The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, January 4, 2023

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The unstoppable Steven Tingus

Davis native blew through obstacles on his way to helping others

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

From his very first breath on Aug. 19, 1963, expectations began stacking themselves against Steven James Tingus. He was born with Schwartz-Jampel syndrome and given an estimated three years to live. But succumbing to expectations wasn’t quite Tingus’ style.

Instead, the kid from Davis pushed to live 59 years defying odds, laughing, loving, making friends, advocating for disability inclusivity, acting and — to his very last breath on Dec 3, 2022 — redefining what it means to be “disabled.”

Although born with this rare form of muscular dystrophy, Tingus’ parents weren’t going to let that diagnosis stop them from providing him all the love and support he needed to live his life to its fullest — no matter the difficulties. They remained strong for their son through his multiple surgeries as a youngster, provided him with 24/7 care and embodied the unbreakable familial bond Greek families are known for.

“The love was so unconditional and so strong that there was nothing that could stop my mom and dad and

Steven from making sure he lived the best, quality life and most fulfilling life he possibly could,” said Tingus’ sister, Tina Harris. “I think that foundation of my mom and dad’s strength at that time, Steven felt it, he knew it and thought, ‘I’m going to run with this. I know I got the love and support behind me and I’m not going to be afraid and am

Strong winds topple trees, knock out power

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Approximately 26,630 Yolo County customers woke up without power Sunday morning, including 7,924 in Davis and more than 13,000 in Woodland, after heavy rain and strong winds blew through the area overnight.

The National Weather Service reported that to begin 2023, a strong Pacific system would bring heavy mountain snow, winds and a lower elevation wintry mix for the West.

The local weather station reported 0.9 inches of rain in Davis overnight, and

1.83 since Thursday. The NSW forecast more heavy rain and wind for this evening, with precipitation continuing through the weekend.

Affected neighborhoods in Davis included the area around Davis High School, Sycamore South, Senda Nueva, Davis Manor, Rancho Yolo, Mace Ranch, Aggie Village, El Macero Estates and Rancho Macero.

The storm also kept first responders on the move as residents reported numerous downed trees and large tree limbs, fallen power lines and other service requests.

Locally, the Davis Fire Department received 55 calls for service between 8 a.m. Saturday and 8 a.m.

Frerichs, other county officials, sworn in

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Former Davis Mayor Lucas Frerichs was sworn in to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, while five other county officials took their oaths as well during a ceremony at the county administration building in Woodland.

Frerichs, who spent 10 years on the Davis City Council, succeeds Don Saylor, who retired after decades of service in public office, including as a Davis school board trustee, Davis City Council member and county supervisor.

Joining Frerichs for another term on the board is Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland, who also took his oath Tuesday, as did four reelected incumbents who serve in countywide offices — District Attorney Jeff Reisig, Sheriff Tom Lopez, Superintendent of Schools Garth Lewis and Clerk-Recorder/Assessor/ Registrar of Voters Jesse Salinas.

Frerichs, Sandy, Lewis and Salinas will serve four-year terms, while Reisig and Lopez will serve six-year terms, thanks to a new state law (AB

Sunday, the bulk of them starting that evening as fierce winds began to roar.

“It felt like a tornado was

In the 1970s, Tingus, left, was one of the first physically challenged students mainstreamed into a California classroom.

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Steve Tingus introduces President George W. Bush to members of Congress in 2001 during the unveiling of Bush’s New Freedom Initiative. Tingus served as director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research during Bush’s administration.

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A fallen tree lays across Hackberry and La Paz on Sunday morning after strong winds blew through Davis overnight.

coming through Davis,” said Battalion Chief Luis

Flower Arrangers cancel meeting

Davis Flower Arrangers scheduled program on Jan. 4 is canceled.

Due to the extreme weather predicted from Wednesday through Thursday, the group decided for the safety of the presenter and its members to cancel.

Organizers say they hope to have Susi Gillum present in May if available.

Arboretum needs volunteers

The UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden seeks volunteers for once-a-week gardening volunteer teams.

The time commitment requested is one year, but “hopefully longer,” says Stacey Parker, director of public horticulture and engagement.

Trainings take place on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon, from Jan. 26 through March 2 (location to be determined). A $20 materials fee is due at the first scheduled training date.

After that, gardening volunteers meet for 3 hours weekly on their chosen day.

Applications are due by Jan. 13 and can be found online: https:// arboretum.ucdavis.edu/ volunteer.

Direct questions to staff at the Arboretum and Public Garden headquarters at 530752-4880 or arboretum@ucdavis.edu.

Local news chafing, but still here

If you were with me the other day, we were discussing a Washington Post essay by Perry Bacon Jr., who feels passionately that supporting local newspapers is vital to the health of our democracy and our communities.

Bacon began by boldly stating, "My vision for addressing the huge decline in local journalism involves hiring 87,000 journalists for about 1,300 news organizations with more than $10 billion in funding."

Bacon listed five principles for local news that he insists should be implemented as widely and quickly as possible.

The five are: 1) News outlets in communities across the country;

2) More outlets with a welldefined, transparent point of view;

3) Coverage that is free for everyone; 4) A lot of in-depth reporting available in multiple formats; 5) News organizations that are nonprofit."

Of those five, Bacon insists the first — having news outlets in as many communities as possible — is the most important. Makes sense. No point in having

quality journalism in only certain parts of the country.

When I go to a new town or area, the first thing I do is scour the streets for a news rack so I can buy the local newspaper, be it a daily, a weekly or a shopper.

There is no better place to detect the pulse of a small town than the local paper, which is usually staffed by a news editor who has been there for years and a young sportswriter who can't believe he actually gets paid to cover the high school football game.

The real estate ads can tell you a lot about a town, as can the listings of religious services, lost pets and weekly lunch menus at the only elementary

school for miles around.

Even high school mascots can give you a taste of the town, such as the Tillamook Cheesemakers, the Vernonia Loggers, the Pendleton Buckaroos, the Grants Pass Cavemen, the Yuba City Honkers and the Coachella Valley Mighty Arab.

That last one can certainly give one pause, but when you read the history of the area and that mascot in particular, you might have a different view.

But this is about journalism, not mascots. The point is, I learned about that mascot and the issues surrounding it by reading the local paper that serves the area.

Bacon wants all this news to be free, which might be a great idea if most of that $10 billion goes to pay living wages to all those new journalists he wants hired.

"Anyone born after 1985 has lived in a world where at least some of the news is free," Bacon notes.

"It will be hard to get them to pay for it. Students chafe at the

very idea of paywalls."

Heck, I chafe at the very idea of paywalls, clearly biting the hand that feeds me.

"Paywalls often result in the journalism with the most rigorous reporting and editing reaching a paying audience that is upperincome and older, while younger and less wealthy non-subscribers can't access important stories they might otherwise read. Walling off this information might be good economics, but it is bad civics."

Then again, the for-profit model, as hard as it is to sustain today, does incentive newspapers to better serve their readers and their communities.

A paper that has no fear of going out of business because the government is picking up the tab might turn lazy and drab and not walk the extra miles required to produce quality journalism.

The problems are many and the solutions few, but I appreciate Bacon putting in the time to come up with solutions, some viable and some not.

Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

School Board sets first 2023 meeting

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

It’s a new year but the hard work for the DJUSD school board remains the same. Thursday, Jan. 5, marks the next school board meeting and features a small batch of notifications and updates to kick off 2023.

SWORN: Law changed schedule

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759) signed by the governor in October that moved elections for county district attorneys and sheriffs to presidential election years.

Under the new law, any district attorney or sheriff elected in 2022 (as Reisig and Lopez were) will serve a six-year term with the next election for those offices occurring during the 2028 presidential primary. Noting the new law, Lopez quipped that “those of you who voted for me, you got an extra two years. For those of you that didn’t vote for me, that gives me an extra two years to prove

to you that I am more than worthy …”

Frerichs was sworn in to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday by former Supervisor Helen Thomson and he thanked her, as well as former supervisors Lois Wolk and Don Saylor, for their support and mentorship over the years.

He also noted that he was following in the footsteps of his grandfather, who served as a county supervisor for 20 years in rural New York “where the population was 30,000 people and 75,000 cows,” said Frerichs. His grandfather, who turns 87 this week, was able to watch the

swearing-in via a Facebook live stream provided by the elections office.

In addition to Frerichs and Sandy, the Board of Supervisors for the next two years will also include Supervisors Jim Provenza of Davis; Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento; and Angel Barajas of the rural Fifth District. The latter three will be up for election again in March 2024, while Frerichs and Sandy won't be up for re-election until 2026.

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

City to open charging center again

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

With a powerful storm headed this way, the city announced Tuesday it will operate a charging center Wednesday through Friday at the Veterans Memorial Center, 203 E. 14th St., from noon to 5 p.m each day.

Water, restrooms and power for charging will be available. The charging center may be extended through the weekend if power outages persist past Friday.

City staff and contractors, meanwhile, have been working around the clock to clear more than 100 downed trees from the New Year’s Eve storm, the city reported. That effort may be delayed if more damage occurs from this week’s storms.

To report downed city trees or branches, call the Davis Police Department’s non-emergency number at 530-747-5400. For lifethreatening issues, call 911.

Residents can prepare

for these storms by doing the following:

Prepare for medical needs, especially if refrigeration or equipment are required

n Trim trees and branches on properties n Create an emergency kit with essential items such as flashlights, batteries, power banks, water or non-perishable foods n Charge phones or electronics n Secure windows and doors n Affix loose outdoor items n Review home insurance coverage n Check in with friends and family n Follow the city of Davis on social media for updates

In the event of a power outage, some tips include: n Staying home and limiting driving as much as possible

n Approaching traffic signals that are out as fourway stops n Keeping freezers and refrigerators closed

n Disconnecting or turning off electronics to avoid electrical surges n Wearing multiple layers of clothing to stay warm n If using a generator, operating outdoors only and away from windows

To stay current on alerts and updates, follow the city on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CityofDavis, Twitter: www.twitter.com/ CityofDavis or Instagram: www.instagram.com/citydavisca/.

