nearly 4 inches of rain were recorded in parts of Davis, a highly unusual amount for Sep tember, during which Davis typically sees less than a tenth of an inch of rainfall over the entireDanielmonth.Swain, a climate sci entist at UCLA, estimated that the accumulation of rain over that two-day period reached a peak that recurs just once every decade or two.
represents an under count.Point-in-time counts are generally conducted every other year by local jurisdictions, in part to qualify for state and fed eral funding, but the scheduled 2021 count was delayed a year due to theWhenpandemic.the count was finally conducted in Feb ruary, the county found the percentage of home less people who were unsheltered had actually declined by 4.8 percent while the percentage who were in shelters, including emergency and
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Looking back on her four years on the Davis City Council, including two as mayor, Gloria Partida sees accomplishments she’s proud of, but a lot of unfin ished business, too, thanks in part to COVID-19. She came into office with priorities that included expanding affordable hous ing, addressing homeless ness and pursuing economic development, and those remain priorities as she seeks a second term, this time representing Dis trict
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Storm knocks out power on campus
By lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
According to an article pub lished Tuesday by the UC Davis news service, the storm caused power failures, internet outages
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But4. with the arrival of COVID, she noted, “every thing took a back seat.”
“We learned a lot about communicating and shar ing resources,” Partida said, Courtesy pHoto
Partida keeps focus on core issues
partnership with UC Davis on Healthy Davis Together has made clear, Partida said, how working collab oratively — with the uni versity, the county, the school district, the state and nonprofits — makes
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A total of 746 people experiencing homeless ness were counted on that single night by a team that spread out through out the county, looking for not just those living outdoors, but also in emergency shelters. The team found 368 people living in shelters and 378 unsheltered, though offi cials say the number likely
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Torrential rainfall and thun derstorms hit Davis on Sunday and Monday, bringing muchneeded rain to the region along with minor flooding that closed some roads, parks and build ings.Over a 36-hour stretch span ning Sunday and Monday,
SACRAMENTO — The Shasta County woman who faked her own kidnapping — and later resurfaced in Yolo County with dramatic tales of being bound and branded during her captivity — will spend 18 months in prison, a U.S. Dis trict Court judge ruledSherriMonday.Papini, 39, also must spend three years under supervised release and pay nearly $310,000 in restitu tion for the threeweek ordeal that captured headlines in November 2016, and again earlier this year when her hoax was revealed.
“Not only did Papini lie to law enforcement, her friends and her family, she also made false state ments to the California Victim Com pensation Board and the Social Security Administration in order to receive benefits as a result of her alleged ‘post-traumatic stress’ from being abducted,” authorities with the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release following Papini’s sen tencing.
Still, the city’s subsequent
Heavy rains flood Davis, UCD
Yolo County’s homeless population increased by 13.9 percent between 2019 and 2022 based on a point-in-time count conducted Feb. 22, the county reported Tuesday.
by the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which burned over 360,000 acres, leaving lit tle vegetation to prevent mud andTherockslides.heavyand unseasonal rain came less than two weeks after Davis saw record-high temperatures earlier this month.On Monday evening, the city of Davis posted on social media that the Richards Boule vard underpass and the inter section of Sixth and F streets were flooded. “Please
On Monday evening, a flashflood warning was issued for parts of Yolo County impacted
Point-in-time count finds 746 homeless in county
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for an ideal path forward for solving many of the issues facing the city.
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avoid the area,” the city said.
On Tuesday morning, the city asked residents to stay away from waterlogged parks and fields. “All city of Davis fields and parks are CLOSED due to wet field conditions,” the city posted.UCDavis was also impacted by the rain and thunderstorms.
Davis City Councilwoman Gloria Partida made her re-election bid official in August.
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While routine testing is optional, rapid saliva-based testing remains free for campus affiliates and UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May urged students and employees to continue taking advantage of it.
The site is open for test ing from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. It is closed Fri days and Saturdays. Testing is by appointment only.
Asked Board of Supervisors chair Curt Hagman, "Do you want to spend our tax dollars to do a study of what we are or are not getting as a county and then fight for that in a way we haven't done before?"Atissue is the old question of whether the county is sending more money to Sacramento than it gets in return. In a state with 58 counties, obviously some are going to be winners at this game and some are going to be losers, but San Bernardino better be careful about what it wishes for.
Then again, our East Davis backyard is bigger than Rhode Island, so let's not act like San Bernardino County is as big as Alaska, though it is bigger than Switzerland.SanBernardino County is also the most misspelled county in the lower 48, with many folks disre spectfully neglecting to include the second "R" in its name.
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CHP, OTS observe Child Passenger Safety Week
UC Davis students who returned to campus this week from across the state and country were over whelmingly COVID-nega tive, according to testing data published on UC Davis’ COVID-19 dash board.Between Sept. 9 and 16, more than 5,000 UC Davis students were tested for COVID-19, with just 9 individuals testing positive, a positivity rate well under 1%, the lowest rate in months. Many of the stu dents who got tested this week did so to fulfill a requirement that they be screened for COVID-19 before moving into oncampus housing.
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COVID rate low among returning Aggies
County. But we raise way more tomatoes than they do.
No matter its size, San Ber nardino County now wants to secede from the state of California, though it's unclear if they wish to join Ari zona, Nevada or Baja California or simply go it alone as the 51st state.
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Who knows, maybe the People's Republic of Davis will attempt to secede from Yolo County and establish our own county court house right here in the 95616 zip code.Or maybe Olde East Davis will secede from Real Davis. Or maybe our living room will secede from ourForkitchen.those unfamiliar, San Ber nardino County includes cities such as Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Victorville and Barstow, also known as Bar stool.And, of course, the city of San Bernardino. (Note to night typist:
The answer appears to be "Yes."
Or maybe they want to field their own Olympic bobsled team as a free and independent nation.
The other day, county supervi sors voted 4-0 to put the matter to a vote on the November 8 ballot.
Seven counties in Oregon have already voted to join Idaho in a new state called Greater Idaho. This mostly because folks in Pend leton and Prineville don't like being told what to do by folks in Portland.Thosevotes, of course, are advi sory only, but one day Ore-Ida french fries derived from two states may well be known as Greater Idaho french fries derived from one state.
Everyone, it seems, wants to
I don't know for sure, but I believe the county's official mascot is a St. Bernard puppy with a small keg of whiskey wrapped around its neck.
secede. Or at least rearrange the furniture.
In total, 8,800 students are expected to be living in campus residence halls and The Green this year, many of whom moved back in this month. The final move-in day for students living on campus was Thursday.UCDavis ended its man datory biweekly COVID-19 testing in June and will keep testing optional throughout the fall quarter, with the exception that all students get tested once at the start of the quarter. Students living off campus will need to get tested
By CaleB Hampton Enterprise staff writer
Which brings us to San Ber nardino County, the largest county in the lower 48, with more square miles than Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island combined.
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“This precautionary measure will help to iden tify asymptomatic cases and mitigate the spread among our community,” UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May said in a recent mes sage to the campus com munity. “If a student arrives in Davis after Oct. 7, they should get tested within one week of their arrival.”AsofFriday, the COVID19 cases among the student population living on cam pus were few and far between.SinceMarch, UC Davis students have not been required to wear masks, though campus leaders continue to “strongly rec ommend” that they do so in indoor settings. As of this week, 99% of students were up to date on vaccine
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“We encourage our stu dents, faculty and staff to get tested regularly for COVID-19,” the chancellor said in a message to the UC Davis
Just for the record, San Ber nardino County covers 20,105 square miles compared to a paltry 1,024 square miles for Yolo
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vehicle, in an age-appro priate child safety seat. Safety experts recom mend all children ride in the backseat until age 13.
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Overcommunity.thesummer, the testing site moved from the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) to the nearby Human Resources Admin istration Building.
The California High way Patrol, including the Woodland office, and the Office of Traffic Safety will help parents and caregiv ers ensure every child is properly restrained in the correct safety seat for their age and size as part of Child Passenger Safety Week, which began Sun day and lasts through Saturday.“When installed and used correctly, child safety seats and safety belts can prevent injuries and save lives,” CHP Commis sioner Amanda Ray said. “The best way to protect your child in the car is to use a properly fitted child safety seat and seat belt.”Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children, and the latest research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra tion shows 46 percent of child safety seats are not installed
Some folks in Texas want to secede and go back to being the Lone Star Republic instead of the Lone Star State. Whether a major ity of Texans would vote for this is unclear, but the vote would be 49-0 in favor of the move among the remaining states in the union.
