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I-80 project moves forward

Student housing at Fresno State. An estimated 3,800 more college students will soon have affordable campus housing after state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to pump a portion of California’s $300 billion budget into a student aid program.

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Long-planned improvements to the I-80/Richards Boulevard interchange — as well as improvements at the Richards/Olive Drive intersection — could begin by next summer.

On Thursday, city staff and consultants presented plans for the project during a Zoom community meeting and took input from members of the public, including several Olive Drive residents.

Next, environmental documents will go before the City Council on July 19.

The project is expected to go out to bid next spring with construction beginning in summer 2023 and lasting about 16 months, though that will depend on whether supply chain or other construction delays arise.

During construction, there will be points when the westbound on- and off-ramps will have to be closed and a detour — potentially Mace Boulevard — provided.

But Caltrans will oversee the timing of any closures and detours, according to design consultant Aaron Silva, who provided an overview of the project during Thursday’s community meeting.

Meanwhile, the plan is to keep the Olive Drive off-ramp from I-80

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State finds $1.4B for student housing

By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters What a difference $1 billion makes.

An estimated 3,800 more college students will soon have affordable campus housing after state lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to pump a portion of California’s $300 billion budget into a student program to ease a residential crisis gripping the state’s public

universities and community colleges.

All told, $1.4 billion is heading to 26 public campuses this year to build or expand dorms, a tripling of the original plan to send $470 million to just nine campuses. Once the structures are complete — some of which are scheduled to open in two years — about 7,300 students will have access to beds at ultra-low rents.

Yet the extra beds represent a

pittance of the true need for students battling unstable housing, given that hundreds of thousands of college learners in California experience homelessness, couch surf, change addresses often or struggle to pay rent — all major impediments to thriving in school.

Meanwhile, California’s public universities annually report thousands of students on waiting lists for campus housing.

units may be on the way. The budget deal between Newsom and lawmakers calls for spending another $750 million on housing development grants next year, but the money would have to appear in next year’s budget. Also in the budget deal is a promise to fund $1.8 billion in interest-free loans that the state would issue to campuses to build student and employee

Still, even more affordable

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Bubble Belly serves moms and beyond

By Aaron Geerts

VOL. 124, NO. 82

Yolo County’s test positivity, cases remain elevated

Enterprise staff writer

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy

There’s no shortage of stress, sleeplessness or dirty diapers when it comes to raising a baby. That’s part of the reason why Silvie Truong created Bubble Belly Baby & Children’s Boutique to assist Davis’ parents in the herculean task of caring for these little humans.

Approaching Bubble Belly’s 10-year anniversary, Truong started this booming baby business on Sept 12, 2012. Although she’d spent years in the hustle and bustle of the corporate world before that, it wasn’t until Truong was expecting her first that she found her second calling.

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Bubble Belly’s unmistakable “gingerbread house” is a landmark on G and Fourth streets in downtown Davis.

“It all started when I was pregnant with my first baby. I was just looking for something where I’d be able to spend more time with the little one when she

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came because my hours were ridiculous and I traveled,” explained Truong.

“I really just wanted

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Yolo County’s COVID19 test positivity rate and case rate remain elevated, as new subvariants now make up more than 50 percent of cases.

On Friday, the county’s case rate was 44.6 per 100,000 residents, according to data released by the state, and the test positivity rate was 9.5 percent.

The county is in the high-risk category of transmission based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s color-coded tiers.

Yolo County’s case rate

is higher than the statewide rate of 41.3 but the test positivity rate in Yolo is lower than the statewide rate of 16.7 percent.

PCR testing has declined significantly locally, with the UC Davis Genome Center seeing 7,151 asymptomatic test results during the week of June 26 to July 2 — well below the 20,000 to 30,000 tests performed weekly for much of 2022.

With the end of Healthy Davis Together testing, more people than ever are using home antigen tests, the results of which are not included in

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Briefly Woodland shooting suspect arrested A victim escaped injury after being shot at Friday morning in Woodland.

Police responded at about 9 a.m. to the the report of possible shots fired in the 100 block of East Street, the Woodland Police Department reported in a Facebook post.

“Officers arrived on scene and quickly determined that nobody had been injured, but that the suspect did in fact shoot at the victim during an argument,” the post said.

The suspect had fled the scene, but was located driving in the area of Fourth and Cross streets about an hour later during a search by Woodland police and Yolo County sheriff ’s deputies.

Francisco Perez Zapien, 37, of Woodland, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

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Survey takes of the pulse of Davis I now have in front of me the just-completed, hot-off-thepress “Survey of Davis, CA residents” conducted by the kind phone-friendly people at EMC Research.

This survey, just so you know, was paid for with your money, so if you have a problem with any of this, take it up with the five members of the Davis City Council, who are now elected by district instead of at-large. But that’s another issue for another day and one that was not covered by EMC’s staff.

The city has paid for similar surveys over the years, including one by EMC Research in 2019, and two by Godbe Research in 2007 and 2014.

I don’t know why Godbe is no longer in the picture, but it could be that the council feared the letters “G-O-D” in “Godbe” would land us in front of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court and who knows what would become of us then?

While the two Godbe surveys

were done by telephone only, EMC uses what it describes as a “multimodal” approach, including “telephone, text and email-to-web methodology.”

The 2007 survey, when Davis was about the size of Esparto, contacted 600 citizens, while the current survey was 500 even, which, in a town of 70,000, means for every individual participant there were 139 non-participants.

Now here’s the part that drives me crazy.

EMC reports confidently that the margin of error for their research is plus or minus precisely 4.37 percentage points. So, if they

can calculate the error rate to the hundredth of a percent, why don’t they just fix it? After all, plus or minus 4.37 means it could be off by as much as 8.74 percent. But maybe no one is keeping score.

So, why did the city hire EMC in the first place? Were council members looking for a pat on the back or were they hoping to put the Mace Mess in the rearview mirror?

T

he stated purpose, which we learn early on, comes in three parts.

First, to “Understand current satisfaction with City of Davis services, features, and quality of life, and compare perceptions over time.” Great, but my current satisfaction is greatly diminished when someone uses an Oxford comma, a growing concern in Davis and one that wastes untold gallons of City of Davis ink.

Second, to “Provide a baseline measurement of community sentiment about public safety and policing in Davis.”

A noble goal, to be sure, but the only baseline I’m interested in during the summer is the one between third base and home plate at the Davis Little League park.

Third, to “Explore the preferred methods of communication about Davis news and events.”

Explore away, but I want to say right up front that no one asked me. No phone call. No text. No email-to-web methodology. After all my years in this wonderful town, you’d think I would at least deserve the courtesy of a simple phone call. My number’s in the book. Or it used to be back when we had a “book.”

The survey runs to 40 pages, so we’ll have to continue this discussion in the days and weeks ahead.

Until we do, rest assured that all of the above has a margin of error of less than one percent.

You can take it to the bank.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bunning@davisenterprise.net.

BUBBLE: Perfect spot opened up From Page A1 something where I could connect with the community and be more present versus being constantly on the go. I’ve also always really enjoyed gifting and finding awesome things for my pregnant mom friends, or babies. In general, I’ve always been someone who’s loved babies and it’s a wonderful feeling to give something to someone and see their face light up.”

While searching for quality baby products back in 2012, Truong didn’t find a fraction of what is available today — in the area or online. She did, however, find a need for said products which led her into the baby side of business. 10 years and three girls later, Bubble Belly is thriving online and at 340 G St. — a cozy cottage Truong and her family have dubbed, ‘The Gingerbread House.’

“We started online, but I was missing that community connection, so it’s really been amazing having a brick-and-mortar spot in this special little town. The building itself caught my eye and it was just

serendipity when I stumbled upon it and it fits us perfectly,” Truong then talked about her homegrown product testing team. “My girls have been employees since the day they were born. I’ve been so lucky in that they are my product testers and my goto’s to make sure things are good for not just my family, but kids in general and other parents as well.”

Bubble Belly doesn’t just serve babies, however.

There are products, apparel and all manners of gifts for parents, grandparents and babies all the way up to 192 months old (16 years).

Beyond the gifts, Truong’s boutique features an atmosphere of assistance and empathy only a veteran parent can bestow.

“As a new mom, it’s kind of overwhelming. There’s a lot out there, and you don’t know what’s good, what’s bad, what you need and what you don’t need. That’s why we’re here and I love being able to talk to the other parents and really see what their needs are,” said Truong. “For me, it’s a joy to find things that are

unique and not just gifts.

Essential things that one needs, but better like higher quality products parents will use for a long time or get multiple uses out of it. That’s one of the biggest joys I get out of this job is finding things that’ll help a busy mom or a new mom who’s trying to navigate this all-at-once.”

