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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020

Suspect in theft of COVID specimen due in court today

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer The man suspected of taking a possible COVID-19 specimen from Sutter Davis Hospital was scheduled to make his first court appearance this afternoon.

Shaun Lamar Moore, 40, remained in Yolo County Jail

custody on a $12,500 bail hold Tuesday, facing charges of burglary and theft under false pretenses. His arraignment was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday via videoconference from the jail, one of a number of modifications the court has implemented due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Yolo County District Attorney’s

officials said Tuesday they had received a police report in the case but had not yet filed a complaint.

Davis police arrested Moore shortly before noon Sunday, nearly 24 hours after a man matching his description walked into Sutter Davis Hospital, took a packaged specimen awaiting

testing for COVID-19 and left on a bicycle.

Officers recovered the specimen that evening inside a shopping cart at the CVS store at The Marketplace and returned it to the hospital, where staff confirmed that several layers of protective seals remained undisturbed.

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Susan’s nightmare began with an iPhone upgrade.

The switch from a 5S model to an 11 Pro came with a few perks, such as the ability to use the Apple Pay mobile wallet service that Susan enrolled in soon after her late February purchase.

A day later, Susan received what she recognized as a “phishing” email — one using a forged or fake electronic document — that said she’d purchased a Netflix subscription through Apple Pay, which she hadn’t.

“It was kind of obvious,” Susan, 68, said of the suspicious email. Rather than click on any of its links, Susan called an

Apple consumer hotline, which she said instructed her to forward the email to “report phishing@apple.com.”

The next day, a Wednesday, Susan — a retired healthcare worker who moved to Davis about a year ago — got two calls on her home phone that identified the caller as “Apple,” but when she picked up the line, the caller hung up.

“I didn’t really think much of it,” Susan said. On Thursday came a third call, this one an 800 number from “Apple Support.” The caller, a man with an Indian accent, referred to Susan’s email, said her computer had been hacked, and offered to fix the problem — even issuing her a repair ticket number.

And that’s where the real trouble began. By Saturday, she’d racked up more than $80,000 in credit-card debt by

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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY AND CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writers

Medical offices and healthcare systems across the country have taken a financial hit due to deferred non-urgent care and CommuniCare is no different.

“We’ve seen a tremendous reduction in our volume,” Marshall said, “so our revenue has taken a tremendous hit.”

“And this is for the best, in terms of the public health issue,” she noted. “But it also puts CommuniCare and other health centers at some level of jeopardy.”

One example Marshall cited was the suspension of non-urgent dental care.

“In the first two weeks of closing our dental practice, we ran a deficit of $250,000,” Marshall said. “So the impact on CommuniCare and our sustainability is definitely serious. We are relying on some of the

A nursing facility in Woodland has 35 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, including 23 residents and 12 staff members, the county reported Monday.

One resident of the facility has died — the fourth COVID-19 fatality in Yolo County — and testing is continuing for all staff members and residents, according to the county, which declined to identify the facility by name, citing patient privacy.

However, several sources told The Enterprise that St. John’s Retirement Village in Woodland has seen an increasing number of COVID-19 cases among residents and staff.

One woman, who asked not to be identified, said a family member in the Stollwood skilled nursing facility at St. John’s was recently diagnosed with COVID-19 and last week staff members informed her there were 13 cases at the facility. She said she was first informed that a staff member at the facility had tested positive several weeks ago.

Calls to St. John’s director seeking comment on Monday were not returned. On Tuesday, the facility was referring all media questions to the county.

Outbreaks have been reported in numerous congregate-care facilities like nursing homes nationwide since the pandemic began and both Yolo County and facilities here have taken precautions to avoid an outbreak, including by prohibiting visits by

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Multiple stacks of gift cards illustrate a Davis resident’s $87,000 in losses from an internet scam known as “phishing.”

CommuniCare continues serving the most vulnerable

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer As a key healthcare provider for thousands of low-income and uninsured Yolo County residents, CommuniCare Health Centers has encountered some unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For one thing, unlike other health systems that are incentivized to keep patients out of the office, CommuniCare — as a federally qualified community health center — is incentivized to see patients face to face.

That’s how they are reimbursed. And that’s been challenging with a shelter in place.

Thankfully, according to CommuniCare CEO Dr. Melissa Marshall, “because of the federal emergency and a waiver … we’re actually able to do telephone visits and video visits and be paid for those.”

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“And it’s really critical because, obviously, with the shelter-in-place order, and our desire to keep people safe at home, we’re trying to keep people out of the clinic,” Marshall told the Yolo County Board of MARSHALL Supervisors during their CommuniCare meeting Tuesday morning.

CEO CommuniCare, through its clinics and satellite offices throughout the county, provides primary, behavioral, dental and prenatal care to more than 26,000 Yolo County residents regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. And they do so on a shoestring budget, one that even with changes to federal reimbursement rules, is being strained right now.

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Virus outbreak hits nursing facility

Gone phishing ...

Victim on the hook for $87K

Deputy Police Chief Paul Doroshov identified Moore as a local transient, his identification determined after an officer “used their community policing skills to talk to members of our homeless community,” he said.

Police spotted him riding his

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Briefly UCD police nab burglary suspect UC Davis police reported making an arrest last week in connection with recent burglaries on campus.

Dustin McGuire, 32, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of burglary and possession of stolen property, a campus spokesman said Tuesday. He also was issued with an order to stay away from campus.

Police said they stopped McGuire at about 4:15 p.m. last Wednesday, April 8, after noting he wore clothing taken during a burglary earlier in the day at The Pavilion.

He allegedly was found in possession of numerous UCD keys and key cards, laptops, a lock pick tool set, a speaker and other items, the electronics believed to be from other recent campus burglaries.

UCD police say they’ve increased security patrols since the campus suspended operations. Most buildings should now be locked.

“If you must come to campus, please use only the main entrance of your building. If you unlock a door, ensure it is closed and secured behind you,” police said.

Anyone on campus encountering suspicious activity or a door that should be secured is urged to report it immediately to the UCD Police Department at 530-752-1230.

Report malfunctioning doors to Facilities Management at 530-7521655.

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Imposssible? I’m having it my way B ecause I’m a fair-minded guy who believes every burger deserves its day, I headed out to Burger King to try the much-ballyhooed Impossible Whopper, billed as a plant-based alternative to the real thing.

I intended to do a double-blind taste between the traditional Whopper and the Impossible Whopper, but despite a small degree of skepticism about this new product, I arrived with an open mind and an empty stomach.

I also made certain, of course, to keep 6 feet between myself and the kind person taking my order.

Fortunately for my seven-figure expense account as Official Enterprise Taster, Burger King had a two-for-$6 special that included both the Whopper and the Impossible Whopper, so I ordered one of each.

First, however, I had to grill the grill-master about exactly how these burgers would be grilled.

Turns out cross-contamination is possible between plant-based and beef-based unless you specifically request that the Impossible Whopper never touch the same cooking surface as the regular Whopper.

According to the friendly and accommodating cashier who took my order, the two burgers are identical in terms of bun and toppings, with the only difference being the actual patty nestled

local restaurants. Additionally, there apparently is no alternative mayonnaise spread, such as Vegenaise.

Given that a number of people wishing to try this product might well be vegans, that seems like a serious omission that could easily be fixed.

inside that bun.

I have long contended that if the bun is soft and warm and chewy, the secret sauce is similar to Thousand Island dressing, and the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles are fresh and tangy, you can pretty much leave out the patty altogether and not be missing much.

According to Burger King, “Our Impossible Whopper Sandwich features a savory flame-grilled patty made from plants, topped with juicy tomatoes, fresh lettuce, creamy mayonnaise, ketchup, crunchy pickles and sliced white onions on a soft sesame-seed bun.

100 percent Whopper, 0 percent beef.”

Fair enough.

However, while many vegetarians will have no trouble with mayonnaise being slathered all over their plant-based burger, true vegans will balk at a product made with eggs, no matter how “creamy.”

Burger King, however, doesn’t point out this discrepancy in its advertising or at the counter in its

O

nce we got home with our burgers in hand, I closed my eyes and swore not to peek as the Red-Headed Girl of My Dreams unwrapped the two competing burgers and placed them on separate plates for my inspection.

They looked like twins. Indeed, they were indistinguishable from one another. Honestly, I was surprised.

The smell test also yielded no telltale differences. Again, I was completely stumped.

I closed my eyes again as each burger was cut in half, then each half was placed on a separate plate. The plates were then randomly scrambled so only my Sweetheart knew which of the four plates contained which burger half.

I opened my eyes again so my hand could find my mouth and devoured Half No. 1 in three or four bites. Delicious. No unseemly aftertaste. No hint of broccoli instead of beef.

I decided No. 1 must be the real thing and so stated in my purple

spiral notebook purchased for just such journalistic inquiries.

Half No. 2 was equally delicious, convincing me it was cut from the same burger as Half No. 1. In my mind, I was confident that between No. 1 and No. 2, I had just consumed the entire regular Whopper.

That knowledge, of course, would make evaluating Half No. 3 and Half No. 4 a breeze.

To my utter shock and amazement, Half No. 3 was identical in flavor and texture and what I like to call the “yum” factor to No. 1 and No. 2.

After I was administered oxygen so I could complete the test, I consumed Half No. 4 and reached the same conclusion I reached with Half No. 3.

There was no discernible difference between any of the halves.

Even the price was the same.

Afterward I was told that No. 1 and No. 2 were both Impossible Whoppers, which means No. 3 and No. 4 were both regular Whoppers.

Bottom line: If you like the Whopper, you’re bound to like the Impossible Whopper.

But they really should put a squeeze-bottle of Vegenaise over by the ketchup packets out of respect for the dedicated vegans among us.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

COMMUNICARE: Uncertainty next SUSPECT: Motive still From Page A1 federal stimulus money and other things to help shore us up so we can keep the work going.”

