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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

From the coronavirus pandemic to national uprisings to some of the worst wildfires in California’s history, UC Davis students have weathered a summer of crisis and catastrophe. With fall quarter approaching, some students received an additional gut punch just weeks before the Sep. 15 tuition deadline.

According to several students interviewed by The Enterprise, as well as an online petition organized by a student organization, a significant number of students received “repackaged” financial-aid offers the last week of August that were considerably lower than the estimated offers they were given in March.

Students can appeal for a revised aid offer that reflects their family’s current financial situation (financial aid applications were based on the prior year’s tax filings and did not account for pandemicrelated loss of income), but

Leaf blowers: for some an efficient, low-cost means of removing leaves and other debris from landscaping, sidewalks and roads; for others, a noisy source of dust and greenhouse gas emissions.

While fairly ubiquitous in the city of Davis, leaf blowers are subject to some restrictions here, including when they can be used and just how noisy they can be. But they remain a source of dispute within the city, as a draft report prepared by the city’s Natural Resources Commission indicates.

The report notes that public comment delivered to the commission, as well as discussion on social media, reveals “many Davis residents express both clear support for and clear opposition to continued blower use within the city.”

Now the commission itself is weighing in, with its report containing recommendations that the City Council consider banning the sale and use of gas-powered leaf blowers within city limits and

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While fairly ubiquitous in the city of Davis, leaf blowers are subject to some restrictions here, including when they can be used and just how noisy they can be.

A tale of two postcards

BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County residents will likely see two different voting-related postcards in their mailboxes in the next few days, if they haven’t already.

Pay attention to the one from the Yolo County Elections Office. The one from the U.S. Postal Service? Not so much, according to the county elections office and the California secretary of state’s office.

The USPS postcard, which was sent out nationwide, is already the subject of a lawsuit filed by Colorado’s secretary of state, Jena Griswold, who said the postcards provide false

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information that may disenfranchise voters.

“There is information on this postcard that is not relevant to the voters in California and causing confusion,” the Yolo County elections office said in a press release Friday.

Specifically, the postcard tells postal customers they should request vote-bymail ballots at least 15 days before Election Day and mail them back at least seven days before.

However, in California, all active registered voters will be mailed a ballot beginning Oct. 5 whether they’ve requested a voteby-mail ballot or not.

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A fingerprint on a teacup led to the arrest in last month’s attempted rape of a woman on a South Davis bike path, left there after the suspect walked the victim home after the attack, according to documents on file in Yolo Superior Court.

The revelation is contained in a prosecutor’s motion to increase bail for Jose Trinidad Perez-Meza, who faces felony assault, attempted forcible rape, robbery and kidnapping charges in connection with the Aug. 2 incident.

Perez-Meza, a 36-yearold Sacramento resident, currently remains free on a $150,000 bail bond posted a week after his Aug. 24 arrest. He appeared in Yolo Superior Court on Friday for a scheduled preliminary hearing, though the proceeding was delayed while Perez-Meza considers hiring a private attorney, his public defender said.

Meanwhile, the Yolo

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Cops hope to deter theft with ‘bait bike’ stings

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer

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A voter-information postcard from the USPS contains information that isn’t relevant to California, according to local elections officials. out and returned in the provided envelope — no postage needed — via the mail, a ballot drop-off box or at a Voter Assistance Center.

“For voters that return their ballot by mail, as long

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as it is post-marked by Nov. 3 our office has 17 days after Nov. 3 to receive it and count the vote,” the Yolo County elections office said.

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If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that bicycle theft ranks among the most common crimes in this bike-friendly town.

“We’ve experienced quite a few over the years, and the numbers are still significant,” said Paul Doroshov, deputy chief of the Davis Police Department, which took 567 bike-theft reports in 2019.

This year, 360 bike thefts had been reported as of Aug. 31, the bulk of them — just over 70 percent — snatched during

the ongoing shelter-inplace order that began on March 19.

And those are the ones that go reported. Many more do not.

As it has in prior years, the Police Department is trying to reduce thefts by embarking on a “bait bike” sting operation — leaving high-end, unlocked bikes out in public with the intent of catching those who act on these crimes of opportunity.

Since launching the operation in mid-August,

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Briefly WPD targets distraction Woodland police cited dozens of drivers for violating California’s hands-free cell phone law during a distracteddriving enforcement operation Wednesday.

During the 24-hour operation, conducted from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., 57 drivers were cited for using their phone without a hands-free device, while 15 drivers were cited for other moving violations.

“Despite repeated efforts to warn drivers about the dangers of distracted driving, some drivers continue to use their phones when they are behind the wheel,” Woodland police Lt. Tom Davis said. “Our ultimate goal is to change behaviors so that drivers are only focused on the task of driving.”

So far this year, one person has been severely injured in a distracted driving-related crash in Woodland, though no one has been killed.

California has had distracted driving laws on the books since 2008. Under the hands-free cell phone law, drivers are not allowed to hold their phone or other electronic device while driving. They can only use their phone in a hands-free manner.

Funding for this enforcement program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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We should work to make voting easier

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ears ago I remember bumping into the late, great Ernie Head at my friendly local polling place and we’d both laugh at the fact that if neither of us voted or both of us voted on a specific ballot measure, it would have no effect on the ultimate outcome.

Yes, we were certain we’d be canceling each other’s vote. And, no doubt, we were. But we both voted anyway.

Nowadays, there seem to be opposite forces at work when it comes to voting. One side wants to make it easier for folks to vote and the other side wants to make it harder.

Now, I fully admit that if you plan to vote for someone other than my favorite candidate, I’d just as soon you stayed home.

Indeed, I want to win as much as the next guy.

But, over time, issues change and candidates change and sooner or later political foes become allies. That probably happened to Ernie and me a couple of times,

though neither of us would admit it.

So now there’s a push to make Election Day a federal holiday, a proposal that has been embraced by some and met with howls of protest by others. Again, some folks want to make it easier to vote and others want to make it harder.

To be clear, we’re not talking about making all election days a national holiday, just the ones when we’re selecting the president of the United States. That amounts to just one additional federal holiday every four years.

Olympic years at that. (Except this year).

Or, perhaps, every two years in respect for the fact that all seats in

Probe on after West Sac police fatally shoot man

BY LAUREN KEENE Enterprise staff writer West Sacramento police officers fatally shot a man Saturday during an earlymorning encounter on West Capitol Avenue.

Authorities have launched an investigation into the shooting, which occurred at about 3 a.m. as officers responded to a report of a Black male adult armed with a gun in the 1800 block of West Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento police Sgt. Eric Angle said in a news release.

Several police units responded to the scene, initially making contact with a person they determined was not related to the call, according to Angle.

“As officers continued searching the area, one officer noticed a subject seated in a vehicle behind the police units at Merkley Avenue and Poplar Avenue,” Angle said. “As the officer attempted to contact the driver, the unidentified adult African American male exited the vehicle armed with a handgun and a shooting ensued.”

Angle said the officers began life-saving measures while summoning emergency responders to the scene, but the man died of his shooting injuries. No officers or bystanders were hurt.

Yolo County coroner’s officials had not released

the man’s name as of Saturday evening, still awaiting positive identification.

It was not immediately clear whether there was an exchange of gunfire, or if only the officers discharged their weapons. Angle declined to release additional details when asked for clarification, saying that “there will be more information released as the investigation unfolds.”

In keeping with Yolo County’s officer-involved fatal incident protocol, the six involved officers will be placed on administrative leave during the investigation, which will be conducted by an outside police agency, in this case the Davis Police Department.

Of the six officers on scene, four were “directly involved” in the shooting, Angle said — a sergeant with 15 years of lawenforcement experience and three officers with five years or less on the force.

The officer-involved shooting is Yolo County’s first since Dec. 19, 2019, when Davis police fatally shot a man who had stabbed his mother to death inside their North Davis home, then charged at officers with knives as they attempted to order him out of the house.

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

Suicide Prevention will train volunteers Special to The Enterprise Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Yolo County will hold a fiveweek crisis-line volunteer training beginning Oct. 6.

Crisis-line volunteers play a role in saving the lives of Yolo County residents; when they join the dedicated team of volunteers who answer the phones at SPYC, they become the first point of human contact in the steps toward mental health.

Volunteers undergo a 40-plus-hour training program in which they develop the skills needed to address issues of depression, suicide, family-relationship conflicts and mental illness. Initially, volunteers commit to serving six hours per week with a one-year service commitment upon successful completion of the training program.

SPYC will be interviewing prospective volunteers

until Sept. 30 and will accept applications for this training up until Sept. 28.

Those interested in applying are asked to review the training dates to ensure they will be able to attend each training date (virtually, due to COVID-19); there are no make-ups, and all potential volunteers are required to attend each training, on time. Applicants must also be at least 20 years old.

Training sessions are all 1 to 4 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday from Oct. 6 through Nov. 10.

To apply, visit www.

SuicidePreventionYolo County.org to download and complete a volunteer application. Applications can be mailed or emailed back to SPYC. For questions or additional information, call the SPYC business office at (530) 756-7542 and ask for Geneva.

the House of Representatives and approximately one-third of U.S. Senate seats are up for grabs every two years.

Unfortunately, the intent of most holidays gets lost in the shuffle over time, especially those we’ve scheduled as part of threeday weekends.

I mean, does anyone stop and reflect on the life of Warren G. Harding on President’s Day? The intent of an Election Day holiday is to increase voter turnout, given that many non-voters claim it’s too hard for them to get to the polls on a regular work day.

Especially when they see those long lines to vote in some cities that are no doubt part of a devious plan to suppress the vote.

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es, they can vote absentee, but that sounds like too much of a bother to some people. Besides the fact that the president of the United States says vote by mail is riddled with fraud.

