The Davis Enterprise Sunday, May 21, 2023

Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his revised budget proposal for 2023-24 during a press briefing at the state Natural Resources Agency in Sacramento on May 12.

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Newsom pivots to deficit control

By Alexei Koseff CalMatters

California’s estimated budget deficit has grown by $9 billion since January, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week, though the governor downplayed the severity of its potential impact on critical government services and programs.

During a press conference at the California Natural Resources Agency in downtown Sacramento, Newsom unveiled a revised spending plan that will rely on some additional fiscal maneuvers — including shifting funding sources and internal borrowing — to address a projected $31.5 billion gap in the 2023-24 state budget.

“We have a $31.5 billion challenge, which is well within the margin of expectation and well within our capacity to address,” Newsom said.

Despite the growing shortfall, California’s overall budget is now expected to be $306 billion, including special funds, less than a 1% decline from a record $308 billion in the cur-

rent fiscal year.

Newsom proposes to close the deficit by shifting an additional $3.3 billion in existing commitments out of the general fund, including paying for $1.1 billion in climate spending and $1.1 billion in college student housing projects with bonds,

See DEFICIT, Page A6

Trustees hear about facilities

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

The school year is near its end, but the school board was hard at work at its latest meeting on Thursday. While many facilities projects are underway at various sites, some teachers raised their concerns about recent decisions made by the district regarding facility utility.

As always, the public comment section in the school board meeting was filled with passion. This time around, elementary teachers and parents took center stage to voice their concerns.

“I’m here because I’m concerned that decisions

are being made at our site and around the district that disadvantage our most vulnerable students due to not providing adequate instructional space for (English learner) programs, reading intervention and special education,” said 10-year Montgomery Elementary English Learning Specialist, Madeline Ryen in the public comment section.

“At MME, we’ve served over 150 English learners this year. That is 20% of

our district’s ELs, including all of our elementary migrant students. And yet, the facilities plan for the indefinite future is to split one classroom between ELD and our reading program. These programs provide core content and vital supports and they should not be left to jockeying for nooks and crannies around campus. If we as a district are sincere in our belief and our commitment to closing the opportunity gap, that means we have to prioritize these most vulnerable students, even in the midst of difficult facilities funding decisions and provide them with the

See TRUSTEES, Page A7

Council honors community standouts

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Recognizing deserving individuals and organizations, the Davis City Council announced the 2023 Golden Heart Awards and this year’s Thong Hy Huynh Memorial Awards at Tuesday’s meeting.

Golden Heart

The Golden Heart award was first presented in 1994 in memory of Andrew Mockus, who was killed by his peers in 1992. After many community forums hosted by the Recreation and Park Commission, it was decided to recognize outstanding youth in the Davis community with two different categories within the award: community service and personal challenge. The Community Service Award recognizes individuals who’ve given significant service to the communities and their fears and or their schools, and the Personal Challenge Award recognizes individuals who overcome significant challenges. See STANDOUTS, Back page

Cat-cat study: How well do we read cat behavior?

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

How well can you read cat behavior? That’s a question that was posed to participants of a study aimed at better understanding cat behavior.

Because cats are the most widespread pets throughout the country, student Yuqi “Emily”

Quan set out to determine “how well UC Davis college students can distinguish between positive and negative behaviors in domestic cats.”

Done through an online survey with several demographic questions and 10 videos of cat-cat

interactions, participants were asked to rate the interactions from extremely negative to extremely positive. For this study, our recruitment was from the end of February to the beginning of April, mainly through flyers around campus on social media.

Under the guidance of sponsor Carly Moody, Ph.D., they hypothesized that students would be better at recognizing positive behavior compared to negative behavior and that students with professional experience with cats would be better at

See CAT-CAT, Back page

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Summer drama program in June

Sandcastle Theater Company’s Summer Drama Program in Davis returns for 6 weeks of fun! Weekly sessions start June 26th and run through August 11th. Families may enroll in one or more sessions, open to students entering first to eighth grades.

Each week, kids play drama games, learn theater skills, and create and perform a staged reading of their own original play, based on the weekly session theme. The program focuses on centering each student’s creative voice, self-confidence, and collaboration as an ensemble.

Registration is open via the link on Sandcastle Theater Company’s website, including additional information on schedule and registration fees: www.sand castletheaterco.org.

Early registration is encouraged. Contact sandcastletheaterco@ gmail.com for information.

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Things are better on solid ground

Ihate flying. Always have. It has nothing to do with fear of flying, a malady that caused John Madden for years to take a tricked-out bus cross country to his various announcing assignments.

I’m not afraid the plane is going to crash or land at the wrong destination, though those things do happen.

The Aggie men’s basketball team may have different feelings about flying after a scary experience last winter on a trip from Sacramento to Los Angeles when their plane apparently sucked a bird or two into its engine, forcing the plane back to Sacramento.

As I understand it, the team was then given the option of taking a bus to Southern California — another form of travel torture — but wisely voted to take another flight. All’s well that ends well.

I’m a person of average height and weight with a built-in flotation device around my midsection. That extra layer of padding helps keep me warm when I swim and allows me to keep my head above water.

And yet, the only times I have been comfortable on an airplane are the two or three occasions when I was “invited” to sit in first class because the plane was

oversold in the Peasant Section at the back of the plane.

I don’t like being jammed into a seat, with my knees jabbing the back of the person sitting in the row ahead and my size 14 feet with no comfortable place to rest.

I was once on an 11-hour flight from London to San Francisco that I was certain would never end. I was armed with magazines and newspapers and a copy of War and Peace. None of it eased my pain or my feeling that touching down at SFO was simply a distant and impossible dream. I even made out a will to kill the time. I think I Ieft it all to the Largest Man in the World who was sitting in the middle seat next to me. If I was uncomfortable, I can’t imagine how he felt.

On the several occasions when I’ve had to travel to New York City, I’ve always taken the non-stop red-eye that leaves Sacramento

around midnight and arrives at 8 or 9 in the morning.

Everyone on the flight is asleep before take-off and remains so until arrival. Except me.

I cannot sleep on an airplane, a bus or in the passenger seat of a car, no matter the hour. I need to be stretched out completely with some sort of pillow — a folded up sweatshirt will do — before I can doze off.

So it was with great interest that I saw the headline “Air

New Zealand reveals price of new economy sleep pods” over a story by Lilit Marcus of CNN Travel.

Sleep pods on an airplane? Please, fill me in.

Turns out Air New Zealand is planning to launch something called “Skynest” in September of 2024.

There will be six pods in some sort of bunk bed formulation on certain long haul flights, including “the 17-hour direct flight between New York and Auckland.”

Wow, 17 hours with nowhere to go.

“Passengers will be able to prebook a slot in the pod for between $254 to $380 for a four-hour session.”

Just four hours? What about

the other 13?

“Amenities in the Skynest will include USB charging ports, a reading light, ear plugs, full-size sheets, a blanket and a pillow. There are also seatbelts to make sure that the beds adhere to onboard safety protocols.”

Nothing like a seatbelt to keep you from tossing and turning during a bad dream.

“The airline did a fair bit of research around sleep cycles. A typical sleep cycle is around 90 minutes, so a four-hour session gives the opportunity for customers to wind down, fall asleep and wake up.”

The last time I slept for just 90 minutes was when I was less than 12 months old. If I fall asleep and have to get up and out of my pod 90 minutes later, I’m going to be grumpy for the rest of the flight.

According to Air New Zealand,”We have zeroed in on sleep, comfort and wellness because we know how important it is for our customers to arrive rested. Whether they are heading straight into a meeting or to their first holiday hotspot, they want to hit the ground running.”

I’d settle for just hitting the ground.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Public hearing explores police use of military equipment

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff

writer

The Davis Police Department plans to host a community meeting this week regarding its use of tools deemed “military equipment,” which requires government approval under a change in state law.

If the shoe fits ... book him

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Woodland police call it a “classic Cinderella story.”

While officers investigated a possible stolen vehicle Wednesday at Park Avenue and Cleveland streets, a suspect fled from the car, leaving one shoe behind.

The department’s K-9 Loki retrieved the shoe — not a glass slipper in this case — and the search for its mate began.

“We won’t keep you in suspense too long,” Lt. Dallas Hyde posted on the Woodland Police Department’s Facebook page. “We located the owner of the lost shoe without having to go house-

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1. People named Sam. What convert to Judaism appeared in the Rat Pack film “Ocean’s 11”?

2. House Sales. Did sales of previously owned homes in the United States rise or fall in April 2023 when compared to sales from the prior month?

3. Science. What do we call the type of membranebound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells?

4. Books and Authors. Published in 1970, the first novel written by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most banned books in America.

to-house through-out the kingdom.”

Loki and his handler tracked the suspect, identified as Chico resident Christopher James Fraser, 29, to the rafters of a nearby garage.

“Officers were able to talk Mr. Fraser into coming out and reunited him with his wayward footwear,” Hyde said. His passenger, 28-yearold Amanda Morgan Pratt of Anderson, also was arrested for allegedly possessing a methamphetamine pipe. Both were booked into the Yolo County Jail while police took possession of car, which had been reported stolen out of Willows in Glenn County.

Assembly Bill 481, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2022, requires Davis police to seek the City Council’s annual reauthorization of an ordinance outlining the equipment’s purchase, acquisition and use.

The law also requires police to hold a public hearing prior to the council’s consideration of the proposed ordinance, set for June 20. The public hearing begins at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Davis police station,

2600 Fifth St. Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said the meeting involves a brief presentation describing why and how police use the equipment — ranging from vehicles to firearms to non- or less-lethal devices — followed by a questionand-answer session and public-comment period.

“It’s basically a full-disclosure procedure and an opportunity for anybody to ask questions and express themselves,” Pytel said.

Citizens may submit questions in advance to policeweb@cityofdavis. org.

Also in keeping with state law, the Davis Police Department maintains on its website an inventory and annual use report for its military equipment, although Pytel

characterized that term as “a misnomer.”

“Even though this equipment is never used by the military, the state legislature has classified it as military equipment,” he said.

Pytel also noted that his agency isn’t seeking to acquire any new equipment, but corrected the pending ordinance to include the department’s use of “noise flash diversionary devices,” also known as “flash bangs” or stun grenades.

In addition to holding the public hearing, Davis police submitted the proposed ordinance to the Davis Police Accountability Commission for consideration.

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

Name the book.

5. Current Events —

Names in the News. An American multinational, mass media and entertainment conglomerate recently pulled the plug on a nearly $1 billion dollar development in what U.S. state?

Answers:

Sammy Davis

Jr., they fell, chloroplasts, “The Bluest Eye,” Florida.

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

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Woodland police officers arrest alleged car thief Christopher James Fraser outside his unsuccessful hiding place.

Sudwerk brewery opens beer garden

Sudwerk’s patio is complete, and it passed its health inspection on Wednesday. It started taking walk-in customers for seating in that area at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The beer garden is a total renovation of the former restaurant back patio. That patio now serves as the entryway to the remodeled restaurant, which reopened on April 6. The outdoor seating area features fire pits, sunshades and plenty of new seating. There’s a stage area for music. Later this month, misters will be added, Sudwerk officials said.

To celebrate, the restaurant/ brewery plans plenty of live music, including Brotherly Mud

from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Big Sticky Mess from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sunday. Check its social media for others scheduled performances.

It appears that Davis Shoe Shop will not return. Owner Jason Velebit told a reporter for The California Aggie that he’s taking a step back from the business, and isn’t putting in any effort into actively running it. The reporter shared this with me after she opted not to pursue a story about the shop.

I still get messages from customers who have not been able to retrieve their shoes and other items that were left there for prepaid repairs. “I just want my old Birkenstocks back!” one customer wrote me in an email last week.

Signs are up for a restaurant that’s filling the space left by Shanghai Town in Westlake Plaza.

Essential Hotpot is the name.

Before Shanghai Town closed, the manager said the business looking to take over the lease

was a group of UC Davis students that would offer Asian foods and hot pots.

That’s all I know. The space is vacant inside. Only the signs are up at 1260 Lake Blvd., Suite 111.

A reminder that after 12 years, Aggie Ace is closing at the end of this month. It’s at 606 W. Covell Blvd. in Anderson Plaza.

Still no word on when the much-anticipated Mamma or Bull ’N Mouth restaurants will

open downtown, though they’re apparently just weeks away. They fill the former Bistro 33 and de Vere’s spots, respectively.

I also left a message for an update on Yolo Beer Ranch, which is set to fill the former Satiety Winery space between Davis and Woodland. The call was not returned.

