The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The AggieEats Food Truck, a bright-green, 24-foot vehicle with battery- and solar-powered kitchen equipment, has been making the rounds on the UC Davis campus.

Aggies line up for pay-what-you-can food truck

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

What’s on the menu, Sal?

Chicken and rice? Pulled pork?

Jesus “Sal” Ramirez, a firstgeneration immigrant who experienced food scarcity, has worked in the food industry for more than two decades and now runs the AggieEats Food Truck, a bright-green, 24-foot machine with battery- and solar-powered kitchen equipment that has made its rounds on the UC Davis campus, operating on a pay-what-you-want scale.

Every Monday to Friday, starting at 11 a.m., the truck is parked on campus, ready to serve up to 500 hungry students. The food truck location and schedule are subject to change. Last week the truck visited the Quad twice, West Village, Storer Hall, and the Student Health and Wellness Center.

Ramirez was quoted in a UCD statement that as someone who grew up dealing with food insecurity, he understands the importance of having access

to healthy, nutritious food and the tremendous impact it can make in your life. “With this in mind, we hope AggieEats can help, so students can focus on bigger things and not have to worry about having their basic needs met. Our food is made with love and served with love, and we hope that it feeds your heart as much as your bellies.”

The Culinary Support Center on campus prepares the food that is served through AggieEats, and then a team inside the truck puts together the food

Council looks to 2025 for Measure D election

By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer

With five peripheral development proposals now before the city, and the City Council deciding not to put any of them on the November 2024 ballot, attention has turned to a possible special election in 2025.

together in to-go packaging.

Lured to get in line on Monday, international graduate students Shehran Syed and Lubaba Alim are thrifty about their food budget. While they usually bring their food from home, sometimes, if they’re feeling “lazy,” Sayed said they’ll buy a slice of pizza for $2.50.

They saw the truck and heard someone in the Memorial Union talking about it and decided to get in line on Monday.

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Activists at market for Earth Day

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The UC Davis Chapter of the California Students Public Interest Research Group held an Earth Day event advocating for increased ocean protection in California. They gathered at the Davis Farmers Market on Saturday to get public comments.

They say the effort is part of a campaign launched in January to get state leaders to expand and strengthen California’s Marine Protected Areas network through the ongoing MPA Decadal Management Review.

The event highlighted students’ passion for ocean conservation and the

strength of youth voices. Students engaged shoppers with campaign actions, including taking photos with campaign signs and Tizzy the Turtle. Slogans on the sign included “Save our Seas” and “Conserve 30% by 2030.”

“It’s clear that where we have established marine protected areas, they’re working,” said Taylor England, third-year UC Davis student and the campaign coordinator of the Save our Seas effort on campus. “You can see it visually, and it’s backed by research, that where we have MPAs established, we have a bigger variety of wildlife and more abundant sea life. But we need to do more.”

England said scientists recommend that 30% of our lands and waters be protected by 2030 to allow wildlife to thrive and recover. “We’re not there yet, and we can’t just hit that goal with labeled protections that aren’t strong enough to really let sea life recover, but California needs to lead with a model of highly protected marine spaces that work,” she said.

She explained that 16% of California’s coastal waters are currently protected through MPAs. Only 9% are no-take zones considered “fully protected.”

According to Environment California’s Changing

See EARTH, Page A3

At the request of Mayor Will Arnold, City Manager Mike Webb said last week that city staff will return to the council with possible dates for a special election as well as what the timelines would be for any project proposals to move through the approval process in time to make it on the ballot in 2025. The mayor’s request came two weeks after the council decided unanimously not to put any Measure J/R/D project proposals on the November 2024 ballot. That decision was based on the council’s desire to focus staff time and public outreach on a possible tax measure instead of a development project, as well as what Arnold said was a desire to give the community an election cycle off from

Wennberg Orchestra Festival returns to Mondavi

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

Since 1996, the Wennberg Orchestra Festival has been a proud tradition that showcases the talent of the district’s renowned music program. This tradition is set to continue this upcoming Saturday, April 29, and all are welcome to take part in this musical experience.

The history of this tradition begins with Bodil Wennberg who was born in 1939 in Denmark. She was trained as a nurse before immigrating to the U.S., where she took up the cello and discovered

her passion as a musician. She became a member of the Camellia Symphony as well as spent time coaching secondary students in small ensemble groups.

Wennberg passed away in 1994 with a wish that her cello be sold to start an annual concert series to raise money for the local school orchestra program. Since 1996, her wish has become an annual tradition known as the Wennberg Orchestra Festival that’s currently run by the DHS-Holmes Orchestra

See FESTIVAL, Page A3

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ARNOLD Davis mayor

Body found in train car

A body discovered Sunday morning along Second Street is being investigated as a suicide, Davis police said.

Lt. Dan Beckwith said a motorist called police at about 11:45 a.m. to report a man’s body hanging from a railroad car in the 2100 block of Second Street.

“Officers arrived and found a deceased person, hanging by a rope, attached to the top of a train car,” Beckwith said.

Yolo County coroner’s officials identified him as Adil Mohammed, a 47-year-old male Davis resident.

Davis police and the coroner’s office are conducting a joint investigation into the death, but Beckwith said no foul play is suspected.

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DHS keeps up a tribute to a legend

DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW ... Frequently, we only hear about a great performance by our local students after the fact, when it’s too late for us to experience it.

So, I’m here today to spread the news that a select group of Davis High School students will be performing this weekend at the annual “A Tribute to Tony Fields” at the Brunelle Performance Hall on the DHS campus.

The show will be presented this Friday and Saturday, with both performances beginning at 7 p.m.

Tickets are available at the door.

Fields, one of the most beloved Blue Devils ever, graduated from Davis High in 1977 and went on to fame on both stage and screen in dancing and acting before dying of AIDS in 1995 at the age of 36. He was inducted into the Davis High Blue and White Hall of Fame in 2009.

Even though his career took him away from Davis for long periods of time, he returned regularly to his alma mater to mentor aspiring students.

Among his many credits, Fields performed in the 1980 film “Fame” and starred as Al Deluca in the1985 movie “A Chorus Line.” He was also a backup dancer for

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Debbie Reynolds and earned a spot as a dancer on the weekly TV series “Solid Gold.”

The Tribute varies from year to year, but will include a revue of musical numbers, narration about Tony’s life and career, and images and videos that speak to who Tony was as a person, an artist and a mentor.

This year will mark the 26th annual performance in his honor. The show will be followed by a presentation of Senior Awards, including an award in Tony’s name for Artistic Integrity.

Proceeds from ticket sales go to fund the scholarships that accompany each award.

It is a show not to be missed.

SPEAKING OF TALENTED DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ... I had the distinct pleasure of attending the

Trespass call triggers

9-hour police standoff

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Davis police arrested a Winters man on weapon and threats charges Saturday following a nine-hour standoff.

Lt. Dan Beckwith said officers were dispatched at about 5 a.m. to the 300 block of Madson Place, off Fifth Street in East Davis, to investigate reports of a trespasser.

“When they arrived, they encountered a subject who produced a large knife and a chain with a lock on the end,” Beckwith said. “He threatened the officers and himself, and barricaded himself into a corner

between a fence and a dumpster enclosure.”

Officers blocked off the cul-de-sac and summoned a crisis response team to the scene that was unable to negotiate the man’s surrender, Beckwith said. Police ultimately used force — including a Taser and less-lethal rubber bullets — to take the man into custody at about 2 p.m.

Bernardo Manuel Ibarra, 34, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of resisting arrest, criminal threats, brandishing a weapon and trespassing, along with a warrant for a parole violation, Beckwith said.

Man suspected of setting multiple arson fires

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A series of alleged arson fires led to a Davis man’s arrest Sunday night, according to police.

The investigation began with a report of someone on a bicycle lighting fires in the area of Chiles Road and Mace Boulevard shortly before 10 p.m., Davis police Lt. Dan Beckwith said.

“The fire department had initially responded to the report of a fire behind the Valero gas station and had extinguished it,” Beckwith

said. “Citizens pointed out the man they saw start it.”

A short time later, the suspect allegedly started several more fires in the area, including in a planter in the 7-Eleven parking lot, and attempted another blaze outside Taco Bell before officers arrived.

The suspect fled on his bike but was detained following a short chase, Beckwith said. Jack Gerber, 60, went to the Yolo County Jail on arson, resisting arrest and violation of parole charges.

Davis High Jazz Choir’s annual Cabaret Dinner last weekend and was blown away by the talent and sheer joy that choir members brought to the evening.

