The Davis Enterprise Friday, September 30, 2022

Make it four in a row

California drought likely to continue

By Rachel BeckeR CalMatters

As California’s 2022 water year ends this week, the parched state is bracing for another dry year — its fourth in a row.

So far, in California’s recorded history, six previous droughts have lasted four or more years, two of them in the past 35 years.

Despite some rain in Septem ber, weather watchers expect a hot and dry fall, and warn that this winter could bring warm temperatures and belowaverage precipitation.

Conditions are shaping up to be a “recipe for drought”: a La Niña climate pattern plus warm temperatures in the Western Tropical Pacific that could mean critical rain and snowstorms

miss California, according to Daniel Swain, a climate sci entist with UCLA and The Nature Conservancy.

Swain said California’s fate will depbend on how exactly the storm track shifts, and that sea sonal forecasts are inherently uncertain. Even so, “I would still put my money on dry, even in the northern third of the state,” he said. “It’s not a guar antee. But if you were to see 50 winters like this one, most of them would be dry.”

Through August, no other three-year period in California history has been this dry — even during the last historic drought from 2012 through 2016.

“Or did the last drought end? Which is the bigger question,” said John Abatzoglou, a profes sor of climatology at UC Mer ced. “We’re basically having droughts that are disrupted by wet periods.”

California has seen lengthy

Fortune puts her focus on climate

n Editor’s Note: This is the last in a five-part series profil ing 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, while voters in District 4 (East Davis) will choose either Councilwom an Gloria Partida or Adam Mor rill.

By anne teRnUS-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Like many young adults in the world today, Kelsey Fortune sees a future made bleak by climate change and lack of urgency among older generations.

That’s in large part what prompted her to run for City Council back in 2020

and it motivates her today in her campaign to repre sent District 1 in West Davis on the City Council.

“There’s such a lack of

action when it comes to the climate emergency,” For tune said. “I want to be a

UCD names new enrollment vice provost

By caleB hampton Enterprise staff writer

Malisa Lee, a UC Santa Barbara alumnus with more than 15 years of administrative experience in higher education, was appointed vice pro vost of enrollment management at UC Davis, the campus’ Provost and Execu tive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan announced Tuesday. Lee will take up her post Nov. 1

For the past eight years, Lee served as associate vice presi dent at Fresno State.

Prior to that, she was assistant vice chancellor at the Uni versity of Nebraska, Omaha, where she also served as director of under graduate admissions. She was selected for the UC Davis position after a national search.

UC Davis leaders emphasized Lee’s depth and breadth of experience. “She has had oversight of admissions, recruitment and outreach, as well as overseeing the registrar, financial aid and several other aspects of enrollment management,” Croughan said. “So Malisa already has exceptional experi ence in enrollment management that will enable her to ably lead this critical campus office at UC Davis.”

City councilman witnessed homecoming incident

By aaRon GeeRtS Enterprise staff writer

Racism reared its ugly hand recently at the Davis Senior High School homecoming parade on Friday, Sept 24.

During the lively parade, the Black Student Union float was passing down F Street when an adult worker shouted, “white power” from a ser vice truck. Condemnation immediately fell upon the person shouting the racist remarks until they drove away.

Davis City Councilman Josh Chapman, was enjoying the parade in front of his downtown

store, Armadillo Music, at the time of the incident and witnessed the events as they transpired.

“It was just clear as day as loud as you can imag ine someone yell, ‘white guy power!’ It just floored me, and in my mind I was asking myself, ‘Did I just hear that happen?’ A group of students who were across the street for the whole parade cheer ing on their friends immediately started yelling at him. A few sec onds later, you hear a ‘white power,’” Chapman recalled.

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The Sierra Nevada had only small patches of snow near the Phillips Station meadow, shown shortly before the California Department of Water Resources conducted a snow survey on April 1.

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LEE New vice provost for enrollment

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Kelsey Fortune will run for the Davis City Council’s District 1 in November.

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Brace for braces on KDRT

Braces are a rite of passage for many teen agers in the United States. Hear about the history of orthodontics, which goes back all the way to ancient Egypt and involves animal intestines, gold, and space shuttles!

On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio,” host Rohan Baxi talks to Dr. Benton J. Run quist who opens up about his 27-year career as a Davis orthodontist and his time as a radio DJ.

In this episode’s travel segment, listen ers will learn about France — home to 1,500 varieties of cheese, residents who consume 25,000 tons of snails annually, and supermarkets that divert 45,000 pounds of food each year to feed the hungry and reduce food waste.

“Timeout Radio” is a radio show and podcast based in Davis for youths. It airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sat urdays. All episodes are archived at https:// kdrt.org/program/ timeout-radio.

It’s not the how, it’s the how much

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was a pointed letter to the editor in this very news paper a while back that mentioned water use and water waste in our town, which tends to be a popular subject these days.

Somehow, though, the person who wrote the letter managed to work my name into the discus sion.

The author of this guided mis sive concluded his complaint with the words “Bob Dunning needs to revisit his statement about Davis being the Most Educated City.”

Now, my lifetime contract with Davis’ Only Local Newspaper includes a clause calling for an extra five dollars in my paycheck every time my name appears in a letter to the editor or an op-ed.

The payment rises to 10 dollars if it is determined the reference to me was negative.

The five dollars is already in my pocket for this recent mention, but I’m demanding the full 10 dollars because the wording was clearly negative. Management is not so sure. We may end up

in arbitration.

For my money, literally, telling someone to “revisit” something indicates you got it wrong the first time around. That would certainly qualify as negative. My 1,000-dol lar-an-hour attorney agrees.

Actually, though, I never said Davis was the “Most Educated City.” I said it was the “SecondMost Educated City,” right behind our nemesis Chapel Hill. So I’ve been misquoted, yet another offense.

The above-referenced letter was disputing an alleged statement by a high city official that people use 100 gallons of water to wash their own car, which is why the city has

sternly said we shouldn’t be wash ing our cars at all.

The letter writer claims he can wash his car with just 6 gallons of water, much of it recycled from indoor use. I say he should go into business washing other people’s cars in his driveway.

His point, and that of many others I’ve heard from, is that everyone should be allotted a certain number of gal lons of water per month to use as they see fit.

If you want to grow big, fat juicy tomatoes in your backyard, fine. If you want to eat off paper plates and avoid having to ever wash dishes, fine. If you want to take a 20-minute shower, fine. If you wish to drink tap water, fine.

But, when you’ve used up your allotment, the city will shut off your water until the first of the month, at which point you get to start all over again with a fresh number of gallons. If you don’t use all your water in a given month, you can sell it to your next-door neighbor who likes to water her

petunias every morning.

Of course, if you wish to kill two birds with one hose, why not wash your car on the front lawn and let the runoff keep your grass green?

In other words, to each his own. Let freedom ring.

In addition to the aforemen tioned ban on washing cars and trucks in your driveway, the city is considering a ban on water bal loon fights, Slip ‘N Slides, water melons, water buffalo, water skiing, water polo, watercress, soda water, mineral water, tonic water, uncharted water, water lil ies, water chestnuts, bridges over troubled waters, water softeners, hell or high water, water retention and watering things down.

All are felonies, punishable by up to 90 days in Woodland.

The city considered banning holy water, walking on water and changing water into wine, but freedom of religion won out, based on advice from the city attorney.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Judge orders jail time for Davis CVS thefts

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — A Davis woman began serving jail time this week for her role in two local CVS burglaries that authorities character ized as “organized retail thefts.”

Before Destiny Shree Gates’ remand Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court, how ever, attorneys argued over how much time the 22-year-old woman should spend behind bars.

Davis police arrested Gates and another woman, Diamon Tinosha Russell of Suisun City, on Nov. 28, 2021, after they stole more than $14,000 worth of cos metic products from the CVS stores on East and West Covell Boulevard — two of multiple brazen thefts that occurred not only locally around that time, but also across the country.

Prosecutors said the women used their arms to sweep the products from the store shelves into large bags. At the time of her arrest, Gates was on proba tion for committing two similar thefts at a Marin County Sephora cosmetics store in 2019.

Gates pleaded no contest in April to a single count of organized retail theft.

While prosecutors sought a

two-year, equally split sen tence of jail time and supervised probation, Gates’ attorney Rob Gor man lobbied for a minimal jail term.

Gates, the mother of a 1-year-old child, “is the only person that cares for that child,” Gorman told Judge Peter Williams.

“What Ms. Gates did was, she stole property from CVS, a billion-dollar company, during a time when organized retail theft

was the hot-button issue,” Gorman said. “She’s young. She’s not someone we’re afraid of. She’s someone society is mad at. I get that — but there are collateral consequences now to an innocent victim, her little girl, if she spends any more time in custody.”

“We have to have some level of compassion here,” Gorman added. “If she screws up, then it’s on her, because she got her break.”

Deputy District Attorney

Carolyn Palumbo dis agreed, saying Gates got that break when a judge granted her probation for the Marin County thefts.

Palumbo noted that Gates served only three days in jail following her Davis arrest, and “people get more than that for a DUI when they’re not on probation.”

“Deterrence is still some thing to consider,” Palumbo said. “If it gets out that people can continue to do

this rioting and nothing happens to them other than mandatory supervi sion … there is no conse quence to that behavior.”

Williams ultimately forged a compromise, ordering Gates to spend eight months in custody — minus 97 days credit for time already served for her Marin and Yolo County cases — followed by 16 months of supervised pro bation.

“I think both sides make good arguments, which means that I’ve got to sim ply use my discretion and find what I think is the most equitable outcome,” Williams said.

Although Palumbo had arranged for Child Welfare Services to take custody of Gates’ child in court Tues day, Williams allowed Gates’ father to pick up the child prior to Gates’ remand.

Russell, meanwhile, is serving two years of proba tion after pleading no con test to one count of grand theft. She and Gates have been ordered to pay $14,331 in restitution — the total value of the stolen property.

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

UCD: Cabernet grapes can survive climate change

By amy Quinton Enterprise staff writer

Exposing wine grapes to sunlight was the key to making a good quality cab ernet. But even the tough est grapes may not withstand the extreme heat that comes with climate change. Too much heat, like California has experienced with recent heat waves, can lead to jarringly jam-like wines that are high in alco hol and sugar and lacking in acidity.

Researchers at the Uni versity of California, Davis, have spent the last six years trying to find ways to solve this problem by examining different types of grapevine trellises and water amounts. A new study finds that switching away from one of the most common and widely used trellis systems could alleviate the effects of extreme

temperatures on cabernet and other grapes. The study was published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.