Sign up to receive Yolo Alerts at www.yolo-alert. org. View the current PG&E outage map at: www.pge.com/outagealerts. Find additional tips during power outages at: www. ready.gov/power-outages.

On top of the to-do list is giving an update on the DJUSD strategic plan by district staff and the organization “Performance Fact.” During the 202223 school year, the district is set to engage in a comprehensive, equity-driven strategic planning process with the plan itself acting as a roadmap for the district moving forward. Essentially, the plan aims to align the communities of interest around a shared vision, common goals and unified direction for the district’s educational efforts.

There will also be an update on the special education program implantation plan. The update is to include recommendations from WestEd’s Special Education Program review. WestEd’s reports are used as guidance to

improve special education programs. Also included will be an update from district staff regarding the OCR resolution agreement regarding restraint and seclusion.

Another update will be given regarding the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Data for 2021-22. Every spring, DJUSD students in third- through eighthgrade will take an English Language Arts and Mathematics statewide assessment, and in 2022, students in fifth, eighth, eleventh and twelfth grades participated in the California Science Test. These tests comprise the CAASPP which is used to measure progress and identify areas for improvement.

With that, the meeting will come to a close. It’s set to begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. at the community chambers located at 23 Russell Blvd in Davis, CA 95616. One can also watch the meeting live online by visiting djusd. davismedia.org.

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

PG&E gears up for incoming rough weather

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OAKLAND — Pacific Gas and Electric Company is mobilizing personnel ahead of a significant wet and windy winter storm due to arrive across Northern and Central California Wednesday and into Thursday.

This effort follows the restoration of nearly 500,000 customers who lost power during the strong New Year’s Eve storm last Saturday.

Poised to respond to outages are approximately 360 four-person electric crews, 397 troublemen, distribution line technicians and system inspectors who serve as the utility’s first responders and another 800 personnel who will monitor electric incidents for public safety

Additionally, hundreds of PG&E employees are serving in roles in the company’s Emergency Operations Center as well as in regional and divisional emergency centers. Approximately 250 vegetation-management personnel also are at the ready.

PG&E is being supported by 16 crews from Southern California Edison and has requested mutual-aid assistance from additional West Coast power providers.

The company is using its storm outage prediction models that help determine the potential timing, location, and number of power outages. This allows for extra crews on standby to deploy to areas that are hard hit by the storm.

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Former Davis Mayor Lucas Frerichs took the oath of office for Yolo County supervisor on Tuesday during a ceremony in Woodland. Frerichs was sworn in by former Supervisor and state Assemblywoman Helen Thomson as his wife, Stacie, looked on.

UCD professor’s beer-for-a-butterfly contest is back

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The concept of the Beerfor-a-Butterfly contest is simple. If you find the first butterfly of the year, Professor Art Shapiro will buy you a beer of your choice.

But the competition is stiff, as he has won all but four times since the contest began.

Shapiro, a department of evolution and ecology faculty member, has sponsored the “Suds for a Bug” contest since 1972 to determine the first flight of the year in the three-county area of Sacramento, Solano, and Yolo. He launched the competition as part of his long-term studies of butterfly life cycles and climate change.

He said that since 1972, the first flight of the cabbage white butterfly has varied from Jan. 1 to Feb. 22, averaging about Jan. 20.

Shapiro offers some advice, but he stops short of telling the precise locations of where he plans to be on New Year’s Day. “I’m going to a place that has been productive in the past. And that’s all I can say,” he said.

Butterflies are most

likely to be out in places with a south-facing slope with a lot of weedy vegetation that’s ripe for breeding, chiefly members of the mustard family and lupin.

Shapiro said this year he has seen an unusually large fall brood still flying around last week just before the rain. “They may even overlap into the New Year, meaning that the first ones might be recorded as early as New Year’s Day if the weather is sunny and warm. You need an air temperature of at least 54-55 Fahrenheit with full sunshine for them to be able to fly. As it happens, it looks like New Year’s Day may meet those criteria.”

Because of the early onset of heavy rain this year, there is already a bumper crop of host plants, compared to many other years when they aren’t advanced until February. “The rainfall pattern this year has been very favorable to winter annuals — plants with seeds germinating with the first rain, so things are very lush and green, especially around Davis. “Because we had about 5 inches of rain in September, we’ve already

got things like lupins and mustards and wild radish in flower, which usually isn’t the case as early in the year,” he said.

The point of the contest “is to get the earliest possible flight date for statistical purposes. The rules require that the animal be captured and brought in alive to be verified. That way, no one can falsely claim to have seen one or misidentify something else as a cabbage white.”

If Shapiro almost always wins, what’s really the point? “To keep me honest,” he said. “I mean, if I don’t win, I’m not working hard enough.”

That said, he doesn’t mind if somebody else wins. “Since I get to share the pitcher of beer with them, it’s a good social event,” he said.

Shapiro generally drinks Pabst Blue Ribbon, but if someone else wins, the choice is theirs.

Three of the four individuals who have beaten Shapiro in the past were graduate students. This year, he doesn’t have any, adding that he’s turning 77 this week.

One of his former

graduate students who won the contest in 1983, Adam Porter, is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts with research interests in evolutionary biology and computational biology.

Shapiro didn’t offer the contest the last two years due to the pandemic, and this year he’s tiptoeing into it, as they say, rather than giving it the full publicity as in past years.

The contest rules include the following:

n It must be an adult (no caterpillars or pupae) and be captured outdoors.

n It must be brought in alive to the Department of Evolution and Ecology office, 2320 Storer Hall, UC Davis, during work hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, with the full data (exact time, date and location of the capture) and the

contact information of the collector (address, phone number and/or e-mail.)

The receptionist will certify that it is alive and refrigerate it. (If it’s collected on a weekend or holiday, it can be kept in the refrigerator for a few days--do not freeze it.)

n Shapiro is the sole judge.

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

New year, mixed messages on climate

One never knows what one will get when opening an article titled, “The New World: Envisioning a Future After Climate.” This was in the New York Times Magazine and the lead paragraph piqued inter est but didn’t really give a sense of what the point of the article might be.

It read, “The most likely climate outcome is neither salvation nor apocalypse: warming of between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius this century. The planet will be irrevocably transformed, but life will continue. What will it look like?”

The article then takes a “tour” of the probable future, as follows in the selected, and at times lightly edited, quotes below. See what you think, “Already it’s a different planet. “We know what put us in this predicament: more than one trillion tons of carbon produced by human activity now suspended in our atmosphere. That’s as much as the total mass of every human-built structure and object on earth.”

“Not long ago, scientists warned that this could cause four or five degrees Celsius of warming giving rise to existential fears about apocalyptic futures. But … when scientists talk about the path we are on today, they are often referring to

warming between two and three degrees, or between 3.6- and 5.4-degrees Fahrenheit, a little more than half as much as was projected to be the ‘business as usual future a decade ago.”

OK; progress of a sort. But now let’s look at the details.

“To stabilize the world’s temperatures at the cooler end of that range, two degrees, will require a near-total transformation of all the human systems that gave rise to warming: energy, transportation, agriculture, housing, industry and infrastructure.”

“It would mean environmental upheaval and climatic disruption unprecedented in the long sweep of human history.” ” The changes will extend to the microscopic level. In the next half century, it’s projected that there will be at least 4,000 cross-over events, as viruses cross from one species to another, including humans.

“Covid-19 has given us a sense of how disruptive just one global

pandemic can be but a new ‘pandemicine’ could deliver several at once.”

“Everything will move … more than 10,000 plant species would lose half heir habitable area. Every place in every part of the world would essentially trade its current climate for a hotter one. For example, “More than 100 million Americans would be experiencing at least one 125-degree day each summer.” “According to another report, moving from 1.5 to 2.0 degrees would mean the number of people experiencing a severe heat wave at least once every five years would roughly triple worldwide.” “At the same time, some climates will become more favorable.” But many places will dry out in the heat. Wildfires will be much more common.”

“The IPCC estimates that more than 3 billion people live today in places ‘highly vulnerable’ to climate change. Some studies suggest, at two degrees, that there will be tens of millions of climate migrants. Others hundreds of millions. Regardless of the figure, mass migrations will become a fact of life.”

Warming will be “unjust” with countries that have done the most to create the problem

adapting, but counties with little historical contribution to putting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will feel the brunt of adverse consequences.

“Nearly everything about our built environment will need at least an upgrade and, in many cases, will have to be totally reimagined.

“In the new world there will be, to a rough approximation, zero living coral reefs. By one estimate, the world’s oceans would also grow 29 percent more acidic. And sea levels are an area where even in more optimistic scenarios about future emissions, scientists worry about ‘tipping points’, that just two degrees of warming might tripper a feedback loop that can’t be reversed.

“By one estimate, 40 percent of today’s cropland is expected to experience severe drought at least three months a year by 2050. Weather disasters won’t just be more intense, they will also be more frequent. The chances of a California megastorm capable of reshaping rivers and threatening major dams would grow, each year, to one in 30.”

The article lists numerous technology innovations in energy and manufacturing that would represent a “human response that could ameliorate some of

the harsh problems, such as renewable energy, carbon capture, new agricultural practices, etc. and the author offers the following summary:

“For me, the last few years provide arguments for both buoyant optimism and abject despair. They have made me mindful of the inescapable challenge of uncertainty when it comes to projecting the future, and the necessity of nevertheless operating within it.”

I can see the author’s point, that advances in renewables, progress on energy policy, and the engagement of nations meeting (repeatedly) and setting goals they are to some degree trying to meet, might be some reason for some optimism.

Honestly, the optimism the author expresses due to the decline from estimates of 5 to 6 degrees C warming to his descriptions of what the lower 2-degree world will be like seems much more a grim indication that we have thus far fallen frighteningly short of what is necessary for a livable planet.

