Clinical lab scientist Bryan Dzebkowski works with COVID-19 test samples in a lab at the Sonoma County Department of Public Health on June 8, 2021.
Dzebkowski was hired by the department specifically to work with COVID-19 tests.
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A two-year search for a labo ratory director.
Sixty-three retirements or resignations of county public health leaders since the COVID19 pandemic began.
More than 100 current public health nursing vacancies.
It’s evident that California’s public health workforce is tired, strained and under-resourced after a prolonged response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but
what’s not clear is exactly how hamstrung it has become — and how prepared it is for a future emergency. The pandemic brought an unprecedented influx of money to public health and a $300 million annual state budget commitment, but whether the cash is enough to make up for long-time short ages is uncertain.
“It’s been a long time since anyone has paid attention to (public health),” Long Beach Health and Human Services Director Kelly Colopy said.
“Our funding is supposed to be about planning for future emer gencies, but there’s no money to respond until after it’s hap pened.”
To address the long-term workforce and infrastructure needs, a coalition of local health departments has been calling on the state to perform a com prehensive workforce study to make recommendations for adequate resources. The Legis lature approved a measure that would have required the Cali fornia Department of Public
Health to do just that, but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed it in Sep tember, citing increased invest ments already made in public health during this budget cycle.
“I believe we should turn our focus to utilizing the resources received in the Budget for this transformation, which calls for immediate action on recruit ment and hiring to support a modern and innovative public health system,” Newsom’s veto message states. Many of his see HeaLtH, Page a6
The teachers of the DJUSD have lost zero resolve in their struggle for higher wages since the last School Board meeting. While important updates of happenings around the district were given at the Thursday gathering, the wage issue loomed over all like rain cloud.
Prior to the meeting, more than 200 certificated and classified staff mem bers of the DTA and CSEA met at Central Park. They marched together to the meeting at the Community Chambers and continued to advocate for not only higher wages, but the best for the DJUSD students.
The public comment sec tion of the meeting was filled with discontented DJUSD teachers who con tinuing to push for increased wages. They came prepared with various facts, statistics and reasons why their wages should increase. From attracting and retaining quality edu cators to comparing DJUSD wages to neighbor ing districts as well as struggling to afford to live where they work, the teach ers let their voices be heard.
“I too have the same question as the gentleman a couple weeks ago,” said California Employee Asso ciation President, Sande Royval. “‘When is a good time to make historic
moves on our wages and benefits?’ It’s now. The storm is here and we’re all feeling it.
“Now’s not the time to be conservative. We hear about fiscal solvency, and where’s ours? How do we find fiscal solvency working for DJUSD? Districts around us have a higher ADA, their LCAP is differ ent, we hear that all the time. Davis is always going to be in the situation we’re in. I’ve lived here for 62 years in this affluent dis trict. We’re always going to be affluent unless the uni versity crumbles and the housing markets fail. We’re going to have the same
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Nearly five months have passed since UC Davis student Trisha Nicole Yasay died of injuries sustained in an on-campus collision with a garbage truck.
Last week, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office released an autopsy report that says blunt-force injuries caused Yasay’s May 25 death.
The results of the police investiga tion into the fatal collision, however, have yet to be released. UCD police initially responded to the crash scene but turned over the probe to the Davis Police Department’s Multidis ciplinary Accident Investigation Team because of the advanced tech nology available to that unit.
MAIT officers completed their report in late August and, because it involved a death, forwarded the mat ter over to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office to determine whether anyone should face criminal liability for Yasay’s death.
“We have the case and it’s under review,” Chief Deputy District Attor ney Jonathan Raven confirmed Fri day, adding that his office has been in see
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One week after the Davis City Council approved spending $380,000 for a pilot Downtown Streets Team program, the county Board of Supervisors will consider a matching grant.
That match — which would come out of county American Rescue Plan funds — would extend the pilot project from one year to two. County supervisors will consider the proposal at their meeting on Tuesday.
Last Tuesday, the City Council unanimously
approved the project and authorized both cannabis community benefit funds as well as ARP dollars to fund it.
A Downtown Streets Team has been a priority for the Davis Downtown Business Association, as it serves multiple purposes, from the short-term (beautifying downtown) to the longterm (address ing homelessness).
The program utilizes a volunteer work model under which teams of unhoused residents clean up high-visibility areas of downtown and, in exchange, receive case
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Theother day, with Election Day fast approaching, we were discussing some of things the California Elections Code sternly forbids, just in case anyone is planning to mess with our little experiment in democ racy.
Apparently, there are two classes of crime here.
“Warning: Electioneering Pro hibited!” on Page 70 of the Official Voter Information Guide lists all sorts of things you should not do within 100 feet of a polling place or a ballot drop box.
“Warning: Corrupting the Vot ing Process is Prohibited!” on Page 71, lists 17 more activities that are prohibited without regard for how close you are to a polling place or ballot drop box.
Violations to the former “Can lead to fines and/or imprison ment,” while violations to the lat ter are “Subject to fine and/or imprisonment.”
So, while one can “lead to” pun ishment, the other is merely “sub ject to” punishment. Plus one has
“fines” and the other has just a singular “fine.”
Whether there is a legal distinc tion in this language is uncertain, but it’s more likely the Secretary of State’s office ran out of money and failed to hire a proofreader. Either that or the proofreader they did hire got so overwhelmed by all the exclamation points that he or she walked off the job before finishing with pages 70 and 71.
“DO NOT provide any sort of compensation or bribery to, in any fashion or by any means induce or attempt to induce, a person to vote or refrain from voting.”
In other words, you can’t say to your 18-year-old high school
senior, “Get off the couch and go vote. Your future depends on it. We’ll take you to Cane’s after ward.”
“DO NOT attempt to vote or aid another to vote when not entitled to vote.”
Here’s where a proofreader might come in. This sen tence makes it sound that if you are entitled to vote it’s OK for you to aid another to vote. I don’t think that’s correct.
“DO NOT obstruct ingress, egress.”
Or egrets.
“DO NOT attempt to ascertain how a voter voted their ballot.”
You mean they’ll throw me in the slammer if, over dinner as the election results start rolling in, I ask my Sweetheart how she voted for governor of California?
“DO NOT possess or arrange for someone to possess a firearm in the immediate vicinity of a polling place, with some exceptions.”
There are exceptions to this rule? So, I can’t ask my wife how
she voted, but it might be OK to arrange for someone to possess a firearm where people are voting?
“DO NOT tamper or interfere with a copy of the results of votes cast.”
Which basically means do not line the bird cage with The Davis Enterprise if the City Council elec tion results are on the front page.
“DO NOT coerce or deceive a person who cannot read or an elder into voting for or against a candidate or measure contrary to their intent.”
What does being an “elder” have to do with this? Why not just say “Do not deceive anyone into vot ing for or against a candidate or measure contrary to their intent?”
Then again, trying to ascertain a voter’s intent is probably illegal, too.
“DO NOT alter the returns of an election.”
Does that apply to United States senators and former presidents as well?
— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
The Artery presents “Cuteware Celebration,” featuring the creations of Heidi Bekebrede, from Oct. 28 to Nov. 20. The show will include Cuteware vases, bowls, cookie jars, and paintings, as well as Heidi’s unique acrylic paintings which incorpo rate Cuteware ceramic ele ments.
Bekebrede is known for her tiny ceramic objects which embrace colorful nature birds, butterflies, flowers, sunshine and ador able animals. For this show she also includes several larger, more complicated Cuteware creations. These were thrown in parts, then stacked and assembled.
The 19 paintings in the show are playful and vibrant. They echo Beke
brede’s earliest work at The Artery (member since 1988), which also com bined painting and ceram ics. You won’t want to miss the musical reception on Veteran’s Day, Friday, Nov. 11. Bekebrede will be sing ing original songs about her work, the painting pro cess and The Artery. Dianna Craig and Nick Carvajal will back up Heidi with voice and guitars.
The Artery, at 207 G St. in downtown Davis, is open seven days a week; Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The gallery will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 11 for the reception of “Cuteware Cel ebration.” This coincides with the Davis Second Fri day ArtAbout.
The Valley Oak Chapter of the Embroi derer’s Guild of Amer ica will host a Zoom presentation by April Sproule, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2.
Sproule is a nation ally regarded textile art ist and lecturer who will discuss “The Myth of Creative Genius.” She will dispel the myth that creativity requires an inborn talent and offer insights into tap ping into one’s own cre ativity.
To join the Zoom list, contact Linda Wayne at laws999@gmail.com by Oct. 26.
Davis Community Church will offer some spooky fun over the Halloween weekend. Tours of the historic church will include a brew of surprises cooked up by the church’s scouting pro grams. Tour the secret chambers of DCC from the pipe organ in the sanctuary to the hidden vault.
The church plans to have good fun with its historic roots and to raise funds to support its music program. The tours will be Friday, Oct. 28, and Saturday, Oct. 29, from 5 to 9 p.m. Signups are avail able on the church web site at dccpres.org/ events. Enter the church through the main entrance on Fourth Street, close to the corner of Fourth and C streets in down town Davis. The sug gested donation is $10.
Questions are welcome. Call the church office at 530-753-2894.
Kristin Weivoda has been named chief of emergency services for Yolo County.
Weivoda, who began working for the county in 2013, will lead the Office of Emergency Services, Yolo County Administrator Gerardo Pinedo announced Thurs day.
“On behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors, I am delighted to con gratulate Kristin on her appoint ment by the county administrative officer, Gerardo Pinedo,” said Yolo County Supervisor Angel Barajas, who chairs the Board of Supervi sors.
“Kristin's leadership proved
critical for Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she's committed to leading our Office of Emergency Services.”
Weivoda has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia Southern Univer sity. She is a California Office of Emergency Services Level III cre dentialed branch chief and a FEMA certified ICS Instructor.
She was a recipient of the 2020 CSAC Circle of Service Award, the California Emergency Medical Ser vices (EMS) Administrator of the Year in 2020, and a 2021 Yolo County SPIRIT Award winner in the category of service.
