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Shelter from the storm The Motel 6 on Chiles Road in South Davis may soon provide shelter for at-risk individuals under the state’s Project Roomkey program, which is using federal funds to pay for motel rooms for homeless individuals during the pandemic.

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

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Yolo leading the way in housing California’s homeless population during pandemic

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer When Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this month announced federal funding for “Project Roomkey” — a plan to house thousands of homeless Californians in individual motel rooms during the statewide shelter in place — it was no accident that he was standing in the parking lot of a West Sacramento motel.

At the time, Yolo County had already placed 110 individuals in motel rooms throughout the county — including in that

Rodeway Inn — representing nearly 13 percent of all homeless Californians that had been housed in motel rooms during the pandemic to that point.

“For a county of about 220,000 people in a state of about 40 million people,” says Ryan Collins, that meant Yolo County was “punching about 25 times above our weight class in this effort.”

Collins, homeless outreach coordinator for the city of Davis, has been a key participant in the effort to shelter homeless individuals in motel rooms during the

COVID-19 pandemic. Working with his counterparts in the cities of Woodland and West Sacramento, as well as the Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency, Collins has helped continue Yolo County’s trailblazing efforts in this area.

Speaking to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Collins noted that Project Roomkey — which is largely funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency — is not all that different from what he and many others from city, county and faithbased organizations did for the first time back in 2014 with the Bridge to Housing program.

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Yolo County jumped to seven this week.

In addition to three additional deaths, the county also reported 23 new confirmed cases since Tuesday, all but four of them in the city of Woodland, which is home to an outbreak at a skilled nursing facility. The county's public information officer, Jenny Tan, said Thursday some of the new cases are associated with that facility — the Stollwood Convalescent Home at St. John's Retirement Village — but she did not have an exact number.

On Monday, the county reported 35 cases at the nursing facility, including 23 residents and 12 staff members. Yolo County Public Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman said Tuesday the number of cases would probably rise as testing of all residents and staff members continued.

Woodland now has 61 confirmed cases, nearly half of the county’s 125 total cases.

According to the county’s COVID-19 online dashboard, three of the seven fatalities in Yolo County involved individuals over the age of 85; one occurred in a person between

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BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Yolo County prosecutors say they’ve received around two dozen complaints of pricegouging triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, with markups for high-demand products such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer among the most extreme.

“This is one of our top priorities right now,” said Rachel Hilzinger, a deputy district attorney in the Yolo DA’s consumer fraud and environmental protection division. “We’re reviewing each complaint and have investigators that are looking into them, and we’re

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WOODLAND — The man accused of taking a possible COVID-19 specimen from Sutter Davis Hospital last weekend impersonated an employee from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his alleged act triggering “a rather large and disruptive public health emergency,” according to documents obtained by The Davis Enterprise.

The ruse is outlined in a motion by the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office to deny bail to the suspect, 40-year-old Shaun Lamar Moore, who made his first court appearance via videoconference Wednesday from the Yolo County Jail.

While Yolo Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg agreed the incident was “not a typical crime,” he ordered Moore released from jail on supervised own-recognizance status pending his next court hearing in late May. “I suspect this particular defendant has some mental-health issues that

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That effort moved some 60 individuals

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County’s coronavirus Price gouging is a ‘top death toll jumps to seven priority’ for fraud division

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DA: Virus theft suspect impersonated CDC worker

UC Davis summer sessions will be taught remotely

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taking all available steps to get immediate compliance.”

The DA’s Office announced in March its intent to investigate and prosecute COVIDrelated price gouging, shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency proclamation that put profiteering protections in effect through Sept. 4.

Price gouging is unlawful under California’s Penal Code 396, which prohibits raising the price of many essential goods and services by more than 10 percent after an emergency has been declared, unless the seller can prove

Remote instruction at UC Davis will continue through summer sessions this year, Chancellor Gary May announced Friday in a weekly update on the campus’s response to the novel coronavirus. “We continue to make hard decisions, but none of them detracts from our UC Davis mission,” May said.

Hundreds of classes will be offered online during the two summer sessions, which run from June 22 through July 31 and Aug. 3 through Sept. 11. Registration for the sessions opens April 27.

“If health directives change, some in-person laboratory courses may become available for Summer

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Briefly Tribute to crime victims canceled Due to the COVID19 pandemic, and in an effort to follow Yolo County’s current shelter-in-place order, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has canceled its 14th annual Crime Victims’ Tribute Ceremony. The event was scheduled for Monday at the Woodland Opera House.

This annual event is an opportunity for community members to recognize the impact crime has on its victims and the community at large. It is a tribute to the resilience and courage that survivors of crime show in the face of adversity, and an acknowledgement of their rights. It is unfortunate that we are unable to publicly honor our survivors of crime.

They were, however, honored at the April 7 Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting with the “virtual” presentation of a resolution proclaiming April 19-25 as National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

‘Sing Out’ backs climate activism The community is invited to join with local climate activists in the “Earth Day Sing Out” from noon to 1 p.m. and 5 to 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The event is raising money to support seven local musicians to record Earth Day songs.

Participants can download a songbook at https://www. climatestrikedavis.com/ get-involvedearth-day.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020

The finish line is just out of reach W hile we can all agree that we hope this virus leaves us for good sooner rather than later, each of us has been affected by this disruption in a variety of ways, some predictable and some unique.

A number of people have lost loved ones, which makes the socalled “problems” anyone else has faced pale in comparison.

Some have lost their jobs or the small businesses they worked so hard for years to make profitable.

Still others have remained fully employed and haven’t taken a financial hit of any kind, but are emotionally affected nonetheless.

Some have already received their “stimulus” checks from the federal government and can now pay the rent, while others have come to the conclusion that the IRS has never heard of them.

For one of our daughters who is a senior at Davis High School, the several strong doses of disappointment have come like unwelcome drops of rain on a planned spring parade.

She, of course, is not alone. All of her classmates are facing the same crushing news and dealing with it in their own ways.

In fact, high school seniors all across the country are facing similar circumstances over which they seemingly have no control.

The first special event to be cancelled was the formal, in-person, cap-and-gown commencement ceremony in front of friends and family on the high-school football field.

Last June our daughter, then a junior, sat with her mom and dad and watched one of her older sisters graduate from Davis High School. I could tell then that she was already imagining what it would be like to walk onto the sparkling green stadium turf to the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” and hear her name called as she walked onto the stage to receive her diploma.

Next came word that prom had been cancelled, an event she had apparently been cherishing for a long, long time in the endearing way only a teenager can.

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nd finally, what is unquestionably the greatest Grad Night in North America was scrubbed along with everything else.

As the Grad Night committee wrote in a moving message to the graduates, “To the Class of 2020: We see you. We celebrate you. We have huge FOMO with you. Nothing would have given our hundreds of volunteers more pleasure than to put on a magical event for you.

“This cancellation could not be foreseen and it breaks our hearts, too. But the DJUSD 2020 graduates will be celebrated in the hearts and homes of our community. We will be seeing you — with 2020 vision — do amazing things in the future.”

Indeed, we all will be watching these special kids who grew up so quickly and so spectacularly before our very eyes.

These planned events may all have been merely frosting on our daughter’s 13-year experience in the Davis public schools, but for now they’re incredibly meaningful frosting.

Some day, perhaps, she’ll look back on these days and have a different view of the circumstances that robbed her of her final high school dreams, but for now, the disappointment is real.

Nevertheless, like so many of her fellow seniors, she has remained upbeat and happy and looking forward to her first year of college in the fall. She knows that one day — as the Bible says — this, too, shall pass.

Several weeks ago a group of Davis High seniors put together a petition asking that some of these gatherings, specifically prom and in-person graduation, be postponed to a later date rather than canceled altogether. It was a heartfelt and hopeful petition that let everyone know just how important these events are.

“This petition is asking for prom and graduation ceremonies

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n any regard, the petition gives insight into just how these students regard these final ceremonial steps in their high school careers.

“We have sat back and watched older siblings and friends graduate, excited for ‘our time.’ Some students may even be the first to graduate in their family or have pushed past extreme circumstances to receive that diploma, so they deserve to be celebrated,” they add.

“Just as the finish line comes into view and the excitement builds over getting a cap and gown, inviting family to come watch, it seems to be getting ripped away from us. So, at least give us our ceremonies to celebrate our once-in-a-lifetime achievement and our Proms to spend the final hours with our closest friends.”

It’s time for all the great minds in this town, and all the volunteers who make so many wonderful things happen, to come up with a plan to send our seniors off in a way they will remember for the rest of their lives.

They deserve our best efforts in this endeavor.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

TOLL: Testing remains limited Woodland shootings From Page A1 the ages of 75 and 84; two fatalities were in individuals between the ages of 65 and 74; and one person was between the ages of 55 and 64.

The city of West Sacramento now has 42 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus while Davis has 14 and the combined Winters/unincorporated area of the county has eight.

Testing remains limited throughout the county, however, so the numbers reported on the dashboard likely represent a fraction of all those actually infected with the novel coronavirus, officials have said.

Additionally, while 1,230 residents of the county have been tested, it is unknown how many of them may have received false negative results. According to Chapman, labs testing for the virus have a false negative rate as high as 40 percent.

As for the nursing home, Tan said Thursday the county is working closely with staff there who have implemented a number of strategies for containing the outbreak, including: ■ Isolating individuals who show symptoms..

■ Launching contact investigations for all confirmed cases.

■ Quarantining contacts of confirmed cases.

■ Supplying staff with

personal protection equipment and training them on how to use the equipment.

■ Assessing all buildings and open spaces.

■ Performing walk throughs at each building on how to improve social distancing.

■ Performing fit testing on masks for all staff.

■ Screening for all staff for Covid-19 symptoms before and after starting a work shift, including checking temperatures.

■ Setting up donning/ docking stations in all buildings.

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to get pushed to later dates, when they are possible,” they write.

Obviously, school district administrators, teachers and various parent groups would like to make that wish come true, but for now it appears unlikely.

County reopens landfill for self-haul

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The dump is open again.

Beginning Saturday, the Yolo County Central Landfill will reopen to all customers, with hours Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Self-haul had been suspended since March 27 because of the COVID-19 public health emergency, with the county’s health officer advising residents making trips to the landfill would violate the shelter-inplace order.

All customers will be required to wear a facial covering or mask and no cash or EBT is being accepted, only credit card and check payments.

The county notes that it is in “everyone’s best interest to stay at home, as much as possible, for the duration of the health order” so residents should hold on to recyclable items that don’t require immediate disposal.

Additionally, all residents with Waste

Management Inc. and Recology Davis curbside services, should first utilize their curbside collection carts for refuse, recycling and yard waste before considering a trip to the landfill.

The Household Hazardous Waste Facility, which has also been closed to residents, will reopen as well. For businesses, appointments will remain available every Friday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Residents may also contact the landfill at 530-6668813 to schedule a free at-home pick up of hazardous waste.

