The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Democrats need to flip California districts

Man shouts white supremacist slogan at Davis High homecoming parade

Enterprise staff

A spectator at Friday’s Davis High School homecoming parade shouted racist slogans at the Black Student Union Float, according to multiple witnesses on scene.

As the parade passed by down town, a man along the route shouted “white power” at students on the BSU float, according to the Davis Joint Unified School District.

Gold in them thar vats ...

Lazy Dog Beer Club helps these Aggies get brewing

By AAron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

UCD students struck gold in the spring or, rather, brewed what they’re calling “Liquid Gold.” This beer is the byprod uct of a collaboration with the Lazy Dog Beer Club and shows what Aggie effort and dedica tion coming to fruition looks like on tap.

Back in 2018, Lazy Dog Res taurants created the Lazy Dog Beer Club. Based out of their restaurants around the nation, members receive an annual or quarterly kit comprised of eight total beers that are made in four different styles from four different breweries with

each kit featuring a different theme. Created by beer lovers for beer lovers, a collaboration with different universities around the country seemed a natural progression. UCD, of course, was one of said univer sities and given the theme of “Mad Science” as inspiration to get their ideas brewing.

“Last year we were brain storming on what our theme for the quarter three, 2022 release could be. We’ve been working with established breweries and have had an amazing time launching them and them being part of our belief, but we asked ourselves, ‘what if we thought about the future brewers of America?

The folks who are honing their

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Carson prioritizes finances, housing

n Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series pro filing the candidates for Davis City Council in the Nov. 8 elec tion. Voters in District 1 (West Davis) will be choosing among Councilman Dan Carson, Bapu Vaitla and Kelsey Fortune.

By Anne ternus-BellAmy Enterprise staff writer

When Dan Carson decided to run for City Council in 2018, he planned to serve just one term.

His campaign focused primarily on three issues: city finances, infrastructure (particularly improving the city’s roads and bike paths), and the relationship between the city and UC Davis.

“DJUSD staff and the Board of Education condemn the offensive and racist language targeted at our students,” the district said in a state ment. “What is sometimes a class room conversation about racial inequities in U.S. history once again revealed its ugly presence in Davis. We are heartened by the quick con demnation of the words by our com munity members and students.

“We are committed to serving and supporting our Black and African American students, and the DSHS Black Student Union, as well as all students and community members targeted by such language. We will always strive to root out the systemic and structural aspects of racism that persist in society's institutions,

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UCD announces October crowdfunding campaign

By CAleB HAmPton Enterprise staff writer

Crowdfund UC Davis, a twice-a-year fundraising campaign, is set to return Oct. 1, with 26 teams of campus affiliates raising money for “programs and services that strengthen the UC Davis commu nity” and its global impact, the campus announced Tuesday in a news release. The cam paign will run through Oct. 31.

The UC Davis teams raising money next month represent a range of programs and projects, including hands-on research opportunities for

students, student clubs aimed at broadening the campus’ inclusion efforts, and initiatives designed to address climate change.

One project, Cultivat ing Future Agricultural Health and Safety, is a new internship program that will give undergrad uates training, resources and opportunities to engage with farmworker communities about health and safety issues.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis tics, farmworkers have one of the most danger ous jobs in the country.

see CroWDFunDInG, PAGe A4

UC Davis

Chancellor Gary May, right, visits the Liquid Gold team for a close-up view of their “Mad Science.”

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In a field of nine candi dates seeking two open seats during the city’s final at-large election, Carson

finished second and has spent the last four years

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Davis City Councilman Dan Carson is running for re-election in District 1. see CArson, PAGe A3

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Realtors host food drive

Davis realtors will host the annual Davis Realtor Food Drive for STEAC (Short Term Emergency Aid Com mittee) on Saturday, Oct. 8. Door hangers go out in early October.

Support the STEAC Food Pantry by leaving a food donation outside your curb by 9 a.m. on the morning of Oct. 8. Donations can also be dropped off at at 642 Hawthorn Lane on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For information, call the STEAC office at 530-758-8435 or email refooddrive4steac@ gmail.com.

Our good friends at PG&E come through

At first I thought it must be an April Fool’s joke. Then I realized it wasn’t April.

But there it was, tucked into my eye-popping PG&E bill in its new brown-paper envelope was a fourpage pamphlet with the strangest headline I’ve seen in some time.

“Notice of Pacific Gas and Elec tric Company’s request to decrease rates for its 2023 ERRA Forecast Application.

Since “decrease” and “increase” sound alike and look alike, I read the headline seven or eight times to be sure I understood. I mean, it was a warm afternoon when the mail arrived and extremely warm air can do strange things to one’s brain.

I finally concluded the headline was indeed a request to “decrease” rates, though I wasn’t sure exactly what a 2023 ERRA Forecast Application is. But maybe they meant “ERROR,” not “ERRA.”

Unfortunately, based on my bill, the decrease clearly did not take place this month.

Before I could proceed into the body of the pamphlet, I was greeted by a note that said “Acro nyms you need to know.”

My dad always told me if I needed to know what an acronym means, check with PG&E.

“PG&E: Pacific Gas and Electric Company.” I think I already knew that. Imagine all the ink that was wasted sending that out to mil lions of customers in Northern California.

“CPUC: California Public Utili ties Commission.” Might have missed that one on Final Jeop ardy.

“Why am I receiving this

notice?” Indeed, why am I receiv ing this notice?

“On May 31, 2022, PG&E filed its Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) Forecast Appli cation with the CPUC requesting approval to change rates for the following:”

Excuse

me a minute while I refresh my memory over what those acronyms mean.

“Recovery of $1.95 billion in costs related to fuel needed to pro duce electricity as well as buying energy from third parties to serve bundled customer loads that are included in ERRA.”

I think they meant “loads of bundled customers,” but who knows? If they’re asking for a rate decrease, maybe they can’t afford a proofreader.

“Setting certain charges for bundled and departing load cus tomers for the recovery of costs of PG&E’s portfolio that are included in the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA), Ongoing

Seattle woman’s body found amid discarded cardboard

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

For the second time in three months, Davis police are investigating the dis covery of a body at Recolo gy’s Second Street facility.

Lt. Dan Beckwith said officers responded shortly after 7 a.m. Monday to the facility, the headquarters for Davis’ solid waste, recy cling and compost collec tion services.

“It was a report of a female who was found deceased there by workers who were processing card board for recycling,” Beck with said. “At this time, we believe she was deceased for a few days.”

Yolo County coroner’s officials identified the woman Tuesday as Mer cedita Madison-Villar, 45, most recently a resident of Seattle, Wash. Her cause and manner of death remain under investiga tion, pending an autopsy

scheduled for later this week.

Police launched a second, related investigation at about 3 p.m. Monday when an employee at a business in the 300 block of Madson Place, off Fifth Street west of Cantrill Drive, requested the tow of a vehicle that had been parked in a lot there since Friday, Beck with said.

That car, an older-model Acura sport-utility vehicle, turned out to be MadisonVillar’s.

Beckwith said there were no apparent signs of foul play at either scene, and detectives are still looking into the circumstances of why Madison-Villar was in Davis and how she ended up at the Recology facility.

Anyone with informa tion is urged to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

The death of a 28-yearold Dixon man whose body

was found at Recology back in June was determined to be accidental.

Workers there reported finding Miguel Penuelas Fonseca’s body on the morning of June 28 while unloading a collection truck that had returned from the Dixon area, Davis police said at the time.

Davis police contacted the Dixon Police Depart ment, which reviewed the truck’s route, including dumpster pickups in the city’s service area.

“Preliminary investiga tion indicates the victim climbed into the dumpster about an hour before the trash pickup occurred and was inside when the con tents of the dumpster were collected by the truck,” Dixon police officials said in a news release.

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

Winters crash reveals unlawful drug stash

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A 27-year-old woman faces hit-and-run and drug-related charges fol lowing a weekend collision in Winters.

Winters police officers responded on Sunday to the crash scene in the 900 block of East Grant Avenue, where they traced the offending driver, identified as Katie Neil, to a local address, the agency reported in a Facebook post.

“Neil admitted to being the driver of the vehicle at the time of the collision and was arrested for hit and run,” the post said. “The officers also found Neil’s vehicle registration was

expired by four years but had false tabs showing valid registration.”

