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‘Guilty’: Golden State Killer admits to rape, murder spree

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer SACRAMENTO — A plea deal Monday brought a swifter path to justice for victims of the Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist as the long-elusive suspect admitted to dozens of violent crimes, including three Davis rapes during the summer of 1978.

Joseph James DeAngelo never was charged with those assaults, but he took responsibility for

them during Monday’s daylong hearing where he acknowledged committing 13 acts of first-degree murder and 75 other offenses between 1975 and 1986.

“Guilty,” DeAngelo, his voice feeble and raspy — which many considered an act — said repeatedly Monday during the hearing, held inside a Sacramento State University ballroom and livestreamed on YouTube due to the case’s massive public interest and

to maintain social distancing amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“I admit,” DeAngelo said scores more times to specialcircumstance allegations, charging enhancements and uncharged crimes including rape, kidnapping, robbery, false imprisonment and criminal threats.

The guilty pleas are expected to bring DeAngelo 11 consecutive life sentences without the

possibility of parole and 15 concurrent life sentence, which at age 74 means he’ll live out his days behind prison walls.

“DeAngelo is the embodiment of pure evil. He raped, tortured and murdered countless victims across California,” said Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who attended the hearing during which prosecutors outlined the grim details of DeAngelo’s crimes, many of

which went uncharged due to expired statutes of limitations.

In addition to sparing DeAngelo from a potential death sentence, prosecutors noted that

DeANGELO “Embodiment of pure evil”

SEE KILLER, PAGE A4

UCD athlete tests positive

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer

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Tributes to George Floyd and other victims of police violence have decorated Central Park in Davis for a month. Organizers initially planned to leave it up only until the end of June, but now aim to keep it going for the whole summer.

Memorial to stay all summer

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Organizers seek support for permanent fixture in Central Park Following the death of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, local artist and community organizer Kate Mellon-Anibaba installed portraits in Central Park of Floyd and two other Black men recently killed by police. Others brought — and continue to bring — candles, flowers and artwork.

Over the past month, the growing memorial became a place “for those in our community to process, grieve, show

support and stand in solidarity,” states the Solidarity Space Davis Facebook page, which was created by the memorial’s organizers.

Mellon-Anibaba and fellow organizer, NJ Mvondo, a local artist and entrepreneur, have organized events in the space, like a community reading of books by Black authors and a healing space for Black people.

A candlelight vigil is held every evening from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and volunteers have signed up for shifts to maintain the memorial.

“I thought there needed to be a physical space for these events, this process, this grief,”

said Mellon-Anibaba. “I wanted it to be a space where people of color felt comfortable.”

“Solidarity Space Davis will be maintained throughout the summer until permanent art can be installed,” the group announced Tuesday on Facebook.

seeking support from the city of Davis for a permanent fixture in Central Park. The message from community members, she said, has been clear. “There has been an outpouring of community support which shows us how important it is that we maintain this space for Black lives,” the announcement stated.

According to organizers, a lack of community spaces in Davis dedicated to Black people contributed to the decision to create a public memorial. “I love Davis,” Mvondo said. “But I’ve also experienced racism here and I’ve experienced being profiled here.” Those experiences

Mellon-Anibaba told The Enterprise she is currently

SEE MEMORIAL, PAGE A3

Because of the maintenance required — refilling flower vases, cleaning up candle wax, and occasionally defending the memorial from unwanted attention — organizers initially planned to leave it up only until the end of June, but those plans have changed.

The Enterprise learned Tuesday evening that a UC Davis studentathlete tested positive for COVID-19.

As part of the Aggies’ medical screening process — required for all athletes electing to resume voluntary workouts at campus facilities — an asymptomatic student tested positive for the illness.

In a statement to The Enterprise on Tuesday night, the UCD athletic department noted that “the studentathlete was not medically cleared, did not participate in any athletics activity, and is currently self-isolating.”

Davis athletes had been given the green light earlier this month to resume voluntary workouts at the university’s facilities, with mandatory testing required prior to use. This is the first UCD athlete known to have tested positive for coronavirus.

In a Powerpoint presentation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, public health director Brian Vaughn gave an update on the county’s 26 open probes into COVID-19 outbreaks.

UCD and Woodland Christian School’s athletic departments were among sites listed under scrutiny.

City extends halt on evictions through July

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

County investigates 26 possible COVID outbreaks

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County is currently investigating possible COVID-19 outbreaks at 26 different locations, including three religious institutions and 16 worksites, the county’s public health director said Tuesday.

Eight of those locations are in Davis — including one associated with athletic activities at UC Davis — and nine in Woodland, while five are in West Sacramento and four in Winters or the unincorporated areas of the county, according to public health director Brian Vaughn.

Vaughn did not disclose the identities of any of the locations as all investigations are ongoing and outbreaks not yet confirmed.

But they include a retail establishment, a restaurant, two schools, a childcare facility, two manufacturers and five food-packaging worksites.

Additionally, possible outbreaks are being investigated at three longterm care or skilled nursing facilities in the county, not including Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis which has reported three

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COVID-19 relief measures approved by the City Council in March have been extended again, this time through the end of July.

Those relief measures include an ordinance prohibiting residential and commercial landlords from evicting renters impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In passing the ordinance on March 25, the City Council authorized City Manager Mike Webb to extend the moratorium as needed and Webb has done so twice now, first through June and now through July 31.

Additionally, the city will continue to waive new utility bill late fees for all residential and commercial customers, allowing late payments without penalty through July. Customers do not need to apply or submit any special forms.

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Briefly Bly’s poems to be featured Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe continues his online poetry reading series on Friday, July 3, with the poems of Robert Bly, winner of the National Book Award in 1968.

The poems featured will be from Bly’s book “My Sentence Was For A Thousand Years Of Joy.” This free reading will be posted online by 7:30 p.m. at bothjames-leejobe.blogspot.com/and atyoutube.com/james leejobe. Both sites always have poetry or poetry readings available.

Reminder: July 4 party canceled The city of Davis reminds everyone that the community’s annual 4th of July fireworks and festivities are canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As residents may be celebrating the 4th of July, the city would like to emphasize that Yolo County continues to follow the state’s Stay at Home order, and encourages everyone to follow the state and county guidelines for social distancing and wearing a face covering.

For more information on Yolo County mandates, visit https:// www.yolocounty.org/ coronavirus.

The use or discharge of fireworks or similar pyrotechnics, including “Safe and Sane” fireworks sold outside of Davis is prohibited in the city.

“We look forward to bringing back this Davis tradition next year,” said Mayor Brett Lee. “For now, we must consider the safety of our community as our top priority.”

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Get in on this great deal if you can T hey say imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Therefore, I took it as a distinct honor and high recognition to find my name mentioned in the widely read column of my esteemed colleague, Bruce Gallaudet.

Without my input or permission, by the way.

“In the old days,” Gallaudet began a recent column, “when Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning went on vacation, he ran a ‘contest’ asking readers to submit their most brilliant thoughts to replace his daily position on Page 2.”

So far, so good.

“The first couple of years, I entered but never got picked,” Gallaudet continues.

I don’t really remember that, but since “Bruce Gallaudet” is such a common name, it may have happened and I simply forgot.

Truth be told, Bruce is considerably younger than I am, even though he claims 52 years in the business to my 51. How that happened is unclear. I mean, I started my column in kindergarten when Bruce was still in diapers.

Adds Gallaudet, “So I decided to

start my own column, usually on Fridays in this sports section.”

The stuff of legends.

“But now, during this pandemic,” he notes, “I’ve grown tired of writing volumes about the impact of the coronavirus, how interesting Zoom meetings are, did Carolyn’s cat really learn to shoot free throws and is there going to be a fall sports season?”

Indeed, there should be a Pulitzer awarded for “Attempted Sportswriting Absent a Real Game,” given that there hasn’t been so such as a game of “catch” in the front yard since this persistent pandemic hit with full force in the middle of March.

Gallaudet has twisted the arms of a number of people in authority to find out if and when organized sports will resume, but the answers have been elusive at best.

“The dozens of experts I’ve talked with have finally reached consensus. They don’t know,” he writes.

“So, after chatting with county health officials — and reading Yolo’s Health and Human Services Department’s Roadmap to Recovery — I’ve decided to abdicate this space for at least one Friday afternoon.”