The performance was so moving that it simply made me glad to be alive and enjoying all that these students have to offer.

If you’ve never before seen the Davis High Jazz Choir — another creation of the late, great Dick Brunelle — catch them when you can. You will not be disappointed.

Although the students themselves took turns as master of ceremonies, near the end of the performance choir director

Amanda Bistolfo came to the microphone to thank the sold-out crowd and received a long, spontaneous and heartfelt standing ovation.

Sadly, this immensely popular, talented and dedicated teacher will not be a part of the Davis High School faculty next fall. She will be missed.

THIS JUST IN ... As anticipated, former Fox News firebrand Tucker Carlson has landed on his feet.

Carlson has announced that he’ll be moving to the Land of the Woke, where he’ll be the new Page A-2 columnist for The Davis Enterprise.

“It’ll be like moving to a foreign country for me, but I welcome the challenge and am pleased to not have to lie on national television every night,” Carlson noted.

Former A-2 columnist Bob Dunning will have his regular column moved to the Classified ad section, where it will run between “LOST KITTEN FOUND” and “$2 OFF NEXT PIZZA.” “I like both pizza and kittens,” Dunning noted. “So this is sort of a dream come true for me.” — Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Jamba Juice settles civil claims

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Jamba Juice LLC will pay $143,000 to settle allegations of misleading discount advertising for its food and drink products, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Both the Yolo County and Santa Cruz County DA’s offices brought the statewide civil action, which accused Jamba Juice of misleading customers between July and December 2020 at its California franchises.

According to a news release: “Jamba Juice advertised a discount on its food and drink products to consumers who downloaded and signed

up for Jamba’s smartphone app. Some of Jamba’s in-store promotional materials for the discount failed to disclose that a $10 minimum purchase was required in order to obtain the discount. A consumer relying on those materials would not have learned of the minimum purchase requirement until after installing the app and providing their personal information.”

A judgment entered last Friday by Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann prohibits Jamba Juice from offering discounts or reduced prices without disclosing upfront all conditions upon which the offer or reduced price depends.

Jamba Juice was cooperative throughout the investigation and and promptly changed store advertising to comply with the law, prosecutors said. The company also agreed to pay $6,750 in restitution to California’s Consumer Protection Trust Fund.

“When consumers are offered discounts on products and services, they are entitled to know conditions on which the offer depends,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. “This settlement will help ensure consumers receive the information they need before making a purchase or signing up for discounts.”

Woman assaulted in Richards bike tunnel

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Davis police are seeking a suspect who assaulted a homeless woman inside the Richards Boulevard bike tunnel Monday morning.

A passerby discovered the injured woman, who was suffering from a head wound, at about 11:30 a.m. and summoned police, Lt. James MacNiven said.

The woman told officers the suspect

struck her with a small butane tank during an argument over a stolen iPhone, MacNiven said. He fled the scene prior to police arrival.

MacNiven said the woman was transported to Sutter Davis Hospital for treatment, and officers plan to conduct a follow-up investigation “in an attempt to identify a suspect.”

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

Tony Fields, one of the most beloved Blue Devils ever, graduated from Davis High in 1977 and went on to fame on both stage and screen in dancing and acting.

Fundraiser for Corona memorial

Explore, sit in and marvel at various trucks at Touch A Truck on April 30; a fundraiser in support of the Natalie Corona memorial.

This family event features trucks and vehicles of all types for kids of all ages to experience.

Sponsored by the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club, Touch A Truck will go from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot on 14th St. between Davis High School and the Veterans Memorial Center. Tickets ($5 or $20 per family), event information and sponsorship opportunities are available at www.touchatruckdavis. com. Refreshments will be available at the event.

All proceeds will support the creation of Natalie’s Corner, an environmentally and kid-friendly splash pad in Central Park to honor Officer Natalie Corona (www.cityof davis.org/r/splashpad).

Team Davis on ‘Timeout Radio’

If you pass by UC Davis’ Toomey Field on spring weekends you’ll see a team of athletes engrossed in practicing their sprints, jumps and throws. They are the track and field members of Team Davis, the Special Olympics team for Yolo County.

On the latest episode of “Timeout Radio,” host Rohan Baxi talks to Robin Dewey who shares how Team Davis enriches the lives of children and adults with developmental, cognitive and physical disabilities. Hear how Special Olympics started as a backyard summer camp and grew into a global movement that changed attitudes about ability and inclusion.

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

Learn spiritual economics

Cylvia Hayes, a soonto-be-ordained Unity minister, and award winning environmental and poverty-prevention author and activist will lead an online workshop on Sunday, April 30, from noon to 2 p.m. on climate change, and the current economic system.

Hayes’ background is as spiritual leader at Unity Spiritual Community of Central Oregon, she founded and heads the ReThink ministry, and is a former first lady of Oregon.

For a link to the workshop go to www. unityofdavis.org, click on “Events” to register for the noon event.

TRUCK: This food is going places

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Student Lisa Royjen said she usually packs her lunch from home and was interested in trying out the food on Monday, and plans on returning.

“Students can swing by, grab some lunch, pay a few bucks if they have it, if they don’t, they don’t. It’s all anonymous. Nobody knows what anybody paid. You have some extra money and forward a little bit, help another student, anything that comes into the truck, goes right back into the program 100%,” said Leslie Kemp, director of the UC Davis Basic Needs Initiative and the Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center. Aggie Compas is where students can enroll in CalFresh and get basic needs support.

“So, whether you pay or don’t pay doesn’t matter, you walk away with a full belly, and really that’s what we’re going for.” According to UCD, about two out of five undergrads and one out of five graduate students experience low to very low food security, defined as limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food.

The food truck’s origins are a bit of a mystery. Kraig Brady, executive director of Dining Services, said a “very generous donor worked with the student affairs division and was able to give us some money to go out and shop a little bit.”

The food truck was the most accessible and most economical outlet with the same output and result, he

said. “I think that’s where it gets exciting: there could be two or three of these trucks on campus.”

Brady said that collaboration with Dining Services and the Basic Needs Center is “a unique system” on college campuses, adding that “this kind of collective output isn’t normal. Other campuses have similar solutions, but they’re siloed. The city or the county usually handles them, so students would have to go to Woodland to get food at the Yolo County Food Bank. So it’s unique for us to have this large, collective effort.”

Visit https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu/aggieeats for the menu and schedule.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@ davisenterprise.net.

EARTH: Students work to raise issues

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the Tides report, marine protected areas are “regions of the ocean and coastline legally protected from human exploitation.

These zones can have varying levels of protection, including lightly protected areas that prohibit drilling and mining but allow some degree of commercial fishing, highly protected zones where all industrial extractive activities are banned but recreational fishing and certain other low-impact activities are permitted, fully protected ‘no-take’ zones where all extractive activities are off limits completely.”

The report continues: “Studies have shown marked — and sometimes dramatic — increases in the abundance, density, size, and biomass of numerous species in protected areas. In some cases, protections have been instrumental in enabling endangered species to bounce back from the brink of extinction.”

Some Davis Farmers Market shoppers stopped by to write public comments as the CALPIRG team handed out oceanthemed coloring pages to children and gave out reusable water bottles to those who posted a picture promoting marine protection on social media.

At the event, local residents wrote comments to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Fish and Game Commission to submit to the Decadal Management Review.

According to the Review

Report, the detection of many MPA effects was expected to take time, still “results already suggest that, for some species and habitats, California’s MPAs support populations of bigger and/or more abundant fish and invertebrates. Although species-level responses to MPA implementation varied by bioregion, habitat, and sampling

method, responses to MPA protection by fished species were strongest in the south coast, where more fishing occurs.

The magnitude of MPA effects on fished species may be directly linked to the levels of fishing pressure in and around the MPAs prior to and after gaining protected status. Community-level responses tell a more complicated story and biodiversity metrics varied widely across bioregions and habitats,” according to the report.

Tribal leaders have often called for stronger coastal protections to preserve marine life. For example, England highlights Northern Chumash Tribal Council Chairwoman

Violet Sage Walker, who has been a leading advocate for the designation of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary off the coasts of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. England said representatives from tribal nationals have actively participated in the public comment opportunities put forth through the Decadal Management Review.

In the past few weeks, volunteers from the CALPIRG students chapter at UC Davis have educated thousands of students about the importance of marine conservation, England said. They’ve collected more than a thousand signatures in support.