Whether a federal holiday on Election Day will increase voter turnout is an open question. Who

knows, it might actually decrease participation if people use the day off to head for the hills or the beach or the corner bar instead of their local polling place. Over time, that may well be the case.

Note to reformers: do not schedule the federal Election Day holiday on a Monday. Or a Friday.

Or the day before Thanksgiving.

It’s unclear at this point if the holiday idea would extend to presidential primary elections, school board elections, city council elections, parcel tax elections, Nishi Project elections and fifth-grade homeroom monitor elections Of the 19 million registered voters who failed to vote in 2016, 14.3 percent said they were simply too busy to bother.

According to the Pew Research Center, 71 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of Republicans support an Election Day holiday, a rare moment of agreement in our divisive political world.

That alone might be enough to give it a try.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Yolo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven virtually administers the oath of office Thursday to Ilkun Kim and Brianna Reveles, both new program assistants for the DA’s Victim Services Program. Reveles is majoring in political science at Sac State, while Ilkun, a Neighborhood Court volunteer, earned a political science degree from UC Davis. Both will assist Victim Services advocates by providing information and support to victims of crimes being prosecuted by the DA’s Office.

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New Chinese, return of some favorites M

aggie Lo has quite a following. Her Tasty Gourmet opened on Sept. 4, and the word spread quickly.

The Chinese food restaurant is at 2880 Fifth St., Suite 125. It replaced China Bistro. There are tables for eating outside but most patrons prefer takeout with this smoky air.

Lo previously ran Four Seasons Gourmet Chinese Restaurant, next to Chevron at 1601 Research Park Drive. Three years ago, she sold the business and retired. Boredom and her loyal fans encouraged her out of retirement.

The menu includes dim sum appetizers, soup, and pork, chicken, duck, beef, seafood and vegetable dishes — some served as rice plates. Specialties are congee (porridge) for breakfast, and clay (hot) pot dishes. Also, fried rice and chow mein. My family was treated to some takeout dishes on opening day, and they were excellent. My favorites were the Mongolian Beef and Singapore Rice Noodles.

——— Also in Fifth Street Plaza, Nami Sushi is back open for outdoor dining and takeout. It’s been closed since pandemic restrictions began in March but reopened on Labor Day. I’ve been incorrectly listing it as open because there were a few Yelp reviews posted during that time.

The Japanese food restaurant is at 2880 Fifth St., Suite 105.

It’s known for its all-you-can-eat sushi but that’s on hold until unrestricted indoor dining returns.

——— Crepeville will soon return! In anticipation, the restaurant at 330 Third St. recently expanded its patio. Owner Derar Zawaydeh said if everything falls into place,

it will reopen on Monday, Sept.

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After that, we can start anticipating the return of El Toro Bravo Mexican Kitchen “once Crepeville is settled in,” he said.

The restaurant’s Feb. 1 closure was not pandemic-related. At the time, the owner cited “the rising cost of goods and employment.”

Crepeville, El Toro Bravo and Burgers & Brew are all under the same ownership.

——— The former Forever 21 space in University Mall is haunted.

Spirit Halloween filled the space with its seasonal store. It’s open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays, at 875 Russell Blvd., Suite 5. If you go, print out a coupon first from its website, which you can find by searching for the Davis store.

——— Speaking of Halloween, Davis Downtown merchants are considering a low-key “Seven Days of Halloween.” While the traditional Treat Trail is canceled, some business owners may still provide treats, to encourage families to come downtown and support local businesses.

Oct. 31 is a Saturday this year.

What organizers don’t want is everyone coming at once. Initial plans have merchants offering treats on a table or hanging them from a string, to allow physical distancing. I will have more

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Maggie Lo shows off a Mongolian Beef dish on Tasty Gourmet’s opening day, Sept. 4. details as they solidify.

——— Starting Sept. 10, Leeland Properties, which owns mix-use parcels at The Cannery, started offering food trucks every Thursday evening, in cooperation with Sactomofo (Sacramento Mobile Foods). It’s for takeout only.

Organizers hope to continue it from 5 to 8 p.m. every Thursday, at 1550 Cannery Ave., in front of Market Park.

On Thursday, they had Smoking Ewe BBQ, Aztec Street Tacos, Gyro Stop and The Original Bubble Cone. See the week’s food trucks and preorder online by visiting https://www.sacto mofo.com/event.

——— Upper Crust Baking has a new beer and wine license, allowing it to offer products from local producers for delivery or pickup.

Selections include Great Bear Vineyards and Dunloe Brewing.

The bakehouse is open for grab-and-go items from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays. Employees help you from the front door.

Or, you can preorder for delivery (Mondays or Wednesdays) or curbside pickup (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Davis delivery is free with a minimum order. Visit https://uppercrustbaking.com/ davis-delivery.

——— The Sinclair gas station at 400 Mace Blvd. is closed and fenced off. The green dinosaur is gone, too.

The site is the future home to a 24-hour 7-Eleven and accompanying gas station, approved by the City Council in May 2019.

The 2,336-square-foot store will sell personal goods, food and beverages — including beer and wine. Plans call for new landscaping and parking spaces.

The site has been home to a gas station since 1960 and approved for a mini mart since 1979, according to Enterprise reports.

——— I’m still updating and adding details to my Google spreadsheet of some 300 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses.

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

The following Davis restaurants remain temporarily closed during the pandemic: CREAM, Crepeville, Delta of Venus, D Street Steakhouse, De Vere’s Irish Pub, Sam’s Mediterranean Cuisine, UC Davis Coffeehouse

and Uncle Vito’s. Several have closed permanently, including Bistro 33, City Hall Tavern, China Bistro, Extreme Pizza, La Piñata Mexican Grill, Mr. Pickles Sandwich Shop and On Tap. ——— Berryessa Gap Vineyards is supporting its winemaker, Nicole Salengo, as she realized her dream of establishing wine under her own label: Salengo.

She plans a fundraising dinner of up to 40 people at the newly expanded back patio of Preserve, 200 Railroad Ave., Winters.

Tables are available for household groups of up to six, set apart to observe physical distancing protocols.

“It’s a project I’ve wanted to do for years, and received the blessing from the (Berryessa Gap) owners to create wines under my own name, in my own style, with my favorite varieties,” Salengo said. She focused on “elegant and subtle food-friendly wines that are varieties,” which BGV tends to highlight blends.

The five-course meal, starting at 6 p.m. on Sept. 23, is paired with her 2018 Salengo Grenache and a selection of Berryessa Gap wines. Tickets are $110 per person, plus tax. See the menu and make a reservation here https:// www.berryessagap.com/Salengo GrenacheDinner.

If you miss the dinner, you can find Salengo wines through Berryessa Gap and at select retailers, she said.

— 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.

AgStart announces Woodland ‘innovation incubator’ Special to The Enterprise AgStart, a nonprofit based in Woodland, announced on Sept. 9 a public-private collaboration to fund a shared-use innovation incubator in Woodland supporting innovators and startup companies in agriculture, food and health.

When complete, the $1.3 million Lab@AgStart will feature a fully equipped shared-lab and kitchen space as well as a co-working office space. Examples of innovations that the Lab@AgStart could support include environmentally friendly biocontrol products for agriculture, new drought-resistant crops, and new foods and food-as-medicine ingredients. The collaboration includes the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Yolo County, the city of Woodland, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and a number of private donors.

“Our region has struggled with a lack of laboratory capacity to support emerging companies pursuing science-based innovations,” explained Michael Teel, chief visionary officer of Raley’s and head of the Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council’s Food and Agriculture Innovation Council. “Expanding our

region’s capacity to support science-based Food and Ag technology innovation strengthens our region’s leadership as an ag-foodhealth innovation hub.”

Woodland is in one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, but a region threatened by shortages of water and workforce availability. This creates opportunities for innovation — new droughttolerant plant varieties, less labor-intensive harvest techniques, and new foods and food ingredients — that could transform our food system.

“This land is both our past and our future, and we can’t wait to see what comes next.

That’s why we’re proud to contribute significant funding for this project through our Doyuti T’uhkama partnership,” said the Tribal Council of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a Native American Tribe centered in nearby Brooks, California.

“The Lab@AgStart will be all about creating what comes next.”

“In recent years, the prominence of UC Davis

research in agriculture, food science, and human and animal health, and the strength of California’s Central Valley agricultural economy have generated an explosion of promising startup companies pioneering innovations to improve the productivity, efficiency, and sustainability of our food system,” said John Selep, president of AgTech Innovation Alliance, the nonprofit sponsor of the AgStart program. “Developing these new solutions involves scientific testing, development, and refinement, requiring laboratory facilities, which are scarce throughout our Central Valley region. As a result, available laboratory facilities in the Greater Sacramento region have been filled, and new lab capacity has been quickly absorbed.”

“When it opens later in 2020, the Lab@AgStart facility will be the largest shared-use wet-lab facility for startup companies in the entire Central Valley region, said Selep.

“Construction on the improvements necessary to

outfit the lab will commence this fall and the Lab@AgStart should be ready for occupancy around the end of the year.”

A broad coalition of public and private funding sources have been assembled to finance the $1.3 million Lab@AgStart project.

“The U.S. Economic Development Administration made the right call in supporting AgStart. Their strong work to support burgeoning companies across the health and agriculture industries will lead to innovations that bolster our nation’s food system,” said Rep. John Garamendi,

D-Walnut Grove.

In addition to the Economic Development Administration, the city of Woodland and Yolo County have committed financial support to the Lab@AgStart project as well.

