 21. Rehearsals begin April 13, with performances on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22 to 25, at the Davis Arts Center outdoor stage, 1919 F St. For more information and to sign up to audition, visit www.acmetheatre.net/ auditions or contact stage manager@acmetheatre.net.

■ “Hamlet” runs at 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 22, at the Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H St. in Sacramento.

Tickets are $25-$40, available at tickets.sactheatre. org, 916-443-6722 or in person at the theater box office ■ Winters Theatre Company presents “The Miracle Worker” at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters. The gala opening is at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13, and includes cheesecake, champagne, coffee and soft drinks. Tickets are $15 for everyone. Other showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and

Saturdays and at 2 p.m.

Sundays, through March 29. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and children 12 and under.

Tickets will be available for purchase on the Winters Theatre Company website at http://winterstheatre.org by mid-February. For more information, visit the website, email winterstheatre@ gmail.com or call 530-7954014.

■ Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers Theater plans auditions for “Schoolhouse Rock, Live!” at 4:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, March 16 and 17, with select callbacks on Wednesday, March 18, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive, Suite 10, in Davis. The general rehearsal schedule is 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, beginning on Monday, March 23. Not all actors will be called for every rehearsal.

Performances are 2 p.m.

Saturdays, May 2 to 23, 7 p.m. Friday, May 22, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 24. For additional information, visit dmtc.org or call 530-7563682.

■ The Winters Theatre Company plans auditions for a musical version of “Robin Hood” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, and Wednesday, March 25, at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters. Auditions will consist of improvisation and a cold reading from the script. Singing and dancing are not required, but anyone with those talents is encouraged to demonstrate them at the audition.

“Robin Hood” will take place from Friday through Sunday, May 15-17. For more information call 530 -795-4014, or email winterstheatre@gmail.com.

Music

■ Indie and alternative rock band Güero will play a free, all-ages show from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 13, at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. ■ John Reischman & The Jaybirds will bring bluegrass tunes to The Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters, at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 14. Tickets are $22 in advance, $26 at the door and $12 with student ID, and are available at Armadillo Music in Davis, Pacific Ace Hardware in Winters, Davids’ Broken Note in Woodland, online at palms playhouse.com and at the door if not sold out.

■ Duval Speck will play a free, all-ages show from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in Davis. Writing and performing together since 1993, the duo plays jazzy/ soul/folk-rock originals as well as classic cover songs that cross the musical spectrum from blues to Broadway, pop favorites to jazz standards, Motown to Steely Dan, Patsy Cline to The Beatles.

■ GHENI, an original roots-rock band influenced by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Otis Redding, will play a free, all-ages show from 8 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 20, at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in Davis.

■ John Thompson will play a free, all-ages show from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 21, at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in Davis.

Thompson is a singer-songwriter from the Bay Area, whose music has a classicrock sound, influenced by the likes of David Bowie, Neil Young and the Beach Boys.

■ The Davis High School Jazz Choir Cabaret dinner show starts at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 21, featuring a catered buffet and mocktail bar, and a matinee show starts at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22, featuring a dessert bar. Both shows will be at Emerson Junior High, 2121 Calaveras Ave. in Davis. There will be a silent auction and musical performances running throughout. Tickets are $50 general and $30 for students under 18 for the Saturday dinner show and $30 general and $15 for students for the Sunday dessert show.

There are also group rates and raffle tickets available.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit jazzchoir.net.

■ Americana funk band Twisted Pines will play a free, all-ages show from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in Davis.

Yippee! Yippie! Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers Theater presents “Junie B. Jones, the Musical,” March 14 through April 5, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Peña Drive, Suite 10, in Davis.

It’s Junie B.’s first day of first grade, and a lot of things have changed for her: Junie’s friend, Lucille, doesn’t want to be her best pal anymore and, on the bus, Junie B. makes friends with Herb, the new kid at school. Also, Junie B. has trouble reading the blackboard and her teacher, Mr. Scary, thinks she may need glasses.

Throw in a friendly cafeteria lady, a kickball tournament and a “TopSecret Personal Beeswax Journal,” and first grade has never been more exciting.

Morgan Bartoe will direct and choreograph, with Steve Isaacson directing music. Featured performers include Katherine Berdovskiy as Junie B., Matthew Valero as Herbert and Eva Barnett as Lucille.

