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Four days Dome, sweet dome set aside for DeAngelo sentencing

Schools will use distance learning for months

BY LAUREN KEENE

BY JEFF HUDSON

Enterprise staff writer

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Sentencing proceedings for Joseph James DeAngelo, the admitted Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist whose 12-year rape and murder spree included three Davis DeANGELO assaults, will span four Reckoning on days this month as his Aug. 21 dozens of victims finally get their day in court.

DeAngelo, 74, pleaded guilty in June to 13 murders and acknowledged more than 60 sexual assaults and other crimes during the 1970s and 80s, his plea agreement sparing him a potential death sentence while offering longawaited closure to the victims and the families they left behind.

He is expected to be sentenced on Friday, Aug. 21, to life in prison without the possibility of parole during a twohour hearing slated for a Sacramento State University ballroom to accommodate media and the public while adhering to social-distancing guidelines.

That’s also where DeAngelo admitted to his crimes during a day-long proceeding during which prosecutors detailed the horrific offenses that terrorized 11 California counties, decades before DNA technology led to his identification and arrest in April 2018.

He preyed upon three Davis households during the summer of 1978, his

When instruction begins in the Davis school district on Aug. 26, students will be studying under a “distance learning” approach, as they did last spring as the dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear.

During the Thursday, Aug. 6, school board meeting, Superintendent John Bowes indicated that students and parents should expect the distancelearning approach to continue for several months at least.

Bowes reminded the school board trustees that Yolo County has seen “new COVID-19 cases increasing by over 200 new cases each week for the past month.”

Bowes said, “We really need to see a downward trajectory” in the number of new COVID cases before the school district can safely consider reopening schools with students in classrooms.

“Everyone should be prepared for distance learning for the fall semester, and perhaps longer.”

Currently, “we are basically nowhere near the point where we could safely have large gatherings of people” at local schools, Bowes concluded.

School board president Joe DiNunzio added that since the school district has never before held the first day of school with students studying via distance learning, this is going to be “an unprecedented school year.”

Bowes and DiNunzio both referenced the five-phase process that the school

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The Sacramento office of the National Weather Service successfully removed the radome of the KDAX doppler radar, south of Davis, on Thursday. The Davis radar is down for about two weeks for upgrades and maintenance. “Technicians will refurbish and replace the pedestal,” a news release said, “one of the most critical components of the radar, which is necessary for antenna rotation and positioning to capture data in all directions.” Nearby radars will be available while KDAX is down. For access to those radars visit https://radar.weather.gov/.

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Horton one of three candidates for District 2 seat Fernandes won’t seek

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Dillan Horton declared his candidacy for Davis City Council more than a year ago, back when he expected to be battling in an at-large election for one of three council seats on the March 2020 primary ballot.

But just months after Horton declared his candidacy, the city was hit with the threat of legal action if it did not switch to by-district elections. The council unanimously agreed to make the change in order to avoid a lawsuit and pushed the municipal election from March 2020 to November of this year.

Now, instead of three at-large council seats on the ballot, there are three district seats, and Horton is one of three candidates seeking the District HORTON 2 spot. The 27-yearThree-way old will face off contest against incumbent Councilman Will Arnold and challenger Colin Walsh in November.

Since arriving in Davis from his native Los Angeles, Horton has left his mark, first as a student and later

a community organizer and activist.

He served as the ASUCD director of university affairs and spearheaded the creation of the Office of Advocacy and Student Representation before moving on to wider efforts, including serving as vice chair of the Yolo County Democratic Party, field director for local and national candidates, and delegate to the California Democratic Party.

Since 2018, he has served on the Davis Police Accountability Commission, first as vice chair and now as chair. The commission was

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Woodland convalescent hospital reports COVID death

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer A COVID-19 death reported in Yolo County on Friday was part of the recent outbreak at the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland, according to county data.

Alderson, a skillednursing facility located on Walnut Street, reported 20 cases of the novel coronavirus during the

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pandemic, including 11 among residents and nine among staff members. It was not clear Saturday whether the death reported Friday was a resident or staff member.

At least six other skilled nursing and longterm care facilities in Yolo County have reported outbreaks, including, most recently, University Retirement Community in Davis,

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where three staff members tested positive, the county reported last week, as well as The Californian Assisted Living and Dementia Care in Woodland, which recently reported cases among two staff members and a resident. The Californian also had one resident test positive early in the pandemic.

All told, facilities such as those have reported 118

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cases and 22 deaths. All 22 of those deaths have occurred in Woodland, including 17 at Stollwood Convalescent Hospital; four at Woodland Residential Services; and now the latest death at Alderson.

Other Yolo County skilled nursing and longterm care facilities that

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another school board term

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

Incumbent Davis school board trustee Alan Fernandes has decided not to seek another term in the Nov. 3 election. Fernandes made his announcement during the Thursday, Aug. 6, school board meeting.

Fernandes told The Enterprise, “It was an honor to have been elected by school district voters district-wide to serve our entire community and I am so proud of the work I have been able to accomplish on the board. From improving our schools regarding issues of equity, social and emotional learning to ensuring equal and fair teacher pay, I will leave my service on the board satisfied, but ready and excited to focus on making other causes a higher priority when my term is completed.”

Fernandes was appointed to the board in May 2014 (filling out an unexpired portion of a school board

trustee who had resigned), and was elected (on a districtwide “at large” FERNANDES basis) to a Stepping away four-year term in 2016. Fernandes is the longest-serving trustee on the current Davis school board.

Due to the school board’s current transition to district elections, if Fernandes had decided to run for another four years on the school board in the Nov. 3 election, he would have been a candidate in Trustee Area 2, which includes much of North Davis, Mace Ranch and the neighborhood around Birch Lane Elementary on the south side of Covell Boulevard.

As of Aug. 6, Lea Darrah is the only candidate who had filed candidacy papers with the Yolo County Elections Office for the Area 2 school board seat.

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Briefly Fire hits College Park home Residents of a College Park home were displaced early Friday morning after a fire damaged the residence, according to the Davis Fire Department.

Fire officials said the residents reported the blaze at about 4:20 a.m. Crews from the Davis and UC Davis fire departments arrived on scene to discover flames shooting through the roof of the house.

No injuries were reported, and the flames were contained mostly to the attic area of the house, officials said. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Fire crews from the Woodland and West Sacramento provided station coverage during the incident, which kept local firefighters on scene for nearly three hours.

Montgomery gets new principal Amelia Hess, who has been serving as a vice principal at Davis High School in recent years, was approved by the Davis school board as the new principal at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary during the Thursday, Aug. 6, school board meeting.

Hess came to the Davis school district as a Spanish teacher in the late 1990s. She became a vice principal at Davis High in 2014, and has also served as an interim school principal in the Davis district in recent years.

Teacher Nina Nero will be moving into the vice-principal position at Davis High that is being vacated by Hess.

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Just get me to the polls on time ...

I ’ve heard many folks say over and over that Election Day can’t come soon enough. I haven’t conducted a formal survey, but I suspect I’m hearing that more from dissatisfied Democrats than from satisfied Republicans.

The latter, in fact, seem as if they’d just as soon we don’t have an election at all.

Democrats are saying their guy might not be perfect, but anybody would be better than the chap currently occupying the White House.

The Republican strategy, meanwhile, is to use any means available to keep voter turnout as low as possible.

The prevailing wisdom shared by both parties is that if every single person 18 years and older in this country managed to vote, the Democrats would win in a landslide.

Democrats, however, are notorious shirkers when it comes to showing up at the polls. Hence, Republicans control both the Senate and the White House.

The president, terrified by the potential increase in voting by

have to “study” the Constitution more than 5 seconds to learn that Congress sets the date of the election, not the president. If the president wants voting canceled, he’ll have to convince the Congress to do the dirty deed.

mail, has claimed on many occasions that Democrats will use the vote-by-mail system to rig the election. Republicans, of course, wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing.

The president has broadly hinted the election should be postponed, which his detractors assume means there will be no election at all and Trump will simply stay in office for as long as he wishes. Others fear he will refuse to leave office even if he loses.

The president seems to be alone in his desire to cancel the election, but even his attorney general says he’d have to “study” the issue to see if the president has such power.

Mr. Attorney General, you don’t

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or years, there has been a push to make Election Day a national holiday, which wouldn’t really be necessary if we’d simply move it to the weekend and allow maybe two or three days for people to cast their ballots.

Interestingly, UC Davis athletics has taken the bold step of basically making Nov. 3 a day off.

Declared Director of Athletics Kevin Blue some time ago, “Election Day on Nov. 3 will now be a required day off from mandatory athletics activities so all studentathletes will have maximum flexibility to vote. Coaches and staff will also have flexibility to change their work schedules that day in order to vote.”

Fair enough, even if there may be very little athletic activity on campus come Nov. 3.

But somewhere in there it would be good to use our dedicated athletes for some sort of voter registration drive to ensure that come Election Day voter participation will be off the charts.

The NCAA, which is the governing body of college sports, has “encouraged,” but not mandated, that its 1,100 member colleges and universities give all athletes Election Day off. Many schools have announced that is exactly what they plan to do.

There are a variety of “causes” that people hold dear, but in my mind you lose your right to complain about the state of the nation if you fail to cast a vote.

Voting isn’t the only way to affect how this country is run, but it is probably the most effective way. Just look at how much things have changed simply by the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

If you like things the way they are, vote. And if you don’t like things the way they are, vote.

It’s the American way.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

School board hires Slain deputy’s benefit checks new budget chief recovered in ID-theft case

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board unanimously approved the hiring of a new financial chief during their Thursday meeting.

Amari Watkins will be the Davis school district’s new associate superintendent of business services, starting in late August.

Watkins has served for nearly 13 years as the Sacramento City Unified School District’s director of accounting services, and also has three years experience as an internal auditor/ charter oversight manager with Sac City Unified. In addition, she earlier worked for six years with the California State Auditor as an auditor evaluator.

Watkins has a credential as a CPA from the State of California, and as a WATKINS CBO from Approved on the CaliThursday fornia Association of School Business Officials. She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Watkins will be taking on many of the duties formerly handled by the recently retired Bruce Colby, who served as the Davis school district’s chief budget officer for some 14 years.

Three arrested for robbery

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Woodland police announced last week three arrests in connection with the attempted strong-arm robbery of a woman outside a local bank.

The investigation began July 21, when the victim reported that two suspects struggled with her and tried to take her wallet after she used an ATM outside the Bank of America branch at 50 W. Main St., Sgt. Dallas Hyde said. The suspects then ran to a waiting getaway car, a black BMW, at a nearby McDonald’s restaurant.

“The investigating officer immediately recognized the vehicle description as a vehicle belonging to a subject that he had previous contacts with,” Hyde said.

“Through this information, and by speaking with witnesses and reviewing surveillance video, the officer was able to identify three suspects who have all been arrested for their parts in this crime.”

Between July 23 and 31, police arrested a 15-yearold boy as well as Woodland residents Daniel Rice, 21; and Nathaniel Madrid, 19. Hyde said all three are charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit a felony, while Rice and Madrid face an additional count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Officers booked Rice and Madrid into the Yolo County Jail following their arrests, and the juvenile was released to his parents’ custody with a notice to appear in court, Hyde said.

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer Yolo County sheriff ’s officials arrested two Woodland residents Thursday on suspicion of committing multiple acts of identity theft — including attempts to cash in on death benefits intended for the family of a slain sheriff ’s deputy, authorities said.

