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The two county offices want their clients and the general public to know that everyone in the commu nity retains the right to vote, regard less of any misdemeanor or felony convictions.Votersmust register to vote by Oct. 24 to be eligible to vote on election day (Nov. 8). The probation depart ment will host voter registration drives at the Woodland and West Sacramento offices on Oct. 6 and the public defender’s office will host a voter registration drive on National Voter Registration Day – Sept. 20. In collaboration with the Yolo County Children’s Alliance, the public defender’s office will host this voter registration drive at Project Home key in West Sacramento.
“Therefore, staff feels that requiring a CUP to exceed five bathrooms would fur ther address the issue of homes being designed to maximize rental returns.
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The data management sys tem for California’s K-12 schools has been on the fritz for months after it was updated in April then rolled out with mini mal testing, potentially jeopar dizing school-district funding.
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The California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data Sys tem, or CALPADS, stores infor mation for the state’s 6 million public school students. It’s how the state knows how many
students have learning disabili ties, are experiencing homeless ness or qualify as English learners. The California Depart ment of Education uses this demographic data to calculate how much funding will go to the state’s more than 1,000 school districts. Districts with more high-needs students get more money based on that data.
Mini-dorms back on council agenda
The Davis City Council will consider another ordi nance aimed at limiting so-called “mini-dorms” in predominately single-fam ily reconfiguredatheorrequiringwillrooms.ingsnewadditions,permitsrequiringadoptedTheneighborhoods.councilpreviouslyanordinanceconditionalusetobeacquiredforconversionsorconstructionsofdwellwithsixormorebedOnTuesday,thecouncilconsideranordinancethesameforsixmorebathrooms.Accordingtocitystaff,ordinanceisaresultofrecentproposalforaresidencethat
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“These designs are often incompatible with and cre ate impacts on single-fam ily and nancethemending30.whichableagenda:andto,nificanttotheimmediate“wouldordinance,neighborhoods.”two-familyApprovaloftheproposedstaffsaid,provideforthepreservationofhealth,safetyorwelfarethecity,andavoidsigirreversiblechangeorlossof,neighborhoodcommunitycharacter.”AlsoonTuesday’scouncilthecity’saffordhousingordinance,issettoexpireNov.CitystaffarerecomthecouncilextendsunsetdateoftheordithroughJune2023,
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would exceed five bath rooms, though not five bedrooms.“Stafffeels the configura tion of the floor plan modi fications would allow further subdivision of liv ing space and bedrooms resulting in an over crowded, small-scale dor mitory-style home,” according to the report prepared for Tuesday’s meeting.“TheCUP requirement has proven effective to avoid overcrowding in homes with six or more bedrooms,” the report said.
The education-program cost stands at $40 million and includes the modern ization of existing class rooms, buildings systems, energy efficiency, site utili ties and infrastructure as well. In the technology category, which comes in at $15 million, the funds
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and missing information about accommodations for students with disabilities. Administra tors feared they would lose funding due to these inaccura cies.“Some districts felt at the time they were going to lose funding because of no fault of their own,”said Jeremy Davis, the assistant superintendent of innovation & instructional sup port at the Fullerton School District. “And it wasn’t being
Earlier this year, the state’s new software update generated reams of inaccurate data about students with disabilities, dis rupting standardized testing. Leading up to the new school year, districts that usually might have a few dozen initial errors were seeing thousands when their data specialists uploaded student data into the statewide system. The errors included wrong enrollment numbers, duplicate student information
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While one department official said nearly all the state’s schools will still get their full funding, the recent malfunctions have
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In partnership with the Yolo County Elections Office, the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office and the Yolo County Probation Depart ment will conduct voter education and outreach to people impacted by the criminal-legal system, the county announced Friday.
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The Davis school board recognized National His panic Heritage Month at its meeting on Thursday, along with the usual busi ness with various updates and approvals from the district.Ontop of the to-do list was an update on the bond program, which was presented by school dis trict’s executive director of capital operations, David Burke. He covered multiple sources of fund ing, the history of the Measure M bond pro gram, instances where
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With the recent popularity of axolotls efforts are being put in place to help preserve their natu ral habitats and bring
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Axolotls are only found in the wild in the Xochimilco lake com plexes near Mexico City.They are suction feeders, using a vacuumlike mechanism to suck small invertebrates into their mouths forInconsumption.a2009survey, it was thought that fewer than 1,200 axolotls lived in the wild. The ever-present expansion of human habitation decimated their habitat, along with water pollution and the introduction of invasive species. Non-native fish species compete with axolotls for food sources, as well as eating their eggs.
Neoteny is the retention of juve nile traits in an adult. All other species of salamander have a lar val phase that looks just like an axolotl with a finned tail and external gills but will metamor phose into an adult salamander and lose their gills and fins. Axo lotls instead retain their juvenile traits as they age and live a fully aquatic life.
Enjoy an evening of music, short film clips, and books signing with film reviewer Derrick Bang, on Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Sec ond St. in Davis. Doors open at 6:29 p.m. and the evening kicks off at 7:01 p.m.Bang dove into the his tory of jazz on film with the intent of producing a single concise volume. Five years later, it had blossomed into two books: “Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 19501970”; and “Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971.”
Axolotls are named for the Aztec god Xolotl, who was trans formed into a salamander to live as a water monster forever.Axo lotls are a species of salamander and have fascinated scientists for decades with their neoteny and great ability to regenerate.
It does not inhibit their ability to breed and continue to live nor mal lives. Some will go through a metamorphosis and develop into a salamander that is closely related to a tiger salamander, but not all of them will. Axolotls also have an amazing ability to regenerate. In just a few months they can regrow lost limbs, tails, eyes and even parts of their brains. Transplanted
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“This lively evening will feature a ‘how it all hap pened’ chat, punctuated by plenty of audio and video clips of classic crime/spy jazz themes, along with an opportunity to win a free set of Derrick’s two books,” said Dave Rosenberg, chair
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their populations back up. Conservation includes preserving their habitats from destruction, relocating inva sive species, and closely monitoring numbers and health of individuals.
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Although it is best to keep wild animals wild, axolotls would likely be extinct now if not for being in captivity. Each survey finds fewer and fewer axolotls in the wild and there are currently conservation efforts being implemented to bring their populations back.
Plant flowers now!
Or, if you’re tired of putting hundreds of gallons of water a week on your lawn, consider reducing or replacing it. More informal plantings of ornamental
and native grasses, combined with flowering plants and other ground covers, can make a yard that’s more interesting, better for wildlife and the environment, and still suitable for light foot traffic.
UCD’s Gunrock poses for photos with residents of Baywood Lane in East Davis at a 2017 Neighbors’ Night Out party.
September and October are ideal times to plant annuals that flower in winter and spring. Right now we can plant snapdragons, stock, sweet peas, pansies and violas, calendulas andWhilewildflowers.youcanstart these from seed, you’ll find it easier and faster to pur chase seedlings for transplanting.
16.Davis Neighbors’ Night Out is a yearly celebration of commu nity and camaraderie that encourages neighbors to get to know one another, as connected neighborhoods create safer and more caring places to live, the city noted in a press release. This event is held in October to include new and returning UC Davis students in neighborhood festivities.In2021, more than 100 neighborhood events were held all over Davis. Event suggestions include potlucks for dinner, appetizers or dessert, neighbor
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Some flowers are best planted from seed. It’s an ideal time right now to scatter seed for California poppies and other wildflowers. California poppy seeds should not be covered; the seeds need light to germinate. The seedlings should be in a sunny spot where they won’t get crowded by other plants or weeds.
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I used the term unprecedented because this heat wave set some seri ous records. Two days at about 115 degrees, nine days over 100 and very warm nights in the 80s nearly until sunrise? That’s not something we’ve seen before, especially not in Septem ber. So it is actually hard to predict what the impact will be on these weakened trees and blasted shrubs. The best advice is to wait and see. Leaf drop will obviously weaken the trees and shrubs, but pruning may not be advisable yet. Watering them deeply at least once this month can make a big difference. Allow the sur face soil to go somewhat dry between waterings. Take care to avoid light, frequent irrigations that keep the plants damp at their crown — that’s an invitation to crown rot (phytophthora), and we’re already seeing samples of plants injured by a combination of heat stress and crown/root infection. Drought stressed plants can recover, but infected shrubs and trees may not.
The drought and reduced irrigation had already taken its toll on many landscape shrubs and trees, so this unprecedented heat was simply the fi nal blow for some larger woody plants. Unfortunately, coast redwoods are dead and dying all over the Valley. Calleryana pears, birches, ash trees and others were weakened. I recently looked at an Italian alder (Alnus cor data) which had abruptly dropped over one quarter to half of its leaves a day or so after the heat wave, indicat ing severe root injury.
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• Leafy greens we plant now, and through the winter, include kale, but also lettuce, arugula and radicchio, and the leaves of beets and mustards.
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Root vegetables we plant in the fall include beets, carrots, radishes and turnips.Onions and their cousins are quite easy to grow here, but it’s early to start them. Garlic and shallot bulbs typically are available in October. The easiest and most effective way to plant onions is from bareroot plants, which are shipped out to garden cen ters here in the first week of Novem ber. Go ahead now and spread some compost out over the bed where you plan to put them and water it a bit. Onions grow best in loose soil in full sun.•Ifyou’re not going to plant winter vegetables, a cover crop can reduce weeds, increase soil organic material, and provide nitrogen for next sum mer’s vegetables and flowers. Plant fava beans and clover to increase ni trogen and draw pollinators and other beneficial insects. Annual ryegrass and oats grow vigorously and crowd out weeds, then provide straw when mowed in spring.
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Sweet peas are vines that scramble up onto a simple trellis or fence.
The 16th annual Davis Neigh bors’ Night Out is Sunday, Oct.
If you want to rejuvenate your lawn, rake out the dead patches, wait until we are a bit further into fall weather, and overseed. If there’s a lot of dead grass and thatch, you may need to dethatch first. Scattering seeds just before a rainstorm is especially effec tive. Repeat the reseeding as needed, sometimes two or three times, until you achieve good density. I have had good results overseeding lawns all the way into December. Fescue grasses generally have better drought recov ery than other types, although some of the new perennial ryegrass varieties are proving to be well adapted here.
hood activities like a scavenger hunt or talent show, or just a gathering of neighbors to meet in the street for good conversa tion.“Davis Neighbors’ Night Out is a great opportunity for our residents to build community in a meaningful way,” said Mayor Lucas“DueFrerichs.tothe pandemic, the past few years have been isolat ing for many of us, and this annual event provides an oppor tunity for neighbors to recon nect and to welcome new people to their respective neighbor hoods. We are also grateful for our ongoing partnership with ASUCD and UC Davis in making this event such a suc cess.”To find a nearby event, visit org.5602Manager’stactandwillorg/neighbors.sponsor,borhood.smalltakessponsor.areandLiaisons,ciations,neighbors,bors.http://cityofdavis.org/neighIfnoeventislistednearby,neighborhoodassoNeighborhoodWatchapartmentcomplexeshomeownerassociationsencouragedtobeaneventTheeventsponsortheleadinsettingupagatheringintheirneighTosignuptobeaneventvisit:http://cityofdavis.Eventsponsorsreceiveeventinstructionsafewpartyfavors.Formoreinformation,conCarrieDyerintheCityOfficeat530-757-orDNNO@cityofdavis.
