The Davis Enterprise Friday, November 25, 2022

Museum to reopen for 50th anniversary

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The C.N. Gorman Museum of Native American Art will have a new, much larger home on the UC Davis campus sometime next year, coinciding with the museum’s 50th anniversary.

Converted from the old UC Davis Faculty Club, the new museum will be able to hold 2,500 pieces of contemporary art by Native American and Indigenous artists, have admin istration space for staff and student employees, state of the

art lighting for the art collec tion, small gift shop, a confer ence room that will serve as a Special Collections Library, public visibility into collection preservationists working and outdoor event areas that will encase the building and cascade down into the arboretum.

“It is necessary, and it's rele vant, and it's critical because we've had these really terrific collections, and we want to make them accessible to our visitors,” Veronica Passalacqua, the museum’s curator, said.

The building will operate at

higher, museum standards of humidity and temperature con trols, security, and all LED lighting. “So we're just meeting a better standard of exhibition quality that frankly, Native American work deserves,” Pas salacqua said.

The C.N. Gorman Museum was formally established in 1973 and named in honor of Navajo artist, Carl Nelson Gorman (1907-1998), who as one of the founders of the UC Davis Native American Studies Department, taught art history and art studio beginning in 1969.

According to Jack Forbes, acclaimed author, activist and professor emeritus of Native American studies , the muse um's earliest days were born in the Tecumseh Center, a small house in downtown Davis. Shortly after the burgeoning collections, art studio and museum were located in the temporary buildings next to Walker Hall. It was in 1992 that the museum moved to a current location in Hart Hall for nearly 30 years.

Carson concedes District 1 race to Vaitla

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Davis City Councilman Dan Car son said Tuesday he had spoken with challenger Bapu Vaitla, congratulat ing him on his victory in the District 1 council race and also wishing him well in his upcoming term.

Carson was first elected to the council in 2018 in the city’s final atlarge council race and, following the move to district-based elections, was seeking to represent West Davis on the council for another four years.

But his decision in the spring to sue opponents of Measure H (the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus) over what he called false and misleading ballot arguments, as well as a subsequent decision to seek attorneys fees from those individuals, may have cost Carson re-election.

While a judge did order two small changes to the ballot argument that Carson sought, he left the bulk of the argument intact and ordered Carson to pay more than $42,000 in attor neys fees. Measure H ultimately went down to defeat.

Carson has since said the lawsuit was a mistake and should never have been filed, but the damage was likely done.

Moon rises as School Board trustee

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

The Davis School Board election race is over and winning the position of Area 4 Trustee is none other than Elizabeth Moon. Although new to the posi tion, Moon’s experience in equity and education serves to eclipse any misgivings of this novice trustee’s capa bilities.

Originally from New Jer sey, Moon went to college in Washington, D.C., where she majored in anthropol ogy and minored in Chi nese language and literature. From there, Moon joined the ranks of the nonprofit Teach For America and went to Hous ton to teach English as a

second language. All the while, Moon yearned to live abroad and fate would facilitate with an opportu nity to teach English in South Korea. Moon seized the opportunity, met her husband and then moved back to Houston where fate would have another sur prise in store.

“My husband was given an opportunity to work with Caltrans, and I hap pened to be teaching with someone that year who had just moved from Davis to Houston to be near her grandkids. She was like, ‘oh my gosh, if you’re moving to the Sacramento area, you have to live in Davis. It’s the best community for children,’ ” Moon explained.

we moved to Davis in 2,000. My children were born here, they went to Montgom ery, Pio neer, Holmes and then graduated from Davis High School.”

Moon’s inspiration to enter the educational field was to simply make a dif ference and support others in wrangling their dreams. To her, teaching is an art form that requires a lot of care, time, commitment

Former Davis woman conquers addiction issues

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Barbara’s plunge into drug and alcohol addic tion began with highschool experimentation.

Like her friends at Davis High School, she began using booze and pills — including opiates and antidepressants — on weekends during her sophomore year.

“It seemed like a good idea — it looked fun,” said Barbara (not her real name). Before long, how ever, weekend use crept into the weekdays, too.

“I was constantly doing something,” Barbara said.

Eventually, at the start of her senior year, “I just stopped going to school.”

Her old friends gave way to new ones who introduced Barbara to heroin. A boyfriend pre ferred using metham phetamine, “so I started doing that, too,” she said. “Everything I did was about finding drugs, or finding a way to buy drugs.”

That led to trouble with the law — misdemeanor drug-possession crimes at first, then felonies, like the conspiracy charge when she and others

Converted from the old UC Davis Faculty Club, the new C.N. Gorman Museum will be able to hold 2,500 pieces of contemporary art by Native American and Indigenous artists.

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MOON New trustee in Area 4

Driver arrested after DUI crash

A head-on collision in West Davis injured one driver and resulted in the other’s arrest on drunken-driving charges Monday night, according to Davis police.

Lt. James MacNiven said officers responding to the 9:30 p.m. crash at West Covell and Lake boulevards encountered an allegedly impaired driver who had open containers of alcohol and marijuana edibles inside his vehicle.

Ritesh Khanal, 42, of Woodland, failed a field sobriety test and was lodged at the Yolo County Jail on suspi cion of driving under the influence and DUI causing bodily injury, MacNiven said.

The other driver was transported to an area hospital with minor injuries.

Museum opens on Dec. 3

The many historical groups of Yolo County are happy to announce the opening of their new history museum.

The museum is on the Yolo County Fair grounds, and will be open Dec. 3 to 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

There will be a free raffle for a gift basket, and a miniature train display. The very popu lar Christmas Craft Show will be open also, so plan on attending both events.

They’re keeping up excellent work

Every now and then at this time of year I’ll run across a story that reminds me of how many good people are out in the vineyard working to make the world a better place.

The other day, while reading the excellent Idaho State Journal, I learned about one charitable orga nization sharing its bounty with another charitable organization to help feed hungry folks in Southern Idaho.

The piece, by Maddy Long, caught my attention immediately in the opening paragraph that began, “The East Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints donated 40,000 pounds of food to St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Pocatello.”

Pocatello, known to some as “Pokey” or “Poky,” is a close-knit small city that is surrounded by highly productive farmland, but is also home to Idaho State Univer sity. It’s a prosperous community, but like virtually all towns in America, some of its citizens struggle every day to meet their basic needs.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is prominent in

this area and is well known for its charitable endeavors.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society, however, is a Catholic organiza tion, run entirely by volunteers who go out in pairs to help people in need. While not a wealthy orga nization, St. Vincent de Paul can often times provide rent assistance or help with the power bill or gro ceries or aid with basic furniture for a home. They can also connect people to a wide variety of social services that many folks may be unaware of, serving as a sort of one-stop shop for those who need help.

Here in Northern California and specifically in the vast Diocese of Sacramento that stretches to the Nevada border and the Ore gon border, St. Vincent de Paul

volunteers have been prominent in helping the victims of our many wildfires over the last few years, aiding people with basic needs and connecting them with a vari ety of governmental and private agencies.

St. Vincent de Paul thrift stores are famous nationwide for great bargains for the general public, but they also provide significant items free of charge to the less for tunate.

Maddy Long’s piece in the Idaho State Journal quotes Tom Bates, presi dent of the East Stake, who said the church has an abundance of food and other commodities and is happy to spread that good for tune to others.

“St. Vincent de Paul needs those types of things to help others,” Bates noted. “This is just a way for us to share what we have with another organization.”

“Bates said the stake is donating the food to St. Vincent de Paul’s because the storefront is located within the East Stake’s boundary,” the story goes on.

Said Bates, “We become the

host stake to help support them. We seek out opportunities to help other faiths in our stake boundar ies to see how we can help. Mem bers of the church donate time and funds to help make this proj ect happen.”

Not that I’m surprised.

Added Bates, “The agenda here is to do the things that the Savior would do. To love others, to help others, regardless of their beliefs.”

Or even if they have no religious beliefs at all.

Beth Huston of St. Vincent de Paul said they usually receive about 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of food a week from a local food bank and other sources, “So this is a lot of food for us.”

The food is expected to feed 180 families of six for a full month.

I realize there are many other dedicated organizations and vol unteers who are doing the exact same thing these two are doing, serving all comers, no questions asked.

At this time of year, and always, I applaud them all.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Thompson releases information for PG&E Fire Victims Trust

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Artists host pop-up sale

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“Four Friends,” a group of Davis artisans, will host an open-air pop-up sale of their latest work on Satur day, December 3, at 806 Falcon Avenue in Davis. This annual event brings together a group of profes sionals who developed their artistic passions in the midst of their careers or after retirement.

Rebecca Stein-Wexler is a pediatric radiologist who sheds the stress of her day job by designing and handpainting silk scarves. She uses a palette of vivid dyes to create stylized images from the natural world. “I love the serenity of working in my home creating wear able art for people to enjoy,” Stein-Wexler said. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries.

Nancy Gelbard is the newest artist in the group. After retiring from decades of work in public health, she enrolled in a week-long workshop to learn the fun damentals of oil painting. Seven years and dozens of still life and plein air ses sions later, she is present ing her work to the public for the first time. She cred its local professional painter Philippe Gandiol

for helping her develop as an artist.

David Kalb is a street photographer who has had several solo and group exhibits in Davis and Sac ramento. For Kalb, it’s like eavesdropping on the world as he roams the streets of a city, camera at the ready. “I keep my eyes open for humorous situations, intriguing expressions, and touching interactions,” says Kalb. Often asked what he would do in retirement after selling his consulting firm in 2012, his primary response was “take up pho tography.” And that’s what he did.

Amina Harris, who also serves as the Queen Bee of The Hive in Woodland, cre ates unusual jewelry blend ing beads, gemstones, and artifacts from all over the world. “My work brings together the unexpected, resulting in one-of-a-kind necklaces, collars, bracelets and earrings,” Harris said.

If you’re looking for something beyond the usual to give or for yourself this season, visit these four artists’ open-air pop-up sale on Saturday, December 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will go on rain or shine.

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, released additional information this week on the PG&E Fire Victims Trust and pro vided an update on his legislation, H.R. 7305.

“The Fire Victims Trust was set up to help people recover from the impact of wildfires and rebuild what they lost, and no fire survivor should have to pay taxes on their settlement funds,” said Thomp son.

“While I continue to press for the pas sage of my bill, I am glad to provide addi tional information to those looking for clarification on what this means for their payments.”

Rep. Thompson has been working with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), out lining several potential tax issues facing settlement recipients and requesting formal guidance from the agency.

In response, the IRS clarified that a number of existing tax provisions may assist taxpayers in deferring or fully off setting any tax liability arising from FVT payments.

These provisions are especially relevant to survivors who have rebuilt or are in the process of rebuilding their homes.

The additional information can be found at https://mikethompson.house.

gov/services/pge-wildfire-settlementpayments-general-information.

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Forty years of community

By Sydney Sullivan Special to the Enterprise

Explorit is thrilled to announce

Giving Tuesday is nearly here!

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement created in 2012 with the goal of encouraging people to do good for a day. It has since turned into a yearly tradition that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and cele brate generosity.