“We are thrilled by the announcement of the U.S. EDA’s investment in helping grow our local food and agriculture innovation ecosystem,” Woodland Mayor Rich Lansburgh said. “The City of Woodland is proud to partner with Yolo County and industry supporters to promote the scientific community through the launch of the Lab@AgStart, which

will offer an affordable state-of-the-art facility in Downtown Woodland.”

“The Lab@AgStart is an exciting project for our region that further strengthens our ag and life science innovation ecosystem,” said Gary Sandy, chair of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. “The county is proud to collaborate with AgStart, the city of Woodland, and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to maximize success for our community.”

Private sponsorship of the Lab@AgStart facility includes Bayer Cropscience, Gowan Company, and the Dowling Family.

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Briefly LWV hosts online forum Uncertain about the difference between a single-payer system and a public option linked to the Affordable Care Act? The League of Women Voters Davis Area will offer a Zoom educational program on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. to help voters understand and compare the two choices.

“Health-care Reform: Demystifying Future Health-care Options” aims to help voters better understand candidate positions in upcoming presidential debates and election forums.

The online event will feature two speakers: Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide health-care consumer advocacy coalition; and Jodi Reid, executive director at California Alliance for Retired Americans, a statewide senior advocacy organization working to improve quality of life for seniors.

Speakers also will discuss the challenges Yolo County residents and providers have faced before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Submit questions in advance to komalh@ lwvdavisarea.org. Audience members will be able to submit questions at the forum as well.

Use the following link to register for the event: https://bit. ly/351CSuc. A Zoom link will be sent two days before the event.

The League of Women Voters Davis Area is a non-partisan organization committed to voter education and voter registration.

To learn more, go to www.lwvdavisarea.org.

Storytellers feature folktales The Storytelling Association of California will present its next online event from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, via Zoom.

There is no cost to attend. However, we will be compensating the tellers for their efforts, and donations will be accepted for this purpose. Registration is required at the association’s website at http:// www.storysaac.org/ genre-storytellingseries.html.

Members from various storytelling groups around California will be telling stories at these events, held once each month on the third Wednesday. Each event will highlight stories from different genres, such as personal, folktale, historical, tall tale, myth, fable, fantasy, stories with music, etc. Stories will be up to 10 minutes long.

The September genre will be folktales.

The third event will be on Oct. 21 will feature spooky and scary stories.

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Obituaries will be edited for style and grammar. Submissions may be made via www. davisenterprise.com/ obit-form. For further information about paid obituaries or free death notices, call 530-7560800.

POSTCARDS: Keep it local From Page A1 Residents can still register to vote online at https:// registertovote.ca.gov/ to receive their ballot in the mail the first full week of October.

Ballot drop-off boxes will be available beginning Monday, Oct. 5, and will close at 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3.

In Davis, ballot drop-off boxes will be located at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd.; Nugget Market, 409 Mace Blvd.; Nugget Market, 1414 E Covell Blvd; and Westlake Market, 1260 Lake Blvd.

Meanwhile, Voter Assistance Centers will be located throughout the county from Saturday, Oct. 31, through Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

At those locations, residents can drop off vote-bymail ballots, cast a live vote, register to vote, receive assistance and more. These centers essentially replace the neighborhood polling places voters are used to but which will not be available this year.

In Davis, Voter Assistance Centers will be located at the UC Davis ARC Ballroom, 760 Orchard Road; the Veterans Memorial Center multipurpose room, 203 E 14th St.; the Montgomery Elementary School multipurpose room, 1441 Danbury St.; and the Patwin Elementary School multipurpose room, 2222

officers assigned to the Community-Oriented Policing and ProblemSolving (COPPS) team have nabbed four alleged thieves — one each night the bikes were deployed.

“They wait until someone takes the bike and rides away on it” before making their move, Doroshov said.

The result: an arrest on grand-theft charges, given the value of the bait bikes — donated by local community groups — at well over the $950 felony threshold.

As word gets out and perhaps deters future crimes, “we’re hoping it makes a dent in the bike-theft

BAIL: Total ‘shocks the conscience’ From Page A1 County District Attorney’s Office wants to increase Perez-Meza’s bail to $500,000, filing a bailenhancement motion that noted the gravity of the current allegations along with the defendant’s criminal history — including two prior sexual-battery convictions in 2015 and 2018 for which he must register as a sex offender.

“I believe he is a public safety risk,” Deputy District Attorney David Robbins said during the live-streamed court hearing before Judge David Reed. “He went to a location out of his jurisdiction and attacked a stranger.”

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As for that other postcard — the Yolo County elections office mailed those out on Friday.

The mailing is an Address Confirmation Postcard and recipients are asked to carefully review the information and confirm that it is correct to ensure they receive all important election mail.

Fill out the required

information, sign the postcard and return it promptly, the elections office requested. The return postage is paid.

For more information about voting in the upcoming election, visit yolo elections.org.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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rate,” Doroshov said.

Of the four arrests made so far, three suspects have come from out of town.

One even suspected the bike was a lure — his friend was busted for the same offense — but decided to take it anyway.

“Just about everyone they’ve arrested has had an extensive arrest history,” Doroshov said. One suspect reportedly was found in possession of brass knuckles, while others had illicit drugs or were on bail for prior offenses.

In addition to the bike stings, police plan to launch an educational campaign aimed at urging bicycle owners to license

their wheels and make note of their unique serial numbers in case they need to file a theft report. Providing a picture of the missing bike is helpful, too.

Doing so helps to increase recovery and return rates, which historically are dismal at best — just under five percent in 2019, only slightly better so far this year at just over seven percent.

“We’re trying to attack the problem with a multipronged approach,” Doroshov said. “For some people, (bicycles) are not just a recreational tool — this is their transportation.

It’s akin taking somebody’s car away.”

But Perez-Meza’s public defender, Richard Van Zandt, noted that a supervising prosecutor initially requested the $150,000 bail figure, which his client funded with extensive help from his relatives. He also said Perez-Meza is married and has local ties that prevent him from being a flight risk.

“Mr. Perez-Meza and his family have shelled out a significant amount of bail. … It would be wrong on several levels to raise it now,” Van Zandt told Reed. “He’s fulfilled his bail conditions, and he’s here (in court) now.”

Reed declined to rule Friday, postponing the matter to Perez-Meza’s next court date of Sept.

24. That also may be when prosecutors air their evidence in the case, some of it detailed in the bail motion.

According to the document, Perez-Meza attacked the victim from behind at about 11:30 p.m. as she walked alone on the Putah Creek bike path near El Pescador Court.

“The defendant strangled her in a headlock and the victim then awoke on the ground. The defendant told her not to scream and that he had a gun. The defendant

demanded the victim’s cell phone which he took so she could not call PEREZ-MESA Bail at issue police,” the motion says.

It goes on to describe the rape attempt, which the woman convinced her assailant to halt. “The defendant then insisted that he walk her home,” tightly gripping her hand as they headed to her apartment.

“The defendant tried to convince the victim to sit outside alone with him on a chair in the apartment complex, but the victim told the defendant to come inside of her apartment,” where the victim apparently intended to ask her roommate in another language to call the police, the motion says.

“The defendant was given a cup of tea which he left a fingerprint on.

The defendant lied about his name to the victim and lied about what he was doing in Davis,” it continues.

When Davis police arrested Perez-Meza several weeks later, he denied being in Davis and committing an assault that night, despite the leftbehind fingerprint and the discovery of the victim’s phone number in his own phone, according to the document.

“The underlying facts of this case are much more aggravating than a common attempted rape,” Robbins concluded in the motion.

“To deviate from bail and set such a serious case at $150,000 puts the public in danger and shocks the conscience.”

— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@ davisenterprise.net.

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Write-in nominations for November ballot are open through Oct. 20 Special to The Enterprise For the Nov. 3, general election, all write-in candidates for city, county and federal offices must submit a statement of write-in candidacy and nomination papers (if applicable).

Prospective write-in candidates should note that write-in candidacy is possible only if the office appears on the ballot. The write-in candidacy nomination ends Tuesday, Oct. 20.

■ County candidates — file at the Yolo County Elections Office

(625 Court St., Suite B-05, Woodland). Interested parties can schedule an appointment online using our scheduling system: https:// yolocountyelections.as.me/ or by calling the Elections Office at 530666-8133.

■ City candidates — file with the

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■ Federal candidates — file at the Secretary of State’s office or the county elections office where they live. Write-ins are not allowed for voter-nominated offices in the general election.

DEATH NOTICE Phyllis Ellen Hall

April 12, 1928 — Aug. 20, 2020 Phyllis Ellen Kratz Hall passed away peacefully Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020.

She was born in The Dalles, Ore., but moved to Iowa at a very young age and had a special place in her heart for Iowa for the rest of her life. The daughter of a minister, her family later moved to Vallejo for her dad’s work. The move brought her closer to their extended family all over California and Oregon. She frequently told stories about the family from this time and also recounted the excitement of living near Mare Island during World War II. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and even began work on a master’s degree at Pacific School of Religion back in California. This level of education was unusual for a woman in the 1940s and with fewer resources available, she was unable to finish the work for her master’s. Her professional career was steered by a passion for education and philanthropy. She was a member of P.E.O. since 1947.

After many years spent raising her four children, she re-entered the professional world in the 1970s, serving as a social worker in Riverside, Yolo and Sacramento counties until her retirement.

She married Leon Hall in 1954 — twice.

The first time, they eloped in Reno. After family outcry, they were married in a second ceremony in Yosemite officiated by her father.

Together, they moved around the state following water projects for Leon’s work and in their free time, they traveled the world. They explored six continents, only failing to visit Antarctica.