If one is in need of Truong’s expertise and wants to stay up to date with all things Bubble Belly, visit the boutique’s website at shopbubblebelly.com (which has a free local delivery option) or its socials on Instagram (@ bubblebellyshop), Facebook (shopbubblebelly) and Twitter (@shopbubblebelly).

At the end of the day, Truong attributes much of Bubble Belly’s success to the amazing community she’s a part of. From the endless support to the undying loyalty from her customers, raising babies — and a business — takes a village.

— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@mcnaugh ton.media.

DA’s town-hall forum to focus on racial disparity

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Racial disparity in Yolo County’s criminal justice system is the focus of the next Commons virtual town-hall meeting hosted by the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.

This and other town-hall meetings

highlight statistics collected by Commons, the DA’s online data portal launched in 2021 that tracks the demographics of Yolo County’s prosecutions.

“Join us on July 12 at 3 p.m,” organizers said. Commons meetings are on the second Tuesday of every month. Register at www.yoloda.org/commons-town-hallmeetings/.

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Firefighters take on a large brush fire southeast of Davis on June 28.

Lawnmower sparked No Man’s Land brush fire

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Sparks from a lawnmower started the large vegetation fire that scorched roughly 360 acres of state property southeast of Davis last month.

The Davis Fire Department reported that the fire burned over the course of two days, starting with the initial fire on June 28, followed by a flare-up the next day.

Multiple fire crews from Yolo and Solano counties responded to the first fire, which began at about 12:30 p.m. in the area of County Roads 106 and 36, also known as “No Man’s Land.” The California Department of Fish and Wildlife owns the property.

“Once the fire started, there were significant challenges to fire crews to contain it due to high

winds, warm temperatures, low humidity and difficult access,” the Davis Fire Department posted on its Facebook page.

Firefighters contained the 260-acre blaze at about 8 p.m., only to see it rekindle about 20 hours later.

“A rekindle can occur when latent heat, sparks or embers reignite,” the Facebook post said. “As a result, fire crews returned and were able to contain the fire at 100 acres.”

Although winds again hampered efforts to halt the fire, crews established a fire-break line with a tractor disc with assistance from Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Land Management workers.

No injuries were reported from either incident.

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

Business

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Stop the presses! The Printer is retiring S

trelitzia Flower Company needed a new, larger space.

The owners of The Printer wanted to retire. Community connections solved both problems.

Last month, I wrote about the flower shop owners’ struggle to find an affordable place. They outgrew their 5,500-square-foot spot at 4614 Second St., Suite 1.

Realtors were pointing to Woodland for lower rent. But Dean and Janice Labadie wanted to stay in Davis, where their business started more than 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, Howard Galbreath had been thinking about closing his 56-year-old family business, The Printer, at 2810 Cowell Blvd.

“We’ve been pondering it for years, and the opportunity just came along,” he said.

That opportunity came from one of Dean Labadie’s fellow Rotarians, commercial real estate broker Dave Macko, who decided to ask the Galbreaths if they were ready.

Strelitzia’s Second Street lease ends on Aug. 5. It needed a new spot — soon. “It would be a quick transition,” Galbreath said. “We had to make up our mind quick — and go for it.”

The lease was signed on Thursday afternoon. Strelitzia will occupy 7,000 square feet of the building, with the option to expand. For now, The Printer will keep the remaining 5,000 square feet, to complete some jobs, and store equipment.

The turnover will take place in early August. In the height of its summer wedding season, the Labadies hope to avoid any interruptions in the flower shop’s business.

It’s the end of an era for the Davis print shop. Galbreath’s dad, Doug, was an expert at fixing and running Linotype typesetting machines. In 1966, he took over the young Simmons Publishing Company spot at 707 Second St., naming it The Printer. That was its home for 21 years, until it moved to the Cowell Boulevard site in 1987.

At 88, Doug Galbreath still lives in Davis, and comes to the shop now and then. Other owners include Howard’s wife, Laura, his older brother Steve, and younger sister Laurie Masterson, who already retired. They range in age from 65 to 69.

“We want to live out our lives and vacation,” Galbreath said.

They also need time to take care of their aging parents.

Vacations have been a luxury lately. “We used to have 13 employees. Then business started shrinking because of the way printing is going. Now there’s only five of us. It’s hard for anyone to leave.”

The printing business has been difficult for last 20 years, Galbreath said. “Total production of printing is probably 20 percent of what it used to be.”

The Printer was built for large print jobs like booklets and magazines. But many of those are going digital. They’ve learned to concentrate on custom jobs with special treatments like foils and embossing. That quality can’t be topped by large online outfits.

“We had to transition down to smaller jobs. (But) it’s hard to do that many jobs locally.”

He said The Printer wouldn’t have lasted 56 years if it wasn’t for the support of local customers. “Even though they know they can get stuff online cheaper, they still come to us for quality.”

In fact, Galbreath wanted me to hold on to this news so he could notify his customers first. I persuaded him. Blame the messenger.

The Labadies are thrilled with the deal, and with the fact it involves two long-standing businesses that are meeting each others’ needs. The new Strelitzia space has great visibility from Interstate 80, and plenty of free parking.

“We’re looking forward to being able to stay in Davis,” Dean Labadie said, choking up while he called the search “an emotional roller coaster.”

The florist is one of the largest in Northern California. Just 8 percent of its business comes from walk-in customers. The remainder is from web sales, events and wholesale distribution. It employs 35 people ­— and

is still short-staffed.

“I’m always looking for more people to train and work with.

I’ve got a great staff. They are working a lot of hours.”

He said COVID relief funds helped. “We never cut back,” referring to his payroll. “Now, afterwards, hang on. It’s pretty good.”

———— I got to speak with the manager of Tim’s Kitchen, which is taking over the former Our House restaurant space at 808 Second St. On June 16, the Asian restaurant closed its small eatery at 516 Second St., Suite B. A sign on its old door said it would reopen on July 1, but it’s looking more like early August.

Manager Alvin Yee said they are happy to have a larger space.

They are updating the kitchen equipment, with plans to expand it in another nine months or so.

When it opens, it will offer the same Hong Kong-style cafe food it did before. Next year, after the kitchen expansion, it will have more. The owners also plan to apply for a license to sell beer and wine.

Tim’s Kitchen (not to be confused with its former neighbor Tim’s Hawaiian), specializes in a build-your-own Hong Kong style meal. Diners choose a protein like beef steak, chicken-fried steak, pork chops or prawns; choose rice or spaghetti as a starch; and a sauce like tomato, bell pepper or cream.

There are also Chinese barbecue items like roast pork belly and Hainanese chicken, and appetizers like potstickers, egg rolls, chicken wings and fried tofu.

Our House closed in September 2019.

———— Tim’s Kitchen’s former spot at 516 Second St. will be filled by two brands: T% Coffee + Tea, and Mochinut.

A sign on the door says it will open at the end of July.

The website for T% lists shops in Midtown Sacramento, Elk Grove and Stockton. Its menu includes tea, coffee and fruit drinks and smoothies. There is Thai tea, milk tea, tea with mochi and more.

The Mochinut website says it sells mochi doughnuts, Korean rice flour hot dogs, and bubble

tea drinks. The doughnuts are made with rice flour, which makes them stretchy and chewy.

The desserts are made of eight connected dough balls.

I sent messages to both businesses but have not heard back.

———— The Awards & More store has been temporarily closed as its owners deal with family health concerns.

The store is at 720 Olive Drive, Suite A. Owner Fidel Sanchez said he’s had some personal matters to deal with, especially with his elderly mother. Meanwhile, his family got COVID on June 10, and they were still recovering as of late June.

In a June 24 email, he said he hoped to be back part-time at the shop by the end of the month.

However, there wasn’t an answer when I called during business hours on Thursday.

“I hope to resume normal hours soon, but cannot say when that will be,” he said in the email.

———— The Verizon store at 500 First St. in Davis Commons has closed.

All employees were transferred to the other Davis store, at 4647 Second St. (near Target). Its last day was June 30.

———— The Nexus Station, a center for adolescent and young adult mental health and wellness, opened June 7 at 2880 Fifth St., Suite 110.

Founded by Noah Berkoff, a licensed clinical social worker, the business offers workshops, therapeutic individual and group mentor programs, as well as individual and group therapy.

There are two workshop series in August, geared toward 15- to 18-year-olds. The two-day stressreduction workshops include surf lessons at Bolinas Beach. Its website is https://www.thenexusstation.com/.

———— Crumbl Cookies and Cold Stone Creamery are coming to Woodland Gateway shopping center at 2115 Bronze Star Drive.

Mall owner Paul Petrovich told the Sacramento Business Journal that Crumbl and Cold Stone have signed leases. The retail pads for the new dessert spots will be north of the In-N-Out Burger.

Crumbl will be Suite 160 and Cold Stone will be Suite 150.

Each is about 1,200 square feet.

The Crumbl Cookies franchise is based in Utah, and has 511 locations in the U.S. The Woodland store will take five or six months to open, and Cold Stone is about a month more than that.

