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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2020

County changes focus as COVID cases rise

Virus theft suspect will get treatment

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

WOODLAND — The man accused of unlawfully taking a possible COVID19 specimen from Sutter Davis Hospital made a plea agreement Tuesday that will provide him with intensive mental-health treatment.

Shaun Lamar Moore, appearing in Yolo Superior Court via videoconference from a residential treatment facility, pleaded guilty to a felony count of seconddegree burglary, which carries a maximum punishment of three years in custody.

But Judge David Rosenberg deferred that judgment as part of the plea deal, which calls for Moore’s enrollment in Yolo County’s Mental Health Court — a minimum 18-month court-based program in which participants receive treatment and consistent monitoring with the goal of reducing or eliminating their arrests, jail time and hospitalizations.

If Moore successfully completes the program, “the case will go away,” Rosenberg told the defendant during Tuesday’s hearing. “If you violate or fail (the rules), it could send you to prison.”

“We’re going to do everything we can to help you, Mr. Moore,” Rosenberg

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

Enterprise staff writer Yolo County officials expect to focus more on enforcement in coming weeks as COVID-19 cases increase amid reopening of businesses and activities.

That enforcement could include fines and even closures of businesses and institutions that are not complying with guidelines on social distancing and face coverings, according to County Administrator Patrick Blacklock.

The county, he said, was in discussion with cities on Tuesday to lay out how that enforcement will work.

The move toward enforcement comes as the county has recorded 141 cases in the last two weeks — 38.5 percent of all cases reported in the county since the pandemic began.

And while that increase has come with increased testing, the percentage of all tests that are positive is also increasing. During the course of the pandemic, the positivity rate has hovered around 3 percent, but the last week’s rate will likely be

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15 apply for open school board seat

BY JEFF HUDSON

With kids leading the way, participants in Sunday’s Father’s Day March head over the Dave Pelz Overcrossing on their way to Barovetto Park in Davis.

Marchers keep moving Enterprise staff Organizers said almost 1,000 people showed up Sunday, June 21, for a Father’s Day march planned by Parents of African American Children Davis. Children led the march as protesters chanted behind them, “For our fathers, for our sons.”

The march was organized and led by Black women and featured African American speakers and performers.

“The vision behind ‘For Our Fathers, For Our Sons, For Our Brothers’ was to create a safe environment for all families to participate in protesting the many Black lives lost due to police violence and systemic racism,” a news release said. “This was not the place to come and learn about racism; however, it was the place to display community and comfort to African American families and then go home to have discussions with your children.”

When the group got to John Barovetto Park, they were greeted by a Sacramento community choir, followed by 8 minutes and 46 seconds of silence to remember the silence George Floyd suffered in the hands of those who swore to protect him.

Organizers encouraged parents to talk to their children about race, starting from preschool and beyond.

“It is time for white families to have ‘the talk’ with their kids on a frequent basis in the same way we talk about crossing roads, strangers and public safety,” the release said. “We have had to have ‘the talk’ with our kids from a very tender age and the only way we won’t have to is if you start.”

Masks were mandated for all marchers, with the exception of those with medical conditions.

Masks were donated by Yolo County Mask Making for COVID19 group.

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Marchers head over the Dave Pelz overcrossing on Sunday.

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New field guide explores Berryessa region Special to The Enterprise

Enterprise staff writer On Thursday, the Davis school board will consider a stack of 15 applications from local residents who are interested in filling the remainder of departing school board PICKETT Off to Chicago trustee Cindy Pickett’s term.

Pickett is resigning, effective July 1 — she is moving to Chicago to start an academic position at DePaul University.

Pickett was elected to the school board in November 2018, and her term continues through early December 2022. So an appointee to complete her term will serve through early December

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“Exploring the Berryessa Region: A Geology, Nature and History Tour,” a new book by publisher Backcountry Press, guides visitors through a relatively unknown yet remarkable landscape.

The Berryessa region, part of the new 330,780acre Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument established in 2015, displays a complex of geological wonders, biological abundance and a rich history of human cultures.

The book has photographs, graphics, detailed map and an overview of the region’s complex geology.

The effort of a collection of authors from Davis — including Eldridge and Judy Moores, Marc Hoshovsky, Peter Schiffman and Bob Schneider — created this book. All of the authors have had a

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Unique geological features can be found throughout the Berryessa region, which is highlighted in the new book. lifelong passion for educating others about geology and natural history.

They saw an opportunity in this book to encourage people to actively explore the region, to learn more about it, to increase their support for conservation of the region and to increase their support for the National Monument.

However, the book is a manifestation of the

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lifetime work of Eldridge Moores. Moores joined the UC Davis geology department (now earth and planetary sciences) in 1966, where he taught geology for 47 years.

His geological career spanned all continents.

His studies, including plate tectonics, helped with the understanding of the geological history of the Earth. His work

influenced many, including John McPhee.

McPhee and Eldridge Moores shared many field trips exploring Northern California geology while Eldridge discussed plate tectonics, ophiolites and pull-apart basins. In fact, Moores is the main subject in McPhee’s books, “Assembling California” and “Annals of the Former World.”

Eldridge and Judy Moores led public fundraising field trips for more than 20 years to show people the geology of this region.

Co-author Marc Hoshovsky said, “I was driven by curiosity to learn more about this region and I wanted to expand Eldridge’s tour notes into a

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Briefly Top UCD grad on ‘Davisville’ Jumana Esau is this year’s top graduating senior at UC Davis.

On the current edition of the KDRT program “Davisville,” she talks about winning this year’s University Medal, studying climate fiction, the practical power of a good story, her work for refugees, growing up in the Bay Area and Jordan, and what she’ll take with her from Davis when she leaves.

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Poetry reading features Oliver Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series on Friday, June 26, with the poems of Mary Oliver (1935-2019), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984.

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So much for the ‘settled law’ thing A

s if newspapers didn’t have enough trouble already, a longstanding member of the United States Supreme Court a number of months ago suggested that one of the Court’s most important libel rulings should be revisited.

I ignored his argument as frivolous, but as the president continues to declare that the press is the enemy of the American people, most recently in Tulsa, it’s time for a serious rebuttal.

According to The New York Times, “Justice Clarence Thomas called for the Supreme Court to reconsider New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 ruling interpreting the First Amendment to make it hard for public officials to prevail in libel suits.”

Added The Times, “He said the decision had no basis in the Constitution as it was understood by the people who drafted and ratified it.”

Ah yes, the tried-and-true “intent of the founders” argument.

These, of course, are the same founders who apparently felt that slavery was not in conflict with the declaration that all men are

created equal.

Without going into the facts of the case, suffice it to say that in 1964 the justices were unanimous in their ruling for The New York Times.

According to the Justia Supreme Court Center, the Court found that “To sustain a claim of defamation or libel, the First Amendment requires that the plaintiff show that the defendant knew that a statement was false or was reckless in deciding to publish the information without investigating whether it was accurate.”

Furthermore, “When a statement concerns a public figure, the Court held, it is not enough to show that it is false for the press to be liable for libel.”