“Our oceans are home to amazing animals, many of which we haven’t even discovered yet. That’s why we’re urging Governor Newsom and other elected officials to commit to increasing California’s marine protected areas to protect biodiversity from the threats of climate change and the impacts of large-scale fishing and oil drilling in our oceans,” said Parnian Sartip, UC Davis CALPIRG student.

The petition to tell the governor to increase marine protections in California is at https://tinyurl. com/SaveOurSeas23.

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The Davis High School Orchestra, under the direction of Angelo Moreno, performs as part of the Wennberg Music Festival on the stage at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis.

FESTIVAL: School tradition still going

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Booster Organization.

The festival itself is an opportunity for local student musicians from around the district to flaunt their musical prowess at the prestigious Mondavi Center on the UCD campus. All proceeds will go directly to the DHS-Holmes Orchestra Boosters.

Featured in this year’s festival will be the Elementary All City Strings Orchestra conducted by Lydia Cooley and Luana Hernandez, the DHS Orchestra Program’s Strings Tutoring Program conducted by student director, Michael Wang, the Holmes Junior High Intermediate/Advanced Orchestras, the Davis High Chamber, Baroque and Symphony Orchestras directed by Angelo Moreno, the Holmes String Quartet, the DHS Piano Quintet and will be concluded with a performance from the 2023 DHS Concerto Competition Winner, violinist, Sarah Son.

“I am excited and proud to display the hard work of my students to the community of Davis at this annual concert.

Every time I step on the Mondavi Stage to perform I can feel the energy of the thousands of amazing class musicians that preceded and the electric buzz of the audience. To experience my students achieving musical excellence at such a young age in that hall is incredibly uplifting and inspiring to me to work even harder to help them achieve their musical goals,” said DHS orchestra director Angelo Moreno.

“Each year I wonder, ‘how can we take this to the next level?’ and each time we gather in that space we raise the bar for each other and our audience! If you are a community member and have never experienced this awesome afternoon of celebrating student musical achievement, you will not want to miss this year’s performance!”

The Wennberg Orchestra Festival will be taking place this Saturday, April 29, at 2:30 p.m. at the Mondavi Center, Jackson Hall. A pre-concert reception will take place from 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@ mcnaughton.media.

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The Aggie Eats crew is revved up to feed students on campus.

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Shoppers at the Davis Farmers Market write public comments on April 22 for Gov. Gavin Newsom.

another divisive Measure J/R/D battle.

That decision has not sat entirely well with the developers of some of the projects that have come forward.

John Whitcombe, who is proposing to develop Village Farms Davis on the previous site of Covell Village, had urged the council to put his project on the November 2024 ballot, saying there was no reason to wait. However, last Tuesday, former Councilwoman Rochelle Swanson, who is working with Whitcombe and his partners, did thank the council for considering a special election in 2025 for a development project.

David Taormino, developer of the proposed Palomino Place on the Horse Ranch site adjacent to Wildhorse, has informed the city he will go the route of the Builder’s Remedy, an element of state law that prohibits jurisdictions that lack a certified Housing Element (as is the case with Davis) from denying certain housing projects even if those projects do not comply with local zoning ordinances or the General Plan.

A key aspect of the Builder’s Remedy is the affordable housing component — to qualify, 20 percent of the units in a project must be affordable to lower-income households or all of the units must be for moderateincome households. Palomino Place would designate 24 percent of units as affordable to low-income households, according to Taormino.

The Builder’s Remedy also only applies to sites bounded on less than two sides by land zoned for agriculture or resource preservation.

State wants clarity on plan

Taormino has said that Palomino Place is the only peripheral development proposal to come before the city recently that meets the requirements of the Builder’s Remedy.

And while use of that remedy could allow Palomino Place to move along faster, other developers are looking further down the road.

George Phillips, representing the Shriners project just east of the Palomino Place site, told the council two weeks ago that he doesn’t believe any of the current proposals would be ready for a November 2024 vote absent shortcuts, while Angelo Tsakopoulos, who last week proposed a project for South Davis, is aiming for a 2026 ballot.

The Pioneer Community Master Plan that Tsakopoulos has proposed is one of two pre-applications the city has received — the other being “On the Curve,” a proposal from Reynolds & Brown for 85 acres east of Mace Boulevard. Village Farms Davis, Palomino Place and the Shriners proposal — all located north of Covell Boulevard — are all submitted applications.

Village Farms includes 1,395 residential units; Palomino Place would have up to 184 (including accessory dwelling units); and Shriners would have 1,100.

On the Curve, meanwhile, would include between 551 and 788 housing units, more than half of which would be high-density, multi-family housing.

According to documents submitted to the city late last week, the latest proposal to come forward — Pioneer Community — would be built just south of El Macero and include up to 475 multi-family dwelling units, including a senior housing village, and

up to 775 single-family homes.

All told, the five peripheral development proposals would bring around 4,700 new housing units to the city if all were to be approved.

Meanwhile, the city continues to grapple with meeting its housing obligations as prescribed by the state.

The state Department of Housing and Community Development notified the city in a letter earlier this month that the 2021-2029 Housing Element approved by the City Council in February needs more work before it can be certified.

Under state law, local jurisdictions must provide a certain amount of housing serving all segments of their populations — including low income — and the Housing Element submitted every 10 years lays out the plan for doing so.

The city of Davis, which is required to provide 2,075 additional dwelling units through 2029 under the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, must demonstrate to the state via the Housing Element that sufficient land is zoned to provide that housing and, where there is not enough land, to identify an inventory of potential sites suitable and available for re-zoning.

Failure to achieve state certification on the Housing Element can cut off access to state revenue streams and opens up jurisdictions to the Builder’s Remedy.

The Davis Housing Element submitted to the state two months ago included the 264 housing units that were initially planned for the University Commons redevelopment project, some of which were affordable units.

But with that residential component now removed by mall owner Brixmor, the city needs to come up with a backfill of housing to satisfy the RHNA requirements, particularly units for low-income residents.

“We have a certain number of available sites that generate a certain number of units that help us meet our RHNA,” Sherri Metzker, the city’s director of community development and sustainability, told the City Council last week. “But we don’t have enough.”

Metzker reiterated, however, that the city sees the HCD letter “as kind of a conditional approval,” in that if the changes are made, it will be certified.

Asked by council what kind of timeline that entails, Metzker said the best-case scenario would be if the city approves a revised Housing Element in July, the state would have 60 days to respond, so certification could come by the end of the summer.

Council members noted that Davis is not unique in struggling to get its Housing Element certified.

“This process has been a much more difficult process for us than it has been in the past,” said Vice Mayor Josh Chapman. “We know that right around half the number of cities and counties are in the same position as we are with Housing Elements that are not in compliance or approved and I do think that is a byproduct of the 10-year cycle of when they do this.

“Ten years ago, the lens they were looking through to approve a Housing Element was a much different lens than what they’re looking through now in terms of the housing crisis in our state,” said Chapman. “So I

think it would probably be fair to say that this is the level of scrutiny that we’re going to be seeing moving forward when it comes to Housing Elements…”

Councilwoman Gloria Partida agreed, noting that HCD is “getting tougher.”

“It’s not just us,” she said.

“It’s half the cities in the entire state of California that are basically in the same boat right now because HCD has just really tried to impress on everybody the housing crisis that we are having.”

Councilman Bapu Vaitla echoed his colleagues’ comments, but also said that while this current Housing Element may end up certified, “under these present circumstances, we have no

chance of fulfilling our next RHNA obligations. None. That’s the truth.

