The Davis Enterprise Sunday, December 11, 2022

Downtown plan heads to council

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

The Downtown Davis Specific Plan will go before the City Council on Tuesday for final approval.

Five years in the making, with extensive citizen input, the plan will guide the longterm development of downtown Davis, establishing a vision for downtown and implementing a form-based code for the area.

That code will replace existing zoning for properties, making development more predictable by focusing on physical form, rather than uses, for buildings.

The plan, covering a 32-block area, envisions up to 1,000 new residential units and up to 600,000 square feet of new commercial space downtown, with more intense development — and taller buildings — in the core area and less intensity going outwards.

The Davis Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the plan at its last meeting, but some controversy remains over building heights in two locations — the Hibbert Lumber property at Fifth and G streets and the west side of the 600 block of G Street.

The Hibbert Lumber location, as contained currently in the plan,

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Jingle all the way

Annual Home For The Holidays concert is comin’ to town again

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

There are many great holiday traditions, but none are quite like the Home for the Holidays concert here in Davis. Going on its 19th year, this annual concert is a simultaneous celebration of local music, holiday spirit, creativity and community.

Started back in 2003, the Home for the Holidays concert was created by longtime Davis local, Bill Fairfield — who also happens to be part of the musical group Mumbo Gumbo. A lifelong lover and purveyor of music, Fairfield’s inspiration to create this concert was in full synchronicity with the seasonal themes of giving and cheer.

“I realized that all the musicians themselves were home for the holidays. A lot of them are out gigging and touring and local musicians don’t get to see each other much unless they’re on the same bill at some festival,” Fairfield explained. “During the holidays,

everyone’s home, so it was a way to come back and play for a good, local cause because a lot of them have kids in Davis schools and went to Davis schools themselves. It’s a way to give back to the schools and help inspire more kids with music and art.”

The cause Fairfield refers to is the concert’s proceeds going directly to the Davis Schools Arts Foundation. To him, it’s a proverbial “win-win” with money generated for the DSAF and the community coming together to enjoy music and merriment. The à-la-carte of it

all is the inspiration that radiates from the musicians to the audience like a fireplace’s warmth.

“It’s all about enriching the community. These musicians are donating their time to give back, to keep the cycle going and to help fund DSAF projects that inspire creativity. Perhaps a young Davis student will want to pick up an instrument, a paintbrush or learn to dance,” Fairfield said, before sharing some of his favorite moments in the concert’s 19-year tenure.

“Having Dorothy Morrison lead a sing-a-long of ‘Oh Happy Day’ just like she did with the Edwin Hawkins singers in 1969, the many wonderful performances by the DHS Madrigals, Little Charlie’s many years of jazzy swing guitar interpretations of holiday classics. There have been so many great performances by all the various musicians over the years.”

The lineup includes The Tyro-beys, the Rita Hoskins Trio, Alaina Rose, Way Out West, Misner and Smith, Brian Rivers, Hattie Craven and Joe Craven and Boot Juice. In Fairfield’s eyes, it’s

Beating suspect may plead insanity

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — The suspect in the brutal beating of a homeless woman in Davis last year may plead insanity in his case.

Joseph Michael Granken’s public defender, Joseph Gocke, mentioned the development Friday during a court hearing initially scheduled for a potential plea agreement.

Granken, 29, faces attempted murder, assault and battery charges in connection with the April 27, 2021, assault on Heidi Young outside the Nugget supermarket in South Davis.

Asked by Yolo Superior Court Judge Peter Williams

whether the case had indeed resolved, Gocke requested a new court date of Jan. 17, 2023.

“We are still doing investigation on our end relating to the possible entry of an additional plea,” Gocke said.

Pressed further by Williams, Gocke said his client may plead not guilty by reason of insanity in addition to his current notguilty plea.

Under the insanity plea, a defendant contends that, due to mental disease or defect, they are not responsible for their actions because they did not understand the nature of the offense, or that was legally and morally wrong.

Granken already underwent nearly a year of psychiatric treatment following several court appearances punctuated by loud vocal outbursts in which he demanded FBI intervention in his case and claiming authorities made alterations to his body from “illegal surgery.”

His lawyer at the time questioned Granken’s mental competency to stand trial, and a psychologist’s evaluation led to his placement with the California Department of State Hospitals.

Granken’s court proceedings resumed in September following his hospital release, and for a time

not so much a handful of acts, but a family of musicians with many coming back to perform again.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at the Veterans Memorial Theater, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis. Buy tickets at Armadillo Music, 207 F St.; Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd. No. 1 or online at Eventbrite.com.

For information, visit www. billyfairfield.com or call 530758-2455.

“I love seeing the joy on people’s faces when the show’s over,” Fairfield said. “The musicians are happy and the crowd’s happy. There are also comical moments where people act out things on stage, but it’s just a casual, fun atmosphere.”

UC and students’ union head toward mediation

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

After months of negotiations and seven formal requests by the University of California to engage a private mediator, the United Auto Workers agreed Thursday, Dec. 9 to enter mediation with the University.

On Thursday afternoon, UC negotiators told the UAW bargaining team they would no longer be making new proposals in bargaining, reiterating their request for voluntary mediation to resolve outstanding issues. The UAW bargaining teams met Friday

morning to consider this offer, and a majority voted to proceed with voluntary mediation.

The mediator’s name has not yet been released, and UC stated a timeline for mediation will be arranged soon. At that time, bargaining units from UC and UAW will not be allowed to speak publicly about negotiations.

“The University is pleased that the UAW has agreed to neutral private mediation so that we may resolve our differences and end the strike that has been impacting our

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

R. Burt McNaughton Publisher Sebastian Oñate Editor Nancy Hannell

The warranty isn’t even up on this one

“Davis will need a new mayor starting next month,” said the headline in The Davis Enterprise, assuming facts not yet in evidence.

I mean, who says we need a new mayor?

In fact, who says we need a mayor at all? Ever.

If you stopped a hundred people on the highly educated streets of Davis and asked them “Who is the mayor of this burg?,” you’d be lucky to get five correct answers, along with 25 guesses and at least 50 “I have no idea.”

My best guess is Maynard Skinner, but it may be Dave Rosenberg. Wait, what about Dan Wolk? I mean, Lois Wolk. Then again, it could be Mike Corbett, Ann Evans, Bill Kopper, Ruth Asmundson or Julie Partansky.

I know dear Julie sadly left us a few years ago, but for sure her spirit is still with us, from the Toad Tunnel to Partansky Pond.

But my goodness, Davis has

had more mayors than Santa has reindeer.

We’ve had alliterative mayors like Bob Black, Tom Tomasi, Clay Quessenberry and Cal Covell.

We’ve had Aronsons and Andersons and Asmundsons, Weavers and Wolks and Wagstaffs and Woodburys, a Kent and a Ken, a Susie and a Sue, a Partida and a Poulos, a Sandy and a Saylor and a Stevens, a Mike and a Madson and a Markham, a Lee and a Lucas, a Jack and a Jerry and a Joe and a Jim, a Vern whose name is attached to an historic gym, and a Robb who is appropriately named after the town itself.

Do we really need another mayor? We’ve had enough mayors to last two lifetimes. How about we just bask in their historic glory and be thankful for all their contributions.

But no, this mayor thing is apparently a big deal.

In the good old days, back when the whole town had a say about who would serve on the City Council as God intended, the top vote-getter in the previous election became mayor.

Let me explain. If, say, you ran for council in 2016 and received the most votes in what was then an at-large election, you would become mayor in 2018, although your service on the council would begin in 2016, shortly after you were elected to a four-year term.

With the recent switch to our dastardly district elections, there is no true “top” vote-getter because the council members did not run against each other, even though

Children’s ‘Nutcracker’ returns, with changes

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

The “Davis Children’s Nutcracker” has returned after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic — but with some changes.

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In order to keep participants, staff and volunteers safe, the production was filmed on Dec. 3 and, instead of live performances, will be broadcast instead, the city announced.

The show premieres on Saturday, Dec. 10, with showings at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. that will be streamed at https://vimeo.com/7790186 07. The link will remain open through Dec. 31.

A community tradition since 1977, the “Davis Children's Nutcracker” is a theater production involving hundreds of Davis children produced by the city of Davis Parks and Community Services Department.

In addition to returning

with a filmed version this year, the performance has also been changed to cultivate a love of the arts through diversity, equity and inclusion, the city said, with changes to some group names, script language and props.

“As we bring our characters back to life, families may notice some changes to the show,” the city announced. “We have purposefully changed the

names of groups and modified props to be sensitive to the cultural diversity of our community. We hope you will join us in this year’s production and in supporting the city’s ongoing efforts to be more inclusive.”

For more information about the production, contact the Parks and Community Services Department at registration@cityof davis.org or 530-757-5626.

several of them were elected at the same time.

So the five members of the current City Council have assigned themselves the task of picking the mayor. In their wisdom they have decided they will select a new mayor every January for a oneyear term.

If you can’t remember who the mayor is now, just imagine how difficult it will be when they pass the gavel every 12 months.

Since the council doesn’t have the courage to switch us back to at-large elections, maybe they could at least let all of us decide which of the five of them we wish to have as our mayor.

Either that or just hand each of them a gavel and see who can pound it the loudest for the longest period of time.

Makes as much sense as any other plan.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

BBB: Don’t get bitten by online ‘puppy scams’

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

With the holiday season underway, the Better Business Bureau issued a recent warning about “puppy scams,” which historically comprise about a fourth of online shopping frauds.