Before messaging me about the status of an ongoing project, please review my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which

includes more than 325 Davis businesses. It’s at https://bit.ly/ DavisBusinesses. The most active tabs are Restaurants Open, Restaurants Closed and Coming Soon.

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

Kabobs and cumbias — South Davis eatery revels in fusion

Family-run restaurant gets back in groove

By Jeff Hudson Enterprise staff writer Kabobs

... and

cumbias?

A kabob, as most people know, involves tasty cubes of seasoned meat and/or vegetables, arranged on a skewer. Kabobs are thought to have originated in Persian cuisine and culture (in an area that is nowadays the country of Iran), though many other countries also prepare kaboblike dishes as well.

The cumbia, on the other hand, is a popular Latin American dance, thought to have originated in South America in the late 17th Century, in country that is nowadays known as Colombia. The cumbia is also quite popular in Mexico, and just about every traditional Mexican-American band in California plays cumbias from time to time.

Kabobs and cumbias may have vastly different origins, but in 21st-century California, all sorts of traditions mix and meld, including kabobs and cumbias.

As evidence, consider the festive occasion planned for early Saturday evening at a South Davis eatery called Stand Up Kabob.

The story starts with Karan Koshcar, who was born in Iran. Koshcar finished the ninth grade in Iran, and then came to Davis as a teenager in 1983, started the tenth grade at Davis High School, speaking a limited amount of English at the outset. His family was one of many that came to the United States from Iran after that country's Islamic Revolution in the late 1970s.

Young Koshcar liked to work with his hands, and he soon gravitated into the auto shop program at the high school, and after graduating he became a

mechanic at a Volkswagen dealership in Sacramento. After a few years, he decided to go into business for himself, and launched University Imports Automotive Inc. (aka UIA) in Davis. The business prospered and grew.

But all the while Koshcar developed a deepening interest in traditional Persian food and the customs that go with it. Preparing food in a kitchen also involves working with your hands. When celebrity chef/cookbook author

Samin Nosrat (born in San Diego to parents who fled

Iran following the Islamic Revolution) spoke at the Mondavi Center in January 2020, Koshcar was in the audience, and chatted briefly with Nosrat during the book signing in the lobby.

As you might imagine, Koshcar passed on his interest in Persian cuisine to his daughters Emily and Sophia, who grew up in Davis. And so in 2019, as Karan Koshcar was contemplating his retirement from University Imports Automotive, he and his daughters opened Stand Up Kabob, with the

daughters handling many of the day-to-day operations at the restaurant. Soon, lovers of Persian food, many from Davis, but a surprising number from elsewhere, would seek out the little restaurant's modest-sized dining area, or pick up takeout food.

Stand Up Kabob has an unlikely location, hidden away amidst the thicket of auto dealerships and repair shops on Chiles Road east of Mace Boulevard. There aren't a lot of other restaurants nearby. And the fledgling, low-profile restaurant operated on very limited hours, Fridays and Saturdays. The restaurant also relies on several parttime employees, as well as several volunteers.

Then, just a few months after the restaurant opened, the COVID pandemic hit in March 2020, and the long lockdown began. Stand Up Kabob (like many other restaurants) closed down for about a year. The

restaurant finally reopened partway through the pandemic, but on Fridays only.

But starting this month, Stand Up Kabob is now open again on Saturdays as well. And in months to come, business hours may be added on other days.

Koshcar and his daughters decided that a celebration is in order.

The restaurant will be open this Saturday from 5

p.m. to 9 p.m., and at 6 p.m. there will be live music by the popular local band Raíces, an all-female group that plays cumbias and Spanish-language songs in other Latin American/ Caribbean styles. There will also be flowers (some in the colors of an American flag, others in the colors of the Iranian flag), and metal artwork that Koshcar welded himself, as well as some supporting women's rights in Iran.

The restaurant's menu and address are on the website Standupkabob. com. The website (largely maintained by Koshcar's daughters) contains tips about cultural holidays that include special foods, an essay by daughter Sophia on women's rights in Iran and breast cancer awareness. (Sophia's grandmother, Karan's mom, died in her late 40s from breast cancer that went undiagnosed for too long, and spread.)

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Signs are up for Essential Hotpot, which replaces Shanghai Town in Westlake Plaza. The inside remains empty, however.

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The new patio at Sudwerk Brewing Co. opened Thursday, the final piece in the renovation of the restaurant.

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Karan Koshcar, second right, is bringing back Standup Kabob after the pandemic. With him are, from left, daughter Emily, fiancée Crystal and brother John.

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Your typical fare from Stand Up Kabob.

In the summer garden

By Don Shor Special to The Enterprise

With soil and night temperatures finally getting warm, it’s time to plant the heat-loving summer vegetables and flowers.

In the vegetable garden: pepper time

Peppers have been sulking due to the cold temperatures earlier in the month. They’ll be much happier with warmer nights. This is an excellent time to plant sweet peppers and chili peppers.

Interesting fact: the sweet pepper is a relatively new member of the type, historically speaking. There are five to six important species of peppers in the genus Capsicum that we grow for food, and all had capsaicin and other compounds in them that cause the pain or joy,

depending on your viewpoint, of eating spicy food. Though hot peppers have been used in Mesoamerica for centuries and in Europe since the 16th century, modern sweet peppers arose due to a recessive gene in paprika peppers only about a hundred years ago.

Although bell peppers are the most popular variant of sweet pepper, gardeners locally find them susceptible to sunscald during heat waves. You can plant bell peppers where they get afternoon shade; you’ll get less yield, but perhaps more usable fruit in a hot summer.

Most of the other, thinnerwalled sweet peppers are less likely to have the fruit damaged. Alternatives that perform well here include Gypsy, Sweet Banana, Jimmy Nardello, Marconi.

If you want some peppers with mild to moderate heat for salsas, plant jalapeño, Fresno,

and serrano. For cooking, some of the best for our area include Anaheim, a California variety that’s just mildly hot, and the Hatch pepper strains from New Mexico.

Very hot peppers that yield prodigiously here include cayenne (insanely hot), and Thai Dragon (same).

If you want to grow the super-hot peppers, it’s best to wait to plant them until the soil is even warmer. Peppers bred from Capsicum chinense such as habanero, Trinidad Scorpion, Bhut Jolokia, and their ilk contain startling amounts of capsaicin. They need soils about 70 degrees F, which is typically early June.

These are literally dangerously hot. As your mother would say: make good choices.

Plenty of time to plant: Cucumbers

The most common complaint I get about cucumbers it that they are often bitter here. While that can be exacerbated by insufficient watering, I’ve found bitterness varies by variety.

Newer hybrids, especially the burpless and Persian types, are rarely bitter and continue producing all summer. Lemon cucumbers, a round heirloom type with especially sweet cukes, is not bitter. I stopped growing regular green cucumbers years ago due to the bitterness problem. All other types have been much more satisfactory.

Anaheim and New Mexico peppers are excellent choices for our area. They yield large crops well into the fall, can be used fresh or can be dried, and have just mild heat. Great for cooking and for chiles rellenos.

Armenian cucumbers are never bitter. They’re not actually cucumbers, their fruit is a type of melon that isn’t sweet and has a crunchy texture, so we use it like a cuke. They are very vigorous vines, and the fruit are usable

Bell peppers can be frustrating here due to sunburn injuring the fruit. Other sweet peppers such as Gypsy are more productive and successful here. As with bell peppers the fruit can be used green, or allowed to ripen and get sweeter.

even when they’ve gotten quite large.

Eggplants yields are highest from the long, slender types such as Millionaire or Japanese Long. If you pamper eggplants with plenty of water and light fertilizer they’ll yield very heavily.

Tomatoes can continue to be planted anytime through June.

I’ve even planted in July with good results. Corn. Most sweet corn takes 10 to 12 weeks to harvest so it’s best to get it in by mid-June. You can speed it up by buying seedling transplants.

Squash and melons

Summer squash such as crookneck, patty pan, and zucchini squash all can be planted through July, as they grow rapidly in warm weather and start yielding just a few weeks after planting.

Plant melons and winter squash at the end of May or early June. This includes cantaloupe and other musk melons, honeydew, crenshaw, and more.

See GARDEN, Page A5

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GARDEN: Increased species diversity diminishes pest problems

Ambrosia cantaloupe is still my old favorite, but I’ve been impressed by the new honeydew hybrids that have firm, orange flesh, as well as the small, extremely aromatic and flavorful Charentais melons.

Melons like warm soil, lots of room, no competition from weeds or each other, and plenty of water.

Two other heat lovers: watermelons and okra, go in when it’s quite warm, late May to June.

Most gardeners find watermelons take up a lot of room for little yield, though Sugar Bush is a compact variety with excellent fruit.

Sweet potatoes. Need to cover a fence quickly?

Sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family. The vines are quite vigorous and have attractive foliage.

Yard-long beans. Unlike green beans, these pea relatives prefer high temperatures. These are also fast-growing vines; they start to produce in August.

Basil grows very easily here and can be planted all through the summer. While bees love the flowers of basil, gardeners usually pinch the blossoms off to keep the plants producing, or just keep planting more every few weeks. There are new basil varieties that don’t flower at all! Emerald Towers makes a little shrub-like plant with greattasting leaves right up until frost.

Not this time of year: We get a lot of people looking for leafy greens such as

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Borage is one of my favorite self-seeding garden flowers. The flowers are cool blue, the leaves smell like cucumbers, all parts are edible, and the flowers attract honeybees. Easy to grow!

kale and lettuce. Unfortunately, those are not tolerant of summer heat. they just go to flower and seed right away if you plant them now. Swiss chard is one leafy green that you can plant now. We’ll start planting those other coolseason greens again in fall.

Likewise, cilantro and dill, which prefer the milder weather of spring and fall, and broccoli family members which we plant in fall for winter harvest.

Flowers for the summer garden

There are lots of great reasons to mix vegetables and flowers together. Having an abundance of flowers attracts pollinators and provides habitat for beneficial insects. Summer annual flowers can take the same soil and watering

as your vegetables.

Some of the summer annuals I routinely plant in or around my vegetables:

■ Borage

You only need to plant this once. It will reseed freely. Cool blue flowers and leaves that smell like cucumbers. Borage is notably attractive to honeybees.

■ Cosmos and Zinnias

These love heat and don’t like cold soil, so they’re best planted during May – June, with blooms from summer through fall.

■ Sunflowers

Plant anytime from April into mid-summer. Sunflowers, and daisies of all kinds, draw many types of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. For seeds to roast, as well as enormous plants, plant Russian Mammoth. There are dozens of varieties available, ranging from those giants down to very dwarf types, in a range of colors from the traditional golden yellow to dark, dark red.

Sunflowers sprout very readily and can be planted directly from seed. Just be aware that the seeds and seedlings are very popular snacks for earwigs, snails, birds, and squirrels, so protecting the young seedlings with strawberry baskets or small wire cages may be necessary.

■ Mexican sunflowers

If you have room for a large plant with bright orange flowers and want to draw all kinds of butterflies and hummingbirds, plant Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). They can get to six feet tall, branch freely, and bloom all the way from mid-summer through fall.

Thai basil and holy basil have very pungent leaves that are used in certain types of cuisine. They also flower very quickly from seed or transplants, have

pretty flowers over a long season, reseed freely, and attract bees and butterflies.

How about marigolds?

Marigold plants have some issues. The seedlings are often eaten by earwigs and snails. The foliage gets damaged by thrips and mites by mid-summer. But despite all that, they flourish in sunny gardens and the old-fashioned tall ones can be dramatic.

No, contrary to popular belief, marigolds don’t protect other plants or repel insect pests. It is true that some types of marigolds kill some types of root nematodes and are planted for that purpose in crop rotations where root-knot nematode is a problem. But planting a marigold next to your tomato plant doesn’t confer any protection to the tomato. It does, like other flowers, draw butterflies and bees and enhance species diversity.

Gardeners who work to increase species diversity in their gardens find that their pest problems diminish over time. Having more different types of flowering plants is a simple way to achieve that diversity and natural pest control.

Lots of folks get concerned when we start getting daytime temperatures in the 90s, thinking that it’s too late to plant and they’ve missed the season. Don’t worry, we have a very long growing season here and most of our summer vegetables are subtropical or even tropical species.

You may not like the heat, but it’s what those types of plants thrive on.

■ Plant in the cool of the day for your own health and comfort.

■ Water each plant thoroughly at the time of planting.

