The Davis Enterprise Sunday, April 2, 2023

Candidates debate city governance

n Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of coverage of Wednesday’s League of Women Voters Davis Area candidate forum featuring the two candidates for Davis City Council District 3. Part 1 ran in Friday’s Enterprise.

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

The two candidates seeking the District 3 seat on the Davis City Council weighed in on topics ranging from affordable housing to peripheral development to city finances during an online forum hosted by the League of Women Voters Davis Area on Wednesday evening.

Francesca Wright and Donna Neville are vying to succeed former mayor Lucas Frerichs in the May 2 election. At the League forum, the two candidates were asked a series of questions, some provided in advance and others that came from audience members. Here are a collection of some of the questions and answers: Will you have the courage to challenge opinions and votes of other council members even if you need to stand alone?

Wright: Absolutely. One of the things about district elections, not that I think it’s the best … process for electing our candidates, but it gives

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Students walk through the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. State Lawmakers want to see the UC system take in more California students.

Lawmakers want UC to enroll more Californians

By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters

“Frustrating.”

One word, uttered under breath by a California lawmaker, captured a sentiment, at times boiling over into anger, among legislators struggling to get more California students into the University of California.

What Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, found frustrating Tuesday was the UC’s seeming refusal to adopt the same systemwide guaranteed admissions policy for transfer students that the California State University has.

But it was one of several expressions of legislative aggravation over the UC’s — and to a lesser degree, the Cal State’s —

struggles to educate more Californians during an Assembly budget subcommittee on education hearing.

There’s an emotional and fiscal component to lawmakers’ disappointment. As chairperson of the subcommittee, McCarty frequently references parents telling him about their children who graduate high school with GPAs above 4.0 but

UCLA scientist returns to UCD for seminar

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The UC Davis Institute of the Environment announced UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain will come to campus on April 5 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the UC Davis Student Community Center. Free and open to the public, the event will highlight Swain’s studies of the Earth’s changing climate. Swain has been attracting a fair amount of attention for his research as of late, and organizers have seen strong interest from the community in the event.

According to the official announcement of the event, titled Seminar

Series: Climate Scientist Daniel Swain, he’ll discuss the rising risk of droughts and “megafloods” in a warming climate and the climate-related factors driving the recent surge in wildfire severity in California and across the broader American West.

Swain holds joint appointments as a climate scientist within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a research fellow in the

Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the California Climate Fellow at The Nature Conservancy, according to his biography include on the event announcement.

In an interview with The Enterprise, Swain said the No. 1 key point is that even in a part of the world where we don’t necessarily expect to see considerable changes in average precipitation in California, we expect profound shifts in hydroclimate extremes, very wet events, and the floods, increasing on the one hand, and very dry events. “While

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aren’t accepted to a UC of their choice. To try and get more Californians into the vaunted public university system, the Legislature has recently given or promised the UC: n $51.5 million last summer to enroll the equivalent of 4,700 more full-time California students by 2023-24 — up from

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Vaitla appeals approval of U-Mall redevelopment

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Davis

City Councilman

Bapu Vaitla has appealed the Planning Commission’s approval of a retailonly redevelopment of University Mall.

The City Council will decide Tuesday whether to entertain the appeal and schedule a public hearing on the matter. There will be no discussion by council members on Tuesday on the merits of the project; rather, they will only vote on whether to place Vaitla’s appeal on a future agenda for a public hearing.

The Planning Commission voted 5-2 on March 8

to approve the project plans, which involve demolition of 97,000 square feet of mall space at the Russell Boulevard site and construction of 114,000 square feet of commercial retail and restaurant space. Gone are the hundreds of housing units originally planned for the project and approved by the City Council nearly three years ago. Those housing units would have been part of a vertical mixed-use project, with housing on the upper floors and retail, office space and parking beneath.

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Car-ID cameras help solve Solano murder case

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Vehicle-identification technology helped Solano County authorities solve a murder case last week, resulting in the arrests of two suspects from Yolo County.

The investigation began Monday morning, when residents in the area of Elmira Road and Tulip Street southwest of central Vacaville reported a small fire burning in a field, according to a Solano County Sheriff’s Office news release.

“When fire personnel arrived, they discovered a body that had been set on fire,” authorities said. “The remains were of a man who had severe head and facial injuries and burns over much of his body.”

Detectives iden-

tified the victim as Theodore Washington, a 35-yearold Sacramento resident.

Using Flock Safety cameras — devices that capture vehicles’ makes, models, license plates and other features — investigators identified a car suspected of being involved in the incident and issued a bulletin to surrounding lawenforcement agencies.

Monday night, they got a hit out of West Sacramento, where officers spotted the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop, contacting a man and a woman inside the car. Solano County detectives went to West

Sacramento to interview the pair.

“Investigators determined that the woman had a relationship with the victim,” the news release said.

“Days earlier, the man and woman lured the victim to a location in West Sacramento and committed the murder. They waited for four days and then attempted to discard the victim’s body.”

Authorities identified the suspects as Wendy Sue Warren, 38; and 39-year-old Emmanuel Reginald Justin, both West Sacramento residents. They remain in Solano County Jail custody on $2 million bail holds, facing charges of

Odd Fellows welcome bluegrass band

The Grateful Bluegrass Boys, an acoustic string band from the Santa Cruz/San Francisco Bay Area, headlines the next Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Live!

series on Thursday, April 6.

The Davis Odd Fellows Lodge is located at 415 Second St. in downtown Davis. Doors for the show open at 7 p.m. with a 7:30 p.m. start time. Thursday Live! is a monthly concert series; shows are donation-only with all money going to the musicians.

While the band's name references the Grateful Dead, gratitude is at the group's core. They feel incredibly fortunate to play music for people all over the country and

keep their set lists fresh and diverse.

Their primary mission is to get the audience to sing and dance along to beloved songs one might — or might not — expect from a string band. Their first CD includes songs by Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Nash, the Eagles and the Grateful Dead.

The band also has a healthy respect for traditional bluegrass and one can expect fiddle tunes and raucous bluegrass songs. They've shared the stage with Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Lukas Nelson, Bill Nershi and many more incredible musicians.

To join the event's email list, contact Juelie Roggli at juelrog@gmail.com

Man accused of grand theft in Davis

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A West Sacramento man returns to court later this month in connection with his grand-theft arrest in Davis.

Rodney Miguel Lara was taken into custody March 24 after allegedly shoplifting at the Safeway store on West Covell Boulevard, which initially brought

Davis police to the scene. “When the officers arrived, they were informed by security that the suspect may have entered a restaurant in the shopping center,” Davis police Lt. Dan Beckwith said. “Upon arrival at the restaurant, officers were flagged down by unrelated person who told the officer that someone had just stolen their laptop and tablet from a

nearby coffee shop.”

Police located Lara, 33, in the restaurant bathroom, where he was found in possession of the stolen laptop, tablet and alcohol, Beckwith said.

Lara pleaded not guilty to grand theft charges at his March 28 arraignment hearing and returns to Yolo Superior Court on April 11 for a preliminary hearing.

murder and use of a deadly weapon.

Washington’s homicide remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact the Solano County Sheriff’s Office Investigations Bureau at 707-784-7050.

The Sheriff’s Office credited the West Sacramento, Sacramento and Vacaville police departments, as well as the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and Flock Safety, for the case’s swift conclusion.

“The combination of technology and good detective work were truly the recipe for this success,” authorities said. — Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

Woodland cops respond to U-Haul pilfering

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Woodland police arrested a man who allegedly helped himself to the contents of a U-Haul truck early Friday morning.

Officers responded at about 2:30 a.m. to a possible catalytic converter theft in the 500 block of North East Street, Sgt. Victoria Danzl said. Witnesses described a potential suspect vehicle, which police pulled over as it left the area.

In addition to having a 72-inch TV on its roof,

the vehicle contained a box of Christmas ornaments and a surroundsound system. Officers determined they’d been stolen from the U-Haul, which had its rear rollup door lock cut, Danzl said.

The car’s driver, 41-year-old John Choquette of Woodland, also was found with a pair of bolt cutters and methamphetamine, Danzl said.

He was arrested and booked into the Yolo County Jail on vehicle burglary and drug-related charges.

Sudwerk restaurant set to open, sushi here

Prost! Sudwerk’s restaurant returns on Thursday, April 6.

I spoke with owners Trent Yackzan and Ryan Fry on Thursday. They said the remodeled restaurant has all its approvals to reopen. Employees and menus are being prepped for the big day. The patio was delayed by rains but should be ready for guests by mid-May.

“We couldn’t be more excited, and grateful for all the support,” Fry said. “We’ve been supported and helped immensely, not just from employees but the whole community. We can’t wait to invite everyone in. Everyone’s worked so hard to make this happen.”

The food will be West Coast and California cuisine, sourced locally when possible. Lunch and dinner menus are a page apiece, featuring items like giant pretzels, flatbreads, seasonal salads and soups, sandwiches (Ruben, steak, fried chicken), burgers, smoked ribs, salmon, fish and chips, brisket mac ’n cheese, and more. There are vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free items, and a willingness to accommodate most food allergies and preferences.

Sudwerk Brewing Company’s taproom, The Dock, closed on March 19. It will open only for special events like the Davis Cherry Blossom Festival (April 22-23).

The restaurant will offer table service, but patrons may also order from a QR code or at the bar. The centerpiece of the dining space remains the two copper brewing kettles, used for small, experimental batches. Most of those beers will be on tap exclusively at the pub.

The bar features 48 taps from 24 kegs, which will include some guest taps of beers (from Dunloe and Alaro breweries to start), hard ciders and nitro coffee. It has wine and a full liquor license too. Specialty beers for the opening include two original Sudwerk

beers: a Helles lager and a dunkel.

