The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Donations sought for Karim Abou Najm memorial

By Lauren Keene and Monica StarK Enterprise staff writers

Every day, Nadine Yehya and Majdi Abou Najm walk to Sycamore Park to tidy up the memorial for their son Karim Abou Najm, bringing two jugs of water to replenish the new flowers that visitors often leave.

Afterward, they spread out blankets and sit on a nearby grassy hill to remember Karim, a UC Davis student who lost his life during a series of local stabbings that also killed David Breaux and injured Kimberlee Guillory.

Stabbing victim charged with domestic violence

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Yolo County prosecutors won’t file charges against a 43-year-old Davis woman arrested on attempted murder charges in connection with a stabbing Saturday at the couple’s apartment.

Instead, the District Attorney’s Office filed a three-count felony complaint against her husband, Jorge Lomeli Navarro,

charging him with assault and other domestic-violence offenses.

“After a thorough review of the Davis Police Department’s detailed investigation, we have determined no charges will be filed” against the wife, Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said Tuesday morning. “My understanding is she was released from custody yesterday.”

Lomeli Navarro’s charges

allege he inflicted great bodily injury upon his wife on multiple occasions between July 1 and July 8, was armed with a weapon at the time, and “the crime involved great violence, great bodily harm, threat of great bodily harm or other acts disclosing a high degree of cruelty, viciousness or callousness.”

It was not immediately clear when Lomeli Navarro, 39, would make his first court appearance. He remained

hospitalized as of Tuesday morning but had been placed under arrest, according to Davis Deputy Police Chief Todd Henry.

Davis police responded at about 3:40 p.m. Saturday to the couple’s residence at the Terracina at Wildhorse apartments, 1800 Moore Blvd., arriving to find evidence of “a very violent struggle” that

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Museum lights spark for summer

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

The Manetti Shrem Museum’s galleries will be closed as of July 16, but the drop-in studio will be open starting July 17 with free art-making activities available to the entire community at the museum. With drop-in hours on Thursdays and Fridays, visitors can come in anytime and stay for as long as they want. “We’re encour aging open-

ended creative exploration appropriate for all levels of experience and ages. There’s a variety of art supplies and different ways to approach their projects. It’s all free,” says Linda Alvarez, the museum’s Coordinator for Programs and Student Connection, who runs the Art Spark program.

Art Spark Summer takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum’s Carol and

Parker Art Studio by advance appointment for groups Monday through Wednesday and for dropins Thursday and Friday. The museum can accommodate groups of 10 to 25 people (by reservation).

Alvarez expects summer camps, community organizations, and campus summer programs to take advantage of the activities.

“We’re doing this through the week of Labor Day, and then after that, the museum will reopen its galleries. One thing that’s really special this year is our studio space will be open the whole summer, even when all the galleries are getting reinstalled.”

Karim, 20, had been biking home through the park after being honored at a UCD awards ceremony on the night of April 29. He was due to graduate just six weeks later.

“This place is frequently visited by all of Karim’s friends and by us,” Abou Najm said. “I don’t remember any days that passed that we didn’t come here.”

One day, Davis Mayor Will Arnold and City Councilman Bapu Vaitla visited the couple’s home, expressing interest in creating a permanent memorial at the site. Abou Najm and Yehya embraced the idea. They later connected with Susan Lovenburg, a former Davis school board member and resident of the See MEMORIAL, Back page

Minhaj interviews Obama on YouTube

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Recently released and available on YouTube, Davis-native comedian Hasan Minhaj interviewed former President Barack Obama, testing him on some music and literature in his end-ofyear lists, if he gets depressed, the upcoming presidential election, and other various topics.

According to the video description, “When it’s 2 a.m., and POTUS is in bed, does he doom-scroll on his phone? Hasan needs to hear from the most hopeful president in

American history and have an entertaining but honest conversation about this generation’s hopelessness.”

Obama told Minhaj that he certainly feels depressed at times, but recommends having perspective and asking older generations if today’s ills are the worst they’ve ever seen. Between World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, Jim Crow, lynchings, and times that are “significantly worse,” for the most part, the trajectory of humanity is improving.

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A crime-scene cleanup crew goes over the scene of a stabbing in Davis on Sunday.

Lauren Keene/ enterprise photo

Participants in the Art Spark program made their own zines.

Linda aLvarez/ Courtesy photo See SPARK, Back page

Signs of divisiveness, right out in public

Have you had it with signs everywhere you look as you drive to Nugget to buy a quart of milk?

I’m not talking about signs on private property or signs on stores letting you know whether they’re selling mattresses or munchies.

No, this is about all those handmade signs on telephone poles and power poles and light poles and sometimes in the middle of intersections pleading with us to help find a lost cat or a runaway dog or a pet tortoise that burrowed its way to freedom under the back fence.

If it’s all a bit much, you might consider moving to Livermore. Yes, Livermore. And stop wondering why anyone would consider naming a town Livermore. We’ll save that for another day.

According to an excellent piece in the Livermore Vine by Cierra Bailey, “The Livermore City Council has upheld a previously approved ordinance banning temporary signs in the public right-ofway. All signs — including campaign signs and real estate open house signs — will no longer be permitted to occupy space on city streets, sidewalks and intersections.”

The council wisely decided to allow signs on private property after taking a quick glance at both the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the makeup of the current United States Supreme Court.

But here’s the good part. The sign ban has nothing to do with

those annoying signs that litter the landscape. Turns out the Livermore City Council had loftier goals than simply alleviating visual blight.

Former councilmember Trish Munro, who voted for the total ban while she was in office, cited the environmental impacts plus the divisiveness that political signs can create.

“Environmental impact can’t be ignored and the divisiveness is something that has been growing and takes away from the ability to have conversations about what it means to be an elected official.”

Really?

Agreed, political signs and probably other kinds of signs, can be divisive, but I didn’t realize that was one of the exceptions to the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.

I figured we could say just about anything we wished, other than yelling fire in a crowded theater that sells buttered popcorn.

Our own mayor right here in Davis, California, recently pleaded that we shouldn’t have another Measure J/R/D vote on development because we all need a rest

Early-morning South Davis crash leads to DUI arrest

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

A Vacaville woman faces drunken-driving charges following her involvement in a South Davis collision early Sunday morning. Davis police Lt. John Evans said officers responded shorty after 1 a.m. to the area of Cowell Boulevard and Drummond

Avenue, arriving to find a solo crash where the vehicle had gone over a center median and left the roadway.

Evans said the driver, 43-year-old Kathryn Becker, "displayed objective symptoms of alcohol intoxication and was subsequently arrested." She was booked into the Yolo County Jail.

from divisiveness, so maybe that has become the new buzzword in city government.

I’m not sure how a real estate sign advertising a Saturday open house is divisive, but maybe it is in Livermore.

Or for that matter, what’s divisive about a 10-year-old putting up a sign to sell lemonade or a tearful teenager tacking a handwritten, heart-wrenching note about a lost puppy where passing traffic can see it?

And since when was a garage sale divisive?

According to one Livermorian, political signs have been “carpeting the city” during recent elections, which some folks might consider a good thing in terms of civic engagement.

I mean, isn’t carpeting the city with “Vote for Bob” signs better than complete apathy?

Noted Vice Mayor Brittni Kiick, who came out foursquare in favor of a total ban, “This isn’t about whether it’s a political sign or

whether it’s real estate. For me, this is about being in alignment with the goals we set as a city as a whole.”

Fair enough.

Councilmember Bob Carling outlined a nightmare scenario for the global environment if Livermore failed to enact a total ban.

According to Carling, his support is “due to the environmental impacts of people having to drive around in cars and emitting more greenhouse gasses to pick them up and particularly city staff who have to spend time collecting them when the owners of the signs do not do it themselves, as well as the fact that the plastic campaign signs are not recyclable and end up contributing to landfills.”

Oh the horror. Who knew temporary signs were so detrimental to all the things we hold dear?

Maybe they should have allowed signs if they were delivered by non-polluting, old-fashioned bicycles, but once an elected official gets on his high horse, it’s sometimes hard for him to dismount.

Could a similar ban happen in Davis?

Not a chance.

If we aren’t the first city in America to think of it, we’re definitely not interested in playing follow-the-leader.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net

Train-pedestrian fatality under investigation

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Authorities are investigating a train-versuspedestrian fatality that occurred Tuesday morning in Davis.

Davis Fire Department

Battalion Chief Emily Lo said the male pedestrian was struck by an

eastbound Amtrak passenger train shortly after 10:30 a.m. near Mace Boulevard north of Interstate 80.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Yolo County coroner’s officials had not released his identity as of Tuesday afternoon.

Amtrak spokeswoman

Kelly Just said none of the 67 passengers and crew members on board the train, traveling from San Jose to Sacramento, reported any injuries. The train resumed travel at about 12:30 p.m.

“Amtrak is working with the Davis Police Department to investigate the incident,” Just said.

According to one Livermorian, political signs have been “carpeting the city” during recent elections, which some folks might consider a good thing

UC Davis team reports groundbreaking nematode discovery

By Kathy Keatley Garvey Special to The Enterprise

A UC Davis research team has discovered that “both a harmful plant bacterium and a parasitic worm can mimic a plant peptide hormone to enhance their ability to infect plants.”

The research, “Root-Knot Nematodes Produce Functional Mimics of Tyrosine-Sulfated Plant Peptides,” is published in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

(See https://tinyurl.com/ bdec4f2b)

It's like hijacking plant development to facilitate parasitism, according to nematologist Shahid Siddique, an associate professor in the Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and one of the corresponding authors of this study. “This finding showcases an amazing case of convergent evolution across three different types of organisms, revealing how diverse life forms can develop similar strategies for survival.”