“Puppy scams remain consistently profitable for scammers because their multi-tiered setup allows them to convincingly go back to a consumer several times to ask for money,” the BBB reported in a news release.

“Because purchasing a pet can be such an emotionally charged experience, BBB urges consumers to be on high alert for scams.”

California ranks first nationwide in online puppy-scam activity, with

167 reports totaling more than $130,000 in financial losses filed between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31 of this year, according to the website Veterinarians.org.

Many of the bogus websites appear and vanish quickly, making them difficult for authorities to track and prosecute.

And while consumer losses across North America are on the decline, they’re still expected to exceed more than $2 million this year, with an average loss of about $850 per case, says the BBB.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals already cautions against giving pets as holiday gifts, recommending it only for those expressing a “sustained interest” in owning and caring for a pet responsibly.

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This year’s Davis Children’s Nutcracker features Maggie Luscutoff as Clara and Farouk Elfarra as Fritz.

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KDRT recaps football season

On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio,” host Rohan Baxi discusses UC Davis Football’s 2022 season and reflects on running back Ulonzo Gilliam’s legacy after his final season as an Aggie.

Baxi talks to Scott Gordon, who called UC Davis home football games on ESPN+ this season. Gordon played Division I football at the University of Arizona and shares his journey to coaching and calling football.

Timeout Radio is a radio show and podcast based in Davis for youths. It airs on KDRT 95.7 FM from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 8 to 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

Holiday art pops up in Winters

A group of plein air artists have come together to host a Holiday Art Show 3 weekends in December. This event kicked off the weekend of the annual Tractor Parade and is open again on Dec. 17 and 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at the 1st Studio Collective, 305 First St.

Partnering with this group of artist is local olive oil producer, Michael DeNardi, offering a tasting of his most recent olive oil harvest.

Downtown Business Association members Lynda Hinds and Meika Ogando are working to make events like this a staple to reignite a monthly Art Stroll in 2023. Contact lynda@yolo365tours. com or meika@ winterscollective.com.

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DOWNTOWN: Decision up to new council lineup

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could be developed up to four stories high, but site developers urged planning commissioners in November to allow a building height of up to five stories.

“We believe the benefits of allowing this parcel to be developed one story higher are great,” Doug Buzbee told planning commissioners. “A fifth floor on a project at the Hibbert site could provide 30 to 40 additional housing units over a four-story project. This increase is significant and is more than many other downtown sites could provide in an entire project. This opportunity to provide more housing units in downtown is exceedingly rare.”

Wesley Sagewalker, a member of the team working on the Hibbert development project, also encouraged the change, saying, “the project team explored several options of both four-story and fivestory projects at this site. The five-story project is much more financially sound than the four-story project, which especially in today’s environment, will have challenges attracting the capital needed to deliver the units which this plan envisions being delivered.”

“This site will address a significant portion of the 1,000 units that are envisioned to be developed in downtown as a result of this plan and, frankly, one of maybe four or five sites that is likely to see redevelopment as a result of this plan,” he said.

Several commissioners favored the request.

Commission Chair Greg Rowe said, “I think this would be a logical continuation of the zoning that’s permitted on the block to the south (where the permitted height would be up to five stories).

“In looking at this largely

vacant lot,” Rowe said, “I think it has the potential to be the development site that really kick starts the downtown plan. It can be a catalyst for other projects going forward. The fact that it is one contiguous parcel owned by one entity, it’s going to be sold to one entity, I think that would really facilitate making it happen.”

But Commissioner Cheryl Essex pushed back, saying, “I’m not in favor of it…

“This is the most developable parcel right now because it’s large and largely vacant,” she said. “If they can deliver a project within the plan that’s currently envisioned by (the Downtown Plan Advisory Committee), by all the input that has gone through so far, then I think that’s preferable then at this point, making a change proposed by a project proponent. That suggests to me that we don’t believe that other parcels that are a little tougher to be developed aren’t going to also need some additional up zoning. It violates the carefully crafted plan that we’ve come up with so far, simply because the developer is asking us to. It’s inconsistent with the citizen-led plan that we have to this point.”

Essex added that, “they should be able to build a four-story (building). If they want a higher building, they can ask for a density bonus and include more affordable housing, which is a great location for more affordable housing.”

The commission ultimately did not recommend changing the allowed height for the Hibbert site — though several members appeared to favor it — but did recommend a zoning change to the west side of the 600 block of G Street, going from a maximum of two stories high to three.

On that element of the plan, Essex said, “I think it would be the intent of the DPAC, but I don’t know for sure because I don’t think we talked about it and this gives an opportunity for DPAC members to contact the City Council and let them know whether that’s something they would support. I think it’s worth putting it on the table for discussion by the City Council.”

Now Old North Davis residents are circulating a petition, urging the council to uphold the final draft of the downtown plan and not approve either of those changes.

“Old North Davis residents believe these lastminute changes in zoning being lobbied by developers violate the thoughtful fiveyear process between the city of Davis and its citizens and the guiding policies presented in the (Davis Downtown Specific Plan),” the petition states.

Specifically, the petition says, “we support the efforts of Old North Davis residents that want the Hibbert Lumber property developed for both residential and commercial uses as outlined by

the final draft … up to four stories, with affordable housing units integrated in this four-story structure instead of applying for a density bonus.”

Additionally, “we support the final draft (designation) … for the west side of G Street/600 block, up to two stories as an appropriate transition between high density development and the existing Old North Davis neighborhood.”

The City Council will have the final say at Tuesday’s meeting, a meeting which will be the first for the new council. Both Bapu Vaitla, who won the District 1 race in November, and incumbent Gloria Partida, who

won the District 4 race, will be sworn in at the beginning of the meeting. The council will also vote on a new mayor and vice mayor.

Tuesday’s meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers at 23 Russell Blvd. Council meetings can be attended in person or viewed at at http://cityofdavis.org/ city-hall/city-council/citycouncil-meetings/meetingvideos.

Meetings are also televised live on city of Davis Government Channel 16 for those who subscribe to cable television.

— Reach Anne TernusBellamy at aternus@ davisenterprise.net.

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A downtown Davis fixture since 1947, Hibbert Lumber closed its doors in 2019.

AVietnamese noodle bar called Sit Lo Saigon will fill the former Thai Nakorn space at 414 G St.

Sit Lo has a restaurant in Elk Grove, at 7405 Laguna Blvd., Suite 170 and a sister restaurant, Saigon Alley Kitchen + Bar at 1801 L St., Suite 50 in Sacramento. The latter is more of a bar-and-bites scene, with craft cocktails and tapas.

Sit Lo’s website, https://www. sitlosaigon.com/, says its “menu is short and sweet, to highlight the labor of love that has gone into each of your bowls. Our beef bone broth is simmered for 72 hours to bring out the umami of the beef bones. … Fresh (rice) noodles are also another highlight in each bowl, just like you would find it in Vietnam.” It noted that most Vietnamese restaurants in the states use thin pho instead of traditional rice noodles. While pho noodles are available by request, “don’t write off the balance of fresh soft rice noodles until you try it.”

According to a 2020 Sacramento Business Journal story, the name “sit lo” refers to the cycle rickshaws seen in Vietnam.

The Davis business license lists the owner as Jimmy Voong, who – with his wife Mymy Nguyen – owned the former Make Fish sushi wrap and poke bowl restaurant that once filled the Good Friends Hawaiian

Poke space at 400 G St. According to a Sacramento Magazine story in 2020, the couple pivoted to a Vietnamese concept for its restaurants when sushi became so ubiquitous that Costco was selling it.

Thai Nakorn closed at the end of October, when its owners retired.

Has the boba trend burst its bubble? The tapioca tea and snack shop Bite Feast recently closed.

Bite Feast just opened in June at 225 G St. It was under the same ownership as Cajun Feast, an Asian/Cajun fusion restaurant at 206 Third St. It has a cobrand, Love Home Cafe, inside the Cajun Feast location, offering a Chinese food menu.

Another interactive exhibit popped up at the former Cost Plus World Market space in University Mall, at 871 Russell Blvd. Encounters UFO Xperience opened Dec. 1 and will continue

through Feb. 28.

Another interactive exhibit, simulating Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, filled the space last spring. In between, it was a Halloween store.

The exhibit is “the first immersive and inclusive display of UFO legends, alien artifacts and the paranormal,” its Eventbrite page states. “An exciting attraction where UFO believers, researchers and the general public enter the world of alien encounters, UFO pop culture and real science.” Open to all ages, the encounter immerses participants with music, films, interactive games and presentations.

Attractions include Easter Island heads, and movie props from “The Predator” and “E.T.” There is a snack bar and gift shop, and a night club theme on Friday and Saturday nights, with DJs.

Hours are 2 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays. On Monday, Dec. 18 and Tuesday, Dec. 19, it’s open from 2 to 9 p.m. Ticket prices range from $5 (child) to $20, not including the Eventbrite fees. Visit http:// www.ufoxperience.com/ for details.

The Davis Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting event from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

USE Credit Union recently changed its name to BluPeak Credit Union. The new name “gives a nod to our amazing California oceans and mountains, and better reflects our broader and more diverse membership,” its website says.

The financial cooperative’s previous name was an abbreviation for University and State Employees Credit Union. Its Davis branch — one of six statewide — is at 200 B St.