When the beer garden is finished, it will include fire pits, several seating arrangements, a music stage and game area. The windows next to the bar lift open for serving, with bar seating along part of the outside. There are nine televisions inside, and a projection screen in the beer hall. The patio will have TVs as well.

Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays. The food menu will be limited between 2 and 5 p.m. daily. Eventually, Sudwerk plans to open earlier on Sundays for brunch, but not in time for Easter. Customers may make seating reservations at https://www.sudwerkbrew.com.

It will be live the morning of opening day — or sooner.

Note: Sudwerk occasionally hires me to write news releases. However, it does not have influence on my column.

Davis Sushi & Fusion opened March 21 at 1260 Lake Blvd., Suite 103. It filled the former Chuy’s Taqueria in Westlake Plaza.

It specializes in takeout sushi and Japanese food. There are tables inside for dining but all orders are served in to-go packaging.

The owner previously operated Davis Sushi Buffet, which closed in January on Second Street, in downtown. The menu features sushi rolls, nigiri, teriyaki plates, donburi bowls, yakisoba and appetizers.

It’s open from noon to 10 p.m. daily.

Mabel’s Farm Box opened on Wednesday.

The charcuterie market fills the former Shu Shu’s Clothing space at 227 E St., Suite 3, along the breezeway between Peet’s Coffee and Chipotle Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays through Sundays. Visit https://www.mabelsfarmbox. com/.

Mamma, the Italian restaurant and market filling the former Bistro 33 and City Hall Tavern spaces at 226 F St. is dealing with some equipment problems that developed in the last week. On Thursday, coowner Michael Galyen said they are waiting on a couple of replacement parts before they can call for final inspections.

“We will be open in April, but I don’t have a date for you at this point,” he said.

UCD Health to expand in Elk Grove

Enterprise staff

SACRAMENTO — UC Davis Health announced plans today for expansion of health services in Elk Grove. The goal is to improve access to health care and community wellbeing in one of the fastest growing communities in the Sacramento region.

UCD Health has purchased 20 acres of land at the corner of Elk Grove Boulevard and Laguna Springs Drive. Officials want to solidify UCD Health’s regional footprint and expand the health system’s current Elk Grove clinics to offer additional primary care and comprehensive specialty care services. The acquisition is part of a strategic plan to develop a regional system of care that reaches more patients in more places.

“As the only academic medical center in the region, we are making our nationally ranked patient care more convenient by bringing our experts directly into local

neighborhoods,” said UCD Health CEO David Lubarsky. “Everything we do is about bringing a better and more convenient level of care to the people we serve.”

UC Davis Health serves more than half of California's counties as the only academic medical center between San Francisco and Portland. Lubarsky has positioned UCD Health as a resource to "complete, not compete" with other health systems to improve access and care throughout the region. UC Davis Health has more than a dozen neighborhood clinics around the Sacramento area to bring patient care conveniently close to people who need it.

A survey found Elk Grove has one of the country's fastest growing economies in the Sacramento area, increasing by 15% from 2010 to 2020. The city is expected to hit a population of 200,000 by 2029. Thanks to a strong partnership with city leaders, UC Davis Health will

be able to expand its role and ensure that its worldclass care is accessible to patients in the Elk Grove area and beyond.

Health officials have worked closely with city leaders and council members to share UC Davis Health’s vision for the project and to accommodate potential impacts of parking, traffic and surrounding developments of the site.

“UC Davis Health is anticipating the future needs of our community. Their regional plan will expand local outpatient services and support the health and vitality of our residents and the economy as we continue to grow,” Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen said.

As part of its regional expansion plan, UC Davis Health is also developing a new health care hub in Folsom at Highway 50 and E. Bidwell. Additionally, the health system bought land in Rocklin near Highway 65 and the Whitney Ranch neighborhood.

Bull ’N Mouth, the American restaurant coming to the former De Vere’s pub at 217 E St. should open this spring as well. I am in touch with the CEO, who said there were no updates this week.

I swung by the future sites of Bober (boba tea shop coming to Davis Commons), Estelle Bakery & Pâtisserie (formerly Konditorei), Frenzy Coffee Co. (in former La Piñata), Orangetheory Fitness (formerly Round Table), Wayback Burgers (in The Marketplace) and Yolo Beer Ranch (formerly Satiety Winery). I can’t see that any interior improvements have begun at these places.

Davis Yoga Collective is growing and adding classes, including ones with Kia Meaux, the former owner of Kaya Yoga. The studio’s closure led to the creation of the collective, which was founded by

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other teachers from that studio. It offers various yoga, meditation and sound bath classes, along with a few specialty workshops, mostly in the Hatha yoga style and offered at Davis Shambhala Center. Visit https:// davisyogacollective.com/.

Before messaging me about the status of an ongoing project, please review my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes more than 325 Davis businesses. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. The most active tabs are Restaurants Open, Restaurants Closed and Coming Soon.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer and editor. Her column runs on Sundays. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram pages. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email news tips to wendyedit@ gmail.com

PBE set to hear about Latinos in politics

Special to The Enterprise

The Davis Progressive Business Exchange will meet Wednesday April 5 noon to 1 p.m. The primary speaker will be Rick Gonzales of the Davis Democratic Club. He will speak about "Latinos and the Political Process." A growing number of Latinos are voting Republican making for a growing problem for the

Democratic Party. He will explain the economic and social reasons for it and possible solutions to it.

The second speaker will be Donna Neville, who is running for election for Davis City Council District

3. Lastly, financial advisor David Cougevan will be on hand to answer any question from his last scheduled appearance as speaker.

The group meets at

Lamppost Pizza, 1260 Lake Blvd. in West Davis. Contact Bob Bockwinkel at 530-219-1896 or G. Richard Yamagata at yamagata@dcn.org for more information.

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Tables will start filling with customers when Sudwerk Brewing Company’s restaurant opens on April 6.

SCIENTIST: Goal is to communicate to public ‘in a very deep way’

the average climate may not change much, you can sense how that might happen. Your average might be similar if you have a largely positive change and a large negative change at different points in the same decade. Still, the climate is very different.”

“From temperatures which are mainly just getting warmer, they’re not getting warmer and cooler. They’re just getting warmer. So that’s where the hydroclimate stands out as being pretty different from other aspects of climate.”

Swain says the talk won’t be “a formal, stuffy academic talk. That’s not the goal.” The broad audience intends to include undergraduates who may not be domain experts and people who may not even be scientists. “Hon-

estly, it’s the kind of audience I most enjoy engaging with general sense.”

He said he occasionally gives “very technical scientific talks at scientific conferences”, but the vast majority of the time, he tailors seminars as “almost conversations.” Liking to “keep things accessible,” he said his goal is to engage folks who don’t necessarily have a formal scientific background.

A self-proclaimed scientistcommunicator, Swain’s goal is to be a practicing scientist half the time and a communicator the other half. “I think you need to be in the thick of things to be on the cutting edge so you can know where the field is and is headed in a very deep way. And then, who better to talk about that stuff than the folks who are deeply invested in it? It just strikes me as an

ENROLL: Lawmakers want more action from UC

From Page A1 enrollment dropped.

about 196,000 in 2021-22;

n $30 million to UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego — UC campuses with the most out-of-state students and among the lowest admissions rates — so that they collectively enroll 900 fewer nonresident students, who pay three times more tuition, and replace them with instate students;

n And agreed with the governor to grow the UC’s state funding — by about $215 million more in 2023-24 if things work out — part of which is supposed to cover UC raising its undergraduate California enrollment by 1%.

From all that, the Legislative Analyst’s Office calculated UC should enroll the equivalent of 203,500 California students in 2023-24. But UC’s projections show it’ll only educate 199,800 — about 4,000 short.

And for 2022-23, the UC estimates it’ll enroll the equivalent of about 300 fewer California residents than it did in 2021-22.

Now, lawmakers are asking why the UC can publish press releases about the large volume of students who apply each year and yet cannot find enough slots — especially at the most selective campuses, UC Berkeley and UCLA.

“You just sound out of touch with, you know, the dreams and aspirations of kids who are trying to go to a dream school,” said Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, to the UC official taking the heat at Tuesday’s hearing, Seija Virtanen, associate director of state budget relations.

Grow and trust

UC wants to enroll more students — and technically has. Complicating the debate over enrollment is that the state’s funding formula looks at full-time equivalent California residents. That’s different from what the lay person thinks of enrollment: headcount, or the actual number of people taking classes. The UC’s headcount of California undergraduates grew this year, but because those students are taking slightly fewer class units per term, the full-time equivalent

UC has a plan: encourage more students to take summer school and add more than 4,000 new fulltime equivalent California undergraduates a year through 2026-27. That would add 17,300 full-time equivalent California undergrads, about 4,000 more than what lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom wanted from UC.

The analyst’s office recommended that the 2023-24 state budget — due in late June — cut between roughly $9 million and $60 million from UC for projecting it’ll miss its enrollment targets this year and next. Lawmakers Tuesday didn’t seem ready to do so, but they put the UC on notice.

obvious model. So many scientists would be good at doing that, and so many communicators would be good scientists. They’ve been historically forced to choose one or the other, so I’m fortunate that my current role is to be right smack dab there in the middle, doing a lot of both.”

Having received his undergraduate degree in atmospheric science from UC Davis, Swain looks forward to seeing old mentors, faculty, and staff, and he’s also excited to meet new students associated with the Environmental Institute. “I know there are a lot of people who would love to fulfill the scientist-communicator role. I think many people will want to talk to me about that aspect of science in the public eye, how we can better engage, and how that works as a career path.” Pressing for that need for

communicating science — not just climate science — to the general public, Swain said, “We’ve seen that in the pandemic, right?