■ Check daily and water as needed, typically every 2 to 3 days at first.

Sunflowers come in a range of warm colors from the familiar golden yellow, to striped yellow bicolors, to dark mahogany red.

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■ Mulch to smother weeds.

■ Water more deeply and less often as the season goes along (if you can; raised planters may still need daily watering through the summer). Then just harvest regularly – and figure out what to do with all that surplus produce!

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Tithonia is called Mexican sunflower. It is a vigorous grower, usually to about six feet tall, with a steady succession of these hot orange flowers from mid-summer through fall. These flowers are among the most attractive to butterflies that I’ve seen. Plant anytime May through June.

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Sunflowers come in a range of warm colors from the familiar golden yellow, to striped yellow bicolors, to dark mahogany red. The plants grow quickly and easily from seed, and attract native bees and honeybees, and hummingbirds.

DEFICIT: Governor needs allies to take less money

and pulling back another

$1 billion in unused money from programs such as middle class tax refunds and utility bill support for low-income residents.

Under the governor’s plan, the state would also borrow $1.2 billion from special funds and increase by $2.5 billion a tax on managed care health plans to address the spending gap. Extensive savings would remain largely untouched, though Newsom did propose to make a $450 million withdrawal from one reserve account.

California’s fiscal picture has largely worsened since January, when finance officials projected the state would face a deficit of $22.5 billion. Newsom called it a “modest shortfall” and proposed to delay billions of dollars in spending commitments, reverse recent steps to shore up the state’s fiscal health and shift around funding sources to limit program cuts.

Enduring high inflation, turmoil in the regional banking sector and a showdown in Washington, D.C., over raising the federal debt limit have all deepened the economic headwinds. California relies heavily on income taxes from its wealthiest residents, whose earnings have taken a hit with drops in the stock market.

Monthly tax revenues came in billions of dollars below forecasts this spring, and fears of a recession continue to loom, which Newsom said could reduce state revenues by tens of billions of dollars even in the mildest scenario.

“That is an uncertainty that we must take very seriously and very soberly,” he said.

Adding to the unpredictability, most Californians don’t have to file their income taxes until October because of the intense damage and disruption from winter storms. Officials estimate that $42 billion in payments will be delayed until the new deadline.

The governor’s updated budget proposal kicks off a month of

negotiations with the Legislature, which must pass a budget by June 15 to get paid, though some items may remain unresolved after the July 1 start of the fiscal year.

Legislative leaders have been largely optimistic about the budget situation, noting that the deficit is less drastic than during the last recession more than a decade ago and arguing that they have plenty of fiscal tools at their disposal to avoid deep spending cuts. Last month, Senate Democrats pitched increasing taxes on large corporations and suspending a major business tax credit to raise new funds, an idea that Newsom quickly rejected.

The governor reiterated today that it was not “the right time to raise taxes and I was crystal clear on that.” He also also took off the table — at least for now — dipping deeper into the state’s reserves, which he said should be maintained while the state weathers the broader economic uncertainties.

“No one can be wedded ideologically to conditions that may present themselves, but right now, we’re able to submit a budget that we think is prudent and it’s balanced,” he said. “Those are conversations for another day.”

Newsom closed his remarks by encouraging the Legislature to show restraint, both in what it seeks in a budget deal and with costly proposals that lawmakers may try to advance to the governor’s desk later this year, which he said he would have to veto.

“You don’t have to be profligate to be progressive,” Newsom said, trotting out what has become a favorite turn of phrase. “We tend to write checks that we can’t keep and then we let people down.”

Aside from a brief economic downturn at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, most legislators have faced only budget surpluses and growing revenues during their tenures. Because of term limits, just a handful were around as California’s economy tanked in 2008, forcing deep spending cuts.

With less money available next

fiscal year, the challenge is getting everyone to agree about what should take the hit. Some lawmakers have already raised objections to potential cuts for climate programs and public transit funding that the governor proposed in January. Assembly Democrats are pushing to raise funding for subsidized child care because of complaints from providers that reimbursement rates are less than their costs.

“To continue our path toward improving the well-being of Californians, we want to protect the progress we’ve made in strengthening education, healthcare and safety net programs,” Assembly Budget Chairperson Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat, said in a statement. “At the same time, we should also support the economy by stabilizing the child care industry and restoring the infrastructure funding agreed to last year for public transit. Investing in both sectors will help people go to work.”

Republicans, who represent a superminority in the Legislature and whose votes are not needed to pass a state budget, dismissed Newsom’s approach to the deficit

as irresponsible. In a statement, state Sen. Roger Niello of Fair Oaks, who serves as vice chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the governor should not count on avoiding a recession.

“We are concerned that his crystal ball may be cloudy,” Niello said. “We would recommend that the state take a more sustainable path on spending, and reduce the desire to borrow during this time of high and increasing interest rates.”

Public schools: Equity funding, less for arts

By Joe Hong CalMatters

Proposition 98 funding for public K-12 schools and community colleges dipped from $108.8 billion to $106.9 billion between the January budget and the May revision. Overall per-pupil funding dropped by about $14, to $23,706.

California’s public schools can expect a hefty 8.2% cost-of-living adjustment — up from 8.13% in January — to help them carry the burden of inflation.

The Newsom administration remained committed to its controversial “equity multiplier” in its May budget. The $300 million will target schools serving high percentages of low-income families. This proposal evolved from a 2022 bill authored by Assemblymember Akilah Weber that would have given more money to schools for the state’s lowest-performing student group, which is currently Black students.

According to a CalMatters analysis, the equity multiplier would only benefit about 26% of Black students in California. The Legislative Analyst’s Office suggested that the $300 million might not be enough to make a difference in closing historical achievement gaps. Advocates criticized the equity multiplier for shifting the focus away from Black students, but the California Legislative Black Caucus applauded the equity multiplier in a statement today.

In another move, Newsom proposed deeper cuts to arts, music, and instructional materials grants. His January budget shrank the size from $3.5 billion to $2.3 billion. The May version reduced it further, to $1.8 billion.

Newsom argued these cuts would be offset by Proposition 28, which passed in November and is expected to generate $933 million in funding for arts and music education. But school district officials say voters expected the proposition to generate new money, framing Newsom’s cuts as a betrayal of what voters wanted. Officials from Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest district, urged Newsom to restore the grant.

Finally, the May revision scales back funding for transitional kindergarten in response to smallerthan-expected enrollment. Newsom dedicated $604 million in his January budget but trimmed the investment to about $357 million. Additionally, $337 million for staffing universal transitional kindergarten dropped to $283 million.

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optimally designed learning spaces that they need.”

The meeting transitioned to the Measure M Bond Prioritization Presentation. Superintendent, Matt Best gave a brief summary of the Measure M projects, a comprehensive breakdown of the cash flow as well as an update of the project timelines as requested by the facilities sub-committee.

“Right now there are several projects happening in tandem at DSHS. There’s our three, CTE programs. Transportation electrical vehicle bay and our transportation department, the barn and greenhouse for agriculture and the engineering and robotics building at the corner of 14th and Oak. Those will all be done this month,” explained Best. “The STEM building is back on track in terms of construction after an unfortunate delay due to weather and PG&E. We expect that to be done next summer. Right around that time we will be relocating those portable classrooms that are currently residing on the footprint of our aquatics center and real construction will start that summer of 2024. We expect the aquatics center to be done in the fall of 2025.”

Following suit came the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Development and A-G Grant Plan update given by associate superintendent Troy Allen.

The brief update included an overview of the LCAP components, budget and timeline of events and steps taken towards its goals. Allen also mentioned the board has shared its draft of the LCAP with the local county office of education. A county team has performed a technical review and provided feedback that will be represented in the public hearing scheduled for June 15.

Allen’s presentation went on to talk about the A-G Grant Program.

“For DJUSD, the initial expenditure of A-G Grant funds were used for a comprehensive evaluation of our A-G completion rates, policies and practices that will inform our improvement efforts. The study was conducted by researchers at the UC Davis School of Education through quantitative and qualitative review of our DJUSD systems to understand the barriers to A-G completion particularly for our foster youth, low-income students and English Learners,” Allen said.

“The research included three phases beginning last July and culminating in the

spring. The findings and the recommendations from this analysis will inform A-G grant allocation in our subsequent years. 4Additionally, some of the grant resources were used for professional development for our counselors, and administration and current UC and CSU admissions practices and used in the 2022 secondary summer school.”

Not yet finished with her presentations, Allen also gave an update on the DJUSD Visual Art Program and Prop 28. She mentioned how the DJUSD will receive $1 million in funding and broke down where that money

will be allocated and foreshadowed how future spending will become more complex in the midst of a hiring shortage.

She talked about community and staff feedback which focused on optimizing access to all student groups.

Then she delved into the proposed elementary programming for the following year which includes adding general art instruction

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To wrap up the meeting, the trustees voted to approve a declaration for Highly Qualified Educators before voting to approve the employment contract for a deputy superintendent of business services.

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With that, the meeting came to an end with the next scheduled for June 1.

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that the County of Yolo General Services Department will receive sealed bids for the Health & Human Service Agency Bauer Building Project Refresh before 2:00 p m on Monday June 5, 2023 at 120 West Main Street, Suite G, Woodland, CA 95695 and promptly thereafter the bid opening will follow at 2:15 p m in the conference room at 120 West Main Street, Suite G, Woodland, CA 95695 There will be no job walk for this project re-bid Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents which can be downloaded along with all bid documents at www bidsync com It is the bidder’s responsibility to register at www bidsync com to ensure notification of all add e n d a a n d i s s u e d p r o j e c t i n f o r m a t i o n I t i s t h e b i d d e r s r esponsibility to arrange for printing services For more information send questions through www bidsy nc com Note to General Contractors; Joint Apprenticeship Com-

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Soroptimists award grants to two area nonprofit groups

Special to The Enterprise

Soroptimist International of Davis recently awarded grants to two nonprofits, to improve the lives of women and girls in Yolo County.

The club distributed $3,000 in Community Grants between the two organizations. Make it Happen for Yolo County received $1,900, and Grace in Action received $1,100.

Make it Happen will use its Soroptimist funds to provide at least four young women in the UC Davis Guardian Scholars program with the furniture and appliances they need to furnish their apartments at the start of the school year. Guardian Scholars are students who have experienced foster care.

Grace in Action will use its Soroptimist grant money to provide stop-gap services for very low income individuals, and those without safe shelter. It will pay for motel rooms, hearty lunches, laundry vouchers, transportation passes and haircuts.

Jan Judson, board president for Make It Happen for Yolo County, said they are grateful to Soroptimist International of

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Davis for the grant.

“The National Women’s Law Center says women are at higher risk of being evicted than men, and we know that young renters with no resources to properly care for their apartments are much more likely to be evicted,” Judson said. “We also know that students with healthy living environments are more likely to continue their education. By providing these young women with tools to care for their home, we are setting them up to be safe, successful first-time renters who can succeed in school and career.”

Lorell Hardaker, board vice president for Grace in Action, echoed that sentiment. “Grace in Action is so grateful for our Community Grant, which will bring relief to our guests when they receive their laundry voucher or a bus pass for transportation to an appointment. The grant will spread joy to guests receiving a haircut or a motel room.”

SI Davis has several fundraisers a year, and reinvests all of its profits in its programs and projects. These include Live Your Dream: Education and Training Awards for Women; and Dream It, Be It:

Career Support for High School

Girls. It also funds high school scholarships, anti-trafficking efforts, and these Community Grants to like-minded nonprofits. Soroptimist is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. The service club was founded in Oakland in October 1921.

Far left, UC Davis Guardian Scholar Evelyn Aguilar received lots of housewares in 2021 from Make It Happen in Yolo County. At left, a hairdresser cuts the hair of a guest of Grace In Action. COurtesy phOtOs

Soroptimist International of Davis was chartered in 1954. A second Davis club, SI Greater Davis, chartered in 1985. Local members join some 75,000 Soroptimists in 122 countries and territories to contribute time and financial support to communitybased projects benefiting women and girls. For more information on the club, visit https://sidavis. org or like its Facebook or Instagram pages: @SoroptimistDavis.

July 8, 1932 — May 9, 2023

Stephen Whitaker, born July 8, 1932, passed away on May 9, 2023, at 90 years old. Steve was born in a small local hospital in Carmel to Francis and Elaine Whitaker.

By all accounts it was idyllic, despite the hardships of the Great Depression and he made a cluster of friends there that would stand him in good stead for most of his life. He was a record-holder in the pole vault and played football and basketball at Carmel High School and went on to graduate with honors from UC Berkeley with a degree in chemical engineering.