“I'm a passionate public servant and a collaborative leader who strives to empower communities to have greater resiliency. I believe in
a holistic approach to emergency management by bringing all stake holders together to tackle obsta cles,” said Weivoda. “I look forward to serving the residents of Yolo County, our cities, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, and our local jurisdictions in my new role as chief of emer gency services.”
She accepted a regional director position with American Medical Response in January 2022.
Weivoda worked as a firefighter paramedic and flight paramedic before joining Yolo County in 2013 as the county’s EMS and emer gency preparedness administrator.
“I am very excited to have Ms. Weivoda lead the county’s Office of Emergency Services. Ms. Weivoda is highly skilled in emergency operations, and she has a strong track record of collaborating with our community partners. I am con fident that Ms. Weivoda will strengthen the county’s partner ships with all cities, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, CalOES, and our federal agencies,” said Pinedo.
— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at aternus@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.
WOODLAND — After a two-year hiatus The Cali fornia Agriculture Museum is pleased to present Trac tors & Brews. The party begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, with a ceremonial engine roar.
The museum gallery will be transformed into a tra ditional-style watering hole with sing-a-long and dance music from all eras, as well as good old classic rock ’n’ roll from local band Face Down. Guests can roam the aisles and admire one of the rarest most unique tractor collections in the world while also checking out a variety of local cuisine and sampling brews, wines and more from a number of the finest local vendors in our region.
The event will have a number of local food ven dors on site serving up tasty bites for the crowd to pur chase and enjoy as they enjoy free samples of a variety of brews and wines.
Local favorite, Blue Note Brewing Company is just one of many brews.
If you’re more of a wine person; Heringer Estates
and Seka Hills will also be here to serve up a variety of their award-winning vinos. If you’re more of maybe a whiskey person; you’re cov ered there, too. You do not want to miss out on the free whiskey tasting. This year, organizers have hand selected and purchased a barrel of Sonoma Distilling Co. Whiskey.
There will be plenty of food, drink and activities for even the youngest trac tor enthusiasts.
Since 1997, the Califor nia Agriculture Museum has become home to
the nation’s most unique collection of tractors and
agricultural artifacts — telling the history of farmto-fork.
The museum is dedi cated to enhancing the understanding and appre ciation of California’s rich cultural heritage through the presentation of its col lection and rotating exhib its. The core collection was established by Fred C. Heidrick Senior and con sists of over 200 pieces of rare tractors, harvesters, and other artifacts that tell the California story.
The museum values pro tecting and preserving the collection while educating people of all ages. It has
expanded educational opportunities that high light the spirit of coopera tion and entrepreneurism that helped fuel the sci ences, mechanization, and experimentation that had its beginnings from the mission movement in the 1700s and from early Cali fornia pioneers in the 1800s.
The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at the California Agriculture Museum, 1958 Hays Lane in Woodland.
Event proceeds benefit the museum. Tickets are on sale for $10, online at www. CaliforniaAgMusuem.org, in house or by phone.
n Capay Valley Vision will host the 21st annual Taste of Capay from 1 to 5 p.m. at Luna Lavender Farms, 7086 County Road 49 in Guinda. Taste of Capay is a longstand ing event in the Capay Valley and meant to cele brate the bounty of food grown in the community. The event will feature a multi-course dinner, music, silent auction and a live auction during din ner. Tickets for the event are available at https:// toc_2022.eventbrite. com. Each ticket is $75, and a table for eight guests is $560.
n The California Agri culture Museum presents Tractors & Brews, featur ing music, local food ven dors, and brews, whiskey and wine. The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. at the California Agriculture Museum, 1958 Hays Lane in Woodland. Event proceeds benefit the museum. Tickets are on sale for $10, online at www.CaliforniaAgMu suem.org, in house or by phone.
n Davis Community Church will offer some spooky fun with tours of the historic church, including a brew of sur prises cooked up by the church’s scouting pro grams. Tour the secret chambers of DCC from the pipe organ in the sanctuary to the hidden vault. The tours will be from 5 to 9 p.m. on both days. Signups are avail able on the church web site at dccpres.org/ events. Enter the church through the main entrance on Fourth Street. The suggested donation is $10. Call the church office with ques tions at 530-753-2894.
n Sharon Kirkpatrick will lead an Audubon field trip to Lake Solano County Park. Potential bird sightings in this riparian, creek habitat include osprey, phaino pepla and wood duck.
Participants will meet at Lake Solano County Park when it opens at 8 a.m. All levels of birders are welcome. Participants are expected to be vacci nated against COVID-19. Drivers and passengers will decide whether masks are required while in the vehicles. For infor mation and reservations, go to the group’s web sites, yoloaudubon. org or facebook.com/ yoloaudubonsociety.
n A weekend of Zom bie activities begin with Zombie Paintball from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Davis Paintball, 24998 County Road 102 in Davis. Zombie Paintball features the use of green paint in a game of zom bies vs. humans. Humans who get hit with green paint join the undead ranks. Can you survive the attack? Zombie Paintball is one of the very few features with a cost associated. Davis Paintball’s rules and charges apply.
n The Zombie Bike Ride’s family-friendly Pre-Bike Brew Party, kicks off at Sudwerk Brewing Co. from 5 to 8 p.m. at 2001 Second St.
Meet like-minded zom bie friends, get a bite to eat together and enjoy brews, boos and plenty of Halloween candy at one of Davis’ most popular hangouts — complete with a mini pumpkin patch and carved pump kins. Don’t miss the opportunity to take pho tographs with profes sional zombie actors on scene, brought to you by
the Sacramento Zombie Club.
n More than 100 local and regional organiza tions have come together to surprise families and friends with a mon strously large Halloween present from noon to 3:30 p.m.; the fourth annual, family-friendly Zombie Bike Ride. Pedal along the 12-mile Davis Bike Loop (visit the web site for event map): Expect more than 10 entertainment stations, several zombie bike mechanics, food and drink vendors, and opportunities for prizes for best costumes. Enter tainment stations range from interactive oppor tunities — such as engag ing with local Davis groups like the robotics team (Citrus Circuits) and the Davis Fencing Academy — to encoun tering epic spectacles — such as zombies on stilts, an entire Halloween marching band, a Michael Jackson’s Thriller performance and a huge party on UC Davis Campus with DJ Mellax.
n Zombie-themed fes tivities continue with the Zombie Mash afterparty from 4 to 6 p.m. at E Street Plaza (228 E St.), sponsored by the Davis Downtown Business Association. Partygoers can enjoy music by DJ Duc Jones as well as pro fessional fire dancers from Fire University.
n The Zombie week end concludes with Davis comedian and MTV per sonality Brent Pella at the Zombie Bike Ride Comedy Show and Fund raiser from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge, 415 Second St. in downtown Davis. Tickets are $100 each, and pro ceeds will go to Norcal Trykers and The Bike Campaign.
The Valley Oak Chap ter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America will host a Zoom presenta tion by April Sproule, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. Sproule is a nationally regarded textile artist and lecturer who will dis cuss “The Myth of Cre ative Genius.” To join the Zoom list, contact Linda Wayne at laws999@ gmail.com by Oct. 26.
n Yolo Basin Founda tion’s Flyway Nights speaker series is back. The programs will begin at 7 p.m. via Zoom and begin with a presentation by Cliff Feldheim of Cal Trout called “Fins and Feathers: Conserving Salmon and Birds through Habitat Resto ration, Enhancement and Management.” A $10 donation to support the Foundation’s wetland education programs is suggested. To register, visit www.yolobasin.org/ flywaynights or call Yolo Basin Foundation at 530-757-3780.
n The Avid Reader will host Poetry Night, featuring Carmen Micsa, Veronica Jarboe and Andres Naffis-Sahely, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The bookstore is at at 617 Second St. in downtown Davis. Find detailed information at www. avidreaderbooks.com.
Friends of Meals on Wheels is excited to announce the return of its signature event, Dickens in the Valley, a holiday home tour, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3.
Start off the holidays by touring six beautiful Wood land-area homes all decked out for the season. There’s something for everyone on this tour: from classic Vic torian (The Hohenwarter home at 458 First St.), midcentury modern (The Smith home at 51 Pershing Ave.), 1970s ranch (The Stille home at 200 Los Robles Way and the Mast home at 313 Los Robles), to fresh and modern (the Young home at 13 Barth Court and the Daugherty home at 17 Barth).
Proceeds will benefit Friends of Meals on Wheels, which supports Meals on Wheels Yolo through fundraising events. In the past year, the Friends have donated more than $40,000 to purchase new hot-and-cold bags to deliver food to area seniors and a new warming table for the Davis site. Accord ing to executive director Joy Cohan, “Senior food
insecurity and isolation in Yolo County have risen dra matically since the pan demic’s onset, and food and fuel inflation are intensify ing the needs for assistance for thousands of aging adults, including in rural areas.
Support for terrific events such as Friends of Meals on Wheels’ Dickens in the Val ley holiday home tours assists with overcoming obstacles to caring for the
seniors of our community.”
Tickets for the Holiday Home Tour are available in advance for $30 per person at the following Woodland businesses: Corner Drug at 602 Main St., Embellish Décor & Gifts at 540 Main St. or online at https:// 2022fomowdickens. eventbrite.com.
On the day of the event, tickets will be $35 at the event headquarters, 313 Los Robles Way.
With fall arriving, Yolo Basin Foundation’s Fly way Nights speaker series is back on Thursday, Nov. 3. The programs will begin at 7 p.m. via Zoom and begin with a presen tation by Cliff Feldheim of CalTrout called “Fins and Feathers: Conserving Salmon and Birds through Habitat Restora tion, Enhancement and Management.”
CalTrout launched the Fish Food on Floodplain Farm Fields project in 2017, working with farm ers and water suppliers to pioneer new practices to help recover fish populations in the greater Sacra mento Valley by reconnecting flood plain-derived wetland food webs to the Sacramento River. Feldheim will present on results from the Fish Food on Floodplain Farm Fields project, and discuss the planned expansion to regions of the Delta, Suisun Marsh and San Joaquin Valley. He will also share the efforts to incorporate bird
conservation into salmon habitat projects from the rivers and estuaries of the North Coast to Southern Cali fornia.