According to its website, it was founded in 1936 to serve financial needs of San Diego’s division of highway employees. It quickly grew to serve other state employees, and faculty and staff of California colleges and universities. It changed its name to University and State Employees Credit Union in 1971.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, membership expanded to “anyone who lives, works or worships” in the five counties where it holds community charters: Yolo, Sacramento, Alameda, Santa Clara and San Diego. Its corporate headquarters remain in San Diego.

The carpet-cleaning business Cotton Carpet Care is temporarily closed.

A message on its voicemail said, “Due to recent events in our personal lives, we have decided

to shut down early this year. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.” It noted that it will reopen in January.

The business is at 2020 Fifth St., Suite 1545 in Davis. Its phone number is 530-753-6675.

The new HMP Bikes store has not closed. Owner Peter Chu said there were some temporary closures after Thanksgiving when employees were gone for the holiday. He said he had to pick up cargo in Oakland, and was overwhelmed assembling the electric mopeds.

It’s at 440 F St. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. Visit https://www. hmpbikes.com/.

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/DavisBusinesses. Look for the tabs for Restaurants Open, Restaurants Closed, Coming Soon and more.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent 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.

From farms to fungi to food TCU honors volunteers

By Noah Pflueger-Peters Special to The Enterprise

A solution to world hunger might start with boba and caviar.

Using an innovative process, engineers at UC Davis are growing “myco-foods” — small balls of edible fungi that can be processed into products like boba and labgrown caviar with a wide range of textures, colors and flavors. These myco-foods, grown from the nutrients of agricultural byproducts like coffee grounds and almond hulls, provide an important new source of protein to feed the world.

Agricultural byproducts often contain many of the same nutrients as the main products, so re-using them reduces waste while adding more value to the existing materials.

“Generally, these byproducts go to composting or a digester, but I think this gives us one more option,” said biological and agricultural engineering doctoral student Lin Cao. “Fungi can use all kinds of byproducts, which is very good because we can produce food sustainably and also lower the cost of fungal cultivation.”

Eating fungi is nothing new, as mushrooms are a staple of diets around the world, but the team still thinks it has untapped

potential. Myco-foods are rich in protein and can be cultivated anywhere using a fraction of the space required for traditional agriculture. Project lead and Professor Ruihong Zhang, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, thinks they will eventually be important for developing countries that need food production to catch up with growing populations.

“We’re very efficient in terms of energy and water, and we’re not influenced by climate to set up fermenters, so it could be set up to produce anywhere in the world,” she said.

A Swiss Army knife

The lab had first worked with the filamentous fungus Aspergillus awamori for wastewater treatment before realizing its potential as food.

In the same way that A. awamori removes toxins from wastewater by eating them, it absorbs the leftover nutrients from byproducts and takes on their color, flavor and nutritional value as it grows. So far, the team has grown myco-foods from the byproducts of coffee, pomegranates, carrots, tomatoes, red beets, cheese, almonds and walnuts.

“These fungi eat everything — sugar, organic acid, organic matter — so they have a lot of applications,” said Zhang. “If we can actually create food and not just use them for environmental applications, that would be even higher value.”

The first step is creating an extract. The byproducts, which are donated by the lab’s industry partners, are put in beakers with water and vigorously shaken to dissolve all the nutrients and sugars. Chemistry doctoral student Cody Yothers likens the process

to making tea.

The extract is then combined with A. awamori spores in a warm bioreactor and stirred constantly. In a couple of days, the spores grow and begin to form perfectly round mycelium balls.

The research is funded by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the California Almond Board.

Special to The Enterprise

VACAVILLE — On Tuesday, Dec. 6, Travis Credit Union and the Travis Credit Union Foundation hosted a volunteer-recognition ceremony. Almost 100 guests gathered to celebrate individuals and community partners for their commitment to supporting local communities.

Honorees were recognized for their contributions to various Travis Credit Union and Travis Credit Union Foundation financial-wellness initiatives, including Mad City Money’s Teen Financial Boot Camp, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), community volunteerism through TCU’s Volunteer Time Off program, free shredding events and much more.

The event featured testimonies from those that have directly been impacted by these programs. “Travis Credit Union’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program has been my lifeline,”

proclaimed Glenda Myers, a VITA client and TCU member of 33 years.

To date, Travis Credit Union’s VITA program has brought more than $2.5 million back to the community through free tax returns and over 7,500 teens have received financial education through Mad City Money.

Tuesday’s honors included:

■ Youth Impact Champion: Leo Callejas

■ Social Impact Champion: Jan DeGracia

■ Partner of the Year –Merced: Merced Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

■ Partner of the Year –Napa: Napa County Office of Education

■ Partner of the Year –Solano: Solano County Office of Education

■ Partner of the Year –Yolo: United Way

■ Legendary Award: Kathleen Ramos

■ Military Champion: Master Sgt. Joshua Wells, commander of the Travis Air Force Base Airmen Leadership School.

— UC Davis News

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Lin Cao, left, a biological and agricultural engineering doctoral student, and professor Ruihong Zhang of the UC Davis department of biological and agricultural engineering sample edible fungi that can be processed into products like boba and lab-grown caviar.

MEDIATION: Students, workers exhausted by strike’s drawn-out effort

students, faculty, and staff,” said Letitia Silas, executive director of systemwide labor relations for UC. “We remain committed to securing a fair and reasonable contract with the union that honors the hard work of our valued graduate student employees. With the help of a neutral mediator, we hope to secure that agreement quickly.”

Since the spring of 2022, the University and the United Auto Workers have held more than 60 bargaining sessions, including nearly daily formal and

Obituaries

informal sessions since the strike began on Nov. 14, according to UC.

Students, meanwhile, maintain that negotiations have been consistently stalled waiting on UC to come to the table and bargain in good faith. California’s Public Employee Relations Board issued six complaints on Nov. 22 regarding UC’s failure to bargain with United Auto Workers 2865 and Student Researchers United-UAW over compensation and UC’s changes to worker compensation.

Aarthi Sekar, a member of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Team and a genetics

Ph.D. student, said that UC has consistently been “unprepared and unserious” about the bargaining process. “They’ve broken the law many times, and so this is to move towards serious negotiations.”

Strikers shared feelings of harassment from the administration since the strike began four weeks ago. “We’ve had people at the University on the admin side Tweet and say that we’re like 2-year-old children having a tantrum, so clearly they’re not taking us seriously,” said Elias Bunting, a first-year Ph.D. student in clinical biology. Bunting, the only person of

color who was among 16 peers who occupied the lobby of the University of California, Office the President’s downtown Sacramento offices, was the first to be let out of the side of the UCOP building. Bunting came out with pain in his back and a bloodied knee. Upon entering the building, a security guard grabbed Bunting by the back and “started wailing on me,” he said.

Because the quality of undergraduates’ education has been reduced since the start of the strike, a petition on MoveOn.org is going around for partial tuition reimbursement for when

they didn’t have their TAs.

The petition, titled, “UC students demand a tuition refund for each day missed from UAW strike,” Lexi B. mentioned leaving UC altogether because of UC’s handling of this situation.

“I don’t want my family’s money going towards an institution that would willingly pay employees less than a livable wage while stealing money from students.”

Sekar described the last four weeks as “long and

tough,” a real “struggle” to keep spirits high. “Striking is taking a lot of sacrifices out of every single person here.”

Bunting, who will return home to Tennessee for break, says he looks forward to spending time with his family “and try not to think about the strike too much.

“I’m going to get some home-cooked meals,” he said.

For Sekar: Sleep. “I’m going to sleep as much as I can,” she said.

Jan. 27, 1947 — Nov. 27, 2022

Kathy Leipham, a longtime resident of Davis, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. While dealing with three separate cancers over three decades, she lived with a sense of joy and love of life throughout. A teacher for 40 years, she was also an avid gardener, a world traveler, a student of Italian language and culture, a lover of life and a voracious reader. She was a passionate wife, mother of two and grandmother of four.

Born on Jan. 22, 1947, in Detroit, Katherine Mary Koepcke was the third daughter of Margaret (Peg) Pinkerton Koepcke and Albert Frazier (Bud) Koepcke. She was educated at the Convent of the Scared Heart in Chicago, Boston and Detroit.

Kathy graduated from the University of Michigan. She started her teaching career in Oakland. In 1971, Kathy met Bill Leipham and they were married in 1974. They had 2 daughters, Jennifer and Amy. Kathy completed her Master’s in special education at CSUS.

When their family moved to Davis in 1988. Kathy continued her career for the next 30 years with Sacramento City Unified School District. She was a dedicated resource teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. Kathy and Bill traveled to Italy, many times over the next two decades. During that time, they also studied Italian and learned about the

Renie Christine Kennedy

Dec. 25, 1926 — Dec. 3, 2022

Renie Christine Kennedy, longtime resident of Davis, passed away peacefully at home on Dec. 3, 2022, with family by her side. Renie was born on Dec. 25, 1926, to Anselmo Castillo and Grace Martinez in San Bernardino.

Following graduation from San Bernadino High School in 1943, she attended San Bernardino Valley College of Nursing and earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1947.

From 1947 to 1951, Renie worked at Los Angeles County General Hospital. In 1951, Renie became a flight nurse at Edwards Air Force Base, achieving the rank of captain. Renie worked for the Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at a pivotal time in our country’s aeronautics development; this service to our country remained a lifelong point of pride for Renie. It was

also where she met and married her first husband, Lt. Kenneth H. Rapp, a Korean War veteran and test pilot, who tragically was killed in a midair collision nine days after their wedding.

