For years, California state lawmakers have tried to recon cile warring views on what labor standards should be required of developers who’d be allowed to build housing more easily and quickly to combat the housing crisis.Most recently that debate has splintered organized labor over two bills that both unlock commercial real estate for residential use.
The Leg islature’s progress on housing for this session was framed as recently as last week as a battle between these two forces over the bill in the Assembly. But following weeks of tense negotiations between the two unions over the labor provisions in the Assembly’s bill, the labor groups failed to hammer out a compromise.Soinstead of choosing sides, leadership in the state Assembly and Senate simply gave their seal of approval to both bills. They opted to give developers two choices if they want to build housing where strip malls once were: Comply with stricter affordability standards or stricter labor standards.
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City Council to consider moving Sky Track in Arroyo Park
The Senate’s bill has the backing of the powerful state Building and Construction Trades Council, while the Assembly’s bill counts on sup port from affordable housing developers and the state’s Con ference of Carpenters.
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Several dozen UC Davis graduates and their friends and family gathered Friday for a makeup commencement after extreme heat disrupted their graduation ceremony in June. Unlike that ceremony, which was held out doors at UC Davis Health Stadium during a heat wave, the makeup cer emony was hosted inside the airconditioned University Credit Union Center, formerly called The Pavilion. “We recognize the unprecedented challenges you faced over the past two years,” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said during his remarks at the ceremony. “Despite all the unex pected surprises and disappoint ments, you persevered. You reached a pivotal goal and you’re here today because of your fortitude. Let’s honor the past, recognizing the lessons we’ve learned. Let’s take this moment this day to acknowledge and appreci ate what you’ve achieved and sur vived.”Shortly after the June ceremony was cut short, May apologized for the university’s failure to plan for the heat and vowed to make amends to the graduates. “I wish we had been able to celebrate you in the way you deserved to be celebrated for what you’ve accomplished,” he said at the time. see GraDuaTes, paGe a2
A years-long contro versy over the Sky Track zip line equipment in Arroyo Park will go before the City Council on Tues day, with city staff recom mending the council approve moving the track to a different location in the park, further away fromSinceresidences.2019,the popular playground equipment has been located on the southern edge of the park, near houses on Imperial Avenue. But a noise study conducted more than two years ago showed use of the equipment, which produces a metallic clang ing sound, violated the city’s nighttime noise ordinance, impacting those residents living nearby.Citystaff began locking up the Sky Track at night, but repeated vandalism, including damage to the locks and chains, as well as a more recent sound study that indicated the equipment also violates the city’s daytime noise ordinance in that location prompted staff to close the Sky Track altogether as a decision was made on where to move it. When the matter came see Track, paGe a4
Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, called the two-bill package “a monumental legisla tive agreement, and one of the most significant efforts to streamline and amplify housing production in decades.” If passed, both bills would apply to overlapping sites — and leave the choice of which policy to use in the developer’s hands.“What I think the package represents is leadership from A old strip mall lies abandoned in central Fresno on Aug. 25. Two bills in the betweentimeareDemocraticresidentialestatecommercialwouldlegislatureunlockrealspaceforuse,andleadershavingahardchoosingthem.
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Davis High welcomes new principal
By aaron GeerTs Enterprise staff writer With the new school year comes a new principal for Davis High School, Dr. Bryce Geigle. Although an intimidating role to assume as the “mayor of DHS” in a town full of DHS alumni, Geigle is already burning blue with passion for the journeyGeigleahead.grewup in a bluecollar family just down Interstate 5 in Stockton. Furthering his education after high school — much less becoming an educator — wasn’t something he considered until some teachers directed his career compass his senior year. “I had some fantastic teachers in high school as an andteacherhistorymytionconversahallwayitrememberandclassmanupperIwasawithU.S.hesaid, ‘hey, are you thinking about community college next year?’ And that was the first time I think the words ‘college’ and ‘me’ were associated in the same sentence,” Geigle said. “I’m all about educators’ words have power, and there’s moments and times that can change our trajectories. So, I think coming here to DHS is no different. If we can create relationships and have many moments and times that influence our young people here, our young blue devils, then I’m sure we’ll have a successful schoolFilledyear.”with inspiration, Geigle attended San Juaquin Delta College after high school with aspira tions of becoming a P.E. teacher. Then Dr. Ramirez from the English 1-B class helped channel the young educator’s passion toward English and taking his edu cation even further. He went on to attend San Jose State, studying English, gained even more confi dence as an educator and GEIGLE New DHS chief see principal, paGe a4
The Davis Chorale is excited to announce the launch of a new pro gram, the Davis Youth Choir.Serving young sing ers up to ninth grade with treble voices, this choir has an membershipopen-group, the “Davis Youth Choir” and a second ensemble, the “Davis Youth Chamber Choir,” for which young singers may audition.
The request I received the other day from my friend Jan may not have been the strangest ever, but it was certainly in the Top 10. “Just about everyone I know has one or more favorite ‘Davis Bike Stories’ that they will share when asked,” Jan begins. “I am writing to encourage you to ask your readers to share their favorite bike story and then, possi bly, someone will read my favorite bike story and maybe I will finally get an answer.” OK, Jan, tell your bike story. “We moved into our house in January of 1980.” As we say in journalism, Jan, don't bury the lede. “We had a lot less ‘stuff’ then and it all fit into one big U-Haul.” Please wait while I grab some No-Doz.“Oneof the first items to be unloaded was my almost brandnew brown Raleigh bike.” My first bike was a shiny red ’56 Schwinn, so you have my attention now.“It was parked near the garage and the rest of the unloading con tinued. Boxes and furniture moved into the house by helpful friends. And when we had finished the job we realized the bike had been taken from the driveway.” I was once told that if bike theft were a felony, Davis would have the highest crime rate in the world.“That spring we replaced the bike with another beautiful brown Raleigh from B&L Bikes and life pedaled on. From time to time I would remember the day when the bike vanished and I would feel sad.”You had a bike stolen out of your driveway while I had a car stolen out of my drive way. The cops found it a month later in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Woodland. A 2-liter bottle of Diet Pepsi was missing, along with my rosary. I told the cops if they catch the guy he can keep the rosary because he was probably going to need it. But back to Jan. “Fast forward to Spring of 1996. Our 1980 toddler was graduating from Davis High School and pre paring to head off to college. Then one day there on the driveway near the garage was the original brown Raleigh, a bit beaten up and somewhat dusty, but defi nitely the original bike.” Are you making this up? “Off and on in the 26 years since that day I have wondered who borrowed my bike.” Jan, sit down and listen to me. When someone keeps your bike for 16 years, they did not “borrow” it. They stole it. “Where had it traveled? Why was it returned?” I called my Uncle Raleigh in North Dakota to see what he might think about a stolen Raleigh, but he was elk hunting in Manitoba and unable to help. “Maybe one of your readers can provide some information.” Maybe one of my readers actu ally took your bike and sold it to another one of my readers who decided to return it to you. Sixteen years of guilt can eat at one's soul. “I really do want to know.” And now so do I. Amazing Grace, how sweet the soundThat saved a bike like me I once was lost, but now I'm foundWas stolen but now am free — Reach Bob Dunning bdunning@davisenterprise.net.at UC Davis conducted a survey of 2022 graduates and took their priorities into account when plan ning the makeup ceremo nies. While Friday’s commencement gave some families an opportunity to honor their graduates and a memory to cherish, many of those who attended the June ceremony appeared unable to return this week for the makeup commence ment.About 7,000 graduates registered to participate in undergraduate commence ments held June 10-12, where a total of 12,500 students and guests were expected at each ceremony. Just 75 graduates regis tered for Friday’s ceremony, a campus spokesperson told The Enterprise. Another 266 registered for a second makeup ceremony scheduled for Saturday. A third makeup commence ment for spring 2022 graduates is planned for December.Incontrast to the June commencement, which lagged behind schedule as temperatures rose, ulti mately causing the campus fire marshal to end the cer emony before many gradu ates had crossed the stage, Friday’s ceremony was short and sweet.
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UC Davis graduates gather Friday for a makeup commencement in the University Credit Union Center.
Over the many decades I have been writing a col umn, I've had some strange requests from kind read ers who may think that I perhaps have magical powers. The requests usually have to do with finding a lost treasure or helping to solve some sort of trou ble with a problematic neighbor whose tree branch hangs over the back fence and blocks tomatoes from getting the proper amount of sunlight.Theassumption being that I will write about the offending tree branch, the neighbor will be prop erly shamed and decide to move to Medford and my reward will be a bag of red ripe homegrown toma toes.One time a nun called and asked if I would write about how much she grieved for her missing cat, which assumed the cat could read and would come running home to the convent. I patiently explained that I gen erally don't do lost cat stories and suggested she turn the whole thing over to St. Anthony, whose powers are much greater than mine when it comes to finding lost things.IfSt. Anthony had the day off, next in line would be that great animal lover, St. Francis of Assisi.
— Reach Caleb Hamp ton at davisenterprise.net.champton@ Follow him on Twitter at @ calebmhampton.
The commencement began promptly at 10 a.m. By 10:30, all the graduates had crossed the stage, shaken the chancellor’s hand and were taking pho tos and enjoying refresh ments with friends and family.“Class of 2022, you are dynamic, determined, intelligent and caring,” May said. “The world needs your intelligence, your sense of purpose and your problemsolving skills. It needs your energy and curiosity to address the challenges of whatever lies ahead of us as a global society. Just as importantly, the world needs your spirit of com munity and collaboration, that openness to working together and finding com mon ground with people of allAccordingbackgrounds.”tothe chan cellor, the class of 2022 joins roughly 300,000 liv ing UC Davis alumni, who serve in a wide range of fields all over the world. “No matter where you go next, all of you share a con nection to UC Davis,” May said. “Keep working to make the world a better place.”