He completed his graduate work at the University of Delaware and, after a stint working for the DuPont Chemical Company, secured a teaching position at Northwestern University. He came to UC Davis in 1964, where he worked for the bulk of his long and productive career, teaching generations of students and doing research specializing in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

He is the author of four textbooks, the most recent of which is “Material Balances for Chemical Reacting Systems,” with co-authors R.L. Cerro and B.G. Higgins. Among his many honors are an AICHE Award for education and an Honoris Causa from the University of Salamanca in Spain, as well as

the Jeff and Dianne ChildSteve Whitaker Professorship in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, an endowment established at UC Davis in 2019.

Steve’s skills in the field were often in demand and his career took him and his wife Su to beautiful and interesting places such as France, Mexico, the Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, Venezuela and Argentina. Steve loved camping, mountain climbing and backpacking, and was especially fond of spending time with his family in Yosemite. He was also an avid volleyball player, gardener and world traveler.

He is survived by the love of his life of 50 years, Suzanne Whitaker. He will be remembered with great love by Ken Yager and partner Julia, Max and Anita Yager; James Whitaker, Lynn and Brian Hurd, and Susan Whitaker and partner Kirby. His memory will also be cherished by grandchildren Anji, Braden,

Hayley, Guy, Ruby, Tenaya, Lisa, Erik, Matthew, Sarah, Niko, Angela, Rick and Sean, and great-grandchildren Peter, Liam and Elowyn. His close-knit extended family will remember him for his flawless depiction of Ghandi at charades during family game night in 1992, his exhortation in the face of complainers, which was “Bite the bullet,” and his favorite joke: “Why is a mosquito not like a mountain climber? Answer — Because one is a vector and the other is a scaler.”

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Herman Joseph Fink, a renowned professor of engineering at UC Davis, passed away at his home on Oct. 13, 2022. He was born Aug. 16, 1930, in Neutitschein, Czechoslovakia, the second of four children. Following World War II, the family was forced to leave home, making their way eventually to Esslingen, Germany. In 1952, Herman moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he met his wife, Jane Derry, and attended the University of British Columbia. He went on to complete his postdoc at Oxford University, and came to New Jersey in 1961 to work at Bell Labs,

followed by Atomics International in Los Angeles.

By 1969 he had become a scientific leader in the field of superconductivity, and he, Jane and his three sons moved to Davis, so he could teach in the department of electrical and computer engineering at UCD, fulfilling a dream of becoming a teacher. He became a highly recognized researcher and educator with more than 100 published works.

In 1993, Herman married Morgan Wright, and after retiring in 1994, they were able to enjoy many years of travel and adventure. Herman loved working with all his students,

classical music, downhill skiing, hiking, scuba diving, and traveling the world.

He is preceded in death by his son, Andy, and survived by his wife, Morgan; sons Peter and Stephen Roberts; granddaughters Rachael, Emma, Keira and Leah Roberts; ex-wife Jane; and stepsons Matt and Gavin Wright.

A celebration of his life will be held at Stonegate Country Club at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 27. Donations can be made to the Sierra Club or PBS.

He was preceded in death by his son, Michael Laurence Whitaker. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Steve’s honor to the Mono Lake Committee, The Sierra Club of California or the Yosemite Conservancy. A celebration of life will be held for Steve in Monterey at a time to be determined later.

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Herman Joseph Fink Aug. 16, 1930 — Oct. 13, 2022

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STANDOUTS: Awards honor the best in community service

For community service, the Golden Heart recipients are: Empower Youth Community Service Club, Arianna Ramirez and Isla Robertson.

The Empower Youth Community Service Club comprises students from Davis High School and Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High. Empower Youth was started by 12 local teens in August 2020 to support children at the Empower Yolo Safe House and other families in need.

Because of the dedication of its officers, the club has grown to more than 100 members at Davis High School and 30 members at Emerson.

The youths participate in community service projects with Empower Yolo, such as organizing and preparing Halloween treat bags, Easter egg hunts and movie nights for children at the safe house and participating in the adoptive family program.

Ramirez, a senior at DaVinci Charter Academy,

is described as “a curious, kind, empathetic, and thoughtful leader.” As a peer tutor, she works one-on-one with special education students and study skills. As student body president, she exudes exceptional leadership skills and the ability to delegate and mentor others. She also has a passion for music and leads her school's Mariachi club.

Accepting the award, Ramirez said, “I never do anything other than out of the kindness of my heart.”

Robertson is a seventhgrader at Harper Junior High School. At a young age, she developed a passion for community service and philanthropy. She is a National Charity League board member for the class of 2028. She volunteers with Tree Harper, Project Linus, Yolo Food Bank, Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue, the Davis Schools Foundation and Davis Musical Theatre Company.

The personal challenge awardee is Ashton Aroseteguy.

A seventh-grade studentathlete at Holmes Jr. High,

Aroseteguy, who suffered a serious injury, could have stayed home but set aside his personal disappointment with not being able to compete and showed up to lift up his teammates.

Huynh Awards

The Thong Hy Huynh Memorial Awards, established in 1986 recognize local individuals or organizations promoting civil rights, civic engagement of positive human relations and are helping improve the quality of life for Davis residents and visitors. The awards are in memory of a Davis High School student who was stabbed to death 40 years ago on May 4, 1983. The awards are intended to help raise awareness of social justice and inclusion. The City of Davis Human Relations Commission leads the award nomination process.

n Under 18: Ruvi Rajapaksha, Bailey Ren-li Paquette, Mattias Rowenbale.

Rajapaksha, an eighthgrader at Holmes Junior

CAT-CAT: Inspired by shelter stint

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reading cat behavior than students without professional experience with cats.

Quan said from the results one interesting thing they noticed was that cat owners were actually more likely than non-cat owners to rate resource guarding (a subtle negative behavior) as positive. “This might imply that there are more negative interactions in multi-cat households that are misinterpreted as positive, which may negatively impact cat welfare,” she explained.

Quan added that

something to look into for the future could be ways to educate cat owners about different cat behaviors so that they can have a better assessment of cat health and welfare in the home.

Inspired by her observations while volunteering at an animal shelter, Quan said many volunteers in the cat floor and potential cat adopters are college students, but they didn’t understand cat behavior or how to properly interact with cats.

Quan then spoke with Dr. Moody, who referenced a Canadian study that looked at cat owners’

assessments of cat-cat interactions, aiming to gain knowledge that will help improve cat welfare in multi-cat households.

They used the same 10 videos as well as the animal behavior expert scores that were in the Canadian study. That study then inspired this one, but this study only looked at undergraduate students at UC Davis. Quan explained they decided to focus on college students since many either own or work with cats or may do so in the future.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@ davisenterprise.net.

High, has demonstrated considerable dedication to the well-being and success of diverse students across the David Davis Joint Unified School District over several years. Her first foray into districtwide system change came in the form of participating in the student ethnic studies committee of the Ethnic Studies Task Force as a sixth-grader from Willet Elementary.

Paquette, a junior at Davis High School, grew up in the Philippines and Singapore before moving to Davis in third grade. Last year, she founded a club with the intent of making community service fun and meaningful for high school students.

Rowendale advocates for fellow students, his community, and the environment. A founding member of the Davis Student Union, he has advocated for the elevation of the student voice and

important matters in schools. Rowendale has advocated for gender-neutral restrooms and changing rooms.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Rowendale accepted the award with urgency for continued work: “Despite the accomplishments we've made and the accomplishments I've been able to make these last few years, there's much left to do.”

n 18 and older: Naomi Davis; Natalia Deeb-Sosa; Recognized for her leadership, support and guidance she has provided the Davis Senior High School Black Student Union, week after week and year after year.

Deeb-Sosa been devoted to this integral get marginalized community of Davis for years. As she recognizes the strength of the farmworkers and undocumented community, at Tuesday’s

ceremony, she said she hopes “the near future does not need for these kinds of awards.”

n Community Group: Empower Youth Community Service Club and Ethnic Studies of Yolo Academy

Recognized for the second time on Tuesday evening, Empower Youth officers were further acknowledged for having collectively volunteered hundreds of hours, working extremely hard to raise awareness about issues that affect youths.

Ethnic Studies of Yolo Academy focuses on awareness of identity and history, systems and power resistance movements, and civic engagement. This understanding assists the use of building community amongst themselves like using skills, which they can bring to the wider community.

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DHS boys 4x800 shine at first day of Masters

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The Davis High boys 4x800 relay team were the first winners at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Championship at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Friday.

The Blue Devils’ eight runners in Lucas Tam, Beckett Dolan, Brian Fackert, Jefferson Wright, Liam Lopez, Jay Doctor, Samuel Rosas and Ryan Mitchell won the first-ever taking place in the section’s history with a time of 8 minutes, 01.75 seconds.

Delta League rival Jesuit took second place at 8:02.05 and Woodcreek of Roseville third at 8:08.27.

Those top three teams advance to the California Interscholastic Federation State Track and Field Championships, which will be held at the Veterans Memorial Stadium on the Buchanan High campus in Clovis on Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27.

Benjamin Feryer, a junior, took second place in the boys’ pole vault with a leap of 14 feet, 9 inches.

Turlock’s Maxwell McFarlane won by

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FORT COLLINS, Colo.

— UC Davis played its second game of the National Invitational Softball Championship against Tarleton State University, which posted a 10-4 win Friday morning.

Bella Pahulu had a home for UC Davis (2922) in the game.

Anna Dethlefson scored twice and had a hit for the Aggies. Delaney Diaz and Sarah Nakahara had a hit each, with Nakahara adding an RBI. Pitcher Kenedi Brown had a good performance for the Aggies. She struck out nine while allowing four runs on six hits.

Taylor Fitzgerald followed in the circle, gave up five hits and Mia Hildebrand yielded two hits in relief.

The Aggies would open the scoring in the top of the third inning on Sarah Starks’ single through the left side, which scored Dethlefson.

The Texans would tie the game in the top of the fourth inning on a solo home run to left center.

Then Tarleton State would take the lead for good in the top of the sixth inning with three runs — two coming on a double to center field and one coming on a single to center field.

The Aggies would get a run back in the bottom of the sixth inning as Alyssa Ito scored on a Nakahara single to left field.

The Texans’ offense would score six runs in the top of the seventh inning.

The Aggies would get two runs back in the bottom of the seventh inning on a Pahulu tworun dinger to right center, which also plated Dethlefson.

The Aggies’ 2023 record is their first winning season since 2020.

UCD posted a 15-12 record in Big West Conference — their second winning season in the last three campaigns.

clearing the bar at an even 15 feet.

Feyrer and McFarlane, along with Jesuit’s Collin Young who took third place at 14-09, also advance to the state meet.

The Masters continued today.

Results of the second day of the Masters will be on The Enterprise’s Website and Wednesday’s edition.

UC Davis baseball

Six UC Davis baseball players combined for 14 hits in Friday’s Big West Conference home series against UC Irvine.

But UC Irvine made the best of its 12 hits, which led to a 10-5 win over UCD (7-18 in the Big West, 17-32 overall).

Alex Gouveia and Leighton Helfrick had three hits each for the Aggies.

Joey Wright, along with UCD teammates Damian Stone and Mark Wolbert, had two hits each. Nick Iverson had a hit.

Today at 1 p.m. at Dobbins Stadium UCD will host UCI for the Aggies’ final home game of the 2023 season.

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Zavod reaches milestone on diamond

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

In many respects, nothing felt different for 17-year-old Sam Zavod as he prepared to umpire a Davis Little League playoff game on Monday.

The Davis High junior had plenty of experience making calls during highstakes matchups and was unfazed by the number of people who packed the bleachers at the DLL Complex’s West Field.

However, this wasn’t just any game for Zavod.

It was No. 500.

In attendance to watch Zavod reach the career milestone were some of his family and friends, including his dad, Matt, who was also umpiring the contest.

“It was very neat to be able to do the game with my dad because he’s been a very big part of my career as an umpire and so having him out there was special,” Zavod said.

Achieving the 500game mark didn’t happen

overnight, with Zavod’s interest in umpiring stretching back to when he was 9 years old.

Back then, he would stand in front of the television with an indicator, a homemade umpire mask and a plastic popcorn Giants helmet, while pretending to make calls.

Matt eventually spoke to the umpire-in-chief at the time for DLL, Paul Hasson, to see if the younger Zavod could become an arbiter.

Hasson was on board with the idea and wasn’t concerned about having an umpire who was younger than many of the kids still playing Little League.