Upon discharge from the U.S. Air Force, Renie returned to the Los Angeles County General Hospital in 1953. It was there that Renie met a resident physician from Pennsylvania, Dr. James A. Kennedy. Having served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a fighter pilot during World War II, Dr. Kennedy and Renie had much in common and were married in January 1956 at Mission San Buenaventura in Ventura, and settled soon thereafter in Davis.

As a new arrival to Davis, Renie worked with her husband to establish his medical practice. Renie had seven children and played an active role in their

country’s food, history and literature. Once her daughters married and started families of their own, she delighted in being an involved grandmother to her four grandchildren.

In early 2020, Kathy was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. Over the next two-and-a-half years, the support of family and friends and her unwavering determination gave her the strength to keep going.

She will be deeply missed by her husband, Bill Leipham; daughters Jennifer Leipham (Colin Klück) and Amy Kenney (Darren); four grandchildren; sister Grace Maslyn and sons; and the Goudreas, close nieces and nephews. A private service will be held. If you wish to contribute in Kathy’s memory to Conquer Cancer, The ASCO Foundation or Yolo Hospice.

activities while instilling a strong sense of family in them. She also continued working as a registered nurse for many years, until her retirement in 1992. She was active in the Davis community as a volunteer for many organizations, including the American Heart Association, International House and the American Red Cross. In retirement, Renie enjoyed traveling to Europe, Australia and Asia with James and spending time with her extended family.

Preceding Renie in death were her first husband, Kenneth H. Rapp (19281953) and her second husband, James A. Kennedy (1920-2016). Renie is survived by her seven children, including Cornelius and his wife Rosanna of Los Gatos, Ann Leigh of Chico, Patri-

cia Kennedy of Winters, Kathleen Montgomery and her husband Mitch of Winters, James Jr. and his wife Beverly of Corvallis, Ore., John and his wife Lisa of Kansas City, and Margaret Borth and her husband Chris of Alameda. Renie is survived by grandchildren Arlene, Nola, Bradley, Megan, Kayla, Colten, Samuel, Isabelle, Ian and Kellen, and great-grandchildren Michelle, Eva and Ella. Renie was deeply loved and will be missed.

A funeral mass will begin at noon Friday, Dec. 16, at St. James Catholic Church, 1275 B St. in Davis, with a graveside service at the Davis Cemetery immediately following. Family and

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Odd Fellows host New Year’s bash

It’s not too early to be thinking about New Year’s Eve — the Davis Odd Fellows are bringing back their dance party with Mumbo Gumbo.

This has always been a sell-out show and this year the Odd Fellows are limiting the number of tickets they’re selling.

The night will be a dance party upstairs with a no-host bar, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. Downstairs is the quiet lounge, with a no-host bar, complimentary appetizers and desserts all evening, and the big screen TV showing celebrations around the world. All of this for $65.

Doors will open at 8:30 p.m. (no sooner) and the music starts at 9 p.m. Tickets go on sale Monday, Nov. 28, and are

only available on Eventbrite.

Blood drive in downtown Davis

The Davis Odd Fellows seek community participation in a Holiday Blood Drive on Dec. 20.

Join the Davis Odd Fellows and Vitalant (formerly BloodSource) at the Lodge, 415 Second St., and donate a pint of blood to ensure surgeries continue during the holidays.

“Your donated blood saves lives,” a news release said. “Give the gift of life this Holiday season.”

Sign up at Vitalant or via this link: https:// donors.vitalant.org/dwp/ portal/dwa/appointment/guest/phl/timeSlot sExtr?token=8LK7V2gg HhzM%2FcCTOv0M7N fq1DWqKjFjsY%2BSIkt Vg3A%3D.

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attorneys discussed a possible plea deal in which Granken would admit to a battery charge.

He remains in Yolo County Jail custody on a no-bail hold pending his next court hearing, at which the case could resolve or move toward its scheduled March trial date.

Another judge previously upheld Granken’s charges following a June 2021 preliminary hearing. During that proceeding, two Davis police officers described the assault outside the Nugget shopping center that prompted witnesses to confront Granken and detain

him until police arrived on scene.

Officer Christopher Ritter said he arrived to find Young, who “appeared unconscious. Her face and head were swollen and bleeding.” Two good Samaritans who stopped to thwart the alleged attack reported they saw the suspect, later identified as Granken, punching and stomping on Young on the side of the road.

One of the witnesses, Charles Klein, told Ritter that Granken chased him and struck him in the head when he intervened, the officer testified. The other, Mark Hopkins, said Klein flagged him down as Granken continued the alleged

assault on Young, and that Granken attempted to flee when Hopkins challenged him.

Officers found Granken lying face-down on the ground when they arrived on scene.

“He’s a very large individual,” Ritter said of Granken, describing him as being at least 6-foot-4 and over 200 pounds — a foot taller and at least 50 pounds heavier than his alleged victim.

After being taken into custody, Granken “said something along the lines of, he made a mistake, it

wasn’t his hands, it wasn’t him that hurt her,” Ritter said.

A second Davis police officer, Mathew Muscardini, described going to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento to obtain a statement from Young, who received treatment for multiple facial fractures, bleeding to the brain and bruising to both of her arms. She later required a walker for mobility, Muscardini said.

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

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FootballUCD offensive coordinator new Idaho State coach

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UC Davis offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Cody Hawkins has been named the next football head coach at Idaho State University.

Hawkins spent five seasons at UCD — the past three as the offensive coordinator.

Hawkins will replace Charlie Ragle, who went 1-10 in his only season at Pocatello before leaving for an FBS coaching opportunity.

“UC Davis has a long tradition of developing great coaches that have moved on and impacted our profession,” said UC Davis head coach Dan Hawkins, who is Cody’s father. “Cody will carry on that tradition.”

The Aggie offense flourished under the direction of Hawkins during his tenure at UCD, helping lead his position groups to

historic success.

This past season, the former Colorado quarterback guided UCD to the fourth-ranked total offense in the nation and second in the Big Sky at 486.5 yards per game. The passing offense ranked ninth in FCS and the rushing offense was 24th.

“He excelled at developing our quarterbacks and coordinating the offense,” said Dan Hawkins.

Sophomore quarterback Miles Hastings had a breakthrough season in his first full year as the starter, leading the conference in nearly every passing category.

Hastings paced the league in passing yards with 3,048, for a 277.1 per game clip and a 69.8 completion percentage.

Hastings threw only six interceptions to pair with 20 touchdowns, which ranked second in

the Big Sky.

On the ground, running back Ulonzo Gilliam Jr. capped off his final season in an Aggie uniform as the most prolific rusher in program history.

The first-team All-Big Sky selection ran for 1,180 yards and 13 touchdowns to rank second in the league in yards and third in touchdowns on the ground. He also hauled in a team-best 50 passes for 366 yards. His 1,554 allpurpose yards ranked second in the Big Sky.

Hawkins arrived at UCD in 2017 and initially served as a volunteer assistant.

He was elevated to the position of assistant director of football operations and recruiting following the team’s historic 2018 season. Hawkins’ teams have averaged over 30 points per game in each of his seasons.

basketball Women back on the court today

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My random thoughts as we finish the second weekend of December.

n By the time you’re reading my column on The Enterprise’s website, www.davisenter prise.com, or the Sunday print edition, the high school football season will officially be over for 2022.

Three Sac-Joaquin Section high school football teams in Grant of Sacramento and small-school powerhouses Escalon and Hughson played in the California Interscholastic Federation Championship Bowl games on Saturday.

Grant, which posted an 0-9 record in 2021, hosted San Jacinto in the CIF State Football Championship Bowl 3-AA game.

During the 2021 season, the Pacers averaged 8.1 points and their defense allowed 28.5 points per game.

But entering Saturday’s championship game, Grant averaged 49.9 points on offense and gave up 17.9 points per game.

Escalon and Hughson are rivals that are members of the TransValley League, also hosted their respective bowl games.

Escalon entertained Northwood of Irvine in the D4-AA contest.

Hughson welcomed Muir of Pasadena in the D5-AA game.

n A back story regarding the 2021 Grant football team.

The Davis High squad was scheduled to play the Pacers in a nonleague game but was canceled when a Blue Devils player tested positive for COVID.

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UC Davis men return to action

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer

After a 12-day layoff for final exams, the UC Davis men’s basketball team will return to action Tuesday in a non-conference home game against Holy Names.

Game time in the University Credit Union Center is 6 p.m.

The Aggies are 6-3 overall in the early season, but their most recent memory was on Dec. 1, also at the University Credit Union Center, a 74-72 setback to University of the Pacific in a game where UCD built an early lead but couldn’t hold on.

Holy Names, out of Oakland, is an NCAA Division II school that competes in the Pacific West Conference.

The Hawks come into Tuesday’s game as a decided underdog with their 3-6 record. UC Davis is the only Division I opponent on the Holy Names schedule.

This will be the Aggies’ last appearance on their home court before they open Big West Conference play Dec. 29 at Hawaii.

After Holy Names, UCD finishes its non-conference schedule with dates at Eastern Washington Dec. 17 and at UCLA Dec. 21.

The UCLA game presents the Aggies with the opportunity to play in 13,800-seat Pauley Pavilion, one of the most famous arenas in the history of college basketball.