And that work remains key during this pandemic.

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, CommuniCare has hired temporary nurses to staff a triage phone line so patients can get through quickly and get clinical advice, Marshall said.

Additionally, they’ve purchased tents to put outside clinics to isolate respiratory cases or any cases that had symptoms that were concerning.

“And we actually have been doing testing outside in the tent or in patients’ cars in some cases,” Marshall said.

In terms of that testing, Marshall said CommuniCare has been limited by a shortage of kits.

Still, she said, “we’ve currently done 56 tests and we’ve had four positive tests at CommuniCare.”

Meanwhile CommuniCare’s contributions to the county’s efforts during the pandemic extend beyond its clinic doors.

CommuniCare staff, including doctors and nurses, are assisting with care for the homeless, including case management and triage at the respite center in Davis as well as “motel medicine” for the homeless individuals the county has placed in motel rooms around the county.

“We’re doing this on a handshake, we don’t have a contract,” Marshall said.

“We’re doing this because it’s the right thing to do and I think right now it’s important to focus on the opportunities and really doing our very best to take care of our community.

That’s what CommuniCare has always done and that’s what we will continue to do.”

That work will be challenging, however, both now and in the future.

Marshall expects a big impact on CommuniCare from the growing ranks of the unemployed.

“They will be eligible for Medi-Cal and our system is not set up right now, either at CommuniCare or in the private sector, to really support a huge bolus of MediCal patients,” Marshall said. “Because as you know, many of our systems don’t accept Medi-Cal or MediCal membership. So I think there is more conversation to be had going into the future about how to manage this population.”

Learn more about CommuniCare and how to access care at https://www. communicarehc.org.

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under investigation From Page A1 bicycle along Cowell Boulevard in South Davis and took him into custody.

His alleged motive remains under investigation.

“Davis police are familiar with Moore and are determining whether any mental-health conditions played a factor in this incident,” the Davis Police Department said in a social media post announcing Moore’s arrest. “Although the incident is very serious, detectives do not believe he intended to harm himself or others.”

Sutter Health officials

Jobe to read work of 13th-century Persian poet Special to The Enterprise

Florence May Grosskettler March 27, 1930 — April 5, 2020

Florence May (Bailey) Grosskettler died on Sunday, April 5, 2020.

Born in San Francisco in 1930, the daughter of Charles and Caroline Bailey. Before she was a year old, she moved to Stockton, where she resided until she married John Benty at the age of 20.

The two lived in Los Angeles for a number of years, she working for Union 76 Oil while her husband attended Art Center College of Design on a scholarship.

John was drafted by the Army in 1951 and the two moved first to Texas and then to England, where he was stationed.

While in England they traversed the continent that instilled in her a love for travel. The adventurous couple then shipped John’s new Austin Healey from England to New York and drove the convertible cross-country to California.

From California, they moved to Detroit, Chicago and then back to Long Beach. Finally, they moved to New Jersey, John working in New York while Florence raised their two children, Cameron and Christiane.

In the early 1970s, Florence became a registered nurse and moved back to California where she was to continue her career at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Stockton. She attended continuing-educational

programs while working as a full-time nurse and became qualified to work in intensivecare and cardiac-care units. She retired in 1992 after 32 years of nursing.

Throughout her working career she traveled the world, visiting over 50 countries. Florence moved to Davis in 2000 and met Jack Grosskettler while playing a game they both loved, bridge. They were married in 2004. With her second husband, she would add to her “country collection” traveling to such unique locations as Antarctica, Vietnam and Jordan. Florence and Jack would continue to play bridge twice a week, making a life together that truly gave her great joy. She passed away nine days after her 90th birthday.

She is survived by her son, Cameron Benty and wife Suzanne; daughter Christiane May Spoto and husband Stuart; and grandchildren Ari Spoto-Kowal and husband Sam, Jenna Benty-Potts and her husband Ben, Alexi Spoto, and Jordan Benty.

Due to the passion she had for the arts, the family asks that in lieu of flowers a remembrance in Florence’s name may be made to the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis at https://give. ucdavis.edu/Donate/YourGift/323626.

say they are investigating how a member of the public was able to gain access to the specimen.

“Sutter Davis Hospital is committed to providing high-quality care to the Yolo County community and beyond. We take this situation very seriously.

We are conducting our own internal investigation, as well as working closely with county officials and law enforcement on the matter,” a spokesperson said in a statement released Sunday.

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

Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe has been offering free poetry readings live online at facebook.com/jamesleejobe.

The next one, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, will feature the poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, among others.

Previous readings have featured poetry by Kabir,

Mirabai, Pos Moua, Ocean Voung and Frederico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda.

After each reading is over, a video is created and remains at that same web address.

Jobe also maintains a free blog for community members’ poems at yolocountypoems.blogspot. com. Email work to jamesleejobe@gmail.com — and bear in mind that this site is child-friendly.

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VIRUS: Facility provides several levels of care to residents From Page A1 family members.

According to an April 6 update on its website, St. John’s precautions have included discontinuing group dining and activities, observing social distancing of 6 feet apart and restricting visitors to essential healthcare personnel and end-of-life visits.

The 14-acre campus in Woodland provides several levels of care, from independent living and assisted care to memory care and the Stollwood Convalescent Hospital.

News of a nursing home outbreak in Woodland was accompanied by a sharp increase in coronavirus cases in that city.

Less than a week ago, Woodland was reporting seven cases and as of Monday had 43, the most in the county.

Countywide, as of Tuesday, there were 102 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and four deaths. A total of 1,085 county residents have been tested so far.

Meanwhile, the county said the Woodland nursing facility “is working closely with Yolo County

staff and emergency responders and (has) received additional support and resources.

“All positive cases have been isolated and staff and residents are being appropriately monitored.”

Additionally, all residents and their families have been notified of the outbreak, the county said.

“I am deeply saddened to learn about another COVID-19 death and an outbreak in a nursing home,” said Yolo County Public Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman.

“Nursing homes are at very high risk for COVID-19 outbreaks. In most nursing home outbreaks, the virus is introduced from visitors and staff.

“Unfortunately, this means that people need to stay at home and not visit their loved ones,” Chapman said.

He added that in Yolo County, prior to starting a work shift, all nursing home staff are required to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms and have their temperatures taken to prevent viral spread.

According to the April 6 post

on St. John’s website, all residents at that facility are assessed daily for COVID-19 symptoms and the temperatures of staff are taken at the beginning and end of every shift.

“Our number one priority is the health and wellbeing of our residents and staff,” the post reads.

“St. John’s is working diligently and around the clock to minimize the risk and exposure of the coronavirus to our residents and employees.”

“Our hearts go out to the patients and their families during this difficult time,” said Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland.

Transparency During Tuesday morning’s Board of Supervisors meeting, both Davis representatives on the board — Supervisors Jim Provenza and Don Saylor — expressed some frustration at the county not releasing the name of the facility in question and only releasing the location (the city of Woodland) later in the day.

Both Provenza and Saylor

reported hearing concerns from community members afraid the outbreak was in a facility where a loved one lives.

“I wonder if we’re being too cautious,” Provenza said. “Disclosing that there’s an outbreak at a nursing home doesn’t give away who has been infected.”

Additionally, he said, “I think the level of fear and anxiety in the community is something to be considered, especially those who may have loved ones in other facilities. Our own credibility is on the line.

“I’m just urging that we maximize transparency.”

Saylor agreed with Provenza, expressing concern that individuals who work at or deliver goods to a given nursing home might think twice about going there if they don’t know which facility is the site of the outbreak.

Additionally, Saylor said, “not announcing it and having the information come out from some other source doesn’t help our credibility and trust in the community, which is really important.”

Sandy said the worst of what he saw happen Monday was “idle

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speculation,” including individuals on social media naming institutions that were not in fact involved.

“It’s worrisome and harmful,” said Sandy.

County staff — including Chapman — acknowledged those concerns but did not indicate whether there would be more transparency in the process moving forward.

Chapman said there will probably be more infections reported at the nursing home, where testing continues on residents and staff.

He added that additional nursing staff has been brought in from outside the area to fill in for staff members now in isolation.

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— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy. Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on twitter at @calebhampton.

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Now is a good time to live off the pantry A

s frequent readers may recall, I spent a good part of my childhood on top of a mountain, where my dad ran the local television transmitter (I was in high school before cable TV came to Humboldt County.)

It was a 30-minute drive to the nearest grocery store, and 45 minutes to an actual supermarket. Every two weeks (except when we were snowed in ... or flooded in, although I’m told they’ve fixed that now) my mom would make the drive to town to grocery shop.

(An aside: I was dropped off at the county library, where I was allowed to check out two grocery bags full of books. These did not usually last me two weeks, because we lived on top of a mountain and did not have cable.)

This is all by way of explaining that I’m absolutely certain that you can, in these uncertain times, eat very well even if you can’t go grocery shopping very often! Once you’ve finished off the fresh things from your shopping trip, turn to your pantry and freezer for another week or two of delicious dinners.

With planning, your pantry is an excellent resource for this.

You don’t need to overstock (which is polite for “hoard,” which we do not do.) In a perfect world, you would build up your pantry every time you have a dollar or two extra in your food budget, by buying one or two extra of something you use regularly that is on sale.

This will eventually mean that you have the luxury of rarely buying staples at full price — if you have two cans of sale tomatoes in your pantry from last month, you can spend your money this month on extra of something else that’s on sale.