(Note to would-be lawyers: be

sure to understand the distinction between “liable” and “libel.”)

“Instead, the target of the statement must show that it was made with knowledge of or reckless disregard for its falsity.”

The term “actual malice” was tossed into the equation as well.

What this established is that there’s a far higher bar to prove libel against a public figure than a private figure.

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n other words, if I say my neighbor’s dog has fleas, he can successfully sue for libel.

His dog can probably sue too.

However, if I say Mike Pence’s dog has fleas, there’s no actionable libel. Even for his dog.

If I were covering the Super Bowl for this esteemed gazette and wrote that “Tom Brady had the worst game ever by a quarterback in professional football history,” he could successfully sue only if he could prove I did so with malice and a reckless disregard for the truth.

Unless, of course, he truly did have the worst game ever by a quarterback in professional football history. Truth, after all, is an

absolute defense to libel.

Now, if I wrote that little Billy Barnacle was the worst quarterback in Pee Wee Football for kids 6 and under, Billy would probably have a case because he’s not a public figure and I just slammed him upside-down.

If I say that a Picasso is worthless, no harm, no foul. But if I say the guy who painted my house is worthless, expect to be slapped with a lawsuit.

I remember once receiving a threatening letter from a local attorney asking me to retract my statement that Mayor Julie Partanksy was from Mars.

The author of the letter, hoping to terrify me with case law, cited New York Times v. Sullivan, a ruling that clearly was on my side.

Plus, there was no malicious intent. I was just having fun with a very public figure.

But now along comes Clarence Thomas to try to rain on every journalist’s parade.

Hopefully, he’ll be on the losing end of an 8-1 vote if the court ever again entertains such a case.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

County supervisors praise, thank retiring public health officer

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County bid farewell and thank you to Dr. Ron Chapman on Tuesday when the county’s health officer was recognized by the Board of Supervisors and other local officials for his service, most notably his efforts during the COVID19 pandemic.

Chapman had long planned to retire in early 2020, having promised his family he would do so after five years as the county’s public health officer, the capstone on a 35-year career in medicine and public health that included serving as California’s director of public health.

His retirement was delayed, however, by the arrival of COVID-19. Over the last several months, Chapman has steered the county’s response, including issuing one of the state’s earliest shelter-in-place orders as well as an early face-covering order.

Those orders were credited by county supervisors on Tuesday for saving lives in Yolo County but supervisors also acknowledged the personal cost to Chapman, who like county health officers around the state, has been the recipient of heated and often nasty attacks from opponents of those orders.

“They are vilified, they are threatened, they are bullied,” Supervisor Gary

Sandy of Woodland said of county health officers. “All for trying to protect the public’s health.”

“During the trying times of COVID-19, Dr. Chapman has been there every step of the way, operating with integrity and steadfastness… The strength of his impeccable character (and) his deep respect and knowledge of science has served Yolo County well through good times and through adversity.

“And quite frankly,” said Sandy, “the personal courage he has exhibited as well has really marked him as a special person. The average person has no idea the pressure and the attacks that public health officers are under throughout the country right now.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis, who sparred with Chapman earlier this year over the health department’s handling of the county’s first COVID-positive patient, said, “I’m glad that we had you as long as we had.”

He credited Chapman for his work on lowering the county’s smoking rate as well as expanding oral health care and said, “in the COVID-19 crisis you helped us become one of the early counties to have a stay-at-home order which I think kept our numbers down and put us in a good position relative to other counties.

“You’ve continued to

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exercise your leadership and we’ve relied on that leadership going forCHAPMAN ward and I so much Stepping down appreciate everything that you’ve done.”

“You redefined what leadership meant during these most difficult times,” said Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento.

“You set Yolo County apart in so many ways, most of which the public probably will never know.

You stepped out in front in a way that was not safe. In fact as we see now, it is causing a lot of rift in communities. And you stepped in, you never wavered. You were out in front early and often and, in summary, we are all very fortunate… You were out in front and pulled us along with you.”

Chapman called his five years as Yolo County’s health officer “a tremendous honor.”

He also said he knows he’s leaving the county in good stead.

“Yolo County has many great leaders and I’m retiring knowing that our county is in the competent hands of many outstanding public health professionals.”

Leading that effort beginning July 1 will be his

current deputy health officer, Dr. Mary Ann Limbos, who will serve as interim public health officer until a replacement for Chapman is appointed.

Looking back on his 35 years in medicine and public health, Chapman noted that “most of those years I had a pager … or a cell phone on my night stand ready to take emergency calls 24-hours a day, seven days a week, oftentimes in the middle of the night.

“I’m not sure who’s more excited about that cell phone not being on my nightstand, my wife or myself, probably her,” he said.

He also noted the strange circumstances surrounding his retirement, one he began planning in January when he had “no idea that a pandemic was on the horizon.”

Having his retirement celebration Tuesday via Zoom meeting rather than in the Board of Supervisors chambers was strange, he noted, as was the way he announced his retirement

to his public health staff weeks ago.

“It actually occurred in our department emergency operations center and I spoke to about a dozen people who were all spaced 6 feet apart, all wearing face coverings and that was also really strange,” said Chapman.

In recognizing his service, county supervisors presented Chapman with a resolution which, among other things, noted the work of Chapman and his public health team during the last few months of the pandemic.

Chapman and his team, the resolution said, “demonstrated extraordinary teamwork and responsiveness to address the threat to Yolo County residents.

They successfully partnered with multiple agencies including cities, governments, schools, businesses and nonprofits to slow the viral spread.

Our community will forever be grateful for this work.”

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GUIDE: Book dives deep into nature From Page A1 more complete illustrated story, including nature and history, that was more broadly accessible and inspirational to others.”

With geology as a foundational instrument shaping this complex landscape, Moores and the other coauthors interpreted its complexity and importance.

“The Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument was designated because of its plate tectonic geology, biological diversity, wildlife corridors, cultural history, and recreational opportunities.

This is the first book to

share the story with the public to experience and enjoy,” said co-author Bob Schneider who was instrumental in spearheading the monument’s designation.

In addition to geology, the book offers cultural and historical notes about the region through a mile-bymile geologic tour of the southern part of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.

Stops along the tour offer windows into the distant and recent past — highlighting the geology that drives today’s biological processes.

The authors will be hosting a Zoom webinar discussing the book and ways

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added, encouraging him consider the Mental Health Court team — comprising attorneys, social workers, probation officers and others “as your mom and dad. Good luck to you.”

“You have a good day,” Moore, 40, told the judge.

Authorities said Moore, who was homeless at the time, posed as a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employee when he walked into Sutter Davis Hospital on April 11 and requested the specimen, which staff handed over despite Moore’s lack of identification or CDC credentials.

Sutter Davis employees alerted police after seeing Moore leave the property on a bicycle, followed several minutes later by the arrival of the state Department of Health courier who was supposed to pick up the specimen. The incident triggered “a rather large and disruptive public health emergency,” Yolo County prosecutors said in previously filed court documents.