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ow here comes the part I cherish.

“In the tradition of Dunning’s guest-columnist sweepstakes, I am asking you to submit a think piece that takes us as far away from the uncertainty of life with coronavirus as you can get us.”

I’ve been trying to get a mention in Bruce’s column for years and there it was. Unsolicited and completely unexpected. Best of all, I didn’t have to get arrested to make it happen.

Your entries should run between 500 and 600 words and can be emailed to Bruce at bgallaudet41 @gmail.com. Entry deadline is July 15.

Whereas my long-running contest feted the winners and their families with a candlelight dinner

Police station vandalism suspect held

BY LAUREN KEENE

at McDonald’s, Gallaudet has upped the ante by offering the winner two tickets to either a Giants or an A’s game.

Second prize is four tickets to an A’s game.

The winner also gets lunch with Gallaudet, presumably at that famed country roadhouse, Plainfield Station, where Bruce has his own table and the head chef knows his order by heart.

If you don’t wish to go to Plainfield, Bruce promises to “drive slowly by your house and throw you a sackful of Western Bacon Cheeseburgers from Carl’s Jr.” Adds Bruce, “So, if you’ve been complaining about nothing to do, here’s your chance. Dazzle me and our newspaper’s readers by spinning a tale or two that deserves to stand tall on these very pages.”

This, dear friends, is the opportunity of a lifetime. Not to mention a chance to break bread with a journalistic giant.

As I used to implore in the final line of my own contest announcement, stealing a bit from the Indy 500: “Ladies and Gentlemen, start your typewriters.”

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Enterprise staff writer Saturday’s vandalism at the Davis police station was one of three crimes carried out that day by the same suspect, who had been released from jail hours earlier after being arrested the day before, according to Davis police officials.

Yolo County prosecutors say they are working to get the suspect, Jinnah Emery Dongo, into treatment for mental health issues, which they believe to be a common underlying factor in his alleged offenses.

“Our goal is to help this young man who is transient and seems to be suffering from mental illness,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said.

Davis police arrested Dongo on Friday after he allegedly threatened city workers at the Veterans Memorial Center on East 14th St., then spit on responding officers and vandalized a patrol car. He was booked into the Yolo County Jail.

Released from custody on the county’s emergency zero-bail order, which seeks to curb the spread of coronavirus by lowering jail populations, Dongo returned to Davis and is suspected of tossing rocks

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Windows at the Davis Police Department are boarded up after Saturday morning’s vandalism. and a chair through two windows at the Fifth Street police station Saturday morning, Lt. Art Camacho said Monday.

From there, he is believed to have continued on to the Veterans Memorial Center, where police say he smashed a window and

stole a laptop computer and headphones from a truck in the parking lot.

Officers arrested him a second time at about 8 p.m.

Saturday, Camacho said.

Back in jail custody with enhanced bail, Dongo, 29, is due in court Wednesday for arraignment.

STEAC gets $10,000 grant from Bayer Special to The Enterprise STEAC, the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee, announced Tuesday it received a grant for $10,000 from Bayer Fund, which will be used to support STEAC’s Feeding the Hungry Program.

“We are thrilled to receive this support from Bayer Fund, especially during these trying times where so many families have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis,” stated STEAC executive director Liane Moody.

“In the past three years, our Feeding the Hungry Program has almost doubled in size in terms of the number of families it serves. With the increased unemployment, our program will be stressed even further for months to come.”

The Feeding the Hungry Program provides the equivalent of over 85,000 meals a year to food insecure families in the community. Due to social distancing requirements in the last couple months, STEAC has had to cancel critical food drives that it relies on to provide food to families in need.

The Bayer Fund grant will provide funds that can go toward replenishing much needed supplies, providing enough support to pay for food for roughly 20,000

meals, serving close to 2,000 individuals.

“Throughout the years, the grants given through Bayer Fund have helped strengthen our communities across the United States,” said Al Mitchell, President of Bayer Fund.

In 2019, Bayer Fund awarded more than $14 million to over 3,200 charitable and nonprofit organizations to help address essential needs in food and nutrition, STEM

education and community development. Over the last five years, nonprofit organizations across the U.S. have received more than $79 million.

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KILLER: New tech uses old DNA evidence to track suspects From Page A1 the plea offers a measure of justice to the victims, witnesses and lawenforcement officers connected to the case. While many have passed away, others are well into their 70s and 80s.

“His pleas and admissions today surely do not account for all of his crimes or victims, but they do bring these particular cases closer to a conclusion,” Reisig said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims and survivors.”

A sentencing hearing is slated for August, when DeAngelo’s victims — including the survivors of those he brutally killed — are expected to deliver statements that prosecutors say won’t be limited in time or content.

DeAngelo’s numerous victims included four Davis residents — a UC Davis student, a mother at home with her two sons, and a couple who also had two children, one of whom DeAngelo locked inside a bathroom when he awoke during the assault.

During one attack, DeAngelo reportedly said, “I hate you — I hate you, Bonnie,” the same name of DeAngelo’s former fiancée who according to prosecutors had recently broken up with him due to his controlling nature.

DeAngelo’s plea comes more than two years after his April 2018 arrest at his Citrus Heights home, where for years he lived under the radar before DNA technology iden-

tified him as the suspect also once known as the Original Night Stalker and the Visalia Ransacker.

“We knew we were looking for a needle in a haystack, but we knew that needle was there,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at the time, having convened a statewide task force to identify the elusive suspect in 2016. “We found that needle … and it was right here in Sacramento.”

Crimes remembered Previously identified only through a common DNA profile obtained from his crime scenes, the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer terrified communities throughout the state, his offenses spanning Alameda, Contra Costa, Orange, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, Tulare, Ventura and Yolo counties.

He struck Davis three times between June 7 and July 6, 1978, the crime spree paralyzing the quiet college town and elevating local police into high alert.

“It was really something that scared the bejesus out of everybody in town,” Nick Concolino, a retired Davis police captain who worked for the UC Davis Police Department at the time, told The Enterprise following DeAngelo’s arrest.

Concolino recalled that the crimes so frightened the commu-

nity that few people went out at night, and some women took to sleeping in their bathtubs so that an intruder wouldn’t find them in their bedrooms.

After the first rape, which quickly was linked to the Sacramento-area sex assaults, local police agencies stationed officers with binoculars on the roof of the then-newly built Emerson Junior High School building to scope out suspicious activity after dark, Concolino recalled.

During the time of the attacks, DeAngelo was employed as a peace officer with two different agencies — the Exeter Police Department east of Visalia from 1973 to 1976, and the Auburn Police Department from 1976 to 1979.

The East Area Rapist’s reign of terror began in the Sacramento region in 1976, striking as far south as Stockton and Modesto. He first preyed upon teenage girls and women who were home alone, then couples as he grew bolder.

His patterns included breaking into homes, then tying up his victims with shoelaces and violently holding guns or knives to their heads as he threatened to kill them and their families.

Everywhere he struck, authorities made solving the crimes their highest priority.

“They took virtually every police officer at UCD and Davis and put them on duty after dark,” Concolino said in a 2010 interview with The Davis Enterprise

about the cold case.

“We stopped everything that we could legally stop, especially solo males,” Concolino said. Even if he wasn’t caught, “the thought was we’d make it so uncomfortable for him that he would move along.”

It may have worked. The July 1978 attack in Davis was among the last to occur in the Sacramento area. From there, he moved west to Contra Costa County and other parts of the Bay Area, where he still managed to remain elusive.

That DeAngelo had police training came as little surprise to Concolino.

“One of the things we always speculated was that because he was so stealthy, he might have a lawenforcement or specialoperations type of background,” he said, noting that the suspect entered one home’s window without disturbing any items along the windowsill.

Cold cases solved DeAngelo’s case became the first of three in which the Sacramento DA’s Office recently used DNA evidence to identify suspects of serial sex crimes in the Sacramento region, including Davis.

Roy Charles Waller, a longtime UC Berkeley employee, was arrested in September 2018 in connection with the NorCal Rapist crime spree that included 15 sexual assaults in six counties between 1991 and 2006. Three of his vic-

tims were UCD students, attacked in their apartments 1997 and 2000.