Vertical shoot position, or VSP, trellises are tradi tionally used systems where vine shoots are trained to grow up in vertical, narrow rows with the fruit growing lower to the ground, allow ing for greater exposure to sunlight. The study found these systems detrimental to grapes.

“We’re finding that there is no shortage of solar radiation in California. During these heat waves, these VSP trellises provide zero protection,” said lead author Kaan Kurtural, pro fessor of viticulture and

enology and an extension specialist at UC Davis. “Because the fruit is low to the ground, you also get heat reflecting back into the canopy and clusters.”

Kurtural said VSP trel lises have a greater chance of yielding fewer grapes, with a higher likelihood of sunburnt berries and poor color.

Protecting wine grapes from heat

The study finds that sin gle high-wire trellis sys tems instead allow the vine leaves to shade the grapes. These trellises, which are about 5½ feet tall, also reduce direct solar

radiation. The study finds the reduced sunlight did not affect the grapes’ color or quality.

“We ended up with almost twice the amount of anthocyanins in the berry skin due to lack of degrada tion from hot summer sun,” Kurtural said. Anthocya nins are chemicals in the plant that provide red grapes their color and pro tect against UV rays. “The effect is similar to a good shade cloth but more eco nomical. The high-wire systems also make it easy to harvest grapes with machines, which can save on labor costs.”

The study, which exam ined six different types of trellis systems and three

different watering amounts also found the VSP trellises required the most water.

“We found that with the single high-wire trellis sys tems, growers get a more marketable yield for the amount of water they would have to apply because the system has the most ideal leaf area to fruit ratio,” Kurtural said.

Kurtural said growers could easily switch to these high-wire trellis systems without having to replant an entire vineyard. The conversion might take about 18 months.

“This seems like a great way to move into the next century of grape growing,” Kurtural said.

— UC Davis News

Lauren Keene/enterprise fiLe photo

A judge has sentenced two people for their roles in the brazen retail thefts at two Davis CVS stores, including this one at The Marketplace, last November.

I-House’s International Festival returns on Sunday

Special to The Enterprise International House, Davis, has extended the hours of its International Festival for more music, dance, activities, work shops and delicious food.

I-Fest will l start at 10:30 am Sunday, Oct. 2, with a flag parade around Central Park.

I-Fest brings the com munity together to cele brate the diverse people and cultures that make our region vibrant. Drums rep resent the heart of human ity, and I-Fest will open with the Japanese beats of Wakamatsu Taiko Dan and

will close with West African drumming master Mama dou Traore of the Malinke Group. Those longstanding I-Fest artists will be joined by new music and dance talents to I-Fest, like Manakarnika, an Indian troupe that unites Eastern and Western Indian dance traditions. All in all, there will be over 7 hours of music and dance by 27 groups.

New this year will be a series of workshops on cul tural traditions from around the world. Inside the Bicycle Hall of Fame, participants can learn

indigo fabric dying tech niques from Japan and Africa (1 p.m.), the ritual of Tea Ceremony (3 p.m.) and the intricate technique of Chinese Calligraphy (4:30 p.m.). Outside, there will be more activities like a silkscreening workshop by TANA and Henna art dem onstrations. Over by the carousel, there will be 15-minute meditation ses sions (1-2 p.m.), barre class demonstrations (3-4 p.m.) and yoga/stretching to close the day from 5 to 6 p.m.

More than 40 artisans will sell handmade goods

like origami creations, jew elry, ceramics and crystals in the Farmers Market Pavilion. Solidarity Space Davis, the Davis Arts Cen ter and other cultural orga nization will facilitate kids’ activities in the park. The UC Davis Global Learning Hub and organizations like Hui International, United Nations Association Davis and the Peace Corps will have informational booths.

“So many different groups are performing at I-Fest this year, and it will be a great celebration of culture” says I-Fest Direc tor Shahzana Ali, “this

shows what International House is all about, gathering the community together to learn, share and

celebrate across languages, cultures and countries”.

For information, go to bit.ly/I-Fest-2022.

Council candidates weigh in on electrification

By Anne Ternus-BellAmy Enterprise staff writer

Candidates for Davis City Council weighed in Tuesday morning on one of the most con troversial recommendations in the city’s draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, currently open for public comment.

That recommendation focuses on building electrification, spe cifically replacing gas appliances and systems with electric ones at the time a home is sold.

The draft plan proposes that home electrification at point of sale be voluntary until at least 2025 (though city staff have said that date will likely be pushed back further) and a determina tion be made down the road on whether it should be a require ment.

A number of concerns have been raised by community mem bers about the cost to homeown ers if they must replace all gas appliances prior to selling their homes.

The city addressed those con cerns in a statement last week, saying any future ordinance — should there be one — would take into account “a wide array of sig nificant issues and costs to home owners, such as any panel upgrades needed, age of equip ment, age of home and other concerns.

“Active engagement of the Davis community will be sought in any ordinances or other requirements before adopting electrification actions.”

The five candidates for Davis City Council were asked to weigh in on the issue during a virtual forum hosted by the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday.

There are three candidates vying to represent District 1 (West Davis) on the council — incumbent Councilman Dan Carson, Kelsey Fortune and Bapu Vaitla — and two seeking to rep resent District 4 (East Davis) — incumbent Councilwoman Gloria Partida and Adam Morrill.

Their thoughts on building electrification:

Kelsey Fortune

I would not support a point-ofsale electrification requirement.

One, if you’re mandating things, you’re creating a policy that costs money to enforce, but not creating any revenue to actu ally enforce it. So you’re either going to end up taking money from the General Fund to enforce

this policy, or you’re looking at a policy that goes unenforced, which is no good.

Two, implementation at point of sale, of these sometimes extremely high-cost retrofits, will decrease the turnover of housing stock in our community and that is not good for anyone. If we’re talking about wanting more peo ple to be able to move to our com munity to start their life with their family, you’re not going to see those houses actually come on the market that they could pur chase.

Three, it’s inequitable. The people who are going to be most affected by this are the people who haven’t had the opportunity to choose electrification through out their time of homeownership and those are often people who are lower income. Or you may be looking at older people who are on a fixed income, asking them to spend ($30,000 to $50,000) on retrofits.

I would suggest instead an approach that encourages people to electrify at time of replace ment. We don’t actually want people to switch appliances, replace appliances, before the end of their life. That’s not actually environmentally friendly.

Having annual fee schedules for gas appliances that then raises funds for the city to help people and to actually enforce a policy that doesn’t require electrification but encourages and incentivizes electrification would be a much better idea.

Dan Carson

Our City Council discussed these ideas on Dec. 7 of 2021… We were very clear, all of us, that we are not going to impose tens of thousands of dollars of costs for folks trying to buy a home.

Our direction to staff was that we wanted a cautious and volun tary approach, recognizing that we can’t control what the state might do down the line to man date things. And, in fact, just the other day, state regulators started talking about prohibiting the sale, for example, of gas furnaces after 2030. We have to be mind ful that the state may do things that we need to adjust to. Because they put local governments then in the role of trying to enforce those things.

We need to be very cautious. But it’s also completely sensible down the line that after we start a voluntary approach, that

we could see a situation where somebody has an old gas furnace that is beyond its useful life, that we do say to them, ‘You should do a heat pump. Or you should do another type of approach to replace that some day.’ That actu ally would then save that person or that family money.

And we will try very hard to be there with tax credits or rebates, such as I got … about eight or nine years ago. I got PG&E rebates to replace an old, out-ofdate air condition and furnace. I’ve lived this change. I’ve seen the dramatic drop in our energy costs from making that change. But what I’m not going to do is make people rip out tens of thou sands of dollars of equipment out of their house. We never wanted that. Welcome to social media spreading that. It’s just not where we’re at.

Bapu Vaitla

I agree with my colleagues here. End of useful life is a much more sensible principle than mandates at the time of sale.

Even from an environmental perspective, much less an eco nomic perspective, it doesn’t make sense to trash appliances before the end of their useful life.

And even the end-of-useful principle, I think we need enough staff in place to handle the per mitting requests and that we’re able to subsidize this transition for households. And there might be some wisdom in waiting until the current inflation and contrac tor bottleneck issues ease.

But the spirit of what we’re tying to do is when appliances, when other needed retrofits make sense from an ecological perspec tive, from an economic perspec tive, then we support them. There will be some folks who want to voluntarily change their equip ment to electrification and the city can support that through tax credits, through rebates, through other kinds of subsidies. So I sup port the end-of-useful life prin ciple rather than the retrofit at time of sale.

Gloria Partida

I’m in line with everybody else on this one.

As (Carson) mentioned earlier, this did come before City Council and there was concern about that particular recommendation. There are a lot of recommenda tions in the Climate Action and

Adaptation Plan that I think are good. And I think we do have to make some changes that are going to be necessary if we’re going to make some movement.

But it’s important to not … replace things that don’t need to be replaced yet and put a burden on people that can’t bear it.

And oftentimes this happens for any changes in our society.

Really it’s the people who are least able to get through any sort of a crisis, and the climate crisis is one of those, that suffer the most.

So I don’t think it’s fair for folks who … can’t afford to have that placed on them when they’re sell ing their homes.

I don’t think this is a way to do that. I do support finding ways to incentivize people to make those changes and to work with our governments, our county and state governments, to find ways to make those incentives.

Adam Morrill

I support point-of-sale require ments when they’re for safety reasons. We’re in earthquake country, of course you need to strap your water heater. Things like that are important to protect potential buyers. In referencing the climate action plan, I think the mandates in there are unjus tified…

It doesn’t make sense, going full electric, if it’s motivated by greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of greenhouse gas emis sions are coming out of the tail pipes of the cars driving around town. A better approach would be making a more bike- and pedes trian-friendly downtown to reduce those car trips.

I live in an old Stanley Davis home… we’re a small house — 960 square feet. And if we had to go all electric, we would have to upgrade our PG&E electrical ser vice, which in our case would require trenching, and doing the upgrade, and you’d probably have to redo the wiring in the house to prevent any kind of electrical fires from the added electrical burden. And we looked into it because we thought maybe we’ll put a pool in later. It’s going to cost tens of thousands of dollars just to upgrade your PG&E service. So putting that kind of onus on homeowners is really not the solution.

And given our current electri cal grid, your gas range is going to be far more efficient in the grand picture of things than an electric range based on you’re cooking at

nighttime. Well, the energy that you’re getting at your house at night is coming from a gas firepowered plant so it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, even if you’re paying for premium elec tricity, because that just means someone else is getting more credits for gas versus clean energy.