In 2017 Explorit had more than 100 donations made to the Science Center. While some of these were large, others were closer to $40. Each person, each donation counts towards a larger picture and a better future for Explorit. For example, last year Explorit hosted Women in STEM, and aspiring young scientists had hands-on activities with oppor tunities to meet women working in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Events like this strive to make a difference in a world where only 27% of STEM workers are women.

2020 was hard for all businesses but especially for nonprofit organiza tions. It is now, more than ever, that Explorit calls on its community to contribute in any way it can. Giving is not only about donations. Giving can be about time, a helping hand, or a simple message of support. While the last two years have been difficult, Explorit is excited to continue mak ing an impact on its community as it celebrates 40 years.

As Explorit celebrates 40 years, there is thank you to be made to our community. As a nonprofit, Explorit truly runs off the generosity and

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kindness of those believing our mis sion is possible: “To ignite and foster curiosity about science and nature through inquiry and discovery.”

These last 40 years have proven how committed and passionate our com munity is to help the young scientists of tomorrow.

Giving Tuesday is Nov. 30. Anyone can donate on our website under the “Donate” tab. Or find the link on any of our social media platforms: Insta gram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Exploit’s coming events: n A Membership to Explorit

grants the recipient free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, dis counts on events, summer camps and workshops, and gives you ASTC benefits to visit other museums throughout the world. To purchase or for more information visit https:// www.explorit.org/membership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.

n School Programs are available to schedule. We have educational pro grams that travel to schools and options for field trips at our facility. Please call 530-756-0191 for more information or to schedule.

— Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http://www. explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/explorit. fb.

UCD: Disease-resistant corals can help others

By By Kat Kerlin Enterprise staff writer

Under the right living arrangement, disease-resis tant corals can help “res cue” corals that are more vulnerable to disease, found a study from UC Davis that monitored a dis ease outbreak at a coral nursery in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands.

The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that when people grow corals of the same genotype — or genetic makeup — together, those corals are more vulnerable to disease than corals that grow among a mixture of geno types. The study further found that some vulnerable corals can be “rescued” by resistant genotypes.

“We saw that some corals were more resistant to dis ease just by being around other corals that were par ticularly resistant,” said lead author Anya Brown, an assistant professor at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in the Depart ment of Evolution and Ecology. “Proximity to these resistant genotypes helped buffer the suscepti ble corals from the effects of the disease.”

The findings provide fur ther evidence that genetic diversity can help reduce disease transmission among corals, while also showing that it’s important to consider how corals are arranged in nurseries and reef restoration projects to prevent the spread of dis ease.

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After an outbreak of white band disease spread through its coral nursery in Little Cayman, the nonprofit Cen tral Caribbean Marine Insti tute worked together with the study’s academic authors to monitor its population of

endangered Caribbean staghorn coral, A. cervicor nis.

Before the outbreak, the nursery had attached coral fragments to plastic PVC frames to propagate them. Some frames held coral from a single donor colony. Other frames hosted corals from multiple donor colo nies representing a mixture of genotypes.

After tracking the pres ence of the disease across 650 coral fragments for more than five months, the researchers found that cor als living on frames with a mixture of genotypes were substantially more resis tant to white band disease,

a devastating bacterial dis ease that nearly wiped out A. cervicornis in the 1980s.

The ability of resistant coral to help protect vul nerable individuals is simi lar to how vaccinations work among humans: Vac cinated individuals resist a disease, erecting a barrier that weakens its ability to move through them and on to the next susceptible per son.

As for the genetic diver sity piece, agricultural lands provide another com parison: Monocrops, where the same crop is planted in the same place each year, tend to be more susceptible to disease than diverse sys tems. This research sug gests a similar dynamic is at play among the ocean’s coral reefs. Brown hopes these concepts and this study will be integrated into coral nursery and reef restoration projects.

“I hope people working with coral nurseries use this as a springboard to see how this influences the spread of disease,” Brown said. “Nurseries that inten tionally arrange corals with mixtures of genotypes can help corals vulnerable to disease thrive.”

ESA puts spotlight on a golden dung fly

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It’s titled “Checking You Out!” and that’s exactly what the judges did before awarding an image of a golden dung fly, taken in Vacaville, with an international award.

The image, by commu nications specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nema tology, won the Entomo logical Society of America (ESA) medal for “Best Image by an ESA Mem ber” in the 64th annual International Insect Salon competition.

ESA showcased the winning images at its joint meeting in Vancou ver, British Columbia, of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Ento mological Society of Brit ish Columbia, which ended Nov. 16.

Garvey captured the image of the fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, perched on a lavender stem in her family’s polli nator garden in Vacaville. Scathophaga play an important role in the natural decomposition of dung.

The Peoria Camera Club, Illinois, sponsors the Insect Salon in con junction with ESA and the Photographic Society

of America. Coordinator Joe Virbickis of the Peoria Camera Club said the images are restricted to insects, spiders, and related arthropods (such as barnacles, crabs, lob sters, shrimp, centipedes, and millipedes.) Each photographer may submit up to four entries. “The range for acceptances is 33-35 percent of eligible images,” he said.

In this year’s competi tion, judges gave accep tances to photographers from 17 countries: Aus tria, Belgium, Canada, China, England, Ger many, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, Tai wan, United Kingdom, and United States.

Two other images that Garvey submitted also gained acceptances. One was of a crab spider nail ing a katydid (Did or Didn’t I?), and the other of a pollen-covered honey bee (Eureka! I Found It!). Best of show medal went to Kenneth Gillies of West Lothian, Scotland, for “Peppermint Shrimps Inside a Sponge.”

The 7,000-member ESA, founded in 1889 and based in Annapolis, Md., is the world’s largest entomological organiza tion.

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This photo of a golden dung fly in Vacaville won the Entomological Society of America’s medal for Best Image by an ESA Member.

ADDICTION: Drug habit fueled crimes

attempted to steal bikes to sell or trade for drugs.

In Yolo County Jail cus tody for the conspiracy case back in the fall of 2019, Barbara earned a tempo rary release one day for a doctor’s appointment. A judge ordered her to return to the jail immediately afterward.

Barbara agreed, but “it felt so good to not be in jail, so I just didn’t go back,” she recalled. After being rearrested, she faced an addi tional felony charge for escaping from custody.

Nearly three years later, Barbara graduated last month from Yolo County’s Addiction Intervention Court, a specialty program that serves defendants strug gling with substance-use disorders that serve as the root cause of their crimes.

The 18-month program — a collaborative effort among the Yolo County District Attorney's Office, Yolo Superior Court, Public Defender's Office, Proba tion Department and Health and Human Ser vices Agency — provides

intensive support and supervision services aimed at increasing a participant's overall quality of life while also reducing recidivism.

Hoping to inspire others, Barbara agreed to tell her story to The Davis Enter prise but asked that her real identity remain confiden tial, citing the stigma placed on those battling substance-abuse disorders.

Facing a year in jail fol lowing the jail escape, Bar bara agreed to take part in AIC “but I didn’t take it seriously,” she said. She moved to transitional hous ing in Woodland, “and within 48 hours I had already relapsed.”

She returned to her for mer lifestyle, failing various treatment programs and facing termination from AIC altogether. In 2021, she enrolled in Progress House, a residential treat ment program located in El Dorado County, and “I made it work this last time.”

What changed? For Bar bara, it was finally admit ting to others her uncertainty over being clean and sober. Knowing she had one last chance to get it

right also played a role.

“I hear a lot of people say until you’re really ready, you’ll never get clean, and maybe that’s true for some people," Barbara wrote in her AIC graduation essay.

"But honestly, I don’t know if I ever would have felt 100 percent ready. Thankfully for me, the Yolo County courts and AIC didn’t give me a choice.”

In addition to going through treatment, Bar bara applied for and obtained a live-in position with the program that cov ered her room and board costs.

“I felt like I had responsi bility. It was good for my self-esteem,” Barbara said. She also put her trust in an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, “and that’s what’s kept me clean.”

Now 24, Barbara marked a year and a half of sobriety in September. On Oct. 27, the AIC partner agencies gathered in Yolo Superior Court Judge Tom Dyer’s courtroom to celebrate her completion of the program.

In addition to Dyer, speakers included Deputy Public Defender Bret

Bandley, Deputy Probation Officer Guillame Denoix, HHSA case managers Terri Lipelt and Amanda Nar vaez, and District Attorney representatives Chris Bulkeley and Jonathan Raven.

They praised Barbara for her success, including her positive relationships with family and friends, stable housing and steady job with a substance-abuse treatment facility, where she helps others who strug gle as she once did.

Before, “I wasn’t fulfilled every day. I was just going through the motions,” she said. Now, “I enjoy every single day.”

As for the future, Barbara, who earned her high-school degree during her recovery, hopes to resume her onetime dream of becoming a nurse. She’ll also participate in the AIC’s alumni program, pro viding support to current participants.

“I would have relapsed it I hadn’t had all these peo ple around me for support,” Barbara said, urging others to put their faith in the pro gram, too. “It’s worth a try for anyone.”

MOON: Family backs move for School Board

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and belief others can be better than where they are when you meet them. It’s this mindset that guided her like a north star to Sac State to earn her Master’s degree in teaching English as a second language.

From there she taught at American River College for a number of years as well as the masters of finance class at Drexel when it was in Sacramento. Then in 2013, a contract position opened up at the UCD graduate school of management. There, she supported domestic and international students in achieving their career goals and also acted as the diversity officer there since 2017. Now, in 2022, she’s become the DJUSD Area 4 Trustee.

“It was a very last-minute deci sion,’” Moon explained how she answered the call of duty. “My young est had just graduated and we were kicking him off to college when I got a call from Sheila Allen who I’ve been

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very close with. She said, ‘Area 4 doesn’t have a representative for the DJUSD position this year’ and I asked her if she needed me to find somebody. She goes, ‘No, I want you to be that person. I talked to Tom Adams and Betsy Hyder who I’ve worked with on the PTA over at Pio neer Elementary. I talked to Vigdis Asmundson and her mother, Ruth. She’s a very persuasive and compel ling woman.

“Then my children chimed in. They said, ‘Mom, this is perfect for you. You’ve done everything in education, you’ve taught pre-K to beyond, you need to take a moment and think about what you can provide for the district.’ So, I filed the paperwork and figured if my kids and the community members believe in me, then it’s an important step to take.”

As it turns out, children can be as much as an influence on their parents as their parents are on them. For Moon, her kids were undoubtedly the difference makers in her decision to

run for the Area 4 Trustee position.

“The district is getting someone who likes to see the whole picture and the positive impact on all the students and community. Someone who believes in finding ways to bring the voices of those who typically don’t stand in front of a school board meet ing to the table because I understand what it means for marginalized voices to not have a say or be able to share their perspectives,” said Moon. “I believe we can be a strong district for all our students and we can build lots of pathways to success. We need to provide those pathways to a variety of areas of success for students, what ever they may look like.”

With Moon’s experience of bringing opportunity to students the world over, one can expect her to do the same with the young, ambitious minds of the DJUSD.

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

RACE: Three-way contest for City Council’s District 1

Two West Davis resi dents later stepped for ward to challenge Carson in the District 1 race — Vaitla and Kelsey For tune.

