The Davis Enterprise Sunday, July 2, 2023

Striking the right chord

CSU proposes regular tuition hikes

By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters

Multiple years of tuition increases are likely heading to California State University students as the 23-campus system seeks desperately needed cash to afford its academic mission.

The institution on Thursday published its proposal to begin raising undergraduate and graduate school tuition by 6% annually starting in the fall 2024 academic year.

For undergraduates, that would mean an increase of $342 in the first year. However, nearly 60% of Cal State’s students would be unaffected by the tuition hikes because they receive state financial aid.

Pianos come, and pianos go, but the music keeps on

By Monica Stark

The public pianos that pop up every summer around Davis sometimes seem to have their own life cycle.

The mystery of the Arboretum’s Wyatt Deck public piano: Why is it no longer fun to play? Piano players have complained that it

hasn’t been sounding too great. Falling apart from the inside, perhaps this year’s inclement weather is to blame, but according to its piano tuner Trent Schreiner, various possible occurrences can make it difficult to predict what’s happened to the Wyatt Deck piano, especially since it’s under a covered structure.

A member of the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild — whose mission is continued education for tuning, repairing and rebuilding pianos — Schreiner says there are “a lot of old pianos” that “don’t really hold their values. Once something bad happens to them, if they get rained on, it’s

not worth going to the trouble of fixing their insides.” He doesn’t know what’s to become of the Wyatt Deck piano.

As old pianos are given away, Schreiner says it’s easier to get another used one than try to fix an old one that has no name brand that no one wants to fix.

The public pianos like the one on the Wyatt Deck are part of In the Key of Davis, a public arts

See PIANOS, Page A6

Firefighter goes for gold, again

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Bryan ten Bosch was relatively new to the Davis Fire Department when his crew responded to the fatal shooting of Police Officer Natalie Corona on the night of Jan. 10, 2019.

The harrowing experience left ten Bosch struggling with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. To cope, the former college decathlete turned to exercise to ease his anxiety.

“It totally turned my life around,” said ten Bosch, who began competing in track-and-field competitions for athletes representing law-enforcement and first-responder agencies.

Last year, he took home gold medals from the United States Police & Fire Games track-and-field pentathlon in San Diego, as well as the World Police & Fire Games in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

He’s on track for a repeat performance this year, already winning gold at this year’s U.S. games on June 10. Ten Bosch heads to the world competition in Winnipeg, Canada, in early August.

“It felt phenomenal,” ten Bosch, a five-year Davis Fire Department veteran, said of his latest goldmedal win.

The one-day competition

See GOLD, Page A6

Tuition for those who pay would rise steadily, from $6,084 in the first year of the hike to $7,682 by 2028-29.

The series of hikes has no end date; instead, the proposal said Cal State leaders would reassess the plan after five years.

The system’s Board of Trustees will hear the sweeping proposal at the July 11 meeting, and, according to the agenda, vote on whether to approve the tuition increases in

See CSU, Page A6

Empower Yolo helps strengthen communities

By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer

Many in Yolo County are living in a variety of dire circumstances, fear and with uncertain futures. That’s why for the past 46 years, Empower Yolo has stood as a proverbial lighthouse of hope, guiding those living in dangerous life waters to its safe haven of lifechanging services.

Empower Yolo was founded in 1977 and originally known as the Yolo County Sexual Assault Center. It provided crisis intervention services, and over the

decades, developed a litany of other services to aid victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, stalking and more. With such a diversity of offerings, the organization opted to change its name to ‘Empower Yolo’ to fully encompass the services it provides.

“On one hand, we’re a family resource center, but we offer essential resources to anyone in Yolo County, not just families,” volunteer and community engagement specialist Edith Bikoba said. “We have a clothing

See EMPOWER, Page A6

Courtesy photo Davis Firefighter Bryan ten Bosch shows off the gold medals he earned at the U.S. and World Police & Fire Championships.

MoniCa stark/enterprise photo

The public piano in central park features birds and a blue butterfly painted by Drawn and painted by students in Kyle Monhollen’s Davis High School art class.

Enterprise staff writer

Briefly

Shooting, chase halt I-5 traffic

A shooting and pursuit Thursday night shut down southbound Interstate 5 in northern Yolo County, according to California Highway Patrol officials in Williams.

The CHP reported that the shooting, which injured three people, occurred at about 5:15 p.m. in Colusa County. The suspect then fled southbound by car into the Dunnigan area, where officers arrested him after using a spike strip to disable his vehicle.

That person’s identity was not immediately available. Meanwhile, the three victims hospitalized with injuries that were life-threatening to one person and not threatening to the other two, the CHP said.

The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

Project Linus gathers July 12

Join Project Linus to make blankets for children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need at the Davis Senior Center on Wednesday, July 12, from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Members take home donated fabrics and yarn each month to complete a blanket.

For information and yarn donations, contact Diane McGee at dmmyolo@gmail.com.

Revisiting Fourth of July memories

* Editor’s note: The following is a repeat of one of Bob Dunning’s favorite Fourth of July columns.

For a variety of reasons, the Fourth of July ranks right up with Thanksgiving when I’m asked about my favorite holidays.

While most holidays come and go, my memories of the Fourth go back to my days as a kid growing up in this very small town that had but one elementary school and absolutely no stop lights.

There was a kiddie parade in those days, but it was always led by the flag-bearing color guard from the local ag campus. I presume they were in ROTC, but I can’t say for sure.

One year, however, they got called away at the last minute, and my brother, who was carrying a very large flag as part of a family “Spirit of ’76” entry, was summoned into service to lead the parade. It was the first peacetime draft in American history.

In the evening, we’d all gather at Aggie Field (now Toomey) for all sorts of “community” awards, plus the fireworks. The high school was practically across the street, but it didn’t have a suitable place for people to get together.

As they went through the several awards, the tension would mount about who would win. I think I was all of 8 when I realized

that batting .237 in the Davis Little League was not going to earn me “Davis Athlete of the Year” recognition in this decidedly hometown ceremony.

My Fourth of July experiences haven’t all been in Davis, though they seem to have been remarkably similar no matter where I was.

One exception was the Fourth I spent on a tennis excursion in Scotland, where the locals kept referring to me and my playing partner, a Davis legend named Brett Stone, as “Yanks.” They also served haggis for dinner and there were absolutely no fireworks to be found. But at least the natives were friendly despite having ugly Americans in their midst.

One other year I found myself on foreign soil in Victoria, B.C., with my red-headed bride of six days, expecting to celebrate the Fourth in proper style. We had been there three days earlier for an incredible Canada Day celebration where we sang “O Canada” with the crowd at the Inner Harbour

Bogue joins chase for 3rd Senate District seat

McNaughton Newspapers

FAIRFIELD — Dixon councilman and former mayor Thom Bogue has announced he will seek the state 3rd Senate District seat.

"As a resident of Solano County for over 40 years, and former mayor, vice mayor and current sitting City Council member for the city of Dixon, I can say I understand first hand the concerns of my constituents and the people who elected me to serve in their best interests," Bogue said in a statement announcing his campaign.

The Republican also noted his service experience with such agencies as the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Solano County Water Agency, the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District and the Solano County Transportation Agency.

"I want to be clear with you, a voter, that while I am running as a Republican, I do not make decisions based on party affiliations; rather, I make decisions based on what I believe serves the common interest of those people who elected me to serve them," Bogue said in a statement.

He identified the ongoing homelessness epidemic, protecting rights and freedoms – from freedom of speech to "a woman’s right to bodily autonomy" – and making District 3 "livable for working individuals

and families" as his highest priorities.

and met Joe Canada himself.

We decided to stay over for the Fourth, only to learn that it’s not a particularly big holiday in the Great North.

My birthplace of Portland is another great place to spend the Fourth, what with the greatest fireworks display on the West Coast erupting for nearly an hour from the exact geographic center of the Columbia River separating Oregon and Washington.

I’ve had memorable Fourths in Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls and Elko and Bend, not to mention getting hopelessly lost on a dirt road at the top of Goat Mountain in Colusa County with the Red-Headed Girl of My Dreams. If you’re going to get lost as darkness falls on the Fourth of July, she’s not a bad choice of company.

But what really got my Fourth of July juices flowing was reading Bruce Gallaudet’s account just last Thursday of the 10-year-old slugger from Woodland who hit three consecutive home runs in a tight win over the Davis National 9and 10-year-old All-Stars.

Reminded me of that legendary Davis Little League phenom Jimmy Keylor, who also smacked three home runs in a single game long ago as the Davis All-Stars took three giant steps toward Williamsport before finally falling. (It was single elimination in those

days.)

In an exhibition game between a pair of Davis teams on the Fourth of July of that same year, I was on the mound in relief, nursing a 5-3 lead — mostly off the powerful bat of Larry Caster — when Keylor came to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the final inning.

Keylor was short and compact and incredibly powerful. He used a redwood tree instead of a baseball bat. He was the most feared Little Leaguer in the Sacramento Valley.

I actually considered walking him intentionally to avoid the inevitable. Sure, it would have forced in a run, but I’d still have a 5-4 lead and at least a theoretical chance of pulling out the win.

As the crowd sat in hushed silence I threw my very best fastball — at least 25 mph — straight down the middle. Keylor smiled as it arrived and blasted it halfway to Dixon, but I did manage to shake his hand as he rounded third and headed for home. Lucky for me, he later became my teammate.

As much as I wished at the time that I’d been able to set him down on strikes or at least induce a long fly ball to center, when I look back now, I wouldn’t change a thing.

What he did that day was memorable. For both of us.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Rural traffic stop leads to drug bust

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Police Department Facebook post.

the synthetic opioid fentanyl “due to its appearance,” police said.

BOGUE

Hat in the ring

The Senate Office is currently held by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, who will term out at the end of 2024. The district includes all of Solano County as well as all or parts of Yolo, Napa, Sacramento, Sonoma and Contra Costa counties.

Bogue is the fourth candidate to announce his candidacy.

The others, all Democrats, are Vallejo Councilwoman Rozzana Verder Aliga, who has Dodd's endorsement; Rohnert Park councilwoman and former mayor, Jackie Elward; and former West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.

"During my tenure, being a three-time elected official, I have strived to be transparent about both my public and personal life, because I believe you deserve to know the person you’re voting for. I have worked in agriculture, finance, Social Services for Solano County, and currently, am a small business owner for the past 18 years," Bogue said in a statement.

He and his wife, Janelle, have been married for 23 years and have nine adult children.

A routine traffic stop resulted in the arrests of two Oakland residents on multiple drug-related charges, Woodland police reported this week.

An officer monitoring the area of County Roads 98 and 25A southwest of Woodland stopped a speeding Nissan Altima at about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Woodland

“K-9 Officer Shepard and his K-9 partner Ricky arrived on scene as cover,” the post said. “During the stop, K-9 Ricky alerted to the presence of a controlled substance inside the vehicle.”

A search of the vehicle allegedly revealed 400 grams of methamphetamine and 16.1 grams of cocaine, which police believe was blended with

Police arrested the driver, 28-year-old Miglan Escoto-Canaca, and passenger Denilson ArchagaAndino, 30, on charges of possessing a controlled substance, possessing a controlled substance for sale and conspiracy. Escoto-Canaca faces additional counts of speeding and driving without a license.

Going now from Housewares to housing?

The former Davis Ace Hardware housewares space is the most recent downtown property being proposed for a mixed-use housing project.

Plans for 240 G St. call for demolition of the 22,000-square-foot building, replacing it with a six-story one with about 139,000 square feet. It would include 120 apartments and six ground-floor live-work lofts. There would be one level of underground parking for 80 cars – some of them stacked with a mechanical parking system. The flats would be a mix of studios, one- and two-bedroom units.

If the developer obtains quick approval, the application said it could begin construction in the spring and complete it in spring 2026. View the proposal here

http://bit.ly/240GSt.

I warned you in my June 16 column to watch for other multifamily housing proposals that may be on their way for at least two other large vacant storefronts downtown. This was one of them.

Already, the city has proposals for a five-story project on the former Hibbert Lumber Co. property at 500 G St., and a seven-story complex to replace the former Regal Cinemas Davis Stadium 5 and surrounding businesses at 400 G St.

Why all at once? The city’s Downtown Davis Specific Plan, calling for up to 1,000 new housing units downtown, became official in February. Also, rules eased in 2020 for housing development applications in California (SB 330), to relieve the state’s housing emergency.