Cold Stone Creamery’s headquarters are in Arizona. It sells ice cream, cakes, smoothies and shakes. Davis once had a Cold Stone in the Marketplace shopping center. It closed more than a decade ago.

Petrovich told reporter Jake Abbott that a major frozen yogurt franchise was also interested in a space in that strip, making it a dessert cluster. He mentioned there was another potential tenant for an end space on that pad, which includes a drive-thru window, but did not reveal the business name.

Meanwhile, the Marshalls is said to be moving across town to the center by early August.

———— Mountain Mike’s Pizza opened March 23 in in Woodland, at 171 W. Main St. It plans a grand opening on Wednesday, July 13.

There are promotions for the first 100 customers, starting at 3 p.m. that day.

———— Woodland is getting three new hotels, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. Home2 Suites by Hilton, 1981 E. Main St., will have 95 rooms. Courtyard by Marriott, 441 Douglas Lane, will have 109 rooms. Both are near the Interstate 5 and Road 102 interchange.

There are also plans for a fourstory, 109-room Staybridge Suites hotel at Main Street and Highway 113.

———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID19. It’s at https://bit.ly/Davis Businesses. Email me (address below) to suggest updates.

— 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.

Travis recognized as one of Forbes’ best-in-state credit unions Special to The Enterprise VACAVILLE — For a third consecutive year, Travis Credit Union has earned America’s Best-In-State Credit Union recognition, presented by Forbes and Statista Inc. The 2021 list was announced on June 21 on forbes.com. TCU first won this prestigious recognition in 2019.

By collaborating with the leading market research company Statista, Forbes conducted in-depth interviews with more than 26,000 U.S. citizens from all 50 states about their banking interactions in order to highlight the top credit unions in each state.

Financial institutions

scored on overall member satisfaction and recommendation, as well as trust, financial advice, digital services, branch services, and terms and conditions.

Travis was among 10 California credit unions to earn the honor. Scores ranged from 74.2 to 93.6 on

a scale of 100, and just 3.4 percent of credit unions nationwide earned the Forbes best-in-state rankings.

“We are extremely humbled to be recognized by Forbes as one of the BestIn-State Credit Unions in California for the third year

in a row,” said Kevin Miller, president and CEO of TCU. “Our organization has worked hard over the past 70 years to establish trust and to make a positive impact in the local communities through financial education and financial advocacy. As we work hard

to earn this recognition that speaks to TCU’s stability and success, we look forward to serving our members and building their financial wellness.”

Headquartered in Vacaville, Travis Credit Union is a nonprofit cooperative financial institution serving those

who live or work in Solano, Yolo, Sacramento, Placer, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, Sonoma, Colusa and Merced counties. TCU is the 12th-largest credit union in California, with 225,000 members and more than $4.7 billion in assets.

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I-80: Olive Drive freeway ramp considered ‘isolated and redundant’ From Page A1 permanently closed, something applauded by several people during Thursday’s meeting who noted the high rate of speed cars are often traveling when they exit on Olive Drive.

There are other issues with the Olive Drive exit as well, Silva said.

“The Olive Drive ramp is what’s considered an isolated and redundant freeway ramp, redundant in the fact that this same ramp exists at the Richards Boulevard interchange, so this provides the same access to the city of Davis,” he explained.

“Isolated ramps have a high potential for wrongway movements,” Silva added. “When people exit a freeway, they tend to navigate back to that same location to enter back onto the freeway and there’s a higher potential for people to enter into the ramp and head the wrong direction on I-80.

“Based on the analysis that was done,” he said, “this off-ramp has a higherthan-the-national-average collision rate …”

Collisions are also occurring at the Olive Drive/ Richards Boulevard intersection — 15 reported in the last five years, according to Silva — and the primary purpose of the whole project “is to accommodate the projected increase in traffic volumes as time goes on and to improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians.”

Silva said the project is needed because development north of I-80 and continued growth at UC Davis “will continue to degrade the operations at the interchange.

“And there’s increased potential for conflict between vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians,” he said.

Currently about 400 bicyclists and 200 pedestrians cross the Richards Boulevard interchange

every day, according to the city. And with no signals at the west-bound on- and off-ramps, this “results in high vehicle speeds onto and off the freeway ramps.

“These high-speed movements create a safety concern for all modes on Richards Boulevard, particularly bicyclists and pedestrians,” the city website notes.

Elements of the improvement project include: n Consolidating the westbound ramps to a tight diamond configuration with a new traffic signal; n Widening the eastbound off-ramp; n Converting the existing five-foot sidewalk to a 12-foot, barrier-separated, two-way path for use by both pedestrians and bicyclists that will go under the westbound on-ramp; n Including seven-foot Class II bike lanes both northbound and southbound on Richards; n Improving the signals

at the Richards/Olive intersection; and n Closing the Olive Drive off ramp The $18.5 million project is funded by numerous sources, the largest of which is a $10.4 million state/federal highway grant. City capital improvement project funds and impact fees, as well as $500,000 from UC Davis will also be used.

Participants in Thursday’s Zoom meeting largely applauded the elements of the project which they said would make the whole area safer.

Concerns expressed included for businesses on Olive Drive that might suffer given their customers may be accustomed to using the Olive Drive off ramp.

Councilman Josh Chapman, in whose district the project sits, urged residents with questions or concerns about the project to contact him.

“Please feel to reach out as this starts to move forward or at any time,” he said. “I see some people on here who I’ve already talked with a number of times about this project, but if we haven’t had a chance or if anything comes up as we move through this, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

I’m more than happy to meet and talk.”

His email is jchapman@ cityofdavis.org.

For details on the I-80/ Richards interchange improvements, visit https: //www.cityofdavis.org/cityhall/improvement-projects /richards-boulevard-i80-interchangeimprovements.

ELEVATED: BA.5 subvariant becoming dominant in Yolo County From Page A1 the county’s COVID-19 case rate, leaving that actual case rate rather murky.

But the Genome Center still found 239 positive samples between June 26 and July 2, with 57 percent of them caused by newer variants, including BA.4 and BA.5.

UC Davis Health issued a statement on Friday that BA.5 is the most easily transmissible COVID variant to date.

“The main reason this variant has become the

predominant one that is now circulating is that it is able to evade previous immunity,” said Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. “Even people who have partial immunity from a previous infection or vaccination can still have a breakthrough infection.”

earlier in the pandemic when no one had immunity, which led to increased hospitalizations and deaths.”

The bad news: If BA.5 can evade immunity, it means people can get reinfected many times from BA.5.

The good news: “The vast majority of breakthrough infections now are outpatient illnesses,” Blumberg said. “They are not resulting in the kind of severe illness that we saw

City of Davis Notice of Public Hearing The City of Davis City Council will conduct a public hearing on the item, as described below, at a meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, in the Community Chambers, City Offices, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California.

Project Name: Quitclaim of Right-of-Way for Plaza 2555 Project Location: 2555 Cowell Boulevard, APN: 069-530-030 Project File No.: Planning Application #17-17 Property Owner/Applicant: John Ott and Blue Bus L.P. PO Box 4400 Davis, CA 95617 Project Description The City Council is being asked to quitclaim 4’ of right of way along the north side of Cowell Boulevard, and a 10,001 square foot portion of land on the north east corner of the Plaza 2555 property. The existing street configuration would remain, but the property owner will be responsible for maintenance of the quitclaimed right of way area. The quitclaim of ROW would allow the applicant to develop the land up to the back of sidewalk (BOW), and construct a driveway for the future apartment complex. An easement over the area will be reserved for public utilities.

There is on file in the City of Davis Department of Community Development and Sustainability a map depicting the particulars as to the proposed quitclaim and retention of said easement of Plaza 2555. The request for the vacation is being processed in accordance with the California Streets and Highway Code Section 8320 et seq.

Environmental Determination The project is categorically exempt from further environmental review pursuant to Section 15301 which exempts existing facilities and 15305 which exempts minor alterations in land use limitations.

Availability of Documents The project application file is available for review at the Department of Public Works, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, 95616. Staff reports for the public hearing are generally available five (5) days prior to the hearing date. City Council reports are posted on the City’s website at: http://cityofdavis .org/city-hall/city-council/city-council-meetings/agendas. They may also be obtained by contacting the project planner.

Public Comments All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting or send written comments to the project engineer at: City of Davis, Public Works Department, c/o Kevin Fong, Senior Civil Engineer, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, 95616; or via email at: kfong@cityofdavis.org.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or for some other acceptable means of recordation. Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation.

If you challenge the action taken on this matter in court, the challenge may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Director of Community Development and Sustainability or City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing.

