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Whole Earth Festival marks 54th year

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Becoming one with the Earth and the whole human family is what it’s all about at the Whole Earth Festival held annually at UC Davis. This year’s theme, “Sell Out to Love,” will play out in various ways this Mother’s Day Weekend.

According to WEF’s social media, the festival’s previously announced theme, “Rooted in Resilience,” happened to be a theme of an event held by UCD Bridge geared toward Pilipinx youth and community building. “Out of respect to our fellow student-run org, we made the staff decision to change our theme to ‘Sell out to Love’!” In appreciation of the small businesses that have supported the festival since the beginning, organizers decided to “sellout to the small businesses that have sponsored and supported us throughout the last five decades.”

Organizers invite visitors to “Sell out to small business; sell out to the community; sell out to kindness; and most of all, sell out to Love!”

According to a press release from Nevada County-based nonprofit Center for Cultural and Naturalist Studies, a booth and presenting a workshop on Friday and Saturday at the Davis Whole

the 2017

Earth Festival. Under the Whole Earth Festival umbrella theme of “love,” CCNS offers a “unique take on how to spread love on the planet.” They will present images and stories from their service projects undertaken around the world combined with humorous life lessons presented by their "Puppet Theater of Consciousness."

CCNS, which has assisted refugees and impoverished children around the world (including Burmese refugees in Thailand, Syrian refugees in Turkey, and

Afghan refugees in Sacramento), just returned from six weeks in Mexico and at the US/Mexico border wall where they gave water, food, blankets, and toilet ries to asylum seekers. Their booth at the festival includes a video presentation of these projects, according to the release.

Watch sun rise at conservancy

Special to The Enterprise

People who want to start their day early by welcoming the sun on a brisk morning hike or go bird watching are being invited to “Sunrise Sundays” at the Cache Creek Conservancy, located west of Woodland.

The monthly greeting of the sun begins May 7 and will continue on the first Sunday of each month through Sept. 3, according to representatives of the conservancy.

The purpose of the event is “to provide photographers, birders, early morning hikers, and wildlife viewers access to the Cache Creek Nature Preserve during early morning hours for unique opportunities to

take pictures or see birds or wildlife,” according to Conservancy Executive

DUI driver admits to murder in West Sac crash

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — When he got his first drunkendriving conviction in 2016, Gabriel Rhythm Poletti received a judge's warning that any future DUIs resulting in death could result in murder charges — a California provision known as a “Watson advisement.”

Sacramento police arrested him for DUI a second time on Feb. 2, 2021, when he collided with a moving vehicle as well as a parked car while making an unsafe turn.

Only 13 days passed before Poletti caused

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another

alcohol-related crash, this one claiming the lives of two West Sacramento parents and injuring their two young children as they left a family birthday party on the night of Feb. 15, 2021.

On Wednesday, Poletti, 29, pleaded guilty to all the charges against him, including two counts each of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, along with enhancements for causing great bodily injury to his victims.

Yolo Superior Court Judge Peter Williams said he plans to sentence

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Director Nancy Ullrey.

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Primo Santana, left, and Darius Weiss get their intergenerational groove on at

Whole Earth Festival. At right, Hannah Pieh dances with a hoop as she dodges rain showers Friday evening at

the 2016 festival at UC Davis.

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rebecca Tyron/courTesy phoTo Birders take in the sunrise at the Cache Creek Conservancy earlier this year. Through Sept. 3, the Conservancy will open 15 minutes before sunrise for those wanting to welcome the day.

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Sheriff warns of phone scam

The Yolo County Sheriff's Office is warning the public about a phone scam in which the caller claims fines are owed for missed court dates.

Sheriff's officials say the person making the calls, possibly from the phone number 530-6380167, claims to be “Deputy Al Williams.” He demands money paid via the Venmo mobile payment service to stay out of trouble for missing a court appearance.

“Although we previously did have a deputy by that name, he is retired,” officials said in a Facebook post, adding that some calls also mention the Yolo County District Attorney's Office. “This is a fraudulent scheme and not a phone call that would come from the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office.”

Anyone who receives a similar call should hang up and call the Sheriff's Office at 530668-5280 to report the incident.

Hear about cycling history

Erick Cedeño, aka the Bicycle Nomad, retraced the route and history of the All-Black, bicycle-mounted 25th Infantry in 2022.

After the Civil War, in an experiment by the U.S. Army to determine the effectiveness of moving troops by bicycle, the all-Black 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps was commissioned to embark on an expedition nearly 2,000 miles from Missoula, Montana, to St. Louis, Missouri.

Erick will speak at the Bicycle Hall of Fame, 303 Third St., on Thursday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m.

We all ended up putting down roots here

The other day the good folks at Tree Davis asked me, as part of their Arbor Day celebration in Central Park, if I'd say a few words about the trees I remember while growing up in this town I call home.

When we moved to Davis so my dad, at age 40, could complete his college career, which was interrupted by World War II, we celebrated my fifth birthday in the sunken sycamore grove at Central Park because we didn't yet have a place to live.

I have loved sycamore trees — especially those in Central Park — ever since.

In addition to being fully branched and incredibly tall, especially to a 5-year-old, they have that neat multi-colored bark that you can peel off the trunk with your bare hands, plus beautiful round puff balls that explode when they hit the ground during

one of our strong north winds.

The grove was pretty much the entire park back then. Across fourth street, where they now sell asparagus and strawberries on Saturday mornings, sat Central Davis School, where every Davis kindergartner began his or her long educational journey.

When we finally moved into what would become our longtime family home in the brand-new Oeste (rhymes with toasty) Manor, the city had already begun its mandatory front-yard tree program.

When we took turns mowing the lawn, my brother and I would take dead aim at that skinny twig of a tree the city forced upon us and in no time at all it was no more.

I drove by the old family residence the other evening just before dark and to this day it remains the only home in Davis that does not have a front-yard tree.

Being a native of Portland, my favorite tree remains the mighty Douglas fir, but I'm not sure there are any such trees in Davis, save at Christmastime.

In Oregon, of course, people cut down front-yard trees to let the sun shine in on those rare days in spring when the sky is clear. People in Oregon don't grow old, they just rust.

There are a number of great trees in Davis, from massive valley

oaks to tall redwoods to rows of black walnuts and olives. There are fruit trees and nut trees galore, Meyer lemon trees so loaded it seems their branches will snap, and extremely tall and frighteningly skinny palm trees that nearly touch the moon on a starlit night.

Some tree lovers in Davis, not to be mistaken with tree huggers, think it might be time to designate an Official City of Davis tree. Seems like a splendid idea to me as long as it doesn't diminish the standing of those species that aren't so honored.

Probably the best way to do this is to have a contest of some sort where citizens nominate their favorites, with the top 10 facing a citywide Measure J-style vote. Stay tuned. It may be happening soon.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Spice o Life featured at Village Homes Performers’ Circle

Special to The Enterprise Spice o Life, a trio with a musical repertoire including pop, folk, country, Broadway, and boleros, are the featured act at the Village Homes Performers’ Circle, Tuesday May 23, in Davis.

Therese Llanes (lead singer), Mike Elfant (guitar and vocals) and Wendy Silk (keyboard, accordion and vocals) had such a good time playing together at a party in 2021 that they decided to rehearse and play as a group. Trio members have performed extensively in the greater Sacramento region. Llanes sings in musical theater and classical, gospel and jazz concerts. She has been a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera chorus for 20 years and performs in the support chorus for Andrea Bocelli.

Elfant has been playing guitar, writing songs and performing as a member of Paradigm Gear Shift and Driving South. He also founded the Lennane Street Players, with whom he wrote and performed

musical parody at state and national venues related to his work in nutrition. Songwriter Wendy Silk sings with the Sacramento Valley Chorus and plays keyboard and accordion in local groups including Meri Superak’s Driving South and the Ron Goldberg Quartet.

The Village Homes Performers’ Circle is a free event that welcomes performers of all levels as well as audience members who simply come to enjoy the performances. No tickets or reservations are required. It is held the fourth Tuesday of each month, except December.

The event begins with an open mike from 7:15 to 8:15 pm and concludes with the featured performance from 8:30 to 9 pm. Signups begin at 6:45 for the short performances (less than 5 minutes per act). The emcee this month will be Laura Sandage, and the event will be held inside the Village Homes Community Center, 2661 Portage Bay East, Davis. The audience is encouraged to wear masks in the

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Spice o Life will perform on May 23 at the Village Homes Performers’ Circle.

well-ventilated space.

For information, visit https://www.facebook.com/ villagehomesperformers.

With school year winding down, it’s time now to get ready for Grad Night

Enterprise staff

A tradition since 1985, Davis Grad Night is a sober, all-night party for DJUSD graduating seniors. Graduates will spend the night enjoying music, dancing, special entertainment, food galore and a huge raffle.

Tickets are $85 through

May 31 and then increase to $100. Seniors who qualify for free or reduced lunch are eligible for one reducedcost $20 ticket by entering their DJUSD email in the promo code field. Buy a ticket online with a credit card, debit card or PayPal. If you need to purchase with cash or check, email

Pets of the week

Enterprise staff

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

Among them is Bobo (A146979), an affectionate 6-year-old longhaired cat who came to YCAS after her owner passed away. Despite losing her family, Bobo remains a precious loving cat. Bobo is a cuddler once she gets to know you. Bobo was an only cat and lived in a quiet home.

Also hoping for a good home is Snookum (A201973), a 2-year-old tabby cat who came in with her friend Monkey. Snookum is a little shy, kind, affectionate and loves to snuggle. Snookum is a very cute and charismatic cat — she has dreamy, soft eyes that make people fall in love with her at first sight.