A Sacramento Superior Court judge upheld the charges following a preliminary hearing held over multiple days in December and January. Waller now awaits trial and is due back in court Aug. 8.

In July 2019, Schubert’s office announced the arrest of Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel, a suspect in several decades-old crimes in the Sacramento area, including the brutal 1994 sexual assault of a UC Davis student on a South Davis greenbelt.

The 22-year-old victim was jogging a greenbelt in the area of Cowell Boulevard and Washoe Street, on her way to get dinner from a local market, when a suspect grabbed her and disabled her with a stun gun on the night of Jan. 11, 1994.

Manteuffel’s case also remains ongoing, his next court appearance on Thursday.

“This was a terrible crime that at the time caused many residents to question their safety, rightfully so,” Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said at the time of Manteuffel’s arrest. “Our hope is that those who commit crimes will stop, because recent technology advances are now bringing them to justice.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

MEMORIAL: Organizers look for safe, communal space in Davis From Page A1 have included being tailed by police in Davis, she said.

For many Black community members, the killing of George Floyd was felt not as an isolated incident, but a symptom of an ever-present system that wears down and endangers Black people.

“Seeing another black man treated like an animal, it does something to your mind,” Sule Anibaba, a student-athlete advisor at UC Davis, and husband to Mellon-Anibaba, said at a community reading event in early June. “It leaves a scar — many scars.”

“George Floyd’s death was the drop that made my cup

overflow,” Mvondo said. “I was grateful that there was a public space where we could all come together to mourn and to grieve and to comfort each other.”

Mellon-Anibaba and Mvondo have tried to keep the solidarity space focused on remembering Black people whose lives were cut short by police and on working towards social justice and Black liberation. While the response from community members has been overwhelmingly positive, they said the memorial has also been the subject of threats and insults.

In early June, a woman brought a sign to the memorial with the names and photos of police officers who

were killed in the line of duty. When organizers told her the sign was not in line with the purpose of the memorial, she threatened to return and tear down all of the posters and artwork, Mvondo said.

“Any death is tragic, but right now we’re talking about the rate at which Black folks are being killed.

We’re talking about systemic racism that has specifically targeted Black people,” Mvondo said. “We’re talking about the world finally waking up to the kind of pressure we’re up against every single day.”

On another occasion, someone driving by the memorial shouted out their window that George Floyd

“deserved to die.” Another person taped a piece of paper detailing Floyd’s arrest record to the memorial.

Someone else brought a large sign that said, “All Lives Matter.”

Those incidents only reinforce the need in Davis for a public space where Black people feel safe and valued and where non-Black people can gather in solidarity, Mellon-Anibaba and Mvondo said.

“It’s not just the Black community being affected.

It’s also the relationship that we have with each other that’s been shaken up,” Mvondo said. “We have

reached a point where we have to look each other in the face. We need to be telling each other the hard truth in order to heal and to move forward.”

Over the past month, Mvondo and MellonAnibaba said they have observed discussions about race that might not have happened without the memorial.

“There are parents intentionally bringing their children here as a way to start that conversation. They’re opening up a dialogue so that kids feel comfortable coming to them to talk about that kind of stuff in the

future,” Mellon-Anibaba said. “It makes a difference to have something physical there to bring that up.”

Events planned for the summer at the solidarity space include a social justice book fair, healing circles, and a music and spoken-word event.

The solidarity space’s organizers are maintaining an active Facebook page (facebook.com/solidarity spacedavis) where more information can be found.

They have also set up an online fundraising page and are accepting donations to pay for supplies and maintenance of the space.

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Willing to stick my neck out for the new rosés

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s a direct result of the Davis library’s new curbside pick-up service (after the long weeks of total deprivation), I am now living in 16th century England. Its narcissistic king — that would be Henry VIII — has just severed head from body of Queen Anne Boleyn and several of her supposed lovers.

The ever-obliging Thomas Cromwell has engineered this feat and is reaping his rewards — more power, power that, of course, he intends to wield for the good of the country. Perk: he has saved his own skin (or, rather, head) in the process. And grown richer.

If the plot sounds alarmingly familiar, be assured that Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell is much more multi-faceted, intelligent, witty, charming, and amusing (if every bit as ruthless as), say, William Barr or Mitch McConnell.

But you may be wondering how I’m going to get from the final volume (“The Mirror and the Light”)of Mantel’s magnificent Cromwell trilogy, to wine.

I’m wondering, too. Let’s see: Cromwell and friends do drink wine, though ale perhaps appears more often. And King Henry has a reputation for prodigious eating and drinking.

And, let me remind you of the

symbol of the Henry’s reign — the Tudor rose. After all, it’s rosé season. And the 2019 rosés have arrived along with the flowers.

(OK, so this is one of my worst transitions ever. Excuse: I’m hot and world-weary.)

Besides, I’m quite sure that the cosmopolitan, discerning Cromwell and his ambassadorial comrades would wholly approve of the rosé I’m recommending that you sip while reading this tome — or, better, eating your supper.

Eating almost anything, by the way. This wine is a marvel of versatility. It would have been perfect to accompany one of Cromwell’s diplomatic dinner, napkins folded into Tudor roses, of eel with almond sauce and spinach tart.

We, on the other hand, drank it with a roasted cherry tomato and caramelized red onion pasta, and I’m aching to try it with every summer dish I concoct in these months of cooking and eating all our meals at home.

Fresh corn fritters, sweet-andsour eggplant, slow-sauteed zucchini with mint and feta, fresh tomato tart, mushroom-andParmesan stuffed red peppers, farro with basil pesto, fresh wild salmon baked in parchment.

Bring on the Broc Love Rosé!

Added benefit in case of salmon: the deep salmon color of the wine will nicely match its fishy companion.

Regular readers of “Wineaux” know that I’m a big fan of Berkeley winemaker Chris Brockway, so when daughter Julian handed me a chilled bottle of the 2019 Broc Love Rosé (I hadn’t tasted the new release), I knew dinner would be out of the ordinary.

The blend differs every year — this time it’s 80% valdiguié, 14% zin and 6% trousseau, which were fermented together. I’m just calling it a rosé of valdiguié, a grape that has a long history in our area and a favorite of mine.

Much of the fruit for this bottle, in fact, came from Solano County’s Green Valley.

If you’re not a rosé fan, try this anyway. Yes, it has lots of juicy strawberry and watermelon notes, but unlike the ubiquitous rosé that tastes like adult soda pop (and nothing wrong with that for patio sipping), this one — after its burst of fruit — becomes savory, a bit salty, and refreshingly acidic. A serious —

as well as seriously fun — wine.

Like all Broc Cellars wines, it comes from dry-farmed, organically tended vineyards. Fermentation is spontaneous — no yeasts or other additives. And nothing subtracted. It’s fresh, lively, and thoroughly happymaking. Since picnicking is one of the safest ways for us to socialize, I should mention that you can buy this wine in 4-pack cans as well as bottles.

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s I peruse wine shelves (which I’m now doing much less often and much more quickly, mask firmly in place), I notice that it’s not easy to find a rosé this year that’s 12.5% alcohol or less (my preference), but this beauty comes in at just 11%.

It costs a bit more than you might think to spend on a rose — about $20 — but it’s so good that you won’t resent the investment. Especially since you’re also investing in good farming practices and small production, natural winemaking. Order from the website at broccellars.com If you read other wine columns, you’ll know that I’m not the only fan of Chris Brockway — he gets accolades from almost every discussion of the “new” California winemakers, and Eric Asimov writing for The New York Times recommends Broc

almost as often as I do.

If you’re looking for a less expensive rosé that’s flavorful (a delightful blend of niellucciu, sciaccarellu and grenache) and low in alcohol (12%), check out the Domaine Vetriccie Rosé from Corsica.

The estate is dedicated to producing the classic wines of the region, and Daniel Barcelo farms his acres — located between the mountains and the sea — sustainably. The wine’s a lovely vibrant pink and filled with fresh fruit offset by good minerality and acidity. This is one of those wines that easily transports you to a distant sea and its sunny beaches. So any seafood would be a good match, but I like it a lot (I get many bottles every year) with all my summer pastas.

It costs $13 at Nugget — a real bargain.