Vaitla, a member of the city’s Social Services Com mission, had the support of a number of current and former elected offi cials, including Mayor Lucas Frerichs and Coun cilman Josh Chapman, among others.

His support among voters was evident in early returns that have held up as more ballots were pro cessed and counted over the last couple of weeks.

As of Tuesday’s update by the Yolo Elections Office, Vaitla had 59.98 percent of the vote in Dis trict 1, compared to 26.86 percent for Carson and 13.16 percent for Fortune.

Since election night, Vaitla has kept a steady

60 percent of the vote and on Tuesday, Carson released his concession statement.

“Davis is an amazing place and it has been an honor to serve as your council member,” Carson said. “I am proud of what my council colleagues and I have achieved during the past four years. Our successes would not have been possible without the active engagement and involvement of our com munity.”

He added that he is “also thankful for the many community leaders who supported and assisted my campaign in so many ways.”

Meanwhile, over in District 4, Councilwoman Gloria Partida saw her lead over challenger Adam Morrill increase in the latest ballot tallies. As of Tuesday, she had 62.43 percent of the vote to Morrill’s 37.57 percent.

Eugene (Gene) Marshall Renkin, husband of Eliza beth (Libby) Russell Ren kin died surrounded by his loving family on Nov. 11, 2022, in Davis.

Renkin was born in Bos ton in 1926, the oldest of the three children of Harry and Mary Renkin. The oth ers are sister Elaine and brother Herbert Louis. He grew up in the nearby city of Revere, and attended public schools there. He graduated from Revere High School in 1945, and entered Tufts College (now Tufts University). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1947 and graduated in 1948 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, summa cum laude.

With support of a PepsiCola Foundation Fellow ship, he entered the pre-doctoral program in medical sciences at Har vard University and studied physiology under the direc tion of Prof. John R. Pap penheimer. He was awarded the Ph.D. in 1951 for his thesis on capillary permeability.

After graduation, Dr. Renkin began a long and satisfying career of teach ing and research in physiol ogy. His first research position was in the biology division of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Sub sequently he engaged in research at the National Institutes of Health and in teaching and research at the medical schools of the George Washington Uni versity, Duke University and lastly UC Davis, where

he was appointed chairman of human physiology in 1974. He did sabbatical research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1960-61, and at Oxford University, England in 1972.

Dr. Renkin was active in the affairs of the American Physiological Society and of the APS Circulation Group. He was a member of the Microcirculatory Society and its President in 1974. He also held membership in the International Union of Physiological Sciences, the American Heart Asso ciation (Basic Sciences Council) and the American Association of University Professors. He served on the editorial Boards of the American Journal of Psy chology, Physiological Reviews, Circulation Research, Journal of Vas cular Research and Micro vascular Research. He served on several postdoc toral fellowship and research review panels for government and private agencies.

During his career, Dr. Renkin earned many hon ors, including the APS Bowditch Lectureship Award and the C.J. Wig gers award of the APS Cir culation Group. From the Microcirculatory Society he received the E.M. Landis Award and the B.W. Zwei fach Award; and from U.C. Davis, the faculty Research Award. He received numer ous invitations to lecture on his research and to take part in symposia. He pub lished more than 100

research papers and reviews, was co-editor and contributor to several research compendium, and contributed chapters on microcirculation to two physiology textbooks.

His first marriage was to Barbara Denison Zaun; they had three children, Miriam Lohr, Hadley Zaun and Joshua Nathan. After divorce in 1967, he married Elizabeth Gilland Russell; they had one child, Daniel Russell. In Davis, he and Elizabeth became members of Congregation Bet Haverim, and participated actively in its religious, educational and social pro grams. They also contrib uted to the support of cultural and musical pre sentations of the university, including the UCD Sym phony.

Dr. Renkin retired as the chair of human physiology at UC Davis in 1994, but continued his research pro gram until 1998, and par ticipated in departmental teaching as a volunteer until 2001. In 2000 he and

Elizabeth moved from their home of 27 years to the newly opened University Retirement Community at Davis.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; sons Dan iel, Joshua (Jen) and Had ley (Guntra); daughter Miriam (Harry Posey); grandchildren Adey Gene, Charles and Hilda Muriel (Robert Martinez-Cross); great-granddaughter Pep per Wren; sister Elaine Berkowitz; brother Herbert (Bernice); and nurse Nonny, the wonder dog.

Gene Renkin was laid to rest on Nov. 16 in the Davis Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Congregation Bet Haverim, 1715 Ander son Road, Davis, CA, 95616; the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 41831 Gib son Road, Woodland, CA, 95776; Davis Community Meals and All Weather Shelter, P.O. Box 72463, Davis, CA, 95617; Yolo Cares; or the donor’s favor ite charity.

Eugene Marshall Renkin

MUSEUM: Plans include extensive space for art displays

“I am honored he's getting a bigger space,” said Zonnie Gor man, C.N. Gorman’s daughter in a phone conversation with this publicaiton about memories of her father.Zonnie Gorman, who lives in New Mexico said her father took pride in the work that his students did. “And, you know, that's how that museum started. He gave them places to display things, eventually becoming a museum. So, I'm just really excited that you know, that they're getting a bigger space to highlight more indigenous art,” Zonnie Gorman said.

“Primary Gallery One,” the temporary name of the museum's main room, will house changing shows of contemporary Native art like they've done for its entire 50-year history. For Native Amer ican art, Passalacqua said any thing past the 1970s from the Museum’s perspective is consid ered contemporary. “For us, it's really just a distinction between the more historical works and newer works, because you can imagine people immediately make assumptions. When I'm talking something's like 20 years old, then I would say that's con temporary,” Passalacqua said.

Around the corner will be the second gallery where a second exhibition may highlight newly acquired works. Passalacqua said the space, which can be made dark, can also be useful for video projection. Those who remember the old Faculty Club may recall the large two-sided fireplace. It has since been removed in the remodel.

On Tuesday, three (10 feet long by 7 feet high by 3 feet deep) cus tom glass cases from Canada are set to arrive. “Just top-of-the-line incredible,” Passalacqua said, adding they feature all the bells and whistles. They’re airtight, dust-tight, low iron, glass will

contain smaller three-dimen sional works, including pottery, basketry and small sculpture.

Walking just past the glass cases and, just through glass walls, guests can see museum workers on the job. “Vacuuming textiles,” Passalacqua said, is “a classic that never ends. It could be that we're cleaning a piece, you know that takes several weeks, but we're doing something,” Pas salacqua said.

The museum will also include a gift shop with resale items Passa lacqua comes across when work ing with artists, as well as a reading room with out-of-print Native art books, catalogs, biog raphies, and portfolios that will be accessible.

Looking out from the muse um's entryway and towards the arboretum through the trees, Pas salacqua said when they clean up the bushes at the bottom, the Museum will connect to this par ticular section which features California indigenous plants. “It's a perfect connection. We're work ing with the arboretum to bring that planting palette up here,” Passalacqua said. “They lead a lot of their tours and stuff from here, so we're going to kind of partici pate with all that because we have very compatible audiences.”

Near King Hall, the UC Davis Contemplative Garden was put in place after Patwin remains were found during construction of the Mondavi Center. Passalacqua hopes the Museum can coordi nate with some wayfinding between “here and there because it's not far. It's right over there, the next little bridge, and so we are hoping that with the arbore tum we can do some wayfinding to connect us to the Contempla tive Garden.”

The last time Zonnie Gorman visited the museum was when the Graduate Program in Native American Studies was approved in 1998. According to the UC

Davis Native American Studies Department, this made UC Davis the second university in the nation to offer a Ph.D. in Native American Studies. Zonnie and her father have lectured together on Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, which he was one of the original 29.

In a promotional video for the History Channel, Zonnie Gor man explains that the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II were a group of men recruited to create and utilize a code in their

Navajo language. They were used in every major battle of the Pacific Theater at the Battle of Iwo Jima. They sent and received more than 800 messages.

According to Major Howard Connor, Zonnie Gorman explained, Iwo Jima would never have been taken without the Navajo Code Talkers. “It's an important story because it offers a place where we can celebrate our commonalities but also cele brate our differences and one of those differences saved this

country,” she said.

Zonnie Gorman recently donated her father's collection of 52 boxes of ephemera to the Uni versity of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research over his namesake museum which, she emphasized, is art focused. “(The ephemera is) still an unprocessed collection. So I don't even know if I could put my hands on it if I went over there,” Zonnie recalled when thinking about when she last perused old letters of when her father was first asked to come teach at UC Davis. Some of the collections relate to articles, and slides that appeared during his UC Davis days.

Lecturing all over the country about the code talkers, Zonnie Gorman said most people don't make the connection with her father. “They either know him as an artist or they know him as a code talker. They haven't put them together, which I think is kind of interesting.”

When C.N. Gorman got to UC Davis, he experimented with a lot of California Indian art, with a fascination with h Chumash art rock art, of which he painted. When he left Davis, he continued to pursue his art but as he started receiving publicity for the delcas sification of the Navajo Code his focus shifted. “It kind of took over my father's life. My father was very charismatic. He was It was that kind of person that when you walked in a room you know, he just kind of gravitated towards the podium,” Zonnie Gorman said.

She looks forward to the open ing of the Museum, whenever that is, hopeful it’s not when she graduates with a Ph.D. in history focused on the Code Talkers from the University of New Mexico next year.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@davisenterprise.net.

State approves another contentious desalination plant

By Rachel Becker CalMatters

The California Coastal Commission tonight approved another desalina tion plant, despite citing its high costs, risks to Mon terey Bay’s environment and “the most significant environmental justice issues” the commission has faced in recent years.

The commission’s divided, 8-to-2 vote came after 13 hours of debate at a Salinas public hearing packed with several hun dred people, plus more crammed into overflow space. Many of the 375 who signed up to speak opposed the project — some in tears.

Much of the debate focused on the fairness of locating a for-profit com pany’s facility in the Mon terey County city of Marina — which does not need the water and is home to desig nated disadvantaged neighborhoods. The expen sive supply will flow to other communities, includ ing the whiter, wealthy enclaves of Carmel-by-theSea, Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach.

“It’s our city, our water, our beaches, our wildlife — so that Cal-Am can send the water to another wealthier community who don’t even want it,” Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado told commissioners, his voice breaking.

California American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater company, plans to build the plant to pump ocean water, desalinate it and provide drinking water to 100,000 people on the Monterey Peninsula. The largely Latino, agricultural community of Castroville would also receive the water at a discount.

Today, nine years after the project was first pro posed, commissioners approved the plant along with a long list of condi tions aimed at limiting the harm to dunes and wet lands, groundwater stores and local communities. The company must still obtain an array of local,

state and federal permits, and resolve a court battle over groundwater rights before construction could begin.

Coastal Commission staff warned that the plant would require overriding parts of the state’s Coastal Act, and would have “sub stantial impacts” to sensi tive habitat areas for threatened and endangered species such as the Western snowy plover, which nests in dunes there.

The approval is a pivot from the staff’s 2020 rec ommendation to reject the company’s proposal to build a larger plant. Since then, California has faced its driest three-year stretch on record, and a fourth drought year is looming, making the need for new drinking water supplies more urgent.