If you’ve been doing that, you’re all set. If you’re more of a day-to-day shopper, you may need to add a few things to your next shopping trip. What should you buy? Foods that you like,

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Pantry Minestrone that have a good shelf life, and that can be used in a variety of ways are best. Great pantry items include ■ Plain canned beans ■ Tuna or other fish ■ Boxed tofu (if you eat it) ■ Polenta ■ Pasta ■ Rice ■ Masa ■ Tomatoes in a variety of forms ■ Olives ■ Pumpkin ■ Canned chiles in a variety of forms ■ Dried mushrooms ■ Nuts ■ Chicken broth ■ Evaporated milk ■ Olive oil ■ Soy sauce You can make a dozen dishes out of those ingredients alone — Tuna Noodle Casserole, Pumpkin Soup, Tamale Casserole, Homemade Rice-a-roni, Fried Rice, Chicken Noodle Soup, Polenta with Spicy Tomato Sauce, Vegetarian Chili, Tomato Soup, Pasta with Pumpkin Mushroom Sauce, Mushroom Soup, Minestrone — and probably another hundred if you can put your hands on some eggs, cheese and/or vegetables.

On that note, don’t forget the freezer! Frozen vegetables, an extra pound of butter, hard cheeses like Parmesan and melting cheeses like mozzarella, a bit of bacon and bread crumbs made from the ends of loaves are all important frozen pantry items.

What to cook? Here are a few recipes to get you started.

Serves 2.

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 bell pepper, diced 1 clove garlic 1 teaspoon oregano 2 cups vegetable broth 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes 1 can cannellini beans A good handful of pasta 2 cups frozen vegetables Putting it together: Sauté onion and pepper in olive oil until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and oregano and cook 1 minute. Add broth, beans and tomatoes and simmer for 5 minutes. Add pasta to soup. Cook until pasta is tender.

Add vegetables cook until heated through.

Tamal Casserole

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Homemade ministrone is a great use of your pantry staples. alternating masa and broth until you have a thick but pourable batter. You may not need all the broth, or you may need additional hot water. Masa’s like that.

Grease a casserole dish.

Spread beans in the bottom and layer other ingredients on top in the order given, ending with corn. Pour salsa over top. Check topping to make sure it’s still pourable, and add more broth if necessary. Pour or spoon batter over top of casserole. Bake, covered, for 30 minutes at Serve with salsa, sour cream or chips on the side.

Super Speedy Party Pasta

Serves 2.

Ingredients: 2 cups or 1 can plain pinto or other beans 1 onion, sliced thin 1 bell pepper, sliced thin ½ cup grated cheese (¼ pound ground un-meat, tofu or beef) ½ cup frozen corn 1/3 cup salsa Topping: 2/3 cup masa 3 tablespoons softened butter 1 cup vegetable broth, heated ¼ teaspoon hot pepper sauce Putting it together: Make topping first. Cream 1/3 of the masa with the butter. Add hot sauce to vegetable broth.

Add enough vegetable broth to masa to make a thick batter and beat vigorously. Continue

Serves 4.

Ingredients: 8 ounce pasta shapes 2 cups broccoli florets (frozen is fine) 1/3 cup good olive oil 2 cloves garlic ¼ cup almonds, slivered ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 can tuna, well drained ¼ cup olives, slivered ¼ cup finely grated parmesan Putting it together: Cook pasta in lightly salted boiling water; add broccoli for the last 2-3 minutes of cooking time. In a non-stick pan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and sauté garlic and almonds gently until fragrant. Drain pasta, reserving

¼ cup of the cooking water.

Add red pepper flakes, remaining oil, tuna and olives to the garlic and heat until just warm. Return pasta to pan and add sauce and cheese. Add reserved cooking water, a little at a time, if pasta seems too dry.

Serve at once.

Winter Squash Fritters Winter squash keeps really well, but you can also make these fritters with canned pumpkin or frozen squash. I like these with rice.

Serves 4.

Ingredients: 2 cups pureed squash ½ cup minced onion (about ½ an onion) ¼ cup finely chopped pecans 1 cup fine bread crumbs 1 egg 6 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon nutmeg olive oil Putting it together: Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Add just enough olive oil to coat to heavy frying pan. Drop fritter batter by the teaspoonful into hot pan. Cook over medium heat until golden brown (about 4 minutes).

Turn and cook other side until brown, 2-3 minutes. Repeat, adding more oil to pan, until all fritters are cooked.

The world’s best brewers boast better beards

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s many are, I am frustrated and angered by the constipated and inadequate response at the national level to the desperate needs of millions of Americans.

Governors have a chance to shine and some are up to the challenge; our own governor makes me proud to be a Californian. I imagine things will get better though I know we have to pay for recovery with treasure or with lives; I hope those who make such monumental decisions will get it right.

But I need something else to think about during these days of the shelterat-distance dance, so I am reading about what others are doing. Some of these reports, as poems and songs and cartoons for example, are truly hilarious especially about those folk locked up with children who discover it is not the teacher’s fault. Wine features greatly in these reports as does watching movies on Netflix.

During these days of shelter-in-place, my dear friend and I miss greatly all the things we were once free to do. For the time being, our life revolves around a few pleasures.

Thank goodness for Zoom, which brings us family and friends and church and classes. I rather think the online and Internet skills we have been forced to learn, whether we like it or not, will significantly modify the world we shall enjoy in the future.

Our life now involves three main elements that repeat each day.

■ A morning walk. This gives us up to two hours out of the house. These springtime days are lovely and the Davis greenbelt and the campus arboretum, for example, offer

miles of pleasant walking.

Along the way, I meet reluctant dogs who, accustomed to the empty family home when they can sleep all day on the furniture dreaming of herding or hunting or defending (depending on their breed), now detest the word “Walkies!”

Walks are made all the more pleasurable because it’s all so quiet – few cars and fewer Harleys, though still too many leaf-blowers.

Much less hum of traffic, howl of sirens, rumble of trucks, clatter of tractors, moan of trains and roar of planes.

I can hear the birds sings and the wind rustle the leaves and the air seems cleaner.

■ The pleasure and leisure to read.

Besides books, I enjoy The New York Times with plenty of time for the many opinion pieces written by truly informed professionals. That’s a great gift.

I also have the NYT crossword that I expect to complete every day because I have the time and patience to settle to it. I need an hour or more from Thursday through Sunday when parts of the grid are hard to fill and unlikely words like RONFL and APERCU turn out to be correct.

■ I’m growing a beard. I have had this ambition since I first entered university half-a-century ago where some really serious men (and a few women) were bearded. But beards were not a hit at the weekly dance and so I never allowed one to happen.

Later, the same problem arose when a sprouting

beard proved to be the most effective means of birth control yet invented.

Also at this stage, when I tried merely a mustache, the thing turned out ginger-colored and looked a bit odd.

The craft-brewing industry emerged at about the same time that beards emerged as a male fashion statement. Beards became commonplace around breweries and at brewing conferences where they seemed particularly luxurious and full along with flying locks.

Adverts for employment opportunities often listed facial hair as optional, welcome or, occasionally, as required. I never managed to join that club. I suppose luxuriant beards implied the vast nutritional value of craft beer. What a boost it would be if beer could grow hair in the right places.

The only time I saw beards in other than a positive light was at an NRA conference that I ran into

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Over the years, from time to time, I have persevered with growing a beard. In every case, I have faltered and fallen back on the familiar and easy and safe clean-shaven look.

Here the reason for failure was that beards take a long time to start looking good. Before that, they have the grubby, Harvey Weinstein-stubbled look that is hard to tolerate. I rarely have persevered beyond this stage. Then they grow more and look unkempt and uncared for and unwashed. Also hard to tolerate.

Note that all these latter reasons for failing to grow a beard concern appearance. Though I usually don’t much care what others think, I don’t want to walk about in public looking unkempt. And that is why now is the ideal time

to try to grow a beard: I do not do much walking about in public and at a distance of 6 feet or more most folk cannot see an emerging beard; at other times I have my mask to cover it.

So among the benefits of sheltering in place I have the privacy to attempt a beard. That’s what I am doing. I am shooting for the Hemingway look, though I’m currently passing through Homeless.

I have to say it’s slow going and I doubt I shall be an advertisement for the hirsute potential of beer any time soon. But maybe by the time of the Craft Brewers Conference in the spring of 2021 I can blend in with that large cohort of beard-blessed brewers.

I’m still a bit nervous my white beard will stand out among the brown ones.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020 A5

Will the pandemic help cure the sickness?

I t may be just my opinion, but it seems there’s a sickness that has taken hold in our country. There’s also a pandemic.

The pandemic attacks the lungs. The sickness attacks the brain. The pandemic interferes with breathing. The sickness interferes with thinking. The pandemic is a virus transmitted from the airway of one person to another, basically one at a time.

The sickness can be transmitted from one person to thousands, even millions, almost instantaneously as it goes viral over the airwaves and internet.

There’s an urgent search underway for a vaccine for the pandemic. Although the sickness has been around for a long time there is as yet no known cure. In fact, it has seemed that those who are infected have been getting worse.

Somewhat perversely, the pandemic may be helping fight the sickness. The sickness has been an across-the-board loss of trust in science, scientists, government, the news media and experts of any kind by a significant portion of the population.

This disdain for brains of any sort has infected public policy, has been elevated recently into a sort of dogma, and significantly undermines reliance on data and

facts as the foundation of public policy. Worst of all, its spread is being intentionally promoted as an exercise in political power and has negative implications for efforts to respond to the climate crisis.

And, honestly, this is not just a problem in the United States; it’s a global phenomenon.

Maybe that’s changing.

An April 6 article in the New York Times, under the headline, “Scientists Become Stars, as an Anxious Public Tunes In,” with pictures of Dr. Anthony Fauci, (U.S.), Dr. Christian Drosten (Germany), Dr. Fernando Simon (Spain) and Dr. Massimo Galli (Italy), claims that people are finding new heroes as the pandemic spreads.

The new celebrities “are not actors or singers or politicians.

Instead, they are epidemiologists and virologists who have become household names after spending most of their lives in virtual

anonymity.” These scientists, our new rock stars, “have become the most trusted sources of information in an era of deep uncertainty, diverging policy, and raging disinformation.”

Further, “After a long period of popular backlash against experts and expertise, which underpinned a sweep of political change and set off culture wars in much of the developed world, societies besieged by coronavirus isolation and desperate for facts are turning to these experts for answers, making them national heroes.”