The pre-application for the Ace housewares project was filed with the city on June 22 on behalf of G Partners LLC of Oakland, which stated it was in escrow to purchase the property from Jennifer Anderson. The

former owner of Davis Ace Hardware now lists her address as Fernandia, Florida. The firm representing G Partners is Miller Starr Regalia, a Walnut Creek law firm that specializes in real estate.

People are still missing Cindy’s Kow Thai, which closed in October after the owner and landlord couldn’t agree on new lease terms. On Wednesday, I checked in with owner Jerry Umnartyutithum, who is still looking for a place to reopen.

“I have been trying to find a location outside downtown (for) the past eight months (and) unfortunately cannot get one,” he said. “There are a couple of locations downtown that want me to go in, but I don't want to be downtown because half of our customers came with a walker, so they can’t park three or four blocks away.”

Cindy’s opened in 1973 at 4823 Chiles Road, in South Davis. The former restaurant building remains vacant.

Vegans and vegetarians are excited that The Butcher’s Son, a vegan delicatessen serving Berkeley and Los Angeles, is looking for a suitable spot in Davis. I am in communication with the owner, who said he’ll let me know when a deal is signed.

After being downtown for 17 years, Beautiful Massage recently moved. Formerly at 204

F St., Suite E, its new address is 1520 E. Covell Blvd, Suite 3. It reopened in February in new spot, esthetician Becky Hu said. Services include body massage – specializing in back and neck pain – and facials. Foot massage is coming soon, she said. Davis Refillery is closing. The online store launched in 2021, offering weekly local delivery, owners Amanda Banks and Katie McCann said at the time. It sells environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products in refillable containers. I reached out to the owners to see if they’d set a closing date but I didn’t get an immediate reply. I’d presume it’s while supplies last. Visit https:// www.thedavisrefillery.com/.

On June 27, Kuk Sool Won

Martial Art Center in Woodland changed its name to Vitality

Martial Arts. The school is at 618 Cottonwood St. It said it’s “committed to teaching high quality classes. … Much of what you see on and off the mat will remain the same.”

The change makes it an affiliate of United Mirae Kuk Sool, under its founder, Master Sungjin Suh. The update means “more opportunities that align with their vision of what they would like to offer to our community,” a news release said.

Woodland has a new dog groomer in town. Tails of the City Dog Salon is open at 55 W. Main St., Woodland. It also has a location in Vacaville. Visit https://www.tailsofthecitydogsalon.com/ for details.

While I appreciate your messages, this column is not my fulltime job. To check the status of a business project, please review my paywall-free Google spreadsheet, which includes hundreds of Davis businesses. It’s at https://bit.ly/DavisBusinesses.

The most active tabs are Restaurants Open, Restaurants Closed and Coming Soon. The Enterprise website is a great way to search for past coverage too.

— Wendy Weitzel is a Davis writer who launched this Sunday business column in 2001, when she was The Enterprise’s managing editor. Check for frequent updates on her Comings & Goings Facebook and Instagram accounts. If you know of a business coming or going in the area, email news tips to wendyedit@ gmail.com

UCD ranked among top universities worldwide SAFE hands out $24K in scholarships

By Julia Ann Easley Enterprise staff writer

UC Davis ranks in the top 9% of universities worldwide in the 2024 edition of the QS World University Rankings released June 27.

The campus ranks fifth in the nation and 16th in the world in the new sustainability indicator evaluating the university’s social and environmental impact.

It accounts for 5% of the overall ranking. QS split the measures into environmental sustainability –including sustainable institutions, sustainable education and sustainable research – and social impact, which includes equality, knowledge exchange, educational impact, employability and opportunities, and quality of life.

Worldwide, UC Davis ranks 132nd overall among 2,963 institutions analyzed and 1,499 with published rankings.

The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings take into account factors including reputation among academics and employers, ratios of international faculty and international students, research citations and the overall faculty-tostudent ratio.

UC Davis and rankings

A world-class university, UC Davis is highly ranked for how it transforms students’ lives, the impact of its research, the excellence

of its academic programs, sustainability and more. See highlights on our rankings page.

The university performs self-evaluations and also appreciates the value of third-party assessments. However, ranking methods vary, change over time and can be subjective. UC Davis focuses on those rankings that most closely align with its mission and values — including serving the public good, inclusiveness and equity, and social mobility — and in national rankings looks most closely at its standing among public universities.

UC Davis encourages prospective students and their families to weigh rankings among other factors in their college decision, talk with counselors and UC Davis admissions advisors, and, if possible, visit the campus.

— UC Davis News

Enterprise staff

FOLSOM — SAFE Credit Union AWARDED $24,000 in scholarships to 12 Amador, El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento area 2023 high school graduates.

Doubling its annual award from previous years, SAFE gave each recipient a $2,000 scholarship.

"Congratulations to this year’s remarkable group of scholarship award winners,” says SAFE Credit Union President and CEO Faye Nabhani. “We are proud to support you in your educational journey toward rewarding and fulfilling careers.”

SAFE offers 10 high school scholarships to its members and to two SAFE employee family members each year.

This year’s winners pictured are Dulce Terrazas Villa, (Bella Vista High School), John Hayes (Whitney High School), Grace Gonzales (Roseville High School), Analaura Gasca, (Center High School); (Middle LEFT to RIGHT) Derek Larson (Christian Brothers High School),

Shamar Knox, (C.K. McClatchy High School), Rosalinda Sanchez-Gonzales, (Union Mine High School), Sofia Perez-Lanza, (St. Francis High School); (Bottom LEFT to RIGHT) Abigail Rose, (Mesa Verde High School), Emma Lee, (Amador High School), Olivia Moniz, (Rocklin High School), and Tait de Boer (C.K. MClatchy High School).

The scholarships — offered to high school seniors with membership ties to SAFE and who plan to continue their education at college, community college, trade school or university — were awarded based on grade point average, personal statements, and letters of recommendation.

“Congratulations to this year’s scholarship recipients — you rocked it,” says SAFE community impact specialist Brit Kelleher. “Our scholarship committee was very

impressed with your award submissions, and we are so happy to be able to support you as you further pursue your education.”

Since first offering the scholarships more than 20 years ago, SAFE has awarded over $200,000 to students living in the 13 Northern California counties the credit union serves.

To be eligible, high school applicants must attend schools in Alameda, Amador, Butte, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties and be members of SAFE, or their parents or guardians are members of SAFE. SAFE annually gives the awards as part of its commitment to the credit union principle to share its success with communities, as well as its three pillars of philanthropy: education, health and veterans.

(Courtesy rendering)[/Caption]

An apartment complex with live-work units on the ground floor, four stories of apartments above that, and underground parking is proposed for 240 G St., formerly Davis Ace housewares.

KELLEHER Community impact specialist

NABHANI SAFE president and CEO

candidate may file nomination papers with the Registrar of Voters Office located at 675 Texas Street Suite 2600 in Fairfield CA The date you may file nomination papers begins July 17 2023 and ends August 11, 2023 at 5:00 P M

Candidates can make an appointment with the Registrar of Voters at: https://www solanocounty com/depts/rov/candidate info n file rs/appointment request asp NOTICE is further given that an appointment for an office will b e m a d e i n t h e e v e n t n o c a n d i d a te h

mittee Participation Requirement: The County adopted a policy that one of requirements to be deemed a responsive bidder is that when submitting a bid at or in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000) the bidder must then be participating in a joint apprenticeship committee on public works projects

The California Department of Industrial Relations defines a joint apprenticeship committee as a committee made up of equal number of members from labor and management Bidders submitting bids at or in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000) must complete a California Department of Industrial Relations DAS-7 form that documents the bidder’s participation in a joint apprenticeship committee Bids that are not accompanied by such proof of participation will be rejected The County will verify participation prior to the award 7/2 7/7 #2341

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staff report(s) and the environmental document for the project(s) are on file in the office of the Yolo County Community Services Department 292 West Beamer Street Woodland California and available online on the Friday prior to the meeting at www yolocounty org/government/generalgovernment-departments/community-services/planning-division/planning-commission-information/planning-comm issionmeeting-materials All interested parties should appear and will be provided an opportunity during the public hearing to present relevant information

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 65009(b)(2) and other provisions of law any lawsuit challenging the approval of a project described in this notice shall be limited to only those issues raised at the public hearing or described in written correspondence delivered for consideration before the hearing is closed 7/2 #2336

Yolo Community Foundation announces David Breaux scholarship

Special to The Enterprise

The Yolo Community Foundation announced the creation of the David Breaux Memorial Scholarship.

Breaux was a beloved local resident who was killed during a recent series of violent crimes in Davis, sometimes nicknamed “The Compassion Guy” because of the more than 10 years he spent gathering definitions for the word “compassion” and championing the concept in the local community. Community members are invited to contribute to the scholarship in Breaux’s honor at https://sacregcf.org/ davidbreaux.

The scholarship will be open to high school seniors and first year college students who demon-

Obituaries

Carolyn Crowder Pfanner passed away on June 22, 2023, peacefully in her sleep.

Born Oct. 27, 1942, in Washington, D.C., Carolyn was the daughter of Elizabeth Barnard Crowder and Robert McPherson Crowder. Carolyn was predeceased by her husband, Ernest (Ernie) J. Pfanner Jr. in 2001, just a few weeks prior to what would have been their 30th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her brothers Scott Peyton Crowder and Robb McPherson (Patricia) Crowder of San Diego.

Carolyn was the beloved mother to two daughters, Rachel Elizabeth Wulff and Rebecca Marie (Steve) Robinson, both of Davis, and appreciated the friendship offered by her husband Ernie’s sons from his previous marriage, William and Hans (deceased) Pfanner. Carolyn enjoyed her grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Growing up, Carolyn’s family lived in Falls Church, Va., where the family built a small home in the woods beside a creek. They then moved to Hawaii for about a year, where her father worked for the National Cash Register company. She told stories of being able to attend Aina Haina Elementary School in Honolulu without shoes and how this was such a novel idea to a young child.

Moving back to the mainland, they ended up in El Cajon, where she attended Chase Avenue Elementary School. The walk to school necessitated traversing a hill on the way to and from school. It was during this walk to school that Carolyn befriended a woman tending to goats, and her passion for animals was sparked, volunteering to clean stalls and show goats at the county fair in

strate financial need, are graduating from Yolo County high schools, are pursuing higher education, and demonstrate an abiding commitment to social justice and compassionate service.

The scholarship is a fund at the Yolo Community Foundation, which is an affiliate of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. The founding donation came from a local couple, both retired professors. According to the couple, “David was such a gentle man, and his dedication to exploring the nature of compassion was inspiring. We wanted to see his curiosity, intelligence, and commitment to compassion live on.”

According to Maria Breaux,

exchange for hands-on experience with the animals.

Carolyn used the opportunity to learn as much as possible from Mrs. Jessie Van Hook, and this experience was a guiding light for her life. The family settled in San Diego when she was in junior high and she began breeding fish and parakeets and selling them to a Mission Hills pet shop, where she was a part-time employee.

In high school, her passion for animals and education led to a once-in-a-lifetime internship opportunity at the world-famous San Diego Zoo Hospital. The story of her working with the animals made national news in Parade magazine. Carolyn loved San Diego High School and her time there as a “Caver.” She was editorin-chief of the school paper and president of the girls' honor society, Demoiselles.

Carolyn was awarded both the Kutchin Memorial Scholarahip and an Elmer H. Hughes scholarship and began studies of animal husbandry at UC Davis in 1960. A well-rounded college student, she was a RA in the dorms, Cal club member, Cal Aggie reporter, Regents Scholar, an active member of the Prytanean Honor Society, Picnic Day Hostess, participant in theater productions and an International Club hostess.

From an early age, she was intent on living life to the fullest and connecting with people from all walks of life. She had a genuine concern for people and made a point to keep in correspondence with the people she met throughout the years. She graduated with a degree in Animal Husbandry in 1964.

While she considered the Peace Corps and Veterinary

David Breaux’s sister, “David’s life mission was to spread awareness of compassion. This scholarship continues this goal, and allows a young person to help cultivate, in

School post bachelor work, her love of animals lured her to a ranch in Davis, and her focus shifted to an interest in breeding and training thoroughbred horses for racing. In addition to working with horses, she also worked at the radiobiology lab on the UC Davis campus and waitressed at Mr. B’s Branding Iron restaurant. While doing so, Carolyn was selling fresh vegetables to local restaurants and needed a refrigerated space to hold the produce until delivery day.

