The Davis Enterprise Friday, April 14, 2023

Blue Devil boys lax falls in home finale

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Second crash victim dies

Suspect pleads not guilty to murder

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Contestants in

2019 Picnic Day

Doxie Derby take off down the track. The dachshund races are always a highlight of Picnic Day celebrations. Owen Yancher/ enterprise file phOtO

Tickets for Doxie Derby sell out

By Monica Stark

Enterprise staff writer

Hot diggity dog! Tickets have been sold out for the annual Doxie Derby at Saturday’s Picnic Day.

With 84 dogs registered, there will be eight heats for the standard dachshunds, six heats

for the mini dachshunds, and two for the open race. These exclude the championships for each group type and the final race for standard versus mini.

“I love being able to see how many people come together for this awesome event. People come from all over just to see the Doxie Derby. We even have

someone driving their doxie from Seattle to participate in the event,” April Yoshihara, Vice President of the Class of 2025 at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said. If you didn’t get a chance to reserve a ticket, you could still join the fun by watching the livestream link (see below). Put

on by the second-year veterinary medicine students, the Doxie Races traditionally have had a long line of eager dachshund lovers outside of the University Credit Union Center.

The Doxie Races began in 1972, and this is the first time

See DOXIE, Page A5

Plans for connection between Amtrak station and Olive Drive continue

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Plans for a grade-separated pedestrian/bike crossing from the Amtrak station to Olive Drive continue moving forward.

Two options — each at 30 percent of design — have been completed, according to a staff report prepared for Thursday’s Bicycling, Transportation and Street Safety Commission.

One is for an overcrossing with stairs and elevators, the other for an undercrossing with an ADA-accessible ramp and tunnel.

The total cost of either

option won’t be clear until designs are at 60 percent, according to city staff, but Amtrak would foot part of the bill as part of a multiyear effort to bring its stations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and amid plans for a third main track at the Davis station.

The city also has $1 million available from its development agreement with the builders of the Ryder (formerly Lincoln 40) apartment project on Olive Drive.

According to city staff, the Amtrak Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, in partnership with Union

Pacific, began working collaboratively in 2012 to design and environmentally clear a third main track for additional Capitol Corridor trips.

At the same time, Amtrak was working on bringing stations into ADA compliance.

As the city of Davis owns the land and buildings at the Davis Amtrak station, Amtrak representatives reached out to discuss the needs for the project, including for additional land outside the railroad right of way to build the access to the crossing.

See AMTRAK, Page A5

WOODLAND —

As a Woodland family grieved a second loved one’s death, the teen accused of causing the collision that took those lives made his first appearance Wednesday in Yolo County juvenile court.

ADELINA PEREZ 4-year-old died of her injuries

The 13-year-old, who entered Judge Janene Beronio’s courtroom handcuffed to a wheelchair and wearing a neck brace, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and other charges stemming from Saturday’s fiery crash at Court and College streets.

He faces 13 counts in all, including vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, evading a peace officer causing death and injury, evading a peace officer with reckless driving, child endangerment, vehicle theft

See CRASH, Page A5

Jensen named to public works/transit post

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

Dianna Jensen has

been named the city’s director of public works engineering and transportation.

City Manager Mike Webb announced the appointment on Thursday.

Jensen, who has worked for the city of Davis for a total of 14 years, is the first woman in Davis history to serve in this capacity.

She started with the city in 2007 as an associate civil engineer in the engineering division,

overseeing projects and working with contractors, consulting engineers and members of the public.

From there, Jensen worked in the water operations division as a senior civil engineer before being promoted to principal civil engineer managing the division.

JENSEN Appointment announced Thursday See JENSEN, Page A5

DHS band holds demonstration

Members of the Davis High School symphonic band program, led by director Thomas Slabaugh, will be hosting a free musical instrument demonstration event for all elementary school students on Saturday, April 22, during the Davis Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Solidarity Stage in Central Park.

Elementary school students and their families are invited to drop by to learn more about each instrument and the band programs. Email djusdmusic@gmail. com for questions.

Like musical chairs without the music

“Candidates weigh in on city finances, housing,” said the Page 1, abovethe-fold headline over Anne Ternus-Bellamy's Enterprise story.

Turns out the League of Women

Voters recently held an online forum for the two candidates running to fill out the term of Lucas Frerichs, who is now a member of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.

The Election is only for those voters who live within the District 3 boundaries as they were constituted in 2019. The district lines have been redrawn since the 2020 census, which means some folks who no longer live in District 3 will nevertheless be allowed to vote in this special election.

All of which raises the question of which councilperson will these folks turn to when they have a concern about something in their neighborhood?

There are two candidates, Francesca Wright and Donna Neville, battling for the District 3 seat. So much for the oft-repeated claim that district elections would scare up all sorts of grass-roots candidates given the dramatically lower cost of running a district campaign versus a citywide race.

In the online forum, each candidate was asked a series of questions, one of which dealt with the top three issues constituents in District 3 have been raising on the campaign trail.

Nobody asked me, but in a highly scientific survey I conducted in our neighborhood, the No. 1 question that came my way was “Do we live in District 3? Who knew?”

The No. 2 question I received was “We're having an Election?

Who knew?”

And the No. 3 question was “Who represents us now?”

The answers, in order, are Yes, Yes and No One.

That's right. Ever since Jan. 3 when Frerichs took his considerable leadership talents to Woodland, District 3 has not been represented on the Davis City Council. If that doesn't defeat the

very idea of district representation, I don't know what does.

Most District 3 residents told me they didn't realize there was an election — or a vacancy — until they received their Voter Information Guide in the mail a few weeks ago.

Explains the Guide under the heading “City Council District Vacancy Election: This special vacancy election is for the remainder of an unexpired term, which ends in December 2024, in the City of Davis City Council District 3.”

Furthermore, “The candidate with the most votes for this contest will fill the vacancy and hold the office for the unexpired term of the former incumbent.”

What a novel concept. The most votes wins. Period. No Electoral College, no ranked choice voting, just plain, simple math. The one with the most votes wins.

Given that we now have six voters in our home, compared to just two in 2019, I'm frankly shocked that both candidates have not camped out on our front doorstep. Clearly, the path to sitting in the high-back chair in the council chambers goes directly through our humble household. As goes

UCD study details social-media effects

By Karen Nikos-Rose Special to The Enterprise

Social media connects people and amplifies different aspects of humanity in good and bad ways. But the effects of social media appear neither universally good nor bad, but rather present an oscillating, dynamic system that can be divisive but also uniting, a new UC Davis study suggests.

Department of communication researchers said their findings both in an observational study and simulation speak to the ongoing debate about social media’s contributions to political polarization, misinformation and echo chambers. To conduct their research, they analyzed millions of Twitter posts across the United States, finding that, among other things, people do not always isolate in their own communities, particularly during large world events.

The research, published April 12 in the Journal of Communication, is one of various articles appearing in a special issue titled “Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.” The special issue focuses on understanding apparent contradictions in social media research.

What’s the difference?

Researchers observed two types of information diffusion patterns: broad-

cast and viral spreading.

Broadcast spreading is associated with an integrated public discourse that motivates collective participation in the public dialogue on social media, researchers observed. In other words, broadcast spreading originates from a limited number of sources and quickly reaches a very wide audience. In the study, this happened when a particular topic or issue quickly gained traction on Twitter and was talked about among a large number of people.

In 2020, when the research took place, broadcast spreading topics included the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests in response to the killing of George Floyd, and the presidential election debate, for example.

Topics associated with viral spreading, however, build audiences more slowly, and do not typically reach as many people, researchers said. This is referred to in the study as segregated communication.

Viral spreading originates from one source and is transferred only to people that source is connected with. “Think of it like a game of telephone,” said Richard Huskey, an assistant professor of communication and corresponding author for the article. “I learn something, tell you, you tell your friend, and then your friend tells their

friend. That’s an example of viral spreading. Information more slowly diffuses from person-to-person,” he said.

These communications focus on different media events and social issues, shape public discussion in different ways, and often lead to different social outcomes.

“We found that public discourse on social media displays an oscillation between integration and segregation depending on external social influences from important real-world events,” said Xuanjun (Jason) Gong, a doctoral candidate and lead author of the article.

— UC Davis News

Hunt Way, so goes the election.

“On June 7, 2022, Yolo County held an election for Yolo County Supervisor, District. 2. The incumbent in the City of Davis City Council District 3 was elected to the Board of Supervisors by a majority of voters and took office in January 2023.”

Why they keep calling Lucas “the incumbent” instead of telling us his actual name is anyone's guess, but maybe nobody who put this together knows how to spell “F-R-E-R-I-C-H-S.”

Vanna, can I buy a vowel?

So a guy from city District 3 now represents county District 2 and he didn't even have to move.

“Because this City Council position was elected using the 2019 district boundaries, this special election to fill the remainder of the term must use those 2019 boundaries.”

So, if George Washington pays us a visit and decides to throw his hat in the ring again, do only 13 states get to vote in the 2024 presidential election?

Vote early, vote often.

Unless you don't live in District 3. Then don't vote at all.

Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Pedestrian killed on Olive Drive identified

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff

writer

A 25-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a possible pedestrian hit-and-run collision on Olive Drive.

Trevor Lewis was found deceased at about 2:30 a.m. Monday on Olive Drive. Davis police located the involved vehicle and driver later that day, but did not make an arrest.

"This isn't as straightforward as it would have appeared," Deputy Police Chief Todd Henry told The Davis Enterprise on

Tuesday.

Henry said investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy, scheduled for Saturday, before determining whether criminal charges are warranted. Until then, "we're in a holding pattern."

Anyone who may have been at or near the collision scene between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. Monday and has more information is urged to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400 or policeweb@cityofdavis. org.

Calendar

Saturday,

April 22

n This Earth Day, give back to the planet by joining Putah Creek Council for a creek cleanup! The cleanup will run from 9 a.m. until noon, and lunch after the cleanup will be provided. Putah Creek Council will be operating two sites – one at Winters Nature Park (meet at the Rotary Park gazebo, 201 E Main Street in Winters) and one in the UC Davis Riparian Reserve (meet at the Levee Road trailhead). Wear sturdy shoes, weatherappropriate clothing, and bring a reusable water bottle. All necessary equipment, water and a lunch will be provided. Register to volunteer by visiting putahcreekcouncil.org/ events.

n Members of the Davis High School symphonic band program, led by director Thomas Slabaugh, will be hosting a free musical instrument demonstration event for all elementary school students during the Davis Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Solidarity Stage in Central Park. Elementary school students and their families are invited to drop by to learn more about each instrument and the band programs in the local public schools. Please email djusdmusic@gmail.com with any questions.

Friday, April 28

n The Avid Reader will host award-winning and best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler for a discussion of her most recent book, “Booth.” The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase both in store at The Avid Reader Davis and online at www.avidreaderbooks.com.

Saturday, April 29

n The Yolo Basin Foundation’s California Duck Days Festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters, 45211 County Road 32B in Davis, and will include environmental education activities, wetland themed arts and crafts, live animals and hourly tours of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. The exhibitor area will host more than 20 local environmental organizations. For more information, visit www. yolobasin.org/california-duck-days/.

Helping the environment with a pioneer

By Sara Thompson

Special to the Enterprise

Rachel Louise Carson was born in May 1907 in Pennsylvania on her family’s farm. As a child she attended a local schools and graduated top of her class. When not in school she spent most of her time exploring the 65 acres of her family’s farm and writing short stories. Her stories often involved animals, particularly marine animals.

She attended the Pennsylvania College for Women, pursuing a degree in English at first, but switched to biology shortly after. She continued writing and wrote for the school’s newspaper. She graduated in 1929 and continued her studies at Johns Hopkins in zoology and genetics. She received her master’s degree in zoology in 1932 after she completed thesis research in the embryonic development of fish.

Although Carson wanted to pursue a Ph.D., she was forced to search for employment to support her aging parents during the Great Depression. One of her first jobs was writing short, educational programs for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to broadcast

on the radio. Her predecessors

gave her a leg up on her colleagues

secure her a full-time position and Management in 1940), Carson would analyze field data on fish populations and write brochures and other public literature. She also regularly submitted articles to The Baltimore Sun. Several of her written works were submitted to scientific journals and magazines. By 1945 she was supervising a small writing staff and became chief editor of publications in 1949. During this time, she was working on writing and

publishing books about the oceans and marine life.

In 1945, she learned of the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, and began to research its effects on the environment. In 1962 she published her book “Silent Spring,” which described the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, especially DDT. The book influenced and helped launch many environmental movements. She was not the first to raise these concerns, but her ability to write to broad audiences helped to increase awareness.

Carson sadly passed away in April 1964, after battling breast cancer. Through her publications, especially “Silent Spring,” her work was able to launch much of the environmental work being done today. Because of this she is known as the mother of modern environmentalism, not just because of her publications but also from her wealth of biological knowledge.

Explorit’s coming events:

n Our exhibit “Explorit Rocks!” is open to the public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission is $5 per person.

Explorit Members, ASTC, and those age 2 and under free.

n Mark your calendars! Big Day of Giving is on Thursday, May 4. Don’t want to wait to help Explorit continue to educate and inspire the scientists of tomorrow, donate now at: https://www.explorit.org/ donate.

n A Membership to Explorit grants the recipient free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, discounts on events, summer camps and workshops, and gives you ASTC benefits to visit other museums throughout the world. To purchase or for more information visit https://www.explorit. org/membership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.

n School Programs are available to schedule for the 2023-2024 school year. We have educational programs that travel to schools and options for field trips at our facility. Please call 530-756-0191 for more information or to schedule.

— Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http://www. explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/explorit.fb.

UCD team heads genetic analysis of spider

By Kathy Keatley Garvey Enterprise staff writer

Two UC Davis spider experts played a key role in analyzing the genetics of a newly discovered kite spider in Madagascar that is drawing worldwide attention for its lekking behavior, the first known observation of lekking in spiders.In lekking, certain species of males in the animal world, including black grouse, peacock and owl parrots, congregate in a courtship ritual to entice females to mate with them. This is unusual because spiders are notoriously solitary and cannibalistic.

Jason Bond, the Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in the UC Davis department of entomology and nematology and project scientist James Starrett headed the genetic analysis. The research paper was recently published in the journal, Insect Systematics and Diversity.

“This paper is significant in a number of respects including the discovery of a new species of orb

web-weaving spider that is social; most spiders are solitary predators that are cannibalistic,” said Bond, who doubles as associate dean at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “Although additional behavioral studies are needed to confirm, what is particularly interesting about this paper is that we report what is likely the first known observation of lekking behavior in spiders.”

The paper, “Discovery and Genetic Characterization of Single Cohort Adult Colonies With Male Aggregations, and Preliminary Evidence for Lekking in a Malagasy Kite Spider (Isoxya, Gasteracanthinae),” is drawing worldwide attention, including a piece, “Spider Solidarity: Scientists Discover New Species With Unprecedented Social Behavior,” in Entomology Today, a publication of the 7000-member Entomological Society of America.

Ingi Agnarsson, a professor of zoology at the

University of Iceland and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., headed the international team of researchers.

While looking for bark spiders in the rainforests of Andasibe-Mantadia

National Park, the scientists observed large colonies of interconnected webs, built by what they

later determined to be a new species.

In examining the webs, the researchers noticed multiple males gathering close together, sometimes touching, in a central, nonsticking line. They counted up to 41 interconnected, singlecohort adult female webs with up to 38 adult males

aggregating on a central, single, nonsticky line.

In all, their mile-long research area yielded 22 spider colonies, ranging from 2 to 79 spiders in webs two inches to almost eight inches in size. The spiders are dark gray with black coloring and large protruding spines.

Courtesy photo Rachel Carson.

Picnic Day ‘safety enhancement zone’ starts Friday night

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Davis police remind the community about Friday’s 6 p.m. start to the Picnic Day “safety enhancement zone,” where penalties are boosted for certain municipal-code violations.

First established in 2011 following a Picnic Day week-

Obituary

end that saw more than 500 calls for police service and dozens of arrests, the zone seeks to curb problems related to large, alcoholfueled parties.

For the 36-hour period from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday, police will double the fines for violations of the city’s open container, noise,

Melvin N. Gagnon

Feb. 26, 1930 — Dec. 31, 2022

Melvin Gagnon, 92, a longtime Davis resident, passed away on Dec. 31, 2022, at a private care facility in Davis, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Born Feb. 26, 1930, to Joseph and Rose Gagnon in Artesia, he grew up in Buena Park, as the youngest of six siblings. Growing up during the Depression, and losing his dad at 9 years old, taught Mel resourcefulness, resiliency and “how to make do.” Later on, he taught himself how to fix, repair or build just about anything. He shared these valuable skills with family and friends throughout his life, always willing to build a shelf, fix a sticky door or help with a remodeling project.

He attended Fullerton Union High School, graduating in 1947. A favorite high school memory was flying to Minnesota in a World War II plane that had been rebuilt by his high school buddies. Mel carried a picture of that plane in his wallet his entire life. Also while in high school (and junior college) he worked weekends and summers at Knott's Berry Farm taking pictures of park visitors and developing a lifelong love of photography. After high school he attended Fullerton Junior College and later transferred to San Jose State to study journalism and photography.

Mel married his high school sweetheart, Carol Riley, in 1950 and after graduating from college in 1951, he and Carol moved to Yuba City, where he took a job as a reporter/photographer for the Appeal Democrat in Marysville. In 1955 he moved to The

Sacramento Bee, covering agricultural and human interest stories. After one of his photographs of then

Gov. Edmund G. “Pat”

Brown ran on the front page of The Bee, Mel received a personal letter from the governor expressing his delight with the photo. Mel and Carol, who now had seven children, moved to Davis in 1962. In 1966, after 11 years with The Bee, Mel began a 21 year career at UC Davis with Cooperative Extension as a communications specialist writing about the research developments of UC agricultural scientists. Mel’s friendly nature along with his curiosity served him well as a journalist, reflecting, “I’m grateful for a wonderful career in writing that allowed me to explore — and share with readers — all the beautiful people, places, history and ideas to be discovered in our world.”

Retiring from UC Davis in 1987 gave Mel lots of time to pursue his passions. He traveled the world with trips to Easter Island and the Galapagos being favorites. He enjoyed the arts

smoking and public urination ordinances, up to $1,000.

The boundaries initially focused on the downtown area but has since expanded to include some surrounding neighborhoods.

Today, the zone’s boundaries extend from Shasta Drive/Arlington Boulevard

and was a longtime supporter of the Davis High School Madrigal choir, the Pence Gallery, the Elk Grove Strauss Festival and the Sacramento Theatre Company. Another passion was people. With his outgoing and gregarious personality he was always befriending new people from all walks of life. He treasured relationships and loved visiting friends and family, usually bringing something to share like homemade soup, fruit or veggies from his backyard garden, or a newspaper clipping (or several) of interest.

Of course, his biggest passion was his family. He lovingly and enthusiastically supported them in all their various endeavors, whether it be attending a grandkid’s talent show, running errands for a son’s business, or getting on board with another son’s plan for an authentic luau (which included digging a pit in the backyard and lining it with lava rock to roast the pig). To him, being

to the west, Covell Boulevard to the north, Pole Line Road to the east and Russell Boulevard/A Street/Union Pacific Railroad tracks to the south.

Last month, the Davis City Council also voted to include Slide Hill Park in East Davis, a popular Picnic Day gathering spot. COurtesy map The dotted line shows the safety zone for Picnic Day.

there for each other was what family was all about. Through lots of family camping, backpacking and road trips, Mel shared his love of the outdoors and exploring with his kids while they were growing up. He instilled in his kids the values of hard work and responsibility, a “can do attitude” and a love of life.

You taught us well Dad, you will be missed!

Mel is survived by six of his seven children — Dan (Jerrie) Gagnon of Cordova, Alaska, Kati (Skip) Mezger of Sacramento, Jeff (Jodi) Gagnon of Marysville, Wash., Andy (Laurie) Gagnon of Woodland, Don (Sally) Gagnon of Woodland, and Marcia (Ted)

Parker of Stockton. His daughter Kim (Tom) Graham, predeceased him in 2013. He is also survived by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and his ex-wife, Carol Kearney. He was predeceased by longtime companions Dorothy Chichester and Virginia Nordgreen.

The Davis City Council will conduct a public hearing at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, 2023, beginning at 6:30 p.m.The meeting is scheduled to hear comments from the public to aid the City Council in making funding decisions for the use of 2023-2024 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program funds and to approve the One-Year Annual Action Plan. Project Description:

The CDBG and HOME programs provide federal funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to cities to implement community development, affordable housing and social services projects and programs to benefit very-low and low-income persons and households. The City expects to receive approximately $780,000 in CDBG and $460,000 in HOME funds, although exact amounts are not yet known.

The Social Services Commission held a public hearing on March 20, 2023, and have made the following CDBG and HOME funding recommendations:

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the

Council public hearing

beyond, covering a 30-day public review period prior to when the One-Year Annual Action Plan is due

HUD. Remote Public Comments for Public

All interested parties are invited to comment at the public hearing by submitting written comments to the City Manager’s Office no later than 12:00 p.m. on the hearing date. Written comments may be submitted by mail to Kelly Stachowicz, City of Davis, 23 Russell Blvd., Suite 1, Davis CA, 95616, or via email to cmoweb@cityofdavis.org. Public Comment may also be submitted by following instructions for public comment on the City Council Agenda, located at www. cityofdavis.org/councilagendas

Availability of Documents: The City has made available the funding proposals and draft One-Year Annual Action Plan for fiscal year 2023–2024, for public review/comment period on the city’s webpage at www.cityofdavis.org By request, alternative document formats are available to person with disabilities. To request alternative document format or to arrange aid or services to modify or accommodate persons with a disability to participate in a public meeting, contact the City Clerk by calling (530) 757-5648 (voice) or 757-5666 (TDD) or emailing clerkweb@cityofdavis.org.

The City does not transcribe its proceedings. Persons who wish to obtain a verbatim record should arrange for attendance by a court reporter or any other acceptable means of recordation. Such arrangements will be at the sole expense of the person requesting the recordation.

Individuals wishing to challenge the action taken on this matter in court are notified that, the challenge may be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to City Manager’s Office prior to the public hearing.

Kelly Stachowicz, Assistant City Manager City Manager’s Office

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF Ronald P Kelman CASE NO PR2023-0028

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: Ronald P Kelman

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Leslie B Kelman in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo

The Petition for Probate requests that: Leslie B Kelman and David M Kelman be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action ) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: 05/25/2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : TBD Room: Located at 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695

If you object to the granting of the petition you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before

GAGNON

CRASH: Teen suspect cannot be charged as an adult

and driving without a license.

The collision killed 43-year-old Tina Vital of Woodland, who died at the scene. Her granddaughter Adelina Perez, 4, succumbed to complications from her injuries early Wednesday morning.

Eight others were injured, including Vital’s adult son and daughter who remain hospitalized with burns and broken bones, and six people riding in a third vehicle.

Police say the 13-year-old was joyriding in a car stolen from his parents when he sped northbound through the intersection and slammed into two other vehicles. A patrol officer spotted the teen driving recklessly and initiated a traffic stop shortly before the collision.

Vital, having just returned to town from a cousin’s Vacaville memorial service, was en route to a movie with her children and Adalina at the time.

As a half-dozen members of the boy’s family looked on, defense

attorney Martina Avalos requested a contested detention hearing to determine whether her client should remain in Juvenile Hall while his case is pending. For now, Beronio ordered he stay in custody, where he’s been since being released from the hospital Monday night. “I find that it is a matter of reasonable necessity … to detain this minor, and that this minor is beyond parental control,” Beronio said. “I find that continuance of the minor in the home of a parent or legal guardian would be contrary to his welfare.”

In addition to the detention hearing, Beronio scheduled a May 3 jurisdiction hearing, where, similar to an adult-court trial, attorneys present their evidence and a judge determines whether a minor has committed a crime.

Under California law, the teen cannot be charged as an adult.

‘Beautiful and bright’

Wednesday’s hearing was attended by roughly two dozen of the victims’ relatives, still reeling from the news of Adalina’s death just hours earlier.

As both sets of families filed out of the courtroom, the defendant’s mother collapsed in the aisle, prompting medical personnel — including several Woodland firefighters who happened to be in the courtroom — to carry her away on a stretcher.

Jennifer McHugh, the Yolo County deputy district attorney assigned to the case, declined to comment after the hearing, citing juvenile privacy laws.

“The law’s unclear on what we can share, so I’m going to err on the side of caution,” McHugh said.

Tina Vital, 43, and her 4-year-old granddaughter Adalina Perez both succumbed to injuries from a high-speed crash in Woodland.

Avalos, the teen’s lawyer, released a statement Thursday: “What happened is an undeniable

tragedy and our sympathy extends to anyone who has suffered a loss, but we implore the public to keep an open mind toward the minor and his family while this case continues to unfold.”

At noon Wednesday, the victims’ family returned to the crash scene to remember Adalina, a spunky pre-kindergartner who loved building forts and snacking on strawberries and mac and cheese.

“Her smile was so beautiful and bright,” said Elizabeth Topete, the girl’s paternal grandmother. “She was just a kind little girl. She didn’t deserve this.”

“She’s with her grandmother, and they’re up in heaven dancing,” added Victor Ramirez, one of Vital’s three brothers. “We were looking for a miracle, but she’s

AMTRAK: Years away from building anything

From Page A1

“With this knowledge, the city of Davis approached Union Pacific and Amtrak to collaborate on including a connection to the Olive Drive area at the same time,” according to city staff.

“With the recent addition of the Pole Line/Olive Drive shared-use path in 2022, this new, potential connection from the Amtrak station to Olive Drive would provide Davis residents, pedestrians and bicyclists with a safer, alternative route to go to and from Olive Drive, South Davis and Downtown Davis.”

Pending approval from Amtrak and Union Pacific — and if funding is secured — the city hopes to include the following elements:

n A bicycle and pedestrian connection between the Amtrak station and Olive Drive that will cross the tracks with either a tunnel or bridge;

n Bicycle lanes in the connection; and

n Striping for bicycles and pedestrians.

“Though Amtrak is funding the majority of this project, additional funding for construction of the shared use bicycle and pedestrian path still needs to be secured by the city for this connection,” said city staff.

Option 1, the overcrossing, adds a structure accessible by stairs and elevators to access the overcrossing platform above the tracks. Stairs and elevators will take passengers down to a newly designed center platform.

“In addition to these ADA improvements, the overcrossing will also include a ramp for bicycles that begins in the Amtrak Parking Lot and rises up to join the overcrossing platform and then ramps down the other side of the tracks to a shared use path connecting to Olive Drive,” according to city staff. “There will be additional striping included on the overcrossing platform so that bicycles stay on one side of the platform and pedestrians on the other.”