A separate article (same newspaper, different day) addressed one of the most puzzling questions for me as I try to communicate about the climate crisis.

How do people deal with bad news, or, more pointedly, the uncertainty caused by, on the one hand, universally dire projections and warnings by science and scientists, counterpoised by statements of denial and derision by some political leaders?

Getting a bit into the weeds, the article states that, “uncertainty about facts, numbers, and science is called epistemic uncertainty. It is caused by a lack of knowledge,” what the chair of the Cambridge University Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence

Communication refers to as “our ignorance.”

Getting out of the weeds and back to communicating about the climate crisis and understanding if uncertainty cultivated by deniers is a barrier to some people accepting it as a huge problem needing urgent action, the article looked at a study published in the March 23 Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences that explored, “The Effects of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Trust in Facts and Numbers.”

The study was initiated in response to “the accusations of a post-truth society and claims that the public had had enough of experts.”

The take-away for me can be summed up as, “The study’s findings suggest that being transparent about uncertainty does not harm the public’s trust in the facts or the source” and that “people can handle the truth” about the level of certainty or uncertainty of scientific facts and knowledge. Paraphrasing some to edit it down to its basic points, facts are important in establishing and maintaining trust, and being trustworthy depends on honesty and transparency.

Our sickness, as it relates to the climate crisis, has been a

willful ignoring of facts and the true urgency of the moment.

That science and scientists are apparently returning to positions of trust in the population broadly is a very heartening development.

I harken back to the Women’s March in Sacramento following the 2016 election. Among the tens of thousands was a small contingent of science students from UC Davis walking and chanting together. Playing off the call and response chants of previous movements along the lines of, “What do we want?

Equal pay for women! When do we want it? Now!,” they were instead chanting “What do we want? Science-based policy!

When do we want it? After peer review!”

Maybe there’s hope after all.

Perhaps we will learn from the pandemic as scientists race and cooperate across borders to develop a vaccine that will respond to the pandemic and apply this lesson to tackling the climate crisis.

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

Celebrating 50 years of recycling It’s wake-up time for

BY JENNIFER GILBERT

Special to The Enterprise

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he city of Davis recycling program celebrates its 50th anniversary this month! To celebrate, we’re going down memory lane to share the story of this great program.

Recycling in Davis began back in April of 1970, when a small group of environmentally concerned citizens began a newspaper drop-off recycling program. Curbside recycling of newspaper became available in Davis in 1974 when a city ordinance required that newspapers be separated from trash, and the contract with the city’s waste hauler Davis Waste Removal was amended to include the collection and recycling of newspaper. Later that year, bottles and cans were added to the curbside collection program.

In 1977, DWR’s new recycling facility was completed at 1818 Fifth St. This new facility offered drop-off recycling for glass, newspaper, cardboard, used motor oil and aluminum cans. In 1979, as the recycling program continued to grow in popularity, DWR hired a fulltime recycling coordinator to expand the collection program, develop better markets for the recyclable materials and expand the public awareness program.

The Davis recycling program took a huge leap forward in 1989 when the Davis City Council passed an ordinance that required apartment properties to set aside space next to trash dumpsters for recycling carts and to inform new tenants about the recycling program and the location of the recycling carts at the property.

Needing some additional space for their operations, DWR moved their recycling center and offices to 2727 Second St. in 1994 and began offering 24/7 drop-off recycling for a variety of materials.

Plastics recycling continued to expand in Davis over the years. In 1992,

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only clear or hazy colored plastics No. 1 and No. 2 were accepted for recycling. By 1994, colored No. 1 plastic was accepted and by 1998, colored No. 2 plastic was accepted as well. In 2007, DWR began accepting rigid plastics (No. 3, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7) for drop-off recycling at their recycling center, and by January 2011, they updated their sorting line and began accepting all rigid plastics No. 1-No. 7 in recycling carts.

In looking to the future, the city is excited to further expand its “recycling” culture in the community.

While recycling has been ingrained now for decades in our daily habits, a growing movement for composting has been expanding and coming to the forefront of landfill diversion discussions.

While yard trimmings have been collected (since 1972) and composted since 1981, there were still tons of compostable materials (such as food scraps) being landfilled every year that could not be placed in yard material piles for health and safety reasons.

Recognizing that much of their waste was compostable, a couple of local restaurants approached the city in 2010 to request a food scrap collection service. With their support and assistance, the city and Davis Waste Removal launched a commercial food scrap collection pilot program in 2011.

Thanks to the data gathered from the successful pilot program, the city rolled out an organics collection program to all customers in 2016, so that all single-family, multi-family and commercial customers had access to food scrap, food-soiled paper and yard material collection via brown-lidded organics carts.

The citywide organics collection program was timely. In an effort to

reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing organics from the landfill, State regulations required jurisdictions to provide organics collection programs for businesses in 2016. New state regulations that come into effect in 2022 will require all cities and counties in California to have organics collection programs similar to the program in Davis.

In more recent years, 2018 saw the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. The owners of DWR retired, selling the business to Recology Davis, which took over the DWR contract to become the service provider for Davis.

Recology Davis expanded upon those well-established programs already in place and began accepting mattresses and box springs for free recycling at their facility in August that year. By the end of the year, Recology had already collected 756 mattresses and box springs for recycling.

Over its 50-year history, the Davis recycling program has been truly successful in keeping waste out of the landfill, thanks to the enthusiasm of environmentally conscious residents and businesses in Davis. In the last 29 years alone, Davis has recycled more than 118,872 tons of paper, 50,615 tons of cardboard, 8,512 tons of plastic, and 41,459 tons of glass. Davis currently diverts 61% of its waste from the landfill.

The city had a number of events planned to celebrate the program’s anniversary, but unfortunately these, as well as other events planned for March and April, have been postponed due to the current shelterin-place order. The bulky item drop-off days, compost-and-mulch giveaway, Recology shred event and recycling celebration at the Davis Farmers Market will be rescheduled for future dates.

— Jennifer Gilbert is a Conservation Coordinator with the city of Davis; this column runs monthly.

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anada geese parents are parading their fluffy yellow goslings at the North Ponds and West Pond.

Last week, 14 of 19 nestboxes in the Covell Greenbelt were occupied by either western bluebirds or tree swallows including five 2-day-old bluebirds, reported Alison Ke, Ph.D. candidate in ecology, and Melanie Truan, ecologist at the department of wildlife, fish and conservation at UC Davis.

Swainson’s hawks are circling overhead. I run out when I hear their high cheeew, cheeew, cheeew or a long kweeaaaaaaah. Ed Hubbard watched Swainson’s mating.

And he photographed one flying with stick in beak at the North Ponds, no doubt for a nest.

Rufous hummingbirds are passing through and showed up in our back yard for several days. Swallows are swooping all over the ponds. Manfred Kusch on Putah Creek has hooded orioles and barn swallows in residence and blackchinned hummingbirds.

The natural world does seem more important to many of us as we shelter in place and social distance.

There are so many people on our beautiful greenbelts that I look for alternatives at times

Swainson’s hawks have returned and can be heard calling over Davis and are nest building.

or walk off the path in the grass. We can be grateful we live in a town with accessible open space, trees, flowering bushes and many birds.

While you are staying home and not out enjoying nature, I recommend watching “Chasing Coral,” an 89-minute, awardwinning documentary on Netflix made in 2017. Critics give it 100% on Rottentomatoes.com.

Though I scuba dive, I saw beautiful creatures I’ve never heard of or seen.

The movie follows the research of many scientists, investigating the death of corals using time-lapse photography that is sobering.

Oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface. Fifty percent of the ocean’s coral is dead. Twenty-five percent of fish rely on coral reefs. So, fish are rapidly disappearing. Coral dies when you raise the ocean temperature 2 degrees Celsius. This has all been happening in a short amount of time.

Corals, like trees, have growth rings and the big changes in coral started in 1998. They bleach, turn white, become a skeleton, and if it persists, they die. Mass bleaching events in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2016 and 2017 were caused by unusually warm sea surface temperatures during the summer season.

Scientists are measuring this extensively along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest reef, visible from outer space and one of the seven natural wonders of the

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Victory gardens are back during virus

BY DON SHOR Special to The Enterprise In turbulent times, people want agency over their own food supply.

“My wife said maybe we need to plant a vegetable garden this year.”

A tidal wave of demand swept over garden-supply stores in the last three weeks, as gardeners new and old turn to one thing that provides a measure of personal comfort and security: digging in the dirt, growing your own food, and taking a few minutes each day to look at some flowers.

It may be hard for people who don’t garden to put all of that context into a little tomato plant.

For gardeners, it’s not at all farfetched. To me, the greatest expression of hope is a 4-inch tomato plant in a 6-foot cage.

That’s a sign of an optimistic gardener who is already thinking of sauces, salsas, and sandwiches.

There’s also the fact that people are cooped up in their houses, getting on each other’s nerves, and running out of things to do. An hour in the garden alone might just save some relationships.

Some early shoppers were worried that vegetable plants won’t be available later in the season due to all this early demand.

So let’s address that first.

The stay-at-home rules did cause disruptions in the supply chain for plant materials. Some growers shut down initially, and many are operating with reduced staffing. Seed brokers are running out of inventory.

Once it was established that garden-supply stores are essential businesses (providing materials “for food production for personal consumption”), deliveries resumed. Early high demand might lead to spot shortages of varieties, since it takes growers several weeks to get finished product from seed. Crop cycles are faster for tomatoes, slower for peppers and eggplant, very fast for squash and melons and cukes and beans.

Good news: growers are planting like crazy and there’s plenty of time. Common hybrids and familiar heirlooms should be in good supply. For more obscure varieties, planted by growers in smaller batches, you might want to grab them when you see them.

For example, the Wild Boar Farms tomatoes, originated locally by farmer Brad Gates, are mostly delivered only at the start of the season.