This predicament was what created a chance meeting with Ernie Pfanner, and they were wed 30 days later. With a strong partner at her side, she was able to expand the horsebreeding operation, help reopen local Fairfield Elementary School, start a nonprofit transportation company and become a community activist and volunteer.

She touched many lives as “the bus driver who wore a bonnet” and helped thousands of schoolchildren get to and from school after the city of Davis cut student transportation in the 1980s. She then transitioned to a full-time professional driver position with UC Davis Fleet Services and retired in 2014.

A natural-born leader, Carolyn never hesitated to help those in need or serve her community — sharing her vegetables with neighbors and church family, volunteering as a poll watcher, supporting fiscally conservative issues and encouraging others to better educate themselves on issues and to become involved in the community. She believed that all things were possible with education.

The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/ memorial information. Obituaries will be edited for style and grammar. Submissions may be made via www. davisenterprise.com/ obit-form/. For further information about paid obituaries or free death notices, call 530-7560800.

their own ways, a world where everyone treats each other with kindness, empathy, and unconditional love.”

Interested donors may contribute to the scholarship by credit card at https://sacregcf.org/ davidbreaux. Checks can be made out to “David Breaux Memorial Scholarship” and mailed to the Yolo Community Foundation at P.O. Box 1264 Woodland, CA 95776. For information about wire/ACH transfers, or to learn about donating stock or other assets, please contact the Yolo Community Foundation at info@ yolocf.org or 530-312-0593.

The first round of this annual scholarship will open to applicants in December 2023; visit https://www.yolocf.org/

A lifelong learner, she thirsted for knowledge and always took time to share what she was studying. She was very proud of her work with dozens of UC Davis students via internships that taught them animal husbandry and livestock handling skills. Her teaching continued well into retirement as she took on the role of beginning 4-H project leader serving as a mentor to young families.

Carolyn slowed in recent years; however her independent spirit and determination kept her involved — albeit on a limited basis. A series of health complications this past year took her away from the ranching she loved, though her spirit lives on in all the lives she touched.

Scottish Poet Thomas Campbell wrote in his 1825 poem Hallowed Ground “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die” and if this is true, Carolyn’s energy will live on in the many people she impacted over the years.

A celebration of life is planned at the ranch she called home for over 50 years at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 8; Lone Wulff Ranch (26810 County Road 97D, Davis, CA 95616). Interment will be private at the Nicholas Cemetery in Nicholas. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to support 4H Youth in Yolo County in memory of Carolyn Pfanner. Donate to CA 4H Foundation 2801 Second St., Davis, CA 95618.

scholarships/ this fall for details and application instructions.

About the YCF

The Yolo Community Foundation inspires and supports giving and provides philanthropic leadership in Yolo County.

The organization offers donoradvised funds and other philanthropic vehicles, supports local nonprofits with grants and training, fosters volunteerism, and inspires local giving. YCF currently has 100 philanthropic funds valued at $9 million and is an affiliate of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. Visit www.yolocf.org to learn more.

Wendy R. Chason, beloved mother, grandmother, and sister, passed away on Friday, June 2, 2023, at her home in Davis at age 78. She leaves behind her son and daughter-inlaw, Jon and Hilary Chason; daughter and son-in-law, Cait and Chris Lippitt; grandchildren Natalie, Ben, Emily, and Liam; and siblings and sister-in-law, Peter and Aileen Hewitt, and Daria Hewitt.

Wendy was born in Queens, N.Y., on Feb. 4, 1945, to Norman and Harriette Hewitt. Wendy lived in several states with her family before pursuing her education at Wilmington College, Ohio, where she met her beloved husband, Robert (Bob) Chason.

Wendy and Bob lived in many places pursuing their education and careers before settling in Davis in 1979 with their children.

Wendy embraced the Davis community and dedicated her life to making it a special place. As a passionate advocate for education, Wendy served as an elementary and junior high school librarian for over three decades at Patwin Elementary School and Holmes Junior High School. Her commitment to nurturing young minds was unwavering, and her influence extended beyond the classroom. Wendy's enthusiasm and genuine care inspired generations of students to reach their full potential.

Outside of her career, Wendy was active in several community organizations. She was known for her tireless efforts in supporting local charities, volunteering at community events, and advocating for diversity in education and the arts.

Wendy enjoyed spending time with her family and friends in her free time. She adored her grandchildren and cherished her time with them most of all. Gardening, music, and reading were a big part of each day. Wendy also loved traveling; she enjoyed exploring the world with family and friends.

Wendy will be dearly missed by her family, friends, colleagues, and all who had the privilege of knowing her. We will miss Wendy's, kindness, empathy, and unwavering dedication to improving her community. Though she is no longer with us, her spirit lives on in the hearts of those fortunate enough to have crossed paths with her.

A private memorial service to celebrate Wendy's life will occur on Saturday, July 8, on the UC Davis campus. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations to Words Take Wing: Honoring Diversity

Carolyn Crowder Pfanner

Oct. 27, 1942 — June 22, 2023

PFANNER

Wendy R. Chason

Feb. 4, 1945 — June 2, 2023 CHASON

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David Breaux, downtown Davis’ “Compassion Guy” was slain on April 27.

PIANOS: Get out and make your own music

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program that puts painted pianos on the streets of downtown. Sometimes the year-round pianos, like the Wyatt Deck one, will get retuned mid-year if they sound really bad, while the seasonal pianos get tuned once yearly when they come out for the summer, explained Laura Shapiro, founder and manager of the program.

In the event of rain, Shapiro and her family watch the forecast and run around town and cover them if it looks like rain is likely and then take them off once the rain has passed. “If we are going to be gone, we ask for help.”

Shapiro, the mother to Isabelle and Hailey Shapiro, who launched the program in 2015, said in its early years, In the Key of Davis volunteers looked for pianos on Freecycle; as the program has grown in popularity, community members are trying to pawn off their unwanted instru-

ments, Shapiro said. “We have to turn down pianos because we don't have storage space, and there are a lot of people trying to get rid of pianos. My husband checks them out to make sure they are worth taking.”

As of June 13, two new pianos designed by local elementary and high school students have been added to the In the Key of Davis collection around town.

Collaged with “I am From” poems, one of the new pianos, located at the Hunt Boyer Plaza reflects the diversity and uniqueness of sixth-grade students in teacher Amy George’s Birch Lane classroom. “I’m from indecisiveness/From cutting my hair, piercing my ears, and changing my clothes/I am from two homes/ From the flat brown valley, to the green rolling hills.” The origins vary. Another reads: “I am from animals/ From the animals at my house, to the animals I see while … (some get cut off because of the collage, but continue a few words later) I am from all

of these things and more, much more.”

Drawn and painted by students in teacher Kyle Monhollen’s Davis High School art class, images of Davis flora and fauna drape a piano in Central Park, showcasing a crane, flowers and a baby blue butterfly.

The free public piano program for recreational music-making has pianos at the following locations:

n Central Park (corner of Third and C streets)

n Davis Commons (500 First St.)

n Davis Food Co-Op (620 G St.)

n G Street Plaza (between Second and Third streets)

n Hunt-Boyer Plaza (corner of Second and E streets)

n Manetti Shrem Art Museum (245 Old Davis Road on the UC Davis campus)

n Stephens Davis Branch Library (315 E. 14th St.)

Wyatt Deck (UC Davis Arboretum).

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September. Board members could choose to change the policy or delay the vote, as is their general right.

If approved, Cal State will launch itself into a new era that’s a stark departure from the past 11 years, in which it raised tuition only once.

The move is one way the university intends to close a growing $1.5 billion gap between the revenue it collects and the money it needs to spend on student academics — a catch-all term that includes instructor pay, tutoring support and other costs tied to educating and graduating students. Senior staff and members of the board signaled at the May meeting that a series of tuition hikes was imminent.

Sensing the gravity of the situation, the system debuted a public website that spells out the tuition proposal and invites feedback from students and parents.

Though a coincidence, details of the plan arrived a day before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s effort to forgive as much as $20,000 of student debt for tens of millions of Americans, including an estimated 3.7 million Californians. State law requires agencies such as Cal State to publish their agendas 10 before they meet publicly.

“Students who are not eligible for financial aid assistance can pursue a paid internship, part-time employment, student loans or institutional or private scholarships to cover the proposed increase,” an explainer from Cal State

indicated. “All students are encouraged to contact the financial aid offices on their campuses to explore their options.”

The tuition plan would boost Cal State’s revenues by $148 million in the first year and grow to $840 million by the fifth year of the increases. Cal State intends to divert 33% of that new revenue to campus financial aid for low-income students, known as the State University Grant.

The system argues that tuition is the only major revenue source that it controls to generate more revenue.

Historically, Cal State relied on state funding for much of its operating budget. But that level of support dropped from 80% in the 1990s to 60% in 2022-23.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised to raise Cal State’s level of state support by 5% annually for five years, a promise he’s honored in each of the last two years.

But there’s no guarantee Newsom’s vow will become reality in future years. And even if those 5% state infusions occur annually through 2028-29, pumping $1.3 billion into the system will be insufficient, according to Cal State leaders.

For example, during budget negotiations in 2023, Cal State sought $514 million from the governor — more than twice the $227 million he promised and eventually agreed to fund in this week’s budget deal with lawmakers.

“It must be emphasized that the additional revenue is necessary to pay for existing programs, services, priorities and unfunded state and federal mandates,” the agenda item stated.

EMPOWER: Nonstop work to bring end to violence, aid survivors

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closet that’s free, we have hygiene products we give out, feminine products, we give out food on site, give out food referrals for food banks, diapers and we also have ID vouchers for people who are low income or homeless who need a new ID instead of paying full price.”

“We also have a housing team. We help people with finances when it comes to housing whether it’s with first month’s rent or the deposit. We also have a rental assistance program. Then there’s our victim services. We help victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, child abuse, elderly abuse and child neglect. We offer counseling and support groups for victims and adults and children.”

Through its 24/7 crisis support, counseling services, safe shelter/housing, legal services, teen education and youth services and outreach and family sup-

port, Empower Yolo is undoubtedly making good on its mission to forge stronger communities. However, the struggle to abolish domestic violence is ongoing, and while Empower Yolo is unwavering in the support it offers, it also heeds caution and discretion when it comes to that support.

“We also have a safehouse for our victims and survivors of domestic violence. It’s operated 24/7 and it’s a big resource that we have for people who really need to get out of an abusive situation,” said Bikoba. “Us changing our name was another way for us to protect our clients. It keeps us under the radar more so than our original name. People were scared to come to us because the person abusing them would know where they’re going.

“Another way we help our clients stay under the radar is that we have them complete intake paperwork where they tell us if we can call them at the number

they’ve provided or if it’s not safe, or if we can say we are ‘Empower Yolo’ or if it’s okay for us to leave a message. We do that because sometimes their abuser has access to that phone, and

GOLD: Ten Bosch aiming for more

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featured the long jump, javelin throw, 200-meter sprint, discus and 1500meter run, with competitors from police, fire, corrections and similar departments from across the country.

Ten Bosch earned the best score in the 30-34 age group, beating last year’s tally by nine points. Although he performed below his expectations in the long jump, he improved his showings in the other four categories.

“I was happy with that,"

ten Bosch said. “I liked that there were a lot of learning points and room to grow.”

At the Winnipeg event, a decathlon set for Aug. 5-6,

ten Bosch plans to compete in the track-and-field decathlon featuring 100and 400-meter sprints, long jump, shot put, high jump, 100-meter high hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500meter run.

He trains both on and off duty, taking advantage of the UC Davis track facility and squeezing workouts in between fire calls.

Ten Bosch says he competes with two goals in mind: to advocate for better mental and physical health among first responders, and to give back to his community. He created a GoFundMe crowdfunding account to offset his expenses for attending the world games.

Of the amount raised, he’ll donate 30 percent to a local charity.

This year’s recipient is the Davis Odd Fellows’ Natalie Corona Memorial Scholarship, which benefits students seeking firstresponder and criminal justice careers.

By donating, “I know I’m not just doing something for myself, but for somebody else, too,” said ten Bosch, who says he’s also fueled by the support he receives from his fellow firefighters, Davis police, city staff, family and his girlfriend Meghan. “That means the world to me.”

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

we do that as a safety thing. We also tell clients that we can call them from a blocked number, and they’ll know it’s us.”