After an epic heat wave, some cool breezy days and a hint of rain coming, people are turning with relief to fall. If you’re new to this area from a colder climate, you’ll be happy to know we have two full gardening seasons in Northern California. Our summer gardens of flowers and vegetables keep producing into late October, weather permitting. Some times tomato and pepper plants keep ripening fruit into November. But with our relatively mild fall and winter temperatures, we plant a whole range of plants now for harvest and blos soms in winter and spring. We can now pivot from our summer gardens and start planting cool season veg etables and flowers.
Plant snapdragons in fall for winter and spring bloom. Plant in full sun, water until the rains begin.
For winter and spring flowers for cutting, it’s hard to beat snapdrag ons. If you’re into bouquets, look for the old-fashioned varieties. They start blooming later than newer hybrids, but give great long stems of flowers from February through April. Snapdragons attract swallowtail but terflies and hummingbirds.
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Winter vegetables and flowers all do best in full sun. Water every day or so at first, especially if we’re having unusually warm or windy weather. By late October you should only need to water every few days, and once we’ve had an inch or so of rain the plants can fend for themselves. None of the plants I’ve mentioned are sensitive to frost; all will grow and bloom through winter and spring.
Deciduous trees may simply drop their leaves early and go dormant. Most will not resprout this late in the season. We won’t really know the ex tent of their injury until spring. Larger trees that are prematurely defoliating should be assessed by a tree service for safety.
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Lawns look rough, to put it mildly, after the extraordinary temperatures during the first ten days of September.
• It’s time to plant brassicas, leafy greens, root crops, and start prepar ing your garden for onions and their relatives.Brassicas are also called cole crops. These are the winter vegetables derived, by centuries of selection, from wild cabbage (Brassica olera cea): broccoli, cauliflower (including Romanesco), collards and kale. While you can seed any of these directly in the garden, most gardeners prefer to transplant our seedlings they’ve started or purchased. Some require an even longer head start, making them a little tricky in our region due to our late summer heat — we’re already late for planting Brussels sprouts.
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Stock and sweet peas are grown especially for their fragrance. Sweet peas need a small trellis or fence to climb on. The seedlings are very at tractive to white-crowned sparrows, which can demolish whole plantings in a single flock’s visit, so be prepared to cover the young plants with mesh or even strawberry baskets for the first couple of weeks after you plant them.•Calendulas are bright orange and yellow daisies that bloom all winter. They are very easy to grow and will reseed happily, blooming all through winter and spring. They are especially attractive to bees and butterflies.
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1976 to 1980 and she was a fac ulty member of California Medi cal Association from 1981 to 1985.Marilyn started a part-time private practice as an educational psychologist, marriage, family and child counselor from 1974 to 1987. She retired from the Davis Joint Unified Schools and contin ued with her private practice from 1987 to 2012. Marilyn served on the board of directors and community counsel for Sui cide Prevention of Yolo County for more than 35 years, serving in many roles including president.
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Marilyn was raised in the small town of Ramsey, Ill., which she described “as a type of Mayberry, RFD.” Marilyn’s parents owned a small grocery store in Ramsey. She attended the same large twostory brick school building start ing from the corner of the first floor, and finished high school 12 years later in several rooms on the top floor. She was valedictorian of the graduating class of 26 pupils.
about adding backpacking for the family’s outdoor activity, Lois agreed, with a proviso: that he do the cooking. Agreed again. So they backpacked on four continents and in nine western states.
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On the evening of Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, Sheila Rob erts, beloved wife, mother, Noni, sister and friend, passed from this life into eternity. Sheila was 74 yearsSheilayoung.was born to Ralph and Vada Proctor on June 1, 1948, in Los Angeles. She moved to Northern Califor nia, during what her family lovingly calls her “hippie years,” where she met her husband Ken Roberts in 1971.That same year, Sheila gave her life to Christ, and from that day forward she lived for Him. Her love for Jesus was evident in every aspect of her life: her con stant service to others; her love for her family and friends; her love of wor ship; and her unwavering faith and indomitable spirit even in the face of terminal cancer.Sheila and Ken lived and raised their four children in
David never missed a Buf falo Bills football game, and read every book writ ten on Winston Churchill. He was a preeminent educator, teaching Mon tessori, elementary, math and eventually helping inmates get their GEDs. His sense of humor was unparalleled, and his students (and family) often heard the bad joke: “There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can’t.”
She attended the same church during those years, taught Sun day School to the small children, and was the church pianist as a
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happy marriage, and she deeply loved her immediate and extended family. Marilyn was a lively and very fun person com mitted to many friends of all ages. Her advice as she aged was to always build new friendships and “never turn down a dinner invita tion.” Marilyn was a voracious reader, enjoyed the arts, muse ums, travel, piano, gardening and exercise. She was an avid quilter and belonged to the STARS quilt ing group and the Flying Needles Quilt
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At her request, there will not be a memorial service or funeral. Burial will take place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress.
Marilyn W. Roland died on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, in Woodland.Shewas born May 6, 1932, in Milwaukee, to Myrtle Pauline Welch and Farris Richard Pinson. Marilyn’s father died when she was 2 and her mother, Pauline, married when Marilyn was 4 to Charles (Jim) Staff, a widower with one daughter, Doris Staff.
In retirement, Kent and Lois moved to Camp Sher man, Ore., to their retreat in the mountains. Lois served The High Desert Museum in Bend, Ore., for fifteen years as a costumed interpreter and as leader for school groups. She and Kent vol unteered for staff positions at the Sierra Club’s LeConte Lodge in Yosemite Valley. One summer Lois and Kent taught at a Polish summer camp where students were polishing their conversa tional English skills.
They relocated to Pensacola, Fla., where Bob completed his training as a Marine helicopter pilot.
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returned to teaching, she taught kindergarten classes, including a long tenure at Birch Lane School.
Lois Gill died on Aug. 10, 2022, in Davis at the age of 92. She was born to How ard and Elsie Burke Haver land at home on the ranch in Custer County, Neb., the third of six children.
The family relocated to Santa Ana, where Marilyn and Bob’s
After attending schools in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Southern California, Patty graduated from Hun tington Beach High School. After attending Grau Busi ness College in Long Beach, she was employed by the Long Beach Tuberculosis & Health Associa tion and Long Beach City College.
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Born in London in 1945, David spent his childhood in England, China and Japan before moving to Buffalo, N.Y. His young adult years were punctuated by organizing political movements, including Vietnam War protests and civil rights advocacy.
enjoyed fixing and repairing anything mechanical around his Buchanan Street home. He took great pride that there is no record of a plumber, electrician, carpenter or mechanic visiting the Raabe household under his 45-year tenure.
Patty was born in Drumright, Okla., and was the oldest of eight children. She was preceded in death by her son Gary Whita ker, her parents Wade and Etta Blevins, former husband William Whitaker Sr., and siblings Dorothy Blevins, Ramona Blevins, Marthetta Razza, Robert Blevins and Howard Blevins.
children Rachel Roberts, Hannah Hook, Chapel Conley and Nathanael Roberts; sons-in-law Todd Hook and Melvin Conley; grandchildren who adore her, Hennessy, Charis, Isa iah, Naomi, Sophia, Sienna and Ethan; siblings Patrick Proctor and wife Anne, David Proctor and wife Evelyn, Colleen Bertiglia and husband Rory; and many nieces and nephews. Sheila is preceded in death by her brother Michael Proctor and her parents Ralph and Vada.
Her first teaching assign ments were first grade in Del Norte, Colo., and Spring field, Ore. The family moved to Davis in 1958. When Lois
Marilyn attended the Univer sity Covenant Church from 1972 until present where she had many close connections and lifelong friends. She served as an elder from 2000 to 2004 and partici pated on the planning committee to prepare for and execute the relocation of the church to its cur rent location. Marilyn also served in the Stephen Ministry as a leader for 15 years.
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She moved with her family in 1966 to Davis and worked in the family-owned automotive businesses. She also was employed by the city of Davis Recreation Department for two years and the Davis Senior Center for 18 years, retiring in 1995.
David Lascelles Birt passed away at age 76 surrounded by loving family after suf fering a stroke six days prior.
lived in the aviary attached to his home. He was an accom plished dry fly fisherman, most often plying streams in New Mexico and Colo rado. Otto loved to camp with his family in the fam ilyOttotent.
Sept. 9, 1929 — Aug. 10, 2022
Sheila’s Celebration of Life will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at Davis Community Church, with reception to follow at the El Macero Country Club.
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When her family moved to Colorado after her fresh man year at the University of Nebraska, she trans ferred to the University of Colorado. She graduated there on June 10, 1950 and married her college sweet heart, Kent Gill, four days later in Montrose, Colo.
Patty Jean Blevins Whitaker Aug. 28, 2022
Oct. 1, 1945 — Sept. 10, 2022
He passed away on his only grandchild’s first birthday. Becoming a grandfather was one of the great joys of his life. He will be celebrated each year on his grandson’s birthday, a beautiful synchronicity of life and death and grief as love. He is survived by his wife Vicki Kramer; children Micaela, Julia and Brian; and extended family.
Otto George Raabe was born on Oct. 3, 1936, to Elsie and Otto Raabe, in Clifton, N.J. He died on Sept. 10, 2022.
Patty is survived by her son, William Whitaker Jr. (Dawn), and her grandchil dren Amy Martinelli (Kenny), Jason Wade Blevins, Eric Whitaker, and great-grand child, Hailey Martinelli. She also is sur vived by her brothers and sisters-in-law, LeRoy (Elsie) and Orville (Barbara) and Sherilynn Blevins. She also has many
Patty Jean Blevins Whitaker, 88, died on Aug. 28, 2022, in Woodland.
To hundreds of UCD students, he was known as Sensei Birt. David was a seventhdegree black belt in aikido and a firstdegree black belt in iaido, practicing these Japanese martial arts for more than 50 years, including 25 years as a sensei in Davis. One of his aikido students wrote that David “had the wisdom to take light matters seriously, and serious matters lightly,” epitomizing him beautifully.
Oct. 3, 1936 — Sept. 10, 2022
Davis, and made it their home for more than 40 years.She was a manufacturer’s sales representative in the home-furnishings industry. With her passion, tenacity, friendly nature and excel lent taste, she excelled, and is well-known as a leader in theSheilaindustry.loved to travel, and adventured all over the globe. Inspiration drove her to backpack some of California’s toughest trails. She was also an incredible cook, throwing wonderful dinner parties, and catering countless weddings pro bono, simply because she loved to bless others with herForgifts.the past 18 years, Sheila attended The Father’s House in Vacaville, where she served and wor shiped faithfully. She has many friends all over the U.S., including her local, tight-knit group, lovingly
biophysics, airborne parti cle science, and inhalation toxicology. He was a boardcertified health physicist and a 50-year member of the Health Physics Society. Otto was elected president of the Health Physics Soci ety in 1998. His first charge was to visit each of the 50 chapter branches and each of the 19 student branches. He was elected a fellow of the Health Physics Society in 1992 and awarded the Society’s Distinguished Sci entific Achievement Award in 1994.Inaddition to radia tion biology, he was also knowledgeable in the fields of industrial hygiene and toxicology and was a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Society of Toxicology, the American Association for Aerosol Research, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, the Radiation Research Society, the American Academy of Health Physics, the Inter national Society for Aero sols in Medicine, and the American Association for the Advancement of Sci ence. Otto retired from UC Davis in 1998. During his illustrious career, Otto authored and coauthored more than 150 openliterature scientific papers
Lois is survived by her husband, Kent Gill; daugh ters Laurie Gill (David Pokross) of Newton, Mass., and Kathy Gill (Greg Stoner) of Davis; son Charles (Tia) Gill of Love land, Colo.; and exchange student “son” Allan (Viv) Taylor, of Cape Town, South Africa. Brother Wil lard (Muriel) Haverland of Oregon, five grandsons, one granddaughter, and two great-granddaughters also survive her.
