The Davis Enterprise Sunday, August 23, 2020

Living

Business

Crisis worse for kids in need — Page A7

Sports UCD women keep in shape for possible season

De Vere’s shutting its doors — Page A5

— Page B1

enterprise THE DAVIS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

UCD plans to screen all on campus for COVID-19

‘No mercy’

Joseph DeAngelo, the confessed Golden State Killer and East Area Rapist, stands to offer a brief apology before being sentenced on the Sacramento Sate campus Friday, Aug. 21. DeAngelo, 74, was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole.

BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE/ POOL PHOTO

Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist gets life in prison

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer SACRAMENTO — The sentence came as no surprise.

Nearly two months after pleading guilty to 13 murders and admitting to dozens of sexual assaults he committed as the Golden State Killer and East Area Rapist — including three 1978 rapes in Davis — Joseph James DeAngelo got the punishment Friday he agreed to: life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Over the three previous days, DeAngelo sat through impact

statements from his victims and their survivors, who as promised spoke with no limitations in time or content as they described how his 12-year crime spree affected their lives.

Then came Friday’s sentencing hearing held inside a Sacramento State University ballroom, chosen to accommodate a large audience under COVID-19 social-distancing protocols. The outcome, the result of a plea deal hammered out weeks ago, received approval from prosecutors and victims alike.

What did stun those in the

makeshift courtroom, however, was when DeAngelo — a disgraced former police officer who until then showed little, if any, reaction to his victims’ words — stood up from his chair on a temporary stage, removed his face mask and, after a lengthy pause, spoke.

In the audience, many who came to bear witness to DeAngelo’s fate shifted forward in their seats. Some held up enlarged photos of the loved ones whose lives he cut short.

“I’ve listened to all your statements — each one of them — and I am truly sorry to everyone I’ve hurt,” the 74-year-old convicted killer said, his voice sounding far louder and stronger than his frail, raspy guilty pleas.

No relief for students locked into leases

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer UC Davis students who signed 12-month rental leases prior to the pandemic and now want to back out are essentially out of luck, according to a joint statement issued by Davis Mayor Gloria Partida and UC Davis Chancellor Gary May. The statement said city and university leaders have explored options for compelling private landlords to allow lease cancellations but “have found no possible solutions that would provide such relief while remaining consistent with state law.”

Even leases for oncampus public-private rental apartments like the

VOL. 123, NO. 102

Sol apartments at West Village — known as P3 rentals — are protected under state law, the mayor and chancellor said in a joint statement issued Friday.

“At this time we have found no avenue for successfully providing such lease modifications for oncampus housing that is operated by P3 landlords.”

The inability to break leases signed well before the pandemic and when rental housing was in short supply in the city has been a source of anxiety and frustration not just for the students involved but for city and county officials worried about a large influx of students in the fall, potentially exacerbating local spread of COVID-19.

Both City Council

INDEX

SEE PRISON, PAGE A3

Betsy Hyder joins school board race

SEE SCREEN, PAGE A4

More virus deaths at Woodland care facility

members and Yolo County supervisors have said the leases provide a disincentive for students to remain at home when classes resume remotely.

“We have heard directly from students and their families of catastrophic examples of students who have lost income, lost family financial support, and are experiencing health effects that could be exacerbated by the COVID-19 virus,” said Partida and May. “In many of these cases, the ability to cancel a residential lease would help and would make the upcoming year much more certain.”

Students with UC Davis housing contracts have

Betsy Hyder has joined the race for the Davis school board’s Trustee Area 5 seat, which covers portions of South Davis HYDER (including El Macero and Ready areas to the south and to give back west of Pole Line Road) as well as the core area of the UC Davis campus.

Hyder, who grew up in Georgia, and her husband Chuck both studied engineering at the university level — she is a graduate of Purdue University, he went to Georgia Tech.

Hyder settled in Davis about 13 years ago, when her two children were 4 and 5.

Like a number of Davis households,

Two additional deaths at the Alderson Convalescent Hospital in Woodland were reported on the county’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday.

Alderson has now reported 27 coronavirus cases — 17 among residents and 10 among staff members — as well as three deaths. The familyowned skilled nursing facility is located on Walnut Street in Woodland.

Since the pandemic began, the county has tallied 142 cases and 24

SEE LEASES, PAGE A2

SEE HYDER, PAGE A2

SEE DEATHS, PAGE A3

WEATHER

Business . . . . . A5 Forum . . . . . . . .B4 Op-Ed . . . . . . . .B5 Classifieds . . . . A4 Living . . . . . . . . A7 The Wary I . . . . A2 Comics . . . . . . .B7 Sports . . . . . . .B1 Weather . . . . . .B6

For most, however, the apology fell beyond flat.

“It was all B.S.,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said at a post-hearing press conference, where he noted that DeAngelo failed to acknowledge the damage he inflicted on his own family, several of whom submitted their own written statements.

While none attempted to excuse his crimes, a sister claimed DeAngelo bore the brunt of mental and physical abuse inflicted by their father.

One niece wrote that “Uncle Joe” offered refuge from her own abusive household; another professed love but said after learning of his conduct, “I

UC Davis announced a plan Friday to screen its entire on-campus population for COVID-19 when fall quarter begins next month. Pending the extension of a federal certification, UC Davis will roll out a new technology that could allow the campus to conduct frequent, widespread testing with quick-turnaround times throughout the quarter.

“On-campus residents will be required to participate in screening and testing,” UC Davis Student Housing and Dining Services said Friday. “Residents should expect to be tested during move-in process and at least weekly throughout the fall quarter.”

While most classes will be held remotely, several thousand people are expected to be living, working and studying on campus this fall. According to Student Housing and Dining Services, all residence hall rooms will be single occupancy and no guests will be permitted.

The announcement on COVID-19 screening comes as several universities suffer coronavirus outbreaks

HAZE

Toda Today: Hot and hazy.

Ho High 96. Low 64.

Hi

BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

HOW TO REACH US www.davisenterprise.com Main line: 530-756-0800 Circulation: 530-756-0826

SUNDAY • $1.50

http://facebook.com/ TheDavisEnterpriseNewspaper http://twitter.com/D_Enterprise

Crider Law Group Estate Planning and Elder Law

TM

>ŽǀĞ >ŽĐĂů͘ ĂŶŬ >ŽĐĂů͘

Personal Injury Civil Litigation 732 THIRD STREET, SUITE B DOWNTOWN DAVIS 530-238-5111

WWW.MICHAELSCHAPS.COM

ĞĚŝĐĂƚĞĚ ƚŽ ƐƵƉƉŽƌƟŶŐ ŽƵƌ ůŽĐĂů ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ ĨŽƌ ŵŽƌĞ ƚŚĂŶ Ă ĐĞŶƚƵƌLJ͘

MATTHEW CRIDER

Attorney at Law crider law group

530-771-6887

530.304.4947

kimeichorn.com keichorn@golyon.com CA DRE# 01196250 ƚŚĂƚƐŵLJďĂŶŬ͘ĐŽŵ ƋƵĂů ,ŽƵƐŝŶŐ >ĞŶĚĞƌ ͮ DĞŵďĞƌ & /

Local

A2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Briefly Virtual house party backs Deos Karen Friis welcomes you to join her in meeting Yolo County Supervisor Candidate Linda Deos at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27. To join the Zoom event, email Hello@LindaDeos. comfor details.

Deos is a consumer protection and bankruptcy attorney running for supervisor in District 4, which includes the east side of Davis and portions of rural Yolo County to the southeast.

No-on-DISC website online The campaign website for No on Measure B — No on DISC (“Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus”) is now online at https://www.VoteNoOn Disc.com.

“There you can learn about the many reasons to vote ‘No’ on the project on Election Day, Nov. 3,” a news release said. It also allows supporters to sign up to donate to the campaign, give an endorsement, get a free lawn sign or volunteer to help out in the campaign.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

If you rake a forest, does it make a sound?

I

know that defending Donald Trump in a town where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a factor of 99 to 1 is risky business, but I’m going to do it anyway.

As anyone who has taken a walk around the block in the last few days knows, Northern California has once again been hit by a particularly nasty fire season.

We have so many wildfires going at the same time that we’ve stopped giving them names.

But, had we only listened to our dearly beloved president two years ago when he visited our state after the horrific fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, we might have things under control by now.

Just the other day, repeating what he said in 2018 when he mistakenly called Paradise “Pleasure” (twice), the president told us these things wouldn’t be happening to us if we’d just “rake the forests.”

Yes, rake the forests.

On a campaign swing through Pennsylvania on Thursday, Trump said, “I see again the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests. There are many, many years of leaves and broken trees.”

Two years ago, during his Paradise visit, he pointed to Finland where, he claimed, they “spent a

lot of time raking and they don’t have any problem.”

The president knows of what he speaks. If raking were an Olympic sport, Finland would pick up all the gold medals.

Added the president ominously, “I’ve been telling them (California) this now for three years, but they don’t want to listen. Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us.”

Best not to tell the president at this point that many of our fires are taking place on federal land.

Also best not to tell him how much money the California economy kicks into the U.S. Treasury every year. If he doesn’t wish to provide us with federal aid because we didn’t vote for him, then perhaps Californians should be exempt from paying federal income tax.

Be that as it may, I’m willing to take the president at his word and plan to do my part to keep our forests clean.

To that end, I went downtown and purchased half a dozen strong bamboo rakes and a box full of giant black garbage bags.

At first light Monday morning our family will head to the hills to clean up the mess that Mother Nature has made.

I realize we can’t do it alone, so please regard this as a patriotic call to action for all of us who love California.

I’ve done the math and I truly believe we can get this done if we put partisanship aside and rake till we drop.

C

alifornia is blessed with 40 million people. That’s a lot of potential raking. Not to mention a lot of rakes.

Senior citizens make up 15 percent of the population of our state and have earned the right to be supervisors, not rakers. Another 23 percent of Californians are under the age of 18, which means if you can’t vote, you can’t rake.

Figure another 20 percent or so will be unable to perform for one reason or another. Like maybe bone spurs.

Add in those who decide to move to Nevada where the need to rake is at a minimum and we’re down to something like 10 million able-bodied Californians who will be expected to grab a rake and get to work.

California, it turns out, covers

HYDER: Moved to Davis for the school system

Fire hits campus

Get your free Davis bike maps

From Page A1

To support the thousands of new bike enthusiasts who are enjoying bike riding in Davis, the newest edition of the Davis Bike Map, designed by The Bike Campaign is now available for free at the Davis Food Co-op, Davis Bikes and Skateboards (905 Third St.), and the Freewheeler. For information, see www.TheBike Campaign.com.

About us 2020 Member

California News Publishers Association

Certified Audit of Circulations

The Davis Enterprise is published Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by The Davis Enterprise Inc., 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616. Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Prices is Pending at Davis, CA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617-1470.

Phone 530-756-0800 ———— R. Burt McNaughton Publisher Taylor Buley Co-Publisher Sebastian Oñate Editor Nancy Hannell Advertising Director Shawn Collins Production Manager Bob Franks Home Delivery Manager

SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR CARRIER DELIVERY

Home delivery .............$3.69 per week Online .........................$3.23 per week 12 weeks ................................ $44.84 24 weeks ............................... $89.30 48 weeks .............................. $159.79

HOME DELIVERY If you do not receive your Enterprise by 5 p.m. on Wednesdays or Fridays or 7 a.m. on Sundays, please call 530-756-0826. Missed issues will be delivered on the next publishing day.

HOW TO REACH US PHONE, MAIL OR IN PERSON Home delivery: 315 G St., 530-756-0826 Delivery phone hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sun 7-10 a.m.

Business office: 315 G St. 530-756-0800 Hours: Mon. - Fri. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

FAX

Advertising . . . . . . . . . 530-756-7504 Home Delivery (Circulation). 756-7504 News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .756-1668

EMAIL News . . . . . newsroom@davisenterprise.net Sports . . . . . . . sports@davisenterprise.net Home Delivery circulation@davisenterprise.net Classifieds . . classads@davisenterprise.net Advertising . . . . . . ads@davisenterprise.net Legal Notices . . legals@davisenterprise.net Obituaries . . . . . . obit@davisenterprise.net Production . . graphics@davisenterprise.net

ON THE WEB www.davisenterprise.com Copyright 2020

163,696 square miles. Last time I checked, there are 640 acres in a square mile, which means we have 104,765,440 acres stretching from San Diego to Crescent City.

Divide that by a workforce of 10 million and it breaks down to a bit more than 10.47 acres per person.

Obviously, the thought of raking a whole acre, no less 10.47 acres, is daunting and might lead to mass defections before we even get started.

So, it’s important to divide this into bite-size pieces, like square feet. As just about everyone knows, there are 43,560 square feet in an acre, which means each member of our party will be responsible for just over 435,000 square feet of raking.

Indeed, the entire state is not covered with forest, so those who are assigned to urban areas will have less raking to do and much better access to Starbucks at break time, but these things tend to even out, and people are free to trade if they’d rather be in Anaheim than Alturas.

If we all pitch in and do our part, I figure we can get our forests clean sometime around Nov. 3.

I’m sure on that special and glorious day, we’ll all be richly rewarded for our efforts.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

OWEN YANCHER/ENTERPRISE PHOTO

Smoky air conditions worsened Friday night on the UC Davis campus when a first-alarm fire broke out in hay-storage barn at the Dairy Cattle Facility on Dairy Road at about 7:40 p.m. No cows or people were hurt during the six-hour incident, which UCD firefighters contained with assistance from city of Davis fire crews and personnel from Animal Science, Agricultural Services, Facilities Management and the Office of Research, UCD Fire Chief Nathan Trauernicht said on social media.

LEASES: City limited in what it can do From Page A1 been provided full refunds, contract cancellations and deadline extensions to accommodate changing circumstances, they said.

But those with private leases who have tried to negotiate similar flexibility with their landlords have had less success, according to the many students who have pleaded with the Davis City Council to get involved.

When city officials looked into the situation, they found that other jurisdictions in California that have attempted to take action compelling landlords to modify or cancel leases have had limited success.

Students had pointed council members to an ordinance adopted by the city of Berkeley, for example, that states students can terminate leases early “without penalty.”

“Likewise, we have reviewed a resolution adopted by Solano County that allows tenants to terminate leases early for COVID-19-related reasons ‘without penalty,’ ” said Partida and May. “Unfortunately, some

news reports initially overstated the effect of these actions, which only prevent landlords from assessing a penalty on tenants in addition to the damages landlords are allowed to collect from tenants under state law,” May and Partida reported.

“State law allows landlords to collect lost rent payments from tenants as long as the landlord attempts to re-lease the unit. If a landlord cannot find a new tenant to take a unit, these damages may be substantial,” Partida and May wrote. “The city and university are limited by state law in terms of interfering with the rights of landlords or tenants.

“We will carefully review updated court decisions as well as state and federal government economic relief measures that could assist students in need,” the mayor and chancellor said.

The statement added

that UC Davis is focusing on initiatives to provide financial and support services, including repackaging financial aid offers and partnering with the ASUCD to expand legal resources through the existing ASUCD lawyer consultation program.

“Whether your lease is with on-campus or offcampus rental housing, we strongly encourage tenants to reach out to their landlord to discuss options,” Partida and May said.

“We are hearing that some local landlords are working with tenants on a case-by-case basis to help if at all possible. Throughout this year, we will continue to work for ongoing solutions to these housing needs.”

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

DNT TXT N DRIVE

Hyder and her husband were attracted here in part because of the schools.

Initially, Hyder and her family lived in a rented home in vicinity of Willett Elementary; the family later bought a house in South Davis and the two children attended Pioneer Elementary.

Hyder’s children are now in their late teens — one is soon to start college, the other is finishing up a high school diploma at Woodland Christian.

At Pioneer, Hyder became active in the PTA, and eventually served for a year as PTA president.

“It was a great experience for me,” she said.

She said that as the mother of “two different children with different learning styles, I now want to invest back into the school district what I learned from my

experiences … I feel I have some perspective to add” at the school board level.

In terms of her professional background, “I’ve been involved in technology for much of my career,” she added, which could be an asset in terms of the coming months involving distance learning at local schools due to COVID-19 concerns.

She added that “right now there’s a (societal) focus on injustice and inequality that is a real interest to me, not only in Davis but nationwide.

This is something I can add my voice to.”

She added, “I want to serve now, and I feel I’m equipped for this particular time ... (and) these are tough times” in terms of funding for public education.

— Reach Jeff Hudson at jhudson@davisenter prise.net or 530-7478055.