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

Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-668-5287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsofycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/yolovolunteerapp. Follow on at @ycas. shelter and Instagram at @ yoloanimalshelter. At Rotts of Friends

1½-year-old spayed Rott-

weiler. Penny is super-loving and people-friendly. She walks well on leash. Penny will be a good family dog with older children or a best buddy for a single or couple..

Trinity is a dog and people friendly girl! She loves to play with her stuffed toys and loves water play. Trinity needs a brush up on her obedience training and will get lessons when Rotts’ next group of classes start up. Trinity has a heart of gold and will be a wonderful addition for a family or single.

The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 13, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.

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

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are heal-thy, microchipped, up-to-date

dgntickets@gmail.com to arrange.

Attendees must arrive by midnight or will be turned away. Students may leave at any time but will not be permitted to re-enter. If students do not arrive by midnight or leave before 3:30 a.m., a parent/guardian will be contacted, even if

the student is 18 years old.

Can parents come? Only by volunteering or by attending the Open House on Friday, June 9, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Grad night seeks students’ kinder photos. Seniors love seeing their kindergarten selves plaster a wall at Grad

Night. Get your senior’s pic on the wall by emailing (a scan or photo of the photo) to dgnkinderphotos@ gmail.com by May 26. To donate prizes, raffle items and decorations, visit to see what is needed at https://www.signup genius.com/go/8050444a 9a923a75-prizes#/.

on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obediencetraining classes. For information, visit facebook. com/rottsoffriends.

Bobo Penny

Snookum Trinity

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‘Red Altar’ film digs into history

Davis Community Church will host a screening of the film "Red Altar," the untold story of a California Chinese fishing village, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 19.

The movie is based on the play written by Nancy Wang of EthNoh-Tec, a storytelling theater. Wang is a descendant of Chinese teenagers who faced numerous challenges from the moment their ship wrecked near Monterey to the antiChinese sentiment that led to the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882.

After the film, EthNoh-Tec will discuss it's significance. This free event will be in the Fellowship Hall of Davis Community Church, 412 C St.,. and is sponsored by the Davis Phoenix Coalition, www.davisphoenixco. org.

For information about Eth-Noh-Tec, call 415-282-8705 or go online to http://www. ethnohtec.org.

DHS hosts mariachi event

On Saturday, May 13, the Davis Joint Unified School District and Mariachi del Valle, Directed by Thomas Slabaugh II, will present the first annual Mariachi del Valle Music & Folklorico Festival.

This festival will feature Davis’ Mariachi Puente, the Woodland Joint Unified School District Mariachi ensembles, Mariachi Los Mestenos de UC Davis, Folklorico Latino de Woodland Dance, and Mariachi del Valle.

The concert begins at 5 p.m. (doors open at 4:30 p.m.) at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall on the campus of Davis Senior High School, 315 W. 14th Street in Davis. The admission to this festival is free, but donations are gladly accepted.

Students need instruments

Do you have a violin, viola, cello or string bass that is no longer being used? Especially smaller-sized models for younger players?

The Davis High and Holmes Jr. High Combined Orchestra Boosters are soliciting any such string instruments as donations to enlarge the school district elementary collection so that more students might participate. A donation receipt will be provided for tax purposes.

Contact Angelo Moreno at 530-4007614 or at amoreno@ djusd.net for questions or donations.

Volunteer to help schoolkids

Are you sick of traffic congestion at every school?

Bike-savvy volunteers are needed in preparation for the upcoming 2023-24 school year as Active4me scanners, traffic controllers, bike/ ped educators/activists and Bike Skills Training team for second- and fifth graders.

All training will be provided. Contact Maria Contreras Tebutt at funmaria@ sbcglobal.net for information.

WHOLE EARTH: A chance to raise your consciousness

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The puppets will be present at the festival, offering fortune-telling at their booth “as a means of sharing perspectives that CCNS members have gleaned through their travels and self-study. A collection of hand-picked inspirational books and movies that support a seeker’s quest to find meaning and direction in life will also be on display (not for sale),” according to the release.

CCNS members will host a gathering in the WEF Experiential Space on Friday at 1:30 p.m., “focusing on how we unwittingly use language to hide behind and deceive, hindering our attempts to be honest in our interactions with one another.”

According to the WEF website, the Experiential Space will be located in one of the domes on the west quad. The space “is meant to provide people with a welcoming environment. Our space will be supportive, inclusive, comfortable, knowledgeable, and interactive. Our goal is to showcase interactive activities, different cultural practices, instructors, workshops, healers, and performers.”

At the Whole Earth Festival, local and even out-ofstate vendors promote the awareness of better health and ways to make each day of one’s life more environmentally friendly.

According to the WEF’s

history, it all began in 1969 as a “small art class project (Art Happening) on the quad. “The students used art to teach visitors about the realms of activism, wellness, and environmental sustainability in an interactive and creative way. Following the United Nations’ recognition of Earth Day in 1970, the event was renamed the Whole Earth Festival, fondly nicknamed ‘WEF,’ and has since evolved into a free student-run event, attracting over 30,000 visitors annually on Mother’s Day weekend.”

The lineup for musicians this year on the quad and cedar stages is:

n On Friday, headlining

is La Favi. A 2017 article titled “Meet La Favi, the Bay Area Singer Dreaming Up Sad Girl Reggaeton” by progressive Latin media brand, Remezcla discusses the singer’s then-new EP, Reir y Llorar (to laugh and to cry) as “packed with laments about the ecstasy of short-lived dance floor romances, unrequited love, and maudlin solitude.

They’re indulgently morose protection spells that herald the dawn of sad girl reggaeton.” Also performing on Friday are Mondaiji, Bass Feens, BLK Sage, Technopagan, First Name Basis, Lil Jube, Angelite, Chikadi, Too Much Makeup, and Charity Kiss.

n Jordana, known for

SUN: Share your pictures, too

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Each Sunday, the Conservancy will open 15 minutes before sunrise, and depending on popularity and weather, will continue to open early for the remainder of the year.

There is no charge for visiting the Conservancy, located at 34199 County Road 20. There is also no registration required.

People can simply show up to take a hike, take photographs and enjoy the early-morning sounds of birds and other wildlife. The early openings were requested by photographers and birders who wanted to enjoy the “golden hour,” which is the first hour after sunrise. The Conservancy will continue to close at its regular time of 4 p.m.

Photographers are encouraged to share their favorite photos on the Conservancy’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/cachecreeknaturepreserve

The time of opening is also being adjusted depending on each Sunday’s actual sunrise.

Obituary

Betty Lorraine Moore

The scheduled Sunrise Sunday times are: May 7: Sunrise-6:04 a.m.; Gates Open-5:45 a.m. June 4: Sunrise-5:44 a.m.; Gates Open-5:30 a.m. July 2: Sunrise-5:47 a.m.; Gates Open-5:30 a.m. Aug. 6: Sunrise-6:14 a.m.; Gates Open-6 a.m. Sept. 3: Sunrise-6:39 a.m.; Gates Open-6:15 a.m.

Visitors can park in the parking lot, where there is signage showing the various trails throughout the Conservancy. People are advised to bring their own cameras, binoculars, portable water, hat, sunscreen and wear weather-appropriate clothing.

People should also wear closed-toed shoes and stay on marked trails and out of the tall grass as well as avoid lowhanging branches and looking under logs or in holes because snakes — especially rattlesnakes — also inhabit the Conservancy along with birds and other wildlife.

Funding for the Sunrise Sundays is being provided by Teichert Inc., Granite Construction, CEMEX, and Vulcan Materials.

her “intimate and emotive electro-acoustic bedroom rock sound,” according to her bio on AppleMusic, will headline on Saturday. Also performing are: Grooblen, Decent Action, DJ Arib, Los Sindes, Cowboys After Dark, Banded Future, Reach Justice, Katgruvs, Rosemother, Agraria, Jurden, Temme Scott, Razteria, America Love, Temple Monarc, and Sophie Seng. Additionally,

KDVS 90.3 FM will have three hours of performances.

n Mother’s Day will feature Jessica Malone, a Sacramento-area favorite whose “sometimes smooth, sometimes gritty, always captivating vocals,” according to her bio on Spotify.

Sunday’s performers will include Tha Dirt Feelin, Bomba Fried Rice, Stepdad Passport, Maya Burns, Maiden Sun, Roots Man Project, Sriram Srinivas, Clan Dyken, and Babe’s Kitchen.

Family-friendly and drug-free, hours for the festival will be: Friday, noon to 10 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the UC Davis Quad.

Organizers remind people to ride their bikes or take public transit. Unitrans and Yolobus are providing free transit to undergrads. Unitrans will be extending their hours for the P and Q lines on Friday and Saturday. Departure from the Memorial Union terminal on Friday is at 9:10 p.m. and 10:10 p.m.; on Saturday: 7:10 p.m., 8:10 p.m., 9:10 p.m., and 10:10 p.m.

Jan. 24, 1929 — April 29, 2023

Betty Lorraine Moore a longtime resident of Davis, passed away on April 29, 2023, at the age of 94, after a brief illness. Betty was born in Sacramento on Jan. 24, 1929, and was the daughter of Joesph and Gertrude Tremp.

She was predeceased by her loving husband of 72 years, James (Whitey) Moore, and brothers Leroy and Sherman. She is survived by sons Lowell (Joanne) and Gary (Angela); grandchildren Adam, Nicole and James (Allison); and great-grandchildren Nathaniel, Wyatt and Aiden; as well as many nieces and nephews.

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Betty and Whitey were successful business owners of the Davis Shoe Shop. A fixture of 40 years. Betty was extremely involved in her sons, family and extended relatives lives and activities. She was a social and caring person, with many friends to this day. If you had the time there was always a story.