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Johnson Liu and Ying-Jun Wong are working to open Hunan Style at 630 G St.
— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sun days. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Ins tagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, contact her at wendyedit@gmail. com.
Business Goodbye Raja’s, hello Hunan Style
I have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the worst of it. Raja’s Tandoor’s tempo rary closure has become permanent. The property manager for the restau rant space at 207 Third St., Suite 230, said they were notified last month that Raja’s was not going to Inreopen.October, the restau rant announced a tempo rary closure while the UC Davis-owned Third & A Building underwent reno vations. Raja’s hoped to reopen in February but upgrades took longer than expected.MarkRutheiser, execu tive director of Real Estate Services for the university, said tenant and customer access to the Raja’s suite was available in April, while some minor con struction continued. He said then that the restau rant was preparing to reopen in July. But in July, he got notice that it wasn’t returning. “At their request, we ended their lease,” he said. In November, Aamit Chowdhury, son of owner Taranbir “Raja” Chowd hury, confided that the restaurant had accumu lated $170,000 in debt since March 2020’s shel ter-in-place.“Thelastfive years have been rough,” Aamit said at the time. Improvements to the Third Street Corri dor — beautifying a pedestrian thoroughfare between campus and downtown — finished in 2019. Businesses between A and B streets felt the pinch of a year-and-a-half of street and sidewalk work, which included moving power lines underground.“Thingswere just get ting better, then COVID hit,” Aamit told me then. With its proximity to cam pus, Raja’s relied on stu dent patronage. In mid-September, just as students returned to inperson learning, construc tion began on the building. The remodeling had been planned for some time, but the timing stung. Rutheiser said COVID’s effects on the construction business forced the delay. He emphasized that “during the pandemic and through this recent con struction, (UC Davis has) been responsive to tenant requests for economic relief.”Raja’s Tandoor, previ ously Raja’s Indian Cui sine, offered inexpensive Indian food, catering ser vices, and had a regular presence at the Davis Farmers Market. The food truck at the market once or twice a week didn’t cover costs, Aamit had said. He reportedly left the family business recently to focus on a professional career.Raja’s was at the same address for 28 years. It specialized in curries, samosas and kebabs, had a popular buffet, and advertised its food as healthy. In his public LinkedIn profile, Chowd hury said, “From our Vegan Coconut Curry to our Tandoori Chicken, my menu features items that use healthy ingredients. We use no food coloring, artificial flavors (or) MSG. … We freshly grind all of our herbs and spices. We offer many meat, vegetar ian and vegan dishes.” He added, “My goal is to provide my customers not only great food but excel lent hospitality as well. My customers are not custom ers but guests in my home.”Ihave reached out repeatedly to the restau rant. The store phone is disconnected, and other calls, texts and email que ries have not been returned.There’s a new Chinese restaurant in town. Hunan Style will open on Thursday, Sept. 1, next to Upper Crust Baking It fills the space at 630 G St., formerly Kotchen restaurant. Kotchen, which closed earlier this year, featured build-yourown Chinese soups. Manager Johnson Liu said it will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. He highlighted sev eral dishes that are their specialties: sautéed smoked pork with dried radishes, pickled green beans with minced pork, sautéed eggs with chopped peppers, steamed spare ribs with sticky rice and corn, sautéed string beans, hot and sour shred ded potato, trotters (pigs’ feet) and soy bean soup, fried egg and seasonal greens soup, and Laotan boiled fish with pickled cabbage and chili.Icaught up with Michael Galyen, co-owner of Mamma, the Italian eatery and deli filling the former Bistro 33 and City Hall Tavern site at 226 F St.On Thursday, he said, “Plans are submitted, and we’re waiting. Once they hit the stamp on that paper, we’ve got a team champing at the bit.” It’s a story I’m hearing a lot lately. The city of Davis has been outsourcing some of its permitting, which many say is causing additional delays. Mam situationma’s is likely compli cated by the fact that it’s a historic building — our former city hall and jail. Galyen said they’re not making major changes. “The goal is to keep the building how it used to be,” but add some paint, new flooring and polish up the front of the house. “We have a ton of furni ture sitting there in boxes.”“Idon’t want the land lords or the public to think we’re not doing stuff,” Galyen said. “We’re in town every week.” Galyen and his business partner, chef Arnaud Drouvellé, live in Napa, Galyen grew up in Davis, and owns NapaSport, a steakhouse and sports lounge in Napa. He said he’s already identified several manag ers and other promising talent to work at Mamma, and can’t wait to get it open.The liquor-license post ing has cleared, so that’s ready. The menu and full bar will be affordable, with simple, customizable pasta and pizzas – “Every thing $15 and under.” They look forward to a huge party when it opens. “We really want to hit the town with a splash,” he said.Galyen and Drouvellé are also leasing the former Uncle Vito’s space at 524 Second St. The new res taurant, called Craft, is still in the planning stages. The lease calls for it to open by the end of the year.Itwill also “value-focused”featurefood and drink. With just a beer and wine license, they plan to offer “ultra afford able” wines from Italy and elsewhere.Though they are not using the barbecue name, it will feature popular roasted and fried foods, at a price point that’s low. “The days of the $80-a-person dining experience is gone,” Galyen said. “People are looking to get the most for their money. We are bringing restaurant con cepts that are approachable.”ultra-Thechefisintrigued by the building’s takeout window that faces E Street. They are consider ing serving gelato, crepes or other to-go food from it, Galyen said. I don’t know what to say about Davis Shoe Shop The cobbler at 223 C St. has been closed for weeks — at Thereleast.are two handwritten notes from cus tomers that are taped to the front door, both plead ing to pick up shoes or boots that were dropped off — and paid for — months ago. The custom ers said they have been phoning and dropping by regularly, without success.
I’ve reached out in vari ous ways to owner Jason Velebilt and haven’t had luck, either. Velebilt resumed ownership of the shop earlier this year, after his younger sister, Melissa Skinner, died Jan. 2 of pancreatic cancer at age 42. His parents, Jay and Cherese Peterson, retired from the business in 2014. It’s been in their family since 1986, and part of the community since 1946. Tim’s Kitchen still doesn’t have an opening dateFormerlyset. at 516 Second St., Suite B, the Asian res taurant closed on June 6 to take over the former Our House space at 808 Second St. Meanwhile, Mochinut and T% recently opened at 516 Second.Tim’s Kitchen — not to be confused with Tim’s Hawaiian — will offer the same Hong Kong-style cafe food it did before. Next year, after a planned kitchen expansion, the menu will grow, too. They planned to apply for a license to sell beer and wine.InWoodland, Velocity Island Park planned to reopen on Aug. 27, a week after a suspected electrical fire caused $300,000 in damage to its food shack. Employees told News 10 that a short-circuited out let may have been the cause.OnTuesday, it posted the following on its Face book page: “Despite the tragic loss we have endured over the week end, we will be opening back up starting this Sat for Cable and Aqua park and beaches, book your spotTheonline.”water park at 755 N. East St. offers cable wakeboarding, has an inflatable obstacle course, a beach and event center. The Edgewater Eatery served burgers, pizzas and beer. It just concluded its summer season of expanded hours. During the school year, it’s just open on the weekends. I keep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at suggestmely/DavisBusinesses.https://bit.Email(addressbelow)toupdates.
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“After about four years of teaching I was tapped to be an instructional coach for social sciences and English teachers,” Geigle said. “Then I went to more of a mom and pop charter school in Stockton who needed cur riculum support, services and academic program ing and I really had fun doing
then finally returned to Stockton to finish his teaching credential while officially beginning his career in education.
“Thethat.charter movement got strong in Stockton and I was asked to apply for a principal position at the school I started teaching, which happens to be where I met my wife at. I’ve been very fortunate, privileged and blessed with this trajectory and happy to serve now as principal at DHS.”Now in his 12th year in education, Geigle’s résumé includes every thing from substitute teaching kindergarteners to educational directing to previously being a principal. All this experi ence has now led him to sporting horns as the chief Blue Devil at DHS. “I certainly believe that every student deserves high-quality teaching and learning,” he said. “That comes from us supporting our teachers — the people who are on the ground in front of students daily. They are collecting data second by second on stu dent needs whether it be academic or social and emotional.”Geigle then talked about what it means to him becoming the DHS principal: “It’s great learning about such a storied history here and how much the commu nity wraps its arms around this school. Also really learning about blue devil spirit and the pride for this school and I’m just proud to be a part of it.”
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A 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2007, Peregrine School is an independent school that builds chil dren’s capacity to learn, think and do in an everchanging world. Peregrine, at 2650 Lillard Drive in Davis, serves children from preschool through the sixth grade, drawing students from throughout the Sacra mento Valley.
Peregrine School reopens after-school enrollment
Special to The Enterprise Due to the change in the COVID policies, Peregrine School will offer once again open enrollment in the afternoon enrichment classes.During COVID, classes had been only offered to students that were enrolled into Peregrine School. Now, regardless of enrollment status, enrichment classes are open to all K though sixth-graders. Classes will be run from Sept. 6 through Nov. 14 and, depending on the class from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Enrollment is open through Aug. 31. For additional informa tion, please Peregrine School at (530) 753-5500 and www.peregrineschool.
