Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie wasn’t expecting much to worry about when a late summer fire erupted north of Santa Cruz, home to California’s moist and cool “asbestos forests.” This place doesn’t burn, he thought, with just three notable fires there in 70 years.
By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer
The Yolo County Board of Supervisors showed themselves to be — as one individual referred to himself as in the public comments — “agvocates” at the board meeting on Tuesday, July 11.
Not only did they approve the acceptance of a sizeable grant from the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the supervisors addressed the seriousness of groundwater
sustainability issues raised by small farmers and rural residents in Yolo County’s areas of special concern.
After a public comment section filled with advocacy for wildlife initiatives and providing land for underserved farmers and farmers of color, the board of supervisors unanimously voted to authorize the director of general services to enter into a contract with the California Department of Parks and Recreation to fund $5 mil-
lion of specified projects to include Knight’s Landing Park, Vic Fazio Wildlife Area, Crisis Nursery Expansion and the Ujamaa Farmer Collective (formerly known as the Underserved Farmers Cooperative); and adopt a budget resolution to approve acceptance of grant award funds from the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation and increase the fiscal year 2023-24 budget for parks by $5,000,000.
After that, the board received
an update on the drought and current groundwater conditions spearheaded by the Yolo County manager of natural resources, Elissa Sabatini. She delved into reports of the dry wells popping up around Yolo County, which include 49 confirmed since 2021, 21 of those remaining dry; and the fact that there’s been no reports since March of 2023. Sabatini also mentioned a current petition making the rounds on change.org to stop
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Community members are invited to help support Davis’ sister city of Uman, Ukraine at a fundraising event Saturday at the Varsity Theatre. Proceeds from program, featuring several short films and guest speakers, will aid students at Pavlo Tychyna University in Uman who have had a parent killed, captured or injured in the ongoing war. Saturday’s event, emceed by former Davis Mayor Brett Lee, lasts from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the downtown theater, 616 Second St. Tickets cost $10 per
Courtesy photo
Former Davis Mayor Brett Lee, second from left, presents a generator to citizens in Uman, Ukraine, during a March visit. With him are, from left, volunteers Andre Cheraso and Julia Klymenko, and Galyna Kucher, the head of Uman’s social services department. Uman is currently housing several thousand people who have fled from the front lines of the war. See UMAN, Page A2
Heggie’s job was to predict for the crews where the wildfire might go and when, working through calculations based on topography, weather and fuels — the “immutable” basics. For fire behavior analysts like Heggie, predictable and familiar are manageable, while weird and unexpected are synonyms for danger.
But that 2020 fire was anything but predictable.
Around 3 a.m. on Aug. 16, ominous thunder cells formed over the region. Tens of thousands of lightning strikes rained down, creating a convulsion of fire that became the CZU Lightning Complex.
By noon there were nearly two dozen fires burning, and not nearly enough people to handle them.
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A Davis man facing domestic-violence charges was booked into the Yolo County Jail on Wednesday after recovering from stab wounds inflicted by his alleged victim.
Jorge Lomeli Navarro, 39, makes his first court appearance at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Yolo Superior Court. He’s charged with felony assault causing great bodily injury and other domestic-violence offenses. He remains in Yolo County Jail custody on a $1 million bail hold.
Davis police initially arrested Lomeli Navarro’s wife after responding to the couple’s apartment in the Wildhorse neighborhood Saturday afternoon, arriving to find evidence of a violent struggle both inside and outside the residence.
Deputy Police Chief Todd Henry said Lomeli Navarro sustained at least one stab wound to the neck area, while his wife had “very prominent, visible injuries consistent with a physical assault.” She was booked into jail early Sunday morning
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The Davis Bike Campaign announced Thursday it was canceling Sunday’s Ice Cream Ride due to high temperature forecasts.
“Dear bike enthusiasts, we regret to inform you that this Sunday’s annual Ice Cream Ride organized by The Bike Campaign has been canceled due to extreme heat conditions, prioritizing everyone’s safety,” spokesman Aaron Wedra said in an email to The Enterprise. “We understand the disappointment this may cause. However, we won’t be rescheduling the Ice Cream Ride as we have exciting programs lined up for the summer.”
“But fret not!” Wedra said. “We’ll be back with remarkable energy for the thrilling 2023 Zombie Bike Ride in October. For now, visit www.zombiebikeparade.com to learn more.”