Kevin Fong, Senior Civil Engineer Department of Public Works Engineering and Transportation Published July 10, 15, 2022 #1917

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Yolo CASA

ast weekend we celebrated the Fourth of July. As always, we were appreciative of all of our volunteers who were checking in with their youths, making sure they had a place to go, and are that they were generally feeling OK. I’ve said it before frequently, but holidays can feel quite different when you’re in the foster-care system or going through a tough time in life.

On the Fourth of July we often celebrate and discuss things like bravery, freedom, and independence … and I can’t help but think about both our CASA volunteers and our foster youths when I hear these words. CASA volunteers by their very nature are brave. I haven’t heard from one CASA volunteer who wasn’t afraid or nervous before they took their role.

After all, being brave doesn’t mean that someone isn’t afraid … it simply means that that person stepped forward in spite of their fears. I can’t think of one CASA volunteer who doesn’t fit that profile.

This bravery is matched by their CASA youths who had no choice but to be brave and move forward in a new living situation, sometimes in a new school, and more. Again, I can’t think of a single foster child who faced their circumstances without fear … but they all stepped forward

with courage in its presence.

Now let’s talk about freedom.

It’s common for a foster child to lose the ability to trust when they enter the foster care system.

After all, if they were abused and neglected by the very people who they trusted the most, how can they begin to heal? Enter again the CASA volunteer. Our volunteers help their youths regain freedom and confidence by teaching them how to trust again through the stability of the relationship they form with them.

Yes, a single relationship is an incredibly powerful thing.

Here’s a quote from one of our local volunteers: “He was only 2½ years old.

When I went to visit him for the first time, his foster mom said he was hiding and that I’d be lucky to get him out. When I approached him under the table, I just smiled and started taking out the books and toys that I had brought. By the time I was a couple of minutes into reading the first book, he was already in my lap. Even at just 2½ years old, you can teach a child to trust again.”

Now that’s powerful.

Finally, let’s talk about independence. When foster youths enter the dependency system, they become more independent sooner than they ever thought they would. In other words, the very thing that we celebrate can be a burden for foster youths. In

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When foster youths enter the dependency system, they become more independent sooner than they ever thought they would.

California, thanks to a law enacted by AB 12, foster youths have the ability to declare themselves dependents of they system until they reach the age of 21.

This allows them more time to find adequate housing, continue their work and education, and build relationships that will help them through the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood. We often find that having resources for an extended period

of time ends in more independence for a foster youth because they’ve had a chance to become financially stable and emotionally secure before they lose financial and supportive resources.

Therefore, when we celebrate independence, I celebrate the gift of thriving independence that AB 12 gives to our foster youths by offering DEpendency for a little bit longer.

Bravery … freedom …

independence … these are well earned by our foster youths and the CASAs who serve them. After all, it’s only with the help of and dependency on caring people in the world, that we can all be truly free. For more information about how to become a CASA volunteer or make a donation, please visit our website at yolocasa.org.

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

Newsom appoints UCD grad to appeals court Enterprise staff Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Judge Stacy E. Boulware Eurie, 51, of Sacramento, to serve as an associate justice of the Third BOULWARE District EURIE Court of Appeal. She has served as a judge at the Sacramento County Superior Court since 2007 and was presiding judge of the Juvenile Court there from 2010 to 2018.

Boulware Eurie served in several roles at the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, from 2000 to 2007, including senior assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general. She was an associate at Rothschild, Wishek & Sands LLP from 1996 to 2000. Boulware Eurie earned a law degree from the UC Davis School of Law. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice William J. Murray. This position requires confirmation by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, which consists of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye,

Attorney General Rob Bonta and Senior Acting Presiding Justice Ronald Robie. Boulware Eurie is a Democrat. The compensation for this position is $257,562.

———— Kalia Rucker of West Sacramento was named to the Muhlenberg College Dean’s List for the Spring 2022 semester. Muhlenberg College students and Muhlenberg College School of Continuing Studies students with a term GPA of 3.50 or higher were recognized for this academic achievement.

Rucker graduated Summa Cum Laude on Sunday, May 22, with a bachelor’s degree in theater and dance.

Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg is a highly selective, private, fouryear residential, liberal arts college offering baccalaureate and graduate programs. With an enrollment of approximately 2,200 students, Muhlenberg College is dedicated to shaping creative, compassionate, collaborative leaders through rigorous academic programs. Located in Allentown, Pa., Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

———— The University of Utah congratulates more than 8,900 students who were named to the Spring 2022 Dean’s List. To qualify, students must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher in at least 12 graded credit hours during any one term.

The list included Owen Templeton of Davis, Samantha M. Shimada of Davis, Tori Mealor of Woodland, Carmin Jane Fisk of Davis and Nicolaus Theodore Bayard of Woodland. (95776).

The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah.

Founded in 1850, it serves over 32,000 students from across the U.S. and the world.

———— Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Brandon Chapin, 33, of Woodland as legislative and policy adviser at the Delta Stewardship Council.

Chapin has been public participation manager at the Delta Stewardship Council since 2018.

He was an associate governmental program analyst at the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta Conservancy from 2016

to 2018, legislative analyst at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control from 2012 to 2016 and a graduate assistant at the California Energy Commission from 2010 to 2012.

Chapin earned a master’s degree in public policy and administration degree from Sacramento State University. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $121,284. Chapin is a Democrat.

— Do you know of someone who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy?

Email it to newsroom @davisenterprise.net.

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise 1. Name the Century.

The painting known as “The Mona Lisa” was completed the same year that King James IV of Scotland married Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England. Name the century.

2. Know Your U.S. States. Tied with Tennessee, what U.S. state borders the largest number of other U.S. states?

3. Unusual Words.

Starting with the letter D, what woodworking noun also means, as a verb, “to fit together as a whole”?

4. Palindromic Numbers. The number of letters is the Hebrew

alphabet is the same as the Major Arcana cards in a tarot deck. What is that number?

5. Books and Authors.

Pemberley is the fictional country estate in what 1813 novel?

Answers: Both events took place in 1503, so the 16th century; Missouri; dovetail; 22; “Pride and Prejudice.”

— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home.

Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.

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HOUSING: Complexity in details Obituaries From Page A1 housing, an idea that’s been long in the making.

The plan is for lawmakers to approve $900 million next year and again the year after that for the loan program to take off.

That lawmakers are interested in financing student housing at all is new. Last year was the first time they approved major state funding to build students homes and ensure that campuses keep the rents low. The building splurge adds to the hundreds of millions in new spending on financial aid that lawmakers approved over the past two years, including: n A down payment on a debt-free grant for University of California and California State University students. n Up to $8,000 in cash support for some community college students. n A major expansion of how many community college students get that cash support and tuition waivers to attend a UC or Cal State school.

Where will the beds be?

The housing projects funded this year are in rural and urban areas at UCs, Cal States and community colleges up and down the state.

College of the Siskiyous, the northernmost public campus in California, will build enough housing for about 252 affordable beds at a cost of $32 million in state grants. Fresno State is receiving $31 million from taxpayers for 175 affordable beds; the campus only has 1,100 campus beds for its 25,000 students, most of whom are low-income. UC San Diego will use $100 million in state funds for 1,100 beds that’ll have a rent of about $832 a month — or roughly half

of what similar rents go for off-campus, university documents state.

The construction costs for the 25 discounted-rent projects range in price from $91,000 per bed to more than $600,000 per bed.

The definition of an “affordable bed” will vary by campus. That’s because the housing program funding the construction projects requires annual rent not to exceed 15% of a county’s median wage for a single person. In Los Angeles and San Diego, that means rents of roughly $800 to $930 a month, respectively, in 2022. At UC Berkeley, it’s closer to $1,250 a month.

Beyond enjoying cheaper rents, students living on campus have slightly higher chances of remaining enrolled in college and are more likely to interact with professors and their peers than students who live beyond walking distance from campus, according to academic studies.

In some cases, the state grant money will supplement a larger campus housing project.

How we got here The affordable housing money is all tied to a student housing grant program lawmakers introduced last year. The grant funding replaces money campuses would otherwise have to borrow from financial institutions and repay with interest, which in turn leads to savings for campuses that are then passed onto students in the form of cheaper rent.

Lawmakers initially created a $500 million pot to go toward building new student beds this year through a competitive application process. But interest in the program far

outstripped available funds last year, with 42 colleges and universities seeking $2.8 billion in construction grants. In March, the Department of Finance proposed awarding nine campuses a share of that $500 million — even after the agency determined another 17 campuses had valid applications.

At least one lawmaker representing the jilted schools bristled at losing out to the competitive grant process. “There’s none there for the Inland Empire,” said Assemblyman Jose Medina, a D-Riverside, during an April legislative hearing to review the Department of Finance’s recommended list of projects to fund.

Ultimately, Newsom and lawmakers decided to fund the 17 campuses with valid applications — plus the nine initially approved in March, bringing the pot of money up to $1.4 billion. Unfortunately for Medina and Riverside, the 2022-23 budget deal still doesn’t finance any construction project from the Inland Empire.

