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Newsom reaches deal with PG&E

BY JUDY LIN CalMatters In the middle of a pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off on Pacific Gas and Electric Corp.’s $57.65 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan Friday, after winning shareholder concessions and governance changes that he declared would be “the end of business as usual” for the state’s largest utility.

The company agreed to a number of changes, notably no shareholder dividends for three years and new oversight and enforcement mechanisms to redirect PG&E if it isn’t

reaching safety or climate change goals. The deal marks the end of a yearlong battle with a governor who had threatened a public takeover unless executives changed the corporate culture and investors agreed to take a financial haircut.

PG&E chief executive and president Bill Johnson said the company now hopes to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a timely manner. Under state law, PG&E needs to do so by June 30 to access a $21 billion state fund for compensating victims of wildfires, which is a key component of its financing plan.

“We now look to the California

Public Utilities Commission to approve the plan through its established regulatory process, so that we can exit Chapter 11, pay wildfire victims fairly and as soon as possible, and participate in the state’s wildfire fund,” Johnson said in a written statement.

PG&E filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2019, after being held financially responsible for a series of deadly and destructive wildfires in 2017 and 2018. Though many victims, insurers and bondholders had signed off on a reorganization plan,

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Local blood banks report urgent shortage

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Local officials from medical groups and blood banks have warned that the greater Sacramento region is on the cusp of a major blood shortage.

Vitalant, the United States’ second largest blood supply organization, issued a Level 2 alert this week.

“At Level 3, we’re telling hospitals they need to cancel or postpone certain procedures or stop using blood for them,” Vitalant

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senior chief medical officer for Sacramento Chris Gresens said Saturday.

The shortage could reach that level at any moment.

“So far, we can meet specific needs but that could change on a dime,” Gresens said, adding that a critical shortage could happen within 12 hours. “We’re telling hospitals to be ready,” he said.

Medical groups also issued warnings. “We are rapidly moving toward a severe blood shortage,” a Dignity Health representative at the Mercy Medical

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Center in Redding said Friday in an email to regional medical staff. “Due to the current restrictions and the up-coming crisis, we need to strongly consider conservative use of our blood supply.”

Blood donations are used for everything from elective surgeries to traumatic events like shootings and car accidents. “We can’t wait for the tragedies to happen before we donate blood,” Vitalant marketing and communications manager Drew Fowler said.

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“The blood has to be there and ready to go when patients need it.”

The blood shortage comes as schools, churches and other community groups have canceled blood drives, among other events, because of statewide shelter-in-place directives issued to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). According to Vitalant, these drives typically generate more than 60 percent of the country’s

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Thanks to COVID-19, participating in local government in the city of Davis will be markedly different for the foreseeable future.

There will be no packed community chambers at City Hall on Tuesday evenings, no lines of people waiting their turns to approach the microphone to weigh in on the topic at hand. In fact, nobody will be allowed in the chambers at all.

Instead, following the governor’s orders on social distancing aimed at slowing spread of the novel coronavirus, Davis City Council meetings will take place entirely online.

Members of the public will be able to participate remotely via zoom videoconferencing or by teleconference, allowed in either option to provide

public comment for all participants to hear.

Council members themselves will be participating remotely as well.

Similarly, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will kick off local governance in the age of COVID-19 on Tuesday morning with a board meeting that will take place via video and teleconference as well.

And while both the City Council and the Board of Supervisors will make their way through the myriad municipal matters they deal with regularly, the primary topic for both on Tuesday will be the coronavirus — its impact, the response, and measures local officials can still take to mitigate the impact on city and county residents.

Those measures include temporary moratoriums

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Police chief: Shelter-in-place orders get ‘good compliance’

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The images from across the globe seem surreal — major freeways, shopping districts and popular tourist destinations virtually deserted amid widespread stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders stemming from the coronavirus threat.

No less is true for Davis, where the normally bustling downtown grid — many of its businesses and restaurants shuttered or modifying their services to foster social distancing — resembles a ghost town.

“We’re seeing very good compliance” with the orders, Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said Saturday, three days after Yolo County health officials issued a countywide shelter-in-place order that Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded statewide the following day.

Still, Pytel said his department and others have received phone calls and emails questioning the seriousness of the order, prompting Yolo County’s public safety leaders to release a joint statement Friday reiterating the

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Briefly Fire damages W. Davis home Davis firefighters are investigating the cause of an early-morning blaze that damaged a West Davis duplex Saturday.

The fire, which reached second-alarm status, was reported at about 3:30 a.m. in the 1600 block of Colusa Avenue. Crews from the Davis, UC Davis and Woodland fire departments arrived at the scene to find flames shooting from the garage area, Davis fire Capt.

Roland Pussich said.

Residents were evacuated safety from the house and were not injured, though a neighbor in the attached residence was treated at the scene for shortness of breath due to smoke inhalation, Pussich said.

It took nearly an hour to fully control the fire.

The cause remains unknown pending further investigation.

“The origin was definitely in the garage area,” which bore the brunt of the flame damage, Pussich said. The remainder of the house sustained significant smoke and structural damage as well, he added.

West Sacramento and Dixon fire crews provided station coverage in Davis during the incident.

For the record Due to an editing error, Wednesday’s Per Capita Davis column by John Mott-Smith referred to Portland General Electric as PG&E. It is the Oregon utility that estimates that there are more than 25,000 emissions-free vehicles in its service territory.

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little more than a year ago, as the November 2018 mid-term election was staring us in the face, I went way out on a limb and said something like “The more people who vote, the better.”

That statement came sharply into focus for me this week as several states postponed their presidential primaries because of fear of the coronavirus. Hopefully, the virus will fade quickly and people in those states will be able to vote in a timely and meaningful manner, but there is no guarantee.

Let’s also hope that come November every person who wishes to vote in all 50 states will be able to do so with comfort and ease.

As much as I like to vote in person on Election Day, I praise the efforts of those who are trying to expand vote-by-mail in states that have so far been resistant to it.

But back to my incredibly profound statement that “The more people who vote, the better.” This sentiment was immediately challenged by several folks who called it “simplistic” and “foolish” and several other names not suitable for a family newspaper.

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I have long felt that voter suppression is one of the worst evils in a democracy. And that those who practice it, sometimes in subtle and devious ways, are guilty of a serious moral crime, even if their actions are not technically illegal.

I’m not sure what exactly raised their ire, but included in their response was the accusation that even I didn’t believe my own words if I were being honest.

Did I really want “everyone” to vote, they challenged, even if it meant my favorite candidates or issues would lose on Election Day? Well, given the current political climate and the intense divide that afflicts our beloved country, they have a valid point. Wouldn’t I be happier if all those people on the other side of the divide just stayed home, thus allowing my candidates and my issues to prevail?

No doubt, I’d prefer to have my people win rather than lose, but I’m still not ready to concede that maximum voter turnout is a bad thing. After all, someone who votes on the other side this time

DA vows to prosecute price-gouging

BY LAUREN KEENE

On March 11, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency proclamation with price-gouging protections in effect through Sept.

4. Yolo County District Attorney Jeff W. Reisig announced that his office will diligently investigate and prosecute cases of price-gouging for as long as Yolo County is under a state of emergency for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Reisig also encouraged Yolo County residents to report any instances of price-gouging when shopping for consumer goods or medical supplies.

California’s anti-pricegouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, prohibits raising the price of many consumer goods and services by more than 10 percent after an emergency has been declared.

This law applies to any person or business selling goods or services including consumer goods, food and drink items, emergency supplies, medical supplies, storage facilities, emergency cleanup materials

Enterprise staff writer The Davis Police Department, Davis Fire Department and Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office all issued the following statement Friday urging compliance with county and state shelter-in-place orders: “The state of California and Yolo County have issued stay at home orders to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

They are legal orders and the city is asking everyone

to comply with the spirit and intent of the orders, which is to stay at home to protect the public health.”

“We ask everyone take these orders seriously and to make smart decisions about whether leaving their residence is reasonable, necessary and essential activity under the orders. The orders can be enforced by our law enforcement officers, however, we would appreciate voluntary compliance.”

Stores add senior hours Supermarkets around the country are adding senior hours and closing early to deal with the impact from the coronavirus outbreak.

Nugget Markets designated Tuesday and Thursday mornings from store opening to 8 a.m. as hours for shoppers 65 and older and those who are at-risk due to health conditions.

The store on Mace Boulevard is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and the store on Covell Boulevard is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The Davis Food Co-op is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the first hour reserved for senior shoppers.

Safeway will reserve every Tuesday and Thursday from 7 to 9 a.m. for seniors and other vulnerable shoppers. The stores’ schedules have been reset to 7 to 9 p.m.

Save Mart is reserving Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 9 a.m. for seniors and guests with compromised health. It is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Target is reserving the first hour of shopping every Wednesday (8 to 9 a.m.) for vulnerable shoppers, including those over 65 years old, pregnant women or those defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as vulnerable or at-risk. The stores will close at 9 p.m.

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Violations of the pricegouging statute are subject to criminal prosecution that can result in one-year imprisonment in county jail and a fine of up to $10,000. Violators are also subject to civil enforcement actions including civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation, injunctive relief and mandatory restitution.

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t seems that in every national election as I’m watching the returns roll in on my television, I see scenes of “four-hour lines” at polling places in some major Midwestern city.

At first, I’m tempted to think that this is a good thing, because it appears that everyone is trying to vote. But in reality, what is going on is an intentional lack of polling places, which works to seriously suppress voter turnout.

Imagine the effect this scene will have on the 8-to-5 worker who had planned to vote after work, but doesn’t wish to wait three hours in line.