The show plays at 2 p.m. Saturdays through April 4, plus 7 p.m. Friday, April 3, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 5.

Tickets are $8, plus a $2 facility fee.

They can be purchased at the theater, online at dmtc.org or by calling 530756-3682.

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Delilah Blake as Camille, Eva Barnett as Lucille and Charlotte Blake as Chenille taunt Katherine Berdovskiy as Junie B Jones, in DMTC’s Young Performers Theater production of “Junie B. Jones, the Musical” on stage March 14 through April 5.

Actors reflect on play’s deeper meaning

BY JIM HEWLETT Special to The Enterprise The cast and crew for the upcoming Winters Theatre Company production of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” have been hard at work memorizing lines, building the set, implementing light and sound, and getting fitted for costumes over the last month.

Now they are excited to be in the home stretch for the opening of the show tonight at the Winters Community Center.

But, preparation for the show has meant so much more for everyone involved than just the mechanics of finalizing scene work.

The storyline has demonstrated the importance of perseverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds.

As stated by one of the young actors in the show, Kenneth Mattheson, who plays Jimmie (young boy’s voice) in the production, “The lesson I take from this story is that when life throws a hurdle at you, you must find a way to jump over it.

“In the play, Annie Sullivan must overcome many painful physical and

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Lilac Buckser as Helen Keller and Alexis Velasquez as Annie Sullivan star in the Winters Theatre Company’s production of “The Miracle Worker,” opening Friday, March 13, and running through March 29. psychological challenges.”

One of the youngest actors in the production, Jackelyn Cooper, age 9, who plays Martha as well as a blind girl, echoed

Kenneth’s feelings, saying, “‘The Miracle Worker’ teaches us that almost anything is possible. Most people never thought that Helen Keller would be able

to speak. In ‘The Miracle Worker,’ Annie reached her goal of having Helen understand the alphabet and that things have names.”

The adult members of the cast have also been touched by the storyline, including Gail Finney, playing the role of Aunt Ev, who said, “Annie is the virtual symbol of perseverance and tenacity.

Through her belief in the power of language and her intense desire to give this power to Helen, she accomplishes the miracle referred to in the play’s title.”

The gala opening will be at 7 p.m. tonight, and will include complimentary cheesecake, champagne, coffee and soft drinks. Tickets are $15 for everyone.

Other shows will be at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 29. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors and children 12 and under.

Purchase tickets at http://winterstheatre.org.

All shows will be at the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave. in Winters.

For more information, email winterstheatre@ gmail.com, call 530-7954014 or visit the website.

Dancer from Davis to perform in Sacramento Ballet Enterprise staff Davis native Julia Feldman is among the dancers in the Sacramento Ballet’s “Homegrown: A Festival of New Works,” presented at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 26 to 28, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at The Sofia FELDMAN Tsakopoulos Ready to Center for dance the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave. in Sacramento.

Tickets are $65 general admission, available at bstreettheatre.org or by calling The Sofia box office at 916-443-5300, ext. 1.

The show includes world premieres by choreographers Jennifer Archibald, resident choreographer for Cincinnati Ballet; Sacramento Ballet alumnus Nicole Haskins; and Sacramento Ballet artist Isaac Bates-Vinueza, who further develops “After All,” his offering from the 2019 Beer and Ballet.

A pre-performance chat with Artistic Director Amy Seiwert will begin one hour before each performance.

For more information visit www.sacballet.org.

Born and raised in Davis, Feldman was trained under the direction of Pamela Hayes at Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet. During her time with the Sacramento Ballet, she has danced principal and featured roles in works choreographed by George Balanchine, Ma Cong, Ron Cunningham, Jodie Gates, Adam Hougland and Gabrielle Lamb, among others.

Highlights have included performing the central couple in Jodie Gates’ “Keep Me Wishing in the Dark,” 1st pas in Ma Cong’s “Bloodrush,” the Pas de Deux from George Balanchine’s “Agon,” Adam Hougland’s “Cigarettes” and the role of Ophelia in Stephen Mills’ “Hamlet.”

Since joining the company, she has developed a passion for choreography through the Sacramento Ballet’s annual Beer & Ballet. She has created works for the program annually since 2012, as well as for the School of Sacramento Ballet.