Betty and Whitey were long time members of the Elks Club. Through their years of community involvement they made many friendships and will be dearly missed. After retirement from the Davis Shoe Shop Betty and Whitey traveled the world

The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/memorial information. Paid-for obituaries allow for controlled content with the option for photos. Obituaries will be edited for style and grammar. Submissions may be made via www.davisenterprise.com/obit-form/. For further information about paid obituaries or free death notices, call 530-756-0800.

and all through out North America in their RV.

A life well lived. A celebration in her memory will be at a later date.

MOORE

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Karlie Kijanka, left, and Makenna Mugnani, both Davis High School students, play with Hula Hoops at last year’s Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis.

Wayne tilcOck/enterprise file phOtO It’s always a hot time at the Whole Earth Festival.

Spring water, landscaping tips

By Dawn Calciano Enterprise staff writer

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CRASH: D.A. was ready to go to trial

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Poletti to 22 years to life in state prison over what he described as “vigorous” objections from the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, which intended to try the case before a jury next week.

Authorities say Poletti drove that night with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal driving limit.

“This case is probably one of the greatest examples I’ve ever seen of why it is so important that people don’t drink and drive,” Deputy District Attorney Jesse Richardson said prior to Poletti’s plea. “We’ve all heard it, and we know that the defendant had heard it too.”

Poletti hung his head in court as Richardson recited the facts of the case — that Poletti, traveling southbound on Jefferson Boulevard near Locks Drive, bypassed a curve in the road and “drove straight through it, basically” by jumping the center divider.

His truck, registered to a Sacramento construction company, struck head-on a Dodge Durango driven by Rasul Mohammed Afzili, whose family had just left a gathering to celebrate his 37th birthday.

Afzili died at the scene of the crash. His wife Anila Afzili, 29, succumbed to her injuries at a nearby hospital.

The collision also injured and orphaned the

couple’s two children, 3-year-old Jannah Afzili and her infant brother Azaan Afzili, who rode with their mother in the car's back seat.

“They were defenseless,” Richardson said of the family, whose vehicle was waiting to make a left turn at the intersection. “They were stopped there, and there’s nothing they could have done. They didn’t do anything wrong.”

Richardson said police measured Poletti’s BAC about two hours after the fatal crash and obtained a reading of 0.243 percent, just over three times the legal driving limit of 0.08.

Poletti’s attorney, Eric Hintz, declined to comment about the plea.

Williams set a sentencing hearing for 1:30 p.m. May 30 to hear victimimpact statements from the Afzilis’ relatives and friends. He also noted the prosecution’s objections to his intended sentence.

“This is one of those cases that cuts a very, very thin like between reckless behavior and intentional behavior,” Williams said. “It’s a rough case, and it breaks my heart.”

CHANGE OF NAME Case Number: CV2023-0747

To all interested persons: P e t i t i o n e r : M I C H E L L E N G U Y E N f i l e d a p e t i t i o n w i t h t h i s c o u r t f o r a d e c r e e c h a n g i n g n a m e s a s f o l l o w s :

Present name a MICHELLE NGUYEN to Proposed name MICHELLE NGUYEN DANG

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

NOTICE OF HEARING

Date: June 21, 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 Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation printed in this county:

The Davis Enterprise

Did you know summer water use in Davis is double what is typically used in the winter? Since landscape water needs increase in the summer months, making sure that your irrigation system is working properly is especially important as the weather heats up. Here are some springtime landscape and irrigation tips:

n Inspect your irrigation system. Test your irrigation system to make sure it's functioning properly. Problems are not always visible unless the system is running! Look for broken and/or misaligned sprinkler heads (to avoid wasted water on driveways and sidewalks) and leaking pipes. Check drip irrigation for broken and/or missing emitters, breaks in the drip lines and any other damage.

n Check your irrigation controller. A few things can impact your irrigation controller and prevent it from working properly. Irrigation controllers can sometimes revert to factory settings after a power outage, even a brief one. Check the batteries in your controller every six months and replace as needed. If you have an irrigation controller connected to an app, check for any app updates and ensure that any updates have not modified your irrigation settings.

n Assess your soil moisture. The soil may look dry on the surface, but it can be wet at the root level.

Use a soil moisture meter or screwdriver to go down a couple of inches into the soil and see if the soil is still moist.

n Just add mulch. Now is the time to add a layer of three to four inches of mulch around your plants to retain moisture, protect against the summer heat and suppress weeds.

n Run irrigation in the late nights or early mornings. Run your irrigation system in the early morning or late at night to prevent evaporation so that water can soak into the soil.

n Convert your landscape. Consider removing all or part of your turf and replacing it with low-water use plants (consider native plants and pollinatorfriendly species)

n Don’t forget your trees. During the spring and summer months, don’t forget to deep water your trees as needed depending upon the age of your tree, as young and mature trees have different watering needs. Newly planted trees need to be watered 2-3 times per week. Young, established trees (that no longer have stakes) require occasional deep watering for root development and good tree growth. Mature trees may only require watering in the hotter summer months. Drip or flood irrigation over the critical root zone (under the tree canopy) is usually the best way to water trees. Avoid spray

irrigation if possible. The City’s urban forestry webpage at Trees.CityofDavis. org has more details on tree watering.

n Follow the sprinkler/ spray irrigation restrictions. Sprinkler/spray irrigation is currently limited to a maximum of two days per week on an odd/even schedule. These restrictions may change, staff are working with City Council to potentially modify these restrictions. This does not apply to other methods of irrigation such as drip systems and hand-watering.

n Monitor your water use. Sign-in (or signup for AquaHawk) at SaveDavisWater.org to view your daily and hourly water usage. Irrigation patterns can often be seen by looking for hours of higher water usage in the late night/early morning. If you see continuous use throughout the night, this may be the sign of a water leak.

Even with the wet winter, there are still water waste restrictions in place for the State. The emergency water waste prohibitions enacted

in 2022 remain in place until December 2023 unless lifted, modified or extended by the State Water Board. The prohibitions include limiting runoff from the watering of outdoor landscapes, restricting the use of potable for washing sidewalks, driveways, buildings and other hardscapes, the use of potable water for decorative fountains that do not recirculate water and the application of water to irrigate turf and ornamental landscapes during and within 48 hours after measurable rainfall. View the full list of water use restrictions at SaveDavisWater.org SaveDavisWater.org also has additional water-savings tips, information on water-wise landscaping, helpful indoor and outdoor water-use efficiency tips and information on AquaHawk.

—Dawn Calciano is a Conservation Coordinator with the city of Davis; this column is published monthly. Reach her at SaveWater@CityofDavis. org.

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE FOR LEASE

Date: April 25, 2023

TIMOTHY L FALL Judge of the Superior Court

Published May 5 12 19 26 2023 #2272

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2023-0815

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Ali Soleimani filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present name a Ali Soleimani to Proposed name Nima Soleimani

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

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Flowers and signs mark the scene of the West Sacramento collision that killed parents Rasul and Anila Afzili, leaving their two young children behind.

Tech allows whole family to stay connected

“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”

I grew up hearing these words on PSAs every night on the radio and television. I’m quite certain that for my parents and the parents of most of my teenage friends, the answer was, more often than not, “No.”

Like most children of the ’80s, we were free-range. Spending my teen years in central Wyoming surrounded by fields of sage brush, I say “free range” literally. We roamed the range freely, often well past 10 p.m. Nobody over the age of 18 had any idea where any of us were and none of them seemed particularly worried about our location.

More than 30 years later, those words, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” ring in my ears.

Do I know where my children are?

Yes. Yes, I do.

I know where my kids are because at some point in the last year, they decided that they wanted me to know where they were. Every single one of them, without any request from me, gave me access to their locations through the app, Find My iPhone. By their own choosing, their locations became available to me on my phone, 24 hours a day.

You should know, when our kids were young, I was not a helicopter parent.

When they were in elementary school and junior high, I resisted the trend to track them on my phone.

No moral high ground here. Probably because I didn’t have the time or the technological savvy to figure out the app and get it on four kids’ phones, no less my own. Or maybe because it felt intrusive to watch my children’s every move.

If, on rare occasion, I worried about a kid biking somewhere alone, I’d don a hoodie and sunglasses and follow two blocks behind them on my own bike to make sure they stayed safe.

I worried. I checked in with other parents. And I prayed they would stay safe.

But most of the time, I didn’t know exactly where they were or where they

were going.

And then, for reasons I don’t understand, being aware of everyone else’s locations became “a thing.”

Suddenly, everybody wanted to use the technology that allowed us to know exactly where everybody else was. All the time.

This can be problematic.

When I recently volunteered to pick up a group of kids from Oregon to bring them home to Davis on a very stormy night, every parent of every phone-toting child in my van was aware that I missed my Davis exit in Woodland and was headed for the Sacramento International Airport.

On their iPhones, it looked like their children were being abducted and headed for Disneyland against their will. (Why doesn’t she just turn around and go back to Road 102?). In reality, I was tired, the exit sign was dimly lit, and once you got on I-5 headed for the airport, there wasn’t another exit for 9 miles.

But the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

At any given time, I can pick up my phone, click on the little green icon on my screen and see the exact location of every person in my family.

Last fall, I watched from afar as one of our kids learned to ride the Unitrans bus on her own. I watched as she boarded the right bus, traveled to the transfer station, then boarded the wrong bus. Then I watched as she rode the wrong bus to the next transfer station, waited, and finally boarded the correct bus.

I cheered.

Over the Christmas holiday, our oldest daughter traveled internationally for the first time on her own.

As she landed at JFK in New York late, our family watched my phone as she sat on the tarmac, delayed from deboarding the plane. Then, with only minutes to reach her connecting flight to Barcelona, we watched the little red dot representing her as it raced through the terminals, eventually missing the flight.