Those in charge of this intentionally inefficient and disenfranchising system will simply say “Hey, it’s fair for everyone,” even though it’s clearly aimed at a certain segment of the population.

Assessing how many people are

likely to vote, and how many polling places will be necessary to comfortably and reasonably accommodate those people, is not rocket science.

If it happens once, it can be excused as a mistake. But when it happens election after election after election, it’s intentional.

The city of Davis has relatively high voter turnout, but never once, no matter how heated the election, have I had to wait in line more than two minutes to cast my ballot. The last time I voted, earlier this month, there was no line at all.

In fact, most of the time there’s no line, but it’s not because people aren’t voting. No, there are no lines because we have a sufficient number of polling places to make it as easy as possible for people to vote. That’s as it should be.

Come November, take note of those states where you see long lines and other intentional roadblocks to voting. Then take note of which candidates benefit from those tactics.

Indeed, there’s a method to their madness.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Vitalant, the United States’ second largest blood-supply organization, issued a Level 2 alert for low blood supplies this week.

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“Hundreds of our blood drives have been canceled, leading to thousands of lost donations,” Gresens said.

“We have to make up for those somehow.”

Blood banks across the U.S. and beyond also face urgent shortages due to canceled blood drives. “In parts of China and here at home in Seattle, the blood supply is at the ‘lowest levels’ and is in ‘danger of collapse’ as groups have canceled blood drives and individuals have stopped donating blood,” a message on Vitalant’s website says.

To compensate for lost blood drives, Vitalant is encouraging individuals to donate. Extra precautions have been implemented at donation centers to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including checking temperatures and maintaining social distancing. Anyone

who feels sick should stay home, as should people who traveled to China, Italy, South Korea, Japan or Iran within the past month.

“Donated blood is a lifesaving, essential part of caring for patients,” the Centers for Disease Control and Protection says on its website. “CDC encourages people who are well to continue to donate blood if they are able, even if they are practicing social distancing because of COVID-19.”

There is no evidence that COVID-19, which is a respiratory infection, can be transmitted through blood, and Vitalant does not test donors for the virus. “This is not a backdoor way to get tested,” Fowler said.

Healthy individuals are encouraged to make an appointment ahead of time so that Vitalant can space out the flow of donors and avoid crowding.

“We have seen an outpouring of support from the community to come and donate blood, but we need it to be sustained,” Fowler said. “Blood doesn’t last forever on the shelf and there is no substitute.” If individual donations were to drop off over the next several weeks, local healthcare facilities could run out of blood for patients who need it.

“A lot of people are looking for ways to help right now. This is safe and it’s a great way to help,” Fowler said.

To make a blood donation appointment in Davis, call Vitalant at 866-8225663 or visit www.vitalant. org. Vitalant’s Davis site is located at 1801 Hanover Drive, Suite A, Davis, CA 95616.

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

Property taxes delinquent after April 10 Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County Tax Collector’s Office reminds taxpayers who own property in Yolo County that the second installment of 2019-20 Secured Property Tax, due Feb. 1, will be delinquent if not paid by April 10.

Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, the county encourages taxpayers to remit tax payments electronically via the web, by mail or automated phone system. Doing so will aid in achieving social distancing protocols

suggested by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

be postmarked no later than April 10 if taxes are paid by mail.

The Yolo County Department of Financial Services will be closed through April 7 to comply with Public Health Officer guidance.

Please visit https://www. yolocounty.org/DFS for additional information about office hours and changes.

Taxpayers now have the option of paying property taxes by electronic check (no charge) or credit card (plus a 2.25-percent convenience fee). These payments can be made via https://www.yolocounty. org/paytax (select Property Tax button) or by phone at 866-895-5027.

To avoid a penalty, property taxes must be paid by 5 p.m. on Friday, April 10, after which a 10-percent penalty and $10 cost must be added. Envelopes must

Payments made using either of these two systems must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on April 10 to avoid penalties.

gravity of the situation.

“The State of California and Yolo County have issued stay-at-home orders to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

They are legal orders and the city is asking everyone to comply with the spirit and intent of the orders, which is to stay at home to protect the public health,” the statement read.

“We ask everyone take these orders seriously and to make smart decisions about whether leaving their residence is reasonable, necessary and essential activity under the orders. The orders can be enforced by our law enforcement officers, however, we would appreciate voluntary compliance.”

For complete information about the shelter-in-place order, including permitted activities, visit www.yolocounty. org/health-human-services/adults/ communicable-disease-investigationand-control/novel-coronavirus-2019/ shelter-in-place The purpose of the order, Pytel noted, is to “flatten the curve” — reduce the virus’ spread and, therefore, the number of people requiring medical care.

That also means slashing the number of people who might seek hospital treatment for other reasons — such as injuries from vehicle collisions or other incidents — that may result from regular daily routines.

“We just don’t have the capacity to take care of everything all at once,” Pytel said.

He added that while Sutter Davis Hospital “seems to be doing OK,” Woodland Memorial Hospital already has cautioned law-enforcement agencies that arrestees needing medical care before going to jail are likely to see significant delays due to high demand.

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Meanwhile, officers are receiving reports of incidents that Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov said might otherwise “fly under the radar” — such as the person seen chasing others “and breathing in people’s faces” Thursday on a North Davis greenbelt. Police also continue receiving house-party complaints, which previously amounted to noise and traffic nuisances but now flout socialdistancing recommendations, too.

“Right now we’re handling them as normal calls for service,” Pytel said. “But if we have to start dealing with large parties, we’re going to have to start dealing with the people who are hosting them.

We’re hoping it doesn’t come to that.”

Police do have the option of enforcing the order with citations or arrests in cases of egregious violations, “but that’s kind of a last resort,” the chief added.

With first responders trained and prepared to do their part, “what we really need now is great cooperation from our community in order to decrease the impact that the virus has locally,” Pytel said. “As we come out of this, how we did here is going to be measured on how few cases we have here locally. If we lose control, we’re going to see a higher incident rate and likely a higher mortality rate.”

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The City Council also will consider allowing Davis residents to defer paying their utility bills through the end of May without fear of late charges or having their water shut off and allowing local hotels to defer payment of transient occupancy taxes given that those hotels sit largely empty right now.

City measures The statewide shelter-in-place order that has resulted in the shuttering of many businesses in Davis has also resulted in significant income loss for employees of those businesses, many of whom are renters.

“Further economic impacts are anticipated in the coming weeks and months, leaving tenants vulnerable to eviction,” notes city staff in the report for Tuesday’s council meeting.

“Such impacts are also expected to be felt by the city’s commercial tenants, most of which are now required to cease (or at least substantially limit) their operations for the duration of the pandemic.”

Under the ordinance council members will consider Tuesday, landlords will be prohibited from evicting a residential or commercial tenant if the tenant demonstrates an inability to pay rent due to financial impacts related to COVID-19.

Financial impacts would include being sick with COVID-19; caring for a household or family member who is sick; a layoff, loss of hours or other income reduction resulting from business closure or other economic or employer impacts; compliance with the shelter-in-place; extraordinary out-of-pocket medical expense; or child care needs arising from school closures related to the pandemic.

Both residential and commercial tenants “shall pay the portion of the rent that the tenant is able to pay,” according to the ordinance.

Additionally, the tenant is not relieved of liability for the unpaid rent, which the landlord may seek after expiration of the local emergency and the tenant must pay within six months of the expiration of the local emergency.

Also on Tuesday, the council will consider a resolution authorizing the city manager to provide fee deferrals and other economic relief from the effects of the pandemic.

Those include suspending city water shut-offs and new late fees for city services bills that include water, wastewater, stormwater and garbage services.

Normally, customers are charged a 10-percent late fee if the monthly bill

is not paid on time and water may be shut off after 60 days of non-payment.

City staff has proposed suspending late fees for residential and commercial customers through the end of May, with the option for the city manager to extend the resolution further.

“Customers are ultimately still responsible to pay their services bill … however, this action would provide temporary relief,” staff noted.

The city billed more than $4 million in utility bills last month.

Meanwhile, PG&E has instituted a similar policy voluntarily — a moratorium on service disconnections for non-payment, effective until further notice.

City officials also may give local hoteliers a break by allowing them to defer taxes they normally pay based on occupancy. Under the current shelterin-place restrictions, hotel occupancy has dropped from the typical 70 to 80 percent to 10 percent, according to city staff.

“Staff recommends allowing hotels to defer the payment of their transient occupancy tax through May … and to develop a payment plan and timeline for each hotel to pay the (transient occupancy tax) for that time period,” according to the staff report.

That tax is a critical revenue source for the city’s General Fund — providing about $2.2 million annually with the spring and early summer months generating the highest occupancy thanks to everything from Picnic Day to the Whole Earth Festival to graduation festivities.

However, with occupancy levels at unprecedented lows, staff notes, the revenue the city would collect this year would likely be quite low as well.

Tuesday’s City Council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. with several remote options for the public to watch and listen. They include: ■ Televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television) ■ Livestream online at https:// cityofdavis.org/city-hall/city-council/ city-council-meetings/meeting-videos 3. Joining the meeting via Zoom — from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device with high-speed internet, use https://zoom.us/j/ 695588537, Meeting ID: 695 588 537 To provide public comment: ■ Submit written public comments to CityCouncilMembers@cityofdavis. org. Emails are distributed to City Council and staff but to ensure the council has the opportunity to review information prior to the meeting, send emails by 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

■ Live remote public comments (available if joining the meeting via zoom). On a PC device with mic, press the “raise a hand” button. On a phone, press *9 to indicate a desire to make comment.