Officers found the undisturbed specimen several hours later at a CVS Pharmacy store in The Marketplace shopping center and returned it to the hospital. Sutter Health officials later released a statement

pledging to conduct an internal investigation into the matter.

Recognizing Moore’s mental-health needs, the court released him from custody under the state’s emergency zero-bail order, only to see him land back in custody days later after allegedly committing petty theft and sexual battery offenses in Woodland and West Sacramento.

Those charges were dismissed Tuesday as part of the plea agreement, along with additional counts stemming from the alleged specimen theft including attempted possession of a restricted biological agent.

Meanwhile, asked on Tuesday whether Sutter’s internal investigation led to any protocol changes, a spokeswoman for Sutter Health offered the following statement: “Sutter Davis Hospital is committed to providing high-quality care. As part of that ongoing commitment, we continually look for ways to best support and protect our patients, staff and community, which can include enhancing training or adjusting procedures or policies.”

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

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Emmy-award winning violinist and composer Mark Wood performs online with the Holmes Jr. High Advanced Orchestra.

Davis music students perform in online concert Special to The Enterprise Music educator Angelo Moreno of the Davis Joint Unified School District and more than 300 young musicians from six of the school district’s ensembles performed online with Emmy-award winning violinist and composer Mark Wood and leading classical violin virtuosa Rachel Barton Pine.

The concert, produced by Los Angeles production company The Live House, represented the culmination of an online learning curriculum of virtual lessons, video tutorials, and concert videos that Angelo Moreno prepared in collaboration with the two artists. Watch it at https:// www.facebook.com/watch/ live/?v=5400833866 74088.

Arts educators in the U.S. are searching for creative solutions to continue their programs amid a global pandemic. With the cancellation of schools, rehearsals, and concerts, music teachers like Moreno face a challenge: provide an effective music education while keeping the arts alive.

“We believe more than ever that music is a force of healing,” Moreno said, “and we appreciate having this positive connection to each other, even remotely through our collective talents and love for the arts.”

Moreno worked with The Live House founder, Nick Yoon, to handle the

technical organization, compilation and distribution of over 300 student videos.

“Music programs are struggling to find alternatives to continue their normal outreach activities,” Yoon said. “Through this launch of multiple collaborators, musicians and educators, we hope to inspire other leaders in the arts and create content that revolves around their community.”

Moreno’s partnership with Wood and Barton Pine has given students the opportunity to virtually play alongside two of the world’s leading musicians.

“This exciting event will transform the student musicians into a fullfledged virtual Rock Orchestra as exciting arrangements of contemporary pop music plus selections by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and more entertain the audience,” Wood said.

“I was looking forward to returning to Davis Senior High School Baroque Ensemble as part of my tour of Northern California this Spring,” said Barton Pine, who was ready to perform Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor with her daughter, Sylvia

Pine and the Baroque Ensemble. “As disappointed as I am to not be working together, through

the miracle of modern technology, we’re still able to share part of our performance together,” she added.

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CSU to promote social justice TIMOTHY P. WHITE Special to CalMatters

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n the wake of the heartless killing of George Floyd, and as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exact a devastating and disproportionate toll on communities of color, never before have I sensed a feeling of helplessness so profound, held by so many.

Outrage is justified and protest imperative, but nothing less than bold, systemic change can begin to correct the racial injustice that has for so long plagued our nation.

Systemic.

As chancellor of the California State University, I have always bristled at the word “system” as a coldly inaccurate way to describe the CSU’s vibrant and varied 23 institutions of higher learning. But system it is.

Indeed, I am privileged to lead what is the largest and most diverse four-year university system in the country — 481,000 students. Twenty-three CSU campuses grace our state, from Humboldt State in the north to San Diego State in the south. With more than 3.8 million CSU alumni serving in every imaginable capacity throughout California and beyond, the CSU is a powerful economic engine — through times of prosperity, adversity and recovery.

I am equally proud to say that the CSU has long been a catalyst for creating a more equitable society and is a standard bearer for inclusive excellence. Our flagship student-success program, Graduation Initiative 2025, seeks to eliminate equity gaps and to help more students from all walks of life achieve the lifelong benefits of a highquality college degree.

But I acknowledge that we must do more. Now is the time for deeper, systemic action to promote social justice in its full breadth and to re-evaluate the structures that constrain us from becoming the full embodiment of our core values.

Here are our next actions.

First, the CSU unconditionally supports Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5.

Authored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, ACA 5 allows voters to repeal provisions of Proposition 209 that have blocked proven strategies to improve educational equity and degree completion for students of color, including scholarships and recruitment and retention programs — for both students and faculty — based on race or ethnicity.

And just last week, the police chiefs of our 23-campus police departments — with my full support and that of all CSU campus presidents — pledged their commitment to adopt the recommendations of President Barack Obama’s Task Force on 21stCentury Policing, and to disavow the carotid chokehold, which has no place in our society, on campus or off.

And on July 21, after much consultation with faculty, students and other stakeholders, the CSU will advance to its board of trustees a proposal requiring every CSU student to complete a course in ethnic studies and social justice as a component of their CSU degree.

More than 50 years ago, and born out of protest, the nation’s first ethnic-studies college was founded at San Francisco State.

Since then, ethnic-studies courses on CSU campuses statewide have helped our students appreciate the rich variety of personal experiences, histories, barriers and world views that exist among us.

The first significant addition to the CSU’s general education requirements in 40 years, the proposal builds on this longstanding history, while answering the demand for systemic change.

For the first time, all CSU students — roughly 125,000 each year — would choose from an array of courses that explore ethnic studies, as well as the broader scope of social justice. And that is consequential.

Our students will learn to identify and critically analyze repressive structures within our society, as well as how those structures relate to all forms of oppression.

These courses will be designed by faculty on each campus, reflecting the unique communities we serve.

It is our aim that, with eyes wide open, all CSU graduates in every major will be equipped to see, question and dismantle the racial and social injustices that stain our nation — and take action to advance true systemic change.

— Timothy P. White is chancellor of the California State University, csuchancellor@calstate.edu. He wrote this commentary for CalMatters.

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Budget cuts or Arnold-style bond

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f there’s one word that properly describes the massive budget cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in May, it is “slapdash.”

Until the governor ordered the vast majority of Californians to shelter at home indefinitely to stem the spread of the coronavirus, no one expected more than routine changes in the annual May revision of his proposed state budget. But the lockdown brought instant recession, worse in some ways than the Great Depression of the 1930s.

That stunned state budget planners. The May revise shows they reacted swiftly, but not surgically. Rather than pick off items containing waste, they slashed almost everything, from state parks to health programs to public schools and universities.

Even a cursory look at the planned cuts shows one consistent thread: The neediest will be hit hardest. For some, survival itself is threatened.

There is a solution to all this, one last used in 2004 by ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a time when the state also faced a huge budget deficit promising almost as much harm as Newsom’s May revise. The movie muscleman suggested borrowing our way out of the crisis, getting voters to approve a $14 billionplus bond. It was paid off 11 years later during flush times

when the final payment was hardly noticed.