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Speaking of trees
For more information on waste sorting and recycling, visit: DavisRecycling.org
n Twenty-two percent of people surveyed have lived in Yolo County all of their lives and another 16 percent have lived here for seven or more years;
tion system where necessary. Even the best irrigation systems should be checked regularly to ensure that everything is in good working order (and no uninvited guests have damaged irrigation lines looking for water in the summer). Planting season is a great time to check your irriga tion system and ensure it is opti mized to best manage your new landscape.Carefulwater-use manage ment is one of the best tools to use for sustainable landscaping. You can sign-up for AquaHawk, the city’s online water-use portal, to track your water usage and see how much water is used for irri gation. You can even set notifica tions and be alerted if you have a potential water leak. Visit Save DavisWater.org for registration information.Formoreinformation on sus tainable landscaping and wateruse efficiency, visit GreenerDavis. org and click on the link for “Green Gardening.”
n Select proper plants/ trees: choose the right plant/tree for the right place and watch them grow! For more informa tion on plant choice, please visit the link for “Green Gardening” at GreenerDavis.org.
Partida supported the proposal in part because of the money it would have added to city coffers, she said.“We can’t rely on any one stream of income. We have to make sure that we have economic development that is going to be able to sustain us and that is diverse.“Ifwe think about how we maintain our quality of life, how we maintain our parks and all of the things that people come here for, it takes money to do that. It takes money to continue to support our police depart ment and our fire depart ment. And we can continue to raise taxes, but then it gets back to the conversa tion of who gets to live here? It’s people who can afford to pay those taxes… “I don’t want us to be a community that doesn’t serve all levels of income. That’s important to me. It’s important to me that everyone benefit from the good that Davis has to offer,” Partida said.
“While we still have a lot of work to do in con tinuing to address home lessness, I am encouraged by the efforts of so many in our community to address the ongoing needs of those in our county experiencing unsheltered or sheltered homelessness,”Countywide, the num ber of people experienc ing homelessness per 10,000 residents increased from 21.4 in 2017 to 29.4 in 2019 and 33.7 in 2022.
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requirements for moving to all-electric homes down the line and the cost involved for
Climate change
n Sustainable landscapes include trees: With careful spe cies selection, adding a tree to your sustainable landscape can have a number of benefits, including shading your land scape, sequestering carbon, pre venting stormwater run-off, reducing evaporation and pre venting urban heat islands. Be sure to look for species that have been successfully planted in hot ter, drier climates.
Can't attend the meetings, or have additional thoughts to share? Please connect with us by submitting comments via the comment tool on the city’s Urban Forest Management Plan website.
“I’mresidents.justas concerned as everyone else,” Partida said.
high as 70 percent,” said Ian Evans, who serves as adult and aging branch director in the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency.
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With shorter days and cooler weather com ing, October to November is the best time of year for fall planting for our area. Fall planting is best because the soil is moist, weeds are not as prolific and cooler temperatures put less stress on new plants. When creating a sustainable landscape, here are some tips to consider:
A total of 181 homeless people were counted in the city of Davis on Feb. 22, including 67 who were in shelters and 114 who were unsheltered.
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So why should residents of District 4 vote for Par tida?“I’ve got 30 years of experience working in the community. I have worked with congregations, I have worked with schools, I have worked with a lot of differ ent entities, so I do know where the resources are and I do know how to col laborate with people and get people to work together on solving issues. Definitely know how to get things done and bring all people to the
HOMELESS: Count collects critical data
n Harvest rainwater: reduce stormwater runoff and keep water onsite for general garden ing uses.
n Among all those counted who were sheltered, 207 were in emergency year-round shelters; 111 in emergency shelters such as hotel or motel rooms paid for by social services agencies; 18 were in emergency sea sonal shelters; and 32 in transitional housing.
Large cardboard boxes that do not easily fit into the recycling cart are collected separately for recycling:1.Remove all packing mate rial, and make sure your boxes are completely empty.
Autumn is the season to get to planting
The plan will communicate the community’s vision for the future urban forest and guide the care and planting of trees and growth of canopy cover (among other things) over the next 40 years.
As far as building more affordable housing, that will likely require partner ships with the state and other agencies, and con tinuing to work with devel opers to increase the amount of affordable hous ing they provide while still ensuring they can afford to build it, Partida Development,said.ofcourse, is perhaps the hottest topic in the two council races on the November ballot, and, in particular the Davis Innovation and Sustain abilityDiSCCampus.wasvoted down in June but sentiment in the community runs high.
“It’s not a one-issue job,” Partida said of serving on the council. “I know that people right now are very focused on what happened with Measure H, but that’s not all that is involved in being on council. And I am good at taking every issue that comes forward and being thoughtful and being measured and making sure that I look at all of the evi dence for whatever comes forward and that I look at every issue with a lens of equity.”Learn more about Parti da’s campaign at gloriafordaviscc.com.https://
The city of Davis has one of the lowest rates in the county at 27.9 per 10,000 residents, a slight increase from 27.2 in 2019.Other cities in Yolo County saw significantly higher increases. West Sacramento’s rate increased from 35.6 per 10,000 in 2019 to 53.8 in 2022, while Woodland’s increased from 39.5 in 2019 to 44.4 in 2022.
“We have to do something about (climate change). But we have to make sure that everyone benefits from those changes.
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We want to hear from you! The success of the Plan depends on input from the community. Learn about the planning pro cess, the urban forest, and share your impressions through inperson conversations, virtual meetings or through our online survey.Project reports, videos from meetings and upcoming events, as well as information on our photo contest, can be found on the city’s webpage at foroutwillTreestyle,ment-planforestry/urban-forest-managecityofdavis.org/city-hall/urban-www.Thenexteventwillbedrop-inheldonSeptember24ataDavisevent.Moredetailsbeannouncedsoon,checktheTreeDavisEventspagemoreinformation.
“Partgases.”ofbeing environ mentally responsible is to control how we view growth and to, in fact, have some growth,” said Partida. “I understand the concerns and I hear the concerns, and absolutely, we want to do it right.”
n Add mulch: mulching con serves water by reducing mois ture evaporation from the soil. Mulch can also reduce weeds, prevent soil compaction and keep soil temperatures moderate to protect growing plants.
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The 13.9-percent increase in the unhoused population between 2019 and 2022 was signifi cantly less than the 43 percent increase seen from 2017 to 2019 and also less than neighboring jurisdictions, according to the“Lookingcounty. at surround ing counties, we see over all increases of 30, 40 and, in some cases, as
The city of Davis is working
The city is focused on addressing climate change and adaptation, with a draft plan currently circu lating. But there are con cerns about how feasible some of those adaptations are going to be for the aver age citizen, including
“I want to make sure that when we do this, that those people are not left behind. And I think we can do it. I think there is a way to hit our greenhouse gas goals and to make our communi ties much more resilient than they are right now and to get them to where they need to be.”
2. Flatten the cardboard boxes.3.Place the flattened boxes on the ground next to your recycling cart on the street for pick-up. Recology Davis will collect properly placed cardboard boxes on your collection day.
“The fact that Yolo only experienced a 13.9 per cent increase during this time and a decrease in unsheltered homelessness speaks to the collabora tive efforts that occur in our community from those in leadership, juris dictions, communitybased providers, faith organizations, volunteers, and staff alike. This is a community issue, and we must continue to work as a community to address it,” he Lookingsaid. at the data itself, Evans noted that the length of time many of the respondents have lived in Yolo County shows “these folks are a part of our community, often friends, neighbors and loved ones.
— Dawn Calciano is a Conservation Coordinator with the city of Davis and can be reached at PWWeb@Cityof Davis.org
of folks who have grown up in Davis and people who have moved to Davis like myself from areas that were not as affluent or didn’t have all the amenities that we have here … what a dif ference it has made for them.“So to completely shut people out of those oppor tunities, to me is wrong. It’s morallyPartidawrong.”added, “I don’t want to completely pave over (agricultural land) and explode out, but I do think that some growth is needed and we can be smart about how we move our traffic and that that growth is sus tainable.”It’snot just the equity side of it, but also the envi ronmental, she added, not ing that had Covell Village been built (a housing pro posal for the north side of Covell Boulevard west of Pole Line Road that was turned down by voters) many of the Davis residents who moved to Spring Lake in Woodland likely would not have done so.
n Fewer than 5 percent said they came here for good social services or affordable housing;
n Integrate compost: mix your soil with compost to improve soil health and productivity.
But they did, “and now what we have is a bunch of folks who are driving from Spring Lake into Davis and … now there are cars on the road where they could have been biking to school or biking to work. That is the opposite of what you want to do for reducing green house
n Of the 746 adults counted, 145 were in households with children;
landscape system).
Homelessness and affordable housing go hand-in-hand, Partida noted, as it’s difficult to help people out of home lessness if there isn’t afford able housing to move them in Oneto. option, said Partida, is working with the county on housing vouchers, pos sibly providing help with increased security deposits so more landlords would be willing to rent to voucher recipients. Currently,
“getting people to come out to test and get vaccinated and that translates a lot to any other issue that we are going to tackle in the future.“We could totally use that (collaboration) to work on our climate action plan, to solve issues around traffic or just anything else that comes up. So I’m really excited about working on that for the next four years,” sheThat’ssaid. not to say there aren’t accomplishments Partida is proud of during her four years in office. She cites, in particular, the work with city staff and as part of a council subcom mittee figuring out how to fix and maintain city roads. That work led to 10-year plan that will bring the city’s pavement condition index up to average condi tions from what has been for a while a below-average state.“I’m very glad we were able to do that,” Partida said.Roads, and particularly issues related to traffic, impact quality of life in Davis, Partida noted, and should be a focus for local officials.