She was preceded in death by Leon. She was a devoted mother to her four children: David of Vallejo, Bobby of Sacramento, Stephanie of Davis, and Tom (Laura) of State College, Penn. She was a devoted grandmother to her three grandchildren: Rose of Davis, Willie of Davis and Katie of Santa Cruz. Her younger brothers also meant a great deal to her. She was preceded in death by all three of her brothers, two of them earlier this year, Jim of Des Moines, Iowa, and Charles of Berkeley. Her other brother, David of Corvallis, Ore., died earlier.

A member of the Davis Lutheran Church of the Incarnation up until her death, she lived a life that was characterized by a love of family, friends, animals, nature, poetry and religion.

Memorial services will be held once friends and relatives will be able together in person. In lieu of flowers, donations in her name may be sent to the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation.

Beryl Checketts Eshom Beryl “Billie” Checketts Eshom, passed peacefully on Sept. 1, 2020, in Sacramento at the age of 87. She lived most of her adult life in Castro Valley and Livermore, until she moved to be closer to her daughters in Davis and Sacramento.

The family will receive visitors from 4 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 16, at Smith Funeral Home, 116 D St. in Davis. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept.

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FINANCIAL: Clock is ticking on students caught out From Page A1 the process takes an estimated 2-6 weeks, meaning they may not receive a new offer before the tuition deadline.

Because of the unexpected shortfall in financial assistance, some students are reconsidering whether they will attend UC Davis this fall. “How can students know if they can afford to enroll?” asked Alexandra Olvera, co-chair of La Raza Pre-Law Student Association, a student group that has collected information on the financial aid adjustments. “Students are stressing out more than ever.”

When multiple students affiliated with La Raza Pre-Law Student Association at UC Davis realized they’d had their financial aid offers slashed, the student group started a petition asking administrators for an explanation. On a Google survey set up by the same group, more than 50 students indicated they’d had their aid reduced.

“We found an overwhelming number of students who have always received the same amount (in financial aid) but this year in particular it has been reduced,” Olvera said. Some students’ offers were reduced by small amounts while others lost Pell Grants or had offers cut by as much as $30,000.

Multiple students said they

suspect the university is reneging on financial aid offers in order to balance a budget that has been severely impacted by the pandemic. The UC Davis Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships told The Enterprise that is not the case. “Each student’s financial aid package is based on his or her individual circumstances,” the office said.

Financial aid offers are determined by a number of factors, including students’ expected family contribution (EFC) and their living costs. Students who plan to live on campus are assumed to have a higher cost of living and are given more aid.

“It is common for students to have their aid repackaged and see an increase or decrease in aid as a result of changing circumstances that may occur throughout the academic year,” the financial aid office said. “This year, with remote learning extended into the fall quarter due to the pandemic, many students changed their housing status.”

More than 6,000 students are normally housed on campus, but this year UC Davis expects to house fewer than 2,000 students, administrators told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.

“Significant reductions in financial aid eligibility can be caused by a change in a student’s housing status,” the financial aid office said. “The purpose of the

repackaging process was to assign the appropriate budgets to students who have chosen to cancel their on-campus housing contract.”

To date, UC Davis has offered approximately $643 million in financial aid for the 2020-21 academic year to over 21,700 undergraduate students, including a bump in aid for many students when offers were repackaged.

About 850 additional students received a University Grant averaging $10,302, while roughly 11,000 students who were initially awarded a University Grant received a minimum increase of $439 in grant aid, the financial aid office told The Enterprise.

That was made possible by reducing work-study offers by $500 for all students and extending the FAFSA and Dream Act application eligibility deadline for the University Grant from March 2 to June 30, the office said.

Still, several students said they were at a loss as to why their funding had been slashed. They hadn’t changed their housing status, they said, nor had their financial situation improved. “We came to a conclusion that our families’ incomes remained the same but we were just receiving less aid,” said Diana Cruz, cochair of La Raza Pre-Law Student Association.

Board members of La Raza Pre-Law Student Association told

The Enterprise many of the students they are in touch with are first-generation college students with limited financial support, some of whose situations have worsened as a result of the pandemic.

“We’re already behind on generational wealth,” Cruz said. “For us to continue taking out loans is only going to worsen that.” Cruz lost her job due to the pandemic, which left her unable to afford her off-campus housing in Davis.

“This is our livelihood,” she said.

“People don’t know how they’re going to make ends meet.”

If disadvantaged students need to take a quarter off, Cruz and Olvera worried, they may never return to complete their degrees.

The students cited research that found interruptions to students’ degree progress is detrimental to graduation rates.

Because of the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic, UC Davis began accepting financial aid appeals — giving students the opportunity to revise their family’s financial information — in July this year instead of in September, when it normally does.

However, students whose aid had not yet been repackaged — that didn’t happen until August for many — would not have seen a need to submit an appeal in July, students told The Enterprise. In the midst of multiple national crises, others may simply

have lacked the bandwidth to identify that opportunity and take advantage of it. “The pandemic, civil unrest, the fires. It’s a lot on a student,” Cruz said.

Similarly, UC Davis administrators spent the summer scrambling to put plans in place for the fall while a wide range of variables, many of them outside the university’s control, prevented the campus from finalizing key aspects of its housing plans until late August.

As time runs out for students to pay fall tuition, campus administrators say they are doing what they can. “Financial Aid and Scholarships recognizes that these are unprecedented times and is making every effort to process appeals as soon as possible,” the financial aid office said.

If financial aid appeals are not processed by the fall tuition deadline, the office encouraged students to apply for the Deferred Payment Plan, which allows students to pay tuition in monthly installments.

“During civil unrest and an economic recession,” La Raza Pre-Law Student Association said in its petition, “our student population needs the university’s aid now more than ever.”

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise. net. Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.

Democratic squabbling doomed housing bills; what now?

BY MATT LEVIN CalMatters Buffy Wicks was breastfeeding her 4-week-old daughter in her fifth floor Capitol office when she saw on television her fellow lawmakers were finally about to vote on one of the few remaining housing bills that really mattered.

Wicks, only a month removed from a C-section, raced with her newborn down to the state Assembly chamber to make one last plea for her colleagues to pass SB 1120. Following in the footsteps of a 2019 Oregon law, the proposal would have forced California single-family-only neighborhoods to allow duplexes and, in some cases, four units.

If only 5% of eligible single-family-homes were converted under the proposal, nearly 600,000 new units could be created in a state desperately short of housing, according to a UC Berkeley analysis. Despite a pandemic-induced recession, the median home in

Alameda County — which includes Oakland, Richmond and other East Bay cities represented by Wicks — was still fetching over $1,000,000 in July.

“It’s the simplest way we can have density that still adheres to neighborhood character,” said Wicks on the Assembly floor, bouncing her infant daughter on her chest. “So please, please, please pass this bill.

And I’m going to go finish feeding my daughter.”

The absurd tableau of the masked Wicks clutching her blanket-covered infant went viral, earning the freshman lawmaker a flurry of empathetic messages and earning Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Democrat from Los Angeles, a flurry of scorn. Rendon’s office had denied Wicks’ request to remain at home and vote by proxy, citing concerns over the constitutionality of remote voting and arguing her recent C-section did not qualify her as higherrisk for COVID-19.

Rendon later apologized to Wicks in a public statement. But for advocates for more housing density across California, compounding the furor with the Speaker over the baby drama was the tragicomic fate of the housing bill for which Wicks so visibly risked her and her child’s health.

The Assembly ultimately passed SB 1120, with 37 Democrats and seven Republicans supporting the measure. But because the vote happened at 11:56 p.m.

— less than 5 minutes before a midnight constitutional deadline to send legislation to the governor — the state Senate lacked sufficient time to take one last vote on the measure to approve small amendments made in the lower house.

Authored by state Senate leader Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego, the bill would have cleared the upper chamber easily if it had more time to be voted on.

For proponents of more

housing production in California, the duplex debacle marked a fitting end to a frustrating year that began with pledges from Gov. Gavin Newsom and leading Democratic lawmakers to make it easier to build new housing. Infighting among Democratic lawmakers, exacerbated by the logistical and fiscal complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic, sunk not only the duplex bill but several other pieces of housing production legislation.

There’s a lot of finger pointing among California Democrats about who’s to blame for the failure of the duplex bill. Asked if she believed Rendon deliberately delayed the vote on SB 1120 so that the bill could not become law, Atkins paused.

“Well, one has to wonder,” she said.

Friction between the houses is common at the chaotic end of California’s legislative session, as Senate and Assembly leaders jockey to ensure their

members’ bills get through the other chamber. But rarely does such friction escalate into public insinuations of sabotage.

Rendon — who voted for SB 1120 — flatly denies he buried the bill for political reasons. He maintains Atkins never communicated to him or his staff the bill was a high priority for her, and expressed frustration that the state Senate was struggling to make its way through a backlog of bills the last day of session.

“The Senate was incredibly slow that day,” said Rendon, referencing the delays caused by remote voting for Republican senators. “It was impossible for us to conduct business with them when they weren’t sending bills across the hall.”

Rendon also said that the duplex bill simply didn’t have enough votes to pass until late into the night, an assertion both Atkins and Assemblyman Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, dispute.

Rivas was the legislator in charge of rallying other Assembly members to vote

for SB 1120.

“I tend to think of this as a general failure of leadership,” said Louis Mirante, legislative director for California YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard), a pro-density group that backed the duplex bill.

After SB 50 — which would have forced cities to allow mid-rise apartment buildings near public transit — failed to advance out of the Senate in January, Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed disappointment.

At the time, homelessness and housing were at the top of Newsom’s agenda. The governor had set an audacious goal on the campaign trail of 3.5 million new homes by 2025 — a mark his administration was already missing by hundreds of thousands of units per year.

Then the pandemic hit.

