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was an abuse of power, and it cannot be tolerated.”

The statement, released Sunday afternoon just as another protest march was getting underway downtown, said the Davis Police Department has strict policies in place prohibiting a person from being restrained the way Floyd was “and for exactly the reasons that we all witnessed.”

“The members of the Davis Police Department are also shocked and saddened by what transpired,” the statement said.

“There is a strong commitment to denounce what happened and to speak about it openly so that we can build lasting trust.

“It is a difficult conversation, but one that must be had. All police, in Davis and across the nation, must do better to ensure that nothing like this happens again. There are no excuses for

Minneapolis prosecutors have “a very good case for murder” against the police officer charged with killing George Floyd, Davis’ police chief said during a Police Accountability Commission meeting Monday during which he discussed his own agency’s use-of-force policies.

“What we all witnessed was a crime,” Chief Darren Pytel said of the video PYTEL showing Officer “It was Derek Chauvin horrifying.” kneeling on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes during the May 25 incident as Floyd struggled to breathe. “It was tragic. It was horrifying.”

Pytel also called the firings of all four involved officers “very appropriate under the circumstances.”

“I do think that one of the things that we saw here was just this display of arrogance, officers who really lacked the ability to deal with a situation competently,” Pytel said. He noted that new information revealed several of the officers “strategized properly” prior to Floyd’s restraint, which should have included rolling him onto his side to aid his breathing, “yet they still went down this path of not actually dealing with it in a professional or competent manner.”

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Marchers protesting the death of George Floyd confront Davis police officers at the Richards Boulevard/I-80 freeway onramp on Sunday.

Protesters take to the streets City leaders condemn Floyd killing

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Davis city leaders issued a joint statement Sunday condemning the death of George Floyd as “nothing less than tragic and horrifying.”

“There is no legitimate police practice that allows officers to hold a person in the way Mr. Floyd was restrained,” said the statement signed by all five City Council members as well as Police Chief Darren Pytel and City Manager Mike Webb.

Floyd died last Monday after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes following his arrest. Video of

Protesters head through the Richards underpass into downtown Davis. the incident captured by bystanders set off shockwaves resulting in demonstrations and protests around the country over the last several days.

All four police officers involved in Floyd’s arrest were subsequently fired but only Chauvin has been

criminally charged.

“What the officers did is a crime and should be punished as such — justice demands nothing less,” the statement from Davis city leaders said.

“The actions of those officers in Minneapolis are simply indefensible. What we witnessed

Renowned doctor slams autopsy

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BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer You can’t miss the place.

Heading down D Street toward the Davis Commons, the aquamarine structure sticks out like the theater backdrop of a Little Mermaid musical.

“It’s a statement,” according to Heather Caswell, longtime owner and curator of The Wardrobe, a women’s fashion boutique in downtown Davis. “A statement that I’m still committed to doing business.”

Breaking up the gloom of what’s otherwise been a sleepy downtown scene these last few weeks, Caswell enlisted the help of Davis-based M G Painting and a

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handful of neighbors last Thursday.

By Saturday morning, her chic shop at 117 D St. donned a fresh new turquoise get-up — one that’s already turning heads and bringing smiles to the faces of passersby.

“I’d like to think we’ve seen the most challenging of times,” says Caswell, who reports her business revenue was down some 80 percent. “So I decided to rise to the occasion and do an improvement I’ve had an interest in doing for some time now.

“We’re trying to help bring more hope, cheer and optimism to our downtown

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Renowned forensic pathologist and clinical professor at the UC Davis Medical Center Dr. Bennet Omalu commented Saturday on a preliminary autopsy report on the death of George Floyd.

The report, which raised doubts about the cause of Floyd’s death, could complicate the prosecution of a Minneapolis police officer who has been charged in the case.

“I am extremely disappointed with and pissed by the preliminary cause of death opinion of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner on the George Floyd case,” Omalu said on Twitter. “Professional buffoonery at its best.”

Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died Monday in Minneapolis after a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground with his knee for nearly nine minutes. Floyd,

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Dr. Bennet Omalu is an associate clinical professor of pathology at the UC Davis Medical Center. who was handcuffed, cried out that he could not breathe. The officer kept him pinned for close to three minutes after he became unresponsive.

Floyd’s death, which was captured on video, has prompted nationwide outrage and protests.

Friday with third degree murder and manslaughter.

On the same day, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, who conducted Floyd’s autopsy, released a report saying that underlying health conditions likely contributed to his death.

“The autopsy revealed no

The officer, Derek Chauvin, 44, was charged

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Briefly Man shot in leg in Woodland Woodland police continue to investigate a shooting that injured a man last week.

Sgt. Dallas Hyde said officers responded at about 2:35 a.m. Friday to the 1700 block of Sixth Street, where witnesses said a man was bleeding from a leg wound.

“Officers arrived on scene and determined that the victim had been shot in the leg,” Hyde said.

The victim was transported to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento for treatment of his injuries, which Hyde said were not life threatening. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Woodland Police Department at 530-666-2411.

Arrest made in Rite Aid burglary Davis police say a man helped himself to appliances and other merchandise from a local Rite Aid store, resulting in his arrest and a trip to the Yolo County Jail.

Steven Alan Stickney Jr., 41, of Rio Vista, was contacted by officers at about 1 a.m. Thursday outside the Russell Boulevard Rite Aid, where he allegedly was in possession of microwave ovens, clothing and other items that appeared to be from the store, Lt. Art Camacho said.

Officers transported to Stickney to the Yolo County Jail on charges of burglary, possession of stolen property and possession of narcotics, after suspected heroin was found in his wallet. during his arrest,

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So, how is baseball like religion?

T he other day I was looking over Gov. Newsom’s “guidelines” for the reopening of churches in California and one of his suggestions was to “Shorten services to limit the length of time congregants/visitors spend at facilities whenever possible.”

Furthermore, according to the governor, “This could include limiting speeches, asking congregants/visitors to put on garments at home before arrival, etc.”

The governor is apparently unaware that most everyone who attends my church, including me, already gets dressed before we leave for Mass.

In all my years of church attendance, I’ve heard gospels and homilies and the Lord’s Prayer, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a speech, mostly because we don’t allow politicians to address our gatherings.

I’ll leave it to the pastor to decide if and how a service might be shortened, but I understand the governor’s request. Working on the assumption that there might be asymptomatic carriers in attendance, the less time a person is exposed to the virus, the better.

When you think about it, though, there are all sorts of

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here should be only one pickoff attempt by a pitcher trying to “hold” a runner leading off first base. If you pick him off, he’s out. If you fail, he takes second base. That should put an end to that nonsense.

I’ve seen games when the pitcher throws four or five straight times over to the first baseman before even throwing his first pitch. Then the batter fouls off six straight pitches, with the runner returning to first each time.

After the fifth foul ball, there’s the obligatory conference on the mound as guys start warming up in the bullpen. Twenty-five minutes later, the same batter is still at the plate, the same runner is on first base and the same pitcher is on the mound. Nothing has happened. I mean, I could have prayed a whole Rosary in that

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human activities here in California besides church services that could be shortened.

Like baseball, which, like church, is an activity that involves organ music.

Now, far be it for me to fault the National Pastime, but does it really have to be nine full innings, including a seventh-inning stretch?

I’ve heard sermons that take less time than a conference on the mound between the pitcher, the catcher, the shortstop, the first baseman, the second baseman, the third baseman, the pitching coach and the leftfielder’s mother.

Do you realize there is absolutely no limit to the number of foul balls a batter may hit? If he already has two strikes, a foul ball has no meaning whatsoever.

Given how long it takes for the

amount of time.

No more trotting around the bases at half speed after a home run. Once the ball clears the fence, simply resume your seat on the bench as one run is put onto the scoreboard, plus another run for each baserunner.

No warmup pitches when a reliever comes into the game. For heaven’s sake, he’s had the entire game to warm up in the bullpen.

Does Steph Curry get to take a half-a-dozen jump shots and shoot a couple of free throws after being inserted into a Warriors game with two minutes left in the fourth quarter and the score tied?

Does Jimmy Garoppolo get to throw 10 “practice” passes when the 49ers’ offense takes the field after a turnover?

In other words, whether it’s baseball or basketball or football, come ready to play or don’t come at all.