Henry VIII doted on artichokes, which are notoriously hard to pair, but I think he’d be happy to partner them with either of these wines. If not, the winemakers’ severed heads — and mine — would roll in the streets, and Cromwell would confiscate their inventory for his baked eels.

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

OUTBREAKS: County blames household gatherings as main driver From Page A1 cases in the last two weeks.

“Twenty-six active investigations … is an unheard of number for us,” Vaughn told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

The investigations have arisen from efforts to trace the contacts of individual cases confirmed by the county in the last couple of weeks — a total of 243 over the last 14 days.

The largest driver of new cases, Vaughn said, continues to be household gatherings. Those social and family interactions involving multiple households are responsible for a third of cases reported between June 15 and June 28.

But the new cases arising from those gatherings, Vaughn said, “are now spilling out into other places.

“There’s linkages to workplace exposures, to other close contacts that aren’t in the households,” he said. “So it’s spreading out there (in the community) as more and more people have the virus and they’re going out and going about either their work or other activities.”

In his presentation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Vaughn described one current case he said is typical not only of what contact tracing has been showing about interactions between people in Yolo County but also about the

interconnectivity between counties allowing the virus to move easily across borders.

The case involved a religious event in Solano County that “brought multiple people together indoors.”

“One of the leaders of that event ended up in the hospital in Davis,” said Vaughn. “We have linked an outbreak from that event to a Yolo County workplace… (and) we have four additional individual cases outside the workplace exposure that happened.”

There is also now a potential link to one of Yolo County’s migrant centers as well as links to other counties, “based all on that one event on that day,” said Vaughn. “There’s a lot of interconnectedness between the counties, so that’s why we’re seeing a regional surge.”

The surge in Yolo County has been evident in numbers posted in the last two weeks on the county’s online COVID-19 dashboard, where total cases had nearly doubled from 265 cases on June 16 to 505 cases on Monday.

That surge has come with an increase in testing.

However, the percentage of positive test results has also been increasing, with the seven-day test positivity rate at 6.3 percent on Sunday, above the 3.8 percent

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results — has been used as a key indicator of how much the novel coronavirus is spreading. Statewide, as well as in Yolo County, the positivity rate has continued to go up even as far more tests have been administered than earlier in the pandemic.

More than 4,180 residents of Davis had been tested through June 28 and 55 had tested positive — a positivity rate of 1.3 percent.

Both Woodland and West Sacramento had test positivity rates of about 5 percent and Winters, where 400 residents had been tested with 29 testing positive, had a rate of 7.3 percent.

Winters also has the most cases per capita in the county (386 per 100,000 residents), and Davis the lowest (73 cases per 100,000), according to Supervisor Don Saylor.

However, the cities of Woodland and West Sacramento continue to account for the most cases overall, including by far the most in the last two weeks.

Between June 15 and June 28, 84 cases were confirmed in Woodland and 82 in West Sacramento, together combining for 79 percent of all cases confirmed in the county during that two-week period.

Asked by county supervisors on Tuesday whether he was surprised by the recent

Brian Vaughn Yolo County public health director the county has averaged for the pandemic as a whole.

In addition to testing being conducted free of charge in West Sacramento — now extended through July 25 — the county also began offering testing to farmworkers and their family members at the migrant centers in Davis and Madison.

On Sunday, 186 tests were conducted at those locations and some positive test results have since come in, Vaughn said Tuesday.

As of Monday afternoon, 79 county residents were in isolation at home after testing positive for the novel coronavirus and another 186 people were under quarantine after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive, according to county spokeswoman Jenny Tan. Meanwhile, new data from the county shows the city of Winters has the highest test positivity rate in the county and Davis the lowest.

That rate — the percentage of all tests administered that resulted in positive

spike in cases, Vaughn said he was.

While there was an expectation that more cases could result from the recent reopening of businesses and activities, “I don’t think we expected a spike this big,” said Vaughn.

He added that “we still think if people are following the guidelines correctly, the risk is low no matter the industry. It’s really the people who aren’t following it, who are putting down their guard, who are being less vigilant, and the virus doesn’t care.

“We think enforcement and really highlighting the people who are not complying now is really the best strategy going forward.”

To that end, county supervisors on Tuesday voiced support for an emergency ordinance that would allow code enforcement officers to levy fines on businesses and institutions that are not complying with guidelines around COVID-19, including requiring social distancing and face coverings.

The ordinance, which will go before the board for adoption next week, would set into place a process beginning with education and escalating to administrative fines for continued noncompliance.

But that ordinance would be just one of the tools available to officials.

As it stands right now,

said County Counsel Phil Pogledich, “my office or any of the city attorneys can go into court and … obtain a temporary restraining order to close down a business or take other action to limit its operations on very short notice, as little as 24 hours. And that’s not a very cumbersome process for us to get off the ground if the situation demands it.

“So we have that tool right now and as of next Tuesday we should have the additional tool of an administrative citation ordinance that could be implemented,” Pogledich said.

County supervisors also asked that health officials take a close look at whether any currently open businesses — particularly bars — need to be shut down.

While contact tracing to date has not turned up local bars as a source of virus transmission, other counties — including Sacramento — have now shut down their bars and supervisors expressed concern on Tuesday about people from Sacramento heading to Woodland and Davis bars, including during the upcoming Fourth of July weekend.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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Martha Todd Parks Feb. 2, 1939 — June 18, 2020

Following a long decline, Martha Todd Parks passed away peacefully during a nap on the afternoon of June 18, 2020.

Marti, as she was fondly known to family and friends, was born in Helena, Mont., on Feb. 2, 1939; attended The College of William & Mary; graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1961; and married Ted Parks that same year.

A resident of Davis since 1964, Marti was a loving wife, mother and homemaker as well as a generous

“I don’t think we expected a spike this big.”

volunteer (at, among other places, Saint Martin’s Church and the UC Davis Arboretum), an adventurous traveler and an avid reader.

She was preceded into heaven by her parents, Glenn and Georgia Todd, and her in-laws, Samuel and Marian Parks. She is survived by her husband and her sons, Thomas and James; granddaughter Emma; and brother Tom Todd.

A memorial service will be announced when and as conditions allow.

The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/memorial information. Paid obituaries allow for controlled content with the option for photos. Submissions may be made via www.davisenterprise.com/obit-form/.

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Speaking out for the trees P lanting massive numbers of trees as a strategy to combat the climate crisis can be said to have its roots (groan) in a program begun in Africa but which has grown (groan) into a global effort involving governments and organizations all over the world.

According to its website, the Green Belt Movement was founded by Wangari Maathai in 1977 to respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women.

Their streams were drying up, thereby threatening their food supply, and they had to walk long distances for firewood.

So, a simple solution: plant trees to stop erosion, store rainwater and provide food and firewood.

The GBM has planted more than 30 million trees.

A zero was added to the goal in 2006 when the UN Environmental Programme (that’s how they spell it) launched the Billion Tree Campaign, a target they reached in 2007.

So they upped the goal again, to 7 billion trees, and met that in just over a year.

Yes, we do need to plant trees and, yes, they can contribute to offsetting to some degree human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, but we should not fool ourselves that planting trees can, by itself, be the answer to the climate crisis.

The goal skyrocketed when, in the opening speech at the meeting of the UN International Year of the Forest, the Trillion Tree Campaign was announced.

By 2011 more than 12 billion trees were in the ground when the UN formally turned management of the TTC over to the “youth-led not-for-profit Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation.” Finally, at the 2020 meeting of the World Economic Forum, a One Trillion Tree Initiative specifically for governments and businesses to contribute to the UN’s “Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.’

It’s not clear to me how rigorous the monitoring and accounting has been or will be for these huge projects, but somehow the tree-planting programs are credited with planting 13.6 billion trees in 193 countries since last November.

This gained saliency in July of 2019 with research published in Science magazine with the “mind blowing” conclusion that planting trees could offset two-thirds of all the greenhouse gases human activity had emitted in the past 200 years. And it could do so without intruding on land used for cities or food production.

Basically, according to this research, there’s a huge vacant lot out there on the planet that no one is using and is suitable for trees. This got people excited. According to the lead researcher, “This new quantitative evaluation shows (forest) restoration

isn’t just one of our climate-change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one.” Further, “It is available now, it is the cheapest one possible, and everyone of us can get involved.”