A bond twice that large could solve virtually all today’s problems, and was first proposed by Jim Wunderman, CEO of the business-oriented Bay Area Council. If most economic experts are correct and California’s fundamentals remain sound enough for a major comeback after a vaccine debuts, this is an obvious way out.

Failure to do judicious borrowing could lead to great suffering and even death for some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. Perhaps the neediest are clients of the In Home Supportive Services program, which sends caregivers into homes of the elderly poor a few hours daily, helping with everything from bathing to basic house cleaning.

The cut Newsom’s staff proposes to this program could end up costing far more than it saves, financially and in human terms. “This could give people a choice between being helped to get

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Passers-by are coming in and saying how much they missed us! We feel the same about you.

Logos hopes to soon return to its original “open every day” schedule, but we need some volunteers for the cashier role.

If you like the idea of serving the bookloving Davis community and have a couple of hours a week to give to a nonprofit effort drop by Logos on Second Street and ask for an application.

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Defund the militarization of police I was disgusted and physically ill when I saw police and National Guard on horseback, in riot gear, pushing forward using tear gas and batons to beat peaceful

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out of bed and shopping for food,” said Claire Ramsey, staff lawyer for a group called Justice in Aging.

“The program is vital in ordinary times because it keeps people out of nursing homes, which cost much more than this kind of care.

But now there’s an absolute need to keep people out of hospitals and nursing homes (where almost half California’s coronavirus deaths have occurred). This cut can lead directly to sickness and death.” Not to mention skyhigh hospital and nursing home bills dwarfing any budget savings from the program cutback.

Newsom also proposes eliminating Community Based Adult Services and Multi-Purpose Senior Services programs, which offer some similar services.

Consequences of these moves can be even more serious than the effects of opening schools late this summer and fall, as six of California’s largest school districts say might happen because of proposed cuts. Yes, that’s important. The less time children spend in school, the more their future can be impacted, even if they tune into virtual, computerized classes.

Early childhood education, formerly a Newsom pet program, also could be slashed, one likely result being that

protestors in Lafayette Park in total disregard to the first amendment.

At the same time, Trump was in the Rose Garden saying he’ll dispatch thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement in order to quell the protests. He used military tactics against peaceful citizens to have a photo-op.

Executive leaders are inciting violence with their words and actions. “Boots on the ground,” “retake territory,” “deploy military” and “dominate the battlespace” are terms used in war.Alarmingly, these terms are now used as a threat to occupy America and crush its citizens.

The militarization of America is supported by the Federal 1033 program requiring the DOD to offer military equipment to civilian law enforcement and Homeland Security grants billions of dollars which is channeled into militarizing the police in support of their “war on crime” mentality.

George Floyd became a victim of the police who used their warrior training to kill. Instead of supporting continued police brutality and systemic racism, we should redirect billions away from law enforcement and demand that local politicians develop non-police solutions to the problems communities face.

Instead of criminalizing homelessness, we need publicly financed supportive housing; instead of gang-enforcement

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

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

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poor kids will fall farther behind the wealthy than they are now.

The good news here is that state legislators appear opposed to most of the worst planned cuts. The bad news is they don’t know where to find money to avoid them, short of tax increases.

A bond answers that quandary. Borrowing to see vital programs through this time amounts to investing in the state’s future.

Wunderman points out that higher taxes would be unpopular and probably unwise in a time of high unemployment and uncertainty for thousands of businesses. A bond, he said, could help avoid the worst fiscal effects of the virus, also letting California exploit historic low interest rates.

It makes sense, it could save lives and misery and it would not burden today’s taxpayers much. So it’s high time state legislators take the initiative back from the governor, put a bond on the November ballot and follow the Arnold example.

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units, we need community-based antiviolence programs, instead of school police we need more counselors, afterschool programs and restorative-justice programs.

President Eisenhower, in 1961, warned us to beware of the rise of the military complex. In that speech he stated: “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” The criminal justice system, using its military tactics, has one strategy for everything — make arrests, put them in prison.

Defund law enforcement! Without this weaponized resource used against people, our local politicians will have to figure out other ways to support all community members and resolve these systemic racial problems.

Jacklyn Boettner Davis

Mall redevelopment Contrary to a recent letter to the editor, plans to develop student housing on a site close to campus (University Mall) are a responsible response to a demanding need. Equally essential affordable housing can be — and hopefully will be — developed on less encumbered sites throughout our broad community.

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FOCUS: Woodland hit hardest by outbreak BOARD: Trustees to get From Page A1 about 6.5 percent, Brian Vaughn, the county’s director of public health, said Tuesday.

The state’s metric for positivity rate requires counties to remain below 8 percent.

“It is a concern for us going forward,” Vaughn told the Board of Supervisors.

Meanwhile, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 had remained largely unchanged in recent weeks, but four new hospitalizations were reported on Tuesday. Additionally, both hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators, Vaughn said, with increases likely to come weeks after initial cases are reported.

“We’ll make sure to keep an eye on that for sure in the coming weeks,” he said.

As of Tuesday, 10,567 tests have been administered in Yolo County and 366 positive results have been reported, including 19 reported on Tuesday.

Nearly 40 percent of cases reported in the last two weeks were linked to household clusters, according to data presented to county supervisors on Tuesday, including outbreaks spanning three or more linked households.

Family gatherings celebrating Memorial Day and Mother’s Day have been among the events cited by county officials.

Religious institutions, Vaughn said, “are now seeing the cases from those households. So it’s largely driven by the family gatherings but people are now out there from those gatherings and there may be some evidence of spread in other locations.”

And at least one of those religious institutions, Vaughn said, has not abided by the county’s guidelines on social distancing, resulting in additional spread,

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and others are currently under investigation.

To date, the county has focused on education and outreach to ensure businesses and institutions follow guidelines on social distancing, hygiene and face coverings, but that is changing, Blacklock told county supervisors.

“We are in a place where it is likely time to begin more aggressive enforcement where education has clearly not worked, where there are organizations that are willfully violating the guidance,” said Blacklock.

That enforcement, he said, “could include fines and/or outright business closure.”

County supervisors agreed on the need for enforcement.

Overall, said Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis, “the guidance has worked fairly well and if people are following the rules we shouldn’t have problems in those areas.

“But it’s where people are not following the rules or don’t know about the rules that you can have these exponential increases, because it could be one business or one restaurant, one bar or whatever, but then all those people go back out into the community and spread the virus.

“At this stage, continuing the education, making sure everyone knows the rules (is important) but then

enforcement has to be a part of that,” said Provenza.

Supervisor Don Saylor of Davis said there are some businesses “that we’ve had multiple reports about and the police department has responded multiple times and then as soon as they leave, the practices evaporated. So I think the enforcement element is necessary at this point.”

Vaughn noted that if people are following the guidelines, the risk of virus transmission is much lower.

“The cases that we’re seeing are gatherings where people aren’t social distancing, aren’t wearing face coverings and churches and others not following the guidelines,” he said.

