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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020

Council to welcome new mayor, vice mayor; vote on DISC

School board selects Klineberg for open seat

Who responds first?

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY

A little more than a year after Miles died, his mother is lending her voice toAB 2054, which would create pilot programs to remove police from the response to crises involving mental illness and homelessness, as well as natural disasters and domestic violence. The bill seeks $10 million to fund up to a dozen pilot programs around the

On Thursday night, July 2, the Davis school board tabbed Joy Klineberg to fill out the term of departing school board trustee Cindy Pickett. Pickett is moving to Chicago to accept an administration at De Paul University.

This is the second time Klineberg has been picked to KLINEBERG fill out the Second time term of a around school board trustee who left Davis. In August 2018, Klineberg was picked to fill out the term of trustee Madhavi Sunder, who moved to Washington, D.C., for a position at Georgetown University. At that time, Klineberg served on the school board for a couple of months.

Pickett announced in May that she would be moving to Chicago, effective June 30. Pickett’s term on the Davis school board runs through early December 2022, so Klineberg will be

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Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council will formally welcome its new mayor and vice mayor on Tuesday and make final decisions on items to be placed on the November ballot.

The meeting will begin with ceremonial presentations in appreciaPARTIDA tion of New mayor outgoing Mayor Brett Lee and incoming Mayor Gloria Partida and Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs.

The council will then continue its discussion on the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus begun last Tuesday and decide whether to put the project on the ballot for a Measure J/R vote.

Last week’s council meeting featured a lot of public comment — the vast majority in favor of DISC — as well as presentations by staff and the developers.

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Taun Hall stands on the porch of her Walnut Creek home next to a green ribbon, the international symbol for mental health awareness. She and some of her neighbors display the ribbons in remembrance of her son, Miles, who was killed last year by Walnut Creek police during a mental-health crisis.

New urgency to remove police from nonviolent crises

BY JOCELYN WIENER CalMatters

On the afternoon of June 2, 2019, psychosis convinced 23year-old Miles Hall that a long iron gardening tool given to him by a neighbor had morphed into a staff gifted from God, his mother said. He used it to break his parents’ sliding glass door.

Looking for help, Miles’ grandmother, his mother and several neighbors called the Walnut Creek

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police, explaining that Miles had serious mental health issues, according to Recordings of 911 calls. Officers found him on a treelined street in the swimming-pool studded neighborhood he’d grown up in.

As he ran toward the police, video footage shows, they shot him first with bean bags, then — when he didn’t slow down — with handguns. The Walnut Creek Police Department did not respond to

calls for comment for this story.

Developer seeks to modify key provision of voter-OK’d project

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer One of the key selling points of what was then called the West Davis Active Adult Community in the leadup to the November 2018 election was the “Davis-based buyers program.”

That element of the senior housing proposal said 90 percent of residential units would be reserved for buyers with a connection to the city of Davis — a resident, employee or family member of a current

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resident, among others.

Developer David Taormino said the program would provide the means for local seniors to downsize without having to leave Davis and, in turn, free up their older, larger homes for resale to young families.

Too often, he said at the time, houses built in Davis are bought up by investors from the Bay Area and don’t end up serving the needs of local residents.

Ballot arguments in

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

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For the second time in a week, a suspect in a series of decades-old sex crimes in the Sacramento region — including Davis — pleaded guilty to his conduct.

Mark Jeffrey Manteuffel, arrested a year ago in connection with three rapes that occurred between May 1992 and March 1994, admitted

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According to The Sacramento Bee, a judge accepted the plea with the understanding that Manteuffel, 60, also would plead guilty to attacking a UC Davis student who

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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020

The pangs of a misplaced friendship

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realize we’re all pressed for time in our totally relevant city, but when someone asks for our help, we usually find a way to say yes. Especially when they’ve asked for help on more than one occasion and insist it’s really important.

Such was the case for me when one Kati Card sent me an unsolicited email practically begging for my help, something that apparently only I could provide.

Turns out Kati is the chief digital officer for something called DSCC, even if the exact meaning of those initials is never explained.

“Hey Friend,” Kati begins with a personal touch, making me wonder if maybe this was Katy Brown from my third-grade class at West Davis Elementary and perhaps she had dropped the ‘y’ for an ‘i’ at some point in her life.

“I’ve been searching through out database of supporters and I just selected a handful of highly informed and very active Democrats to get input from. That includes you.”

With all due respect to the use of italics, Kati, I think you have

the wrong “friend” here.

As much as I’d like to help, and as much as I am indeed highly informed (mostly about college football), I am not a Democrat, no less a very active one.

To be sure, some of my best friends are Democrats, but that could be because at last count there were only 17 Republicans in my home town, perhaps even fewer than that when the new census comes out.

However, just because I’m not a Democrat does not mean I am a Republican. I don’t have enough cash to join those folks and my golf game is not that good.

Adds Kati, “We need your input immediately to finalize our strategy to help Democrats flip the

Senate from Mitch McConnell’s control in the next election.”

Good luck with that, Kati. But just between you and me, I’m not so sure I could live in a world without folksy ol’ Mitch giving me something to laugh about every day.

“Please,” Kati pleads, ”I selected you specifically.”

Wow. Two italicized words in the same email. I must be more informed than I thought.

“I chose you for this interview because your responses to previous surveys show that you are an extremely informed and very active Democrat in your state.”

I’ll say it again, Kati. You have the wrong guy. Yes, I am extremely informed and very active and pretty darn good-looking, too, but I have never answered a Democratic Party survey.

K

ati tried once more with a similar email that yielded the same result, before turning my case over to the heavy hitters.

“Hi Friend, Scott here. I’m the Executive Director of the DSCC,

Fires around Yolo County A Davis firefighter inspects the damage a small blaze caused to the main office building at the Davis Cemetery on Pole Line Road on Saturday morning. Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief Roland Pussich said his agency is investigating the cause of the 8:50 a.m. fire, which burned a 4-square-foot area of exterior wall siding. No injuries were reported.

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Below, Elsewhere in the county, multiple fire agencies responded to a fire at a haystorage facility at County Road 28 west of County Road 98, northwest of Davis. That fire, reported shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, continued to burn into the afternoon and was expected to send smoke drifting to the west side of Davis, fire officials said.

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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Three skilled nursing facilities in Yolo County are dealing with coronavirus outbreaks, according to the county’s online COVID-19 dashboard.

In addition to the Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis, which has reported six cases in the last three weeks, facilities in Woodland and West Sacramento also now have confirmed outbreaks.

The Alderson Convalescent Hospital, located on Walnut Street in Woodland, reported six residents and four staff members had tested positive this week while the River Bend Nursing Center in West Sacramento has two COVID-19 positive residents.

Courtyard has seen four residents and two staff members test positive since mid June and said this week that one resident and one staff member have since recovered.

Skilled nursing facilities have been a point of concern for officials throughout the pandemic, given the ability of the virus to spread easily in congregate care centers as well as the risk faced by older individuals residing

in these facilities.

The county’s deadliest outbreak took place at the Stollwood Convalescent Hospital in Woodland, where 66 residents and staff members were infected and 17 people died.

The cases confirmed Friday added to the county’s overall total caseload, bringing to 613 the number of county residents who had tested positive since the pandemic began, including more than 300 in the last two weeks.

Yolo County reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Friday as well as the first COVID-19-related death since April. That death was not connected to a skilled nursing facility, according to the county dashboard.

County health officials previously said deaths, like hospitalizations, are lagging indicators likely to follow a surge in cases by two to eight weeks.

Hospitalizations have begun to rise as well. In the last two weeks, the county has reported 19 new hospitalizations on the dashboard.

—Reach Anne TernusBellamy ataternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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which means I’m in charge of developing the Democratic Party’s strategy to flip the Senate in 2020.

I asked Kati, our chief digital officer, to comb through our Democratic supporter database and select a handful of our most engaged Democrats to interview.

And you’re on the list!”

If I’m actually in your supporter database Scott, you’re going to have trouble flipping pancakes in November, no less U.S. Senate seats.

Adds my new friend Scott, “59 of the Democrats we selected in your state have already agreed to be interviewed, but our data analyst tells me we need at least 48 more responses before we can review the results and time is running out for us to lock in our strategic investments to win back the Senate.”

You asked 59 people and you’re just now getting around to me?

Suddenly I don’t feel so special anymore.

“Thanks for all you do.”

You’re most welcome.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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POLICE: ‘We know what works’ — large-scale solution needed From Page A1 state. It would be administered through the state’s Office of Emergency Services.

It’s one of a series of efforts underway at the local, state and national levels to reimagine who responds to people in crisis, and to take some of that responsibility out of the hands of law enforcement. Many of these efforts have been years in the making, but have been injected with renewed urgency since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee down on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in May, killing Floyd and sparking protests across the country.

Many cities are moving ahead already. San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced last month that trained, unarmed professionals will soon replace police officers in responding to noncriminal crises involving people who are homeless or have mental illness, among others.

Meanwhile, Oakland’s City Council voted to fund a $1.35 million pilot program that will send emergency medical technicians and trained counselors to respond to non-violent calls.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg pledged to reallocate some police resources so that non-law-enforcement personnel can respond to such calls.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to have the city develop a model for unarmed crisis response that would divert nonviolent calls for service away from the police department.

This month, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to designate a threedigit number, 988, to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.

Many police officers have said for years that they’d prefer that someone else respond to nonviolent crises.

Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, said he has advocated for a decade that police should not be the primary responders to calls related to

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A small shrine dedicated to Miles Hall in his parents’ Walnut Creek home. homelessness or mental health.

“Unfortunately, with city budgets and the societal ills that we face, it all gets dumped on police,” he said.

Those involved in longstanding efforts to transform California’s crisis response system are quick to acknowledge that the proposed state pilot programs aren’t enough. They want mobile teams that respond to people in crisis, as well as places for shortterm treatment and long-term recovery. To endure, that would require sustainable funding, possible regional collaborations among smaller counties and committed leadership. Ultimately, it would also include a strengthening of communitybased mental health services, so fewer people end up in crisis in the first place.

Steinberg, who carried legislation in 2013 to expand mental health crisis systems statewide, said he’d hoped the state would be further along by now in developing alternatives to police and emergency rooms. His bill had designated about $200 million in new funding for crisis programs; he had hoped the program would prove so successful the funding would continue.

Marshalling new resources amid a pandemic-induced budget crisis is tough.

Still, he said, “It’s never too soon, and it’s never too late.”

———— Miles Hall’s family also

is helping push Walnut Creek to both create teams of clinicians who can respond to people in mental health emergencies, and to require police to undergo crisis intervention training.

Taun Hall wishes such a team existed the day her son was killed.

The 911 tapes offer a glimpse of a family in search of help.

“Miles, my grandson, is having a mental-health breakdown,” his grandmother can be heard telling the dispatcher, breathlessly, as Miles shouts in the background.

Neighbors called, too, as did Taun Hall, all noting Miles had psychiatric issues.

He had started showing signs of psychosis in his late teens. Still his mother recalls him as a selftaught musician who was so gentle he wouldn’t even kill spiders.

Miles also was afraid of the police, but his parents reached out to them intentionally. They wanted officers to know who Miles was, and that their son’s black skin belonged in their white neighborhood, Taun Hall said.

After being brought in by police the previous summer and placed on a psychiatric hold, he’d spent a few weeks in an inpatient facility, then started on longacting injectable medications.