The decision pits envi ronmental justice concerns and ecological impacts against the precarious water supply of the Mon terey Peninsula, which does not receive imported water and relies instead on overpumped groundwater, the

overtaxed Carmel River and highly-treated waste water. Parts of the penin sula have been under a moratorium for new water connections for longer than a decade.

“There’s just too much uncertainty regarding the future of the water supply in this region,” Coastal Com mission Executive Director Jack Ainsworth said at the hearing. “History will judge us harshly if we do not take a precautionary approach on water supplies in this community.”

But Commissioner Linda Escalante, one of the two voices of dissent, said she could not support the proj ect because of the “over whelming uncertainty of need, cost and feasibility.”

The plant would produce about 4.8 million gallons of water per day when it begins operating, with the possibility of increasing production later. California American Water hopes to have it operating by the end of 2027. The water com pany is seeking to bolster local supplies after state regulators ordered it to

stop its decades-old prac tice of unlawfully diverting more than its share from the Carmel River.

Supporters of the desali nation project include Gov. Gavin Newsom, state water agencies and local busi nesses, with hotels and inns in the region writing letters of support, and some say ing it would ease housing shortages in the region.

“The Monterey Penin sula has been in dire need of additional droughtproof, reliable water sup plies for over 25 years. There’s no time left to wait,” wrote Amy Herzog, execu tive director of Visit Car mel, in a letter to the commission.

Newsom “supports the staff recommendation and appreciates their work to ensure the project protects the coastal environment and addresses environmen tal justice issues,” Newsom Communications Director Erin Mellon told CalMat ters.

But Coastal Commission staff acknowledged that even if the company meets the conditions, the

environmental justice impacts remain in Marina and elsewhere.

“The simple fact the project is sited within a community that doesn’t want it and won’t benefit from it means that these impacts cannot be fully eliminated,” Kate Huckel bridge, a senior deputy director, told the commis sioners.

Customers could face bill hikes of $50 per month, about a 50% increase over the average residential bill, California American Water estimates.

“If Cal Am is allowed to build their desal plant, and my water bill increases by 50%, I will have to choose between eating and buying water,” one commenter, Tammy Jennings, told commissioners, adding that even with the compa ny’s low-income assistance program, the bill runs more than $40 a month. “No one should be allowed to make a profit on something we all need to live.”

California American Water proposed increasing

its low-income discounts to 50% and expanding eligibil ity for its assistance pro gram. But the commissioners at the last minute tonight added provisions ordering the company to improve plans for assisting low-income ratepayers and capping rate hikes at $10 a month for eligible custom ers.

Just before 10 p.m., after 13 hours, in an attempt to soften the blow, the com missioners also asked the company to pay $3 million to the city of Marina and fund a full-time employee to oversee a public access and amenities plan.

Residents and officials from Marina — where 62% of residents are people of color and the average annual income is under $33,000 — said the facility would add to their environ mental burdens, which already include a Super fund site and landfill.

They worry it would harm their shoreline and imperil precious ground water supplies.

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UC Davis Native Studies pioneer C.N. Gorman and some of his art collection, which became the nucleus of the C.N. Gorman Museum.

Saturday

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 chari table programs. The elec tric train display will be open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and features two layouts (Lionel O and HO gauges) with interactive components for children as well as examples and history of local Davis points of interest.

Thursday

n The Davis Odd Fel lows’ Thursday Live! con cert series celebrates the holiday season and its 100th show at the Odd Fellows Hall in down town Davis, 415 Second St. This show features a “Spirit of the Season” theme, with perfor mances from five musical groups — According to Bazooka, Biscuits & Honey, Me & Him, the Muddy Waders and Keith Adolfo Campos — each playing several winter- or holiday-related songs. The show is dona tion only, with all contri butions benefitting programs the Odd Fellows contribute to throughout the year. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the music begins at 7:30 p.m.

n Yolo Basin Founda tion’s Flyway Nights speaker series highlights graduate-student fellow ship recipients. The pro gram will be a Zoom presentation sharing the studies of various species in the Yolo Bypass. The Yolo Basin Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship Fund provides

support for students in environmental educa tion, public use, environ mental sciences, or environmental/conserva tion policy. A $10 dona tion to support the foundation’s wetland education programs is suggested. To register, visit www.yolobasin.org/ flywaynights or call Yolo Basin Foundation at 530-757-3780.

n The city of Davis will kick off the holiday sea son with the 41st annual candlelight parade and holiday tree lighting downtown. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. when the candlelight parade departs from the Davis Food Co-op parking lot at 620 G St. Walkers, strollers, wagons and decorated bicycles are all welcome to join the parade to the E Street Plaza. Park in the free parking structure behind the Signature Stadium 5 Theaters at Fourth and G streets. At 6:30 p.m., Mayor Lucas Frerichs and the rest of the City Council will light the tree in the E Street Plaza.

Musical performances will include the Davis Youth Choir, the Davis High Jazz Choir, the Davis High Madrigals, Mariachi del Valle, Davis Local Vocals, and Davis Musical Theatre Compa ny’s Young Performers’ Theatre.

Friday

n The Avid Reader will host best-selling science fiction author Kim Stan ley Robinson at Davis Community Church from 7 to 9 p.m. Robinson will discuss his newest book, “The High Sierra: A Love Story,” followed by a Q&A and author signing. The church is at 412 C St. in downtown Davis.

Tickets are on sale for $10 on The Avid Reader website and in-store at The Avid Reader.

Nearly 700 families receive Thanksgiving meal kits at Children’s Alliance event

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Nearly 700 Yolo County families received Thanks giving meal kits, winter resources, coats and more during the Yolo County Children’s Alliance’s 17th annual community give away over the weekend.

Held Saturday at the Family Resource Center in West Sacramento, the give away focused on the low est-income families in the county. As a region, the county has seen an increase in families facing food inse curity as well as homeless ness and an influx of refugees arriving with lim ited support and basic resources, the alliance has reported.

“Access to essential resources like food, cloth ing, baby supplies and healthcare reduces stress in a household, increasing the capacity for families to cre ate safe and nurturing environments for their children. Community Give away Day, with the support of our partners and funders, is a catalyst for YCCA to provide concrete supports to those who need it most in our community,” said Francisco Castillo, chair of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance board.

“Community Giveaway Day is a one-of-a-kind event, and it’s because of the hours of preparation the YCCA team puts into it, and the dollars and sup plies collected from funders and partners,” he said.

“This event truly emulates the passion behind our mission as a premier nonprofit in Yolo County: to strengthen and empower families in our community.”

This year’s giveaway day featured more partners, donors, volunteers and sponsors than ever before. They included Yolo County; the city of West

Sacramento and the West Sacramento Police Depart ment; Yolo County Office of Education; Washington Unified School District; the Yolo Food Bank; Waste Management; the Walmart Foundation; Nugget Mar kets; Sutter Health; Kaiser; First 5 Yolo; PG&E; Union Pacific; Yolo Federal Credit Union; Five Star Bank; Bogle Wines; Hawkins Home Loans; Project Linus of Yolo County; and the many businesses and local non-profits that hosted coat drives for this event.

Tammy Powers, chief administrative officer of Sutter Davis Hospital, said, “events like this create opportunities for commu nity building while enhanc ing the health and well-being of people in the communities we serve.

“Yolo County Children’s Alliance Community Give away Day provides 28,000 pounds of food to families in need as well as essential resources including COVID vaccinations, and health resources,” she noted. “Sut ter Health is proud to be a

longtime sponsor of this event that supports fami lies of the highest need in the county, which aligns with identified priority health needs according to our recent community health needs assessment.”

More support will be welcome in the coming days as the the Children’s Alliance prepares for its annual Holiday Toy Distri bution event on Dec. 17.

At this event, Yolo County families will receive

non-perishable food, household items, winter supplies and toys for their children. The Children’s Alliance is in need of toys for all ages and is looking for support from the com munity to bring more than 900 children holiday joy.

To join the community in supporting this event, part ners are encouraged to donate online at www. YoloKids.org/Donate, or email katie.durham@ yolocounty.org.

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Yolo County Children’s Alliance volunteers were out in West Sac for their 17th annual community giveaway over the weekend.

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Staff and volunteers with the Yolo County Children’s Alliance were on hand Saturday to distribute nearly 700 Thanksgiving meal kits, coats, blankets and more to low-income families in Yolo County.

Shop small for a big time

Special to The Enterprise

Davis Downtown has several events scheduled this holiday season to support downtown businesses.

Shop Small in Downtown Davis, Nov. 25 to 27. Receive one raffle ticket for every $10 spent at participating businesses. You'll be entered into a drawing to win fabulous gift cards (limited to 10 tickets per customer, per business).

December to Remember is Dec. 1 to 20.

Enjoy festivities in downtown Davis, including decorated windows, Elf on the Shelf for families, and a communal wreath decorating project (a winner will be selected and receive a gift card).

Visit davisdowntown.com for more information. Thank you for supporting downtown Davis!

Downtown holiday festivities return Dec. 1

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The city of Davis will kick off the holiday season on Thursday, Dec. 1, with the 41st annual candlelight parade and holiday tree lighting downtown.

Festivities begin at 6 p.m. when the candlelight parade will depart from the Davis Food Co-op parking lot at 620 G St. Walkers, strollers, wagons and deco rated bicycles are all wel come to join the parade to the E Street Plaza. Parade participants are encour aged to park in the free

parking structure behind the Signature Stadium 5 Theatres at Fourth and G streets since no parade parking will be available in the Food Co-op parking lot or in the E Street Plaza parking lot.

At 6:30 p.m., Mayor Lucas Frerichs and the rest of the City Council will light the tree in the E Street Plaza.

There will be music and entertainment both before and after the tree lighting, including performances by the Davis Youth Choir, the Davis High Jazz Choir, the Davis High Madrigals,

Additional festivities include free screenings of the short film “Shrek the Halls” at the Varsity The atre, 616 Second St.; Santa and Mrs. Claus; an activity station to write letters to Santa; roaming mascot characters avail able for photo ops; and horse-and-carriage rides.

Parking will be limited due to street closures. For information, contact Carrie Dyer at cdyer@ cityofdavis.org

Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff

Mariachi del Valle, Davis Local Vocals, and Davis Musical Theatre Company’s Young Performers’ Theatre.

The Automat: Magic for a nickel

Delightful documentary offers a tasty slice of history

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

There was nothing like the coffee at the Automat Its aroma and its flavor was supreme From a silver dolphin spout, the coffee came right out Not to mention at the end a little spurt of cream.

Viewers must wait until the end credits of director Lisa Hurwitz’s charming little documentary, to watch Mel Brooks sing those lyrics — along with additional droll verses — of the song he wrote to honor a topic obviously near and dear to his heart.

Brooks also gets consid erable face time in this affectionate ode to what once was a gleaming jewel of progressive food service technology, and was for decades the largest and most popular restaurant chain in the United States … despite having locations in only two cities: Philadel phia and New York.

“This was by any mea sure,” notes Automat histo rian Alec Shuldiner. “The number of restaurants, the number of people served every day, the number of people employed. It was a true phenomenon of its time.”