We cried.

Hours later, we watched as she boarded a new flight, landing in London for a day. We cheered.

We watch our youngest daughter as she

carries on her life as a Santa Cruz student, far away, happy, and traveling from her apartment to classes to work and to life. If we time it right, we can see her location as she walks into the waves at Steamer Lane with her surfboard and move in tiny circles as she rides the Giant Dipper on the Boardwalk.

Last month, Bob and I watched as our youngest son embarked on a great adventure to Uganda. We celebrated, worried, marveled at his travel, knowing that the movement of the little red dot on my phone screen indicated that he was working, running, sleeping, playing, flying. As long as the little dot was active and in the right place, he was alive. And I was happy.

Forward progress can be hard. Innovation doesn’t always seem to be innovative, and technology threatens our privacy. Ten years ago, I would have fought hard against having an app on my phone that allowed anyone — even me — to see the movement of my kids at any given minute, hour, day. Yet, as I write this column, I’ve watched Emme arrive safely at her Santa Cruz apartment after a weekend home. Maev is snuggled in at her Davis apartment after our Monday-night family dinner. Molly and Mick are tucked under the roof of the Hunt Way house on Google Maps.

It’s 10 p.m. and I know where my children are.

— Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four. Reach her at dunningsm@gmail.com.

Picking the safest and cleanest sources of energy

Aprior last column was mostly good news, primarily about the incredi ble surge in solar panels in deserts in Northern Africa.

Huge, mega projects involving millions of solar panels and thousands of miles of undersea cables to link those panels to Spain, Greece, Italy and even England.

Though there are significant environmental and equity issues to work out, the scale of the individual projects, and the magnitude of their collective impact, appears enough to help European nations get very significantly off fossil fuels.

The column also noted that regulators were, if not exactly “fast-tracking” efforts to permit the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to continue operation, they were at least reducing the time required for approval. Fasttracking is not always a good thing. Which brings us to a recent report from the EcoWatch Media Group. A much more worrisome process is playing out in China.

As everyone knows, China leads the world in emitting greenhouse gases and polluting the global atmosphere of the future, largely due to its reliance on coal to produce electricity.

The EcoWatch report warns that “China approved more coal plants in 2022 than at any point in the last seven years … at a rate of two per week.” Approving is not building, but it is the first step towards that end.

Coal plants may not be as complicated to build, or capable of melting down, as nuclear plants, but still, as the report points out, “The speed at which projects progressed through permitting to construction in 2022 was extraordinary, with many projects sprouting up, gaining permits, obtaining financing and breaking ground apparently in a matter of months.”

How can we compare the differences between coal-fired power and nuclear power plants, or, for that matter between coal and all the non-greenhouse gas emitting energy technologies.

“Our World in Data” is a partnership between Oxford University

and the Global Change Lab funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hannah Ritchie, writing for this partnership, addressed this in an article with the title, “What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy.”

In summarizing their research and analysis the article makes two primary conclusions supported by data in the analysis. First, “All energy sources have negative effects. But they differ enormously in size; as we shall see, fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.”

The article compares death rates for each of the energy technologies, normalizing to a common denominator of number of deaths per unit of electricity, one terawatt-hour, what they estimate as the approximate energy consumption of 150,000 persons in Europe. Deaths may be caused by air pollution from burning the fuel as well as accidents that happen during extraction, transport of raw materials, accidents in the supply chain, and construction and maintenance of the power plant or equipment. Their findings calculate for

Peregrine selects Erickson

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Peregrine School announced that Chris Erickson will be its next head of school. After an extensive search, S. Susan King, Peregrine Board Chair, formally announced on April 17 that the Board of Directors had selected Erickson the new head.

Erickson had been serving as the interim head of school since October 2022.

“Chris has long been dedicated to the school for over a decade,” Kings said, “rising to head teacher for humanities in the upper elementary (2012) and adding on the roles of elementary school director and summer school director (2019), all while managing the vast school gardens for the last six year.”

King continues, “Chris embodies the heart and

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teaching philosophy of Peregrine School. Coupled with his clarity of vision and proven leadership skills, Chris’ qualifications for Peregrine’s Head of School could not be matched by any other candidate.”

Amy Roehl, administrative director, comments, “Chris’ passion and dedication to Peregrine School is unequaled. These qualities will drive the school to flourish in the upcoming years and I enthusiastically welcome him as the new Head of School.”

In an email that was sent to Peregrine families and staff, Erickson shared that he was humbled and honored. Erickson earned a bachelor’s degree in cinema and

photography from Southern Illinois University in 2003 and a MFA in creative writing from UC Davis in 2009. When Erickson’s mentor Lorie Hammond founded Peregrine School in 2011, he became a volunteer teacher. He soon became an associate teacher and a year later, was promoted to head teacher. In 2016, his duties increased when named as the manager of Peregrine’s gardens, a position that Erickson was uniquely qualified for coming from a nursery family going back three generations. In 2019, he was named elementary director.

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

this population of about 150,000 people depending on coal as the energy source would see about 25 dying prematurely each year, mostly due to air pollution. On the other hand, for wind power in an average year nobody would die, with only one attributable death every 25 years. For nuclear, in an average year nobody would die, with only one death every 33 years. For solar, again, they calculate one death every 50 years.

Second, the analysis indicates that “the good news is that there is no trade-off between the safest sources of energy and the least-damaging for the climate in the long term.” The article includes a bar chart with the above safety data of death rates for the various energy sources next to a similar bar graph showing the levels of greenhouse gas emissions for each of the energy sources. The emissions are not just those from burning of fuels at a power plant; also included are emissions from mining, transportation, and maintenance over the lifetime of that power source.

Without getting too far into the units described by the numbers, coal, now accounting for 36 percent of global electricity, is

820 metric tons of emissions, natural gas comes in at 490 metric tons for 22 percent of global electricity, wind is 4 metric tons with 7 percent of global electricity, nuclear is 3 metric tons with 10 percent, and solar is 5 metric tons with 4 percent. (Note: I did not include numbers for oil, biomass and hydro.) The report summarizes the data to state that coal is not only the dirtiest fuel it also emits “hundreds of times more greenhouse gases than nuclear solar and wind.”

The overall summary conclusion reads much like many or most studies and analyses; a mixture of “hey, we’re not doing so good” with “it’s not too late if we get our act together.” In their own words, “Unfortunately, the global electricity mix is still dominated by fossil fuels; coal, oil and gas account for abut 60 percent. If we want to stop climate change, we have a great opportunity in front of us: we can transition away from them to nuclear and renewables and reduce deaths from accidents and air pollution as a side effect.” — John Mott-Smith is a resident of Davis. This column usually appears the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please send comments to johnmottsmith @comcast.net

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Peace of mind, satellite’s eye view.

DMTC strikes with ‘Newsies’

By Jennifer Goldman Enterprise theater critic

Hot off the presses comes Davis Musical Theatre’s high energy musical Disney‘s “Newsies”! The show retells the historic strike of 1899, when children worked jobs in the garment industry, factories, food processing plants and selling newspapers. The children who sold the newspapers in New York City were called the Newsies. Joseph Pulitzer (Scott Minor), the head of The New York World, raises the cost for the newsies to purchase and resell their newspapers, essentially cutting their already measly pay by 20%. Most of the newsies are also orphans who must support themselves or starve.

The boys get the idea to strike and stop the distribution of papers from the current trolley strike that is affecting the whole city. Can the youths form a union and negotiate with powerful publishers to change the lives for the children of the upcoming modern century? This show is especially welltimed as it helps us contextualize the current writer strike.

Director and choreographer Kyle Jackson and Musical Director Boris Karpuk have created a sensational, action-0packed show. The dancing and gymnastics are a cut above what you would expect for community theater. “King Of New York” was a very impressive tap number. The singing was well blended and beautiful. So much is happening on the stage that one can’t be bored. Also, it is so refreshing to hear a live orchestra.

Jack Kelly (Paul Christopher Mollitt), the older

charismatic leader of the Newsies, opens with his song “Santa Fe”. He is a budding artist who has a dream of leaving the city to make a life in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his fellow newsie best friend Crutchie (Phoebe Mosher).

The bond between the two orphans is very touching. Jack was a triple threat in this show and was in almost every scene, but did look a little older than his 17-year-old character.

Crutchie pulled at our heart strings and did his best to put on a brave face during terrible treatment by some of the adults who were mistreating him.

Jack’s love interest Katherine Plumber (Kat Fio) who played the young journalist that helped the newsies get their message about the strike out was just wonderful. She is a great storyteller with excellent facial expressions, singing and dancing. The sassy burlesque owner Medda Larkin (Jojo Hale) also helped the newsies, and was a hoot with her song “That’s Rich.”

Also notable was Davey (Lucas Dunn), an educated newsie, and his adorable little brother Les (Bella W. Gonzalez). They were only working because their father wasn’t able to work due to an injury.

DHS junior’s work wins Congressional Art Competition

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Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced that Katherine Dowling, a junior at Davis High School, was chosen as the winner of the 2023 Congressional Art Competition from California’s Fourth District.

“The Congressional Art Competition is one of my favorite events as it showcases the incredible talent of students from throughout our district,” said Thompson.

Davey was a serious and naive boy who didn’t quite understand what life was like for the orphaned children of New York. He helped spread the message of sticking together as a group to make a change for all.

Pulitzer was a frightening bully intent on making even more money. Minor was a bit sinister as he commanded the stage. After a hundred-plus years, it seems the rich are still getting richer and the homeless and poor are struggling to survive. Theodore Roosevelt also makes an appearance as governor of New York, and is played by Brian McCann, who is always a joy to watch.