We’ve seen that with the backlash to vaccines. Misinformation: we’ve seen it. This is the misinformation era in a lot of ways. I wish there were more domain experts, scientifically and otherwise actually, in public roles to fill the void. I can’t talk authoritatively about viruses or vaccines or geopolitics or something like that, all of which are really important things.”

Crediting UC Davis as the springboard for his career, Swain said he’s always loved Davis as a town and the university campus.

“It’s always fun to go back,” he said, adding he hasn’t returned since before the pandemic. “I haven’t done a lot of in-person engagements like this, so that’s another reason I’m looking

forward to it.”Regarding climate change, Swain said we have to acknowledge this is a huge global problem that we’re not going to solve overnight. “That reality means that we must also adapt to and mitigate climate change.”

“This is not something that California can fix on its own. We’re not going to be able to fix it overnight. Therefore, it’s going to get significantly worse before it gets better. And there will be more global warming beyond what we’ve already seen, even in an optimistic scenario.”

That means making the world more resilient to the kinds of extreme conditions that will occur more frequently and trying to prevent as much of the warming as possible.

The Multi-Purpose Room inside the Student Community Center is at 397 Hutchison Drive.

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Copies of the Executive Officer s Report and the Agenda inc l u d i n g t h e p r o p o s e d D r a f t L A F C o B u d g e t f o r F i s c a l Y e a r 2023/24 will be posted at least five days prior to the noticed hearing at the above address and online at www yololafco org

All interested parties are invited to attend the Public Hearing LAFCo meetings can be attended by the public in person in the Yolo County Board of Supervisors Chambers or via Zoom The public is advised to check the meeting agenda for details about the meeting location and how to log on remotely

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting please call Commission Clerk Terri Tuck at (530) 666-8048 Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable LAFCo to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility

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PROPERTY FOR DELINQUENT TAXES

(Made pursuant to Section 3692, Revenue and Taxation Code)

On November 22, 2022, Chad Rinde, County Treasurer-Tax Collector, was directed by the Board of Supervisors of Yolo County, California to conduct a public auction sale. The tax-defaulted properties listed below are subject to the Tax Collector's power of sale.

The sale will be conducted on the Internet at www. bid4assets.com, beginning on Friday, May 12, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. (PDT) and ending on Monday, May 15, 2023, at 12:00PM (PDT). During this public auction, property will be sold to the highest bidder for not less than the minimum bid as shown on this notice.

Due diligence research is incumbent upon the bidder. The winning bidder is legally obligated to purchase the property. Any parcel remaining may be reoffered on the Internet at www.bid4assets. com, beginning on Friday, June 9, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. (PDT) and ending on Monday, June 12, 2023, at close times TBD. Any new parties of interest shall be notified in accordance with Revenue and Taxation Code section 3701.

Interested bidders must register online at www. bid4assets.com. A single deposit of $5,000, plus a $35.00 processing fee, is required to bid on auction properties. The deadline to register and submit the deposit is Monday, May 8, 2023. This is an online auction, and the bidding will take place via the internet. If you do not have internet access, computer workstations are available at most public libraries. At the conclusion of the auction, unsuccessful bidders’ deposits and processing fees will be returned to them by Bid4Assets.

Full payment of all purchases is required within 3 business days of the auction (by May 18, 2023, 1:00 p.m. PDT/4:00 p.m. EDT). A payment processing fee of $35.00 will be added to the final price of every parcel successfully purchased by a winning bidder and will be collected by the internet vendor by the settlement deadline. A California property transfer tax, calculated at $1.10 per $1,000, or fraction thereof, will be added to the purchase price. If a winning bidder's payment is not received by the internet vendor by the settlement deadline, the winning bidder's deposit will be forfeited to the County. Please refer to the conditions of sale posted at www.bid4assets.com for more information.

All property is sold as is. The County and its employees are not liable for the failure of any

electronic equipment that may prevent a person from participating in the sale. All sales are final, with the exception that the Tax Collector reserves the right to rescind the sale in the event that an error is discovered that may have affected the due process rights of the former owner. By participation in the Internet Auction, the bidder agrees to cooperate in the rescission of the sale if such an event occurs within one year of the sale of the property.

The right of tax redemption will cease on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. and properties not redeemed will be offered for sale. If the parcel is not sold, the right of redemption will revive and continue up to the close of business on the last business day prior to the next scheduled auction.

If the properties are sold, parties of interest, as defined in California Revenue and Taxation Code Section 4675, have a right to file a claim with the County for any excess proceeds from the sale. Excess proceeds are the amount of the highest bid in excess of the liens and costs of the sale that are paid from the sale proceeds.

More information may be obtained by calling (530) 666-8190 or online at www.yolocounty.org

PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

The Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), when used to describe property in this list, refers to the assessor's map book, the map page, the block on the map (if applicable), and the individual parcel on the map page or in the block. The assessor's maps and further explanation of the parcel numbering system are available in the Assessor's Office.

The properties that are the subject of this notice are situated in Yolo County, California and are described as follows:

Yolo County Housing Authority ( County ) is seeking proposals from qualified persons firms partnerships corporations a s s o c i a t i o n s o r p r o f e s s i o n a l o r g a n i z a t i o n s to p r o v i d e c o nstruction services for the YCH Migrant Centers Broadband Wi-Fi Service Project ( Project )

The Request for Proposals (“RFP”) which includes instructions for its completion, is enclosed for your consideration Responden ts to this RFP shall submit a completed Proposal (collectively “RFP Packet”) Respondents must mail deliver or email RFP Packet conforming to the requirements of this RFP

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Chad Rinde,

s r e g a r d i n g t h i s R F P m a y b e d i r e c t e d t o C h r i s Rodriguez, crodriguez@kitchell com, and must be submitted in writing on or by 4:00 P M on Thursday, April 5, 2023

All documents associated with this Request for Proposal can be found including all updates at the county website: https://www ych ca gov/doing-business-with-us/

This Project is subject to labor compliance monitoring and enforcement of compliance with prevailing wage requirements by t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f I n d u s t r i a l R e l a t i o n s p u r s u a n t t o L a b o r Code § 1771 4 Contractors of all tiers must be currently reg i s t e r e d a n d q u a l i f i e d t o p e r f o r m p u b l i c w o r k p u r s u a n t t o L a b o r C o d e §

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Z F # 2 0 2 2 - 0 0 6 0 : C o n s i d e r a r e q u e s t f o r a Te n t a t i v e P a r c e l Map to divide an existing 289-acre agricultural parcel into two parcels of approximately 192 acres (proposed “Parcel 1 ) and 102 acres (proposed Parcel 2 ) to allow a winery business to o p e r a t e i n d e p e n d e n t l y o f t h e b r o a d e r f a m i l y v i n e y a r d i nterests and adopt a Negative Declaration in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQ A) The project site is located at 50870 Babel Slough Road approximately 3 miles northwest of Clarksburg (APN: 044-040-033) (Applicant: Christopher Lerch/Owner: Wilson Vineyard Properties) (Planner: JD Trebec)

ZF #2022-0066: Consider a request for Tentative Parcel Map to create two parcels from one 316-acre agriculturally zoned parcel located east of the City of Davis at 25085 County Road 105 Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 will consist of approximately 158 acres each No development is proposed as part of the Tentative Parcel Map The Planning Commission will consider adoption of the Negative Declaration in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Applicant: Christopher W Lerch/Owner: Gerald P Snyder 1987 Trust dated September 17 1987) (Planner: Tracy Gonzalez) T h e s t a r t in g t i m e o f t h e p u b l i c h e a r i n g o n t h e T i m e S e t Agenda is listed for the convenience of the community and other interested parties The public hearing will not start befo re i ts s c h e du l e d ti me Ad e q ua te ti me wi l l b e p ro v i de d fo r each public hearing to accept all relevant public testimony

Public comments on all items are encouraged

A copy of the staff report(s) and the environmental document for the project(s) are on file in the office of the Yolo County Community Services Department 292 West Beamer Street Woodland, California and available online on the Friday prior to the meeting at www yolocounty org/government/generalgovernment-departments/community-services/planningdivision/planning-commission-information/planningcommi ssion-meeting-materials All interested parties should appear and will be provided an opportunity during the public hearing to present relevant information

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65009(b)(2) and other provisions of law any lawsuit challenging the approval of a project described in this notice shall be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing or described in wr itten correspondence delivered for consideration before the hearing is closed Published April 2 2023 #2229

CANDIDATES: Development weighs heavy on coming vote

the candidates time to really understand the issues and concerns in their district, and they are different. This District 3 has the downtown, so there’s all kinds of changes that … longterm residents are seeing coming forward and sometimes we have to be willing to speak for the people that we’re representing.

But it’s more likely that instead of it being a district decision, it would be a difference around the values, around the core values of what I hold dear. As you all know, I have been somebody who stood up and spoke the unpopular piece and it’s something that’s in my character to do if it’s needed.

Neville: I’m the same way. I am a ‘speak up, speak out and speak what your truth is’ person.

I understand the importance when you work on a board or a commission or a council of trying to achieve consensus. But sometimes it isn’t possible. So my first effort, when I’m making a decision as part of a group or a body, is to try to really make sure we are all bringing the best ideas forward and challenging one another, not just saying our position and moving along, but really challenging one another and asking for clarification if we’re not understanding another member’s position.

But if we can’t achieve that level of consensus, I have no trouble voting in the way that I think is more appropriate or represents the interests of the

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community. What is your position on peripheral development?

Wright: We have opportunities to do infill development and that should be a priority, making sure that we understand what is available for infill.

Peripheral development is, thankfully, in our community, a community decision. It’s a community decision when we vote whether we want to annex county land … I do think we need more conversations about under what circumstances and what kind of development might be something we would welcome.