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Marilyn was credentialed in administrative services in 1977 and earned a Ph.D. in marital and family therapy from California Graduate School of Marital and Family Therapy in 1984. Marilyn became a program specialist in special education for the Davis Schools from 1982 to 1987. She was also a lecturer for Sacramento State and UCD from
Marilyn W. Roland May 6, 1932 — Aug. 29, 2022
second daughter, Ann, was born while Bob completed his active duty.In 1958, the Rolands moved to Davis, where Bob attended UC Davis graduate school. Marilyn taught grade school at Dingle Elementary in Woodland, East Davis Elementary and Birch Lane Elementary in Davis until 1963. Marilyn was then certified and became a reading specialist in the Davis Joint Unified schools. Marilyn was credentialed as a school psychologist in 1966, earned a master’s degree in edu cation in 1971 from CSU Sacra mento, and worked as a school Psychologist from 1966 to 1982.
When he entered high school, his family moved to Hollywood, Fla. When he graduated from high school, Otto was awarded a Navy ROTC scholarship and was sent to the Univer sity of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. He gradu ated in 1958 and was posted to Kirtland Air Force Base, also in Albu querque.In1959, Otto met Evelyn “Lynn” Kircher, whom he married in 1960. They were married for 62 adven ture-filled years. In 1961, Otto entered graduate school at the University of Rochester, N.Y., where he earned a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) from the depart ment of radiation biology andHebiophysics.thenaccepted a posi tion at Lovelace Founda tion in Albuquerque. Otto’s research and leadership flourished there. In 1976, Otto accepted a position at UCOttoDavis.was a professor of veterinary molecular biosci ences and of civil and envi ronmental engineering. He taught and conducted sci entific research in the fields of radiation biology and
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June 1, 1948 — Aug. 26, 2022
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Otto was a devoted hus band, father and grandfa ther. His children are Diana (Kelly), Otto and Kathy (Csaposs), Bruce and Sara (Wardell-Smith), Liane and Mike (Rumsey), and Ruth and Peter (Vellutini). Otto has 13 Servicesgrandchildren.willbegin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation, 1701 Russell Blvd. in Davis. In place of flowers, the family requests a donation to The Gideons International or a charity of your choice.
survived by her daughters Kathe Gardenias and Ann Roland; sister Janie Vizino, husband Walter and family; and sister Paula Warden, husband Stan and family. A memorial ser vice will begin at 2:30 p.m. Satur day, Sept. 24, at the University Covenant Church, 315 Mace Blvd. in Davis. A reception will follow. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Suicide Prevention of Yolo County via their website or call 530-756-7542.
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Marilyn graduated from East ern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in education in 1954. While at Eastern she was reacquainted with and married the love of her life, Robert N. Roland from Pana, Ill. Marilyn and Bob’s first child, Kathe, was born while Marilyn was in her final year of college. Marilyn taught grade school in Ramsey, back in the same brick building while Bob was attending officer training in the Marine Corps.
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If you think you’ve been targeted by a student-loan forgiveness scam, report it to the Davis Police Depart ment, 530-747-5400, or your local law-enforcement agency.
Wayback Burgers said Tuesday that the restau rant’s debut has been pushed to 2023. She said the company hopes to open it sometime in the first quarter of the year.
public is invited to this event.Contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-219-1896 or e-mail G Richard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org for information.
The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in West Davis.
U.S. or possession of a nonimmigrant visa.
Weekdays, it’s open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. On weekends, it opens an hour earlier for breakfast. When he and his partners bought Cin dy’s in 2010, it was strug gling, offering two different menus. It served American diner food for breakfast and lunch, and Thai food (Cindy’s Kow Thai) in the evenings.
Peachy Lady opened on Tuesday. The new women’s clothing store fills the former B&L Too spot at 604 Third St.
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The primary speaker will be David Cougevan; he will be address once again the stock market and economy.
■ Hold an academic degree (earned in the U.S. or abroad) equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree completed by Nov. 15, 2022.
■ Stand your ground: Don’t surrender to a scam mer’s scare tactics, such as “missing out” on relief if you don’t act now. Instead, halt communications and verify the claims with a legitimate government agency.
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For more information about this and other recur ring scams, visit the BBB’s Scam Tracker: www.bbb. org/scamtracker.
Loan relief brings out the scammers
He said it wasn’t easy. “I worked really hard every day — no day off for three years — in order to make it come back to this.”
October for the Winters bakery.Ikeep track of Davis businesses on my Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at gestmely/DavisBusinesses.https://bit.Email(addressbelow)tosugupdates.
It looks like a wine bar is coming to D Street. Wines in Tandem has an applica tion notice posted in its window for selling beer and wine. It’s at 222 D St., Suite 1, next to The Mus tard Seed Land Home Financial was the most recentRyantenant.Hughes Crosbie is listed as managing mem ber on the application, posted on the Department of Alcohol Beverage
A business called Wines in Tandem has an alcohol permit posted to sell wine and beer at 222 D St.
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of the required compo nents.Master’s/first profes sional degree fellowships are intended for master’s or professional degreelevel programs such as J.D., M.F.A., L.L.M., M. Arch., or medical degrees such as M.D., D.D.S., etc. Certificates, associate degrees, and undergradu ate degrees are ineligible. Doctoral fellowships are intended for doctorate degrees classified as research degrees, such as Ph.D. or Ed.D.
Cougevan addresses the economy
■ When in doubt, call them out: If a scam call or email seems suspicious — or even legitimate, but you aren’t quite sure — contact the government agency directly to verify the claims. Get more information from the U.S. Department of Education at ED.gov or
doughnuts, but the com munity kept asking. So, they will start with a few varieties, and add more later.“We will expand our offerings incremen tally over the coming weeks,” he said. “We will be actively soliciting the com munity’s input, feedback andInitially,suggestions.”itplans to open at 6 a.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Kalisky said they are still determining the closingKalisky’stime.parents, Trudy and Mo Kalisky, founded Upper Crust Baking in 1986. Its Davis bakery is at 634 G St. They plan a grand opening event in
“When I took over, I had knowledge of cooking both kinds of food.” He said he trained staff to prepare and serve them simultane ously. “That’s become very successful after that.”
Umnartyutithum said he hopes to find a new location for the eatery. “I can move Cindy’s to any where in Davis and our regulars will follow me. Unfortunately, I’m not able to find an open spot.”
Control’s website. Attempts to reach him have unsuccessful.been
■ Beware of unsolicited calls, texts or emails pur porting to be from a gov ernment agency, which typically won’t reach out unless you ask to be con tacted.
Upper Crust Baking planned to open its Win ters bakery on Friday. It purchased the former Les ter Farms Bakery at 606 Railroad Ave. in early June.Owner and general manager Lorin Kalisky
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Owner Lisa Vang hoped to open the store this sum mer. Construction caused delays. The space now has a new storefront and larger windows.Theboutique caters to young women, with affordable fashions, she said. Visit peachylady.com/.https://www.Aspokeswomanfor
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for forgiveness, the scam mer insists that you need to complete an online appli cation form, which asks for personal information, such as your bank account details.”Other variations of the hustle seek an up-front fee from the scam target, or trick the consumer into redirecting student loan payments to the scammers themselves.Sofar,the Davis Police Department hasn’t received any reports about these scams occurring on the local level. But they, along with the BBB, offer the fol lowing tips to avoid becom ing a victim:
The second speaker will be Kelsey Fortune, who is running for Davis City Coucil in District 1. The
said it’s a soft opening, and “I’m really trying to set people’s theyFrench.)co-owner(Kalisky’sbreadsspecializesdoughnuts.FarmsheextensiveEventually,preparedhaveultimatelyeverythinggoodswillappropriatelyexpectationslow.Wehaveavarietyofbakedavailable,butnotthatwewilloffer.”Forexample,itwillnotsandwichesandotherfooditems—yet.therewillbeantake-outmenu,said.For30years,LesterwasknownforitsUpperCrustinFrenchandpastries.wifeandbakeryEdithGilletisTheyinitiallysaidwouldnotoffer
The American Associa tion of University Women International Fellowship in the United States for Women offers scholar ships for aspiring female international students to undertake postgraduate studies in the United States.The program provides support for women pursu ing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career.The award for those studying for a master’s or first professional degree is $20,000. Doc toral candidates are eli gible for $25,000 and postdoctoral students can receive $50,000.
■ Intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career and upon comple tion of their studies.
Rent relief during the pandemic helped. But fac ing a new lease at a higher
indy’s Restaurant will close on Sunday, Oct. 2.
rate wasn’t going to work.
The restaurant opened in 1973, and was a popular breakfast place. My favor ite was the fresh straw berry-filled crepes.
He was sad to give his employees notice of the closure. “I really love Cin dy’s. I want to keep Cindy’s alive in Davis.”
It took just a few weeks for scammers to do their thing after the Biden Administration announced its plan to reduce federal student loan debt for lowand middle-income house holds.Last week, the Better Business Bureau issued a warning about a new batch of phone call and email scams seeking loan holders’ personal says.program,”studentclaimingvoicemailscamBBBcapitalizescammersOctober.becomemarried).individuallylessrecipients$20,000forgivenessreceivestudentinitiativePresidentinformation.JoeBiden’scallsforfederalloanborrowersto$10,000inloan—anduptoforPellGrant—iftheyearnthan$125,000peryear($250,000ifForgivenessapplicationsavailableinearlyAlready,however,aretryingtoonthereliefplan.Inanewsrelease,theexplainedhowtheworks.“Youreceiveacallorfromsomeonetorepresentanewloanforgivenessthestatement“Toseeifyouqualify
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■ Keep those “fees”: Gov ernment agencies don’t request fees for free govern ment programs, so don’t let scammers tell you other wise, even if they promise faster service or additional benefits.
Jerry Umnartyutithum, who owns the restaurant with two others, said they have been unable to reach a lease agreement with the landlord. The restaurant is at 4823 Chiles Road, in South Davis, just off Inter state“It’s80.not because we don’t have business,” he said. “We’re busy. We sell more than before pandemic, with even less business hours.”
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Cindy’s closing, wine bar coming downtown
But in 2009, a court rul ing prohibited local juris dictions from imposing affordable housing require ments on residential and mixed-use projects of more
voting rights for individu als with criminal convic tions, visit the ACLU’s Let Me Vote webpage: resources.www.letmevoteca.org/https://
In response, the city of Davis enacted a temporary ordinance establishing a target of 15 percent
Individuals with a crimi nal conviction can check their eligibility to vote using the “Restore Your Vote” tool on the California secretary of state’s web page: tionvote/.gov/elections/restore-your-https://www.sos.ca.Foradditionalinformaorresourcesabout
At the same time, the city began working with con sultants on a permanent ordinance and the sunset date on the interim ordi nance has been extended three times as that work continues.According to city staff, the result of that work is an updated ordinance cur rently undergoing prepara tion and analysis that will be presented to the City Council prior to June 30, 2023.Tuesday’s City Council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers at 23 Russell Blvd.
the public defender’s office.
than 10 dwelling units per lot.That ruling was over turned by state legislation in 2017, restoring the abil ity of local governments to require affordable housing in rental projects.
COUNCIL: Ordinance the result of years of work
The city has required an affordable housing compo nent in multi-family devel opments for decades. In 1990, the city codified an affordable housing ordi nance requiring 10 percent of dwellings in projects with 20 or more units to be reserved for very low income tenants and another 25 percent for low income tenants.
