The Davis Enterprise Friday, November 11, 2022

Supes support adding vehicles to gun-storage rules

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Yolo County supervisors voiced support Tuesday for an amendment to the county’s recently enacted safe gun stor age ordinance.

Back in September, the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance requiring safe stor age of firearms in homes and asked staff to return with lan guage related to guns stored in vehicles.

On Tuesday, supervisors

voted unanimously in favor of staff’s recommended amend ment, which requires that guns stored in unattended vehicles be in a locked container or teth ered to the vehicle and prohibit ing the storage of firearms in unattended vehicles overnight.

The amendment was drafted following discussions with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Depart ment as well as the Yolo County Farm Bureau and accommo dated their concerns.

“To add a little flexibility for farmers and rural residents, we

defined an unattended vehicle as one in which the gun owner is neither in nor within sight of,” said John Rowe, a management analyst for the county. “This means if a farmer needs to step away 20 feet to attend to a fence or something on the property, they don’t have to be burdened with storing the firearm they might need to access quickly if they, say, see a coyote.”

There is also an option of securing the firearm in a vehicle with a tether or cable lock or some other mechanism and not

just in a locked, secured con tainer.

As with a similar ordinance enacted by the Davis City Coun cil in July, requiring safe storage of firearms in vehicles proved trickier than in homes.

The City Council initially approved an ordinance requir ing unattended firearms in vehicles be locked in a container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle, but after concerns were raised by hunters,

Walsh takes reins at Birch Lane

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

The new school year has ushered in a handful of new principals within the DJUSD, and among them is Amanda Walsh. Although she’s new to the leadership role she’s taken on at Birch Lane Elemen tary, this UC Davis alumna is more than familiar with the community she calls her home.

Walsh grew up and went to school just down I-5 in Stockton. From there, she attended UCD where she majored in human devel opment and psychology.

After graduating, Walsh shifted from Aggie blue to the baby blue of a UCLA

Bruin. There, she earned her Master’s Degree in education along with her teach ing cre dentials and set forth on her career path as an edu cator. However, the work ethic that got Walsh to where she is today was instilled when she was just a little girl.

“I come from a family that wasn’t in education, but my whole childhood was like a process of teach ing. My mom was a single mom and my grandparents

were very involved too. Everything was a lesson like, this is how you get a job, this is how you dress when you go to an inter view, this is what hard work looks like. There was lots of love, but it was shown as an action growing up,” Birch explained her inspiration to enter education.

“I have a brother who’s five years younger than myself, and I was sort of like his second mom. I taught him a lot, took him around and cared for him and enjoyed it. Just seeing different families through babysitting and all those opportunities I had in my teenage years, I think that’s

Final vote tallies not expected for weeks

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

It will likely be the first week of December before Yolo County resi dents know the final vote totals of local races, including the two races for Davis City Council.

This election saw an immense number of vote-by-mail ballots dropped off on Election Day, includ ing through the postal service, ballot drop boxes and voter assistance cen ters, according to county elections officials, and adding to the challenge was “an unprecedented amount of conditional and provisional ballots, primarily due to same-day voter reg istrations associated with UC Davis students.”

As of Thursday, an estimated 22,000 ballots countywide remained to be counted and those conditional and provisional ballots require more staff time to process.

“As such, it is estimated that our office will need the entire 30 days to officially certify the election results,” said Jesse Salinas, the county’s clerkrecorder/assessor/registrar of voters. Those 30 days are what the state

UCD terminates longtime gymnastics coach

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Two years after allega tions of racism in the UC Davis gymnastics pro gram, the university “ter minated the employment” of head gymnastics coach John Lavallee on Oct. 18. Tanya Ho, a standout under Lavallee’s tutelage in the late 2000s, has been named the interim head coach through the rest of the academic school year.

Ho, “a 13-time all-con ference honoree, became the first Lavallee-era gymnast to enter the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of

Fame,” according to the Athletic Department.

According to her biog raphy, a 2010 UC Davis graduate in exercise biol ogy, Ho was the first Aggie gymnast to make three straight trips to the NCAA postseason, the second to make the region meet in back-to-back years as an all-arounder, and the fourth to crack the 39-point barrier in the all-around.

While the university hasn’t stated the reason for Lavallee’s termination, the gymnastic coach had been under fire for alleged

On Tuesday, Yolo County supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a staff amendment to an ordinance approved in September, which requires that guns stored in unattended vehicles be in a locked container or tethered to the vehicle and prohibiting the storage of firearms in unattended vehicles overnight. AdobeStock

WALSH New principal at Birch Lane

well do you know Davis?” asked the headline of the “Welcome to Davis” magazine that landed on my East Davis driveway along with the World’s Greatest Newspaper one day last month.

This was the first-ever magazine Welcome edition, but based on the reviews, it won’t be the last.

The tease for the “How well do you know Davis?” page was that this is a way to “Test your Davis IQ,” an irresistible challenge in a town where IQs are generally as elevated as the price of a starter home on the wrong side of the tracks.

Given that I’ve lived here since I arrived from Portland with my family on my fifth birthday — exactly — I should be able to ace this quiz.

If I don’t, I may have to move to Woodland.

“Prior to 1868, what was the Davis area called?”

A little before my time, but I think John Muir called it Hack berry Heaven.

“Who was the first woman elected to the City Council?”

The late, great Kathleen Green, of course. C’mon, give me your best shot.

“Who was the first woman fac ulty member at UCD?”

That would be Celeste Wright of the English department. I think she was the one who graded my freshman entrance essay and assigned me to Subject A, better known as Bonehead English.

“What church formerly occu pied the building that now houses the Newman Center at Fifth and C?”

How could I ever forget Satur day morning Catechism class at St. James, where I’d smuggle my transistor radio into the back of the church so I could listen to the Notre Dame game like a good Irish Catholic boy?

“Why is Slide Hill Park so named?”

Because a local developer named Slide Hill, who built most of Far East Davis, donated

land for the park.

“Whowas the UCD football coach before Jim Sochor?”

How far back do you want to go?

Let’s see, there was R.E. Har mon, Jack Glascock, Reverend Bobbitt, C.E. Van Gent, W.D. Elf rink, Chester Brewer, W.L. Driver, Crip Toomey, Vern Hickey, Ted Forbes, Will Lotter and Herb Schmalenberger. One built upon the other.

“What presidential candidate visited Davis a day before his assassination?”

Better question: “What Presi dent visited Davis on the back of a train?”

“What Davis street translates as ‘I have found it?’ “

More importantly, what Davis Street translates as “We have lost it,” since there’s no 13th Street between 12th and 14th?

“What is the capacity of the Vet erans’ Memorial Theater?”

4,855 gallons.

“Is Woodland located north or south of Davis?”

Actually, Woodland is just one of the dreaded W’s that surround us in all directions: Woodland,

Pedestrian struck by train in West Sacramento

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A man died Monday evening after being struck by a commuter train in West Sacramento, mark ing the region's third train-related fatality in less than a month’s time.

The deadly collision occurred shortly after 5 p.m. involving an eastbound Capitol Corridor train traveling from Davis to Sacra mento, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.

Yolo County coroner’s officials had not released the victim's name as of Thursday afternoon, pending

notification of next of kin.

Four trains, including the Capi tol Corridor line involved, experi enced delays as a result of the incident, Magliari said. No pas sengers or crew members reported injuries.

Meanwhile, authorities in Solano County continue to inves tigate the circumstances sur rounding a 57-year-old man’s death following an Oct. 24 train strike.

Wilfred Ocansey suffered fatal injuries after being hit by a west bound Capitol Corridor train traveling between Davis and

Dixon at about 4:30 a.m.

That fatality occurred less than two weeks after the Oct. 13 trainversus-pedestrian collision along Second Street in Davis that killed 45-year-old David Christian Per alta, a Davis resident.

His death, caused by multiple blunt-force injuries, was deter mined to be accidental, Yolo County Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said Thursday.

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

Winters, West Sacramento and Willowbank.

“Where is the UCD marine lab oratory?”

At the bottom of Hickey Pool.

“What weather condition made viewing the 1977 Aggie football game against Lehigh difficult?” Tule fog. Remember it well. National television, 10 a.m. start, coffee-and-doughnuts instead of hot dogs and popcorn at the con cession stand, ABC color com mentator Ara Parseghian welcoming nationwide TV audi ence to “California’s beautiful San Joaquin Valley.” Right state, wrong valley.

“What was the Gateway to Yolo County?”

Not sure, but the Winters Express always declared in its masthead that Winters was “The Gateway to Monticello Dam.”

“What educational activity was once located at Cactus Corners?”

Before the Peace Corps came along, it was a farm labor camp.

“What former Wimbledon sin gles champion played an exhibi tion tennis match in Davis?”

I have no idea.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Hat ties suspect to burglary

A distinctive hat led to a local man’s arrest on burglary and other charges last week, according to Davis police.

Lt. James MacNiven said the victim of an Oct. 28 vehicle burglary on Cranbrook Court later reported that the apparent thief tried using his debit card at the Target store in Woodland.

Davis police obtained security video of the attempted transaction, during which the sus pect — already known to Davis police — wore a baseball cap.

An officer patrolling the Chiles Road area last Friday spotted the man outside his resi dence and conducted a probation search, dur ing which police reported finding the same cap worn during the failed Target pur chase, MacNiven said.

Mitchell Scott Timm, 32, went to the Yolo County Jail on charges of burglary, identity theft and receiving sto len property.

Man arrested as nuisance

Davis police jailed a man on public-nui sance charges following several days of disrup tive behavior at a local business.

David Paul Leyva generated eight calls for police service over a three-day period at Ike da’s Country Market on Mace Boulevard, where he threw merchandise, hassled customers and stopped passing traffic, according to Lt. James MacNiven.

The final call shortly before 2:30 p.m. Satur day marked the last straw for officers, who arrested Leyva, 46, about 15 minutes later, MacNiven said.