The average church service runs about an hour. The average baseball game runs well over two hours and sometimes three.

The governor needs to train his sights elsewhere.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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home plate umpire to put another ball into play and another pitch to be delivered, this one rule alone can lengthen the average baseball game by up to 10 minutes.

Each batter should get just one pitch. If it’s a ball, take your base.

A strike or a foul and you’re out. If you hit it into the field of play, current rules apply.

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Putah Creek Council’s board of directors has recently hired Kenny Liner as the organization’s new executive director, starting this month.

“We are very excited to be bringing in such a dynamic new leader for the organization,” said the board in a statement. “He has been sharing useful ideas for improvement and supporting staff even before we offered him the job.”

After 10 years of touring throughout the United States and overseas as a professional musician, Liner returned to his hometown of Baltimore, Md., to found and lead Believe in Music, a music education nonprofit organization.

The curriculum he created stemmed from his unique ideas about necessary reform in music education, putting an emphasis on self-expression and highlighting the importance of the voices of Baltimore’s youths. He worked tirelessly to enhance the learning experience for thousands of students across the city with quality arts instruction.

He started consulting other nonprofits and expanded Believe in

Music in 2011 to serve students in Los Angeles.

Growing up in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Liner has always been connected to nature and feels a strong sense of service in protecting natural resources. After his first trip to Putah Creek, he fell in love with the region.

“I am grateful to have the opportunity to join the Winters community, contribute to the important mission of Putah Creek Council, and work with staff to update and expand the council’s environmental education and stewardship programs in Yolo and Solano counties.”

Interim Executive Director Carrie Shaw is re-retiring after five months of leadership through this transition.

The council looks forward to future social gatherings to appreciate Shaw and welcome Liner.

Putah Creek Council is dedicated to the protection and enhancement of Putah Creek and its tributaries through advocacy, education and community-based stewardship.

To learn more, visit www.putahcreekcouncil. org or www.facebook. com/putahcreekcouncil/.

Kenny Liner, new executive director for Putah Creek Council, begins work this month.

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oday, as this column is being written (June 1), is the official opening of a hurricane season that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has estimated will be quite active. It comes, as scientists have predicted and proved, that increasing heat stored in the oceans and atmosphere bring increasingly severe storms, floods and droughts.

The coronavirus pandemic is colliding with the climate crisis. In some ways, we are poised to learn from this collision.

In other ways, many around the world, including in our country, will suffer its aftereffects.

The pandemic is already teaching us to listen to the scientists, and there is some reason to believe this is a lesson learned. I am not a social scientist, but it is my understanding that it has historically been a truism that humans have a finite capacity for worry, and that a new huge worry will displace, or diminish, an old worry.

For example, a survey from Yale and George Mason universities, conducted April 7 through 17, when most of the nation was sheltering in place, compared attitudes at this time to attitudes during the Great Recession from 2008 through 2010. During the Great Recession, public acceptance of the reality of the climate crisis and its causes dropped by 14 percent.

However, the onset of the pandemic has apparently not resulted in a loss of the public’s knowledge of or concern for the climate crisis. In their words, the climate crisis has become a “durable worry” with nearly three-quarters of people responding to the survey indicating the climate crisis is real and we need to act on it now.

There are also some signs that the admonition to “be prepared” has taken hold in many of the agencies and organizations given the job of responding to hurricanes and other disasters, in many cases altering key assumptions and adopting new response strategies.

It starts from an understanding that, for example, just before a hurricane strikes in Florida people may be confused by contradictory messages. Stay at home and practice social distancing to avoid the coronavirus, but evacuate and go to a crowded emergency shelter where there is safety from the storm but potential exposure to the virus.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been working on guidelines for these situations. In addition to figuring out how to safely shelter huge numbers of evacuees and provide food, restrooms and other necessities, they along with many of the organizations planning for involvement in responding to a disaster while in the middle of a pandemic are thinking through the collision and have identified what may turn out to be the most significant vulnerability: a lack of a sufficient number

of volunteers.

The National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters anticipates that one effect of the coronavirus on disaster relief will be a 50 percent reduction in the number of volunteers, the people who distribute food and supplies and help clear debris.

Significantly, the Salvation Army indicates that 75 percent of their volunteers are age 65 or older.

The Red Cross and other relief organizations share this estimate and, given that this age group is the most vulnerable to the virus, relief agencies indicate they will be reluctant to ask them to come help.

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urther casting light on the collision of the pandemic with the climate crisis, organizations such as the Salvation Army have taken a huge hit to their budgets due to the closure of their stores and loss of sales.

And loss of funding extends to cities and counties, since federal law requires local governments to put up a 25-percent match for federal emergency funds and volunteer services can count towards that obligation.

We sometimes forget the role seniors play in our communities, volunteering with food banks, becoming docents at museums, helping hospitals and medical facilities run smoothly, tutoring school kids, helping with disasters, and literally dozens and dozens of other activities. The time and expertise donated by seniors is a critical component in maintaining the vibrancy and cohesion of our communities.

A lifetime ago, I worked at the Secretary of State’s office in the Elections Division. It was true then, and it’s true now, that the overwhelming percentage of people who volunteer to work at polling places on election day are senior citizens. Elections are a key element of determining our future in terms of the climate crisis. A reduction in the number of these stalwart workers who are one of the foundational pillars of the infrastructure of our democracy will be a significant challenge to continuing the fair and efficient conduct of our elections.

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

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Family gatherings still limited under health order

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County’s shelter-in-place order was lifted late last week leaving county residents to abide by the state’s “Stay at Home” health order instead, with the additional requirement of wearing face masks when out in public.

So what does that mean now and for the coming summer months?

The state’s order continues to evolve as new activities are allowed to resume, including, most recently, church services, dining at restaurants and getting haircuts.

But the bottom line remains largely the same, according to Yolo County public health director Brian Vaughn: “While we don’t have the shelter in place in effect, we do want to caution individuals to continue to stay at home as much as possible when they’re not engaging in shopping or other businesses out there or essential activities.”

In particular, individuals at high risk from COVID-19 are

urged to continue staying home and only go out for essential needs and medical appointments.

That high-risk population includes those over age 65 as well as people of any age with underlying health conditions that include chronic lung disease, heart disease, severe obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and immune deficiencies.

But what does that mean for everyone else, particularly during the coming months when many expected to be enjoying outdoor concerts, public pools, family reunions, weddings and summer travel?

There are still a number of activities closed to everybody, including bars and nightclubs and entertainment venues and those will likely be among the last to reopen.

But as soon as this month, children may get the green light to resume some youth sports and communal swimming pools such as those located in apartment complexes may soon be able to reopen with physical distancing required, according to County Administrator Patrick Blacklock.

But the state has given no indication yet on when water parks and public pools will reopen.

The city of Davis previously announced there would be no recreational swimming in city pools at least through July 5.

As for other traditional summer activities, limits remain in place for now, including on gatherings and travel.

Under the state health order, gatherings of any size that bring together people from multiple households in a shared space — indoor or outdoor — remain prohibited.

Exceptions have now been made for religious services (including funerals), cultural ceremonies and political protests, albeit with restrictions on size, requirements for physical distancing and, in Yolo County, an order requiring face coverings.

But outside of those exceptions, a gathering of even 10 or fewer people who are not all from the same household is prohibited under the state order.

That would include weddings, according to Yolo County Counsel Phil Pogledich, who told the

Board of Supervisors on Tuesday they “are still, unfortunately, among the types of gatherings that are not permitted.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis suggested there may be good reason for that: “It’s my understanding that many of our new cases (of COVID-19) are arising out of larger family gatherings.”

Vaughn agreed, saying over half of the cases confirmed in the county in the past two weeks have involved family contacts, such as family from different households intermingling.

“That’s not surprising,” said Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento. “People have a tendency to let their guards down around family.”

Said Vaughn: “As much as you can avoid gathering with other people outside your household unit, particularly when you can’t social distance, the better we are going to be at tackling the spread of COVID.” So weddings, reunions and other family gatherings are still off the table for now.

As for travel, not much has

changed there either.

California’s health order says residents should not travel significant distances and should stay close to home. Additionally, “nonessential travel for vacations or pleasure should be avoided.”

The state’s ongoing restrictions on travel, gatherings and more continue as cases of COVID-19 have yet to plateau in some areas of California.