As usual, the Bruins are once again among the nation’s elite basketball powers, currently ranked 19h with their 7-2 mark. Their only losses were to No. 17 Illinois, 79-70, and No. 12 Baylor, 80-75.

The Bruins rebounded from the two losses in the Las Vegas tournament with a four-game win streak, including Pac-12 victories over Stanford, 80-66, and Oregon, 65-56.

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The Aggies, who opened the season with an impressive 85-75 win at California, breaking a 33-game losing streak to the Golden Bears, are led by veteran Elijah Pepper’s 19.4 points and 6.9 rebounds a game. Pepper also has 28 assists and 11 steals.

T.Y. Johnson, a transfer from Loyola of Chicago, has fit in nicely in his first season in a UCD uniform, averaging 17.2 points and 5.8 rebounds a game to go along with 21 steals.

Another newcomer, Montana transfer Robby Beasley, is averaging 9.4 points a game and is a constant threat from long range.

Christian Anigwe has been a steady presence inside with 11.7 points and 5.2 rebounds a game.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

The UC Davis women’s basketball team (3-4) travels to Washington state today for an afternoon matchup against No. 22 Gonzaga University (8-2).

The game, which will tip at 2 p.m., will wrap up the Aggies month-long road trip.

The Aggies traveled to Moraga for a game against Saint Mary’s on Dec. 3. The two teams were tied after three quarters. The Aggies started the fourth on a 9-0 run, but the Gaels finished the game on an 18-4 run for the 58-53 victory.

Gonzaga leads the all-time series at 3-1. The Aggies won the last game of the series, 69-66, on Dec. 19, 2021, in Davis.

Gross close to making history

With the win over University of the Pacific, UCD head coach Jennifer Gross earned her 204th victory as head coach of the Aggies.

She is now one win away from tying Jorja Hoehn for second place on the all-time wins list.

Aggie guard Evanne Turner continued her hot start to the season from behind the three-point line.

The junior from Fontana leads the Big West Conference in three pointers (24), 3-point attempts (63) and 3-point attempts per game (3.43).

The 3-point attempts per game mark also places her third in the nation in that category.

Turner also leads the Big West Conference in points (130), points per game (18.6) and field goal attempts (145).

Megan Jones ranks in the top three in the Big West Conference in blocks (11 – 2nd)

UC Davis athletiCs/CoUrtesy photo Cody Hawkins (center) talks to UC Davis football players on offense during a home game earlier this season.

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UC Davis men’s basketball players Christian Anigwe (4) and Elijah Pepper (left) go after the loose ball with a University of the Pacific player in a non-conference game at the University Credit Union Center on Dec. 1.

took the Bruins to the Final Four in 2021 and to the Sweet 16 last season.

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Morality in juvenile justice

By Steven Morgan Special to The Enterprise

Would a parent who forcefully restrains their child, then places them in a cold, blank cement room with only a bed and a toilet be called abusive? What effective parent or child-development expert would advise this as a plausible way to teach their teenager a valuable life lesson?

Unfortunately, this is the basic play-by-play on what juvenile halls across the nation offer as a way to “help” the youths learn from their mistakes. Not only have juvenile halls been proven ineffective in preventing kids from getting arrested again, but they are also costly and, as in the case of Yolo county’s juvenile hall, woefully underutilized.

County officials in Yolo county have considered closing or repurposing the juvenile hall for years, but this has been seemingly little more than talk. In light of the extensive research accumulated in recent years about what works within child development and juvenile justice, it’s a wonder that we continue to pour taxpayer money into these harsh facilities. Yolo county should repurpose its juvenile detention facility to make space for a program that benefits the citizens of Yolo county instead of pouring millions of dollars a year into a program that seldom houses more than a dozen individuals a year.

First, this facility is just too expensive to run, given the meager amount of youths who have walked through its doors. In 2019 during the first five months it was open, it saw only four inmates, despite being designed to hold 90. And the numbers have been declining since it was opened 15 years ago.

The cost per year? $10 million annually. That is a huge waste of resources that could be used more effectively. There are a wide array of other ways this infrastructure could be utilized that would be more helpful for the citizens who pay to keep its doors open while saving them money at the same time.

Second, these facilities are not equitable because they tend to hold youths who are Latino or African American, or poor disproportionately. The inability to pay restitution or pay their way out of the legal system with costly lawyers means that the groups of children with the least support are the ones that get filtered through these institutions.

This only serves to perpetuate the issues of inequity that we face. To provide a fair shake for all children, despite their socioeconomic status, race, or religion, the county needs to invest in repurposing this facility into something that has been proven effective, like a community outreach center that connects residents and underserved youths.

Finally, the human development field has seen tons of research over the past few years that has reshaped how we teach our children at the classroom level. Unfortunately, the archaic practices of juvenile detention centers have seen few changes despite the litany of information available on how to reach kids in a meaningful way.

The county could use this facility to offer educational opportunities to the underprivileged youths or provide a place where people can come together to volunteer time with kids that yearn for a meaningful connection with mature adults. Education and connection with peers are the actual tools that enable kids to change their lives for the better.

Some may detract from the idea of repurposing this facility because they think it will increase local crime rates or remove goodpaying job. However, this misses the fact that community outreach programs and educational opportunities are precisely the things that prevent crime, according to research. In addition, programs such as these would be well funded due to the money saved from repurposing the juvenile detention center. This would create more employment opportunities and reduce crime while building a stronger sense of community along the way.

The repurposing of the Yolo county juvenile detention center is well past due. The vast amounts of money being wasted on its yearly operation, its inequitable nature, and ineffective practices make it a no-brainer when to close it

There are countless other ways that the county can utilize this facility that would be far more effective, equitable and fiscally responsible. Let’s embrace our modern understanding of the issues that face today’s youths and stop subjecting them to worn-out practice.

Steven Morgan is a UC Davis senior, studying human development.

Could the Pacific Ocean be our savior?

From the earliest exploration by European explorers of what became California, its position on the western coast of the North American continent has been its most important attribute.

Its coastline allowed that exploration and the development of outposts while most of the continent was still a mysterious wilderness. It fostered the 1849 gold rush that hastened California statehood. Its beaches drew millions of visitors. It made California the arsenal and staging point for World War II’s Pacific Theater and, finally, it became a focal point of global oceanic trade.

Could California’s coastal waters now become its savior, ending ever-increasing shortages of water and electrical energy that threaten the state’s economic and societal future?

Yes it could, but only if California’s political and civic leaders overcome their tendency to muff big public works — as symbolized by the bullet train’s history of over-spending and underperforming, decades of footdragging on much-needed water storage projects, and crippling bottlenecks at the state’s ports.

Finally, after decades of dithering, California’s byzantine bureaucracy is finally warming up to desalination of seawater as a vital piece of the state’s water supply, although it still resists big projects that could have real impact on shortages as it does in other water-short nations.

Meanwhile, California is just beginning to grasp the potential of offshore windmills to generate huge amounts of renewable electrical energy that would help close the state’s current supply gap, fill enormous new demands, and meet the state’s ambitious goals for ending its dependence on fossil fuels.

Last week, the federal government conducted auctions for wind-power development rights on two oceanic sites, one 20 miles west of Morro Bay and the other off Humboldt County.

Advocates believe the sites could generate up to

LettersFirst we need a plan, then find the funding

Nick Marin’s commentary (“City’s climate plan puts cart before the horse”) proposes an unrealistic, even infeasible, approach to reducing Davis’ greenhouse gas emissions. He suggests that the city first find funding and then choose what actions to undertake.

No one — taxpayers or the state and federal government — will just hand over money to the city without specifying what it will be spent on. The city’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) makes that first required step — what are the actions that we will undertake. That’s the horse that’s needed. Then we figure out how to fund these actions. That’s the cart. It can’t be done the other way around.

Implementing the plan will require both pulling through incentives and pushing through rules. Relying solely on voluntary actions will not get us their fast enough based on substantial evidence across many programs. Solar rooftop

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8 gigawatts of electrical power, about one-sixth of the state’s current peak power demand on hot summer days and about a third of the state’s goal of 25 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2045.

“Offshore wind is a critical component to achieving our world-leading clean energy goals and this sale is an historic step on California’s march toward a future free of fossil fuels,” Newsom said in a statement.

However, given the state’s sorry record on big-impact projects, will it really happen? Will we, as state plans now suggest, really see offshore power begin to flow into the grid within 10 years?

Don’t count on it.

The floating platforms to support the immense windmills, anchored in more than 2,000 feet of water, face critical attention from environmental groups and a phalanx of federal and state regulatory hurdles. They also would require onshore support facilities in coastal communities where resistance to development is culturally ingrained, plus cables to bring the power to shore and extensive expansions of transmission facilities to tie into the grid.

succeeded with subsidies that reached half of the costs. And it has reached less than a third of the single-family homes. The city cannot afford that alone for other measures and outside financing is much more limited.

In addition, one of the programs suggested by Marin is in the CAAP — the carbon mitigation fund. That action envisions using emission mitigation fees to fund a building retrofit program where contractors bid to complete a certain number of houses for a set fee.

The CAAP can be collaborative, but those decisions need to be community wide, not just by individuals. We are going to have to go beyond our self interests to achieve these goals.