So I really disagree with that. And honestly I don’t even agree with rebates or anything like that. You need to get people to want to want to change because rebates are a tax burden. The

The point-of-sale home electri fication recommendation is just one of 28 proposed actions con tained in the draft 2020-2040 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan.

The CAAP is a planning docu ment that proposes actions to help the city reach carbon neu trality by 2040, focusing on everything from building electri fication to transportation to land use. The state is requiring renew able energy and 100-percent carbon-free electrification by 2045, but Davis — along with some other California jurisdic tions — has adopted an earlier target for carbon neutrality, in this case five years before the state.

A lengthy process aimed at determining how the city can achieve that goal began in 2019 with multiple public workshops, online surveys and outreach that resulted in the 28 proposed actions reviewed by the City Council before being circulated for public review and feedback in August.

Those recommendations are contained in the draft plan cur rently open for public comment. Even if the council approves the plan, likely in December, it will require further action by council down the road and the recom mendations would not immedi ately become requirements.

Find the draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan at https:// www.cityofdavis.org/ sustainability/2020-climateaction-and-adaptation-plancaap.

To submit comments, con cerns, or other input during the community review period ending Oct. 10, visit https://cityofdavis. org/davis-CAAP-survey.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.

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LocalTHE DAVIS ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2022 A3 International House, Davis, has extended the hours of its International Festival on Sunday for more music, dance, activities, workshops and delicious food.

Pets of the week

Special to The Enterprise

Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among them is Cheddar (A198074), a 16-week-old female brown tabby cat.

Cheddar is a little bit shy but once you give her some face scratches she starts to get closer. She is quiet when you are busy but would ask for love when you are free. She also likes taking naps, zooming around the house, and playing with toys (especially hide and catch game!) She will also try to communi cate with you by meow ing when she has something important to say.

Also hoping for a good home is Mishka (A161350), an 8-year-old female Sib eriean husky.

Mishka can be shy of new peo ple at first, but when you give her a chance to warm up shows her sweet demeanor. Mishka can be uncomfortable with the hustle and bus tle kids bring and needs a calm and quiet home without any children but happy to entertain her self all day long.

For information on adopting, contact adop tycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are upto-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530668-5287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur days. To meet any adopt able YCAS animals, visit

friendso fycas. org. To volun teer, sign up at tinyurl. com/yolo volun teerapp. Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Kona, a petite, 3-year-old spayed female Rottie mix. She’s wonder ful with kids, loves to play with other dogs and is housebroken. Kona lived in a loving family for her first three years but due to unfortunate circumstances she has to find a new home. Kona needs a brush up on her obedience training but she comes with free life time classes.

Ocean is a 1- to 1½-year-old female black Chihuahua. She is a sweet, shy girl that needs a calm patient owner to help socialize her. Ocean would love to be a lap dog.

The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at 34505 County Road 29 in Wood land. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be liv ing with the dog should come out to meet it.

Bring proof of home ownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, bring proof You are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, up-to-date on their vac cines and come with free lifetime obedience classes. For information, visit facebook.com/ rottsoffriends.

It’s official: Look up at the moon

By Vinita Domier Special to The Enterprise

Saturday, Oct. 1, is NASA-sponsored International Observe the Moon Night. The Davis Astronomy Club will be hosting a spe cial meeting starting at 7 p.m. Saturday in front of the Explorit Science Cen ter (3141 Fifth St. in Davis) to commemorate this annual event. All ages are welcome to this free out door star party where we will observe the moon, planets, and stars.

International Observe the Moon Night reminds us to appreciate the beauty, grandeur, and importance of Earth’s sole satellite. The event is held on the Saturday closest to the first first-quarter phase of the fall moon, when the moon is ideal for evening observ ing as it is overhead at sunset and sets around midnight. More informa tion about the event and moon activities for all ages can be found at https:// moon.nasa.gov/observethe-moon-night/.

After the sun, our moon is the most prominent and brightest object in the sky. It is 27% (about a quarter) of the size of the Earth and 60% less dense, resulting in the moon’s surface grav itational force being only 16.6% (about one-sixth) of the Earth’s. The moon is our nearest neighbor in the solar system, revolving around the Earth in an elliptical orbit at an aver age distance of only 240,000 miles.

The moon takes 27.3 days to rotate on its axis and that is equal to the time it takes to revolve around the Earth as seen against the background stars (its sidereal period). This results in the same half of the moon (near side) always facing Earth and the other half (far side) never visible from Earth. The moon has an extremely rarified atmo sphere with no wind or water on the surface to cause any appreciable ero sion, and has extreme day time and nighttime temperature swings from 260 to minus-280 degrees.

The moon is visible to us on Earth because it reflects the sun’s light falling on it. While half of the moon is always bathed in sunlight and the other half is always plunged in shadow, observers on Earth see dif ferent parts of the moon illuminated as it orbits around Earth. The chang ing shapes of the sunlit portions of the moon are known as its phases and it goes through a complete cycle in 29.5 days (its syn odic period) as seen from Earth.

The moon is also responsible for solar and lunar eclipses visible from the Earth. Solar eclipses can occur when the moon is between the sun and the Earth (new moon phase) and lunar eclipses can occur when the Earth is

between the sun and the moon (full-moon phase). Eclipses do not happen at every new or full moon because the moon’s orbital plane is tilted at 5.15 degrees to the Earth’s orbital plane. The next total lunar eclipse visible in its entirety from West ern USA will be after mid night on Nov. 8.

On Saturday evening, the moon (in the constella tion Ophiuchus) will be close to the first-quarter phase.

We will also observe the very bright planet Jupiter (visual magnitude -2.8 in Pisces constellation) and semi-bright Saturn (visual magnitude (+0.5 in Capri cornus constellation) in the southern sky. Now is the best time to view Jupi ter as opposition, when a superior planet is visible all night because it rises when the sun sets and sets

when the sun rises, was on September 26. Coinciden tally Jupiter made its clos est approach to Earth in 59 years during this oppo sition, resulting in Jupiter appearing bigger and brighter in the night sky.

Exploit's coming events:

n Explorit is open to the public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $5 per person. Explorit Members, ASTC and those age 2 and under free.

n For a membership to Explorit, visit https:// www.explorit.org/mem bership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.

— Explorit Science Cen ter is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-7560191 or visit http://www. explorit.org, or "like" the Facebook page at www. facebook.com/explorit.fb.

Rotary Oktoberfest back in Central Park on Oct. 16

Special to The Enterprise

Join Sunrise Rotary’s 16th annual Oktoberfest in person from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, in Central Park. This year’s menu will include brats, potato salad and green salad (vegan selection available).

Along with a meal ($35 each, $40 at the door, $25 for students), attend ees can purchase Sudwerk and Three Mile Brewing Company beer. Com munity members can purchase tickets online Sept. 23 through October 14 and visit the online silent auction at davisrotary.org or scan the QR code at

the bottom of the page.

“We are so happy to be back with an in-person community event (after the two-year shift to a drive through event) and it’s now time to again give the Davis community a bit of an Oktoberfest experience that our club has become known for” Sunrise Rotary President Meaghan Likes said.

In addition to the new online silent auction, this year’s event will also include the presentation of the Jay Gerber Young Community Leader Award. This award is presented to an individual under 45 who has made

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the Davis community a better place, similar to the namesake of this award. Join Jay’s family and friends for this special tribute.

Davis Sunrise Rotary meets in per son and via Zoom on Friday mornings and all community members are invited to attend (vaccinated individ uals only for in person meetings).

For information, email Meaghan Likes at frenchiemeg@gmail.com. Davis Sunrise Rotary Club has been contributing to many local nonprofits that are in need of support, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.

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leader in helping Davis set an example for other com munities about what’s pos sible.”

An economist finishing up her Ph.D at UC Davis, Fortune first ran for council in District 5 in South Davis where she lived at the time. In that race, she finished fifth in a field of five candi dates.

She moved to West Davis about a year ago when rental housing became available with a yard for her recently adopted dog and she decided around that time to run for council again, this time in District 1.

“Once I moved, I thought, ‘Oh, well, there’s potentially an opportunity here.”

Fortune says her main focus in this race is addressing climate action and resiliency in everything the city does, from housing and other developments to infrastructure and trans portation.

“We still aren’t including climate in our main plans,” she said.”We still don’t see it impacting the decision making in the city.”

And where climate change is being addressed, said Fortune, like in the city’s draft Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, there isn’t enough focus on what drives greenhouse gas emissions here: transporta tion.

DiSC drama

Her opposition to Mea sure H — the Davis Innova tion and Sustainability Campus — centered on that issue and she said she is frustrated so much time and attention went into a peripheral development proposal rather than what she sees a better solution for many of the issues fac ing Davis: redeveloping downtown.

“There was another option, when it came to DiSC,” said Fortune. “The (Davis Downtown Specific Plan) sat awaiting (envi ronmental impact review) because that time was being used for other things. And the downtown plan is the perfect example of put ting people in the middle of things. Redeveloping unde rutilized space within Davis’s borders to allow people to live a life without a car and near all of our public transportation and near all of the restaurants and the Co-op. And we had to wait three years to get an EIR for it. And that was an

active choice that the coun cil made to pursue periph eral projects instead of the downtown plan.”

Redeveloping down town, Fortune added, addresses not just environ mental issues, but also economic.

For most cities, she said, “the majority of their tax base is in or near the core of the community, and that’s not true for Davis, as down town has been underdevel oped.”

Peripheral projects, she said, “are kind of a mixed bag, because there there is so much infrastructure and unknowns about the income to the city versus the cost to the city.”

Looking downtown

As for the downtown plan, the draft EIR was completed and circulated for public comment and will be going before the City Council, possibly in the next couple of months.

And similar to her con cerns about the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, Fortune said she would have liked to see more focus on transporta tion in the plan, including options for more of a carfree downtown.

“I really think that’s something that should have featured more within this update,” she said. “This is perhaps now a trend that many of our planning doc uments aren’t focused enough on transporta tion… that’s something that we’re not spending enough time on.”

On transportation, For tune would like to see accessible bike share “that’s not just targeted at the uni versity population and adults” but also available to high school kids and indi viduals with disabilities.

Secure bike parking, especially near transit, is also on her agenda.

“People don’t like leaving their bikes downtown,” she said. “I know a lot of people who don’t feel comfortable parking their bikes down town because theft has been a problem.”

That could change with more bike racks available, particularly near intersec tions where they would be more visible, Fortune said.

Meanwhile, as a renter in Davis, Fortune said she is well-aware of the chal lenges related to housing here.

