The Davis Enterprise Sunday, July 17, 2022

enterprise THE DAVIS

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

Sour notes at DJUSD

By Aaron Geerts

Enterprise staff writer Staffing changes are taking place in the Davis Joint Unified School District’s renowned music program for the 2022-23 school year. While the district regards these changes as the best course of action, others feel they will be the catalyst for the program’s regression.

Last month the associate superintendent of instructional services, Rody Boonchouy, sent an email to the district’s orchestra parents and students informing them that the music programs of Harper Junior High and Emerson/ DaVinci Junior High schools will be led by one music teacher each.

Greg Brucker — who was the orchestra director at Emerson/DaVinci Junior High schools for more than a decade — will move to Harper Junior High, while Veronica Tonus — the band director of Emerson/ DaVinci for the past seven years — will be taking over all music classes at Emerson/DaVinci. And Clyde Quick — who’s been the Holmes band director since 2002 — will be filling in the choir role at Holmes.

The email also said the

Scooters, too

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Enterprise file photo

Longtime music teacher Angelo Moreno conducts the Holmes Jr. High Orchestra earlier this year. changes are being made to ensure the sustainability and coherence of the music program and that having a single instructor at each site is a more sustainable staffing model that will reduce the need for traveling teachers.

“This shift started with the transfer of junior high choral teacher, Arielle Deem (who transferred to Da Vinci High School),” Boonchouy said. “She had been teaching all sections of junior high school choral music across all three

junior high sites — an assignment that was challenging to say the least.

Following her transfer, the three junior high principals informed music staff of the vacancy and their concerns regarding the realities of filling a full-time choral music position this late in the year and in the midst of the state’s worst teacher shortage.

“Mr. Quick, Mr. Brucker and Ms. Tonus agreed to pick up the additional choral music sections and, in the case of Mr. Brucker and

Ax-throwing business gets city OK to serve beer

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Customers of Smart Axe in Davis may soon be able to enjoy a beer or two before throwing axes.

The Davis Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit on Wednesday allowing the business on Olive Drive to sell beer for onsite consumption. The state Department of Alcohol Beverage Control must still weigh in, but other Smart Axe locations in the region — including in Rancho Cordova, Folsom and Modesto — already serve alcohol and owner Doug Link said staff are

VOL. 124, NO. 85

Bike share may return to Davis

INDEX

Business ���������� A3 Forum ��������������B2 Op-Ed ��������������B3 Classifieds ������B4 Living ���������������� A4 Sports ��������������B1 Comics ������������B5 Obituary ����������B4 The Wary I �������� A2

well trained in safe serving and no issues have arisen.

“We’ve had no issues with ABC, we’ve had no citations,” Link told planning commissioners. “As a responsible business owner, that’s the last thing that we want, somebody being over served and handling axes. My staff is acutely aware of that situation.”

The Davis Police Department had no objection to beer consumption at Smart Axe, with Lt. James MacNiven providing a statement

See AX-THROWING, Page A5

WEATHER Today: Sunny and hot. High 99.

Low 61.

Ms. Tonus, shift to each teaching entirely at one site. This is a decision, for which there is a contractual process, and each of the three teachers essentially had first right of refusal to that choral FTE.” The music program includes the disciplines of choir, band and orchestra.

In the past, they’ve been taught by specialists in each respective discipline.

When the news of the changes reached the ears of

See MUSIC, Back page

Four years after a JUMP bike-share program debuted in Davis — and two years after JUMP ceased operations due to the pandemic — both electric-assist bikes and now scooters may soon return to the city.

The Davis City Council on Tuesday will consider approving a one-year pilot project that would bring a Lime bike- and scooter-share program to the city in September.

The Sacramento Area Council of Governments, which is the lead agency for regional bike-share programs, approved a one-year pilot project in Davis back in May. Lime is already operating in Sacramento and West Sacramento and the biggest difference in Davis, according to city staff, is Davis wants a higher ratio of bicycles to scooters, more affordable monthly passes, and shorter response time for resolving parking and accessibility issues.

Lime has agreed to those conditions and city staff are recommending approval of the pilot project.

The JUMP bike share program launched in Davis in May 2018 with more than 150 electricassist bicycles in the city and on campus.

While many residents embraced the program, complaints began coming into the city fairly quickly, primarily related to bikes being abandoned on sidewalks, bike paths, on the street and even in private yards.

The city ordinance permitting JUMP bikes back in 2018 had required the bikes be parked in bike racks, but “compliance was low, especially outside downtown where far fewer bicycle racks are available,” the staff report prepared for Tuesday’s council meeting noted.

Over Labor Day weekend in 2018, without city permission, scooter companies left scooters in Davis without seeking permits or a business license. Those companies

See SHARE, Page A2

$5M gift funds new med-school office

By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer Thanks to a $5 million gift from Sacramento businessman Jim Anderson, the UC Davis School of Medicine opened a new Office of Wellness Education on July 1, the campus announced this week in a news release.

“Thanks to the incredible generosity of Jim Anderson, we’re embarking on a transformative journey toward wellness at the UC Davis School of Medicine,” said David Lubarsky, CEO of UC Davis Health and vice chancellor for human health sciences. “The gift will enable us to be absolute gamechangers in this field, and positively impact society.”

Anderson is funding the initiative in honor of his late wife, JacANDERSON quelyn Honors late Anderson, wife with gift who died from cancer in March 2021. Jacquelyn was an artist and photographer who was passionate about health and wellness, according to the news release.

“Jackie had a way of making people feel better and everyone who met her walked away touched by her kindness,” Anderson said. “We’re establishing this initiative for the good

of humanity. It’s needed now more than ever.”

The Office of Wellness Education provides resources to the UC Davis Health community and the wider Sacramento community with the aim of preventing illness and helping people live longer and healthier lives. Anderson’s gift will also fund the Jacquelyn S. Anderson Endowed Chair in Wellness.

“This is an unprecedented step for our health system in fulfilling its promise to our patients and community to support the full dimension of their health, before they get sick,” said Scott Fishman, professor of anesthesiology and

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

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

See GIFT, Page A5

SUNDAY • $1.50

Local

A2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Briefly Two killed in I-5 collision A Friday morning collision in Woodland claimed the lives of two people, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A 2004 Dodge and a big-rig collided at about 6:30 a.m. on southbound Interstate 5 south of County Road 96, according to CHP Officer Rodney Fitzhugh.

“Sadly, there were two fatalities as a result of this collision,” Fitzhugh said.

The Yolo County coroner’s office had not released the male victims’ identities as of Friday afternoon. A CHP news release indicates both were from Redding.

“At this time, it is not believed alcohol or drugs are a factor in this collision,” Fitzhugh said.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Woodland CHP office at 530-662-4685.

Back Porchestra plays Thursday The Winters Friends of the Library summer concert series continues with a free outdoor concert by Back Porchestra from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at the Rotary Park Gazebo, on Main Street at Railroad Avenue, in front of the Community Center in Winters.

Get a preview of their music at backporches tra.com.

About us 2022 Member

California News Publishers Association

Certified Audit of Circulations

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

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

SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR CARRIER DELIVERY

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

MAILING ADDRESS Please send correspondence to The Davis Enterprise P.O. Box 1470 Davis, CA 95617-1470 or The Davis Enterprise 315 G Street Davis, CA 95616 HOME DELIVERY If you do not receive your Enterprise by 5 p.m. on Wednesdays or Fridays or 7 a.m. on Sundays, please call 530756-0826. Missed issues will be delivered on the next publishing day.

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

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

FAX

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

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

ON THE WEB www.davisenterprise.com Copyright 2022

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

Time for the stirring of the gas can O C nce again Our Man John is here to save the day. This time over the high cost of driving our cars instead of riding our bicycles.

Although gas prices have fallen a bit in the last month from Super Crazy per Gallon to just Crazy per Gallon, the decline has not been nearly enough to please our representative in Congress, John Garamendi.

Even though John will no longer represent our community come January of 2023, he took time out of his busy schedule to send me a quick note about what he’s doing to ease our pain at the pump. All I can say is it’s about time. I swear there were times in the last couple of months when the price of a gallon of regular went up 20 cents while I was pumping.

“Our state still leads the country in gas costs with record-setting prices,” he notes.

Fair enough, but our state also leads in state gas tax at nearly 54 cents a gallon. However, that’s not the only reason gas is more

hard evidence that it was.

expensive in California than most other places. The other reason is we’re willing to pay it.

Adds Garamendi, “While the American people pay more than ever at the pump, oil companies are reaping the benefits. Big Oil is taking advantage of the American people and making a killing doing so. Congress needs to stop gas price gouging to lower costs for working families across the country.”

Our Congressman included a chart in his email detailing that four major oil companies combined for profits of just over $30 billion in the first three months of 2022 alone, but he just lets us assume this was the result of price gouging without presenting any

ertainly looks like gouging to me, but I did not take Econ I-A during my undergraduate years at the University Farm along Russell Boulevard, so I can’t say for sure.

“Congress cannot wait any longer to reduce fuel costs for Americans,” our representative goes on.

“This is why I was proud to cosponsor and vote for the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act (H.R. 7688).”

I believe Gouging Prevention will be an Olympic Sport at the Summer Games in Paris in 2024, but it may have to wait until the L.A Games in 2028.

Garamendi notes that his legislation passed the House in May by a vote of 217-207, which makes me wonder how anyone could vote against gouging prevention. A wild guess here is that folks in red states are secretly — or not so secretly — gleeful to see deep-blue California leading the nation in the price of gas and are unwilling to relieve our pain.

“This legislation would prohibit companies from increasing fuel prices to unconscionably excessive levels during an energy emergency as declared by the president. The Federal Trade Commission would also be empowered to investigate and address price gouging by oil and gas companies with over $500 million in annual sales. This legislation would grant state authorities the enforcement powers to combat fuel price gouging violations through civil court action.

“Even as gas prices are falling, Congress must do everything in its power to lower costs for working families across America. I will continue to work with my colleagues to put a stop to Big Oil’s price gouging at the gas pump for Americans.”

Appreciate the sentiment, Congressman, even if the U.S. Supreme Court will no doubt one day declare your legislation unconscionable.

I mean unconstitutional.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Acme presents swashbuckling Council to hear options to fill Frerichs’ seat B A T -B ‘The Three Musketeers’ y

nne ernus

ellamy

Enterprise staff writer

Special to The Enterprise This summer, Acme Theatre Company presents Ken Ludwig’s “The Three Musketeers,” adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

This comedic, swashbuckling adventure begins in 1625, as d’Artagnan (Amanda Archer), leaves the behind his father (Ash Millar) and his mother (Desmond Beach) and sets off for Paris in search of adventure. Along with d’Artagnan goes his sister Sabine (Mara Nittner), who quickly becomes entangled in her brother’s exploits.