“Even though we only see a trickle of cases here locally right now,” Vaughn said, cases are increasing at a higher rate elsewhere, particularly in Southern California.

“To me that’s a reminder that socially distancing works, face coverings work and we shouldn’t be lax on that as we open up additional services and activities going forward.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davis enterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

Enterprise staff writers Lauren Keene and Caleb Hampton contributed to this report.

County COVID-19 testing site moves to West Sacramento

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer A community COVID-19 testing site that has been operating at the county fairgrounds in Woodland for the last four weeks is now moving to West Sacramento.

Beginning Tuesday and continuing until June 20, appointments will be available for anyone seeking to be tested for the novel coronavirus.

The West Sacramento site will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from

7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and testing is available by appointment only.

Call 888-634-1123 or complete an online application at https://lhi.care/ covidtesting.

The address of the testing site will be provided upon completion of the application.

Testing is open to anyone in the community, including farmworkers, the homeless and the undocumented, however, children under age 12 will not be tested.

For those who do not have health insurance, the cost of the test will be covered by the state. Otherwise insurers will be billed with no out-of-pocket cost to those being tested.

Residents must wear face coverings to their appointments and practice social distancing and, because the location in West Sacramento does not provide drive-thru testing, residents will need to park their cars and walk a short distance to the building.

The site will be able to

test up to 135 people a day with test results available within 48 to 72 hours.

Hundreds of Yolo County residents took advantage of the service at the Woodland location, which significantly increased the county’s total testing in the last month, something Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland noted is critical going forward.

“Expanded testing coupled with contact tracing is pivotal to a safe and healthy reopening for our

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community,” said Sandy, who chairs the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.

Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento added that as the county moves further into reopening, “it is important to continue to make strides in testing as many residents as possible.

“Proceeding with the plan to move the state testing site to West Sacramento allows the county to partner with the city of West Sacramento as they host these next three weeks of

continued voluntary testing and I encourage our community to take advantage of this opportunity.”

Yolo County is one of 80 community testing sites across the state focused on underserved communities.

The testing is being provided by the State of California Testing Task Force in conjunction with OptumServe.

—Reach Anne TernusBellamy ataternus@ davisenterprise.net.Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Special to The Enterprise The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office looks forward to an exciting and groundbreaking summer with the addition of five legal interns and a new volunteer attorney.

Due to COVID-19, many DA’s offices across the state and country have delayed, discontinued or scaled back their summer intern programs. Fortunately, due to Yolo DA’s progressive technology, it will be able to continue hosting summer interns.

“We are thrilled to welcome the addition of five legal interns from UC Davis King Hall and McGeorge School of Law,” said chief deputy Jonathan Raven, who oversees the program.

“It will be an exciting challenge to conduct all business remotely. These new members of our DA team bring a tremendous amount of talent and a diverse array of life experiences to the table.”

Legal interns will conduct all of their work remotely including conducting research, writing motions and “appearing” in court via Zoom. The DA’s Office just started its twoweek intern training program using Zoom, including a virtual brown bag lunch with Judge David Rosenberg.

On Monday, May 18, interns came to the office to sign paperwork. The office set them up in desks, all 6 feet or more apart, and they wore facial coverings.

Raven swore them in being mindful of social distancing, and each intern was assigned a mentor.

Gustavo Figueroa is a returning intern who is entering his third year at McGeorge. He was born and raised in Yuba City as the son of a Mexican immigrant father and a Mexican-American mother.

He attended UC Santa Barbara and graduated with a degree in psychology in 2018.

While at UCSB, Figueroa

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Summer interns for the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office take their oath in a socially distanced fashion on May 18. was involved with the community service organization Hermanos Unidos and worked in the Recreational Center as a fitness assistant.

His hobbies include watching or playing sports (mainly football, soccer and basketball), working out, catching up on “Game of Thrones” or making and selling R&B instrumentals.

Matthew Lanthier is entering his second year at King Hall. He grew up in San Mateo with his parents, two younger brothers and rescue pup, Bailey. He attended UC Santa Barbara immediately after high school, graduating with a history degree in 2018.

After commissioning through the ROTC program at UCSB, Lanthier spent five (very cold) months in Missouri finishing his training as an MP in the California Army National Guard.

In the months immediately preceding law school, he worked in the ranger unit of a Bay Area open space agency. He boasts that he’s easily distracted by dogs and episodes of Cheers on Netflix.

Rose Reinacher is entering her second year at King Hall. She grew up in a small town in New Hampshire, where her mother still teaches at a local school and her family lives within walking and biking distance of several farms.

As an undergrad, she

attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and majored in German and government.

During college, Reinacher worked with several organizations through Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice, including as a manager for an Englishlanguage access and tutoring program. She also studied abroad in Berlin, Germany, and wrote her honors thesis in German.

She enjoys practicing yoga, writing and watching reality TV. Stephanie Allen is entering her second year at McGeorge. Born and raised here in Northern California, she lived in El Dorado Hills until she graduated high school.

After high school, she moved to New Hampshire to live with her dad. She returned to Sacramento in 2008 and soon began working full-time in lowincome housing property management and compliance.

She met her husband and had her son before deciding to go back to school in 2014. In 2018, Allen graduated from Arizona State University with bachelor’s degrees in political science and religious studies. When she is not studying, Allen is usually busy teaching her 6-yearold son how to read and playing games with him.

In a rare moment of downtime, she enjoys

binge-watching home renovation TV shows and cooking shows with her husband, who pretends to enjoy them, too.

Yuliy Tsymbal is entering his third year at McGeorge.

He was born in Ukraine and moved with his family to Sacramento when he was 5 years old.

He still visits Ukraine every summer to run summer English camps in the village of Temnohaytsi. He went to UC Davis for his undergraduate degree in managerial economics.

He brags that he drinks a lot of tea (it’s a Slavic thing) and a decent amount of coffee. He loves exploring new Thai food places and finding the best ratio of cheap prices to best-quality food.

The DA’s Office also welcomes back Negar Tager as a volunteer attorney. She recently was admitted to the California Bar after working as a legal intern in Yolo for the past year.

She is a Turkish-IranianAustralian American.

She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture, as well as master’s degrees in international relations and project management.

She speaks Turkish, Farsi (Persian), English and some French. She is a tea drinker, an e-reader addict and she says she’s unable to catch a ball but is an expert in catching sarcasm.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: PT20-621 1. Catherine Ressa Scheuring filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Catherine Ressa Scheuring to Catherine Ressa Scheuring West 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

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PROTESTERS: Davis demonstrations remain peaceful From Page A1 accepting less. There is no conversation too difficult to have.”

The city leaders also said the “hurt, anguish and outrage we are seeing across the country these last few days is justified.”

“George Floyd should not have died at the hands of officers. We cannot silence those who are angry and must speak out. Speaking out is something that must be done. It creates productive ways to express empathy, sadness, anger and effect change.”

However, they said, “what we must not do is resort to violence and judgment. Attacking and demeaning each other and destroying property detracts from our strength, which is most needed at this time.

“In the spirit of community and friendship, we urge everyone in the city of Davis to stand together against violence, racism and hate.”

The statement was signed by Mayor Brett Lee, Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida, and Councilmen Will Arnold, Dan Carson and Lucas Frerichs, as well as Pytel and Webb.

More than 100 protesters peacefully marched through the streets of Davis on Sunday afternoon to voice their opposition to Floyd’s killing. At one point, the group, chanting “No justice, no peace,” headed toward the I-80 interchange at Richards

Boulevard but met a barricade of law-enforcement vehicles and officers from the Davis Police Department, Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office and California Highway Patrol, some equipped with helmets, shields and batons. The protesters remained in the area for about an hour before turning around and continuing their march down E Street.

Another group approaching the I-80 overpass from Cowell Boulevard were also stopped by law enforcement but were allowed to cross over the freeway on the sidewalk after speaking with Pytel, who was at the scene.

“We are very pleased they were able to have a safe event and send a sincere and compelling message to the Davis Police Department and our community,” Pytel said that evening. “They were heard loud and clear.” A large protest also surfaced Sunday in Woodland at Freeman Park, across the street from the Yolo County Courthouse in Woodland.