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— Reach Aaron Geerts at mcnaughton.media.aaron.geerts@ at DHS before the city’s Recreation and Park Commission in March, two commis sioners wanted city staff to look beyond Arroyo Park for other loca tions in the city where the equipment could be relocated, but a majority of the commission voted to keep it at Arroyo, albeit in a new spot. The more recent sound study pro vided options for that new spot, with city staff at the time recommending two locations near the pool complex where they said sounds produced by the equipment would not violate the city’s noise ordinance, though some disagree with that assessment. At a subsequent meeting in June, park commissioners recommended moving the Sky Track to a spot near the center of the park, just east of Arroyo Pool, and installing obstacle course play equipment at the former spot.According to city staff, the esti mated cost to move the Sky Track to the new location is about $50,000 and the cost for purchasing and installing new equipment at the exist ing Sky Track site is close to $56,000. The funding would come from a com bination of Park Development Impact Fees and the General Fund. The Sky Track saga, going on for several years now, has been heated, with former Davis Mayor Joe Krovoza and his wife, Janet, taking the brunt of criticism from members of the public. The Krovozas, who live within about 100 feet of the current location, have been urging the city to relocate the equipment for years. On social media and during public hearings on the Sky Track, they have been accused of using their influence to get the city to move the equipment, though the city had long declined to doButso. during a parks commission meeting in March, Joe Krovoza told the commission that “many other people have the same concerns, that live close, but they don’t want to be shouted down and have hate spewed at them simply for asking for tranquility in their home.” The Krovozas have also repeatedly noted that they have lived next to Arroyo Park for many years and have never been bothered by the sounds of children playing; rather, it is the grat ing noise emanating from the Sky Track that’s been the issue. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised not just by the Krovozas but other residents and even former parks commissioners that the city did not provide adequate notice to neighbors prior to installing the Sky Track in 2019.AtTuesday’s City Council meeting, staff is recommending the council approve relocating the sky track to the new location within Arroyo Park and approve a resolution for the purchase of new equipment and installation at the existing sky track site. The council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the council cham bers. — Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
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org.Classes include Chess, which will focus on the geometry of the chess board, simple tactics, and the importance of check. Other classes include an Intro to Art, that will pres ent different mediums and the fundamentals. Each Intro to Art class will focus on a topic, artist, or media. If cooking is your stu dent’s passion, Peregrine offers two classes; Cooking with Seasons and Essential Cooking. Cooking with the Seasons will explore sea sonal dishes and produce; and Essential Cooking that will present techniques and cooking methods. Two new classes this year are Card Game Club and Game Design. In Game Club, student will be provided with an inclusive space where students interested in a variety of different card-based strat egy games come together to play, as well as learn new games. Game Design will provide a creative and sup portive environment for students to learn about prototyping, testing game play, and creating their own tabletop game.
Linda Lee Bertolero April 13, 1942 — Aug. 2, 2022 BERTOLERO Obituary policy The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/memorial information.Paid-forobituaries allow for controlled content with the option for photos. Obituaries will be edited for style and Submissionsgrammar.maybe made via www.davisenter prise.com/obit-form/. For further information about paid obituaries or free death notices, call 530-7560800.
Margaret Louise Magruder Burkhart Goldberg passed away peacefully at her home in Davis, where she lived with her husband, PeterMaggieGoldberg.wasborn in Port land, Ore., to Dr. and Mrs. F.A. Magruder of Corvallis. She grew up in Corvallis, attended Corvallis High School, and graduated from Oregon State College with a degree in home eco nomics. She married Wil bur Willis Burkhart on Sept. 28, 1944. Upon his return from Germany at the end of World War II, the couple moved to Hills boro,MaggieOre. was active in the American Association of University Women, belonged to bridge and mahjong groups, and was a member of the All Saints Episcopal Church and the Hillsboro School Board. She could often be seen around town in the family’s eight-passenger Ford sta tion wagon loaded with her own children and any number of neighborhood kids who piled in as she headed for the swimming pool, Crawdaddy Creek, the beach, or the Roly Poly. Maggie was gifted in her ability to share love and laughter with her own chil dren and any others who walked through her door. Her choice to go back to school, where she earned her teaching certificate in elementary education from PSU, was a perfect fit for her talents. She taught at Gales Creek Elementary School, and then after moving to Forest Grove, Ore., worked at Echo Shaw Elementary School in Maggie’sCornelius.spiritand enthu siasm for adventure will be greatly missed. As her mother’s side of the family was from Maryland, travel ing by train was a part of her childhood. Her first big trip was with her sister Mary and her father on a ship from the West Coast, through the Panama Canal to the East Coast. Later, Maggie delighted in traveling with her family to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to Europe with her grandchildren, or on a cruise ship where she Maggiement,herfriends.manymadeeasilyAfterretire moved to Charbonneau, Ore., where she resided until her marriage to Peter Goldberg on Nov. 24, 2001. She then moved to Davis, where he lived, and made it their home. She enjoyed many family gatherings hosted by her new extended family, Yolo Fliers Club activities, and was a mem ber of St. James Catholic Church. Maggie will be remembered for her lively and outgoing personality and her love of people, fun, andMaggieadventure.issurvived by her husband, Peter Alfred Goldberg; sister Mary Magruder Smith; children Heidi Burkhart, Kristi Kuchs, Markie Burkhart, Scott Burkhart and Billy Burkhart; stepchildren Paul Goldberg, Patricia Timothy, Theresa McPher son and Cecilia Burkhart; 26 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.Amemorialservice for Maggie will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at St. James Catholic Church in Davis. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers please con sider making a donation to Camp Magruder.
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Ken, 51, was born June 1, 1971, in Quezon City, Philippines. After resid ing in Davis for 38 years, he passed away Aug. 7, 2022, in Davis. Ken grew up in Beaver County, Pa., and attended school in the Blackhawk district until his family moved to Davis in 1984 where he attended junior high and high school. Ken comes from a family of pilots and was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The Youngest Solo Pilot in the World” when he flew an Ultralight at 9 as featured on ABC’s “That’s Incredible.” He was active in sports including dirt-bike racing, motocross, ski and jet-ski racing, and wakeboarding in his teens and early 20s. His life focus shifted in 1994 when he broke his neck after falling from his bike while doing a stunt, but continued to have a positive attitude that inspired his family and friends. In the following years Ken and his brother Andrew developed the 2Ben nett Audimotive business in Davis, where he served as marketing director and webmaster as well as developing innovative designs for high performance suspension and braking components and unique hand controls for para- and quadri plegics. Ken was an active member and driving instructor of the Audi Club of North America. He drove his custom-designed hand-controlled car at Audi track events across the coun try.Ken shifted to a power-wheel chair following a second injury in 2007 and continued his work at 2Bennett, maintaining an upbeat attitude and an infectious sense of humor. He and Kristine Airey, were married in 2008. Their son, Owen, and daughter, Piper, were born in 2013 and 2015 respec tively.Inaddition to his wife and chil dren, Ken is survived by his brothers, Ian (Andrea) and Andrew (JoAnne); sister Carolyn (Michel); father Al (Linda); and mother Susan. He is also survived by his nieces, Brandy, Jeni and Sophie Bennett; nephews Youri and Samuel Joly, and Drake Bennett; as well as several aunts, uncles and cousins.Acelebration of Ken’s life will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, at the Davis Community Church. All his friends and acquaintances are invited to attend, and to enjoy light refresh ments and share stories about their experiences with Ken afterward. Memorial donations will be grate fully received by the Ken Bennett Memorial Fund established by his older brother to support educational opportunities for his children at https://gofund.me/7e6e3843.
Michael Bennett June 1, 1971 — Aug. 7, 2022 BENNETT
Upon graduation, Linda worked as the associate director of R&D developing new almond flavors at Califor nia Almond Growers in Sacramento for three years until she had children. Linda was a dedicated life-long learner and an avid reader. She enjoyed reading newspapers daily, loved the Sunday comics, and thoughtfully clipped articles for whomever she thought would benefit or enjoy reading them. Linda spent approximately 25 years doing the bookkeep ing and running the family farming business. She later worked at H&R Block in Davis preparing tax returns.Her priority first and foremost was always her family. Linda supported her husband as he started and grew his farming busi ness. She loved to plan holidays and activities for her children and grandchil dren. Sunday family din ners at her house were legendary with fantastic meals and smiles. Her kids remember how she always supported and encouraged them.
Margaret ‘Maggie’ Louise Magruder Burkhart Goldberg March 29, 1924 — Aug. 11, 2022 GOLDBERG
Kenneth Linda Bertolero passed away in Davis on Aug. 2, 2022. Born April 13, 1942, in Ohio, she was the daugh ter of Robert and Janet Williamson.Lindawas a graduate of Hillsdale High School in San Mateo. She attended San Mateo Community College and received her associate’s degree, then transferred to UC Davis and graduated with a bach elor's degree in home eco nomics in 1964. Linda met Leroy at a col lege dance at UC Davis. Leroy says he chased her until she caught him. When they were courting, Leroy would leave three red roses at the front desk of Linda’s dormitory every week. When asked why three roses he said, “That’s all I could afford.”
She was a volun teer 4-H leader for more than a lookingaspectwithhelpingdecade,everyandfor ways to improve the experi ence for members of the Dixon Ridge Club. Her grandchildren fondly remember her delicious homemade meals and incredible desserts, swim ming in the backyard pool, and sleepovers with the cousins at her house while attending summer camps. Linda loved to laugh, and will be remembered for her great sense of humor. She was a good sport when being teased, and her grandchildren regularly tried to get her laughing uncontrollably. She would often surprise us with humor that would bring the room to life. She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Leroy Bertolero of El Macero; children Jill (Dave) Hess of Champaign, Ill., Carol (Scot) Moore of El Macero, John Bertolero of Chicago, and Mark (Ari) Bertolero of Lake Oswego, Ore.; grand children Lauren, Carr, Spencer, Christiana, Juli ana, Evan, Byron, Joey, Meredith and ciationLewymemoryCountrylifelowedChristonliamsonMateo,(Ronald)SpearsJanetandgreat-grandchildrenCambria;RileyBeckett;andsiblingsRoberta(John)ofSanCarlos,DianaBrozowskiofSanandBob(Joni)WilofNapa.MemorialserviceswereThursday,Aug.4,attheChurchinDavis,folbyacelebration-of-dinnerattheElMaceroClub.DonationsinLinda’scanbemadetoBodyDementiaAssoatwww.LBDA.org.