After five field seasons, flooding 30,000 acres of rice fields and 5,000 acres of managed wetlands, the proj ect has shown that this science-based approach has the potential to boost the depleted food resources in Central Valley rivers and help recover endan gered fish populations. In addition to
benefiting fish, studies have shown that support ing fish food productions can provide habitat for a variety of bird species, complement traditionally winter flooded rice, and may provide spring and summer water for Califor nia’s declining breeding duck populations.
Flyway Nights is a monthly speaker series highlighting environmen tal issues, natural history of Northern California, and current research top ics in conservation. Yolo Basin Foundation hosts Flyway Nights the first Thursday of the month from November to April through virtual presentations. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link to the presentation.
A $10 donation to support the Foundation’s wetland education pro grams is suggested. To register, visit www.yolobasin.org/flywaynights or call Yolo Basin Foundation at 530757-3780.
Nov. 12, 1945 — Sept. 27, 2022
Grace Fuller, 76, of Davis passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, surrounded by her family.
Grace was born in Mont clair, N.J.,to Isabella Lomenzo and Walter Cuneo. She grew up in the Los Angeles area, where she attended Franklin High School. She was a lifelong learner and studied at Pas adena City College, Glen dale City College, CSU Los Angeles and UNLV.
Grace worked as a book keeper and controller for various companies. For many years she served as Head Bookkeeper for the Musicians’ Credit Union in Hollywood, working along side groundbreaking musi cians.
Grace enjoyed traveling, going to museums, dining out, shopping and going to the movies. Her favorites were romantic comedies and many older shows from the 1950s and ’60s. She loved Elvis and could
watch the “Sound of Music” on repeat.
Grace lived most of her life in South ern Cali fornia but moved to Davis two years ago to be near family.
Grace was predeceased by her mother Isabella Lomenzo Hulce. She is sur vived by her daughter, Con stance Fuller, son-in-law William Henriquez, and granddaughter Marissa Henriquez.
Services will begin at noon Friday, Oct. 28, at Forest Lawn Glendale, when Grace will be laid to rest near her mother in the Garden of Ascension.
Samuel Ernest Ransdell, 57, of Davis passed away on Oct. 5, 2022, from acciden tal head trauma that exac erbated underlying medical conditions. His last written words were “God is Love.”
His brother, Fred, and nephew, Jacob, were with him during his last moments at Mercy San Juan.
He was predeceased by his beloved, Amy Med ich, father Dr. James F. Ransdell and mother Wanda Lee Ransdell. He left behind sisters Trinka Macmurrtaugh and Faye May, brothers Fred M.
Sam’s ashes will be scat tered at the Davis Ceme tery, in a private family ceremony later this week. To honor Sam’s memory, there will be a private fam ily celebration of life this weekend.
Acraft coffee and beer venue may open on Olive Drive as soon as April.
Work should begin soon for Volt Coffee, Tea and Taps on a half-acre site at 1123 Olive Drive. Rob Salazar owns Tax Solu tions Group on the prop erty. About 2,000 square feet of the building will become a coffeehouse and taproom.
He partnered with Quentin Stone and Jac queline Siefker to open the new concept. It will include two 24-foot food trailers, lots of outside seating and, of course, cornhole.
One trailer has a pizza oven for flatbreads they will sell year-round. The second trailer has a full kitchen, and will feature a rotation of foods prepared by local chefs. Salazar said it’s a chance for local res taurants to promote their specialties.
The location is close to a lot of student housing. Salazar wants to create a space like you’d find in Oregon, where community members gather casually for local coffee, beer and bites. It will be open for coffee every day from 6 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m., and expand into a beer garden
Thursdays through Satur days, with taps running from 4 till 10 or 11 p.m.
Late Thursday, Thai Nakorn announced it plans to close. Its last day will be Sunday, Oct. 30.
In a social media post, it said, “It has been almost 20 years since we first shared our food and dreams with you all. So naturally, it feels weird to say that we have decided to close our doors.”
As they look to retire, the owners thanked their loyal patrons. “Although we are excited for our next adventure, we can’t help but feel a little sad, because of all the great memories and relationships we’ve built during our time here. … We will truly miss serv ing the Davis community.”
They reminded custom ers to use their gift cards by Oct. 30. The Thai res taurant at 424 G St. is open for dinner on
Wednesdays and Thursdays (5 to 8:30 p.m.), and for lunch and dinner Fridays through Sundays (noon to 3 p.m., and 5 to 8:30 p.m.)
Davis Coworking announced Thursday that it will close its University Mall location on Nov. 3.
In a Facebook post, owner Do Tromp said, “I received notice from Brix mor, the owners of the University Mall building, that Davis Coworking has to move out (by) early November. … much sooner than expected.”
She signed a lease for a new spot at 720 Olive Drive. She hopes to have it open on Monday, Nov. 7, offering a bike people can use to pedal downtown for lunch.
“This new location is right by Dutch Bros Cof fee, Rocknasium and The Smart Axe Davis,” she said, touting the ax-throwing business’ new beer offer ings from Movement Brewing Co. of Sacra mento.
Tromp founded Davis Coworking in 2019 in Uni versity Mall, above Fluffy Donuts. It has a second space in the lower level of
International House, Davis. Facilities offer desks with monitors, high-speed Wi-Fi, a conference room for up to eight people, printer, coffee, tea and parking. It’s a place to get focused work done, away from the distractions of home. Visit https://www. davis-coworking.com/.
I presume that means the same for other U-Mall tenants, or at least the ones in that portion of the mall.
Sak Sopheak, owner of Fluffy Donuts, said Friday that he hasn't heard an update from the property manager. His lease is month-to-month. I hope to have more details in next week’s column.
The honey-tasting room and gift shop The Hive recently added an eatery. Along with mead, beer and honey treats, its serves food Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1221 Harter Ave. in Woodland.
Z Specialty Foods opened The Hive in 2021. The new kitchen focuses on local, seasonal ingredi ents, often highlighting the more than 30 varieties of regional honey Z dis tributes. Dishes include teriyaki chicken skewers, mac and cheese, seasonal
panini, salads, and a grilled cheese sandwiches served with tomato soup.
There’s also mezza and cheese boards, nuts, focac cia, elote, soup and des serts.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 4 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. Events often include live music. There are discounts during its happy hour, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. It plans a one-year anniversary party on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visit https://zspecialtyfood. com/the-hive-in-wood land-2/.
You may have noticed that I have a new head shot. After nine years with the same column mug, it was time. This is the fourth one since I started writing Comings & Goings in 2001. When I was an editor at The Enterprise (1998-2008), I asked col umnists get a new head shot at least every decade. I’ve been a freelancer for the paper since 2008, and some column mugs have not changed since.
Thanks to Stewart Sav age, a Davis photographer, web designer and allaround great guy, for the photo. He’s working on a
collection of black-andwhite portraits called “The Chair,” capturing images of local personalities in his studio’s wing-back chair. I was a recent model, posing for various shots with newspapers, The Enter prise’s antique Underwood typewriter and my report er’s notebook. Once his photo collection is com plete, he hopes to have an art show for the series. To see some early images from the collection, visit https://www.stewartsav age.com/project/thechair/.
Missed a column? Won dering when a new busi ness is opening? Check my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at https://bit. ly/DavisBusinesses.
— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sun days. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Ins tagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email her at wendyedit@gmail. com
SACRAMENTO — After a nationwide search, the Sacramento Region Com munity Foundation (Foun dation) today announced the selection of Kerry Wood as its next Chief Executive Officer. Wood currently serves as the Foundation’s Chief Market ing & Donor Engagement Officer and will assume her new position on Monday, Oct. 31. Wood succeeds the current CEO, Linda Beech Cutler, who announced her retirement plans in March 2022. Cutler will serve as an advisor to Wood and the Foundation through the end of the year.
“Kerry is a dynamic and thoughtful leader who is exactly the right leader for this moment and phase of the Foundation’s lifecycle,” said Kate Stille, Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “Her stellar experience building phil anthropic resources — grounded in trust and authentic relationships with diverse stakeholders
— exten sive com munity founda tion knowl edge, deep under standing of the chal lenges and opportunities facing our region, passion for serving the capital area and the nonprofit commu nity, and her strategic and collaborative leadership style reflect an ideal combi nation to elevate the Foun dation in every way.”
As a key member of the Foundation’s leadership team for the past five years, Wood has led all aspects of philanthropic engagement to ensure a lasting source of funds for the benefit of the Sacramento region.
Before joining the Founda tion, she was Director of Advancement for the Crocker Art Museum, Vice President of Resource Development and Com munications for the Foun
dation for California Community Colleges, Executive Director of the Network for California Community College Foun dations, and Director at Mercy Foundation.
Throughout her 25 years of nonprofit leadership expe rience, Wood has provided innovative solutions to community issues, pro gressive leadership to grow the capacity and impact of the organizations she has served, and strategic and operational success born of creativity, collaboration, consensus building, and a results-oriented approach.
Born, raised, and educated in the region, Wood lives in Sacramento.
The CEO Search Com mittee was co-chaired by Kate Stille and Kathy McKim and comprised of other members of the Foundation Board, includ ing Gary Maisel, Marty Steiner, Gary Strong, Scott Syphax, and Cassandra Walker Pye. For a full list of the Foundation Board, visit www.sacregcf.org/ board.
Cathleen Gorham, SVP and operations administra tor for First Northern Bank announced that Deborah Mitchell has accepted the position of vice president/ market manager for Placer and Sacramento Counties.
Mitchell’s 35-plus years’ experience in the financialservices industry includes leadership, financial admin istration, retail banking, and risk and internal audit man agement. Prior to joining First Northern Bank, she served as senior operations leader for U.S. Bank, man aging operations leaders and market-operations analysts in 294 retail branches in the Pacific Northwest.
In her new role, Mitchell will work to ensure branch consistency with training, procedures, goals, perfor mance standards, staff development and coaching for the Bank’s branches in Auburn, Roseville, Rancho Cordova, Sacramento and
West Sacramento.