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She noted there are stud ies that show that kids who grow up in more affluent zip codes have much better outcomes than kids grow ing up “Andelsewhere.Ithinkabout a lot
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As you make updates to your landscape, don’t forget to also review and update your irriga
On the issue of home lessness, Partida is proud of the city’s establishment of a Department of Social Ser vices and Housing which will focus on that issue.
n Of the 87 children ages 0-17 counted on Feb. 22, 83 were in shelters and four were unshel tered
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transitional housing, had increased.During the pandemic, significant effort and funding went into getting unsheltered people at high risk for COVID-19 into hotel rooms and even apartments, with the county’s Project Roomkey program even getting a shout out from the gover nor early on for its suc cess.The point-in-time count doesn’t just count the homeless; demo graphic data is also col lected, including race, ethnicity, age, how long they have been in Yolo County, how long they have been unhoused and more.Some of the findings from the 2022 PIT count:
n Utilize graywater: consider supplementing your irrigation needs with water from your washing machine (a laundry to
Partida said, there are landlords reluctant to par ticipate and the county has vouchers it can’t use.
“Andtable.coming from a sci ence background, I look very closely and ask a lot of questions,” she added.
n Create pollinator and wild life habitat: choose plants/trees that attract and support native pollinator and wildlife species.
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n Almost 50 percent came to Yolo County because they grew up here or they have friends or family here;
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Papini never spoke publicly about the fraud until she broke her silence Monday, telling Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb she’s taken responsibility for her actions.“Iam guilty of lying. I am guilty of dishonor. I stand before you willing to accept. To repent and to concede,” Papini told the court, according to The Sacramento Bee. “I trust in this court. I trust the offi cers handling my release and I trust in you, your honor, to see me, to hear me.”Initially charged in April with making false state ments to officers as well as wire fraud, Papini pleaded guilty to one of each count later that month.
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Papini’s husband reported her missing on Nov. 2, 2016, after he returned home to find her gone and their two young children still in daycare. He later found her cell phone in an area where she’d gone for a Threerun. weeks later, on Thanksgiving Day, follow ing an extensive search throughout Shasta County and beyond, Papini reap peared chained and heavily battered along Interstate 5 and County Road 17 in the rural town of Yolo, accord ing to Davis Enterprise reporting at time.
According to the criminal complaint, Papini received warnings about the consequences of lying to federal agents during her interviews with Shasta County and FBI officers, who presented evidence of the sham
on her right shoulder,” a news release said. “At that time, Papini told law enforcement officers and others that she had been abducted and held by two Hispanic women at gun point and held against her will. She also provided details of the alleged abductors to an FBI sketch artist.”“The investigation even tually showed, however, that this was a false narra tive Papini fabricated,” authorities said. “In truth, Papini had been voluntarily staying with a former boyfriend in Costa Mesa and had harmed herself to support her false state ments.”That revelation came as a surprise to former Yolo County Sheriff Ed Prieto, who responded to Woodland Memorial Hospital after Papini was transported there for evalu ation.“This one fooled me,” said Prieto, who had no direct contact with Papini but stood in a hallway out side her room as he waited for her husband, Keith, to arrive.“While I was in the hall way I heard this bellow, this scream, like a wounded animal would sound like,” Prieto told The Davis Enterprise in April. “It sent shivers down my spine. So it was convincing to me, that she was in a great amount of pain.”
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Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, coffee and donuts will be served under the shade of a 22-year old Texas red oak and thornless mesquite at 1009 Kent Drive At 9 a.m., Dr. Greg McPherson will lead a 6-mile tour with stops at nine Great Trees. The tour will finish at the Farmer’s Market at 11 a.m.
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HOAXER: Plea ends silence
“Insteadabduction.ofretracting her kidnapping story, Papini continued to make false statements about her pur ported abductors,” authori ties said, adding that Papini also received more than $30,000 in state vic tim assistance money for therapist appointments and ambulance transporta
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About three hours later, electricians restored power to all of the buildings except Mrak Hall. As of Tuesday after noon, the administrative building, which houses the chancellor’s office and those of other high-level campus officials, was being powered by a generator while crews worked to replace the transformer.
The IT system services reported inter net outages in 31 buildings across cam pus.Meanwhile, on the UC Davis subreddit page, students shared photos of a water logged lounge area inside the Memorial Union and posted videos of people swim ming and paddling shopping carts through a flooded bike tunnel near the Segundo residence halls. Another person on the forum posted that their car was stuck in a large puddle near the Hutchi son Drive exit from Highway 113.
This will also be a fun opportunity to participate in the city of Davis’ Urban Forest Management Plan Photo Contest. Snap pho tos of your favorite trees along the biking route! Submission for the photo contest can be shared here: inmensGreatresidentsment-plan-photo-contest/urban-forest-managevis.org/city-of-davis-https://www.treedaTreeDavishasaskedtonominateTreesand33specihavebeenrecordedoneoffourcategories:
“Once the replacement transformer is installed, they will be able to turn off the generator and switch the power back over to the campus grid,” Morejohn said Tues day. “We will likely do that after 5 p.m. today as it will require another building shutdown.”Morejohn added that the cause of the power outage was being investigated, as the underground utility room is designed to withstand heavy rains. On Monday evening, UC Davis’ information technol ogy system services reported that a
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“A transformer located in an under ground utility room near Mrak Hall failed during a deluge just after 5 p.m. Monday (Sept. 19), knocking out power to nine buildings on the same high-volt age circuit,” Josh Morejohn, executive director of utilities and engineering in Facilities Management at UC Davis, told the campus news service.
tion.The Sacramento Bee reported that Papini’s prison sentence far exceeded the one recom mended by federal prosecu tors, who sought an eight-month term. Papini’s attorney, William Porta nova, requested one month in prison followed by seven months of home detention.“Wehave to send a mes sage that crime doesn’t pay,” Shubb said, according to the Bee. “People don’t like to be conned. …And I don’t believe those people who were deceived would believe that one month or eight months is suffi cient.”He then ordered Papini to surrender for her sen tence on Nov. 8, just after the six-year anniversary of her ill-fated scheme.
Tree Davis will kick off its 2022-23 tree planting season with a bike tour.
lightning strike to a power line had caused the outage at Mrak Hall, but cam pus officials told The Enterprise Tuesday that UC Davis Facilities personnel were not aware of any lightning strikes knock ing out power on campus.
MU Director Janna Tolla told the UC Davis news service the rainwater inside that building was “some of the worst flooding I’ve seen.” Custodial crews worked through the night to clean up the MU, which was open Tuesday except for a roped off section in the lounge area.
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UC Davis students, many of whom moved into campus dorms last week, are scheduled to begin fall classes on Wednesday.
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In 2020, Madison, Wis., was the first place to enact bird-safe windows. From 2018 to 2020, volunteers did 1,300 hours of monitoring covering 22 build ings. They recorded 718 bird deaths and 44 injuries. So, they adopted new requirements for buildings more than 10,000 square feet to incorporate a pat tern such as dots or lines to pre vent birds from colliding with the glass. They are little white dots that go on 2-by-2 inches and make the birds aware of the sur face. Local developers filed a law suit in 2021 but a judge ruled the standards fall under zoning codes the city is allowed to make.
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I got so excited reading about the laws in Madison that I wrote our Davis City Council and the Planning Department about bird friendly construction. I immedi ate got a reply from Sherri A.
We will have gates open to drainage area and provide bags and trash grabbers. John McNer ney, our wildlife specialist, will
The sandhill cranes are out in the fields foraging and at night, find come together in marshes along with swans, and geese.
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Fall is a time for planting, and while you are at it, how about using plants to help bring back our pollinators? Grow pollinatorfriendly flowers, avoid pesticides, provide nesting and egg-laying sites in your yard. Most bees are ground nesting so leave some bare dirt. Go to xerces.org for specific plants that nourish polli nators year round.
The best birding time of the year is right now. Many species are in migration, crossing immense distances, going weeks without sleep. Lots of immature birds around. Keep your eyes and ears open for unusualJoshuaspecies.Greenfield and Lina Woods birded the three acre Yolo Uplands on F and Anderson last week and recorded 29 species plus two new species, a yellowbilled magpie and eleven Lewis’s woodpeckers, large woodpeckers that store thousands of acorns into holes in trees. You can enjoy the Friends of North Davis Ponds First Saturday Bird Stroll at 8 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, led by expert leaders. Meet at 3500 Anderson Road and bring your binoculars if you have them. Experts at West Ponds will lead the First Wednesday Bird Stroll at 8 a.m. on Oct. 5 — meet at Isle Royale and Bryce Lane.
geese, tundra swans, Canada geese and more. A memorable sight.Toget there, take I-5 south toward Lodi and turn east on Pel tier Road. Almost immediately, turn south on Thornton Road and travel parallel to I-5 for about two miles to Woodbridge Road. Turn west on Woodbridge Road (back under the I-5 freeway) and go about three miles to Wood bridge Ecological Reserve also known as the Isenberg Sandhill Crane
events caused by human caused climate change “nat ural’ disasters. Witness:
“A multi-year drought in much of the Western United States has weighed on American agricultural exports.”“West Coast wildfires have jumbled logistics for companies like amazon.”