Despite the recent surge in cases, the county continues to meet all of the metrics required by the state for its attestation except for the total number of cases in the last 14 days. That number should be no more than 55 but on Tuesday had reached 141. Six hospitalizations — and no deaths — have been reported in those two weeks, but as Vaughn said, both are lagging indicators not expected to increase until two to eight weeks after infection.

Exceeding one metric will not cause the county to have to shut down any activities that have reopened, officials have

said, but it has raised the alert level locally. Of particular concern of late has been the concentration of cases in Latino communities in Woodland and Winters and education and outreach will be focused there, Vaughn said.

For the first time, beginning this week, the county has isolated data from Winters rather than combining cases from that city with the county’s unincorporated areas in the online COVID-19 dashboard.

According to that dashboard, Winters has reported a total of 15 cases since the pandemic began with 12 reported just since Memorial Day. Meanwhile, 10 of the cases are in individuals under the age of 44.

The city of Davis has reported a total of 36 cases since the pandemic began, with 25 of them coming in individuals under age 44 and 10 in the 18-24 age group.

Davis also has another case connected to a skilled nursing facility. Courtyard Healthcare Center, which previously reported a COVID-positive patient, last week reported a staff member had tested positive as well.

Woodland remains the hardest-hit city in Yolo County with 169 cases so far, including 76 reported since Memorial Day. More than half of Woodland’s cases are in individuals under age 44.

West Sacramento has also seen an uptick in cases lately, including 19 reported since Monday, bringing that city’s total to 125, including 56 since Memorial Day. Unlike the county’s other cities, West Sacramento has seen the most cases in the 55-64 age group though the 35-34 age group is close behind.

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2022, and may very well choose to run for a full four-year term in the November 2022 election.

The applicants for appointment to Pickett’s school board seat are Vigdis Asmundson, Stacy Benson, John Clark, Leah Darrah, George Flamick, Rachael Fulp Cooke, Cathy Haskell, Andrea Hope, Hiram Jackson, Joy Klineberg, Kristin Mauro, Maggie Memmot, Swapna Panigrahi, Christine S. Taylor and Sarah Williams.

In the past, when faced with more than a dozen applications for filling out the remainder of a term of a departing school board trustee, the school board has sometimes “narrowed the field” to four or five finalists, who were then interviewed during open session before someone was chosen. However, there does not appear to be a great deal of formal school board policy in this regard.

Elsewhere on the agenda: ■ The trustees will consider approval of the school district’s 2020-21 Adoption Budget, which includes a preliminary

budget reduction plan.

(Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators have reached an agreement regarding the state’s budget for the coming year, but formal legislative action on the budget is not yet complete).

■ Staff will provide an update regarding the COVID-19 situation that prompted school closures during portions of the past academic year, and might prompt similar closures during the coming academic year.

■ Consider approval of the school district’s English Learner Master Plan.

Thursday’s school board meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. In accordance with health precautions relating to the coronavirus pandemic, this will be another online-only meeting, with the trustees participating by video from various locations.

The meeting will be available for viewing live on www.djusd.tv — and the meeting video will also be posted for viewing at the viewer’s convenience after the meeting has adjourned.

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2402 Westernesse Road Davis, CA 95616 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Robert Schneider 2402 Westernesse Road Davis, CA 95616 Peter Schiffman 219 Cottage Circle Davis, CA 95616 Marc Hoshovsky 1133 Dartmouth Place Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: General Partnership 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 25, 2020 “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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PUBLIC NOTICE DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND PROPOSALS LEASE-LEASEBACK CONSTRUCTION SERVICES RFQ/P Project#111- 01-1920 Davis Joint Unified School District (“District”) is seeking proposals from qualified persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, associations, or professional organizations to provide design, constructability review, value engineering, master scheduling, cost estimating, budgeting, and construction services for the development and construction for the following project, in accordance with the lease-leaseback structure set forth in Education Code section 17406 et seq.:

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DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 1919 Fifth Street Davis, CA 95616 ATTN: David Burke, Director of Facilities, Maintenance, and Operations RE: RFQ/P Project#111-01-1920 Dburke@djusd.net ALL RESPONSES ARE DUE BY 4:00 P.M. ON Thursday, July 16, 2020. Oral, telegraphic, facsimile, or telephone RFQ/P Packets will not be accepted.

RFQ/P Packets received after this date and time will not be accepted.

A mandatory informational meeting will be conducted on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. This will be a virtual meeting. A link to the meeting will be provided on the District’s website at: https://djusd.net/departments/facilities/ Birch Lane Elementary School Multicapital_improvement. Interested parties Purpose Building Project are required to visit the Birch Lane Project #111-01-1920 Elementary School on Wednesday, July The Request for Qualifications and 1, 2020 between 1:00 P.M and 3:00 P.M, Proposals (“RFQP”), which includes meeting at the front parking lot to be instructions for its completion, is escorted through campus. Signature of available from the District’s website your firm’s representative on the Site Visit at the following link: https://djusd. Log is required. net/departments/facilities/capital_ improvement. Respondents to this RFQ/P Questions regarding this RFQ/P may be shall submit a completed Statement of directed to William Savidge, by email to Qualifications (“SOQ”) along with the Bsavidge@K12schoolfacilities.org, and Proposal (collectively “RFQP Packet”). must be submitted on or by 4:00 P.M. on Respondents must transmit their RFQP Wednesday, July 8, 2020.

Packet by email attachment in pdf format conforming to the requirements of this All Respondents must have already been RFQ/P to: prequalified by the District in accordance with Public Contract Code, § 20111.6.

First tier electrical, mechanical and plumbing subcontractors are required by Public Contract Code, §20111.6 and must be prequalified prior to subcontractor bids are submitted. Prequalification applications are available at the District’s website address noted above.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2020

How to prevent pipe pollution

BY SANDRA MACOMB Special to The Enterprise

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ave your wondered where the water you use inside your home goes after a flush of the toilet or a rinse down the drain?

It goes through a large system of pipes and pump stations to get to the city’s wastewater treatment plant about 5 miles north of the city center. Your actions at home can make a big difference down the pipes.

By preventing pollutants from entering the city’s wastewater system, you can help preserve our environment by ensuring that treated wastewater leaving the treatment plant meets water quality requirements set by the Federal Clean Water Act and our city’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit.

Some pollutants (such as garbage, grease, fats and oils) can cause backups in sewer pipes and mechanical problems at the pump stations and the treatment plant when put into the sewer system.

Other pollutants (such as heavy metals, chemicals and medications) can disrupt the biological processes at the wastewater treatment plant or pass through the treatment plant entirely (since traditional water treatment processes cannot remove them).

There are simple things everyone can do at home to help keep contaminants out of our water and to make sure everything flows smoothly. These tips include: ■ Dispose Of Hazardous Waste Properly. Please do not dispose of household chemicals in the sink or toilet. Residents can bring toxic items to the hazardous waste facility at the Yolo County Central Landfill for free, every Friday and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Call 530666-8727 or visit www.

YoloCounty/Landfill to verify hours and current policies due to COVID-19.

■ Dispose Of Medicines Properly. Unused medicines should never be poured down the sink or flushed down the toilet.