That resulted in Neil’s vehicle being towed, impounded and searched. Officers reported recover ing a plastic bag containing 99 tablets of the depressant Xanax, three psychedelic Ecstasy pills, one gram of methamphetamine and one gram of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.

Neil was booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of hit and run, possession of narcotics for sale and driving without a license, police said.

“Abuse of opioids and prescription medications is at epidemic proportions nationwide, especially

amongst our youth, and Winters is not immune,” the Facebook post noted.

Winters police urge those who come across unknown pills, powders or drug para phernalia — including alu minum foil with burned residue, glass pipes with burned residue or syringes — to steer clear of them and call the Winters Police Department at 530-7954561 for disposal.

Competition Transition Charge (CTC), Cost Application Mecha nism (CAM) and Public Purpose Program (PPP) rate.”

Peter Piper prefers the PPP over the other three, but all those let ters make me wonder if there will be an acronym quiz at the end of the pamphlet.

“Many customers receive bun dled electric service from PG&E, meaning they receive electric gen eration, transmission and distri bution services. A summary of the proposed rate impact for these customers is provided below.”

Currently, “residential” custom ers pay $28.55 per c/kWh, an acronym for which there is no explanation. I’m guessing “chicken with hominy,” but I’m not sure.

The proposed new rate is $26.64, a phenomenal saving of $1.91.

Drinks all around.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Three dead in wrongway freeway collision

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A wrong-way collision killed three people, including a prison correc tional officer on his way to work, early Sunday morn ing on Interstate 80 in Davis.

California Highway Patrol investigators in Solano County, in whose jurisdiction the crash occurred, say alcohol intoxication likely caused the deadly incident.

According to the CHP, the driver of an Infiniti sedan traveling east bound in the westbound lanes struck a Hyundai sedan head-on at about 3:10 a.m. near the Rich ards Boulevard exit, kill ing both drivers and a passenger in the Infiniti.

Solano County coro ner’s officials identified the deceased Monday as Bryana Mitchell, 31, of Fairfield, the driver of the Infiniti; her passenger, 27-year-old Neoshe Hub bard of Fairfield; and Joseph Escajeda, 30, of Petaluma, who was driv ing the Hyundai.

Escajeda reportedly was on his way to work as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison after visiting family in Sacramento over the weekend. He’d worked at the prison since March 2020.

“Officer Escajeda was best known for his posi tive and cheerful attitude. He will be missed by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him,” San Quentin officials said in a written statement issued Monday.

A GoFundMe page established earlier this week to cover the Esca jeda family’s funeral expenses described Esca jeda as “a funny, caring & loving guy, always looking out for others, and made people laugh all the time.”

Two other Infiniti pas sengers, a 36-year-old Oakland man and 31-year-old Sacramento man, both were trans ported to the UC Davis Medical Center with major injuries.

“Alcohol is a possible factor in this crash,” CHP Officer Jason Tyhurst said in a news release. Addi tional details of the colli sion, including the location where the Infiniti entered the freeway in the wrong direction, remain under investigation.

Anyone with informa tion about this incident is urged to contact the Solano CHP office at 707639-5600 or 1-800TELL-CHP (835-5247).

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

Briefly Bar fights end in three arrests

A pair of bar fights led to three arrests in Woodland over the weekend, including one for the alleged posses sion of an unlawful “ghost gun.”

According to a Woodland Police Department Facebook post, officers responded early Saturday morning to Thirsty Goat, 102 Main St., for an alterca tion in which one per son brandished a gun.

The armed man left before officers arrived, but police received a tip that led to the suspect being pulled over in his vehicle. Joseph Barrera, 22, of Yolo, still pos sessed the alleged 9mm “ghost gun” — which are privately assembled, unserialized and untraceable — and was booked into the Yolo County Jail, police said.

While that incident was under investigation, a second fight — also at Thirsty Goat — broke out and led to a security guard being attacked and hospitalized.

Police arrested Michael Thompson, a 25-year-old Woodland resident, on battery charges, as well as 33-year-old Fabian Cabrera of Woodland for resisting and delay ing an officer during that investigation, the Facebook post said.

On KDRT: Big year for LPs

Paul Wilbur has man aged Armadillo Music, the last dedicated record and CD store in Davis, for about a quarter cen tury. Sales of recorded music rose again in the United States last year, creating a market that’s both strange and diffi cult to easily explain, he said, but “I’m definitely reveling in it.”

Wilbur talks about music, what people are buying, the influence of the pandemic, higher prices, and what’s behind the demand on the current edition of the KDRT program “Davisville."

“Davisville,” hosted by Bill Buchanan, is broad cast on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays at 5 p.m., Fridays at 12:30 p.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. The current pro gram will air through Oct. 8, and is available anytime at https://kdrt. org/davisville or on Apple podcasts.

Woodland Rotary listening

The Woodland Rotary Club announces seeks beneficiary ideas from the community for its fundraising ban quet, held in early spring each year.

Proceeds of which go to the club’s Endow ment Fund, which funds projects such as scholarships for seniors graduating from Wood land and Pioneer high schools.

Woodland Rotary seeks recommendations from the community for future projects.

Contact Yvette Roy at myroyalpics@gmail .com with funding requests. The deadline is Dec. 1.

UCD zeroes in on key mammal genome

By Andy Fell Special to The Enterprise

Every modern mammal, from a platypus to a blue whale, is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago.

We don’t know a great deal about this animal, but the organization of its genome has now been computa tionally reconstructed by an interna tional team of researchers. The work is published Sept. 30 in Pro ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“Our results have important impli cations for understanding the evolu tion of mammals and for conservation efforts,” said Harris Lewin, distin guished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and senior author on the paper.

The researchers drew on highquality genome sequences from 32 living species representing 23 of the 26 known orders of mammals. They included humans and chimps, wom bats and rabbits, manatees, domestic cattle, rhinos, bats and pangolins.

The analysis also included the chicken and Chinese alligator genomes as comparison groups. Some of these genomes are being produced as part of the Earth BioGenome Proj ect and other large-scale biodiversity genome sequencing efforts. Lewin chairs the Working Group for the Earth BioGenome Project.

The reconstruction shows that the mammal ancestor had 19 autosomal chromosomes, which control the inheritance of an organism’s charac teristics outside of those controlled by sex-linked chromosomes, (these are paired in most cells, making 38 in total) plus two sex chromo somes, said Joana Damas, first author on the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the UC Davis Genome Center.

The team identified 1,215 blocks of genes that consistently occur on the same chromosome in the same order across all 32 genomes. These building blocks of all mammal genomes con tain genes that are critical to develop ing a normal embryo, Damas said.

Chromosomes stable over 300 mil lion years

The researchers found nine whole chromosomes, or chromosome frag ments in the mammal ancestor whose order of genes is the same in modern birds’ chromosomes.

“This remarkable finding shows the evolutionary stability of the order and orientation of genes on chromosomes over an extended evolutionary time frame of more than 320 million years,” Lewin said.

In contrast, regions between these conserved blocks contained more repetitive sequences and were more prone to breakages, rearrangements and sequence duplications, which are

major drivers of genome evolution.

“Ancestral genome reconstructions are critical to interpreting where and why selective pressures vary across genomes. This study establishes a clear relationship between chromatin architecture, gene regulation and linkage conservation,” said Professor William Murphy, Texas A&M Univer sity, who was not an author on the paper.

“This provides the foundation for assessing the role of natural selection in chromosome evolution across the mammalian tree of life.”

The researchers were able to follow the ancestral chromosomes forward in time from the common ancestor. They found that the rate of chromo some rearrangement differed between mammal lineages. For example, in the ruminant lineage (leading to modern cattle, sheep and deer) there was an acceleration in rearrangement 66 million years ago, when an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs and led to the rise of mammals.

The results will help understanding the genetics behind adaptations that have allowed mammals to flourish on a changing planet over the last 180 million years, the authors said.

The work was partly supported by the U.S. Department of Agricul ture.

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including education.

“DJUSD will continue to combat racism wher ever and whenever it occurs. Expressions of hate like this are an attack on our entire community. We hope you will continue to partner with us to ensure that this is a community that values diversity and where everyone belongs.”