While Newsom has reiterated his commitment to housing production, the coronavirus consumed much of his administration’s attention.

BLOWER: Commission cites air quality in seeking temporary ban From Page A1 allowing continued use of electric leaf blowers, albeit with tighter restrictions on when they can be used.

The Davis City Council will consider the commission’s draft report and recommendations at Tuesday’s council meeting, where city staff will ask council for direction on how to proceed.

The commission is also recommending the council move quickly on a temporary ban on leaf blowers given the current poor air quality.

According to the NRC Leaf Blower Report, prepared by Commissioner Hannah Safford, more than 100 cities in at least 15 states have passed laws restricting or banning the use of leaf blowers. About two-thirds are located in California.

“The large majority of cities with leaf-blower regulations — including Davis — simply limit what times of day or year blowers can be used, and/or the maximum decibel levels that blowers can emit,” the report notes. “Other cities ban gas-powered blowers but permit electric blowers, while a small number ban

blowers altogether.”

The report identifies four options for the council to consider: ■ Take no action, allowing continued use of both gas-powered and electric leaf blowers between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays and between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays with noise-level restrictions.

■ Implement more stringent use restrictions, including on both noise levels allowed and when leaf blowers can be used. As an example of the latter regulation, the report notes that the city of Atherton limits blower use to between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays; 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturdays; and 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Sundays.

The city could also limit blower use to certain days and times of the year.

■ Phase out and ban gaspowered blowers, which would mitigate exhaust emissions and noise levels (as electric blowers are generally quieter than gaspowered blowers) ■ Phase out and ban all leaf blowers.

The report recommends the city phase in a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers while continuing to allow

the use of electric leaf blowers, though only in fall and winter and with reduced hours (8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends).

The report also recommends further limits on noise and a ban on use when outdoor air quality is poor.

The commission’s draft report acknowledges the burdens such a ban would create, including the fact that electric blowers are not a perfect substitute for gas blowers.

Additionally, “replacing gas blowers with electric blowers may impose a financial burden on homeowners, commercial landscapers, and other blower users,” the report said. “We therefore recommend that the city explore the possibility of a rebate program, in which gas blowers can be exchanged for comparable electric blowers at belowmarket cost.”

However, the report said, “the Natural Resources Commission believes that the benefits of strengthening local leaf-blower regulations would outweigh the costs.”

The commission is recommending that the city

solicit input from residents, professional landscapers and others who routinely use leaf blowers so the commission can return to the council before the end of November with final recommendations.

Tuesday’s City Council

meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.

The meeting will be televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those who subscribe to cable television) and live streamed online at https://city ofdavis.org/city-hall/

city-council/city-councilmeetings/meeting-videos Join via Zoom at https:// zoom.us/j/91246625235.

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Recovering from Gold Fever — and fire TULEYOME TALES

BY STEPHEN MCCORD Special to The Enterprise

M

ercury, which occurs naturally in many parts of California’s Coast Range, was mined during three eras in our region: the Gold Rush for recovering gold flakes (late 1800’s), the two world wars for munitions (early to mid1900s), and most recently for products such as hearing aids, batteries and fluorescent light bulbs (up to the early 1970s). We are now left with the legacy of about 80 abandoned mercury mines in the upper Cache Creek and Putah Creek watersheds.

This mining largely predated two important developments: major water projects damming and diverting runoff from the two watersheds, and modern environmental laws. Enterprising miners simply dumped their contaminated waste downhill to be swept away in the next storm. That contaminated material still blankets our landscape.

Today’s mercury problem Mercury is an odd element: it is liquid at room temperature, yet 13 times

denser than water. In nature, mercury is a concern because one form, methylmercury, is extremely toxic to humans and wildlife — one droplet is enough to pollute several Olympic-size swimming pools worth of water.

Today, mercury is a common cause of contaminated waters statewide, including in our local watersheds.

Exposure to methylmercury comes largely from eating fish that have accumulated it through their diets to levels about one million times more concentrated than their water.

The state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued several warnings for people to limit their consumption of local fish (oehha.ca.gov/ node/412).

But wait…there’s more!

The LNU Lightning Complex Fires are burning around many mine sites.

Fire impacts on mercury can vary depending on factors such as the fire’s temperature and the forms of mercury, but much more than usual can be released into the air (vaporized and adsorbed to smoke and ash) and downstream

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Still standing are remains along Oat Hill Mine Road of a brick furnace used to process mercury ore.

supported the planned Napa County Open Space Trail System and public primitive campground, potentially connecting to the popular Oat Hill Mine Trail.

What’s next?

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Hardened wheel ruts from early 1900’s travelers are seen on Oat Hill Mine Road. (adsorbed to eroded ash and soil). A silver lining of fires is that they clear the vegetation, making it easier to identify, access, and clean up mine sites.

Tuleyome to the rescue Tuleyome, a nonprofit organization based in Woodland, is a regional leader in cleaning up abandoned mercury mine sites. Tuleyome led projects in 2012-2019 funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Ecosystem Restoration Program to clean up the Corona and Twin Peaks mercury mines in northwest Napa County. The site is in the Lake Berryessa watershed, and contributed to high mercury concentrations in fish and fish-eating birds in the streams and lake.

The core project team assembled under Tuleyome’s leadership included many regional

experts: soil scientist Vic Claassen from UC Davis, mining geologist Greg Reller of Burleson Consulting in Folsom, general contractor Justin Smith from Middletown, attorney Michael Lozeau of Lozeau & Drury in Alameda, environmental engineer Peter Green from UC Davis, and chemist Tim Tsukamoto of TKT Consulting in Reno.

As a “Good Samaritan,” Tuleyome worked with regulators to address the many environmental laws governing abandoned mine sites. The project team spent many hours studying the site’s cultural history, plants and animals. Those efforts allowed the team to most effectively make the site safer, revegetate barren hillsides, and treat acidic drainage water. Researchers continue to study the bacteria found in the mine drainage water for their ability to thrive in such harsh conditions.

Tuleyome also recently completed a project

funded by Napa County’s Lake Berryessa Watershed Improvement Program to improve nearly three miles of Oat Hill Mine Road, which passes by several mercury mines (including Corona and Twin Peaks).

The road, first constructed in 1867 for stagecoaches, ran into disrepair when the alternative toll road became a free public highway in 1924 and largescale mining operations along the roadway ceased.

Most culverts were undersized and improperly installed, frequently failing during heavy rains. After culverts plugged, runoff flowed down the dirt road, scouring channels and washing away berms.

Tuleyome’s project team designed and constructed durable road improvements to reduce erosion (of mercury-rich sediment) and localized flooding, leading to better water quality downstream and access to the mine sites and road network.

This project also

Regional water managers recently completed a project (westsideirwm brownfields.org) to identify and prioritize all of our region’s mercury mine sites, and then to conduct detailed site assessments and produce cleanup plans for a select few. Several stakeholders are now considering how to address those sites.

Tuleyome is also proposing to improve roads in a designated off-highway vehicle use area near Knoxville (in the Lake Berryessa watershed and beside a UC Davis reserve).

As for the recent road improvement project, these planned efforts will reduce mercury-laden soil erosion from contaminating local waterways and the lake.

For more information, visit tuleyome.org/ projects/mercury-mineremediation-program.

— Stephen McCord is president of McCord Environmental, based in Davis.

A registered professional engineer, he has over 25 years of consulting, research and teaching experience in the environmental engineering field throughout the U.S. and internationally. McCord has managed Tuleyome’s mercury cleanup projects since 2011. Tuleyome is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that engages in advocacy and active stewardship with diverse communities to conserve, enhance, restore, and enjoy the lands in the region.

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Taking The Herd to Trask

A whole new ballgame for collegians

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he recent headlines from the world of college football have been inspiring and stunning ... and at times shocking.

Inspiring to see teammates locking arms, marching through campuses and entering prominent gathering spots in their college towns, demanding social change and racial equality.

Stunning to see this many of these same marches led by head coaches and athletic directors and sometimes university presidents and chancellors.

And shocking that these heartfelt and hopeful movements are taking place in Mississippi and Alabama and South Carolina and Oklahoma and other deep-red states where such sentiments might not sit well with the thousands of diehard college football fans who pack the stadiums in those locales.

We’re not talking about a handful of athletes, either. In most cases, every player on the roster is participating, reflecting the great diversity of races and backgrounds that most college football programs feature these days.

Interestingly, college football players — and athletes in other sports as well — are frequently great role models for society as a whole. After all, virtually all sports provide an activity where people come together as one to achieve a common goal. We’re seeing this now throughout college athletics in all sports, be they men’s or women’s.

The athletes leading the charge today no longer care what the alums or the big donors in the luxury boxes at a particular university might think of their words or their actions.

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orget X’s and O’s or first downs and touchdowns, these young leaders are taking a stand that will no doubt land them on the right side of history.

Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who as a freshman two years ago directed a stunning national championship rout of Alabama, is one of the driving forces behind a movement that now stretches from coast to coast and border to border and includes athletes in every major conference in America.

This group recently released a fivepart plan (follow on Twitter #Change and #OurVoiceMatters) for this school year when some schools will be playing football in the fall and others hope to be playing either in the winter or the spring.

One of the most important parts of the plan is for “further discussions with university presidents and administrators to raise awareness about racial injustice and create initiatives to further empower communities.”

Also to “hold routine conversations about change between college football teams and police departments, local governance and community leaders to build trust and empathy.”

The more, the better.

Additionally, the group encourages all athletes to “create community outreach initiatives, including clothing, food, school supply and book drives, and amplify local organizations that are helping communities.”

Again, getting involved in existing community programs or starting new ones where the need exists.

