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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020

Yolo County reports 2nd virus death

Wheels in motion

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff sriter

From left to right, Meals on Wheels volunteers Peggy DeUlloa, Erin Perry, Laura Berry and Mary Bodendorfer load Meals on Wheels packages Tuesday morning at the Davis Senior Center.

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Meals on Wheels adapts service in midst of COVID-19 battle

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise staff writer It’s called Meals on Wheels, and in less trying times the program brought a little light (not to mention nourishment) into the lives of citizens who couldn’t prepare or purchase their own food.

When the world is proper,

Meals on Wheels is a weekday occurrence: hot and healthy meals provided five days a week. Even if it’s raining, when that door bell rings, the sun comes out for more than 300 elderly or physically challenged residents in Yolo County.

But with the advent of the COVID-19 outbreak came official orders to shelter in place. A

simple trip to the grocery store for Meals on Wheels subscribers, already a difficult undertaking, became nearimpossible — and potentially deadly.

Meanwhile, Meal on Wheels Executive Director Christi Skibbins, her staff and widereaching board of directors were working to keep the food coming while minimizing the exposure of everyone involved.

Skibbins first consolidated deliveries from Monday through Friday to passing out

those five meals (three of which are now frozen) on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. The local organization is underpinned by a cadre of volunteers from Rotary and Kiwanis service clubs in Davis, Woodland and Winters — with funding coming piecemeal through no fewer than 10 avenues.

Davis Sunrise Rotary Club member Marc Thompson, who coordinators the program for his club, says Rotarians have

SEE WHEELS, PAGE A4

Woodland weed case gets Hollywood’s attention

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The small town of Woodland is making its way to the big screen.

“Yolo County OG,” as the film project is currently known, tells the story of retired UC Davis firefighter-turned-cannabis advocate Paul Fullerton and his high-profile marijuana court case.

“We’ve got the whole town supporting us, and we’re really going to do it,” said Kelsey T. Howard, a film producer who, after a lengthy hiatus from Hollywood, was “looking for that

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movie that’s going to put me back. This is it.”

So far, Fullerton and his supporters have secured about $175,000 in local development funding, plus commitments for an additional $4 million, Fullerton and Howard said during a recent conference-call interview.

“It’s a melting pot of investors,” including representatives of farming, cannabis, automotive and other local businesses, as well as the medical field, Fullerton said.

Fullerton, a longtime UCD

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Film producer Kelsey T. Howard, left, joins “Granpa” of Yolo County’s Diamond Back Genetics during a recent marijuana harvest. Howard has been scouting potential local filming locations for a movie about UCD firefighter-turned-cannabis advocate Paul Fullerton.

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Yolo County reported a second death from the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, as confirmed cases countywide rose to 56.

In the last week, confirmed cases have more than doubled in Yolo County but health officials report no surge of cases in the county’s two hospitals or their intensive care units and told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday that social distancing appears to be working.

They also said testing remains limited and confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus are likely just the tip of the iceberg.

As of Tuesday, 721 county residents had been tested for the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 and 56 of them have tested positive, according to the county. More than half — 33 — are residents of West

SEE DEATH, PAGE A4

UC pledges $2M for research on coronavirus

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer The University of California launched a grant program last week, pledging $2 million in seed funding to scientists across California. The funding will be allocated to help accelerate research into the coronavirus pandemic, the university announced.

Awards of up to $25,000 are already available, according to Theresa Maldonado, Ph.D., vice president of UC’s Research and Innovation division. “The goal is to help researchers begin work as soon as possible, knowing that larger federal grants may take longer to be distributed,” an article published by the university’s newsroom stated.

The awards are funded through three research grant programs, which focus on breast cancer, tobaccorelated disease and HIV/AIDS.

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Briefly Cops respond to motel incident Davis police placed a man on a mentalhealth hold after he allegedly caused a disturbance at a South Davis motel early Tuesday morning.

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At least Top 2 won’t make you sick W ho knew the U.S. Supreme Court would give the citizens of Wisconsin the choice between standing in long lines to vote during a pandemic or staying home and not voting at all?

Common sense would tell you that the Wisconsin primary should have been moved to a later date, but the court ruled otherwise.

With little other election news to digest while being forced to quarantine with my Sweetheart and our four teenagers in our humble East Davis home, I’ve taken to reading and re-reading the Official Voter Information Guide for the already completed March 3 California primary.

Other people use this time of forced isolation to read “War and Peace.” Me, I prefer old election pamphlets.

In my Official Voter Information Guide, I noticed that several political parties are opposed to the “Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act.” Of the six political parties who filed “Statements of Purpose” with the secretary of state’s office, only two bothered to mention the Top Two Primary.

The Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party and American Independent Party all ignored the issue entirely.

But both the Peace and Freedom Party and the Green Party said it was time to repeal the act.

For as long as I can remember, primary elections in California determined which candidate from each party would move on to the general election in November.

But, in June of 2010 California voters approved Proposition 14 that put into law the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act. From that point forward, for certain specified offices, the top two vote getters moved on to the general election without regard for party affiliation.

The could and did lead to instances where the top two were from the same party and ended up squaring off against each other in the general election.

Which was interesting, to say the least.

According to the Official Voter Information Guide, “The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act requires that all candidates for a

voter-nominated office be listed on the same ballot. Previously known as partisan offices, voternominated offices include state legislative offices, U.S. congressional offices and state constitutional offices.”

Yes, the state even gets to decide how we pick our congressional delegation.

“In both the open primary and general elections, you can vote for any candidate regardless of what party preference you indicated on your voter registration form,” the guide goes on.

“In the primary election, the two candidates receiving the most votes — regardless of party preference — move on to the general election. If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (at least 50 percent plus 1), a general election still must be held.”

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hat last provision is a bit of a head-scratcher for some folks. After all, why bother with the time and expense of a general election when one candidate received a majority of votes against the entire field and now has to face just one opponent?

Especially since that opponent was also on the primary ballot.

But I suppose a lot can change between March and November when voters have the opportunity to evaluate a head-to-head

between only two candidates instead of 10 or 15.

But here’s the exception.

“Superintendent of public instruction is a nonpartisan office.

If a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction were to receive a majority of the vote (50 percent plus 1) at the primary election, then that candidate would be elected and no general election would be held.”

Which makes absolutely no sense. If it’s good enough for Congress and good enough for the California Legislature, why does the superintendent of public instruction race get a free pass?

The explanation is weak, if this is the explanation at all.

“Political parties are not entitled to nominate candidates for nonpartisan offices at the primary election, and a candidate at the primary election is not the official nominee of any party for the specific office at the general election.

A candidate for nomination to a nonpartisan office may not designate his or her party preference, or lack of party preference, on the ballot.”

So, if Gavin Newsom one day decides to run for Superintendent of Public Instruction, he has to pretend he’s not a Democrat?

Makes sense to me.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

RESEARCH: Looking UC administration promises no layoffs for career employees to have big impact

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Job protections guaranteed through June 30 In a public letter addressed last week to the University of California community, UC President Janet Napolitano and the chancellors of the 10 UC campuses made assurances that the coronavirus pandemic will not result in layoffs for any career employees between now and the end of June.

“We collectively announce that there will be no COVID-19 related layoffs for all career employees through the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2020,” the UC leaders stated.

The agreement to hold onto career employees comes as unemployment numbers in California and across the United States have skyrocketed as a result of coronavirus mitigation efforts, which have closed many businesses.

UC Davis remains in session this quarter, with instruction moved online and many parts of campus closed to in-person services and activities, in compliance with local and state “shelter-in-place” orders.