The Davis Phoenix Coalition, a Davis-based anti-hate group, con demned the incident. “Sadly, these blatant declarations of white supremacy are too com mon in recent years,” the coalition said in a news release. “For an adult to harass Black high school students with hate speech is appalling.”

The incident comes less than a month after men in masks put up anti-Semitic banners across a bike overpass on Highway 113.

CARSON: Councilman touts effort on climate

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focusing on those goals, he said.

He sees progress on all three.

The city’s annual deficit — an estimated $8 million a year over the next 20 years — is down to $4 mil lion to $5 million a year, Carson said.

“We made a significant dent… and our financial condition has significantly improved.”

He credits “a lot of good policies,” including restraint in labor negotia tions, staff success in receiving grant funding that in some cases took the place of General Fund money, and efforts on eco nomic development, par ticularly work by previous councils on cannabis dis pensaries which have brought increased revenue into the city’s coffers.

“It’s been sound fiscal management,” said Carson.

On streets and bike baths, Carson served on a subcommittee with Coun cilwoman Gloria Partida which came up with a funding plan for improving the pavement condition index over the course of 10 years, including by dedicat ing money the city already had coming from gas tax revenues and development impact fees and rethinking the original plan for using more expensive materials on bike paths.

“I’ve worked hard to make sure that each year, that that money is actually in the budget to fulfill that plan and it has been,” Car son said.

The results in District 1, he noted, include paving improvements on Arling ton Road as well as the rebuilt Russell Boulevard bike path.

The university contrib uted to that latter project, just one of the results of an improved town-gown rela tionship, something Car son takes some credit for.

“I campaigned on that issue in 2018,” he said. “I raised the community awareness, I raised the awareness of my then and future council colleagues about the importance of that critical issue for the city.”

Right after he took office, he began focusing on a newly released UC Davis long-range development plan and what it would mean for the city.

He attended a meeting of the UC Regents in San Francisco as the council’s representative to urge regents to delay approval of the plan until the university committed to housing more students on campus and contributing finan cially to the city to compen sate for the impact of a growing student popula tion on city services. The regents approved the plan despite that effort, but also ordered UC Davis officials to work with city officials to resolve issues.

The end result was a binding memorandum of understanding that satis fied the concerns of city officials.

A bonus consequence of that effort: improved rela tions between the city and university, without which, Carson said, there likely would not have been the Healthy Davis Together partnership.

“It was a fundamental change in our relationship,” said Carson, “and feel I played a role in helping to bring that about.”

But he still sees work ahead for the city on many fronts. So while he origi nally planned to be a oneand-done council member, his wife, Maureen, sug gested late last year that he consider running again, and after talking it over with the rest of their family (they have three grown sons), he decided in early 2022 to do so.

"There was still unfin ished work to do,” he said.

On the list: continuing to strengthen the city’s finances; supporting eco nomic development and new housing downtown; helping families and busi nesses navigate post-pan demic impacts; and completing the climate action plan.

“One I talk about a lot is (completing) our COVID recovery,” he said, “spiritu ally, medically and eco nomically.”

He supports a planned COVID-19 memorial in the Davis Cemetery, honoring

those who lost their lives during the pandemic as well as first responders who put their lives on the line. He also wants to ensure the city follows through on its $20 million American Res cue Plan appropriations, many of which are focused on bolstering downtown, housing the homeless and stabilizing city finances.

“We have to work hard to make sure we use those dollars in a timely way and effectively to make sure we accomplish those goals,” he said.

On climate, Carson focused on the list of rec ommended actions in the draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan and advo cated for prioritizing actions based on how they can reach the city's goals, including voluntary actions.

Additionally, as former chair of the board of Valley Clean Energy, he said, “we signed longterm power purchase contracts that will bring this community to 85 percent renewable power by 2024.”

“We are leaps and bounds ahead of PG&E and even other clean power agencies in the state, but we’re not done. I want us to accelerate getting to 100 percent and after that, we have to actually go further, to either fund conservation measures or capacity, to help handle the electrifica tion of transportation around here, to handle the electrification of build ings… it’s going to be a continued work in prog ress.”

On housing, suggestions he raised during develop ment of the Housing Ele ment included exploring with the Davis Joint Uni fied School District whether the district’s sur plus land can be used for housing dedicated to teach ers and staff.

“Those young families that might live there would have kids,” he noted, and those kids would attend the schools, bringing in more

state funding for the dis trict.

“It’s not about money for the city of Davis. This is about addressing one of the things that bothers us all. We have a lot of people who work in Davis but can’t afford to live in Davis. Maybe that’s one way we can do that.”

Another recommenda tion he brought up focuses on accessory dwelling units, and whether the city could provide a financial incentive to residents to build ADUs on their prop erties that are designated as permanently affordable.

And, of course, there is the downtown plan, which could bring as many as 1,000 housing units to downtown which, in turn, said, Carson, would bring more vitality downtown, bolstering restaurants and retail and achieving climate goals by increasing the abil ity of residents to get around on bike or by foot, as well as putting more residents in close proximity to the train station and campus.

“It’s a fiscal winner for us,” said Carson, “it helps address our housing issues, and it fits perfectly with our climate action plan.”

But Carson said on land use issues in general, “I’m using more humility these days… I’m in listening mode…”

That humility likely derives in part from his experiences over the last several months.

After voting with all of his council colleagues to place the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus on the June ballot (as Mea sure H), Carson took on the role of honorary campaign chair.

But it was his decision to sue opponents of Measure H over the language in their ballot arguments that really put Carson on the hot seat. A judge did order two changes to the ballot argument but left the bulk intact and ultimately ordered Carson to pay

$42,000 in attorney fees to the six individuals he sued.

“It was a serious mis take,” Carson now says of the lawsuit. “I was trying to do the right thing for the right reasons but that was not the outcome. We should have found other ways to counter what a judge did find were false and misleading statements in their ballot argument.”

The lawsuit, and subse quent criticism, “clearly played a role” in the ulti mate demise of Measure H, which lost handily at the polls.

“It clearly backfired,” said Carson. “I’m accepting responsibility.”

He adds that he supports Measure J/R/D, which puts proposals like DiSC before voters, and person ally voted to renew the measure in 2020. So on Measure H, “I accept the outcome. That’s our sys tem,” said Carson.

As he campaigns for a second term on council, Carson said he getting strong support as he knocks on doors in District 1.

“And I’ve got a good feel ing about things," he said. "But I’m not taking anyone or anything for granted.”

The bottom line for Car son: “In this race, you’ve got three of us with proba bly lots of good and inter esting ideas. What I think distinguishes me as a can didate, is that I’ve got a track record, both at the state level … and here in my time on council, in getting stuff done. Important things.”

Learn more about Car son’s campaign at https:// www.carson4council.com.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATer nusBellamy.

BREWING: Embracing ‘Mad Science’

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skills and learning about not only the art of brew ing, but the science of it,’” said Lazy Dog Beer Club Director of Marketing Strategy, Vayshali Bhakta.

“After we brainstormed, we did a quick search and there were quite a few brewing programs in the country. We started engag ing with them to create more interest and honed in on four schools with UCD being one of them. They have one of the oldest brewing programs in the country, are well-respected on a national and interna tional level and on top of that, they’re here in Cali fornia where our head quarters is located.”

The collaboration itself is designed to bolster — not replace — the existing curriculum, and in the winter quarter of 2022, the students of the “Practice of Malting and Brewing” class at UCD indulged in their “Mad Science.”

From recipe creation and consulting to fully realized product market ing, the Aggies worked closely with Lazy Dog and their brewing partners at Melvin Brewing in Wyo ming in this real-world experience. The results later in the spring, a Cali fornia Common-style beer with an ABV of 5.1% and an IBU of 31.

“We worked closely in terms of defining the beer’s attributes within our team and we also had a lot of help from the Lazy Dog team in terms of thinking about the mar ketability of the beer. Like, what would we call it? What’s unique about the beer and how can we talk to that? That sort of col laborative experience made it fun and quite edu cational for us as well,” said Maany Ramanan, a food science Ph.D. student with an emphasis on brew ing.