Bring unwanted medications to the landfill hazardous waste facility or to the pharmaceutical collection bin at the Davis Police Department.

■ Don’t Flush Garbage (Seriously). Only human waste and toilet paper should be flushed down the toilet. Other products, sometimes even those labeled as “flushable,” often do not break down enough to properly flow through sewer pipes, leading to clogged sewer lines and messy, expensive sewer back-ups.

These products include “flushable” wipes, cat litter, hair, diapers, floss, feminine protection and other garbage. Once they reach the treatment plant, flushable wipes and other trash must be mechanically removed from wastewater before the wastewater can be treated.

■ No Fats, Oils or Grease Down the Drain. Fats, oils and grease (FOG) can solidify after being poured down a drain or flushed down a toilet. This builds up and blocks the plumbing, leading to potential

ENVIORNMENTAL UPDATE sewer backups in homes, onto streets and into local waterways.

So how can you dispose of FOG? Small amounts of cool, hardened FOG can go in your organics cart.

Larger amounts should go in a container and be placed in the trash or taken to the hazardous waste drop-off for free recycling.

■ Keep Food Waste Out Of The Sink. The best place for food scraps is in the organics cart for composting, not in the sink. Sink drains, even sinks with garbage disposals, are not built to handle waste.

Scrape food off dishes into your organics pail or bin for composting before washing them and consider using a drain screen in your sink to catch bits of food as you wash dishes.

Remove the plastic labels on fruit and veggies, and place them in the trash.

Plastic food labels on fruits and vegetables clog the filters at the wastewater treatment plant.

In addition to providing outreach and education for residents on ways to protect our wastewater system, the city’s pretreatment program inspects and monitors dental facilities, restaurants, breweries, laboratories and other commercial and industrial facilities that could potentially be discharging pollutants, such as salts, grease and heavy metals.

These businesses are required to have alternative methods in place to keep these pollutants out of their wastewater or to remove them from their wastewater before it discharges to the city’s wastewater system. The city monitors these businesses to ensure that they are complying with regulations to prevent pollution.

We all do our part to keep the water flowing and clean!

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You can also help by adding a 6-inch layer of mulch over the roots and clearing away rocks and weed cloth.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2020

Remembering N.C. vegetable patches O

nce a year, I like to exit the world of farms, produce and what to buy for your kitchen table.

Our area farmers are doing just fine without added attention during this pandemic, given strong sales at the farmers’ markets.

This month, I’m making my annual visit to the backyard of someone in Davis with a big-time interest in growing food for the kitchen ... and for the kitchens of friends, family and neighbors happy to share in the bounty.

When I find an ardent gardener, there’s usually an interesting origin story.

This hold true with Weldon Jordan, who lives with his wife, Colleen, in South Davis. Their two children have moved on. And their backyard is considerable, part of the half-acre lot at their residence.

Weldon is the prime mover on their gardening initiative. It takes him back to his childhood roots in North Carolina.

“Everyone had ‘vegetable patches,’ as we called them,” says Weldon. “My dad’s was half-an-acre.” As a boy, Weldon ate numerous vegetables and fruits every day, and the whole experience created a fond memory.

He became a pediatrician, moved with the family a few times, and arrived in Davis in 1992. He was a pediatrician for 35 years.

He retired only a few years ago from Kaiser Permanente in South Sacramento.

Several years ago Weldon decided to up his gardening game. He worked with Don Shor, owner of Redwood Barn Nursery here in Davis, to properly design raised beds with appropriate irrigation.

Among other benefits, he noted that it’s easier on the back than gardening at ground level, which he had been doing.

“I grow what we can eat,” he explains simply.

Truthfully, he grows in volume for what friends, family and neighbors can eat as well.

I’ve always loved that approach, and it’s one I follow. It builds friendships and community.

Ringing someone’s bell and offering them some organic, fresh-picked vegetables or fruit is always well received.

Weldon calls it “kind of a

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Weldon Joran in his thriving garden in South Davis. hobby,” but I’d classify it as more than that.

His garden has some scale. Thirteen tomato plants were in their glory on the mid-June day I visited. Already some cherry tomatoes were ripe. I figure the 13 plants would yield 125 pounds or so of tomatoes over the season.

He likes to can some for the off season, but many go fresh to his circle of people.

“I still feel like a rookie at gardening,” he says.

“There’s always something.

It’s a constant battle with climate, pests and other challenges.” But it’s much easier with the raised beds, he finds, with far fewer problems to address.

Family dinners will also include green beans, cucumbers, squash, carrots and radishes. Those are vegetables we all recognize.

One entire bed, however, is filled with California cowpeas. “They’re the closest thing to what I grew up with in the south, called ‘field peas,’ which we know better as black-eyed peas.”

All kinds of beans can be purchased at Nugget or the Co-Op from bulk bins, but they’re not the same.

They’re not his, linked to the memories of a vegetable patch and old tastes.

And I spotted a row of okra, not exactly a top-10 vegetable in California.

Now we’re really talking about the Southern palate.

Weldon, however, acquired the taste for it as a child.

He boils okra and then, in his words, “slimes it down,” although we agreed it’s best in a gumbo or other dish.

Along the fence grew raspberry and blackberry bushes, which had already given their fruit for the year. And farther down the fence line was a chicken coup, where the sole remaining chicken, Cosette, one of four originally, presides and clucks.

She’s an old bird, but Weldon feels obliged to let Cosette live out her life in peace.

His cherry tree is finished, but one of his two peach trees was bearing fruit just at its peak of ripeness. Delicious! The next day he stripped all the fruit. He texted me a photo before he began processing

his annual supply of peach jam. Some will be gifts.

Somehow, his Meyer lemon tree marches to its own beat. It has large, beautiful fruit now, a status it retains through the summer, he said. Meyer lemon trees in this area generally are ready for picking as fall yields to winter, and through the cold months.

Five fruits and vegetables a day is the regimen he and Colleen practice in their house. As a pediatrician, did he preach that to his patients and their parents?

“We gave a lot of dietary advice, but I don’t think many people followed it,” he said ruefully.

With the pandemic upon us, more people have turned to gardening. Some seeds have been hard to find. Good luck locating starter plants for Italian parsley. Nowhere near enough heirloom tomato plants were for sale in the nurseries.

I’m hoping this wave of new gardeners will stick with it. I’m hoping there will be happy memories to pass on, years from now, about 2020, the time we were all locked down for a while.

— Daniel Kennedy has a long history with the earth’s bounty and is an adviserto the Davis Farmers Market. Reach him at kennedy46@gmail.com.

The curse ... we live in very interesting times

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reene King is the largest brewing company in the UK, with some 3,100 retail outlets in pubs, restaurants, and hotels.

Benjamin Greene founded the company in 1799 and the Greene family came to play important roles in many aspects of British life. However, as a result of research by University College London, Benjamin has been outed as a prominent slaveholder and staunch enemy of abolition.

Turns out, Benjamin owned 231 slaves on his sugar plantations in Montserrat and St. Kitts.