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John Hamel d. Aug. 17, 2022 HAMEL Obituary both sides, the Assembly and the Senate, saying, ‘Both these bills are critical. We’re going to get both these bills off our floor. And we’re going to move this to the governor’s desk,’ ” said Assem blywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oak land, who authored the Assembly bill. What the bills do Both bills make it easier to build housing in now-empty stores, potentially leading to more than one million housing units across the state. Wicks’ Assembly Bill 2011 more narrowly targets infill building along heavily transited commercial corridors. Under her proposal, a developer would get to build housing “by right” — which means skipping lengthy and costly local review processes, including the much-dreaded California Environmental Qual ity Act, or CEQA — as long as they paid workers union-level wages and offered health care benefits, among other require ments.Senate Bill 6, by state Sen. Anna Caballero, a D-Salinas, would knock down one key bar rier to building housing in com mercial sites — rezoning — but leave in place many of the other forums for local government input on housing projects. To take advantage of the rezoning benefit, developers must use a skilled and trained workforce, which effectively means a portion of the workforce must be union labor.In a noteworthy concession from the Trades, Caballero’s bill was amended Thursday to say that if developers don’t get at least two bids on a project, they can move forward with it anyway — as long as they pay union-level wages.“This is a huge victory for resi dential construction workers across the state, whether they be … part of a union or not,” said Erin Lehane, legislative director for the Trades. Asked whether the Trades would continue to oppose AB 2011, as they had previously stated, Lehane said, “Now we’re putting all of our effort into sup porting SB 6.”
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John Hamel died at home on his family ranch in Davis on Aug. 17, 2022.Heis survived and loved dearly by Regi, his wife of over 57 years; children Sandra Hamel and Andy (Kate) Hamel; grandchildren Ethan and Alexandra; sister Mary Rust and family; brother-in-law Manfred and many nephews and nieces; his sister-in-law Monika; and numerous dear family mem bers and friends. A true Davisite, John was born to Lester and Irene Hamel, and raised on the family’s ranch in Davis, which was founded in 1867 by his great-grandfather Henry Hartmann Hamel. He graduated from Davis High School where he was a member of Future Farmers of America, served as Student Gov ernment president and played center on the Blue Devils bas ketball team. He went on to UC Davis, where he became a member of the Theta Xi frater nity. After gradu ating with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and serving in ROTC, he was com missioned as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army and stationed in Bamberg, West Germany, ulti mately achieving the rank of cap tain. As he liked to say, he “hit the jackpot” when he met and married Regi in Bamberg. When John returned to Davis, he worked for two years with his father in the family live stock operation, before beginning his career at First Northern Bank (originally called First National Bank). He was hired in 1967 when First Northern had just one branch, in Dixon. In July 1975 he was named president of the bank, a role he held until his retirement in 1996. John continued to serve on the board of directors until he retired from the board in August of 2012.During his banking career, John served as a member and leader in local, state and national banking associations including the Califor nia Bankers Association and the American Bankers Association. He graduated with distinction with a Master’s degree in banking from the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. In John’s 45-year tenure, the First Northern Bank’s assets grew over 60-fold, and the number of branches and commu nities FNB served increased con siderably. He was always very proud to work at a community bank that served the local people and businesses, and he was a strong proponent of his employees. John was active in the commu nity: in the Dixon Chamber of Commerce, Dixon City Council, Dixon Fire District Board of Com missioners, as a member of the Sutter Davis Hospital Board of Trustees/Yolo Solano Community Board, and on the Board of Direc tors of the Cal Aggie Alumni Asso ciation. He was a member and long-time Chair of LAFCO (the Solano County Local Agency For mation Commission) where, among other things, he helped to ensure an agricultural green belt between Dixon and Vacaville. He also enjoyed serving in the Dixon and Davis Rotary Clubs for many years.In1999, John and Regi built a home on the family ranch in Davis and enjoyed country living. They spent time with their children and grandchildren and traveled the world. John always felt a strong connection to the land and to Davis and was as comfortable in a suit in his professional career as he was in a pair of work boots and a cowboy hat driving a tractor on the ranch. He was an incredibly humble man, who was always true to his word and ready to help those who needed it. To his family, his steady love and support was ever-present, and his calm and thoughtful approach permeated all aspects of his life. He was ‘our mighty oak,’ and we will miss him forever. A memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the Uni tarian Universalist Church of Davis, 27074 Patwin Road, fol lowed by a reception there. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rotary International org/give.orhttps://www.rotary.org/en/donateatYoloCaresathttps://yolocares.
Besides labor standards, the main difference between the two bills is affordability. Under Wicks’ bill, at least 15% of housing units in a building built by-right would need to be deed-restricted afford able — either for purchase or rental — to low income house holds. Alternatively, 8% of units would need to be affordable to very low income households, and 5% would be affordable to extremely low income house holds. Under a third option, 100% of units would be afford able. Caballero’s bill cut down its original 15% affordability requirement to zero — and was renamed the Middle-Class Hous ing Act to reflect that. Still, Caballero said a local government can impose affordability require ments if it wants. “Every single interest group has a different interest and bills get hacked to death sometimes in the Legislature by 1,000 cuts,” Cabal lero“Thesaid.affordable-housing advo cates want real high affordability. Developers don’t want real high affordability because then it becomes cost-prohibitive. The unions want good labor stan dards … In the end, we decided to do two bills that do two differ ent things that will create an opportunity for everybody to get something that they like.”Lawmakers originally hoped this year’s negotiations might put an end to the years-long debate over labor standards that has killed multiple housing bills in previous years. That didn’t hap pen.“There wasn’t any real room in our bill for a meeting of the minds about whether our bill would include a standard that we thought was unreachable and functions as a barrier,” said Danny Curtin, director of the California Conference of Carpen ters, which co-sponsored AB 2011.Now, lawmakers want to leave it to the market to decide which labor standards are more feasible. The bills are expected to be voted on next week in their houses, and return to the other house for a concurrence vote by Aug.“We’re31. going to see pretty quickly how the different models work,” Lehane said. to ‘create opportunity for everyone’
Davis-Oakmont game moved to Thursday Mike Trask/enTerprise phoTo Davis quarterback Braulio Acevedo throws a pass against Vacaville’s defense in the season opener for both teams at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Aug. 19.
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Before we launch into potentially one of the most interesting seasons of Aggie football since the Univer sity Farm took up the game in the fall of 1915, a couple of housekeeping chores are in order.Given that this newspaper and many others, for a variety of rea sons, have had to move up their deadlines for Sunday’s print edition, results of Saturday night sporting events — be they foot ball, basketball, baseball, soccer, field hockey or water polo — simply no longer make it into the Sunday paper that lands on your driveway.Butthat is precisely why God gave us the internet. Or was it Al Gore?Asthe beat reporter for Aggie football, my story will be avail able in the online Enterprise shortly after the game concludes either late Saturday afternoon, or in some cases, late Saturday night.Noexceptions, whether the game is home or away. And it will stay “up” for all the world to see for years and years and years in case you missed it when it was firstYes,posted.inthe old days we filed stories. Nowadays we post them. The season will open this com ing Saturday in Berkeley against the Cal Bears in one the most stunning venues in all of college football, Memorial Stadium in Strawberry Canyon.
Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson said that the reason for the change is because of a shortage of game officials in the Sacramento region.
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Blue Devil singles player Maya Moeller reaches out to keep the tennis ball in play during Wednesday’s practice at the DHS courts.
For away games, I’d type on the same typewriter, then find a pay phone and dictate what I had written to some poor soul stuck in The Enterprise news room.“Yes, ‘Humboldt’ has a ‘D’ in it. H-U-M-B-O-L-D-T.”Overtheyears,after my first two kids were born, Humboldt State became our very favorite trip in the old Far Western Con ference.We’dhit the Drive-Thru Tree in Leggett, have Saturday morn ing breakfast at the Samoa Cookhouse — a former lumber camp — then watch the Aggies and the Lumberjacks battle to the death in the foggy Redwood Bowl on Saturday night. It was simply the best of the best.Forgive me for a minute while I wipe away a tear. — Contact Bob Dunning bdunning@davisenterprise.net.at
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“Our singles ladder is set,” Hosley said on Tues day. “Now it’s just about figuring out our doubles teams, which will probably take us until next week.”
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The Davis High foot ball team will move its non-league home game against Oakmont next week.Now the Blue Devils will welcome the Vikings on Thursday, Sept. 1. Kickoff is scheduled at 7:15 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for Friday, Sept. 2.
By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent It’s been roughly a week since tryouts wrapped up and Davis High girls tennis head coach Sally Hosley is almost done putting together her team.
There’s another plus for Lorensen for moving the Oakmont-Davis football game 24 hours earlier. “In my opinion, it’ll probably work out well for families being Labor Day weekend,” Lorenson said. Labor Day falls on Monday, Sept. 4. Will DeBoard, who is the assistant commis sioner of the Sac-Joaquin Section, said Friday after noon that there’s a short age of football game officials in the North region that ranges from Galt north.