I’m always a bit skeptical when cities receive awards of one kind or another, like “Best City for Lawns in America” or “Best City for Replacing Lawns with Drought-Tolerant Landscaping in America.”
I guess it depends on who is getting the award and who isn’t getting the award. The other day, the prestigious “PeopleForBikes,” which doesn’t believe in putting spaces between words, released its 2023 City Ratings, “a comprehensive ranking of cities based on the quality of their bike networks.”
To be honest, I’ve never heard of PeopleForBikes, but if they don’t change that title I’m going to start a nonprofit called “People for Spaces between Words.”
Turns out PFB rated 1,484 cities in the United States based on the acronym SPRINT: safe speeds, protected bike lanes, reallocated space for biking and walking, intersection treatments, network connections, and trusted data.”
Not to mention liberal use of the dreaded Oxford Comma. Davis, which considers being anything other than No. 1 in any poll an embarrassing failure, does pride itself as a bicycle-friendly,
bicycle-crazy town. We have bike lanes everywhere, but when it comes to “protected” bike lanes, we’re woefully short.
For my money, bikes and cars should not be sharing the same street. Ever.
Bike lanes are certainly far better than no bike lanes, but they still leave cyclists several feet or closer to passing cars. There’s not a lot of comfort there.
That’s the problem, however, when cars are the first consideration and bicycles are second.
Adds the press release, “PeopleForBikes City Ratings is an annual, data-driven program to identify, evaluate and compare the best cities and towns for bicycling. Each city receives a City Ratings score on a scale of 0 to 100.”
According to Rebecca Davies, City Ratings program director,
“Every city needs more protected bike lanes, safer intersection crossings and a modernized approach to street design that works better for everyone, no matter how they choose to travel.”
On that, Rebecca, we can agree.
The City Ratings cover three classifications: Small Cities, Medium Cities and Large Cities.
Having moved to Davis when it had 3,007 people (3,000 before our family arrived), I immediately checked the Small Cities list and was crestfallen to see Provincetown, Mass., at No. 1. I mean, it doesn’t matter if we’re No. 2. Our one and only goal is No. 1.
Turns out we were not even in the top 10, trailing places like Blue Diamond, Nev., and Murdock, Neb. If you have heard of either of those places, please move to the head of the class.
There were actually two cities named Ashland in the top 10, one in Wisconsin and the other in Oregon.
But, just in case the town has grown since I moved here, I checked the Medium Cities list and much to my surprise and joy, there we were in our rightful
place: No. 1 in the whole country. Right ahead of Ankeny, Iowa, and that intellectual outpost down the road known as Berkeley.
One of my favorite towns, Corvallis, is listed No. 5 among Medium Cities.
Corvallis, like Davis, is flat as an IHOP pancake, but if you’re going to ride your bike there in winter, you’d better have a raincoat. Then again, Davis could probably match Corvallis for wet stuff in the justcompleted wet season.
Minneapolis, if anyone cares, topped the Large Cities list, with hilly San Francisco second.
I remember how mad I was a few years ago while visiting my hometown of Portland when I saw a large sign proclaiming “Portland: Bicycle Capital of the World.”
I was so upset that I wrote the mayor, the city council, the chamber of commerce and the PDBA (Portland Downtown Business Association) to tell them that I truly love Portland, but that Davis was the Bicycle Capital of the World.
I now have proof.
— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.
Enterprise staff
Summer is here, and the bats are back! The Mexican free-tailed bat colony under the I-80 Yolo Causeway is growing daily as they return from wherever they spent the winter. Although many of the bats over-winter in the bridge, most seem to leave. As the weather warms, crops grow, and insect populations explode, the bats return to the Causeway. These amazing, winged wonders are the only mammals capable of true flight. In late June, the females give birth to one pup. She nurses that pup for about 5 to 6 weeks, and then it joins her as she flies throughout the Central Valley to consume crop pests and mosquitos. There also are males that live in the Yolo Causeway bridge, but their
groupings are smaller, so they are less noticeable.
Throughout the summer, Yolo Basin Foundation offers many Bat Talk and Walks, as well as a number of special events. The Bat Talk and Walk is an opportunity to learn about these amazing animals from a local bat expert, meet live bats, and watch the bat flyout from the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. Registration is now open on our website, www.yolobasin.org.