“The novel coronavirus has now affected everyone on the planet in some way, and by all indications, we can expect more disruption in the weeks ahead,” the UC leaders stated. “We are keenly aware of the health concerns and economic

uncertainty weighing on the entire university community.”

According to data reviewed by 24/7 Wall St., the University of California is the state’s largest employer, with about 227,000 employees.

“Providing pay and health and welfare benefits during this period will allow employees to more effectively care for themselves and their families as we all support California and the nation by staying home and doing our part to reduce the spread of this virus,” the UC leaders stated.

While career employees will not be laid off, some workers might be assigned new duties as the university has altered many of its operations.

“To UC employees on our campuses, administrative offices, and clinical settings who are unable to work because of facility closures, curtailed operations, or other disruptions due to COVID-19, we are committed to supporting you as long as we are able. We look forward to working with our unions to redeploy workers to areas of need and keep as many employees working as possible,” the UC leaders stated.

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the pandemic. “There may still be reductions in hours, and in some cases staff, as a part of our typical student and career employee summer staffing and clinical workforce adjustments,” the leaders stated, adding that they are “committed to doing our best to keep people earning a paycheck whenever possible.”

The leaders said they will be talking with employee groups about conditions under which the promise of job protections could be extended beyond June 30.

“We cannot predict exactly how the situation will evolve, or what future measures we may need to take to uphold our mission,” the UC leaders stated. “What we do know is that we will face that future with courage and find our way together.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

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From Page A1 “Given that people who suffer from breast cancer, HIV and tobacco-related diseases are also among those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19, it made sense to begin urgently directing some of that research funding to this global pandemic,” Maldonado said. “Our goal is to seed work in areas that can have a big impact in a short amount of time and to help the California communities that need it most.”

The university will evaluate research proposals, prioritizing those with strong potential for near-term impact on the pandemic, the researchers’ ability to start immediately, and a research focus that will help California’s most vulnerable populations.

The University of California system includes five medical centers, three

laboratories and 10 campuses.

Maldonado and others have been leading an effort to facilitate systemwide collaboration on Covid-19 research among the universities scientists and researchers.

Roughly 300 UC researchers are doing work that can help inform the public health response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent survey.

“The adverse health and economic impact of the pandemic, as it plays out in California, cannot be overstated,” Maldonado said. “The University of California has broad expertise in critical areas that can help with a rapid response to this unprecedented health crisis.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net.

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There are still reasons to get out of bed T

he other day I received a phone call from our dentist’s office to reschedule a teethcleaning.

As I’ve been doing with all our rescheduled appointments, I wrote down the new date, went to the refrigerator, pressed the little slip of paper against the door and placed a little magnet my son had made in kindergarten on top of it.

As I turned to walk away, I watched as the little magnet slowly slid down the door of my fridge, dragging the appointment reminder with it. Unable to bear the weight of that tiny slip of paper, it slid to the bottom of the refrigerator door where it hung precariously, half on the refrigerator and half off.

I stood there for a long time, feeling a strange affinity with that little magnet.

Lately, our days feel heavy. Our family is fine and we are lucky to be together and healthy.

We’re getting lots done — yardwork, cleaning out closets, organizing drawers, playing games.

But there is a heaviness that everyone feels. It is a collective heartbreak and it hurts.

No more monkey bars at the park, the loss of jobs, shuttered doors on your favorite yoga studio or restaurant. A freshman year

in college ending abruptly, the cancellation of senior prom. The end of a promising volleyball season. No more daily lap swim or coffee with friends or so many of the little events that made us jump out of bed in the morning.

But it is so much more.

Every day, we watch a city that so many of us love turn into a war zone. A tent hospital set up in Central Park and funeral homes that can’t keep up.

Doctors and nurses acting as “family,” knowing that they will be the last voice their patients hear and the last face they see.

And even as we watch and grieve for New York, most of us know that this will touch every state, every city, every community, every doctor, every nurse. We feel afraid for them, for what they will endure. And we feel afraid for ourselves and for our families and friends.

Collective heartbreak.

This is supposed to hurt.

This is supposed to wrench our hearts and make us cry. The loss, the unknown, the loneliness, the cabin fever. If we’re not feeling it, for sure, someone we know and love is.

Find the good in people, and stay connected.

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If you’re not OK, I’m not OK. If your neighbor isn’t OK, you can’t be OK. But during this hard time, there are lots of things to be grateful for.

We still have reasons to get out of bed and charge into the day. In the last week, here are some of my bright spots: ■ The teachers and coaches who have checked in with our kids, even though online learning won’t begin until Monday.

They provided a connection that was desperately needed and added a sense of “familiar” to young lives that feel anything but normal or familiar.

Not that learning to pick locks on YouTube and doing the entire family’s makeup to create realistic looking mug shots hasn’t been fun and educational.

But we may actually be ready for some serious learning. Thank you, teachers.

■ The producers, cast

and crew of “Tiger King,” the new hit Netflix docuseries. They have managed to take our minds off the sad news of the day, if even for just an hour.

It is a horrible show, representing the worst in people. Trashy, really. Don’t watch it. Definitely don’t let your kids watch it. (OK. Watch it. But don’t tell anybody is was my idea). Don’t watch it. Just don’t.

■ The nightly concerts on Facebook, the bears and rainbows in windows

for and from children around the world, entire cities clapping for their medical community and first responders, and all of the people who have committed to staying home to flatten the curve and save lives. I love all of them.

But back to that little magnet. Fortunately, front and center on my refrigerator, there is a heavy-duty, industrial-strength, stainless steel clip magnet. It’s not dainty or pretty and it doesn’t hold any special memories. It wasn’t made by a kindergartner and it wasn’t purchased from a Disneyland gift shop.

But it can hold its own weight, plus the weight of my nephew’s fourth-grade school photo, a schedule of track meets that will never happen, and a stack of little slips of paper documenting a multitude of rescheduled appointments.

After I was done empathizing with the little kindergarten magnet at the bottom of my fridge, I took a deep breath, reached down and dragged it back up to the top of the refrigerator door.

I opened the clip on the industrial-strength magnet and added the little slip of paper, along with the little kindergarten magnet to the other precious reminders.

It held beautifully.

— Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four. Reach her at dunningsm@gmail.com.

Making careful choices in chaotic times U sually wary of “gratitude” rhetoric, I practice gratitude religiously these days as an antidote to wallowing in self-pity.

You know ... Oh poor me, confined to a redwoodfilled interior looking out onto a 6-by-6-foot garden with its hummingbird and black phoebe visitors and whimsical art, wondering which fresh-from-farmersmarket vegetable and bottle of good wine to create a dinner around.

And so I thank a nurse, a grocery-store clerk, a construction worker, a researcher, a cartoonist, a reporter, even a (rightthinking) politician for front-line work during these hard and fearful times. It really helps. For five minutes.

And then again, the 6-foot distance we’re all maintaining reminds of the 6-feet-under that nags at the edges of my anxiety.

But sometimes that five minutes is enough to get me out of anxiety mode and back to “work,” such as it is. One current project is to figure out ways to support some of those recipients of my gratitude. And since this is a wine column, I’ll share some ideas for supporting winerelated endeavors as they struggle to stay afloat.

First of all, and I know this will be a hardship to all my readers, drink wine.

For one thing, it’s as good as gratitude for a short

respite. But it also helps keep the wine economy (and I’m talking here about the small owners and makers and vineyard tenders — Big Wine can take care of itself ) and all the good agricultural-environmental-communitybuilding work it does.

So choose the wine you drink even more carefully in these times. Buy from the folks who make and sell wines that enhance our mood and health from grapes that enhance the soil. If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know some of my own favorites.