Christmas classic on KDRT

Vince Guaraldi’s music continues to get a lot of airplay every year, especially “A Char lie Brown Christmas” in the fall.

This autumn Craft Recordings is releasing extended deluxe ver sions of the holiday classic, and three of the people involved in the project are guests on the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davis ville” — brothers Jason and Sean Mendelson, whose late father Lee Mendelson was execu tive producer of the Peanuts holiday spe cials, and Davis author Derrick Bang, who wrote the expanded CD/LP’s liner notes.

Holiday music would be very different if Lee Mendelson hadn’t brought Guaraldi and Peanuts creator Charles Schulz together. The topics on “Davisville” include how they met, Guaraldi, the music, the “Great Pumpkin” soundtrack released in August, and what it was like to voice characters for the Peanuts specials.

Bang also writes movies reviews for The Davis Enterprise.

KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM presents “Davisville,” hosted by Bill Buchanan, on Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays at 5 p.m., Fridays at 12:30 p.m., and Satur days at 8:30 a.m. The current program will be broadcast through Nov. 19, and is available any time at https://kdrt. org/davisville or on Apple podcasts.

Get to know Marie Curie’s legacy

By Sara Thompson Special to the Enterprise

MarieCurie is one of the most well-known scien tists, and her work was essential for understanding radia tion.

Born Maria Sklodowska on Nov. 7, 1867, she was the youngest of five children to her parents, who were both teachers. She grew up in Poland and learned how to use laboratory equipment from items her father brought home when laboratory instruction was elimi nated from schools. She was fasci nated by mathematics and physics, due in part that her father taught those subjects, and she perused these subjects in her learning.

In 1891, Sklodowska left Poland to attend the University of Paris, focusing on physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Studying dur ing the day and tutoring during the evenings, she received her degree in physics in 1893. Her degree helped her to get a job in a research laboratory led by Gabriel Lippmann, who would later become her doctoral advisor. A year later in 1884, she received a degree in mathematics. While in France her collogues began calling her “Marie” and she later changed her name to it.

While working in Lippmann’s laboratory, she met Pierre Curie, whom she married in 1895. Marie Curie did most of her work in a makeshift laboratory where Pierre

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was a professor. Using an elec trometer developed by her hus band, she discovered the air around a uranium sample was able to conduct electricity and that the radiation came from the atom itself and not from molecular interactions.

Inspired by Henri Becquerel, Curie experimented with two other uranium minerals and dis covered that both were two or four time more reactive than uranium alone, prompting her hypothesis that the samples contained sub stances other than uranium. She and Pierre worked to isolate the more reactive elements from a sample of pitchblende and discov ered two elements which they named “polonium,” after her home country, and “radium” after the Latin word for “ray.”

In their publications announc ing the new elements, they coined the term “radioactivity.” Their experiments also showed that dis eased cells were killed faster than healthy cells when exposed to radium. The couple continued to experiment and study the new ele ments and would publish 32 sci entific papers between 1898 and 1902.

In 1903, Marie Curie was awarded her doctorate from the University of Paris. In the same year, she, her husband and Henri

Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on radia tion. Curie continued to work on isolating polonium and radium elements for the next several years and earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911. She was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, and is one of two people who have been awarded a Nobel in two fields.

During World War I, Curie and her oldest daughter, Irene, devel oped mobile radiography units to aid surgeons on the battlefield. They recognized that soldiers needed immediate attention, and their devices helped save the lives and limbs of over a million

wounded soldiers. She also found a way to sterilize infected tissues with radon, a gas given off by radium.

The risks of radiation exposure were not known at the time of her research. Her long-term exposure to radioactive elements to the X-rays in field hospitals eventually caused her to develop aplastic anemia. She passed away on July 4, 1934, and left behind a legacy of discovery and hard work.

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Local educator earns national recognition

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Longtime Yolo County resident Dr. Mary Vixie Sandy has been recognized nationally for her efforts in advancing accomplished teaching and education.

Currently the executive director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Vixie Sandy has been awarded the James A. Kelly Award by the National Board of Pro fessional Teaching Stan dards.

The award, named after the founding president of the national board, honors individuals who advance the teaching profession and dedicate their lives to improving education for teachers and students.

“We are so excited to honor Dr. Vixie Sandy with our James Kelly Award this year,” said National Board President and CEO Peggy Brookins. “She truly exem plifies what it means to be an accomplished teacher,

and to work for the advance ment of our profes sion and the values that guide it. We are grateful to have her as a partner in the important work of furthering Ameri can education.”

Prior to becoming execu tive director of the Califor nia Commission on Teacher Credentialing (the nation’s oldest independent stan dards board for educators), Vixie Sandy served as exec utive director of the UC Davis School of Education CRESS Center, as an asso ciate director of teacher education and public school programs with the California State University Chancellor’s Office, and as a policy analyst for the California Department of Education and the

California Postsecondary Education Commission.

A Woodland resident, Vixie Sandy holds a doctor ate in education from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in education from UC Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Sonoma State University. Her professional focus is on building the capacity of teachers, leaders, public schools and communities to meet the needs of Cali fornia’s diverse student body.

Vixie Sandy currently oversees public policy related to educator prepa ration and licensing and directs an agency that awards over 250,000 cre dential documents per year and accredits more than 250 colleges, universities and local education agen cies offering educator prep aration programs.

“It is such an honor to receive this award, named after James Kelley, who embodies what it means to

RV driver killed in Interstate-5 crash

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A recreational-vehicle crash on Interstate 5 north of Woodland claimed the driver’s life Monday morn ing, the California Highway Patrol reported.

Officer Rodney Fitzhugh said a patrol officer located the collision scene shortly after 11 a.m. along north bound I-5 just south of the County Road 17 exit, approaching the small town of Yolo.

“For an unknown reason, the driver made an unsafe turning movement, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway, where it collided with the County Road 17 overcrossing,” Fitzhugh said in a news release. “As a result of this collision, the driver succumbed to the injuries they sustained.”

Yolo County coroner’s officials identified the driver as Jeffery Lee Grego rius, a 56-year-old Jackson resident, whose pet dog also perished in the crash.

No other vehicles were involved in the incident.

Fitzhugh said neither alcohol nor drugs appear to be factors in the collision, which remains under investigation. Contact the CHP’s Woodland office at 530-662-4685 with any information.

be a quality educator and a powerful advocate,” Vixie Sandy said. “I have spent my 30-year career in policy and government working to support and develop the educators our students need to meet their highest potential. I believe deeply in the power and far-reach ing impact of quality edu cation and accomplished teachers.”

Since its inception in 1999, the James A. Kelly Award has honored indi viduals who embody the following traits:

n A deep-seated belief in the inherent right of all children to receive a quality education;

n A professional life dedicated to improving education for teachers and their students;

n A passionate commit ment to improving teach ing and learning in

America;

n Unwavering dedica tion to the professional integrity and competence of teachers;

n Visionary and bound less energy, eternal opti mism, and expert leadership;

n An innate capacity to inspire collaboration and mobilize support that enabled unparalleled achievements in the history of American education reform; and

n A clear vision coupled with steadfast commitment and fierce determination which has led to historic milestones in American education and a meaning ful impact on teaching and learning.

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

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VIXIE SANDY Longtime educator

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The Yolo Community Founda tion recognizes 27 volunteers and donors for Yolo County Philan thropy Day 2022, each of them selected by local nonprofits for their work across a variety of cause areas.

“A single individual can make a lasting impact on their commu nity," said Bret Hewitt, president of the Yolo Community Founda tion Board. "The 2022 Philan thropy Day honorees have helped our local nonprofits serve our

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community’s most vulnerable and recover from a tough few years.”

Honoree contributions include patient care, community educa tion, building design, funding, mentorship, web design, food distribution and so much more.

From hundreds of hours of ser vice to millions of dollars raised, the contributions of these honor ees have truly made an impact on Yolo County.

Yolo County Philanthropy Day will be celebrated on Tuesday, Nov. 15, with a reception at the El Macero Country Club, sponsored

by Nugget Markets.

The awards will go to Joanne Andresen, Pence Gallery; Dr. James Barrett, Meals on Wheels Yolo County; Alan and Madeline Brattesani, Davis Arts Center; Margaret Burns, Yolo Commu nity Foundation; Denice Domke, West Sacramento Foundation; Jane Eadie, Yolo Crisis Nursery; Bradley Ellison, Explorit Science Center; Tim Gaffaney, Davis Media Access; Christine Golden, Cache Creek Conservancy; James Hagerty, CommuniCare Health Center; Jean Kridl, Davis Schools

Foundation; Alexandra Lee-Jobe, The Davis Phoenix Coalition; Melissa Loscutoff, The Woodland Opera House; Stephanie Madesh and Cory Bolter, Soroptimist International of Woodland; Phyl lis McCalla, International House Davis; Craig McNamara, Kitchen Table Advisors; The Moyle/ Marchand Family (Marilyn & Peter Moyle, Petrea & Vince Marchand, Sabrina Moyle & Julian Abdey), NAMI Yolo County; Dawn Myers, Yolo Health Aging Alliance; Doug Neuhauser and Louise Kellogg,

Pamela Trokanski Dance The atre; Maria Ogrydziak, Davis Community Meals and Housing; Garry Pearson, Davis Farm to School; Robert “Bob” Rennie, Yolo Food Bank; Patty Rominger, Winters Farm to School; Julie Sheehan and the Mastick Foun dation, YoloCares; Roz Stone, Fourth & Hope; Tony and Beth Tanke, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute — UC Davis; Visit Yolo and Bright People Foods, Wood land’s Dinner on Main

For details, visit www.bit.ly/ YoloPhilDay22.

June 26, 1957 — Nov. 6, 2022

Thomas Philip Burton passed away at the home he shared with his wife in Danbury, Ct., on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. His wife and children were there to com fort him in his last moments.

