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Supervisors hear update on assistance to farmworkers

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

On the same day Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors declared March 31 César Chávez day, the board received an update on what the county is doing to support its farmworkers, so many of whom worked throughout the pandemic to feed so many.

Previous surveys of local farmworkers have indicated food security and housing are among the biggest needs, and efforts continue to address both. But one thing the county has accomplished is a financial assistance program approved by the board that used American Rescue Plan funds to provide $1,000 grants to 200 farmworkers. The demand for that assistance was great. The county opened the application process for those grants on the morning of Feb. 1 and by noon, some 300 applications had come in, according to Tanya Provencher of the county’s Health & Human Services Agency.

The screening process that ensued led to 200 of those applicants receiving $1,000 pre-paid MasterCards on March 7.

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No California salmon this year

State authorities shut down fishery

By Alastair Bland CalMatters

Most summer mornings at first light, Jared Davis is a few miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, motoring his charter fishing boat Salty Lady over the Pacific Ocean. His eyes sweep

the horizon, looking for diving birds, but mostly he watches the screen of his dashboard fishfinder for schools of anchovies — a sure sign that salmon are near. When the signs look good, he throttles down to trolling speed and tells his customers to

let out their lines.

“Drop ’em down!” Davis calls out the window. “Thirty to 40 feet!”

When the bite is steady, the Salty Lady may have 20 customers on board, each spending $200 for the chance to catch salmon. On the best days, fishing rods bend double the moment the lines go down, and

a frenzy of action ensues, often amid a hundred or more other boats. Hooked Chinook thrash at the surface, and the deck becomes strewn with flopping fish.

Last year, California’s commercial and recreational fishing fleet, from the Central Coast to

Is Davis really ‘collegiest college town’?

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent

What are the implications for families with school-age kids?

The Washington Post recently published an interesting “Department of Data” feature story that examined a variety of statistics, then singled out “The Collegiest College Town in Every State.”

To hardly anyone’s surprise, when it came to California’s college towns, WaPo data reporter Andrew Van Dam singled out Davis as the best example in the Golden State in terms of embodying the college town experience.

This sort of survey is, of course, based on a certain amount of subjective analysis, in addition to cold, hard facts.

“College towns feel different,” Van Dam wrote.

“But how do you quantify a feeling? We’d argue it’s a matter of geography, not just a matter of student population. The classic college town is built around the school at its heart. It respires with the rhythm of the students, inhaling nervously in the fall and exhaling as summer begins.”

Specifically, Van Dam’s article in the Feb. 3 Washington Post sized up six

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Jared Davis stands beside his charter fishing boat, Salty Lady, as it sits in dry dock in Richmond on March 8. Martin do nasciMento/ calMatters photo

Ukes of Britain, on ‘Davisville’

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will play at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Davis on April 28. This week on the KDRT program

“Davisville,” founder George Hinchliffe and creative producer/performer Leisa Rea talk about the group and its music.

“Davisville,” hosted by Bill Buchanan, appears on Davis station KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM on Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays at noon, Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m.

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Take advantage of what Davis offers

So many great and varied events in our town. Take the time to catch them all.

DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

SPEAKER ... This from Kevin Williams, a popular social studies teacher at Davis High, who has put together a compelling RSJ guest speaker program at the Brunelle Theater on the DHS campus.

On Thursday, March 23, Sebastian Yoon (from the PBS series “College Behind Bars”) will be speaking during the lunch period in an event for Davis High students only, and again in the evening (7 to 8:30 p.m.) open to the public. Both talks are free.

As Williams notes, “As a young Korean American, Sebastian was convicted of first-degree manslaughter. He ended up at Eastern New York Penitentiary, where he enrolled in the Bard Prison Initiative. ‘College Behind Bars’ covers this part of Sebastian’s life. He will mostly discuss his time in prison and his experiences with Bard

College. He will also talk about his life post-incarceration and how he feels the prison system needs to be reformed.”

Sounds like an opportunity not to be missed.

SPEAKING OF DAVIS HIGH, CIRCA 1973 ... One of the best classes ever to exit Davis High, the esteemed Class of ‘73, will hold its 50th reunion May 6 at Stonegate.

Organizers are still trying to contact every graduate. To get an invitation, email dhs1973reunions @gmail.com or call 510-3847162.

Hopefully, name tags will be provided, since all graduates are certain to have become much

better looking over the years and might not be recognizable to their classmates.

Go Devils.

GREAT TOUR FOR A GREAT CAUSE ... You can’t really say you’ve experienced everything that Davis has to offer if you haven’t taken a tour of the famed “Huei’s Garden.”

Tours of this remarkable garden surrounding Huei Young’s North Davis home will be offered on Sunday, April 16, from 1 to 4 p.m., with donations going to benefit the comprehensive Cerebral Palsy Program at Shriners Children’s Hospital.

To schedule a tour, contact Abigail Swickard at 916-453-2321 or email her at “aswickard@ shrinenet.org.”

As one who has taken the tour, I can promise you will not be disappointed.

Tours last approximately one hour and are followed by light refreshments.

ALL BOOKED UP ... The Yolo County Library is inviting children and their families to join in celebrating Dia de los Niños/Dia de los Libros throughout the county during the month of April.

The event emphasizes literacy for children of all backgrounds, while connecting children and their families to diverse books, languages and cultures.

It all starts April 7 at the Yolo Branch Library at Cache Creek High School in Yolo, then heads through libraries in Knights Landing, Esparto, West Sacramento, Winters and Clarksburg.

Davis gets two turns, April 25 at 5 p.m. at South Davis Montgomery Library on Danbury Street and April 29 at the Stephens Davis Branch Library on East 14th Street.

Children attending these events will all receive a free book and be able to participate in educational activities, watch special performances and listen to a story time program.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

SALMON: Chinook runs crash with squeeze on water supply

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the Oregon border, landed about 300,000 salmon.

But this year, Davis and other salmon anglers won’t be fishing for salmon at all.

In response to crashing Chinook populations, a council of West Coast fishery managers plans to cancel this year’s salmon season in California, which will put hundreds of commercial fishermen and women out of work in Northern California and turn the summer into a bummer for thousands of recreational anglers.

Last year, the industry’s economic value was an estimated $460 million for fish sales and related businesses, including restaurants, tackle shops, private fishing guides, campgrounds and other services. Salmon season usually runs from May through October.

The closure, Davis said, “is going to be devastating to my business.” He said he will “try to scrape together a season” by targeting other species, like rockfish, lingcod, halibut and striped bass, but generating interest in catching these fish will be a challenge.

“Our customers want salmon,” he said, adding that last year, his customers caught roughly 2,000 Chinook.

Davis, 53, who has fished all his life, said the thrill of salmon fishing never grows old. “There’s nothing else like a wide-open salmon bite,” he said.

Only in two previous years — 2008 and 2009 — has California’s salmon season been shut down completely. That closure came as the numbers of spawning fish returning to the Sacramento River, the state’s main salmon producer, crashed to record lows.

Now California’s Chinook

runs have collapsed again. Just 62,000 adult fallrun Chinook returned last year to the Sacramento River to spawn, the third lowest return on record and only half of the fishery’s minimum target.

Runs on the Klamath River, in far-northern California, also have plunged, hitting 22,000 spawning adult fall-run Chinook last year, the fourth lowest return in 40 years. Native American tribes rely on the Klamath River’s salmon for traditional foods and ceremonies.

What’s ailing the fish, scientists and state officials say, is a variety of factors, primarily in the rivers where salmon spawn. Large volumes of water are diverted for use by farms and cities. Combined with drought, this causes low flows and high water temperatures, which can kill salmon eggs and young fish. Vast tracts of floodplains and wetlands, where small fish can find food and refuge, have also been lost to development and flood control projects.

Chuck Bonham, director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the quantity and quality of river water appear to drive salmon numbers.

“No doubt, water management is an issue, both allocation and delivery,” Bonham said.

Chinook in the Sacramento River have experienced almost complete spawning failures in the past several years. This has left a generational gap in the population that the fishing industry is now facing.

“We’re looking at the runs from the juveniles that went to sea three years ago, and these are the fish missing in action,” said Glen Spain, executive director of

the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, which represents commercial fishers in 17 West Coast ports.

The collapse of salmon runs has stoked tensions between the fishing and agricultural communities.

“The real issue is the ability to divvy up a set amount of water between two different entities, fishermen and the farmers,” said Dick Ogg, a commercial fisherman in Bodega Bay.

Pressure is on

The Pacific Fishery Management Council announced March 10 that it is choosing between three fishing season alternatives. Each would close the 2023 season, with the possibility of a reopening in 2024. The final decision will

come during a session that begins April 1.

Many fishermen and women support the closure — despite the impact on their own finances — because there are too few salmon left to catch.

“We don’t have the abundance to support any harvest,” said Sarah Bates, of Oakland, who has fished commercially in coastal waters for 15 years.

Scientists estimate that 169,800 Sacramento River fall-run Chinook — the most abundant of the river’s four Chinook runs and the mainstay of the fishery — are now swimming off the coast. It’s the lowest estimated population since 2008.

Until the 1980s, California’s salmon boats routinely brought to port nearly a million fish per

season. The record catch — 1.4 million salmon — was in 1988. Recent years have seen catches of between 100,000 and 300,000.

As salmon populations have shrunk, California's fishing fleet has shrunk, too. Nearly 5,000 commercial boats pursued California’s Chinook in the early 1980s. Now only 464 active boats are fishing commercially, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Plus, the state’s recreational anglers took about 98,000 trips last year and caught 89,000 salmon.

Still, a substantial salmon industry remains. A 2010 analysis estimated its worth at $344 million in direct fish sales and related economic activity.

Calendar

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 instrumental group Baroque & Beyond will present a varied program, titled “Pairs and Permutations — Captivating Combinations to Stimulate the Mind” at 7:30 pm, at the Davis United Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Road in Davis. This concert explores how pairs of instruments can blend, interplay and dance around each other. Suggested donation is $1020. For information, call or text 530-220-2012.

n In honor of Women’s History Month, the Yolo County Library will be showing the exhibit Herstory 1 & 2: The Legal History of Chinese American Women, curated by Dr. Chang C. Chen. Chen grew up in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States 50 years ago to pursue her graduate studies. She was elected as a Taiwan senator and hosted four television shows. During the 1990s, her most popular program, “Chiu Chang Talking Law,” on Star-TV in Hong Kong, catapulted her into the limelight. The Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. in Davis, will host Chen to discuss her books and the exhibit at 11 a.m.