Sheriff ’s Lt. Matt Davis said the arrests culminated a four-month investigation that began in April, when the county’s insurance provider “contacted our office and reported a possible attempt to fraudulently cash benefit checks that had been mailed to family members of Deputy Tony Diaz.”

Diaz, a four-year veteran of the Sheriff ’s Office, was fatally shot following a high-speed pursuit in Dunnigan on June 15, 2008. He was 37.

Working with the Yolo County District Attorney’s worker compensation program, sheriff ’s investigators obtained a search warrant served Thursday at a residence in the 200 block of Palm Avenue

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Credit cards, checks and various documents were seized at the home of two Woodland residents suspected of ID theft. in Woodland.

“Numerous fraudulent credit cards, stolen mail and false California Identification cards were located, along with two of the stolen benefit checks in the name of Tony Diaz,” Davis said, adding that methamphetamine and heroin were recovered from the residence as well.

Dawn Faulk, 50, and Jensen Faulk, 61, were booked into the Yolo

County Jail on identitytheft and drug-possession charges. Dawn Faulk faces an additional count of filing a false or fraudulent insurance claim.

Davis said investigators are still tallying up the number of victims affected by the thefts. He also noted it’s unclear whether the Faulks knew who Diaz was when they allegedly attempted to cash the stolen benefit checks.

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CASA’s help can create buffer for inequity

BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise

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hromebooks. Learning pods. Private tutors. The list goes

on …

This pandemic has exposed inequity in a way that we haven’t seen before and, as we get ready for “back to school,” it weighs heavily on my mind for foster kids.

Already, it’s tough to be a foster child at the beginning of the school year.

While most of us worry about classroom placements and getting the right back to school clothes, foster children often worry things like possibly starting a new school, or standing out because they do not have new school attire or supplies. It’s a harsh reality that foster children live with that many others do not feel or understand.

Many parents are currently scrambling to create learning pods, buy new Chromebooks and set up special work spaces for their children. I can’t blame them. If my children were school aged, I would be, too … we all want the best for our kids.

Amid all of this, though,

YOLO CASA I ask the question … how can we ensure the best for foster kids?

On the surface, it seems like an impossible question, but then calls come into the office. I hear about CASA volunteers applying for grants for computers. I hear about CASA volunteers holding educational rights and sitting in on IEPs and IFPs to ensure a good start to the school year for their CASA youth.

Our mission states that CASAs “advocate for abused and neglected children in the foster system ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met.” Depending on the age of the child, CASAs advocate for the child, empower the child to advocate for themselves, or a combination of both.

When CASA was formed, it was the brainchild of a judge who felt he needed more of the child’s perspective to serve the best interests of the child.

From there, the concept spread throughout the nation. While that judge may not have thought about a global pandemic when he brought his idea

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It was already tough to be a foster child at the beginning of the school year, and the scramble for distance learning hasn’t made it any easier. to fruition, I can’t think of a more critical time to have CASA volunteers. I give my sincere thanks to the 125 CASA volunteers who currently serve in Yolo County.

As I mentioned in last month’s column, our Annual Auction will be virtual this year. While it was initially disappointing to change the format of this beloved event, we quickly realized a wonderful silver lining … more

people would now have the opportunity to experience this normally sold-out event. If you’ve never been to one of our dinners, or have yet to get tickets this year, please go to the auction section of our website at yolocasa.org and register.

This event is one of our biggest funding sources … so I’d like to send a big thank you out to those who have already registered. I would also like to

thank our leading sponsors, Sycamore Lane Apartments, SunWest Foods, First Northern Bank, Robert and Sandy Lorber, Diane Makley, the Mandelaris Family in honor of Darlene Mandelaris, and Van Dermyden Maddux Law Corporation.

So much has changed in the past six months, but the overwhelming support of our community has kept us going. I can’t thank you enough. Next month, I

I hear about CASA volunteers applying for grants for computers.

I hear about CASA volunteers holding educational rights and sitting in on IEPs and IFPs to ensure a good start to the school year for their CASA youth. look forward to giving you an update about how the start of school went for our foster kids and how the Virtual Auction went.

Thank you for all that you do for foster kids.

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the Executive Director of Yolo County CASA.

UC Regents want to investigate top salary cuts

BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN CalMatters As the University of California reels from the coronavirus pandemic along with the rest of the state, the system’s leaders have been discussing ways to mitigate the damage.

In addition to the massive fiscal impact the recession and COVID-19 is having on UC finances, the three-day meeting last week of the UC board of Regents shed light on the major fault lines the system will grapple with in the months ahead, including campus police reform, and whose wages to cut.

Here’s what you need to know.

Salary cuts and layoffs Through June 30 the UC system has lost nearly $1.8 billion, according to data obtained from the system

by CalMatters.

The 10 UC campuses have collectively lost $614 million because of the effects of COVID-19, much of that due to lost revenues in housing and dining.

UCLA reported the highest costs related to Covid at $180 million through June. Its chancellor, Gene D. Block, said during the Regents meeting that while the campus normally produces 35,000 meals a day on campus, in May that dropped to 1,000.

Meanwhile, the UC system’s medical centers have lost more than a $1 billion.

The total hit of about $1.8 billion to the whole UC system is partially offset by nearly $800 million federal CARES Act stimulus money.

“We don’t know how long the pandemic will last, we don’t know the extent of the economic downturn,” said outgoing UC President Janet Napolitano.

As the state’s third largest employer, the UC system’s decisions about its labor force will have an outsized effect on California employment. Napolitano said the system should look for salary reductions and furloughs before eliminating positions.

“When we do need to reduce staffing levels,

voluntary attrition is preferable to involuntary layoffs,” she said. The model, something other chancellors and Regents members voiced support for, would cut wages on a sliding scale, taking a bigger bite out of senior officials — some of whom make more than $300,000 — while sparing workers who make a tenth of that.

Regent Hadi Makarechian said the UC should exploit its strength as a system to move reserves from campuses to others that are hurting more financially.

He and Regents Chair John A. Pérez want to see a plan at the next board meeting in September to spare the lowest-paid workers from budget tightening measures. “Those are the ones that once you cut them, you lay them off, their lives are destroyed,” said Makarechian.

UC Riverside Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox said his campus has laid people off temporarily, mostly in housing and dining. He said those layoffs affected lower-paid workers. UC Davis furloughed some counselors in June.

If lower residency loads at UCLA continue, a necessity to practice social distancing on campus that limits how many students can live together, Chancellor Block said the campus will lose $152 million through next June.

But housing and dining losses are expected to be temporary. Block expects a “V-shaped” recovery to those revenues because demand for food and living quarters will always be strong once it’s safe to restore communal dwelling.

In fact, UCLA is building housing for another 5,800 students, he said.

The system’s deeper concerns are over ongoing state support and tuition revenues, which form the lion’s share of funding for system’s educational mission. UC Berkeley’s chancellor, Carol Christ, said she expects to experience “serious financial challenges” for the next three years.

Already, the state budget has cut its support for UC’s core operations by 8 percent, or $301 million. If

Congress approves another round of federal stimulus

by Oct. 15, the state will rescind a portion or all of those cuts.

The UC system’s enrollment picture is coming into clearer focus, with officials predicting that in-state students should return to the UC in similar numbers as before. But the decisions of out-of-state and international students — who combined account for nearly a fifth of UC’s enrollment — are less clear.

Those students pay much higher tuition and may choose to attend campuses closer to home at a cheaper price, especially as most UC courses will be taught online.

Campus policing Current UC students are pushing for an abolition of the system’s police force. The 10 campuses had a combined campus police budget of nearly $140 million in 2019-20.

Some campuses are projected to have higher UC police budgets this coming academic year, including UCLA and UC Davis.

Varsha Sarveshwar, outgoing president of the UC Student Association, read a partial list of recent UC police actions against students and the campus community during the UC Regents meeting.

Included were incidents such as UC police arresting a Black alumna who attempted to retrieve her transcripts during a student protest that she wasn’t a part of; charging at striking UC Santa Cruz students with batons; and using military surveillance technology on them.

“Clearly, policing contributes to a racist and anti-Black experience for our most marginalized students,” said Sarveshwar.

“Think about the incidents I’ve described, and ask yourself if the police response made the situation better or worse, if they made things safer, or scarier.”

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UC General Counsel Charles F. Robinson said policing will happen on UC campuses with or without UC police. That’s because “local police by law, have a right, and have the authority, to respond to security issues on the campus,” he said.

Current UC officers may not need to perform all the tasks they’re currently assigned, but “in the absence of campus police, the response would revert to local authorities,” Robinson said, adding it was “up to UC decision makers” to decide which police force they want on campuses.

The Academic Senate of the UC in June called for a drastic reduction of

campus police funding and rerouting that money to study and develop other modes of campus safety practices. The senate also wants to ban firearms as standard equipment for campus police.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said that while he welcomes police reform, “I have some concerns over the idea of disarming police,” he said. “We’d like to think of Davis as a peaceful and idyllic town, but it’s clear that we are not immune to violence.”

Other campus chancellors spoke of their efforts to address police reform and campus safety, such as through a task force, advisory board with more

student and faculty voice, and a campus survey.

Chair Pérez voiced his frustration that the committee didn’t provide an analysis of campus policing and how it compares to other reports on police reform, something he and Napolitano called for in a May statement following the killing of George Floyd.

He singled out UC Santa Cruz, which stated in a June report on campus policing published by the UC that its officers had sufficient and appropriate training for use of force and gear.

“That flies in the face of what I witnessed” at UC Santa Cruz earlier this year, Pérez said.

OBITUARY Elizabeth “Betty” Anderson May 6, 1920 — July 21, 2020

Elizabeth Lee Anderson, passed away peacefully on July 21, 2020.

She was 100 years old. Betty was born Elizabeth Marie Lee on the family farm outside of Deerfield, Wisc., in 1920. She was the eldest daughter of six children.

After graduating in Deerfield, she attended Whitewater Teachers College and later the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1946, she married Lloyd Franklin Anderson and moved to Basilan Island in the Philippines. Frank “Andy” managed the Basilan Lumber Company from 1948 to 1960. In Basilan she had three boys, Geoffrey, Peter and Franklin Jr. The Andersons moved back to their hometown of Deerfield in 1966, where Betty purchased and ran the Deerfield Independent local newspaper. In 1978 they moved to Northern California and were later joined on the West Coast by their three sons. While living in Davis, Betty and Frank enjoyed the senior community of Rancho Yolo for many years.

Betty is preceded in death by her husband Frank (2002); son Geoffrey (2008); sister Eunice; and brothers Olaf, Peter and Gerhardt. She is survived by her younger

brother Sigurd Lee (age 94); sons Peter (Laura) and Franklin (Debbie); and daughter-in-law Penny Anderson.

She was loved and admired by her grandchildren, Nikola Davis, Kirsten Pedri and Julia Bohn of Davis; Erik Anderson of Portland; Greg Anderson of Sacramento; and Ian, Oliver and Amelia Anderson of Wisconsin. She is also survived by numerous great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews who enjoyed the undivided attention, encouragement and kindly smile of GG. “Grandma Betty” was a lifelong advocate of healthy eating and exercise. She was an inspiration to others through workouts in her 90s at Community Fitness Davis with granddaughter Kirsten. She connected with people of all ages and was never afraid to try something new. Betty will be remembered by family and friends for her generous spirit and gracious demeanor.

