The Davis Enterprise Sunday, December 4, 2022

Long strides on short legs

Jellybean makes waves on marathon circuit

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

What do you get when you mix a little Chihuahua with a wag of dachshund, a scratch of Yorkie and a splash of inspiration? A little dog named Jellybean who proves big things come in small packages, one marathon at a time.

Before Jellybean began her sensational running career and became the unofficial mascot of the Davis Fleet Feet training group, she was surren dered by her previous owner to the Bradshaw Animal Shelter in Sacra mento.

That’s when her current owner and Fleet Feet training mentor, Andrew Owens would opt to adopt the frail, little pup. Their relationship had a rocky start, unfortunately, as Jel lybean would make messes in the house and Owens was a hair away from bringing her back to the shelter.

Their relationship changed, however, when

Owens decided to go out for a jog one day.

“I was going to run with my German shepherd and I told my brother, ‘you’re going to have to take this dog home, she won’t run with my German shep herd.’ So, I started running away and she started screaming because she wanted to run with us,” Owens explained. “It came to the point where we did a couple runs, then she wanted to run more. Then she met the people at Fleet

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Stuff the Bus event to fill UCD’s Pantry

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

One of Unitrans’ vintage London double-deckers is expected to get stuffed again with food and toilet ries.

The annual “Stuff the Bus” event will be on Dec. 10 this year from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Davis Food Co-op parking lot in support of The Pantry, a student-run organiza tion serving students in need at UC Davis.

“I think as a community there are many of us that make assumptions about who faces food insecurity and

oftentimes, that does not include university students that actually face food insecurity at pretty staggering levels,” Vincent Marchese, Market ing Manager at the Davis Food Co-op.

In fact, 42 percent of students throughout the UC system experi ence high levels of food insecurity. “You might not think of your neigh bor whose student is experiencing food insecurity, but it is an issue fac ing students,” said Jeffrey Flynn, Unitrans general manager, adding that the entire Unitrans team looks forward to this event each year.

Jackson joins DJUSD school board

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

DJUSD Area 1 has found its Trustee in none other than Hiram Jackson. As a bilin gual parent whose kids attended Davis’ schools, Jackson is eager to bolster the equity and opportunity of the district’s diverse student population.

Jackson first came to Davis in 1988 to attend grad school at UC Davis. His focus was in geology, and in 1991 he had the opportunity to study abroad in Chile for a year. He returned and a few years later met his wife at UCD who happened to be from South America herself. The two — like so many others who meant to stay in town “temporarily” — ended up making Davis their home.

“My wife came in 1998 and had two kids. So, I adopted them and early on they came into the schools not knowing a word of English. I ended up getting very involved showing up to meetings for my kids and helping them with homework,” Jackson

To help feed the needy, last year The Pantry estimated more than $3,500 in donations. In describing the sight of the bus at its fullest, The Pantry’s Director, Abigail Non narath, said, “It’s over two full pallets full of food stacked about five feet high!”

Marchese said that he loves get ting the importance of the message across in an eye-catching and inter active way in the parking lot of an establishment with everything you need to help donate. See STUFF, Page A5

Quick certification moves up City Council transitions

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

With the Yolo County Elections Office certifying results from the Nov. 8 election a week earlier than previously expected, the city will move up its council transition process by a week.

Jesse Salinas, Yolo County’s clerk-recorder/ assessor/registrar of vot ers, had said shortly after the election that his office would likely need the full 30 days allowed by law to process ballots and certify the election. But elections staff managed to com plete the process a week earlier than the Dec. 9

deadline.

The Davis City Council is required to certify those results at its next meeting, which is Tuesday.

One week later, on Dec. 13, Bapu Vaitla and Glo ria Partida will be sworn in to the City Council, rather than on Dec. 20 as previously assumed, City Manager Mike Webb said Friday.

At that Dec. 13 meet ing, the council will also select the next mayor and vice mayor of the city effective Jan. 3.

One date that does not change as a result of an earlier-than-expected

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Jellybean, the unofficial mascot of the Davis Fleet Feet training group is winning hearts and minds with her dogged running performances.

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A Unitrans double-decker will forego passengers on Saturday, when Unitrans and the Davis Food Co-op are asking the public to fill the bus with food instead.

explained his initial involvement with the school district. “Later on, I became heavily involved with the music boosters and really started following the school board closely when the recession hit in 2008 when they

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Hiram Jackson will join the Davis school board, serving in Trustee Area 1.

Briefly

Ring the bell for Salvation Army

The Davis unit of Sal vation Army seeks vol unteer bell ringers to work Dec. 1 to 23.

This year, the group will set at Oak Tree Plaza the Marketplace, and Davis Farmers Market.

Contact Toni Smith at tonismith2312@gmail. com to volunteer.

is this a red/blue state thing?

Have you received your State of California Middle Class Tax Refund yet?

I haven’t, but that could be because the Franchise Tax Board came across my seven-figure sal ary with the floating decimal point and decided our kids did not need shoes for the winter after all.

My friend, Danny, however, did receive his in the form of a debit card, which is guaranteed to keep him out of debtor’s prison for another year.

Danny is not amused by this transaction and he sent a guided missive to tell me so.

“Take a look when you get one,” Danny begins.

“A bizarre way to implement helping Californians.”

But not a bizarre way to make friends and influence voters.

“Want to activate your card?” he continues.

“You become a customer of NY Community Bank that says it will not use your personal information for marketing, despite the reserva tion for their standard privacy policy that you signed up for when you activated the card.”

Is this another Gavin gambit to pick up New York’s electoral votes when he runs for president in 2024?

“Problems? You have agreed to arbitration in your cardmember agreement. Although unprinted, on the website it says part of the

Police investigate hate crime/robbery attempt

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Davis police are investi gating an attempted rob bery and hate crime that left the victim injured Thursday night.

Lt. John Evans said the suspect confronted the victim at about 9:45 p.m. as he rode his electric scooter through Sycamore Park in the 1300 block of Sycamore Lane.

The suspect demanded the scooter, and when the victim refused, “the sus pect knocked him to the ground and punched him several times,” Evans said. As the victim fought back, the suspect placed him in a chokehold and used racial slurs.

Evans said the suspect then fled the scene empty-handed and remained at large as of Friday morning.

He was described as an Asian male in his late teens or early 20s, with dark curly hair and a mustache, wearing a black hoodie and dark shorts at the time.

The victim sustained minor injuries, for which he was treated on scene and transported to Sutter Davis Hospital for further evaluation, Evans said.

Anyone with informa tion about this incident is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

Candle blamed for house fire

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

An unattended candle caused a fire that dam aged a Village Homes residence Thursday night, the Davis Fire Depart ment reported.

Crews responded at about 7 p.m. to the West ernesse Road blaze where, Capt. Luis Parrilla said, the candle had ignited some nearby papers. When a resident tried to put out the flames, the candle fell, set fire to a

curtain panel and spread from there.

Firefighters contained the fire to the first floor of the home, but the struc ture sustained heavy smoke, heat and water damage estimated at more than $100,000, Parrilla said.

The resident of the home escaped injury, Par rilla said, as did the Davis and UC Davis fire crews that responded to the scene.

arbitration agreement is a way to reject arbitration.”

Of course, if you’re a middleclass Californian who lives on the proper side of the railroad tracks, you received your refund months ago and have already taken the family to Disneyland.

Not to mention the fact you didn’t get your refund in the form of an embarrass ing debit card from New York, but by direct deposit into your check ing account. You got real money to do with as you please. Everyone else got a silly card that apparently works only if you buy stuff.

“Fees here, there and every where. Plus, besides the bank, you become associated with Money Network Financial LLP of Alpharetta, Georgia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiserve Inc., that is headquartered in Brooke field, Wisconsin.”

My goodness, this debit card has legs.

“The top of my card says: Cali fornia Middle Class Tax Refund Card, PO Box 247022, Omaha, NE/New York/Georgia/Wiscon sin/Nebraska.”

Coming soon to a state near you. Gavin does get around, doesn’t he? Nothing like shopping locally.

“And sexist if you are married. Only the primary cardholder can use the joint card they send. What could possibly go wrong? Next time, send me a check. Printed in California.”

Amen, brother Dan.

I’ll let you know when and if I get mine. We’ll have a party and take the whole neighborhood to Woodstock’s.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

City surveys residents on camp registration

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Registering children for city summer camps — espe cially popular ones like Camp Putah — has often been stressful for Davis par ents due to high demand.

Currently the city uses a first-come, first-served reg istration process, so par ents in the know are at the ready at their computers or in person when registration opens on a single weekday morning. But camps are known to fill up within just

a few minutes, forcing many to settle for a spot on a wait list despite advanced preparation.

Now the city is seeking community input on whether to change the reg istration style to a lottery, which would allow resi dents to submit their pre ferred camp choices either online or in person during a two-week period.

The lottery method would ensure siblings in the same household can be linked to be selected together for camp options.

Once the lottery period closes, software would ran domly select camp regis trants.

The city has created an online survey that will be open through 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, for residents to weigh in.

The survey is online at https://www.surveymonke y.com/r/RecreationRegistr ationSurvey.

For information, contact the Parks and Community Services Department at registration@cityofdavis. org or 530-757-5626.

Vandals target vehicles on Alvarado Avenue

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Multiple residents of Alvarado Avenue awoke Thursday morning to discover their vehicles had been vandalized.

The Davis Police Department received at least five separate reports about the crimes, which mostly involved car windows being smashed in the 600 and 700 blocks of Alvarado Avenue,

according to Lt. John Adams.

No suspects had been identified as of Friday morning, but Evans said detectives are seeking additional evidence, such as security or doorbell camera video, that could identify who committed the vandal isms. Police believe the incidents occurred between about 5 and 7 a.m. Thursday.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

JACKSON: Aims for more equity

were making cuts; to the elementary music program, in particular, that year. I’d thought about running for the school board in earlier years but didn’t want to do it when my kids were still in school because I’ve seen how much time it takes. So, my youngest graduated in 2020 and after that I thought, ‘I’ll run now’ and I succeeded.”