OUTREACH: Seeking to make people aware of their rights
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The Davis Trave laires, a local all-volun teer nonprofit that offers outings in North ern California and beyond, has added two new day trips: its popu lar annual seasonal trip to Duarte Poinsettias on Nov. 14, and the Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco on Jan.
For information, callaires@gmail.com,org,https://davistravelaires.visitemailDavisTravelor530-902-1825.
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“There is a high concen tration of eligible voters in our county jail,” said Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson. “Since people of color are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates, expanding voting access to individuals currently incarcerated advances racial justice.”
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Travelaires offer new outings
All are invited as the Davis Genealogy Club presents the free live and Zoom program, “The 2022 Toolbox for the Modern Genealo gist,” by favorite return ing speaker, James M. Baker, Ph.D., CG.
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This mailer will include information about voter eligibility and how to request and fill out a voter registration form while in the county jail.
This long-awaited hybrid meeting will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Tues day, Sept. 20, at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St. This presen tation is ideal for all researchers as Baker explores the most essential tools required for today’s genealogist. These include: hard ware; software; large search engines; spe cialty sites and collec tions; offline data; the “data finding” sites; key DNA tools; and geneal ogy learning tools.
affordable in development projects, including five per cent of units for extremely low income tenants; five percent for very low income; and five percent for low income.
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to allow work on a new inclusionary housing ordi nance to be completed.
For 20 years, Baker has been an active genealogist. He’s spo ken locally and nation ally on ogy.orgp.m.daysontheLibraryemail.passesgested.Masksatcalldavisgenealogy.org19.mustmanthebaum,NGSHe’sresearch,U.S.,Genealogy,GermanMidwestearlyAmericanandDNA.writtenfortheandDerBlumenthejournalofSacramentoGerGenealogySociety.In-personattendeesregisterbySept.EmailPresident@orLisaHenderson530-753-8943.arestronglysugZoomguestalsoavailableviaTheGenealogyisagainopeninDavisSeniorCenterWednesdays&Frifrom1to3:30VisitDavisGenealformore.
The existing interim ordinance has served as a bridge or sorts, allowing the council to act on multi family development pro posals with affordable housing plans of less than 35 percent while staff and consultants work on a per manent ordinance
To target eligible voters who are currently in cus tody, the public defender’s office is sending out a mass mailer to individuals cur rently incarcerated in the county jail.
Registration11. is also open for theday trip to the Pacific Interna tional Quilt Festival in Santa Clara on Oct. 13.
Expansion of a house on Miller Drive in 2019 raised the ire of neighbors concerned with ongoing densification in central Davis neighborhoods.
GenealogistsBriefly get a look at tools
posters in their lobbies and making voter registration cards available to clients upon request. Many people have the incorrect impres sion that they lost their right to vote due to a crimi nal conviction. However, even Californians who are being supervised by proba tion or parole or serving a jail sentence are eligible to vote.“We not only want peo ple to know about their voting rights, we also want to make voting accessible,” said Emily Kochly, chief mitigation specialist with
“Access to voting empowers people with lived or direct experience with the crimi nal legal system and allows them a means of changing the system and their com munity for the better.”
While Bergstrom’s research corroborates the theory that modern dogs evolved from wolves in eastern Eurasia, it also finds that more than 50% of dogs living in the Near East and Africa derive their ancestry from genetically different wolves that lived in southwest Eurasia, i.e., Europe, thus opening up the possibility that dogs evolved in different parts of the world, from more than one wolf population, and were domesticated by differ ent groups of people.
years. The “family tree” that emerged shows how migratory and interconnected wolf popula tions were and are, and that wolves maintained a common genome by mating with wolves in other packs.
Resources: Download “Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs” as a PDF file at wolves-0.ferences-between-dogs-and-https://www.petmd.com/8-difBetweentions-180980350/.two-different-wolf-populadogs-may-have-evolved-from-sonianmag.com/smart-news/wolf"Dogor,"Kuta,WolfEvolveds41586-022-04824-9.www.nature.com/articles/https://Download“DogsMayHaveFromTwoDifferentPopulations,”bySarahincludingaphotoofan18,000-year-oldpup,athttps://www.smithDownload“8DifferencesDogsandWolves”at
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Judy Clark and her mom, Hazel Moore, adopted Pepper, whom they renamed Lucifer Dumbledore aka LD.
Over the years the offspring of these curious, less fearful wolves became increasingly docile and friendly towards humans. Humans, of course, found such docile “wolves” useful for hunt ing and guarding campsites and so domesticated them.
sprinklers around. He gets soaked but it makes him very happy. He’s still leery of men but hubby is carrying around treats for him and determined to win him
Anders Bergstrom of London’s Francis Crick Institute and researchers from 16 countries analyzed 72 ancient wolf genomes from wolves living in Europe, Siberia and North America over the last 100,000
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students and working adults. Now serving more than 165,000 learners worldwide, SNHU offers approximately 200 accred ited undergraduate, grad uate and programs,certificateavailable online and on its 300-acre cam pus in Manchester, N.H.
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“My colleagues and I unanimously approved the appointments of Ms. Jakowski as our new Men tal Health Director and Ian Evans as the Public Guardian,” said Board Chair Angel Barajas. “Ms. Jakowski and Mr. Evans will excel in their roles because they share the Board’s compassion and
for the reporting term are named to the Dean's List. Full-time status is achieved by earning 12 credits over each 16-week term or paired 8-week terms grouped in fall, win ter/spring, and summer. They include Angela Bruch of Davis, Jose Roa of Davis and Stephane Tientcheu of West Sacra mento.SNHU is a private, non profit institution with an 89-year history of educat ing traditional-aged
“Heover.issupposed to be Mom’s dog but he attached himself to me right away. He’s an absolute bundle of joy.”
commitment to help expand services and sup port for health and mental health to the residents of YoloSouthernCounty.”New Hamp shire University congratu lates the students who were named to the Sum mer 2022 Dean's List. The summer terms run from May to averageastudentsFull-timeAugust.undergraduatewhohaveearnedminimumgrade-pointof3.500to3.699
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around human campsites, became our “best friend” Canis familiaris, and played a central role in human history.
The researchers conclude that “None of the analysed ancient wolf genomes is a direct match for either of these dog ancestries, meaning that the exact progeni tor populations remain to be located.” While more research is needed to determine the precise progenitor populations of Canis familiaris, the paper concludes that dogs are descended from grayWhatwolves.about DNA? From the tiniest Chi to the biggest mastiff,
From wolves to our best friends
Initially, scientists believed dogs evolved from a single wolf population. However, a recent study indicates that dogs may have evolved from two different wolf populations in different parts of the world and by differ ent human populations.
The board appointed Ian Evans as the Yolo County public guardian. Evans will retain his roles as Adult & Aging Branch Director and Alcohol & Drug Administrator for YoloJakowskiCounty.is a licensed marriage and family ther apist and holds a bache lor’s degree SacramentofromState Univer sity and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco. She has been serving as the Interim Mental Health Director since February 2022, in addition to her former role as the Child, Youth & Family Branch Director, which she held for the last
Adopted and in his forever home, “Lucifer Dumbledore,” enjoys a quiet moment on Hazel Moore’s lap.
Wolves mature faster with a breeding season limited to Feb ruary through mid-March. Male wolves help care for their off spring while male dogs do not. Dogs are omnivores so can eat a variety of foods. Wolves are car nivores that need meat, eat huge amounts at one time and can go without food for a long time. While dogs are generally gregari ous, wolves are shy and avoid people. So snuggle up with that pup and enjoy those slurpy kisses.Regardless of the dog’s origin or its DNA, we should thank the curious, docile wolves who hung
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The general theory is that dogs (Canis familiaris) evolved from gray wolves (Canis lupus) 15,000-23,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. With the world much colder and dryer, humans and wolves needed help finding food. Hungry, curious and less fearful wolves would hang around human encampments and eat leftover food scraps.
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all dogs share 99.9% of their DNA with the big gray wolf. So when an affectionate pup gives you a slurpy kiss or snuggles on your lap is it really a wolf in pup’s clothing?Notquite. Here are a few dif ferences. While wolves and dogs have the same number of teeth, wolves’ teeth, skulls and jaws are larger and stronger. Dogs’ faces are rounder with larger eyes and expressive “eyebrows.” Many dogs have floppy ears while wolves have pointed ears. Dogs are more dependent, willing to obey people and ask for their help when confronted with a dif ficult problem. Wolves are inde pendent and more persistent at solving problems on their own.
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On Aug. 30, the Yolo County Board of Supervi sors approved the appoint ments of a new mental health director and public guardian.NolanSullivan, director of the Yolo County Health & Human Services Agency, announced the appoint ment of Karleen Jakowski as the Yolo County mental health director. The appointment followed the unanimous recommenda tion of the Yolo County Local Mental Health Board. Jakowski has also been appointed effective immediately to a newly created assistant dDirector position, overseeing HHSA’s Adult & Aging and Child, Youth & Family branches.
Judy observes, “He has transi tioned well into our family. Hazel and he play and sleep together. His favorite toy is a stuffed duck that he carries everywhere with him. And his favorite thing to do is chase the
threeEvansyears.isa licensed mar riage and family therapist and holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis, and a master’s degree in mar riage and family counsel ing from InternationalAlliantUniversity in Sacramento. He has served as the public guardian since February and has been the Adult &Aging Branch Director for the last two years.
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Yolo County officials announce a pair of appointments
procurement of the neces sary equipment for the upgrades.Asalways, there was a COVID-19 health and safety update from Laura Juanitas, associate superin tendent of student support services. Juanitas reported that community transmis sion continues on a down ward trend and remains in the medium tier. At latest report, cases stand at 11.5 per 100,000 people. Mask are still recommended for indoors, and those aged 50 and up or with underlying illnesses.“CDPH released updated guidance for schools on Sept. 13, which ends the
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Michael Fine is the chief execu tive officer of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, or FCMAT, a state agency that helps maintain the statewide data sys tem. He said the rollout of the upgrade was “less than satisfac tory and did not follow the expec tations of the field or FCMAT.”
The stakes for reliable data are higher than ever. The state needs to have a clear picture of student enrollment and achievement so it can allocate the necessary resources to help them recover academically, socially and emo tionally from the pandemic’s impact.
Davis said his data team is struggling with data errors while trying to manage other start-ofthe-year responsibilities like adjusting student schedules, making sure all students are in the right classes and getting administrators the information they need for a smooth school year.“Do we need to hire more teachers? Do we need to change classes?” Davis said. “The first weeks of school, you don’t want to be doing CALPADS.”
employment contract for an associate superinten dent of administrative ser vices. The preferred candidate for the board is Dr. Julie Corona, who serves as the director of student services in special education at Benicia Uni fied. Her expected start date at the DJUSD is Oct. 4. The board unanimously voted to approve the employment contract.
The system upgrade, which both Fine and Davis said was much needed, compromised standardized testing at schools across the state.
For the past several months, the education department has been fixing the errors. As of this week, there are still nearly 100 known issues with the data sys tem. According to California Department of Education spokes person Maria Clayton, the dead line for school districts to upload their student data was previously Sept. 9, but the department extended it due to school closures
With that, the meeting came to an end. The next is set for Oct. 6, when the district expects to intro duce Corona.
clarified by the CDE.”