His mother said he’d stabilized, gotten a job, made friends. The psychosis returned suddenly. She called officers the day before

Miles was killed, explaining that he was experiencing psychosis but wasn’t violent. Like so many families with nowhere else to turn, her family saw law enforcement as the best path to getting Miles the care he needed.

“I had a false sense of security and thought they were going to be able to treat him,” she said.

Three days after Miles’ death, the Walnut Creek chief of police released a statement: “My heart goes out to the family of Miles Hall as this was an outcome nobody wanted to have happen,” he said.

Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, remembers being surprised when Taun Hall approached her at an event just weeks after Miles was killed, wanting to help lobby for change.

“She came out of the gate ready to fight for her baby,” Brooks said.

Last year Brooks had worked on a bill that became law, narrowing the circumstances under which police officers are permitted to use lethal force. Removing police from crisis situations seemed to her an obvious next step.

“We rely on police to be the answer to every single social ill and they shouldn’t be,” she said.

———— California has been talking about reforming its crisis response system for a long time — and state leaders have been considering a number of potential models. Many agree that pilot programs, while useful, often fall short of creating system-wide change.

“These are not problems that require a huge amount of research or pilot projects,” said Dr. Tom Insel, chair of The Steinberg Institute and formerly Newsom’s top mental health advisor. “We know what works and it requires making the investment. If you’re serious about this, you do it at scale.”

Insel has been championing a program called Crisis Now as a potential model for counties in California. That program has been tried in other states with promising results. In Maricopa

County, Ariz., the program’s organizers estimate they have reduced overall healthcare costs by $260 million.

Jim Mayer, chief of innovation incubation for California’s Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, says they are planning to try out this model in eight to 10 counties later this summer.

Brooks wants to see communities remove police from crisis response entirely. One model for what a state pilot program might look like can be found inside a secondhand RV in the Sacramento neighborhood of Oak Park.

In January, Asantewaa Boykin, a registered nurse in the UC Davis Medical Center emergency room, worked with the Anti Police-Terror Project to start a volunteer crisis response operation called Mental Health First. Boykin said the effort grew out of an informal, unspoken agreement among many in her community — when people were in crisis, they reached out to each other, not the police.

Now, three nights a week, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., a rotating team of three volunteers — one focused on crisis intervention, one on medical response and one on safety — responds to calls and texts from people in mentalhealth crises.

Sometimes these crises are easily handled with reassuring words over the phone. “A lot of times folks just want to talk or text,” Boykin said. A cup of noodles and a blanket and someone to listen fixes many situations.

On occasions when a crisis requires a trip to the emergency room, a trained volunteer explaining the situation to hospital staff can make a huge difference in how a patient in crisis is treated, Boykin said.

The team relies on word-ofmouth, social media posts and flyers to spread the word about their work. Boykin estimates they’ve spent less than $2,000 total so far. With more funding, she said, “I think the possibilities would be endless.”

— This report was made possible by a grant from the California Health Care Foundation.

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COUNCIL: Members get a chance to dig into debate on DISC project From Page A1 Tuesday’s meeting will give council members a chance to ask more questions and ultimately weigh in.

DISC (formerly known first as the Mace Ranch Innovation Center and more recently as the Aggie Research Campus) would bring 2.64 million square-feet of business and innovation space as well as up to 850 residential units to the northeast corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80.

Developers — Ramco Enterprises, the Buzz Oates Group and Reynolds & Brown — say the project would provide much-needed research and innovation space to businesses emerging from UC Davis, thousands of local jobs to graduates and other Davis residents and increase the city’s housing supply.

Critics have said the project will bring increased traffic congestion to the Mace Boulevard/I-80 interchange area while taking agricultural land out of production and without a guarantee that the types of companies developers say will locate there actually will.

If placed on the Nov. 3 ballot, DISC would mark the sixth time Davis residents cast a vote on a project under Measure J/R, the renewal of which will be on the November ballot as well.

First enacted in 2000 as Measure J, the initiative requires a vote of the people before land can be redesignated from agricultural or open space to any urban use. Measure J was renewed for another 10 years (as Measure R) in 2010 and is up for renewal again this year.

Five Measure J/R votes have taken place in the last 15 years, with the first

BOARD: Longer term this time From Page A1 on the school board for a little over two years this time around.

Fifteen applicants filed paperwork asking to be considered for appointment to fill out Pickett’s school board term. That pool of applicants was narrowed to six candidates at the June 25 school board meeting.

During the July 2 meeting, that field of six candidates was then narrowed down to two — Klineberg and Vigdis Asmundson.

Klineberg was elected on the first ballot with three votes (from trustees Adams, DiNunzio and Fernandes, with trustee Poppenga voting for Asmundson.)

The departing Pickett expressed disappointment that the school board did not pick an applicant who was a woman of color.

In a social media post, Pickett said “the recent history in Davis is that women of color get into office when they are elected ... and they have been the top votegetters. (The) decision by the (school board) to not appoint any of the women of color who applied and who were amply qualified is appalling.”

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisen terprise.net.

three failing: Covell Village in 2005; Wildhorse Ranch in 2009; and Nishi 1.0 in 2016.

But in 2018, voters approved two projects under Measure J/R votes: Nishi 2.0 and the West Davis Active Adult Community.

During two previous hearings on the subject of renewing Measure J/R, the council made clear they intend to leave the decision to Davis voters, so Tuesday’s FRERICHS Incoming vote on vice mayor placing renewal on the ballot is likely to be unanimous.

The council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. and is accessible to the public several ways: ■ Televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television).

■ Livestreamed online at https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/ city-council-meetings/ meeting-videos.

■ Via Zoom at https:// zoom.us/j/95672361301.

Members of the public may submit comment via email or voicemail.

Submit written public comments to CityCouncilMembers@cityofdavis. org. To ensure the City Council has the opportunity to review comments prior to the meeting, send emails by 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Submit comments by voicemail prior to or during the meeting by calling the city’s dedicated phone line 530-757-5693. Staff will play comments during the appropriate agenda item. Speakers will be limited to no more than two minutes.

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PLEA: Modern tech cracks old cases From Page A1 was jogging on a South Davis greenbelt back in January 1994.

Yolo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said Friday that Manteuffel will appear in Yolo Superior Court, where he is charged with kidnapping with intent to commit robbery, following his Aug. 14 sentencing in the Sacramento case.

In all, Manteuffel faces more than 30 years in state prison. While living in Northern California, Manteuffel was a student and part-time lecturer in criminal justice at Sacramento State University and went on to retire from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, for which he worked in several states.

Authorities arrested Manteuffel on June 28, 2019, in Decatur, Ga., the result of what officials called a “collaborative and extensive ongoing investigation” that involved DNA technology to make the long-elusive identification.

“This is evidence that does not forget,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a news conference announcing

Manteuffel’s arrest.

“At a time when DNA was barely even heard of when it came to solving crime, law enforcement found the evidence in these cases, meticulously collecting it and pre- MANTEUFFEL Arrested in serving it, never really Georgia knowing if someday they would find an answer,” Schubert said.

In the Davis incident, the 22-yearold UCD student was jogging along a greenbelt in the area of Cowell Boulevard and Washoe Street when a suspect grabbed her and disabled her with a Taser stun gun on the night of Jan. 11, 1994.

“She was going to get dinner at the local market,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said at last year’s news conference. “He tased her and dragged her away, where he committed monstrous crimes.”

“This crime haunted the community of Davis for 25 years,” Reisig added, noting that the woman was “very happy” to learn of an arrest in

the case. “Predators and monsters can’t hide forever any longer — the clock is ticking on these criminals, and their time is up.”

Manteuffel’s plea came just three days after Joseph James DeAngelo, identified through DNA evidence two years ago as the East Area Rapist/ Golden State Killer, pleaded guilty to 13 murders and admitted to 75 other crimes — including attacks in three Davis homes during the summer of 1978 that went uncharged due to expired statues of limitations.

DeAngelo’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 17 — and may take longer than one day — at which time prosecutors say his victims will deliver their impact statements without limits to time or content.

Another alleged serial offender with Davis ties, Roy Charles Waller, has been ordered to stand trial in connection with 15 sexual assaults tied by either DNA or similar conduct patterns to the NorCal Rapist, who raped women in six counties between 1991 and 2006. Two of the crimes, involving three UCD students, occurred in Davis in 1997 and 2000.

MODIFY: Rule ‘would be difficult to enforce’ From Page A1 favor of what was Measure L on the November 2018 ballot noted that the city law requiring a vote on projects like WDAAC (now called Bretton Woods) calls for “an adequate housing supply to meet internal city needs” and stated, “90 percent of the home sales will be limited to Davisconnected buyers.”

What was actually promised at the time was that the Davis-based buyers program would later be included in a development agreement with the city if voters approved the project.

Voters did approve the project but now Taormino is asking that the Davisbased buyers program be removed the development agreement.

The request will go before the Davis Planning Commission on Wednesday and ultimately would have to be approved by the City Council.

Bretton Woods, as the development is now known,

will provide up to 560 dwelling units on 74 acres of land north of Covell Boulevard and just west of Sutter Davis Hospital. Units will include for-sale, single-family homes as well as affordable senior apartments and 80 percent of all units would be reserved for buyers and renters aged 55 and over.

But it was the Davisbased buyers program that was both heavily promoted by backers and also the target of a lawsuit filed just prior to the election.

That lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, contended the program violated federal fair housing law and was discriminatory given that Davis is “a largely white community” to begin with so buyers qualifying under the Davis-based buyers program would largely mirror that.

The lawsuit was subsequently withdrawn, but not before the City Council weighed in, voting to defend the suit in court.

According to a staff report prepared for

Wednesday’s planning commission meeting, developers now seek to amend the development agreement to remove language related to the Davisbased buyers program altogether. Fear of litigation is cited as the primary reason.

The staff report notes that the initial lawsuit was withdrawn without prejudice because the Davisbased buyers program had not yet been established.

And because the legality of the program was not addressed in court, “the applicant feels this leaves a continued threat of litigation and it is the applicant’s desire to not significantly delay the delivery of the needed housing in Davis,” the report said.

Additionally, “the legality of the provision would be difficult to enforce.”

Negotiations between the developers and city staff produced a plan that staff is now recommending the city approve: the Davisbased buyers program

would be removed from the development agreement in exchange for developers making all residences 100 percent electric with no gas infrastructure being provided to the residential portions of the project.

“Staff believes that the proposed amendments would be consistent with the city of Davis General Plan, city policies, and the Davis Municipal Code,” the report concludes.

Planning commissioners will weigh in on Wednesday.

The commission meets at 7 p.m. and is accessible to the public via several options: ■ Televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television).

■ Livestreamed online at https://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/citycouncil-meetings/meetingvideos.

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OBITUARIES Joseph John Rodvold Dec. 15, 1947 — June 24, 2020

Joseph John Rodvold passed away on June 24. Born Dec. 15, 1947, to Donald and Kay Rodvold, Joe was the third of four children (Donna, Pat (2019), Mary).

Joe loved growing up in San Diego where he had many adventures from its beaches to its deserts and earned the reputation of being a loyal Chargers fan.

After serving honorably in the U.S. Army’s 8th Special Forces Group as a paratrooper, he returned to California where he met and fell in love with Giny Herold. Their relationship grew in Davis while living in their B Street apartment for many years. They married in 1985 and began their next adventure when they welcomed their son Jeffrey James in 1987.

Joe’s integrity and quality workmanship as a licensed contractor made him a staple in the greater Davis community, earning him numerous loyal customers.