Although he didn’t run for a trustee position while his kids were in school, Jackson has been an active parent-volunteer in the district since 1998. In that time, he’s been a hands-on music booster, served as chair of the Davis High Council, been a member of the DJUSD LCAP Advisory Committee, joined the Superintendent’s Parent Advisory, co-founded the Mariachi Puente band with his wife, Ximena, and, on top of all that, has been a parent of DJUSD students all the while.

“I’ve been very much con nected to Spanish-speaking families in the district. In particular Spanishspeaking families that may be more working-class or

English-limited in other words for the parents. Those are the families we’ve been targeting for the Mariachi program. I’m also more sensitive to how mar ginalized they can be in the district,” Jackson explained some of his influences to become Area 1 Trustee.

“In Davis, there’s a heavy emphasis on students going into college, like my kids. In my view, often the district doesn’t cater very well to these families because a lot of the expla nations are not accessible in Spanish. The parents want very much for the kids to succeed, and the kids will learn English, but in the meantime, it’s harder for the parents to be engaged and participate in those conversations about what their kids will do after they graduate. These are families that come from other countries where there’s a different culture around public education. Often these are families who don’t quite understand what their kid can do if they go to college and what other options are there.”

With Jackson’s litany of experience, he’s looking to bridge language and

Load it up

New toys and games overflow from the trunk of a vintage Davis Police Department patrol car during last year's Toys for Tots drive sponsored by the Davis Police Officers' Association. The DPOA is now accepting new, unwrapped toys and games for this year's effort, which can be dropped off at Target, 4601 Second St., weeknights from 5-8 p.m., or at the Davis police station, 2500 Fifth St., through Thursday, Dec. 15.

The DPOA caps off the drive with a special appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus, along with a team of Star Wars and superhero characters, outside Target starting at 5 p.m. Dec. 15.

cultural barriers within the district. To him, it begins with building relationships with these families and integrating the students on the other side of the lan guage barrier into the many, amazing activities the district is known for like its music, athletics and theater programs (amongst the many others).

“A lot of these activities are not made as readily accessible to kids who come from Spanish-speaking families. The district, tradi tionally, has cared a lot about how they score on standardized tests and kind of ignored these other aspects in the lives other students enjoy,” said Jack son. “These are kinds of activities that affect the way you positively think about school. It’s often a matter of identity and who you hang out with. If you’re not afforded these opportuni ties, then sometimes school may feel pointless.”

With these issues along with many others in his crosshairs, Jackson is eager to begin his tenure as a school board trustee.

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

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Mochi doughnuts making the rounds

Following the boba wave, another chewy, sweet Asian treat is gaining popularity in Davis: mochi doughnuts. A new store, Happy Mochi, is com ing to 1405 Fifth St., to the space last occupied by Kaya Yoga

Happy Mochi will offer mochi doughnuts, Korean rice flour hot dogs, tea (including boba) and coffee. Social media posts say it plans to open by the end of the year.

The doughnuts are made with mochi balls – pounded rice flour – connected into a ring, fried and topped with sweet icing, candy, cereal and more. The mochi makes the dessert stretchy and chewy. (For the non-experts, mochi is not what’s in boba. The chewy pearls in bubble tea drinks are tapioca, made from the cas sava root.)

Korean hot dogs are a varia tion of a corn dog. Typically, they are filled with hot dogs, rice cakes, fish cakes or mozzarella cheese, coated in a batter and deep fried. They’re finished with sugar and condiments. I don’t yet have details on the Happy Mochi menu.

There is at least one other mochi doughnut outlet in Davis, and another possibly on its way. Mochinut, co-branded with T% Coffee + Tea, opened in July at 516 Second St.

Bober, a boba teahouse com ing to 500 First St., Suite 5 in Davis Commons, may offer the doughnuts as well. Some Bober stores partner with Mochi Dough. I haven’t confirmed whether that is the case in Davis.

It appears that this is the first location for Happy Mochi, at least in the U.S. Its website is https://happymochiusa.com.

Woodstock’s Pizza may not open in its new location by the third week of December, as it announced a few weeks ago. It’s moving across the street, from

Golden 1 opens scholarship applications for students

Special to The Enterprise

Golden 1 Credit Union (Golden 1) is pleased to announce the application period is open for its 2023 Scholarship Pro gram. Golden 1 will award dozens of scholarships next summer to eligible California students seek ing higher education who exhibit excellence in aca demics, community involvement and extra curricular activities.

The Scholarship Pro gram provides Golden 1 members and their dependents financial assistance to attend fulltime accredited, nonprofit two-or four-year colleges or universities in Califor nia. To be eligible, stu dents must have a minimum 3.0 GPA, be involved in at least 24 hours of community ser vice in the past 12 months and be a Golden 1 mem ber, or a dependent of a member, for at least one year. Dependents of Golden 1 employees are also eligible to apply.

“Every year, we see scholarship applicants who amaze us with the work they are putting in to make their dreams a reality. Their drive and

dedication to pushing forward to reach their future goals inspires us,” said Erica Taylor, Vice President of Communica tions and Community Relations for Golden 1 Credit Union. “Golden 1 is proud to help bring higher education within reach for students in the communities we serve.”

Launched in 2013, Golden 1’s Scholarship Program has awarded nearly 500 scholarships to California students. Recipients range from incoming college fresh men to college seniors. In 2022, Golden 1 awarded 43 students scholarships throughout the state.

“Golden 1’s Scholarship Program strengthens our communities by provid ing assistance to Califor nia's future leaders to help them attain their educational goals,” added Taylor. “We encourage all who are eligible to apply today.”

The 2023 Scholarship Program application period will be open through January 31, 2023. For more informa tion or to apply, visit golden1.com/ourcommunity/scholarships.

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The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from noon to 1 p.m. Join for a traditional holiday meeting featur ing Sue Chan of Phoenix Ranch, who will talk about her animal charity programs and Silly Dilly the Clown with her bal loon animal art for the kids. The public is wel come to attend.

Davis Progressive Business Exhange meet ings are at Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd in West Davis. Contact Bob Bockwinkel at

530-219-1896 or e-mail G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org for information.

219 G St. to 238 G, which last housed Ketmoree

“There have been some lastminute changes that have come from city officials,” co-owner Laura Ambrose said Monday. “(Those) may push us past the opening we planned. We still plan to move from our old loca tion before end of year, but we’re negotiating on whether we’ll get an occupancy permit.”

She said when they close the current location, there will be a brief closure before the new one opens. “We’re trying for two days, but it could be four.”

The new restaurant will debut with a soft opening. A grand opening will be a few weeks later.

Construction is well underway for Sudwerk Brewing’s new res taurant, at its brewery and tap room, 2001 Second St. Co-owner Trent Yackzan said it’s on track to complete construction in Feb ruary. They will know more by mid-December. Meanwhile, food trucks are feeding hungry beer patrons at the brewery’s tap room, The Dock.

The improvements include a

3,500-square-foot beer garden that will have an all-weather shade structure, along with mis ters, fire pits, and an entertain ment stage. Inside, the kitchen, restaurant, beer hall and bath rooms are being redone. The interior space is about 10,000 square feet.

And construction finally got started on Wednesday at Mamma, the Italian food restau rant and deli filling the former Bistro 33 and City Hall Tavern sites at 226 F St. The owners hope to have it open early next year.

The doggie day care coming to South Davis is still working through the paperwork.

Cindy Hespe, who owns Dog topia with her husband, Wayne Wiebe, said they are waiting for the city to approve their design plans, which they submitted in October. She’s hoping to open the business this spring, possibly March or April.

Dogtopia fills the former Tues day Morning space at 417 Mace Blvd. Dogtopia is a franchise that

provides dog day care, boarding and “spa” treatments for canines.

The Dollar General in Wood land is closing. The store is at 9 Main St., Suite 101.

I spoke with an employee on Monday who said the last day is Dec. 12. She said Dollar General owns many of the buildings where it operates, but not this one. She cited a rent increase as the reason for closing.

Missed a column? Wondering when a new Davis business is opening? Check my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses coming or going. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusi nesses. There are tabs for Res taurants Open, Restaurants Closed, Coming Soon and more. — Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for fre quent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email her at wendyedit@gmail. com

UCD Health adopts low-pressure surgery

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SACRAMENTO — UC Davis Health has adopted low-pressure insufflation as the standard for all surgical laparoscopic procedures, utilizing ConMed's AirSeal System. The renowned academic medical center is the first multi-site health system in the nation to implement the practice sys temwide.

Insufflation involves injecting air or gas via a machine into the abdominal cavity to create a tent to allow for visualization of the operative field and manipulation of instru ments used during the pro cedures.

By offering a low-pres sure insufflation option for every laparoscopic proce dure, UC Davis Health sur geons can safely operate at lower intra-abdominal pressures. This has been shown to improve patient outcomes and promote patient safety.

“Since 2016, we have been utilizing low pressure insufflation for our robotic surgery procedures and have found success in improving patient outcomes and improving operating efficiency for our robotic surgeons,” said Bahareh M. Nejad, director of Robotic Surgery and clinical profes sor of Obstetrics and Gyne cology. “We are proud UC Davis Health has made this investment to expand this benefit for all surgical lapa roscopic procedures.”

Benefits

A recent multisite study published

in MDPI, showed that the use of low pressure insuf flation provided better operative and post-opera tive outcomes for patients when compared with tradi tional open surgery. Patients in the study, who underwent surgery for early-stage endometrial cancer, experienced short ened lengths of stay in the hospital and reduced com plications.

Moreover, low-pressure procedures showed better overall control of postoperative pain as well as shoulder pain. These results were significantly lower than those obtained with the standard insuffla tion system and hastened patients’ discharge. By shortening a patient’s length of stay in the hospi tal and reducing their com plications, UC Davis Health can prevent bottle necks in surgical recovery rooms and serve more patients.

“The faster we can get people out of recovery — even if it is just minutes — it helps our surgeons be able to proceed with our next procedure and provide

more care to our patients,” Nejad added.

Efficiency

Low pressure insuffla tion has also proved to reduce procedural time for surgeons, resulting in increased operating effi ciency. UC Davis Health’s new low-pressure system delivers stable pneumo peritoneum, the presence of air or gas in the abdomi nal cavity. It also has a valveless

system which maintains optimal exposure of the operative field even with a lower pressure of insuffla tion and while allowing the continuous emission of sur gical smoke, a product of many surgeries.