“And what that means,” he said, “is we need to get really bold with what we do with infill and we need some peripheral development principles, because it’s magical thinking to assume that we’re going to be able to meet our housing needs without major changes in our legislation and in our culture.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2023-0582 To all interested persons: Petitioner: Madison Marie Wetzel filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a Madison Marie Wetzel to Proposed name Madison Marie Sloane Francis

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause if any why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed the court may grant the petition without a hearing

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

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR UNITRANS PUBLIC TRANSIT PROPOSED SERVICE CHANGES FOR 2023-2024

The Unitrans Advisory Committee (UAC) a committee to the D a v i s C i t y C o u n c i l , w i l l h o l d a p u b l i c h e a r i n g o n Th u r s d a y , April 27 2023 at 4:00 PM at the Davis Senior Center at 646 A Street in Davis on proposed Unitrans service changes that if approved, would go into effect on Monday, August 7, 2023 Meeting information will be available 72 hours in advance of the meeting at https://www cityofdavis org/city-hall/ commissions-and-committees/unitrans-advisory-committee S e r v i c e c h a n g e p r o p o s a l s a r e a v a i l a b l e a t unitrans ucdavis edu Click on 2023-2024 Change Proposals in the News section Proposed changes focus on improving service reliability to get customers to their destinations in a timelier manner and reduce traffic in and around UC Davis during passing periods Summary of key proposals: Reroute the A line to serve the Memorial Union Bus Terminal reroute the Z line to serve the Silo Terminal, increase the service span of the Z line to match the A line minor O & Z line reroute from Pena Drive to Cantrill Drive to better serve high density housi n g a d j u s t C D J V - E X V - L T & W l i n e s c h e d u l e s 5 - 1 0 m i n ut e s e a r l i e r d u r i n g a c a d e m i c y e a r t o i m p r o v e r e l i a b i l i ty and continue restoring service frequencies to pre-pandemic levels as driver staffing improves with a focus on restoring 30minute service on all routes and reducing crowding To learn more or comment, you may attend the public heari n g e m a i l c o m m e n t s @ u n i t

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names as follows: Present name a Kening Thonen to Proposed name Kaya Kening Thonen

COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: 5/24/2023 Time: 9:00 a m Dept : 11 Room:

The address of the court is Yolo Superior Court Clerks Office - Civil 1000 Main Street, Woodland, CA 95695

A copy of this Order to Show C ause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county:

The Davis Enterprise

Date: March 27, 2023 Donna M Petre Judge of the Superior Court

Published April 12 19 26 May 3 2023 #2238

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 4, 2023, the City

of the City of Davis introduced and on April 18 2023

Rainwater Ranch: Living out the dream

Many couples have The Dream. Few act on it.

First, there's the career in a large organization, with a secure paycheck and benefits, holidays and more. Maybe the work is engaging, even loved, as well as the people.

But there's The Dream.

Living out in the country?

Stepping outside morning and night, soaking in a new environment in nature on your own farm? So, so different.

Lauren McNees and her husband, Lee Millon, had the dream and then made it happen. In 2014, they bought Rainwater Ranch, a 20-acre property west of Winters near Lake Solano Park.

"We were interested in living in the country," Lauren says, "and having space for more animals."

Virgil and Marjorie Rainwater had created the ranch a halfcentury earlier. "We were inspired by their good care of the property, the trees, and their equipment for the 50 years that they were here, and we wanted to do the same," Lauren explains it.

A major feature of the property was that it had an established seven-acre orchard of Washington navel oranges. Lee and Lauren put in the work to earn certified organic status. Today those oranges are sold as far afield as Healdsburg, South Lake Tahoe, and St. Helena, as well as locally.

For four years they stayed on at their day jobs, Lee at UCD

and Lauren at UC Agricultural and Natural Resources (ANR). Then they made the big separation, leaving the security of those positions to become full-time farmers as they realized they loved it most.

That can be a daunting challenge. Lee had grown up on a farm in the Philippines, however, and had worked on several farms in the San Joaquin Valley. Lauren didn't have that hands-on farm experience, but she did have a background in events and dealing with people, big assets for anyone involved with selling to the public.

And they fortuitously found another asset — Mike and Dianne Madison, who were just then retiring from their flower business on the Yolo Press farm in Winters. They volunteered a lot of mentoring.

Lauren says, "We are friends with so many other farmers who really support each other through sharing knowledge, lending equipment, helping out in times of crisis."

Now that they'd made the jump, it was time to launch a flower business, complementing the winter harvest season for the navel oranges. The flowers

would hit the market during the warm months. Their flowers keep changing, week to week, and are sold in Davis at the Farmers Market and in the Davis Food Co-op.

"Our flowers last," Lauren says, as they cut them fresh and ship them immediately. And of course they're organic. Now they're on the verge of a driedflower business as well, and they've done flowers for weddings, too.

What's a farm without animals?

They maintain a very small, friendly herd of sheep and a few goats. These move about the property in fenced-in spots, helping with weed control and soil regeneration. Rainwater Ranch has expanded their business. Three workers help at the farm more or less full time as the seasons rotate. I encountered two of them, Molly Damore Johann and Beth Hellman, both UCD grads, selling at the farmers market one recent spring

morning. Daniel Alafetic works at the farm as well.

In 2014, the dream became a reality — living on a small farm in the country. Today ... well, OK, what's on the to-do list, with great views in the country to start and end each day?

— Dan Kennedy has a long history with local food and the people who provide it to their communities. He serves on the Davis Farmers Market Board of Directors.

Miller High Life can’t be ‘Champagne’ over there

The news that Belgian authorities destroyed 2,352 bottles of Miller High Life beer became national news Monday morning when “CBS This Morning” reported the story.

I was a bit miffed about this because I had run across that reference is a slightly nerdy website that I look at occasionally. CBS scooped me.

You might think mentioning the number of bottles is a bit odd. I did. That is because nobody buys 2,352 cans or bottles of beer; one would buy 100 cases of 24 containers per case for 2,400 bottles. It’s clear that someone got to the shipment a bit early and liberated two cases for his or her own use. I don’t blame them — the stuff was going down the drain and so is worthless anyway.

The problem, of course, is that Miller calls its High Life beer the “Champagne of bottled beer” (although the word “bottled” obviously has to be dropped for cans). That immediately treads on some European toes because the name Champagne is part of the

legal protection of products that have a specific point of origin that is unique to their value in the marketplace. Champagne is a sparkling wine grown and made in the region of France of the same name.

Now, I suppose Americans take a dim view of rules and regulations with which Europeans are more familiar and more accepting of. On the chat page of the website telling this story, beer lovers took no time to condemn the destruction of the beer and, also, did not hesitate to call Belgians “stupid.” A sign of the times, I suppose. They also easily detected a conspiracy by other brewers to do the dirt on a competitor; perhaps another sign of the times.

I admit that beer is clearly not champagne and

so the phrase “The Champagne of bottled beer” is itself marketing nonsense, first coined in 1903, although it turned out to be a most successful image to send to the beer-drinking public.

This message was sent mainly through packaging: the Miller High Life presentation, in a clear glass bottle makes much of its sparkling clarity and the shape and decoration of the bottle does its best to emulate a champagne bottle.

So, leaning on the association with that famous wine was not accidental, but a deliberate effort to claim some semblance to that product. Can’t do that. I think the European authorities were perfectly justified in putting this shipment of Miller High Life beer into a “counterfeit goods” category for destruction.

Miller also cannot claim that it’s “just beer not Champagne” because they had to do some clever chemistry to manage the clear (or flint glass) bottle. That is because beer is

much more sensitive to light in a flint bottle than in a traditional brown one. In a flint bottle, beer soon takes on the so-called “skunky” or sun-struck aroma of iso-pentenylmercaptan, derived from an interaction between a compound derived from hops and H2S. Their new chemistry solved this problem.

In fact, Miller Brewing Company has always been a quite technically innovative company. I remember many years ago joining a party on the beach at Plettenburg Bay South Africa and showing myself as an adept observer of beer because the drink at the party was Miller Genuine Draft. I asked for an MGD. Turns out, since the beer had just arrived in the country, only the true insiders knew it as MGD. Upon such trivia fame can float.

Miller Genuine Draft was a new kind of beer because at that time draft beer was defined as not pasteurized by heat, and the risks of bacterial contamination during packaging, transport and waiting to be consumed was too great a risk to take. To take care of that Miller’s developed a technique of intense beer filtration to remove any chance of bacterial contamination and sophisticated packaging technology. They could then legally and safely justify “draft beer in a bottle.”

Miller Lite was also an innovation for those who want a low-calorie beer with normal beer flavor and an alcohol content of, say, 4%. A normal beer contains about 150 calories, only about 100 calories of which is the alcohol and flavor compounds. The remaining 50 calories derives from the starch of

malt that the malt enzymes break down partly (depending on conditions, some 60% to 70%) to fermentable sugars. It’s only the fermentable sugars that make alcohol and other flavor compounds, the unfermentable sugars just add calories without much more benefit.

However, it so happens, that there is an enzyme available that can convert unfermentable sugar to fermentable sugar so that all of the potential of the malt starch is then converted to alcohol and desirable compounds. That makes approximately a 6% beer that can be diluted for sale to a normal 4% and so save a lot of calories. Neat huh?

Reach Michael Lewis at waleslewis792@gmail. com.

Photo by Dan KenneDy

Lauren McNees and Lee MIllon take a break at Rainwater Ranch.

