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City Council unanimously approves Paul’s Place A connection from Olive Drive to the Davis Depot is on hold due to the falloff in city revenue from the COVID-19 crisis.

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

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COVID halts infrastructure projects

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Some long-planned projects around the city of Davis will be defunded due to the economic impacts of the novel coronavirus.

They include a recreational pump-bike track in Community Park; a bike/ pedestrian crossing from Olive Drive to the Davis Depot; and paid parking in downtown Davis.

Other projects will see significantly reduced funding that will change their scope, including safety improvements at an East Davis intersection used by children biking to school.

All are casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic which has hit the city’s budget hard.

A shelter-in-place order that has shuttered businesses for months has significantly

reduced tax revenue flowing into city coffers, resulting in what the city’s budget consultant estimated to be a loss of up to $22 million over the next four to seven years.

As a result, the City Council this week voted to reduce funding commitments to capital improvement projects by about $8.8 million, including $7.7 million in General Fund commitments, though council members emphasized the projects could be funded in the future.

“The fact that we are deferring some items shows that ultimately we are hopeful that the city gets back on its feet in relatively short order,” said Mayor Brett Lee. “But that doesn’t minimize the steps that we’re taking.”

that projects will be fully funded in the future.

“We’re not sure of the depth and severity and duration of this financial shortfall we’re experiencing and this is a very important first step,” he said.

“Obviously we’ll evaluate as we go on.”

In presenting the list of projects city staff had recommended for cuts, Bob Clarke, director of public works, told council members “every project has value to the community.”

However, he noted, “the easiest place to defer discretionary spending was our capital improvement program.”

Some of the projects were completely defunded for the current fiscal year while others will see significant cuts in funding

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A concerted multi-year effort by a group of local business and community leaders to address the city’s homelessness issue paid off Tuesday when the Davis City Council unanimously approved Paul’s Place.

When fully constructed, the $5 million “vertical tiny homes” proposal will provide a wide array of services and housing in a four-story structure that will be built on H Street across from the railroad tracks.

Gone will be the aging, 2,800-square-foot homeless services center at 1111 H St., replaced by a 17,000-square-foot multi-functional homeless facility operated by Davis Community Meals and Housing.

Paul’s Place — named after the father of Bill Pride, executive director of DCMH — will continue to provide the services currently available at that location but with additional programs and housing, including 18 new permanent supportive housing units.

Funding for Paul’s Place came from a long list of private donors whose contributions were matched by a $2.5 million grant from Sutter Health.

City and county contributions included purchasing an adjacent house where services can continue

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Medical workers protest at Capitol

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer SACRAMENTO — Hundreds of medical professionals gathered Tuesday outside the California Capitol building in Sacramento, joining protesters across the country in standing against racism and demanding justice for George Floyd, an African American man killed last week by police in Minneapolis.

“I’m hurt. I’m upset,” said Ian Joseph, a student at the UC Davis School of Medicine and former Aggie football player, addressing a large crowd. As Joseph spoke, a National Guard convoy idled next to the gathering and helicopters

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buzzed overhead.

“Beneath everything else, I am first a black man,” Joseph said. “If I’m not wearing a white coat, if I don’t have a smile on my face, then what am I? To the people with guns, I might be threatening. I might be dangerous. I might be hostile. That’s a death sentence for so many people — just being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

In the U.S., black people are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white people. The Minneapolis Police Department, which killed Floyd, uses force against black people at seven times the rate

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Driver who killed boy sent to prison

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Hundreds of medical professionals from the greater Sacramento region gathered Tuesday for a “White Coats Against Racism” protest outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento.

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WOODLAND — A Sacramento man received prison time Tuesday for his role in a freeway collision that killed a 5-year-old Woodland boy, the sentencing hearing bringing the child’s family and the defendant to tears.

“I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can say to make it better. I never meant to hurt anyone that night,” Shane Michael Carlyle cried as Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed sentenced him to 19 years and eight

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Briefly Motorcyclist dies in rural crash A Woodland man died Wednesday evening in a solo motorcycle collision that California Highway Patrol investigators say may have been alcoholrelated.

The cyclist, identified

by Yolo County coroner’s officials as 55-year-old Timothy Q. Thomas, was traveling eastbound on Highway 16 in the town of Capay “at a high rate of speed and failed to negotiate a left-hand curve in the roadway at Tabers Court” at about 5:15 p.m., the CHP reported in a news release.

“The motorcycle traveled off the south road edge onto a grass/dirt embankment and went down on its side,” the release continued. “The motorcycle and rider continued down the embankment where it appeared the rider struck a metal gate. The motorcycle continued a short distance past the metal gate and came to rest in a patch of vegetation.”

Thomas, who was ejected from the Honda VT750 motorcycle ,”had been wearing what appeared to be an illegal helmet (no liner, no padding, no Department of Transportation sticker) which appeared to have been fully ejected from his head during the collision sequence,” the CHP reported. He died at the scene.

“The preliminary investigation indicates alcohol may have been a factor in the collision,” the news release said.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Woodland CHP office at 530-662-4685.

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Some major mayoring right now I t’s not easy being the mayor of the Most Relevant City in America, even on a good day.

Imagine having that job during a pandemic.

That’s the task carved out for our dear mayor, Brett Lee, as he winds down his term and prepares to hand off the gavel to his fellow councilmate, Gloria Partida.

Lee has the unenviable task of being of public face of the tangled thicket of COVID-19 rules and regulations and guidelines and suggestions.

Assessing what’s mandatory, what’s voluntary and what will land someone in the pokey is a complete minefield.

There are city rules, county rules, state rules and federal rules.

You may even have separate rules in your own household.

In some jurisdictions, you can be stricter than the higher authority. In others, it’s just the opposite.

One misstep or questionable statement out of the mayor’s mouth and President Trump is likely to stay up all night with a “Liberate Davis” series of tweets.

Lee has a column in The Davis Enterprise, which is dangerous.

Unlike the president, who can just say “I never said that,” Lee’s words will be clipped out of the paper and magnetized to the front of every refrigerator in town. So he has to choose his words carefully.

In his most recent “Mayor’s Corner” several weeks ago, Lee begins, “As we enter the second month of the COVID-19 shutdown, we are beginning to see the signs of diverging public sentiment around many of the shelter in place restrictions.”

I don’t know how many fingers and toes the mayor has, but for my way of counting, I believe we’re entering our third month, not second.

All I know is that the kids have been home from school since March 13, which is well over two

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months already according to the calendar hanging from the wall in our East Davis kitchen.

“We see this divergence most dramatically at the state and national level,” adds Lee. Yes we do. I saw it on one of the Sunday talk shows when a high official in the Trump administration blasted the plans of the mayor of Los Angeles as “crazy.”

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otes the mayor of Davis, “As the shelter in place restrictions are slowly loosened around us, it is important that we acknowledge that we are treading into unknown territory.”

I’ll say.

“It is unclear whether the state and the regions are loosening the restrictions too slowly or too quickly. What is clear is that the city must make some prudent financial decisions to address the revenue shortfall we are facing.”

Can’t we squeeze a few more dollars out of the Bright Night deal that has so many people upset?

“Unlike the federal government, the city is required to have a balanced budget.”

Which means we can’t just hand the Los Angeles Lakers 4.9 million dollars of PPP money so they can pay LeBron’s salary.

“The city has lost significant revenue, primarily due to a dramatic loss of sales tax revenue.

The City Council gave support at its last meeting for the city manager and his team to begin working with the department heads and employee groups to identify cost-saving measures to address the revenue shortfall.”

Which means the mistletoe choking my city-mandated front yard hackberry tree will remain right where it is at least until Christmas.

“We cannot risk planning based on overly rosy scenarios to discover only too late that insufficient action has been taken.”

Trust me, Mr. Mayor, the good citizens of this town will have a million suggestions for how you can save a dollar here and a dollar there.

We’ll get through this thing together or we’ll all move to Woodland.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Virus testing would cost UC $24 million per week

BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN CalMatters University of California students eager to return to classrooms in the fall will have to wait until mid-June to learn if courses will resume in person.

“These decisions must all be made in the context of local, state and federal public health restrictions,” UC President Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. “I anticipate, however, that most if not all of our campuses will operate in some kind of hybrid mode.”

The hedge on whether classes will be online or not contrasts with the state’s two other public highereducation systems, California State University and the California Community Colleges, whose respective leaders each signaled plansto largely conduct courses virtuallyin the fall.

Napolitano’s reveal was one of many made during the three-day meeting of the governing body overseeing the University of California, the Board of Regents, that ended Thursday.

The big news was that the regents voted unanimously yesterdayto end the requirement that students submit SAT or ACT results for admissionsand is exploring creating a standalone exam by 2025.

But the regents tackled other major questions about the system’s plans during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here’s what you need to know about the regents’ most recent meeting.

Fiscal hurt When the regents met virtually for the first time on March 18, the U.S. had

fewer than 10,000 COVID19 cases. Fast forward to May 19, when the regents met virtually again, the U.S. had 1.5 million cases and more than 87,000 people had died.

The spread of COVID-19 has been swift, as has the fallout. Classes moved online and remain there.

UC’s hospitals, a major source of income for the system, saw revenues collapse as inpatient numbers dropped by 40 to 50 percent at the peak of the pandemic. Many students canceled their dining and housing contracts.

The damage has been deep. System leaders said the UC has lost $1.2 billion through April — $700 million of that attributable to its medical centers. During a finance committee meeting, Paul Jenny, interim chief financial officer for the UC, said he expects the UC to lose a total of about $2 billion by June 30. The UC medical system is seeing a rebound in patients, but a total return to prepandemic form may take several years.

Other sources of revenue decline include Gov. Gavin Newsom’srevised budget proposalfor next year, which calls for a 10% cut in state support to the UC, a decline of roughly $370 million.

Carol Tecla Christ, chancellor of UC Berkeley, translated how systemwide cuts affect her campus. The pandemic has already led to losses of $49 million, the vast majority of that due to revenue collapses in housing, dining, athletics and the extension program; janitorial, tech and health services expenses cost the school $5 million. Next

year she said Berkeley is eyeing losses of at least $150 million and a deficit as high as $300 million.

Revenue declines at campus nonacademic operations may result in “workforce reduction,” Christ said. She also floated the possibility of a tuition increase, something the regents would have to approve systemwide.

Because tuition accounts for double the school revenues the state provides, a 10% state cut could be gained back with a 5% tuiton hike, Christ said.

“Our cost of attendance is already high,” retorted regent Hadi Makarechian moments later. “The last place that we should be looking at is tuition increases.”

Testing the system Much of the system’s ability to resize financially depends on the public health picture. If schools remain closed and instruction continues online, students may not return next fall at similar levels, hurting UC’s bottom line. Outof-state and international students, whopay triple the tuitionin-state students do, may seek cheaper options

back home. Dorm operators, responding to socialdistancing protocols, may have half the tenants that space permits.

Dr. Carrie L. Byington, a top UC medical expert, pulled the curtain back on what campus re-openings would look like; the expenses are significant and the logistics complex.

She said that she predicts that both COVID-19 cases and circulation of the flu will increase in the fall.

Universal testing is unfeasible, said Byington, the executive vice president of UC Health, which includes five academic medical centers, a community-based health system and 18 health professional schools.

With roughly 600,000 students, faculty and staff at the UC, weekly testing would cost the system $24 million a week because each test is $40. Instead, fall term will require social distancing, even within buildings.

“That may mean staggering (class start) times, giving people a direct time when they can enter or exit a building or an elevator.

The density is going to be really important,” she said.

Everyone on campus will

need to wear masks, track their symptoms, be truthful about when they think they’re getting sick and stay away from others, and wash hands constantly.

Access to soap and hand sanitizer is paramount.

Partial testing based on a model is also a possibility to figure out “the minimum proportion of people that we can test to understand the likelihood that the virus is in our facility,” she told regents.

Many of these strategies were formalized in a document the regents approved Wednesday that lays out the principles for safely operating campusesduring the pandemic.

Byington also shed light on a possible vaccine for COVID-19 in the form ofa patchdeveloped in conjunction with UC Davis.

The hope is that the vaccine patch will go into clinical trials in the summer.

“Not only does it give us hope for having a vaccine, but also a mechanism to deliver that vaccine that would allow millions of people to receive the vaccine in their own homes,” she explained.

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Critters have various ways of keeping cool

BY SARA THOMPSON Special to the Enterprise

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s the temperatures rise, we look for ways to keep cool like drinking a cold beverage or retreating inside with the AC. The animals in our region do not have the same luxury of air conditioning and refrigerated drinks, but need to look at other ways keeping cool.

How do some of our local animals beat the heat during our Northern California summers?

Some animals have natural cooling systems built into their bodies, such as rabbits and hares. Their long ears aren’t just for hearing, but are a means for cooling, too. Because their ears are filled with blood vessels, the blood cools off a little, and will help to cool off the rest of the body as it cycles through.

Other animals will take a mud bath. Similar to how sweating works, as the moisture evaporates, the surface of the skin cools down, and helps cool the whole body.

EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER One of the most noticeable cooling systems of animals is panting. Dogs, cats, and some birds pant to help lower their body temperatures when in the heat or after exercise. The process is simple, expel the hot air in your body, and breathe in the cooler air from the outside. When the cooler air enters the throat and lungs, it begins to cool down the body with the help of moisture in those areas. The blood vessels in the throat and lungs cool down and helps cool down the whole body as the blood travels through it.

What is probably used the most for beating the heat is simply hiding. Animals will find shade in thick brush or under trees.

Cold-blooded animals like lizards and snakes will hide in bushes or under rocks using the cooler environment to cool their bodies, and if they need to warm up again, they simply find some sun.

Smaller mammals, such as ground squirrels or prairie dogs, dig expansive tunnels underground.

They are protected from direct sunlight, but they also have several surface openings. The extra holes are not only for extra escape route, but to also let air flow in and out, freshening the air and keeping it cool.

One of the most unique, and also gross, is employed by many bird species. They will poop on their own legs as a means to keep cool.

The concept is similar to sweating, as it uses the evaporation of moisture to cool the skin. As the moisture in their poop evaporates, heat is taken away and leaving a cooler surface.

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Best Mother’s Day ever at worst time

BY JACCI O’CONNOR AND JAY WOODS Special to The Enterprise

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y mother will turn 94 at the end of this year.

Each year our family tradition is to gather at her retirement community in the bay area. Not everyone lives close enough to attend, but as many as can make it, do.

This year is different.

Visitors are not allowed at the retirement community and the residents of the community are asked to remain in-house.

The last few months have been especially difficult for Mom. Her hearing loss is profound and she cannot understand staff or fellow residents who are speaking to her at 6 or more feet away. Social distancing for my mother has really meant social isolation.

Since we couldn’t all be together this year, we — my four siblings and I — decided to arrange a Mother’s Day Zoom meeting. We weren’t at all sure Mom would be able to hear anyone, or that she would have the patience to deal with the experience.

Frankly, we thought she might not enjoy the experience at all. But we saw it as the next best thing and thought it was worth trying.

My brother has remote access to my mother’s computer, so if Mom was willing, he would get her computer set up to join a Zoom meeting. And Mom agreed to participate. She’s not tech-savvy, but she is a trooper.

We figured that not everyone would be available that day. And maybe not everyone would want to participate in a video conference. We only hoped that as many as family members as possible would participate.