— John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column appears the first and third Wednesday of each month in the print version of the Davis Enterprise. Please send comments to johnmottsmith@comcast.net.

Solano Land Trust sets slate of January excursions

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Join the docents and staff of Solano Land Trust to explore the outdoors and experience the beauty of Solano County.

For information on meeting locations, directions, and registration, visit the events page at solanolandtrust.org/events. For additional questions, call 707-420-1041. January opportunities include:

Saturday, Jan. 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at King-Swett Ranches — Nature Hike: Come explore the hills between Fairfield, Benicia, and Vallejo. Solano Land Trust docents will share insights about the birds, butterflies, and other wildlife that call KingSwett home, and you will get a great workout! Space is limited. Registration Required.

Sunday, Jan. 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lynch Canyon Open Space — Bird of Prey Hike: Solano Land Trust and Solano County Parks are proud to present Lynch Canyon Bird of Prey Hikes throughout the 2022-2023 winter migration season. West County

HawkWatch’s Larry Broderick will lead birders through one of the North Bay’s best viewing locations for overwintering hawks and falcons. Lynch Canyon provides these birds with over 1,200 undeveloped acres where they can hunt and rest. Some feathered visitors come from as far away as the Arctic Circle. This guided hike will be between 4-6 miles and is $10 per person. The parking is $6 per vehicle, which goes to support Solano County Parks. Registration Required.

Saturday, Jan. 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park — Nature Hike: Explore the hills between Suisun Valley and Green Valley and see sweeping views of Solano County and beyond. Scenic blue and live oaks, native wildflowers, and fascinating geology make this a truly unique hike. Moderately strenuous, 4-6 miles. Cancels for rain or extreme weather. Registration Required.

Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Rush Ranch — Get the

Rush: Get the Rush is a series of fun, free activities for the whole family, offered the third Saturday of each month at Rush Ranch. Guests can visit the blacksmith shop, Pop-Up shops, Access Adventure wagon rides, and various exhibit tables. All ages and mobility levels welcome. The Marsh Walk begins at 10:30 am. Park is open until sunset.

Registration for the Marsh Walk is required.

Saturday, Jan. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Vacaville Museum Special Event!

An Elegant Evening of Music with Sarah Cahill: Join us for an exclusive event at the Vacaville Museum with acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill. The evening will begin with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, followed by the concert. Cahill, heralded as “fiercely gifted” by The New York Times, will play a beautiful program of pieces ranging from Baroque to classical contemporary.

During intermission, guests will enjoy an elegant chocolate and wine pairing experience. This enchanting musical evening would make for the perfect

holiday gift for a loved one, or a treat for yourself and a friend or family member! Seating is very limited, and tickets are $1,000 each.

The proceeds from the tickets sold will go directly to Solano Land Trust, and will ensure that land in Solano County continues to

be protected. Visit solanolandtrust.org or contact Laura Livadas at laura@ solanolandtrust.org for tickets.

Kathy Keatley Garvey/Courtesy photo

A cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, takes flight as it heads toward lantana.

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Gardeners host Zoom meeting

January’s Kitchen Garden Chat given by Treva Valentine, an accomplished Yolo County Master Gardener, will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, via Zoom.

The link is at https:// ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763.

This presentation will include what to do and plant in the January edible garden. Also included are questions on citrus and a discussion on the “how to’s” about microgreens. And if you are lucky enough to have received a holiday greenhouse, how to choose the proper location for it. This presentation is free.

The Master Gardener Help Desk is at 530666-8737 or via email at mgyolo@ucdavis. edu.

Project Linus meets Jan. 11

Join Project Linus to make blankets for children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need.

Come to the gathering at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St., on Wednesday, Jan. 11, from 1:30-3 p.m. to share ideas, patterns and lots of good conversation.

Contact Diane McGee and sign up for an email list to receive detailed information and updated meeting time changes.

All are welcome to attend the meeting and help sew Linus labels on handmade blankets that will be given to Yolo County organizations that serve children in need. Project Linus members may take home donated fabrics and yarn each month to complete a blanket.

Bring finished blankets to the next monthly gathering or to the Joann Fabric store in Woodland. For general information, dropoff location questions or fabric and yarn donations, contact McGee at dmmyolo@ gmail.com.

Science Café looks at wildfires

Davis Science Café’s next gathering is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, at G Street Wunderbar, 228 G St. in downtown Davis.

Each month, Professor Jared Shaw of the UC Davis department of chemistry hosts the Davis Science Café for free, featuring scientists who are studying some of today’s cutting edge topics.

This month’s speaker is Prof. Andrew Latimer in the UCD department of plant sciences, who studies how plant populations and communities respond to change, including sudden, major disturbance such as fire and drought, as well as more gradual changes in climate.

Latimer’s talk is “Too Hot to Handle: Cases and Consequences of Megafires in California.” Complimentary soft drinks provided courtesy of the UCD College of Letters and Science.

Contact Shaw for more information at jtshaw@ucdavis. edu, www.facebook. com/davissciencecafe or https://twitter.com/ DavisSciCafe1.

TINGUS: Left impression from coast to coast

going to fight this and live the best life I can live.” From that point forward, my parents never treated Steven any differently from myself and my brother, Mike.”

While Tingus’ life was flooded with family support, the ’70s weren’t known as a time with many resources or opportunities for people with disabilities. He attended Bowling Green School in Sacrament0 — a school for disabled students — but was more than capable of attending and receiving a standard public education. His parents and teachers fought tooth and nail for Tingus to become one of the first disabled students to be mainstreamed into public education, in 1974.

From Bowling Green, Tingus headed to Pioneer Elementary in South Davis — however, the administration at the time informed Tingus’ mother they had no ramps for her son’s wheelchair. Unfortunately for them, they should have known better than to doubt this mother bear’s dedication to her cub.

“I’ll never forget that my mom went to Davis Lumber to buy a bunch of plywood and hardware and built a wood ramp herself,” Harris recalled. “I was just a little girl, but I was in the van and remember it like it was yesterday. My mom opened up the door of the van, put the ramp on the stairs and goes, ‘Here’s your ramp.’ She took Steven out of the van and rolled him up to his classroom. That’s where it all started for Steven.”

Devil and Aggie

Tingus went on to attend Holmes Junior High before sporting the horns of a Davis High School Blue Devil. There, he fell head-over-heels in love with theater which only bolstered his preexisting love for Hollywood. Far from finished with the education Davis has to offer, Tingus went on to attend UC Davis where he not only got a bachelor's degree, but a master’s and a Ph.D as well. While it was at DSHS Tingus developed his love for theater, it was UCD that sparked his fire for politics and advocacy for disability inclusion.

After UCD, Tingus became a healthcare policy analyst for the state of California Department of Health Services and was the director of Resources Development at the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers Inc. Not long for the West Coast, Tingus moved

to the east coast and served under President George W. Bush for six years as the director of the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and two years as the deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

With seemingly endless amounts of accolades and achievements requiring 25 hours of work, eight days a week, Tingus never lost touch with his family, stopped being an amazing uncle to his nieces and nephews or being an inspiring older brother to his siblings.

“I remember going out to play and Steve would be inside reading newspapers or Time Magazine. But we’d always go out and I’d take him around on his wheelchair, run him around and do stupid things. He’d make me take him around the neighborhood and we’d throw rocks at the new homes being built. It was all Steven’s idea, but it was so much fun,” Mike Tingus recalled the shenanigans he and his older brother got into.

“It’s funny, I’ve always called him my hero. He goes from working with Bush, then moves down here to Los Angeles and lives with me and had so much fun with his caregiver and my kids. I never had to worry about him having a social life either. He had plenty of friends and people who loved him. But the moral of my story is, my brother’s always been my hero because I never quit. I did my best and grinded it out because there was no way I could look at the hand my brother was dealt, and how he played it, and do nothing. I use him as an example of what people

Donut Dash raises funds for UCD Child Life program

Special to The Enterprise

SACRAMENTO — The

15th annual Donut Dash begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 4, at William Land Park in Sacramento.

Funds raised will support the UC Davis Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department.

Participants will start in Land Park and then run, jog or walk two miles to Marie’s Donuts. At Marie’s, participants can consume four donuts or six donut holes (or nothing at all!) before making their way back two miles to the start/ finish area.

Last year’s Donut Dash (as well as its companion event, the Scoop Scoot) raised $65,000 for the department. The funds were used to purchase items for pediatric patients, including a new Vecta sensory station and 12 new iPads.

To register, visit the Donut Dash website and

choose to support the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department at UCD Children’s Hospital.

should do with their life every day.”

Going Hollywood

According to Harris, her brother’s motto was “can’t stop, won’t stop.” So, rather than stop his advocacy for disability inclusion after Bush’s tenure as president, he took it to Hollywood. There, he met writer, producer, director, actor, and CEO of Urban Renaissance Entertainment, Marcus Hamm. The two became immediate friends and began their creative work together.

“I think he saw film and television as such a powerful medium to get his message out, and more

importantly, he had the childhood dream of being in front of the camera and this is all he wanted since he’s been in Hollywood. He would always thank me for being the one who actually followed through because a lot of people talk a big game – and credit to those who had agreed to put him in projects – but I was glad we were able to work in a way that put him in the forefront,” said Hamm.

“I haven’t met anyone like him before. From the disability standpoint, I was in a wheelchair many years ago following a bad car accident. From that experience, I relate to other individuals who have any

forms of incapacitation. But after meeting him, he just inspired me. You never know what to expect from someone when you’re not familiar, and after conversations and hearing him talk, he was crass, funny, brilliant and most importantly for me was his persistence. He never backed down.”