Tuesday

n Village Homes Performers’ Circle will present Nat Lefkoff to perform his original songs, with support from local musicians Rowan McGuire and Sam Lacour. The event begins with an open mic from 7:15 to 8:15 pm and concludes with the featured performance from 8:30 to 9 pm. Signups begin at 6:45 for the short performances (less than 5 minutes per act). This month the Village Homes Performers’ Circle will be held inside the Village Homes Community Center, 2661 Portage Bay East, Davis.

Wednesday, March 29

n Join the League of Women Voters Davis Area and Davis Media Access for a candidates’ forum on the upcoming Davis City Council election for a new representative from District 3. The free Zoom event will be from 7 to 8:15 p.m. District 3 represents residents in Central Davis. The elected council member will replace Lucas Frerichs, who was elected to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors in November. The all-mail ballot special election will be on May 2. The forum will feature candidates Donna Neville and Francesca Wright. Local LWV board member Michele Van Eyken will moderate the event. Audience members will be able to

submit questions before and during the forum. The LWV is a non-partisan organization committed to voter registration and education. To learn more about the League and to sign up to this event, go to www.lwvdavisarea.org.

Wednesday, April 5

n The Valley Oak Chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America will host a Zoom presentation at 11 a.m. by Youngmin Lee on Bojagi, a traditional form of Korean hand quilting. Ms. Lee holds a master’s degree in fashion design and a bachelor’s degree in clothing and textiles and conducts classes and demonstrations of Korean arts and crafts. If you are interested in attending, contact Linda Wayne at laws999@ gmail.com by March 31, to add you to the Zoom list.

Saturday, April 8

n The Yolo County Library, the Yolo County Library Foundation and Stories on Stage Davis will present an evening of science fiction with author Kim Stanley Robinson at at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St. in Davis. Tim Gaffaney will read Robinson’s short story, “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars,” followed by a questionand-answer period with Robinson, moderated by Dr. Andy Jones. The evening also will also include three DHS actors reading Winters High School student Tristan Cooper’s story, “We Made the Afterlife Better,” which won the “Out of This World” high school science fiction writing contest. To register for this free event, visit: tinyurl.com/scifi evening2023. Yolo County Library Foundation and Stories on Stage Davis are accepting donations through the registration link to further support early childhood literacy, literature and theater arts.

Friday, April 28

n The Avid Reader will host award-winning and best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler for a discussion of her most recent book, “Booth.” A former Davis resident, Fowler is also well known for her books “The Jane Austen Book Club” and “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (set in Davis). Fowler will be introduced by local author Kim Stanley Robinson. “Booth” was voted a Best Book of The Year by NPR, Real Simple Magazine, AARP and USA Today and was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. The novel is an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available in store and online at www.avidreaderbooks.com.

Saturday, April 29

n The Yolo Basin Foundation’s California Duck Days Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters, 45211 County Road 32B in Davis, and will include environmental education activities, wetland themed arts and crafts, live animals and hourly tours of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. For information, visit www.yolo basin.org/californiaduck-days.

Evening of sci-fi features Robinson

Special to The Enterprise

The Yolo County Library, Yolo County Library Foundation and Stories on Stage Davis will present an evening of science fiction with author Kim Stanley Robinson at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 8.

The event will be in the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St. in Davis.

Tim Gaffaney will read Robinson’s short story, “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars,” followed by a question and answer period with Robinson, moderated by Dr. Andy Jones. The evening also will include three DHS actors reading Winters High School student Tristan Cooper’s story, “We Made the Afterlife Better,” which won the “Out of This World” high school science fiction writing contest.

Robinson is a prize-winning author of 22 novels and numerous short stories. A Davis local, he is widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. He is best

known for the Mars Trilogy and recently published his science fiction masterpiece about climate change, “The Ministry of the Future” and an ode to the California mountain range, which has inspired much of his work — “The High Sierra.”

ROBINSON Will answer questions

Gaffaney is the casting director for Stories on Stage Davis, serves on the Bike City Theatre Company board and is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association. He has performed for eight seasons with the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble and worked with the Foundry Players in Washington, D.C. He hosts the arts beat on “In the Studio” on Davis Community Television. Jones teaches at UC Davis and serves as academic associate director of Academic Technology Services. As a poet laureate emeritus of Davis, he

hosts Stories on Stage Davis and the Poetry and Technology Hour” on the KDVS radio station and leads the Poetry Night Reading Series at the Natsoulas Gallery.

To register for this free event, visit: tinyurl.com/scifievening2023.

Yolo County Library Foundation and Stories on Stage Davis are accepting donations through the registration link to further support early childhood literacy, literature and theater arts. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the event begins at 7:30 p.m. The Avid Reader will sell Robinson’s books and the author will be available for signing after the event.

For information, visit the Library’s website (https://yolocountylibrary. org) or Facebook (www.facebook. com/yolocountylibrary.org) and Instagram (@yolocountylibrary) feeds. Find Stories on Stage Davis at http:// storiesonstagedavis.com or www.facebook.com/storiesonstagedavis. Stories on Stage Davis is a sponsored project of YoloArts and supported by the 2022 city of Davis Arts Grant.

Thompson names Yolo County woman of the year

Special to The Enterprise

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Monday that Mary Kimball, executive director of the Center for Land-Based Learning, is the 2023 Yolo County Woman of the Year. Every year, Thompson selects inspiring women from California’s Fourth District to recognize their contributions and efforts over the last year.

“Mary Kimball has devoted her life to serving the people of Yolo County. Her work through the Center for Land-Based Learning has been essential in supporting new farmers through the creation of the California Farm Academy which trains prospective farmers,” Thompson said. “I am proud to recognize

her as the 2023 Yolo County Woman of the Year.”

The Woman of the Year Recognition Ceremony began in honor of Women’s History Month to recognize the service of women in the local community.

A complete list of 2023 winners include:

n Sherry Treppa — Lake County;

n Fran Lemos — Napa County;

n Alexis Koefoed — Solano County;

n Jasmine Palmer — Sonoma County;

n Brooke Igleheart Ross — Sonoma County;

n Mary Kimball — Yolo County.

Committee clears Dodd’s water-shutoff legislation

Enterprise staff

SACRAMENTO — Legislation advanced Monday from state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, that would expand provisions of his Water Shutoff Protection Act, ensuring more lowincome Californians have uninterrupted access to essential drinking water, especially in times of skyrocketing costs.

“We must ensure the tap does not get turned off just because someone falls behind on their bills,” Sen. Dodd said. “Access to water is a fundamental right. This bill enhances my previous legislation by covering people in smaller, rural communities who are struggling financially. It will allow

them to continue using water for drinking, cooking and necessities such as washing clothes while they get caught up on missed payments.”

In response to rising water rates, Dodd authored the Water Shutoff Protection Act of 2018, which extends due-process protections to people at risk of service discontinuance because they are unable to pay their bills. Among other things, it affords those served by water systems of 200 customers or more a 60-day grace period to cover past debt and establishes a system for making payments. The bill was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.

With Senate Bill 3, Dodd is proposing to extend those same protections

to more people, reducing the threshold for compliance to water systems of 15 customers or more. The change is expected to affect thousands of lowincome families across California and extends an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom that has expired. SB 3 is sponsored by Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability.

The bill cleared the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications committee with overwhelming support. Dodd represents the 3rd Senate District, which includes all or portions of Napa, Solano, Yolo, Sonoma, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties. Learn more at www.sen.ca.gov/ dodd.

Bill on sex-assault lawsuits heads to next stage

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SACRAMENTO — Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, and Assemblyman Chris Ward, D-San Diego, announced Tuesday that Assembly Bill 933 passed the Assembly Committee on Judiciary with an 8-0 vote.

The bill aims to protect survivors of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination from retaliatory defamation lawsuits if they speak publicly about their personal experiences.

“Survivors of sexual assault, harassment, and discrimination are our family, our neighbors, our friends and our colleagues,” said Aguiar-Curry, vice chair of the Legislative Women's Caucus. “We have to empower anyone who would expose those who've done them harm, because

their courageous act will protect others.”

The #MeToo movement gave many assault and harassment survivors the opportunity to bravely join countless others in sharing their stories on a national platform, in solidarity. At the same time, it unveiled a toxic and predatory culture that persists across all sectors of employment and society. While survivors courageously came forward, many were served with defamation lawsuits by those who abused them.

“Far too often, perpetrators of sexual misconduct, abuse, assault and harassment use the court system to punish survivors for speaking out about their abuse,” Ward said. “This further victimizes those who bravely choose to come forward. This bill will protect them from being

silenced and lift up the voices of survivors, so they can freely share their experiences without fear of retaliation.”

According to the legislators, defamation lawsuits have become the weapon of choice by perpetrators to intimidate, punish and silence their accusers. Existing law makes certain publications and speech — including complaints of sexual harassment — privileged and protected from civil defamation actions. However, these protections are limited. AB 933 expands protections for speech made by a survivor, without malice, about their own experience of sexual assault, harassment or discrimination.

The bill would make it harder for perpetrators to retaliate against survivors with legal threats and

intimidation, but does not apply to unfounded claims. This bill also helps take the burden off of survivors by providing reasonable attorneys’ fees and damages if they successfully defend themselves against meritless defamation lawsuits.

AB 933 now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Aguiar-Curry represents the 4th Assembly District, which includes all of Lake, Colusa, Napa and Yolo Counties, and part of Sonoma County.

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Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, presents Mary Kimball with certification as 2023 Yolo County Woman of the Year.

FARMWORKERS: Officials say more outreach needs to be done

Criteria for approval included being currently unemployed but with proof of past work in agriculture in Yolo County. Those that didn’t qualify, either because they were working or didn’t live in the county, were directed to other local resources, said Rodrigo Lopez, the county’s agriculture labor coordinator.

And while those $1,000 grants were huge for the 200 recipients, more work needs to be done to assist the county’s farmworkers,

officials said. Asked by Supervisor Jim Provenza of Davis what gaps remain, Lopez said housing and food security remain

“A lot of our farmworkers are dealing with a lot of housing necessities,” said Lopez. “Some families are doubled up. A lot of the low-income places have a long waitlist. So housing is number one.” Also food security, he said.