West Davis Pond had its annual cleanup on Sept. 17 with 26 volunteers who brought in 55 pounds of trash and sorted 5 pounds of recyclable cans and bottles. Friends of North Davis Ponds will hold a cleanup on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to noon, led by Kelli O’Neill. Meet in front of the short viewing deck. Bring gloves and water. Long sleeves and pants recommended.
Friends of North Davis Chan nel Facebook is noteworthy. If you want inspiration for taking an early morning hike along the north channel, which I call the Davis Ditch, take a look at many photos posted by David Self on their Facebook. If you like to look at small critters close up — tiny insects, caterpillars, eggs, mon arch larva and the like, see the photos of Larry Snyder and read his interesting observations.
Metzker, Community Develop ment Director. She informed me that they recently addressed this issue in our Downtown Davis Specific Plan Draft Environmen tal Impact Report (DEIR). It is a plan for bird safe glazing. Luckily, I was able to make comments on the DEIR before the comment period ended.
Feathered visitors flock to region
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Perhaps you have heard the distinctive trumpeting sound of the elegant sandhill cranes flying overhead. It has been described as gar-roo-a-a, k-r-roo, kr-r-r-ro, ku-kr-r-roo, hkkkkkkkk or hkarrrrr. People call it a bugle, a gargle, a trumpet. One thing for certain, once you hear it, you remember it. The birds, both lesser and greater sandhills, are primarily gray. Adults have a spectacular red crown. Some have a rust stained plumage.
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Perhaps you will be drawn to an early morning or late evening walk along the North Davis Channel.
BirdsReserve.canuse our help given the drought, loss of habitat, mas sive fires, hot temperatures. Put some netting in front of windows to prevent window crashes or use other methods. It is the secondleading cause of human-caused bird deaths behind outdoor cats (2.4 billion birds/year). Trees are reflected from glass, so birds are deceived, the reason for crashes.
“Winter storms and power outages shut down semi-conductor plants in Texas last year.”
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The Cosumnes River Preserve is their winter home. About 3,000 settle there between now and March. Woodbridge Ecologi cal Tours will begin Oct. 8, or you can visit the area on your own. Dawn or dusk are best times. Get guidance from the California Department of Fish and (CDFW). A land pass must be purchased for some areas, $4.89/ day or $28.08 for annual pass. Purchase online or by phone at We800-565-1458.oftendrivealong road Woodbridge Road until we spot them foraging in a field and we pull over with hopes of watching their unique dance. As darkness falls, they come flying from many directions into surrounding marshlands along with snow
Sports seasons at Davis High are different this year due to a fewer number of referees available for sport games. Both the baseball and football teams have been especially affected.
The dress code allows for many different styles of clothing, as long as they are not offensive. “There’s really no dress code unless you have literally missing clothing,” senior Anselm Hell-Horne said.
Oldham is unsure what he is going to do after high school. He said he has had offers to jump for colleges, but he isn’t sure if that’s the right path for him. The one thing he knows is that he would like to keep doing the high jump.
English teacher Carin Pilon also hasn’t looked at the dress code in several years, mostly due to the pandemic. “There were bigger things to think about for the past several years,” Pilon said.
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The school board approved schedule two on Dec. 16 — disregarding the committee’s recommendation and the results of the survey.OnJan. 18, an email was sent out to students explaining the reasoning behind
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“I’m a bit of a showman, so I like the crowd,” Oldham said. “I like exceeding
“I just can’t at this point see why I would be persuaded to change that proposal based on what hypothetically ... would be too Betsydifficult.”Hyder
Davis High sophomore Brennan Fuchs lin has been in the pool for six years now — winning games with the Davis Water Polo Club and winning high praise from teammates.Nowheis competing at a national level with the 680 Drivers Water Polo Associa tion for certain tournaments, on a team that was ranked 2nd in last year’s national rankings.Playing on the big stage brings a pretty large spotlight onto Fuchslin, but he is ready to deal with the pressure. “There is (pressure), but it’s always good to have a little bit of pressure. It’s better than just kinda floating around,” Fuchslin said.
When he’s not jumping or sprinting down the track, Oldham spends his time watching television, hanging out with his friends, and keeping up with his school
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Due to this shortage, each football team in the SanJoaquin section has been forced to play one game on Thursday during the season.
“He is a stud in the water. When you throw the ball to him, you see some poor kid get (humiliated). It’s terrible but it’s awesome,” Barr said.
As he progresses through high school, though, it is becoming apparent that find ing a school-sports balance is difficult, so Fuchslin is going to be, “tapering off swimming for a little bit,” to ensure that he can focus the necessary time and effort intoWhileschool.the future after high school remains uncertain, Fuchslin is fairly sure he would like to continue playing water polo for as long as he can. “I’d like to play in college, but who knows yet,” Fuchslin said.His teammates are sure that he has what it takes to take his playing wherever he wants. “I can see him becoming (an All American) … by senior season. He’s defi nitely going to be a leading force on the water polo team for the next two years,” Vochatzer said.
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Many policies are changing at DHS, but the dress code is not one of them. This year’s dress code remains the same as last year’s and is in accordance with the Davis Joint Unified School District’s dress code that all schools must follow.
He wants to be ready for that. He’s going to work up to jumping higher, “cause that’s thing I’m definitely shooting for this year,”
Lou Payne coaches Oldham. “Ray has jumped a new personal record nearly every time he has competed at a meet,” he said.
The DJUSD dress code as written actu ally contains few restrictions. Students can’t wear: shirts missing fabric in the front or sides, visible undergarments with the exception of bra straps and waistbands, and depictions that may be construed as offensive (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, violence, obscenities and hate speech).
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that dress codes are still important.
Pilon is glad DHS has moved passed dress codes that single out any certain gen der or “Peopleidentity.aregrowing up, and they should experience (all kinds of dressing),” Adler said.
Referee shortage causes schedule changes
“I have had many games without umpires. It is not enjoyable and is very frus trating,” sophomore Evan Lanier said. “Calls are less accurate and coaches have to step in and play the role of theThisumpire.”problem was previ ously unique to baseball; however, recently, many
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Through the efforts of Lorenson and others, each team in the Delta League is playing one of their pre season games on a Thursday in order to keep the other league games on Fridays.
“It was just a huge, uncomfortable situ ation,” Pilon said.
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Junior Ruby Adler didn’t know DHS even had a dress code, and has never seen a student get stopped for a dress code vio lation. “I don’t think I know what (the dress code) is,” Adler said.
Buried on Page 7 of the Davis High stu dent handbook is a dress code that never seems to cross the minds of students.
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“You all speak to us of mental health, of how your schedule will benefit us and lower our stress. Why do you not listen to us when we tell you that the opposite is true? This district has appalling rates of depression and anxiety … And I find it disheartening, frankly, that the primary solution appears to be changing the schedule to one that the student body agrees will only increase stress,” junior Anna Kelly said at the Feb. 3 board meeting.Students are not the only ones who are concerned that the new schedule will harm their mental health. DaVinci High math teacher Elizabeth Broughton said at the Jan. 20 board meeting that such a radical change to the schedule will be stressful and labor intensive for teachers. “Adopting schedule two requires a fifth
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“It feels like you’re flying when you’re up in the air,” Davis High senior Ray Oldham said. After jumping 6’8” at a track meet in Pittsburgh, California on Jan. 22, Oldham found himself ranked 1st in the state for high school high jumpers. He was also ranked in the top 10 nationally.
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A recent referee shortage has led to cancellation and rescheduling of football and baseball games.
Davis High counselors held a work shop for seniors on Sept. 7 to answer common questions students ask when applying to colleges.
Pilon has noticed only positive changes in the dress code in the past five to 10
Van Der Zeeuw feels this is a great resource to have and recommends that the seniors next year attend.
At DHS, the administration tries to fol low a similar philosophy. “We want to cre ate a safe environment that is conducive to learning,” vice principal Karen Gardias said.Last year, Hell-Horne wore a maid cos tume to school for Halloween. He was partially expecting to get stopped for a dress code violation, but he did not. “I think the dress code is pretty relaxed,” Hell-Horne said.
The DHS baseball team practices hundreds of hours each year: fielding, hitting and conditioning. But often times when players arrive at the field for a game, no umpire is present. This was a common occurrence for both the freshman and J.V baseball teams last season.