“During a procedure this technology helps me not lose air when I make an incision and allows me to see at all times and not have to wait for smoke to be vented,” explained Nejad. “Ultimately, it makes me more efficient during pro cedures and allows me to be more independent as a surgeon.”

The AirSeal insufflation management system pro vides surgeons a stable pneumoperitoneum, con stant smoke evacuation and the ability to operate at lower intra-abdominal pressures.

By providing these capa bilities, the system has been shown to reduce procedural time, resulting in increased operating efficiency.

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Insufflation involves injecting air or gas into the abdominal cavity for a better view of the operation area.

STUFF: Vintage buses still running

Flynn agrees: “(What) I like most is engaging our community and talk ing to our neighbors during the event. It’s a great, feel-good event. Having Christmas lights on the bus is fun, too!”

Even during the pandemic, Mar chese said there was a great turnout of people who wanted to come and donate. “Seeing customers who did not know that the event was happen ing when they came to get their gro ceries but decided to buy products to donate on their way out is always my favorite thing about this event because it shows that people truly want to help when given the oppor tunity,” he said.

The first 50 donors on Dec. 10 will receive Unitrans passes good for 10 free rides on the campus-city transit system, and everyone’s invited to have some fun by climbing to the top deck of the bus.

One of the three vintage London double-decker buses will be at the Stuff the Bus event. Flynn said that the bus is a post-World War II era AEC RT built likely in the late 1940s or very early 1950s. The ones

currently operational were brought to Davis in the early 1970s and have been in service ever since. Now, Uni trans schedules one of these buses daily during the academic year on the G Line, Flynn explained.

Food items dominate The Pantry’s list of needed goods, but the staff said toiletries and hygiene products are “high-priority.” Easy grab-and-go snacks are a high priority in the food category.

The Pantry’s wishlist includes canned, ready-to-eat meals; cooking utensils; healthy snacks; gluten-free foods; canned soups; peanut butter; jam; fruit juice; and baby formula.

Nonnarath summed up The Pan try’s food needs: “Pretty much any thing that’s reasonably healthy, we’ll take it! Things we’d like to avoid are sugary foods and ‘junk food.’”

Remembering last year’s experi ence going inside the Unitrans vehi cle, Nonnarath was filled with emotion with a smile brought upon her face knowing the Davis commu nity supports The Pantry’s efforts to combat food insecurity on campus: “I was amazed with the donations piling inside as I walked through the aisle and each seat was filled with items. …

It really means a lot to me and to the Pantry to give out groceries and food staples to those in need during the holidays, and Stuff the Bus signifi cantly helps towards it. Overall, I am just touched seeing the bus return back with the non-perishables and basic necessities because there’s the assurance we will have full shelves for our patrons to select from.”

Of course, just seeing the vintage London double-decker bus brought excitement to Nonnarath, who said she loves how Unitrans uses the vin tage bus, especially for an event like this, but also the amount of support from the community and their words of affirmation and apprecia tion towards the cause.

Marchese said that hosting events like Stuff the Bus at the Co-op feels “great” and that “it is a reminder of what we are here for” as a coopera tively-owned grocery store with nearly 9,000 local Member-Owners with concern for the community. “The Co-op exists in large part due to the bountiful supply of food pro duced in our region, and it is our responsibility to help make sure that everyone in our community has access to it,” he said.

TRANSITIONS: Robust turnout for Yolo County

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election certification is Mayor Lucas Frerichs’s move to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. Fre richs will be sworn in as a county supervisor on Jan. 3, formally vacating his City Council seat that day.

That evening, the remain ing four members of the council will decide how to fill the vacancy — via either a special election in May or an appointment.

In previous discussions,

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council members have indicated a preference for a special election to fill the District 3 seat.

And while no special election has been called yet, two candidates have now emerged for the Dis trict 3 seat. Donna Neville, chair of the city’s Finance and Budget Commission, and Francesca Wright, recipient of the city’s Thong Hy Huynh Memo rial Award for civil rights advocacy in 2021, have filed campaign finance

paperwork with the city.

Yolo County saw a voter turnout of 58 percent for the Nov. 8 General Elec tion, Salinas reported Thursday.

Of the 118,337 regis tered voters in the county, 68,794 cast ballots.

Turnout, as is usually the case, was higher in November than in the June primary, when 42 percent of registered vot ers cast ballots.

While not all counties

have finished counting, Salinas said Yolo County is currently trending more than 5 percent above the statewide average for voter turnout on the Nov. 8.

“Even with the high number of election day vote-by-mail voters and the unprecedented num ber of voters who utilized same-day voter registra tion services this election, we are certifying more than a week before our Dec. 9 deadline,” Sali nas said.

JELLYBEAN: Unstoppable spirit in a small package

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Feet, they started giving her treats and it’s been dis tance running from there. The max distance she’s run is 31.1 miles, and that’s a 50k.”

As unbelievable as it sounds, Jellybean is 9 pounds of sheer, distance running athleticism and determination. Although she has e nough energy to outlast the Energizer Bunny, Owens makes sure Jellybean has the veterinar ian’s stamp of approval as she’s putting in the miles.

“We got to Midtown Ani mal Clinic to Dr. Coil. She basically said, ‘the dog will tell you when she wants to stop’ and health-wise everything’s fine. There’s no stopping her and we run between nine to 10 minutes per mile all the way up to a marathon. We’re going to do another 31-miler in Feb ruary and then target a 50-miler in April called the AR-50,” said Owens. “Her pads are soft because her feet barely touch the ground and we hit the track when the weather is too hot to run on asphalt.”

Like so many owners, Owens is proud of his pooch and it’s difficult for him to find the words to describe what Jellybean means to him. Inspired, however, is a feeling he shares with many others who run with this modernday, four-legged Forrest Gump.

“It’s amazing to see her run because I work in vet erinary medicine and see ing a small dog I get leery about her running such

long miles,” said Fleet Feet running coach, Julie Burges. “But, her feet look great, her overall health is great and for a dog that can do an ultra-marathon is pretty amazing. Let alone a little Chihuahua.”

“It’s just her personality that shines and pushes other runners as well. She doesn’t stop, and there fore, we shouldn’t stop either and that’s one of the cool things of having her on board with our training program,” said fellow Fleet Feet coach, Juan Sanchez. “You sense the excitement from her, she wants to say hi to everybody and is very valuable to the team.”

Jellybean’s impact on the running community has been substantial to say the least. Her running prowess has been featured on KCRA-3, strangers will tell Owens how much Jelly bean’s inspired them, and the Change of Pace Foun dation – which helps facili tate events like the Davis Turkey Trot – even gave Jellybean a chip to track her runs. In fact, because of Jellybean, local races have even added a dog division to their events.

In 2022 alone, Jellybean has run a total of 1,084 miles at an average pace of 10 minutes, 47 seconds. To keep up with this local leg end, visit her Instagram account @jellybean26.2.

While she’s not allowed to compete in the Califor nia International Mara thon today, Owens and Co. have trained hard with Jel lybean and are ready — and inspired — to run in her honor.

July 4, 1926 — Oct. 31, 2022

Dean Ryan died peace fully at the age of 96 on Oct. 31, 2022, at his home in Davis, where he had lived for 63 years. Dean was born in Independence, Kan., on the Fourth of July, 1926.

He attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Okla., lettering in football, was captain of the wres tling and baseball teams, and was vice president of the senior class. He gradu ated in 1944 and entered the Naval Air Corps. It was while he was stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, that he met Madeline Houlihan, from Ventura, Calif. They

were married in Tulsa on June 18, 1946, and three days later he enrolled at the University of Illinois. There, he lettered in wres tling and graduated in 1948 with highest honors.

His first job was wres tling coach at the Univer sity of Illinois, Navy Pier, Chicago (1948-53). While there he received his mas ter’s degree from North western University. In 1953, he moved to coach wrestling at UC Berkeley, where he also earned his doctorate in education. In 1959, the Ryans relocated to UC Davis, where Dean coached wrestling, helped

develop the physi cal educa tion major, and encour aged and influenced the emerg ing study of sports psychology.

Dean was elected to the California Wrestling Hall of Fame; he was a member of the American Academy of Physical Education; president of the American Academy of Sports Psy chology; and president of the North American Asso ciation of Sport Psychology. At UCD, he served as asso ciate dean of the graduate division and spent several

years as chair of the physical education depart ment.

He received two yearlong senior postdoctoral fellow ships from the National Institutes of Health to con duct research: In 1968 at the University of Wiscon sin, on aggression, and at Duke Univer sity in attribution theory in 1976.

His research centered on psychological factors that influence sport and physical performance, as reflected in his works pub lished in The Journal of Perception and Motor Skills, The Journal of

Personality and Social Psychology, and The Research Quarterly.

Madeline, Dean’s wife of 70 years, predeceased him on July 7, 2016. He is sur vived by their five children, Susan Magill (Tim), Patty Wolf, Dennis Ryan, Adair Ryan (Carl Bengston) and Alison Denton (Brad); 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and his friend, Jeanie Sher wood.

He loved spending time with his family, taking trips to the California coast, the Sierra and Scotland. He had many interests: fly

fishing, photography, woodworking, cooking, painting and golf.

For all of us who knew and loved Dean, it is hard to imagine a more wonder ful, loving, supportive father, grandfather and friend.

A celebration of Dean’s life will begin at 1 p.m. Sun day, Jan. 29, at El Macero Country Club. Contribu tions in lieu of flowers may be made in Dean’s name to the charity of your choice, or give someone you care about a hug and let them know how special they are.

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Thursday

n The Avid Reader will host author Catriona McPherson, for the launch of her most recent novel, “Scot in a Trap,” from 6 to 7 p.m. The bookstore is at at 617 Second St. in downtown Davis. Find detailed information at www.avi dreaderbooks.com.

Friday

n The UC Davis Arbo retum hosts a Folk Music Jam Session from noon to 1 p.m. Folk musicians are once again invited to bring their acoustic instruments and play together informally dur ing this jam session at Wyatt Deck (next to the redwood grove). All skill levels welcome and lis teners are invited. Shortterm parking is available in Visitor Lot 5 on Old Davis Road at Arbore tum Drive. Hourly rates start at $1.75.