Tom was born on June 26, 1957, in Woodland, the third child of Tom and Carol Burton. The family eventually settled in Lom poc. Tom joined the Navy at the age of 19, just after the end of the Vietnam War. He studied at the Defense Language Insti tute Foreign Language

Center in Monterey, learn ing enough Spanish to get him stationed in Puerto Rico for two years.

He met Norma at a New Year’s Eve party as they danced to the music of José Feliciano y El Gran Combo. They were married in 1978 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, briefly honeymooning in San Francisco, then start ing their new lives in Davis.

Newly married, Tom earned his mechanical engineering degree at UC Davis, and further compli cated things by having two children with his wife

Sarah Elizabeth Taylor died on Oct. 21, 2020. Born on April 22, 1937, to Daniel and Effie Mae Taylor in Fort Benning, Ga., she graduated from Duke University and married Charles Hynes in 1961.

They had two children, William and Margaret. They divorced, and Sarah and the children moved to

Norma. Tom and Norma raised their two kids in Davis, put ting down deep roots for more than 35 years.

Tom was passionate about bicycles from a young age — he rode around Lompoc, Bayamón and Davis, and loved every second of it. Living in a community where bicy cles outnumbered people, Tom was in his element, even working at a local bike shop, Wheelworks.

Davis in 1976. Sarah was an active member of the community for more than 40 years. She worked as a teacher and counselor, and later earned a doctorate in education from the University of the Pacific. Sarah had a long and productive career at the California Department of Educa tion.

She met Doc Miller in 1986 and they spent the next 29 years together until his death on June 5, 2015. Sarah attended the Unitarian Church for

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Unfortunately, in 2013, Tom was injured in a bicy cle accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Despite his situation, he never lost his love for bicy cles or his love for life, fin ishing his Marriage and Family Therapy degree in 2014. In 2016, he and Norma moved to Danbury, just a mile down the road from their son, daughterin-law and grandchildren. They were quickly followed by their daughter.

Tom had a huge heart and was beloved by every community and person he touched. He was a dedicated friend,

many years, volunteered for the Democratic Party, and never missed her Saturday trip to Davis Farmers Market.

She is survived by her children, William Taylor and Margaret Hynes, and grandchildren Madeline and Stella Weiser.

A memorial service for Sarah will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, at 6 p.m. at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St. in Davis.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2022 1912

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Ashwin Aravindakshan filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a Ashwin Aravindakshan to Proposed name Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated be low to show cause if any why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed the court may grant the petition without a hearing

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: 12/29/2022 Time: 9:00 a m Dept : 10 Room: ZOOM

The address of the court is Yolo Superior Court Clerks Office Civil 1000 Main Street Woodland CA 95695

A copy of this Or der to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspa per of general circulation printed in this county: The Davis Enterprise

Date: 11/7/2022 Samuel T McAdam Judge of the Superior Court Published November 11 18 25 December 2 2022 #2077

and father, unburdened by rules, expectations … or punctuality.

A beautiful, free spirit, he frequently changed jobs until he found his calling in marriage and family coun seling in his 50s. He was dedicated to group grief therapy for his clients at the Triangle Community Cen ter, and individual virtual therapy administered from his bed during the pan demic.

Tom is survived by his

wife of 43 years, Norma López-Burton; their chil dren Leslie Burton-Lopez and her wife, Kirsten Bur ton, and Tab Burton and his wife, Monica Silva; grandchildren Amelia Riley Burton and Thomas Julian Burton; and siblings Kathy Robertson, Diane Heath and James Burton. All are welcome to attend Tom’s memorial service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Danbury at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13.

Thomas Philip Burton

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Sarah Elizabeth Taylor

April 22, 1937 — Oct. 21, 2020

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Sheriff’s office warns of scam

Someone is imper sonating a deputy sher iff in a local phone scam, and the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office warns locals not to fall for it.

“The scammers reportedly call potential victims and tell them that they need to imme diately send money or a gift card to them,” sher iff’s officials said in a Facebook post. “The scammers threaten that if the potential victims do not, a warrant will be issued for their arrest, and they may go to jail.”

The Sheriff’s Office never asks for money or other financial compen sation over the phone, officials say. Anyone who is targeted by this scam is asked to report it to their local lawenforcement agency.

Guinda hosts holiday craft fair

The Western Yolo Grange Hall will host a Holiday Craft Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun day, Nov. 20, at 16787 Forest Ave. in Guinda.

On hiatus for two years because of the COVID pandemic, Hol iday Craft Faire, returns in 2022 with craft ven dors; luscious food; and volunteers to prepare and serve chili, and sell Grammy Wyatt’s home made almond roca.

UCD makes ‘60 Minutes’

The CBS news pro gram “60 Minutes” fea tured the UC School of Veterinary Medicine on Sunday, Oct. 30. The production — watched by an estimated 9 mil lion people — and a bonus segment are available online.

The EpiCenter for Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence’s work near the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest was featured on 60 Minutes and 60 Min utes Overtime. Teams at the Bwindi Commu nity Hospital, Gorilla Doctors and Uganda Virus Research Insti tute work together with a consortium of leading research partners to advance an under standing of virus emer gence and transmission at important animalhuman interfaces.

This work is sup ported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID award U01AI151814) and is part of the CREID Net work.

‘Unfold’ looks at prosthetics

In the newest Season 4 episode of “Unfold,” a UC Davis podcast, we look at how the combi nation of surgery and machine learning is making life easier for amputees.

Nearly half of all arm amputees choose not to use their prosthesis, despite improvements in technology. Pros thetic devices can be too difficult to operate, unintuitive and don’t allow amputees to sense pressure or tempera ture. At UCD, engi neers, neuroscientists and surgeons are col laborating to solve this problem.

Unfold is available free, on demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Google Pod casts, on your smart speaker or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow on Twitter at @Unfoldpodcast.

COACH: Hall-of-famer takes over

racism when the team’s most decorated gymnast Alexis Brown told The Enterprise in 2020 that she faced racist backlash for kneeling during the National Anthem. Accord ing to the article, Lavallee asked her what kind of example she was setting for kneeling. Additionally, she said she was called the N-word by teammates and was mocked for doing the black power salute when her name was called out each time as the winner at the Airforce Academy in Colorado Springs.

Lavallee was in his 15th season with the Aggies. In 2017, Lavallee signed a fiveyear contract extension with a 2022 end date, mak ing it two years after the incidents were made public that his employment was terminated.

In a press release, Direc tor of Athletics Rocko DeLuca said: “It is time for new leadership atop our gymnastics program. Tanya has been an instrumental part of our program for several years and I am grateful that she has agreed to step up. I am confident that our student-athletes will have a transformative experience and compete for championships under her leadership. We will begin a national search for a new head coach in the months

ahead and, in the meantime, we will do everything we can to support our studentathletes.”

Accord ing to the athletic depart ment, Ho, a 2010 UC Davis graduate in exercise biol ogy, won 13 All-MPSF awards and nine confer ence weekly honors. She was the first Aggie gymnast to make three straight trips to the NCAA postseason, the second to make the region meet in back-toback years as an allarounder, and the fourth to crack the 39-point barrier in the all-around. Ho entered the CAAHOF in 2016, making her “the first Lavallee-era gymnast to earn such enshrinement.”

Brown, who studies in London at the Royal Vet erinary College, took to Instagram in a public post, stating that upon investiga tion, UCD found that Lavallee had created “a racist and toxic environ ment but thought that DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) education would solve the problem. Update: it didn’t work.”

She wrote that while she was relieved he had been fired, it shouldn’t have taken two investigations to

do so. “Both the athletic director and the chancellor knew about the issues she raised in 2017, and 2018 and were again reminded in 2020. Now in 2022 hav ing finally taken action I question their intent (is it a performance to save their reputation?). Regardless, today is a win and I’m smil ing.”

As of press time, DeLuca hasn’t returned calls for additional comment regarding the details of Lavallee’s termination.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@davisenter prise.net.

TALLIES: Next update on Tuesday

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allows for counties to count ballots and certify results — a lengthy time period that Yolo County has rarely needed in the past.

Not so this time.

But Salinas said every effort will be made to pro vide unofficial updates frequently and to certify the election as soon as possible.

After results were posted early Wednesday morning, no additional updates have been pro vided and none will occur until Tuesday, Nov. 15, the elections office said. A subsequent update to vote totals will follow on Fri day, Nov. 18.

Until then, Davis voters in City Council districts 1 and 4 are left with the results posted early Wednesday morning. Those results had Coun cilwoman Gloria Partida leading challenger Adam Morrill in District 4, with Partida ahead 60.88 per cent to Morrill’s 39.12 percent.

Over in District 1, Bapu Vaitla was leading with 59.37 percent of the vote to Councilman Dan Car son’s 27.34 percent and Kelsey Fortune’s 13.29 percent.

Historically in council elections, the early results have largely held up, and Partida and Vaitla both have fairly large leads to begin with.

Both were feeling posi tive Thursday about the eventual outcome.

“I’m optimistic,” Vaitla said. “It looks great. We have a large lead and it’s not clear how many votes are still outstanding, but from what others are tell ing me, it seems like a lead that will hold up, so I’m cautiously optimistic.”

Partida, too, said, “I’m very, very pleased with the outcome. I’m quite com mitted to continuing to serve.”

According to the last results posted, 2,520 votes had been cast in District 1 and 2,569 in District 4. There are 7,150 registered voters in District 1 and 8,393 registered voters in District 4, according to the elections office.

But how many of those registered voters actually voted, and how many residents of those districts registered and voted on Election Day, is not yet known.

The county elections office has until Dec. 8 to sort all of that out and members of the public are welcome to observe the canvassing process.

Elections workers will be working extended hours — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — on weekdays and some holiday weekends until the election is certified. That work takes place in the elections office located at 625 Court St., Suite B-05, in Woodland. Those interested in observing are encouraged to contact the elections office for the most up-todate schedule. Contact the office at 530-666-8133.