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Sorting out singles and doubles players has been made challenging by the team’s surplus of talent, a good problem to have according to Hosley. “This year I think we’re going to have a really good run just because of the depth,” Hosley said. “Every body I have on the team can play well and compete hard.Of the 45 girls who tried out, Hosley took 16 on the varsity team while 18 made the junior varsity squad. Among the most notable varsity players is sopho more Hannah Proctor, who will serve as the No. 1 sin gles player. Proctor’s top position is a promotion from the No. 2 spot she had as a Hosleyfreshman.praised the hard work of Proctor and Davis junior and No. 2 singles player Maya Moeller. “Proctor coming back in at No. 1 does not surprise me,” Hosley said. “She works hard all summer long along with Maya. They’re both very strong players and completely deserving of where they are.”Behind Proctor and Moeller on the singles lad der are senior Marie Anderson, junior Ellie Chang, junior May Edmonds and senior Char lotteDavis’Sloane.depth also extends to the doubles’ players, as Hosley believes the Blue Devils are capable of hav ing five strong doubles teams even though only three pairings can compete during a match. “The girls who didn’t make the singles roster but are playing doubles are still playing really well,” Hosley said. “That’s just how strong our team is. We’re very lucky to have the strength that we do.” Aside from the roster itself, Hosley is pleased with how the Blue Devils have bonded during tryouts and“Thepractices.juniors and seniors have really taken on leader ship roles, especially the seniors and that’s great for the new players,” Hosley said. “During our last day of tryouts, they were all laughing, having fun, enjoying each other, and as a coach, that’s, that’s what you want to hear more than anything.”Witha deep roster that displays good team chemis try, Hosley is hopeful the Blue Devils will perform even better than last season when they finished fourth in the Delta League before losing to Gregori of Modesto in the first round of the Sac Joaquin Section Playoffs.However, winning the Delta League will still be a dogfight, says Hosley. “Some other teams have really stepped up in terms of competition,” Hosley said. “We’ve always had St. Francis as our strongest competitor, but now Pleas ant Grove and Cosumnes Oaks have developed some goodTheteams.”Blue Devils begin their 2022 campaign with a preseason match against Campolindo of Moraga on Thursday. Davis will then travel to Elk Grove on Sept. 6 to face its first league opponent in Cosumnes Oaks. — Henry Krueger is a rising sophomore at Gonzaga University and an intern for The Enter prise this summer. Follow him on Twitter @henrykrveger.at
Davis High singles players Charlotte Sloane, left, and Sami Tully-Smith stay focused on hitting the tennis ball in Wednesday’s practice at the Blue Devils’ courts.
“The (Northern Cali fornia Officials Associa tion) pretty much asked if any team can volunteer to move a game to a Thurs day or a Saturday, go ahead and do that to assure you don’t come to a week with unassigned officials,” Lorensen said. “What I did was I volun teered a preseason game to move to Thursday to assure the rest of our league schedule of home games gets assigned.”
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And never mind that the Hay ward Fault runs right through the field of play. Just relax and enjoy the action, then run as fast as you can back to your car as soon as the game is over. The next Saturday we’ll be in Brookings — South Dakota, not Oregon — as the Aggies face a South Dakota State team that overwhelmed them last Novem ber in the first round of the FCS playoff.Word has it that the Jackrab bits are loaded once again and have their eyes on the first national championship in school history.ThisAggie team has similar aspirations.Ifyouhave the time and the means, the best game of the year may be October 1 in Bozeman against rock-solid Montana State, one of the ascending pow ers in the Big Sky Conference. It’s a night game, so bring a heavy coat and one of those oldfashioned hats with the pull downYes,earmuffs.anotherfootball season is upon us, one of the many I’ve had the privilege and the joy of covering for this newspaper that I love.Each season has its own flavor, and I can’t wait to see what this one will taste like. Not that I’d trade even one of the previous seasons I’ve been lucky enough to Whenwitness.Istarted at The Daily Grind in 1970, I’d lug my heavy “portable” typewriter up the steps to the Toomey Field press box, where I’d pound out my story on the cheapest paper money could buy. Remembering to bring paper with me was the hardest part of my job. Afterword I’d show up at the office and start putting the sports pages together late into the night.
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I agree with Andrew Majeske. In these polarized and divisive times, more of us need to choose to focus on the areas of agreement we have with those whose perspectives generally differ from our own. In doing so, perhaps we can gener ate enough respect and goodwill to avoid the ruinous consequences of not working together to address the serious problems facing our society.
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Wasteful watering at UCD I have considered UC Davis to be an environmentally conscious and conscien tious institution. So I was shocked and sickened to see the large lawn on the quad being watered at noon on a hot day with giant arcs of water from multiple impact sprinklers! All that water, just evaporating away over that luxuriously green expanse. UC Davis: in case you didn’t know, there’s a water crisis. Even if California escaped recent restrictions placed on other Colorado River water users, that’s no excuse to waste this precious sub stance, regardless of where it comes from. Please set a better example going forward — I really hope you can do better. Skya Livingston Coloma You can’t turn on your television set or click on a YouTube video these days without being subjected to a barrage of ads for and against California ballot measures that would legalize betting on sports events. Virtually all of those spots feature members of Califor nia’s Native American tribes. Most tribes oppose Proposi tion 27, an online-gambling measure sponsored mostly by FanDuel and other gaming corporations, saying it would undermine the finances of casino-owning tribes. How ever, a few tribes that don’t have casinos are touting Proposition 27, saying its provisions would help them escape poverty. No matter what happens to Proposition 27, or to Proposi tion 26, which is sponsored by casino-owning tribes and would expand their virtual monopoly on gambling, the intense campaigns remind Californians of their state’s very large Native American population. The 2020 census revealed that the state’s 762,733 selfidentified Native Americans — nearly four times their number when the first white explorers reached California — are by far the largest popu lation of any state. Moreover,
Our disabled veterans are grossly under compensated and have been for genera tions. This is most especially true for our totally and permanently disabled veterans. Our disabled veterans have been asking Congress for fair and adequate compensa tion since the end of World War I (1918). This is outright wrong! And it is adversely affecting enlistments into the armed forces.In2022 a totally disabled veteran with no dependents is compensated at the ridiculous rate of $39,984.72 dollars annually. The National Average Wage Index (NAWI) for 2020 was $55,628.60 dollars per annum and the median income for 2020 was $67,521.00. The per capita GDP in 2020 was $63,416.00 dollars, among the highest in the world. Disabled veterans realize that they are being manipulated and given short shrift by the wealthy and politically connected top 5% of the wealth pyramid in order to keep their compensation low in order to ensure a low tax rate for the elites. The elites use the national debt as a constant scare tactic to garner support from the working class and poor. We can tax investments at one penny per every dollar traded on the 13 stock markets operating in the U.S. to pay for this. This would go far beyond the 1-percent tax on corporate buybacks and be levied on all stocks bought or sold on the stock market. It is long past time for the investor class to carry its share of the tax burden. Compensate them at least at the level of the NAWI for all types of totally and per manently disabled veterans. Or give fed eral income tax exclusion to all types of totally and permanently disabled veterans for all income regardless of source up to $125K per annum. There is also a national security aspect to this. Once our youths clearly understand that serving in the armed forces and get ting injured or sickened seriously enough to require disability retirement as a dis abled veteran that will condemn them to a life of near poverty, then at that point the armed forces will collapse. As previously mentioned, this is already happening. Enlistments are dropping rapidly.
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“While we cannot anticipate this result but with painful regret, the inevitable destiny of the race is beyond the power or wisdom of man to Californiaavert.” offered a 25-cent bounty for Indian scalps, later increasing it to $5, and the federal government dispatched troops to California to keep the state’s native tribes under control. Ulysses S. Grant, later to command Union troops dur ing the Civil War and be elected president, spent some of his early Army career at Fort Humboldt, protecting Trinity River gold miners from clashes with local tribes. The killing finally stopped, but California’s Indians were largely confined to reserva tions, almost all afflicted with deep poverty until the latter years of the 20th century. In the 1980s, a U.S. Supreme Court decision gave Califor nia tribes the legal right to offer some forms of gambling because California had sev eral types of legal wagering. The decision protected modest tribal bingo and poker parlors from police raids and some tribes pushed the legal envelope further by installing slot machines. Although legally dubious, the tribes’ machines generated cash to build larger casinos and sponsor two ballot mea sures to lock in their casino gambling monopoly. With that monopoly, tribes could attract investment cap ital and build even larger casinos, some full-fledged resorts. They also adroitly cultivated support among politicians of both parties — which explains why both have formally opposed Prop ositionAlthough27. the battle so far has been over Proposition 27, and Proposition 26 has been virtually ignored, its passage could expand the tribal gam bling monopoly even more. In addition to sanctioning sports betting inside tribal casinos (and a few horse rac ing tracks), Proposition 26 legalizes other games, such as roulette and craps. One sec tion even subjects rival nontribal poker parlors to potentially injurious legal actions.Thus whatever voters decree in November, they will write a new chapter in the truly amazing history of Cali fornia’s Native Americans. — 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 Wal ters, go to Commentary.
Anew day is breaking for the nuclear industry in the United States. There are four drivers of the new enthusi asm for nuclear power, which is being felt throughout the utility world. First, nuclear is “dispatchable.” That is the term for the power you can rely on; power that will be there when you need it, and you can dispatch it. At present, utilities are struggling with an overload of non-dispatchable power coming from wind and solar generation. That is available only when the wind blows or the sun shines. Fossil fuel and nuclear power are dispatchable — and highly regarded in the industry. The Texas grid, known as Electric Reli ability Council of Texas, was near catastro phe during the recent extreme heat wave when wind generation, which is a major part of the Texas power portfolio, simply wasn’t there to be dispatched. The ERCOT system has 35,391 megawatts of installed wind power; less than 1,000 megawatts of that were Second,available.anewrange of nuclear power designs is making its way to market, and they have many advantages over the old, large plants of the kind that still produce 20 percent of the nation’s power, all of it dispatchable.Thenewreactors, small modular reactors (SMRs), come in various sizes and use dif fering technologies from today’s jumbo workhorses — and they promise great things.Apanel of nuclear power experts at a recent U.S. Energy Association virtual press briefing, which I organized and hosted, agreed that whether the technology is light water, molten salt or some other choice, SMRs will use less steel and concrete per unit of power produced, and they will require less land. They have superior, failure-resistant fuel and will be passive, inherently safer, and won’t require their big brothers’ pumps and backup generators. Also, Bud Albright, president of the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council, told the media that these reactors will operate for 60 or more years and require fueling less frequently.
