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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2020

City officials urge Davis residents to shelter in place

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council proclaimed a local emergency on Tuesday and urged city residents to shelter in place and practice social distancing during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

In declaring a local emergency,

the council granted additional authority to the Davis city manager to take actions necessary to address the spread of COVID-19 and ensure continued operation of essential city services.

Meanwhile, residents were asked to stay at home and only leave for essential purposes such as necessary medical appointments,

grocery shopping or picking up prepared meals at restaurants, and traveling to perform essential job functions.

The city’s actions followed that of six Bay Area counties which ordered a shelter in place for residents on Monday.

Unlike those counties, however, the city is urging people to

remain at home, rather than ordering them. Similarly, Sacramento County also urged its residents to shelter in place.

Dana Carey, manager of Yolo County’s Office of Emergency Services, said public health officers from the greater Sacramento region — including Yolo — have been discussing in the last two

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Businesses hit hard by shutdown

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and professor Kyaw Tha Paw U exchange the Vulcan salutes — an alternative to shaking hands in the age of social distancing — as May “interrupted” the professor’s classroom on March 11 to deliver an announcement: Paw U is this year’s winner of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

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UC Davis honors scientist Award recognizes exemplary teaching, research and service

BY KAT KERLIN Enterprise staff writer Professor Kyaw Tha Paw U carries a cheat sheet of sorts to class, with thumbnail photos and names of his students.

Across a sea of faces, this personal class roster helps him learn each of their names, an effort he takes very seriously.

“He learned everyone’s names,” a student

wrote on a class evaluation. “In doing so, I knew he could call on me at any time, which caused me to always pay attention.

Amazing professor!”

land, air and water resources. “It’s a partnership. You’re facilitating their learning. As a teacher, you have to know who they are.”

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May “interrupted” this amazing professor’s classroom on March 11 to deliver a special announcement: Professor Paw U is this year’s winner of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. The $50,000 prize is funded by gifts managed by the UC Davis Foundation.

Paw U joined UC Davis 36 years ago, raising his three daughters in the community with his partner, Ruth Adele Bartlett.

“Teaching is a social interaction,” said Paw U, a professor of atmospheric sciences and biometeorologist in the department of

“His commitment to undergraduate teaching and to the service of others, as well as his humble and approachable character, make him the perfect representative of the highest ideals for UC Davis faculty,” said LAWR department chair William Horwath in his nomination letter.

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First responders prepare for coronavirus risks

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Working from home. Sheltering in place. Temporary closures.

While people across the globe are taking these measures in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, they aren’t an option for first responders — the police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency personnel who work around the clock, oftentimes in situations that put them in close range of others.

“This is unprecedented,” said Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel, who along with other city leaders have spent the past several weeks crafting a coordinated local response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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days issuing a regional directive as well.

Whether that would be a recommendation or an order, Carey said, remains to be seen.

“Things start as recommendations and then we watch the public to see if they’re heeding the

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Davis firefighters aid a crash victim in 2014. Local first responders are taking extra precautions at emergency scenes in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’ve never experienced anything quite like this in terms of making several layers of

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contingency plans,” Pytel said.

“The closest I can think of is (the Y2K scare), and that pales in

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comparison to this.”

“The challenge has been keeping up with the changes on a daily, even hourly, basis,” Davis Fire Chief Joe Tenney said. “This is definitely an unprecedented event, for sure.”

As the city braces for a local state of emergency in which schools and businesses have closed and residents are advised to shelter in place, first responders are showing up to work as usual — albeit under strict guidelines and practices intended to protect both the public and themselves.

Davis businesses opened their doors to a world of uncertainty Monday morning. A “takeout only” sign hung on the door of Fish’s Wild Island Grill, replaced hours later by one saying the restaurant will close until April. Village Pizza & Grill owner Aziz Fattahi closed up after an empty lunch hour and staff at Sam’s Mediterranean went home before 5 p.m.

On Monday night, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued new guidelines for businesses, adding to a sweeping set of directives meant to keep people in their homes and slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Newsom ordered gyms and movie theaters to close and restaurants to remain open only for takeout and delivery. On Tuesday, the City of Davis urged residents to leave their homes only for essential purposes.

As daily life grinds to a halt, some businesses are adapting quickly.

Upper Crust launched a free home delivery service this week, reassigning vehicles and staff who previously worked driving to farmers markets across the region, many of which have closed.

Froggy’s Bar & Grill owner Adam Andrews encouraged customers to get takeout or DoorDash delivery, but those orders alone cannot prop up the business. Roughly a third of

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Yolo County confirms fourth coronavirus case

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

Social distancing is underway at the Fifth Street police station,

Hours after Yolo County’s third confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced on Tuesday, the fourth followed.

On Tuesday morning, the county described the third confirmed case as a young adult with a chronic health problem who acquired the virus through community transmission.

The patient was hospitalized but has since been discharged and is doing well, according to county officials on Tuesday.

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Briefly Arrest made in Solano shooting The Solano County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating an officerinvolved shooting that occurred early this morning south of Winters.

In a Facebook post, department spokesman Deputy Cully Pratt said the shooting, which was not fatal and resulted in no gunfire injuries, occurred at about 2:35 a.m. in the area of Winters Road and Allendale Road, where both eastbound and westbound traffic lanes remained blocked as of late this morning.

“This is an active crime scene and information provided to the public and media will be limited; however, we will continue to update as information becomes available,” the post said.

“What we can share is we are extremely pleased to report there was no loss of life, the single male suspect involved in this incident has been safely taken into custody treated for his injuries, which consisted of a dog bite and transported to the Solano County Jail.”

“There are no outstanding suspects and there is no further danger to the public at this time,” Pratt added. The area reopened to traffic at about 11 a.m.

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Another time, another outbreak A

s the coronavirus spreads along with fear of the coronavirus, I can’t help but remember when our own beloved UC Davis campus was considered Ground Zero for the outbreak of the so-called Asian flu in this country.

That, of course, is a name that wouldn’t — and shouldn’t — be used today, but you can’t rewrite history.

The year was 1957, the first week of summer. My fellow fifthgraders and I would spend our long, warm afternoons swimming at the massive pool alongside Hickey Gym. We could stay the whole day for a single dime.

Every summer in those long-ago days, the Davis campus would host the California Girls State convention, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. The convention brought together high school seniors-to-be from all over the state for practical lessons in the workings of government and the responsibilities of good citizenship.

UCD was a small campus at the time, with several dormitories whose residents used the Primero dining hall.

My mother, the late Dorothy Dunning, was a nurse at the UC Davis Student Health Center, working alongside the Health Center director, the late Dr. Tom Cooper.

While the Girls State participants were on campus, the Health Center was available to them for whatever medical needs might arise.

Little did anyone know just how busy that Health Center would become as the Girls State

convention unfolded.

In his excellent 2012 book, “Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response,” George Dehner tells the story best.

“On June 21, 1957,” he writes, “391 high-school girls descended on the campus of the University of California, Davis, for a 10-day conference. The girls were housed dormitory style, two to a room, and collected into 12 groups for their conference activities, with all the girls sharing a common dining area.

“Over the course of the conference, 225 of the girls developed symptoms of respiratory illness, including the abrupt onset of head and body aches, sore throats and fevers, some reaching as high as 104 degrees.”

The dormitories became makeshift hospital wards as the convention ground to a halt and the Health Center staff went into “all hands on deck” mode. All I know is we didn’t see our mom for a week, though she never got sick and neither did we.

Added Dehner, “The virus could spread explosively. Once postconference victims were tabulated, the group at UC Davis was retrospectively determined to have suffered an 89-percent attack rate.”

According to Public Health

Reports at the time from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, “Word came from the California State Health officer on July 9 that laboratory results indicated Asian influenza as the cause of an outbreak of acute respiratory illness that had afflicted 200 teenagers meeting in Davis, Calif., late in June. These were the first confirmed civilian cases of Asian influenza in the United States.”

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ndeed, I remember watching NBC anchor Dave Garroway report on his national TV show, “Wide Wide World,” that “tiny” Davis, California, had been pinpointed as the start of the outbreak in this country.

The Girls State website recently recounted that unforgettable gathering as well.

“The 1957 session,” it noted, “held at the University of California, Davis, took a devastating toll when the entire staff and all of the ALA California Girls State citizens were stricken with the Asian flu.

Unfortunately, the flu took its toll on the delegates and staff, and the American Legion Auxiliary regretfully lost ALA California Girls State’s Director Ruth Mathebat two weeks after the session.”

Ultimately, Mathebat’s death turned out to be the only fatality from the Davis outbreak.

The story, however, doesn’t end there.

Wrote Dehner, the “Influenza” author, “One apparently healthy attendee of the UC Davis conference left the conference to travel to Grinnell College in Ames, Iowa, for an international church conference,” featuring 1,688

participants from 43 states and 10 countries.

“While en route to the conference in a special chartered rail car, the UC Davis attendee began to complain of influenza-like symptoms. Subsequently, other members of the hundred-member California delegation began to complain of similar symptoms.

“The church conference was crowded, and the California delegation was split up and dispersed among several dormitories.

Within a few days, a respiratory disease similar to that at the UC Davis conference had broken out across the Ames conference. As the cases began to mount, they opted to disband the conference and send the participants home.”

Tellingly, Dehner added, “The UC Davis and Grinnell College examples illustrate how common and ordinary events serve to amplify a novel infection. In both cases, the public health community could do nothing except reconstruct events, because they were not alerted until the outbreaks were already in full swing.”

Oddly, despite the severity of the outbreak at the Girls State conference, there were almost no cases reported at the time in the Davis community apart from the campus.

That all happened nearly 63 years ago and yet, despite the dramatic advances in the field of medicine since then, here we are once again in the middle of another serious outbreak that took our region and our country by storm.

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BUSINESSES: No students means slow times ahead From Page A1 Froggy’s revenue comes from late night bar hours, which were cut following a directive from Newsom on Sunday.