For Bikoba, her favorite part of working with

Empower Yolo is the daily difference it makes in people’s lives — even if it’s

something as small as providing a meal, diapers or change of clothes.

Beyond monetary donations — which Empower Yolo graciously accepts — one can donate slightly used clothing as well.

To get involved, learn more about Empower Yolo or take part in its services, one can visit empoweryolo. org. Or visit one of Empower Yolo’s locations at the Dowling Center at 175 Walnut Street in Woodland (530-661-6336), the D-Street House located at 441 D Street in Davis (530757-1261), the KL Resource Center at 9586 Mill Street in Knights Landing (530661-5519) and in West Sacramento at 1025 Triangle Court, Suite 600 (916873-8824). Empower Yolo’s 24/7 Crisis Lines are 530-6621132 and 916-371-1907. The organization’s main line is 530-661-6336.

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Current and former Empower Yolo board members line up to commemorate the organization’s anniversary in 2022.

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The public piano near the Hunt-Boyer Mansion on E Street features poems from sixth-grade students in Amy George’s Birch Lane class.

Two pianos joined the In the Key of Davis collection this summer — in Central Park, right, and the Hunt-Boyer Mansion, far right.

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WCC helps students with physical, mental challenges

By Jim Smith Special to The Enterprise

When it comes to attending community college, physical or mental barriers can be a challenge, but they can be overcome with a lot of personal drive and initiative, and the help of a few people who can navigate the educational system.

The staff at the Department of Supportive Programs and Services at Woodland Community College are able to provide a range of support and accommodations for students who are hearing, visually, mobility or speech impaired, and those who have a learning disability, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or mental health issues.

The goal, according to Geoff Hulbert, learning disability specialist for the program at Woodland College, is to offer eligible students with disabilities access to specialized support services so they can participate in college programs, courses, and activities. The program also serves as a resource for college faculty and staff to ensure an inclusive environment.

“It’s kind of a vague name because a lot of programs on campus provide services,” said Hulbert, who becomes the interim director in July, “but we provide disability services and general support, which is something we’re doing a lot more now than we have done in the past.”

There are around four people in the department, which Hulbert said has seen a growth rate of between 20% and 24% over the past two years. That amounts to 250 students in 2020-2021. In 2022-23, there were around 310 students in need of services, and that number expected to climb by as many as 60 students this fall.

To some degree, the growth in supportive programs mirrors growth at the college itself, Hulbert believes. Following the Covid

pandemic, student growth is increasing, due somewhat to the higher cost of education at the university level and an influx of older adults wanting to improve their job skills.

Students need a variety of support along their learning academic journey both inside and outside the classroom,” according to Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay, interim president of Woodland College. “At DSPS, we provide a range of services to accommodate the needs of students with disability.

“We have witnessed a large spike in demand for mental health counseling and service after the pandemic,” he added.

“We would like to expand our resources to ensure no student is disenfranchised from their academic pursuits because of a disability.”

Learning disabilities and physical disabilities are very broad categories, Hulbert reported.

Mental health problems can range from minor to major, depending on the student, and can include PTSD, anxiety, and other environmental stressors within the college setting as well as outside factors such as employment, family matters, chemical dependency, or food insecurity.

They can also occur because of depression, having a bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.

“I think it’s because there’s more normalcy and comfort in discussing mental health issues than in the past,” Hulbert said of the increase.

Some students also face physical hurdles. They may be mobility limited, have diabetes or other health-related conditions.

“General support is the whole process of students getting into and becoming familiar with the college,” Hulbert said. “I tell prospective students all the time that it can be really overwhelming with the different steps of enrolling in college” such as finding

financial aid, getting into the right programs and navigating a way around campus, which for some students with disabilities can be difficult.

For that, the Supportive Services Program can provide a “golf cart,” or “mobility scooters” for those who have trouble getting around campus. Classroom or online course needs vary depending on the requirements of students. Some students need “scribes,” who can take notes during class lectures. Others may have issues coping with the stresses of in-person learning and simply need a little more understanding on the part of staff and students.

Support animals are also allowed as long as they meet program specifications.

Generally, teachers have been supportive in providing assistance to students, Hulbert noted. Some in-class students have difficulty performing well on tests unless they get support. Others need to be provided with an electronic textbook as well as audio

books, large print books, or those printed in braille with tactile graphics and other assistive technology.

Other students may also do better in a mix of online and inperson teaching.

“What we’re also finding is that some students want to continue in an on-line environment.

They’ve found success and comfort in taking classes online without having to be tied to the campus at a certain time,” Hulbert noted.

“But at the other end of the spectrum we’re finding folks who’ve experienced online and they don’t like it,” he continued.

“It was hard for them to maintain a focus and motivation and hard to teach themselves without a human connection.

“And so we’re getting a lot of students who have a strong preference to come back and be here in person,” Hulbert summarized.

“If I was going to break it down, I would say it’s about 50-50.”

In order to qualify for the program, students have to have a

Displaying some of the equipment available to Woodland Community College students who have mobility issues are, from left Department of Supportive Programs and Service staff April Killough, clerical assistant; Geoff Hulbert, interim director; Sofia Tkachuk, student worker; and Candy Hipolito, program specialist.

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verified disability, Hulbert explained.

“A disability is very diverse. We have students who have learning disabilities and have created an IEP (Individualized Learning Plan) or a 504 (which is like an IEP but without services), which might mean accommodations like a student who has diabetes would need to have access to food and water and a private space to check their insulin levels …”

Students with temporary disabilities (such as an injury, a pregnancy-related disability, or during recuperation from surgery) can qualify for services as well, although a student with a temporary disability must complete an application and provide verification of the temporary disability.

The important thing, however, Hulbert emphasized, is that accommodations can be made for students with disabilities who want to pursue a higher education. They need only ask.

UCD: Skin disease in killer whales has scientists concerned

Lesions may reflect decreased ability to fight disease

By Justin Cox

Special to The Enterprise

Scientists studying endangered southern resident killer whales have observed a strong increase in the prevalence of skin disease in this population.

In a study published today, June 29, in PLOS ONE, researchers document a steady increase in the occurrence of highly correlated gray patches and gray targets on the whales’ skin from 2004 to 2016.

Despite not knowing the underlying cause, the study’s authors are concerned.

After ruling out potential environmental factors, such as changes in water temperature or salinity, the authors hypothesize that the most plausible explanation is an infectious agent, and that increased occurrence of lesions may reflect a decrease in the ability of the whales’ immune systems to combat disease.

This could pose yet another significant threat to the health of a southern resident killer whale population already facing a litany of challenges.

Invaluable data

The research is led by wildlife veterinarian Joseph K. Gaydos, science director for the SeaDoc Society, a program of the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.

Gaydos and a team of collaborators analyzed a vast collection of digital photographs spanning over a decade. The photographs, obtained by the Center for Whale Research for identification purposes, included nearly 20,000 individual whale sightings in the Salish Sea, providing invaluable data for remotely assessing health in these endangered animals.

Since 1976, the Center

for Whale Research has been conducting photographic identification surveys of southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea, capturing clear images of each individual. During the evaluation of these images, biologists noticed transient and occasionally persistent abnormal skin changes in the whales. However, these skin changes had never been systematically characterized or tracked over time for these purposes.

The photos revealed six different skin disease syndromes. While none were associated with mortality, the steady increase in the two most common lesions was unexpected.

Understanding the occurrence and significance of skin changes in southern resident killer whales is crucial for assessing their overall health and potential impact on population recovery.

This small, endangered population of fish-eating salmon specialists roams coastal and inland waters from southeastern Alaska to California and are structured socially into three pods: J, K, and L.

The population is endangered, with fewer than 75 individuals remaining. Previous studies have focused on causes of mortality and body condition scoring, but little is known about the role of health in the lack of population recovery.

“Before we looked at the data, we had no idea that the prevalence of these skin lesions were increasing so dramatically,” said Gaydos. “It’s worrisome. Now we need to try and isolate the potential infectious agent.”

Insight

While photographic identification provides a noninvasive approach for studying skin disorders and their epidemiology, it does not enable the identification of specific causes. Nonetheless, it offers valuable insights into the overall health of the animals,

particularly when capturerelease health assessments are not feasible. This research represents a significant step forward in understanding the epi-

demiology of skin changes in southern resident killer whales. The findings emphasize the need for continued monitoring and research to unravel the

causes and health implications of these skin changes, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the conservation and recovery of this endangered population.

Read the study, “Epidemiology of skin changes in endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)” in PLOS ONE. — UC Davis News

UCD researcher proposes ways to help monarchs

By Kathy Keatley Garvey Special to The Enterprise

UC Davis community

ecologist Louie Yang, a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology professor who researches monarch butterflies, suggests three broad guidelines for western monarch conservation in his review article published in the current journal, Current Opinion in Insect Science.

The article, “Complexity, Humility and Action: A Current Perspective on Monarchs in Western North America,” is “meant to provide a concise review of and perspective on recent western monarch research,” Yang said.

The western monarch population overwinters along the California coast.

Estimated at 4.5 million in the 1980s, it has dropped significantly over the past five years, the professor related, noting an “86% single-year population decline in 2018, an overwintering population of less than 2000 butterflies in 2020, and an unexpected >100-fold increase in 2021.”

Yang defined the western monarch population as occupying “a geographically distinct region of North America west of the Rocky Mountain ... Ongoing climate change has made the western monarch range warmer, drier, and more prone to heat waves, wildfires, and winter storms with complex effects on their ecology.

“Land development and changes in the structure of landscape mosaics have modified both the breeding and overwintering habitats of western monarch butterflies, changing the spatial distribution of resources and risks across their range. Shifts in

agricultural and horticultural practice have changed the nature of potentially deleterious chemicals in the environment, including novel herbicides and insecticides.”

Yang said the spread of non-native milkweed species has likely had both positive and negative consequences for western monarchs, and more research is needed.

His three suggestions:

n “First, we should continue to support both basic and applied monarch research. This includes efforts to better understand fundamental aspects of monarch biology, studies to examine the ecological factors that limit monarch populations in the West and efforts to improve more targeted adaptive management and monitoring efforts.

“Basic research in monarch biology and ecology improves our understanding of this complex system and can inform conservation actions in profound and unexpected ways. In turn, applied research can address recognized gaps in knowledge that would otherwise limit available strategies for conservation planning and management.”

n “Second, recognizing the limits of our current understanding, we should follow the precautionary principle to minimize the risk of counterproductive action. The complexity of this system makes it difficult to anticipate or assume future changes in behavior, species interactions or population dynamics.

“In practice, this may mean prioritizing efforts to better understand and facilitate existing mechanisms of ecological resilience and recovery over

direct actions to manipulate or augment the population with less certain consequences. More broadly, this approach would probably emphasize common sense approaches to mitigate the widely recognized upstream drivers of global change (e.g., climate change and land use change), rather than those requiring a detailed understanding of their complex, interactive effects on species-specific ecologies further downstream.”

n “Third, we should work to improve, protect and maintain the resources required throughout the complex monarch life cycle. In part, this likely means prioritizing conservation efforts that target the times and places that are likely to have the greatest positive effects, building on the common ground of available science.

“In the case of western monarchs, this includes protecting current and future overwintering habitats, the resources required

for population expansion in the early season, and the resources required for the fall migration. Recognizing the potentially widespread and pervasive effects of pesticides, this could also mean efforts to develop more ecologically realistic and relevant metrics for the regulation of environmental chemicals.”

Yang opined that “In the broader context, many of the drivers that are

contributing to western monarch population declines are likely to also be affecting other species.

In turn, many of the strategies that would support monarch conservation would likely benefit other species, and many of the strategies that would benefit other species are likely to also support monarch conservation.

As we build on currently

available science to better understand and protect the western monarch population, it is imperative that we continue to grapple with the inherent complexity of this system and respond with appropriate humility and necessary action.”

Among the 54 scientific publications that Yang referenced was a research article co-authored by UC Davis Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro, who has studied butterfly populations in Central California since 1972.

The article, “Fewer Butterflies Seen by Community Scientists across the Warming and Drying Landscapes of the American West,” published in Science in March 2021, covered data from the Shapiro transect, the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) community count data and the iNaturalist community observation data.

The study observed widespread declines across 450 butterfly species, including the monarch butterfly, in the American West. The authors estimated a 1.6 percent decrease in overall butterfly abundance each year over a 42-year period from 1977 to 2018.

