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Yolo County health-care providers preparing for a surge

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer As the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to climb, hospitals and clinics have begun to see an influx of patients in severe respiratory distress. Intensive care units in New York and New Orleans turned

into coronavirus wards nearly overnight, with cities placing urgent orders for life-saving medical equipment.

As of last week, Yolo County had one coronavirus patient in critical condition on a ventilator.

On Sunday, the county reported its first death. Eight other cases have been confirmed in the

county, though limitations on testing mean the virus is almost certainly more widespread than the official count.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state projects 56 percent of Californians, about 22 million people, could be infected over the next two months.

Since January, local teams of

physicians have been preparing for an unprecedented surge of patients. They have established testing and screening protocols, shifted non-urgent visits to telehealth appointments, postponed elective surgeries, reassigned medical personnel, relocated services, set up dedicated spaces to care for coronavirus patients and

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Supervisors OK renter protections

Sutton Betti, a 1992 graduate of Davis High School and now a bronze sculptor in Colorado, stands by his sculpture honoring the McPherson Globe Refiners basketball team, who made up half of the 1936 Olympic team. The completed monument will be installed in September in McPherson, Kan.

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

These are only a few of the odd facts sculptor Sutton Betti, a 1992 graduate of Davis High School, uncovered in his research while working on his latest bronze sculpture, which

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors met via phone and video conference on Tuesday and took steps to deal with some of the issues that have arisen in the last week thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

The board unanimously supported creating a community benefit fund to assist local nonprofits and individuals affected by COVID-19 — appropriating $250,000 in contingency funds for the effort — and also unanimously approved restrictions on residential and commercial evictions and foreclosures during the pandemic emergency.

Those restrictions were made possible by an executive order issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week giving local governments that authority.

The resolution approved by county supervisors on Tuesday suspends evictions and judicial foreclosures through May 31 in unincorporated areas of the county.

Specifically prohibited are evictions on the basis of non-payment of rent arising out of a substantial decrease in household or business income or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses, all of which were 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

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Olympic memories Davis High grad immortalizes pioneering 1936 hoops team

BY ERIC RICE Special to The Enterprise In July of 1936, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, boarded the S.S. Manhattan with the American Olympic team to compete at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. For the first time, basketball was going to be a fullmedal Olympic event, having been a demonstration sport in 1904.

Naismith, 74, was going to be honored for his role in

not quite prepared to run a basketball tournament.

creating the sport and present the winning teams their medals. This was going to be the opportunity for the United States to demonstrate on a world stage how basketball was meant to be played.

Naismith’s hope for an Olympic showcase didn’t quite live up to his expectations. Basketball had been played for 45 years in the U.S. but was just starting to get popular in the rest of the world, and even though 23 teams made the trek to the Olympics, Germany was

The court was not indoors, but rather a converted outdoor clay-and-sand tennis court.

The basketball used in the Olympic final, the so-called “Berg Ball” did not resemble a modern basketball. Instead, it looked like a soccer ball with raised stitching and was lopsided when dribbling. It also was much lighter than a regular basketball and would blow off course in the wind on the outdoor court.

Wind was not the only problem the day of the gold medal game. The game started with drizzling rain and by the second half, it was a driving

County reports 1st COVID death Total cases up to 10

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Yolo County has doubled since Friday, with two new cases on Tuesday bringing the total to 10, including one death.

That death on Sunday involved an older individual with chronic health problems who had been

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made contingency plans for worst-case scenarios.

Physician leaders from the four health systems in the Sacramento area, Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, and UC Davis Health, formed an advisory group to coordinate preparations

discharged from the hospital and was isolating at home. The ninth case, announced Tuesday, is a young adult who acquired the virus through community transmission and is currently hospitalized. The 10th is a middle-aged adult with chronic health problems who is isolating at home.

County health officials continue to urge residents to follow the shelter-at-home order issued last week.

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“To slow the spread of this virus,” said Public Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman, “we all need to stay inside as much as possible and severely limit person-to-person interactions. We must do everything we can to protect our communities and prevent our health care system from becoming overwhelmed with sick people.”

The county, which had declined to indicate thus

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downpour. The ball became waterlogged and heavy, impossible to dribble and hard to catch.

The second half saw four points scored by each team with the United States beating Canada 19-8 to win the gold medal. There were no stands for the 1,000 spectators to sit on and they were forced to stand in the rain for the duration.

School district prepares home-learning details

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer The Davis public schools remain closed until Monday, April 13. And campuses in the Davis school district will likely remain closed until the new school year begins in late August, while the coronavirus situation sorts out.

So on Monday, April 13, the Davis school district is intending to gradually roll out an online home instruction program. School district administrators have been working long hours to prepare a coordinated plan for the transition that will reflect the academic expectations of the Davis school district (and the State of California).

Assistant superintendent Rody Boonchouy told the Davis school board last Thursday that “off-the-shelf ” educational videos and worksheets that are immediately available are of “mixed” quality, and the school district wants to give students “study-at-home” materials that will support already-identified learning goals and standards.

Boonchouy added that the present situation is a huge and unprecedented transition to “home learning” through the remainder of the academic year is unlike anything that the school district has ever attempted in the past, requiring teachers

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Briefly Journalist guests on ‘Davisville’ Lauren Gustus is the editor of The Sacramento Bee and regional editor for the West for McClatchy, the company that owns the Bee and 29 other newspapers.

On the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” she talks with host Bill Buchanan about The Bee, community journalism, the move from print to digital, its interest in Davis, and the financial problems that have eroded the newspaper and led McClatchy to file for bankruptcy.

The first part of the show addresses how The Bee is covering the pandemic, including how it decides what stories to pursue beyond the obvious ones, and the kinds of articles its readers are asking for.

“Davisville” is broadcast on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM at 5:30 p.m. Mondays and 8:30 a.m.

Wednesdays and Saturdays. The interview with Gustus began airing Monday, will be broadcast through April 4, and is available online anytime at http://kdrt. org/davisville or on Apple podcasts

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Hurry up and stop, it’s all settled

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alk about mixed messages.

The governor of New York says the coronavirus is spreading much more quickly than the “experts” originally projected, while the president of the United States says it’s about time to get back to normal to save the economy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the life of his 88-year-old mother is more important than any Dow Jones Average. President Donald Trump says he hopes the churches are “packed” on Easter Sunday to kick off a revival of the greatest economy the world has ever known.

Gov. Cuomo makes a desperate plea for 30,000 ventilators. President Trump brags that 4,000 have already been delivered, prompting Cuomo to desperately demand “You tell me which 26,000 people should die.”

Cuomo’s passionate, yet informative daily press conferences have reminded New Yorkers of the inspiration that George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani provided after the Twin Towers came down.

Said the governor, “We are not willing to sacrifice 1 to 2 percent of New Yorkers. That’s not who we are. No one should be talking

avoid an economic recession that will dwarf the harm from 20082009.”

Not adjust it because it is medically indicated, but adjust it so we can see even more recordbreaking days for the Dow.

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about social Darwinism for the sake of the stock market. We will fight to save every life we can. We are not giving up.”

Added Cuomo, “My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life.”

Said the president at what was allegedly a coronavirus press conference Tuesday, “The Dow surged today with the greatest gain ever and that’s very encouraging.”

As the president droned on about the Dow daily record increase, he neglected to mention the daily record increase in coronavirus deaths around the country on Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal, which can always be counted on to put economic interests first, editorialized that it is time for “federal and state officials to start adjusting their anti-virus strategy now to

nd then, for reasons unknown, at Tuesday’s coronavirus press conference Vice President Mike Pence heaped praise on McDonald’s for now offering curbside delivery to truck drivers whose big rigs won’t fit through the drive-thru.

“So they can get a Big Mac,” the VP said with a smile, proud to show the nation that he’s a regular guy who knows his burgers.

I like Big Macs, too, but I’m not sure this small courtesy quite fits the definition of “heroic.”

Despite all the optimism, the governor of Louisiana says things have gotten so bad there that his state won’t be able to handle all the coronavirus cases it expects by April 1.

And Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland, going against a president of his own party, adds “The messaging coming out of this administration is pretty confusing and it just doesn’t match with what we’re doing here in Maryland.”

Trio arrested on gun and drug charges

Rural crash

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Project Linus cancels meeting Project Linus of Yolo County will not have a meeting in April. Members are asked to hold any finished blankets and donations of fabric or yarn until the group announces its next meeting.

For general information, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@ gmail.com or 530-7533436.

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Although the scene looked bad, no injuries resulted from this crash Tuesday afternoon at County Roads 97 and 31 where a vehicle overturned into a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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What Hogan is doing is clamping down and insisting the state’s citizens take the coronavirus threat seriously.

Meanwhile, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claims that older Americans should be willing to risk their lives so Americans can get back to work.

“Those of us who are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves,” Patrick notes. “But don’t sacrifice the country.”

And finally, let’s not forget our good friend Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle in Baton Rouge, who ignored social distancing by packing 1,000 people into a Sunday service with the claim that the pandemic is “politically motivated.”

Indeed, microscopic study of the coronavirus reveals that it is 62.3 percent Democratic and just 37.7 percent Republican.

Look, I’m happy that Pastor Spell has 1,000 parishioners and I, too, would like to see our churches packed on Easter Sunday. But I’m afraid that glorious day will have to wait until April 4 of 2021, which is next year’s Easter Sunday.

Jesus will understand.

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Enterprise staff writer Yolo County property owners concerned about paying for the basics during a shelter-in-place that has left many without a paycheck received an unwelcome reminder last week about the upcoming deadline for paying property taxes.

The county reminded those who still owe a second installment on their 2019-20 property taxes that that installment must be paid by April 10 to avoid penalties. The second installment was actually due Feb. 1 but penalties (10 percent of the amount due) plus a $10 fee don’t kick in until after April 10.

Some residents have asked county officials if the deadline could be pushed back in order to provide some measure of financial relief. However, the April 10 deadline is set by state law, so only state lawmakers can change it.

And while the state Legislature may well make that change via emergency legislation, there are some options the county has now for waiving late-payment fees and other charges under some circumstances, according to Chad Rinde, Yolo County’s chief financial officer and tax collector.

For one thing, if taxpayers are unable to make their payment because the tax office is closed, no penalties will be applied. Rinde noted that his office is currently closed due the shelter in place and will remain closed until at least April 7 and longer if the shelter-inplace order is extended.

There is also a penalty waiver process taxpayers can use if they are unable to make a payment because of issues that may well arise

due to the coronavirus pandemic.

State code says any penalty, costs or other charges resulting from tax delinquency may be canceled by the auditor or the tax collector upon a finding that there was reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the taxpayer’s control.

“The taxpayer would have to submit a penalty waiver form and indicate what the circumstances are,” said Rinde, “and we would consider those circumstances.”

Circumstances might include being hospitalized or otherwise unable to manage one’s affairs, but waivers are not generally considered for economic hardship.

“The California Association of County Treasurers and Tax Collectors is looking at legislative options that would expand that,” Rinde said.

“My office is encouraging people that if they have the financial wherewithal or the financial ability to pay, they should go ahead and proceed with that and not wait for ... (an) extension.”