For restaurants, many of which run on slim margins in the best of times, there are no easy solutions. “It’s a losing proposition,” Fattahi said of the option to keep his restaurants open. “Dining out has dropped to almost nothing.”

Along with Village Pizza & Grill, Fattahi owns a second restaurant and a bakery, and supplies bread to roughly a hundred stores and restaurants in the region. Nearly all of them have canceled their orders.

While Fattahi plans to continue baking bread and delivering pizzas, he estimates 90 percent of his revenue will drop off.

Davis businesses that have closed their doors completely include both Regal Cinema movie theaters, FIT House, Akasha Yoga, Hunan, the Super Owl Brewery and many others. With the closures, scores of jobs were wiped out in a single stroke.

For his four businesses, Fattahi employs chefs, line cooks, wait staff, bakers, drivers, managers and others workers — about 70 people in all. “I would

imagine all of them might be out of work with the exception of maybe five,” he said.

According to a new poll, 1 in 5 American households has experienced a layoff or reduction in hours due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s gonna hit a lot of people pretty hard,” Andrews said. “There are people who rely on us — a lot of kids, a lot of families who work for us. That weighs on you more than anything.”

Vulnerable workers For millions of restaurant workers and others in the service sector, a missed paycheck is an immediate problem. According to a 2019 Federal Reserve report, about 40 percent of Americans are unable to cover a $400 emergency.

Nearly all of Davis’s small business owners are grappling with that reality this week. “We take very seriously our responsibility to those people who sacrifice their time and effort for us,” Andrews said. “They’re a part of what we are.”

Andrews called a meeting with Froggy’s 22 employees to brief them on emergency government relief programs. California workers whose hours have been cut due to the

coronavirus can file an unemployment insurance claim, which provides partial wage replacement.

Other businesses are talking to their workers, too. “I expect everyone will be applying for the new unemployment options,” said KetMoRee manager Nu Yung, who employs more than 20 people.

On Tuesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the White House is talking to Congress about sending checks to Americans to soften the economic blow of the pandemic. The administration plans to ask Congress to approve an additional $850 billion in stimulus.

Next week, the Davis City Council will discuss placing a moratorium on evictions.

Community members have been quick to rally in support of local businesses, with messages encouraging people to purchase gift cards and order takeout flooding social media.

Local resident Dannelle Larsen, who has Stage 4 cancer, put on a protective mask Saturday morning and went to the Davis Farmers Market with her son, Alden. “They know my name here,” Larsen said. “It was really important to us to come out and do the shopping we normally do and support their

business.”

While Yolo County determined the farmers market provides an essential service and can remain open, vendors said business was reduced by about half on Saturday. “There’s a drastic difference,” said Gerson Camargo, who works for SunBlest Orchards in Patterson.

In addition to new options for workers, federal relief programs for small businesses have been approved, including emergency loans of up to $2 million. Local business owners said it is too early to know which loans or other relief it might make sense for them to apply for.

Uncertain future Despite the outpouring of community support and announcements of government aid, longtime business owners expressed doubts about how many Davis businesses are likely to survive. “If this keeps going, it will be hard for any business in Davis to stay afloat,” Yung said.

“We don’t have a model for this,” Andrews said.

“I’ve got the feeling it’s gonna be a very different landscape here in 10 months.”

Davis businesses typically rely on a busy spring to

make it through a slow summer. With UC Davis students given the option to leave town next quarter, the best-case scenario for Davis’s bars, restaurants, movie theaters, yoga studios, retailers and coffee shops is at minimum a months-long reduction in business.

“You’re looking at a spring quarter without how many tens of thousands of students and all the support staff on campus,” Andrews said. “It’s gonna have ripple effects.”

With no assurance of what lies ahead, business owners focusing on the immediate fallout first. For many, that means being there for their workers, even if they are not sure what that might look like yet. “I’ve been clear with my employees that we will do whatever we can do support them, whether that involves outside aid or doing it ourselves,” Kalisky said.

Several restaurant owners mentioned the possibility of feeding workers who are out of a job. “The going thought seems to be, ‘Take care of the small circle that you can take care of,’ ” Andrews said. “If everybody does that, we’re probably gonna get through this.”

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How to cook while on quarantine W

ell, here we are then, uncomfortably poised on the edge of history and waiting for the other shoe to drop. What should we do now? Probably cook — I subscribe to the sentiment offered by Madeleine L’Engle: “That’s something I’ve noticed about food: whenever there’s a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”

You have likely stocked up your kitchen. The first thing to do is put things away properly — fresh meat should be cooked or frozen, fruit and vegetables stored properly so they will keep, packaged goods put away behind whatever was already in the cabinet so the old things get used first.

If you bought extra bread, butter or cheese you may want to freeze the excess so it’s fresh when you want it.

Anything that you’re freezing should be doublewrapped, dated and labelled clearly. If you have a big freezer, you may want to keep a list of the contents on the front of it.

If you haven’t stocked up yet, or if you realize you forgot things, take a few minutes to make an inventory.

Check your spices, condiments, oils, vinegars.

Make a modest list of things that you’ll want in the next two or three weeks. Even if you can afford it, please don’t overbuy — we’re all in this together, and we all need groceries.

If you’ve already bought more than you need in a panic (and who could

blame you?) consider dropping off a bag of extras to the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee (STEAC) at 1712 Picasso Avenue, Suite D, Davis. (If you haven’t already bought food but want to help, you can make a donation to the Food Bank at https:/ /yolofoodbank.org) Once you’re all tucked in safe at home with your groceries, you can consider what to cook. Comfort food is grand: soup, macaroni and cheese, pot roast, lasagna.

I’m cooking extra and freezing a couple of portions of each dish in case we do come down with Coronavirus. No one likes to cook when they’re sick, and good nutrition is always going to help speed recovery.

Baking is also comforting. If you’re a fan of “The Great British Baking Show,” now is a great time to try one of those complicated recipes, which are available on-line. I’d suggest choosing a recipe that produces individual servings so you can freeze some rather than one of the “showstopper” recipes that make enormous amounts — remember, you won’t be taking baked goods to work to share.

Choux paste would be a great choice.

Here are a few recipes I’ll be cooking in the next week or two:

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Baking something like this cranberry bread can be comforting during times of stress.

Chicken Fricassee This is great served with mashed potatoes or noodles. Freeze extra chicken covered with gravy to help keep it moist. Serves 4.

Ingredients: 1 teaspoon butter 1 teaspoon olive oil 4 chicken legs, disjointed, or 8 chicken thighs ½ cup onion, diced 20 mushrooms, trimmed 2 cloves garlic, pressed 2 tablespoons flour ½ teaspoon dried thyme 1½ cups water 6 carrots, peeled and cut into 3-inch sticks salt pepper ¼ cup cream (1 teaspoon fresh thyme) Putting it together: In a heavy dutch oven or skillet with a lid, heat butter and oil. Dry chicken and add to fat.

Cook over medium heat, turning occasionally, until nicely browned. Add onions and mushrooms and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

When mushrooms and onions have started to color, spoon off excess fat from pan.

Add garlic and thyme and stir. Sprinkle flour over top and stir to mix.

Add water and carrots and bring to a boil.

Reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and let cook 20 minutes. Turn chicken and cook another 20 minutes until tender.

Remove chicken and vegetables from pot and keep warm. Increase heat to high and reduce liquid by half. Turn off heat and add fresh thyme and cream. Taste and adjust seasonings.

Cranberry Bread This is a quick batter bread. Avoid beating the batter, as it will develop the gluten and make a tough bread.

It freezes well, tightly wrapped, and is great toasted with butter. Makes 2 loaves.

Ingredients: 3 cups unbleached white flour 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoon grated orange rind 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs ¼ cup melted butter ¾ cup orange juice 1½ cups canned whole cranberry sauce ¾ cup roughly chopped walnuts Putting it together: In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Mix a little of the dry ingredients in with the orange zest.

Toss until zest is coated and bits are separated.

Stir into dry ingredients.

Mix eggs, butter, juice and cranberry sauce together and pour into the dry ingredients.

Mix thoroughly, then stir in walnuts. Spoon into two greased bread pans and bake in a 350-degree oven for 1 hour, or until

brown and a toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean.

Turn out of pans and cool on a baking rack.

Chili Cornbread Hot Dish You can substitute canned beans for the ground beef in this dish if you like. This dish will freeze very nicely after baking — just portion into individual servings.

Reheat in oven or microwave. Serves 4 generously.

Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef or substitute 1 onion, diced 1 bell pepper, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ teaspoon cumin ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 can (14-15 ounces) diced tomatoes, drained (fire roasted if you have them) (1 teaspoon hot sauce or to taste) 1½ cups grated cheese — I like smoked cheddar ½ cup cornmeal ½ cup masa flour 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon chili powder ½ cup sour cream 1/3 cup milk 1 egg 2 tablespoons vegetable oil Putting it together: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Cook ground beef in a large skillet until barely done, crumbling it well in the process.

Remove from pan and reserve. In the same pan, adding a bit of oil as needed, cook onion and bell pepper over medium heat until barely tender.

Add garlic, cumin and red pepper flakes and cook briefly to develop

flavors. Stir in tomatoes and hot sauce. Pour into oiled 8x8 casserole dish.

Top with cheese.

Mix cornmeal, masa, sugar, baking powder, salt and chili powder together.

In a separate bowl, mix sour cream, milk, egg and vegetable oil. Stir well.

Spread over top of cheese.

Bake about 20 minutes.

This dish will freeze very nicely after baking — just portion individual servings into Ziplocks or freezer boxes. Reheat in oven or microwave.

Julie’s Mom’s Comforting Potato Soup This is quick and easy, and possibly the most comforting food I know.

It doesn’t freeze, so only make what you want for tonight.

Per serving: 1 large russet potato, peeled and cut as for mashed potatoes 3 tablespoons coarsely chopped onion ¼ cup fresh or frozen peas (optional) 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon butter salt and pepper to taste Putting it together: Cover potato and onion with water and cook until potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes. (If using peas, add to the pot for the last 5 minutes of cooking time.) Drain carefully, so the onions don’t go down the drain.