She always thought more about others than herself and nothing was more important to her than family.

Those who wish to may make contributions in her name to Yolo Crisis Nursery, Yolo Food Bank or Davis Schools Foundation.

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DEANGELO: Rapist struck in Davis, 1978 From Page A1 victims including a UC Davis student, a mother at home with her two sons, and a couple who also had two children, one of whom DeAngelo locked inside a bathroom when he awoke during the assault.

Prosecutors pledged to allow DeAngelo’s victims to speak out with no restrictions on time or content, allowing three days for impact statements in Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman’s courtroom.

Those proceedings are scheduled for Aug. 18 to 20.

DeAngelo’s sentencing hearing will be open to limited members of the public, with attendees chosen through a lottery process.

Those interested in attending the hearing in person should submit their names to the Sacramento Superior Court public information officer at sscpio@ saccourt.ca.gov by noon on Friday, Aug. 14.

All those entering the facility will be administered a no-contact temperature screening and required to wear a face covering, court officials said. Social distancing practices will also be enforced.

The victim-impact statements and sentencing hearing also will be live-streamed on YouTube at https://www. youtube.com/channel/ UCNMbqmT bdctFGFe_7GJDYQQ/.

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

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HORTON: Seeking a more-engaged leadership From Page A1 created in the wake of the 2017 Picnic Day incident when three plainclothed Davis police officers brawled with a crowd of Picnic Day attendees.

A subsequent report by an independent investigator faulted the police for their handling of the incident that day as well as for issuing an inaccurate press release that minimized the actions of the police officers and exaggerated those of the crowd.

The Police Accountability Commission later called for the investigation to be reopened in the wake of a new state law on the release of police records, but the City Council declined to do so.

Now the focus on police reform in Davis has intensified as a movement has swept across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

Earlier this year, Horton organized and led a massive Black Lives Matter rally and march in Davis.

Since June, he has been working with fellow city commissioners to put together recommendations to the council on policing reforms. He also recently issued a personal statement on how the city should act on community demands to defund police.

Defunding the police, he said, “doesn’t mean that no one will respond to violent crime. Defunding the police also isn’t the same as abolishing the police.”

Rather, he said, “We need to look at the situations we ask police officers to respond to and ask ourselves, does that situation require an armed law enforcement officer?

“Things like response to mental health crises, outreach to those experiencing housing insecurity,

From Page A1 have experienced outbreaks include Courtyard Healthcare Center in Davis with 11 cases and Riverbend Nursing Center in West Sacramento with five cases.

Meanwhile, issues with the state’s electronic data reporting system have cast doubts on the total number of cases Yolo County has experienced in recent weeks. A note on the county’s online COVID-19

“We need more leaders who are living closer to the crises that ordinary people are facing,” he said. “If you’ve been pulled over as many times as I have in this community … if you’ve been followed in stores … heard from people afraid for their children in walking this town, you can’t help but see this as one of the most urgent issues facing our city.

“But if you are more insulated from these issues, of housing insecurity, joblessness, systematic racism … maybe it’s easier to just put a sticker on these problems, give lip service,” he said.

Horton emphasized that point when he first talked to The Enterprise about his campaign in June 2019.

Whether the issue is a lack of affordable housing or parking, homelessness or the need for economic development and jobs for recent graduates, Horton said he believes the city needs more people involved “who are living a regular life in Davis.”

“With people who live through the effects of these policies more, we’d see better policies.”

For example, he said, “We haven’t

dashboard said, “due to issues with the state’s electronic laboratory reporting system, the data you see is an under-reporting of actual positive cases.”

The California Department of Public Health has said the problem lies in technology issues with the system that reports into the state’s disease registry system known as CalREDIE. Labs continue to report test results directly to providers

and hospitals and hospitalizations and death rates are not impacted as they are reported directly to the state through different systems.

However, the number of positive cases has been under-reported to the state, leading Yolo County’s public health director Brian Vaughn to say he has little confidence in case numbers reported in the last two weeks.

Adding to the problem:

the county’s public health department is stymied in investigating and contact tracing as positive test results are not being received in a timely manner.

The data that has come in shows 118 new cases in the county in the last week and 296 in the last two weeks. The last two weeks have also seen six COVID19 deaths and 22 new hospitalizations related to the virus.

Thirty-one new cases were reported on Saturday, including 18 in Woodland, nine in West Sacramento, three in Davis and one in the unincorporated area of the county.

As of Friday, 18 county residents were hospitalized, including 10 in Yolo County’s two hospitals and eight in hospitals outside the county, according to county public information officer Jenny Tan.

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support to those experiencing substance abuse, and traffic enforcement — they should be separated from armed law enforcement as well as separated from the administration of the police department,” said Horton.

He also called for a new mindset when it comes to police equipment, and called out the City Council’s approval of a new armored vehicle for the department, asking, “Is an armored vehicle the best use of public safety impact fees? Probably not, and we should re-examine past purchases like that.”

Too often, Horton said, elected officials defer to the opinions of police department leadership in making public safety policy, even when that policy harms segments of the community.

“That includes the Davis City Council as well,” Horton said. “I’m not trying to paint the entire City Council as racist, but we have to understand in an honest and adult way what the source of the problem is …. It’s about having a more uncomfortable conversation about aligning our public safety apparatus with the community’s values.

had anyone on the council who has experienced a housing crisis.”

He, on the other hand, is a renter, and said he has had to deal with substandard conditions — like mold — for years because the demand for housing is so high, property owners don’t have to worry about it.

“There’s been a lack of urgency in Davis,” Horton said at the time. “We know what the problem is. We know what the solutions are.”

“The path is lit for us here. We just need to be brave enough to take steps in the right direction.”

Speaking to The Enterprise a year later, Horton noted that circumstances facing the city have changed thanks to the pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. And being in an economic crisis “almost always forces you to lower the ceiling on your ideas.”

But having to re-evaluate how effective the city’s spending is also lends itself to addressing problems, he noted.

“It makes some things clearer and easier to have a discussion about,” he said. “The economic part of this crisis … sort of highlights where are values should be.

“If I was a voter … I would, No. 1, be looking to see where (candidates) are on the defund (the police) question,” said Horton. “And I think how you are planning to balance the budget as things maybe get worse in the next couple of months is something every candidate will have to answer.

“And the linchpin,” he added, is “how are you going to address the housing crisis? Do you acknowledge that a housing crisis exists and, if so, what are you going to do about that?

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Date: August 7, 2020 Administrative Operations Coordinator 8/9 933 STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER A FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Filed: July 1, 2020 FBN Number: F20200526 The following person(s) have withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the Fictitious Business Name(s): Togo’s Sandwich Shop located at: 1411 West Covell Blvd. #105 Davis, CA 95616 The Full Name & Address (may substitute business address) of the person(s) withdrawing as a partner(s) include: Mirza Asaf Javed 1205 West H Street Dixon, CA 95620 The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in Yolo County on April 26, 2019 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the original document on file in this office. This certification is true as long as there are no alterations to the document, AND as long as the document is sealed with a red seal.

State of California County of Yolo: Jesse Salinas, County Clerk/Recorder July 1, 2020 7/26, 8/2, 8/9, 8/16 926 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Filed: July 15, 2020 FBN Number: F20200573 The person(s) or entity listed below are abandoning the use of the following fictitious business name(s): Name of Business(es): Fouts Construction The fictitious business name was filed in Yolo County on 2005, 2010 and 2015 and is being ABANDONED by the registrant(s) listed below: Donald Fouts 1949 5th Street #107 Davis, CA 95616 Corporation or LLC name & address and county of the principal place of business:Fouts Landscape Inc. a CA Corporation 1949 5th Street #107 Davis, CA 95616 YOLO COUNTY The business was conducted by: Corporation I declare that all information is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

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Shop safe, local to keep businesses alive S ix weeks after starting Open Air Davis, the city’s downtown still struggles to find its rhythm.

The program continues every Friday morning through Sunday evening, with two downtown street sections set up just for pedestrians. It includes most of G Street, between Second and Third streets, and the block of Second Street between E and F streets.

It started June 26, and has been successful so far, Davis Downtown Executive Director Brett Maresca said. However, it’s still evolving. Restaurants have seen the biggest benefit, especially in mornings and evenings when summer temperatures are cooler.

Retail has different challenges.

It’s a lot of work to move merchandise displays to the street, and costly for merchants to staff a second service area.

Regardless, Maresca said the public needs to learn how important it is to support local businesses — if they want them to survive. The downtown business organization is looking to build on the state’s “Shop Safe, Shop Local” campaign, which offers resources for small businesses.

The message is a valuable one.

But is anyone listening? According to an Aug. 2 Washington Post story, Amazon posted a record quarterly profit for the three months ending in June, “as people avoiding physical stores shopped online. Unit sales at the largest online retailer surged 57%, the fastest pace of growth since the company began breaking out that metric.”

Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and The Post, is the richest man in modern history. Maybe it’s time to spread the wealth — or at least our limited contribution to it.

Heather Caswell, owner of The Wardrobe clothing boutique, told the Downtown Davis Business Association’s marketing committee that she’s still hopeful. Her recent “Staying in Business Sale” brought in numbers that “for the first time all year, made me feel enthusiastic.”

She suggests a coordinated promotion that supports local retailers, so shoppers can find a rhythm and keep up the momentum. Yelena Ivashchenko, owner of Bohème Hip Used Clothing, agreed. Ivashchenko said it’s difficult to plan for busier days, because “there’s no logic to it. It’s hard to know how many employees you should have.”

Sarah Worley, business engagement manager for the city, said, “Perhaps there could be one day a week, a limited time, where we could encourage retailers to target a defined time they could go outside.”

According to the Davis Downtown Business Association, corearea businesses offering outdoor services include (this week’s additions bolded): Ali Baba, Akasha Yoga, Avant Garde Salon, Baskin-Robbins, Black Bear Diner, Black Frog Coffee, Blaze Pizza, Bohème Hip Used Clothing, BurgerIM, Burger Patch, Burgers & Brew, Café Bernardo and Wiki Bar, Cajun Feast, Cloud Forest Café, Cork It Again wine seller, Cultivé Frozen Yogurt, Davis Wine Bar, DeVere’s Irish Pub, El Patio, FIT House, Fish’s Wild Island Grill, G-Nails & Spa, G Street WunderBar, Good Friends Hawaiian Poke & Ramen, The Halal Guys, Hometown Taiwanese Kitchen, The Hotdogger, Icekrimski Café, Inspire Martial Arts, KetMoRee and Luci’s Salon.

Also, Mikuni, Mishka’s Café, The Mustard Seed, Noodle City, Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, Paesanos, Panera Bread, Parkside Bar & Lounge, Peet’s Coffee, Philz Coffee, Pho King 4 Restaurant, Picasso Salon, Raja’s Tandoor, Razor’s Edge Barber Shop, Red 88 Noodle Bar, Salon Blonde, Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, Steve’s Pizza, Style Lounge,

Tangles Studio, Taqueria El Burrito, Tea List, Temple Coffee, Thai Nakorn, The Davis Beer Shoppe, Three Ladies Café, Three Mile Brewing, Tim’s Hawaiian BBQ, Tommy J’s (Froggy’s), Tres Hermanas, UC Davis Downtown Store, University of Beer, Village Bakery, Village Pizza & Grill, Village Pizza & Pints, Woodstock’s Pizza, Yakitori Yuchan, Yeti Restaurant, YoloBerry Yogurt, and Zumapoke & Lush Ice. To keep up on the list, visit https://davisdowntown.com/ open-air-davis-participatingbusinesses/. To get a business added to the list, contact the DDBA. ——— On Tuesday, the Yolo County Library announced that its services have been canceled at all branches — again. So, hang on to those books. If you have a book on hold, it will be waiting for you when curbside services can reopen.