The root-knot nematode,

By Rya Jetha CalMatters

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, California’s three days of paid sick leave for full-time workers was not enough to cover quarantines or vaccine side effects. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring companies to offer as much as 80 hours of supplemental sick leave for employees.

The temporary measure was restored in early 2022 due to the Omicron surge, but expired at the end of the year.

Now, advocates are urging state lawmakers to increase paid sick leave and expand who can receive it to promote public health and equity.

It’s one of a series of bills before the Legislature that supporters say would improve work-life balance for Californians. Opponents, however, say the bills are an unreasonable burden to put on small businesses.

Newsom wouldn’t say Monday whether he would sign the sick leave bill if it’s passed. He did say that he broadly supports doing more for families, but also recognizes the cost.

“We have a parents’ agenda, and paid sick leave is certainly part of that,” he said after a bill signing event. “We look forward to doing more in the future. We just have to sort of balance those priorities against others in the short term.”

Senate Bill 616 would raise the number of paid sick days that can be used by employees from three to seven days per year and expand how sick days are accrued and used. Under existing law, employees can accrue as many as seven days per year. This bill would increase the total to 14 days a year, and allow seven sick days to roll over to the next year, up from three days.

The bill, approved by the state Senate on a 27-9 vote and by an Assembly committee, is before the Assembly appropriations committee. Since being introduced, about 150 organizations have come out in support of the measure, while more than 60 groups oppose it.

According to the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, “paid sick leave guarantees are seen by

which threatens global food security, is a small worm-like organism that is a highly evolved obligate parasite, or an organism that cannot survive without its host. It is known to infest some 2,000 crops worldwide. “These parasites have a remarkable ability to establish elaborate feeding sites in roots, which are their only source of nutrients throughout their life cycle,” the authors wrote.

are Henok Zemene Yemer, formerly of the Siddique lab and now with Gingko Bioworks in Emeryville, and Dee Dee Lu of the Ronald lab.

SIDDIQUE UCD nematogist

RONALD Plant pathologist

Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are among the most destructive plant pathogens, causing an annual economic loss of $8 billion to U.S. growers and more than $100 billion worldwide, the authors said.

authors explained. “A PSY-like peptide produced by a bacterial pathogen has been shown to contribute to bacterial virulence. Here, we discovered that PSY-like peptides are encoded by a group of plant-parasitic nematodes known as root-knot nematodes. These nematode-encoded PSY mimics facilitate the establishment of parasitism in the host plant. Our findings are an example of a functional plant peptide mimic encoded by a phytopathogenic bacterium (prokaryote) and a plant-parasitic nematode (an animal).”

to enhance our understanding of molecular aspects of plant–nematode interaction but also to use this knowledge to provide new resources for reducing the impact of nematodes on crop plants in California.”

“Root-knot nematodes are a major threat to various crops, including fruit trees and vegetables,” Siddique said. “In California, tomatoes, almonds, and walnuts are among the major hosts susceptible to root-knot nematode infection.”

Siddique and UC Davis distinguished professor Pamela Ronald, a plant pathologist and geneticist in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, are the joint corresponding authors. Joint first-authors

The team also included emerita professor Valerie Williamson of the former Department of Nematology; Maria Florencia Ercoli, postdoctoral fellow in the Ronald lab; Alison Coomer Blundell, a doctoral candidate in the Siddique lab; and Paulo Vieira of the USDA's Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, Beltsville, Md.

“Plant peptides containing sulfated tyrosine (PSY)-family peptides are peptide hormones that promote root growth via cell expansion and proliferation,” the

The research involved gene expression analysis and parasitism of tomato and rice plants.

The project drew financial support from a collaborative grant awarded to Siddique and Ronald from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.

Siddique, a member of the UC Davis faculty since 2019, focuses his research on basic as well as applied aspects of interaction between parasitic nematodes and their host plants. “The long-term object of our research is not only

Ronald, noted for her innovative work in crop genetics, especially rice, is recognized for her research in infectious disease biology and environmental stress tolerance. Thomson Reuters named her one of the world's most influential scientific minds and Scientfic American recognized her as among the world's 100 most influential people in biotechnology. In 2022 Ronald received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

The next steps? “Currently, we are working to understand the mechanism by which these peptides contribute to the nematode infection,” Siddique said. “This entails the characterization of receptors involved and gaining insights into transcriptional changes.”

More sick days? Lawmakers look at work-life balance

many public health experts as one of the strongest tools in stopping the spread of infectious diseases,” while the Economic Policy Institute finds that low-wage workers are particularly susceptible to having limited paid sick leave.

“COVID-19 presents a perfect example of why expanding paid sick leave is not simply good public policy, but a dire necessity,” bill author Sen. Lena Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, said in a statement included in the bill analysis. She added that “studies have found that, for those without earned sick days, missing three and a half days of work equates to losing a family’s entire monthly grocery budget.”

In 2014, California became the second state in the nation to adopt a paid sick leave policy, but now provides less paid sick leave than 15 states and many of its own cities, including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.

The California Work & Family Coalition, a cosponsor of the bill, argues that it ensures “that California workers do not have to choose between their health and paying the bills.”

However, a coalition of organizations said in an opposition letter that many small businesses have not recovered from the pandemic and are now dealing with inflation.

The opposition coalition includes the California Chamber of Commerce, which has placed the bill on its 2023 “job killer” list because it “imposes new costs and leave requirements on employers of all sizes.”

The Chamber supported another bill, which failed in committee, that would have increased paid sick leave from three to five days — instead of seven — and would have allowed employers to ask for documentation from workers.

“The more than 100 percent expansion is something that really not all businesses can afford to do,” said Ben Golombek, the Chamber’s executive vice president for policy.

Jenya Cassidy, director of the Work & Family Coalition, says that depriving basic rights and dignity to workers should not be a

strategy used by small businesses to grow.

“Your business grows when your workers can thrive, care for their families and care for themselves while keeping their jobs,” Cassidy said in an interview. “We just need to normalize people not working themselves to death.”

Expanding family leave

Another bill would expand who can take as long as eight weeks a year in paid family leave to include “chosen family” — loved ones whom people consider family but without a legal or biological relationship. Assembly Bill 518 would also allow an employee to take paid time off to care for an elderly neighbor, cousin or friend, for example.

Currently, family members who can receive paid leave are children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, spouses, or domestic partners. The leave can be to care for a baby or a seriously ill person, or during a military deployment.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 82% of American households depart from the traditional nuclear family structure, and the number of multigenerational and LGBTQ homes is increasing.

“California’s current Paid Family Leave program reflects an outdated nuclear family model and only allows workers to receive partial income replacement to care for certain narrowly defined family members,”

Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, who authored the measure, said in a statement included in the bill analysis. “This definition leaves out both chosen family and extended family members such as aunts, uncles and cousins.”

Wicks has history on this issue. She became a national symbol of worklife balance in 2020, when she had to bring her infant to the Assembly floor to vote on a parental leave bill because she wasn’t allowed to vote by proxy.

Proponents argue that the bill is important for California’s low-paid workers, who cannot afford to take unpaid leave to care for their chosen and extended family. They also say that this bill adopts definitions that are inclusive to aging adults and LGBTQ families who rely on a wide network of caregivers and multigenerational households, which people of color are more

likely to live in.

Craig Pulsipher, legislative director at Equality California, a statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, says that recent public health crises have shaped the policy in this bill: During the mpox outbreak last year, some gay men lost their income because they contracted the disease, formerly known as monkeypox, or because they had to care for someone with it.

“These experiences reinforced for me how important protections are for the LGBTQ community, many of whom don’t have close family members or biological children,” said Pulsipher.

According to a study by the Center for American Progress, fewer than half of LGBTQ Americans are likely to rely on their biological family for support when sick, while fewer than one-third are likely to rely on a spouse to whom they are legally married.

While there is no federal

law that guarantees the right to paid leave for caregiving responsibilities, states including New Jersey, Washington, Connecticut, Oregon and Colorado have adopted expansive definitions of family in their paid family and medical leave policies.

More than 80 groups publicly support this measure, while two groups oppose it, including the Sacramento-based California Landscape Contractors Association, which advocates for landscape contractors, architects, designers and their vendors.

The group argues that the bill’s use of the term “designated person” is vague and ripe for misuse by workers who can claim the leave benefit for potentially anyone they know.

In an opposition letter to the bill, the association wrote that “small businesses often do not have or can’t afford full-time human resource professionals to manage and track all the various requirements coming from new Sacramento employment regulations,” referring to the provision in the bill that allows the “designated person” in need of care to be identified by the employee at the time the claim for benefits is filed.

Sandra Giarde, the executive director of the organization, said that it is not opposed to making room for LGBTQ and multigeneral relationships by adding to the relationships already codified into state law.

“But ‘designated person’ and ‘family-like relationship’ — those are very broad and ambiguous, and that’s where the crux of our opposition lies,” Giarde said.

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Oscar Tang, 35, watches over kids as they play at Modern Education Family Childcare in San Francisco on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The center had to close recently out of precaution after a child who attends the center had tested positive for COVID-19.

MINHAJ: President holds his own

“We’re becoming less racist and less sexist and less homophobic and better educated and healthier and wealthier. Extreme poverty was being reduced, and the Berlin Wall comes down and Mandela’s released, and there’s this enormous sense that many of the ills of humanity were behind us.”

