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All eyes on county supervisors as reopening discussion resumes BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer The Yolo County Board of Supervisors is expected to make some decisions Tuesday on how and when to begin opening up more of the local economy, including permitting restaurants and nonessential retail stores to welcome customers inside. Having met all of the public health metrics required by the
state to allow those activities, supervisors will now weigh how to do so without compromising the success made locally in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. That the residents of Yolo County have successfully flattened the curve has been evident for weeks now. Even as testing locally has increased from dozens of tests
conducted every day early in the pandemic to hundreds every day in the last two weeks, there has not been a significant rise in confirmed cases.
All told, 190 cases have been confirmed in the county and 22 deaths. Meanwhile, 4,883 county residents have been tested for the coronavirus as of Saturday.
In fact, since the beginning of May, the county has confirmed 20 cases of the novel coronavirus. During the first 23 days of April, there were 130 confirmed cases, with significantly less testing being done.
Among the decisions facing county supervisors on Tuesday will be how to keep those case numbers low while allowing the local economy to begin to recover.
Colby retiring as schools’ business officer Enterprise staff writer
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City camps, activities canceled through July 5 BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer All city recreation programs and camps have now been canceled through July 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes the first three weeks of Camp Putah, Rainbow Summer and Summer Quest as well as city-sponsored swim lessons, recreational swim and family swim nights. “The city continues to reassess summer programming as new information and guidelines become available and hopes to be able to offer modified activities after July 5,” according to an announcement released Friday. For a full list of canceled and postponed programs, go online to https://wp. me/p3aczg-3OPz.
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Under the state’s health order, Yolo County now has permission
Up a creek
BY JEFF HUDSON After 13 years with the Davis Joint Unified School District, chief business and operations officer Bruce Colby will retire effective July 31. A former finance COLBY manager School district at Apple chief business Inc. in officer Cupertino, and later a business and finance manager at two separate school districts in the Central Coast and Bay Area, Colby moved with his family to Davis in November 2006. Over his 13-plus years with the school district, Colby has worked with multiple school boards, superintendents and school district leadership teams. His fiscal and business leadership contributed to the passage of seven school parcel-tax measures and multiple financing efforts to improve facilities
to open restaurants for dine-in service and retail shops — including book stores, toy stores, clothing stores and more — to customers who want a traditional shopping experience rather than the curb-side and delivery they’ve been limited to.
McNaughton Newspapers WINTERS — Near the LakeSonoma counties border — not far from Mount Saint Helena and Snow Mountain — Southwest Peak of Cobb Mountain stands higher than all else in the Mayacamas Mountains. On the east side of Cobb Mountain flows the headwaters of Putah Creek. The downstream landscape of the creek changed dramatically with the construction of the 304foot Monticello Dam between 1953 and 1957. Another historical landmark was constructed 20 years ago. The Putah Creek Accord was signed May 23, 2000, during a ceremony at the Putah Diversion Dam. “They set up tables and chairs,” said Rich Marovich, the streamkeeper for the Lower Putah Creek Coordinating Committee and the Solano County Water Agency.
“It was like signing a peace treaty on the deck of a battleship and that was as close to a battleship as we had.”
Whiskey and water Mark Twain famously wrote, “Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting.” And when the source of the water runs dry due to drought, the fight is most definitely on. It was during the drought in the late 1980s that Robin Kulakow and her fellow birdwatchers began noticing that Putah Creek was running dry. The same observation was being made at places such as Camp Davis, a popular site near the university where youth paddled their canoes and participated in other activities. “The area turned muddy, the fish were dying and it smelled bad,” said Joe Krovoza, who became chairman of the Putah Creek Council at the
Local clergy voice confidence in Yolo health experts BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer
time the accord was negotiated and signed. “It got pretty ugly.” So Kulakow formed the Putah Creek Council, and along with other environmental advocates began looking into where the water was going. As it turns out, most of it was going to farmers trying to keep their crops alive. Former state Sen. Lois Wolk was elected to the Davis City Council in 1990 and found herself drawn into the fight. “Before we got into litigation, there was an effort by the Putah Creek Council to mitigate this,” Wolk said. “Sadly, that did not work.” Krovoza said, “You had these old guard Solano farming-types and the Davis environmentalists.” The council took the water agency to court, citing the Public Trust Doctrine, which gives the public standing in matters of the public good. Another weapon was a little-used provision of the Fish and Game code that essentially stated that an agency that operates a dam has the
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SEE FAITH, PAGE A3
Charlotte Guerriera, 6, and Maddie Guerriera, 4, wade in Putah Creek near Winters on Friday, May 22.
BY TODD R. HANSEN
‘Balance faith with reason’
President Trump made national headlines Friday when he told governors to allow religious institutions to reopen their doors immediately. The president does not have the authority to lift local or state public health orders, which have shuttered churches and other institutions to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. “Today I am identifying houses of worship — churches, synagogues and mosques — as essential places that provide essential services,” Trump said. “I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now.” The same day, The Davis Enterprise published a letter to the editor signed by nine religious and spiritual leaders in Davis. The clergy said that while they prefer meeting in person, they are “in no hurry to put ourselves and our congregations in danger.” Voicing their confidence in Yolo County’s public health officials, the religious leaders said their congregations will continue to abide by local directives. “As religious and spiritual leaders, we take seriously the responsibility to balance our faith with reason,
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After 20 years, Putah Creek Accord, still key to habitat, water flows
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Keeping score on all of that intrigue Bang’s latest project covers jazz music in crime and spy TV shows, movies BY JARROD BANIQUED Enterprise correspondent On a bright spring afternoon at the blue picnic tables outside The Enterprise’s office, arts correspondent Derrick Bang enthused about his newest work. “Initially, I wanted to do a book, the ultimate music guide to the 1958-1961 TV series, ‘Peter Gunn,’ which is very rich in jazz. But a little bit of research revealed that although there aren’t any books on that particular subject, there are a couple of very good magazine articles and websites. I figured, ‘Well that ground’s been tilled.’ ” So, he looked for more fertile aural ground. But
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the little plots of popular culture he found were too difficult to choose among, given the very subjective nature of the lines he would have to draw. “I thought, well, fine, let’s just go the whole topic and attempt a discussion, an analysis of crime, spy, detective, cop, action and jazz in all TV shows and movies since it started.”
New horizons Thus began a four-year journey into the depths of a mystery area — quite literally. From September 2015 to April 2019, Bang had parsed myriad film and television reference guidebooks, selected 750
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Derrick Bang shows off his latest project, a two-volume book set about the jazz music in crime and spy movies and TV shows. series and 486 films of the crime, spy, action and mystery genres and winnowed them down to 206
series and 350 films that had jazz scores. Then, after hours of research, he wrote capsule
reviews for every score on the tapes he viewed, each
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