Option 2 would add an

undercrossing tunnel accessible by stairs and a ramp to access the center platform from below the tracks. There would be stairs and a ramp that would take passengers up to the newly designed center platform.

“While there will not be an additional bike access to the tunnel, cyclists can use the ADA ramp or take the bike down the stairs which will include a bike gutter to fit the wheels of the bike to walk their bike down. The tunnel will continue to the other side of the tracks and ramp up to a shared use path connecting to Olive Drive.”

The plans are currently at 30 percent design for both an undercrossing and an overcrossing and Union Pacific is reviewing those designs “and will work the city and Amtrak to determine which option is the best for all parties.”

“Project design is anticipated to take until 2025 and construction will then take approximately two years,” according to the city.

JENSEN: First woman to serve in the job for Davis

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She then left the city for a short period of time to work for a private water quality firm based in the United Kingdom before returning to the city of Davis in 2016 as city engineer. Jensen has been acting director of public works engineering and transportation since Bob Clarke retired in December.

“Dianna has been a great asset to the city of Davis with her depth of knowledge and expertise in public works, especially in engineering, contract administration and capital improvement projects,” said Webb. “Dianna’s strategic thinking, proactive collaboration and analytical skill will continue to facilitate and grow the city’s capital investments and evolving transportation and mobility systems. I look forward to Dianna continuing her role as a dynamic and collaborative member of our executive team”

For her part, Jensen said, “I have really enjoyed working for the city and appreciate the opportunity to lead our Public Works Engineering and Transportation Department in efficiently and effectively providing service to other city departments and to the Davis community.

“I feel very lucky to work in the town that I live in and actively participate in making it a great place to live,” she said.

Jensen plans to continue

supporting the engineering division’s project management and project delivery team and the transportation division’s response service to citizen requests and onboarding of new staff. Additionally, Jensen will continue guiding the administrative division as it supports the the department with budget, purchasing, invoicing and human resources.

Jensen received her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UC Davis

in 1991 and her master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering in 1994.

out of pain.”

As for the defendant, the victims’ relatives called for the maximum possible punishment as well as his continued detainment.

“If he’s released, he would treat it as a joke and do it all over again,” Topete said. “He doesn’t belong on any street in this community.”

The family has established GoFundMe accounts in both Tina Vital and Adalina Perez’s names to help with medical, burial and other expenses. Supporters also plan a car wash fundraiser starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pete’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, 164 Main St. in Woodland.

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

DOXIE: Just one shot at glory

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they are ticketing the event to help with crowd control. “We also changed how the heats are for this year. Last year every dog raced twice, and then they took their shortest time to move on to the finals, but this year every dog will race once to have more participants. I’ve heard that in the past, they used to have 300 dogs participate,” Yoshihara said.

Only participating dogs and service animals are allowed in the University Credit Union Center. No pets allowed. “I think last year, a veterinary student volunteer got bit by a dog when they were trying to prevent them from going into the stands, but luckily, no skin was broken. It is a high-stress environment with lots of people, noise, and stimuli, so it’s not an event that every dog can participate in,” she added.

Picnic Day’s social

media platforms suggest additional “furr-ific” animal events, including:

n Dairy Facility Booth at the Cole Facility — Meet some of the cows at the dairy facility on campus and learn about the care and keeping of the UC Davis cattle.

n A Bit About Bats at Hutchison Field — Meet live native species of bats and learn about the importance of these flying mammals for the environment and agriculture.

n California Raptor Center: Picnic with Predators at Hutchison Field — Birds of prey are all around us. Explore a table of talons and feathers.

Yoshihara recommends staying updated on the latest Doxie Derby news on Facebook. Check out the livestream link, https://livestream.com/ ucdavis/doxie2023.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@ davisenterprise.net.

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From left, Victor Ramirez, Armando Preciado, Vanessa Ramos and Elizabeth Topete speak to reporters following Wednesday’s court hearing for a 13-year-old boy accused of causing the crash that killed two of their relatives.

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Citrus Circuits wins final regional robotics competition

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Citrus Circuits came out of their final competition of the regular season as winners of the Silicon Valley Regional. Attended by 60 teams from Northern and Southern California, Mexico, Australia, Canada, and Taiwan, the teams competed April 5 to 7 in San Jose for a spot at the international FIRST Championship.

At the Silicon Valley Regional, Citrus Circuits had a record of eight wins and one loss during qualifications, making them the first pick of the top-ranked alliance. Citrus Circuits teamed up with Team 254 The Cheesy Poofs and Team 2489 The Insomniacs from San Jose, and Team 100 The Wildhats from Woodside.

In addition to winning the competition, they won the Quality Award, given to a team to celebrate machine

robustness in their robot’s concept and fabrication.

Alison Lin from Da Vinci Charter Academy was selected for the FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award in recognition of her efforts to increase awareness for FIRST and its mission while achieving personal technical expertise and accomplishment.

From April 19 to 22, Citrus Circuits will be joining more than 600 teams from all over the world at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, to compete for the title of 2023 World Champion. In early March, Citrus Circuits qualified for the Houston World Championships by winning the Hueneme Port Regional.

Each year, a new FRC game is released for students in grades 9-12 all over the world who are given eight weeks to design and create a robot for competition. Every match

Pets of the week

Enterprise staff

Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.

Among them is Capone (A200299), a 1-year-old tan German shepherd who is one of the longest shelter residents and hoping his forever family comes for him soon. Capone is gorgeous and will steal your heart. This big boy is easy to walk, gentle when taking treats and an overall prince.

Also hoping for a good home is Percival (A201699). This dapper bunny is soft and darling when he plays with his toys and treats. Percival will keep you entertained with his charming demeanor.

Citrus Citcuits and their alliance score maximum points at the Silicone Valley regional.

teams are randomly paired together to form two alliances, with three teams in each. Every game is designed with cooperation in mind, which creates an

environment of “Gracious Professionalism,” an idea championed by FIRST founder Woodie Flowers.

This year, teams are playing FIRST’s 2023 game,

teams cannot manually control their robot and must instead run an autonomous program to score cones and cubes into upper, middle and lower goals at the end of the field. After the first 15 seconds, teams gain control of their robots to continue scoring and in the last 30 seconds attempt to balance up to three robots on the Charging Station.

For information on adopting, contact adoptycas@gmail.com. All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-6685287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsofycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/yolovolunteerapp. Follow on at @ ycas.shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Bumpy, a 5-week-old male Lab/Rottweiler puppy. He was born at Rotts, so he has been well cared for since birth. He is up-to-

date on vaccines, comes with free lifetime obedience training and Rotts will neuter and microchip him at its cost when old enough. He will be ready to go to his forever home in about four weeks but you can put a deposit down on him now to ensure he will be yours.

Spike is an adorable neutered male 1-year-old shepherd/Rott mix. Spike loves to play, especially with his ball. He’s medium sized, gentle and very friendly. Spike walks calmly on leash, is not dogreactive and loves being petted. He’s smart, funny and has a great tail that never stops wagging.

The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday,

April 15, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it. Bring proof of home-

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Charged Up, presented by The Gene Haas Foundation. Each match is 2 minutes, 30 seconds long, beginning with a 15-second autonomous period where

ownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines

Founded in 2004, Citrus Circuits has slowly worked to become one of the top teams in FRC, gaining members, sponsors, and awards along the way. The team consists of almost 100 students from high schools and junior high schools within the Davis Joint Unified School District. Major sponsors include UC Davis, DJUSD, Hill Engineering, TechnipFMC, Lockheed Martin, Bayer, and Intuitive.

For more information go to www.citruscircuits.org.

and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook.com/rottsoffriends.

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Finding a vision of the real in abstract art

By Natalie Nelson

Special to The Enterprise

Painter Maxine Solomon moved from making figurative painting to exclusively abstract work long ago. Most abstract artists, they aren’t trying to emulate reality, or create a representational scene.

After spending time with Maxine Solomon and hearing her talk about her work, I was a bit surprised to know that she considers her all of her paintings to be landscapes.

Perhaps it’s best to describe her work, as its content is in the process of her painting. As she layers oil paint and medium on her canvases with big brushes, Maxine interprets her path according.

Sometimes a shape or area will pop out, or a direction will be suggested by one of her brushstrokes. All of it relates back to nature, for as she writes, “My paint ings often include active brush strokes and quiet glazes that, com-

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bined, depict landscapes surrounded by abstract imagery. This duality reflects the way I see the world and work within it whether I’m hiking through a redwood forest in California, walking down a crowded street in San Francisco or Ouagadougou, floating down a river in Zambia, or watching the sand dunes shift in Oman.”

The surfaces are truly alive with thick paint, sometimes it’s scraped back to a flatter area of color, and sometimes the paint looks still wet and appears to glisten.

Her colors range from earth tones like olives and greens to bright yellows and reds, but the colors don’t seem to scream areas of nature, like sky, grass, or trees.

Maxine’s work energetically pulsates with tension and movement. One of the most dynamic paintings, done in arcs of yellow

and white, has a feel of being up in the air, is titled “Singing the World into Existence.” Her exhibit, “Somewhere Beyond Time,” is sponsored by Pat and Hoy Carman and is up through May 7.

This Friday, April 14, the Pence is open from 6 to 9 p.m. for the Second Friday ArtAbout, when Maxine’s exhibit will be featured (as well as two other exhibits). The following day from 2 to 3 p.m., Maxine Solomon is giving a free artist talk on her work.

All are welcome, and no RSVP is necessary.

Also opening during the ArtAbout is a three-person ceramics exhibit.

Titled, “Moments in Time & Space,” it includes sculpture by Claudia Tarantino, Bill Heiderich and Daniel Alejandro Trejo.

The three artists share an interest in capturing the changing quality of time. In her exquisite trompe l’oeil sculpture, Tarantino attempts “to capture moments in time, past and present.” Representing keepsakes in clay such as photographs, toys and children’s shoes, she creates tableau in which memories of life are activated.

Heiderich reinterprets vessels by using shapes derived from traditional pottery. His current work a series of bud vases that

are lovely and functional at once.

He plays with fundamental shapes such as cones, cylinders and glazes his pieces with bright hues of yellow, turquoise, and red. Trejo’s ceramic forms play with enclosure, as they frame internal and external space. Each of his

pieces is hand sculpted into an outline of an organic shape and is created by a ribbon of thin clay, which is colored in pastel yellow, pink, or white. Each work changes as you walk around it, as you can see through the pieces into the other’s artists’ work.

In all, “Moments in Time & Space” offers a varied look at how three artists depict change within the boundaries of form and time and is up through June 12.

The display is sponsored by Bill and Nancy Roe.

Chamber Music Society plays Stravinsky, Schubert, Bach

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent

The Chamber Music Society of Sacramento will perform Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat”

(“The Soldier’s Tale”) — a blend of narration and music dating from 1918 — on Saturday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. at The Episcopal Church of St. Martin, 640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis.

Stravinsky composed the piece during World War I while living in Switzerland (a neutral country during that conflict).

The piece — scored for clarinet, bassoon, cornet (or trumpet), trombone, percussion, violin and double bass — premiered in Lausanne during the closing weeks of the war, and was later performed many other countries.

“L’Histoire du Soldat” is an hour-long storytelling piece about a weary soldier, walking back toward his hometown while on a twoweek leave. Along the way, the soldier (a skillful violinist who carries his instrument in his backpack) encounters a mysterious stranger, who turns

out to be the Devil. Complications ensue.

Stravinsky’s music involves complex changes in time signatures, so the chamber work is usually led a conductor.

For this performance, the conductor will be Peter Jaffe, longtime music director of the Stockton Symphony and also the conductor of the Folsom Lake Symphony.

Narrating “L’Histoire du Soldat” will be baritone Omari Tau, a Sacramento native who is professor of vocal music at Cosumnes River College.

Tau has a strong background in opera, as a singer and composer.

He’s also appeared as a performer in the summertime musicals produced by the “Broadway at Music Circus” series.

Sharing the concert program with the Stravinsky are two chamber music mainstays: the Fantasie for Violin & Piano by Franz Schubert, and the Suite No. 2 for Flute, Continuo and Strings, BWV 1067, by J.S. Bach.

Tickets are $30 general, $25 seniors, $12 students

and free for children under age 18, CMSSacto.org and at the door.

There will also be a performance on Sunday, April 16 at 4 p.m. in the Music Building (Capistrano Hall) at Sacramento State University in Sacramento.

Upcoming

Five other events are coming up over the next two weeks:

n The Alvin Ailey

American Dance Theater will perform in Jackson Hall on Tuesday, Apri 18, and Wednesday, April 19, both at 7:30 p.m. Both performances are sold out — the famous Ailey company almost always draws at full house here — but there are typically a few tickets returned to the box office during the days before the performance.

n Public radio personality Jad Abumrad — a past

recipienct of a MacArthur “Genius” award, and one of the founders of the popular long-running “Radio Lab” series, still heard on many NPR affiliates — will speak in Jackson Hall on Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m.