Upon abolition of slavery, the British government compensated Benjamin £4,034, equivalent to about $500,000 today; the slaves received no financial compensation.

As a result of the recent protests over racial injustice in the USA and around the world, Greene King has announced it will pay substantial reparations to BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Emigrant) charities.

Nothing for residents of Montserrat and St. Kitts.

A few days ago, a policeman rapped on the window of Rayshad Brooks’ car. He got out, worse the wear from a few extra beers, and had a reasonable conversation with the policeman.

He offered a simple solution to the problem. Some time later he was dead, lying in the street.

Many years ago, a policeman rapped on the window of my car.

I got out, worse the wear from a

few extra beers, and had a reasonable conversation with the policeman. I offered a simple solution to the problem. Some time later I was asleep lying in bed.

I have never experienced the agony of tear gas or pepper spray or felt the bruise of a rubber bullet or a policeman’s nightstick. I have never been thrown face down with my hands cuffed or been choked from behind by a strong man. And so my horror at such violent treatment does not spring from any personal experience but from my imagination of it.

But I have, on two memorable occasions, fallen backwards flat on my back.

My most recent such fall was at the Davis Muni Golf course.

The other occasion was at a beach in North Carolina.

Both experiences shook me to my core even though I was fortunate to be on soft surfaces and so did not whack my head too hard in a whiplash.

In neither case was I propelled by a vigorous shove.

Therefore, my personal experience most closely relates to that

of Martin Gugino. After Buffalo policemen shoved him out of their way, he landed flat on his back and, through high velocity, whacked his head in a whiplash onto hard pavement. He bled. As far as I know he is still in hospital. That was brutal.

When I visit a brewery I know what the team there is trying to achieve because brewers have been doing what they do in breweries for a long time. We know how it all works. Although the process is complex, we know what objective we wish to achieve.

That is why I am mystified by the mindless approach that police take towards crowd control. After all police have been dealing with crowds for many decades and should, by now, have a good understanding of what objectives they are trying to achieve and have workable strategies for achieving them.

Since police almost always achieve violence I assume that is their objective.

Clue 1 to this is showing up in riot gear, armed to the teeth and, Clue 2, blocking the path of the crowd with a phalanx of warriors. Confrontation offered and achieved. Challenge accepted.

Violence to follow. Stand by for tear gas and rubber bullets.

Violent confrontation should not be the inevitable and normal course of events when crowds assemble. After all we are a nation in which the people have a First Amendment right peaceably to assemble and to petition

the government for redress of grievances.

It is not the function of the police, representing the government, to disperse or disassemble the crowd that has the constitutional right to assemble. It is their function and objective to preserve the constitutionally required peaceable behavior of the throng.

Riot gear and tear gas and rubber bullets seem unsuited to that objective.

The best example of good policing I saw was in Britain. It may have been during the miners’ strikes of 1970s. The police were not deployed to prevent or block the march but marched in step alongside the strikers forming a moving thin blue wall between the marchers and the property they were passing.

Police mingled with the strikers in Parliament Square. They were not the combatants. Now I don’t wish to pretend that British miners are a gentle lot or that British policemen are sweethearts, and it’s true that any confrontation could have been very nasty with that deployment.

That did not happen as I observed it on that occasion.

There was more cooperation than confrontation. Why? There may be extenuating circumstances. In those decades there was a reasonable level of mutual respect between the population and the police. There was no racial component. There were no firearms. The policemen were not “officers” but “constables,” so

a bit nerdy, and they were known endearingly as Bobbies (after Sir Robert Peel) and in those days wore those goofy helmets.

Of course, when police action is on TV every evening, we might ask the question why the police predictably engage in brutality and so fall into a trap of their own making. Or we might ask why the police are drawn into a brutality trap set by the protesters. Or we might ask if the police wish to validate the message of brutality the protesters proclaim.

If protesters, who are protesting police brutality, can bait police to demonstrate brutality in front of the TV cameras they can say to the watching public, “You see now what our message is about.”

Whether the police are drawn into this behavior trap or fall into it is perhaps beside the point. In either case the protesters’ message is validated and the police are gullible even foolish participants in making the case against themselves.

On the other hand, police may have a good reason for creating, validating and even burnishing a reputation for brutality. Such a reputation makes citizens wary, guarded, pliable, humble and ultimately scared; in any contact, that cedes the warrior high ground to the men in blue.

Might makes right after all.

— Reach Michael Lewis at lewiswales@me.com. Comment on this column at www.davis enterprise.com.

Davis resident earns podiatric medicine degree from Midwestern University Enterprise staff Sergio Melara Mojica of Davis, has completed the doctor of podiatric medicine degree at the Arizona School of Podiatric Medicine of Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz.

Conferring of degrees took place in a virtual graduation ceremony hosted by Midwestern University on May 22.

Mojica is the son of Woodland residents Sergio Melara and Nury Mojica de Melara. He graduated from UC Davis in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in animal science. Upon graduation, he discovered his passion for human medicine and surgery and

NAME DROPPERS never looked back. While at Midwestern, he was awarded two scholarships for innovation in podiatric medicine for inventions that he will use to improve patient care. He also participated in volunteer medical trips in Antigua, Guatemala, for two consecutive years. Dr. Melara Mojica will complete a podiatric residency program at Tucson Medical Center.

AZPod’s inaugural class graduated in June 2008.

The four-year program trains DPMs — physicians and surgeons who practice on the lower extremities,

primarily on feet and ankles.

———— Willa Moffatt of Davis was named to the Dean’s List at the College of William & Mary for the spring 2020 semester.

In order to achieve Dean’s List status, a fulltime degree seeking undergraduate student must take at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.6 Quality Point Average during the semester.

———— Samantha Goss of Davis was recently named to the President’s List at Kennesaw State University.

Goss was among the more than 4,900

Kennesaw State students honored for academic excellence in the Spring 2020 semester. To be named to the President’s List, each student must have satisfactorily completed at least 9 semester hours with a term grade point average of 4.0.

A leader in innovative teaching and learning, Kennesaw State University offers more than 150 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees to its approximately 38,000 students.

William & Mary is the second oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

————

Sarah E. Carney, a 2019 graduate of Davis High School, was named to the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s List for fall and spring semesters at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. Students who are

enrolled full time and achieve a GPA of 3.70 or higher, based on 12 graded semester credits, are named to the Dean’s List.

Carney is pursuing a physics major and is a member of the Lewis & Clark track and field team.

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sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2020

Seng ready to get off sideline DHS grad overcame injury, heading to SFSU

BY WILL WYMAN Enterprise correspondent

Theo Seng has soldiered through an interesting past 12 months of his basketball career.

Whether it was fighting through injury, proving himself to colleges or preparing for the next level of play while dealing with a global pandemic, the recent Davis High graduate has been through it all.

Seng enjoyed a explosive

start to his Blue Devil basketball season last winter.

Averaging 12.3 points and 8.6 rebounds, the versatile 6-foot-8 player was critical to the Blue Devils’ white-hot 10-0 start.