“It was weird, but it was cool because I was like, ‘Oh I had just played Double-A and now I get to see it as an umpire,” Zavod said of his earliest experiences calling games.

As time went on, Zavod began handling bigger assignments, such as UC Davis scrimmages and

Little League all-star games.

In a sport where players often fail more than they succeed, Zavod considers mistakes and shortcomings as a challenging, yet necessary part of the game. He’s not in favor of implementing robot umpires and other procedures that seek to eliminate failure from baseball.

“With robot umpires, people are going to realize that it’s not that much better,” Zavod said. “It takes away from the imperfections of baseball, which I found to make baseball more enjoyable.”

Zavod also noted the drastic improvements of umpires across the sport, especially with the modern technology available to analyze strike zones.

“You’ll see that a lot of the new guys have much better strike zone scorecards because they’ve been calling to the computer their whole careers,” Zavod said. “I think people will realize that and

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Zavod takes a break in between innings to pose at Davis Little League’s West Field on Monday night.

hopefully understand they don’t need robots.”

Even with big-league aspirations, Zavod is prioritizing his education.

“I’m planning on going through college first and then making a move at Major League Baseball,” Zavod said.

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Another change in college football?

Idon’t know who is complaining, but once again we’ll have changes to the rules of college football when hundreds of institutions competing under the NCAA banner start playing for keeps this fall.

It seems the length of college football games is of prime concern to the rule makers, as if thousands of grumpy fans all across America are upset because they might get home too late for dinner.

I’ve covered college football for more than a few decades and I’ve yet to encounter a single fan who wishes the games would be shorter.

I mean, is the NCAA next going to shorten college baseball to seven innings and basketball to 30 minutes instead of 40 to be sure fans get to bed on time?

Maybe the PGA tour, which sponsors the slowest sport known to man, will shorten a round of golf to 14 holes and make tournaments last three rounds instead of four.

Wimbledon should go to one set instead of three-out-of-five and the Indianapolis 500 might want to consider becoming the Indy 250.

A perfect game in bowling should be eight strikes instead of 12 and soccer could save everyone massive amounts of time by simply going to penalty kicks only. The same for ice hockey.

People apparently have better things to do than watch sports.

Nevermind that you drove two hours to get to the stadium, paid $100 for your ticket and 20 bucks for parking, plus another 20 for a hot dog and a drink, you now demand that the game end quickly so you can get back to whatever it was you were doing before college football

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Blue Devil Ben Feyrer leaps high in the boys triple jump at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I Track and Field trials at Prairie City Stadium on the Folsom High campus on May 10.

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Sam Zavod flashes the sign of 1 ball and 2 strikes to the pitcher during a Davis Little League baseball game on Monday.

Investing in a green future

By LLeweLLyn King

Special to The Enterprise

Adam Smith, the great Scottish economist and moral philosopher, didn’t have to confront the environmental crisis, the healthcare delivery challenge or any of today’s issues. But his economic theory and moral philosophy — his unseen hand — are as pertinent today as they were in his lifetime.

Notably, Smith believed market forces were a force for good and a force for simply getting things done; acting.

A cardinal virtue of the market at work is discipline. Respect for the bottom line works wonders in producing discipline and results, even in the green economy that places a premium on sustainability.

And it is why Pegasus Capital Advisors, the fast-growing, impact investment firm, is having so much success in Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and Southeast Asia. In all, Pegasus is exploring investments in more than 40 countries.

An investment by Pegasus, under its ebullient founder, chairman and CEO Craig Cogut, must make money and meet other strict criteria. It must help — and maybe save — the local environment. It must benefit local people with employment at decent wages. And it must have a long future of social and economic benefit.

And Pegasus always looks for a strong local partner.

In Africa, Cogut told me, the growing of sustainable crops should be wedded to cold storage and processing, which should be local. He has invested in a marketer of fonio, an African “supergrain.”

“Agriculture and fishing are important sources of food in the global south, but they get shipped out and they need to stay local,” Cogut said.

“In Ecuador, we’re focused on sustainable fishing and shrimp farming,” he said, adding, “Shrimp is an amazing source of protein, but you have to do it in an environmentally correct way.”

Cogut has two passions, and they are where he directs investments: the environment, and health and wellness.

A Harvard-trained lawyer, Cogut took his first job with a law firm in Los Angeles. He became an environmentalist while living there and visiting the nearby national parks frequently. To this day, watching birds while hiking on Audubon Society trails in Connecticut, where he lives, is his passion.

He learned the art of big deals while working with the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert during its heyday.

When it folded in 1990, Cogut became one of the founding partners of Apollo Advisors, the wildly successful private equity firm. After leaving Apollo in 1996, he founded Pegasus, the private equity firm that is making a difference.

A Pegasus success is Six Senses, which manages eco hotels and resorts with sensitivity to the environment. Pegasus sold Six Senses to IHG in 2019 and is currently partnering with IHG to develop new Six Senses resorts, including an eco-hotel on a Galapagos Island.

“We have been working with the Ecuadorian national park system to replicate what was there before Darwin’s time,” Cogut said.

Off the coast of Nigeria, Cogut was appalled by natural gas flaring, done in association with oil production. He personally invested in a company to capture the gas and convert it to liquefied natural gas, which is now used to displace diesel in electricity generation — much better for human health and the environment.

After his original investment, a large African infrastructure investor has become the majority owner. This is Cogut’s winwin, where sustainability and commerce come together.

I had a disagreement over how to help Africa’s economy with Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, shortly before he became prime minister. He was trying to raise $50 billion for Africa. I asked Brown how it would be invested so that it would achieve real, positive results. He said, rather unconvincingly, “We’ll give it to the right people.”

If that encounter had taken place today, I would have been able to say, “Call Pegasus. Craig Cogut is the man who can help you.” Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

Achievement gap defies spending

When Jerry Brown returned to the governorship in 2011, a quarter-century after his first stint in California’s highest office ended, one of his early goals was changing how the state finances the education of nearly 6 million public school students.

Brown had a plan, adapted from the theory of Michael Kirst, a distinguished academic and Brown’s long-time education advisor, to concentrate more money on students who chronically trail in academic achievement; those from poor families and those who don’t speak English at home.

Kirst called it a “weighted formula,” and the legislation he and Brown persuaded the Legislature to adopt a decade ago was called “Local Control Funding Formula,” or LCFF. It would give school districts with large numbers of at-risk students in those two categories extra funds on the assumption that they would improve achievement.

The legislation lubricated passage by also eliminating most “categorical aids” — money for specific education programs — and thus giving local school officials more flexibility in spending money from local property taxes and state budget appropriations.

I owe huge thanks

Over the last decade, Brown, successor Gavin Newsom and the Legislature have allocated tens of billions of dollars to LCFF in hopes of closing what educators call the achievement gap between the kids deemed to need extra instructional help — about 60% of public school enrollment — and their more privileged peers.

Has it worked? Followup studies indicate that there may have been a slight narrowing of the gap, but whatever LCFF achieved vanished during the COVID-19 pandemic. At-risk kids were profoundly affected by school closures, since they had less ability to engage in remote learning, dubbed “Zoom school,” and less access to tutoring than more affluent families.

Pandemic impacts aside, LCFF has not delivered on its promised transformative impact. Even if spending more money would have

narrowed the gap — an unproven theory — many school districts, particularly those in urban areas dominated by hardball politics, often fail to concentrate the extra funds on at-risk kids.

Brown insisted that the funds go to districts, not the specific schools where the targeted kids were most numerous, saying he trusted local educators to spend the money wisely. He dubbed it “subsidiarity,” adapting the term from an obscure theological theory.

Education reform groups have criticized Brown’s hands-off approach, saying local school systems need more oversight to prevent them from diverting LCFF funds to other purposes. However, in a recent podcast interview marking the formula’s 10th anniversary, Brown complained that districts have not been given enough flexibility.

“We spend too much time on not anything to do with teaching. It’s accountability, it’s finance, it’s compliance. This is really a noxious evolution,” Brown said during the interview. “I hope that legislators be aware they’ve gone overboard ... we have to look for the wise path.”

do for these 27 years and that makes it all worthwhile.

Jeff Simons

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Our brothers and sisters

The recent outpouring of support for Watermelon Music far exceeded my expectations. Thanks to all of you for your donations and in-store purchases; for your kind words and memories; for sharing our situation with your friends and family; and for reminding me why I wanted to start up this business in this city to begin with.

Huge thanks to Lara Downes for her offer to perform a benefit concert, and to Super Owl Brewing, Great Bear Vineyards and Mabel’s Farm Box for their contributions toward making the event such a special night. To St. James School, Woodland Christian School, The Davis Music Teachers’ Association, The Folk Music Folks and the dozens of other individuals and organizations that helped to bring Watermelon Music back from the brink, please accept my sincere thanks. It is clear to me now that the community understands and appreciates what we’ve tried to

Speak

President

Most Americans do not understand that our grandparents and great grandparents came to the United States as immigrants. Today they come to escape poverty, or just seeking a better life, or escape political unrest, or for protection from gangs, war, abuse, rape, and murder.

Today, when we think of immigrants, refugees, or aliens, we think of what?

Some Americans think of them as enemies.

Refugees travel hundreds of miles, others thousands, by foot, with only the clothes on their backs.

They stomp through thick, foliaged jungles, up steep sharp rocked mountains, across raging rivers. In blistering heat, freezing cold, pouring rain, and deep fallen snow. Starving, thirsty, tired.

Many are entire families, losing grandmas and babies along the way, who cannot

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Meanwhile, in a separate 10th anniversary interview, Kirst said he regrets that local districts did not use subsidiarity’s flexibility to become more creative in educating kids who fall behind.

“This was their chance to get beyond formulaic budgets and the budget complexity to create a three-year budget plan with clear priorities,” Kirst lamented. “And generally, my impression is that they have not.”

Neither of LCFF’s two fathers offered any appraisal of whether children it purports to help have, in fact, been helped. That lack may indicate that both know LCFF – as implemented, not as envisioned – has not been a roaring success.

California has doubled the amount of per-pupil spending on schooling in the last decade but in national tests of academic achievement, the state still trails other states that spend much less, while state testing tells us that the achievement gap remains unacceptably wide.

— CalMatters is a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters. For more stories by Dan Walters, go to Commentary.

endure the treacherous journey. They have to leave their bodies behind, and bury them along the way. They must say goodbye, never again to find, or visit their resting place.

Why can’t we welcome them with open arms, instead of treating them like enemies?

I am not talking about drug dealers and murderers. They’re a drop in the bucket.

These are folks who want to work hard, and build a life for their families. They are so so willing to work, harder than most of us Americans. We must rethink this situation. It is heartbreaking.

Yeah, they are filthy, and they are exhausted. So what? How would you look if you had only the clothes on your back, and had walked for weeks, or months, in the worst conditions?

We are no better than they are. No better! Many of them had jobs, and homes, and lives in familiar areas. We need to treat them like our brothers and sisters, because they are.

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Lessons from the Hollywood writers’ strike

By Jim Newton CalMatters

Two strikes, two different courses of action.

In March, the union representing support staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job, triggering a shutdown of one of the nation’s largest school systems. Six weeks later, the Writers Guild of America opened its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, bringing TV and movie production to a halt.

The school workers were out for three days. During that time, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass summoned representatives of the two sides to City Hall and pushed the negotiations along. On March 23, Bass announced that the two sides had reached an agreement. Schools reopened the next day.

When the writers announced their strike at the beginning of May, Bass issued a two-sentence statement, affirming the importance of the entertainment industry to Los Angeles and encouraging “all sides to come together around an agreement that protects our signature industry and the families it supports.”

Since then, the two sides have not even met, much less closed in on agreement.

The difference in the civic response is not because one strike matters to Los Angeles and one does not. Both affect core constituencies and the broader economy. But the way they are playing out says something about their places in the city’s political and cultural landscape.

When school workers walk – and teachers join – schools shut down. Parents are left without a place to send their kids. And it’s not a snow day. There’s no hot chocolate and sledding. Parents demand quick action. Mayors – even though they are not responsible for schools – respond to pressure from worried parents and demand action.

When writers strike, the effects are global but incremental. The late-night comedy shows go dark. Movies and television shows stop production. It’s obvious to a fan of Stephen Colbert anywhere on earth that something is amiss.