As a founding member of Capital Dance Project, she has loved creating premieres for the summerbased company since its inaugural performance in 2015. Her works have included collaborations

with composer and violinist Andy Tan, rap artist Paul Willis and visual artists Brandon Manning and Franceska Gamez.

Feldman spent the summers of 2015-17 collaborating with emerging and established choreographers

at the National Choreographer’s Initiative in Irvine, under the artistic direction of Molly Lynch. In the summer of 2019, Feldman was a choreographer at NCI, selected from an international pool of applicants.

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Blue Devil softball tops Fairfield Enterprise staff

For the second time in a week, Davis High softballers had their hitting helmets on in dispatching Fairfield.

In Solano County on Wednesday, the Blue Devils scored five first-inning runs and cruised to an 8-6 victory. Last week — with Paige Ochoa getting three hits and five RBI — DHS prevailed, 13-3.

Davis is now 3-4 on the young season. As of now, the Devils will be home versus St. Francis next Wednesday for the Delta League opener.

Badminton

The Blue Devil girls badminton team made short work of Will C. Wood, chopping their visitors 15-0 in Monticello Empire League action Thursday.

Davis’ Emma Chang won at No. 1 singles 21-4, 21-6, and No. 2 Mei McConnell rolled 21-6, 21-2.

In doubles action, top duo

DHS ROUNDUP Chang and Emily Cao won 21-6, 21-2, and at No. 2 McConnell teamed with Maya Alexander for a 21-6, 21-14 win.

Boys volleyball Despite playing in four close games, the Davis High boys volleyball team fell to Woodland Christian 25-19, 25-20, 24-26, 25-23 Thursday night in Woodland, dropping the Blue Devils record to 2-2 early on the season.

Seniors Cory Kodira and Collin Yee again led the locals on the front line, with the former picking up six kills and the latter adding seven kills to go with his six assists and two blocks.

“We played inconsistently on offense and allowed them to pull ahead in each set,” said head coach Jordan Bellleci. “We played with a lot of heart, just didn’t execute when we needed to.”

In addition to Kodira and Yee’s performances, Andy Tobia provided five kills, while setter Ares Palubicki dished out 12 assists and libero Christian Garcia pitched in eight digs.

DHS returns to the court Tuesday against Sheldon for a 6 p.m. tip off at The Cage.

The match will be the first Delta League contest of the year for Davis after last Tuesday’s match against Cosumnes Oaks was postponed due to COVID-19.

Girls lacrosse LOOMIS — Thirteen different DHS laxers registered scoring strikes Wednesday night as the Lady Devils coasted past Del Oro on the road in an 18-5 blowout.

Amara Higgins and Sophia Young’s hat tricks were enough, alone, to off the Golden Eagles.

Devon Morris scored twice in the clash, while those responsible for single netbenders included Jessie Finkelor, Alee Holman-

Evans, Colette Quaas, Gracie Hartsough, Meilla Blissett, Riko Fujishima, Cecily Herget, Peyton Schoen and sisters Grace and Ella Heringer.

Lauren Lee added an assist, while Holman-Evans (five), Sydney Skinner (three), Finkelor (three), Amanda Berry (three) and Fujishima (three) led the Devils in the ground ball department. Skinner and HolmanEvans each forced four turnovers and DHS goalie Stella Cardenas made eight stops.

“Sydney and Jessie had a great night on defense,” Devil head coach Jenn Morris said, noting Finkelor, Schoen and both Heringer’s goals were the first of their varsity careers.

Davis (4-2) hosts Amador Valley (5-0) at Brown Stadium this upcoming Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Boys tennis MORAGA — Take four of the six singles matches, the Davis

High boys tennis team defeated Campolindo on Wednesday.

At No. 1 singles, Connor Tang rallied to defeat Benji Goldblatt 4-6, 6-4, 10-6, while Josh Xu pulled out a three-set win of his own at No. 3, topping Sanjeev Sarin 6-4, 2-6, 12-10. Picking up wins at Nos. 5 and 6 were Owen Sheppard and Alan Cao. In doubles action, the No. 1 tandem of Jared Umpress and Shehan Seneviratne came back to defeat Cooper Schnurr and Max Campos 1-6, 6-0, 10-7.

At No. 3, Itai Kalma and Mitchell Madayag defeated Jake Young and Elton You 6-0, 6-3.

Cancellations The DHS boys lacrosse match slated for today against Granite Bay has been canceled, following the Grizzlies’ suspension of their athletic programs for now.