For the last several months, Davis said data specialists at Cali fornia’s school districts have been frustrated by the bugs in the sys tem. At the Fullerton School District, he said his data team members were seeing up to 10,000 errors when they uploaded information, where they would only see about a dozen in previous years. While the Cali fornia Department of Education did warn districts they would see more errors, Davis said this amount was shocking. Some dis tricts had hundreds of thousands of errors before the department of education started fixing the issues.“We just really want to make sure CALPADS is shored up,” said Davis, who is also the president of California IT In Education, a nonprofit professional organiza tion for technology workers in education. “We want CALPADS to have tons of funding. We want to lobby for them.”
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“If students didn’t get tested because of the glitches in the sys tem … That’s a piece of data that helps us inform our instruction,” Davis said. “If less kids are tested, there’s a concern there.”
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“This year, we’re using the same guidance with volunteers that we did with staff meaning at the start of the school year, volunteers could volunteer if they pro vided proof of their vaccine
status and if they were unvaccinated, they had to test prior to volunteering. With the CDPH change which goes into effect on Sept 17, we will no longer be asking vaccine status of volunteers and will not be requiring unvaccinated vol unteers to Juanitastest.”reported that the new, Bivalent booster is available throughout the Sacramento region. She encouraged people to get their flu shots, too; Yolo County will be putting on a flu shot clinic at Emerson Jr. High from 4 to 7 p.m. on Nov.
Concluding15. the meeting was the vote to approve the
The information in the state wide system is the basis of accountability platforms like the California School Dashboard, which shows the public every thing from enrollment figures to suspension rates at every school in the state. The problems with the data system started in April when the education department updated its software.
ment is working with districts to address the errors and that Cali fornia allows districts more time than other states to submit their data.While Davis said he can’t com ment on the accuracy of the state’s prediction, his own team of three data specialists at Fullerton school district will be able to meet the Sept. 16 deadline for districts to submit their data to the state. But he said even though his team and those at other dis tricts are submitting correct data, the statewide system is still expe riencing errors like miscounting the number of students with dis abilities, which could have reper cussions for standardized testing.
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are set to bolster classroom technologies, upgrading wireless access points and fiber system. At $21 million, the safety-and-security cat egory aims to improve infrastructure such as side walks, pathways, fencing, gates, fire alarm upgrades, entry upgrades and athletic facilities.“Weare required every year to have an annual per formance and financial audit of the bond program. We’ve done that three times now and have received no findings in any of those audits,” Burke said. “Com bining the concurrent con struction of the four
elementary school multipurpose room projects, has saved us approximately 15 percent of the value of those projects which equates to approximately $8Amillion.”public hearing on the proposed energy conserva tion and lighting upgrades put the spotlight on the complete replacement of the HVAC units at Patwin Elementary School. The board is hoping this will be complete before the sea sonal heat returns in spring, but the replacement units are subject to supply chainAfterissues.aunanimous vote, the board approved the
Fine added that not only did the upgraded data system launch with minimal testing, the depart ment could have provided “greater transparency and more information” to districts.
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“In my perception, the CAL PADS team needs enough resources to make sure the system works really well,” Davis said. “It’s hard to find great programmers in the public sector, especially with tech companies offering work from home.”
Malia Vella, a deputy superin tendent at the California Depart ment of Education, said about 98% of districts should be able to get all their data certified and secure their funding by the Sept. 16 deadline. Vella said the depart
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caused by “extreme heat and wildfires.”Clayton said the department has seven developer positions to run the statewide system, but these are part-time employees that equate to about three fulltime staff. There are currently three additional open positions, two of which have been open since November 2021.
“Simply put, my opinion is that long-standing protocols and best practices around system revisions and implementation were not fol lowed with fidelity,” Fine wrote in an email to CalMatters. He added that the education department chose to “streamline these pro cesses” and take a “minimalist” approach to testing, which may have further complicated the roll out of an already complex system.
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requirements that schools keep records of vaccine sta tus of employees and that required all unvaccinated employees to be tested weekly for COVID,” Juani tas said. “Throughout the pandemic, we were also requiring volunteers to provide proof of their vac cine status. Last year fol lowing CDPH and local guidance we did not allow unvaccinated parent/ guardians or other commu nity members to volunteer.
In May, the California School Boards Association and the Asso ciation of California School Administrators wrote an open letter to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thur mond detailing several issues with the data system. Among them, students with disabilities were not getting the accommoda tions they needed during stan dardized testing.
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Ghostly shenanigans haunt Opera House in October
Celebrating local PBS station KVIE’s decades of creating an accessible venue to bring art into the homes of Northern Califor nians, the 41st annual PBS KVIE Art Auction will showcase 276 works of art by emerging, well-known, and world-renowned Northern California artists.
The entire Art Auction collection will be on display at the station through Sep tember 28, offering visitors the chance to see the artwork up close and bid before the live auction. Visitors are welcome Monday through Friday
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A complete list of the art ists curated into the collec tion, plus images and information on every piece of art up for bid, is online at kvie.org/artauction. An awards ceremony to announce the Best of Show and first place in each cat egory will be streamed online at kvie.org/artauc tion on Sept. 13.
Reserved seats are $30 for adults, $23 for seniors 62-plus, and $15 for children 17 and under. Balcony tickets are $18 for adults and $9 for children. Flex Pass specials and group rates are available.Tickets are on sale now at aboutitshowever,House.requiredCounty,theindoorperformancep.m.Fridaysland-woodland-opera-house.woodland-opera-house-woodticket/e/1028735/the-ghost-of-https://www.etix.com/Showtimesare7:30p.monandSaturdays,and2Sundays.TherewillbenoonFriday,Oct.14.InaccordancewiththeupdatedmaskrequirementsfromStateofCaliforniaandYolomasksarenolongerintheWoodlandOperaThemanagementdoes,supportYoloCountyineffortstoinformthepublicthehightransmissionlevel.
A new comedy by Matthew Abergel and Bob Cooner, “The Ghost of Woodland Opera House” tells the story of a troupe of traveling actors who arrive at the theater in 1909 to perform their latest melodrama. But mys terious accidents make a mess of their dress rehearsal. Could it be the malevolent meddling of the ghost that reportedly haunts the Opera House? This show is per fect for the fall and Halloween season.Dueto the nature of the Main
through engaging experi ences in current events, drama, history, nature, sci ence, and more. As a mem ber station of PBS, the most trusted media institu tion in America, KVIE curates the best in educa tional television program ming and online content available, reaching almost 1.4 million households in the nation’s 20th largest television market.
Stage shows, and for the comfort of our patrons and actors, the Opera House does not allow chil dren under the age of 4.
Since Porter’s death, there have been numerous reports of ghostly sightings throughout the years at the Woodland Opera House. Vol unteers and visitors, actors and audience members alike claim to have experienced supernatural specters, strange smells, and star tling sounds. Traditionally, many of these unexplained events have been attributed to William Porter whose spirit purportedly still inhabits the historic theatre.
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KVIE art curator Jill Estroff has announced that Davis artist Beth Savidge has been recognized with an award after submitting her art to the annual curatedSavidge’scompetition.“Winterat West Pond” won a Juror Award in the Photography cate gory. It will be featured as part of this year’s auction, a live three-day event broad cast on KVIE Channel 6 and online at kvie.org/ artauction that airs on
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“We’re so thankful to art ists who have freely submit ted their work to the Art Auction this year,” Estroff said. “Art should be out in the world. My favorites are from observations near and far as well as interpreta tions of the physical and imaginary places we inhabit. Some pay homage to internationally renowned artist Wayne Thiebaud, who passed away last year at the age of 101.”
KVIE can be viewed in 28 of California’s 58 coun ties and brings program ming like “PBS NewsHour,” “Nature,” “NOVA,” and “Masterpiece,” and is also one of the leading produc ers of public television programming in the coun try with series like “Ameri ca’s Heartland,” “Rob on the Road,” “Studio Sacra mento,” “KVIE Arts Show case,” and “ViewFinder.” Fo information, visit kvie.org.
Friday, Sept. 30, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 1 from noon to 10 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
“The Ghost of Woodland Opera House” is inspired by the history of the venue and the heroism of Woodland resident and volunteer firefighter William W. Porter. Porter was the single casualty of the fire of 1892 that resulted in the loss of the original Opera House along with many down town buildings and residences.
From left, Micaela Muro-Dimos, Kalia Rucker and Rodger McDonald as the ghost of William Porter star in “The Ghost of Woodland Opera House,” playing in October.
Proceeds from the auc tion help support KVIE local productions and com munity outreach services. This year’s auction is spon sored by Wilke Fleury, Bank of Marin, Krogh & Decker LLP, Nick Sadek Sotheby’s International Realty, and Mansour’s Ori ental Rug BroadcastingGallery.from Cali fornia’s capital since 1959, KVIE inspires viewers to explore the world and con nect with their community
Courtesy Photof “Winter at West Pond” by Beth Savidge.
The Woodland Opera House will get spooky for October with “The Ghost of Woodland Opera House,” running Oct. 7 to 30 at 340 Second St. in Woodland.
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The keys to success? Wright believes winning starts with consistency.
Malaya agrees with her dad’s assessment of the situ ation but insists playing for him has been a rewarding experience.“Ifeellike
“The time I spent with the Aggies was eye opening, as the path from the JUCO level to the next level was filled with tremen dous talent and presented differ ent challenges,” Schroeder said. “The coaches were welcoming and knowledgeable and my teammates pushed me every day to get Schroederbetter.”also played on the Cosumnes River College men’s soccerToday,team.Schroeder and his fam ily are clearly living the dream.
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The former UC Davis football player is in his second tenure as the Liberty Ranch High football head coach.
Davis High girls water polo head coach Doug Wright instructs his Blue Devil players during practice at Arroyo Pool on Aug. 17. POLO, Page B3
“Ever since I was a baby, during the summertime when my mom was work ing, my dad would bring me on deck to all the practices,
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“It just was something that was completely new to me, and my brother was like, ‘no, we can do this,’” WrightTrustingsaid.the plan, Wright was an assistant under his brother for the girl’s water polo team during their inaugural season in 1995.
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pete at the next level. That group includes 2021 graduate Lindsay Taylor, last season’s leading scorer who’s now a freshman on Indiana’s team. Taylor cred ited Wright with helping her become the athlete she is today.“Coach Doug Wright is one of the best coaches that I’ve ever had,” Taylor said.
putting players together and seeing how they relate to each other in the water and what’s going to give us our bestWhileoutcomes.”the2022 season began less than a month ago, Wright is already excited about the group he assembled.TheBlue Devils are 6-1 as of Friday, with their only loss coming against Acalanes High School in Lafayette on Sept. 10. Davis hosts Lodi on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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In 2015, Schroeder was Lib erty Ranch football head coach; he’d like to forget the early part of that season.
Schroeder graduated from UCD in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in history and minor in literature.Hewas a member of the 1997 Aggie football team. But only for that season, as a heart condition impacted his health. His playing
Wright is aware of the
‘Into place’
“I send a good amount of players to play in collegiate programs and they gener ally have pretty positive experiences, but they’ll usu ally come back and say, ‘but it’s not high school,’” Wright said.Seeing high school as a
n See an update on the winner of the Liberty Ranch-Tokay foot ball game on The Enterprise’s Website at www.davisenterprise. com. Click on the Sports tab and look for Mike Bush’s most recent column.—Contact Mike Bush Sports.Followmike@davisenterprise.net.atonTwitter:@MBDavis
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Consistency
Since her dad had coached the program for a roughly decade before she was born, Malaya struggles to remember a time when water polo wasn’t a part of her life.