After reaching Paris, d’Artagnan interviews with Treville (Bridget Nagle) to become a musketeer and encounters Athos (Morgan HendrixChupa), Porthos (Wren Arellano-Calderon) and Aramis (Odoardo Lopez)

— the famous musketeers. D’Artagnan joins forces with his heroes, falls in love with the Queen’s Lady in Waiting, Constance Bonacieux (Analia Eisen and Kathleen Dolan), and is swiftly caught up in the politics of court.

Performances will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday from July 22 to Aug. 7 inside the airconditioned Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Old Davis Road beside the UC Davis arboretum. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $10 for Students & Seniors (65-plus) and Pay-What-You-Can for all Sunday matinees.

All audience members are required wear masks and show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or results of negative athome test within the last 72 hours

SHARE: Lime waited for students to return to campus From Page A1 were contacted and they removed their scooters and in October of that year, the City Council adopted an urgency ordinance prohibiting motorized-scooter share programs.

Nearly four years later, the council will reconsider.

Lime acquired the JUMP bike-share program from Uber in 2020 and entered an agreement with SACOG in 2020 bringing both bikes and scooters to West Sacramento and Sacramento.

According to city staff, Lime declined to come to Davis at that time because they wanted to wait for UC Davis students to return to the city; they did not want to provide a bike-shareonly program (which the city and UCD preferred); and they wanted the city and UC D to subsidize a bike-only fleet or allow a

mix of scooters and bicycles.

Under the terms of the agreement reached between SACOG and Lime for the city of Davis and UC Davis, the city can terminate the project at any time; the pilot will include 500 bikes and 300 scooters, all serviced by Lime; there will be a fee to use the bikes and scooters but there will be a low-income program as well; Lime will address improperly parked devi-ces within 90 minutes; Lime will not charge the city and will cover the cost of city staff time spent managing violations.

If approved by the council Tuesday, SACOG and Lime would launch the bike and scooter program here by Sept. 30.

City staff would then evaluate the pilot project and return to the council with findings in winter 2023.

The Davis City Council on Tuesday will get an update from staff on their options for filling an upcoming council vacancy.

Mayor Lucas Frerichs’s election to the Board of Supervisors in June will create that vacancy when he is sworn in to his new position Jan. 2. Frerichs represents District 3 on the City Council and the seat is not up for election again until November 2024.

According to the staff report prepared for Tuesday’s meeting, council members will have a couple of options.

First would be calling a special election, with the options being an all-mail election on May 2 or Aug.

29 of 2023 or an election complete with voter assistance centers and in-person voting options on Nov. 7, 2023.

Because the seat is not currently vacant, an election cannot be called for this November.

In either case, only residents of District 3, which encompasses much of central Davis, would be voting.

Another option is for the council to appoint someone to fill the vacancy.

The council would have to appoint a replacement within 60 days of the vacancy occurring, which would be no later than March 3.

Those interested in the appointment would fill out an application with the qualifications being that they are residents of

District 3; are 18 or older; are registered voters in the district and U.S. citizens.

During a special meeting, council members would question candidates and narrow the field with five rounds of voting until a finalist is left.

Alternatively, according to city staff, the council can appoint someone to fill the term only until an election is held.

Among the factors council members will likely consider will be the cost of a special election — estimated by staff at between $80,000 and $130,000, paid for out of the city’s General Fund — and timing.

On Tuesday, the council is expected to consider the options presented and get questions answered by city staff, but not take action.

Business

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 A3

Local Kitchens enters orbit in Pluto’s old spot

T

he micro food hall Local Kitchens will open on Thursday, July 21, in Davis Commons.

It fills the former Pluto’s space at 500 First St. Plans are to offer eight to 10 restaurant brands in one space, but launch with five.

It announced those five a couple of months ago, but the list was since revised. It will open with Garden of Eat’n (salads, wraps and sandwiches), The Melt (burgers and grilled-cheese sandwiches), Nash and Proper (chicken sandwiches), Humphry Slocombe (ice cream), and Oren’s Hummus (falafel, kabobs). Garden of Eat’n and Humphry Slocombe replaced the previously announced Señor Sisig (Filipino, Asian fusion), and Sushirrito (Asian wraps and bowls). A spokeswoman said deals have not been reached with additional brands.

The Melt had its own restaurant in Davis Commons from 2013 to 2015. Back then, it specialized in grilled cheese. The new concept has a lot of burger variations too.

Local Kitchens boosts foodtruck style businesses by providing them with a brick-and-mortar location — alongside other eateries — all in one space. Other brands the Bay Area company partners with are: Asian Box (build-your-own Asian bowls), Curry Up Now (Indian, burritos), The Lumpia Company (Filipino spring rolls), The Plant (organic plant-based bowls), Proposition Chicken (fried, rotisserie or vegetarian “chicken” entrees, sandwiches and salads), Rooster & Rice (Thai chicken and rice bowls), Sajj (Mediterranean bowls and plates), and Wise Sons (sandwiches, soups, sides). New, recently added partners are: The Chairman (steamed, baked Asian buns filled like a taco), Dumpling Time (dumplings and bao), Lazy Susan (Chinese), and Tacolicious (tacos and salads).

Hours will be 11 a.m. to midnight every day. The spokeswoman said the Davis eatery will host a grand opening sometime in late July.

———— The restaurant filling the de Vere’s Irish Pub space finally has a name: Bull ‘N Mouth.

Brandon Keith, company president for World Famous Fare, said “Bull ‘N Mouth is the resurrection of a restaurant created by Grand American Fare, which, during its operations, built restaurants across the country. Locally, it built Fanny Ann’s in Old Sacramento (est.

1972) and Madison Bear Garden in Chico (est. 1977).”

World Famous Fare took over Grand American Fare in 1992.

There was a Bull & Mouth (with ampersand) on the UC Riverside campus that reportedly closed around then.

“Since 1992, we have been the stewards of these two institutions as well as six various concepts throughout Northern California and Northern Nevada,” Keith said. “We had all of the hand-drawn logos and artwork in our archives.”

He said the logo features cattle, which ties into the agricultural heritage of Davis and UC Davis.

“We see Bull ‘N Mouth as a modern American pub with locally sourced ground beef, flavorful and creative salads, and eclectic sandwiches and vegetarian dishes. It is our goal to open in September, and we are extremely excited at the opportunity to be a part of the community, as we are with all of our

Progressive Business Exchange meets July 20 Special to The Enterprise The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet from noon to 1 p.m.

Wednesday, July 20, at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in Davis.

Judy Reynolds will talk about the latest FDA lowsodium diet guidelines for those that suffer from high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

This will be followed by another 20-minute

program presented by the Town and Gown Toastmasters. The program will tell about the history of the Toastmasters International and how the organization promotes the art of public speaking.

The public is invited to these free speaking events. Contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-2191896 or e-mail G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@ dcn.org for information.

businesses.”

Besides the well-known burger joints in Chico and Old Sacramento, World Famous Fare also owns Mom’s Restaurant in Chico (known for its breakfasts), and four restaurants in Nevada: Red’s Old 395 Grill in Carson City, Red’s Bar & Grill in Fernley, Red’s Golden Eagle Grill in Sparks, and Little Waldorf Saloon in Reno.

The 4,800-square-foot Davis restaurant space is at 217 E St. When it opens, approximate hours will be 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. or midnight, with some breakfast hours on the weekends.

———— Sudwerk Brewing Co. is closing its kitchen after Sunday ­— a temporary move while it begins renovations on its long-awaited restaurant.

In an email Thursday to patrons, the brewery emphasized that its taproom remains open. It will return to hosting food trucks and local pop-up vendors for a few months. A schedule of food trucks will be included in its future emails and social media posts.

“We’re sorry for any shortterm inconvenience this may cause,” the email said, “but we’re excited to finally begin renovations to bring the complete Sudwerk experience to the next level. Stay tuned here and on social media for ongoing property renovation updates.”

The brewery, at 2001 Second St., has plans for a modern beer garden (the fenced patio that faces Second Street), and a barbecue restaurant with vegetarian and vegan options. The owners hope to have it open by November.

——— Tea List, the tea room at 222 D St., plans to close temporarily for renovations. The closure is planned July 20 through Aug. 24.

——— Nearby at Cloud Forest Cafe,

in the same building at 222 D St., it’s a similar story. It closed on July 11 and will remain so through from July 31. A note on its website said the closure is for “equipment upgrade and operation improvement.” Normal hours will resume on Monday Aug. 1.

———— The former owner of Casablanca Restaurant recently started a food truck. Sahara Kebab offers Mediterranean food. It’s mainly parked at 2002 Lyndell Terrace, next to the Davis 1 Stop 76 gas station.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Casablanca Restaurant remains open at 640 W. Covell Blvd. It’s operated by family members of former owner Othmane Moutaib.

———— ­­­While Davis lost its BurgerIM in late 2021, the owners of the Dixon one are hanging on ­— and regrouping.

Diane Long owns the restaurant with her sons Mathew and Ryan. Diane retired from nursing in 2019. Matthew didn’t want to go to college, and used his college funds to start the business with his mom. After lots of hurdles with permitting, loans and lack of support from the brand, it opened in April 2020, shortly before Solano County’s shelter-in-place order.

It’s been a struggle since.

This February, the U.S. attorney general filed a lawsuit against the BurgerIM chain and its owner Oren Loni, citing Federal Trade Commission Act violations. Loni had already fled to Israel, according to Wikipedia and confirmed by Long.

“He’s a thief,” Long said. “He took all of our franchise fees and left us high and dry.” For example, she said they were supposed to be provided with trainers, but there was no such support.

The family considered lots of options, including rebranding, but all required more funds than

they had. So last month, Long announced the Dixon restaurant would close by June 30. But three days before closing, a loyal customer offered to invest. Long said the backer wished to remain anonymous.

It plans a grand opening at 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5. Its new name, effective Aug. 3, is Wings N Things. The event will include music from 6 to 10 p.m., as well as children’s activities.

Wings N Things will still offer the top-sellers from its BurgerIM menu, including beef and lamb burgers, chicken sandwiches, shakes and fries. But its focus will be on wings, with 12 sauces. There isn’t a wing place in Dixon, Long said.

The family still retains rights to the BurgerIM name and recipes, but starting Aug. 3, the eatery will slim down that part of the menu, and remove any references to the beleaguered burger brand. It already started selling the wings.