Add milk and butter and heat gently until milk is warm. Add salt to taste and a good grinding of fresh black pepper.

— Julie Cross is riding out the social distancing at jacross@dcn.org or on Facebook at The New Home Ec. Reach out with questions or comments!

Wash your hands like a brewmaster L

ast week, I attended a small and specialized meeting of brewers in San Diego. I attended, though a little nervous, because our country was just beginning to practice “social distancing” and closures.

I’m glad a similar gig, planned to take place this week in Mexico, has been cancelled.

I enjoyed the San Diego adventure. The two-day meeting included four three-hour sessions; I did my thing in the first session. The last session was about marketing strategies and using social media and logo design and branding and whatnot, and went mostly over my head. The other two sessions were technical and excellent.

The expert who spoke about water was quite fascinating.

Water, for him, is not one part of an overall complex technology as it is for brewers; it is everything he does. He mainly serves the needs of the pharmaceutical and high-tech industries focusing on water treatments, recovery and reuse, but now finds brewers can also use his expertise.

He used the word “salinity” to describe the general salts content

of water. When brewers use that word they are more likely to mean specifically any sodium chloride present in water. That’s interesting to brewers because, in the right amount, it can benefit beer flavor. We do not hear much about that these days, but years ago, some brewers added sodium chloride (common table salt) to their brewing water to promote that positive flavor effect, which they called “palate fullness.”

Indeed many brewers and consumers used to add table salt to a glass of beer to improve its flavor. The salt shaker would move around the table as beers arrived.

I have not seen that in many years so imagine my surprise at a restaurant in Winters when I saw a young man shake salt into

his glass of dark beer. I was intrigued and asked him about that, because I was interested to know what benefit he perceived from doing that and who taught him to do it in the first place.

Turns out his grandpa taught him to add salt although he said that was originally reserved for what he called Hispanic beers (which was his heritage). He told me that although he was drinking beer from the Berryessa Brewing Co.he appreciated the extra “oomph” a shot of salt added.

At the San Diego meeting, the last session was devoted to a steady grind through required SOPs or standard operating procedures. It was then I realized why I wash my hands in a different way from that method advertised on TV. I wash my hands the way a brewer washes a tank before reuse.

There are some definitions worth mentioning first: For a brewer a “cleaner” is used to wash away dirt/microbes and then a “sanitizer” is used to kill those (now far fewer) microbes that remain. A tank must always be cleaned before it is sanitized.

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brewer might as follows: I’m OK with 20 seconds minimum of washing,but I use the time differently from the advertised method. First I do a vigorous prewash with soap and a hot rinse, maybe 5 to 7 seconds, followed by a re-soap and vigorous rewash for the remainder of the time. I use a brush around the nails because these might represent cleaning shadows and the brush imitates that mechanical impact so important in cleaning a tank. Now last (if I had some!), I would apply Purell.

There are simple mathematical explanations why this practice works well.In these days when everyone carries the first responsibility for their own health, and that of others around them, assiduously avoiding crowds to the point quarantine and thorough hand washing have to be to be the first lines of defense.

Maybe a shot of salt in your beer will help that medicine go down.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.

Furthermore, brewers use a system called CIP or cleaning-inplace. This has two aspects: powerful jets supply vigorous mechanical impact for thorough cleaning and tank parts that might cast a cleaning “shadow” must be removed for separate cleaning.

In a brewery the most common cleaner is caustic soda (lye, NaOH) in dilute solution and the most common sanitizer is chlorine. Soap is a cleaner for hands and Purell is a sanitizer.

Strictly speaking, therefore, and in a brewer’s view, Purell is not a substitute for hand-washing because it is likely much less effective on unwashed hands than on cleaned ones. The reason is that on unwashed hands there is a much higher load of microbes than on washed hands and the dirt can protect microbes from the sanitizer rendering it less effective.

Now, I don’t doubt that the specifics of microbes on the surface of a stainless steel tank in a brewery and on my hands is different in many ways, but the general principles will be the same. So I wash my hands as a

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Trustees to review SCIENTIST: Great atmosphere in class Measure G fallout From Page A1

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board will hear a staff presentation on the Davis school district’s current closure of all local campuses in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and also receive a somewhat gloomy new set of enrollment projections predicting a small annual decline in enrollment during the next five years, when the trustees gather for a regularly scheduled meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in the Community Chambers at Davis City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd. in Davis.

Earlier this month, Superintendent John Bowes announced the closure of all campuses in the Davis school district from March 16 through April 12 in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Similar district-wide school closures have been announced in Woodland, Sacramento, and many, many other Northern California school districts. On Thursday night, school district staff will update the trustees on “current and future plans to serve our students, staff, families and community” during the weeks when the local public schools are closed.

The Yolo County Elections Office is still tallying the thousands of vote-bymail ballots that were turned in on election day (March 3) at polling places, or arrived in the mail with a postmark date of March 3 (or earlier) during the

days immediately following election day. (This is a slow and laborious process that involves comparing the signature on the envelope containing the voteby-mail ballot against the signature on a postcard requesting a vote-by-mail ballot, etc.)

As of Friday, March 13, at 4 p.m. — when the Yolo County Elections Office released their most recent updated vote tally — Measure G had received a 66.33 percent majority of Yes votes ... achingly close to the two-thirds majority (66.7 percent) needed for approval of a parcel tax.

And in the announcement of updated (and still incomplete) results, the Yolo County Elections Office noted that “Many vote-by-mail, provisional and conditional ballots remain to be counted” ... a process that may involve additional days (or weeks).

The Davis school district has for some years received an annual batch of updated enrollment projections from the firm Davis Demographics (based in Riverside).

Currently, there are 8,537 students enrolled in the Davis school district.

The projections indicate that enrollment is predicted to decline to 7,982

by Fall 2024. That would represent a decline of 559 students — approximately equal to the enrollment at an elementary school. That decline will come in the form of fractional decreases in enrollment at every grade level around the school district.

SHELTER: ‘Prime time’ for mitigation From Page A1 recommendations,” said Carey.

If they’re not, a mandatory order may follow.

Carey said there is evidence the United States is following the epidemiological curve seen in hardhit Italy and China.

“What we’re seeing is kind of in unison with what they saw,” Carey said.

“So this our prime time to put as many mitigation efforts into effect as possible to see if we can make sure our curves and our death rates here in the United States do not climb to the levels that they did in those other countries.”

The city’s shelter-inplace directive followed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s comments Monday during which he said he planned to extend the Bay Area shelter-in-place guidelines statewide.

However, he stopped short of issuing an order.

He did direct that all gyms and movie theaters close and that restaurants limit service to take-out/ delivery meals only. In a previous directive, he also asked that residents age 65 and over and those at higher risk for serious illness stay at home.

On Tuesday, the city of Davis followed suit, urging people to shelter in place and, when out in public on essential purposes, to keep a distance of six feet from each other.

“This is a challenging time for us all, and we are asking residents to look out for their neighbors by practicing social distancing,” said Mayor Brett Lee. “The city is working closely with the Yolo County Health Department to encourage practices to keep the community safe and healthy.”

He also encouraged

residents to support local businesses — including by patronizing restaurants that provide take-out and delivery service — but to not gather in restaurant dining rooms.

Meanwhile, the Davis Police Department is temporarily suspending all bar and restaurant entertainment permits that allow for operation of night clubs downtown.

The resolution declaring a local emergency will allow City Manager Mike Webb to take a number of actions — including approving plans, awarding contracts, purchasing equipment and approving budget adjustments — without having to obtain City Council approval ahead of time, not unlike the system in place during the council’s summer recesses.

“It’s all about continuity of government, continuity of services,” said Webb.

“The resolution is about allowing us the ability to make very quick decisions without having to… get all the council members together and noticing a meeting,” said Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel.

Pytel noted as example a potential need to make an immediate purchase of items related to healthcare for members of the homeless community.

“This is a very prudent approach that we’re taking,” said Councilman Will Arnold, who along with Councilman Lucas Frerichs, called into the meeting Tuesday night while Lee, Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida and Councilman Dan Carson all sat at some distance from each other on the dais.

The council voted 5-0 in favor of the local emergency declaration, which will remain in effect until it is terminated by the City Council.

Paw U teaches about four courses per year — twice the average amount — including the popular undergraduate class, “Severe and Unusual Weather.” In addition to his high course load, he maintains an active research program focused on interactions among ecosystems, the atmosphere, animals and plants. He studies water loss ranging from 500-year-old forests to annual crops. His research helped develop a tool farmers use to manage water use. He also researches turbulence, carbon balance and gas exchanges that underpin climate change models.

Paw U loves the sense of discovery in his research, what he calls “that false pride that you’ve uncovered something that hasn’t been discovered in the history of the world, and finding new connections that haven’t been put together.”

He carries that love of inquiry into the classroom, where he goes out of his way to ensure his students are not only known, but also engaged. Minifeedback forms help him communicate with all students, particularly those who may not be as vocal or

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Kyaw Tha Paw U, UC Davis professor of atmospheric science, laughs during the March 11 class announcement that he is this year’s winner of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. even as facially expressive in class, so he can better recognize if they’re understanding or struggling.

A community of droplets Teaching prize winners demonstrate a life of service woven throughout their work, and Paw U is no exception. From K-12 educational outreach to partnering with the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and others championing underrepresented voices in STEM, issues of diversity and inclusion greatly inform his approach to life and teaching.

“Professor Paw U has achieved an exemplary record of teaching, research and service, and he is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in his teaching and mentoring,” said Helene Dillard, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

A native New Yorker, his parents were from Burma, a country where women kept their names and property rights when they married and which historically was less patriarchal than the United States.

His friends and experiences introduced him to the complexities of feminism and racism in society,

and he calls his awareness of these issues a “natural progression from my history.”

He weaves those concepts into class, choosing course content, scenarios and videos with ethnic and gender diversity in mind and ensuring his examples represent California’s demography. In one favorite classroom demonstration, he shows students how rainbows exist and how out of one color comes a diversity of colors.