He said his daughter Malia and her friends feel as if society is on a trajectory to sail past the 2-degree celsius benchmark, and he tells her that while people may not be able to cap temperature rise to 2 degrees, it may be possible to cap it at 2.5 instead of 3 or 3.5 degrees.

“That extra centigrade might mean the difference between whether Bangladesh is underwater. It might make the difference as to whether 100 million people have to migrate.

“You can’t descend into nihilism and not try to

save those 100, 200, 300 million people. It matters,” the former president said. Minhaj opens and ends the nearly 30-minute interview on the lighter side. Responding to what would happen if he didn’t put “The Light We Carry,” Michelle Obama’s book on the 2022 end-of-year list, Obama said, “Well, that would be foolish because we share a bank account.”

Minhaj ends if the former president has any questions for the comedian and his body of work, Obama said, “Not really,” to which Minhaj responded, “copy that.”

“Maybe shoot a little higher,” Obama said. “OK, copy that Mr. President. Thank you so much. I had a great time,” Minhaj answers.

Earlier this year, the UC Davis administration and the Associated Students asked Minhaj to speak at the 2023 commencement on either on June 16, 17 or 18, The California Aggie

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CITY OF DAVIS ORDINANCE SUMMARY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on June 20, 2023, the City Council of the City of Davis introduced and on July 11 2023 the City Council shall consider adopting the following entitled ordinance:

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DAVIS RE-ADOPTING A MILITARY EQUIPMENT USE POLICY AND RE-APPROVING THE USE, ACQUISITION AND SEEKING OF FUNDING FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT

The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt a Military Equipment Use Policy approve the use of military equipment by the Davis Police Department and require that the funding acquisition and use of military equipment be approved by the Davis City Council California Government Code § 7071 (a)(1) requires law enforcement agencies to obtain approval of the applicable governing body by adoption of a Military Equipment Use Policy as specified by ordinance at a regular meeting held pursuant to specified open meeting laws, prior to taking certain actions relating to the funding acquisition or use of military equipment as defined The Davis Police Department uses military equipment, as now defined by State law; and intends to continue using military equipment and/or collaborate with other law enforcement agencies in using military equipment as now defined by State law

The above summary constitutes the major highlights; to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance, a reading of the document in its entirety may be necessary A certified copy of the full text of the adopted ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk s Office, 23 Russell Boulevard, Davis, California, and/or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge Informat i o n m a y a l s o b e f o u n d o n l i n e @ https://www cityofdavis org/city-hall/police-department/administration/military-equipment

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reported, but the celebrity did not speak at graduation. Minhaj graduated from Davis High School in 2003 and then attended UC Davis, from where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2007. A keynote speaker at the Davis High graduation in 2015, Minhaj urged the graduates to keep trying no matter what adversities stand in the way. At UCD, he met his future wife Beena Patel and married her 10 years later.

Minhaj was the featured speaker of the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Homecoming King, his first stand-up comedy special was released on Netflix in 2017 and won him his first Peabody Award. He hosted the Patriot Act for which he won his second Peabody Award.

See the video at https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jAYVKZSW XhY.

The following description summarizes the aforementioned ordinance to be adopted by the City Council:

The proposed Ordinance will amend Article 18 05 (Affordable Housing Ordinance) of the City of Davis Municipal Code to require that rental housing projects with 7 or more dwelling units make 15% for of the dwelling units affordable by definition Seven and one half percent will be made affordable to individuals with a Low Income and Seven and one half percent will be made affordable to individuals with a Very Low Income

The ordinance will also update the definition of Family The above summary constitutes the major highlights; to obtain a full understanding of the ordinance a reading of the document in its entirety may be necessary A certified copy of the full text of the proposed ordinance may be viewed in the City Clerk s Office 23 Russell Boulevard Davis California and/or copies may be obtained at a nominal charge 7/12 #2348

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2023-1146

To all interested persons:

Petitioner: Emma Ann Larson-Maynard filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

Present name a Emma Ann Larson-Maynard

to Proposed name Emma Anne Larson McFadden

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

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at l east once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for

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Note to General Contractors; Joint Apprenticeship Committee 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 7/12 7/19 #2346

FOR PROBATE has been filed by ANNALISA

PETITION FOR PROBATE requests tha t ANNALISA K

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

the petition will be held in this court

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later

t N o 2 0 2 0 - 0 0 2 4 2 1 2 , b y r e a s o n o f a breach or default in payment or performance of the obligations secured thereby including that breach or default Notice of which was recorded 4/3/2023 as Recorder s Instrument No 2023-0004865 in Book n/a at page n/a WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH lawf u l m o n e y o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s e v i d e n c e d b y a C a s h i e r s Check drawn on a state or national bank or the equivalent thereof draw n on an y othe r fin anci al i ns tituti on spe cifi ed i n section 5102 of the California Financial Code authorized to do business in the State of California ALL PAYABLE AT THE TIME OF SALE, all right, title and interest held by it as Trustee in that real property situated in said County and State desc r i b e d a s f o l l o w s : L o t 3 9 9 D a v i s M a n o r U n i t N o 9 f i l e d December 30 1958 Book 5 of Maps Pages 60 and 61 The street address or other common designation of the real property hereinabove described is purported to be: 1301 Pole Line Rd Davis CA 95618 The undersigned disclaims all liability for any incorrectness in said street address or other common designation   Said sale will be made with out warranty, express or implied regarding title possession or other encumb r a n c e s t o s a t i s f y t h e u n p a i d o b l i g a t i o n s s e c u r e d b y s a i d D e e d o f T r u s t , w i t h i n t e r e s t a n d o t h e r s u m s a s p r o v i d e d therein; plus advances if any thereunder and interest thereon; and plus fees charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust The total amount of said obligations at the ti me of initial publication of this Not i c e i s $ 5 6 6 , 7 7 0 3 9 I n t h e e v e n t t h a t t h e d e e d o f t r u s t d es c r i b e d i n t h i s N o t i c e o f T r u s t e e s S a l e i s s e c u r e d b y r e a l property containing from one to four single-family residences the following notices are provided pursuant to the provisions of Civil Code section 2924f: NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction You will be bidding on a lien not on the property itself Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien If you are the highest bidder at the auction you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off before you can receive clear title to the property You are encouraged to investigate the existence priority and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s o f f i c e o r a t i t l e i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y e i t h e r o f w h i c h m a y charge you a fee for this information If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender m a y h o l d m o r e t h a n o n e m o r t g a g e o r d e e d o f t r u s t o n t h e property NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee beneficiary trustee or a court pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code The law requires that information about trustee s sale postponements be m a d e a v a i l a b l e t o y o u a n d t o t h e p u b l i c a s a c o u r t e s y t o those not present at the sale If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed and if applicable the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property you may call 916-939-0772 or visit this internet website www nationwidep o s t i n g c o m u s i n g t h e f i l e n u m b e r a s s i g n e d t o t h i s c a s e

2023-10668 Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not be immediately reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale   NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the C alifornia Civil Code If you are an eligible tenant buyer ” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction If you are an eligible bidder you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction T h e r e a r e t h r e e s t e p s t o e x e r c i s i n g t h i s r i g h t o f p u r c h a s e First 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale you can call 916-939-0772 or visit this internet website www nationwidep o s t i n g c o m u s i n g t h e f i l e n u m b e r a s s i g n e d t o t h i s c a s e 2023-10668 to find the date on which the trustee s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee Second you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee s sale Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit or declaration described in Se c ti o n 2 9 2 4 m ( c ) o f t h e C i v

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Davis firefighters prepared for the wildland fire season Sunday by training crews on progressive hose lay techniques. Above, fire Capt. Andrew Whipple directs the efforts of firefighters Nathan Kushlan and Max Metlen in a vacant field near Olive Drive.

Why drains aren’t the same as trash cans

By Sandra Macomb Special to The Enterprise

Atoilet is the ultimate convenience. One simple flush and everything is out of sight — and out of mind, right? However, wastewater treatment is more complicated than it seems, and challenges can arise when what you’re flushing isn’t meant to be flushed.

Sewer systems take wastewater from toilets, sinks and showers through a series of underground pipes and pump stations. They are designed to handle liquid wastes (with only small amounts of solids), and messy problems can occur when other materials end up in the sewers. This is the main reason why toilets should only be used for waste that comes from your body and toilet paper. All other materials, including “flushable” wipes, food scraps, cooking oil, medicines, paper towels and hazardous waste should never be flushed down the toilet or poured down a drain.

It may come as a surprise, but flushable wipes aren’t safe to flush. Even though the packaging states they are flushable, wipes do not break down like toilet paper does in water. They typically maintain their form,

Obituaries

d. March 11, 2023

and when flushed down the toilet, they can cause major backups and clogs within the sewer lines.

Even food scraps shouldn’t go down the garbage disposal. While your garbage disposal may be able to handle food scraps, the sewer pipes cannot. Besides, there’s a better option available!

Place food scraps and plate scrapings in your organics bin so they can be turned into nutrientrich compost.

Paint, paint thinner, pesticides, herbicides, motor oils, solvents and other hazardous wastes should never be emptied, washed or poured down the drain. These chemicals are potentially flammable (which can lead to underground fires and explosions) as well as toxic to the biological process at the wastewater treatment plant.

When flushed down the drain, they can kill the microorganisms that aid in the digestion of the wastewater, causing an upset in the wastewater treatment process and potential pollutants to be discharged to our wetlands.