In addition, softball and girls lacrosse games scheduled for today also have be canceled.

UCD can’t dig out of a hole Special to The Enterprise

The UC Davis beach volleyball team had its brief two-match winning streak snapped at the hands of Stephen F. Austin and No. 17-ranked Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, dropping both ends of a doubleheader 3-2 and 5-0, respectively, at the UC Davis Beach Volleyball Facility.

The Aggies fell to 3-5 overall, with the Lumberjacks moving to 5-5 overall and the Wildcats improving to 10-2 on the year.

UC Davis opened strong against SFA after the Lumberjacks had been shutout against Arizona earlier in the day. Junior Paloma Bowman and freshman Megan Luly, playing together for the first time

LOCAL ROUNDUP this season, got the Aggies on the board with a straight set win at No. 2 over Hailey Hunt and Paige Schieferstein, 21-12, 21-19, followed quickly by the No. 4 pair of Heather Reed and Alexa Rockas, who rallied to defeat Neena Perdue and Zariah Williams in three sets, 16-21, 21-9, 15-9, for the 2-0 lead.

In the nightcap, the nationally ranked Wildcats swept past the Aggies, winning all five in straight sets to finish 2-0 on the day.

UCD lacrosse Despite scoring seven of the final eight goals, UC Davis fell 18-12 to visiting

George Mason on Wednesday at UC Davis Health Stadium.

Aggie junior Mar Alvear finished with a career-high five goals to go with an assist and six draw controls on the night.

UCD fell to 3-3 overall on the year, getting a pair of late goals by Davis High graduate Alex Agnew and scores from five others players, but could not dig all the way out of an 11-4 first-half deficit.

The Patriots, led by Deanna Balsama’s three goals and three assists, improved to 4-3 on the year, also getting a hat trick from Erin Donoghue.

George Mason opened on a 6-0 run before Alvear’s first score of the night broke up the streak,

Aggie freshman Megan Lully reaches out for a dig Wednesday during UC Davis’ match against Stephen F. Austin. The Aggies lost 3-2 before falling to Arizona, 5-0, in a doubleheader.

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and UC Davis added scores by Kendall Seifert, Brooke Long and Alvear again, to close out the first, but trailed by seven at the break.

Alvear’s 10th goal of the season opened the scoring in the second half, but the Aggies could not hold back another lengthy run by the

Patriots, who added another 6-0 burst for a commanding lead. That’s when UC Davis began to claw its way back as Alvear netted back-to-back scores, Wilson and Myers added scores three minutes apart, and Larson and Agnew each found the back of the net in the final

two minutes.

With her second-half score, Myers extended her point scoring streak to six, while Larson’s goal at the 1:56 mark gave her a goal in every match this season.

Alvear’s five goals surpassed her previous career high of four set at Stanford earlier this season.

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Blue Devil Dante Romero (24) tags out Rocklin’s Chase Meggers in the fourth inning Thursday.

CREW: Team hopes for season to continue From Page B10 two. Mark Scheiber — in his first varsity pitching action — hurled three frames while allowing one run, and Dante Romero struck out one in a clean seventh.

The Devil bats just could not find gaps against Thunder starter Toran O’Harran, who threw six innings, allowing one earned run and striking out seven.

Koen Carston drove in a run in the second after Scheiber reached on an error and

Grafton Shorts drew a walk. After a leadoff single by Romero in the third, Josh Catacutan drove a double down the left-field line to bring DHS within three.

“The guys out of the pen did a really nice job of giving us an opportunity to get back into the game. We just didn’t take advantage of that opportunity,” Guevin said.

The Devils lost their season opener on Wednesday to Vacaville, 10-2, as the reigning Sac-Joaquin Section champs played pinball with the DHS hurlers.

Jordan Painter, Brian Caringal, Carston, Catacutan and Scheiber each collected hits. Caringal made a leaping catch in left versus Rocklin and collected another hit.

“These guys have worked really hard, and I sure hope it’s not the last time we get to play,” Guevin told The Enterprise after Thursday’s loss. “Regardless of what happens, I hope these guys get an opportunity to show the type of team we can be.”

— Reach Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail.com.

the end of the school year.

MLB, the NBA and MLS also are on hold. While we are rained upon with all this doom and gloom about world events, our safe room — athletics — has been locked. Where do we turn?