Children who are interested in bats are encouraged to join Yolo Basin Foundation for a morning of Bats and Crafts on August 13th and September 17th. Meet live bats from our local area, then have fun creating crafts and playing bat games. This special event is aimed at
The man struck and killed by a train in Davis on Tuesday was identified as Randall Maxwell, 33, who was known to live in the Davis and Woodland areas, Yolo County coroner’s officials said.
Authorities said Maxwell was walking along the
railroad tracks at about 10:30 a.m. when he was hit by an eastbound Amtrak passenger train. He died at the scene.
Amtrak and Davis police continue to investigate the fatality, which Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said appears to have been accidental. There were no injuries aboard the train.
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person.
Scheduled speakers include:
n Allegra Silberstein, Davis’ former poet laureate;
n Antonio De LoeraBrust, former special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who took part in diplomacy efforts leading up to the war in Ukraine;
n Stan Forbes, former Davis city councilman and an organizer of university scholarships in Uman for nearly 20 years; and
n Vince Sturla, a
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but released the following day after the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue the case.
“After a thorough review of the Davis Police Department’s detailed investigation, we have determined no charges will be filed,”
“Dateline NBC” journalist who reported on the war in Kyiv, Ukraine, in December 2022;
Sponsors of Saturday’s fundraiser include the Rotary Club of Davis, the Davis Sunrise Rotary Club, the Davis Sunset Rotary Club and the 420 F Street Dispensary.
To purchase tickets, make donations or for more information, visit davis-sunrise-rotary.square .site/. Supporters may also send tax-deductible donations to the Davis Sunrise Rotary Foundation, P.O. Box 4531, Davis, CA 95617.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Raven said Tuesday. Police arrested Lomeli Navarro while he remained hospitalized.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise. net. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
young children, especially those that are too young to stay up late to watch the bats fly.
Adults can visit the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters for Bats and Brews on Aug. 19 to taste a
variety of local beers and meet ambassador bats from a rehabilitation program, followed by a visit to the Bypass to see the evening bat flyout. The foundation will host a Bat House Building
Workshop on Aug. 26. This is a great opportunity for small groups or families. Registration includes supplies and instructions to build a Bat House which can be put up to invite bats to your yard or farm.
The suspect in a Davis hate crime returns to Yolo Superior Court next month for further proceedings in the three cases filed against him.
Bret William Davis, 57, previously pleaded not guilty to charges filed in connection with the alleged hate crime. Police say he attacked a 73-year-old man with his own cane because of the victim’s sexual orientation.
That case also carries charges of elder
abuse, criminal threats and violation of civil rights. The incident occurred May 30 at a South Davis apartment complex, according to police.
Yolo County prosecutors have since filed two new cases charging Davis with drunken driving on April 14 and public intoxication on May 7, both stemming from prior contacts with Davis police. He pleaded not guilty to those charges Thursday.
Davis, currently free on a $50,000 bail bond, returns to court Aug. 8.
Flames were roaring throughout the Coast Range in deepshaded forests and waist-high ferns in sight of the Pacific Ocean. No one had ever seen anything like it. The blaze defied predictions and ran unchecked for a month. The fire spread to San Mateo County, burned through 86,000 acres, destroyed almost 1,500 structures and killed a fleeing resident.
“It was astonishing to see that behavior and consumption of heavy fuels,” Heggie said. “Seeing the devastation was mind-boggling. Things were burning outside the norm. I hadn’t seen anything burn that intensely in my 30 years.”
Almost as troubling was what this fire didn’t do — it didn’t back off at night.
“We would have burning periods increase in the afternoon, and we saw continuous high-intensity burns in the night,” Heggie said. “That’s when we are supposed to make up ground. That didn’t happen.”
That 2020 summer of fires, the worst in California history, recalibrated what veteran firefighters understand about fire behavior: Nothing is as it was.
Intensified by climate change, especially warmer nights and longer droughts, California’s fires often morph into megafires, and even gigafires covering more than a million acres. U.S. wildfires have been four times larger and three times more frequent since 2000, according to University of Colorado researchers. And other scientists recently predicted that up to 52% more California forest acreage will burn in summertime over the next two decades because of the changing climate.
As California now heads into its peak time for wildfires, even with last year’s quiet season and the end of its three-year drought, the specter of megafires hasn’t
receded. Last winter’s record winter rains, rather than tamping down fire threats, have promoted lush growth, which provides more fuel for summer fires.