UCD releases newly bred fungus-resistant strawberries

By Emily C. Dooley Special to The Enterprise

UC Davis has bred five new strawberry varieties that are resistant to the soilborne disease Fusarium wilt, have high yields and improved fruit quality.

UC Eclipse, UC Golden Gate, UC Keystone, UC Monarch and UC Surfline are available for sale to California nurseries from Foundation Plant Services.

Roughly 88% of strawberries grown in the nation come from California. Fusarium wilt is one of the most common reasons for crop loss and death, and yet 55% to 59% of cultivars planted in the state since 2014 have not been resistant, according to UC Davis research.

This is the first release from the UC Davis Straw-

Calendar Friday

n The UC Davis Arboretum hosts a Folk Music Jam Session from noon to 1 p.m. Folk musicians can bring their acoustic instruments and play together informally during this jam session at Wyatt Deck (next to the redwood grove). All skill levels welcome and listeners are invited. Short-term parking is available in Visitor Lot 5 on Old Davis Road at Arboretum Drive. Hourly rates start at $1.75.

n The Avid Reader will host award-winning and best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler for a discussion of her most recent book, “Booth.” A former Davis resident, Fowler is also well known for her books

“The Jane Austen Book Club” and “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” (set in Davis). Fowler will be introduced by local author Kim Stanley Robinson. “Booth” was voted a Best Book of The Year by NPR, Real Simple Magazine, AARP and USA Today and was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. The novel is an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase both in store at The Avid Reader Davis and online at www.avidreaderbooks. com.

Saturday

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 providing information about their missions and offering interactive, hands-on activities. Animal ambassadors will include baby ducklings, large raptors and a mobile aquarium filled with local fish species. Food trucks will be onsite serving burgers, loaded fries, vegetarian options and desserts. For more information, visit www.yolobasin.org/ california-duck-days/.

n The Davis High Speech & Debate Team and Ascend Speech & Debate, a leading California-based speech and debate camp, invites students and family members to attend a free public speaking workshop at Davis High School from noon to 4 p.m., which will teach foundational public speaking skills to K-12 students and community members. This event will

berry Breeding Program where all the cultivars have Fusarium wilt resistance. They are meant to replace susceptible plants on the market such as Monterey, UCD Royal Royce and UCD Valiant.

Monarch was also developed specifically as a prototype for mechanical harvesting — another first out of the breeding program, which dates to the 1930s and has released 72 patented cultivars over the decades.

“These provide the same yield or better and they are Fusarium resistant,” said Steve Knapp, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences and director of the UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program. “They have a better collection of traits. They’re superior.”

also serve as a fundraiser for the Davis Speech & Debate Team, which will be selling snacks and holding a silent auction. To attend, please fill out the sign-up form on Ascend’s website, where you can also find the latest event details: www. ascendspeech.org/davispublic-speaking-workshop For questions, email info@ascendspeech.org.

Sunday

n Explore, sit in and marvel at various trucks at Touch A Truck on April 30; a fundraiser in support of the Natalie Corona memorial. Have you ever operated a scissor lift, sat in the seat of a front loader, or run around in the back of a semi trailer? Enjoy yourselves at this family event featuring trucks and vehicles of all types for kids of all ages to experience. Sponsored by the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club, Touch A Truck will go from 1 to 4 p.m. in the parking lot on 14th St. between Davis High School and the Veterans Memorial Center. Tickets ($5 or $20 per family), event information and sponsorship opportunities are available at www. touchatruckdavis.com. Refreshments will be available at the event. All proceeds will support the creation of Natalie’s Corner, an environmentally and kid friendly splash pad to be located in Central Park to honor Officer Natalie Corona (www.cityofdavis.org/r/splash-pad).

Wednesday, May 3

n The Valley Oak Chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America will host a Zoom presentation at 11 a.m. by Margaret Kinsey on Rozashi, a 1,200-yearold Japanese embroidery technique similar to Bargello that is worked with silk thread on a silk canvas material called “Ro.” Margaret Kinsey is one of the leading designers and instructors in the needle arts world and has held numerous EGA classes and lectures. To attend, contact Linda Wayne at laws999@gmail.com by April 28, to join the Zoom list.

Thursday, May 4:

n The Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Live! music series presents The Pitchforks, playing classic honky-tonk and western swing from the days of true country. The Odd Fellows Lodge is located at 415 Second St. in downtown Davis. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Shows are donation only, with all money going to the musicians. For more information, email Juelie Roggli at juelrog@gmail.com.

Fusarium wilt didn’t present much of a danger to strawberry crops until after the fumigant methyl bromide was phased out of use in the United States in 2005. But the pathogen had always been in the soil,

and cases of wilt appeared a year later and increased over time, leading to concerns that a Fusarium wilt pandemic could destroy the crop in California.

“The disease has taken off fast and we need to react

quickly to address the need,” said Glenn Cole, a breeder and field manager with the Strawberry Breeding Program.

Knapp said the program tries to “encourage people to consider things like disease resistance,” and routinely invites growers and other experts to events showcasing research breakthroughs and improved cultivars.

The new strawberry varieties each have improved flavor and characteristics that allow for near yearround growing around California, where about 1.8 billion pounds of the fruit are harvested each year. Some of the cultivars are adapted for production in the southern part of the state while others do well under the long daylight hours of summer along the coast.

Breeding program experts have long been researching ways to improve strawberry cultivars so the crop can withstand pests, disease and other stressors. To find plants that had Fusarium wilt resistance, they obtained the DNA of thousands of plants in field studies. The scientists also developed genetic tools to screen the plants and identify the genes that have resistance to the Fusarium pathogen.

Knowing that information allowed the team to breed resistance into and develop new cultivars, at a faster rate than previous efforts. “These tools have allowed us to sweep out the susceptibility and bring in resistance,” Knapp said.

— UC Davis News

UC Davis/CoUrtesy photo UC Eclipse, a strawberry variety developed by UC Davis, has the potential to increase grower profitability as it produces into the fall and winter.

Delta league

DHS looking to bounce back after tough loss

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

Davis High baseball head coach Ethan Guevin has been proud of how his team has played this season.

The Blue Devils knocked off some of the top teams in the Sac-Joaquin Section. Oak Ridge and Delta League rival Jesuit are two of those teams.

They have played, and beaten, most of the teams from the Fresno and Bakersfield areas at the Fresno Easter Classic earlier this month.

On top of that, DHS is getting close toward clinching one of the league’s four playoff berths.

“We’re a good baseball team, and we’ve been playing good baseball,” Guevin said.

But Monday was a totally different day in hosting Elk Grove in a Delta game.

The Blue Devils’ bats were held to only two hits. The Thundering Herd made a lot of noise with 14 hits.

That added to Elk Grove posting a 14-0 win over DHS (10-3 in the Delta, 16-7) in the first of a three-game series. The game was called after five innings because of the mercy rule.

“We just came out and laid an egg,” Guevin said. “Sometimes that’s baseball, right? When you have a day when you’re not throwing enough strikes ... and your defense is dropping balls, and you got a lot of strikeouts.”

The loss puts DHS tied for second

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place with Elk Grove (10-3 in the Delta, 14-8).

Franklin (15-1 in the Delta, 22-4) sits alone in first place. Jesuit (7-8 in the Delta, 11-12-1) is behind DHS and Elk Grove in the league standings.

Elk Grove only needed two innings to score all of its runs against the Blue Devils.

The Thundering Herd scored five times in the top of the third inning.

Davis had some momentum going into the fourth inning. But the Thundering Herd squashed any hopes in the top of the fourth with nine runs, mostly on singles.

Elk Grove’s Brent Martin and Tanner McDonell had three hits each.

Seven Thundering Herd players had a hit each.

Brooks Ochoa and Carter Stoltz had a single each for the Blue Devils.

Davis plays at Elk Grove for their second game today at 4 p.m.

“We know what we have to do to adjust,” Guevin said. “Honestly, it’s an exciting opportunity for us to be in a different position than what we have been in.”

Davis welcomes the Thundering Herd on the Blue Devils’ field on Friday.

Both games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m.

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

Aggies knock off Riverside

By Mark DeVaughn Enterprise correspondent

Three weeks since spring quarter began, the academic calendar continues without pity at UC Davis.

“I have to go home and study for a midterm right now,” Aggies catcher Jack Gallagher said after Sunday’s 11-6 victory over UC Riverside. “It never lets up. It’s always a grind.”