With Newsom and lawmakers signaling that more student housing construction dollars will appear in future state budgets, UC Riverside and the other passed-over campuses may get additional chances to secure money to expand their stock of affordable beds.

But legislation for the program suggests the state will only accept UC and Cal State applications next year if a new round of grant funding is approved.

An official at the Department of Finance told CalMatters the intent is for campuses to apply by this October so that they’re approved in time for next year’s budget deal.

Joyce Pullum Thomas

Aug. 30, 1929 — April 24, 2022

With her daughter by her side, Joyce Pullum Thomas died peacefully on April 24, 2022, in Taylorsville, Utah, where she had been residing in memory care. She was 92 years old.

Born Aug. 30, 1929, in Magna, Utah to Charles and Gertrude Carsey Hutchings, she was the seventh of their eight children. She met her future husband, Hal Pullum, when she was 15 and he was home on leave from the U.S. Navy. They became engaged a year later and married in 1947, having three children together.

In 1967 they relocated to

California with their two youngest children and later divorced.

Joyce worked as a medical transcriptionist for many area doctors in Davis and Woodland before settling in at the Woodland Clinic in 1973, where she worked for 25 years. In 1979 she rallied co-workers and helped organize a strike and picket line that ultimately led to a union contract and improved working conditions. Joyce went on to serve as president of the Woodland Clinic unit of Engineers and Scientists of California (AFL-CIO) from 1979 to

Mathew P. Ehrhardt

June 11, 1970 — June 26, 2022 Mat Ehrhardt was born on June 11, 1970 in San Luis Obispo and died unexpectedly on June 26, 2022, in Sacramento.

He leaves behind his wife Kristie, daughter Zoie, parents Peter and Christiane, and sister Leigh. He will be sorely missed by his relatives, his many friends EHRHARDT and his colleagues. All our lives are changed forever by his death.

Price Funeral Chapel is directing arrangements.

1981 and represented more than 200 nurses, LVNs, transcriptionists, clerks and receptionists.

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She is preceded in death by her son Kelly Lloyd Pullum, and her devoted son-in-law Joel Britt Shriver. She is survived by her son Barry Dru Pullum (Stephen Rogers) of Burlingame, daughter Halene Draper of West Valley, Utah, five granddaughters, and 31 greatgrandchildren.

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From Blue Devils’ winning goal to 49ers M alaya Wright was the center of media attention last November.

The Davis High girls water polo player had a digital recorder, microphone and TV camera put in front of her face at the swimming pool at River City High of West Sacramento.

Wright, then a junior, had just scored the winning goal for the Blue Devils, who posted a 9-8 win over Soquel in triple overtime in a California Interscholastic Federation NorCal semifinal playoff game.

Yours truly had my digital recorder in front of Wright’s face. Lindsey Pallares of FOX-40 had a microphone and TV camera in front of Wright, who said Friday that was her first-ever TV interview, to capture her thoughts on making what was probably the biggest goal of her water polo life.

Pallares had just started working as a sports anchor and reporter at the Sacramento TV station. Those of you who are reading my column have

probably seen Pallares covering many Sacramento area and NorCal sporting events; from high school and college games to the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors on their way to winning the NBA Championship and covering the San Francisco 49ers last season.

Now Pallares is moving up the media ladder.

On Thursday, the 49ers sent me an email about their on-air talent for the upcoming season. Greg Papa is returning as the radio voice for the 49ers.

Pallares was named the new 49ers’

team reporter.

Pallares voiced on Twitter on Thursday that she’s “feeling extra grateful today” about her new role with an NFL team.

This is a dream job for her, as it would be for anyone who has the desire to cover an NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL team.

Yours truly has been blessed and fortunate to work in media for more than 25 years. Most of that time has been working in online and print journalism, with background working in radio. I’ve also covered news and written features.

I’ve even photographed a large group of teachers striking for higher pay and increased benefits at a busy intersection in the middle of a city — on my birthday.

There are other members of the media who have achieved success in their careers over the years, no matter how long their tenure is at their employer. n Bob Dunning has been working at The Enterprise since 1970. Dunning covers UC Davis football and Aggie

men’s basketball games. He’s also a columnist.

Dunning has served in the same role I’m serving, which is sports editor.

He knows more about UCD athletics than everyone living in Davis. I’m serious when I say that.

Other members of the media and I, be it online/print, radio or TV, have learned a great deal from Dunning over the years. n Joe Davidson has been covering sports at The Sacramento Bee since 1988. Prior, he was a sportswriter for The Enterprise, and Dunning was his boss.

Davidson is a phenomenal sportswriter who has covered everything sports-related; from the 49ers, then Oakland Raiders and a long tenure in covering the Kings.

For more than a decade he’s been covering high school and college sports, dashed in with professional sports.

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Baseball River Cats’ HR leader Villar is named to Futures game Enterprise staff WEST SACRAMENTO — Infielder David Villar’s memorable week added another accolade on Thursday as he was named to the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.

The game will broadcast live on Saturday at 4 p.m. on Peacock and SiriusXM and be replayed at 5:30 p.m. on the MLB Network.

Villar, who was the Giants’ 11th round pick in 2018 out of South Florida, was one of two San Francisco prospects picked for the National League roster.

One year after his breakout 2021 season with Double-A Richmond, Villar set a career-high with 21 home runs and 62 RBIs with Sacramento and won PCL Player of the Week May 9-15.

The 25-year-old leads the PCL in home runs and slugging percentage (.633).

He also ranks inside the top-10 with 62 RBIs (second), a .409 on-base percentage (fourth), a 1.042 OPS (second), 44 walks (fifth) and 53 runs (tied for fourth).

Villar, a two-time MiLB.com Organization All-Star, lined a double off longtime San Francisco Giant and current Arizona lefty, Madison Bumgarner on the first pitch he saw in his MLB debut on July 4.

In addition to Villar, Richmond left-hander Kyle Harrison (Giants’ No. 2 prospect on MLB Pipeline), was selected for the National League roster.

The River Cats will return home on Tuesday, to take on the Colorado Rockies’ Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes, for a six-game series, including the fan-favorite Star Wars Night on Saturday, July 16.

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Davis High girls field hockey player Hayley Smith (left) stays on the ball while teammate Emma Brayton closes in during Thursday’s summer workout at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

Alumni keep winning tradition going

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent The Davis High girls field hockey program has long benefited from alumni who invested the time and effort to give back to their alma mater.

Former Blue Devils paying it forward has helped the field hockey team reach historic levels of winning, including a 63-game winning streak against Eastern Athletic League opponents dating back to 2017.

Perhaps the most influential Davis alum is head coach Elizabeth Hogan, a goalie at Davis from 1992 to 1995 before receiving an athletic scholarship to attend Michigan State.

Entering her fourth season at the helm of the Blue Devils’ program, Hogan has been busy conducting summer practices at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium where she’s assisted by fellow Blue Devil alum Malia Fujisawa.

A 2012 Davis graduate who played at Indiana, Fujisawa is working primarily with the varsity team while Hogan handles the newcomers.

With the varsity squad, Fujisawa’s priority is to ensure each player at least has a foundation of basic skills they can build on.

“I think the big thing is that I want to close the gap when it comes to our skill level,” Fujisawa said.

“We have players at different skill levels and so we

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Blue Devil teammates Kate Den Fulk (goalie) and Sahda Bhinder go after the ball during Thursday’s practice at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. Davis head coach Elizabeth Hogan will continue summer workouts until Thursday.

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he best piece of business advice I have ever read was, “Beware the articulate incompetent.” It is important to business decisions but far more so to political ones.

Boris Johnson has always been a poster boy for the articulate incompetent, and yet he rose with wit, bravado and connections to the highest elective office in Britain, prime minister. Now his luck has run out.

Born in New York to British parents, he didn’t renounce his dual citizenship until 2016, when it became a liability politically.

He won a scholarship to Eton, the boys-only boarding school where many prime ministers studied, went on to Oxford, and was elected president of the Oxford Union. This is the equivalent of privilege on steroids.

Johnson’s weaknesses — including sloth, disorganization, lack of preparedness, showing off and a disinclination to let the facts stand in the way of a good story — were well known. He was fired from his first journalistic job at The Times of London for fabricating a quote — from his godfather, of all people. Later, Michael Howard, the distinguished Tory leader, fired him from the ranks of the shadow cabinet, also for lying.

After The Times, Johnson worked for the conservative daily, The Telegraph. In Brussels, where he was assigned, he was regarded by his peers as good company but an unreliable reporter. One of them told me that he was often asked to chase up some fabricated concoction of Johnson’s like the banana regulation, allegedly defining the length and curve of bananas allowed into the European Union. The only curve was that of the truth.

Johnson’s editors in London wanted to hear only bad news about Europe. Johnson obliged: He was playing his part in the movement to take Britain out of Europe, which matured as Brexit.