WALSH: Long journey leads up to big job at Davis school

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how I got into it. I just love being around kids.”

Walsh would go on to teach in L.A. for a year, but she yearned to be closer to family which brought her and her hus band back up to Davis. She then spent six years teaching Kindergarten for the Woodland Joint Uni fied School District before taking a nine-year hiatus to raise her three boys.

to become the principal at Birch Lane Elementary after a grueling pan demic.

ORDINANCE: Concern over stolen guns

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amended the ordinance to require firearms be stored in a locked container, but the container could be secured to the vehicle with a chain or cable lock rather than permanently affixed.

The focus on safe gun storage has been a priority of local members of Moms Demand Action and several volunteers with the Yolo County chapter urged county supervisors to enact the amendment on Tuesday.

Davis resident Mary Lou Rossetto, who serves as community outreach vol unteer for the local chapter, was one of them.

“I used to be a police offi cer,” she said. “I’m also a

hunter and a gun owner. I understand the need for safe storage in vehicles and, as a hunter, I realize it’s a little more inconvenient for some people who might put their rifle in their rack, but … it’s a different time than it used to be and the theft of guns has caused an increase in violence.”

Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis agreed.

“This is a significant ordinance in that guns that are used in crimes are often stolen and one easy source of a stolen weapon is a gun left unattended in a car,” he said.

“We go through all these efforts to make sure that there are background

checks and waiting periods and all the other laws we have, but someone could easily steal a gun and defeat that purpose, so this, to me, is a no-brainer.”

The board voted unani mously in favor of the ordi nance amendment, which will return for a second and final vote at the board’s next meeting.

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

That hiatus wasn’t time off, however, as all three of her boys went through the DJUSD, she was a big volunteer, was on the PTA, helped run auctions, was on the Little League board and also taught preschool at Applegate Nursery School where her boys attended.

She made her return to teaching full-time after that, at Korematsu, then shifted to Pioneer, where she’d teach until 2020.

Walsh became a vice prin cipal in Folsom from 2021 to 2022 before returning to the DJUSD

“What I’m looking for ward to most as principal is just being able to build community on our cam pus. To be honest, that feeling of watching a kindergartener start, then graduate in the sixth grade, I don’t know if you could ask for something better than that watching their development through all those years,” said Walsh. “It’s just a privilege knowing them through those develop mental years. It’s why you do it and why at five in the morning when I’m saying, ‘I just can’t,’ I think to myself just get up because the kids are getting up too.”

From being a DJUSD parent to becoming a DJUSD principal, Walsh’s wealth of experience and communal ties combined with her upbringing seem to make her an ideal fit for Birch Lane’s students and families.

HO Interim coach

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Former UC Davis head gymnastics coach John Lavallee spots Aggie Jamie Panchak during practice in 2019.

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UC Davis alumna Alexis Brown is one of the most dec orated gymnasts in program history. During her final two NCAA seasons, she knelt dur ing the national anthem to protest racism and police brutality.

n Ryan Janke will lead a Yolo Audubon field trip to the Cosumnes River Preserve from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. This preserve has an array of important valley floor bird habitats including wetlands, floodplains, agricultural land, and rare valley oak riparian. Birding at the interface of these habi tats provides a unique opportunity to view a diverse list of species with relative ease. The trip will entail a walk along the flat and wellmaintained trails through these habitats to view woodpeckers, rap tors, wetland birds, win tering sparrows, ducks, geese, and shore birds. The field trip also will explore the agricul tural fields along Des mond Road which is renowned for Sandhill Cranes. For reservations, go to yoloaudubon. org or facebook.com/ yoloaudubonsociety.

n The Episcopal Church of St. Martin, continues its free Seeds of Justice lecture series online at 4 p.m. John M. Liu, professor emeritus in the departments of Asian American studies and sociology at UC Irvine will offer a presen tation on “How Manifest Destiny Changed the Color of Labor.” Learn more at https:// churchofstmartin. org/2022/08/03/savethe-date-seeds-of-jus tice-continues/.

Monday

n The public is invited to attend the Davis Bike Club’s monthly member ship meeting and social at 7 p.m. at the U.S. Bicy cling Hall of Fame at Third and B streets in Davis. This month’s gath ering will feature free docent-led tours of the Bicycling Hall of fame and the opportunity to meet enthusiastic bike riders. For information about the Davis Bike Club and its weekly rides, see www.DavisBikeClub. org or contact Maria, outreach director, at out reach@davisbikeclub. org.

Wednesday

n The Yolo Audubon Society invites the public to join its monthly pro gram meeting via Zoom. Marc Hoshovsky will speak on the history of the South Fork Pre serve, which is along Putah Creek, a few miles southeast of downtown Davis. The preserve is a publicly accessible city of Davis open-space area. This 192-acre preserve is one of the best examples of riparian and flood plain forest along Putah Creek. For reservations, go to yoloaudubon.org or facebook.com/yoloaudu bonsociety.

Thursday

n Soroptimist Interna tional of Davis invites community members to join its annual Soup Night and Silent Auction at Davis Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The silent auction begins at 6 and closes at 7:30 p.m. Fill up on members’ best soups, breads and desserts while getting a jump start on holiday gifts. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, along with non-alcoholic beverages. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. The evening’s proceeds benefit SI Davis programs and projects. Learn more at https:// www.sidavis.org/.

Friday, Nov. 18

n The UC Davis Arbo retum hosts a Folk Music Jam Session from noon to 1 p.m. Folk musicians are once again invited to bring their acoustic instruments and play together informally dur ing this jam session at Wyatt Deck (next to the redwood grove). Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whis tles, pipes, flutes, squee zeboxes (you name it) and join your fellow musicians for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer and world music over the lunch hour. All skill levels welcome and listeners are invited. Short-term parking is available in Visitor Lot 5 on Old Davis Road at Arbore tum Drive. Hourly rates start at $1.75.

Saturday, Nov. 19

n The annual Davis model train display will be up and running at the Davis train station (Amtrak) at 840 Second St. in downtown Davis. Sponsored by the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club (davisrotary.org) and the Davis Model Train Club, admission is free. Any donations received will be directed to local charitable pro grams. The electric train display will be open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

n Ceramics, jewelry, wildlife photography, cards, woodblock prints, baked goods, candles, soaps, crocheted accesso ries, Japanese fish prints, tote bags, quilted baby blankets, local honey, and more will be featured at the 12th annual Vil lage Homes Arts & Crafts Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Village Homes Community Cen ter and on the Village Homes Green, 2661 Por tage Bay East (off Russell Blvd.). Guests can enjoy live music. Admission is free. For information, contact Jill Van Zanten at jillvz@sbcglobal.net.

Yolo SPCA hosts adoptions at Pet Food Express

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Yolo SPCA will have an adoption event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at Pet Food Express in the Oakshade Shopping Center, 2171 Cowell Blvd. in south Davis.

Featured are a variety of adorable kittens and cats waiting for their forever home. All of our animals are microchipped, vacci nated, and spayed or neu tered. To see which cats are available for adoption to meet, please see the Yolo SPCA website at https:// www.yolospca.org/adopt. html. If you are interested in adopting, it helps to fill in an adoption request form ahead of time on line at https://form.jotform. com/52328506444151/.

For additional informa tion, contact Yolo SPCA at

Reyla, a 7-week-old female mackerel kitten.

yolospcafoster@gmail. com. To support and con tinue their work helping

Pets of the week

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

Among them is Stormy (A199358), a sweet, 12-week-old male gray kit ten who has dreamy eyes and a darling personality. Stormy is playful, curious and charming when he meets new friends.

friend if managed prop erly.

For information on adopting, contact adopty cas@gmail.com. All shel ter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, micro chipped, and spayed or neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-6685287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsof ycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/ yolovolunteerapp.

Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

Stormy

Also hoping for a good home is Gemma (A192865), a 2-year-old pit bull that is a flower ready to bloom. Gemma can be shy but warms up quickly. Gemma knows how to sit and she walks well on leash. She loves being told she's a good girl and is eager to learn fun things for treats. Gemma gets to go on day trips and her foster reports she hap pily relaxes on her bed after walks. Gemma could possibly live with a dog

At Rotts of Friends Ani mal Rescue, you’ll find Penny, a 1- to 1½-year-old spayed female Rottweiler. Penny is super-loving and people-friendly. She walks well on leash. Penny will be a good family dog with older children or a best buddy for a single or cou ple.

Ocean is a 1- to 1½-yearold mostly black spayed female Chihuahua. She is a sweet, loving, energetic pup that loves people and loves to play with other lit tle dogs. Ocean keeps everyone smiling with her silly antics; she is defi nitely a volunteer favorite.

The next Rotts of

Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland.

Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

Bring proof of home ownership, such as a mort gage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, please bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in

animals, Yolo SPCA wel comes and appreciates monetary donations which

can be made online under “donate” at https://www. yolospca.org/.

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your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord. All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines and come with free life time obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook.com/rotts offriends.

Penny

Gemma

Come check out Pence’s Holiday Market

By Natalie Nelson Special to The Enterprise

ThePence’s Holiday Market is our annual fine-art and craft sale, and it’s open from Nov. 11 to Dec. 24, daily. This year’s display is full of jewelry, scarves, ceramics and festive holi day items, all created by talented artists working in our community.

Visitors will find unique gift items, such as hand-painted Santa figu rines by Janet Crittenden, complete with a little pet next to them, and felted ornaments by Sara Helen Designs. We’ll also have a variety of scented soaps, candles, and bath bombs with natural ingredients by crafters such as Liz McGuire. There are lovely ceramic dishes and mugs by Debra Bridges, Jean Decker, and Jill Van Zanten, and knitted or woven scarves by Natalie MacKenzie and John Loades. As per usual, the selection of jewelry by local artisans will be amazing, and we’ll have a good variety of vintage pins, rings, and earrings available as well.