UC Davis football
If you’re looking to read the story on how the Davis High football team did in its Delta League opener hosting Franklin and view photos, then you can read the stories and view photos on The Enterprise’s Website at thebegunday’swillgamemeanstheprioronthetoThecom.www.davisenterprise.Earlierthissummer,EnterpriseswitchedanearlierdeadlineforSundayprinteditionFridaysat7p.m.Thedeadlinewaslaterinevening.TheearlydeadlineBlueDevilfootballstoriesandphotosberuninWednesprintedition,whichinAugustthroughrestoftheseason.
Ex-Aggie and family living the dream
Tim beat the cancer about two years after being diag nosed. Today, he is a junior on this year’s Liberty Ranch football squad.
“The preseason was filled with personal stress and anxiety as we waited to discover what exactly was wrong with our son,” said Warren. “When we received the diagnosis, our sole focus became our son’s treatment, and we were thankful for the members of my staff who stepped up and contin ued the program in my periodic absence.”TheHawks soared high the
“I am thankful for the oppor tunity to once again head up a quality football program at the high school level,” said Schro eder, who had been the school’s junior varsity head coach in recent years.
so I was exposed to water polo and swimming at a really young age,” Malaya said. “As soon as I was poolsafe around three years old, I’d jump in and hang around all the older kids. Then, once I started club swimming and club polo, things just came into place.”
“From the hard-working stu dents and committed staff, to the dedicated administration, I feel very lucky to have spent so many years of service here,” Schroeder said.
Warren and Anngela’s two other sons also play football under the Liberty Ranch umbrella. Middle son Mikey is a sophomore on the school’s junior
Entering Friday’s game, the Hawks’ offense is averaging a remarkable 51.7 points per game. Its defense has yielded only 13.7 points per game.
The game stories and photos will run in Wednesday’s editions, which started on Wednes day.The Aggies have their first home game of the season at UC Davis Health Stadium against San Diego on Saturday at 7 p.m.Then UCD will host Weber State in the Big Sky Conference opener on Saturday, Sept. 24, also at 7 p.m.This is the second sea son in which Aggie foot ball game stories and photos will be on The Enterprise’s Website first, followed by running in the Wednesday print edi tion.
“I think sometimes peo ple think I cut her a lot of slack or maybe I go easy on her on certain things,” Doug said. “She would probably say the opposite. She feels there are times when I hold her to a higher standard, and it can be difficult for me to navigate that.”
Work on offense
The Hawks started with a 1-4 record, but won their final nonleague game before starting SVC action.Offthe field, Warren and Anngela learned that their oldest son, Tim, was diagnosed with lymphoma. He was only age 8 at the time. Tim is the oldest of the couple’s three sons.
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To get the best results, Wright doesn’t shy away from holding players accountable, including his daughter, Malaya, a senior attacker who is one of three captains on the team.
I have to work harder because I’m his kid but along with that has come some really great opportuni ties,” Malaya said. “Over the years, I’ve been able to travel and play with different peo ple and teams and I think because I’ve been around the game for so long, it helps my water polo IQ.”
With it being her final high school season, Malaya has received attention from several college programs as she recently wrapped up an official visit. With Malaya and her dad absent for Thursday and Saturday’s
From 2000 to 2009, Warren taught social studies at Galt High, where he is a 1993 gradu ate. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Galt High football head coach.Hisoverall record during those three seasons was 7-23.
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stereotypes behind being a coach’s kid, but says if any thing, he’s harder on his daughter than other mem bers of the team.
When Jamey left to take the ICA position at UC Davis in 1997, Doug took over the head coaching role and the rest is history.
was limited that season, which was new to him after being a starter as a tight end and defen sive end on the Sacramento City College and Galt High football teams in the early 1990s.
“I’ve enjoyed building teams,” Wright said. “I enjoy
Wright was initially unsure if the proposal was feasible, considering girl’s water polo wasn’t recog nized as a varsity sport by the California Interscholas tic Federation at the time and many girls still didn’t know how to play until join ing a college team.
Warren Schroeder is embracing his third chance, and he’s off to a good start.
rest of the season.
Schroeder’s best season was 2008, when the Warriors posted a 5-5 record and missed earning a section playoff berth.
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“We’ve always had consis tency in coaching,” Wright said. “I think when you see successful athletic programs at the professional, colle giate, high school and club levels, you generally see a consistency in expectations andIt’scoaching.”worth noting that Wright’s record of winning doesn’t end with water polo. He’s won four section titles as the Davis girls swimming head coach, a position he held from 1994-2000 and 2007-2012.Oncea swimmer and water polo player at Foothill College and UC Davis, Wright is passionate about both sports, but he appreci ates the team chemistry side of water polo.
“I am thankful for the oppor tunity to once again head up a quality football program at the high school level,” said Schro eder, who has been teaching social studies at Galt’s second high school that opened its doors at the start of the 2009-10 schoolLibertyyear.Ranch entered Friday’s non-league game at Tokay of Lodi with a 4-0 record. The Hawks, Liberty Ranch’s mascot, open Sierra Valley Conference play at El Dorado of Placerville on Friday, Sept. 30.
The girl’s water polo team quickly became one of Davis’ top athletic programs as the Blue Devils won their first Sac-Joaquin Section Division I water polo title in 2000 and have gone to the finals every year since. The team has totaled 17 water polo section championships and Wright has amassed almost 700 career wins.
Life had thrown Schroder, his wife Anngela and their three
Former Davis High girls water polo player Lindsay Taylor (6), seen here in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff game against Oak Ridge last November, spoke highly of Blue Devil head coach Doug Wright. Taylor is now at Indiana University.
“He’s been my coach since I was probably like 9 or 10 years old because he coached at the club level. He does a really good job with the high school team, and we won sections every single year I was there (except spring 2021 season because of a shorten season due to theAlthoughpandemic).”Wright is proud when his athletes earn a spot on a college roster, he emphasizes that it’s a differ ent experience than playing high school sports.
games, which will be all played on Saturdays this season, will continue to run on The Enterprise’s Website on late Saturday evening entering Sunday morning hours.
It was roughly 28 years ago when Doug Wright was first approached by his older brother, Jamey, with the idea of starting a girl’s water polo team at Davis High.
Liberty Ranch went on an eight-game winning streak, which included winning the SVC title.After beating Dixon and Los Banos in the first and second rounds of the Sac-Joaquin Sec tion Division IV playoffs, respec tively, Liberty Ranch played Sierra of Manteca for the section championship. But Sierra ended Liberty Ranch’s Cinderella sea son with a 42-0 win. Liberty Ranch finished with an 8-5 record.“Somany circumstances have changed since I coached previ ously including my family situa tion, the scheduling of opponents, the quality of facili ties, the alignment of our feeder program, and even the equip ment available to our players,” Schroeder said. “I feel as if we are in a much different and more positive situation than we have ever been in before.”
varsity football squad and youngest Christopher is in the Liberty Ranch Jr. Hawks youth football program.
“Our offense is just going to take some work to build some consistency,” Wright said. “Most of the goals that other teams are scoring have been scored off the transition, which has a lot to do with us not running an effective offense and giving up the ball.”
game, Jamey served as head coach as he returned to Davis as an assistant this season.IfMalaya plays water polo in college, she would join a long list of former Davis water polo players who have gone on to com
“I would say this team is right up there with a lot of the better teams I’ve coached,” Wright said. “I think we’ve got a good atti tude, and everyone is on board.”However, he still sees room for improvement.
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Schroder was also the co-head coach with Erv Hatzenbuhler on the 2003 Galt football team, which went 5-5. Hatzenbuhler was one of the few Sacramento area high school football head coaches who ran the single-wing offense during his first tenure at Galt from the mid-1960s through 1989. Hatzenbuhler became the outright head coach in 2004 and 2005. Schroeder was an assistant coach in 2004 and JV head coach in 2005.
n What is a turnover? In football, it is either a lost fumble or an intercep tion by the team that has the ball. When this occurs, the defensive team gets the ball and hands it over to the offense. But when an offensive team fails to get 10 yards on four downs, this, too, results in a loss of possession. Yet, losing the ball on downs does not count as a turnover. We’ve no idea why this is so.
thrill,” Starkey said.
The Aggies fell behind early on San Jose State goals in the sixth, 27th, and 36th minutes to go into halftime trailing 3-0.
special time in peoples’ lives, Wright doesn’t plan on leaving Davis anytime soon.
At age 42, Hackett is the youngest NFL coach. He knew the consequences of his decision. He’s also a stand-up guy. Always has been. Might Wilson, now
“I really enjoy coaching high school athletes,” Wright said. “I get to kind of prepare them to potentially play in college or I get to work with athletes that aren’t going to play in col lege, and this is their last year of playing and you want them to hopefully have the best experience possible.”
It will be the veterans, used to their own pace, who will feel the changes the most.
Davis water polo teams silence Thunder
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The pitch clock, utilized in the minor leagues in recent years, will force hurlers to deliver the ball to the plate within 15 sec onds with the bases empty, 20 seconds if a runner or runners are on Youngerbase.pitchers have already worked in a pitch clock world, so it won’t be much of an adjust ment for them.
Bears radio broadcaster Joe Starkey is retiring at the end of this season and had never called a game from Notre Dame Sta dium. “For a kid who grew up in Chicago and rooted for Notre Dame, this has been quite a
Out of the break the Aggies showed renewed pace and urgency though. UC Davis outshot the Spartans 12-1 in the second half and created five corners in the second half alone.
— Henry Krueger is a rising sophomore at Gon zaga University and an intern for The Enterprise this summer. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.
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n Wonder how many NFL fans missed Thursday’s Los Angeles Chargers-Kansas City Chiefs game because it was only shown live on Prime Video? It was, however, available on NFL Network on a delayed basis.
the infield cutout (dirt) and there must be two on one side of second base and two on the other.
The Davis High girls water polo team was also victorious, as it beat RocklinKenzie19-5.Walker had eight goals for Davis (6-1 overall, 1-0 in the Delta League). Leila Meraz fol lowed with three goals, and Sierra Johnson, Sam Harris and Ava Portello had two each. Rylie John son and Kyla Cutler had one each.
Denver’s quarterback, have con verted on fourth down? We’ll neverWhatknow.wedo know is coaches at every level don’t have the ben efit of hindsight.
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Max Glasser and Zack Lilling ton found the back of the net in the second half for the UC Davis men’s soccer team, but San Jose State posted a 3-2 win at Aggie Soccer Field on Wednesday.
had no choice but to pull the trigger on embattled coach Scott Frost.Hestarred as a player for the Huskers but had zero success as coach. A 5-22 record in 1-possession games had a lot to do with his dismissal. A national search will commence at season’s end for a new coach.
You make your choice, and you live with it. And you move on.
J.T. Doughty had five goals for the Blue Devils, including the goahead goal for the win. Christian Davis, along with Blue Devil teammates Brennan Fuchslin and Bo Brown, had two goals each.
No NFL coach had a rougher Week One than Denver Broncos’ Nathaniel Hackett.
The Davis High boys water polo team edged Rocklin 13-12 in a non-league game on Thursday.
n The Cal Bears played at Notre Dame on Saturday for the first time since 1967.
The long-ago former UC Davis Aggie deep snapper and line backer made a late-game deci sion that didn’t work and was pilloried for it in the national media.With 20 seconds left in the game and his team down by one point to the Seattle Seahawks, Hackett elected to try a 64-yard field goal instead attempting to convert a 4th-and-5 to possibly set up a shorter try. Bronco kicker Brandon McManus has one of the strongest legs in the game. His kick had the necessary distance but sailed wide left and Seattle won its opener without Russell Wilson for the first time in 10 years.
