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The King High School class of 2023 comes to their feet

Wednesday as Davis School Board President Leah Darrah formally accepts the graduates.

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King High sends grads out into the world

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff

writer

Wednesday, June 7, will be the day a special group of seniors recall as the day they graduated from Martin Luther King High School.

Taking place at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall, the King High class of 2023 entered the venue to the roar of applause while sporting their burgundy robes. Among the

audience of friends and family were cardboard cutouts of students’ faces, signs of praise, “Congrats Grad” balloons, flowers and cell phones held high to take photos of the graduates.

Also in attendance were numerous members of the school board and DJUSD administration including Superintendent Matt Best.

The ceremony itself began with a few words from King

High Principal Rob Kinder.

“The staff and I conducted exit interviews with the students on their last day of school, and I ask three questions: ‘What’s next for you? What worked well for you at King High? And what can we do better at King to support future students?’ Without fail, the answer of what worked well involved a list of staff members who made a difference to each

California scrambles after State Farm stops selling home policies

By Ben Christopher and Grace Gedye CalMatters

State Farm made national headlines last month, when it said it would stop selling new home insurance policies in California. As California’s largest single provider of bundle home insurance policies — the company had 20% of the market in 2021 — the news struck some as the beginning of a fresh emergency, with insurers abandoning a fire and flood ravaged state.

student. My favorite part in this is that throughout the year, every single staff member from our admin assistants to veteran teachers is listed as ‘the thing’ that worked well at King for at least one graduate,” said Kinder.

“Our staff has diverse strengths that align well with the very needs, interests and passions of our students.

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Temptation at the checkout aisle

But the retraction of California’s biggest home coverage provider is only the latest development in a wildfire-fueled crisis that has smoldered beneath the surface of the state’s insurance market for years.

After the disastrous fires of 2017 and 2018, the number of Californians who were told by their insurer that their policy wouldn’t be renewed jumped up by 42% to almost 235,000 households. The two severe wildfire years wiped out decades of industry profits.

Last year, American International See SCRAMBLES, Page A3

Thompson joins Valley Clean Energy event

By Tiffany Dobbyn Special to

The Enterprise

We’ve all been there: waiting in line at a store checkout, surrounded by tempting snacks and drinks. Navigating the checkout lane in search of healthy options could be a challenge, according to researchers at UC Davis, who found that 70% of foods and beverages at checkout are unhealthy.

For snack-sized options, an even higher proportion were unhealthy — 89%.

Astudypublishedthismonthinthe journalCurrentDevelopmentsinNutrition suggests most food and beverage options at checkout consist of candy (31%), sugar-sweetened beverages (11%), salty snacks (9%) and sweets (6%).

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In honor of its five-year anniversary, Valley Clean Energy, the local community choice energy provider, will host a free customer appreciation event Saturday at Central Park in Davis from 4 to 7 p.m.

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waiting in the checkout line tend to be unhealthy

Treats

Healthy items were far less common. Water represented 3% of food and beverage options, followed by nuts and seeds (2%), fruits and vegetables (1%),

legumes (0.1%) and milk (0.02%).

Food and beverage companies consider the

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Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, California’s 4th District congressman, will join the festivities.

Thompson was an influential party to the incorporation of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022.

VCE invites the community to join in celebrating five years of service with this free event. Highlights include remarks from Thompson and VCE Board Chair Tom Stallard, free meal vouchers for the first 100 customers, electric vehicle test drives, pet adoption with Friends of Yolo County Animal Services,

THOMPSON Backed legislation

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Vandalisms investigated as hate crimes

Two vandalism incidents reported to Davis police this week are being investigated as hate crimes.

Officers responded shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sunday to the Davis City Hall parking lot on Russell Boulevard after a vehicle owner reported finding one of their tires slashed, apparently with a knife or other sharp instrument.

“As the victim felt they were targeted specifically because of their religious beliefs, we are investigating this case as a hate crime,” Lt. John Evans said. “Officers inspected the scene for evidence but were unable to locate any.”

At about 8 a.m. Wednesday, police were dispatched to a home in the 1300 block of Claremont Drive for an incident Evans said occurred the night before.

“The victim indicated that an unknown suspect had removed their rainbow pride flag from their front yard and had also defaced their transgender pride flag with offensive words and hate symbols,” Evans said. “The victim believed they were targeted because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Police had not identified suspects in either incident as of Thursday. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.

It’s become quite the family tradition

Barring a 9.8 earthquake that cracks Monticello Dam, empties Lake Berryessa and causes the Mighty Putah to put Davis under 20 feet of water, our youngest son, Mick, will graduate from Davis High School tonight.

Counting Mick and his four sis ters and one brother, and me and my three sisters and one brother, that makes 11 of us with the same last name who have been honored and privileged to have received our education from so many great schools and so many dedicated teachers in the city of Davis.

It may be time to say thank you.

There have been so many experiences - some magnificent and some difficult - for all of us along the road to finally wearing that cherished all-blue cap and gown.

But, I wouldn’t dare to speak for all my kids and my sisters and brother when it comes to naming a favorite teacher or coach or counselor or conductor or principal or secretary or cook or custodian or superintendent. Let’s just say that all of them, and many more, were major contributors in preparing us for the rest of our lives.

However, when I have the occasion to talk with young current students in Davis, they are sometimes bewildered when I point out

that Marguerite Montgomery was my fifth grade teacher, not just a made-up name on an elementary school building.

Over the years and the generations, our family, like so many others, has had some who were athletes or singers or band members or participants in student government. And some who were none of the above.

We all had remarkably different experiences in our various Davis schools, which allowed each one of us to flourish in our own specific way, without being forced into some sort of cookie-cutter model of education. Put simply, it takes good teachers to accomplish that.

While nursery school was considered a Communist plot to indoctrinate our young minds when my siblings and I were toddlers, our six kids were blessed with the likes of DPNS, DCCNS

and Applegate as the great benefits of early-childhood education became known.

When my mom and dad moved here from Portland and decided to bring their five kids with them so dad could finish the college education that was interrupted by his service in World War II, Davis was a town of 3,000 people with just one elementary school.

Overnight the five of us nearly doubled the enrollment of Central Davis School, which sat squarely on the site where local vendors now sell fruits and vegetables on Saturday mornings.

A few years later, both East Davis Elementary and West Davis Elementary were added as the town began to grow, though East Davis was eventually renamed Valley Oak to avoid the stigma of attending school on the wrong side of the tracks. (I am not making this up.)

Both of those schools have proudly been attended by members of our family.

We’ve also had students at North Davis Elementary, St. James Elementary, Davis Junior High School, Holmes Junior High School, King and Davis High School.

My oldest sister, Mary, was the

County seeks community input at climate action plan workshops

tation Plan update.

In 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors set the goal of meeting a carbon-negative footprint by 2030 with a focus on equity and justice. The Climate Action and Adaptation Plan is a roadmap that outlines the actions that Yolo County will take to meet this goal, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help Yolo County be more resilient to climate impacts such as higher temperatures, more frequent wildfires and floods, and drought.

Driven by public input, the plan will include recommendations for how

Yolo County can lower emissions, protect natural resources, use more renewable energy, support the sustainable agricultural practices that are already thriving here in Yolo County and more. The Climate Action and Adaptation Plan is designed to benefit all community members and to promote health, equity and resilience in all processes and outcomes.

As part of the process of updating the County Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, community members are encouraged to provide their input by attending one of three upcoming community workshops where information about the plan will be discussed and members of the public will have the opportunity to share their vision for a more resilient, equitable and sustainable

Yolo County.

The first round of Yolo County 2030 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Community Workshops are set for the following dates and times:

n Tuesday, June 20, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East St. in Woodland. Dinner and childcare are provided for this workshop.

n Wednesday, June 21, noon-1:30 p.m., online via Zoom: https://tinyurl. com/mwz6r2ue

n Thursday, June 22, 6-7:30 p.m., online via Zoom: https://tinyurl. com/2p8826w8

Questions may be addressed to Sustainability@yolocounty.org. For more information about the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan, visit: https://YoloCAAP.org.

DCC hosts border-ministry events

Enterprise staff Davis Community Church will host Frontera de Cristo, a unique border ministry program, on June 17 and 18 and extends an invitation to all who are looking for a bit of good news from our southern border. Frontera de Cristo’s experience of the border contrasts with what may be seen in the media. They see borders as places for encounter, compassion, cultural sharing and vibrant community.

Frontera de Cristo is a Presbyterian Church (USA) border ministry that has operated on the border between Agua Prieta, Sonora (Mexico) and Douglas, Arizona since 1984. Through community partnerships the program

extends welcome and support to migrants and the surrounding communities.