Speaking to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Rinde also noted that the majority of county residents who pay property taxes do so through an escrow account, “so providing a blanket waiver of all

taxes would basically benefit large financial holding companies ... to the detriment of the county.”

The county, he said, is required to pay taxes out to cities, school districts and special districts that receive a share of property taxes “even if the county hasn’t collected them.”

“So a blanket extension or lengthy extension could actually harm the county’s financial situation, which is still rapidly evolving as part of the COVID disaster,” Rinde said.

Nevertheless, he added, “we are here and we are trying to work with individual taxpayers.

“If someone does have circumstances beyond their control, we have our penalty waiver form up on our website,” he said.

That form is at https:// www.yolocounty.org/ general-government/ general-governmentdepartments/financialservices/revenues-taxesfees/property-tax To make payments, property owners who still owe that second installment can do so via the web, by mail or automated phone system. In-person payments will not be possible so long as the county Department of Financial Services remains closed as it is scheduled to be through at least April 7.

Three men are likely wishing they’d socially distanced themselves from one another earlier this week, instead of being arrested on weapon and drug-related charges, the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office reported on Facebook.

“Sacramento County residents Juan Topete, 21; Abelardo Perez, 21; and Ernesto Gomez, 18; will all be sheltering-in-place in our jail after they were

found target-shooting with a stolen handgun near County Road 107 and Courtland Road just after midnight last night,” sheriff ’s officials said in the Monday post.

Accompanying the post was a photograph showing the firearm, ammunition, piles of cash and drugs seized during the arrests, which allegedly included 54 grams of cocaine, 62 Xanax pills and nine MDMA (ecstasy) pills.

Woodland police arrest gang-shooting suspect

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff wrter Woodland police arrested a 19-year-old man Sunday night in connection with a suspected gang-related shooting at an apartment complex.

Numerous residents of the Sycamore Pointe Apartment, 521 Pioneer Ave., reported hearing shots fired at about 9:10 p.m., after which three males were seen running away toward the nearby Food-4-Less shopping center, Sgt. Dallas Hyde said.

Officers spotted one male near a Taco Bell restaurant wearing clothing described by witnesses, Hyde said. Recognized as Woodland resident Levi Duffy, he allegedly fled from police by running across Pioneer Avenue, where officers established a perimeter and searched

the area with aid from the CHP and a Sacramento County Sheriff ’s Department helicopter.

“After announcements were made from the air, Duffy was located in a field north of Pioneer Storage facility. He surrendered and was taken into custody,” Hyde said.

“K-9 Chase did an extensive search of the surrounding area as well as the area where Duffy had been seen, but the firearm used during the incident was not located.”

Duffy was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges including negligent discharge of a firearm, delaying an officer, and a gang enhancement, Hyde said. The Woodland Police Department gang task force is investigating the shooting, and anyone with information is urged to call the tip line at 530661-7850.

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SURGE: CDC suggests using bandanas if masks run out From Page A1 and work with state government officials. “We are really working together on this, sharing information and collaborating,” said Dr. Richard Carvolth, Dignity Health’s Chief Physician Executive for the greater Sacramento region.

Freeing up space Last week, Dignity Health rolled out a telehealth screening system so that patients can be assessed in their homes and avoid potential disease exposure. Clinicians on the phone triage team help patients determine whether their illness is best managed at home or if they need a higher level of care.

Local health systems also have transitioned almost all nonurgent visits to telehealth appointments and postponed most elective surgeries. In addition to reducing exposure risks, these measures reserve space and clinician availability for patients with COVID-19. “We are trying to free up and create as much capacity as we can,” Carvolth said.

To further reduce risks, Dignity Health and Sutter Davis have set up outdoor tents to screen patients who have symptoms consistent with COVID-19. “The tent is a place to screen respiratory illnesses in individuals away from the general population,” a Sutter Davis spokesperson said.

Relocating services Health systems are also relocating services to accommodate the routine health care needs of their patients while minimizing potential exposure to coronavirus. Dignity Health has designated certain buildings to serve patients with noninfectious medical needs.

“Our goal is to keep acutely ill patients out of the main Woodland Clinic building across from the hospital as well as out of the Davis building,” said Dr. Ashley Sens, Chief Medical Officer for Dignity Health’s Woodland Clinic Medical Group. “We want to keep those buildings available for elderly frail patients and patients with chronic illnesses that need ongoing management.”

As of Monday, Dignity Health triage teams will direct patients who may have coronavirus, as well as others in need of acute care, to the newly named Ambulatory Acute Care Center, formerly called East Woodland Clinic. Family medicine and pediatrics, which until Monday

were at the East Woodland site, have been relocated to the main Woodland clinic and the Davis clinic.

At the Ambulatory Acute Care Center, potential coronavirus patients may be evaluated in an outdoor screening area or in their cars to reduce exposure risks to health care workers and other patients. If symptoms are severe, the treatment team will either provide in-person care on site or transfer the patient to the Emergency Department at Woodland Memorial Hospital.

The East Woodland Urgent Care site will continue to serve patients with medical needs unrelated to coronavirus, but its hours are reduced (now open from noon to 8 p.m.) and patients are asked to schedule appointments ahead of time to avoid sitting in the waiting room.

Dignity Health is also creating a dedicated COVID-19 ward at Woodland Memorial Hospital.

“We feel the hospital and the clinic are very prepared for the surge that’s coming,” Sens said. “I want to reassure our community that we’ve got your back.”

Treatment protocol While there is no definitive treatment for COVID-19, a team of doctors at Dignity Health in Woodland have developed treatment protocols for coronavirus patients. “We are actively looking at the latest recommendations,” said Sens.

Protecting workers Health systems across the country have sounded alarms over shortages of ICU beds and ventilators, which physicians need to keep patients alive, and of personal protective equipment, which are needed to protect health care workers from infection.

“Right now, the hospital has a good supply of PPE but we are concerned — as is every other hospital in the country — about running through the supplies we have and not being able to replenish them. Running out of PPE is one of the biggest concerns for everyone,” Sens said.

On Monday, Newsom said the state’s health care workers are expected to need 200 million sets of PPE to treat COVID-19 patients over the next three months.

Several governors have urged the Trump administration to use the Defense Production Act, usually reserved for wartime, to order

companies to mass-produce key medical supplies. Thus far, President Trump has resisted using the act after the heads of large corporations lobbied against it.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised U.S. health care workers to use scarves or bandanas if face masks run out, conceding that the garments’ “capability to protect health care providers is unknown.”

On Monday, Newsom said California will charter flights of supplies from China and accept donated ventilators and PPE from the heads of Silicon Valley companies Tesla, Facebook and Apple.

If protective masks, gowns, gloves or face shields run out, frontline health care workers are more likely to become patients themselves and to infect family members and others.

In Wuhan, the likelihood of infection for health care workers was more than three times that of the general population. Roughly 1,300 medical staff in the city were infected and had to be replaced by nurses and physicians from other parts of China.

Physicians in Yolo County said it could be difficult or impossible to replace local health care workers who fall sick. “If we lose a seasoned ER physician or an ICU nurse, they’re irreplaceable at this point,” one physician said.

Dignity Health is making contingency plans for the possibility that a substantial percentage of medical staff become ill. “We are working to identify physicians who work in the clinic who have critical care skills and would be able to work in the hospital if needed,” Sens said.

The local health systems are prepared to work together if a certain hospital becomes overwhelmed. “Any capacity concerns at the hospital would involve a coordinated effort with our local public health and with other nearby hospitals,” said Dignity Health regional communications manager Yessenia Anderson. “We have created collaborative networks with public health and CDC and other health systems in our community to ensure the patients who need care can get to a facility with capacity.”

Ventilators California is roughly 50,000 hospitals beds short of being able to meet the expected surge in coronavirus patients, Newsom said Monday. Using outbuildings and tents, hospitals can reportedly

■ To donate PPE items that

are new and in their original packaging to Sutter Davis Hospital, visit Sutter Health’s donation webpage or call 1-844-987-6099 for additional information.

■ For Dignity Health, email Supplies-DignityHealthSac@ DignityHealth.org.

■ For to the UC Davis Medical Center, visit their webpage at https://health.ucdavis.edu/ coronavirus/donate.html. stretch their capacity by about 30,000 beds. To further increase capacity, Newsom has mentioned the possibility of retrofitting hotels or college dormitories to serve as medical wards.

In New York, 13 percent of people who tested positive have been hospitalized, with a quarter of those hospitalized requiring intensive care.

According to hospital cost reports analyzed by Kaiser Health News, there are 14 ICU beds in Yolo County and another 396 in Sacramento County. However, representatives of local health systems said the actual ICU capacity is greater than the reported figures.

Anticipating a surge of patients who will require intensive care, Dignity Health is prepared to convert other hospital spaces into ICUs. Operating rooms and postanesthesia recovery rooms can be used for intensive care, as can outpatient surgery centers that have suites equipped with ventilators. “We are looking at all of these things that we can bring to bear,” Carvolth said.

Testing still limited Individuals in Davis and across the country have reported being denied tests even when their physicians have requested them.

According to local health care providers, it is unlikely testing will significantly expand before next week, though greater capacity is anticipated in April.

For the past two weeks, local clinics contracting through commercial labs have tested some patients who met criteria outlined by the CDC. That criteria limits testing to people with a compromised immune system, older adults, patients sick enough to be hospitalized and health care workers with symptoms.

“Broad scale testing is not available,” the California Department of Public Health said Friday

in a press release.

Dignity Health has been testing a few patients per day at its East Woodland clinic. The tests are by appointment only and patients remain in their cars as health care workers collect swabs.

“We have staffing capacity to test 20 people per hour, but we don’t have the tests,” said Sens. “They are in very short supply.”

Despite assurances from the federal government, labs and clinics still lack essential testing supplies. Two weeks ago, Newsom reported that many of the test kits California received lacked the reagents required for them to work. Now, health systems are running out of the specialized swabs they need to collect samples, according to Carvolth and Newsom.

Even when testing supplies are available, turnaround times are slow. Most of the local clinics contract lab work through Quest Diagnostics, which in some cases has taken more than a week to return results, according to CommuniCare CEO Melissa Marshall and other local physicians.

The UC Davis Medical Center has developed an in-house test that delivers faster results, but the tests are not yet widely available.

UC Davis began testing about 20 people per day last week, with plans to eventually increase that capacity to 1,000 tests per day.

Stay at home With local testing data too limited to be useful, physicians and public health officials are looking at models based on outbreaks in other places to predict when a major surge could arrive in the region. “It’s hard to know what the volume of the surge is going to be or the timing of it,” Carvolth said.

The limited capacity to test also has urgent implications for social behavior. Studies suggest some of the largest coronavirus outbreaks may have been started by people who were asymptomatic and did not know they were infected.

“Assume you are potentially contagious and act accordingly,” Newsom said last week.

California, Yolo County and the city of Davis have all issued shelter-in-place orders to limit social contact in order to slow the spread of the virus. “These measures are in place for a reason — to keep our hospitals from being completely overrun and to keep our health care workers healthy,” a local physician said. “Help keep us healthy so we can do our job keeping you healthy.”