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Davis High senior Ray Oldham clears 6’8” for a personal high jump record.
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Pomeranzt sees the policies at Toronto District School Board (TBSD) as a good example of a dress code that doesn’t include oppressive language. One of TBSD’s explicit objectives of their dress code is “to establish fair and equitable standards and practices for student dress in all schools,” which Pomeranzt believes is a healthy ideology for schools.
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“You call us resilient, strong, and ready to handle whatever challenges you make us face. I am confident in saying we are only resilient because you leave us no other option … We do not want to be resilient. We want to be happy,” Kelly said in her comments before the board.
“Of course it is early season, there’s always better jumpers coming and the leading height in the state will of course
However, students argued at the board meetings that the new schedule will only increase student stress since they have
pivot in instructional practice since March 2020,” Broughton said. She said that such a drastic change forces teachers to create a “full-scale revision of all of our lessons and labs, semester plans, and course maps.”
Davis High sophomore Brennan Fuchslin (bottom left) poses with Davis Club teammates.
“This year football is very short (on referees). S o much so that we moved one game to a Thursday night in efforts to ensure that our future home games have officials,” DHS Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson said.
was similar to the current schedule with two block days per week, modified slightly to fit the new law. Schedule two upped the amount of block days to three per week. A majority of survey respondents voted for schedule one.
the school board’s decision. One of the reasons was that “student stress is decreased as a result of fewer seven period
As a teacher, Pilon sees citing students for dress code violations as awkward, espe cially when dress codes have been known to sexualize girls.
Moore has been working on the application process since the middle of August, and had many questions about the difference between California State University and the Common App appli cations.“Ifthere was any information I missed in the application so far, I could get my questions and answers from this,” Moore said.
Seniors fill the stands in the South Gym as they wait for the college informational meeting to start.
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“While the goal and desire is to ‘win’, treatment of offi cials should remain positive through triumph and defeat,” Lorenson said.
Many students felt it was good to hear about the process from another perspective.“Iheardmost of it before but it was great how they stressed on what I need to get done, such as the dates I need to know and stuff like that,” senior Alex Van Der Zeeuw said.
“There’s really no dress code unless you have literally missing clothing,” Hell-Horne said.
older referees of different sports have decided to retire early. This shift has been due to in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as treat ment by fans, coaches and athletes.Theproblem has begun to trickle down to football.
Oldham started doing the high jump, a track and field event, in 7th grade, but didn’t get serious until his junior year. At the beginning of the year, he could jump 6 feet. He soon found himself progressing higher every week, jumping 6’6” by the end of the Duringyear.the off season, Oldham trained “a ton.” He visited the gym three times per week, working tirelessly to build muscles with olympic style lifting and front squats. He worked especially on building his leg muscles, focusing on his hamstrings and quads. Ankle strength and hip flexibility are also very important for the high jump. “I’m not very flexible,” admitted Oldham. All of the training paid off when Old ham cleared 6’8” at the beginning of this year’s track season.
Since applications for University of California campuses, private schools and out-of-state colleges have started to open, many seniors at DHS have begun the process and found the workshop helpful.Senior Mayah Moore attended the workshop after hearing about it through an email.
Trustee Betsy Hyder said at the Feb. 3 board meeting that since DJUSD has never tried a three-block schedule, the problems that students and teachers anticipate are “hypothetical.” She does not believe that she has seen sufficient evidence to convince her to change her decision.“Ijustcan’t at this point see why I would be persuaded to change that proposal based on what hypothetically ... would be too difficult,” Hyder said. “Our planet is scorched, our firefighters can’t say it’s too hard. Our healthcare workers can’t say it’s tooKellyhard.”spoke against the expectation that students and staff should be ready to han dle any changes that are thrown their way.
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years. “I’m glad to see that some of what seemed to target girls’ clothing more than guys’ clothing doesn’t seem to be part of the code anymore,” Pilon said.
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Sept. 1, providing one less day of preparation that they would normally have for a Friday“Thisgame.game truly was groundbreaking, but in a bad way. It was the first time at least in my memory that a game was totally moved for a referee shortage,” varsity football coach Nicholas Gar rattGarratt,said. however, was pleased with how the team avoided distractions and stuck to their game plan which led to a 38-13 victory.Tofix the problem, Loren son believes that it is both the responsibility of sports fans to give back by becom ing referees and of the coaches and players to be respectful of referees.
DHS senior and teammate Jonny Vochatzer holds similar sentiments.
“Brennan is an awesome player with an immense amount of potential. He’s also just a really good teammate. (He’s) really fun to work with and we grew really close over the recent season,” Vochatzer said.
codes in Toronto schools, dress codes have a history of “oppressive forms of gender and sexuality.” Yet the author of the article, Shauna Pomeranzt, professor of child and youth studies at Brock University, believes
The workshop consisted of reviewing application information such as SAT and ACT requirements, different dead lines and how to request transcripts and letters of recommendations.
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“Is the district prepared to compensate us for working through the summer of 2022? Asking teachers to give up significant personal time to rewrite their curriculum … demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of our current workload and teacher morale,” Broughton said.
DHS played its Thursday game against Oakmont on
“The 6’9” school record set by Kyle Clancy in 2015 is in serious danger,” Payne
Playing water polo means that strong swimming skills are necessary, so Fuchslin is also on the swim team, meaning that his days are packed. When he’s not playing water polo, he’s swimming, and when he’s not in the pool, he’s doing schoolwork.
However, “track really is my life right
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Fuchslin plays the wing position, mean ing that he is offensive minded, contribut ing shots, and hopefully goals. His teammates greatly appreciate what he contributes to the team, and are excited when they have the opportunity to to be in the pool with him.
Such a revision is nothing new: Ameri cans have amended the Constitution 27 times, most recently in 1992. The founders wrote that regular revision was necessary: “Let us provide in our Constitution for its revision … every 19 or 20 years so … that it may be handed on, with periodical repairs,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789.
As a start: What if council published and publicized (1) a brief statement of the city’s legal obligations and (2) a brief summary of projects under way, indicat ing how they contribute to meeting those obligations? In 2023, the city will be revising our Affordable Housing Ordi nance (Davis Enterprise, Sept. 18). How many voters know it exists, much less what it says? This would be a good oppor tunity to make the principle of transpar ency a reality. I am sure the Enterprise would be ready to help.
James Madison, just one year after the Constitution was adopted, introduced 17 amendments.What’spressing now is the need to amend the Second Amendment. The nation’s founders never could have envi sioned internet firearm sales, ghost guns and the evolution of muskets and pistols into lethal assault rifles that pervade our nation more than 200 years later.
The Second Amendment states, “A wellregulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the Peo ple to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Constitutional scholars have long wrangled over comma placement in the wording of the Second Amendment. They question whether the right to bear arms is linked to the maintenance of a wellregulated militia. A 28th Amendment could define what a militia means today.
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TheAmendment.answertoAmerica’s firearm injury epidemic must start with rewriting the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. A nationwide movement to begin that debate by calling a constitutional convention could start with California.
In large part due to a wide spread false belief that the Covid vaccines are ineffective or harmful, the American peo ple have been and remain less protected than other advanced populations and our death rate — 3,332 per one million — has been higher than all other wealthy countries.
What’s clear in that graph is that the U.S. has had the most rapid rise in healthcare spend ing per capita since 1970 and that we pay the most (by far). Yet our life expectancy grew the least over that 45 year period; and we don’t live as long as Japanese, Greeks, Ital ians, French, Australians, Canadians, Brits, Dutch, Ger mans and so on.
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— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is pub lished every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.
While Cynthia Rodriguez and most who commented on her post attribute that pri marily to our health insur ance system, the data don’t showBeforethat.reviewing the num bers, I should note that I am not a supporter of our health insurance system. I favor a version of the single-payer plan used in Canada. Our neighbors to the north cover everyone, have no widespread medical debts, pay roughly half per person what Ameri cans expend and have better healthcare outcomes across theThatboard.said, our lower life expectancy is not principally due to profitable insurance companies or highly paid medical doctors. In fact, the original Our World in Data article that Cynthia’s graph is from says it is only the eighth leading cause.
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Contrast that with Italy (2,930), the U.K. (2,776), Spain (2,423), Germany (1,775), Ireland (1,566), Nor way (733) and Australia (566).Noting that our life expec tancy is below other advanced countries, Cynthia Rodriguez — who ran for Yolo County DA this year — blamed that on our health insurance sys tem in a September 11 Face book“Wepost.are heading below the top 50 countries in life expec tancies, due primarily to our ‘for profit’ non-medical medi cal system,” Ms. Rodriguez wrote. “In case we ‘make it’ into (the) rich business folks’ world, we too will have a chance to screw our neighbors out of money they have to pay to insurance companies that should be spent on actual (medical) care instead of avoidance of giving (medical) care.”Rodriguez supported her conclusion with a graph from Our World in Data titled, “Life expectancy vs. health expenditure, 1970 to 2015.”