The mayor or assigned staff will call on speakers when it is their turn.

Speakers will be limited to no more than two minutes.

Board of Supervisors Like the Davis City Council, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning will consider a resolution temporarily restricting residential and commercial evictions and foreclosures in unincorporated areas of the county.

The resolution would suspend evictions caused by a decline in income or increased personal medical costs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and suspend judicial foreclosures as well.

Specifically, the resolution suspends through May 31 evictions on the basis of non-payment of rent arising out of a substantial decrease in household or business income or substantial out-ofpocket medical expenses, all of which was caused by the pandemic itself or the local, state or federal government response to it.

“Nothing in this resolution shall relieve a tenant of the obligation to pay rent, nor restrict a landlord’s ability to recover rent due,” the resolution states.

The resolution also calls on all financial institutions in the county holding home or commercial mortgages to implement an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and related evictions that were caused by a decrease in personal or commercial income related to the pandemic.

Tuesday’s board meeting also will feature an update on the spread of the virus in Yolo County and the county’s response.

As of Saturday afternoon, the county had reported six confirmed cases countywide, the latest being and “an elderly adult with chronic health problems” who has been discharged from the hospital and is isolating at home.

To participate in Tuesday’s meeting, the Board of Supervisors is providing the following options: ■ Live stream at https://yolocounty. zoom.us/j/678772526, Meeting ID: 678 772 526; or ■ Phone in via 1-408-638-0968, Meeting ID: 678 772 526.

Those joining the meeting via zoom who wish to make a comment on an item should press the “raise a hand” button. Those joining by phone should press *9 to indicate a desire to make a comment. The chair will call people by name or phone number to comment.

Speakers will be limited to three minutes.

“If you choose not to observe the Board of Supervisors meeting but wish to make a comment on a specific agenda item, submit your comment via email by 5 p.m. on Monday to the clerk of the board at clerkofthe board@yolocounty.org.”

From Page A12 Wildhorse owner Chuck Klein. “Everybody is going to be in this together.

“You’re doing a community service to stay open. I believe that.”

According to Klein, a prolonged closure of the course could result in Wildhorse having to lay off roughly 20 employees, doing so sooner rather than later so those impacted can have the chance to file for unemployment as soon as possible.

“We’re really proud of our people; we have a ton of different people out here who are great people,” Klein said.

“It really hurts that we’re going to have to lay people off. This is their livelihood; they’ve been loyal to us.”

And what has exacerbated the matter for the Davis Golf Course and Wildhorse is the fact that several other area courses, such as Haggin Oaks in Sacramento, have been allowed to stay open.

According to managers at both Davis courses, they had

received the green light from the Yolo County Health Department to continue to allow guests while using the aforementioned precautions.

“I ran through the precautions; we were adding more things as each day went on to make it safe for everyone,” Hansen said. “Initially, we fell under the case of outdoor exercise; as long as the county said it was OK, we were a go. But (Friday) the city told us that we couldn’t.”

Added Klein, “It’s frustrating to know that the mayor in Sacramento is a golfer and made it so all the courses there are open. I had three doctors here tell me that it’s ridiculous that we had to shut down.

“We’re an outdoor activity, (government officials) are promoting that,” he said. “I feel like we can make a strong case to be open. … We feel like we’re offering a safe product.

“But I want to look back on this and morally think I did the right thing.”

PG&E: ‘End of business as usual’ From Page A1 Newsom was the last holdout — worried that it would leave the company with too much debt and not enough changes.

In previous objections, he demanded the company oust its board and replace it with a majority of Californians, including experts on utility safety. Newsom also wanted a provision that the firm’s operating license be transferred to the state or a third party when required.

After months of behindthe-scenes wrangling, both parties agreed to a number of changes, notably: ■ No dividends to be paid to shareholders for the next three years, which amounts to about $4 billion forfeited.

■ About $7.6 billion in shareholder assets would be used to repay or refinance utility debt.

■ A board and executive team is in place that will prioritize safety.

■ State regulators gain greater oversight and enforcement powers.

■ A state observer will monitor PG&E’s safety goals before the company exits bankruptcy.

■ A transition officer will be appointed if the bankruptcy process is delayed.

“This is the end of business as usual for PG&E,” Newsom said in a written statement.

“Through California’s unprecedented intervention in the bankruptcy, we secured a totally transformed board and leadership structure for the company, real accountability tools to ensure safety and reliability and billions more in contributions from shareholders to ensure safety upgrades are achieved,” the governor said.

In addition, the state will have legal authority to demand further changes.

“We aren’t taking our foot off the gas,” Newsom said.

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

OBITUARIES Dorothy Julia Roeder Morrissey Jan. 29, 1935 — March 14, 2020

Dorothy Julia Roeder Morrissey of Riverdale, NY, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, March 14, 2020, in her Davis home.

She was born to Ethel Lytle and George Roeder at their home, on Jan. 29, 1935. She was the youngest of six daughters.

Dorothy graduated from Walton High School, then from Woods Secretarial School in Manhattan. She worked for Otis Elevator Co., Muzak Corporation and then at IBM. In 1959, she married Richard (Dick) Morrissey and in 1962, Dorothy and Dick moved to San Jose, where Dorothy soon became a full-time homemaker with three children. In 1973, the family moved to Davis.

Dorothy turned a hobby making porcelain dolls into a business by opening The

Dollmakers, a shop in Woodland, where she taught doll-making classes and made and sold dolls.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, Dick, who passed in 2017. She is survived by their three children; Debra Ariola and her husband, Dan, of Davis; Diane Gonzalez and her husband Miguel, of Woodland; and Richard John of Davis. She is also survived by grandchildren John and Joseph Ariola, Ann Gonzalez Crew and David Gonzalez; great-grandson Christopher Crew; and great-grand daughters Jayden Gonzalez, Annabelle Crew, Oriah Crew and Taylor Gonzalez.

The graveside service will begin at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25, at the Davis Cemetery, 820 Pole Line Road. A full obituary is online at www.smith-funerals.com.

Aloysia (Lois) Krein Aloysia (Lois) Krein concluded her earthly walk on January 23, 2020, just shy of her 95th birthday.

Lois was born in Wishek, N.D., to Joseph and Margaret Schaffer.

During World War II, Lois and her friend moved to Portland, Ore., to follow her boyfriend. They became welders in the local shipyard to assist in the war effort. She eventually married that boyfriend, Elmer Krein.

Together for 53 years, they enjoyed many adventures together; fishing traveling and enjoying time with their family. They lived in Portland, San Jose, Gering and eventually settled in Davis for the last 30 years. Elmer suffered a major stroke in 1984, Lois always the devoted caregiver, cared for him until his passing in 1999. She showed everyone the true meaning of “in sickness and in health.” Her strength and fortitude will be her lasting Legacy.

Most will remember her for the unmatched cooking and baking skills she possessed. Not only was her food loved and enjoyed by her family but friends of the family always left yearning for more!

The annual delivery of her homemade Christmas treats were always eagerly anticipated by her neighbors and friends.

She enjoyed going to garage sales, reading, canning, the yearly tradition of viewing Christmas decorations around town, catching up with friends and neighbors and visiting family in North Dakota and Portland.

A loving attribute of hers was greeting family by cupping our face when she kissed us. Sometimes we would place our hands over hers and embrace the bond we shared with her. It was always a special and unique moment.

She was preceded in death by: Elmer Krein (Husband), Ann Marie (Daughter).

She is survived by her daughters Karen Wilson and Kathy Cummings (Al); granddaughters Traci, Christi (George) and Debbie; and her great-grandchildren Hayley and George IV. At Lois’ request, there will be no services.

She was our angel and one of a kind and we will forever hold her close to our hearts. Rest well.

Lindsay Jaclyn Nedwin Jan. 20, 1988 — Jan. 24, 2020

Lindsay “Spinds” Jaclyn Nedwin, a 32-year old beautiful soul of light and love, left this earthly realm in January, after an extremely courageous 17-month battle against glioblastoma.

Lindsay was a beautiful, cheerful, funny, thoughtful, generous and loving daughter, sister, wife and friend. She put all her energy into the things that meant most to her, and made lasting connections with people of all ages and walks of life. She was a dedicated nurse, addressing her patients with “My Friend,” and often receiving letters from them and their families, thanking Lindsay for her loving and compassionate care.

Lindsay entered the world in January 1988, along with her identical sisters Allie and Elise, in San Francisco. She grew up in Davis, graduating from Davis High School in 2006, Colorado State University in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and CSU Stanislaus with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She worked at Desert Regional Hospital in Palm Springs and Sutter Hospital in San Francisco.

Lindsay loved her life. She loved caring for people, her career as a cardiology nurse, skiing, dancing and traveling. While

fighting for her life, she traveled to Hawaii, Disneyland, New Orleans, her beloved family cabin at Lake Almanor, the Triangle X Ranch in Wyoming where she loved riding horses in the Tetons with her family, and after her September 2019 wedding, she honeymooned in Switzerland.

More than anything else, Lindsay deeply loved her family, especially her beloved triplet sisters Elise Nedwin and Allie Smith (Jes), her parents Julie and Glenn Nedwin, her much-loved husband Eric Gonzales, her extended family, and many dear friends. In her last months of life, people from all over the country visited her.

The family will be celebrating Lindsay’s amazing and joyful life on a date to be determined in late April/early May. Please send memories, thoughts and stories to share to lindsayourlove@gmail.com before April 21. You can also send photos or short (30 seconds or less) video memories about Lindsay. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the American Brain Tumor Association (www.abta.org) and perform a random act of kindness in Lindsay’s memory. She would like that.