Everyone came. All of Mom’s five children and their spouses, all the grandkids (including my daughter who lives out of state) and their spouses, all the children (and spouses) of my mother’s now deceased sisters, and even both of her great grandchildren. Everyone came.

TECH OVER 60 Mom was a little overwhelmed and struggled a bit at times to figure out who was speaking — there were, after all, 12 peopleboxes on her computer screen — and to understand what was being said.

But once we all settled into a volume and pace of speech that worked for her, she was able to really engage in the conversation. A little emotional at times, she hung in there for quite a while until she got tired. She expressed her appreciation and we all signed off — kids, cousins, spouses, grandkids and great-grandkids.

Later in the afternoon on Mother’s Day we received an email from my mother. She thanked everyone again for the Zoom visit and added, “This is the best Mother’s Day I have had.”

I was surprised by her words. I remember the days of not-too-long-ago when Mom would roll her eyes at the idea that technology would advance to where it is now. She often declared that she had no interest in computers or digital communication.

Like many of her peers, she came to regard computers, cell phones and the like as necessary evils of modern life.

I think what touched Mom and moved her to happy tears during our

Zoom meeting was that everyone cleared their plans for that day and made themselves available.

There has not yet been a Mother’s Day when everyone was there in person with my mother, but on this Mother’s Day everyone could attend the celebration, thanks to modern technology. And everyone came.

One of our early Davis Enterprise columns was titled “How tech can connect us to loved ones.” This very special Mother’s Day was a lovely example of what we wrote about back then. Modern technology gave my 93 year old mother the best Mother’s Day she has ever had.

If you have not yet opened to the idea of connecting electronically with the people closest to your heart, we encourage you to give it a chance. Most folks are using Zoom technology but other options are FaceTime, Skype, Whatsapp, Google meet and a host of other software and apps. If you’re uncertain about how to get started, ask for help.

Perhaps you’re already taking advantage of video visits, but you have elderly parents or loved ones who are intimidated by these amazing technologies.

How about setting up remote access to their computer and teaching them how to get started?

Or show them how to make and answer video

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Dear Annie: I am not optimistic about the plastic pollution of our planet. I remember a time when plastic did not exist and we managed OK with glass, tin cans, foil, paper, cardboard (waxed for dairy) and something called cellophane.

Now everything comes in plastic. Even cans have plastic labels, and glass bottles have plastic caps.

We were told that recycling was taking care of the problem; now we learn that only a tiny fraction of plastic is ever recycled. Even plastic objects that are used for years will eventually wind up in landfills (billions of lawn chairs?).

PLASTIC WILL NEVER GO AWAY. What can we do, Annie?

— Plastic Problem Dear Plastic Problem: Environmentalists around the globe have been talking about plastic and how to deal with it. Below are some tips from the Earth Day Network website on how you can reduce your plastic pollution: “Reduce your own plastic waste. Start by using our plastic calculator to track how much you use — then you can take steps to reduce your use and waste.

“Like sipping through straws? Get a reusable stainless steel, glass, or bamboo one to use instead of wasteful plastic ones.

“Instead of buying water in plastic bottles, invest in a water filter and reusable water bottle(s). Bonus: it’s cheaper in the long run.

“Choose clothing and other personal items made from earth-friendly materials instead of microfibers and other synthetic fibers, which pollute our water.

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“Bring a reusable container to a restaurant with you when you expect to have leftovers.

“Refuse straws: It’s as simple as adding, “No straw, please” when requesting beverages at restaurants or cafes.

“Refuse beverage tops. (Are you really going to spill?)

“Pick up trash in your neighborhood and when visiting parks and beaches.

“Recycle the plastics you use and no longer need.

“Return single-use bags to grocery stores for them to recycle.”

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My partner takes offense if I do things for myself, such as working out at the gym, getting manicures and brushing my teeth before bed. He accuses me of not wanting to spend time with him. Am I being selfish?

— Selfish Sally Dear Selfish Sally: It sounds like you are with Controlling Charlie. There is nothing wrong with going to the gym, brushing your teeth and even getting manicures. In fact, an argument can be made that they are important ingredients of a healthy life. The fact that your boyfriend takes offense to any of this is ridiculous. Make sure you have quality time with him but not at the expense of your health and personal hygiene. If he argues with you, send him packing, and

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Geri is not the best co-worker Dear Annie: I work with a woman who, for some reason, is absolutely desperate to hoard all the work, all day, every day.

“Geri” answers the phone on a half a ring. If something comes out of the fax, then she will run to get it before anyone else can. If you tell her that you’re handling something, then she will pretend not to hear you and walk all over you and the work you’ve already put into the project. If she does not get her way, then she will cry and tell the boss that you are mistreating her. She has one of the brownest noses I have ever seen. At this point, I believe that she has become a human suppository to my boss. She has absolutely no idea how to share and gets very upset when you treat her the same way she treats you.

Geri has been nasty to me since Day One. When I’ve told her I don’t appreciate the way she treats me, she tells me that I’d better get used to it.

“Quantity, not quality” must be her personal motto. She will, on occasion, share work that comes out of the fax with everyone else in the room except myself (but only after she’s bitten off more than she can chew). She has told me that the reason I don’t like her is that she has “a work ethic.” I would beg to differ.

It seems more along the lines of a personality disorder and/or extreme arrogance. I work with quite a few other people who have healthy work ethics. We get along just fine.

She also doesn’t believe that she can ever make a mistake. If she does and you catch it, she will instantly blame someone else or say, “What’s the big deal?”

She even has made flyers saying that “Geri is the best!” and “Geri is a NICE PERSON!” I can’t wait till she passes them out!

I am at the end of my rope. I’d hate to quit because the days that she doesn’t show up are pretty darn good. We laugh; we work; and, get this, we share.

The only time she is kind is when she wants something from you, whether it be knowledge or for you to pick her up some food or perhaps complete a task that she feels is beneath her. Please offer me some guidance.

— Enough Is Enough Dear Enough: In my years writing this column I’ve heard of all sorts of behavior, but someone making “I’m Great!” flyers — that is a first. Clearly, Geri has some issues that didn’t begin with you, and they won’t end with you.

Acknowledging that might help you find some measure of peace with the situation. That’s not to say you should put up with workplace bullying. The first step toward addressing that is

talking to Geri again. Ask what you could do that might make your working relationship smoother. Let her know how her behavior impacts you. Don’t rattle off a laundry list of all her transgressions.

Focus instead on the overarching pattern of her taking on so much of the workload.

If this peace talk doesn’t bear out results, it’s time to go up the chain of command. Request to meet with human resources (and if there is no HR, then your supervisor). Go into the meeting seeking solutions, not pointing fingers. And again, leave out all the personal animosity you may feel toward Geri. Present only the ways in which her behavior has concretely impacted your work.

Whatever happens, try to disengage from her antics as much as possible. “The Geri Show” may go on, but you don’t have to tune in.

Dreadful ‘Dear’

Leads us to a new beginning The past that we are leaving Means a future we are winning Each change that fills the present Sets the stage for our tomorrow And how we meet each challenge Helps determine joy or sorrow In every new beginning Spirit plays a vital part We must approach tomorrow With a strong and steady heart So as we turn the corner Let’s all apprehension shed And fill our heart with confidence As we proceed ahead — Bruce B. Wilmer (1978) Dear Reader: Thank you for sending this poem. It is very uplifting, and, as you say, it is still timely.

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Happiness takes work, not quick fixes

Dear Annie: Why do strange men call women “dear” as they get a little Dear Annie: older? husband I am in my late 60s but My don’t consider myself an and I have been “old lady.” I dress reason- married for 43 ably — nice jeans/pants years. I have a and a cute top. My hair is good life, or so I I not gray, and I do not look thought. recently found sickly.

Yes, I have a few wrin- out that he has kles, but I still feel proud of had an affair. my appearance. I am not When I asked these guys’ mother, wife or him about it, he sweetheart. I am a com- told me that it was only for plete stranger.

I have been called “dear” eight months. by cashiers, EMTs, a male And he said the was dentist and others. Many reason women do not take this as a because I would compliment. In fact, it is a not initiate sex. little demeaning. When I Ha, that is a very politely mentioned two-way street. this to a couple of men, I Anyway, I did was met with silence or a some checking look of disbelief. Hopefully, and found out some of these guys will see that it was for your column. Thanks for two years. He has seen her on letting me vent.

— Don’t Call Me “Dear” Christmas and Dear Don’t Call Me New Year’s Eve. “Dear”: You assume that And he even “dear” is a term reserved for met with her on elderly women, when I OUR anniveralways thought it was a sary. Then I term of endearment (par- found out that don the pun) for all ages. I he went to see see the intention being key her a few hours in these circumstances. Are after I had these speakers being cour- major lung surteous or condescending? gery.

He has cried I’m curious to hear from other readers on this sub- and told me how ject. When a stranger calls sorry he is. And you “dear,” are you compli- how dumb he was for doing mented or insulted?

——— this. Every day Dear Annie: since I found this In these days of the coro- out, he has said navirus, I have been occu- he is sorry. But pied by PUBLIC NOTICE going NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF through PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California Self-Service some paperwork Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned intends to sell at that my public sale by sealed bids only, on the mother 19th day of June, 2020, at 1:00 PM at and I have the Harrison Self Storage facility located saved. We at 2323 Second Street, in the City of County of Yolo, State of California, found this Davis, personal property including but not poem by limited to furniture, clothing, tools and/ Bruce or other household items stored by the following person: Wilmer, which was Customer Name: Kim Stockard written in Unit #: D52A Boxes of Books, Lg Trunk, 1978.

I Room Partition, Plastic Stand w/o Drawers wanted to share it Purchases must be paid for with cash or cashier's check at the time of purchase. with your All purchased items are sold "as is" and readers must be removed at the time of sale with because it unit swept clean. Sale subject to prior is just as cancellation in the event of settlement appropri- between owner and obligated party. ate now as Dated this 5th and 12th day of June, it was 42 2020, by Harrison Self Storage. years ago. 2323 Second Street, Davis, CA 95616, (530) 753-6007.

“New BeginBond Number: 1016141 nings” Viewing is only allowed between the office Each chapter that hours of 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday and not on weekends. is ending 6/5, 6/12 860

here is my problem. First, he lent her some money — not much, but $400, and she paid back $100. He has been calling her wanting the rest. I found out he called her, and he told me yes, he wants his money. I told him to forget it.

Second, he has had back surgery three times. The last one left him with numbness and weakness in both legs. And he now has some kind of erectile dysfunction. So I am wondering if he stopped seeing her to come to me so I can take care of him. We have had sex, but he is different somehow. It is not the same as it used to be, and it really makes me wonder.

How do I get over this feeling that he may still be seeing her and talking to her? I found a burner phone with her number on

it. I broke it.

I don’t want to go to counseling. Just some easy steps to get over all this garbage.

— Sucker-Punched Dear Sucker-Punched: You might not want to go to counseling, but you really don’t have a choice — for your sake, not his. Trust your gut. If you feel that things are different, then chances are things are different.

Different can be OK. While change is scary, it can also be wonderful for transformation. But you have to do the work. Figure out what makes you happy and what you want out of life. Hopefully, through therapy, you can learn to forgive your louse of a husband for what he did and move on — with him or without him.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF IMPENDING POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY (Rev. & Tax Code, Sections 3361, 3362) Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Codes sections 3691 and 3692.4, the following conditions will, by operation of law, subject real property to the tax collector’s power to sell.

1) All property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for five or more years.

2) All property which has a nuisance abatement lien recorded against it and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

3) Any property that has been identified and requested for purchase by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization to serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to low-income persons and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

The parcels listed herein meet the one or more of the criteria listed above and thus, will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell on July 1, 2020, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The tax collector’s power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to close of business on the last business day in June. The right to an installment plan terminates on the last business day in June, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at public auction.

The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell, but terminates at 5 p.m. on the last business day prior to the date of the sale by the tax collector.

All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Chad Rinde, 625 Court Street, Room 102, Woodland, CA 95695, phone (530) 666-8625.

The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of June, 2020, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee.

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION The Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor's map book, the map page, the block on the map, if applicable, and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor's maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the assessor's office.

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1,2013 FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013 ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO. 008-101-013-000 038-160-001-000 060-260-002-000

ASSESSEE NAME/ PROPERTY ADDRESS DERRICK JOHN J JR / 370 MAPLE ST HOUSE TRUST / T8N R1E ADAM FAM REV LIV TRUST ETAL / 14450 CR 41A

AMOUNT TO REDEEM $5,523.91 $10,373.56 $8,685.43

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1,2014 FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014 ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO. 006-561-002-000 014-258-009-000 027-590-024-000 051-010-031-000

ASSESSEE NAME/ PROPERTY ADDRESS STAG INC THE / 506 MAIN ST VIDALES ISAAC G / 921 FREMONT BLVD GILL SATWINDER S & KULDIF K / 6 EATON CT INGMAN DAVID F & CYNTHIA M 1700 ALEXANDER HILL LN

AMOUNT TO REDEEM $6,055.09 $7,805.75 $17,530.04 $37,650.73

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULTED ON JULY 1,2015 FOR THE TAXES, ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2014-2015 ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO. 006-391-012-000 006-404-019-000 006-581-002-000 008-193-001-000 008-193-067-000 008-302-009-000 008-303-012-000 010-495-023-000 010-495-024-000 014-073-012-000 014-126-022-000 044-020-025-000 045-043-019-000 045-055-010-000 045-373-007-000 045-381-025-000 045-742-007-000 051-182-015-000 058-082-007-000 064-024-014-000 066-270-015-000 067-310-027-000 068-220-018-000 070-145-001-000 066-050-004-000 008-331-010-000 058-091-001-000 027-830-008-000 064-031-008-000 071-435-006-000 030-280-014-000

ASSESSEE NAME/ AMOUNT PROPERTY ADDRESS TO REDEEM KINSER KENNY A & CHRISTINE / 1336 COLLEGE ST $10,612.95 VANCE MARY P / 1319 HOMEWOOD DR $19,340.84 BURRONE JESSICA B / 212 LINCOLN AVE $7,856.04 KALINCHUK GRIGORIY / 2116 WEST CAPITOL AVE $19,383.59 KALINCHUK GRIGORIY / 2112 WEST CAPITOL AVE $14,155.03 KENNEDY SHAWN & DEANNA R 1804 MANZANITA WAY $20,063.24 WILKINSON-BRIN SUSAN LYNN / 437 LILAC LN $4,616.81 FIRST CAPITAL COMMUNITIES LLC / 219 5TH ST $9,994.96 FIRST CAPITAL COMMUNITIES LLC / 221 5TH ST $173,731.76 GIL JOSE ANGEL & JUANA M / 628 BRYTE AVE $5,924.32 GONZALEZ BETTY SOUTH / 604 MYRTLE AVE $2,791.97 RIVIERA LAKES LLC / NO SITUS $607.16 WINSOR DAVID / 1924 CROWN AVE $12,547.61 SCHRIMSHER LINDA LEE / 2221 MANCHESTER ST $3,075.25 FOLSOM ROSEMARIE LYNN / 2640 TEAL DR $20,581.36 HOLTZMAN THOMAS W / 2761 TEAL DR $1,821.10 ANDREWS AMY / 3865 LOPEZ ISL RD $64,936.47 SPEARS PATRICK SHAY & SHABAZZ BERNICE MARIE 3070 CR 88B $1,947.88 CUNNINGHAM REV TRUST / 500 17TH ST $5,137.25 MCKIBBEN LOUANNA M / 5 WISCONSIN AVE $3,931.82 TURNER STUART / 1541 GRASS VALLEY DR $13,547.84 CHEN ECHUNG / 1281 MERKLEY AVE $26,414.48 COMMON AREA C/O EL MACERO OAKS HOA EL MACERO CA $7,482.44 SCHUSTER SUSAN ELIZABETH / 1020 F ST/716 11TH ST $36,341.77 LOPEZ NICHOLAS A & NIDIA / 644 BOURN DR $3,234.35 GUZMAN VIVIAN ERIKA / 1916 MICHIGAN BLVD $325.17 WILLIAMS JENNIFER / 1633 DELAWARE AVE $1,470.51 BRADLEY RICO / 1952 SAVALA CT $467.82 DELGADO DAVID / 66 MARYLAND AVE $143.15 BIGELOW FAM SURV TRUST / 1818 MOORE BLVD #134 $1,060.47 MARIANI MARTIN A & THERESA M / 30532 CR 87A $6,949.19

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.

Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on May 18th, 2020 Published in: Davis Enterprise: May 24th, May 31st and June 5th, 2020

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Public Notices X FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: May 7, 2020 FBN Number: F20200357 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Corabella’s Restaurant 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

590 N. East Street Woodland, CA 95776 Mailing address: Zinap Food Corporation 438 Bluefield Drive San Jose, CA 95136 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Zinap Food Corporation 438 Bluefield Drive San Jose, CA 95136 4. Business Classification: Corporation 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Mabelle Hernandez Zinap Food Corporation, Secretary 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5 837 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: May 6, 2020 FBN Number: F20200355 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Blue Pine Coffins 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

216 F Street, #132 Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Dean Talbott Newberry 1023 Clark Ct. Davis, CA 95618 And Danielle Scharlin Newberry 1023 Clark Ct. Davis, CA 95618 4. Business Classification: A Married Couple 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: April 22, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Dean T. Newberry Danielle S. Newberry 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5 840 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX DELINQUENCY AND IMPENDING DEFAULT Made pursuant to Section 3351,3352, Revenue and Taxation Code I, Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, State of California, certify as follows: That at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2020, by operation of law, any real property (unless previously tax-defaulted and not redeemed) that have any delinquent taxes, assessments, or other charges levied for the fiscal year 2019-2020, and/ or any delinquent supplemental taxes levied prior to the fiscal year 2019-2020, shall be declared tax-defaulted.

That unless the property is completely redeemed through payment of all unpaid amounts, together with penalties and fees prescribed by law or an installment plan is initiated and maintained; the property will become tax-defaulted and may be sold subsequently at a tax sale to satisfy the tax lien.

That a detailed list of all properties remaining tax-defaulted as of July 1, 2023, and not redeemed prior to being submitted for publication, shall be published on or before September 8, 2023.

That information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request by Chad Rinde, 625 Court St., Room 102, Woodland, California 95695, telephone number (530)666-8625.

I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct.

Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: May 1, 2020 FBN Number: F20200346 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) FINE WOODCRAFTERS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

227 Jalisco Place Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Daniel R. Hutter 227 Jalisco Place Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Daniel R. Hutter 5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12 846 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Manuela R. Collado CASE NO. PB20-95 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Manuela R. Collado A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Mindy A. Rosales in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Mindy A. Rosales be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on July 13, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 9 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 Yolo Superior Court Dept.9 Virtual Courtroom (if necessary): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5700091000 ?pwd=eE4weWpZbVBiQWtwOUlVMEhE SFBnZz09 Meeting ID: 570 009 1000 Password: 619187 Conference Call Number (Alternative to Zoom) Primary: (669) 900-9128 Backup A: (669) 219-2599 Backup B: (213) 338-8477 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Signed: Soohyun King Attorney for the petitioner 1321 Howe Avenue, Suite 100 Sacramento, CA 95825 916-569-1700 6/5, 6/7, 6/12 854 PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Davis Notice of Public Hearing

Executed at Woodland, Yolo County, California, on May 18th, 2020 The City of Davis City Council will Published in Davis Enterprise on May conduct a public hearing on the project 24th, May 31st and June 5th, 2020. 843 application, as described below, at FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME a meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m.

STATEMENT on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 in the Community Chambers, City Offices, 23 Filed: May 6, 2020 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California. In FBN Number: F20200353 accordance with Executive Order 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) N-33-20 and N-29-20, this meeting AASCUNDEN 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of may be conducted electronically or Principal Place of Business in California. by teleconference, without a physical location from which members of the Business is located in Yolo County. public may observe and offer public 105 Second Street comment. Information on how to Woodland, CA 95695 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), observe the meeting and offer public comment electronically or telephonically Residence Address, State, and Zip will be included in the meeting agenda.

Benjamin Robert Pyles Please contact the City Clerk’s Office 105 Second Street or Community Development and Woodland, CA 95695 Sustainability Department for the 4. Business Classification: approximate time this item will be heard.

Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact Project Name: University Commons business under the fictitious business Mixed Use Redevelopment Project name or names listed above on: Project Location: April 28, 2020 “I declare that all information in 737-885 Russell Boulevard this statement is true and correct.”

(A registrant who declares as true Property Owner/Applicant: Brixmor information which he or she knows to be Property Group c/o Andrew Gracey California Property Owner I, LLC false is guilty of a crime.)

1525 Faraday Avenue, Suite 350 6. Signature of Registrant(s): Carlsbad, CA 92008 Benjamin Robert Pyles 5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12 845 File Number: Planning Application #1817 for General Planned Amendment

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#02-18, Rezone/ PPD #03-18, Demolition Services Commission will conduct a #11-18, Development Agreement #02-19, meeting scheduled for Monday, June EIR #04-18 15, 2020 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The City Council will conduct a public hearing Project Description: at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, The proposed University Commons June 16, 2020 beginning at 6:30 p.m. project includes demolition of In compliance with the Shelter in Place approximately 90,563 sq. ft. of the Order, and as allowed by the Governor’s existing University Mall building for Executive Order N-29-20, which allows redevelopment as a mixed-use project. for a deviation of teleconference rules The new development would include required by the Brown Act, Public 264 new multi-family residential units Meetings will be held by teleconference and 136,800 sq. ft. of new retail space, not only until further notice. In-person including the existing 13,200-sq. ft. Trader attendance in Community Chambers will Joe’s building, which will remain at its not be permitted. current location. A three-level, 246,000sq. ft. parking structure would provide The Social Services Commission will 533 garage stalls with an additional 160 review the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan, stalls in the surface parking lot. The main the FY 2020-2021 Annual Action Plan structure would consist of five to seven and Proposed Reallocation of Prior Year levels approximately 80 feet in height. CDBG Funds at their meeting on June Two smaller pad buildings are also 15, 2020 and make recommendations proposed. to the City Council. The City Council meeting is scheduled to hear comments The 136,800 sq. ft. of retail space would from the public to aid them in making accommodate shops, restaurants, offices, funding decisions for the use of 2020and other associated uses on the ground 2021 Community Development Block floor and second floor areas. There Grant (CDBG) and the Home Investment would be eight retail areas constructed Partnerships Program (HOME) Program generally within the footprint of the Funds. The City expects to receive existing University Mall and underneath $743,986 in CDBG and $380,846 in HOME the proposed residential units and two funds for the fiscal year 2020-2021. new, free-standing, two-story retail buildings.

In addition, the City has $410,263 in prior year CDBG funds which will be proposed The 264 residential units would have 622 for reallocation for fiscal year 2020/2021 bedrooms and up to 894 beds in a mix of to support permanent/transitional unit types. The residential portion of the housing projects for the homeless. project would consist of four residential levels over the three-level parking 2020 One Year Action Plan Funding garage and three residential levels Recommendations Project over two retail levels. The residential Description: units would be arranged around three The CDBG and HOME program grants separate courtyards. The project also federal funds through the US Department includes tree removal and improvements of Housing and Urban Development for circulation, vehicle and bicycle (HUD) to cities in order to implement parking, landscaping, and other site projects that largely benefit very low, improvements. low- and moderate-income persons and households.

Planning entitlements include: a General Plan Amendment to create a new Mixed CDBG Program Use land use category and to change the Public Services: designation of the site from Community Proposals recommended for funding Retail to Mixed Use; a Rezone of the site totaling $111,598 will assist with to a Planned Development (PD) for the homeless food, supplies, resources, case uses and development standards; and management and outreach services, Demolition for removal of the existing overnight shelter stays, meals to seniors, structure. The project also includes mental health services, and health a Development Agreement and an insurance enrollment support through Environmental Impact Report. Additional seven agencies. required planning entitlements would be subject to separate review.

Public Facilities: Proposals recommended for funding Environmental Determination: totaling $483,591 for City of Davis An Environmental Impact Report Parking Facility ADA Compliance Projects (SCH#2018112044) evaluating the – Flatwork (curbcuts and sidewalks) environmental impacts has been and Yolo Community Care Continuum prepared for the project pursuant to Farmhouse Sewer Project.

CEQA requirements and will be reviewed for a recommendation to City Council. The Administration: EIR identified significant and unavoidable Recommended for funding totaling impacts related to transportation, which $148,797 for City of Davis - CDBG Program requires adoption of a statement of Administration and Fair Housing Services overriding considerations. Potentially required by HUD. significant impacts related to air quality, biological, cultural, GHG emissions, Total Projected CDBG Funds: $743,986 hazardous materials, hydrology, noise, and transportation were identified, HOME Program but impacts were reduced to a lessthan-significant level through the Affordable Housing: Funding of implementation of mitigation measures. $285,635 will assist the City in working All other impacts were determined to with Developers to increase affordable be less than significant. The Final EIR housing opportunities in Davis. is available online with other project documents at the project website below. CHDO: Funding of $57,127 will assist a Availability of Documents: Community Housing Development Additional information pertaining to Organization (CHDO) is a private the project is available for review at the nonprofit, community-based, service Department of Community Development organization to develop affordable and Sustainability, Planning Division, housing for the community it serves. This 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, is a requirement of HUD. 95616. Project documents are also available online at: https://www. Administration: cityofdavis.org/city-hall/community- Recommended for funding totaling d e v e l o p m e n t - a n d - s u s t a i n a b i l i t y / $38,085 for City of Davis - HOME Program development-projects/university- Administration and affordable housing commons. monitoring required by HUD. Staff reports are available through the city’s website at: https://www.cityofdavis. org/city-hall/city-council/city-councilmeetings/agendas. Staff reports for the public hearing are generally available five (5) days prior to the hearing date and may be available by contacting the project planner.

Public Comments: All interested parties are invited to participate in the meeting electronically or by teleconference, or send written comments to Eric Lee, Project Planner, City of Davis, Department of Community Development and Sustainability, 23 Russell Boulevard, Suite 2, Davis, California, 95616; or via email at: elee@ cityofdavis.org, no later than noon the date of the meeting. For questions, please call the project planner at (530) 757-5610, extension 7237.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or for some other acceptable means of recordation. Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation. If you challenge the action taken on this matter in court, the challenge may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Director of Community Development and Sustainability or City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing.

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Sherri Metzker, Principal Planner 855 PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Davis Combined Notice of Public Comment Period and Public Hearing for the Adoption of the 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan and FY 2020-2021 Annual Action Plan and Proposed Reallocation of Prior Year CDBG Funds Due to recent Shelter in Place Orders, the public hearing and approval for HUD funding and plans were re-scheduled for the Social Services Commission Meeting and the City Council from April to June. The City of Davis Social

Total Projected HOME Funds: $380,846 Public Comment for Five Year Plan, Updated Citizen Participation Plan and Annual Action Plan: The City made available the draft Consolidated FiveYear Plan and One-Year Action Plan for fiscal year 2020–2021, containing funding recommendations and an updated Citizen Participation Plan for a required 30-day public review/comment period on the city’s webpage at www. cityofdavis.org from March 16, 2020 to April 15, 2020. Public comment will still be accepted from all interested parties up to and including the City Council public hearing on June 16, 2020. Consideration of adoption of the Five Year Consolidated Plan, Citizen’s Participation Plan, One Year Action Plan and Proposed Reallocation of Prior Year CDBG Funds will occur at a public hearing during the City Council meeting on June 16, 2020.

Remote Public Comments for Public Hearing on Funding Recommendations: All interested parties are invited to comment at the public hearing by submitting written comments to the City Manager’s Office no later than 12:00 p.m. on the hearing date.

Written comments may be submitted by mail to Kelly Stachowicz, City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Suite 1, Davis CA, 95616, or via email to cmoweb@cityofdavis. org. Public Comment may also be submitted by following instructions for public comment on the City Council Agenda, located at www.cityofdavis.org/ councilagendas.

Availability of Documents: Proposals, Five Year Consolidated Plan, Citizen’s Participation Plan and One Year Action Plan are posted on the city’s webpage at www.cityofdavis.org. Per the Governor’s Executive Order N-2920, public computers are not available for online viewing, nor are documents available for review at City Hall, as the building closed to the public at this time.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or any other acceptable means of recordation.

Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation.

Individuals wishing to challenge the action taken on this matter in court are notified that, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to City Manager’s Office prior to the public hearing.

Kelly Stachowicz, Assistant City Manager City Manager’s Office 6/5 858 PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Davis Combined Notice of Public Comment Period and Public Hearing for a Substantial Amendment to the FY 2019 Consolidated and Annual Action Plan, amending the Citizen Participation Plan, COVID-19 Waiver Authority, HOME Program Statutory Suspensions and Regulatory Waiver Authority and CARES Act and HOME Funding The City Council will conduct a public hearing at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 16, 2020 beginning at 6:30 p.m. In compliance with the Shelter in Place Order, and as allowed by the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, which allows for a deviation of teleconference rules required by the Brown Act, Public Meetings will be held by teleconference only until further notice. In-person attendance in Community Chambers will not be permitted.

As part of the March 27, 2020 Congressionally passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the City of Davis will receive $437,662 in HUD Round 1 funding, specifically targeted to cities/counties to provide a timely response to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds must support low income residents and will be prioritized for services, capital improvement enhancements and to support permanent/temporary housing projects for the homeless. In addition, HUD has approved the implementation of HOME statutory suspensions and/ or regulatory waivers, allowing the City to use up to $328,869 in FY19/20 uncommitted HOME funds for tenantbased rental assistance (TBRA) funds to facilitate urgent housing assistance to Davis families experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. A HUDrequired substantial amendment to the 2019 Consolidated and Annual Action Plan highlighting these actions, including a Citizen Participation Plan amendment, COVID-19 Waiver Authority and HOME Program Statutory Suspensions and Regulatory Waiver Authority, and CARES Act and HOME funding will be presented for approval at the meetings.

Public Comment Notice: Public comment will be taken from all interested parties for a period of 10 days beginning June 5, 2020, up to and including the public hearing at the City Council meeting on June 16, 2020.

Remote Public Comments: All interested parties are invited to comment at the public hearing by submitting written comments to the City Manager’s Office no later than 12:00 p.m. on the hearing date.