Editors of the journal, Current Opinion in Insect Science, describe it as “a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up-todate with the expanding volume of information published in the field of insect science.”

Yang’s research is supported by a National Science Foundation award. He was a guest on National Public Radio’s Science Friday in February 2022.

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A male monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville. Below, UC Davis researcher Louie Yang published his ideas for protecting the endangered butterfly.

Wright numbers favor locals

My random thoughts as we enjoy the extended Fourth of July weekend.

n SportsStars Magazine, which covers high school athletics throughout Northern and Southern California, sent me an email on Thursday about readers can vote for the 2022-23 NorCal Team of the Year.

The Davis High boys soccer team is one of eight schools on the list.

The Blue Devils finished their incredible season with a 20-0-2 record. Davis won the Delta League, Sac-Joaquin Section Division I and the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal — D-I titles. Davis won six of its seven postseason games by shutout.

Clearly, Davis was one of the most dominating high school boys soccer teams in NorCal last winter.

The Grant High football and Oak Ridge High softball teams are two other section teams on the ballot.

As of Friday afternoon, Davis boys are ranked third with 9.88 percent.

The Miramonte High girls water polo team is currently in first place at 51.85 percent.

Voting closes Thursday, July 6 at 11:59 p.m.

To cast your vote for DHS boys soccer, visit www.sportsstarsmag.com.

n Malaya Wright posted big numbers for the Davis High girls water polo teams during her four years.

Now the recent DHS graduate has built another big number on The Enterprise’s Website, which is www.davisenterprise.com.

Wright’s story on being named the DHS Female Athlete of the Year, which came out in June, has logged in 1,158 views as of Friday afternoon.

If you look on at the views on the site, it’ll round off to the nearest thousand at 1.2.

For almost two weeks in June, her story was ranked from being one of the top three to staying in the top 10 stories you, the reader, enjoyed reading on the site.

Wright, 18, is enjoying her summer that includes playing for the Davis Water Polo Club 18 and under team for the last time. This is her final year because of her legal adult age.

Later this summer, Wright will be attending Santa Clara University, where she will be majoring in studio art.

She made a verbal commitment to SCU’s women’s water polo program earlier this year.

Another perk for Wright when she moves to SCU is that she’s approximately 6 1/2 miles from the college campus to Levi’s Stadium in case she and her family and/or friends want to check out a San Francisco 49ers home games or concerts.

n There were 127 UC

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Soccer FC Davis men have shot at redemption

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

Turns out it doesn’t take much to qualify for the Golden Gate Conference Playoffs.

All eight teams from the division are competing in the quarterfinals this weekend, which means FC Davis (1-3-6) will have a shot at redemption after an underwhelming regular season.

The seventh-place Golden Lions will travel to play third-place San Ramon FC (4-2-4) on Sunday at 7 p.m. It’s being held at Tiffany Roberts Soccer Field in San Ramon.

The contest is a rematch from the season opener on April 1, which saw FC Davis lose 2-0 on the road. San Ramon FC remains one of only two clubs to hold the Golden Lions scoreless.

San Ramon FC has allowed 14 goals this season, the second-fewest of any team in the division. In contrast, FC Davis has surrendered 26 goals this season, only ahead of the last-place Oakland Stompers.

While aware that San Ramon FC may be favored, Golden Lions head coach Kris Hall doesn’t view his team as the underdog.

“We’re a much different team in the way we’re playing and have grown a ton since we played them early in the season,” Hall said. “This was our best case scenario to play them in the first round of the playoffs.

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Blue Devils’ Millian leads on, off field

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

Davis High football head coach Nick Garratt has delivered the same message to his players since taking over the program before last season.

Garratt emphasizes that playing time is earned through hard work and dedication.

In other words, having talent and athleticism is simply not enough.

“It’s not that you put the best athletes on the field, you put the guys that are the most committed, the most competitive and the guys that are always going to finish because that’s how you create a great team,” Garratt said.

What may seem like a non-competitive strategy to some coaches has generated positive results for Davis this offseason. Garratt has noticed many of his best players become more disciplined and focused, which has led to a tricky-down effect throughout the roster.

At the forefront of this effort is CJ Millican, who’s expected to see significant action on both sides of the ball this season. Millican, a versatile weapon on the Blue Devils’ defense, recently added pass-catching to his repertoire.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound senior has been getting reps at tight end during practices and 7-on-7 events, showing noticeable progress,

according to Garratt.

“His effort is uncanny,” Garratt said of Millican. “He’s starting to step up by playing tight end and now he’s created competition with guys who had previously played tight end. He’s a force to be reckoned with, but also somebody that people aspire to be.”

It hasn’t all been smooth-sailing for Millican, who enjoys the challenge of learning a new position and building chemistry with senior quarterback Sawyer Schoen. The pair have hooked up for several touchdown scores during offseason scrimmages.

“Between me and Sawyer, we’re still working on getting our timing down,” Millican said. “I haven’t played offense since my JV year, but it’s honestly been pretty good working with receivers.”

As Millican trains to become a better passcatcher, he’s mindful of who’s watching him. He wants the younger players to see the value of a strong work ethic.

“Just simply being a leader and setting an example of how everyone’s supposed to act,” Millican said of his role on the team. “It’s about being a role model, showing underclassmen how to compete at the varsity level.”

While setting high standards on the field, Millican has done the same in the classroom. He’s maintained a 3.7 GPA over his last two

years at Davis.

“All of his teachers are always commenting on how much of a hard worker he is,” Garratt said.

“It shows the guys who really commit to doing the work in the offseason are the same guys who are going to relate that to the classroom.”

Excelling in school is part of Millican’s goal to continue his football career in college. He’s on his way to reaching that objective, participating in multiple football camps this summer.

Millican recently attended football camps at USC and Cal, where he had the opportunity to showcase his skills and speak to college coaches.

“Those were great,” Millican said of the camps. “Lots of great competition and it was good to talk with the coaches. I’m just going to keep working until I get that offer.”

Millican’s training will carry on during the Sac-Joaquin Section’s three-week preseason football dead period, which essentially leaves players to themselves from July 3-24.

“I will still be lifting in the mornings and I have a coach that I work with one-on-one for position specific training,” Millican said. “I’ll also come out to the field and do drills by myself.”

— Henry Krueger is a Gonzaga University student 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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FC Davis’ Benett Olsen-Zwick (10), seen here in a home game last weekend, and his teammates will be playing a playoff game against Sam Ramon FC at Tiffany Roberts Soccer Field in San Ramon today at 7 p.m.

Davis tight end CJ Millian (center) eludes a defender and looks down the field for room to run in Tuesday’s 7-on-7 passing games against various Yolo and Solano county high school football teams at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.

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New head coach is Rich in experience

Joe Rich will become the third head coach in UC Davis beach volleyball history, announced Friday by Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca. Rich has over 25 years of coaching experience, both on the beach and on the hardwood, where he has enjoyed an incredible amount of success during his career.

rate programs into the national rankings. He comes to Davis from Cal Poly, where he spent two seasons as the assistant coach.

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he Sacramento Kings improved their current and future championship aspirations with the re-signing of veteran forward Harrison Barnes.

“We are very excited to have Joe Rich as our next beach volleyball coach at UC Davis,” DeLuca said. “The values that Joe has, along with his volleyball experience and recruiting background, are the characteristics we look for in the leaders of our sport programs here at UC Davis. We are eager to have Joe on campus to work with our beach volleyball student-athletes to help elevate this program.”

Barnes’ on-court skills are evident to all, but what isn’t seen is his calming presence in the locker room and his role as a mentor to a largely youthful roster.Rich boasts a history of success at the Division I level, leading two sepa-

Barnes has spent the past five seasons in Sacramento after acquiring him from the Dallas Mavericks in early 2019.

Kings head coach Mike Brown made it wellknown he wanted Barnes to return, terming him “irreplaceable.” A big win for the Kings as the free agency period opened on Friday.

n Through 80 games, the Oakland A’s, who own the worst record in baseball at 21-62 entering Friday’s home game against the Chicago White Sox.

The A’s have used 46 different players.

The MLB record for such single-year roster turnover is 69, by the 2021 Chicago Cubs.

n Ballgames on getaway day should be day games.

On Thursday, the San Francisco Giants played at Toronto at night.

Then the Giants boarded their flight to New York for a weekend series with the Mets.

Estimated arrival time at team hotel: Between 1 and 2 a.m., later if any delays. Not right.

n The Miami Marlins’

Luis Arraez is having a fine season to date, his batting average hovering near the .400 mark. This prompted some internet genius to declare that Arraez is a better hitter than Ted Williams.

Say what? Williams hit .344 for his career, 1939-60 all with the Boston Red Sox. Add in 521 career homers and considerable recognition as the greatest hitter ever.

In his first Marlins season after four in Minnesota, Arraez is a career .327 hitter overall with 17 homers. Fine numbers, but let’s get real.

n The New York Yankees’ Domingo German threw the 24th perfect game in major league history on Wednesday. The Yankees beat the A’s by an 11-0 score, the most runs scored by one team in any of the previous 23.

German’s gem ended on a groundout to former Athletic Josh Donaldson to first baseman Anthony Rizzo.

German’s jersey number said it all: 0. He joins Don Larsen, David Wells and David Cone on the team’s all-time list of perfect games.

In the A’s broadcast booth was Dallas Braden, who reached perfection as an A’s pitcher in 2010.

Long ago, Cy Young had a perfect game, and 510 other wins.

Nolan Ryan never had a perfecto, though he did pitch seven no-hitters. Ryan is one of only 29 players to play in four different decades.

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

SACRAMENTO The Sacramento Kings have signed forward Harrison Barnes to a multi-year contract extension.

In his 2022 campaign, he helped guide the Mustangs to a Big West Conference Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. Cal Poly ascended to No. 13 in the national rankings that season, achieving success on the national stage. He also helped coach three Mustang pairs who earned All-Conference honors as well as see Ella Connor be named Big West Freshman of the Year.

During his tenure at Cal Poly, Rich’s accomplishments gained national attention as he was chosen to lead the USA Men’s Collegiate Beach Volleyball team. Prior to his time in San Luis Obispo, he began his Division I coaching career as an assistant coach at Grand Canyon. Rich compiled a 43-29 record and helped GCU main-

tain a spot in the AVCA Collegiate Beach Coaches Poll. He spent four seasons with the Lopes, leading the team to four straight seasons in the AVCA top 20, including two years in the top eight.

Since 2000, Rich has coached indoor volleyball players that are transitioning to the sand courts, mentoring them in their transition and coaching them on the slight differences between the ways athletes approach each game.

Over the last five years, Rich has given several presentations at the AVCA Convention for beach volleyball on offense, defense, coaching cohesion, and leadership.

Rich also currently serves as a Master Coach, Grant Writer and Operations Director for Beach Nation.

A native of Wheaton, IL, Rich attended Purdue University where he received his degree in Liberal Arts History and English.

or more points during the 2022-2023 season and ranks fifth on the Kings alltime 3-pointers list with 529 3-pointers.

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New UC Davis beach volleyball head coach Joe Rich was an assistant coach at Big West Conference rival Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.

Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Barnes appeared in all 82 games — all starts — during the 2022-23 campaign and averaged 15.0 points (47.3 FG%, 37.4 3pt%, 84.7 FT%), 4.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 32.5 minutes per game. His scoring average of 15.0 points marked the third consecutive season he has averaged 15.0 or more points within a single season since joining the Kings during the 2018-19 season.

The seventh overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Barnes averaged 15.4 points (47.2 FG%, 38.7 3pt%, 82.7 FT%), 5.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 34.0 minutes in 317 games (all starts) during his time in Sacramento.

Barnes registered 22 games with 20

During the 2022-23 season, Barnes helped lead Sacramento to the seventhbest record in the NBA and the third seed in the Western Conference, marking the Kings best finish since the 200203 season.

The Kings finished with the thirdmost wins in the Western Conference (48-34) and matched a franchise record for most wins on the road (25-16), which also ranked first in the Western Conference.

Sacramento held the highest offensive rating in NBA history (118.6) and ranked first in true shooting percentage (60.8%), second in effective field goal percentage (57.2), second in assist-toturnover ratio (2.02), eighth in net rating (2.6) and seventh in assists percentage (62.6%).

n Davis Little League was the host of the California District 64 8-10 All-Star Tournament, which took place at the Davis Little League Complex.

The Davis National Little League all-star team finished with a 1-2 record in the doubleelimination tournament.