California has more than 100 federally recognized tribes, ranging in size from five per sons to more than 6,000, and dozens of reservations. The involvement of Cali fornia’s Native Americans in political clashes with multi billion-dollar stakes is a tes tament to their resilience in a state that tried to enslave and eradicate them. Those who survived enslavement and smallpox and other diseases brought into California by explorers and migrantsfortune-seekingwereoften treated as “Thatvermin.awar of extermina tion will continue to be waged between the races, until the Indian race becomes extinct, must be expected,” California’s first elected gov ernor, Peter Burnett, declared after taking office in 1851.
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The SMRs come in various technologies and sizes, from NuScale’s 80-MW light water modules being built in Idaho to GE Hitachi Nuclear’s 300-MW reactor, the BWRX-300, being considered by the Ten nessee Valley Authority. The modules will offer utilities flexibility in the size of the installation as well as enable individual modules to be repaired while the plant con tinues to produce power. Cost remains an open issue. The USEA’s panel was quick to point out that factory manufacturing, standardization of design, and the simplicity of the new offerings would reduce their costs. But they weren’t so sure how these could go.
Doug True, vice president and chief nuclear officer of the Nuclear Energy Insti tute, said the act will level the playing field for nuclear compared to wind and solar. Louis Finkel, vice president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Associ ation, told me he thinks there will be a surge in interest among rural co-ops to build reactors and that some that now are only in the distribution business will be interested in adding generation. The Inflation Reduction Act makes this possible in several ways, but most impor tant, it extends to not-for-profit utilities, like the co-ops and municipals, the benefits of construction and operating tax credits. These they will receive in the form of a check from the Treasury, which can be as much as 30 percent of the project. Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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By GreG McPherson Special to The Enterprise Tree Davis is gearing up for a new season of events and activi ties that will bring com munity members together to enhance the living land scapes of our urban envi ronment. With this change of seasons, the Tree Davis team has a executiveommendationstransitionnizationaconservationrolemovesisDonleyexecutiveandfiveannouncementbittersweetthatafteryearsofplantingtreesgrowingcommunitydirectorErinMarineau’stenurecomingtoacloseassheontoastatewideinaWestern-regionorganization.ErinandIsatdownforconversationastheorgamanagesthisandseeksrecforanewdirector:
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Voiding Inequality and Seeking Inclusion for Our Immigrant Neighbors (VISION) Act — ends the automatic pipelining of immigrants from prison to ICE detention, helping to break this cycle of genderbased violence and ongo ingForpunishment.immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence, such as Gabriela Solano, Liyah Birru, Ny Nourn and Marisela Andrade, ICE transfers are particularly destructive. For example, it’s been one year since a California prison transferred Solano to ICE detention, which led to her deportation, ending her dreams of reuniting with loved ones. She was in prison because her abusive boyfriend used violence to coerce her into driving him to an area where he and others com mitted a car theft.
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So, what are the obvious and likely consequences of the staff’s boardwalk? By creating a 110-foot-long obstacle along the channel walls, dead tules, weeds, thatch, and other typical debris from the roughly 2 miles of the unmaintained dirt Covell Chan nel will get entangled in the boardwalk. It was channel clog ging in 2019 that contributed to the water flow back-up that eventually flooded Sutter Davis Hospital, Lake Boulevard and part of Covell Boulevard in 2019. That event resulted from the lack of channel maintenance.
By Dave TaorMino Special to The Enterprise After six years of wrangling with Davis city staff, Bret ton Woods is under con struction. The actual election process was easy compared to finalizing the details with Davis staff. We still have half-a-dozen important and extremely costly imposed conditions that impact costs to homebuyers. The craziest staff imposition requires customizing the new drainage tunnels to make the world’s fanciest frog and toad tunnels, reminiscent of the famous 1995 toad-tunnel fiasco that brought national embar rassment to Davis. As bizarre of a request as it sounds, that tun nel only cost $14,000; these four cost approximately $200,000. Two Davis staffers are demand ing the two bigger, better, fan cier, customized 110-foot-long tunnels paralleling Covell Boule vard near Risling Drive, and two more in our Bretton Woods Channel to accommodate crit ters. Without the details, it doesn’t sound unreasonable on itsToface.“critter customize” these tunnels will cost each senior home buyer in Bretton Woods somewhere around $600 per home. While not a princely sum, it is only one of a dozen unneces sary costs heaped on Bretton Woods by city staff. What does each homebuyer get in return? Absolutely nothing, nada! What do the critters get for the extra cost? Only the staff knows, and they aren’t sharing, just demanding.Wherethe critters are coming from or going; no one knows. I requested the staffers produce scientific evidence, or really any evidence, that this costly cus tomization provides any more worthwhile conditions than nor mal tunnels. Does the staff have evidence that critters will need the customization compared to a standard tunnel? Just like 1995, no.Sadly, the unintended conse quence of this forced customiz ing may be more 2019-like flooding of Sutter-Davis Hospi tal. Has the staff learned any thing from the 1995 toad tunnel debacle or the flooding of 2019? Judge for yourself. The two city staffers’ demands require that the four new drain age tunnels be enlarged beyond their intended size and purpose and customized with adding a new bottom of 6 inches of addi tional hand-poured concrete, then hand stamped to look and feel like individual cobblestones. Something akin to Old Sacra mentoWhy?streets.Apparently to create a “critter friendly feeling” so that frogs, toads and other critters will be comfortable entering a dark 110 ft long, 4-foot-tall tun nel. Previously, Davis staff added “starlight” custom tunnel light ing to “comfort” the critters. Happily, not this time. Where are the staff’s data to show what frogs and critters prefer? None provided.
The tunnels under Highway 113 were at approximately 65% capacity because excess drainage water couldn’t get through the channel to the 113 tunnels. The Covell channel was backed up and slowed by years of tule, weed growth and build-up of sedi ment. Bretton Woods’ lots will be built on raised land above the flood plain and will have their own drainage channel intention ally maintained by the Home owners Association and not city staff.To see photos of the city’s cur rent maintenance of the infa mous 1995 Toad Tunnel, the flooding of Sutter Davis in 2019, or the Bretton Woods Channel Maintenance Manual go to www. fletcherthefrog.com. — Dave Taormino is a Davisbased real estate developer at Taormino and Associates Inc.
— Alisa Bierria is an assistant professor in the department of gender stud ies at UCLA and a cofounder of Survived & Punished. Lee Ann S. Wang is an assistant pro fessor in the department of Asian American studies and the department of social welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. They wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journal ism venture committed to explaining how Califor nia’s Capitol works and why it matters.
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Greg: Absolutely, Erin, there is so much good work yet to be done. That is why we are asking our community members to provide recommendations for candidates for our next Executive Director. A job posting can be found Erin?Whatorg/job-opportunities.https://www.treedavis.atisnextforyou, Erin: In October, I will be the new California direc tor of programs for The Freshwater Trust, a non profit that works through out the Pacific Northwest and Northern California on river restoration and freshwater conservation, which is exactly what I studied in graduate school. Though I’m feeling called to address climate change and conservation in the field of water resour-ces, I will always be a friend to Tree Davis moving for ward.The success of Tree Davis’ mission is so impor tant for our community! So here’s to 30 more years of Tree Davis planting trees and growing commu nity. My family and I will remain in Davis and we look forward to seeing you at a Tree Davis volunteer event soon: filled.theatedApplicationsorg/job-opportunities/.https://www.treedavis.structionsterrolefororg/volunteer.www.treedavis.ProspectiveapplicantstheExecutiveDirectorcansubmitacoverletandrésuméviathein-onourwebsite:areapprecibySept.12,however,positionisopenuntil
Greg: Over the past five years, Tree Davis has overseen major tree planting projects in Davis, West Sacramento and Woodland. During your tenure, Erin, more than 3,000 trees were planted and thousands of volun teers were engaged in stewardship activities. You forged new partnerships with the city of Davis, Woodland Tree Founda tion, UC Davis, Sutter Davis, DJUSD and numer ous other organizations that have enhanced appre ciation and investment in our urban forest. Looking ahead, what important work do you see for Tree Davis? Erin: First, it has been an immense privilege to serve in this role and to work with a passionate and engaged Board, stellar staff, and active volunteer community. Our tree com munity and the greater communities of Davis and Yolo County are so special in their willingness to search and reach for com munity and environmental betterment. I want to extend my personal thanks to Tree Davis’ founders, Board members, staff, donors, community part ners, and volunteers for pulling together to do incredible work over the past 5 years. This is really a spring board moment for Tree Davis. There is a lot of momentum behind Tree Davis’ new Climate-Ready Landscape Initiative which will be very important in protecting and enhancing the public green-space assets of Yolo County. A simple walk in Tree Davis’ Memorial Grove, where Climate-Ready whatprovidestionsentedtransformationsLandscapearepreforpubliceducaandenjoyment,aglimpseintocouldbearealityfor many other public spaces across the County — more native and droughttolerant plants, greater biodiversity, habitat for pollinators and wildlife, the list goes on. The upcoming work in education with Yolo County students to teach and engage them with Climate-Ready Land scapes work is also some thing that will be a great enhancement for this com munity.
Tragically, a passenger in Solano’s car instigated an altercation that ended in a person’s death. Solano was horrified, but her abuser forced her to conceal what happened. California allows courts to prosecute people like Solano for murder, even if they did not kill anyone. Solano was prosecuted and received a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, condemning her to incarceration until her death.Solano had been incar cerated for 20 years when she was granted clemency, a rare occurrence that led to her parole. But when she was set to be released from state prison, she was immediately picked up by ICE. She spent the next agonizing months in an ICE detention center in Colorado, a third site of violence and punishment, before she was deported in June 2021.
advocate for themselves in immigration court. Even if immigrants in ICE deten tion make a successful claim to remain in the United States, they can remain incarcerated if ICE appeals the decision, a process that can drag on for months or even years. Ending ICE transfers allows people to return to their support networks and access any health care needed to address the traumatic impact of abuse and incarceration, which can make all the difference as they navigate an ardu ous legal Finally,ordeal.theVISION Act will help curb one throughline of the inten sive, ongoing punishment that getedvulnerablenitiesgrantviolence,survivorstargetsdisproportionatelyBlackmigrants,ofgender-basedandotherimmiandrefugeecommuthatareparticularlytobeingtarforcriminalization.