Abumrad is low-key as a broadcaster, but he is very much a polymath ... on “Radio Lab” he wove together dialog, music (much of which he composed), evocative sounds

recorded in the field, and more. For his appearance at Mondavi, Abumrad will focus on how to hold a conversation on difficult topic. Drawing on the latest research, as well as interviews with social scientists, therapists, psychologists, journalists, oral historians, and philosophers, Abumrad has created a talk that will include games and exercises that he will explore with the audience. Tickets are $65-25 general, MondaviArts.org and at the door.

n Student ensembles from the UC Davis Cross Cultural Center will present their annual “Danzantes del Alma” annual show on Saturday, April 22 at 6 p.m. Featured will be energetic traditional dances from various regions of Mexico. Tickets are $22.50 general, MondaviArts.org and at the door.

n The Davis Chorale, led by Alison Skinner, will present their spring program on Sunday, April 30, at 3 p.m. in Davis Community Church, 412 C St. in Davis. Program and other details to be announced.

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Baritone Omari Tau will narrate The Chamber Music Society of Sacramento’s performance of Igor Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat” on April 15.

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“Singing The World into Exsistence” by Maxine Solomon.

“Top of the Stack” by Claudia Tarantino.

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‘Renfield’: A film so fierce, it’ll take a bite outta you!

Hyper-gory horror flick boasts snarky comedy touches

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

“Tasteless” isn’t nearly strong enough to describe this deranged little flick.

Deplorably, gratuitously tasteless comes closer.

But — forgive me — it’s also hilarious. And quite entertaining.

Nicolas Cage has again revived his moribund career, this time by making the extremely risky decision to lampoon himself: a choice that merely accelerated the decline of lesser film stars. But Cage actually has a talent for selfridicule, as demonstrated by last year’s unexpectedly droll “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.”

And, let’s face it: Who better to sink his baroquely overacting teeth into a modern-day incarnation of Count Dracula?

Director Chris McKay, teamed here with writers Ryan Ridley and Robert Kirkman — the latter primarily responsible for the “Walking Dead” franchise — have orchestrated a cheeky, relentlessly profane and gory take on everybody’s favorite vampire.

That said, the infamous Count isn’t really the focus of this tale. That honor belongs to the title character: Dracula’s loyal lackey and aide-de-camp, better known as a “Familiar,” and played to British stiff-upper-lip perfection by Nicholas Hoult.

And ya gotta love the premise:

Robert Montague Renfield is introduced as a member of a support group for victims of abusive partners, friends and work associates.

His presence is twofold. Ostensibly, but without going into detail, he admits to being hypercontrolled by an impressively “toxic boss” (as glaring an understatement as one could imagine).

But he’s also on the prowl for

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fresh victims for ol’ Drac, reasoning that the best way to prevent human monsters from abusing their prey, is to, ah, “introduce” them to his own monster.

Since such two-legged blood bags rarely come to Dracula’s lair of their own accord, Renfield is able to, ah, “persuade” them via his own impressively agile and hyper-strong talents, courtesy of just a “touch” of Drac’s powers, which the count bestowed eons ago.

These talents kick into gear whenever Renfield eats a bug. (Bram Stolker’s Renfield notoriously ate flies and death’s-head moths. But wasn’t granted superpowers.)

Unfortunately, this particularly section of New Orleans — where Dracula and Renfield have set up headquarters in the basement of a long-abandoned hospital — is in thrall to a drug-running crime family run by the ruthless Bellafrancesca Lobo (Shohreh Aghdashloo) and her feckless son, Teddy (Ben Schwartz). When Renfield’s newest, um, “acquisitions” happen to be in the Lobo syndicate’s cross-hairs, all hell breaks loose.

Cue the arrival of New Orleans traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina), who has long viewed smashing the Lobos as a means of becoming a real police officer.

Awkwafina’s presence and superb comic timing elevate this film to an even higher level of profanity-laden snark.

Despite Rebecca’s best efforts, she can’t seem to win any respect from her peers. Her sister Kate (Camille Chen), who works for the FBI, points out — not incorrectly — that Rebecca tends to be her own worst enemy.

Renfield, meanwhile, decides to embrace self-empowerment, with encouragement from Mark (Brandon Scott Jones), leader of the support group. When a violent restaurant brawl makes Renfield a hero in Rebecca’s eyes, well, he becomes even more determined to shed Dracula’s hold.

Ah, but the bloodthirsty count isn’t about to tolerate that.

Hoult makes Renfield totally sympathetic, despite the carnage he frequently unleashes. We genuinely feel for the guy.

Cage has a marvelous time chewing into Ridley and Kirkman’s malevolently florid dialogue, even when encumbered beneath Christien Tinsley’s impressively ookie make-up. (As revealed via a quick flashback,

Dracula — thanks to a previous battle — begins this adventure in far less than his usually svelte form.) Cage doesn’t merely chew the scenery; he masticates it with panache.

The result is both funny and genuinely creepy.

Ridley and Kirkman also honor this character’s legacy, by acknowledging his aversion to sunlight, and inability to cross a threshold unless invited. Best is a B&W flashback that reveals how Renfield, a lawyer, made the mistake of selecting Dracula as a potential client. The sequence is faithful to director Tod Browning’s 1931 “Dracula,” and Cage even gives the proper inflection to the immortal line: “I never drink … wine.”

Back in present-day New Orleans, early melees are merely a warm-up to climactic bloodbaths that include all manner of maimings, manglings, bludgeonings, mutilations, decapitations, dismemberments, eviscerations and defenestrations, all accompanied

Artery exhibit highlights sculptors in May

Enterprise staff

The Artery presents “Ceramic Artists,” featuring three of its finest: Emma Luna, Magdalene Crivelli and Liz Webb. The exhibit opens on April 28 and continues through May 23, with a reception on May 12 from 7 to 9 pm.

Emma Luna will show her Trompe

L’oeil or visual illusion ceramic art in a 3-dimensional form. Her sculpture reproduces everyday fabric objects such as washcloths and terry cloths, utilizing the illusionistic possibilities inherent in clay.

Magdalena Crivelli’s work features the female figure. In this show she focuses on water and swimming. Each piece suggests

a story that allows the viewer to connect to the work by filling in their own experiences.

Liz Webb’s current pieces are small figures that embody quiet moments, typically introspective and thoughtful. The figures are typically set into frames that hold each piece in its own space like an illustration

Annual ceramics conference back in Davis

Enterprise staff

The John Natsoulas Gallery is pleased to welcome visitors to Davis for the 36th annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts.

Conceived by the need for dialogue and direct interaction between artists and students, CCACA always brings the ultimate ceramic sculpture event to Davis. This year’s conference, on April 28 and 29, may be the largest one yet. This resurgent event offers ceramic enthusiasts unique opportunities to see incredible art and to learn directly from some of the greatest ceramic artists of today.

UC Davis, home to the late sculptor Robert Arneson, was instrumental in defining a new direction for ceramic art, and the tradition continues today. The conference has recently been listed as One of the Best Places to Enjoy Art in California by the New York Times.

Ceramic departments from more than 30 organizations and schools have sponsored their students to showcase their best and most recent works. These exhibits are open and free to the public.

The concurrent exhibition at the

John Natsoulas Gallery, 30 Ceramic

Sculptors, is also free, and includes art by all of the featured speakers and other fantastic artists from around the United States. Contact the gallery at art@ natsoulas.com for any questions. Register in advance at https://www. natsoulas.com/ccaca-2023/.

by buckets o’ blood and gore. The pinnacle of grimace-inducing mayhem occurs when Renfield rips the arms off one baddy, and then uses one limb as a swiftly hurled spear to impale another.

(Physically unlikely, I admit. But an appallingly memorable visual.)

To their credit, McKay and his editing team — Ryan Fosley, Giancarlo Ganziano and Mako Kamitsuna — move their 93-minute film along at a very brisk clip.

The ability to withstand all this carnage — let alone find it humorous — obviously lies in the eye of the beholder. The faint of heart and easily offended are advised to steer well clear.

As for the rest of us … well, if this film marks the further decline of Western Civilization, we may as well enjoy the ride.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http:// derrickbang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www. davisenterprise.com.

from an old book, perhaps a fairy tale. The Artery is open seven days a week; Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The Artery will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 12, for the Reception of “Ceramic Artists.” This coincides with the Davis Second Friday ArtAbout.

PENCE: Gallery’s garden tour returns on May 7

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Coming up next month is our 30th annual Pence Gallery Garden Tour on Sunday, May 7! We invite you to do this wonderful selfguided Tour throughout five local gardens in Davis.

Enjoy learning about new plantings and information from Yolo Master Gardeners, see painters creating landscapes in the gardens, and more. At the Pence, we are offering 200 gift bags for the first 200 ticket holders who stop by, with special offers, snacks and seeds.

Also on view in the courtyard is our Art in the Garden sale, offering fountains, stepping stones

and other outside-friendly artwork for sale from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This is open to the public.

The Garden Tour is a ticketed fundraising event, at $25 for Pence members, $30 for Pence non-members, and $35 the day of the event. Purchase tickets online at www.pencegallery.org, Newsbeat, or Redwood Barn. Proceeds go to support the Pence’s education and exhibit programs, offering close to 18,000 people annually access to work by local and regional artists.

— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.

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Every time Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, right) tries to show a bit of independence, his master, Dracula (Nicolas Cage), reminds him — quite painfully — that his fate has been sealed for a long, long time. Courtesy photo

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“Ceramic Folds” by Emma Luna.

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“Figure in a Frame” by Liz Webb.

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“In the Pool” by Magdalene Crivelli.

Reparations plans ignore state’s

The amounts of money now bandied about as some Californians debate whether the state should pay reparations to descendants of slaves with African forbears dwarf anything this state or any of its localities has ever considered.

The state-appointed Reparations Task Force, yet to take a formal position on this, was urged by many Black activists to recommend giving $360,000 each to about 1.8 million Black Californians whose ancestors were enslaved, even though there was no legal African-derived slavery in California after statehood began in 1850.

Some task force members resist such huge cash payouts, preferring other forms of reparations in fields like education and employment, especially since the state faces a deficit of more than $20 billion as its budgetapproval deadlines approach.

Almost simultaneously, San Francisco supervisors unanimously expressed support for a draft plan by a city-appointed committee calling for $5 million cash payments to all local descendants of slaves, plus guaranteed annual stipends of

Embrace the plan

Please take my support of the University Commons project in a historical context.

The long-term plan of Measure J was not to create high housing cost to insulate against growth.

The idea was to elevate housing costs to a level to would promote in-fill and more dense developments in general.

Do we want a dense urban core? Yes! Do we want more housing close to the University? Yes! That type of development is expensive and doesn’t pencil out when land and rents are low.

That is why we have endured decades of out-of-control housing prices. We planned for this. Now, the time is here.

Developers want to make the dense, expensive-to-build, housing we have been demanding. Build up, not out!

$97,000 for 250 years. No one has any idea how the cashstrapped city, down a reported 100,000-plus residents since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, could pay for all this.

But the proposed largesse for people with enslaved ancestors may be misdirected, suggests an about-to-be-published, eyeopening book by a University of Delaware historian, who says that while California had no legal Black slaves after statehood, it condoned plenty of other slavery.

The coming book, “California: A Slave State,” by Jean Pfaelzer (Yale University Press, probable price $35), claims that while California never had many African-descended slaves, it has had many others, including an unknown number of humantrafficked women held as sex

slaves today.

Writes Pfaelzer, “The story of California is a history of 250 years of uninterrupted human bondage. California thrived because it welcomed, honed and legalized ways for humans to own humans…”

Pfaelzer writes that at the same time slave ships crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean, bringing human chattel to the future United States and many Caribbean islands, Spanish priests who established the historic string of missions along the California coast were enslaving nearby Native Americans.

“Under four empires — Spain, Russia, Mexico and finally the United States,” she says, “(California) grew as a slave state.”

She begins with the history of U.S. Army depredations against indigenous tribes, especially in Northern California, where troops made weekly forays to Indian settlements throughout the 1850s, driving their residents at gunpoint to strongpoints like Ft. Seward, near the present-day Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Humboldt County, where adult males were slaughtered and their bodies burned, while women and children were sold

off or indentured.

She relates that almost any California Indian could be captured and enslaved unless they could prove they were gainfully employed — and very few could.

She adds that many families were deliberately separated, a practice also inflicted on African-descended slaves in the old South.

Pfaelzer also describes how Chinese laborers brought to California by 19th Century railroad barons were enslaved in a variety of ways.

She describes Chinese women caged and violated for decades in San Francisco brothels, and Southern whites bringing Black slaves to California during the Gold Rush.

Her book should raise new questions for reparations commissions, state and local. Perhaps the commissions should not focus solely on or be composed almost exclusively of Blacks and perhaps they ought to consider the diverse forms of slavery practiced here, rather than concentrating exclusively on the plantation-centered slavery of the old South.

There’s also the question of whether the virtual decimation

of Native American tribes by things like warfare and smallpox left so few alive that the take from casinos run by those who have survived obviates the need for any reparations.

But this would leave out enslaved Chinese, modern trafficked humans from eastern Europe and Asia and others who contributed unwillingly to California’s rise to its current status among the world’s top five economies.

All of which means slavery reparations commissions operating today are incomplete in their very composition, which will inevitably make any plans they offer one-sided and favoring descendants of one type of slavery over others that were comparably cruel and debilitating.

That ought to cause everyone involved to take a deep breath before adopting expensive but unfair and incomplete plans.

Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It," is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.

that could utilize our resources, please reach out to us to find out how we can collaborate. Together, we can make a difference for our clients and the environment!

Stephanie Koop Davis

Vote for Wright

I’m writing to encourage everyone in District 3 to vote in the upcoming election for the Davis City Council. The election is on May 3, and ballots are being mailed out this week.