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here do I start? I have a few traditional Comings & Goings announcements in this column but even those have been affected by COVID-19.

When I considered how to best cover all of these business changes, I realized there was one key message: Your spending choices matter. Sure, it’s easy to shop on Amazon or order food from a big chain. And, yes, they have local employees, too.

But most of those companies will survive this. Small businesses may not.

With nudges and assists from community members, restaurant owners and social media, I’ve begun to compile a list of Davis businesses — especially restaurants — we can still support. The ones still open are limited to takeout and/ or delivery. And if they’re not, you might be able to get a gift card for later use.

This is by no means a complete list, so apologies to those omitted. Comment on my Facebook posts or email me, and we’ll build on it from there. Watch for more updates on my Comings & Goings Facebook page.

Diego Gonzalez, owner of Taqueria El Burrito in E Street Plaza, contacted me on Wednesday for help assembling such a list. He quickly added a form to his website for businesses to add their information, https://www.elburritotaq. com/lets-come-together.

The most complete list I found was the Google spreadsheet on the Covid19 Yolo Community Response group on Facebook, and the Davis Chamber of Commerce is starting to assemble a similar catalog. This column is limited to Davis to make it manageable.

My suggestion is to start with your favorites. Pick the ones who donated to your kid’s fundraiser, gave you excellent service or your favorite meal. Like your aunt, call and see how they’re doing.

I checked in with one of my go-to eateries, Village Pizza & Grill. Owner Aziz Fattah tried to keep it open for pickup and delivery but decided late Thursday it wasn’t worth it. Village Bakery remains open but the new Pizza & Pints is also closed.

It’s such a strange unknown. “It’s like one of those movies you hate to watch on TV — because it’s stupid,” he tried to joke, though he knows it’s deadly serious.

So, here’s an alphabetical list of some Davis restaurants that — as of early Friday afternoon — were confirmed open for takeout: Ali Baba, Black Bear Diner, Blaze Pizza (free delivery), Burgers & Brew, BurgerIM, Café Bernardo, Chay Corner, Chickpeas

Kitchen, Chipotle, Common Grounds, Crepeville, David’s Sushi Buffet, Dickey’s BBQ Pit (free delivery), Ding How, Dos Coyotes, Farmer’s Kitchen, Four Seasons Chinese, Good Friends Hawaiian Poke and Ramen, Halal Guys, Hometown Chinese Kitchen, The Hotdogger, Huku Japanese Bistro, Ike’s Sandwiches, iTea, Jack’s Urban Eats, Jusco Japanese Restaurant, Kathmandu Kitchen, Ket Mo Ree, Lamppost Pizza, Let Them Eat Cake, Manna Korean BBQ, Mikuni, Mishka’s, Open Rice Kitchen, Paesano’s, Panera Bread, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Pho King, Pink Dozen, Posh Bagel, Preethi Indian Cuisine, Raja’s Tandoor, Red 88 Noodle Bar, Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, Steve’s Pizza, Symposium Restaurant, Taqueria Davis, Taqueria El Burrito (free delivery), Taqueria Guadalajara, Tasty Kitchen Chinese Cuisine, Teabo Café, Temple Coffee, Thai Canteen, Thai Nakorn, Third & U Cafe, Three Ladies Cafe, Tommy J’s Grill (inside Froggy’s), Upper Crust Baking (free delivery), Village Bakery, Wingstop, Wok of Flame, Woodstock’s Pizza (free delivery), Yakitori Yuchan, Yeti Restaurant, Yoloberry Yogurt, Zia’s Delicatessen, Zim Cuisine and Zumapoke and Lush Ice. Many local farmers and agriculture businesses are offering delivery and/or pickup or community-supported agriculture subscriptions.

Temporary closures include all local fitness facilities, pools and SwimAmerica; most places offering non-essential personal beauty services; dentists offices for nonessential visits; all theaters and performance venues; Yolo County Library branches; Cultivé Frozen Yogurt; D Street Steakhouse; El Patio Davis; Fish’s Wild Island Grill; Hunan; Jump Bikes; Logos Books; the campus

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Kevin Crilly offers up one of the most wanted sandwiches at Zia’s Delicatessen. radio station KDVS; Season’s Kitchen and Bar; T.J.Maxx; Bistro 33; Taqueria La Piñata; Tres Hermanas; The UC Davis Store downtown; Village Pizza & Grill, Village Pizza & Pints; Wildhorse Golf Club Grill. It’s been cool to see fitness studios offer video instructions online, and see artists and musicians share their talents and energy.

Meanwhile, the following businesses are deemed essential, according to the county’s shelter-in-place order: grocery stores and Certified Farmers Markets like the Davis Farmers Market (though Picnic in the Park is postponed until at least May 13); hardware and home-supply stores like Davis Ace, Davis Home Trends and Redwood Barn Nursery. Many construction crews continue to work. Though city inspectors will not be going inside homes at this time, officials are working with contractors to submit photos for permit reviews.

(This is helpful in finishing my bathroom remodel).

Jeff Likes Clean Windows & Gutters has scaled down to essential exterior work related to home maintenance. Parcel Dispatch, PDQ is open.

Also essential: newspapers and other media services (subscribe!), banks, laundry services, gas stations, auto and technology repair facilities, internet and phone service providers, and health and animal care, among others.

Other stores trying to stay open are the UC Davis Store on campus and Watermelon Music. Avid Reader has an online store. Clothing stores are struggling. Bars and many breweries are closed but

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trying to set up to-go or delivery of cans and bottles.

The Davis Beer Shoppe is selling carry out items from its retail side, and Sudwerk Brewing Co. added to-go food and beer on Friday.

Several stores are offering temporary senior-only hours for those 65+ or with those health conditions.

They include Davis Food Co-op, 8-9 a.m. daily; Nugget Markets, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m. for the East Covell store and 7 to 8 a.m. for the Mace Boulevard store; Safeway, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Covell East Boulevard and 7 to 9 a.m. on Cowell Boulevard; Dollar General, 8-9 a.m. daily; and Target, 8-9 a.m. Wednesdays. College Cab is offering free grocery delivery to seniors 65 and older.

——— Pannier Foods is a new food delivery service for Davis residents. Owners Michael Raub and Cynthia Cart have high-end restaurant experience: Raub worked under Thomas Keller in Yountville, and Cart managed other facets at Michelin-starred restaurants. Raub was general manager at Pluto’s when it closed recently.

They planned “a soft rollout of our plant-slant lunch delivery concept” last week, Cart said. “However, over the weekend we decided to surrender to the

circumstances of the changing climate and to see where our business could fill a greater need for the community.

“We are currently offering dinner meal (no contact) delivery to our Davis neighbors with a limited menu of beautiful, high-quality, and scratch-made meals,” she said. “We moved to Davis over the summer from the East Bay where Mic had an esteemed career as a chef in Yountville restaurants and San Francisco hotels. As we settled into town, we were surprised by the lack of health-focused and localproduce-oriented food businesses. So here we are, taking matters into our own hands.”

It offers new American cuisine and naturally fermented sourdough. See more on Instagram and Facebook, or visit https:// www.pannierfoods.com/.

——— The Election 2020 Volunteer Center opened March 8, only to be closed for quarantine. But its work continues remotely.

The office, a collaborative effort by Indivisible Yolo and Sister District CA-3, is at 720 Olive Drive, Suite D. The space is designed for community members to engage in phone banking, text banking, postcard writing, voter registration, and canvassing for the 2020 election. Sister District CA-3 and Indivisible Yolo are local chapters of two national grassroots groups that sprung up after the 2016 presidential election. They are focused on supporting progressive policies and candidates for political office.

The calendar of events is at https://indivisibleyolo. org/2020/01/24/volunteercenter-calendar/.

——— Second Street Studios is a new art and music space being organized one of the founders of Third Space Collective. The 1,400square-foot warehouse is at

Davis Storage, 1611 Second St., with a bathroom and gated access.

“We’ll be making preparations for custom spaces, built to suit your needs,” Dylan Wright said. “My vision for the space is to have a sound studio for practice and recording; several private and shared visual art studios; lots of shared open space, tools, and materials; ceramics, metalwork and woodwork shops; a kitchenette; and a kick-back area.”

——— The Davis Dirt, a local resource for Davis events and entertainment, is under new ownership.

Publisher Ashley Muir Bruhn purchased the publication, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary. She launched a terrific website for what was once a mostly print publication. But then came the pandemic, canceling or rescheduling all public events — an entertainment editor’s nightmare. With things changing so often, Bruhn decided to suspend the print edition, at least for April.

“We will continue to update the website and focus on social media outreach in the meantime, and will revisit the print issue for May,” she wrote in an email to advertisers.

“Please continue to submit events and share news we can help distribute.”

Like The Enterprise, she runs a business “looking to help by being a point of contact for the community, providing amplification for business, and ideas on ways to support locally — if virtually.”

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor.

Her column publishes on alternate Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages.

If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail.com

Have you considered Kiwanis? Join us for lunch Thursdays at Symposium Restaurant. First lunch is on us!

Contact George Barden at 530-304-5712.

40th Annual Crab Feed The Kiwanis Club of Davis thanks our sponsors and donors for their generous support. The funds raised will help support our local charities.

GOLD SPONSORS:

John and Judy Whitcombe / Tandem Properties First Northern Bank Bella Luna Jewelers

SILVER SPONSORS:

Brooks Painting Castellucci & Associates, CPA Nicole Davis / Edward Jones

F Street Dispensary Recology Davis

CORPORATE SPONSORS: Bedrock Construction Davis Glass and Screen Yolo Federal Credit Union George Barden CLU ChFC NY Life

The Davis City Council will meet on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. *This meeting will be held virtually.* See http://cityofdavis.org/councilagendas for a full agenda and details about how to participate in the meeting.