Assistant County Librarian Sharon Tani had this response to an emailing patron: “On August 4, the Yolo County Library was notified that a staff member was exposed to COVID-19. This staff person did not interact with any member of the public but did work with other library staff ” (who all practiced guidelines).

“After consulting with county officials … the library immediately suspended activities, including curbside service, and implemented various mitigation steps. We apologize for the inconvenience … and look forward to resuming our services soon. We will provide further updates as they become available.”

——— Tasty Gourmet is coming soon to 2880 Fifth St., Suite 125. It will replace China Bistro, which will close in the next month or so. After a minor remodel, its owner hopes to have it open by October.

Owner Maggie Lo previously ran Four Seasons Gourmet Chinese Restaurant, next to Chevron at 1601 Research Park Drive. Three years ago, she sold the business and retired, her

brother Peter Yang said.

But then she got bored. And former patrons missed her food.

Despite being past typical retirement age (which her brother did not want me to print), “She has a lot of energy,” Yang said. “She still has that passion to open a new business.”

The menu will include dim sum appetizers, soup, and pork, chicken, duck, beef, seafood and vegetable dishes — some served as rice plates. Specialties are congee (porridge) for breakfast, and clay (hot) pot dishes. Also, fried rice and chow mein. See my Instagram and Facebook post for a menu preview.

——— Davis Commons is making some upgrades. The center, at 500 First St., will be renovated to add fire pits and upgraded outdoor seating.

The center’s owner, Fulcrum Property, recently announced it must remove a giant pagoda tree because of disease; its falling branches are a safety hazard.

The shared green space serves as a temporary venue for a couple of Davis fitness studios, which are offering a handful of classes there each week.

As I announced last week, a new Burmese food restaurant, Burma Eats, has signed a lease there, filling the old Mikuni space, and will open next year.

Mikuni took over the larger space left by The Gap. ——— The new boba tea shop Sharetea is open at 208 F St. It fills the former Starbucks, which moved to a larger space across the street.

——— I’m still updating and adding details to my Google spreadsheet of some 275 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses.

In it, there are sheets for Restaurants-open, Restaurants-closed, Businesses-retail, Businessesservice, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and Gifting Stimulus Program beneficiaries. The notes mention if they are Blackowned businesses. Please email wendyedit@gmail.com to

suggest updates.

The following restaurants remain closed during COVID-19, but hopefully will reopen: Crepeville, Delta of Venus, D Street Steakhouse, Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine and Uncle Vito’s.

——— Some restaurants in downtown Woodland plan a “Fair Days” theme Aug. 10 through 16, with menus inspired by the Yolo County Fair. Participating eateries include Mojo’s Lounge & Bar, Kitchen428, Savory Café, Chickpeas, Maria’s Cantina, Las Brasas, The Burger Saloon, Father Paddy’s Public House, Morgan’s on Main, Zest West bakery, House of Shah, Blue Note Brewing Company and Doggeros.

I found two menus so far: Mojo’s Lounge will serve corndogs, roasted corn on the cob, BBQ turkey legs, chocolate-covered Oreos and Cinnamon Buns (plain and with nuts). Las Brasas plans jumbo hot dogs, corn dogs, chicken strips and fries, churros and tacos. Can the tacos there or elsewhere compete with Holy Rosary Church’s tacos? We’ll see.

Check each restaurant’s website or social media for menu plans. Most are yet to be announced.

The fair, which was canceled, would have been Aug. 18-22.

——— Woodland’s Scribbler’s Coffeehouse recently closed. It opened in May 2019 at 524 Main St. According to social media posts, it will be replaced by Main Street Lounge, coming soon.

Former owners Christy Hayes and Dylan Madden sold the coffeehouse’s equipment to Rudy Peniche of Las Brasas and Toby Barajas, formerly of Savory Café.

Hayes, who is coordinating the “Fair Days” event mentioned above, is co-owner of Mojo’s Lounge and Kitchen428 with Dylan Madden.

— 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.

Magazine ranks FNB No. 99 MBI teams with Canadian company Special to The Enterprise First Northern Community Bancorp, holding company for First Northern Bank, announced that First Northern Bank earned a place among the top 200 publicly traded community banks in the United States as determined by American Banker magazine. The annual ranking is for community banks with less than $2 billion in assets and was released with the magazine’s May 2020 issue.

The ranking — based on a three-year average of each bank’s return on average equity, placed FNB at No. 99, up from its 137th-place ranking last year. The honor recognizes the local community bank as one of just a handful of Northern California-based banks to

make the grade.

Over the last three years, FNB’s ROAE averaged 10.92%, a reflection of the bank’s financial stability and strength, but also the management team’s ability to generate income from the equity available to it.

First Northern Bank recently celebrated its 110th year in business as an independent community bank that specializes in relationship banking. The bank has consistently ranked as the No. 1 local small-business lender in the greater Sacramento region for more than a decade.

The bank, headquartered in Solano County since 1910, serves Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer and Contra Costa counties, as well as the west slope of El Dorado County. Experts

are available in smallbusiness, commercial, real estate and agribusiness lending, as well as mortgage loans. The Bank is an SBA Preferred Lender.

Non-FDIC insured investment and brokerage services are available at every branch location, including Auburn, Davis, Dixon, Fairfield, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, Sacramento, Vacaville, West Sacramento, Winters and Woodland.

First Northern is rated as a Veribanc “Blue Ribbon” bank and a “5-Star Superior” bank by Bauer Financial for the earnings period ended March 31, 2020 (www.veribanc.com) and www.bauerfinancial.com).

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Woodland Rotary distributes donated masks Special to The Enterprise The Woodland Rotary Club announced last month that it assisted in the donation of 1,000 brand-new facemasks to help protect first responders from the COVID-19 virus. The donation went to Kendra Martin of Dignity Health of Woodland.

“It was our hope that the masks would be distributed throughout Yolo County and given to those agencies most in need,” a Rotary news release said.

The philanthropic aspect of Rotary International is well known but the circumstances of this gift was rather unusual. The masks were purchased and donated by a Chinese couple whose son (Shengie “Andy” Sun), is attending Woodland Christian High School. When the Suns first

became aware that COVID19 had reached Woodland, they decided to purchase and ship 1,000 masks.

This act of kindness and generosity was not only to help protect their son, but the community in which he lives as well.

The Woodland Rotary Club became involved when President-Elect Dan Stroski received word of the offer to help.

Stroski, Andy’s host

father, consulted with the family and all decided that an international gift from folks in Beijing to folks in Woodland was a good idea.

“With this gift, it was hoped to show that despite differing political governing styles and the vast distance between the two communities, that we all are in this together,” the release said. “A simple act of kindness goes a long way.”

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Special to The Enterprise Marrone Bio Innovations Inc., a Davis-based manufacturer of sustainable bioprotection and plant health solutions, and Toronto-based Vive Crop Protection, a leader in Precision Chemistry solutions and owner of the patented Allosperse technology, announced an agreement that will provide a suite of groundbreaking products for U.S. growers that combine a leading biological with proven conventional chemistry utilizing the unique Allosperse Delivery System.

The first product to come from this joint effort will be AZterknot FC, a fungicide for broad crop use marketed by Vive Crop Protection. It fuses the plant health benefits of two actives: Reynoutria extract, the active ingredient in biological marketleader Regalia, and the disease-fighting power of azoxystrobin, the active ingredient in AZteroid FC 3.3.

AZterknot FC will also contain Vive’s Allosperse Delivery System technology, which provides superior handling characteristics including

compatibility with in-furrow, pop-up and foliar liquid fertilizers. Pending EPA registration approval, the product will be approved for foliar and infurrow application on all major crops in the U.S. (excluding California).

Dan Bihlmeyer, vice president of sales and marketing with Vive Crop Protection says, “The collaboration with MBI allows us to bring growers the best of three approaches to crop protection: chemistry, biologicals and nanotechnology. With AZterknot FC, growers will have access to the combined power of a leading biological and of a proven fungicide chemistry. Research has shown that the two actives, in combination with the Allosperse Delivery System, work together to control disease, improve plant health, and increase yield.”

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Briefly Odd Fellows host blood drive The Davis Odd Fellows will host another blood drive from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

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The Odd Fellows encourage the community to schedule an appointment on the Vitalant.org website.

There will also be some limited last minutedrop in spaces available, too. Odd Fellows Hall is at 415 Second St. in downtown Davis.

Strict COVID-19 protocols will be in place and detailed in the sign-up link for this event. Sign up directly at https://donors. vitalant.org/dwp/ portal/dwa/appoint ment/guest/timeSlots GenExt?token= 8LK7V2ggHhzM %2FcCTOv0 M7JwD1qFalhQ7ZoW UpGgMo44%3D.

LEARNING: Transition in the future From Page A1 district will pursue in coming, starting in late August with full distance learning.

As the number of new COVID cases declines, DiNunzio said, “We will cautiously transition from distance learning to a hybrid learning approach, and eventually in Phase 5, we will return to the full inperson learning model.”

But at this point, no one can say for sure when the return to the full in-person learning model will take place.

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UCD researcher indicted on visa fraud charges

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer Juan Tang, 37, a Chinese national who was recently a visiting cancer researcher at UC Davis, was charged Thursday by a federal grand jury in Sacramento with visa fraud and with lying to the FBI. Tang is accused of concealing her alleged ties to the Chinese military when she applied for a U.S. visa and again when she was interviewed by the FBI in June at her Cranbrook Court apartment in Davis.

Tang was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on July 24 after having sought refuge inside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco for a month. Her request for bail was denied last week.

“I don’t see sufficient conditions to overcome flight risk,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Barnes said, citing Tang’s lack of ties to the U.S. and extensive ties to China, where Tang’s husband and child live.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Tang was issued a J-1 visa on Nov. 5 to conduct research at UC Davis. She entered the United States on Dec. 27 and, according to UC Davis, left the

university at the end of June.

On her visa application, Tang said she was not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and had never served in the military, statements that U.S. prosecutors say were false.

Internet searches conducted by the FBI revealed a 2019 article about Tang’s medical research, which included a headshot of her wearing a military uniform that bore the insignia of the Civilian Cadres of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

In a Statement of Probable Cause, the FBI cited three news articles that list Tang’s employer as the Air Force Medical University, formerly known as the Fourth Military Medical University, in Xi’an, China.

“It appears that Tang is part of a civilian cadre whose members are considered active-duty military personnel,” the criminal complaint states. FBI agents said in the complaint that Tang told them she, like others at AFMU, wore the uniform as was required and was unaware of the insignia’s meaning.

According to a UC Davis spokesperson, Tang came to Davis through an exchange program

affiliated with Xijing Hospital, which has been part of the Air Force Medical University since 1954 and is one of China’s top teaching hospitals.