“On game days, wear shirts and make statements on helmets and jerseys, and play tribute videos to recognize the victims of racial injustice,” continues the plan.

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Former Devil ace shut down future MLBers

BY BRUCE GALLAUDET Enterprise sports editor When local baseball fans watch major-league baseball these days, they see long drives off the bat of Toronto’s Ryan “Rowdy” Tellez, or the hot hitting of White Sox second baseman Nick Madrigal.

Earlier in The Bigs there were Derek Hill (Detroit), Dylan Carlson (St. Louis) and Dom Nunez (Colorado).

All made their way from Elk Grove High to MLB. And as good as they’ve been over the years, on one April afternoon in 2013 they were no match for former Davis High and UCLA hurler Matt Trask.

On his way to earning Delta League Player of the Year honors as a junior, the big righthander held Tellez & Co. to two hits and one run over six innings. Trask then made a winner of reliever Jake Miille in the seventh by driving in the deciding run for a 2-1 final.

That year, Davis went 14-1 in conference but got knocked out of the playoffs. The following season, however, the Devils took 2 of 3 from St. Mary’s to win the school’s third SacJoaquin Section crown.

In his last two prep seasons, Trask went 13-3 with a miniature 1.51 earned run average.

So what about that Elk Grove game, in which he pitched against five future major leaguers? Trask was asked where that performance ranks in his career memory bank ...

“It definitely ranks up there.

Every game against Elk Grove was a learning experience because they had such good hitters.

In Matt Trask’s junior season, the Blue Devils went 14-1 in the Delta League.

During that stretch, Trask had a masterful performance against an Elk Grove squad that featured five future Big League players.

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“I was only a junior and Angels, Miami, Milwaukee facing those kinds of hitters and Colorado were among the really helped me learn where teams taking a look-see at the to make my mistakes and how 6-foot-4 flamethrower from Davis. to throw certain pitches But it was to certain talBoston that ents.

That wound up day, I had to following realize there Trask with are people out the greatest there better interest. The than you, and Red Sox and I had to step UCLA ... up for my “I wasn’t team.” drafted in That day 2014,” the on the DHS pitcher Matt Trask varsity field remembers. saw standing Former DHS pitcher “I was pretty room only for sure I was the fans as MLB scouts helped going to UCLA, so the word force the place to capacity. was out.”

But Boston took one more Besides being there for The Herd prospects, Boston, the pass at Trask as the fifth round

“Every game against Elk Grove was a learning experience because they had such good hitters.”

came and went. The BoSox put a $200,000 signing bonus on the table.

“It was the right decision” turning the money down, Trask said, adding that he and his family understood that getting an education and playing for a nationally ranked school like UCLA would only feather his professional bed.

Or would it?

After pitching only six collegiate innings as a freshman, Trask developed arm problems.

He wouldn’t play another game for the Bruins as three surgeries on his right wing were accompanied by a knee operation. Trask medically retired from organized baseball as a junior.

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Barksdale re-signs with DC Trident Davis high grad has sights set on Tokyo Games

BY OWEN YANCHER Enterprise staff writer Olympic Games hopeful Emma Barksdale has re-signed with the DC Trident of the International Swimming League, the club announced last week.

The 2015 Davis High graduate and former Sac-Joaquin Section champion competed for the Trident last season, specializing in breaststroke and individual medley events, competing alongside teammates that included aquatic heavyweights Katie Ledecky and Natalie Coughlin.

In a Zoom interview with The Enterprise in August, Barksdale called the first-year ISL experience “surreal.”

“The first meet, I was so nervous,” she explained. “My 400 (individual medley) was the second event and I was swimming it with Katie Ledecky.”

ISL organizers had told the teammates to “do something

Former Blue Devil Emma Barksdale swam last year for DC Trident at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.

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fun” when they first walked out on deck to compete in the globally televised event.

“So (Katie and I) were talking to each other about what we were going to do,” Barksdale said. “We decided we’d hold hands and wave. And I was apologizing to her because my hands were sweaty because I was kind of nervous.

“And she said ‘Emma, I’m nervous, too.’

“And, at that point, it registered with me that this was new

for everyone.”

A six-time All-American and Southeastern Conference champion in the 400 IM, Barksdale became one of the most decorated women’s swimmers in school history during her time at the University of South Carolina. She snared school records in six of the Gamecocks’ middle-distance events.

With the 2020 Tokyo Summer

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Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper played more games for the late Frank Robinson than any other player Robinson managed over his 16 years in stints with Cleveland, San Francisco, Baltimore, Montreal and Washington.

“And every game I felt it was a privilege to play for him,” Kuiper says.

“One quick story about Frank when he was a player-manager with the Indians,” Kuiper offered. “He called a team meeting and it was about how our pitchers were pitching guys over 30 years old.

“Frank’s theory was any hitter over 30 years old needed to be pitched inside. He stressed very strongly that our pitchers pitch guys (those older guys) with fastballs in.

“Then he said, ‘The only exception to that rule is me.’ That

night, Frank was our DH and a pitcher on the other team threw Frank a fastball in. Frank hit it into the left-field bleachers. He was 39 at the time.

“Definitely a drop-the-mic moment.”

Kuiper played for Robinson in both Cleveland and San Francisco from 1975-85. Robinson passed away in 2019 at age 83.

■ Bay Area Rapid Transit is taking several of its original 47-year-old cars out of service. If you think the veterans are being scrapped for usable parts, you’d be correct, but in the BART board of directors eyes, the cars are being “decommissioned.”

■ Speaking of BART, what is taking them so long to sign Giants catcher Joey Bart as the agency’s spokesperson? This is a match made in mass-marketing heaven. Joey Bart figures to be around for quite a while.

■ Update on NFL sideline reporters Michele Tafoya of NBC

has no concept. Comparing last season to this one also is an exercise in futility.

Too many things change — notably rosters — and every team knows it is one QB hit away from its season full of promise turning into one full of despair.

“The officiating department and the officials have never faced what they’re facing this year.”

■ In a Los Angeles Times article by Sam Farmer, current FOX rules analyst and onetime NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira sees some bumps in the road upcoming: “There’s a ton of new officials and no time to prepare, other than on Zoom,” says the Sacramento-based Pereira.

“You’re going to have guys on the field who’ve never officiated at this level before. It’s not like college. It’s a lot quicker and a lot tougher,” Pereira points out, adding that preseason games (of which there were none this year)

and Tracy Wolfson of CBS: Each will report from the first row of the stands as close to the bench area as possible without being on the field itself due to COVID-19 restrictions.

■ Today begins the Tom Brady era in Tampa Bay. But look quick. Brady is 43 and a nodoubt Hall of Famer, but one gets the feeling this may not end well.

■ The overwhelming majority of NFL season predictions are worthless. There is too much intel from inside each NFL facility of which the outside world

used to serve as chances for new officials to get used to the speed of the NFL game.

■ The Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw is no fan of MLB’s new extra-innings rule that starts each extra inning with a runner on second base. “It’s not real baseball,” Kershaw told reporters of the tactic borrowed from international softball. “It’s OK for this year, but I hope we never do it again.”

■ With athletic departments and conferences across the country laying off, furloughing or firing hundreds if not thousands of dedicated workers, it begs this question: Perhaps you were badly overstaffed in the first place?

— Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields 2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Kelly also is the longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broadcasts.

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bold and courageous step that’s not likely to be met with universal acceptance from fans in the stands on game day.

And finally, “Ensure all teammates are registered to vote, and have Nov. 3 free from athletic obligations to be able to vote.”

Most schools, including UC Davis, have already pledged to hold Nov. 3 sacred, and the hope is that these athletes will also help with voter registration drives ahead of that date.

Rightly or wrongly, athletes who compete at the level where Trevor Lawrence does are indeed role models and important influencers for many people, especially our youth.

For years they have heard people tell them to keep their mouths shut and just play football; to count your blessings and keep your opinions to yourself.

No more. Never again. A new day is upon us.

I’ll be rooting for all these athletes, both on and off the field of play. They represent, after all, the bright future of our beloved country.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise. net.

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TRASK: The student is now the teacher From Page B1 “It was pretty disappointing,” the ex-Devil offered. “My grades dropped, and I was on the brink of being kicked out of school.

What helped me through it all was my girlfriend, Mackenzie.”

Mackenzie Harrison was a pretty fair volleyballer at DHS and was attending San Jose State while Trask dealt with his injuries and tumbling grades.

“She was there every step of the way,” said a thankful Trask.

“She helped with school when I needed it, encouraged me and would come down to L.A. and visit to cheer me up at least once a month.”

Now, local realtor Harrison and Trask live together in Davis with their 6-month-old yellow Labrador, Milo.

Trask has remained in baseball. For the last year-and-ahalf, he’s coached with Matt Walbeck at the former majorleague catcher’s Sacramento baseball academy.

Because of the pandemic, however, Walbeck suspended indoor operations and Trask has been providing only local, private lessons.

Trask says he rarely dwells on what could have been without the arm trouble, but for six dominating innings on that bright April afternoon, the kid

BARKSDALE: Swimming in any pool she can find From Page B1 Olympics delayed until next year, the 24-year old now has her sights set on U.S. Olympic Trials, which now are scheduled for June.

Over the past several months, with gyms and pools opening and closing sporadically, she’s

been training locally with both the Davis Aquadarts and head coach Billy Doughty or in her neighbor’s 16-yard backyard pool.

Entering its second season of competition, the ISL features 10 clubs spread across the globe.

Last year, teams faced off in quad meets, collecting points for

event victories. Competitions include traditional swimming events along with several more unconventional mixed relays.

However, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the league has announced its 2020 swimmers will live, train and compete in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, from Oct. 16 through Nov.