Like Kenny Likitprakong of Hobo Wines, who, in response to my query about how to help his work, generously responded: “Even though we are selling wine on our website, if someone has access to good wine at a local grocery store, wine shop, or restaurant that is offering bottles to go, that is the best way to support the whole industry. Everyone gets taken care of this way, the store, the sales rep, and the winery.”

You can buy several of Kenny’s wines at the Davis Food Co-op — Folk Machine Valdiguie, Folk Machine Pinot Noir, Camp Chardonnay, Parts and Labor Red Blend, and Hobo Zin. They’re all delicious, reasonably priced,

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and made with care.

If you’re avoiding stores, consider ordering through the websites of Hobo, Broc Cellars, Donkey and Goat, Dirty and Rowdy, Methode Sauvage, or La Clarine. Or of importer Kermit Lynch. Some of them are offering free or reduced shipping and/or discounts right now, and it’s a chance to try wines you can’t easily find in stores.

I wrote in a recent column that I’d be telling you more about just-opened The Pip Wine Bar/Shop in Dixon, which features just the sort of wines I’m advocating here. Alas, it had to close shortly after opening but owner Amy Grabish has adapted quickly, and she recently delivered to me a six-pack.

Since she knows much more about wine than I do — and has a better palate — I just gave her some parameters and she picked the wines. I wrote the

check and kept it in the freezer until she arrived.

Opening the pack felt like Christmas, and I’m working my way through them at alarming speed.

Fortunately, she’s got her website up and going (https://thepipwineshop. square.site/) For orders and is delivering to Davis once a week.

She writes, “Delivery will be $10 but on any purchase of 6-bottles or $100, the delivery fee will be waived. Of course, people can email or call me to talk through and create their own selection without really being in the shop — we’d have the same kind of conversation we would if we were in person.”

Amy says her favorite white right now “is the Mati Fortuna Moschofilero from Greece ($16),” one of the bottles that came in my pack, and I can attest to its deliciousness.

We drank it with king salmon (Farmers Market) chunks — sautéed in butter and oil with shallots and herbs — over pasta; the assertive acidity cut through the richness of the fish, and the floral and mineral character of the moschofilero grape did a lovely little ever-changing

dance in the glass. I’ll be requesting another bottle next time.

We might also want to support wines from harder-hit areas than our own. My red recommendations from The Pip collection just happen to be from two of them, New York and Italy.

The first is Ravines “Cerise.” It’s a blend of pinot noir and blaufränkisch, made by Ravines’ Morton Hallgren, a red wine pioneer in Finger Lakes district. “Cerise” is French for cherry, a flavor characteristic of both these grapes and just what you’ll drink in this lovely, foodfriendly wine. But you’ll also get a hint of smoke, some herbal and mineral notes, and a bit of bitter — the good kind.

Morton says reds in the Finger Lakes are tricky and risky given the weather variations, but, convinced that wines should reflect ever-changing climate and soil, he’s an advocate of minimal intervention nonetheless.

We tend to think of Nero d’Avola when we think of Sicilian red, but frappato is also a grape native to the region, rarer and a bit lighter than nero and delicious when well-made. My

second recommendation is a frappato di vittoria from eastern Sicily, its home.

A light-ruby red wine that smells and tastes of red berries, it’s made by the Cosenza Family, which has tended its small vineyard since the 18th century. Their wine operation now takes place completely underground.

This frappato has no oak but is remarkably intense and earthy. It tastes to me of warm summer days, which makes its low — 12.5% — alcohol even more surprising.

We drank it with pasta and red sauce that simmered all day with garlic and onion and anchovy. At the end I added a cup of white beans — my version of pasta fasul and a perfect companion to the bottle.

You can try both these excellent and interesting wines if you order “Susana’s Six” from Amy’s website.

I just read that Bay Area alcohol consumption is up 42% since shelter-inplace. Make it good.

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

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WEED: Legal saga reads like a movie From Page A1 Fire Department captain who retired in 2014 following an on-the-job injury, turned to medical marijuana for pain relief. He ultimately opened his own hydroponics business, Lil’ Shop of Growers in Woodland, which sells plant-growing products and equipment with a cannabis-grow emphasis.

He made headlines in 2016 when the county’s former drug task force, the Yolo Narcotics Enforcement Team, raided Fullerton’s shop and Woodland home under the suspicion that Fullerton had engaged in illegal marijuana sales.

Fullerton and his wife, Maricel, both were arrested on felony drug sales, child endangerment and weapon charges that resulted in their young daughter being temporarily removed from their custody. Fullerton denied the allegations, calling the prosecution a “witch hunt,” though YONET and the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office stood by the case.

It resolved nearly two years later — and following the passage of Proposition 64 that reduced several of the charges from felonies to misdemeanors — with Fullerton’s conviction on three misdemeanor drug possession and sales counts, while Maricel’s case was dismissed in full. In October, a Yolo County judge approved an early termination of Fullerton’s probation and expunged the charges.

‘Raw and powerful’ story Plans for a movie surfaced last summer, when Woodland medical marijuana grower John Wright, of Yolo Organic Botanicals, visited Fullerton’s shop and heard about his journey through the court system.

“Man, this would make a good movie,” Fullerton said Wright told him.

Wright, it turned out, is friends with Kevyn Major Howard, the actor whose work includes the role of Private First Class Rafterman in the Stanley Kubrick film “Full Metal Jacket.” He in turn passed it along to his brother Kelsey, which led to a meeting with Fullerton.

For Kelsey Howard, the project marks his return to Hollywood after nearly 13 years. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2007 and, he said, given six months to live.

“I wanted to do a bit more with my life,” said Howard, who volunteered

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DEATH: Officials say sheltering is working COURTESY PHOTO

From left: “Yolo County OG” screenwriter Matthew Breno, producer Kelsey Howard and Paul Fullerton visit during one of Howard’s recent location-scouting visits to Yolo County. with the American Red Cross and started a nonprofit, This Time Foundation, that according to its mission statement “teams up with other charitable organizations, businesses and celebrities to raise funds and awareness to bring relief to the most impoverished peoples on Earth.”

More recently, Howard sensed Hollywood calling him back. The project, however, “had to be something important,” he said.

“Everyone in L.A., including your barista, has a story that should be told,” Howard said. “I just listened to Paul, and his story was so moving, so raw and powerful. I decided this was something I wanted to be involved in.”

What particularly resonated with Howard, he added, is “how people in power can do so much damage to regular people. Nobody should have to go through that. Paul was the type of guy that wasn’t going to take it, but a lot of people do.”

Work on the project soon got underway, starting with a first draft of a script, followed by a second draft completed in March. Fullerton said he and script writer Matthew Breno collaborated on the title “Yolo County OG” — an abbreviation for “original gangster,” a slang term used to describe someone as authentic or oldschool.

Howard, who lives in Canada, has made several visits to Yolo County to scout potential filming locations, including local marijuana farms.

“He really got to see the nuts and bolts and the camaraderie of the cannabis business,” Fullerton said.

Matthew or Woody?

The next step, Howard said, is to bring on a casting director to fill roles for the film. He said he hopes to court well-known actors such as Matthew McConaughey or Woody Harrelson to play the part of Fullerton.

“In my mind, if Paul sat across the table from one of those actors, he’d convince them to make the movie,” Howard said.

Fullerton says he’d like to see himself portrayed by McConaughey, with whom he shares a strong support of the fire service. Just last fall, McConaughey served turkey dinners to more than 800 firefighters working the Los Angeles-area wildfires.

“He’s taking care of my brothers and sisters,” Fullerton said. He also noted that McConaughey serves as a visiting radio/television/film professor at his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, which parallels with Fullerton’s prior work as a guest instructor in man-made evolution at UC Davis.