The seven main reasons we don’t live as long as people in Canada, Japan and Western Europe are consequences of
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The first strategy is being championed by conservatives through the Constitu tional Convention movement, which 19 Republican-led state legislatures have endorsed. California could join as the first blue
have increased in real dollars.
In principle, the process of project approval is transparent — meetings are open and documents are posted — but in practice it is opaque. Last spring, armed with maps and a calculator, I read through parts of the General Plan and all of the Housing Element (and the state’s letter enumerating its inadequacies), as
OVID has remarkably reduced the number of years Americans will live, according to a recent CDC report. Before 2020 we lasted 78.8 years on average. Two years into the pandemic, our life expectancy has fallen 2.7 years to 76.1.
The final step with either approach is to secure approval of 38 states.
Alternatively, Californians could per suade one of their two U.S. senators or one of their 52 congressional representa tives to draft a constitutional amendment that then requires congressional approval.
Forlegislature.thesecond strategy, firearm safety champions Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley, and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a San Francisco Democrat, could introduce a bill. The challenge, of course, is securing the 290 House votes and 67 Senate votes, which will depend on the outcome of the November midterm elections and unity in the Democratic Party base. To secure the needed Republican votes, focusing efforts on universal background checks for gun sales, which has nearly 90% support by Americans of both parties, potentially could bear fruit.
Transparency on housing
— John Maa, a surgeon, practices medi cine in Marin County at MarinHealth Medical Center, and was the 2018 resident of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society.
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The final step for either strategy is ratifi cation by the states, which could take a decade. One has to start somewhere.
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The 19th Amendment, which grants women the right to vote, was ratified in the two years following the Spanish flu pan demic. Initiating an amendment process as we overcome the COVID-19 pandemic might be an ideal way to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday in 2026.
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our higher rates of smok ing, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, vehicle crashes and infant mortality (which is driven by poverty and economic inequality) — in that order.Smoking is an interest ing contributor to dying younger. Americans for merly took up tobacco at much higher rates than Euro peans or the Japanese. In 1952, the average person in the U.S. age 15 and up smoked 10 cigarettes per day. In France that year it was 4.5; Japan 3.9; and Spain 1.5.
“More than two-thirds of Americans (70%) are over weight and more than onethird (36%) are obese,” according to Our World in Data.“Obesity is a key risk factor for many of the leading causes of death in rich countries, including heart disease, dia betes, some cancers and stroke.”Wehave, by far, the highest number of early deaths due to obesity per 100,000 popula tion — 68.5 in 2019. That number has been fairly con stant, around 70, for the last 30 years. Germany had a higher rate than we did in 1990 (78.6), but theirs has fallen to 50.2.
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The Davis housing crisis is back in the news again. An army of bulldozers is parked West of Sutter Davis as the devel oper petitions to change his deal with the city, proposals for large projects are in the pipeline, and council candidates are answering questions about their posi tions. Few people deny we have a prob lem. It is time to ask why a prosperous town full of smart and community-ori ented voters can’t solve it.
The graph shows how life expectancy — in every country — has risen as expenditures
Poor personal choices imperil life
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With lots of variables and values, there is not easy answer. But one area where
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Even though our healthcare system is not the main reason we don’t live as long as Euro peans or the Japanese, that’s no reason to keep it. Yet the data don’t lie — our shorter lives are mostly due to our bad decisions.
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rates of obesity than people in Europe and Japan, and as a result we are dying earlier.
The Japanese eat better foods, exercise more and as a consequence have the lowest obesity rate of any advanced country and the lowest (12.68) premature death rate fromEasyobesity.access to guns is the main reason America has a much higher homicide and suicide rate than our counter parts in Europe and Japan. Firearms and opioid deaths — 13.6 per 100,000 here; under 1.0 in most of Europe — kill mostly younger people, and that in turn substantially reduces life expectancy.
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I served in the U.S. Army as an officer during Operation Desert Storm, and understand the importance of firearms in the defense of our nation. I am also a sur geon who has treated civilian gunshot vic tims for more than two decades. I cannot reconcile the senseless injuries I see with what is interpreted as a constitutional right to maintain “a militia” as laid out in the Sec ond
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Such revision would be challenging: Amending the Constitution requires either a convention requested by two-thirds of the state legislatures, or an amendment approved by two-thirds of both houses of Congress. The proposal must then be rati fied by three-fourths of the states.
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Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880. District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: emailhttps://garamendi.house.gov/contact/visit
council can help is communications. Pri orities need to be clear, so that paths to them can be mapped. It may be easy and honest to voice general support for affordable housing or promise to follow the General Plan, but it says very little. One result is that, when a proposition approved by council like DISC II comes to a vote, my neighbors and I are still struggling to answer basic questions about it.
The California Legislature could request that Congress convene a constitutional con vention to draft a 28th Amendment to amend the Second Amendment and per suade other states to request the same.
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Deciding to not smoke is a smart choice most Americans now make. However, choosing to not exercise and electing to eat a bad diet — especially one full of processed foods high on the glycemic index — is not smart. Americans have higher
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In 1963 — one year before the Surgeon General reported that smoking tobacco was lethal — Americans peaked at 11 cigarettes per adult per day. Our rate has declined almost every year since, and (as of 2015) we have a lower rate of smoking (3.2 cigarettes) than Europe (4.1) and Japan (4.5). Death from smoking tobacco is, of course, a lagging indicator. Due to our higher rates decades ago, we still have more premature mortal ity from tobacco than Europe ans and “SinceJapanese.thereisa lag of two to three decades between the peak of smoking and the peak of smoking mortality, this should be positive news for the U.S. going forward,” according to Our World in Data. “The country is over this mortality peak and we should expect the decline in lung can cer death rates in the U.S. to continue in the coming years.”
well as federal definitions, state laws and census data. And it didn’t help! Like most voters, I was left with lawn signs, ballot polemics and court battles about them.
Choose your coffee wisely.
Climate change, dear reader, is real. What can we do?
In the last column I named a few of the around-$10 wines at Nug get that are enjoyable in hot weather. Here are a few you can find at the Co-op. I was surprised by the Rio jana rosé — a new-to-me addition to the Riojana wines, which are produced by a 500-member Argen tinian collective and made with organic, Fair Trade grapes. The rosé — 100% malbec — is a bright, cheerful and very drinkable one that worked nicely with a fresh tomato, red pepper, and red onion sauce over linguine. At just $8 a
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Some readers are no doubt doing some of these things already. Others of you will look at this list and think every item is just too burdensome — in that case, please pick the one that has other benefits that appeal to you (saving money is always favorite) and commit to trying it for a month. Everyone has to start from where they are, but, at this point, everyone really needs to start!
■ Change your coffee pod. Both K-pods and Nespresso pods are technically recyclable. Nespresso has a mail-back program for their pods, which are aluminum and so fairly desirable in recycling terms. K-pods have to be taken apart so you can throw the plastic in the recycling, and sales of plastic from recycling are pretty bleak now.Ifyou have a Nespresso machine, order a mail-back bag and carry on. If you have Keurig, consider switching to a reusable pod, which will also save you money and let you use your choice of coffee.
While it’s clear that many of the drivers of that change are beyond our individual control, that doesn’t mean we can do nothing! Collective action is a remarkable thing, and there are any number of tiny actions each of us can take to help. A few of mine centered around home eco nomics are listed here.
cheese because it’s moldy. Opened crackers, cookies and cereal get sealed so they never go stale; leftovers and excess fruit are frozen then sealed to prevent freezer damage. As a bonus, these are sous vide bags, which means leftover can go into a pot of hot water to reheat.
■ Sometimes the most sustain able choice is to Buy Nothing. Yolo County boasts several Buy Nothing Facebook groups where people gift things they can no longer use. It’s a friendly way of sharing abundance instead of fill ing up the landfill. I’ve managed to gift a couch and an abundance of food my cats couldn’t eat.
■ Turn off the lights. Put on a sweater. Stop idling your car in line for coffee. Ride your bike. You got this!
carry a container in your back pack for leftovers when you go out.)
Next time you’re in Sacra mento, check out Of Land and Sea Co., which has a great selec tion of bulk items as well as many sustainable options, and The AllSpicery, which has an absolutely stunning array of spices, teas, dried vegetables and more.
■ Learn to cook. Or at least develop a few recipes that use up leftovers. One of my friends uses leftover French fries as the potato element in breakfast tacos. Little bits of cheese can make a fantas tic Macaroni and Cheese, and you can throw in leftover broccoli or cauliflower as well. A quiche or frittata uses up all sort of odd bits of leftovers.
Mabel’s Farm Box, found at the Saturday Market and Thursdays in the Davisphere, does a fantas tic job of sourcing local picnic boxes with increasingly sustain able packaging — even going so far as to hand-make the wood cutting boards. (Advanced work:
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But the salad was made and another “orange” bottle chilled in the fridge (before it shut down), so we lit the candle — for light rather than atmosphere — and tried not to worry that everything in the fridge and freezer would be ruined by the time the electricity returnedThiswine was a more modest one, under $15 (Co-op), from Bonny Doon—the Le Cigare Orange (2021). Crisp, very low-alcohol (10.5%), and snappy—the only kind of wine attractive to me in the grip of summer heat. It's a blend of grenache gris and grenache blanc with a little red grenache and orange muscat thrown in. Another fun project of the famous pioneering winemaker Randall Graham.