“There were two key ele ments we wanted to por tray with Liquid Gold. The first is, even though it’s a ‘California common,’ it’s not a common style of beer. What’s unique about

the beer is it’s an ale-style beer but brewed with a lager yeast which makes it a hybrid based on the style guidelines.

“The second point is that we wanted to include the historical elements of where the beer comes from. It was a beer brought to Spain around the gold rush from San Francisco and we wanted to include that in how the beer was marketed. That’s why we have the name Liquid Gold because it lit erally was one of the most popular styles that came out during the gold rush and the name itself speaks to that.”

What Ramanan enjoyed on top of the marketing ideation process was the beer’s label featuring a

woman scientist. It’s a rep resentation of women in the brewing industry that — to Ramanan — the Lazy Dog team helped bring to light.

Once the chemistry was complete, the Aggies sent their recipe to Melvin Brewing for their beer to be produced in mass quan tities. After that, a Liquid Gold rush spread to the various Lazy Dog restau rants and into the beer club member kits around the country.

“We’re absolutely going to do this again, but no promises on when,” Bhakta said. “This was such an amazing opportu nity and a lot more work on our side, but the payoff was greater as well. Just the opportunity to engage with these students and see the stars in their eyes and how excited they were to have their recipe developed, produced and distributed across the country. We can’t not do this again for that rea son.”

To learn more about Lazy Dog, their beer club and how to get one’s hands on some Liquid Gold, visit lazydogrestaurants.com. Their closest locations are at 238 Gibson Drive Pad 6 in Roseville and 300 Palla dio Parkway in Folsom.

— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@ mcnaughton.media.

CROWDFUNDING: Twice a year since 2020

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The internship will be run by staff at the West ern Center for Agricul tural Health and Safety.

Another program, Tap ping Potential Scholar ship (formerly called Pour It Forward), aims to boost socioeconomic diversity in the brewing industry. The program offers schol arships to UC Davis’ Online Brewers Certifi cate Program in Continu ing and Professional Education.

Crowdfund UC Davis began in 2020 and has taken place every Febru ary and October since then. It has raised more than $427,000 for 100 participating teams. In February, the most recent edition of the campaign, 28 teams raised nearly $94,000.

The teams who partici pate in Crowdfund UC Davis are responsible for their own marketing.

“Crowdfund UC Davis is here to stay,” said Michelle Poesy, exec utive director of the Annual and Special Gifts Program in Development and Alumni Relations, which runs the program. “Students, faculty and staff are excited by the opportunity to raise money for their projects, and we’re seeing some of them return for addi tional rounds of Crowd fund.”

Teams are allowed to participate multiple times in the campaign but just once per academic year. Applications are reviewed by the Annual and Special Gifts Program in coopera tion with Advancement Services. The application period for the February 2023 cohort opens Nov. 1.

— Reach Caleb Hamp ton at champton@ davisenterprise.net. Follow him on Twitter at @calebmhampton.

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From left, UC Davis students Daniel Schoonbrood (graduate student, food science), Maany Ramanan (Ph.D. student, food science) and Lisa-Marie Blatt (undergraduate student, viticul ture and enology).

Living

Buying less beer, getting less happy

Beer

wholesalers are the essential middlemen between beer manufactur ers and retail outlets, and virtu ally every bottle and can of beer arrives on store shelves from wholesalers’ trucks. This gives wholesalers a sharp focus on how the beer market is doing.

Two things give wholesalers a big incentive to be well-tuned to the retail market. First, whole salers actually buy from the breweries those beers they sell on to retail stores so they tend to seek out beers that will sell well at retail; otherwise, they may be stuck with owning a slow-mov ing product. Second, beer flavor changes over time, or ages, and brewers have not been as smart as winemakers by claiming that aging is a good thing.

Brewers promote “fresh fla vor” and put a time limit, such as 100 days, before a beer should be withdrawn from the market. So, wholesaler’s stock must move quickly; they usually consider 30 days in the warehouse as “beer at risk.”

The National Beer Wholesal ers Association publishes a monthly report on how the beer market is doing and what the short-term future might be. The

Beer Purchasers Index (BPI) scale runs from 0 to 100 on which 50 indicates a steady mar ket; scores above 50 indicate growing demand and, of course, scores below 50 indicate shrink ing demand. Beer sales are bro ken down by beer category.

Generally, the present data are below 50 for beer sales and worse for not-beer products such as hard seltzers that originally enjoyed remarkable growth. The data plainly show an influence of harder economic times in which premium beers are among the less essential items. Thus, the most expensive beers in the mar ket, that is craft beers, have fallen the farthest on the BPI, from a healthy 58 in August 2021 to an anemic 28 in August 2022. Premium beers of the major breweries have also fallen but not nearly as much say from

44 to 37. Beers in the below pre mium category, often called “price” beers, have improved somewhat, from 37 to 42, pre sumably because some consum ers have switched from premium brands to cheaper beers.

As you might guess from these data, the amount of beer in the wholesaler’s “at risk” cate gory has moved from satisfac tory to unsatisfactory. Oops!

There is one bright spot amid the gloom: imported beer is still in expansion territorym having dropped from 66 in 2021 to a still-heathy 63 now. About 80% of imports come from Mexico, with Corona and Modelo beers chief among them. Both these beers are made and owned by Anheuser-Busch Inbev every where except in the USA. Con stellation brands purchased the rights to make these beers in Mexico and sell them exclusively in the USA in 2013.

Corona is packaged in clear (or flint) glass bottles that offer no protection from the ravages of sunlight, which may makes the pervasive promotion of Corona as a beach beer a bit odd. Sunlight can cause beer to smell like a skunk. I always thought

the lime in the neck of the bottle was intended to disguise that unwelcome aroma. These days there is technology to prevent skunky aroma but the lime is still a part of the presentation.

I recently came across a sort of nutrition bar called SOBAR that has a particular application: It is intended to slow down the effects of alcohol consumption by causing the stomach to empty more slowly. I suppose this gives the body time to detoxify the alcohol and perhaps allows a drinker to enjoy the relaxing effects of alcohol without getting too happy. Alternatively, it might delay the time to drunkenness. I suppose the name of the bar is a play on the word sober.

Naturally, I was intrigued by this and read some of the com ments about the product. The first was some idiot who praised the bar and said he now felt free to have four beers instead of two.

Sobar has been proved effective by research published in a peer-reviewed journal called The Journal of Medicinal Food. I looked at it. Turns out that though the bar claims magical ingredients, including a propriety mix of milk protein and insoluble oat fiber; it is

somewhat less effective in lower ing blood alcohol than eating a small meal before drinking alco hol.

The bar is only more effective than a meal before drinking when compared on the caloric content of the bar (210 calories) or the meal (675 calories). So, the bar is 50% better at slowing alcohol absorption into the blood stream per calorie. Easily misunderstood idea.

Wisely, the Sobar site has the following warning that I hope Sobar users will read, under stand and appreciate:

DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE. Eating a SOBAR or any other food: (1) does not prevent all alcohol absorption and you can still become intoxicated. (2) will not sober you up or lower your blood alcohol level if you are already intoxicated. (3) can slow alcohol absorption and you may experience a delayed effect from the alcohol consumed.

What the data do show most clearly is something drinkers have known since earliest times: never drink on an empty stom ach.

— Reach Michael Lewis at waleslewis792@gmail.com.

UC Davis names Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows

Special to The Enterprise

On October 21, UC Davis Public Scholarship and Engagement will wel come its third cohort to the Public Scholarship Faculty Fellows program. The six faculty fellows will pursue writing projects on health equity, munici pal reparations for racism and understanding how parents talk to their chil dren, among other topics.

Piri Ackerman-Barger, associate dean for health equity, diversity and inclusion at the Betty Irene School of Nursing will work on a book out lining the fundamentals of health equity; how nurses are uniquely poised to advance health equity; and strategies grounded in the frame work of cultural humility that can advance health equity.

Greg Downs, a profes sor in the department of history will complete reports for the Sacra mento Mayor's Office on the history of race and

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racial exclusion in Sacra mento that will be useful for the city's efforts to cre ate a model for municipal reparations.