“We both give back to our campus communities,” Fullerton said. “We give back to the youth, and we did it on our own time.”

Added Howard: “My impression of McConaughey is that he’s is very in touch, a regular guy when it comes to Hollywood. He’s just like Paul.

They’re just good guys.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene @davisenterprise.net or 530-7478048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

WHEELS: Neighbors still help neighbors From Page A1 always kept a keen eye out for the welfare of the people whom they serve. But with the coronavirus lurking, the volunteers have morphed into ad hoc social workers.

“Meals on Wheels is an amazing, amazing program,” Thompson told The Enterprise. “Making sure our (clients) are OK has always been a key part of it.

Often (deliveries) are the only time (recipients) have seen someone all day. For our club members, we’ve always made sure we know how things are going and asking ‘Are you OK?’” “Checking on them is important,” Skibbins explains. “Asking ‘How are you feeling, what do you need? Do you have somebody that can get your prescription ... and are they being delivered?’

If not, Skibbins and volunteers like Thompson alert the proper channels — and assistance beyond meals is on the way.

“We have some high-risk people that we’ve identified that we’re checking with on a more frequent schedule,” continues Skibbins. “They may not have anybody in their lives.”

Also, with social distancing being the norm these days, the drop-in lunches at area senior centers have been suspended. Few understood that those plate-and-utensil sit-down gatherings also were catered by Meals on Wheels.

With those mobile citizens now confined, Skibbins says, if requested, they’ve been added to the delivery list. Those “newcomers” swells the client list another 125 people.

Before the virus hit, Skibbins’ operation already had

Meals on Wheels volunteer Cynthia Raub packs a cooler.

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80 people on the waiting list.

“Because we have all those folks to serve, we’re circling the wagons and taking care of them in whatever way they need.

We can do it safely ... and we’ve had a lot of people step up,” the executive notes.

Thompson and Skibbins say the number of volunteers — as many as 400 on a rotating basis in Yolo County — haven’t backed down from their rounds because of the recent virus.

However, with the consolidated delivery schedule, fewer visits are necessary.

And it’s been a perfect opportunity for Skibbins and club coordinators to politely ask their older members to stand down: “We don’t want people to have too much exposure.

That means volunteers, clients, staff ... Everybody, especially those over 65 years old.”

With plenty of volunteers to go around, is Meal on Wheels going to increase its recipient list?

“We are not taking new signups,” says Skibbins, pointing to an already taxed budget that has just added roughly $2,000 a week because of the expense of freezing three weekly meals and buying

more one-time-use utensils and containers. In addition to the meal service, Yolo Food Bank delivers a bag of shelf-stable items that could include cookies, crackers, milk or bread to 150 of the projects most home-bound clients.

Meals on Wheels works with the Area Agency on Aging to ensure nutrition in the meal selections — it’s food that Skibbins gets from Grocery Outlet, Sysco, Walmart and “all other kinds of places.” But the pickings are getting slimmer as the general public stockpiles essentials.

“People have been donating (money) on our website (mowyolo.org),” she says.

“We have applied for six emergency grants and Sunrise Rotary President Tim Daleiden also has a Rotary International grant written.

We want to keep this going as long as we can ... but we don’t know how long that is.”

Meals on Wheels started in Australia in the early 1950s and found its way to Yolo County in 1972. While the program has failed in some regions, it’s because of the relentless fundraising, dedicated local volunteers, support from state and federal agencies, participant donations and corporate gifts that the local Meals on

Wheels soldiers on.

And about that grant that Daleiden is shepherding?

“Rotary International has made $1 million available to worldwide clubs to assist during this pandemic,” Daleiden explains.

“I don’t know how far that’s going to go, (but we’d like) a piece of it.

“We will get through this disruptive period. Working together, we’ll get through it in a much better manner.”

Notes: The meals provided are not chopped liver.

Last week, for example, the menu featured cheese enchiladas, Spanish rice, breaded fish, potatoes, beef meatballs over pasta, Italian veggies and Brussels sprouts; plus a big bag of milk, bread, crackers, fruits, juice and muffins. ...

Working from its East Street facility in Woodland, MOW employs Gloria Tandy as its food-service manager. Inga Bourdon is the organization’s dietician, Ryan Westlake does the cooking with Gabriel Garcia serving as kitchen coordinator. At the Davis Senior Center, the swift distribution is coordinated by site manager Cynthia Raub and assistant Mary O’Neal.

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

From Page A1 Sacramento, while 10 cases are in Davis, seven in Woodland and six in either Winters or unincorporated areas of the county.

Two of those individuals have died and 17 are either hospitalized now or previously were.

The low numbers of current hospitalizations indicates that social distancing is working, according to Brian Vaughn, the county’s director of public health.

“Last week I was somewhat cautiously optimistic regarding our hospital numbers and feeling like the social distancing was working … and I said in the next week or two, we would know a lot more,” Vaughn told county supervisors on Tuesday.

“I’m very, very happy to report that our hospital numbers are still actually consistent with where they were last week,” he said. “We have not seen an increase.”

There continues to be plenty of hospital bed capacity — at Sutter Davis Hospital and Woodland Memorial Hospital — in the event of a surge of cases.

“I really just want to hammer home the message that social distancing appears to be working and we need to continue to do it for the next several weeks,” Vaughn said.

In addition to holding steady with hospitalization and intensive care unit numbers, Vaughn said, the county’s 911 call volume also remains low.

“We’re under where we usually are this time of the year,” he added.

Some supplies do remain a concern though, with facemasks “becoming much, much harder to come by,” Vaughn said.

“The hospitals have not run out yet … but it’s hard to replenish now,” he explained. “In the event of a huge surge, there may be issues.”

And while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended that people cover their faces when out in public, that does not mean using surgical and N95 masks, health officials stressed.

Surgical masks and N95s “are in very short supply and are reserved for the healthcare providers and first responders who are putting their lives on the line to take care of all of us,” said Dr. Ron Chapman, the county’s public health officer.

As for that CDC recommendation, Chapman said it is based on evidence that the novel coronavirus is being spread by individuals who have no symptoms.

“Because of that evidence, the CDC recommended last week that the public consider face coverings,” Chapman said.

“Face coverings are homemade masks, bandanas, scarves that cover the nose and mouth and might help prevent the spread that could be occurring in people who have no symptoms.”

However, he said, “those face coverings would not protect people from getting an infection.

“If you’re around somebody who’s coughing and sneezing and infected, wearing a bandanna will not protect you.”

Additionally, he said, face coverings should not be used instead of staying at home and practicing social distancing — “Those are the priorities to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” Chapman said.

As for a possible surge in cases, the county has projected with a large surge, it would need about 200 hospital beds.

Currently there are 100, according to Vaughn.

However, an additional 114 beds have been identified in skilled nursing and longterm care facilities for non-COVID cases should a surge occur, Vaughn said.

“So if we have to clear the hospitals of nonCOVID cases, we have areas we can put them in,” he explained.

Additionally, the 400bed overflow site being set up by the state at Sleep Train Arena will be available to Yolo County patients if more beds for COVID-19 patients are needed.

“I’m really hopeful we don’t have to use that,” Vaughn said. “But I’m really thankful they’re setting that up.”

Meanwhile, the county continues to move its most vulnerable homeless individuals into motel rooms. As of Monday, 128 had been placed in rooms across the county.

Food is being delivered to each of them thanks to efforts by the Yolo Food Bank and Yolobus and most of the motel rooms have been provided refrigerators and microwaves if they didn’t already have them.

The county has leased three motels — two in Woodland and one in West Sacramento — and is working on contracts in Davis, according to Nolan Sullivan, director of the service centers branch of Yolo County Health and Human Services.