“Juan Tang was a visiting researcher in the Department of Radiation Oncology, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, a study-based exchange program affiliated with China’s Ministry of Education and Xijing Hospital in China,” UC Davis Director of Media Relations Melissa Lutz Blouin said in an email to The Enterprise.

According to Tang’s federal defender, Alexandra Negin, the pieces of evidence cited by federal authorities as proof of Tang’s secret military connections “lend themselves to many innocent explanations.”

“Ms. Tang apparently attended a prestigious medical school that is run by the military in China. That does not mean that she was ‘in the military,’ ” said Negin. “The civilian students are required to wear uniforms but those uniforms do not indicate that the student is in the military. The civilian students have no rank in the military and are free upon graduation to go wherever

they wish to work.”

Tang is one of four visiting researchers from China recently charged with visa fraud “in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release.

“In addition to these arrests, the FBI has recently conducted additional interviews of visa holders suspected of having undeclared affiliation with the Chinese military in more than 25 American cities,” the press release stated. The charges come amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China.

If convicted of visa fraud, Tang faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.If convicted of making false statements to the FBI, Tang faces a maximum statutory penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Tang’s arraignment is set for Aug. 10 at 2 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan.

—Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

Mandate diversity? Bill would ban all-white corporate boards

BY ELIZABETH CASTILLO CalMatters All-white corporate boards would be prohibited in California under a bill in the Legislature that follows in the footsteps of a controversial law that mandated women in corporate boardrooms.

More than 600 publicly held companies with California headquarters would be required to have at least one person of color serving on their corporate boards by the end of 2021 under the legislation introduced

by Assembly members Chris Holden, a Pasadena Democrat, and Cristina Garcia, a Bell Gardens Democrat.

Holden said many corporations need to be prodded into racially diversifying their boards.

“This is the time to do something bold,” he said.

People of color “need to have the same access as those who have benefitted for so long, and the time is now.”

Nationally, 19.5% of board members of Fortune 100 companies are people of color, according to a 2018 report by the Alliance for Diversity.

In California, many large corporations — including Disney, Apple, Intel, Tesla, Oracle, Chevron, Facebook, Wells Fargo, Cisco Systems and Alphabet Inc., the

parent company of Google — already have at least one person of color on their boards. But some, like Monster Beverage Corporation and Chegg, Inc., have allwhite board members.

The law, if enacted, would be the first in the nation to mandate the racial makeup of corporate boards. Last year, Illinois considered a bill that would have required companies based there to have a woman, Latino and a Black person on their boards, but instead only required them to report the gender, race and ethnicity of the members.

California’s bill, AB 979, faces its next hurdle on Aug. 13 in the Senate Banking

and Financial Institutions committee. The Legislature has until Aug. 31 to pass bills unless Gov. Gavin Newsom calls lawmakers back for a special session.

The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Manufacturers & Technology Association declined to comment on the bill. Both opposed California’s 2018 gender diversity bill, SB 826.

Opponents say the diversity bill will trigger legal challenges, just as the law mandating female corporate directors did.

“The Legislature seems intent to make the same mistake again,” said Michael Bekesha, a senior attorney

with Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch challenged the gender-diversity law as unconstitutional on behalf of three California taxpayers. The California secretary of state aimed to have the lawsuit thrown out but a court ruled in favor of Judicial Watch and the case will go to trial sometime next year, Bekesha said.

When Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law that required corporations to include women on boards, “he was aware that there would be concerns that the law was unconstitutional and I think you’ll see similar statements playing out as this new bill progresses,” Bekesha said.

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Big Sky: Big potential, big problem Coaches, officials are glad to have ‘some structure’

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor Campus officials throughout the Big Sky are taking solace in Thursday’s announcement that conference football is postponed until spring.

“In the next several weeks, the Big Sky will be working on a new model for the regular-season schedule, including start dates,” UCD Director of Athletics Kevin Blue told The Davis Enterprise.

Blue, in a Friday email to the Davis athletics community, added: “I fully support this decision, as does everyone employed by and connected to our athletic department though that does not make the emotional ramifications any easier.

“We hoped that with the start of the academic year we could return to some level of normalcy for our campus and community to come together, and we now find ourselves adapting to more uncertainty.”How the winter and spring sport seasons will look is still a work in progress.”

But at least there’s a modicum of definition as it relates to football.

“First and foremost, it just gives us a little bit more time to monitor what’s going to happen on our campuses,” Montana State Athletic Director Leon Costello told The Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

On Thursday, the Big Sky President’s Council, which includes UC Davis Chancellor Gary May, voted unanimously to move the football season start to sometime between Jan. 1 and a date in March.

“We support the decision of the Big Sky Conference presidents to not play Big Sky football games in the fall,” Sacramento State Director of Athletics Mark Orr said.

“We will share details of the spring season as they become available

Piecing seasons together

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer

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schedule of four Big Sky universities.

According to The Daily Chronicle, the Bobcats of MSU — who are still conducting practices — are wrestling with their options to play Dixie State on Sept. 19, then fall back into spring mode.

A decision from Big Sky officials as to whether nonconference games could be played by individual schools — fall or spring — is to be made this week, league Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said on Thursday.

“No final decision has been made,” Costello said of the Dixie State game, “but it’s still on our schedule.”

After a vote

by Big Sky Conference administrators, UC Davis football fans will have to wait until “spring” to read about the explosive power of the Aggie offense that will feature running back Ulonzo Gilliam (34).

Flushman oversees Aggies’ schedules Solving a 1,000-piece puzzle is hard enough.

Josh Flushman is trying to fit a jigsaw together with seemingly 10 times as many pieces.

Only this time, all those pieces are moving. And the pieces multiply by the day.

As UC Davis’ senior associate athletics director, Flushman is in charge of overseeing all things Aggie football.

He says, while living in the shadow of the pandemic, these last several months have been a blur.

Despite Friday’s Big Sky Conference decision to push football contests back to 2021 providing some clarity, it’s also opened an entirely new can of worms.

“There are two stacks on my desk,” Flushman explains.

“One is a small one with the things we’ve planned for and actually had to do.”

FLUSHMAN The other, he says, UCD senior is a huge pile with all assoc. AD the contingencies Director of Athletics Kevin Blue has had the department prepare for, “just in case.”

The veteran Aggie administrator says the immediate task for him and his colleagues is focusing on studentathletes — some of whom, as he points out, were set to graduate at the end of the upcoming fall quarter.

“We’ve got to help them process what options or decisions to make if they want to continue playing their sport,” Flushman adds. “Some have jobs lined up.”

Others have expiring rental agreements. Then there are NCAA eligibility issues that need to be addressed.

For Flushman and his associates, the list goes on and on ...

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and look forward to the day that our players, coaches, staff and fans can return to the field.”

Now, the task of shaping a new-look season is underway.

The eight-game conference schedule is expected to survive with possible hybrid divisions being established in the league — just in case there is no Football Championship Subdivision playoff (and should the 13-member Big Sky want to create its own title game).

While all three of UC Davis’ fall nonconference games evaporated when the Pioneer (San Diego) and Mountain West (San Jose State and Nevada) deferred their schedules to the spring, independent Dixie State remained on the fall

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Dreams deferred Hawkins: We’ll use the time ‘to reinvent ourselves’ Enterprise staff Like the rest of the football coaches in the Big Sky Conference, UC Davis head man Dan Hawkins will probably be taking some deep breaths this weekend — while sharpening pencils, looking at “Poor Richard’s Almanac” for February temperatures in Montana and taking inventory on what his “spring” roster will look like.

Before Friday’s announcement postponing the Big Sky football season to after the first of the year, the 13 member schools had one foot in the boat and the other on the dock.

Hawkins is happy to see some definition: “We did everything we could to be able to play. Everyone on campus was great and we were all doing the right things to prepare and be safe,” Hawkins told The Enterprise. “There were just a lot of forces out of our control. We just have to use this time to reinvent ourselves and get better.

“At some point before the season, they’ll probably let us have something like our normal spring ball — maybe 15 practices or something like that. But that all remains to be seen.”

Most players were on campus, but Hawkins figures a number of them will go home for a while, given that classes don’t start until Sept. 30. Aggies were working out

individually, keeping strict dis- saying that the worst thing that tancing during the voluntary ses- can happen is we get better. sions while following strict There’s that quote: ‘You only get campus-commanded safety pro- out what you put in.’ And that’s been the mindset we’ve had. We’re tocols.

“I’m disappointed for the kids, just going to treat this like our but we’ll adjust and we’ll roll. Our spring ball or an extended spring guys are great. They get it and quarter. We’re not just gonna let they want to be safe. We’ve been up.”

Hawkins, like his peers, is eager very honest and transparent with them right from the start and to get more definition about the 2021 campaign. presenting them with all It’s expected that the sorts of scenarios. So (the Big Sky will keep an postponement) was diseight-game conferenceappointing, but absoonly schedule. If the FCS lutely not a surprise. kills its season-ending Medically it’s the right playoff, it’s has been decision. hinted that the Big Sky “Obviously, the kids could split into divisions wanted to play and HAWKINS and have a conference they’re disappointed, but they understand com- Aggie football championship game as a head coach grand finale. pletely.”

“Who knows what’s Meanwhile, one of the four Aggie captains, Kooper Rich- going to happen in the spring or the winter or whenever it hapardson, told The Enterprise: “We’ve been working and pens?” Hawkins, entering his grinding for so long, it’s nice to fourth year at the Aggie helm, finally be getting some clarifica- continued. “It’s all up in the air, tion. We’re just happy to finally how many games and who we have a decision — and I’m glad play. We hope that there could be an FCS playoff of some sort, but that we all did get some work in.

“Now we’ll get a nice break and that’s all conjecture at this point.”

Added Hawkins: “I know peobe ready ... in spring. Everyone’s had the same frustration waiting ple hate it when you say ‘it is what for the NCAA and (Big Sky) to it is,’ but that’s the case.”

— Staff writer/columnist Bob make a decision. But we’ve kept our heads down and kept grind- Dunning, staff writer Owen ing as if we were going to have a Yancher and sports editor Bruce Gallaudet contributed to this normal start to the season.

“All through this, we’ve kept story.

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Vote no surprise to May Chancellors were united in decision

BY BOB DUNNING Enterprise staff writer Straight from the chancellor’s desk ...

After an 80-minute conference call with the Big Sky Conference President’s Council on Thursday, down came the news everybody expected — UC Davis and its 12 football-playing league brethren have put the football season on hold.

“The vote was unanimous,” UCD Chancellor Gary May told The Enterprise.

“We were pretty much united that it just wasn’t safe to play at MAY this point.

UC Davis Chancellor The health and safety of our student-athletes was the overriding priority.”

May said he wasn’t surprised at the decision. Last week’s meeting was the culmination of months of discussion about fall athletics in both the Big West Conference and the Big Sky. Earlier in the summer, after canceling its spring sports because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the BWC decided to send their fall sports into a “spring” session. Meanwhile, NCAA Division I basketball is due to begin Nov. 10 — but college’s governing body and Big West officials have yet to cross that bridge.

As for football, May

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UCD senior spring athletes plan to come back

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer

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UC Davis lacrosse standout Anna Belenis is returning for a “bonus year” on the pitch.

UC Davis athletes are poised to give Arnold Schwarzenegger’s trademark catchphrase, “I’ll be back,” a whole new meaning.