Current hours are noon to 8 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. After Aug. 3, hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and 11 to 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

The eatery is at 115 E Dorset Drive, Suite E. The Davis BurgerIM was at 206 E St., now replaced by Nick the Greek.

———— I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses affected by COVID-19, as well as ones on the way. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. 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.

Edward Jones financial advisors rate firm highest in J.D.P. study Special to The Enterprise For the 13th time, financial-services firm Edward Jones has been ranked highest in the employee advisor segment of the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.

Based on responses from Edward Jones financial advisors, the firm earned an overall score of 876 points out of 1,000. This compared to the average score of 745 among the seven employee advisor firms.

“Our firm is built on relationships and we invest deeply in them,” said Ken Cella, head of Branch Development at Edward Jones. “Our nearly 19,000 financial advisors are human-centered in their approach and in more communities than anyone in our industry. These unique differentiators enable them to serve, guided by our purpose,

values and mindsets that are the hallmarks of our first century in business.

As our stakeholders change in unprecedented ways: what they need, what they value, and what it will take to help them achieve financially what is most important. We’ll continue to offer our financial advisors flexibility, choice and support to serve their clients and their communities.”

Celebrating its Centennial in 2022, Edward Jones is accelerating its journey and aspiration to deliver human-centered complete wealth management to its current and future clients.

Living

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 A4

I’m about to get my Ph.D. in travel-agenting

I

like planning trips. Or, I should say, I used to like planning trips.

I’ve alway found it entertaining to read reviews of places and search for activities that will suit the group I’m traveling with.

And I especially enjoy looking for hotels that are in the perfect spots for our adventures.

As for flights, I am persnickety about finding nonstops at times I prefer. Duh, who doesn’t? But my capacity to keep looking for a perfect flight is a bottomless well. And what this means is I do it all online because I’m not comfortable asking an airline representative to help me keep searching ad infinitum. “OK, that sounds pretty good, but will you just look 12 more times to make sure there isn’t a better one.” To my credit, I try to keep my annoying traits from spilling over onto others.

However, the necessary cancelations of the COVID state we’ve all been in for these past, what, 230 years or so, has become tedious. Note: As I should probably say with almost every column I write, I completely recognize that these are

not big problems in the grand scheme of things. But I reckon they’re relatable.

Like most families, we’ve had to reschedule or cancel a handful of trips since March of 2020.

The first was a splurge of an April ski trip in Utah for husband, S, and sons, D and T. I’d chosen a ski resort that had a lot of very steep slopes for the kids, and a nice après ski village for restaurants, bars and shops. This was a period of much grace from the travel industry because the pandemic had just closed everything down and nobody was going anywhere.

Thus, it was a very easy transaction, minus waiting on hold for literally hours to get refunds for our four flights.

(Remember that early-pandemic chaos of 12-hour holds with airlines?) The hotel was especially easy to handle because

I just canceled online.

The next trip to fall was a Vegas excursion for the family’s two most recent 21 year olds, our son, T, and nephew, C. The trip was planned for post-vaccines, with the (Foolish! Delusional!

Ridiculous!) belief that the world would be normal again.

The planning for this group of about 30 from my side of the family was next-level complicated. We had people coming in from Hawaii, Arizona, Oregon, Southern and Northern California, and the ringleading to find accommodations that everyone agreed to and try to time trips and activities to please the masses? Lordy. Frommer’s could have learned some tips from me.

Alas, the cancellation left me with six airfare vouchers from three different airlines due to expire next month. Again, hotel was easy to extract ourselves from, cost-free. Our drag brunch tickets have expired now.

As I touched on in an earlier column, the River City Rowing Club’s trip to the Northwest Masters regatta in Vancouver, Wash. was cancelled in June due to E. coli contamination in the

lake. My travel group of nine had reserved an Airbnb, and it was up to the home’s owner on whether we’d receive a refund.

We were graciously given back half our money, while others from RCRC got nothing. Not blaming, just explaining.

And finally, this week we canceled a Colorado family reunion that is happening as I write this.

The day before my contingent left for the trip, one of the youngins who had already arrived at the big, shared house, tested positive for COVID. The six in my group were coming from four different airports/ airlines, so the time spent online and with customer service for airlines was a lot. Having six more airfare vouchers honestly feels kind of burdensome. Canceling the car was painless, thankfully, and the people who were already at the house in Colorado stayed or left as they felt comfortable, so the house is being used.

I have been puzzling over solutions for literally years now and haven’t come up with any. Do we stop trying to go places for a while? Does it help to recognize

that the cost of travel right now — monetarily and emotionally — is distressingly high?

Maybe this is simply a miseryloves-company column. S and I did not take a 30th wedding anniversary trip last year because of so many uncertainties, and we still haven’t planned one. I also haven’t planned a make-up trip for Vegas for the now 22- and 23-year-olds. Many of you have had cancellations these past 28 months that amount to much bigger milestones. I’m sorry for us all.

If I had one wish, though, it would be that airline refunds were applied to a family account rather than tied to each individual. Managing six people’s credits on different airlines requires a Ph.D. in travel agent-ing. I’d estimate that I’m all-but-dissertation on mine, but maybe I can find a major professor to consider this column as the culmination of all my hard work.

— 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.

Reconciling California’s history with access to care Special to The Enterprise

YoloCares

wo years ago, YoloCares was awarded a grant from the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation to research, explore, and address the barriers to care for indigenous and rural populations.

This undertaking, named The Life Transitions Project, resulted in hundreds of hours devoted to outreach, focus groups, workshops, surveys, research, and the development of a local advisory board. The findings have ranged from obvious to unexpected ... and even tragic.

One of the unexpected and most heartbreaking discoveries is tied to a historic invisibility and silencing of a people, their culture and their needs.

This issue of invisibility was seeded by California’s systematic slaughter of Native Americans throughout the 1800s. Benjamin Madley, UCLA professor and historian of Native America, estimates that between 9,000 and 16,000 Indigenous Californians were killed by vigilantes, state militiamen and federal soldiers between 1846 and 1873.

The killings have been referred to as an organized destruction of the State’s largely peaceful indigenous peoples. The accounts have been documented in Madley’s first book, “An American Genocide,” published

by Yale University Press.

Just 90 miles from Davis, in Lake County, the United States Army participated in the 1849 mass killing of 800 members of the Pomo tribe on land now known as Bloody Island. Capitol Hill was complicit in the Bloody Island massacre and in many other mass killings throughout the goldfields of the Sierra Nevada. At the time, California’s head of

Indian Affairs reported, "The killing of Indians is a daily occurrence. If some means be not speedily devised, by which the unauthorized expeditions that are constantly out in search of them can be restrained, they will soon be exterminated."

Beliefs tied to racial superiority were used to justify the killing; greed fueled a sense of urgency.

Just two years after the discovery of gold, California became a state in 1850 ... the decade when the slaughter of indigenous people reached a pinnacle.

Many of the goldfields lay in the ancestral lands of tribes.

It was a widely held belief in 19th century California that all Native Americans needed to be exterminated. According to a San Francisco newspaper, “Whites are becoming impressed with the belief that it will be absolutely necessary to exterminate the savages before they can labor much longer in the gold mines with security.”

In exchange for 2,000 Indian scalps, one of the killers sent a bill to California for $11,143. The state paid it nearly in full. California spent $1.5 million on 24 different Indian-killing militia campaigns between 1850 and 1861. Congress paid the state back all but $200,000.

A young Pomo girl who survived the Bloody Island massacre said she escaped certain death by hiding below the surface of Clear Lake and using the reeds that grow along the shore as breathing tubes. When she surfaced, she saw that her entire family had been killed. Survivors of these brutal events quickly learned that future survival

By Craig Dresang

T

UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal of the department of molecular and cellular biology and a former chair of the Department of Entomology, was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors at a June ceremony in Phoenix, Ariz.

A leading global scientist and inventor in the field of insect olfaction and communication, Leal was elected an NAI Fellow in 2019 for his impact in the fields of molecular, cellular biology, and entomology, but due to the COVID

Name Droppers pandemic, the organization cancelled the 2020 Phoenix ceremony. Travel restrictions prevented him from

■ Pain and death must be addressed in ways that are mentally and spiritually healing. American healthcare tends to first zero-in on a person’s medical condition and physical symptoms at the onset of care.

Research is suggesting that many rural and indigenous people would benefit from having their spiritual and mental health tended to before introducing the technical or clinical aspect of care.

In hospice, when a patient is admitted, a nurse is likely the first person someone will see. However, findings indicate that for some individuals it may be more meaningful to schedule a first visit with a chaplain or spiritual care counselor who accompanies a nurse.

■ Non-tribal medical professionals need help navigating language barriers, cultural beliefs around discussing death, appropriate behaviors regarding home visits and touch, and community presence in the home where family and friends are part of the care team.

■ There are a number of practical barriers to care

NAI singles out outstanding inventors for their “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.” Election to NAI

Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The NAI Fellow program has 1,403 fellows worldwide representing more than 250 prestigious universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes.

“I attended with my wife, Beatriz, and daughter Helena and son Gabriel – both have co-authored papers in the lab, so they represent all visiting scholars, collaborators, postdocs, project scientists, graduate students, and undergraduate students in my lab,” Leal said.

Courtesy graphic

Non-dominant ethnic groups are not benefiting from hospice and palliative care, although they have a much higher need for the services. would mean keeping a low profile or becoming completely invisible.

For many, this notion of staying quiet, removed and obscure has been passed on from generation to generation. There is a deep and understandable sense of distrust that has existed for nearly two centuries. This unrecognized and unresolved history has morphed into barriers that keep some Native American families from accessing care from what are perceived as predominantly white healthcare systems and organizations.

According to Aliya Patel and Brandy Jones, the YoloCares research coordinators managing the Life Transitions Project, “There can be a reluctance to accepting communitybased support and a wariness of strangers coming into the home to provide care.”

Patel said the project’s findings have also made clear that providing culturally sensitive care to Native American families is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Traditions and experiences vary widely across tribes, throughout families

UCD prof honored nationally Enterprise staff

and within and across regions. Individuals may subscribe to all, some, or none of these beliefs and values.

Other findings: ■ Beliefs about death are sacred and personal, involving different customs, traditions, and religions. While many Americans perceive death as something to be avoided and a final end, many Native American families view death as a natural occurrence within life ... something to be accepted rather than feared. Rather than disconnecting with the dead, Native American peoples continue to have a relationship with them.