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■ We are insanely fortunate to have the Davis Farmers Market. There’s nothing better for the environment (or your mouth) than buying directly from local farmers. An hour spent Saturday morning can net you bread, all the veg and fruit you can hope for, locally raised meat and untold happiness side effects. Again, this is a place where we can use our privilege to best effect – the more people shop at the Market, the more profitable it is for the farm ers, the better they can supply us.
■ Take your coffee with you instead of buying it. If you stop for coffee at Giant Coffee Shop on the way to work every day, you’ll end up generating a lot of landfill. You’ll also spend about 30 hours a year waiting in line, and who has that time? Fill up that travel mug and sleep an extra 10 min utes!
■ Date your leftovers. We keep
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■ Reduce the meat in your diet. Reduce it a lot. Not only is it healthier for you, it’s healthier for the planet. Try not to replace it with “meat-alternatives” which are (all together, now) processed foods. Beans and whole grains are fantastic protein sources just loaded with nutrition. Eggs and cheese are less sustainable, but good buying choices can make them viable sources of protein.
Stillindeed.unwilling to dine indoors, we jumped at the chance for a bayside table at Hog Island Oyster in the Ferry Building. I'm not usually a fan of “high top” tables, but ours let both of us face the water and watch the ferries and just breath in the cool coast, which made our oysters and squid taste all the more delicious.
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■ See what processed foods you can eliminate. The more pro cessed a food, the harder it is on the environment in factory emis sions, transport, and packaging. Most of us are not going to elimi nate processed foods, but maybe we can make biscuits instead of buying a tube of them.
■ Return to drip coffee. When it’s time for your next coffee machine, consider opting out of
Furlani left the grapes on the skins for six days, which makes it technically an “orange” wine; unusual even in natural wine circles, he didn't even add any sul fur. Without sulfur, wines can be unstable, but we thought it was worth the chance (after all, we did want “wild”). Actually the wine staff person at Ferry Plaza tried to steer us to something more conven tionally “oyster” after we told him where we were dining, but we were glad we resisted his advice.
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■ Invest in a vacuum sealer and reusable bags. We have a tiny one that charges via USB, and have thrown away exactly one bag in the 16 months we’ve been using it. All twelve kinds of cheese in the cheese drawer are stored in vacuum sealed bags, and we no longer have to toss
machines, which tend to break down quickly. An appropriately sized drip filter-and-thermos combo will provide excellent cof fee for decades. Paper filters with the grounds can go straight into your compost bucket.
Dolomites, vineyards that have never seen a chemical.
In general, finding bar gain wines that are white or
■ Now that it’s almost cook, remember to fill the oven when ever you use it. Why waste per fectly good heat when you can bake potatoes (twice-baked pota toes, gnocchi), roast vegetables (toss with dressing for a salad, stuff enchiladas), cook rice (fried rice, arancini), etc.?
And the staff, on being told the occasion, went out of their way to make sure we were having a good meal. Though Hog Island has quite a nice little wine list, we opted to pay the corkage fee ($20 — reason able for San Francisco) and try something wild. That morning we had both been drawn to the same bottle at Ferry Plaza Wine Mer chants (who kindly chilled it for us while we took off to see the fabulous Faith Ringgold exhibit at the de Young Museum).
label. Organic grapes, whole cluster fermentation — I was sure I'd like it. But it seemed entirely under whelming. I don't know just what prompted me to try again, but I picked up a second bottle last week and was delighted by it.
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masking tape and a pen by the fridge. Leftover takeout or res taurant food should be eaten within two or three days. Foods you make at home are generally good for a week if you refrigerate them promptly.
rosé is much easier than finding an enjoyable inex pensive red. I keep trying, and you'll be the first to know when one pops for me. Maybe I'll be a little less picky when the fall weather arrives and I crave something warming — and at room temperature rather than straight out of the fridge.The advent of cooler days — and, more importantly, nights — is itself a call for a celebratory dinner — for which I'll bypass a bargain red in favor of the beautiful Margins Pinot Noir (Co-op $30) I've been hoarding since spring, perfect for a toast to the new season.
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■ We’re also madly lucky that local restaurants are booming and new restaurants coming online. Locally owned restaurants have a vested interest in using local goods, buying from local farmers, and keeping money local. Hikari Omakase opened recently with a real commitment to both sustainable seafood and fantastic cooking. Bones Craft Kitchen is also new to the Davis scene, and has regular items sourced from the Farmer’s Mar ket as well as vegan options.
■ I work in a large building, and I’m always shocked when people run the water while they wash their hands. Develop the habit of turning off the water any time you’re not actually using it. It’s simple and increasingly criti cal. Advanced work: google Navy Shower
The first sip was so sharp, crisp, alive, and cit rus-y (both grapefruit and lemon) that we knew immediately we had made the right Thoughchoice.wewere willing to splurge given the occa sion, the bottle cost under $25. (Buying wine with unusual grapes and from relatively obscure regions often results, I've found, in remarkable bargains like this one.) And not only did the wine delight us throughout the meal — changing as it did, with every sip — but it also, as an interesting bottle often does, precipitated a conver sation with our waiter, who was as intrigued by it as we were.We talked with him about feeling close to “ancestral” foods — Italian for both of us, Guatemalan for him. Bonded by a bot tle. A bottle I very much hope I'll run across again. Our two-day respite soon
came to an end, and we traveled back to Davis, emerging from our train car
hile Davis was gearing up for the Big September Heat Wave, spouse and I were celebrating our anni versary in 70-degree weather — with a view of the San Francisco Bay. It was a visit to the City long postponed, and though it was short, it was celebra tory
Made from a blend of Spätburgunder (pinot noir) and Blaufränkisch, it went well with a fresh tomato and mushroom pizza. I went back for another bottle and enjoyed it just as much. I don't know what hap pened with bottle #1, but the experience did remind me that wines are alive, and individual bottles can be quirky. I wouldn't give a sec ond chance to a wine I hated, but to a perfectly acceptable $10 wine with an excellent pedigree, why not?
■ Check your refrigerator tem perature. Use a thermometer and check multiple areas. A fridge that is too cold can freeze and ruin food (alas, poor lettuce). A fridge that’s too warm means milk going off before its best-by date, or even food poisoning. Aim for 36-38 degrees.
Food waste
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■ Shop in bulk, for coffee and anything else you can. Not only are you saving on packaging, but you can get exactly the amount you need to avoid waste. Nugget Market and the Co-op both have big bulk food sections. The Davis Refillery has an extensive selec tion of cleaning and beauty prod ucts as well as some fantastic housewares, and they’ll deliver.
Wines for the waning of summer
■ Choose your coffee wisely! Shade-grown ethically sourced coffee may sound like overkill, but your support of companies like Pachamama and Equal Exchange can have far-reaching environ mental and socioeconomic effects in other countries. This is one of the places we can use our privi lege to advantage everyone.
■ When you do go to the gro cery store, consider packaging. For example, conventional milk cartons can be used to hold com posting scraps and go right in the compost; plastic milk jugs can go in the recycling; glass milk bottles can be returned for reuse; aseptic cartons have to go in the landfill.
The attraction? A simple but elegant bottle from Italy that was a beautiful golden hue and very clearly unfiltered, with the unusual name of Cantina Furlani Möni (2020), which is a blend of three new-to-me grapes (all biodynamically grown): moscato giallo, nosiola, and verdealbara. The wine was made with minimal intervention and obvious care by fourth-gen eration vintner Matteo Fur lani, who not only makes the Cantina Furlani wines but is also in charge of the family vineyards high in the
as I was about to boil the pasta water for that night's dinner, we were plunged into a 2½-hour blackout.
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On the second day of the Aggie Roundup on Saturday, the No. 6 UC Davis men’s water polo team fell to No. 3 Southern California 12-4 but defeated No. 11 Princeton 9-8 at Schaal Aquatics Center.Now UCD is 2-1 at home and 6-2 overall.Against USC, the Trojans started off hot, scoring five goals in the opening period while allowing none. Both teams traded three goals each in the second frame.ButUCD had trouble with the USC defense that only allowed one more goal in the second half. Aggie players Will Nomura, Ben Fleming, Colin Nicholls and Joshua Davis scored a goal each Facing Princeton. Aaron Voggenthaler, Levi Murtaugh and Connor Norton propelled the Aggies in the narrow win. Princeton jumped out to an early lead, 4-3, after eight minutes. Both teams added a goal in the second quarter. Two big saves on penalty shots by Aaron Wilson them within reach. Voggenthaler scored two goals in the third period to
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The Aggies opened the scoring on their first drive of the chilly, breezy night, marching 50 yards in just six plays, with the payoff coming on a 16-yard pass from Miles Hastings to JustinAfterKraft.Porter
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Hastings finished the half a perfect 9- for-9 through the air for 173 yards and ended the game 16-for-21 for 270 yards and three scores.