Five months after having their final seasons prematurely terminated by the coronavirus pandemic, a majority of Aggie seniors report they plan to return for a bonus year of competition. Their decisions follow the NCAA announcement granting spring-sport athletes a makeup year of eligibility.

The order restores the ability for more than 200 student-athletes from 10 different UCD sports teams (lacrosse, baseball, track and field, beach volleyball, men’s and women’s

golf, softball and men’s and women’s tennis) to ply their trades an extra season in 2021.

Of Davis’ 45 seniors previously set to graduate this past June, more than 30 have informed coaches or teammates they plan to give things one final go, again.

Davis’ Associate Athletics Director Katherine Zedonis told The Enterprise the Aggies “have several student-athletes who graduated and are returning to attend graduate school.”

Others, Zedonis said, have elected to delay their graduation to the upcoming winter quarter by adding a minor or declaring a double major to their undergraduate studies.

“There is already an NCAA bylaw that allows students to graduate and

then return to compete,” notes the UCD compliance boss, adding that the rules allow a student to be parttime in their final term before graduation.

Former Davis High and current UCD lacrosse star Anna Belenis will be one of many Aggies taking that latter path as she plans to expand her Spanish minor into a major.

Belenis, who has started in all 54 matches she’s played in since becoming an Aggie in 2017, said her decision to return (along with three of her team’s six seniors from last season) was influenced most by her younger teammates.

Last spring, off to one of the

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UCD pole vaulter Emily Meyer, who holds the DHS record, is ready for her senior season.

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NHL’s ‘re-entry’ model best of the pro sports O ff the top of the wall ...

■ Will a Giants pitcher ever throw a no-hitter again? At the rate San Francisco’s current manager operates, I’d say the answer is pretty obvious.

■ Best re-entry strategy among professional sports leagues: the NHL. No slip-ups, no outbreaks, no bubble breaches, all games played as scheduled. Runner-up citation: the WNBA. Those most susceptible to COVID-19 in NHL are the referees and linesmen, asked to break up the on-ice scraps.

■ COVID has produced more misinformation and disinformation than perhaps any other event in our nation’s history.

Great journalism comes via the written word, not the spoken word. So choose your news media carefully.

■ Farewell to The Razor ...

Ralph Barbieri, who passed away last Monday from Parkinson’s disease. He was 74.

The often-bombastic former KNBR afternoon talk show host had his greatest success paired with former NBA/Warriors player Tom Tolbert. Tolbert, known as Mr. T, put it best: “We all knew this was coming, but it’s still a mule kick.”

■ Due to the pandemic, there are lots of things missing from ballparks (fans, vendors, ushers, ball dudes/ladies, and above all, kids). This group includes the game’s official scorers — and that’s just wrong. It is not possible to correctly and accurately score a game if the scorer is not on the premises.

If you were in the midst of not having allowed a hit, would you want the determination of a hit or error made by someone 30 miles away, watching the game on television from the couch?

Full disclosure: I am a threeyear official scorer at River Cats games.

■ Definition of failing upward: Steve Sarkisian, run out of Washington and then USC for

various untoward activities, signs a three-year, $7.5M contract as Alabama’s offensive coordinator.

■ The Oakland A’s could well be World Series champions. They have pitching, defense, hitting and a top-flight manager in Bob Melvin. All four elements will come in handy in this mini-season.

■ Pete Hamill, one of the great journalists and writers of our time, has died at age 85. His novels rank among his best work. If The Avid Reader has a Hamill novel in stock, get it. You will not be disappointed.

Hamill traveled the world during his career, but always

returned to his native Brooklyn.

He edited both New York tabloids, the Daily News and The Post, during a golden era for newspapers.

■ As the Power 5 football conferences dig their heels in about fall play, for the FBS, this comes from a rank-and-file athletic department staffer: “I knew that greed was bad in athletics, but the sheer lack of empathy towards the health of students and staff is shocking.”

■ It’s great that one of golf ’s four major championships is played on a public course like this week’s PGA Championship at Harding Park in San Francisco. By today, the best players in the world may well find it’s a much tougher track than they anticipated.

■ Unlike players, who have a five-year waiting period before they can be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there is no such rule for active broadcasters. The Giants’ Jon Miller is already in (after prior gigs with the Orioles,

SEASONS: Weather may be bad From Page B1 committees for several other UCD fall sports, including water polo and both men’s and women’s soccer, Flushman says college athletic officials across the nation will be pondering the same question in the coming weeks and months: “How many games do you play? When is the start date? When are championships? Do you even have championships?”

Future meetings need to be scheduled in order for any decisions to be made in regard to Aggie football. And while he’s optimistic for a spring FCS playoffs (now that the 11-member Pioneer League has also delayed football to spring), Flushman says everything is speculative as far as scheduling goes.

Six- or eight-game calendars are definite possibilities.

But how many contests the Aggies get to host and which teams they’ll play? That’s another decision ahead.

“It’s going to be tough for some of our conference members,” Flushman acknowledges.

Average temperatures peak at 34 degrees during the month of January in both Bozeman and Missoula, Mont., the home sites of Big Sky schools Montana and Montana State. The month of January also accounts

for the most snowfall in Cedar City, Utah (Southern Utah University), Cheney, Wash.

(Eastern Washington), and Greeley, Colo.

(Northern Colorado).

“I think some schools would really rather come out to play in California come January,” Flushman adds. “And that’s one of the fears of the winter-spring schedule — what weather and travel looks like.”

But Flushman has been through the ringer before and come out on top.

Just two years ago, Flushman and the Aggies were able to move the Causeway Classic from Davis to Reno, Nev. (on less than 72 hours notice) because smoke from the nearby Camp Fire rendered the Aggie home site a toxic playing environment.

“That was an exhausting exercise,” Flushman recalls. “But this is more emotionally exhausting.”

Notes: While FBS schools appear set on pushing forward with fall football campaigns, Flushman reports that should situations change, Davis would certainly entertain the option of scheduling spring games against those programs. Davis was set to collect a $775,000 payout between its now-canceled fall games against FBS members San Jose State ($400,000) and Nevada ($375,000).

— Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@ davisenterprise.net.

MAY: Many options on the table From Page B1 said, “I pretty much knew going in that this would be the outcome. I am, of course, disappointed. I’m a fan and I’m really sorry that we won’t be playing college football this fall.

“We’re going to work with the NCAA to see if there’s any possibility of an FCS championship playoff in the spring. Short of that, we may be able to have a Big Sky championship game if we split into divisions. That’s all up in the air at this point.

“Of course, we don’t know where we’ll be with this in the spring, but hopefully we’ll be in better shape and hope this surge will have subsided,” the chancellor continued.

“And we may have a vaccine. Even Dr. Fauci says that’s a possibility. If that all happens, it may be feasible to play in the spring.”

May indicated UC Davis has a leg up on some of the other Big Sky school in that “We feel very fortunate with the med school here ... that we’ll be able to do the kind of testing necessary to create a safe environment for our athletes and our students. Not all schools have that ability.”

As for allowing fans come 2021, May says that decision will come down the line, too: “We don’t know yet if we’ll be able to have fans in the spring. We wouldn’t have had fans in the fall and that was disappointing, even though it wasn’t a major factor in our decision.”

May reiterated, “The health and safety of our student-athletes was the main concern for everyone.

“We don’t know if it will be the same Big Sky schedule as we were supposed to play this fall or if they’ll rearrange it. That’s still up in the air.”

The chancellor added that there would be very limited in-person classes this fall, but if the UC Davis campus is safe come January, they hope to go back to in-person learning at that point.

In short, the Big Sky wanted to be definitive about no football in the fall — but left a lot of the details of spring ball to be worked out.

Now there’s plenty of time to get it all organized.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

Rangers and A’s).

So what is Cooperstown waiting for? Former Giant players and now announcers Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper — you know ’em as Kruk and Kuip — qualify without doubt.

Even though they are sitting in separate Oracle Park booths (for social distancing) to call games, they sound exactly as they always have: arguably the best listen for TV baseball in all of MLB. ■ It was 13 years ago Friday that Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run, surpassing Hank Aaron on the all-time list.

My, how time flies.

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Left, UCD senior Anna Belenis, who started all 54 games she played in, plans to return for the Aggies.

Right, Emily Meyer lost her junior year and empathizes with the seniors who plan to come back to compete.

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RETURN: More competition From Page B1 program’s best starts ever, the Aggie laxers had beaten Cal, Oregon and Georgetown before their season was torpedoed by the pandemic on March 12.

“The biggest deciding factor was probably how it would affect the dynamic,” Belenis explained. “Senior year, there was definitely a feeling of wanting to pass on the torch and a huge factor (was teammates being) supportive of (me) coming back.”

Second-year track-andfield coach Ngoni Makusha also will have a familiar returning cast as all but one of his 20 seniors have reportedly expressed intent to come back.

Robbed of her junior season, pole vaulter Emily Meyer (another former Blue Devil and DHS record holder) is working her way back from an ankle injury this past spring. She remembers how crushed her senior teammates were back in March — ultimately making their decision to return a nobrainer.

One of them, Meyer roommate Sydney Holmes, will continue her career as a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in public health.

A multi-event weapon for the Aggies, Holmes excels in the triple jump, long jump and javelin throw.

But not every extendedeligibility Aggie will be suiting up in blue-and-gold again come spring — including last year’s captain of the UCD baseball team, Logan Denholm.

The veteran Aggie catcher will cross enemy lines and trade his colors for Hornet green-and-gold at Sacramento State. Denholm will continue grad studies in economics.

Denholm’s teammate and incoming sophomore first baseman Jonah Henrickson told The Enterprise that varying grad school enrollment dates, combined with admittance requirements and players’ pre-filed petitions to graduate, prior to the season being canceled, complicated the return options for some students like Denholm.

“We all get that extra year of eligibility now tacked on at the end of our four years,” said Henrickson, a first-team all-Delta League selection during his playing days at Davis High. “So we can keep playing if we want.

“And, personally, I love playing baseball, so I think I’ll keep going as long as I can.”

But Henrickson acknowledged that means stiffer competition for playing spots in the years to come with the NCAA temporarily waiving roster-size restrictions.

“People are going to have to be working their butts off,”

Henrickson says. “The sophomores are going to be battling for spots they thought they’d have and the freshmen are going to have to work even harder for an opportunity (to play).”

With college athletic programs, including UCD, facing their largest fiscal struggle in recent history due to COVID-related shutdowns, the NCAA has allowed for schools to individually determine the amount of scholarship money to be made available to athletes whose careers would have otherwise ended this past spring.

Those amounts could range from nothing to as much as the athlete had been receiving previously.

Notes: Out in the Land of Enchantment, former Blue Devil harrier and high school state track champion Fiona O’Keeffe will also utilize her extra spring season at the University of New Mexico, where she’ll be starting graduate studies. A standout distance runner at Stanford the last four years, O’Keeffe won the Pac-12 cross country title in 2019 and is a six-time All-American between her track and cross country feats. She’ll join another former CIF champ, her sister Olivia, on the Lobos’ roster.

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

BIG SKY: Schedule, possible championship all up in the air From Page B1 Costello added that his Bobcats were adamant about having flexibility. Classes at MSU begin Aug. 17, and Costello said he wants to wait until the university’s full student body arrives to see how the virus can be managed.

About 18 hours after the Big Sky Conference President’s Council voted to move the football season to sometime in early 2021, the league made the announcement official on Friday morning.