From the Native American perspective, death is not a defeat. There is no central set of rules or beliefs and historically, spiritual teachings were never written down, only passed on from generation to generation. Native American beliefs are deeply rooted in their cultures and histories, and in spirituality. Native American death rituals are widely varied according to different tribal traditions, though they may share some common beliefs.

including a lack of knowledge regarding the services that are available, a lack of insurance, and difficulty with transportation.

Although California’s Native American population fell dramatically, from 150,000 to 30,000 in the middle decades of the 19th century, it has since rebounded. California now has the largest Native population in the United States with approximately 723,000 Native Americans, including many who belong to the State’s 110 Federally recognized tribes.

The Life Transitions Project aims to create clarity and understanding around cultural, economic, social and other critical barriers to end-of-life and palliative care services. The next phase of work will include exploring potential solutions to overcome barriers and building community partnerships that will help combat historic disparities. Additional work will also be done to learn more about the specific needs of target communities.

Many rural patients living with a life-limiting illness continue to suffer from untreated or undertreated pain, stress and symptoms that could be relieved by better access to palliative care. Only 22 of California’s 58 counties have a community-based palliative care program. A planned outcome of the Life Transitions Project is to develop a model that can be replicated across the five counties served by YoloCares. According to Stephanie Baxter, director of patient care, “This work reflects the agency’s commitment to developing culturally competent clinical practices.”

— Craig Dresang is the CEO of YoloCares.

attending the 2021 ceremony in Tampa, Fla. Elected Fellows are required to attend the induction ceremony within two years of election in order to receive their award.

From Page One

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

AX-THROWING: ‘Not a bar by any stretch’ From Page A1 that “there are no issues for the police department pertaining to (the permit).”

Link stressed to planning commissioners that Smart Axe is “not a bar by any stretch of the imagination.

It’s not a destination where people will come to sit and have drinks.

“It’s simply part of our business plan moving forward and being successful, getting that revenue from an average of one to one and a half beers per customer when they come in to enjoy some ax throwing.”

Link added that the standard ax throwing time is about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes and given the small size of the venue (the smallest of the Smart Axe locations), “it’s really not designed for people to sit around and consume alcoholic beverages.”

Planning commissioners were supportive of the plan, though one suggested limiting the number of beers that could be consumed onsite.

Commissioner Georgina Valencia said, “we have a lot

Courtesy photo

The Davis Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit to let the Smart Axe ax-throwing gallery to sell beer. of college students in this town and, frankly, they can really tie one on. And I would be really concerned about some young person looking like they’re stonecold sober but they had just downed 10 beers and they’re throwing axes and they’ve gotten a little excited about things and something gets out of hand.

“And so I think … maybe a beer limit should be something we consider …”

Commissioner Emily

Shandy, however, said she would not support “a qualitative cap on the number of beers a person can drink."

“It is a subjective thing that one beer for one person may put them over a limit to where they’re unsafe throwing an axe and for another person they may be able to drink two or three beers and still be able to throw axes without causing a safety issue,” Shandy said.

“My concern is putting a cap on and having it be a firm number rule, then everyone is entitled to three beers before they can throw axes … that starts to feel less productive than making use of the staff observing and making those safety judgements, interacting directly with people.”

Commissioner Michelle Weiss agreed, saying putting a limit on the number of beers allowed per customer “means that staff would then have to be spending their time going…

‘How do I keep track if you’ve had one beer, two beers, three beers?’ You’re trying to do all of that rather than really observing and

helping people, making sure they’re safe, all that kind of thing. I think it’s an administrative burden.”

In the end, commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the conditional use permit without a limit on beers served, but with added conditions that a written protocol be provided for staff in terms of overserving beer in the context of ax throwing and having the city periodically check in to make sure that protocol is being followed.

Smart Axe in Davis features seven ax-throwing bins (essentially threesided cages), 16 feet deep with a target at the end.

Hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 3 to 10:15 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 10:15 p.m.

Learn more at https:// www.thesmartaxe.com/ davis-axe-throwing.

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 A5

GIFT: Office will help integrate wellness curriculum for school From Page A1 pain medicine and director of the Center for Advancing Pain Relief.

Fishman is leading the office and is set to serve as the inaugural chairholder.

The office will integrate a wellness curriculum for medical students and faculty and provide resources for patients and community members. It will focus not only on physical health but on comprehensive wellness, including emotional, societal, environmental and global concerns.

“We’re addressing the urgent need that people have for reliable, scienceand consensus-based information to make decisions about their health and lifestyle,” Fishman said.

Lubarsky emphasized

the center’s mission to improve not just people’s lifespans but also their quality of life. “This heightened focus in wellness research, teaching and outreach will strengthen our efforts to enhance lives before health issues arise, increasing a person’s health-span as well as their lifespan,” he said.

A. Elise Bryant, manager of the School of Medicine Dean’s office, has been named the office’s program director.

“We're going to focus on the things within the control of the average person,” Bryant said.

Resources offered through the office will include live and virtual programs, lectures and podcasts. There will be an emphasis on community education.

A6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

From Page One

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

MUSIC: Boonchouy stands by plan to revamp music-teaching duties From Page A1 Holmes and Davis High School orchestra director Angelo Moreno, it did not go over well.

He voiced his umbrage online stating, “The Davis School District has made plans to move the music program backwards 25 years to a time when band and choir teachers were assigned to teach the orchestra program.”

During the public comment section of the June 16 DJUSD board meeting, numerous parents and students mirrored Moreno’s sentiment that the integrity of the music program is maintained by specialists teaching within their area of expertise.

“I call it trombone players trying to teach violinists how to play,” Moreno told The Enterprise. “But what the general public doesn’t understand is just because you’re certified to teach music in the state of California, doesn’t mean you’re knowledgeable of every area and discipline of music. I have zero experience in band and minimal

in choir. So, in Brucker’s case he has zero experience in band or choir, he’s never taught either of those disciplines and he’s being reassigned to be the Harper band director and choral director.

“He’s also the only other string specialist on the secondary level, and his Emerson orchestra program’s been taken from him.

Rody’s letter is full of lies. All the music teachers were never brought into a room collectively to ask questions, offer solutions, figure out why this is happening and give their concerns. They did this behind closed doors, one-on-one, one-on-two and one-on-three.

They did it quietly and quickly and I totally felt blindsided and didn’t see it coming.”

In light of the impending staffing changes, the musical matriarch of the program from 1967 to 2000, Margaret Neu, also shared discontent.

“A major change like this coming out the last week of school to the teachers and community tells me there wasn’t adequate preparation

working for the teachers as a collective group,” Neu said. “In my experience, this never would have been handled this way. It would have started a long time ago with meetings and bringing in people from outside the district to figure out ways to cope and would have been administrator-led. In my day, these wouldn’t be strong enough reasons to make a radical change to the scheduling of the teachers.”

According to Boonchouy, however, it was Quick, Brucker and Tonus who volunteered to help address this staffing issue and were the ones who came up with the concept. Boonchouy also states in the email sent out to parents and students that the changes were discussed amongst junior high music teachers prior to district approval, and that all staff affected were informed of the decision.

Brucker also shined light on his experience. For him, there was an open conversation between himself, Quick, Tonus and the district to come up with pragmatic

solutions to this multi-layered issue including not just filling the choral roles at three different sites, but the lowering enrollment of students in the music classes themselves, increasing inclusivity and opportunity for students keen on learning/playing music and the overall sustainability of the program.

In a heartfelt social post to friends and family informing them of the changes — which include his departure from his beloved orchestra program at Emerson/DaVinci — he expresses sorrow but also hope that these changes are the best way forward for the music program.

“We were in a tough corner, and we made the decision the morning of our spring concert,” Brucker said. “Even though I’m walking away from my baby over the past ten years, I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t trust the people taking it over and if I thought it wasn’t going to lead to something positive in the long run.”

Regardless, Moreno’s frustration

remains unplacated. He maintains that the district lacks in transparency and collaboration in its actions, and furthering his discontent was the meeting in which Quick informed him of the upcoming changes.

“Clyde Quick told me when we were in a meeting that he’d be the bearer of bad news, that he knew everybody was going to be upset and that he was sorry he was going to tell us what he was going to tell us,” said Moreno. “So, why would I feel that way if I were one of the architects of the plan?”

Meanwhile, Boonchouy remains committed to the staffing changes and addresses two issues he sees surrounding the matter.

“The first is the misinformation spread about why changes to Mr. Quick, Mr. Brucker and Ms. Tonus’s assignments are occurring,” Boonchouy said. “The second is the concern that the orchestral music program will ‘regress’ or will be ‘degraded.’ From my perspective, these concerns are unfounded.”

sports THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE — SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

B Section

Forum Op-ed Living Comics

B2 B3 B4 B5

Play golf to raise money for Aggie football

U

C Davis football fans who like to play golf and raise money for a good cause will be pleased to know that the date for the 6th annual Phil Wells Memorial Golf Tournament is set for Monday, Sept. 12, at the stunning Moraga Country Club.

Money raised at the tournament goes to an endowment that provides UC Davis scholarship support for a football player who is a leader on and off the field and, like Phil Wells, exhibits the love of the game and for life.

The popular tourney concludes with a buffet dinner and includes prizes for longest drive, closest to the pin and a hole-in-one.

There is also a dinner-only

option for those who will not be able to attend the tournament.

For those unfamiliar with UC Davis football lore, Wells was one of those guys who exemplified what has become known as Aggie Pride. Sadly, he died just over seven years ago at the age of 63 after a courageous battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.

He is fondly remembered by his teammates and the thousands of Aggie fans who followed his stellar career.

As I noted in this space after his death in 2015, Wells was one of those key players who helped kick-start the Aggie dynasty under Jim Sochor in the old Far Western Conference.

Phil was a three-year letterman (1972-74) and an All-American who participated on three consecutive conference championship teams that compiled a 14-1 FWC record.

Said Bob Foster, UCD’s defensive guru at the time who later went on to serve as head coach, “Phil was what you’d call a con-

Water Polo

Kandace Waldthaler has been selected as the Coach Jamey Wright and Hodgens Family Director of Women’s Water Polo at UC Davis, Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca announced Thursday.

“Kandace has been an instrumental part of our women’s water polo program here at UC Davis and we are excited to see her build upon Coach (Jamey) Wright’s legacy,” DeLuca said, while thanking Senior Associate Athletic Director Josh Flushman for leading the search and advisory committee. “As an emerging leader within the national program and with strong support from our alumnae, we’re excited to see the Aggies excel under her leadership.”