It takes a community of droplets — hundreds of thousands of individuals — to get the rainbow we see.

Words that pop up again and again on his student evaluations: Nice.

Approachable. Helpful.

Passionate.

“When I first started my journey at UC Davis, I thought this class would be the least interesting course for my major, but Kyaw Tha made this course the most interesting one I have taken,” wrote a former student of his “Meteorological Measurements and Instrumentation” course. “There is no other instructor I have ever had who comes close to the level of effort Kyaw Tha goes through to ensure his students succeed.”

RESPONDERS: City looks to coordinate services From Page A1 where common areas such as the gym and break room are closed, shift briefings and other department meetings are conducted virtually, trainings have been canceled and reserve employees are working from home to reduce their exposure risk. Already sick? Stay home, workers citywide are told.

Front-desk hours, limited to 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the outbreak onset, are likely to cease, Pytel said.

Out in the field, police are responding only to emergencies and other highpriority calls, while others are referred to online services available here: https://www.cityofdavis.org/city-hall/ police-department. Officers also are following emergency medical guidelines that include both social distancing and use of protective gear such as masks, gloves and eye shields when engaged with people who are ill.

But calls for police service seem to be down in recent days, as “clearly there’s less traffic around town, and a lot of businesses are shutting down,” Pytel said. The city canceled event permits for St. Patrick’s Day, and local bars and restaurants that normally host celebrations for the occasion “reported they were cutting back.”

Meanwhile, City Manager Mike Webb launched an emergency

operations center to conduct twicedaily virtual meetings “so that department heads are regularly communicating, and we have continuity of services,” Pytel said. “Police, fire, public works, all the essential services, are all in pretty good shape.”

‘We are being careful’ In the city of Woodland, the fire department issued a Facebook post urging 911 callers — regardless of the reason for their call — to advise dispatchers “if you are experiencing any flu-like symptoms.”

Good advice, says Tenney, who noted that one of his crews recently responded to a vehicle accident where an injured party noted that much of their family was sick at home. Luckily, the crew learned this in time to take precautionary measures, including use of protective equipment.

The risk of infection is nothing new within the fire service, where requests for medical aid comprise a large percentage of the daily calls for service.

Tenney said while the department has seen a slight increase in illnessrelated calls, “the wave hasn’t hit yet.”

“We’re preparing for the potential of a surge of people who are sick,” communicating with local hospitals as they gear up for their own influx of

patients, Tenney added. “There have been people with flu-like symptoms, and we are being careful. Our hope is to keep it outside.”

At the city’s three fire stations, crews are keeping their equipment and close-knit living and working environments clean. Station tours have been canceled, and while firefighters still engage with the public, “still being friendly, we’re keeping our distance,” Tenney said.

“I’m hoping that with all these precautionary measures, this virus is going to move into a sterile environment and slow down,” Tenney said.

Until then, “I hope the whole county can come together and help people in need. I have faith they will.”

At the Sheriff ’s Office in Woodland, which covers Yolo County’s unincorporated area and both operates the county jail and courthouse security, staffing levels also are being maintained, Lt. Matt Davis said.

“Our entire staff is committed to public safety and, as first responders, we will continue to serve the community during this unprecedented time,” Davis said via email. “Safeguarding against infectious disease is something the staff of the Sheriff ’s Office is cognizant of every day and we will continue to utilize best practices and training moving forward.”

COUNTY: Patients OBITUARIES Birgitta Bernt Olsen isolated during care From Page A1 “The patient will be isolated until meeting recently released (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) criteria for discontinuation of isolation,” according to the county.

No additional personal information about the patient will be released, including gender and geographic location.

Early Tuesday afternoon, the county announced its fourth confirmed case, an older adult who recently traveled.

Like the previous case, this patient is monitoring symptoms and isolating at home and will remain isolated until meeting criteria for discontinuation.

According to CDC guidelines, individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, have symptoms and were directed to care for themselves at home may discontinue isolation under the following conditions: ■ Resolution of fever without the use of feverreducing medications and ■ Improvement in

respiratory symptoms and ■ Negative results of an FDA Emergency Use Authorized molecular assay for COVID-19 from at least two consecutive nasopharyngeal swab specimens collected at least 24 hours apart.

Patients with laboratoryconfirmed COVID-19 who have not had any symptoms may discontinue home isolation when at least seven days have passed since the date of their first positive test and they have had no subsequent illness.

Meanwhile, the county plans to discontinue issuing a press release every time there is a confirmed COVID-19 case “as the frequency of positive cases with the additional testing capacity will increase.”

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’ve been thinking a lot about “sustainability” the last few weeks and intended to write about it. But that would take me down a sort of dark road, and in these strange times I feel a need for something positive, lighter, hopeful. So here is some news that intersects with the climate crisis that fits that description.

The impulse to pull together in a crisis, to come together as a community in support of each other, of everyone in the boat rowing synchronously in the same direction towards the same destination, is fundamental to responding to that crisis. In the case of COVID-19, we don’t seem to have the same situation; instead, we are asked to practice social distancing, to isolate ourselves, in an effort to flatten the curve of infection while scientists pursue a vaccine. The strategy is appropriate, and it casts a spotlight on actions by individuals and businesses that aggregate into a community response.

One example of this is the decision, announced by the Edison Electric Institute, speaking on behalf of the energy utilities in the U.S., that many utilities have halted service disconnections, are waiving late fees and setting up flexible payment schedules for their customers. I don’t know who said this, or if the number is precise, but it has been claimed that a number of our fellow citizens exist with a significant financial vulnerability such that a loss of $400 in income could make the difference between having food and shelter or not.

Not having to worry about a utility bill is not an insubstantial thing for many folks. PG&E is one of the utilities that have placed a moratorium on service disconnection for both residential and commercial customers.

Also affected is the voting process. Gathering to cast a ballot at your neighborhood polling place is one of the activities disrupted by social distancing. A couple of states have already postponed their presidential primary elections, many are re-evaluating the historically common use of assisted-living facilities as polling places, and, given that the average age of poll workers is over 60, all are wondering whether they can continue to rely on elderly people to staff polling places on election day.

Most states (including California) permit any voter who wishes to vote by mail to do so rather than coming to a polling place. And currently, more than half do vote by mail.

Efforts to increase the number of vote-by-mail voters have the welcome benefits of convenience to the voter and reduced or eliminated reliance on senior centers for polling places and seniors needed as poll workers. Vote-bymail is something any of us can do to respond to social distancing and, as an unintended but important result, it means fewer vehicle trips and fossil fuels consumed on Election Day.

Next up in the positive news department, a federal judge recently rejected the Trump administration’s claim that California’s Western Climate Agreement with Quebec is, in effect, a treaty and therefore unconstitutional because states can’t negotiate treaties. The judge found that the cap-andtrade system is a nonbinding good-faith deal between two parties to further their mutual goal of reducing carbon emissions. Though not the final say in this state versus federal fight, since the decision can be appealed, it’s a major victory for California’s efforts to lead the way in the climate crisis.

Good news is also bubbling up on the subject of electric vehicles. Back in February, the city of Pasadena celebrated the opening of the largest EV charging station in the United States. It’s located in a parking lot in downtown Pasadena and includes 24 Tesla Superchargers and 20 more that can be used by other electric vehicles. These fast chargers can bring a car’s batteries to 80 percent in approximately 20-30 minutes.

While 44 charging stalls at one station seem like lot, and it is, a station in Norway recently installed 102 stalls. And Germany has established a National Control Center of EVs to both standardize the process so that charging is “as uncomplicated and natural as with a cell phone”: predictable, easy and efficient. Their goal is 1,000 quick-charging stations on routes favored by distance travelers. Tesla claims it has superchargers available to 99 percent of the population in the U.S. that can provide 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes, and more than 12,000 stations worldwide.

Closing the book (for this article) on electric vehicle charging, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission recently approved a plan by Portland General Electric that gives them what they describe as an “overall, North Star” direction for the company. According to the utility, “We see that there is a large market forming and a lot of investment on the auto manufacturing side.

Utilities like us have a role in making sure we get infrastructure out in a manner that benefits all customers and reduces costs to serve the vehicles coming.”

PG&E estimates that there are more than 25,000 emissions-free vehicles in its service territory and that this will grow to 100,000 by 2025 and “up to a million by 2050.”

Talk about getting ahead of the game.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@ comcast.net.

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ocial distancing with a good time? Get outside and take in our beautiful spring. Renew your sense of wonder while getting exercise and ecotherapy. Blooming bushes, bees a-buzzing, breeding and boisterously behaving birds and critter surprises are part of the nature scene.

Rarely seen birds are showing up like the beautiful orange varied thrush with a single loud whistle on one pitch then repeated on another pitch. It’s usually in the Pacific Northwest but posed for us at our First Saturday Bird Stroll near the Northstar Pond. Listen for the highpitched kweeeeee, kweeeee of our Swainson’s hawks returning from Mexico or Chile.

Bushtits have a nest, well camouflaged, hanging in the pine tree right over the path between the two North Davis Ponds. Male turkeys are displaying all over town. Western bluebirds and tree swallows have begun using the nestboxes on the North Davis Nestbox Trail that runs from the Veterans Memorial Building to Northstar Pond, and five new nestboxes along our currently being restored Upland Habitat on F and Anderson.

A bald eagle flying was reported by Carla Hunt on the outskirts of North Davis, and Judy Moores and Ann Halstad spotted two bald eagles flying overhead on Sycamore.

The native Sacramento Valley red fox might be in her burrow feeding kits now or perhaps they are already exploring the North Fork Riparian Habitat in South Davis. The whelping area in South Davis along the remnant fork of Putah Creek is closed off to walkers from February until the end of May to give the kits time to develop. Kudos to the City of Davis for this protection. Please always leash your dogs if you walk in the summer in the dry creek bed.

We have had the native red valley fox in South Davis for a long time. Tim and Marlene Ranstrom

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A mother fox forages in grasslands for voles, dragonflies, rodents for her kits.

have been watching them since 2006 and eventually built a house along the Putah Creek Remnant and began keeping a fox log.