Submitting to the immediate dangers of contact during the coronavirus pandemic, Andy Feinstein, president of the University of Northern Colorado and chair of the council, said in a press release: “The health and safety of our students is our top priority, and ultimately that concern guided our decision-making process over the past few months as we explored

every option regarding the 2020 football season.”

Meanwhile, Wistrcill conducted a Friday online briefing to answer media questions.

Even though Wistrcill’s presser and his league’s official announcement came long after the cat was out of the bag, the commissioner addressed specifics such as conference start time, nonconference play, Football Championship Subdivision playoffs (or a Big Sky championship game), holding over player eligibility and the effects of weather.

In almost every case, Wistrcill indicated it was too early to provide definitive information.

Regarding when the 13-member conference would reconvene, the commission said: “We’re working on a number of models when we could start

competition.

What we’re really going to be working hard on … (is) pushing the NCAA and FCS committee to figure out a championship.

“We need a championship date, we need a bracket, then we can build a schedule before that.”

Wistrcill provided some personal hope ...

“I do believe that we’ll be in a different place as a country (by then). That we’ll be able to manage the pandemic better; we’ll have some type of a vaccine; we’ll be able to safely figure out to do that.”

Prolonged eligibility and

schools being allowed to add nonconference games are to be discussed, and how the proposed eightgame Big Sky schedule translates to 2021 also is a topic for future discussion, says Wistrcill.

Even if a “spring” start means Big Sky football in March, teams would begin their on-field training in the dead of winter, which is a problem for some northern conference schools that lack indoor facilities.

“That has not been discussed yet,” Wistrcill reported. “We realize the challenge of flipping football to the spring. Later in the spring it’s going to be much nicer … than early in the winter or spring.

“We’ll have our football committee look (at weather challenges) as we start to plan out” how practices for spring ball

will evolve.

In closing, Wistrcill said he was “really proud of the way our conference has handled this … we’re proud of fact that we could keep the health and safety of our student-athletes at the forefront.

Now, let’s find a way to stay safe, wear a mask and get rid of the pandemic so we can get back to sports.”

Last month, the NCAA announced that winter sports were on track, with the Nov. 10 start date for basketball still in place. But further definition is expected to come next month.

To date, Football Bowl Subdivision schools — with the NCAA’s blessing — are trying to make a go of a fall schedule.

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bfallaudet41@ gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

Follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

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Another version of ‘ethnic studies’

Individualism A is killing US

BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

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o compound the COVID-19 crisis, we have a cultural crisis. It is a crisis of our individualism.

That cultural element, precious and special, of the individual against adversity, the individual against authority, the individual against any limits imposed on free action, is at odds with the need to behave. Worse, our individualistic trait has been politicized, dragged to the right.

This aspect of American exceptionalism is now killing us, on a per capita basis, faster than people in any other country. We are in a health crisis that demands collective action from people who revere individual freedom over the dictates of the many, as expressed by the government.

Simply, we must wear masks and stay away from groups. It works; it is onerous but not intolerable.

There is a hope, almost a belief, afoot that by the end of the year there will be a vaccine, and that the existence of a vaccine will itself signal an end to the crisis.

A reality check: No proven vaccine yet exists. Although all the experts I’ve contacted believe one will work and several might.

Another reality check: It may take up to five years to vaccinate enough people to make America safe. My informal survey of doctors finds they expect one-third of us will be keen to be vaccinated, one-third will hold back to see how it goes, and one-third may resist vaccination because they’re either opposed in principle or consider it to be a government intrusion on their liberty.

If their expectation holds true, COVID19 is going to be with us for years.

No doubt there are better therapies in the pipeline to deal with COVID-19 once the patient has reached the hospital. But that won’t affect the rate of infection. The assault on our way of life and the economy will continue; the price our children are paying now will escalate.

If you’re pinning your hopes on a vaccine, several may come along at the same time and jostle for market share. That happened with poliomyelitis: Three vaccines were available, but one failed because of alleged poor quality control in manufacture. If there is a scramble among vaccines, look out for financial muscle, politics, and nationalism to join the fray. None of these will be helpful. o far, there has been a catastrophic failure of leadership at the White House and in many statehouses. “Say it isn’t so” is not a policy. That is what President Donald Trump and Republican governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Brian Kemp of Georgia have, in essence, said, resulting in climbing infections and deaths.

Americans were sacrificed on a politicized cultural altar.

We know what to do: A hard lockdown for a couple of weeks would stop the virus in its tracks. It worked in New York.

We are in a war without leadership. We have governors forced to act as guerrilla chiefs rather than generals of a national army under unified leadership with common purpose.

Right now, we should hear from the political leadership about what they plan to do to slow the spread of COVID-19 and how, when this is over, they plan to rebuild.

Refusing to wear a mask may have deep cultural significance for some, particularly in the West, but for all of us, restaurants are part of the fabric of our living. For most us, the happiest moments of lives have been in a restaurant, celebrating things that are precious milestones in life, like birthdays, engagements and anniversaries.

We can’t give one cultural totem precedence over another.

More than half the nation’s restaurants may never reopen — employing 10 percent of the nation’s workforce and accounting for 4 percent of GDP — and the biggest helping hand to them would be to throw the Defense Production Act at manufacturing millions of indoor air scrubbers. It would increase livability for all, ending our isolation from each other.

Wash your hands, America. Don’t wring them. We can beat the virus when we fight on the same side with science and respect the commonweal.

— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020

year ago, the California Department of Education released a draft of guidelines for implementing “ethnic studies” in public high schools.

It unleashed a torrent of controversy — for good reason.

The 303-page document was ersatz Marxist agitprop that, if adopted, would have drummed into young minds the notion that in America, anyone not a white male is virtually enslaved.

“At its core,” the draft declared, “the field of ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with an emphasis on experiences of people of color in the United States,” adding, “The field critically grapples with the various power structures and forms of oppression, including, but not limited to, white supremacy, race and racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia, that continue to impact the social, emotional, cultural, economic, and political experiences of Native People(s) and people of color.”

In critiquing “systems of power,” it advised, “These are structures that have the capacity to control circumstances within economic, political or

social-cultural contexts.

These systems are often controlled by those in power and go on to determine how society is organized and functions,” adding, “some examples of systems of power are: white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy.”

Some of most pointed criticism came from Jewish legislators who said in a letter, “we cannot support a curriculum that erases the American Jewish experience, fails to discuss anti-semitism, reinforces negative stereotypes about Jews, singles out Israel for criticism and would institutionalize the teaching of anti-semitic stereotypes in our public schools.”

Hurriedly, state education officials, including Superintendent Tony Thurmond, promised a makeover. The new version is definitely toned down — less a call for social revolution and more a conventional academic outline.

There’s some irony in that transformation. The new

draft was released as the fundamental change advocated in the first version was gaining currency in response to the suffocation death of a Black man, George Floyd, with the knee of a Minneapolis policeman on his neck.

Nevertheless, the new draft still contains echoes of the previous proposal, to wit: “Ethnic studies should help students become more engaged locally and develop into effective civic participants and stronger social justice advocates, better able to contribute to constructive social change. It can also help students connect current resistance movements to those of the past, and to imagine new possibilities for a true democracy.” here’s another bit of irony in the declaration that ethnic studies “can help students learn to present their ideas in strong, compelling, jargon-free language.”

The draft itself is loaded with undecipherable jargon, such as saying ethnic studies help students “conceptualize, imagine, and build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promotes collective narratives of transformative resistance, critical hope, and radical healing.” Can anyone translate that?

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required an ethnic studies curriculum to be created, its expressed rationale was that since Californians are a complex matrix of ethnicities and cultures, students should become more aware of who we are and how we got here.

No argument there. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking a wartsand-all approach, including slavery, genocidal treatment of native peoples and immigration patterns. Facts are facts and we shouldn’t shy away from them.

But ideological indoctrination, which the first draft clearly embraced and still colors the second, is not knowledge. The histories of America and California are not only tales of conflict, including a very bloody civil war, but also narratives of overcoming adversity and achievement, and wellbalanced ethnic studies should include them as well.

The Legislature is weighing whether to make ethnic studies mandatory. If so, we’d better get it right.

— 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 calmatters.org/ commentary

LETTERS Mace mess (Sent to City Council).

Thank you for holding the Mace Mess Workshop on July 15. I found it helpful as the following items became clearer.

■ The current design of Mace from Montgomery to Cowell is so dysfunctional that proposal seems to scrap nearly the entire set of existing so-called improvements.

■ The new “30% Design” proposal includes so many replacement structures after removal of the existing socalled improvements that the additional cost will be quite high, although no figure was given at the meeting. Since the extent of the proposed changes is similar to the existing “improvements,” a guesstimate of an additional $2-$3 million for the proposed changes does not seem unreasonable. Hopefully, the city will release an engineering estimate for the costs of the proposed changes in the near future.

■ The new design includes two-way bike lanes on both sides of Mace so that some bicyclists from the west side of Mace will not have to cross Mace going to go to the Nugget shopping center. However, the proposal also includes sophisticated traffic signals and stop signs along Mace at Montgomery, San Marino, El Macero Drive and Cowell in order to facilitate crossing or entering Mace by pedestrians, bicyclists and automobiles.

Therefore, the proposal to have two-way bicycle lanes on both the east side and the west side of Mace is unnecessary and seems extravagant. A one-way north bike lane on the east side and a one-way south bike lane on the west side of Mace for most of Mace appears more reasonable.

■ Additional consideration should be given to facilitate crossing and entering Mace from Redbud and Blue Oak I believe that the best use of the space for the Mace corridor is to return to the original state. I would include two automobile lanes each for northbound and southbound traffic from Cowell south as far as possible, perhaps even to Montgomery. Returning Mace to the original state may be the least expensive alternative. Since the city budget will likely be adversely impacted by COVID-19 for the foreseeable future the less expensive alternative might be accomplished with available resources.

Robert Benson Davis

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Mall vs. campus Contrary to the beliefs of some recent writers, there is no evidence that UC Davis can be shamed into increasing the rate at which it is willing to build much-needed student housing.

And this hope is not just a harmless bit of optimism — it fatally obscures any clear-eyed view of how best to deal with the reality of a burgeoning student population.

Ted Parks Davis

Racial/ethnic preferences in Davis African Americans and other people of color are asking white Americans to engage in what may be uncomfortable conversations about structural racism in American society.

These conversations may be uncomfortable because they require the beneficiaries of white privilege to recognize that some of the policies they support have racist and exclusionary consequences.

And white people who benefit from these policies are often unaware of the policies’racially discriminatory consequences.

One such policy is the “preference for buyers with a connection to Davis” that was included in the voter-approved proposal for the Bretton Woods development on West Covell. This preference is a classic form of racial or ethnic preference.

The 2019 population ofDaviswas 13% Latino, 2.3% Black, 56% white and 22% Asian. The 2019 population of Yolo Countywas 32% Latino, 3% Black, 46% white, and 15% Asian. So even just within Yolo County, the “Davis connection”

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preference would have a clearly disparate impact on Latino buyers.

As a professor of discrimination law, I am sorry to point out that structural racism is alive and well in Davis.

Martha West Professor emerita, UC Davis Law School

Census maneuvers At the risk of appearing hopelessly naïve, I must believe that most people of all political perspectives would object to the Trump Administration’s efforts to distort the 2020 census by plans to end the count a month early. Clearly this will result in inaccurate and incomplete data.