Davis is lucky to have two good candidates competing for the open seat. I’m supporting Francesca Wright and want to explain why.

The University Commons development planned at the University Mall site is mixed use, high density, and right next to campus.

As of 2020, the plan on the city website showed 264 residential units and a threelevel parking garage.

I live a few blocks north of the site and I think the plan is fantastic! I’ll gladly trade a little more car traffic near my house for overall less traffic.

I have lived in Davis since 1991 and have seen how Measure J has caused our property values to skyrocket. Look at neighboring Woodland with comparatively low-priced housing.

Some of my children’s elementary school chums live in Woodland and commute to Davis for our Davis schools. Their parents work at the university.

There is a student loan crisis, fueled, in part, by the need to finance basic living expenses like high rent.

For years I sat on the board of a local lowincome housing nonprofit, directly providing affordable housing.

A single development, like University Commons, is not going to provide significant low-income, or even affordable, housing. But it is a part of the vision we have for our community.

Less driving with housing next to UC Davis. Less sprawl and preserving neighboring agricultural lands. I implore the City Council to “stick to the plan,” put aside NIMBYism, and listen to the silent majority in Davis.

Max Stevenson Davis

Neville for City Council

I am happy to endorse Donna Neville in her candidacy for Davis City Council.

I have known Donna in a number of roles, from her work for the State Board of Education to her volunteering for the DJUSD Bond Oversight Committee. She brings integrity to any process and ensures that fairness is a guiding principle.

She is also aware of the challenges that Davis faces and the need to build consensus in order to take action.

At the same time, she is able to give people her individual attention and provide assistance even when very busy.

While Donna will address the specific needs of affordable housing, better roads, and improved economic opportunities, she will also foster a welcoming approach to all who want to live in our community.

Join me in supporting Donna Neville for City Council.

Tom Adams

DJUSD

Trustee,

2014-22

Ukrainian refugees

I recently learned about an organization called Welcome Neighborhood Support Team (WelcomeNST), which seeks to place Ukrainian refugees in U.S. communities, where they can begin to rebuild their lives, hopefully to return home one day when the war is over.

They have teams in the U.S. and on the ground in Ukraine that will facilitate the transition; what they need are groups (NSTs) willing to provide support and welcome the refugees.

What exactly does this mean? I am just figuring it out, but it includes housing, finances, schools, language, jobs and transportation.

An NST consists of 1 or 2 leads, and perhaps 10-20 others wiling to spend time to help. Probably the first and most critical requirement is some financial assistance

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and housing, which I envision being in the Davis/Sacramento area.

I think we need to raise on the order of $15-20,000. All refugees will have work permits and health care through Medicaid.

My hope is to identify a group of people that would consider being involved with me. If you are interested to consider it, please contact me by email (jvsolnick@ ucdavis.edu) or by phone (530 210-3045) and I can give you more information.

Jay Solnick Davis

Paul’s Place collaboration

Davis Community Meals once again partnered with Community Mercantile, a local nonprofit reuse and sustainability business, to provide high-quality preowned items for the new Paul’s Place facility apartments, transitional units, and shelter beds.

Community Mercantile provided bed linens, towels, blankets and comforters, utensils, dishes, tables, dressers, lamps, garbage cans, clocks, bakeware, and other kitchen paraphernalia.

This collaborative partnership between these two nonprofit organizations has proven to be an extremely cost efficient and environmentally conscious way to provide essential household items to community members in need.

Thank you to the many individuals who helped us accomplish this goal by donating your gently used linens to Community Mercantile!

Community Mercantile is eager to develop relationships with other local nonprofit organizations that may be able to utilize our resources while serving their clients.

If you are involved with a local nonprofit

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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

I’ve known Francesca for over 40 years, and during that whole time, she’s been actively engaged in building community for the purpose of improving people’s lives.

Here in Davis, where she’s lived for more than 27 years, she’s been an effective leader who has successfully brought positive change to our community.

Among many other examples, Francesca led the effort to improve public safety in Davis, with the result we now have an independent auditor in the Davis Police Department who ensures officers enforce the law fairly and without bias.

She also led the effort to address housing and mental health issues more effectively in our community, with the result that we now have a Department of Housing and Social Services here that focuses on reducing homelessness, increasing the affordable housing supply, and ensuring our residents with mental health issues can find appropriate care.

One of Francesca’s defining traits is her collaborative approach and respect for all points of view.

She’s a skilled facilitator with a strong commitment to finding common ground and solutions that reflect the collective voices of the community.

She brings vision coupled with direct experience in identifying and implementing concrete actions to achieve these shared goals.

These are the qualities we need in our City Council so that Davis can continue to grow and support all of our residents.

For these reasons, I urge you to vote for Francesca Wright for the Davis City Council. For information about her platform and priorities for building our community, you can view her website at www.wrightfordavis.org.

Ginny Puddefoot Davis

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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/

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By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Charles M. Schulz

On April 8, members of the Davis High football program held its annual lift-a-thon inside the school’s weight room. “We have raised just under $14,000 and our goal is to raise $20,000,” said DHS head coach Nick Garratt. The money raised goes toward buying new helmets shoulder pads, sleds and stipends for coaches. Garratt noted earlier this year that the Blue Devils varsity football team will be donning new uniforms this upcoming season, both home and away jerseys and game pants. At left, Garratt supervises a Blue Devil player adding weights for a teammate to bench press. At right, lineman Giovanni Ruiz pushes up the weight in the bench press.

DHS: League championships next week

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“All the girls on the team have great comradery and spirit,” Crow said. “It brings me so much joy to watch them race, but most importantly just enjoy being together as a whole team doing what they — hopefully — love to do. Seeing their victories brings me as much joy as it does for them.

“And I also listen to them talk about their losses or mistakes. We only ever get better when we learn from

our mistakes or things that we can work on for the next time they swim. I know each and every one of them is on this team to represent their school and race fast with their friends.”

Blue Devil winners were Noelani Molina De la Rosa, Sarah Bennetts, Ella Ackerman, Makena Leacox, Isabella Johnson, Grace Hadani, Sara Kos, Adelia Biello and Ava Portello.

The events and times that the girls competed were not available.

“Every time they come to check in with me after a

race, I try to always ask, ‘How did you feel that went?’ or, ‘What did you think about your race?’” Crow continued. “I like to listen to what they have to say about their swims. I want them to tell me something that they think they did well in their swim and then something they can work on next time.”

Now the DHS girls and boys will compete at the Delta League championships starting Thursday, April 20 and Friday, April 21 at American River College in Sacramento.

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Softball

Second-place Aggies take on CSU Northridge

Enterprise staff

Today, the UC Davis softball team begins a three-game Big West Conference series at CSU Northridge.

UCD (8-4 in the Big West, 22-12) will play a doubleheader at 1 and 3 p.m. and then close the series with a single contest Saturday at noon at the Matador Diamond.

The Aggies enter the weekend tied for second in the Big West, just one game behind leaders UC Santa Barbara and Long Beach State.

The Aggies rank second in the league in batting average (.278) and ERA (2.02).

Individually, Aggie leadoff hitter Anna Dethlefson ranks in the top 10 in nearly every offensive category: average (6th/.376), slugging (3rd/.604), onbase-percentage (8th/.448), OPS (5th/1.052), runs (5th/26), hits (5th/38), doubles (3rd/8) and triples (6th/3).

Dethlefson leads the conference in stolen bases and ranks eighth in the nation with 27 stolen bases.

In the circle, Aggie pitcher Kenedi Brown, an Elk Grove resident, is also all over the league stat sheet at ERA (2nd/1.41), opposing batting average (2nd/.191), innings (4th/99.1), strikeouts

SwiMMing DHS boys, girls ground Eagles in league finale

Enterprise staff

The Davis High boys and girls swimming teams concluded the regular season at Arroyo Pool on Wednesday.

The Blue Devil boys raced past Pleasant Grove with a 126-39 score. The victory gives Jackson Harris and Evan Rieger were big winners for DHS. Harris was a double-winner in the 50 and 100 freestyle events, while Rieger won the 100 backstroke.

Other event winners were James Cerussi in the 200 freestyle, Kevin Wong in the 200 IM and Michael Wang in the 100 breaststroke.

“We are looking forward to league championships,” said DHS head coach Tracy Stapleton. “We will be fine tuning our racing over the coming week.”

Davis swimmers, both boys and girls, who achieve California Interscholastic Federation championship qualifying times this season or at the Delta League championships, will compete at the SacJoaquin Section championships, which will be held May 3-5 at the District 56 Aquatic Center in Elk Grove.

Girls

The Blue Devil girls also had a strong finish against Pleasant Grove with a 120-50 score for a perfect 6-0 record.

“We had a great time today cheering each other on during our final home meet of the season,” said DHS head coach Vivian Crow. “While in my opinion, everyone’s swims are highlights, I know that they do not — unfortunately — all score points towards the final scores.”

Crow couldn’t help but beam about this year’s team that is looking for another solid run in postseason, as have previous Blue Devil teams have had since the early

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(3rd/97), wins (3rd/11) and saves (2nd/2).

The Aggies earned their second straight conference series sweep as they took down UC Riverside last weekend.

Brown posted two shutouts to bookend the series and Sarah Starks provided walk-off heroics in game two.

Brown also became the all-time leader in strikeouts in program history for the Division I era.

In the fourth inning in the series finale at La Rue Field on April 8, Brown recorded her 550th career strikeout to break the record previously held by Alex Holmes since 2011.

The Aggies outscored the Highlanders 12-4 in the three-game set and sported a .288 batting average and an 0.67 team ERA. Brown was 2-0 with an unblemished 0.00 ERA, surrendering just four hits in 14 innings of work.

Starks batted .571 with three doubles and four RBIs.

The Aggies host UC San Diego for a three-game conference series, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 22.

Blue Devils lose season’s final home game

By Mark DeVaughn Enterprise correspondent

The Davis High boys lacrosse team received the classic rock treatment Thursday night at its home finale.

A pregame ceremony honored the Blue Devils’ seniors. For each player introduced, the Ron Brown Stadium PA system played hits like “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey and Abba’s “Dancing Queen.”

Then came the game against Vista del Lago, which was a ballad of the winning team’s power.

Davis never led during a 16-6 defeat to the visitors from Folsom.

Junior Finn Shields scored twice for DHS (4-3 Delta League, 9-5 overall), which mounted an inspired second-quarter comeback.

But the Falcons displayed a prowess Davis

was unable to stop. Vista Del Lago (4-0, 11-2) attacker Zachary Baliff fired five goals — all in the second half.

“It’s the last home game, you don’t want to lose that,” Blue Devil senior defender Aidan Sheehan said. “I knew (Vista del Lago was) a good team, so I didn’t have the highest expectations. This is my last sport at Davis. Hopefully, we can get some wins the rest of the way.”

Two regular season games – including a road tilt at Vista – remain on the Blue Devils’ schedule. Davis has a chance of earning a North Coast Section postseason berth, head coach Nick Juri said.

Mason Bennett recorded a goal and an assist for Davis, which trailed 5-1 after the first quarter. Goals from Mateo Rios, James MacDonald and Holt Klineberg closed the gap to 6-4 by halftime. The momentum traded sides quickly after the break. Davis surrendered five unanswered

goals in the second half’s first five minutes. The home grandstand kept cheering throughout the night, but no comeback materialized on the field.

The Blue Devils lost most face-offs. Their opponents enjoyed a sizeable advantage in time-of-possession. Bennett thought his team could have done a better job capitalizing on the Falcons’ mistakes.

“We’re usually pretty good in transition, but they did a good shutting us down,” the Davis midfielder said. “In the first half, we played a really good game. The second half, we showed we still need to figure some things out.”

Next game for DHS is at Rio Americano of Sacramento on Tuesday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m.

— Follow Mark DeVaughn on Twitter: @ OrangeMarkD.

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Sarah Starks, seen here during a home game earlier this season, and her UC Davis softball teammates travel to Southern California to take on CSU Northridge in a three-game series.

Davis attacker Finn Shields (9) looks for a teammate to move the ball while a Vista del Lago gives a chase in Wednesday’s game at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.

PICNIC DAY 2023

Saturday, April 15

‘Intertwined’ puts spotlight on fashion

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Putting the spotlight on fashion, The UC Davis Fashion and Design Society presents “Intertwined” at this year’s Picnic Day fashion show on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The undergraduate students in the Signature Collections course will present their pieces live and outdoors at the Cruess Hall Makerspace Courtyard, as Picnic Day 109 will be the first in-person Picnic Day in two years.

According to a press release, this year’s event features 12 studentcreated collections which display a wide range of concepts from sustainability, minimalism, and craftsmanship to cultural diversity merged into the aesthetic qualities of each outfit.

“Our designs this year are truly unique. We have a lot of fun surprises from our students this year. Audiences can expect a lot of colors this year,” said FADS Executive Director and President Julia Dang.

“We are once again very excited to host the Department of Design’s long-lasting tradition, the Picnic Day Fashion Show, at our Maker Space Courtyard,” said Gozde Goncu Berk, associate professor and instructor of the Signature Collections course. “Along with an exhibition that displays this year’s designers’ processes and other works from textiles to wearable technologies. This year’s fashion show ‘Intertwined’ will showcase highly creative collections with very playful pieces to outfits with a strong focus on sustainability and cultural diversity.”