In the interests of public safety, California must pri oritize accessible care and community support rather than perpetuate violence and punishment. We must challenge institutions of punishment in our com munities where lives are lost and gender violence is the norm. For these rea sons, passing the VISION Act must be a priority.
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Now there’s another practical problem. After the first rain, the 110-foot long, hand-impressed grout fills in with sediment and the expensive hand-stamped cobblestone surface will be no different than the bottom of a normal drainage tunnel. These real-life conditions will continue with each major rainfall. Will the Public Works staff remove the sediment in order to expose their “critter-friendly feeling pattern” and maintain the handimpressed, customized cobble stone look? You guessed it, no. So, why then punish Bretton Woods homebuyers with unnec essaryAnd,costs?likethe old TV ads for Ginsu knives, “but wait … the staff has more.” The same two city staffers also demand the addition of an 18-inch wide, hand-made, 110-foot-long, wooden boardwalk roughly halfway up the 4-foot-tall tunnel walls so that critters who are uncomfortable with wet feet, (mice, rats and other rodents), are provided an inviting and comforting passage into the long, dark tunnels. No expense spared, especially since it’s paid by Bretton Woods’ homebuyers.
The VISION Act will help accomplish three key goals.First, ICE detention centers are notorious for human rights abuses, including sexual and reproductive violence. Allowing prison-to-ICE transfers makes California complicit in state-enforced pregnancy because ICE detention centers block access to abortions, includ ing when pregnancies result from rape (a system atic form of violence that often occurs in ICE deten tion without recourse). Further, survivors have exposed the openallowsdetention.plelimittheto-ICE-detentiontion.imprisonedsterilizationsICE-enforcedofpeopleinICEdetenByendingtheprison-pipeline,VISIONActwillhelpthenumbersofpeoimpactedbyICESecond,theVISIONActpeoplewhohavecitizenshipcasesto
Tree Davis bids farewell to executive director
— Greg McPherson is the board president of Tree Davis. Courtesy photo Erin Donley Marineau will move on from her position as executive director of Tree Davis.
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Like all good Davisites, I’m a bit obsessed with believ ing that our town is stu pendous. I have not formally polled people in other towns to see if they are equally as capti vated by their chosen burgs, but I have a sense that Davis resi dents are particularly smitten. I also am of the mind that Davis is the only true college town in California, a point I take irrational pride in. When I’m not being irra tional, I also acknowledge that Chico is a legit college town. So when a recent story appeared in The Los Angeles Times touting a “list of the state’s nine best college towns,” I was perturbed. Nine? What in the actual“Perturbed”huh? was immediately followed by frantically searching to see if Davis was on this list, which was combined with swell ing righteous scorn when it wasn’t at the top of the list. Oh, I see, the list is neither ranked nor alphabetical — it’s geographical from south to north — so my scorn subsided on that front. But I am still a bit affronted that I really only see two on the list — Davis and Chico — that are college towns and not towns withThecolleges.writer, Christopher Reyn olds, made his case for why he chose nine schools in his piece, “What to do, see and eat in Cali fornia’s nine best college to-do?s=03)california-college-towns-things-travel/story/2022-08-16/best-(https://www.latimes.com/towns.”
4. Geography: Minsk is the capital of what country?5.Politics: The name of what U.S. state is an anagram of something that they evidently don’t like in that state? Answers: Python, Sneezy, to the stars, Belarus, Texas and Taxes. Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at yourquizmaster.com.www.
Over the last year, the Yolo Crisis Nursery saw a 14.5% increase in the number of families impacted by domestic vio lence and a 20% increase in those at risk for home lessness. Inflation on essentials like rent, gas, food, and childcare has made it difficult for par ents to provide for their families.Sinceopening our doors in 2001, we have seen, firsthand, the tremendous resiliency of the children and families we serve as they cope with the intensi fying burdens of poverty, housing and food insecu rity, mental health chal lenges, and domestic violence.Therecently released 2022-2024 Yolo County Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), identified basic needs such as housing, jobs, and food, as well as mental/ behav ioral health and substance use services as the top two health issues facing Yolo County. This closely mir rors what Yolo Crisis Nursery families are expe riencing. CHNA emerged from the work of Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) in collaboration with basicHealthsupportWintersHealth,HealthCommuniCareCenters,DignitySutterHealth,andHealthcare,withfromCommunityInsights.Thelackofaccesstoneedsandmental health care creates toxic stress for families and places children at an increased risk of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). The long-term impact of ACEs is costly for our Untreated,community.ACEscan neg atively impact mental and physical health, education, and job opportunities into adulthood.TheNursery’s life-alter ing programs help to pre vent ACEs and mitigate their impact. By taking a whole-family approach, the staff work with fami lies to provide a path to a healthy, stable, and selfreliant future. The Nurs ery’s programs are not a temporary solution, they are an upstream invest ment in the success of our community’s most vulner ableRecentlychildren.aYolo Crisis Nursery mom shared, “I was fleeing a domestic vio lence situation that left us homeless when I found the nursery. My Client Naviga tor helped me find a strength within myself that I did not know I had. I now have a home, car, and career in healthcare. I am now able to provide a safe and stable home for my family. The Yolo Crisis Nursery changed my life forever. I am living proof of the great impact the Yolo Crisis Nursery can have on a family in need.” “I have witnessed countless families in seri ous, life-threatening crises transition into thriving families that are making our community a better place,” said Yolo Crisis Nursery executive director Heather Sleuter. “Our whole-family approach has been incredibly suc cessful with 98 percent of respite care families not entering the child-welfare system.”Thenursery protects children from immediate, grave harm and creates long-term change by helping families break generational cycles of abuse and neglect. I invite you to join me in support ing the nursery and its important mission. To learn more about the nursery and how we help children whose families are in crisis, at risk of homelessness, and/or experiencing abuse find a path to family stability and strength, please visit our website drennursery.org.www.yolocrisisIfyoubelieveallchildeservetogrowup in a safe, stable, and loving home, please join us and get involved with the Yolo Crisis Nursery; volunteer, make a financial contribu tion, or join the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery. The Yolo Crisis Nursery Barn Dance is just around the corner! Please save the date and join us on Satur day, October 8, at the Cen tral Park Pavilion in Davis to kick up your heels for kids!The event is hosted by the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery and spon sored by Nugget Markets. Tickets will go on sale Aug. 31 for only $25 www.yolocrisisnursery.org.at — Joan Smith-Maclean is a member of the Yolo Crisis Nursery board of directors.
Davis on L.A. Times’ list of college towns
“Among the scores of schools in California,” Reynolds writes,”how did I choose just nine? I decided to favor smaller cities, focusing on municipalities with fewer than 120,000 residents. (Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, San Fran cisco, you may harbor great schools, but are they really central to your identities? Consider your selves wait-listed.) I also favored universities with more than 5,000 undergrads, campuses at least 50 years old and schools that cozy up to their towns rather than standing aloof on the out skirts.”So,after coming to terms with the notion that Palo Alto is being considered a college town, I skimmed on down to Davis. And here’s where the real fun was! Reynolds enlisted residents of each place to act as “local guides,” which means beyond the normal write-up about Davis and UC Davis — Farmers Mar ket, Davis Bike Loop, Picnic Day — readers got specifics. Our local guides were none other than former Enterprise “Personal Shopper” columnist Heidy Kellison and UCD sociol ogy professor Eddy U. OMGood ness, this is gonna be way more fun!Both Kellison and U gave shout-outs to local eateries that might not be the first places a visitor notices — Zen Toro and the Hotdogger among them. And, of course, by Davis-resident obligation, they lauded the UCD Arboretum and bike trails. Kellison also suggested shop ping at Boheme Hip Used Cloth ing and Pinkadot, while U didn’t choose the obvious answer of “bikes” to the question of navi gating Davis and instead recom mended Unitrans. Also, Reynolds offered an interesting tidbit about the cost of staying here: “Davis has 13 hotels that average $169.13 nightly. The 735 nearby Airbnb units average $164.” I thought Kellison, U and Reynolds gave a nice snapshot of Davis, and I’d definitely want to give it a look if I hadn’t been here before.However, Chico might really give us a run for our collegetown money. Did you know they have the National Yo-Yo Museum there? It also has swimming holes, thanks to Big Chico Creek, and Sierra Nevada Brewery.Butas I think of it, we have the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, Putah Creek and Sudwerk. And tipping the scales in our favor, we have Eggheads. — 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.
“Dr. Goldman remains a Tahoe legend,” said Regan, a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. “Not only did his research raise awareness of declining lake clarity that eventually led to the forma tion of the unique bi-state compact and this agency, but the profound effect of his teachings continues to inspire students.”
Dr. Darcie Collins (right), executive director of the League to Save Lake Tahoe, and Amy Berry (center) CEO of the Tahoe Fund, honor Dr. Charles Goldman (left) with the Dianne Feinstein Lake Tahoe award at the Lake Tahoe Summit on Aug. 16. CourtesY photo
Yolo Crisis Nursery has served more than 8,000 children and their families since opening in 2001.