Waldthaler succeeds Wright after serving on his staff for the past 12 seasons, the first seven as an assistant coach and the last five as associate head coach.

She has been instrumental in cementing the inclusive and highperformance culture the program has enjoyed under Wright.

Most recently, Waldthaler joined the national team staff as an assistant coach for the Senior National “B” Team.

“I am super excited and honored to be the next head coach of the UC Davis Women’s Water Polo program,” Waldthaler said. “I have enjoyed coaching at UC Davis the past 12 years, and I am thrilled to continue to elevate and build on the legacy of Jamey Wright’s 25 years with the program. I want to thank Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca and Senior Associate Athletic Director Josh Flushman for the opportunity to lead this program.”

The Aggies have enjoyed eight winning seasons, 19 ACWPC AllAmerica recognitions, and 41 All-Big West honors during Waldthaler’s time at UCD. The team has seen multiple ACWPA AllAcademic honorees in every year of her tenure, including eight or more five times (2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021) with two team (2012, 2018) awards.

Waldthaler was previously a four-year assistant at Indiana, where she also received her undergraduate degree in exercise science and her master’s in applied sports science in 2009.

Her ties to UCD began before her return as an assistant coach in 2010 though. Waldthaler served as a coach at Sierra Water Polo Club in 2004 and then with Davis Water Polo Club in 2005, the latter solidifying her ties to Aggie greats like Wright and Steve Doten.

As a player, Waldthaler earned JC All-America honors and a conference MVP award at Sierra College in Rocklin before beginning her two-year career at Indiana.

She was an AllAmerican in 2005 with the Hoosiers and earned American Water Polo Coaches Association AllAcademic Superior accolades both her years in Bloomington.

As a senior, Waldthaler led the Hoosiers with 55 goals, 55 drawn exclusions, five four-meter penalty shots and nine hat tricks to capture AWPCA All-America third-team distinction.

In January 2011, Waldthaler was inducted into the Sierra College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Wright spoke highly of Waldthaler.

“I am excited to see Kandace Waldthaler become the new Head Coach of the UC Davis women’s water polo program.,” Wright said.

“Her knowledge of the players, the alums, the department and the institution are second to none.

Her experience as an associate head coach in the Big West since the sport’s inception into the conference provides the Aggies with a great foundation upon which to build.”

Fresno State head coach Natalie Benson, who is a current national team staff member, added: “Kandace has been committed to the UC Davis program for the past decade, and I am excited to see her move into the position of head coach for the Aggies.”

Wells. “He was always all about the team. On the field he was very smart, tenacious and aggressive.

And off the field, he was just a wonderful young man.”

Noted tournament chairman and Wells teammate John Silverfoote, himself an Aggie superstar, team captain and all-conference performer, “As always, we greatly appreciate donations of all types: auction items, hole sponsorships and monetary donations.” n To sign up for the tournament, contact Silverfoote at Foot24@comcast.net or call 925360-8319.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Cross Country

Waldthalter named new UCD women’s head coach Enterprise staff

tradiction. He was one of those top notch guys, so nice, gentle, positive and kind. Just a great, great kid. But put him on a football field and look out.”

Indeed, Wells was a force to be reckoned with behind that disarming smile. A first-team allFar Western Conference selection, FWC Defensive Player of the Year and team captain in 1974, Wells shared the Most Valuable and Inspirational Player Award with tight end Rick Fortner.

Wells was later honored with the Colby E. “Babe” Slater Award as the UC Davis male athlete of the year for all sports.

“He was the kind of guy you loved to coach,” said Foster of

Rachel Kreager/Enterprise photo

Davis High cross-country head coach Bill Gregg talks to the team before an optional summer workout at UC Davis’ track on Thursday. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

Blue Devils will have lots of depth

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent When a program graduates a runner like former Zachary Ayers, expectations are typically lower for the following season.

Just don’t tell that to Davis High crosscountry head coach Bill Gregg.

“The boys’ team at the varsity level is going to be significantly better than last year,” Gregg said. “We’re going to have a lot of depth.

More depth than we had during the 2021 crosscountry season.”

That’s high praise for a team coming off a second-place finish at last year’s CIF SacJoaquin Section Championship and a 10th-best showing at the California Interscholastic Federation State Championships. Ayers led the Blue Devils in both races.

However, Gregg’s optimism isn’t unwarranted.

Since becoming the Davis coach in 1997, Gregg has consistently churned out top-level runners, which has kept the program competitive year in and year out.

This year appears no different as the boys’ team returns several elite runners, most notably senior Ryan Mitchell and junior Connor Cougevan.

Mitchell and Cougevan finished third and 11th

See DEPTH, Page B6

Rachel Kreager/Enterprise photos

At top, Blue Devil runners (left to right) Norah Dulaney, Corinne DeJong, who is a former Blue Devil runner and Abby Carroll get in a warm-up at the start of Thursday’s practice. Below, Yuma Kano and Jackson Friend (second and final to right) run with two Davis teammates.

Forum

B2 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Commentary

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

If you want to get climateserious, get nuclear-serious

By Llewellyn King Special to The Enterprise

I

f you have gasped in Dallas, sweltered in London or baked in Tokyo this summer, you will likely believe that global warming is real.

You are also likely to believe that governments — at least the caring ones — are desperate to cut the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from power plants and vehicles.

More electricity is needed to cut the greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, trucks, buses, trains and, eventually, aircraft. The government figures that U.S. electricity demand will double by 2050, even as the fuels producing it change.

There are three technologies for producing new large quantities of electricity without producing greenhouse gases: wind, solar and nuclear.

Leading global energy institutions, including the International Energy Agency, are adamant that nuclear must be part of the future energy mix.

It isn’t dependent on foreign supply except for some heavy components, like the castings for large pressure vessels. If needed in newer reactors, these can be acquired from reliable allies, including South Korea and Japan. Alternatively, we could reinvigorate our large component industry.

When it comes to the supply chain, nuclear component manufacture can be brought on shore. It doesn’t have a Chinese component.

Wind is dependent on rare earths — they are a multiplier in wind turbines, increasing output up to five times. More than 90 percent of rare earths are processed in China, even if they are mined elsewhere. It will take precious decades to replicate the Chinese rare earths infrastructure.

Nuclear offers long-term planning: The design life of a plant can be as long as 100 years. These plants are clean, safe — and getting safer. They have a high energy density and low land use, which contrast with solar and wind.

Incredibly, the world, outside of China and Russia, seems to have lost the ability to build nuclear plants. It is as though talent and institutional knowledge have disappeared. Those under construction are running many times over their projected costs and a decade or more behind schedule.

They represent a systemic industrial failure, whether it is Plant Vogtle in Georgia, Flamanville-3 in France (which gets 70 percent of its electricity from nuclear; we get 19 percent), or Olkiluoto 3 in Finland.

At the heart of these failures — complex and far-reaching — is a failure of welds and a shortage of welders.

As a first step, the United States, in conjunction with the nuclear manufacturing industry, needs to find out what it is that we have lost in expertise and how to recapture it. We built more than 100 reactors in the 1960s and 1970s. There were some delays back then, but they were nothing like the catastrophic ones of today. Particularly, examining what has gone wrong with nuclear building needs to concentrate on welding. Is this an old trade that needs updating? Can we fix some of the human error that has plagued big industrial welding, from nuclear plants to new ships, through automation and AI? Not since the 1960s, I am told by nuclear lobbyists, has the public policy apparatus been so aligned to favor nuclear.

The issue, to my mind, is not whether we can relearn how to do what we used to do but that there is no mechanism for the utilities to buy and build nuclear plants.

Nuclear needs government safety oversight, proliferation safeguards and approval that a tranche of reactors be built on government sites, financed by the government and sold to commercial consortia to operate.

These needn’t necessarily be utility companies. Wind and solar are being developed by merchant companies in many cases.

There is a national climate crisis, and a national electricity crisis is building. Utilities are having to produce more electricity while giving up coal and gas to do it.

Nuclear is the strong third leg of the future electricity stool.

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

What should state’s future look like?

W

hen UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies conducted one of its periodic polls of California voters early this year, it discovered that just 36% of them believed that the state is “moving in the right direction” while 54% had a negative view.

The positive feelings about the state had declined by 10 percentage points from a previous poll just seven months earlier and were the lowest recorded in a decade.

OK, so Californians are generally unhappy about the state’s direction, meaning they are sour on its future if conditions don’t change. The negative vibes may explain, at least in part, why the state is losing population.

To be certain, there’s much to dislike about California today, including the nation’s highest level of homelessness, its highest level of poverty, its extreme economic disparity, its housing crisis, its water supply crisis, its epidemic of wildfires, its crime spike and, of course, its extremely high cost of living.

However, if we don’t like what’s happening, or not happening, in California, how would we want it to change? One suspects that the 54% of Californians who dislike the state’s direction

Letters You can bet on it Is it a crime to cross state lines to do something forbidden in your own state?

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

That’s right — gambling! How is it that folks from North Dakota, Oklahoma, Idaho, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Kentucky and Tennessee are permitted to travel to Las Vegas for the purpose of commercial gambling when it is outlawed in those very same states? How can that be legal?

Wait — aren’t those also the places that are about to outlaw people’s right to cross state lines to get an incredibly safe medical procedure, frequently on the advice of their physicians? And why isn’t that legal?

Maureen Driscoll Davis

City Council DISC II’s 2-1 loss was predictable — just a bad idea. Tip for future voting: when you see the usual dingy-taries, led

by Lois Woke, vote the opposite.

Our illustrious city council actually

enterprise A McNaughton Newspaper Locally owned and operated since 1897

Foy S. McNaughton

R. Burt McNaughton

Taylor Buley

Sebastian Oñate

President and CEO Co-Publisher

would disagree sharply over where California should be heading and how it should get there.

Nevertheless, thinking about the future and how to make it better is important for both people and societies — much better than passively letting it happen.

Unfortunately, politics is a poor vehicle for contemplating — and perhaps altering — the future. To most politicians, long-term is the next election cycle.

There is, however, one effort underway to contemplate California’s future. Two think tanks, the Institute for the Future and California 100, have developed a “toolkit” of potential scenarios for California 10, 30 and 100 years into the future.

“The stakes have never been higher,” Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, said in a statement as the organizations released their project

Publisher Editor

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

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

late last month. “As the fifth-largest economy in the world, decisions made in California today will have far-reaching implications for the country and the world — tomorrow.”