After retirement, he became a stalwart volunteer at the SPCA thrift store where he

was able to extend his handyman expertise. Over this time, he collected innumerable eccentric trinkets that often reflected his wry sense of humor and became talking points as they decorated his home.

Joe fiercely loved his family, and while his exterior was rough, there was never any doubt as to the loving and caring man on the inside. In his final year of life, this devotion became all the more obvious when he embraced the role of grandfather (Jordan Jacob) with unrelenting excitement and joy. He strove to be an honest, good man who always wanted the best for those he cared about.

Joe is preceded in death by his father, mother, sister and loyal dog Smokey. He is survived by Donna, Mary, Giny, Jeffrey, Bethany (daughter-in-law), Jordan, and five nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, his family requests donations be made in his name to the Yolo County SPCA. A celebration of Joe’s life will occur at a later date.

Muhasibi Shalom May 5, 1942 — May 25, 2020

Muhasibi Shalom was born on May 5, 1942, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and died of kidney disease on May 25, 2020, in Davis.

She is survived by her husband, Antonio Andrade; daughter Samara Andrade; son Noah Andrade; daughter-in-law; Courtney Connolly; granddaughter Grace Andrade; brothers Robert Spiegel and Musawwir Spiegel; sister-in-law Yasmin Spiegel; niece Eva Spiegel; great-nephew Lars Spiegel; and nephew Malik Cogswell and wife Michaela Cogswell. She was preceded in death by her parents, Belle and Sidney Spiegel, and son-in-law Terry Hundley.

Muhasibi held a master’s degree in clinical psychology; her practice was dedicated to treating individuals and couples who felt stuck in repeating old survival patterns that limited their deepest potential growth as a human being. Utilizing a

variety of approaches, including EMDR for trauma resolution and group therapy, Muhasibi supported and empowered clients on their courageous path towards growth and authenticity. Her belief that “peace is an inside job,” guided her work with clients and was core to supporting the transformation of their internal landscape, creating peace in individuals and families.

Most of Muhasibi’s adult life was devoted to spiritual exploration and practice. Her philosophy in life could be expressed best by her cars’ license plates, BENOW and BGENRUS. Due to COVID no public services were conducted, but a celebration of life will be held in Ukiah.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to Yolo Hospice or the Inland Humane Society of Mendocino County.

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

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.

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Dine-in dialed back; last Resler retires W

ith Yolo County’s closure of bars and indoor dining, Open Air Davis is even more relevant.

Wednesday’s decision — which took effect Friday and lasts for at least three weeks — shuttered bars and most breweries.

Restaurants cannot serve inside. Same for wineries and tasting rooms. If a brewery has an on-site restaurant and outside seating, it can stay open. Other affected indoor businesses are family entertainment centers, movie theaters, zoos, museums and card rooms (except on tribal land).

That changed operations for businesses like Three Mile Brewing, The Davis Beer Shoppe, Davis Wine Bar and G Street WunderBar. Three Mile Brewing reverted to pickup of online orders.

The Davis Beer Shoppe is also limited to retail sales.

WunderBar and similar taverns are closed.

The change does not affect Sudwerk Brewing Co., which has a restaurant, and serves food and beverages on The Dock’s patio. Dunloe Brewing and Super Owl Brewing had not reopened to onsite consumption. Both offer retail sales a couple of times a week.

Sarah Worley, business engagement manager for the city, was working Thursday to notify bars and restaurants about the new order. She said it’s frustrating for the businesses. “We’ve just seen our restaurants start to reopen. They’ve hired staff, they have food, they purchased products and things.” She told attendees at the Davis Downtown Marketing Committee meeting that she is advising business owners, and working with officials to seek possible solutions.

Pence Gallery closed to the public on Friday. It offers virtual tours via its YouTube channel.

Open Air Davis continues this weekend, with several restaurants expanding their capacity to allow outdoor dining in the street.

For the second week in a row, Open Air Davis takes over part of G Street — north of Open Rice Kitchen to Third Street.

From Friday morning through Sunday evening, the street is open to pedestrians but closed to cars.

Bicyclists must walk their bikes. The program will

continue through at least August.

This weekend’s participants include the four restaurants that were there last week: Woodstock’s Pizza, Red 88 Noodle Bar and KetMoRee. Froggy’s/ Tommy J’s is participating but is not within the enclosed area.

Brett Maresca, director of the Davis Downtown Business Association, said, “It is important to note that Open Air Davis is not solely the closed-street areas. It is a program that is all-inclusive to downtown businesses.

“Now more than ever, finding innovative, reasonable and affordable ways to conduct business in an open-air environment is becoming essential. The DDBA and the city of Davis are collaboratively working on growing the program, and it has allowed for more businesses to expand into an outdoor environment while providing space for the public to enjoy a safer, refreshing open-air atmosphere.”

He said many businesses around downtown modified operations, expanding into outdoor spaces. For example, Taqueria El Burrito has seating in E Street Plaza. Though many restaurants that don’t have outdoor seating would like to participate in the Open Air Davis program, county health department rules say restaurants may only serve food adjacent to their business.

Starting July 10, the program expands onto Second Street, for the block between E and F streets. There, more retail businesses will jump in.

The DDBA plans to launch a new web page – openairdavis.com – by late next week. It will list participants and highlight downtown businesses.

Though widely wellreceived, the plan found some critics. Late on Sunday, June 28, someone intentionally ran over the A-frame barricades on each end of G Street, damaging the signs, according to Bob Bowen, the city’s public relations manager.

Maresca said consumers feel safer in an outdoor

While brother Roger works in the background, Skeet Resler gives haircut to Jim Case in 2010 at the landmark Resler Brothers Barber Shop.

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environment, and emphasizes it’s up to the businesses to enforce mask and distancing rules. “There’s significant concern with the public getting together in any way, especially with the spikes (in virus cases).

We’re doing our best to communicate with our businesses to abide by the guidelines. We really want to see this continue.”

——— After 41 years, Resler Brothers Barber Shop closed on June 26, when Skeet Resler retired. The business was at 231 G St., Suite 7.

Thursday was Day 6 of Skeet Resler’s retirement, and I spoke with him by phone from his new home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He moved there to be closer to his daughter and sister, who live on the East Coast.

“I’m done and I’m tired. I can’t keep this up. I’ve been a beach boy for years,” he said. The former Sacramento resident closed his barber shop for one week every year, for a vacation in Hawaii.

The 71-year-old has been working alone in the barber shop since his younger brother Roger left suddenly in 2017. Skeet said it’s a long story, but they haven’t spoken since.

Skeet Resler started at Leo’s Barber Shop in 1980.

He left in 1988 to open his own shop in the Washington Mutual building with his brother. In 2014, they moved to the Court ’N Cedar building on G Street.

The shop was known for two things: Its loquacious, bickering barbers and the 200-plus college pennants that hung from the ceiling.

The pennants were gifts from young clients when they went away to college.

“My daughter said, “Dad, that’s your legacy,’ ” he said, stopping as he was overcome with emotion.

“There are so many stories with every pennant.” He shipped them to Florida, and plans to put them up

at his new place.

He’d been thinking about retiring for a while, but the economic effect of COVID-19 forced it. “The pandemic just nailed us.

It’s crippled this whole world.” He said he couldn’t make a living at it anymore.

Plus, he wanted to be closer to his family. “Family is what’s important.”

Saturday, June 27, was going to be his last day, but early Friday, when Open Air Davis kept vehicles from his portion of G Street, he called it quits. He didn’t like the fact that clients couldn’t park in front of his business, even for its last two days.

“I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to all my families and my friends,” he said, choking up again. “I miss them, and I love them.

Thank you for the 41 years.”

——— The Jamba at 1361 W. Covell Blvd., Suite 115, is back open after a temporary closure. It closed Wednesday for deep cleaning after an employee tested positive for COVID19.

The chain, formerly known as Jamba Juice, rebranded a year ago to emphasize an expanded menu that includes more than juices and smoothies.

——— Next door, GNC in The Marketplace is closing. The nutrition store is at 1361 W. Covell Blvd. An employee said Thursday it would close in “about seven weeks,” which she confirmed would be around Aug. 20. However, she said it could be sooner or later.

——— Extreme Pizza in South Davis is closed. The restaurant, at 417 Mace Blvd. in the El Macero Shopping Center, is cleared out and the phone is disconnected.

——— APEX Cycles reopened June 1 after a three-year hiatus. Owner Aaron Curtin opened the shop in 2006, after running it out of his garage since 2003. It

specializes in road and track bike custom builds. It also has a full-service repair shop as well and mobile service. The new studio operates by appointment at 105 E St., Suite 2C. Curtin took three years off to work as the bicycle program coordinator at UC Davis, then in a research position with Uber Technologies.

——— Curtin also owns Team Alpha Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, 823 Fourth St., which was scheduled to open this spring. It postponed its grand opening until Aug. 1. It’s accepting member sign-ups, and enrolling students in summer day camps and small classes this month.

“We will be focusing on Brazilian jiu-jitsu, submission grappling, wrestling for self-defense and competition,” Curtin said.

Fabio Prado is the Brazilian jiu-jitsu head coach, and Curtin’s sons Aaron and Alex lead the kids’ program.

——— Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop reopened on June 15. It offers classes for all ages, and dance and arts summer camps for youths 6-12. It’s at 2720 Del Rio Place.

——— I continue to update and add details to my Google spreadsheet of some 275 Davis businesses affected

by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/Davis Businesses. In it, there are sheets for Restaurantsopen, Restaurants-closed, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and Gifting Stimulus Program beneficiaries. The notes mention if they are Black-owned businesses.

Please email wendyedit@ gmail.com to suggest updates.

The following restaurants remain temporarily closed due to COVID19: Crepeville, Delta of Venus, D Street Steakhouse and Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine. Last month, Crepeville had plans to reopen in late July.

——— An Arby’s is coming to downtown Woodland this summer — at 85 W. Court St. The opening date has not been set.

The 3,500-square-foot restaurant will feature a drive-thru, and will bring approximately 40 new jobs to the area, a news release said.

This is the fifth Arby’s restaurant owned and operated by Fremontbased franchise group Kang Foods, founded by brothers Anoop and Bikram Kang. Arby’s serves a variety of meats each day like roast beef, smoked brisket, corned beef and roast turkey.

——— Grindstone Winery & Vineyards plans a grand opening for its tasting room, next weekend, July 11-12. It’s at 12700 County Road 89 in Esparto.

Owners Michael and Amy Doherty are third-generation farmers in Colusa and Yolo counties. Their children, who are in college, will be the fourth generation. They grow their own grapes and follow the motto, “great winemaking begins in the vineyard.” The winery has been open and winning awards with wines like rose, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, Cortina red and petit verdot.

They recently completed construction of a tasting room, which includes a patio. For opening weekend, there are two patio seatings: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Email tierney@grindstonewines. com or call 530-393-2162 to reserve a table for members of your household.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor.

Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.

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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020

Remembering voyage to enchanting Palau

BY GEORGE MEDOVOY Special to The Enterprise

D

uring the pandemic, I’ve been isolated at home, maintaining a tenuous connection with the outside world via the Internet.

In the process, I stumbled onto something that brought back memories of my voyage to a Pacific island nation long before anyone had ever heard of social distancing.

It was a reference to Palau — hundreds of small islands with a total population of about 20,000, located over 4,700 miles west of Hawaii in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. So, from home, I’ve enjoyed a virtual “return” with memories like the Milky Way, a hidden lake with white deposits said to act like beauty cream, and Ngellil Nature Island Resort, a pristine hideaway where sweet orange coconuts grow near thatched huts.