Beginner basics Our region and gardening seasons: ■ We live in a hot, dry summer climate with a long growing

season, April through October for summer vegetables.

■ Our soils are mineral, with very little organic material. They have most nutrients that plants need and hold them well. We don’t need to fertilize much here.

■ We have two distinct growing seasons in the vegetable garden. Those that grow well in the hot weather (tomatoes, peppers, melons, etc.) we plant from April into July, and harvest all through summer and fall.

■ There are plants that grow well in fall and winter (broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, kale, peas, etc.), which don’t tolerate heat. We plant those September through February.

■ You provide all of the water your vegetable garden gets in the summer. A growing vegetable plant needs a surprising amount of water. Correct watering is really the key to successful gardening here.

Where?

The sunniest part of your yard is best: at least four to six hours of sun minimum. Full sun (eight hours or more) is best.

When?

“Isn’t it early to be planting these?”

Yes. For best results, we plant tomatoes in April, peppers and eggplant in May. Other summer vegetables fall along that timeline.

The real heat lovers — okra, watermelons, and the super-hot peppers such as habanero — should not go in the ground until late May.

Recent questions I’m starting a vegetable garden for the very first time. Any pointers?

■ Get to know your soil and climate.

■ Give it more room than you’re thinking.

■ Build support for the climbers, which includes many of the summer vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and pole beans.

■ Put in a drip or soaker system to water it. It’s easy to do.

How do I get the bed ready?

Pull or mow off the weeds.

Spread a layer of compost on the surface and water it thoroughly. Worms and soil organisms will move up into it and begin breaking it down and incorporating it. Let them do the hard work.

Do you need to rototill? Add compost or manure? Add fertilizer?

Tilling and amending helps make a better seed bed. It’s not necessary if you’re transplanting seedlings rather than directly planting the seed.

Nitrogen will help the seedlings grow faster. That can be from manure or rich compost, granular plant food at the time

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We have a very long growing season. This harvest photo was taken in early October. Plant tomatoes April through June, and you can harvest all the way into November here. of planting, or liquid fertilizer applied a week or so after planting.

How often do you water the plants?

Seedlings need to be checked every day for the first couple of weeks. Gradually increase the amount of water you apply as the plants grow. Exact watering recommendations depend on your soil type.

In the open ground, water established plants deeply once or twice a week. In raised planters with sandy soil you may need to water daily.

I’m thinking of building raised planters because the soil is pretty cruddy here.

Most soils here are very good.

Raised planters have advantages and drawbacks.

What’s the best material to use? Is there a simpler or cheaper way to go than wood?

One of the simplest approaches is to use concrete blocks or interlocking pavers, stacked up. In the absence of space in the yard, consider livestock watering troughs available from the local feed store.

What do you fill them with?

Native soil from nearby, or topsoil purchased from the rock yard (ask them to blend in some compost). Or you can buy bags of good quality planting or potting soil.

What do most people plant around here? What’s really easy to grow?

Very easy to grow: cherry tomatoes, squash, Swiss chard, okra, basil and radishes.

Is it easy to grow tomatoes from seed? Is it too late? What about other vegetables?

Tomatoes are very easy from seed. They’ll germinate faster if you do them in pots in a warm, sheltered location. It takes about six to eight weeks for the seedlings to be ready to plant out in the garden.

You’ll harvest sooner if you buy young plants instead. But it’s not too late, if you want to save money and grow your own transplants, to plant tomato seeds.

Peppers and eggplants take much longer to be garden-ready, so I’d buy plants at this point.

Many vegetables are easy to seed directly in the ground, once the soil has warmed up more: beans, corn, cucumbers, melons and squash.

How many tomatoes are reasonable to plant for a couple of people?

Two plants give plenty for fresh eating, especially if one is a cherry tomato.

Six well-chosen varieties produce enough to eat fresh daily from mid-July through October and provide surplus for freezing or canning.

A dozen or more will help you feed your neighbors, extended family and food banks.

How much space to they take up? Do you need to stake them?

These questions are closely related. I make tomato cages from concrete wire, 6 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. The vine fills the cage by late June, cascades over the top and down to the ground by season’s end. It takes up 4 to 5 feet diameter of space. Without cages, the vines will cover several feet of your garden.

Do tomatoes need special soil and fertilizer?

Despite what marketers might want you to believe, the answer is no. They grow well in our native soil with just a little nitrogen at the start of the season.

In raised planters, because those don’t hold nutrients as well and require more frequent watering, you may want to fertilize the plants again mid-summer.

We like squash. Which ones are best? How much room do

they need? Why does everyone joke about having too much zucchini?

My father always planted six zucchini plants every year. That is about 5½ more than most people need. I got my start in retail selling surplus zucchini door-todoor.

Squash plants sprawl across a few feet of your garden.

Zucchini are famous for producing more and more flowers and fruit as the season goes along. After about mid-July most people are pretty surfeited.

There’s really only so many ways you can cook squash.

Personally, I prefer patty pan or tromboncini squash for the firmer texture.

My wife says she wants okra.

What’s a reasonable amount to plant? Is it easy to grow?

Y’all will be happy to know that okra grows just fine here. If she really, really likes okra, three to four plants should be plenty.

Having tried every method of cooking that was supposed to cure the mucilaginous character, and finding none of them reduced the sliminess, I just eat it raw now. It’s crunchy and mild flavored, and surprisingly pleasant that way. And the flowers are pretty.

My kids really want watermelons and pumpkins. Don’t those take up a lot of space?

Yep. Grow them anyway, at least once. Both like warm soil, so plant at the end of May. Water deeply and let them run all over the place. Pumpkins are more rewarding in terms of yield than watermelons.

My kids want a cherry tomato.

I like one to just slice for salads and sandwiches. Maybe freeze or make sauce, too. What’s the best? Are heirloom tomatoes better?

You won’t go wrong with Sungold, Early Girl, Champion, Chef ’s Choice Orange, a sauce tomato, and an interesting heirloom or two. But there are plenty more to consider.

Do we need to spray them with anything? I don’t really want to use any pesticides.

We are fortunate to live in a climate where tomato plants and other summer vegetables rarely suffer diseases or major pest issues, so spraying is unnecessary here.

What’s one thing you think everyone should grow?

Sweet basil. Our climate is perfect for it. Even if you don’t eat it much, the flowers are pretty and attract bees.

— Don Shor and his family have owned the Redwood Barn Nursery since 1981. He can be reached at redbarn@omsoft.com.

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PONDS: Take action on Earth Day From Page A5 world. They show beauty, horror, but end in hope.

The film is dedicated to all the young people who can and will make a difference. What we do in the next 20 years will determine what happens to our planet. It has an ending song, beautifully sung by Kristen Bell, “Tell Me How Long Until We Wake Up.” April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a time to wake up. It was founded by Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

200 million people in 141 countries participated in the first Earth Day celebrations.

The first Earth Day led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, established by special executive order of President Nixon and the passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Act. On Earth Day, April 22, 2016, The Paris Agreement was signed with 196 state parties at the conference to keep the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, adapting United Nations language on climate change.

Unfortunately, the

present administration has undone, weakened and rolled back progress made on climate and health policy. President Trump is pulling us out of the Paris Agreement. Keystone XL pipeline is being revived.

The EPA is suspending enforcement of environmental laws and Trump is pushing for kickbacks to the oil industry.

There is loss of habitat with the new border wall in three states with construction on federally protected lands. In California, we have a rollback of the clean-car standards which will worsen our air quality and people’s health.

To understand the effect of clean car standards, take a look online at the before-and-during pandemic pictures of India and China. Cars off the street allow for beautiful blue skies.

We are all more powerful than we think we are as voters, consumers and people who can unite for change. Let’s have Earth Day 2020 be the catalyst for taking individual action at any level.

At the local level, we can act. The Davis City Council recently made a behindclosed-door decision many hope will be rescinded for

multiple reasons. Read on Sunday’s Davis Enterprise, www.davisenterprise.com/ forum/commentary-cityforgoes-due-diligence-fora-bird-in-the-hand/ or my letter to the editor and council, www.davisenter prise.com/forum/letters/ letter-shocking-decision.

Google your favorite local environmental group — Sierra Club, Cool Davis, Tuleyome, Friends of the River — and look for current issues and take action.

Consider Earth Day Live, three days of digital action with themes — April 22 Strike, April 23 Divest, April 24 Vote.

Plant pollinator-friendly plants in your yard. Take action for our planet.

However, take time throughout the day, for a little bird- or ecotherapy …

5 minutes, standing outside. I take a short break in a hammock and watch the birds and trees. It’s amazing medicine. A moment of ecstasy in a dark time.

Be well, wash your hands and kiss each day.

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

Got a story, comment, question? Contact her: JeanJackman@gmail. com.

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s we head into the second month of our Great Disruption, it’s interesting and sometimes baffling to see an activity that’s banned in one jurisdiction deemed to be “essential” in another.

Take, for instance, golf.

Last week’s Masters in Georgia was canceled presumably not because of the golf but due to the size of the probable crowds. A 6-foot putt may be a gimme for the pros, but keeping a 6-foot distance between spectators is pretty much impossible.

Golf courses in and around Davis are closed, but courses are open for play just across the river in Sacramento County, then closed again a bit further east in Placer County.

Golf, a game that can apparently be played even with bone spurs, is a wonderful way to get out in the fresh air and help ease the building tension that this sometimes-intense quarantine is causing.

Go to the Davis Golf Course website and you will be greeted by a no-nonsense message that begins, “We have been told to close our doors.” And never mind that nowhere on this beautiful 18-hole layout can you find a door.

Call the same course on the phone and you’ll hear, “As of

Friday, March 20, at 11 a.m., we are closed.” Period.

As Evan Ream noted in his Enterprise piece several weeks ago, “After initially staying open during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, all three Davisarea golf courses closed last week with no clear timetable on when they might reopen.”