Like raising anybody, it takes a village. Fortunately for Tingus, his village happened to be Davis, with family and friends who knew nothing but love and support for one another. Some of the most impactful support came from Tingus’ caregivers. After 38 years of nonstop caregiving from his parents, he was cared for by Juliette Fon in Washington, D.C. When Tingus moved to L.A., his caregiver was Olympia Concha. Both of them — coming as no surprise — became best friends with Tingus and part of the family.

From going beyond a three-year life expectancy, to trailblazing a path for disabled students in public schooling, to advocating for disabled inclusivity in Washington for the president of the United States, to acting in numerous shows, music videos and movies, to being a hero, uncle and friend, the last thing Steven Tingus would be described as is disabled. And it all started with unwavering love from parents, friends, family and the community he was raised in.

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

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

Date: 12/29/2022

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Steven Tingus, seen here with actor Terrence Howard, became an advocate in the entertainment world for accurate portrayal of the abilities of disabled people.

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A Tingus family portrait: From left, Tina, Jim, Steve, Joanne and Mike.

Storm toll includes 24 trees knocked down at UC Davis

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The News Year’s weekend storms knocked down 24 trees across UC Davis, including nine the Arboretum, reported Andrew Fulks, one of the Arboretum’s assistant directors. With public safety in mind, Fulks and Arboretum teams and contractors were working on tree removals on Tuesday in the primary areas with the most foot traffic.

“We’re hoping to have the paths cleared today; that’s what I’m hoping,” Fulks said. “We’re trying to get everything done before the next set of storms rolls in, which is supposed to be as intense as what we had over the weekend.”

On a sunny New Year’s Day, people were out and about. Fulks was out there as well, assessing all that needed to be done on Tuesday, including the removal of a large tree down near the Gateway to the Arboretum, a redwood in Redwood Grove, one beneath La Rue Bridge, some in Acacia Grove and many within the Animal Science Gateway Garden. “I think there was just a downburst in that particular location (Animal Science Gateway Garden) because it has the most quantity of trees in one area, and it just kind of looks like (the storm) just moved through. It’s part of the job. Gotta clean up whenever there’s a wind event,” he said.

Fortunate to have contractors on contract to help the in-house

creek crew, Fulks said when storms of this intensity happen, they need that outside help. “We have a very dedicated team, so even with the holiday, people are coming.”

Fulks warns people not to climb on the trees because they might not be able to handle the slipperiness and suggests that one may not know when it’s entirely down and, therefore, possibly unstable. “The other thing we worry about is the overhanging branches in the trees. People aren’t aware of those. Those could come from down at any time. So we’re more concerned with those.”

Fulks said the types of trees that come down with a storm vary, though historically, they have found that the Italian Stone Pines, with their large canopies, tend to come down. This storm was different: “We didn’t see much of that this time. We saw trees we normally hadn’t seen fall over, like cork oaks and cedars. It’s not about species. It’s just the fact the ground was fully saturated. And then we had winds that popped out at 55 miles an hour gusts.”

Trees full of leaves act like big sails, and the wind tends to catch them. He explained that the soil was so wet they fell over. “I don’t think in this case it was really about species. It was just about the intensity of the storm and how wet it was.”

Fulks said the problems could have been worse without UC

Davis’ 2018 Living Landscape Adaption Plan, a 70-year campus master plan for the urban forest that plans for climate-adapted trees. “We’re doing a lot of preventative maintenance, which is why we came out pretty good after this storm because we spent the last 18 months removing dead and dying trees, thinning the canopy, and replanting.” The Arboretum has an entire tree team and urban forester that selects and plants trees. Within the last year, teams strategically planted 200 trees in areas where they expect them to thrive.

As for replanting after these storms, Fulks explained the strategy “may not be a direct one-to-

one replanting in the exact location where something comes down, but overall, the idea is to

Below,

increase the canopy.”

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@davisenterprise.net.

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Parrilla, who was part of a crew that responded around 6:30 p.m. to a report of power lines down in the backyard of a Reed Drive home.

That is, until a downed tree blocked their path near Davis City Hall. Parrilla dispatched a second crew to Reed instead while his team dealt with the tree, which had fallen onto several parked cars.

Parrilla said those calls were among about 40 reports of fallen trees and power lines reported

throughout the night, including power lines into a swimming pool on Bates Drive and lines touching the metal rail leading under the Richards Boulevard underpass between downtown and Olive Drive, resulting in a closure of that roadway.

Nearby, a tree fell onto the historic Boy Scout cabin on First Street, causing damage to that structure, Parrilla said. Crews also received multiple calls for medical aid, though none resulting in injuries or hospitalizations.

The chaos also affected

requests for mutual aid to and from surrounding cities as they maxed out their own resources, Parrilla said. In Davis, the Fire Department called in offduty and on-vacation personnel to operate a fourth engine to help with the onslaught of calls.

“It was a lot of incidents in a very short amount of time,” Parrilla said.

PG&E was working to restore power but had no estimate for completion.

See details at https:// pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/ outagecenter/.

Obituaries

Oct. 16, 1938 — Dec. 31, 2022,

John Klineberg, whose 25 year senior management career at NASA helped usher in many groundbreaking aeronautics and space-science advances, including repairing the Hubble telescope, died on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, in Davis. He was 84.

Born in Scarsdale, N.Y., on Oct. 16, 1938, John was the middle child of renowned social psychologist Otto Klineberg and his wife, Selma. Otto was a lifelong critic of racial superiority theories and played a significant role in the Roe vs. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. For John, this helped to shape his belief system — that principles, grounded in science, matter.

John earned an engineering degree from Princeton and in 1968, an master’s and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Like many talented engineers at the time, Dr. Klineberg was drawn to the space program, inspired by President Kennedy's call to public service as a noble endeavor for America’s best and brightest, especially to fulfill his ambitious goals for manned spaceflight. To look the part, Dr. Klineberg even went so far as to purchase a Corvette Stingray, which he would drive to work and home every day until he retired from NASA.

While at Caltech, he met the love of his life, AnneMarie, an emigree from French-controlled North

Africa. Despite John’s terrible cooking, and love of baseball, in which AnneMarie had little interest, there was an immediate and strong connection. They were married in New York in 1967, and enjoyed 37 beautiful years together until Anne-Marie’s untimely death in 2004 after a long battle with cancer. Anne-Marie’s joy of learning, no-nonsense attitude, and self-confidence enabled Dr. Klineberg to focus on his professional pursuits; they were perfect partners.

Dr. Klineberg’s career at NASA began at Ames Research Center and then headquarters in D.C., where he championed several aeronautics research projects, and was credited with promoting advances like new airplane wing designs, turbulence detectors, fuelefficient engines and research on wingtip devices that reduce drag and improve fuel consumption. He was recruited to Lewis Research Center (now Glenn) in 1984 as deputy director and in 1987 he was appointed director, a position he held until 1990, when he was appointed director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

In these roles, Dr. Klineberg was able to establish partnerships with local universities and businesses to source talent, support local communities and reinvigorate investment in basic research, including aeronautics. Under his

leadership, the GOES satellite network was launched to measure climate change, and a historically successful mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. He was awarded numerous medals and awards of distinction, including an Emmy, the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive, and Meritorious Executive.

In 1995, Dr. Klineberg left NASA and moved to the Bay Area. He continued to make significant contributions to aeronautics and space systems through private industry, including at Space Systems/Loral leading the development and deployment of the Globalstar satellite constellation and Swales Aerospace as interim CEO. In addition, he continued to serve our nation, as the chair of several bipartisan congressional committees for the National Academy of Sciences and as a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board until his retirement in 2010.

In 2015, after the passing of his beloved dog Brandy, John moved to the University Retirement Center in Davis. He quickly became known as “NASA John” and was the resident expert regarding the many successes (and setbacks) NASA had over the past decades, including the space shuttle, Hubble and Webb telescopes.

Among other things, John will be remembered for his quick smile and his distinguished service to our country and his exceptional ability to mobilize and lead large teams to overcome incredible obstacles while maintaining a common sense of purpose. He cherished his classmates and professors, his colleagues at NASA and in Government, and the opportunities his work gave him and AnneMarie to travel the world to meet new people and enjoy good food and drink. Even with all these demands on his time, John never missed a Sunday BBQ with his boys at Lakewood Beach, nor the opportunity to teach them a lesson or two at poker or pool (his favorites).

Dr. Klineberg is survived by his sons, Eric and his wife Joy of Davis, Arnaud and his wife Puy of Singapore, and Logan and his wife Amanda of Seattle; older sister Rosemary; younger brother Steven; and grandchildren Maren, Walsh, Holt, Rainer, Patrick, Audrey, Otto and Isaac.

Karen Leber passed peacefully Dec. 22, 2022, in Folsom.

Karen is survived by her two children, Greg (Kathy) Elmore and Brian (Angela) Elmore; and grandchildren Russell Elmore, Spencer Elmore and Collin Elmore.

Karen is also survived by stepchildren Ann Randleas, Julie Leber, Jason (Myra) Leber and Jeff Leber; five grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; sister Marcy (Harvey) Jones Klyce; nephews Ben (Erin) Jones-Cohen and Jordan (Lauren) Jones-Cohen; one great-nephew and two great-nieces.

Karen was born in Oklahoma City, Okla., but lived and raised her family in Davis for many years. Her teaching career spanned 20-plus years with most of those spent as an elementary school teacher at Birch Lane Elementary.

Karen loved to sing and was a founding member of the Davis chapter of the National Sweet Adelines Organization. Later she

moved to Vacaville where she directed the Leisure Town Note-aBells seniors choir and was very involved in The Saturday Club. Karen enjoyed traveling, knitting, reading, and time spent at Bodega Bay.

She is preceded in death by her loving husband, Don Leber.

A celebration of life service will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 8, at Green Valley Mortuary in Folsom. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in memory of Karen to American River Hospice or Oakmont of Folsom.

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This downed tree along Third Street was one of many that awaited removal on Monday.

Crews work to clean up fallen trees Tuesday morning at the UC Davis Arboretum.