Lofty and hopeful as it sounds, and backed up with extensive data and analysis, it didn’t take too long for it to start raining on the parade. No one disputed that trees can be a significant contributor to mitigation of the climate crisis by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere but, there were many holes to poke in the research.

A scientist at UC Santa Barbara summed it up: “We found that there’s a real need to better understand how much risk forests face due to climate change-driven mortality factors like fire, insect outbreak and drought before we can ensure how appropriate forest carbonstorage projects are to meet ambitious aims for mitigating climate change.”

For one thing, trees grow slowly, and it might be 30 or 50 years before they are sequestering substantial amounts of carbon. And during that time all sorts of things can happen to a forest.

The biggest example is the Amazon rainforest, long regarded by the world as a climate crisis hero, as the “lungs of the planet,” drawing in CO2 and exhaling oxygen.

But just one election of a president in Brazil who favors the economic potential of chopping down that rain forest and all those well-intentioned dollars spent on “saving the rainforest” are going up in smoke, losing an area the size of a soccer field every minute.

The Amazon isn’t the only trouble spot. There are huge fires in Indonesia set by humans to clear land for growing palm oil, an ingredient in an estimated 50 percent of supermarket products. There are wildfires in huge swaths of Siberia too remote for firefighters to extinguish. Fires rage across Europe, Africa and Asia and, goodness, we can’t forget the recent infernos in Australia. And, not to leave out the US, roughly half the land area prior to the arrival of Europeans was forest. We have room to grow.

The thing is, the world is getting hotter and dryer We’ve seen evidence of the effect of climate on fires in California. The state has experienced half of its largest wildfires, and three quarters of the most destructive since 2010.

The U.S. Geological Society calculated that California wildfires in 2018 contributed 15 percent of total CO2 emissions produced by the entire state.

The clear message in all of this is that yes, we do need to plant trees, and, yes, they can contribute to offsetting to some degree human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, but we should not fool ourselves that planting trees can, by itself, be the answer to the climate crisis. Equal or even greater emphasis should be given to listening to our inner Lorax and speaking for the trillions of trees that are already here.

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

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BY NOE PARAMO AND JOEL DIRINGER Special to CalMatters

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s essential workers, California’s 800,000 agricultural workers have ensured an abundant and safe food supply during the COVID-19 pandemic, while facing heightened risks of infection.

It is time to protect the workers who are providing our food.

Farmworkers are predominantly Latino immigrants — Latinos make 39% of the population but are over 56% of the positive COVID-19 cases in California. One quarter of farmworkers are 50 years old or older and face increased risk of serious complications.

And farmworkers have higher rates of comorbidities for COVID-19, such as asthma, diabetes, obesity (and ironically hunger and malnutrition), heart disease and stress.

Farmworkers typically work shoulder to shoulder in crowded conditions in the fields and packing facilities, and in transportation to and from work. And they go home to overcrowded housing, often without adequate washing and sanitation facilities.

They live in remote, rural communities without adequate access to health resources. Most do not speak English, and many only speak indigenous languages.

Outbreaks of COVID-19 have been documented among migrant farmworkers in Immokalee, Fla.; at Monterey Mushrooms in Loudon County, Tenn.; and among packing house workers in Oregon, Washington and California. The extent of the problem in California is unknown since most counties do not consistently track and report the occupations of persons testing positive for COVID-19.

We do know that in Monterey County, the only county that regularly posts COVID-19 occupational data, agriculture accounted for 36% of positive cases.

Cal/OSHA has issued guidelines, checklists and multilingual educational materials, as has the UC Davis Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety. Under Cal/ OSHA’s guidance employers must update their written safety plans and training to protect workers from all known hazards, including COVID-19. They must allow adequate time for frequent handwashing and should adopt procedures to increase physical distancing at work and other protections.

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued anInterim Guidance for Agriculture Workers and Employers — a series of suggestions that can be adapted by ag employers. And, the agricultural industry has also made efforts to protect its workforce through recommended steps such as worker education, adapting work environments and increased sanitation.

Farmworkers report the lack of social distancing at work and while traveling. They are not being provided masks or gloves on a regular basis. Preventive training is not always provided in a language or manner that workers can understand. Workers have little knowledge about their expanded rights to sick leave, workers compensation and medical care. And they uniformly report that Cal/OSHA is nowhere to be seen in monitoring or enforcing safety practices.

As we recommended to Agricultural Labor Relations Board at its first hearing on COVID-19’s impact on the agricultural industry and farmworkers this week, California’s labor enforcement and health agencies to: ■ Perform audits of illness and injury prevention plans, observe how workers are being trained and protected, and see what is actually happening in the fields and packing facilities, ■ Ensure that when there is a workplace infection, agricultural employers take corrective actions such as deep-cleaning, determine work related contributing factors, inform other workers, guarantee that infected workers receive care and that close contacts are quarantined with compensation for time off work, and ■ Require every county to collect and report the occupations of persons testing positive for COVID-19 to track outbreaks and enhance prevention.

We need to protect our food supply and our farmworkers. Relying on California’s $50 billion agricultural industry to implement protections without state oversight, with more than 1 million farmworker families in jeopardy is insufficient. We can and must do better.

— Noe Paramo is a legislative advocate with California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Joel Diringer is a farmworker health expert. They wrote this for CalMatters.

en days ago, five friends and I stopped at a country store in the middle of nowhere in El Dorado County. We were 44 miles into an exhausting 58-mile bike ride in the Sierras.

At that point, we had climbed over 6,000 feet, it was north of 90 degrees and we were out of potable water.

A sign said the store was “open.” However, the lights were off, the front door was locked and no one answered our knocks or the doorbell.

Eventually, we got the attention of the owner. She was next door, in her house, having lunch. She opened her store for us and everyone purchased drinks and snacks.

Due largely to fatigue, the last thing on my mind when I went back in the store for a second bottle of water was COVID-19. But as I was paying, I remembered that I hadn’t put on my face covering.

I said, “I’m sorry. I forgot this,” as I pulled out my mask.

She waved her hand. “It’s fine. I am so over this thing!”

As we have learned in the last few weeks — with more than 40,000 new positive tests for coronavirus every day — the United States is not “over” COVID-19. Due in large part to negligent leadership from President Trump, a lot of Americans have failed to realize that and are not following public health guidelines.

Yet despite the terrible toll on our country from this pandemic — including roughly 130,000 deaths so far, 13.3 percent unemployment and a projected drop in the U.S. GDP of 52.8 percent in the second quarter — the pandemic has had

its positives.

One of those is my favorite pastime, bicycle riding.

Bicycle sales across the country are up 65 percent, compared with 2019. In Davis, despite the absence of thousands of UC Davis students, demand for repairs at our local shops has increased substantially.

According to a recent L.A. Times article, there has been “a 21 percent increase in U.S. urban-area ridership compared with the same timeframe in 2019.”

The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy — a nonprofit organization that promotes converting unused rail lines into bicycle and pedestrian trails — reports “a 110 percent increase in ridership on rail-trails compared to the same time in 2019,” according to the Times.

Tim Blumenthal, the president and CEO of People for Bikes, told the L.A. Times that 9 percent of American adults rode a bike for the first time in a year, as a consequence of the shutdown.

This past Sunday morning, my buddy, Bill, and I rode our bikes to Winters and Lake Solano. I would estimate we encountered 30 new riders on Putah Creek Road. We also saw dozens of the usual suspects enjoying a ride.

When we stopped for coffee at Steady Eddy’s, we ran into five of our cycling friends who were social

distancing in Rotary Park.

Bill exclaimed, “It’s great to see more bikes on the road than cars.”

Fewer cars has meant fewer car crashes.

A UC Davis news report in late April noted that traffic crashes were down by more than 50 percent. “There was also a 40-50 percent decrease in trauma-injuries for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists reported among Sacramentoarea hospitals.”

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lthough automobile traffic has increased the past month or so, it’s still not as bad as it was before the pandemic. Since early March, the severe afternoon traffic jams on I-80 from Dixon to the Causeway have largely disappeared.

Along with them, the backups on side streets and county roads near Davis have gone away.

Another benefit of the pandemic has been a reduction in air pollution.

According to the Environmental Tracking Project, since March 11, nitrogen dioxide pollution in the Sacramento region has declined by 44.5 percent, compared with the same period in 2019.