“It’s interesting that they work and feed the whole world,” Lopez said of farmworkers, but they also

sometimes need help buying basic staples.

“We refer them to our food bank and other resources in the community,” he said, and connect those who qualify to Cal-Fresh.

Said Provenza: “I would like to look at what more we can do in these two areas. I know we have efforts on housing and for food security, but particularly for farmworkers going forward.”

In addition to the financial assistance, the county’s program for farmworkers has also been conducting

outreach and referrals, Provencher said.

“We launched a website and the farmworker resource guide,” she said. That guide includes information on local housing, food, employment and public assistance and a hotline connects farmworkers directly with Lopez.

Lopez himself said that while efforts over the last few months have been focused on the financial assistance program, “we’ve noticed that a lot of families have different needs. Employment is one of them.

“During the off-season, a lot of farmworkers either move to a different city or they’re unemployed, so a lot of them request help with employment,” he said.

His office is working to connect those individuals to employment center assistance.

County supervisors praised the efforts so far, with Supervisor Angel Barajas, who represents the county’s largely rural 5th District, saying, “amazing work” has been done.

Also on Tuesday, the board unanimously

approved a resolution proclaiming March 31 César Chávez Day in the county, presenting the proclamation to Lopez.

In receiving the declaration, Lopez said, “like many others in this county, my father came to this country and worked in agriculture as a farmworker to be successful and provide to his family.

“I am a product of César Chávez and proud to serve and continue the legacy and support of the farm working community. Sí se puede.”

COLLEGE: Trade-offs involved in dynamic of students and residents

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California college town: Davis, San Luis Obispo, Arcata, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. (UC Berkeley and UCLA aren’t on the list because they are thoroughly integrated into a very large urban area, rather than geographically situated in a smaller and largely self-contained “town.”)

Looking at the data, you could say that Davis topped the Washington Post’s list of California college towns based on the numbers.

Their survey found that in Davis, 39.5 percent of the residents are students (a figure the Washinton Post graphics generously rounded up to 40%). This is higher than the student percentage in San Luis Obispo (38.3 percent), Arcata (22.5 percent students), Santa Barbara (20.2 percent students), and -strewn Santa Cruz (17.6 percent students).

UC Davis (with 40,000+ students) also has a significantly larger student enrollment than Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Humboldt, UC Santa Barbara, Chico State, or UC Santa Cruz (all which have an enrollment of fewer than 25,000 students).

In addition, the core of Davis community hugs the UC Davis campus like a snug-fitting garment. Davis is arguably “built around the school at its heart” to a greater degree than the other California college towns surveyed by the Washington Post.

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Yes, Chico State and downtown Chico are similarly situated cheek-by-jowl, but UC Davis has a lot more students than Chico State, and Davis has a smaller overall population (75,00-some residents) than Chico (just over 100,000 residents).

In terms of college atmosphere... just visit Trader Joe’s in Davis on any Sunday afternoon when UCD is in session, and you can’t miss the throng of shoppers respiring with with the rhythm of student life.

In the Post’s article, the other statistical category in which Davis stood out was ethnicity.

The Post cited U.S. Census data indicating that the community of Davis has an Asian-background population 14.1 percent. This was the highest Asian-background percentage of the community population out of the scores of college towns (in any state) that the Post ranked.

Enrollment figures for UCD in recent years have identified Asian-background students as the largest single subgroup on campus in terms of enrollment diversity (as compared with subgroups like White, Hispanic/ Latino, etc.)

UC Davis certainly plays up the college town image for recruiting purposes. The UC Davis website breathlessly describes Davis as “the ultimate college town,” and even iinforms prospective students that the locals in the town are by-andlarge friendly.

Back in 2019, in one of his early “Chancell-ing” columns,

Denise Young

Denise Young, originally of Davis, died unexpectedly on Feb. 17, 2023, of a brain aneurysm suffered while on a two-week assignment at her company’s nursery in Winters. Denise was the company’s greenhouse manager in her hometown of Hillsboro, Ore., where she lived. She was 56 years old.

Denise was born on Father’s Day to parents Bob and Lynn Young of Davis on June 19, 1966. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Las Cruces, N.M., where her sister Diane joined the family in December 1968. They then moved to Ames, Iowa, and again to Washington, D.C., where her father worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. During this time Denise lived and attended kindergarten in Fairfax, Va.

Even though it was only a block away from the family home, little Denise was so proud of knowing when and how to get on “Bus No. 6” to and from school. The family moved back to Davis in the summer of 1973, where she began to form her identity and blossom into the beautiful, warmhearted spirit that remains in our hearts to this day.

Those who knew Denise knew that her greatest desire and highest priority at all times was to make sure that everyone was happy. Her love of family, and particularly her son Peter, was unquestionably her guiding light and inspiration for everything she did. Beyond family, however,

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her next greatest passion was her never ending love of music. From an early age, Denise was a flower child and a consummate Deadhead, attending concerts and festivals, gobbling up as many records and tapes (yes tapes) as she could, and passionately turning family and friends onto the latest thing she was listening to. It wasn’t just the music that Denise embraced. It was the lifestyle, the culture, the ideals or perhaps even the dream that people of all types and backgrounds could somehow live in harmony, and that music and love could be the glue that held it all together.

Another of Denise’s greatest loves was for our planet and everything that lives and grows on it. She grew up surrounded by flowers, tutored from childhood to garden by her father. Dating back to when she first read Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” as a little girl, Denise was destined to be a student and ambassador of the Earth as her interest in plants grew.

After attending Davis schools and graduating from Davis High in 1984, Denise pursued and obtained her ornamental horticulture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at the urging of her high school teachers, who recognized her passion for the natural world. She would go on to pursue horticulture in various forms throughout her career, from her early days at Buckholtz Nursery, Oregon

UCD Chancellor Gary May observed “people want to live in college towns such as Davis to raise families in a highly educated population with excellent public schools and lots of recreation ...” May also touted cultural assets like the Mondavi Center, the university’s museums, and even the Memorial Union bowling alley. “A birthday party at our bowling alley is just about a rite of passage for kids who grow up here,” he wrote.

Chancellor May added “It could even be argued that UC Davis is the only university in the entire UC system that’s based in a college town. The closest you might get is UC Santa Barbara, which is situated in the community of Isla Vista that teems with students. However, the school is still defined as UC Santa Barbara, not UC Isla Vista.” Similarly, UC Santa Cruz — nicknamed the “City on a Hill” — is some distance upslope from the coffee shops, eateries and bookstores of downtown Santa Cruz, to say nothing of the beach.

Matt Best, the superintendent of the Davis school district, has been hanging out in Davis since 1995, when he graduated from Oakdale High School in Stanislaus County, and became a UC Davis undergrad. He’s been working (and sometimes living) in Davis ever since.

When I shared the Washington Post’s article about “collegiest college towns” with Best, he responded, “I am not surprised that Davis made the Washington

Garden Products and Hines Nursery, to Laycock Gardens, Fred Meyer Garden Center and her most recent position at Everde Nursery, where she would spend her final moments doing what she loved.

She saw that her little plants were cared for lovingly till they were prepared to go out into the world. The greenhouses were her havens, she loved to breathe the breath of plants. She was our Green poet.

Denise is survived by son Peter Laycock of Hillsboro, Ore.; partner, John McNeeley of Hillsboro; father and stepmother Bob and Liz Young of Davis; sister and brother-in-law Diane and Dean Thomas of Moraga; stepbrother and sister-inlaw Charlie and Marilee Ingalls of Ridgefield, Wash.; stepsister and brother-in-law Alyssa Ingalls and Dwayne Fletcher of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and nieces and nephews Dylan and Jessica Thomas, Lee Fletcher, and MacKayla Livingstone. She was proceeded in death by her mother, Carol Lynn Maxwell. Denise was beloved by all who knew her. A celebration of life party in her honor is being planned for late Spring or early Summer in the Portland, Ore., area. “Denise was my flower child. A ‘deadicated’ Deadhead.”

— Dad

Post list for California’s most “college-iest” college town. Having completed my undergraduate degree at UC Davis (in 1999) and moving from studentteacher (in 2000) to Superintendent in the Davis Joint Unified School District (in 2022), I have seen our small town evolve over the years.”

Best also sounded a cautionary note: “It is important to keep in mind that while ‘college-iest’ may sound great, the more ‘college-ier’ a town becomes, the fewer permanent residents the town has shopping in local stores, frequenting local parks, participating in local events ... and sending their children to the local schools.

In my view, it is critical that college towns maintain a healthy balance of permanent residents and college students to maintain all the great things that come with a college town without loosing the town.”

Other demographic trends play into the changes that triggered alongside the university’s rising enrollment. This reporter recently read a 2022 demographic study by The Education Trust concluding that nowadays, only about one-fifth of currentlyenrolled college students in the United States have become parents. Decades ago), a lot of college students tied the knot while they were undergrads, and babies often followed, and colleges maintained what they once called “married student housing.”

And there was a time, in the ’70s and ’80s, when the start of

Marilyn Wales Trau

February 1928 — February 2023

Marilyn Trau died peacefully at home in Davis at the age of 95. She was born in Oakland to Marcella and William Wales. She grew up in Oakland and Niles during the depression years enduring many hardships, the most notable being when she and her brother had to live with relatives in what is now Fremont while her mother worked in another city to provide for them.

One of her greatest joys was when they could be reunited after a few years. She graduated from Holy Names High School in Oakland and began a long career of work in the service industry: first, at Hastings department store followed by many years with Pacific Bell then AT&T phone companies.

After World War II, her younger brother introduced her to an employee at the gas station where he worked, and Marilyn and Frank Trau were soon married.

They welcomed their first daughter a few years later and moved from Oakland to the new suburb of

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the academic year at UC Davis in September was mirrored by a noticeable uptick in the enrollment in the Davis public schools. That is no longer the case, by and large, because many couples nowadays have kids when they are in their 30s.

Which may explain why even as student enrollment at UC Davis has swelled from a little less than 20,000 students in 1980, to over 40,000 students at the present time, and the overall population of the Davis community (including housholds living within city limits plus students living in on-campus housing at UC Davis) has gradually grown to roughly 75,000 people, the number of school-age children starting kindergarten in the Davis school district has been slowly ebbing, year over year, for the last two decades.

Will Arnold, the recently sworn-in Mayor of Davis, addressed this trend in his recent “State of the City” remarks.