The Reuse Paint Shed Program and Big Blue Barn Thrift Store are still closed at this time. For more information call 530666-8852 or visit: www.yolocounty.org/ landfill.

The landfill is located at 44090 County Road 28H in Woodland.

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

under investigation

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

Woodland police are investigating a trio of weekend shootings — one of which narrowly missed a person inside a home, another leading to the apprehensions of five people for weaponrelated crimes, officials said.

Sgt. Dallas Hyde reported Tuesday that both shootings occurred on Friday night, the first at about 9:30 p.m. in the 600-block of Cleveland Street, where residents said someone had fired a gun into their house.

“It was discovered a single round entered an exterior wall and after hitting several walls stopped in a bathroom. The round went only a few feet over the homeowner as they slept and were awoken to gunfire,” Hyde said.

“Vehicles were heard fleeing the area eastbound from the scene.”

Around the same time, police received reports of vehicles driving erratically in the 1200-block of East Oak Avenue, followed by three gunshots. No suspects were found in the area, though the incident is believed to be related to the Cleveland Street shooting, Hyde said.

Less than two hours later, at about 11 p.m. Friday, officers were investigating a third shot-fired call in the 100-block of College Street when they

spotted a suspicious vehicle that turned and left the area as police arrived.

“No evidence of a shooting was located; however, an officer found the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation in the area of East and Main streets,” Hyde said.

Officers reported encountering three women and two men inside the vehicle, two of them alleged validated gang members who were on probation.

A subsequent probation search led to the recovery of two loaded handguns, one of which had been reported stolen out of Woodland, according to Hyde.

Two people were taken into custody, including 19-year-old Jeremy Thomas Nguyen of Woodland on charges of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, violation of probation and a gang enhancement.

Maira Magali Perez-Villalpando, 19, was booked on a charge of possessing a stolen firearm.

Three others — Myla Rene Torres, 19; Antonio Perez, 18; and Alyssa San Juan, 18 — were cited and released for carrying a loaded firearm in a public place, Hyde said.

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

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OBITUARY Arnulfo Garcia Lopez Sept. 11, 1961 — April 7, 2020

Arnulfo “Arnie” Garcia Lopez, age 58, passed away at his home in Gallatin, Tenn., on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. He was born In Fairfield on Sept. 11, 1961, to Mike and E.G. Lopez.

He is the second of five children.

He attended Davis Senior High School. After graduation, he served his country by joining the United States Navy and served in the first Gulf War. When he returned he worked for Allen Machinery as a Sales Representative.

He later accepted a sales job in the crop machinery business in Florida.

His job took him all over the world, where he was instrumental in helping companies in other countries establish their cropmachinery operations. During his time in Florida, he met his wife, Mary Morgan.

They settled in Tallahassee, where they raised his two step-children, Jason and Ryan. He enjoyed family vacations that included travel, boating, snow skiing, diving and sporting events. He was a proud fan of the Oakland Raiders.

He later moved to Gallatin, just outside of Nashville.

Arnulfo was preceded in death by his father Mike Lopez in 2008.

He is survived by his wife Mary, stepsons Jason and Ryan, grandson Keane, his mother, and siblings Dagoberto, Hector, Maribel and Gilbert.

Anrnulfo “Arnie” had a kind spirit, a great sense of humor and a never-ending willingness to help others. He will be remembered always and deeply missed.

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Bunny facts: Hare today, rabbit tomorrow EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER

BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise

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pringtime is always accompanied by images of cute and fuzzy things, oftentimes baby versions. Bunnies are a popular image given they are cute and furry. Rabbits are known for their cute hops, long ears, and twitchy noses.

In open fields you can sometimes see another long-eared creature, much bigger and faster.

Surely, these animals are the same — they look very similar — but they are not. The small, plump, fuzzy things at petting zoos and farms are rabbits, and the bigger, wiry creature in the wild are hares. They may look the same, but they have distinct features.

The most obvious difference between these two creatures would be their physical appearances. Rabbits are smaller than hares, and look chubby and round, giving them a cute look that people look for in pets. Rabbit hair is a bit softer, and only has minor color changes throughout the year, if any at all.

Hares, however, are much bigger, having longer legs and ears.

Their coat is more wiry in texture and has dramatic changes in

color over the course of the year.

The Arctic hare has a brownand-gray coat in summertime to blend in with the ground and bushes, and a bright white coat in winter to disappear in the snow. Hares also have black tips on their ears.

Rabbits and hares have very distinct differences in their behavior, too. Rabbits live in colonies and rely on numbers to keep themselves safe. They inhabit burrows, either dug by themselves, or appropriated.

Rabbits prefer softer food, such as grasses and the tops of vegetables. Hares, on the other hand, are mainly solitary animals, coming together only to breed.

Hares do not burrow, and prefer to make nests above ground in thick brush, relying on their speed to escape predators. They may do less damage to your garden, as they prefer a more hardy food source of tree bark and twigs. The one exception to these behaviors is the cottontail rabbit, which is a true rabbit, but acts like a hare, living above the ground instead of below.

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Despite its name, the black-tailed jackrabbit is actually a hare.

Even at birth, these two animals are very different. Newborn rabbits are called kittens and are born blind and hairless. They are completely dependent on their mother and could not survive without her. Their life begins deep in a burrow, which helps with their survival. Newborn hares are called leverets, are born with sight and fur, and have the ability to move and explore within an hour of being born.

Having some independence, and ability to move and run so early may help the leverets escape a

predator if their mother is away.

Although the two animals look very similar, they are different species and cannot interbreed.

They may occupy the same area in the wild, but their difference in behaviors make it so they are not competing for resources. As for domestication, rabbits are the only one of the two that are pets and cared for by humans, all hares are still wild animals.

Despite these differences, they often have some confusing names, such as jackrabbits, which are actually hares.

If you and your family are out

for a walk along the many greenbelt trails of Davis, or a stroll through the UC Davis Arboretum, you may see some of our resident long-eared and -legged animals, but now you may look closer and tell if it is a rabbit or a hare.

To help slow the spread of COVID-19, Explorit will be closed until public health restrictions have been lifted or eased.

Our staff is working remotely and will be answering emails, please contact us at explorit@ explorit.org with any questions.

We are not currently accepting recycled material donations.

———— Explorit’s coming events: ■ Summer Science Camp registration is still open and has spaces available! Weeklong camps from 8:45 a.m. to non for kids entering grades K-6, with one evening camp for grades 6-10. Prices are $125 for members and $150 for non-members.

Registration available online at http://www.explorit.org/ programs/summer-camp/ summer-and-vacation-classes.

— Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http:// www.explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www.facebook. com/explorit.fb.

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have to be sorted out, and I would invite the public defender to determine Mr. Moore’s (mental) competence,” Rosenberg said after hearing attorney arguments on the matter.

He ordered that Moore, who is homeless, be fitted with a GPS monitoring device and stay at least 100 yards away from Sutter Davis Hospital, where he allegedly walked away with the specimen Saturday afternoon.

Prosecutors have filed two felony charges and one misdemeanor count against Moore, including attempted possession of a restricted biological agent, second-degree burglary and petty theft by false pretenses.

The Yolo County Public Defender’s Office opposed the DA’s bail motion, in which Deputy District Attorney Preston Schaub argued that despite a statewide emergency bail schedule that sets a zero-bail amount for misdemeanor and low-level felony criminal offenses, the court should deny Moore’s release based on factors including his public safety risk, the seriousness of the offense, prior convictions and likelihood to appear in court.

“In the case at hand, the defendant entered Sutter Davis Hospital, used his true and correct name, and impersonated a federal employee from the Centers for Disease Control. The defendant informed staff that he was there to pick up a sample of COVID-19 virus,” the motion says.

“Coincidentally, staff were aware that there was supposed to be a courier for the California Department of Public Health arriving that same day to retrieve a biological sample thought to contain COVID-19 for confirmation testing,” it continues. “Staff were under the impression that the defendant was the same

their own costs have increased.

The law applies to necessities such as food and drink (including for animals), emergency supplies (water, flashlights, radios, batteries, candles, blankets, soaps, diapers and toiletries) and medical supplies (prescription and nonprescription medications, bandages, gauze, isopropyl and antibacterial products, among others).

Hotels and motels also are prohibited from increasing their rates by more than 10 percent during and 30 days after a state of emergency under the measure.

Violations are subject to both criminal and civil prosecution, punishable by steep fines, jail time and mandatory restitution.

In Davis, residents have contacted The Davis Enterprise to report seeing exorbitant price tags on in-demand items, such as simple face masks selling for $10 apiece or more. One reader said she saw hand sanitizer going for $75 at her local market.

Hilzinger declined to give specific examples of the alleged price hikes her office is investigating, due to the ongoing probe. But she said the complaints have come in from throughout the county as citizens encounter them in their local stores.

She also noted that some businesses have begun carrying certain products they’ve never sold before in order to make

The way in which Shaun Moore allegedly stole a possible sample of COVID-19 from a local hospital is outlined in a motion by the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.

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courier and released the COVID-19 sample to him.”

Suspicions arose, however, after staff noticed the man leaving the area on a bicycle — the mistake confirmed when the actual courier arrived several minutes later, the motion says.

(Sutter Health officials, who earlier this week said they are taking the incident “very seriously” and conducting an internal investigation into how it occurred, declined to comment Wednesday about the released details.)

Hospital staff called police, who through witnesses and surveillance video tracked the man — believed to be Moore — to a nearby CVS pharmacy where the specimen was abandoned outside in a shopping cart.

“Employees of that pharmacy retrieved the sample, placing it inside the establishment, not knowing what it was,” the motion says. “This caused a rather large and disruptive health emergency requiring a full scale law enforcement response. ” Moore had left the scene by the time police recovered the specimen, but he was arrested on Cowell Boulevard the following day.

The bail motion claims that Moore poses “a great risk to public safety,” given his alleged ability to gain access to the specimen in a controlled lab setting, prior

convictions on theft and DUI charges, a pending vandalism case in Sacramento County, and mental health issues including bipolar disorder that is not being treated.

“As a result, the likelihood of him obeying court orders, returning to court, abiding by social distancing protocols and acting in a rational manner is low,” the document says.

But Moore’s public defender Richard Van Zandt disagreed, arguing in court that Moore is not accused of an offense listed among the exemptions in the emergency bail schedule and has never violated probation nor failed to appear at his hearings.

As for the current alleged offense, “he had the sample less than three hours. If he made an attempt to open it, there’s no evidence he did, because there’s no sign of tampering,” Van Zandt said. He also told Rosenberg his office will work with Moore “so he can get the bipolar medication that he needs.”

Moore’s next court hearing is set for May 27.

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise .net or 530-747-8048.