Dec. 9-11

n The Vocal Art Ensemble will present

Chrysalis: Reach for a New Day Friday and Sat urday at 7:30 p.m., as well as on Sunday at 4 p.m., at the Davis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Road in Davis. This concert set is a cho ral exploration of change, likened to the metamor phosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Sug gested donation is $1025. For more information please call or text (530) 220-2012.

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 charitable pro grams. The electric train display will be open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

By Autumn Labbé-Renault Special to The Enterprise

A hundred shows, eight tracks Davis MeDia access

Last night felt like a turning point in the pandemic for me as I attended the Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Night Live! holiday concert (though with a serious nod to the “tri pledemic” of COVID-19, RSV and flu, I chose to remain masked all evening). It was wonderful to come together with so many in our community who care about live music and the ways it uplifts us and builds community. Santa also supplied me a peck on the cheek, so I’m set for the season!

Since 2009, the Odd Fellows’ Thursday Live! concerts have provided support for numerous local programs and nonprofits, and have also provided an easily accessible space for the com munity to gather and a venue to show case our region’s bounty of talented and dedicated musicians.

As this is also in keeping with the missions of Davis Media Access and KDRT — highlighting and amplifying the reach of local musicians and artists — we’ve enjoyed a longstanding part nership. There’s a very particular way that’s manifested, via DMA staffers and longtime volunteers Jim Buchanan and Diane Crumley.

KDRT’s longtime DJ and “sound guy” Buchanan has recorded the Thursday Live! performances and aired them on his weekly show “Live Tracks.” Crumley, DMA’s Community

Outreach Coordinator, tables at the back of the hall and is always happy to talk about all things KDRT. Together, they are a big part of the reason for our partnership with Davis OddFellows.

And out of that partnership has emerged a first: KDRT is proud to present its first CD project, “Sound Harvest Volume 1 — Holidays at the Hall.” This sampling from Odd Fel lows holiday shows through the years contains eight songs ranging from Celtic to Klezmer, jazz to folk. This CD is associated with our fall fundraising project, and you can find more info about both of these at https://kdrt.org.

Although it’s fairly common for elected officials to take part in pro gramming at KDRT and DMA, that’s generally not on music shows. On the Dec. 2 episode of “Listening Lyrics,” KDRT DJ Peter Pastoor hosted Davis City Councilman-elect Bapu Vaitla, where he played some of his favorite songs.

“Community radio embodies the spirit of a place and a people,” Vaitla said in an announcement for the show. “When we listen to music together, we experience shared emotions; when we listen to the news together, we build a common understanding of our lives.”

“Listening Lyrics” has been on the air for more than 10 years and in that time volunteer Pastoor has

interviewed over 300 musicians and local influencers. He noted this show came together as a result of Vaitla get ting to know community members as he was knocking on doors to introduce himself prior to the election,

It’s a season for gratitude, which is one reason I deeply appreciate Yolo Community Foundation’s annual cele bration of National Philanthropy Day each Nov. 15.

YCF provides an opportunity for area nonprofits to recognize an out standing volunteer via its Yolo Philan thropy Day Celebration. Our pick this year was Davis resident Tim Gaffaney.

Gaffaney is a poli-sci professor at Sacramento City College. He is also an avid supporter of the arts, involved with Stories on Stage Davis, Davis Shakespeare Festival, and DMA.

This past year, he helped DMA tell the story of the pandemic’s impacts on local arts organizations by remotely producing and hosting many episodes of “In the Studio,” greatly increasing their reach and scope during this chal lenging time. His latest interview, “ Illuminate, Educate, and Connect — the Mondavi Center at 20,” can be seen at https://youtu.be/ZlOWQdXCn4U.

— Autumn Labbé-Renault is executive director of Davis Media Access in Davis. Reach her at autumn@davismedia.org. Diane Crumley contributed to this column.

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Pickleball is a kinder and growing sport

Ibelieve I am the only American over the age of 50 who has not yet played pickleball.

Maybe it’s the undignified name that makes this “sport” sound more like a backyard barbecue game played with a racket in one hand and an adult beverage in the other.

Maybe it’s the claim that everyone — five-year-olds and adults — can play on the same court at the same time. I mean, you can fly a kite with your kid, too, or go fishing or out for ice cream, but nobody confuses those activities with competi tive sports.

There’s also this prohibition about set ting foot in a designated box on the court known as the “kitchen.” I don’t know about you, but if I can’t go in the kitchen every now and then, I’m going to very quickly lose interest in whatever it is you’re selling.

But, according to a story in The New York Times, there’s no question that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America. It’s obvious this is true because of the great number of tennis courts that

have quickly been reconfigured into pickleball courts. This is happening everywhere, making longtime tennis players fighting to defend their turf.

The headline over The New York Times story says “Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad.”

Indeed, city councils all over the country are hearing demands from pickleball players that they need more courts. And what better way to accommodate their needs than to simply convert already existing tennis courts?

Actually, whether or not I like this game and whether or not it qualifies as a sport, the pickleball folks are right.

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Tennis, as much as I love it, has been in a steep decline for a number of years now.

In Davis on warm summer nights, there used to be long waits to get a court. A chalkboard would keep track of who was next up and which people had used up their hour on the court. Scenes like that are rare these days.

Now, pickleball may sound like a kinder, gentler sport, but my goodness is it noisy. If you allow pickleball to be played on neighborhood courts surrounded by homes, it will make the Krovoza family zipline controversy look like child’s play.

The Times story, perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, talks about a manifesto titled “Against Pickleball,” put together by two ardent tennis players who call for their racket-swinging comrades to “oppose the gangrenous spread of pickleball at every turn.”

Noted The Times, “The boom has come so fast that many new players have trouble finding places to play. Long

Beach, Calif., a city of 400,000, has one dedicated pickleball court and 57 tennis courts in its park system.”

Unfair? You betcha.

Added the story, “The discrepancy led officials there to create a “Pickleball Mas ter Plan.” Proposals include adding bright orange or yellow lines to tennis courts, so that pickleball may be played on them.”

Of course, nothing makes tennis players more upset than seeing make shift pickleball lines on their courts. Sacrilege. Sticky sickly sacrilege.

The nearby city of Woodland has been trying for a number of years to raise funds for a new and much-needed tennis facility, but has recently — and wisely — recognized the need to add eight pickle ball courts to the plan to garner widespread community support.

Woodland is taking the right course. Whether this marriage of the two will succeed is anyone’s guess.

Elsewhere, the war continues.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Blue Devils return plenty of experience

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

Eight of the 16 players listed on the Davis High boys basketball team return with experience on the court. That is a plus for the Blue Devils, who like the rest of the Delta League, will be looking to chase Sheldon and Jesuit come January.

“It seems like we have a good balance to this team in a few ways,” said Davis head coach Dan Gonzalez.

Davis (1-0) started its season Thursday at the Alvarez Eagle Classic in Salinas. The tournament ran through Saturday.

“Playing in tournaments — especially in Salinas — will give us the opportunity to go against a

variety of styles,” Gonzalez said. “This is valuable in allowing us to see some of our own strengths and weaknesses before we enter league play. I’m very excited to see how this team progresses through December.”

The Blue Devils play in a slew of tournaments and non-league games before beginning league play, host ing Pleasant Grove of Elk Grove on Friday, Jan. 6.

Five of the eight returning players are seniors: forwards Will Acker man and Jack Anderson, center Col lin Carpenter and guards Noah Salmon and Matt Cossu.

The three juniors who were members of the 2021-22 team as sophomores are point guard Derek Barker, guard Aidan Crawford and

center Alden McCabe.

Four of the eight newcomers are juniors, mixed with three seniors and a sophomore.

The juniors are forward Evan Bledsoe, guards Devan Elson, Erwan Merlin and Jadyn Coaker.

Three seniors are forwards Paul Dicus and Brandon Rogers, and point guard Marcell Gentles.

Guard Kaleb Gee, a sophomore, rounds out the team.

“We should be able to attack teams inside and out,” Gonzalez said. “We have perimeter shooters, players that can attack the basket and post players that can score and make good passes. And another way that makes our balance a factor is

CIM impacts region

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SACRAMENTO — The 39th California International Marathon, organized by the Sacramento Running Association, is set to run from Folsom to Sacramento today.

Over 9,000 marathon runners, nearly 1,000 CIM Relay runners, 75,000 spectators and 4,000 volunteers are expected to partake in marathon weekend.

“As Mayor of Sacramento it is my honor to welcome runners from around the world to our city and region,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, “The California International Marathon is another critical economic driver for our city and an example of the great civic amenities Sacramento has to offer.”

Participants from all 50 states and from 37 countries are expected to fill 7,500 hotel room nights and provide an estimated $11 million economic impact to the Sacramento region.

Spectators are encouraged to line the course running through Folsom, Orangevale, Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks, Carmichael and Sacramento to cheer on runners during their 26.2-mile journey.

“CIM remains a flagship county-wide event that

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Davis forward Jack Anderson takes a shot at the baseline in Monday’s Sac-Joaquin Section Foundation Game against Granite Bay inside the North Gym. Anderson and the Blue Devils posted an 81-79 win. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise. com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

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UC Davis Chancellor Gary May (right) holds the finish line ribbon as race winner Brendan Gregg flies through the finish chute at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2021.

Media in the time of the Internet — mugged but needed

By Llewellyn King Special to The Enterprise

Trying to predict the future of the Internet or even to see how it will become a reliable source of fact, like old-fashioned newspaper and television reporting, is to my mind the equivalent of standing on the sand spit at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and predicting the future of aviation.

As the effect of the Internet evolved, pub lishers of yore wished it away. I was one of those. Although I did tell the Newsletter Publishers Association way back that put ting a print story down a wire wasn’t enough, that they should develop products for this new medium.

A few were up early and caught the worm while newsletter publishers like me slept in — notably The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Economist. They embraced and adjusted their offerings for the Internet.

The New York Times was able to leverage its global and national followers and con vert them to reading online. The Economist had an obvious business and world affairs audience to tap into.

The Washington Post’s Internet adoption was more dynamic.