Richard McCann Davis

Davis students deserve the best

I have been a paraeducator at a junior high school in the district for the past 11 years. This school has become my second family. I know that every single person on campus has my back, and of course I will do anything and will go beyond my daily duties every day to make sure our kids get

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The time frame to make all of this happen, as the state assumes in its overall plan to shift California to renewable electric power, is very short. We’re now 22 years into the 21st century and supposedly all of this would occur in just 23 more years — simultaneously with many other elements of decarbonization, such as shifting to battery- or hydrogen-powered cars and trucks and eliminating natural gas in homes, business and industry.

It would take an immense cultural change in the state’s governing apparatus to make it all happen by the designated deadline, a sense of urgency, a unity of purpose, and much more managerial competence than California has mustered in the last halfcentury.

The ocean could, indeed, be our savior. Theoretically, it could provide limitless amounts of clean water and clean power. But it won’t happen unless we make it happen.

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the best education possible.

When I say our kids, I mean all of them. Not only the kids I am supposed to help in the classroom, but any kid needing help (academic or emotional). I am the helper, I am the teacher willing to spend hours helping a kid to catch up on a new math concept, I am the warm smile welcoming students as they cross my path, I am the friendly ear willing to listen to their struggles and silliness.

Respect is what I get from my colleagues and the kids, however disrespect is what I get from my employer.

Our district didn’t hesitate to spend millions of dollars to build new facilities on many campuses, however our district doesn’t want to spend money on its employees. This doesn’t make sense.

Qualified, passionate, dedicated, honest people are what makes a good education possible, not all the brand new buildings appearing on campuses. Who will fill those buildings once the qualified teachers and staff are gone to other districts and the kids are sent to better schools?

Davis kids deserve the best and, we (DJUSD teachers and staff), deserve to be treated fairly, with respect for what we do everyday for our community.

Virginie Bock Davis

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Op-Ed

County needs ‘Just Transition’ for climate plan

By Marlen Garcia, Anuj Vaidya and Juliette Beck Special to The Enterprise

Yolo County has a lot at stake in how we address the climate crisis. In September 2020, the Board of Supervisors passed a visionary resolution calling for a Just Transition approach to climate action and community resilience planning.

Just Transition is a critical policy framework for ensuring that historically marginalized communities are centered and empowered to actively participate in the development of climate solutions. It is deeply relevant to Yolo County, which has the deepest levels of inequality in California.

Unfortunately, Yolo County’s recent choice of a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan consultant team that did not include a Just Transition approach in their proposal is squandering a critical opportunity to address worsening socio-economic disparities. As members of a team that also submitted a proposal, we are intimately familiar with the process and motivated to share our concerns by a sense of moral obligation to our community and future generations.

Yolo County’s houseless, BIPOC, rural communities, outdoor workers and youths are already being hit first and worst by climate breakdown. Summer temperatures in Woodland and West Sacramento average ten degrees hotter than in greenbelt-lined Davis; air pollution has worsened along the 1-80 corridor; eviction rates have increased by 57% since last year. Alarmingly, multinational companies are mining groundwater to feed thousands of acres of perennial orchards, while small, family farms and the wetlands at the Patwin-Wintun Tending and Gathering Garden in the heart of Yolo County have gone dry.

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Just Transition provides a way of addressing these inequities ensuring that decision-making drives racial and social justice, builds a diverse, equitable local economy and advances a healthy, community-based food system. Focusing on equity, like healing the climate itself, will help us all.

How has the county gotten off the Just Transition track?

First, Yolo County appears to have misused American Recovery Plan funds intended to serve the neediest communities most impacted by the pandemic. In the $600,000 contract with Southern California-based Dudek Engineering, ARP funding is allocated to transportation and greenhouse-gas emission consultants with no background in equitable climate planning.

Other climate projects recently funded with ARP money are valuable and necessary, but they do not directly benefit frontline communities. An equitable approach ensures that the lion’s share of the benefits flows to the neediest communities.

Second, the county hired a CAAP consultant team with no experience in Just Transition — it’s not even mentioned in their proposal — and is compromised by conflicts of interest with extractivist industries, namely the aggregate industry, whose business strategy is wedded to mega-development projects such as highway expansion and urban sprawl.

Third, the county’s approach undervalues local knowledge and inefficiently duplicates completed work including communications and outreach strategies already designed by local community members.

Fourth, instead of using the best available science including watershed and

groundwater modeling, soil science and traditional ecological knowledge, the County is pursuing a flawed carbon offset scheme that is essentially a permit to pollute that perpetuates environmental injustice by allowing big polluters to evade real cuts in greenhouse gasses.

How can we get back onto a Just Transition track?

Yolo County needs to reevaluate its approach to climate planning, centering equity in every aspect of the process, beginning with the CAAP.

n Apply Just Transition principles to all decision making: and set clear equity goals n Fund climate experts and local community organizers experienced in equitable climate planning n Dedicate staffing and resources for the Yolo Climate Action Commission’s

Equity and Engagement Working Group n Focus on real fossil fuel reductions, not speculative offsets n Consider canceling the Dudek contract n Invest in a planning process guided by watershed science, soil science, traditional ecological knowledge and a participatory, inclusive vulnerability assessment

If we make these changes now, at the end of this two-year planning process, we could have a Just Transition roadmap that stems the county’s rapidly increasing inequality, builds local resilience from within our community and helps us be better prepared to weather future storms.

A truly equitable approach to climate planning uplifts, centers and empowers frontline communities to engage in

developing real, transformational climate solutions such as:

n Community land trusts for permanently affordable housing, local businesses, growing food, and supporting biological and cultural diversity n Public banking to finance regional economic development projects with local benefits n Climate justice K-12 education and curriculum with service-learning opportunities n Community-owned solar that allows renters and neighbors to financially benefit from shared solar energy installations n Improved public transit with low-cost or free bus fare with more frequent, reliable service n Ecological, community-based farms and urban gardens

Let’s use the $600,000 in taxpayer money to

attend to the climate vulnerabilities of underserved residents and communities and thereby strengthen climate resilience for us all.

Let’s focus on our own residents, our real needs and our considerable local expertise to lead a Just Transition that aims at wellbeing for all of Yolo County.

– Marlen Garcia is a UC Davis Community and Regional Development undergraduate student and co-founder of the local Climate Strike and Sunrise Movement hub; Anuj Vaidya is a Yolo County resident and climate, equity and inclusion artivist; Juliette Beck is the cofounder of the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice and former director of California Water for All and Fair Trade campaigns.

The cold and dark are Putin’s weapons of choice

By Llewellyn King Special to The Enterprise

In medieval times, aggressors cut the water supply and poisoned the wells. In the 21st century, they go for the electric supply.

The aggressors today know that electricity is a vital commodity; without it, civilized life fails, suffering begins. It is a war of special cruelty against the civilian population.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces haven’t fared well on the ground against the Ukrainian military, has turned to the civilian population. He has unleashed a vicious campaign against Ukraine’s electric grid.

The unfolding result — winter is just beginning — is untold suffering. There is no quick fix, no way to fly in electricity as you can fly in food and munition, and no equal retaliation. The vulnerability lies in the nature of electricity itself. It is a quintessentially complex, real-time system.

When an electric system is harmed, it is incapacitated for

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months and even years. A storm passes through, trees fall on the lines, and crews repair them quickly or bypass the damaged transmission.

But when the guts of the system — the sophisticated interplay of wires and substations, turbines, power electronics and myriad connectors — are damaged, power can be off for months, and that assumes that there isn’t a war raging.

This vulnerability has just been exhibited by an attack with firearms on a substation in North Carolina. A turbine was shot up, and 30,000 people will be without electricity for days and possibly weeks. That scenario is with the full resources of U.S. power companies, working in unison, to help restore power.

Imagine trying to get power back online with precision weapons raining on parts of a grid? Realize that much of a bulk power supply system is bespoke; that big things like turbines aren’t sitting on a shelf. They are

usually made to order, mostly in China nowadays.

If you have the stomach for it, imagine the suffering in Ukraine at the start of winter: no light, no heat, no water because electricity pumps city water. Europe is set for a brutal winter, but nothing like the catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine.

First, Europe, like much of the world, is trying to move from fossil fuels to renewables. But it has been a messy transition, especially in Britain, where the expectations for a smooth transition were too rosy.

The British failed to build enough gas storage in the hope it wouldn’t be needed; shilly-shallied for years about committing to new nuclear power; and had an absolute confidence that the wind in the North Sea was a steady force.

Then things went wrong for Britain.

The first was the wind drought of last autumn in the North Sea and across Europe. It had a particular effect on Britain, which had to use more of its gas reserves to get through — and so

was set for near-disaster when the Russian war against Ukraine erupted nine months ago, pushing the price of gas up tenfold. British electric prices have soared, and the government has had to promise to pay substantial subsidies to affected households.

Germany, though, is the poster child for what not to do.

First, Germany has allowed itself to rely on Russia for nearly 40 percent of its natural gas — a principal fuel for electric generation — while, at the same time, closing its very reliable nuclear power plants. Germany also imports large quantities of petroleum and hard coal from Russia.

Germany isn’t only a problem to itself, but it also may be one for its neighbors in Europe. It is the richest country in Europe, and there is some fear that it will use some of its wealth to buy gas and push prices higher. That hasn’t happened, but it is a fear expressed across the energy sector.

Another fear is that as Germany needs so much gas to keep its industrial machine going that it will break ranks and cut a side deal with Russia, throwing Ukraine under the bus. But that hasn’t happened either.