Wildcat defensive back Cordae Glasper had his radar on Acevedo and picked off the ball and returned it to the Davis 24.
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Kenzie Walker had three assists for Davis (6-2). Lucie Lapuz, along with Blue Devil teammates Cataline Taylor and Walker, had a goal each.
Sacramento State over the weekend. The tie is the first in the series since it began in 2017.
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"To see him break all the running back records is great. The thing is, he practices just as hard as you see him play in the game. That's why he is as good as he is."
UC Davis returns to action Friday through Sunday, taking part in the MPSF Invitational in Palo Alto. The Aggies’ first game is against UC Irvine on Friday at 6 p.m.The Aggies’ next home game will be Sunday, Oct. 2 when Stanford pays a visit to Schaal Aquatics Center.
The Tigers put on the pressure late, but the Aggies survived the push and held on to secure the victory.
Five plays later, Frank lin wide receiver Colin Schroeder, who is also listed on the team’s roster as a quarterback, found tight end Jaden Laguerre on a 1-yard strike with 13 seconds left in the quar ter. Ben Schroeder booted the extra point.
Leila Meraz scored two goals for the Davis High girls water polo team in Saturday’s nonleague game against Soquel, which produced an 11-5 win. This was a rematch of the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal Division I semifinal game last November, in which Davis posted a 9-8 win over the Knights in triple overtime.
Then one of two interceptions toward the end of the quarter gave Franklin a 21-7 halftime lead.Davis had the ball spot ted at its own 39. Acev edo took the snap and looked for a receiver down the field. But
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marched 78 yards in six plays to take a 14-0 lead on a 10-yard burst by Wildcat specialist Trent Tompkins.Thingswould get no better for San Diego.
scored that second touch down. You can kind of see that.”Davis and Franklin traded offensive posses sions throughout most of the second quarter.
Aggie attacker Ben Fleming (6) gets ready to fire a shot against USC in Saturday’s Aggie Roundup at the Schaal Aquatics Center.
The final score of the game came when Hastings found Josh Gale all alone over the middle and Gale ran away from the field to complete a 62-yard TD play.The Aggies host Weber State in the Big Sky opener this Saturday.
Following a blocked punt, UCD pushed the count to 21-0 when Gilliam capped a 19-yard drive with a nine-yard run.Hastings then hit Matteo Perez with a 15-yard scoring pass for a 28-0 margin before San Diego finally got on the board with a 28-yard scoring pass from Erickson to Vance
Jefferson to cap a 66-yard drive.A7-yard TD run by Tompkins gave UCD a 35-7 lead at the break.
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Connors picked off Torero quarter back Judd Erickson at the Aggie goal line, UCD
"I was really happy to see our guys get a 'W'. We've played a cou ple of really tough teams and played them well, but just not well enough."Indeed, the Aggies cleaned things up quickly and the outcome
Thomas Albeck saw his extra-point attempt sail through the uprights to give Davis a 7-0 advantage.
Game time at UC Davis Health Stadium is 7 p.m. Weber State, 3-0, has won or shared four of the last five Big Sky titles and enters Saturday’s game ranked No. 12 nationally in both FCS polls after routing Utah Tech, 44-14, last Saturday.
But the Aggie offense was effi cient from the start and UCD's defense never let the Torero offense get into any sort of competitive rhythm.Entering the game, all-every thing Aggie running back Ulonzo Gilliam needed just seven yards to become UC Davis' all-time rushing leader, a record he claimed with a 12-yard burst on just his second carry of the night.
Truth be told, this one was close until midway through the National Anthem, but the Aggies scored early and often to take a quick 28-0 lead and never allowed the out manned Toreros into the game.
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Now UC Davis’ schedule becomes much heavier
With the ball spotted at the Wildcat 39, Davis ran three plays that resulted in a total of six yards to the 33. The Blue Devils opted to punt on fourth down and four.“We wanted to win the field position battle,” said Garratt in opting to punt on the drive. “We had stopped them on the firstTheseries.”Wildcats took advantage of the Blue Devils’ move. Starting from its own 4, Franklin ran and passed the ball in a 10-play, 96-yard drive capped when Truett found Noble Adedipe on a 7-yard score with 7:21 in the quarter. Ben Schro eder booted the extra point to knot the score at Franklin7-7.took the lead for good at the beginning of the second quarter after Davis failed to move the ball on its fol lowingWildcatpossession.fullback Nathaniel Rich took the pitch from Truett and ran outside of his offensive line and into the end zone for the score. Schroeder booted the extra point to take a 14-7 lead.
Football coaches will tell you there's no such thing as an easy win, that lopsided scores are the result of preparation, focus and respecting every opponent.
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"We've said all along that we have a lot of talent on this team, and we were able to showcase that tonight," Hawkins added. "It was great to get so many guys into the game and see how they were able to contribute."Aftera34-13 loss at Cal to open the season, followed by a heart breaking 24-22 setback at South Dakota State, Hawkins said his team was just a play or two away, but needed to "clean a few things up" to get back to its winning ways.
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"It was great to see a crowd like that, especially with all the students who turned out," said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins.
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Jude Vaughn wasted little time in scor ing for his Davis High football team mates.Then the Franklin High squad took charge for the bulk of Friday’s Delta League opener at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.Theresult was Franklin recording a 42-14 win over Davis (0-1 in the DL, 2-3 overall). Franklin (1-0 in the DL, 1-4) snapped its four-game losing streak.
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UC Davis running back Ulonzo Gilliam (34) tries to break free from San Diego defensive lineman Jacob Saewitz (93) in Satur day’s non-conference game at UC Davis Health Stadium. To view more photos from the game, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.
In a key Big Sky opener this weekend, Montana State visits Eastern Washington, while Sacramento State takes on FBS opponent Colorado State in an interest ing matchup in Fort Collins.
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On Saturday, Oct. 1, the Aggies travel to Bozeman to take on No. 4 Montana State, now 2-1 after getting smoked by Oregon State, 68-28, in a game played in Portland while the Beavers’ home stadium in Corvallis is being renovated.
The Big Sky has five teams ranked in the top 25 this week, including No. 2 Montana, No. 6 Sacramento State and No. 15 Eastern Washington. The Aggies don’t play Montana or Eastern Washington this fall, but will meet Sac State in the regular season finale Nov. 19 at Hornet Stadium.
"It was a great environment, a lot of fun for everyone and showed what athletics can bring to a uni versity."Thewin moved the Aggies to 1-2 on the young campaign and snapped a frustrating five-game losing streak stretching back to the
The annual Big Sky versus Missouri Valley Football Challenge concluded on Saturday with the 2022 series ending in a 3-3 tie thanks to wins from Montana and
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Whatever the reason, UC Davis led from start to finish to pick up a much-needed 43-13 non-confer ence football win over the Univer sity of San Diego Toreros Saturday night before a record crowd of 14,392 at UC Davis Health Sta dium that included 10,883 stu dents, also a record.
“We had talked about before that this was going to be a tough game,” Davis head coach Nick Garratt said. “They (were) 0-4, but they are not an 0-4 team. This is what it means to be a team that comes off two wins and not expect to just win.”
Davis High tight end AJ Hasson (44) tries to break free from a tackle by Franklin defensive back Cordae Glasper (20) in Friday’s Delta League opener at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. To view more photos from the game, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.
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Oddsmakers might have expected a closer contest given that last week San Diego led Cal Poly, 27-14, in the fourth quarter before dropping a 28-27 decision.
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Aggie linebacker Jackson Cloyd (20) races toward San Diego quarterback Judd Erickson (right) in Saturday’s game at UC Davis Health Stadium.
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Vaughn, a senior running back, gave the Blue Devils a short-lived 7-0 lead at 11:51 in the first quarter. After Davis received the opening kickoff, on the first play on offense, Vaughn took the handoff from quarterback Braulio Acevedo and rocketed 65 yards for a touchdown.
By the half, Gilliam already had 85 yards on just seven carries, including a 44-yard burst to lead UCD to a 35-7 advantage at inter mission. He finished with 106 yards and an 8.8 yard per carry average."I'mreally proud of him," Hawkins said of Gilliam.
their own 39-yard line, looked for a receiver down the field. But Davis defen sive back Daimyun Luevano picked off Truett’s pass for a turnover.
The Blue Devils got the football back, thanks to the defense with 11:44 on the clock. Franklin quarterback Abraham Truett, looking to move his team from
UC Davis’ front-loaded football schedule features two highly ranked FCS opponents in the next two weeks as the Aggies open Big Sky Conference action Saturday at home against perennial powerhouse Weber State.
last three games of the 2021 sea son. USD is now 1-2.