The Ranstroms made their yard fox-friendly with no fence and water in a fountain. They can go months without seeing them and then, there they are.

They usually spot the kits in May. In June 2018 they spotted seven foxes together.

The red foxes in this area were once thought to be nonnative descendants of captive foxes from fur farms, however, thanks to work of B.N. Sacks et al from UC Davis through DNA research they know that the native Sacramento Valley red fox is endemic to the northern part of our Central Valley. They look more dog-sized but are really only the size of a house cat.

They eat rodents, dragonflies, rabbits, insects.

They are no danger to cats.

(But cats are a big danger to birds.) And if you are in their area, you may hear them as they make as

many as 40 sounds from barking to a mating season scream.

We also have the gray fox in Davis — or did.

Steve Brown, Ed Winn, Maria Sargent and her son have all spotted them. Steve tried to have a conversation with one and so it turned around twice, long enough for him to take a daytime photo.

Steve watched it climbing out of a tree and munching an ornamental pear. Sadly, they haven’t been seen by those folks since 2009. If you happen to spot either gray or red fox, please let me know.

If you see a dog not on a leash, look again and see if it has a long, bushy tail carried horizontally. The gray fox is mostly gray with reddish parts on the neck, back of ears and across the chest. The cheeks, throat and inner ears are white. It is the only member of the dog family that can climb trees.

Red foxes are rusty all over with a white-tipped tail.

Gray foxes have black tips.

There are 13 named subspecies of red fox and many non-native populations. The foxes need grasslands to flourish with denning close to human development which affords protection from coyotes.

We have a 65% decline in valley grasslands so there is concern for this species

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These two fox kits were photographed on the Putah Creek Remnant. The Sacramento Valley red fox dens there and paths are closed until May 31, during the whelping time, to allow them to thrive.

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and they are experiencing a population decline.

Never feed them and avoid the use of rodenticides. It’s a thrill to catch a glimpse of one.

You can volunteer with Friends of North Davis Ponds to restore habitat on Thursday, March 26, from 9 a.m. to noon at our new Uplands Habitat on F and Anderson Road. We will follow the city rules, limit the numbers, have social distancing and not share equipment. We will be putting in native plants.

Register in advance by email: JeanJackman@ gmail.com to learn complete rules, tools to bring, participation guidelines.

Enjoy our spring, new rain, wildlife and outdoor times — and kiss each day.

— Jean Jackman is a Davis resident. Her column occurs on the third Wednesday of each month.

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The tree swallow is one of the species using the 20 new nestboxes on the Nestbox Trail that stretches along the Covell Greenbelt and the new Uplands Habitat.

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The tiny bushtit made this well camouflaged nest in the pine tree hanging over the sidewalk between the two North Davis ponds.

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The athletic world folded so quickly W

e are now about a week into the total absence of sports in our community and in our country.

Surprisingly, I’ve heard very little dissent from those most directly affected, which is an encouraging sign that almost everyone is taking the coronavirus threat seriously.

It was only eight or nine days ago that many of us were concerned that the Sheldon High boys basketball team was not going to be able to play its scheduled game in the CIF playoffs, something that seemed incredibly unfair to this collection of talented young men and their dedicated coaches and fans. It

also seemed to be a decision made in haste.

Turns out, the folks in Elk Grove were ahead of the curve in a way many others should have been.

True, Sheldon was allowed to play and won its game on a lastminute basket, but then the whole tournament was scrapped before Sheldon had a chance to compete for the state championship.

I never thought I’d see the NBA suspend its season or the NCAA cancel March Madness, especially on very short notice, but those folks turned out to be bold leaders in this crisis rather than reluctant followers.

It was especially gratifying

that Kansas and Duke, two perennial men’s basketball powers, announced they were pulling out of the Big Dance before the NCAA canceled the whole thing.

Especially impressive given that Kansas was ranked No. 1 heading into the postseason. Again, they were leaders, not followers.

Soon thereafter, we saw the NCAA extend the cancellations to all spring sports. Local high schools put everything on hold.

Major League Baseball pushed back the start of its season to a date uncertain.

National Hockey League arenas went dark just a few days after that heartwarming story about the Zamboni driver who became a celebrated NHL goalie for one night only. Reminded me of that long-ago TV show, “Queen for a Day.”

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t’s interesting that the NCAA called a halt to things just as the men’s and women’s basketball seasons were reaching their climax.

It’s also interesting that of the 353 teams that play Division I men’s basketball, every one of those teams, except for the champion, was guaranteed to end its season with a loss. Unless it was invited to the NIT and managed to win that second-tier tournament.

The same for the 351 teams that play women’s Division I basketball.

Because of this, winning a conference championship has become almost meaningless, other than where it means a team will be seeded in the conference tournament or the

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BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Weekend directives from California Governor Gavin Newsom — repeated again by the former San Francisco mayor on Monday night — induced a domino effect that has many local gyms announcing temporary shutdowns.

One of the last student fitness centers in the University of California system to do so, the UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) announced late Monday night that its doors would be closed effective Tuesday, March 17.

UCD officials said that shuttered until further notice will be all arms of Campus Recreation, including Davis’ student fitness center on the UCD Medical Center campus in Sacramento, all Outdoor Adventures activities, sports clubs, recreation sports, the UCD marching band and all aquatics programs. Davis’ Schaal Aquatics Center had been closed last week following UCD intercollegiate athletics’ announcement that it would be suspending the seasons of all spring sports.

In a social-media storm Monday, a handful of local gyms also communicated their intent to close, at least temporarily, in an effort to limit transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

Longtime Davisite Yijie Ge is a founding partner of Davis Strength and Conditioning, which recently relocated to a larger space on L Street after years on Spafford Court in East Davis. He says his gym will be closed

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The door to the Davis Little League’s umpire office and snack shack is locked, and players are staying home due to the coronavirus.

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Davis Little League, AYSO and DYSA seasons suspended

BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG Enterprise stafaf writer Several youth sports organizations have announced they will suspend their seasons in response to the spread of COVID-19.

The decisions by Davis Little League, Davis Youth Softball Association and AYSO came in quick succession.

Last Wednesday, AYSO pulled the plug on all play after the Area 2D office (of which Davis is a part) said “all AYSO

activities are suspended until further notice.” The local soccer league also consulted with the Yolo County Department of Public Health.

Thursday night, the DLL board decided to cancel all games and practices until April 13.

DYSA echoed the decision on Friday, as did DJUSD, which canceled all in-person classes and athletics events until April 12.

The decision to cancel games, practices and team meetings by

DLL, DYSA and AYSO affects more than 1,300 youth athletes and their families.

Little League serves the most kids out of the three, with almost 700 enrolled ballplayers. Youth soccer counts 485 kids as part of its program, and softball serves around 240.

Major sports such as MLB and NBA offered a distraction in the midst of an anxious time, at least before those leagues also suspended their seasons last week.

Youth sports’ absence may

leave an even bigger hole.

“I think sports are something that gives kids a sense of normalcy, especially with school closures” said AYSO commissioner-elect Sara Hawkes. “And so we are obviously taking these steps for everyone’s health and safety; we have a lot of multigenerational families. It’s not just a consideration for the players health, but also the health and well-being of their families.”

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No surprise, DE sports scales back for now Enterprise staff As the effects of the coronavirus spread, impact on newspapers has been difficult to get a handle on.

For The Davis Enterprise sports staff, most writers are furloughed and pages have been scaled back while athletics at UC Davis and Davis High, recreational activities and youth sports have been canceled or suspended.

“So many elements have figured into this difficult decision,” says Enterprise editor Sebastian Oñate. “We’ll continue with most

of our standby features like columns from Bob Dunning and sports editor Bruce Gallaudet, features on local personalities, whether they be near or far and, of course, all the latest developments as they relate to the reinstatement of sporting events, precautions over the COVID-19 pandemic and other pertinent information that hopefully will help get our readers through this difficult time.”

Oñate says adjustments in the newspaper’s schedule, coverage and number of pages could be

affected over time and “our readers will be kept apprised of exactly what those things will be.”

Editors’ hours in sports also will be scaled back until further notice. Gallaudet says he hopes to able to provide periodic assignments to affected staff.

“This is no one’s fault. How to handle this environment is problematic. Because of the virus Enterprise employees have been urged to work from home as much as possible,” continued Gallaudet. “Our sports staff has a good working relationship with

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“It’s pretty much a shock to us all going from covering 25 programs at the university, another plus-25 at the high school and the myriad youth and club sports to having virtually no competition, or even practices, going on,” added Gallaudet.

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“Like everyone around the world, we want everyone to be safe — protected from this virus,” says Gallaudet. “I’ve been impressed with how quickly our campus and local school administrations have dealt with this wicked dilemma. Understand, none of knows what the future holds as to when normalcy returns.”

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ow employers and employees handle the coronavirus and its implications will be highly dependent on the nature of your business. As you consider confronting and navigating widespread uncertainty, you should be aware of some of the basic legal ramifications.

Can I tell my employee not to travel on vacation?

As a basic premise, you cannot prohibit legal activity outside of work. This means you cannot tell your employee not to go on vacation – whether it is for a family trip to Italy, or spring break in New Orleans. You can of course educate them on the risks, including not being allowed back into the U.S. when returning from a foreign trip.

How do I handle an employee returning from a trip?

You can establish guidelines for employees returning from travel — whether personal or business related. These rules can range from mandatory quarantines, to self-monitoring, and should be based on travel from or to CDC declared hazard zones,coupled with whether employees are symptomatic.

You can also ask employees what countries they visited to determine exposure risks — such questions would not constitute the more regulated “disabilityrelated” inquiries. Employees returning from zones that are not restricted by the CDC should not be targeted. Instead, employers should follow the same guidelines as they would for anyone else: if an employee appears sick at work, of course you can require them to go home.

Can an employee refuse to come to work because of general concerns over infection?