The UCD baseball team learned a useful lesson from this game: It can win a Big West Conference series without a perfect presentation. Despite committing three errors, the Aggies claimed the rubber game of a three-game set.

At the halfway point of their conference schedule, UCD (5-10 in the Big West, 14-22 overall) have won three overall series this season. UCD won just one series throughout all of 2022.

The victory was a testament to the club’s versatility. Every UCD starter reached base at least once. Four Aggies had multiple hits in game they led 9-2 after four innings. Outfielder Damian Stone, second baseman Alex Gouveia and first baseman Nick Leehey drove in two runs apiece.

“To come away with a couple wins when you’re sloppy, that’s the mark of a team who knows how to win,” head coach Tommy Nicholson said. “We don’t have to play a perfect game to find a win.”

The UC Riverside Anteaters (1-14 in the Big West, 7-29) played like obliging guests. UCR starter Blake Burzell lasted all of 15 pitches. He faced three batters — and didn’t retire one. After beginning the game with two walks and an RBI single, UCD forced Riverside to use six more pitchers.

The Aggies collected 12 hits. Their opponents hit three batters.

After the Anteaters clawed within 9-6, a local product earned the win from the bullpen.

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Blue Devil batter Selassie Campos gets ready to connect on the baseball at the plate in Monday’s Delta League home game against Elk Grove. Today at 4 p.m., DHS and Elk Grove meet again on the Thundering Herd’s field.

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UCD falls to Tritons in extra innings

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

All the UC Davis softball team needed was three more outs to wrap up a good weekend.

The Aggies entered the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s Big West Conference game against UC San Diego with a 3-1 lead.

Kenedi Brown produced another strong showing in the circle for UCD.

Three UCD batters had two hits each against UCSD pitcher Jada Cecil.

But the visiting Tritons found ways to score in the top of the seventh and eighth innings. That led to posting a 4-3 win in eight innings over UCD (11-7 in the Big West, 25-15 overall) at La Rue Field on Sunday afternoon.

UC San Diego (7-11 in the Big West, 17-26) won two of the three games over the weekend. The Aggies posted a 2-1 win in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday, while the Tritons came out victorious by the same score in the first game.

The were 163 fans in attendance who witnessed the game go three hours and 10 minutes.

“It was a real, hard-fought game,” said UC Davis head coach Erin Thorpe, “but that’s the thing. If we’re going to lose a game, we want to go out knowing that we played

hard. I think we played hard today... it’s really hard to be disappointed.”

Now UCD is tied for third place with Hawaii (11-7, 28-16). The two teams will face each other in the Big West finale in Manoa, Hawaii on May 11-12.

Long Beach State (13-5 in the Big West, 23-20) occupies second place while Cal State Fullerton sits in first place at 13-4 and 27-16.

The Tritons tied the game at 3-3 in the top of the seventh frame.

Hailey Mulligan walked and moved to second base when teammate Morgan Eng singled to left field.

After Marissa Hassis was called out on an attempted third-strike bunt, the Tritons tied the game when Keila Bosinger doubled to center field, which drove home Mulligan and Eng for a 3-3 score.

“I think that UC San Diego had just a little bit of fight,” Thorpe said. “They just got it done.”

Two strikeouts and a deep fly ball to center field ended the seventh inning for the Aggies, sending the game to the eighth.

Clarissa Reynoso led off the top of the eighth for UCSD with a walk. She moved to second base when teammate Sophia Real grounded out to Aggie first baseman Sarah Starks, who threw the softball to second baseman Sommer Kisling, who was covering the first base bag.

Then Reilly Erickson doubled to left field, which drove home Reynoso for the 4-3 score.

The Aggies got out of the inning on a double play in which shortstop Libbie McMahan touched second base to get the force and threw the ball to Starks for the third out.

UCD got two runners on the bases in the bottom of the eighth in hopes of tying or winning the game.

Bella Pahulu singled to center field and moved to second when Starks walked. But UCSD, which already had two outs, ended the game when pinch-hitter Tatum Wentworth flied out to left field.

UCD batters Grace Kilday and leadoff hitter Anna Dethlefson scored both of the team’s runs in the bottom of the third and fifth innings that led to the 3-0 lead.

Kilday, a sophomore from El Dorado Hills, walked in the bottom of the third. Then Dethlefson, who hit a deep fly ball to center field that was caught near the fence in the bottom of the first, doubled to left field.

Then Leah Polson, a junior who is also an El Dorado Hills resident, doubled to near the left field fence to drive in Kilday and Dethlefson for a 2-0 score.

Dethlefson, a junior from Fair Oaks, flexed her muscles again in the bottom of the fifth. She smoked

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Christoph lossin/enterprise photo Aggie runner Mark Wolbert slides into third base during Sunday’s Big West Conference home game against UC Riverside.

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UC Davis third baseman Rylie Costa waits for the throw to tag out a UC San Diego runner in Sunday’s Big West Conference game at La Rue Field. Coming in to help are Aggie left fielder Leah Polson (16) and shortstop Libbie McMahan (44).

Blue Devil boys lacrosse quiets the Thunder

Enterprise staff

The Davis High boys lacrosse team opened the Sierra Foothill League/Delta Post Season Tournament at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Tuesday with a 17-5 win over Rocklin.

Davis (5-4 in the Delta League, 11-6 overall) is scheduled to play again Thursday. Opponent and time were not available at press time.

Before the tournament, DHS played at Vista del Lago of Folsom in the last league game of the season on Friday. The host Eagles flew away with a 21-6 win.

Finn Shields and Holt Klineberg had two goals each for the Blue Devils.

Mason Bennet and Matteo Rios had a goal each.

Blue Devil goalie Sawyer Schoen had 11 saves.

DHS girls lacrosse

Davis also started the postseason tournament at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Tuesday with a something victory over Granite Bay.

Prior to the start of the tournament, Davis closed out the regular season with a home game against Vista del Lago. But the visiting Eagles escaped with an 11-10 win over DHS (6-1 in the Delta League, 13-3). Davis held a 4-3 lead in the first half.

But Vista del Lago outscored the Blue Devils by an 8-6 advantage in the second half for the win.

Tory Agnew scored five goals for the Blue Devils. Katie McMullen followed with three goals, and Olivia Ayson had one.

Blue Devil goalie Amel Seleman had six saves.

DHS boys golf

Davis continued to roll in Delta League play, as it knocked off Sheldon 181-220 at the Wildhorse Golf Course on Monday.

Ryan Firpo and Joshua Galindo carded a 34 each for DHS (12-0 in the Delta).

Andre Zhang and Blake Schimmel followed with a 36 each.

Garrett Tanguay recorded a 41 and Rowan Shankarrapa 42.

Blue Devil boys tennis

Davis competed at the Delta League singles tournament at the Laguna Creek Racquet Club in Elk Grove on Monday.

Mathias Rendon and Adam Wu both won their first rounds before each falling in the quarter finals.

DHS’ Jared Umphress lost his first match in the first round.

UCD: At UCSB this weekend AGGIES: ‘Stuck with baseball’

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the softball to left field that looked like it was going to go over the fence. But the ball hit the left field pole, bounced into left field for a double.

“I had the same approach at the plate in my first and second at-bats,” Dethlefson said. “I was just able to put a better swing on it.”

Dethlefson would make it 3-0 when Polson, a slap hitter, doubled to right field.

The Tritons scored their first run in the top of the fifth inning.

Mariah Melendez singled down the third base line. Then she made her trip around

the bases for a 3-1 score when Mulligan singled to right field.

The Aggies finished with only seven hits.

The Tritons had 11.

In the circle, Brown struck out 11 and walked one in seven innings of work.

Now the Aggies prepare for another Big West series starting Friday. That’s when UCD plays at UC Santa Barbara (10-8 in the Big West, 23-16), which is in third place.

Friday’s doubleheader starts at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday’s finale is scheduled at 1 p.m.

— Contact Mike Bush at mike@ davisenterprise.net.

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Four years ago, Danny Carrion was about to graduate from Winters High School. On Sunday, he pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of Carter Devaney. The effort marked a milestone after an unplanned detour.

Carrion tore his quadricep playing high school football. Were he to return to the gridiron, he

risked serious damage to the leg muscle.

“They said if I were to get tackled from behind again, it would rip open,” Carrion said. “It was definitely tough to give up football. I’m glad I stuck with baseball. I think I made the right choice.”

Representing his nearby hometown means a lot, Carrion explained.