When the Graham family sold The Post to the then-richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, many of us believed he would be another rich man buying a newspaper to keep it going and to reap the social oppor tunities that go with the franchise. But Bezos saw the future and poured money into the Post, not to keep it alive but to expand it hugely in the cyberworld. He was right and has pulled off a publishing coup.

What wasn’t seen by anyone I knew in the publishing world and isn’t in the litera ture is no one understood how the Internet would suck up nearly all the advertising dollars.

The pure Internet companies, peripher ally in publishing, have vacuumed up the advertising, creating great wealth for their owners.

While they haven’t had a background in publishing, and haven’t even thought of themselves as publishers, they have added news — often generated by legitimate news organizations — as a giveaway, which they haven’t paid for; if you write for a newspa per or a magazine, you have been ripped off by an Internet publisher.

The irony is that back in the 1980s and ’90s, newspaper and television properties were highly valued and selling for multiples never dreamed of. It was the time when Al Neuharth was building the Gannett chain and launching USA Today. I knew Neu harth, himself a newspaperman throughand-through.

Now that empire has been sold and many of its once-proud local titles are closed or look more like pamphlets than newspapers. The advertising, and with it the revenue, has gone to the Internet behemoths.

I salute those publications that are taking the fight to the Internet by creating daily online editions and keeping the craft of old alive.

These include The New Yorker and The Spectator, an English magazine trying to get an American presence.

We need the old media, often called the mainstream media. We earned that moni ker. The Hill, Axios and Politico show where journalism might be headed nation ally. But who will cover the statehouse, the school board and the courts? In the dark, all those institutions stray.

In a courthouse in Prince William County, Va., I asked about press coverage. The woman showing me around sighed and said, “We used to have reporters, they even had their own table, but not anymore.” Lady Justice had closed one eye.

— Llewellyn King is the executive pro ducer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources. com.

Pandemic widened ‘achievement gap’

When the California Leg islature reconvenes this week for a new biennial session it will have dozens of new faces and also dozens of old, unresolved issues.

Housing shortages, infla tion, homelessness and drought are among the larger ones, but none is more impor tant than the state’s crisis in public education.

If the Legislature did noth ing else during the next two years, the session would be a success if it decisively addressed the widening “achievement gap” that sepa rates poor and English learner students — about 60% of the state’s nearly 6 million public school students — from those who come from more privileged homes.

So far, the disparity has resisted inconsistent efforts by the state to close it, most prominently by giving schools with larger numbers of at-risk students extra money for focused instruction. School districts have often diverted the money into more general ized purposes, such as salary increases, and state officials have largely shunned over sight on how the extra money is spent.

It’s apparent that Califor nia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which

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included shuttering schools and forcing students into spo radic forms of online instruc tion, had the effect of widening the achievement gap. Not only did California kids score very low, vis-à-vis other states, in the most recent round of federal aca demic achievement tests, the National Assessment of Edu cation Progress, but there were sharp differences in how individual school districts fared.

Researchers from Stanford and Harvard universities crunched the NAEP data to assess the pandemic’s effects and concluded that the most negative impacts were on local school systems with high numbers of poor children, particularly in states which, like California, had prolonged school closures.

That’s perfectly logical, when you think of it. Affluent parents were more likely to work at home, where they

Riding a bike on the outskirts of Davis and even some areas within Davis one sees a lot of trash lying around.

For many years I have periodically gone out with my bike and wagon and a “nifty nabber grabber,” bags, a pail and gloves to spend a few hours cleaning up an area. Its very satisfying. I once did Old Davis Road all the way to Tremont Road and beyond!

I had a brilliant idea!

The city should ask the main sources of the trash (burgers, pizza, convenience stores, coffee vendors etc.) to voluntarily join a clean up club.

They would donate monthly maybe $50 or so to a fund for clean ups. In return they get a framed large certificate to display in the establishment boasting of their contribution. Its a win win.

A good way to use the money is to hire kids or homeless people, or perhaps the probation department could provide teams of people who are doing commu

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could monitor how their children were doing in “Zoom school,” were more likely to have resources for remote learning, and were able, as news media reported, to hire tutors and set up mock-class rooms for their own chil dren and classmates.

Poor parents, on the other hand, generally had to leave their homes for work, leaving their kids to fend for themselves, and often lacked internet access. The photos of poor kids trying to tap into the wi-fi system of fast food restaurants attested to that disparity, as did widespread digital truancy.

The New York Times, in its coverage of the Stanfordbased Educational Opportu nity Project’s NAEP analysis, cited the case of two Califor nia school districts, one in affluent Cupertino and the other in relatively poor Mer ced.

“Cupertino Union, a Silicon Valley school district where about 6% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch (a marker that researchers use to estimate poverty), spent nearly half of the 2020-21 school year remote,” the Times noted. “So did Merced City in the Central Valley, where nearly 80% of students

nity service? I do not see that this would be a very difficult program to manage, and could make a huge difference.

There is a Facebook group you can join that organizes trash pickups “ Davis picks it up — DPIU. I just joined the group. You may want to do that, too. Then you will know when there are pickup events.

And incidentally, we could ask the landfill to allow people who show up with several large bags of trash picked up off the street to dispose of them at a dis count or even free? (I had bags too big to fit in my bin)

Am I on to something?

Gabe Lewin

Davis

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In response to a letter to the editor on Nov. 29 from Gabe Lewin:

I read your letter to the editor about the trash lying around Davis, and yes, “you are on to something”! You share some great ideas that we would like to discuss and start implementing in our group you mentioned in your article, Davis Picks It Up — DPIU.

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

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are eligible for free or reduced lunch,” according to the Har vard-Stanford analysis.

“Yet despite spending roughly the same amount of time attending classes remotely, students in the wealthier Cupertino district actually gained ground in math, while students in poorer Merced City fell behind.”

“The poverty rate is very predictive of how much you lost,” Sean Reardon, an edu cation professor at Stanford who was on the analysis team, told the Times.

Giving poor districts such as Merced more money is one obvious response, but the Legislature should insist on better oversight on how extra money is spent and also accept that there’s more to the equation than money.

Some school districts do an exemplary job of overcoming students’ disadvantages and the state should push other systems to replicate their suc cess.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

As the administrator of DPIU, we work very closely with the city of Davis to help us dispose of the bags on the streets after a pick-up event and it’s a win-win for everyone. Our group continues to grow, now just about 300 members. We have picked up more than 4 tons of litter in the last 10 months. That’s 4 tons of litter that will not flow into our water ways all while helping Davis stay cleaner and safer.

If you are interested in discussing your ideas, I am very open to ways to improve our pick-up events. Feedback has been extremely helpful in doing our best to help clean up Davis and educate others to do the same. It’s teamwork that makes this successful!

Thank you for picking up litter when you see it lying around. We have many “solo” pickers out there helping us. Litter pickup has become a movement all over the world recently. Our group is results driven and we all feel great when we fin ish an event. Everyone is welcome to come out to any of our events.

Thank you!

Cathie Bullis Davis

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Op-Ed Strike reverberates throughout UC

Students striking for better pay deserve it

By Stacy Torres Special to CalMatters

As many as 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system have partici pated in the largest higher education strike in American history. Striking employees include postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers and graduate stu dents represented by the United Auto Workers union. They’re calling for better pay and benefits such as childcare sup port, dependent healthcare remission and expanded paid family leave.

Sustaining one of the finest state edu cational systems in the country requires a team effort. UC simply cannot function without the labor of striking workers. Their employees deserve a living wage.

UC’s excellence is derived from the essential labor of these groups. They make our work as faculty possible. Many of the workers who are striking teach courses, assist with grading and host dis cussions with hundreds of students at a time. They provide crucial research assis tance to support the advancement of ten ure-track professors like me.

The pandemic has stretched all of higher education thin, escalating admin istrative and service work and the emo tional labor of supporting students with cascading mental health needs. More than ever, universities are depend ing on academic workers to meet these relentless demands.

I would have been unable to update a course without such assistance as I climbed out of a severe depression.

For many people, California’s lack of affordable housing, combined with the high cost of living, makes working for the UC system near-impossible. Financial barriers make it harder to attract stu dents, and my department has lost accepted doctoral candidates to universi ties with more competitive funding.

Striking workers demand sufficient pay to cover the basics: shelter, food, transportation and childcare. People who work in higher education don’t expect exorbitant salaries, but they also don’t expect food insecurity while pursuing a graduate degree.

Financial struggles are especially unsustainable for disadvantaged student workers who often come from underrep resented backgrounds or are the first in their families to attend college. It is unconscionable to allow such hardship within a university system that claims to prioritize increasing diversity among workers to serve an increasingly diverse student body.

Under a postdoctoral program seven years ago, I earned about $44,500. This program increases diversity among the UC professoriate and has funded faculty hires like my own. But I scraped by financially, and my progress suffered at time as I bounced around precarious

housing situations to save money. I only found a stable home because I moved in with my romantic partner.

Students in their peak earning and childbearing years often have financial and caregiving obligations, too. Many are highly qualified with graduate degrees and prior work experience, but the hourly pay is comparable to places such as Albany, N.Y., an area with a much lower cost of living. Many students string together research assistant jobs or work an outside job because they can’t survive on UC wages.

California often sets course for the rest of the country. The UC system is a critical economic engine, cultivating human cap ital and technology for important indus tries. The state’s science and technology leadership rests on the strength of its university system, and core issues at the heart of the UC strike threaten Califor nia’s future innovation.

The decision to withhold labor is never taken lightly. As a child, my father’s union held a 12-day strike that felt more like 12 weeks for our struggling family. But our family’s sacrifices and the union’s negotiations provided him with sick leave, better health benefits and a pen sion.

A new generation of struggling aca demic workers face hard choices amid escalating economic burdens and soaring inflation. I recently visited friends and students picketing for the same things my working-class, immigrant father fought for 30 years ago. They have edu cational credentials he scarcely imagined but they still need to eat.

As a sign on the picket line succinctly put it, “passion doesn’t pay rent.”