The meeting will include: REGULAR CALENDAR (City Council discussion/action):

• Arroyo Pool Waterslide

• Urgency Eviction Relief Ordinance

• Surplus Property Sale

• COVID-19 Fee Deferrals

• Low Carbon Transit Operation Funds

• Flavored Tobacco Product Sales Ban

• SB1 Road Repair Funds

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• Fire Station 31 Kitchen Remodel

• Solar Farm Lease Option Agreement

• Pond Cleanup and Sludge Removal

CONSENT CALENDAR will include (intended to be acted on without City Council discussion):

• Mid-Year Budget Update

• Russell Green Street Demonstration Project Contract

• Discipline Procedures for Commission Members

Jeff Likes Clean Windows & Gutters Raul Herrera – State Farm Insurance Symposium Restaurant Wayne C. Schrader Optometry Inc.

SILENT AUCTION & RAFFLE PRIZE DONORS: A Grand Affair The Avid Reader Baskets by Design Bella Luna Jewelers Bogel Vineyards Brett Barnes Joanne Bowen Cache Creek Casino Castellucci and Assoc.

Crocker Art Museum Davis Arts Center Davis Golf Course Davis Home Trends Davis Musical Theatre Stella Dinger El Macero Cleaners F Street Dispensary Goodyear / Vander Hamm Peggy Hale

Iben Wilson In-n-out Burger Ira Bray Jay Schreider Ron Jensen Jeff Likes Clean Windows & Gutters Jim Kocsis Julia Silva King Properties Carol Leung Likes Accounting Co. Lescroart Corporation Loraine Design Bill Matthews Dick Luna Lydia Looknanan Mondavi Center Nicole Davis / Edward Jones

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his is a scary and scattered time.

When I tried to start this column on Monday, I found it impossible because things change so fast. I decided instead to embrace “scattered” and write only part each day. This led to discoveries, especially towards the end.

———— On Monday, I began to make peace with being high-risk, age 65-plus. For the record, I’m 72.

What helped me make peace was two gestures, one from a friend and one from my son. The friend offered to go shopping for me.

My son lamented that if I get sick, he won’t be able to fly out and take care of me. I was so touched by these gestures that I’m glad to be high risk just to know about them.

Of course, before COVID-19 I was already high risk. People in their 70s are more likely to die than younger people — always were, always will be. It’s amazing the truths we manage to avoid.

———— This year, for the first time, my husband and I were invited to a party of former river guides called “Seder.” Begun more than 40 years ago by rafters with a connection to Judaism, the event morphed into a big annual splash. I kept hearing it was a

great occasion.

Although my husband and I are former guides, we were never invited, probably because we didn’t work for the company that started the shindig. Finally, this year, friends offered to add our names and we said, enthusiastically, “yes.”

However, when our invitation arrived, Seder was scheduled for mid-April when we would be in France. After years of waiting, we had to say “no.”

But then, in the whirl of coronavirus, our trip was canceled and we were “on” for Seder. I began thinking about how happy I would feel to finally go, to be among so many old friends for a party with a rich river tradition and a connection to my Jewish side.

You know how this ends.

Seder is canceled, too.

———— By mid-week I was reading about how uncooperative Baby

Boomer parents have been when their adult children urge protective measures. Apparently, we boomers refuse to admit that we’re old.

I, too, have been receiving suggestions from my children, but I try to respond affirmatively.

Do I accept my children’s suggestions in order to please them?

No. I follow their rules because I want to retain authority. I don’t want to be like a child who has to be scolded into obedience.

I want to remain a parent — someone my children look up to.

I’m not sure why that’s so important to me, but it is.

In my view, you are truly elderly when you are frail and perhaps mentally handicapped in ways that require your children to take over. Those children still love you, but they can’t follow your guidance anymore.

That’s being really old. That’s what I’m afraid of.

———— I devote a lot of time to thinking about what happens next.

Will local people die? Could I lose someone from my own family? What is our financial system, our social network, our whole country and the world going to become? Scary ideas emerge.

Are we going to end up wishing we could go back to the

“good old days” when the biggest threat to humanity was merely Donald Trump?

———— I see people holding hands, sitting together, and kissing in an old drug ad on TV (and by “old” I mean before last week).

Something inside me screams, “Don’t do that!” Where does this emotion come from? Things have changed so fast.

———— My friend Ed, who lives in France, has heard about the Great American Toilet Paper Shortage. What’s missing at his store? Butter.

———— Here’s something amusing I found on the Internet, an announcement saying, “Introverts, please put down your book and check on your extrovert friends. They are not OK.” How true.

———— I shared this bit of humor with my hibernation buddy, my husband Bob. I’ve begun to feel sorry for everyone who doesn’t have someone who will come closer than 6 feet.

On the other hand, we engage in some pretty edgy negotiations.

We agree we need to buy food.

But who shops, the person who is a great cook but often forgets to buy the other person’s items,

or the person who remembers to buy everything but chooses avocados that are too squishy?

Should it be the person who uses Purell almost as often as he breathes or the person who is good at not touching her face?

Living nonstop with another human being in retirement is already challenging. Try adding confinement, fear of illness and the need to agree on new rules.

———— Each day a little more of the truth about our new reality seeps in, like a sponge slowly filling to capacity under a dripping faucet.

It takes until Thursday for me to realize that nothing will return to “normal” for a very long time.

This includes being able to visit my grandchildren back east.

The tears come.

———— I notice that my column entries are getting clipped and short, that despite many hours home alone, my thinking is as jumpy and disordered as the world itself.

———— However, between 6 feet under and 6 feet away, I know what I choose.

— Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years.

Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

We are working to keep kids safe and healthy

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afety, compassion, community, commitment, respect and hope are the values that Yolo Crisis Nursery embraces 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Every child we serve receives 100% of our dedication to maintaining those values, along with our further commitment to embrace their parents in our wrap-around services to help preserve their family so that they can grow up in a safe, loving, and stable home.

When parents and caregivers experience high levels of stress without resources, support or relief to help manage their crises, child abuse and neglect increases. In this unprecedented period of uncertainty due to COVID-19, there are more families than ever experiencing extreme stress.

When parents aren’t

YOLO CRISIS NURSERY able to work, poverty and homelessness will increase, leading to prolonged toxic stress on families that will result in increased domestic violence, substance abuse, child abuse, psychiatric issues, and other serious situations. In these uncertain times, the Yolo Crisis Nursery will focus on the safety of our community’s most vulnerable children as well as the safety of our staff.

We will keep providing services to help children whose safety is at the highest risk within the guidelines of national and local health officials. We are monitoring the CDC guidelines and are in contact with state, local and county health officials regularly to ensure our staff, children, and their families are kept as safe as possible.

Yolo County’s recent shelter-at-home mandate

will help reduce the risk of further spread of the virus and save lives. We understand that COVID-19 is causing concern and upheaval for us as individuals and for our community. We are feeling this and our community’s children feel it too. Children may be agitated or confused as they are undoubtedly unsettled by the drastic changes to their normal routines and unavoidable ominous news that surrounds us all.

Now more than ever, it is important that we recognize and guide those in our community who might need extra assistance to the help they need. Yolo County is filled with generous and compassionate people and together we all do make a difference.

Together we can weather this crisis with grace, dignity, and minimize the suffering for our community.

During this time, the Yolo Crisis Nursery is developing online resources, and information

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Executive director Heather Sleuter plays with a child at the Yolo Crisis Nursery. to help families stay strong and resilient. If you have not already liked the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery page on Facebook, please join our community for the latest updates.

We are working to bring in child and family specialists as well as other

experts. We plan to cover key topics like how to discuss the virus with children, parental self-care, as well as ideas to keep children engaged and learning during this challenging time. Please like us on Facebook and stay tuned!

We invite you to join us,

please visit www.yolocrisis nursery.org to learn more about the nursery, or to make a donation. Thank you Yolo County, we are stronger together.

— Heather Sleuter is the executive director of the Yolo Crisis Nursery.

BY ANDY JONES

women’s college west of the Rockies?

5. Shakespeare’s Stranded Magicians. What is the name of the magician, purposefully stranded for 12 years on an island with his daughter, who is the rightful Duke of Milan in Shakespeare’s final play?

Answers: The Maori, Barbara Kingsolver, a transformer, Mills College, Prospero in “The Tempest” — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub. He is the author of the new book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People,” now available at The Avid Reader. Find out more at www.yourquiz master.com.

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Front row, from left to right are: Betsy Erikson, River City High School teacher; Sandra Reese, Pioneer High School principal; Samantha Hendrix, Davis High School; Sierra Winter, Winters High School; Rose Kakutani, Winters High School; Kylie Ohara, River City High School; Alondra Orozco, Pioneer High School; Brooke Faille, Woodland Christian High School; Woodland Mayor Xochitl Rodriguez; and Silvia Castillo Hillyer, Unit 77 Girls State chair. Back row, from left to right are: Ted Hillyer, Post 77 Boys State chair; Jackson Ryan, Christian Brothers High School; Kariappa Odira, Davis High School; Dylan Fullerton, Woodland High School; Ojas Sandhu, Davis High School; Nick Seyk, DaVinci Charter Academy; Matthew Schaeffer, Woodland Christian School; Omar Figueroa, Esparto High School; Alfonso Riviera, River City High School; Adrian Ramirez, Delta High School; Gian Papio, Jesuit High School; Grant Hoyle, Jesuit High School; Jackson Davis, Winters High School; Aleksei Usachenko, Pioneer High School; Marie Campbell, Woodland Christian High School; and Marcella Heredia, Winters High School counselor.