She volunteers at United Way, Red Cross, Junior Achievement and Colfax Green Machine, which sup ports and funds youth aca demics, sports and community projects in Colfax and its outlying areas. She is a native of Placer County and currently lives in Colfax with her husband. She enjoys the
outdoors, scuba, trav eling and spending time with her five grown chil dren.
Her office is in the Bank’s Auburn Financial Center.
vetoes from this session cited lower-than-expected tax revenues.
In addition to the $300 million in ongoing funding, $200 million of which is for local health departments, the budget included $75.6 million over three years to bolster work force training programs.
However, public health leaders across the state say while they’re grateful for the influx of cash, they already know it’s not enough for sustained improvement.
“It takes time and con tinuous funding to build up and maintain the public health workforce,” said Donna Ferguson, labora tory director at the Mon terey County Health Department. “It took over 20 years of decreasing fund ing to get where we’re at now. It will take a decade or more to ramp up staffing.”
Ferguson said half of her laboratory staff are student interns or temporary work ers paid for with emergency COVID-19 funds. At the beginning of the pandemic, she had three microbiolo gists and three assistants, all of whom could only collec tively process 20 COVID-19 tests a day. It was an entire year before capacity could be ramped up to 2,000 tests per day with more advanced equipment and six more lab assistants. The one-time workforce money from the state will let her keep two of the temporary workers for the next three years.
The problem is, without a statewide assessment of public health to establish baseline operational costs and resource gaps, funding for the safety net and emer gency response system will likely return to the usual boom-and-bust cycle. In the decade following the 2008 recession, state fund ing for public health dropped 64% and remained stagnant until the pandemic led to
an infusion of $12.3 billion.
Emergency preparedness and response funding also decreased by 19.5% between 2007 and 2019.
The $75.6 million allo cated in this year’s state budget, known as Public Health Equity and Readi ness Opportunity, or HERO, funds, are intended to help shore up the local public health workforce, but it must be spent in the next three years.
“I’m not optimistic about using HERO funding to evaluate existing infra structure because the money must be spent fairly rapidly, which doesn’t allow for time to ensure that funds are spent appropri ately,” Ferguson said.
Health care workforce development has been a priority of state officials, professional associations, and health care advocates for years, but public health is routinely left out of the conversation, with most efforts focused on clinical and patient-care jobs.
Common public health department duties include communicable disease response, community immunizations, maternal and child health, chronic disease management, emergency response, and environmental health ser vices such as food and water safety. Local health departments also fre quently serve as the linkage point between clinical care and social services.
Despite the critical ser vices they provide, no one collects comprehensive data on public health workers.
The California Depart ment of Health Care Access and Information collects data and submits annual reports to the Legislature on the workforce and edu cation pipeline for nurses, primary care physicians and specialists, and den tists. These reports often identify geographic areas
with staffing shortages, the percent of the workforce nearing retirement, and other demographic infor mation including commu nity representation and diversity. In addition, the state Board of Registered Nursing has commis sioned researchers at UC San Francisco to conduct workforce studies since 2005, assessing how many nursing students graduate each year, educational pre paredness, wages, job satis faction and policy impacts.
In the past two years, acute clinical care worker shortages have led to pro longed strikes, ballot mea sures and reliance on temporary out-of-state nurses, which the state signed a $1 billion contract for in 2020.
In 2017, a group of health care philanthropies created the California Future Health Workforce Commis sion to assess whether the state’s future employees will be able to meet growing health care demands.
But all of these efforts have placed limited empha sis on the public health workforce. Michelle Gib bons, executive director of the County Health Execu tives Association of Califor nia, said data is needed to determine whether there are adequate resources to fulfill these responsibilities. The association sponsored the bill that Newsom vetoed.
Last year, the California Department of Public Health convened a Future of Public Health Work Group to inform Newsom’s budget allocation. It estimated between 1,900 and 2,300 additional public health employees are needed across the state and that 61% of senior state public health workers are eligible for retirement. Many of the local departments that partici pated in the work group say, however, the report doesn’t provide enough detailed conclusions to craft robust policy.
“It was very high level,”
Gibbons said. “It was a good starting point, but it didn’t say, for example, here’s how many public health labs we should have to keep communities safe.”
Emergency funding dur ing the pandemic allowed health departments to rap idly increase staff, with some doubling in size, but that money is temporary and hasn’t fixed longstanding salary and work force pipeline issues. Officials say highly skilled workers like nurses, micro biologists and epidemiolo gists are increasingly difficult to hire.
In Imperial County, Ramirez said her public health department got $15 million in pandemic fund ing, but she still couldn’t find qualified laboratory staff who were willing to work in public health.
“Although we had money for testing, we couldn’t take on more because we couldn’t recruit staff,” Ramirez said. She also hasn’t been able to hire epidemiologists or pub lic health nurses.
In Long Beach, Colopy said her clinic is operating at half capacity because of a “dire” shortage of public health nurses. The city’s laboratory also hasn’t had a director in more than two years.
One of the biggest factors hampering recruitment and retention is low sala ries. There is no data on the wage gap between public health and private sector jobs, but anecdotally, skilled workers could boost their salaries by $5,000 to $10,000 a year in the pri vate sector. The County Health Executives Associa tion pushed for an addi tional $120 million for public health recruitment and retention bonuses, but the money was not included in the state bud get.
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LCAP and ADA. So, what I’m hearing is maybe this isn’t the place to work? Maybe it’ll be like this all the time. We can pass measures and do all that, but unless you guys (referring to the trustees) are committed to us, to our students and to all the people at DJUSD that make it happen every day, in a couple years this place will be in shambles and you can see it hap pening now.”
At the end of the public comment section, one last teacher approached the podium to speak holding a speaking ticket, but Board President Tom Adams said the teacher did not sign up to speak in a timely matter and closed the public com ment section. This action was met with a roar of disapproval from teachers in the audience. Follow ing that, many left chant ing, “Davis students deserve the best!”
The trustees heard an update on the district’s Multilingual Education Program by Ricardo Perez, the director of Eng lish learner, immersion and world language pro grams. Perez covered the program’s master plan and an English-learner roadmap that included the principles of assetsbased education, intellec tual and meaningful participation, systemic support and alignment and articulation. Perez also included breakdowns
of DJUSD interpreter network services as well as new biliteracy path ways for DJUSD schools. “The road ahead of us is full of innovations in our department,” Perez said. “We’re looking forward to the addition of several new tools and program ming to further support multilingual students and families.
“An exciting develop ment this week is that we began onboarding pro cess with team Elevation. Elevation is a comprehen sive program manage ment platform that organizes all student data, supports critical meeting and monitoring pro cesses, enables accurate reporting and supports instructional planning for multilingual students.” There also came the recognition of the dis trict’s partnership with the Davis Farm to School, which has been around for more than 20 years. The organization’s execu tive director, Meghan Covert-Russel was in attendance and expressed gratitude for the district’s support and collaboration in this simultaneously agricultural, educational and experiential enter prise.
The next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 3 and will take place at the Community Chambers located at 23 Russell Blvd. and will begin at 6:30 p.m.
— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@ mcnaughton.media.
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contact with Yasay’s fam ily.
Raven said prosecutors expect to make a charging decision within the next few weeks.
Authorities said Yasay, a junior majoring in plant science, was riding an electric bicycle to a poetry class at about 8 a.m. when a garbage truck collided with Yasay at Hutchison Drive near Dairy Road.
An ambulance trans ported Yasay to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where the 19-year-old succumbed to multiple traumatic inju ries, according to the autopsy report. The docu ment also noted there were no traces of drugs or alcohol in Yasay’s system.
Davis Police Chief Dar ren Pytel said UCD asked Davis police to assume control of the investiga tion at about 9:20 that morning. Their investiga tors first arrived on scene
about 25 minutes later and began taking photo graphs, interviewing wit nesses and collecting physical evidence.
Investigators also secured footage from two nearby security cameras “that showed what hap pened from different view points,” Pytel said. From there, the team developed an analysis of how the col lision occurred, including a computerized diagram of the incident.
“Even though there was video, the reconstruction was very complex,” Pytel said.
The Davis Police Department plans to pub licly release a summary of its findings. Although col lision reports are confi dential under California law, the involved parties will receive complete cop ies of the investigation report and “can release anything they wish,” Pytel said.
Meanwhile, a wrongfuldeath lawsuit brought by
Yasay’s parents remains pending in Yolo Superior Court.
Reuben and Therese Yasay filed the civil lawsuit on July 18, alleging that “negligence was the legal cause of the fatal injuries” their child suffered. It names the Regents of the University of California and Francisco Gonzalez as defendants.
The complaint doesn’t specifically identify Gon zalez as the garbage truck driver involved in the col lision. UCD officials said the driver was placed on leave following the inci dent, and remained on leave as of Friday, but did not disclose the person’s name.
An initial hearing in the case is scheduled for Nov. 14 before Judge Daniel Wolk.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene.
management, employment services and a basic needs stipend.
The program operates in 16 communities across Northern and Central Cali fornia, including Sacra mento and West Sacramento. It began in 2005 in Palo Alto after a survey conducted by the Palo Alto Business Association identified litter and panhan dling to be top concerns among small businesses.
Owners of a coffee shop, according to the DST web site, reported that while in Venezuela, they had asked local unhoused individuals to help clean up the shop at the end of the day in return for dinner and suggested something similar for Palo Alto, where unhoused indi viduals would remove trash from the downtown area. Thus the first Downtown
Streets Team was launched.
In 2009, the program won a “Top 50 Innovations in Local Government” award from Harvard’s Ken nedy School of Govern ment. Downtown Streets Teams were subsequently launched in San Jose, Sunnyvale, San Rafael, San Francisco, Hayward, Santa Cruz and elsewhere.
In 2018, the program was named one of just five “evi dence-based best practices in ending homelessness” by the League of California Cities and California State Association of Counties.
According to a report prepared for Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meet ing, the Davis Downtown Streets Team would feature a standing team of 15 vol unteers who would supple ment existing cleaning efforts undertaken by city staff in the downtown core.