The Rev. Mark Adams and Miriam Maldonado, two founders and leaders of Frontera de Cristo, will be featured at two upcoming events. On Saturday, June 17, they will speak at the Davis Community Church library on “Cultivating Relationships and Understanding Across Borders." The event will run from 2-4 p.m.

On Sunday, June 18, Adams will speak at the church’s Sunday worship service on “Responding in Faith to the Realities of Migration." The service begins at 10:30 a.m. in the DCC sanctuary at Fourth and C streets in downtown Davis.

Owner thwarts motorcycle theft

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

owner called police shortly before 1:30 a.m., saying he’d observed two masked men trying to steal his bike in the 300 block of J Street and interrupted the act, according to Lt. John Evans.

“The victim provided a description of the two

suspects and minutes later, when officers arrived to check the area, they were able to locate two men matching the description,” Evans said. “At that time an additional victim came forward indicating that their car had been broken into and ransacked.”

Alec Cramer Morgan, 29, and 24-year-old Tate Anthony Cearley, both of Woodland, were booked into the Yolo County Jail after officers located evidence at the scene linking them to the crimes, Evans said.

For information, contact the church office at 530753-2894 or visit dccpres. org.

only family member to graduate from the old Davis High School on Russell Boulevard that now serves as Davis City Hall. The rest of us still call the campus on 14th Street, the “new” Davis High School, even though it is now over 60 years old.

Looking back with great fondness, I wouldn’t change a thing. Not even the sting of a “D” in Geometry.

There were good times and notso-good times, but I was always treated with kindness and respect and knew that my teachers wanted only the best for me. And for that, and the way all of my family has been treated by our great Davis schools, I am eternally grateful.

After Mary, there were Dorothy Jo, J.J., Bob, Patsy, Ted, Erin, Maev, Molly, Emme and now, Mick.

But wait, there’s more. The Davis school system is not through with the Dunning family just yet.

Indeed, another generation is now happily and magnificently progressing through our Davis schools, with a granddaughter, Satya, at Davis High School and another granddaughter, Sufi, at North Davis Elementary.

The Miracle of Life marches on.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Supervisors proclaim June as LGTBQ+ Pride Month

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Enterprise

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday proclaimed June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ+) Pride Month.

In celebration of this month, the Board of Supervisors affirmed their support and commitment to policy aimed toward strengthening inclusionary practices and removing barriers for those who identify as LGBTQ+.

Yolo County is home to a large LGBTQ+ youth and adult population. As such, the Board of Supervisors and County Administrator’s Office have encouraged county departments to provide comprehensive and specialized services for the LGBTQ+ community.

The board publicly acknowledges Pride Month as a sign of inclusivity to both LGBTQ+ community members and county employees who identify as LGBTQ+.

“I was honored to present this resolution to two students from River City High School in West Sacramento to convey the county’s efforts to better

engage and serve our diverse LGBTQ+ communities,” Board Chair Oscar Villegas said.

Human Resource Director Alberto Lara added: “The county of Yolo consults with community-based organizations and empowers those with lived experiences in the LGBTQ+ community as a means of creating an inclusive foundation for our policies and training.”

“Above all, the Board of Supervisors proclamation reinforces our commitment to serving the LGBTQ+ community in a way that asserts LGBTQ+ rights are human rights,” Yolo County Chief Administrative Officer Gerardo Pinedo said.

Pride Month has been celebrated throughout June since 1971, beginning with the Christopher Street West Pride Festival in Southern California. Since then, many other celebrations have been established throughout the nation, state and in Yolo County. Check your local community calendar for Pride Month celebrations in your areas.

SCRAMBLES: Providers recalculate cost of doing business

Group let thousands of customers know their home insurance policies would not be renewed, and Chubb, a high-end insurer, said it would continue to non-renew some of its customers.

State Farm made national headlines last week when it said it would stop selling new home insurance policies in California.

As California’s largest single provider of bundle home insurance policies — the company had 20% of the market in 2021 — the news struck some as the beginning of a fresh emergency, with insurers abandoning a fire and flood ravaged state.

But the retraction of California’s biggest home coverage provider is only the latest development in a wildfire-fueled crisis that has smoldered beneath the surface of the state’s insurance market for years.

After the disastrous fires of 2017 and 2018, the number of Californians who were told by their insurer that their policy wouldn’t be renewed jumped up by 42% to almost 235,000 households. The two severe wildfire years wiped out decades of

industry profits. Last year, American International Group let thousands of customers know their home insurance policies would not be renewed, and Chubb, a high-end insurer, said it would continue to non-renew some of its customers.

And late last year, thousands of condo owners also found themselves among the uninsurable as the state’s regulated insurers dropped suburban homeowner association members in droves across San Diego County’s wildfire-prone shrubland.

“State Farm sort of publicly said what they were doing, but I think for the last few years, we’ve all seen insurers restricting and pulling back their business in California,” said Seren Taylor, vice president of Personal Insurance Federation of California, an industry trade group that counts State Farm as a member.

State Farm in a press release blamed high construction costs that make it extra expensive to rebuild after a home is destroyed in California, growing natural disaster risk — particularly from wildfires — and “a challenging reinsurance market.”

Insurance companies frequently purchase their own

insurance — known as “reinsurance” — to minimize the risk of getting hit with millions of dollars of costs all at once, as might happen during a catastrophic wildfire or a major hurricane.

Reinsurance premiums have spiked in recent years in disasterprone states like fire-ravaged California and storm battered Florida, Louisiana and Texas. California law prohibits insurers from passing along the cost of reinsurance to customers. Industry groups are lobbying to change that.

“This is tough for legislators,” said John Norwood, a lobbyist for independent insurance brokers. “Because the solution is prices going up.”

Regulations

High rebuild costs, increasingly severe wildfires and high prices of reinsurance are all risks that insurance companies might be willing to take on.

But only for the right price.

Increases in insurance premiums in California are approved or denied by the state’s elected insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara. Industry groups have long

argued that Lara’s office has not allowed providers to set prices commensurate with the cost of doing business in fire-prone California.

“We have very inexpensive home insurance in California,” compared to other states, said Michael Wara, director of the climate and energy police program at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. “But the thing is, five years ago, we realized ‘oh yeah, actually in California you can burn down 50,000 houses overnight.’”

The consequences of a continued drip-drip decline of insurers from California could be far more costly in the long run, warns Dan Dunmoyer, president of the California Building Industry.

As an illustration, he points to California history. After the 1994 Northridge Earthquake dealt roughly $42 billion in damage across Southern California, many home insurers opted to stop doing new business in California entirely.

Because home insurance is a basic requirement for most home loans, the exodus of insurers caused the state real estate industry to grind to a halt,

TEMPTATION: Berkeley takes on the snacks

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checkout lane to be prime real estate for their products, said Jennifer Falbe, associate professor with the Department of Human Ecology and lead author of the study. The checkout is the only place in a store where every customer must pass through, and it’s known to contribute to impulse purchases, she said.

“The checkout lane has been designed this way through marketing agreements in which food and beverage companies pay stores to place their products — which are mostly unhealthy — at checkout,” Falbe said.

Researchers analyzed the checkout lanes in 102 food stores in Davis, Sacramento, Oakland and Berkeley. Stores included supermarkets, grocery stores, specialty food stores, drugstores, dollar stores and mass merchandisers.

The evaluation was conducted in February 2021, right before an ordinance in the city of Berkeley went into effect requiring large food stores to offer more nutritious offerings at the checkout. Berkeley became the first

city in the U.S. to implement a healthy checkout policy.

Falbe said Berkeley’s policy is consistent with federal dietary guidelines that emphasize consuming nutrientdense foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds and cutting back on sodium and added sugars.

“The majority of the U.S. population exceeds the daily recommended limits for added-sugar and sodium intake,” Falbe said. “Berkeley’s checkout policy allows certain food and beverage categories at checkout (e.g., unsweetened beverages, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and dairy) and sets limits on the amount of added sugar and sodium in a product at checkout. Shoppers can still get candy from the candy aisle, but it won’t be forced on them at checkout.”

In the study, Berkeley’s policy was used as a benchmark to help measure the healthfulness of products at store checkouts. The researchers found that the percentage of food and beverage options that met healthy checkout standards was highest in chain specialty food stores, chain supermarkets

and chain mass merchandisers. It was lowest in chain dollar stores and independent grocery stores, which are more common in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Checkout areas can strongly influence consumer choices. Falbe said she hopes that these findings can be used to help improve the food environment for people across all neighborhoods.

“There’s an opportunity here for checkouts to offer more choice by expanding access to healthier options,” Falbe said. “Currently, consumers lack choices at the checkout.”