Generally, no. Federal law states that an employee can refuse to work only if they believe they are in “imminent danger,” which is defined pretty narrowly (e.g., exposure at work to toxic substances that would result in death or serious physical harm). At present, the general virus outbreak does not

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What if an employee wants to wear a mask in the workplace?

It is mostly up to the employer whether or not to allow an employee to wear a mask. Per the CDC, only those who are infected should wear a mask — but then they shouldn’t be at work anyway.

The local schools or day care closed — do employees have a right to stay home?

Consider your leave policies and whether they can be used for such eventuality (e.g., sick leave, or PTO). If a worksite has 25 or more employees, Labor Code 230.8 may also provide up to 40 hours of leave per year for “school-related emergencies” which include closure by civil authorities. This would constitute unpaid leave, unless the employer policies provide otherwise.

Note that the employer can require that paid time off be used before unpaid leave is used — although they can’t require sick leave to be used.

An employee appears sick.

What do I do?

You should do what you would normally do with any other employee who appears sick — send them home to get better.

Sending an employee home when they exhibit contagious illness symptoms does not violate laws restricting disability-related actions. But that doesn’t mean you can ask broad medical questions of the employee. You also cannot demand to check the employee’s temperature.

The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) restricts the type of inquiries you can make into an employee’s medical condition unless you can show that the questions are job related and have a business necessity, or you believe the employee poses a “direct threat” to the health or safety of others that cannot otherwise be reasonably eliminated.

Do I need to pay an employee I send home mid-day because of illness?

Generally, if a non-exempt employee reports to a scheduled shift and is sent home before the shift is over, they must be paid “reporting time pay.” Note that reporting time pay does not apply if business cannot be run because of a recommendation by civil authorities to cease operations (e.g., a specifically worded “state of emergency” declaration).

Exempt employees who perform any work during a week must be paid their full weekly salary.

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hat if an employee is quarantined — do I need to pay them?

Where quarantine is recommended by local government authorities, paid sick leave must be provided if available to compensate for quarantine and other preventative care. But the employee cannot be forced to use such leave. If sick leave has been exhausted, or if other available leave — like PTO — is available, an employee can choose the leave they want as long as the leave policy allows for that.

If an employee is required to be quarantined, consider whether any work can be done remotely, or if time off work is the only solution. Telecommuting — where it makes sense from a work standpoint — has been held to be an effective infection control strategy and can be used as an appropriate accommodation where warranted.

While coronavirus is generally temporary, and therefore it normally wouldn’t trigger a disability discussion under the ADA, during the influenza epidemic years ago it was held that employees who are in fact disabled and would be placed at high risk of complications because of the virus outbreak could request telecommuting as a reasonable accommodation.

If no work can be done at all, the earlier stated rules regarding exempt and non-exempt employee pay will be applicable.

In any event, the time you require an employee to be away should be reasonable, so basing your policies on CDC guidelines and declarations will provide you

some level of protection.

Does Paid Family Leave (PFL). Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), or the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) apply in any way?

If an employee can’t work because they are taking care of a quarantined or ill family member, they can file a PFL claim with the state. This can provide up to six weeks of benefit payment where there is a total or partial loss of wages (usually 60-70% of wages).

Depending on the employer size, FMLA and CFRA may also be applicable — while it does not provide wage replacement, it protects the employees’ job while they take care of themselves or a family member with a “serious health condition.” Note however that this does not give an employee the right to stay home simply to avoid getting sick.

How about Disability Insurance (DI)?

Disability insurance — a state provided safety net — can provide partial wage replacement (also about 60-70% of wage) as a short term benefit to employees who are certified by a medical professional to have been exposed to the virus and who are unable to work because of such exposure.

When does Unemployment Insurance (UI) kick in?

If an employee’s hours are reduced or an employer has to close operations, UI can likewise provide partial wage replacement. This is true even if the reduction or shut down is temporary, and folks are expected to return to work.

Can I require older employees to stay home — for their protection?

No. Employers need to be careful not to discriminate against their employees.

Whether due to age, medical condition, national origin, or any protected class — you cannot institute policies that target one group versus another.

It is critical to educate your work force, including supervisors, as to impermissible conduct (e.g., they can’t ask an employee as to the origin of family visitors who are staying with them at their home).

LETTERS Assisted-living facility scams In an assisted living facility, there is a base rate every resident pays. In addition, residents may be charged for extra caregiving services, such as someone to help them bathe/get dressed. The price is not cheap for either one. Base rates can be approximately $3,000 and up per month. Additional services can cost $1500 or more a month. We are not talking chump change here.

Residents of assisted living facilities need to beware of the shady practice of tacking on add-on services that are not needed, wanted or provided. These residents may be told blatant falsehoods, e.g. according to regulations a wife cannot push her husband’s wheelchair to the dining room, only a hired caregiver from the facility must do it.

When the wife tries to have a conference with the facility’s director about these unnecessary services, she cannot get anyone to have a private discussion. All she receives is a vague “no can do” in the hallway, and then is dismissed out of hand. If the couple refuse to pay for the extra services, they are threatened with eviction.

These tactics are blatantly illegal, according to state and federal regulations.

Assisted living residents have the right to refuse any extra services as long as it does not interfere with the safety of themselves or others. They also have the right to request a private conference about their health care needs, and must be very much a part of the decision-making process. And they cannot be retaliated against for exercising those rights.

As consumers, assisted living residents do have power. They should not be made to feel helpless in the face of such illegal tactics. One solution, which my clients availed themselves of, is to move to another assisted living facility. There are plenty around.

Residents can also file a formal complaint with the state ombudsman, the California attorney general or the state of Continuing Care licensing board. No assisted-living resident should put up with being taken advantage of, especially by facility personnel who know better.

Elaine Roberts Musser Davis

Prevention is necessary A condition, a problem or a crisis? The coronavirus is new to us. In China and Italy, it has become a crisis. So we can see how bad it can get. Here,

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prevention is necessary.

We must accept the disruption in our daily lives to prevent reaching a crisis stage. Social shutdown may create an economic crisis, but do we have a choice? An economic crisis would occur anyway if the virus rises to a crisis stage in our country.

Marv Tripp Davis

Volunteering our time Classes moving to Zoom, daycares closed, elementary and middle schools sending their students home … Some working remotely, others going unpaid, and millions of healthcare workers working around the clock. And for some, like university students, we type away when we are called, scroll through constant news updates, and hopefully have a hobby away from the screens.

As a master’s student at UC Berkeley’s

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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

School of Public Health, I cannot help but feel like there is more that I can be doing to assist those suffering most from this pandemic: suffering not only physically, but financially, and emotionally. The economic, social and emotional burdens have become an entirely new pandemic in response to the worldwide spread of COVID-19.

I live in a stable household with filtered water, a stocked pantry, working wi-fi, and an enclosed backyard. I am also a 20-something year old with a strong immune system. I am doing research remotely, and have money in my savings account to support myself. I have a lot of downtime, and watching Netflix has already gotten old. Hobbies like art, music and dance keep my emotional states level, but I feel as though these activities could be done with a child whose parent is forced to continue working.

I am not the only university student who has extra time on my hands, or the only one who grew up babysitting and nannying. I am committed to making a difference in the field of public health; the interventions we generate now are those that will determine the health and wellbeing of children.

I am advocating for university students to offer their free time to take care of the kids of healthcare workers, breaking their backs amid the spread of this virus.

Students who do not rely on school resources to get through the day make up a large portion of the university’s population; for many of us, we are studying topics that relate directly to the issues this world has presented. This is an opportunity to step outside of ourselves and offer our time to those who are putting themselves at risk.

Roselyn Paratore Davis

Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; email: visit https://www. harris.senate.gov/content/contact/senator

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/

hat are privacy concerns I need to think about?

If there is exposure in the workplace, notify all potentially impacted employees (e.g., all those who worked closely with the individual during the prior 14 days), as well as relevant clients/vendors, while maintaining the identity of the infected employee private (unless you have permission otherwise).

If any employee is working from home — whether as a preventative step, due to their own illness, or to care for a family member — do not publicize the reason why the employee is out of the office. Remember that medical information is protected — keep all relevant documents separate from the employee’s personnel file.

How do we get through this?

The bottom line is not to panic. Employers and employees need each other now, and will need each other in the future.

Legalities aside, steps should be taken to reduce spread of any contagion. To the extent remote work is possible, that should be implemented, encouraged, and even incentivized.

Employers should consider furloughs and pay reductions before permanent layoffs, and provide assistance with unemployment and disability claims.

If your physical workspace allows for it, consider changes in layout to provide for more separation.

Leave policies should be reviewed and flexibility added to help ride out this period of uncertainty — consider relaxing vacation vesting requirements, providing additional vacation and sick leave, providing unpaid leave, and not requiring a “doctor’s note” to justify absences.

Resist the urge to go with impulsive reactions and instead take things day by day.

If you need specific advice as to your own circumstances, research the law or speak with a trusted attorney.

— Raphael is a partner at Moore & Moore, a law practice in downtown Davis. He can be reached at thelaw@mytrusted lawyer.com or at 758-8317.

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CITY OF DAVIS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Davis City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, at a meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Chambers located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, to consider an ordinance adopting Yolo County’s code regarding Tobacco Retail Permits as amended for local necessity.

DESCRIPTION: As part of its tobacco regulations, the City previously adopted the County of Yolo’s tobacco retail licensing ordinance, which requires tobacco retailers to obtain a local permit to sell tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia, and allows for the suspension or revocation of the permit for a violation of any tobacco control law.

In 2016, the County amended its tobacco retailer permit regulations to prohibit licensed tobacco retailers from selling, offering for sale, or exchanging flavored tobacco. In furtherance of its substantial interest in regulating the sale and use of tobacco products, the City is proposing to adopt and incorporate by reference the County’s 2016 amendments to the County Ordinance to clarify that licensed tobacco retailers cannot sell, offer for sale, or exchange flavored tobacco within the City limits.

AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS: Certified copies of the complete text of the above ordinance may be read in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California and/or a copy may be obtained from the office at a nominal charge.