“It’s cool to get all my family and a bunch of friends to come out here

and watch the games,” he said. “Being from a small place, it’s definitely a good feeling to be here and represent everybody.”

UCD pitchers benefit from a deep catching unit. The Aggies used three catchers in as many games against UC Riverside. Gallagher wore the gear Sunday.

n To read the rest of the story, visit www.davisenterprise.com and click on the Sports tab.

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Davis High girls lacrosse players Katie McMullen (15) runs side-by-side with Tory Agnew in Friday’s regular season home game against Vista del Lago. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for Local Roundup.

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Flavoring medicine is vital for kids

By Sonya Frausto Special to CalMatters

Iencounter dozens of parents daily who enter my pharmacy with a desperate look when their child is sick. All parents, including myself, have been there at one point, and know that helpless and concerned feeling.

One of the more comforting aspects of this profession is knowing that we can respond in a way that offers parents personalized solutions that provide relief to their children. But the medicine pharmacists provide only works if children take it.

Historically, this problem would result in battles between parents and their children which can sometimes lead to non-adherence and shortened therapy, or drug resistant infections. To establish peace, for decades, pharmacists in California have been able to add flavoring — bubble-gum flavored clindamycin, for example — to prescription medicines.

Using specialized equipment, the act of medication flavoring takes place at more than 3,000 community pharmacies in California and nearly 40,000 pharmacies nationwide each year as a point-of-care service to help facilitate children’s liquid medication. For a child struggling to take their medicine, flavoring the medication literally helps make the medicine go down. But recently, the California Board of Pharmacy has created some ambiguity in the regulatory language related to flavoring. This is raising concerns for many pharmacists.

Flavoring has been uncontroversial for a long time. For decades, there have been no reported incidents of patient harm or death from using medication flavoring.

Today, typical flavoring agents are independently tested, manufactured in FDAregistered facilities and chemically inert. And flavoring medication can now be automated by flavoring machines. In pharmacies with this specialized equipment, the pharmacist is no longer required to add the various sweeteners and flavoring agents physically. Instead, the flavoring process is fully automated and accomplished by scanning a barcode and confirming information on a screen. Flavoring has, for the most part, never been regulated as part of a “compounding” process. A compounding pharmacy is a specific type that makes custom medications for people with highly specific medication needs and requirements.

Compounding pharmacies must adhere to different regulatory requirements than standard pharmacies. For over 10 years, California’s state regulators have determined that the act of flavoring does not rise to the level of traditional compounding in any practical way. And in that time, millions of medications have been flavored without causing any harm to a child.

Late last year, United States Pharmacopoeia, an independent, non-governmental organization establishing pharmaceutical compounding standards, updated its definition of compounding and the requirements to perform compounding. They also took the opportunity to reiterate their long-held belief that flavoring should not be subjected to compounding standards.

Right now, 48 out of 50 State Boards of Pharmacy do not regulate flavoring as compounding. In fact, 98% of children 11 or younger live in a state that does not consider flavoring of medications to be compounding. Without this exemption, California’s pharmacies will likely begin phasing out their flavoring services to avoid unnecessary, time-consuming and expensive regulations. This will have an effect on our business and, more importantly, the health and wellbeing of our youngest patients.

California’s community pharmacies provide a simple and safe service to flavor medications for our customers. This new regulation the California State Board of Pharmacy is considering will take away this service that pharmacists can offer to sick children and worried parents alike.

— Sonya Frausto is a pharmacist and pharmacy owner of Ten Acres Pharmacy in Sacramento. She has more than 17 years of experience, with a focus on immunizations, women’s health and functional medicine. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

California Democrats have acted as if both this state’s Senate seats automatically belong to them from the first moment it became clear longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein must step down sometime within the next 20 months. Early on, she announced plans to leave office when her term expires at the end of December 2024, after her fifth full term in the office where she’s been the most durable of the last half century’s California politicians.

Three prominent congressional Democrats — Adam Schiff of Burbank, Katie Porter of Irvine and Barbara Lee of Oakland — continually act as if the ongoing race for the seat Feinstein will vacate due to age-related difficulties will without doubt go to one of them. All three are actively raising money and priming supporters to vote next March, when they figure the California primary election will cut the field down to two of them, for a Democrat-onDemocrat contest in the November 2024 general election.

They showed no concern when frequent candidate Eric Early, a Republican, announced his own candi-

dacy in mid-April. Early lost handily to Schiff in a 2020 congressional contest and never got past the primaries in running for state attorney general in 2018 and 2022. But add him to the mix, and Republican voters and others who don’t like the idea that Democrats figure this seat somehow should belong to them forever now have someone to vote for. Now factor in California’s almostunique “top two” primary system, which applies in all elections here for state offices lesser than president. This system has sometimes produced runoff elections pitting two Republicans in legislative or congressional districts with heavy Democratic majorities, when enough Democrats ran in primaries to splinter their party’s vote and give GOP candidates both runoff slots.

Now mix in the possibility

Wright woman for the job

Francesca Wright is the best District 3 candidate for the Davis City Council.

As a former assistant city manager, I’ve rarely seen an individual as committed to community action as Ms. Wright. Her dedication is crucial to a successful future for Davis.

Building consensus is key. Community advocacy on high-profile initiatives such as the Yolo People Power’s police reform policies points to Wright’s ability to engage diverse stakeholders and foster inclusive solutions. Her bridge-building approach is exactly what we need.

Granular attention on city processes and financial reporting a must. She is a savvy observer of the City Council and sees commissions as the conduit to mainstream community input and foster partnerships for neighborhood-based solutions. Attending all Council meetings this last year, Ms. Wright knows what makes Davis tick.

She asks tough questions about our city’s budget, citing concerns about lackluster revenue-generation and sparse efforts to secure external funding for which Davis is eligible.

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that Feinstein succumbs to steady pressure on her to step down even sooner than she’s promised. With Gov. Gavin Newsom having committed himself two years ago to appoint a Black woman to the next vacant Senate seat, he would most likely name Lee, who could then identify herself on next year's ballot as an incumbent, a huge advantage in most political races.

Newsom made that commitment while appointing old friend Alex Padilla to the Senate seat Harris vacated on becoming vice president. Padilla later won election on his own, but Newsom felt pressure because Black women vocally believed the former Harris seat should have gone to one of them, as her moving up in rank left the Senate without any Black females. So Newsom essentially confirmed the presumption by Black women — about 4.5 percent of the state’s populace — that one of California’s Senate seats “belongs” to them, when in fact Senate seats belong to no group, but must be won by individuals. If Lee were to get Newsom’s nod before the primary, she might dominate

Wright plays the long game. She sees the long-overdue update to the General Plan as a crucial opportunity to embed community partnering into practice. Such steps can guide Davis to energize outdated practices; she seeks meaningful community input to jump-start planning that reflects the expertise of our residents. Her goal to provide clear direction to City staff on community priorities is a key component of an action agenda to steer an intentional, responsive course for the years ahead.

Francesca Wright is feisty, practical and hard-working. Her experience with the update of public safety policies; social and health inequities and housing shortages demonstrates a drive to develop leading edge solutions. Her proven people-first approach and community-building strategies exemplify leadership. She is the best candidate for District 3’s City Council seat.

Arrietta Chakos Davis

Create a spiritual shield for Ukraine

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine is the largest in Europe, with six reactors. Although the reactors are not active, the radioactive materials must be kept cool, so power to

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

U.S. Senate

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

Sen. Alex Padilla, 112 Hart Senate Office

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

House of Representatives

Rep. Mike Thompson, 268 Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-3311. District office: 622 Main Street, Suite 106, Woodland, CA 95695; 530-753-5301; email: https:// https:// mikethompsonforms.house.gov/contact/ Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/ gov40mail/

the Democratic vote and allow a Republican to sneak into the runoff against her, despite the fact both Schiff and Porter have far larger campaign war chests.

Meanwhile, Lee supporters are doing all they can to set up just that situation. One example: Her campaign cochair, Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, the other day made headlines when he virtually demanded Feinstein’s resignation because she’s been laid up at home with shingles for more than a month, while President Biden’s judicial nominees languished without majority votes to confirm them in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Feinstein has been a longtime member.

The upshot is that this Senate race is fraught with possibilities for new and different situations that could make it even more interesting than it now appears.

— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book,

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the plant must not be disrupted. A few UN inspectors might be all that stands between safety and large-scale nuclear disaster.