South Davis candidates invited to go on Zoom Special to The Enterprise An upcoming Zoom forum will allow Davis voters to meet and greet the four District 5 City Council Candidates — Rochelle Swanson, Josh Chapman, Kelsey Fortune and Connor Gorman.

This virtual forum will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, and will allow time for two questions per candidate. Questions will be the same for each candidate and must be answered in 3 minutes or less:

■ Why they’re running for City Council.

■ What are the three most important city council issues/topics?

There will be four other Zoom meetings — one for each candidate. Each candidate will be asked the same questions and have the same time to answer each question. All forums will be held on Sundays in September and October from 2 to 3 p.m.

For information, email at tracydewit@gmail.com.

Blue Pine Coffins • Locally made • NO living trees cut • 100% Biodegradable • Affordable • Delivering to all funeral homes • Under Rabbinical Supervision

116 D Street Davis, CA 95616 530-758-5500

FD-992

www.smith-funerals.com

Dean & Danielle Newberry

bluepinecoffins.com (530) 270-3029 coffins@dcn.org

From Page One

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 A3

PRISON: Victims sound off on serial predator From Page A1 no longer have trust in anyone.”

“By leaving out his relatives, that statement apologizing was a fake.

It was a sham. It was not remorseful,” Spitzer said. “He left destruction in his tracks, and I won’t forgive him. I never will.”

Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who watched the proceedings remotely, declined to discuss DeAngelo’s remarks.

As for his life sentence, “I’m not sure (it) can ever truly account for the unspeakable evils perpetrated by this monster, but the case is now done,” Reisig said. “We can only hope that there is some solace for all those affected by his crimes.”

‘Deserves no mercy’ In the end, DeAngelo received 11 consecutive life terms in prison, the result of a June 29 plea agreement that prosecutors said avoids lengthy court delays and an expensive trial while offering swifter justice for the victims.

The resolution also spared DeAngelo, whose DNA linked him to the decades-old crimes, from a potential death sentence.

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman imposed DeAngelo’s fate after three straight days of empowered victim-impact statements, either read in person by those who survived his terror, or by victim advocates who ensured their voices would at last be heard.

“Their impact statements will always be with me. I was moved by their courage, their grace, their strength — all qualities you clearly lack,” Bowman said Friday. “As I listened to the survivors and I watched you, I could not help but wonder, what are you thinking?

Are you capable of comprehending the pain and anguish you caused?”

Bowman’s concluding words — “The defendant deserves no mercy” — received a standing ovation.

Laura Valdes, director of the Yolo County District Attorney’s victim services program, appeared in court Wednesday to deliver a statement on behalf of a married couple attacked in their Davis home on June 24, 1978.

Theirs was one of three Davis

Barbara, Tulare and Ventura — taking the podium to honor the victims and reiterate their call for the maximum sentence allowed under the law.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who led the multi-county task force that solved the long-dormant case, directed some of her comments right at DeAngelo. She noted the weak physical state he demonstrated in court over the past two years, transported by wheelchair while appearing dazed, which many considered an act intended to garner sympathy.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE/POOL PHOTO

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. stands to hear his sentence in a converted Sacramento State University ballroom on Friday, Aug. 21. DeAngelo, 74, was sentenced to 11 life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole, one life sentence with the possibility of parole and an additional eight-year sentence under a plea agreement that allowed him to avoid the death sentence. households that fell under the East Area’s Rapist’s crosshairs that summer, along with a UC Davis student and a woman home alone with her two sons. Although those crimes were not charged due to expired statutes of limitations, DeAngelo admitted to them as part of his plea deal.

“Dear Honorable Judge: We would like to be identified as the Yolo County couple,” the statement began.

“For 42 years, we have lived with the memories of the night we were suddenly awakened by a man standing in our bedroom doorway, shouting orders with a flashlight and a gun in hand, threatening death if we resisted. We were furious that this man ruined our innocence, angry that the memories persist, frustrated that there are triggers that still remind us of this horror, and tired of enduring 40 years of fear that he might return to kill us as he threatened.

“But one of the police officers who hovered around us that night said, ‘Don’t let him change your life,’ so we persevered, pushed the intrusive memories away and carried on — traumatized but surviving, even thriving.

“Then one morning two years ago, my husband checked his computer for daily news, as usual, and

came to me with a big hug and whispered in my ear, ‘They caught him.’ We both felt an instant lightness in our hearts, a lifting of the fear and rage we had felt for all those years. Astonished by the news, we had not thought the East Area Rapist would ever be found.

“We want to thank the whole law enforcement team, especially the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, for their persistence in trying to find this perpetrator who caused so much trauma and grief for us and for so many other victims. They did not let the cases be forgotten. It is truly gratifying to have the closure to know that the East Area Rapist is finally behind bars. Please, don’t ever let him out.

“Sincerely, the Yolo County couple.”

Others who spoke out included DeAngelo’s ex-wife, Sharon Huddle, and former fiancée Bonnie Ueltzen, whose bitter breakup with DeAngelo decades ago likely spurred him to utter “I hate you — I hate you, Bonnie” during one of the Davis attacks.

“Until the day you leave this Earth, this incredible team ... will not just promise you but will ensure that you will never succeed at deceiving or manipulating the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation into believing that you are some feeble, inept old man who somehow deserves better housing or treatment,” Schubert said.

Later, at the press conference, Schubert played video footage from DeAngelo’s Sacramento County Jail cell recorded during the past two months. It showed him moving easily about the room, exercising and climbing the furniture in the days before and after his guilty pleas.

“Watch his flexibility. Watch his dexterity. Watch his mental drive,” Schubert said. “He has been, and always will be, a sociopath in action.”

Where DeAngelo goes from here is not immediately clear. While newly sentenced inmates typically are sent to a CDCR facility in Tracy for state prison assignments, the COVID-19 pandemic has suspended that process for the time being.

‘Sociopath in action’

However, as an LWOP inmate — life without parole — DeAngelo ultimately will be housed at a Level 4 prison, its high-security conditions reserved for California’s most violent and dangerous offenders, prosecutors said.

On Friday it was the prosecutors’ turn, with district attorneys from six counties — Contra Costa, Orange, Sacramento, Santa

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

Refresh, Redecorate & Relax |

DEATHS: Test positives see an increase From Page A1 deaths at long-term care facilities on its dashboard.

Seventeen of those deaths were connected to the Stollwood Convalescent Hospital, also in Woodland, while four were at Woodland Residential Services.

In addition to the recent deaths, Yolo County has reported 425 newly confirmed coronavirus cases countywide in the last two weeks.

The county’s test positivity rate, which had been trending down, has reversed course, increasing to 8.59 percent on Saturday, up from 6.02 percent one week ago.

Having a test positivity rate over 8 percent was one of the metrics that landed the county on the state’s monitoring list in July, along with several other criteria, including hospitalizations.

There, too, the county was heading in the wrong direction this week. Based on the county’s population, there can be no more than 20 total confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized on any single day over the past 14 days. That number stood at exactly 20 earlier this week but had risen to 21 on the county dashboard on Saturday.

Twenty new coronavirus cases were reported on Saturday, all in either West Sacramento or Woodland. Woodland now accounts for 43.5 percent of the county’s total cases, while West Sacramento accounts for 29.4 percent.

Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm

Anchor Weighted Blanket by Malouf

Owner, Paula Rich

Z Pillow- Soft, Supportive, Natural Triple Layer Down

INTRODUCING OUR LUXURY BEDDING When it comes to sleep, finding the right bedding can make all the difference. That is why we are so excited to announce our new bedding line, Malouf. Malouf has all the comfort you could need through many different products including cooling gel pillows, French linen duvets, weighted blankets, Supima cotton sheets, and plenty more. We have personally slept in Malouf Supima Cotton sheets for years and can’t wait to share them with you. Drop by today and get comfortable with the utmost luxury bedding!

Supima Cott Cotton Sheets

2300 Fifth Street | (530) 756- 4187 | www.DavisHomeTrends.com

From Page One

A4 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

SCREEN: School aims to conduct weekly tests using cutting-edge process From Page A1 after welcoming students back to campus and testing times continue to lag across the country, with results often taking as long as 10 days to get back from labs.

“That long turnaround would be a problem in keeping the coronavirus from spreading through a college campus, so UC Davis is making its own way, while still following guidance from county, state and national health officials,” Dateline, the UC Davis news service, reported.

According to the announcement, UC Davis plans to use a new type of saliva sample test that will allow the campus to avoid supplychain shortages and bottlenecks at overburdened medical labs.

“It has much the same biochemistry as other tests but does not depend on proprietary reagents that are in limited

supply, and uses an innovative low-volume, high-throughput format borrowed from the agricultural genetics industry,” said Richard Michelmore, director of the UCD Genome Center, where the screening will be carried out.

In order to begin testing, an existing federal license at UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services needs to be extended to the Genome Center labs. Similar certification extensions have been granted at UC Berkeley, UC Riverside and a lab associated with UC San Francisco.

“Organizers of the screening process hope to collect saliva samples from everyone who comes on campus, starting with students who live in the residence halls,” Dateline reported. “Over time, the campus will expand screening to include everyone affiliated with UC Davis — and hopes to eventually offer the

service to the Davis community.”

Collection points will be set up at several locations around campus and the saliva samples will be processed at the Genome Center on the main Davis campus.

“The molecular biology is fairly straightforward for our team of experts at the Genome Center,” said Ken Burtis, a professor emeritus of genetics who has volunteered to help with the campus pandemic response. “Perhaps the most challenging part to create will be the sample acquisition process.”

The challenge is to collect samples from thousands of people on a regular basis without missing anyone. In order to do that, “it is anticipated that student employees and volunteers may play a large role in helping carry out the sample collection,” the UC Davis news service reported.

The machine the Genome Center will use to process the samples

Classifieds: classads@ davisenterprise.net 530-747-8062 Legals: legals @ davisenterprise.net 530-747-8061

Have you lost a pet?

Do you want to help shelter animals get back home?

Please join the Yolo County Lost and Found Pets Group on Facebook at facebook.com/ groups/yolopets

The City of Vacaville is hiring

Cashier wanted.

Experience preferred MUST have reliable transportation.

707-678-4211 No criminal or drug record. $17-$19/hr.

Family owned since 1975.

2016 Vespa GTS 300cc Super-Sport SE with ABS; 1,008 miles, excellent condition, original owner; made in Italy; perfect for students or short commuting. $4500. Call Tom at 707-235-8600.

Le Tournesol Apartments 3bd/2ba SPECIAL OFFERS 12/mo lease: 1st & last months FREE 10/mo lease: 1st month FREE Per-quarter leasing available Contact sherriegan555@yahoo.com for details

For Rent. Downtown across from the train depot. Live / Work Loft Available Now! Nice view $1,850/mo.

Professional office. 7 rooms.

Can rent separately.

Available Sept. 1st.

Call 530-400-7911.

$1800/mo 803 Radcliffe Duplex 2bd 1ba HVAC private laundry room carport and driveway w/locking storage room, sizeable yards. Pets negotiable with deposit.

See Zillow, Trulia, hotpads.

Available 9/1/20.

Sherri 530-902-8383

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Filed: August 19, 2020 FBN Number: F20200691 1. Fictitious Business Name(s) POOL PHENOM 2. Street Address, City, State and Zip of Principal Place of Business in California.

Business is located in Solano County.

9080 Old Davis Road Davis, CA 95616 Mailing address: PO Box 4522 Davis, CA 95617 3. List Full Name(s) of Registrant(s), Residence Address, State, and Zip Ross Spiritosanto 9080 Old Davis Road Davis, CA 95616 4. Business Classification: Individual 5. Beginning Date of Business: The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A “I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.”

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

6. Signature of Registrant(s): Ross Spiritosanto 944 8/23, 8/30, 9/6, 9/13 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Lee Etta Lowe CASE NO. CVPD 20-123 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Lee Etta Lowe A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Patricia Ann Lowe in the Superior Court of California, County of: Yolo THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: Patricia Ann Lowe be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an

interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on September 22, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 9 located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

Signed: Patricia Ann Lowe Petitioner 2020 5th Street Unit #818 Davis, CA 95617 530-848-6325 8/23, 8/26, 8/30 945 LIEN SALE 9/10/2020 10:00 AM 529 HOUSTON ST. UNIT D WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95691 YEAR 1996 MARIAH VESSEL NV CF# 5077KN HIN MAB12752E696 8/23

946

LIEN SALE 2005 FRHT CENTURY VIN# 1FUJBBAV25LN45216 CA LIC# WP82063 LIEN SALE 09-10-20 10:00 AM 38630 WEST KENTUCKY AVE WOODLAND CA 95695 8/23

The Enterprise is OPEN for business!

To SUBSCRIBE, please call 530-756-0826.

To place an AD, email nhannell@davisenterprise.net For LEGAL NOTICES, email legals@davisenterprise.net For CLASSIFIEDS or OBITUARIES, email classads@ davisenterprise.net or obit@davisenterprise.net

947

Your Puzzle Solutions

$2600/mo 1301 Nutmeg House 4bd 2ba HVAC Laundry hook-ups in 2-car garage, sizeable yards. Pets negotiable with deposit.

See Zillow, Trulia, hotpads.

Available 9/1/20.

Sherri 530-902-8383

Public Notices X

Sudoku 1

W

(upside down)

Sudoku 2

W

• E-mail your public notice to legals@davisenterprise.net • Be sure to include your name and phone number PUBLIC NOTICE

PROPERTY TAX DEFAULT (DELINQUENT) LIST I, Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, State of California, certify that: The real properties listed below were declared to be in tax default at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2017, by operation of law pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code section 3436. The declaration of default was due to non-payment of the total amount due for the taxes, assessments and other charges levied in the fiscal year 2016-2017 that were a lien on the listed real property.

Tax-defaulted real property may be redeemed by payment of all unpaid taxes and assessments, together with the additional penalties and fees, as prescribed by law, or it may be redeemed under an installment plan of redemption.

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

All information concerning redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished, upon request, by Chad Rinde, Yolo County Tax Collector, 625 Court Street, Room 102, Woodland, California 95695, phone 530-666-8190.

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

Property tax-defaulted on July 1, 2017 for the taxes, assessments and other charges for the fiscal year 2016-2017: ASSESSOR'S NUMBER 008-331-006-000 003-480-038-000 066-180-005-000 058-020-017-000 038-090-027-000 045-113-001-000 045-500-045-000 056-341-002-000 008-132-026-000 041-143-077-000 032-491-010-000 060-080-011-000 064-223-013-000 060-200-041-510 071-122-024-000 065-032-009-000 064-280-033-000 008-213-007-000 071-371-008-000 064-044-007-000 063-102-060-000 006-262-033-000 014-482-006-000 067-210-017-000 014-460-027-000 036-406-056-000 042-634-008-000 058-390-021-000 065-280-012-000 049-459-013-000 014-553-010-000 005-593-029-000 008-322-029-000 069-192-009-000 070-164-004-000 003-524-006-000 051-173-012-000 072-124-009-000 051-101-010-000 032-604-002-000 051-173-004-000 051-010-043-000 039-131-004-000 066-251-027-000 044-060-015-000 034-231-011-000 044-050-013-000

Sweetest Table Grapes at Satiety Winery Available 7 days/week 11am-5pm through October

RENTALS & REAL ESTATE

RENTALS & REAL ESTATE FREE & FOR SALE RENTALS & REAL ESTATE

RENTALS & REAL ESTATE RENTALS & REAL ESTATE RENTALS & REAL ESTATE 1x1’s available at Redwood Tree Apartments.

Fresh paint, laminate flooring, swimming pool, billiards room, quiet and well-kept. Visit web: www.rtadavis.com. Call Kaveh at 530-848-8989.

EMPLOYMENT FREE & FOR SALE

www.cityofvacaville.com/jobs Final filing date 8/31/2020 Office for rent, quiet environment, inside entrance from waiting room, outside entrance, 2 windows (perfect for therapist). $450/mo.

(530) 753-0990 Leave message

positive will be notified and given appropriate guidance.

“That team is working closely with public health officials to also help notify close contacts and campus facilities of appropriate next steps based on their level of potential exposure,” Dateline reported.

“The confidentiality of the individual with a positive result will be protected, and their name and COVID-19 status will not be shared with their close contacts.”

Overflow rooms on campus have been set aside and designated as isolation and quarantine spaces. “Residents with confirmed cases will be isolated for the duration of illness and residents who may have been exposed will be quarantined,” the UC Davis “Campus Ready” plan states. Campus staff will provide access to medical care as well as food and other essentials for quarantined and isolating individuals.