Meanwhile, several Davis businesses, including the Safeway on West Covell Boulevard and Target on Second Street, shut their doors on Sunday, presumably in response to incidents of vandalism and looting occurring amid other protests in the region. The CVS on East Covell Boulevard remained open but boarded up its windows.

Target asked customers to check out and leave the store

before 2 p.m. and began turning away those arriving at the store as well.

A sign on the Safeway store said it closed “due to the advice from Davis PD,” but Pytel told The Davis Enterprise that’s not the case.

“There have been rumors that we have been shutting them down. Not so,” Pytel said of the businesses that opted to close.

“Some places are doing it because of the widespread unrest and social media reports that places will be looted. But we have not asked anyone to shut down.”

On Monday evening, roughly 100 community members gathered in Central Park to honor the life of Floyd and other black men killed by police. Several community members gave testimony about the harmful effects of racism in their lives.

Sule Anibaba, a student-athlete adviser at UC Davis, spoke about the trauma of seeing a new video of a black person dying at the hands of police go viral every few weeks or months.

“Seeing another black man treated like an animal, it does something to your mind,” he said.

“It leaves a scar — many scars.”

Anibaba also spoke about the exhaustion that many black people feel, which has culminated in a week of massive protests. “We tried other things. We tried kneeling down. People weren’t getting it,” he said. “If I’m angry, why is

Impromptu decorations highlighted Monday’s gathering in Central Park to honor the life of George Floyd and other black men killed by police.

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that so shocking?”

Anibaba, who has two young children, said he was heartened to see community members come to the park and stand in solidarity.

“What I’m getting from seeing you all out here is that I don’t have to keep feeling hopelessness,” he said.

Dillan Horton, chair of the Davis Police Accountability Commission, encouraged community members to look inward and recognize that Davis is not above or apart from the problems being

called out by protesters across the country. Horton spoke about “the tendency we have in Davis to distance ourselves when we see events like this happening across the country.”

“You’ve heard today how much pain and trauma is being carried by people in our community here in Davis,” Horton said. “We’ve exhausted people in our own community for so many years by failing to listen to them and by ignoring the deep need for change right here.”

CHIEF: Pytel details Davis PD’s procedures, rules on the use of force From Page A1 Pytel also emphasized that his department’s full use-of-force policy — including the use of restraints — and training manual are posted on the Police Department’s website, and local protocol “doesn’t allow for what occurred” in Minneapolis.

“When you’re dealing with somebody who’s placed on their stomach for a prolonged period of time, that does create breathing problems, especially if there’s other medical issues that are going on with a person,” Pytel said. “We do have a policy that says that we can’t lay or sit on top of people, and you don’t grab him by the neck when they are restrained. That’s inappropriate to do for the exact reasons that we witnessed on video. ... It’s not an approved technique.”

Asked about neckrestraint practices used by law enforcement, Pytel said there are two types: a bar arm chokehold, which is banned by most departments in the U.S. because it cuts off a person’s oxygen supply and presents a harder recovery than the second type, a carotid

control hold, which renders a person unconscious by blocking the neck arteries leading to the brain.

While recovery from the latter is swifter, many departments have retreated from that practice as well, Pyel added.

“Most places, even if they prohibit them, still allow them to be used in a case where deadly force is authorized” as an alternative to using a firearm, he said. The use of deadly force, he added, requires an imminent threat of great bodily injury or death to the officer or to another person.

“There are times when officers have to engage a person in physical combat, and they’re unable to get to other tools or equipment they have, such as a Taser or a baton. Sometimes fights can be very violent, can happen very quickly and in very close quarters, and there’s just no opportunity to get to those things,” Pytel said. “In those cases where deadly force would be authorized, then the carotid control hold or a bar arm may be an appropriate technique to use in order to save a life. ... Under our policy, those techniques are reserved for a time

when deadly force can be used.”

The chief later said he can’t recall the last time a Davis officer used such techniques, which are reportable uses of force. It was a more common practice when he joined the department in the late 1980s, he added, before the emergence of tools such as Tasers and pepper spray.

Still, that didn’t sit well with some members of the public and several commissioners on the accountability panel.

“I think it is important for this commission to consider recommending either a further restriction or a general ban of these types of techniques,” Chair Dillan Horton said. “I feel like if there’s a situation where you could get right to the edge of a George Floyd situation, we should bring that line back a little bit.”

Mike Gennaco, the city’s independent police auditor, noted that Davis PD’s restraint policy specifically prohibits the use of a knee to the neck. A carotid hold, when used appropriately, involves using an arm applying pressure to both sides of the neck, he said.

“We’re comparing apples

and oranges. I don’t see any comparison at all between what we saw in Minneapolis and a carotid restraint hold,” Gennaco said.

‘Riot gear’ Monday’s meeting also included a discussion of local police officers’ use of “riot gear” — helmets, shields, batons and other armor — during a peaceful protest march Sunday through the streets of Davis.

Earlier, Pytel released a statement defending the gear’s use, which some criticized as unnecessary for the nonviolent gathering and inconsistent with comments made Sunday by city leaders — including Pytel — denouncing Floyd’s treatment and expressing a commitment to community, friendship and building “lasting trust.”

“Dressing for combat like that creates antagonism,” Davis resident Rik Keller

said during the PAC’s public comment period. “And it really is the wrong impression. It’s the wrong approach. It’s not community policing.”

In his written statement, Pytel said a number of factors played into the decision to equip officers with protective gear, starting Saturday evening when Davis officers provided assistance during protest activity in West Sacramento and Sacramento after escorting a peaceful Black Lives Matter march through downtown Davis.

“By this time, some of the protests were splintering in Sacramento. Some were peaceful and some weren’t,” Pytel said, noting that Davis officers were assigned to an area experiencing violence and looting.

“Because frozen water bottles and other objects such as hard glass and Molotov cocktails were being thrown at law enforcement in Sacramento, we did have

officers in protective gear and staged for our march on Saturday should they be needed. Fortunately, the march never went towards the freeway on Saturday and the staged officers were not needed.”

Saturday night and early Sunday, Davis police received information about a planned Sunday march that included a flier implying the local Target store and pharmacies were potential marks for looting, as was occurring in other cities in the region, Pytel said. Davis officers also remained on standby for the Sacramento Police Department and CHP. Meanwhile, a participant in Saturday’s march reported being threatened for working with the police.

Officers escorted Sunday’s protest but enforced its longtime policy of not allowing marchers to enter the freeway “because of the extreme danger when that happens,” Pytel said.

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Get ready to SHOWCASE YOUR ART AND POSSIBLY WIN SOME PRIZES! We are calling for artists of all levels and ages to participate in our community-wide project focused on how we all have been coping with shelter-in-place and social distancing.

We are gathering artwork from every corner of Davis and displaying it all together as a testimony to our community’s resilience in a grand reveal on our Facebook page on Monday, June 15th. The whole community will be able to view your artwork, as well as comment, like and share. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 6/12/20 Artwork with the most likes in each category will receive prizes including gift cards to

downtown Davis businesses! 13 WINNERS TOTAL! But that’s not all! Some artists will have their art published as postcards and stickers to be sold at many downtown Davis businesses.

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For a full list of categories as well as project details, and to submit your work, visit us online at www.davisdowntown.com/CAP SPREAD THE WORD by letting your family and friends know that you’re participating in the Communal Art Project. As soon as the gallery goes live on June 15, send them to the Davis Downtown Communal Art Project Facebook Page.

In the meantime follow us on Facebook @DavisDowntown. Be sure to watch our “Call to Artists” video for creative inspiration.

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n 1967, I was 3 years old when Davis installed the first on-street bike lanes in the United States.

The city staff was not sure the best way to lay out the new lanes.

So they experimented.

The first, on West Eighth, abutted the travel lane on each side of the street. The bike lane allowed cars to park next to the gutters and cyclists to ride between parked cars and moving vehicles.

The second, on Sycamore, was different. It was a six-foot wide “protected” lane adjacent to the gutter and sidewalk.

On the left edge of the Sycamore bike lane — north of Russell Boulevard — were raised concrete barriers. Car-parking was allowed between the barriers and the travel lane.

What cyclists, drivers and city staff discovered was that protected lanes didn’t work. They caused crashes.

Riders hit the concrete bumps and fell hard on the pavement.