“Team members will pick
up litter, needles and encampment debris in the project area while out reaching to the current residents,” the report said.
“As with every other Downtown Streets Team, the Davis DST will work with existing housing and shelter providers, other service providers (medical, legal, etc.), employers and local government agencies to remove barriers to self sufficiency for every team member.”
The proposed area where teams will operate is the core area of downtown, from First Street north to Fifth Street and from A Street east to the Davis Depot.
Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the board chambers at 625 Court St. in Woodland and is avail able via zoom at https:// yolocounty.zoom. us/j/112072974.
The Blue Devils begin their third phase on Tues day in the South Gym.
Davis hosted Pleasant Grove in the Delta League finale on Thursday, and there were times the Blue Devils looked strong in moving the ball. But the visiting Eagles ended up posting a 3-1 win, with the final scores, 25-13, 25-16, 16-25, 25-15.
Now DHS (7-5 in the DL, 16-6 overall) start the Sac-Joaquin Section Divi sion I playoffs at home. The section released its playoff brackets Friday afternoon and Davis is the No. 8 seed.
“We are excited and can’t wait to play in front our home crowd and repre sent,” said Blue Devil head coach Julie Crawford.
Davis High will host No. 9 Turlock, a member of the Central California Ath letic League.
Turlock (8-2 in the CCAL, 17-11) finished in second place in league behind league champion and rival Pitman.
The Turlock-Davis match is scheduled at the South Gym Tuesday at 7 p.m. The winner will play at top seed St. Mary’s of Stockton. The Rams won the Tri-City Athletic League title with a perfect 10-0 record and were 22-7 overall.
Returning to Thursday’s match, the Blue Devils were excited as the contest
coincided with Senior Night, honoring middle blocker Michelle Kang, outside hitter Lena Sundin, defensive specialists Kelsey Huntington and Olivia Kim, outside hitter April Seeger, and setter Nicole Risch.
“We had a lot of enthusi asm,” Crawford said of the match against the Eagles. “We were trying to finish our league strong and play competitively against a competitive team. Today was a good, competitive match to lead us into next week.”
Pleasant Grove (10-2 in the DL, 20-11), which took second place behind league champion St. Francis, turned the excitement to its favor in the first set. The Eagles soared to an 8-3 lead over the Blue Devils early in the match and con trolled the set the rest of the way.
The Eagles continued their flight in the second set. Moving the ball on serving, kills, digs and assists added up to another win and a 2-0 lead.
Then Davis displayed its skills in moving the ball and the play of three play ers in the third set.
Behind four of Seeger’s aces in the game, plus some of Risch’s 22 assists in the match and middle blocker Tessa Schouten’s play at the net that led to some of her eight kills, Davis led 21-15.
“You just come back the second time you play them and try to play them a little bit better than you did the first time,” Crawford said.
The Blue Devils finished
the set on a 4-1 run, topped when Seeger had a kill to win the set.
But Pleasant Grove bounced back in the fourth set for the win.
The Eagles got off to another strong start with an 8-3 advantage. Although the Blue Devils chipped away at the lead with rallies in the set and more strong play from Seeger and Schouten, PG continued to lead and ultimately won the match.
Risch had 22 assists in the contest for the
Blue Devils.
Kim and Sundin had 15 digs each for DHS. Risch followed with 11 and Kaylie Adams five.
Behind Schouten in kills was Sundin at six.
Seeger had six aces.
Davis started its pre season with a 9-1 record. Crawford also recorded her 200th career win since tak ing over the program in 2011.
— Contact Mike Bush at mike@davisenterprise. net. Follow on Twitter: @MBDavisSports.
The UC Davis women’s basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the 2022-23 Big West Conference standings, according to a vote released on Thursday.
The Aggies received 71 points overall from the head coaches, standing two points behind Long Beach State in third place and one point behind UC San Diego in fourth.
Hawaii sits atop the coaches’ poll with nine of the 11 first-place votes and 99 points overall, fol lowed by UC Santa Bar bara with the remaining two first-place tallies and 84 points overall.
In addition, UC Davis junior guard Evanne Turner was named to the coach’s preseason All-Big West team.
The 2022 All-Big West Honorable Mention is coming off her best sea son, starting all 28 games for the Aggies last year, averaging 12.6 points per game and 3.3 rebounds per game in over 32 min utes per game.
The native of Fontana set career highs in points, assists, steals and threepoint shooting, and missed just four free throws all season.
After opening the year with an exhibition against San Francisco State on Tuesday, Nov. 1, UCD offi cially tips off the regular season against Bethel College at 11 a.m. Mon day, Nov. 7, in the Univer sity Credit Union Center. Admission to the contest is free.
The UCD men’s squad has finalized its 2022-23 coaching staff with the addition of alumnus and
former NCAA Division I head coach Brandon Laird as a special assistant/ program analyst, head coach Jim Les announced Wednesday.
“Brandon has an excel lent basketball mind and we are fortunate to have him on our staff,” Les said. “He is also a hardworking and high character person who will be an outstanding mentor to our studentathletes.”
Laird’s return to UCD serves as a homecoming on numerous fronts for the former Aggie.
He spent four seasons from 1997 to 2001 playing at the Pavilion, appeared in 85 games over his career and was a member of UC Davis’ 1998 NCAA Divi sion II national champion ship team with current associate head coach Kevin Nosek.
Laird got his coaching start as a member of the Aggies’ staff for the 200203 season and served as an assistant coach from 2009 to 2011, just prior to Les’ arrival.
Most recently, Laird was the interim head coach at Sacramento State, where he took over four days before the start of the 2021-22 season. Laird led the Hornets to 11 wins, the most by a first-year head coach in the program’s Division I era. Sac State won five of its final seven games, including its firstround game at the Big Sky Conference Tournament.
Prior to that, Laird spent nine seasons as an associ ate head coach under Brian Katz at Sacramento State and one as assistant coach.
He also spent three sea sons from 2003 to 2006 as an assistant coach at Menlo College and three more from 2006 to 2009 as the head coach of the Oaks.
The Davis High girls tennis are the new Delta League cham pions.
Taking on St. Francis, which won the league crown in 2021, Davis (11-1 in the DL) was too much by posting an 8-1 victory on Thursday.
"We had a very rare day on the courts today," said Davis head coach Sally Hosley.
"Before our
match started, we talked about the importance of starting out strong and confident. I told them to leave everything out on the court because I knew they were all tough enough to beat St Francis. Well, they did that and much more. Each player was determined and composed. I don’t think I’ve ever had a team
where each player is completely dialed in, playing their personal best during a match. It was awe some to watch. Even our oppo nents were in awe. I was really proud of them."
The Blue Devils won five of the six singles matches. Hannah Proctor, a sophomore who is the team's No. 1 singles player, won her match in straight sets.
Other Davis players who won
their matches in straight sets were No. 2 player Maya Moeller, Ellie Chang, May Edmonds and Charlotte Sloane. Maria Ander son, DHS' No. 3 singles player, lost her match in two sets.
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Davis' doubles teams of Alena Voss-Cloe Lamoureux, Natalie Hersch-Inkyung Hwang and Macey Foncannon-Lea Lamou reux won their matches, also in straight sets.
On Monday, DHS will take part in the league tournament. The singles tournament will take place at the Laguna Creek Rac quet Club in Elk Grove. The doubles tournament will be Wednesday, also at the same club. Both tournaments will start at 9 a.m.
According to Will DeBoard, assistant commissioner for the
Whileit’s not yet formal policy, those who man age California’s vast water system are edging toward a historic reallocation of the state’s shrinking supply that could have a life-altering impact on its larg est-in-the-nation agricultural industry.
For many years, farmers have used about 80% of the water diverted from rivers for human use, with the rest going to urban areas for drinking, watering lawns, maintaining swimming pools, taking showers, cooking and commercial or industrial use.
Prolonged drought has com pelled all users to make do with less. However, the biggest loser has been the environment — free flows to maintain habitat for fish and other aquatic species — which generally gets about 50% of the total flow.
In recent years, federal judges have ordered cuts in agricultural water diversions to enforce the Endangered Species Act and the state Water Resources Control
John E. Clark asserts that the brain drain from Davis is a “myth” and that by implication we shouldn’t provide for jobs for UC Davis graduates. Apparently Clark doesn’t understand the syn ergistic role between UCD and our city.
First, Davis has benefited tre mendously from the presence of UCD. Just compare our popula tion, income, school system and house values to similarly situated towns nearby like West Sacra mento and Dixon. That presence has been funded by state and federal taxpayers. We have a reciprocal obligation to support UCD here. And in that role, UCD does much more than just teach undergraduates — it is a global leader in agricultural research.
That means that Davis must provide housing for its research ers as well as teaching faculty. But the symbiotic synergism of town and gown also can lead to mutu ally beneficial new companies located here. Those firms can be staffed by the UCD graduates and staff that have been working on those research topics. That is the way we can generate organic eco nomic activity that will address our fiscal situation.
Richard McCann DavisThis letter serves to strongly endorse Bapu Vaitla for Davis City Council in District 1.
Our children first introduced us to Bapu: the kids came run ning home — basketball in hand, kale in mouth — excited to tell us about their new friend, basketball competitor, garden enthusiast, and neighbor, Bapu. When we met Bapu, we were immediately enraptured by his thoughtfulness, humility, and compassion. After getting to know him, we became equally impressed with Bapu’s values and his dedication to mak ing positive change for our chil dren.
As an educator and a pediatric cardiologist, and as parents, chil dren are our highest priority — personally, professionally and politically. The health and educa tion of children and their com munities are of utmost importance to Bapu, as well. Bapu spent decades improving consistent access to better nutri tion for malnourished children in India, Ethiopia and Brazil, both via on-the-ground efforts and through political and economic strategies.
Bapu understands that health
Board has moved in the same direction on an emergency basis due to drought. However, envi ronmental groups want perma nent habitat-enhancing reductions.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown and his successor, Gavin Newsom, have sought “voluntary agree ments” by which agricultural water agencies would curtail diversions to maintain river flows, but results have been scanty at best.