“That’s a remarkable accomplishment,” said Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland.

Also remarkable: the “herculean effort” underway to distribute food throughout the county, according to Sullivan.

Currently more than 2,000 Yolo County households are receiving emergency food deliveries as part of the Yolo Food Bank’s COVID-19 response effort. Boxes of food are being delivered to the elderly and others who have been advised to remain at home, with weekly deliveries in Davis, Winters, West Sacramento, Woodland and all rural areas of the county.

The Yolo Food Bank is in need of volunteers to help with those deliveries, however. To learn more and sign up, visit https:// yolofoodbank.org.

To view more details about the county’s coronavirus cases, visit https://www.yolocounty. org/coronavirus.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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No more ‘waiver’ing for NCAA transfers S

everal months ago, before this devastating pandemic quickly and powerfully took our attention away from the world of sports, I noted that the NCAA, the all-powerful organization that controls the ins and outs of collegiate athletics, was considering making a major change.

In this case it would be a change to the rule it enforces when an athlete wants to transfer from one NCAA institution to another.

The basic rule, in force since just before the American Revolution, was that a Division I athlete in one of five designated sports — football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball and men’s ice hockey — had to sit out a full year of competition after transferring to a new school.

In reality, this meant more like almost a two-year wait.

For instance, the 2020 college football regular season — if it is played at all — ends in late November for most teams.

So, if a player wishes to transfer at the end of that season, he’ll have to sit out the entire 2021 season

and won’t be eligible at his new institution until the first game of the 2022 season, the first week of September. That’s a span of just over 21 months.

The problem with the transfer rule was that there was a waiver process that generally resulted in really good athletes who wanted to transfer to really good programs tended to be granted immediately eligibility if they could manufacture a good enough reason to transfer. Like, they don’t offer a major in basket weaving at my current school. Or I want to be closer to my grandmother.

Now, under pressure from conference commissioners around the country, the NCAA is hinting strongly that it is considering changing the transfer rule to allow immediate eligibility for everyone.

But one time only. If you try to transfer again, they’ll cut off your hands and feet.

This, predictably, has brought howls of protest from some of the nation’s prominent head coaches.

Nick Saban, the head coach at Alabama, told ESPN staff writer

Tom VanHaaren, “I don’t know how you manage a roster when this goes into effect. Last year, we had eight seniors on our team. We had seven guys go out for the draft and three graduate transfers or guys that ended up transferring.

So instead of having 18 seniors, you’ve got eight.”

Yep, those darn kids trying to move onto the NFL and actually get paid for practicing their craft.

Said Gus Malzahn of Auburn, “I don’t agree with it. We’ll have to re-recruit our own players.”

Wow. You mean there’s a better place to go to school than Auburn? Who knew?

Noted one Power 5 coach who chose to remain anonymous,

“Group of 5: It’s going to kill them.” (The Group of 5 is the lesser rung of the college football ladder.)

“They’ll be our little amateur league where we draw good players from. Every kid wants to play in the Power 5.”

So let ’em play, coach.

The only guy making any sense was sunny Sonny Dykes, the head coach at SMU who used to be the boss at Cal.

“I

think young people have character,” Dykes said, “and I don’t think some kid that says, ‘I’ve been the best player at SMU for two or three years, I want to go see if I can be the best player somewhere else.’ I just don’t think there are that many kids who think that way.”

And then Dykes lowered the boom on his fellow coaches.

“The mistake that we as coaches and the NCAA have made is that we have somehow always thought that college football is about us, about the coaches and about the schools.

It’s about the players. I’ve always believed that.”

Another guy making sense was Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, who added, “We’re not saying we want to have people bouncing around, but I think it’s fair that student-athletes have a one-time opportunity to do it. So if you went to a school and the coach left, or it doesn’t fit like you thought it would during your recruiting visit, whatever the case may be, you should have an opportunity to transfer and be able to play.”

And finally, Andy Toole, the head basketball coach at Robert Morris, put an exclamation point on this line of reasoning when he said, “I’m glad they’re taking the waivers away, because there was no rhyme or reason to giving them out. If you want to transfer, go transfer.”

Amen, coach. Nice to see some sanity as this process unfolds.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Davis duo’s dreams deferred

Aggies deal with abrupt end to season

Davis High grads and UC Davis freshmen Zach Carrell and Jonah Henrickson are coping with life during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Left, Carrell works out his pitching arm at home during the shelter-in-place order.

Below, Henrickson, an avid angler, enjoys spending time in the outdoors when he’s not playing infield for the Aggie baseball team.

■ Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on UC Davis baseball. Today, former Davis High standouts Zach Carrell and Jonah Henrickson, now Aggie freshmen, talk about adjustments on and off the field.

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor It was a dream come true that has become a nightmare.

A month ago, friends and former Davis High teammates Zach Carrell and Jonah Henrickson were on Cloud Nine. Not only had both gone on to play college baseball at UC Davis, the pair were excelling on a team that had a winning record and was turning the heads of those awaiting in the upcoming Big West schedule.

Aggie skipper Matt Vaughn had steered his charges through a collection of injuries to stand at 9-7 and, as everybody got healthy, the positives were everywhere — not the least of whom were pitcher Carrell and first baseman Henrickson.

Then came the season-ending curve ball — a worldwide pandemic shut down sports everywhere.

“Zach was absolutely blowing up,” Vaughn told The Enterprise.

“You know all the clichés: He was coming into his own, finding his groove. ... You could use any of them; they all applied.”

Carrell, a crafty left-hander, was 1-0 with 10 strikeouts in 10 innings of relief.

“For me, he was way ahead of schedule early in the season,” Vaughn admitted.

After going 4-2 with a 2.53 earned run average for the 19-win Blue Devils last spring, Carrell spent the summer pitching for the Yuba City Gold Sox. His Aggie fall ball adventure, by his own admission, was uneven ... but along the way Carrell was drinking it all in.

His fastball was up to 88 mph, he

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had a new grip for his out-pitch changeup and he was starting to fool most hitters.

“I enjoyed (the Gold Sox) a lot,” Carrell said, noting that it was his first prolonged work in a woodenbat environment.

Going from metal to wood, did the hurler find it any easier to get a leg up on hitters?

“I wouldn’t say easier — because it’s still a huge jump going from high school to college,” Carrell points out. “But I did have a couple of broken bats, which was pretty exciting.”

Meanwhile, Henrickson was toiling in the Alaska Baseball League for the Peninsula Oilers (Kenai), where he played alongside DHS teammate Adam Dapkewicz (now at Georgetown).

Vaughn liked the reports he was getting from the infielder’s great northern adventure. Henrickson’s all-around game continued to evolve in the fall and by the regular-season’s first pitch (a 6-4 win over Utah), the smooth swing of the left-handed hitter was in the starting lineup.

“Jonah was settling in as our everyday first baseman and hitting in the middle of our lineup,” Vaughn says. “That’s a pretty good sign when you’re getting a guy who can have an impact for you right away. Both him and Zach, they were go-to guys for us right away. They were doing the job for us.”

But Henrickson’s finest hour on Feb. 25, in a victory at Pacific, became his final Aggie

outing of 2020.

Colliding with rightfielder Alejandro Lara while making a diving catch in foul territory, Henrickson got knocked in the head. He stayed in the game for a couple more innings ...

“It was an unbelievable play,” Vaughn recalls. “What’s even more unbelievable is he made two more (great fielding plays) and had a run-scoring base hit.”

But symptoms of a concussion emerged and Henrickson was on the rack until the curtain fell on the season on March 12.

If there is such a thought, the COVID-19 breakout came at the right time.