To prevent environmental contamination, household hazard-

On Saturday, March 11, James Patrick Higgins passed away in Davis. He was 80 years old. James was born to Thomas Francis Higgins and Gladys Elizabeth Bey Higgins in Batavia, N.Y. He had two brothers, Douglas and John Higgins. His childhood and adolescence were very pleasant. He grew up with his brothers, parents, his dear Aunt Eve and Grandma Bey in a happy home. He had countless stories about the good times that he spent with his family.

James graduated from Attica Central School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University. His discipline and strong work ethic helped him succeed in school and in life. If anything needed to get done, he would do it immediately. Jim would not procrastinate at all.

In the mid-’60s, he spent one year receiving military training at Schofield Barracks in Oahu, Hawaii. While in Hawaii, he greatly enjoyed its weather and culture. He never forgot the islands, and Hawaii became his favorite vacationing spot.

During 1966-67, after his training at Schofield Barracks, he served with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Jim made good friends while in the army, and he kept in touch with several of them for the rest of his life. While serving in Vietnam, he had some recreation in Thailand and Japan.

In the early ’70s Jim moved from his hometown, Attica, in western New York to

California. Jim came to California looking for nice weather. He did not like at all the harsh cold weather in western New York. After living for some time in the Bay Area, he moved to Davis. He always considered himself lucky to live in this beautiful town.

ous waste should be taken to the Household Hazardous Waste Facility at the Yolo County Central Landfill, which is open Thursday- Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. While it might seem like cooking oil is a liquid and wouldn’t be a problem for pipes, it can solidify when poured down the drain. And sadly, pouring hot water or soap down the drain will not help. In fact, it can only break up the grease temporarily.

Fats, oils and grease build up on the walls of sewer pipes and block the plumbing, which can lead to expensive and messy

sewer backups in homes and into streets. Instead, wait until the fats, oils and grease are cool, then soak up small amounts with paper towels and place the paper towels along with solidified grease in the organics bin. Save larger amounts to recycle for free at the Household Hazardous Waste facility at the Yolo County Landfill.

While the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant can treat water to be reused (and released into the Davis wetlands), the treatment process does not remove medications from the water.

To prevent environmental

Oct. 27, 1942 — July 3, 2023

Essie Mae Chambers

HIGGINS

Jim spent his working days in government service. He worked for different departments within the government and retired from McClellan Air Force Base in the late ’90s. Then, he happily lived in retirement for 25 years.

In his free time, Jim loved to read and became quite knowledgeable. In addition to English, he spoke Spanish and Esperanto. He traveled in Asia, Australia, North and Central America, the Caribbean and Europe. He was passionate about environmental issues and the common good. James was especially concerned about global warming and its effects on life on the planet.

James was a great man who always kept in mind the common good. Throughout his life, he donated money to worthy causes. His last act of kindness was donating his brain and spinal cord for ALS research. In order to honor his memory, those who are able may make a donation to the environmental group Cool Davis or the ALS Association.

In order to honor his memory, there will be a celebration of life this Saturday, July 15, at the International House Davis from 2 to 4 pm. He is greatly missed.

(Smith) Spafford

May 17, 1930 — June 12, 2023

Lois Isabel Spafford passed after a prolonged illness with dementia. The family would like to give a special thank you to Richie, Bea and Anna who took exceptional care of Lois in Walnut Creek for close to 9 years.

Lois was born in San Jose to Stanley B. Smith and Isabel Rowell Smith. She was the youngest of four children. Her father had a prune and apricot orchard and later started Orchard Supply Hardware in 1931. Growing up, Lois cut apricots for drying and enjoyed the extended family living in and around Campbell.

Lois graduated from Campbell High School where her brother taught, and her grandfather was the first principal. She entered UC Davis in 1948 and received her bachelor’s degree in 1952 and her teaching credential in 1953. While at UC Davis she was active in student body activities, served on the Executive council of the

Picnic Day board and marched in the Cal Aggie band before became an allmale organization.

It was at UC Davis where she met her husband Ed Spafford, and they married in August of 1953. The happy couple continued to live in Davis while Lois taught home economics in Winters until her first child was born in 1955. Ed worked at various roles at UC Davis planning the growing campus. He retired in 1987.

Lois is preceded in death by her husband F. Edwin Spafford, her son Stuart F. Spafford, her sister and two brothers. She is survived by two of her children, Susan L. Spafford England (Robert) and Steven S. Spafford (Shelagh), plus grandchildren Ben England, Caralee Spafford Castellino (Erwin), Grant England (Jessie), Stanley Spafford, Scott Spafford, and Kevin Spafford (Sarah).

Lois served on the UCD Alumni Board, was a Prytanean Alumni, sister in

P.E.O, member of the League of Women Voters and a longtime member of the Davis Community Church.

SPAFFORD

A memorial service will be held on July 29, 2023, at 2 p.m. at the Davis Community Church, 412 C Street, Davis, CA.

In lieu of flowers please donate to the following foundations dear to Lois:

n UC Davis Foundation – Ed Spafford Scholarship (Fund #122050).

n UC Davis Gifts Administration, 202 Cousteau Place, Suite 185, Davis, CA 94618

n Arboretum Tribute Fund. https://give.ucdavis. edu/AARB/RDSDONRRMEMO.) By mail: UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, Attn: Judy Hayes, One Shield Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Checks made out to UC Regents and include a note for Lois Spafford Tribute.

Hatcher, a longtime resident of Davis, passed away at her home on July 3, 2023, after a short battle with cancer. Her beloved husband of 58 years, Wanless, and family were by her side in her final moments. Despite her condition, her wit and humor never left her.

Born October 27, 1942, in Alabama, Essie was the second child of Willie and Dorothy Chambers. After graduating in 1960 she moved to Kentucky and attended St. Elizabeth Nursing School and got her master’s degree in nursing in 1991. She worked as a nurse at the UCD Student

contamination, prescription and over-the-counter medications should never be flushed down a toilet (or, for that matter, thrown in the trash). Instead, take them to any of these local drop-off locations for free and safe disposal: CVS Pharmacy (1550 E. Covell Blvd.), Rite Aid (2135 Cowell Blvd.) or Kaiser Permanente Davis MOB Pharmacy (1955 Cowell Blvd.).

— Sandra Macomb is an Environmental Program Specialist for the city of Davis. Reach her at PWWeb@CityofDavis.org. This column is published monthly.

Health Center from 1965 until her retirement in 2003.

Wanless and Essie met in 1962 while Essie was in nursing school. After longdistance courtship, they were married on Feb. 20, 1965, and she joined him in Davis, where they lived ever since.

Essie loved spending time with family and friends on adventures/trips and enjoyed watching sporting events — that included her kids and grandkids.

She is survived by her husband Wanless; grown children Patrick and daughter-in-law Nancy of

Anna J. Brooks

1934—2023

In loving memory of Anna J. Brooks, who passed away on Friday, June 23, 2023. She was born in Mt. Auburn. Ill., and was the daughter of George Lester Haynes and Dorothy Mae Mulberry Haynes.

She and her sister Janice Hardy Mulberry Vincent were raised by their maternal grandfather Frank Mulberry when their parents passed away during their early childhood.

She leaves behind her two children, Cara Haynes Latham (Elester) and Frank Hamilton Brooks (Jennifer); and grandchildren

Morgan Douglass Latham, Annalee Ester

Edward Dean Whisler

July 7, 1958 — July 4, 2023

Edward D. Whisler was born in Davis on July 7, 1958, and passed away in Sacramento on July 4, 2023, following a brief illness. His parents John E. Whisler and Beverly Whisler, predeceased him. He is survived by his elder brother John Whisler, sister-in-law Kathleen Whisler and niece Kathryn Whisler of Stockton.

Ed had strong family values and was there for whatever his family needed.

He had a quirky sense of humor and was, according to his niece, one of her

Atlanta, Michael and daughterin-law Breanna of San Leandro and David of Arbuckle; grandchildren Olivia, Darcy, Nolan, Isabelle and Elijah Hatcher; brother Reginald Lewis and sisterin-law Jeri.

An Open House/Memorial will be held between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday, July 15, at Smith Funeral Home in Davis. In lieu of flowers, the family would love for people to stop by on Saturday and share their memories of Essie. You can also post them online at www.smith-funerals.com

Latham, Luke Hamilton Brooks, Lila Virginia Brooks and Hudson Grant Brooks. She will be remembered as a strong, independent woman who prized education her entire life. She completed her master’s degree in education and her legacy will be her influence on the students she taught during her lifelong career as a teacher and the neighbors and people she touched with her concern for animal welfare.

BROOKS

Any tributes can be sent to your local SPCA

the natural world. He was taken too soon, but his spirit soars with the eagles now.

favorite uncles. His life’s passion was wildlife. Wherever birds were, you’d find Ed with binoculars and notebook in hand. He loved wildlife and dedicated his life to wildlife conservation and education, obtaining a degree at CSU Sacramento in biological sciences and conservation. He helped create, develop and maintain beautiful habitats around Davis and the surrounding areas. Ed taught others to continue his work and encouraged everyone he met to take an interest in

Visitation at Smith Funeral Home will be July 12 from 10 a.m. 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please donate to The National Audubon Society in his honor.

A graveside service will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Davis Cemetery.

Lois Isabel

James P. Higgins

Essie Mae Chambers Hatcher

HATCHER

MEMORIAL:

Sycamore Park neighborhood, who had reached out to the city offering to lead a memorial fundraising effort.

Like many in the community, Lovenburg found herself deeply affected by the tragedies.