It’s unfortunate that we’ve had proposals come forth that haven’t met the design standards, the social standards, the connectivity, the provision of housing that is really attractive to families. I think we can do better. But I’m really pleased that our residents are going to be part of that decision.

Neville: I also believe our first order of priority should be maximizing our infill development, because that is what is more economically and environmentally sustainable.

In terms of how I would look at a peripheral development project, I’ve thought about this a lot and there are a number of factors that I would weigh in. Have we really fully explored all the options for

Ray Charles Thompson

At age 94, surrounded by family and friends, Ray Charles Thompson peacefully passed away on March 29, 2023, in El Macero.

Ray was born in Reno on Oct. 23, 1928, to Abner and Edith Thompson. Shortly after Ray’s birth the family moved to San Leandro, where his parents lived in the same house for the next 68 years.

Ray was always on the go and during high school he made and sold bronzed baby shoes, delivered newspapers, worked for a bakery and even sold fruit he picked from the neighbors’ trees. After high school, Ray decided to do what he did best — work. With a new wife and baby, Ray began his career in real estate, selling homes in the greater San Leandro/Oakland area.

During the post-World War II boom, Ray was able to work with many veterans helping them to purchase their very first home. Never one to let a day end early, Ray also became a bar owner and often worked as the bartender at the Little Club in San Leandro, where David Brubeck would often play. Ray was an excellent salesman and businessman and never saw anything as a problem, he only saw challenges needing to be solved.

After a few years of realestate sales in the Bay Area, Ray was asked to move to Davis and run the Stanley M. Davis Company. So, in 1959, at the age of 31, he moved to Davis, where, for the next 40-plus years, he worked as the managing partner developing land and building homes throughout Davis, Woodland, Vacaville and Fairfield.

Ray had an unmatched zest for life and was the epitome of work hard, play hard. He was a member of the El Macero Country Club for 50 years, and belonged to two duck clubs. His other passions included fly fishing and tending to his vast garden. Ray was able to pass down many of

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these joys to his sons, grandchildren and even greatgrandchildren.

developing appropriate housing within the city limits? Is there community support for this project? Does it help to really meet our community’s need for affordable and low- to moderateincome housing? How effectively will it address traffic and other environmental impacts? Is the project integrated into our community via walking and bike paths in a way that makes it feel like a natural part of the community?

We need to also be sure that the features that developers are promising are actually in the baseline features that are submitted to the voters for approval and not in development agreements that can easily be amended without voter approval. Those are just factors I would consider. But my first order of priority really is maximize what we can do within the infill area.

Wright: I would just like to build on what Donna said about development agreements. I think that is an area that has eroded trust in some parts of District 3 when some residents feel like certain promises have been made, so I agree that the more up-front agreements are in the language of the measure, the more accountability the voters will have.

But additionally, there is a responsibility for council to push hard on getting maximum value for our community in development agreements and that’s something we really have to keep an eye on and not just let that be a staff decision.

Oct. 23, 1928 — March 29, 2023 THOMPSON

Ray is survived by sons Dan Thompson of Sacramento, Steve Thompson of Davis, Bob Thompson (Cheryl) of Vacaville and Ian Thompson of Davis. In addition, Ray is survived by his sister Joanne Frasier of Castro Valley, one nephew, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A service and celebration of life will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, at the El Macero Country Club. If possible, the favor of an RSVP is welcomed at CelebrateRayThompson@ Gmail.com.

How can we fund our Housing Trust Fund?

Wright: It was recently created through the leadership of some great people in our community as a repository for funds that could go for housing-related programs. So having the new department of housing and social services is critical and I’m really proud to have been a huge advocate for making that happen.

By having staff in place, we can go after federal and state housing resources and make it more accessible. Just yesterday I spoke to somebody while I was canvassing who had a very positive experience as a renter, as a senior citizen, accessing information on how he could get subsidies. And I think the renting issue is beyond just affordability. It’s also having climate resilient spaces and I would like to address that as well.

Neville: I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about ways that we are going to find the revenue to put into this Housing Trust Fund, which I see as a really key tool.

As Francesca said, there is state and federal funding available. In order to draw down that funding though, we need a local match. So I’ve been trying to figure out where are we going to get those local dollars from? And there are a lot of really appealing ideas — this idea of housing impact fees

or commercial linkage fees, where basically you impose a fee on the developer who could have built housing there and decided not to. So there’s a square footage fee that you charge.

But also, the more I do the research and look at what’s going on statewide with housing, I realize how devastating the loss of redevelopment money has been and the state now has enacted a number of pieces of significant legislation that are very top-down in terms of directing housing at the local level, but they haven’t given us the tools or the money to be able to really incentivize the building of the affordable and low- to moderate-income housing that we need.

So I would love to see Davis work together with the League of California Cities to advocate for money in the state budget for that purpose.

View the full forum at https:// lwvdavisarea.org

The Yolo Berries taste like Yolo Berries!

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

There’s a variety of places to go in Davis to satisfy a sweet tooth, but none quite like Yolo Berry Yogurt. From their delicious, softserve frozen yogurt to the friendly staff that’s sweeter than any topping, there’s a reason this place has been a Davis delight since 2008.

Yolo Berry Yogurt founder, Lee

Pflugrath has been a Davis native since 1964 and – of course – a proud Davis High School Blue Devil alumni. From Davis, Pflugrath delved deep into the culinary field and spent the better part of 25 years as an executive chef in wine country. Eventually, Pflugrath returned to his hometown to open a barbeque restaurant but couldn’t find a suitable location. So, he opted to shift his focus to a cooler culinary alternative.

“The yogurt industry was pretty successful in the ’80s, but kind of dropped off. Then Pinkberry revitalized interest in it, so I thought I’d open up a frozen yogurt shop and make it more than just a frozen yogurt shop,”

said Pflugrath. “I wanted to bring in my experience in the restaurant industry and run it like a restaurant instead of a regular dessert shop.”

With the spark of inspiration mixed with his decades of experience, Pflugrath officially opened Yolo Berry Yogurt in 2008. Since then, the shop’s been serving

creamy, frozen yogurt made from fresh ingredients as well as a variety of toppings — 101 to be exact — which include everything from cereal and sauces to fresh fruit. To Pflugrath, however, the not-sosecret ingredient to the shop’s success is the staff.

“It’s the camaraderie of the community that sets us apart. My

employees make us who we are and without them, I wouldn’t be successful today. We just run it like a restaurant and try to make it like an event when you come in,” explained Pflugrath. “A lot of places you go to don’t have any energy and whoever’s behind the counter doesn’t care if you’re there or not. But the employees we have are very welcoming and engage with the customers.

“They greet them at the door, tell them about the flavors and talk about combinations. They have a real welcoming feel and they show that we care. That’s another great thing about Yolo Berry. Everybody comes from little kids in grade school to old folks and everybody in between.”

As if the sweetness of a visit to this shop wasn’t enough, Yolo Berry Yogurt does more than serve its community delicious, frozen treats. Being from Davis, Pflugrath sees it as a responsibility to give back and serve up time and effort to benefit the community.

“This community’s been great to us. I’ve been here many, many years as has my wife, and it’s my obligation to give back more. If

it’s supporting Little League to kids’ soccer camps and everybody in between. We do a lot of school fundraisers, we do this reading program with all the schools where if kids read a book, they get a free Yolo Berry. All those types of things all the way to sponsoring sports on campus too as we also have a good footing on UCD. We do a lot of fundraisers with fraternities, sororities and clubs,” said Pflugrath.

“It’s just part of giving back to people. It was hard during covid, but our community was just outstanding. It doesn’t surprise me either. We wouldn’t have made it without the support we received from the community and help from our landlords too. They stepped up and helped us out immensely.”

To stay up-to-date on all fundraisers, events, flavors and more, visit the shop’s website at www. yoloberryyogurt.com, visit the shop itself at 316 C St., call them at 530-231-5697 or check out their social media account by searching @yoloberryyogurt on Instagram and Yoloberry Yogurt on Facebook.

APPEALS: Rest of City Council will decide on Vaitla’s challenge

Mall owner Brixmor later removed the housing component from the project plans, citing costs and an inability to find a residential builder to partner with.

The loss of the housing component vexed some planning commissioners when they considered the matter in March.

Commissioner Darryl Rutherford voted against the plan for that reason, saying, “I’m very disappointed in the direction this has gone.”

“I don’t understand how a project like this still can’t be feasibly done with multifamily housing,” he said.

Other commissioners voted in favor but expressed disappointment as well.

“I’m just amazed that we’re building another strip mall,” said Commissioner Linda Deos. “I’m just amazed that that’s what’s proposed. Is there really nothing else out there as way for us to do retail now?

“To see the same old, same old is troubling to me. And, yes, I’m very troubled that there’s not the housing here. I understand … the whole penciling out and I get that. I’m just so concerned that this is the best that we’ve got.”

Twelve days after the Planning Commission

approved the retail-only proposal, Vaitla “invoked his right as a council member and submitted an appeal of the Planning Commission decision,” according to the staff report prepared for Tuesday’s meeting. “When an appeal is filed by a council member, the City Council must determine at their next meeting whether or not to entertain the appeal.”

But with the council down to four members and Vaitla unable to vote on the matter Tuesday, Mayor Will Arnold, Vice Mayor Josh Chapman and Councilwoman Gloria Partida must all vote in favor of taking up the appeal in order for it to go forward.

Should all three vote in

favor of hearing the appeal, staff would schedule a public hearing possibly as soon as the May 16 council meeting.

Tuesday’s council meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the community chambers at City Hall, 23 Russell Blvd.

City Council meetings are livestreamed at http:// cityofdavis.org/city-hall/ city-council/city-councilmeetings/meeting-videos and televised on city of Davis Government Channel 16 (available to those

who subscribe to cable television). From Page

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Former Blue Devil preparing Mustangs for spring ball

By Eric Burdick Special to the Enterprise

SAN LUIS OBISPO — Paul Wulff

was hired as Cal Poly’s head football coach on Dec. 6.