Essential history and background commentary,

as this film proceeds, is provided by Shuldiner, New York City historian Lisa Keller, and Marianne Hardart and Lorraine Diehl, authors of the 2002 book, “The Automat: The History, Recipes and Allure of Horn & Hardart’s Masterpiece.”

Hurwitz began work on this film in 2013, having been intrigued — while in college — by the commu nal nature of cafeteria food, and having discov ered Shuldiner’s PhD dis sertation, “Trapped Behind the Automat: Technologi cal Systems and the Ameri can Restaurant, 1902-1991.” This prompted her deep, eight-year dive into the careers of Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, who opened their first res taurant — a lunchroom with a counter and 15 stools, but no tables — in Philadelphia in December 1888.

The venue became a quick success because of

their secret weapon: Hard art, raised in New Orleans, introduced Philadelphians to his home city’s style of coffee, blended with chic ory. People couldn’t get enough of it.

Horn & Hardart incor porated in 1898. Four years later, inspired by Max Sielaff’s Automat Restau rants in Berlin, they opened their first U.S. Automat on June 12, 1902, in Philadelphia. The first New York Automat fol lowed a decade later, after which this “mini-chain” exploded in number.

As Hurwitz’s film reveals — with writer/editor Michael Levine’s blend of archival footage, photos,

printed ephemera and some impressively diverse talking heads — Horn & Hardart’s vision extended far beyond the food deliver system itself.

Automats were known for luxurious décor, with grand entrances and opu lent interior spaces embel lished in Carrara marble and brass fixtures. And, yes, the coffee dispensers featured dolphin head spouts. A centrally located cashier make change so that patrons could use their nickels to get every thing from sandwiches and Salisbury steak, to mac and cheese, and — for dessert — a slice of lemon meringue pie.

Automats were “an insane center of paradise,” in Brooks’ words.

What quickly becomes clear, via the archival pho tos and film clips — and this is just as amazing as the Automat notion itself — is that Horn & Hardart made a point, from the beginning and throughout the chain’s lifetime, of wel coming all patrons, regard less of race, ethnicity, social status or any of the many barriers employed by other establishments to segregate or exclude certain seg ments of society.

“I moved to Philadelphia in 1954, as a 16-year-old,” recalls Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode. “Because there was not a lot of money in the household, we used to go to Horn & Hardart. It was a nice place where African-Americans could go, and feel digni fied.”

Although Hurwitz, Levine and everybody interviewed on camera obviously share a deep affection for the topic, this film soon takes on an atmosphere of melancholy: a sense that something wonderful has been not only lost, but essentially forgotten. This somber tone is foreshadowed in the film’s early scenes, when the camera pans through warehouses laden with for lorn, discarded Automat machines, their oncegleaming surfaces now chipped, rusted and coated with grime.

As a teenager, Ruth Bader Ginsberg took piano lessons on Saturdays, on

West 73rd Street; an Automat was on 72nd Street. “I could usually find a table upstairs,” she recalls, while leafing through vintage photo graphs, “where I could read a book or do homework.”

Of necessity, the Horn & Hardart story concludes on a dismal note, as the onceproud chain shrinks to a shadow of its former self; venues close, the Automat machines ripped out and sold to scrap metal dealers. Many locations became Burger King outlets (defi nitely rubbing salt in the wound). Happily, Brooks — absolutely delightful throughout — eases the sorrow with the aforemen tioned title song.

Although the subject and presentation are engaging and fascinating through out, portions of Hurwitz’s approach betray her inex perience as a first-time filmmaker. She includes too many mildly clumsy “behind the scenes” moments that feature her own on-camera presence — as if she’s “getting ready to get ready” — and her decision to retain a prepa ratory shot, when Colin Powell is asked to adjust his tie, is somewhat jarring.

But that’s small stuff. Hurwitz has admirably rekindled the flame of a fabled institution that deserves greater recogni tion in this day and age.

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

Artery presents All Member Holiday Gift Show

Special to The Enterprise

Holidays — the best time of year for loving, giving and sharing: homemade cookies; houseful of family; gifts wrapped in pretty paper; cards to friends near and far. Through Dec. 31, the Artery will be overflowing with unique decorations, ornaments and gift ideas that are sure to make the season merry and bright.

Hours from Dec. 1 to

Dec. 12 will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Extended Holiday Hours start Dec. 12, when the Artery will be open until 9 p.m. every weeknight through Dec. 23. On Christmas Eve and New Years Eve it will close at 4 p.m. The gallery also will close Christmas Day and New Years Day.

Colin Powell, Wilson Goode, Lisa Keller

Available via: Amazon Prime and other streaming services

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The Automat at 21557 Broadway in New York, circa 1930s.

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At left, The Artery will feature “Gorgeous Gourds” by Louise Bezark during December.

Above, festive ceramic birds on trees by Brigitte Chertok will be at the Artery for the holidays.

Right, check out this poinsettia quilt by Marjan Kluepfel at the Artery.

See ‘A Christmas Story’ on Woodland Opera House stage

By Jennifer Goldman Enterprise theater critic

What a well-done classic show!

The Woodland Opera House has done it again! “A Christmas Story” is based on the wildly suc cessful movie released in 1983, and the book “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd. It’s a story told by a middle-aged man, Ralph (Patrick Jordan), reminiscing about his childhood Christmas in the small town of Hohman, Ind., back in the mid-1940s.

At 9 years old, young Ralphie Parker (Owen Mayor) wants the ultimate Christmas gift, a Red Ryder carbine-action, two hun dred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time. But his mother (Patricia Glass), along with almost all the other charac ters in the show, repeat the line “you’ll shoot your eye out” when ever he mentions the gun. So Ralphie plans all kinds of ways to convince his parents to get him the gun anyways.

Director Cheryl Watson couldn’t have done a better job with this show. Jordan drew us in from the beginning to the end with excellent storytelling skills and just the right amount of enthusiasm to keep our interest and move the show along. He jumped right in with the cast dur

ing the fantasy scenes when young Ralphie’s imagination played out on the stage. The last time the show played here, Rod ger McDonald was the narrator who is a hard act to follow. Bravo Patrick!

Patricia Glass returned to the role of Mother Parker and was flawless in her performance. She ran the household like the moth ers we see in vintage shows, like Leave it Beaver and Happy Days, keeping her children well nour ished on the staple of meatloaf and red cabbage and making sure they were kept warm when going out in the freezing cold winter. She also kept her husband happy and usually answered her hus band’s quiz answers while man aging to make him feel a little smarter than he was. But when something was truly bothering her, she let it be known and stood up for herself. She also had great chemistry with The Old Man (Joshua Brown).

Brown played the tinkerer and fixer of broken things to a tee. I really liked the special effects of the smoke coming out of the fur nace and the lights blacking out when the family home was over loading their 1940’s circuits. It made me laugh thinking about how tonight I did the same thing by using both my keurig coffee maker and microwave at the

It’s 1940s-tinged Christmas nostalgia for Ralphie, left, (Owen Meyor) and his parents (Josh Brown and Patricia Glass) in the Woodland Opera House’s production of “A Christmas Story.”

same time. Both of the parents seemed to accept that their youngest son Randy (Tomas Love Alcaraz), was happy hiding some where around the house and didn’t belittle him when he acci dentally peed his pants. Alcaraz was adorable and played his part well.

Another veteran actress played Ralphie’s school teacher Miss Shields (Emily Delk). She thrilled the audience during a scene when Ralphie imagines that his writing about the BB gun will impress

her so much that his parents are certain to reward him with the air rifle. The audience was in stitches! The school children were fun to watch and it was so easy to understand them due to the great microphone system the theater is now using. Ayden Burns, Octavia Villalva, Abigail Rode, Lauren Battaglia, Abigail Jordan, and last-minute techweek addition to the cast Noah Rode as Flick were all terrific.

Mayor was definitely cool enough to carry out his role and

very believable, as was his on stage crush Esther Jane Alberry (Octavia Villalva). The touching scene when she returns his bro ken glasses after his fight with the bully was so tender and caring.

This show brings up so many memories of childhood for much of the audience. For example, doing gift exchanges at school, double dog daring a friend to do something dangerous, trying to convince your parents and Santa you’ve been good enough to get the gift you really want, opening one present on Christmas Eve, the anticipation of a special meal, having a crush on a classmate, dealing with an annoying little brother, the thrill of getting away with stuff, confronting a bully, and having a good time even when there is a chaos going on around you. The holidays help us remember years past and tradi tions we still follow today.

This is one of those shows that you can see year after year and still be entertained, even if you know what’s going to happen next. So put on your holiday attire, enjoy the hot cocoa during intermission, and get your tickets soon as shows are already selling out.

Shows run Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets available at Woodland OperaHouse.org.

Textile showcase opens on Dec. 2 at Gallery 625

Special to The Enterprise

A group exhibition, “Expressions in Cloth,” is a new show opening at Yolo Arts’ Gallery 625 on Dec. 2 with an evening reception.

Expressions in Cloth is an exhibition of contempo rary and traditional quilts with designs inspired by nature, traditional pat terns, and special historical or personal events.

The quilts represent a wide sampling of tech niques from appliqué to paper piecing.

All of the featured artists are members of the Flying

Needles Quilt Guild in Yolo County and include: Ber nadette Behrends, Kathy Donaldson, Lana Hanney, Carole Pirruccello, Jeanne Powell, Margo Shroeder and Sherry Werum.

Flying Needles is a non profit organization whose members quilt and contrib ute to local community groups for Project Linus, Rotts of Friends, Ronald McDonald House, and quilts for hospice care.

“The theme of fiber arts is woven through YoloArts exhibitions at The Barn Gallery and Gallery 625 this month,” said Janice

Purnell YoloArts creative director and the show’s curator. “Local quilting teacher, Jeanne Powell, put me in touch with all of the talented quilters in this show. We are thrilled to have a beautiful selection of quilts that represent U.S. history and personal pas sions of each of the women.”

Upstairs at Gallery 625 visitors can also view “Stitched Together,” a quilt exhibition assembled from the Yolo County Historical Collection. With “Off the Grid” ongoing at The Barn Gallery in Woodland,

Hear seasonal musical delights at DCC

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Davis Community Church is pleased to pres ent a community Christ mas Concert featuring all of the DCC music ensem bles, including the Chancel and Chamber Choirs, the Bell Choir, the Worship Band, Children’s Choir and the C Street Ukulele Band.

The concert will be full of musical delights including “Ecce Novum” by composer Ola Gjeilo, “Silent Night” by Dan Forrest, both writ ten for piano and string quartet and Scottish com poser Sally Beamish’s atmospheric a cappella

carol “In the Stillness.”

The second half of the concert will feature the dra matized world premiere of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew” by San Fran cisco composer Mark Alburger written for solo ists, chorus and chamber orchestra. Also on the pro gram is “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” an opera written in 1951 by GianCarlo Menotti. The opera tells the story of the visit of the Magi to the house of Amahl and his mother as they seek a place to rest on their journey to Bethlehem.

Accompanied by chamber orchestra and piano,

Menotti tells his own ver sion of the Italian tradition of the Kings bringing gifts to children and the mystery and miracles involved. The opera was written for chil dren.

The concert will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in the Davis Community Church historic sanctuary at Fourth and D Streets in downtown Davis. Childcare is available for children under age 3 and children and families are welcome to attend the concert. The concert is free; a free-will offering will be gratefully received.