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kept five guys headed for The Show to a combined 0 for 9.

Notes: A teammate of Trask’s in high school was shortstop Ryan Kreidler, who would also go on to UCLA. Kreidler is currently in the Detroit Tigers’ minor-league organization. ...

Trask graduated from UCLA with a degree in geography and environmental sciences. ...

Interested in baseball instruction by the former pitcher, who also hit .413 in 2013? Send a note via email to matttrask34 @yahoo.com.

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Exemptions yes, but no reform ‘Job retraining’ T nothing but a callow slogan

BY LLEWELLYN KING Special to The Enterprise

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hen a vaccine for COVID-19 is as easily available as a flu shot, and when the public is comfortable getting it, it will be a time of victory — Victory Virus. And it will be a time to begin building the new America.

Things will have changed. We won’t be going back to the future. Most visible will be the disappearance of a huge number of low-end jobs. No one knows how many but, sadly, we have a good idea where it will hurt most: among semi-skilled and unskilled workers.

They are those who don’t have college degrees and those who wouldn’t have qualified to enter college. Higher education isn’t for everyone, even if money wasn’t an issue.

College is for those who can handle it, therefore benefiting.

It isn’t only the virus that is changing the employment picture but also the continuing technology revolution. Data is going to be king, according to Andres Carvallo, founder of CMG, the Austin, Texas-based technology consulting company, and a professor at Texas State University. Data, he argues, linked with the spreading fifthgeneration telephone networks (5G) will delineate the future. Carvallo has pointed out that data from all sources has value, “even the homeless.”

Carvallo’s colleague on a weekly video broadcast about the digital future, entrepreneur John Butler, a University of Texas at Austin professor, believes data and 5G will start to affect American business in a big way and new business plans will emerge, taking into account the increasing deployment of sensors and the ability of 5G to move huge quantities of data at the speed of light.

Carvallo explains, “If you’re moving data at the rate of 40 megabytes per second now, with 5G you’ll be able to move it at 1,000 megabytes per second.”

The technology revolution will continue apace, but will there be a place for those who aren’t embraced by it, like those who serve, clean, pack, unpack and have been doing society’s housekeeping at the minimum wage or just above it?

he California Legislature has a handy website that allows users to find and track the thousands of bills that are introduced during its two-year sessions.

If one enters “California Environmental Quality Act” into the website’s search function, 171 bills pop up for the session that ended a fortnight ago, implying the Legislature’s penchant for tinkering with California’s landmark environmental legislation that then-Gov. Ronald Reagan signed 50 years ago.

As applied after enactment, CEQA evolved into a polarizing facet of governance — revered by environmental groups as a tool to block or alter developments they dislike, denounced as a wasteful impediment by public and private developers, and misused by unions and anti-housing organizations for reasons having nothing to do with the environment.

Jerry Brown, who followed Reagan into the governor’s office, later became one of CEQA’s sharpest critics, particularly after serving a stint as mayor of Oakland and seeing it used to stifle plans to remake the city.

After returning to the governorship in 2011, Brown declared that reforming

CEQA was “the Lord’s work” and complained that it was being misused to thwart his plans to expand housing for low-income families.

Brown, in an interview with UCLA’s Blueprint magazine, lamented that “it’s easier to build in Texas” but that changing CEQA would be politically impossible because “The unions won’t let you because they use it as a hammer to get project labor agreements.”

However, instead of spending political capital for a comprehensive overhaul of CEQA to prevent its misuse, Brown continued the practice — or malpractice — of granting full or partial CEQA exemptions for individual projects whose developers had political pull, most obviously for sports arenas such as a basketball palace near the Capitol.

No legislative session would be complete without a flurry of CEQA exemption

bills and the dying hours of this year’s version was typical.

When the session ended, for example, Senate Bill 995 was still sitting on the Senate floor and still needing one more vote to send it to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The death of SB 995 was especially odd since it was being personally carried by the Senate’s leader, President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, and was part of the Senate’s effort to jump-start badly needed housing by extending fast-track CEQA processing for some projects.

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lthough SB 995 died in the final hours, the Legislature did approve easing CEQA requirements for certain kinds of transportation projects (Senate Bill 757 and Senate Bill 288) and for drinking-water improvements in disadvantaged communities (Senate Bill 974).

There’s every reason to believe that projects receiving fast-track treatment by these three bills are deserving, but it also raises the question often posed in debates on such bills: Why not overhaul CEQA for everyone, not just those championed by particular legislators for particular reasons?

Truth is, legislators rather like the current de facto system of individualized

exemptions from CEQA’s often-ponderous, timeconsuming requirements.

They can posture as quasipartners in popular projects such as sports arenas, and as advocates for politically correct infrastructure such as mass transit or water systems. They can draw campaign cash from exemptionseeking developers.

Moreover, they can sidestep the harder work of reforming CEQA, which would mean confronting the law’s influential users, such as environmental groups, labor unions and the NIMBys who oppose housing development.

By catering to exemption seekers, legislators and governors make CEQA even more onerous, relatively, for those not in political favor and make much-needed comprehensive reform less likely.

CEQA reform may be, as Jerry Brown said, “the Lord’s work,” but the state’s politicians are agnostics.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

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he future of the neediest workers is imperiled, in the short term, because the jobs they have had and the jobs that have always been there for those on the lower ladders of employment are disappearing. A goodly chunk of these workers will be out of work for a long time.

Retraining is the solution that is advocated by those who aren’t caught in this low-level work vise. Retraining for most people is, to my mind, just a crock. It is a bromide handed down by the middle class to those below; a callow concept that doesn’t fit the bill. It soothes the wellheeled conscience.

The affected workers not only are going to be shut out of their traditional lines of employment but they also carry an additional burden, another barrier to retraining: They almost exclusively are the products of shoddy public education, so there is very little to build on if you’re going to retrain. If you have marginal English, most information technology work is going to be inaccessible; rudimentary math is another stumbling block.

Very smart people are candidates for retraining. The graduate schools see plenty of students who get multiple, dissociated degrees, like lawyers who have nuclear engineering degrees. I know a prominent head of surgery at a Boston hospital who has a degree in chemical engineering. They are the polymaths, but they aren’t laboring for the minimum wage.

The loss of jobs due to COVID-19 comes at a time when technology, for the first time since the Newcomen engine kickstarted the Industrial Revolution 1712, might be a job subtractor, not the multiplier it has been down through the ages.

Unemployment insurance is a stopgap but it also obscures the full extent of the skill void, the aptitude hurdle.

— 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.

LETTERS Chapman for City Council!

As a proud Davis resident and mom who hopes my boys will love this town enough to stick around or at least frequently visit once they’re up and out, I wish I could vote Josh Chapman for city Council. Since I live in District 4, which doesn’t have any City Council candidates on the ballot this election, I’ll be relying on the good judgement of my Davis neighbors who live in other districts to choose City Council candidates who value equity, diversity and sustainability.

Over the many years I have known Josh, I have witnessed his compassionate, humble, effective leadership on the baseball field as a coach/Little League board member; as a business owner/supporter of music in the Davis downtown core; and — most importantly — as a dad and friend. As a human, Josh values inclusion and collaboration. As a local business owner, Josh understands the struggles many businesses are facing during these unprecedented times.

I know that, if elected, he’ll strive to ensure that voices are heard, all humans are valued, and budgetary choices balance current realities with future needs. Like me, he has kids whose futures rely on the decisions being made today. So ... if you live in South Davis, I encourage you to vote for Josh Chapman for City Council.

You’ll thank yourself and will earn the gratitude of neighbors like me.

Elizabeth Wisnia Davis

Confident in Hyder I am so privileged to share about my dear friend, Betsy Hyder. I believe her heart space and love for kids, along with her immense skill set would make her a fantastic member of the DJUSD School Board!

Betsy has a natural, friendly presence.

She listens intently, compassionately, and with a humble spirit. During this time, when we need board members who can recognize the diverse needs of our children and implement creative options, Betsy will bring the voices of the often overlooked to the foreground. She has gained so much experience as a PTA member, a foster parent, and adoptive parent of her two beautiful children.

Given the opportunity, I am confident that Betsy’s commitment to serving our families and educators will only lead to wonderful things!

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I encourage those in District 2 to vote for Dillan because he would be such an asset to the council for several reasons: ■ He is young, in his mid-twenties. He graduated from UCD a few years ago and can relate to students.

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Please check out his website, dillan 4davis.com. His lawn signs are really attractive. And remember to vote for Dillan Nov. 3.

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Let’s give ourselves and each other a break I remember way back in the early days of the pandemic — What’s it been? Like 11 years now? — shopping at Nugget for the first time, after having stayed away for weeks. Everyone seemed to be extra careful as well as caring, silently acknowledging that we needed each other to be responsible citizens. We were teammates in our efforts to defeat our opponent.

On a recent trip to Nugget, the vibe was much more negative. I didn’t see smiling eyes as I passed masked shoppers; and, in fact, more people avoided eye contact completely. Which really bugs me. Why live in a community, I raged to myself, if you’re going to act like the people you pass by aren’t even here?

This particular day, I was not in the mood to dole out any benefits of any doubts. Instead, I

stomped past a shopper who left his cart angled stupidly across a narrow aisle, and steam came out of my ears when a mom let her 5-year-old wander aimlessly, zig-zagging in front of the dairy section.

My bad vibes undoubtedly wafted to others in the store, creating a cycle of grouchiness.

You know, like a virus.

My personal cycle of grouchiness hit a peak on Tuesday of this week. I hadn’t gotten much done over the weekend, having

promised myself to get ahead on some work things that were going to vex me if I didn’t. As the vexing started on Tuesday, I was quite pissy, mainly with myself.