Though the 2023 football season doesn’t start until September, the fruits of Wulff, a 1985 Davis High graduate who played in the Blue Devils’ program all four years, product labor will be determined in part by the success of his team in Spring Camp, which opens Tuesday at Doerr Family Field.

What has Wulff accomplished in the 115 days since Director of Athletics Don Oberhelman announced at a press conference in the lobby of Mott Athletics Center

How will your MLB team do?

Opening weekend of the 2023 Major League Baseball season.

How will your team fare come playoff time six months from now?

n Some, notably San Francisco Giants announcers Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, believe Opening Day should be a national holiday.

There’s some merit to this feeling. Baseball’s leadership often complains “we’ve lost a generation of young people.”

A day off from school or work might help reacquaint this group with the game. Now-retired fans would like it as well.

n Once again, some teams are playing night games on Opening Day.

It’s called Opening Day for a reason. There are plenty of night games already. Beginning in 2024, 15-day games involving all 30 teams. No exceptions, no excuses.

n Whose idea was it to schedule the Giants at the New York Yankees the first three games of the season?

This is a series that should be played in midJuly.

n The new MLB scheduling format means considerably more interleague games.

Why the change? It has to do with the postseason. The field expanded from 10 teams in 2021 to 14 teams under the new collective bargaining agreement.

By leveling out the schedule for all 30 teams, according to MLB, strength of schedule within one team’s division becomes less of a factor in determining which teams will play October baseball.

Another new wrinkle this year is that each team will face each of the other 29 teams at some point in the season.

Thus, interleague games will rise from 20 to 46.

Four of these matchups will be against a team’s “natural rival,” a team from the other league in close geographic proximity. The Giants and Oakland A’s are the Bay Area’s natural rivalry.

Win projections for the semi-local nines aren’t

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that the former Eastern Washington and Washington State head coach would take the controls of the Mustang football program?

“The No. 1 thing has been recruiting,” said Wulff. “We started off as fast as we could, picking up where we left off (after former head coach Beau Baldwin left to become offensive coordinator at Arizona State), finishing our high school recruiting and then we were able to recruit some transfers. That took a lot of our time.

“Other parts of the things we’ve done internally is building our nutrition program, to feed our players, and to move into a new weight room that is temporary until we

move into the John Madden Football Center but a much more functional space in terms of area for our student-athletes,” Wulff added. “To watch what has happened with the growth of our players over the last two-and-a-half months has been exciting. So it has been a really good first few months for the players on our campus, and then of course getting ready for spring practice.

“We moved into the natatorium, which has been a blessing for us. It’s a major game changer for our athletes to have a facility big enough and have things structured and organized. It has had an immediate

tennis

DHS boys off to another great start

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

One of the keys to success for this year’s Davis High boys tennis team can be described in one word.

Depth.

“We had 40 players come out for the team,” said Davis head coach Dale Hersch, whose squad is currently 4-1 in the Delta League and 5-4 overall. “We kept 16 for varsity. The other 24 are on JV.”

Hersch has nearly half of his players back from the 2022 squad that won the Delta League championship and were one match away from playing in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Championship, falling to league rival Jesuit in the semifinal match.

“We would like to continue our streak of getting into the section playoff semi-finals or better since 2002,” Hersch said.

Nine players return to play singles for the Blue Devils. Mathias Rendon, a sophomore, is the No. 1 singles player.

Owen Sheppard will be DHS’ No. 2 singles player, followed by Jared

Umphress at No. 3. Both are the team captains. Adam Wu and Elias Toy play at the Nos. 4 and 5 spots.

Lorenz Angermann, Ayden Morgan, Adhi Ajith and Lukas Voss are the additional singles players.

Seven newcomers are on this year’s team. They are Nathan Yamamoto, Matthew Ormsby, Alec Robins, Andy Zhang, Arav Parikh, Lou Bowlus and Justin Hickey.

“Strengths are singles depth and experience,” Hersch said. “Also, all players get along so well with one another.”

The newcomers have, or will be, seeing action playing doubles.

“We really need to work on our doubles play,” Hersch said. “We have lots of singles players who lack experience and an understanding of doubles.”

The Blue Devils return to action at Pleasant Grove on Tuesday at 3:45 p.m.

Then DHS plays at Cosumnes Oaks on Thursday, also at 3:45 p.m.

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

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Paul Wulff goes through a drill with Cal Poly players in 2022.

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Owen Sheppard, shown here in a Sac-Joaquin Section boys tennis playoff match last May, is one of many players back on the 2023 Davis High squad.

Jared Umphress, shown here in a Sac-Joaquin Section boys tennis playoff match last May, and Sheppard are the Blue Devils’ team captains this spring.

What now for SVB’s equity promises?

By Paulina Gonzalez-Brito and Manuel Pastor Special to CalMatters

Since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the banking industry, federal regulators and the U.S. government have coalesced in an impressive show of solidarity to “shore up the banking system.” Eleven of the nation’s biggest banks came together to provide a $30 billion rescue of beleaguered First Republic Bank. Meanwhile, two of the nation’s largest banks, JPMorgan and Citi, agreed to not poach staff or business from stressed regional and community banks.

While this has been an impressive recognition that the fate of our banking system is indeed interdependent, it’s been less clear whether such solidarity will be extended to those who are further from wealth and influence.

Of special concern to us: whether First Citizens Bank, which purchased SVB at a discount of $16.5 billion, will honor a previously negotiated community benefits agreement that promised $11 billion — $9 billion earmarked for California — for the financial and economic infrastructure of largely low-income communities of color.

This agreement resulted from SVB’s acquisition of Boston Private two years ago, a move that required approval from U.S. banking regulators. In the spirit of interdependence — and because of the Community Reinvestment Act, long-standing federal legislation that guarantees a public voice in such decisions — the bank agreed to the demands of community organizations, demonstrating how a merger could also ensure local investment.

The full $11 billion agreement included $4 billion in small business loans of $1 million or less; $4 billion in community development loans and investments; $1 billion in residential mortgages to low- and moderate-income borrowers; and $60 million in charitable contributions.

It’s not enough to correct the racial wealth gap that left so many without a cushion over the last three years of the pandemic, but it’s a start.

SVB stumbled — and not because it agreed to help local communities but because it mismatched the maturities and yields of its deposits and its assets. Tech titans, who are often libertarian in their political leanings, have insisted that the federal government take extraordinary measures to save wealthy depositors, SVB and the banking system. But they have been silent on whether the obligations to California’s disadvantaged communities will be honored as well.

We think they should. After all, while bankers generally embrace an ideology that markets are efficient, failures are individual and government should always stand back, that philosophy always seems to evaporate when their own assets are at stake. The massive rescue during the 2008-09 financial crisis, the expansion of government support to employers and workers during the pandemic, and the rush of assistance in recent weeks affirms what we already know (and financiers are reluctant to admit): markets are volatile, vulnerability is systemic and government has a role.

With public support should come public benefits. Places where new entrepreneurs can start and maintain a business, where neighborhoods are invested, where prospective homebuyers aren’t living paycheck to paycheck in order to make a mortgage — those are the types of communities that can better sustain themselves and anchor a healthy bank.

To make the banking system whole, we also need to make our communities whole. An important step would be for First Citizens Bank to fully honor and implement the already-negotiated community benefits agreement.

What communities know and is in our hearts: this is our economy. We create it together, and as the recent bank rescues show, we safeguard it together, too. And because of that, we will only thrive if we ensure that we all benefit together.

— Paulina Gonzalez-Brito is the CEO of the California Reinvestment Coalition. Manuel Pastor is director of the Equity Research Institute at USC and the co-author of “Solidarity Economics.”

Will the third time be the charm for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s crusade against California gasoline refiners for what he alleges have been unjustified price spikes in recent months?

On March 20, Newsom announced that he and legislative leaders have reached a deal on giving the California Energy Commission — whose members he appoints — power to monitor how oil companies transform crude oil into fuel, set limits on gross refinery profits and impose civil penalties for exceeding them.

“Together with the Legislature, we’re going to hold Big Oil accountable for ripping off Californians at the pump,” Newsom said in a statement.

“Today’s agreement represents a major milestone in our efforts to drive the oil industry out of the shadows and ensure they play by the rules.”

The latest incarnation of Newsom’s drive to penalize refiners for price gouging was amended into a measure, Senate Bill X1-2, in a special legislative session that he had called to deal with the issue. He and legislative leaders plan to fasttrack the bill, with the goal of placing it on his desk before

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Mamma mia!

the Legislature takes its spring break early next month.

The ambitious enactment is clearly aimed at giving the oil industry as little time as possible to lobby legislators. Its leaders, and business groups such as the California Chamber of Commerce, have labeled the proposed penalties as an indirect tax that will inevitably passed on to consumers.

The industry has been fairly successful in staving off efforts by politicians to regulate its operations. Last year, Newsom and the Legislature placed restrictions on oil wells near schools and homes but they are on hold because the industry has qualified a referendum to overturn the law for the 2024 ballot.

The oil industry, through the Western States Petroleum Association, is the largest single spender on lobbying the Legislature, exhausting

What a great performance by a very talented Theater Department at Davis High School on Sunday, March 12. Thank you, Bob Dunning, for alerting us in your column to the DHS performance of “Mamma Mia.”

The last musical we saw was in The City more than 10 years ago — “Rock of Ages” — and on our impressed ohmmeter, meh.

But DHS put on a show that not only kept us entertained, but also made us wonder, are these students born that talented?

We loved every minute, and will definitely be back in the audience for future shows.