Karthick Ramakrishnan, executive director for California 100, a joint project of UC-Berkeley and Stanford University, said the project hopes to “engage Californians in possible scenarios with a 10-year, 30-year, and 100-year timeframe. This toolkit, our research, and our innovation and engagement work, will inform our engagement activities including work with stakeholders, government agencies, community groups and Californians in the coming months and year.”

T

he scenarios developed by panels of researchers vary widely, but can be generally described as conservative, progressive, status quo and self-protective. One of the 10-year scenarios, for example, is labeled “Texas Done Right,” erasing much of California’s infamous red tape and regulatory thicket to allow private enterprise to flourish.

Another is “California New Deal,” roughly approximating

used tax dollars to advertise Disc’s passage! Councilman Carson did everything imaginable for the DISC project, except counting the votes. I’m sure his bucks won’t be used to pay back the DISC opponents the 42 thousand in attorneys’ fees. Don’t go to sleep. Maybe DISC III is next.

John DeRonde Davis

ARP supports STEAC The hardships of COVID-19 have fallen hardest on low-income families and people of color. To help this vulnerable population, STEAC’s Food Packs for Kids Program provides nutritious snacks weekly to food insecure children at three Davis school sites. STEAC is fortunate to have received a $10,000 Yolo County American Rescue Plan mini grant to support this program.

These funds will go a long way toward providing food to help these children stave off hunger over the weekend so they can arrive Monday morning better able to focus and learn in the classroom. The Food Packs for Kids Program is one of STEAC’s many food programs that provide the equivalent of over 70,000 meals a year. We are grateful to receive these

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

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

the expansive welfare state that current policies, particularly those introduced by Gov. Gavin Newsom, would create.

The third, most passive, scenario for the next decade is called “Together in the Struggle,” and it doesn’t try to remake California but envisions making what we already have work better.

Finally, there is “Protecting One’s Own,” which is defined as Californians clustering with each other in enclaves and erecting barriers to perceived threats.

These and other scenarios for further into the future are thought-provoking, as intended, but they also leave readers wondering how any of them would be achieved, given the limits of politics.

The project would have been more useful had its authors at least briefly listed potential policy changes or other actions that would be necessary.

Nevertheless, it’s something that anyone who hasn’t already lost faith in California should read.

— 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.

grant funds that help us meet a growing need for food in our community.

Liane Moody Executive director, STEAC

Changes to music program I am writing because of the changes that the district is planning to implement into our music program next year. Our superintendent wants to have one music teacher teaching all the classes at each school.

This can pose a problem for many reasons. First of all, our teachers each specialize in a different area and they may not be able to teach the other classes in a comfortable manner. Secondly, our music teachers are already very busy with only one specialized class. If we add more this will only increase their stress levels.

Finally, each class needs a different environment. If we have a single teacher for all classes we are ignoring the individual class needs of each subject area. So readers, I ask you to consider this as we move forward and how it may play into our school system and its overall environment. Thank you.

Kyla Steen Music Student in DJUSD

202-224-3553; email: padilla.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

We welcome your letters

House of Representatives

Addresses and phone numbers should be included for verification purposes; they will not be published.

Limit letters to 350 words.

Anonymous letters will not be accepted. We reserve the right to edit all letters for brevity or clarity.

Mail letters to The Davis Enterprise, P.O. Box 1470, Davis, CA 95617; bring them to 315 G St.; fax them to 530-756-1668; or email them to newsroom@davis enterprise.net.

Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880.

District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact/ email

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

Op-Ed

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 B3

Cosmic images should put us in our place Special to The Enterprise

Commentary

n Tuesday, July 12, as the horrors of war in Ukraine ground on, chewing up soldiers and civilians alike in its indifferent maw, the Jan. 6 Committee held yet another hearing that tied the pathologically narcissistic Mr. Trump ever closer to a conscious conspiracy to violently subvert our election process, a conspiracy that resulted at least seven deaths and many more injuries and ruined lives.

But if we saw Putin and Trump each misusing power that unleashed unnecessary death and havoc, on that same ordinary day we also saw humans at their extraordinary best. Approximately 20,000 scientists from all over the world celebrated as they shared with us some of the first images downloaded from the Webb telescope, or, as they would like it called, either the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) or the Webb Observatory.

It took a quarter of a century of highly technical creative work, involving 14 countries, $9.7 billion, and most of all a scientific spirit of cooperation that sadly feels far rarer than it ought to be on our small planet, to put those microscopically aligned mirrors millions of miles out beyond the distortions of our atmosphere.

Three hundred forty-four procedures, “points of failure,” any one of which gone wrong would have completely halted the mission, had to go exactly right over the deployment period of 30 days. And every one of them did, including the launch of the reliable Arianne rocket, the intricate unfurling of the layers of protective foil that keep the instruments from overheating, and the mind-bogglingly complex imaging technology that has now begun to send back crystal-clear images of the early universe, a

gift to all of us on earth.

Clearly the universe brought to us by the Hubble and now the Webb is so huge and so numberless in its stars and galaxies that it is impossible that we are alone here. It is only a matter of time until contact happens between us and other forms of sentient life somewhere out there. Given the dire state of our planet, it is tempting to indulge the fantasy that a benign advanced alien civilization might communicate to us some pointers about sustainability and war-prevention.

But we can already intuit the kind of advice we might receive from these hypothetical aliens, over and above any magical new energy technology they might provide. Surely such advice is perfectly modeled by the cooperative spirit that made the Webb a reality: the aliens would tell us that we are pouring money into the useless sinkhole of a nuclear arms race that will render us extinct unless we stop.

That we are quibbling about who should bear the burden of changing to sustainable forms of energy. That we are denying that we occupy a single ecological system of ocean, air, and soil. That our leaders are stuck in obsolete fantasies of power and control.

That we need to redefine selfinterest beyond pointless nationalism, learn to get along, and share the finite resources our small planet, because our fates are radically interdependent.

There is a valid moral argument to be made that the $10 billion it took to design, build and deploy the Webb could have been spent to ameliorate the many forms of suffering endured down here on earth.

But the counter-argument is that we desperately need living examples of high-risk/high-gain cooperation toward common

By Winslow Myers

O

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI/Courtesy photo

A dying star expels gas and dust, in orbit with a younger star that is helping to change the shape of this nebula’s intricate rings by creating turbulence. The James Webb Space Telescope can see through the gas and dust in unprecedented detail. In thousands of years, these delicate, gaseous layers will dissipate into surrounding space. goals that point the way toward how realistic and feasible it is for us to ease our global suffering.

The resources are available to do both the Webb and feed the starving, but we continue to siphon them off into ill-conceived projects like the Lockheed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ($1.7 trillion) or the renewal of the American nuclear arsenal over 10 years ($634 billion) — or the brutal vanity of Russian imperial delusions.

In the light of the stupendous achievement of the Webb, Trump’s screaming fits as he refused to relinquish power or Putin’s ridiculous dreams of restoring Russia to 17th century glory look primitive, infantile, grossly detached from reality.

Putin with his state terror and

Trump with his pathetic but dangerous schemes operate in a context of grievance, fear, and hate. The line from the song from “South Pacific,” “You’ve got to be carefully taught to hate and fear,” implies that this infection is hard to catch.

Not so; we are far more vulnerable to it than the most contagious COVID variant.

I have to inoculate myself constantly against it, as perhaps this column already demonstrates.

These self-centered leaders give me raving fits of indignation.

The Webb story on the other hand is, refreshingly, one of detached, open curiosity. Does this open and curious attitude have any implications for our political culture? I hope so.

We can look upward and

outward from the echo chamber of despair, greed, fear, and cynicism that mark our era. We can dare to set new planetary goals — feeding all the hungry, finding homes and work for refugees, demonstrating the advantages of representational government, and deploying the technologies of wind, solar, and battery to move beyond fossil fuels.

The scientists that pulled off the Webb have provided the most powerful possible example of setting a high goal and then learning how to work together to achieve it.

— Winslow Myers, syndicated

by PeaceVoice, author of “Living Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide,” serves on the Advisory Board of the War Preventive Initiative.

Every Californian holds the key to drought

Letters Glyphosate

Roach invasion

A recent letter to the editor calls out the World Health Organization’s finding that glyphosate is “potentially carcinogenic to humans.” Readers of the Davis Enterprise should be aware that WHO’s warnings on alcohol are far more serious, “Alcoholic beverages are classified as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and increase the risk of several cancer types.” “Alcohol consumption contributes to 3 million deaths each year globally as well as to the disabilities and poor health of millions of people.” And yet, the City Council has no plans to ban the sale of alcohol in Davis.

WHO has also issued warnings for the cancer risk of red meat, processed meat, cell-phone use and cannabis.

Again, the City Council has no plans to ban the sale or use of these items in Davis.

Governments and individuals must balance risk and reward. I though Rich Rifkin’s op-ed did an excellent job of pointing out the costs of not using effective herbicides: Weeds destroy sidewalks, curbs, bike paths and roads.

Foxtails kill dogs.

Glyphosate, if used correctly, carries minimal risk to humans, pets, and the environment. The City Council should reconsider its ban on glyphosate.

Kathy Ormiston Davis

Mayor Frerichs, Every night I find and kill a dozen roaches … inside my house. When I walk the dog at night, thousands of roaches scamper across sidewalks. I find dead roach carcasses in my garage every morning. We have a pest service. And for two years, that service blames the city of Davis for not managing the issue.

Tonight, I found roaches in my dishwasher. The problem has to stop. Treat the issue! It’s what we pay city fees for.

Jonathan Groveman Davis

Supreme Court The legal approach behind the recent Supreme Court decisions has correctly removed the court from being the most powerful branch of the U.S. government, where previously just five unelected members of the court had the power to enact any interpretation it chose to become the law of the land.

This power has now been returned to the elected members of the U.S. Congress, bringing the three branches of the government back in balance.

Keith Redenbaugh Davis

By Steve Welch and Sandy Kerl Special to CalMatters

A

ll Californians play a role in preserving and enhancing our water supplies for a droughtresilient future. California again is in a familiar state of drought, although not all communities are affected equally. Some regions are in extreme water shortage; others are not. We must address these differences. That starts with all Californians understanding where their water comes from and what they can do to use it wisely.

The California Urban Water Agencies, an association of 11 of California’s largest urban water suppliers, know what it takes to preserve this precious resource.

Water delivered by member agencies supports two-thirds of California’s population, contributing to the state’s $3 trillion economy and helping our communities thrive.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s March 28 executive order and subsequent emergency regulation adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board, acknowledge lessons and progress since the last drought in 2015, when then-Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the state’s first 25% conservation mandate. The state water board’s new rule calls for locally driven actions to save water, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

To jump-start these efforts, the state budget includes significant investments in near-term drought response and water conservation, on top of the governor’s existing commitment to invest $5.2 billion over three years on drought

Commentary planning and climate resilience initiatives.