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“Now, they buy it and repackage it for their customers,” Hilzinger said. Resale prices more than 50 above what it cost to acquire or manufacture a product, however, are considered an unfair business act under an executive order Newsom signed earlier this month.

With no definitive end to the crisis in sight, the DA’s Office continues to seek the public’s help in identifying price gougings in their communities. Complaints can be made via email, phone and online and should include the location, date and time, a photo if possible, and the complainant’s contact information.

“We understand it’s a difficult time for all businesses,” Hilzinger said. “We’re targeting those that are preying upon everyone’s fears and anxiety right now.”

And while the primary goal is immediate compliance, “at the same time, if you have already offered these items, you have already broken the law, so we have to take that into consideration,” Hilzinger said.

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Accountability missing in PG&E debate A

ll sorts of demands have been made upon PG&E as its bankruptcy proceeding staggers toward a June 30 deadline for emerging as some sort of new entity, if that entity is to share in a consumerpaid state fund that will cover many utility liabilities in future company-caused wildfires.

But one demand has been conspicuously lacking while fire victims demand adequate restitution, Wall Street banks maneuver for financial security and some kind of control over the company, while insurance companies seek refunds for their payouts to homeowners and businesses.

Until just a few weeks ago, no one in any way involved with the proceedings had even mentioned personal responsibility.

No one, in fact, has ever taken personal responsibility for any of the misdeeds of either PG&E or any other California utility that have lately resulted in well over 100 deaths.

In the modern era, this lack of accountability began with the 2010 San Bruno natural gas

pipeline explosion for which PG&E was later convicted of negligence in federal court, the reason why the company is still on criminal probation today, even as it’s also in bankruptcy court.

That blast killed eight persons directly and aftereffects may have caused other deaths. Then, in 2018, PG&E’s poor maintenance helped spark the Camp Fire in Butte County, which killed 85 persons while destroying the city of Paradise and much of its surrounding area.

The company has pleaded guilty of manslaughter for this.

Other deaths in other utilitycaused fires have occurred sporadically before and since, from the 2007 Witch Fire in San

Diego County to the 2018 Woolsey Fire, which burned from the outskirts of Simi Valley in Ventura County to the Malibu coastline.

In no case has any private utility – not PG&E, not San Diego Gas & Electric Co., not Southern California Edison Co. – identified a single person responsible for decisions leading to the faulty maintenance that at least partially triggered those blazes.

This lack of personal responsibility has to end, and the most convenient vehicle for ending it right away should be PG&E’s bankruptcy proceeding.

Sure, Gov. Gavin Newsom has demanded the ouster of PG&E’s entire board of directors and its top corporate officers, and that might happen. But getting dumped from a lucrative directorship or a high-paid executive slot is not like doing jail time.

Now comes a proposal from Mike Aguirre, a consumer attorney and a former elected city attorney of San Diego whose efforts slashed more than $1 billion from consumer payments for the closure of the San Onofre

Nuclear Generating Station, shut down in 2012 because of an Edison blunder.

Aguirre suggests that as a side agreement in any PG&E emergence from bankruptcy, corporate leaders be held personally responsible for corporate claims of good maintenance and brush clearance around power lines.

H

e suggests that legislators alter the state’s utility code so the chief executive of any electrical company, public or private, must certify regularly that fire mitigation plans are presented accurately to the public and that those plans have been fully carried out, in the precise manner they were approved by the state’s Public Utilities Commission.

Failure to do this would be a misdemeanor, regardless of whether or not an out-of-control wildfire ensued. Violations would be punishable by fines up to $10,000 to be paid by the individual CEO, not his or her corporation, by a one-year term in the county jail, or both.

This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s the first time anyone has

suggested personal responsibility within monolithic utilities, where it’s often hard to track the makers of decisions that sometimes led to deaths. The fatalities from San Bruno and the spate of wildfires of the last few years plainly fit the definition of manslaughter, as PG&E’s plea shows, but no person has been prosecuted for that, because no individual has been held to answer for whatever caused the disasters.

Adopt the Aguirre formula and faces could finally be matched with corporate decisions that cost lives and property.

The betting here is that if and when this happens, utilities will suddenly start behaving far more responsibly than they have in the century-long era of anonymous decision-making.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It" is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net

COMMENTARY

Bail order is potentally dangerous Special to The Enterprise

T

he Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office is committed to public safety. To that end, we have made important decisions in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to protect the health of staff, inmates and the community.

Unfortunately, the efforts of this office and the efforts of our public safety partners throughout Yolo County are not being considered as decisions at the state level are made and imposed upon us.

Effective Monday, April 13, the California Judicial Council instituted a new emergency order mandating $0 bail for most misdemeanors as well as nonviolent felonies, while also mandating the release of other, potentially dangerous, pretrial inmates. We are concerned about the consequences that the blanket release of inmates will have here in Yolo County.

The Sheriff ’s Office will continue to ensure the safety and security of the people who live and work in our facilities, and the continuation of access to medical and mental-health services for the inmate population.

We have, with the cooperation of all Yolo County law enforcement, effectively reduced our jail population to numbers 250 below our maximum capacity. This allows for inmates to be individually housed and guarantees appropriate social distancing.

Additional efforts we have made include enhanced medical screening procedures for all incoming inmates, a screening for all inmates already in custody, and daily medical screenings for all staff arriving for duty.

While the Sheriff ’s Office is prepared to address exposure to COVID-19 through infection control practices already in place to prevent the spread of any communicable diseases, it is important to note that at this time there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Yolo County Jail.

However, we currently have a 10-bed isolation area and are prepared to utilize a new 32-bed pod for isolation if needed.

Our efforts had been successful and struck a balance between caring for the welfare of inmates while maintaining public safety. It is our hope this rule does not negatively impact any citizen of Yolo County or our state.

As written, this rule will remain in effect for 90 days after the termination of the governor’s emergency order.

— Tom Lopez is the sheriff of Yolo County.

LETTERS Solar array a terrible idea Dear City Council members, I read, with great alarm, a Davis Enterprise article explaining that “More than 230 acres of city-owned land near the wastewater treatment plant could become home to a commercial solar farm and solar-energy testing facility under a plan approved by the City Council last week.”

There needs to be a lot more research before coming to an agreement with the solar company BrightNight to lease this land. It turns out this area has become a wonderful new environment for many, many birds in our area.

It has basically become an extension of the Yolo Wildlife Basin on the other side of I-80. Once the ponds, and land, were not being used for wastewater treatment Mother Nature took over and made the area beautiful for wildlife and people again.

Although the idea of solar farms is good in terms of clean energy, there is a horrible price to pay for the rest of the environment.

In particular, birds are badly affected; at the right angle the solar arrays shimmer like water in the desert attracting a variety of birds. The birds arrive at the solar fields, crash into the mirrors and get burned alive by the heat, or circle around the arrays until they are exhausted and fall into the mirrors.

The decision you made, during a closed session in February 2020, needs to be revisited immediately. You need to have environmental studies done before going forward.

This is a very tough time right now. This agreement needs to be made when there is time, and the resources, to make the

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correct decision. This should not be done in haste, and without the ability of many Davis citizens to provide their insight about this.

Gayna Lamb-Bang Davis

Masks should be mandatory I was pleased to read the recent letter to the editor praising the Nugget for requiring face coverings for both employees and customers. The potential release of aerosolized virus droplets is greatly decreased when everyone participates.

Forty-one grocery workers have died nationwide from the coronavirus, one of them just 27 years old. Frontline grocery workers are our heroes, exposed to thousands of shoppers each day. Grocery workers deserve every bit as much respect and honor as our health care workers.

A disturbingly large segment of Davis residents apparently do not understand or care that face covering is for everyone else’s well-being, not their own. It only works if everyone does it. I’d shout “do your part!” but voluntary compliance clearly isn’t working.

We have always all been in this together, but some never got the memo. We must accept that even in Davis a certain percentage of the population will remain selfish, uncaring, uninformed, ignorant or dim of wit. So all Davis grocers must mandate — to protect their workers and those of us who do care about others.

This isn’t about not liking the shade of green painted on the front of the store — this issue is life and death.

Contact your local grocery store’s management today and tell them to make face coverings mandatory for all. And if you shop at a large-chain grocery store in Davis, contact their local management

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

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

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

District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact-me

Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: visit https://govapps.gov. ca.gov/gov40mail/

and tell them you will only shop at grocery stores that mandate face coverings.

This week Los Angeles, New York and Sonoma County all passed mandatory face-covering laws. It’s only a matter of time, so let’s get ahead of the curve here in Davis and do it today. Doing so today may save a grocery worker or community member who didn’t need to die.

Alan C. Miller Davis

Letter: U.S. Foreign Service As a retired member of the United States Foreign Service, our diplomatic corps, I was proud to represent America abroad in six countries over 35 years of service. I write this as Foreign Service Day (May 1) approaches. It is intended to honor Foreign Service members still on active duty.

U.S. Foreign Service personnel are dedicated public servants, who work in an extraordinary variety of hardships and circumstances to promote American values and interests overseas. In the current situation of the new coronavirus, for example, members of the Foreign Service have been working creatively and tirelessly to bring home thousands of Americans stranded far from home.

The pandemic struck when the Foreign Service was already overstretched and understaffed. Critical positions in Washington and at embassies and consulates abroad remain vacant.

We can all hope that something good will come out of this frightening time, including the public and Congressional support the Foreign Service needs to serve the American public abroad.

John R. Hamilton U.S. ambassador (ret.) to Peru and Guatemala

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HOMELESS: Shelter plus support services SUMMER: From Page A1 who had been living on the banks of the Sacramento River, some for more than a decade, into a motel in West Sacramento where they received intensive wrap-around services, connections to benefits and more.

Within months, more than half were in permanent housing.

Since then, the county has continued the Bridge to Housing effort on a smaller scale, including in the city of Davis.

But thanks to that initial work back in 2014, Collins told county supervisors on Tuesday, “I think maybe we had some of our playbook written and that helped us get into a lead on this.”

Collins, who was invited to provide an update to the board on the now weeks-old effort, estimated the county had placed 180 homeless individuals in motel rooms as of early this week.

Early success came with master leases of motels in West Sacramento and Woodland but now rooms have been secured in Davis as well, including at the Days Inn and La Quinta Inn. Additionally, Collins said, “we’re in discussions about master leases at Motel 6.”

The need for more capacity continues to grow.

But it’s not just a matter of rounding people up, dropping them off and handing them a key.

Many of the same services that drove the success of Bridge to Housing are underway with Project Roomkey in Yolo County.

As outlined by the governor, Project Roomkey includes screening and placing the most at-risk members of the homeless population — including the elderly, medically at risk and those who have COVID-19 symptoms — into individual hotel rooms, but also providing wraparound services, as well as on-site security and supervision.