Bravo! to everyone involved in this production. Who knew there is this much talent in our own backyard. Bob Dunning does.

and Bill Grant

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Davis

Donna for District 3

The two candidates for City Council in District 3 both seem competent and qualified, so why am I voting for Donna

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$7.3 million in 2022. The association is also a major campaign contributor, and in alliance with unions representing field and refinery workers, has gained a significant toehold among the Legislature’s dominant Democrats.

That clout effectively torpedoed Newsom’s original plan to place hefty taxes on refinery profits deemed to be excessive. New taxes would require two-thirds votes in both legislative houses, leading Newsom to shift to civil penalties, which would be stated in law and require only simple majority legislative votes.

When the issue was explored in a legislative hearing, however, expert witnesses, including those not affiliated with the oil industry, cast doubt on the state’s ability to determine when pump prices had become price gouging. Legislators were obviously uncomfortable with casting votes to penalize something that could not be precisely defined.

Newsom’s third try is the deal he made this week with legislative leaders to dump the whole thing on the Energy Commission. The commission would be

Neville? Davis faces a number of problems but the three most urgent crises are housing, infrastructure, and the climate emergency (implementing CAAP).

Exacerbating all three is the city’s shortfall in funding. Donna’s service on the Finance and Budget Commission gives her special expertise to deal with the funding problems. Her service on the Planning Commission gives her special expertise to deal with housing and infrastructure.

An important component of the housing crisis is homelessness and Donna’s work with NAMI gives her insights into the mental health programs that some unhoused people need. And her work for the state on environmental issues gives her special expertise to deal with implementing CAAP.

In all these respects Donna stands out as the more qualified candidate and she has my enthusiastic vote.

Jim Cramer Davis

Nogoodniks!

Two pieces that appeared on the Enterprise’s Forum page on March 23 were written by two erstwhile defenders of the white race, purportedly to argue in favor of cultural appropriation as exemplified by the proposed frog installation.

The artist herself had admitted being

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

U.S. Senate

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; email: https://www. feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/ e-mail-me

Sen. Alex Padilla, 112 Hart Senate Office

Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202224-3553; email: https://www.padilla. senate.gov/contact/contact-form/

House of Representatives

Rep. Mike Thompson, 268 Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-3311. District office: 622 Main Street, Suite 106, Woodland, CA 95695; 530-753-5301; email: https:// https:// mikethompsonforms.house.gov/contact/

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

empowered to extract detailed financial information from refiners and set limits on gross profits and impose fines for exceeding them. Shifting the onus to an unelected state agency gives legislators some political cover and thus makes it easier to gain enough votes for passage.

Were the revised legislation to quickly gain legislative approval and be signed by Newsom, the special session he called could then be adjourned, and the new law would take effect 90 days later.

The 90-day window, however, would give the oil industry an opportunity to do what it did on last year’s oil well siting measure and take the issue to voters. It could quickly qualify a referendum that would suspend the new law until voters had the last word.

Given the immense financial stakes, there’s every reason to believe that the oil industry would take the opportunity.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's state Capitol works and why it matters.

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influenced by ancient American cultures, thus rendering the question of cultural appropriation moot.

Hence, it is more than a bit mystifying as to the level of vituperation leveled at fellow citizens who, mistakenly, might have questioned whether the frog represents a piece of cultural appropriation.

“Nogoodnik” has synonyms such as loser, miscreant, scoundrel and bad guy, hardly the kinds of adjectives a reasonably articulate person would use to describe fellow citizens who, justifiably or not, have raised the cultural-appropriation question as regards the frog.

City Council members responded in more appropriate tones.

Councilwoman

Gloria Partida is quoted as suggesting that “this is a topic that deserves conversation. If done correctly, it can reflect something good in our community. Another council member says, “for me it’s about the content of whatever plaque or informational materials go next to the totem.” Raising the question of cultural appropriation is not a direct frontal challenge to white cultural and political hegemony.

Meanwhile, Disney is being challenged for casting a brown-complexioned girl as a Little Mermaid. “Nogoodniks?”

Desmond Jolly Davis

By Llewellyn King

Perceived reality looms over gun issue commenTary

Special to The Enterprise

“Murder most foul,”

cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.

We shudder in the United States when yet more children are slain by deranged shooters. Yet, we are determined to keep a ready supply of AR-15-type assault rifles on hand to facilitate the crazy when the insanity seizes them.

The murder in Nashville of three 9-year-olds and three adults should have us at the barricades, yelling bloody murder.

Enough! Never again!

But we have mustered a national shrug, concluding that nothing can be done.

Clearly, something can be done; something like reviving the assault rifle ban, which expired after 10 years of statistically proven success.

We are culpable. We think our invented entitlement to own these weapons, designed for war, is a divine right, outdistancing reason, compassion and any possible form of control.

The blame rests primarily on something in American exceptionalism that loves guns. I mostly understand that; I like them, as I write from time to time. I also like fast cars, small airplanes, strong drinks, and other hair-raising things. But society has said these need controls — from speed limits to flying instruction — and has severe penalties for mixing the first two with the last. Those controls make sense. We abide by them.

Regarding that other great national indulgence — guns — society has said safety doesn’t count. So far this year, more than 10,000 people have been killed in gun violence. If that were the number of fatalities

from disease, we would again be in lockdown.

We have concocted this sacred right to keep and use guns. To ensure this, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has been manhandled by lawyers into being a justification for putting something deadly out of the reach of social control or even rudimentary discipline.

The latest school shooting has raised our hackles, but not our capacity to act. This national shrug at something that can be fixed is a stain on the body politic. Most of the conservative wing of the establishment, represented by the Republican Party, has dismissed it as one might a natural disaster.

But the routine murder of innocents in school shootings is a man-made disaster. Worse, it is sanctified by a particular interpretation of the Second Amendment.

It is an interpretation that has demanded, and continues to

demand, legal contortionism. This is used to justify the citizenry owning and using weapons of war.

This latest school shooting, which happened in this young year, was shocking, but the political reaction was more shocking.

President Biden wrung his hands and said nothing could be done without the support of Congress — thus endorsing a national fatalism.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina suggested more police officers in schools, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said teachers needed to be armed. His children are homeschooled.

In personal life and in national life, perceived impossibility is hugely debilitating.

Imagine if the Founding Fathers had said the British Empire was too strong to challenge, if FDR had said America couldn’t rise against the forces of the economic chaos of the 1930s,

or if Margaret Thatcher had said British trade unions were too strong to be opposed?

These are incidents where perceived reality was, with struggle, trounced for the general good. Guns, along with drugs, are the largest killer of young people. They aren’t unrelated. Unregulated guns find their way to the drug gangs of Central America, facilitating the flow of drugs.

On the Senate floor, the chamber’s longtime chaplain, retired Rear Adm. Barry C. Black, took on the pusillanimous members of his flock after the Nashville murders, quoting the 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke’s admonition, “The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Indubitably.

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

Framing conversations for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

By Natalia Baltazar

Special to The Enterprise

April is Sexual Assault Awareness

Month and Child Abuse Prevention

Month, campaigns to raise awareness about sexual violence, and to hear, believe, and support survivors.

Sexual violence is an umbrella term that includes any type of unwanted sexual contact — including sexual assault, harassment, and abuse; see nsvrc.org/ saam. Chances are someone in your life is a survivor of sexual harassment, assault, or abuse, even if they have never shared their story with you. Show your support for survivors this month by raising awareness and taking action.

“After 30 years of being in the movement and trying to raise funds for sexual assault issues, donors and businesses are still uncomfortable talking about and supporting sexual assault awareness efforts,” said Lynnette Irlmeier, executive director of Empower Yolo. This makes awareness and prevention efforts more challenging for Empower Yolo advocates. Conversations around sexual assault can be uncomfortable or rather make them an opportunity to learn more about rape culture, listen and support survivors, amplify the voices of the marginalized, be more aware of the language we use, and truly understand consent.

In 2022, 427 survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking (of which 156 were children) received advocacy, accompaniment or support services from Empower Yolo. These statistics reveal the issues are very real in our community and they affect hundreds of adults and children.

This month Empower Yolo highlights prevention, healing, recovery, equity, and activism. Our call to action for the community is to join us in the movement to raise awareness and support survivors.

These are concrete ways you can support Empower Yolo and take action:

Prevention — Prevention education for our youths is essential and is usually unfunded. Empower Yolo’s prevention education program is focused on promoting healthy relationships and preventing abuse and rape in teen relationships.

Empower Yolo advocates educate teens about healthy relationships through the My Strength, Be Strong, and Our Strength clubs in schools.

My Strength Club invites young men to a group that doesn’t see them as part of the problem, but rather as the solution by exploring the role of men to stop dating violence and rape. The Be Strong program, an asset-based health promotion and violence prevention curriculum, empowers young women, and Our Strength is a genderinclusive prevention program. Group topics cover a range of issues including abuse types, date rape, predatory drugs, teen dating violence, healthy relationships, and bystander intervention. A business or donor could sponsor one of these clubs to support local youths.

Healing — Empower Yoga is an 8-week

trauma-informed yoga series for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. It’s a safe space to support healing. Sponsor an 8-week session or a class for a survivor.

Equity — VALOR, California’s state sexual assault coalition’s SAAM campaign theme this year is called “Equity in Action,” the intersection of sexual violence with other forms of oppression. As a member of VALOR, we ask you to join us in increasing our capacity to assert the dignity of all people. Systems of oppression such as sexism and racism contribute to higher rates of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse.

Empower Yolo recognizes that it will take ending all forms of oppression to end sexual violence. We call on all individuals, communities, organizations, and institutions to change ourselves, and the systems surrounding us, to build equity and respect.

Activism — April 26th is Denim Day.

Denim Day is all about spreading awareness around sexual violence issues, supporting survivors, and educating others, and ourselves. The campaign began after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent.