“When I was growing up, I thought when you’re 30, you own your own home and don’t have house mates,” she said. “It’s still

part of a lot of people’s dreams.”

One option for making that more possible in Davis, she said, is encouraging replacement of some sin gle-family homes in resi dential neighborhoods with duplexes or triplexes.

“We could create quite a lot of decent, affordable two- and three-bedroom places for grad students and for young families who want to be in town,” she said. “But currently there’s just really not a lot of hous ing stock for someone who has children and needs a little bit of extra space, and a back yard, without having to pay $700,000 for it.”

More accessory dwelling units would help with affordable rental housing stock as well and Fortune would like to see the city encourage more of them.

“A one-bedroom apart ment in Davis is insanely expensive, so there’s defi nitely a lot of demand for that type of unit, a onebedroom or studio, that’s not being met,” Fortune said.

All of these options, along with the housing proposed in the downtown plan, involve redevelop ment and infill within the city’s boundaries, she noted, something good for the environment as well.

“There are options for not just expanding Davis with car-centric develop ments and that’s what you get when you build on the periphery — people in their private vehicles.”

Public safety

Fortune first ran for council as the city was engaged in an effort to rei magine public safety and policing. The results of that effort, recommendations from a joint subcommittee that included creation of a new Department of Hous ing and Social Services to oversee homelessness and more, have since been adopted by the city.

But Fortune said she feels the city is “just trying to make people satisfied enough to stop complain ing.”

“That’s how it looks to me with moving the coordi nator working with people who are experiencing homelessness out of the police department, which is a good step, but to me it just looks like a step to appease rather than a rec ognition of the issues that our community faces when it comes to public safety and taking real action towards creating a new

department that is focused on public safety but from a community perspective rather than from a criminal justice perspective.”

What she’d like to see is “a more robust public safety department that has oversight and contains some police and fire and EMTs and dispatch, but also resources for those who are unhoused and mental health services and community response rather than armed response being the first thing sent to differ ent scenarios.”

As a crime victim herself (a sexual assault), she’d like to see more victim resources, too.

“I’m lucky I have a thera pist I see weekly and we worked through all that, but it was something I had to do on my own, mostly with my own money.”

It’s not just about violent crime for her either.

After having her own bike stolen and dealing with the consequences of not having another form of transportation, Fortune began collecting bikes that she can loan out to others who’ve gone through the same thing. She keeps more than a dozen bikes in her back yard and advertises the service on campus.

“Having a public safety office that kind of bridges gaps for victims is impor tant and just provides space for them and services so that it’s not so hard, so that being a victim doesn’t feel as big a thing as it does now,” Fortune said. “There’s a lot of really simple things we could do that would really help people in their ability to move on after victimization.”

The bottom line for For tune: She doesn’t see her self and her generation represented in government and they, like subsequent generations, will be most impacted by climate change and a lack of action.

“I’m from a generation that is living through a very difficult time where we are not being heard. We have climate anxiety. We don’t have a future. We are going to live with this,” she said. “I bring that to everything that I do. I bring an under standing that everyone is coming from a different place and I’m coming from the place of my generation.”

Learn more about For tune’s campaign at http:// www.fortunefordavis.com.

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

VICE PROVOST: In charge of UCD outreach

Croughan added that the position plays a key part in UC Davis’ efforts to facilitate success for a diverse student body. “She will be on the front line of our student-success and equitableoutcomes efforts to ensure an aca demically strong, engaged and diverse student body that is well prepared to succeed at UCD and beyond,” the executive vice chancellor said.

The position was previously filled by Don Hunt, who departed UC Davis in 2021 to serve as senior vice provost for enrollment management and services at North Carolina State University. Deborah Agee, UC Davis’ executive director of Student Finan cial Aid and Scholarships since 2014, has served as interim associate vice chancellor of enrollment manage ment since Hunt’s departure.

“Deb not only kept our offices running well, but she also enhanced our activities through strategic invest ments and initiatives. We are greatly appreciative of her contributions and continued partnership,” Croughan

said.

The UC Davis vice provost for enrollment management is responsi ble for meeting campus outreach objectives and enrollment targets for new undergraduate students. The vice provost also works towards “achieving campus goals that enhance the diversity of the student body and the prominence of UC Davis nation ally and internationally,” the campus news service said in an article.

The vice provost for enrollment management oversees several depart ments, including undergraduate admissions, enrollment management

analytics, student financial aid and scholarships, and the office of the university registrar.

When Lee arrives at Davis, she will be returning to a familiar place. “This is a full-circle moment for me,” she said. When Lee was a teenager, her brother enrolled at UC Davis. “As a first-generation college student, I know the impact of a UC education, and I look forward to working with the campus community to recruit and enroll talented students,” she said.

Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and Asian American studies from UC Santa Barbara. She went on to earn a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern Cali fornia and a Ph.D. in higher educa tion with a concentration in public policy from the University of Michi gan. “My family and I are very excited to join the Aggie family,” Lee said.

— Reach Caleb Hampton at champton@davisenterprise.net.

Follow him on Twitter at @calebm hampton.

HOMECOMING: Adults try to help out students

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“The students across the street continued screaming and hollering, and at that point he yelled obscenities at them and drove off. I went across the street to the students told them how sorry I was at what had just hap pened. I also recognized the company, took down the truck number before it drove off and told them I’d relay this information to that company which is what happened. I reached out to them, the chief of police and the superin tendent. It was extremely loud and extremely aggressive in nature and I think there were no ifs ands or buts about what that guy was yelling at those kids.”

Superintendent Matt Best of the Davis Joint Unified School District was quick to respond to the display of whitesupremacist sentiment.

“DJUSD staff and the Board of Education con demn the offensive and racist language targeted at our students. What is sometimes a classroom conversation about racial inequities in US history once again revealed its ugly presence in Davis. We are heartened by the quick condemnation of the words our community members and students,” said Best in a recent press release.

“We are committed to

serving and supporting our Black and African American students, and the DSHS Black Student Union, as well as all stu dents and community members targeted by such language. We will always strive to root out the systemic and struc tural aspects of racism that persist in society’s institutions, including education.”

The Davis Phoenix Coalition, a local antihate group, also weighed in on the incident.

“Sadly, these blatant declarations of white supremacy are too com mon in recent years. For an adult to harass Black high school students with hate speech is appalling, and we condemn this action unequivocally. We understand that his employer has been informed and will take action,” the coalition said in a news release. “To the students who were the target of the hate speech, we want you to know we stand with you. We are committed to fighting anti-Black racism to ensure that Davis can be a safe, inclusive community for all our residents. Black Davisites have been part of our community for generations and belong here. White supremacy is not welcome.”

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

‘Untamed’ author to speak at UC Davis

By Ashley hAn Special to The Enterprise

Glennon Doyle, activist and bestselling author of “Untamed” and other works, is coming to the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, headlining a public symposium on women, philanthropy and leader ship, 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16. Tickets are on sale now.

In addition to a oneon-one conversation with Doyle, the event spon sored by UC Davis Women & Philanthropy will feature a panel dis cussion with three nota ble UC Davis alumnae: Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chief justice of the Cali fornia Supreme Court; Diane Bryant, informa tion technology executive; and Adriana Gascoigne, founder of Girls in Tech.

Women & Philan thropy, which aims to ignite connections, nur ture curiosity and gener ate contribution for good, will announce the winner of the organization’s inau gural Women & Philan thropy Impact Award.

The award, honoring a UC Davis faculty or staff member for contributions to the advancement of women, exemplary lead ership, and significant impact on local and global university commu nities, comes with a $25,000 prize to be directed to the UC Davis fund of the winner’s choice.

Doyle’s impact

Doyle, who strives to support and empower women to be themselves, has written two No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, “Untamed” and “Love Warrior,” hosts the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast; and is the founder and president of Together Rising, an allwoman-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy — raising more than $40 million for women, families and children in crisis. The UC Davis School of Law is one of Together Rising’s beneficiaries.

Her other works include New York Times bestseller “Carry On, Warrior” and “Get Untamed: The Journal.”

She shares personal sto ries illustrating the trans formative power of women working together to make an impact.

The Doyle program is part of Women & Philan thropy’s Wisdom of Women series.

A Conversation With Glennon Doyle will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. Tickets are $25 to $65 and available Online at https://www.mondavi arts.org, by phone at 530754-2787 or from the box office from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

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“She will be on the front line of our student-success and equitable-outcomes efforts.”

Mary Croughan UC Davis provost and executive

DROUGHT: Dry streak reminiscent of Dust Bowl days

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droughts before, including two seven-year droughts that started in the late 1920s and 1940s. A more recent one lasted six years, from 1987 to 1992.

“To get these kinds of years, we have to go back to the late 1920s and the 1930s, which were the Dust Bowl years,” said California state climatologist Michael Anderson. He tallies far more dry years than wet since the turn of the millen nium. “If you look at the 21st century, we really only have a handful of wet years to work with.”

It’s not just the lack of rain and snow. Warmer temperatures, too, are exacerbating California’s droughts. January through August ranked as Califor nia’s fifth warmest year to date, following 2021’s warmest summer on record.

“One thing that is unfor tunately becoming easier to anticipate are warmer than average conditions due to climate change,” Swain said.

The heat contributes to a thirstier atmosphere, plants and soils, which increases demand and reduces runoff that flows into reservoirs. “That’s tak ing what’s already been a really rotten, worst-in-theinstrumental-record pre cipitation drought, and making it into even a worse drought,” Abatzoglou said.

Winter is coming. But will it rain?

What the coming water year, which begins Oct. 1, will bring is still up in the air. But La Niña conditions are highly likely to continue through at least the fall, with an 80% chance of per sisting through January, for a third year in a row.

A “three-peat” La Niña is rare: It has happened only twice before since recordkeeping began. La Niña occurs when ocean tem peratures in the Eastern Tropical Pacific are below normal, which can shift the storm track that California depends on.

“Seeing things that we’ve never seen before is very much on the table,” said John Yarbrough, assistant deputy director of the State Water Project, which fun nels water from Northern California to 27 million people and 750,000 acres

of farmland.

Often La Niña means drier conditions in South ern California, but the effects on Northern Cali fornia watersheds critical to the state’s water supply can be harder to predict, according to Julie Kalan sky, deputy director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanogra phy.

“Every year is such a unique story for water, which makes California exciting, but it also makes it hard to predict and say what will happen,” Kalan sky said.