The full list will run in an upcoming edition of The Entetrprise.

The squad lost the first game to Winters but came back in the consolation bracket with a victory over the Vacaville National Little League all-star team. But Winters evened the match-up with a win over Davis, which was

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Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes (40) looks to move the basketball in front of Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) in Game 1 of the NBA Playoffs at the Golden 1 Center on April 15.

eliminated from the tournament.

The Davis American League all-star squad lost its first two games of the tournament.

The District 9-11 All-Start Tournament was held in Vacaville.

The Davis National Little League went 1-2 in the tournament, also losing its first game, won the second and eliminated in the third game.

The Davis American Little League squad posted an 0-2 mark at the tournament.

On Monday, the District 64

10-12 All-Star Tournament will start at Hall Memorial Park’s Little League Complex in Dixon.

The Davis National Little League and Davis American Little League teams will be playing in this tournament.

The National squad opens against the Vacaville American team Monday at 5 p.m.

The local American team plays host Dixon at 7:30 p.m.

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

MEN: Aladetimi leads soccer team in scoring at seven

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“We’re eager to go headto-head and are looking forward to the rematch.”

FC Davis is led in scoring by forward Wumi Aladetimi, whose seven goals is the fourth-best mark in the West Region. Aladetimi has accounted for half of the Golden Lions’ scoring output.

San Ramon FC, which has the third-most goals in the Golden Gate Conference, relies on a balanced group of attackers to finish scoring chances. Midfielder Evan Davila has registered five goals, placing him first on the team and eighth in the West Region.

If FC Davis can get past the quarterfinals, it will face the winner of the El Farolito-Sonoma County

FC game in the semifinals.

Instead of a Golden Gate Conference championship, the final two teams advance to the West Region Playoffs to play the winners of the Southwest and Northwest Conference Playoffs.

The West Region champion will move on to the National Playoffs, a feat Hall isn’t ruling out.

“Our mentality is that we know that we’re a team that hasn’t been outplayed once, even when we didn’t get the result,” Hall said. “So we know we can go far and win the playoffs. It’s just a matter of consistency and eliminating the small mistakes.”

Attendance for Sunday’s match against San Ramon FC is free, according to the club’s Instagram page.

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FC Davis’ Wumi Aladetimi (right) races toward the soccer ball in last Sunday’s home game against the Las Vegas Legends.

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Recycling overhaul could give money back to consumers

By Liza Tucker Special to CalMatters

Californians pay about $1.5 billion in recycling deposits every year on beverages from bottled water to beer. But less than 1 in 4 people bother to redeem the empties – while more than three-quarters lose nickel and dime deposits to curbside bins.

That’s largely because so few redemption centers exist that the state now holds $672 million in unrefunded deposits that really belong to the public.

In California, there is just one redemption center for every 31,000-plus people. Michigan supermarkets put this situation to shame. Each one offers roughly 900 Michiganders redemption service on the spot. In Oregon, both supermarkets and automated depots offer 2,000 consumers apiece the same convenience.

Adding insult to indignity, we forfeit millions of empty containers to waste hauler recycling bins. Those trash haulers bill the state for our California Refund Value, or CRV, while contaminating and landfilling at least a third of those empties.

California enacted a way out of this morass last year with Senate Bill 1013, which was authored by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins. The law finally puts the responsibility for California CRV refunds onto stores that sell the products whose shells become trash. In 2025, major supermarkets and big box stores selling CRV beverages will have to take them back.

SB 1013 greenlights the formation of supermarket cooperatives that can offer redemption service in every area that lacks a redemption center. But for these new services to provide real convenience for consumers, CalRecycle needs to write the right requirements.

Studies show that consumers find it easiest to get CRV refunds where they shop, and that offering those refunds on store premises often increases sales. Imagine going to your local supermarket and feeding your empties into a reverse vending machine for CRV refunds without waiting more than a few minutes –or dropping off a bag of empties at a storage container on a supermarket parking lot that later credited a consumer’s PayPal account; or visiting a modern recycling depot featuring both technologies.

For consumers to have that access, all CalRecycle needs to do is what some of the successful states have already done: require that supermarkets offer a specific number of new automated redemption locations – based on population density – and make sure they are open at least 70 hours per week.

For CalRecycle, the regulatory checklist is straightforward:

■ Unveil regulations that require at least one automated redemption point for every 9,000 people in every area designated for a recycling center so California can hit the statutory goal of consumers returning 80% of all CRV containers.

■ Direct supermarket cooperatives to propose where new automated redemption points go based on population density

■ Require at least three automated points of redemption at three different supermarkets within a previously unserved area, or one automated community redemption depot.

■ Designate that every big box-style store selling CRV beverages provides consumers with at least two automated recycling machines on-site.

■ Ensure that both supermarket redemption locations and depots are open at least 70 hours a week – and not just during the typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours when most people are working.

■ Hurry up and dispense the $73.3 million set aside in the budget for supermarkets and recyclers to automate.

Building a modern, 21st-century system that works for everyone means providing simple, automated convenience for recycling refunds. That is something California, a state known for its innovation, should have no trouble doing.

— Liza Tucker is a consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog. She is a veteran journalist who has been an editor at Marketplace and covered business for The Washington Post. She wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s Capitol works and why it matters.

Legal friction impedes housing

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an unusual appearance on Fox News, it was inevitable that conservative commentator Sean Hannity would bore in on California’s chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis.

Why, Hannity asked, did California have such problems?

“Because housing costs are too high,” Newsom replied.

“Our regulatory thickets are too problematic. Localism has been too impactful, meaning people locally are pushing back against new housing starts and construction.”

Newsom’s synopsis of the issue is quite accurate. The state’s housing shortage stems from the over-regulation of development, largely driven by local opposition. It drives up costs to tenants and would-be homebuyers and pushes some into the streets.

That cause-and-effect relationship was confirmed in a recent in-depth study of homelessness by a UC San Francisco research team.

Having pinpointed the underlying causes of the crisis, one might think that Newsom would energetically attempt to address them.

Last week, as part of a broader budget agreement, the governor persuaded the

The door is open

Legislature to modify the California Environmental Quality Act, which is commonly misused to thwart housing developments, but he didn’t do it for housing. Rather, he wants to streamline CEQA’s effect on public works projects, particularly those involving renewable energy and water supply. Indirectly, therefore, Newsom told Californians that while he says it should be done, he’s not willing to take on the heavy lifting to lessen CEQA misuse on housing. His posture continues predecessor Jerry Brown’s position of declaring CEQA reform to be “the Lord’s work,” but being unwilling to do it.

By happenstance, the Capitol’s wrangling over CEQA –albeit while ignoring its effect on housing – coincided with the publication of a very lengthy, deeply researched and well-sourced article on how the 53-year-old law thwarts much-needed housing construction.

Christopher Elmendorf, a

No federal, state, county or city government can choose a side based on content. Doing so opens the door allowing any content based point of view to be expressed on public property.

The government is then open to legal action (well supported by case law) when another point of view is denied the same opportunity. The Davis City Council allowed a point of view to fly their flag on public property and this will lead others with a point of view to take the same action with their representation on public property.

We, as a community, can support a point of view and recognize such as an important societal issue. The city government cannot support issues it chooses since their duty is to recognize all points of view without choosing sides.

John Clark Davis

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law professor at UC Davis who specializes in housing issues, and Timothy Duncheon, a San Francisco attorney, focus on “the slow-motion collision” between two overarching “super-statutes,” CEQA and the Housing Accountability Act, or HAA.

They demonstrate through case studies that, while the latter attempts to streamline housing construction, the former is used to slow or even kill housing projects by local interests and labor unions.

They focus on a notoriously torturous case in San Francisco, whose Board of Supervisors used CEQA to block a much-needed apartment project on a vacant downtown parking lot due to special interest pressure, simply by decreeing that they needed more information before giving the development CEQA clearance. But they also cite other cases in which the contradictory priorities of the two laws collide.

Their conflict, Elmendorf and Duncheon say, ties the courts up in knots as judges must, in effect, choose which law is dominant. Sometimes they opt for CEQA and sometimes the HAA, leaving the overall legal atmosphere unclear.

“The ostensible ‘super-ness’

Agricultural water use

On June 21, The Enterprise ran a piece about shortage of agricultural water in Yolo County, portraying it as a battle between small family farms and large corporate farms. This is a misleading interpretation.

A parcel of land could be a single large farm with a large well or it could be divided into a dozen small farms with a dozen small wells. What matters is how much water in total is being pumped; the size of the farms is irrelevant. Some of the small farms in Yolo County are among the most intensive water users per acre and some large farms are frugal. On large farms using the classic rotation of wheat and tomatoes, the wheat is a non-irrigated crop, so the field is irrigated only every second year, when it has tomatoes on it.

To spin this as a battle between small and large farms is to miss the underlying issue, which is that agricultural water in California is too cheap. When a resource is free, or nearly free, there is no incentive to conserve it. This problem might be addressed by imposing a fee with a sliding

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of the two statutes creates a predicament for courts and other actors because CEQA and the HAA could not be more different in their basic institutional and normative principles,” the authors write.

“CEQA’s working premise is that ‘new construction’ is bad for the environment,” they point out. “By contrast, the HAA regards housing construction in urbanized areas as presumptively good for the environment.”

Carefully drafted legislation and/or CEQA implementation guidelines issued by Newsom’s administration could, Elmendorf and Duncheon say, reconcile the two. They could limit CEQA to cases in which there are genuine environmental issues, rather than allowing it to be misused for motives that having nothing to do with the environment, such as forcing developers to use unionized labor.

Their paper lays out the roadmap for the CEQA reform that’s needed to truly address California’s housing crisis. It should be required reading in the Capitol.

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

scale for pumping groundwater, so that the more water is used per acre, the greater the cost of each additional gallon.

When water is nearly free, maximum profits align with maximum yield, but when water is expensive on a marginally increasing scale, then maximum profit comes at less than maximum yield, and the incentive is in place to conserve water.

Or might choose different crops. Walnuts and almonds require heavy irrigation.

Two alternative tree crops, olives and pistachios, require very little irrigation. On my farm the main orchard crop is olives, to which I give a scant four inches of irrigation per year. The walnuts on the neighboring farm get more than six times that.

The concept that groundwater is private property, together with the laws and statutes supporting that concept, is no longer suitable. We need to recognize that groundwater is a resource for the entire community that should be used carefully and equitably. Charging fees is a good start.

Mike Madison Winters

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Minimize impact of projects on neighborhoods

By Dave DeYoung Special to The Enterprise

There is longstanding con-

cern among Davis leaders and residents that there is a significant shortage of affordable housing in the city; simply put, families and those working in the city cannot afford to live here.

This is addressed in the recently approved Downtown Davis Specific Plan, which allows for increased residential units in the downtown area through compact, multi-story infill projects. One such project, called The Lumberyard, has been proposed by New Jersey-based developer the Michaels Organization, which has submitted a preliminary application to the city for a mixed-use project on the old Hibbert lumber property on Fifth and G streets.

While the Downtown Davis Specific Plan originally allowed up to a 4-story development for this site, in December the city council, at the request of the developer, voted to increase the number of stories from four to five for the project. Since then, changes to The Lumberyard project increased its number of units, and eliminated any dedicated parking spaces.

The Lumberyard project would be situated on the eastern border of the city’s Old North

Davis neighborhood.Our neighborhood welcomes infill development, and the increased vitality and new neighbors such development brings, but wishes to ensure that the negative impacts of projects to surrounding neighborhoods, and the broader Davis community, are addressed to the extent possible.

We urge the council and city staff to carefully consider whether the proposed project is consistent with the objectives of Davis’ new Downtown Plan design and planning guidelines. The following are issues of specific concern to Old North Davis residents regarding the Lumberyard project.

The Lumberyard’s lack of any dedicated parking spaces will significantly affect adjacent neighborhoods and the downtown area.While transitioning from a vehicle centric transportation system to one emphasizing walking, biking and use of public transportation is an important Davis value and priority, for the foreseeable future new residents are likely to own one or more vehicles, even if they primarily walk or bike within town.

We look forward to working with the city to take appropriate measures, such as modifying

parking zones, to ensure the number of new vehicles doesn’t overwhelm the area surrounding The Lumberyard project.