Without such agreements, the water board could implement mandatory reductions, but they would be viewed by farmers as an assault on their historic water
begins at home. One of Bapu’s central visions for Davis is to ensure housing for all families and children in our unaffordable city. He began this work while on the Social Services Commission (SSC), where he consistently sup ported the creation of housing for low-income families. He recently collaborated on establishing the Yolo Basic Income program, which provides cash grants to formerly houseless families with young children.
Bapu has worked tirelessly to support the education of tomor row’s leaders — today’s children. His work at the United Nations Foundation focuses on educa tional gender equity for women and girls worldwide. On the SSC, his local focus has been on adoles cent mental health. Bapu under stands that our children deserve all the opportunities that can be provided to them: optimal healthcare, affordable housing, consistent and proper nutrition, and a great education. Children need these things because we will soon look to them to lead our world. Bapu Vaitla believes in making positive change for our community’s future — our com munity’s children. He is a man of action!
In the words of our 9-year-old, “Bapu is the best!” We couldn’t agree more. Vote for our neigh bor, friend, child-advocate, and change-maker, Bapu Vaitla! Let’s do this!
Cate Dayan and Yoni Dayan DavisRegarding the “Lexicon Art ists” column “Rotten Roads” attacking our firefighters and local leadership, all I can say is wow, I never knew that having a good working relationship with our firefighters was “corrupt.” Funny, when I think of our city services and infrastructure it’s the firefighters who have one of the most visible impacts on our pub lic life.
Even at the height of our COVID quarantine, I saw them out in my neighborhood, not only putting out fires, but checking on the well-being of neighbors hav ing heart problems, or other medical emergencies, even in the dead of night. But I suppose these public servants should be seen and not heard, in the eyes of our “lexicon artist.” Shame on our city council for building a good work ing relationship with these fire fighting freeloaders.
Jesse Drew DavisI am writing in support of
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rights and probably trigger mas sive legal battles.
The key principle in these con flicts is that water belongs to the public as a whole and must be put to “beneficial use,” as defined in a 1943 law that implemented a constitutional declara tion passed by voters in 1928. The law commands authorities to prevent “waste or unreason able use or unreasonable method of use of water…”
Environmentalists believe the constitution thus authorizes the state water board to curtail agri cultural diversions for the protec tion of habitat, but the 1943 law also declares, “In the enactment of this code the Legislature does not intend thereby to effect any change in the law relating to water rights.”
That obvious legal dichotomy is the crux of the situation.
Whether, indeed, the state water board is gearing up for a showdown over water rights, some of which stretch back to the 19th century, is the subject of
much speculation in water cir cles.
Early this year, water board chairman Joaquin Esquivel told a gathering of water officials, “We know we have to change the system. Water rights can be there as a tool to be able to manage supplies through not just a drought but when there is water again. Our water rights system can be there to facilitate deci sions on projects and help us make decisions, or they can be a hindrance.”
While the water rights issue percolates in Northern Califor nia, there’s a similar con flict underway in Southern California over how much water the state diverts from a severely threatened Colorado River.
California is legally entitled to 4.4 million acre-feet per year, with the vast majority of that going to the Imperial Irrigation District and other agricultural users, but the Colorado’s flow has dropped dramatically.
The federal government
demands that California and other states that draw from the river, principally Nevada and Arizona, reduce diversions by 2-to-4 million acre-feet per year, and threatens to mandate cuts under the “beneficial use” doc trine if they cannot agree.
California has offered a 400,000 acre-foot reduction, only 9%, but that’s not enough to satisfy the other states and the outcome is very much in doubt. Meanwhile, the feds are offering Colorado water users $400 for every acre-foot of water they don’t take.
Farmers’ water rights are clearly not as sacrosanct as they once seemed to be, and as drought persists the stage is being set for a monumental reck oning of some kind.
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Adam Morrill for City Council for many reasons. Adam has been a resident of East Davis for more than 25 years and has stepped up to run for council because he can offer new and innovative solu tions to many city problems. Unlike his opponent, Adam opposed the disastrous DISC project, and the unreasonable and costly CAAP residential elec trification mandate proposal. This CAAP condition wasn’t even supported by the Natural Resources Commission, yet Glo ria didn’t object to it and voted to include it.
Adam is honest, has integrity, and will advocate for better land use planning, including requiring any infill proposals to be compat ible and consistent with sur rounding neighborhoods. He will advocate for more UCD on-cam pus UCD housing needed. Most importantly, Adam has pledged to take the time to review the City Council packets before voting on them, and responding to, and advocating for our community input. I, like many other Davis citizens, am frustrated that requests to Gloria to discuss issues have been consistently ignored, as well as our public input.
Further, Gloria’s voting track record has been terrible on many issues. Despite significant citizen opposition, she voted for: 1) put ting the badly planned DISC project on the ballot twice, (then rejected by voters twice); 2) the seven-story University Mall proj ect with its significant impacts on surrounding neighborhoods; 3) simply moving the problematic Arroyo Park zipline an insignifi cant distance from its current location, which doesn’t remedy the impacts to the neighborhood;
The Hon. Joe Biden, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact U.S. Senate
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: http://feinstein. senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;
4) the recent Pacifico proposal despite neighborhood concerns that the crime and other prob lems related to the project over past years haven’t been addressed; and 5) the ill-con ceived CAAP residential electrifi cation mandate.
We need a council member who will take the time to listen to public input and discuss issues, and who will respond to our con cerns, instead of repeatedly vot ing against public input as Gloria has over the last four years. Please join me in voting for Adam Morrill for City Council. We need a change for the better, particularly for us here in East Davis, which gets ignored and short-changed far too often.
Eileen M. Samitz DavisI am going to vote for Dan Car son. He is sensible and respon sive.
Joel Dobris DavisWhen voters evaluate candi dates, we study their positions and we examine their values and character. Adam Morrill laid out his positions in his City Council District 4 candidate statement in which he said, “We need to proac tively maintain our urban forest, greenbelts and parks…” He also stated he would push for infill development “that will provide entry level housing for young families.”
And he added that we need to provide support and resources for public safety staff while building partnerships with non-profits
202-224-3553; email: padilla.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880.
District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530-753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi.house.gov/contact/ email
Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: visit https://govapps.gov. ca.gov/gov40mail/
and faith based organizations to “compassionately to attend to the issues associated with homeless ness and mental health.” Adam is the only District 4 candidate that opposed both efforts to develop the DISC industrial projects on Mace Boulevard.
Adam has a long-term commit ment to the environment which fostered a sense of urgency about the climate crisis. For develop ments that are not net-zero energy use, Adam supports a GHG mitigation fee and he also supports an ordinance mandat ing solar photovoltaics on new commercial construction. The organizations you support define your values. The Morrill family has donated to Yolo Food Bank, St. James School and Church, Masonic charities that house the elderly and assist families, animal rescue organizations, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soci ety.
Who you help with your time defines your character. Adam has been a volunteer firefighter, CPR instructor, basketball coach, AYSO referee, and done trail work on public lands.
The women in Adam’s life forged his character. He has been married to his high school sweet heart for almost 30 years. He was strongly influenced by his grand mother about whom he said, “She persevered and taught me what it means to be a gentleman, the importance [of] hard work and, charity for those with less than us, and duty to country and commu nity.” “I was raised by strong women, I married a strong woman, and that’s who I want my daughters to be.”
Please vote for Adam Morrill. Catherine Portman DavisAddresses and phone numbers should be included for verification purposes; they will not be published.
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The League of Women Vot ers supports a change to the state constitution on the Nov. 8 election ballot that establishes an individual’s fun damental right to choose whether or not to use contracep tion and whether to have an abortion. The League recom mends voting “Yes” on Proposi tion 1.
The League joins the Califor nia Medical Association, the California Nurses Association, the American College of Obstetrician/Gynecologists and numerous reproductive rights and civil liberties advocacy
groups in its strong support for the measure.
The League carefully guards its reputation as a non-partisan advocate for voter engagement, campaign transparency and leg islative fairness. Equally highly valued is our fierce advocacy for civil liberties, personal freedom, individual privacy, and voter self-determination. Today, enhanced reproductive rights advocacy efforts are compelled by the U.S. Supreme Court 2022 Dobbs decision to overturn the federal constitutional right to abortion.
The League is a proponent of Proposition 1 and signatory
For more than 40 years, on Halloween night
Davis children have gone door-to-door Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF with classic orange collection boxes. The money they collect goes toward providing children around the world with clean water, nutrition, medicine, and educational resources. The campaign empowers kids to help kids in dire need due to famine, war, or natural disaster.
This year will remain different due in large part to the pandemic. This October everyone can still “add meaning to their Halloween-ing.” In Davis, the campaign will be virtual and in person this year. Donations from this hybrid program will go to help UNICEF’s programs for kids worldwide, including fighting malnutrition in eastern Africa, preventing a resurgence of cholera in Haiti, and rushing aid to the families of Ukraine.
This year will remain different due in large part to the pandemic. This October everyone can still “add meaning to their Halloween-ing.” The campaign will be virtual and in person this year. Donations from this hybrid program will go to help UNICEF’s programs for kids world wide, including fighting malnutrition in eastern Africa, providing warm clothing in Afghani stan, and rushing aid to the families of Ukraine.
Option 1: Pick up a Trick-or-Treat for UNI CEF box from one of our coordinators or make your own container using a printable canister wrapper instead of the traditional box. Then, collect money as you go door-to-door on Hal loween night. Teachers, parents, and kids can print a canister wrapper and attach them to any empty container.
Option 2: Start an Online Fundraiser and raise money remotely.
Option 3: Some residents elect to have a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF party and collect donations in boxes and donate the proceeds!
Details about the printable wrapper and online fundraiser can be found here at our website: http://groups.dcn.org/davisuna/UNICEF/Hal loween-is-not-cancelled/. If you want a tradi tional box, you can arrange to get one by emailing jennifersueholman@gmail.com. You can email that same address to arrange for pickup of your collection container or other donation.