“Karim’s death hit particularly close to home. I mourned his loss and sought a way to contribute to healing from this community trauma,” Lovenburg said.

Organizers set a goal of raising $30,000 for the project by Aug. 31, with the memorial design and city approvals proceeding concurrently.

Donations of any amount welcome. Checks may be written out to the Davis Phoenix Coalition and

mailed to P.O. Box 1902, Davis, CA 95617. To contribute online, visit davisphoenixco.org/ donate. Donors should reference “Karim Memorial” with their contributions.

Karim’s parents plan to work directly with an artist to determine the memorial’s design and construction plans.

“We want it to reflect Karim’s spirit — his personality, his passion, his character,” Yehya said, noting her son often brought people together and fostered connections. “We want something that will stand the test of time.”

The couple also envisions the memorial as a place where people could meditate, seek peacefulness or grieve, whether or not they knew Karim.

His current memorial site is constantly growing and changing, they said, with new flowers, plants, letters and other mementos appearing each day.

“We always knew he was special, but we never knew the extent of his touch,” Yehya said. “The community is grieving along with us.”

Added Abou Najm: “In a way, he has united humanity.”

For more information about the memorial project and fundraising effort, contact Lovenburg at 530304-6360 or susan. lovenburg@gmail.com.

Lovenburg said any contributions to the project are deeply appreciated.

“This is just one of several efforts supporting Karim and his family, and

there are others supporting David Breaux and Kimberlee Guillory,” she said.

“Each is an important and

valuable effort. There are many ways to contribute to community healing.”

Lauren Keene/enterprise photo

at lkeene@davisenter prise.net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene

Two activities are featured — “Drawing the Thread,” an embroidery/ handwork craft; and storytelling, where visitors will be encouraged to tell a story emphasizing basic story structure, characterization, and other literary elements. “It’s not meant to be like a school assignment or anything super formal,” Alvarez said. “They can be like really colorful, like folded little booklets.”

Watching families and friends collaborate on projects is one of Alvarez’s favorite parts of the Art Spark program. “Any time there’s that creative exchange where people are either consciously working

on something together or even subconsciously end up using the same color palettes and beams in separate works, I think there’s something special when people come together and bond over making something.”

Art Spark lets visitors feed their creative spirits with various art activities suitable for all ages and skill levels — no experience is required.

Visit manettishrem.org for more information or to register or email manettishremmuseum@ucdavis. edu. The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is at 254 Old Davis Road.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@ davisenterprise.net.

CHARGED: Victim needed CPR to start breathing again

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Henry said Lomeli Navarro sustained at least one stab wound to his neck area. Officers performed CPR until the arrival of medical personnel, who transported him to a Sacramento hospital where he underwent surgery until early Sunday morning.

“He had no pulse and was not breathing, and our guys brought him back during CPR measures,” Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief Luis Parrilla said.

At the scene, officers observed his wife had “very prominent, visible injuries

consistent with a physical assault” that also required hospital treatment, Henry said.

Police encountered two children at the apartment, both of whom apparently witnessed the stabbing, and took them into protective custody. Investigators recovered a kitchen-type knife from the scene.

Henry said neighbors reported hearing or observing fights between the couple in the days leading up to the assault. Police had been called to that apartment in the past, but for incidents unrelated to domestic violence.

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

Nadine Yehya, left, and Majdi Abou Najm spruce up the memorial to their son, Karim, at Sycamore Park. Plans are in the works for a permanent memorial at the site that will bring the community together.

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Fiber arts made at the Manetti Shrem Museum’s Art Spark program.

SPARK: Program tries to engage creativity

BaseBall

Pittsburgh Pirates draft UCD pitcher Carrion

Enterprise staff

UC Davis right-handed pitcher Danny Carrison was selected in the ninth round of the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, becoming the 55th draftee in school history since 1970.

Carrion was picked 257th overall.

He becomes the first Aggie to be drafted since Tampa Bay Rays nabbed Tanner Murray in 2020.

“We are so happy for Danny and his family,” said UC Davis head coach Tommy Nicholson. “The work he has put in the last two years really paid off this spring. He placed a lot of trust in pitching coach Zack Thornton and the rest of the coaching staff as he transitioned to a pitcher full time this year.

“Danny has been an incredible teammate and leader for us the last couple of years, and I cannot wait to see him continue to develop as a professional.”

A Winters native, and a member of the team since 2020, Carrion had a career season in 2023, earning Big West Honorable Mention recognition as he transitioned to a full-time pitcher.

He finished his junior season with his best campaign yet, setting career-high marks in every pitching category this year.

In his first season truly dedicated to being a full-time pitcher, Carrion thrived in relief and was a key contributor to

Cross CoUntry Aggies’ Petersen receives contract extension

Enterprise staff

UC Davis head cross country coach Emma Petersen has signed a multi-year contract extension through the 2026 season, Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca announced.

“The cross-country program has thrived under the leadership of Emma Petersen,” DeLuca said.

“From the ‘21 Big West Cross Country Championship to the first individual participant in over a decade at the NCAA Championship, the future of Aggie distance has UC Davis positioned for continued success.”

The 2021 Big West Conference Coach of the Year has guided the Aggies since 2018.

In her four seasons at the helm, UC Davis has flourished on the trail and the oval.

“Being part of the coaching staff at UC Davis Athletics is an honor,” Petersen said. “It is also a privilege to follow in the footsteps of the female coaching legends, Sue Williams and Dee Vochatzer, who built the cross country and track program up to what it is today.

“I am thrilled to continue my role leading our phenomenal cross country student-athletes.”

Petersen led the Aggies to their first conference title in cross country since 2014, when UC Davis was crowned Big West Conference champions in 2021.

The Aggies placed five runners in the top-10, including three in the top-5 to run away from the field with 26 points.

UC Davis has enjoyed great team success in cross country in her four seasons as the women have finished in the top-3 every year and the men have placed in the top-5 three times.

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every Aggie weekend series.

Posting a 3-3 record with a team-high 2.45 ERA in 29.1 innings pitched, he also struck out 34 batters. Limiting opposing hitters to just a .231 batting average against, Carrion was instrumental in many of the Aggie’s quality wins this past year.

This included a three-game stretch from April 16 through April 23, which saw Carrion pick up three consecutive wins. The most important one coming in the series finale against UCLA, giving the Aggies a victory over the Bruins who were ranked No. 19 in the country at the time.

Over the course of 61 innings pitched in an Aggie uniform, Carrion didn’t surrender a single home run and had a knack for limiting damage in high-leverage situations during his three years on the mound.

Carrion also spent this summer playing in the prestigious Cape Cod League.

Playing for the Orleans Firebirds, he recorded 16 strikeouts over 9.2 innings pitched across six games.

In his last appearance, Carrion put together his best outing with the Firebirds where he threw 4.0 innings of shutout baseball, picking up six strikeouts in the process.

Carrion will join a Pittsburgh Pirates draft class that also features No. 1 overall pick, Paul Skenes from LSU.

FC Davis men fall short in semifinals

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

It was the greatest upset that never was. The FC Davis men’s soccer team led through the 73rd minute before undefeated El Farolito rallied back with three unanswered goals to earn a 4-2 victory on Saturday in the semifinals of the Golden Gate Conference Playoffs at Playfields Park.

The Golden Lions, who won just one game during the regular season, took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute when forward Wumi Aladetimi converted a penalty kick for his team-high eighth goal of the season.

El Farolito didn’t take long to answer, with Dembor Benson scoring a gametying goal in the 28th minute.

A few minutes later, Aladetimi was removed from the match after being slide-tackled to the ground, resulting in a scuffle that led to him receiving two red cards. El Farolito defender Juan Aguilar was also ejected for his involvement in the altercation.

With both teams down one player, the match remained tied until FC Davis midfielder Benett Olsen-Zwick put his team back in front 2-1 in the 73rd minute.

El Farolito responded by aggressively pressuring FC Davis’ defense, which eventually set up another goal from Benson in the 84th minute.

Benson, the West Region’s secondhighest goal-scorer, found the back of the net for a third time in the 89th minute to give El Farolito a 3-2 lead.

The entirety of stoppage time was chaotic for both clubs, most notably when El Farolito assistant coach Marcos Da Silva was dismissed for tackling a referee. Da Silva did not willingly leave the match, delaying the action for several minutes.

The time wasted by Da Silva was not added back, and when El Farolito converted a free kick opportunity shortly after, the final whistle sounded and the game was over. “We didn’t get the full stoppage time

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Aggie pitcher Danny Carrion gets ready to throw a pitch during a home game earlier this year.

Mike BUsh/enterprise photo

FC Davis men’s soccer players Benett Olsen-Zwick (10) and Wumi Aladetimi (11), plus El Farolito players, stay close to the ball in Saturday’s game at Playfields Park.

PETERSEN: ‘Created a special team culture’

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“Over the past five years, we have created a special team culture and raised the bar of success both athletically and academically,”

Petersen said. “It is a joy to work with such dedicated support staff that are always there behind the scenes.

“Our leadership, sports medicine, compliance, academic and business staff, are some of the very best in collegiate sports, and I’m looking forward to continuing to support our student-athletes together over the coming years.”

Three Aggies have been named Freshman of the Year and after the first individual title since 2009, Brianna Weidler was named the Big West Athlete of the Year.

Petersen coached Weidler to three titles in the 2022-23 athletic year. On top of the cross country win, Weidler won the 3,000m at the MPSF Championships and crossed the line first in the 5,000m at the Big West Championship.