Boys and Girls State participants announced Enterprise staff The American Legion and Auxiliary announced that 19 area teens would participate in the 2019 Boys and Girls State program.

The program teaches young people about government by creating their own city, county and state government, as well learning leadership skills. The students are selected in their junior year of high school so they can return to their high school

and implement these leadership skills. The young women attend Girls State on the Claremont McKenna campus in Ontario; and the young men attend Boys State at Sacramento State.

Participants are required to submit a legislative bill prior to attending Girls State or pass the bar exam the first day of Boys State in order to run for a higher office.

It costs the American Legion and Auxiliary $8,000 to fund these

programs each year. The following 2019 donors assisted in sending them to these programs: Janet Berry, UC Davis Development Officer and former Girls Stater; Esparto Lions; Nancy Koch; Joyce and Rance Reynolds; Project Management Applications; Carol Rose, Unit 77 Auxiliary member; the Underwood Family; Woodland Host Lions; Woodland Street Cruisers, Woodland Sunrise Rotary; and the Yolo County Veterans Coalition.

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3. Electrical Engineering. What do we call an electrical device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors?

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All this free time: What will we do with it?

BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

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or more than a decade, I’ve been writing about the isolated, the lonely, the abandoned: Those who feel that the world has no place for them. Now all of us will know something of their isolation and, in the case of people who live on their own, loneliness.

Those I’ve been writing about are the luckless hundreds of thousands in the United States — millions around world — who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, now known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.

They are sentenced to live separately by their illness and its debilitating fatigue.

They are a kind of living dead. Now I have a glimmer, no more to be sure, of how it must be every day for these sufferers.

What will it be like for the rest of us in two weeks when we’ve exhausted the pleasures of home life and yearn to see our friends, go to a restaurant, a play or a concert? Just to live normally?

I’ve always tried to console myself with what I call “adventure therapy.” Like most pop psychology it isn’t very profound, but it does help. Will it help now? I have no idea.

Anyway, the therapy is that you try to find the adventure in any situation you’re in, which can include some hairy ones, like facing surgery. (Who will you meet? What’s all the equipment? How will they perform the surgery? Do the doctors like doctoring?

What kind of life do the nurses live?)

In my own home — mercifully which I share with my ever-cheerful wife — I wonder where the adventure lies in this crisis.

First, I know I won’t write the Great American Novel or any work of fiction. I won’t write my life story, as I’m constantly advised to do. My ego is robust, but I’m not sure it’s robust enough for that.

Oscar Wilde worried about “thirdrate litterateurs” picking over the lives of dead writers. Of course, it seems to me some lives are lived with an eye to posterity.

I’m always amazed at people who in the middle of great trauma or great events have time to sit down and write what they think and feel. I’m glad they do, but I don’t think we’re entitled. The world loves Shakespeare’s works and knows nothing much about him.

We know too much about people of minor achievement whom we call celebrities. We watch them and their petty lives with the attention of a fakir watching his snake. Yeah, I’m no better. I want to know what’s to become of Meghan and Harry, where will Lindsay Lohan settle and, only somewhat less trivially, what are the latenight comedians doing with their spare time now that we learn that they need huge staffs to be funny?

I do think we need a record of our times, often informed by memoirs.

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nfortunately, and inexcusably, when the Trump era is behind us, we’ll know too little about what went on in the inner councils of the White House. President Trump has shown near-contempt for the Presidential Records Act, inspired by the fall of President Richard Nixon. Trump writes little and destroys much that it written, we’re told.

One has always dreamed of a time when there was enough leisure to read, maybe plow through Tolstoy, give Proust another go, or try to understand Chinese literature.

But I think that won’t happen. I’ll read the same kind of books I always read: biographies and crime stories. Most likely I’ll read a bit more, curse television a bit more, and squander my time watching and reading the news about COVID-19.

As I struggle to avoid the temptations of the refrigerator and that reproving word processor (It whispers, “Write a book.”), I’ll wonder about those who existed before this pandemic in a long, dark tunnel of isolation without hope of light at the end: Those who can hardly hope to break out one day into what Winston Churchill called the “sunlit uplands.”

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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Dumbing down teachers’ tests T he abrupt and apparently prolonged closure of California’s public schools due to coronavirus fears is — or should be — a reminder of their vital societal role.

Six million kids will miss at least a few months of schooling. While many are receiving some education at home, from parents or via the internet, the lack of classroom instruction will be felt most keenly by the 60% who come from poor families or are English-learners, thus widening the state’s already yawning “achievement gap.”

The state has devoted tens of billions of dollars in recent years to narrowing the gap through the Local Control Funding Formula, but a university team’s very detailed study of the immense Los Angeles Unified School District found that its extra money, about $5 billion, has not bought measurable progress.

One factor, the researchers found, is that while the extra money allowed the district to hire more teachers, schools with the highest proportions of at-risk kids tended to get the least experienced and capable teachers.

“Despite Sacramento’s best intentions, this surge in

school funding failed to budge such wide inequities in which kids benefit most from L.A. schools,” team leader Bruce Fuller said. “Going forward, the state might ensure that funding gains reach intended students, and that principals become mindful of how fresh resources are distributed within their schools.”

The study bolstered other research indicating that a well-qualified teaching corps is the single most important factor in boosting academic performance. Unfortunately and inexplicably, however, there are efforts within the Legislature and the education bureaucracy to dumb down the standards for being licensed to teach.

A few months ago, California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing was on the verge of eliminating a requirement that applicants for licenses be required to demonstrate competence in

teaching reading, essentially caving in to complaints that the test is too tough.

A coalition of education reform groups, including those advocating for victims of dyslexia, raised a stink about the proposal, pointing out that “nearly 70% of all California’s fourth-graders are not reading proficiently at grade level” in national academic tests. Behind the scenes, aides to Gov. Gavin Newsom — who suffered dyslexia himself — intervened to sidetrack the proposed rule change and block a legislative bill with the same goal.

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ery soon afterwards, however, a Republican assemblyman from San Luis Obispo, Jordan Cunningham, introduced a bill that would virtually eliminate another test that potential teachers must take to be licensed, the California Basic Educational Skills Test or CBEST. It is, as the name implies, just a test of general educational knowledge, roughly what a high school graduate should have learned.

Unfortunately, however, initial CBEST passage rates by black and Latino applicants tend to be under 50%, leading to demands

that it be jettisoned.

The CBEST controversy has raged for decades, including a federal lawsuit claiming that it is racially discriminatory that went to the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in 2000 that the test is a legally valid method for screening credential applicants.

EdVoice, which led the opposition to elimination of the reading test, is raising alarms about Cunningham’s bill.

“This legislation is a mistake. There is no need to lower the bar even further for new teachers. Families should be confident that their child is being taught by a teacher who has a basic understanding of reading, writing and math,” said EdVoice president Bill Lucia, adding, “Watering down the basic skills requirements we ask of our teachers is not the answer to the teacher shortage. Our kids deserve better.”

Yes, they do.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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Creative empathy in a pandemic

BY ROBERT C. KOEHLER Special to The Enterprise

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ne thing about a pandemic: It’s inclusive. We cannot survive it, move beyond it, by protecting merely some people. We have to protect everyone.

Of all the disruption, paradox and chaos that have been unleashed by the coronavirus, this is the most stunning: It has something to teach us that we could never learn on our own. My God, we are one planet — one people. This isn’t idealism; it’s the most pragmatic social organizing principle possible.

As Robert Reich pointed out regarding the American public health system, “We have a private for-profit system for individuals lucky enough to afford it and a rickety social insurance system for people fortunate enough to have a fulltime job.

“At their best, both systems respond to the needs of individuals rather than the needs of the public as a whole. In America, the word ‘public’ — as in public health, public education or public welfare — means a sum total of individual needs, not the common good.”

But health equals wholeness. Without collective health, we have humanity

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COMMENTARY shattered by greed and paranoia, that is to say, social hemorrhage, or what Randall Amster called business as usual: “The simmering cauldron of political vitriol, reifications of otherness, escalating inequality, endless war, even more endless waste, and a rapidly warming world hasn’t exactly set us in good stead to weather the storm.”

But here we are — all of us — stuck in isolation, disconnected from our parents, our children, our grandchildren and one another, even as we value them more than ever. There’s no knowing how long this will last or what outcome awaits us.

But if the best of who we are is able to prevail, we may find ourselves living through an extraordinary shift in human consciousness, a rewriting of our own mythology — as we come to understand that we manifest life-enhancing power with, not over, each other.

The word for this is love, a cynicismproducing word when linked to politics and social order. I use it cautiously, aware that its opposite is also alive and well, and that many (most?) people still believe that self-protection at some point means going to war ... against a

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disease, against your neighbors.

USA Today, for instance, recently noted that in many parts of the country people are stocking up on guns and ammunition as well as toilet paper, reporting long lines outside gun stores and a big burst in online ammunition sales. Ammo.com, for instance, has experienced a 68 percent increase in sales between mid-February and early March, according to the paper.

And retailers are being forced to limit the amount of ammunition people can buy right now, USA Today reported, quoting one man who had recently purchased 250 rounds of ammo — the maximum allowed — at an indoor gun range in St. Louis. The man complained that “‘They were completely out of the cheaper bulk ammunition.’ ... He also bought a 9mm handgun to protect himself in case someone tries to steal his groceries if there are further supply shortages.”