Carbon monoxide emissions are down 39.3 percent. And fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) has fallen 49 percent.

In March and April there were state and national news reports that crime rates had dropped during the shutdown. It’s not clear yet if that trend has continued everywhere.

Locally, crime seems to have fallen. Arrests made by the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office are down over 50 percent the last two months, compared with the same period last year.

In 2019, the sheriff reported making 97 arrests in April, 103 in May. This April in Yolo County, deputies made 47 arrests. In May, just 42.

From my perspective, perhaps the greatest benefit from the pandemic will be the end of the Trump presidency.

According to polling data analyzed by the statistical website, fivethirtyeight.com, Joe Biden was 4.1 percent ahead of Donald Trump — 49.7 to 45.6 percent — on March 6, just before the COVID-19 shutdown began.

On April 14, Biden’s lead was down to 3.4 percent — 47.5 to 44.1 percent. As often happens in a crisis, many people were rallying around the president.

But as the American people have come to believe that Mr. Trump has not effectively led our country, as the economy has soured and as weekly infections have grown, Biden’s national lead has expanded. It was up to 9.3 percent on June 26 — 50.7 to 41.4 percent.

In the six states Trump won in 2016 by narrow margins, he now trails in all of them. He is losing in Michigan by 10.6 percent; in Pennsylvania by 8 percent; Wisconsin, 8.1 percent; Florida, 7.2 percent; Arizona 4.7 percent; and North Carolina, 2.9 percent.

So while 2020 will go down as a bad year for the U.S. and most of the world, a few nice things have happened, and if Trump gets the boot, this year will end on a good note.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week.

Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.

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Using capitalism to fight racism One thing Enterprise columnist Tanya Perez (and other Davis residents) could do to help get over “paralysis by analysis” (or paralysis by anything else) regarding the current unacceptable state of racism in our country is to … boycott Nugget Markets.

After reading “Lawsuit against Nugget can go to trial” in The Enterprise several weeks ago—which described a racial/ national origin discrimination case filed against Nugget Markets Inc. in 2017 on behalf of two men, one from El Salvador and one from Mexico, by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund — that’s one action against racism I’ve decided to take.

As described in Caleb Hampton’s article, a federal judge found that a “reasonable man in Plaintiffs’ circumstance would have found the hostile conduct sufficiently severe and pervasive,” and in response to complaints they made to company higher-ups about harassment by several supervisors one man was fired the very next day and the other started receiving his first negative performance reviews.

Although Nugget Markets’ chief impact officer claimed the “lawsuit is falling apart,” the court found the “evidence to be compelling” and ruled that the employees submitted “more than enough evidence” to warrant a trial.

Boycotting Nugget is not a decision I’ve come to lightly. I have enjoyed shopping at the store on Covell for years and find the quality of the merchandise and service high. It also particularly shocked me to learn of a discrimination case like this at Nugget since it’s been “ranked in the top 100 companies in the U.S. to work for” over the past 15 years.

And Nugget is, of course, innocent until proven guilty — in terms of our legal system anyway.But unless additional

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facts come to light that convince me otherwise, I will be using the power of my pocketbook in this capitalist society of ours to send the message to Nugget Markets Inc. that I will not support an establishment in which complaints about a “sustained campaign” of racially based abuse and harassment are allegedly dealt with through retaliation against the victims.

Belinda Martineau Davis

Happy Fourth!

It’s a day to celebrate the adoption of one of our founding documents by Congressional delegates from our colonies — our Declaration of Independence — that set out our natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and began the steps in our country’s history that led most of our citizens today to enjoy a government that not only offers us a framework for living our lives as we choose, but gives us the tools to improve going forward.

That’s why nearly a million people from all over the world every year go through the process of joining our freest country on earth with protection for us and accountability for those who abuse our freedoms and want to deny the rest of

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

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

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

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

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

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

us what belongs to all of us.

Celebrate the structure and the ideas of freedom and equality that allow us to create the destiny — how to live, how to contribute, how to be a part of this land of hope and opportunity — of each of us, as individuals and as a country. They permit us to extend ourselves to the full breadth of our human capability and spirit and provide us the platform to develop, pursue, and receive recognition and advancement for our skills and achievements as well as to help others.

As one of our current historians describes us, “Are we perfect? No. Are we good? Yes.” And, yes, there is still work to be done.

It is for us to strive to make available what most of us have in opportunity to those who have not. It is for us to approach what that work is with honest analysis and constructive participation.

Our system of government provides us the tablet. It is for us to supply the involvement that becomes the words.

Even as on this day we rightly credit our country’s past and present for what they’ve done and been for us so far as well as the promise they offer and greatness they deserve.

Happy Fourth!

Alzada Knickerbocker Davis

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Public Notices X FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: June 2, 2020 FBN Number: F20200418 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) Eldridge Moores Conservation Fund 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Yolo County.

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.”

(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): Robert H. Schneider 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1 869 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: June 1, 2020 FBN Number: F20200411 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) IC-FOODS 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on June 16, 2020 the City Council of the City of Davis introduced, and on July 7, 2020, the City Council will consider adopting an ordinance entitled:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on June 2, 894 2020, the City Council of the City of Davis, California, introduced, and on June 16, PUBLIC NOTICE 2020, the City Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance Notice is hereby given: the 30-Day entitled: Public Review and Comment Period pertaining to the draft Mental Health AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Services Act (MHSA) Three-Year Program CHAPTER 40 OF THE CITY OF DAVIS and Expenditure Plan FYs 2020-2023 MUNICIPAL CODE REZONING THE began June 19, 2020; the draft plan PARCEL LOCATED AT 1111 H STREET and comment forms are posted on the (APN #070-144-03), COMPRISING MHSA page of the Yolo County Website APPROXIMATELY 0.26 ACRES, FROM at www.yolocounty.org/mhsa. The RESIDENTIAL GARDEN APARTMENT draft MHSA Three-Year Program and (R-3-M) TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT Expenditure Plan is available for public (PD) #02-18 (PAUL’S PLACE) comment and review until 5:00 PM on 07/20/2020; all interested stakeholders The following description summarized are encouraged to submit comments. the aforementioned ordinance adopted Submission instructions are included in by the City Council: the comment forms. A public hearing will be held by the Yolo County Local Mental Rezone for Planned Development. Health Board on Monday, July 20, 2020, The proposed Ordinance will amend at 5:30 PM, by teleconference, to receive Davis Municipal Code section 40.01.090 further comment. Call information will for the 0.26-acre property located at be published in advance of the meeting 1111 H Street (APN 070-144-03). The and listed on the Local Mental Health purpose of this planned development Board event listing page. After final is to provide an institutional residential revisions the MHSA Three-Year Program district with a base zone of Residential and Expenditure Plan will be presented Garden Apartment (R-3-M) in a suitable to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors environment for a multifunctional on 07/21/2020. Questions? Email MHSA@ homeless facility consisting of yolocounty.org or call 530-661-2745. institutional residential, transitional 7/1, 7/10, 7/19 895 housing, emergency shelter, and supportive services, that is compatible PUBLIC NOTICE with existing adjacent neighborhoods NOTICE TO BIDDERS and uses, supports reduced vehicle trips; and promotes energy and resource 1. Notice is hereby given that the conservation. Planned Development governing board (“Board”) of the Davis #2-18 establishes the multifunctional Joint Unified School District will receive homeless facility as a principal permitted bids for the following Project, #421-02use with additional allowed uses 1920, (“Project”): consistent with the R-3-M district (Section 40.08) and the development standards DAVINCI JR HIGH SCHOOL MODULAR ADMINISTRATION BUILDING as established in the Final Planned Development with a base zoning of R-3This Project consists of: M. The Planned Development is subject to applicable mitigation measures from Sitework, utilities, low voltage and the Initial Study/MND prepared for the electrical hookups, miscellaneous carpentry, and work to complete project. the installation of the new Modular Additional information may be found Administration Building. at: https://www.cityofdavis.org/city- 2. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is hall/community-development-and- required to possess one or more of the sustainability/development-projects/ following State of California contractors’ paul-s-place-1111-h-street. license(s):

This ordinance was first passed by the voters in 2000 and was reaffirmed and extended by the voters in 2010. It is codified in the Davis Municipal Code as Chapter 41. In sum, this ordinance requires a vote of the citizens before land can be re-designated from agriculture or open space to any urban use, as those land uses appear in the 1999 land use map in the City’s prior General Plan. It also requires a vote if urban development is proposed on two large parcels that were already designated for urban uses on the 1999 land use map. Those two large parcels are (1) the Covell Center property (more commonly known today as the “Covell Village” site), and (2) the Nishi property. Measure J is currently set to expire at the end of this year.