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Dr. Charles Goldman, a longtime limnologist and distinguished professor emeritus at UC Davis, received the Dianne Fein stein Lake Tahoe Award at the 26th annual Lake Tahoe Summit on Aug. 16. The award honors exem plary leaders with a proven track record of work to improve Lake Tahoe’s clar ity, natural beauty, and overall environmental health. Goldman famously sounded the alarm in the 1960s that harmful devel opment practices in the Tahoe Basin were destroy ing the lake’s famed water clarity. His work led to the decision to export sewage from the watershed and has helped guide sciencebased decision making for decades.“Itisboth humbling and an honor to receive this award after the privi lege of being able to study and help promote the con servation of Lake Tahoe for over 60 years,” Gold man said. “It is essential to maintain both Tahoe con servation and the moun tain economy for the sake of this and future genera tions.”Goldman taught ocean ography and limnology, the study of lakes and other freshwater bodies, at UCD. He has worked on every continent on the globe, from Oregon’s Cra ter Lake, to Antarctica, where a glacier is now named after him. Lake Tahoe, however, remains his favorite. His early records on lake clarity allow Lake Tahoe to have one of the longest-running data sets of any lake in the world. He also founded the Tahoe Research Group at UC Davis, now known as the Tahoe Environmen tal Research Center with a world class laboratory.
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“I have witnessed countless families in serious, life-threatening crises transition into thriving families that are making our community a better place.”
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Over his 52 years of teaching, he was a mentor to 1,500 graduatestudents,undergraduatemorethan100students,and37 post-docs. These students have made lasting scientific contributions. During his acceptance speech he asked the audience if any of his former students were pres ent. Several hands raised in response, and among them was Tahoe Regional Plan ning Agency Deputy Direc tor Julie Regan.
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UC Davis investigates tau protein, link to dementia
Tau is one of a group of pro teins found in all kinds of cells, from single cell amoebas to insects to people, that associate with microtubules, large protein filaments that fill the inside of cells. Microtubules provide a framework within the cell that provides structure and organiza tion, as well as allowing items to move around within the cell and for the cell itself to move. For these things to happen, microtu bules have to interact with many otherTheirproteins.2019paper showed that healthy tau molecules could assemble with each other, form ing an “envelope” around micro tubules, a novel behavior that the authors showed could play a reg ulatory role by making it harder, or easier, for certain other pro teins to attach to the microtubule.
By Andy Fell Special to The Enterprise
In Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative demen tias, proteins that normally play a role in healthy brain tissue turn bad, clumping together to form insoluble plaques and tangles as neurons wither and die. Exactly how these proteins are connected to disease — and whether they can be targeted in some way to slow, stop or reverse its progression — remains a chal lenging problem. New research from UC Davis reveals a novel role for how one of these proteins, tau, functions in healthy nerve cells, bringing us closer to under standing how it could be involved in pathology. The work was pub lished Aug. 22 in Nature Chemi calTauBiology.protein is implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases, said Kassandra OriMcKenney, associate professor in the UC Davis department of molecular and cellular biology and a corresponding author on the paper. The brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease contain tangles of tau protein and plaques of another protein, beta amyloid. However, tau protein tangles also occur in a variety of diseases, collectively referred to as “tauopa thies,” and other neurodegenera tive conditions, including following traumatic brain injury. It was thought that “healthy” tau exists as single protein mole cules, and that tau causes disease when it clumps together with other tau proteins, forming the insoluble tau tangles. But in 2019, Ori-McKenney and Rich ard McKenney, associate profes sor in the same department, showed that healthy tau could self-associate and come apart again, revealing that self-associa tion of tau molecules may not necessarily always lead to pathol ogy.“In its natural form tau can self-assemble and disassemble, so what is the tipping point that produces a form where it can’t disassemble and forms a tangle?” Ori-McKenney said. Tau withassociatedmicrotubules
In the new paper, Ori-McKen ney, McKenney and collaborators in the Czech Republic carried out a series of experiments with tau proteins and isolated microtu bules. They found that not only can tau self-assemble to form an envelope around microtubules, but that when it does so it squeezes the microtubule into a more compact form. It can do this because microtubules are made up of pairs (dimers) of indi vidual tubulin proteins, and there is a little bit of squishiness — about two angstroms — between dimers.This means that tau protein can change the compaction along a length of microtubule, which in turn affects how other proteins attach to it. For example, kinesin-1, a motor protein that can move along microtu bules, will only attach to an expanded microtubule. The team also looked at other proteins that are evolutionarily related to tau, microtubule asso ciated proteins (MAP) 2 and 4. MAP2, they found, behaves like tau and can compact microtu bules but MAP4 does not. These results suggest that tau and MAP2 might have evolved the ability to compact microtubules for specific functions within cells. Interestingly, both proteins are largely found only in the nervous system, while MAP4 is found in most tissues in the body, suggest ing the roles of tau and MAP2 in microtubule compaction may be very important in neurons. Neither MAP2 or MAP4 are known to be associated with dis ease states. In future work, the researchers hope to figure out the steps between healthy tau selfassembly and pathological irre versible tangles and the roles of these proteins in different organ isms.
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Kings owner and chair man Vivek Ranadivé added, “We are thrilled to be partnering with Susan Savage and her family, who made the River Cats into a tremendous community asset with a great brand and tradition. We look for ward to building on their inspiring legacy and con tinuing to provide families with memorable experi ences.”Arctos Sports Partners Partner Chad Hutchinson and Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, voiced their support of the Kings and River“WeCats.are proud of our partnership with the Kings and believe strongly in Vivek’s innovative vision of building a world-class sports and entertainment platform, coupled with his deep commitment to the Sacramento community,” Hutchinson said. “This is a unique opportunity to bring together two iconic organizations in one of the most dynamic markets in the country. We are com mitted to working closely with the Kings to serve the Sacramento community and deliver an exceptional fanMatsuiexperience.”added, “In Sacra mento, sports are part of our identity and a common cause that brings us all together. The Kings, the River Cats, and all of their fans embody the passion, energy, and civic pride of our great region. This announcement builds upon this tight-knit community fabric, drawing together two Sacramento icons and economic anchors of our region."With nearly 60 years of combined history in Sacra mento, the Kings and River Cats have long prioritized giving back to the region and Friday's announce ment allows for deeper impacts and investments. Through community programs and initiatives such as Jr. Kings program ing, Kings and Queens Rise Co-Ed Youth Sports and Mentoring League and bas ketball court refurbish ments, the Kings dedicate time, resources, talent and passion to give the commu nity the support it needs to thrive. In recognition of their leadership in social responsibility and work to address social injustice, the Kings were awarded the NBA Inclusion Innovation award in 2019 and 2020. Similarly, the River Cats have impacted the commu nity through the AAA School Program, Home Run Tours, hosting camps at River Cats Independence Field for children with dis abilities, baseball and soft ball field makeovers, the Art of Baseball Calendar and Sutter Health hospital visits. In addition, the River Cats Foundation was established in 2000 and focuses on financially sup porting family and youthbased activities in the greater Sacramento area. The Kings have a com munity-first approach to real estate and business development. The organi zation has been instrumen tal in the revitalization of Downtown Sacramento, making Golden 1 Center and the surrounding Downtown Commons (DOCO) a thriving busi ness and entertainment center that brings hun dreds of thousands of peo ple to Sacramento’s urban core each year. As the most technologi cally advanced and sustain able arena in the world, Golden 1 Center is 100 percent solar powered and runs an industry-leading food and beverage program that sources 90 percent of available ingredients from within 150 miles of the
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Kings to take over as majority owner of River Cats
SACRAMENTO — On Friday, the Sacramento River Cats, Sacramento Kings and Arctos Sports Partners announce a new partnership that estab lishes the Kings as the majority owner of the MiLB Triple-A team, bringing the River Cats’ business operations under the Kings umbrella. The River Cats will remain the Triple-A affili ate for the three-time World Series Champion San Francisco Giants and Susan Savage, longtime owner of the River Cats, will continue to serve as a strategic business advisor and member of the owner ship“Mygroup.sons, Jeff and Brent, helped me continue what my late husband Art started back in 2000, pro viding fun, safe and familyfriendly entertainment for everyone in the Sacramento region,” said River Cats Strategic Business Advisor Susan Savage. “As our fam ily looks to transition into new ventures, we identified the Sacramento Kings as the perfect strategic part ner to continue this tradi tion while deepening the organization’s footprint in a region we all love. It has always been about the com munity and our employees and that will not change."
arena, reducing its carbon footprint and supporting the local economy. In addition, Golden 1 Center is a top-performing arena globally — ranking No. 6 in worldwide and US for ticket sales according to Pollstar. In 2021, Golden 1 Center sold more than 207,000 tickets for major concerts and shows, host ing 11 of the top 100 world wideThetours.River Cats franchise was purchased by Art Sav age in October 1998 and was relocated to Sacra mento prior to the 2000 season from Vancouver (Canada).Sincemoving to Sacra mento, the River Cats have won five Pacific Coast League titles and are the only club to win three Tri ple-A Championships. In 2021, the River Cats and Giants signed a longterm partnership extension that keeps the River Cats as the Giants’ top minor league affiliate through the 2030 season. Sutter Health Park was built in 2000 and has become the corner stone for West Sacramen to’s Bridge District development as it brings in hundreds of thousands of people to the area for ball games, Brewfest at the Ballpark, Fourth on the Field, concerts, various sporting events, walks, graduations and more.
Arctos Sports Partners is a private investment firm that invests in and collabo rates with innovative and visionary ownership groups, sports businesses, and leagues across North American professional sports and European soc cer. Arctos’ partners are able to leverage the deep industry knowledge and operational expertise of the firm’s 30 investment and operational professionals and senior advisors, includ ing Theo Epstein, to help drive additional value for theirDanorganization.Barrettof CAA ICON and Bob Stanley of Evolution Media Capital served as sell-side advisors to the River Cats.
Rachel KReageR/enteRpRise file photo Dinger, the Sacramento River Cats’ mascot, pumps up the crowd before a recent home game at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento earlier this month.