OLYMPIC: City honors local team DEATH: County lets out more info From Page A1 honors the McPherson Globe Refiners basketball team, whose members made up half of the 1936 Olympic team. He has been working with the city of McPherson, Kan., to honor the team with a monument to their achievements.

Betti has created monuments around the country including sculptures in the World War II museum in New Orleans, Tuskegee Airman Joe Gomer for a college in Iowa and F.O. Stanley, the creator of the Stanley Steamer automobile at the famed Stanley Hotel in Colorado, to name only a few of his pieces.

The chance to memorialize the McPherson basketball team is another opportunity to ensure history is preserved for future generations.

The McPherson Globe Refiners formed in 1933, sponsored by the Globe Oil and Refinery company, which built the refinery in McPherson.

The team played in the Amateur Athletic Union, which was made up of teams of former college players. Working in the refinery and playing on the basketball team offered them regular employment during the Depression.

During their 3-year run as a team, they finished second in the national AAU tournament in 1935

and won it in 1936, qualifying them to compete in the first Olympic basketball trials to represent the United States.

The McPherson team was told they would not have jobs when they returned if they went to Germany and the Universal team’s sponsor, Universal Studios in Hollywood, did not want to send athletes to the Olympics, either, because of Hitler’s anti-Semitism and in protest to the U.S.’s participation in the Berlin-based Olympics.

The regional qualifying and finals tournament schedule established to determine the Olympic team would serve as the model for the future March Madness tournaments of the modern NCAA basketball tournament. They played these Olympic trial games in front of sold-out audiences at Madison Square Garden.

The Globe Refiners lost 44-43 to the Universals in the final game trials.

This was a reversal of the final of the AAU national tournament two weeks prior in Denver, where the Globe Refiners beat the Universals 47-35.

The Globe Refiners’ loss in the trials final meant the Universals would have seven players on the Olympic team and the head coach, and the runner-up Globe Refiners would have only six. A single college player was

added from the thirdplace University of Washington team. This was the precedent for adding one college player to the 1992 Olympic dream team.

The city of McPherson recently renovated the McPherson Community Center, including the home court the Globe Refiners played on from 1933-36. To make sure the story of this extraordinary team and effort are not forgotten, the city has funded this effort to create a memorial in their honor.

Betti’s monument to the team consists of a 13-foot-wide laser-etched black granite wall with a life-size bronze relief sculpture of the team.

The sculpture will highlight the history of the team and will be installed outside the community center where the Globe Refiners used to practice in the 1930s.

The creation of this piece has been a labor of love for Betti, who specializes in creating monuments ensuring that nobody forgets the efforts and activities of everyday heroes. He strives to ensure their deeds are commemorated for future generations to continue to learn and remember forever.

This McPherson Globe Refiners monument is scheduled to be installed in McPherson, Kan., in September.

From Page A1 far where each of the individuals who have the coronavirus live, did reveal Tuesday that three of the individuals are from the Bryte and Broderick area of West Sacramento.

“Location information is being provided due to the grouping of these cases in a specific geographic area,” the county said. “The county and city of West Sacramento are working with local partners to provide direct outreach to that community to help prevent further spread of illness.”

In response to the increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the community, Yolo County issued a

countywide health order last week for residents to shelter in place through April 7. With this order, the county hopes to slow the spread of the disease, protect those most vulnerable and preserve local healthcare capacity.

Chapman, speaking to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, said, “This virus continues to bring humanity to its knees.”

People, he said, “need to stay home at all costs.”

And while most county residents are, Chapman said, “we are hearing about people who are not,” particularly young people gathering at parties that have to be broken up by police.

If people do not abide by

the current shelter-in-place rules and the virus continues to spread, Chapman said more severe restrictions may be needed.

Noting the recent death, Yolo County Board of Supervisors Chair Gary Sandy said, “It is the personal responsibility of every Yolo County resident to observe the health protocols. It is now a matter of life and death.”

As of Tuesday, the state had 2,102 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and 40 deaths.

Meanwhile, the county is focused on getting homeless individuals into shelter in order to slow the spread of the virus, including by using vacant hotel rooms.

SCHOOL: Quality learning time From Page A1 to overhaul all their lesson plans, since online instruction is a very different task than working with students in a classroom situation.

Superintendent John Bowes told The Enterprise, “to proactively slow the spread of (the COVID-19 virus), I announced the closure of schools until April 13. Last week, Gov. Newsom ordered all California residents to stay home and indicated that schools may remain closed for the next few months. To this end, the Davis school district, like school districts around the country, is

actively preparing for a Distance Learning model of instruction, which we will launch in the coming weeks.

“This will ensure that our students receive a quality continued education to take us through this closure period. We know this will look and feel much different from traditional classroom instruction, but will ultimately enhance the future of education in the Davis school district.”

Further details regarding home learning in the Davis school district are expected to be announced later this week.

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n previous years I have “given up” ranting for Lent, but since the 2016 election, I’ve been wholly unable to make that sacrifice.

In fact, this Lent my rants have ramped up. This one, though, has nothing to do with Trump, electoral politics, the climate crisis, or even COVID-19 (you don’t really need another rant about that, do you?). Or maybe it does.

This is a Napa rant. During the last 15 years, the town of Napa has been a quick, lovely, relaxing getaway from the, well, everydayness of my life in Davis.

Napa, after all, has hills and a peaceful river — in addition to good restaurants and two excellent wine shops (Back Door Wines and the much smaller collection at Compline).

On my last trip, just a few weeks ago (you know, the old days when we could travel), though, the cracks showed — and I’m not talking about the many cracks in the sidewalks or the cracks that rendered unsafe so many buildings there after the 2014 earthquake. What I mean here is perhaps best illustrated by a change in rhetoric: no longer are downtown storefronts offering tastes of wine from local vineyards for increasingly hefty fees like $10-$15. No, now they offer “wine-tasting experiences,” in “tasting lounges,” which are, you may have guessed, much more expensive. (Of course, as of

last week, no one is offering any in-person activities at all.)

And this experience is ubiquitous. Clothing boutiques, craft stores, art galleries — by the end of my 24-hour Napa visit, I was surprised that the toy store didn’t have a wine bar or tasting lounge.

And then there was the “wine weekend” that touted a seminar on preparing a cheese board that’s “Instagram worthy.” Gee, I thought a cheese board was an assortment of excellent cheese with a few nuts and dried fruits for the enjoyment of our friends.

That is, for our friends to eat, not look at on their screens.

And the wines! Exuberantly priced cabs and even pinot noirs topping 15% alcohol, 14.8% chardonnays. All oaky and jammy and glamorous and homogeneous — like the beautiful people who wander in and out of the shops.

So it was a great relief to stumble upon Outland, a small tasting venue that features the wines of three producers, one of them Forlorn Hope. At that point I

was thinking that the forlorn hope was finding a low-alcohol, food-friendly, natural wine among all the fruit-bomb, manipulated horrors. And that guess was not entirely wrong: Forlorn Hope was named for a band of soldiers who volunteered to lead a charge directly into enemy defenses. Chance of success, minimal. Reward, great.

Winemaker Matthew Rorick (grad of UCD Viticuture & Enology) calls his wines Rare Creatures because they’re “from appellations unknown and varieties uncommon.” “These wines,” he continues, “are our brave advance party, our pride and joy — our Forlorn Hope.” I might fault him for inflated rhetoric if I didn’t so love his Rare Creatures.

Take, for example, the bottle we purchased from Outland to drink with our dinner — the 2017 Ost-Intrigen. It’s made from the St. Laurent grape, a dark-skinned and aromatic variety related to pinot noir, parent to zweigelt and mostly cultivated in the Czech Republic.

These particular grapes, though were grown by Dale Ricci in his Carneros vineyard (Napa) and were whole-clusternative yeast fermented, unfiltered, with minimal manipulation and minimal sulfur.

Exotic, spicy, bright, lightly tannic, the aroma alone was practically worth the price of the bottle, but it was also the perfect accompaniment to the

wood-oven-roasted vegetables and pizza we ordered at Ca’Momi that night.

All our irritation at the Napa excesses faded as we sipped this terrific, life-filled, ever-changing wine. And the alcohol on this beauty? 9.85%. That’s not a misprint.

Had we been buying a white, we would have chosen the 2013 Forlorn Hope Nacré, from 100% semillon grapes grown in Napa Valley by the Hoxsey family — dry farmed and organic. The fruit was hand-picked, pressed whole cluster, and it underwent spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel.

I was shocked by the year — 2013 — but was informed that semillon, carefully produced (this one was aged five years in the bottle prior to its release last winter), can last for decades. As it does in the semillons of Australia’s Hunter Valley. Matthew calls his version Nacré — mother of pearl — in honor of its affinity for oysters.

The wine’s amazing — layer upon layer of focused fruit that’s crisp but quite rich, assertive but elegant, fascinating and elusive.

Alcohol? 11%.

Rare Creatures are, indeed, rare. Not only for their unusual grapes and vineyards but for their small production. You won’t be surprised to learn that they’re not cheap — prices are in the $25-$35 range — much less than a fancy Napa cab or chard

but definitely in my “special occasion” category.

These days, though, I’m feeling that a few hours without seriously bad news constitutes a special occasion, worthy of a really good wine. And — a bit of good news among the bad — you don’t have to join the beautifulpeople procession in Napa to get it.

The Co-op has brought in an excellent selection of Forlorn Hope, including the Nacré and the Ost-Intrigen. And if you’re willing to make just a short drive to The Pip in Dixon (more about that soon), you can pick up a bottle of Rorick’s Queen of the Sierra Red ($21 — this is his second label).

Get a bottle and celebrate something, anything — a quarter-inch of rain, the publication of the third volume of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy, spring in beautiful Davis, or your newfound leisure. I read recently about the “last supper” requests of death row inmates, steak and fried chicken high on the list.

I’m feeling a bit Last Supperish myself as I prepare meals in these plague days. But I’m more inclined to wish for fresh lobster served over homemade pasta.

And I’ll take a bottle of the Nacré to drink with it.

— Susana Leonardi is a Davis resident; reach her at vinosusana @gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise. com.

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he spring, or vernal, equinox marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

This year it was on Thursday, March 19, in North America, which is the earliest it has been since 1896.

While we look forward to spring with the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are preparing for fall with the autumnal equinox.

Equinox is derived from Latin: aequus, which is “equal”; and nox, which is “night” — meaning “equal night.” At an equinox, spring or fall, the day and night are the closest to being equal in time than any other time of the year.

Since the winter solstice in December, the days have been getting longer, and we will continue to get longer daytime hours until the summer solstice in June.

Because of non-perfect elliptical orbit of Earth around the sun, the day/ night hours of an equinox are not perfectly equal, but it is the closest they will be until the fall equinox. Even though the hours are not perfect, the two equinoxes are the only time of the year that the sun will rise at due east and set at due west. At the equator, the

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On the spring equinox, the sun’s rays hit the Earth squarely and day lasts as long as night.

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The spring equinox is the time we look forward to warmer weather and longer days. To help prevent the spread of COVID19, Explorit will be closed to the public until at least March 31.