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Thursday

n The Poetry Night Reading Series will feature Allegra Silberstein (author of a new book, “Dancing with the Morning Breeze”) with Jean Beguin at 7 p.m. on the third floor (indoors) of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis. There will be an open mic afterward the featured performers. Open mic performances will be limited to four minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. The open mic list typically fills by 7 p.m., so arrive early. Organizers recommend mask-wearing. Find out more about the Poetry Night Reading Series at http://www. poetryindavis.com.

Friday

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

Saturday

n The annual Davis model train display will be up and running at the Davis train station (Amtrak) at 840 Second St. in downtown Davis. Sponsored by the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club (davisrotary.org) and the Davis Model Train Club, admission is free. Any donations received will be directed to local charitable programs. The electric train display will be open from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and features two layouts (Lionel O and HO gauges) with interactive components for children as well as examples and history of local Davis points of interest.

n January’s Kitchen Garden Chat given by Treva Valentine, an accomplished Yolo County Master Gardener, will be from 10 to 11 a.m. via Zoom. The link is at https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763. This presentation will include what to do and plant in the January edible garden. Also included are questions on citrus and a discussion on the “how to’s” about microgreens. And if you are lucky enough to have received a holiday greenhouse, how to choose the proper location for it. This presentation is free. The Master Gardener Help Desk is at 530-666-8737 or via email at mgyolo@ ucdavis.edu.

Wed., Jan. 11

n Project Linus will gather at the Davis Senior Center, 646 A St., from 1:30-3 p.m. to share ideas, patterns and lots of good conversation. All are welcome to attend the meeting and help sew Linus labels on handmade blankets that will be given to Yolo County organizations that serve children in need. Project Linus members may take home donated fabrics and yarn each month to complete a blanket. Bring finished blankets to the next monthly gathering or to the Joann Fabric store in Woodland. For general

information, drop-off location questions or fabric and yarn donations, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@gmail. com.

n Davis Science Café runs from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at G Street Wunderbar, 228 G St. in downtown Davis. Each month, Professor Jared Shaw of the UC Davis department of chemistry hosts the Davis Science Café for free, featuring scientists who are studying some of today’s cutting edge topics. This month’s speaker is Prof. Andrew Latimer in the UCD department of plant sciences, who studies how plant populations and communities respond to change, including sudden, major disturbance such as fire and drought, as well as more gradual changes in climate. Latimer’s talk is “Too Hot to Handle: Cases and Consequences of Megafires in California.” Complimentary soft drinks provided courtesy of the UCD College of Letters and Science. Contact Shaw for more information at jtshaw@ucdavis. edu, www.facebook.com/ davissciencecafe or https://twitter.com/ DavisSciCafe1.

n The Central Solano County Taxpayers Group will meet at Pietro’s No. 2 Fine Italian & American Food Restaurant, 679 Merchant St. in Vacaville, just across the street from the Vacaville city offices. A no host dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the restaurant meeting room. The general meeting will commence at 6:30 p.m. All CSCTG meetings are open to the public and last about one hour. For information, call or text 707-771-5481.

Friday, Jan. 13

n Logos Books in downtown Davis will host a reception for watercolor artists Betty Berteaux and Dana Merry Richards for the 2nd Friday ArtAbout from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition “California Scenes” will run Jan. 7 to Feb. 3 at the bookstore, 513 Second St. Light refreshments will be available. Find more details and a map of venues at facebook.com/ davisartabout or https:// theartery.net/2nd-fridayartabout.

n Join the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis to see selected sculptures and prints from the 50-year career of the legendary artist Mark Bulwinkle, the Oaklandbased innovator of graphically cut steel. The exhibition will be open from Jan. 11 to Feb. 26. A public reception with music and refreshments will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13.

n The Artery will host a reception for the mother-and-daughter art exhibit: “Continuing on the Path,” featuring ainter and sculptor Cathie James-Robinson and painter Amanda Cadelago from 7 to 9 p.m. at 207 G St. in downtown Davis.

Thursday, Jan. 19

n The Poetry Night Reading Series will feature Brad Buchanan with Frank Dixon Graham at 7 p.m. on the third floor (indoors) of the John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis. There will be an open mic after the featured performers. Open mic performances will be limited to four minutes or two items, whichever is shorter. The open mic list typically fills by 7 p.m., so arrive early. Organizers recommend mask-wearing. Find out more at http:// www.poetryindavis.com.

Friendship Day brings students together

By Maria anderson HUB Staff

In the 1980s, Friendship Day was created to bring people across Davis High School together due to a racially motivated stabbing on campus.

“It was created to avoid situations like that and break down social and economic barriers, and cliques and stereotypes,” president of Friendship Day Molly Dyer said.

The goal of Friendship Day has always been to continue building community through aspects of fun, laughing, and joy.

“It is a safe place where anyone and everyone comes together to share experiences and be vulnerable as a group,” vice president of Friendship Day Athena Leckie said.

Friendship Day occurs on the first Friday of each month throughout the school year and includes fun bonding activities, food, and entertainment that all occur at a site off campus.

“A big part of Friendship Day is your discussion groups which are decided by a colored or symboled card you receive. These are groups you come back to several times during the day which allows for a more intimate experience with your peers since these groups are smaller (generally between five to ten people),” Leckie said.

Each Friendship Day consists of a new theme that the facilitators come up with.

“As a group, at the start of the year, we had our secretary write down a list of ideas for themes we’d made up. Prior to every Friendship Day, we check that list and/or create a new theme and decide together as a whole group,” Dyer said.

The November Friendship Day had a “Career Day” theme. Leckie dressed up as a professional skier.

“We try to make every Friendship Day a new and exciting theme,” Leckie said.

The planned activities for each of the days stays the same since each Friendship Day has different students.

A popular game activity called “Evolution” is a competitive rock, paper, scissors game where many people can be involved.

“It’s a great way to start the day because it’s such a high energy activity,” Leckie said.

But the committee accepts student feedback after each Friendship Day, making sure to incorporate all student opinions.

“The students are the ones that really shape the day and make the games different each time,” Dyer said. She also said that Friendship Day changes slightly with the feedback as the facilitators gain more experience.

“If you get an invite, we highly recommend you coming. It’s an extremely unique/one-of-a-kind experience,” Dyer said.

Hobby becomes unique business

By alex MiyaMoto HUB Staff

When time permits, junior Michelle Barrera finds herself handmaking personalized blankets, spending roughly 17 hours a week on the craft. She then sells the blankets at craft fairs and through her Instagram account.

Barrera started her small business just a few months ago, but has had a passion for crafting since her grandmother introduced her to the hobby as a little kid.

“My grandmother is the main reason why this business is here,” Barrera said.

Today, the two spend their weekends making personalized blankets and cards.

“People started to ask me to make them blankets, and I just decided to make them for sale,” Barrera said.

The blankets are fully personalized, with the customer choosing the specific design for the cloth. Plaid is a frequent cloth that Barrera uses.

“I never use solitary colors, I think they’re boring,” Barrera said.

The technique she uses to make the blankets is called tie fleecing. Using two sheets of cloth, Barrera cuts fringe on the ends, tying the two pieces of cloth together in a knot to create a tasseled outer edge.

“We make blankets for babies, dogs, (and) people, and we have different sizes,” Barrera said.

Barrera also makes cards embroidered by hand. Each card has a sewn design and are usually sold during the holiday season.

She sells her handmade goods primarily through word of mouth, but also partakes in occasional craft fairs. “I try to go to (and sell at) as many as I can but school usually gets in the way,” Barrera said.

While Barrera has a passion for making and selling her products, she finds balancing school to be a challenge.

“It’s hard to keep up with orders, and responding to people can sometimes be challenging. It’s hard to find a balance,” Barrera said.

Davis High Engineering Team works to solve real-world problems

By Holt KlineBerg HUB Staff

The Davis Engineering Team is working to develop devices to help older cars become safer. Students seek to provide solutions to realworld problems, helping both local and global communities.

The team’s current project is creating a motion sensor and camera system that can be mounted to a car. Linked to a simple phone app, the device sends alarms and signals to the phone if an object is detected too close to the car.

Senior Felipe Caceres-Fernandez, one of the Engineering Team co-founders, is proud of this project because it works towards solving a real problem. “I have experienced this problem myself while driving a 12-year-old car. The old sensors are not safe and rely too heavily on the driver,” Caceres-Fernandez said.

The Engineering Team has already created a prototype and is working on a final design. Only the electronics and code of the simple app still need to be done.

Junior Charlie Sternbergh is proud of his contribution to the project. His expertise includes electrical systems and microcontrollers.

“I helped choose the processor, the ESP32, a powerful computer chip which can access Wi-Fi and compute large amounts of data,” Sternbergh said.

Co-founder senior David Wang beieves that the simple prototype is already 10 times as effective as the technology 10 years ago

and that it has changed his view on the advancement of engineering.

“This device could potentially be a solution for people that can’t afford a new hightech car but still want added safety features,” Caceres-Fernandez said.

With just six members, the team managed to create a fully autonomous drive base by using computer-aided design, 3D printing, woodworking, assembling, prototyping, wiring and programming.

Other than engineering, the team also works to secure sponsorships, host competitions and run STEM workshops for highschool students with professional speakers.

“We started last year in November because we believed that the best way to further pursue engineering was getting hands-on experience,” Wang said. Since then, Wang has been heavily involved in programming aspects and getting sponsorships.

The club’s next project will be designing a boat that could function as a search and rescue robot or an ocean cleaner.

The Engineering Team offers students additional engineering opportunities different from the robotics team. “We aren’t rivals or competing with robotics, we are just different,” Caceres-Fernandez said.

The team is focused on potential solutions to real-world problems while the robotics team uses engineering to complete tasks in an international game.

“We show people that a group of people can come together and work on something greater than themselves in the world of STEM,” Sternbergh said.

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Michelle Barrera and her grandmother spend their weekends making handmade tie fleeced blankets.