I’ve spent much of the past two days in a hotel room in Anaheim. Up until 24 hours ago, I thought I was covering a Big West Tournament that would bring delight to Aggie fans — spotlighting athletes playing their hearts out, some for one last hurrah — and ultimately providing a season that would extend to at least Saturday.

But everything ended Thursday morning.

Last night, as I looked out my window at fireworks shining through the raindrops just beyond the Matterhorn at Disneyland, I thought, thank goodness ... there’s still “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Maybe my wife and I will head over to Mickey’s House before driving home this weekend.

Then my phone dinged: “Disneyland to suspend operations beginning Saturday due to the coronavirus.”

Now, where do I turn?

— Reach Bruce Gallaudet at 530-3204456 or bgallaudet41@gmail.com.

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the abrupt ending of the season — especially for the seniors.”

Speculation about the fate of the 2020 NCAA Tournament swirled all morning as the battle against the coronavirus took on epic, lifestyle-altering proportions. Duke and No. 1 Kansas announced Thursday they were withdrawing from the tournament — a harbinger of the afternoon edict announcing the tourney’s cancellation.

On Wednesday, the Big Ten and Big 12 shifted gears and announced that their year-ending

tournaments would not allow spectators, joining the ACC, AAC, Pac-12, SEC, Big East and Atlantic 10, all of which made similar announcements.

On Thursday, the Big Ten suspended all athletic events through the end of the academic year. The move brought lock-step echoes from the AAC, ACC, Big 12, Pac12, SEC and Atlantic 10 (among others). Previously, the NCAA said its tournaments would be restricted to essential staff and “limited family attendance.”

Holders of tickets purchased in advance for any Aggie athletic events can request a refund by

calling the UC Davis Athletics Ticket Office at 530-752-2471.

The move came days after the university’s decision to cancel all in-person final exams for students.

Friday’s Aggie Open track and field meet — a popular event featuring local high school athletes — has been called off as well.

Schaal Aquatics Center is also closed beginning today until the end of the month.

Kings’ quick decision On Wednesday, the NBA suspended its season indefinitely

after Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. His teammate Donovan Mitchell also tested positive. Wednesday night’s NBA game between the Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans never saw tipoff at the Golden 1 Center.

Thousands of disappointed fans streamed out of the arena following the league office’s landmark announcement shortly before the game’s scheduled start saying that the remainder of its season would be suspended indefinitely.

The Kings had planned to play Wednesday, but canceled the contest after New Orleans coaches

and players raised concerns. The NBA announcement was released shortly thereafter.

Notes: Major League Baseball delayed the beginning of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks today. MLB further indicated spring-training games have been suspended, effective today. ...

According to ESPN, MLS has suspended its season for 30 days. The U.S. Soccer Federation has canceled scheduled friendlies.

— This report was filed by Enterprise staff writer Owen Yancher and Sports Editor Bruce Gallaudet. Follow The Enterprise for the latest on local sports.

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UCD shuts down athletics Aggie winter, spring sporting events canceled Enterprise staff

In an 11th-hour act of precaution, citing concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Big West Conference announced just before noon Thursday that all of its spring sports had been suspended until further notice.

The announcement came just hours after the BWC canceled both the men’s and women’s conference basketball tournaments Thursday morning.

UCD men (8-8, 14-18), seeded fifth in the event, were to have met No. 4 Hawaii tonight in a first-round game at 8:30 p.m. at the Honda Center.

The Aggie women (12-4, 17-12) were to have played No. 8-seed Cal Poly (11-18) at noon on Friday.

The upstart Mustangs had already won two tournament games at the Walter Pyramid at Long Beach State, where league officials were enforcing a no-fans-allowed policy for the event.

For UC Davis teams, the

announcement was especially disap- all of its spring competition would pointing for the men, who were a No. be suspended.