While, unsurprisingly, there’s plenty of this kind of paranoia going around, our suddenly self-isolated world is also experiencing the opposite of this paranoia: something seemingly unique. I call it creative empathy.

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Another place, another time, another virus T W his is not my first time dealing with a worldwide infection.

I was in my fourth year of teaching at an international university in Central China when H1N1 — also known as the swine flu — broke out.

Sias International University is in one of the more densely populated and poorer provinces.

It is built along the Huangshui River in Xinzheng (Henan Province). It is pretty much the middle of nowhere surround by fields — kind of like going to college in Kansas.

The major draw is its foreign faculty. When I worked there from 2006-11, there were more than 100 expats on staff.

The university is owned by a Chinese American and is built on the East-meets-West philosophy. The campus architecture mimics famous structures from around the globe — Red Square to the Spanish fountains.

Henan is famous for growing dates and mining coal, which

translates to a really gray sky and the occasional dusting of powdered coal. It was pretty common to see students and locals wearing masks when I arrived my first year. However, that number jumped to nearly everyone that fourth year. Everyone but the foreign teachers.

At first life proceeded as normal, but there were more masks and health checks. At the Beijing Airport, hazmat-suit wearing agents went on all arriving planes and checked every single person’s temperature.

If one person had a fever, all passengers were sequestered in a hotel. One of my co-teacher’s dad spent his vacation in a hotel by

himself. This caused some concern but still no masks, no change in habits.

As H1N1 became the next SARs, fellow teachers would joke they should have T-shirts printed up: “I survived SARs and H1N1.”

As the numbers of those infected rose, our university instituted a policy to take people’s temperatures when entering the campus. If a fever was detected, people were not allowed to enter.

This went on for months.

When it was time to make plane reservations to fly back to California for winter break, I started to get sniffles and a slight cough. I figured it was a common cold, but I also knew that Beijing’s airport had machines to read body temperature and were preventing anyone with a fever from boarding a plane.

I was scared I wouldn’t make it past the sensor. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to go home.

Never once did I worry I could

be carrying something deadly back with me.

hich leads me back to the East-meets-West philosophy. I had numerous conversations with students about the differences between our countries, and one ideal seemed to baffle them more than others: American individualism.

For the vast majority of my students, China was their first responsibility, then family, then their hometown and somewhere down the line, themselves. The unit is more important than the individual.

So it was no surprise to me to see the Chinese people’s response to COVID-19. Wuhan (which is about five hours south of where I taught) was ordered to shut itself off. The Chinese government also highly recommended self quarantine to the rest of the citizens, for the good of the country. And they did it, and outside of Hunan, the damage done by the coronavirus was

very small for a country of 1.3 billion people.

During the the height of the virus, I chatted via social media with friends living in China and Hong Kong and watched videos of people singing on their balconies to keep moral up.

Now, it’s here. In the West.

And while a large number of people are self quarantining, there are also those showing that rugged individualism.

Are the measures being instituted too much? Is the government being heavy handed? No matter the answer, I’m leaning toward being more like my Chinese friends, to put the whole ahead of me, to put others ahead of myself.

Maybe those East-meets-West chats helped me, too.

— Kim Orendor is a staff writer for The Davis Enterprise.

She is currently self quarantined and social distancing. Reach her at kim.orendor@gmail.com, and follow her on Twitter at @KOrendor.

Finding virtue in the crucible of contagion COMMENTARY

BY ALAN HIRSCH Special to The Enterprise

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y daughter is a high-school senior.

This is her final year

in Davis.

But with the virus shutdowns, her school trips to Disneyland and Canada have been canceled.

And now we are asking her and her friends not just to give up on travel, but her once-in-alifetime events just as they are peaking as seniors: prom, varsity sports, theater. And likely a graduation ceremony. And also granular activities, like keeping their distance from their closest friends of many years. Not to go to that concert now, finally having a car, a date and the independence to enjoy it all.

We are asking them also to exercise self-discipline by quarantining: To stay home or in their dorm when they feel “just slightly off.”

And take on the hassle of washing hands multiple times each day.

These sacrifices are framed under the now-abstract idea there is an invisible danger against which we need to protect our own selves.

My socially aware daughter feels the stress of knowing about this death threat of the plague and holds it like this: “It’s going to be OK. I’ll probably get it, but young people like me will survive.”

She seems to be right: the experience from China seems to be that most healthy youth and school kids will be OK as will UCD students and most middle age adults. Even be asymptomatic.

But it might not be OK for older people and people immuno-compromised. The Chinese experience shows that 5% of people my age will die of it. And 18% of people over 80.

We the elders are the potential “losers” if hospitals are overcrowded and we can’t get care.

In reality, we are asking the young to sacrifice, to be hassled, to protect the old.

It takes a bit of moral imagination and empathy for children and younger people to understand that their behavior, their sacrifice to a for-now almost invisible danger, when

they figure out it is not really self-care, but more about protecting others from virus spread.

It is really about protecting the community.

So, I suggest we begin talking, framing acts like washing hands and bumping elbow not as a personal choice of selfcare, but one of choosing to act ethically.

As altruistic acts of charity.

And we Americans especially need to talk about it this way to subdue the libertarian streak so dominant in our culture, that is tearing us apart.

We need to ennoble the simple act of hand washing as an act of patriotism, based on love of your fellow Americans, whatever race or creed they are.

This is not a foreign virus connected to a certain race as some have portrayed it. It rather is public health crisis we struggle with together as humans with our shared vulnerabilities.

This would also reframe these actions away from reinforcing personalized fear and panic toward loving acts of care for others.

And reinforces the Davis value of care for others, especially the weakest among us.

So instead of framing this as a time of isolation, sacrifice and self-care, we now can take this unique time as an opportunity to strengthen community by giving to others in the beloved community of Davis.

— Alan Hirsch is a Davis resident. He is seen on Saturday in the Farmers Market giving out lawn signs with words: “Wherever you are from we are glad you are our neighbor.”

P.S.: I think we, the elders, need to also remember the reciprocity of the social contact with this “intergenerational ask” of the young. We need to consider the ethic of our own choices about the carbon footprint we leave in the atmosphere with our vacations, our autos and our lifestyles. In other words: “Hey Boomer” is a call out from youth to the “free riders” among us who aren’t prioritizing health of the Earth future generations will inhabit.

KOEHLER: Fair, compassionate treatment?

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e need to reach out and connect with one another now more than ever, at a time when doing so can be unbelievably complex.

But consider some of the things people are doing, at both individual, collective and institutional levels.

As Common Dreams, for instance, reported, “Italians under lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak crisis have inspired people around the world by singing and creating music together from balconies despite not being able to leave their homes.

“A montage video showing Italians serenading one another in high rise apartment buildings and playing music together was ‘a kind of triumph of spirit,’ as one Italy-centric Twitter account put it on Friday.”

Indeed, this sort of thing is happening in a number of places.

Common Dreams mentioned both Lebanon and Spain. Part of the joy and excitement I feel about this is that it transcends borders. If possible, we would clap and dance and throw our voices across all the national borders on the planet.

What else? At the institutional level, the city of Detroit, in response to activist demands, has reinstated water service to thousands of people who were cut off for not paying their bills. And, all over the world, prisons are slowly and at least

temporarily opening their doors.

Iran, for instance, has so far released 85,000 prisoners. And the sheriff of Los Angeles County, according to NBC News, “is releasing people from prison early and is asking officers to cite and release people when possible, instead of arresting them.”

At a slightly more personal level, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, who is serving a three-year prison term, has asked to serve the rest of his term at home because the coronavirus outbreak has made prison conditions utterly unsafe, according to NBC. His lawyer recently wrote to the federal district judge that the Bureau of Prisons is “demonstrably incapable of safeguarding and treating ... inmates who are obliged to live in close quarters and are at an enhanced risk of catching coronavirus.”

While there may not be much empathy here — this is Cohen trying to save himself — the public nature of his complaint could have much larger ramifications.

The lawyer added: “In the absence of presidential leadership, judges should act thoughtfully and decisively.”

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air and compassionate treatment for prisoners?

Where will this stop?

Abdullah Shihipar writes in the New York Times: “We could come out of this feeling more connected to each other than before.”

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“In America, the word ‘public’ — as in public health, public education or public welfare — means a sum total of individual needs, not the common good.”

Robert Reich Former labor secretary And Ken Butigan declared, “The greatest social movement in human history is coming.

Each of us is called to join it. It is a global movement, a movement of movements ... rooted in the blood and tears of millions who have spent their lives throughout history clamoring for justice, working for peace, laboring for a world that works for everyone.

“Just as all of us are, of necessity, isolated from each other, we are all participants, via our creative empathy, in this shift in human consciousness.”

What examples of this empathy have you noticed? Let’s share.

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Editors’ choice for web comment of the week “Davis residents care deeply about the people who own and work in our local businesses.”

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In response to “ ‘We don’t have a model for this’: Davis businesses hit hard by shutdown”

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2119 West Capital Avenue West Sacramento, CA 95798 Alternate mailing address: 3200 Douglas Blvd., Suite 200 Roseville, CA 95661 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip USA Parkside, Inc. 3200 Douglas Blvd., Suite 200 Roseville, CA 95661 And: Riverside Charitable Corporation 14131 Yorba Street, Suite 200 Tustin, CA 92780 4. Business Classification: Limited Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: June 24, 2010 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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417 Mace Blvd. #J Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Rachael Brumfield 7453 Tiara Way, Apt. D Citrus Heights, CA 95610 4. Business Classification: Trust 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 23, 2020 “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.)

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020

Thankfulness in the time of COVID-19 T

his sucks. It really does.