I also remember meeting Tova and Navot Bornovski, an Israeli couple who promote Palau’s natural beauty and operate Fish ’n Fins, a popular dive center dedicated to exploring Palau’s incredible sea life (www.fishnfins.com).

“The first time we came to Palau,” Tova told me, “we were very young. It was in 1986. We were the crew on the first liveaboard in Palau. A live-aboard is a dive boat where people live onboard and then dive from it. We totally fell in love with the island.”

After that first year, the couple returned to Israel for Navot to complete his studies in mechanical engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. But when an opportunity opened up in 1992 to run a live-aboard on Palau, the Bornovskis returned.

“We sold everything,” Tova remembered. “We took loans, flew to Florida and bought our first boat, the Ocean Hunter I, a 60-foot motor sailor.”

The family sailed through the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and across the Pacific to Palau, arriving in 1993 with their first two children, 5-year-old Yarden and 4-year-old Udi. The couple’s third and fourth children were born on Palau and have Palauan middle names:

Liam Lmall, whose second name refers to the spawning season of rabbit fish, and Gayle Dilmowais, “Girl of Dawn” in Palauan.

All of their children, Tova noted, “have the easy island personality.” And, being Palauan at heart, they are divers, too.

The Bornovski children have all gone on to build productive lives of their own. Yarden is a physician specializing in epilepsy research at Yale University; Udi is a videographer and dive instructor on Palau; Liam, who is also on Palau, graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, writes music and works in music production; and Gayle, a graduate of Brandeis University, is working on a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at Texas A & M. When I met Tova and Navot, I was scheduled to go snorkeling at Blue Corner Reef, which has a60foot-wide plateauand over a 1,000-foot drop!

I took off with a group of divers in a tarp-covered speedboat, zipping past Palau’s mangrovecovered limestone Rock Islands in water colored deep blue to aqua-green.

Sometimes our guide would slow down near sandy beaches perfect for dropping anchor and having lunch — which is what we did on an island with tree-covered picnic benches, basic toilet facilities … and a resident community of wild chickens to keep us company!

After lunch, we walked on the beach and sat in the warm water by the shore. But the real highlight of the day was Blue Corner Reef itself, where I saw enormous sea fans with giant corkscrew twists of every conceivable shape and size.

Soon, I was swimming with fish that looked like they had been colored with wild abandon, including two bright yellow specimens playing tag with each other and darting in and out of the corals.

When the divers in our group came up to the surface, they told of being attached to a thin rope wound up on anchoring loops hooked to the edge of the reef cliff. Their 10-minute “drift dive” required very little kicking, as the current did most of the work for them.

The divers reported seeing

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Sweet orange coconuts add to the charm of Ngellil Nature Island Resort. thousands of fish — barracuda and mackerel, as well as sharks, some no more than 20 feet away.

When our afternoon at Blue Corner Reef ended, we headed back to shore, and I was dropped off at Fish ’n Fins.

I sat down in Barracuda, the Fish ’n Fins restaurant, and waited for Tova. Besides being an accomplished cook, she also wrote “Taste of Rainbow’s End,” a cookbook reflecting Palauan cooking with European and Middle Eastern tastes.

“Rainbow’s End” is also Palau’s motto because with all the sunshine and island rain, rainbows are quite common across its blue skies.

The Barracuda menu was filled with Mediterranean, Greek, Italian and Israeli items, including falafel, focaccia sandwiches, paninis, salade Niçoise, all sorts of burgers and fish, and desserts like figs and ice cream, and apple delight.

Fish ’n Fins live-aboard dive excursions are normally for seven days, but 10-day trips and threeweek charters are also offered.

Navot also leads Wrexpeditions, the search for underwater remains of World War II vessels in Palauan waters.

Perhaps the most famous of these Wrexpeditions was the discovery on May 1, 2000 of the American destroyer USS Perry, which had hit a mine and sunk off Angaur Island on September 14, 1944.

Eight American sailors were killed, seven wounded, and 146 survivors rescued by other American ships. The Perry’s sinking came shortly before the battle for Peleliu Island by U.S. Marines and the U.S. Army.

One of the Perry’s survivors, Larry Tunks, and three of his friends chartered Navot’s services for a week of fishing around Palau in April/May of 2000.

“In early 2000,” Navot recalled, “Larry called me from California and told me that he was a sailor aboard the USS Perry when she sank. Later he called me again and asked me if we could go to Angaur during the fishing trip, so he can place flowers in the water and pray.”

Tunks also brought Navy documents to Palau about the ship’s location. “It was my wife’s idea that we try and look for it based on Larry’s documents,” said Navot.

On May 1, 2000, Navot and Jeff Wonnenbert, at the time a dive instructor working for Fish ’n Fins and Navot’s “diving buddy,” searched for the Perry while Tunks waited above water.

Navot remembered something else about that fateful day: it was Tunks’ 78th birthday.

The wreck was eventually located less than a mile south of the southern tip of Angaur Island.

“It took me five to six hours to scan the sea floor in the area I believed the wreck was located,” Navot said. “This area was four to five miles away from where the

Navy indicated it was sunk…”

Tunks became very emotional when Navot and Wonnenbert surfaced and announced that they had located the Perry. “Tunks took off his clothes and jumped into the water in his briefs,” Navot recalled.

“He was crying. I was elated that against all odds and based on common sense and knowledge of the area, I managed to find it a few miles from the location where the Navy claimed she had sunk.”

The Perry is still in the water, and was declared a national monument by the Palau government and a burial-at-sea site by the Navy. “We don’t let anyone remove items or touch the wreck while diving,” Navot said. “We treat it with the most respect.”

In 2002, Tova and Navot founded the Micronesian Shark Foundation to learn about the sharks of Palau and protect them.

At first, they assumed that the sharks were migrating because during some months you see hundreds of them and some months you see only a few. So working mainly with the Australian Institute of Marine Science, they started tagging sharks and discovered that the sharks don’t migrate at all, but simply go deeper where the water is cooler during the summer months.

The next Shark Week on Palau will be held March 5-12, 2021, in conjunction with the Micronesian Shark Foundation.

“It’s quite astonishing,” Tova told me, “how a small country like Palau is a world leader in conservation, creating in 2009 the first shark sanctuary and in 2015 the marine sanctuary. So many areas are forbidden to fishing, and people do obey.”

Other prominent examples of Palauan conservation include its 15 marine lakes, nine of which have millions of non-stinging jellyfish, but only one is open to the public.

“Conservation is embedded into our daily life,” said Tova, who was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2013 and appointed Honorary Ambassador of the Ocean in 2019 by Tommy Remengesau, president of Palau.

— George Medovoy is a freelance journalist and a former Enterprise travel, food and wine columnist.

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Getting back on the horse, bike or ski slope ■ Editor’s note: Tanya Perez is taking the day off. This column originally published in April 2012.

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wo years after a bonesmashing ski accident, I finally felt like my old self on the slopes last week.

Having learned to ski when I was 10 years old, I think I benefitted from the lack of fear that comes from learning an activity before you fully understand all that can go wrong. I had 30-plus years of pretty confident skiing with few serious falls before “the big one.”

Regular readers of this column might remember that two years ago, at the start of the Winter Olympics, I was feeling particularly confident in my skiing abilities. My family was at Kirkwood, and we’d just discovered a “ski cross” track, something I’d seen highlights of on TV. After we’d taken a few test runs down the track, I told my family to go ahead of me so I could really test myself.

Cutting to the chase … I caught some big air and smashed my arm down on the jump from which I intentionally launched myself. Surgery and a titanium plate got my wrist back in shape.

Regular readers of this column might remember that a year before that accident, I’d also fallen off my bike at Picnic Day, breaking my front teeth and my thumb. Root canals, toothbonding and surgery to install some metal rods, and I was good as new.

Except I wasn’t. I had completely lost my confidence, first in riding a bike (!), and next in skiing. And it turns out, both activities are a lot more difficult to do well if you think you’re going to fall.

I remember first getting on my bike once my cast was off and I was healed (at least physically). I was so shaky and nervous and unsure of myself that all I could focus on was not falling. In fact, an anecdote my husband had told me about his younger sister crashing her bicycle — albeit mildly — kept playing through my head.

When they were kids, my husband and his sister were on a bike ride with their dad. As they approached an intersection of two trails, there was a short pole in place, the kind that keeps cars from driving onto bike trails.(For all you would-be wordsmiths, those short poles are known as “bollards,” which has become my favorite new substitute swear word!)

My husband’s dad gently informed his kids that the pole was no big deal; they would easily glide past it without getting off their bikes. For some reason, though, my sister-in-law became consumed with this pole, repeating, “but what if I run into it?” until, of course, she ran into it.

All she had to do was not focus on the pole, and all she could do was focus on the pole. And as I mounted my bike for the first time after my big crash, all I could see was smashing my face on the pavement, while I repeated to myself, “but what if I fall again?” Believe me, this makes it really hard to ride steadily.

After the ski accident, I was even less sure of myself, although all I really needed to do was not take jumps at high, out-of-control speeds. I became incredibly

cautious while skiing, with the whole family waiting for me at the bottom of even the easiest runs. “Incredibly cautious skiing” is the main ingredient in not having any fun, followed by your sons and husband having to wait for you all day, mixed with profuse apologizing for making them wait.

So how did I finally shake this complex, and what made last week’s ski trip different? I wish I knew what it was specifically, but I think it came, in part, from watching Little League games.

Having had kids in Little League for the past 11 years, I’ve watched a lot of players. When you see a really young kid get into that batter’s box, waving his bat around like he’s Derek Jeter, it’s in sharp contrast to the majority who have a hard time not leaping backwards out of the box before the pitcher has released the ball. How does this kid have such confidence? Is it because he’s never been hit by a pitch? Or he has no imagination?

Whatever it is, it’s awesome.

Just like schushing down the ski slope last week was awesome, not wobbling and whimpering my way down the hill.

After getting back from this

successful ski trip, I did a little research on confidence and athletics, and I found an interesting article from Psychology Today called “Are you a confident athlete” by Jim Taylor, Ph.D. To tease you to read the whole article — tinyurl.com/ydzw686 — here are some of Taylor’s main points: ■ “A misconception that many athletes have is that confidence is something that is inborn or that if you don’t have it at an early age, you will never have confidence.”

■ “The greatest disruption to confidence is failure. … Failure will cause you to lose faith in your ability and cause you to become tentative or cautious.”

■ “(Confidence) should not, however, cause you to expect success; this belief can lead to arrogance and overconfidence.”

Good stuff, and not just for sports. Although it’s not easy to teach confidence, I’d say it’s up there with learning math, science and writing.

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday.

Reach her atpereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

Plenty of virtual youth summer programs offered

BY NATALIA BALTAZAR Special to The Enterprise

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s the academic school year comes to an end, Empower Yolo moves forward through the continued challenges of the pandemic to offer local youths engaging, virtual, summer programs.

Through Empower Yolo’s After School Safety & Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) program, which supports local teens and youths in Woodland and Knights Landing, we are offering our Freshman Leadership Academy and Kids Day Camp this summer.

Freshman Leadership Academy Freshman Leadership Academy is an important program for teens entering 9th grade at Woodland High School or Pioneer High School in Woodland.

“FLA is an opportunity given to students to positively focus on developing themselves so they can be successful academically, and in a society as well,” says Fabian Iglesias, ASSETs Program Manager at Woodland and Pioneer high schools.