The study’s contributing authors include Ethan Wolf and Sarah Solar with UC Davis Department of Human Ecology, and researchers with the University of Illinois, Chicago. The study was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Food Policy Program.

Falbe was also supported by a career development award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

— UC Davis News

Dunmoyer recalled.

“The whole world stopped,” he said. “That’s the worst case scenario. We’re not quite there yet.” Can California block State Farm’s retreat?

There are various ideas circulating about what the state can do to keep State Farm in the market, some more drastic than others.

The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog on Tuesday argued Insurance Commissioner Lara has the power to order State Farm to reverse its decision. That authority, the group said, comes from Proposition 103, a voterbacked initiative passed in 1988 that gave the department the power to approve or deny premium increases.

Wara, from Stanford Law, said the idea was a “non-constructive approach to this problem.” He said the entire insurance industry likely would sue the state if the California insurance department were to assert that authority, and the lawsuit would take several years to resolve. He said he finds it “hard to believe” that a court would force the industry to keep issuing new insurance policies during the years the case was in court.

EVENT: Celebration kicks off in Central Park at 4 p.m.

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games and giveaways.

VCE has partnered with SactoMofo, a local food truck catering company, to offer free meals during the Customer Appreciation Event. Meals will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. After enjoying their meal, families are invited to join in lawn games and a variety of activities for all ages.

Elk Grove Kia and Ford Fairfield will provide electric vehicles, including the Ford F-150 Lightning, for test drives. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience an EV firsthand and have their questions answered by experts.

VCE staff will also be available to discuss the EV rebate program

available to current customers.

As part of the customer appreciation event, Friends of Yolo County Animals Services will be on-site hosting a mobile pet adoption. Attendees can interact with animals and will be given the opportunity to adopt them during the event.

Other participating local businesses including Pedego Elk Grove, Soft Play Parties, and Explorit Science Center will be present to offer free demonstrations and giveaways to event attendees. Although it is not required to attend, preregistration for the event is recommended at https://www.evevent.org/ VCE. Central Park is at Fifth and B streets in downtown Davis.

Philip James Snow passed away on May 31, 2023, at his home in the loving care of his four children. He was 92.

Phil moved from Calistoga to Winters as a sophomore in high school and there he met and married the love of his life, Isabel Martinez. He served in the Navy for two years as a builder and continued with that trade throughout his life. Phil is survived by his four children, Debra, Phil, Tim and David; nine grandchildrexn; 15 greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

His three main passions were his family, his faith and sports. Being a tremendous athlete himself, he had an opportunity to pitch for the Red Sox. But as fate would have it, the call back date fell on the very day of his wedding and a hard choice was made.

However, in his fiery passion for sports were forged many athletes from his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren ranging from talented high school and college athletes to scratch golfers, an NFL coach, college tennis player, a Division I football player and, coming full circle, a Red Sox second baseman. At 91 he hit a 200-yard drive straight down the fairway at Davis Municipal Golf Course.

His deep and personal faith was his anchor and the anchor for his family. His well-used Bible was always by his side. His prayers at family gatherings always included an

invitation for each one to know Jesus Christ as Savior. His faith was also evidenced by his contribution to the building of the Pioneer Presbyterian Church in Winters and Winters Community Gazebo. His wit and humor were extraordinary. He kept nurses, doctors, housekeepers and family all in stitches. He’s especially known for his quips, so unique, we could call them “Philisms.” Among them are “bonkers for Bennie,” “shukies cheesus,” “attaboy Philly,” “unhitch the

caboose” and “he’s from Central City.”

Join us, the family in saying “Attaboy Philly, job well done. You will be missed.” Graveside service will begin at 10 a.m. June 23 at Winters Cemetery. A

memorial service will follow at Pioneer Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m., with lunch following. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Yolo Hospice to whom we are deeply grateful.

L.A. has taken water from Mono Lake for 82 years; will California stop it?

By Alastair Bland CalMatters

As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird life and outlandish shoreline mineral spires — advocates are pressuring state water officials to halt diversions from the lake’s tributaries to Los Angeles, which has used this clean mountain water source for decades.

Environmentalists and tribal representatives say such action is years overdue and would help the iconic lake’s ecosystem, long plagued by low levels, high salinity and dust that wafts off the exposed lakebed.

The city of Los Angeles, they argue, should simply use less water, and expand investments in more sustainable sources – especially recycled wastewater and uncaptured stormwater. This, they say, could help wean the city off Mono basin’s water for good.

In December, the Mono Lake Committee, the basin’s leading advocacy group, sent a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board requesting an emergency pause on water diversions from the lake. The water board hosted an online workshop to discuss the matter in February, and it is now

considering further actions to restore the naturally saline lake.

Geoff McQuilkin, the Mono Lake Committee’s executive director, said the lake will probably rise another four feet in 2023 — reason, as he sees it, to double down and halt exports.

“This is a year to take advantage of,” he said. “We’d like to lock in these gains.”

But the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is pushing back. The agency began diverting the Mono basin’s water in 1941, and officials say this supply, though a minute fraction of

its overall demands, is a vital part of its portfolio, which includes water imported from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Colorado River.

The agency also has brushed away claims that the basin’s wildlife — especially nesting birds — are threatened by the city’s diversions. “The Mono Basin ecosystem remains healthy,” the department recently stated. Moreover,

the city has already cut exports from the lake’s tributaries by 85%, starting in the early 1990s, when landmark hearings triggered tighter rules on sending the basin’s water to Los Angeles.

“That’s approximately 70,000 acre-feet per year,” said Anselmo Collins, the city water department’s assistant general manager of the water system, during the February workshop.

diversions to Los Angeles amounted to between 80,000 and 100,000 acre-feet, and more, of the basin’s water annually. Beginning in 1995, that was cut to between 4,500 and 16,000

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2023-1028

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Justin Matthew Yeung filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name a Justin Matthew Yeung

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

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GINGER KAY MARTINEZ CASE NO PR2023-0132

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of GINGER KAY MARTINEZ

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JILLIAN REN-

EE GONZALEZ AKA JILLIAN RENEE MARTINEZ in the Superior Court of California County of YOLO

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JILLIAN RENEE GONZALEZ AKA JILLIAN RENEE MARTINEZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent

THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any be admitted to probate The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the In dependent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action ) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority

the petition will be held

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covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title possession or encumbrances to p a y t h e r e m a i n i n g p r i n c i p a l s u m o f th e N o t e ( s ) s e c u r e d b y said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said N o t e ( s ) a d v a n c e s i f a n y u n d e r t h e t e r m s o f t h e D e e d o f Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee a n d o f t h e t r u s t s c r e a t e d b y s a i d D e e d o f T r u s t T h e t o t a l amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of T rustee’s Sale is estimated to be $536 300 74 ( E s t i m a t e d ) H o w e v e r , p r e p a y m e n t p r e m i u m s , a c c r u e d i nterest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale Ben e f i c i a r y ’ s b i d a t s a i d s a l e m a y i n c l u d e a l l o r p a r t o f s a i d amount In addition to cash the Trustee will accept a cashier s check drawn on a state or national bank a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee In the event tender other than cash is accepted the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver if applicable If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason the successful bidder s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction You will be bidding on a lien not on the property itself Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien If you are the highest bidder at the auction you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property You are encouraged to investigate the existence priority and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by c o n t a c t i n g t h e c o u n t y r e c o r d e r s o f f i c e o r a t i t l e i n s u r a n c e company either of which may charge you a fee for t his information If you consult either of these resources you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortg a g e o r D e e d o f T r u s t o n t h e p r o p e r t y N o t i c e t o P r o p e r t y

Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee Beneficiary Trustee or a court pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code The law requires that in formation about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public as a courtesy to those not present at the sale If you w i s h t o l e a r n w h e t h e r y o u r s a l e d a t e h a s b e e n p o s t p o n e d and if applicable the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property you may call Nationwide Posting & Publication at 916 939 0772 for information regarding the Trustee s Sale or visit the Internet Website www nationwideposting com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case CA08001284-22-1 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale Notice to Tenant NOTICE

2021 You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code If you are an “eligible tenant buyer ” you can purc h a s e t h e p r o p e r t y i f y o u m a t c h t h e l a s t a n d h i g h e s t b i d placed at the trustee auction If you are an eligible bidder you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase First 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale you can call

Mono Lake on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada on May 20, 2023.

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MONO: Tiny bit of L.A. water

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acre-feet annually. Mono advocates say that’s still too much.

The state water board has remained tight-lipped about how it may respond to the demands from Mono Lake’s advocates. Samuel Boland-Brien, a supervising engineer with the board, said the agency plans to hold a hearing, though he couldn’t say when, to discuss options for recovering Mono Lake.