“It’s not, ‘Hey, here’s your room key. Good luck. Do whatever.’” Collins explained. “It’s, ‘Hey, here’s your room key, here’s some information on how this is going to work right now… There are rules, there are reasons for those rules and we will have people to answer questions and monitor the situation and ensure compliance.’”

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Yolo County is leasing rooms at the Days Inn on Chiles Road — as well as at other motels throughout the county — to provide shelter to homeless individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city’s homeless outreach coordinator, Ryan Collins.

“You can’t provide shelter without supportive services and expect it to go well,” Collins added.

Meanwhile, a physician from CommuniCare is providing home visits to those with the highest medical needs and the Yolo Food Bank is delivering food daily.

And it’s working so far, Collins told supervisors.

“Many are grateful to have hot running water, to have access to clean healthy food,” he said.

“There’s sort of a reduced amount of the desperation which often kind of defines a person’s day.”

However, he said, “with that comes the onset of things like boredom. They might want to socialize with others… We have some people that have really had a challenge with complying with some of these things, but those cases are few and far between.”

And while those folks may need the occasional reminder about social distancing, actual criminal behavior has been nonexistant.

“We only had one police call for service as of the end of last week for all the people that we’ve placed,” said Collins.

Additionally, the presence of case managers means the individuals housed through the program are spending their days focusing on goals for their future, rather than fighting for survival in the present.

“We have put a tremendous effort into engaging with many

people who otherwise are kind of wandering in our community and socially disconnected,” said Collins. “And we’ve used this as an opportunity to learn their names and their situations and give them a safe place to be that complies with the public health directives on sheltering in place … at the same time working on themselves in ways that can hopefully lead to better outcomes for them than, frankly, the situations they were in prior to the pandemic.”

And to that end, Collins said, “it is probably a mistake if we say at the end of this, ‘OK, everybody out.’

“We would be failing to learn our lesson … COVID is the pandemic that we’re facing right now, but the situations that sort of globally gave rise to pandemics are accelerating,” he said.

So the community should look at what has been accomplished here, for the community’s overall health as well as for the lives of the people that have been impacted, he said.

“Can we continue those efforts in some way?” he asked the Board of Supervisors.

It doesn’t have to be master leases of motels, which requires the sort of funding FEMA is providing now, “but there are surely lower-cost interventions that we can continue with maybe lower levels of staffing, but similar levels of volunteers, of cheap, affordable modular kinds of housing, of just providing opportunities for people to

easily get on the grid and connected, for anyone who wants out of those circumstances.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis thinks so.

“Part of our planning now should be how we can transition people who we’re housing currently in hotels to some other form of housing so that we’re addressing the overall homeless problem and taking advantage of the work that you’re doing,” he told Collins.

Meanwhile, for those who don’t meet the criteria for housing in individual motel rooms, services like Davis Community Meals and Housing and the daytime respite shelter — which opened earlier this year on L Street — remain available.

“I’d say the respite center… is even more useful than we anticipated (before the pandemic) because not only is it offering opportunities for showers and laundry and food and onsite case management,” said Collins, “but embedded nursing staff.”

That staff — from CommuniCare — can screen guests daily.

For those living in encampments, meanwhile, the county is placing hand-washing stations and porta-potties nearby and regularly collecting trash. Residents of those encampments are being encouraged to access day shelters and respite centers, particularly if they are feeling unwell.

Shelter and respite center staff, who are essentially serving as frontline healthcare workers, Collins noted, then contact Collins and other homeless coordinators if anyone needs to be placed in a motel room.

“If you’re young and you are healthy and you are camped more than 6 feet apart or something like that, we’re not going to prioritize … a hotel room for you individually to shelter inside in place,” said Collins. “But if you are among the high-risk population, it’s important for us to get those people identified through whatever channel as quickly as possible for the sake of slowing the spread.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davisen terprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Session II,” May said, adding that details would be forthcoming.

During a press briefing Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined criteria under which the state could begin to gradually lift some of its shelter-in-place measures. Newsom acknowledged the need to reopen schools in the fall in a way that continues to limit transmission of the virus.

The governor said large gatherings like concerts and sporting events are “not in the cards” for the near future, and possibly not until a vaccine is widely available or California’s population has attained widespread immunity.

In the weekly update, May introduced a new Virtual UC Davis website, which outlines services available to students. Those services include Student Health and Counseling Services, Academic Assistance and Tutoring Center, the campus bookstore, Services for International Students and Scholars, the Student Disability Center and resources for remote learning.

May also directed students and faculty to guidance from campus privacy officer Minming Wu Morri and chief information security officer Cheryl Washington on protecting one’s privacy when using Zoom videoconferencing software, which many instructors are now using to teach classes.

“This week and last, we’ve seen a surge of concern and national media related to privacy and security on Zoom,” May said.

As remote instruction is extended through the summer, May said some student employees could be affected. “Their opportunity to keep working may be complicated amid suspended campus operations.”

The chancellor encouraged supervisors to “think creatively about project work and other tasks the students could still perform remotely.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

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sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020

Maier is on final route for NFL draft Record-holding UCD quarterback ready to play at professional level

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Over the years, there’s been no denying Jake Maier.

At St. Paul High in Santa Fe Springs, Maier was a two-time MVP quarterback. Two years later, he rewrote the Long Beach City College passing records in leading his team to a No. 9 national ranking.

Through last season, Maier was passing the Big West Conference silly — leaving UC Davis with a program-best 11,163 career passing yards.

Along the way, he heard it all.

At 6 feet tall, he wasn’t tall enough for the position. Maybe he couldn’t throw downfield.

Maybe he was this and maybe he was that ... All he did was win, set records and draw praise from those around him.

Current Oakland Raider and former Maier teammate Keelan Doss credits Maier for “helping our program get noticed, helping me excel and get a chance in the NFL.” When coach Dan Hawkins came to UCD in 2016, his first priority was to send assistant Tim Plough to Long Beach “to get Jake Maier.”

“We saw what everybody else apparently missed,” Hawkins said at the time of his new quarterback’s commitment.

Now, with the NFL draft looming next Thursday, will some lucky professional franchise see what Hawkins and Plough did?

Maier has been holed up at his family home in La Habra. Along with parents Lori and Jim and

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Jake Maier rewrote the record books as the quarterback for the UC Davis football team.

younger brothers Kyle and Jared, Jake has been sheltering in place, getting in some throwing work and keeping in game-day condition.

The Enterprise checked in with the former Aggie, whose prolific 2018 campaign led UCD to its first FCS postseason.

“It’s not easy,” notes Maier, who has had to make do with improvised workout gear and minimal contact with his quarterback coach and the outside world.

But he knows everybody else is in the same boat.

“Usually, we don’t leave unless it’s to go to the grocery store,” explains Maier. “My brothers and I work out in the back yard every day ... sometimes go around the block to throw the football. While these last four weeks have not been a lot of fun, we’ve been hanging in there.”

Despite all the upheaval, Maier has kept his perspective and continued to engineer his mental focus. After an appearance in the Hula Bowl in January, the cancellation of various showcase pro days (most notably March 16 at UC Davis) hasn’t helped spread the word about Maier, but Plough and the QB note that NFL calls have been coming in.

“Yeah, I’ve gotten calls,” reports Maier, reluctant to name names since draft day is a chess game of misdirection among the competing franchises.

Plough also has been on the horn with next-level coaches ...

“I’ve been getting calls about Jake from all the professional leagues … and Jake’s going to play football somewhere,” Plough says.

“Some of the discussions (Jake and I) have had are about what he’s looking for, what’s the best scenario for him. You know he’ll (make) the right decision, but what’s certain is he’ll get the opportunity to play.”

Maier says at this point “all you can really do is maintain what you’ve done for conditioning. The work we’ve put in has really served us well because (with the coronavirus) you’re not doing any catch-up. We’re not trying to squeeze things in. We’re doing more mental toughness and preparation anyway.”

In addition to having his normally baseball-playing siblings and softball-coach dad to keep Jake sharp, Maier has had some sessions with his Southern California-based quarterback coach, Danny Hernandez.

“It’s been safe,” says the communications major who graduated in December. “Wearing gloves, sanitizing the football.”

And in that regard, social distancing is a given — sometimes as much as 60 yards apart.

Maier and his Aggie brethren

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Former UC Davis quarterback Jake Maier, right, has been working out with his siblings in La Habra during the state’s shelter-in-place order. He’s waiting to see what his future holds with the NFL draft on Thursday.

“I’ve been getting calls about Jake from all the professional leagues … and Jake’s going to play football somewhere.”

Tim Plough UCD assistant coach keep in constant touch, too: “We have a group that we’ve had for the last two, three years. We send hundreds of messages around every day. Most of it is nonsense and humor, saying ‘Hey, did you see this or that?’ ” That Aggie circle includes guys

like Kooper Richardson, Christian Skeptaris, Brock Johnson and Wes Preece ... former teammates who have evolved into a lifetime support group.

So what happens if Maier doesn’t get The Call between next Thursday and Saturday?

“I don’t foresee football without Jake Maier for a long time,” Plough offers. “He’s just too into it, he’s too focused, too determined. He’ll play somewhere.”

If playing isn’t in his future, Maier is committed to coaching the game he loves.

“Hopefully, he plays for a while so he doesn’t take my job,” says UCD associate head coach Plough.

Notes: In a unique format, the 2020 NFL draft will be conducted with franchise representatives working from home via conference video links. The draft

will be broadcast by ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network with Thursday’s first round going from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Next Friday features rounds two and three (4:30 to 8:30 p.m.) with the last four rounds from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 25. According to ESPN, despite objections from NFL owners, Commissioner Roger Goodell decided to press on with the draft because there are no guarantees that “physicaldistancing guidelines will uniformly change in the weeks and even months ahead.” Also cited is the opportunity to play to a captive audience, one that is starving for significant sports coverage. ... Maier’s agent is Tim Younger.

— Reach Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

One more hand-wringing over COVID-19 R epeatedly uplifted by the stories in this very newspaper, by the athletes and their families with whom I’ve checked in — and by catching up on lost-treasure movies I had never gotten around to watching — my default switch keeps coming back to how will life feel after COVID-19?

Buoyed by the resolve of Davis and Yolo County folks to look out for each other, I’m wondering how those less fortunate will fare. Reports from around the United States still contain horror stories and vignettes on challenges unlike we’re experiencing in our own back yard.

My sleepless nights revolve around the following: ■ What happens to our premier student-athletes during what is for many a peak season in spring sports? What will the impact be down the road when our kids are not seen by college scouts ... and are unable to play off-season club sports (most notably soccer, volleyball and basketball)?

Some of the most worthy candidates for collegiate appointment will be unseen, unvetted and uninvited.

■ And for those high-school athletes who have committed to colleges, does the NCAA’s recent decision to grant another year of eligibility to current seniors whose sports have been scuttled create havoc? What happens to those incoming athletes who now face the possibility that the player they were recruited to replace is still on the roster?