Cal Fire officials warn that this year’s conditions are similar to the summer and fall of 2017 — when a rainy winter was followed by one of the state’s most destructive fire seasons, killing 47 people and destroying almost 11,000 structures.
U.S. Forest Service teams deploy drones to capture photographs and infrared images, which are used to map fires to find areas where flames are still active and where they might spread. Photo by Andrew Avitt, US Forest Service
It’s not just the size and power of modern wildfires, but their capricious behavior that has confounded fire veterans — the feints and shifts that bedevil efforts to predict what a fire might do and then devise strategies to stop it.
It’s a dangerous calculation: In the literal heat of a fire, choices are consequential. People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake.
Cal Fire crews now often find themselves outflanked. Responding to larger and more erratic and intense fires requires more personnel and equipment. And staging crews and engines where flames are expected to go has been thrown off-kilter.
“We live in this new reality,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a recent Cal Fire event, “where we can’t necessarily attach ourselves to some of the more predictive models of the past because of a world that is getting a lot hotter, a lot drier and a lot more uncertain because of climate change.”
CalFire has responded by tapping into all the new technology — such as drones, military satellites, infrared images and AIassisted maps — that can be brought to bear during a fire.
Commanders now must consider a broader range of possibilities so
they can pivot when the firefront shifts in an unexpected way. The agency also has beefed up its ability to fight nighttime fires with a new fleet of Fire Hawk helicopters equipped to fly in darkness.
The state has thrown every possible data point at the problem with its year-old Wildfire Threat and Intelligence Integration Center, which pulls information from dozens of federal, state and private sources to create a minute-by-minute picture of conditions conducive to sparking or spreading fires.
“We’re enlisting cutting-edge technology in our efforts to fight wildfires,” Newsom said, “exploring how innovations like artificial intelligence can help us identify threats quicker and deploy resources smarter.”
The 2017 Thomas Fire stands
as an example of what happens when a massive fire, ignited after a rainy winter, veers and shifts in unexpected ways.
The blaze in coastal Ventura and Santa Barbara counties struck in December, when fire season normally has quieted down. Fire veterans knew fall and winter fires were tamed by a blanket of moist air and fog.
But that didn’t happen.
“We were on day five or six, and the incident commander comes to me and asks, ‘Are we going to have to evacuate Carpinteria tonight?’,” said Cal Fire Assistant Chief Tim Chavez, who was the fire behavior analyst for the Thomas Fire. “I looked at the maps and we both came to the conclusion that Carpinteria would be fine, don’t worry. Sure enough, that night it burned into Carpinteria and they had to evacuate the town.”
Based on fire and weather data and informed hunches, no one expected the fire to continue advancing overnight. And, as the winds calmed, no one predicted the blaze would move toward the small seaside community of 13,000 south of Santa Barbara. But high temperatures, low humidity and a steep, dry landscape that hadn’t felt flames in more than 30 years drew the Thomas Fire to the coast. The sudden shift put the town in peril. Some 300 residents were evacuated in the middle of the night as the blaze moved into the eastern edge of Carpinteria.
In all, the fire, which was sparked by power lines downed by high winds, burned for nearly 40 days, spread across 281,000 acres, destroyed more than 1,000 homes and other buildings and killed two people, including a
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drilling new wells on historically non-irrigated land of Yolo County. (See: https://wp.me/p3aczg4keY)
The Yolo County director of environmental health, April Meneghetti, discussed the changes to the well-permitting process which includes additional review and analysis of agricultural well permit applications from both Yolo County Environmental Health (YCEH) and the Yolo Subbasin Groundwater Agency (YSGA) to remain compliant with Executive Order N-7-22.
Kristin Sicke, the YSGA executive officer, talked to the board about the groundwater conditions and highlighted localized areas around Yolo County referred to as “areas of special concern” due to the dire conditions of the groundwater there.
“We do recognize there are some localized issues,” Sicke said. “So, in developing the groundwater sustainability plan, we divided the subbasin into six unique management areas because we want to recognize the unique, hydrogeologic conditions that exist.
“We’re tracking groundwater conditions in these six areas, but within those, we’ve started to find that there is a trend in declining groundwater levels in smaller units. So, this issue of scale is something the YSGA is currently grappling with because as reporting to the state, we feel like we’re OK, but we do need to manage things locally to ensure that projects and management actions are completed to ensure those localized hot spots are taken care of.”