Quoting from the March 3 story by Enterprise reporter Anne Ternus-Bellamy:

“The school district… is facing a long, steady decline of enrollment and that could lead to some tough choices that the school district may have to make about keeping schools open and other programs that the district is able to fund.”

Jeff Hudson is a retired Davis Enterprise staff writer; he continues to contribute occasional articles.

Orinda, where their second daughter was born. They would continue to reside there for more than 50 years. Marilyn was active in social clubs, school activities and bridge clubs before returning to full time work in the ’70s. She had a lifelong love of baseball (her father played professionally in the minor leagues) and she enthusiastically followed the San Francisco Giants.

Marilyn was fiercely supportive of her children and a doting grandma to Liz, Sara, Becky, Jenny and Kyle. Family was everything to her. She was a strong woman, exceptionally generous and passionately independent even in her final years when physical and visual limitations challenged her.

Nine years ago, Marilyn and Frank moved to Davis, living independently in their own home next-door to their daughter. While they were reluctant to leave

their Orinda community, they found the neighborhood community in Davis to be a welcoming place. They adored having frequent visits from family and neighbors and especially their grand-dog Sammy. They truly valued their unique circumstances of being able to age-inplace near family.

Marilyn is preceded in death by her life partner Frank Trau, her beloved daughter Mary Ann, and many relatives and friends. She is survived by her brother Sam Wales, daughter Katie Horn (John) of Davis, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Private services will be held in June.

Donations can be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the American Cancer Society.

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Dietitian-approved ways to sustain energy

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Nutrition plays a key role in overall health and can positively affect everything from mood to energy levels. When thinking about ways to fuel busy days that will help you feel fuller, longer, look to clean, quality protein, which isn’t just good for muscle growth and repair but also plays an integral part in overall health.

In fact, protein helps keep bones strong, supports your immune system, fuels metabolism to sustain energy, curbs cravings, distributes nutrients throughout your body and more.

If you’re looking for ways to optimize your nutrition intake, it’s important to know the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends the average person con-

sume 10-35% of their daily calories from protein. Some changes like replacing cereal with proteinrich foods like eggs, snacking on healthy fats like nuts or fibrous veggies and fruits, or starting meals by eating the protein first can help set you on the right path.

In honor of National Nutrition Month, consider these bite-sized tips from nutrition expert Steph Grasso, a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN), social media influencer and member of the Orgain Nutrition Advisory Board, to help incorporate more quality nutrition into your diet in convenient, delicious ways and keep you feeling fuller, longer:

■ Choose nutritious, filling snacks. As part of your preparation for the week ahead, meal prep refrigerated snack containers featuring nuts, sliced cheese,

veggies and a fun dip, like hummus. Grab-and-go fuel is imperative to creating balanced eating habits when life gets crazy. Another convenient solution, a high-quality nutrition shake can serve as a delicious option on jampacked days.

■ Maximize nutrition when enjoying sweets. If you have a sweet tooth, adding a scoop of highquality protein powder to baked goods can be a simple way to sneak more protein into your diet. For example, Grasso recommends adding unsweetened Orgain Plant-based protein powder to these High-Protein Pumpkin Pancakes. With 21 grams of vegan protein and an excellent source of iron with 6 milligrams per serving, organic protein powder is non-GMO and made without added sugar and artificial sweeteners.

■ Have frozen veggies on hand. Frozen fruits and vegetables are just as nutritious and delicious as their fresh counterparts and often more affordable and convenient. They are typically picked and frozen at the peak of ripeness when they are most nutrient-dense. They are prepped and ready to go, making meal preparation fast and easy. An ideal accompaniment to your choice of protein and grain, this Frozen Veggie Side Dish includes Greek

yogurt and cheese for an added protein punch.

— Family Features. Find more tips and protein-packed recipes at Orgain.com.

High-Protein

Pumpkin Pancakes

Recipe courtesy of Steph Grasso on behalf of Orgain.

Ingredients:

2 cups oats

½ cup cottage cheese

1/3 cup pumpkin

2 scoops Orgain unsweetened plant-based protein powder

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 egg whites nonstick cooking spray berries, for topping (optional) bananas, for topping (optional) nut butter, for topping (optional) syrup, for topping (optional)

Putting it together:

In bowl, use blender to blend oats, cottage cheese, pumpkin, protein powder, vanilla and egg whites.  Spray pan over medium heat with nonstick cooking spray. Use 1/3 cup measuring cup to scoop batter into hot pan one scoop at a time.

Flip pancake once pan-side is lightly browned. Remove from pan once both sides are cooked. Repeat with remaining batter.

Stack pancakes and top with berries, bananas, nut butter and syrup, if desired.

Frozen Veggie Side Dish

Recipe courtesy of Steph Grasso on behalf of Orgain.

Ingredients:

½ bag (14 ounces) frozen white pearl onions

1 box (8 ounces) frozen quartered artichoke hearts

1 box (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach salt, to taste pepper, to taste

½ cup frozen sweet peas

¼ cup heavy whipping cream (optional)

¼ cup 2% plain Greek yogurt

¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Putting it together: Prepare frozen white pearl onions, artichoke hearts and spinach according to package instructions. In pan over medium heat, saute onions and artichoke hearts until tender. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Add spinach, frozen sweet peas, heavy whipping cream, Greek yogurt and Parmesan cheese. Mix until cheese is melted, and peas are soft. Serve with protein and grain of choice, if desired.

Send my roots wine — hold the rainy weather

After the early winter storms, our house developed an under-the-slab hot water leak. A small one, we didn't notice it until we got our January water bill. Yikes! There ensued a month-long “leak detection” project; we hoped for something as simple and relatively inexpensive as a toilet leak, but, alas, it turned out to be much more serious.

The upshot: we had to repipe — truly a disruptive, uprooting process.

Especially for two homebody Tauruses, our hunker-down, stay-at-home tendencies already exponentially exaggerated by lockdown and ensuing COVID worries.

What? You have to make huge holes in our carefully painted walls? What? We have to sleep away for several days? What? We have to have strangers inside working (at this point without masks)? What, all our cabinets and shelves and cupboards have to be emptied so you guys (and they were all guys) can get at our pipes? A Taurus nightmare. Thanks to the kindness of friends-with-sparespace, we didn't have to decamp to a motel for the duration. And we reminded ourselves daily (hourly) that we hadn't been flooded, burned out, bombed, or earthquakedto-rubble, as have of late so many people all over

the state, all over the country, all over the world. Plus, the cutting and scraping and patching had to be done only on our walls—not on our bodies, the fate of many friends who've had surgery recently. We're lucky, we kept repeating, it's just a three-week wreck-andrepair (and lucky, too, to be living in 1100 square feet rather than 4000).

What got us through, besides our “we're so lucky” mantra, was clinging to whatever routine we could salvage: mostly regular, home-cooked meals and some nice bottles of wine, a few wildflowers in a vase, jazz divas on the stereo, and a candle on the table. One of our favorite bottles was a German import that I picked up at The Pip ($19) — Fritz Müller Perlwein MüllerThurgau Trocken, a cheering, lightly sparkling white from the Müller-Thurgau grape. Vintner Jürgen Hofmann and wine merchant and educator Guido Walter set out to rehabilitate this native but maligned grape, maligned because so much cheap flabby wine had been

made from it. Luckily an old vine, cultivated by Hofmann's father, had survived, so he and Walter decided to. craft a German answer to Prosecco, something fresh and fun and not too expensive. And they certainly succeeded. You may never buy a bottle of La Marca again (and why are you buying that flabby sparkler anyway? There are dozens of better Proseccos).

Light and lively yet creamy enough to satisfy even on a cold night, this bubbly delight tastes of hazelnuts, pear, and apple and smells like the more savory blossoms of early spring. It's straightforward, very approachable, and was sufficiently festive to lift us out of our funk. We drank it with a caramelized onion and emmentaler quiche—with homeopathic bits of applewood-smoked bacon in homage to the classic quiche Lorraine. But this wine would have been a wonderful companion to almost any seafood, cheese, or vegetable-based dish.

Possibly the most unusual repiping wine came from much closer to home. I've written numerous times about the cluster of small, natural wineries in the 5th St. corridor of Berkeley (very near the Amtrak station), mostly

DHS writer wins Gold Key award

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Vamsi Chilamkur,

Boston announced this month the dean's list for the Fall 2022 semester.

Among students earning dean's list honors are Julie Baik of Davis, Class of 2023, and Benjamin Skinner of Davis, Class of 2024. Dean's list honors at Tufts University require a semester grade point average of 3.4 or greater.

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

Broc Cellars, Donkey and Goat, and Hammerling. But there are others, like Vinca Minor, that also merit a visit. The bottle in question I actually found at the Co-op (discounted to $23, which means they're probably discontinuing it)--the Vinca Minor 2021 blend of sauvignon blanc, pinot blanc, and carignan, carignan being one of their specialties.

Jason and Emily Charlies started the winery in 2013, and they have an intriguing line-up including two other whitered blends — a vermentino-carignan and a granache-sauv blanccinsault. The results are light, chillable reds that go with just about anything and bring a spring freshness to the table — at least the one we drank last week with a Sardinian sardinefennel dish over whole wheat spaghetti. The recipe (New York Times) came with advice for various crisp whites, but I was in the mood for red and this lively, herby blend worked perfectly. Get it while you can. And plan a spring visit to Berkeley to

check out these innovative wineries.

Some days later in our restoration project, we drank an elegant, foodfriendly, single-vineyard (certified organic) red from New Zealand—2021 Deep Down Pinot Noir. I had gone into Wines in Tandem looking for an interesting white but got seduced by this justarrived bottle. At $26, it was also more than I had planned to spend, but since I'm always on the lookout for a good pinot, I grabbed it (with a little nudge from Ryan Crosbie's enthusiasm). We drank this sour cherry, spicy, herby beauty with a mushroom, fennel, and spinach pizza.

In anticipation of the bottle, I splurged on some fresh mozzarella and goat cheese for the pie. Though it was a very nice pairing, I couldn't help imagining the wine with a filet of wild caught salmon. Critics frequently recommend pinot noir with salmon but usually I pop open a crisp white to accompany this treat. Next time it will be the tart Deep Down. One site suggested drinking this with beetroot, goat

cheese and thyme tart or duck neck sausage. Those sound like pretty terrific pairings, too.