Written comments may be submitted by mail to Kelly Stachowicz, City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Suite 1, Davis CA, 95616, or via email to cmoweb@cityofdavis. org. Public Comment may also be submitted by following instructions for public comment on the City Council Agenda, located at www.cityofdavis.org/ councilagendas.

Availability of Documents: The substantial amendment to the 2019 Consolidated and Annual Action Plan including a Citizen Participation Plan amendment, COVID-19 Waiver Authority and CARES Act funding is posted on the city’s webpage at www.cityofdavis. org. Per the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, public computers are not available for online viewing, nor are documents available for review at City Hall, as the building is closed to the public at this time.

By request, alternative document formats are available to person with disabilities.

To request alternative document format or to arrange aid or services to modify or accommodate persons with a disability to participate in a public meeting, contact the City Clerk by calling (530) 757-5648 (voice) or 757-5666 (TDD) or emailing clerkweb@cityofdavis.org.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or any other acceptable means of recordation.

Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation.

Individuals wishing to challenge the action taken on this matter in court are notified that, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to City Manager’s Office prior to the public hearing.

By request, alternative document formats are available to person with disabilities.

To request alternative document format or to arrange aid or services to modify or accommodate persons with a disability to participate in a public meeting, contact the City Clerk by calling (530) 757-5648 (voice) or 757-5666 (TDD) or emailing Kelly Stachowicz, Assistant City Manager City Manager’s Office clerkweb@cityofdavis.org.

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A6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020

PAUL’S: Council praises hard work on project

PROTEST: Health, race interact in crisis

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that it uses force against white people, according to the city’s own data.

Protests have spread to all 50 states over the past week, with people demanding police reform or abolition. The nationwide uprising has drawn comparisons to protests in Ferguson in 2014 and Los Angeles in 1992, both of which were sparked by incidents of police brutality against African Americans.

Joseph said the protests have given him hope that this time more substantive change is within reach. “I truly believe that this is different,” he said. He added that he did not think the change would come easy.

“Everything we have is what it will take,” he said.

“We gotta act together.”

“We’re not going back!” a protester in a white lab coat shouted. “We’re not going back!”

during demolition and construction.

Once completed, Paul’s Place will provide: ■ Four emergency shelter beds, staff offices, a dining and kitchen area, laundry, bathrooms and a resource center on the first floor; ■ 10 transitional single-occupant bedrooms with shared kitchen, laundry, living room, bathrooms and offices on the second floor; and ■ Nine single-occupant permanent supportive micro-units on each of the third and fourth floors (18 total micro units).

Bringing the project to fruition was a labor of love from many in the community who contributed time and effort to the cause.

Local hoteliers Reed and Susan Youmans paid for the feasibility study to see if there was sufficient community support; Partnership Health Plan provided a $750,000 grant; nationally recognized Davis architect Maria Ogrydziak designed the project; hundreds of Davis residents, businesses and organizations contributed financially; and Sutter Health provided the $2.5 million matching grant.

In urging the Davis City Council to approve the project Tuesday night, Sutter CEO Rachel McKinney called the proposal “an innovative and effective solution” to the issue of homelessness in Davis.

She was joined by about two-dozen other Davis residents who called in to the council’s meeting to speak in support of Paul’s Place.

Opposition during public comment came from about eight individuals, several who said they lived nearby, who opposed the size of the facility, its location or the services it will provide.

But council members were unanimous in their support.

“This is a bridge to get people off the street and then hopefully move them along and up and out,” said Councilman Dan Carson.

Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida called Paul’s Place “an excellent solution” that will make a real difference in the lives of people, while Councilman Lucas Frerichs referred to it as “amazing.”

“I really appreciate the work that has gone into this,” said Frerichs. “It’s an unprecedented partnership from the private sector — multiple millions of

dollars raised by the private sector, and the immense amount of support from the Davis community is evidenced by … hundreds of support emails and conversations and phone calls. So there is quite a bit of support from throughout the community for this project.”

Mayor Brett Lee said he was initially concerned by the idea of a four-story building at that location with single-story homes adjacent.

However, he said, three stories were already allowed there without a variance from the city and Paul’s Place is actually less than 4 feet more than the current allowed height.

“So as I looked at the size and shape of the building … I’ve become less concerned about that,” Lee said. “It didn’t seem that unreasonable.”

Additionally, he said, Paul’s Place would be “a place, a home, that is going to benefit a lot of people in our community, so it’s easy to understand why we might make some minor variances to allow this product to go forward.”

Learn more about Paul’s Place at www.paulsplacedavis.org.

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

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Medical urgency Across the country, doctors who risked their lives treating COVID-19 patients have taken to the streets to protest racism and call attention to racial disparities in health care. While public health experts have warned against large crowds, medical professionals said they gathered at the Capitol for the same reason they went into nursing homes and intensive care units.

“So many of you, for these past several months,

have shown how much you care about life. You have gone into the hospitals.

You’ve suited up,” said Dr. Zola Chihombori Quai, a resident physician in psychiatry and family medicine at UC Davis Health.

“You did it because some part of you has a love that cannot be squashed by fear.”

Health experts have emphasized that fighting against racism and structural inequities is a necessary part of combatting COVID19. Before the virus ever emerged, generations of white supremacy determined who in the U.S. would be most harmed by it, infectious disease experts say.

Among the greatest risk factors for dying from COVID-19 are underlying chronic diseases such as diabetes. According to a 2017 study by the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), 30 percent of African Americans and 29 percent of Latino Americans suffer from diabetes, compared to only 17 percent of white Americans.

Those disparities, caused by the racial wealth gap and by structural and environmental racism, have been amplified and accelerated by the pandemic, with African Americans getting infected and dying at a disproportionate rate.

“We know that COVID19 is not the only virus that infects our entire world,” Quao said. “Racism is a virus that has been plaguing us for centuries.” Some

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physicians carried signs saying “Racism is a public health emergency.”

Barriers In addition to health disparities, black people in the U.S. face barriers accessing health care services and getting the treatment they need.

“I see the consequences of racism in my patients all the time. I see their hesitation, their fear of sharing their experiences with me, their mistrust in the medical system,” said Dr. Pinchieh Chiang, a family practice doctor at Woodland Clinic Medical Group.

“When they do finally open up, it’s often tear-jerking.”

Chiang said she has noticed a tendency in medical staff to dismiss black patients as being dramatic. “I remind my staff they have not experienced what this person has experienced,” she said. She added that she understands where the prejudice might come from.

“Having grown up in an Asian family, I was told all the time to stay away from black people,” Chiang said.

On Tuesday, Chiang brought her two children to the protest. “I want to be a good role model for them,” she said.

Dr. Annette Fineberg, an

obstetrician at Sutter Davis Hospital, said the effects of racism on maternal health have made an impression on her. “I’ve seen over all these years the effects racism has on quality of health and people’s lives,” Fineberg said. “It causes hypertension and other risks that are really bad for pregnancy. It’s a big reason why maternal mortality rates are so discrepant.”

African American women are roughly three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy as white women in the U.S., while African American babies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die in infancy.

According to doctors at the protest, these injustices, as much as the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others, convinced them that their duty to their patients extended beyond the walls of their health care facilities.

“We need to show up in times of need whether it is in the hospital or it is on the streets,” Quao said. “I’m here because I love black people. That should not be a radical thing to say.”

—Reach Caleb Hampton atchampton@davisenter prise.net.Follow him on Twitter at@calebm hampton.

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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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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.

Living

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 A7

Cooking with COVID 2.0: always home Edible Garden T and Pantry

hough some counties in California are beginning to open up, many of us are still sheltering in place at home. I hope now that we’ve renewed our interest in cooking and eating at home that we can take this to the next phase, Covid 2.0.

As Fanny Singer’s new book, “Always Home, A Daughter’s Recipes and Stories,” illustrates, eating around the table with loved ones is one of the pleasures of life.

The book, just out in time for Mother’s Day, was a gift from my daughter.

It’s Fanny’s account of growing up with her mother, famed restaurateur and food activist Alice Waters, with whom I’ve had the pleasure to work on school gardens and farm-to-table school lunches over the years.

The book transports readers away from COVID-19, to a time before Fanny grew up. It was 1971, and Alice was starting her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley.

And, to a time after Fanny was born, in 1983. Newborn, she was often placed in the salad bowl in the kitchen to rest. To this day, salad is her favorite food, she tells us.

What an amazing, heady time to grow up, when her mother and others, including me, were devoting themselves to sustainable agriculture, and fresh, locally grown food that became known as “California Cuisine.”

This was the time many of the food cooperatives and farmers markets were started, as well as restaurants such as Chez Panisse.

All of us were creating businesses that supported the fledgling organic farmers who were “going back to the land,” as we called it then — themselves creating the organic food industry which has grown exponentially since then.

Fanny chronicles summers with her mother and father in France — in particular, Provence — with apt description for people, food and place.

“The dry, crackling heat of Provence,” writes Fanny, “a heat so unrelenting it would turn the sap liquid in the trunks of the pines that blanket the coastthose iconic umbrella-like silhouettes whose canopies throw vast puddles of

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warm shade at their feet.”

Having spent many summers in Provence with my daughter, I felt especially drawn to Fanny’s stories.

Each of the 32 chapters has at least one recipe.

Having been of the first generation to grow up at Chez Panisse, Fanny writes, “The collective favorite place of all the restaurant urchins was the pizza station in the upstairs café, with its oak wood-burning oven and endlessly obliging pizzaiolo.” Michele Perrella.

Fanny provides the pizza recipe, which I can attest, is a good one. All of her recipes are written informally and are user friendly.

In France, citron pressé is just so very much more than lemonade. It’s a celebration, a way of life.

Fanny describes this drink offered to her after a harrowing adventure on a ferry to an island off Bandol, Provence, with her girlfriend Manon.

When safe, they were offered a citron pressé by the proprietor of a café only after he recovered from the shock of learning the girls’ names — Fanny and Manon — two much loved characters in the works of Marcel Pagnol, French author and director.

My daughter and I ordered citron pressé frequently while waiting for friends at a café in the town square.

The drink is served in a glass with ice and fresh squeezed lemon juice. Still or sparkling water are on the table, and one adds that plus a teaspoon of simple syrup.

Fanny’s recipe calls for one-cup sugar to one-cup water with the skin of one lemon, which is nice.

Bring to a boil and allow it to roll for 5 minutes. Let it cool. It’s a refreshing summer beverage for your social distancing engagements.

Fanny describes long, summer lunches in Bandol, Provence, with food luminaries such as Richard Olney, who wrote

June is a good month for making Elderflower Syrup. For my recipe, visit my website at www.annmevans.com.

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Flatbreads with Spring Onions and Feta.

“Simple French Food” and “The French Menu Cookbook” with Lulu Peyroud, with whom Richard collaborated to transcribe and publish all Peyraud’s regional recipes in “Lulu’s Provençal Table,” and with others of the family Chez Panisse, as Fanny and her mother refer to the cohort of chefs and others who have worked at Chez Panisse over the years.

Our summer rentals always had an “outdoor kitchen,” where I enjoyed many a day cooking my way through some of Alice Waters’ cookbooks, such as “Fanny at Chez Panisse. “ This past month, I’ve been cooking from my own cookbook, the “Davis Farmers Market Cookbook,” to which Alice wrote the foreword.

Our family has enjoyed spring recipes such as “Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic,” “Green Garlic Flan,” “Slow Cooked Collard Greens with Pancetta,” and a cherry rustic sweet tart.

And because I have so many green onions in the garden, and because it’s a very fun and easy recipe to make, I’ve made “Flatbreads with Spring Onions and Feta” twice.

I hope you enjoy the recipe as much as we have; I hope you keep on cooking at home now that we are out and about a bit more; and, I hope you will enjoy a good book which includes stories of food, culture and place, such as

Fanny Singer’s “Always Home.”

— Ann M. Evans is the author of the awardwinning Davis Farmers Market Cookbook, which provides seasonal recipes for every level cook, available at local stores, the market and online. She lives in Davis with her husband, bees and chickens amidst an edible garden. Visit her website atwww.annmevans.comor contact her atann@ annmevans.com.

Flatbreads with Spring Onions and Feta From “The Davis Farmers Market Cookbook,” By Ann M. Evans, 2016, Elderflower Press Easy and versatile, this simple dough recipe can be rolled or pulled into rectangles, rounds, or whatever shape you like The toppings vary throughout the seasons, and the garnished flatbreads can be served as an appetizer, a bread accompaniment, or even a main dish.

The spring onions, with their plump bulbs and tender greens, can be found at numerous market vendors. They add their own delicate flavor and vibrant color.

Dough 1 envelope (about 2 1/2 teaspoons) active dry yeast 1 cup warm water (105 degrees) 1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon sea or kosher salt 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 1/2 to 3 cups allpurpose flour 2 tablespoons rice flour Topping 3 bunches spring onions 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 4 to 6 ounces feta cheese, crumbled 2 tablespoons minced fresh thyme 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sea or kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground white or black pepper 2 to 3 tablespoons chopped pancetta, homemade (pages 194196) or purchased (optional) Putting it together To make the dough, in a small bowl sprinkle the yeast over the warm water, add the sugar, and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.

In a food processor, combine the yeast mixture, salt, 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, and about 2 1/2 cups of the flour.

Pulse just until the mixture comes together in a soft ball of dough, adding more flour, a little at a time, if the mixture seems too wet. The dough should be neither too sticky nor too dry.

Gather the dough into a ball, transfer to a floured work surface, and knead until smooth and elastic, about 7 minutes. Shape into a smooth ball.

Oil a large bowl with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil, add the dough ball to the bowl, and turn the

ball to coat it evenly with the oil.

Cover the bowl with a damp cloth, place it in a warm, draft-free area, and let the dough rise until doubled in size, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

If you are using a pizza stone, place it on the lower rack of the oven and preheat the oven to 500 degrees. If you have a convection setting on your oven, use it.

Lightly dust 1 or 2 large rimless baking sheets with the rice flour, which helps the pizzas to slide easily.

Punch down the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface.

Divide the dough into two or four equal portions.

Using a floured rolling pin, roll out each portion into a round or rectangle no more than a quarterinch thick. Transfer to the rice flour–covered baking sheet(s).

To make the topping, trim off the roots from the spring onions, then chop all the white bulb and half of the greens of each onion.

Brush the dough rounds or rectangles with about 1 tablespoon of the olive oil.

Sprinkle the cheese, onions, thyme, salt, pepper, and pancetta (if using) evenly over the tops and then drizzle with the remaining tablespoon olive oil.

If using a pizza stone, slide 1 large or 2 small flatbreads onto it. If not, place the baking sheet directly on the lower rack of the oven.

Bake until the edge of the crust is golden-brown and the onions are beginning to turn golden. The edge of the crust should be crisp and firm when tested with a fingertip or fork. This will take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes.

Using a wide spatula, transfer the flatbread(s) to a cutting board. Repeat with the remaining flatbread(s).

Cut into wedges or rectangles and serve.

Makes two 12- to 14inch round or 8-by-14-inch rectangular flatbreads; serves 4 to 6.

Let’s all decode the message in the bottle I n one of the amusing Vintage Berkeley missives that so light up my days, the staff commented about the importance of their product in these weird times: “as one of the only strangers we get to invite to our dinner table, wine’s both a pleasure and a message-in-a-bottle, sent from afar.” I like that. A message in a bottle indeed.