According to Sicke, the areas of special concern were added toward the end of the creation of the groundwater sustainability plan and there aren’t yet definitive borders to highlight these areas.
She also cited data gaps
surrounding the subsurface conditions in these areas of special concern, adding that more analysis needs to be done so that the YSGA can better assess whether or not new wells should be drilled in these areas.
Sicke also said the YSGA is working with their legal counsel to ensure they’re adhering the legal rights of those who wish to drill new wells.
The subsequent public comment section was filled with locals from these special areas of concern urging the board to uphold the sustainability in the YSGA’s sustainable groundwater management plan.
Annie Main of Good Humus produce, located in the Hungry Hallow special area of concern, was one of those speakers.
“In the last 25 years, there have been over 6,000 acres of permanent plantings on previously unirrigated land in Hungry Hallow alone,” she said. “We’re now looking at 65% of Hungry Hallow in perennial, permanent orchards and vineyards. Ultimately this is an issue for all of us, and that is why I started the petition to ask for help. What happens to a farm like mine when it runs out of water? This is not just about agriculture, it’s about the people and the farmworkers that live on the land overlying these rapidly decreasing aquifers.”
“I’m asking you, respectfully, Board of Supervisors, to put a pause on all well permitting in historically non-irrigated land in Yolo County until adequate data can be accumulated to
indicate appropriate extraction capacity. Two, I’m asking for you to provide direction to enable the department of environmental health to deny a permit based on lack of scientific understanding of the effects of new drilling in areas of declining water tables and in areas of special concern. Three, I’m asking to pause the current increase in water extraction from declining water tables until we have completed a study and gathered the data necessary so a balance is found.”
Other farmers and rural residents who’ve lived in these areas of special concern for generations stepped up to the podium to give the same anecdotal evidence and real-time effects of what the decline in groundwater levels is having on their lives.
One such local who lives in the northwestern area of Winters — another area of special concern — is Grant Davis, a retired civil and agricultural engineer who spent his career in agricultural water management.
“In the first 13 years of living in northwest Winters, water levels dropped at about 1 foot per year. Since 2013, water levels have dropped about four times as much per year,” Davis said. “The acceleration of these declines coincides with changing land use north of the city of Winters and north of Golden Bear. A large block of previously grazing land and dry land was developed into about 1,400 acres; in addition, about 800 acres of previously annual crop ground was converted into
permanent crops.” On the data-gap issue, Davis pressed for urgency. “My concern is that data gaps translate to time and we don’t have time,” he said. Action has to be taken. It’s a simple problem, we’re taking more water out of the ground than is going into the ground, and we need to take action to rebalance the system so that we’re not over-drafting groundwater.”
Following that, the board deliberated, showing collective concern regarding the groundwater issues in these designated areas and consideration of a potential pause in drilling permits while also adhering the legal rights of those who yearn to drill more wells and who have permits pending. While no new agenda items were created, the board requested the YSGA to gather more data, information and more solutions to be presented at the Sept 12 meeting.
Then the board voted unanimously to terminate the local drought emergency proclamation.
Following suit came policy discussion related to large-scale solar energy facilities to be located on agricultural land as well as the impacts to prime farmland. From there, the meeting transitioned to an update regarding the cannabis program enforcement activities for legal grows. The meeting then adjourned in memory of Dennis Dingemans.
“I’d like us all to adjourn today’s meeting in memory
of Dennis Dingemans. He was a longtime Davis resident and UCD geography professor. He died on June 21 following almost two decades living with Parkinson’s disease,” said Supervisor Lucas Frerichs. “In 1972, Dennis began his long teaching career at UCD and taught courses in urban, economic and political geography. Quantitative methods, eastern Europe and world regional geography winning
teaching awards from the National Counsel for Geographic Education and the UCD Academic Senate. He also co-authored two books, one on the history of Woodland and one on the history of UCD. He was an avid bicycle rider all his life and always biking to work at UCD and he completed three Davis, double-century bike rides.”
The next meeting is scheduled for July 25.