Katie Graf Estes, an associate professor in the department of psychology will perform a compre hensive review of how parents talk to infants across languages and cul tures, to be shared with scientific and public audi ences; identify where our assumptions about “uni versal” parenting behav iors differ across cultures; and indicate future direc tions for research.

Theanne Griffith, an assistant professor in the department of physiology and membrane biology, will prepare a nonfiction book proposal that cen ters around the history of the false and dangerous notion that Black people have reduced sensitivity to pain, which will be complemented by a discussion on the real

science of skin.

Andy Jones, a continu ing lecturer in the univer sity writing program and academic associate direc tor of academic technol ogy service, will create a book made up of prose essays and poems on the responsibilities of a pub licly-facing poet, topics raised during the Faculty Fellows program, and principles of community engagement.

Heghnar Watenpaugh, a professor in the depart ment of art and art his tory, will translate data and research on threats to cultural heritage in the Middle East and South Caucasus into public-fac ing materials and show case the stories of cultural heritage defenders at all levels.

Southern New Hamp shire University congrat ulates the following students on being named to the Summer 2022 President's List. The sum mer terms run from May to August.

Full-time undergradu ate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above for the reporting term are named to the President's List. They include Nichol Lomack of Davis, Xander Bell of West Sacramento, Amanda Kiser of Win ters, Jason Eggleston of Woodland and Zachary Davidson of Woodland.

SNHU is a private, nonprofit institution with an 89-year history of edu cating traditional-aged students and working

adults. Now serving more than 165,000 learners worldwide, SNHU offers approximately 200 accredited undergradu ate, graduate and certifi cate programs, available online and on its 300acre campus in Manches ter, N.H.

Seton Hall University is pleased to announce Alfonso Rivera of West Sacramento has qualified for the Spring 2022 Dean's List.

After the close of every semester, undergraduate

students completing all courses with a GPA of 3.4, with no grades lower than "C", qualify for the Dean's List.

With a main campus in suburban South Orange, N.J., Seton Hall is home to more than 10,000 undergraduate. For infor mation, visit www.shu. edu.

— Do you know of some one who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenter prise.net.

DHS students evacuated for hour-and-a-half

By MattiaS RowenBale HUB Staff

Davis High students were evacuated from their second period classes around 9:55 a.m. Tuesday morning.

“We’ve had multiple reports of smells of natural gas. Started out at the downtown area and it’s traveled its way north,” said Emily Lo, a Davis Battalion Chief who arrived on campus at 10:15 a.m. “(I have engines out at) North Davis Elementary School, Holmes Junior High, Davis High, King High as well as the district office … checking to make sure everyone is safe.”

Vice principal Chandra Wengler sent out a message at 10:23 a.m. stating “out of an abundance of caution the fire depart ment is currently clearing all of the affected campuses to ensure there are no gas leaks.” The smell may have been a result of regular PG&E maintenance.

“Last night PG&E had what they call a ‘blow off site’ where they blow off the residual gas. We believe that may be what it is, but we’re not 100% sure,” Lo said.

Senior Charlotte Sloane smelled gas as soon as she left her first period class in the P wing.

“I walked out and I was like ‘woah, that smells like gas,” Sloane said. “But then I walked over (to the library building) and I was like ‘oh no, it smells a lot stronger.’”

About five minutes after second period started an announcement came over the speaker system instructing all students to evacuate their classrooms.

Students leaving the library building smelled gas on the stairs.

The smell of gas had been present on campus since Monday, when classrooms in the O wing were evacuated to the All Stu dent Center during sixth period.

“Once we got there they said to raise your hand if you felt lightheaded,” senior Ashlyn Swanson said. “A couple people felt a little bit light headed, but it wasn’t too bad.”

Junior Belynn Anderson was also evacu ated from the O wing on Monday.

“No one was surprised (when we were evacuated), I was sitting there with my friend getting really nauseous,” Anderson said.

On Tuesday, Anderson responded calmly to her second evacuation in one week, choosing to order Domino’s pizza and garlic knots while waiting in the park ing lot.

“It was me and my two other friend’s idea to order pizza,” Anderson said. “There’s a lot of people eating pizza right now.”

At 11:22 students were instructed to return briefly to their second periods before heading to fifth to continue their day.

Davis High homecoming dance postponed

By Sophia young HUB Staff

The Davis High annual Homecoming dance was postponed due to a sighting of bats in the North Gym, where the dance was originally planned to be held. A new date has yet to be decided.

On the morning of Sept. 24, DHS administration sent an email to students and families of DHS, Da Vinci High, King

High and Davis School of Independent Study, announcing the official postpone ment of the dance scheduled for that night.

“After immediate consultation with the Yolo County Animal Control and profes sionals who specialize in bat abatement, we learned that we could not remove the bats in time for our dance,” the email said.

The DHS Student Government met

with Principal Geigle on Monday, Sept. 26 to discuss the options for rescheduling this event.

“We met to try to find a date and we are exploring venues. We’d like to stay at the North Gym, but that’s up to the com pany that’s addressing the bats and seeing what our options are,” said Anthony Vasquez, the DHS student government adviser.

Horns Up! Rally pumps up school spirits at Davis High

By ChaRleS Ko HUB Staff

The Davis High home coming rally took place on Sept. 21 during the fourth period extended time in the North Gym. It was the first in-person rally since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020.

The rally consisted of a tug of war between grades, crowd chants and performances from both the Davis High dance team and cheerleading squad.

“My favorite part is when everyone gets … up off their seats” said Mol lie Dyer, secretary of spirit for student govern ment. “It honestly gives

me goosebumps.” With dropping COVID-19 cases, the Yolo County Department of Public Health has determined that indoor gatherings are safer than they were this time last year.

With new possibilities for school events, this rally brought the school together in a refreshingly united way.

DHS dance team cocaptain Sophia Ballard had a great time per forming in such a new setting. “I liked learning the dance all together and being able to per form it in front of a big crowd that was close up,” Ballard said.

The littlest Blue Devil fans enjoy homecoming football

By Juna BRotheRS HUB Staff

For the youngest attendees of the homecoming football game, football seems to be the last thing on their minds.

Toddler Riley McInturf, son of Davis High teacher Kelly McIn turf, was far more interested in dinosaurs while attending the game.

Riley is 3-years-old or as he puts it, has had “three happy birth days.” He ran circles around his parents at the Sept. 23 Homecom ing game, imitating dinosaur roars and following unassuming bugs around with his toy truck.

His father briefly picked him up to watch the game, interrupting his playtime. “The players are a lot bigger than me,” Riley said.

The children of vice principal Sonam Singh were slightly more interested in the game. “I like how they’re winning,” 9-year-old Shaylen Singh said.

Sage Singh, 7, was still dressed in his soccer uniform. “I love sports,” he said. He currently plays soccer with the Davis Legacy Soccer Club, but he has previously participated in youth football and baseball.

Shaylen offered more opinions about the food at the game. “The lemonade is good,” she said. “But the pizza is nothing special. I don’t like cheese pizza. I like chicken pizza.”

The Singh children, avid fans of the San Francisco 49ers, had never been to a DHS football game before. Both were quite excited about it. “We’re usually in bed by now,” Shaylen said.

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Student Government holds up a banner for the football team to run through dur ing Wednesday’s homecoming rally.

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Riley McInturf takes a break from his toys to watch the Homecom ing football game with his dad, Nicholas McInturf.

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Students wait for the all clear on the DHS football field.

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UCD officially opens Edwards Family Athletics Center

By BoB Dunning Enterprise staff writer

“This will be a game changer,” said former Aggie football star and major UC Davis benefactor Bruce Edwards as he addressed a large and appreciative crowd at the grand opening of the Edwards Fam ily Athletics Center Saturday afternoon prior to the Aggie-Weber State football game.

The sparkling center adjacent to UC Davis Health Stadium, features a massive weight and fitness room, training and classroom facilities, a theater and a number of offices for coaches and athletic administrators.

“The vision for this started in 1955 when I was a freshman here, but we really started talking about this sort of facility about 10 years ago,” Edwards added.

“It may take a while to settle in, but this will be a steppingstone for us becoming better in athletics in every sport.”

UCD Chancellor Gary May opened the festivities by noting that he likes to refer to athletics as the “front porch” of a major university.