So if you want to be entertained and also teach your kids a little bit about economics, unions, child labor laws, and how life was like at the turn of the last century, this show is for you. As one newcomer to the DMTC venue told me at intermission, “I never thought community theater could be this good!”

Shows run now thru May 21, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets available at DMTC.org.

“Congratulations to Katherine Dowling on being named as this year’s winner from California’s Fourth District, and congratulations to all of the finalists. The submissions we received this year represented the breadth of creativity from our students, and I am so impressed with their pieces. Thank you to our judges for their work to evaluate the art, and a big thank you to our student artists and their teachers. I look forward to seeing

Each spring, the Congressional Art Competition is hosted by members of Congress to recognize

and encourage artistic talent in each congressional district. Since the competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated.

‘Matilda’ flies onto DMTC stage

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Davis Musical Theatre Company presents its Young Performers’ Theatre production of “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Jr.” through May 28 at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center (607 Pena Drive, #10) in Davis.

Rebellion is nigh in “Matilda Jr.,” a gleefully witty ode to the anarchy of childhood and the power of imagination! This story is about a girl who dreams of a better life and the children she inspires will have audiences rooting for the "revolting children" who are out to teach the grownups a lesson.

Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence ... and special powers! She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly lovable Miss Honey. Matilda's school life isn't completely smooth sailing, however — the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates

children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts and could be the school pupils' saving grace!

Ron Cisneros directs choreographs, with Montana Monroe providing musical direction.

“Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Jr.” plays on Saturdays at 2 p.m. (May 13, May 20, and May 27, 2023); Friday May 26, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, May 28, at 2 p.m. All performances are at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Pena Drive in Davis. Tickets are $8 for all ages. They can be purchased online at dmtc.org or by calling (530) 756-3682. (There is a $2 facility fee per ticket on a purchase, cash, charge, phone, internet, or in person.)

Purchase tickets at http://dmtc.org. For additional information, visit dmtc. org or call 530-756-3682.

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Phoebe Mosher as Crutchie, sings alone in the “Refuge”, in DMTC’s production of “Disney’s Newsies.”

Katherine’s piece hang in the United States Capitol.”

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“Theater” by Katherine Dowling was selected as the grand prize winner by a panel of judges.

Davis is home: Exhibition reminds us

By Natalie Nelson Special to The Enterprise

Susan W. Brady is an artist who has worn a few hats over the years. First, as an aspiring art student at UC Davis, learning painting with professors Roland Petersen, William Wiley and mentor Ralph Johnson, she excelled at painting canvases that were exercises in color and form. It wasn’t easy to be a female art student back then, but she knew what she wanted to paint, and received her master’s degree in art in 1964.

Only one of her early paintings from the ’60s is on display in her apartment where I visited her recently. It’s a circle sketched out in white paint, with a bit of blue.

It’s simple, elegant and direct.

Then life came in, with four kids and she started a wonderful bakery and coffee shop downtown (the Farmer’s Wife), which she ran for close to 20 years. Artmaking was put on hold for 40 some years. It’s a story that I know is shared by many female artists from that generation.

She was always interested in photography and, in some ways, it led her back to painting. Taking photos of things that interested her, especially still life compositions and landscapes, brought her back to creating artwork on a daily basis.

Now retired and living at URC, her solo exhibit, titled Home,” opens at the Pence this Friday, May 12, and continues

through June 11, with a reception on May 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. Her exhibit and talk are sponsored by Pence members Wil Uecker and Karen Fess Uecker.

While she briefly lived outside of Davis, for most of her life this college town is where she’s felt at home. When I was brainstorming long titles that were poetic to me, she simply stayed with one word: “home,” as that’s what the show was about for her.

It’s been hard these past two weeks to feel like this is the Davis where I feel most at home now.

My daughter and I keep noticing how we look at strangers in a different way, examining them for threat. In a place where I felt fine having my kids play at Sycamore Park with friends, any park nowadays seems threatening.

This is a time when things don’t seem stable, friendly or homey at all. Yet Susan’s paintings are all about the beauty of our environment. Her work reminds me about the green fields around us, the trees and their shadows, the streams that have popped up everywhere. It’s a world that she’s built piece by piece, by hand, and involves a rather lengthy process.

Her process starts with a digital image of her subject on a hard surface, and she adheres layers of handmade papers in various textures, along with colored dye and oil paint. There’s a

lot of details that come together through this alchemy, and the sudden realization that what you thought that was a tree is actually fibers from a beautiful textured paper.

I find Susan’s work (and her story) so uplifting, as so many of us having put down art-making, only to pick it back up again when we most need it. (It took me 20-plus years to get back to my own art-making.) It’s a mystery to me how this world seems to remind us of what we need, from creativity and peace, to talking to an inspiring person, like Susan.

To hear more about Susan’s paintings, and her pathway back to art, come to her Artist Talk on Saturday, May 20, from 2 to 3 p.m. The talk is free and no

RSVP is necessary.

Another fabulous artist whose work is on display at the Pence currently is Dawn Star Wood. Her watercolor paintings revel in dreamy visions and are the subject of a solo exhibit titled, “Wandering Thoughts.” This exhibit is on display through June 25, with a 2nd Friday ArtAbout reception open to the public on May 12 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Wood portrays the dreamy interior world of women lost in thought or asleep, complete with stars, moons, and other signs of the cosmos. She also finds equal inspiration in subjects like vintage cars, motorcycles, and advertisements, of which she paints close-up views that show her skill at capturing reflection, rust, and age. These images

create a world that is at once magic and real, spurring us as viewers to delve further into its beauty and mystery as seamlessly articulated by the artist.

I really enjoyed her close-up views of motorcycles, for I have fond memories from time spent on a very old BMW motorcycle with a very small engine many years ago. Dawn’s images capture the chrome and rust of older vehicles, and all in watercolor paint, which is really hard to control. While a chunk of the exhibit is dedicated to more surreal images, there’s quite a few close-up views of vintage bikes and cars that I think visitors will find really appealing.

So be sure to visit us soon to

Sac Ballet presents neoclassical, contemporary program

By Timothy Nutter

Special to The Enterprise

This May 19 to 21, Sacramento Ballet will present a mixed program of short dances. The show will feature “Agon,” a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine with music by Igor Stravinsky. Three other works will also premiere, with choreography by Stephanie Martinez, Caili Quan and Adam Hougland.

Anthony Krutzkamp, artistic director of Sacramento Ballet, named this final show of the 2022-23 season “Emergence,” aligning it with the burgeoning spring and summer. “This evening is much more light [than our last show], we’re getting towards the summer.” Each of the visiting choreographers brings a different dance background and energy to their collaborations with the local dancers.

A graduate of Julliard, Haugland has choreographed for numerous companies across the U.S. and currently serves as the principal choreographer for Louisville Ballet in Kentucky. Krutzkamp described Hougland’s work as “American contemporary (ballet) meets Ameri-

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What: Sacramento Ballet’s “Emergence”

Where: The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave., Sacramento

When: May 19-20, 7:30 p.m. and May 20-21, 2 p.m. Tickets: www.sacballet. org

can modern.” His group piece will be something of a tribute to Lauren Winterhalder (https://www. sacballet.org/performers/ lauryn-winterhalder/), a longtime dancer with Sacramento Ballet who will be retiring this season.

The choreography will feature Winterhalder in an extended solo and in a pas de deux with Wyatt McConville-McCoy. Krutzkamp noted that Hougland has tailored the dance to highlight Winterhalder’s elongated movement style and excellent plié.

Caili Quan is a New York-based dancer and choreographer who has worked extensively with BalletX in Philadelphia. Her style also sits between contemporary ballet and

more modern movement styles. You might notice some marionette-like movements or hip-hop influence. Her group work will add some humor and goofiness to the program.

Stephanie Martinez (http://www.stephaniemartinezchoreography. com/) is artistic director of her own Chicago-based company, PARA.MAR (https://www.paramardance.com/), which pres-

ents contemporary ballet and takes contemporary identity politics as central to its mission. She has choreographed works for Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and Sacramento Ballet, among many others. Her group piece will be more theatrical. Krutzkamp praised the talent of Martinez for suiting her movement to the strengths of the dancers: “If you threw her in a room with

different people at different times, the pieces would be completely different. She’s very collaborative as a choreographer.”

The Balanchine piece, “Agon,” dates from 1957 and is one of a number of collaborations between the legendary choreographer and equally legendary composer. This one features eight women and four men, with music arranged into a series of short dances, some of which are loosely based on Renaissance dance forms. The title is an ancient Greek word (https://artflsrv03.uchicago.edu/philologic4/LSJ/ navigate/2/1/1098/?b yte=1094280), meaning the assembly of Greeks for the national games, or, more abstractly, a contest or struggle.

Balanchine and Stravinsky mostly collaborated on this work from across the country, with the dancers rehearsing in New York and Stravinsky mailing the score page by page to them from his home in Los Angeles, as he composed. You can get a flavor of the original rehearsals he visited from the photographs taken by Martha Swope (https://digitalcollections. nypl.org/search/index?utf8

✓&keywords=agon +1957#).

What makes “Agon” special? Krutzkamp describes it as “ballet architecture,” with unique patterns and movement that “flipped what everyone thought classical ballet was on its ear.” The constantly shifting time signatures of the music paired with lightning movement sequences made the dance a daring challenge to dancers and audiences when it first emerged from the chrysalis. But, ironically, the dance may be even more difficult for dancers to perform today. Though dancers have improved their technique in the decades since, standards have also risen, leading to what you might call technique inflation. Steps that were difficult with your arabesque leg parallel to the floor can present even more difficulty when you are expected to get that leg close to perpendicular to the ground. “Every time I watch (this dance), it gets harder, because what we have to do has become harder.”