Cars ran into them. Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers were confused at what others were doing entering and exiting and on turns at intersections. So we scrapped protected lanes.

For 50 years, planners all over the United States copied the successful model of the West Eight Street bike lane.

Then a new generation of

enthusiasts, borrowing (in part) what the Dutch and the Danes were doing in Europe, pushed for the reintroduction of protected bike lanes in the United States.

That is how we got the mess on Mace Boulevard.

According to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety — with contributions from scientists at George Washington University, Oregon Health and Science University and New York University — street-level protected bike lanes, adjacent to two-way automotive traffic are more dangerous than the conventional painted-stripe model developed in Davis over 50 years ago.

“Protected bike lanes … with lighter separation (e.g., parked cars, posts, low curb) had similar risk to major roads when one way and higher risk when they were two way,” according to the study.

“A cyclist on a protected lane at street level is likely to encounter

vehicles at intersections, driveways and alleys more often than on a protected lane enclosed within a bridge or greenway,” says Jessica Cicchino, IIHS vice president for research and the lead author of the new paper.

“Pedestrians also sometimes enter street-level bike lanes, which can cause cyclists to swerve and fall.”

The IIHS study does not say that all protected lanes are more dangerous. They can be safe on one-way streets, especially if the lane is elevated and there are few or no intersections. here protected lanes are most dangerous is in stretches like Mace from Cowell Boulevard to Redbud Place. It sounds eerily similar to a protected bike lane in Washington, D.C. studied by the IIHS. “The section, which is about two-thirds of a mile, had the highest injury risk of any protected bike lane in the study. The lane runs next to two-way vehicle traffic and is separated from the road by posts and parked cars and is crossed five times by other streets and four times by alleys or driveways,” according to a press release.

“The combination of busy intersections and junctions and a two-way bike lane likely contributed to the high risk at this location. Intersections and

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COVID-19 crisis could save climate

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n May 27, 2020, the UC Davis Graduate Student Association took a strong statement of support by unanimously passing a resolution, 69-0-0, to endorse the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus.

DISC, recently rebranded from Aggie Research Campus, would provide 187 acres of space for critical community needs, including sites for startups, research and technology companies, and housing for young professionals.Members of GSA specifically noted the lack of housing and startup space in Davis as critical reasons for their support.

“The graduate student community is excited to see more prospects for locations to spin off our research into new companies and expand our professional opportunities at private companies,” said Jonathan Minnick, GSA President. “The addition of housing on the DISC site would help our members live and work in Davis, putting a dent in the local and statewide housing shortage.”

DISC has committed to build 850 new units of housing and to be the single largest addition to Affordable housing in this history of Davis. The project proposal would be a mixed-use development where housing, commercial, R&D space, and manufacturing are all within walking distance.

“Graduate students are keenly aware that Davis needs high tech jobs and private research space,” stated Gwen Chodur, GSA External Vice President.

“Graduate students, post-docs, and faculty come to Davis from all over the world, bringing their families and expertise to our community. Yet I know many partners of researchers affiliated with UC Davis who are forced to commute long distances outside of Davis since there are so few jobs in the area outside the campus.”

The DISC will be next heard at the Davis Planning Commission on June 10 and likely proceeding to a city council vote in early July.

— The UC Davis Graduate Student Association is the official student body that represents approximately 5,000 UC Davis graduate students. The GSA is committed to advocating to improve the living and working conditions of graduates students on and off-campus.

The World’s nations are designing and funding massive stimulus packages to counter the recession brought on by the COVID-19 virus. The combined projected numbers are in the 11-15 trilliondollar range. Those funds have been focused on subsidizing and bringing back the old economy. The goal of that effort is to sustain and continue growth along our previous path and bring back continued expanding growth.

The same funds, or even a portion of that investment, could be used to transform the world’s economy and to build a future with renewable energy, sustainable growth and the massive effort it will take to direct the planet away from the Climate Crises. Such a shift in effort can create more jobs and an optimistic future that will not be achieved if we simply try to rebuild our past. We need a vision of a planet safe future and a leadership that can articulate it. We should not miss this opportunity.

Michael Russell Davis

Toxic ideology Horst Weinberg’s May 22 letter shows how a toxic ideology like libertarianism blinds an otherwise intelligent person to reality. Some might call it conservatism but there’s nothing conservative about using up the Earth as fast as possible.

First, Horst worries about the power of the poor at a time when the rich control more wealth and power than they’ve had in a hundred years. Next he claims money helping folks survive the crisis is worthless paper. That would only be true if more than was needed caused inflation, which definitely hasn’t happened.

Then he claims calls by leaders to social distance were overreach that stoked irrational fear worse than a virus that’s killed more Americans in three months than the Vietnam War in seven years. Is there even space in Washington, D.C., for a new wall with the names of its victims?

Finally, he falsely claims the only value of social distancing is flattening the curve so hospitals won’t be overrun. Otherwise it’s bad for business.

Actually, its real value is denying the virus the new bodies it needs to infect in order to survive. Without those or its Asian endemic natural host, the intermediate horseshoe bat, it dies out. For reasons like Horst’s Sweden was the only European country that didn’t social distance. It ended up with a COVID-19 death rate among

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junctions at a two-way bike lane can be particularly challenging for turning drivers. They need to look for oncoming traffic as they turn and must look in both directions for bicyclists.”

One advantage of a striped bike lane is it doubles as a safe right turn lane. Cars should never make a right from the travel lane through the bike lane.

That illegal maneuver is known as a “hook turn.” It’s a common cause of crashes and cyclists’ deaths.

However, when the bike lane is protected by a concrete barrier, drivers turning right have no choice but to make a hook turn. Often drivers end up damaging their cars and the concrete by driving over the barriers.

This was such a big problem in Davis that the city had to put up large ugly orange blocks so drivers would know how far the islands jutted out.

The issue that the IIHS described as the most dangerous, where a car turning right must pass through a two-way protected bike lane is exactly what our city engineers devised at the intersection of southbound Mace and Redbud Lane.

This past Sunday, I saw a near miss at that junction. A driver turning west onto Redbud apparently saw a family of three riding northbound, the “wrong” way. The driver sped up to get

the highest in the world and far higher than that of the U.S. or any of its neighbors. Now that’s really bad for business!

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BrightNight will not deliver community solar Gerry Braun, a member of the Valley Clean Energy Alliance citizens’ advisory committee, wrote an opinion article May 28 asserting that the BrightNight solar project, if it wins in VCE’s request for offers (RFO), will deliver the benefits of community solar. Unfortunately, this article makes at least one key mistake.

I testified at the CPUC on behalf of the City and PVUSA on implementing SB43 authored by Senator Lois Wolk to facilitate expansion of small scale solar around the state. The RFO that VCEA issued did not conform with the Community Solar requirements under SB 43 — it’s just for general wholesale bulk power. So it won’t deliver the benefits that are identified in the article. VCE should have developed before issuing the RFO a contractual template that allowed for direct delivery of power from such a project to VCE customers (even specifically in Davis) at a preset price to meet the requirements under SB 43. Further, the project is 5 megawatts larger than the 20 megawatts specifically carved out for Davis in SB 43, so it’s not clear how BrightNight would meet the requirements in the law.

Another key issue is that research into the city’s handling of the BrightNight lease option has not uncovered any evidence of cooperation between the City and VCE to create a project that met the SB 43 requirements. So none of this “unprecedented collaboration” actually happened.

The heart of this dispute is failure by the City to use a transparent, open

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through his turn before they arrived.

What he did not seem to see was an older man riding southbound on Mace who had stopped and was just entering the intersection. The older cyclist had to slam his brakes to avoid being hit.

In an email, a member of the Davis Bike Club described an incident he witnessed on Mace.

“We … had one rather serious mishap caused by this with a woman who crashed turning right onto San Marino,” D.J. wrote. “The islands — every one of them completely unnecessary — on a couple of corners give the impression that what is actually a water drainage gap is the a right turn lane for bikes, but it is much too narrow. The woman … ended up in the hospital, then off of work for an extended period due to the injuries she sustained.”

Despite public outcry and ongoing danger, the city of Davis has not fixed the problems the protected lanes on Mace have caused. The solution is not that hard. Remove the concrete barriers and re-stripe the wide onstreet bike lanes the way they were for 50 years. That works.