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Senior Felipe Caceres-Fernandez wires together a new project.

Lesson from latest storms

California, particularly Northern California, was walloped by a major winter rain and snow storm last week and meteorologists expect that high levels of precipitation will continue for at least another week.

Despite some damage and at least one death from local flooding and tree-toppling high winds, the storm and the predictions of more to come are welcome relief from what had appeared to be a prolonged drought.

There are lessons to be learned from this watery wave, if Californians and the politicians they have elected pay attention, to wit: ■ Despite great advances in technology and data collection, weather forecasting is still an imperfect science. Until the storm hit, meteorologists had expected that a phenomenon known as La Niña would continue to block Pacific fronts from reaching the state and thus continue the drought.

That said, there’s no guarantee that the 2022-23 season will be a wet one. A year ago we had a similar spurt of precipitation, but it did not continue into the spring.

■ Erratic precipitation makes it very difficult for reservoir managers to decide how much water to release and how much to retain for future use. For example, Folsom Lake near Sacramento was scarcely a third full when the storm hit, but the Bureau of Reclamation tripled releases to 24,000 cubic feet a second, worried about the reservoir’s ability to absorb runoff in the American River’s Sierra watershed.

■ Folsom’s increased releases are another indication that California lacks enough water storage to cope with precipitation cycles that are becoming less predictable due to climate change. If we had built the additional storage that water managers had long proposed –Auburn Dam upstream from Folsom, for example – it would have meant less guesswork when opportunities arose to capture water from heavy storms.

Preliminary construction had begun on Auburn Dam when, during the 1970s, it was abruptly halted. Other storage projects have been on the drawing board for decades, such as Sites Reservoir on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. Were Sites a reality today, it would be absorbing excess flow from the Sacramento River, banking water for when it would be needed in the future.

■ The “atmospheric river” now watering California underscores the state’s vulnerability to catastrophic flooding.

Last year, a massive study was released, suggesting that climate change creates an ever-increasing risk of megafloods that would cause untold death and destruction.

It is the latest update to studies that originated from the historic flooding that struck California during the winter of 1861-62, when California had been a state for scarcely a decade.

As the study noted: “This event, which was characterized by weeks-long sequences of winter storms, produced widespread catastrophic flooding across virtually all of California’s lowlands – transforming the interior Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys into a temporary but vast inland sea nearly 300 miles in length and inundating much of the now densely populated coastal plain in present-day Los Angeles and Orange counties.”

If such a prolonged deluge occurred again, researchers Xingying Huang and Daniel Swain, wrote, it “would likely produce widespread, catastrophic flooding and subsequently lead to the displacement of millions of people, the long-term closure of critical transportation corridors and ultimately to nearly $1 trillion in overall economic losses.”

Again, the American River’s situation illustrates the threat. Officials say that Folsom Lake’s capacity, nearly one million acrefeet, is too small to protect Sacramento from such a disaster. One rationale for Auburn Dam had been to provide another layer of flood protection.

Will politicians heed the lessons from the current period of prolonged precipitation or continue disengaged business as usual?

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

Will PUC allow another ripoff?

Almost any way you look at it, the current request by California’s largest utility company for $1.36 billion over the next three years in subsides for its wildfire prevention program can only be described as yet another attempt to rip off its 16 million customers.

It will be up to the fivemember California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to decide whether the company gets away with this latest attempt at highway robbery.

Plus, it’s a virtual certainty that if PG&E gets the money it now seeks, the state’s other big privately owned electric companies — Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric — will shortly beg for a similar handout.

These companies, are never bashful about asking for handouts. This was evident when Edison tried to get consumers to foot almost the entire bill of about $5 billion for shutting down its disabled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, destroyed in 2012 by a company blunder.

Also when the utilities in 2020 gladly accepted a $13 billion state-mandated subsidy from their customers to pay for damages from future wildfires they might cause.

And now, as PG&E gladly takes more than $2.5 billion from consumers and federal taxpayer subsidies to keep its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant open five years beyond

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What makes the newest PG&E request for a big consumer subsidy (an average of about $7.50 per month per customer for the next three years) especially outrageous is that the big utilities collected maintenance money from their customers every month between 1955 and 2005, a total of about $65 billion over 50 years.

Most of that money was never used for maintenance.

Rather, it went to executive bonuses, salary increases and other goodies until the PUC finally stopped the practice.

But none of the state’s three large private electric companies was ever fined for misuse of this money, nor were any executives punished, or any funds repaid.

Meanwhile, vegetation near power lines grew nearly unchecked for decades, trees began encroaching on those same lines and both gas pipes and power lines deteriorated, mostly without being replaced or repaired. Bingo: major fires and a huge explosion resulted.

That was one reason PG&E was convicted of criminal

Applause to Richard McCann for his urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Dec. 21 guest column for John Mott-Smith). Encouraging installation of electric appliances, he noted volatile natural gas prices.

My latest bill shows $2.32 per therm for natural gas and 32 cents per kWh for electricity. One therm is the same amount of energy as 29 kWh, so converting electricity directly to heat energy would cost four times as much as the same amount of heat from burning natural gas (29 x $0.32 = 4 x $2.32).

This calculation is most relevant to electric cooking and regular electric water heaters, which simply convert electrical energy to heat. For home heating, the solution is heat pumps, as noted in the column, more competitive with gas at today’s prices. We still need electricity without a carbon footprint.

When the sun is not shining, most grid electricity comes from fossil fuels, as

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negligence after its massive 30-inch-wide gas pipeline beneath the suburb of San Bruno exploded, causing multiple deaths and extensive damage. Negligence was also likely one reason for the unprecented, almost fourmonth natural gas leak from Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility just above the Porter Ranch subdivision in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles in 2015 and 2016. Not to mention the 2018 incineration of Paradise and dozens of its people.

No executive has ever been criminally punished for misuse of the maintenance money, despite these consequences and many more.

Even now, utility company maintenance is demonstrably inadequate. For example, an independent safety monitor overseeing recent PG&E antiwildfire work found the company during one recent three-month period missed issues like damaged poles in about 30 percent of all inspections.

For sure, this type of history and performance demonstrates that utility companies, their executives and shareholders — not customers who have no voice in corporate policy — should pay for current maintenance work and repairs.

Yet, the PUC, long a utility company lapdog, appears

shown on the website of the California Independent System Operator, the entity that keeps the grid balanced. My son once took me to see the impressive control room in Folsom. Solar progress has been remarkable, but we have much farther to go before almost all electricity is renewable during darkness.

Meanwhile we can learn to use less natural gas, and less electricity at night. Reading PG&E “SmartMeters” on the outside of our homes is easier than learning to use smart phones. Let’s try layers and hoodies, less heating.

Outreach from Cool Davis and the city of Davis Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) could both benefit from improvements such as including the key points above. The CAAP even calls out gas cooking as a source of pollution, with no mention of chimney smoke.

My hope for the next generation is better education in physics and math for a wider understanding of energy sources, to bring Richard’s vision to fruition. Lunch is on me for the first three teachers who want to discuss making life-relevant engineering calculations accessible to all, without advanced classes. My listed

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likely to give the consumer subsidy at least temporary approval this winter, with refunds possible if a more thorough consideration set to follow should cause the charge to be disapproved.

That’s a procedure playing into PG&E’s hands. For once it has money in hand, it’s very rare for customers to get it back.

Far better would be for the commission instead to have PG&E use some of the maintenance money it collected over those previous decades. And if some statute of limitations on punishment for earlier misuse of funds has expired (the PUC’s code requires only “prompt” hearings on suspected wrongdoing), then the PUC ought at least to force PG&E to advance whatever money is needed for the anti-wildfire work while it considers whether to reduce or fully disapprove the subsidy PG&E now seeks.

But this would require the commission to give consumers equal treatment with the big corporations it supervises. And that would be almost unprecedented.

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I want to give great big thank you to Midtown Animal Hospital and say they are the best in Davis. I do not know enough of Davis to do 20 selections so giving them a huge single vote now. In December I had to put Cooter, my cat to sleep.

Later that month I got an envelope in the mail from Midtown, where I took Cooter for his exams and help let him go to heaven and I thought, “how rude to send me a Christmas card when ... you just euthanized him.”

Instead I was nicely surprised by a lovely, nicely written condolence card. They even inked his feet and put them on the card as I am now crying writing this and remembering him being a special part of my life. All my future creatures are going to Midtown, they are the best, a big heart.

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Inspired by Netherlands’ bike culture

By Lisa Montanaro Special to The Enterprise

Thirty-two years ago, it was the summer of 1990. The Berlin Wall was dismantled, Madonna was on her Blonde Ambition tour, and a young woman was studying abroad in the Netherlands between graduating college and attending law school.

She was immersed in all things Dutch — art, history, law, politics, cheese, windmills, and the cycling culture. It was an epic experience on every level. One that started her life-long love affair with Europe and cross-cultural experiences, fed her sense of social justice, and made her a lifelong cycling fan.

Fast-forward to today ... that young woman is now decades older and finally made her way back to her beloved Netherlands! In September 2018, my husband and I visited, spending half our time in Amsterdam, and half in Rotterdam (with a side trip to the charming town of Gouda, of cheese fame!). Amsterdam was as wonderful as I remembered: the van Gogh Museum, Anne Frank’s house, stroop waffles, the parks, the gorgeous canals. We admired the architecture, visited cafes and shops, and peeked into apartments through windows. Everything we saw became a still life painting. Dutch beauty was everywhere.

But it was only when I jumped on two wheels and cycled through the cities that I began to fully reacquaint myself with the local ethos. I felt connected with the world on a more intimate level, open and at ease. I waved at fellow bicyclists and stopped to admire the sites. I was in awe of Dutch bicycle culture. In Amsterdam, I watched hordes of workers commuting to work by bicycle, and parents trailing their children and dropping them off at a daycare conveniently located

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in a park right next to the commuter train.