What will ultimately shape the next water year is the number of storms known as atmospheric riv ers that make landfall, and the amount of precipitation they unleash. The timing, too, will be important, Anderson said: when rain and snow falls can affect how much of California’s precious snowpack rushes into reservoirs or soaks into the soil.

“From the water man agement standpoint, we’re being mindful that it very well could be dry,” Yar brough said. “At the same time, we’ve got to be mind ful that it could be very wet and you could have flood ing. Both of those still are possible.”

Dry spells punctuated by wet years are part of “the California story,” Abazo glou said. “But obviously the last decade has shifted the balance towards more droughts.”

What about snow in winter?

Snow, too, is difficult to predict for the year ahead.

“It’s definitely more of a guessing game. You’re just sort of crossing your fingers and hoping,” said Michael Reitzell, president of Ski California, a trade associa tion representing resorts in Nevada and California.

This past year was a strange one for the ski industry, he said — marred first by wildfires that dam aged the Sierra-at-Tahoe resort, then by extreme snowstorms at the end of December that forced some resorts to close.

“In the holiday period, some resorts lost full days that would have been huge, huge revenue days,” Reitzell said. “That certainly does

put a ding in things.”

This year’s snowpack measured at 38% of aver age statewide, at a time when it should have been its deepest on April 1. It was the worst snowpack in seven years and the sixth lowest April measurement in state history. The 2015 snowpack was the lowest on record.

The measurement came on the heels of a recordsetting dry spell from Janu ary through March, with warm temperatures spur ring an early season melt. This kind of early melt is difficult to recover from, said Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist and station man ager at the University of California, Berkeley’s Cen tral Sierra Snow Lab

“Our soils get dry and soak up any additional rain or snow that comes in, so that doesn’t make it to our reservoirs. And then we get these mass forest die-offs and subsequent forest fires,” Schwartz said.

He agreed it’s hard to say what La Niña will mean for the Sierra Nevada this win ter. He said “some abso lutely massive snow years” have happened during La Niña years.

“But we’ve also had some of the worst years on record happen here. So the La Niña doesn’t look like it’s going to play too much of a role up here, because tradi tionally it hasn’t,” he said.

“With that being said, I’m expecting drier and warmer than average conditions.”

A deep water deficit

next year with a water defi cit unlikely to recover with an average year of precipi tation

Groundwater levels in almost two-thirds of wells assessed have sunk below average, and by the end of August, reservoir storage had hit 69% of normal for the date. It’s an improve ment over last year, when reservoir levels had dropped to just 60% of average for the date.

But reservoirs are still not where they need to be. “We’re still well-below aver age, still well-below where we would like to be,” Yar brough said.

Lake Oroville, at 1.24 million acre feet, remains below the 1.6 million acrefoot threshold that manag ers would like to see by the end of the year before con sidering exports. Last year, deliveries from the State Water Project dropped to 5% of requested supplies in March.

Initial water allocations are expected to be announced Dec. 1, and Yar brough would not say what they were likely to be. Still, he said, “Do expect it to be on the lower end.”

The US Bureau of Recla

mation, which operates the Central Valley Project, also would not say how much water its recipients, includ ing Central Valley growers, can expect next year. That announcement will come in February, spokesperson Mary Lee Knecht said.

But Ryan Jacobsen, CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, is not expecting the news to be good.

“We find ourselves going into this year with such a substantial decline over the course of the previous three years that even an average year most likely is going to mean some not good allocations to farmers down here in the Valley,” he said.

Jacobsen said local grow ers already have cut back on plantings for fall and winter crops. He expects even more fields to be fal lowed as farmers decide not to plant annual crops like tomatoes, melons and corn to preserve their scarce water supplies for perma nent crops like tree nuts and grapes.

One source of Califor nia’s water supply is in even more dire shape than in previous droughts: the Colorado River,

which remained a reliable source of water supply even during California’s 2012 through 2016 drought. This time the river’s mas sive reservoirs have hit his toric lows.

“The Colorado River system is in deep crisis,” said Alex Hall, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA. “That means Southern California is in a more dif ficult position than in the past.”

Southern California’s giant water importer, the Metropolitan Water Dis trict, issued unprecedented outdoor watering restric tions last spring for the 6 million people in its vast service area that depend on supplies from the parched State Water Project. Over the last three years, the water district has received its lowest total deliveries from Northern California reservoirs.

Now, the water importer is weighing how potential future cutbacks on the Colorado River could affect the rest of its customers as California, Arizona and Nevada hash out a deal to conserve the river’s water, said Demetri Polyzos, Met ropolitan’s manager of resource planning.

“People are saying ‘Hey, we’ve gone through this before. California is used to droughts,’” Polyzos said. “That is true. But we’re see ing these things get a lot worse and worse and more difficult to manage through.”

What is becoming increasingly clear is that the nature of drought in the West is changing from the plural to the singular as it endures for long stretches punctuated by brief spells of wet years.

“The idea of drought as a temporary, transient thing is shifting,” Swain said. “We should be thinking more about long-term aridifica tion.”

California is entering the

Ken James, California Department of Water resourCes/Courtesy photo

Very little snow remained on the ground for the California Department of Water Resources’ snow survey on April 1.

‘Queen of Ranchera’ Cuevas brings Mexican melodies to Mondavi

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise staff writer

Aída Cuevas — a widely acclaimed singer of traditional Mexican songs who is on her 45th anniversary tour — comes to the Mondavi Center with Mariachi Aztlán on Wednesday, Oct. 12, for what promises to be a lively con cert.

Cuevas is commonly regarded as the most prominent living advocate of ranchera music. In addition to touring extensively, she has released upwards of 40 albums, including several “song book” compilations of famous ranchera songs. She’s won two Grammy Awards (a Latin Grammy 2010 and a “regular” Grammy in 2017) — the first female singer of traditional Mexi can songs to hold that distinction. In her homeland, Cuevaz has been honored with the “Queen of the Mariachi” award four times.

Among the admirers of Aída Cuevas is Linda Ronstadt, who became a pop star in this country in the 1960s (and a superstar in the 1970s). Ronstadt grew up in a

Mexican-American family living on a 10-acre ranch near Tucson, Ariz. In 1987, Ronstadt stepped away from the pop/rock material that had been her bread and but ter, and released an album of tra ditional Mexican music titled “Canciones de Mi Padre.”

Her record company was ini tially uncertain how to promote the album, but “Canciones de Mi Padre” became a dark horse hit, and Ronstadt took a mariachi

Cannery Barn hosts rare performance

Lívia Nestrovski and Fred Ferreira, will play the Cannery Barn one night only in a rare state side performance.

Nestrovski (voice) and Ferreira (guitar/ arrangements) have shared life and stage for the past decade, where they create “a human work, of beauty and delicacy, but above all, they tell stories in a very personal way,” said fashion designer Ronaldo Fraga, who since 2016 designs clothes for them. Together they have performed in nearly 20 countries, captivating wide audiences with their music.

The show is at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, at 1550 Cannery Ave. in Davis.

Nestrovski is one of the most versatile and acclaimed voices in the contemporary Brazilian music scene, winning several awards (including Best Singer at Music Pro Awards Brazil) and being featured at the forefront of orchestras in Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, including the world premiere of a piece written especially for her by Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco, pre sented at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Ferreira is an accomplished arranger, com poser, and musical director, having written and performed music for cinema, dance, perfor mances, and the award-winning podcast “Vinte Mil Léguas.”

A donation of $20 per person for the artists is requested. RSVP at Iwillattendthisevent@ gmail.com.

band with her on tour. Two more Ronstadt albums in a similar vein followed. The popularity of Ron stadt’s project was not lost on concert promoters, and Ronstadt’s project opened up opportunities for a traditional ranchera singer like Cuevas to establish a broader following among listeners in the United States.

Alas, Ronstadt’s performing career was cut short in 2011 when she disclosed that a neurological

ailment had robbed her of her once-commanding singing voice.

(Mondavi Center patrons may recall Ronstadt’s appearance in Jackson Hall during the 2008-09 season, fronting the Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano. Ronstadt cautiously sang the first few num bers of her short set, but then her voice conked out. The audience, sympathetic to Ronstadt’s plight, gave her a warm ovation as she left the stage. She acknowledged the

applause, while blinking back tears.)

In 2020, Cuevas showed her appreciation by participating in a Linda Ronstadt tribute concert in the Los Angeles area. In conjunc tion with that concert, Cuevas and Ronstadt were jointly interviewed on public television. Cuevas smiled bashfully when Ronstadt remarked that while the estimable Lola Beltrán (1932-1996) was regarded as the founding Queen of Ranchera music, “that crown has now passed to Aída Cuevas.”

This uncommon acclaim has placed Cuevas in a select category of performers who come to sym bolize their place and time. As a critic for the Kansas City Star wrote while reviewing an appear ance there by Cuevas, “Cuevas is to Mexico what Aretha Franklin is to the United States: a powerful voice that encapsulates the essence of her nation’s spirit.”

Tickets for the Oct. 12 concert at Mondavi by Aída Cuevas and Mariachi Aztlán are $25-$85 gen eral, with discounts for students. Tickets are available online at tickets.mondaviarts.org/7674.

Mexican superstar Aída Cuevas will perform at the Mondavi Center on Oct. 12.

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Special to The Enterprise

Brazilian duo Lívia Nestrovski and Fred Ferreira, will perform at the Cannery Barn on Oct. 8.

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‘Bros’: Love’s not pretty, but it’s funny

Graphic depiction of gender issues isn’t for all tastes

By Derrick Bang Enterprise arts writer

This is not your grand mother’s rom-com.

Billy Eichner and Nicho las Stoller’s boldly auda cious dramedy is ground-breaking: not merely for its gender-appro priate casting, but also for the story’s unflinchingly candid depiction of mod ern-day love among (pri marily) gay men.

Eichner and Stoller’s caustic, sharp-edged script also is wickedly funny, with the former — also starring as our key protagonist — demonstrating perfect comic timing with a relent less series of arch one-liners, aggrieved declamations and impassioned laments.

But conservative viewers be advised: The R rating is generous, given this film’s frequent and quite explicit sexual content. Although … ah … dangling bits remain off-camera, virtually noth ing else is left to the viewer’s imagination.

The story actually is an amplification of the mate rial Eichner has long deliv ered via stand-up and sketch comedy, notably on the long-running TV series “Billy on the Street.”

The setting is trendy New York, where Bobby Leiber (Eichner) has carved out a laudable, media-centric career as an observer and ferocious activist in the LGBTQ+ scene. He has a successful podcast, writes books, gives speeches, and frequently is recognized for his advocacy.