“I’ve gotten a really good rest,” Henrickson says. Like Carrell, he has been staying busy with a solo workout routine and now attends class by computer.

“For fun?” Henrickson pondered the question. “Right now, I’ve been going fishing every day. I go out by myself, anywhere I can.”

An avid angler, the wilds of Alaska were not lost on the former Blue Devil. While in Kenai, he landed an 80-pound halibut.

“Alaska was terrific,” Henrickson recalls. “Those guys were very good. It was awesome trying to get up to the college level right out of high school. And Alaska wildlife was awesome.”

For Carrell, being sequestered has at least come with a workout partner. Zach’s brother Luke was to have begun his junior-year baseball season this spring at DHS. An accomplished pitcher

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The sons of Susie and Scott Carrell, Zach and Luke have taken turns behind the plate. Luckily, there’s a left-handed catcher’s mitt in the equipment bag. Both are port-siders.

What’s been the difference between prep and college competition?

Carrell first ...

“Every hitter can pretty much hit every pitch. The quality of every hitter is better, but there is a much better defense behind you.

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position ... which is really helpful to a pitcher.

“Ground balls that would have been hits in high school are now turned into double plays.”

For Henrickson, the pitching he’s facing is a lot more crisp and the environment — especially for his Aggies — is ubercompetitive ...

“While it’s definitely a step up from high school, the velocity is about the same to me. But the pitchers’ accuracy is a whole lot better.

“I actually had good confidence going into the season. The team always had my back,” says the son of Dianna and Mark Henrickson. “(Teammates) would even come up to me and say it: ‘We know you belong here. You deserve being here. We have your back, now go get ’em! ” Continues Henrickson: “The desire to win here is different, too.

I felt when I got to college that everyone here has the mentality that winning is the only option.

Everyone played for the team ... it wasn’t so much an individual game. When everyone had come together and played as a team, it was so much fun to play because it was going so smoothly.”

Carrell and Henrickson both hope to get another season of summer ball under their belts.

Henrickson will play for the Humboldt Crabs while Carrell journeys to Elmira in the upstate New York Perfect Game League.

So what does Carrell think might happen? Will there be summer baseball?

“I have no idea,” he says.

“Nobody has ever seen anything like this in their lives.” He adds that when the spring season was canceled, “I felt like my whole life just stopped. Baseball was done, school is now online, I moved back home. I went from playing baseball every day and going to class to just nothing.”

While a month ago the Aggie goal was to make a run at a Big West Conference crown, now the hope is that someday soon teammates will back away from the computers, put down the cell phones and once again take some meaningful cuts at the plate — together.

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he news cycle dominated by Trump and the virus plague will be interrupted midweek in some Davis homes by the Jewish holiday of Passover.

This is a recitation of the story of earlier plagues that lead up to the exodus from Egyptian slavery.

Wednesday and Thursday nights are the first nights of Passover.

The 3,000-year-old Passover home ritual acts will seem strangely relevant this year. The ritual name “Passover” is to literally ask the plague to pass over our homes as we shelter in place.

We are asked to wash our hands twice. To dip our food in salt water.

And to get over the plagues we’re asked to take two tablets — of the 10 Commandments. And go to Mt. Sinai — the real mountain not the hospital.

We will retell the Passover story, one of amazing loyalty and the selfrighteousness of leaders. It’s about a Pharaoh who leads the Egyptian people through nine plagues: multiple diseases, agricultural failures and environmental catastrophes.

For first nine plagues, Pharaoh watched the suffering of his people but remaining unswerving in order to save face and retain power. He was buttressed by a government filled with family members, government ministers and priests, people chosen as they owed their loyalty to Pharaoh, the man. A breathtaking show of personal loyalty to a leader chosen by divine right.

In fact, Pharaoh’s policy toward the Jews did not change until Pharaoh’s own eldest son died at the final, 10th plague.

It’s an interesting contrast that the Jewish leader, Moses, was full of doubts as the story is told in the book of Exodus. Jews were far from unified behind his leadership. We do not even mention Moses’ name once in the lengthy traditional Passover ritual recitations.

There is a sort of a pattern of Jewish treatment of its archetype human leaders: The Five Books of Maccabees which tell the heroic Hanukkah story of a later armed Jewish liberation are in the Christian cannon but are omitted from the Jewish Bible.

Effective leadership and “ratings” measured by popular celebration and attention seem to diverge.

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assover also asks us to remember the catalyst for the conflict.

Hebrews had come to Egypt in order to escape an ecological crisis: a drought years earlier in the so-called “land of milk and honey.”

Jews are reminded of the lesson of these 400 years of being “the other” multiple times in the book of Exodus by the repetition of the phrase: “you know the feelings of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” As a consequence, we are told to have just one law for everyone, even refugees.

And finally, the Passover ritual reminds us that our liberation from Egypt was a collective affair. Our freedom, our redemption from slavery was not granted to act out libertarian ethics, but one calling us to a higher obligation of communal service.

The Jewish concept of redemption is not an affair of the individual soul, but as a collective. Pharaoh was told

by Moses not just to “Let my people go” but, rather, “Let me my people go so they may serve ...”

— Alan Hirsch is seen handing out lawn signs in the Farmers Market, including “Love your neighbor” and the multilingual “Wherever you are from, we’re glad you are our neighbor”.

or months now, the coronavirus pandemic has made it increasingly clear how important it is to invest in public health and invest in readiness for a public health crisis.

What’s not yet so obvious — but will be — is how important it is to have universal health insurance, where every resident, employed or not, has access to doctors and hospitals without fear of the cost.

Largely due to the incompetence and foolishness of the Trump administration, we were unready to fight back against COVID-19. The result has been a much worse health crisis and severe economic losses.

There is a long history of viral infections starting in east Asia, particularly in China, and spreading from there to the rest of the world. For that reason, our government for years employed a medical epidemiologist based in Beijing, whose job — last held by Dr. Linda Quick — was to detect disease outbreaks, describe their nature and give advance warning to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Quick trained Chinese field epidemiologists, who were sent to each outbreak’s epicenter to track, investigate and contain diseases. As soon as illnesses started in China, Linda Quick would be informed and pass on vital, real-time information to the CDC. Mr. Trump, in his infinite stupidity, decided to eliminate this crucial position in July, 2019. Had Dr. Quick still been on the job, in communication with the field epidemiologists she trained, we could have initiated our response to the novel coronavirus in early November of last year. If we

had competent leadership, we could have developed good tests by the end of December.

Instead, we asked the Chinese government to keep us informed. That was deadly.

According to a report by Reuters, “the Chinese government tamped down on the release of information and provided erroneous assessments.”

The CDC was in the dark. It was not until Dec. 31 — more than a month after the outbreak began — that the Centers for Disease Control learned of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia” of unexplained origin in Wuhan, China.

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etting rid of Dr. Quick was not Trump’s only boner. He also fired his pandemic response team — called the National Security Council directorate for global health and security and biodefense — in May, 2018.

That decision led to our bungled response ever since: where we still have no idea how many Americans have been infected by the coronavirus; where the CDC developed tests that did not work and the FDA failed to permit tests that did; where we still cannot test thousands of people who are sick, but not hospitalized; and where we lack ventilators, masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment.

If we had taken public health seriously, we would

have listened to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony to Congress — a year before Trump fired Dr. Quick. “When you have a respiratory virus that can be spread by droplets and aerosol and ... there’s a degree of morbidity associated with that, you can have a catastrophe,” Fauci said.

We now have that catastrophe. It was predictable. We did not prepare.

Our health insurance system — where medical coverage is tied to jobs — will make this pandemic worse.