At the end of the day, I watched workers disembark from the train, jump back on their bicycles, and head to beer gardens located in those same conveniently situated parks.

In Rotterdam, I saw a parking garage outside the train station, but not for cars — for bicycles! It had a two-tier storage system. We watched someone pull down the lever and easily put his bike on it. Impressive. Throughout the city of Rotterdam, there are grooves next to the staircases so you can easily walk your bike up and down alongside you. Such smart and thoughtful engineering.

It was remarkable to witness these clever innovations. It was such a wonderful marriage of engineering meets quality of life meets beauty. These innovations reminded me of what the Dutch know well: you can engineer beautiful things, but they are also the product of a lot of hard work. You must be able to dream it, plan it and execute it. Cruising along on bikes, we navigated effortlessly between neighborhoods, parks, and sites.

Compared to most Americans’ daily routine of being stuck in traffic and looking for parking, the experience felt joyful and relaxed. Our trip to the Netherlands was a reminder that we travel partly to glimpse new possibilities for our lives back home. We travel to be changed, hopefully for the better. Biking in the Netherlands made me imagine the pleasures of Dutch cycling culture being brought to pockets of America.

Indeed, some of those pockets already exist! Here in Yolo County, we are privileged to live in or near one of the most bikefriendly towns in the United

Biking has become a way of life for many in Davis, so much so that many residents manage to drive no more than a few days a week. Parents report that bike riding with their kids to and from school can often feel like the best part of the day.

States — Davis. Biking has become a way of life for many in Davis, so much so that many residents manage to drive no more than a few days a week. Parents report that bike riding with their kids to and from school can often feel like the best part of the day.

When you’re on a bike, you feel closer to neighbors, local shops, and nature. That cycling ethos is spreading to many other towns in Yolo County and beyond. Indeed, the town of Woodland is working hard to become a certified Bike Friendly

Community and is making improvements to its infrastructure to encourage more riding.

Bike paths and lanes abound ‚ and are expanding. Local towns and their residents are paying attention to transportation on two wheels. Organizations like The Bike Campaign are working hard to marry biking with quality of life, infrastructure and transportation.

What can you do on an individual level? Cycle more for work, school and pleasure, and encourage others to do the same. Be innovative in planning out

your transportation and stay flexible. If you see something that could change to make bike riding a better experience for all, speak up. The Bike Campaign and other organizations are all ears and would love to hear from you.

I am looking forward to future trips to the Netherlands, not just to see windmills, experience amazing art and architecture, and enjoy the camaraderie of the friendly people. But also, to be both witness to, and a part of, the whole cycling culture, in all its awesome functional beauty. And to get even more inspiration to bring back home with me.

— This column was written by Lisa Montanaro, commissioned by The Bike Campaign. For more information about how to “Drive Less. Ride More,” contact Maria Contreras Tebbutt at funmaria@sbcglobal.net or www. TheBikeCampaign.com.

Nothing gets from here to there for free

Despite the best efforts of Southwest Airlines to save me that expense, I bought four cases of beer over this holiday break because we had our whole family in town.

I usually buy six-packs, so the sheer weight of a case of beer containing 24 12-ounce bottles rather took me by surprise. Turns out a bottle of beer weighs some 556 grams, so 24 of them weighs 13.35 kilos. Throw in a little weight for the cardboard box and one case weighs just about 30 pounds.

The weight of packaged beer brings to mind an article a reader sent to me some time ago that proposed to remove water from beer to make it much lighter and so cheaper to transport. This is an important idea because one major element that affects the price of beer is the cost of moving it from one place to another. Additional freight costs depend, for example, on the volume of the load, the mode of transport used, the distance travelled and any special requirements which for beer are speed, refrigeration and low levels of vibration.

Raw materials for making beer arrive regularly at breweries, sometimes from exotic places, and packaged beer

routinely moves from breweries to wholesalers and thence to retailers every day. It’s expensive and a world of its own. To manage these costs, big brewers have acquired or built breweries at convenient locations close to the markets they will serve and even some small breweries these days have two locations.

Brewers have been intensely aware of the cost of freight since they first started moving beer longer distances from the brewery. This eventuality arose with access to rail transportation and refrigeration. Before that, beer needed to be sold locally and required any significant town to house a brewery.

This was particularly the case in the Britain of my youth, when the beers of London, or the West Country or the Midlands or the North were quite separate and different even extending to different approaches to manufacture. This regional effect was

magnified by the “tied house” system of sales by which breweries owned thousands of pubs in their locality that sold only beer from that brewery. The beer could travel from the brewery to each pub by horse-drawn dray.

Brewers work in various ways to reduce freight weights. This is one advantage of the aluminum can, which is about 3.5% of the weight of the whole package whereas a bottle is 35% of the package weight. And, of course, the returnable bottle long since disappeared.

The main weight of a package of beer is water. Twelve ounces of beer translates to about 340 grams (beer is slightly heavier than water) and so means of reducing that weight would be valuable. This is where transporting beer as a concentrate comes in. Unfortunately, the article sent to me by my reader did not describe or even hint at the technology that could be used for this.

That’s an important omission because we know that any well understood method of removing water does not do a good job and beer reconstituted from such concentrates do not meet high standards. Any applied technology for concentration

Brewers could sell high-gravity beer in eight-ounce or even six-ounce cans with instructions to dilute the beer to taste.

and satisfactory reconstitution would need to produce quality products at scale and be financially advantageous. That’s a big ask.

In a way brewers have moved in this direction because over the years we have learned to make beers at high gravity. That is a beer intended to be sold at 5% ABV could pass through the brewery operations at say 7% alcohol or more; it’s then diluted to 5% for packaging and transportation and sale. This increases plant capacity but does nothing for freight rates. This high gravity technology does apply when brewers send beer in bulk by road or rail tanker for end-dilution and packaging at a distant location.

When I lived in Britain, I remember shiny black road tankers emblazoned with the

golden Guinness logo were a common sight because Guinness at the time had arrangements with other breweries to package their beer. I suppose that still continues today, because Guinness closed its London (Park Royal) brewery about 25 years ago.

Brewers could sell high-gravity beer in eight-ounce or even six-ounce cans for consumption at home or in bars with instructions to dilute the beer to taste. After all, that is the how I drink orange juice and wine and it would be relatively easy to do: “Gimme a beer and water on the side!” That would also cut down on drinking directly from the bottle or can which I think would be a great advantage. I know of no brewery that would even contemplate that idea as being a high-risk marketing strategy for limited financial return, and as a consumer-oriented strategy, it’s more-or-less bonkers.

So, eat your Wheaties and a pump a little iron and for we shall continue with 24-count cases of beer in bottles that weigh 30 pounds.

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Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, announced Olivia Pettit and Elizabeth Beauparlant from Solano County as the winners of 2022 Congressional App Challenge for their app Carbon Counter. This app teaches the user about how much carbon is emitted from basic activities and how to reduce our carbon footprint.

“Every year, I am excited to see the results of the Congressional App Challenge as it highlights the creativity and skill of

students from our district,” said Thompson.

“Olivia and Elizabeth’s app helps users of all ages understand how daily decisions impact carbon emissions and demonstrates their awareness of climate change. Congratulations to Olivia and Elizabeth, and they should be proud of the app they created.

“To all of our students, thank you for your participation and I hope that you continue to develop these

skills and further your education in computer science and other STEM fields.”

Thompson received 17 submissions to this year’s challenge, a record high for the Fifth District.

The apps were evaluated by a panel of judges from the district, including Claudette Shatto from Napa Valley College, Lilibeth Pinpin from the Solano County Office of Education, and Laura Swart from Keysight Technologies. The final stand-

ings were:

First Place: Carbon Counter by Olivia Pettit and Elizabeth Beauparlant, Solano County

Second Place: HSpost by David Zechowy, Sonoma County

Second Place: Climate Savers by Allison McCabe and Anthony Kam, Solano County

Third Place: Food Facts by Elian Malessy, David Wang, Arman Bance, and Kanvar Sidhu, Solano, Yolo, and Napa Counties.

Greta Eoff has been

appointed Executive Director of the Yolo County Association of Realtors. YCAOR is a nonprofit founded in 1922 serving to support realtors in their efforts to practice their profession ethically and effectively. The association also works to protect private property rights.

Eoff replaces longtime YCAOR Executive Director Nicholas MarinKumko who has taken a position out of the area.

Eoff served in 2022 as YCAOR president and was appointed to the executive director position by the board of directors following a comprehensive search.

She was born and raised in Paradise, and attended Chico State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and a graduate degree in marriage and family therapy at the University of Phoenix. She has been a realtor for six years, most recently with Bella Vie Real Estate, and resides in Davis with her husband of 18 years and their two children.

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2022: Very good seasons for many Aggie, Blue Devil teams

Country course with a time of 20 minutes, 17.2 seconds.

She became the first Aggie since 2008 to make an appearance at the championship meet.

In addition, the sophomore qualified by placing seventh at the NCAA Regional. Her time of 19:28.7 and seventh place finish, which was the best performance by an Aggie in program history.

19. Davis High boys tennis

Last May, the Blue Devils won the Delta League title, edging rival Jesuit for the crown.

Davis earned the top seed in the SacJoaquin Section Division I playoffs. The Blue Devils faced the Marauders again, this time in the semifinals.

But Jesuit came out with an identical score as their final league match at 5-4. Jesuit went on to beat Oak Ridge for the section title.

18. DHS volleyball

In November, the DHS volleyball

squad finished with a 7-5 record in the Delta League for third place and 15-8 overall.

Two notable items took place during the season.

One, DHS won 10 of 12 matches.

Two, Davis head coach Julie Crawford notched her 200th career win in the program. She now has 205 wins entering the 2023 season.

The Blue Devils also hosted a firstround playoff match, earning the No. 8 spot. But No. 9 Turlock made its trip back to Stanislaus County an enjoyable one by winning 3-0, eliminating the Blue Devils’ season.