His newest project is massive, as a member of the board of a revolutionary, asyet unfinished LGBTQIA+ Museum.

Acme auditions for winter production

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Acme Theatre Com pany invites all ninththrough 12th-grade students to participate in their winter production

Icarus Livingstone Falls Into the Sea” by Brian daniel Oglesby.

Auditions will be open Oct. 13 to 15. Rehearsals will be from 4 to 6 p.m., Nov. 7 to Jan. 6, Monday to Friday, with extended rehearsals for Veterans, Thanksgiving and winter breaks.

Performances will run from Jan. 6 t o 15 at the Veterans Memorial The atre, 203 E St. in Davis. To sign up or for infor mation visit acmethe atre.net/auditions.

Avid Reader hosts authors

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The Avid Reader will host several free author events this fall at 617 Second St. in downtown Davis. Find detailed information at www. avidreaderbooks.com.

Thursday, Oct. 6: Robin Lee Carlson, “The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes,” 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 21: Patricia Turner, “Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century,” 6-7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 4: Poetry Night, 6-7:30 p.m.

Bobby ideally would cast himself as a “personality,” despite the fact that his actual personality keeps get ting in the way. He’s caustic, domineering, condescend ing and totally dismissive of outdated concepts such as “dating” and “love.” He’s 40 years old and defiantly proud of being a singleton.

He’s also — as quickly becomes obvious — his own worst enemy: wound tighter than a crystal radio coil, while suppressing a boat load of emotional baggage.

Trouble is, the personal lives of his friends are evolv ing, whether via marriage, families or polyamorous relationships such as throu ples. Bobby feels increas ingly left out … although he’d die before admitting as much.

By day — where finances for the LGBTQIA+ Museum are $5 million short, and nobody can agree upon what to put in the final dis play wing — he contemptu ously dismisses suggestions from his fellow board mem bers. Board chair Wanda (Miss Lawrence) remains a force of calm and coolness in the face of his histrionics; the others — Angela (Ts Madison), Cherry (DotMarie Jones), Robert (Jim Rash) and Tamara (Eve Lindley) — find it increas ingly difficult to put up with him.

All five are distinct, strong-willed characters: each played persuasively. Sitting in on their meetings would be a treat (if occa sionally explosive).

Then, while clubbing one night with best friend Henry (Guy Branum, excel lent as a patient voice of reason), Bobby chances to lock eyes with a shirtless hunk on the dance floor. Moments later, Aaron (Luke MacFarlane) appears at his side. Despite radiating breathtakingly sensual, bro-y energy, Aaron is quiet and reserved; he’s clearly amused by Bobby, who — much to his surprise — is more than a little thunder struck.

Is this the stuff from which a relationship could develop?

Hard to say.

Aaron is an estate agent: an occupation he loathes, despite being quite good at it. He’s otherwise at peace with himself, thanks to the loving support of his par ents. That said, he’s not the slightest bit inclined to pur sue the “bigger picture” of what it means to be gay in today’s America, as opposed to what it meant a century earlier, or even a couple of

Stories on Stage presents introspective nonfiction

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Stories on Stage Davis will present two stories in the outdoor courtyard of the Pence Art Gallery in down town Davis on Saturday, Oct. 8. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the event starts at 7:30.

“Intimacy Costs” by Sarah Rose Cadorette will be read by Leah Daugherty. This is a nonfiction piece out with Under the Gum Tree’s 11th Anniversary Edition this month. In this dynamic per sonal essay, Cadorette explores how love and logic do — or do not — mix. She walks her reader through her point-based system for understanding relation ships from acquaintances to significant others. Mapping this system onto one of her “supernova” relationships, she ultimately turns inward and better understands her self.

Cadorette’s nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Meridian, The Massachu setts Review, Emerald City Lit Mag and Under the Gum Tree. Her essays have received First Place in Sonora Review’s 2022 Rage Essay Contest, Second Place for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize from The Southampton Review, and runner-up in Blood Orange Review’s Inaugural Literary Contest in Nonfiction.

She created her own undergraduate major, Travel Writing and Social Advocacy, and holds a Cre ative Writing MFA, both from Emerson College.

Born and raised in Minne sota, Sarah lives in Oakland, where she runs a mutual aid collective and is writing a book of essays on obsessions

and possessions. Her obses sions, besides writing, are Prince and her dog, Cleopa tra.

Daugherty is a Sacra mento-based actor last seen in Dorothea Puente Tells All! at the California Stage alongside Janis Stevens. Other local theatres include Capital Stage, Davis Shake speare Festival (now Vacancy Arts Collective), and Big Idea Theatre. Leah is an alumna of both the Capital Stage Apprentice ship program and UC Davis. She is a proud company member at Big Idea The atre.

An excerpt from the laugh-out-loud memoir “The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast” by Davis local Matt Biers-Ariel will be read by Will Oberholtzer. This excerpt launches a father’s adventurous plan for his son’s rite of passage. Approaching his 13th birth day, Yonah Biers-Ariel does not want the traditional Bar Mitzvah — or anything to do with his father’s religion. When Matt Biers-Ariel, an avid cyclist, suggests an untraditional cross-country trek on two wheels, sud denly the whole family is along for the ride.

Biers-Ariel teaches Eng lish at Winters High School. He is the author of the memoir “The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast” and has writ ten a number of books based on quirky readings of classical Jewish texts. He has been a humor columnist for The Progressive and an unsuccessful submitter to The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs. (He still can not understand what their problem is.)

decades ago.

“We got AIDS,” Bobby bitterly observes, at one point, while eyeing some Gen Z youngsters. “They got ‘Glee.’ “

The story subsequently follows a predictable romcom path, with ups, downs, blow-ups, confessions, and baby steps toward what might be considered some thing “real.”

Alas, Bobby and Aaron take numerous detours along the way, while scratching libidinous itches. The frank depictions of these encounters are intense, feral and not the slightest bit tender: little more than a means of physi cal release. While probably no different from women who frequent bars with the specific intention of going home with whichever guy catches their eye, the emo tional impact here is the same; it feels sad.

And unfulfilling … not that Bobby ever would admit as much. As for Aaron, he hasn’t really been searching for anything more meaningful, so it’s just busi ness as usual.

We adore Aaron just as much as we pity Bobby. The perfectly sculpted

MacFarlane plays him as a patient, oversized teddy bear. Aaron tolerates much, but is quick to bruise when Bobby goes too far; the pain in MacFarlane’s gaze, at such moments, is palpable.

And yet we also can tell that Bobby fascinates Aaron, who feels challenged — in a good way — by this twolegged bundles of neuroses.

Eichner unerringly navi gates a razor-thin line. Every time Bobby’s unre strained arrogance threat ens to spiral out of control, he pulls back just enough to reveal a degree of vulnera bility that bespeaks count less past traumas and frustrations. Even when Bobby’s words suggest oth erwise, Eichner’s expression begs for help.

Stoller and co-producer Judd Apatow have long pushed the envelope of cin ematic barriers — and good taste — and this genredefying film is no different. Regardless of the genders involved, this level of sala cious carnality most fre quently is associated with erotic thrillers or sniggering sex comedies … but never, ever with rom-coms.

The disconnect is amplified by visual and

name-check references to “You’ve Got Mail” and “When Harry Met Sally,” among others, as a reminder of the genre’s traditionally gentler nature.

Eichner and Stoller also go too far at times. Although their film will be champi oned in progressive mar kets, a few elements — most notably a third-act argu ment about the appropriate age for exposing children to gender issues — seem gratu itous: inserted solely to enrage book-burning, his tory-shredding Republicans determined to reverse decades of social progress.

This ain’t gonna play in Florida and similar parts of the country.

But it is, nonetheless, a bold first step. If “Bros” feels too harsh and in-our-face, it springs from decades of anguish, frustration and disenfranchisement. And it’ll likely pave the way for future sets of filmmakers, who’ll make the statement more palatable to all view ers.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang.blogspot. com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.

Sonoma museum presents Saunders art

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SONOMA — “Ray mond Saunders: On Free dom and Trust,” on display through Jan. 8, features 25 stunning large mixedmedia paintings by Saun ders (some never exhibited before) from his vast career, along with his pro vocative quotes and ephemera throughout the galleries. The exhibition is curated by SVMA guest curator Shelby Graham, who has worked with Saunders and curated a prior exhibition of his work.

Fall and winter pro grams include: Look Club, Wednesdays at 6pm, Oct. 12, Nov.9, and Dec. 7. Free to SVMA members, $10 general public. Join SVMA for a glass of wine and smallgroup, casual conversation about selected artworks on view in “Raymond Saunders: On Freedom and Trust.”

Freedoms Found: Writ ers Speak to the Art of Raymond Saunders, Sun day, Oct. 16, 4 p.m. $10 Students with ID, $30 SVMA members, $35 for non-members.

Poet and author Caro line Mar has assembled an outstanding line-up of Bay Area writers all represent ing the diverse experiences of our region—each com posing an original work inspired by Oaklandbased Raymond Saunders. Among the featured poets performing will be Tongo Eisen-Martin, poet laure ate of San Francisco. In keeping with SVMA’s poetry tradition, each poet will be paired with a local wine.

Raymond Saunders in Context: A Conversation about Black Artists and Art in America, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m. $10 stu dents with ID, $30 SVMA members, $35 for nonmembers.

Join some of the

country’s top scholars who explore African American art and culture for a public discussion on Raymond Saunders’ impact, and that of other contempo rary Black artists, on American life and art his tory. Leading the discus sion is Cheryl Finley, Ph.D. inaugural director, Atlanta University Center for Art History + Curato rial Studies Collective + distinguished visiting pro fessor, Spelman College. Finley is joined by Leigh Raiford, Ph.D., professor, African American Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley and Jacqueline Frances, Ph.D., chair, Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program, California College of the Arts. A reception for ticket holders to meet the speak ers will follow.

This special program is made possible with the support of the Manitou Fund.

Courtesy photo

Bobby (Billy Eichner, standing) floats an idea to his fellow museum board members: from left, Angela (Ts Madison), Wanda (Miss Lawrence), Tamara (Eve Lindley), Robert (Jim Rash) and Cherry (Dot-Marie Jones). Alas, they aren’t buying it …

Luke MacFarlane, Guy Branum, Jai Rodriguez, Amanda Bearse, Miss Lawrence, Ts Madison, Dot-Marie Jones, Jim Rash, Eve Lindley, Debra Messing Available via: Movie theaters

raymond saunders/Casemore Gallery, san FranCisCo, and andrew Kreps Gallery, new yorK Raymond Saunders, Untitled, n.d., mixed media on canvas.