The bottle is the product of a small Marlborough winery started by Clive Dougall and Peter Lorimer “who share a love of organics, exceptional wine and a life well lived.” This balanced pinot has a real sense of place, not surprising since it's wild-fermented and additive free — not even any added sulfur. From 30-plus-year old vines, it spent four months in old oak puncheons, the oak barely detectable but certainly adding to its complexity.

At just 12.6% alcohol, it won't overwhelm either the dish or your body. Clive and Peter say that Deep Down aims for “thought-provoking wines that cut through in a world of noise.” Yes, even the noise of our chaotic, ripped-open house.

Thanks to all of these small winemakers for keeping us rooted and sane!

— Reach Susana Leonardi at vinosusana@ gmail.com. Comment on this column at www. davisenterprise.com.

Frozen Veggie Side Dish.

High-Protein Pumpkin Pancakes. CHILAMKUR

Finding the right plants for local gardens

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This is a new column that will be written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County. Each month it will provide answers to selected questions that recently came into the UCCE Master Gardener-Yolo County Help Line.

Question: Hi there — we just bought a newly built home and are excited about creating our new landscape/garden. We are looking for ideas and resources for drought tolerant, water-wise plantings.

Answer: Hello. We can't recommend specific commercial products. However, there are some great resources we can point you to for suggestions on water-wise plants for our region.

First is the UC Davis Arboretum. Below are links to (1) planting plans they have developed and (2) their Arboretum All Stars database, with which you can find information on specific plants they recommend for our region.

https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/plantingplans There you will find planting plans for the Arboretum Teaching Nursery, a garden to attract wildlife, a low maintenance garden and a California native plant garden.

At https://arboretum. ucdavis.edu/arboretumall-stars, you will find a data base of one hundred plants that are well adapted to our environment, the Arboretum AllStars. The data base lets you search by plant type, tree, shrub, vine etc., plant size, color, water needs, bloom time and wildlife value. You can also search for California natives exclusively.

Next is Calscape, a database developed by the California Native Plant Society. When you enter your zip code or address, it will pull up plants that are native to our area. They provide great descriptions

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of each plant and its cultural needs at https:// calscape.org.

Third is WUCOLS (Water Use Classification of Landscape Species), a data base developed by UC Davis which provides information on water needs of a huge variety of plants. It will let you group plants with similar water needs together so that you can more efficiently water with a drip system or by hand. See https://ccuh. ucdavis.edu/wucols-db Good luck and have fun creating your new garden!

Question: Hello, If I plant a native currant, do I need to worry about it being toxic to dogs? I understand that Zante currants may be the greatest concern. One article said that grapes, currants, and gooseberries are all related. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

Answer: Hello, thank you for contacting the Master Gardener Office. Common plant names are often the cause of confusion with plant identification. That is one of the reasons we recommend using the scientific plant name (consisting of the genus, species and if applicable subspecies) when researching and selecting plants. The native currant that you are considering planting is most likely in the genus “Ribes”. Calscape.org names 69 species within the Ribes genus that are native to California. Unfortunately, as you found out, common names for the Ribes genus are currants and gooseberries. Grapes, which include Zante currents, raisins and sultanas are in the Vitis genus, the species most likely being vinifera, with many subspecies.

Several sources indicating grapes, Vitis vinifera can be toxic for dogs. Here is a link to an article from Tufts University on

the subject. See https:// vetnutrition.tufts.edu/ 2021/04/in-the-newsupdates-on-grape-toxicity/ Regarding the safety of Ribes, the only source we could locate was the Calscape.org page on dog safe plants. The Red Flowering Currant, Ribes sanguineum, is listed as being “dog safe.” See https://calscape.org/ plantlist/26840. You may want to consult your veterinarian for a definitive answer on other Ribes species.

Question: I heard that marigolds will repel nematodes. If I plant marigolds around the border of my raised vegetable beds, will it get rid of nematodes?

Thanks

Answer: Nematodes are

microscopic roundworms. Many species are beneficial but root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne var. species) feed on plant roots and can cause real damage, reducing the vigor of susceptible varieties. There is some evidence that marigolds will repel nematodes but it is not really a practical solution for the home gardener. Marigolds must be planted densely in the entire bed for at least two months and then taken out before planting the crop you want to protect. And, it must be the right marigold variety for the species of root knot nematode you are trying to control (there are about one hundred).

If nematodes are a problem in your vegetable garden, there are a few steps

you can take. The first is not to move them from one bed to another. They generally hitch a ride on tools. So, clean your tools carefully when moving from a bed you suspect has nematodes to one that does not. Solarizing has also been shown to be effective to at least suppress nematode populations. That involves covering the soil with clear plastic to heat up the soil during the summer. Here is an article on solarization: https://ipm.ucanr. edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/ pn74145.html.

The other approach, and probably the easiest, is to plant resistant varieties. Some tomatoes and peppers, for example, are resistant to nematodes. Look on the back of the

seed packet or ask at the nursery if you are purchasing starts to identify nematode resistant varieties. Some types of vegetables are generally less susceptible to nematode damage, including, broccoli, beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards, corn, peas, garlic, mustard, onions, and potatoes. You should always rotate your vegetable crops between beds. Plant nematode resistant plants for three years between more susceptible varieties to reduce populations.

— If you have a gardening question, contact the Master Gardener Help Line at 530-666-8737. Or send an email, with pictures attached if that would be helpful, to mgyolo@ucdavis.edu.

California Duck Days returns in April

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The Yolo Basin Foundation will host California Duck Days, Northern California’s wetlands and wildlife festival, on Saturday, April 29, at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters.

The festival will include environmental education activities, wetland themed arts and crafts, live animals and hourly tours of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.

Whether kids help build Wood Duck boxes to create nesting opportunities, dissect owl pellets to learn about owls, or borrow rubber boots to explore the invertebrate life living in wetland ponds, there will never be a dull moment at the festival for those curious about the natural world.

The exhibitor area will include more than 20 local environmental organizations providing information about their missions and offering interactive, hands-on activities. Animal ambassadors will include baby ducklings, large raptors and a mobile

aquarium filled with local fish species. Food trucks will be onsite, serving burgers, loaded fries, vegetarian options and desserts.

Sponsors include Ecosystem Investment Partners, Knaggs Ranch LLC, Tandem Properties, Teichert Materials, UC Davis, Visit Davis, Visit Yolo, Lindsay Anne Weston, and John and Judy Whitcombe. California Duck Days is a collaborative effort between Yolo Basin Foundation, the city of Davis and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The festival will go from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. April 29 at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters, 45211 County Road 32B (Chiles Road) in Davis. For information, visit www.yolo basin.org/california-duckdays.

Yolo Basin Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the appreciation and stewardship of wetlands and wildlife through education and innovative partnerships.

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Kids explore a pond at the Yolo Demonstration Wetlands to learn about invertebrate wildlife at California Duck Days.

Good times at Golden 1 Center

Sights, sounds, rumors and bounce passes from the NCAA Tournament at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

n Sacramento hosted the first and second rounds of the event for the sixth time since 1994.

Kudos to Mike Testa of Visit Sacramento, a local organizing committee, for their nonstop work that made last weekend’s tourney virtually flawless.

A shout-out as well to the Sacramento State athletics department, notably director Mark Orr and sports communications maestros Brian Berger and Ryan Bjork.

Our area is already in line for the 2026-27 season.

n Seen and heard: Long-ago ABC-10 (KXTV) sports reporter Dana Jacobson was on hand as the sideline reporter for TNT.

Hard to believe it has been 20 years since Jacobson, a Michigan native, moved from here to New York City, where she still resides and works for CBS.

n Golden 1 Center was sold out for all sessions, and the Princeton Tigers quickly became the crowd favorite.

As a No. 15 seed, the Tigers outhustled, ouscrapped and outshot the heavily-favored Arizona Wildcats, the No. 2 seed.

Then, the Tigers qualified for the Sweet Sixteen by blowing out Missouri, which led in the game for all of 30 seconds.

Princeton and UCLA each advanced. The Tigers’ next opponent is Creighton in the South Region.

UCLA thumped UNC Asheville in another Nos. 2-15 matchup, then dug deep to turn back Northwestern. The Bruins will now face Gonzaga on Thursday in a West Region contest.

n Two coaches sons faced each other when UCLA’s Mick Cronin and Northwestern’s Chris Collins matched wits.

Cronin’s father Hep was a highly-successful high school coach in Cincinnati, where his son was born and later coached at the University of Cincinnati before taking the UCLA job.

Collins’ father, Doug, starred at all levels of the sport. He played for Illinois State and on the 1972 U.S. Olympic team. He then played in the NBA from 1973-81 for the Philadelphia 76ers. He was the No. 1 overall draft pick in ’73.

Collins senior later coached in the NBA for Chicago, Detroit, Washington and Philadelphia over 11 seasons. Following his coaching days, Collins moved to the TV booth as an analyst on NBA games.

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BaseBall

UC Davis splits DH with CSU Northridge

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The UC Davis baseball team split its Big West Conference doubleheader against CSU Northridge at Dobbins Stadium on Saturday.

Jason Williams had four RBIs in helping UCD (1-2 in the Big West, 6-10) beat the Matadors 6-5 in the first game.

The victory matches the total number of wins that the Aggies had in the 2022 season.

Bryan Green improved his record on the mound to 4-1. The left-handed pitcher went five innings, gave up five runs, on six hits, allowed two walks and struck out three.

Green’s four wins are tied for first in the Big West, while he also ranks top in the conference in batters striking out looking.

Kaden Hogan threw two scoreless innings, striking out two and worked his way out of a jam in the top of the sixth inning.

Braydon Woodridge saw time on the bump, threw two innings, struck out three and

gave up no hits for the save.

Williams went 2-for-5 with a double in addition to his RBIs for the Aggies.

Jack Gallagher had a home run and two RBIs, and Joey Wright finished with a double and a walk.

Second game

The Matadors broke open a 4-2 game en route to a 9-3 win to return to Southern California with the split.

Carter Delaney came out of the bullpen for the Aggies, throwing 5 1/3 shutout innings, struck out six, gave up two hits and walked none.

Jack Gallagher led the way offensively for the Aggies, going 2-for-3 and a walk.

Nick Iverson also provided some offense for UCD with a double. Leighton Helfrick had a sacrifice bunt and an RBI.

The Aggies finished with five hits in the game.