Our staff is working remotely and will be answering emails, please contact us at explorit@ explorit.org with any questions. Check out some online science recourses at

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Explorit’s coming events: ■ Become a member of Explorit! Membership grants you free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, discounts on events, camps, and workshops, and gives you ASTC benefits. For more information or to purchase or renew your membership visit www.explorit.org/join/ membership-levels or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.

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Weeklong camps from 8:45 a.m. to noon for kids entering grades K-6, with

one evening camp for grades 6-10. Prices are $125 members/$150 non-members. Registration available online at http://www.explorit.org/ programs/summer-camp/ summer-and-vacationclasses.

■ Extended public hours: 1 to 5 p.m. every day during the week of April 6-10. Regular hours resume Saturday, April 11.

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Autumn Labbé-Renault, executive director of DMA, hosts. She said the half-hour show focuses on local voices, perspectives, and ways to help or receive help.

With many of DMA’s projects temporarily shelved, she and staff have been retooling behind the scenes.

Upcoming guests include: ■ Friday, March 27: Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor and Dr. Ron Chapman of Yolo Public Health; ■ Tuesday, March 31: Heidy Kellison, Downtownnorcal business blog and Jessica Hubbard, executive director of Yolo Community Foundation; and ■ Friday, April 3: Congressman John Garamendi.

Labbé-Renault said she’ll continue the show for the foreseeable future, and will be working to include voices and perspectives from nearby communities as the weeks progress.

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everal Great Trees were nominated this year during the 2020 Great Tree Search because they are among the largest of their species in Davis.

The valley oak at 501 Oak Ave. is the largest tree measured during the search. Its 21-foot girth slightly exceeds that of the 380-year-old giant along old Putah Creek in south Davis. This oak is 120 feet tall with a similar crown spread. It was over 200 years old when European immigrants began to settle here in the 1840s. This massive living landmark can be called a “Witness Tree,” an expression for trees that rested at the corners of parcels when surveyors divvied up land.

Oak Avenue was likely named for this tree. Hopefully, it will continue to grace the neighborhood with its uncommon beauty for generations to come.

The Formosan flame tree behind the Friends Hall at 345 L St. is one of the largest in Davis. The crown of this veteran reaches 70 feet and spreads 60 feet. With a girth of 9.6 feet, it is almost the size of its cousin at the northeast corner of Eighth and L streets. These two trees were likely planted at the

same time in 1961. Every fall, their crowns are adorned with lipstick pink capsules that follow attractive yellow flowers. Warren Roberts, superintendent of the UC Davis Arboretum, nominated this tree and has long been a proponent of the Formosan flame.

Some trees just refuse to die. Such is the case with the weeping willow at 375 W. Eighth St. Although the exact planting date of this tree is unknown, it was already a large tree in the early 1960s. At the turn of the century, it was a magnificent specimen that visually dominated the intersection of Eighth and Oak streets. Its spread exceeded its 50-foot height and its pendulous branches gracefully brushed the ground. Over the past decade, pests, disease and other stressors have reduced the crown to a skeleton of its former self. The thick, gnarled trunk (9.8-foot girth) supports a crown that barely spreads to 30 feet. As in a horror film, it seems to shrink every year, returning like a zombie tree.

A shiny xylosma hides behind the privets, oaks and other plants along the north border of College Park. This multi-stemmed tree reaches upward 45 feet for the sun. Like an octopus trying to escape a trap,

a hackberry tree grows out through the middle of the xylosma’s crown. Xylosma is normally a hedge plant that reaches 10 feet tall, so this is an unusually lofty specimen. Extracts from the evergreen foliage have medicinal uses.

Calamondin is a species of citrus and a hybrid between a kumquat and mandarin orange. The calamondin at 512 K St. reaches 30 feet tall with a 4-foot girth. Usually a shrub, this calamondin provides ample shade and tasty fruit with a distinctive sweet (peel) and sour (fruit) flavor when eaten whole. The fruits are used to make marmalade, juices, sauces and cake.

Ginkgo trees are very slow-growing, which makes the 65-foot-tall one in front of Wilhelmina Currie’s home at 943 Ponderosa Place even more spectacular. The trunk of this ginkgo has a 5.6-foot girth that supports a crown 36 feet in diameter.

She loves the leaves, which look like dinosaur footprints and turn buttery yellow in the fall.

A Canary Island pine towers 76 feet above Mont Hubbard’s home, at 43351 Almond Lane, in what was an almond orchard before the Willowbank subdivision was developed in 1947. Its hefty trunk has a

This valley oak is called a “Witness Tree” because it was massive when surveyors divvied up land along Oak Avenue and it is at the corner of a parcel intersecting with Russell Boulevard.

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girth of 15 feet and supports a massive crown that spreads 70 feet. It was planted about 65 years ago when the home was built.

The tree has sheltered owls and attracted hawks.

About 15 years ago, a nest was blown out of the tree.

Hubbard and his daughter built a hawk nest and

climbed high into the crown to secure it. They are still waiting for new neighbors to call it home.

— Submitted by Greg McPherson, a member of the Tree Davis Board of Directors and retired U.S. Forest Service urban forest researcher. This project is made possible by support

from Tree Davis sponsor Symphony Financial Planning. These and other stories on what made each tree special were captured in a series of Davis Enterprise articles that can be found at the Tree Davis website http://www.tree davis.org/programs/greattree-search.

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everal trees were nominated this year in the Great Tree Search because they are rarely found in Davis.

Sweet olive is a good example. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to Asia with extremely fragrant flowers that smell like ripe peaches. Although very popular in Japan and China where it is the “city tree” of several municipalities, it is unusual in Davis.

The sweet olive was planted by the late Dr. Andrew Leiser at his home on 939 Pecan Place and has grown into a 30-foottall tree. Leiser was one of the finest plantsmen in California and studied woody plants with horticultural potential. Sweet olive was one of these.

With a girth of nearly 4 feet, this tree is enormous for its kind, and when in flower its delicious scent permeates the neighborhood.

The Mexican evergreen oak planted by the late UC Davis professor John Tucker is another one of Davis’ arboreal legacies.

Tucker was a worldrenowned oak expert whose research led to the

Shields Oak Grove at the UCD Arboretum. Oddly, in Davis this species is only found in the backyard of his former residence at 1324 Torrey St. Its acorns are prized by collectors.

The tree is 50 feet tall, with a 30-foot spread and 4.5-foot girth. Its interesting foliage, drought tolerance and resistance to disease and pests make it a good choice for contemporary landscapes.

Paul Kelley’s backyard contains palms from around the world, but the Mexican blue palm is his pride and joy. This 70-yearold tree was transplanted by crane (it weighed 10,000 pounds) seven years ago from a site in West Sacramento. Now it is 30 feet tall and the stout trunk has a girth of 6.1 feet. It is believed to be the largest of its kind in Davis.

The Mexican blue palm is known for its distinctly bluish fronds and white flower stalks that arch well beyond the crown. This fan palm is native to Baja California and drought tolerant.

At 648 D St. there is a tree that goes unnoticed except when it flowers.

The 35-foot-tall orchid

This 70-year old Mexican blue palm has distinctly bluish fronds and white flower stalks that can be seen from Shasta Drive. tree has died back from cold snaps and sprouted several times. The four scarred stems are testaments to its tenacity. In spring, the light pink orchid-like flowers are spectacular and their fragrance intoxicates. A wonderful watercolor painting by local artist MarieTherese Brown aptly captures the delicate beauty of these flowers. The twice lobed leaves are interesting as well. This Great Tree is truly a hidden gem.

Austrian pine is not common in Davis, and the one at 1132 Dartmouth Place is uncommonly

large. According to Grace Hodgson, the tree is nearly 60 years old. Its spreading canopy and dark-colored bark make the front yard stand out. This specimen is 70 feet tall and has a girth of 5.5 feet. It is home to many birds, squirrels and, occasionally, raccoons.

Next door at 1140 Dartmouth Place is a beautiful Mexican weeping pine.

Although not as tall (55 feet) as the Austrian pine, this tree has a gorgeous spreading crown (48 feet) and drooping tufts of needles. The stout trunk (6.5foot girth) and feathery foliage are very attractive.

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This Mexican evergreen oak is the only one known to exist in the region and its acorns are prized by collectors.

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This watercolor painting by local artist Marie-Therese Brown came from a cutting off an orchid tree and captures the delicate beauty of the flowers and foliage.

Sweet olive has fragrant flowers that smell like ripe peaches.

Native to the highlands of Mexico, the Mexican weeping pine is quite drought resistant and merits increased use as an ornamental tree in Davis.

One of the most visible trees in Davis is the Paradox walnut that stands in front of the Davis Lutheran Church at 317 E. Eighth St. Its enormous branches defy gravity, sweeping downward and then lifting upward to the sky. The crown spreads 90 feet, greatly exceeding its

height (65 feet). This tree was probably planted by active congregation member Harold Forde who, along with Eugene Serr, began the walnut breeding program at UC Davis in 1948. Luther Burbank produced the first Paradox walnut by cross-pollinating the native black walnut with English walnut. He named it Paradox because it displayed traits uncommon to both parents, such as rapid growth, few walnuts and very strong wood.

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RENTER: Supes OK community benefit fund From Page A1 moratorium on foreclosures and related evictions that were caused by a decrease in personal or commercial income related to the pandemic.

Left to be determined — and to be addressed at a future meeting — is the timeline renters would face in paying past-due rent once the pandemic emergency ends.

“Low-income tenants who have experienced economic hardship would find it difficult to pay the full amount of rent on the day the emergency ceases,” noted Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis.

One option supervisors may consider is giving renters something like 120 days to pay back what they owe when the emergency ends.

Speaking in support of the resolution, Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis said, “If we don’t have something like this, then there is a potential for individuals to become homeless at a very vulnerable time and that is something we want to do everything we can to mitigate.

“This doesn’t remove people from their obligations,” he added. “Renters (will) pay at some point, (but) it forestalls this bad outcome in the short-term.”

Also on Tuesday, county supervisors voiced their support for a community benefit fund in partnership with the Yolo Community Fund and coordinating with Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.

The fund would serve as a central location for donations from public and private entities and be used to grant money to local nonprofits needing assistance and fill gaps in social services such as childcare for

first responders, healthcare workers and others impacted by COVID-19.

“It’s essential that we have a central place that the county and hopefully the cities and chambers (of commerce) can all donate to and generate hopefully larger donations with community partners so that we can address gaps,” said Provenza.

“I know that child care was mentioned,” he said. “(But) there are needs across the board in various areas that aren’t covered because these are things that we haven’t thought about before or necessarily planned for, whether it’s child care, the homeless, the elderly … and as soon as possible we should have a substantial fund available to meet some of these gaps.”

“It makes all the sense in the world,” said Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento.

The board also appropriated $250,000 in contingency funds toward the effort.

Over the next week or two, county staff will work to develop a steering committee composed of the major partners to identify gaps in services and direct where to dedicate the funds raised. Staff also will reach out to cities and chambers of commerce to join the effort and return to the board with progress.

The board, meanwhile, agreed to staff ’s suggestion on Tuesday that they begin meeting weekly — rather than every other week — in order to continue to deal with the myriad issues likely to crop up in the course of the pandemic.

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ount me among those who are disappointed that the Olympics have been postponed, but relieved they have not been scrapped altogether.