EMPLOYMENT SENIOR EQUIPMENT MECHANIC

davisenterprise.com 530-756-0800 315 G Street

PETS

was ordered last week and is called the IntelliQube. It can process thousands of samples a day, but Burtis said it isn’t clear yet how many samples the Genome Center will be able to run. “We don’t want to overpromise,” he said. “We’re at the cutting edge here.”

According to the campus news service, a lot of work remains to be done to set up the IntelliQube, organize the sample collection process and complete regulatory and safety precautions.

“This is a major undertaking, requiring the hard work of many people to pull off successfully,” said Mary Croughan, UC Davis provost and executive vice chancellor and an epidemiologist by training.

A team overseen by Student Health and Counseling Services will conduct contact tracing and is currently designing a process through which people who test

ASSESSEE AMOUNT TO REDEEM NAME ACEVEDO RAYMUNDO CORTEZ 8,552.13 ANGELO REV TRUST 9,497.17 ARECHIGA ARMANDO 939.55 BARAJAS EDGAR 589.37 BARBOSA DAVID A JR & BETSY 9,327.99 BAUGHMAN OTIS & CLARA 1,184.03 BICKEL LIV TRUST 11,227.73 BRAVO JOSE MANUEL CASTILLO 923.37 CAMACHO ORLANDO 620.16 CARD RUTH CHARLOTTE 2008 REV TRUST 8,780.34 COGSWELL MICHAELA & MALIK 16,127.55 CONSOL PAUL & KIM 20,273.00 CONTRERAS JERONIMO 2,828.80 COX JONATHAN D 4,540.64 CRAIN PATRICK K & CARISSA R 35,930.74 DANZIGER KAITLIN & BRANDON 2,356.59 DEANDA LANCE F 1,145.25 DERNER JEFF 16,485.44 DOAN JUSTINE 25,009.93 DOAN THO 2,182.51 EAST STREET PROPERTIES LLC 4,204.50 FERNANDEZ CONSUELO ESTATE OF 5,652.13 FERNANDEZ JOSEPH & ESTHER 2,092.67 FLAUTT FAM REV TRUST 17,491.60 FLUELLEN GERTRUDE ERNESTINE 280.02 FLYNN ANNE-MARIE 2,359.64 FREDETTE KYLE R 5,691.40 GALLAGHER COLBY 22,206.66 GRIBBON CLARENCE L & CAROL TR 53,909.16 GUILLEN JUAN M & EMMA 686.08 GUTIERREZ JOSE & ADELA 2,590.53 HAINES JAMES GAILON & BARBARA 654.71 HANSEN MICHAEL MARVIN 2,334.11 HARDY DIANE P N 11,380.75 HARRINGTON MICHAEL J 22,874.72 HARTMANN RICHARD J & LAURIE L 2,758.11 HAY SONJA R ETAL 6,051.55 HENDERSON ANTHONY H & JOY B 1,449.70 HODGES SHAWN 9,435.86 HOLLAND NANCY L 521.67 HOUSTON MARCIA 1,323.82 HOWARD DANIEL W & DAVID F 27,174.22 HUFF CHARLES DONALD III 1,265.09 INDREBO JASE S 212.63 IRMANDADE DO DIVNO ESPARTO 659.36 JOYCE CAROL 38,888.58 KIRTLAN ROBERT R & HAZEL A 25,044.96

044-090-003-000 044-090-004-000 056-294-002-000 037-120-014-000 049-522-001-000 005-623-003-000 046-230-013-000 046-230-038-000 046-230-046-000 005-505-017-000 060-210-012-000 050-030-019-000 008-082-037-000 006-242-003-000 037-080-025-000 003-203-002-000 005-503-014-000 032-590-011-000 014-500-015-000 014-255-044-000 064-130-035-000 014-346-017-000 064-280-054-000 005-551-003-000 072-122-009-000 049-170-009-000 008-112-049-000 010-580-027-000 046-451-009-000 046-593-008-000 045-432-009-000 071-411-015-000 071-411-016-000 058-075-013-000 014-126-004-000 044-100-004-000 042-591-005-000 014-091-036-000 006-462-017-000 043-210-018-000 070-550-009-000 067-230-017-000 067-230-028-000 003-380-009-000 006-262-006-000 025-551-003-000 046-230-027-000 046-230-033-000 056-291-005-000 056-291-007-000 056-293-002-000 056-294-003-000 049-384-001-000 036-353-007-000 014-072-011-000 046-304-013-000 003-282-002-000 014-460-060-000 066-241-011-000 060-200-031-000 045-280-031-000 051-202-004-000 051-202-005-000 051-202-006-000 051-202-013-000 006-255-018-000 051-172-015-000 065-280-010-000 065-280-011-000 045-123-051-000 005-341-022-000 027-210-007-000 051-182-004-000 047-060-038-000 049-364-001-000 049-366-001-000 049-502-016-000 049-503-018-000 049-504-015-000 036-670-004-000 064-168-010-000

KIRTLAN ROBERT R & HAZEL A 39,856.63 KIRTLAN ROBERT R SR & HAZEL A 64,887.46 KNIGHTS LNDG SPORTSMEN CLUB 652.26 LOPEZ LIV TRUST 33,759.17 LOPEZ RAUL MELENDEZ 868.68 LUCCHESI ANTHONY & TRACI 8,833.81 M&R FAM LIV TRUST 319.72 M&R FAM LIV TRUST 15,242.78 M&R FAM LIV TRUST 13,883.37 MARTIN-LUPORT MARTHA 15,126.38 MB REALTY INC ETAL 1,365.13 MEADOWS SANDRA 9,961.87 MHP HOLDING LLC 118,596.35 MISTCHENKO LUCIE 5,256.42 MORRIS MARGUERITE L 49,071.58 MUKAND BAL 950.36 NICKUM JOIE T 1,405.85 NIELSEN GLEN T & KAREN F ETAL 25,469.91 NORIEGA SAM LEDESMA III & TIEMIN DAI 17,108.27 NUNEZ ERNEST L 11,472.54 OCEAN FRONT MIZ LLC 25,261.51 ODOM JOSEPH J JR 2,989.52 OSKOWSKI PHILIP 3,665.77 OSTROM DAVID S 1,517.00 PALMA JEFF 1,170.55 PEARSON ELIZABETH J 576.45 PEREZ LUCY C 19,806.37 PEREZ LUCY C 22,839.76 PEREZ LUCY C 35,503.20 PEREZ ROBERT JR & ANGELIC D 4,052.97 PEREZ UVALDO D 1,028.42 PINE TREE PROPERTIES INC 35,355.33 PINE TREE PROPERTIES INC 26,037.55 POTTER DIANE S 923.95 PUECH PAUL A 5,789.36 PYLMAN TRUST 9,026.66 RAMIREZ AGUSTIN 2,246.74 RAMOS ERNIE III 2,248.12 RAMOS FERNANDO 3,020.63 RAYMOND FRANCES & RICHARD 4,956.44 REDWOOD BARN NURSERY INC THE 2,765.00 REED GEORGE W 211.52 REED GEORGE W 211.52 RODRIGUEZ CHRISTOPHER R & SHANNON L 343.15 ROMAN JOHN JR & JOVINA 1,494.57 RYLEY ANTHONY 21,084.11 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 82.13 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 82.13 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 83.81 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 83.81 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 83.81 SACTO/SAN JOAQUIN DRN DIST 83.81 SANGHA GURSHARN SINGH 28,474.11 SHENDER KAREN L & SHENDER KAREN L & TRUST 3,029.44 STASINAKIS ANTHONY 2,941.91 STOKES STEVEN B 32,798.24 SYLVESTRI MICHAEL JAMES 96,260.86 TADDESE ESKINDER 9,710.96 TAFOYA MARY HELEN 8,215.15 TILL LAND LLC 19,617.30 TOUCHSTONE LAKE ASSOC 97.29 TSATOURYAN VOSKI 3,336.63 TSATOURYAN VOSKI 11,134.17 TSATOURYAN VOSKI 6,051.68 TSATOURYAN VOSKI 12,001.88 VANDERPOOL REV LIV TRUST 3,671.41 VIDRIO SAUL 16,490.38 VILLALOBOS SURV TRUST ETAL 7,080.17 VILLALOBOS SURV TRUST ETAL 23,864.62 VIRGIN MARY ORTHODOX CHURCH 3,325.54 WALLACE WILMA S 7,941.76 WDLD/SPRECKLES IND BUS PK LLC 56,716.41 WILLIAMS RANDOLPH & NANCY B 2,883.65 YOCHA DEHE WINTUN NATION 1,378.49 YOLO CO HOUSING AUTHORITY 687.75 YOLO CO HOUSING AUTHORITY 1,328.32 YOLO CO HOUSING AUTHORITY 109.53 YOLO CO HOUSING AUTHORITY 109.53 YOLO CO HOUSING AUTHORITY 109.53 YOU JIANYING 5,515.29 YOUNG HOWARD E & SHIELA A TR 2,173.29

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

Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on August 14, 2020.

Published in: The Davis Enterprise on: August 23rd, August 30th and September 6th, 2020 8/23, 8/30, 9/6 938

Business

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 A5

De Vere’s pub closes for ‘foreseeable future’ D e Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis closed “for the foreseeable future” on Friday, saying it is pausing to “reimagine how to do business in this environment.”

Henry de Vere White said Friday that he personally called each of his 24 employees and “let them know that they are amazing.” The restaurant had 64 employees in early 2020, before COVID-19.

De Vere’s, at 217 E St., opened in November 2011. The popular community gathering space offered different seating environments, like bar hightops, booths, the cozy library or the outdoor patio. People came for fish and chips, pints, whisky and Dr. Andy’s Pub Quiz — but rarely for takeout.

It expanded its outdoor seating. “It’s just a challenging time,” White said. “It’s hard to put a pub on a sidewalk. It’s not the pub atmosphere.”

And with restaurants operating on a 5-percent profit margin, “if you take away volume of sales, it just doesn’t function.” They recently invested in a new computer system to improve employee and patron safety.

The staff have known for a few days. “We had every intention of opening (this weekend) as a way to invite you to the patio for one last hurrah and a proper farewell, but the air quality conditions won’t allow for that,” it announced on its social media pages.

“We may be Irish but an Irish goodbye is not our style,” it said, referring to the tradition of ducking out of an get-together without bidding farewell.

White said he hopes to reopen the pub. He is encouraged by the landlord’s flexibility, which helped them stay open this long.

“But we saw a point of, ‘I don’t

think this is going to work in the next six to eight months.’ ” He said businesses and staff need support. “Hopefully, the government can stop arguing with themselves and help. Insert almost any business, especially a small business. They need help.

And we need stimulus for our employees.”

The midtown Sacramento pub remains open. It rebranded to Snug Jr., which offers patio dining, curbside pickup and delivery through DoorDash. It sells burgers, comfort food and a few pub and breakfast offerings that do well as takeout.

“I’ve been talking to a lot of restauranteurs who are in same boat,” White said. “There’s some ingenious creativity going on. A lot will come out of that (postCOVID) in our industry.”

White said the Davis pub will remain closed at least through the rainy season. Meanwhile, it’s “back to drawing board and see what we can come up with.”

———— As I write this, it’s hard to think about going outside for a walk, much less to shop or eat.

The air quality has been unhealthy or very unhealthy for much of the week, as fire crews battle blazes all over the state.

So, while I’m usually urging you to head downtown to enjoy Open Air Davis, curbside pickup or delivery is the best bet while we wait for the air to clear. I’m seeing a lot of outdoor restaurant patios close, and outdoor

The crush is on

fitness classes canceled because of unhealthy conditions.

It’s important for business owners to know the rules to protect their workers when smoke forces the air quality index to unhealthy levels (151 or above). According to Cal/ OSHA, workers must be provided with N95 or similar grade masks if they work outside. And those are hard to come by these days. Cloth, dust or typical disposable masks do not filter out the fine particulate matter in smoke that damages your lungs. Even if you’re not working in it, you should avoid exposure as much as possible when it’s above the unhealthy range.

“Wildfire smoke is especially harmful because of PM2.5 (particulate patter),” said Mat Ehrhardt, the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District’s air pollution control officer.

“PM2.5 is so small, about 1/30 the width of a human hair, that it can penetrate deep into the lungs.”

The Davis Downtown Business Association recommends that businesses follow the guidance of the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District and Cal/OSHA, regarding limiting exposure to unhealthy air.

But DDBA Executive Director Brett Maresca said, “It ultimately is up to the businesses what they choose to do.”

Some restaurants temporarily closed because of poor air quality. Others, like Three Mile Brewing, closed their outdoor patio, offering takeout through the weekend. Check before you go. While I track business closures on a spreadsheet (see below), it does not include this information.

———— A recent study by TOP Data

delivered more bad news for brick-and-mortar retailers. The Aug. 6 survey of 600 U.S. adults with school-age children found that the “pandemic is on track to all but eliminate retail and commerce as we once knew it.”

According to a news release, “nearly three-quarters surveyed (73.5%) reported that they are shopping online more now than they did prior to the spread of COVID-19. Moreover, nearly 9 in 10 (88%) said they will continue to shop online more even after a cure or vaccine for COVID-19 is discovered.”

What are the things respondents reported buying online that they usually purchase in stores? Clothing (67%), household items (60%), groceries (56%), cleaning supplies (51%) and electronics (49%).

———— It’s nice to see businesses working together to support each other. Danielle Crane, owner of Sassafras Beauty, is working with Heather Caswell, owner of The Wardrobe, to provide “shopping experiences” for “inner and outer beauty and wellness,” Caswell said.

They promote each other’s businesses with their social media and newsletters, and both plan promotions on Wednesday — Women's Equality Day. Sassafras, a beauty supply store in The Marketplace, is at 1411 W. Covell Blvd., No. 109. The Wardrobe, a women’s clothing and accessories boutique, is at 117 D St., downtown.

———— The hardest-working journalist in Yolo County is Anne Ternus-Bellamy, who is doing an amazing job covering the city, county and tons of COVID-19 news for The Enterprise. On Wednesday, she reported on the City Council’s approval of

Meals on Wheels gets $12K grant from Bayer Fund grant Special to The Enterprise

A gondola pours chardonnay grapes into the crusher at the Matchbook Wine Company on Monday as the winery kicked off its 13th annual harvest and first day of crush in Zamora, 30 minutes outside of Davis.

In the middle, Matchbook owners Lane and John Giguiere look over the crushed chardonnays.

Greeted by an earlymorning thunderstorm, the winemakers continued their tradition of “sabering” open bottles of Schramsberg sparkling wine before the first load of chardonnay went into the crusher. At bottom, winemakers Merlissa Gamino and Dan Cederquist stand in Matchbook’s vineyard. The harvest continues through mid-September.

COURTESY PHOTOS

Meals on Wheels Yolo County was recently awarded a $12,000 Bayer Fund grant and will use the money to fund — in its entirety — the Weekend Food Project for fiscal year 2020-2021. Employees from Bayer Woodland recommended Meals on Wheels for the grant.

The Weekend Food Project was designed to provide relief to low- and extremely low-income seniors served

by Meals on Wheels Yolo County. On the last Friday of each month, a bag of groceries is assembled to give seniors options for preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner over the last weekend of the month, when funds for food might be dangerously low.

The program is in its fifth year and has provided more than 8,000 bags of

In 2019, Bayer Fund awarded more than $14 million to more than 3,200 charitable and nonprofit organizations.

DAVIS GLASS & SCREEN Call us first for

SERVICE & REPAIRS • Window/ Patio Door Hardware • Screens (New + Rescreen) • Mirrors/ Shower Doors • Failed/ Broken Dual-Pane Windows

Contr. Lic# 990121

Call for a

JUMBO LOAN Estate Planning|Probate Trust AdministraƟon Special Needs|Elder Law

quote.

I can beat most other lenders.

21 Court Street Woodland, CA 1652 W. Texas Street &ĂŝƌĮĞůĚ͕

Caring for our clients, ProtecƟng their assets™

(530) 760-6625 www.LorainDesign.com

“We are so grateful to Bayer for this grant,” said Christi Skibbins, executive director of Meals on Wheels Yolo County. “They have been so supportive of our organization over the past few years, and we appreciate it. Our clients have been so grateful for this program, and it is clear that for many, it makes a big positive impact on their budget and ability to get through the end of the month comfortably.”

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

“We’re proud to be able to provide support to develop programs that help combat challenges such as food insecurity, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and support services to patients and families managing an illness or disease.”

Mon-Fri 8am-5pm (Wed until 6pm) • Sat 8am-12pm

(530) 662-2226

Video Consults Available

groceries to needy Yolo County seniors. Local community groups and businesses volunteer to pack the bags for distribution each month.