The Lumberyard project will also generate increased vehicle trips in the area, which will affect traffic safety in surrounding neighborhoods, especially to vulnerable populations such as bicyclists and pedestrians. We urge the city to take cost-effective measures, such as installing four-way stop signs on problematic intersections, and installing pedestrian-activated flashing lights on B and F streets that cross Sith and Seventh streets. Special measures should also be considered to reimagine the Sixth and G street intersection as that will now be a gateway to both The Lumberyard, and deliveries and shopping trips to the Co-op, with additional (and welcomed) pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

The preliminary application submitted to the city for The Lumberyard project specifies 244 units, with 11 designated affordable.While the proposed Lumberyard project helps alleviate the city’s housing shortage, it doesn’t do much to help those who can’t afford to live here, since only 11 units, or less than 5% of the total units, are affordable.This is far below the city’s affordable housing ordinance for new rental

housing of 15-25%, and makes it more difficult for the city to comply with state housing element law.

The city should carefully consider whether the Lumberyard project, as proposed, is consistent with the goals to provide more workforce housing, and allowing more families the opportunity to live in Davis.

As the downtown densifies, it is important that new projects are designed to provide a thoughtful transition to existing traditional neighborhoods. The Downtown Davis Specific Plan and Form-Based Code provide the vision for the downtown as it evolves and densifies, and specifies how to transition new infill development into existing traditional neighborhoods, such as Old North, and preserving their character.

Corner elements, facades, height stepbacks and other architectural elements can be used to modulate the apparent size and scale of larger buildings and help them fit into the context of existing neighborhoods. We believe that the current proposed Lumberyard project could be improved in this regard.

Does the 60-day period for approval specified under SB 330 allow the city’s planning department to carefully review the proposal for compliance with Davis codes, guidelines and

A narrow and costly escape

By Mel Gurtov

Special to The Enterprise

Tensions between the Russian defense ministry and the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, had been running high for months, mainly because of differences over war strategy and Prigozhin’s accusations of insufficient battlefield support.

Last week those tensions reached the boiling point. Prigozhin accused Moscow of deliberately targeting his soldiers and, perhaps most importantly, insisting that his soldiers sign contracts with the defense ministry that would cause Wagner to “cease to exist.” Rather than yield to Moscow, several thousand Wagner troops seized control of Rostov-on-Don, the southern military headquarters of the Russian army located on the RussiaUkraine border.

Notably, it did so without resistance Wagner soldiers then began marching toward Moscow on a major highway—to capture two top generals, Prigozhin says: defense minister Sergei K. Shoigu and Valery V. Gerasimov, chief of the general staff. They and other military leaders, expressing loyalty to Putin, accused Prigozhin of plotting a coup. Putin called it an “armed rebellion,” a “stab in the back.”

Nevertheless, Prigozhin’s end game was never clear, though to some Russians in the elite who were later interviewed, a coup was far too ambitious even for Prigozhin. But the episode certainly represented a direct challenge to Putin’s leadership that would have to end in one or the other’s defeat.

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Should we have rooted for Prigozhin?

We have to consider that he’s a staunch nationalist whose brutal mercenaries have killed thousands in Ukraine and carried out atrocities in Africa on behalf of autocratic leaders. While Prigozhin has criticized Putin’s war venture — saying, for example, “The war wasn’t needed to return Russian citizens to our bosom, nor to demilitarize or denazify Ukraine” — there’s no way to know how Prigozhin might have acted toward Ukraine if he had succeeded in decapitating the military leadership.

Just as suddenly as his revolt began, Prigozhin called it off, ordering his troops to turn around after a talk with Belarus’ dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko. Supposedly, Lukashenko told Prigozhin he has a home in Belarus if he called off his march and returned the Rostov base to the military.

That story is more than a little incredible, since Lukashenko takes orders from Putin. Evidently, the orders were to get Prigozhin out of the country in return for not prosecuting him or his men. Now we have to wonder if Prigozhin will survive, what he will do with his army based in Belarus if he does survive, and who will pay for it (since Putin has revealed that the Russian state paid $1 billion for Prigozhin’s services).

Putin’s troubles

Putin’s leadership surely has been called into question by this revolt. After all, for some time he tolerated Prigozhin’s insubordination and refusal to integrate the Wagner forces with the regular army. The fact that Wagner was able to take over a major military base without resistance

from the army or the police testifies either to Prigozhin’s popularity or doubts about Putin’s war.

And why, once Wagner troops began marching toward Moscow, did the military not launch a major strike on them? Why were Russian units in Ukraine apparently not called in to save the nation? As one observer writes, even with Wagner’s defeat, “the dent to [Putin’s] prestige and the damage to Russian military morale will be a major setback in Russia’s already disastrous war on Ukraine.”

The next question is what happens to Wagner now that Prigozhin has decamped to Belarus. Will it be reorganized under new leadership, allowed to return to Ukraine, dispatched to Africa, or kept cooling its heels in Belarus? The answers will surely have a bearing on Russia’s ability to respond effectively to Ukraine’s counter-offensive.

Then there are questions about Putin himself: Is his leadership permanently weakened? What will the coup attempt mean for Putin’s next acts in the war? One logical guess is that he will seek to demonstrate that he is firmly in command, such as by launching even more deadly air strikes or calling up more reserves. Perhaps he’ll seek to show outrageous defiance of his enemies by using a nuclear weapon. One thing we can count on is that Putin’s propaganda machine will be spinning stories about how Prigozhin was a tool of the West.

Putin has to be worried about his relationship with Xi Jinping. Beijing media offered limited reporting on the insurrection; Chinese officials merely repeated their support of Putin’s authority. But behind the scenes, Xi and his colleagues have to be concerned about Putin’s mishandling of an outspoken critic, the Russian military’s unity and effectiveness, the

requirements?

As noted in the specific plan, new infill projects provide the opportunity for a vibrant, compelling and economically successful downtown; it is important that the downtown evolve not just quickly, but thoughtfully and carefully. This is one of the first, and largest, infill projects to be proposed in the downtown area since the Downtown Davis Specific Plan was approved; we certainly want initial projects which embark on the reimagining of our downtown to succeed.

Again, I want to stress that Old North residents welcome new infill development near our neighborhood, and the new residents it will bring. We urge city leaders and staff to carefully review The Lumberyard proposal to ensure that it meets design standards and meshes appropriately with its surroundings, including the traditional Old North neighborhood, and that it adds sufficient affordable rental units as specified by city ordinance and state law to make living here more affordable.

Finally, we look forward to working with the city to address issues related to traffic safety and parking management that the project raises.

— Dave DeYoung is the vice president of the Old North Davis Neighborhood Association

Dealing with the aftermath of the coup that wasn’t

reliability of Russian intelligence, and the possibility that Putin will not survive much longer.

He’s a weak partner with a weak internal security system. Such a revolt could not have happened in China, the Chinese are probably saying privately. And the parallel to Mikhail Gorbachev’s takeover in Moscow in 1989, which Beijing viewed as a systemic threat to China, is surely not lost on the Chinese.

Implications for the war

Ukraine, meanwhile, has every reason for confidence in its resistance because of the Wagner episode. The Kremlin looks to be in disarray, possibly avoiding a civil war in the midst of a costly invasion. Morale in Russia’s military leadership and some army units may be adversely impacted by the Wagner revolt. Southern Ukraine, where Wagner seized the Rostov base, might be vulnerable to Ukrainian attack. The coming weeks may tell us a good deal about the resilience of Russia’s military in the face of these extraordinary events.

Can Putin recover from an epic setback, and if so, how? That question begs another: Will Putin now be more or less likely to seek a peace settlement with Ukraine? The British historian Lawrence Freedman puts the matter this way: “Any suggestion that he [Putin] wants to get out of the war will aggravate the image of weakness; sticking with the war regardless of losses will aggravate his actual weaknesses."

Putin is stuck, a position that the U.S. and NATO can choose either to exploit or, hopefully, to press for peace.

Mel Gurtov, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University and blogs at In the Human Interest

Mind the dead hand of bad regulation

By Llewellyn King

Special to The Enterprise

It is argued that if the Titan submersible had been certified (read “peer-reviewed”), the deadly accident, which killed all five on board, wouldn’t have taken place. That may or not be true.

Now there are calls for adventurism tourism to be regulated. I submit that if it is subject to regulation (read “licensing”), there will be very little of it — and it will be more expensive.

These days, there are calls to regulate everything from artificial intelligence to social media. Be warned: Whereas regulation does and should protect the public’s safety, it also has a dead hand. It curbs invention.

It is comfortable with the known, not the unknown. Purely seeking safety sets up a timid regime. You want inventions to be safe but also free to evolve.

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The dynamic of the undertaking is crucial.

Regulations can have a negative dynamic or a positive one. They both seek to protect the public’s health and safety but with differing results.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the duty to regulate nuclear power and materials. It does this conscientiously but not progressively.

Evolution in nuclear power is very slow and difficult because of the NRC. Every wire, nut and bolt, pump and pipe in the nuclear steam supply system gets certified. And every change needs certification.

The result is that engineers design to pass NRC muster, not to reach into the great unknown of possibility or the soaring spirit of creative invention. The problem isn’t with the NRC staff but with its mandate.

Now, there is a resurgence of

interest in nuclear power with small modular reactors, some using unproven but promising designs and technologies that haven’t been investigated since the 1960s, which was the end of the first wave of nuclear invention.

Some small modular reactors are being developed by U.S. companies in Canada and China so as to avoid initial NRC approval. Not that the promoters want to make an unsafe reactor but because if you are at the cutting edge of invention, it is hard to deal with the safety mandate that is the driving force in the NRC.

Originally, safety and promotion were both handled by the Atomic Energy Commission. That agency had promotion as its primary function but as it well understood that nuclear can be very dangerous, it also had a regulatory function. I covered the AEC as a reporter and, frankly, its regulation worked as

well as what has succeeded it, namely the NRC.

The argument against the AEC reached a crescendo in the early 1970s, with relentless pressure from environmentalists and consumer groups, spearheaded by Ralph Nader, behind the slogan, “It’s its own policeman.”

But what the AEC had, which is now lacking, is a creative dynamic to develop new uses for nuclear, but safely. It worked:

Experimental reactors were built and experimentation with everything from nuclear stimulation of natural gas reserves — basically nuclear fracking — to a variety of cutting-edge reactors at the Idaho and Oak Ridge national laboratories.

Contrast the stultification in nuclear with the progress in aviation where the Federal Aviation Administration promotes flying and regulates it, and certifies airplanes.

Of course, there have been mistakes and there are frequent

accusations that the FAA is too close to Boeing and the airlines. The most egregious failure might have been in certifying the Boeing 737 Max without insisting on better pilot training on a tricky airplane. The result was two catastrophic crashes with non-U.S. airlines.

Yet, the skies are still safe. And they are filled with passenger and cargo aircraft that are evolving with each new technology coming along. When it comes to light aircraft, the FAA has been able to accommodate and find airworthy many new airplanes, from ultralights to aerobatic-certified engines and airframes, some from overseas. These are exciting times for technology and the recreation it makes possible, and we shouldn’t regulate with the wrong dynamics.

Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

Go get yourself a whole house fan, stat!

I’ve been meaning to write this column for years, but I only think of it when it’s horribly hot out. Today’s topic is whole house fans and why you should get one immediately.

The number of times I say something to fellow Davisites about how great it is to be able to pull in all the cool air at night, but they don’t know what a whole house fan is shocks me. Because Davis and the Sacramento Valley are the perfect places for the old school technology of a whole house fan! The way they work, according to energy.gov, is “the fan pulls air in from open windows and exhausts it through the attic and roof.”

In Chico, incidentally, it’s not as useful because the nights don’t cool off nearly as much as they do here. For example, a quick look at Weather.com shows that on Friday, as I was writing this, the high temperature here was predicted to be 102 degrees, with a low of 61 degrees. Chico is projected to be 104/74

degrees. Getting into the 60s on a night when it’s over 100 degrees is everything.

By the way, I don’t think I’ve told you this bit of news yet, but S is officially, as of July 1, the new president of Chico State.(https:// www.davisenterprise.com/feature/features/name-droppers/ name-droppers-perez-to-leadchico-state/)

I told S one of his first jobs as the new president is to get a Delta breeze in Chico. There’s a delightful creek — Big Chico Creek — that runs all through the city and even the campus. So let’s get that water to make its own little weather system and blow cool air all over the town at night! What’s so hard about that?

But back to whole house fans. At our first house in Davis, near Slide Hill Park, one of our first purchases we made for our house that needed all kinds of TLC was a whole house fan, installed in the attic hallway near our bedrooms.