I have always been fascinated by the incredible talent displayed by Olympic athletes in a wide variety of sporting endeavors, even if I was never any good at any Olympic-type event.

Before the local high-school season was suspended by the coronavirus, I spent several hours watching a track meet at Davis High.

There were some very fast kids out there. And some big, strong kids. And some agile kids. Indeed, there wasn’t a slowpoke in the bunch.

To be sure, some of those kids were a heck of a lot faster or stronger than the other kids, but they all appeared to me to be exceedingly fit and up to whatever challenge their particular events presented.

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have always loved sports, both as a participant and as a fan, ever since my days as a toddler when I first saw a ball roll across the living room floor.

I’ve always figured that’s the ultimate test of whether a kid will or will not take up sports: if the ball is ignored or the eyes don’t track it, the kid is more likely to earn the Nobel Prize for literature, not throw the winning touchdown pass in a Super Bowl.

But if junior, without prompting from mom or dad, immediately crawls across the floor and grabs the ball before it stops rolling, like a human version of a golden retriever, watch out. An athlete has been born.

Growing up in this town when it was much, much smaller than it is today, I was never a superstar in any sport, but I could field a grounder, hit a tennis ball over the net and make the occasional free throw if I were given a couple of chances.

The first time I saw a track meet, over on Toomey Field when dual meets between college teams were common, I was intrigued.

There were more events being contested than I had fingers and toes, with

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DHS lacrosse sisters aide health workers

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Amid the statewide coronavirus shutdown, one might find most high-school athletes kicking back, playing video games or browsing through their Netflix libraries.

Not Blue Devil sisters Grace and Ella Heringer ...

The two Davis High lacrosse stars have been hard at work the last several weeks from their Davis home, following Yolo County’s shelter-in-place orders.

Their task? Shield-making.

“We’re producing face shields for local hospital workers,” explains Grace, a junior and starting defensive midfielder for the DHS girls lacrosse squad.

“Each time we sit down, we’re cranking out 50 to 100,” adds Ella, a DHS freshman.

Their mother, Karen, an emergency physician with Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, inspired what’s become a “family assembly line,” according to Grace: “Everyday, (Mom) was coming home and telling us stories about how they were running out of masks and how doctors are starting to get worried since it’s a health hazard for them, too.”

Putting matters into their own hands, the sisters fired up their home laminator machine and, along with scissors and some athletic tape, began to manufacture face shields at the kitchen table.

With some help from teammates and neighbors, they’ve been shipping off supplies to Kaiser (and a handful of other local hospitals) over the past week. Their operation, now dubbed Team Shield, is responsible for hundreds of face shields used by emergency-room workers each day.

“People are helping out by ordering us items or making masks themselves, and we’re able to bring it all back to our house and our mom can drop

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The Heringer sibling duo works assembly-line style producing face shields for local medical professionals.

Grace, left, and Ella are each starters on the Davis High girls lacrosse team. things off when she goes to work,” Grace points out.

Those looking to aid the Lady Devils’ effort can visit their website at teamshield norcal.squarespace.com. The site includes a video tutorial on how to make masks and how to get them delivered to healthcare professionals.

Ella says from start-tofinish, masks can be made in less than 5 minutes.

“We were both devastated when our lacrosse season got cut short,” Grace adds. “Especially, for the seniors on our team.”

The Blue Crew was off to a solid 4-2 start this spring before Davis schools shut down in hopes of limiting transmission of the virus.

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jam-packed spring schedule, has become a ghost town. Staff, coaches, student-athletes ... all ordered to avoid campus. The impact on psyches and budgets is yet to be fully weighed.

Less than two weeks after the Big West stopped its women’s basketball tournament in mid-rounds and halted all other competition, the NCAA has canceled competition and, for now, payouts to member schools as the impacts of the coronavirus reach into yet-uncharted regions.

UCD Director of Athletics Kevin Blue, in a phone interview from his Davis home, took some time to shed as much light as possible on the state of sports at his school. Here is that interview with Blue ...

Q. Given the suspension of all sports (two weeks ago), have there

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor It’s been a tumultuous month for almost everyone worldwide. And while there is nary a business, lifestyle or pastime that hasn’t been affected by the outbreak of COVID19, few areas have been harder hit than the world of sports.

Events near and far have been canceled or suspended. From T-ball to the pinnacle of performance — the 32nd Olympiad in Tokyo this July — athletics everywhere have been shut down until further notice.

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Anybody holding down the fort on campus?

Blue — “No. Nobody’s there. There still is the odd facilities-related maintenance item that needs to get done, but everybody is working from home.”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2020

Unreliable data guides virus policy

Newspapers W play a key role against outbreak The issue: Free flow of information helps fight contagion CONCERN OVER the spreading COVID19 virus over the past two months has increasingly gripped our nation.

In this public health crisis, people need access to accurate and authoritative information so that they can make decisions about their health and safety. Hearsay, halftruths and supposition don’t cut it when our lives may be at stake. That’s why this newspaper — and thousands of others in our state — are on the front lines of the pandemic. We are there to inquire, authenticate and report facts so you know what’s going on and what to do.

At The Davis Enterprise, we take that responsibility seriously.

Our newsroom team is working virtually around-the-clock to provide our readers with the latest information on how and where the virus is spreading and what health experts are recommending to protect the public. To ensure that information is accurate, our editors review and fact-check each element of every story. Further behind the scenes, dedicated employees in production, subscriber and delivery services make sure that our digital and print editions reach our readers with the information they need in these turbulent times.

We live in an era when information is fingertip-accessible, but so is misinformation.

We provide the relevant details on the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on the Davis Joint Unified District, local government and UC Davis’ operations. Every day, we’re here, focused on delivering critical information to you, our readers, about the things that matter most to you: business, the stock market, jobs, quality of life, elected officials, events, local schools, entertainment, crime, transportation, weather and more.

We strive for complete accuracy — and when we err, we hold ourselves accountable and strive to do better in the future.

IN THE FACE of this great responsibility, newspapers are operating under increasing financial pressure. More than 1 in 5 papers in the United States has closed down over the past 15 years, and the number of journalists has been cut in half, according to the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism. Close to home, the Sacramento News & Review and the Chico News & Review just this week suspended publication due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak.

We would be remiss not to note that our state legislators — Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa and Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters — along with their peers in the Legislature, are threatening the very existence of newspapers across the state through their unwavering support of Assembly Bill 5 and its provision that contractors who deliver newspapers across the state must be employees of the publications for which they deliver.

So if you appreciate the hard work of our journalists during this crisis, please let them know by sending them an email. They are on the front lines, sharing the critical work being done by first responders, health care professionals, public health experts and many others.

In times of challenges, we’re reminded that we’re all in this together, sharing acts of simple kindness and community cohesion: neighbors helping neighbors, young families making sure seniors have plenty of food, and businesses temporarily closing their doors but paying employees during the shutdown.

Although it may be a frightening time, the worst trials can bring out the best in Americans.

We’re proud to tell these stories of our times.

hen it comes to the novel coronavirus, we lack solid science to make rational policy.

Before you get angry, I need to make one thing clear: I am not saying that what public health officials are doing in the face of COVID19 is wrong. I am personally practicing social distancing and I would never suggest anyone else should violate the advice and orders of county and state officials.

That said, in the most important respect, we are flying blind.

Behind our response to COVID-19 — to require social distancing, to close most businesses and all schools, to instigate a severe economic collapse and to purchase every last roll of toilet paper — is a big guess: That this virus is so virulent and so deadly to so many that we must shut down almost everything everywhere.

We don’t know that. We don’t have solid scientific evidence to show that. We have not tried to acquire that evidence.

What we and most countries have done is test people who have serious symptoms of the disease and those directly in contact with them, and assumed conclusions from this biased sample.

Doing that is not science.

In no sense does it give us a true picture of the deadliness of this coronavirus. It also does not tell us much about the ability of people to survive this disease.

This is not simply my opinion. That is what our most respected epidemiologists are saying.

John Ioannidis — professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health, biomedical data science and statistics at Stanford University — recently wrote this: “The data collected so far

on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to (COVID-19) are being missed.

“We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of three or 300.

Three months after the outbreak emerged, most countries, including the U.S., lack the ability to test a large number of people and no countries have reliable data on the prevalence of the virus in a representative random sample of the general population.

“Patients who have been tested for (COVID-19) are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future.”

As everyone who has studied statistics knows, drawing broad conclusions from a non-random sample group is specious.

Dr. Ioannidis is not alone in this view among epidemiologists. Here is a quote from Dr. Larry Brilliant, chairman of the board of Ending Pandemics, taken from an interview in Wired Magazine: “Tests would make a measurable difference. We should be doing a stochastic process random probability sample of the country to find out where the hell the virus really is.

Because we don’t know,”

Brilliant said. “Maybe Mississippi is reporting no cases because it’s not looking. How would they know?”

Without a doubt, we know the new virus can kill. As I write (on Monday morning), there have been 15,436 fatalities worldwide and 474 in the United States, including 35 in California. But those numbers, which will undoubtedly grow, need to be seen in context. In a typical year, 650,000 die globally from the seasonal flu — roughly 35,000 in the United States.

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great worry expressed by public health professionals is that this novel virus may overwhelm our medical care system. Unfortunately, because we don’t have scientific sampling to know the approximate death and hospitalization rates of everyone infected, we don’t know if that is a reasonable fear.

Keep in mind that we had a very virulent flu two years ago. Hospitalizations (900,000) and deaths (80,000) were more than double a typical year. Yet even with that virulence, our hospitals were mostly not overwhelmed.

But, in hotspots, some were. That is the same, so far, with COVID-19. If the virus hits a vulnerable population, there will be a big spike of hospitalizations and deaths.

That is what happened in Washington state, where 96 people have died.

Italy (5,476 deaths, 59,138 positive tests) has had it even worse. This virus struck a large, highly vulnerable population of mostly elderly people who were already sick.

So far, despite its severity in Lombardy, healthy Italians are not getting seriously ill from coronavirus. Almost 99 percent of Italians who

have died from this virus previously had one or more fatal conditions. This is known as comorbidity.

Hypertension preexisted in 73.8 percent of Italian coronavirus deaths; diabetes, 33.9 percent; heart disease, 30.1 percent; atrial fibrillation, 22 percent; chronic renal failure, 20.2 percent; recent cancer, 19.5 percent; COPD, 13.7 percent; dementia 11.9 percent; stroke, 11.2 percent; and chronic liver disease, 3.7 percent.

In Italy, 48.6 percent of those who have died from this virus had three or more comorbidities; another 26.6 percent had two comorbidities; 23.5 percent had one comorbidity; and only 1.2 percent had no known comorbidities.

The great shame is that we could have responded much faster.

When we learned late last year that a new coronavirus was spreading in Hubei province in China, our federal government failed to act. Part of the reason we didn’t know what to do is that President Trump fired his pandemic response team in 2018.

Also, according to Reuters, “Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China.”

As Trump dithered, science burned.

Until we test a random sample of our population in the United States, we won’t know if the threat to our hospitals will be far worse than a bad flu year or not. Public health officials don’t have good data, as epidemiologists know.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week.

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Is my Davis Enterprise safe to read?