5 seed and would have to climb Then came word from UCD Athletthrough the ranks to continue their ics that it “will suspend indefinitely all season. For the Aggie basketball remaining winter and spring compewomen, who were tition, effective named BWC regularimmediately.” season champions “This affects teams and, they earned the of all conference conference’s autoaffiliations, and matic Big Dance bid includes out-ofand were expecting season activity such to head on to the as spring practice NCAA postseason. seasons for fall That dream ended sports,” the univerby noon when the sity said in a preNCAA declared that pared statement. its basketball tour“This decision was nament — known as made in the interest March Madness — of the health and would not be played. safety of our student-athletes, “It’s extremely difcoaches and staff, ficult to have the administrators and season come to such fans, as news of the an abrupt end,” UCD Jim Less spread of the women’s coach Jen- UCD men’s hoop coach COVID-19 novel nifer Gross told The Enterprise. “Our players are heart- coronavirus continues to develop.” broken and disappointed that we Canceling the BWC tournament don’t get to finish off the season. “was the right decision for the safety “But we understand the decision to of all involved,” Aggie men’s coach cancel the tournaments. We know the Jim Les told The Enterprise. “We did decision was made in the best interest have an emotional team at the Honda if the student-athletes, coaches and Center this morning, though, due to fans.”

The Big West later announced SEE CANCELED, PAGE B9

“We did have an emotional team at the Honda Center this morning, though, due to the abrupt ending of the season — especially for the seniors.”

DHS will play ... for now

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Davis High athletic events will continue as scheduled, according to school officials, who released a Thursday afternoon update regarding COVID-19 concerns.

“We are not cancelling any in-season athletic events at this time,” the statement said, recommending that those who do choose to attend DHS sporting events practice “social distancing” in an effort to limit possible spread of the coronavirus.

This past week, a handful of Blue Devil events were cancelled following Elk Grove Unified School District’s weekend decision to halt all instruction and district activities through this Friday. EGUSD high schools — Franklin, Sheldon, Pleasant Grove and Elk Grove — are each conference members of the Delta League, in which

Davis participates.

However, all DJUSD athletic groups operating off-season programs were instructed to stop activities Thursday through April 30.

“This includes all strength-and-conditioning, practices, meetings, banquets or gatherings,” the school announcement said.

Use of the weight room at DHS also has been paused.

“Please know that this situation is fluid and continually changing as decisions are made, and new guidance issued,” Blue Devil Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson added. “We will continue to communicate as information is made available.

“Our priority continues to be the health, safety and wellness of our students, coaches and fans.”

Nearly all DHS athletic events can already be streamed, live, online via the NFHS network.

What can we fall back on now?

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History will help us understand at whose feet the cause of the spread of this pandemic will fall, but right now, God and science have become hopeful partners in knocking down this new virus.

I’m no epidemiologist. So understanding what’s right and what’s wrong in getting a handle on COVID-19 is beyond my pay grade.

But I am a sports writer, and

seeing what the outbreak has done to my beloved world of escape is a double-whammy for the mental health of our planet.

When things go terribly wrong in the real world, we’ve always had pastimes to fall back on.

Escapes like movies, concerts, gatherings with friends and sports ...

Ah, yes. Sports. There’s nothing like the dawning of a new baseball season — when hope springs eternal — to lift a person’s spirits. Or college basketball and the start of conference tournaments followed by the ever-energizing Big Dance.

As the NBA season winds down, the drama always thickens. The 2020 Olympics and all the intrigue of trials leading up

to Tokyo are at hand, too.

Whatever world or national crises arise, we’ve always been able to find solace in something.

For many of us, sports provide the most comfortable pillow.

As the virus continues to spread, we’re hammered every day with how the Earth is going to hell in a hand basket.

Oil prices are tanking, the Russians are getting, well, more

Blue Devils rule the slopes Ski & snowboard teams finish third in state championship

Russian and our stock market has become mincemeat.

At least we’ll have the escape of sports to half-right our sinking psyches.

Not this time. Following and reporting on the last 72 hours of intercollegiate athletics has become a cement life preserver.

Last week, the Big West Conference basketball tournament was a go, but eliminating fan attendance was under consideration. Then came the formal announcement — no audience.

Thursday morning brought word that the men’s and women’s conference tournaments were canceled, and regularseason BWC winners would advance to March Madness. The news was bittersweet for UC

DHS senior Tommy Ryan finished third in state for slalom.

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BY WILL WYMAN Enterprise correspondent The Davis High ski squad capped off a marvelous Cal-Nevada Interscholastic Ski & Snowboard Federation season, with a combined team second-place state finish from 22 schools. The boys managed second place — the girls finishing on the podium in third.

Combining ski and snowboard accomplishments, Davis High took third overall.

Skiers Lukas Voss (fifth) and Charlie Longshore-Neate (ninth) to the allState team for top 10 combined finishes.