What happens to the promise of scholarships? Do NCAA members get the green light to add scholarships or will universities renege on offers? These decisions undoubtedly will come in the midst of schools being forced by budget challenges to drop some of their teams altogether.

■ When will school and public-health officials reach accord on when it’s safe to go back in the water — not just for athletes, but for crowds, too?

Football — the sport that floats the budget of so many college

athletic programs — is right around the corner. At schools like LSU, Alabama and USC, the coffers swell by as much as $60 million to $75 million, providing coverage for the remainder of the sports program (and then some).

As universities like UC Davis, it will be the resolve of the athletic directors and benefactors to determine how the new on-field lineup shakes out off the field.

Not having basketball’s March Madness was another catastrophic financial hit to the NCAA. Not knowing how long the world remains shut down, not knowing exactly how the budgets have been affected and often not really knowing who a college

may be getting for the Class of 2024 ... well, I would normally advise, “You do the math.” But we don’t even know what homework will have to be done.

■ And will this burp in classroom instruction create havoc in our educational system? Already, some school districts that are doing video learning report as many as 40 percent of their students haven’t reported back to school. The individual instruction will assuredly suffer.

(I’m relieved by the reports coming from Davis schools chief John Bowes that this instructionfrom-afar tack has been successful in its first week here.

Remember, these are Davis kids and educators. However, it’s unfortunate that the general commitment here is way beyond what you’ll see in other places.)

B

ut the future for public education?

Consider this ...

A) Will 2020-21 curriculum have to be reworked to review the material covered this spring, or

will teachers need to toss out previous plans altogether and add a new level of instruction to make up for what was lost during the pandemic suspension?

B) What long-term impact is in store? Will enthusiasm among students for their K-12 education wane? By the very nature of this new-wave instruction, will districts allow their at-risk and low-income kids to fall further behind? And God forbid, will this educational interruption — for lack of a better term — further dumb down America and the world?

Geez. Just way too much time to think.

Obviously, the answers, like the coronavirus itself, are blowing in the wind. Soon, we’ll get some short-term understanding — but decades from now we still could be trying to recover from the effects of this damn pandemic.

— Reach Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456. Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

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Celebrate virtual UCD Picnic Day

Dorothy Dunning sits on a blanket at a 1950s Picnic Day with her children Bobby and Jo Jo, left, and Patsy and J.J., right.

Special to The Enterprise

In the photo below, Patsy Dunning (Bob’s little sister) poses with Governor Goodwin Knight and his wife Virginia. On the left is the Picnic Day chairwoman.

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A lifetime of Picnic Days ■ Editor’s note: This column originally published in April 3, 2014.

I attended my first Picnic Day in 1953. Haven’t missed one since. Many things have changed, but much of the spirit of the day has remained the same.

The parade used to be a very big deal, with elaborate floats entered by various living groups (we had fraternities back then, but no sororities) and campus departments.

It was easy to think you were at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena.

There were many marching bands from high schools throughout Northern and Central California.

I especially remember the

tuba section from Manteca High School was sevenpersons strong, with each tuba bearing a different letter of the school’s name.

If you look at old parade photos, you’ll see people lined up 10 or 12 deep and you might even see me perched on a branch of one of those massive cork oak trees to get a bird’s-eye view of the proceedings.

If you were lucky, you might get to shake hands with the governor of California (Goodwin Knight) or a perpetually campaigning Congressman.

For a nickel, you could buy a Dixie cup of ice cream from the campus dairy, complete with one of those awful wooden spoons, but little substantial food was sold on campus. Most people packed and brought their own picnics. A true fried-chickenand-potato-salad day, long before Colonel Sanders moved to town.

Picnic Day also hosted a fabulous all-day high

A retrospective on Picnic Day ■ Editor’s note: This story originally published April 10, 2014.

Special to The Enterprise From its very beginning, Picnic Day was never so much about the picnic as it was about the day of showing off the campus. Sure, the very first event held at the University Farm in May 1909 was a “basket picnic” affair, as in bring your own food. The campus didn’t have a dining commons, a Coffee House or much else in the way of dining facilities back then,

though the university did pour free coffee and cream that day for visitors who brought their own cups and spoons.

The star of the show back then — as it always would continue to be over the next century-plus — was this marvelous experiment in higher education, a new-fangled farm school that would grow into this world-leading research university you know as UC Davis. By 1916, the open house was known as Picnic Day.

The first open house

school track meet on Toomey Field that was billed as the “biggest oneday high school track meet in the country” — more than 1,000 competitors from probably a hundred high schools.

For those of us growing up in town, Picnic Day was second only to Christmas morning, and even then it was a close call.

The thing that hasn’t changed is the notion that this is above all an “open house” celebrating all that the campus has to offer.

Many departments knock themselves out to come up with new and interesting displays every year, many of them intensively interactive. I think that’s the part I appreciate most about Picnic Day and why it’s still a must-attend event on my yearly calendar.

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Picnic Day is adapting to the situation and creating a virtual experience for the first time. This event will happen online on Saturday.

“Several community members asked if we’d do anything virtually, so we did what we could!

We compiled old videos and video submissions from this year’s participants into a website that allows people to essentially walk around campus, virtually,” said Picnic Day Chair Nicole Deacon.

This virtual experience will feature streams from past Picnic Day years and additional online activities throughout the day.

“We also have our Children’s Discovery Fair crafts in a collection of stepby-step guides so that kids can create them at home,” Deacon said.

This year, the Picnic Day Board will be fundraising for the UC Davis Medical Center by selling Picnic Day T-shirts. One hundred percent of the

net proceeds will support the UC Davis Medical Center COVID-19 Support Fund. The shirts will be available for pre-sale only via the UC Davis Stores starting Friday, April 17, through Monday, April 20. Visit https://give.ucdavis.edu/ HSYS/324615.

“Picnic Day may not be happening on campus this year, but its real magic is in the feeling it brings to us all,” Deacon said. “We hope that this will allow people to experience some Picnic Day spirit in their homes this year and serve as a reminder that we will get through this together.”

The Picnic Day Board encourages community members to continue practicing social distancing, staying at home and following other recommendations set forth by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The board hopes everyone can enjoy this virtual experience from the comfort of their home and urge everyone to practice safety precautions.

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The raison d’ être for the first Picnic Day was the dedication of the campus’ first dormitory, North Hall.

More than 2,000 people from around the state turned out. That may seem small compared to crowds in recent years of up to 100,000. But consider this: Enrollment in the Farm School at that time totaled just 18 students.

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Clockwise from top left: An illustration of muscular anatomy is painted on a horse at the Horse Barn; UC Davis on parade; a tight race at the Doxie Derby; the Chemistry Magic Show; a celebration of the 100th Picnic Day; the Frisbee Dog Competition.

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Hot dogs The ever-popular Doxie Derby started in 1972 on Shields Avenue near the Quad, and moved a decade later to the Rec Hall, now called the Pavilion at the ARC (Activities and Recreation Center). The sheepdog trials have been a regular event since at least the 1940s.

Students at the helm While university administrators organized the first few events, students have been running the show since 1912. Picnic Day has long been billed as the largest student-run event in the nation, and we haven’t heard of any challenges to that claim.

The parade The parade dates to at least 1912, when the main entries were prize livestock. Later years featured elaborate floral floats.

In 1987, the first-place float ended up in flames. In 2007, a

The 1940 Picnic Day parade featured this majorette, right, leading a marching band.

In 1912, the Davis Concert Band, upper right, marched in the Picnic Day parade.

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KDVS entry, constructed with a small helium-filled blimp, floated away.

Not the first time This isn’t the first year Picnic Day was canceled. The annual event skipped a few years along the way: in 1924, to prevent the spread of a hoof-and-mouth outbreak that led to the slaughter of nearly 110,000 farm animals throughout California; in 1938, due to rain-delayed construction of a gymnasium needed to house some of the festivities; and during 1943–45 when the campus closed for World War II. (The 1946 event wasn’t called Picnic Day but Round-up Day.)

Famous guests Famous guests: Richard Nixon, then a congressman, was listed on the program as an honored guest in 1952. In July of that year, he would be selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s running mate; he was elected vice president the following November.

Retired Admiral Chester

Nimitz, who commanded the U.S. Navy during World War II, was on the guest list in 1953.

Earl Warren attended at least twice — once in 1953 in his final year as governor of California, and again in 1970, a year after his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, when he was the parade marshal. Warren was the parent of two Aggies — Earl Jr. ’52, a retired Sacramento County Superior Court Judge, and Bob ’58, a retired Davis real estate broker.

Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown was grand marshal in 1962.

Other state elected leaders have appeared at Picnic Days over the years. California’s 23rd governor, Hiram Johnson, was a speaker in 1916, just months before he won election to the U.S. Senate.

Rockin’ and rollin’ Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Youngbloods performed at Picnic Day in 1969. Quicksilver Messenger and Elvin Bishop played in 1970. Taj Mahal appeared in 1971.

Battle of the Bands Legend has it that the Battle of the Bands began in the early 1970s, when the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh discovered the Cal Band playing on the Quad after the parade and started blasting tunes back at the Bears in an effort to defend its turf. Over the years, the lastband-standing contest has pitted the Aggie Band-uh against rival bands from Stanford University, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Humboldt State University and Oregon State University. The

Band-uh claims to never have lost, perhaps due to a rule dating to at least the 1980s requiring the finale to be the Aggie fight song. The 2004 battle may have set a record, ending at 2 a.m.

Moving, and mooing In recent years, students have challenged administrators and state lawmakers to a cowmilking contest on the Quad or the front steps of the state Capitol as a way of promoting Picnic Day. In older times, students — and cows — went to greater lengths to publicize the event.

In 1920, student W.P. Wing escorted Molly the cow on a bovine “race” from Davis to Berkeley. It took five days for the “galloping Galloway,” as the San Francisco Chronicle called Molly, to walk the 136-mile route by way of Sacramento and Stockton. The feat raised some protests from folks concerned about Molly’s welfare, but her caretakers insisted that she was no worse for the wear. Later photos of her showed her looking, well, beefy — and healthy enough to bear calves. Her son, Pete, would

retrace her journey in 1921.

In 1917, student A.R. Kramer made a 1,000-mile trip by bicycle “to spread Picnic Day publicity material” from Davis to his home in the Imperial Valley.

In 1923, two students, Richard Barlow and Dave McMillan, handcuffed themselves back-toback and set out on a 72-mile trek to Berkeley. A “Remember When” photo published in the Sacramento Bee in 1976 shows the pair near South Hall as they left campus. But no photo so far has surfaced to show whether they made it to their destination.

In 1951, students pushed wheelbarrows to Berkeley.