Each summer night I’d keep an eye on the outside temperature, watching for it to drop a couple degrees below whatever the inside temperature was. Then we’d open up all the bedroom and living room windows and flip the switch to the fan. Cool air would come whooshing in, freshening up the stale, airconditioned house, and immensely improving my mood.

Seven years later in our Mace Ranch house, it already had a whole house fan installed, and we used it religiously every summer night. I’m not exaggerating when I say that by the time we went to bed, it would be 10 degrees cooler in the house.

And here’s another major bonus — pulling in the cool, 60-degree air when we wake up

in the morning means our air conditioner doesn’t kick on until very late in the afternoon. With our thermostat set at 76-degrees, the outside air we trapped between 6-8 a.m. keeps the house cool until 4-5 p.m. most days. For example, on Thursday, when the temperature outside was in the 90s, the house never got above 73-degrees because of the outside air I pulled in on Thursday morning. Let me repeat: The air conditioning did not come on during a day when it was above 90-degrees outside.

There are two things of note on the negative side: Older whole house fans are very noisy, and they will pull in allergens. For people who need to keep their windows closed all spring and summer, a whole house fan is not for you.

As for noise, last summer we bought an upgrade that is incredibly quiet, and it has three speeds, greatly reducing the noise when it’s on the lowest speed. It also has a radio frequency remote, so we now can

lie in bed and turn it on/off, change the speed of the fan and the length of time it runs. It’s the height of low-tech luxury. Seriously, feel free to email me about any whole house fan questions. I’m happy to act as an informal spokesperson and hype man.

Endnotes: When S was named interim president at San Jose State University, many people asked me if we were moving. For an interim job, you’d be tempting fate to sell your house and assume you’d be in the new place forever. For a permanent job, however, you need to move to become part of the community, exhibiting your connection and dedication to your new place. So yes, we are moving, but no, we aren’t selling our house in Davis. As the saying goes, “Make new friends, but keep the old.”

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

Mobile medicine reaching the most vulnerable

By Natalia Baltazar

Special to the Enterprise

As the world has become increasingly mobile, Empower Yolo and its community partners in the healthcare industry are adapting to provide victims of domestic violence and their children with medical services, no matter where they are. One way this is being done is through mobile medical clinics and medical teams. One of the biggest advantages of mobile medicine is that it provides greater accessibility to medical care for all.

Empower Yolo in partnership with CommuniCare and Sutter Valley Hospital received a grant from the California Office of Emergency Services to provide more comprehensive medical services to Yolo County’s most vulnerable populations including victims of abuse.

CommuniCare’s Mobile Medical Team

One of Empower Yolo’s community partners, CommuniCare is providing medical services to the community and Empower Yolo’s clients through its Mobile Medical Team (MMT). Empower Yolo has been partnering with MMT since 2020 on other projects, but is now focusing on serving domestic violence victims and their children. “Partnering with Empower Yolo allows our team to reach a part of our community that is otherwise difficult to find. Victims of violence and abuse typically avoid public spaces where we provide services,” says Suzanne Portnoy, DNP, Associate Director of Mobile Medicine.

MMT supports the most vulnerable patients in Yolo County including survivors of abuse, migrant workers, the uninsured, and the unhoused population. The team provides preventive screenings, wound care, health education, prescriptions, and primary care follow-up. The team also offers referrals for behavioral health, stress, depression, anxiety, and substance use services.

MMT also supports survivors of abuse at Empower Yolo’s emergency safe

house and main office and provides care to victims of domestic violence who are COVID-positive and staying in one of the county’s Project Room Key-sponsored hotels.

“The mobile medicine team serves Yolo County residents who are experiencing unstable housing. We provide medical care, counseling, treatment for addiction, and connection to services,” says Portnoy.

This partnership aligns our missions of providing safe and healthy communities. “Our mission is to improve health outcomes for Yolo County’s most vulnerable residents. We do that by supporting care transitions, providing ongoing medical and behavioral health care, and linking patients to brickand-mortar services,” says Portnoy.

MMT consists of a nurse practitioner, physician, registered nurse, medical assistant, peer advocate, and case manager. The team goes to encampments, parks, parking lots, day programs, shelters, and migrant camps for farm workers. “We are on the streets of Woodland, Davis, and West Sacramento every week. We serve rural areas on an asneeded basis; we serve all comers - insurance or documents are not required to receive services,” said Portnoy.

MMT comes to Empower Yolo’s Woodland office once a month to do COVID testing, COVID care, and general wellness exams. The team also provides care to help victims of abuse and asylum seekers. “We provide all the regular services that our team offers. In addition, we can perform forensic medical evaluations. I have performed over 50 forensic medical and psychological asylum evaluations. I also teach and mentor other clinicians on this work. I use the Istanbul Protocol to guide my exams and documentation,” says Portnoy.

Empower Yolo facilitates four medical clinic services a month for clients, one at its KE shelter (our smaller 8-bed safe house for homeless victims of crime), two at the Wallace and Vannucci shelter, and one at the main office at 175 Walnut Street in

Woodland.

“We are grateful for the partnership with Empower Yolo. The community can support our program with donations of socks, toiletries, and gently used clothes,” said Portnoy.

Sutter Health Family Medicine Residency Program

The Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program Clinic (“Sutter FMRP Clinic” or the “clinic”) is also a partner in the grant and has been providing medical services to survivors and their children at Empower Yolo’s safe house since 2021. The great benefit for clients is that the clinic provides healthcare and information regarding their health without them having to leave the shelter.

Victims have additional barriers when trying to access medical care. Often their insurance is provided by the abuser who can use that information to locate the victim. Sutter FMRP Clinic believes it’s important to support the healthcare needs of survivors of domestic violence and their families. “Of the many difficult things that happen when someone is experiencing domestic violence, missing out on health care is yet another issue, since oftentimes health insurance may not be available, transport may be difficult, etc. Having some health care available

at no cost, and located right at the shelter will hopefully remove some barriers to obtaining medical assistance,” says Dr. William Zepf, Sutter Family Medicine Residency faculty & physician attending at Empower Yolo clinic.

Sutter FMRP Clinic supports the healthcare needs of victims of abuse and their children safely and confidentially. The team, led by Dr. Samantha Kettle provides safe house residents annual/physical exams for adults, or other health issues (diabetes, blood pressure, etc.), pregnancy care, infant and

child visits, family planning (birth control pills and other methods), medication refills, and health education.

The clinic allows safe house families to be seen by professionals and access high-quality health care and helps clients financially by reducing the number of copayments, clinic fees, and transportation costs. The clinic works with the shelter staff to identify the current needs of the safe house residents and offers an educational presentation, such as diabetes, hypertension, or reproductive options followed by wellness exams.

With the new grant funding the clinic will also provide in-person or online Spanish educational classes regarding vaccines for adults and children and will offer wellness classes in Spanish. The clinic provides one week of medical care for clients onsite at the safe house, and now an additional week of educational programming. The clinic recently provided a teen health education class that was well attended by clients.

The class held at the safe house for teens was on healthy relationships. The teens liked that they knew people in the class so they did not feel so alone learning about this topic. They also appreciated learning about red flags in an unhealthy relationship, specifically control issues.

“I learned about control and what it looks like; a partner wanting to know who I talk to, where I go, and them not letting me do what I want are all forms of control.” – a teen client

Healthcare providers are in a unique position to help victims of domestic violence because they can help treat their injuriesboth physical and mental health conditions - and help provide information, resources, prevention education, referrals, and support.

Programs like the Sutter FMRP Clinic and MMT in partnership with Empower Yolo help respond to more clients comprehensively. These partnerships create an improved coordinated response to all survivors of family violence by coordinating existing services so survivors can more effectively navigate through multiple systems when they have limited windows of time and urgent needs.

We are grateful to the Sutter FMRP Clinic and MMT for partnering with us in our mission of promoting safe, healthy, and resilient communities. For more information about Empower Yolo and a full list of services, please visit us at empoweryolo. org..

Natalia Baltazar is the Director of Development and Community Relations of Empower Yolo.

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One of CommuniCare’s Mobile Medical Team members goes out into the field.

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He$h @ 10pm Temple Nightclub - SF, 540 Howard Street, San Francisco Keyon Harrold and Friends @ 10:45pm Black Cat, 400 Eddy St, San Fran‐cisco

Red Dirt Ruckus: Live at Lakeview @ 7pm Lakeview Commons Beach Parking, South Lake Tahoe San Francisco Symphony @ 7:30pm Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco San Francisco Symphony w/ Dvorak's New World Symphony @ 7:30pm Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco

Keyon Harrold @ 7:30pm Black Cat, 400 Eddy St, San Fran‐cisco

Talib Kweli @ 8pm / $29.50 The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

The Ateliers @ 8pm The Golden Bear, 2326 K St, Sacra‐mento Meredith Edgar: Meredith & Danny @ The Lucky Horseshoe @ 8pm The Lucky Horseshoe, 453 Cort‐land ave, San Francisco Anna St. Louis @ 8pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

Trianna Feruza: GTRI AT THE BOOM BOOM ROOM

@ 9pm Boom Boom Room, 1601 Fillmore St, San Francisco

Keyon Harrold and Friends

@ 9:30pm Black Cat, 400 Eddy St, San Fran‐cisco

Yard Sale and Large Flea Market @ 8am Yard Sale and Large Flea Market at Macedonia COGIC Mace‐donia Church of God in Christ, 425 Walters Road, Suisun City. sischeryl martin@aol.com, 707-4253135

Peregrine Welcomes Acapella Group Tune Up, Featuring Tunes from Both Sides of the 60s @ 10am Tune Up presents songs from both sides of the 60s. Prior to the con‐cert, they will present a discussion about the vocal harmony of doowop. Audience. Audience partici‐pation is highly encouraged! Free! Peregrine School, 2650 Lillard Drive, Davis. info@peregri neschool.org, 530-753-5500 San Francisco Symphony w/ Ratatouille in Concert @ 3pm Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco

Private Event: David Parker w/Locked-n-Loaded @ 4pm Private Event - Fair�eld, CA, Fair‐�eld

Carolina Lugo presents Tachíria Flamenco’s Dance

Town, 3901 Land Park Dr, Sacramento. 916-808-8884

L5 - Dance Around the World @ 9am / Free Jul 10th - Jul 14th Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Dr, Sacramento. 916-808-8884 B5 - Movie Mania @ 9am / Free Jul 10th - Jul 14th

Town, 3901 Land Park Dr, Sacramento. 916-808-8884

L5 - Little Ranchers @ 9am / Free Jul 10th -

530-758-3370 GREEN TODAY - A tribute to Green Day: Green Day tribute at Retro Junkie @ 6pm Retro Junkie, 2112 N Main St, Wal‐nut Creek

Chance McCauley @ 6pm River Terrace Inn, 1600 Soscol Ave, Napa

"Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope"

(1977) @ 7pm / $5 Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento

Pher @ 7pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Lavalove @ 7pm Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐mento

"Sweeney Todd: the De‐mon Barber of Fleet Street" @ 7:30pm / $11 Jean Henderson Performing Arts, 607 Pena Dr., Davis

The Dead‐lies at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

@ 12pm Six Flags Discovery King‐dom, 1001 Fairgrounds Dr, Vallejo

JourneyDay Music

@ 5pm Be Bubbly Napa Valley, 1407 2nd St, Napa

Chinatown Dragon: An immersive cultural experi‐ence with kungfu, circus, magic, music, and more @ 7pm / $35

Jul 7th - Aug 20th

Join us for a magical adventure through Chinatown as we search for the elusive Chinatown Dragon!

This one-of-a-kind performance captivates audiences of all ages Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson Street, San Francisco. manage ment@greatstartheater.org, 415735-4159

The Gold Souls at First Friday Oak Park

@ 7pm The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Com‐plex, 2837 36th St, Sacramento VIVA LA SOLTERÍA ¡Baila, Canta, Comparte! 18+

@ 7pm / $15

Ace of Spades, 1417 R St., Sacra‐

"The Tale of Edward Scissorhands" @ 8pm / $12.50 Stage Werx Theatre, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco

"Predictor" @ 8pm / $20 Capital Stage, 2215 J Street, Sacramento

Secret Improv Society @ 8pm / $16.50 Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter St, San Francisco

Zeker: DJ Clee + House‐keeping 'Family Style' @ 9pm Hawthorn, 46 Geary St, San Fran‐cisco