Johnson went on to become a member of Parliament and editor of The Spectator, an admired British weekly magazine of politics, culture and current affairs, published continuously since 1828. His colleagues at the magazine found him sloppy, often absent, and often leaving his work to others.

Johnson has been married three times and has six children from those marriages.

He acknowledges one love child.

The next step for Johnson was to become mayor of London. His humor papered over the cracks, and he did a good job defending London’s image — especially in insisting that the double-decker red buses be retained.

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he campaign for the United Kingdom to leave Europe gave Johnson his chance. He went against his old parliamentary friend and Eton and Oxford companion, Prime Minister David Cameron, and campaigned vigorously and with the aid of some wild and untrue claims about how Britain would prosper out of Europe.

Cameron was replaced with the dull, dutiful Theresa May. She had the task of trying to make Brexit work without breaking Britain. After three years, she was out, and a shaken party installed Johnson as its leader.

In a landslide, the Conservatives won the next election, and he was expected to be a transformational prime minister. Instead, he has been involved in scandals: He has been caught lying about parties in his official home and office, No. 10 Downing Street, during the COVID-19 lockdown, and recently about the allegations of sexual impropriety of a member of his party, whom he had been warned about but nonetheless promoted.

Johnson isn’t a fool, but he does foolish things. His legacy may be that he was the most quotable prime minister of his generation and beyond. Here is a classic: “My friends, I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”

On resigning, Johnson said tamely, “Them’s the breaks.”

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

ast month’s primary election was the latest test for a state computer system that is supposed to provide timely and complete data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures and other financial aspects of the political process.

Cal-Access, as it’s known, struggled to do what it was supposed to do, which surprises exactly no one who tries to use the system.

It’s not a new problem. The shortcomings of the 23-yearold political reporting system have been known for years.

The former secretary of state, Alex Padilla, once described Cal-Access as “a Frankenstein’s monster of code” that is in need of “a complete rebuild” and sponsored 2016 legislation to create a replacement.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown, himself a former secretary of state, agreed that the system needed an overhaul and signed the legislation. A successor system was supposed to be ready within a few years, but it wasn’t.

Last year, Padilla was appointed to the U.S. Senate.

Shirley Weber, a Democratic assemblywoman from San Diego, was named as his successor and she more or less scrapped what Padilla had

Blood drive and AB 1709 The Red Cross recently declared a first ever blood crisis amid the Omicron Surge.

Blood and the blood components (red cells, platelets, etc.) are in short supply.

One example of having an inadequate blood supply is we have delays in getting transfusions to people that need them.

Young kids fighting Leukemia are having to wait for blood transfusions. This is really happening in our country. Martie Israel, talks about granddaughter Courtney Elliot having to wait for transfusions, “I can tell when she (Courtney Elliot age 3) needs blood. When she needs blood, she gets sleepy, she’s real pale. When she needs platelets like she does now, she bruises real bad.” Sadly in our current environment, Courtney’s transfusions are often delayed due to rationing of available blood.

The Davis Odd Fellows have agreed to Vitalant’s request to increase their Community Blood Drives from 1 a year to 4.

Their next Community Blood Drive is on July 19 in the Odd Fellows Hall. Donors are desperately needed. Please join in by visiting the Vitalant website and registering or walking in on July 19. If this Blood Drive is not convenient, please choose

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done on the Cal-Access Replacement System or CARS, as it’s called.

“To ensure that the CARS project can fully meet its statutory obligations, the scheduled June 30, 2021, rollout of the project will be postponed,” Weber said. “Moving forward, the secretary of state’s office will assess the project’s state of readiness so that on the date it goes live it will meet the expectations of the public, stakeholders and the regulated community.”

It’s another example of a syndrome that has plagued state government for years.

While California’s Silicon Valley and other technology hubs may be global leaders in the development of information technology, its state government has been chronically incapable of implementing IT systems that work as promised.

One of the most spectacular IT failures was a meltdown in

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the Employment Development Department’s handling of claims for unemployment insurance benefits from hundreds of thousands of California workers who lost their jobs due to pandemic-related shutdowns, compounded by approving billions of dollars in payments to fraudsters.

The long list of IT systems that that have failed, incurred huge cost overruns and/or were delayed for years is, or at least should be, especially embarrassing to Gov. Gavin Newsom. In 2013, he published a book, “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government,” predicting that technology would transform American democracy and end political gridlock.

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alifornia’s sorry record of IT failure raises the obvious question of “why?” Is it bureaucratic sclerosis? Is it an inability to define missions precisely enough for software engineers to design solutions? Do vendors overpromise results to pad their bills?

The state auditor’s office has identified managerial shortcomings in many specific projects, such as one dubbed FI$Cal, supposedly a comprehensive integration of finan-

another one that is.

Also, there is an important piece of legislation that would help increase blood donations. Freddie Rodriguez, a 52nd District assemblyman, has introduced Assembly Bill 1709, Californians who donate blood or blood components at least four times in a single calendar year would receive a $500 tax credit, beginning on or after Jan. 1. I believe this would be a positive step in addressing our chronic blood shortages. This bill is currently stuck in the Revenue and Taxation committee.

It would be nice to see our local Davis politicians fight to get this bill out of committee, voted on and enacted. Call Cecilia Aguiar-Curry’s office or send her a postcard requesting she support AB 1709 and take a leadership position in getting this passed. Contact info: Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (Assemblymember District 4); 600 A Street, Ste. D, Davis, CA 95616; Tel: 530-757-1034 Please donate blood and support Assembly Bill 1709. Your donated pint of blood has the potential to save 3 lives. Be heroic, donate blood.

James Bledsoe Davis

Impeach now (or else…)

The dominant branches of the U.S. government need to remind the Supreme

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U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

cial data. However, there’s never been an analysis of what obviously is a systemic procurement failure — until now.

Last week, the Legislature’s audit committee directed the auditor’s office to examine the entire IT procurement system, beginning with the Department of Technology, which was created several years back to solve the chronic problem.

The audit was requested by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine, who chairs the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee.

“The pandemic showed us the disastrous results of state IT systems that are overloaded, antiquated, and not ready for the task ahead,” Petrie-Norris said. “This audit request is a critically needed look at the technology systems Californians should be able to easily rely on every day to interact with their government and obtain vital services.”

A long-overdue look.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

Court of its proper place and role, and by doing so avoid the need of the people to act upon its duty to rebel against and replace tyrannical government. Even a cursory reading of the Constitution punctures the myth that the Supreme Court is “coequal” with the legislative and executive branches; rather the Constitution reveals the Supreme Court to be the minor and toothless branch of our government.

To state just the most obvious facts, the Court is completely dependent on Congress for funding, and upon the Executive Branch to enforce its decisions. Moreover, the number of its judges is not fixed and can be changed at any time, and its members can be impeached anytime the legislative branch determines their “behavior” not to be “good,” in other words for purely political reasons.

There now exists a compelling political reason for the legislative branch to use its impeachment power against Supreme Court justices. The compelling reason is that the Supreme Court has called into question the legitimacy of the entire government, whose primary purpose is to protect the long-established rights of “we, the people.” Governments that take away long-established rights do so at their own peril, a fact which “we the people” will be celebrating on July 4.

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Where have all the babies gone to?

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avis has been gradually losing its innate collegetown character. The level of civility in civic discourse continues its decline as demonstrated in the recent Measure H campaign.

The 1960-70s Midwestern ethos that prospered when Davis and UCD set out on their mutually aligned growth paths has deteriorated with urban-like political fighting. The Midwestern neighborly values that were once well established have given way to a divisive approach to community engagement. In housing development discussions, the person you disagree with is characterized as evil, dishonest, a liar, etc. Why? In part because Davis’ 40 years of restrictive housing and growth policies has spawned and feeds unintended and unnecessary discord with little visible, offsetting benefits.

Here are some of the impacts: n Less than 40% of our top city management lives in Davis.

Nearly all the major city decision-makers and their families live elsewhere. Their family life and personal civic involvement is not here. n The percentage of Davis Police and Fire Department personnel who live in Davis is much lower than the management. In essence, their family and hearts reside elsewhere. n The vast majority of “North, North Davis” (Spring Lake in Woodland) homeowners are individuals employed at UCD or a Davis business. They cannot afford to live here. A sizable number have children commuting daily with their parents to attend Davis schools, a good

outcome for us. n In the Cannery, roughly 80% of the buyers had no relationship to Davis or UCD, although some had grown children living here. Most came from the Bay Area and Marin County, exactly where the Cannery developers heavily advertised. It was an intentional strategy not intended to attract local UCD faculty, staff and other Davis workers. n In the 546 homes, an unbelievably low number of schoolage children actually live there.