However, according to Tony Bizjak’s piece in The Bee, Sacramento County Health Services Director Dr. Peter Beilenson, a non-golfer, gave a green light to his county’s golfers.

“The putting green could have been a problem, but everyone was 6 feet apart,” Beilenson said.

“The driving range the same. I went out on the golf course and saw social distancing.”

Wrote Bizjak, “It persuaded him to decide to allow golfing to continue this week, even while announcing that playgrounds, parks, tennis courts, basketball courts and swimming pools

should be closed.”

On the flip side, Placer County Health Officer Aimee Sisson closed all golf courses within her jurisdiction.

“My message remains that people need to say home as much as possible,” said Sisson.

“The question should not be whether something can be done with social distancing, but rather must that something be done?

While golf courses can make changes to reduce the risk to their users, I would argue that some risk still remains, and that taking that risk is unnecessary.

“Going for a walk is a safer

way to get outdoor physical activity. In short, golf courses are not essential businesses, and golf is not an essential activity.”

A similar split decision exists in the adjoining states of Oregon and Washington.

In Portland, golf courses are open, writes Nick Daschel in The Oregonian. But across the Mighty Columbia in Washington state, courses are closed because Governor Jay Inslee says they are not essential to public health.

Apparently knowing exactly how the coronavirus is and isn’t spread, those in charge of Portland’s golf courses have “added

sanitary measures that include removing sand trap rakes, benches and ball washers, and raising cups on greens so the ball doesn’t go in the hole.”

Last time I played this silly game several dozen years ago, I had absolutely no trouble keeping the ball from going into the hole.

How that prevents the spread of this dread disease is anyone’s guess, but it’s heartening to see Oregon golfers, and those in Sacramento, doing their part to keep the rest of us safe.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

“Golf courses in and around Davis are closed, but courses are open for play just across the river.”

Rice: standing tall again in a different battle Former Aggie WR is cardiology ICU nurse in Bay Area

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Aggie football fans surely will remember the exploits of Brandon Rice.

The elusive wide receiver caught 122 passes for 1,787 yards and 20 touchdowns during his four-year career at UC Davis.

The 2008 graduate led the Great West Football Conference one year with 59 receptions, and he ranks sixth on the UCD alltime career receiving-touchdown list. But among a slew of talented wide receivers over the years, few have stood as tall as the 6-foot-4 Rice stands these days.

An exercise biology major while at Davis, Rice has been stationed on the front line in combatting COVID-19.

As a cardiology intensive-careunit nurse at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, the dedicated health-care provider says he’s drawn on his UCD education — both on and off the field — in trying to treat and turn back the coronavirus onslaught.

In that charge, Rice and his colleagues understand the dangers, but don’t hesitate in carrying out their duties.

“This is hard to get used to, and hopefully we don’t have to do it for much longer,” says Rice, who refuses to dwell on the dangers.

“I’m doing my best to hang in there. And the hospital has new precautions designed to combat the virus and keep (everybody) safe.”

Like many hospitals, Kaiser has confined virus sufferers (and those under investigation for the disease) to one area. It has also, according to Rice, provided new guidelines for staff.

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Aggie graduates Brandon Rice, left, and Candice Ligon make some banana bread while sheltering in place in Oakland.

Rice, a former Aggie wide receiver, works in an intensive-care unit in San Francisco.

“When patients need to have a breathing tube (intubated or removed), we have minimized the number of people inside the room,” Rice told The Enterprise.

“We now wear N-95 masks, are

issued gowns and we have face shields for maximum protection as an employee.”

The one-time wideout knows his role as a new-wave first responder is dangerous. But this

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“His work ethic was probably as good as anyone I’ve ever been around. And fearless ...

“He had a mentality about all that: That was what it was going to take to be great, so he worked really hard.”

Plough said he could always count on Rice: “You just knew he was going to be in the right spot at the right time ... willing to make the play when you knew it was needed. Yeah, a tough, goingover-the-middle kind of guy.”

Rice was part of a big-name Aggie receiving corps that included stars Bakari Grant, Chris Carter, Sean Creadick, Connor Kirkpatrick and a newcomer, Davis High walk-on Dwight Smith.

Smith, now an outcomes adviser for UC Davis, remembers the impact Rice had in his first days on campus — and the lasting friendship that materialized.

“As a fellow receiver and upperclass teammate, he really took me under his wing as a walk-on ... showed me the ropes.

“There was a lot of talent there for me to learn from, but the thing that set Brandon apart was his work ethic. He was always the first one there ... and you know the Division I toll (on you) of class, film, practice, weights, but this guy was getting in one or two extra workouts a day. “(Brandon) and I have stayed close. I went to his graduation; he came to my wedding in Virginia.

We’re brothers. We keep in touch and check in on each other. To have guys like Brandon, who were the cream of the crop, give me the time of day as a very skinny (walk-on), still trying to figure out how to move in my body, left an impression. And I tried to respond in kind with that love and loyalty for him.”

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avis faces unprecedented challenges as the coronavirus pandemic forces us to pause our normal lives.

Families grapple with economic uncertainty as businesses shut down and workers stay home to slow the spread. Parents experience the challenge of home-schooling kids. And there is widespread fear about what infection could mean to loved ones.

Sadly, Yolo County recently suffered its first coronavirus deaths.

We and our teams are doing much to help. But we want to share the most important message: our efforts are meaningless unless we all take seriously our responsibility to each other. Stay home and physically distance when you must leave for work or groceries.

Early indicators suggest California’s efforts to slow the spread of the virus in this way are working. We’re encouraged by what we see. We cannot let up until we are all safe.

Do what you can, whether volunteering at the food bank, giving blood or sending what you can to a local relief charity. Check on your neighbor, from a safe distance. We cannot do what thousands of you can do to get us through this emergency.

For our part, all levels of government have come together to address the pandemic and its impacts. State and federal governments are working to help nurses, doctors and hospitals to deal with any surge in COVID-19 patients. We’re investing in more beds and equipment as well as testing to get a better handle on how the virus is being transmitted.

The city and local groups have kicked in, encouraging continued self-isolation to prevent more people from becoming ill.

Donation drives have generated supplies of much-needed personal protective equipment such as masks. School campuses, which are closed until at least summer, are transitioning to online instruction and still providing meals to children in need.

Fortunately, we have been prudent in years past with our finances and have set aside rainy day funds for emergencies like this. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature are now able to devote muchneeded resources to this crisis.

Much attention is also being focused on the economic fallout. A federal stimulus program supported by our own Rep. John Garamendi is expected to put checks in the hands of all working Americans. Unemployment benefits have been streamlined, increased and extended to help people who lost jobs. Loans and grants are now available to help small businesses weather closures.

Gov. Newsom has also suspended evictions of people who cannot pay their rent due to the crisis. The DMV extended license and registration renewal deadlines for 60 days. An extension is now in place for filing state income taxes and the county will waive fees and penalties for property taxes that are late due to crisis-related hardship.

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ocal government is the backbone of emergency response. We’re heartened by the resilience of city and county agencies as they continue to provide services such as police and fire fighting — despite the new financial burden. The state and federal governments need to continue to support local agencies, providing assistance and resources on the long road to recovery.

Again, we all must do our part though isolation and physical distancing. This is especially important for people over 65 or those who are medically vulnerable. Staying home as much as possible, frequently washing hands and wearing face masks when seeking essential services helps us to avoid overwhelming hospitals. If you become ill, call your doctor before going to a hospital or medical office.

Make no mistake — this is a time of hardship. But we will weather this challenge by each of us making a difference with help from our local, state and federal partners.

— State Sen. Bill Dodd represents the 3rd Senate District; Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry represents the 4th Assembly District; and Brett Lee is the mayor of Davis.

he #metoo movement threw Harvey Weinstein, a convicted rapist, in prison. He deserved the harshest sentence for his crimes.

The #metoo movement came from a place of reckoning — take down men who have abused women. It sought to drag down the evils which lurked in the underbelly of the entertainment industry. The start of the movement opened up crucial conversations about the appropriate treatment of women.

Dangerously, however, it evolved to include behaviors that, while boorish and rude in nature, were far from the serious acts of sexual abuse and harassment. The reaction of many women to these uncouth acts made our gender look incapable of withstanding even the slightest of adversities.

It also allowed some unfettered and unsupported accusations to be accepted as truth. And while it went a great length to bring protection to the daughters in our community, it brought an equal and dangerous reality to our sons.

The #metoo posts caused a massive domino effect on social media. Social-media posts included long-winded reports of seemingly innocent

COMMENTARY and minor past experiences. I read endless anecdotal posts in which women felt victimized and abused.

These posts made me question the fortitude of my gender.

“When I was 18 and living in New York, some construction workers whistled at me and said ‘Hey baby!’” or “One time on a date, this guy kissed me and he didn’t even ask me first. I’ve never been the same since this day.”

As I read countless posts of similar nature, I wondered if the woman who actually experienced the trauma of rape, and sexual harassment were bothered by woman equating the aforementioned experiences with their experiences.

To be certain, our society was in desperate need of a movement against the scoundrels that committed heinous acts of sexual violence against women, and those who abused their position of power to take advantage of a woman’s pursuit of advancement.

I only humbly ask, do we really need to enfold in this movement the man on a date who neglects to ask for a kiss before leaning in?

Women are strong. We are capable of enduring hardships. We have met great challenges and have made

great achievements. We persevere even under the harshest of situations, so can we see that it might be insulting to hear that a member of our gender has been crushed by a whistle on the street, or an unsolicited peck?

The greatest victims in the #metoo movement are the many who were the victims of heinous crimes and abusive behaviors. There is no doubt about that, but we must acknowledge that, under this same movement, there are many men who have fallen victim to false accusations, and that, too, is a crime that should horrify us all.

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he #metoo movement has brought about a fear in many good and decent men who are now completely uncertain of how to approach relationships.