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

process that would have avoided these and other problems that forsake most of the available benefits to City residents from this type of project. Why build new solar if all it’s going to do is deliver us the same results that we have now?

Richard McCann Davis

Waiting it out In my 94 years, I’ve had my share of challenges along the way (with plenty of luck to assist me). Now ensconced in a senior facility, this new virus enters my life.

To remain in my facility, I am confined to my apartment. If I wish to go to market, a hardware store, a nursery, or visit family or friends, I’ll be quarantined for two weeks upon returning.

Life now is different, and I’m feeling sorry for myself. But, whoa! Those who have lost their jobs and whose assets are being wiped out have it much worse than I. Looking ahead ... speculation. The Trump team is telling us to relax and open up society (and deaths continue).

Our health experts are saying we’re not ready yet.

Because there are different levels of conformity, in self-preservation, whose advice do you take, Trump’s or the health experts? Whether I am someday released from confinement depends on you.

By the good common sense of its residents practicing Gov. Newsom’s health guidelines, Davis has been spared the worst ravages of COVID-19. On “The News Hour,” Judy Woodward commented, “By staying home, you are saving lives.”

Many of you performing “essential services” are out in the world on my behalf. Time to give credit and thanks to our smart and loyal Davis residents.

Marv Tripp Davis

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sports dreamin’ A tongue-in-cheek look at local sports that might have been ...

Rumor put to rest as locals soar S

omewhere, somehow, back in March a rumor emerged that all sports for the last three months — from Little League to UC Davis to the NBA — had been canceled.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

As a card-carrying sportswriter entering my sixth decade covering the games people play, my spring has been filled to overflowing with sporting events.

Trust me on this.

There was a report floating around, perhaps in this very newspaper, that the Big West men’s basketball tournament was scrubbed even after all eight participating teams had checked into their Anaheim hotels and had done several shoot-arounds in the Honda Center.

Such nonsense. Why would the league pay food-and-lodging and travel costs for eight teams and then cancel the whole thing?

In truth, the entire tournament was delayed for 24 hours after UC Davis filed an emergency petition to grant a return to eligibility for point guard T.J. Shorts. Shorts had been playing professional basketball in the highly regarded TBA (Tibetan Basketball Association) when the NCAA discovered that, due

to a clerical error, Shorts actually had one more year of collegiate eligibility.

Interestingly, Shorts was no longer short, having grown 14 full inches (to an even 7-feet) while playing in Tibet, citing a diet rich in yak milkshakes for his sudden growth spurt.

At the start of the tournament, Aggie head coach Jim Les announced he was changing his last name to Moore, since he considered “Les” to be less conducive to his team’s confidence level than “Moore.”

“At least that was my thinking, more or less,” said Moore.

UC Davis opened the Big West tournament by thrashing perennial nemesis, Cal State Fullerton, 111-44, with Shorts scoring 35 points, mostly on short jumpers, while scraping a whopping 22 rebounds off the boards.

UCD blasted UC Riverside, 156-74, in the semifinal round as Moore emptied his bench early.

“We dominated from the getgo, more than I anticipated,” said Moore, the former Les. The championship game was strictly no contest as the Aggies raced to a 50-0 first-half lead over regular-season champion UC Irvine, which refused to return to the court for the

second half.

As Moore hoisted the championship trophy at center court and Shorts stood on his tippytoes to cut down the nets, the NCAA announced that every other Division I league had canceled its tournament, meaning UC Davis was the last team standing.

The national championship was the first for the Aggies since their dramatic march to the Division II title in 1998.

“I guess we’ll now have to pay Moore more, not less,” said UC Davis Athletic Director Kevin Blue.

The Aggie women, meanwhile, were so dominant in conference play that they were required to play an all-star team from the other eight Big West schools before advancing on to the NCAA tournament.

The Aggies won that game,

100-99, and like the men, were the last team standing and claimed the national championship for the first time in school history.

The two national championships in the same sport were the first in the NCAA since Connecticut pulled the trick in 2014.

The Oakland Raiders, frustrated with construction delays on their new $1.84 billion “stadium of the future” in Las Vegas, announced they were moving the entire franchise to Calgary and combining it with the roster of the Stampeders of the Canadian Football League.

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his unexpected move united former Aggie passing duo Jake Maier and Keelan Doss, who combined for 424 yards and six touchdowns in a season opening win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Elsewhere in sports news not reported by the mainstream media, former Davis High superstar golfer Nick Watney shot 72 consecutive holes-in-one for a lopsided victory in the Masters, which was moved to Wildhorse due to a 100-year flood in Augusta, Ga. Jonah Henrickson had five solo home runs to power UC

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UCD alums pace Kings

Record 31 qualify for State meet

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise staff writer SACRAMENTO — Just one more win and the Sacramento Kings are NBA royalty again.

After Tuesday’s 116-114 overtime victory versus Dallas at the Golden 1 Center, the Kings need a win Thursday over the Mavericks to capture the franchise’s first title since they were the Rochester Royals in 1951.

The Kings stood at 28-36 on March 13 before signing former UC Davis players J.T. Adenrele and Chima Moneke. Since then, Sacramento finished the regular season 16-2 before winning 14 consecutive playoff games.

In the remarkable streak, Moneke averaged 31 ppg while grabbing 10 rebounds a night. Adenrele, a graduate of nearby Oakmont High, has recorded an average of eight blocks per game, while adding a 20-point average to the mix.

“We discovered these guys when UCD coach Jim Moore (see Dunning’s column) suggested we provide them with a tryout,” Kings coach Luke Walton told The Enterprise.

Moore, who once played for the Kings under the name Jim Les, had taken an alumni team over the Causeway to scrimmage Sacramento on March 14. From the workout, the Kings signed six former Aggies, including now-starters Adenrele and Moneke.

“It’s great to be reunited with J.T.,” Moneke said. The 6-7 forward had been playing basketball in France, where he contended for his league’s MVP title before the COVID-19 scare shut down athletics around the globe for three days.

As local fans remember, it was research at UC Davis that discovered a vaccine for the oncedreaded virus by combining cow dung with Gunrock fur and water from Putah Creek, Dr. Pepper and a Redrum ostrich burger.

Kings GM Vlade Divac chimed in about the importance of signing Adenrele and Moneke: “As fine a pair of young men as this franchise has ever had. We expect big things from the duo for years to come. We just don’t let Moneke order room service.”

Davis to a 15-6 win over Arkansas in the College World Series championship game in Omaha, Neb. Fiona O’Keeffe set a world record for men and women in the mile run in Helsinki with a time of 3:30.42, Luca Orlando smashed the men’s 200 fly world record in Oslo with a sizzling 1:44.49, and Dave Scott came out of retirement at age 66 to claim his seventh Hawaii Ironman title.

And finally — after Joe Biden slipped on a banana peel and broke his hip while quarantining in the basement of his home in Delaware — Dan Hawkins was named as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

“The FCS national championship game is scheduled for Jan. 9 in Frisco, Texas, which is 11 days before the inauguration,” Hawkins explained.

“That should allow me to comfortably coach the entire season and still have ample time to pick my cabinet.”

And that’s the way it was in the world of sports in a most unusual and incredibly interesting spring of the Year 2020.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Blue Devil switch-thrower Luke Carrell had a dream season on the mound.

DHS baseball wins 4th section crown Enterprise staff STOCKTON — Luke Carrell fired a two-hit shutout and was supported with home runs by Josh Catacutan and Mark Scheiber as Davis High beat St. Mary’s, 5-0, to claim its fourth SacJoaquin Section title on Tuesday.

Carrell ran his record to 9-0 while reducing his earned run average to 0.22. He fanned 11 and walked one before 4,400 fans at Banner Island Ballpark.

Meanwhile, Cacatuan smacked his 10th dinger of 2020 — a three-run shot scoring Scheiber and Nate Thompson in the first inning.

“I was lucky to see the ball,” the Nevada-bound slugger told The Enterprise. “As I cocked to swing, my COVID-19 face mask slipped up over my eyes. I was swinging blind.”

It didn’t matter as the metaphysical teachings of new Blue Devil baseball coach Ethan Guevin came into to play.

Guevin, a standout at DHS who graduated in 2004, calls on his players to

reflect, be in a calm place: “Be the ball, feel the ball.”