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is the longest-run ning youth engagement campaign in America and has raised over $180 million to help UNI CEF support children with health care, nutri tion, safe water, education, emergency relief, and more. Davis has raised a total of $685,660 over the past 23 years! Let’s keep this tradition going!
Remember even small donations make a big impact:
n $6 buys a thermal fleece blanket.
n $19 buys a tarp for protection from the cold winter.
n $55 buys a family in Ukraine an emergency hygiene kit.
n $60 will feed one desperately hungry child for two months with therapeutic food.
You can also make a tax-deductible donation at any time by sending a check to: UNICEF Donations (UNA-USA Account)
First Northern Bank 434 Second Street Davis, CA 95616
— Jennifer Holman and Kristen Weeks Norton are the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF coordinators for the Davis Chapter of the United Nations Association.
to arguments in favor of Proposition 1 in the California voter information guide. League support for reproductive rights goes back decades.
The League supports this pro posed amendment to preserve rights in California that Ameri cans have had for the last 50 years and are now at risk across the country.
In actively endorsing passage of this measure, the League reveals a pathway for voters to restore the fundamental rights of reproductive choice, self-deter mination, and medical privacy to California patients, free of parti san politics and legislative inter ference. The League believes that public policy in a pluralistic
society must affirm the constitu tional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.
Patients must be able to make the profound personal medical decisions that impact their own health and safety and that of their loved ones. Patients, in consultation with care providers and the personal/spiritual advi sors of their choosing, deserve the dignity and respect to deter mine and account for their own healthcare decisions.
Access to affordable, compre hensive reproductive health care, including abortion, allows peo ple to plan their lives and guide their own future. Yes on Proposi tion 1 protects access to the care
that will give individuals and families this freedom.
As League members, we encourage voters to read the Proposition 1 support statement and vote “Yes.” Together we have an opportunity to establish new California constitutional protec tions and reclaim patient privacy and the fundamental reproduc tive rights no longer ensured by Federal guarantee.
— Michelle Famula is a board member with The League of Women Voters Davis Area. Other members include Mary Jo Bryan, president; David Mur phy, vice president; Michele van Eyken, secretary; Komal Hak; and Judy Higgerson.
The nation’s electric utilities are facing revolutionary changes as big as any they have faced since Thomas Edison got the whole thing going in 1882.
Between now and 2050 –just 28 years — practically everything must change. The goal is to reach net zero, the stage at which the utili ties stop putting greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, into the atmo sphere.
But in that same time frame, the demand for elec tricity is expected to at least double and, according to some surveys, to exceed doubling as electric vehicles replace fossil-fueled vehicles and as other indus tries, like cement and steel manufacturing, along with general manufacturing, go electric.
Just eliminating fossil fuel alone is a tall order — 22 percent of the current gen erating mix is coal and 38 percent is natural gas.
Half of the generation will, in theory, go offline while demand for electricity soars.
The industry is resolutely struggling with this dilemma while a few, sotto voce, wonder how it can be achieved.
True, some exciting technological options are
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coming along: Hydrogen, ocean currents, small modu lar nuclear reactors, socalled long-drawdown batteries, and carbon cap ture, storage, and utiliza tion. The question is whether any of these will be ready to be deployed on a scale that will make a differ ence by the target date of 2050.
There are other schemes — still just schemes — to use the new electrified transportation fleets as a giant national battery. The idea is that your electric vehicle will be charged at night, or at other times when there is an abundance of power, and that you will sell the power back to the utility for the evening peak when we all fire up our homes and electricity demand zooms.
That is just an idea and no structure for this partnership between consumer and utility exists, nor is there any idea of how the customer will be com pensated for helping the utility in its hours of need. It is hard to see how there will be enough money in the transaction to cause people to want to help the utility as besides the cost of charging their vehicles, the batteries will deteriorate faster.
The ongoing digitization of utilities means they will
be able to better manage their flows and to practice more of what is called dis tributed energy resources (DER), which can include such things as interrupting certain nonessential users by agreement.
David Naylor, president of Rayburn Electric Coopera tive, bordering Dallas, says DER will save him as much as 10 percent of Rayburn’s output, but not enough to take care of the escalating demand.
Like many utilities, Ray burn is bracing for the future, expecting to burn more natural gas and add solar as fast as possible. It is also upgrading its lines, called connectors, to carry more electricity.
The latter highlights another major challenge for utilities: Transmission.
The West generates plenty of renewable power electric ity during the day, some of which goes to waste because it is available when it is not needed in the region, but when it would be a boon in the East.
The simple solution is to build more long-distance transmission. Forget about it. To get the many state and local authorizations and to overcome the not-in-mybackyard crowd, most judge, wouldn’t be possible.
Instead, utilities are look ing to buttress the grid and move power over a stronger
grid. In fact, there isn’t one grid but three: Eastern, Western and the anomalous Texas grid, ERCOT, which is confined to that state and, by design, poorly connected to the other two, although that may change.
Advocates of this strengthening of the grid abound. The federal government is on board with major funding. Shorter new lines between strong and weak spots would go a long way to mak ing the movement of elec tricity across the nation easier. They would also move the nation nearer to a truly national grid. But even building short electric con nections of a few hundred miles is a fraught business.
The task of the utilities — there are just over 3,000 of them, mostly small — is going to be to change totally while retooling without shutting off the power. The car companies are totally changing, too. But they can shut down to retool. Not so the utilities. Theirs must be a revolution without disrup tion, the light that doesn’t fail.
— Llewellyn King is exec utive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is llewellynking1@gmail. com and you can follow him on Twitter @LlewellynK ing2. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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“Davis people would love to have what I saw in Portland, which was different blocks and half-blocks of the city covered in food trucks.”
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* Editor’s note: Tanya Perez is taking the day off. This column originally pub lished in January 2019.
OMG. Have you seen
“Hereditary?”, the superscary movie starring Toni Collette as a mom who is dealing with an unbearable amount of horrors in her family’s life? The part where her daughter dies is so shocking! And at the end, where the son is in bed, and you get the scare of your life when Collette’s character … well, I don’t want to totally ruin it.
And besides, I haven’t seen it. Nor will I ever. But thanks to the internet, I know every jumpscare in “Hereditary,” as well as every other horror movie of the past few decades.
“The Exorcist?” Never seen it. The “Nightmare” and “Hallow een” and “Friday the 13th” fran chises? Nope. But I have read every plot spoiler I can find about each of these terrifying stories. Weird, I agree.
Thankfully, the internet is par ticularly great at letting you know you aren’t the only one with a particular oddity. So imagine my glee when I read this headline from the Wall Street Journal: “These people love horror movies. They just never watch them.”
The November 2017 story (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ these-people-love-horror-mov ies-they-just-never-watchthem-1510073945) by Erich Schwartzel sums it up this way: “Scaredy cats across the country have found refuge — and a per verse pleasure — in reading the plots to horror movies on Wiki pedia, where users who have actually stomached the fright fests relay all the grisly details in
totally bloodless prose.”
And why would a scaredy cat do this? Said one person inter viewed for Schwartzel’s story, “I would say I get really scared of horror movies, but I am a really, really curious person.”
Totally.
I do this every time a new scary movie comes out, especially if it gets great reviews. And I have done this for years, looking for the detailed plots of movies that would terrify me if I sat through them in the theater. Yet I can not not know what happens.
Oh, I also don’t read scary books, so it’s not just seeing the scares. As Schwartzel says, “bloodless prose” is the key to scratching this itch. That, and not hearing the suspenseful music, seeing the shadowy light ing, etc.
“The shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho,’ for instance,” Schwartzel writes, “unfolds on screen as a three-minute sequence featuring 78 separate shots, screeching violins and an
unblinking Janet Leigh corpse.
“Here’s how Wikipedia describes the action: ‘As she is showering, a shadowy figure comes in and stabs her to death with a chef’s knife.’ “ That’s all I need to know. I get the jokes when someone mimes a stabbing hand while making a shrill screech, but I don’t relive the scene in my head over and over.
Amazingly, I’d never told my husband, S, about this habit of mine. After three decades together, he of course knows I hate horror movies — he does, too. But I’d somehow never mentioned that over the past decade or so, I’d taken to digging around the internet to find the full plots of movies I was too scared to see.
As we were going to bed about a month ago, I pulled up the plot to “The Babadook,” S asked, “What are you reading?”
It immediately dawned on me that I’d never told him about this. “You’re not going to believe this, but I’m reading the entire
plot of a terrifying movie.”
“Why in the hell would you do that?” he reasonably asked … fol lowed by, “What other things have you not told me about in the past 30 years?”
Thank goodness for my kin dred spirits on the web. And a special thanks to those of you who record yourselves then post the videos online of traveling through excruciatingly scary haunted houses so I can see what that’s like. That’s a favorite Hal loween past time of mine.
By the way, I actually did watch “Get Out” after reading the entire plot, because I hate to miss out on real pop cultural phenomena. But I was pleased to read in the Wall Street Journal that someone “is developing an app that would cause a moviego er’s phone to vibrate in warning ahead of each jump scare.”
— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com.
The Yolo Crisis Nursery’s Barn Dance was a huge success.
Thank you to our generous Yolo County community for coming out to our Barn Dance and enjoying a fun-filled evening of live music, food, libations, and dancing. If you were unable to share in the merriment, not to worry, we’ll see you next fall at the Barn Dance!
The Yolo Crisis Nursery Barn Dance would not have been pos sible without so many selfless community volunteers, sponsors, donors and donations. It is my genuine pleasure to thank them all on behalf of the Yolo Crisis Nursery and its Board of Direc tors.
First, I’d like to express tre mendous gratitude to the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nurs ery and the Barn Dance’s tireless chair, Sharon Schauer. The inspiration, creativity, and suc cess of the Barn Dance belongs with Sharon and the talented, dedicated, and hardworking group of volunteers.
Nugget Market is well-known in our community not only for their extraordinary grocery expe rience, but also for generously giving back through their community-based philanthropy. We are grateful to have them as an event sponsor, community partner and supporter of the nursery’s mission.