Ryan Barr had six saves in the game.Davis (4-2) competed at the Scott Roche Invitational in Menlo Park. The Blue Devils posted a 3-1 record at the invitational, notch ing wins over Crespi, Valley Chris tian and Vista. Clovis North High’s squad handed Davis its onlyBlueloss.Devils head coach Tracy Stapleton now has 695 career wins, just five shy of 700 wins.
Davis beat league foe Franklin 15-2 on Tuesday. Mihret Lynch had three goals for the Blue Devils.
Walker, along with Malaya Wright and Sierra Johnson, had two goals each. Claire Miller had five assists, and Pistochini had 14 saves.
Hoard led UCD with six shots.
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The longtime radio and tele vision color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and man aging general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.
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n As expected, Major League Baseball enacted new rules that will take effect next season.
The shift has also been elimi nated. Infielders must remain on
n If the LIV golf tour chooses to take on the PGA Tour, that’s theirButbusiness.LIV’slegitimacy is com promised with tournaments last ing 54, and not 72 holes. That’s akin to a new football league opting to play just a 3-quarter game.
n Kudos to Roger Federer, who announced his retirement from competitive tennis this week.Atage 41, Federer is one of the few athletes who knows when his time is up and won’t try to wring a year or two more out of name recognition. Federer won 20 Grand Slam titles in his career. Good for him.
n Following a loss to Group of 5 Georgia Southern, Nebraska
The next time the Aggies play in front of the home faithful will be on Sept. 28 against Cal Poly.
Blue Devil goalie Hailey Pisto chini had nine saves.
Glasser’s goal in the 68th min ute came off a deep cross in the middle of the field by Ethan Hoard, which was redirected by Kevin Welch to a waiting Glasser who only had to tap in to put UCD on the Lillington’sboard. score came just after an Aggie corner with the freshman defender seeing his first shot go off the far post and a shot by Welch saved before Lillington was able to put it in on the rebound. It was Lillington’s first career goal.
UC Davis (0-5-1) return to action on Tuesday, Sept. 20, when it travels to Stockton to play at Pacific. They’ll play their final non-conference game Saturday, Sept. 24 at Santa Clara.
Wednesday’s match marked the final non-conference home game of the season for UC Davis. The next time the Aggies will play in front of the home faithful will be on Sept. 28 against Cal Poly.
Hackett’s late-game decision didn’t work
We saw this dystopian future coming: The signals were clear a year ago that the Supreme Court intended to overturn Roe. In California, we were ready.
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Children who fail to master the basics of education in lower grades will be ill-prepared for high school and post-high school training and education.
About 72% of the dis trict’s students are not meeting state standards in math and 58% are behind in English, essentially wiping out five years of progress that it had recorded prior to the pan demic.“The pandemic deeply impacted the performance of our students,” LAUSD Supt.
We now call on the governor to sign the rest of the bills in the Legislative Women’s Caucus’ package as quickly as possible. You can weigh in on the bill package here.
All Davis families have a right to the peaceful enjoyment of their home. The mayor and council members allowed dubi ous statements to go unchallenged which illustrated their lack of due diligence. More importantly, the mayor knows Janet and Joe Krovoza as honorable persons but did not defend them when a public commenter made unfounded and disgusting accusa tions. Other council members were silent when these hateful comments were made against the Krovozas. What happened to the city’s policy on civility?
On Aug. 30, the Davis City Council voted 5-0 to relocate the existing zipline in Arroyo Park in west Davis to another location in the park.
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It would be best for all concerned if an apology was provided by the council to Janet and Joe Krovoza.
often left to fend for them selves. Absenteeism from online classes was widespread.
Alberto Carvalho said. “Partic ularly kids who were at risk, in a fragile condition, prior to the pandemic, as we expected, were the ones who have lost the most ground.”
The council got working, identifying bar riers to abortion services and recommend ing policy proposals supporting equitable and affordable access to abortion care for Californians and for all who seek care here. And the Legislative Women’s Caucus — female Assembly members and state sena tors—responded with enthusiasm and turned more than a dozen council recom mendations into 15 bills aimed at ensuring that our state is ready to meet this moment.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in June overturning Roe vs. Wade, radical and dangerous forced-birth policies have swept across the nation. More than onethird of U.S. women now live in states with draconian anti-abortion laws that make access to care impossible and put the health and well-being of women and families in grave danger.
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The City Council is considering an ordinance that would require all resale homes to remove and replace all gas fired appliances with electric devices. The council should review the cost factor of this ordinance, improving air quality and reducing global warming is a must but the cost burden should be equally shared.
of Education has not released 2022 academic test data that would allow comparisons with prepandemic results, individ ual school districts are doing so and the numbers from the state’s largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, are stunning.
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In early 2020, I was working with local peace activists to get our City Council to consider a resolution to embrace an impor tant treaty proposal to prohibit nuclear weapons. Council Member Dan Carson strongly supported this resolution, and was willing and able to help me navigate the process to get this resolution approved.
Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia D-Bell Gardens, is chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, which represents and advocates on behalf of women, children and families throughout California. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, is vice chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus.
In this moment of national crisis, Cali fornia must be a light of hope. Hundreds of millions of people, including millions of people of reproductive age, live in states where reactionary politicians are hellbent on eliminating bodily autonomy and strip ping away rights.
I watched this meeting and was sick ened by the council’s response, the irre sponsibility of the council with the existing noise ordinance and the blatant lies about Janet and Joe Krovoza as por trayed by a public commenter. I find this shameful and disgusting.
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The educational deprivation that California inflicted on its kids is not only shameful, but will reverberate for decades.
If they are not prepared to take their place in the work force, the state’s economy will suffer.
Before and after that positive interac tion, I have seen Dan take positions and pursuing leading roles on the many impor tant and tough issues facing our city. I often agree with him on such matters as the city’s relationship with UC Davis, fixing our infrastructure and providing afford able housing. A list of some of his accom plishments and what he hopes to accomplish in the next four years can be found at his website at (Carson4Council. com).When you make your choice for City Council this fall, please consider Dan Car son’s positive record over the years promot ing progress for our city. Since his election in 2018, he has worked hard to move our city forward, and deserves to continue on this trajectory to serve as City Council Member for District 1. Once you read his accomplishments, you will know why I am urging you to vote for Dan Carson.
School closures undermined learning
With the support of Gov. Gavin Newsom and leaders in the Legislature, more than 40 organizations—health care providers, reproductive rights and reproductive justice advocacy organizations, legal and policy experts, researchers and advocates — joined together to form the California Future of Abortion Council.
In Texas, doctors who perform abor tions now face possible life sentences in prison.And in Missouri and 11 other states, abortions are now banned even in cases of rape and incest.
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Add to this ordinance the requirement adding charging ports for the electric cars we will all be buying (Level 2 EV 208220 40A chargers using about 20KW of electricity to charge, most older homes will need a 200A service panel upgrade). This ordinance should help solve the energy needs as well as improve the air quality and CO2 emissions but a serious consideration is this conversion process may decades or more.
So here is an amended ordinance for the council to consider: All residential and commercial properties (new or old) in Davis must remove all gas appliances and all residential and commercial prop erties must install solar panels (with bat tery backup) to provide most of the electrical power needed for the city. Resale sellers share the burden with all home/commercial owners and this would be a win-win for everyone.
Earlier this summer, Gov. Newsom signed a few of these bills, along with the state’s 2022-23 budget, which included a record $200 million to protect and enhance reproductive care and abortion services in California.
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Although medical authori ties quickly concluded that children had a much smaller risk of being infected or expe riencing severe effects if infected, California schools were mostly closed, in large measure because teachers and their powerful unions insisted onWithit. schools closed, local administrators scrambled to provide online classes, what became known as “Zoom school,” but they were poor substitutes for the real thing — especially for English-learner students and those from poor families.Those children — roughly 60% of the state’s nearly 6 mil lion public school students — were already trailing their more privileged contempo raries academically when the pandemic hit. The closures made it worse, for obvious rea sons.They tended to lack internet access and proper equipment for online classes. Their par ents were often compelled to work outside the home to make ends meet, so kids were
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n Ohio, a 10-year-old had to cross state lines to get life-saving abortion care.
They also guarantee robust access to reproductive care for those from other states who seek abortions here due to increasingly harsh bans in their home states.
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“About 81% of 11th-graders did not meet grade-level stan dards in math. About 83% of Black students, 78% of Latino students and 77% of economi cally disadvantaged students did not meet the math stan dards,” the Times reported.
We won’t know how the state as a whole fared until — and unless — the Department of Education finally releases 2022 complete “Smarter Bal ance” test results. But there’s no reason to believe that what happened — or, more accu rately, what didn’t happen — in Los Angeles isn’t also true of other systems, particularly those with large numbers of at-risk students.
Specifically, the bills authored by Legisla tive Women’s Caucus members address obstacles to getting abortion care in Cali fornia, such as cost and access to crucial and unbiased information. They also strengthen civil and criminal protections for patients and providers and invest in abortion care providers. We are proud that these bills acknowledge significant historic inequities in health care and center the reproductive health needs of Black, indige nous, and other people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ folks, people in rural areas, young people, immigrants and those with low incomes.
Last month, the Legislature gave final approval to this wide-ranging package of legislation, which is now on Gov. Newsom’s desk. The bills, crafted with input from longtime reproductive health, rights and justice advocates, work in concert to expand access and safeguard protections for sexual and reproductive health care here in California—including abortion care.
People are scared. They are confused. They are desperate. And they will continue to need access to abortion care, no matter what radical politicians or the conservatives on the Supreme Court say or do.
Judy Reynolds Davis
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While the district released gross data, it did not break down the test results by ethnic or economic subgroups. The Los Angeles Times, however, gleaned the detail from a school board document marked “not for public release.”Whythe secrecy? Appar ently it was to mask the partic ularly disturbing data about Black and Latino kids.
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Affluent parents, particu larly those who could easily work from home during the pandemic, made certain that their kids attended online classes, helped them with their schoolwork, formed informal collaboration groups and/or hired tutors. Thus, the ill effects of closures were miti gated. And, of course, private schools, such as the one Gov. Gavin Newsom’s kids attend, either remained open or mini mized closures.
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For months, politicians from Newsom downward quarreled over how the schools should function and angry parents formed the core of a movement to recall him from office. New som survived the recall, but the educations of millions of kids did not, as new data con firm.While the state Department
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For information on the YoloCares Center for Loss and Hope, contact Chris Erdman at 530-758-5566.
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By Craig Dresang Special to The Enterprise
“Journalists can be so good at reporting others, but are seldom good at reporting themselves.”
— Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
Katie Jones with her mother Beth just weeks before her death.
manipulative sources. But jour nalism’s skills are fading, along with the newspapers and the broadcast outlets that fostered and treasured Publicationsthem.aredying or sur viving on an uncertain drip from a life-support system. Newspa pers that once boasted global coverage are now little more than pamphlets. The Baltimore Sun, for example, in its day a great newspaper, once had 12 overseas bureaus. No more.
— Craig Dresang is the CEO of YoloCares.
It is a dearth of talent. You get what you pay for; publishers aren’t paying for talent, and that is corrosive. Newspaper and regional TV and radio salaries have always been abysmally low, and now they are the worst they have been in 50 years. This is discouraging needed talent.
A major and critical threat to journalism comes from within:
“This matters for the simple reason that the public lacks the traditional protection of legal and social rules. There is nobody in control. … The common realm is sinking fast.”