— Stacy Torres is an assistant professor of sociology at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

Poem of the month

Earth, Sometimes I Try to Play It Casual

like Hey mercury, hey malachite, I'm busy today, can't stop to marvel, but always my blood is saying O god you starsprung miracle. It's self-preservation, letting myself believe laundry matters, letting myself believe there's anything other than egrets and oceans and vast moss carpets and the finite heart of every single person I love. Earth, you terrify me—you are fierce green and honeysuckle, you are herds of wild ponies, and you are leaving, always. Is it any wonder some days I look at my laptop instead of out the window? Every time I glance up there you are, quaking me with your fern fronds and silver frost. O you of the rhyolite mountains. You of the dew-hung web. You are lemon quartz and quicksand. Muskrats and starfish. How could I be any way but staggered? O blue spruce, O white fir, O green forever, you know my nonchalance is a sham. It's so hard to admit our real desires. Earth, what I want is to sit gentle under your twilight purple, watch your bats hunt and dive. What I want is to know about endings and still love each bat, each shade of the boundless, darkening sky.

— Catherine Pierce

Originally printed in “Sierra,” 2022

Catherine Pierce is the Poet Laureate of Missis sippi and the author of four books of poems: “Danger Days” (2020); “The Tornado Is the World (2016), “The Girls of Pecu liar” (2012), and “Famous

Last Words” (2008), all from Saturnalia Books. She is a 2022 recipient of an American Academy Poetry Fellowship for her work in creating the Mis sissippi Young Writers Festival.

As we approach the end of another calendar year and enter the longer dark ness of winter, the holidays are here with their reminder that every end ing is a beginning. This is a lovely idea, but the older I get, the less I want to overlook the genuine and real feelings I have for endings, regardless of what comes next.

I lost my mother this year and the end of her life was a blessing. She became kind in her last year-anda-half on Earth, and finally her adult children felt a fleeting sense of uncondi tional love from her. She was joyous at the end, able to experience sunlight and the taste of a ripe pear, excited to simply walk and sit outside. I felt different after her death, as if I too had been given a way to reenvision not just my past, but my future as well.

In this love poem to our Earth by Pierce; I feel this same yearning to try and love what is given in equal measure with what is fear fully, painfully, powerfully known as inconstant, indif ferent, unreliable, and com ing to an end. We know from the title and the first couple lines of this poem, that the speaker is putting on a pretend air of indiffer ence to the marvels of our

planet, even as she confesses

Action hurts students and picketing workers

By Dick Ackerman and Mel Levine Special to CalMatters

United Auto Workers, the labor union negotiating for striking workers at the University of Cali fornia’s 10 campuses, claims it is “fight ing for a UC that works for its students and its workers.” But some of its demands certainly won’t work for stu dents, and could hurt the very workers UAW represents.

UC officials have held more than 50 bar gaining sessions with the UAW, and this week reached tentative agreements with two of the smaller bargaining units, the postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers. If adopted, the deal would place their compensation among the high est in the nation for their respective roles.

But these 12,000 employees won’t return to campus until the agreements are ratified, and the remaining 36,000 teaching assistants, readers, tutors and graduate student researchers are still on strike, leaving students without the help they need to prepare for exams and close out the fall term.

UAW members are an important piece of California’s public higher education system. They include student employees who perform part-time, professionally relevant work that helps support their respective campuses, while also earning their graduate degrees or preparing to advance in their careers as scholars.

For the academic student employees who remain on strike, the UAW is demanding compensation be tied directly to local housing costs with no cap on pay increases. While California has high hous ing costs, academic student employees often have the option of renting from UC where overall rent costs are as much as

25% below market rates. Some campuses provide even deeper discounts.

Tying compensation directly to local housing costs could overwhelm UC finances by creating an unfunded obliga tion of at least several hundred million dollars – an especially troubling prospect as the university system is still recover ing deep spending cuts during the Great Recession. The impact of those spending cuts on staff and students should be instructive – especially since the state Legislative Analyst Office predicts Cali fornia will be grappling with a $25 bil lion deficit next year and the “weakest performance the state has experienced since the Great Recession.”

UC lost almost a third of its state fund ing on a per-student basis during the recession, and had to nearly double tuition, furlough staff and defer critical capital improvement projects. Students struggled to get the courses they needed while facing higher student-faculty ratios in the classroom, increased costs and fewer support services.

The union’s proposal could also drive up housing costs for undergraduates and everyone living near a UC campus. Prop erty owners could raise rents indiscrimi nately, secure in the knowledge that UC would be contractually obligated to pay for any rental cost increases.

The UAW is also demanding in-state tuition for international students and other non-resident student workers, which could also take much-needed funds from other programs that benefit students and staff. And it would be unfair to the state’s residents whose taxes support the university system and help fund lower, in-state tuition.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Leg islature have worked to increase the num ber of California residents enrolled at UC. To extend the benefit of in-state tuition to students from outside California would undermine this commitment and effec tively mean that non-resident student employees would receive a larger compen sation package than homegrown student employees for doing the same work.

For all these reasons and more, the UAW should accept UC’s proposal for mediation to reach a new agreement that will protect students and staff. The work ers’ right to strike must be respected, but the impact of the strike on students and the state’s future is troubling.

UC students missed important instructional time during the pandemic, and they should not have to lose more due to a work stoppage. It’s time to work together to provide the world-class edu cation that is the hallmark of UC and essential to creating California’s future leaders.

Dick Ackerman is the co-chair of the California Coalition for Public Higher Education. Ackerman is a Republican and former California state senator and assemblyman from Orange County. Mel Levine is the co-chair of the California Coalition for Public Higher Education. Levine is a Democrat and a former U.S. congressmember and state assemblymem ber from Los Angeles.

that she is also over whelmed with our planet’s mysteries and miracles.

I love how much tension there is throughout this poem in the speaker’s need to rein in her exuberant awe of our home base with her confession that she can’t survive without some level of detachment. And how true this is! Pierce knows that every person she loves has a finite heart. We, too, live with this knowledge, but usually death is only plausible from our place of denial and distance — until we or our closest loved ones are dying ourselves. And besides, we do need to do the laundry, pay the bills: life is not just about mar veling at the beauty of wild ponies and honeysuckle.

In the third stanza we are also clued in to the ter ror that underlies all of this tension. Earth is gor geous and fecund and impossibly marvelous, but it is also the site of storms and catastrophes and suf fering. Pierce does not touch very long on this, as her poem seems to be more concerned with our finite, impossibly short lives, and how this leads to

the familiar dilemma about how much you can love without feeling over whelmed with what you have to lose. And in the face of the Anthropocene, (which Pierce writes about so movingly in her latest collection, “Danger Days”) her statement that the earth is leaving us too, takes on another level of grief and fear.

Pierce uses language that heightens the juxta position between her sham nonchalance and her real desires. That is, she relies on the colloquial, earth I play it casual, in juxtapo sition to almost Shake spearean love language, You of the dew hung web, O white fir, O green forever.

This infuses the poem with dramatic tension, but also a sense of play and joy that comes with love.

Pierce’s claim that it is hard to admit our real desires is so poignant to me. Which is why I want to let my endings be just as they are. Not just as a bridge to a new beginning, but all that an ending entails in grief and loss and boundless terror.

Pierce implies, in this poem, that we must, at

times, set aside our detachment in order to feel all of the darkness, light, terror, joy, and so much more; this is how we come to know our truest desires.

Not long after my mother died, my first grandchild was born. He is a bit of pure honey from the cosmic hive. He is all presence and desire. My mother had some of that kind of being in the end. She gave a glimpse into the light at the end of dark ness. But when she died it was also a glimpse at the darker reality of life on earth, how it comes to an absolute end.

We all know that rebirth and death are inextricably linked in nature and reli gion. Though there is truth in it, often this sentiment is used to make an ending feel more bearable. But I love my grandson in part because I know he is all beginning and I am fairly far down that hallway towards the end. That feels true and powerful and frightening and consoling and just right to me. Just as it is.

— Julia B. Levine Davis Poet

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Striking UC Davis grad students picket near the Teaching and Learning Complex on campus Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Living

Donating stuff can be hard on your conscience

In a recent fit of cleaning-outof-closets, S and I came up with 14 grocery bags of clothes and shoes to donate.

While I got the usual bump of feeling good about purging, I had more than the usual dose of guilt about foisting stuff onto unsus pecting people.

I feel like each piece of clothing or sports gear or small appliance needs a short essay to accompany it so unsuspecting second-hand store shoppers aren’t tricked.

“Buyer beware: Yes, this is a really cute purse, and I fell for it, too. But the zipper catches ran domly, and where are you even supposed to put your cellphone? Also, the strap slides off my shoulder when I’m walking, dumping everything on the ground because, you know, the zipper is catchy.”

Thus I wrestle with donating the offending item.

A real example that is vexing me right now is a coffee maker I bought that I believed was

identical to one we’ve been using and like. But it is actually an evil twin that doesn’t have a setting for delayed brewing; worse, it doesn’t turn itself off. Ever. I mean, in what world can you leave a coffee maker on forever and not think that’s a problem? We’re all used to appliances that turn themselves off, making this one super likely to get left on long after you’ve left the house/city/ state. I speak from experience.

Another recent example comes from a pile of shirts that had been sitting on a chair in a little alcove for — no lie — 11 months. S stopped wearing them due to discoloration in the collars; he suggested we donate them and tossed them on an office chair

that was also slated for donating. I stalled with indecision, and the shirts got covered with a doghair vacuum (a topic for a future column), some reusable grocery bags, and a laundry basket with stuff that had been scooped off the kitchen counter when people were coming over. And did I mention the chair was a ques tionable donation, too, due to its shabby arms and wonky wheels? Sigh.

In the recent purge, however, those shirts made it into a dona tion bag. (The chair is still in the alcove.) I couldn’t belabor each decision or we’d never get done. But, as I said, guilt.

Hoping to be better during our next expulsion of unwanted stuff, I’ve done some research on best practices for donating items. And before you write to me to suggest a lifestyle focused on less con sumption, that’s already in the works. I am very much pursing a strategy of buying only things we can’t live without.

While my research has taught me is that it’s overwhelming to do everything in the best way possi ble way, here are some highlights from a July article by Kaitlyn Wells of Wirecutter, headlined, “Purging Old Clothes? Here’s How to Responsibly Donate and Repurpose Your Castoffs.” (https://www.nytimes.com/ wirecutter/guides/how-to-getrid-of-old-clothes/).