We were thrilled once again to have Martha Bernauer, Kim Eichorn, and Snow & Associates, all with Lyon Real Estate, gener ously sponsor the $2,500 cash prize raffle. Our hearts were overflowing when the winner of the $2,500 cash prize raffle gen erously donated her winnings back to the Yolo Crisis Nursery to help us serve more children and families! A warm and deli cious thank you as well to our Cookie Corral sponsor, Morse Custom Homes and Remodel ing.
Our appreciation continues to so many others including, our local line dancing instructors Carrie Gifford and Elise Willis, Clark Pacific for providing and delivering the many straw bales, and Recology for delivering and donating the use of their gar bage, recycling, and composting containers. Thank you to the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nurs ery, our many other volunteers which included the Davis Rotary Clubs, the National Charity League, the Davis Farmer’s Market and the Davis Bicycle Hall of Fame for the use of their
restrooms. Thank you all!
Every bit of support that’s pro vided to the Yolo Crisis Nursery directly benefits Yolo County children and families in crisis.
October is especially important as it is Domestic Violence aware ness month. Last year, the nurs ery saw a 14.5% increase in the number of client families impacted by domestic violence.
The nursery’s combination of trauma-informed care for the children and wrap around ser vices are life-changing for chil dren and their families, especially when fleeing a danger ous domestic situation.
One of our clients arrived with her daughter, fleeing an unsafe home. They were unhoused, the mother was unemployed, and
both mom and daughter needed treatment to recover from abuse they suffered. With the nursery’s support, they mapped out a plan for the family’s future. Mom went back to school and now is on her way to becoming a regis tered nurse. She now has a great job, stable home, transportation, and provides a wonderful life for her daughter. When you support the nursery, whether it is an event ticket, sponsorship, dona tion of clothes, diapers, formula, or make a monetary donation, it’s used to protect children and help families find stability, strength and independence.
Please save the date for our annual Crab Feed on March 11.
Individual Crab Feed tickets will go on sale in early January; be
Golden 1 Credit Union awarded a scholarship to Davis High School gradu ate Claire Hays. Hays is among 43 exceptional Cali fornia students to earn one of the Golden 1 scholar ships, which are awarded based on a student’s aca demic achievements, com munity involvement, extracurricular activities, education and career goals.
“Golden 1 is committed to doing our part to help California’s future leaders, like Claire, achieve their educational goals and dreams,” said Erica Taylor, vice president of communi cations and community relations for Golden 1.
“Our annual scholarship program is one of the most important ways we give back to our members and the communities we are
proud to serve.”
As a student at DHS, Hays was extremely enthu siastic about all things sci ence, technology, engineering, and mathe matics (STEM). She was a member of the robotics team, where she had the opportunity to be the Diversity in STEM lead (DiSTEM), a member of the Women in STEM club, and a member of the Sci ence Olympiad team. She is now taking her passions to the California Institute of Technology where she will be majoring in bioen gineering.
Her dedication and pas sion for STEM started as a young child when her brother’s leukemia treat ments started to fail, and
he needed a bone marrow transplant. She was the perfect match.
“I was the only real potential match for my brother and luckily, the transplant worked, and he went into full remission,” said Hays. “I also ended up being a transplant recipi ent myself when I had to replace the meniscus I destroyed playing sports, so I’ve seen firsthand the use of innovative medical technologies.
Hays is looking forward to getting her undergradu ate degree in Bioengineer ing and is also planning to further her education and receive a master’s degree where she hopes to one day help people with medicine.
“I’m so thankful for this scholarship, which allows me to pursue the education necessary to be a life-
changer and a lifesaver,” said Hays.
The Golden 1 Credit Union Scholarship Pro gram provides members and their dependents financial assistance, valued at up to $20,000 per stu dent, for full-time students who plan to attend accred ited, nonprofit two-year community colleges or four-year colleges and uni versities in California.
Since the program began in 2013, Golden 1 has awarded nearly 500 schol arships to college-bound students throughout the state. For information, visit golden1.com/our-commu nity/scholarships.
— Do you know of some one who has won an award or accomplished something noteworthy? Email it to newsroom@davisenter prise.net.
By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprisesure to sign up for our newsletter at www.yolocrisisnursery.org to stay informed. Information on sponsorships is available now for the Crab Feed by contacting Becky Heard (bheard@yolocri sisnursery.org). This event sells out every year — mark your cal endars and get your tickets early!
I invite all who read this arti cle to visit www.yolocrisisnurs ery.org and discover the one-of-a kind programs the nursery offers. With your support our early intervention services that nurture healthy and resilient children, strengthen parents, and preserve families will con tinue for years to come.
— Jennifer Thayer is the presi dent of the Yolo Crisis Nursery
1. Big Cities: The most populous city in the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most-populous starts with an S. Name the city.
2. Art History: Hav ing originated more than 100 years ago, what does the Metro politan Museum of Art call the most influential art movement of the 20th century?
3. Great Americans: Born in Uvalde, Texas, what Oscar-winning actor wrote the unusual memoir titled “Green lights?”
4. Unusual Words: What Z-word do we use for “the defining spirit
or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time”?
5. U.S. History: The Wounded Knee Massa cre took place in what U.S. state that is bisected by the Missouri River?
Answers: São Paulo, Brazil; cubism; Mat thew McConaughey; zeitgeist; South Dakota.
— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster. com.
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Christmas came early for New York Yankees pitcher Lou Trivino.
Trivino was traded from the last-place Oakland Athletics to the Yankees at the MLB trade deadline. He is among a corps of Yankee relievers, trying to win the American League Champi onship Series against the Hous ton Astros.
It beats sitting at home, which most MLB players are doing right now.
n Tuesday was the 45th anni versary of when Reggie Jackson truly became “Mr. October.”
Jackson hit three home runs in a row off three different pitchers in a single World Series game. That helped the Yankees win the title over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Jackson’s blasts came off Dodgers pitchers Burt Hooton, Elias Sosa and Charlie Hough. All three were crushed.
Describing all this for a national TV audience were Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell.
n The legendary Chuck Berry would have celebrated his
96th birthday this past week. Berry died in 2017.
John Lennon, one of Berry’s many disciples, once said, “If you tried to give Rock ’n’ Roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”
n No wonder the Golden State Warriors will chase the 2022-23 NBA Championship so hard. A title this coming June would give coach Steve Kerr a 10th ring to go along with the nine he already has.
Kerr won three titles with the Chicago Bulls and two with the San Antonio Spurs as a player, and has won four as Warriors coach.
n The San Francisco Giants,
like all teams, have over the years made some great trades and some ghastly ones.
Among the latter are the Giants shipping their 2009 No. 1 draft pick, Zack Wheeler, to the New York Mets in 2011 in exchange for Carlos Beltran.
Wheeler was the start ing pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in the opening game of the National League Champion ship Series on Oct. 18.
Wheeler never pitched for the Giants.
In five years with the Mets, and the last three with the Phil lies, he is 74-57 in the regular season. Wheeler signed with Philadelphia as a free agent in 2020. He was 12-7 with a 2.82 ERA for the ’22 Phillies.
Beltran played in just 44 games for the 2011 Giants, didn’t like San Francisco, and signed a free agent deal after the season with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played 20 seasons overall for
seven teams, with 435 home runs and a .279 lifetime batting average.
n With Joe Buck and Troy Aikman now calling the games, "Monday Night Football" has a new-found relevancy it had lacked for quite some time.
n Earnie Shavers was one of the hardest hitters in heavy weight boxing history. He fought for the title on two occasions but was beaten by Muhammad Ali in 1977 and Larry Holmes in 1981.
Shavers is perhaps best known for that bout with Ali. He rocked Ali with a punch that Ali later claimed was the hardest he had ever taken.
Shavers’ career spanned 1969 to 1995, 90 bouts in all. He won 75, lost 14 and drew 1. His most impressive victory was a firstround knockout of former cham pion Ken Norton.
Shavers, 78, died in Septem ber.
n With MeTV, TVLand and other over-the-air cable stations offering reruns of popular 1970s and 1980s shows, why can’t we
get “Hill Street Blues”? It ran from 1981 to 1987.
It is, however, available via several subscription services, notably Hulu, Amazon Prime and others.
n The primary question in the San Francisco 49ers’ acquisition of Christian McCaffrey is whether the all-pro running back can stay relatively healthy.
McCaffrey is in his sixth NFL season and has rushed for 3,980 career yards. He’ll help San Francisco’s offense, but only if he’s on the field.
The price was steep: second, third and fourth round draft choices in 2023 and a fifth rounder in ‘24 to the rebuilding Carolina Panthers.
The longtime radio and tele vision color man on UC Davis football broadcasts, Doug Kelly is director of communications for Battlefields2Ballfields and man aging general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@aol.com.
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section, the team playoff brackets are scheduled to come out on Thursday, Oct. 27.
LA MIRADA — UC Davis, ranked No. 7, took
down Biola University, 16-8, Friday at La Mirada Regional Aquatics Center.
With their third consec utive win, the Aggies improve to 5-0 in Western Water Polo Association play and 12-6 overall on the season.
Now UCD holds now a 3-0 record all-time over Biola.
Redshirt sophomore
utility Tyler Mrkaich car ried the torch offensively for the Aggies, netting a game-high four goals on nine shots, including his fourth hat trick of the sea son. Redshirt junior attacker Logan Anderson also tallied his second hat trick of the season.
Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sam Monette made his second start of
the season, collecting seven saves on the day.
The Aggies got off to a strong start, scoring four goals in the opening frame while allowing just one.
Mrkaich completed his hat trick in the second quarter in which the Aggies scored four more times. In addition to Mrkaich’s two goals in the
period, redshirt junior attacker Max Stryker and redshirt junior central defender Aaron Voggen thaler collected tallies as well, extending the Aggies’ lead to 8-3.
The Eagles attempted to come back on their senior day with some momentum in the third and fourth quarters, but the Aggies stayed composed and
completed the victory.
The Aggies have a quick turnaround as they face top seed UCLA on Satur day at 1 p.m.
Catch updates on the weekend’s Davis High School and UC Davis foot ball games at www. davisenterprise.com.