The big challenge for Europe is how it will defend the remains of the Ukrainian grid, how fast it can help Ukraine restore power to the whole country, and how it might block the merciless aerial assault.

That is a political and security question for Europe and the United States: How far will the allies go in risking a nuclear war?

The lesson of Ukraine is clear: Protecting the physical infrastructure of the electric supply, the grid, is as much a part of national security as is cybersecurity.

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

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The very modern tale of a COVID virgin

It was only three weeks ago that I first heard the term “COVID virgin” and started calling myself one. It’s fun to be part of the unique group who has never had COVID and it amused me to compare it to never having had sex.

As a COVID virgin, you start wondering if you’ve been particularly prompt about vaccines and boosters, if you have special body chemistry, or if you are, as you’ve long suspected, a more conscientious mask-wearer than most of your friends. I admit that a little puffing up goes with the “virgin” package.

I strutted around like a blissfully unaware Thanksgiving turkey.

Then, with the same inevitability that strikes the turkey, I lost my COVID virginity, probably as a result of my Thanksgiving trip to visit my son and his family. Everybody was healthy at his place, but I think I was infected by the scruffily bearded, tattooed manspreader who sat next to me on the plane.

Today I look up how many columns I have written about COVID and COVID-related topics since the pandemic began. They amount to almost half of my writing since March 2020.

Each one represents an attempt to make sense of what was happening to us and to prepare myself in case the disease came closer to me.

It did, of course, when my children both caught COVID (my daughter had a bad case) plus two of my three grandsons and, finally, my husband, about a month ago.

At this point, after personal experience with family and friends, and frequent reading on the Internet, I feel pretty knowledgeable about Covid, but that leads to another question.

Many virgins have read a lot about sex (I did), but how much preparation does that really provide?

When I felt the beginnings of a cold, I knew enough to test myself for COVID. I tested negative. I knew enough not to believe it.

The next day I felt sicker and tested again. It was a strange experience to see the little pink line appear immediately, well before the 15 minutes they tell you to wait. I snapped a photo as if it were a souvenir, like a prom corsage.

I got sicker. My husband was away and I wandered the house turning up the temperature but feeling terribly cold. I assigned myself a separate bed and piled on four blankets. I shivered. My fever climbed.

When my chest congestion began, I hooked up my humidifier and started thinking about Paxlovid. Should I take the drug that is supposed to ease symptoms? I had begun telling friends and family that I was sick, and one friend whose daughter is desperately ill with long COVID said I shouldn’t hesitate.

The decision-making part of getting sick became extremely complicated as I weighed my good health against the risk of long COVID, while friends offered differing advice based on their own experience, or that of family and friends. With 90% of Americans having had COVID by now, there’s a lot of experience to be shared and advice to be received.

Folks from the naturopathic

side of popular thought sent me lists of vitamins. I began to feel both sick and confused. My mind wasn’t up to handling competing alternatives.

I arranged for a video consultation with a doctor and we agreed that because I have only one major risk factor (my age) I could wait a bit longer before deciding whether to take Paxlovid. A kind neighbor picked it up for me, though, so I would have it on hand.

All of a sudden on the fourth night, I felt peppier. The next morning, although my voice was still scratchy, I felt pretty good. What should I attribute this to? Vaccines? Resilience? My humidifier?

I admit that having COVID had its scary moments. My sense of taste went wonky, and when I had unexplained stomach pain for several hours I wondered if that would be the unique symptom that would send me down the path towards long COVID. Then my stomach pain went away and I started typing this column. Should I rejoice, or tone it down because both relapse and long COVID are possible for everyone? Or might it be OK for me to bask in an experience, not shared by everyone, namely the fact that the loss of my COVID

virginity went well?

Here’s the tricky part about COVID, which merely duplicates what we’ve learned about human behavior regarding vaccine, testing, and masking. Everyone is different. Every mind is different. Every body is different. You don’t know what’s going to happen to you and depending on your feelings about risk, you will make different decisions that may or may not turn out to be wise.

We humans need to forgive ourselves for being divided and weird about choosing which information to believe—or not. Our bodies themselves duplicate the phenomenon. One person gets terribly sick; another does not.

Patterns do exist and we try to ferret them out and act out of what is true for the majority of people. But this is what I relearned: Individual variation with COVID is enormous.

Think about individual variation around losing your virginity. It’s just like that.

Marion Franck has lived in Davis for more than 40 years. Reach her at marionf2@gmail. com.

The smallest gifts carry the largest impact

By Tracy Fauver Special to The Enterprise

ACASA volunteer didn’t think much of it when she let her foster youth pick out some make up at Target until she noticed that her youth took the powder compact with her everywhere she went. The youth didn’t necessarily use the makeup often, but she delighted in having something to call her own. When the magnitude of that small gift occurred to the CASA volunteer, she was forever changed.

During this time of year, I think about countless stories like the one I just told. Another example is about a child whose CASA volunteer obtained a grant to buy her art supplies. The volunteer tells the story this way, “She knew she had $250 to spend and she very carefully picked out each item.

She even wanted to purchase things in increments. You could tell she had never had something like that before and wanted to take it slow and make sure she spent it ‘right.’”

It’s easy to lose perspective, especially during the holidays. As we think of our own kids and grandkids and their holiday lists, we so badly want to please them. We worry we might have bought them the wrong “thing” when some children don’t get any “thing” at all.

When I get caught up in the sadness of this reality, I try to remind myself that the greatest gift we can give a child is something that we already do here at

Yolo County CASA. We give foster children a consistent and stable relationship — often the only consistent and stable relationship — that they have during the time they are in the dependency system. Here’s one of my favorite quotes of all time from a CASA volunteer that exemplifies this: “We were playing and having so much fun and all of a sudden he asked me when I was coming back. It was the first sign he gave me of both wanting a friendship with me and counting on me. It felt

really good to get that sign after weeks of working to create a safe space for him.”

Over the years we’ve heard countless stories of CASA volunteers taking their children to the zoo or library for the first time… even bringing their CASA child cupcakes on their birthday for the first time. It’s hard to imagine that some of these stories are real, but it truly is the smallest gifts of these experiences that can make the biggest impact… and it all starts with having the ability to train and retain enough CASA Volunteers to clear our waitlist of

children in need of an advocate.

We get many gifts sent to our office during this time of year. Our conference room fills with things like teddy bears, blankets, jackets, books, and the like. And while we are appreciative of any donation we receive, the best gifts are the willingness to become a CASA volunteer or to help fund one. In fact, we are in the middle of recruiting for our January training and fundraising for our annual appeal right now.

Once relationships are in place between CASA volunteers and their foster

KDRT earns journalism awards

Enterprise staff

KDRT radio programs about marathons, teens bullying their friends, and Davis’ relatively good fortune in coping with California’s drought and wildfires have all won awards for excellence in the 2022 San Francisco Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards.

The club announced the honors during its annual awards dinner Dec. 8 in Burlingame. Several outlets won multiple awards, ranging from SFGATE, KQED public radio and India Currents to San Francisco Classical Voice, Bloomberg, the San Francisco Chronicle and El Tecolote.

Rohan Baxi, a student at Da Vinci Charter Academy High School in Davis, won third place in radio/audio sports features for his December 2021 “Timeout Radio” program, “26.2 miles,” (https://kdrt.org/ audio/41-262-miles) on marathons.

Bill Buchanan, a longtime Davis journalist and host/producer of “Davisville,” won second and third place among radio/ audio public affairs programs (with staffs of 1 to 4) for “Amid drought and frightening wildfires, Davis is relatively fortunate” (https://kdrt.org/

audio/davisville-sept20-2021-amid-droughtand-frightening-wildfiresdavis-relatively-fortunate, September 2021) and “New UC Davis research says teens who bully often target their friends” (https://kdrt.org/audio/ davisville-march-1-2021new-uc-davis-researchsays-teens-who-bullyoften-target-their-friends, March 2021).

“Davisville” has received 10 SF Press Club awards for excellence in the past five years. Baxi’s previous honors include a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation in Washington, D.C. He also won $1,000 as a

finalist in the Points of Light Foundation’s Youth Summit Pitch Contest in 2020, when he proposed creating “Timeout Radio.”

KDRT-LP 95.7 FM is a project of nonprofit community media and technology center Davis Media Access, with its studio in the media center on Fifth Street in Davis. On air since 2004, its volunteer DJs and program hosts create more than 30 hours of music programs, public-affairs shows, and other local programming each week.

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

children, the rest comes naturally: The child’s realization that their CASA will be back to see them.

The first trip to the zoo.

The small gift from Target.

A routine weekly game of basketball.

It all starts with the relationship. As you embark upon the holidays this year, I encourage you to join me in a tradition that my job has inspired me to create for myself. Simply think about the relationships you hold dear. What experiences or moments do you hold dear with those people? What small

gives foster children what is often their only consistent and stable relationship during the time they are in the dependency system.

and meaningful activities can you do with a loved one to deepen your relationships?

After all, that’s the secret formula our volunteers use to form trusted relationships with their foster kids, and it’s especially needed during the holidays … which is a lonely time for many foster children. Who will you call and ask to hot chocolate or ice skating this season? To learn more about volunteering or donating to Yolo County CASA, please head to our website at yolocasa.org.