Something like 26 new students resulted from Cannery’s 546 homes plus apartments. In the ’80s and early ’90s a Cannerytype neighborhood would have generated 300 to 400 new students. Where have all the families with or capable of having babies gone? n Approximately 1,000 elementary-through-high school students commute daily to our schools. Without these commuting students some neighborhood schools would close. Imagine the rancor and anger that would result should neighborhood school closures be considered.

The civic anger, neighborhood vs. neighborhood, would likely be greater than the recent Measure H arguments. n The school district has done a masterful entrepreneurial job in “recruiting” out of Davis parents and children to attend our neighborhood schools. For how long can those creative efforts be sufficient? A university-oriented community needs great schools.

Great schools require children from childbearing age parents living here and as a result contributing to a wholesome, family friendly, inclusive community.

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That was “the 1960s and 1970s Davis civic perspective” when UCD embarked on its original and now continuing growth plan.

The list could continue, but you get the point.

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he unintended consequences of overly restrictive housing policies are not positive. While we are a smaller city, how did we achieve that? We stopped converting adjacent Davis ag land into housing for Davis/UCD employees by converted our neighboring community’s ag land, i.e., Spring Lake, into houses instead.

Davis employees essentially “colonizing” other nearby communities, not unlike European monarchs did.

Do the unintended results of the current development battles make sense to you? It certainly doesn’t to me. Of course, I’m a Davis housing provider, “a Developer”, but what am I misstating? The homes in North, North Davis are built on Woodland’s agricultural land, so we “save” Davis ag land while North, North Davis is populated by Davis based employees who can’t afford a home in Davis. By my math that’s a zero-sum gain/loss for ag land. It results in more commuter traffic, more greenhouse gasses, and the other environmental problems that Davisites preach about. In essence Davis’s restrictive approach contributes directly to the evils we seek to avoid. The 2200 currently constructed homes in North, North Davis with 600 more to come, occupy about the same sized parcel as the original Covell Village at the corner of Covell and Pole Line Road. Davis residents are essentially enduring the “Covell Village Traffic”, plus the

Why I still keep a wellwatered front lawn Special to The Enterprise

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avis is very well-placed for water, even in drought years. We get two-thirds of our water from the Sacramento River, which pours more than 20,000 cubic feet per second (about 0.5 acre-feet), or 1.2 million acre feet per month of Sierra water into the Bay and Pacific Ocean just below us. In the dry months of drought years (now), when we need water for our landscapes, let’s cut that in half very conservatively to 600,000 acre-feet per month flow.

Davis is allocated approximately 4,000 acre-feet per month of the river water as part of the water project that Davis, Woodland and UC Davis started paying a total of $280 million dollars for a decade ago. The area of Davis is roughly 4,000 acres, so each month we are allocated the equivalent of one foot depth of river water covering that area.

This amount can be curtailed in drought years. In 2021 Davis used a total of 12,000 acre-feet of water, which in summer months might mean 2,000 acre-feet per month. Although the drought curtailment percentage of Sacramento River water is unclear, if it is 50% this would put Davis at the maximum of 2,000 acre-feet per month, with well water still available.

The upshot is that even with conservative figures and a drought scenario Davis has adequate water for irrigation of lawns and gardens. The water we are allocated from the Sacramento River, which in even dry months pours well over half a million acre-feet per month into the Delta, is substantial. The main value of the river water downstream from us is to keep the freshwater and salinity balance in the delta, its estuaries

and bay, an important ecological function.

The major efforts to conserve water in California should be for: n Counties and water districts that do not get Sierra snowmelt water, like Marin and coastal counties, or places like Chico, as well as some outlying areas around Yolo county that depend 100% on well water. n Agriculture, which uses more than 85% of California's delivered water, often quite inefficiently. Suburbanites like us use such a small fraction of California's delivered water, that those of us using Sacramento River water for lawns and gardens, in my opinion, do not need to worry about depleting that source of water. The main worry is my water bill.

The distinction between places dependent on well and reservoir water and places that get Sierra snowmelt water like Davis needs to be made clear in publicizing water conservation. This is not being adequately done in our media and leadership.

Efforts to conserve water in landscapes are good, as the situation of plentiful river water is predicted to change in the coming generations. Sierra summer snowmelt amounts and river flow will be drastically reduced, with snow cover (storage) predicted to disappear in the Sierra, but, in my opinion, it won't make a difference to us non-agricultural water users within our lifetimes.

This is why I feel all right about having a small (50-by-15 foot) lawn and irrigated garden and no graywater system or water-saving toilet.

— Don Lotter is a Davis resident.

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environmental harm of an extra 6.8 miles of commuting. Sadly, Davis doesn’t get the tax dollars, although we do get the kids, which is a blessing. We also pay extra school taxes as a result of these North, North Davis homes not being built in Davis.

So, what’s the path forward?

First, I’m not advocating eliminating Measures J, R, D and the citizens right to vote. Once given the vote, the voters aren’t giving it back voluntarily! The state might take it away if we continue on what is a self-destructive approach to needed housing.

Instead, I propose a real-life example incorporated in the Palomino Place neighborhood which offers the types of housing required to start the process of returning Davis to a universityfocused community with all the benefits that follow. At 26-acres, it’s not too big for a prototype and still large enough to showcase a number of well-designed home choices for first time, as well as first and second move-up buyers.

My hope is to build a consensus of voters who will support a prototype on a smallish infill parcel and in the process change the tone of Measure J/R/D discussions. Palomino Place is financially sound, buildable, inclusive, and focuses on the buyers we want to be part of our community for all the reasons expressed here.

So how does this template address the problems?

It provides homes designed, sized and priced for Davis-based employees, UC Davis faculty, and staff to start a rational discussion to address the unintended problems outlined earlier. If maintaining a university-focused, family friendly, inclusive community is our goal, then practical

plans that provide the right housing requires thoughtful consideration.

If our community wants Davis children in our schools, we need to build homes that their parents can afford. In my 52 years of real estate experience, I’ve seen UCD faculty and staff, and Davis business employees that are willing to stretch their housing budgets to live here, but few can pay the Bay Area prices at the Cannery or other recent smaller projects.

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hile million-dollar Davis homes are now familiar to us, the majority of Davis-based employees can’t stretch that far. The larger homes and higher prices in the Cannery eliminated most UCD faculty, staff, and Davis based employees. This occurred even though modern-day financing allows for more realistic qualifying criteria! than the outdated government-imposed rules allow.

Palomino Place offers a variety of home sizes that can be replicated elsewhere, each targeted to the real-world financial capabilities of locally employed families.

Palomino Place is a practical housing template and starting point to begin addressing the unmet housing needs of our community and the benefits that follow. It’s also an open invitation to those who have trepidations, to join with me and others for rational, thoughtful and financially practical oriented housing discussions using softer rhetoric. These housing battles do not reflect well on our community. We need, as a community, to move from battles to thoughtful and helpful discussions. We can start here.

— Dave Taormino is a Davisbased real estate developer at Taormino and Associates Inc.

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ommuniCare Health Centers planned to co-sponsor a Pride event with Mojo’s Restaurant in Woodland on June 30 to celebrate and affirm the last day of Pride Month as a part of its Elevate Queer Yolo programming.

Multiple hate groups became aware of the event, and unfortunately, negative social media activity increased causing significant safety concerns.

CommuniCare, in strong collaboration with Mojo’s, Woodland Police Department and other partners, worked to increase security protection and safety with the hopes of continuing the event. When online threats escalated, there was a decision to reschedule.

The Elevate Queer Yolo Team, along with other supporters, still went to Mojo’s to celebrate Pride and welcome individuals who may not have heard that the event was cancelled. The result was an informal, joyful gathering and celebration. That gathering was interrupted by a hate group who stormed the restaurant.

Dr. Melissa Marshall, CEO of CommuniCare, reflects: “We have many patients, clients, and employees who live in Woodland. We appreciate

the local LGBTQ+ and ally community response to this bigotry as well as their support for the important work we do every day at CommuniCare Health Centers.

“Offering affirming, inclusive and visible support is core to our mission and this event highlights why what we do matters and is so needed,” said Sara Gavin, LMFT, LPCC, CommuniCare’s chief behavioral health officer, “Events like this can be triggering for individuals and the community.”

CommuniCare continues to offer support to their employees as well as the broader community through a full-range of healthcare services including Behavioral Health and Substance Use Treatment to adults, youth, and families. CCHC hosts the Elevate Queer Yolo program that offers free community resource navigation for LGBTQ+ people in Yolo County, personalized help with getting medical insurance, peer advocate support, and social support groups.

To find out more, please visit LGBTQ Care – CommuniCare Health Centers (communicarehc.org).

— Hollie Malamud is the director of development for CommuniCare Health Centers.