“There may be someone who doesn’t

know about your school who first learns about it by watching a sporting event on television,” May said.

“This facility greatly improves our front porch. Our goal a while ago was to bring our facilities even with those around us, but this now exceeds what others have. This is a major step forward for our athletic program. It’s a wonderful way to let the rest of the world know about our university.”

Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca said the new facility compares favorably to what schools in the Big West and Big Sky conferences have to offer, and is even com parable to what many Pac-12 institutions have in place.

“This is such a great facility in so many ways for our student-athletes, for our student body in general and for members of the Davis community who will be able to access our sports medicine offerings,” DeLuca said.

The Edwards facility, according to UCD officials, is a comprehensive academic, strength and conditioning, sports medicine and team facility.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Big sky DConferenCe elta league

Blue Devils within striking distance, but Wolfpack wins

By Mike BuSh Enterprise sports editor

Davis High football players Daimyun Luevano and Braulio Acevedo completed a long drive for the lead.

Elijah Conlan came up with a big play on defense for the Blue Devils.

All of Davis’ huge plays came in the fourth quarter of Friday’s Delta League and homecoming game against Cosumnes Oaks in front of a packed home crowd at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. But the Wolfpack rallied in that quarter to post a thrilling 25-21 win.

“In the end, it was just an exciting game, I think all the way around,” said Davis head coach Nick Garratt. “There were so many exciting moments, back and forth. It was great for the community. It was a great atmosphere.”

Davis (0-2 in the Delta League, 2-4) and Cosumnes Oaks (1-1 in the DL, 2-4) exchanged leads toward the end of the third quarter, entering the final frame separated by 4 points.

The Blue Devils led 14-6 at halftime. But the

Wolfpack took an 18-14 lead with 1:54 left in the third quarter. Wide receiver Brady Clemens, lined up in the backfield, took a direct snap and scored on a 3-yard run.

Cosumnes Oaks’ attempt on a 2-point conversion was no good.

Then Davis started a 10-play, 90-yard drive that ended with a LuevanoAcevedo connection and a 21-18 lead.

Blue Devil running back Cole Broussard ripped off long runs that included carries for nine yards, twice, 11 and five yards. That moved the football to the Wolfpack 39-yard line.

“Cole had an amazing game,” said Garratt of Broussard, who had 23 carries for 109 rushing yards. “I mean, first time he’s started at running back. He really ran well. He’s the heartbeat of the team.”

Broussard started in place of Jude Vaughn, who sat out the game due to a pulled hamstring in his left thigh.

Then Luevano, running a post pattern, caught a pass from Acevedo and fought off a Wolfpack

Aggies lose to Wildcats Margin of error is small

By BoB Dunning Enterprise staff writer

Miles Hastings’ potential gamewinning touchdown pass fell incomplete in the end zone in the final minute as UC Davis suffered a heartbreaking 17-12 loss to Weber State in the Big Sky Conference opener for both schools Saturday night at UC Davis Health Stadium.

The loss dropped the Aggies to 1-3, while No. 12 Weber State advanced to 4-0.

The Aggies, who trailed for most of the contest after taking a brief 3-0 lead in the first quarter, were poised to take control after Cole Hansen recovered a Weber State fumble at the Wildcat 25-yard line with 2:20 remaining.

An 11-yard pass to McCallan Castles set up a first down at the Weber 12, but the next three plays set the Aggies back to the 15, where they faced a fourth-and-13 with 54 seconds remaining.

Under pressure, Hastings threw toward a heavily covered Chaz Davis deep in the left corner of the end zone, but the pass was broken up and Weber took a knee twice to run out the clock.

“I hope we do all hurt, because that means we care,” said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins afterward.

“We were in it, and we did some good things against a great football team, but the margin of error is small. We need to give Weber State credit and not hang our heads.”

Noted Weber State head coach Jay Hill, “It’s hard to go on the road against a very, very good football team and come away with a win. Our defense did bend, but it didn’t break. I told the Davis quarterback that’s about as good of a performance anyone has ever given against us.”

Hastings was on target all night,

hitting 39 of 57 for 256 yards and one score with no interceptions. Hastings utilized 10 different receivers, mostly with short throws. The longest completion was 19 yards to C.J. Hutton, who led the Aggies with 10 catches.

The Aggie offense was effective all night, except when it came to scoring points. UCD rolled up 25 first downs and outgained the Wildcats, 417 to 356.

However, all that offense produced just two field goals and a lone touchdown.

In addition to Hastings’ stellar night, Ulonzo Gilliam rushed for 111 yards against a Weber defense that had been extremely stingy against enemy rushers through the first three games of the sea son.

In addition, Weber had three turnovers to none for the Aggies.

“Our defense did bend, but didn’t break all night,” added Hill.

“We have a lot to clean up, but if you’d told me we’d go on the road and lose the turnover battle 3-0 and still win the game, I’m not sure I would have believed it. I give UC Davis a ton of credit. That’s a very good football team.”

The Aggies struck first on a 35-yard field goal from Isaiah Gomez, but Weber responded with two long touchdown drives to take a 14-3 lead and appeared ready to run away with things.

But the Aggies responded with another field goal just before the half to trail 14-6 at the break.

After Weber went back in front, 17-6, Hutton caught a 19-yard scoring pass from Hastings to keep the Aggies in it.

The Aggies had several chances to take the lead in the fourth quarter, but the final 20 minutes of the game remained scoreless.

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By BoB Dunning Enterprise staff writer

Although his Aggies are not ranked in the top 25 in either of the Football Champion ship Subdivision polls this week, UC Davis head coach Dan Hawkins contends that his team is among the top 15 in the country.

“If you look at who we’ve played and how well we’ve played, we should certainly be among the top 15, but polls are not some thing we pay much attention to. We just need to take care of business and clean up a few things, both as coaches and players.”

The plain fact of the matter is that no team with three losses in its first four games, no matter the opponent and no matter the score, is likely to be ranked, even if all three losses have been by a single point to Ala bama, Georgia and Ohio State.

n To read the rest of the story, visit www. davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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Taking part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Edwards Family Athletics Center, near UC Davis Health Stadium, on Saturday are (left to right): mascot Gunrock, UCD Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca, Bruce Edwards and Chancellor Gary May. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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Aggies quarterback Miles Hastings (7) takes snap while guard Jordan Ford (65) and tackle Nick Amoah (73), who is a 2017 Davis High graduate, provide protection in Saturday’s Big Sky Conference game against Weber State at UC Davis Health Stadium. To view more photos from the game, visit www.davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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Davis running back Cole Broussard eyes room to run in Friday’s game against Cosumnes Oaks. To view more photos, visit www. davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

Stapleton notches 700th win

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Davis High boys water polo head coach Tracy Sta pleton secured his 700th career win in Southern California over the week end.

The Blue Devils competed at the America’s Finest City Invitational in Coronado, where they posted a 4-1 record for a ninth-place finish.

“Level of competition clearly showed us areas for improvement,” Stapleton said.

The Blue Devils beat Poway 10-9 in the final contest of the invitational on Saturday. Davis (11-2) and Poway were tied 4-4 at halftime, but the Blue Devils outscored their opponent 3-2 to squeak out the win.

Brennan Fuchslin had five goals in the game for the Blue Devils. James Cerussi had three, Bo Brown two and JT Doughty one. Fuchslin had 12 shots on goal and Doughty six.

Blake Fuchslin had four assists and Doughty two.

Davis goalie Ryan Barr had 10 saves.

The Blue Devils played two games earlier on Sat urday before playing Poway. Davis knocked off Rio Americano, which the Blue Devils host at Arroyo Pool on Tuesday, 15-10, and Redlands East Valley 10-5.

Stapleton entered the invitational with 697 wins. He notched his 700th career win when his Blue Devils beat Rio Ameri cano.

On Friday, JSerra Catholic High’s squad posted a 13-8 win over the Blue Devils.

Davis started the invita tional Friday with an 18-10

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win over Eastlake of Chula Vista.

Stapleton is looking past the 700 wins he has now recorded in his coaching career.