— Tracy Fauver, LCSW, is the executive director of Yolo County CASA

By Andy Jones

Special to The Enterprise

1. Internet Culture. LOL is both a texting acronym and a video game. What is the full name of the video game?

2. Pop Culture — Television. What are the two names in the title of a documentary that garnered Netflix the highest UK ratings of the year?

3. Central Europe. Which wars dissolved the Holy Roman Empire in 1806?

4. Film. The highest and 20th-highest grossing horror films in world history were both released in the year 2017, and their titles rhyme. Name either film.

5. Countries of the World. The capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia, as well as the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, was named after a monosyllabic city with the same name in central Scotland. Name the city. Answers: “League of Legends,” “Harry & Meghan,” the Napoleonic Wars, “It” or “Split,” Perth.

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

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UCD looks at cognitive change, intellectual disabilities

By Marianne Russ Sharp Special to the Enterprise

SACRAMENTO — A major challenge in testing new therapies for people with intellectual disability is finding accurate tools to measure whether the intervention or medication works. A new study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute and other institutions suggests that the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB) is a promising option. The study found the test to be sensitive to developmental changes in children, teens and young adults.

“People with lower developmental abilities are often excluded from research studies and clinical trials,” explained David Hessl, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and lead author of the paper. “That means the results of those studies do not apply to everyone, and this entire group is left out from having the potential benefit of a treatment.”

Intellectual disability is characterized by an IQ of about 70 or lower. It affects 1.8 — 3.2% of people worldwide and can occur with conditions such as fragile X syndrome, autism and Down syndrome.

Intellectual disability also presents with adaptive behavior challenges. It affects academic achievement, independence and many aspects of daily life. What is the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery?

The NIHTB-CB is a computer or tablet-administered test. It includes a series of brief tasks to assess cognitive functions like attention, working memory and language.

For example, there is a

section that requires participants to compare two pictures and decide if they’re the same or different, and another that involves listening to a word and then pointing to the picture that goes with the word. Another section includes listening to a story and then putting images from the tale in the right order.

Measuring developmental change in young people

To assess whether the NIHTB-CB is sensitive to developmental change, the team studied young people during childhood and early adulthood — a time when kids and teens are usually developing cognitive skills and gaining abilities.

“We knew that a substantial portion of young people would be making gains in cognition during this period, and we could use that opportunity to see if the Toolbox picked up on those developmental changes,” said Hessl, who is

also a MIND Institute faculty member. “Before using a measure in clinical trials, it is really important to learn whether it is sensitive to change.”

Researchers administered the NIHTB-CB to 256 individuals. Participants were in one of three groups: those with fragile X syndrome, those with Down syndrome and those with other intellectual disability. The participants ranged in age from 6-27 years. After two years, the team re-tested 197 of the participants.

To cross-validate the NIHTB-CB, the team also administered the StanfordBinet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5) at both time points. The SB5 is a long-established IQ test.

Results very promising Overall, the developmental growth measured by the NIHTB-CB tests was similar to — or exceeded — that of the SB5. Each group’s pattern of NIHTB-CB

growth also corresponded to the SB5 growth pattern.

The NIHTB-CB showed significant gains in almost all areas in participants with other intellectual disability at age 10, continued gains at 16 and stable development at age 22.

The participants with fragile X syndrome showed delayed gains in attention and inhibitory control compared to the group with other intellectual disability. The participants with Down syndrome had delayed gains in receptive vocabulary compared to the group with other intellectual disability.

Unlike the other groups, the participants with Down syndrome had significant growth in early adulthood in the areas of attention

and inhibitory control and working memory.

All three groups had very little growth in cognitive flexibility - the ability to adapt to a new rule or environment.

“These findings may help to guide us in terms of where intervention would be the most effective or beneficial,” Hessl said.

A new measurement tool for clinical trials?

Many researchers dislike repeating an IQ test like the SB5 over a short period of time, as is often required for treatment studies.

“There can be practice effects for some IQ test components, as well as an emphasis on acquired knowledge-type questions,” Hessl explained. “For an outcome measure, you

want something with more fluid and easily changeable components, like the NIHTB-CB.”

Some treatment studies are already using the NIHTB-CB to measure cognitive growth. That includes a small, high profile study which found that an Alzheimer’s drug increased cognitive scores in adult males with fragile X syndrome. A larger trial is now planned. Hessl is a consultant on the study of the drug company involved, Tetra Therapeutics.

Hessl notes that other possible directions for the NIHTB-CB include adapting it for use in clinics or in schools to assess patients or students.

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Judge once roamed outfield at Dobbins Stadium

The competition for Aaron Judge’s services began and ended in the only place it made sense to begin and end.

That’s 161st Street and River Avenue, Bronx, NY.

Yankee Stadium.

Judge re-signed with the New York Yankees this week for $360 million. That’s $40 million a year over nine years.

Other teams, notably our San Francisco Giants, offered comparable cash. The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres were also in the fray.

But there was no team other than the Yankees that could offer Judge ‘Yankee For Life’ status.

Icon status.

Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Ford, Munson, Mattingly, Jeter. Only Ruth played anyplace else but New York. He became an icon regardless.

Now Judge joins their ranks.

He’ll be a Yankee for the rest of his career.

He did it by betting on himself. His 62 home runs led the major leagues. This past spring, Judge rejected a Yankees offer of $30.5 million per year over seven seasons. The bet paid off, as did Judge’s being the most sought-after free agent. He ended up getting two more years and an extra $146.5 million.

Judge and his representation team conducted themselves quietly but efficiently. The 2022 No. 99 production is undeniable.

The average annual value — i.e., the money — was and

always will be there if the Yankees want something or someone. They generally get what they want when they want it.

Always have, from 1920 when they decided they wanted Ruth. The tab then: $100,000. The tab now, a century removed: $360 million. Adjusted for inflation, of course.

Side note: The American League record for home runs in a single season has been held by a Yankee for the past 95 years. Ruth hit 60 in 1927, which stood until 1961 when Roger Maris hit 61. Then ‘da Judge’ came along with his 62 in 2022.

Side note II: Judge played in the outfield for Fresno State against UC Davis at Dobbins Stadium during the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The teams didn’t play each other in 2013.

The Giants won’t have to wait long to see what might have

been. They open the 2023 regular season March 30 against New York at Yankee Stadium.

n In light of the (possible) season-ending injury to Jimmy Garoppolo and the Brock Purdy elevation to starting quarterback, the San Francisco 49ers brought in a familiar face as Purdy’s backup Josh Johnson is now in his fourth stint with San Francisco. The Niners are one of the 14 NFL teams that have employed Johnson, either on the active roster or practice squad.

Johnson, an Oakland native, played college ball at the University of San Diego. His coach was Jim Harbaugh, who is in his eighth season at Michigan after four years with the 49ers. That’s how long Johnson has pursued his up-and-down NFL dreams.

One benefit to joining the 49ers again: Johnson will get to sleep in his own bed. Through

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record that season, beaten Grant? We will never know.

n There is no question that the TVL is the best small-school league in the section and California.

Tougher than the Sierra Valley Conference, which like the TVL is Division V in the section. And I’ve covered quite a bit of the SVC during my time at the Lodi News-Sentinel and Mountain Democrat in Placerville, which is The Enterprise’s sister newspaper, since 2011.

Escalon and Hughson have been rivals for many years.

Escalon, along with Hilmar and Ripon, have won state titles in football

since 2018.

Livingston is significantly much since it rejoined the TVL — it has been in the league off and on since the 1970s — after being in the Western Athletic Conference from 2006-2018.

The TVL has had deep playoff runs, after and before 2018, then the SVC.

Let me put it this way: The TVL is like a new car while the SVC is like a slightly newer car. The new car is always going to have an advantage over the slightly newer car.

If SVC football head coaches and/or their assistants disagree with me, then schedule a TVL school for a non-league game in 2023, or for a

home and home series starting in 2024.

n On Jan. 17, the SacJoaquin Section will be holding its first meeting for the 2024-28 league realignment cycle at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton.

This will be the first public meeting for league realignment cycle for high schools, located from Yuba City to LeGrand, since 2017, when public meetings for the 2018-22 league realignment cycle were held.

The 2018-22 league realignment cycle was extended to spring 2024 because of pandemic.

Will Davis High and the Delta League see changes for the next cycle? One must wait for little over a

month.

n The UC Davis men’s basketball team has a 6-3 record entering Tuesday’s non-conference game against Holy Names at the University Credit Union Center.

Then after playing its next three games on the road, UCD will play its next home game against Big West Conference foe UC Irvine on Thursday, Jan. 5.

If you’re a college basketball fan, and haven’t caught the Aggies’ play yet, start making plans.

n Today, the San Francisco 49ers are hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Final: San Francisco 28, Tampa Bay 23.

all his many travels, Johnson, his wife and family have continued to live in the East Bay.

n Happy trails to famed boxing referee Mills Lane, who died in Reno, Nev. on Dec. 6 at age 85.

He officiated more than 100 title fights involving such fighters as Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and many others.

When Lane would finish his instructions to the fighters in the center of the ring, his signature, parting phrase was always, “Let’s get it on.”

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

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in blocks (11 – 2nd) and blocks per game (1.57 –3rd). Jones also ranks in the top 90 in the nation in both of those categories.

After Sunday’s game,

the Aggies will start a three-game homestand. The longest homestand in recent history was four games in 2019.

The Aggies will host NAIA opponent William Jessup University on Dec. 15 at 6 p.m.