Its surface elevation is currently around 6,380 feet, and in the past 30 years it has never risen much past 6,385 — still seven feet below a target recovery level of 6,392 feet, established in 1994.

“The need to reach that level isn’t optional,” Boland-Brien said.

While existing rules on Mono Lake diversions are designed to manage the basin’s ecosystem — broadly categorized as public trust resources — they don’t take into account the needs of the basin’s indigenous residents, namely the Kutzadika’a tribe.

Dean Tonenna, a Kutzadika’a botanist, said his people were left out of the 1990s negotiations that led to the existing diversion rules. “The tribe has not been meaningfully engaged in any of the discussions or workshops that led to the decision,” Tonenna said.

He said “a racist legacy” led to the lowering of the lake and still compromises his people’s connection to the ecosystem. Now, he and other local tribal members want their interests considered.

Brian Gray, a senior fellow and water law expert with the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California, said the dilemma over how to restore Mono Lake could prompt a review of the historical decisions that gave Los Angeles ownership of a share of the basin’s water. If state officials conclude that the basin would benefit from having more water, he said, the water board “would have an obligation to reconsider its water rights decision, and specifically address the question of whether Los

Angeles should be cut back, partially or completely.”

The lake’s defenders insist this would have almost no impact on the city’s water supply. The city’s 2023 Mono Lake diversions will amount to about 1% of the district’s annual water use.

Sean Bothwell, executive director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance, said opportunities for water recycling and stormwater capture, as well as simply using less water in the first place, could more than make up for the relatively small amount of water the city draws from the Mono Lake basin.

“The Department of Water and Power really does not rely on this lake … so why continue to destroy Mono Lake when they have these other options available?” he said.

Boland-Brien noted that the 1994 decision called for “a hearing” if the target lake level wasn’t reached by 2014. When that time came, the lake was 12 feet below the intended level, and dropping, for a severe drought had begun. Lake advocates agreed to give it more time.

Now, nine years later, the lake level is about the same as it was then, but there is still no firm date — or even an approximate one — for when that overdue hearing will occur.

“That’s where a lot of the focus is now — when will that hearing be scheduled, and what will be determined in terms of whether additional actions are necessary?” Boland-Brien said.

Legacy

For decades, essentially the sky was the limit on exporting Mono basin water to Los Angeles. The legal cap, written into the city’s water rights, was 167,800 acre-feet per year, with no considerations for the environment or local users. Exports ranged as high as 156,000 acre-feet — a peak recorded in 1978 — and in the 1970s and 1980s, exports averaged more than 80,000 acrefeet annually.

This rate of diversion put the lake on pace to

eventually disappear — a fate met long ago by Owens Lake, 125 miles to the south and sucked dry by the same aqueduct system.

By the 1980s, Mono Lake’s surface had plunged 45 feet. Half the lake’s volume was sacrificed for Los Angeles taps, toilets, lawns and pools, and its salinity level doubled, according to the Mono Lake Committee.

A landmark lawsuit challenged the city’s diversions in 1979, and a court injunction halted exports in 1990. After weeks of hearings in 1993 and 1994, the state water board ordered the city’s water department to reduce its diversions to a maximum of 16,000 acrefeet — deemed a sustainable level. The goal was to draw the lake over 20 years back to the target of 6,392 feet. Officials determined that this would protect native shrimp, flies, birds and geologic features, while preventing lakebed dust from endangering local communities.

The new rules included some key triggers: at a lake level below 6,380 feet, diversions are cut by 72%, and below 6,377 feet, diversions are banned.

But in the past 29 years, the lake level has only partially recovered.

“We’ve given it almost 30 years with the rules they established in 1994, and it hasn’t worked,” said Martha Davis, a board member of the Mono Lake Committee.

At the L.A. water department, Adam Perez, the Los Angeles Aqueduct manager, said “the lake level at Mono Lake continues to trend upwards.”

Long-term lake level records, however, don’t reflect this. The surface elevation has surged several times in the past three decades, usually in the year or so following wet periods. Each time, however, its surface level has dropped again — apparently a consequence of ramping diversions up to 16,000 acre-feet when the lake swells past 6,380 feet. Climate change is not helping either, causing decreased precipitation in the region and increased evaporation from streams and the lake itself.

KING: ‘Years of hard work’

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Despite the changing times, the nurturing spirit of King has stayed strong for 51 years. That’s because of our staff’s hard work and dedication to make real connections and to keep school engaging and relevant. I’m honored to work with this team.”

A couple of graduates also gave a few parting words of love and praise to staff, friends and family who stuck with them through thick and thin.

From there, a handful of students were awarded scholarships which included the Odd Fellows Scholarship, the Kiwanis of Davis Scholarship, the Hardenbrook/DTA Scholarship, the Jack Reinwand Memorial Scholarship, the Mary Ellen Dolcini Scholarship, the Soroptomist

Scholarship, the Sunrise Rotary of Davis Scholarship and King High School Scholarships.

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President Lea Darrah also shared a few words before the acceptance of the class of 2023.

“To the families, lovedones, friends and staff and most importantly, the graduates of the class of 2023, on behalf of the board of education, I offer my sincere congratulations. We come together to celebrate an impressive achievement,” said Darrah. “It’s the culmination of years of hard work, dedication and perseverance. We’re here to honor each of you for the hardworking individuals you are. You demonstrated resilience, dedication and a commitment to your

education. Graduation is a milestone that marks the end of one journey and the beginning of another.

“It’s a time to reflect on the memories, the friendships and the lessons learned. It’s a time to cherish the growth and transformation you’ve undergone intellectually and personally. I urge you to embrace the challenges that lie ahead using what you’ve learned here at King. Use your education not only for personal success, but also to serve your communities.”

After that, the class of 2023 accepted their diplomas and walked out of the Brunelle Performance Hall as high school graduates.

— Reach Aaron Geerts at aaron.geerts@ mcnaughton.media.

Clouds gather over Mono Lake on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada on May 20.

Meet Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock

By Sara Thompson Special to the Enterprise

Barbara McClintock was born in June 1902 in Hartford, Conn. She was the third of four children and was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Brooklyn when she was 3 years old while her father established his medical practice.

The rest of her family moved to Brooklyn a few years later.

McClintock attended schools in Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919.

Throughout her schooling, McClintock was shy and preferred to be alone. In her chosen solitude she would read and study and developed a deep interest in science. After she graduated high school, she wanted to attend college. Her mother was resistant to the idea and preferred she start a family first, but her father hesitantly

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agreed and helped her enroll in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University.

She studied botany, and developed an interest in genetics when she took a field course in 1921. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1923 and enrolled in Cornell’s graduate program. She received her master’s degree in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1927. Both degrees were also in botany, as Cornell did not allow women to major in genetics.

Her graduate and postgraduate work was in the new field of cytogenetics and she focused her studies on maize. She received numerous fellowships and grants that funded her research, even allowing her to study in Germany for six months. In 1936, she accepted a position at

Pets of the week

Enterprise staff

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

Among them is Gabby (A153009), a female longhaired orange tabby cat. She was adopted from YCAS as a kitten and has been indoors only. Gabby has been a beloved kitty until her elderly parents were unable to keep her. Gabby is very friendly, lovable and purrs a lot. She will stay on your lap as long as you allow.

Also hoping for a good home is Millie (A199463), a gorgeous, loving Husky who was abandoned with a serious medical condition

blocking her vision. Thanks to funding by nonprofit Friends of YCAS, Millie underwent successful surgery, was fostered and is fully prepared for adoption. Millie is a playful and adventurous spirited dog. Her dedicated foster family helped Millie to make remarkable strides socially during her recovery. Millie enjoys walks, cuddles, exploring and playful antics with her toys. She has also participated in dog play groups

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

the University of Missouri at Columbia. A few years later, after repeated refusals of tenure, she realized she had achieved all she could at the University of Missouri and left her job 1940.

Late in 1941, McClintock would accept a one-year research position at the Carnegie

Institution of Washington’s Department of Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, N.Y. Before the one-year appointment was over, it had been converted to a full-time position for McClintock.

Her research showed that certain genes were responsible for the changes in physical characteristics in the maize plant. By turning on or off certain genes, one could affect the characteristics in the leaf or kernel color. In 1957, she received funding from the National Science Foundations and the Rockefeller Foundation to study maize in Central and South America.

Her research included the chromosomal, evolutionary and morphological characteristics of various varieties of maize. Her published study was titled “The Chromosomal Constitution of Races of Maize,” which was a steppingstone into science areas such as ethnobotany, evolutionary

biology, paleobotany and more. She retired from her work at Long Island Laboratory in 1967 but remained as a scientist emeritus.

McClintock has been the recipient of many awards and recognitions. She became the third woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1971, was the first recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981, and at the age of 81, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983, for her work on mobile genetic elements.