FLA seeks to assist students in navigating this new chapter of their lives through a virtual monthlong program from June 15 through July 13. The program focuses on empowering students to

EMPOWER YOLO attain educational excellence and career achievement. The program is offered at no cost to students thanks to a collaboration among ASSETs, Woodland Joint Unified School District, Yocha Dehe, the University of California, Davis Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP is part of the Department of Undergraduate Admissions), Travis Credit Union and the city of Woodland.

“The program focuses on students’ top five talents identified by the CliftonStrengths educational program (a means to measure 34 research-validated talent themes),” Iglesias said, “which helps students grow confident in who they are and how they can contribute to the world; and provides them with the opportunity to develop their leadership skills.”

FLA has four components: life/skills provided

by ASSETs staff; college information provided by EAOP staff; four-year academic planning provided

by WJUSD, WHS and PHS advisors; and strengths-based leadership provided by an EAOP, CliftonStrengths certified facilitator. Upon completing the program, students gain three elective credits.

Due to the pandemic,the program has moved to online instruction, college campus visits have been cancelled, and the team has become creative in

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Freshman Leadership Academy students show what they’ve learned so far. how they give students the opportunity to interact with each other all while learning new information in a limited time.

Besides various challenges such as technology issues, changing in person curriculum to virtual delivery, getting the students engaged, and learning how to teach online, the benefits are that students have been able to virtually visit many more campuses than what they would have in person. Students have also learned how to videoconference via Google Meet and Zoom.

“Our hope is that by the end of the academy students’ self-esteem and determination to achieve their post-secondary goals has greatly increased, and that they have developed the connections with not only the high school staff, but with the outreach programs so that they can continue to seek guidance along their four year high school journey,” says Iglesias.

The community can support FLA by donating incentive prizes for participating students. We plan to acknowledge students’ effort for participating virtually over the next four weeks. Students earn points for “raffle tickets” as they participate. The more they participate, the more points they receive, and the more opportunities they earn to win prizes. We are also looking for grand prize raffle items for those students that do not miss any days.

Prize ideas can include: gift cards to coffee, fast food, Amazon, Target or Walmart. Grand prizes can be anything a teenager would enjoy such as earphones, phone charger, wireless speaker, or gift cards. Donations can be made at the Woodland office during office hours.

Kids Day Camp Kids Day Camp, which is run through Empower Yolo’s ASSETs program,

gives children the opportunity to keep active during the summer. The program is intended for children ages 6-12 to provide a safe environment for them to learn arts and crafts and play sports. The program will be run virtually this summer from July 15 through Aug. 5, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Some of the fun activities planned for the children are making slime,play dough, canvas painting, creating bracelets, crayon painting and more.

Because of the coronavirus team sports such as soccer, kickball, flag football, tugo’-war will have to be replaced with personal exercise challenges, stretches and other basic exercises.

“Our hope is that participants in this year’s virtual Kids Day Camp are able to have an engaging and creative experience through our virtual activities. It might not be the same as

an in-person experience, but we will do our best to make it as fun as possible,” says Liliana Nuño, ASSETs site coordinator.

Some challenges that we are facing include having to do the whole program virtual when our activities are very hands-on; changing our team-sports program to personal exercise challenges; and also having technological issues with computers or internet connection can be a barrier with working with the children. Since our participants are younger, they can get more easily distracted and not focus through the computer as well as in person.

The community can help by spreading the word so we can continue offering this program in future years. There is still availability to participate this summer; please sign up soon because space is limited. All materials will be provided.

Contact 530-661-6336 or email assets@empower yolo.org for questions or to register. “Even with COVID-19, we will try to make activities as fun and engaging as possible for the children,” says Nuño.

For more information on Freshman Leadership Academy or Kids Day Camp, or to donate any time visit: empoweryolo. org.

— Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.

Local students shine in academics Enterprise staff The following local residents were among 1,749 students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute named to the university’s dean’s list for academic excellence for the spring 2020 semester.

Ahmed Alhejaili of Davis is a member of the class of 2022 majoring in chemistry and business.

Samuel Sands of Davis is a member of the class of 2023 majoring in mechanical engineering.

The criteria for the WPI dean’s list differs from most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average. Instead, WPI defines the dean’s list by the amount of work completed at the A level in courses and projects.

WPI, in Worcester, Mass., a global leader in project-based learning, is a distinctive, top-tier technological university founded in 1865 on the principle that students learn most effectively by applying the

NAME DROPPERS theory learned in the classroom to the practice of solving real-world problems.

———— More than 7,000 students representing all 50 states and 73 countries have earned degrees as part of Oregon State University’s class of 2020.

These included, from Davis, master’s degrees for Elizabeth M. Cass, natural resources, and Elaine K. Jennings, toxicology, and bachelor’s degrees for Katie A. Descheemaeker, kinesiology; Jack R. Steindorf, marketing; and Trent C. Vasquez, computer science.

While Oregon State’s traditional commencement ceremonies were postponed in keeping with the university’s measures to help reduce the risk and spread of COVID-19, the graduating students are being

celebrated this month online. To watch celebratory messages and learn more about the Oregon State class of 2020, visit https:// commencement.oregonstate.edu/.

———— Nicolas T. Maduros, 49, of Davis, has been reappointed director at the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, where he has served since 2017.

Maduros was chief of staff at the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2014 to 2017. He was president at Delta Policy Group from 2010 to 2014. Maduros was director and partner at Quinn Gillespie and Associates from 2000 to 2010.

He was an associate at Arnold and Porter from 1998 to 2000.

Maduros earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. Maduros was confirmed to this position by the Senate in 2018 and the compensation is $204,828. Maduros is a Democrat.

BY ANDY JONES Enterprise staff writer 1. Countries of the World. More than France, Spain, or China, what country in the world has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, at 53?

2. Sports. The prime number of Muhammad Ali boxing matches won by knockout is the same as the normal human body temperature in degrees Celsius. What is that number?

3. Science. What chemical element has the symbol B and Atomic No. 5?

4. Books and Authors.

Who wrote the 1920s novels “To the Lighthouse” and “Orlando: A Biography”?

5. Shakespeare. Also the title subject of a Shakespeare play, under whose reign did the Church of England renounce Papal authority in 1534?

Answers: Italy, 37, boron, Virginia Woolf, Henry VIII. — Dr. Andy Jones is the quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub. He is the author of the new book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People,” now available at The Avid Reader. Find out more at www.yourquiz master.com.

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The spine that ties the community together Friends of the Davis Public Library back in gear after Logos Books reopens

BY JARROD BANIQUED Enterprise correspondent As the specter of the pandemic looms in the public consciousness, many are recognizing the power of public institutions in tying the community together.

One such institution, critical to maintaining literacy, is Yolo County Library. The Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library derives revenue in part from a dedicated 450-paying-member nonprofit organization, Friends of the Davis Public Library.

The pandemic, however, has forced the Friends to set aside their main community outreach tool, a book sale every first weekend of the even-numbered months.

“Over 100 volunteers participate, including Davis High School Key Club and CSF, various groups and individuals from UC Davis, Davis

A shopper browses through the inventory at Logos Books, which helps the Friends of the Davis Public Library raise money for library inventory and programs.

Community Meals, plus members of the Friends and others from the community,” sales coordinator Gary Godefroy said. “Children’s books, art books, cookbooks and highervalue donated books are usually our best-sellers at those events, but there’s a wide interest in fiction and non-fiction in our community.”

“The median book price is around $2, but smaller children’s books are around $1, and we sell better books for around $5 to $20. We also have a $5 deal for book bags on the last day,” Friends president Rory Osborne said.

“We gross around $9,000 on average. Each sale features approximately 10,000 books, though we don’t sell all of them,” Osborne explained. “Last February, we set a record of $11,004 for our three-day event.”

Osborne continued, “The sales generally net us about $50,000 a year. There’s no overhead involved because we hold the sales in the library.”

Yet, the pandemic forced the county to shut down the library, beginning midMarch. The April sale was canceled, beginning a spell

of significant revenue losses.

“Access to the library rooms that we use for book sales is closed by the county at this time and at least until the end of September.

Therefore, we almost certainly will not hold another book sale there until sometime in the fall,” Osborne said.

However, in February 2017, the Friends were able to snap up a new tool for community outreach: Logos Books used bookstore, on Second and E streets in Davis.

“A little over three years ago, we bought Logos from the previous owners who were going out of business,” Godefroy said. “A primary mission of the Friends is to promote literacy. Making a profit is a wonderful bonus.

Logos has made a big difference. It doubles our income with another $50,000 a year after overhead. It provides a service to the community and it advertises the Friends of the Davis Library.”

Osborne elaborated, “The previous owners who were retiring and giving much of their profits to charity, contacted the Friends to see if we could take over the lease, inventory and

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The nonprofit organization Friends of the Davis Public Library now operates Logos Books. All profits from the store go toward library inventory and reading programs. fixtures, so we did ... 100 percent of the profits go to library inventory and reading programs.” He added that Logos doesn’t buy books from anywhere, not even the library. Rather, the community and other organizations donate books to the store.

Osborne noted this means the staff at Logos, which generally number around 50, are all volunteers.

The bookstore had also been adversely affected by the pandemic. Like the library, it was also closed since mid-March, but reopened on June 17 from Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 8 p.m., with Sunday closing at 6 pm.

“We hope to return to a full schedule as time progresses,” Osborne said.

The Friends hopes to recover enough revenue from both Logos and the fall sales to catch up with the six-figure contribution soon. Monthly sales at Logos are usually around

2,500 to 3,000 books a month.

County Librarian Mark Fink said he’s grateful for the ongoing support from the Friends.

“In addition to providing funds for programs at the Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, the Friends have provided funding to enhance our countywide print and digital collections, which are accessible to all Yolo County Library cardholders,” Fink said.

“The Friends have supplemented our adult, teen, children’s, newspaper and microfilm collections, as well as our eBook, eAudiobook and eMagazine collections.”

Meanwhile, the whole county library system is ramping up its plans to operate.

Yolo County Library began accepting library returns on June 8.

“If people have items too large to fit in our drops, they need to keep them until libraries reopen to

having the public inside their buildings,” Library Regional Manager Scott Love said.

The library began offering a curbside service on June 15, Love said. People can place holds on items, and then once they’re notified that the items are ready, they can visit the library and staff will bring their items out to them.

All branches except South Davis Montgomery offer curbside. Stephens Branch Library’s curbside hours are 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Book return hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Check yolocountylibrary. org for more information and any updates.

Love said the state and county are working on plans to allow limited numbers of people inside the library later in the summer if the pandemic does not worsen.

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DHS athletes adapt to new rules Devils find room everywhere but in local pools

The defending Delta League football champs returned to practice, following strict physical distancing protocols, for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown began in March. Left, Blue Devils Zach Brooks, left, and Andrew Baum, lift in the weight room.

Equipment is wiped down after each athlete finishes their set. Below, Baum, left, Neil Smith and Luke Carrell lift outside the weight room as Blue Devil football coach Yijie Ge supervises.

Enterprise staff To say the runup to Davis High fall sports has been usual is an understatement.

First, there was no clear definition on when athletes would be allowed to congregate for conditioning. Then, once given the green light, Blue Devil teams would have to double-check on school protocols, Yolo County health guidelines and CIF regulations.