The message in part is (to use a COVID cliché) that we’re all in this together. And I think that’s especially true of the many small and passionate winemakers that places like VB feature, winemakers who take care with their grapes and the land on which they’re grown. Winemakers who understand that wine’s a living thing — to be tended with love and not forced into submission.

Winemakers in un-prestigeous regions are often the most passionate of all, specifically about their native grapes and the terroir they can express — one reason that I’m always seeking out unknown-to-me varieties from places I know little about.

Like Slovenia, from which, suddenly it seems, wonderful wines keep appearing. The Crnko Jarenican (no I have no idea how to pronounce it), for example, a wine that, I hear, is served in just about every household and tavern in the Maribor region of the country

where it’s made.

I first read about it in one of those above-mentioned missives (“we advise you to drink it up before we do”) and then found it at The Pip in Dixon. It comes in a liter bottle, costs about $19, and is a blend of two kinds of riesling, muller thurgau, sauv blac and chard.

Here’s my story: since it’s a liter bottle, I poured off a couple of glasses and put them in the fridge for later drinking or cooking just to make sure we didn’t mindlessly consume the entire thing. We much enjoyed the rest but, well, it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. It was good and bright and nicely minerally and acidic but maybe a bit too timid.

Fast forward two weeks: I was making risotto and found a jar of white wine in the back of the fridge. I wasn’t exactly sure what it was, having completely forgotten about that Crnko remnant (lockdown memory lapses anyone?).

I wasn’t even sure how long that jar had been there, so I thought I’d better taste it to make sure it was still good. My response? “What in the world is this delicious wine and why is it sitting abandoned on the shelf?”

And then I remembered. Interesting, isn’t it, how wine and drinker and context can so change in the course of a couple of weeks. Or days. Or even hours.

I got a bright burst of lemon and other fruit, some herbs, and altogether more intensity than I recalled from the first try. It worked fine in the risotto, of course, but now I can’t wait for another bottle to drink, which I will open a couple of hours before I start pouring.

More immediately lovable is another unpronounceable-to-me wine, the Gaintza Txakoli from the Basque country on the Atlantic coast of Spain. Joseba Antonio now runs the family Gaintza operation, which started in 1923 just as a way to make wines for friends and family.

These grapes are even less ordinary than the Crnko — hondarrabi zuri, hondarrabi beltza and gros manseng — all grown on the hills overlooking the Bay of Biscay.

Like the Crnko it has a very slight spritz. Wonderfully refreshing, apple-y, and acidic,

its hint of salt reminds you of the sea. Practice pronouncing (go ahead, make it up) the names of those grapes and you’ll really impress your wine-loving friends — if you ever see them again. I miss mine.

Since it’s Amy at The Pip who has been my SIP provider, I at least get the chance for an occasional, socially distanced wine chat when she delivers my bottles. (If you want her to to bring you some, visitthepipwine. comand check out other fun things as well — like the Quarantine Qitchen Carbonara Pack that includes not only a bottle of wine but eggs from her ducks and local bacon.)

You might also want a messagein-a-bottle from somewhere closer than Slovenia or the Basque Country. If so, add to your order a bottle of Pax Trousseau Gris.

I mentioned wines from the Pax Mahle group in a recent column and promised to tell you about more — so here’s one. The trousseau gris grape (which I’d never heard of and therefore had to try) comes from the Jura region of France.

It was once called “gray riesling” and was planted widely in California. But now there’s only one remaining block — in the almost 100-year-old, dry-farmed Fannuchi Wood Road Vineyard

in the Russian River Valley.

The wine’s a lovely salmon color, which tricks you into thinking it’s a rosé, but the grape is white, and rosé’s made from red. There must have been significant skin contact to get this gold-pink-orange hue — so I’d call it an “orange,” though it doesn’t announce itself as such.

This fresh, multi-layered wine was fermented in concrete eggs — without the addition of SO2.

More mineral than fruit, it’s savory, citrus-y, and alive. We drank it with a “things” dinner that included roasted carrots and celery, several cheeses, and some smoked trout — all worked well, but the real oohs and aahs came with the last glass after the food was eaten, when the wine became the focus of our table talk as it changed with every sip.

The label, which at first looks just blank is actually lightly embossed white — and also elicited comment and conversation.

A fun bottle all the way round.

And the message in the bottle?

Pax Mahle and friends make great wine. Support them and other small winemakers in their time of need.

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

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HALTS: Affected projects at different stages of completion From Page A1 moving ahead. Among those defunded:

Pump-bike track More than two years ago, the City Council authorized a 9,000-square-foot pump-bike track in Community Park where bikers of all ages would be able to maneuver over hills and around other obstacles, using their body weight and momentum to pump through the track without pedaling. Members of the Davis Bike Park Alliance had been lobbying for the track for years.

In recommending defunding the project, city staff told the council the project “may not be deemed an essential need of the city at this time.”

“The project could be pursued in the future when the council feels this project is a priority for city funds,” according to the staff report, which also noted that with the track design already complete, “this project… may be a prime candidate for pursuing grant funding, or to pursue private financial fundraising as an alternative that may help to advance it sooner.”

Downtown parking Plans to convert more public parking lots in downtown Davis will be deferred for now, following the council’s vote on Tuesday.

“Council could re-allocate funds to support this project in the future once the city has a

better idea of the extent of business impacts from COVID and how quickly local businesses may rebound from the current closures,” city staff said. “Moreover, the program anticipated that parking revenues generated would cover the cost of hiring additional parking enforcement staff and to undertake education, outreach, and rebate program efforts.”

The savings would be nearly $790,000.

H Street Tunnel The first phase of tunnel modification was completed on the north end of H Street and the second phase was intended to improve sight distance at the west end of the tunnel.

“While an important safety improvement,” city staff said, “(it) was thought to be something that could be deferred to the future, particularly in light of the completion of the new grade separated connection to the Cannery and the new signalized intersection at Covell Boulevard and L Street.”

The savings to the city is $1.95 million.

Davis Depot crossing A connection from Olive Drive to the Davis Depot — long sought by residents of the Olive Drive neighborhood — was to be funded by a combination of sources, including the city and developers of the Lincoln 40 housing project on Olive Drive.

“At this time, no work has begun on the project,” city staff noted, but discussions have been underway with AMTRAK, Capital Corridor and Union Pacific about possible partnerships and federal funding.

“Should support for a project result from these discussions, staff would return to council with a specific proposal to fund next steps at that time — including the utilization of the Lincoln 40 Development Agreement funds.”

The savings to the city budget is $1.5 million.

Other projects defunded for now include: ■ Fifth Street hole improvement ■ Russell Greenstreet demonstration project ■ Birch Lane Elementary School bike/walk safety improvements ■ Fifth Street lane reconfiguration between L Street and Pole Line Road; ■ Second Street Corridor Study Projects seeing reduced funding that will change their scope include:

Parking guidance The purpose of the project was helping drivers find available parking spaces in public lots by installing parking guidance systems identifying the number of available spaces. While work is nearing completion on some lots, a parking guidance system for the G Street parking garage will not be funded. The savings to the city is $240,000.

Tulip/Ponteverde For years the intersection at Tulip and Ponteverde lanes has been a concern for residents living nearby as well as families whose children cross there traveling to and from Korematsu Elementary School and Harper Junior High School.

The City Council in January authorized up to $770,000 to extend the bike bike path that runs parallel and south of Loyola Drive to Tulip Lane and create a bicycle and pedestrian crossing on Tulip so cyclists no longer have to cross traffic on a section of Ponteverde to enter the path.

On Tuesday, the council voted to reduce the project by more than $600,000 with the remaining funds likely to be used for an interim project aimed at traffic calming.

As with the pump-bike track, City Manager Mike Webb noted that the plans for the larger project are complete and would be ready to go out to bid when the city’s financial picture improves.

Council members voted in favor of all of the reductions on Tuesday but with no enthusiasm.

“This is certainly not something that I relish having to do,” said Councilman Will Arnold. “A good number of these projects were things that I championed over the years, so it’s sad to see them deferred.”

However, he said, “it is a very prudent process that we’re undertaking right now.”

Councilman Lucas Frerichs also noted that other funding

sources may become available, particularly for the transportation projects, such as grants from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

“Let’s hope that’s the case, right?” he said.

In two weeks, the council will consider a 2020-21 budget that will include more cuts.

On Tuesday, council members sent a message to city employee groups that their preference would be furlough days or deferred cost-of-living increases rather than job losses to balance the budget.

Those labor groups are currently in negotiations with city staff.

“I think it’s important that we emphasize to the employees that our first choice is not to have any layoffs and we’re trying to have cost savings through furlough days or COLA increases,” said Lee. “I certainly concur with that,” said Councilman Dan Carson.

“Especially with COVID still a threat, we have people on the front line, not just police and fire … it is a priority to keep our people.”

Said Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida, “I absolutely support us not doing any layoffs and I would hope that our employee groups would take that path as a choice, that they would work towards making sure that no one has to go without pay.

“It’s going to be tough times ahead ... but if we can contribute to keeping people employed, that’s a good thing.”

PRISON: Family speaks about impact of losing 5-year-old From Page A1 months in state prison.

The term was the result of a plea deal reached back in February as Carlyle, 35, faced a trial on numerous charges including murder.

Instead, he pleaded no contest to felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence causing injury, which carry enhancements for multiple victims and inflicting great bodily injury.

Carlyle’s initial April 7 sentencing date was delayed nearly two months due to the coronavirus pandemic that scaled back court proceedings for weeks.

Luis Figueroa Jr. died

and several of his family members suffered major injuries as a result of the June 18, 2019, crash on northbound Interstate 5 east of Woodland, where the Figueroa family was returning home from a day of fishing and playing on the American River.

sending it down a 20-foot embankment.

According to testimony offered during Carlyle’s preliminary hearing, witnesses reported Carlyle was speeding on the freeway that night, recklessly weaving in and out of traffic as he headed northbound toward Woodland.

Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, conducted via Zoom video, included victim-impact statements from Luis’ family and several of his teachers at Gibson Elementary School, which the boy attended with his three siblings, including a twin sister.

Near the County Road 22 exit, Carlyle’s BMW struck the rear of the Figueroas’ Nissan pickup,

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

Among them is Miss Kitty (A177917), a 12-yearold medium hair tortie and in need of a loving home.

Although Miss Kitty has a grumpy cat face, she is very sweet. Once she feels comfortable with you she will even climb into your lap.

Miss Kitty is a sensitive soul, and would do best in a home without kids or dogs so she can have as quiet and relaxing a home as possible.

Miss Kitty Also looking for a good home is Nelly (A180168), a goofy 2-year-old tri-color female German shepherd who is very sweet and enjoys gentle and dainty doggie playgroups at the shelter. This affectionate and precious girl is loved by everyone she meets.

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

The shelter is closed to

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

Saturdays.

For information, visit

Nelly www.petfinder.com/ member/us/ca/woodland/ yolo-county-animalservices-ca283/.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Red, a 7-year-old neutered male boxer/hound cross.

Talk about a love, Red is a super-sweet, housebroken, obedience-trained cuddle bug. He’s a longtime volunteer favorite.

Poppy is a 2½-year-old spayed female Rottweiler.

She is friendly and funloving. Poppy gets along with other large dogs. She comes with free lifetime training classes.

The next Rotts of Friends’ adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 6, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland.

Carlyle was arrested, later testing positive for high levels of methamphetamine in his system, a California Highway Patrol officer testified. He also was driving with a suspended license and expired registration.

brother. I miss when he tells me he loves me. I miss his hugs because they were so warm. I just want him back.”

Maria Ochoa, Luis’ mother, described her son a cheerful and kind boy “who was easy to love.”

“How I wish this was just a bad dream. As a parent,

you never imagine you would have to bury a child,” Ochoa said. “He had barely started his life, and Shane took away my dream of seeing my son grow up.”

“He took a lot from us,” added Luis Figueroa Sr., the boy’s father. “I just want him to pay for what he has done to my family.”

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Luis Figueroa Jr. was just 5 when he died as the result of a DUI collision.

His older sister, Genesis, wept as she told the court “how much I miss my

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Keeping it creative in Yolo County YOLOARTS

BY ALISON FLORY Special to The Enterprise

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he arts are alive and well in Yolo County! As the official Yolo partner with the California Arts Council, we have been busy planting the seeds to grow art in new and fun ways for the people of Yolo County.

The YoloArts office and galleries closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, YoloArts has been blooming online with virtual art galleries, studio tours, arts education, artist talks and more. The outdoor area at the Gibson House and Property is open for art and cultural discoveries among the gardens and majesty of the mansion. This springtime has been a time of creativity for all of us (we are a creative bunch!) to

discover how art can flourish in a new way. Here is a look at what’s been growing at YoloArts during these extraordinary times.

Art happenings have launched online with “Virtual YoloArts” at yoloarts.org and include: ■ Artwork and tours of The Barn Gallery, the Gibson Mansion, and Gallery 625 can be enjoyed.

■ Home studio and collection tours of some of Yolo County’s finest artists can be experienced.

Artists featured recently include Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, Tomas Montoya and Zen Du. ■ Weekly interviews with Yolo County creatives include Adelita Serena, Judith Selby Lang, Anna Fricke and Iulia Bodeanu.

■ Art & Ag artists are submitting their recent work inspired

by Yolo County farmlands to be included in our online galleries.

■ Knowledge at Noon, the speaker series of artists, historians and agriculture professionals, explores Yolo County history and art monthly online. In June, Elizabeth “Betsy” Monroe, a fifth-generation descendant of gold-mining pioneers who settled in the Capay Valley in the 1850s, will speak on the diversity of people and cultures settling in the Capay Valley.

Our art education program regularly includes artist residencies at schools around the county. With the closing of schools, we have worked with

our teaching artists to continue Artists in Schools programming.

For example, in Esparto, students picked up kits with supplies and instructions from the teaching artist to make a ceramic bird for installation at Esparto Elementary School next year; in Winters, the Art Exposure field trip program evolved to include the students “going to” a Taiko Drum performance online instead of at the Mondavi Center. The teaching artist provided guidance through online talks and supportive activities.

In Woodland, teaching artists Susan Shelton and Tomas Montoya have moved their studio sessions online for the students of César Chávez Community and Dan Jacobs Schools.

The Art & Ag farm visits have been on hiatus this spring. However, in late May, we received the okay from county officials to resume, with safety precautions such as face coverings and physical distancing, and the first farm visit was to Patchwork Lavender Farm in the Capay Valley.

As we transition to welcoming visitors in person again, please stay connected with the arts. Follow YoloArts on Facebook and Instagram and visit yoloarts.org where you can sign up for our mailing list. As always, email questions and comments to ya@yoloarts.org.

And remember: Keep it creative, Yolo!

— Alison Flory is the executive director of YoloArts

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Mary Bayard White’s “For the Birds #3” — designed to be a functioning birth bath — is among the art sculptures on outdoor display at the Gibson House and Property.

‘Military Wives’: Be sure to enlist for this one!

This delightful dramedy is inspired by actual events

‘Military Wives’ Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Amy James-Kelly, India Ria Amarteifio, Jason Flemyng, Laura Checkley and Gaby French Rating: PG-13, for occasional profanity

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic Director Peter Cattaneo makes adorable feel-good films that cleverly blend light, character-driven humor with social commentary that often pokes at the British class system.