We are the only wealthy country in the world where sick people will spread the virus and possibly die because they won’t seek treatment, afraid of the hospital bills that their insurance won’t cover.

We are the only wealthy country in the world where people who get sick and seek treatment from COVID-19 will go broke if they are hospitalized. More than 530,000 Americans file for bankruptcy every year due to an inability to pay medical bills. No one in New Zealand, S. Korea or Australia files for bankruptcy due to getting ill.

If you are Canadian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish or German, having health insurance is not tied to your job. Your coverage does not get worse and your copays don’t go up if your employer chooses a cheaper plan. If you are Irish, Japanese, French, Swedish or Taiwanese, you don’t lose your access to healthcare and lose your ability to afford hospitalization if you lose your job.

Yet if you are a workingaged American who is not a public employee or independently wealthy, you lack all the safety and security of a sound, universal health insurance system that every resident of

every other wealthy — and many not so wealthy — countries has today.

In the past few weeks, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. In a month or two that might be tens of millions.

With those jobs goes not just an income to pay ordinary living expenses. Lost also will be employer-provided healthcare plans. Good luck buying insurance without a job.

I’m not a fan of Sen. Bernie Sanders for a variety of reasons. But the knock against his idea of Medicare for all — that it is too expensive — holds no water.

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hat is too expensive is the system we now have. We pay far more than every country and get far less.

In 2018, we spent $10,586 per capita, despite the fact that millions of Americans have no coverage at all and millions more have deductibles so high their coverage never kicks in.

The average per capita expenditure in an OECD country in 2018 was just $3,994 — 37.7 percent as much.

Canada effectively has Medicare for all. It costs less than half of what our system costs and every resident is covered.

It may not be a perfect system — none is — but it’s far better than what we have.

If we had Canada’s per capita costs, we would save $17 trillion per year and everyone would be covered. And if we had a competent president, we would have plenty of money to wisely invest in public health and readiness to avoid the crisis we are now in.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.

LETTERS No comparison I respectfully agree with Mr. Tracy’s letter (“Leadership in the time of disease”), following a career in gerontology and healthcare — including studies at UCD 40 years ago.

What is shameful is a president who puts himself first ahead of the elderly, healthcare professionals, science and data. Why did he not take seriously the threat of a global pandemic two months ago, when many of us were carefully considering the impact of this health-care crisis? Our president’s reckless inaction and mockery of the gravity of the disease is an ultimate failure of leadership.

Tragically for the world, there is no comparison between the current U.S. president and the fortitude of Sir Winston Churchill.

Kate Muir Davis

Finding shelter Shelter in place is appropriate and necessary to flatten the COVID-19 curve, but what about those of us who do not have any shelter? This winter I was fortunate enough to work with the staff and volunteers of the Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter program which provided food, overnight housing, social services and companionship to Davisites in need over the last three months of cold and wet weather.

Our Davis faith communities and more than 100 volunteers offered me the chance to form friendships with our guests, which now makes it difficult for me to accept that while our community (and nation) is recognizing “shelter in place” as a life-and-death need, there are so many of our fellow citizens who do not have the option of any nighttime shelter.

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Worse, with the shutdown of businesses and public offices there is virtually no place for unhoused folks to sit inside for a cup of coffee, a meal or even read a book at the library.

While some of us (including me) feel restricted at being expected to stay at home for as many hours as possible, imagine how you would feel if you had no where to go at all? No place to be but out in the streets, 24/7 and with everyone passing by afraid to get close to you.

Thankfully, our city leaders have opened a new Respite Center which does provide a few hours a day where people can safely sit and relax. But the RC has limited hours/ days and is very short of volunteers to help the small, hard-working staff.

As a member of this community for 50 years I know we can do better.

I urge our city leaders and citizens to somehow make “shelter in place” a reality for all of us.

Michael Williams Davis

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Emergency Aid Committee, is extremely grateful for the Scouting for Food Drive.

Despite the inclement weather and uncertain circumstances, the Scouts brought in more than 8,600 pounds of food which is especially needed for food insecure families during these trying times.

In addition to distributing thousands of fliers before the drive, Scouts of all ages were braving the elements the day of the event, collecting and sorting food. In particular, Scouts leader, Sherry Heins, played a critical role coordinating the entire event, ensuring that things went smoothly. Many STEAC volunteers/staff also pitched in with the food sort.

Finally, the Davis community was once again amazing, leaving an abundance of donations out on their sidewalks for pickup.

With the current health crisis especially impacting those less fortunate, the Scouting for Food Drive was particularly important this year, ensuring that struggling families will have food to put on their tables through these rough times. Sincere thanks from all of us here at STEAC! Liane Moody STEAC executive director

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Studying how wildlife recovers from wildfire Special to The Enterprise

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uleyome, a nonprofit conservation organization based in Woodland, purchased the Silver Spur Ranch in 2016, located immediately south of Indian Valley Reservoir along the North Fork of Cache Creek in Lake County.

This 1280-acre property is in the heart of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument and is home to oak woodlands, rare plants, and many animals.

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), California quail (Callipepla californica), egrets (Ardea alba, Egretta thula), great blue herons (Ardea herodias) and river otters (Lontra canadensis) have been seen on the property while mountain lions (Puma concolor), bears (Ursus americanus), bobcats (Lynx rufus) and tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) have left evidence.

Tuleyome purchased the property with an eye toward opening it up to

TULEYOME TALES limited public use including hiking, camping, horseback riding, mountain biking, and naturalist workshops.

In June 2018, the Pawnee Fire burned more than 15,000 acres in Lake County, burning from Highway 20 to the west shore of Indian Valley Reservoir. The fire forced many people to evacuate and burned 22 structures.

Included in the burned area was Silver Spur Ranch property. Tuleyome, like everyone else, was relieved to hear that there were very few injuries and saw this as an opportunity to study how wildlife — flora and fauna — respond following a wildfire.

As noted earlier, staff had physical and anecdotal evidence of which animals used the property before the fire and had photos of which plants were present at different times of the year. While no detailed list of all the species was created before the fire, the

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A healthy mountain lion walks through Tuleyome property in June 2019. large species were known — blue oak (Quercus douglasii), chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum), ceanothus (Ceanothus sp), toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), and other associated species.

This information provided a pre-fire baseline to which post-fire data could be compared. Noting which species of plants “returned” to the property would be relatively easy, accomplished during visits to the property.

To track the return of fauna, 12 game cameras were purchased via a grant from the Sacramento Zoo

and were placed throughout Silver Spur. The hope was to see which animals returned and how long after the fire. Did any species not return? Any new species? Which species were quick to return?

During the first visits to the property post-fire the familiar “chi-ca-go” of California quail was heard throughout the property and the males were seen on the burned remnants of the chaparral. Generally, songbirds were the first returners and egrets and herons took advantage of the constant water in the North Fork of Cache Creek

flowing out of Indian Valley Reservoir.

The first large mammal captured was a black bear and her cub — which were captured within a month of placing the cameras.

Tuleyome staff had assumed that deer would be the first large mammal to return. In fact, a deer was not captured for a couple of months, after some rain encouraged plant regeneration. Initial captures of deer were limited to a single deer per image but soon pairs and trios were captured.

Eventually, coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats, gray foxes, wild boars, raccoons, turkeys, red-winged blackbirds, mourning doves, and even mice and snakes were captured.

Some returned relatively shortly after the fire (coyotes) while others were not seen until more than a year after (turkeys).

Why did animals return at different times? We can assume that predators needed their prey to return — why did turkeys take so long to return? Where

were the elk?

The cameras also captured the great wildflower display from spring 2019.

A couple of cameras that are placed higher on trees were able to show the change of flowers — a dramatic change can happen in two days.