The minor technical changes include (1) edits to remove language referring to redevelopment, (2) edits to account for events that have happened since 2010, and (3) edits to extend the sunset date of the ordinance to December 31, 2030.

The above summary constitutes the major highlights; to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance, a reading of the document in its entirety may be necessary. A certified copy of the full text of the proposed ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/ or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge.

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CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY

The ordinance will go before the voters on November 3, 2020. If passed by the voters, the ordinance would extend the sunset date of the “Citizens’ Right to Vote on Future Use of Open Space and Agricultural Lands” ordinance 10 years to December 31, 2030, and incorporate minor technical changes into the ordinance’s language.

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CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DAVIS AMENDING THE CITY’S GENERAL PLAN TO AMEND AND EXTEND “MEASURE J” WHICH ENACTED A POLICY REQUIRING VOTER APPROVAL FOR CERTAIN CHANGES TO THE LAND USE DESIGNATIONS OR ENTITLEMENTS OF PROPERTIES SHOWN ON THE GENERAL PLAN LAND USE MAP AND ENACTING THE CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO VOTE ON FUTURE USE OF OPEN SPACE AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ORDINANCE TO EXTEND THE SUNSET DATE OF THE MEASURE TO DECEMBER 31, 2030 AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CHANGES TO THE ORDINANCE WHICH PROVIDES FOR VOTER APPROVAL OF (1) ANY GENERAL PLAN LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT THAT CHANGES A LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM AN AGRICULTURAL OR URBAN RESERVE DESIGNATION TO AN URBAN DESIGNATION OR FROM AN AGRICULTURAL DESIGNATION TO AN URBAN RESERVE DESIGNATION AND (2) ANY PROPOSAL FOR DEVELOPMENT ON THE LAST TWO LARGE VACANT PROPERTIES DESIGNATED FOR URBAN USE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE COVELL CENTER AND NISHI PROPERTIES; THIS ORDINANCE TO BE ADOPTED BY THE VOTERS AND EFFECTIVE UPON ADOPTION BY THE VOTERS OF THE CITY

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The above summary constitutes the major highlights of the ordinance.

A reading of the document in their entirety may be necessary to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance.

A certified copy of the full text of the ordinances may be viewed in the City Clerk’s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge.

7/1 891 PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Goal for Federal Fiscal Years 2021-2023 In accordance with regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 49 CFR Part 26, the Yolo County Transportation District announces its proposed goal over the following Fiscal Years 2021, 2022, and 2023 goal of 2.3% for DBE participation on contracts assisted by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

The proposed goal and its rationale are available for public review for the next 30 days during normal business hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, at YCTD offices, 350 Industrial Way, Woodland, CA 95776, and on our web page at www.yolobus.com.

Written comments will be accepted by YCTD and FTA for 30 days following publication of this notice. The District’s Federal Fiscal Year 2021-2023 goal may be adjusted by any comments received.

Interested parties are encouraged to submit comments to: Jose Perez, DBE Liaison Officer Yolo County Transportation District 350 Industrial Way Woodland, CA 95776 Comments may also be submitted to the Federal Transit Administration, Region IX, Attention: Civil Rights Officer, San Francisco Federal Building, 90, 7th Street, Suite 15-300, San Francisco, CA 94103.

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after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid.

8. A mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on July 7, 2020 at 10:00a.m., at 2121 Calaveras Ave., Davis, CA 95616. All participants are required to meet and sign in front of the Admin Building. The site visit is expected to take approximately 30 minutes and all Bidders are required to stay for the duration of the meeting.

Failure to attend or tardiness will render bid ineligible.

9. The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the Contract for the Work.

10. The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

11. The Contractor and all Subcontractors under the Contractor shall pay all workers on all Work performed pursuant to this Contract not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to section 1770 et seq. of the California Labor Code. Prevailing wage rates are also available from the District or on the Internet at: <http://www.dir.ca.gov>.

12. This Project is subject to labor compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1771.4 and subject to the requirements of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations.

The successful Bidder shall comply with all requirements of Division 2, Part 7, Chapter 1, Articles 1-5 of the Labor Code.

13. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible bidder based on:

The Bidder’s license(s) must remain active A. The base bid amount only. and in good standing throughout the term of the Contract.

14. The Board reserves the right to 3. To bid on this Project, the Bidder is reject any and all bids and/or waive required to be registered as a public any irregularity in any bid received. If works contractor with the Department of the District awards the Contract, the Industrial Relations pursuant to the Labor security of unsuccessful bidder(s) shall Code. be returned within sixty (60) days from 4. Contract Documents will be available the time the award is made. Unless on or after June 29, 2020, and may otherwise required by law, no bidder may be downloaded from the District’s withdraw its bid for ninety (90) days after website, using this link: https://djusd. net/departments/facilities/capital_ the date of the bid opening. improvement. In addition, Contract 7/1, 7/8 896 Documents will be emailed to all ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR attendees of the mandatory pre-bid conference. And will be made available CHANGE OF NAME for bidders’ review at the following Case Number: PT-20-791 builders’ exchanges: 1. Esteban Daniel Zuniga filed a petition A. Builder’s Exchange of Sacramento with this court for a decree changing County names as follows: B. Builder’s Exchange of Solano Esteban Daniel Zuniga County to 5. Sealed bids will be received only on Esteban Daniel Corrales the day of bids, until 10:00 a.m., July 23, 2. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons 2020, at the District Operations Center, interested in this matter shall appear 1919 Fifth Street Davis California 95616 at or after which time the bids will be before this court at the hearing indicated opened and publicly read aloud. Any below to show cause, if any, why the bid that is submitted after this time shall petition should not be granted. be nonresponsive and returned to the NOTICE OF HEARING bidder. Any claim by a bidder of error Date: August 3, 2020 Time: 9 a.m. in its bid must be made in compliance Dept: #9 Room: N/A with section 5100 et seq. of the Public The address of the court is Contract Code.

1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695 6. All bids shall be on the form provided 3. a) A copy of this Order to Show Cause by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent shall be published at least once a week Contract Documents, including, but not for four successive weeks prior to the limited to, the Instructions to Bidders. date set for hearing on the petition in 7. A bid bond by an admitted surety the following newspaper of general insurer on the form provided by the circulation, printed in this county: District a cashier’s check or a certified The Davis Enterprise check, drawn to the order of the Davis 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616 Joint Unified School District, in the Date: June 19, 2020 amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price, shall accompany the Bid Form Daniel M. Wolk and Proposal, as a guarantee that the Judge of the Superior Court 897 Bidder will, within seven (7) calendar days 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2020

Watney near end of isolation

Preseason FCS polls snub Aggies

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always love preseason college football polls, mostly because they remind me that fall is just around the corner and the greatest game in America is about to begin.

This year, of course, it might not begin at all, but every day brings more affirmation that the folks who make these decisions plan to play ball in the fall. Even if that means playing before socially-distanced fans or maybe no fans at all.

The wonderful thing about preseason polls is that they are invariably wrong. The same for preseason All-American teams.

I mean, how can somebody possibly be an All-American before a single down has been played?

An outfit named Hero Sports has taken all the guesswork out of the 2020 season by naming the top 25 FCS teams in the nation in the football division that includes our beloved UC Davis Aggies.

Hero goes way out on a limb by picking North Dakota State at No. 1. Any first-grader could have come to the same conclusion.

After all, the Bison have won eight of the last nine national championships and return the top offensive player in the country in sophomore quarterback Trey Lance. He’s the guy who went through the entire 2019 season, plus four playoff games, without throwing a single interception.

Yep, not one. And he was a true freshman.

Truly one of the most remarkable performances in college football history at any level.

NDSU has won those eight championships under three different head coaches. Seemingly Elmer Fudd could be on the sideline and the Bison would keep on winning.