“Expressions in Cloth” opening Dec. 2 at Gallery 625, along with the historic “Stitched Together” show, YoloArts encourages art lovers, quilters, fiber enthu siasts, and the community to view all three exhibitions in December and January. These shows provide an unprecedented opportunity to explore the history of quilting, examine tech niques new and old, and take inspiration from fiber art creations.

The artists will be attending the opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, coin

ciding with the downtown Woodland First Friday event. Classical and fiddle music by violinist Mary N. King and light refresh ments will be available dur ing the reception. Samplings of Yolo County wines also will be available.

The artwork can also be viewed online at yoloarts. org/online-galleries.

“Expressions in Cloth” continues at Gallery 625 and “Stitched Together” upstairs at Gallery 625 con tinue through Jan. 31.

“Off the Grid” at The Barn Gallery, 512 Gibson Road in Woodland,

continues through Feb. 11. Check yoloarts.org for gal lery hours.

Gallery 625 hosts exhibi tions and receptions every other month. New exhibi tions typically open on the first Fridays of February, April, June, August, Octo ber, and December.

Gallery 625 is at 625 Court St. in Woodland, in Yolo County's Erwin Meier Administration building, and is open Monday to Fri day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information, contact YoloArts at 530-3096464.

Voices of California presents winter concert

Special to The Enterprise

Voices of California, a barber shop cho rus, will present its “Happy Harmony for the Holidays” concert in Davis on Dec. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The concert will take place at Davis High School's Brunelle Performance Hall, 315 W. 14th St.

Voices of California is a nonprofit with

at least two Davis residents, science teacher Wayne Raymond and psychia trist Richard Kaiser.

Guest performers include Three of a Kind, the Woodland Chamber Singers and Artistic License.

Tickets can be purchased at www. voicesofcalifornia.org. Premium tickets go for $30, general for $20, and students for $12.

Courtesy photos

“Flight of Color,” left, by Jeanne Powell and “1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition Quilt” by Sherry Werum are among the works displayed at the YoloArts “Expressions in Cloth” exhibition.

Joshua Wheeler/Courtesy photo

The truth about younger voters

By Paul Mitchell Special to The Enterprise

Every election year it seems there is a story about skyrocketing votes from young people. Every time it turns out to not be true.

Case in point: there have been reports that young people turned out in such great numbers this year that they surpassed seniors. That’s impossible.

Looking just at California, among the ballots we have recorded so far, there were 3.2 million seniors who cast ballots among the 5.1 million registered, but of the 6 million voters under 35, only 1.3 million voted.

Seniors comprise 23% of voters but 36% of ballots cast; younger voters are 27% of voters and only 15% of ballots cast. This gap will narrow a bit as we get final numbers from county registrars, but the story will stay the same: young people are massively under performing.

In case you think California’s youth is especially disengaged, that’s not true. Studies show young Cali fornians are more engaged, and our younger voters have a higher registration rate than other states.

But there is another side of this coin.

While youth turnout is disappointingly low, young people put their stamp on this election nonetheless — and it is because of their much more strident ideolog ical stances.

Seniors are balanced in their political leanings, with recent polling from Capitol Weekly showing that approximately 40% of voters over 35 years old identify as moderates, with equal numbers considering them selves either liberal or conservative. This in contrast to the 25% of younger voters who identify as moderates and are more liberal than conservative at a 3-to-1 ratio.

Most strikingly, upwards of 40% of these young voters consider themselves very liberal, while other age groups are in single-digits.

We can see this in recent polling which shows seniors in California favor Democrats by a 50% to 36% margin, while young voters are polarized toward Democratic candidates at a 70% to 18% margin. On a generic ballot question that asked if they were likely to support a Democratic or Republican candidate, seniors supported Democrats by an 18-point advan tage while younger voters supported Democrats by a whopping 56%. On progressive policies like Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call to ban sale of gas-powered vehi cles by 2035, seniors were evenly split, but 18- to 34-year-olds were much more supportive at 70%.

Seniors are reliably Democratic-leaning in Califor nia but modestly so. Younger voters — even in their smaller numbers — are providing progressives with the overwhelming margins needed to win elections.

One way in which we see this data come to life is the “blue shift” in the post-election counting of ballots. Analysis of the voters who are having their votes counted in the batches of late-received (but postmarked on time) includes large numbers of younger voters.

In the early waves of vote-by-mail ballots, seniors were outpacing young voters by a 5 to 1 margin. But in the late ballots, a third of ballots were from young voters and fewer than 15% from seniors. Democrats and left-leaning candidates in intra-party runoffs and municipal elections are gaining votes.

In Orange County, Democratic congressional mem bers Katie Porter and Mike Levin and Supervisor Katrina Foley all had modest margins from mail vot ing, which was 45% seniors, and lost votes to their Republican challengers with in-person voters where seniors outpaced young voters. But in the late-pro cessed mail vote, each shot to significant victories with a population of voters that had 30% more voters under 35 than seniors.

In the Los Angeles mayor’s race, the early vote favored Congresswoman Karen Bass but votes from Election Day gave businessman Rick Caruso a lead. Then ballots tallied after Election Day had more young voters than seniors, and they came in with a wide 60% to 40% margin for the more progressive Bass, pushing her to a 6-point victory.

Splitting these concepts is important. We don’t need to continue the false narrative that young people are voting more than seniors — that’s just not true and hides the real challenge faced with this population.

But we can recognize that the massive left-leaning nature of young voters is driving election outcomes. They help Democrats in California earn massive supermajorities in the Assembly and Senate, elect a Congressional delegation that is nearly 4 to 1 Demo cratic, and provide support for the state’s environ mental, gay rights, social, housing and other progressive agendas.

Young people in California and nationally are effec tively helping progressives win, and they were a piv otal election constituency in 2022. One can only imagine what it would look like if they doubled their turnout and met seniors head-on in a future election.

— Paul Mitchell is the vice president of Political Data, a voter data firm based in California, and the owner of Redistricting Partners, a firm which does municipal redistricting and consulting nationally.

Price-gouging hits the car lot

Walk into a car dealership of virtually any brand and you will find price mark ups unheard of in almost any past era.

At Toyota, a new Prius Prime plugin model, carrying a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) in the low $30,000s, often sports an asking price these days about $10,000 higher, a markup of about 33 per cent.

It is not alone. Nationally, mark ups more than 20 percent over MSRP are common. One high aver age markup percentage belongs to the non-luxury Jeep Wrangler, gen erally priced about $8,500 above MSRP, closely followed by the Porsche Macan at $14,200 over MSRP. Both represent dealer mark ups of about 25 percent.

In most cases, barring special sales that reduce the markup a bit, this means hugely higher dealer profits.

This is pure price gouging, based on the age-old law of supply and demand.

“As demand continues to exceed supply for popular vehicles, dealers are adding market adjustments gen erally ranging from $2,000 (for lowend gasoline-powered models) to $10,000,” reports the iseecars.com automotive research firm, whose fall survey included 1.9 million new car listings.

“Markups are highest for cars that hold their value best after they leave the dealerships.” Translation: hybrids or electric vehicles.

In California’s biggest market area of Los Angeles, some of the highest markups belong to the Genesis GV70 luxury sport utility vehicle, generally priced slightly more than 25 percent over its MSRP. The same Genesis model also tops markups in San Diego, where dealers commonly

Letters

Support our teachers

I was a certificated secondary school teacher in two districts over my career. I checked the salary schedule for each district for 2022 and com pared them to the DJUSD salary schedule. The first glaring item is the first-year category; each of the dis tricts I taught in has a starting salary that is $10K-plus more than Davis for this calendar year.

Salaries throughout each schedule are greater than Davis for all years and my first district has a max salary is $104,850. New teachers seeking a job in this area can easily get $10K more by traveling outside Davis, vet eran teachers will do the same. Teach ing is not about money but it is about getting respect for the professional standing teachers hold.

Treating them as professionals should be the district’s first priority

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President

The Hon. Joe Biden, The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; 202-456-1111 (comments), 202-456-1414 (switchboard); email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact U.S. Senate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Of fice Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202224-3841; email: http://feinstein.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

Sen. Alex Padilla, B03 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510;

ask 27 percent above MSRP. In the San Francisco Bay area, the biggest markups belong to the Ford Maver ick pickup, at 36 percent ($8,600) over MSRP. Both the Genesis and Maverick models offer hybrid engines as options.

The Maverick also tops all the markup averages around the nation, especially in the Philadelphia and Jacksonville areas.

The high-tech four-door Maverick, introduced in the 2022 model year, is especially popular as a hybrid, its success partly driven by today’s high gasoline prices.

Most dealers don’t deny tak ing advantage of low newcar inventories caused by supply chain shortages that often cause buyers to wait months before their car or truck of choice arrives. Overall, new car sales in California were down 16 percent in the first nine months of this year.

But even as state legislators get set for a special session on gasoline price gouging by oil refiners, there’s not much they can do to prevent the unprecedented car price hikes.

This is trickling down to used cars, too. The iseecars.com study showed huge price increases from last year to this among many used car models, the leader being the Nissan Leaf electric car, which saw an average price increase of $6,501, or 48 percent, between

and the school board should make that clear to them. In 2018, the dis trict paid a salary of $264,000-plus to the superintendent, teachers should be considered as important if not more so.

John E. Clark Davis

Shopping spree for shelter

A huge debt of gratitude goes out to Craig Blomberg, Sutter Davis regis tered nurse, who generously paid for a shopping spree for Davis Commu nity Meals & Housing’s cold weather shelter.

The shopping expedition was held at Community Mercantile (www.com munitymercdavis.org), a brand new woman-owned Davis nonprofit ware house and store that focuses on waste-stream diversion and sustain ability. The purchases helped DCM outfit the shelter with blankets, com forters, furniture, animal crates, and

202-224-3553; email: padilla.senate.gov/ public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

House of Representatives

Rep. John Garamendi (3rd District), 2368 Rayburn House Office Building, Wash ington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-1880. District office: 412 G St., Davis, CA 95616; 530753-5301; email: visit https://garamendi. house.gov/contact/email

Governor

Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: visit https://govapps.gov. ca.gov/gov40mail/

June 2021 and June 2022.

The same for Chevrolet Camaros, whose used-car price rose 45 percent in one year, or $11,200. And the popular Dodge Ram 1500 rose 42 percent used, or about $12,000.

The reason for all this: New ones are hard to find.

The best deals, those with the smallest increases, included latemodel Subaru Crosstreks, which increased $3,300, or 15 percent, in a year and the Mazda CX-3, up $3,100 or 18 percent.

Dealers say their markups are a way to maintain profits while overall auto sales are down.

“They have responded to market conditions by pricing cars above MSRP and making a higher profit on specific models to help offset restricted new car production,” ana lyst Karl Brauer told a reporter. “In this market, consumers are willing to pay well above sticker price.”

Which means the best bottom line strategy for car buyers seeking both new and used models may be to wait. Current gasoline car owners can still find plenty of service stations for fuel. Cars built up to 15 years ago are more durable than previous versions, so waiting until conditions improve might pay off, even with gasoline at near record prices.