530.758.0910 • www.DavisGlass.com 920 3rd St., Suite D • Downtown Davis

www.bsoninlaw.com

Outdated Kitchen Driving You Crazy?

We’re STILL Designing Remodels!

University Commons, the redevelopment of University Mall.

The whole mall — not including Trader Joe’s or the Arco station — will be demolished and rebuilt. It’s on Russell Boulevard, between Anderson Road and Sycamore Lane.

To earn council approval, mall owner Brixmor reduced the building height from 80 to 72 feet. The development calls for retail and office space on the ground floor, four floors of housing above, and a three-floor parking garage beneath the residential portion. It passed on a 3-2 vote, with the two council members running for re-election — Will Arnold and Lucas Frerichs — voting against it.

Mayor Gloria Partida said, “When we talk about smart growth, this is what it looks like.”

———— 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, Restaurantsclosed, Businesses-retail, Businesses-service, Special hours (for older adults or compromised shoppers), and Gifting Stimulus Program beneficiaries. The notes mention if they are Black-owned businesses. Please email me to suggest updates.

The following restaurants remain temporarily closed during the pandemic: Crepeville, Delta of Venus, D Street Steakhouse, Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine and Uncle Vito’s.

— 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.

Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act. NMLS #1141.

David Heard, Branch Manager NMLS #244146

530.902.3725 www.daveheard.net · dheard@mmcdcorp.com

A6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

Living

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 A7

Community college might just be the way to go

I

f there were ever a time to consider community college, that time is now.

In California, the cost is next to nothing. Class credits are transferable to four-year universities. And that freshman-year dorm experience students have been waiting for is shaping up to be more of a quarantine prison sentence in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Across the country in North Carolina, students have decried university decisions at Chapel Hill after coronavirus clusters of five-or-more individuals surfaced at four separate student housing facilities during the Tar Heels’ first week with students back on campus. This, coming after UNC had already implemented strict quarantine, maskwearing and social distancing protocols.

UNC has since canceled all inperson classes.

As more than 75 percent of universities across the nation begin to resume instruction this month and next via distance learning, many do so with large portions of their student populations up in arms — calling publicly for tuition cuts.

A recent New York Times article poked fun at Chapman University after the private school tossed its plan to reopen campus for the fall. Announcing its shift to all-remote coursework, Chapman assured its students they will still receive a “robust

Chapman experience,” despite the last-minute shakeup.

“What about a robust refund?” fired back Christopher Moore, a rising senior, on Facebook.

Since late April, both the University of California and California State University systems have been fighting off class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of nearly 1 million students, demanding money back from schools, which have continued to charge for campus resources unavailable to them while physical locations remain shuttered.

Similar suits have been filed all across the country, with nearly all universities resisting any form of fee-lowering. Some schools have even soldiered on with pre-planned fee increases, like the $225 hike per semester at Virginia’s George Mason University.

Meanwhile, community college enrollment has begun to surge, especially in California.

More and more, students are beginning to realize they can take the exact same classes at their local community college

(for a fraction of the cost) and at the same time set themselves up for higher rates of acceptance to four-year schools than most seniors applying straight out of high school.

Since Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of the 2019-20 state budget, California has provided two years of community college, tuition-free for first-time, fulltime students as part of the California College Promise Program.

The state’s Transfer Agreement Guarantee also secures community college students spots as juniors at a variety of UC, CSU, and private colleges, including UC Davis, following the completion of those two years of coursework.

Another program, the Law School Pathway Project, allows for students to take two years of school at community colleges, followed by two at a four-year campuses, then have three guaranteed years of law school as part of partnerships with Cal, UCD, UCLA and a handful of other California universities.

T

he largest junior college system in the country, California community colleges serve more than a quarter of the nation’s 6.7 million community college students, including the 3,000-plus enrolled annually at Sacramento City College’s Davis Center.

And that figure is expected to jump to around 4,000 this upcoming academic year,

according to Andrea Gaytan, the Davis Center’s Dean. As part of an ongoing partnership with DJUSD, local high school students can also take courses that both satisfy their graduation requirements and count for college credit through dual enrollment at SCC. “It’s a fabulous way for students to get ahead and technically be almost a sophomore in college by the time they graduate,” adds Gaytan, who says that with just a few days remaining before the start of the semester (which will be conducted virtually), SCC Davis classes are nearly 97-percent full.

“And that’s pretty incredible considering we’re usually around 80-percent full at this time,” Gaytan explains. “Community colleges are such a great option right now for students who are hesitant to commit to a four-year university without knowing what type of modality their instruction will be in moving forward.”

At most schools, residence halls will remain close to empty over the next few months. However, some colleges, looking to bring in income wherever possible, have announced plans to limit students to singleoccupancy dorm rooms, including UC Santa Barbara.

However, any Gauchos who do elect to live on-campus will be prohibited from visiting dining halls and instead offered to-go meals for the entirety of fall

quarter.

And even those plans are subject to change, UCSB noted in a release earlier this week, encouraging students to have back-up plans in place for the fall, should Santa Barbara County health officials not approve them.

Locally, UC Davis housing has also informed incoming freshmen it may withdraw its guaranteed housing to first-year students, “in the case of public health guidance.”

N

either Davis nor Santa Barbara have 100 percent committed to offering in-person classes this fall.

However, all their courses will be made available online.

“Every four-year school across the country is grappling with how to best deal with (the pandemic),” Gaytan says. “And that’s putting students in a tough situation with all the expenses associated with travel and living at a four-year college campus.

“And after this past spring, we’ve seen how hard it can be having to backtrack and go home if schools or their residence halls close.”

Sacramento City’s fall classes kick off officially on Aug. 22.

Students have until Sept. 6 to enroll.

—Reach Owen Yancher at oyancher@davisenterprise.net.

Follow him via Twitter at @dhspunter.

Double your donation to help more children

BY NANCY STORM AND SHARON SCHAUER Special to The Enterprise

A

s individuals and as a community, we are all feeling the upheaval that the COVID19 pandemic is causing.

Sheltering in place will help flatten the curve and save lives, but it has also placed vulnerable children out of site and at an increased risk of abuse and neglect.

“When families experience high levels of stress, it is associated with increases in child abuse and neglect,” said Yolo Crisis Nursery Executive Director, Heather Sleuter. “At the Nursery, we are seeing more clients experiencing domestic violence, substance abuse, post-partum depression, mental illness, and other serious situations as a result of the pandemic. We also have parents with essential positions in desperate need of quality childcare for their children.”

The 2020 California Children’s Report Card states that 500,000 babies are born each year in California with two in three

YOLO CRISIS NURSERY born into low-income households. With lowincome families hit especially hard by the pandemic, there are more families in need.

The Yolo Crisis Nursery offers voluntary and free childcare to families in crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Recently, the Nursery has seen a 120-percent increase in the number of care packages we are distributing to parents in our community.

These care packages provide childcare essentials such as diapers, formula, wipes and clothing to families in need.

Now more than ever, it is important that we recognize and guide those who might need extra assistance to the help they need. If you or someone you know needs help caring for their child, please call 530-758-6680.

Yolo County is filled with generous and compassionate people, and together we all do make a

children in their time of need.

Won’t you join us to invest in our future, improve our community, and to save a child? To unlock the matching gift, all donations must go through the Travis Credit Union Foundation. Please visit www.tcufund.org/ waystogive to donate online or for instructions on how to donate in person or by check.

Please be sure to select Yolo Crisis Nursery from the drop-down box or note Yolo Crisis Nursery on your check.

COURTESY PHOTO

In California, two in three babies born each year are born into low-income families. These families have been especially hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. difference. The Yolo Crisis Nursery is participating in the Travis Credit Union Foundation COVID-19 Relief Initiative to help raise much-needed funds to help more children and families impacted by the pandemic.

Won’t you join us?

Every dollar donated up to $20,000 by Sept. 30 will unlock a dollar-fordollar matching gift from the Travis Credit Union Foundation for a possible total donation to the Nursery of $40,000! Gifts of any amount are welcome.

A $100 donation

provides a safe stay for a child in crisis. Our goal is to raise $20,000 in donations, resulting in a total donation of $40,000 to provide 400 safe stays for children in crisis. This is a fantastic opportunity to double the reach of your donation to help more

Thank you for your support and for helping us to raise additional funds to care for the most vulnerable children in our community.

Together, we can weather this crisis with grace and dignity, and minimize the suffering in our community. To learn more, donate, or volunteer, please visit www.yolocrisis nursery.org.

— Nancy Storm and Sharon Schauer are cochairs of The Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery.

Plant breeders honor UCD prof. Bliss Special to The Enterprise The 2020 recipient of the National Association of Plant Breeders Lifetime Achievement Award, given for distinguished long-term service to the plant breeding discipline through research, teaching, outreach and leadership, is Dr. Fredrick A. Bliss, professor emeritus in the department of plant sciences at UC Davis and retired from Seminis Vegetable Seeds.

As his nomination letter concisely summarized: “It is one thing for a person to have worked in such a diversity of areas, but it is entirely unexpected for one person to make so many meaningful and lasting contributions across such diverse areas.”

Bliss received the bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joining the department of horticulture faculty at UW Madison in 1966. In addition to teaching, public service and breeding self-pollinated vegetables, he worked as part of a UWUSAID Team building the new University of Ife in Nigeria.

Subsequently, he engaged in research and development projects

NAME DROPPERS globally, including consulting work in Nigeria, Somalia, Honduras and Brazil. In 1988, he left Wisconsin to join the UCD faculty as professor and Lester Endowed Chair in the pomology department, where he taught and mentored grad students along with research on genetic improvement of fruit crops, including kiwifruit, apricot and Prunus rootstocks.

He served as department chair from 1991 to 1994 and chair of the plant biology grad group from 1990 to 1992, and on numerous departmental and state-wide committees, while continuing international work.

Describing Bliss’ lifelong commitment to international collaborative activities, a Brazilian colleague and former graduate student noted, “I have no doubt that Fred Bliss is one of the most outstanding plant breeders the world has seen. This award recognizes his competence and also sends a message to many like myself who had the chance to get to know him — life can be beautiful for people who are able to put together both soft and hard skills in

benefit of humanity.”

At UW Madison and UC Davis, Bliss was active in classroom instruction and was major professor for 33 Ph.D. and M.S. students and nine postdocs from the U.S. and 11 other countries. Over his career he led breeding programs for cowpea, common bean, tomato, stonefruit and tree fruit rootstocks.

He is author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and 20 book chapters and review articles.

Bliss began the third phase of his professional career in 1998, when he joined Seminis Vegetable Seeds as Director Worldwide Breeding responsible for leading 115 vegetable breeders. He also held seniordirector positions of R&D Strategic Support; R&D Special Projects & Commercial Research Coordinator and a member of the Strategic Planning committee before retiring in early 2010.

He continued consulting work for the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, several commercial companies and professional advisory panels.

— Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenterprise.net.

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Sports. Baseball.

What National League team logo is a cityscape inside a circle?

2. Science. Like horses and donkeys, zebras belong to a genus that starts with the letter E. What is the second letter in the name of that genus?

3. Great Americans.

Who served as Jefferson’s Secretary of State (180109), and then was elected president?

4. Unusual Words.

What four-letter word as a noun is a kind of food, and

as a verb means “hitting someone in the head”?

5. Politics. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, comes from what U.S. state?

Answers: The New York Mets, Equus (so Q), James Madison, bean, South Carolina.

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

Please recycle newspaper bags and rubber bands at The Enterprise.

315 G Street, Davis.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

A8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Get 0% APR Financing for 63 months* on selected new models now through August 31st!

2020 Impreza Premium CVT

Lease for only

$119

plus tax for 36 mo

Model Code: LJD-11 MSRP $22,995. 36-month lease on approved credit, $6,550 due at signing includes tax, title, fees and $0 security deposit. 10,000 miles per year, plus 15¢ per mile in excess. Cannot be combined with any other incentives or VɈLYZ H[ [OPZ VɈLY :[VJR =05! : 3

2020 Forester CVT

Lease for only

$149

plus tax for 36 mo

Model Code: LFB-02 MSRP $26,105. 36-month lease on approved credit, $6,200 due at signing includes tax, title, fees and $0 security deposit. 10,000 miles per year, plus 15¢ per mile in excess. Cannot be combined with any other incentives or VɈLYZ H[ [OPZ VɈLY :[VJR =05! : 3/

2020 Ascent Premium 7 Pass CVT

Lease for only

$229

plus tax for 36 mo

Model Code: LCC-12 MSRP $ TVU[O SLHZL VU HWWYV]LK JYLKP[ due at signing includes tax, title, fees and $0 security deposit. 10,000 miles per year, plus 15¢ per mile in excess. Cannot be combined with any other incentives or VɈLYZ H[ [OPZ VɈLY :[VJR =05! : 3

2020 Outback Premium CVT

Lease for only

$159

plus tax for 36 mo

Model Code: LDD-11

MSRP $ $30,236. 36-month lease on approved credit, $6,900 due at signing includes tax, title, fees and $0 security deposit. 10,000 miles per year, plus 15¢ per mile in excess. Cannot be combined with any other incentives or VɈLYZ H[ [OPZ VɈLY :[VJR =05! : 3

877-538-0407 | 8581 Laguna Grove Drive, Elk Grove CA | ElkGroveSubaru.com All prices plus government fees and taxes, any ďŹ nance charges, any dealer government fees and taxes, any ďŹ nance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic ďŹ ling charge, and any emission testing charge. All prices good through close of business on 08/23/2020.

sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

Are there more thunderstorms on the way?

See Page B6

B Section

Forum Op-ed Dial-a-Pro Comics

B4 B5 B6 B7

Aggies await go-ahead Women wonder when title defense may begin ■ Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on UC Davis women’s basketball. Today’s installment looks at the preseason pandemic upheaval.

What is the NCAA’s message?

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor

I

f I had read this headline 50 years ago when I was a rookie sportswriter just learning to type for a living, I wouldn’t have believed it.

The headline? “NCAA approves messages on uniforms.”

Heck, if I’d read that headline 50 weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed it.

Falling in line with several professional leagues, the NCAA has finally discovered that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution might actually apply to college football players. All college athletes, in fact.

“College athletes can now wear patches on their uniforms to honor causes they support, including social justice initiatives, the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel announced,” according to a piece by ESPN’s Myron Medcalf.

The rules say they can also wear patches for commemorative or memorial purposes.

“The new rule will permit one patch on the front of a player’s uniform and one on the back. Players can also replace their last names on the backs of their jerseys to honor a cause they support.”

If I were back in college competing for the old Blue-and-Gold, I’m not sure how I’d react to this news. To begin with, in those days no one had his or her name on the back of their jersey or uniform or golf shirt or whatever sort of gear their sport required them to wear.

We were all on the same team, which means we proudly sported the team name — California Aggies — on our gear, but nothing more.

T

here are, of course, some limits to this sudden embrace of free speech.

Said the release from NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, “The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules to allow student-athletes in all sports to wear patches on their uniforms for commemorative and memorial purposes, as well as to support social justice issues.”

So far, so good ...

“The patch must not exceed 2¼ square inches and must be placed on the front or sleeve of the uniform.”

Two and one-quarter square inches?

Seriously? My left thumb is bigger than that.

In other words, you can have free speech, all right, but it will have to be so small that no one can actually see it.

“While not all team members are required to wear the patch, they must be identical for those who choose to wear them.”

Wow. So are players going to vote on the message, in which case we’re now talking about freedom of expression for the majority, which is hardly freedom of expression at all.

SEE DUNNING, PAGE B2

MACKENZIE TRPCIC

In a perfect world, UC Davis women’s basketball would be underway by now. All athletes would be in town. The sound of bouncing balls would be ringing off the walls at Hickey Gym. The excitement of shooting for a fifth-straight Big West Conference championship would permeate Aggie Nation.

But fewer than half of coach Jennifer Gross’ crew has reported. Team workouts are forbidden, and the season’s schedule hasn’t been released.

The NCAA indicates the game plan is to begin play on Nov. 10.

But public health officials continue to paint a bleak picture in regards to just how safe it will be to play in the face of a still-raging pandemic.

“What we don’t know is what’s going to happen with our season,” Gross explains. “If we get pushed back, does that mean we start a nonconference schedule in January or jump right into Big West?

We just don’t know.”

One Enterprise source reports that a decision about the Nov. 10 NCAA start date will come in mid-September.

“It’s hard. It’s really hard. We miss our team. We miss being around them every day and we miss helping them get better,” the coach, who is entering her 10th season at the helm, points out. “That’s the hardest part, not having that same contact with them.”