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he Big Sky Conference, to which the Aggies belong, has five teams listed in the Hero Sports top 25. Actually, the Big Sky has five teams listed in the top 18. UC Davis is not among them.

Archrival Sacramento State, coming off a magical conference championship run in 2019, is ranked No. 4, while Weber State is No. 6, Montana No. 7, Montana State No. 9 and Eastern Washington No. 18.

You want bulletin board material? You can bet Aggie coaches will have those rankings posted all over the UCD locker room and maybe burned into the artificial turf at Aggie Stadium.

Excuse me. I mean UC Davis Health Stadium.

While the Aggies and Sacramento State have never won an FCS championship, Montana has two. Other national champions from the Big Sky are Idaho State, Montana State and Eastern Washington, all with one title apiece. Boise State, now an FBS member, won a national championship in 1980 when it was still in the Big Sky. Another forecasting outfit, Athlon Sports, also has a top 25, listing the same five Big Sky schools, but in a different order.

Weber State is No. 3, Montana State No. 5, Montana No. 7, Sac State No. 12 and Eastern Washington No. 20.

Yes, Athlon too picks North Dakota State to dominate from start to finish.

When it comes to individual performance, Hero Sports lists All-Americans on a first team, second team and third team.

Fully 20 Big Sky players from seven different schools were listed on one of those teams.

Anyone from UC Davis? Of course not.

More bulletin board material? Absolutely.

Athlon is a bit stingier when it comes to its All-American team, listing only one squad with just seven Big Sky players from four teams.

Any Aggies? Nope.

Even more stuff crowding the old bulletin board? Yes indeed.

Like I said, won’t it be fun when the 2020 season finally unfolds and all the experts are proven wrong?

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

DHS grad first positive COVID test on PGA Tour Enterprise staff and wire services HILTON HEAD, S.C. — After serving the minimum quarantine of 10 days, PGA Tour member Nick Watney started making preparations on Monday to return home to Texas.

The 2000 Davis High graduate was the first PGA Tour participant to test positive for COVID-19 as he withdrew after the first round of theRBC Heritage on June 19.

“I will say, it’s not the greatest feeling being the first to get it,” Watney told AP golf writer Doug Ferguson in his first interview since his positive test.

“Some things are so vague around this thing,” Watney added. “The symptoms ... some people get this, some get that. I haven’t had a fever or cough the whole time, no shortness of breath. Maybe that’s the reason it’s so scary. I still don’t know

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Nick Watney, left, Tiger Woods and Hank Haney look on during the second preview day of the 91st PGA Championship. how or where I got it.”

Watney, who had tested negative for coronavirus upon his arrival at the event, reportedly indicated to a physician that he was experiencing symptoms consistent with the illness following the first round of play, in which he shot a 3-over 74.

Watney also told Ferguson about the loss of his sense of smell, “a sensation he described as ‘gnarly,’ but said that is coming back. And perhaps the strangest sensation

is being at a golf resort without playing golf.”

Three additional players tested positive during the Travelers, along with two caddies. A fourth PGA Tour member tested positive Monday at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

The 39-year old Watney, who helped the Blue Devils to a boys golf Sac-Joaquin Section title under former coach Paul Casey in 1999, went on to play collegiately at Fresno

State. During his time as a Bulldog, Watney was a threetime All-American before moving on to the professional ranks.

A member Davis High’s Blue and White Hall of Fame, Watney resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife and four children.

He is a five-time PGA Tour champion. The family was also tested shortly after Watney’s positive result. All their tests were negative and no one has developed symptoms.

During isolation, Watney reached out to PGA players he felt he may have had contact with during the days leading up to his diagnosis. None of them tested positive. He was also thankful for groceries that were delivered to him.

“I was very, very nervous about giving it to other people,” Watney told the AP. “I don’t know how I got it. I don’t feel as though I was reckless. That part is scary. It’s like this invisible, silent thing.”

Watney is expected to leave South Carolina today and drive two days to Texas, by which time he will be well over the standard 14-day quarantine.

Rules of the road

The city of Davis installed signs around the greenbelt to instruct cyclists to ride at slower speeds on the trails.

Refresher safety tips for returning cyclists

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Local streets have been ripe with action the last several months as more and more Davisites have dusted off their old Schwinns and gone out for a midday spin.

But with so many new and returning riders — some back in the saddle after 10- or even 20-plus year cycling hiatuses — many are finding it’s not just their two-wheelers that are a bit rusty, but also their street smarts.

Consequently, local bike shops like Ken’s Bike-Ski-Board have been drowning in tune-up services. And down the road in Woodland, The Bike Garage has also had its phone ringing off the hook.

During an 8-minute interview with The Enterprise this past week, Bike Garage founder Maria Contreras-Tebbutt fielded four incoming calls on what the nationally certified cycling instructor called a low-volume day.

The Davis High grad says the explosion of cycling (a global phenomena amid pandemic-related shutdowns) “is everything I could have wished for, aside from the pandemic aspect.”

Even in Davis — a town often dubbed the Bike Capital of the World — people have questions. So along with Nico Fauchier-Magnan, the president of BikeDavis — a local nonprofit dedicated to promoting bicycling and bike education — The Enterprise compiled the following advice for budding cyclists from two of the region’s biggest biking gurus: Q. What are your basic tips for new or returning riders?

Nico: “The basic check we like to do before each ride is the A-B-C check.

And that stands for: ■ Air — Making sure you have enough air in your tires. Even if they look inflated, you still want to give them a little bump to make sure.

■ Brakes — Making sure you test your brakes to see if they’re working or

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need any adjusting.

■ Chain — Making sure your gears are shifting well. This is a big one for anybody who’s had a bike sitting in the garage for a long time. It’s probably going to need some oil on the chain.

Q. Do you need to wear a mask while biking?

Maria: “I do always carry a mask with me, since you never know if you’re going to find yourself in a situation where you might have to stop and be around people in close quarters. But it’s not necessary or required while biking.

Even if you’re riding with someone, it’s very hard to be within 6 feet. Just by sticking your arm out, it’s already about 3. If another person does the same, that’s 6 feet already. And it’s pretty hard to ride a bike much closer than that.”

Q. Where should you ride?

Nico: “The greenbelt isn’t the place to go out to beat your speed records.

They’re far more impacted than usual, so it can get a little tricky when there’s lots of people on the paths and everyone’s trying to maintain that safe physical distancing. I think it comes down to being mindful and aware of others and respecting their space.

“Just riding in town is great. Drivers in Davis are very aware of cyclists compared to other places, just because there are so many of them. So they’re generally very respectful and they’re moving slower than if you were, to say, be out on a county road. So for those just getting started or back into biking I’d recommend more of an urban ride.”

Q. Do I need to wear a helmet?

Nico: “If you’re over 18 in California, you’re not required to wear a helmet. So it’s really up to each riders’ preference.

It comes down to what you’re comfortable with as far as safety goes.

“I think a good distinction (between

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when you absolutely need) to wear one, or not, might be road biking and getting up to high speeds versus just riding around (the block).”

“Watch out for parked cars. Try to stay out of the ‘door-zone.’ One of the most common causes for crashes on bikes is when a rider runs into someone opening their door from a parked car.

Those are harder to see coming, so you have to stay aware and try to stay several feet from parked cars.”

Q. What do cyclists absolutely need to know?

Maria: “The pedestrian always has the right of way. When there are people ahead of you, reduce your speed, ring your bell or call out so they know you’re coming. You then slowly move to the left, so that the walkers (or slower bikers) are on your right and go by them only when it’s safe.

“Here are my top five rules everyone should follow: ■ Ride on the right side of the road — with the flow of traffic.

■ Don’t ride on the sidewalk. It’s unsafe and cars don’t expect you to be there or know when you’ll be coming off and into the street.

■ Shoulder check your blind zones before you make a move or lane change.

■ Use hand signals. It’s the bikers responsibility to communicate with everyone around them what they’re going to do next. Drivers and pedestrians can’t read your mind.

■ Don’t be riding too fast in town. You can do that outside of town on an open road where there are less people around.

Q. What are your biggest biking NoNo’s?

Nico: “Riding with headphones can be dangerous. The legal requirement is you have one ear available, but I don’t recommend riding with any to be safe.”

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