I invite visitors to stop by the Pence during Shop Small Saturday on Nov. 25-27, where Pence Mem bers can receive 10% off at our annual Holiday Mar ket. The Pence is one of many sites downtown that buyers can receive raffle tickets for purchasing

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items, in the hopes of winning three large prizes from downtown busi nesses.

Jan Walker’s exhibit, “Don’t Fence Me In,” is on display upstairs at the Pence through Nov. 27.

Walker is a versatile artist, working in watercolor and printmaking as well as oil paint. Her exhibit cele brates the beauty and free dom of the wild horses who roam the Western states. She is deeply inspired by their strength, and the bonds that they form with different gener ations of their herd.

As she writes of their strong connection to the land, “They are as equally of the wild as they are the wild itself.” The current plight of wild horses is tied to ongoing threats from the cattle industry, who lobby efforts by the federal government to cull and confine the herds. A por tion of the sales from her paintings will be donated to organizations that pro mote the humane treat ment of wild horses.

Her portrait of a foal caught in a field of pop pies, “First Light,” is a sensitive depiction of the beauty of a young wild horse. Even the inclusion of the California poppy reminds me that mus tangs are present throughout the Western United States, and seeing

them in the wild can be a breathtaking experience, as Walker has found in her travels.

In our Main Gallery, the “Interwoven” exhibit con tinues through Nov. 27. It’s an exhibit that lingers in its effect. Each of the eight artists have work that is so distinctly different and thought-provoking in a subtle way. The exhibit includes sculpture by Sara Post, Lynn Beldner and Edith Sauer Polonik, and two-dimensional work by

Three of the works on display are by Woodland painter Rachel Kline, but they are portrayed in a different way from her more photorealist style. Completed all in shades of black, the paintings center on solitary objects: a broom, a whimsical pull-toy, and a falling book.

I’ve heard so many

great questions about this piece, best of all from one of our school tour groups. They decided that it was a short story about a myste rious object, and that it involved all three depicted items, which were linked in some way with a missing character. The boys decided then to make artworks upstairs in our studio space which were connected in some way. I always think it’s fascinating how a simple still life can evoke a whole imagined story in the mind of the viewer.

I invite you to visit and decide your own plot to the three paintings by Kline, before the exhibit ends on the 27th. This exhibit is sponsored by Rosa Marquez and Yatish Mishra.

During the holidays, the Pence is offering a special gift for the com munity. If you join as a member until the New Year at the $130 Muse level or above, you can receive a free Art Lover membership valued at $65 to gift. Membership is a perfect holiday gift, and it’s good for a full year of discounts on classes, event tickets, art ist calls and gift shop pur chases. Just purchase your membership online at pencegallery.org and email the gift recipient’s name & address to us.

This month during the 2nd Friday ArtAbout on Nov. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m., we’ll have complimentary wine tasting provided by Twisted Cedar Native American Wine. I’m really excited about this, as typically we just offer a red and a white wine from California, and there’s not a “tasting” at all. (As my mother used to say, “You get what you get.”) The wine is made by the Cedar Band of Paiutes in Utah, and we are grate ful for their support.

All three exhibits will be open, and we invite you to stop by to meet the artists, shop at Holiday Market, and to enjoy some wine and good cheer.

— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.

UCD Symphony to feature cellist from major British orchestra

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise arts writer

During the next ten days, the Mondavi Center will host an innovative dra matic presentation that casts light on a complex and widespread social issue in the United States.

The UC Davis perform ing-arts venue also will host a three-night visit by a young jazz pianist who has a growing reputation, and a concert by the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra fea turing as soloist an Argen tine-born cellist who now serves as the principal cello with one of England's most prominent symphony orchestras.

This weekend

■ There are three perfor mances of Red Door The atre’s production, “Evolve,” which explores the rela tionship between law enforcement and commu nities of color.

The show plays on Fri day, Nov. 11, and Saturday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m., plus Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m., in the Mondavi Center’s

Upcoming in mid-November

■ The Emmet Cohen Trio, led by young jazz pianist Emmet Cohen, performs in the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef Stu dio Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 17, Friday, Nov. 18, and Saturday, Nov. 19, all at 7:30 p.m.

The trio picked up sev eral honors in a recent poll of JazzTimes readers, including Artist of the Year, Best Pianist, and Best Acoustic group. $65-$45 general, MondaviArts.org. Check in advance about ticket availability since some performances may be sold out.

■ The UC Davis Sym phony Orchestra, con ducted by Christian Baldini, will present the U.S. premiere of Alejandro Civilotti’s “Auris Concer tum,” featuring Eduardo Vassallo as the cello soloist, on Nov. 19. Vassallo is the

principal cellist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which recently performed at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Cen ter for the Performing Arts.

The program also fea tures Igor Stravinsky’s “Petrushka” and George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings.”

The concert takes place at 7 p.m. at the Mondavi Cen ter.

Civilotti’s concerto is part of a set: one for violin (“Auris Resonantiam”) and one for cello (“Auris Con certum”). Both are dedi cated to the individuals and organizations that

made the composer’s own cochlear implants possible, which gave him hearing he had lost in childhood. Over the composer’s lifetime, he has explored the various ways individuals with cochlear implants experi ence music. In this con certo, the composer sought to flip the experience, seek ing to show hearing audi ences how difficult it might be for someone with hear ing difficulties to under stand individual voices in a crowded space.

Civilotti, Vassallo and Baldini are natives of Argentina, and they have all previously collaborated with one another. In 2017, Vassallo (and musicians of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) pre miered Civilotti’s “Aché” for actress, solo violoncello and percussion. In 2013, Baldini conducted the pre miere performance of Civi lotti’s “Elegía por Julia Ponce, de Lavapiés” with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina.

The Davis orchestra presents the 1947 concert revision of the ballet

music from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.” The revision is for a slightly smaller orchestra, but is more concert-like than balletlike. Stravinsky made the revision a couple years after he and his wife Vera became naturalized U.S. citizens and residents of California after leaving Paris.

Walker’s “Lyric for Strings” was dedicated to his grandmother, who escaped enslavement and became one of Walker’s strongest supporters in his music studies. The compo sition is also inspired by Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for Strings.” In 1996, Walker became the first Black American com poser to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Tickets are $24 for adults and $12 for students and youth. Tickets are available at the Mondavi Center Ticket Office in per son or by calling 530-7542787 between noon and 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Tickets are also available online at tickets. mondaviarts.org.

Vanderhoef Studio The atre, $35 general, discounts for students, online at MondaviArts.org.

Hannah Klaus Hunter, Jamie Madison, Rachel Kline, Binuta Sudha karna and Joan Jarvis.

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Eduardo Vassalo, principal cello of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in the UK, will be soloist with the UCD Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Nov. 19.

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Jan Walker’s “First Light” painting of a young foal is part of her “Don’t Fence Me In” exhibit on display at the Pence.

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Janet Crittenden’s Santas come in different colors be sides this traditional redcoated one in our Holiday Market.

Overlong sequel sags beneath the weight of expectation and overkill

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

If this new entry falls short of its predecessor, it’s mostly because the 2018 film set the bar so impres sively high.

That said, director Ryan Coogler’s second entry in the “Black Panther” series has a massive hole in its center: the tragic absence of star Chadwick Boseman. Try as they might, Coogler and co-scripter Joe Robert Cole — both of whom brought us the first film — can’t quite fill that gap.

And, in an effort to com pensate — while also hon oring the series’ ongoing heritage — they spend too much time on grief, lamen tation and bleak dialogue exchanges between the sto ry’s primary characters. You’ll find very few smiles in this long-winded saga, which at a ridiculously selfindulgent 161 minutes, overstays its welcome by at least one massive melee too many.

On top of which, this sto ry’s central character — the science-minded prodigy, Shuri (Letitia Wright) — is burdened by an unneces sary amount of heartbreak.

A year has passed since the untimely death of Shuri’s older brother, King T’Challa, from circum stances left vague. Wakan da’s Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) struggles to protect their nation from

intervening world powers, some of whom wish to get their hands on the African realm’s fabled vibranium metal, with its extraordi nary abilities to absorb, store and release large amounts of kinetic energy.

This meteoric substance also remains invisible to conventional scanners, making it a potential gamechanger in global rivalries … which Queen Ramonda knows only too well. She has no intention of sharing vibranium with anybody

Ah, but elsewhere at sea, a U.S. research facility is monitoring the progress of a deep-water machine that can detect — and has found — an undersea vibranium deposit. But before this dis covery can be celebrated, everybody at the facility is slaughtered by a platoon of blue-skinned underwater denizens, led by the remorselessly vicious Namor (Tenoch Huerta), lord of the hidden undersea civilization of Talokan.

We eventually learn that Namor’s people long ago found their own vibranium

meteor, with which their undersea civilization was built; he therefore shares Wakanda’s desire to shield this discovery. But whereas Queen Ramonda prefers to rely on diplomacy, the bloodthirsty Namor wishes to wage war on the entire surface world … with Wakanda’s help.

And if Queen Ramonda refuses, he’ll destroy Wakanda first. (Nice guy, hmm?)

Namor’s first order of business, though, is to locate and kill the scientist who developed the vibra nium detector. Shuri — chaperoned by Okoye (Danai Gurira), head of the Amazon-esque Dora Milaje, the all-female Wakandan warrior clan — hopes to find this individ ual first. Imagine their surprise, when the “scien tist” turns out to be Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a whip-smart, super-cool 19-year-old MIT student.

What follows becomes a bit clumsy: Namor wants Riri dead, but apparently

changes his mind, then changes his mind again.

This prompts some obliga tory background exposi tion, which allows Namor to show a softer side … which Huerta can’t pull off. He’s much more believable as a bad-ass über-villain.