By “my Davis Enterprise,” I mean the hard-copy paper newspaper that arrives with some regularity on my driveway every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. By “safe,” I mean of course, not contaminated with the Covid-19 virus.

I love my newspaper. I have been a subscriber since I arrived here in 1990. Reading the paper online is just not the same as cuddling up to the real thing next to a bright window with a snack or a cup of coffee. I spend too much time on the computer as it is.

However, we are having some severe discussions around here concerning if and when our beloved paper newspaper is safe to touch. My husband was the first to realize the danger, banning our paper to the outdoor table, perhaps to be disinfected by the sun, and then reacting strongly to my putting it on our kitchen table. I swiftly dropped the paper on the floor and disinfected the table with me best wipes. And there papers sat while we contemplated if and when they would be safe to pick up and read.

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We know that the virus only lasts on copper for 4 hours and up to 24 on cardboard. Is paper the same as cardboard? (And why did they test copper but not paper?) After two days, I finally picked up the Sunday paper and devoured the local coronavirus angle, but now I feel anxious about it.

We probably shouldn’t even talk about letting a paper with two-day old news sit around for another two days before being read. Although, since no one is going out and about in Davis, the news didn’t seem as stale as I anticipated.

But I really would like to know if my Enterprise is safe to read. I hope you can consult your experts and offer some advice.

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■ Editor’s note: As Earl J. Wilkinson, executive director and CEO of the International News Media Association, points out in a blog post (https://www.inma.org/blogs/earl/post.cfm/zero-incidents-of-covid19-transmission-from-print-surfaces), there have been “zero incidents of COVID-19 transmission from print surfaces.”

According the World Health Organization, “The likelihood of an infected person contaminating commercial goods is low and the risk of catching the virus that causes COVID-19 from a package that has been moved, traveled and exposed to different conditions and (temperature) is also low.”

There are no guarantees at this point, but presumably, newsprint, being more porous than cardboard, is even less hospitable to the virus.

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UCD researchers target obesity-related illnesses

BY KATHY KEATLEY GARVEY Special to The Enterprise Newly published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that a drug discovered and developed in the laboratory of Bruce Hammock of the UC Davis department of entomology and nematology may have a major role in preventing and treating illnesses associated with obesity.

More than 43 percent of adults in the United States are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Obesity increases the risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain kinds of cancer.

The drug, a soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibitor, appears to regulate “obesityinduced intestinal barrier dysfunction and bacterial translocation,” the 12-member team of researchers from UCD, University of Massachusetts and University of Michigan discovered. The same non-opioid drug is being investigated in human clinical safety trials in Texas to see if it blocks chronic pain associated with diseases such as spinal cord injury, diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease.

The research, funded by multiple federal grants, is titled “Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Is an Endogenous Regulator of Obesity-Induced Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction and Bacterial Translocation.”

“Obesity usually causes the loss of tight junctions and leaky gut,” said first author Yuxin Wang, a postdoctoral researcher who joined the Hammock lab in 2019 from the department of food sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “In normal conditions, the gut mucosal barrier is like a defender to protect us from the ‘dirty things’ in the lumen, such as bacteria and endotoxin. For obese individuals, the defender loses some function and leads to more ‘bad things’ going into the circulation system, causing systemic or other organ disorders.”

Although intestinal dysfunction and other problems enhancing bacterial translocation underlies many human diseases, “the mechanisms remain largely unknown,” said Wang, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry and

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Postdoctoral researcher Yuxin Wang is the first author of a study on a drug that may have a major role in preventing and treating illnesses associated with obesity. molecular biology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “What we found is sEH inhibition can repair the defender function (barrier function), decrease the ‘bad things’ going into the blood (bacteria translocation) and reduce inflammation of fat.”

“Our research shows that sEH is a novel endogenous regulator of obesity-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction and bacterial translocation,” said corresponding author Guodong Zhang, a former researcher in the Hammock lab and now with the food science department and molecular and cellular biology graduate program at the University of Massachusetts.

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our finding provides a novel conceptual approach to target barrier dysfunction and its resulting disorders with clinical/transitional importance.

“Furthermore,” Zhang said, “in this research, we showed that the effects of sEH are mediated by gut microbiota-dependent mechanisms. These research efforts could help to bridge two disparate fields, lipid signaling autacoids and gut microbiota, and hold great promise for success to create an important new research area.”

Corresponding author Hammock, a distinguished UC Davis professor who holds a joint appointment with the department of entomology and nematology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, praised Zhang’s “amazing record while he was a

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postgraduate at UC Davis, and now in food science department at the University of Massachusetts, where he recently received tenure.”

Zhang mentored two coauthors of the paper: Yuxin and Weicang Wang, both formerly of the Massachusetts food science department and now with the Hammock lab.

“I feel so lucky that Yuxin and Weicang have joined my laboratory,” Hammock said. “The drugs studied in this PNAS paper are now in human clinical trials and on a path to replace opioid analgesics for pain treatment. I hope the continuing work of Guodong, Weicang and Yuxin will evaluate them as treatments for a variety of inflammatory bowel diseases.”

Andreas Baumler, professor and vice-chair of research in the UCD department of medical microbiology and immunology, who was not affiliated with the study, said: “Obesity-induced gut leakage and bacterial translocation can be ameliorated by targeting microbes with antibiotics, suggesting that the microbiota contributes to disease.

However, the work by Zhang and co-workers suggest that rather than targeting the microbes themselves, obesityinduced gut leakage and bacterial translocation can be normalized by silencing a host enzyme, which identifies host metabolism as an alternative therapeutic target.”

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Yuxin Wang first author of the research Weicang, the other eight coauthors on the team are: Jun Yang, Sung Hee Hwang and Debin Wan of the Hammock lab, UCD department of entomology and nematology, and UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; Kin Sing Stephen Lee, formerly of the Hammock lab, and Maris Cinelli, both of the department of pharmacology and toxicology, Michigan State University, Lansing; Katherine Sanidad and Hang Xiao, department of food science and the molecular and cellular biology graduate program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Daeyoung Kim, department of mathematics and statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

The research was funded by grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture (USDA); National Cancer Institute; USDA Hatch Grant; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program; and National Science Foundation.

According to the CDC, many obesity-related conditions that lead to diseases are preventable.

In 2008, the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States tallied $147 billion.

The medical cost for obese individuals averaged $1,429 higher than those of normal-weight individuals.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2020

Former Aggie dies after accident Cal Aggie Hall of Fame

Special to The Enterprise

St. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Marc ManA class of five former UC Davis studentfredda, a UC Davis football stalwart at athletes will enter the Cal Aggie Athletics center in the early 2000s, died Sunday as Hall of Fame during an induction cerethe result of a recreational accident, The mony slated for Sept. 4, Director of AthEnterprise has learned. letics Kevin Blue announced.

Center Manfredda stood 6-3, 300 durThe class includes water polo player ing his playing days and anchored a masCarmen Eggert, golfer Matt Hansen, sive offensive that helped gymnast Michelle Kulovitz the Bob Biggs-coached Alencar, golfer Demi Aggies average 400 yards a Runas and the late disgame. Manfredda was tance runner Sarah twice named to the allSumpter.

Great West Conference Cloverdale native first team and upon graduSumpter was an inspiraation signed with the San tion, winning the Big West Diego Chargers.

Conference title and Ath“He certainly will be lete of the Year award in missed,” Biggs said. “He cross country, then earning was a great person and a a berth in the NCAA West great player. Very tragic.

Prelims in the spring of He was arguably one of the her redshirt freshman seabest to ever play at Davis. son before tragedy struck.

He was in the Shrine AllThe teenager was diagStar Game and a two-time nosed with a brain tumor MANFREDDA captain.

Former Aggie all-conference on the eve of the 2010 “More importantly than center died Sunday after a cross-country season. that, for some guys it’s just recreational accident Sidelined the entire their leadership and their school year, Sumpter not personalities, toughness ... You talk to the only returned to action but dominated: guys who played with Marc, they’ll tell two Big West Conference runner-up finyou — he was unquestionably the leader ishes in cross country, three Big West of the team.” individual championships in the 5,000and 10,000-meter divisions, a Big West A 2004 graduate with a degree in comTrack Athlete of the Year award, an NCAA munity and regional development, ManOutdoor Championships appearance and fredda is survived by his wife, women’s long-drive golf champion and Sacramento subsequent second-team All-America finish. She also took a spot in the 2013 State alumna Heather LeMaster. ManUSATF Outdoor Championships after her fredda was the director of the southeast region of Edwards Moving and Rigging in senior year.

Florida.

Sumpter still holds the school record

for the outdoor 10K and indoor 5K. Sumpter continued to run after graduation, eyeing the 2016 Olympic Trials, but had to withdraw from the 2015 NYC Marathon when her health began to deteriorate. She died that September.

She is became the namesake of the Sarah Sumpter Perseverance Award and the Stump Invitational cross country meet (inaugurated 2019).

Eggert, by way of Marin Catholic High, earned three ACWPC All-America honorable mentions and three allBig West Conference awards during her career from 2010 to 2013.

Hansen, a Los Osos product, was Big West Conference Freshman of the Year in 2010-11, later earned a Golfweek AllAmerica honorable mention, a BWC individual title and the Colby E. “Babe” Slater Award as the university’s top male athlete as a senior.

Anaheim’s Kulovitz was UCD’s final

national champion in the USAG Collegiate Division, capturing the 2006 all-around title as a sophomore.

Runas, a native of Torrance, was the first golfer to earn the Hubert Heitman Award as the university’s outstanding female athlete of the year, and now will become her program’s first inductee into the CAAHOF. From 2009 to 2013, she earned three Big West Conference Player of the Year awards.

Runas, who still holds the program record for scoring average, then became the first UC Davis player to earn an LPGA Tour card.

Recipients of the Aggie Legacy Award and the Special Recognition Award will be announced next week.

The induction ceremony is open to the public. Tickets and RSVP information will be available at ucdavisaggies.com.

Late UC Davis runner Sarah Sumpter, shown running at the Hornet Jamboree, will be enducted into the Cal Aggie Hall of Fame. She won the Big West Conference title and Athlete of the Year. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2010. She continued to run and earn All-American honors. She was striding toward the 2016 Olympics but died in September of 2015.

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BLUE: Financial impact unknown From Page B1 Blue — “We are in communication with all our affiliated leagues and there is enough uncertainty at the moment that people are not prepared to make definitive statements about next steps regarding competition or even practice.”

Q. What kind of direction/help is UCD and the rest of intercollegiate athletics getting from the NCAA? Blue — “The NCAA ... has been publishing updates about various items over emails and there have been various phone calls with conference representatives. Obviously, there have been a lot of moving parts to the situation with respect to national governance, national championships and with respect to cancellations. The NCAA has been trying to communicate as effectively as possible throughout.

Obviously, we appreciate those efforts, despite the challenging circumstances.”

Q. Knowing this is unprecedented, isn’t it that everyone is still trying to get a handle on how

“How and when we ramp things back up remains an open question.

And we’re trying to anticipate how the transition back to some degree of athletic participation may look. ... We don’t know.”

Kevin Blue UCD athletic director everything will shake out?