Aggies squad captures MPSF crown

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — For the first time since 2015, the UC Davis gymnastics team was crowned champions of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

Under the direction of MPSF Coach of the Year Tanya Ho, the Aggies scored a 196.200 to outdistance the field on Saturday at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The MPSF title is the seventh overall for the Aggies and the highest score at the championship in program history.

UC Davis won three of the four events, claiming the bars, beam and floor exercise en route to the conference title.

Ava Scafani and Megan Ray secured individual titles as Scafani scored a 9.90 to win the beam and Ray defended her floor title with a 9.90.

Vault

The only event the Aggies didn’t win was the vault, with a score of 48.625.

Keanna Abraham and Ray tied for third with a score of 9.80. Junior Emma Otsu closely followed in fifth with a 9.750.

Bars

UCD equaled its season-high on the uneven bars with a 49.200 to win the event.

Isabella Fitz-Gerald was the highscorer for the Ags with a 9.875 to place third overall. Scafani followed in fourth with a 9.850 and Otsu placed seventh with a 9.825.

Beam

The Aggies used a 9.90 from Scafani and a total of four scores in the top-10 to boast a 49.150 to win the beam.

Abraham finished fourth with a 9.85, while Ray and Otsu were tied for 10th with a 9.80.

Floor

Two years in the collegiate ranks and two floor titles for Ray as she helped lead UCD to an event score of 49.225.

Ray paced the conference with a 9.90, while Abraham and Bella Trejo were third with a 9.85 and MPSF Freshman

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Duo picked for NCAA regional

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The UC Davis gymnastics duo of sophomores Keanna Abraham and Megan Ray were selected to participate in the 2023 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Regional Championships, as announced Monday by the NCAA. The pair will compete in both the vault and floor exercise.

The Aggies will head to the Pittsburgh Regional, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh. The pair of Aggies are scheduled to compete on Friday, March 31, at 11 a.m.

UC Davis keeps its impressive regional streak going, as the Aggies have had at least two representatives in the NCAA postseason every year since 2010. Abraham will be competing on vault at the NCAA Regional for the second consecutive season.

Ray will be competing on floor for the second consecutive season at the NCAA meet.

The sophomore defended her floor title at the MPSF Championships with a score of 9.90. Ray won four event titles over the course of the 2023 campaign.

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Members of the UC Davis gymnastics team smile after winning the MPSF title on Saturday.

must look at A.I.

By Jarrett Catlin Special to CalMatters

Artificial intelligence news is everywhere. From the recent cover of Time proclaiming, “The AI Arms Race is Changing Everything,” to an AIgenerated art on the cover of Vogue, the AI fever is palpable.

While today’s focus is on the mind-boggling features of new AI tools, future headlines will center on the inevitable battle to regulate and control the technology. When that time comes, you can bet California’s politicians will want to lead.

The hype is warranted. New generative AI tools represent a serious leap in capabilities by generating shockingly coherent text and images. The most well-known is ChatGPT, a chat interface that has become a cultural phenomenon and the fastest app in history to reach 100 million users.

However, ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of other generative AI tools are being created to create digital art, and being trained to offer more specialized, industry-specific services.

Silicon Valley has gone into a frenzied overdrive as all the major tech giants work to surpass each other’s AI capabilities and new startups work to capitalize on the buzz. While AI has the potential to be the most exciting technology of the decade, it would almost certainly also be the most politically controversial.

Politicians will care about AI because it promises to pour gasoline onto existing tech battles while also introducing a whole new set of problems. For example, the misinformation campaigns around the 2016 election will look like child’s play once bad actors implement AI tools and can generate an endless supply of hateful, human-like content.

AI technology will also make current debates around privacy and data rights look quaint. Generative AI allows users to create compelling variations of past art, speech and writing, blurring the lines of plagiarism and intellectual property. AI makes it easy to mimic someone’s tone or appearance to create imitation text, speech and even deepfake porn using people’s public information.

Regulators will certainly want to see new rules about which data AI models are allowed to be trained on and what they’re able to create. But who will draw the line on what is defined as acceptable use and how a person’s data can be used? More concerningly, how will any rules possibly be enforced when models are cheap, widely deployed and beyond the reach of our current enforcement tools?

In addition to making existing problems worse, policymakers will also be concerned about the impact on jobs. A recent survey of 1,000 business leaders found that roughly half of those who used ChatGPT have already replaced workers. Generative AI tools are already capable of performing entry-level tasks. While this doesn’t mean we’ll see mass white-collar unemployment, these tools could result in an economic restructuring where there’s less demand for lower-end audio engineers, copywriters, software engineers, business analysts and any other job done at a keyboard.

How will states like California react if a portion of knowledge worker jobs disappear? Those people will likely find new work in the long-term as AI creates new opportunities, but could lead to unprecedented labor market shocks that destabilizes communities and our tax base.

Whenever these battles arrive, state policymakers need be among the first to act. Just as with other divisive national issues, California will want to assert its ability to shape the national policy agenda just like it has on carbon emissions, electric vehicles and data privacy protection laws.

California has never shied away from being a leader, and there’s no reason to believe this time will be different as Washington D.C. remains gridlocked. While we can’t predict how society will react to AI, the early battles will likely be fought in Sacramento.

Jarrett Catlin is a vice president at Tusk Strategies. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

City dealing with absurd concept

The city of Davis has delayed the display of a sculpture called “Frog Totem” by the renowned Sonoma County artist, Mary Fuller McChesney, because some nogoodniks complained to the City Council that her art is an act of “cultural appropriation.”

The first time I recall hearing about someone being attacked for cultural appropriation — in this case literally assaulted — was in 2017, when a blonde college basketball player from Maine was punched in the face, thrown to the ground by her hair and stomped on.

Her offense? Being white and making the “mistake” of weaving her locks in tight rows. Her 20-year-old attacker was angry over what the assailant believed was an unforgivable fashion choice.

Of course, anyone with an ounce of common sense and decency realizes the entire notion of cultural appropriation is nonsense. Other than those living in isolated outposts, every civilization borrows from, incorporates and emulates aspects of other cultures.

It’s normal growth, and it is inherently respectful. It happens in every expression of culture — music, food, visual arts, clothing, language, rituals, beliefs, games, business practices and so on.

Equally so, assimilation naturally goes both ways — from so-called dominant to subordinate cultures and vice versa.

Yet a tiny number of mostly juvenile ignoramuses on the extreme left don’t understand that. They have defined cultural appropriation as “the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more

dominant people or society.”

In other words, they choose to be outraged when no offense is meant and no one is harmed. This mindset is an extension of the victimhood mentality, where losers feel others are holding them back and stopping them from thriving.

It’s the opposite of selfempowerment. Instead of focusing on what they need to do to make themselves better in order to accomplish their goals, schlimazels perpetually point the finger at what others have done to justify their failures.

In the case of cultural borrowing, those pointing fingers are often not minorities, but rather self-appointed saviors who believe it is their duty to speak up for “victims” of the white race. (As far as I know, no Tlingits, Haidans or Tsimshians issued complaints over Frog Totem.)

The ruckus over white Americans inappropriately “exploiting” minority cultures began in the 1960s when a handful of undergraduates at Dartmouth decided it was wrong for the sports teams representing that school to be called “Indians.” They succeeded in changing their name to Big Green. A handful of other colleges and pro sports teams have followed suit in changing their nicknames or retiring mascots that had a Native American theme. Some universities — such as the Florida State Seminoles — have sought and

Focusing on wrong thing

Your front-page article states that a sculpture artwork installation in Davis is being held up in Davis, due to concerns about “Cultural Appropriation.”

The idea that an artwork or a piece of music should be judged differently according to the race or ethnic background of the artist is absurd.

So, you can look at an artwork and say it “great” and then say “Wait, what was the

President

received permission from tribal authorities to continue using Indian names.

What’s interesting is how unevenly this accusation of cultural appropriation is applied.

In Davis, for example, we have Patwin Elementary School. To the best of my knowledge, no one has raised a stink over this use of an Indian tribe’s name — the Patwin, also known as the Yocha Dehe nation. The Patwin are the southern branch of Wintun Indians who, before largely being wiped out by diseases brought to California by Spanish explorers and French fur trappers, lived along Putah Creek from the Sacramento River to and through the Pacific Coast Range.

No single ethnic group in the United States has contributed more to our common culture than Black Americans. In music, for instance, rock ’n' roll, jazz, blues, hip hop and rap, gospel, soul, funk, disco, R&B and more originate in whole or part from AfricanAmerican culture.

Yet if we banned non-Black musicians from performing in these genres — caviling it as cultural appropriation — we wouldn’t have Benny Goodman, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, The Rascals, Los Lobos, CAKE, M&M, Taylor Swift and on and on.

In the other direction, Italy gave opera music to the world. In the last 100 years, I don’t think there has been a better female performer in that genre than Marian Anderson, who was Black and was infamously banned from singing at Constitution Hall in 1939 by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

If only Italians were allowed to perform operas — because some numbskulls decided oth-

race or ethnicity of the artist?”

The artwork in question has a Native American theme. Apparently if the artist is 100% native American then it is valid and worthy. But if the artist is say of Polish heritage born in Zimbabwe then it’s not?

What if the artist is half-Native American only? Or only 5%? Do we need documentation before we can appreciate the creation?

When a blues musician plays some blues music does the musician’s personal ethnicity matter? Can you listen to a piece and say “that is great” and then say, “Wait, you say the player is not a Black person from Alabama? Then it’s cultural appro-

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ers singing that art form would be cultural appropriation — we would have been deprived of Ms. Anderson, Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and George Shirley, all of whom are Black. We also would not have had the pleasure of hearing the voices of non-Italian whites like Maria Callas (Greek), Placido Domingo (Spanish) and Robert Merrill (Jewish).

Italian culture also gave the world pizza and espresso. If your ancestors didn’t originate in Italy, is it inappropriate of you to serve or consume these foods? If you are not of Mexican heritage, are you guilty of cultural appropriation making tacos or serving margaritas?

As it happens, the most esteemed Mexican chef in the United States is a non-Latino white guy from Oklahoma named Rick Bayless. To any normal human being, including almost all Mexicans, it’s obvious Chef Bayless is honoring the culture and cuisine of Mexico by expertly cooking their food at his restaurants and featuring these meals on his TV shows and in his cookbooks.

Yet those who hate the idea of whites incorporating the food, dress, music or art of other cultures would slander Bayless as a cultural appropriator and surely eating his food is inappropriate.