McClintock passed away at the age of 90 in September of 1992, leaving behind a legacy of hard work and discovery. Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http:// www.explorit.org, or "like" the Facebook page at www.facebook. com/explorit.fb.

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

At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Ariel, a gorgeous Jack

Russell terrier/miniature

Australian shepherd cross. She is 6 months old, spayed female and up to date on vaccines. Ariel is super friendly loves everyone and everything!

Trinity is a 2-year-old spayed female Rottweiler cross. She is a dog- and people-friendly girl. She loves to play with her stuffed toys and loves water play. Trinity needs a brush up on her obedience training but she comes with free lifetime obedience training

classes. Trinity has a heart of gold and will be a wonderful addition for a family or single.

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

Bring proof of homeownership, such as a mortgage statement or

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

All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook.com/rottsof friends.

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Millie Ariel Trinity

SmithSonian inStitution photo Barbara McClintock shown in her laboratory in 1947 at the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution at Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y.

Pride and joy

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Runners and walkers take position at Third and C streets in Davis on Sunday before the Run for Equality. The event was part of a series of weekend pride activities.

Festival draws biggest crowd ever

The Davis Phoenix Coalition presented its biggest Davis Pride Festival to date, with its inclusive celebration for members and supporters of the LGBTQ+ community. An organizer estimated that more than 5,000 came to Central Park for Sunday’s ninth-annual event.

It was part of a community-focused, familyfriendly weekend that included a skate night, fun run, music festival, drag queens and vendors — June 3 and 4. A handful of

quiet protesters attended the drag show and took video. The crowd and drag queens started interacting with the protesters, who left before displaying the banners and posters they intended to raise.

Those in Davis will notice the rainbow crosswalks around Davis’ Central Park, which were painted on May 28. Those set the celebratory tone for Skate with Pride on Saturday night, Run for Equality on Sunday morning, and the Davis Pride Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The fair included

music, a drag queen revue, educational booths, food, drink, and vendors coordinated with the assistance of Davis Craft and Vintage Market. There were even special activity zones for youths, teens and seniors.

On June 23, there’s a Ride with Pride bike party excursion, with participants meeting at Central Park at 6 p.m. and leaving about 30 minutes later. Businesses interested in hosting local pride events, to raise money for and promote Davis Pride, may learn more at https:// www.davispride.org/host.

Davis Pride events are coordinated by an all-volunteer community formed

by the Davis Phoenix Coalition, a nonprofit that works to foster diversity, eliminate intolerance, prevent hatemotivated violence, and support LGBTQ+ youths in Davis and surrounding communities. The coalition was founded in the aftermath of a 2013 anti-gay attack on former Davis resident “Mikey” Partida. Proceeds from Davis Pride events support the coalition’s anti-racism and antibullying campaigns, help LGBTQ+ youths and their families, and provide outreach with area police departments, churches and schools. To donate, go to https://davisphoenixco. org/donate.

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Skaters compete in a limbo competition at the Skate with Pride event on Saturday, June 3 in Davis’ Central Park. Below, Mikey Partida prepares to raise the pride flag at Davis City Hall on Sunday, June 4, before the Davis Pride Festival. Partida was the victim of an anti-gay attack in 2013 that spurred the formation of the Davis Phoenix Coalition.

Come see picturesque landscape visions

There’s always something a bit fascinating about going on the Pence’s Garden Tour. While I pretend that participating in the tour is all about landscape architecture, or native plants, there’s something else that I’m really hoping for. Most of the time, I’m just really fascinated by how people build (and rebuild, in some cases) their outdoor living environments.

Over the years, when May rolls around, I’ve been lucky enough to see about 17 of the Pence’s Garden tours (out of 30 total, over the years), and I still love the feeling of uncovering a secret space in someone’s yard. Sometimes, as with (check) Janey Santo’s fairy garden, made by her and her two daughters, that little green miracle is right in plain view of the neighbors. Other times, large gardens may make it

Brown’s landscape captures the peaceful feeling of poolside at the Glassman house during our Garden Tour.

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necessary to walk and walk to find the hidden views, the trees sculpted into odd shapes, or the gazebo that is down a path. When you do find that secret place, it’s as if that garden view was put there just for you to enjoy.

That’s the way I feel when I see the artworks produced during May 7’s event. Created by artists Kathleen Gamper, MarieTherese Brown, Barbara Smithson, Raquel Cox, Allison Spreadborough, Sophie Banspach, and Teresa Steinbach-Garcia on location in five participating gardens, each of the seven participating artists chose to capture a distinctive view. This display of plein air paintings coincides with a thank you reception for the Garden Tour homeowners, sponsors,

volunteers, and artists, on 2nd Friday ArtAbout, June 9, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Pence.

This display includes a close up composition of yellow roses by Raquel Cox, a welcoming

bench painted by Barbara Smithson, and a little garden niche by Allison Spreadborough. Sophie Banspach painted a friend that we may be grateful wasn’t present on May 7th- a Scarlet Kingsnake with all its colorful patterns. This snake resembles the poisonous coral snake, but is only dangerous to small rodent populations. Other points of view include the spectacular poolside garden of landscape architect Michael Glassman, as captured by MarieTherese Brown. They are each charming and utterly unique views from artists who were lucky enough to enjoy one of these amazing gardens, if only for an afternoon.

Join us on June 9 from 6 to 9 p.m. to meet the artists, enjoy wine provided by Twisted Cellars, and see the final versions of

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“Under the Hydragean Moon” blends flowers and a night-time setting for a dreamy point of view, as seen in Dawn Star Wood’s watercolor exhibit.

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This cluster of yellow roses by Raquel Cox is a lovely rendition of a flower in full bloom this spring.

‘Flamin’ Hot’: Tall tale has style and sizzle

Snack-food legend becomes energetic crowd-pleaser

By Derrick Bang

Enterprise film critic

Thanks to director Eva Longoria’s enthusiastic approach, Lewis Colick and Linda Yvette Chávez’s cheeky script, and an always endearing performance by star Jesse Garcia, this fast-paced, rags-to-riches saga is quite entertaining: an inspirational, modern-day Horatio Alger story come to life.

On the other hand, the film’s claim to be a “true story” — as the press notes insist —should be taken with a raised eyebrow. (About which, we’ll chat more in a bit).

Richard Montañez (Garcia) narrates his life-story, in amiable conversational voice-over, from a current-day vantage point. One of a multitude of children born into a Mexican American enclave in Southern California’s unincorporated community of Guasti, he grows up surrounded by the East Los Angeles vineyards where his family and their friends toil in those fields.

He also confronts institutional racism at an early age (played here by Carlos S. Sanchez), both in grade school and elsewhere. He meets Judy (Jayde Martinez), who shares his heritage; they become “two against the world.”

Flash-forward several years. Richard (now Garcia) has joined local gang-bangers led by longtime best friend Tony (Bobby Soto). Although a life in and out of prison seems inevitable, Richard’s devotion to Judy (now played by Annie Gonzalez) — they soon have two young sons — and a compassionate judge grant one last chance.

Better still, Tony — who also has “gone straight,” with a menial job at Frito-Lay — puts in a good word. During Richard’s subsequent interview, floor manager Lonny Mason (Matt Walsh), reluctantly hires him as a general

Davis Art Studio Tour is back

Enterprise staff

Davis has not been able to enjoy its annual Art Studio Tour since 2019. However, a small group of local artists have revived it. They are very excited to present the Davis Art Studio Tour 2023 — a two-day, selfguided tour of Davis based artists’ studios.

Bring your friends and family and visit the participating artists and see where their work is created at your leisure. Visit with artists and view paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, encaustic, mixed media and more!

The tour is the weekend of June 10 and 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

profanity and fleeting drug use Jesse Garcia, Annie Tony Shalhoub, Matt Walsh, Bobby Soto, Emilio Rivera, Hunter Jones, Brice Gonzalez

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utility machine operator (i.e. janitor). Richard promises to show grit, determination and a never-quit, can-do spirit.

On top of which, he comes armed with the magical powers of authentic Mexican food.

The latter comes in handy when Richard seeks guidance from longtime production engineer Clarence C. Baker (Dennis Haysbert). This disgruntled company veteran initially is suspicious of the young man’s enthusiasm, having spent years training people who then were promoted over him … likely for similarly racist reasons.

Gonzalez’s Judy is a constant unwavering cheerleader: firmly in her husband’s corner, even when crisis erupts. We get a persuasive sense of their ongoing financial hardships, which more than once prompt a reluctant return to Richard’s parents’ home.