Three of the show’s designers wrote to the Enterprise to describe the uniqueness of their pieces. Ahtziry Vazquez, a design major and Chicano studies minor, wants to represent her cultural background at the show. “I hope to give a sense of accomplishment and gratitude to the Mexican culture.”

Inspired by Hispanic heritage murals, Vazquez used her artistic and textile print skills to create her

own unique fabrics and visuals. She has also played with fabric manipulations that present distinct elements of each garment.Heather Lee, a graduating senior majoring in Design with a focus on Textiles and a minor in Museum Studies, will have a collection of four pieces and single garments in the show and exhibition. Between these different pieces, you can see quilt piecing, sewing with many fabrics, hand dyeing, embroidery, beading, creating new fabrics with stitching and

brings a unique perspective that many of the younger students do not have, as well as a breadth of textile creation. “My passion for textiles incorporates all types of fibers and creation, and I like to use many techniques to create my pieces. I also like to create in a variety of themes, many of which are not mainstream styles.”

Design major Deirdre SpillaneJimenez wants to bring rich colors and hand-dyed textiles to this show and show how they can be “fully brought to life when in motion on the runway.”

Based on the rich coral reefs of Natewa Bay, on the Eastern Peninsula of the Fijian Island of Vanua Levu, several garments have long trailing ribbons that imitate the movement of a Fijian Blue Spotted Stingray, showing how one feels when floating over a coral reef. Triangular forms throughout the collection reference the Black Tipped Reef shark, further highlighting the underrated beauty of several reef creatures.

“This collection is unique because it combines an affection for the natural world with thoughtful design. I aim to always make clothing that is comfortable while not compromising on said aesthetics,” Spillane-Jimenez said.

Dang said that in 2022 the show moved outdoors to showcase the Department of Design spaces and “to truly become part of Picnic Day.”

from various majors and years, helped pick and approve details such as decor, and hosted weekly meetings. This year, she mainly oversaw all the designers, models, and board members to ensure the show will run smoothly. Each year the tickets to the show sell out, Dang said. The $10 tickets may be purchased in advance at the UC Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, by phone (530) 752-2471 during the same hours, or online at design.ucdavis.edu.

layering scraps, applique and crochet.

“My use of different techniques to create a variety in my work is something that many people do not tackle, and I believe that is something that is unique about my pieces. I also find sustainability a very important aspect of my creations, and I was able to create my collection only by purchasing one piece of new fabric,” Lee said.

Lee has been creating in textiles for many years, and so she says she

“Hosting the show outdoors enables us to have more audience members and to allow some attendees to stand through the show for no fee,” she said. Organizers are “proud to present an exhibition space where students can showcase their work that isn’t on the runway,” Dang said. Dang said people are welcome to come to visit to take a look at the behind the scenes of the designs.

The 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. shows are identical and last 1 hour and 45 minutes. A part of this organization since 2020, Dang has worked behind the scenes for the show every year. She has cast models

In addition to the fashion show, the UC Davis Design Museum in Cruess Hall will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on Picnic Day for “From Concept to Creation: Inspired Shoe Design by Chris Francis.” The Department of Design is housed in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.

The 109th Picnic Day will be on Saturday, April 15. Picnic Day is one of UC Davis’ most revered traditions and serves as the university’s annual Open House for prospective and current students, families, alumni, staff, faculty and the greater Davis and regional communities. Picnic Day 109 will be the first inperson Picnic Day in two years.

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Design major Marron Capistrano models a design by Ahtziry Vazquez, a design major and Chicano studies minor.

“This year’s fashion show ‘Intertwined’ will showcase highly creative collections with very playful pieces to outfits with a strong focus on sustainability and cultural diversity.”

Gozde Goncu Berk associate professor and instructor of the Signature Collections course

Battle of the Bands to jam to the beat

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Six university bands will battle out their beats starting at 2 p.m. near Mrak Hall on Picnic Day, Saturday, April 15. Marching bands from UC Davis, UC San Diego, Stanford, University of San Francisco, Cal Poly Humboldt and Cal Poly Ponoma will last for eight hours, ending with UC Davis playing last.

Historically the battle would be a competition between the schools to see who could play the longest without repeating any songs. A school would win if they were the last ones playing. Many years ago, the battle would last until late into the night and end when the other schools would have to go home or finally call it quits. These days, the battle ends at 10 p.m. because that’s when the noise permit ends, so when the time comes, all the bands will play their fight song, ending

with UC Davis, explained Claire Inouye, UC Davis Marching Band Manager 2021-2023.

“Since we have to end at 10 p.m., there is no longer an official winner.” Jokingly she added that since, technically, UC Davis plays last, they’re the winner.

Some readers have asked why the event’s location has been moved from the lawn up against Lake Spafford. Inouye said the main reason was accessibility and the lack of evacuation routes and that the fire marshal asked them to move.

Loving the interactions between the multiple different bands, Inouye said there is a part of Battle of the Bands where all the bands will play a song together called “Beginnings.” As all the different sections of all the bands will join together to play and create horn movements together, the crowd’s energy heightens, and Inouye said she enjoys seeing her family and

friends enjoy the music created by her and her friends.

The UCD Marching Band roster has 171 people in the band, with about 90-110 people showing up to Monday Night rehearsals regularly

and around 110 people participating in the parade part of Picnic Day this year, though more might be playing in the Battle of the Bands.

During Picnic Day, parades, and football season, the UCD Marching

band has two-hour long Monday, Wednesday, and Friday rehearsals. This year since there are only two weeks of rehearsal before Picnic Day, we also have a two-hour Saturday rehearsal during the day.

When

they do not have a halftime show or a parade to prepare for, they only have the Monday night rehearsal, and section leaders will occasionally host sectionals to work on specific music sections.

Inouye wanted to thank her officer council for making her job “enjoyable and easy.”

“They are a very dedicated group helping rebuild this organization after being disbanded/COVID. Our numbers coming out of COVID were low, but they have been increasing steadily. I am excited to see how the band grows. I truly love and enjoy being around everyone in this unique and amazing organization,” she said.

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The UC Davis Marching Band competes in a recent Battle of the Bands in front of Mrak Hall.

Entertainment promises to ‘Ignite Our Moment’

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Uplifting the talents, passion and creativity that the area has to offer, the entertainment at Picnic Day promises to showcase a variety of performers, many of whom are locals to Davis and Yolo County, says Jillian Monyon, entertainment director. Last year there was some seating by the World Stage at California Hall, and since there will be performances on the Quad, people can bring picnic blankets to sit and watch.

The Enterprise got in touch with a few of the performers to talk about their music and their upcoming Picnic Day gig. The Brazilian Capoeira Angola group UC Davis is a student group on campus that invites Brazilian artists to teach students Brazilian Folkloric Arts. In a collective statement, the group wrote, “We decided to perform at Picnic Day because we think it is a great opportunity for students and the community to see and experience the unique arts of Brazilian Capoeira Angola and Brazilian drum rhythms.”

TIME and LOCATION: The

Brazilian Capoeira Angola will perform at the Sciences Lab Building Patio from 2:20 to 2:35 p.m.

The Liquid Hotplates pronounces that just like every a cappella group will tell you, they sing a variety of genres. Their emphasis, however is rhythm and blues, soul, alternative, and pop. “All their arrangements are studentmade, and so we try to have a healthy mix of styles that all of the members of the group enjoy. Some examples of songs we’ve done in the past are ‘Ain’t Nobody’ by Chaka Khan mixed with Dua Lipa’s ‘Don’t Start Now,’ a Doja Cat Medley, as well as ‘Take Me to Church’ by Hozier.”

Formed in 2000, The Liquid Hotplates has been around ever since and applies to perform at Picnic Day every year. In a statement to the Enterprise, they wrote: “ These past few years have been tough for us with the COVID-19 pandemic, so for all of our current members, this will be our first time performing at Picnic Day! We’ve seen and heard from our alumni how much fun it is to perform, and we’re looking forward to finally upholding the tradition.”

TIME and LOCATION: The Hotplates will be performing on the East Quad Stage from 12:20 to 12:35 p.m.

Kat and Matt/Davis Local Vocals: From 3:30 to 4 p.m. on Picnic Day, Kat and Matt will share the East Quad stage with Davis Local Vocals for blend of harmonies to “Ignite Our Moment”. Katherine Berdovskiy and Matthew Vallero are 13-year-olds who met at the local musical theater four years ago and have been singing together ever since. They love to create harmonies into duets for Broadway, pop, and classical opera. They currently are competing as state finalists for a classical voice for the Music Teachers Association of California.

This duet performed at Davisphere and the International Festival Davis last fall. Matt performed last year for Picnic Day and loved it!! He wanted to share the experience of performing this special venue with friends. Regarding his per formance with Katherine: “Performing brings me peace and I am so fortunate to do it with my best friend.”

Matt and Kat are also members

of the youth a cappella group, Davis Local Vocals. The young vocalists are excited and honored to be selected for Picnic Day! Davis

Locals Vocals, a youth a cappella group founded in 2021, are coming up on their 1-year anniversary singing together. They have performed for various local events in Davis such as Davisphere, the Holiday Tree Lighting, and at retirement communities. They sang the National Anthem for the UCD versus UCSD basketball game most recently. Singer Charlotte Del Favero, 13, of Harper Junior High School says the group plans on performing a set of five songs, including two they will debut at

Picnic Day. One of them is an arrangement of Molly Tuttle’s ‘Crooked Tree’ arranged by our music director, Krissy Schwerin. She says “You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen is especially exciting because it was arranged by our very own Local Vocals member, Matt Vallero.

“Ruby Schwerin, 15, of Da Vinci High School says she enjoys how fun it was to learn the songs they are performing and how they have brought the group closer together.

Ella Del Favero, 16, of Davis Senior High School, says, “I most enjoy the songs in our set because they have been a fun challenge. I am less experienced in performing songs

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Davis Local Vocals, from left, Ella Del Favero, Ruby Schwerin, Charlotte Del Favero and Matthew Vallero perform at Sutter Health Park.

The Brazilian Capoeira Angola will perform at the Sciences Lab Building Patio from 2:20 to 2:35 p.m.

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a cappella or holding harmonies myself, so the learning experience has been great.” She is “especially excited about performing at Picnic Day because it is such a beloved Davis event!”

“The Picnic Day performance excites me because it is a chance to share who we are with other people in our com-

Live performances

SCIENCES LAB BUILDING PATIO

Lounge Lizards A Cappella

• 11:45 to 12 p.m.

• R&B Band

Stand-Up

Comedy Club

• 12:10 to 12:25 p.m.

• Hip-Hop Band

Rainbow City Park

• 12:40 to 1:25 p.m.

• lndie pop original songs and covers

Brazilian Capoeira

WORLD STAGE (California Hall)

JazzyBelle Dance Company

• 11:45 to 12 p.m.

• Jazz and Tap dance group

The New Harmony Jazz Band

• 12:15 to 1 p.m.

• Jazz Music

Guitar Club

• 1:10 to 1:25 p.m.

• Pop/Rock/Country/ Jazz guitar

EAST QUAD

Afrovibes

• 11:30 to 11:45 a.m.

Kat and Matt/ Davis Local Vocals

• 3:30 to 4 p.m.

• Unity/Love/Pop

munity, and for the community to share something with us as well,” says Matt Vallero, 13, St. James School. Says Katherine Berdovskiy, 13, of Emerson Junior High: “The members of our group have grown very close over this last year, and it is exciting to share the experience of performing at Picnic Day with such amazing friends.”

Angola Club

• 2:20 to 2:35 p.m.

• Acrobatic and drumming performance

San Kazakgascar

• 2:50 to 3:35 p.m.

• Psychedelic rock/ indie original songs

Optimiztiq

• 3:45 to 4 p.m.

• Conscious Hip-Hop

Davis Chinese Orchestra

• 1:40 to 1:55 p.m.

• Traditional Chinese folk music

G-Mile

• 2:05 to 2:20 p.m.

• Or iginal hip-hop songs, spoken word interludes, dancing

MONDAIJI [problem child]

• 2:30 to 2:45 p.m.

• Alternative rock original songs and covers

Jhankaar

• 3 to 3:15 p.m.

• South Asian A Cappella

Justin Tuell

• 3:30 to 4 p.m.

• Vocal and guitar, original songs and covers

• Afr ican/African American dances with afrobeats

The Cleftomaniacs

• 11:55 to 12:10 p.m.

• Pop/R&B A Capella

The Liquid Hotplates

• 12:20 to 12:35 p.m.

• Pop/Soul/R&B/ Alternative A Cappella katgruvs

• 12:45 to 1:30 p.m.

• Fingerstyle guitar, original compositions and arrangements of popular songs

The Afterglow

• 1:40 to 1:55 p.m.

• Pop/Barbershop A Cappella

Sac Modern

• 2:05 to 2:30 p.m.

• Hip-hop dance

Kindred Spirits

• 2:45 to 3:20 p.m.

• Folk/rock band

Youth vocal duet, A Cappella

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY FAIR (Hoagland Lawn)

Team PopRock

• 12 to 12:15 p.m.

• A presentation of dance routines

Agraria

• 12:55 to 1:10 p.m.

• lndie Pop, original songs

Mateo Capeda

• 1:25 to 2 p.m.

• Soul/R&B/Pop, original songs and covers

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The Hotplates will be performing on the East Quad Stage from 12:20 to 12:35 p.m.

Animal Events

9 a.m.

UC Davis Beef Unit

• Cole Facility

• 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come see an offering of beef cattle from the UC Davis Beef Unit. There will be cows, calves, and bulls!