Usually a lefty, Carrell, who discovered in an April game that he could throw with both arms, pitched the first five innings right-handed.

“It all comes from Guevin’s positive approach,” Carrell explained, noting the coach tells his team “to not be afraid to try new things.”

Carrell will join his brother Zach at UC Davis next year. Aggie coach Matt Vaughn was excited to have the Carrells together.

“I’ll be talking to Guevin about teaching all our guys to switch hit and throw with both hands,” said the veteran UCD skipper.

In addition to Catacutan’s shot, Scheiber’s solo homer came in the fourth inning. Thompson later drove in pinch-runner Dylan Schulman with a seventh-inning double.

Davis finished the season 30-2 after starting 0-2. Along the way, Scheiber hit .465, Catacutan .406, Jordan Painter .405 and Mike Finerty .401.

With pole vaulter Elena Siemens setting a school-record for girls pole vault and the boys 4-by-4 relay team equalling a state mark, Davis High exited last weekend’s Sac-Joaquin Section Masters meet with 31 athletes headed to Fresno for the State finals.

“We couldn’t have been happier,” said DHS head coach Spencer Elliott, who will be leaving the school next month to help the city of Davis with its bid for the 2032 Olympics. “There were some not-so-surprising efforts ... and some real shockers.”

The Devils, who won both the girls and boys section crowns last month, started the competition with Siemens clearing 14-6 on her first jump — a SJS record that obliterated former Ponderosa star Kylee Trageser’s 12-8, set in 2013.

The two-day competition, held again at Ron & Mary Brown Stadium, ended when the DHS boys 4-by-400-meter crew went 3:07.39, setting a new state record while beating the previous best by .01 (set by Hawthorne in 1985).

Featuring participants Nick Seyk, Paine Barksdale, Nathan Jewell and Xavier Chambers, the time also erased school and section marks.

Senior Abby Lo tripled, winning the long and triple jumps and the 400 meters.

Elliott says Lo also will be entered in six other events at the State meet.

“It’s been a great season,” the coach concluded. “I’m especially proud of these athletes. It’s really difficult to run and jump with masks on ... and it’s hard to hold the poles or shot puts after using all that hand sanitizer.”

Davis makes short list to host 2032 Olympics

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor “It’s a watershed day in the history of our city,” announced Mayor Brett Lee when informed that Davis joined Helsinki, Finland; Lima, Peru; and Jackson, Miss.; as finalists to host the 2032 Olympic Games.

“We believe the fine people of Davis have shown exceptional creativity in presenting a game plan to produce one of the finest Olympiads in history,” said International Olympic Committee chairman Thomas Bach.

Lee said the cost of executing the 21-day event will “come in at

less than $300 billion. But we’re confident Davis voters will understand the benefits of hosting an Olympic Games and be quick to approve Measure O, scheduled for the June 2021 ballot.”

The Davis plan — which includes an Olympic Village on the Nishi property northwest of the Richards Boulevard interchange, a swimming competition at Davis High and a new $140 million Toomey Field rehabilitation for track and field events — includes a pledge of more than $1,200 in state funding and another $1,200 from federal coffers.

“If I’m still in office in 2032,

which I think I will be, we can increase the contributions to Davis to whatever I want, as long as it’s called the Trump XXXV Olympiad,” President Trump said Tuesday.

“Knowing quidditch and ultimate Frisbee will be Olympic sports by then, tomorrow I will introduce a referendum asking students to increase fees by $3,000 a quarter, effective this fall,” UC Davis ASUCD President Kyle Krueger told The Enterprise.

In the Davis proposal, baseball’s Dobbins Field at UCD will get lights, an additional 32,000 seats and a rectractable dome.

“We should be able to finance at least part of the improvements by increasing the cost of the hot dogs to $12 ... up $1 from their current price,” explained Athletics Director Kevin Blue.

In West Davis, on campus property, a $4 billion archery range will be built, prompting local sports fanatic Randy Alston to quip, “We’re all a-quiver.”

To accommodate the anticipated throngs, a new 24-space underground parking lot will be built at Toomey Field.

The Davis proposal also includes provisions for 4 million face masks “just in case this coronavirus thing

is still going,” Lee said.

“Of course, if it is, it could potentially affect attendance.”

Nonetheless, Davis has decided to forge ahead.

Once considered a long shot to host the Olympics, Davis became a frontrunner when the River City Rowing Club at Lake Washington and the Davis High Madrigals pledged a joint fundraising carwash at the Davis schools parking lot on July 6, 2027.

“We just don’t have anything that can compete with that,” said the Finnish IOC representative Malte Riitta Stoggenstaander.

“We wish Davis good luck.”

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community.”

As Davis shops and restaurants slowly gear up the process of reopening, many are mulling how best to encourage the locale to bring their business back to the city’s nerve center following a couple of months of neardormancy.

Thanks to the aid of the Davis Downtown Business Association’s recent stimulus program, many shops are champing at the bit to get back in the saddle.

More than $200,000 has been injected into the local economy since the DDBA launched its effort in late April.

The combined generosity of the city, Greiner Heating Air & Solar, Tandem Properties, Bill & Nancy Roe, the Chen Building and many others have supplied matching funds to gift card purchases that have benefited 125 local establishments.

The Wardrobe represents one of the 73 businesses that hit the DDBA’s stimulus funding cap and was matched $1,000.

“Along with the small business loans, that’s been helping us keep hope,” adds Caswell, who’s remained committed to her four employees throughout the shutdown.

That gift card program was so popular, according to DDBA executive director Brett Maresca, that its funds were exhausted weeks quicker than initially anticipated. Within its first 50 hours, nearly $150,000 had been redirected to local businesses, encouraging a re-opening of the program a few weeks later.

“Then for the second round, it only took four hours,” Maresca says. “It was so fast that a lot of community members were left saying that they wanted to help and contribute, but the program was closed before they could even get on to do it.”

As a result, there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes downtown, even while storefronts have remained shuttered.

Maresca reports DDBA is actively working with the city on what they’ve dubbed the open-air revival initiative — with goals to make use of more public space to better allow businesses to operate and at the same time help members of the community feel comfortable returning downtown.

“This (situation) has opened peoples’ eyes to how fragile things are,” Maresca adds. “These are the livelihoods of so many

families in town and what makes our community thrive. And if we lose that, we’re going to lose a big part of our identity as a city.”

Hustling Further up D St. from The Wardrobe, The Mustard Seed restaurant (which this past week launched takeout service) and its surrounding businesses in the Park Place courtyard have seen some paint and landscaping touch-ups.

One of those tenants, Creme De La Creme owner Christie Zamora, says she’s been “hustling.”

“We’re all trying to keep things going,” adds Zamora, whose gift shop is nearing its 15th anniversary. “The hair salons are mailing out hair kits and I’ve been at my shop every day, shipping or making deliveries since things closed.”

Sunday afternoon, several downtown shop owners were out dolling up their windows and walls.

In the alleyway behind Peet’s Coffee, new concrete pavers were being placed around rosebushes.

“And I saw HoneyD Cafe on E Street just installed planter boxes out front,” Zamora added. “It’s

small stuff. But this is a small town and people notice these little things.

“They show we haven’t given up.”

Now there’s a bright blue boutique up the street — another not-sosmall beacon of hope and encouragement in downtown Davis during a time of so much uncertainty.

Notes: Enterprise Comings and Goings columnist Wendy Weitzel continues to update a running list online of local restaurants, retailers and businesses that have either reopened or are offering limited services and hours. That Google Sheets document is available at: tinyurl.com/ y7qnw6bn. ...

For more information on The Wardrobe, a Davis staple for the last 42 years, visit thewardrobe. com. Reach Zamora and Creme De La Creme at 530-758-0851 or visit cremedelacremedavis. com. For updates from the Davis Downtown Business Association, sign up for their emailing list at: davisdowntown.com/ subscribe/.

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenter prise.net

physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation,” the report stated. “Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”

Floyd’s legal team immediately criticized the report, questioning its intentions.

“We are tragically disappointed in the preliminary autopsy findings released today by the medical examiner,” said Benjamin Crump, one of the lawyers representing Floyd’s family.

“We hope that this does not reflect efforts to create a false narrative for the reason George Floyd died.”