In essence, few answers, yet?

Blue — “Yes. There is a significant amount of uncertainty — not only from a public-health standpoint — but from an economic-impact standpoint and the best we can do is take it one day at time (while) still planning ahead for various scenarios as best we can, knowing the situation remains fluid until the larger, global pandemic is under better control.

“The only certainty we have right now is that there isn’t going to be anymore competition for the rest of the athletic year.

“How and when we ramp things back up

remains an open question.

And we’re trying to anticipate how the transition back to some degree of athletic participation may look. Whether fans will be involved at the very beginning, we don’t know. When activities will resume, we don’t know. (The situation) continues to evolve on a daily basis, and we’ll continue to try to communicate about it as best we can.”

Q. Have you been able to get a handle on the financial impact to the Athletic Department?

Blue — “The cancellation of the NCAA basketball means that the revenue that’s generated by these events — in a normal year

(having) the revenue passed through to member schools ... means that there is going to be a (negative) impact on that revenue.

“The extent of the impact is still somewhat uncertain because of some additional work the NCAA has to do (in regard) to work-interruption insurance and the formulas used for distributing (money) to the membership ... may change for one year because of the unique circumstances.

(Blue says those NCAA payments to schools like UC Davis are between $1-2 million annually.)

“So we are expecting a decrease in revenue from NCAA payouts that we usually count on. As a result, we’re going to have to make some adjustments.”

A last question went unasked: “So when do you think this will all blow over?”

Unfair because it’s become clear no one knows at this point what anyone’s future holds.

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

DUNNING: Keeping track of memories From Page B1 some events wildly different from the others. Gazing out at the whole scene from my seat in the bleachers, there’d be at least half a dozen events going on at the same time.

And boy did I anticipate the scintillating mile relay to wrap things up.

To be good in a sport like baseball, everyone has to be able to catch and throw and hit with authority.

In basketball, everyone has to be able to put a round ball in a round hoop and keep the folks on the other team from doing the same.

But in track and field, the slowest competitor out there might be about to take first place in the shot put.

And the fastest entrant out there

would likely have placed last in the shot put.

The javelin requires far different skills than the pole vault, even though both involve running with a long stick in your hand.

The mile run way back then didn’t have hurdles, but the 3,000meter steeplechase did.

And the discus, which I always thought of as the “flying saucer,” was likely to fly off in any one of a million directions, so best not to turn your back on it.

And then there were all those jumping events — the high jump, the broad jump and the hop, step and a jump, some since renamed.

I’d show up at every home meet and sit alone in the stands with the stopwatch my dad had given me on my 10th birthday.

My greatest moment came when

one of the UC Davis track coaches said the school would buy me a hot dog and a Coke if I’d help set up and take down the hurdles between events. I was in track-and-field heaven.

Noting the stopwatch in my hand, the coach asked if I wouldn’t mind timing one of the runners just to see if the time on my watch matched the time on his watch.

He could tell I dearly wanted to put that stopwatch to good use and he was kind enough to make me feel important.

Lack of foot speed, arm strength and jumping ability kept me from ever competing in track and field, but I still have that cherished stopwatch and all the memories that came with it.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

MASK: Sisters started GoFundMe page From Page B1 But the two realize there’s lots to be thankful for during these unprecedented times, including the work of doctors on the front lines battling the COVID-19

outbreak, like their mom.

“They’re putting themselves at risk helping people,” explains Grace. “And they’re at even more risk if they don’t have these kinds of supplies.”

Notes: The Heringer

sisters also have launched a GoFundMe page at gofundme.com/f/raisemoney-for-facial-shieldsfor-doctors and raised over $3,500 in its first day active. Their DHS lacrosse teammate Peyton

Schoen has also been in on the efforts, as have Devil ski standout Kaylee Morgan and others.

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

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Members of the Davis Hydra, under-12 boys Select soccer team, celebrate their semifinal victory in the Presidents Cup tourney.

They fell 1-0 to Winters in a hard-fought championship game.

Tsunami rolls to 3rd-place finish Special to The Enterprise PLEASANT HILL — The Davis Tsunami, an under-10 boys Select soccer team, defeated Walnut Creek Surf (White) 4-3 in a double-overtime game on Sunday, March 8, to finish third in the PHMSA Soccer-fest Tournament.

Davis, coached by Ryan Peek and assistant Melissa Barzo, had a strong start and scored three straight goals in the first half.

Shane Barzo found the net first, finishing off a solid passing combination from Armon Haddadan and Truman Raffuse. Armon Haddadan rounded out the scoring with a brace of goals set up by solid defense from Quinn Roos and James NoctorCerdeño.

The second half was a different story as the Surf scored three straight despite a few near misses for the Tsunami from Brent Haines and Landon Lau. Thanks to some solid midfield and defensive efforts by Connor Peek and Quinlan Blair, the game remained tied at the end of regulation.

Two overtime periods were required to settle the match, with both teams taking aim at the back of the net without a result.

Shane Barzo kept a clean sheet in goal, helping keep the score tied at 3-3.

The game appeared to be headed to penalty kicks,

YOUTH SPORTS ROUNDUP but with less than two minutes remaining, the speed of Noctor-Cerdeño brought a dangerous run up the sideline and into the opponent’s half. After a pass back into the middle, some quick combination play between Raffuse and Haines helped set up a swervy run by Haddadan past two defenders near the top of the box before finishing a shot past the keeper into the net at the far post. Zach Asmundson though not present for the final game contributed to the team’s advancement in the earlier games.

Davis Hydra The under-12 boys Select Davis Hydra soccer team placed second in the Presidents Cup in Sunnyvale after falling to Winters, 1-0, in the final last month. The Hydra advanced to the final match with a 4-0-1 mark.

Members of the team are David Albeck, Jaden Vargas, Tristan Vargas, Jonah Spang, Alexander Guzman, Mateo Sedillo, Diego Jimenez, Callum Wyeth, Nathan Bourne, Landon Dunbarr, Noah Ross and Rahmon Haddadan. The team is coached by Daniel Sedillo and Andrew Wyeth.

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Ways to address market volatility concerns The economic collapse of 2008 taught harsh lessons about the potential for portfolio losses and how that could derail one’s retirement plans. When there’s volatility in the market, it’s natural to worry about your retirement nest egg. Actions taken today can affect your financial security tomorrow, so let’s map out a strategy that includes guarantees that may help ease concerns despite fluctuations in the stock market.

Annuities can help When used correctly annuities can be powerful long-term retirement planning tools by helping to create an income stream for life. Annuity payments can be received monthly, quarterly, annually or in a lump sum, and have tax deferral benefits.

Variable annuities allow investors to potentially grow assets in the market, with the opportunity to add optional guarantee features for an additional fee that provide downside protection. Younger investors planning for retirement may be interested in the growth potential of a variable annuity. Some providers like New York Life offer certain variable annuities with an option called an accumulation benefit rider which provide principal protection over a chosen holding period. This means that at least the initial premium is guaranteed at the end of the holding period, helping to address volatility concerns.

Income annuities are known for their efficiency in generating guaranteed lifetime income. Similar to a pension and Social Security, a guaranteed income annuity can also produce a lifetime payment stream.

It is like getting a “paycheck” for life.

With a guaranteed income annuity, you can have peace of mind with the knowledge that you’ll have a steady retirement income to help with basic expenses in retirement, while weathering market volatility.

While investors may react differently to fluctuations in the market, many can benefit from working with a trusted financial professional to support the retirement planning process. Let’s schedule a meeting to

talk through worst case scenarios, your tolerance for risk and any other changes to your financial picture that necessitate refining your current approach. Together we can put a plan in place that will help you live out the retirement of your dreams.

Important disclosures: Guarantees are based on the claims - paying ability of the issuer.

For variable annuities, guarantees do not apply to monies allocated to the variable investment options as they are subject to market risk and will fluctuate in value.

Withdrawals may be subject to ordinary income taxes and, if made prior to age 59½, may be subject to a 10% IRS penalty. Surrender charges may also apply.

The accumulation benefit rider called the Investment Preservation Rider 4.0(IPR) guarantees all premium payments from a loss that are made in the first policy year (less any proportional withdrawals) after the completion of a holding period.

The IPR provides principal protection but does not protect the owner’s investment from day-to-day market fluctuations or against losses that could be realized prior to completion of the holding period.

Annuities contain certain fees, risks, limitations and restrictions.

Investors should speak to a financial professional for costs and complete details Please consider the charges, risk, expenses, and investment objectives carefully before purchasing a variable annuity. For a prospectus containing this and other information, please contact a financial professional. Read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money.

In most jurisdictions, the form numbers are as follows (state variations may apply): New York Life Guaranteed Lifetime Income Annuity is ICC11-P102 (it may be 211-P102); New York Life Premier Variable Annuity II (ICC15-P301, or it may be 215-P301); Investment Preservation Rider 4.0 ((ICC18V-R03 or it may be NC18V-R03). Certain features and benefits may not be available in all states or jurisdictions.

Annuities are issued by New York

Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (NYLIAC) (A Delaware Corporation). Variable annuities are offered through NYLIFE Securities LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC), a licensed insurance agency. Both NYLIAC, and NYLIFE Securities LLC are wholly owned subsidiaries of New York Life

Insurance Company (NY,NY).

This educational third-party article is being provided as a courtesy

by George A Barden, CLU, ChFC, Agent, (CA Ins. Lic. #0508171) New York Life Insurance Company and a Registered Representative of NYLIFE Securities LLC (member FINRA,

SIPC), a Licensed Insurance Agency and New York Life Company. For additional information on the information or topic discussed, please contact George at his Davis office by phone at (530) 756-1332 or by e-mail at gabarden@ft.newyorklife.com SMRU 1849554 (Exp. 12/6/2021)

Together we can address your market volatility concerns with these simple steps: • Do a portfolio check • Look for ways to optimize spending • Balance the need for cash reserves with the opportunity for growth • Discuss how Social Security could impact retirement income • Add guarantees to the portfolio

George A. Barden CLU®, ChFC® CA Insurance Lic #0508171 Agent, New York Life Insurance Company

429 F Street, Suite 9 · Davis, CA 95616

(530) 756-1332 georgebarden.nylagents.com Registered Representative offering securities through NYLIFE Securities LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC), A Licensed Insurance Agency. ©2020 New York Life Insurance Company, 51 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10010

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BEST SOLAR COMPANY

We’re proud to be a nationally-recognized, BBB Accredited and A+ rated solar company.

And we were blown away when we were named one of the top solar contractors in the United States by Solar Power World Magazine for three years in a row! But we’re only happy when you are!

Sunny Energy is Smart Energy We believe in smart consumers. We’ll help educate you on how to be smart about your energy – from going solar and storing that

energy to monitoring and managing it. We help you take full advantage of government and utility incentives, before it’s too late, so that you get the best deal when going solar.

And we’ll design a system that maximizes your savings, without overspending. Being Energy Smart means creating your own clean energy, storing it to use when you need it most, and managing it so that your family uses that energy as efficiently as possible. We offer the latest technology to help you.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How long will the entire process take, i.e. acceptance to installation?