Back in her Wakanda lab, Shuri has spent the previous year trying to rep licate the heart-shaped herbs that traditionally gave the Black Panther his powers, all of which were destroyed in the previous film by Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan, who makes a telling return appearance here). Shuri views this as essential, because Wakanda remains somewhat “aimless” with out its cherished symbol of might and authority.

Wright capably shoulders the burden of this film’s emotional angst; Shuri has buried herself in the lab, rather than fully deal with the grief of losing her older brother. This is both unwise and unhealthy, as her mother Ramonda knows full well; Shuri is

likely to succumb to anger and a desire for revenge.

Bassett’s Queen Ramonda is the epitome of nobility; Winston Duke makes a welcome return as the imposing M’Baku, leader of the Wakanda Jabari tribe. Duke’s best moment comes when M’Baku attempts to cut through Shuri’s stubborn emotional withdrawal.

Okoye also endures con siderable emotional upheaval, and Gurira’s per formance is similarly solid: a warrior who knows no other way of life, and is beyond despair when she’s suddenly stripped of this responsibility.

Thorne’s Riri is a total hoot: the personification of bubbly, reckless teenage enthusiasm. She’s a breath of fresh air in a story other wise laden with so many gloomy characters.

Ruth E. Carter’s costume design is stunning, both for the variety and dazzling colors worn by the primary characters and hundreds of extras who populate so many scenes. Hannah

Beachler and Jason T. Clark’s production design is similarly jaw-dropping, having created a massive undersea kingdom that is every bit as visually breath taking as Wakanda. Marvel Cinematic Universe entries always look amazing.

Ultimately, though, Coogler’s film sags beneath the weight of serving dispa rate responsibilities: prop erly honoring Boseman, while also somehow top ping the first film’s action sequences. Coogler and Cole’s attempt at the latter ultimately involves far too much mean-spirited death, destruction and collateral civilian damage.

On the other hand, the revised MCU logo — which introduces this film — is a touching nod toward Bose man, as are some wellplaced “memory clips” toward the conclusion.

Ironically, though, they merely remind us of what this bombastic, overlong sequel lacks: heart.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrickbang.

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UCD theater presents ‘The Fall Show’

Performance explores the stage directions of Charles Mee

Special to The Enterprise

“The Fall Show,” a devised work inspired by the epic and mundane stage direc tions from Charles Mee’s plays, will be presented by the UC Davis department of theatre and dance from Nov. 18 to 20 in the Main The ater, Wright Hall.

Directed by Erika Chong Shuch with dramaturgy by Sarah-Rose Leonard, the

project turns the stage directions in all the plays written by Mee as a starting place for a collaboration between Shuch and the stu dent ensemble.

Working with dramaturg Leonard, the performance uses directions from selected texts that speak to the contemporary moment through a series of vignettes. The segments highlight the desperate attempts to be loved, to be seen and to accept the existential unknowns of morality.

“Activating the stage directions is exploding into the world these heightened moments that often make no sense,” said Chong Shuch. “The senseless, the impulsive, the hard crash into instinctual and animal

istic; unhinged and desper ate and brimming with feeling.”

Shuch is a performance maker, choreographer and director whose topic-driven ruminations coalesce into imagistic assemblages of music, movement, text and design. Her work has been performed in city halls, the aters, industrial offices spaces, diners, parking lots and food courts.

Performances are at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18 and 19, and 2 p.m. on Nov. 20. All tick ets are $5. Tickets may be purchased at the UC Davis Ticket Office, on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone 530-752-2471 during the same hours, or online at theatredance.ucdavis.edu.

Logos features quilter’s work

Special to The Enterprise

Logos Books will feature the quilts and textile art of Sarah Hedriana, “Modern Traditionalist Quilter,” from Oct. 29 to Dec. 2, at 513 Second St. in downtown Davis. A reception for Sec ond Friday ArtAbout will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 11.

Hedriana is a modern traditionalist quilter whose work is inspired by the land scapes, farms and orchards of Northern California. She designs, creates and sells quilted wall hangings, table runners, pillows covers, throws and bed quilts.

Hedriana pieces her quilts so that she can run them through a washer and dryer in order to develop crinkles that add depth and texture. The pieces are a combina tion of cotton batting, cot ton thread, and cotton and linen fabric.

During her childhood in Indiana, Hedriana’s mother created a beautiful and wel coming home by sewing napkins, table coverings and cushions. When she had a family of her own, she decided to learn to sew in order to recreate the cozy atmosphere of her youth. This led her to discover the

joy of quilting.

With the loving support of her husband, Herman, Hedriana has been able to work full-time on creating quilts and sharing them with others. She recently started working with Coyu chi, an organic home-tex tiles company based in Point Reyes Station. She currently sells her wares at the Davis Farmers Market.

“My hope is to inspire conversation about what makes something a quilt,” Hedriana said. “People tend to think of a quilt as a bed cover but it can be many more things.”

On Saturday, Nov. 12, Stories on Stage Davis will present two stories inside the Pence Art Gallery in downtown Davis. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the event starts at 7:30. Masks are strongly encouraged but not required.

The short story “Snakes” by Kayleigh Norgord will be read by Analise Langford-Clark. In this coming-of-age short story set in Wisconsin, an

11-year-old girl and her older sister Aubrina come to live with their grandmother — again. Their mother is off doing who-knows-what with who-knows-who, and meanwhile, a modelturned-criminal is on the run nearby and Aubrina surprises the family. This multigenerational story about mothers and daugh ters speaks to the compli cated models and decisions in our lives.

An excerpt from the

short story “The Church of Abundant Life” by Yoon Choi will be read by Krystle Piamonte. Park Soo-ah’s life is changing: she leaves her home country of South Korea to join her husband in Newport, Pa. But the life that greets her is not the one she expected. Poi gnantly capturing a pivotal moment, this excerpt dis plays her interiority, touch ing on larger questions about duty to oneself and to one’s husband and culture.

Based on the popular Disney Channel original movies, “Disney's Descendants: The Musical” is a brand-new musical jampacked with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films.

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost — home of the most infamous villains who ever lived — the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar and Cru ella De Vil have never ventured off the island … until now. When the four trou blemakers are sent to attend prep school

alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?

Megan Richmond will direct & choreo graph, with Montana Monroe providing musical direction.

“Disney’s Descendants: The Musical” plays on Saturdays at 2 p.m., Nov. 19 and 26, and Dec. 3 and 10; Friday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. Tick ets are $8 all ages. They can be purchased online at dmtc.org or by calling (530) 7563682. (There is a $2 facility fee per ticket on a purchase, cash, charge, phone, inter net, or in person)

Purchase tickets at http://dmtc. org or https://app.arts-people.com/index. php?show=134008. For information, visit dmtc.org or call 530-756-3682.

Okoye (Danai Gurira, left) and Shuri (Letitia Wright) adopt disguises in an ef fort to infiltrate MIT, where they hope to locate — and rescue — the scientist who has developed a controversial vibranium detector.

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Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Dominique Thorne, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman

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Karianyelis Rivas Navarro sets the cast in motion in “The Fall Show” at UC Davis.

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Clockwise from up per left, Catherine Carrie, Julia Lind say, Jasarae DeRe mer, (Bottom L-R) Liam O’Donnell, Marian Fabionar, Chloe Aldrete, and Nico Srinivas, in DMTC’s Young Performer’s Theatre production of “Disney’s The Descendants: The Musical.”

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Stories on Stage Davis presents tales about adjusting to new places

Special to The Enterprise

Davis Musical Theatre Company pres ents its Young Performers’ Theatre pro duction of “Disney’s Descendants: The Musical” from Nov. 19 through Dec. 11, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Cen ter, 607 Peña Drive, No. 10, in Davis.

Past offenders get a second chance

By Henry Ortiz Special to CalMatters

If the goal is to make California safer, the state took a major step in the right direc tion in September after Gov. Gavin New som signed groundbreaking legislation that gives people who have been arrested or convicted of a crime a genuine chance to turn their lives around.

Having spent 18 years living inside our state’s prison facilities, I know from per sonal experience how much this will help.

Authored by Democratic state Sen. María Elena Durazo of Los Angeles, Senate Bill 731 allows almost all old convictions to be permanently sealed once a person has fully completed their sentence and gone four additional years with no further contact with the justice system.

The law creates the most comprehensive sealing system in the nation, and ensures an old conviction or arrest record does not permanently prevent someone from achiev ing their goal of a second chance. For the first time, Californians with a record will no longer be restricted from getting good-pay ing jobs, living in stable housing, or con tributing the full measure of our talents to supporting our families and communities— instead of being steered back into the streets.

Nearly 8 million people in California — 1 in 5 residents — have a criminal record. That’s 8 million Californians that many employers would not hire once they per form a background check. That’s 8 million human beings who struggle to secure hous ing because landlords will not rent to them. That’s 8 million people who could be denied normal parental opportunities, such as a chance to volunteer at their children’s school or coach their child’s little league team — because of an old conviction.

And because so many people living with records have families, their partners and children — through no fault of their own — are also denied access to these basic neces sities.

As a troubled teenager who grew up in Stockton and Los Angeles, I made some bad choices. Looking back, a lot of those choices stemmed from a fundamental desire to survive in a brutal environment, where I was pinned between poverty and neglect on one side and the so-called war on drugs on the other.

But now, decades later, experience and wisdom have changed me. I am not the same man. In prison, I created a nonprofit organization that worked to address the trauma afflicting so many who come into — and out of — our state’s justice system. Since my release, I have dedicated my life to addressing community trauma in my adopted hometown of Sacramento.

Nevertheless, I am still not free. When I applied for jobs for which I was clearly qualified, I was rejected because of my record. When I’ve tried to find housing, I have been denied because of my record. Even though I completed my sentence, was released from parole, and had no contact with the system, my record still haunts me.

Yes, there are horrible crimes that require accountability. But most of the people I met in prison were driven there by a will to sur vive in a hostile world. Sadly, the brutal, dehumanizing experience of incarceration does little to improve things — and some times makes them worse.