Water agencies now are required to prepare and submit a detailed plan of actions they will take in a time when water is in short supply.

Newsom’s approach leverages these tools, mandating that water suppliers activate their plans and implement locally appropriate measures — which our 11 member agencies have done. The success of these measures, however, depends on water users doing their part.

Conservation is crucial to every agency’s drought plan. All Californians must use water wisely, and many already do. Customers in our agencies’ service areas have reduced water use, on average, by 40% per person since 1990, and as much as 50% in some areas. Many “super savers” have replaced their lawn with drought-friendly landscape, for example, or swapped out old appliances for more efficient ones.

But collectively, we must do more.

That’s why our agencies provide water-saving tools and resources for residents and businesses, such as rebates for landscape retrofits and water-efficient fixtures, free water-saving devices, and free workshops and water audits. Many agencies recently have expanded these rebates and programs and are counting on customers to take the next step. If you haven’t yet explored these options to reduce your water use, now is the time.

The other half of the equation is

ICYMI: Our top 5 stories of the week News n I-80/Richards improvement project moving forward: http://wp.me/p3aczg-4bzt n UC Davis police officer dies of heart attack while on duty: http://wp.me/p3aczg-4bxS n Study: Single-family zoning stifles Davis housing development options: http://wp.me/p3aczg-4bDN

bolstering our supplies — for today’s drought and for the future.

Our 11 agencies and their ratepayers have invested in diverse, drought-resilient local supplies, such as water reuse, storage and desalination, both locally and through regional partnerships.

Long-term drought resilience requires further investments and public support for water supply reliability projects, particularly as we adapt to a changing climate.

State and federal funding for water infrastructure helps to keep water rates low for local ratepayers and ensures that water is affordable and accessible for all.

Now we look to you, our communities, to rise to the occasion.

Success should not be judged solely on our ability to achieve a certain percent reduction in water use. It must be judged by how all Californians are taking the actions they can to step up their water savings.

This isn’t our first drought; it won’t be the last. We must accept dry conditions as our new reality and work together to conserve more and strengthen the reliability of California’s water supply for the future.

— Steve Welch is the general manager of the Contra Costa Water District, a California Urban Water Agencies member. Sandy Kerl is the general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority, a California Urban Water Agencies member.

They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

Editors’ choice for web comment of the week

Sports

Feature

“I and my friends all would like to be buyers of a nice cottage home, townhome, or condo with a very small yard. ”

n Baseball: Davis American edge Davis National in thriller: http://wp.me/p3aczg-4bDu

n Upper Crust Baking features pastrami in the rye: http://wp.me/p3aczg-4bAP

From Roxanne Bittman

These were the most clicked-on news, sports and feature posts at www.davisenterprise.com between Saturday, July 9, and Friday, July 16

In response to “Study: Single-family zoning stifles Davis housing development options”

Local

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 B4

Cats injured in wildfires at risk from deadly blood clots

By Trina Wood Enterprise staff writer Cats who suffered burns and smoke inhalation in urban California wildfires are at risk of forming deadly blood clots, according to a new study from researchers at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The study, recently published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, follows up on a previous discovery that showed cats injured in urban wildfires had a high incidence of heart problems.

“Prior to these two papers, we didn’t realize that cats impacted by urban wildfires were prone to forming clots, which can lead to sudden death,” said lead coauthor Ronald Li, associate professor of small animal emergency and critical care at UC Davis.

“This study will change the standard of care for rescued cats from these wildfires and hopefully save more lives.”

UC Davis/Courtesy photo

Overactive platelets

A UC Davis vet-med student looks over a cat injured in a wildfire.

Cats treated for their injuries from the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California, were some of the models for this study. Researchers examined their platelets, the cells that circulate in blood and help stop bleeding or form blood clots. They found that cats with wildfire injuries had increased overactive platelets compared to healthy cats or cats with heart disease, in this case subclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM. HCM is the most common cardiac disease in cats and causes a thickening of the heart muscle.

“Cats with HCM are hypercoagulable, meaning they are more likely to form clots,” explained lead co-author Ava Tan, a veterinary research fellow currently working in Li’s laboratory. “That’s why we used them as a control group to compare with cats in the wildfire group.”

The platelets of wildfireinjured cats also released high amounts of microvesicles, microscopic membranous bubble-like structures filled with proteins, which are associated with cardiovascular disease and an elevated

risk of clotting.

“We found cats exposed to wildfire smoke and injuries are even more prone to throwing clots, showing a direct association between wildfire injuries, platelet response and clot formation,” Tan said.

In addition to clot formation, platelets have a lot to do with overall cardiovascular health and disease. The study led to the discovery of a novel receptor on cat platelets, Toll-Like-Receptor-4, that may play a role in clotting and could be the target for

treatments developed in the future.

“These results could lead to bigger health implications for our feline patients and highlight the important role that platelets play in linking inflammation with the coagulation system,” Li said.

Impact on humans Wildfires pose a major risk for humans as well. Emergency room visits increase due to heart attack and strokes after wildlife exposure. Although the underlying

mechanism isn’t known in humans, this study in cats may shed light on systemic platelet activation, which plays a crucial role in mediating the likelihood of developing clots as a result of wildfire injuries.

“This study opens a new door to looking at how wildfires impact cardiovascular health in humans,” Li said.

The researchers were able to use blood samples collected from cats brought in for treatment from the Camp Fire, which have been used in these two studies to date. This study has also led to a third study, which is underway, to discover new cellular processes that may explain why feline platelets are so sensitive and prone to clotting, especially in cats with heart conditions or wildfire injuries. The data collected is critical to developing early treatment plans, Li said.

Other authors include veterinary cardiologists Joshua Stern, Catherine Gunther-Harrington and Ashley Sharpe; veterinary critical care specialists Yu Ueda, Steven Epstein and Satoshi Haginoya; and research associates Nghi Nguyen and Mehrab Hussain in the Li Comparative Platelet and Neutrophil Physiology Laboratory.

The diagnostics and therapeutic management of feline burn victims reported in this study were funded through the UC Davis Veterinary Catastrophic Need Fund. This study also received funding through the Center for Companion Animal Health.

— UC Davis News

Get a taste of the flavors of UC Davis at California State Fair this summer Special to The Enterprise UC Davis chefs will present cooking demonstrations while other university food experts will lead coffee, honey and beer classes in California’s Kitchen at the state fair, which opens this week and runs through the end of the month.

On the first and last days of their fair, Friday, July 15, and Sunday, July 31, Bob

Walden, executive chef, and Kue Her, senior executive chef, will prepare Dining Services’ tried-and-true recipe for pasta sauce, using tomatoes from UC Davis’ Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility and basil from the Student Farm.

In each of their demonstrations, Walden and Her will make a half-gallon of

sauce — considerably less than what the chefs and their Dining Services team normally make. For the coming year, they plan to make two giant batches: 960 gallons in August and 1,160 gallons in December, to be frozen for use as needed.

Watch video: “Making Sauce for Student Pasta” at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=dpgAOg1vfHg.

Recipe cards for the halfgallon batch will be available for people attending the demonstrations. The audience also will be treated to samples of the sauce on sliced baguette.

“We’ve heard our sauce described as rustic, zesty, flavorful, intense, inspired, garlicky, bold,” chef Walden said.

“We’re happy to show off

fierce passion for animals and loved her own dogs greatly.

Her generHUITT osity on Snyder Drive was ever present with her love of celebrating the holidays by giving small gifts to her friends and neighbors.

Sandra leaves behind her husband Michael, three children, six grandchildren, brother-in-law Alex

Ardans, brother William Sanford, his wife Marsha, sister Nancy Hunt, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Lorella and Mathew Sanford, and her sister Janice Ardans.

Sandra will be greatly missed by all those who knew and loved her. A celebration of life will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 21, at the Davis Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please send donations in her memory to the Yolo County Animal Shelter.

Obituary Sandra L. Huitt

June 12, 1944 — July 8, 2022 Sandra Lee Huitt passed away on July 8, 2022, at the age of 78.

Sandra was born in Gabbs, Nev., on June 12, 1944. After graduating from Pershing High School in Lovelock she moved to California to be near her sister. She fell in love with Michael Huitt and made her home in Davis for the remainder of her life. Sandra was married to Michael for 57 years and together The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge.

These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/ memorial information.

Submissions may be made via www.davisen terprise.com/obit-form.

For information, call 530-756-0800.

they raised three amazing boys, David, Christopher and Dennis Huitt. She was a proud grandmother to six beloved grandchildren, Mikaila, Brian, Andrew, Eric, Matthew and Dominic.

Sandra worked in the finance department for the city of Woodland. After retirement she enjoyed crafting, traveling, and spending time with her grandchildren. She had a

what we do in the kitchen,” Walden said. “Plus, fairgoers will get to see and taste the UC Davis farm-to-fork experience, part of our commitment to sustainability in food operations.”

tomatoes from Russell Ranch this year, and will use 15,115 pounds for pasta sauce, 12,100 pounds for roasted salsa and 1,107 pounds for roasted tomato soup (320 gallons).

Walden said Dining Services expects to take in some 29,000 pounds of

The demonstrations, each starting at 11 a.m., are free with fair admission.

YOLOlaughs

THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

Zits

By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Pearls Before Swine

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 B5

Dilbert

By Stephan Pastis

By Scott Adams

Classic Peanuts

By Charles M. Schulz

The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Saturday, July 16, 2022

Crossword New York Times Crossword Puzzle ACROSS

Travel aid in science fiction 9 Classic musical with the song “If He Walked Into My Life” 13 Some spandex garments 15 The Midwest’s so-called “Queen Wheat City” 16 No-fuss 18 Teen issue getting much topical coverage?

19 “Weird ...”

20 Button on a Facebook post 22 Copy room supply 23 Vehicles in “The Phantom Menace” 24 Comic Notaro

25

1

26 29

30

31 32 33 37

Drawings with lots of little blocks Ollas, e.g.

What might collect a lot of checks Ironic word before an expletive Rapper Fiasco Planks can strengthen it Walk or run in a showy way Megacelebrities, so to speak Black bird Writer of the autobiography “Freedom in Exile” Game of manual dexterity Willingness to listen Enclose

45

46

48

49

50 51

Paul ___, pet food company founder Drink with dry vermouth, paradoxically What has new seeds every spring?: Abbr.