Staff reports and any companion documents will be available for review at the City Clerk’s Office or online at http:// cityofdavis.org/city-hall/city-council/citycouncil-meetings/agendas. Staff reports for public hearings are generally available 5 days prior to the hearing date.

PUBLIC COMMENTS: All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing to provide oral comments or send written comments to the City Clerk’s Office or via email to clerkweb@ cityofdavis.org no later than the close of the public hearing.

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 only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Zoe Mirabile, City Clerk 766

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-361 1. Jason Kyle Bethel filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Jason Kyle Bethel to Jason Kyle Tracy 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: May 11, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: 9 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 27, 2020 Stephen L. Mock Judge of the Superior Court March 11, 18, 25, April 1 767 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Arleigh Hudspeth

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CASE NO. PB20-6 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Arleigh Hudspeth A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Sue Hostman previously, Sue Wiscombe in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Sue Hostman be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 30, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on February 25, 2020, the City Council of the City of Davis, introduced, and on March 24, 2020, the City Council shall consider adopting the following entitled ordinance: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS, AMENDING CHAPTER 34 OF THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE TO AMEND ARTICLE 34.06 AND TO ADOPT AND INCORPORATE BY REFERENCE CHAPTER 15 OF TITLE 6 OF THE YOLO COUNTY CODE REGARDING TOBACCO RETAIL PERMITS AND THE SALE OF FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS The following description summarizes the aforementioned ordinance to be adopted by the City Council: As part of its tobacco regulations, the City previously adopted the County of Yolo’s tobacco retail licensing ordinance, which requires tobacco retailers to obtain a local permit to sell tobacco products or tobacco paraphernalia, and allows for the suspension or revocation of the permit for a violation of any tobacco control law.

In 2016, the County amended its tobacco retailer permit regulations to prohibit licensed tobacco retailers from selling, offering for sale, or exchanging flavored tobacco. In furtherance of its substantial

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Have you lost a pet? Do you want to help shelter animals get back home?

Please join the Yolo County Lost and Found Pets Group on Facebook at facebook.com/gro ups/yolopets

Business is located in Yolo County.

333 F Street, Suite C Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip KSS Cleaners 333 F Street, Suite C Davis, CA 95616 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: January 1, 2019 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Kwang Sun Schrader President, KSS Cleaners Inc 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 780 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Filed: March 13, 2020 FBN Number: F20200274 The person(s) or entity listed below are abandoning the use of the following fictitious business name(s): Name of Business(es): Swansons Cleaners The fictitious business name was filed in Yolo County on March 7, 2017 and is being ABANDONED by the registrant(s) listed below: Kwang Sun Schrader 3056 Scotland Avenue Antelope, CA 95843 Corporation or LLC name & address and county of the principal place of business: N/A The business was conducted by: An Individual 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: Kwang Sun Schrader 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 781 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: March 5, 2020 FBN Number: F20200230 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Davis Pet Rehabilitation 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

626 Laurel Place Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Leigh Ann Lois Nilsson 626 Laurel Place Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 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): Leigh Ann Lois Nilsson 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 782 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: PT20-505 1. Elizabeth Maree Hare filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Elizabeth Maree Hare to Elizabeth Maree Griffith 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: May 20, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: 9 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 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME the following newspaper of general 25, 2020, the City Council of the City of STATEMENT circulation, printed in this county: Davis introduced, and on March 10, 2020, The Davis Enterprise the City Council unanimously adopted Filed: March 13, 2020 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 FBN Number: F20200275 the following entitled ordinance: Date: March 11, 2020 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Stephen L. Mock KSS Cleaners Inc ORDINANCE NO. 2573 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Judge of the Superior Court Principal Place of Business in California. 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 OF THE CITY OF DAVIS AMENDING 783

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interest in regulating the sale and use ARTICLE 18.11 OF CHAPTER 18 OF of tobacco products, the City desires THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE TO to adopt and incorporate by reference IMPLEMENT HOUSING RENTAL the County’s 2016 amendments to the REGULATIONS AND A RESIDENTIAL County Ordinance to clarify that licensed RENTAL REGISTRATION AND tobacco retailers cannot sell, offer for INSPECTION PROGRAM sale, or exchange flavored tobacco within The adopted Ordinance amends Article the City limits.

18.11 of the Davis Municipal Code to The above summary constitutes the codify requirements of Housing Rental major highlights of the proposed Regulations. The adoption of Article ordinance. A reading of the entire 18.11 would: document may be necessary to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance. • Amend definitions for Problem A certified copy of the ordinance may Properties and Program Fees. be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 • Clarify the accessory dwelling Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ exemption, if the main property is a or copies may be obtained at a nominal rental, both will be included in the program. charge.

3/18 776 • Add a provision that rental resource fees are owed by the property owner and not the tenant.

PUBLIC NOTICE • Invoice new rentals in January.

• Increase the penalty if fees are not paid within 30 or more days. If the penalty fee is not paid, the property owner could be CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY cited under the Administrative Citation provision in the Municipal Code.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February • Require a move-in inspection within five 25, 2020, the City Council of the City of (5) business days of the tenant(s) taking Davis introduced, and on March 10, 2020, possession of the unit. the City Council unanimously adopted • Clarify the waiver provision related the following entitled ordinance: to requiring a single-family rental unit owner/landlord to live within 50 miles ORDINANCE NO. 2572 of Davis or having a local contact to AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY assist on their behalf. The waiver may COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS be revoked if property owner does not AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS respond timely.

OF ARTICLE 40 OF THE DAVIS • Add definitions for Bad Faith and MUNICIPAL CODE TO UPDATE AND Disabled.

CLARIFY THE PROVISIONS OF THE • Require all rental units have smoke ZONING ORDINANCE TO CREATE A detectors and carbon monoxide MORE STREAMLINED APPROACH detectors.

TO ENTITLEMENT PROCESSING AND • Require owners give the tenant twentyPROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT four (24) hour notice of his or her intent IN THE CITY to enter the rental unit.

• Add a provision to address tenant The adopted Ordinance will: harassment, enforcement and penalties.

Amend Municipal Code Section 40 to update and clarify certain provisions to The ordinance further formalizes similar create a more streamlined approach to policy requirements that have been in entitlement processing and promote place for multiple years. For details on economic development . the requirements you can contact Stacey Winton, Media & Communications Officer • Definitions. Definitions of accessory at (530) 757-5661 or swinton@cityofdavis. dwelling units, director, kitchen or org. kitchenette, lot coverage, hazardous waste, useable open space, front and The above summary constitutes the major side yard and wet bar have been added, highlights of the adopted ordinance. A deleted or modified. reading of the entire ordinance may be • Non-Ministerial Dwelling Units. necessary to obtain a full understanding Although the State of California has of the ordinance. A certified copy of made provisions for approving accessory the full text of this ordinance may be dwelling units with a ministerial process, viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 the City of Davis is providing a process Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ wherein property owners could exceed or copies may be obtained at a nominal the state limitations by applying for a charge. discretionary permit.

3/18 778 • Attic Conversion Rules. The provisions for converting an attic space to residential PUBLIC NOTICE space were previously adopted by the City. Unfortunately, they were not placed in the correct section of the Code. This amendment will fix that.

• Laboratories. The amendment places CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY labs as a conditional use in the R-3 zone.

• Exercise Studios and Vet Clinics. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February The amendment places small exercise 25, 2020, the City Council of the City of studios and vet clinics as a permitted use Davis introduced, and on March 10, 2020, in the Commercial Neighborhood and the City Council unanimously adopted the following entitled ordinance: Commercial Service zones.

• Tolling of Land Use Entitlements.

ORDINANCE NO. 2574 The amendment places a provision wherein the expiration date of a land use AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS AMENDING entitlement (e.g. a Planned Development, CHAPTER 39 OF THE CITY OF DAVIS Conditional Use Permit, etc) shall be MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO tolled if litigation on the project ensues.

IMPLEMENTATION OF SB998, THE • Height of Accessory Buildings, WATER SHUTOFF PROTECTION ACT The setbacks for outdoor kitchens, Changing the approval authority for a Public Convenience and Necessity The adopted Ordinance will modify Permit from the Planning Commission Chapter 39, Sections 39.02 and 39.03 of the Municipal Code to gain compliance to staff were also included. with SB998, the Water Shutoff Protection The above summary constitutes the major Act. Key points from the new municipal highlights of the ordinance; to obtain code sections include updated policies a full understanding of its provisions a for discontinuance of residential water reading of the document in its entirety services due to delinquent payment; may be necessary. A certified copy of the provisions limiting discontinuance of full text of the adopted ordinance may services; reconnection fees; and proper be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 noticing requirements.

Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ or copies may be obtained at a nominal The above summary constitutes the major highlights of the adopted ordinance. A charge.

3/18 777 reading of the entire document may be necessary to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance. A certified copy of the PUBLIC NOTICE ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge.

CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY 3/18 779

Black sheep finding new pastures Dear Annie: I’m 20 years old and from New York. I’ve been in and out of my house since I was little. My mom and I would get into small arguments, and she would decide to send me to my dad’s house. This took a toll on me; I feel like she doesn’t want me here.

I came back a year ago, and she promised everything would change. But it’s still

the same, only worse. I want to go to college, but she won’t let me because she’s worried about how her rent would get raised because of it. To me, that’s not fair. I have an older sister, and she has already graduated from college. So why not me?

I feel like the black sheep in this house, and she wants me to get a job, but it’s so hard to find one. She thinks it’s so easy, but it’s not. I’ve had so many negative thoughts, but I won’t do anything because that would make me weak. Please, I don’t know what to do.

— Black Sheep Dear Black Sheep: The way your mother is treating you says everything about how she feels about herself.

You are 20 years old and sound like a thoughtful and capable young person. If you want to go to college, then go to college. Don’t let your unhappy mother spoil your dreams. The fact that you wrote this letter shows that you are on a path to success, strength and liberation from your mother. Continue to look for a job for yourself, not for her, and continue to look into ways to go to college for yourself and not for her. Ask your older sister and your father — and friends or counselors — for support in navigating this situation with your mom and the dark thoughts that arise.