Indeed, hope can be a roller-coaster ride. With every peak and valley, twist and turn, it can morph into something different. Hope is very future and goal-ori ented, so it makes sense that hope and post-traumatic growth have a relationship because they are both very future focused. In its purest form hope is a commitment to push Understandingforward. that hope and loss are close companions and not adversaries allows us to be both realistic and optimis tic at the same time. When my mom was being treated for cancer, part of me believed that, as long as
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Recently, I was talking with a widow whose hus band was cared for by YoloCares. After he died, she told me, “I knew my husband was going to die, but I hoped it wasn’t true. It was so uncomfortable to think or even talk about that I chose to avoid the realities of the situation. So, in the end, avoidance is the regret I live with, not hope.”Nothing in this world stands still or escapes the movement of time. All of life continues to change and morph into another interpretation of itself. Loss and grief are no dif ferent. Suffering can be life-giving. Heartbreak can become a source of com passion and grace, and a heart can be broken and open at the same time.
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For more than 30 years, I owned a newsletter pub lishing company in Wash ington, and I hired summer interns — and paid them. Some of the early recruits went on to success in journalism, and some to remarkable success.
eschew any discus sion about journalism — its present state, imagined biases and its future. Dan Raviv, a for mer correspondent for CBS News on radio and television, told me in a television interview, “My job is simple: I try to find out what is going on, then I tell people.”Ihave never heard the job of a journalist better explained.
They clarified that in the life of a special-needs child, there is always hope. Katie’s mom explained, “First, we hoped our little girl could live a normal life. Then we hoped for a cure. We hoped for better treatments and for care that could alleviate her pain and suffering, and eventually we hoped for a peaceful death. Now, we hope that changes,isthisvivalhope,fromfromworthwhilesomethingwillemergethisexperienceandhershortlife.Wetoo,forourownsurandgrowththroughdevastatingloss.Hopeourfriendthatalwaysbutneverdies.”
“Just get rid of it already and chalk it up to experience. It was extra anyway. Sell it to Oakdale or something.”
That year, Katie’s school district honored her par ents’ decision for DNR orders, obeying the fami ly’s wishes despite public protest. In the mix of pub lic commentary and opin ion about her death and her parents’ DNR orders, a local church criticized Hope’s Friends, question ing how a children’s hos pice program could include the word hope in its name. Her family’s response was brilliant.
Most reporters across America earn less than $40,000. Even at
the mighty Washington Post, a unionized newspaper, beat reporters make just $62,000 yearly.Totell the story of a turbulent world, you need gifted, creative, well-read people committed to the job. The bold and the bright will not commit to a life of pen ury.To my friend Kevin, I must say, if we can’t offer a viable alternative to the social media cacophony, if we have a secondrate workforce, if the news prod uct is inadequate and untouched by knowledgeable human edi tors, then the slide will continue. Editing by computer is not edit ing. I appreciate editing, and I know how much better my work is for
The most gifted, alas, weren’t headed for newsrooms but for law school. They told me as much as they were interested in reporting, they weren’t inter ested in low-wage lives.
we all navigate as well: loss of a job or career, a home, a marriage, a friendship, a beloved pet, health, youth, an important relationship, a sense or normality, financial security, indepen dence, or the possibility of an imagined future.
oss is an inevitable part of life. Being alive means being vulnerable to both ordinary and extraordinary loss. Some times losses are expected. Other times loss arrives as an unwelcome surprise.
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In the middle of a 17-year struggle with cancer, Joyce Dresang holds her first grandson. After her initial diagnosis, she hoped for a cure and then she hoped to live long enough to see her children grow up. Her final hope was to see and hold her first grandchild.
hope existed, the reality of her prognosis had to be kept at bay. In my own mind, those two concepts seemed contradictory.
D’Arcy, who has worked for major publications in the U.K. and Canada, including The Economist and the Financial Times, argues, “The biggest change is that the job of journal ism no longer belongs to jour nalists alone. To some extent, this has always been true but largely because of social media, the scale is touching the sky.
My own mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer 17 years before it took her life. Over the years, she had what she referred to as small bouts of cancer that always seemed treatable. Yet, her family was always anx iously waiting for the big bad diagnosis that would inevitably result from one of her many thereentpartner,deathlossesingourhaveflash,accident,wasmywithoutto(asappointments.doctor’sWehadtimetopreparemuchaswecould)andconsidertheideaoflifeherinit.Butwhenperfectlyhealthyfatherkilledinahorrificcarhewasgoneinaandnothingcouldadequatelypreparedfamilyforsuchajoltandsurrealloss.Thereareunavoidableassociatedwiththeofourspouseorsibling,child,parorlovedone.However,areotherlossesthat
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entersAlongyou.”the journey of a winding 20-year vocation in hospice I have wit nessed, on many occa sions, how hope can take root and emerge through the cracks of an otherwise hellish landscape of despair and grief. One of those occasions involved a 9-year-old girl by the name of Katie Jones. She was a longtime patient of a pediatric hospice program called Hope’s Friends.
When Katie died after battling severe cerebral palsy for many years, the national spotlight focused on one specific and highly controversial point sur rounding her young life. The girl’s deteriorating health led her parents to post a “Do Not Resusci tate” order on her wheel chair at school, sparking a very public debate about a very private ordeal.
That is what my friend Kevin d’Arcy, a distinguished British journalist, wrote in an article titled “Living in Interesting Times,” published recently on the website of the United King dom Chapter of the Association of European Journalists.
Three newspapers dominate: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times. They got out in front and owed their position to successfully pushing their brands on the internet early. Now they have advertising revenue and even more revenue from the introduction of paywalls.
Where we deal with loss, we can find hope as well
Theit.journalism that Kevin and I have reveled in over these many decades will perish without new talent. Talent will out and, I hope, provide the answers that our trade needs.
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Now I realize that with out an understanding of the adversity we faced, there would have been no reason to conjure hope.
Later, I got the same bright journalism students — young men and women so able that you could send them to a hearing on Capitol Hill or assign them a complex story with confidence.
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Local news coverage may come back as it once was, but this time through local digital sites. I prefer traditional news papers, but the future of local news appears to be online.
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WOODLAND — The federal Department of Energy has selected The Yolo County Central Land fill for an award of $1.5 million to improve the cur rent science and infrastruc ture to turn waste streams into clean, renewable fuel. The DOE grant to the YCCL — one of only 15 nationwide — focuses explicitly on communityscale resource and energy recovery from organic wastes.TheYCCL will evaluate the Tri-reforming and Fischer Tropsch Synthesis Biogas to Renewable Fuel Technology. The main objective of this project is to complete a TRIFTS pilot test and feasibility study of various technologies utiliz ing sources of biogas read ily available and converting them to liquid transporta tion“Wefuels.want the thank the DOE for its award of $1.5 million, which allows us to push the boundaries of green technology to facili tate the development of clean, renewable fuel from waste streams,” said Ramin Yazdani, the director of the Division of Integrated Waste Management. “The YCCL will continue its mis sion of environmental pro tection, reimagining ways to recycle, repurpose, and reuseYolowaste.”County already pro duces biogas from organic waste. The funded project will establish a baseline of performance and costs associated with YCCL’s current nomicstreamsHowever,biofuelsfeedstockorganicresiduals,malmunicipaldigesteratimplementandnitytoment.long-termpathwillstakeholders,sis.afuelputsstudies,pilottoinhaveadvisorynewlytionalregulatorylocalandWasteincludingoperations.waste-to-energyStakeholders,theCounty’sAdvisoryCommitteerepresentativesfromcitiesandcounties,agencies,educainstitutions,andaformedtechnicalcommitteewillanopportunitytobuyandreachanagreementmoveforwardwiththephase.Attheendofthepilotkeyinputsandoutwillbemonitored,andsampleswillbesenttothird-partylabforanalyAfterreviewingwiththeCountydeterminethebestforwardfornear-andwastemanageTheprojectwillaiminspiretheYolocommuandotherjurisdictionstheprivatesectortosimilarprojectslandfillsoranaerobicfacilities.Wastestreams,includingsolidwaste,animanure,wastewaterandotherwastes,arekeyforproducingandbioproducts.thesewastecanbeanecoliabilitytothe
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7-17, and are from Davis, Woodland and the Sacramento area.
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“Dear Edwina,” now showing at the Woodland Opera House, is a musical showing the story of a quirky bunch of kids put ting on an advice column from right outside their garage.The small cast does a great job of immersing the audience in their real ity, where the biggest challenges are things like being a picky eater, mov ing to a new place, and learning to save money. This show is not only per fect to help young chil dren see themselves represented on stage, but also for reminding adults how challenging child hood can be.
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From left, Emma Tyler as Alice, Alex Richmond as the March Hare, Irene Erismann as the Dormouse and Owen Mayor as the Mad Hatter serve up a wild tea party in DMTC’s Young Performers Theater production of “Alice in Wonderland.”
Edwina is hoping to impress a talent scout so that she can get into the Advice-a-palooza Festival and measure up to her talented siblings. Scott (Ayden Burns) tries to get Edwina to notice him and eventually performs an impromptu love song to her.Katie (Samirah Rosen dale), Edwina’s sister, runs home from her math competition after her friends make a mean comment about her. Meanwhile, Billy (Marie Campbell) helps to keep the show running on track as everything threatens to spin out of control.This show is a total blast and the kids in the audience especially loved it. With only a 1-hour run time, plus intermission, this is an easy show for small children to enjoy alongside their families. Be sure to check it out this weekend at the Woodland Opera House, and you might be surprised at how this advice for childhood can apply to adulthood as well.
This musical plays at 2 p.m. Satur day, 2 p.m. Sept. 17; 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24; 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1; 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7; 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9. Tickets are $8 for all ages (Note: there will be a $2 facility fee added to each ticket in person, over the phone or the Internet, cash, check or card).
One of the most excit ing parts of the show is the incredible costumes and props. Each number has the cast dressing in different costumes to demonstrate the lessons they are teaching. In “Frankenguest,” Bobby (Jason Hammond) dresses up as Edwina’s creepy uncle with a big cape and a puppet vam pire as he depicts the spooky retelling of a bad birthday party guest.
In “Fork, Knife, Spoon,” Annie (Emily Delk) plays a Fairy Forkmother dressed in a fabulous hoop skirt adorned with silverware as she teaches Chef Edwina (Kate Losc utoff) how to set a table for her gourmet meal.
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dancing flora, punctual rabbits and mad tea parties. Playing Cards hold court and nothing is as it seems in this land where whimsy and wordplay are the order of the day.
Young Performers go to Wonderland
Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers Theater Division, announces the opening for “Alice in Wonderland.”JanIsaacson will direct and cho reograph this Jim Eiler musical about Lewis Carroll’s unflappable young heroine, Alice, who takes a tumble down an enchanted rabbit hole to an off-kilter world of mock turtles,
food and wine. The $250 shovel ticket includes entrance for two people and the opportunity to har vest an original work of art.
Immersive cast brings ‘Dear Edwina’ to life
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Will Alice be able to get find her footing in this bizarre place? More importantly, will she ever figure out how to get home? All performances are at the Jean Henderson Perform ing Arts Center, 607 Pena Drive in East Davis. All performers are aged
YoloArts is celebrating 15 years of artist farm visits from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, outdoors on the Gibson House grounds with its annual fundraiser for the arts and land pres ervation.Theevent once again will feature the popular live art harvest, as well as a juried
and Yolo Farm to Fork. The Art Harvest and silent auc tion art can be previewed before the event at www. yoloarts.org and The Barn Gallery, 512 Gibson Road in GalleryWoodland. hours are Wednesdays and Thurs days from 2:30 to 5 p.m., and 12:30 to 3 p.m. Satur days, Sept. 17 and 24, and Oct. 8.