Right near the tippy top of the story was this highly valuable insight: “Ultimately, everything you donate should respect the potential future recipient. Don’t expect someone in need to be grateful for a stained T-shirt or a pair of ratty sweats. Our experts said clothes that don’t make someone feel good — or wouldn’t fetch any money if they were resold — are unlikely to find a second home.”

Summed up Aja Barber, sus tainability and fashion expert: “If you don’t want it (because it’s damaged), nobody else does.”

This will now be my governing principle when donating, and I hereby commit to figuring out how to get rid of the other stuff.

Among some excellent ideas, Wells suggests joining a “Buy Nothing” group, described as a “mini economy of exchanged goods” (https://buynothingpro ject.org/about). You can also learn how to weave old sweaters into pet beds or turn old shirts into pillow cases, and which retailers will take your clothes back to resell or recycle.

I’m sure there are many other creative ways, especially in our clever burg. But what I’ve per sonally come to understand is that the burden of getting rid of stuff is big; you can’t just say it’s someone else’s problem. Well you can, but you shouldn’t.

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

Finding the true meaning behind the gift

Natalia Baltazar Special to The Enteprise

“One of the most important things you can do on this Earth is to let people know they are not alone.”

— Shannon L. Alder

There’s a little excitement in the air at Empower Yolo with the holidays around the corner. In addition to provid ing services staff members are busy preparing to help clients and families in need for the holi days. Every year so many thoughtful and generous donors come to the doors of our humble and bustling agency toting gifts, holiday treats, and other dona tions for clients. Empower Yolo’s holiday giving programs provide wonderful opportunities to give back to the community and sup port survivors and families in need in very meaningful ways.

“When mothers at the shelter receive gifts for their children for the holidays it means so much to their families,” said Sonia Jimenez, shelter director at Empower Yolo. “It’s more than just a gift to these families. It means others in the community are thinking of them during the holidays and it’s a reminder that they are not alone. Most of all it brings them happiness to see the joy in their children’s faces which is priceless. For many of the moms and children this is the first time they feel some peace and joy during the holidays.”

Being at the shelter during the holidays in unfamiliar surround ings without family and friends can be very difficult for clients. Many of the children at the shel ter are worried or anxious because they are not at home during the holidays. The staff works really hard to make things special for the families residing at the shelter especially for the children.

Jimenez recalls a favorite cli ent story last year during the hol idays.

“There were twin boys staying at the safe house last year at Christmas time and they were both really sad because they believed Santa wouldn’t find them because shelter staff would

teach them about confidentiality and told them the shelter was in a safe, private location. One day the shelter received a Christmas donation of a big blow up carou sel and we placed it in the back yard. Both boys had the biggest smiles on their faces and every day they would look outside the window thinking it was the most beautiful Christmas present they had ever seen. That year we also surprised the boys with Christ mas presents from our generous ‘Adopt a Family’ donors and they couldn’t believe Santa had found them. It ended up being a very happy and memorable Christ mas for them.”

Celebrating the holidays with the families at the shelter by put ting up a Christmas tree, deco rating the shelter, receiving gifts from the ‘Adopt a Family’ pro gram, and making a special meal, is very meaningful to them.

“Our safe house staff puts together a dinner on Christmas eve and a brunch on Christmas day,” Jimenez said. “All the fami lies enjoy opening their gifts and then they all gather for a Christ mas brunch. It’s a wonderful way to build community in the shel ter and brings joy to the families during a difficult time for them.”

Empower Yolo’s annual “Adopt a Family” program is underway. Staff members sponsor certain clients and their children that they are working with. Clients fill out specific wishlists with needs and wants that serve as a guide line. Donors then sign up to ‘adopt’ clients and families in need. Many donors participate in the program with their families, co-workers, groups of friends, church groups, sororities and/or sports teams. “It’s an elaborate but special program,” Jimenez said, “and we are grateful for our wonderful donors. The meaning of it goes beyond the gifts because it shows clients that their community truly supports them.”

Another part of Empower Yolo’s holiday program is giving from our general wishlists for

moms, teens, Santa’s playroom at the shelter, and Rooms to Go. General wishlist gifts are really helpful to Empower Yolo’s holi day team. Many donors like giv ing from the general wishlists because they are more flexible and work well with groups.

“Having general gifts are always helpful because as an emergency safe house we never know when families will come in,” Jimenez said. “We often have many last minute families that come to the safe house during the holidays, but are not able to fill out wishlists. These gifts help us make the holidays special for these clients as well.”

Community members can help by adopting a family, or donating from the general wishlists. Sup porters can also donate meals (grocery gift cards to any grocery store, or already prepared meals), or items from the wishlist on our website.

All of Empower Yolo’s holiday giving programs are meaningful ways to give back this holiday season. “These special ways to give truly go beyond the material items. It brings our families hope

Yolo Youth Commission names first members

Enterprise staff

On Nov. 22, the Yolo County Board of Supervi sors approved the appointment of 15 teenag ers who will serve as the inaugural members of the Yolo Youth Commission.

Commissioners were appointed to a one-year term and may be reap pointed for one additional one-year term.

The 15 members appointed to the Yolo Youth Commission are Angel M., seventh-grade student at Esparto Middle School in Esparto; Chloe P., 10th-grade student at Davis High School ; Edelsy B., ninth-grade student at Woodland High School; Emilio R., 12th-

grade student at Cache Creek High School in Yolo; Hope C., 10th-grade student at River City High School in West Sacra mento; Isabelle C., ninthgrade student at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis; Jazmin G., ninthgrade student at Harper Junior High in Davis; Jen nifer M., 10th-grade stu dent at Da Vinci Charter Academy; Jesse V., 11thgrade student at Davis High School; Lotus T., 11th-grade student at Yolo Education Center in West Sacramento; Miles M., 10th-grade student at Winters High School;

Olivia B., 10th-grade stu dent at River City High School; Rabia R., 10thgrade student at Pioneer High School in Woodland; Riya V., eighth-grade stu dent at Harper Junior High; and Zainab W., 10th-grade student at Davis High School.

“Yolo County recognizes that our youth’s voice mat ters in order to build a stronger and healthier community,” said Yolo County Board of Supervi sors Chairman Angel Barajas.

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

and peace as they all receive gifts they were not expecting, and they know people in our commu nity are thinking of them during this challenging time,” says Jimenez.

Please see more details about Empower Yolo’s holiday giving programs: Adopt a Family: Each year Empower Yolo coordinates an “Adopt a Family” program dur ing the holiday season where donors can confidentially adopt clients in need for holiday gifts. This is truly a wonderful pro gram that brings so much joy to our clients and their children, and shows them how much the community supports them. To adopt a family wishlist contact: holidays@empoweryolo.org.

General giving wishlists: Donating items from our general wishlists offer larger groups (such as work teams, school and church groups, and sports teams) more flexibility in giving together. We have general giving lists for “Mothers for the Holi days”, “Teens for the Holidays”, “Santa’s Playroom at the Shelter” and “Rooms to Go”. Our clients

can always use these items, and we often get last minute clients and families during the holidays where these gift items are greatly appreciated. The shelter and housing team are especially in need of “Rooms to Go” items and new Pack ‘n Play donations.

Holiday meals: The shelter is in need of grocery gift cards to make warm holiday meals for clients and their families. Gro cery gift cards to Grocery Outlet, Safeway or Nugget of any denomination are greatly appre ciated.

Amazon Smile: If you shop on Amazon shop smile.amazon.com choose “Empower Yolo Inc.” in Woodland as the non-profit to support, or you can find us at: smile.amazon.com/ch/943027535. Shop as you normally would and Empower Yolo will receive a percentage of eligible purchases, which is an easy way to support Empower Yolo.

Holiday and year-end giving: financial donations are always helpful in supporting needs that come up for clients that grant funding cannot cover. Make a donation in honor of or in mem ory of a loved one or survivor you know. Make a holiday or yearend gift any time at empowery olo.org.

To “Adopt a Family.” request a general giving wishlist, or for questions contact: holidays@ empoweryolo.org, or call 530661-6336. Donations can be dropped off at 175 Walnut St. in Woodland, or 441 D Street in Davis during office hours: Mon day, Wednesday or Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information about holi day giving visit empoweryolo.org. Every donation whether finan cial or in-kind makes a difference in the work Empower Yolo does and when we come together as a community we can make a last ing change on behalf of survivors and families in need that goes beyond the gifts and lets our cli ents know they are not alone.

— Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.

By Andy Jones Special to The Enterprise

quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918?

5. Great Americans. Who was the first openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program in the U.S.?

Answers: Two, Don Henley, plank, Max Planck, Rachel Maddow.

Famous Physicists. What was the name of the German the oretical physicist whose discovery of energy

— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www. yourquizmaster.com.

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An Empower Yolo client receives a holiday donation from a generous donor.

Car exhaust weakens trees against bugs

By Kathy Keatley Garvey Enterprise staff writer

Trees planted near streets and highways are subject to elevated insect damage due to the adverse effects of vehicle pollution and urban heat, according to newly published research led by urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke of the UC Davis Department of Entomol ogy and Nematology.

The article, “Vehicle Pol lution Is Associated with Elevated Insect Damage to Street Trees,” is published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. It received the Editor's Choice Award.

“This research reveals strong effects of vehicle pol lution on insect damage to trees,” said Meineke, who conceived the idea for the project, funded by the department. “Trees next to highways are exposed to multiple stressors, including urban heat, pollution, and insects, all of which affect one another and tree health. Our research strongly sug gests planting trees that are less susceptible to herbivory near highways.”

Her team included her colleague, UC Davis distin guished professor Richard “Rick” Karban, who

co-wrote the manuscript, and junior specialist David Eng, then of the Meineke lab. The study targeted vehicle pollution in the Sacramento Valley “and adds to a now growing chorus of studies demon strating the scientific value of intra-urban gradients of particular variables (heat, pollution, surrounding veg etation),” they wrote.

They suspect that “vehi cle pollution depresses defensive pathways within trees and reduces the con centrations of key com pounds that protect against herbivore damage.”

“Vehicle pollution is a per vasive aspect of anthropo genic change in both urban and rural habitats,” they pointed out in their abstract.