Then recently, Blue Devil senior Tommy Ryan took third in the States snowboard slalom competition and fourth overall at Northstar. Besting most of the top 80 riders from across California and Nevada, the DHS team captain showed his versatility in coming from a community that is just 52 feet above sea level — and from a sports world in which he also is captain of his Legacy soccer team. And did we mention his 4.3 grade-point average.

Joining Ryan in States were shredders Kooper Kijanka, Dexter Clifton, Charlotte King, Georgia Postema and Isabella Yan. The Blue Devils are no stranger to skiing at a high-level this season after an undefeated league campaign.

“We won every race. For all eight races, both the boys and the girls won in slalom and giant slalom, and both the varsity and JV teams won every race,” head coach Mike McMullen told The Enterprise. “We dominated. We had a

really good year.”

With such a dominant team vanquishing the competition, the season focus was centered on improving as individuals.

“We really focus on individual improvement,” McMullen pointed out. “So the team is winning, but everybody can ski a little bit faster on an individual level. No ski race is ever perfect, so we focus on the little things that everybody can do to be better skiers.”

The hard work that was put in clearly paid off, as McMullen explained that DHS was flush with talent: “Really what impressed me was how many good skiers Davis has, even the kids that didn’t qualify. There were lots of kids that improved so much over the season. It was really difficult week over week to figure out who should get those 10 varsity slots because there were so many kids that had that ability to ski at a level that qualified them for varsity.”

However, the state championships were not the end of the season for a handful of Davis skiers. Four Blue Devils are scheduled to compete at Mammoth this weekend for another chance to compete against some of the best

Davis: The men wouldn’t have a chance to fight for a banner like they had in 2017, while the women were headed to the NCAA tourney as reigning champs.

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hen, less than three hours later, NCAA officials announced the cancellation of the Big Dance after No. 1 Kansas and Duke pulled out of the event, starting an avalanche of withdrawals.

The day didn’t even end before UC Davis Athletics announced that it was suspending all winter and spring athletic events.

Some schools have definitively canceled sports through

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Rough day for Blue Crew on diamond

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racers on the west coast in the Western Regional Championships.

Lily Byrne, Lukas Voss, Rhys Mahoney and Charlie Longshore-Neate all qualified for the elite inaugural event.

“Lukas Voss as a freshman had an outstanding season and finished sixth overall in the state. That was really cool to see, for a young guy to do that,” said McMullen. “Lily Byrne, coming off of a great soccer season, ended up finishing fourth in the giant slalom in the state.

Charlie Longshore-Neate was both a great leader and a fun kid to be around, he just got better and better and better as the season went on. He wasn’t initially a kid that I thought was going to end up qualifying for the Western Regional Championships, but by force of will and hard work, ended up there — and he earned it.”

As the weather gets warmer and the snow starts to melt, the Devils can be more than happy with how their season went. Second in the whole state for a team of flatlanders is a feat in of itself.

And with so much young talent, the teams look like they will stay on top for a long time to come.

Good thing they are comfortable with heights.

SACRAMENTO — Uncertainty swirled around Davis High athletics on Thursday as everyone pondered one question: Would the spring sports season get shut down?

But the Blue Devil baseball squad was unperturbed. They had a ballgame to play.

Davis fell to Rocklin, 6-2, at the newly named Sutter Health Park (home of the River Cats), but showed flashes of what could be if it is allowed to continue with its season.

In front of a sun-tinged outfield backdrop, the Thunder jumped out to a 5-0 firstinning lead and held on tight.

The sparse crowd intensified Next game: Saturday at an already eerie Del Oro, Loomis, noon. feeling.

Major League Baseball had canceled spring training and postponed Opening Day. Earlier on Thursday, UC Davis suspended all spring sports, and the NCAA canceled March Madness.

“It seems like we’re the only baseball game in the United States tonight,” said DHS head coach Ethan Guevin.

“It’s a strange situation,” added the first-year coach. “There’s a lot of uncertainty. I just said, ‘Hey you guys, we don’t know what’s gonna happen so you gotta leave it all out there,’ and hopefully they felt like they did that.”

After Davis fell behind early, the Devil bullpen held Rocklin (3-2) to just one run over the last six frames.

Senior left-hander Dylan Schulman tossed a scoreless frame, striking out one and stranding

Thunder 6, Blue Devils 2

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