The costumes for “Agon” also merit comment. This

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Wen Na Robertson and Victor Maguad dance in the Sacramento Ballet’s production, “Emergence.”

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Susan Brady’s “Landscape with Pond” is a lovely portrayal a sunset, and is part of her current exhibit titled, “Home.” CourTesy phoTo

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‘Somewhere in Queens’: Family strife writ noisily

Sharp writing and well-crafted characters highlight this dramedy

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

There’s a tendency, at first blush, to assume that Ray Romano’s new film — which he directed, co-wrote (with Mark Stegemann) and stars in — occupies the territory he mined so well during the decade-long run of television’s “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Comparisons are easy, given that the focus here also is on messy, complicated family dynamics.

But while there’s plenty to chuckle at, this film’s overall atmosphere is more subtly tense, some of the relationships genuinely toxic.

Leo and Angela Russo (Romano and Laurie Metcalf) enjoy a simple but mostly happy life in an Italian-American enclave of boisterous family and neighborhood friends. Sunday dinners are a raucous ritual — laden with profanity-laced shouting and frequent breaking of balls — that includes matriarch Rose Marie (Karen Lynn Gorney); Leo’s father, Dominic, aka “Pops” (Tony Lo Bianco); Leo’s younger brother Frank (Sebastian Maniscalco) and his two adult sons, Luigi and Marco (Franco Maicas and Adam Kaplan); their younger sister Rosa (Deirdre Friel); Leo and Angela’s son, nicknamed “Sticks” (Jacob Ward); and Uncle Pete (Jon Manfrellotti).

Occasional larger-scale events — weddings, christenings and so forth — are even noisier affairs that take place amid the cheesy atmosphere of the laughably named Versailles Palace, where scores of families mingle, drink and dance to the enthusiastic chatter and platters spun by DJ Joey Bones (Erik Griffin, a total hoot).

Leo’s working life, however, is somewhat fraught. Although amiably content to be part of the family construction business alongside Pops and Frank, this

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Starring: Ray Romano, Laurie Metcalf, Tony Lo Bianco, Jacob Ward, Sadie Stanley, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jennifer Esposito, Franco Maicas, Adam Kaplan, Deirdre Friel, Jon Manfrellotti, Karen Lynn Gorney

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involves tolerating an endless stream of emotional abuse from both. Frank has long been the “chosen one” in Pops’ eyes, and — as such — misses no opportunity to belittle his older brother; worse yet, Frank has raised his two sons to echo such sentiments whenever possible.

Leo goes along to get along; he has long shrugged this off, in great part because he lives for Sticks’ weekly high school basketball games. Although emotionally withdrawn and painfully shy, the young man truly comes alive on a basketball court, where he has blossomed into a star athlete.

Even so, it has long been assumed — mostly by Pops — that when Sticks finishes high school, he’ll join the family business like all the other Russo men. But a chance encounter with a sports scout dangles a different possibility: the chance of an athletic scholarship to a small university such as Pennsylvania’s Drexel.

Leo and Angela also are astonished to discover that Sticks has a girlfriend: the effervescent, irrepressibly buoyant Dani (Sadie Stanley), also blessed (cursed?) with eyebrow-lifting candor. In

every way, she’s the total opposite of Sticks. And, when inevitably subjected to one of the Russo family Sunday dinners, her spunk both shocks and impresses.

Following a meet ’n’ greet visit to Drexel, where the basketball coach says all the right things, Leo succumbs to the hope that Sticks will be able to escape the fate that ensnared him.

Then, unexpectedly, everything goes tilt. And what Leo does next crosses the line that separates encouragement from ill-advised meddling.

This core storyline is supplemented by several equally engaging subplots. Angela, a cancer survivor, constantly worries that the dread lumps will reappear. Rosa, a late bloomer who never left the family nest, laments her inability to attract a man. Dani is burdened by an uncomfortable home life, where her wealthy parents rarely pay attention to her.

On the surface, Romano’s Leo

is easygoing and almost defiantly upbeat: always seeking the best in any given situation. But all of this conceals a man who has trouble being honest with himself, and shares his son’s inability to show genuine emotion. Romano’s gaze frequently betrays pain, from a lifetime of quietly taking crap from his father and brother; no wonder he lives vicariously through Sticks’ basketball prowess.

But while Leo keeps close counsel, Angela is hilariously unfiltered, in the manner of those who’ve emerged with a newfound what-the-hell attitude, after a brush with death; she’s suspicious of everything and everybody. Metcalf is marvelous, with respect to how she delivers a scathing remark while still making it funny.

Stanley similarly rises to Dani’s challenging complexities. We initially admire the girl’s sparkle and moxie, and then — as things

become complicated — we grieve for the position into which she has been placed. Dani becomes a tough sell; in lesser hands, we’d come to despise her, but Stanley keeps her sympathetic.

Manfrellotti’s Pete is more than a relation; he’s also Leo’s best friend, and the man who knows him best. Pete isn’t a jerk like the other Russo men; as a result, he’s able to confront Leo in ways that not even Angela can manage.

Romano brings events to satisfying — if unexpected — conclusions. And, as the end credits roll, we realize that he has once again worked that “Everybody Loves Raymond” magic: What initially felt like a familiar dive into bickering Italian-American dynamics, has become real, and left us feeling warm and fuzzy.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.

BALLET: ‘Agon’ emerges from artists delving into neoclassical forms

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dance is one of a number of Balanchine dances known as “black and white ballets.”

The women wear nothing more than a black leotard, an elastic waistband, translucent pink tights and pink satin pointe shoes to preserve their dignity. The men wear white tunics, opaque black tights, white socks and slippers. The result is elegant, spare and gives the dancers every chance to communicate through movement, shape and gesture. Gabrielle Chanel would have smiled on such economy of style, this little-black-leotard chic. Only missing are the pearls.

One might be tempted to look at this anti-costumery as a stage representation of rehearsal garb. But the undecorative look matches the limited palette we find in the music and choreography. Stravinsky’s music is rhythmically challenging yet sparingly arranged and avoids much in the way of melody or chordal harmony. Only during one brief, repeated section do we hear winds play a clear melody in thirds.

The choreography features many steps that would be considered routine in a modern dance work but which were deliberate breaks with established style in the ballet context of 1957, such as pirouettes with a lowered heel, pirouettes with a bent standing leg, lying and sitting on the stage, walking in a “neutral” fashion, facing away from the audience, extending both legs in second position during a lift, leaps with flexed feet, steps in parallel rather than turned out legs, promenade arabesque with the man lying on his back and crawling around the woman, and so on.

This isn’t your grandmother’s “Swan Lake.” As with the costumes and with the music, the absence of decoration, the discontinuities instead of legato

enchaînments, and the focus on the very core of dance as an art form, the body, predominates. All of this characterizes “Agon” as a work of neoclassical ballet.

Balanchine’s work is generally referred to as “neoclassical,” in the sense of extending classical ballet’s vocabulary without ceasing to treat it as a norm. His dances vary considerably, but “Agon” does represent well his consistent tendency toward bold, clear movement performed by tall, strong dancers. Unlike more romanticist choreographers, he generally avoided overwrought sentiment and storytelling in ballet, presenting instead a picture of health, rationality and magnanimity — Apollo graces these heavens, rather than Dionysius.

Stravinsky’s music of this period also can be described as neoclassical, though the composer himself disparaged the term. One of his

early neoclassical works, the Octet for Winds from 1923, was performed ably just a few weeks ago by the Sacramento State Orchestra under the baton of Greg Brucker, the music director at Harper Junior High.

Neoclassicism in 20thcentury music is a confusing label for an aesthetic trend wherein composers in the interwar years (and somewhat before) returned to models of classical music from the classical period, the Baroque and earlier music, all in an effort to restore some sense of balance, harmony and order after the explorations of late Romanticism, Impressionism and other experiments of the pre-war years. One of Stravinsky’s idols in this regard was Eric Satie, who modeled some of his piano music on earlier forms, such as the famous “Gymnopédies,” the title of which refers to an ancient Spartan dance festival.

Neoclassicism in visual

art and architecture, on the other hand, denotes a widespread trend in Europe, extending from approximately 1750 through 1830. After the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been buried since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were systematically excavated in the 1750s and 60s, tourists from all over Europe flocked to Naples in order to visit the site and assiduously study the recovered artifacts, pottery and sculpture.

As knowledge of these ancient models spread, artists assimilated to what they interpreted as a golden age of art, society and humanity: first ancient Roman art and architecture, and then the source of that source, ancient Greek art and architecture. Although the art world eventually turned away from these classical North Stars in the nineteenth century, their influence continues to be felt and seen today.

The Crocker exhibits currently only a few works from the neoclassical movement, though they own others, including a watercolor by Jaques-Louis David (https://www. crockerart.org/collections/ european-art/artworks/ funeral-of-a-hero-1778).

But if you visit their European art hall on the third floor, you can see an excellent painting by Antonio Joli, “Alexander visiting the tomb of Achilles” (https:// artsandculture.google. com/asset/alexander-visiting-the-tomb-of-achilles/ IwGTiBnRv6sdpg), which thematizes neoclassicism as a cultural trend. Dating from the early eighteenth century, this architectural fantasy depicts the Macedonian king indulging in his own neoclassical rite, honoring his idol and antecedent, the great Greek warrior.