“I’m focused on our next game,” Stapleton said. “Can we improve from the lessons of last weekend. The mission to reach our potential is fought every day. As I tell the team, there are times to reflect later, we have to focus on today, then tomorrow then the next day… that’s the challenge and the fun.”

DHS girls water polo

The Davis High girls water polo team also took part in tournament action last weekend, taking part in the Woodcreek Invitational in Roseville.

Davis (10-3) wrapped up the invitational playing a familiar playoff foe in Miramonte, which posted a 16-5 win. Miramonte defeated Davis in the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal Girls Water Polo Champion ships Division I, regional final, last November.

The Blue Devils beat Clovis West 7-4. Leila Meraz had three goals and Kenzie Walker two for Davis. Rylie Johnson and Lucie Lapaz had one each. Meraz had eight of Davis’ 23 shots on goal.

Kyla Cutler and Lapuz had two assists each.

Davis goalie Hailey Pistochini had five saves.

On Friday, Davis posted a 10-5 win over Buchanan of Clovis and an 18-3 victory Bella Vista to start the invitational.

On Tuesday, Davis

hosted Rio Americano at Arroyo Pool in a nonleague game.

The Blue Devils return to action Wednesday, Oct. 5 with another non-league game at Granite Bay.

Blue Devil girls tennis

The Davis High girls tennis team posted a 6-3 win over St. Francis in a Delta League match on Tuesday.

“We have not beat them in many years,” said Davis head coach Sally Hosley, whose team is now 6-0. “It was a great win for us since now we are unde feated (6-0) after the first round of matches.”

The Blue Devils won four of the six singles matches. Hannah Proctor, Ellie Chang, May Edmonds and Charlotte Sloane were winners.

The Davis doubles

teams of Alena Voss-Cloe Lamoureux and Macey Foncannon-Amelie Ingram also won their matches.

Davis will finished its rained out match at Cosumnes Oaks on Thursday.

Then the Blue Devils and Wolfpack will play their scheduled match to open the second round of league play.

Midgets football

The Davis Jr. Blue Devil midgets football team beat the visiting Esparto Spartans 39-6 at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Saturday.

n To read how the Jr. Blue Devils won their foot ball game, visit www. davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

STRIKING: Luevano scored TD in game

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defensive back for the ball near Cosumnes Oaks’ sidelines.

Luevano won the battle for the ball as he approached the end zone, concluding with a 39-yard touchdown. Thoms Albeck booted the extra point with 10:08 left in the game.

Davis looked like it was going to put the game out of reach for Cosumnes Oaks less than two min utes later. All of this hap pening deep in Wolfpack territory.

Conlan stepped in front of a Consumnes Oaks pass and returned it 17 yards to the Wolfpack

3. But two running plays that resulted in a loss of four yards and two incomplete passes led to a Davis turnover.

“We just couldn’t get it done, the last play,” Garrat said. “I put it on myself, but it was a miscommunication of the

play, the quarterback should have rolled out to the left.”

After its defense forced a Wolfpack turnover, Davis got the ball back at the Cosumnes Oaks 48. But four consecutive run plays led to another Blue Devil turnover that stalled at the 39.

Cosumnes Oaks took advantage of that turn over.

The Wolfpack took the lead at 3:10 left in the game when wide receiver Jeriah Inocelda hauled in a 61-yard touchdown pass from his quarter back. The extra-point kick was good to make it 25-21.

n To read the rest of the story, visit www. davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenter prise.net. Follow him on Twitter: @MBDavis Sports.

AGGIES: At Montana State this Saturday

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Bozeman against No. 4 Montana State, a 38-35 winner at Eastern Wash ington.

“The road doesn’t get any easier,” Hawkins added.

“That’s life and that’s football. It’s a tough game, but we’re a good football team and we still have a lot to play for. Now

we have to get ready for Montana State.”

After this Saturday’s Big Sky game, the Aggies have the bye on Saturday, Oct. 8.

Then UCD returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 15 when Northern Arizona pays a visit to UC Davis Health Stadium.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

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Davis High boys water polo head coach Tracy Stapleton, seen here going over a drill in practice at Arroyo Pool earlier this month, picked up his 700th career win over the weekend.

State Dems push to add House seats

Democrats

like to say they will probably need to flip three or more current California Republican seats in the House of Representatives in order to hang onto their current slim majority.

Prior to the June Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson decision eliminating any federal right to abortion, for any reason, it was conventional wisdom to believe they had little chance of doing that.

But things changed overnight with the anti-abortion ruling, giving Democrats a far better chance. One supposed harbin ger is August’s 59-41 percent vote in normally Republican Kansas against removing abor tion rights from that state’s con stitution.

So Democrats have a chance. But things remain uncertain here in California, where votes will soon start coming into county election offices.

No race better exemplifies this than the one in Orange County’s 47th District, where two-term incumbent Katie Porter feels sufficiently endangered to buy television ads covering the entire Los Angeles/Orange County market, of which her district is but a small fraction.

Centered on the city of Irvine,

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Porter’s newly-drawn district features less of a Democratic voter registration edge than her old one. Porter, viewed nation ally as a rising Democratic star, has plenty of money for those ads, but most who see them don’t know who she is.

She won 51.7 percent of the primary election vote in June to just 30.9 percent for Republican opponent Scott Baugh. But GOP candidates totaled 48.3 percent, and since then, Porter has been hurt by news that after almost four years in Congress, she still lives in housing subsi dized by UC Irvine, bought when she became a law profes sor there. Her arrangement is legal, but its revelation weakens her.

Her regional ads try to recoup losses by focusing on her defense of abortion rights.

Abortion has been less of an issue in the nearby 45th District, where Democrats

hoped candidate Jay Chen could overcome a 56.8 percent Republican primary vote to upset incumbent Michelle Steel, a former Orange County super visor.

That hope now looks unre alistic.

Democrats also don’t have much of a shot in the neighboring 40th District, where their candidate Asif Mah mood ‘won’ the primary with 40.9 percent of the vote. Trouble is, Republicans got the other 59.1 percent, and GOP incum bent Young Kim will likely win almost all ballots cast in June for others in her party. So Dem ocrats have little chance in the 40th.

But they have a real opportu nity in the 27th District, cen tered on Santa Clarita and including most of the Antelope Valley and a piece of Los Ange les. The newly-shaped 27th, including most of the old 25th District, is slightly more Demo cratic than before. Yet, Republi can incumbent Mike Garcia, elected in 2020 by a margin of just 333 votes, led the primary with 50.3 percent of ballots to 37.4 percent for ex-state Assemblywoman Christy Smith.

Democrats totaled 49.7 percent there.

That was pre-Dobbs. Garcia has waffled on that decision, noting only that it changed nothing in California – never mind the rest of America. That leaves Smith, a strong abortion backer, as a slim favorite despite her narrow loss to Garcia last time out.

Democrat Adam Grey also has a good shot at winning in the newly constituted 13th Dis trict, including most of the three ‘M’ cities in the Central Valley: Madera, Merced and Modesto.

Democrat Josh Harder has recently represented much of this area, but moved one district north this year to run in a slightly more heavily Demo cratic area. Turnout among Latinos will decide this race.

It’s much the same in the redrawn 22nd district, stretch ing from Hanford and Tulare south into Kern County and west past Kettleman City. Here, Republican incumbent David Valadao beat Democratic Assemblyman Rudy Salas in June by 9 percent, but a large prospective Latino vote and the abortion decision make things uncertain.

The Dobbs decision also gives Democrat Will Rollins, running

in part on a gay rights platform, a longshot chance against Republican veteran Ken Calvert in the new 41st district, stretch ing from west of Riverside into the Coachella Valley. But this would be a major upset.

The bottom line: If Demo crats come out with a net gain of two seats among all these, they should consider themselves for tunate.

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It is thanks to Gloria Partida that Rancho Yolo has two Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant concrete paths from our Fifth Street gates to the sidewalk. I had been working with Unitrans to get these two paths upgraded so that they were safer for people with wheelchairs, walkers, canes and unsteady feet to get to the bus stops on Fifth Street. There was funding to create two con crete paths but the project had languished. Knowing that Gloria, who was then mayor, would potentially be a champion of this project, I contacted her. She immediately connected with the city manager and then got the ball rolling. We now have two safe and smooth paths onto the Fifth Street side walk.