Weidler became the first Aggie to make an appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Champion-

ship since 2008 and concluded the year with an appearance at the NCAA Track & Field Championship.

Weidler broke a 10-yearold school record in the 5,000m this spring and under the tutelage of Petersen, 18 outdoor top-10 all-time marks have been set and 13 indoor top-10 times are etched in the record book.

On the oval, four Aggies have qualified for NCAA regionals and three have earned Big West individual distance titles.

Take water skiing lessons this upcoming weekend

Enterprise staff

The USA Water Ski & Wake Sports is pleased to announce an adaptive Learn to Ski Clinic for veterans and individuals with disabilities hosted by Competitive and Recreational Disabled Skiers (C.A.R.D.S.), a USA-WSWS member club. C.A.R.D.S. will host the clinic Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ridge in Oroville.

USA Water Ski & Wake Sports’ 2023

Adaptive Learn To Ski Program, presented by S-Lines, has been taking place at sites across the United States this summer.

The goal of the clinics is to provide individuals an opportunity to improve their independence, well-being, and qual-

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ity of life through adaptive water skiing.

Each clinic host is prepared to welcome veterans and individuals with various disabilities, including spinal cord injuries, limb loss, vision impairment, and PTSD for a fun and safe day out on the water.

C.A.R.D.S. is excited to bring water sports to wounded veterans and their families.

Top tier adaptive water ski coaches will be on hand to ensure athletes have a safe and enjoyable experience water skiing.

The clinic will be held at The Ridge, 275 Shippee Road, Oroville, 95965.

For more information and participant registration can be found at https://www. sharelifeonthewater.com/adaptivelearntoski.html.

because the referees spent four minutes trying to get their coach off the field,” said FC Davis head coach Kris Hall. “I think we could’ve equalized it, but you never know.”

The win advances El Farolito to the West Region Playoffs, where it will play Napa Valley 1839 FC for a spot in the championship.

It’s a season-ending loss for the Golden Lions, who defeated San Ramon FC in the first round to

reach the semifinals for the first time in franchise history. Hall was proud of what his squad accomplished.

“I never felt that we were underdogs, but I think we played with a chip on our shoulders,” Hall said. “We entered every game with confidence.”

Unwavering determination was one of many qualities Hall admired about his team.

“Throughout the year, we had a super dedicated core group of guys who

were committed, smart and talented. They wanted to get better. They weren’t just out there to win. They were working toward something every time we met. It was really special.”

— 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’ Aaron Farnan gets ready boot the soccer ball in Saturday’s playoff game at Playfields Park.

Subsidies are a losing habit

By Bruce Yandle Special to The Enterprise

How many times have you experienced it at a crowded football game? Hoping to get a better view, the fans seated in front of you stand. Then, with your view blocked, you and others in your row stand tall. The upward wave continues. Very quickly, everyone is standing, getting weary, and no one has gained an advantage. So it now appears to be with the global response to America’s “Chips and Science Act of 2022,” which established $52 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to subsidize computer chips built on American soil.

As new data show, planned U.S. chip production ramped up, and construction expenditures on computers, electronics and electrical manufacturing plants surged. But, not coincidentally, government chip-manufacturing inducements are now taking place in the United Kingdom, European Union, South Korea, Japan, India and elsewhere. In total, $200 billion is being given away, with the EU dishing out $47 billion in subsidies to firms that will build facilities in Europe.

The result? The global chipmaking fruit basket may soon overflow, and turnover is underway as the industry finds a new equilibrium. Just where it all ends is to be determined, but one thing is certain: Taxpayers are losing, and chip company shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.

But it doesn’t end with chipmakers. While that industry expands and regroups, the subsidized surge has been broadened to include producers of other goods and services that are part of the chipmakers’ supply chain. Now, chemical manufacturers, toolmakers and other producers — small and large — can take their places in a growing line to get their hands on a piece of the subsidies.

Meanwhile, some American politicians see this as an opportunity to ration the subsidies in ways that fulfill other objectives. All those who receive $150 million or more in subsidies must provide a childcare plan and adopt President Biden’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Just as with a football crowd standing up for no good reason, there are a few voices urging everyone to sit back down. Back when political and industrial leaders worldwide were sounding alarms about the rising (and likely temporary) scarcity of computer chips, hardly anyone seemed to expect that industrialized nations would all decide to subsidize chipmakers to the degree that they have. Efforts are now underway to coordinate and avoid excessive subsidies.

As European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager put it: “We hope to agree on high levels of subsidies — that they will not be more than what is necessary and proportionate and appropriate.”

But we should have expected the resulting mess. After all, subsidizing favored producers is a government habit that’s been on the upswing. According to the Lowy Institute’s summary of a 2021 Global Trade Alert report, “Since 2008, China, the United States and the European Union have implemented more than 18,000 subsidy programs for their industries, with the number of identified programs split roughly equally between the three. Together, China, the United States and the European Union account for more than half the number of total world subsidy interventions since 2008.”

With so many subsidies and taxpayer money being given away, it’s little wonder that the U.S. deficit is growing, and tax cuts are not exactly a priority right now. Doing away with unnecessary corporate giveaways is one fiscal step that rank-andfile Democrats and Republicans can get behind. Politicians, as beholden to corporate donors as they often are, may want to take note.

— Bruce Yandle is a distinguished adjunct fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and dean emeritus of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

Projects will reboot downtown

The decline and fall of retail in downtown Davis began in 1964 when our first peripheral shopping center, the University Mall on Russell Boulevard, was approved.

By the end of the twentieth century, most of what downtown Davis had been in the 1960s was gone. Small shops could not compete with megastores like Walmart and Home Depot. E-commerce has since ravaged most brickand-mortar retailers. Covid and Netflix have devastated movie theaters.

A residual of these irreversible changes has been the loss of what had been downtown’s anchor stores — Hibbert Lumber, Regal Cinema 5 and Davis Ace south of Third Street.

Their demise could drive the entire core area into a downward spiral. Fewer people going to the movies or shopping for paint, lumber, hardware and nursery supplies means less sales tax revenue for the city’s coffers and fewer side trips to cafes, craft breweries, restaurants and other downtown businesses.

Fortunately, new multistory apartment complexes have been proposed for each of those properties. Once built, they will be a huge benefit to renters, our city as a whole and downtown businesses.

Combined, these projects promise to provide 464 new residences, including some ground-floor live/work units. I would imagine they will house more than 1,000 people.

The redevelopment of G Street would have been impossible a few years ago. Changes in state laws — designed to encourage the approval of much-needed housing in California — are part of the reason developers

now want to build new apartments. Changes in zoning written into the Downtown Davis Specific Plan, approved last December, are why they want to invest in our core.

In 2020, the legislature declared we were in a statewide housing emergency. California knows that local governments have failed to adequately approve new housing projects. And the result has been extreme inflation of for-sale properties and massive increases in rent. It is also widely believed that the housing shortage has contributed to our homelessness crisis.

All three G Street proposals cite SB 330 — the Housing Crisis Act — in their applications. That law forces cities like Davis — where we have a 0.2% apartment vacancy rate — to quickly approve multifamily housing projects when they meet the zoning criteria.

The most important alterations in Davis zoning permit new core area housing projects to provide no offstreet parking, have greater mass and scale and advance via a “ministerial” approval process. The developers will not have to pay for expensive CEQA reviews that can take years to complete, especially if opponents file lawsuits.

Reduced requirements for low-income units may also have prompted two of the three proponents in Davis to apply when they did.

The six-story, 145,200square-foot project at 240 G

Amazing fireworks display

I’m a lifelong lover of professional fireworks displays and have enjoyed them every year since I watched my first at the county fair near my grandmother’s Southern California home in the ’50s. I cannot remember a Fourth as glorious as the one in Davis Community Park last Tuesday evening. The music from both bands was delightful, the crowd enthusiastic and well-behaved, even the weather cooperated! I cannot remember a better show

Street (formerly Davis Ace) will have 126 housing units and a 3,020-square-foot fitness center. There will also be a subterranean garage with at least 53 parking places. Tenants will also have access to a roof deck that includes green space, barbecues and solar panels.

Six of the residences will be ground-floor live/work spaces that include lofts from 260-375 square feet. The rest will be one and two-bedroom apartments.

None of the housing will be reserved for the poor. Six units will be for renters making 80-120% of the area median income.

The city of Davis previously had a much higher “affordable housing” requirement for new apartment buildings. But, because it was believed that was discouraging any new apartments from being proposed, the set-aside was lowered from 15% to 5%.

The City Council has recently decided to go back to 15%. Knowing that, developers had a strong incentive to get their applications locked in before the ordinance changed.

The five-story proposal for the old Hibbert property (500-512 G Street) includes 207,448 square feet of new housing and 8,586 square feet of non-residential uses, including another public fitness center.

Of the 224 units, 213 will be market-rate; the other 11 for moderate-income households. The developer will build no car-parking spaces for the residents.

The 130,540-square-foot redevelopment proposal for 400-424 G Street — the old Regal Cinema 5 — is a 130,540-square-foot, sevenstory building. The upper

of flash, glitter and sparkle than this one. Thank you, city of Davis and sponsors, for a most delightful evening.

Diane Steele Davis

Our world

We are yet again reminded that our world is rapidly warming, this time by the severe heat wave in the South and the wildfires in Canada.

The time to act is now to stop the polluting of our atmosphere with carbon dioxide from our continued burning of fossil fuels. With the passing of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act there are incentives that make clean energy sources

floors will be set back on G Street.