There’s no likelihood of a windfall profit tax on car dealers, even if one is imposed on oil companies. That leaves any penalties for price gouging car dealers strictly up to individual consumers.

— Email Thomas Elias at tde lias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough, The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It" is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias col umns, visit www.californiafocus.net

more. A warm, comfortable shelter will now welcome the unhoused later this week.

While Mr. Blomberg’s donation benefitted both DCM and Commu nity Mercantile — two local nonprofits — it also helped put used items back into circulation, reducing impacts to the landfill and the envi ronment. Kudos to his creative use of donating money!

Stephanie Koop Davis

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California Assembly

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0004; 916-319-2004; fax: 916319-2104; email: visit www.asm.ca.gov/ aguiar-curry. District office: 600 A St., Suite D, Davis, CA 95616; 530-757-1034.

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"Sleeping Beauty" Panto world premiere for the holidays!

@ 6pm / $20

Family Fun World Premiere of "Sleeping Beauty" Panto in 23 Per‐formances Dec. 1-30 Presidio The‐atre, 99 Moraga Avenue, San Fran‐cisco. info@presidiotheatre.org

Vent! An Interactive Comedy Variety Show @ 6:30pm / $20

Hilarious local comedians help un‐pack the audience's pet peeves. PianoFight, 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco. ventlive@gmail.com, 818-304-4551

Best of San Francisco Stand-up Comedy @ 8pm / $7.50

The Variety Preview Theater, 582 Market Street, Suite 101, San Fran‐cisco

Machine Girl @ 8pm

Harlow's Night Club - Sacramento CA, 2708 J St, Sacramento

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus "Holiday Spectacular" @ 8pm / $15-$80

Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes St., San Francisco

PUNKADELICK feat. Nikki Glaspie, Mike Dillon, Brian Haas at Boom Boom Room @ 9pm Boom Boom Room, 1601 Fillmore St, San Francisco

Twenty

Abe Lagrimas,Jr. @ 3pm / $10-$15

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

Into The Woods | Les Miserables: A Journey Through Song and Story @ 4pm / $65-$120

Two iconic musicals, narrated to‐gether on stage for the �rst time. Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. michelle@sfsalon music.com

Songs of Spirit and Joy @ 4pm / Free-$40

Join the SF Bach Choir and Baroque brass ensemble The Whole Noyse for our beloved holi‐day concert with music from around the world! Calvary Presby‐terian Church, 2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco. info@sf bach.org, 855-473-2224

San Francisco Youth Ballet's "The Nutcracker" @ 5pm / $27.50-$37.50

A Drag Queen Christmas @ 8pm / $35-$75 Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco

Social Media Strategies Summit Public Agencies and Government @ 8:30am / $349-$749 Dec 7th - Dec 8th

Leverage Social Media to Human‐ize Your Agency and Engage Your Communities This December 7-8, 2022. San Francisco. andrea.var gas@gsmiweb.com

Sunday Dec 11th

Sacramento Ballet presents Nutcracker with live orchestra @ 2pm / $49-$99

SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, 1301 L St., Sacramento SacBallet continues its beloved, annual holiday tradition set to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. This year SacBallet presents its newest staged production with choreography by Sacramento hometown dancers Nicole Haskins, Colby Damon and Julia Feldman.

"The

@ 7pm / $12.50-$23.50

Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

Phil Johnson and Roadside

Attraction Comedy and Music @ 7pm

Slow Hand BBQ, 1941 Oak Park Blvd, Pleasant Hill

Andrew Bundy @ Casements Bar @ 7pm

Casements Bar, 2351 Mission St, San Francisco

Dos Bandoleros @ 7pm El Chato, 2301 Bryant St, San Fran‐cisco

Callisto Ghost, Blackmoon, Fussy Parts @ 8pm / $12 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

The Watkins Family Hour @ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 850 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Meredith Edgar: Edgar Allen Paul - JAZZ NIGHT! @ 8pm The Lucky Horseshoe, 453 Cort‐land ave, San Francisco

"Shoshana in December: A New Musical" @ 8pm / $20

Phoenix Theatre San Francisco, 414 Mason St., San Francisco

Esther Povitsky @ 9:45pm / $29.50 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Avenue, San Francisco Rose

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Krampus Pageant 2022 @ 3pm / $10

Join the Sisters of Perpetual Indul‐gence and SF Krampus as they pay homage to the sinister and scary side of Christmas El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Fran‐cisco. tilda@thesisters.org

Light Up the Night Bike Pa‐rade in Golden Gate Park @ 4pm Grab your favorite wheels, your best lights and join us for a family friendly night ride through Golden Gate Park on Saturday, December 3! Peacock Meadow, 240 John F Kennedy Drive, San Francisco. events@sfparksalliance.org

World Famous Popovich Comedy Pet Theater @ 4pm / $17.50

Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 2850 19th Avenue, San Francisco

Jaleh w/ members of Royal Jelly Jive for a Holiday Jamboree @ 6:30pm / $10-$20

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash: The Side Door @ 7pm The Side Door, 2900 4th Ave, Sacramento

Alan Menken's "A Christmas Carol" @ 7:30pm / $11

Jean Henderson Performing Arts, 607 Pena

Chinese American International School, 3250 19th Ave., San Fran‐cisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 6:30pm / $45 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Abe Lagrimas,Jr. @ 6:30pm / $10-$15 Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

Arin Ray: Hello Poison Tour: Part II @ 7pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Roast Battle Bay Area @ 7:30pm / $18 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Avenue, San Francisco

Asher E Stern @ 5:30pm AVOW, 813 Main St, Napa

Undeath @ 6pm Gold�eld Trading Post, 1630 J St, Sacramento

Slave To The Grave Tour @ 6:30pm Gold�elds Trading Co, Sacramento Babehoven @ 7pm The Starlet Room, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Bell Witch @ 7pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

Pallbearer @ 7pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco brakence @ 8pm The Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco brakence - Venue Change @ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Living Trust SeminarVacaville, CA - December 7, 2022

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Beetlejuice @ 1pm Golden Gate Theater, 1 Taylor St., San Francisco Living Trust SeminarVallejo, CA - December 7, 2022 @ 4pm

This is a FREE Living Trust Seminar Vallejo Veterans Memorial Build‐ing, 420 Admiral Callaghan Lane, Vallejo. info@LearnLiv ingTrust.com, 800-350-6376

Flights of Fancy: Sculpture by Steven McGovney

@ 11:30am Dec 2nd - Dec 24th Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pencesocialmedia@gmail.com,

Clementine Darling @ 6pm Beacon

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Hotel, 450 Powell St., San Fran‐cisco

Hillstomp at Davis Odd Fellows w/ The Sam Chase & The Untraditional @ 7pm Davis Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows Hall, Davis

Alan Menken's "A Christmas Carol"

@ 7:30pm / $11

Jean Henderson Performing Arts, 607 Pena Dr., Davis

Brian Copeland: "Grandma & Me" @ 7:30pm / $10-$12.50

The Marsh San Francisco Main‐Stage Theater, 1062 Valencia St., San Francisco

Holiday Heroes 2022 @ 5:30pm / Free$25000

Oracle Park, Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco

Levi Lloyd & Friends: Private Beddian Birthday Celebration @ 5:30pm / Free Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

"As You Like It" @ 7pm / $12-$70

San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

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Ricky Paquette: w/The Sheepdogs @ 7pm The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

"Colors of Christmas" @ 7:30pm

Free Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness, San Francisco

Colors of Christmas with Oleta Adams, Peabo Bryson, Jody Watley & Ruben Studdard @ 7:30pm San Francisco Symphony, 201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

Adam Sandler @ 8pm / $39.50-$119.50

Chase Center, 300 16th Street, San Francisco

Mark Hummel

@ 6:30pm Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia Street, Vallejo

"As You Like It" @ 7pm / $12-$70 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

"The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley" @ 7pm / $12.50-$23.50 Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

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"As You Like It" @ 2pm / $12-$70

San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

"The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley" @ 2pm / $12.50-$23.50

Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

San Francisco Ballet w/ The Nutcracker @ 2pm War Memorial Opera House, 455 Franklin St., San Francisco

SF Choral Artists: Christmas Postcards @ 4pm / $15-$35

Acclaimed Bay Area chamber choir performs music from 6 continents and 500 years – with 4 world pre‐mieres! St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco. mkaulkin@sfca.org, 415-494-8149

Napa HS Jazz Band Fundraiser 2022-2023 @ 6:30pm / $10-$27

Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

"As You Like It" @ 7pm / $12-$70

San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

Gürschach: Insipid Productions presents: THE UNHOLY SABBATH @ 7pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

The Young Fables @ 7pm Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th St, San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet w/ The Nutcracker @ 7pm War Memorial Opera House, 455 Franklin St., San Francisco

hen the Pilgrims arrived at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, they met native peoples who had lived in the area for thousands of years. Their name, Wampanoag, means “People of the First Light.” This name was chosen because they lived on the east coast and they received the light of dawn before anyone to the west.

This trouble-making turkey has taken some words out of these paragraphs. Can you find where each word belongs?

The arrival of colonists from Europe was seen differently by different groups of people. The Wampanoag were cautious and unsure about these new people. The colonists were relieved to be done with their long voyage, but afraid of what might lie ahead.

Celebrations of thanksgiving in North America did not _______ with the Pilgrims at __________ in 1621. Gratefulness was (and is) a very important part of ________________ life.

The Wampanoag have held ___________ to give thanks since ____________ times. And, not just for a good _____________. The Wampanoag give thanks for the birth of a child and other good fortune. In fact, giving thanks was the __________ reason for Wampanoag celebrations.

Clip at least 10 headlines from today’s newspaper and divide them into their parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.). Create a poem about Thanksgiving using all the words you clipped. Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write in a variety of genres including poetry.

Think About It!

Today’s Kid Scoop provides two different points of view about the coming of the Pilgrims to North America.

Use the newspaper to understand different points of view.

Select one article from today’s newspaper and identify two people or groups of people affected by the news in the article.

Write one or more sentences telling each person or group’s point of view about the news.

Main topic of article:

Person or group #1:

Point of view:

A delicious food • A Thanksgiving event • A good place to visit

Person or group #2:

Point of view:

Standards Link: Writing Applications: Use strategies (e.g., point of view) to write for a variety of purposes.

Thanks for always being such a great friend, Chris! … telling a friend you’re thankful they’re your friend!

This week’s word:

VIEWPOINT

The noun viewpoint means an opinion about something.

The Wampanoag have a different viewpoint about Thanksgiving than some others.

Try to use the word viewpoint in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members.

I Am Thankful

Write about something or someone for which or whom you are thankful. What are some of the ways this person or thing makes your life better? How do you show your appreciation?

Classic Civil War matchup this weekend

This week’s picks are as fol lows:

UCLA over CAL ... The sad news for the Bears here, in addi tion to another loss on the field, is the loss of longtime play-byplay radio man Joe Starkey. Simply one of the best in the business, calling his last game. Worth a listen.

USC over NOTRE DAME

There have been some great games in this series. I was actu ally fortunate enough to be in the Coliseum when No. 1 Notre Dame routed the Trojans, 51-0, in 1966.