There’s no way to sugarcoat anything that’s going on with COVID-19.

The world has shut down, and there’s nothing we can do about the situation.

But that’s what’s important, the second part of that last sentence: that there’s nothing we can do, it’s here and we’re powerless.

The thing we can control, though, is our response to matters that are out of our hands. Given that I just watched both films “Contagion” and “Outbreak” and became much more aware of how important isolation is, the best response is a positive and caring one.

Obviously, those were just movies, but the plots involved people getting hurt and being worse off when we, ourselves, elicited a negative first response.

It’s not the time for selfish acts, but of appreciative ones. So I know it’s not Thanksgiving, but I wanted to take the time to express

my gratitude for everything that I’m thankful for. Given that this is the sports page, of course, I’ll focus on sports.

I’m thankful for ...

■ My Holmes boys soccer team.

We started the season 0-2, then absolutely footballed everyone to death for the rest of the season.

Thanks to noted Enterprise reader Dianna Henrickson for roping me into that job last year, then parent Gary Tam for convincing me to come back when I didn’t believe I was fit to be a head coach. And it was Tam who recorded all of our games and uploaded them to YouTube.com, giving me some entertainment here as I sit in my room ...

■ The captains on my soccer team, Lucas, Kevin and Nolan.

Each one was great in a different way, but each brought enthusiasm and leadership to our squad. They kept me coming back every time ...

■ The movie, “The Damned United,” and the documentaries “The Two Escobars” and “Diego

Maradona.” If you have a couple of hours in the next undetermined amount of time? Go watch them ...

■ Lionel Messi. Right now, some are questioning if God exists, but he does and he wears No. 10 for Barcelona and Argentina ...

■ The 2001-02 Sacramento Kings, especially Scot Pollard ...

■ The three years of Kings highlights we have of Jason Williams ...

■ All the various streaming platforms that are fulfilling my sports craving. You’d be surprised how many old games you can just pull up on YouTube or all the random options in

ESPN-plus’ archive ...

■ The 2002 FIFA World Cup highlight DVD. There will always be only one Ronaldo ...

■ The book “Moneyball.” I’m a noted baseball hater, but there’s a reason I’m in sports journalism and for some reason I had the desire to write a book ...

■ NorCal Premier Soccer, which has taken me to parts of this world I never expected to go just because I have a love of The Beautiful Game ...

■ All my friends and family who have stuck with me through the tough times and mostly bonded with me over sports. You all know who you are ...

■ The Davis Enterprise Sports Section. I don’t know what the future holds. I haven’t always been the greatest employee. I can be hard to deal with, but for the past 6 ½ years, it has pretty much given me complete creative freedom and allowed me to explore any topic I wanted.

Without this paper, I probably

don’t get the Holmes coaching job, my communications work at NorCal Premier Soccer or my book contract. Thank you Chris Saur, Bruce Gallaudet, Debbie Davis, Kim Orendor, Sebastian Oñate, Owen Yancher, and every person I’ve worked with in the department ...

■ Which means lastly, I have to thank you, the readers. A lot of other newspapers in towns of similar size to Davis are no longer afloat.

The coverage in other places is barebones and not what those communities deserve. You guys have kept us afloat and thank you to each and every reader who reached out to me these past few weeks. It’s right now, more than ever, that we need to think of each other, so I’m thinking of — and thanking you — dear readers.

Stay safe, everyone.

— Evan Ream’s column publishes Sundays. Reach him at eream@davisenterprise.net or follow him on Twitter@EvanReam.

Davis links stymied by stay-in order

BY EVAN REAM Enterprise staff writer

Ryan Kreidler, former Davis High baseball standout, chills at home while awaiting word the Detroit Tigers as to when spring training will reconvene.

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Virus throws a curveball at MLB, Davis star Kreidler was on a spring hot streak

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Just when it was getting good, the game was called on Ryan Kreidler.

The former Davis High and UCLA baseball standout had gone 2 for 5 in a seven-game stint with the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, Fla. Kreidler was coming off a grand slam against the Yankees and getting a handle on how veterans like Miguel Cabrera and Cameron Maybin went about their business.

But then came word on March 13: Major League Baseball was suspending Spring Training. Everybody was ordered home. COVID-19 had just thrown the nastiest curve in the game’s history.

Kreidler has been back home in Davis for a week. He says it feels like the holidays, having his folks Colleen and Mark around, chatting with friends from afar and sleeping in his own bed. Kreidler hopes he’ll see his San Diego-based brother Patric before heading back to work. But, as it is for everyone, there is a surreal feeling about the sudden serenity.

“It is safer to be at home than it is to be (in Florida training together),” he told The Enterprise in a telephone interview. “MLB was taking precautions. It was kind of sad. Although I’d been there a month, there were guys who just got to Spring Training. It’s been a whirlwind for everybody.”

Kreidler says he doesn’t know when he’ll hear “Play ball!” again, but says he

checks in with the Tigers almost daily.

He’s keeping up with conditioning — running, throwing some and trying to find facilities where he might be able to get a few swings in. But it’s been difficult ...

“I’m asking people for favors and trying to stay ready because (baseball) now is a job for me,” says the slickfielding third baseman. “Whenever they call me back there, I have to be ready to go, trying to stay on top of physical shape and my baseball-skill work.”

Kreidler was an outstanding student-athlete at Davis High, playing basketball and baseball. He once hit .438 for the Blue Devils and turned his back on being drafted out of Davis by the Chicago Cubs, opting instead to play for UCLA. His contributions during his three years there helped the Bruins achieve the nation’s No. 1 ranking on several occasions.

He was taken after his junior year by the Tigers in the fourth round of the 2019 MLB Amateur Draft last June.

A season at Connecticut of the single-A New York-Penn League saw him hit .232 in 60 games for the baby bengals. But accounting for 48 runs in those games drew attention to Kreidler from the big-league franchise.

Hence, the call-up this spring.

“It’s been a really good experience being around some of these veterans,” Kreidler says. “It’s pretty eye-opening to see how those guys go to work, how they attack the game.

“For me, I feel I’ve already learned a lot. I feel like my off-season went pretty well. I was able to bring some of that into (Spring Training). It’s been fun.”

Loads of fun, apparently. On March

1, with the scored tied 4-4 in the seventh inning, Kreidler blasted a grand slam to put the Tigers safely ahead of the Yankees. The circuit clout, off New York reliever Kaleb Ort, also drove in outfielder Derek Hill — an Elk Grove High graduate against whom Kreidler and his Blue Devils played many important prep games.

He took advantage in grand fashion.

“It was a cool moment,” the 22-yearold emerging slugger remembers.

“Although it’s just Spring Training, I thought I competed really well against some of those big-leaguers.

“For me, it was a moment where I realized I can do it. I’m ready to go up there and compete against the best.”

So how have a half-season at Connecticut and a couple of summers playing in collegiate wooden-bat leagues helped Kreidler prepare for The Show?

“Connecticut, last year, was a good experience,” he says. “I wouldn’t say I played very well, but it was an adjustment period, for sure.”

Going from a college season straight into pro ball “definitely takes a toll on your body.”

Kreidler says he has learned from the different levels of play, dealing with the long bus trips, sleeping in uncomfortable beds, on occasion eating poorly.

“You learn, too, from your failures and you learn from your successes,” he believes, adding that he’s still chipping away at all the new challenges and how to adjust long-term.

But if Kreidler keeps playing like he has been, those buses will turn into chartered jets and those lumpy mattresses will give way to turned-down beds with mints on the pillow.

After initially staying open during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, all three Davis-area golf courses closed last week with no clear timetable on when they might reopen.

El Macero Country Club was the first to make the decision, doing so Monday — though because of green aeration it wasn’t scheduled to be open until Wednesday anyway — while the Davis Golf Course and Wildhorse Golf Club both closed their doors on Friday.

El Macero shut down following the issuance of Yolo County’s shelter-inplace order. The latter two, according to course spokesmen, were asked to turn away customers following an intervention Friday from the Davis Police Department. The police cited Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide stay-at-home order.

While still operating, managers of all three courses had spoken earlier with the Yolo County Health Department and adopted policies to take preventative measures to keep customers safe.

These included installing hand-sanitizing stations around the course, rigorously cleaning all common areas, either closing club restaurants or making them take-out only, and removing rakes and allowing golfers to fix their bunker divots with their clubs or feet. Other safeguards also were devised by course managers.

“This is going to be a

challenge just like all the other businesses out there.

Events that can be postponed, we have ... but some have been canceled,” said El Macero general manager Rusty Seymour.

“From a revenue standpoint, based on how long it lasts, it is going to be a challenge. I’m definitely disappointed we had to close our club, as our club is most of our members’ second home to be with friends and family and play the great game of golf in a natural setting.”

In addition to impacting those who spend their time on the links as well as course revenue, several jobs also are at stake, as managers of all three courses told The Enterprise they will operate only with skeleton crews during these uncertain times.

“We certainly want to take care of our employees; we might have to have some people do stuff they don’t normally do, like me being on a mower,” said Mark Hansen, director of golf at the Davis Golf Course. “We want to help the city keep this asset and make the course viable. The only group I had today was a seven-some of turkeys.”

But while safety is the top priority for each course, some are afraid that the moratorium on golf could have long-term impacts on the courses themselves.

“We feel like we’re doing a lot of good things to keep people safe, so it’s frustrating for us to have to close and then to see the walking trail (behind the course) with people out there,” said

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Mark Hansen, director of golf at Davis Golf Course, has weighed in on Davis facility closures as coronavirus impacts even individual recreation opportunities.

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