Intervals represented by adjacent frets on a guitar Millennials, by another name Jumble

DOWN

Edited by Will Shortz 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

No. 0611

0611 0613

8

9

13

14 17 20

22

11

Sudoku 1

12

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

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

15

16 19

10

Ambitious

18 21

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

37

34

38

35

36

39 41

40

42

43 44 They can be graphic 45 46 47 2 [grimace] 48 49 3 Pressure treatment?

50 51 41 4 Where The Oaks is run PUZZLE BY SID SIVAKUMAR 5 Joins a heavy 43 metal band, say 38 Wrapping 23 Ache for, in a 33 ___ wheel 6 Thunderstruck 44 weights way 7 Authority in the 34 Abrupt change 25 One side of field, informally in tone, 40 Undertaking a fast-food ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE perhaps 8 They don’t restaurant know what 41 Banned A C R O S S S P I C E D 35 Inventions of 27 “It’s anyone’s they’re talking backyard game Karl Benz and Y E A H N O C H E M L A B guess” about Rudolf Diesel N E G A T E C E L E R I A C 28 Certain 9 Some 42 N.B.A. general D R O P C L O T H S O R A L crossbred lap 36 One sitting supermarket manager Brand dog on the bench, G U I S E B U N S I T E S displays maybe I N C P O S T 10 Long gone T E E T H 31 Currency 44 “Whoa, whoa, The New York Times Syndication Sales depicting theCorporation whoa!”

B O R N T O O L A T E 37 Noomi ___, 11 AA and AAA 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Persian poet G A R A G E D O O R S lead actress Rumi 12 Shangri-las For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 of 2009’s “The 47 Sport with hits S U R E F I R E H I T Release July 18, of 2022 and strikes, for Girl With the 32 Big brand 14 Like much Monday, S H E S N A G N I K E S For short Dragon Tattoo” camping gear marshland B R O C A S C A N T T I S 17 Study buds?

I N G A I N S O L E N T L Y S L E E P S I N 21 Ruler chosen N E W D A Y Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past through the O A K L A N D G O H O M E Islamic process puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

R E E S E S S N O R E S Read about and on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Edited bycomment Will Shortz No. 0613 of shura

39 40

Diabolical

1

Sudoku 2 See the Sudoku solutions at the bottom of the page.

Crossword

ACROSS 1 Like the path of a lob 6 Stand the test of time 10 Newspaper opinion piece 14 Instrument in a string quartet 15 French peak 16 “___, far, wherever you are” (Celine Dion lyric) 17 Applies sloppily, as paint 18 Data graphics with wedges 20 Egyptian queen, for short 21 Stuck ashore, as a whale 22 Cries loudly 24 Air traffic control equipment 28 Dirty dozen?

31 Do surgery 33 Skips over, as a spoken syllable

34 India’s smallest state 35 Ambulance specialists, in brief 36 Hot springs resort 37 Sent by UPS, e.g.

40 Baseball’s ___ Wee Reese 41 Light white powder 43 “… spoon ___ fork?”

44 Existing in hidden form 46 Spotted wildcats of the South American jungle 48 Nuts used to make marzipan 49 Crumple into a ball 50 Princess played

by Emma Corrin on “The Crown” 51 Ramadan observers

54 Fill to capacity 58 Garments similar to rompers … with a hint to the shaded squares in this puzzle 61 Three-point driving maneuver 62 “Ah, that makes sense now” 63 Fiction’s opposite 64 Malodorous 65 Kings of Leon or Queens of the Stone Age 66 “If you ask me ...,” online 67 Farmer’s harvests

DOWN 1 Electrical adapter letters 2 Authentic 3 You’re reading one right now 4 Nudged 5 ___ and don’ts ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE (UPSIDE DOWN) 6 Big flaps in the fashion industry?

T I M E W A R P M A M E 7 Assumed name E N I D S H A P E W E A R A C N E H A S S L E F R E E 8 Blueprint detail R E A C T I O N I T S O D D 9 Silicon Valley P O D R A C E R S R E A M S field C I T Y P L A N S T I G 10 How you might S T E W P O T S L I S T walk through the graveyard at H O L Y L U P E night C O R E H I G H S T E P R O C K S T A R S A N I 11 The “p” of m.p.g.

J E N G A 12 Have for lunch D A L A I L A M A W A L L I N 13 Stethoscope O P E N E A R S users: Abbr.

W E T M A R T I N I I A M S S E M I T O N E S 19 “Present!”

N C A A R A T S N E S T 21 V.I.P. G E N Y

1

2

3

4

5

6

14

15

17

18

20

9

10

11

12

13

25

26

27

16 19

29

23

24

30

31

33

32

34

36

37

41

42

46

35

38

39

43

44

47

40 45

48

49

50 51

58

8

21 22

28

7

59

52

53

60

54

55

56

57

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

PUZZLE BY HOANG-KIM VU AND JESSICA ZETZMAN

23 Middle ___ (time before the Renaissance) 25 Make slightly wet 26 Go to an event 27 Adjusts, as a clock 28 Confer (upon) 29 Andean herd animal 30 Used a rotary phone 31 Alley ___ (basketball play) 32 Spanish rice dishes

34 4.0 is a great one, for short

38 Org. that won’t call to demand payments, despite what its impostors would have you believe 39 “Shucks!,” only stronger 42 In a mass

45 Appliance on a kitchen counter 47 Numbered musical work

48 Hopes one will

50 Get rid of, informally 52 Believer in Islamic mysticism 53 Actor Neeson 55 Lead-in to correct or tune 56 Excursion 57 Finishes 58 Triangular sail 59 Land between Can. and Mex. 60 All vice presidents before Harris 61 Colonel Sanders’s chain

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

• PUZZLES • BOARD GAMES • CARD GAMES • MINIATURES & PAINTS • AND MORE!

OPEN 11AM-9PM EVERY DAY

1790 E. 8TH ST. • 530-564-4656 DAVISCARDSANDGAMES.COM

Your Puzzle Solutions (upside down) Sudoku 1 t

Sudoku 2 t

D O I N G T S H I R T S

R A P A C E

I H A T E I T

C O L E M A N

M E W A A P E W S S L E S O D D A M S C G E W P O H O L O R E C K S A I L N E A W S A Y

T A R E S

H A M S T E R

R P E A F R R P O I T T S Y

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

T A N L I N E

A N C I E N T

E N G I N E S

M I N O R S

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

P I A N I S T

E D E N S

19 21 11 12 13 t 10 7 8 9 5 6

f f

Sports

B6 THE DAVIS ENTERPRISE

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022

Clock is ticking toward MLB’s trade deadline

I

f there was any doubt — none here — that the San Jose Sharks are in full-blown rebuild mode, it was dispelled last Wednesday when the team traded Brent Burns to Carolina for two players and a draft pick.

New general manager Mike Grier has hit the ground running. The 37-year-old Burns played 11 seasons in San Jose and holds almost all the club records for defensemen. He had to approve the deal, since Carolina was not on his list of notrade locales.

Thus, the Sharks’ version of the “Core Four” is no more. Patrick Marleau is retired; Joe Pavelski and Joe Thornton as of now will try to play one more year in pursuit of a Stanley Cup title for Dallas or Florida, respectively. Burns now does the same in Carolina. Time marches on.

n As the clock ticks down to the Aug. 2 MLB trade deadline, teams are now classified as “buyers” or “sellers.”

A simple theory: if you as a GM think there’s a player or two who is available and your team is realistically in the hunt, you’re often a “buyer.” If the opposite is true, you sell or trade away assets in exchange for younger players and prospects.

Right now, the San Francisco Giants are neither. Their play over the rest of this month will be the determining factor as to buy or sell mode.

n This corner will never understand why any team in any professional sport’s pre- and post-game TV shows would use anyone than a former player for “analysis.”

The Giants utilize Randy Winn, George Kontos, Rich Aurilia and Shawn Estes.

The Oakland A’s have Shooty Babbitt and Dave Stewart. All are proven major leaguers. They have played the game. They know full well how difficult it is to play baseball at the highest level.

While analytics are important, fans want to hear from the players, past or present. n Baseball has a lexicon of its own, beginning with PTBNL. That means a player is exchanged for a ‘player to be named later.’

Long-ago catcher Harry Chiti holds a special place in MLB

DEPTH: Strong contingent returns From Page B1 respectively at the 2021 section championships before placing 50th and 40th at the CIF State Cross Country Championships.

The girls’ team is also bringing back some of its top student-athletes.

Senior Norah Dulaney, arguably the team’s top runner last season.

Dulaney was Davis’ No. 1 performer in the section and state meets, helping the program place second and 18th.

But it’s not just about who’s returning as Gregg highlighted an incoming freshman who could make a difference.

“There’s also a freshman who’s going to join us, her name is Avery Woke and she ran very well in her junior high season last spring.”

Gregg has been able to gauge this year’s talent during summer workouts, which average about 25 participants per session and take place at the UC Davis’ track.

The Davis Community Track and Field Club is overseeing the workouts during the dead period, per the section.

With the cross-country season lasting roughly three months, Gregg has made a conscious effort to not overwork his runners.

“It’s such a long season,”

Gregg said. “I’ve just seen too many times where teams trained like crazy all summer. We want to be at our best in mid and late November and if you train like crazy all summer, we get to mid-November and people are exhausted.”

Davis’ last evening session under the community track and field club will be Thursday.

Then the Blue Devils can rest before practices start on Monday, Aug. 1.

— Henry Krueger is a rising sophomore at Gonzaga University and an intern for The Enterprise this summer.

Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.

history, becoming the first man to ever be traded for himself.

In 1962, Chiti went from the New York Mets to Cleveland, only to have the Indians send him back to the Mets. In each case, for a PTNBL n You know you’ve been around a while when you realize Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and Mike Love, plus surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, are each over 80 years old.

And still performing. n Condolences to the family, friends and teammates mourning the death of Spencer Webb, following a cliff diving accident.

Webb was a stellar tight end for the Oregon Ducks following an accolade-filled career at Christian Brothers High of Sacramento. n Two guys who look like geniuses: Seattle manager Scott

Servais and Baltimore skipper Brandon Hyde. Through Thursday’s games, the Mariners had won 11 straight games and the Orioles 10. n Do not adjust your TV

when you watch Tuesday’s AllStar Game.

The National League, as the home team, will wear white jerseys with the name of each player’s team lettered in gold on the front, with the script designed just like the player’s home uniform script during the regular season.

The American League, as the visiting team, will also have the same style of gold script on the front of the jersey, but the jersey itself will be dark gray.

Enjoy the Mid-Summer Classic.