If we are serious about protecting the safety of people in California, we must con tinue to focus more of our energy and resources on prevention and healing, rather than incarceration. Increased access to public health supports, such as mental health services and substance-use treat ment — along with safe and stable housing and opportunities for employment and education — will generate far better results.

Until then, California can be proud about once again leading the nation by extending opportunities to the millions of people who have already paid their debt to society.

— Henry Ortiz is a senior staff commu nity organizer for Legal Services for Prison ers with Children and the Northern California chapter coordinator for Time Done, a national network of more than 80,000 people with old records.

Whither Newsom — what’s next?

Few California politicians have been more oppor tunistic than Gavin Newsom, just reelected easily to four more years in the gov ernor’s state capitol office.

But few governors ever seemed more bored with the job itself. Like several prede cessors, Newsom has lately seemed far more obsessed with national politics than his own job.

But none has ever felt more blocked in advancing from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. Yes, a few California gov ernors like Jerry Brown and Goodwin Knight have been willing (Brown did not suc ceed in this) to move from being governor to a seat in the U.S. Senate. The most suc cessful at this was Republican Hiram Johnson, early in the 20th Century.

But most governors here see the Senate as a step down, the only real step up being the presidency.

Like many politicians before him, Newsom denies any interest in that. No one keeps score of this, but few officials have ever issued more denials of desire for the nation’s top office than New som.

That may be because right now he looks boxed in on two fronts. First, there’s incum bent president Joe Biden, who implies he wants to run again in 2024, and hang his lousy ratings in voter polls. Then there’s Newsom’s longtime stablemate, Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow alum of San Francisco city govern ment with whom he has shared political consultants.

That scene could change very quickly when 2023 ends

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and the 2024 primaries begin. Biden’s age (81 in 2024) could affect him even more than it already seems to. And Harris, who has never made it past the opening caucus states dur ing the primary season, might falter again. If either of these not-at-all-unlikely develop ments became reality, the way would open for Newsom. He might be an opportunist, but has never been a traitor to political friends like Biden and Harris.

Meanwhile, Newsom decries Democrats’ electoral passivity and has been more active against potential Republican presidential can didates than any other national Democrat. He’s often critical (or more) of ex-Presi dent Donald Trump. He used advertisements to attack hard-line rightist governors of Florida and Texas, Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott.

Other national Democrats have noticed. Why else would Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobu char, another potential presi dential hopeful, blast Newsom for not campaigning enough for other Democrats around the nation?

Newsom talks as if he’s itch ing for a real fight after coast ing to reelection, grimacing visibly and almost painfully at the notion of debating DeSan tis.

That came after he ran bit

ing TV ads on Fox stations around Florida asserting Californians enjoy more freedom than folks in Florida. He cited abortion and COVID-19 survival rates as two such areas.

Newsom followed up with newspaper and billboard ads in Texas making simi lar comparisons.

Both brief ad campaigns drew blood. DeSantis soon started featuring blasts at Cal ifornia in his almost daily emailed fund-raising pitches. He castigated California for closing public schools and shutting down many busi nesses during the pandemic, claiming this state has “hob bled law enforcement and allowed drugs and crime to destroy their (sic) cities.”

He, of course, did not men tion that if California had fol lowed the laissez faire DeSantis Covid policies, 40,000 more Californians would be dead by now in that plague, atop the current toll of 92,000.

DeSantis took to calling Newsom “Gov. French Laun dry,” for his infamous visit to a pricey Wine Country restau rant while other Californians were stuck at home. Never passive, Newsom quickly labeled DeSantis “Gov. Death Santis.” Newsom then began contributing campaign money to Democrats around the nation.

There’s really nothing sub stantive Newsom and DeSan tis could fight over other than the White House, unless each somehow wound up as a vice presidential candidate on someone else’s ticket.

Meanwhile, several polls have shown Newsom with a

better chance of defeating Trump in 2024 than Harris or Biden, while also indicating he would beat DeSantis if they were matched today.

As for Abbott, Newsom mocked his open-carry gun policies, and his almost total shutdown of abortions, spon soring a gun-lawsuit law that specifically mocks the Texas abortion measures.

Legendary Republican con sultant Karl Rove then called Newsom “brilliant” for all this.

It’s very unlikely that it will lead nowhere at all. Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Govern ment’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www. californiafocus.net

Yolo Crisis Nursery would like to rec ognize and thank state Sen. Bill Dodd and Assemblywoman Cecilia AguiarCurry for their dedication and support of the Yolo Crisis Nursery. The recent allocation of State of California budget funds to help the Nursery build a criti cally needed larger facility clearly dem onstrates their commitment to helping children and families in Yolo County.

Over the past 21 years, Yolo Crisis Nursery has successfully cared for the most vulnerable in our community. Unfortunately, it has become increas ingly evident that the need for our

services has exceeded the capacity of our current home. The pandemic has had a devastating impact on our most vulner able citizens and has accelerated the urgency to complete our building proj ect. In the past fiscal year alone, the Crisis Nursery served over 800 children providing critical, life-changing services.

Sen. Dodd and Assemblywoman Aguiar-Curry stepped up for the chil dren and families of Yolo County when they needed it most, and we are deeply appreciative. This funding brings us even closer to making our dream of a new home a reality. A new, larger facility will provide space and resources to serve three times the number of children and families in need of respite care, and pro vide enhanced and expanded wrap around services to help families in crises stabilize and grow stronger.

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Yolo Crisis Nursery is grateful for our community’s generous businesses, indi viduals, and foundations, along with the city of Davis, Yolo County, and the state of California that have stepped forward to support our vision that every child in Yolo County grows up in a safe, loving, and stable home. Our new home would not be possible without these unprece dented partnerships.

Sen. Dodd and Assemblywoman Aguiar-Curry, thank you, once again, for your leadership and your investment in the children and families of Yolo County. Your steadfast support will ensure the successful completion of a new Nursery in 2024.

Heather Sleuter, Executive Director

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This week’s picks are as follows:

UTAH over STANFORD

Could it be that the oncesuccessful and enormously popular David Shaw is on his way out, or does Stanford just not care anymore? For a while, Stanford was the class of the Pac-12. No longer.

OREGON over WASHINGTON Forget the Civil War and the Apple Cup, this is the true rivalry in the Pacific Northwest. Put simply, these two teams do not like each other. If the Ducks win out, they can still earn a berth in the College Football Playoff despite that opening day 49-3 loss to No. 1 Georgia.

UCLA over ARIZONA ... Another rout for the Bruins.

WASHINGTON STATE over ARIZONA ... Hard to bet against the Cougs in Pullman.

NOTRE DAME over NAVY ... The Middies always give the Irish a battle. Not this time.

SACRAMENTO STATE over PORTLAND STATE ... This Friday night special will be strictly no con test as the Hornets roll into the Causeway Classic undefeated for the first time in school history.

UPSET OF THE WEEK: Cal over Oregon State ... The Bears finally found some offense and creativity in

their loss to USC. The Beavers need a quick rebound after a tough loss at Washington. (Upset record: 2-8).

ROUT OF THE WEEK: USC over Colorado ... The Buffs have agreed to go to a running clock starting halfway through the Star Spangled Banner. (Rout record: 10-0).

DON’T BET ON IT, BUT: Texas over TCU ... The Horned Frogs have been a tough out this fall, but the Horns will hook ‘em come Saturday. (Don’t bet record: 5-5).

FIVE EASY PICKS: This week’s sure-to-pay picks are Ohio State (over Indiana), Houston (over Temple), Michigan (over Nebraska), Tennessee (over Missouri) and Air Force (over New Mexico.) (FEP record: 49-1).

AGGIES over IDAHO ... Wow, where did these upstart Vandals come from? Rugged on both sides of the ball, dangerous in the Kibbie Dome, and ready to take on all comers.

Both teams have their eyes on a

playoff bid, but Idaho has the inside track at this point after a breakout season under a new coaching staff. Still, home or away, the Ags are redhot and ready to rumble. Take the University Farm by 3. (But don’t bet the Farm).

OTHER GAMES: LSU over Arkansas, Kentucky over Vanderbilt, Liberty over Connecticut, Michigan State over Rutgers, Duke over Vir ginia Tech, SMU over South Florida, Georgia State over Louisiana-Mon roe, Western Kentucky over Rice, Arkansas State over Massachusetts, Holy Cross over Bryant, Jackson State over Alabama A&M, Weber State over Idaho State, Clemson over Louisville, Alabama over Ole Miss, Penn State over Maryland, North Carolina State over Boston College, Minnesota over Northwestern, Texas-San Antonio over Texas State, Georgia over Mississippi State, South Dakota State over Illinois State, New Mexico State over Lamar, Southern over Mississippi Valley State, North Dakota State over Southern Illinois, Florida Atlantic over Florida International, Coastal Carolina over Southern Mississippi, Utah State over Hawaii, Fresno State over UNLV, Boise State over Nevada, and Montana over Eastern Washington.

n Last week: 35-8, season: 33576, percentage: .815.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

UCD: Hawkins describes dome as ‘quirky’

Southern California prep powerhouse Mater Dei, has 77 tackles this season, including 39 solos.

Fa’Avae is also likely to head up the “All-Name Team” that sportswriters like to select at the end of the season.

Conventional wisdom says the Aggies must beat both Idaho and then

Sacramento State next Sat urday to earn an at-large bid to the FCS playoff that begins Nov. 26 at campus sites around the country.

The Kibbie Dome itself is a conversation starter.

While Hawkins describes it as “quirky,” with “dead air,” Aggie placekicker Isaiah Gomez is looking forward to playing indoors because “weather will not be a factor when I’m kicking.”

Today’s Kibbie Dome began as an outdoor stadium, but then a giant wooden roof was added over the stadium bowl in 1975.

According to a story by ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura and Dave Wilson, “It’s made entirely of wood, which is a badge of honor in that part of the country.