To start off, we combine the deposit and equipment order in one payment. Upon ordering the equipment from our suppliers, we immediately begin the permit application. The county normally takes about two weeks to issue permits, therefore we apply for inspection around the same time to speed up the process. Within a week of receiving acceptance of the application, we begin roof mounting and then commence the module installation. The length of the project may vary depending on the size of the PV system.

How can I insure that the solar installation process will not void my roof warranty?

This is very situational. Send on over your roofer’s contact information and we will work together. i.e. your warranty.

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Are they any examples of black-framed vs. silver-framed panels? How about white vs. black sheet?

The Davis Methodist Church is a visible example of the blackframed panels while the silver-framed panels, most famously manufactured by SUNPOWER Corp. can be seen clearly at the University Covenant Church (UCC), both which reside in Davis.

How would our warranty transfer to the new homeowner if we decided to sell our house?

Warranties are uniquely for the equipment, therefore making it conveniently transferable to future homeowners. If the new homeowners wish to be briefed on the PV system, they will just need to contact us and we will be more than happy to come on over and give them a quick overview.

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How will the Coronavirus pandemic affect mortgage rates?

BY NATE PIĂ‘A Special to The Enterprise

The COVID-19 crisis is going to significantly affect mortgages, real estate and all homeowners, possibly all this year and next. It is the biggest single financial issue facing homeowners today.

How low did interest rates go?

The 30-year-fixed conventional mortgage rate was recently below 3% for the first time in the history of the U.S. until Monday, March 9. All data had pointed to rates going lower as more economic and COVID-19 news came out.

Then, without notice, the music stopped. Investors called due

hedge positions put in place by mortgagees and the appetite for new mortgages and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) dropped significantly.

By the next day, mortgage rates went half of a percent higher. By the following week through Friday, March 20, 30-year fixed rates hit as high as 4.5% to 6%, depending on the loan type and scenario.

Where are they now?

Why did they change so fast?

As of Monday March, 23, 30-year-fixed mortgage rates sit anywhere from 3.125% to 3.75%. What caused this sharp increase and now a decrease in mortgage rates is highly compli-

cated, but was a combination of three main things. * First, uncertainty in the markets due to COVID-19 and a rush to liquidity, led investors to divest in the market. * Second, investors in mortgages saw a run on their portfolio due to early payoff penalties from unprecedented refinance volume, a devaluing of their assets, and interest rate offerings that didn’t leave room for much of a return on investment. * Lastly, capacity. There just isn’t enough human or financial capacity for as many mortgages that were qualified for a refinance. The mortgage industry saw nearly half a year’s worth of funding volume begin the application process in just two months’ time.

As of March 23, the Fed

announced it would purchase an unlimited number of treasuries and securities tied to residential and commercial real estate to ward off a credit crunch. This announcement is what dropped mortgage rates over .5% from Friday. I expect there to be more volatility ahead, but I see rates being very low for a long time.

Where do we go from here and how will COVID-19 affect rates this year and next?

I am a firm believer that interest rates will come down over the next few months. As long as we flatten the curve on COVID-19 and begin seeing a physical recovery and treatment

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preparedness, the markets will begin to normalize and mortgage interest rates will begin to come back down.

If we are able to find a vaccine and/or treatment and normalize the markets, we will see mortgage interest rates at some of the lowest rates in the history of U.S. mortgage rates. Low-interest rates, as compared to the historical average, should continue for the next 12 to 18 months.

I believe that if you look at real estate as a longterm investment, if someone in our local market purchases a home or locks in a mortgage interest rate during this period, they will have made a sound financial decision. — Nate Piùa is a top producing mortgage lender at Fairway Mortgage. Call 530-847-6450 for more information.

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Why you should consider investing in a gas insert or fireplace now

A beautiful gas fireplace or insert provides clean, efficient “Zone Heating” when you need it and where you need it. It puts the warmth where you spend most of your hours in your home (family room/ kitchen/bedroom or even bathroom), rather than wasting energy and money heating empty rooms.

A new gas fireplace/insert can add value to your home by providing a WOW FACTOR and a focal point. Here at Gallery of Fireplaces we pride ourselves on being a

Spring and summer are a great time for us to install your fireplace so it will be ready for the fall and winter.

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e are dedicated to promoting activities that will enrich our community. But as we strive to help publicize activities offered by local organizations, we have a responsibility to all of our readers to provide news that is balanced, timely and newsworthy.

Thus, the basic criteria for deciding what will be printed in a newspaper are two: newsworthiness and reader interest.

Keeping that in mind, here are some tips on how to submit news releases:

Preparing a release You don’t need to be an accomplished writer; it’s up to the reporter or editor to revise your copy for newspaper style.

Your task is to be well-organized and present complete information so that it can be easily read and understood.

The news release that will most quickly and favorably catch an editor’s eye will: • Be sent via email — either pasted into the body of the email or attached as a Microsoft Word document — to newsroom@davisenterprise.net for a news release, sports@davisenterprise.net for a sports release or arts@davisenterprise. net for an arts/entertainment release.

• Press releases also may be submitted via web form at www.davisenterprise.com/press-release/, or be mailed or dropped off in person to our office at 315 G St. in downtown Davis.

• Be written in standard upper-case/lower-case format. It’s often difficult to tell whether something would be capitalized or not when written in all capital letters.

• Have a lead paragraph that clearly states the facts of the story: WHO are the important people involved with the event; WHAT is to be going on; WHEN it is happening, with specific reference to dates and times, including advance reservation dates if appropriate; WHERE the event will happen, with a specific and complete address; and WHY the story is being written.

Often you’ll want to say HOW the event is happening, i.e., the guest speaker is in town to receive an award for his or her achievements.

• State a reservation deadline at the top of the story, not the bottom where it may be overlooked by a hurried editor.

• Have words that are all spelled correctly — especially the names. Please put (sic) for “spelling is correct” next to unusual spellings for names. This is why we will not take news releases over the phone; the danger of misunderstanding the spelling of names or other information is too great.

• Not have acronyms. Spell out the name of your organization or association, at least in the first reference. And in case the editor may have questions about the information in the release, include your name and daytime phone number on your release. Please also include contact information — phone number or email address — for readers who may have questions or need to make reservations. * Be complete with correct times and places. * Be submitted two weeks ahead of the date of the event or the deadline for registration.

Photos welcome We also welcome photo submissions. They must be sharp and of good contrast, at least 300 dpi and sent in .jpg format.

Please include caption information explaining the photo and identifying everyone pictured.

Contact information Our main office phone number is 530-756-0800; our fax number is 530-756-1668. The office is at 315 G St. in downtown Davis. General news email is: newsroom@ davisenterprise.net. General sports email is: sports@ davisenterprise.net. General arts/entertainment email is: arts@davisenterprise.net.

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Top: Chelso Maghetti, right, was the editor and publisher from 1935 to 1960. Here, he chats with Sam Brinley, the Davis depot agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad, in 1943. The Enterprise office was just north of Third and G streets.

Left: Standing in The Davis Enterprise pressroom in 1925 are, from left, editor and judge William H. Scott, Kathryn King Scott, a linotype operator, and the Rev. Nathan M. Fiske, pastor of the Community Church.

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Quality Furniture! Huge Selection!

Competitive Prices!

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Elaine Cloutier (owner) and Joe Byrne (sales associate) will be happy to help you find the quality, comfort, style and value in your next furniture purchase. Lainey’s offers a complete selection of quality name brand furniture.

Lainey’s Furniture helps you find and care for the right furniture for your home Whether you are redecorating, moving, or just updating your furniture, the staff at Lainey’s Furniture For Living can help you find just the right items for your home. Lainey’s Furniture carries high quality furniture. Furniture purchases can put stress on your wallet, we want to make sure that our customers get the best value in the furniture that they purchase.

To extend the life of your new furniture, Lainey’s recommends the following:

Wood Furniture Use a lint-free cloth with a small amount of polish to to clean and shine your furniture on a regular basis.

When choosing a furniture polish, use the same type for each cleaning, either oil- or wax-based, to avoid polish smudges. Wipe in the direction of the grain of the wood whenever possible.

Upholstery Keep upholstered furniture out of direct sunlight as most fabrics will fade. Vacuum surfaces weekly. Flip cushions and pillows regularly so both sides wear evenly. Third-party warranties provide extended care for your upholstery as insurance against damage caused by accidental spills or tears. Some extended warranties (although an added cost) will even send a technician to your home to clean a stain or repair damage.

Leather Because leather can dry and crack, it is recommended that you keep your valuable leather furniture at least 2 feet from heat sources and out of direct sunlight.

Clean the piece with a damp sponge or soft cloth and dust it regularly. You can also use a quality leather polish.

Lainey’s Furniture is family-owned and operated by residents of Vacaville.

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One of the most difficult parts of a kitchen or bath remodel or new construction is nding the right countertop. Homeowners face questions not only about functionality but also about design and environmental considerations. Most homeowners are looking for a smooth (grout-less) surface which can withstand heat and is easy to keep clean. Natural stone countertops like granite may meet some of these criteria, but overall, a man-made material may actually be the better choice, especially for the clean, modern look that many homeowners seek.

In the last few decades, quart countertops (not to be confused with quartzite, a natural stone) have gained in popularity and are often the preferred choice for new housing developments. Marketed under brand names like Caesarstone, Silestone, and Cambria (as well as by many smaller manufacturers), quartz countertops are made by combining about 80%-90% ground quartz (a mineral harder than diamonds) and 10%-20% resins, polymers, pigments, and sometimes pre- or post-consumer debris, such as glass or stone. The slabs contructed in this way vary in size and price, but offer an array of color and texture options from classic marble looks to granite styles to modern concrete looks. Slabs are typically not sold individually (unless as remnants) and must be purchased as a fabricated counter top through a design showroom or licensed fabricator. Quartz countertops are harder than granite, are completely inorganic (granite sometimes off-gasses radon from organic material trapped in tiny ssures).

Unlike granite, they don’t require sealing and clean easily with the mildest cleaning products. They also come with a warranty against manufacturing defects. The main disadvantages of quartz are that it is not fully heat resistant (counters should be protected by hot pads against heat greater than 350 degrees) and getting a matte or unpolished look can be difficult.

A new option is known generically as “ultra compact surfaces.”

The market leaders are Dekton and Neolith. Ultra compact surfaces, like quartz countertops, are manufactured by combining raw materials (glass, quartz, stone, porcelin, and polymers), which are then subjected to what is called “sinterized particle technology,” which compresses the materials into a slab that can withstand heat up to 900 degrees and has zero porosity, making it an excellent material for a working kitchen: easy to clean and heat resistant.

A variety of design options (including wood looks) are available in matte and highly polished surfaces. Like quartz countertops, ultra compact surfaces are only available through design showrooms and licensed fabricators trained to work with this special material.

It should be noted that there isnít any countertop material, natural or man made that can be expected to withstand significant impact damage (such as dropping a heavy object directly on the counter).

There has also been some concern in the press about the risk of silicosis (a lung disease) to workers who manufacture and install man-made counters. (Natural stone counters often have the same risks.) It is important that you contract for your countertop through a knowledable design or fabrication business that can create an accurate template for the counter (requiring less on-site modification) and who will fabricate the counter in a safe shop environment.