Back at Frito-Lay, Richard’s interactions with Clarence are sublime. Haysbert, his low-rumble voice put to excellent use, relies on his signature hard stares and slow takes. Much as Clarence might prefer otherwise, he finds it impossible to resist Richard’s eager desire to learn more about plant operations. It’s a slow trek, but the two soon become not merely friends, but colleagues.

Time passes — the years marked ingeniously — and then the Reagan-era recession hits, with its concurrent rise in unemployment. Worse yet, PepsiCo/

Frito-Lay has been losing market share to soft drink and snack rivals; layoffs are inevitable, with an additional threat of closing this entire Rancho Cucamonga plant.

Recently installed CEO Roger Enrico (Tony Shalhoub), faced with dire choices, makes a company video intended to reassure the rank and file. It proves particularly inspirational to Richard, who — soon thereafter — stumbles onto what he believes is a genius plan to attract the rapidly rising Latino market, thus far ignored.

Shalhoub, as always, is delightful. At first almost unrecognized behind Enrico’s frown of misery, he soon sparkles with surprise and the quietly amused manner with which Enrico censures colleagues who fail to perform properly.

What subsequently takes place, in the Montañez home kitchen — involving Richard, Judy and their sons — has become the stuff of legend. It’s a messy and chaotic

sequence, full of trial and error, which hinges on the often subtle difference between “good hot” and “bad hot.”

The manner in which Richard’s narration occasionally “enhances” actual events also is quite funny.

He initially depicts a key moment the way he believes it should have gone down, shaded with exaggerated Mexican machismo and dialect (emanating, hilariously, from stuffy boardroom types).

Then, reluctantly, he amends the encounter to its more reasonable — read: lackluster — outcome.

Events build to a thrilling third act, via constant underdog perseverance; there’s no denying this film’s crowd-pleasing qualities.

Alas … actual events probably didn’t go down this way. A thorough May 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation refutes many of the details that have made Montañez a well-paid darling on the lecture circuit; his timeline is inconsistent, and too many irrefutable facts get in the way. Worse yet, Montañez has altered his

saga, more than once, as increasingly uncomfortable evidence emerged.

Even so, a key aspect of his story is undeniable: Montañez definitely rose within Frito-Lay, from factory floor janitor to marketing executive. That’s huge. And — given the care with which Frito-Lay has worded its subsequent public statements — we can’t help wondering, to some degree, whether institutional racism did play a part in diminishing Montañez’s actual involvement with what became a billion-dollar brand.

Does this make Longoria’s film any less entertaining? Certainly not … but its honesty is debatable.

And all concerned were well aware of that, during production.

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

Participating artists include Kenneth Arnold, Chris Kidd, Gayle M. BonDurant, Joanna Kidd, Schorré Chevalier, Oldham Marlene Lee, Magdalene Crivelli, Donna Lemongello, Bunny Jean Cunningham, Doriene Marshall, Marieke de

Waard, Jord Nelsen, Mark Ellsberry, Adele Louise Shaw, Phil Gross, Stasia Tikkanen, Wes Horn, Stephanie Way, Cathie James-Robinson and Thelma Weatherford.

Tour maps are free and available at locations around Davis, including

The Artery, Pence Gallery, The Paint Chip, Logos Books and more. A pdf of the map can also be found on the tour’s website at www.davisast.com, where you will also find each artist listed with a link to their website and to their location on the tour.

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the artwork created during our 30th annual Garden Tour. It will feel like it was made just for you!

We also have Dawn Star Wood’s watercolor paintings on display through June 30, in her solo exhibit titled, “Wandering Thoughts.” Whether she paints antique trucks from the 50s or natural flora and fauna from California, Dawn is an artist who shows a great command of her medium. She carefully builds up her surfaces to depict the glowing colors of a heron’s feathers, or the dark tresses of a young woman. Her exhibit depicts a variety of subjects, but they all share that careful attention to detail that is so characteristic of her work. Her compositions

also are so engaging that I find myself drawn into the scene, and enjoying the freedom of watching the action unfolding. One great piece of hers is a view of two otters playing in the ocean, which of course is charming at once and well done.

Susan W. Brady’s exhibit, “Home” continues through June 11, and it’s an exhibit that offers new perspectives on Yolo county’s beauty. From the purple lupine on mountain sides to the eucalyptus trees seen in her twilight views of streams, Brady builds her landscapes with layers of paper, paint, and dye. They are incredible to view, as the textures she creates gives the land such a sense of depth and beauty.

The Pence Treasure Sale

returns, June 16-19, at the Pence Gallery. This homegrown event began over 18 years ago as a small rummage sale when we were just moving into our new building. From there, the Treasure Sale (originally titled Trash to Treasure, except that we actually did get trash donated one year) has gone on during Covid to be outdoors in our courtyard during triple-digit heat.

This month, visitors can enjoy sorting through donations of vintage clothing, jewelry, antiques, collectibles, silver, china, artwork, and linens. By the time this article hits the press, our donation drive will be over, but typically we do accept donations the week before the sale.

The Treasure Sale is organized by volunteers to

benefit the Pence Gallery.

As a nonprofit, we depend upon the generosity of the community to help us through donations, memberships, and sales of preloved items at the Treasure Sale. Our hours are 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., June 16-18, and the last day, June 19, is from 11:30 a.m to 3 p.m. Best part of all — the last day is always $5 a bag. So if you find a giant artwork that’s too big to fit in a bag, it’s $5. There are always great finds, and depending upon what you are looking for, great deals. For more information, visit our website at www.pencegallery. org.

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

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Persian multi-instrumentalist Nariman Assadi will perform at Peregrine School on Saturday, June 10.

Peregrine School hosts

Persian percussion

Special to The Enterprise Persian multiinstrumentalist Nariman Assadi, as well as the Nariman Percussion Group, will perform at Peregrine School on Saturday, June 10.

The free concert is the second performance of Peregrine School’s 2023 Second Saturday Concert Series. The program will feature Assadi on oud and percussion as well as the Nariman Percussion Group, composed of Assadi’s daf and tombak students.

Prior to the performance, Assadi will discuss Iranian music focusing on rhythms. He will also introduce the daf, tombak, dayereh drums and a few additional percussion instruments during the presentation. The audience will be encouraged to join in the presentation playing along in fun, musical, rhythmic activities. The presentation begins at 10 a.m. and the concert follows from 11 a.m. to noon. Guests are welcome to attend either or both events.

Nariman Assadi was raised in Tehran, and always felt drawn to

percussion instruments. At the age of 13, he began studying tombak under Master Amir Mogharab Samadi. At 15, he was invited to the Pars Academy, the premier music academy for children.

From 2008 to 2013, Assadi performed at Vahdat Hall as a soloist and with the Persian Percussion Ensemble at the Academy.

In 2015, Assadi immigrated to the United States and began his professional music career by performing and attending festivals throughout Northern California. The series is supported, in part, by a grant from the city of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs program. Additionally, special thanks to Trader Joe’s for their snack donation. There is a suggested $20 donation, but no one will be turned away due to a lack of funds. The gates of Peregrine’s south campus (2650 Lillard Drive, Davis) will open at approximately 9:45 a.m. Outdoor seating is limited and will be on a first come, first served basis. For information, contact Peregrine School at 530753-5500 and www. peregrineschool.org.

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Judy (Annie Gonzalez), Richard (Jesse Garcia) and their elder son Lucky (Hunter Jones) watch suspensefully, as younger son Steven (Brice Gonzalez) carefully tastes the family’s newest effort at an acceptably spicy Cheeto.

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Come see local artists like Thelma Weatherford when the Davis Studio Art Tour returns this weekend.

Prison reform must include solitary

By Kevin McCarthy Special to CalMatters

California has come a long way on solitary confinement. I know this because I spent more than a decade in isolation, and have been organizing with other solitary survivors to limit the practice in our state.

While California has been a progressive leader on so many issues, it remains woefully behind on reforming solitary confinement, and has a dark history when it comes to this practice.

My own horrific experience with isolation began at the California Youth Authority when I was 16 years old, the result of a heroin habit I developed when I was 15. I was subject to isolation and lockdown despite the fact that I was still a developing youth who needed drug counseling, not sensory deprivation.

It is difficult to understate the damage solitary can do to an individual, never mind a developing youth. Studies have shown that it can alter the way the brain forms, and even limited exposure can result in significant harm to a person’s mental and physical health.

Later in my 20s, I spent more than a decade on a 23-hour lockdown at the notorious Pelican Bay Prison. During this period I struggled to remember the feeling of human touch, and would struggle simply to retain my sanity amidst the loneliness of the concrete and steel. It hurts me to say that many others I was detained with died by suicide because they simply could not stand it.

I often say that I would have preferred a physical beating to the mental torture that still haunts me to do this day.