The project includes 91 market-rate residences and 23 for low-income (50-80% AMI). Making 20% of the units below market-rate qualifies the project to have a seventh floor.

Along G Street to the corner at Fourth Street, the plans call for retail. There will also be yet another fitness center. In the back, on the east side, there will be an “outdoor amenities area” that is nearly 5,000 square feet.

No new car-parking spaces will be erected for this project. However, the Yackzan Group — the Davis family that owns and built the property — says tenants will be able to rent spaces in the five-story garage next door.

Unlike every existing housing project in Davis, these three will not be automobilecentric. They are in walking or bicycling distance from UC Davis; the Food Co-op and the SP Depot are right there; and new residents will be able to go out for lunch, dinner or a drink without using a car.

If need be, they can take trains, buses or taxis or use ride-share apps. Combined, the proposals include more than 6,800 square feet dedicated to indoor bicycle parking.

I have already heard complaints that these multistory developments will destroy the “small-town” character of Davis. No doubt our city will look different once they are built. But infusing new residents on foot and bike into the downtown will revitalize a core that needs new life. — Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.

cheaper than burning fossil fuels.

The California Public Utilities Commission is tasked with regulating utilities and ensuring that ratepayers have affordable, safe and clean energy.

I ask that the members of the CPUC show bold leadership and rapidly transition all California utilities from burning carbon polluting fossil fuels to producing our electricity from clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and using energy storage.

Please, for the sake of our grandchildren and all future generations, make this transition your top priority.

Ron Sadler Roseville

Living

Take advantage of the seasonal fun around here

Summer is here and if you’re lucky, that means more time for new adventures. This list, 20 things to do in and around Davis, includes things to do on your own, with friends or with kids. Some are a little weird. Some will force you out of your comfort zone. Some are challenging and others are just plain fun. Whether you try any of these or you just want to spend your summer sipping lemonade and reading in your hammock, happy summer.

1. Enter your famous brownies, prize heirloom tomatoes or your original artwork in the Yolo County Fair. Entry forms are due by July 14 online or in the fair office, 1125 East St. in Woodland; visit https://www.yolocountyfair.net/p/ the-fair/2023-stills-entries.

2. See Yolo County from a new perspective. Drive north to Guinda, park at the General Store and hike Road 53 through Pierce Canyon. This is an easy hike with spectacular views of the Capay Valley. The land on both sides of Road 53 is private, but Road 53 is public and ours to enjoy. Stay on the road and don’t venture onto private property. Take plenty of water and lots of pictures.

3. When the weather gets really hot, deliver Popsicles to the road crew working on Third Street or to the city staff behind the desk at Community Services (the same place you turn in your city of Davis “Nutcracker” applications ― nobody deserves Popsicles from Davis parents more than they do).

4. Cool off with a fresh peach milkshake at Whitey’s Jolly Kone in West Sacramento (1300 Jefferson Blvd.). We guarantee that any ice cream joint that spells cone with a “K” is going to be good.

5. Just when your kids are starting to be a little homesick for school, have them organize their friends for a campus beautification afternoon. Visit your school and pick up every single piece of litter. Make it a game and give little prizes to the kids who pick up the most or the heaviest or the biggest or the tiniest trash. End the day with kickball and root beer floats.

6. Learn how to make apricot jam. I asked my sweet neighbor, Beth, for her recipe. She gave all the credit to Ball: https://www. ballmasonjars.com/ blog?cid=fresh-apricot-jam-0

7. Spend a morning handing out cupcakes to people leaving the DMV. Tell them “Happy birthday!” (Drivers’ licenses expire on birthdays, forcing people to go to the DMV to renew. Chances are good that the DMV visitor just celebrated or soon will be celebrating a birthday. They will be astounded that you knew they were having a birthday and they’ll smile at the treat.)

8. Go to a drive-in movie: West Wind Drive-In Theater, 9616 Oates Drive, Sacramento https://www.westwinddi.com/ Locations/Sacramento? date=07/10/2023

9. Tune up your bike at the Bike Garage behind the barn at The Cannery. When you’re done, take a spin on Davis’ 12-mile Bike Loop. https://www.thebikecampaign.org/bike-garage

10. Do the Davis city park tour and visit every park in Davis over

My favorite attraction at the Yolo County Fair is the Holy Rosary taco booth. My family and I can’t get enough of those tacos.

the course of the summer. Go to cityofdavis.org and search “parks.”

11. Before you head over to Wednesday’s Picnic in the Park, visit the Hattie Weber Museum, 445 C St. Ask lots of questions. Maybe they’ll let you join in a round of Scrabble.

12. Gather your old jelly jars and drive past Woodland to Yolo. Continue north on the frontage road for a couple of miles to Mezger Family Zinnia Patch. Follow the blue boxes and arrows to their new location. Fill up your jars with flowers and deliver them to a neighbor or a stranger who could use cheering up. Flowers are ready for cutting. The flowers are free, compliments of the fun and generous Mezger family. https://www. facebook.com/profile. php?id=100065560127424

13. Go treasure-hunting at Garrison’s in Williams. When you’re done, walk across the street to Granzella’s and have a beer and pizza.

14. Eat Holy Rosary tacos at the Yolo County Fair. You only

want to stand in line once, so order more than you think you’ll eat. Don’t worry. You’ll eat them.

15. When you get together with those cousins you see only every other summer, but never at Christmas, do this: Plan a surprise Christmas in July. When everyone goes to sleep, set up the artificial Christmas tree with lights and your favorite ornaments. Put wrapped presents for everyone under the tree. Play Christmas music. When everyone wakes up, open presents in your pajamas and then have a big holiday breakfast together. Take lots of pictures.

16. Visit Blue Diamond Almonds gift shop (1701 C St. in Sacramento) and taste all the different and new flavored almonds.

17. Make a decision right now to help your favorite Davis organization represent with a float in the Picnic Day Parade on April 20. Mark your calendar. Spend an hour with your group and discuss a theme. Email me at dunningsm@gmail.com with the subject line Parade Float and

I’ll send you the parade entry application when it becomes available in January.

18. Prepare a really elegant picnic dinner for someone you love. Set it up in the Elliot Weier Redwood Grove in the UC Davis Arboretum. There are picnic tables along the creek and parking close enough to transport your dinner. Bring a linen tablecloth, battery-operated candles and a simple gourmet dinner. And good wine. Fabulous.

19. In August, when the trucks full of tomatoes are rumbling up and down Highway 113, take a load of neighborhood kids out to a tomato field. Watch as the huge harvester rocks its way through the rows of plants, pulling up whole tomato vines.

The vines, tomatoes, dirt and all, bounce along on a conveyor belt where workers pull out debris, freeing the tomatoes to head up a chute where they are launched into the air and then tumble into the accompanying trailer.

If you want the full experience, go late at night and bring a big bag of burgers to the hungry workers (FYI, the night shift gets a lunch break at midnight.)

20. And finally, if you choose to spend your summer days reading books in your backyard hammock, check out all the local authors’ works at the Mary L. Stephens Branch Library, The Avid Reader and Logos Books. Davis is full of talented authors. Their books will mystify, provoke and instruct you. Some will make you laugh out loud and others will pull at your heart strings. And all of them will widen that beautiful horizon beyond our most relevant little town.

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

Cheers to Italian-native whites; perfect for summer

Recently, archaeologists working on Pompeii ruins discovered a fresco “depicting a silver platter laden with wine, fruit — and a flat, round piece of dough with toppings that looked remarkably like a pizza.”

Not surprising that one of my most beloved meals was being enjoyed thousands of years ago, not far from the land of my ancestors. Pizza and wine. What could be better — even if, at that point, the pie wasn't covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella. The topping looks rather like pesto.

I'm just as curious about the wine. Red? White? Something in between? My own history with Italian wines leaned toward red. My first university post — U of Maryland, 1989 — paid the munificent salary of $27,0000 a year. Wow, I could finally afford wine. Cheap wine, given the 11% interest rate on our condo mortgage.

We found a warehouse-like Italian grocery in D.C. where we could get a case of assorted imports for about $45, strawcovered bottles of Chianti included. But there were other sangiovese bottles as well and lots of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. The grocery whites tended to be pinot grigio — usually cheaper than the Chianti but much less satisfying. Maybe you remember those thin, one-note imports. I try to forget. But times and wines have changed, and now, I actually prefer Italian whites to Italian reds.

My current pastas — based on the farmers market new arrivals, like corn, eggplant, and fresh tomato — seem best partnered with the myriad exciting Italian whites that I can now find in almost any good wine shop. Alas, I can't buy them for $45 a case. But then I no longer have a mortgage.

I like to have a variety of Italian whites — especially during the summer — on my wine shelves. You know, A to Z — arneis to zibbibo, though they seem clustered

around the later consonants — vermentino, verdicchio, vernaccia. And they're from every Italian region — Alps to The Boot.

My most recent find: a ribolla gialla-the 2020 Zorzettig that I tried at one of the Wines in Tandem Italian tastings. I bought a bottle ($20) for dinner that night — creamy corn-and-basil sauce over bow tie pasta — made with the first of the farmers market yellow corn. The strong acidity cut right through the creaminess of the sauce (though no cream is used) and the intense minerality gave complexity to the wine's lemon-apple tartness. The Zorzettig family founded their estate more than a century ago. They own some of the most ancient vines in the Fruili Veneta Guilia area, adjacent to the Slovenian border, farmed organically. At this point Annalisa Zorzettig is at the helm. They focus on native grapes, both red and white — of which ribolla gialla is one, a grape whose earliest mention dates to 1296 and one of the few white grapes traditionally fermented on the skin.