Last season, UCD went 17-12 overall, winning the Big West with a 12-4 mark and rolling into the conference tournament with the No. 1 seed. But Davis didn’t get to play a postseason game as the BWC tourney was canceled the day before UCD was to take the court. The Aggies were coming off of an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2019.

Two of the Aggies’ four international players, Denmark’s Lena Svanholm and Megan Jones of

SEE AGGIES, PAGE B2

WAYNE TILCOCK/ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTOS

Davis High boys and girls tennis coaches Dale Hersch, far left photo, and Sally Hosley, above (far right), respectively, will need to work out court sharing between their squads.

CIF serves up a logjam Blue Devil girls tennis season shift to cause overlap with boys?

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor When the California Interscholastic Federation put state prep athletics on hold until 2021, it potentially created a freefor-all in regard to field and court use.

At Davis High, girls net coach Sally Hosley and boys counterpart Dale Hersch believe they have it figured out.

Since the July CIF edict, the veteran tennis coaches have been working together — and with respective league counterparts — to share space.

According to Hersch, the Delta girls will start in the winter with the boys revving up in spring. “That gives us each a 12-week season,” Hersch explained. “Maybe not enough room for nonconference or makeup matches. ... Right now we have to take it one step at a time. We’ll see.”

The boys won’t be that far off course, other Sac-Joaquin Section schools — have given that their season is normally a varsity and junior varsity teams. Hosley spring start. But Hosley’s crew has been notes that, together, “about 75 players” are involved. transplanted by almost three months.

“First, it’s fingers crossed that we even “That could be the challenge, to finagle have a season,” Hosley told The Enter- four teams, using four courts, five days a prise, adding: “That’s being week,” Hosley points out. “It highly optimistic ... but I can be done. It will just look have a group of girls who different. And we’ll be really want to play — espegrateful to have a season.” cially the seven seniors Through clinics, private who’d like to go out on a lessons and camps, Hosley high note. and Hersch have been espe“We have to be realistic. If cially busy this summer. we’re able to get some “My camps have been matches in, even it they’re dynamite because I’m outjust league matches, we’ll be Sally Hosley and tennis covers just thrilled.”

DHS girls tennis coach side, everything in regard to Hosley and Hersch agree social distancing,” relays that court time — especially if the two teams are forced to play simul- Hersch, who also runs the Davis Tennis taneously — would an major issue. Even if Academy. “With so many other camps and there is some overlap in play (league tournaments canceled, kids came running schedules haven’t been etched in stone), to me. It’s the best (attendance) I’ve had the two Blue Devil squads might have to my entire life for our camps.” get creative to share the Community Park Both coaches have ensured that masks Tennis Complex.

SEE LOGJAM, PAGE B2 Both DHS programs — unlike most

“First, it’s fingers crossed that we even have a season.”

Lessons in the desert with Whitman O

nce every day and twice on Sundays, goes the saying.

Originally it referred to preaching — and how often it was done — but for me as a kid, that was how often I read The Davis Enterprise sports section.

So it was a bit of a shock when The Enterprise announced last week that it would scale back the sports section to once a week … on Sundays. And due to our lack of coverage options and ongoing funding struggles, last week was also my last at the paper for the foreseeable future.

My two-and-a-half years at the ’Prise have been a joy and a privilege. I treasure our talented writers and editors, and I know our publication will continue to provide an invaluable service to the Davis community.

Scaling back for now is the right decision.

Our sports staff will keep

putting out important coverage and storytelling. Bruce Gallaudet will still be writing columns 50 years from now. And I will still read The Enterprise twice on Sundays.

Looking back on the past few months in the content wasteland, I’m extremely proud of the work that my colleagues have done at 315 G St. — and recently from respective homes.

As I’ve groaned, half-jokingly, to friends and family, it’s hard to be a sports journalist in a sports desert.

But we here at The Davis Enterprise scrounged for new stories and angles that we hadn’t seen before the pandemic flipped the world of athletics upside down.

Like in a New Yorker cartoon, we crawled through the sand dunes in search of news.

For me, this time in the desert had disconcerting effects. It

made me think terrible, awful, no-good thoughts.

In fact, I began to question whether sports even mattered.

Crazy, I know. Maybe it was the dehydration.

But listen, why do we consume so much of our time with games when the world has so many problems that need fixing — many of them laid bare by this pandemic?

Coming from a sports journalist, this probably sounds like blasphemy.

In my desperate search for meaning, I went back to “Ken

Burns: Baseball” a masterpiece of a documentary from a master documentarian on the history of our national pastime.

The film opens with a quote from Walt Whitman, published in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1846.

It goes: “In our sun-down perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing ‘base,’ a certain game of ball … . Let us go forth a while, and get better air in our lungs, let us leave our close rooms ... A game of ball is glorious.”

A

h yes. This is why we sport. More than anything, it is an escape from the day-to-day of our lives.

Whitman’s words resonated for me at this time when we cannot leave our rooms, and when the air we take into our lungs may do harm instead of invigorate.

Right now, a glorious game of ball is needed more than ever.

It’s what makes our situation so difficult. Everything seems suffocating right now, and a breath of fresh air at a ball game of any kind would make it just that tiny bit easier.

And while many of the professional leagues have returned to play, it won’t be until at least November that many of our local athletes can take the field.

These student-athletes’ resilience cannot be understated. I’ve seen it first-hand in the desert.

Seasons have been postponed and canceled, friends forced to practice independently, and support systems confined to boxes on Zoom meetings.

Often, we look to professional athletes for hope in hard times.

After all, the state of this country is often reflected back at us in its

SEE GOLDENBERG, PAGE B2

Sports

B2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

Keeping Aggies healthy on campus UCD’s Jeremiah Ray weighs in on the battle with COVID ■ Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part chat with UC Davis team physician Jeremiah Ray. The former Occidental College student-athlete and Stanford University School of Medicine graduate today talks about protocols for those Aggies checking in for voluntary workouts.

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor With fall collegiate sports on the West Coast having been postponed or canceled, the UC Davis athletic department nonetheless remains a beehive of activity.

Keeping student-athletes safe from the effects of the pandemic — and at the same time helping them maintain peak physical condition — comes under the purview of Dr. Jeremiah Ray. As the head team physician for the Aggies’ 25 squads and more than 700 athletes, Ray works closely with a panel of Big West Conference doctors and campus health officials and follows protocols from across the nation and in Yolo County to ensure that “our Aggies, and those they come in contact with, are safe.”

On campus, the UCD Student Center watches out for the more than 34,000 students typically enrolled at the university. Occupational Health Services are the guardians of physical well-being for staff and faculty.

Meanwhile, Ray guides 13 trainers, the coaches and the legions of Aggie student-athletes down a safe path during COVID-19.

Ray says that UC Davis, the Big West and the NCAA often fall back on the edicts of the Pac-12 or Big Ten to fashion their own pandemic protocols. He also believes “what better place to be” than UCD, with its hospital and UC Davis Health within reach for medical advice and support.

Ray was generous with his time during a telephone interview with The Davis Enterprise. Today, he offers insight into how UCD provides a safe environment as student-athletes return to town from near and far ...

Q. What specific protocols are in place for studentathletes who are on campus for voluntary workouts?

Ray: “At UC Davis, we had all students as they

COURTESY PHOTO

Dr. Jeremiah Ray is the head team physician for the 25 UC Davis athletic squads, which include more than 700 student-athletes. returned to campus quarantine for 10 days prior to joining any Intercollegiate Athletic (ICA) sites or facilities.”

Q. And once out of quarantine, what does testing look like?

Ray: “We’ve had some back-and-forth on testing … initially, we started doing testing on all of our athletes — that Q-tip thing in the nose. But because there is an uptick in regional cases, we really wanted to save medical resources for the humans who are in the greatest amount of need.

“We shifted away from testing everybody and, instead, utilized the quarantine method. If someone was an asymptomatic carrier … they would report to their dorm or apartment in Davis and quarantine for 10 days.

“Every day, every single UC Davis athlete will take a quick survey on their phone: It asks them about all the symptoms of coronavirus and they have to say, ‘No, I

haven’t had any of these symptoms.’

“If they pass that page, the next one asks, ‘Have you had close contact with anybody with COVID-19?’

“If the answer remains ‘no,’ they get a nice, big, green pass icon. They present that icon to a staff member at one of our UC Davis sites, so, if they’re going to the track to run, or access an athletic training room to get some therapy, they have to show that icon. Then they still get their temperature checked.”

(Ray says the university has a acquired “a bunch of infrared contact thermometers” … devices that rapidly measure temperatures without contact.)

“The next step is copious amounts of hand sanitizers, and all of our student-athletes are required to use face coverings anytime they’re on campus for any reason.”

Q. What about practices?

Ray: “We allow (student-athletes) to exercise on their own. We can’t (conduct) any group practices. We can’t have any team gatherings. But we will have people doing voluntary individual exercises using some of our equipment … all of which has undergone a big sanitation protocol.

“They can use our kettlebells and medicine balls, our yoga mats and dumbbells and barbells and stuff like that.

When they’re done with that, all (the equipment and workout space) gets sanitized before they’re checked out for the next athlete.

“So that’s what we’re doing on campus, which looks nothing like sports, which is really sad and unfortunate.

But it is keeping the athletes fit, healthy and strong and, I think, minimally sane. Otherwise they’d be going bonkers.”

Q. How do the student-athletes start that process of reconnecting with UC Davis?

Ray: “They coordinate first with one of our 13 athletic trainers under my supervision. We conduct educational Zoom conversations with all of the teams first, so they’re super-well-informed about COVID-19 coming in.”

Notes: Ray says the athletes aren’t the only group about whom he worries. In Monday’s Morning Briefing (online at www.davisenterprise.com), see how protecting one’s bubble of contacts is important, too. Also, concussion protocol and prevention of head injuries are priorities.

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or 530-320-4456. Also follow Gallaudet on Twitter: @BGsportsinDavis.

LOGJAM: More AGGIES: Defending champs loaded with talent lessons to learn From Page B1

From Page B1 are worn, there is third-party help retrieving balls and participants’ temperatures are taken before sessions begin.

“In Davis, especially, you’re going to hear it if you’re not doing it right,” Hersch notes.

And doing it right means working around the recent air-quality challenges resulting from Northern California wildfires, not to mention the oppressive heat.

Hersch’s clinics were canceled last week, and most instruction has been delayed or moved to early mornings.

Hosley explains that “a majority of my students are over 75,” so COVID-19, the fires and soaring temperatures are especially troublesome.

Hosley finds that families have become involved in group lessons, too: “It was something they could do together.”

“Honestly, there are some real-life lessons to be learned by our girls through all of this,” the girls’ coach continues. “Like, if I’m telling my girls to be patient, I have to do the same.”

Hosley laughs when she says, “I saw things pick up during the summer. You know, I never thought we’d see tennis as essential, but it kind of is.”

Notes: Both coaches discussed the possibility of playing mixed doubles, but going forward with that plan would have taken both teams out of Division I postseason eligibility — and, say Hersch and Hosley, would have increased the kids’ social bubble, adding concerns about spreading the coronavirus. ... For lessons, reach Hosley at sallyhosley@ hotmail.com or to link up with Hersch, go to davistennisacademy.com.

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530320-4456.

GOLDENBERG: A sad good-bye From Page B1 professional sports.

But rarely has that reflection been seen so clearly in youth sports as it is now. This pandemic hasn’t just muddled the pinnacle of sports — it has affected every level of athletics, from Little League and AYSO to high school and college.

So right now, turn to your studentathletes for inspiration. They will handle the adversity thrown at them by this pandemic like they handle an 0-2 fastball in on the hands.

Foul it off and wait for the next opportunity. That’s all we can do.

So long, for now.

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

Scotland, have touched down in Davis.

Canadians Sage Stobbart and Mackenzie Trpcic aren’t expected until mid-September, Gross says.

In the meantime, the players who are available locally have gone through campus COVID-19 protocols, are meeting with trainers and are staying in shape with outdoor voluntary workouts while maintaining social distancing.

It’s just not what August normally feels like for this Aggie basketball team.

“Overall fitness is our focus,” Gross continues. “We have to get ourselves as ready as possible for whenever we can start basketball training.”

Gross says she and her staff keep a keen eye on what campus, state and Yolo County officials allow and forbid as it relates to basketball workouts.

“You can do your best (staying in) touch ... Zoom meetings, building relationships (online) and keep the connections going — but we miss (the players) so much,” reiterCIERRA ates Gross, an HALL Aggie Athletics

Hall of Fame player.

When Davis does return to the court, it will be loaded once again with stunning talent. Cierra Hall, Kayla Konrad, Stobbart and Trpcic return, with emerging guards like Evanne Turner, Campbell Gray and Makaila Sanders back in the fold.

Hall was named BWC Defensive Player of the Year, and Stobbart was one of the West Coast’s premiere shotblockers and most versatile post players.

Gross says Konrad has shown she doesn’t have to light up the scoreboard to contribute to a victory with her rebounding and defense, while Trpcic, the senior transfer from Albany, looks to continue to star at point guard.

Turner finished 2019-20 as one of the hottest players in conference.

With 6-6 Svanholm, 6-5 Kenedy Lilly (Yorba Linda) and 6-3 Jones joining sixth-year senior Emma Gibbs (6-3 from McMinnville, Ore.) and the 6-3 Stobbart,

UCD will sport the tallest frontline in the Big West.

“We’ve never had this much height, and it’s really exciting,” Gross reports.

Mix in first-year Aggies Mazatlan Harris (San Diego), Bria Shine (Christian Brothers High) and Allie Carrion (Chula Vista), and Aggie depth appears second to none in the conference.

And leadership? Every position will have an experienced player on the court.

But Gross believes the seniors — Hall, Konrad, Trpcic and Gibbs — are special women: “They’ve each shown they’re ready to take on leadership roles. The seniors have said, ‘Hey, if (because of the pandemic) we can’t focus right now on improving basketball-wise, what can we be doing?’ “ How about Zoom sessions, phone calls, socially distanced voluntary workouts and talking about what shape and style this fall’s Aggie team will take?

“I’ve been impressed with our seniors so far,” Gross offers.

Next up: In Monday’s Morning Briefing (sent directly to Enterprise subscribers, then published online later in the day), a second article will take a closer look at the Aggie roster and talk with coach Gross about the effects of a season that probably will be played without fans.

— Reach sports editor Bruce Gallaudet at bgallaudet41@gmail.com or call 530-320-4456.

DUNNING: Battles may be on field and on jerseys From Page B1 Taking this at face value, if 51 percent of the team wants a patch that displays the Confederate flag and 49 percent wants to declare “Black Lives Matter,” it’s the Confederate flag or nothing.

“The second location is on the back of the uniform where the player name is traditionally located and, as authorized by the school or conference, will allow names/words

intended to celebrate or memorialize people, events or other causes.”

But wait ... Is the school or conference authorizing just the placing of a message or is the school or conference authorizing the actual message? If it’s the message itself that’s being authorized, we’re talking censorship.

“The names or words may vary by team member.”

Hooray for that.

Now, while the NCAA can

perhaps ban profanity, what does it plan to do when a player at Eastern A&M decides to put “BIDEN 2020” on the back of his jersey or support a “social justice issue” that others might find offensive? And how does the NCAA define “social justice issue” in the first place?

In our divided world these days, for every cause there’s invariably a counter-cause.

One person’s crusade may be another person’s nightmare.

The starting quarterback

might be wearing a “Stop Global Warming” message while the defensive lineman staring at him across the line of scrimmage may well be sporting “Global Warming Is a Hoax.”

No wonder the Big Sky, the Pac-12, the Big 10, the Mountain West and a slew of other conferences decided to cancel football this fall.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise. net.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 B3

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

2020 VW Jetta S, SE, SEL

2019 VW Golf GTI S & SE

$1,577

$1,077

,_HTWSL =05! = 34

,_HTWSL =05! = 34

OFF MSRP

OFF MSRP

V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V TVU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL = 34

V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V TVU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL = 34

2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport S, SE & SEL

2020 VW Passat S, SE or SEL

$2,077

$2,077

,_HTWSL =05! = 3*

,_HTWSL =05!

= 3*

OFF FF MSRP

OFF MSRP

V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V 4VU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY 97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V 4VU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL = 3*

V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V TVU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY 4:97 WS\Z

├ДUHUJPPUN MVY \W [V TVU[OZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL = 3*

2020 VW Tiguan S, SE & SEL

2021 VW Atlas S, SE, & SEL

$2,077

OFF MSRP

WSL =05! ,_HTWSL =05!