Were the city of Davis to buy into this absurdity, those of you who are not Ashkenazi would need to stop making or eating bagels; those not French would be banned from Impressionism; those not Japanese must stop practicing judo and karate; and those not from India step away from Yoga.

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@yahoo.com.

priation!” The fact is that the musician whatever his ethnicity draws on the national heritage. Is a blues song more valid if the artist is an 18-year-old black paraplegic woman, than if the same piece is played by a 80-year-old white man?

I understand that the music industry discriminated and even robbed and cheated black musicians along the way. But that is not relevant to how we judge an artwork. It should be judged by its intrinsic worth.

This is the kind of thing that gives “Woke” a bad name.

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TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2023-108 To all interested persons: Petitioner: AHMAD BILAL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a AHMAD BILAL to Proposed name BILAL BAHEER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause if any why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed the court may grant the petition without a hearing

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: 5/4/2023 Time: 9:00 a m Dept : 14 Room:

The address of the court is Yolo Superior Court Clerks

Office - Civil 1000 Main Street Woodland CA 95695

A copy of this Order to Show Cause sh all 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

00 11 16 – NOTICE INVITING BIDS

H STREET SEWER REHABILITATION PACKAGE

CIP No. 8166

The

Description

The proposed ordinance adds Article 35 08 to Chapter 35 of the Davis Municipal Code requiring that at the time any permit is issued improvement plan approved or work performed that causes an excavation of a paved City street the applicant shall pay a trench restoration fee that partially recovers the cost of mitigating the damage caused to the street surface by the excavation The proposed ordinance also provides that the amount of the fee shall be established by resolution of the City Council

The fees adopted by the City Council through this ordinance shall be collected up front at the time a permit is issued improvement plan approved or work performed that causes an excavation of a paved City street All monies paid to the City pursuant to Davis Municipal Code Section 35 08 030 shall be deposited in a special fund or funds and shall be expended only for the resurfacing maintenance administration and protection of City streets where excavation has occurred after adoption of the proposed ordinance

Environmental Determination

The ordinance is not subject to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act ( CEQA ) because adoption of the ordinance is not a project within the meaning of CEQA G u i d e l i n e s S e c t i o n 1 5 3 7 8 a n d i s e x e m p t u n d e r C E Q A

G u i d e l i n e s S e c t i o n 1 5 0 6 1 ( b ) ( 3 ) T h i s o r d i n a n c e i s n o t a p r o j e c t a s d e f i n e d b y S e c t i o n 1 5 3 7 8 b e c a u s e S e c t i o n 15378(b)(4) provides that a project does not include the crea t i o n o f g o v e r n m e n t f u n d i n g m e c h a n i s m s o r o t h e r g o v e r nment fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment ” The ordinance accordingly is not a project because it creates the type of funding mechanism described in Section 15378(b)(4) for the purpose of mitigating the cost of resurfacing, maintenance, and repair of City streets as a result of street excavation and does not involve any commitment to a project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment because it does not approve the construction nor cause the construction of any specific excavation or other improvements Further this ordinance is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) on the grounds that it can be se en with certainty that the ordinance will have no significant impact on the environment pursuant to Section 15301 which exempts existing facilities and 15305 which exempts minor alterations in land use limitations

Availability of Documents

The proposed resolution outlines the fee structure, the ordinance and the Trench Cut Fee Study which was used to develop the proposed fee structure There are no costs associated with the implementation of the proposed ordinance All d o c u m e n t s a r e a v a i l a b l e v i a t h e f o l l o w i n g l i n k : https://www cityofdavis org/city-hall/finance/fee-schedules; or for review at the Department of Public Works Engineering and T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t P e r m i t C o u n t e r 2 3 R u s s e l l Boulevard, Davis, California, 95616 Staff reports for the public hearing are generally available five (5) days prior to the hearing date City Co u n cil re p o rts are p osted on the Ci ty’s website at: http://cityo fd a vis o rg /ci ty -hall /city -coun cil/citycouncil-meetings/agendas

Public Comments

All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting or send w r i t t e n c o m m e n t s t o t h e p r o j e c t e n g i n e e r a t : C i t y o f D a v i s ,

Public Works Engineering and Transportation Department c/o M e l i s s a M a r s h a l l P r i n c i p a l C i v i l E n g i n e e r 2 3 R u s s e l l B o u l e v a r d , D a v i s , C a l i f o r n i a , 9 5 6 1 6 ; o r v i a e m a i l a t : mmarshall@cityofdavis org

The City does not transcribe its proceedings Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or for some other acceptable means o f r e c o r d a t i o n S u c h a r r a n g e m e n t s w i l l b e a t t h

1. Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis (“City”) invites and will receive sealed Bids up to but not later than April 6, 2023, 2:00 pm, at the City Clerk’s office of the City Manager, located at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616, for the furnishing to the City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the H STREET SEWER REHABILITATION, CIP No. 8166 (the “Project”). At said time, Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Office. Bids received after said time shall be returned.

BID OPENING PROCEDURE

The bids shall be opened in Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616. Bidders will comply with the currently active Yolo County Order on COVID-19. These can be found at https://www.yolocounty. org/government/generalgovernment-departments/ health-human-services/adults/ communicable-diseaseinvestigation-and-control/covid19

You are hereby directed to cause all workers and subcontractors on the Project to comply with all aspects of the current order.

2. Requesting Plans And Specifications Plans and specifications (not including standard specifications and other documents included by reference), and proposal forms, may be obtained by logging on to www.blueprintexpress.com/ davis or by calling BPXpress Reprographics at (916)760-7281.

The cost is $75 per set (plus shipping and handling) and is non-refundable. Any bidder that fails to purchase a complete set of plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics prior to the bid opening date and time OR is not included on the BPXpress plan holder list shall have their bid deemed non-responsive. In other words, the bidder must purchase the plan set from BPXpress Reprographics AND be on the BPXpress plan holder list to be deemed responsive. The only exception shall be in the event a bidder’s name is not included on the plan holders list but the bidder can produce proof of purchase of the plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics with a purchase date that occurred prior to the close of bidding. Any bid produced from plans, specifications and proposal forms obtained from sources other than those purchased from BPXpress by bidder shall be deemed non-responsive. Only bidders on the plan holders list shall receive addenda notifications.

It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to pay the fee and download and print all Bid Documents for review and to verify the completeness of Bid Documents before submitting a bid. Any Addenda will be posted on www.blueprintexpress.com/ davis. It is the responsibility of each prospective bidder to check the BPXpress Reprographics website listed above on a daily basis through the close of bids for any applicable addenda or updates. The City does not assume any liability or responsibility based on any defective or incomplete copying, excerpting, scanning, faxing, downloading or printing of the Bid Documents. Information

on BPXpress Reprographics may change without notice to prospective bidders. The Contract Documents shall supersede any information posted or transmitted by BPXpress Reprographics.

Bids must be submitted on the City’s Bid Forms. To the extent required by Section 20103.7 of the Public Contract Code, upon request from a contractor plan room service, the City shall provide an electronic copy of the Contract Documents at no charge to the contractor plan room.

Contract documents will not be available for inspection or purchase from the City by potential Bidders.

3. Description Of The Work H STREET SEWER REHABILITATION, CIP No. 8166: The work shall include cleaning of the 27” sewer, plugging and bypassing operations, TV-inspection of sewer line, excavation for insertion and receiving pits, insertion of 24” nominal diameter slipliner pipe, grouting of annular space between slipliner pipe and host pipe, installing new maintenance holes, and abandoning maintenance hole in accordance with the intent of the Project Plans and Specifications. All work shall be performed in accordance with the City of Davis Standard Specifications January 1996 Edition, Addenda through July 2017, General Prevailing Wage Rate, Labor Surcharge and Equipment Rental Rates, and the Contact Documents. All work shall be performed in accordance with the Contract Documents and all applicable local and state laws and regulations.

4. Engineer Engineer’s Estimate: $407,000 Project Engineer: Terry Jue, PE

5. Contractor’s License Classification and Subcontractors Unless otherwise provided in the Instructions for Bidders, each Bidder shall be a licensed contractor pursuant to Sections 7000, et seq. of the Business and Professions Code in the following classification(s) throughout the time it submits its Bid and for the duration of the contract: Class [A] General Engineering Contractor’s License.

Subcontractor Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the contract. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

6. Trenches and Open Excavations

Pursuant to Labor Code Section 6707, if this Project involves construction of a pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal system, boring and jacking pits, or similar trenches or open excavations, which are five feet or deeper, each bid submitted in response hereto shall contain, as a bid item, adequate sheeting, shoring, and bracing, or equivalent method, for the protection of life or limb, which shall conform to applicable safety orders.

7. Bid Security Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash, a certified or cashier’s check, or Bid Bond secured from a surety company satisfactory to

the City Council, the amount of which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted

Total Bid Price, made payable to City of Davis as bid security. The bid security shall be provided as a guarantee that within five (5) working days after the City provides the successful bidder the Notice of Award, the successful Bidder will enter into a contract and provide the necessary bonds and certificates of insurance. The bid security will be declared forfeited if the successful Bidder fails to comply within said time. No interest will be paid on funds deposited with the City. The Bid Bond submitted shall be provided by a surety duly authorized by the Insurance Commissioner to transact surety business in the State of California.

8. Performance Bond and Labor and Material Bond

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California, the successful Bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by the City to ensure its performance under the contract.

9. Labor Code Requirements

Pursuant to Labor Code Section 1773, the City has obtained the prevailing rate of per diem wages and the prevailing wage rate for holiday and overtime work applicable in Yolo County from the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations for each craft, classification, or type of worker needed to execute this contract. A copy of these prevailing wage rates may be obtained via the internet at: www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/

In addition, a copy of the prevailing rate of per diem wages is available at the City’s Public Works Department and shall be made available to interested parties upon request. The successful bidder shall post a copy of the prevailing wage rates at each job site. It shall be mandatory upon the Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractors, to comply with all Labor Code provisions, which include but are not limited to the payment of not less than the said specified prevailing wage rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the Contract, employment of apprentices, hours of labor and debarment of contractors and subcontractors.

Pursuant to Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the contractor registration requirements mandated by Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 shall not apply to work performed on a public works

project that is exempt pursuant to the small project exemption specified in Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1.

This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on this Project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in its Bid.