It would be fitting for the Irish to pop USC’s playoff bub ble, but the Men of Troy simply have too many weapons.

OREGON over OREGON

STATE ... When’s the last time the Ducks were but a threepoint favorite over the Beavers? A classic Civil War matchup that the folks in Corvallis have been waiting for all season long.

OHIO STATE over MICHI GAN ... The Buckeyes remember last year’s embarrassment to the Fighting Habaughs. It won’t happen again.

ALABAMA over AUBURN It will take a while before the

SEASON: Superb athletes on both squads

From

Hornet head coach Troy Taylor told me afterward, who knows what would have happened if the Aggies had just a bit more time there at the end.

The Aggies are to be commended for all the thrills they gave us this year and for being willing to compete in games like this.

The fans of both these schools were well served by those wearing the Green and Gold and those wearing the Blue and Gold.

These are no longer hated rivals, but superb and talented athletes with true respect for one another.

My Aggie heart aches, but my hat is off to the Hornets.

The best of sports was on display last Saturday afternoon at Hornet Stadium.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Tigers are back on level ground.

TCU over IOWA STATE The boys from Fort Worth complete a wildly unlikely perfect regular season.

LSU over TEXAS A&M Can’t say the folks in Baton Rouge did not get their mon ey’s worth when they hired Brian Kelly. Can’t say the same about Jimbo Fisher, whose job is probably safe because his buy out is so huge.

UTAH over COLORADO Last week’s hiccup in Eugene won’t stop the Utes.

ARIZONA over ARIZONA STATE ... The Territorial Cup heads south to Tucson. Bear Down you wily Wildcats.

STATE: It’s go-time

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Gregg revealed the Blue Devils’ workout regimen that they’ve used for the bulk of this season.

Mondays are anaerobic threshold pace, Tuesdays recovery pace, Wednesdays, VO2 max workouts, which is hard interval training, Thursdays recovery pace and Fridays are pre-meet run, or what he calls, the Steady State.

“The first week we added a bit of length to our workouts and just kept the same intensity workouts,” said Dulaney, a senior who took fifth place at the section meet with a time of 19 minutes, 11.9 seconds in the 3-mile race. “This week, we have been slightly reducing the amount of minutes or reps to make sure our legs are feeling fresh and ready.”

Gregg added, “We’ve cut down a bit on the weekly volume the past two weeks, but not a lot.”

Now it’s almost go-time for the Blue Devils.

“Looking for positive outcomes for everyone in the lineup top to bottom,” Gregg said.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@ davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twitter at @MBDavisSports.

UPSET OF THE WEEK: Stanford over Brigham Young The Cardinal finish the worst season in recent history on an upnote. (Upset record: 3-9).

ROUT OF THE WEEK: Geor gia over Georgia Tech ... They’ll go to running time halfway through the Star Spangled Ban ner. (Rout record: 12-0).

DON’T BET ON IT, BUT: Washington over Washington State ... To the victor go the spoils. To the vanquished go the spoiled apples. (Don’t bet record:6-6).

FIVE EASY PICKS: There are no easy picks this week. (FEP season record: 58-2).

OTHER GAMES: Texas over Baylor, Arkansas over Missouri,

Clemson over South Carolina, Army over Massachusetts, Lib erty over New Mexico State, Maryland over Rutgers, South Alabama over Old Dominion, North Texas over Rice, Illinois over Northwestern, Purdue over Indiana, Troy over Arkansas State, UAB over Louisiana Tech, Texas-San Antonio over UTEP, Penn State over Michigan State, Middle Tennessee over Florida International, Central Florida over South Florida, Tennessee over Vanderbilt, Syracuse over Boston College, Houston over Tulsa, Kansas State over Kansas, Boise State over Utah State, San Jose State over Hawaii, UNLV over Nevada, Fresno State over Wyoming, and Weber State over North Dakota.

Last week: 39-8, season: 41191, percentage: .819.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

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Blue Devil Ryan Mitchell (left) holds a lead on another runner in the SJS CrossCountry Championships on Nov. 12.

UC Davis football season ended too soon

FOOTBALL FINAL ... It all ended much too soon.

One minute it felt as if we were just beginning the Aggie football season with trips to Berkeley and Brookings, South Dakota, and the next minute the final seconds were ticking down before our local heroes to could get off a last-second snap to attempt a potential game-winning Hail Mary against Sacramento State in the season finale before 23,000 fans at Hornet Stadium. But over it was. That was made clear Sunday morning at a playoff “watch party” in the Bruce Edwards room at UC Davis Health Stadium as dozens of Aggie foot ball players walked out in stunned silence after failing to see “UC Davis” pop up in one of the 24 slots for playoff participants.

There had been hope that the strength of the Aggie schedule, plus close losses to No. 1 South Dakota State (24-22) and No. 2 Sacramento State (27-21) would sway the selection committee despite UCD’s 6-5 overall record.

Alas, it wasn’t to be.

And while I can make a case for a 6-5 team not getting into the playoff, it’s hard to imagine how both Idaho and Montana did make it into the final field over

this 6-5 Aggie team.

In the next-to-last game of the season, the Aggies traveled to Moscow and drilled No. 15 Idaho, 44-26. UCD led, 31-7, at halftime and never looked back. You would think that late-season head-tohead matchups, especially one as lopsided as this one, would weigh heavily in the selection commit tee’s judgment.

Montana, meanwhile, limped to the finish line, losing four of its last six games, including a 30-23 setback to Idaho and a final game 55-21 shellacking by Montana State. Indeed, the much-hyped Brawl of the Wild turned into the Maul of the Wild.

Worse yet, the Griz finished 4-4 and sixth in the Big Sky Confer ence, while the Aggies were 5-3 and in fifth place. Again, you

would think conference standings would weigh heavily in the selec tion committee’s judgment, especially with a team that failed to break .500 in the Big Sky and finished halfway down the league standings.

Montana and the Aggies had six common opponents. Montana was 2-4 against those six, while the Aggies were 3-3. Once again, what criteria could the committee be using if not this?

This is not sour grapes or a par tisan rant from a hometown sportswriter who thought he might be eating Thanksgiving leftovers in Fargo.

The committee took five teams from the Big Sky. By any objective standard, UC Davis should have been one of them. If you’re going to take five from one league, look

at the final standings and take the top five.

Then again, Montana has a sparkling 25,000-seat stadium surrounded by beautiful moun tains in all directions. UC Davis’ sparkling stadium seats half that many and is surrounded by cows.

ABOUT THAT CAUSEWAY CLASSIC Those who have been privileged to play competi tive sports know that sometimes you’re risking having your heart broken apart. The thrill of vic tory is ever present but so, too, is the agony of defeat.

The Aggies are feeling the lat ter after laying it all on the line and coming up just short against Sacramento State.

Water polo Cross Country

Aggie men’s team back-to-back champions, advance to nationals

Enterprise staff

LOS ANGELES — The UC Davis men’s water polo team remains the class of the Western Water Polo Association, claiming their seventh title in program history and second in a row in a thrilling, 13-12 final against UC San Diego on Sunday at the Burns Aquatics Center.

The Aggies won their fifth WWPA title in the last seven seasons, and head to the NCAA Tournament for what is the third straight season.

The Aggies have competed after opting out of the 2020-21 cam paign. UC Davis has now won con ference crowns in 1996, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. This marks the fifth title under the Child and Meisel Families Director of Men’s Water Polo Dan Leyson.

Redshirt sophomore Tyler Mrkaich was named the Tourna ment’s Most Valuable Player after scoring six of the 13 Aggie goals, including the eventual game-winner in overtime.

The Clovis native scored three of his six goals in the clutch, finding the net late in the fourth quarter and

twice in overtime. He paced the Aggies with a game-high seven points.

Aaron Wilson, who was the 2021 Tournament MVP, joined Mrkaich on the all-tournament team this year, making nine saves after UCD faced 28 shots on the afternoon.

Will Nomura joined the duo on the all-tournament first team as Levi Murtaugh earned second-team accolades. Nomura added two goals in the winning effort, while Murtaugh added one.

UC Davis faced a quick 2-0 deficit after the first quarter.

But the Aggies battled back in the second frame, equaling the score, 5-5.

Knotted at 10 after regulation, UCD seized the 12-11 lead after the first overtime after timely goals from Mrkaich and Holden Neach.

Mrkaich sealed the contest with his goal with 1:05 left in the second overtime.

UC Davis is one of seven men’s water polo teams named to the championship tournament.

Automatic qualifiers

Five teams, including UCD, were automatic qualifiers as tournament champions. Two oth ers were selected at-large.

The top two seeds, UCLA and California, have already been placed in the Final Four.

The Aggies, 19-7 overall, will play University of the Pacific (216) on Dec. 1 at the Spieker Aquatics Complex in Berkeley.

The winner of that game will move on to battle defending champion California (21-2) on Dec. 3.

In another opening-round game, Princeton, 26-5, will host Fordham, 26-7.

The winner will play USC, 18-6, with the winner of that game moving on to the Final Four against UCLA, 22-4.

The championship game will be held Dec. 4 at 3 p.m. at the Spieker Pool on the Cal campus.

— Enterprise staff writer Bob Dunning contributed to this story.

DHS squads preparing for state meet

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

There are 14 members of the Davis High girls and boys cross-country teams who will be journeying to the middle of California on Friday.

On Saturday, the Blue Devils will be competing at the California Interscholastic Federation CrossCountry State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno. Both competing in Division I, the Davis girls are expected to start at 11:20 a.m. and the boys at noon.

The Blue Devils had strong finishes at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Cross-Country Meet on the Willow Hill Reservoir course on the Folsom High campus on Nov. 12.

The Davis girls took second place in D-I with 77 points behind champion Oak Ridge. The top two teams advance to the state championship.

The Blue Devil boys took third place with 90 points, behind second place and Delta League rival Jesuit and champion Lincoln of Stockton. The top three teams advance to this weekend’s meet.

Davis girls making the journey to Fresno are Aida Bozorgchami, Abby Carroll, Norah Dulaney, Maggie Kim, Alex Lee, Ellie Ross and Avery Wolk.

The Blue Devil boys competing at the state championship are Jay Doctor, Tomas Ferns, Ryan Mitchell, Jayson Sisco, Owen Stevens, Lucas Tam and Jefferson Wright.

Davis head coach Bill Gregg talked about teams’ mindset entering Saturday’s championship.

Members of the UC Davis men’s water polo team display their new hardware after winning the WWPA crown.

Now the Aggies advance to the nationals

“The focus for (the) state meet preparation has been on sharpness, both physically and mentally,” Gregg said. “We are talking about the nuances of the Woodward Park course and the best tactics to use in State Meet competition. We also talk about keeping the nerves calm and not being overwhelmed by the magnitude of competing in one of the best, if not the best state high school cross-country championships in the U.S.”

“Lastly, we preach the importance of enjoying the journey, and the destination, practicing being present in the moment, appreciating each other’s company and friendship and being grateful for the opportunity to compete at this level.”

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Aggie utility player Aleix Aznar Beltran gets ready to fire the ball during a recent WWPA game.

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Davis’ Norah Dulaney completes the first half of the Division I girls race of the Sac-Joaquin Section CrossCountry Championships at Folsom High on Nov. 12.