10 a.m.

A Bit About Bats

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Meet live native species of bats and learn about the importance of these flying mammals both for the environment and for agriculture. Discover the truths and myths of bats.

American Fisheries Society DavisSacramento Subunit

• Academic Surge, 1375

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Explore live fishes with AFS scientists and learn more about our mission to promote global protection, conservation, and sustainability!

Animal Biotechnology Booth

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Have you heard of CRISPR? Come learn how Animal Scientists at UC Davis are using this tool to improve the health and welfare of livestock. Watch a video showing microinjection of gene editing reagents into a developing cow embryo. Ask me anything (AMA) about animal biotechnology and genomics!

Animal Science Petting Zoo

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

An exciting opportunity to interact with farm animals: calves, lambs, and goat kids. This exhibit is open to all ages!

Aquaponics

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Aquaponics is the merger of fish farming using a recirculating aquaculture system and vegetable production using hydroponic plant production methodology. We will be demonstrating the use of nutrient rich wastewater from our fish tanks to grow vegetables in a vertical farming system.

California Raptor Center: Picnic with Predators

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Birds of prey are all around us! Come explore our table of talons and feathers, and discuss cool

raptor facts with volunteers!

Color a California Endangered Species!

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn about California endangered species while making a craft to take home!

Crees Brothers Farm

• T he Goat Pen

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Meet & greet with the

pair of dachshunds square off in the Doxie Derby.

farm, owner, interns, and of course the goats!

Dairy Facility Booth

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Come meet some of the cows at the dairy facility on campus and learn about the care and keep of the UC Davis cattle!

Department of Animal Science Advising

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come learn about the undergraduate majors: Agricultural and Environmental Education, Animal Science, and Animal Science and Management; or about the Animal Science and Avian Sciences minors. Talk with a Major Advisor and pick up a brochure about the unique learning opportunities in the Department of Animal Science!

Environmental Physiology in a Changing Environment

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come and learn about

the tools we use in physiology to better understand how well aquatic organisms will cope with changes in environmental conditions. On display will be a number of different projects we have ongoing from oysters to Antarctic fishes.

Gettin’ Piggy with It

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come learn more about the UC Davis Swine Facility and Pork Production.

Goat Dairy Creamery

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come see the new Noel-Nordfelt Goat Dairy Creamery as it becomes a grade A dairy processing facility! There will be displays of some of the new offerings and cheeses becoming available later this year!

Meat Lab Display

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Stop by the Meat Lab booth to chat with the student butchers and learn about the inner workings of a USDA inspected meat processing plant.

Meat Me in Davis

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Try your hand at identifying where various meat cuts come from, identify everyday items that contain animal by-products, and cast your vote for your favorite type of meat. Come join the UC Davis Meat Quality and Safety Lab to learn more about the meat we eat!

Orphan Kitten Project

• Giedt Hall, Rm. 1001

• 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Learn more about the Orphan Kitten Project and meet our kittens! We will have ADOPTABLE kittens looking for their FURever homes!

Pet IQ - Smarter Pet

Health

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

PetIQ believes that all pet parents should have the opportunity to provide preventative veterinary medical care for their pets. Our goal is to help bridge the gap that exists between the accessibility to preventative veterinary care and the cost involved with that care. Our focus is to reach pets that have not had access to care. Through our stationary wellness center clinic models and our mobile community clinic models, we have been able to meet the needs of pet parents by providing preventative veterinary care for pets where and when they need it.

Rodents in Research

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come play with the laboratory rats while you learn about their care and

the role they play in keeping you healthy!

School of Veterinary Medicine

Information Booth

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Learn all there is to know about the #1 ranked school of veterinary medicine in the country.

Sea-sational Scientists and Fin-tastic Creatures

• Memor ial Union, Tables 14&15

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Interested in the ocean? Come explore our Touch Tanks teeming with marine invertebrates and algaes, and use microscopes to take a closer look! You can also learn about the UCD Marine & Coastal Science Major, UCD marine science courses, and ongoing marine and coastal science research. An all-day, kidfriendly event!

Student Veterinary Emergency Response Team

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Our booth will feature information on SVERT, product sales, live dogs and bandaging demonstrations, with an emphasis on education. It provides a great opportunity for the public to gain emergency preparedness and for our members to refine their practical skills.

Veterinary Genetics Laboratory

• Hutchison Field

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Curious about animal genetics? Want to know how genetic testing plays a role in animal breeding? Visit our booth to learn more about the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory and how genetic testing can be used to improve animal health and wellbeing!

Young Cattlemen’s

Association Booth

• Cole Facility

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come join us at the YCA booth to learn about the beef and agriculture industry. We have cornhole, dummy roping, merch and more!

Frisbee Dog Contest

• Hutchison Field

• 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Frisbee Dog EventMini-Distance is a timed event in which each team (dog and owner) competes in 60 second rounds, attempting to score as many points as possible by completing frisbee catches on a marked field.

Chicken Hatching Event

• Meyer Hall, Rm. 1330

• 10 a.m to 2:30 p.m.

Visitors can walk around to view chicks actively hatching from eggs in tabletop incubators, where other posters

and displays will be shown. Volunteers from the lab will be present to answer questions and keep an eye on the incubators.

11 a.m.

Chick Handling Exhibit

• Meyer Hall, Rm. 1338

• 11 a.m to 2:30 p.m.

Get the chance to handle some recently hatched chicks. All visitors are required to clean their hands before entering and exiting this exhibit.

Laying Hens

• Meyer Hall Breezeway

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Come learn about the history of eggs and laying hens through a hands-on experience with hens! Volunteers will be present to help with handling the hens. All visitors are required to clean their hands before entering and exiting this exhibit.

Yolo County Animal Services & Friends

• Hutchison Field

• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Attention animal lovers!

Come visit our booth and meet our friendly staff and volunteers. Whether you have a furry friend, are considering adoption, or just want to get involved as a volunteer, our team is here to answer all your questions

and help you get connected with our amazing animal community. So come on by and say hello and let your passion for animals soar!

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Animal Science Horse Barn Open House

• Hor se Barn

• 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Stop by and take a tour of the historic UC Davis Horse Barn! Here you can visit with the teaching horses, learn more about the science of equine reproduction, and see what our program is all about!

Doxie Derby

• University Credit Union Center

• 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

(Doors open at 11 a.m.)

These doxies have been waiting so long to stretch their little legs and compete for first place, so come cheer them on at one of the most iconic Picnic Day events! Little dachshunds run their hearts out across the University Credit Union Center! TICKETS REQUIRED. Use the Southeast and Southwest entrances. PLEASE NOTE: Only registered dogs participating in the event and service animals can enter. NO PETS ALLOWED.

Speed Mule Packing Competition

• Hor se Barn Arena

• 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Ever wondered what it looks like to strap duffel bags, ice chests, and wheelbarrows to the back of mules as fast as possible? Join us for our speed packing competition to learn more about the equine packing industry and how UC Davis students compete against other colleges in this event.

1 p.m.

Aggie Polo Club Match

• Hor se Barn Arena

• 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Stop by to catch an exciting horse polo match played by the Aggie Polo Club at UC Davis! It’ll be a bit of friendly competition in an arena exhibition match while you learn about the sport and its history.

2 p.m.

Draft Horse and Driving Club Demonstration

• Hor se Barn Arena

• 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn more about the exciting world of driving with our Draft Horse and Driving Club at UC Davis. You’ll have the chance to learn how to harness and hitch, and watch these powerful Percheron horses in action!28p0

Picnic Day’s Children Discovery Fair brings out the kid in everyone

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

From arts and crafts and games, Picnic Day’s Children’s Discovery Fair at Hoagland Lawn, starting from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., promises to bring the kid out in everyone.

“I honestly encourage all ages to come by because you’re never too old to make crafts, listen to music, or play games,” says CDF Director Oshiogwe Nash-Haruna.

“I look forward to kids just having fun and running around. I want to make sure that kids aren’t thinking of school and that they are just enjoying themselves with the different activities they are able

to do. I also look forward to seeing families also do the crafts with their children too. It is very wholesome and nice.”

Nash-Haruna has worked with kids for quite some time now, so she’s used to coming up with fun crafts to do. “I decided to be in charge of the Children’s Discovery Fair because I feel like a little kid inside. I get excited about crafts and Disney music too!” People will be able to create a keychain or bracelet, paint seashells, create buttons, and play Sharks and Minnows and Night in the Museum.

“It does not matter the age, anyone is free to stop by and make some craft or just vibe and listen to music,” Nash-Haruna added.

Exhibits

8 a.m.

Precision Medicine: All of Us Research Program

• Wellman Hall Quad

• 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn about Precision Medicine and the All of Us Research Program and how everyone can be involved in advancing health research.

Vegetable Photo Station

• Plants and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Be a vegetable - or just look like one! Have some photo fun with this traditional photo stand with popular fruits and veggies. You are what you eat!

Virtual Pancake Breakfast

• Virtual

• 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Flip some hot cakes with the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for our annual virtual Picnic Day pancake breakfast! This family friendly virtual event will feature live cooking demonstrations and tips on how to make the best pancakes from the comfort of your own home. We’ll have a demonstration and more before the live-streamed Picnic Day parade.

9 a.m.

Admissions Presentations

• Welcome Center (Presentation Hall)

• 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Visit the Welcome Center for admissions

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presentations for prospective students and admitted students.

Adventures in Math and Stats

• Mathematical Sciences Building Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Explore the fascinating worlds of Mathematics and Statistics! Play fun games to learn how math and stats exist in everyday life!

Bug Doctor

• Br iggs Hall Outside Entryway

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Meet an entomologist and talk about insects! Even bring some from your home or garden for identification!

Center for Plant Diversity Herbarium: Pressed Flowers Art

• Plant and Environmental Science Building Lawn

• 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Meet the staff and

students from the Herbarium, and learn about what an herbarium is and how we serve UC Davis and the public. Children can make their own pressed flower art bookmarks and cards using a colorful array of dried flowers from our area.

Doctor Death

• Br iggs Hall 122

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Meet Dr. Bob Kimsey and find out how insects are used in Forensics!

EE-Emerge

• Kemper Hall Lobby

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Come and interact with the amazing EE-Emerge projects and get excited for electrical and computer engineering.

Entomology at UC Davis

• Br iggs Hall 122

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Learn about insects and entomology from graduate students, faculty, and

emeriti from UC Davis.

Explore Crop Performance in 3D Virtual Reality

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 9 to 11 a.m.

Use 3D Virtual Reality to visualize how crop traits affect important processes associated with crop performance, including light interception, photosynthesis, and water-use efficiency. 3D plant models are used to simulate these processes, and visualize their distribution as plant traits are varied.

Explore the Tree of Life

• Storer Hall Lobby

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet live animals, fungi and plants. Learn how we’re related to these creatures, what we share, and why we’re different!

Fly-tying

• Br iggs Hall Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Learn the art of fly-tying for fly fishing from experts!

Free Water Analysis for Metals by lCPMS

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free water analysis for metals by ICPMS. Submit sample in plastic water bottle pre-rinsed with sample water (no glass).

Fun Math and Science hands-on activities

• Br iggs Hall 122

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Do you like tinkering? Build your own kaleidoscope, explore how to create cubic bubbles and make origami creatures. Do you like riddles? Solve a math riddle and be rewarded with a treasure from our treasure chest!

Insect-themed T-shirt sales

• Br iggs Hall Entryway

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Popular insect-themed t-shirts such as ‘The Beetles’ are on sale via the Entomology Graduate Student Association.

Laser Maze

• Kemper Hall

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Navigate your way through a maze made entirely of laser beams. This is always one of Picnic Day’s most popular attractions - get there early to avoid long lines!

Learn how the USDA ARS benefits you and the community

• In fr ont of Wickson Hall

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn how the USDA ARS benefits you and the community. Our booth will feature research displays, brochures, and community outreach items.

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Maggot Art

• Briggs Hall Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Children (and grownups) will get to create beautiful pieces of art using live maggots dipped in non -toxic paint.

Meet the Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Get your questions about fruit and nut trees answered by our experts!

Mosquito Control

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Briggs Hall Entrance

Learn about how to control mosquitoes and protect yourself.

Other Creepy Crawlies

• Briggs Hall 122

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

View live arachnids and myriapods! You could see tarantulas, scorpions, mil-

lipedes and more!

Plant Pathology Clinic and Strawberry Giveaway

• Hutchison Hall Lobby and Outside

• 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Plant a strawberry

Crown and see fun disease symptoms inside.

Popcorn Shelling or Shell your own popcorn

• Plant and Environmental Sciences South Entrance

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn how popcorn is grown and harvested.

Popularization of DG Juice

• Robert Mondavi Institute Good Life Gardens Area

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Taste and enjoy darkgreen leaf juice. Learn how to enhance the safety and quality of DG juice from microbial level, bring healthy food into our life!

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Produce Heroes

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Fight the waste, save the produce. Choose how to store your fruit correctly by playing corn hole, just make sure not to toss away good produce.

Seed Packet and Sweet Potato Giveaway

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 9 to 11 a.m.

We will be giving away small seed packets of diverse organicallyproduced beans, grown right here at the UC Davis Student Farm! These varieties have a long history in the southwest, and some are extremely resilient to heat and drought. They will make a great addition to any Davis garden!

The Joy of Writing: The University Writing Program

Ignites Fun with Words!