When Davis schools opened outdoor facilities and the DHS weight room last Monday, the action came with a proviso from the Sac-Joaquin Section that the summer dead period was called off and that another announcement about the start of the actual 2020 calendar would come on July 20 — just a week before the normal calendar kicked in.

In essence, individual workouts were on ... until teams heard otherwise.

“We’re going to give it the holiday weekend, then (talk about last week’s activities with the superintendent’s cabinet) and evaluate how well this has worked and what, if anything can we improve ... or expand on,” Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson told The Enterprise as he looked back on the first week of workouts while athletes socially distanced themselves under strict coaching supervision.

Football got a jump on everybody when it started conditioning

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on June 25 under the umbrella of the Davis Junior Blue Devils.

Head coach Steve Smyte took advantage of the state’s Phase 2 approval for youth athletic clubs to reconvene.

It was Davis schools chief John Bowes, who — in concert with current state, county and school district reviews of various protocols — told DHS fall teams they could begin on-campus workouts last Monday.

But before any player joins his or her teammates, a lengthy checklist is covered — a list that includes taking daily temperatures, a physical condition questionnaire, guidelines for masks and an understanding of the 6-foot distancing requirements.

“We’re just offseason training,” Blue Devil girls volleyball coach Julie Crawford reported. “Basically, that entails outdoor training and individual ball handling.”

Like the rest of the squads that have reported for workouts, exchange of balls between players

is prohibited — and when the weight room is used, immediate sanitization of equipment is required. Pods of athletes are limited to 10, each supervised by a team-attached adult.

Field hockey coach Beth Hogan has workouts going at night, again with no passing between players.

“We’re still looking for new players and incoming freshmen,” she said, adding that her practices start at 7 p.m. at Ron & Mary Brown Stadium. Interested?

Email Hogan at ehogan@djusd. net. All student-athletes must have completed a school-required physical exam.

Off campus, veteran water polo coaches Tracy Stapleton (boys) and Doug Wright (girls) report that local pool time has been next to impossible to secure.

Private-user groups have been renting city facilities from dawn

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GETTING BACK ON THE PATH

Ready, set, go ... slow Running guru says run-walk method a good way to restart

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

Former Blue Devil harrier Nick Borowsky jogs along the North Davis bike path early Friday morning. Borowsky says he’s been exercising outside more with local gyms closed.

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It’s a whole new world out there, and folks idled by pandemic protocols are trying to find different ways to keep it together.

One such pastime — doing some roadwork — has become high on the priority list. People walking, jogging or seriously running have turned up anew throughout the region.

Some are returning to roadwork after finding they hadn’t had enough time in the past. You know, work, family, the social calendar ...

Others are new to hitting the streets and greenbelts, taking the opportunities provided by the COVID-19 pause button to “get back in shape again.”

Either way, longtime Davis distance and cross-country coach Bill Gregg recommends that folks ease into a

new routine.

“The first thing you do is go to Fleet Feet and get a good pair of shoes,” suggests Gregg, who for 23 years at Davis High has been among the nation’s top prep running mentors.

Regardless if a runner is just starting out or is returning to the trails, Gregg says that once those shoes are comfy, moderation is a key.

“If you’re going to do this on your own, I’d encourage a run-walk start,” says the man whose distance runners have run from DHS to myriad Division I universities and beyond. “Run for 2 minutes, walk for 2 minutes.

Maybe at the beginning, try to get in 10 minutes of running ... about 20 minutes of activity altogether.”

Starting out, Gregg suggests maintaining that early regimen “every day or every other day. You really want to spend a week gently getting your body to cope and compensate for the activity you’re asking it to do.”

Gregg says it’s tempting for runners — especially people who once ran religiously — to jump into workouts going full-speed at first. “But then a week later, you find some are injured,” he explains.

“You’ve just got to be smart and be gentle and do it gradually.”

Gregg continues: “Even for some of our new runners at Davis High, or kids who are fragile for one reason or another, we’ve been prescribing runwalk as a bridge between not being able to run and getting back into routine workouts.”

Gregg says the internet is loaded with self-help information for runners.

“How should I build up? When can I start running for 3 minutes? For 5 minutes? It’s all there,” he promises.

Fleet Feet and Golden Valley Harriers are each solid online destinations for veteran and first-time runners. At their websites (fleetfeet. com and goldenvalleyharriers.org), joggers will find helpful training hints, suggestions for gear, and serious and fun runs sure to fit anyone’s ability levels.

Gregg reiterated his suggestion for the run-walk approach, at least initially.

“That’s the kind of progression you want to (follow),” he says. “That way,

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It’s time for us to learn to be better allies I

’ve been discriminated against exactly once in my life: during my 2018 trip to Russia for the World Cup. While authorities seemed to think I was Chechnyan, I was repeatedly asked for my identification in public, while my Colombian friend was not.

Security guards everywhere followed me around as soon as I entered stores while ignoring my Colombian friend.

I had trouble getting on a few trains, and I was even shaken awake once by someone to whom I had already shown my identification ... just so they could recheck it.

The country almost didn’t let me in at all after refusing to believe that I was the same person pictured in my passport, my

FIFA Fan ID and driver’s license.

This is not to mention the two armed police officers who physically pushed me, one out of an intersection, one out of a minimart.

It was horrible.

It also only lasted for two weeks and then I was able to retreat back into my white male sense of privilege.

I know nothing of having to live like this every single day of every single week of every single year.

So I’ve stayed relatively quiet during these trying times regarding the issue of race in America and the Black Lives Matter protests because I believe — as a member of the majority class — it’s my turn to listen and learn from people of color.

While I recently marched in the protest in Davis, I was hoping to try to understand what it means to be a person of color in America; what it must feel like to live in fear of situations that I’ve always taken for granted.

And I’ve heard many horrific responses from my friends who do have to live like that every single day.

I know I can sympathize, but

it would be impossible to empathize.

Which brings me to my conversation Friday with Jordan Ferrell, the head coach of the lower-division soccer side Oakland Roots.

I’ve known the former Sacramento Republic FC Academy coach for four years now after meeting him on a coachingeducation trip to Europe right after I started work for NorCal Premier Soccer.

But just because I know him as a coach, father and overall great man, doesn’t mean that I know anything about his experience of living in this country as a Black man.

Earlier this week, in a piece in The Players’ Tribune, Ferrell opened up.

You can read his excellent piece here: https://www.theplay erstribune.com/en-us/articles/ oakland-roots-soccer-jordanferrell-common-goal.

In it, he describes a police officer shoving him to the ground and putting a gun to his head because he matched the description of a suspect, all the while completely ignoring his white friend.

Then Ferrell brings up some statistics about the institutional racism he’s faced in his workplace.

“In MLS, our country’s most visible league, around 25 percent of the current players are Black,” he wrote. “Of the 26 managers in the league, just two are Black.

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REAM: Listen and try to learn From Page B1 And there’s just one Black GM. To this day, there hasn’t been a single Americanborn Black coach in the league.

“It’s like this all the way down the soccer pyramid here in our country. As of 2019, of the 206 NCAA Division I soccer programs, only 10 had Black head coaches.”

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The Blue Devil football team took advantage of wide-open spaces in Community Park before the DHS campus facilities were opened for use by student-athletes.

ADAPT: So far, so good for DHS From Page B1 until dusk, including DHS’ home pool at Arroyo Park.

“We’re going to literally have to turn people away,” Wright said. “And that breaks my heart. Never before in my career have I turned athletes away.”

Stapleton, meanwhile, has been vying for just a single day of pool use per week (likely to be Sundays). Lorenson expects Stapleton’s boys to be the next team after football to use the weight room. Appointments made through the AD are mandatory.

Longtime girls tennis coach Sally Hosley noted that her program doesn’t start tryouts until Aug. 17.

“The majority of the girls are still playing (events); some of them just play with each other,” Hosley explained. “They know what they need to do to keep their game ready and in top shape for the fall.”

Hosley said if the season is approved, carpools to road games, ball-sharing when playing doubles and trips like last year’s tournament in Santa Cruz are off the table.

“It’s definitely going to look like a different season,” Hosley told The Enterprise. “But I think the girls want to play and make it work with what we have to do.”

Meanwhile, Lorenson is pleased with how things went during the first week back on campus ...

“Coaches are doing a great job, taking it very, very seriously as I would expect,” he said. “Our coaches have the kids No. 1 in their hearts. That makes it easy when they care about kids before anything else.”

— Davis Enterprise staff writers Owen Yancher, Lev Farris Goldenberg, Evan Ream and sports editor Bruce Gallaudet contributed to this story.

o I wanted to know not only what it’s like to be him, but also what, as a white person, can I do?

I would encourage you to find his article, but while you’re here, let me share with you the things Ferrell told me I can do to be a better ally ...

“What I would say to allies and people who would desire to be allies is, the No. 1 thing you can do is listen and educate yourself. There are so many good resources out there that really shed light on the structures that have continued oppression of people of color long after slavery was quote-unquote abolished,” Ferrell said.

“So listening and trying to actually learn about what people of color are trying to voice, that is, for me, one of the big first steps because so often people have just said, ‘I don’t want to listen to that,’ or ‘That isn’t entertaining,’ but doing that might bring you to tears, it might challenge your entire view of society, view of the government.

“And that’s the hardest part, if you’ve grown up believing that something is good and designed to help people and then the curtains are pulled back and you’re realizing that was designed to hurt people, that was designed to continue oppression.”

Ferrell goes on ...

“Then have those same conversations with the people around you. There have been very good conversations amongst

white people about how to change methods of thinking and practices.

“If you’re somebody who owns a business, I’m not saying you have to go out and only hire people of color but to be able to step back and go, ‘OK what’s my bias in the hiring process?’ and then, ‘How do I combat that bias?’ I mean that’s very real, hiring bias is very real, but some people refuse to learn about hiring bias to be able to change their practices,” continues Ferrell.

“At the end of the day, race is a social construction, it’s not a biological construction,” the soccer maven points out. “What we’re saying is, if you can step back and treat people as human beings first and treat people the way you want to be treated, you’ll end up treating people well, and I think the more that you learn about how the system of oppression has been set up, how people of color view the world because of certain things that have happened in history or the way our society has built, I feel like as an ally you can be more empathetic and, more importantly, as an ally you can stand up for the right things in the right moments because you’re more aware.

“Because if you’re not aware, you’ll keep silent or shy away from a conversation that could change somebody’s life.”

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o as you’re celebrating our nation’s independence this long weekend, I encourage you to just think about that. Reach out to someone of color you know.

After all, what better way is there to honor our country than by learning about the different kinds of people who call the United States home?

— Evan Ream’s column publishes Sundays. He really wants you to check out Ferrell’s piece. Reach him at eream@ davisenterprise.net or follow him on Twitter @EvanReam.

READY: Running in the morning or evening helps beat the heat From Page B1 you’re minimizing the chance of getting hurt. And when you do that, then you’re maximizing the opportunity to really start to stretch it out and see some changes in your fitness.”

Gregg adds that now is a great time to start running — fewer cars on the road, people have extra time on their hands and, even in summer, a place like Davis has cool

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“I’d run especially in the morning hours when temperatures haven’t hit their heights,” Gregg advises, adding: “There are three different kinds of heat loads ...

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(the sun hitting your body). Even if it’s 70 at noon, the radiant heat load is still going to be peak versus 70 degrees at 8 a.m.”

Running as evening approaches also works, but diminishing light means that cars have a tougher time seeing you, and other safety factors (crime) also come into play.

In fact, Gregg’s daughter, Olympic hopeful Kaitlyn Goodman, has launched a nationwide campaign called “Safe on the Road.”