The practice of solitary confinement was so routine in California that many individuals were kept in isolation for years at time, some even for decades, with little to no oversight. It took multiple hunger strikes, some that grew as large as 30,000 incarcerated individuals to bring attention to the practice. Despite all of the pressure, and a class-action lawsuit, solitary confinement reform has still eluded California.

This included a monumental effort in 2022 to pass Assembly Bill 2632, the California Mandela Act, authored by Assemblymember Chris Holden. The legislation would bring California into compliance with the United Nations’ so-called Mandela Rules, including limiting solitary confinement to 15 days, and ending the practice for pregnant people and those with certain disabilities. The bill enjoyed broad support in the Legislature and made national headlines on the way to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The governor ultimately vetoed the bill, despite recognizing that the issue was “ripe for reform.”

The bill was reintroduced this year as AB 280. We have continued to campaign for the need to enact comprehensive legislation limiting the use of solitary confinement in jails, prisons and detention facilities.

While Newsom is doing his best to project the image of a progressive leader ready to take on national issues, he has clearly fallen behind his own state and Legislature on this one. Perhaps the most ironic part is that Newsom has side-stepped solitary confinement while doing a full public relations blitz on the closure of San Quentin’s death row and the reimagining of that facility.

Solitary confinement, like death row, is a relic of mass incarceration that has no future in California or any other state in the country. Yet the question remains, how can Newsom support closing death row, but not support alternatives to isolation?

Last month, Newsom announced the creation of the San Quentin Transformation Advisory Council, with the goal of reimagining San Quentin.

While many of us are reserving hope as to recommendations of this council, it is impossible to imagine meaningful change that does not include specific and concrete changes on the issue of solitary confinement.

— Kevin McCarthy is a solitary survivor and a member of the UC Berkeley Underground Scholars. He is also the co-author of “The Cost of Solitary Confinement: Why Ending Isolation in California Prisons Can Save Money and Save Lives.”

There was no doubt more cuts would be needed from the moment Gov. Gavin Newsom submitted his preliminary budget plan for fiscal 2023 last January, basing it on a minimalist $22 billion estimated deficit.

As expected, the deficit turned out to be much more by the time Newsom’s May spending plan revision appeared — it’s now pegged at $31.5 billion.

So more cuts are proposed as budget negotiations between the governor and legislators continue. Afterschool programs will likely endure a small slicing. Public schools themselves will probably suffer a cut between 1 percent and 2 percent, somewhere north of $1 billion out of the previous $108 billion. Prisons will see a reduction, but not commensurate with lowered inmate population. Even Newsom’s pet plans to fight climate change will take about a $6 billion hit.

But the single cut that appears most merited, from a place where many billions of previous dollars have been sunk, is the $2 billion reduction for mass transit, down to a “mere” $5.7 billion for building new lines.

From the moment this emerged in January, the transit systems’ most fervent advocate in Sacramento, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, pronounced it an unmitigated disaster. The cut, he said, “could lead to signifi-

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cant service cuts, which is a downward death spiral for some (transit) agencies.”

Wiener upped his rhetorical ante after the May revise. “If we don‘t address the transit fiscal cliff, we will see massive and devastating service cuts, harming the millions of Californians who rely on transit to get to work, school or the grocery store.”

The “fiscal cliff” is another term for the fact that federal pandemic relief funds expire soon, meaning transit agencies will need to stand on their own much more unless the state bails them out. Newsom appears to want the light rail and bus systems to vastly increase their self funding.

That won’t happen until and unless the systems become cleaner and safer. “Riding the MTA in Los

Angeles or Bay Area

Rapid Transit … is putting your life at risk,” wrote Jon Coupal, head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn., in a recent essay.

To many potential riders, that looks correct.

Riders see frequent gang presence on light rail trains, sniff strong urine odors in some cars and occasionally, unpredictably, encounter violence on the big systems.

Neither BART nor the MTA has come close to regaining the ridership they had before the pandemic. Shifts of white collar workers to home offices account for only part of the deficit, which at last reading saw BART carrying barely 60 percent of its pre-pandemic passenger load.

Without those tens of thousands of paying passengers, the big urban systems — which seem continually to build extensions — can’t possibly survive on their own without massive service cuts like Wiener predicts.

Wiener, of course, doesn’t mention one of the key reasons he does not want cuts in transit service levels no matter how many riders switch back to their individual vehicles:

Over several years of steadfast advocacy, he has made himself the face of everdenser housing in California, even while an abundance of vacancy signs decorating

most new apartment buildings seems to proclaim them unneeded or unwanted.

Bills written or endorsed by Wiener and legislative allies like fellow Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley favor lowering or eliminating parking requirements in new buildings, thus allowing more dwelling units. Their theory is that residents of buildings near rail stops and major bus lines will always use public transit and not drive themselves.

But this is not New York. The folks legislators expect to ride transit exclusively will not unless the big systems earn their patronage. All this is beginning to create severe parking shortages in some places.

It is further proof that just because a few legislators convince themselves something will happen does not make it so.

Which means Newsom would be well advised to stick to his guns and stay with his planned cut in transit funding, at least until the systems get more policing, more sanitation and more safety in general, and thus attract more riders.

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

“Concerned parents” parent their own children. They do not unilaterally attempt to remove choices from other parents and children. “Concerned parents” make decisions for their own families; they do not attempt to overstep and make decisions for all families.

A group attempting to masquerade as “concerned parents” are currently agitating in our community, attempting to have the LGBTQ+ curriculum in our school district changed, trying to have aspects of Davis Pride curtailed, denying and demeaning the lived experience of trans adolescents, and — most recently — angling to have books removed from our public library.

All over the country, Moms for Liberty are attempting to impose their narrow, judgmental ideas of “appropriateness” on

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the rest of us, and are engaging in culture war tactics on the backs of some of the most vulnerable humans in our community (particularly trans adolescents, who are prone to some of the highest suicide rates in the nation).

It is disheartening to see the extent to which otherwise reasonable, well-educated people in Davis are being swayed by the Moms for Liberty propaganda. I encourage all Davisites to read up on this organization, and note that it is not an organic grassroots organization of concerned parents, but rather an astroturfed 501 C 4 (a designation that allows a nonprofit to participate more directly in politics) that seeks to impose a narrow, judgmental, and extremist religious viewpoint on the rest of us.

Furthermore, as recent articles in the Miami Herald have noted, Moms for Liberty has ties to white supremacist/ white nationalist organizations such as the Proud Boys, who are not above using violence to achieve their political goals, and who have an explicit goal of dismantling pluralistic, multicultural democracy

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

U.S. Senate

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

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in this country.

I urge Davisites to do their homework on the Moms for Liberty and these issues. Do not allow this authoritarian group to get a further toehold here to spread their anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda in a community that has been welcoming of and respectful to diverse humans and viewpoints for at least the 20-plus years I have been a resident.

Kendra Smith Davis

Teachable moments

As a teacher, I had many teachable moments that were unplanned but necessary. I do hope the teacher from Birch Lane whose students decorated the street crossing with chalk, took time for a teachable moment after the art was removed. We teachers are human and make mistakes. Those mistakes are perfect for teachable moments in our classrooms.

John Clark Davis

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

House of Representatives

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

Folks legislators expect to ride transit exclusively will not unless the big systems earn their patronage.

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Lacrosse

UCD’s Isidor gets contract extension

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Leading the UC Davis women’s lacrosse into its new era in the PAC-12 will be head coach Suzanne Isidor, who has signed a multi-year contract extension through the 2028 season, UCD Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca announced Wednesday.

“We are eagerly anticipating the start of PAC-12 play in the upcoming season, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have Suzanne Isidor at the helm, guiding our program into this next chapter,” DeLuca said. “Under her exceptional leadership, her team has consistently achieved remarkable victories, setting numerous milestones throughout her tenure.

“With great confidence, we believe that the brightest days are yet to come for UC Davis lacrosse,” DeLuca

continued. “Suzanne is a vital figure within our campus community, exemplifying the qualities of a true leader. The remarkable team culture and chemistry she has cultivated within our department serve as a shining example for others to follow.”

Isidor has been excellent in her six seasons at the helm since she came to Davis ahead of the 2018 season. She has posted an impressive 45-35 record, good for the second-best winning percentage (.563) in program history.

A three-time Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) Coach of the Year (2018, 2019, 2021), Isidor captured her first conference title in 2021, leading the Aggies to a program-best 12-4 record.

“I want to thank Rocko and the administration for the opportunity to continue to do what I love at such

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a special place,” Isidor said. “I have been so lucky to coach and work with such dedicated, smart, passionate people. The foundation has been laid to enter a new chapter in the highly competitive PAC-12 Conference, and I look forward to the challenge.