He put himself on the map with 1997’s “The Full Monty,” and if his subsequent films didn’t live up to that big-screen debut — 2001’s “Lucky Break” and 2008’s “The Rocker” — it’s only because he set the bar so high the first time.

Well, “Military Wives” — available via Amazon Prime and other streaming platforms — hits all the markers that made “Monty” so entertaining.

The cherry on top is that Rosanne Flynn and Rachel Tunnard’s script is inspired by deeply moving actual events: a poignant (and well-timed) reminder that people from disparate backgrounds can accomplish marvelous things when working together.

The setting is 2010, at England’s (fictitious) Flitcroft military base.

(Production actually took place at North Yorkshire’s Catterick Garrison, the world’s largest British army base.)

The ongoing war in Afghanistan has just entered the “surge” phase,

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Lisa (Sharon Horgan, left) can’t quite believe it when, instead of just allowing their group to sing a song, Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas) insists on beginning with high-falutin’ vocal exercises. with increasing numbers of Allied troops being deployed overseas; this includes many of the active-duty soldiers at Flitcroft.

Their wives and girlfriends, left behind on base, have limited options for distracting themselves from worst-case fears. Kate (Kristin Scott Thomas), wife of the company commander, decides to take a more active hand in gathering the women for group activities.

By doing so, she steps on the toes of Lisa (Sharon Horgan), the base’s newly

appointed Social Committee chair.

They’re a classic case of oil and water, destined never to mix. Kate is a condescending, high-minded aristocrat who throws her status around; Scott Thomas delivers just the right note of smug entitlement.

The earthier, workingclass Lisa has long enjoyed being “just one of the girls,” and she’s not about to let her new “promotion” get in the way of that.

Kate wants to organize productive, formally structured activities; Lisa — and

the rest of the women — prefer informal morning coffee klatches and winefueled evenings.

A compromise, of sorts, emerges when somebody suggests starting a choir.

Kate naturally seizes upon this as a means of exercising her conducting technique while running scales and vocal exercises, and teaching highbrow classical material: totally removed from the pop tunes with which Lisa and the others are familiar. They just want to sing.

But — and many of the interpersonal dynamics are

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shaped by this — Kate is the boss (even though, more accurately, she’s “merely” the actual boss’ wife). Most of the other women are cowed by her, or at least respect her position; they, therefore, hope that Lisa will convey their point of view.

And oh, boy; the latter seems an initially insurmountable barrier.

Cattaneo was resolute on the most important detail: These actresses all sing, without lip-synching. The group’s first effort at a song — the hymn “Morning Has Broken” — is a full-blown disaster, with nearly everybody off-key, incapable of following the beat, and sometimes only pretending to vocalize. This sequence is both funny and tragic, and we’re just as likely to cringe as chuckle.

Actually, our hearts break; the intent is sincere, but can it be trained?

As it typical of such stories, the characters are all over the map. Kate has already endured what the rest of the women fear the most; her inability to fully confront this tragedy —

The group’s first effort at a song — the hymn “Morning Has Broken” — is a full-blown disaster ... This sequence is both funny and tragic, and we’re just as likely to cringe as chuckle. and move past it — significantly shapes her brittle personality.

Lisa struggles to control her rebellious teenage daughter, Frankie (India Ria Amarteifio), who is following an ill-advised path.

Sarah (Amy JamesKelly) is a young newlywed, wholly out of her depth in such regimented and unfamiliar surroundings.

Ruby (Lara Rossi), the base hairstylist, is the group’s most enthusiastic singer; alas, she’s tone-deaf and absolutely unable to follow a melody.

Maz (Laura Checkley), an outspoken, workingclass soccer fan, is one of the few willing to stand up to Kate.

Then there’s always the sweet surprise: one shy, unexpected ringer blessed with an incredible voice.

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Where the spies are: Bond’s rivals merit attention

BY DERRICK BANG Enterprise film critic By the time 1965’s “Thunderball” arrived — Sean Connery’s fourth 007 thriller — the world was certifiably crazy for movie spies and secret agents.

Obeying the mantras that nothing succeeds like excess — and that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — studios here and abroad began fast-tracking gadget-laden competitors.

Most were awful, as with “Agent for HARM,” “The Last of the Secret Agents” and all four of Dean Martin’s execrable Matt Helm entries (the latter having become even more wincingly dreadful with time).

But a select few were respectable, and — for our purposes — remain entertaining today. All (except where noted) are available via Amazon Prime and other streaming services.

James Coburn’s brash Derek Flint was by far the best, and it’s a shame he enjoyed only two bigscreen adventures. His debut in 1966’s “Our Man Flint” is a delightful example of spy spoofery at its finest, because producer Saul David oversaw an impressively glossy production, with lavish sci-fi sets and well-staged action sequences.

Coburn’s portrayal of the gracefully athletic, unapologetically hedonistic and scientifically unrivaled Flint remains the part for which he’s best known (a long career’s worth of other fine work notwithstanding).

The world’s nations are shattered by an unprecedented wave of volcanoes, earthquakes, storms and other weather-related disasters: clearly the work of some diabolical agency.

The anxious global members of the United Nationsesque Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage (ZOWIE) turn to ex-agent Derek Flint.

He follows the first clue to Marseille, employing his refined sense of taste to locate the one restaurant where the chef ’s bouillabaisse is made with ingredients in the signature proportions found as residue on a poison dart intended to terminate him.

Once this venue is located, Flint has started down the trail that will lead him to the three mad scientists who, heading an organization they’ve dubbed Galaxy, have invented the massive climate-controlling device that threatens the world.

The action is even more fun in 1967’s “In Like Flint,” which delivers the same over-the-top spyjinks and female pulchritude. Flint’s sophomore adventure is triggered by the owners of a Virgin Islands-based beauty farm, Fabulous Face, who have an insidious plan to switch the U.S. president with a puppet lookalike, who’ll then discredit the ZOWIE intelligence agency and threaten the world by arming an orbiting space platform with nuclear weapons.

“An actor as president?”

Flint muses, early on: a line

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Having penetrated the lair of the misguided scientists threatening to destroy the world in order to save it — dispatching all manner of guards along the way — the irrepressible Derek Flint (James Coburn) contemplates his next move.

More than anything else — thanks to his entrenched distrust of those in authority — Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) hates to discover that people are lying to him. Naturally, that occurs more than once during an unconventional “Funeral in Berlin.” that gets a much bigger laugh today than it did in 1967.

In its own modest way, this film was progressive: Fabulous Face’s ultimate goal is to replace global patriarchy with feminist rulers who will (of course) do a far superior job.

1965’s “The Liquidator,” one of Britain’s better secret-agent spoofs, is based on the first of author John Gardner’s eight Boysie Oakes spy thrillers.

Much like George MacDonald Fraser’s Harry Flashman, Oakes only feigns being a tough mercenary type; he’s actually a gutless sybarite who is horrified by the thought of having to kill somebody.

The story begins as British intelligence officer Mostyn (Trevor Howard) is chafing over a series of embarrassing security leaks.

Fed up with a protocol that requires waiting for known traitors to pass classified data, then arresting them and enduring humiliating public trials, Mostyn decides on a radical solution: He’ll hire an assassin to quickly — and illegally — terminate (liquidate) all

known moles, double agents and compromised department personnel.

Mostyn recruits Boysie (Rod Taylor) with the promise of a fat salary, lavish apartment, fancy car and ample wine, women and song — without explaining what he’ll be doing.

By the time the frequently bewildered Boysie finds out, he’s unwilling to abandon the posh lifestyle, and so he secretly hires an amiable freelance hitman (Eric Sykes) to carry out the liquidations. All goes well

until Boysie is kidnapped by enemy agents, escapes and then is duped into what he believes will be a fake assassination attempt — for “training purposes” — on the Duke of Edinburgh.

Recent dramas such as “Enigma” and “The Imitation Game” have detailed the legendary WWII codebreaking activities that took place at Britain’s Bletchley Park, much of which remained secret for half a century. 1968’s “Sebastian,” a quirky little British film, preceded them by decades, suggesting — but never explicitly detailing — the sort of work that took place behind Bletchley Park’s super-secret closed doors.

Dirk Bogarde stars as the title character, a brilliant but socially challenged cryptographer with a team of 100 hand-picked analysts — all women — who work rotating shifts around the clock, in order to break Russian and Chinese ciphers. His newest recruit is Rebecca Howard (Susannah York), who proves quite adept at this secret “civil service” work; she also falls for her perpetually distracted boss.

Sebastian has other problems, most particularly the head of security (Nigel Davenport), who has grown suspicious of the left-wing Communist sympathies of the team’s senior decoder, Elsa Shahn (Lilli Palmer). The film’s third act adds the challenge of strange signals emanating

from a Russian spy satellite: seemingly “random” noise that Sebastian is convinced conceals coded messages.

No country churned out more 1960s spy spoofs than Italy, and most were quickie cheapo productions that never deserved to see the light of a projector lens.

1966’s “Opperazione Paradiso” (released in the States as “Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die”) is an engaging exception: a rare big-screen starring vehicle for Mike Connors, a year from name-brand fame as television’s “Mannix.”

Unfortunately, “Kiss the Girls” isn’t available for streaming in any language, so I’ll not discuss it further.

That same fate has befallen Michael Caine’s debut outing as Harry Palmer, in 1965’s “The Ipcress File”: absolutely one of the best “serious” responses to Connery’s increasingly bombastic 007 adventures. Caine’s Palmer is a saucy, working-class bloke who disdains authority and is more apt to wrestle with interdepartmental squabbling and a relentless deluge of bureaucratic forms — B107s, TX82s and L101s — than enemy agents in the field. Even so, he winds up in the middle of a nasty caper involving brainwashed scientists.

Alas, “Ipcress” is available for streaming only in the UK. Happily, Caine’s sophomore outing as Palmer — 1966’s “Funeral in Berlin”

No country churned out more 1960s spy spoofs than Italy, and most were quickie cheapo productions that never deserved to see the light of a projector lens. 1966’s “Opperazione Paradiso” ... is an engaging exception.

— is available for us Yanks.

The story, once again adapted from a Len Deighton novel, is another labyrinthine web of deception and double-cross. Matters (seemingly) begin simply enough when Palmer is sent to Berlin to arrange the defection of high-level Soviet intelligence officer Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka).

Palmer likes but doesn’t trust the crusty old spy. The scheme grows more complicated with the participation of Johnny Vulcan (Paul Hubschmid), a longtime friend and colleague; and Otto Kreutzman (Günter Meisner), a West German “fixer” known to arrange fullproof escapes from the east side of the wall.

The plan, involving swapped bodies in a funeral coffin, naturally goes awry; the suspenseful finale, true to Deighton’s nature, once again leaves a bitter taste in Palmer’s mouth.

Caine ultimately reprised the role in three more films — “Billion Dollar Brain” (1967), “Bullet to Beijing” (1995) and “Midnight in Saint Petersburg” (1996) — but don’t be tempted; they’re a lamentable case of diminishing returns.

Indeed, the final two are shamefully low-rent dreck financed by schlockmeister Harry Alan Towers.

You’ll have to excuse me now; protocol demands that I open Channel D. — Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang.blog spot.com. Comment on this review at www.davis enterprise.com.

Boysie Oakes (Rod Taylor) has little interest in his actual assignment — terminally dispatching traitors within British Intelligence — while spending a naughty weekend at the French Riviera with Iris (Jill St. John), his boss’ capable secretary.

MILITARY: Movie ends with a bonus of a very satisfying epilogue From Page B1 droll part as Crooks, the senior base officer who supervises these activities from a cautious distance, initially retreating within headphones to drown out caterwauling that Lisa — attempting levity — brands “the incantations of a bunch of witches.”

The story’s best, most heartwarming element is the group dynamic that Flynn and Tunnard sketch so authentically.

Although united by the anxiety of having their partners so far away, under such dangerous circumstances, they’re wholly dissimilar in almost every other respect.

Generosity of spirit doesn’t always eliminate sniping, defensive posturing or unexpected lapses into despair.

The key dramatic arc belongs to Scott Thomas and Horgan, as we wonder whether Kate and Lisa can overcome their mutual antagonism. The latter is game; Horgan gives her a retro rocker vibe and an earnest sincerity that never wholly conceals the fact that, on the home front, she’s just as overwhelmed as Kate.

But every time we think the thaw is coming, Kate unleashes yet another spiteful, judgmental remark (and we groan).

The subtlety of Scott Thomas’

The story’s best, most heartwarming element is the group dynamic that Flynn and Tunnard sketch so authentically. performance comes roughly midway, when each fresh transgression is followed by a fleeting grimace of personal distaste; Kate realizes that she has crossed the line again. (Which, I guess, is progress.)

The selected songs, as the group progresses, are an intriguing mix of 1980s megahits: Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” Tears for Fears’ “Shout,” Yazoo’s “Only You” and The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me.” For the most part, Cattaneo avoids power anthems; he clearly didn’t want the heightenedreality approach of TV’s “Glee.”

These are just regular folks: the ones who stand next to you during a church service, and proudly — loudly — sing off-key.

Although these are all fictitious characters, the bonus emotional surge arrives as an epilogue, when we learn that the actual Catterick

Garrison choir — founded in 2010 and granted worldwide exposure the following year, when profiled on Gareth Malone’s popular TV series “The Choir” — has blossomed into a registered charity of 75 (!) choirs in British military bases across the U.K. and overseas, consisting of 2,300 people with military connections.

You simply can’t ask for a better, more satisfying — and poignant — glow, as the screen fades to black.

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Here’s a tribute to all the local graduates L et’s honor this moment with a big round of congratulations to the Class of 2020, a group that will go down in history.

That includes the graduating seniors from Davis High School, our UC Davis graduates, and even the city’s elementary school students with their “promotion ceremonies” to the next grade.

All of them reached their graduation milestones during some of the most tumultuous times our country has ever seen.

We’ve endured more than three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now, more than a week of protests since the tragic death of George Floyd.

Our graduating students deserve our full support. Their talent and resiliency give us hope that the future is in good hands.

These bright students had to

pivot quickly to remote learning as shelter-in-place orders were issued in Yolo County. The following weeks weren’t easy, as the ability to visit friends and participate in sports and other activities were mostly put on hold. Yet, they pressed on — all the way to graduation day.

Let’s thank the educators, many of whom went above and beyond to learn new ways of teaching and kept their students connected in creative ways.

All the parents and guardians deserve plenty of appreciation, too. So many of you juggled busy

work lives while simultaneously making sure these students were being educated and entertained at home. It’s been a lot to ask of everyone, but we pulled through.

The traditional June graduation season looks much different as large gatherings must wait for another time. At UC Davis, we’ve transitioned to virtual commencements — though we’re hopeful that we can host an inperson ceremony for undergraduates later this year.

I understand the disappointment of our graduates. That includes my youngest daughter, a member of the Class of 2020 whose own college graduation ceremony was postponed indefinitely. For years, our graduates have looked forward to commemorating their achievements with a walk across the stage and “Pomp and Circumstance” playing in the background. It’s hard for the family and friends who

have dreamt of this day as well.

Despite the disappointments, I’ve also been reminded of something during this time. We’re lucky to live in a city that shows so much heart.

You could feel this last week, as blue and white balloons were placed around town to celebrate Davis High School graduates.

Signs to congratulate these students were hung in the windows of businesses and placed on lawns. Cars honked as graduation parades wound through Davis streets. One house even left free Hawaiian leis for any graduate to take.