Excess school lands provide housing options

Do voters want more teach ers living in their commu nities, even if it means a little more traffic and perhaps a few less parking spaces for oth ers?

That’s a major question soon to face California school dis tricts, cities and voters as the state deals with a big teacher shortage, seeing 72 percent of school districts unable to find enough applicants to fill their available teaching jobs this year.

“This shortage is caused mainly by housing prices,” claims Matthew Lewis, an official of California YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard), the Oakland-based group dedicated to creating hun dreds of thousands of new hous ing units very soon. YIMBY has lobbied long and hard for all the housing density laws passed by state legislators over the last sev eral years, most notably the 2021 measures known as Senate Bills 9 and 10, which effectively ended R-1 single family zoning throughout the state.

Voters have not yet had a chance to decide the ultimate fate of those measures, but oppo

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nents hope to place referenda to kill them on the 2024 ballot and restore R-1 zoning where it was before.

But some local voters will decide long before then on pro posals from schools to help ease their teacher shortage by provid ing subsidized affordable hous ing for school employees on surplus school property.

With enrollments dropping in many school districts since the start of the COVID-19 pan demic, one seemingly reasonable estimate says school districts now own about 75,000 acres of surplus land.

One such property is the 2.5 acre site of the shut-down James Flood Elementary School in the eastern portion of Menlo Park on the San Francisco Peninsula,

near the Highway 101 Bayshore Freeway. The land is owned by the Ravenswood School District, which serves East Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.

Ravenswood officials plan to sign a developer and build approximately 80 to 90 afford able units on the land, beside a city park. The Flood school was closed in 2012 and later demol ished, leaving the land vacant with a park beside it.

The site is designated as a housing “opportunity” by Menlo Park’s planned housing element for the years 2023 to 2031.

Ravenswood officials say teach ers and other school employees would have the first right to apply for new housing there.

At the same time, the prospec tive development could provide about $500,000 yearly for the Ravenswood budget. Per-pupil spending in that district is well below levels in the neighboring Menlo Park City School District.

“This is important because teachers are not applying for jobs because they cannot afford housing locally, and don’t want to commute for several hours

daily to jobs in cities like Menlo Park from distant cities where housing is cheaper,” said Lewis.

Already, thousands of San Fran cisco Bay area workers who can not operate from home are forced to commute from places like Tracy and Modesto, while their Los Angeles and Orange County counterparts commute from points including Santa Clarita, Bakersfield and Moreno Valley, piling up many hundreds of freeway miles each week.

But no sooner had the James Flood development been announced than neighbors began complaining. Now a local initiative designed to block it or reduce it considerably will appear on next month’s ballot.

When Menlo Park’s city council and citizen groups failed to work out a compromise, that initiative remained intact.

Strong sentiment against the project by many area residents emerged in a public meeting last spring.

“I’m very much in favor of affordable housing,” declared one longtime homeowner quoted in news reports. “But not to the

detriment of the neighborhoods we love.”

Added another, “There is a need for affordable housing, but just not here.”

It’s rare for NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) sentiments to be expressed so frankly and openly.

But the local initiative will be voted on citywide, and the loca tion essentially means most of Menlo Park would not be directly affected by the project. So its fate is uncertain.

This all may be a harbinger of what’s coming across California over the next decade or so. With all that vacant land and school salaries too low to allow many teachers to buy or rent homes near their jobs, be certain that similar projects will be planned in more and more places.

Email Thomas Elias at tde lias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treat ment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.

On Sept. 21, President Biden made the following remark toward the end of his speech before the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly: “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

If President Biden sincerely wants to eliminate the possibility of a nuclear war, he could begin to pursue a way to get all nuclear-armed nations together to agree to sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As stated in our own City Council’s resolution unanimously passed in May of 2020, this treaty “offers the opportunity to prohibit and delegitimize nuclear weapons and pro vide the impetus and obligation for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and the framework to achieve it.” The United Nations stays involved every Sep tember 26th in its International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Instead of following the United Nations’ example, the United States is currently spending billions of dollars to upgrade our nuclear arsenal with “low yield” tactical nuclear weapons that are allegedly faster, stealthier and more accurate. This move is joining, if not leading, a nuclear arms race around the world.

Will President Putin use Russian nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine? Will we respond in kind with our own nuclear weap ons? This grim scenario is made possible by the existence of these very deadly weapons. The threat of a nuclear war over Ukraine supports the fact that our government should take the lead in promoting the TPNW to all nuclear armed nations. It will only do so if the vast majority of Americans let President Biden know that we agree that a nuclear war “cannot be won and must never be fought,” and urge him to support the TPNW. You can read the text of the TPNW at (https://www.icanw.org/tpnwfull-text).

Please take the time to let President Biden know that you agree a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and urge him to work with other nuclear armed nations to sign and ratify the TPNW. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact)

Judy Reynolds Davis

Climate-plan public comments

I’m greatly concerned about the Climate Action Adaptation Plan (CAAP) public comment process. First of all, this comment process is ridiculously complicated. The survey requires the person to refer to a page number, and section, in the CAAP docu ment … which is not attached to the survey. Most people never would have the time, ability or patience to read a 123-page docu ment, let alone take the additional steps necessary to search for what is required by the comment process.

Additionally, three of the four action items are not feasible at this time.

1) The requirement for electrification at

Being forced to no longer purchase a gas appliance is unacceptable. The grid infra structure necessary for the resulting high electricity use is nowhere near ready. We’re already experiencing summer-driven brownouts and blackouts, alongside the increasing size of the EV fleet. Where will this additional electricity come from? This is yet another frustrating example of legis lation that grossly ignores the necessary infrastructure improvements that must take place first.

On top of which, many people would need to upgrade the electrical panel on their house, at considerable additional cost.

2) Electrification at time of home sale.

This similarly would increase sale price by the cost of all new appliances and upgrades to the electrical panel. It would slow down selling the house, which would be constrained by the availability of pur chasing appliances and equipment.

3) Energy efficiency, cooling/ventilation upgrades in rental properties.

Rents already are much too high in Davis. Who will pay for these upgrades?

On a related — but no less severe — note, landfills will be overwhelmed by all this appliance turnover.

Granted, we’re certainly in a climate cri sis, and this report contains many great ideas, which should be implemented imme diately. But I truly do not understand why this survey, and document, are so onerous. This seems like one more impediment to actually doing the work needed to address the climate crisis.

Gayna Lamb-Bang Davis

Backing Vaitla

We support Bapu Vaitla for Davis City Council from District 1.

Bapu has demonstrated his commit ment to Davis through service on the Social Services Commission and Cool Davis. He has a strong background in using data to create effective policy for real change. Bapu will work effectively for cli mate change and affordable housing policy and implementation. We will finally get an updated general plan before more piece meal development. He gets things done.

We are greatly disappointed and strongly oppose Dan Carson. Please do not support him. We feel that he demonstrated strong disregard for democratic principles and acted unethically when he worked for the DISC developer and then sued the Measure H public opposition using devel oper funds.

Vote for Bapu!

Bob Schneider and Liz Merry Davis

Morrill has Davis values

Adam Morrill is perfect for our city coun cil, and the time we need him is now. The core task of serving on city council is over seeing the efficient and principled running of our city. This means making sure our roads and parks are maintained, that we fund the level of police and fire service we need (not more, not less), and that we approve development projects that match our values.

Adam is a professional in city services, 25-year resident as a student (service as a Unitrans driver and OA raft guide even),

To The Enterprise, Adam observed that our current council is “detached from the public.” That’s spot on. Our current council is out of touch, doesn’t lead, nor does it pro vide meaningful oversight of senior staff. Staff propose actions, and the council almost always goes along. Cases in point: every council member loved the peripheral DiSC development, but it went down in flames when we voted.

The council even put DiSC on the ballot before mapping out the revenue sharing; by then, of course, the county had the lion’s share of leverage and the resulting finances were completely skewed against us. That’s unthinkable — knowing the finances before putting anything on the ballot is a simple issue no council member should miss. Then there was the 2020 BrightNight decision where we gave a no-bid, long-term sweet heart lease to untested solar speculators. Zero oversight there.

Adam has the experience, perspectives and conviction to serve the city he, his wife, Nicole (UC Davis staff), and children (Davis High and St. James) love. He’ll serve us well. Heck, being an AYSO referee might even be the best training ever for council –know the rules, apply them fairly, and give back! Without a single reservation, I endorse Adam Morrill for the District 4 (Central/East Davis) city council seat. Change will be good.

Joe Krovoza

Davis mayor, 2011-2014

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These Bears are finding their rhythm

This week’s picks are as follows:

OREGON over STANFORD The Cardinal is much improved from a year ago, but Oregon is beginning to look like the Ducks of old.

WASHINGTON over UCLA ... Friday Night Lights in the Rose Bowl, where the resurgent Bruins finally meet their match.

UTAH over OREGON STATE ... The Beavers were oh so close to upsetting USC last weekend and are a heavy under dog against a Utah team still trying to make amends for its opening-game flub against Florida.

USC over ARIZONA STATE ... It’ll take more than a new coach to straighten out the Sun Devils.

AIR FORCE over NAVY ... The Falcons are clearly the cream of the service academies.

CLEMSON over NORTH CAROLINA STATE ... Can the Wolfpack finally over take Dabo’s Dandies? Simple answer: Nope.

SACRAMENTO STATE over CAL POLY ... Ouch.

MICHIGAN over IOWA ... Might be best to just start the four-team playoff pronto, featuring the Wolverines, the Buckeyes, the Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

MONTANA over IDAHO STATE

Mitchell, Dulaney winners

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The Davis High boys and girls crosscountry teams competed in their first Delta League meet on Wednesday.

The Blue Devils occupied four of the top 10 spots in the varsity boys’ 3-miles race.

Ryan Mitchell, a senior, won the race with a time of 14 minutes, 32.1 seconds.

Lucas Tam took seventh place, clocked at 15:42.4. Jefferson Wright was right behind Lam at eighth place at 15:43.7 and Jay Doctor ninth at 15:45.6.

Norah Dulaney led the Davis girls with a first-place finish with an even time of 18:00.6. Dulaney is a senior.

Freshman Avery Wolk took eighth place for the Blue Devils at 18:43.1. River Salinas, a junior, took ninth at 18:50.5.