Thanks to not being able to fall asleep for hours on Tuesday night, I finally pinpointed my angst about unfinished work projects — I had actually tried to get caught up on things over the weekend. But my brain wouldn’t do it. As I sat down to edit a big ol’ chunk of information, I was not seeing the mistakes. I read the same paragraph four times and couldn’t decide if it made sense or not, if it should be moved higher up in the document, or if it should just be deleted.

My brain was mush and would not do my bidding.

There’s no need to go over the many reasons one’s brain might

be mushy in this time of total chaos — duh! — but I definitely felt better when I gave myself some compassion, as well as a break.

Because truly, who doesn’t deserve a break right now? My sympathy and empathy runneth over for the people suffering in so many ways, among them the parents who are housebound with school-aged children. I would lose! My! Mind! And I love being an involved mom. But being surrogate teachers, as well as playmates, coaches, chefs, etc., has gotta sap every ounce of your sanity.

You can see it on your coworkers’ exhausted faces during Zoom meetings, the ones who have been handling school and restless kids all day. Talking to one colleague during a meeting on Wednesday, he told me he’d

just been a PE teacher for his sixth-grader before turning his attention to kindergarten concerns.

So when I’m not getting an email response from a coworker as quickly as I might want, I remember all the things taking up her time and brainpower. I’m also trying to get better at forgiving myself for not answering an email as quickly as I might want.

And I’m really trying to get better at not glaring at the idiot with the sideways cart at Nugget.

(Nah, that’s not possible.)

For real, though, let’s take it easier on each other and on ourselves. Life is hard right now.

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

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

2020 is a reminder of how awful hard times feel

BY TRACY FAUVER Special to The Enterprise

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egular readers of this column might recognize Monique Straws’ name. Monique was born with drugs in her system and was separated from her twin sister many times as she grew up in foster care.

Here is a quote that Monique once said to me.

“My childhood memories centered around a lot of loneliness and independence, but independence far too young. In fact, I was told I tried to kill myself at age five, so one of my placements was in a mental institution. Unfortunately I was never adopted, though I do remember it being pursued at various points throughout my foster care journey.”

When Monique was 9 years old, she was assigned a CASA volunteer named Rosa. “When Rosa came into my life, I wasn’t as lonely,” she said. “As strange as it sounds to some, it was relieving to finally have a person to call my own. Rosa came every week to visit me. When my sister’s CASA volunteer went to law school, Rosa took on her case too, even though it was hours away.

She would devote a whole day to visiting me and taking me to see my sister.

Looking back, it was just incredible what she did for us.”

Monique is now 31 years old and her journey hasn’t been easy. Research shows that children who grow up in foster care are prone to adverse outcomes. Some of

YOLO CASA these include mental or physical illness, incarceration, homelessness, not graduating from high school, and the list goes on. Needless to say, foster kids often face an uphill battle.

When Monique was 19, she became pregnant and found herself experiencing homelessness. She had remained in touch with her CASA volunteer, who helped her find housing for both herself and her son. Monique states, “Through a series of choices I became homeless and pregnant and as she usually does, Rosa called me at just the right time.

She immediately started researching ways she could help me and found a home for homeless women who are pregnant in Elk Grove.

Then, she came down and helped me move across the state.”

After moving back to Northern California, Monique thrived. She went back to college, found a full-time job, and had dreams of going to graduate school to become a social worker. Then she started feeling physically exhausted. Again, Rosa was concerned, “I was feeling tired. I am a single mom, work full time and go to school part time, so I am always tired, but this was different. Rosa said she was worried and encouraged me to see a doctor. It turns out that I have kidney failure. Rosa, again, was instrumental in helping me find resources

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Monique Straws smiles with her son. and navigate the medical system.”

I recently had a chance to do a virtual interview with Monique. Even with all of the adversity she has faced and continues to face as a single mom with complex health problems, she was positive and upbeat … still trying incredibly hard to give her son a different life from what she had as a child … and succeeding at it. At one point, I couldn’t help but cry. Monique has suffered so much and has faced so much adversity, yet she still finds the positive. The resiliency is just incredible … which got me to thinking…

Rosa wasn’t able to take away the sorrow or hardship in Monique’s life. But as her CASA volunteer, she was able to become a trusted friend and advocate. In fact, sometimes

she was the only trusted friend that Monique had, even well beyond their formal CASA relationship.

Relationships help us achieve resiliency. Despite hard times, relationships again and again show us we’re special, loved and worthy … and that’s extremely powerful.

Two weeks ago, we had our annual auction and a recording of my interview with Monique was played.

Even virtually, I could feel the energy from the audience. Folks were deeply touched by Monique, her story, and her resiliency.

The generosity was incredible.

The next day it dawned on me … I bet a lot of that generosity was tied to empathy. While 2020 started out as a fresh decade full of promise and new beginnings, it seems

to be ending as a reminder of how awful hard times feel. Here’s what I mean …

In ordinary times (when we aren’t experiencing a pandemic or natural disasters, for example), life may feel pretty good to a lot of people. So good, in fact, that it’s easy to forget just how hard it may feel to others. Even in good times, though, there have always been people like Monique who are born into such incredible adversity that I am sure it was absolutely agonizing at times. While I would give anything to take all of our current hardships away there are silver linings.

One of those silver linings is the extra empathy that is created among people experiencing hardship.

That empathy, in turn, adds a visibility to many who are often invisible …

like foster kids … like Monique.

Because of the success of our auction, we will be able to continue providing CASAs like Rosa to foster children like Monique.

While our CASA volunteers won’t be able to take all of the adversity and hardship away, they will be able to provide the consistency, trust, and advocacy that might be missing in the life of a foster child. Through providing this, they will also give these foster children a great gift … resiliency.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how special a relationship can be. Most of us have enough of them in our lives to take them for granted. Imagine though, if you didn’t have those few, highly trusted people.

How different would your life feel?

Thank you to the extremely generous community members who made our auction a success.Thank you also to our sponsors who helped us reach our goals. They are Sycamore Lane Apartments, SunWest Foods, Van Dermyden Maddux, Great Bear Vineyards, First Northern Bank, John Lescroart & Lisa Sawyer, Davis Odd Fellows Lodge and Rebekah Lodge, RePower Yolo, Nugget Market, Davis Creamery, Robert & Sandy Lorber, Diane Makley, the Mandelaris Family in honor of Darlene Mandelaris.

For more information about Yolo County CASA please visit yolocasa.org.

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA.

Yolo court officer named to Judicial Council Enterprise staff The Judicial Council of California announced that Yolo Superior Court executive officer Shawn C. Landry has been appointed to serve on the Judicial Council by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.

“It is an absolute honor to serve on the Judicial Council during these unprecedented times of significant challenges and uncertainty,” Landry said. “I thank LANDRY Chief Justice CantilWill help set Sakauye for giving policy me the opportunity to serve on the council and assist the council’s goals of providing fair and accountable administration of justice to the people of California.”

The Judicial Council is the policymaking body of the California courts, under the leadership of the chief justice and in accordance with the California Constitution. The council carries out this mission primarily through the work of its internal committees, advisory committees, and task forces; several of which Mr. Landry has and continues to serve on.

Yolo Superior Court Presiding Judge Samuel T. McAdam said

NAME DROPPERS “Shawn is a statewide leader in trial court management. As the CEO of Yolo Superior Court, he led in the design and construction of the new Courthouse which opened in 2015, increased salary and benefits for Court staff to ensure we recruit and retain the best and brightest, implemented a new case management system allowing online public access to court records and online court filing, and implemented the Virtual Courthouse allowing full operations of the Court during the COVID-19 State of Emergency.”

This is not the first time Yolo Court has had the distinct honor to serve on the Judicial Council. There has been one other time in the court’s history that Yolo has had representation on the Judicial Council. Judge Dave Rosenberg served on the Council from 2012 to 2015.

Landry has served as the court executive 0fficer of Yolo Superior Court and, previously, as assistant CEO since 2003. He regularly volunteers for leadership positions, and serves on the Judicial Council’s Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee, Trial Court Facility Modification Advisory Committee, and

Court Executives Advisory Committee. Previously, he served as vice chair of the Court Interpreters Advisory Panel.

Prior to his 17 years at Yolo Superior Court, Landry served as a staff member of the Judicial Council of California and before that, worked in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit in the Florida State Court in court administration. He earned his law degree in 1996.

———— Kara K. Ueda, 45, of Davis, has been appointed to serve as a judge in the Sacramento County Superior Court. Ueda has been a partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP since 2010. She was an adjunct professor at UC Davis School of UEDA Law from 2012 to New judge 2019.

Ueda held several positions at McDonough Holland & Allen PC from 2002 to 2010, including associate and partner. She was a fellow and deputy general counsel at the League of California Cities from 2000 to 2001. Ueda earned a law degree from the UCD School of Law. She fills the vacancy of a new position created on Sept.

24, 2019. Ueda is a Democrat.

BY ANDY JONES Special to The Enterprise 1. Science. What R-word do we use for the hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees?

2. Great American Counties in California.

What four-syllable California county that contains much of Yosemite Park has no incorporated cities and no permanent traffic lights?

3. Music. Coming from the French word for “opening,” what do we call an instrumental introduction to an opera?

4. Books and Authors.

Amazon once selected Donna Tartt’s novel with a

bird in its title as the Best Book of the Year. Name the book.

5. Countries of the World. What contiguous transcontinental parliamentary republic borders the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea to the north?

Answers: Resin, Mariposa, overture, “The Goldfinch,” the Republic of Turkey.

— 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.your quizmaster.com.

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Monday

Regional weather

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CA Lic#918309.

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Tonight

High: 88°

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