17. Blue Devil girls lacrosse

Another successful run for a DHS spring sports team last May.

This time, the Blue Devils girls lacrosse squad posted an 11-1 record in the Sacramento Valley Lacrosse League and 19-6 overall.

Advancing to the North Coast Section Girls lacrosse championships, DHS won its first two playoff games over Monte Vista of Danville and Amador Valley of Pleasanton. But the Blue Devils’ postseason run

came to an end when Redwood of Lakspur posted an 18-4 win.

Devon Morris averaged 3.5 goals per game for the Blue Devils, plus 31 assists.

16. DHS cross country teams

Last November, the Davis High boys and girls cross-country teams had strong finishes at the California Interscholastic Federation Sac-Joaquin Section meet at Folsom High.

Behind runners in Norah Dulaney (girls) and Ryan Mitchell (boys), the Blue Devil teams took second and third place in their D-I races.

That earned them a trip to the CIF Cross-Country Championships held at Woodward Park in Fresno two days after Thanksgiving.

The DHS girls raced to an 18th place finish and the boys took 19th.

15. Edwards Family Fitness Center

Next door to the UC Davis Health

Stadium on the UCD campus, the Edwards Family Fitness Center officially opened its doors for Aggie student-athletes and coaches on Sept. 24.

The sparkling center features a massive weight and fitness room, training and classroom facilities, a theater and a number of offices for coaches and athletic administrators.

“This will be a game changer,” said former Aggie football star and major UC Davis benefactor Bruce Edwards as he addressed a large and appreciative crowd at the grand opening of the center prior to the UCD-Weber State football game.

The Edwards facility, according to UCD officials, is a comprehensive academic, strength and conditioning, sports medicine and team facility.

After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the public were allowed to walk through the facility where current and future UCD student-athletes will be training, conditioning and rehabilitating.

Aggie coaches were able to access their state-of-the-art offices.

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

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Gabriel Lopez was one of the members on the Davis High boys tennis team that won the Delta League crown and advanced to the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I team playoffs last spring.

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Brianna Weidler ran for the UC Davis women’s cross-country team last fall. She became the first Aggie since 2008 to make an appearance at the NCAA championship meet.

A very festive DAM party in the books

About 100 members of Davis Aquatic Masters and guests converged on Davis Senior Center Dec. 10 for the club’s annual meeting and party.

Newly elected board members are John Yoder and Theresa Keegan. They join continuing directors Kevin Waterson (Go Ducks), Dan Sperka, Pat Quinn, Steve Reynolds and Stuart Kahn. Outgoing Board of Directors, Wendy Pratt and Greg Stoner, were thanked for outstanding service.

The first thing that needs to be said about the party is that the potluck dinner was worthy of a Michelin star — a least one.

The very festive set-up and decorations

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of the room were coordinated by DAM event director Judy McDonald. The evening began with a piano and vocal concert from Jan Coker.

Eileen Hendren organized a silent auction which netted a club profit of nearly $4,000. My bid of $30 for a box of home-made plum jam fell short.

Aggies looking to rebound against UCI, Roadruners

By Bob Dunning Enterprise staff writer

Hoping to rebound from a close loss at Hawaii last week, the UC Davis men’s basketball team will play host to the UC Irvine Anteaters in a Big West Conference matchup Thursday night at the University Credit Union Center.

Game time is 6 p.m.

The Aggies will remain home Saturday for a 5 p.m. Big West encounter with Cal State Bakersfield.

UCD brings a 7-6 overall record, including 0-1 in the Big West, into Thursday’s game against one of the Big West’s perennial powers.

Russell Turner, now in his 13th season at Irvine, has made the Anteaters into a force to be reckoned with.

From 2016 through 2020, UCI won or tied for four of five Big West championships, including a 31-6 campaign in 2019 that included a 13-1 league mark, a Big West Conference tournament title and a stunning 70-64 first-round upset of No. 4 seed Kansas State in the NCAA tournament.

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The Anteaters were second in the Big West in 2021, then slipped to an uncharacteristic fourthplace finish with a 9-5 league mark in 2022.

Looking back at that disappointing season, Wilson told the Orange County Register that his team “became distracted from the most important things. We need to get back to a level of humility that’s more competitive. We just have to get back to the most basic things, which is where I’m going to direct our team — toward our core values.”

The Anteaters, 8-5 overall, opened Big West play last week with a 79-75 road win over Cal State Bakersfield, overcoming an 11-point first half decifict in the process.

Dawson Baker led five UCI players into double figures, but the Anteaters were just plain awful at the foul line, hitting just 30 of a school-record 51 free throw attempts.

Baker leads Irvine at 13.7 points a game, while teammate DJ Davis adds 13.6 points and is converting 3-point attempts at an impressive 44percent clip.

Bent Leuckhten from Germany adds 8.5 points and a team-high 6.6 rebounds a game.

Noted Turner about Big West play, “There are a number of teams who probably expect that they will be as good as they’ve been in a long time. I’ve said many years in a row now that in the Big West, on any given night, any team in the league can beat another.

“We’ve come out on top in a lot of those battles because of the consistency of our performance and character. We have to figure out ways to be at our competitive best in March, because that’s what this league requires. That’s what mid-major basketball requires.

“I think we know how to do it.”

The season-ending Big West tournament, with seeding determined by how a team finishes in the 20-game league race, earns the champion an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Bakersfield, which comes to the UCD Saturday evening, has struggled in the early season with a 4-9 overall mark and 0-2 in the Big West after a 71-59 loss at UC Riverside to go with the setback against Irvine.

Roadrunners

The Roadrunners average just 60.9 points a game, with 5-10 Kaleb Higgins averaging 13.5 points a game to go along with a season total of 51 assists.

Coming off a 74-66 loss at Hawaii, UCD is led by Eli Pepper’s 19.4 points and 6.1 rebounds a game, plus 42 assists on the season, all team highs.

TY Johnson, a transfer from Loyola of Chicago, adds 15.7 points and 5.2 rebounds and leads the team with 25 steals.

Christian Anigwe averages 12.2 points a game on 53.5 percent shooting and has blocked 20 shots in a standout defensive effort so far.

Montana transfer Robby Beasley is the final Aggie in double figures at 10.6 points a game, while hitting 46.0 percent of his 3-point attempts.

UC Davis’ next home game will be Saturday, Jan. 14 against Cal State Fullerton.

— Contact Bob Dunning at bdunning@ davisenterprise.net.

The winners of this year’s top awards are Pat Quinn, Lillian Rowan award for swimmer 65 and older; Ximena Bustamante, Scott Allison award for member under 64 swimmer; Amy Rieger, Lucille Barry award for Female Swimmer of the Year; Brad Winsor, Steve Carlson award for Male Swimmer of the Year

The Grand Prix, for the most participative swimmers, went to Vivian Crow, Deanna Johnson, Katy Lantz, Michelle Goldberg, Leslie Westergaard, Kathy Gill, Jane Russell, Kim Elsbach, Helene Nehrebecki and Jennifer Phalen

While head coach Matt Zachan was battling the airline melt down, his place on deck was filled by Jon Jensen, who

also subbed for Matt when he had COVID. Thanks to Jensen and other assistant coaches not one of the 48 workouts for the week was cancelled.

*But enough about DAM. There are other pools in Davis and nearby for master swimmers. Next month’s column will be a survey of them.

Masters water polo at Schaal pool on campus resumes today through Feb.15 on Wednesdays from 8 to 9:30 pm.

The group closed out 2022 with a huge, well-earned pizza feed after its last practice.

— Mark Braly’s Masters Swimming column is published the first Wednesday of each month. Contact him at markbraly@sbcglobal.net.

Baseball, fitness start the list of top stories of 2022

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

Today marks the fourth day of 2023. But in 2022, The Enterprise chronicled many sports stories that were sprinkled with many photos.

Now it’s time to reveal the list of top 22 sports stories of 2022.

Because of space, the top stories will be spread out over three editions, starting today with Nos. 22-15.

Sunday’s edition will have Nos. 14-8. Then No. 7 through the top story will run in the Wednesday, Jan. 11 edition.

Let’s get started with the list.

22. Youth baseball

In June, the Davis American League All-Star 8-10 baseball team had a good run in the postseason.

The squad won the District 64 Tournament, which was played at the Davis Little League Complex. The local squad beat the Vacaville American League team 9-6 in the double-elimination tournament.

The Davis American All-Star 11-12 squad also found success on the diamond last summer. The team knocked off the Davis National League team by an

21. UC Davis volleyball

Last fall, the Aggies finished with a 10-10 record in the Big West Conference and 15-15 overall.

This was the Aggies’ best finish since the 2019 season, when they finished 9-7 in the Big West and 17-13 overall.

UCD posted a 7-13 mark in the Big West and 11-20 overall mark in 2021. There was no 2020 season because of the pandemic.

Aggie players in senior middle blocker Josephine Ough and sophomore hitter Olivia Utterback were named to the 2022 Big West Conference AllConference Volleyball Team. Ough made the All-Big West second team and Utterback named an honorable mention.

20. UCD women’s cross-country

In November, UC Davis sophomore Brianna Weidler concluded one of the finest seasons in Aggie history with a 51st place at the NCAA Championships. Weidler finished the 6k on the Greiner Family Cross

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I race as a team, earning them a trek to the CIF State Cross-Country Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno toward the end of that month.

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Taking part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Edwards Family Athletics Center, near UC Davis Health Stadium, on Sept. 22, 2022 are (left to right): mascot Gunrock, UCD Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca, Bruce Edwards and Chancellor Gary May.

11-10 score at Vacaville’s John Arlington Park.

Dulaney gets ready to cross the finish line for the Davis High girls cross country team at the Sac-Joaquin Section Championships at Willow Hill on the Folsom High campus on Nov. 12, 2022. Dulaney, a senior, and the Blue Devil girls took first place in the Division