I seldom go out for Italian food, since I cook so much of it myself, but I couldn't resist trying the new girl in town — Mamma. I went straight for the white wine list, which included a wider variety than my current pantry shelves — falanghina, greco di tufo, moscato d-Asti, arneis, a couple of pinot grigios, two proseccos, and a couple of blends. I was pleased to note that prices were entirely

More academic honors for area students

Enterprise staff

Jackie L. Wallis of Davis was named to second honors on the Clark University Dean's List. This selection marks outstanding academic achievement during the spring 2023 semester. Students must have a GPA of 3.8 or above for first honors or a GPA between 3.50 and 3.79 for second honors.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Mass., Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university that prepares its students to meet tomorrow's most daunting challenges and embrace its greatest

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opportunities. Through 33 undergraduate majors, more than 30 advanced degree programs, and nationally recognized community partnerships, Clark fuses rigorous scholarship with authentic world and workplace experiences that empower our students to pursue lives and careers of meaning and consequence.

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

reasonable — from a white everyday blend for $26 to a Roero Arneis for $48.

I chose one of the blends ($10 a glass, $38 for the bottle) in large part because I'm a fan of the Sicilian winery that made it — Donnafugata. The dominant grape in this “Anthilia” is a new one to me — lucido — and I suspect that zibibbo (of which Donnfugata grows 168 acres) enters the blend, too. The winery isn't telling. Anthilia was one of the first wines the Rallo family made under the Donnafugata label and continues to be one of their most popular and well-reviewed (91 pt. Suckling) We ordered a few things from the appetizer menu including the antipasta veggies and the fritto misto, and this white-peachy, lemony, apricot-inflected wine worked perfectly. It has a nice saline finish, too. Just what you'd expect from a good Sicilian white. I've seen the bottle in various wine stores, and the Co-op carries another Donnafugata “Lighea” — the zibbibo ($25), long one of my favorite whites. Added attraction: Donnafugata is entirely solar-powered.

Looking for a summer gift wine? Or a cool little splurge for a hot evening to accompany a loaf of good bread and a big vegetable salad enhanced with prosciutto and fresh figs? The Pip has an Italian white that's perfect for such a meal — and for just about anything else you can throw at it: Tenuta delle Terre Nere Etna Bianco ($29). This is a beautiful blend of native Sicilian white grapes, organically grown, including carricante, catarrato, grecanico, inzolia and minnella. Its blossomy aroma gives way to a pleasantly tart, nutty, peachy, minerally flavor; it's versatile, rich (though only 12.5% alcohol), sophisticated, and graceful. The Pip staff call it “miracle wine” — and customers are loving it. James Suckling gave it 92 points, and it might

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1. Red Pandas. What animated film features a girl named Mei who transforms into a giant red panda?

2. Unusual Words. Containing four vowels, what funny word do we use for a

just be my favorite Italian white of the year so far. Though I served it with a roasted eggplant and red pepper pizza, I keep imagining it with a seafood pasta or risotto. Next time. If there is one: not much of this wine makes it to the States, so get it while it's available.

Interestingly, the winemaker, Marc De Grazia, is an American who after many years of importing Italian wine decided to settle on Etna and make his own. He cites “vineyard management” as the most important part of his job, especially since Etna's climate is quite extreme. His 70 acres are planted on the northern slope of the volcano, and you can practically taste the volcanic soil and the salt of the sea. While you're picking up a bottle of this beauty at The Pip, try yet another delightful Italian white, the La Quercia Santapupa Montonico ($23). Many of those cheap Italian wines at the D.C. grocery came from the Abruzzo region, a wellknown area for reds. But the white montonico grape, which has a 400-year-old history there, is making a comeback.

Winemaker Antonio Lamona and three friends run the La Quercia estate on the Adriatic and take advantage of its seasun-wind terroir. Like the Etna blend, this small-production montonico isn't easy to come by. Cheers to Amy for making it and the Etna Bianco available to us. Enjoy the citrusy, tropical fruit montonico with a bufalo mozzarella-and-mushroom pizza.

Leave behind a photo of the meal for future archaeologists to unearth (from a billion tons of plastic, no doubt) and exclaim over (“Wow, that looks like a pizza!”) once Mother Earth recovers from the climate catastrophe. If she does.

— Reach Susana Leonardi at vinosusana@gmail.com. Comment on this column at www.davisenterprise.com.

noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something?

3. Popular Music. The musicians Aretha Franklin, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones and Justin Timberlake were all born in what city that starts with the letter M?

4. Film Directors. Who directed the films with the following one-word titles: “Dunkirk,” “Inception,” “Interstellar,” “Oppenheimer,” “Tenet”?

5. Sports. The No. 1 overall pick Victor Wembanyama was drafted by what NBA team?

Answers: “Turning Red,” brouhaha, Memphis, Christopher Nolan, The San Antonio Spurs.

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SeniorLiving! Manage heart health for stronger brain health

Special to The Enterprise

The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

The global death rate from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is increasing even more than the rate of heart disease death, according to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2022 Update.

Globally, more than 54 million people had Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in 2020, a 37% increase since 2010 and 144% increase over the past 30 years (1990-2020). Additionally, more than 1.89 million deaths were attributed to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias worldwide in 2020, compared to nearly 9 million deaths from heart disease.

“The global rate of brain disease is quickly outpacing heart disease,” said Mitchell S.V. Elkind, M.D. M.S., FAHA, the past president of the American Heart Association (2020-21), a professor of neurology and epidemiology at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and attending neurologist at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

“We are learning more about how some types of dementia are related to aging, and how some types are due to poor vascular health. It’s becoming more evident that reducing vascular disease risk factors can make a real difference in helping people live longer, healthier lives,

free of heart disease and brain disease.”

According to the statistics update, people with midlife hypertension were five times more likely to experience impairment on global cognition and about twice as likely to experience reduced executive function, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The risk for dementia associated with heart failure was nearly two-fold.

Experts recommend maintaining a healthy weight, managing your blood pressure and following other heart-healthy lifestyle behaviors that can also support good brain health while studies show maintaining good vascular health is associated with healthy aging and retained cog-

nitive function.

Optimal brain health includes the ability to perform tasks like movement, perception, learning and memory, communication, problem solving, judgment, decision making and emotion. Cognitive decline and dementia are often seen following stroke or cerebrovascular disease and indicate a decline in brain health.

Consider these steps to live a healthier lifestyle and protect your heart and brain health:

n Don’t smoke; avoid secondhand smoke.

n Reach and maintain a healthy weight. Be mindful of your eating habits; eat foods low in saturated fat, trans fat, sodium and added sugars.

n Be physically active. Start

Tips for aging gracefully at home

Special to The Enterprise

While aging is inevitable, it doesn’t mean you can’t do so with grace and style. For many seniors hoping to look and feel their best, there are plenty of options, from the clothing they wear to products they use every day. Choosing more ‘stylish’ safety accessories is one way to go.

To improve quality of life and inspire confidence, Medline, a leading provider of consumer medical products, teamed up with Martha Stewart to introduce the Martha Stewart Home Comfort Care Collection. The line of design-inspired safety and mobility products combines sophisticated design and dependability to help those who use them look and feel their best.

“We are excited to enter into this unique partnership,” said Dawn Freitag, Medline senior marketing manager. “Martha Stewart’s signature style has always set the standard for better, more enjoyable living and this line of mobility and bath safety products is no exception. We believe these fashionable, modern

designs along with our toprated quality and value pricing will help seniors live their happiest, healthiest lives with exceptional safety, security and style.”

Consider these supportive care products to maximize style and safety, and find the full collection by visiting athome.medline. com.

Around the Home

The right mobility aid can help you navigate your home. One option, the Adjustable Rolling Walker, combines a chic, sporty checked pattern with renowned functional features to help you easily stand and walk safely and independently.

Its smooth-rolling, allterrain wheels make it easy to get around in or outside of your home while pushdown, locking brakes are ready for a rest stop at any time.

Plus, it easily folds for travel and storage, and features under-seat storage and adjustable easy-grip handles for a custom fit and fashionable function.

For the Bathroom

The most essential purpose of bathroom safety aids is to prevent falls on wet, slippery surfaces. Beyond securely-attached bath mats and grab bars, the Martha Stewart EuroStyle Shower Chair allows you to sit while showering for extra peace of mind. With built-in handgrips and a backrest for comfort, the rust-resistant chair also features adjustable, pushbutton height settings to improve stability and builtin Microban protection to resist mold and mildew.

In the Bedroom

There are numerous products designed to maximize rest, relaxation and safety in and around your bed. To help you get in and out of bed, an Adjustable Bed Assist Bar slides around the side of the mattress — without floor legs that may pose a tripping hazard — to offer support. With a stylish faux woodgrain bag design and neutral color, the bar seamlessly blends in with bedding and linens to provide both function and flair.

slowly and build up to at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity (such as brisk walking) each week. As an alternative, you can do 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity, or a combination of the two, to improve overall cardiovascular health.

n Get your blood pressure checked regularly and work with your health care team to manage it if it’s high.

n Have regular medical checkups and take your medicine as directed.

n Decrease your stress level and seek emotional support when needed.

Learn more about the relationship between heart health and brain health at heart.org.

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— Family Features. Source: American Heart Association

To be physically active, start slowly and build up to at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity.

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The right mobility device can help you navigate the home environment.