The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. Denim Day asks community members to make a social statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual violence. On April 26 post a selfie in denim and tag @ empower_yolo #DenimDay2023. There will also be a Denim Day Rally for Sexual Assault Awareness Month at the state capitol on April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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For more info visit denimday.org.

This month we also call on students and young leaders to talk about the work they are doing in their communities to end sexual violence.

At Davis Senior High School (DHS) students are taking action to raise awareness about sexual assault. Some students in a Race and Social Justice class created a sexual assault survey to research more on the topic. “After the assemblies last year [at DHS] that upset a lot of students we wanted to research how and what DJUSD and DHS specifically are doing to prevent sexual harassment/ assault in Davis schools. We also want to find ways to improve people’s knowledge of the problem,” says Luke Isidor, Junior, DHS and member of Empower Youth Service Club.

The goal of the survey is to collect data and people’s answers on if they feel safe at DHS and what the school can improve upon regarding raising awareness and supporting sexual assault survivors. The group will then give a presentation to the public regarding the issue. “After our group did research we realized that DHS doesn’t do much to help survivors of sexual assault or raise awareness on the issues. The handbook seems outdated and there are relatively no posters in the bathrooms. We want to change that,” says Isidor.

Empower Youth (a service club at DHS that supports Empower Yolo) members will be passing out SAAM stickers with Empower Yolo’s hotline and website, and will be hosting a presentation and social media awareness campaign on SAAM.

Players from the UC Davis women’s lacrosse team will be giving a healthy relationships talk at one of their meetings and club members and the community are invited to the One Love lacrosse game, which promotes healthy relationships on April 15 at 1 p.m. at UC Davis Health

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Stadium. Join us in building equity and respect within our communities, workplaces, and schools for the future of our youths — as it is crucial to making real change.

April is also National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 23–29, 2023. The theme this year — Survivor Voices: Elevate. Engage. Effect Change — calls upon communities to amplify the voices of survivors and commit to creating an environment where survivors have the confidence that they will be heard, believed, and supported.

Yolo County Victim Services will begin National Crime Victims’ Rights Week with its annual Crime Victims’ Tribute, which honors Yolo County crime victimsurvivors, their families, and those that advocate on their behalf. The event will be held on April 25, 2023, 12:00 — 1:00 pm., at the Woodland Opera House, 340 Second Street, in Woodland.

This month Empower Yolo will take action in many ways; join us in these opportunities to get involved and make an impact:

n Empower Yolo will be hosting its annual “Shower for the Shelter” for clients at the safe house. Donate new needed items during the in-person drop-off event on Saturday, April 22, 9 a.m. — 3 p.m. at 441 D Street, Davis, or drop off donations any time during April in Davis or Woodland during office hours;

n Follow Empower Yolo’s awareness campaign in April. We will be highlighting “5 things you can do to help end sexual assault and rape culture”;

n On Wednesday, April 5 wear teal — the color of sexual violence prevention — to show your support of survivors; take a selfie and tag @empower_yolo, #WearTealDay2023, #SAAM2023. By wearing teal, you’re signaling that you support survivors, and are a safe person to talk to if they need to reach out;

n Thursday, April 13 is Take Back the Night at UC Davis. Empower Yolo advocates will be doing outreach at the event. Empower Yolo’s spring peer counselor training begins the first week in April. If you would like to support survivors and make a difference in our community join Empower Yolo’s training; applications are still being accepted until April 3. To download an application visit empoweryolo.org/volunteer/.

Discussions about sexual violence, racial issues, equity, and inclusion are often avoided due to feeling uncomfortable. Being uncomfortable is okay — but everyone must show up with courage and humility to effect change; make it an opportunity to learn more and support survivors. We can help create change if we take the time to hear, understand, and recognize one another.

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

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Empower Youth Service Club members at Davis High School line up for Denim Day.

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A special family member has moved on

My daughter’s family dog, Sutter, died recently. A nearly 17-year-old beagle mix, Sutter is the dog who gave me a second chance at dog love by rescuing me from errors that occurred almost 70 years ago.

When I was 6 years old, my parents adopted Chippy, a young and spirited dog, part English pointer, who was intended as a pet for my little brother and me. I remember nothing about the decision to get a dog, so I assume it was made behind closed doors, where I imagined my parents talked to each other about important matters.

I don’t remember Chippy’s arrival or any excitement on my part, which is confirmed by the only photograph I have of him. It shows me looking concerned as he tugs on his leash. The occasion was our annual family photograph, always snapped on my parents’ anniversary, April 7.

Chippy’s inclusion in the photo signals that he was intended to be permanent, while the disorder you see — my brother looking nervous, my father tugging hard — signals the rocky future that awaited.

In the weeks after the anniversary photo, things went poorly in

ways I no longer remember. Did Chippy fail to obey? Did he nip at children? I know my parents saw him as a problem.

Nowadays, a Davis family with a difficult dog might take it for training. Did my parents seek training or advice? Did they read books? Did they view Chippy as a shared project, or was he there from the desire of only one parent?

In the end, my parents gave him back.

I felt bad when Chippy was suddenly gone, with little explanation. After that, I don’t remember wanting a dog, although for two years we took care of Mickey, an elderly dog from my grandmother who died when I was 10.

Still confused about Chippy, I didn’t get attached.

I don’t think I was majorly scarred by the experience with

Chippy, but it left me with no desire to have a dog.

My daughter and her husband adopted Sutter with a purpose. They didn’t have children yet, but they had a big problem. My daughter had sustained a mysterious neck injury and for more than a year the pain wouldn’t go away. She stayed home a lot, alone, in a chair. The idea was that a dog would provide amusement and company.

I worried that it might be too lively or nip.

Sutter came and immediately began to re-educate me. My daughter lived in the Bay area then, and I visited frequently. A family member encouraged me to bring treats, so Sutter began looking forward to my visits, which always began with something tasty from a bag. This pattern lasted for the 17 years of his life, although sometimes in the rush of packing and flying, I would forget to have a treat ready at the door.

My grandsons learned to whisper, “Do you have Sutter’s treat?” and if the answer was “no” they ran to the kitchen, secured one and passed it surreptitiously to me. If Sutter noticed the ruse, he didn’t object. His tail

wagged like crazy.

I cry when I think of Sutter now because he cured my daughter. Maybe time and medications helped, but mostly I credit Sutter. With his love, he somehow made her neck OK and when her neck was OK, she was able to resume her career and have her first child.

In more recent years, as Sutter aged, I began to see in him what happens to grandparents. His love for the family was there as always, high as the sky, deep as the sea, but he wasn’t able to do all his doggy things as well as he used to. He slept a lot. He remembered about treats upon my arrival, but one of them upset his stomach and he took a couple of days to recover.

He went deaf and stopped barking at the mailman.

He still loved it when I took him for walks, but the family tells me that at the end, the spring faded from his step, until walking became impossible.

By now, I understand the passion people have for dogs, including loving them as much as a person.

Why not?

If the dog has rescued your

child from the worst illness of her life, if he has taught your grandchildren about caring and made them eager to adopt guinea pigs as well, if he has made Grandma think that she might want her own dog someday, why wouldn’t he be the object of pure love?

My 11-year-old grandson snapped a photo of Sutter on his last day. He rests on his doggy ring, his eyes huge and a bit unfocused. He looks both trusting and tired.

He died surrounded by love especially from my daughter and from her husband, who wrote on his Facebook page that they had “never known adult life without him.”

The Facebook post makes me cry. The same thing happens when I imagine their home without its most persistent couch occupant, its treat-seeker, the faithful medicine man and companion who always wanted to lie in the sun.

Sutter didn’t want to be in the newspaper — he never asked for recognition — but it’s important to me that he appear here today.

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

Grants help survivors through difficult times

Special to The Enterprise

Pink Team volunteers have seen firsthand and embrace the tremendous resiliency of those in our community who face a challenging and life-altering breast cancer diagnosis, many of them our friends, family members and neighbors. Many also struggle to find their footing to move forward with increasing health burdens, the inability to work, rising medical bills, and housing and food insecurity.

It is also often difficult and unexpected news to hear such a diagnosis with a vast majority of these women, about 85%, are the first in their families to face such a diagnosis.

Breast cancer is a prevalent disease with about 13% (1 in 8) facing this difficult journey. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women.

Thriving Pink is dedicated to serve the breast cancer community in Yolo County to ensure no one goes through this difficult journey alone. The local organization provides a compassionate network of support through one-onone Pink Peers, educational workshops led by medical professionals, resources, and support groups. “I truly appreciate the Pink Peer program and workshops because it has made such a world of difference for me. I encourage others to reach out too,” shared Siv Winberg.

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Every year, Thriving Pink also provides critical financial assistance to local breast cancer survivors through individual financial grants to many local women and their families who need the most help and support for essential and basic needs. “We want to make a positive impact on a local level, and we see the great need to share our resources to do this together,” shared Thriving Pink founder Mary Yin Liu.

The poverty rate in Yolo County is 21.95% higher than the California average and the third highest county poverty rate in California. Jacob Hibel, the co-director for UC Davis’ Center for Poverty & Inequality Research, made a statement recently to address the poverty crisis. “Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, Yolo County families were struggling economically, with about 1 in 5 households being below the poverty threshold.”

The Granting Pink Program for Thriving Pink continues to help many women and their families by filling a great need for immediate and essential needs, covering medical treatment, health insurance costs, food and groceries, rent, transportation, and quality-of-life care. Rose Cholewinski of SwimAmerica-Davis has served as the dedicated

Chair of Granting Pink since its inception when Thriving Pink started in 2016, “Thank you for making this important program possible because what you do matters, and your generosity is making a difference.”