34 = 34 V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z V╔И VM 4:97 WS\Z ├ДUHUJPUN MVY \W [V TVU[OZ H[ V╔ИLY

├ДUH UHUJ UJPPU UJ PUN MMV PUN MVY \W MVY \W [V TVU VU[O [OZZ H[ V╔ИLY [O [ , S = 34 ,_HTWSL = 34

$1,077

OFF MSRP

,_HTWSL =05! = 4* V╔И VM 4:97 HM[LY KLHSLY KPZJV\U[ :WLJPHS (79 KVLZ UV[ HWWS` H[ [OPZ LY KLHSLY KPZJV\U[ : :WLJPHS (79 KVLZ UV[ HWWS` H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL = = (7 *( 4*

(888) 472-5431 | 9776 West Stockton Blvd. Elk Grove, CA 95757 | ElkGroveVW.com $OO SULFHV JRRG WKURXJK FORVH RI EXVLQHVV RQ $OO SULFHV SOXV JRYHUQPHQW IUHHV DQG WD[HV DQ\ ├АQDQFH FKDUJHV DQ\ GHDOHU GRFXPHQW SURFHVVLQJ FKDUJH DQ\ HOHFWULF ├АOLQJ FKDUJH DQG DQ\ HPLVVLRQ WHVWLQJ FKDUJH

2020 ACURA ILX

Lease for

$229/mo plus tax* for 36 months

Example VIN: LA003470 +PZJSHPTLY! 03? )HZL 3LHZL MVY WS\Z [H_ WLY TVU[O -VY TVU[OZ K\L H[ ZPNUPUN J\Z[VTLY JHZO [YHKL LX\P[` ^OPJO PUJS\KLZ ZLJ\YP[` KLWVZP[ 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL H[ SLHZL LUK MVY TPSLHNL PU L_JLZZ VM TPSLZ WLY `LHY H[ JLU[Z WLY TPSL 6U HWWYV]LK JYLKP[ [OYV\NO (J\YH -PUHUJPHS :LY]PJLZ┬О +)( (TLYPJHU /VUKH -PUHUJL *VYW *SVZLK LUK SLHZL MVY 03? :WLLK +\HS *S\[JO +, - 31> 5V[ HSS SLZZLLZ ^PSS X\HSPM` /PNOLY SLHZL YH[LZ HWWS` MVY SLZZLLZ ^P[O SV^LY JYLKP[ YH[PUNZ <WNYHKL 6WWVY[\UP[` 3LHZL V╔ИLY VUS` H]HPSHISL [V J\YYLU[ X\HSP├ДLK V^ULYZ VM HU` VY UL^LY /VUKH /`\UKHP 2PH 4HaKH 5PZZHU ;V`V[H :\IHY\ VY =VSRZ^HNLU ]LOPJSL 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL MVY THPU[LUHUJL L_JLZZP]L ^LHY [LHY HUK \W [V JLU[Z TPSL V]LY TPSLZ `LHY 5V[ HSS J\Z[VTLYZ X\HSPM` MVY <WNYHKL V╔ИLY :LL KLHSLY MVY JVTWSL[L KL[HPSZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL :[VJR =05! ( 3( 6╔ИLY L_WPYLZ! 6[OLY YLZ[YPJ[PVUZ TH` HWWS`

2020 ACURA TLX

Lease for

$289/mo plus tax* for 36 months

Example VIN: LA013702 ;3? )HZL 3LHZL MVY WS\Z [H_ WLY TVU[O -VY TVU[OZ K\L H[ ZPNUPUN J\Z[VTLY JHZO [YHKL LX\P[` ^OPJO PUJS\KLZ ZLJ\YP[` KLWVZP[ 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL H[ SLHZL LUK MVY TPSLHNL PU L_JLZZ VM TPSLZ WLY `LHY H[ JLU[Z WLY TPSL 6U HWWYV]LK JYLKP[ [OYV\NO (J\YH -PUHUJPHS :LY]PJLZ┬О +)( (TLYPJHU /VUKH -PUHUJL *VYW *SVZLK LUK SLHZL MVY ;3? :WLLK +\HS *S\[JO <) - 31> 5V[ HSS SLZZLLZ ^PSS X\HSPM` /PNOLY SLHZL YH[LZ HWWS` MVY SLZZLLZ ^P[O SV^LY JYLKP[ YH[PUNZ *VUX\LZ[ 3LHZL V╔ИLY VUS` H]HPSHISL [V J\YYLU[ X\HSP├ДLK V^ULYZ VM HU` VY UL^LY (\KP )4> )\PJR *HKPSSHJ .LULZPZ /VUKH 0U├ДUP[P 3L_\Z 3PUJVSU 4LYJLKLZ )LUa VY =VS]V ]LOPJSL 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL MVY THPU[LUHUJL L_JLZZP]L ^LHY [LHY HUK \W [V JLU[Z TPSL V]LY TPSLZ `LHY 5V[ HSS J\Z[VTLYZ X\HSPM` MVY *VUX\LZ[ V╔ИLY :LL KLHSLY MVY JVTWSL[L KL[HPSZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL :[VJR =05! ( 3( 6╔ИLY L_WPYLZ! 6[OLY YLZ[YPJ[PVUZ TH` HWWS`

2020 ACURA RDX FWD

Lease for

$369/mo plus tax* for 36 months

Example VIN: LL019725 9+? ->+ )HZL 3LHZL MVY WS\Z [H_ WLY TVU[O -VY TVU[OZ K\L H[ ZPNUPUN J\Z[VTLY JHZO [YHKL LX\P[` ^OPJO PUJS\KLZ ZLJ\YP[` KLWVZP[ 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL H[ SLHZL LUK MVY TPSLHNL PU L_JLZZ VM TPSLZ WLY `LHY H[ JLU[Z WLY TPSL 6U HWWYV]LK JYLKP[ [OYV\NO (J\YH -PUHUJPHS :LY]PJLZ┬О +)( (TLYPJHU /VUKH -PUHUJL *VYW *SVZLK LUK SLHZL MVY 9+? :WLLK (\[VTH[PJ ;* / 315> 5V[ HSS SLZZLLZ ^PSS X\HSPM` /PNOLY SLHZL YH[LZ HWWS` MVY SLZZLLZ ^P[O SV^LY JYLKP[ YH[PUNZ ;HYNL[LK *VUX\LZ[ 3LHZL V╔ИLY VUS` H]HPSHISL [V J\YYLU[ X\HSP├ДLK V^ULYZ VM HU` VY UL^LY (\KP 8 )4> ? 3L_\Z 5? 3L_\Z 9? VY 4LYJLKLZ )LUa .3* ]LOPJSL 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL MVY THPU[LUHUJL L_JLZZP]L ^LHY [LHY HUK \W [V JLU[Z TPSL V]LY TPSLZ `LHY 5V[ HSS J\Z[VTLYZ X\HSPM` MVY ;HYNL[LK *VUX\LZ[ V╔ИLY :LL KLHSLY MVY JVTWSL[L KL[HPSZ H[ [OPZ WYPJL :[VJR =05Z! ( 33 ( 33 6╔ИLY L_WPYLZ 6[OLY YLZ[YPJ[PVUZ TH` HWWS`

2020 ACURA MDX FWD

Lease for

$409/mo plus tax* for 36 months

Example VIN: LL008171 4+? ->+ )HZL 3LHZL MVY WS\Z [H_ WLY TVU[O -VY TVU[OZ K\L H[ ZPNUPUN J\Z[VTLY JHZO [YHKL LX\P[` ^OPJO PUJS\KLZ ZLJ\YP[` KLWVZP[ 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL H[ SLHZL LUK MVY TPSLHNL PU L_JLZZ VM TPSLZ WLY `LHY H[ JLU[Z WLY TPSL 6U HWWYV]LK JYLKP[ [OYV\NO (J\YH -PUHUJPHS :LY]PJLZ┬О +)( (TLYPJHU /VUKH -PUHUJL *VYW *SVZLK LUK SLHZL MVY 4+? :WLLK (\[VTH[PJ @+ / 315> 5V[ HSS SLZZLLZ ^PSS X\HSPM` /PNOLY SLHZL YH[LZ HWWS` MVY SLZZLLZ ^P[O SV^LY JYLKP[ YH[PUNZ *VUX\LZ[ 3LHZL V╔ИLY VUS` H]HPSHISL [V J\YYLU[ X\HSP├ДLK V^ULYZ VM HU` VY UL^LY (\KP )4> )\PJR *HKPSSHJ .LULZPZ /VUKH 0U├ДUP[P 3L_\Z 3PUJVSU 4LYJLKLZ )LUa VY =VS]V ]LOPJSL 3LZZLL YLZWVUZPISL MVY THPU[LUHUJL L_JLZZP]L ^LHY [LHY HUK \W [V JLU[Z TPSL V]LY TPSLZ `LHY 5V[ HSS J\Z[VTLYZ X\HSPM` MVY *VUX\LZ[ V╔ИLY :LL KLHSLY MVY JVTWSL[L KL[HPSZ H[ [OPZ V╔ИLY ,_HTWSL :[VJR =05! ( 33 6╔ИLY L_WPYLZ! 6[OLY YLZ[YPJ[PVUZ TH` HWWS`

(877) 716-0639 | 8585 Laguna Grove Dr, Elk Grove, CA 95757 | ElkGroveAcura.com All prices plus government fees and taxes, any ямБnance charges, any dealer government fees and taxes, any ямБnance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic ямБling charge, and any emission testing charge. All prices good through close of business on 09/08/2020.

Forum

B4 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

COMMENTARY

State gambles with stopgap bills

Save disgusting social media from censorship

T

BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

I

don’t know a lot about social media. I don’t know how it works technically. I don’t know why it is such a force in society. I don’t know why very prominent people like comedian Steve Martin, prognosticator Nate Silver and columnist Tom Friedman, who have plenty of outlets, tweet.

I don’t know why people who are great company, need to post on Facebook tedious photos of (A) their cats, (B) their grandchildren, (C) their hobbies and (D) their vacations — (That’s Ann and myself in a Costa Rican rainforest).

Because of this personal bric-a-brac, I tend to avoid Facebook and solicitations to befriend people there. I fear those children, that cat, those hobbies and snaps of my friends despoiling places of natural beauty.

What I do know is that we face a clear and present danger of social media censorship.

What makes it worse is those calling for censorship should know better. They are, many of them, of the progressive left. It seems they hate “hate speech” more than they hate anything else, including censorship by machine or, worse, censorship deep in Twitter or Facebook by committees of the nameless wonks.

Now social media is full of remarkably ugly, vicious, deranged and fabricated things. The truth isn’t safe with social media. The truth is scarcely an ingredient. But that isn’t reason enough to introduce censorship, whether selfcensorship or some other adjudication of what we see and hear.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, et al. aren’t publishers. They are common carriers, like the post office, the railroads and the telephone companies. Certainly, they aren’t publishers or broadcasters in the traditional sense.

The remedy for the excess on social media — conspiracies, homophobia, Islamophobia, and even my phobia about cat photos — won’t be cured by getting the companies that carry them to introduce censorship, however well-intentioned and noble in purpose.

The right to free speech is ineradicable, absolute and cardinal. Without it we start sliding down the slippery slope — except the internet slope is steeper, greasier and globecircling.

So, I defend President Trump, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow as having a right not to be censored. That is all I’m defending: only their right not to be censored, not their speech or even the ideas behind it.

T

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

he issue now revolves around hate speech, a social construct. It is, as Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography, “I know it when I see it.” That means that there can be no standard when the offense is so subjective that it is in the eye of the beholder.

The blanket indictment of hate speech, if applied to any discourse — for example, political, literary or sports — is that it can’t be conducted without the honorable traditions of wit, invective, ridicule, scorn and satire. If a sports columnist berates a fumbling NFL quarterback, is that hate speech?

Until now the laws of libel and slander have worked imperfectly, but they have done their bit to protect reputations, to halt dishonest and malicious allegations, and to give a kind of discipline, sometimes lax, to journalism.

These laws aren’t adequate for the internet, but they hint at future concepts that might endeavor to quiet the internet and its social media sewers. Censorship won’t do it with perpetrating a greater evil.

When you’ve read this, you may want to hurl used cat litter at me in the street. Your right to want to do that should be unassailable, but if you do it, you should be prosecuted for assault.

Hate is a human emotion, and emotions aren’t criminal until they’re acted on.

If you censor the internet, as many would like, the workaround will come in seconds.

Social media and its sewer of disgusting, repugnant and vile assertions won’t be silenced, but honest disputation may be banned.

Actually, I love cats.

— 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.

he severe recession that has engulfed California as the state battles the COVID-19 pandemic presents the state’s dominant Democrats with a very large dilemma.

As businesses closed their doors and unemployment skyrocketed, the natural inclination of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators was to spend money to relieve the economic pain — but the recession also was eating into tax revenues.

They got a break when Congress and President Donald Trump responded with a big infusion of cash for state and local governments, for employers and for jobless workers in the form of $600 a week bonuses on their unemployment insurance benefits.

However, the federal aid soon ran out and a political stalemate in Washington blocked any successor to the CARES Act, reopening the gap between what state officials want to do and their means of doing it.

The response has been a series of stopgap actions aimed at alleviating the recession’s symptoms on the hope that by the time the financial bills come due, either the economy will have

be Assembly Bill 1436, which would temporarily suspend rent and mortgage payments for Californians facing eviction or foreclosure due to loss of income.

L recovered or more federal aid will be coming from a Democratic president and a more Democratic Congress.

The state budget, hurriedly amended after recession struck, is a case in point.

Newsom, et al, describe the 2020-21 budget as balanced, but in reality it rests on at least $20 billion in borrowed money, most prominently “deferrals” of billions of dollars in state aid to local school systems. It also has a series of spending cuts that would be withdrawn should the feds appropriate more relief aid.

Other stopgap measures have surfaced in the final days of the Legislature’s 2020 session, including a scheme for the state to borrow about $100 billion for recession relief, as well as more traditional tax increases.

The most ambitious of the late-blooming stopgaps may

andlords with more than a few units and mortgage lenders would be compelled to eat the losses of revenue for a year or even two, until the economy presumably has recovered, their customers presumably are back to work and everyone presumably can be made whole.

Those shaky presumptions are obvious potential problems with the measure, which won its initial committee vote last week after a six-hour hearing. Another is that it may violate the federal constitution because it impairs contracts and interjects the state into mortgages backed by federal guarantees. Still another is that it could discourage investment in badly needed housing construction.

The bill is proceeding, however, on the argument that something must be done to stave off evictions and foreclosures that could impact millions of California families.

“If we don’t change state law in the next two weeks we

will see a massive wave of evictions,” the bill’s author, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“It works a lot better than doing nothing,” Chiu responded to his measure’s critics.

What happens, Chui was asked, if the recession is still impacting the state when the deferred rent and mortgage payments come due?

Chiu acknowledged that his legislation “may not be enough” and added, “We hope for the best.”

The situation that AB 1436 addresses is real and imminent, and one can’t fault legislators for trying to find some workable response, any more than one can fault delinquent renters and homeowners for losing their jobs from state-ordered business shutdowns.

However, all of these temporary stopgaps are incredibly risky, fingers-crossed throws of the dice.

— 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 Masks are not masquerades Blue, green, black, white and multicolored masks; everywhere I look there are masks halfway on and halfway off people’s faces, often below the nose and sometimes below the mouth, where they are useless. Discarded masks are contaminating the environment and even ensnaring birds.

Unfortunately, some choose not to wear masks in public.

Why can’t we accept the proven protection of masks against this contagious disease and wear them properly then dispose of them safely?

What many seem to lack is the will power and the awareness to do the right thing for the safety of others.

Like seat belts, facemasks are a little inconvenient, but they are not difficult to get used to; cowboys wear them for hours to keep out the dust, many factory machinists wear them for safety, and hospital personnel wear them, sometimes all day in the operating rooms.

That’s what I did for 30 years, and my nose didn’t get bent out of shape. No, I didn’t think it was funny, nor did I look silly.

COVID-19 is a threat far more dangerous than dust or most hospital germs, yet we see many people disregarding this threat. Do they think the Coronavirus is a joke, or a make believe masquerade, or just a political ploy? How far must death, sickness, prolonged recovery and heartbreak have to spread before the deniers wake up and act responsibly? Individualism is not an excuse for ignorance and behavior that endangers others. Being responsible is a serious deficiency among those who haven’t remembered or learned that there is no freedom without responsibility. Americans need to relearn and reinforce this fundamental principle that our founders established.

Good leadership would be most helpful, and is needed in every nation confronting a dangerous threat like COVID-19. If our leader would wear a mask, he could encourage similar behavior (and he might improve his looks as well with his mouth fully covered). Certainly, this out-of-control pandemic is not the time for masquerades. Thousands of deaths should not be written off casually, as “It is what it is.”