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While Gregg admits it can be different strokes for different folks in getting started, local residents are “lucky” to be living in Davis, a community that provides so much available information on running.

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Started more than a year ago, Goodman’s program suggests how urban roadways can be made safer for runners and cyclists.

Her program — which is online atsafeontheroad.org — advocates “safer streets for runners, walkers and bikers in communities across the United States. We supportphysical activity and active transport in our cities and towns, with the goal of helping to makeour streets safe places to exercise,

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT TO THE DAVIS JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD PURSUANT TO EDUCATION CODE SECTION 5092 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT a vacancy occurred on the Board of the Davis Joint Unified School District effective June 30, 2020, as a result of the resignation of Trustee Cindy Pickett.

The Board of Education on July 2, 2020, appointed Joy Klineberg to fill this vacancy.

This appointee shall hold office for the remainder of the term which expires in December of 2022, unless a petition calling for a special election and containing a sufficient number of signatures is filed in the office of the Yolo County Superintendent of Schools, 1280 Santa Anita Court, Suite 100, Woodland, CA 95776-6127, California, not later than August 3, 2020.

John A. Bowes, Ed.D. District Superintendent 7/5, 7/8 898

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e are in the shadow of an economic collapse of 1930s proportions. That is the awful reality of the current and relentless surge in COVID-19 infections.

What looked bad a few weeks ago now looks worse.

The first horror is the coronavirus itself.

The second is the devastated economic and social order it will leave behind: a landscape where the structures of society are leveled and will have to be replaced not by the old, broken structures but by new ones.

The economy won’t come roaring back in a classic V, as so many hope and even believe.

Parts of the economy are undergoing massive leveling of near-biblical proportions. Tens of millions of us are raring to get back to work, to resume where we left off. But for many, there will be nowhere to return to: They will be economic refugees, contemplating a swath of destruction where their jobs used to be. They’ll find there is no there there.

Jobs in retailing, restaurants, bars, hotels, cinemas, sports facilities and travel have already vaporized. Behind those subtractions from the economy are their supply chains. Visible jobs lost are just the beginning. When economic collapse begins, it spreads as devastatingly as COVID-19 in a crowded barroom.

There is brutal irony when, after the virus, the second subject on the national agenda is the plight of minorities. Sadly, they are overrepresented among the workers at the low end of the economic food chain. It is those who make the minimum wage or just above, those who live off tips, day work, commissions, pick up assignments — the whole shaky lattice that makes up the employment pyramid — who are set to be hurting badly when unemployment runs out.

Every damaged industry, like retail, has its collateral damage. Close a mall and the hurt spreads after the clerks and warehouse workers are gone, from cleaners to building maintenance workers, to supply chain workers, to advertising professionals and the newspapers where those ads might have appeared. Like the coronavirus itself, economic contagion spreads wide and fast.

Politicians and social engineers keep trying to promote the working class to the middle class, but they remain at the bottom — those who feel every bump in the economic road.

Across the nation, a debt bomb is about to explode with huge consequences for those who are now or about to be jobless — and by extension the whole economy.

Delayed rents are going to come due with a concurrent wave of evictions affecting millions. Credit cards — the modern slavery for those with little money — must be paid, except they won’t. At almost 30 percent interest, which is what many are paying, the debt will overwhelm the users. In time, as accounts fall into arrears and payments cease, it will begin to drag down the issuers.

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n incendiary component of the debt bomb is health care. People rushed to hospitals are going to have medical bills in the tens of thousands of dollars.

They won’t be able to pay. No money, no pay, no choice. If the pandemic goes on long enough, the insurers, for those who are insured, will begin to hurt.

But mostly, it will be the hospitals that will go after the patients for payment because they’ll have no choice. Real inability to pay is the fuse that will light the debt bomb. Multiply this by those who need other health care and are not insured.

Most thinking in the political class has revolved around an expectation that come the fall, there will be a vaccine that will be available and affordable by all and it will turn night into day, ending the horror. That isn’t assured.

When Europe lay in ruins after World War II, the United States stepped in with the Marshall Plan and wrought an economic resurrection. A Marshall Plan for America? I think so. The need will be very great.

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email isllewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this forInsideSources.com.

s I write my first Mayor’s Corner, I am feeling the heavy reality of taking up the gavel in a time when many in our community are facing the anxiety of staying healthy, keeping their finances secure and ensuring the education of their children.

Additionally, we are facing the reality that the ability to rise through these challenges is not equally matched. Some families, businesses or individuals are much better resourced than others.

Municipalities face the challenge of continuing to meet the regular needs of a community and the added needs of shepherding people through a crisis, all with a smaller pot of money.

I am confident, however, that our city will meet these challenges. Having learned lessons from the last recession, we have positioned ourselves to run lean and efficiently and we are in a good place to emerge from this financially stable. At least for the moment.

The bigger and just-asimportant task is ensuring the broader welfare of our community. This includes everything from helping small business survive, to providing outlets for our children, to meeting the moment of police reform and the deeper implications it brings.

All while managing one of the biggest health threats to emerge in our lifetimes.

In times like these, leadership matters. There are many decisions our city has faced in the few short months since the outbreak of COVID-19.

Some were easy, like contributing to the Yolo relief fund and the downtown business association, suspending late

LETTERS Stay safe on the road What a beginning! In his column on July 1, “Rules of the Road,” the writer neglects a major rule of the road.

Concentrating on bike riders and pedestrians, he leaves out the rules that automobile drivers must observe. Bike riders, where there’s a stop sign, stop! Car drivers must, and so must you. At an intersection, you may not notice a car waiting on your left. If you blow right through without even turning your head, you risk getting hit.

In Davis, especially near the Russell Boulevard side of campus, I frequently have heart-stopping moments when a cyclist blows through an intersection ahead of my car; it grows worse at nightfall when many young-looking riders fail to use lights and visible reflectors.

Please help us drivers avoid hitting you in the intersection. (Double meaning intended.)

Dale M. Heckman Davis

DJUSD board vote Discussions following the school board’s decision to fill Dr. Pickett’s seat exposed many deep feelings. As I listen, I grow increasingly frustrated that people of color are again repressed from a decision-making position.

Assuming goodwill, the issues are more deep-seated than what I hear. The trustees who made the decision believe they chose the best candidate. They chose from their perspective, values and experiences. The hidden flaw in all decisions is unconscious bias. We only see what our

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fees on utility payments and enacting a moratorium on evictions.

Others were more difficult, like holding the line on not allowing swim groups to resume even when other cities had defied the state order. The counties with those cities, by the way, have now been placed on the shutdown list by the state.

It has also been difficult to have to ask department personnel to take pay cuts or risk layoffs. We are, after all, in the business of building community and that stems from a foundation of good relationship building in our own organization. We daily feel the stress faced by our staff and community. Especially at times marked by periods that should have been major celebrations like the Fourth of July. As difficult as it is to continue to shutter our community it is imperative.

The explosion of COVID19 cases seen since the relaxing of guidelines is alarming.

minds allow us to, unless we choose to uncover our shadows.

Reflect on these scenarios: You’re a man, looking at a board of all women. Do you feel your voice will be represented?

You’re a woman, looking at an all-male board. Do you feel your voice will be heard?

You’re white, looking at a board where every member is a POC. Do you feel your voice will be represented?

You’re a POC, looking at an all-white board. Do you feel your voice will be heard?

The last point is choosing the best candidate. As a leadership coach, I encourage clients to consider the best candidate, looking beyond qualifications. What an organization needs when hiring is based on measured results, and accountability to the mission and goals. The most qualified candidate is the one who meets the required qualifications and best matches the characteristics and skills needed to fill those gaps.

According to the district, its mission is fulfilled, in part, through a system characterized by a “diverse and inclusive culture.” How can the culture be diverse and inclusive if its board doesn’t represent the students and families? When choosing the most qualified, I believe these wellintentioned trustees missed an opportunity to follow DJUSD’s values and mission.

This only perpetuates a skewed power system. If the board doesn’t diversify, there’s less chance that the administration and staff will. Representation is crucial for young people of color, navigating a world that demonstrates there’s no place for them.

What does leadership do now? It looks in the mirror, admits its blind spots and

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/

In times like these, leadership matters. There are many decisions our city has faced in a few short months.

It can not be emphasized enough that our personal decisions and attention to staying distanced is a life or death matter. The toll of that realization can be daunting and I ask that we are generous with each other.

I thank The Enterprise for allowing me to continue the tradition of writing the Mayor’s Column. I look forward to serving my community for the next two years. I thank former Mayor Brett Lee for the mentorship of the last two years.

— Gloria Partida takes over as mayor of Davis on Tuesday.

unconscious bias, and stands up for what’s right.

Tracy Tomasky Davis

Marking music’s passing Thank you, Bill Fairfield, for the excellent columns on the untimely passing of our own “Little Charlie” Baty and John Pine.

Bill’s words captured the brilliance of both songwriter-musicians and the depth of our loss — especially at this time, when the arts are so needed!

Sherry Cauchois Davis

STEAC thankful for fund STEAC, the Short Term Emergency Aid Committee recently received a $10,000 grant award from the Yolo COVID-19 Relief Fund at the Yolo Community Foundation (YCF).

The Yolo COVID-19 Relief Fund is a partnership between Yolo County, the cities of Woodland, Winters, West Sacramento and Davis, and the YCF. The grant funds will be used for STEAC’s general operations to support STEAC’s response to COVID-19. These funds will serve a critical need as STEAC has had to reconfigure much of its operations to ensure a safe work environment during the current health crisis.

STEAC is extremely grateful for this support that will help STEAC continue to serve the local community, providing assistance with food, rental assistance and much more during these trying times.

Liane Moody Executive director, STEAC

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ust a few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom was boasting about California’s apparent success in suppressing COVID-19 infections in implicit contrast to other states, such as New York, that were being clobbered by the pandemic.

He called it “bending the curve” of the infection rate and decided to reopen vast sections of the economy that he had shuttered in March.

“We have to recognize you can’t be in a permanent state where people are locked away — for months and months and months and months on end — to see lives and livelihoods completely destroyed, without considering the health impact of those decisions as well,” Newsom rationalized.

In recent days, however, Newsom has reversed course, citing alarming increases in infection rates and deaths.

The governor closed bars, made wearing protective facemasks mandatory, reinstituted bans on indoor activities in 19 counties with high infection rates, formed “multi-agency strike teams” to crack down on “people who are thumbing their noses” at restrictions, and threatened counties with a

loss of state funds if they balk.

“We have conditioned $2.5 billion in our state budget on applying the spirit and the letter of the law as it relates to health directives at the county level,” Newsom said. “If local officials are unwilling to enforce and are being dismissive, we will condition the distribution of those dollars.”

With these and other actions, Newsom dropped the pretense that fighting the pandemic was fundamentally in the hands of local officials and made it clear that he’s calling the shots. Newsom now owns the pandemic in California every bit as much as President Donald Trump owns it on a national level.

Newsom’s governorship will be defined by how he manages this crisis — especially since he’s fond of terming California a

“nation-state” that goes its own way regardless of federal policy.

California could not have reopened had Newsom not declared that it was ready to do so because of relatively low infection rates and the reopening clearly sparked the surge. He said it himself last week: “We reopened our economy and more people mixed …”

However, he did not take any personal responsibility for the cause-and-effect relationship of those two events and seemed to be blaming Californians because they resumed the human interaction that he implied would be safe to resume.