Can you imagine a solid dome of protection over the whole facility? Let’s do that. Together we can create a spiritual dome, a prayerful shield, a zone of divine protection over and around the ZNPP. Many of the world’s spiritual traditions and philosophies promote an understanding of the power of mental and spiritual energy, of focused meditation, and the changes it can bring about. We invite anyone, anywhere, to participate as they are led.

Some of us form a dome shape with our hands as a ritual symbol of what we are trying to create.

This leading arose within the Daily International Meeting for Worship for Peace (in the manner of Unprogrammed Quakers) which starts at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Many of us have committed to this spiritual practice of creating protection each day at 15 minutes past the hour.

We invite you to join us — whenever you can, wherever you are. Please spread the word of this practice widely; invite your friends and family, church, community to join in this effort. Questions may be sent to mtg4Worship@gmail.com.

Julie Harlow Davis

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JUDITH KEMPER CASE NO PR2023-0091

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

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: STEPHEN PEREZ in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo

The Petition for Probate requests that: STEPHEN PEREZ 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: 05/19/2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 11 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 the hearing Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law

You may examine the file kept by the court the file kept by the court If you are a person interested in the estate you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250 A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk

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NOTICE INVITING BIDS WATER MAIN REPLACEMENTS - 2023 PACKAGE CIP No ET8190

1 Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Davis ( City ) invites and will receive sealed Bids up to but not later than May 18 2023 2:30 PM at the City Clerk’s office of the City Manager located at 23 Russell Boulevard Davis CA 95616 for the furnishing to the City of all labor, equipment, materials, tools, services, transportation, permits, utilities, and all other items necessary for the WATER MAIN REPLACEMENTS – 2023 CIP No ET8190 (the Project ) At said time Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the City Office Bids received after said time shall be returned unopened Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date BID OPENING PROCEDURE The bids shall be opened in Council Chambers at 23 Russell Boulevard Davis CA 95616 Bidders will comply with the currently active Yolo County Order on COVID-19 These can be found at https://www yolocounty org/government/general-government-departments/health-human-services/adults/communicable-disease-investigation-and-control/covid-19

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

2 Requesting Plans And Specifications Plans and specifications (not including standard specifications and other documents included by reference) and proposal forms may be obtained by logging on to www blueprintexpress com/davis or by calling BPXpress Reprographics at (916)760-7281 The cost is $75 per set (plus shipping and handling) and is non-refundable Any bidder that fails to purchase a complete set of plans, specifications and proposal forms from BPXpress Reprographics prior to the bid opening date and time

H Wellington 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: May 17, 2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 14 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 the hearing Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law You may examine the file kept by the court the file kept by the court If you are a person interested in the estate you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form

Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the contract

Contract Code Section 3400(b) the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project Such fi ndings, if any, as well as the materials methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions

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

7 Bid Security Each Bid shall be accompanied by cash a certified or cashier s check or Bid Bond secured from a surety company satisfactory to the City Council the amount of which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the submitted Total Bid Price made payable to City of Davis as bid security The bid security shall be provided as a guarantee that within five (5) working days after the City provides the successful bidder the Notice of Award the successful Bidder will enter into a contract and provide the necessary bonds and certificates of insurance The bid security will be declared forfeited if the successful Bidder fails to comply within said time No interest will be paid on funds deposited with the City The Bid Bond submitted shall be provided by a surety duly authorized by the Insurance Commissioner to transact surety business in the State of California

8 Performance Bond and Labor and Material Bond The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Faithful Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements as defined in California Code of Civil Procedure Section 995 120 and that is a California admitted surety insurer Pursuant to Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California the successful Bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by the City to ensure its performance under the contract

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

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

Pursuant to Labor Code Sections 1725 5 and 1771 1 all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on be listed in a bid proposal or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the Department of Industrial Relations No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor s and subcontractors current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work If awarded a contract the Bidder and its subcontractors of any tier shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project Notwithstanding the foregoing the contractor registration requirements mandated by Labor Code Sections 1725 5 and 1771 1 shall not apply to work performed on a public works project that is exempt pursuant to the small project exemption specified in Labor Code Sections 1725 5

To combat sexual harassment...

...our culture needs a strong shift

institutions that protect perpetrators and rarely hold them accountable for their actions.

Editorial by JErEmiah haskins HUB Staff

all media and through jokes and comments and ‘boys will be boys’ type of mentality and attitudes,” Alvarez said.

Over spring break, while on a day trip to San Francisco, men catcalled me numerous times, staring me down as if my body was theirs to objectify. I was even chased down the street after ignoring a man demanding my number.

I’m not alone in this experience. Sexual harassment is something that an estimated 81 percent of women face frequently.

“Girls and women, they get no say because if they say ‘no’ they fear for their lives. If they comply, they are put into a situation they don’t want to be in,” junior Verane Ngassam said.

So much weight is put on how we respond, but in my experience, disturbingly, unless another man is there to “claim” me, my boundaries are not respected.

Empower Yolo is a local organization that’s been fighting sexual violence since 1977. Its associate director, Celina Alveraz, says that the daily sexual harassment that women and gender non-conforming people are forced to endure can have lasting affects, not only on our mental health but on how we trust ourselves and others.

“There probably isn’t a girl who walks around who doesn’t fear… being assaulted. And there are things that we do everyday to limit our lives and try to protect ourselves,” Alveraz said.

Sexual harassment and sexual violence is a real threat that is exacerbated by the

Even with civil rights laws like Title IX that protect victim’s rights in education programs, gray areas and jurisdiction limits make it so that people often continue to share space with their perpetrators even after reporting.

Culture plays one of the biggest roles in normalizing and trivializing sexual violence.

“It is essentially rape culture that normalizes… gender based violence and blames the victims for their assaults based on things they wore, what they said, where they went, and does not offer them support,” Alveraz said.

Senior Alyssa Campos is an advocate for victims of sexual violence at Davis High, and has many ideas about how to improve the situation.

Campos would like one DHS counselor on campus to specialize in supporting those who have been harassed or assaulted. She would also like administrators to hold listening sessions with affected students to get a better idea of how victims can be heard, supported and provided with a safe environment.

As for me, I would like to live in a world where I don’t have to watch men as I walk, ready to act in defense at any moment.

We cannot control or prevent sexual violence through actions like wearing baggy clothes or not going outside.

However, we can make lasting societal change by educating ourselves and others on sexual violence and bringing to the forefront urgent conversations on consent, harassment and autonomy.

Sexual harassment is mainly seen as a women’s issue, but by excluding men from the conversation we cut off possibilities for real change.

In order to solve this issue, men must step up and challenge the ways that we have been socialized to view and treat women as objects and possessions.

Since birth, cisgender men are taught to be aggressive and confrontational while girls are taught to behave passively and submissively. As men grow up, their entitledment to control women grows and leads to more violence against women.

In my case, when I witnessed an instance of street harassment directed a female friend, I didn’t think much of it; when they kept persisting, I got angry in seeing that that’s how women are treated.

In our society, disrespect towards women is not only accepted but praised as it validates a false sense of masculinity in boys and men.

According to Celina Alveraz, the associate director of Empower Yolo, the media intensifies the glorification of violence against women.

The constant objectification of women and misogynistic lyrics in mainstream music normalizes sexual violence and gender discrimination, and perpetuates myths like “no means yes” and “she was asking for it.”

“Unfortunately, rape culture is strong and prevalent and we see it normalized in

The pressure for men to have as many sexual partners as possible makes it hard for men to hear ‘no’ and recognize the signs that the other party is not comfortable with sexual advances or acts.

Consent is defined as the mutual agreement by all participants to engage sexually, but there is often a lack of education surrounding what that really looks like.

“The true prevention (of sexual violence) is actually saying, ‘Hey, man, that’s not cool. Hey, she’s drunk. That doesn’t mean you can take advantage of her,’” Alverez said.

As men, we should help prevent sexual violence and harassment by confronting the perpetrator. When it comes to solving the root of these issues, Alvarez explained that it is important for people to reflect on themselves and their own behaviors to see the harm they may be causing.

“You can be an ally and do all the right things in one day, but maybe the next day you made some mistakes and you have to acknowledge that and be able to commit to making change and to continuing to educate yourself,” Alvarez said.

Men must break out of this harmful mindset of masculinity through educating ourselves and others. We can’t let our environment make us who we are; there is room for positive change.

Editorial by Xochitl armién HUB Staff

...men must be part of the change

“We don’t have to live in a system and a culture that objectifies women or non-conforming individuals... We can change things.”

“Men must step up and challenge the ways that we have been socialized to view and treat women as objects and possessions.”