We will continue to face challenges in the days and years ahead. But as Maya Angelou once said, “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

So, to our university and high school graduates, I encourage you to move forward with

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Department to request a “Welfare Check” because it might add to their already heavy caseload. I went ahead and called trusting that Davis PD would know how to prioritize my call.

Within 45 minutes of my call, an officer left me a voicemail stating the PD was able to talk in person with our friend and that she was safe. The reason for the unanswered phone calls was that her cordless phone was not placed on the charging unit.

The friends and family of this elder friend are currently looking into community resources to provide her with more support so she can continue safely living on her own.

Thank you Davis PD for being part of our seniors’ safety net.

Mary Jean Allarey Davis

University Mall The Planning Commission’s unanimous rejection of the proposed University Mall redevelopment defies common sense. The location, directly across the street from UC Davis, is an ideal placement for studentoriented apartments.

Instead, the Commissioners buckled under pressure from nearby homeowners, whose property values inflate as the city’s housing shortage worsens. Rather than embrace a sensible mixed-use redevelopment successful in many college towns across the United States, the Planning Commission appears tethered to maintaining University Mall as a blighted, vacant eyesore. In an era of declining reliance on brick-and-mortar retail, this is unwise. I hope the City Council approves this redevelopment plan.

Cameron Goodman Davis

An election haiku Are you still alive?

To vote Trump another chance?

You’ll be sad you do.

Mont Hubbard Davis

University Mall redevelopment I am stunned that the Davis Planning Commission has unanimously voted to oppose the University Mall redevelopment plan. It’s easily one of the worst decisions they have come to in many years.

Why do we have a planning commission that waits until this late in the development process to come to their conclusions?

Why do we have a planning commission of unelected officials who seem to be driven by the opinions of a very vocal minority?

This is why Davis has such a difficult time attracting business and development.

Which, I suspect, is exactly what many in the vocal minority want.

According to the commission, the project is too focused on student housing.

Wrong. This is the perfect location for student housing, right across the street from the university, on a main thoroughfare, surrounded by other student housing.

According to the commission, the project will damage the “retail gem” of Davis, the existing University Mall. Wrong. The University Mall is a dying mall in a dying retail landscape. The new project will include exactly the kinds of retail that are currently viable at the University Mall.

Cost Plus is on its way to bankruptcy, and we all know what happened to Forever 21.

According to the commission and call-in opponents, the project is too large and too tall and it will overwhelm the neighborhood. Wrong. The neighborhood is almost entirely student housing on all sides of the mall, and Russell Boulevard is one of our town’s busiest corridors. This is the perfect location for dense, tall housing projects.

I have no beef with the commission wishing there were more affordable housing added to the project. However, what I do have an issue with is Commissioner

courage. It might seem like the world’s been turned upside down. The COVID-19 pandemic has us feeling isolated and anxious. Our communities are in pain over social injustices. I hope you always show the kind of strength and determination that brought you to this day.

To the younger graduates, I encourage you to keep exploring and asking questions. Learn all you can about the things that both fascinate and concern you.

Don’t forget that you’re surrounded by a community that’s rooting for you every step of the way, from the playground to your final graduation stage one day.

I wish everyone peace and good health during this historic graduation season. Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

— Gary May is chancellor of UC Davis; his column is published monthly.

Dog responsibility Darryl Rutherford calling the affordable housing plan an “atrocity” and a “slap in the face.” I would prefer we have commissioners who don’t indulge in hyperbole.

I would urge the City Council to ignore the Planning Commission on this particular occasion, and allow this great project to move forward. Of course, there will be the inevitable lawsuits, because this is Davis after all.

Doug Hoffman Davis

Distance learning requirements Distance learning may be required for the opening Davis schools later this year. If the District requires students to distant learn, then under provisions of the state constitution, parents can not be charged for materials and supplies necessary to participate in educational activities.

Viewing the DJUSD Return to School Family survey, this statement appears. “If a laptop/Chromebook and reliable home internet service were required for every student to participate in homework and digital assignments,” then a series of questions follows. One asks if family would be interested in buying a Chromebook from the district ($200-$300 each). In the beginning statement requiring a laptop for assignments, it should have been noted that the district is obligated to provide one to each and every student.

As a former teacher, I believe the district should be clear on what it must provide when a learning activity is required.

John Clark Davis

Days of rage are not the American way In 2018 Keith Ellison, currently Minnesota Attorney general, posted a Twitter photo of himself holding “Antifa: The AntiFascist Handbook.” Ellison’s post said the book should “strike fear into the heart” of President Donald Trump. The book refers to violence during counter-protests as “a small though vital sliver of anti-fascist activity.”

That post has been taken down.

Antifa is believed to have fomented some

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of the rioting, with violence and looting, that has erupted alongside legitimate protests against the choking death, by a police officer, of unarmed George Floyd. President Trump has asked that Antifa be declared a terrorist organization.

But Minneapolis City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison, son of Keith Ellison, has tweeted support for Antifa.

Minnesota’s governor wants Ellison — and not the Hennepin county prosecutor — to lead prosecutions related to the death of George Floyd, who was handcuffed when a police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.

Before Governor Walz announced that Ellison would lead the prosecution, Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights activist and former head of the Minneapolis NAACP, was among those calling for a special prosecutor, and she did not endorse Ellison for the job. “There needs to be a completely independent special prosecutor,” she said.

That seems like a judicious assessment, considering that riots across our country have left three dead (so far), dozens injured, hundreds arrested, and many buildings and businesses destroyed.

Days of rage are not the American way.

Julia Lutch Davis

Thank you, Davis PD An acquaintance who moved from Davis to Fresno a decade ago, contacted me by email requesting help in checking in on a common senior friend in Davis who lived alone. This friend is frail and has not been answering her phone for three days straight. Fortunately, I had the phone number of this senior’s close friend in Davis who confirmed that the last in person contact he had with her was six days earlier.

For her safety, she only answers the door after the visitor calls first. I tried calling her phone multiple times but it just kept ringing. The acquaintance from Fresno was concerned that something bad may have happened to our friend. We didn’t have the contact information for our friend’s relatives who lived out of town. We couldn’t ask for help from her immediate neighbors as they were also frail and had mobility problems. I was hesitant to call the Police

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

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It’s not every day that one’s day is punctuated by an attack by a dog, but that is what happened to me while I was gardening. The dog, unleashed, jumped and attacked, drawing blood and breaking skin; but the owners were oblivious despite my yelling at them and even wondering loudly if they had heard me. They, along with the dog, vanished into the evening.

It would be nice if dog owners would take some responsibility. At the very least, they could maintain better control of their charge and behave like responsible adults.

Geerat Vermeij Davis

Where are the consequences?

On Wednesday, May 27, Channel 13 evening news reported that a group of young boys had gathered (despite COVID-19 protocols) for swimming in Putah Creek (supervised?). They were in an area designated for preservation and study. It was reported that the boys killed ducklings and threw rocks at bird boxes.

Why did no one stop the cruelty? What are the consequences for those boys, the watchers and the killers? How are we to stop the development of another David Marsh or Donald Trump?

Juliana Wells Davis

Endorsement for re-election Our community will be well served if Lucas Frerichs is reelected to the City Council. Lucas has worked tirelessly and diligently to build a better community as an elected official and active volunteer. His service has produced results, including: clean energy, mass transit, clean water, better social services, and rehabilitation of roads and bicycle paths. While he values collaboration, he is not afraid to speak out when things go awry.

He was the lone council member to question and vote against the highly unusual process used to lease city land to be used for energy development. In short, Lucas Frerichs leads with empathy, courage and foresight and has my vote for another term.

Brian Sway Davis

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

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

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

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Circle the bugs to create groups as instructed. Then, have a parent check your answers.

Divide the dragonflies into three groups with the same number in each group.

Scientists think eating bugs could fight hunger and help protect our planet’s health.

According to entomologist Arnold van Huis of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, about 80% of the world’s population eats insects.

Meal Mealworms, cricke and crickets locus are locusts tthe he most common bugs people consume. But there are more than 11,700 ,700 kinds of bugs that are sa safe to eeat, at including termites and cockroaches!

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Acccording to the United Natio ns, the planet’s will reach 9 billion before 20 50. The demand for meat will double.

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Insects could eat the we throw out, turning it back into food for people to eat.

In Thailand, poor rice who often lose their crops to bad weather, are finding that raising mounds of crickets is helping them to survive and keep their farms.

There are more than 20,000 cricket farms in Thail and, 7,500 tons of crickets each ye ar. Thailand leads the world in raising insects for foo d.

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On one newspaper page, find and circle the letters that spell the names of each of the bugs below. Then connect the circled letters to make and color a design.

Imagine you are starting a restaurant that makes and serves dishes made with bugs.

Complete the Bug Bistro menu at right with dishes made with bugs as the main ingredient!

Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-level appropriate words correctly.

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id you know that crustaceans, like lobsters, crab and shrimp, belong to the same part of the animal family tree as insects? So if you’ve ever tried these tasty treats, then you’ve dined on the insects of the sea!

In Louisiana, people eat a lot of crustaceans called crawfish.

Use the code to find out their nickname:

=A =B =D =E =G =L =M =U Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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Rhubarb was a key ingredient in Aunt Sofia’s award-winning dessert.

Try to use the word ingredient in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

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M up a recipe that uses Make bbugs as a main ingredient.

Explain why people should E give it a try.

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Standards Link: Research: Use the newspaper to locate information.

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THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 B7

HELPING: Smith aids students on their career path From Page B8 techniques, demeanor in the workplace and securing internships before graduation.

Most importantly, along the way, Smith challenges student-athletes to consider how their majors fit with careers and then helps them focus on their choices.

“I think that’s the job of the outcomes adviser ... to broaden the (career-choice) horizon, broaden the scope of what’s possible for the young student who is sitting in your office,” Smith explained, adding that EVO presents “an informed choice,” while providing instruction on how to build that framework of preparation.

“Often, people come into (an adviser’s) office with blinders on, limiting the choices that are available,” the personable former Davis High assistant football coach and player pointed out. “Sometimes, that’s parental influence; sometimes, it’s the background they come from; sometimes, it’s just misinformation ... or often, it’s just

for a great job or grada lack of knowing what’s school opportunity after possible.” sports end, whenever that The No. 1 job for Smith? may be.”

He says it is to “prioritize Smith and his wife, potential outcomes. Find Yodit Kifle Smith, are out (from the student) dedicated to helping oth‘What’s the (goal) I desire ers. here?’ Not necessarily ‘Do I have to have this major SMITH Even before graduation, lead directly to this the former community career?’ ” and regional development major During any one period, Smith was working to find a smoother said he works with 100 to 120 career path for student-athletes student-athletes, lending that help- everywhere, not just in Davis. ing hand as he accompanies them Smith and Aggie linebacker on the journey through their col- Bobby Erskine “always talked lege careers. about how a better college experi“Instead of being prescriptive, ence could be created. ... As far back (through EVO) you can kind of as 2011 (we) saw a long list of our walk with the student to their football buddies were graduating and really struggling” to find their goals,” he added.

“We are uncommonly commit- places in the workforce.

Upon his own graduation, Smith ted to preparing student-athletes for successful lives after gradua- worked with Net Impact in Oaktion,” Blue said of his 3-year-old, land to mentor college students cutting-edge program. “Our and others who were just entering approach is based on the science of the workplace. At the same time, human development. You will not he coached clinic football and find another school more dedicated gained “greater understanding” as to helping (students) be positioned his and Yodit’s religious faith grew.

Kifle Smith is now involved with SayItForward.org, an organization that shares the stories of women and girls to, as its website says, “encourage and inspire others.”

The Smiths belong to the Elk Grove Bible Church where both are active members serving as music teachers and children’s ministries.

Smith, who grew up in Davis on Miller Drive — a stone’s throw from Toomey Field where the Aggies played football — is the adopted son of Dr. Steve and Loraine Smith.

Dwight remains in contact with his birth parents, New York’s Fred Crawford and Karen Boggess of New Jersey.

“Any of the minimal athletic talent I do have comes from my grandfather,” laughed Smith, who noted that Fred Sr. played for the Lakers and Knicks in the NBA. His grandfather was president of Community School District No. 5 in New York. Father Fred was the youngest director of the Harlem Police Athletic League and would go on to play basketball at the Uni-

versity of Central Florida and internationally as a pro.

Of great importance to Smith — especially in light of the civil unrest brought to a head by a string of black men’s deaths at the hands of police forces — is his lead involvement with the athletic department’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion.

“The culture you set in your organization — and we already have a pretty good culture in our department — says a lot about who you are and (what you’re trying to do),” Dwight reported.

“Now, how do we get everyone — from our staff to our studentathletes to our coaches — to be able to thrive? We want to continue to get better at that.”

In short, Smith has found his calling.

“I am grateful to be doing what I am,” he concluded.

— Reach Sports Editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@ gmail.com, call 530-320-4456 or follow him on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

YANCHER: What does future hold?

Former UC Davis field hockey goalie Beth Lee earned a Fulbright award and taught high school English in South Korea until the COVID-19 outbreak shut down the program.

From Page B8 fund physical education in more recent years.

However, a variety of factors, including altered funding methods and the university’s recent transition to Division I (requiring more responsibility for coaches compared to their D-II counterparts) have led to changes in contract structuring for coaches and financing for physical education and intercollegiate athletics.

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ith UCD cutting costs several years back, the ICA and physicaleducation budgets were separated, leaving some students wondering if they’re now being double-charged when it comes to their SASI fees, considering physicaleducation costs are now funded by general tuition.

No longer are assistant coaches hired or required to teach physical-education courses, while new ICA head coaches, who in the past taught as many as nine classes each academic year in addition to their coaching duties, now teach just a single course. And as campus has continued to look for ways to cut costs, one method has been to simply not replace those who retire or leave positions in the departments of physical education and exercise science.

“And the result has been a slow attrition,” according to Barbara Jahn, the physicaleducation program director who also happens to be the longest-tenured member of the UCD athletic department.

Approaching her 45th year at the helm of the women’s swim program, she’s the lone remaining staff member who still holds the title of supervisor of physical education.

Yet physical-education classes remain some of the most popular and impacted courses on campus. Every quarter there are waitlists for both activity classes and the more traditional podium-style courses that range in topic from “Drugs in Society” to “Coaching Effectiveness” and the study of sport in American culture.

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epartment numbers show that more than 7,000 students (almost 20 percent of the school) take physicaleducation classes each year.

“I remember being on national committees with coaches who were blown away by the fact that I taught lecture classes,” Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame coach Pam Gill-Fisher told me last week, citing her double-duty while coaching women’s basketball.

The former UCD coach and athletics administrator said: “(Nowadays) the department likes to use the word ‘uncommon.’ But that’s because it really was unique and still is.

“You had coaching professionals working with the general student body. And that goes right back to our philosophy, that we, too, in athletics are a part of the academic mission of the university.

“With our coaches teaching, they knew what the general student body was doing.

“When you have coaches no longer teaching (or) connecting with students, it’s like having an athletic department across the river. Why even be affiliated with the university? It’s just a business at that point that has nothing to do with education.

“But that was never going to be us.”

As we enter another stretch of economic uncertainty — budget cuts in the shadow of the pandemic loom large — I hope current administrators at UC Davis hold true to those ideals mentioned by Gill-Fisher and realize the importance of the school’s physicaleducation program.