“Plant-insect herbivore interactions are highly con tingent on environmental variables associated with pollution, including the availability of carbon and nitrogen in leaves.”

The researchers demon strated that leaf damage to a native oak species (Quer cus lobata), known as the valley oak,” is “substantially elevated on trees exposed to vehicle emissions.”

“Together, our studies demonstrate that the heterogeneity in vehicle

emissions across cities may explain highly variable pat terns of insect herbivory on street trees,” they wrote.

“Our results also indicate that trees next to highways are particularly vulnerable to multiple stressors, including insect damage.

To combat these effects, urban foresters may con sider installing trees that are less susceptible to insect herbivory along heavily traveled roadways.”

The valley oak is a decid uous, long-lived tree that can reach up to 98 feet in height and live up to 600

years. It is known to toler ate wildfires.

The authors noted that urban trees provide ecosys tem services, such as local cooling, air purification, and runoff reduction; are important to human health and wellbeing; and serve as foundational species that support urban biodiversity. However, urban trees “are under threat from stressors associated with both urbanization and climate change, but the extent to which insect damage may also shift over time is poorly characterized.”

“Past studies hint at the potential role of vehicle pollution as a driver of leaf nutritional quality for chewing herbivores. At one site in the United King dom, trees within 100 meters of motorways were much more likely to be severely defoliated than trees at further dis tances. Elevated herbivory was attributed to elevated nitrogen dioxide (NO2) along highways.” Another study in the Los Angeles Basin, showed that “herbi vore communities on oak trees at more polluted nat ural areas tended to be more dominated by chew ing herbivores compared to less polluted natural areas.”

An advent meditation on las posadas at St. Martin’s

Special to The Enterprise

On Sunday, Dec. 18 at 4 p.m., the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis will present an Advent Lessons and Car ols service, “The Journey to Bethlehem: An Advent Meditation on Las Posa das.” This short service will be followed at 5 p.m. by a “Posada,” or re-enactment of Joseph and Mary's search for a place to stay.

Advent Lessons and Carols is a beloved Epis copalian tradition, in which scripture readings are interspersed with fes tive music and carol sing ing. “Las Posadas” is a venerable Mexican cus tom, celebrating the jour ney of the Holy Family to Bethlehem.

The Lessons and Carols meditation will feature music of Spain and the Colonial era in America, sung in Spanish, Que chua, Nahuatl, and Mono Paiute.

The St. Martin's choir will be joined by instru mentalists playing record ers, shawms, percussion, and guitar.

Those who wish to remain may stay for the 5 p.m. “Posada,” following “Mary” and “Joseph” as they sing and stroll an illuminated path, reenacting their search for hospitality. When they are finally welcomed inside, all the travelers will be met with a party featuring a piñata, candy, pan dulce, hot chocolate, and an old-fashioned carolsing.

The Episcopal Church of St. Martin is located at 640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis.

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Nativity made by a member of St. Martin’s from locally sourced, reclaimed wood.

Kathy Keatley Garvey/Courtesy photo UC Davis research reveals strong effects of vehicle pollution on insect damage to street ties. This is a native oak, commonly planted in California.

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

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 7pm / $45.87

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/ $12.50-$23.50 Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

Memorial Opera House, 455 Franklin St., San Francisco

The Young Dubliners @ 8pm Father Pad‐dy's, 435 Main St, Woodland

"As You Like It" @ 8pm / $12-$70

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

"The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley" @ 8pm / $12.50-$23.50 Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

The Hooks at Bottom of the Hill - Saturday December 10th 2022 @ 9pm

Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

2nd Annual Krampus Holi‐day Market - Sip

The Unreal Garden | San Francisco @ 5:30pm The Palace of Fine Arts Exhibition Center, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco

Los Straitjackets @ 7pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐farrell St, San Francisco

Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle @ 7:30pm / $105.50-$346 Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk, Sacramento

Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

Smuin's "The Christmas Ballet"

@ 7:30pm / $25-$73

Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., San Francisco

Beetlejuice

@ 7:30pm

Golden Gate Theater, 1 Taylor St., San Francisco

Jonny West @ 8:30pm

Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

Allegra Miles,

@ 2pm / $12-$70 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco

Napa HS Jazz Band Fundraiser 2022-2023 @ 3pm / $10-$27 Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa

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Is Aaron Judge worth $300 million?

It stands to reason that if a team is running the football for upwards of 300 yards, you keep doing so until the other team stops you.

n One of the best, if understated, college football TV analysts is ESPN’s Rodney Gilmore, who played collegiately at Stanford and really knows the game.

n Come this time next year, Ohio State football coach Ryan Day will have to face Michigan in Ann Arbor’s “Big House.”

Jim Harbaugh’s Wolverines, now 12-0, played Purdue on Saturday in the Big Ten Championship Game.

n Sad news in the rock world:

Christine McVie, singer, songwriter and keyboardist for Fleetwood Mac, has died at age 79 after a short illness.

Among the tunes McVie wrote for the band included, “Say You Love Me,” “You Make Lovin’ Fun,” “Little Lies” and “Don’t Stop.”

“Don’t Stop” became the theme song of Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for President of the United States.

Fleetwood Mac reached its sales and creative genius in the 1970s and 1980s. Band members Mick Fleetwood, Lindsay

Buckingham, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and McVie put together unparalleled harmonies and performed in front of millions worldwide.

Perhaps McVie’s most notable song was “Everywhere”.

n The bidding for Aaron Judge continues to escalate.

According to several sources, the New York Yankees have offered Judge an 8-year contract worth $300 million. “And are prepared to go higher if need be.”

n Long-ago San Francisco Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry has died at age 84.

Including the Giants, Perry pitched for eight Major League teams in a career spanning 1962 through 1983. His career record was 314 wins and 265 losses. In

10 years as a Giant, Perry won 134 games.

He was the first pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues, with Cleveland in 1972 and San Diego in 1978.

Perry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. The Giants retired his uniform No. 36 in 2005.

The team in 2016 unveiled a Perry statue near the 2nd and King Street (left field) entrance at Oracle Park.

Throughout his career, Perry was accused of employing a spitball as part of his pitch repertoire. He always said the perception of his throwing it gave him a mental advantage over opposing hitters.

n Recommended listening: By the late 1990s, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were one of the hottest bands in rock music.

Yet Petty had tired of doing stadium shows and playing the same songs every night.

So, in 1997, Petty booked 10 shows at the venerable Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. They sold out in minutes. Petty added 10 more.

The result became “Live at the

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our experience and youth. This has certainly helped in having us improve every day in practice.”

Last season, the Blue Devils ran an up-tempo offense that kept defenses on their toes. That will also be part of their game plan this win ter season.

“While we still want to play an uptempo game, fans will also see that this team can also find ways to create offense from moving the ball, using good floor spacing and finding open shooters for high percentage shots,” Gonzalez said.

On defense, like most high school boys basketball teams in the SacJoaquin Section, Davis will use different sets.

“Defense will certainly have a variety in it,” Gonzalez said. “You will see full court presses, full man pressure, three-quarter court traps and at times half-court man defense with some trapping. We will adjust defenses to counter opponent’s

strengths.”

Davis posted a 2-10 record in the Delta League, 6-16 overall, during the 2021-22 season.

But that is just a memory, as Gonzalez and his assistant coaches are working toward better practices that hope to develop more wins this season.

“In discussions with my coaching staff, we feel that we’ve seen tremendous growth in the players and team development,” Gonzalez said. “Every day they come to practice, ready to work and improve.

“The effort and attitude from every player has been great this year.”

Sheldon and Elk Grove were cochampions of the Delta League last winter. Jesuit — which features 6-foot-6 guard/forward Andrej Stojakovic, who is the son of former Sacramento Kings guard Peja Stojakovic — also will be a factor in the race.

Then there’s Davis and the rest of the Delta League.

“I think Sheldon and Jesuit will be the teams to beat this year,” Gonzalez said. “But, in the Delta League you just never know. It’s a tough league with great coaches that do an awesome job in scouting teams and always being ready to compete.

“It’s never a surprise to see other teams competing for the league title.”

Davis’ next home game is the Le Curry Invitational on Thursday, Dec. 15 against Florin of Sacramento. The invitation runs until Dec. 17.

According to MaxPreps, as of Friday night, six of the seven schools had started preseason action, including Davis. Sheldon was cur rently listed at 0-0.

Jesuit and Cosumnes Oaks are 3-0 and 2-0 respectively. Pleasant Grove and Elk Grove are 2-1 each.

Franklin was listed at 1-3.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@ davisenterprise.net. Follow on Twit ter: @MBDavisSports.

Fillmore (1997).” Petty died in 2017, and largely due to the efforts of his widow, Dana, and daughter, Adria, his estate has released a compilation of 58 songs and 13 spoken-word tracks from Petty.

n The World Baseball Classic returns this coming March.

Team USA got some good news this week as Giants staff ace Logan Webb will participate in the tournament.

n Major college football as we knew it will never be the same.

It is hard to determine whether the transfer portal or NIL (name, image, likeness) has changed the game the most. Probably a bit of both.

The same applies to bowl games. Now that the College Football Playoff will expand from four games to 12, 99% of the interest will be on the tournament.

The longtime radio and television color man on UC Davis football broad casts, Doug Kelly is director of communi cations for Battlefields2Ballfields and managing general partner of Kelly & Associates. Contact him at DKelly1416@ aol.com.

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continues to make Sacramento a special place to live, work, and play,” said Sacramento Running Association Executive Director Scott Abbott.

In addition to the impact on local hotels,restaurants and retailers, the event helps raise over $500,000 for local charities and community organizations through leveraged fundraising and direct giving every year.

The CIM’s charity registration entries alone directly fund $50,000 of CIM donations to official race partner charities, including chief beneficiary UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

“UC Davis Children’s Hospital is grateful to be the chief beneficiary of the California International Marathon. Funds raised will support programs, equipment, research and patient care to support the sick and injured children that we care for in our Sacramento community and the 33 counties that we are proud to serve,” said Satyan Lakshminrusimha, chair of the UC Davis Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief of UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

A CIM spectator guide, race day runner tracking, and live results can be found on runcim.org.