During the first months of the pandemic, Rancho Yolo residents discovered the new world of online everything, from doctor’s appointments to staying connected with family. Our residents who had Comcast, however, experienced frequent service out ages. We took our Comcast issues first to the Senior Citizen Commission and then to City Council. Mayor Partida skillfully directed the City Council deliberations, resulting in the City Manager being tasked to meet with the Davis Comcast manager. Since the meet ing with Comcast, we have not had any issues.

Healthy Davis Together, with its free, easy and unique COVID testing, was a huge gift to our community, especially our seniors. Being able to get tested often, seniors could get treated quickly if needed and also could feel relatively safe in gathering at a distance with family and friends. This helped to ease the burdens of pandemic isolation in our seniors. Under Gloria’s leadership, this col laborative effort between UC Davis and the City of Davis was extended twice. Gloria became a spokesperson for Healthy Davis Together and helped promote it in English and Spanish.

I am grateful for Gloria’s commitment, energy, and invaluable contributions to our Davis community. Re-elect Gloria to ensure continued high-quality service from our City Council. I urge you to vote for Gloria Partida on November 8 if you live in District 4.

Elizabeth Lasensky Davis

Transparency on housing

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 positions. Few people deny we have a problem. It is

time to ask why a prosperous town full of smart and community-oriented voters can’t solve it.

With lots of variables and values, there is not easy answer. But one area where coun cil can help is communications. Priorities need to be clear, so that paths to them can be mapped. It may be easy and honest to voice general support for affordable hous ing 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.

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 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.

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, indicating how they contribute to meeting those obligations? In 2023, the city will be revising our Affordable Housing Ordinance (Davis Enterprise, Sept. 18). How many voters know it exists, much less what it says? This

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Backing Carson

We wholeheartedly support Dan Carson for a second term on the Davis City Coun cil. Dan has been an effective member of the council and has provided leadership to address the crucial issues facing Davis.

Importantly, he was instrumental in bringing about a binding agreement to address the fiscal challenges that contin ued UC Davis campus growth presents to the city. This had never been accomplished before and was long overdue. The agree ment creates a partnership between the city and UC Davis and requires UC Davis to address transportation, housing and other impacts that result from campus growth.

Using his expertise in finance, Dan led successful campaigns to renew our local sales tax and provide funding to fix our 100 year old storm water facilities. He also led the City effort to draft an $84 million 10-year plan to fix our streets and bike paths. This work is underway in various spots around town.

Dan supported the creation and safe operation of the Davis respite center to assist unhoused people in our commu nity. He also supports the Paul’s Place

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community project to provide housing and comprehensive services to assist the unhoused. Dan is actively seeking opportu nities to boost our City revenues so we can achieve fiscal sustainability and continue to provide the services and programs that make Davis such a good place to live. Davis would be well-served by giving Dan the opportunity to continue his work for a second term.

Christy and Matt Layton Davis

Thank you, Jim Provenza!

This is to thank Jim Provenza, our county supervisor, for working with our do-nothing City Council to get the North Fork of the Putah Creek pathway between Drummond and Mace Boulevard cleaned up — after years of begging the city to do its job.

What I used to call our ‘Enchanted For est’ in the past 10 years has become a weedinfested, overgrown jungle of dead and dying trees and bushes, dead branches in the creek bed, a badly rutted pathway and a sanctuary for vultures (nothing we can do about the latter).

So thanks, Jim for your persistence and service. You will always have my support as our county supervisor. Keep up the good work — South Fork pathway next?

Anne Hawke Davis

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Sahaya Walks benefits HIV-positive kids

Special to The Enterprise

Sahaya International, a nonprofit based in Davis started by UC Davis virolo gist Dr. Koen Van Rompay, invites the Davis commu nity to join the 16th annual Sahaya Walks fundraiser on Oct. 8 and 9.

All funds provide food, shelter, healthcare and education for approxi mately 65 HIV-infected children and youths in India and Uganda. This year, Sahaya Walks has two events. The online zoom event is at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, with updates on Sahaya’s programs, a cul tural mix of music and dance, and activities for children and adults. Sun day Oct. 9, from 1 to 4 pm, there will be an in-person outdoor social gathering at a public place, with snacks and games. Both events are free.

Register online, or email Van Rompay at koen@ sahaya.org. To register or make a donation to Sahaya Walks go to https://give butter.com/sahay awalks2022.

For more than 20 years, Sahaya International has partnered with grassroots programs in impoverished communities in Africa and Asia, joining in their efforts to access healthcare, educa tion and socio-economic development. In rural India alone Sahaya has partnered with the com munity-based organization READ (Rural Education and Action Development) to support orphans and vulnerable children via a sponsorship program, help people living with HIV, and provide vocational training, schools, women’s entrepre neurial groups, peer health training, farming and water projects — all led and carried out by local people.

“The Sahaya program works,” Van Rompay said. “The first HIV-infected children who entered the program nearly 20 years ago are still healthy thanks to access to HIV medicines, food and education. Several have finished college, and two of them, Lakshmi and Kayalvizhi, married and gave birth to HIV-free babies. Without the efforts of Sahaya and the village community, the children would have succumbed to AIDS a long time ago. Instead, they have a healthy, productive life.”

In Uganda, Sahaya’s partner BACHO (Ban yabutumbi Cultural Heri tage Organization; bacho. sahaya.org), in Queen Eliz abeth National Park, has responded to the severe food crisis that began dur ing the COVID lockdown by providing food to pre vent starvation among children and youths, many who are HIV-infected orphans, or whose parents were killed by wildlife such as elephants and hippos. Most live without family or adults in dilapidated huts.

Earlier this year, flooding and a storm ravaged the village and destroyed some of their huts. Fortunately, a Sahaya donor gave funds to purchase a homestead that now shelters nearly 20 chil dren. Davis residents con tributed to a social media fundraiser to provide basic

bedding materials for the children moving to into their new home.

Davis resident, photog rapher and conservationist Kathy West, together with her husband Ed, daughter Tenaya, nephew Stuart and his partner Tammy, spent several days at BACHO in August, to do conservation education activities (draw ing and photography) with these children and youths, as part of her own program (PhotographyInspiring Conservation.org).

“The situation in this vil lage is very difficult” Kathy West said. “But thanks to the funds provided by peo ple like you and me via Sahaya International, an incredible difference is being made here. The BACHO founder Akiikih and his team provide food, housing and act as a surro gate parents, and also engage the children in many cultural activities, such as music, dance and drama, which succeeds in building confidence, moti vation and hope in these children. This helps them cope with HIV and the many other challenges they face. Their joyful attitudes and smiles were inspiring.

My daughter Tenaya, who is a physician, will share some of her experiences from this visit during the Oct. 8 online event.”

Also in Uganda, at the edge of the Bwindi Impen etrable Forest, home of mountain gorillas, the Sahaya partner Rafiki Memorial Wildlife Conser vation Initiative (www. rafikiwildlife.org) is work ing with the local commu nity on conservation education and incomegenerating opportunities. The past year, Sahaya gave additional funding to local women groups who weave baskets and make soap.

In addition, a guesthouse was built next-door to the national park. Income from tourists who stay at the guesthouse is used to sup port the local programs.

“We stayed at the guest house for over two weeks,” West said. “It was an incredible experience. They have created a peaceful and wildlife-friendly space and I will always treasure the memories of the animals that visited us, including endangered monkeys and even the mountain gorillas. I will be sharing stories and images of these pro grams at the Oct. 8 online event.”

The fledgling organiza tion that Van Rompay founded in Davis in 1999 has grown from a handful of friends to an ever-grow ing circle of supporters who believe that the life of each and every person counts.

Sahaya International is able to support its many partners in the programs above, and other overseas partners (including in Kenya and Vietnam) through the support of donors in Davis and around the world. Being 100% volunteer-based (no salaries) allows for the direct and full impact of all donations.

To donate or learn more about Sahaya Interna tional, visit www.sahaya. org.

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BACHO children perform in traditional Banyabutumbi outfits. BACHO, Davis-based nonprofit Sahaya’s partner in Uganda, has responded to the severe food crisis that began during the COVID lockdown.