“The University of Idaho launched one of the first

forestry departments in the country in 1909, and it’s one of the school’s proudest moments.”

The title of the ESPN piece says simply “An ode to the Kibbie Dome, college football’s weirdest stadium.”

n To read the rest of Bob Dunning’s column, visit www.davisenterprise.com click on the Sports tab.

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Duo shines at subsection meet

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Norah Dulaney and Ryan Mitchell continue to lead the Davis High girls and boys cross-country teams respectively.

Competing at the Sac-Joaquin Subsection meet at Frogtown on Nov. 5, Dulaney and Mitchell took top spots in Division I.

As a team, the Davis girls took second place with 84 points. Oak Ridge won the division with 68 points.

Dulaney, a senior, finished the 3-mile race at 17 minutes, 51 seconds.

Avery Wolk was eighth for the Blue Devils at 19:18. Alex Lee was 22nd at 19:56, Maggie Kim 26th at 20:23, Ellie Ross 37th at 20:52 and Abby Carroll 39th at 20:55.

Mitchell led the pack in the 3-mile race, clocked at 15:08.

Jay Doctor was next for the Blue Devils, taking 25th place at 16:23. Lucas Tam was 29th at 16:29, Tomas Ferns 37th at 16:51, Owen Stevens 56th at 17:19 and Jayson Sisco 58th at 17:19.

As a team, Davis took sixth place with 148 points. Jesuit won the division with 73 points, Next for the Davis teams are the section champi onships, which will be held at the Willow Hills course on the Folsom High campus on Saturday.

According to the section’s website, www.cifsjs. org, D-I girls race, also 3 miles, is projected to start at 10 a.m. The D-I boys is scheduled to start at 11:30.

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Members of the Davis High girls cross-country team, lead by senior Norah Dulaney (No. 667), take off at the SacJoaquin Subsection meet at Frogtown on Nov. 5.

UCD preparing for showdown at Kibbie Dome

From his team’s 1-4 start to still being alive for a playoff berth, UC Davis head football coach Dan Hawkins says he’s “really proud of our guys” as they prepare for a key Big Sky Conference showdown late Saturday afternoon at the University of Idaho.

Game time in the historic Kibbie Dome on the UI campus in Moscow is 4 p.m.

“We’re down to the final stretch and it’s really about finishing now,” Hawkins noted.

“But for our guys to put themselves in position to play meaningful games in November is a great opportunity, This is where you want to be this late in the season. Idaho is playing really, really well, but we’re anxious to get up there in the Dome. These are two great football teams.”

Idaho is having a bit of a Cinderella

season under first-year head coach Jacob Eck, who came to Moscow after six years as a highly successful assistant at FCS powerhouse South Dakota State.

The Vandals are 6-3 overall, 5-1 in the Big Sky, unbeaten in four starts at the Kibbie Dome and ranked No. 15 in the latest FCS poll. In their only league loss, they led No. 2 Sacramento State late into the fourth quarter before dropping a 31-28 decision. Their other two losses were to FBS schools Washington State,

24-17, and Indiana, 35-22.

Other than the loss to the Hornets, the Vandals have been devastating in Big Sky play, routing Eastern Washington, 48-16, Portland State, 56-21, Northern Colorado, 55-35, Northern Arizona, 27-10, and Montana, 30-23.

Interestingly, those scores sound amaz ingly similar to the numbers the Aggies have put up over the last four weeks in advancing their record to 5-4 overall and 4-2 in the Big Sky. In order, UCD has wins of 56-27 over Northern Arizona, 58-10 over Northern Colorado, 59-17 over Cal Poly and 43-3 over Idaho State.

Hopefully, the Kibbie Dome will have a team of talented electricians on hand to fix any scoreboard malfunctions when these two high-octane offenses do battle.

Then again, there will also be two rug ged defenses in the Kibbie Dome that have upheld their end of the bargain all

season long.

Freshman quarterback Gevani McCoy is the key to the Vandal offense, hitting 67.2 percent of his passes for 23 touch downs with just five interceptions.

Wide receiver Hayden Hatten has a whopping 12 touchdown catches, including seven in the last two weeks.

Speedster Jermaine Jackson, a 5-7, 165-pound receiver out of Oaklan, adds 40 catches and four scores, with a stunning 20-yard average per catch.

When necessary, the Vandals can pound the ball on the ground, with another freshman, Anthony Woods out of Palmdale, leading the way with 648 yards and a 5.5 per carry average.

On the other side of the ball, line backer Fa’Avae Fa’Avae, a transfer from nearby Washington State by way of

Home Wopener ater polo playoffs

DHS beats Raiders again, punch ticket to D-I title game

By Rebecca Wasik Enterprise correspondent

SACRAMENTO —

The Davis High boys water polo team is back in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Finals for the first time since 2017.

Top-seeded Davis (26-4) took down Rio Americano High (21-10) with a 13-3 win in the section’s D-I semi final playoff game at American River College on Wednesday.

The win moves Davis into the section’s title game against Delta League rival and No. 2 seed Jesuit, which beat No. 3 Rocklin by an 8-3 score also on Wednesday. The title game will be played at the Roseville Aquatic Center on Saturday at 4 p.m.

“The Finals are always great,” said Davis head coach Stapleton. “It’s always about playing to your potential. We want to make our game on Saturday our best game of the season.”

Ironically, Davis and Jesuit played in the 2017 title game. Jesuit posted a 7-5 victory for the crown.

The temperature outside may have been cold, but the Blue Devils dominance was hot, holding the Raiders scoreless in three out of four quarters.

Davis scored seven goals in the third quarter, allowing it to build on its 5-3 halftime lead over the Raiders.

At the 5:55 mark, Bo Brown scored the Blue Devils’ first goal of the third quarter on a powerplay, with an assist from Blake Fuchslin. That added to a 6-3 lead.

Ryan Mayeur found the back of the net at 2:50 with help from Brennan Fuchslin to up Davis’ advantage to 7-3.

Blake Fuchslin then scored a goal at 2:28 for an 8-3 Blue Devils lead.

Then J.T. Doughty shot back-to-back goals at the 1:47 and 1:30 marks, giving DHS a 10-3 lead.

Brennan Fuchslin followed in his teammate’s foot steps with back-to-back goals of his own at the 42 and 16-second marks.

Stapleton credited strong swimming from his team as the factor that allowed them to pull ahead of Rio Americano in the third quarter.

n To read the rest of Rebecca Wasik’s story, visit www. davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

Aggies assert superiority in win

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer

It wasn’t pretty, but UC Davis finally asserted its superiority late in the first half and eased to a 90-67 non-conference men’s basketball win over the Cal Maritime Keelhaulers Wednesday night at the University Credit Union Center.

The win, in the season home opener before a sparse crowd of 696, gives the Aggies a 2-0 record as they continue to prepare for Big West Conference play that begins in late December.

The Keelhaulers, who compete at the NAIA level, are now 0-4.

The Aggies were coming off a stunning 75-65 win Monday night at Cal, but were unable to demonstrate the same degree of defensive focus against outmanned Cal Maritime.

Aggie head coach Jim Les was not happy with his team’s performance, despite the lopsided final score.

“This was a step back,” Les said flatly.

“On defense especially, our intensity was just not there. We were not dictating play, we were reacting. It’s all correctable, but it was certainly not up to our standards.”

The casual fan might argue that such a letdown was predictable after the big win in Berkeley just two days prior, but Les rejected that notion.

“We have a certain expectation of how we want to play,” he added.

“Good teams have an almost businesslike identity, no matter who the opponent is. You have to bring it every night, know your job and do it. Otherwise, this game will humble you and there were times tonight when that’s what happened.”

The Aggies started quickly, with Loyola Chicago transfer T.Y. Johnson hitting a field goal and a 3-pointer for a 5-0 lead in the opening 18 seconds on his way to a game-high 20-point night.

But the Keelhaulers responded to take a 16-14 lead on a bucket by Braxton Adderly with 12:21 remaining in the first half.

“Our starters didn’t get us going and we just weren’t aggressive on defense,” Les noted.

“It’s up to us as coaches to teach them and correct that. You have to respect every opponent, but we didn’t show the maturity we would like.”

Although the outcome was never in doubt, the Aggies allowed their visitors from Vallejo to hang around for a long while before finally taking control.

A 3-pointer by Adderly gave Cal Maritime a 24-23 advantage at the 6:30 mark, but that’s when the Aggie defense finally found its footing and didn’t allow another field goal before the end of the half.

Johnson and Montana transfer Robby Beasley hit back to back treys to key a 15-0 UCD run that removed all doubt that an upset might be brewing.

Another 3-pointer, this one from Leo DeBruhl at 0:02, gave UCD a 43-26 lead at intermission.

UCD opened the second half with a 7-0 run and led by at least 18 points the rest of the way.

Maritime head coach Tim Bross predictably had a different assessment of the Aggies than Les did.

“They’re strong, they’re physical and they play team basketball,” Bross said.

“They are the model of what we’re trying to do with our team. We’re very thankful that they gave us the opportunity to play here. It was great to see how a class institution goes about its business. I was pleased with our effort. We grew tonight.”

The Aggies return to action Saturday at Loyola Marymount before returning home Nov. 18 for a 6 p.m. game against Arkansas State.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

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UC Davis forward Christian Anigwe (4) goes up in the air for the basketball, along with a group of Aggie teammates and CSU Maritime players in Wednesday’s game. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

UC Davis men’s basketball head coach Jim Les looks on while one of the referees runs to the north end of the court in Wednesday’s game against CSU Maritime. Les and the Aggies will play their next home game against Arkansas State on Friday, Nov. 18. The UCD will play Sacramento State in the Causeway Cup Game at Golden 1 Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22.

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Davis High boys water polo head coach Tracy Stapleton (center) talks to his players during a time out against McClatchy in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I quarterfinal game at American River College in Sacramento on Nov. 5.