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here’s another aspect to the situation that’s also on Newsom — a fierce outbreak of infection in the state’s prisons.

Veteran journalist Dan Morain, in an article for California Healthline, reported in detail, “From Corcoran and Avenal state prisons in the arid Central Valley to historical San Quentin on the San Francisco Bay, California prisons have emerged as raging COVID-19 hot spots, even as the state annually spends more on inmate health care than other big states spend

on their entire prison systems.”

San Quentin had no confirmed COVID-19 infections until, for some reason, it received a transfer of infected inmates. Its outbreak was so severe that the state Senate convened a special hearing during which legislators roasted prison officials — all Newsom appointees.

“That was nothing more than the worst prison health screwup in state history,” Assemblyman Marc Levine, whose district includes San Quentin, told the hearing.

“We did not meet this moment.” It was an obvious dig at Newsom, who’s fond of the phrase, “meet the moment.”

Despite the infection surge, Newsom remains outwardly hopeful, saying, “We bent the curve in the state of California once, we will bend the curve again.”

However, if it doesn’t bend, Newsom — fairly or not — will bear the onus.

It’s his pandemic now.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to calmat ters.org/commentary.

Fresh perspectives on global security The foundations of genuine security are human and ecological needs.

Those needs include keeping families, homes, communities, habitats and society safe and secure. These are the national interests that people elect governments to protect.

COMMENTARY

BY DAVID MORTON RINTOUL Special to The Enterprise

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hen world leaders discuss global affairs, the term we hear repeatedly is “security.”

They tell us that our government is ensuring our “national security” or protecting our “security interests” in some far-flung region.

Underlying this worldview is the implicit use of force. Theodore Roosevelt’s line, “I speak softly, but I carry a big stick,” is the preferred security stance of some nations, particularly the United States. Governments often view global security as the projection of military power.

If we reflect on this approach, how much security has it acquired for ordinary citizens? Global Research calculated in 2015 that the United States had been at war 93 percent of the time since its founding in 1776.

Thus, for 222 years of its 239-year history, the United States has involved itself in some sort of violent conflict. The U.S. started most of these wars, particularly those since the Second World War. Most regular citizens equate security with peace. On that basis, it’s pretty clear that our current approach to global security is an unmitigated failure. Is there a better approach?

Old-school diplomats argue that nations don’t have friends, only interests.

The challenge that governments face with this model is that they treat security as a win/lose proposition, or what strategists call a “zero-sum game.”

Under this mentality, a country can only enhance its security at the expense of some other country. This reduction in security will threaten that other country, causing it to do something to restore its security. The resulting tug-of-war will generate an arms race or trigger an all-out shooting war. The global security that this model envisions is a mirage, as we can frequently observe.

The foundations of genuine security are human and ecological needs. Those needs include keeping families, homes, communities, habitats and society safe and secure. These are the national interests that people elect governments to protect, and not the narrow interests of the 1 percent.

The United Nations has established eight action areas for achieving this kind of genuine security. They are:

■ Fostering a culture of peace through education.

■ Promoting sustainable economic and social development.

■ Promoting respect for all human rights.

■ Ensuring equality between women and men.

■ Fostering democratic participation.

■ Advancing understanding, tolerance and solidarity.

■ Supporting participatory communication and the free flow of information and knowledge.

■ Promoting international peace and security.

Each of these action areas is important, but the first three steps are the priority. People need to unlearn the view that war is inevitable and that there are just wars that nations can and must win.

We need them to stop believing that any other view is dangerously naïve. Indeed, the truly naïve fell for the lies that created the Vietnam War — which America lost — or the invasion of Iraq. These poor decisions cost us all dearly and eroded our security.

The United Nations also has fostered 17 interrelated Sustainable Development Goals to achieve its second action area.

All UN members have agreed to work towards achieving these goals by 2030.

In addition to global security, these Sustainable Development Goals are also the foundation for the third action area — human rights. The UN has a sevenpoint human rights plan. In addition to sustainable development, the other points are crisis prevention, gender equality, citizen participation, rights of future generations, collective action and new perspectives.

This last idea of new perspectives is essential. The current domination model of global security may defend the interests of an influential elite. However, it destabilizes the lives of the people.

Education, both formal and informal toward basing global security on human and environmental needs is the new way forward. Is such a world possible? The alternative is no world at all.

— David Morton Rintoul publishes the peace and human-rights website Dare to Know.

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ACA and the coronavirus

BY JOHN GARAMENDI Special to The Enterprise

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ealth-care coverage has never been more essential. We are currently facing an unprecedented health care crisis in this country.

According to the CDC, 126,739 Americans have died from COVID-19 thus far. Over 48,000 cases were reported on Tuesday of this week, a new single-day record. Sadly, amidst the COVID19 pandemic the Trump Administration and 18 Republican state leaders have asked the Supreme Court to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If successful, 23.3 million Americans, including 4.2 million Californians would be stripped of their health coverage.

I served for eight years as the Insurance Commissioner of California and I know for a fact that the for-profit insurance industry will do what it can to maximize its profits at the expense of consumers.

The ACA allows children to stay on the health insurance plans of their parents until age 26. It bans charging women a higher premium for the same coverage. It expands Medicaid to cover more lower-income Americans. It has saved tens of thousands of lives by providing strong incentives against readmission of patients. It also bans discrimination on pre-existing conditions.

Currently, there is limited research available on the long-term effects of COVID-19, but we do know that patients have experienced heart and lung damage and even long-lasting neurological symptoms. If the ACA is repealed, we’ll return to the dark days when private insurance companies can deny care for those with pre-existing conditions like this.

As we face massive unemployment numbers and an economic crisis, repealing the ACA would also be detrimental to the financial health of our nation. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 44.2 million Americans have filed for unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the 23.3 million Americans who rely on the ACA, not only would their health care costs rise, but for those who are unemployed, obtaining insurance through an employer would not be an option. And while those people suffer, the top 0.1% of this country would receive an annual tax cut of $198,000, money that currently goes to cover Medicaid and subsidies for lower-income families.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the repeal of the ACA would worsen racial disparities in health care. Black Americans have a rate of COVID-19 infection five times higher and Hispanic Americans have a rate of infection four times higher than that of white Americans, according to the CDC. Currently, 1 in 10 Black individuals and 1 in 10 Hispanic individuals are covered under the ACA, compared to 1 in 16 white individuals. Repealing the ACA would have disproportional effects on Black and Hispanic Americans.

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here is hope. Democrats are fighting to expand the ACA, even as the Trump Administration and Republicans sue in the Supreme Court to strip 23.3 million Americans, of their health care. Last week, I voted to pass H.R. 1425, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act. This bill will provide relief for working families by expanding affordable access to health care and life saving prescriptions. Additionally, the Supreme Court has the power to dismiss this case in the fall. And they should.

Every American deserves good quality and affordable health care, especially during one of the biggest health care crises in our nation’s history. Families and individuals who currently face unemployment should not have to worry about how they will afford essential health care services if they were to fall ill.

House Democrats will continue to fight to ensure the health and safety of our nation.

———— I will keep you up to date with monthly columns in The Davis Enterprise, as well as on my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ repgaramendi, and on my government website at http://garamendi.house.gov.

I can better represent you in Washington if I know your views and suggestions. You can contact me at my Davis district office, 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616, or 530-753-5301; or at my Washington, D.C., office, 2368 Rayburn House Office Building,Washington, D.C., 20515, or 202-225-1880.

— Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, represents the 3rd Congressional District, which includes Davis and Yolo County.

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Baby Blues

Comics

SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020 B7

Dilbert

By Scott Adams

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis

Zits

New York Times Crossword Puzzle ACROSS

30 Blend of vegetables, perhaps

1 One might have oils and a brush

31 No oldster

11 Fixture in un parc

35 Having bitten off more than one can chew

15 Look the other way

36 Something a toddler might chug?

16 Actress ___ Shawkat of “Arrested Development”

37 Tower of ___ (classic math puzzle)

17 Under contract, as a lawyer

38 Zap

18 Horace who championed public education 19 Console release of 2006

39 Rotund archenemy of Sonic the Hedgehog

20 One stuck in a corner?

41 They precede slashes: Abbr.

22 After taxes

42 Two-player card game

23 Something sought for the House biennially

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47 Like a hopeless situation

26 Calm

49 ___-conscious

28 Asian city on the Yamuna River

50 Place to get your fill?

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23 ___ of the tongue 24 Falsehood 27 Big jerk 30 “The Addams Family” cousin 32 Prayer endings 34 To the ___ degree

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49 Homophone of 24-Across 50 ___ Fridays 51 Target of a scratch 55 Grp. that might give you a hand on the shoulder?

57 Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes slogan 63 Equestrian’s “Stop!”

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52 It’s commemorated on Maundy Thursday 56 2019 #1 album for Tyler, the Creator 57 Task to get done at work 58 Spot 59 Confrontational DOWN 1 Prepares to enter a work zone, perhaps 2 1920s-’30s skating legend Sonja 3 Two of hearts 4 Go (for) 5 Former inits. in for-profit education 6 Only account Edward Snowden follows on Twitter 7 Notable feature of the opening clarinet solo in “Rhapsody in Blue” 8 “Roots” surname 9 What a germ may become 10 x and y in “x + y” 11 “Ka-pow!”

12 Portrayer of the Chief in 2008’s “Get Smart” 13 Number that can be spelled with only one-point Scrabble tiles 14 This holds water 21 Autumnal salad ingredients 65 Turned white 66 ___-pads (hygiene product) 67 Lug along 68 Lesser of two ___ 69 Norway’s capital 70 Latch ___ (seize) 71 Not-safe-for-work transmission 72 Some whiskeys

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5 Grad 6 Woefully underperforms 7 Site of a biblical tower 8 Company that launched Pong 9 Stratfordupon-___ 10 Award-winning sports journalist who went from ESPN to The Atlantic 11 Exist 12 Went for office 14 Signature accessory of Carmen Miranda 20 TV drama with spinoffs set in Los Angeles and New Orleans 21 Down Under gemstone

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24 Place to make draft picks

35 High piles on the floor?

25 Bathsheba’s husband before David

36 Low-cost version, informally

45 Co-writer of “The Christmas Song” 48 Home of the Dr Pepper Museum

27 Lancaster and Cornwall, for two

40 Many-time M.L.B. All-Star Arenado 29 Like the Acropolis

51 Prompt an “M.Y.O.B.,” say

31 Tile-cleaning tool

41 Airdrops?

32 Automotive debut 43 Stomach of 1964 soother, for short 33 Lightweight option for a suit 44 Summertime coolers 34 Día divisions

53 Overindulger, of a sort 54 Card game cry 55 Part of a split

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No number will be repeated in any row, column or outlined box.

PUZZLE BY ERIK AGARD

25 24 hours from now 26 Subject of a will 27 “Still …”

28 Well-muscled 29 “Don’t hesitate to say what you want” 31 Silicon Valley industry 33 Cable channel that brought the world “Beavis and Butt-head” 36 Take to court

37 Intro to boy or girl 56 Knight’s protection 38 Animals with spots 58 Angel’s headwear 40 ___-K (early learning) 59 Hanukkah coins 44 Lake with a namesake canal

60 “No sweat!”

45 Prickly ___ (variety of cactus)

61 Spinning part of a car

52 Goes tap-tap-tap on a keyboard 53 Yearn for 54 DNA shape

62 Spanish uncles 63 “Which person?”

64 ___ Solo of “Star Wars”

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