In 1972, the Picnic Day committee got some celebrity help in promoting that year’s “Remember the First Time” theme. Says Dennis Packer ’72, who was committee chair: “We got Gary Withem, the keyboardist and songwriter for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, to volunteer and compose and sing a ditty that we used for radio commercials that went something like, “Remember the first time, remember the first, remember the first time.”

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hat have you been doing while you’ve been sheltering in place and trying to stay healthy?

All alone or alone with a significant other? Home schooling rambunctious kids? In a group-living situation but trying to keep your distance? Whatever your situation, if you have a pet you have relief from stress as well as comic diversion and something to do.

Yes, pets relieve human stress by reducing our blood pressure and increasing our oxytocin and dopamine levels. All we have to do is pet a pet and down goes our blood pressure and up goes our oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin.

Want to smile or enjoy some comic relief? Watch your pet relax contentedly or do something silly.

Many cats and dogs love to play with a toy, and just watching them play in the moment reminds us that it’s important to relax and enjoy life.

Pets also love to play with people especially kids, and that can be a godsend when you’ve got them home all day. Watching pets and playing with them brings us joy and are welcome diversions from the worry about COVID19 and the health and economic fallout from this virus.

Routines matter especially during a crisis. The consistent and necessary routine of caring for pets gives structure and balance to people and their pets. Time to feed the pet?

Meow! Woof! What about grooming?

Most pets enjoy having their fur brushed. Of course, getting teeth cleaned, nails trimmed, and bathed aren’t high on most pets’ list of fun things to do, but they are important. So now, while we’re stuck at home, maybe it’s time to develop good health maintenance regimes for your pets.

What about Pet homeschooling? Whether you have kids or not, your pet will love learning new “tricks” for a treat or some praise. If you do have kids at home, why not reverse the class routine and have them teach a family pet a few tricks?

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Wanting to help animals in need while staying home during the COVID-19 crisis, Niki and Jeff Slaton adopted Skittles, a kitten from Purebred Plus Cat Rescue. Want to help, too? Foster, adopt and donate to an animal shelter or rescue of your choice.

Garza (https://fearfree happyhomes.com/3-easytricks-to-teach-your-cat/ ) and “10 Fun and Easy Dog Tricks” by Amy Bender (https://www. thesprucepets.com/funand-easy-dog-tricks1117309 ). It goes without saying that all training of pets and kids should be positive and rewarding for the learner.

Getting out and about is oh-so-important for our emotional and physical wellbeing. While most leashed pets are dogs, there are cats that are leash trained and enjoy going for walks too. So get out, take a walk and greet (from a distance of six feet) your neighbors and friends. You’ll be glad you did and so will your pet.

Of course, in this time of confinement, it’s important to provide quiet relaxing time and space for your pets too. Like COVID-19, emotions like anxiety and stress are contagious to animals as well as people. So do your best to keep your household reasonably calm, and provide quiet places where pets can rest and relax whenever they need to do so.

Engaging with pets gives perspective and takes you out of yourself. Something we all need during this COVID-19 crisis. Check out these options to lift your spirits and learn more: ■ Learn about The Mood-Boosting Power of

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Don’t have a pet? Why not adopt or foster one?

You can also make a donation. Here are a few local options: ■ Hearts for Paws (https://www.heartsfor pawsrescue.com ) ■ Purebreds Plus Cat Rescue (https://purebredsplus.org ) ■ Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue (530-6811326 or rottsoffriends@ gmail.com) adoptions 8-11 a.m. Saturdays at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland ■ Yolo County Animal Services (530-668-5287 or email dogfosterycas@ gmail.com or adoptycas@ gmail.com. Donation wish list at https://www.amazon. com/gp/registry/wishlist/ 3QE7HIA7DACWU ) ■ Yolo County SPCA (http://yolospca.org )

Happy Tails Like so many of us, Niki and Jeff Slaton started working from home in mid-March to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

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or limit services leaving many homeless animals in limbo.

Niki writes, “We wanted to help locally and realized we had the time and resources to bring another cat into our home. It didn’t take us long to find Skittles, an incredibly cute, 4-month old, barely 3-pound, Ragdoll-mix kitten, fostered by a Purebreds Plus Cat Rescue volunteer living less than a mile from our house. We took this as a sign that this was meant to be! After filling out the necessary paperwork, and passing the reference checks, we met Skittles on March 27 and fell in love.”

After stopping at a local pet store for kitten supplies, the Slatons began the process of gradually introducing Skittles to her new furry family members — four cats and three large dogs.

Niki continues, “Tiny Skittles had been living with cats but had never met a dog before. We had nothing to worry about.

She is very self-assured, and our other cats and dogs were curious but welcoming, and soon Skittles was feeling comfortable.

She’s now fully assimilated and loving life in our home. She gets a serious case of ‘the zoomies’ in the evenings, ricocheting from couch to couch, racing up scratching posts, playing fetch with toys, and sometimes wrapping her tiny paws around an unsuspecting cat or dog, who are all very patient with their new tiny friend.

“Furry companions help reduce loneliness and anxiety, provide daily structure, and lift our moods, which is especially important as we deal with the unexpected and added stress of the COVID-19 lockdown. Skittles and all our other beloved furry housemates keep us smiling, entertained and active while we shelter-in-place.

And we feel good about giving another homeless animal a safe and loving home.”

— Evelyn Dale of Davis is a volunteer and advocate for shelter animal welfare. Contact her at pawsforthought@sbc global.net. This column appears monthly.

Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among them is Captain (A177946), a gentle and loving 7-year-old neutered German shepherd. His foster family reports he is playful, loves his daily walks and loves to cuddle.

Captain

Also looking for a good home is Miss Kitty (A177917), a 12-year-old spayed female calico cat enjoying her days in a foster home while waiting for a family to adopt her.

All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Miss Kitty The shelter is closed to the public for nonemergencies but staff is available to assist at 530668-5287 during new temporary hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

For information, visit www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/ woodland/yolo-countyanimal-services-ca283/.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Flo, a super-friendly 5-year-old spayed female German shepherd. She loves to go on walks and walks well on leash. She had an injury to her left eye, but it doesn’t bother her. She’s a gentle-natured girl

Flo and a volunteer favorite.

Batman is a 4-year-old neutered male black shepherd. He is obedience-trained and walks well on leash. Batman is people-friendly but will do best in a home with just adults or older children. He loves to play and would make a great jogging partner.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, April 18, at 34505

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Bring proof of home ownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, please bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

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the settlement deadline. A California transfer tax, calculated at $1.10 per $1,000, or fraction thereof, will be added to the NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION BEGINNING ON MAY 8, 2020 purchase price. If a winning bidder's payment is not received OF TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY FOR DELINQUENT TAXES by the internet vendor by the settlement deadline, the winning (Made pursuant to Section 3692, Revenue and Taxation Code) bidder's deposit will be forfeited to the County. Please refer to the conditions of sale posted at www.bid4assets.com for more On February 11, 2020, Chad Rinde County Treasurer-Tax information.

Collector, was directed by the Board of Supervisors of Yolo County, California to conduct a public auction sale. The All property is sold as is. The County and its employees are tax-defaulted properties listed below are subject to the tax not liable for the failure of any electronic equipment that may collector's power of sale. prevent a person from participating in the sale. All sales are final, with the exception that the Tax Collector reserves the right The sale will be conducted on the Internet at www.bid4assets. to rescind the sale in the event that an error is discovered that com, beginning on Friday, May 8, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. (PDT) and may have affected the due process rights of the former owner. ending on Monday, May 11, 2020 by 5:00 PM (PDT). During this By participation in the Internet Auction, the bidder agrees to public auction, property will be sold to the highest bidder for cooperate in the rescission of the sale if such an event occurs not less than the minimum bid as shown on this notice. Due within one year of the sale of the property. diligence research is incumbent upon the bidder. The winning bidder is legally obligated to purchase the item. Any parcel The right of tax redemption will cease on Thursday, May 7, remaining may be reoffered on the Internet at www.bid4assets. 2020, at 5:00 PM (PDT) and properties not redeemed will be com, beginning on Friday, June12, 2020, at 8:00 a.m. (PST) and offered for sale. If the parcel is not sold, the right of redemption ending on Monday, June 15, 2020 by 5:00 PM (PDT). D, Any new will revive and continue up to the close of business on the last parties of interest shall be notified in accordance with Revenue business day prior to the next scheduled auction. and Taxation Code section 3701.

If the properties are sold, parties of interest, as defined in Interested bidders must register online at www.bid4assets. California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 4675, have a com. A single deposit of $5,000, plus a $35.00 processing fee, is right to file a claim with the County for any excess proceeds required to bid on auction properties. The deadline to register from the sale. Excess proceeds are the amount of the highest and submit the deposit is Monday, May 4, 2020. This is an bid in excess of the liens and costs of the sale that are paid from online auction and the bidding will take place via the internet. the sale proceeds.

If you do not have internet access, computer workstations are available at most public libraries. At the conclusion of the More information may be obtained by calling (530) 666-8625 or auction, unsuccessful bidders’ deposits and processing fees will online at www.yolocounty.org. be returned to them by Bid4Assets.

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION Full payment of all purchases is required within 3 business days of the auction (by May 14, 2020, 1:00 p.m. PDT/4:00 The Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe p.m. (EDT). A payment processing fee of $35.00 will be added property in this list, refers to the assessor's map book, the map to the final price of every parcel successfully purchased by a page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual winning bidder and will be collected by the internet vendor by parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor's maps PUBLIC NOTICE

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2010 FORD F250 VIN#1FTSW2BR6AEB28309 FL LIC# NONE LIEN SALE 05-05-20 10:00 AM 2435 E WEST CAPITOL AVENUE, #E WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95691 4/17 805 LIEN SALE 5/5/2020 8:00 AM 965 OLIVE DRIVE DAVIS CA 95616 YEAR 1968 SEAKIN VESSEL CA CF# 6144TK HIN 488099

4/17 804 and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor's Office.

The properties that are the subject of this notice are situated in Yolo County, California and are described as follows: APN 034-216-004-000 046-531-031-000 046-501-001-000 046-661-001-000 046-661-010-000 046-661-011-000 046-665-019-000 039-125-008-000 043-210-001-000 027-450-018-000 045-563-006-000 045-692-013-000 045-821-032-000 060-060-009-000 065-290-007-000 005-606-004-000 045-220-005-000 046-220-013-000 049-453-014-000

Last Assessee Minimum Bid Siu Perry Michael $75,079 Ryder Allfam Properties $12,256 Reynen & Bardis (Parella) LP $16,657 Reynen/Bardis Communities Inc $61,004 Reynen/Bardis Communities Inc $59,269 Reynen/Bardis Communities Inc $59,872 Reynen/Bardis Communities $58,620 Negri Lynna Berry Rev Trust Est $27,935 Berny Khalid $62,695 Rose Darren $14,900 Zou Yan $64,332 Zou Yan $65,692 Bohart Elizabeth Arias $21,087 Stumm Cynthia R $16,258 Delacey Thomas & Eugenia R $16,742 Muniozguren Agustin & Maria $9,477 Stathos James G $23,663 Marshall-Ishi 2003 Rev Trust etal $47,458 Gonzalez Norberto & Gonzalez Norberto... $6,386 051-201-009-000 Chappell Carnegie & Mildred Estate of $8,240 056-263-008-000 Sanchez Salvador $7,915 067-133-009-000 Chao Bobby $41,238 014-255-012-000 Stefs Tomorrow Trust $4,414 I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.

Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California on March 24, 2020.

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‘Science Fair’: An engaging presentation Lively documentary profiles some amazing students

‘Science Fair’ Starring: A gaggle of really bright high schoolers Rating: PG, for no particular reason

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Think 2002’s “Spellbound,” but with STEM wiz kids rather than spelling bee champs.

Writer/directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster’s warm-hearted documentary — debuting on Disney+ — profiles nine high school students from around the globe, as they compete for top honors at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

The young contestants are a varied group, although united in passion, persistence and — let it be said — jaw-dropping intelligence and ingenuity. Following the “Spellbound” template, we meet each in turn, and I advise against picking an early favorite; each new candidate is likely to win a place in your heart.

A few contenders are total outsiders. Kashfia, impeccably polite and soft-spoken, is a Muslim girl at a massive, sports-obsessed high school in Brookings, S.D. The hallways are lined with display cases: laden with sports trophies, with nary an academic honor to be seen. Worse yet, she’s unable to find a teacher willing to serve as her research advisor, so — and you have to love this — she bonds with the school’s head football coach.

Ivo, a similarly soft-spoken German aeronautical engineering student, has redesigned a

Despite being constrained by limited resources, Gabriel and Myllena nonetheless made a major medical breakthrough that could help combat the Zika virus.

and does — change lives.

In the ultra-competitive science fair realm, it’s remarkable for any high school to have one or two students who qualify for ISEF. During the year this film traces, Dr. McCalla had nine.

Attempting to predict the ultimate winner is an exercise in frustration. Goodness, they all deserve to win.

Whether intended or not, “Science Fair” is a timely reminder that genius and ingenuity aren’t confined to native-born Americans, or to well-funded schools, or to children from wealthy families, with access to equipment and advisors that (for example) Myllena and Gabriel could only dream about.

Potentially life-saving and world-changing innovations can come from under-privileged citizens of any age, from all over the world; countries that bar them in favor of superficially “desirable” immigrants could be slamming the door on the next Jonas Salk, Katherine Johnson or Stephen Hawking.

And that’s as stupid as these kids are smart.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davis enterprise.com.

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century-old, single-wing aircraft that was deemed impractical and abandoned. The young man’s outside-the-box enhancements improved stability and efficiency to a degree that impressed judges at the German National Fair, which in turn qualified him for ISEF, and his first trip to the United States.

West Virginia’s Robbie is an awkward, hopelessly shy misfit with a fondness for flamboyant shirts. Although a math genius and programming savant, he has little use for conventional instruction, and nearly flunked out of algebra. He spends his free time in the attic, building computers with parts scavenged from a local junkyard.

The irrepressible and überconfident Anjali is the exact opposite: a self-assured motormouth completely comfortable with public speaking (and a total hoot). She’s also a full-blown child prodigy, having scored a

perfect 36 on the ACT — at the age of 13. Now, as a sophomore at Kentucky’s top science and engineering high school, she has built an arsenic-testing device that could save millions of lives by identifying hazardous water supplies.

Ryan, Harsha and Abraham, seniors at the same Kentucky high school, have pinned their ISEF hopes on an electronic 3D-printed stethoscope that automatically connects to an online database of heart sounds, thereby allowing doctors to more accurately diagnose heart abnormalities. Biomedical talents aside, they’re also the most hormonal-normal of these students; Ryan, in particular, thinks nothing of partying hard the night before their presentation.

All these young geniuses notwithstanding, Myllena and Gabriel may be the most impressive duo. They’re best friends and research partners at a woefully

under-resourced school in Ceará, one of Brazil’s poorest states.

Amazingly, they weren’t stopped by such limitations; when the deadly Zika pandemic reached their hometown, they hit the lab and identified a protein that can inhibit the virus’ spread.

One can only drop the jaw and shake the head.

We also spend time with Dr. Serena McCalla, who teaches at Long Island’s Jericho High School, and has built a science curriculum that reigns as one of the state’s preeminent research programs. Most of her students are immigrants who speak English as a second language, but that doesn’t slow them down; under Dr. McCalla’s guidance, they blossom into science prodigies.

The kids adore her, and it’s easy to see why; she radiates trust, inspiration and a belief in her students’ abilities. She’s one of those rare teachers who can —

‘Tigertail’ explores the price of emotional detachment Subtle performances are highlighted in this heartbreaking family drama

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Writer/director Alan Yang’s “Tigertail” — a Netflix original — is a quietly heartbreaking depiction of how emotional isolation can be transmitted from parent to child, to the ongoing detriment of both.

Tang’s approach is methodical and unhurried; even at an economical 91 minutes, his film can feel slow (particularly during the initial half-hour).

But the payoff is worth the investment; the final few minutes are surprisingly powerful. There may not be a dry eye in the house.

Yang’s script traces key events in the life of his protagonist, Pin-Jui, during three time streams: young childhood, early adulthood and post-retirement. The latter phase is played by the magnificent Tzi Ma, whose finely shaded portrayal of withdrawn stoicism is conveyed mostly through sad eyes and a slumped frame (even, seemingly, when he stands erect). They depict silent resignation; this is a man who has completely abandoned any effort to find joy in life.

Given that he seems to have built a comfortably middle-class life, how could

‘Tigertail’ Starring: Tzi Ma, Christine Ko, Hong Chi-Lee, Kunjue Li, Yo-Hsing Fang, Joan Chen, Yang Kuei-mei and Cindera Che Rating: PG, for no particular reason this possibly be? What could have happened?

We initially meet Pin-Jui as a little boy in Taiwan (played by Zhi-Hao Yang) living with his grandparents and helping work their vast rice fields. His father is dead; his mother is elsewhere in a nearby city, struggling to find work, in order to reunite with her only child. The boy misses her, and occasionally hallucinates seeing his parents in the distance, working the same rice field.

Harsh reality brings tears to his eyes, which his grandmother (Li Li Pang) curtly dismisses: “Crying never solves anything. Be strong. Never let anyone see you cry.”

And there it is: the seed from which bitter fruit will spring, decades later.

But not immediately.

The middle time stream finds Pin-Jui (now played

by Hong-Chi Lee) toiling alongside his mother, Minghua (Yang Kuei-mei), in a sugar factory. The work is hard — and dangerous —

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Try as she might, Angela (Christine Ko) can’t begin to connect with her father, Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma), who has spent decades burying his emotions so far, that they may be irretrievable. but they lead an acceptable, if meager existence. And Pin-Jui has been lucky enough to reconnect with childhood friend Yuan (YoHsing Fang); the two are deeply in love.

Pin-Jui seems wholly disconnected from the retiree he’s destined to become; this young man is enthusiastic, playful and mischievous. He loves music and dancing: particularly to a vibrant LP by Yao Su Yong & The Telstars Combo (whose music was banned by the Taiwanese government for a while).

He and Yuan obviously are destined for each other.

And yet … Pin-Jui also yearns for a better life in what he has long believed is

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the country of opportunity: the United States, where he can work hard and make enough money to support his mother in well-deserved comfort.

This dream comes to the attention of the factory owner, who proposes a bargain: He’ll fund the trip if Pin-Jui marries his daughter, Zhenzhen (Kunjue Li).

Li’s Zhenzhen is meek, reserved and submissive: the complete contrast of Yuan. But Pin-Jui feels responsible for his mother, and so he agrees to the bargain, hardening his heart against the pain of leaving Yuan behind.

The bitter fruit is beginning to sprout.

We assume that Zhenzhen’s father has arranged some sort of living and working connections, but the harsh reality is New York City’s squalor at its worst.

These twin narratives — childhood, and freshly married — emerge as flashbacks while the retired PinJui helplessly, hopelessly wrestles with the mess his life has become.

Worse yet, his hardened reserve prevents any demonstrative bond with his own adult daughter, Angela (Christine Ko), clearly struggling to cope with her own life. She desperately craves solace — suggestions, solutions — from a father who has

closed himself off for so long, that he cannot even carry on a conversation.

Yang isn’t afraid to hold on protracted, awkward silences, during these portions of his film; he knows that Ma is expressive enough — even when mute — to convey the desired emotional complexity. We can’t really dislike Pin-Jui, because it’s not a case of deliberate cruelty; he simply hasn’t a clue how to relate to his daughter.

The story’s emotional intensity is augmented throughout by Yang and music supervisor Zach Cowie’s beguiling placement of pop tunes and instrumental underscore.

And it’s fascinating to note that this sharply perceptive script also is an accomplished feature directing debut by an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer known solely, up to this point, for TV sitcoms such as “Parks and Recreation,” “The Good Place” and “Master of None.”

It will be easy for impatient viewers to scoff contemptuously and dismiss this as a film where “nothing much happens.” And, in fairness, this drama is built from extremely subtle nuances.

But they are, nonetheless, quite rewarding.

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Reel justice: The verdict is in on lawyer movies Dedicated attorneys deliver engaging cinematic experience

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Despite the rather grim jokes told about lawyers, Hollywood has given us no shortage of heroic, crusading attorneys … and we thrill to their courtroom successes.

With respect to legalthemed films that I never tire of rewatching — and for folks who feel the need to sharpen their argumentative skills — the following half-dozen are ready to stream for a jury of however many folks are sheltering in your place.

1959’s “Anatomy of a Murder” — available via Amazon Prime — is adapted from the 1958 novel of the same title by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker; he based the story on his experience as a defense attorney during a lurid 1952 murder trial.

Director Otto Preminger and screenwriter Wendell Mayes follow Voelker’s template to a meticulous degree; the result was the first big-screen drama to delve into the intricacies of each stage of a high-profile murder trial.

Small-town attorney Paul “Paulie” Biegler (James Stewart) accepts the challenge to defend U.S. Army Lt. Frederick “Manny” Manion (Ben Gazzara), a Korean War veteran who turned himself in after shooting and killing roadhouse owner Bernard Quill. Manny argues that his action was justified because his wife Laura (Lee Remick) had just been beaten and raped by Quill.

The question is whether Biegler can find a legal precedent that might excuse the murder; the resulting courtroom duel with visiting state prosecutor Claude Dancer (George C. Scott) is intriguing enough, but the story also gains plenty of drama from its ambiguity.