John H. Eisele Jr., M.D. Davis

enterprise A McNaughton Newspaper Locally owned and operated since 1897

Foy S. McNaughton

R. Burt McNaughton

President and CEO

Publisher

Taylor Buley

Sebastian Oñate

Co-Publisher

Editor

Official legal newspaper of general circulation for the city of Davis and county of Yolo. Published in The Davis Enterprise building, 315 G St., Davis, CA. Mailing address: P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617.

Phone: 530-756-0800. An award-winning newspaper of the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

Prevent another outbreak

Vote yes on DISC

In January, I was celebrating my 21st birthday as most people would, and at that time COVID-19 was only an issue in Asia and was slowly creeping into Europe. We all witnessed an epidemic turn into a pandemic and cripple some of the most powerful nations in the world, but we do not focus on the most impoverished countries.

COVID-19 was able to cripple the U.S., which has the highest national wealth, and we are currently suffering issues due to some sites opening early and others not closing at all. What about all the countries that are just struggling to survive? At the moment, the U.S. has 5 million cases and we are about to hit 170,000 deaths, while in the global charts, Brazil, India and South Africa make up some of the most critical outbreak sectors.

The biggest issue with a pandemic in this day and age is that through the process of globalization, we are all connected through social media, economic trade and politics. To be able to eliminate COVID-19, we all have to work together to eliminate it at the same time so there would not be a resurgence globally in the future.

I honestly believe that by the U.S. increasing its international affairs budget, we can create the infrastructure to battle and prevent future pandemics globally.

If we turn a blind eye to international health, we are leaving the front door open for a future viral threat. Rep. John Garamendi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Kamala Harris, protect our health domestically and internationally!

Adriana Sanchez Davis

The DISC project proposed in Davis is exactly what this city needs. It has already been endorsed by the ASUCD due to the increase in jobs (an innovation center) and housing (nearly 1,000 new units) it will provide.

With more people, tax and business revenue will be able to provide better bus and bike services inside the city, addressing many traffic and infrastructure needs.

Moreover, students and workers can live and work in Davis and not clog up the highways, as many commuters who find the city too expensive, do currently.

Don’t forget the justice and environmental angle of these projects. Low housing supply (and thus high prices) has a large financial effect on low income citizens and people of color. An increase of 1,000 units in a city of only 60,000 would have a positive ripple effect for many citizens when it comes to rent.

Finally, for a city supposedly concerned with climate change and pollution, pushing people into more affordable Woodland or Sac would not be the best way to reduce our carbon footprint, as apartments and dense living are far more energy efficient than suburban commuter living.

We must overcome our local concerns for the long-term good of Davis and society at large.

Zachary Cosenza Davis

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

U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202224-3841; email: http://feinstein.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Kamala Harris, 112 Hart Senate

We welcome your letters Addresses and phone numbers should be included for verification purposes; they will not be published. Limit letters to 350 words. Mail letters to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617; or

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

House of Representatives Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880. District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi. house.gov/contact-me

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

California Senate Sen. Bill Dodd, State Capitol, Room 5063, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-651-4003; fax: 916-651-4903; email: visit sd03.senate.ca. gov. District office: 555 Mason St., Suite 275, Vacaville, CA 95688; 707-454-3808; fax: 707-454-3811.

California Assembly Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0004; 916-319-2004; fax: 916319-2104; email: visit www.asm.ca.gov/ aguiar-curry. District office: 600 A St., Suite D, Davis, CA 95616; 530-757-1034

Op-Ed

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 B5

War, peace and the Democratic Party

BY ROBERT C. KOEHLER Special to The Enterprise

“T

here’s something happening here/ What it is ain’t exactly clear ...”

Or is it?

Day 1 of the Democratic National (virtual) Convention. Bernie Sanders had just told his supporters: “Together we have moved this country in a bold new direction,” pointing out that “all of us . . .yearn for a nation based on the principles of justice, love and compassion.”

Then Michelle Obama spoke: “Empathy: that’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. The ability to walk in someone else’s shoes; the recognition that someone else’s experience has value, too ...” But now our children “see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torchbearing white supremacists. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protestors for a photo-op.”

And then Day 1 concludes with a Billy Porter rendition of the Buffalo Springfield classic, “For What It’s Worth,” with Stephen Stills himself on the guitar. And instantly, as the first notes fill the air, the ’60s leap into the present moment ... my God, that time of hope and change (at least for the boomers watching all this)! As Porter sings, background images of chaos and unrest swirl — and then a peace symbol pops up, hovers for 10 seconds for all the world to see.

Huh? A peace symbol?

Suddenly the orchestrated nonsense pulled me back to reality. This was the DNC, apparently “reaching out” to the former hippies (and Bernie voters),

COMMENTARY the ones who marched against the Vietnam War, acknowledging with a quick shrug, yeah, you were right then. That was a hellish disaster. But c’mon, we’re the new Democrats: progressives and centrists and independents. We embrace empathy and compassion, and we all hate Trump.

The point, so it seemed, was to reduce the peace symbol to an icon of nostalgia for the good old days — the days of weed and Woodstock and dancing naked in the streets. After five-plus decades, it’s finally safe to welcome those good old days into the party. But what was missing — from the national convention, from the halls of Congress, from the party as a whole — was any official stance against war. By which I mean today’s wars.

“There’s a man with a gun over there/Telling me I got to beware/I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound/Everybody look what’s going down ...”

Yes, there are progressive, antiwar Democrats out there, gaining power, getting elected to office, almost winning presidential primaries — scaring the bejesus out of the Democratic establishment — but the party itself still stands firmly in the middle of nowhere, fully in favor of empathy and compassion and yet, somehow, fully supportive of the endless wars most of its own voters hate and utterly unwilling to challenge the bloated and everexpanding defense budget.

C

iting the analysis of William Hartung and Many Smithberger, the Milwaukee Independent described that budget thus: “As of 2019, the annual Pentagon

base budget, plus war budget, plus nuclear weapons in the Department of Energy, plus military spending by the Department of Homeland Security, plus interest on deficit military spending, and other military spending totaled $1.25 trillion ...”

This is untouchable money — not just to Trump and the Republicans but to most congressional Democrats.

Indeed, as Alexander Sammon points out in the American Prospect, Democratic majorities were crucial this summer to the defeat of three separate bills, introduced by progressive Democrats, to reduce military spending or to undo the militarization of police departments.

These included amendments in both the Senate and the House to the National Defense Authorization Act, diverting 10 percent of the Department of Defense budget to health care, education and jobs; as well as a Senate

proposal to end the 1033 Program, which allows the Pentagon to transfer military gear to the police. The amendment’s defeat in the House was especially an outrage, Sammon notes, in that the Dems hold a majority in the House and could have passed it.

“If Democrats are going to enact anything that resembles their own agenda,” Sammon writes, they’re going to have to aim way higher than cutting defense to near Obama-era highs. Taking military spending not to pre-Trump but to pre-9/11 levels should be a starting point. Democratic voters abhor the War on Terror; it’s what helped deliver Obama the presidency back in 2008. It’s incumbent on Joe Biden to deliver on that preference, not just to end engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan but to bring an end to the bloated defense budgets of the War on Terror era. His silence on the proposal even in the thick of a campaign

against Trump sends a troubling message.

W

ar, militarism and the insanely bloated defense budget are never — never!

— addressed with serious political pragmatism. Thus to see a peace symbol, the icon of a world beyond war, flicker meaninglessly for 10 titillating seconds at the Democratic convention, was ... well, discombobulating.

The world is slowly changing, but there’s nothing here to celebrate. Consider another piece of related news: As Common Dreams recently reported, 11 Democratic senators are demanding accountability from the Pentagon for refusing to specify what measures it’s taking to ensure the safety, from COVID-19, of the 40 men still indefinitely detained at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon’s refusal to give any details bolsters the case for shutting the place down, according to the senators.

All of which throws me into a frenzy of, once again, discombobulation.

There was zero national debate about opening Gitmo — an American torture site for detainees with no rights whatsoever — but the national discussion about whether or not to shut it down has been going on, pathetically and absurdly, for two decades.

Maybe the place is cruel and pointless, but, well, we can’t just shut it down because of logic and morality.

Why not?

If only the Democratic Party — not just a few outliers, but the party as a whole, acting with the full force of the voters it represents — were capable of asking that question. And demanding an answer.

— Robert Koehler (koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an award-winning Chicago journalist and editor.

He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

Students need better online tools to find optimal courses

BY PAMELA BURDMAN AND ROGÉAIR D. PURNELL

COMMENTARY

Special to CalMatters

gatekeeper to academic majors and to college admission, disproportionately impacting students of color and others marginalized by the education system. New policies in California are helping address these obstacles and accelerate college students’ progress into required college mathematics courses.

Students at California Community Colleges and California State University campuses are eligible for college-level math courses, with additional support available for those who need it, rather than being required to take placement tests that assign them to remedial courses.

They are also free to take any gateway math course relevant for their intended major, not just traditional STEM-oriented courses like College Algebra and Precalculus. Research has demonstrated that such approaches vastly improve students’ momentum toward degrees.

Unfortunately too many students attending the two California higher-education systems encounter misleading and even

C

ollege students are savvy tech users, navigating “smart” websites like Amazon, YouTube and Netflix that point them to options consistent with their past purchasing or viewing history.

But what happens when they need to make decisions using less sophisticated college websites? When it comes to math courses, our recent study found that California colleges are doing a middling job of directing students toward optimal and upto-date options.

This pattern could undermine recent reforms designed to modernize mathematics offerings and accelerate students’ progress toward degrees. Since students’ math experiences send powerful signals to them about their academic potential and self-worth, it’s important that the course enrollment process be transparent and not discourage students from pursuing math-intensive fields or from taking a math course needed to graduate.

Math often serves as a

inaccurate information on college websites. These obscure signposts and unexpected obstacles could jeopardize their ability to make appropriate math enrollment decisions this fall.

For “Crossing Signals: What College Websites Tell Students About Taking Mathematics,” we analyzed 17 California Community Colleges and five California State University websites to better understand how students learn about and access various math pathway options. Besides being difficult to navigate, we found many of the sites misdirect students toward remedial math classes that are no longer required. Overall, there is a general lack of transparency around math course alignment with specific majors.

An increasing number of student stories illustrate the promise of the new approaches. Take Mariam Shamon of San Diego: After being stung by the criticism of a ninth-grade geometry teacher, she dreaded math throughout high school and when she enrolled at Cuyamaca College. That changed once she had the opportunity to take a

college statistics course with extra support, known as a “corequisite” course. Not only did she pass, she discovered a love of math, switched her major from political science to engineering, and later transferred to Cal State San Diego.

All students need to be equipped, like Shamon, with accurate information that supports evidence-based practices.

Students need guidance in choosing a math course relevant for their intended major.

N

early half of the California Community Colleges’ websites we studied directed students to a math assessment webpage or center even though placement tests are no longer required. And many community college websites gave the false impression that remedial courses are required or recommended by listing remedial prerequisites in course descriptions.

Although California State University websites were generally easier to navigate, they too offered students limited math guidance. Most CSU campuses still require various placement or proficiency tests for advanced courses like Calculus, even

ICYMI: OUR TOP 5 STORIES OF THE WEEK News ■ Davis, UCD crews battle California wildfires: http://wp.me/p3aczg-3RtH ■ County keeps eye on UCD reopening: http://wp.me/p3aczg-3RuD ■ Divided City Council approves University Mall redevelopment: http://wp.me/p3aczg-3Rw5

Sports

Feature

■ Evan Ream: Thanks for these amazing memories: http://wp.me/p3aczg-3RnL

■ At the Pond: Davis gets a special visitor: http://wp.me/p3aczg-3RsT

THESE WERE THE MOST CLICKED-ON NEWS, SPORTS AND FEATURE POSTS AT WWW.DAVISENTERPRISE.COM BETWEEN SATURDAY, AUG. 15, AND FRIDAY, AUG. 21

though CSU jettisoned its systemwide remedial math placement test. These tests could also serve as deterrents for students to pursue a STEM field.

College websites have the power to support or detract from students’ abilities to make informed choices about their math courses and pathways, as a majority of students nationwide begin their fall studies online.

With so much research behind new mathematics reforms, it’s critical that the online tools colleges and universities use give more students, especially those marginalized, the opportunity to progress through college and earn a degree.

— Pamela Burdman is the executive director of Just Equations, a nonprofit focusing on the role of mathematics in ensuring education equity. Rogéair D. Purnell is an education equity researcher and evaluator with special attention to community college student success. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Editors’ choice for web comment of the week “I’ll take students going to the University over a pandemic any day. And they need places to live, shop and eat close to campus. I live in the ... neighborhood and I strongly support this project.”

From Fran Bowman

In response to “Letter: University Mall”

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Hire Local. Hire a Pro. • Place Your Ad Today: (530)756-0800 AIR COND./HEATING

BLAKE’S Heating & Air Conditioning

46 Years in Davis!

Replacement Specialists FREE ESTIMATES Complete sheet metal shop Servicing all makes

DESIGN

GARDEN/LANDSCAPE

J. Roy Construction & Design

Sunny’s Gardening Full Yard Maintenance

Residential Design Services Remodels, Additions, New Homes, Exterior Features Concept to Construction Documents

(530)758-2673 http://www.jroyconstruction.com

MEL’S GARDENING

DRYWALL

Clean Polite Locally Owned

(530)758-4030 Lic. #299969

BATHROOMS/KITCHENS

Edging Mowing Blowing Hauling Trimming Sprinkler Repair One time cleanup (530)383-2458 (530)207-7411 Call Sunny - FREE ESTIMATES

United Drywall Full Service installation & repair.

FREE ESTIMATES 30 years experience (530)668-1450 or (530)666-4959 License# 782347

& HANDYMAN SERVICES Hauling, full yard maintenance, fence work, sprinkler/ irrigation, gutter cleaning & tree work.

916.643.5989

FREE ESTIMATE! LIC. #0039643

PLUMBING

FREE ESTIMATE!

Tile, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, bathrooms & kitchens.

30 years experience!

(530) 312-6124

******************* Bringing Quality Home

(530)681-5548

PERFORMANCE HOME IMPROVEMENT

GARAGE DOORS

Lic# 709993

CERAMIC TILE

Woodland-Davis Garage Door Commercial-Residential Service All makes and models Locally Owned Best Prices Guaranteed (530)758-7952 LIC# 830181

GARDEN/LANDSCAPE

CONSTRUCTION

ALTA QUALITY PAINTING 530-450-9717 • Painting & Construction • Interior/exterior painting • Cabinet painting • Attention to detail • Professional painting • Drywall repairs • Deck and fence sealing • 15% off on complete exterior job • Insured bonded LIC #1043878 High quality service for the fairest price

FREE ESTIMATES ADDITIONS/REMODELING CONTRACTOR

(530)756-6061 Custom homes, remodels, commercial work. Fair price, quality work, timely completion.

FREE DETAILED ESTIMATES. Davis Resident Since 1969.

Eisele Construction Lic. #628459.

CA Lic #767832 Jeff Goeman Goeman Construction New Construction & Remodeling Residential/Commercial Additions, Kitchens & Bathrooms Plumbing, Electrical, Concrete, Decking, Dry Rot Repair, Window Replacement Full Service Contractor Design & Build Member of BBB Over 30 Years Experience Office: (530)787-3717 Cell: (916)995-6159 Email: goemanjr@yahoo.com

(530)219-5199 http://alliancetrees.com Tree & Stump Removal Pruning • Thinning • Shaping FREE ESTIMATES CA State Lic.#832084

• All types of roofing • Residential & commercial • Gutter & downspout installations • Roof repair • Water proofing • Seamless roofing

We Install Tankless Water Heaters, Tubs, Shower Replacements, Water Line Replacements, Remodels, Fixtures, Sewer & Drain And Much More!

Call today for FREE ESTIMATES! (530)400-5817 (530)750-9094

*Pruning and Shaping *Tree removals *Stump Grinding *24-Hour Emergency Service Certified Arborist #WE-9302A CA Contractor’s #1000444

CSLB# 913295

Reasonable Rates

Mowing, blowing, edging, sprinklers, trimming, weeding, clean-ups, hauling trash.

HARDWOOD/FLOORING

Lawn mowing - edging blowing - pruning weeding Repair sprinkler/drip systems One-time cleanups and hauling Aeration/weed control Power washing

FREE ESTIMATES (530)753-0752 SERVING DAVIS SINCE 1994

Davis Hardwood and Carpet DBA Floors Too Hardwood Laminate Installation Sand/Finish Repairs 30+ Years in Davis.