UCD men’s soccer

Cason Goodman scored the only goal in the second half for the UC Davis men’s soccer team in Wednesday’s Big

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West Conference home game against Cal Poly. But the Aggies and visiting Mustangs ended in a 1-1 draw at Aggie Soccer Field.

Goodman’s header in the 77th minute from Ehtan Hoard drew the Aggies even. Cal Poly scored the first goal in the 22nd minute on a ball that bounced between teams on the right side of the box before finding the back of the net.

Goodman’s goal was his second of the season and gave him the team points lead.

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SKOKIE, Ill.

The UC Davis men’s golf team finished the Windon Memo rial at Evanston Golf Course on Tuesday.

The Aggies totaled 887 over the course of two days and placed 14th in the field.

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UPSET OF THE WEEK: Cal over Washington State ... The most interesting matchup of the weekend. The Bears are finally finding their rhythm on offense, which they’ll need in bunches on the Palouse. (Upset record: 1-3).

ROUT OF THE WEEK: Florida over Eastern Washington ... The Eagles already gave up 70 points to Oregon. How much more punishment can they endure for a fat paycheck? (Rout record: 4-0).

DON’T BET ON IT, BUT: Iowa State over Kansas ... Cinderella comes crashing back to earth. Or is that Dorothy? (Don’t bet record: 2-2).

FIVE EASY PICKS: This weekend’s big winners are Penn State (over Northwestern), Appalachian State (over Citadel), Syracuse (over Wagner), Ohio State (over Rutgers) and Georgia (over

Missouri). (FEP record: 20-0).

AGGIES over MONTANA STATE UC Davis is in need of a big-time win against a big-time opponent before a bigtime crowd in a state known for its bigtime sky. Take the Ags by 6.

OTHER GAMES: Minnesota over Purdue, Oklahoma over TCU, Alabama over Arkansas, Wisconsin over Illinois, Memphis over Temple, Louisville over Boston College, James Madison over Texas State, Eastern Michigan over Massachusetts, North Carolina over Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State over Baylor, Cincinnati over Tulsa, Coastal Carolina over Georgia Southern, Mar shall over Gardner-Webb, North Dakota State over Youngstown, South Dakota State over Western Illinois, Texas over West Virginia, Pittsburgh over Georgia Tech, Arizona over Colorado, and Fresno State over Connecticut.

Last week: 36-5, season: 170-27, percentage: .863.

UCD: Backs against the wall

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Despite the win at East ern Washington, Montana State lost the services of standout quarterback and team leader Tommy Mel lott due to a head injury early in the game. Mellott has been ruled out of Saturday’s game, but is expected to return at some point this season.

Also missing is preseason All-American running back Isaiah Infanse, who ran for 1,623 yards last season, but has yet to play this fall after off-season knee surgery.

That hasn’t stopped the Bobcats from rushing for nearly 300 yards a game, led by backup quarter back Sean Chambers, a Wyoming transfer out of Kerman High School in

Fresno County, who has run for 345 yards, nine touchdowns and a 6.8yard per carry average.

Second-year Bobcat head coach Brent Vigen took Montana State to the national championship game in his first season, but the Bobcats were overwhelmed by peren nial FCS champion North Dakota State.

Vigen states accurately that UCD’s 1-3 record is deceptive.

“This is the same team that was a preseason top 25,” he said.

“They’ve been in all those games. They’re good, they’re dangerous and their backs are against the wall. Dan Hawkins has brought stability and success to that program. I truly

respect his success as a head coach.”

Oddly, when Hawkins moved from tremendous success at Boise State to take the head job at Colorado in 2006, his very first game was against Montana State, which shocked the Buffs, 19-10.

That was the same year the Aggies first played Montana State and came away with an unexpect edly lopsided 45-0 win.

Since then, though, Montana State has won six straight in the series, including a payback 77-37

rout at UC Davis Health Stadium in 2014.

The two have not met since a 27-17 Montana State victory in 2019.

— Contact Bob Dun ning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

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Playoff talk is alive and well for UCD

Bids for the 24-team Football Championship Subdivision playoff don’t go out until November 20, but already the UC Davis football team is facing a do-or-die playoff situation as they head to Bozeman for a Big Sky battle Saturday night with the No. 4 Montana State Bobcats.

Game time in sold-out 20,767-seat Bobcat Stadium is 7:15 p.m. (PDT).

The game will be nationally televised by ESPNU, though many Aggie fans pre fer to listen to the voice of the Aggies, Scott Marsh and color analyst Doug Kelly, on 1140 AM.

Football coaches set all sorts of goals at the start of the season, some of them hav ing to do with academics and others with every player performing to his potential.

But there is a scoreboard, after all, and other goals, top to bottom, include a

winning season, a conference champion ship, a trip to the playoffs and ultimately, a national championship.

“This is a tough stretch, but our guys are certainly up for it,” said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins. “In the Big Sky you have a lot of teams that want to win national championships. Montana State is one of those. They’re well-coached, have great crowds, have launched an NIL program and they expect to win. They

have one of the great programs in the country, they recruit nationally and they’re a good measuring stick.”

The Aggies have received a playoff bid in two of the last four years, including last season when they lost to South Dakota State in the first round.

In 2018, they advanced to the quarterfi nals before a heartbreaking last-second loss to Eastern Washington ended a run that many observers felt might lead to a championship appearance in Frisco, Texas.

The reason for playoff talk so early in the 2022 campaign is that the Aggies are 1-3 after an especially rugged early-season schedule that includes close losses to No. 2 South Dakota State and No. 7 Weber State, plus a 34-13 setback against FBS California.

A fourth loss might not be fatal, given that the Big Sky earned a record five playoff bids last fall, but the margin of

error would be virtually nonexistent.

On the flip side, a win over the No. 4 team in the country, on the road, would move UC Davis back into the thick of the playoff conversation.

That, plus the fact the schedule appears to ease up a bit with games against Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Cal Poly, Idaho State and Idaho, before a crucial season-ending showdown with No. 5 Sacramento State.

Montana State is 3-1 after a dramatic comeback produced a 38-35 win at Eastern Washington last Saturday in the Big Sky opener for both schools.

The Bobcats opened with wins over McNeese State, 40-17, and Morehead State, 63-13, before being routed, 68-28, by Oregon State.

Delta league FielD Hockey

Blue Devils hit the road to face the Thundering Herd

By Mike BUSh Enterprise sports editor

Three of the Davis High football team’s remaining Delta League games are on the road.

The first one is tonight.

Davis (0-2 in the Delta League, 2-4) will play at Elk Grove (1-0 in the DL, 2-3). Game time is scheduled at 7:15 p.m.

“They are the more traditional run-heavy,” said Davis head coach Nick Garratt of Elk Grove, which is averaging 30.4 points per game. “They center around their guard and their center. They try to set the tone right at the line of scrimmage.”

Garratt feels tonight’s game could be decided in the trenches.

“A great push and that’s where they get the momentum from,” said Garratt of the Thundering Herd’s linemen. “I think, for both sides, it will be a great competition, between Elk Grove and us.”

Davis linemen who have started throughout the bulk of the season are Nick Davis, Jevon Green, Ben Martin, Ethan Christian Lichetenhan, Howie Smith, Giovanni Ruiz and Damien Osborne.

“He’s had a fantastic season,” said Garratt of Ruiz, a junior center who checks in at 6-foot-3 and 275 pounds. “He’s probably one of our strongest.”

Garratt also spoke highly of Smith and Green.

“Both of those two guys are peas in a pod,” said Garratt of Smith and “They are able to communicate. They work really well together.”

Davis will look to counter the Thundering Herd’s rushing game with running backs Jude Vaughn and Cole Broussard. Vaughn sat out the Blue Devils’ home coming game against Cosumnes Oaks on Sept. 23 with a pulled left hamstring he sustained against Franklin in the league opener on Sept. 16. Broussard made his first start against Cosumnes Oaks.

After tonight’s game, Davis has a league bye next week.

Then the Blue Devils return to action Friday, Oct. 14, when they host Sheldon (1-1 in the Delta, 4-2). That will be Davis’ last regular season home game of the season.

Then Davis closes out the regular season against Pleasant Grove (0-1, 0-5) at Sheldon on Oct. 21, and at Jesuit (2-0, 5-0) on Saturday, Oct. 29.

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— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise.net.

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Davis shuts out Red Bluff

By ReBeCCa WaSik Enterprise correspondent

The Davis High girls field hockey team continues to dominate in Eastern Athletic League play this season.

Davis wasted little time in beating Red Bluff’s squad, 6-0, at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Tuesday.

The win gives Davis (4-0 in the EAL, 5-2) its third win in a row. The Blue Devils remain tied for second place with Pleasant Valley (4-0 in the EAL). Chico remains in first place at 5-0 and 6-1. Red Bluff drops to 0-2.

“We were playing our style of play in the first half, but not finishing in the goal like we could have,” said Davis head coach Beth Hogan. “We were happy with the second half perfor mance and the imple mentation of the tactical aspects we focus on.”

Throughout the majority of the game, DHS was able to keep the ball on their half of the field, allowing few shots to the Spartans.

All of Blue Devils’ goals were scored by different players.

At the 1:08 mark in the first quarter, Mia Williams got the Blue Devils on the board with a goal, assisted by

Going into the second quarter, DHS held a slim 1-0 lead over the Spartans.

Both the Blue Devils and the Spartans were scoreless in the second quarter.

With 11:41 left in the third quarter, Isabella Gonfioti found the back of the net with an assist from Ellie Blosch. That improved Davis’ lead to 2-0.

Hannah Guyer added

another goal to the Blue Devils’ tally with 2:11 left in the third quarter. Wil liams was credited with an assist on the play. That made the score 3-0.

The Blue Devils doubled their score in the final quarter to close out the game.

Brayton sunk a goal at the 8:18 mark with an assist from Evelyn Soller.

At 7:02, Aurora Hogan found the back of the net and Soller collected her second assist of the night.

Soller wrapped up her strong fourth quarter with a goal of her own with one minute left in the game. Mary Bingle assisted on the play.

“Evelyn Soller really stepped up in different roles tonight,” said Davis assistant coach Malia Fujisawa. “She is a very quick learner and observer of the style of play.”

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Davis midfielder Isabella Ginfioti (3) eyes the ball along with a Red Bluff player in Tuesday’s EAL game at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. To view more photos of the game, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

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Blue Devil forward Hannah Guyer (29) battles for possession of the ball with a Spartan player. Emma Brayton.

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Davis defensive lineman Giovanni Ruiz (56) goes up in the air to block a pass thrown by Cosumnes Oaks quarterback Kam Totten (6) on Sept. 23.