One told me, “I’m not sure of the rules of engagement, which makes me nervous to kiss a girl or let alone ask someone on a date.”

Another said, “Yeah, I have no idea if I’m allowed to say ‘you look pretty’ or if I’m allowed to hold the door for a date.”

Can we all imagine for a moment the horror in discovering that the perceived mutually agreed upon romantic encounter the night before was now seen as an act of sexual abuse? It’s quite easy for us, as women, to issue blanket responses when

we hear these accusations, and most side on the account of the women, but let’s replace the gentlemen in question with your innocent brother, father or, God forbid, son. Now that changes the perspective completely.

I am the mother of a 3-year-old daughter and eight months ago I became the mother of a son. I strive every day to raise them to be strong, good, kind, moral, respectful, virtuous and wise.

I would be devastated to know that my daughter suffered at the hands of some of these miscreants who abuse women, or that my son was an abuser.

I would be disappointed if my daughter became unmoored at a coarse comment or action, or that my son behaved in a way that could be considered illmannered. It is my fervent prayer that neither of these situations occur and I will make that my life’s mission.

Can we, as a society, endeavor to raise our children to have integrity and consideration for the feelings of others?

Can we, as a society, make this our mission?

Can we, come together to make this change to avoid another #metoo movement?

I believe that #wetoo can change the narrative for the better.

— Caroline Grossman is a Davis resident.

LETTERS Shocking decision Dear Mayor Brett Lee and council members, We are shocked by your recent decision to lease cityowned land to a solar company.

We are astonished by the process that was done in closed session, with no opportunity for the public to learn about what was proposed as the proposal was not vetted by the relevant city commissions.

We are perplexed that the council welcomed an unsolicited sole-source offer without following the city’s own process for getting other offers. We know little about finance, but when we saw the city will get only $5,000 a year for five years and then $80,000 a year, we thought that seemed like a small sum for 230 acres and since have found that in our own community, Yolo County’s Grasslands Solar area is one-10th the size but earns the county 10 times as much money.

It appears that the company is really an investment banking company with no track record of operating similar solar projects. Why wasn’t our city’s own Valley Clean Energy used?

The designated area was once used as a wastewater treatment pond and is a valuable habitat area with scheduled birding tours, as it attracts numerous bird species in large numbers. Conversion to a solar facility will be a huge loss of habitat, and there is no evidence in any of the closedsession reports or the March 24 staff report that this environmental impact was ever discussed.

Birds mistake solar panels for water.

There are ways to mitigate the dangers of solar facilities using fake trees and real water.

We beseech you explore ways to void this deal immediately. What was your rush? The company said they had a deadline of April 15, which would have allowed more time for citizens to give input during our distracting COVID isolation time.

They did not need the city to make this decision, but could have submitted their

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Many thanks to Councilman Lucas Frerichs, the only one to both protest and vote no.

Jean and Alan Jackman Davis

Problem or solution?

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem” — Ronald Reagan “Maybe our biggest strength in Germany is the rational decision-making at the highest levels of government combined with the trust the government enjoys in the population.”

— Hans Kausslich head of virology University Hospital, Heidelberg Hans Kausslich was referring to the markedly low COVID-19 death rates in Germany (1.3%), as compared to those of other nations. The US rate is 2.6%, so for every 100 cases, we are losing twice as many patients as Germany.

These rates are based on data from Feb. 6 to April 3. The caveats are that without uniform and widespread testing, the total cases (the denominators) are likely to be underestimated. Also, these rates are not adjusted for differences in the ages of the population.

Many of the early cases in Germany were young skiers returning from Austria

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

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

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

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and Italy, and younger patients are known to have better survival.

Still, a twofold difference needs further explanation. Did Germany respond differently? Yes. To begin, they tested more often than other nations, providing free tests early on. “Corona taxis” were instituted for medics to make house calls on patients five to six days into their illness.

If evaluations, complete with blood tests, showed deterioration, patients were hospitalized for early treatment. In January, Germany prepared for the worst, rapidly increasing the number of ICU beds, ventilators and standby medical staff.

They now have a surplus and so patients are being accepted from Italy, Spain and France. Above all, the populace trusted and followed their government’s recommendation of social distancing. Notably, there was little political opposition.

Additionally, Angela Merkel set an example, complying with self isolation when her physician was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Here we see the power of a functioning government to save lives. As Kausslich said, the key is rational decision making from leaders who have earned the trust of their people.

So I would modify Reagan’s words: some governments provide solutions, other governments are the problems. It all depends.

Mary M. Zhu Davis

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PHISHING: Losses pile up until victim runs out of money From Page A1 making dozens of gift-card purchases.

Susan, who asked to be identified only by her first name, said while she’s embarrassed about falling for the scam, she’s telling her story with the hope that others won’t be victimized.

‘Perfect storm’ Phishing and similar internetrelated crimes were the most prevalent in the United States last year, comprising 467,361 complaints and $3.5 billion in total losses, according to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime Report.

California alone tallied nearly 115,000 victims with more than $500 million in losses — more than any other state in the nation, the report says. Senior citizens, who often have nest eggs, good credit and trusting natures, make especially attractive targets.

“It’s as if somebody is knocking on your front door with bad intentions,” Davis police Lt. Art Camacho said. “As soon as you answer the door, they rope you in.”

“I’m sure they’re doing this to a lot of people,” Susan said. “I don’t consider myself stupid or dumb, but I got caught in a perfect storm of things, and I didn’t let

the red flags take over.”

For Susan, that “perfect storm” included a feeling of being rushed — anxious to fix her computer issues before she left town for a weekend getaway with her sister.

“He sounded really official,” Susan said of the caller, who urged her to look up his number on her caller ID to confirm it was Apple. It checked out, though Susan now believes the scammers disguised their number with a legitimate one — a practice known as “spoofing.”

Having gained Susan’s trust, the caller instructed her to go a nearby Safeway — he seemed to know the locations of stores near her home — and purchase two $500 Target gift cards. He explained he would encrypt the card numbers onto her computer “to solve the phishing problem,” she recalled.

He also told Susan she’d be paid back for her purchases, emailing what she called “a very official-looking receipt” that gave her the impression her credit card had been reimbursed.

When Susan turned on her computer, the screen displayed various graphs and numbers that made it appear as though it was being worked on, she said.

Then came more alarming news: Someone, possibly a neighbor, was using the computer to view child pornography, and Susan’s help was needed to

cards at Nugget, Bel Air, Office“Can the Davis Max, CVS and a Nike outlet store still believing they were Police Department while being used to bring a pornograsuspect to justice. “I though I investigate someone phy was helping them.” in a Nigerian internet cafe? No, ‘They got me big’ The final straw came that Satit’s not possible.” urday, when after three days of

Lt. Art Camacho Davis Police Department build a case for the FBI, the caller said.

He also told her not to tell anyone what was going on.

“Long story short, I bought more and more gift cards” — about $87,000 worth, nearly half of it purchased in a single day from a Target store, Susan said.

She canceled her weekend getaway to keep buying cards, at one point increasing her credit limit on one account by $20,000 by claiming she planned to remodel her kitchen.

While at least one credit-card company tried calling Susan to inquire about the flurry of activity, she missed the calls because the new phone’s voicemail wasn’t set up yet, she said.

Susan also recalled bypassing purchase limits by using the selfcheckout registers to make multiple transactions.

“I felt like I had beat the system,” said Susan, who also bought

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Public Notices FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: March 9, 2020 FBN Number: F20200248 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Sky Farms 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

1530 Highland Drive West Sacramento, CA 95691 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Amy Arghestani 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 Denise Garcia 1305 Adams Court Woodland, CA 95776 4. Business Classification: Business classification 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: March 5, 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): Denise Garcia, Owner 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22 795

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

It’s a lesson Susan learned the hard way.

“So now I’m stuck with these bills,” she said. “It would have been better if I’d lost my credit cards, but because I bought the gift cards myself, it wasn’t a good reason to wipe out the debt.”

Her once-good credit rating tanked, Susan is now in the painstaking process of paying off her losses, with some help from her sister.

“This is the only time I’ve been scammed in my life, and they got me big,” she said. “I just want people to know it could happen to anyone. Especially now, when everyone’s frazzled (by the coronavirus crisis) — that’s when they go in for the kill.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

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Bids Due Date And Time: Thursday, April 30, 2020; WINDOW FOR DELIVERY 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM; DEADLINE: 2:00 PM ———————————————— END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS 4/15, 4/22 798

adopted ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge.

All work shall be performed in accordance with the Contract Documents and all applicable laws and regulations.

PUBLIC NOTICE

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4. Engineer’s Estimate: $2,200,000 Project Engineer: Kevin Fong, P.E. 5. Contractor’s License Classification and Subcontractors: Unless otherwise noted in the bid documents, each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor: Class [A] General Contractor’s License 6. Bid Bond, performance bond and material bod: Please see https:// cityofdavis.org/Home/Components/RFP/ RFP/1200/3101 for more information on these requirements.

7. Prevailing Wages: All employees on the job shall be paid prevailing wages and be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. See Contract Book for more detail.

796 8. Award: City shall award the contract for the Project to the lowest responsible Bidder submitting a responsive bid as PUBLIC NOTICE determined by the City from the Base Bid, NOTICE INVITING BIDS and all Add Alternatives. City reserves RUSSELL BOULEVARD /UCD BIKE the right to reject any or all bids or to PATH IMPROVEMENTS, waive any irregularities or informalities in CIP NO. 8286 any bids or in the bidding process.

3. Description Of The Work This project involves clearing, and grubbing to install a new bike path south On April 2, 2020, special assessments for of Russell Boulevard starting at Arthur the financing of public improvement Road. Work will include excavation,

TIME WINDOW TO DELIVER BIDS (either by delivery service or dropped off in person by bidder): Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. No bids will be accepted outside of this time window.

CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 20-01 (HYATT HOUSE DAVIS) CITY OF DAVIS, COUNTY OF YOLO STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Camacho also recommends that people minimize the number of financial services they use online, because “there’s no telling where (your personal information) is going to to go,” he said. “Don’t open that front door.”

demolition of existing asphalt concrete bike path connections, subgrade preparation, installation, and compaction of aggregate base, and asphalt concrete, as well as rotating, or relocating lightpoles.

9. Notice to Proceed: This project will be awarded for a June 2020 start date.

The Notice to Proceed shall be issued no sooner than June 1, 2020.

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His advice: “Don’t engage.

They will always have the advantage and they will play on your emotions, whether it’s greed or fear or goodwill.”

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1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis (“City”) invites and will receive sealed Bids up to but not later than 2:00 PM on April 30, 2020, at the City Clerk’s office of the City Manager, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616, for the furnishing to City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the Russell Boulevard/ UCD Bike Path Improvements, CIP No. 8286 (the “Project”). At said time, Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids received after said time shall be returned unopened. Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date.

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gift-card purchases, all of Susan’s credit cards had maxed out.

“I’m out of money,” she told her scammer when he called that day.

He told her she should borrow money from a neighbor and promised to send a computer technician to her house the following day.

But Susan refused and sought help from a friend, who after hearing the story broke the news that Susan had been scammed.

She called Apple, which “confirmed they don’t do anything like that” and never call their customers, Susan said. She filed reports with the Davis Police Department, Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, FBI and Better Business Bureau, who were sympathetic but told her there was little they could do.

“These are very well-organized individuals, and they usually operate from outside of the country,” said Camacho, the Davis police lieutenant. “Can the Davis Police Department investigate someone in a Nigerian

internet cafe? No, it’s not possible.”

10. Further Information: For further information, contact Kevin Fong, Senior Civil Engineer, at kfong@cityofdavis.org.

Questions will only be considered and answered via email. Questions will not be considered or answered 48 working hours prior to the bid opening.

11. Pre-Bid Conference: No Pre-Bid Conference is scheduled for this project.

———————————————— Deliver Bids To: CITY OFFICES - CITY CLERK’S OFFICE 2. Requesting Contract Book: 23 Russell Boulevard, The Contract Book (including all plans and Davis, CA 95616-3896 specifications) is required to be purchased (Building is located on the corner of for $70 per set from BPXpress Reprographics Russell Boulevard & B Street) www.blueprintexpress.com/davis or by calling at (916) 760-7281. Bidder must *Note* If you choose to mail your Bid purchase the Contract Book from BPXpress Proposal via any of the overnight/express Reprographics AND be on the BPXpress services, the preferred services are FedEx, plan holder list to be deemed responsive. UPS and USPS and the delivery MUST be Only bidders on the plan holders list shall a timed delivery. The delivery service MUST deliver the bid during the TIME receive addenda notifications.

WINDOW stated below to the City’s Please see further detail on bidding Clerk Office. The outside envelope MUST requirements by going to https:// be clearly marked as follows: [SEALED BID cityofdavis.org/city-hall/public-works/ FOR: Russell Boulevard/ UCD Bike Path management-administration/rfps and Improvements. DELIVER IMMEDIATELY selecting the respective link to this Project. TO CITY CLERK’S OFFICE]

CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on March 24, 2020, the City Council of the City of Davis introduced and on April 7, 2020, the City Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance entitled: ORDINANCE NO. 2577 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS ADDING ARTICLE 13.03 OF THE DAVIS MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING OPEN CAMPFIRES The adopted ordinance will add Article 13.03 to Chapter 13 of the City of Davis Municipal Code. The purpose and intent of this Article is to avoid the spread of wildfire by prohibiting a person from setting, igniting or maintaining an open campfire on public property unless they first obtain a permit from the Police Chief. The Police Chief can grant a permit so that a person can use an Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device on public property. Permits will have specified safety conditions including but not limited to: (1) An Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device permit shall only be issued in conjunction with a street use or parade permit. The permittee must obey all provisions of the street use or parade permit; (2) An Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device shall be used only with an approved fuel; the burning of yard waste, lumber, leaves, grass, paper, cardboard, unseasoned logs, garbage, refuse, trash or like manner of things is prohibited; (3) An Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device shall be used and located only in an area separated from any structure by not less than fifteen (15) feet; (4) An Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device shall be used and located only in an area separated from any brush, trees, grasses, weeds, combustibles, and other fire fuel by not less than fifteen (15) feet; (5) An Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device shall be constantly tended by a person over the age of eighteen years when in use until the fire is extinguished.

A portable fire extinguisher having a minimum rating of 2-A:10-BC or other approved extinguishing agent such as sand, dirt or water in sufficient quantity shall be available for immediate use; (6) No Outdoor or Portable Cooking Device shall be used in such a manner as to emit offensive or objectionable smoke or odors or when atmospheric conditions such as wind or other circumstances make such fires hazardous.

The above summary constitutes the major highlights; to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance, a reading of the document in its entirety may be necessary.

A certified copy of the full text of the

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LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NOTICE OF URGENCY ORDINANCE SUMMARY The Yolo County Board of Supervisors will receive public comment and will consider the introduction, waiver of reading, and possible adoption of an urgency ordinance at its Regular Board meeting, which will be conducted as a teleconference on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. This uncodified urgency ordinance imposes a temporary moratorium on evictions in Yolo County while the County public health and local emergencies are in effect, and for 180 days thereafter. This limitation protects and establishes an affirmative defense for any Tenant who can demonstrate that they have received a notice of eviction as a result of compliance with a state and/or local shelter-in-place order or failure to pay rent due to a substantial loss of income or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and further sets forth the facts constituting the urgency for such measures.

Anyone who wishes to comment on this matter may do so in advance by emailing clerkoftheboard@yolocounty.org or telephonically at the public hearing.

Copies of the full text of the proposed ordinance are available at the Office of the Clerk of the Board, 625 Court Street, Room 204, Woodland, CA 95695, by telephone (530) 666-8195, or at the Yolo County Web site (www.yolocounty.org).

Dated: April 15, 2020 Julie Dachtler, Senior Deputy Clerk Yolo County Board of Supervisors 4/15 802 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: April 9, 2020 FBN Number: F20200297 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) ROVERPT 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

2322 Rodin Place Davis, CA 95618 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Sandra Gail Reina-Guerra 2322 Rodin Place Davis, CA 95618 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: March 20, 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): Sandra Reina-Guerra 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 803

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UCD women’s tennis nets 3-star recruit Special to The Enterprise The UC Davis women’s tennis squad added San Francisco-native Olive Maunupau for fall 2020, as announced by head coach Bill Maze.

Maunupau, a three-star recruit on TennisRecruiting. net, has amassed a 27-14 record in junior tennis in the last year, and competed for Lick Wilmerding High School’s varsity tennis team, helping the Tigers to Bay Area Conference West titles every year.

Maunupau was named team captain in 2018, and placed second or better in conference and league play all three years, leading to two MVP awards.

A multi-sport athlete, Maunupau also played basketball for the Tigers all

four years, helping LWHS to a 9-1 BAC-W record for its first league title in four years.

A leader in all aspects, Maunupau was also captain and MVP both years of junior varsity, and was named captain in her senior season.

“We are very lucky to have Olive joining us this fall,” said Maze. “She’s a great student and a great athlete, who played basketball as well as tennis in high school. She has the potential to help us in both singles and doubles with her penchant for getting to the net. We are looking forward to welcoming her to campus this fall” The Aggies’ roster now features three incoming freshmen in Maunupau, Carly Schwartzberg and Michelle Zell.

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RICE: Feels ‘lucky’ to have SF Mayor Breed From Page B1 Rice says while he understands the challenges of being in the midst of combating COVID-19, he says he feels “lucky” that San Francisco — under the leadership of Mayor London Breed, herself an Aggie alumna — has not been affected to the extent seen in other parts of the country. He says sheltering in place seems to be working.

“The key, definitely, is to continue what we’re doing,” Rice explains. “Hopefully, we’ll not see a rise of the virus like New York or Louisiana.”

Rice says he’s blessed, too, because when he’s home he shares the time with his “Aggie love,” Candice Ligon, who works for Stryker medical devices.

“It’s a nice place to come and take a deep breath,” says the 30-something Rice about the Oakland digs he shares with Candice, whom he met at UC Davis.

“Sometimes you get a little cabin fever, but luckily we’re able to walk around.”

Plus, Rice says his daytime hours haven’t changed since the outbreak. By comparison, other communities have asked staff to increase hours, work different shifts and be on call. So far, Rice thinks the Bay Area has reacted swiftly and intelligently.

Rice was asked if he sees a light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel ...

“That’s a good question, but yes, there is a light.

When? I have no idea.

(Experts) said summertime the virus should slow down, but who knows?”

Notes: Davis High head football coach Steve Smyte

was a wide receivers coach at UC Davis when boss Bob Biggs and he began to notice Rice, a 2004 Beverly Hills High grad working his magic as an allSouthern Section prep.

“Bob did a great job of being honest and selling Brandon and his dad on the benefits — both academically and athletically — of being an Aggie. I stressed the excellence of our receiving corps since we had sent receivers to NFL camps (think fifthround NFL draft choice Onome Ojo, John Shoemaker, Mike Oliva and former CFL player Charley Enos). Shortly after Rice signed to be an Aggie, Smyte left for Boise State, and current Philadelphia Eagles offensive assistant Rich Scangarello mentored Carter, Grant and Rice at UCD. “They were as good a receiving corps as we have ever seen at UCD, or any FCS school — and many FBS schools, for that matter,” believes Smyte. ...

Speaking of good receivers, when all-time leading Aggie receiver Keelan Doss caught 10 touchdown passes in 2017, he tied Rice for 10th on the singleseason scoring-byreception list. ... Upon graduation, Rice (who certainly had the right last name to be a terrific receiver) spent two weeks in the United Football League camp before a recurring knee problem forced his football retirement.

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