“The players and their families have been a dream to work with and I’m so happy to continue our growth together.”

Isidor instantly built a winning culture when she took the reins in 2018, posting an 8-6 record, improving on the prior season’s mark of 6-11. Since 2018, the Aggies have enjoyed winning seasons in five of the last six years.

She has created a prolific offensive attack as UCD scored 14.71 goals-per-game in 2023, which ranked 15th in the nation.

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He also broke J.T. O’Sullivan’s record with 21 300-yard games and ranks second to O’Sullivan in career touchdowns with 88.

Maier isn’t the only former Aggie quarterback starting the 2023 season in the CFL.

Khari Jones begins his first campaign with the Ottawa Redblacks as the

offensive coordinator and assistant head coach.

Jones played 11 seasons in the professional ranks and was the 2011 CFL Most Outstanding Player. Ottawa opens the season

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Additionally, Pepper added himself to the to the impressive 1,000 career points list, passing Preston Neumayr to take the top-third spot on the list with 1,602 career points.

He was named to this year’s All-Big West First Team. Additionally, Pepper was named to the NABC Division 1 All-District First Team.

This year, the Dr. Hubert Heitman Award for Female Athlete of the Year was handed-out to two deserving student-athletes.

Brianna Weidler of the track & field and crosscountry teams and junior Anna Dethlefson of the softball team. The award goes to a female student that has distinguished herself as an athlete and has finished at least one season of eligibility at UCD.

Weidler earns the award after an incredible year in both track & field and cross country.

Last fall, Weidler set the Aggie record in the 5000m with a time of 15 minutes, 48.57 seconds at the Bryan Clay Invitational.

She claimed the Big West Individual cross-country title when she torched the Agricultural Operations 6k with a time of 19:28.6.

on Saturday against the Montreal Alouettes, the team he previously served as the head coach.

She captured the MPSF indoor title in the 3,000m and completed the trifecta as she won the 5,000m with a time of 16:09.74 in the Big West Track & Field Championships. Weidler earned the 2022 Big-West Cross Country Athlete of the Year. Dethlefson earned the award after her recordbreaking season for the Aggies.

Dethlefson broke the program’s stolen base record with 40 during the 2023 season.

She tallied 15 doubles and 94 total bases, breaking both of the program’s Division I single-season records in those categories.

She paced the conference in slugging percentage (.627), doubles (15) and stolen bases (40). She ranked second in batting average (.407), OPS (1.104), runs (43) and hits (61).

The Sarah Sumpter Perseverance Award was handed to senior goalkeeper Sophia Noble of the nationally-ranked women’s water polo team.

The award is earned by those who have shown perseverance after a life-altering circumstance, while providing hope and inspiration for others who face similar situations.

Noble earns the award for her outstanding comeback season as the Aggies goalkeeper.

This season, she reached a career milestone as she became the UCD all-time saves leader, finishing with 748 stops in her five years.

Power surge not enough for River Cats

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

WEST SACRAMENTO — Jacob

Nottingham, Luis Matos and Michael Gigliotti each homered, but the Sacramento River Cats’ power surge was no match for Las Vegas as the Aviators won 8-5 in game two of their series.

Following up a pitchers’ duel that ended in a 2-1 victory for Las Vegas on Tuesday, both teams got off to a much faster start on Wednesday.

The first inning saw Aviators leadoff hitter Max Schuemann reach first base on a walk, advance to second on a passed ball and score on an RBI single to left field from Jordan Diaz.

In the next at-bat, Cody Thomas launched the first pitch he saw over the left-center field wall to give Las Vegas a 3-0 lead.

The River Cats responded in the bottom half of the frame when Tyler Fitzgerald singled to center field, scoring Bryce Johnson, who doubled and stole third base to set up his team’s first run.

Sacramento shortened its deficit to one run in the fourth inning on Nottingham’s solo home run to left-center field, and pulled ahead 4-3 after Matos drilled a two-run home run to the same part of the ballpark. Matos’ blast was enough for Aviators manager Fran Riordan to pull starter Adrian Martinez after 3.2 innings.

Reliever Joe Weiland entered the game and surrendered a single to Fitzgerald, before striking out David Villar to retire the side.

River Cats manager Dave Brund-

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age inserted reliever Daniel Tillo on the mound to begin the fifth inning, replacing starter Drew Stroman, who gave up three runs over four innings.

After Las Vegas loaded the bases on a pair of singles and a walk, Yohel Ponzo tied the game 4-4 on a sacrifice fly to right field. The Aviators took the lead on the next at-bat when Dermis Garcia scored on a wild pitch from Tillo.

Las Vegas extended its lead to 8-4 in the sixth inning on a threerun from Tyler Soderstrom, which led Sacramento to replace Tillo (1-6), who was credited with the loss. Clay Helvey took the mound for the River Cats and struck out two batters to end the frame.

Sacramento added its final run in the eighth inning when Gigliotti hit a solo home run over the center field wall.

The Aviators turned to reliever Rico Garcia for the ninth inning, and the right-hander delivered by inducing a pair of flyouts and a groundout to secure the victory for Las Vegas. Garcia earned his fourth save of the season, while Weiland (4-4) picked up the win.

Sacramento (26-33) and Las Vegas (28-31) will face off three more times before the series ends on Sunday. — Henry Krueger is a Gonzaga University and working as a correspondent for The Enterprise this spring and summer. He was an intern at the newspaper in 2022. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.

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Ex-Aggie posts solid numbers in CFL loss

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Former UC Davis quarterback Jake Maier, who was a Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year, and the Calgary Stampeders had their Canadian Football League opener on Thursday.

The Stampeders played the BC Lions, who posted a 25-15 win to start the season.

Maier completed 19 of 35 passes for 160 yards, a touchdown and interception in the loss.

Maier has appeared in 29 career games over the course of two seasons for Calgary. The La Habra native has started 12 contests and thrown for 3,600 yards and 19 touchdowns, sporting a 71.1 completion

Student-athletes earn awards

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percentage. Last season, Maier helped lead the Stampeders to the Western Semifinal and a 12-6 overall record. He threw for a CFL careerhigh 2,389 yards and 14 touchdowns, completing 74.7 percent of his passes in nine starts.

His completion percentage ranked second in the league and his 106.6 rating was third overall.

Maier enjoyed a recordsetting career for the Aggies.

After transferring to UCD from Long Beach City College, Maier is the career leader in attempts (1,495), completions (992) and yards (11,163).

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On Sunday, UC Davis studentathletes were honored for their hard work and dedication at the A.G.G.I.E., which is the Aggie Gunrock Gala Idol Extravaganza, an annual year-end student-athlete charity event, organized by Intercollegiate Athletics.

The A.G.G.I.E saw the announcement of the ICA student-athlete awards. In which the W.P. Lindley Award for Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Colby E. “Babe” Slater Award for Male Athlete of the Year, Dr. Hubert Heitman Award for Female Athlete of the Year and Sarah Sumpter Perseverance Award were handed out to their respective winners.

The W.P. Lindley Award for Scholar-Athlete of the Year was awarded to junior Amber Nusser of the Aggies equestrian team. An award given to an outstanding student-athlete at UCD who has

attended for at least two academic years. Nusser is the first member of the equestrian team in program history to be honored with the W.P. Lindley Award.

During the 2023 season, Nusser maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA which was honored with accolades such as earning a placement on the 2023 APHA NCEA All-Academic

First Team and ECAC All-Academic First Team.

Additionally, her reigning prowess in the arena garnered two MOP’s and a spot on the ECAC AllConference Reining team.

Her first MOP came against TCU for a 72-reining-point and her next in the playoffs against Delaware State for 137-reining-point. She went 5-6 in events on the season and helped the Equestrian team to its first ECAC Championship in program history.

The Colby E. “Babe” Slater Award

for Male Athlete of the Year was given to senior Elijah Pepper of the UCD men’s basketball team. The award is given to a male student that has enjoyed outstanding success and finished at least one season of eligibility at UCD.

This is the first time Pepper has received the Colby E. “Babe” Slater Award and it comes off a historic season for the prolific shootingguard. During the 2022-23 season, Pepper averaged his collegiatecareer highs of 22.5 points on 45% shooting.

He broke a 35-year old record for most points (606) in a season previously held by Randy DeBortoli in the 1987-88 season. Pepper scored an immense 697-points on the season, beating DeBortoli’s record by 91-points and cementing himself as the Aggies number-one scorer in a season.

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River Cats pitcher Daniel Tillo throws a pitch to a Las Vegas Aviators batter in Wednesday’s game at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento. To view more photos, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

uC Davis athletiCs/Courtesy photo Jake Maier, seen here during a UC Davis football road game, posted solid numbers for the Calgary Stampede on Thursday night.

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