Of course, this seems counter-intuitive given the difficulties posed by COVID-19 in doing a national survey.

The Constitution requires a count of all residents, not just citizens as President Trump wants. This count is essential to accurately reapportion members of the House of Representatives as well as to fairly determine federal grants and aid to states. Census data is used for a myriad of purposes including determining health care needs and research priorities. Census numbers are used for 10 years.

Not surprisingly, Trump and his Senate cronies oppose this basic democratic principle essential to accurate and fair elections, financial assistance and national planning. Added to widespread voter suppression, our democracy is in serious jeopardy. My hope is that there will be widespread rejection of these efforts, and failing that, the next administration will make efforts to get the census right.

David Siegel Davis

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Op-Ed

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 B5

The calendar keeps marching forward W

hen I worked at UC Davis, we acknowledged that the relativity of time was a real thing.

There was lab time and reallife time. Lab time was a nebulous, shape-shifting entity.

Children graduated and grandchildren were born, but the project you were working on stayed the same.

Council time is very similar; back in March there was initial concern, when the COVID response started, that city business would not be able to go forward effectively. Five months later, as we are headed for an uncertain cycle of school, elections and holidays, it is easy to feel that time and productivity have gotten away from us. I am happy to report that while the times indeed are challenging, we have pulled together and managed to do more than just keep the lights on.

Since March, when it was evident that the world was headed for a massive change, we have found a way to continue to support our commission meetings, restructure our budget and push forward projects already in the pipeline along with the everrising new issues. Just as an example of items we have successfully advanced or set in motion: ■ Approved resolutions to administer grants in a variety of areas such as the continuum-of-

care grant to implement continued operation of transient housing for homeless men and women.

■ Voted to place Measure J renewal and the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (DISC) proposal on the November ballot.

■ Approved the planning applications for the Paul’s place project, a transitional housing and homeless services facility owned and operated by ■ Davis Community Meals and Housing (DCMH) replacing the existing facility with a new 16,928 square-foot, four-story multi-functional homeless facility. Supported the downtown Open-Air Davis program to facilitate the ability of downtown restaurants and businesses to remain safely open.

■ Continued the exploration of the feasibility and need for a

sports complex and aquatics center.

■ Received a comprehensive update on the draft downtown plan and the efforts of our Downtown Plan Advisory Committee.

In addition to the work of our regular commissions, my colleagues and I participate in several ad hoc subcommittees to address timely city topics, such as our subcommittees on legislation, the UC Davis Long Range Development Plan and the subcommittee on animal services.

Two that I have been involved in, with Councilman Dan Carson, are the subcommittee on pavement management and the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus.

I particularly have enjoyed exploring ways we can increase funding to improve our roads and bike paths and through the

work on the DISC subcommittee I think we did important work bridging the concerns of our community and commissions with the proposal.

Through these subcommittees, much important background and supportive work contributes to cumulative forward motion. A glance at our long-range calendar highlights the importance of keeping momentum going. I realize that this work at this moment takes much dedication and I commend our commissions, staff, public and colleagues who are willing to spend countless Zoom hours trying to make this work happen.

I always welcome input from the community and can be reached at gpartida@cityofdavis. org. I hope all stay happy and healthy.

— Gloria Partida is the mayor of Davis.

Higher ed needs federal investment

BY DICK ACKERMAN AND MEL LEVINE Special to CalMatters

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County neglects laborers of love

BY DOV SALKOFF AND ELLYN DALY Special to The Enterprise

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t is the middle of the night. Dixie, who is 78, wakes up to the sound of her daughter Heidi choking.

Dixie helps Heidi sit up in bed to blow her nose, and she tries to cough out the mucus.

Sometimes, Dixie has to fix a hot cider or give Heidi another dose of Cetirizine. Heidi’s body is covered in cysts, some in her sinuses, and they often swell as she sleeps, although neither of them sleep much.

Heidi is 53 but mentally closer to 5, unaware of worldly dangers. Even short car rides can be dangerous.

Heidi gets curious about the doors and wants to open them while Dixie is driving. Bringing Heidi anywhere is always risky. She cannot be left alone, ever. Her cerebral palsy, arthritis and hip surgeries ensure she can’t get around without a walker.

Her autism brings on emotional meltdowns and makes her terrified of others.

For over half a century, Dixie has cared for her daughter through the day and night — brushing her hair and teeth, helping her bathe, dressing her, helping her use the toilet — tending to her own needs when she has the time. Dixie was in college when Heidi was born, and had to let go of her aspiration to become a high school music teacher to care for her daughter.

Since then, her husband has passed away and things have not gotten any easier. But despite all the difficulties and hard work, it is undeniable how much Dixie and Heidi love each other.

Jorge Galo starts his day at 7 a.m. by moving his nephew, Jackson, from his bed to the couch. Jackson has multiple sclerosis and is paraplegic. He weighs just 75 pounds at 34 years old.

Jorge says that because Jackson cannot move, it is like taking care of an 8-month-old baby. Jackson is unable to chew, so Jorge makes a formula by blending eggs, fish, cheese, and other nutritious food into a paste. He then feeds Jackson with a syringe that inserts the formula directly into his stomach.

When Jackson isn’t being fed or cleaned up, he enjoys using the computer. Jackson makes designs for

COMMENTARY pins, which he proudly wears when he goes out.

Dixie, Jorge, and thousands of other caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services program (IHSS) provide this type of care on a daily basis. Despite their hard work and essential service, Yolo County IHSS workers make only minimum wage, so they struggle to pay rent and support their families.

During the pandemic, they continue to provide care yet receive no hazard pay to compensate them for the risk they are taking to help others. With the rising cost of living, low pay compared to IHSS workers in other counties, and cuts to the program at the state level, the future of Yolo County IHSS workers is far from certain.

So is the future of those who depend on them. SEIU 2015, the union that represents IHSS workers, has been negotiating with Yolo County for over a year now. They have been fighting the supervisors’ first offer: a measly 35-cent raise while cutting health care benefits.

These negotiations started months before the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the County Supervisors now use the pandemic as a justification for not paying the IHSS workers a livable wage, pointing to a revenue shortfall.

A projected revenue shortage did not, however, stop the county supervisors from giving the Yolo County managers a raise. In fact, they are among the highest-paid employees in the county.

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ince the pandemic, public discourse has started to recognize the value of in-home care and the steadfast loyalty caregivers show their elderly, disabled or sick clients.

Daycare workers, grocery store clerks, warehouse and delivery workers, janitors and cleaning staff, and agricultural workers also stand out as essential if the rest of us expect to carry on normal lives.

It’s difficult to imagine society without them. Yet these are the very jobs that in normal times we tend to devalue. They are “low skill” or understood as care — a realm oftentimes thought of as “women’s work” or part of a woman’s “natural motherly touch.”

People who fill these positions are

easily exploited and forced to accept minimum wage pay with no benefits.

Seventy percent of IHSS workers are women, and most are people of color (predominantly Latinx). The fact that essential workers have to work, oftentimes are in close contact with others, and have few health benefits has caused a disproportionate impact on Latinix and other POC communities.

Caregivers and the people who receive care have been devalued and their needs ignored throughout the pandemic. Essential workers and elderly people have been treated as expendable for the sake of the economy.

Our nation is one of the wealthiest in the world. We are more than productive enough to pay a livable wage to all workers. We have a choice. We all should be fighting for health care programs that every one of us and those we love may someday need.

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s nursing homes like Stollwood close due to COVIDrelated financial problems, in-home care programs become even more vital. IHSS workers are now depending on us to attend county board meetings and urge the county supervisors to agree to the offer made by IHSS workers.

At the very least, IHSS workers deserve a decent wage and health care benefits. Now is the time to tell the supervisors to put themselves in Dixie’s or Jorge’s shoes, who aren’t paid enough to avoid worrying about rent, food and healthcare. The more community members who show up, the better chance for a fair contract.

The Yolo Democratic Socialists of America are working with other community organizations and SEIU 2015 to increase awareness and pressure the County. Go to tinyurl.com/ YoloForIHSS to read our letter of support and learn how to get involved with the campaign.

— Dov Salkoff helped found the Yolo Democratic Socialists of America. Ellyn Daly is an activist working on community education, digital rights and public art. Special thanks to Dixie Schaefer and Jorge Galo for sharing their experience as IHSS workers. The authors also thank Maria Cabrera and Lupita Torres for insightful comments and Miranda Duncan for editing.

rom mapping the COVID-19 genome to treating the nation’s first case of community spread of the deadly virus, University of California researchers and physicians have been among the leaders in the global battle against coronavirus.

California State University researchers have joined the fight as well with their own research initiatives, including developing low-cost ventilators and using artificial intelligence to design a model for predicting COVID-19 patients’ mortality risks to help physicians make informed treatment decisions.

It’s perhaps no surprise then to find that almost three in four Americans recognize research universities are essential weapons in the war on COVID-19 and in tackling other global challenges, and that more than half believe universities have a positive impact on our country.

As alumni of California’s public higher education system, we call on Congress to recognize Americans’ support for our nation’s universities by approving the federal funds needed for universities to continue to play a leading role in combating today’s public health emergency and in preparing our nation’s future leaders for tomorrow’s challenges. In California, those federal funds are especially important.

The state budget cuts $970 million from UC and CSU budgets. Most of that could be restored with federal coronavirus assistance. CSU Chancellor Timothy White recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the funding and told a House committee that CSU is preparing for a “grim new fiscal reality” in the fall without it.

During the Great Recession, when CSU and UC last faced such grim fiscal realities, the state slashed its investments in UC and CSU by more than a third. This loss in state support led the fouryear public universities to double tuition, increase out-of-state enrollment, lay off and furlough staff and defer new construction and maintenance.

CSU and UC don’t have the same capacity to generate that funding now because of COVID-19 restrictions. During the stay-at-home orders, both closed dorms and food service, causing their

COMMENTARY revenues from those and associated services — such as parking — to plummet.

CSU has already announced it will rely on distance learning for most of its courses in the fall semester, and UC officials have also said most of its courses will be online.

Both have reported that distance learning has increased their costs for training and equipment and will continue to reduce their revenues from housing, parking and other on-campus services for students and staff.

To help the state’s public universities and other state programs secure the needed federal assistance, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon issued a joint statement that said “it’s imperative for our federal partners to pass a responsible and comprehensive relief plan so states and local communities can continue to keep Americans safe while leading our national economic recovery.”

W

e join them in calling on Congress to make these vital investments in our public higher education system.

In addition to helping fight a deadly virus, providing federal aid to UC and CSU will assist in the nation’s and the state’s economic recovery from the pandemic’s devastating financial losses.

California accounts for nearly 15% of the nation’s gross domestic product, so its recovery is critical to the nation’s recovery. And the state’s public higher education system is critical to California’s economy: The UC system alone is the state’s third-largest employer and, along with the CSU, contributes more than $60 billion to California’s economy every year.

By acting now to send much-needed federal funds to the state, Congress can hasten our economic recovery and ensure California is ready and able to combat today’s public health emergency and future global challenges.

— Dick Ackerman Mel Levine are co-chairs of the California Coalition for Public Higher Education.

Ackerman is a Republican and a former California state senator and assemblyman from Orange County. Levine is a Democrat and a former member of the U.S. Congress and state assemblyman from Los Angeles.

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