We’ve all experienced those moments where our earthly passions touch the

order behind the veils and movements of our everyday. A perfume or a shadow or a wink can take you there. We’ve all walked up that hill, right to the top, insisting we get as close as we can to the night sky, the moon and the stars, just as we are drawn to the very edge of the ocean and its horizon. And we’ve all turned to the person we walked there with, to see if he or she has seen the order, has felt the sky. We can live these moments of profound unity alone or

with another. But what the performing arts give us is the chance to live that unity of order and passion collectively, through a common, composed rite. These are chances worth taking. Certainly there are times to argue and contest and work and play. Much of our lives we live at odds with one another. Nonetheless, when the time comes, why not chance to live together and leave the fights till tomorrow? Who knows what might emerge?

PENCE: We got great people living in this great town

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see these fabricated worlds, and remember that Davis is home — to artists, to wonderful people like David Breaux who made us think, and kind students like Karim

Abou Najm. It just is going to take time and healing to make it feel that way again.

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

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Leo and Angela (Ray Romano and Laurie Metcalf) are astonished — shocked, even — to discover that their painfully shy son has a girlfriend: a detail that he has failed to share with them.

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“Old Friend,” by Dawn Star Wood, shows off the artist’s skill at depicting light and reflection on this HarleyDavidson motorcycle.

California must keep its promise to foster children

By David Allen Special to The Enterprise

Although it received little public fanfare, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature last year made a life-changing investment in the lives of tens of thousands of California’s most vulnerable children.

In the scheme of a nearly $300 billion state budget, it wasn’t much — $20 million per year over three years to support Court Appointed Special Advocates. But it was enough to launch a vision for all foster care children in the state who could benefit from the one thing they need above all else: a stable relationship with an adult they can count on.

That’s 50,000 kids who have endured a level of neglect or abuse so severe that a judge has been forced to remove them from their parents and declare them wards of the state. Given their circumstances, the odds are against these kids. After they become adults, if current trends hold, nearly half will become homeless within two years.

About 1 in 5 will become incarcerated at some point.

The promise of receiving $60 million over three years enabled the California CASA Association to fashion a plan to increase the program’s reach by recruiting more volunteers, strengthening the professional staff, and expanding public awareness to inspire additional community philanthropy.

That promising vision to reduce such negative outcomes is now imperiled, at risk of being nipped before it ever has a chance to bloom. Faced with a more challenging budget situation, Newsom has proposed eliminating the remaining two years of the promised appropriation.

Without that funding, California’s foster children will be consigned to a status-quo future, one in which only about 16% benefit from having a one-on-one relationship with an adult advocate, a service that has shown uplifting results.

There are 50,000 humanitarian reasons for the state to follow through on its funding commitment. There is also a powerful economic incentive. It would cost about $4,000 per child to provide this care to every foster child. It costs taxpayers more than $35,000 a year in social services for homeless individuals, and more than $100,000 a year to incarcerate someone.

The reason such a modest investment could make such a powerful impact is that there is a legion of committed, carefully screened and highly trained volunteers around the state who serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates. Local CASA programs operate in 51 of California’s 58 counties.

The state’s 11,000 volunteer advocates are each matched with a child, and they stand by that child during traumatic and challenging times. They are there to listen, encourage and reassure.

They might do homework together or go to a museum. The advocate might be the only adult to attend the child’s school concert, or the only adult to understand the child’s particular health care or educational needs. The advocate learns the circumstances of each child and recommends to a judge the services the child needs and when it would be safe, and under what conditions, to return the child home.

Our courts and the overburdened professionals in our child welfare systems do what they can to see that these kids are housed, schooled and fed. Without the state’s financial support, they can’t provide the kind of one-on-one attention that can put them on a path to resiliency and ensure that their best interests are served.

With the funding received this year and the promise of two more years to come, these organizations fashioned a plan to be able to serve all 50,000 children who could benefit by 2032. Now the state must deliver on its commitment.

Although they are very young, California’s foster children have already had quite enough of broken promises.

— David Allen is a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, in Placerville. He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

It’s no secret that California governors begin to lose popularity as they get deeper into their second — and last — terms. Gavin Newsom seems no exception.

Environmentalists are unhappy he wants to allocate more water to farms and cities and less to salmon runs through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Many homeowners resent his signing bill after bill to densify housing across the state. Mass-transit advocates don’t like his proposed budget cuts. And on and on.

But malcontents can rest easy knowing Newsom won’t be governor forever. In fact, he’ll be out just 3½ years from now, regardless of who might be president at the time.

His successor is much less clear today than was his own eventual accession to the governor’s office at this same point in predecessor Jerry Brown’s final term in the state Capitol.

Back then, Newsom — a former mayor of San Francisco best known for bringing same-sex marriage to his city — faced significant competition in moving up only from Antonio Villaraigosa, an exLos Angeles mayor and former state Assembly speaker who roused plenty of his own negative feelings during a long career in public life.

There are no candidates today as certain to run

strongly as those two were just eight years ago.

So who is likely to take over Newsom’s chair? Chances are it won’t be any of the state’s big-city mayors. Neither London Breed of San Francisco nor Karen Bass of Los Angeles is as well known in other parts of California as either Newsom and Villaraigosa were at the same early stage in the battle for succession.

Of course, by 2026, either might build a far more considerable reputation than she enjoys today, especially if they can seriously dent the homelessness crisis that dogs both their cities.

That leaves the likes of Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, former state Controller Betty Yee, Xavier Becerra and current Speaker Anthony Rendon. Like the mayors, all are Democrats; no Republican now occupies a prominent office that could propel them to even higher stature and no conservative celebrities appear interested.

Because of her current post, Kounalakis is a logical

candidate, and she’s declared early. Two of the last four governors — Newsom and Gray Davis — moved up from the job she holds. One thing for sure, Kounalakis, daughter of Angelo Tsakopoulos, a Sacramento developer and longtime Democratic campaign donor, will have no cash shortage.

Kounalakis, a onetime ambassador to Hungary under ex-President Barack Obama, would figure to be even more liberally oriented than Newsom has been.

Bonta’s office has also been a stepping stone to the governorship for many, including Brown, Republicans George Deukmejian and Earl Warren, plus Pat Brown, Jerry’s father and a two-term governor.

An obscure assemblyman before Newsom appointed him, Bonta has made himself a force in housing policy by suing more than a dozen cities for their reluctance to OK dense housing within their borders.

Becerra, a former state attorney general and congressman, now is President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services. Undefeated in California electoral runs, he’s already the highestranking Latino official ever elected here and made few enemies during his four years as attorney general. He could be a formidable primary election force, but would have to

get moving soon. The same for Rendon, due to give up his gavel next month. A resident of Lakewood in Los Angeles County, Rendon cannot move to a bigcity mayoral job, like Willie Brown and Villaraigosa did after being speaker.

So he might have to seek statewide office, and why not the top one, since he has proven a formidable fundraiser?

There also could be Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat who is the first female president of the state Senate. Now an unofficial candidate for lieutenant governor, she could shift one notch up if she sees an opportunity. Whatever she runs for, her fundraising record means she would have to be taken seriously, unlike Yee, whose appeal would be mostly to Asian-Americans.

The bottom line: Democrats have a strong bench from which to choose Newsom’s successor. But it’s far too early to make odds on how this still unshaped race will go. — Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It,” is now available in a softcover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net.

Full of nonsense

I’ve ignored Allie Snyder’s other letters to this newspaper about trans people, but her April 28 letter is so inflammatory and full of nonsense that I am offended it was printed at all.

“Systematic sterilization of gender nonconforming children.” (Absurd and not true.) “Genital mutilation surgeries.” (Nope, and if adults choose to have surgery, it is not mutilation.) Promotion of “cancer drugs.” (Not unless the child has cancer.)

No, nobody “evangelizes” that children be trans. Try it with your non-trans kids and see if it works. No, unacknowledged, un-cared for trans kids do not become “happy, healthy homosexuals.” No, medical treatment for trans kids is not new in the last decade. And by the way, Democrats like me are not pedophiles.

Ms. Snyder is dreaming if she truly thinks adults make children trans. Most children who are trans know it from a young age, the same as they know if they are left-handed. Actually, small children don’t know they’re trans. They simply know what gender they are, and don’t know why other people don’t realize it. People under the banner “LGBTQ” have ALWAYS existed, and in many cultures trans people are honored and considered

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gifted with special powers. Not here of course, where absolutely anything can become an issue in our self-centered, paranoid society.

Supporting children as they are is definitely life-saving. You don’t need studies to know that children who are loved and supported for what they are become well balanced, healthy adults.

Snyder is, oddly, scared of adults who dress up in costumes of different genders. Does she think it’s contagious? Robin Williams, how dare you! She is disturbed by people who, as she puts it, “dress in fetish gear on stage,” whatever that is.

Want to support and save children?

Take action against guns, the leading cause of death of children in this country, surpassing car accidents. Or focus on saving our planet for our children. These attacks on trans kids are despicable. Snyder wants us to think she’s only attacking their parents and supporters, but these are definitely attacks on the kids themselves.

Claudia Krich Davis

Not enough

Five hundred meals ... and they aim for 1,500? Based on the data in The Enterprise article, "UCD students line up for pay-what-you-can food truck," April 25 — approximately 14,000 undergrads and grads are food insecure (though it's not

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clear if this is at some point during the year or all the time, but of course if someone saves money now they'll have more money in a month ...).

It's nice that this is happening, but I'm curious if there's anyone that's left out every day if the truck is in a part of campus that works for them.

I am always shocked that at the same university, in the middle of the largest agricultural area in the known universe, some students who can afford meal plans lineup inside, and others who can't have to stand in the sun. Some can buy what they want at any number of places, including in the city, and others have to see what's available for free at the MU pantry during certain hours and only during the week.

UC Davis is not claiming, is not aiming ... and probably states outright that it's not against capitalism. Yet nutritional equity is impossible in this context, and this food truck — however well intentioned by some — is proof of that, and a performance by the extremely wealthy people who run the UC system.