In the year-and-a-half since the cameras were placed, Tuleyome has obtained nearly 5,000 images of animals. Now comes the challenge of going through the images to answer some questions: How many deer, bobcats, coyotes, foxes? Is there more than one mountain lion? Is it the same? Are the coyotes captured on the northern end of the property the same as those captured in the south?

There is a lot to learn!

For more information about this project, contact Nate Lillge at nlillge@ tuleyome.org.

— Tuleyome is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit conservation organization based in Woodland. For more information go to www. tuleyome.org.

Ways to avoid adverse childhood experiences during the pandemic Special to The Enterprise As the community responds to measures put in place to “flatten the curve” and conserve medical resources in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many families are placed in a state of unprecedented stress — financially, emotionally, personally and professionally.

Families and children face fear and anxiety due to the increasing severity of restrictions, ongoing disruptions in routine, uncertainty about the future and onslaught of information caused by the coronavirus.

Fear, anxiety, and frustration are normal reactions to an abnormal situation. With schools and businesses closing, activities cancelled, children and families home around the clock, it can all feel overwhelming. The staff at

the District Attorney’s Office reminds residents that they are not alone.

At times like this, the risk for Adverse Childhood Experiences increases dramatically. ACEs Connection (https://www. acesconnection.com/), recommends the following ways to avoid ACEs during the pandemic: ■ Think about social connection and physical distance, not social distance. Continuing to nurture close relationships with friends and relatives protect against ACEs. ■ Talk with children. Like their parents, children may be fearful, or simply missing their routines.

■ Reach out for support, particularly with an infant at home.

Infants can exhaust and frustrate their parents. These feelings drive some parents to hurt their

infants, making the first six months the most dangerous age for child abuse.

■ Reach out to support. Reach out to your friends or relatives with infants and other children at home. Try to listen without offering advice.

■ Address concrete family needs. Shelter-in-place orders may lead families to struggling to meet basic needs. Offer to help by getting diapers for families that need them, cook a meal or drop off food. Be on the lookout for families who have trouble getting food. If you can, contribute to local relief efforts.

■ Address parental mental health. Depression is common and treatable. Those with a history of depression, parents with newborns, and people who have lost their jobs are at particular risk.

Recognize common signs of depression: anger and irritability, loss of energy, loss of interest in daily activities, and feeling helpless and hopeless. Family doctors, pediatricians and obstetricians are trained in recognizing and treating signs of depression.

■ Check in with the children in your life. School teachers and early childhood educators can recognize signs of abuse or neglect. Children who are out of sight because their schools are closed are more vulnerable. If you suspect child abuse or neglect, contact the Child Welfare Reporting Abuse Hotline at 530-6692345.

■ Be on the lookout for family violence. Many professionals expect an increase in family violence due to changes in routines, economic stress and simply being

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If needed, reach out to the National Domestic Violence hotline (800-799-7233) for advice.

In Yolo County, Empower Yolo’s 24-hour crisis lines are staffed and ready to help: 530-662-1133 or 916-371-1907 (visit http:// empoweryolo.org/crisis-support/) for more information.

District Attorney Jeff Reisig reminds residents that having the news on continuously at times like these can be confusing, scary and overwhelming for children.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-505 1. Elizabeth Maree Hare filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Elizabeth Maree Hare to Elizabeth Maree Griffith 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 20, 2020 Time: 9 a.m.

Dept: 9 Room: N/A The address of the court is 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Date: March 11, 2020 Stephen L. Mock Judge of the Superior Court 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8 783

1530 Highland Drive West Sacramento, CA 95691 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 3, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Amy Arghestani, Owner 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15 787 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

Filed: March 6, 2020 FBN Number: F20200233 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) NAILS BY DENISE 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

616 Cottonwood Street Woodland, CA 95695 Alternate mailing address: 1305 Adams Court Woodland, CA 95776 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Denise Garcia STATEMENT 1305 Adams Court Woodland, CA 95776 Filed: March 9, 2020 4. Business Classification: FBN Number: F20200248 Business classification 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Sky Farms 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Registrant(s) commenced to transact Principal Place of Business in California. business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: Business is located in Yolo County.

March 5, 2020 1530 Highland Drive “I declare that all information in this West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), statement is true and correct.” (A registrant who declares as true information which he Residence Address, State, and Zip or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Amy Arghestani

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Denise Garcia, Owner 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 20-01 (HYATT HOUSE DAVIS) CITY OF DAVIS, COUNTY OF YOLO STATE OF CALIFORNIA On April 2, 2020, special assessments for the financing of public improvement districts in the California Statewide Communities Development Authority (the “Authority”) Assessment District No. 20-01 (Hyatt House Davis) City of Davis, County of Yolo (the “District”), were recorded in the office of the Superintendent of Streets of the Authority. The property owners within the District have waived their entitlement to pay all or any portion of the assessments levied upon their property in cash within thirty days after the recordation of the assessments in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yolo. These assessments affect only certain property, the owners of which have voluntarily participated in the Authority’s Statewide Community Infrastructure Program. Bonds will be issued according to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 representing unpaid assessments and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 12% per year. Thereafter, unpaid assessments will be payable in installments of principal and interest over a period of not to exceed thirty (30) years.

Dated: April 8, 2020 and April 15, 2020 BRIAN MOURA, Secretary California Statewide Communities Development Authority 4/8, 4/15

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Baby Blues

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Pearls Before Swine

Dilbert

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Police investigate robberies at stores

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer One suspect is in custody and two others remain at large in connection with several robberies at Yolo County convenience stores — two of which appear to be connected, police said.

A 17-year-old Woodland boy was arrested in connection with the first robbery, which occurred shortly after midnight Saturday at the Chevron station at the corner of East Main Street and Pioneer Avenue in Woodland, police Sgt. Dallas Hyde said.

According to Hyde, the clerk reported being robbed by a suspect who claimed to have a gun and threatened to shoot him. He fled the scene in a black sedan, while a second suspect stole beer and left the store on foot.

“Officers located a male matching the description of the second male and detained him,” Hyde said.

The teen was booked into Yolo County Juvenile Hall

on suspicion of robbery after being identified by the robbery victim. The search continues for the other suspect, Hyde added.

Meanwhile, police in Woodland and Davis are searching for another suspect who stole cigarettes from 7-Eleven stores while claiming he was armed.

In both cases, the suspect entered the stores — 301 Cottonwood St. in Woodland and 525 L St. in Davis — between 4 and 5 a.m.

Monday and stole a large number of cigarettes while acting in a threatening manner toward the clerks, police reported. In the Davis incident, he reportedly said, “Don’t move — I have a gun.”

Police received similar suspect descriptions in both cases: a black male adult with long hair, wearing a black jacket and green baseball cap. Anyone with information about either crime is asked to contact Davis police at 530-7475400, or Woodland police at 530-666-2411.

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BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer A resident of Chestnut Lane reported being physically assaulted outside his home early Sunday morning, according to the Davis Police Department.

Lt. Art Camacho said the victim heard a noise outside his house, located in the 900 block, shortly after 2 a.m. and went into the front yard to investigate the source.

“That’s where he encountered the suspect, who immediately attacked him,” Camacho said. The victim said he was repeatedly punched in the face and knocked to the ground while the suspect asked if

he had any money.

The suspect fled on foot empty-handed. He was described as a white male, 30 to 40 years old, about 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10 and 160 pounds, with “bluish” eyes and wearing a black medical mask. He was last seen wearing jeans and a black T-shirt.

“It was completely random. He (the victim) has not idea who this person is,” Camacho said.

Because of the demand for money, police are investigating the incident as an attempted robbery, Camacho said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Davis police at 530747-5400.

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