• Voorhies Hall Southeast Entrance

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Join University Writing Program faculty, staff, and friends as we create fun with the written word! Come build your own special bookmark (a Picnic Day keepsake), write words of wisdom on our Writing Wall, or play a word on the biggest Scrabble board you’ve ever seen!

Tomato Genetics Resource Center

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

See various species of wild tomato and tomato mutants. Learn about conservation of genetic resources. Answer tomato trivia and learn about the history of the TGRC.

Tomato Giveaway

• Plant and Environmental

Sciences Lawn

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CA&ES Greenhouses’

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UC Davis Integrated Pest Management

• Br iggs Hall Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Talk with expert entomologists about safely controlling pest insects.

UCD Police Department Campus Engagement and Safety Information Events

• Police Department

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We will have a pop up tent with tabling and bike light giveaways on the Campus Quad AND the usual popcorn, water, giveaways, and patrol car at the Police Department.

What Does Science Say?

• Plants and Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

How do we take complicated science and make it easy to understand? Talk to real researchers about their science and how they turn their nitty-gritty details into a story that you might hear about on the news!

Wonderful Watercress

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Courtyard

• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Watercress is a superfood and an example of indoor vertical farming. It’s packed with more nutrition than kale! It’s loaded with natural substances that fight cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Growing this and other vegetables in vertical farms lets us produce food with better flavor, more nutrition and less water.

9:30 a.m.

Popcorn Popping

• Plant and Environmental

Sciences Lobby

• 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Come by and enjoy a bag of fresh popped popcorn.

10 a.m.

Alumni Zone

• Vanderhoef Quad

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Celebrate with CAAA and enjoy music, giveaways, lawn games, and kid friendly activities. Commemorate the day with an Aggie Pride themed photo at our Photobooth. Vanderhoef Quad is the perfect location to partake in the fun festivities of The Gateway District.

Anthropology

Ethnographic Film Festival

• Social Sciences Lecture Hall 1100

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come watch short Ethnographic films made by UC Davis students. Films

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feature various topics and issues concerning the UC Davis campus, local communities, and the world.

Art and games at the Manetti Shrem Museum

• Manetti Shrem Museum

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Include a stop at the Manetti Shrem Museum as part of your (109th!)

Picnic Day adventures to play games, make shimmering silver sketches, add to a large-scale reflective collage, and visit our three current exhibitions Mike Henderson:

Before the Fire, 1965 - 1985; Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock; and Roy DeForest: Habitats for Travelers.

Ask a Philosopher Booth

• Outside the Philosophy Department building

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Do you have any philosophical questions?

Please come talk to UC Davis philosophers!

Ask the Weed Doctor

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Weed Doctor is ‘IN”. Learn how to manage the weeds in your garden.

Beat a Quantum Game

• Memorial Union Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Play a fun game using real quantum hardware! Learn how we use quantum-based principles to tackle challenging but groundbreaking problems.

Biotechnology Experiment: DNA Extraction from Strawberries!

• Briggs Hall 148

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Come join us for fun biotechnology experiments. Extracting DNA from strawberries is a fun hands-on activity for all ages!

Bugs Boom Bang

• Academic Surge Building

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Learn about insects and some of the strange things they do to prevent being eaten. Entomology will ignite your imagination.

Chemistry Show

• Rock Hall

• 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The chemistry show features amazing demonstrations that show how chemical reactions are involved in everyday life. Fun for all ages!

CHMS Alumni BBQ

• Bainer Hall Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The CH MS departments welcomes graduates to annual Alumni BBQ! This is an opportunity for Alumni to reconnect, network, and socialize with peers.

College of Engineering Alumni Lounge

• E astern Entrance of Bainer Hall

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Relax, recharge, and enjoy spending time with fellow engineering alumni, family members and friends.

College of Letters and Sciences

• Out side Rock Hall

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

We will have cornhole with prizes, info about the college and staff on hand to answer questions.

Department of Animal Science Booth

• Out side the Cole A Facility

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Come learn about the Department of Animal Science, and take pictures with the farm animal face cutout prop.

Environmental Toxicology

• Academic Surge Entryway

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Discover the many

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ways that environmental toxicology affects our everyday lives. Enjoy games, activities, kids crafts, and fun facts. Meet toxicology students, professors, and staff to learn about current research in ETOX at UC Davis.

Extra Virgin: How to Identify and Taste Olive Oils

• Robert Mondavi Institute

Sensory Building Courtyard

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Taste the delicious Olive Center olive oils, meet and discuss how the olive oils are made, how to taste them, detect the differences and appreciate them with our staff.

Fire Station Front Ramp Open House

• Fire Department Building

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come meet the UC Davis Fire Department and check out our fleet of Fire Apparatus on the front ramp of Station 34!

Honey Tasting

• Robert Mondavi Institute Sensory Building Courtyard

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Come taste and learn about UC Davis honey and honey varietals from North America.

Illuminating Genetic Engineering

• Storer Hall Lobby

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Meet the glowing critters from the Genetics and Genomics Graduate Group! Learn how fluorescence occurs in nature and is utilized in bioengineering, and make your own DNA bracelet with your favorite gene.

Liquid Nitrogen Sorbet

• Bainer Hall Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

What boils at -320°F and is cold enough to burn? Liquid nitrogen, of course! If you would like to see this incredible chemi-

cal phenomenon and better yet, eat it, come on down to try our Liquid Nitrogen Sorbet!

Master Gardeners

• Plant & Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Come talk to a Master Gardener volunteer and get help with your vegetable garden.

Neuroengineering and You

• E astern Entrance of Bainer Hall

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

What is neuroengineering and how might you benefit from it?

Come see examples of neuroengineering projects and ask us questions about the field.

Physics and Astronomy Public Talks

• Roessler 66

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn about Light, the Higgs boson radiation, and more!

R-Ohm-eo and Joule-iet

• Roessler 66

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Physics Club’s retelling of the classic “Romeo and Juliet” with fun physics demos.

Robert Mondavi Institute and Centers of Excellence

• Robert Mondavi Institute Sensory Building Courtyard

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Robert Mondavi Institute and the Centers of Excellence will provide information on programs and events and offer honey and olive oil tastings.

Silly Putty Kids Craft

• Bainer Hall Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Join the AIChE community in a craft for the whole family! We will be creating silly putty out of borax and

elmers glue! Don’t miss out!

Sound + Humans = Magic

• UC Davis Sound Lab

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Come hear thrilling live electronic music performances from UCD students. Then go ahead and try out some synths in the Lab.

Strawberry Plant Giveaway

• Plant and Environmental Sciences Lawn

• 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Visit the Plant Breeding Center and receive a free strawberry plant! Learn planting tips from strawberry specialists and ask your plant breeding related questions.

The Cool Science of Ice Cream

• Robert Mondavi Institute

Good Life Gardens Area

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Learn and taste ice cream made from the UC Davis Pilot Plant on campus.

Thermal Imaging Photo Booth & Meet a UAV

• Veihmeyer Hall Courtyard

• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come take a photo to remember Picnic Day using our thermal imaging camera and meet our high tech UAV!

Today’s Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

• Bainer Hall

• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Experience the future of agriculture. See robots and other bioautomations in action; watch a mechanical stomach; and learn how to turn waste into energy.

Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology

— Wildest Major on Campus!

• Academic Surge Entrance and Hallway 1371/1375

• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Explore wildlife conservation biology in fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna!

The Department of WFCB will have exhibits with LIVE fish, wildlife experts from the American Fisheries Society, Wildlife Society-Davis Student Chapter, Ecology Graduate Student Association, UCD Birdwatching Club, UCD Herpetological Society, Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and kids crafts!

10:30 a.m.

Learn about UCD Psychology Research with the Social Environment and Stress Lab!

• Out side of Young Hall

• 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Interested in learning about research in psychology? We are the Social Environment and Stress lab at UC Davis and we study stress in children and adolescents. Come talk to us to find out more about who we are and how we measure stress using questionnaires, saliva and hair samples, and heart recordings.

11 a.m.

Aggie Traditions Campus Tour

• Between Memorial Union and Freeborn Hall outside

• 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

“What makes UC Davis special? Join us for a walking tour of some of the need-to-know spots on campus. We’ll highlight spots associated with the Aggie Traditions on campus and are connected to UC Davis pride.

Our tour route will cover about 2 miles of walking, we recommend you wear comfortable walking shoes, sunscreen, hat/ sunglasses, and bring a reusable water bottle. We’ll leave once the parade has completed, how-

ever, attendees should plan to gather around 11 a.m. if they want to join. We will leave later if the parade takes longer this year. We will sign waivers before departing on the tour. Meet us outside of the Memorial Union by Freeborn Hall.

Cockroach Racing

• Br iggs Hall Cantilever

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

We will be racing roaches on tiny tracks, all day long!

Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis

• E arth and Physical Sciences Building (Rooms 1314 & 1348) and Shock Compression Laboratory

• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Earth and Planetary Sciences are out of this world! Exhibits and demonstrations for all ages!

Explore the Department of Viticulture & Enology!

• Courtyard of Robert

• Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Science and the Campus Winery.

• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Get to know all that RMI has to offer. Go on a tour of the Teaching & Research winery, learn how barrels are made, and take home your own baby grapevine.

Explore Augmented & Virtual Reality at DataLab

• Shields Library

• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Come explore how we develop and use Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) for research and teaching at UC Davis. Make mountains in our AR Sandbox and see what happens when it rains - or a volcano explodes (ages 6+ ). Then go on a virtual hike of your landscape in VR (ages 13+). Learn about coding and coordinates as you draw and color alongside

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our team of data scientists (all ages). Ask us the hard questions like what are data scientists doing in a library?!

Fashion & Design Society Fashion Show: Intertwine

• Cruess Hall Courtyard

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This year’s fashion show is called Intertwined. It allows participants, students, and audiences to experience fashion and design in an immersive show. In this moment, we are able to showcase memories and designs that have been made this past year.

Get to Know UC Davis EcoCAR Team

• Academic Surge Bldg. 1114

• 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Come learn about the new Eco-CAR project! Meet the student team designing an autonomous electric vehicle over the next 4 years. We will have

information on electric vehicles, activities for the kids, and highlight STEM opportunities for al I!

Groundwater

“Ant-Farm” Model

• Veihmeyer Hall Courtyard

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Learn about the hydrologic cycle and see examples of how groundwater flows under your feet!

House of Horrors

• T LC South Lawn

• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Brave your way through health horrors. Watch Biomedical Engineering save the day.

Library Open House & Children’s Storytime

• Shields Library Lobby and Courtyard

• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Join storytime in Shields Courtyard at 11:30 & 12:30 or watch historical films of Picnic

Picnic Day 2023

Days past. Visit exhibits on the iconic water tower, and the role of UC Davis and northern California in the rise of organic farming, farm-to-table cooking, and sustainable agriculture. Or express your own creativity with our coloring sheets (indoors) and sidewalk chalk (outside). There’s something for everyone to discover!

Materials Magic Show

• Science Lab Lecture Hall

• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Join the Materials Advantage Student Chapter on a fun adventure and learn about the wonders of materials! Three shows consisting of various audiencefriendly demonstrations will take place at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. Meet the Microbes!

• Katherine Esau Science Hall (2079 and 2087)

• 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Come and explore the world of tiny things that

have a big impact! This is a hands-on, minds-on exhibit where folks of all ages can learn about everyday microorganisms and marvel at living, bioluminescent art!

Music Student Performance

• Ann E. Pitzer Center (Recital Hall)

• 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. A few of our student groups, including our Bluegrass and Old Time String Band will perform in this beautiful performance space. Come hear how we are excited preserving and celebrating the many musics of the world!

Stream Table

• Veihmeyer Hall Courtyard

• 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn how rivers work by playing in our very special sandbox!

VIP Member Lounge

• Alumni Center

• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Come visit the Cal Aggie

Alumni Association VIP Member Lounge at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center for free food and refreshments, relaxation, and to reconnect with other Aggies. Pizza provided by Woodstock’s Pizza! This year the lounge will include live stream video of the Doxie Derby, lawn games and kid friendly activities! Association member-only event, pre-registration will be required. 4 guest total per active member, per household.

11:30 a.m.

Explore Bees and Butterflies

• Br iggs Hall Entrance

• 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Meet the insects that buzz and flutter all around you! Learn how they contribute to the health and beauty of our world.

Craft Center Open House

• Cr aft Center (Studios)

• 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Visit the many studios at the Craft Center and see demos of crafts.

Women’s Water Polo vs. Long Beach State

• Schaal Aquatic Center

• 12 p.m.

Come support the seniors and the rest of the Aggies at their last home game of the season as they take on Long Beach State for Senior Day!

1 p.m.

Lacrosse vs. Cal

• UC Davis Health Stadium

• 1 p.m.

Watch the Aggies take on our UC rivals Cal for Alumni Day and One Love Day! The Aggies are partnering with the One Love Foundation which is a non-profit organization with the goal of ending relationship abuse.

2 p.m.

Battle of the Bands

• Mr ak Hall Lawn

• 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The Picnic Day Battle of the Bands is back! A musical battle of epic proportions, come hear your favorite University bands rock out during the 2023 Picnic Day. Guests will include the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, Humboldt Marching Lumberjacks, USF Marching Dons, Cal Poly Pomona Bronco Pep Band, UC San Diego Pep Band and your UC Davis Marching Band!

7 p.m. Davis Dance Revolution

• University Credit Union Center

• 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Davis Dance Revolution is the premiere dance crew competition at UC Davis. You won’t want to miss all the amazing performances.

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