10. Retention Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 7201, the City has made a determination that the project described herein is substantially complex, and therefore a retention of 5% will be withheld from payment until after the work is complete.

11. Substitution Requests Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the Contract. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

12. Not Applicable

13. Award City shall award the contract for the Project to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder as determined by the City from the Total Bid Price. The City reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process.

14. Notice to Proceed This Project, if awarded, will be awarded for a May 2023 start date. The Notice to Proceed shall be issued no sooner than May 1, 2023.

15. Further Information/ Questions

For further information, contact Terry Jue, PE, Senior Civil Engineer, TJuel@cityofdavis. org. Questions will only be considered and answered via email. Questions will not be considered or answered 48 working hours prior to the bid opening.

16. Pre-Bid Conference There is no Pre-Bid Conference for this project.

17. Time for Completion As defined in the Contract, Section 00 52 13 CONTRACT b., the time for completion for this project is 40 working days.

Deliver Bids To: CITY OFFICES - CITY CLERK’S OFFICE 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, CA 95616-3896 (Building is located on the corner of Russell Boulevard & B Street)

*Note* If you choose to mail your Bid Proposal via any of the overnight/express services, the outside envelope MUST be clearly marked as follows:

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Jerry Scott

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DHS baseball riding on a five-game winning streak

Enterprise staff

The Davis High baseball team continued its winning ways on Monday.

In a Delta League home game against Cosumnes Oaks, Davis (4-0 in the Delta, 5-2) cruised to a 12-3 win over the visiting Wolfpack.

The victory was the Blue Devils’ fifth consecutive. Davis swept Jesuit in three league games last week.

After Cosumnes Oaks (0-4 in the Delta, 1-5) took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second inning, the Blue Devils scored five runs in the bottom of the frame for a 6-2 lead.

The Blue Devils added two runs each in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to secure the win.

Carter Stoltz and Houston McCray had two hits each for Davis, which had 10 hits in the game.

Gizaw Baker, plus Blue Devil teammates Oskar O’Geen, Koen Carston, Brian Chin and John Churchward, had a hit each.

Churchward scored three times in the game. Andrew Keegan, Christian Reyes and McCray scored twice each.

On the bump, Chin threw five innings.

He gave up three hits, struck out five and walked one.

Brooks Ochoa tossed the final two frames for the Blue Devils, allowed a hit and struck out four.

Davis and Cosumnes Oaks resume their best-of-three series on the Wolfpack’s diamond in Elk Grove today. Game time is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.

Blue Devils badminton

The Davis High girls badminton team posted a 13-2 win over Rodriguez in a Monticello Empire League match inside the North Gym on Thursday.

Davis (5-0 in the MEL) has won a remarkable 70 of 75 matches to start the season.

Singles match winners for Davis were Jennifer Lee, Cameron St. Andre, Yanjun Liu, Sophia Wang, Joceyln Starr and Emi Cech. Davis won all seven doubles matches.

Lee and Liu led the victory parade. Other Blue Devil winners were Rowan Barr-Iryna Monastyrska, St. Andre-Cech, Wang-Starr, Ling Pu-Emmelie Lossin, Bella MurnaneClare Hewitt and Jenna Elms-Nathalie Stem.

TIMES: Aggies pitched in at tournament

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n Journalists from Chicago, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, St. Louis, Kansas City, Boise, among others, covered the tournament.

n Also on hand, UC Davis variety. Retired Aggie athletics mainstay Bob Bullis, helping out with the media hordes; plus three-year Aggie offensive lineman Kooper Richardson, who worked back of the right-hand side team bench with crowd control.

n Golden 1 Center lived up to its reputation as one

of the best multipurpose arenas in the country.

Carrie Underwood will perform there Tuesday night. Then the ‘conversion crew’ worked all night and part of Wednesday morning getting the building ready for the eight teams’ practices and media opportunities.

n Cold beers ran you $15, but food items (tacos, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, etc.) were all in the $8 to $14 range. Not bad compared to other venues.

Thirty dollars and up was the cost for most everything NCAA-themed that would be considered

SQUAD: UCD has been winning titles since ’08

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a ‘wearable’.

n A horrid downside of any event at Golden 1 Center: Ticketmaster.

For Saturday’s finals, lower bowl seats face value was $250 a ticket for two games. Not unreasonable.

That $250 ballooned to $320 when Ticketmaster added its “convenience” fees. Convenience for whom? Nothing more than legalized extortion.

n The economic impact of the tournament is pegged at $10 million, counting hotels, restaurants, souvenirs and tourism.

of the Year Amelia Moneymaker was seventh with a score of 9.825.

Moneymaker is a freshman from

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Sacramento. She is majoring in landscape architecture.

Since 2008, UCD has won seven MPSF titles: 2023, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2008.

Home games Friday through Monday

UC Davis will play four games starting Friday through Monday.

Three of the Aggies’ games are in the Big West Conference action.

The Aggies will host CSU Fullerton on Friday.

First pitch is scheduled at 2:30 p.m.

Then UCD and Fullerton play again Saturday and Sunday.

Starting time is 1 p.m. for both games.

On Monday, Loyola Marymount pays a visit to Dobbins Stadium for a

non-conference game at noon.

The Aggies hit the road on March 31 through April 2.

That is when UCD will play a three-game series against CSU Bakersfield.

Two of those three games are at night.

Mike Bush/enterprise fiLe photo Davis batter Selassie Campos, seen here watching the baseball coming toward him in a Delta League game at Jesuit on March 15, and his Blue Devil teammates chalked up another league win at home against Cosumnes Oaks.

Mental toughness proves beneficial on the diamond

By decLan Fee & Sean campBeLL HUB Staff

“Baseball is a notoriously challenging game,” said Davis High varsity baseball coach Ethan Guevin. “The best at the game from a hitting perspective are going to fail twice as much as they succeed.”

Baseball is a unique sport. At the highest levels, athletes struggle with serious mental blocks, and find themselves in particularly stressful situations.

“There is a lot of game within the game

… a lot of the competition is one-on-one, with hitter-pitcher, ground ball-fielder and batter-ball,” Guevin said.

On top of this, the Delta League has notoriously stiff baseball competition acccording to Baker. “We are always playing really good teams where one little thing could decide the game,” he said.

After going .500 (18-18) in league over the last two years, the Devils are starting off strong this year going 5-0 in their first two series against Jesuit and Cosumnes Oaks.

“We always think we can go the distance,” junior outfielder Houston McCray said. “I have no doubts we can win a banner this year.”

Guevin has devoted much of his time to ensuring his players are mentally ready for what the upcoming season has in store.

The team starts every practice with five minutes of breathing to get into a baseball mindset. “We start everyday off with visualization so we can separate from our normal lives and get ready for practice,” junior pitcher Bekele Baker said. “We go through both success and failure routines so we are ready for anything to happen come game-

With so many moving parts on each play, Guevin thinks it is important to be ready at all times.

“We really focus on mental toughness and the ability to focus on the right thing at the right time,” Guevin said. “Your ability to focus on just what you can control and to control your reaction to what you don’t is why we focus so much on the mental game and overcoming adversity.”

The 28-man roster is one of the largest

ever. “With only 10-13 players getting into any given game it’s really competitive,” Baker said.

However, every player on the team has a role, whether it’s getting foul balls during games, being ready to come in if someone is hurt, or playing every inning of every game.

“When you understand your job, it helps refine your practice and helps you focus on what you need to do to be the best you can at that job,” Baker said.

Leadership roles are just as important to the team’s success. “We have guys that are always hyping people up, people that put the flag up before the game, just like whatever we need to get done so we can get to the playing part,” Baker said. “Someone always steps up.”

Sophomore Carlos Chavez began playing baseball last year and is a team manager on the varsity team this year.

“The team managers job is to support the coaches and players in any way possible.” Chavez said. “I really enjoy my role cause it allows me to develop my baseball skills while helping the varsity team succeed.”

Chavez is greatful for the opportunity to be on varsity. “I really think that being a team manager is the best position you can have if you are struggling,” he said. “You get to be a part of a competitive yet fun environment every day.”

The high school season is quick, with 28 games over eight weeks. Players roles often shift mid-season and Guevin believes that having a good process will prepare his players for any challenges that may come with the relentless three-game a week

schedule.

“In baseball, with all the failure that’s built-in, you need to have a thought process on how you’re going to go about your business. The players that commit to that process even when they are struggling are the ones that are going to find success,” Guevin said.

Guevin’s players know that all the hard work will be beneficial to the success of their season. “That’s what makes baseball great. The process it takes to become good takes a lot,” McCray said.

The team is a large time commitment with a year-round season that includes some form of baseball activity in every month of the year. “We do summer ball, fall ball, travel ball, weightlifting...we are just always talking and thinking baseball,” Baker said.

The fall and summer teams are run through a “club program” allowing them to compete year around despite California Interscholastic Federation regulations. On top of team practices, players are encouraged to spend as much time as they can working on their individual games. “Whether it’s stretching, working on my pitching mechanics, or taking some swings at the Little League cages, we have to find ways to separate ourselves from everyone else if we want to play.”

Guevin is excited to see how this hard work will pay off in season. “To see guys that have worked their tails off get rewarded for all their hard work is always the most fun,” he said.

Badminton experiments with new co-ed team

By LiLy Schroeder HUB Staff

This spring is the badminton team’s first season as a co-ed team.

Junior Anna Du doesn’t feel that the team has changed much with the addition of men to the roster. “Because we have guys, our team is a bit bigger than last year and also our team cheer is definitely louder,” said.

Yet despite men being on the roster, the team is still a women’s badminton team and men cannot participate in official matches. Though according to sophomore Ian Gaffaney, there is work being done to create a separate men’s badminton team.

Gaffaney is new to both the badminton team and the sport. He joined the team after being introduced to badminton in

ninth-grade P.E. classes.

“I’m happy doing (badminton) as a hobby and I think I can get really good,” Gaffaney said.

Gaffaney enjoys the team atmosphere and feels that he can have fun no matter what level he is at.

“It just feels like it’s competitive enough, but it’s not so competitive that I’m stressing out about it,” Gaffaney said. “I really enjoy going to practice because I can hang out with people and play a sport that I like.”

As captain, senior Cameron St. Andre works to create that fun environment on the team.

“My favorite part about the badminton team is when we have fun at practice and when we win our matches,” St. Andre said.

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Senior Joseph Zhou practices with the newly created co-ed team.

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