*******************

Davis’ 5-day forecast Today

Hazy

Tonight

High: 96°

Monday

Chance of T-storm Chance of T-storm

Low: 64°

95° 64°

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Sunny

Sunny 95° 62°

97° 63°

92° 63°

Hot

Regional weather Grass Valley / 67/90

Yuba City 66/96

Tonight’s lows and tomorrow’s highs

South hoe oee Lake Tahoe 50/87

Woodland 66/96 Winters 65/96

Santa Rosa 54/86 Napa 59/85

Vacaville 68/93

anci cis San Francisco 57/67

Bringing Quality Home

(530)681-5548

Davis statistics

PERFORMANCE HOME IMPROVEMENT

Friday’s temperature High/Low ........ 94°/62° Normal ............ 92°/56° Record high 105°(1918) Record low ... 44°(1926)

• Highest quality, lasting protection • Excellent references • Free estimates performancehomeimprovement.com

(530)204-9315

$500 OFF Full Remodel

AR Landscaping, Fencing & Maintenance

*******************

Lic.#709993

ALTA QUALITY PAINTING 530-450-9717 • Painting & Construction • Interior/exterior painting • Cabinet painting • Attention to detail • Professional painting • Drywall repairs • Deck and fence sealing • 15% off on complete exterior job • Insured bonded LIC #1043878

High quality service for the fairest price

FREE ESTIMATES

Pete (530)330-1839

HANLEES CHEVROLET www.hanleesdavis chevrolet.com 4989 Chiles Rd. Davis (530) 231-3300

Weather

LIC. #0039643

BG Landscape & Full Yard Maintenance

Free estimates

ALLSTATE ROOFING

(916)900-8134

Sa Sacramento 66/96

Davis Da vis vi i 64/95 Fairfield 63/92

JJackson 69/94

916.643.5989

PAINTING

Commercial and Residential Lic. 898634

(530)756-2209 http://www.plumbingmd.com

HAULING

(530) 207-7798

service grinding Pathway Return wall Concrete Brick and redwood fence Patios Pressure washing Weeding Gutters One-time cleaning and hauling

Roof/Gutter cleaning Certified low & steep slope installers Residential & Commercial License #736384

The Feel Good Plumbing Experience!

(530)545-1110

FREE ESTIMATE!

Stump

FREE ROOF INSPECTION ****$200 off new roof **** All your roofing needs!

Lic#909693

Mowing, edging, trimming, blowing, weeding, fencing, gutter cleaning, sprinkler repair, tree work and one time cleaning. FREE estimate.

Sprinklers Sods

Budget Tree Service

(530)756-TREE (8733) Cell (707)249-9207

ASK ABOUT available carpet and installation

MEL’S HAULING SERVICES

General yard work. mowing, edging, trimming, weeding, hauling trash, repair sprinklers.

Reasonable rate.

FREE ESTIMATE Residential/Commercial.

Call Mike (530)400-5670 (530)756-9394

Service & Repair Sewer & Drain Cleaning

530-216-3371

(530)220-5522 Dave (530)666-5522 AFFORDABLE LANDSCAPE AND GARDENING.

Mowing, edging, blowing, trimming, weeding, fencing, sprinkler, tree work, one-time cleanup. Gutters, hauling, commercial, residential.

Free estimate.

Bonded/Insured.

CA Lic#918309.

Call BOB (530)308-2804

Plumbing Doctor

FREE ESTIMATES (530)848-7805

UNIVERSITY LANDSCAPING Specializing in Residential Monthly Maintenance

Free Estimates

**10% off when you mention this ad**

Always Paradise Gardening

FREE ESTIMATES Handy man for: • Yardwork • Electrical • Plumbing • Painting • Fence & Gates • Sprinklers • Appliance repair, removal, & installation.

Planting Tree

HANLEES TOYOTA Considering ALL reasonable offers!

Benefit from management attention. All Trades welcome! Costco Wholesaler Preferred Dealer.

Giant used inventory.

LEASE • FINANCE 4202 Chiles Rd., Davis (530) 753-3352

(530)383-4634

• Pollination Services • Swarm Capture • Bee Cutouts • Honey Mike Davis 530-723-8214 mic1128@pacbell.net

Full landscaping and yard maintenance installation.

• New constructions • Remodel • Additions • Kitchen & bathroom remodels • Patio & decks Call today for FREE ESTIMATES! (530)400-5817 (530)750-9094

Lic#BL008702

All Property Maintenance

MICHAEL BROCK TILE Custom remodeling and repairs.

Kitchens, baths, floors.

Lic. #713728 (530)661-0053

Tree Service

L&L Roofing

(707)249-6159 Lawn service, tree service, fence service, sprinklers, bricks, and pavers. Free estimates.

performancehomeimprovement.com

*******************

TREE SERVICE

SCL#327777

• Custom Kitchen/bath remodeling • Cabinets, tile, counters • A+ BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU RATED!

$500 OFF Full Remodel

ROOFING

Alliance

License# 698797

MIKE’S HOME IMPROVEMENT

Call The Enterprise to Boost Your Ad with Online Display

HANLEES NISSAN www.hanleesdavis nissan.com 5009 Chiles Rd. Davis (530) 756-6490

OOakland 59/74

kt Stockton 69/96 M Modesto 72/98

San Jose / 62/85

Air quality index Precipitation Friday .................. 0.00” Season to date .... 0.00” Last season ..........0.00” Normal to date .... 0.03”

Yesterday: 164

156

0 50 100 150 200 300

500

0-50 is good. 51-100 is moderate. 101-150 is unhealthy for sensitive groups. 151-200 is unhealthy. 201-300 is very unhealthy. 301-500 is hazardous. Source: SpareTheAir.com

Pollen Today Grass ...Low Trees ...Low Weeds .High Molds ..Low

California cities City Bakersfield Chico Eureka Fresno Long Beach Los Angeles Monterey

Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 78/100/Smk 78/101/PCldy 71/98/PCldy 72/96/PCldy 53/66/PCldy 53/66/PCldy 73/100/Smk 75/99/PCldy 73/85/PCldy 71/87/Clr 72/86/PCldy 69/86/Clr 57/70/PCldy 58/71/Clr

City Mount Shasta Oakland Pasadena Redding San Diego San Francisco San Jose

Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 56/90/Smk 56/90/PCldy 58/73/PCldy 59/74/Clr 68/90/PCldy 67/93/Clr 65/98/PCldy 66/98/PCldy 71/85/Rain 69/81/PCldy 56/69/PCldy 57/67/PCldy 61/85/Clr 62/85/Clr

Today Tomorrow City Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W Sn Luis Obispo 63/82/Cldy 62/81/Clr Santa Barbara 66/83/PCldy 64/83/Clr Santa Cruz 57/75/PCldy 57/75/Clr Stockton 68/98/PCldy 69/96/PCldy S. Lake Tahoe 50/87/PCldy 53/83/PCldy Ukiah 61/101/PCldy61/100/PCldy Yosemite 70/91/Smk 68/90/PCldy

City El Paso Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans

Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 77/101/PCldy75/97/Clr 65/92/Rain 70/90/Rain 76/91/PCldy 74/91/PCldy 75/96/PCldy 76/94/Rain 64/86/Rain 67/90/PCldy 67/92/Clr 69/93/Clr 86/108/Clr 87/108/Clr 69/92/Clr 69/92/Clr 68/86/Rain 69/91/PCldy 70/91/PCldy 72/93/Clr 81/93/Rain 81/90/Rain 66/84/Rain 68/88/PCldy 69/89/Clr 69/91/PCldy 76/89/Rain 76/85/Rain

City New York Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Providence Reno Salt Lake City Seattle Tampa Tucson Washington

National cities City Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Bismarck Boise Boston Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit

Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 68/97/PCldy 68/93/Rain 55/66/Rain 54/64/Rain 69/85/Rain 71/86/Rain 72/92/Rain 74/87/Rain 64/92/Clr 72/93/Cldy 67/86/Rain 70/85/Rain 73/86/Rain 74/88/Rain 70/85/Rain 70/87/Rain 66/83/Rain 67/87/PCldy 60/94/PCldy 61/94/Rain 74/95/Clr 75/96/Clr 62/99/Smk 64/98/Rain 69/94/Clr 68/98/Clr 67/91/Clr 69/90/Rain

SHOTTENKIRK HONDA www.shottenkirkdavis honda.com 4343 Chiles Rd. Davis (530) 758-8770

VACAVILLE HONDA www.vacaville honda.com 641 Orange Dr. Vacaville (707) 449-5900 (866) 5HONDA2

CONNECT WITH A QUALITY AUTO DEALER! Please contact David DeLeon

AUTO DIRECTORY

ddeleon@davisenterprise.net

(530) 747-8086

Today Tomorrow Lo/Hi/W Lo/Hi/W 75/86/Rain 76/92/Rain 69/95/Clr 68/98/Clr 76/92/Rain 78/91/Rain 72/89/Rain 73/90/Rain 89/110/Hot 89/112/Hot 68/82/Rain 67/85/Rain 55/83/Clr 56/80/Clr 67/88/Cldy 69/88/Rain 63/97/PCldy 66/94/PCldy 74/98/PCldy 73/99/PCldy 54/76/Clr 55/76/PCldy 76/92/Rain 78/93/Rain 78/104/Hot 78/107/Hot 72/89/Rain 73/90/Rain

VACAVILLE VOLKSWAGEN www.vacavillevw.com 580 Orange Dr. Vacaville (707) 449-6900 (866) 86BUYVW

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Baby Blues

Comics

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 B7

Dilbert

By Scott Adams

By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott

Pearls Before Swine

By Stephan Pastis

Zits

New York Times Crossword Puzzle

C osswo d

ACROSS

28 With 1-Down, where students 1 Anchor at Manhattan’s Langone Center 9 Composer of the go, for short “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” 29 Ruined, as plans collection 32 1975 15 From nothing, as Wimbledon Creation winner 16 Working rhythm 35 Outcome 17 “The Simpsons” 37 Something to character in pay a steep price sunglasses and for? platform shoes 38 The top Hot 18 Good thing to 100 solo artist have on hand of all time, per during winter?

Billboard 39 Gift in “The Gift 19 Accused of of the Magi” infringement, say 40 Mammalian hematophage 20 Bit of resistance 42 Cheeky 22 ___ acid 43 A, as in April?

23 Body shop addons, informally 44 “___ tu” 25 Bomb46 It may be passed confiscating org. at a fund-raiser 27 One seeking 47 Having table scraps, everything one maybe needs

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

C R E D

S H A V E N

H A J I

T A L O N S

S T A T E L E G I S L A T O R

W A B E N O S R A C T E E C A R G E R I T A L E A R D I S L O A T L T M E C T O R R E N S U N I M A T E L O P E R E P U T A

ACROSS

A R T T E A C H E R

G E S S O S H A N E

A P F O T I

A G A O L U S K E T C N O R L P A A D A P T E R S E S T N I S M T S E S T A D O N P A R E R M E R O N S

H A L T

A X E L

26 Girl’s name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet 27 ___ Romeo (Italian auto) 28 “Cat ___ your tongue?”

30 Tows 31 Abandoned and helpless 35 Cheerios grain 36 Roman numeral X 37 Where someone who goes next is standing 45 Military vehicles 46 Hawaiian wreath 47 Google’s red, yellow, green and blue “G,” e.g.

48 Some canine sounds 49 Debtor’s note 51 Put into office 52 Frat member 53 “They rooked me!”

1 Ogden who wrote “Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, / I’ll stare at something less prepoceros” 5 Largest continent 9 Responses to jokes 14 Female friend from France 15 Delivery vehicles 16 Make into law

48 Prefix with -hedron 50 Purchases at Ollivanders, in fantasy 52 Psychoactive constituent of marijuana, for short 54 Detached piece of ice 56 Funds 58 Field with estate planning 61 Sort of spousal separation 62 Postponement info 63 Sailor’s omen, in a phrase 64 Do-or-die hockey situation DOWN 1 See 28-Across 2 x, y or z 3 Recapping 4 Sarcastic comment after a mess-up 5 Low-rent 6 “___ but a scratch …”

7 Toni Braxton or Mahalia Jackson, e.g.

8 “It was even funnier in person” 9 Big name in casinos 10 Soliloquy relative 11 Predecessor of Outlook 12 Kismet 13 Calm state of affairs

56 Something that goes in a garage 57 Classic Michael J. Fox movie 60 Go off, as a volcano 61 Bat mitzvah dance 62 “Dancing Queen” group 63 Like good gossip 64 Twinkler in the night sky 65 ___ in show (canine award)

DOWN 1 Tusked marine mammal 20 Pale, as a face 2 Easy to get along 21 First thing to do with before changing 3 Broadcast ender clothes 4 Sneaky laugh 22 UPS competitor sound 23 Weapon of mass 5 Stratforddestruction, upon-___ informally 6 Makeup of a beach 25 The Trojans of the N.C.A.A. 7 As a matter of fact PREVIOUS PUZZLE'S ANSWERS (UPSIDE DOWN) 8 What remains ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE after a fire M A I N S T A Y M A H L E R 9 Borders of skirts E X N I H I L O G R O O V E D I S C O S T U M I T T E N 10 “I’ll take that as ___” S U E D O H M A M I N O 11 Dust buster M O D S A T F A N T N Y U D E R A I L E D 12 Like the ideal poker straight A S H E B O T T O M L I N E 13 Choices of T E A M A D O N N A F O B hairdos V A M P I R E B A T P E R T 18 Place to take a S C H E D U L E E R I bath H A T S E T D E C A 19 Key above a tilde W A N D S T H C C A L F E N D O W S E L D E R L A W 24 Welcome ___ (item at the A G E G A P R A I N D A T E entrance to a R E D S K Y E M P T Y N E T home) W E A R

H A M H A N D E D

S E A C H A N G E

I N S U M

M A E X D I S

A T V S

P E T D O G S

N I C E O N E

S T A H I L O S T D O D S Y U B O M A D I R E D U L S E S T W S A P K Y

17 Exact

By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

0718 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

15

16

17

18 19

20 23

24

33

35

37

26

29

34

11

30

14

31

36 39

41

42

43

44 46

47

50

13

By Charles M. Schulz

27

38

40

12

Classic Peanuts

22

25

28 32

21

10

0720

51

56

45

48 52

57

53

54

58

61

62

63

64

49 55

59

60

PUZZLE BY JOHN GUZZETTA AND MICHAEL HAWKINS

14 City north of Washoe Lake State Park 21 What’s found on a couple of plates in Italy?

24 Foresters, e.g.

26 Led 30 Modern Q&A inits.

31 Red cents?

32 Countryside conveyances, for short 33 Complete shift

51 Letters on love notes

34 All thumbs 36 Short lyric poem

53 Smacker

38 Lead-in to sentence or section

55 Kismet

41 Ones seeking table scraps, maybe

57 International ___ Museum (Washington, 42 Historic region of D.C., attraction) northern France 59 Plié, in ballet 45 Like the latest 49 Actor Lane who voiced Mister Ed

60 It might be hard to get this in a desert

50 Sign of overuse

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

1

2

3

4

5

14

6

7

8

9

15

17

18

20

21

23

38

29

57

30 33

35

36

39

45 49

52

26

32

48

13

22

28

37

12

19

25

27

11

16

24

31

10

34

Ambitious Sudoku 1

55

Complete the grids so that every row, column and outlined 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9.

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

40

41

46

47

50

53

42

43

44

51 54

58

56 59

60

61

62

63

64

65

PUZZLE BY ALEX EATON-SALNERS

26 Blunder

49 ___ Jima

28 Pesky insect

50 Declarations at inaugurations

38 Tap the screen on a camera app, say 29 Bus driver on 39 Special ___ “The Simpsons” 40 Annual 30 Hill on a beach vaccination 32 Charged 41 Rapper ___ Kim particles 42 It goes “clink” in a drink 33 Suffix with Smurf 43 Dieting strategy 34 Where Samson that may lead to slew the ketosis Philistines 44 Beseech 37 Auto with a 45 Made quick prancing horse boxing punches logo

51 Professor’s email address ending 53 ___-bitty 54 Sister and wife of Zeus 55 At a distance 58 Metric meas. of speed 59 Part inserted to close a cereal box

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Diabolical Sudoku 2 See the Sudoku solutions in today's classifieds.

Y O U H A D T O B E T H E R E

M A H L G R O O M I T T M A M I T F A N E R A I L T O M L I N N A F A T P E E R I D E C A C C A L L D E R L A I N D A M P T Y N

F A W T E E T

E V E N T E N O R

D E B T

R E N O

B8 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020

VDYHP\SDSHU FRP