1962’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Amazon Prime) is perfect: from Horton Foote’s thoughtful adaptation of Harper Lee’s celebrated novel; and director Robert Mulligan’s sensitive handling of the cast, and the astonishingly mature work he drew from young Mary Badham and Phillip Alford, as Scout and Jem; to Elmer Bernstein’s poignant, solo piano-driven score; and Gregory Peck’s

Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch, the absolute pinnacle of cinematic nobility and quiet courage.

The story’s insistence that amicable race relations aren’t merely desirable, but a moral imperative, remains relevant to this day; so is the reminder that ethical champions must defend what’s right, even when an awful, unjust outcome is inevitable.

I get chills even thinking about the take-away line: “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing.”

1973’s “The Paper Chase” (Amazon Prime) isn’t a courtroom drama like the other titles cited here, but it’s no less entertaining for the snarky verbal jousting that takes place between hapless first-year law student James T. Hart (Timothy Bottoms) and Harvard’s notoriously waspish contract law Professor Charles W. Kingsfield (Oscar winner John Houseman).

Director James Bridges’ adaptation of John Jay Osborn Jr.’s 1971 novel successfully navigates vivid emotional extremes. On the one hand, the script is laden with richly trenchant dialog, which often prompts a chuckle; at the same time, I can think of no other film that so accurately depicts that abject terror of (repeatedly!) being caught unprepared in a classroom ruled by a steely disciplinarian adept at psychological warfare.

The stand-out line, from Houseman’s Kingsfield: “Mr. Hart, here is a dime.

Call your mother. Tell her there is serious doubt about your becoming a lawyer.”

If you’ve never seen 1992’s “My Cousin Vinny” (available solely via Starz), there’s no time like the present. Marisa Tomei’s Oscar-winning performance is choice enough, but scripter Dale Launer’s larkish crime thriller also is a hilariously effective skewering of stuffy courtroom behavior, and a surprisingly accurate depiction of trial strategy.

New Yorkers Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein (Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield), vacationing in rural Alabama before beginning their scholarships at UCLA, are arrested for a murder they didn’t commit: nailed by circumstantial evidence

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John Houseman won a well-deserved Academy Award for his memorable performance as Harvard contract law Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in “The Paper Chase.”

In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus Finch (Academy Award winner Gregory Peck, left), pledged to defend Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) against an obviously bogus charge of raping a young white woman, finds little sympathy among the prejudiced jury members.

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and their own foolishness.

Fortunately (?), there’s an attorney in Bill’s family: Cousin Vinny Gambini (Joe Pesci), who just passed the bar — barely, on his sixth attempt — and shows up with fiancée Mona Lisa Vito (Tomei) in tow.

The climactic “expert testimony” is to die for.

Director/scripter Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Rainmaker” (Amazon Prime and Netflix) is a thoroughly engaging adaptation of John Grisham’s 1995 novel.

The story follows freshfaced Memphis attorney Rudy Baylor (an early starring role by Matt Damon) as he battles a corporate law firm hired to defend an insurance company — led by legal shark Leo F. Drummond (Jon Voight, the sublime villain of this piece) — that refused to honor a legitimate claim that would have saved a low-income Tennessee couple’s ailing son.

Coppola delivers a satisfying blend of righteous indignation — the insurance company is such an easy target — and

well-sculpted characters.

Considerable humor is drawn from the Mutt ’n’ Jeff dynamic between Rudy and his sole associate: the resourceful but ethics-bending Deck Shifflet (Danny DeVito), a former insurance

assessor-turned-paralegal who has failed the bar exam six times.

Rudy’s passion is put to good use; the same cannot be said of overly cocky, realworld Boston attorney Jan Schlichtmann (portrayed

by John Travolta, in one of

his strongest roles), who allows hubris to overcome wisdom and common sense.

Director/scripter Steven Zaillian’s 1998’s “A Civil Action” (Amazon Prime), adapted from Jonathan Harr’s book, is a mesmerizing — and excruciatingly frustrating — depiction of Schlichtmann’s David-vs.Goliath battle against corporations Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace & Company, whose groundwater contamination in Woburn, Mass., became linked to the deaths of many local children.

Schlichtmann, at the time heading a tiny firm of plaintiff lawyers, brings a class action suit in federal court; his opponents include an unhelpful judge (John Lithgow) and a shrewd, battle-hardened Beatrice attorney (Oscar nominee Robert Duvall’s Jerome Facher) who anticipates every one of the inexperienced Schlichtmann’s maneuvers.

Travolta’s larger-thanlife, hard-charging charisma never has been put to better use, particularly as Schlichtmann increasingly places his own desires above those of his clients.

The takeaway line belongs to Facher: “Pride has lost more cases than lousy evidence, idiot witnesses and a hanging judge put together. There is absolutely no place in a courtroom for pride.”

You’ll need a stiff root beer after this one concludes.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang. blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www. davisenterprise.com.

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In “My Cousin Vinny,” Vinny Gambini (Joe Pesci), doing his best to dismiss a bogus murder charge against his younger cousin, discovers that New York moxie doesn’t mean much in an Alabama courtroom.

UC Davis artists’ and writers’ series continue online Special to The Enterprise The UC Davis Creative Writing Reading Series and the Art Studio Visiting Artist Lecture Series have moved online for Wednesday and Thursday, April 22 and 23.

Readings by Linda Norton and Stephanie Sauer will be held at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22.

Norton is the author of “The Public Gardens: Poems and History,” a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and two chapbooks. She will be writer-in-residence for SFMOMA’s “Open Space” blog and her memoir “Wite Out” is forthcoming. She is also a visual artist.

Sauer is the author of “Almonds Are Members of the Peach Family” and “The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force,” a work inspired by a Sacramento arts movement.

Sauer earned a master’s degree in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her art has been exhibited at the de Young Museum, the Center

for Book Arts in New York and the National Library of Baghdad.

The readings are free but registration by noon Wednesday at bit.ly/3csI3nA is required.

Multidisciplinary artist Beatriz Cortez’ talk begins at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, with a questionand-answer session to follow. Presented by the department of art and art history, the lecture is free, but patrons must register online by 10 a.m. Wednesday at artstudio.ucdavis. edu.

Cortez builds machines that bring together different histories, acknowledge global and cosmic nomadism and imagine the potential for divergent entities to coexist. She has had solo exhibitions at Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; and Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador. She has received the Frieze Lifewtr Inaugural Sculpture Prize, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and the California

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Bike-friendly near UC Davis, Trader Joe’s and Arroyo Park and Pool.

JOE KAPLAN Associate Broker 530.304.5978

joesellsdavis@gmail.com Cal DRE# 01230760

1944 Henry Court, Woodland 4 Bedrooms • 3 Bathrooms 2,560 Square Feet When you buy a newly constructed home, you’re left with thousands more dollars to spend (think window treatments, appliances, landscaping) and projects to do (think backyard patio, shade cover, plants). 1944 Henry Court has all of that included in its price so that you just move in and enjoy! This beautiful home is located on a spacious, upgraded lot at the end of the cul-de-sac! With hardwood floors downstairs & a great room concept lay-out, you’ll love being home. The kitchen boasts granite counter tops, upgraded GE appliances, island, & lots of storage.

There’s one bedroom plus full bathroom downstairs too! Upstairs are three more bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, & the laundry room. The sunny backyard features an extended patio area with a pergola & built in barbecue & refrigerator plus remote paver area just waiting for a fire pit. The driveway’s adjustable basketball hoop is ready for kids (& adults) of all ages. This is a home you’ll enjoy spending time in!

Kim Eichorn DRE #01196250

Bringing Buyers & Sellers Together Since 1997

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530.304.4947 www.kimeichorn.com keichorn@golyon.com

$565,000

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1420 Towse Drive, Woodland 3BD/2BA/1,146 SQ. FT. This adorable 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is conveniently located DMPTF UP TDIPPMT TIPQQJOH )XZ BOE * 5IF PQFO ĂšPPS QMBO fresh interior paint and vaulted ceilings in living/dining areas provide a spacious & bright feel throughout. New carpet and WJOZM QMBOL ĂšPPSJOH BOE GSFTI QBJOU 5IF NBTUFS CFESPPN IBT ample storage with a large closet and backyard access. $339,000 Martha Bernauer | 530-304-4208 | LIC# 01273735

434 Alvarado Avenue, Davis 3BD/1.5BA/1,200 SQ. FT. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath unit in beautiful Covell Commons. All bedrooms are upstairs. Downstairs is a 1/2 bath and upstairs is a full bath with a tub/shower combo. Reserved covered parking right outside your front door - plus one uncovered reserved parking space. Enjoy the famous North Davis greenbelt just a short walk away or relax at the community pool. $419,000 Joe Deulloa | 916-955-1796 | LIC# 00943470

1005 4th Street, Woodland 4BD/2BA/2,265 SQ. FT. This home has crown molding throughout, dual-pane windows XJUI MJGFUJNF XBSSBOUZ IBSEXPPE ÚPPST JOEPPS MBVOESZ XJUI cabinet storage, and a fully insulated two-car garage. Updated kitchen with a large granite island, glass backsplash, and custom cabinets. Spacious master bedroom with sitting area, CVJMU JO PGÙDF TQBDF BOE MBSHF XBML JO DMPTFU $579,999 Tom Nelson | 530-228-0680 | LIC# 02081246

298 Yosemite Place, Woodland 2BD/2BA/1,062 SQ. FT. This charming 2 bedroom, 2 bath home is located on a quiet cul-de-sac in NW Woodland with a greenbelt at the end of the block and a community park mere blocks away. The home features a recent roof and HVAC system allowing the new owner to focus on adding their own cosmetic touches to the home. $300,000 Geoffrey Snow | 530-304-6427 | LIC# 02102118

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2662 Holland Way, Woodland $530,000

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FANTASTIC HOMES IN DAVIS AND WOODLAND 2129 Pollock Court $915,000

1944 Henry Court, Woodland $565,000

5 Beds • 3 Baths 2,567 Sq. Ft.

4 Beds • 3 Baths 2,560 Sq. Ft.

Beautifully remodeled Wildhorse home with PDKRJDQ\ ZRRG Č?RRUV

Better than brand new with nice upgrades and lovely backyard landscaping.

18257 Gadwall Street, Woodland $675,000

34866 Pintail Street, Woodland $549,000

5 Beds • 4 Baths 3,215 Sq. Ft.

4 Beds • 3 Baths 3,059 Sq. Ft.

1-story home backing to Wild Wings Golf Course.

Nice 2-story home backing to Wild Wings golf course!

530.304.4947

kimeichorn.com keichorn@golyon.com

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PENDING SALES 39423 Black Hawk Place ....... $1,299,000 810 Peregrine Avenue ........... $1,195,000 CA DRE# 01196250

1106 Ovejas Avenue ............... $1,250,000 1388 Via Colonna Terrace......... $637,000