Perhaps your mom’s worries are more about losing her youngest daughter than losing money on rent.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2020

Don’t panic, breakfast is still safe “I

get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name’s not there, I eat breakfast,” comedian George Burns once said.

Dying in 1996, Burns lived to be 100 years old. A year after Burns was born, The Davisville Enterprise — all four pages of a once-a-week flyer — was born.

In these past 123 years, The Enterprise has been the go-to torch in the community.

Whether it’s local news and features, thought-provoking editorials and opinion pieces, entertaining homegrown columnists, sports coverage or discovering the comings and goings of our neighbors, The Davis Enterprise has gotten the word out.

Originally owned and edited by L.A. Eichler, our proud publication went through a handful of ownerships before the McNaughton Family bought The Enterprise in 1967. Foy McNaughton, brother Burt and now Burt’s sonin-law Taylor Buley have been champions of what clan patriarch F.F. McNaughton always felt was the essence of journalism — fair, entertaining and honest community coverage.

The elder McNaughton — who earned a medallion as the outstanding graduate at his Columbia University 50th class reunion — and his wife Ceil for 60 years wrote a daily column at their flagship newspaper, the Pekin, Ill., Daily Times. His son Dean and, in turn, grandsons Foy and Burt continued the

legacy on the West Coast.

And while the world has changed, our commitment to the proven print ethics of the McNaughtons has gone unchanged. While each breath brings new challenges to the old ways of delivering news, The Davis Enterprise continued to grow online while providing a three-times-a-week publication that folks can still wrap their heads and hands around.

The fact is that The Enterprise woke up this morning and didn’t read its name on its own obituary page. It did notice that its sports editor was writing that the newspaper — in reflecting the attitude and psyche of its entire community — was sad and not feeling as chipper as it usually does.

The Davis Enterprise has been part of the city of Davis for more than 100 years. During that span, the paper has covered local events and provided readers with up-todate information.

The paper will continue to do so during the coronavirus outbreak.

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he coronavirus has shutdown the world. Some newspapers might feel they have nothing to write about — no entertainment, exercise venues are closed, sporting events are canceled far and wide, the economic news is horrid and that COVID-19 apparently is spreading.

The game-changing seriousness of November’s national election should be on the front burner. But it’s grandpas like me wondering when it again will be safe go play with my granddaughter. Is there enough toilet paper in the house? Does this headache I have mean anything?

If it wasn’t for local newspapers, how would we know

anything about the adjustments our business community, city government, health facilities and personnel and regional officials are making to keep us relatively safe?

In times of crisis, often this nation — certainly this town — has sports to fall back on. A little pressure release when the sky is falling. But not this time.

So, is this The End of Days? I wish I had F.F. McNaughton around to talk to about how he

worked through the tough times.

After all, wasn’t it in 1918 the H1N1 flu pandemic hit, killing as many as 50 million worldwide after infecting 25 percent of the world’s population? McNaughton would have had a calming hand with his first newspaper in Bicknell, Ind. It would have been a publication everyone turned to.

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imultaneously, there was World War I. Then the Stock Market crash leading into The Depression. On the heels of that, World War II then the advent of the nuclear age.

Somehow the people of F.F. McNaughton’s generation got through it all. Fortitude, patience and following the leads of the best and brightest came into play. Somehow, I think trust was in there somewhere, too.

While what you’re reading in your Enterprise these days may seem a little different, we hope it’s still important to you. With our staff working through this with renewed fortitude, there are challenges now and ahead that we are puzzling out. The hope is that you, our readers, will trust us and have patience along the way.

We’re all in this together, and as we at The Davis Enterprise support the community, the goal is that our community will continue to support The Enterprise.

It’s been 123 years and we have no thoughts of stopping now. In fact, I think ol’ F.F. would be pretty proud.

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

SUSPENDED: Leagues may push back play into summer From Page B1

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Fit Davis, above, and Schaal Aquatics Center, below, are just two of several Davis workout facilities to close their doors due to the coronavirus.

FITNESS CENTERS: Businesses are looking to re-open in April From Page B1 the next several days and likely have shortened hours moving forward.

Davis High and UCD graduate Josh Reese, another local gym owner, posted online that Performance 22 will cease operations through March 22.

Reese and another one of P22’s coaches, Sam Werth, intend to post workout plans on social media for their clients to track amid the shutdown.

Sevgi Leno, the owner of Balance Point, a popular downtown pilates studio on Fifth Street also announced intentions to close through March 29 in an Instagram post on Sunday.

Fourth-year managerial economics student Stephen Fallon works as a personal trainer and fitness-center attendant at the ARC. He says the Campus Rec team has been phenomenal over the last several weeks, managing social distancing and keeping equipment constantly clean for gym users.

“Our (assistant director) Reed Phinisey has been really on top of this coronavirus situation,” Fallon says, adding that his colleagues had more than doubled up on their usual sanitizing efforts.

“We even bought an industrial sanitizing machine,” Fallon adds.

However, Fallon and

many other fitness workers face uncertainty in coming days, as extended closures could mean large layoffs.

“We’re thankful because our bosses informed us we’ll be getting paid some for our time we were scheduled to work,” Fallon says. “And a lot of students depend on those wages.”

Spring quarter, however, remains up in the air …

“We don’t know if we’re going to lose our jobs or keep them, since the ARC doesn’t know if we’ll be open or not,” Fallon says.

Ge, the associate head coach of this past fall’s Delta League champion Davis High football team, provided some recommendations for those looking to stay in shape as athletics grind to a halt over what may be the next several weeks: “Nothing wrong with running and sprinting outside, while practicing social distancing,” Ge said.

“Add in body-weight

movements like push ups, squats and lunges to make a circuit-style workout.”

For those lacking any kind of weight equipment, the UCD exercise biology graduate, who holds a master’s in kinesiology from St. Mary’s College, says water jugs work great.

Cans of food and large bags of dog chow are solid dumbbell substitutes as well.

Notes: Prior to suspending operations, CrossFit Davis loaned out sanitized workout equipment to its members on March 10. Other local fitness centers that have reported plans to close or already have done so include: Rocknasium (through April 1), Davis Aquatic Masters, Get Fit Davis and its sister site Get Fit Davis Sport, Fit House (March 29) and YoloCrossFit (March 31).

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenter prise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

Among the three local leagues, Little League was the only one to have begun playing games. Davis softball canceled its Opening Day, originally scheduled for this Saturday.

The leagues are crossing their fingers that they can resume play in a month or so.

“We very much hope to resume the season,” said DLL president Rob Stevenson.

“But until we get some clarification on the extent of how long the quarantine, social distancing is in place, we’re not gonna set a timeline or a target.”

On Tuesday, the city of Davis advised residents to follow Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shelter-in-place directive.

Currently, the Centers for Disease Control recommend limiting gatherings of more than 50 for the next eight weeks, surely an issue for any youth sporting event.

Rob Stevenson According to DYSA president Carson Wilcox, DLL president the softball community was looking forward to field renovations installed at Mace Ranch Park during the offseason.

“It’s a disappointment on our end and (for) a lot of parents too,” he said. “So it’s been a lot of build up through the winter and early spring to get a lot of these programs set up for the kids and then just poof, everything stops.”

And parent organizations are suggesting a more drastic delay of games.

Little League International recommends that leagues “implement a temporary suspension/delay of all league activities until no earlier than May 11.”

Both softball and baseball leagues have discussed pushing their seasons into the summer, should the suspension and

COVID-19 threat drag on.

“I think we as an organization want to have kids play baseball as much as possible.”

Stevenson told The Enterprise. “So if we can extend the season further we will. If that means continuing into the summer, certainly that’s a possibility, we just don’t know yet.

“Along with everybody else, we’re doing our best to chart un-navigated water.”

“We might push it a couple more weeks into June if need be too,” Wilcox added of the spring softball season. “Just trying to figure out what we can do as a board to get the kids a little bit of time.”

All three league presidents also said their boards would consider refunding parents in the event the seasons are canceled.

According to a special announcement by AYSO National, “Some families will need to receive a refund soon due to economic situations. Parents who contact the AYSO office are being referred to their respective regions.”

AYSO also remains cautiously optimistic that its annual Davis World Cup, currently scheduled for May 23-25, will be playable.

“At the moment, we have made the Yolo County Department of Public Health aware of our event and we are working with them on contingency plans,” Hawkes said. “And we’re just gonna have to wait this one out to see whether that will also be canceled.”

For coaches, parents and athletes, waiting seems to be the only option.

Well, not the only one.

“Once it’s not raining all day long like it has been, I’ll set up the tee in the backyard,” said Wilcox, whose daughter plays softball. “We’ll throw the ball around just to get some wiggles out.”

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

“Until we get some clarification on the extent of how long the quarantine, social distancing is in place, we’re not gonna set a timeline or a target.”

DUNNING: Nowhere to swim From Page B1 NCAA bracket. Which makes me wonder if we’re putting way too much emphasis on the postseason compared to the regular season. Or even the true meaning, in a sporting sense, of each and every individual game, no matter its bearing on the postseason.

The other day I was looking at the TV sports listings to see if anyone was playing any sport at all these days. All I could find was professional “darts.” I am not making this up.

Yep, nothing like

watching televised darts to while away the 24-7 lockdown.

I remember when I was a little kid and some event I was looking forward to got canceled for some reason or another and my dad told me to “go for a swim or go shoot baskets at the school playground or go run around the block.”

It turns out we’re pretty much not supposed to do any of those things today, now that the virus has hit home.

We do have a basketball hoop over the garage, and I presume the kids and I and my sweetheart can go play a

quick pick-up game when no one is looking if we don’t let defenders get within six feet of the offense.

In the last few years, I’ve taken up swimming because it’s easy on the joints, but now I can’t find a pool that’s open between here and Vancouver and our bathtub is too small for serious lap swimming.

For now, I’m running laps on the living room rug, hoping to burn enough calories to justify dinner.

May this all soon pass for all of us.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenter prise.net.