However, a left ankle injury sustained during the Dougherty Valley Tournament sidelined the standout for the remainder of the season.

“It was rough getting injured at that part of the season,” Seng told The

Davis High graduate Theo Seng has been working out any way he can as the basketball standout prepares to play for San Francisco State.

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Enterprise. “I was supereager to get back out and play ... I even tried to get cleared and come back and play early. But that wound up making my injury worse.”

Although his high school career ended unfavorably, Seng committed to playing ball in college soon after.

Impressive displays at college camps drew interest from universities even before his senior season began.

“The college recruitment process was super-fun and very confusing,” Seng reported. “The most fun was going to college camps all summer and trying to prove myself.”

After all the attention, it was San Francisco State University emerging as the program that was able to secure the services of the tantalizing player.

Usually a typical summer before going off to college is filled with hours of practice, lifting weights and meeting new teammates while playing games.

Unfortunately for Seng, this is no typical summer.

“There haven’t been any gyms open so it’s been hard to get back to it,” Seng noted.

This lack of access has led the 18-year-old to focus on different areas of his game.

“I’ve mostly just been shooting around (at home) and trying to fix my form and become more consistent.”

Theo is accompanying finetuning his shooting form with shaking some plates in the gym. The college game is much more physical than high school, a truth Seng is fully aware of.

“I’ve been trying to workout a lot and put on some weight so I’m college

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DHS center Theo Seng averaged 12.3 ppg and 8.6 rpg over the first 10 games of the 2019 season.

The 6-foot-8 highlight reel was sidelined by an ankle injury the remainder of the year. ready,” the Devil said. “My mindset right now is just trying to get bigger and stay in shape, so I won’t get bullied when I meet the new team.”

A more consistent jumper and a few more pounds of muscle will make Seng an even more effective player than before.

His versatility already inspires fear in his opponents. With a proven ability to play anywhere on the frontline, it is difficult to deduce his true position.

For DHS, Seng played the bulk of his senior minutes at center, thanks to his height.

The summer preceding his impressive varsity start, he filled the small-forward position for his AAU squad.

And on his Instagram bio, he describes himself as a “big guard.” Seng said he’s flexible as to where Gators’ coach Vince Inglima might want him to play, but added

he’s partial to his AAU small-forward role: “Next year, I’m open to playing any position that’ll help the team.”

The Gators, who play in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, could deploy Seng to play any role on the floor and Blue Devils head coach Dan Gonzalez believes his former big man would excel.

In fact, during his 10-game career with the Devils, Seng was at one time or another employed at all five positions in the DHS rapid-fire offense.

The big man is crafty like a guard, shoots with the best of them, and has a pterodactyl-esque wing span to facilitate blocks and gobble up rebounds.

“No. 30 is also quick on the fast break. He really gets up the floor and creates mismatches,” Gonzalez said during the

2019 preseason.

Often Seng would have left his defender at the opposite end of the court, settling near the basket against a foe of less stature. In those instances, Seng was often able to showcase his ability to rock the rim with an impressive array of dunks.

One of Davis High’s most exciting basketball products in years, Seng has all the tools to excel in the college game, Gonzalez pointed out.

His ability to traverse athletic adversity and come out the other side stronger is a testament to his tremendous will power and fortitude.

These characteristics, along with his already menacing skill set, should lead to continued success at the next level.

— Reach correspondent Will Wyman at wymanw 26@gmail.com.

Recalling a run that was really ‘fun’ W

hile I have been a recreational runner with subaverage speed for all my adult life, I can’t say I have ever actually enjoyed going for a run.

In fact, the only time I’ve experienced a runner’s high is when someone in a passing car waves and says “Hi.” As I have slowed down a bit for a variety of reasons, I’ll jog at night or on a lonely country road or sometimes in circles on the living room carpet so no one will see me.

The last time I ran in town during daylight hours, a car passed by, then hastily flipped a U-turn and came back to ask if I wanted them to call 9-1-1.

When you imagine you’re doing full-on wind sprints and your kids think you’re merely walking, you know it’s time to reassess the value of your workout.

I will admit that jogging on a dirt path in a majestic redwood forest on the north coast of California — or across the top of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state — is less painful than running around Toomey Field 20 times, but at no point does it rise

to the point of being pleasurable.

Nevertheless, I have been invited to participate in a fair share of events as part of that crazy phenomenon known as a “fun run,” an oxymoron if there ever was one.

There was one such fun run thousands of miles from home that I tripped upon entirely by accident that remains memorable many years later.

Looking back, I might even put it in the “fun” category ...

It was June of 1991 and I was on an airplane headed for Fairbanks, Alaska, to fulfill a lifelong dream of experiencing the “longest day” in the Land of the Midnight Sun. As it happens, I was seated on the flight next to a young man, probably age 25 or so, who told me he was heading to Fairbanks to participate in the annual Midnight Sun Run. Turns out, as I learned much later from race officials, he was a two-time participant in the Olympic Trials and had been invited to the far north, all expenses paid, to give the run a true world-class feel.

I asked him if this were a professional event for qualifying runners only and he replied “absolutely not, everyone is welcome.”

He told me it was a 10K starting at the University of Alaska and ending with a party in a park in downtown Fairbanks. He even offered to call the race director and convince her to accept a late entrant from California — me.

It was an offer I couldn’t refuse.

I know you’re not supposed to stereotype, but I have always known from my days as a sportswriter that long-distance runners as a group are about the nicest folks you’ll ever want to meet.

My newfound friend was no exception. I remember only that his name was John and he had

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run competitively at UC Irvine. I arrived in Fairbanks, knocked on the race director’s front door, got my T-shirt and course map, then showed up the next evening at the University of Alaska half an hour before the 10 p.m. start time.

I knew that Fairbanks has beautiful weather in summer, but on this day it had been downright hot. The Daily News-Miner reported that the temperature at race time was in the “high 80s,” which was not surprising, given that the sun was still shining brightly.

Sunset on this warm night would not come until 12:48 a.m., with sunrise just around the corner at 2:58 a.m. It never really got dark.

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ith so much sunlight, it was impossible to realize just how late in the evening it actually was.

The race course took us along the beautiful Chena River and it seemed as if I were running in the middle of the afternoon. There were participants of all shapes and sizes and speeds. I settled comfortably into my 8:30 per mile pace —

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that’s 8 minutes and 30 seconds, not 8 hours and 30 minutes — knowing that I couldn’t break an 8-minute mile even if a family of grizzlies was closing in on me.

At about the 40-minute mark, I saw a familiar face running against the grain back through the crowded field. It was my new friend John, who, as I soon learned, had already won the event in a scintillating 31:16, and he was looking for me.

“I’m cooling down,” he said.

“C’mon, follow me. I’ll pace you to the finish line.”

John and I weaved through the pack, at times seemingly breaking that impenetrable 8-minute-mile barrier and soon we were crossing the finish line together.

The crowd was delighted to see John cross the line for a secondtime and wondered who in the world the guy running with him was.

John’s gesture of kindness and sportsmanship and pure fun gave me a moment of joy I will never forget.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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