The local impact, however, is harder to discern, at least at first. Yes, thousands of writers put down their pens, but the deep effect of their strike is cumulative rather than instantaneous. It’s in the sets that

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are shut down, the actors put out of work, the caterers and carpenters and dry cleaners whose livelihoods slowly dry up. And, further down the path, the stockbrokers and travel agents and hotel workers and real estate agents and on and on and on. Those people don’t work for the entertainment industry, and they are not feeling it yet, but as savings are depleted and income falls, they will.

And it will hit hard. During the last writers’ strike from November 2007 to February 2008, economists estimated that Los Angeles suffered more than $2 billion in lost output. A study by the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, calculated a drop of more than $800 million in retail sales alone. Some 38,000 jobs were lost – most of those outside of the entertainment industry.

This time, the impact is likely to be even greater, according to economists and others following events closely.

“This is a huge, huge problem,” said Kevin Klowden, chief global strategist for the Milken Institute. The last strike helped push California into a recession before the rest of the nation followed, he added, and this one is shaping up to be longer and more damaging.

“It could affect 300,000 workers,” said Todd Holmes, associate professor of entertainment media management at Cal State Northridge. Holmes, who predicted more than $3 billion in overall economic damage, added: “This is going to be a long fight.”

That’s because both sides have real reason for fear and obstinance. Producers still don’t see a long-term revenue model for the business, and writers are painfully conscious of being squeezed out of sustainable jobs and into piecework.

And yet, the strike ambles along in L.A. Picket lines are sparsely populated and more festive than furious. Mainstream news coverage — in notable contrast to the school strike — is relatively thin.

In part, that’s a media issue: The Los Angeles media is not what it was in 2008. But the strike’s dynamics also contribute, as do changes in the entertainment industry.

Start with the industry’s geography. Many writers are based in Los Angeles,

but the productions that are affected by the strike are often far away — in New York or Atlanta or Canada, for instance. That affects the way politicians respond. It’s hard to get the attention of the mayor of Los Angeles when dry cleaners start shutting down in Atlanta.

And there is the daunting problem of complexity, which discourages outsiders from getting involved. The strike by school workers had its complexities, of course — all protracted labor disputes do. But there are truly bewildering questions at work in the writers’ strike.

Central to those are the effects of technology and new distribution models for entertainment. During the last strike, Apple and Amazon were not even participants, Klowden noted. Now, they are at the center of this bitter debate over the future profits from content.

That’s because as streaming services become the dominant way of accessing programming, writers are understandably concerned that they will be lost in transition. Streaming revenues are hard to pinpoint, while the effect in the writing room has been swift (and accelerated by COVID).

Shows that once hired a group of writers to produce 24 or 25 episodes now hire for eight or 10, and writers no longer have the guarantee of being employed by a show for its full run. Writing, which once rewarded talent and hard work with job

security, now often merely opens the door to one-off deals, with the result being that many writers can no longer count on it as a living.

Add to that the immense uncertainty that comes with the growing use of generative artificial intelligence. Will studios create draft scripts using AI and then attempt to reduce writers to “punch-up” work? It’s easy – and horrifying – to imagine, but harder to draft contract language today that will assure human participation in script writing 10 years from now. Or five. Or one.

The combination of complexity, diffusion and delayed impact is enough to keep politicians out of the mix. It also may mean that this strike goes on for a very long time.

But if those dynamics thwart the efforts by strikers to drum up urgency, they do at least have the advantage of being, well, writers.

One picketer’s sign last week made that point. Beneath the sign’s telltale red-andblack banner, the enterprising contributor expressed his confidence in the cause: “Paulina Porizkova is dating a writer,” he wrote. “We can do anything!”

Try getting AI to come up with that.

— Jim Newton is a veteran journalist, best-selling author and teacher. He worked at the Los Angeles Times for 25 years as a reporter, editor, bureau chief and columnist, covering government and politics

Stepping over the border, out onto Planet Earth ...

By Robert C. Koehler Special to The Enterprise

“We belong to the Earth rather than to a nation ...”

These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. They emanate a cutting glow, a crying wish and hope that slices to the core of me. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re an American. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.

The border! When the term is used, it virtually always means the southern one, where migrants die in the desert — an estimated 10,000 over the last 25 years. Yeah, the southern border, America’s vulnerable spot, where hordes of Third Worlders congregate, shaking their fists, demanding entry and access to our wealth, our jobs. For lots of Americans, the response is obvious; it’s basic racism. They’re different from us! That means they don’t belong here.

And in recent weeks, as three years of COVID restrictions are loosened: “Heeding the call of the state’s right-wing political leaders, armed vigilantes stalked and harassed humanitarian aid providers during the day and by nightfall rounded up migrant children in the dark,” Ryan Devereaux writes at The Intercept.

Their efforts to protect America, he notes, include shooting

holes in the water tanks humanitarian aid workers have set up along the border to give migrants a better chance at survival. No way can this be allowed!

But of course it’s not just the vigilantes who are “defending” the U.S. border. The government is completely defense-oriented in its attitude toward immigration. As Alan Lizárraga of Border Network for Human Rights puts it, as quoted by Candice Bernd at Truthout:

“The border has never been as militarized as it is right now. We have the state government sending troops here, the National Guard. We also have state troopers at the border. We just got additional troops from President Biden ... (I)nstead of creating actual policies that would aid toward a more humane, more practical immigration system, we’re getting Border Protection Units, we’re getting military personnel, we’re getting more police, more agents.”

This is where the money goes. This is where the country’s official effort goes — toward keeping most desperate migrants out of the country, perhaps at the cost of their lives (not our problem). The futility and insanity of our government’s policy merely begins with the cruelty it manifests at the border; the separation of families, the caging of

children, etc., etc.

I’m not saying a shift toward greater empathy for the plight of migrants would simply require a change in attitude. Understanding and dealing with the causes of the flow of migrants to the southern border — the wars and poverty and persecution around the world — is enormously complex, and would require deep, deep changes in how we think: in our attitude toward the rest of the world.

So I return to the words at the beginning of the column, from Steve Taylor’s essay in The Conversation; my primary identity — our identity — is not as Americans but as inhabitants of this planet, which we share with seven billion other members of the human race, not to mention with every other species, every plant, every handful of soil, every drop of water.

Indeed, “share” is hardly the correct word here. Hey, President Biden, listen up. We are all connected with one another! We are all part of an almost infinitely complex ecosystem, and we’d better do what we must to

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preserve it. The last thing we need to be doing is playing “Get out of here! This is mine!”

The ultimate point I’m reaching for — let me just say it — is that “America” is an abstraction, a made-up entity and in no way should it be our first or, for God’s sake, only concern. A border wall, for instance, that is “good for America” but harmful to the environment is a disastrous irony. The changes that human civilization as a whole must make in order to rescue the global ecosystem — devastated by human exploitation and pollution — are almost beyond comprehension. But we can’t start addressing these changes merely as national entities bickering and bargaining with one another, with the participants’ primary, or perhaps sole, focus that of “national interests.”

We belong to the Earth rather than to a nation.

To act otherwise is basically a collective neurosis. Taylor, for instance, notes that “when people are made to feel insecure and anxious, they tend to become more concerned with nationalism, status and success. We seem to have an impulse to cling to labels of identity to defend ourselves against insecurity” — labels defined, for instance, by race and nationality.

“In my view, then” he goes on, “all nationalistic enterprises — such as ‘America First’ or Brexit — are highly problematic, as

they are based on anxiety and insecurity, so inevitably create discord and division. And since nationalism contravenes the essential reality of human nature and human origins, such enterprises always turn out to be temporary. It’s impossible to override the fundamental interconnectedness of the human race. At some point, it always reasserts itself.”

Perhaps you could say this interconnectedness has reasserted itself as global climate chaos. Limited thinking allows us to kill. If we act with destructive indifference beyond or within our borders, beyond what we value, the consequences always come home. One form it takes, of course, is climate chaos: rising sea levels, toxic air, ecosystem collapse. A militarized attitude toward other national entities — toward all our problems — has also led to a plague of mass murders at home.

But I would add that interconnectedness also reasserts itself as empathy, caring, courage — bringing water to migrants at the border in 2023, ordering a drink at a Greensboro lunch counter in 1960. Yes, we can transcend our limits, even when doing so means breaking the law.

— Robert Koehler (koehlercw @gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an award-winning Chicago journalist and editor. He is the author of “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.”

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Here’s what an M.D. really wishes you knew

My physician, Dr. Karen Mo of UC Davis Medical Group for almost 22 years, has a few things she asked me to tell you. Chief among them is this: “We’re not trying to block you from getting good care.”

She brought this up to me in part because I’d sent her a request for a referral to a gastrointestinal doctor. I’ve had heartburn every single day since I was pregnant with my now 26-yearold son, and I’ve been pretty half-assedly addressing it since then.

So I sent Dr. Mo a message via MyChart and asked if she’d hook me up with a GI doc. She kindly said she needed to see me first, and then told me she’d love to help explain to me (and to you, via this column) why.

Take it away, Dr. Mo.

“For starters, I could get you on my schedule next week. A referral to a GI doctor will take a few months.” Also, there are things that can be and need to be tried in the time before seeing that GI doc, which could very

well help me. If Dr. Mo were to pass me along to a specialist without having given me an exam or trying basic interventions, that GI doc is going to say, “’What’s the matter with you, Karen Mo? You haven’t even done what you should have!’ They (specialists) need a lot of things tried before a patient comes to them.”

She continued, “For a good appointment with a specialist, you need to have done certain things. I want to get you good care.”

On that topic, Dr. Mo also wants to make sure people understand, “I’m not trying to fill my coffers by seeing you.” Most doctors have more than enough patients, she said, due in part to a shortage of primary

care medical professionals that resulted from many people leaving medicine during the pandemic. But truly, she said, “Seeing your primary care doctor, actually having an appointment, is good. We’re trying to organize your care plan, get you to the right place and the right tests.”

Dr. Mo also understands that the health system is a little tricky to navigate, and many patients are frustrated when they call the office. Aside from remembering to be kind to whomever answers the phone, she also suggests talking to a triage nurse who can expedite your appointment, when needed.

Oddly, she said, people often don’t want to talk to a nurse who can help decide the level of urgency: “They only want the doctor’s opinion,” she said. “I’ve actually read messages at the end of the day, after I’ve been seeing patients all day, that say ‘Patient is having chest pains, didn’t want to talk to the nurse.’ I understand that you are afraid, and you are trying to maneuver a sys-

tem that isn’t working for you, but don’t say ‘no’ to this (talking to a nurse).

“If you call our operator,” Dr. Mo continued, “and say ‘I have symptoms I need to discuss with a nurse,’ you will be transferred or called back. And you will get the help you need.”

And tell me, Dr. Mo, how helpful is it to you when people come to you having Googled their symptoms and telling you they know what their problems are?

“Me laying eyeballs on the person and being in the room with the person gets rid of many of the diagnoses of Dr. Google,” she said. The best patients can do is come to their doctors with a list of symptoms and let him or her use the medical knowledge they have to determine next steps.

“Can you please not tell me what you think your diagnosis is, and can you instead share with me your symptoms?” she asked.

To further illustrate the point, Dr. Mo said, “Let’s say I go online, I type in my symptoms, and I think I figured out what I

Mom’s wisdom never fades

By Craig Dresang Special to The Enterprise

During the summer of 2022, I crossed an invisible mile marker, reaching a more advanced age than my mom did when she died. From that scorching August day forward, I felt that every new day would be uncharted territory. Mom’s atlas for aging into each year had now ended, and the world became flat. I asked myself, “What will happen when my life meanders off the edges of the map?” Living past 60 became an extraordinary and terrifying gift that I was forced to accept.

My mom forged a path through every possible challenge for precisely 21,928 days. Even in her last week, she was clearing the ground where she knew her children would need to one day walk.

Now, I wondered, “Where is the path for the 21,929th day and all the days beyond that?” On some level, living longer than she did meant that I could no longer be her Bubala. Instead, I just became an aging manbaby who still misses his mom. She never got to teach us how to walk into, and manage, all the trials and fears that come with aging into our 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.

Most days, I feel simultaneously youthful and ancient. My spirit tells me that I am still a young boy who needs a hug from his mom and who longs to hear her warm raspy voice, but when I look in the mirror, the image of my weathered balding 60-year-old dad is staring back at me.

Mom once told me that she proudly wore every year as a badge of honor.

Aging is a random and mostly unearned gift that is not freely distributed to everyone. “Savor every year, and don’t leave too much inheritance,” she said. “Enjoy it while you can.” According to her, the idea is to spend your life and your wealth on people, things, and experiences

that bring you and others joy. I remember her gently but firmly grabbing my chin with her hand to make direct eye contact with me and saying, “I plan on spending most of what would be an inheritance so don’t expect a windfall.”