Thriving Pink volunteers, including dozens of Pink Peers and board members, showed up to help present 27 newly diagnosed women in Yolo County with thoughtful gift bags filled with resource materials and individual financial grants. A local grant recipient who spoke Spanish from Woodland arrived with nearly a dozen relatives surrounding her — her parents, husband and young children.

“I can’t believe so many people in the community

gave so much to help us,” she said. “My doctor referred me to Thriving Pink and I thought it was too good to be true, but it’s really true. I can now pay for more medical bills and my family doesn’t have to worry so much. You are all here just to care for me and I am very moved by all this support.”

“There were a lot of tears, but they were good tears — some of them mine, too,” shared Jenna Elms, a local Davis High School student. “The gifts were touching and meaningful, and I’m so glad to be here this weekend to volunteer.”

Thriving Pink will celebrate and recognize all the Thriving Pink grant awardees, community partners, and supporters at the upcoming seventh

Local photographer wins for great shot with lousy lens

Enterprise staff

Woodland resident Katie

DelaVaughn won first prize at the International Krappy Kamera Competition by the New York-based Soho Photo Gallery.

DelaVaugh, a YoloArts teaching artist, is also a recipient of the 2023 The City of Davis Arts & Culture Grants for Individual Artists.

The Soho Photo Gallery searches for extraordinary photographs made with lousy lenses. Examples of some Krappy Kameras are the Holga, Diana, Ansco, and pinhole cameras. You can also create your own Krappy Kamera by using your non-Krappy Kamera (e.g. 4×5, SRL, DSLR) and exchanging the lens with a Krappy lens (e.g. pinhole body cap, or Holga-type lens).

DelaVaugh’s winning entry is online at https://www.sohophoto. com/.

“When I had narrowed down nearly a thousand entries to just

name Droppers

under a hundred, my wife asked me, ‘What are you looking for?’ ” said juror Jean “Gino” Miele.

“‘Magic,’ I said. Ooh. Aah. Better than good. A feeling. A big, unequivocal yes! I wasn’t looking for ‘good,’ or ‘I kind of like that.’ I wasn’t looking for clever, or cute. (To be honest, there was one exception to this, but it really made me smile.) I definitely wasn’t looking for cliché.

“I was looking for access to another dimension. There’s a dream world intertwined with this one, and we all drift back-and-forth, never entirely sure which world we’re in.”

UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia Winokur of the Chris Barker Lab won the $2,600 Hollandsworth Prize for best student research presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association’s

annual conference in Reno.

Winokur delivered her presentation on “Thermal Preferences of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes.”

“Mosquito-borne pathogen transmission models used to inform control decisions are only applicable if we incorporate the temperatures mosquitoes experience,” she wrote in her abstract. “Incorporating these preferences could improve the accuracy of transmission models for Ae. aegypti-borne viruses.”

A UCD alumna, Winokur received her doctorate in entomology, with a designated emphasis in the biology of vector-borne diseases, in November 2022, studying with Professor Barker of the department of pathology, microbiology and immunology in the School of Veterinary Medicine.

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

annual Pink Gala. Please save the date and join us on Friday, May 5, at the picturesque Olive Grove Courtyard at the Yin Ranch Estate in Vacaville. Community Service Awardees this year include Dr. Claudia De Young of Kaiser Permanente, the George and Lena Valente Foundation, and Linda Dunn of Bloom Again.

Emcees Krysten Cholewinski and Emma Hunter will join the board members to lead the very special program and thank many Pink Heroes in our community. Funds raised will directly help local breast cancer survivors to receive future financial assistance through the Granting Pink program. Please visit www.thrivingpink.org to reserve a seat or table today.

Special to The Enterprise

1. Mottos and Slogans.

What soft drink once commanded us to “Drink it slow. Doctor’s orders”?

2. Internet Culture.

What is the name of the most-used Chinese search engine that provides similar services to Google?

3. Sports. Who is the only tennis player to win a Golden Slam, meaning that she won all four Grand Slam tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in the same year?

4. Great Americans.

Born in 1970, who is the most famous actor and writer who has a

Other upcoming events also include the Pink Speaker Series workshops: Monday, April 10, 7-8 p.m., with Dr. Nicole Carbo of Sutter Hospital (Screening guidelines for breast cancer detection, biopsy and the role of imaging); and Monday, April 24, 7-8 p.m., with Brenda Gustin, Ph.D., of Radiant Health Center (Metta Meditation and Practice).

Each workshop includes time for Q&A and time near the end for open conversations and support among breast cancer survivors/thrivers. The next Morning Walk is also scheduled for Saturday, April 15, 10-11 a.m., at Northstar Pond in Davis (park at Tandem Properties).

All Thriving Pink programs and services are provided at no cost to the community. Email info@ thrivingpink.org or visit the website at www. thrivingpink.org to join an upcoming Pink Speakers Series workshop, support group, or morning walk. If you or someone you know needs support, we also encourage you to contact Thriving Pink for a Pink Peer. We truly appreciate your support and generosity which sustains Thriving Pink’s mission to provide a compassionate network of resources to help those in Yolo County impacted by breast cancer.

— Submitted by Thriving Pink board members.

four-letter first name and a three-letter last name?

5. Dog Names. The most popular boy dog name in 2023 is also one of the shortest. What is it?

Answers: Dr. Pepper, Baidu, Steffi Graf, Tina Fey, Max.

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

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A local Thriving Pink grant recipient gets encouragement from a supporter.

Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

UC Davis men’s tennis too much for Cal Poly

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The UC Davis had no problems dealing with the visiting Cal Poly Mustangs in a Big West Conference match, posting a 5-2 win Friday afternoon at the Marya Welch Tennis Center.

The win is the eighth of the season for UCD (2-0 in the Big West, 8-5).UCD picked up the first point of the match in doubles play, with wins from the doubles teams of Andrei Volgin/Mitchell Davis and Brett Brinkman/Andras Necz. Constantinos Djakouris tacked on the final point of the match for the Aggies with a hard fought three set win.

Now UCD travels to the East Bay to take on Saint Mary’s College on Thursday at 2 p.m.

The two teams were scheduled to face off in midMarch, but the match was rained out.

Aggie women’s tennis

LOS ANGELES — The UC Davis women tennis team’s trip to Los Angeles got off to an unfortunate start on Friday, as Cal State Fullerton posted a 4-1 Big West Conference win.

The match started well for UCD (2-3 in the Big West Conference, 6-9 overall), with the doubles teams of Yana Gurevich/Arianna Stavropoulos and Michelle Zell/Carly Schwartzberg won their matchups to put the Aggies up a point going into singles play.Cal State Fullerton (3-1 in the Big West, 11-5) was unshaken, and put the match away decisively with straight set wins in the first four singles matches.

This is Fullerton’s fifth straight victory.

UC Davis had another Big West match against Cal State Northridge (3-1 in the Big West, 13-3) on Saturday.

Sacramento Kings

SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento Kings announced Friday that guard Matthew Dellavedova sustained a right index finger fracture during the fourth quarter of Wednesday’s game versus the Portland Trailblazers.

Treatment options are being considered.

At this time, there is no timetable for Dellavedova’s return and updates will be given when appropriate.

MLB: Win predictions for Giants, A’s BALL: Time for grid spring drills

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foresees the Giants winning as many games this year as last year, 81.

Oakland fans hope their team wins more than 59.

USA Today has SF at 83, Oakland 59.

The Sporting News is a tad more generous, Oakland with 69 to 80 for San Francisco.

Recapping what’s new for ‘23: The pitch clock. Pitchers have 15 seconds to deliver a pitch when the bases are empty, 20 seconds when runner (s) are on. Larger bases, 18 inches square compared to 15. This is designed to encourage more stolen

base attempts.

Defensive positioning. No shifts. There must be two infielders on one side of second base, two on the other side. All infielders must be on the dirt cutout. Outfielders are free to roam wherever.

Hitters must be facing the pitcher when there are 8 seconds left on the pitch clock. They may step out of the batter’s box only once per at-bat. Pitchers are allowed three pickoff attempts per runner at first base. A fourth results in a balk, unless the runner is picked off.

n Last week, NFL owners met in Phoenix. One of the “suggestions” floated was giving the league’s television partners the

ability to “flex” games from a Sunday afternoon to the following Thursday night. On 15 days’ notice.

It was tabled for the moment, but you can bet it will come up again before too long.

Naturally, the reason expressed for this change was because the ratings on Amazon Prime (another bad idea) had dipped somewhat.

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

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impact for our players and their weight room development.

“I also met and greeted people throughout the state, which is very important for me, to get a better feel for how people feel on the outside and what their past is and get a better feel for Cal Poly football and their alumni,” Wulff said.

Now it’s time to put on some football gear, start running and throwing the ball, rushing and catching it, block and tackle.

The Mustangs will cram 15 practice days into a four-week Spring

Camp that starts Tuesday and wraps up with the annual Spring Game on Saturday, April 29, at noon inside Alex G. Spanos Stadium.

Most practice sessions will be held on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Doerr Family Field, with a scrimmage planned for Saturday, April 22 at 10 a.m.

Wulff, who compiled a 53-40 record in eight seasons (2000-07) at Eastern Washington before coaching at Washington State from 200811, takes over a program that has struggled in recent years, winning just 13 of 58 games in the six

years since earning an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoff berth in 2016.

“This year’s team has an opportunity to set the tone for the future of Cal Poly football, what our identity is going to be, because we haven’t been in a position the last few years to rebuild and set a tone for anything,” said Wulff. “I think this will be a year of really truly setting a baseline for this program moving forward.”

— Erick Burdick is the Assistant Athletics Director for Athletics Communications at Cal Poly.

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Sacramento Kings guard Matthew Dellavedova talks to the press after the team’s win over the Utah Jazz on March 25.