Fortunately we have a great example run by UC Davis with the help of city and county actors: that's Healthy Davis Together. HDT should be the example for nutritional equity, not some remote vaccine van that travels around the needy village, testing and vaccinating just a few.

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By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

By Charles M. Schulz

DHS boys tennis playoff run ends against Trojans

Enterprise staff

The Davis High boys tennis team’s run in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoff ended Wednesday.

Davis, the No. 3 seed, took on No. 2 Oak Ridge in the section’s semifinals team match at the Broadstone Racquet Club in Folsom. The Blue Devils came close, but the Trojans pulled away with a 5-4 win.

Prior to its semifinal match, DHS knocked off No. 6 River City of West Sacramento by an 8-1 score in a quarterfinal match at the Mayra Welch Tennis Center on the UC Davis campus.

Blue Devil boys volleyball

The Davis High boys volleyball team’s run in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs came to an end at Delta League rival Jesuit on Tuesday.

Davis (20-7), which was the No. 4 seed, fell to top-seed Jesuit 3-0; the final scores were 25-9, 25-16, 25-17.

DHS softball

Davis (2-10 in the Delta League, 6-14 overall) wrapped up its season with a 7-6 home win over Cosumnes Oaks.

Naomi Kalanetra went 3-for-4 for DHS,

which had 10 hits in the game.

Hannah Fox and Sofia Lester had two hits each.

In the circle, Blue Devil pitchers Kaylie Adams, Lea Lamoureux and Alessandra Trask combined for nine strikeouts.

River Cats

WEST SACRAMENTO Sacramento River Cats catcher and San Francisco Giants prospect Patrick Bailey will be presented with his 2022 Rawlings Gold Glove Award in a pregame, on-field ceremony prior to the River Cats’ contest today against the Salt Lake Bees.

Bailey spent the 2022 season with the Eugene Emeralds, committing only nine errors in 833 total chances in 72 game.

During his professional career, Bailey has made only 20 errors (19 at catcher, one at first base) in 1,820 total chances, spanning the course of 158 games played in the field.

Drafted by the Giants in 2020, Bailey was taken with the 13th overall pick out of North Carolina State and has now appeared in five levels of the Giants’ organization.

First pitch f at Sutter Health Park is scheduled at 6:45 p.m.

STRONG: ‘Poised to go for those blue banners’

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The Blue Devil girls 4x800 of Anaya Browning, Aida Bozogchami, Hilary Murcia and Kailee Monson took eighth place with a time of 10 minutes, 10.49 seconds, and grabbed the final spot to Masters.

Alex Valcarenghi won the boys high jumped 5 feet, 11 inches for seventh place.

Sophia Ballard had a busy day for the Davis girls. She took sixth place in the triple jump at 35 feet, 2 inches. She also competed in the 4x100, 4x400 and open 400 trials.

In addition to these final competitions, numerous Blue Devils battled through trials to earn lanes for the finals.

This included the girls 4x100 of Sierra Baptiste, Emma Vogt, Sophia Young and Ballard; Feyrer in the 110 hurdles; Vogt and Maya Yilkilmaz in the 400 meters; Young in the 100 meters; Fackert, Beckett and Lucas in the 800 meters.

The list continues with Alex Oldham in the 300 hurdles; Baptiste and Vogt in the 200 meters; the boys 4x400 of Jacob Schaa, LJ

Dixon, Ben Schneider and Oldham; and the girls 4x400 of Yilkilmaz, Young, Baptiste and Vogt.

“We are poised to go for those blue banners on Friday night,” Elliott said.

The California Interscholastic Federation Track and Field Championships will be held at Veterans Memorial Stadium on the Buchanan High campus in Clovis on May 26-27.

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

Blue Devil runner Emma Vogt gets ready to take off in the girls 200-meters race at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Track and Field Trials at Prairie City Stadium on the Folsom High campus on Wednesday.

Today, Vogt and the DHS girls squad will be gunning for the team section title.

To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

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Davis High batter Naomi Kalanetra, seen here waiting on a pitch in a Delta League game against St. Francis on April 5, had three hits in the team’s final league game on Wednesday.

Badminton

DHS girls squad preparing for section playoffs

Enterprise staff

The Davis High girls badminton team wrapped up a very successful regular season.

For the second year in a row, the team won the Monticello Empire League. Davis went 14-1 in league, which was enough to best second-place Rodriquez of Fairfield that went 12-3. Davis’ overall record is 26-1.

Even after losing thFFeir top player, sophomore Jennifer Lee, to a dislocated knee on April 4, the Blue Devils continued their winning ways.

Led by senior captain Cameron St. Andre, DHS’ only blemish on an otherwise perfect record was a 9-6 loss at Vacaville on April 20.

From May 4-5, the MEL end-of-season tournament was held at Vacaville High. Each school in the MEL sent its best singles and doubles players to the two-day tournament.

The Blue Devils faired very well, as it was an all-Davis final in the doubles’ competition with the pairing of junior Jocelyn Starr and sophomore Sophia

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Wang beating sophomore Vidushi Jain and junior Clare Hewitt in a thrilling three-set match to win the title.

The doubles team of Emmelie Lossin and Ling Pu finished eighth.

Starr and Wang are undefeated this season. The pairing finished 15-0 in the regular season while playing primarily as the Blue Devil No. 4 doubles team and won all four of their matches in the MEL tournament to take home the title.

In singles, sophomore Rowan Baar finished third, junior Yanjun Liu fifth and senior Emi Cech seventh.

The top four finishers at the MEL tournament move on to the San Joaquin Sectional Playoffs, which will be held Saturday at Bear Creek High in Stockton.

Baar will compete in singles and Starr, Sophia Wang, Hewitt and Vidushi Jain will represent DHS in the double’s competition.

The top two finishers in singles and doubles at the section playoffs move on to the Northern California championships, which will be conducted at Independence High of San Jose on Saturday, May 20.

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Jack Gallagher (9) celebrates with UC Davis teammate Nathan Peng (30) after Gallagher launched a home run against Cal Poly at Dobbins Stadium. Gallagher has 10 dingers this season.

Aggies in the Aloha State this weekend

Enterprise staff

The UC Davis baseball team is hoping to keep its recent winning ways alive in the Aloha State that started on Thursday.

UCD (7-14 in the Big West Conference, 17-27 overall) opened conference action at Hawaii at Les Murakami Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The two teams started their first game Thursday at 9:35 p.m. PDT.

UC Davis is hoping to narrow the historical record against the Rainbow Warriors on started on Thursday, plus today’s game that is also scheduled to start at 9:35 p.m. PDT and Sunday at 4:05 p.m. PDT.

Hawai’i has a 24-11 all-time series advantage against the Aggies.

Causeway game

On Tuesday, Sacramento State took the rubber game in the Causeway rivalry with the Aggies with a 7-5 win at Hornet Stadium.

The Aggies won the second game 4-3 on April 11, and the Hornets captured the first game 9-6 on March 7.

Damian Stone smacked two home runs for UCD.

Stone went 2-for-5 at the plate that included his dingers, and 2 RBIs.

Alex Gouveia went 2-for-4 with a triple.

Leighton Helfrick had a double and an RBI.

Cal Poly series

Last weekend, UCD claimed a Big West series over Cal Poly.

The Aggies posted an 8-0 win over the Mustangs in their third game of the series at Dobbins Stadium on Sunday.

Jack Gallagher etched his name into the record books during the bottom of the eighth inning of Sunday’s game when he slammed his 11th home run of the season, giving him the most home runs for an Aggie in the Division-1 era.

Gallagher’s home run breaks the past record of 10, which was set by Aggie great Ryan Royster in the 2008 season, a year that still to this day is the only time Aggies baseball has made a regional during it’s time as a Division-1 school.

The Mustangs galloped to an 8-1 win over the Aggies on May 6. But UCD won the opener by a 1-0 score 24 hours earlier.

Blue Devils have strong showing

By Mike Bush Enterprise sports editor

FOLSOM — Two Division I champions are in place.

The next question becomes is how many members from the Davis High boys and girls track and field teams can clinch a crown at the Sac-Joaquin Section D-I Championship finals today.

But on Wednesday, the Blue Devils competed at the trials that took place at Prairie City Stadium on the Folsom High campus.

“(The) Blue Devils competed with pride and selflessness,” said Davis head coach Spencer Elliott.

The top 10 in each event, unless the trials and finals were held Wednesday, advance to today’s finals that will also be at Prairie City Stadium.

In addition, the top eight who scored points move on to the section’s Masters Track and Field Championships, which will be held at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on

the DHS campus Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20.

The Davis boys 4x800 squad of Lucas Tam, Beckett Dolan, Brian Fackert and Jefferson Wright took first place with a time of 7 minutes, 58.82 seconds.

“Lucas closed with a 1:54 split, holding off a very talented team from Whitney,” Elliott said.

Sol Bitners, a junior, won the girls’ discus with a throw of 135 feet, 10 inches.

Davis teammate Sophia Ramirez was third at 116-01. Sophie Coil was fifth at 110-11.

“It was another awesome team performance for the throwers,” Elliott said.

In the boys triple jump, Ben Feyrer jumped 44 feet, 9.5 inches for second place.

Blue Devil teammate Thomas Albeck took seventh place at 42’, 5.25.

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Davis High’s Sophia Young (center) competes in the 100-meters race at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Track and Field trials at Prairie City Stadium on the Folsom High campus on Wednesday. To view more photos, visit www. davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

Christoph Lossin/EntErprisE photo Davis High girls badminton player Rowan Baar lunges toward the shuttlecock during a recent match.