This was a lesson she gleaned from living with cancer for two decades, and from unexpectedly losing friends who were in the prime of their lives. When I was still a toddler, my dad’s 30-year-old best friend keeled over from a heart attack playing cribbage at a card table in his living room. He was dead before the ambulance arrived. My own sister was born with a life-threatening condition and was not expected to live through her teenage years. Fortunately, however, advances in modern medicine along with a healthy dose of good fortune made it possible for her to reach an age that neither of our parents did. Living with the reality and unpredictability of death made my mom less presumptuous about life. She frequently talked

about friends who worked years at jobs that they hated. In doing so, they were building a retirement fund so that they could one day enjoy life. “Foolish,” she would tell me. “What if they don’t make it to retirement? What makes them so certain that they will live that long? They should make the life they want now.” It was a good lesson for her to teach me at a young age. Our time here can be far too brief to chain yourself to a way of life that you hate for a future that is not guaranteed. Reaching retirement is an illusion dependent on a roll of the dice.

Just weeks before mom’s death, my sister Dawn and I pulled together a lastminute surprise celebration for her 60th birthday. The idea of throwing a party began as a random inkling. But soon, our hunch morphed into an unexplainable sense of urgency. Neither one of us really understood where this drive to pull off an eleventh-hour party came from.

We invited everyone ... her parents and five siblings, nieces and nephews, cousins and second cousins, lifelong pals from high school, and friends she made during her early

years of raising three children. Even though we were unwilling to acknowledge or admit out loud that mom could die soon, the gathering at my sister’s house magically morphed into a final and unplanned celebration — and retelling — of her life.

The day was a living scrapbook where the characters in old photographs came to life and told stories. It was like she got to participate in her own memorial service and hear what people had to say about her. Colorful adventures and meaningful stories were re-lived with great affection and humor. Words and gestures of love were freely expressed and on full display. The humid Wisconsin summer air was filled with laughter and the smell of grilled burgers and freshly cut grass. The day was simultaneously perfect, joyful, and heartbreaking because we all sensed what it meant and what was coming.

Although mom put up a good front, we could tell that bits of her spirit and spark were disappearing, day by day. Her once strong and resilient body seemed vulnerable, and even fragile. She barely moved from her strategically placed lawn chair,

have.” This actually makes patients feel like they need to “make their case” to a doctor, and sometimes causes them to say some things but leave out others to get a diagnosis that matches what they’ve found online.

So let’s reiterate: Your primary care doctor is trying to get you the best care, and that comes by way of talking to a triage nurse, not demanding specialty tests until other protocols are tried, and not asking Dr. Google to diagnose you.

“This is how you be your own best advocate,” she said. In upcoming columns, Dr. Mo and I plan to talk about some other noteworthy topics like end of life preparation, mental health and psilocybin, sleep, and how she discusses cannabis use with her patients.

— Tanya Perez lives in Davis with her family. Her column is published every other Sunday. Reach her at pereztanyah@ gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter at @californiatanya.

and her usual and unique way of projecting light and laughter was no longer effortless. It required every bit of her energy and focus. By the end of her celebration, she was clearly tired. Even so, she was determined to not spend the night at my sister’s house. Instead, she wanted to climb back into her sporty red Firebird and have my dad drive three hours to Galena, a scenic and historic Mississippi River town where the borders of Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa come together.

Looking back, I realize that mom understood that her time was short. The trip to Galena was her attempt to have one more adventure with her husband of 45 years. She thought it would be a mini-vacation for the two of them. It was her last hurrah. They had no advance plans or hotel reservations when they left the birthday party. Mom said they would figure things out once they got to their destination — and off they drove.

Days later, my dad told me that Galena was a bit of a bust. When they arrived, every hotel and motel in town had a “no vacancy” sign. Refusing to give up on the adventure, my mom decided they

should improvise so they went to Walmart to buy pillows and a comforter. They put the seats down in the Firebird and slept in the car that night. In the morning, they returned the comforter and pillows to Walmart and then had breakfast at a downtown diner on Main Street. After coffee, runny eggs and toast, they drove past all the tourist sites and then headed toward home which was a five-hour drive north.

The party at my sister’s house would be the last time I saw my mom in her natural, free state. A few weeks later she was admitted to the hospital and never returned home. I have often shared with my sister that this last-minute out-of-the-blue party that we felt compelled to host on mom’s behalf was nothing less than the Divine whispering into our ears: “Have a party. Do it now. Surround your mom with love ... and do it today. Don’t wait!”

Quite unintentionally, this gathering was our final, and most significant, gift to our mom. It was a gift that would have been missed if she had not taught us how to listen and respond when life whispers.

— Craig Dresang is the CEO of YoloCares

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The Dresang Family circa 1962 — Craig on dad’s knee and sister Dawn by mom’s side.

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Recent picture of Craig Dresang and sister Dawn rehashing family history in Lake Tahoe.

YOLOlaughs

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Charles M. Schulz

Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

"The AI Experiment": An Unscripted Adventure @ 8pm / $10 Bayfront Theater, 2 Marina Blvd At Buchanan St, Fort Mason Center Building B - 3rd Floor, San Fran‐cisco DJ Keyz @ 8:30pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento David V @ 8:30pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento Regulo Caro @ 9pm Chando’s Cantina, 805 15th St, Sacramento

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"Elemen‐tal: Reimagine Wild�re" Documen‐tary Film Screening and Panel Discussion @ 4:30pm A screening of "Elemental: Reimagine Wild�re" will start at 4:30 p.m. Wednes‐day, May 31, in the Com‐munity Education Room at the Manetti Shrem Mu‐seum at UC Davis. A panel discussion will follow. Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 254 Old Davis Road, Davis. en vironment@ucdavis.edu Rabbit, Heat, Arts & Crafts, Fuckwolf @ 7pm / $10 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Crooked Teeth: Cafe Du Nord

@ 7pm Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

Miranda Love: Speakeasy Love @ 7pm Social House Speakeasy, South Lake Tahoe

"In the Heights"

@ 7:30pm / $20-$30

Lesher Center for the Arts - Mar‐

garet Lesher Theatre, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek

Alex Ramon "Magic"

@ 8pm / $46.83 Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

"The Confession of Lily

Dare"

@ 8pm / $15.50-$30 New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Avenue, San Fran‐cisco

Curren$y @ 8:30pm Harlow's, 2708

Rebounder @ 8pm / $16 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco Mogollar Earthquake Relief Concert @ 8pm Social Hall SF, 1270 Sutter Street, San Francisco

The Dandy Lions @ 8:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco Mackin The Destroyer @ 9pm Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐mento

Be Brave Bold Robot: Lucid Wines, Nice Monster improv, BBBR striped down @ 5pm Lucid Winery & Tasting Room, 1015 R St, Sacra‐mento ORGAN ODYSSEY LIVE at the NapaSport

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The Butlers: Butlers live. @ 7pm Retro Junkie, 2112 N Main St, Wal‐nut Creek

Opera Parallèle presents "The Shining" @ 7:30pm / $30-$50

Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., San Francisco

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83

Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

Best of SF Stand-up

Comedy @ 8pm / $7.50

The Purple Onion at Kells, 530 Jackson Street, San Francisco

Tony Jay @ 8pm Kilowatt Bar, 3160 16th St, San Francisco

Justin Vivian Bond Nose Gays (A Pride Bouquet!) @ 8pm / $30-$45

Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐son Street, San Francisco

Magician Jay Alexander @ 9pm / $50 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐Farrell St., San Francisco

Space Dimension Controller @ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

45th Union Street Festival, Kicking-Off Summer In The City!

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Jun 3rd - Jun 4th

A spectacularly fun celebration featuring stellar non-stop live mu‐sic, the west coast’s top art de‐signers and creators, fabulously curated festival food and drink of‐ferings, kids funzone and more! Union Street, San Francisco. events@miramarevents.com

Printmaking without a Press with Franca Van Allen @ 12pm / $170 Jun 3rd - Jun 10th Register now for this 2-day print‐making workshop at the Pence! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pencesocialmedia@gmail.com, 530-758-3370 Music

Adrian West Band @ 6:30pm Heretic Brewery and Dis‐tillery, 1052 Horizon Dr, Fair�eld Opera Parallèle presents "The Shining" @ 7:30pm / $30-$50 Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., San Francisco ILLENIUM LIVE @ 8pm ILLENIUM with KREAM and An‐nika Wells is coming to Chase Center on Saturday, June 3. Chase Center, 1 Warriors Way, San Fran‐cisco. contact@anotherplane tent.com

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The Butlers: Butlers live. @ 8pm The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Ln,

POWER TO SELL TAX-DEFAULTED PROPERTY (Rev. & Tax Code, Sections 3361, 3362)

Pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Codes sections 3691 and 3692.4, the following conditions will, by operation of law, subject real property to the tax collector’s power to sell.

1) All property for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for five or more years.

3) Any property that has been identified and requested for purchase by a city, county, city and county, or nonprofit organization to serve the public benefit by providing housing or services directly related to low-income persons and for which property taxes and assessments have been in default for three or more years.

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The parcels listed herein meet one or more of the criteria listed above and thus, will become subject to the tax collector’s power to sell on July 1, 2023, at 12:01 a.m., by operation of law. The tax collector’s power to sell will arise unless the property is either redeemed or made subject to an installment plan of redemption initiated as provided by law prior to close of business on the last business day in June. The right to an installment plan terminates on the last business day in June, and after that date the entire balance due must be paid in full to prevent sale of the property at public auction.

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The right of redemption survives the property becoming subject to the power to sell but terminates at 5 p.m. on the last business day prior to the date of the sale by the tax collector.

All information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption will be furnished, upon request, by Chad Rinde, 625 Court Street, Room 102, Woodland, CA 95695, phone (530) 666-8190.

The amount to redeem, including all penalties and fees, as of June 2023, is shown opposite the parcel number and next to the name of the assessee. PARCEL NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLANATION

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UU Church of Davis, seeks 20-hour/week full-charge bookkeeper to provide accurate accounting and business records. Accounts payable, pledge/donations receivables, payroll verification and reporting, fixed asset reporting, employee benefit verification and reporting, monthly and annual financial reporting, annual budget compilation, and requested projects. Capable, well-organized individual, team player. Detail oriented, organized, mature, accurate, willing to take charge, able to multitask. Good communications skills. Working knowledge of MS Excel, QuickBooks or other accounting software a must. 2-3 yrs non-profit exp. preferred. $22.00/hour. E-mail resume with letter of interest, no later than Oct 2. to: office@uudavis.org

NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX DELINQUENCY AND IMPENDING DEFAULT Made pursuant to Section 3351 3352 Revenue and Taxation Code I Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector State of California certify as follows: That at 12:01 a m on July 1, 2023, by operation of law, any r e a l p r o p e r t y ( u n l e s s p r e v i o u s l y t a x - d e f a u l t e d a n d n o t r edeemed) that has any delinquent taxes assessments or other charges levied for the fiscal year 2022-2023, and/or any del i n q u e n t s u p p l e m e n t a l t a x e s l e v i e d p r i o r t o t h e f i s c a l y e a r 2 0 2 2 - 2 0 2 3 s h a l l b e d e c l a r e d t a x - d e f a u l t e d That unless the property is completely redeemed through payment of all unpaid amounts together with penalties and fees prescribed by law or an installment plan is initiated and maint a i n e d t h e p r o p e r t y w i l l b e c o m e t a x - d e f a u l te d a n d m a y b e s o l d s u b s e q u e n tl y a t a ta x s a l e t o s a t i s f y t h e t a x l i e n That a detailed list of all properties remaining tax-defaulted as of July 1, 2026, and not redeemed prior to being submitted for p u b l i c a t i o n s h a l l b e p u b l i s h e d o n o r b e f o r e S e p t e m b e r 8 2 0 2 6 That information concerning redemption or the initiation of an installment plan of redemption of tax-defaulted property will be furnished upon request by Chad Rinde 625 Court St Room 1 0 2 W o o d l a n d C a l i f o r n i a 9 5 6 9 5 t e l e p h o n e n u m b e r ( 5 3 0 ) 6 6 6 - 8 1 9 0 I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at Woodland, Yolo County, California, on May 15th, 2023 Publ i she d i n D a vis En ter pr i se on M ay 21 s t M a y 2 8th a n d Jun e 4 th, 20 2 3 # 22 8 8 NOTICE OF IMPENDING

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Entry Level Customer Service/Reception

The Davis Enterprise is hiring a PT customer service and reception position in the front office, downtown Davis.

Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12:00PM-5:00PM. May be subject to change.

This position requires a personality that is both personable and detail oriented. Friendly, accurate customer serviice is our priority!

Please send your cover letter and resume to Laura.Valdivia@McNaughton.Media (due to volume of resumes, only those selected for interviewing will be contacted) No phone calls please

ELECTRICIAN F/T, 2-3 yrs, comml. & residential exp. req'd. On the job training & school provided for the right candidate. Call (707)447-0836

F/T- 2 person mgt. team for a selfStorage in Davis. Both must apply together. Wages, commissions plus benefits. Send resumes to simmonsre@sbcglobal. net or fax to (530)753-4002.

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

House cleaner with experience. 10-20 hours per week. (530)400-7459

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DAVIS ARTS CENTER seeks a Database

Manager to manage the Blackbaud Altru database: data entry, quality control and reporting, procedures; office technology support; customer service; support for program and fundraising activities. 30 hours/week. Requirements: Computer and technical experience, prefer direct experience with Blackbaud Altru database systems, resume and cover letter to: office@davisartscenter.org.

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The Hallmark Inn in downtown Davis is looking for a part-time bartender to work during our Evening Reception. In addition to pouring wine, beer, and making a variety of cocktails for guests and visitors, bartender must have good customer service skills. The Evening Reception is a time to connect with patrons of the hotel and therefore a strong work ethic and friendly demeanor is a must. Other duties include keeping the bar area clean, running dishes, restocking items, keeping inventory, and handling a cash register. Any questions- call (530)753-3600 ext.395 or drop off your resume at 110 F Street.

Which go-kart is going the fastest?

Find and cut out nine numbers from today’s newspaper. Glue three numbers on each flag, then add them up. The car with the largest total wins this race!

Reading the newspaper every day is a great way to increase your brain power. For every paragraph that you read in today’s newspaper, color one of the go-karts below. Can you make it to the checkered flag?

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& SAVE Help Wanted Administrative Assistant Min. 5 yrs. + office mgmt. req'd. Proficient in MSOffice & creation of Excel SS with/formulas. Email resume to lindac@ http://pacesolano.org

Make a list of four words that are difficult to spell.

Dash through the newspaper and find the letters that spell each of your words. Cut out the letters and glue them onto each tire.

Can you win the race by spelling all four words?

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$19.99/month (for 12 months.) PLUS Disclaimer: Fair Employment It’s The Law! The Davis Enterprise will not knowingly accept any ad which is in violation of the Federal Fair Employment and Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act which ban discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, familial status, and marital status. Describe the Job Not the Employee

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ASSESSOR'S ASSESSEE AMOUNT NUMBER NAME TO REDEEM 1 035-231-014-000 OHS DONALD B ESTATE OF C/O MARIA RUIZ 95,188.00 2 067-270-039-000 DOUGLAS MICHAEL E 628.75 3 010-501-008-000 GARCIA ABRAHAM LINCOLN & GARCIA ABRAHAM LINCOLN 3,788.09 4 049-446-036-000 GRAJEDA MARIA S 2,726.37 5 010-501-007-000 GARCIA ABRAHAM LINCOLN & GARCIA ABRAHAM LINCOLN 422.71 6 003-480-038-000 ANGELO REV TRUST 13,645.82 7 006-242-003-000 MISTCHENKO LUCIE 5,806.45 8 051-101-010-000 HODGES SHAWN 6,867.11 9 003-460-013-000 ANGELES JESUS MARQUEZ 3,171.90 10 005-122-022-000 MOJICA ALFREDO 9,643.21 11 005-164-015-000 HERNANDEZ FRANCISCO JAVIER 3,345.04 12 005-626-017-000 HASELTINE REV TRUST 12,893.65 13 008-191-009-000 MEJIA ANTONIO & LUISA 3,972.53 14 008-191-011-000 PEDROZA LOUISE R 927.16 15 010-463-009-000 VENEGAS PEDRO M 3,241.14 16 014-261-010-000 GAMEZ RAUL H & SOCORRO 2,316.68 17 014-500-003-000 GARIBALDI FIORE TRUST ESTATE OF 2,602.05 18 018-140-001-000 TINDELL GRACE ASTER 3,469.58 19 027-450-019-000 ROSE DARREN 14,620.45 20 027-590-013-000 PUENTE SALVADOR 12,280.07 21 039-061-003-000 DECKER PATRICIA & MARK 80,532.94 22 039-193-019-000 KELLY JOINT REV LIV TRUST 2,036.51 23 043-010-004-000 DODDAPANENI SREEKANTH ETAL 6,875.71 24 043-292-016-000 PEREZ BETTIE D 13,839.99 25 045-421-008-000 ORTA JESSE J 28,059.97 26 051-201-014-000 MENDEZ ALEJANDRO M ETAL 2,243.95 27 054-160-019-000 AMERICAN CAPITAL EDGE LLC ETAL 3,655.35 28 058-101-007-000 GONYEA KELLY BARRETT 12,470.49 29 060-060-015-000 OSORIO INTERVIVOS TRUST ETAL 13,638.40 30 060-220-005-000 LESTER BOYD G 5,747.45 31 064-140-006-000 ELFRINK STACEY 38,997.05 32 065-090-041-000 DEEIK KHALIL G & G DEEIK 2001 LIV TRUST 1,261.48 33 065-300-025-000 RIGGS LUCILLE MARGARET ESTATE OF 10,270.97 34 067-290-007-000 PETROSYAN GARY 12,947.10 35 067-260-021-000 LEWIS MARCEL D 1,563.95 36 003-532-014-000 HERNANDEZ OSVALDO LOPEZ & VERONICA G 7,868.43 37 045-724-012-000 STANLEY KARIE R 481.40 38 049-572-005-000 GUADARRAMA CARDIEL VILLAGOMEZ 959.55 39 039-081-009-000 DIEHL MATTHEW L & ERICA 1,491.71 40 066-082-023-000 PLASCENCIA ELISA 905.90 41 060-220-060-000 TAYLOR ALAN R & VALENTINE 2,933.34 42 046-691-010-000 MARKLEY JESSICA PAIGE 140.03 I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct. Chad Rinde Yolo County Tax Collector Executed at: Woodland, Yolo County, California, on May 12th, 2023 Published in: Davis Enterprise: May 21st, May 28th, and June 4th, 2023 #2287 Want to understand your iPhone better? (323) 533-8224

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Movie stars get Oscars. Athletes get trophies. Joseph wanted to provide a way to honor great writers. In 1917, he left money to start a school of journalism at University in New York. He also left money to start an annual award for outstanding journalists, and writers. These important awards are called

Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Circle the errors in the article below. Then, rewrite it correctly.

Last Teusday, our class read read an article in the newsppaer about the importance of child safety booster seats. In cars. The article sad that 80-90% of kids who should be in child safety booster seats are not. Children who are 4'9" and and under should be using these seats insted of adult safety belts when traveling.

What kind of car would you like to own someday? Find five words in the newspaper that describe your dream car. Write a classified ad for your dream car using the words you found.

How many newspapers can you find on this page in 60 seconds? Imagine

About Average

Find the ages of three people in the newspaper. List the ages from oldest to youngest. Circle the median (the middle) age on your list. Add up the ages and divide the total by three to find the average age of your newsmakers.

School Closed Forever

and the

And a big sign reads “School Closed.” What would happen if you no longer had the opportunity to get an education?

were

What catcher is next behind home plate?

By and large, the WNBA has made tremendous strides over the past five years to establish itself as a prominent women’s pro basketball league.

Attendance has risen and TV exposure has increased considerably.

Which makes what happened this past week troubling.

Becky Hammon, head coach of the Las Vegas Aces, was suspended two games without pay and saw her team’s 2025 first round pick taken away for what has been described as a “bullying” incident involving a player, Dearica Hamby, who was traded by the Aces to the Los Angeles Sparks.

The trade took place after Hamby informed Hammon about her pregnancy.

Hammon denied the accusations. She told reporters the trade was made for “business reasons and the Aces’ needs.”

As a former WNBA player, and a protege of future Hall of Fame mentor Gregg Popovich, Hammon is very much the face of the current WNBA. She is the highestpaid general manager-coach.

Regardless of what actually transpired, not a good optic for the league. Bullying has no place in sports or anyplace else.

n It would stand to reason that some pitching-starved team would at least take a look at free agent Madison Bumgarner.

If only to see if he has anything left in that left arm.

n The Oakland A’s “attracted” a crowd of 2,034 for Monday’s game against Arizona.

Now comes word that a move to Las Vegas is far from being a certainty.

The A’s are asking Vegas and Clark County for $395 million to help cover the cost of a new, $1.5 billion retractable-roof stadium.

Nevada, city and county, is willing to pony up $195 million.

In the meantime, Oakland refuses to be counted out. A deal at the Howard

ZAVOD: Plans to continue umpiring

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To stay sharp, he plans to continue umpiring in some capacity while earning his bachelor’s degree.

“My hope is that I’ll be able to umpire as much as I can while in college,” Zavod said. “If I were to get into a local college like (UC Davis), then I’d still be able to umpire for Davis. I’d also consider pursuing some more upper-level games like high school to umpire.”

— Henry Krueger is a Gonzaga University and working as a correspondent for The Enterprise this spring and summer. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.

Terminal site could get done, but only if the A’s were to return to the bargaining table.

Stay tuned.

n The NBA’s “play-in” tournament has seen two teams, the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers, each fight it out to get to the 8th and 7th seed in the Eastern and Western conferences.

Then the Heat stunned No. 1 Milwaukee and the Lakers knocked off No. 2 Memphis.

The Heat and Lakers are currently playing for the conference championship and a chance for the NBA title.

It shows how a team in any sport getting hot late often produces remarkable results.

n The National Hockey League probably isn’t too thrilled with the matchups for the Stanley Cup.

The Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights meet in the West; the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes battle it out in the East. None of the four could be considered hockey hotbeds. Yet the onice action should be compelling.

n While the San Jose Sharks have missed the postseason four years running, several alumni still have a shot at the Cup.

Joe Pavelski, who should have been a

Shark forever, has spent the last four seasons in Dallas and has totaled 240 points on top of the 761 he had in 13 Sharks seasons.

As many know, Pavelski sought a threeyear contract at the end of 2019, and the Sharks would offer no more than a 2-year deal. Pavelski currently is in his second contract with the Stars.

Now a 19-year NHL veteran, Brent Burns spent seven years in Minnesota then 11 in San Jose. He is in his first season as a top-shelf blueliner with the Hurricanes.

n Catcher Patrick Bailey, a Giants first round draft pick in 2020, wore a regular season major league uniform for the first time Friday night. The switch-hitting Bailey is the fifth catcher the team has used so far over 43 games.

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

CHANGE: Games shorter by 8 minutes?

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interrupted your busy life.

The biggest change will be that the clock will no longer stop after a team makes a first down. Nope, now it will just keep moving, except for the final two minutes of each half when the old rule will be in effect.

According to Steve Shaw, the NCAA’s football secretary rules editor, the changes are likely to shorten games by seven or eight minutes, which means perhaps eight fewer plays per game.

Now, if any of those eight plays might have resulted in a touchdown or a field goal, expect scoring

to be less as well. And isn’t that what diehard fans have been demanding all along — less scoring?

“How was the game, Honey?”

“Just terrible. Everyone just kept scoring and scoring.”

Shaw noted that over the last three season games typically run about 3 hours and 21 minutes.

Sheer torture.

Another supposed timesaving measure being readied for prime time is a ban on a team calling two consecutive timeouts. This will prevent a team from calling three straight timeouts to “ice” a field goal kicker.

But if a team still uses all three timeouts in a half,

but not consecutively, how does that save any time at all?

Currently, each team gets three timeouts per half, for a total of 12 per game for both teams combined. Each timeout runs two minutes, which brings us to 24 minutes every game just for timeouts, when absolutely nothing happens on the field of play.

If we really want to save time, forget about keeping the clock running after a first down and simply eliminate all timeouts, the one part of the game every fan in America actually hates.

I plan to take my proposal to the next meeting of the NCAA Rules Committee this spring.

It’s about time.

Wayne Tilcock /enTerprise file phoTo Sam Zavod, then 12-year old, works the bases during a Davis Little League a game in 2018. Today, he’s a junior at Davis High who umpired his 500th game on Monday.