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Core Development Camp East Sac @ 9am / $139 Jul 18th - Jul 21st McKinley Park, 601 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento. 916-837-0336

Groovy Judy: Bambino’s @ 6pm BAMBINO'S RESTAURANT AND FULL BAR 30 beers on tap, 301 Georgia St suiet 122, Vallejo

Paula West @ 8pm / $64 Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐ son Street, San Francisco ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Zo Rosales: ARENA SF PRESENTS OTW THURSDAYS (18+)

Malina Moye: @ 9pm Mother‐ Arena SF, 2565 Mission St, San lode Beer Francisco //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// and Music Festival Fri 7/15 2022 Unseen Universe - 7/15 @ 7pm El Dorado County Fair & Event Center, 100 Plac‐ erville Dr, Placerville

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Cat Power @ 7pm / $37 Ace of Spades, 1417 R St., Sacra‐ mento Tiny Moving Parts @ 7pm Gold�eld Trading Post, 1630 J St, Sacramento

Transform w/ Morgin Madison @ LVL 55 (Temple Nightclub) @ 10pm Temple Nightclub, 540 Howard St, San Francisco

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@ 6pm The Rock Worship & Training Cen‐ ter, 1758 Industrial Way #117, Napa

@ 12pm California State Fair, 1600 Exposi‐ tion Blvd, Sacramento

KC and The Sunshine Band @ 7pm California State Fair, 1600 Exposition Blvd, Sacramento "Follies" @ 7pm / $20-$40 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

@ 7:30pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco

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Bison @ 2pm Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Lake Tahoe, 50 US-50, Stateline

Matt Danger @ 7:30pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco

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@ 6:30pm / $45 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐ Farrell St., San Francisco

The Kegels @ 7:30pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco

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@ 10pm Love + Propaganda, 85 Campton Pl, San Francisco

The Valencia Room, 647 Valencia St, San Francisco

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Cobb's Comedy Showcase

The Lil Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐ bus Ave, San Francisco Smokies: //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Bluegrass Noelle and Be‐ @ 8:30pm yond 2022 Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St,

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Sun 7/24 JourneyDay Music

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@ 6pm Reset: Cafe By Day, 727 B Sutter St, Folsom

@ 7pm

@ 2pm Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Lake Tahoe, 50 US-50, Stateline

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@ 8pm California State Fair, 1600 Exposi‐ tion Blvd, Sacramento

One Sharp Mind Sacramento

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Phil Lesh & Friends: Bluegrass and Beyond Music & Art Festival

@ 7pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

24K Magic-#1 Tribute to Bruno Mars: California State Fair

JusJames

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San Francisco

@ 7pm Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St, Sacra‐ mento

James Patrick Regan singer/guitarist: James Patrick Regan @ River Terrace Inn

Fri 7/22

The Zombies

Cat Power

Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

@ 6pm River Terrace Inn, 1600 Soscol Ave, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Napa

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Seth Kaminsky

@ 7:30pm Bootleg Music Cafe & Tiki Lounge, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Sacramento

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Jimmy Becker

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@ 11am Sacramento State Planetarium, 6000 J Street, Sacramento

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@ 6pm Balboa Cafe, 3199 Fillmore St, San Francisco

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Sun 7/17 Meredith Willson's "The Mu‐ sic Man" @ 8pm / $11 Jean Henderson Perform‐ ing Arts, 607 Pena Dr., Davis "Boys Go To Jupiter" from Word for Word

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Chaka Khan at the Sacramento State Fair

LaRussell: Hometown Hero Tour - San Francisco, CA

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@ 3pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

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"References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot"

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Sports

B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2022

Best football teams in the Pac-12

T

URNAROUND IS FAIR PLAY ...

As you may know if you’ve been on planet Earth in the last two weeks, USC and UCLA secretly met with the Big 10 to cut a deal that left their Pac-12 conference mates devastated.

Thus, a little self-defense might be in order here.

When the divorce becomes final prior to the 2024 season, the remaining Pac-12 schools, if any, are not likely to have either the Bruins or the Trojans on their football schedules anymore. So why not start that process now, given that USC and UCLA think they’re too good for the Pac-12? (Or Pac-10 or whatever it may be called in the future.)

In other words, just have every remaining Pac-10 school cancel whatever games they have scheduled in the next two years against these two moneygrabbing “educational” institutions, leaving the Bruins and the Trojans no choice but to play each other 12 straight Saturdays during the regular season.

That ought to be great for the almighty television ratings that dictated this dealwith-the-devil in the first place.

THE “BEST” TEAM IN THE

have ever earned a spot in the four-team College Football Playoff — Oregon and Washington.

So, who is the dominant force here and who are the also-rans?

PAC-12? ... We hear all the time that USC and UCLA are the true superpowers in the Pac-12, so a little quiz might be in order here.

In the last 13 years, how many Pac-12 football championships has UCLA won?

If you said “zero,” move to the head of the class.

In the last 13 years, which team has won a whopping six Pac-12 football championships? If you said “Oregon,” you may now teach the class.

Here’s the rundown of Pac-12 football titles since most of today’s incoming college freshmen were still in kindergarten: Oregon (6), Stanford (3), Washington (2), Utah (1), USC (1), UCLA (0).

Furthermore, only two Pac-12 teams

SPEAKING OF THE BEST TEAM IN THE PAC-12 ... This may shock a number of folks who weren’t paying attention, but last season Brigham Young University went 5-0 against Pac-12 competition, not only beating the supposedly mighty USC Trojans, but also hammering eventual Pac-12 champion Utah.

The Cougars should have been sent to the Rose Bowl instead of Utah.

If the Pac-10 wishes to expand in the near future — it does — the conference need look no further than Provo.

Yes, yes, yes, I realize BYU has agreed to abandon its “independent” status and join the Big 12, but if we’ve learned anything in the last few days, it’s that agreements are sacred until they’re not.

THE PAC-12 IS MORE THAN JUST FOOTBALL ... While details of this unseemly move are still being hammered out between Los Angeles and that bloated conference in the Midwest,

football isn’t the only sport involved.

Just for fun, let’s take a look at how Pac-12 schools have fared at the national level in other high visibility sports.

Last Pac-12 school to win a national championship in men’s basketball: Arizona.

Last Pac-12 school to win a national championship in women’s basketball: Stanford.

Last Pac-12 school to win a national championship in baseball: Oregon State.

ONE MORE IMPORTANT CATEGORY ... Most convictions among Pac-12 schools in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal: USC. SO LONG, OLD FRIEND ... The Pac12 was founded in 1915 in the old Imperial Hotel in Portland when representatives of Oregon State, Oregon, Washington and Cal sat down to form the Pacific Coach Conference.

It has survived in one form or another ever since.

Here’s hoping it lives to see another day.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

WINNING: TV people on the list TRADITION: New sport for some From Page B1 n Shawn Jensen has been a sportswriter at the Merced Sun-Star since 1999.

Prior, Jensen was a sportswriter at The Daily Republic in Fairfield, which is owned by McNaughton Media that owns The Enterprise.

Jensen has also done a great job in covering Merced County high schools, plus Merced College and UC Merced, during his tenure.

What makes Jensen a greater sportswriter is he, like me, can also photograph and cover games

at the same time.

That’s called a multimedia journalist. n Michelle Dapper has been a sports anchor/ reporter at KCRA-3 since 2014.

Dapper, without question, knows her sports inside and out.

Any story you see on her air on the NBC affiliate, from youth to the pros, is a proud product. n Del Rodgers is the sports director at KCRA-3 since 1997.

He was a running back and played on special teams on the 49ers and Green Bay Packers in the late 1980s through the

early 1990s. n Sara Hodges has been working as a sports anchor/reporter for CBS13 for about five years.

She, too, has covered all sports in the Sacramento region and NorCal. In my opinion, every kid in the United States has a dream of doing something when they become adults, Chase that dream and go after it. You’ll be rewarded.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter: @MBDavisSports.

From Page B1 so we want to strengthen the basics for the entire team so that once we talk about more conceptual things, our basics will already be there, and we can mostly focus on concepts especially during the season.”

For Hogan, coaching the younger players is a completely different responsibility as most freshmen have zero field hockey experience.

“For some kids, I’m introducing the sport to them, while others have played for clubs, but they’re all still new to the

sport in the last couple of months,” Hogan said.

As Fujisawa and Hogan help prepare the varsity and junior varsity teams for the upcoming season, they’re also looking for players who stand out among their teammates. This is especially true at the varsity level since eight members from last season’s team have graduated.

“We lost a core group of seniors so we’re working right now to figure out who’s going to fill those roles,” Hogan said.

“But at the same time, we still have a lot of sophomores, juniors and seniors that have some

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strong skills and have been working really hard in the offseason.”

One of the most notable returning players is senior forward Emma Brayton. Earning a spot on the AllDavis Enterprise Sports team, Brayton was the team’s No. 2 scorer as a junior with 20 goals, the 10th-best mark in the state according to MaxPreps. n To read the rest of the story, visit www. davis enterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

— Follow Henry Krueger on Twitter: @ henrykrveger.

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