Omalu, a medical examiner who has testified as an expert witness hundreds of times in state and federal courts, took the autopsy report to pieces in a post published Saturday on his personal blog. “A human being pressed his knee on the neck of another human being while he laid prone on an unyielding surface of the road for close to 10 minutes, during which that

OBITUARIES Jack Charles Hirsh Dec. 7, 2001 — April 15, 2020

On April 11, Jack Charles Hirsh passed away at the age of 18.

Born in Newport Beach on Dec. 7, 2001, Jack lived in San Clemente his entire life.

Jack was quiet, smart, funny, witty, kind, compassionate and generous. Fiercely loyal to family and friends, Jack made connections with many incredible people including his life-long best friend and brother William, and his best buddy and honorary brother Daniel Cangas. Jack was a friend to anyone who needed a friend and had a gift for bringing people together. His family will be forever grateful for the friendship and community support Jack enjoyed, particularly during the last few very difficult years.

Jack was a man of few words. When he spoke, it was with quick wit and typically funny. Hearing Jack speak was like finding gold. He spoke and acted with honesty and love.

Jack enjoyed many great adventures with his family: hiking Cinque Terra, fishing in Alaska, snorkeling in Kauai, visiting Harry Potter World, and staying with family in Davis and Oregon were among his favorites.

Jack loved being active and was his happiest when working with teammates

to break up a pass or defend a goal. Jack was a football and Chargers fanatic.

During his brutal 2 1/2 year fight against bone cancer, Jack was our hero. Despite everything, Jack remained courageous and continued to think of others, often expressing his appreciation and rarely complaining. Jack donated his Make-A-Wish to the CHLA Child Life program to help kids and families he thought had it tougher than he did.

Jack only lived a short time, but he has left an impression on the many he touched that will shape and influence the way we all live. We loved him immensely and will forever feel the pain of losing him too soon.

Jack is preceded in death by his grandmother Jean and great aunt Mary. Jack is survived by his parents Dwight and Valerie, brother William, grandparents Dwight, Lucy, and Al, uncles Greg and Tom, aunt Elizabeth, cousins Madeline and Andrew, many extended family members, and his loyal dogs Charger and Otis.

A Celebration of Life will follow.

The Jack Hirsh Endowed Fund for the Child Life Program has been established in his honor. To learn more or donate visit http:// connect.chla.org/goto/jackhirshendowment.

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human being complained that he could not breathe before he died,” Omalu said.

According to Omalu, three to five minutes of neck compression can be enough to asphyxiate the human brain and cause death.

“Even if that individual had coronary artery disease, the mechanism of death would still be a Type 2 Myocardial Infarction instigated by the asphyxial brain injury caused by the compression of the neck,” Omalu said.

While other health conditions might have been contributing factors, “the manner of death would be a homicide,” he said.

Omalu added that this type of death would not always manifest in a visible neck injury. “I do not understand the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s findings,” he said. “Human beings frequently die from asphyxial injury of the brain without any physical injury to the neck following compression of the neck.”

On Monday, doctors hired by Floyd’s legal team to conduct a private autopsy released their own findings, which closely aligned with Omalu’s analysis of the video.

“The cause of death in my opinion is asphyxia, due to compression to the neck — which can interfere with

oxygen going to the brain — and compression to the back, which interferes with breathing,” said Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner. “It’s a homicide.”

Omalu, who is best known for discovering the prevalence of a degenerative brain disease in former NFL players — he was portrayed by Will Smith in the 2015 film “Concussion” — has experience with similar high-profile cases. In 2018, Omalu was hired by the family of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old African American man fatally shot by police in Sacramento, to conduct a private autopsy.

Omalu’s findings indicated Clark was shot first in the back, and eight times in total, differing from the version of events the Sacramento County coroner released.

After a yearlong investigation, the Sacramento district attorney declined to press charges against the officers who shot and killed Clark, saying they were legally justified in their use of deadly force. The decision sparked massive protests. Omalu stood by his findings.

—Reach Caleb Hampton atchampton@davisenter prise.net.Follow him on Twitter at@calebmhamp ton.

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Cathy Joyce Sacks April 27, 1958 — May 18, 2020

Cathy always led with love. She was everyone’s best friend. When you were with Cathy it was like you were the only person in her world. She would wrap you in her love and give you the strength to face any challenge. Her mother Bettie said she was like that from the time she was a little girl.

Cathy Joyce Sacks was born on April 27, 1958, in Fresno, the beloved daughter that Bettie and Jack Sacks had always wanted.

Bettie said the happiest day of their lives was the day they became a forever family.

Cathy grew up in the Central Valley. Her family moved often, but by the time she reached high school, they settled in Maricopa. Cathy excelled in high school, lettering in tennis and serving as secretary for her junior and senior class, student council vice president and Homecoming Queen.

Cathy had a strong abiding faith that sustained her throughout her life. At Westmont College, a private Christian liberal arts school, Cathy found a community of lifelong friends committed to living their faith. Their shared beliefs became a guiding principle in Cathy’s life.

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in religious studies in 1981, Cathy immediately put her faith into action. Traveling to Australia, she joined a Christian mission serving homeless, disadvantaged inner-city children. This was the beginning of Cathy’s own personal ministry.

Returning to the United States in 1982, Cathy and her college friends founded the Samaritan Neighborhood Center in West Oakland, bringing community and service to

where it was needed most.

For over a decade, Cathy lived her faith. She was the heart and soul of the community, their “unofficial” pastor. Cathy understood addressing the educational, physical, emotional and social needs of the center’s at-risk children and youths were key to breaking the cycle of poverty. She created programs empowering them to confront the countless challenges they faced, and gave them the tools and resilience needed to overcome them.

Hundreds of children and their families were impacted by her love and support, and she never lost touch with their lives. Cathy had an infinite ability to love.

Oakland was also where Cathy met her husband and life partner, Kevin Moynihan, another founding member of the center who shared her commitment to making a difference. Cathy and Kevin were married in 1989 and moved to Davis for Kevin to attend medical school. In 1991, they welcomed their first son, Kody, and Tré followed in 1993.

Cathy loved being a mom! She embraced all aspects of Kody and Tré’s lives. From pre-school through college and medical school, she was there for them, cheering on their teams and supporting their academic and

career interests. She was incredibly proud of her sons’ accomplishments.

Even as her family responsibilities grew, Cathy remained committed to her life’s mission of helping disadvantaged youths. She pursued a master’s in educational counseling to gain the knowledge, skills and credentials she needed to further her goal. Cathy received her master’s degree in 2008 and immediately applied her newfound expertise to her faith-based, communitybuilding work, taking part in mission trips, weekly Bible studies, social justice activities and mentoring church youths.

When her son Tré died in an accident in 2014, Cathy found blessings in the midst of an unimaginable tragedy. Fortified by her faith, she acted. Cathy made personal connections with Tré’s organ recipients and found peace knowing that he had given so many the gift of life. She built profound lasting relationships with several of Tré’s friends, gaining insights into Tré and his life that gave her great comfort. To honor Tre’s life by giving back to others, Cathy created the Tré Moynihan Foundation and Memorial Scholarship.

During the past year, Cathy focused her

considerable energy and talents on opening a medical practice with her husband, Kevin. For Cathy, it was full circle from their Oakland years, another opportunity to work as partners in pursuit of their shared commitment to others. She was immensely proud of what they created and excited to begin this next chapter of their lives together.

Cathy Joyce Sacks was a cherished daughter, life partner, mother and friend.

She was a force: passionate, full of life and always ready for an adventure, with a joyful smile that radiated from her heart. Cathy was a genuine and empathetic listener, a steady shoulder to lean on, and a friend who never judged.

Cathy was preceded in death by her father Jack and her son Tré. She will be forever loved and missed by her family: her mother Bettie, her husband Kevin, her son Kody, and her beloved Silena Layne, as well as countless relatives and friends who shared the gift of Cathy in their lives.

The Sacks-Moynihan family continues their commitment to the life-changing work of the Samaritan Neighborhood Center. Donations to honor Cathy’s memory and legacy can be made by check or online via the Network for Good website: https://www.nfggive. com/home. Search/Select: Samaritan Neighborhood Center.

A celebration of Cathy’s life will be held in May of 2021. Details will be shared closer to the date. Email celebratingcathysacksmoynihan@gmail.com to receive updates.