I think a 1912 editorial from Agricola (the predecessor to UCD’s modern-day student newspaper) says it best: “(A) school is judged largely by its standard in athletic affairs. This is largely due to the fact that a person has to be well physically in order to be bright mentally. But this does not mean that we all have to be star athletes.”

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him via Twitter at @530athletics.

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Fulbright winner teaches overseas

BY ERIC BANKSTON Special to the Enterprise For UC Davis field hockey alum Beth Lee, an experience of a lifetime began with the click of a mouse.

“I was super excited to receive that email,” reported the San Diego native.

“What made that situation funny was that I was teaching kindergarten in (Washington) at the time, and opened that message during my prep period. I was caught offguard.”

The email revealed that Lee — a 2016 Aggie graduate — had just earned a 201920 Fulbright Award.” I was so giddy and excited ... I called my parents right away to tell them the news. There was definitely a lot of excitement and giddiness that day.”

At that time, Lee was entering the final months of a two-year commitment with Teach for America — an opportunity that she seized during her junior year at UCD. Even though Lee was keen on traveling abroad after earning her undergraduate

degree at Davis, the decision to participate in this program was an easy one. With the a Fulbright grant in hand, Lee headed to South Korea to teach English.

She left in July to begin her adventure in South Korea. Before learning where she would teach, or at what grade level, Lee and other Fulbright finalists went through a six-week orientation period in Incheon, South Korea. Lee was assigned to a high school in Cheongju, two hours south of Seoul. Lee would live with a single mom of her daughters.

As a Korean American, Lee said she experienced a smoother transition from the U.S. to South Korea than other American colleagues. Lee grew up learning from bilingual parents and grandparents.

“Korean language classes took up a lot of time throughout orientation. Thankfully, I understood the language before I arrived,” she said. “It was definitely easier for me to adjust, compared to most Fullbrighters.

“Korean schools take education very

seriously. ... I had 18 classes, 550 students and saw each class once a week.”

Despite her schedule, Lee found time to explore.

“The most amazing parts of this experience were the opportunities to travel throughout the country,” the former UCD goalkeeper explained.

Midway through her 13 month commitment an unanticipated element caught everyone by surprise.

“The Fulbright staff did a great job communicating through email with everyone in the program, regarding COVID-19, since South Korea was the second country to experience an outbreak. Most of us were traveling during winter break when this virus started to spread,” she said.

Lee, along with other Fulbright Award winners, left the country in March. Shortly after, Fulbright shut the program down worldwide.

— Eric Bankston is the UC Davis assistant athletics director, athletics communications and public relations.

TRIPLE: Asta, Beal ready for college athletics From Page B8 added. “The fact that we pulled that off is just something that I’ll always remember.”

For Lorenson, the two student-athletes embody the philosophies of Blue Devil athletics.

“What makes it so rewarding is to hear the kind remarks (from coaches and teammates) about both Surina and Joey,” the AD said. “Their character around campus, their personality, and kindness to all of the team members on their teams.

“Being a great athlete is awesome, but also being a great

person is way more important, and really shows us the philosophy that we as coaches try to instill in all our athletes.

Being the ultimate teammate is the most important thing.”

Beal, for her part, has been getting to know her new teammates at Santa Cruz during shelter in place, joining them for virtual workouts and meeting her fellow incoming freshmen.

“I’m super pumped, I’m hoping to get our season. That would be awesome,” she said.

With school online, Beal has been running, working out and playing basketball. She also has a new job and a new dog,

Shelby, a 1-year-old yellow labrador named for her speed (remember the Shelby Cobra?).

Asta has taken up reading and podcast-listening along with his usual workouts, staying in shape for the college football season he hopes will be played.

Circumstances permitting, the Athletes of the Year will grace new courts and gridirons this fall — two more of the dozens and dozens of Blue Devils athletes who are carrying (or have carried) the school’s banner to the next level.

Notes: Joining Asta as a Halden Scholarship winner

was Abby Lo, who ran cross country and track and field. ... Davis Blue Devil Athletic Boosters awarded scholarships to Brooke Imamoto and Noel Riely. ... Other Triple D winners (athletes who participated in three varsity sports) included Lucas Griffiths ( football, lacrosse, ski team), Kaylee Morgan (cross country, ski team, track and field), Shannon Perry (cross country, ski team, track and field) and Collin Yee (basketball, golf, volleyball).

— Reach Lev Farris Goldenberg at levfg2000@gmail. com.

BLUE: AD is confident in steps program’s taking From Page B8 nationwide protests to catalyze more energy toward solving a problem that we know has existed for a long time.

“But the best we can do now is listen to our community, intensify our focus on meaningful action, and move forward together. That is what we’re going to do.”

UC Davis athletics have been sensitive to diversity, equity and inclusion of minorities in recruiting athletes and hiring staff.

The subject was addressed in a 2010 UCD statement that was revised in 2017

by Blue.

“We try to improve our organization in every possible way we can, and our commitment on this topic is something we believe needed to be formalized, so we

did that,” Blue told The Enterprise earlier this year.

“We do not see any of it as controversial. We think it’s appropriate to be intentional about promoting diversity in our hiring pools and, ultimately, in the group of people who are here to help educate our student-athletes.

“So we feel confident about the policy actions which we’re taking — which are really just a formalization of how we’ve already been operating.

“In several traditionally underrepresented populations, athletics overindexes relative to the rest of the campus. In several others, we underindex relative to the rest of the campus.”

How has putting UC Davis’ policy in writing been received?

“Positive, in the sense that people feel

good about us writing down policies that articulate what we already believe, and in many cases what we already do,” Blue responded.

The former Stanford administrator was asked whether, in formulating policy, areas in which UCD could improve were identified.

“Generally, there are always areas that our organization can improve with respect to the equity inclusion and any other (like) topics,” he replied.

“By continuing to educate ourselves, by continuing to increase our familiarity and sensitivity with respect to the experience of all the student-athletes we serve — and all the coaches we serve and all the staff we serve — we will continue to make progress in a lot of these fronts,” Blue promised.

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Blue weighs in on racial inequity AD seeks areas for inclusion

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

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UCD athletic director Kevin Blue shared his feelings about the national climate and the role of the university in equality moving forward.

Local officials ranging from Davis Mayor Brett Lee to Police Chief Darren Pytel to UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May have released statements regarding the current state of affairs surrounding the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minnesota.

On Monday, Aggie athletics director Kevin Blue also spoke about the national climate.

“Over the weekend, I spent some time thinking about George Floyd’s horrific death and other recent events that continue to highlight racial inequality in our society,” Blue wrote in a prepared statement.

“I will never be able to

understand what it is like to experience discrimination because of the color of my skin, but I’ve tried to be part of the solution working against it.

However, over the weekend, I came to the realization that I haven’t done enough.

“UC Davis Athletics has a history of building ‘trust, unity and togetherness’ among people from all backgrounds. As an organization, we have tried to acknowledge that racism exists in sports and be an athletics department that works against it.

“The recent atrocities impacting the African-American community are reprehensible. UC Davis Athletics rejects them in the strongest possible terms.

“We recognize the tremendous

emotional and psychological impact that these discriminatory tragedies have created for our African-American studentathletes, coaches and staff. My privilege means that I don’t experience this in the same way that you do, but I stand with you in support.

“Condemning racism and supporting those who are suffering is important, but real progress will not be made until we pass the test that follows. What will we do next, after the protests stop?

“Will we take action to create real progress and permanent change? Or will we go back to business as usual? Real change won’t occur until we leave the sidelines to get in the game, and put forth the work, struggle and effort to create a more just and equitable world.

“This weekend, I came to the

realization that more must be done. I must do more personally.

Believing in equality and denouncing racism is not sufficient without taking more action to help make change.

“UC Davis Athletics must do more organizationally. We must reflect on our organizational dynamics related to race and inequality with even more scrutiny. We must reject the false notion of ‘colorblindness’ that sometimes characterizes discussions about race in sports and get better at acknowledging the different experiences that people have because of race. And we must double down on meaningful actions that will help create a more equitable college sports world.

“I regret that it has taken a series of tragic racist events and

SEE BLUE, PAGE B7

BLUE DEVIL ATHLETES OF THE YEAR

DHS triple threats Athletics, P.E. share a history S

ome of my earliest memories are of playing in the dirt under the east side bleachers at Toomey Field.

For years, my parents owned and operated University Inn — a small bed and breakfast at 340 A St., directly across from the stadium’s south end zone.

From an early age, I remember being taught by my dad to strip beds, lay out towels and fold those fancy little triangles at the end of toilet-paper rolls. We did laundry in the basement, always kept the coffee pot full and, occasionally, I’d help him record payments on a flatbed credit-card imprinter.

But if I ever started getting in the way, he’d often send me out with a pair of Fiskars scissors to trim the front hedges or to pick weeds — activities I was never particularly thrilled with being assigned.

Still small enough to squeeze between or under gate posts, I’d sometimes abandon my assignments and walk across the street to Toomey.

When I received an email from the Aggie Athletic Department three or four years ago that those same bleachers posed a safety risk and were to be removed, those play-day memories came flooding back. And more recently, working on a project for The Enterprise about the history of physical education at UCD, I again got a little nostalgic.

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o much has changed — both on and off campus — in the 20 years since I formed those memories.

Obviously, those bleachers are long gone. And now The Toom exists as more of a relic in the shadow of ancient Hickey Gym. Citing budget constraints, a decade ago four UCD sports were cut (men’s swimming, women’s rowing, men’s wrestling and men’s indoor track). Two have been added (beach volleyball and equestrian in 2019) as campus enrollment has surged from roughly 25,000 students at the turn of the century to nearly 40,000 this past year. Adding the latter was more an attempt to keep up with Title IX requirements than a signal that the Aggies were rolling in the dough.

In that same vein, I’ve been surprised to find that despite a huge demand for physical-education class offerings (while student population explodes), the physical-education opportunities haven’t mimicked UCD’s growth. In certain cases, it’s been just the opposite.

Historically in Davis, intercollegiate athletics (ICA) and physical education have existed as a single entity, joined at the hip as coaches served simultaneously as assistant professors or supervisors for physical education. Student fees from the Student Activities and Services Initiative (SASI) — passed by Aggie student voters in the mid-1990s — have helped

SEE YANCHER, PAGE B7

3-sport standouts, Asta and Beal, earn top honors

BY LEV FARRIS GOLDENBERG Enterprise staff writer Joey Asta and Surina Beal were named Blue Devil Athletes of the Year, Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson announced on Thursday.

In lieu of presentations at the usual school Senior Awards Night ceremony, Lorenson delivered the plaques to each student athlete’s house along with congratulations and kind words from their coaches.

For the three-sport Asta, who also received a Halden Scholarship, the award was unanticipated.

“I wasn’t really expecting that, so it caught me by surprise,” said Asta, who will continue his football career as an outside linebacker at Claremont McKenna College next fall. “I just want to say thank you a lot to my coaches ... I think they taught me a lot about life.”

As a starting tight end, linebacker and safety, Asta helped direct the Blue Devils to their first Delta League title in more than 20 seasons. He also played a key role in the Davis basketball team’s 10-game win streak and eventual playoff berth.

“Winning Delta League (football) was probably up there for one of my favorite sports memories in my life,” he said. “That was a really cool experience.”

Asta committed to track and field for

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Surina Beal, left, and Joey Asta were named the Davis High Athletes of the Year. the first time this spring, but his season was cut short due to the pandemic.

“I know that there were some seniors on the track-and-field team that were really serious about it and that they’ve played all four years of high school … so I really felt bad for them.”

Beal — another three-sport athlete who will play basketball at UC Santa Cruz next year — was similarly flabbergasted.

“Yeah, it was awesome, I’m shook,” Beal said of finding out. “It’s honestly such an honor.”

When she discovered her fellow award winner — who shares a No. 10 jersey number with her — Beal was unsurprised that Asta won for the boys ...

“Yep, I knew it! I knew it,” she said.

As well as hooping it up for Heather

Highshoe’s Devils, the senior also ran cross country in the fall and played softball this spring before that season was put on hold.

“It makes me even more glad that I had my cross country and basketball seasons earlier,” Beal told The Enterprise. “I know I don’t have it as bad as our senior spring athletes who only have that season, so it makes me even more grateful for the chances I had earlier in the year.”

For the soon-to-be Banana Slug, there were plenty of moments to make up for lost softball time.

She highlighted the Sac-Joaquin Section cross country meet, where the Devils placed third to reach the State meet.

“This year we knew we had a really young team and we were gonna really have to pull something off to get to section,” Beal said.

Devil girls hoops — who she captained as the lone senior on the team — also pulled off a spectacular upset over topranked McClatchy, a win that provided a huge push forward for postseason inclusion.

Beal mentioned Senior Night as a favorite moment because Highshoe went all out for her lone senior: The Cage was rollicking and “getting all that love was awesome,” but …

“I have to say the McClatchy game, it was just amazing pulling off that win,” she

DWIGHT SMITH

A helping hand ■ Editor’s note:This is the second of the twopart chat with Davis High and UC Davis graduate Dwight Smith, who continues at UCD as a studentathlete outcomes adviser.

told The Enterprise. “He’s thoughtful, passionate and a superb communicator. He has a bright future in athletics administration.”

Davis High head football coach Steve Smyte had Smith as an assistant, working with wide receivers. Smyte couldn’t say

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET enough about the former Blue Devil’s conEnterprise sports editor tributions ...

Dwight Smith’s charge in life is to elevate “I have known him for some time. The those with whom he comes in contact. first question I ask myself before hiring any Whether it’s friends, football coach is: Would I want him teammates or studentcoaching my son or daughathletes he mentors at UC ter?” Smyte said.

Davis, Smith is there to pro“I felt Dwight met that vide guidance, an alreadystandard in every way. First seasoned helping hand. and foremost, he is a highcharacter human being who The Aggie alum (Class of has a great moral compass 2011) has been an outcomes and is able to relate to our adviser for almost two players on a human and on years. His charge is to help UCD AD Kevin Blue navigate members of the On UCD outcomes adviser a football level. His positive attitude is contagious, and university’s track and crossour players could only bencountry teams not only Dwight Smith efit from it.” through the peaks and valleys of four years of college, but to point As a conduit to the EVO career-launch eventual graduates in the right direction program, Smith not only advises his charges once they head into the real world. but sets them on a charted course “Dwight is a tremendous asset to our that includes résumé writing, interview athletics department and our studentSEE HELPING, PAGE B7 athletes,” UCD athletics director Kevin Blue

“He’s thoughtful, passionate and a superb communicator.”

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Aggie Launch Day to honor Class of 2020 Enterprise staff Do not adjust your social media feeds.

The UC Davis Athletics department will honor its seniors with Aggie Launch Day, a virtual event, starting at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Launch Day is a combined website and social media takeover through the department’s main Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Throughout the day, studentathletes’ academic success, athletic accomplishments and future plans will be highlighted.

In addition to content available on social media feeds, each team will have an opportunity to exclusively feature their graduating seniors online through teamcreated videos and graphics.

Fans are encouraged to share words of encouragement or support on social media include the hashtag, #AggieLaunchDay. Aggie Launch Day-specific content will allow student-athletes to share personal highlights, favorite moments and explain how Aggie EVO prepared them for a successful launch following graduation.