Saturday, July 22 142 Grande Ave & Neighbors Lots of toys for kids and lots of other stuff too ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
are posted on the MHSA page of the Yolo County Website atwww yolocounty org/mhsa The Draft 3 Year Plan is available for public comment and review until 5:00 PM on Friday July 21 2023; all interested stakeholders are encouraged to submit comments A public hearing will be held by the Yolo County Local Mental Health Board on Monday July 24 2023 at 6:00 PM Information will be published in advance of the meeting and listed on the Local Mental Health Board event listing page After final revisions the MHSA 3 Year Plan will be presented to the Yolo County Boa rd of Supervisors in August 2023 Questions? Email MHSA@yolocounty org or call 530-666-8536 6/30, 7/9, 7/14 #2334
Case Number: CV2023-1347
To all interested persons:
Petitioner: Eduardo Johnathan Lopez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Present name a Eduardo Johnathan Lopez to Proposed name Eduardo
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LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will be conducting a public hearing on Tuesday July 25, 2023 at 9:00 a m , or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard in the Yolo County Board of Supervisors Chambers 625 Court St Room 206 Woodland California regarding proposed property liens for delinquent solid waste service charges Those wishing to appear may do so in-person
In addition to live in person public comment members of the public are welcome to submit written comments to c l e r k o f t h e b o a r d @ y o l o c o u n t y o r g o r d e l i v e r t o 6 2 5 C o u r t Street Room 204 Woodland CA 95695 Written comments received by 4:00 p m the Monday prior to the meeting will be avai la bl e as an a tta ch me n t co rre sponding with the agenda item (www yolocounty org) Written comments received after 4:00 p m on the Monday before the public hearing will be distributed to Board members and made available to the public for review after the Clerk s office opens the morning of the public hearing
The County has exclusive franchise agreements with Waste Management and Recology (Franchisees) for solid waste services Pursuant to Section 6-17 507 of the Yolo County Code titled Delinquent Accounts; Liens any account with unpaid charges for one year or longer is considered a delinquent account At the request of a Waste Management and Recology and upon submission to the County of appropriate information d e m o n s t r a t i n g t h a t a n a c c o u n t i s d e l i n q u e n t t h e C o u n t y sends a letter to the owner of the property with the delinquent a cco u n t a n d requ e sts p ay me nt w ithin 30 day s If co mp lete p a y m e n t i s n o t r e c e i v e d b y th e C o u n ty w i th i n 3 0 d a y s th e County places a lien on the property in accordance with Government Code Section 25828 and proceeds to collect any unpaid amounts in the manner set forth therein All delinquent a m o u n t s c o l l e c t e d b y t h e C o u n t y a r e r e m i tt e d i n f u l l t o th e Franchisee less any offset for amounts due the County from the Franchisee A public hearing will be held to allow for those property owne r s w i t h d e l i n q u e n t W a s t e M a n a g e m e n t o r R e c o l o g y a ccounts to address the Board of Supervisors prior to the attachment of a lien against their property If you have additional questions regarding delinquent solid waste charges for your property please contact Marissa Juhler Director of the Divis i o n o f I n t e g r a t e d W a s t e M a n a g e m e n t a t Marissa Juhler@yolocounty org or (530) 666-8813 Copies of the staff report are available at the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors 625 Court Street Woodland California 95695 by te l e p h o n e ( 5 3 0 ) 6 6 6 - 8 1 9 5 o r a t th e Yo l o C o u n ty We b s i te ( w w w y o l o c o u n t y o r g )
Dated: July 14 2023 Julie Dachtler Senior Deputy Clerk Yolo County Board of Supervisors 7/14 #2345
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LANE WALMER JOHNSON CASE NO PR2023-0153
To all heirs beneficiaries creditors contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of LANE WALMER JOHNSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SETH
L I V E R J O H N S O N i n t h e S u p e r i o r C o u r t o f C a l i f o r n i a C o u n t y o f Y O L O
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SETH OLI VER JOHNSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent
THE PETITION requests the decedent s WILL and codicils if any, be admitted to probate The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (This authority will al low the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval Before taking certain very important actions however the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action )
The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to th e petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
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 of either (1) four months from the date of first issua n c e o f l e t t e r s t o a g e n e r a l p e r s o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a s defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court
If you are a person interested in the estate you may file with the court a Re quest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250 A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk
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firefighter. At the time, it was the largest wildfire in California’s modern history; now, just six years later, it ranks at No. 8.
The unforeseen assault on Carpenteria was an I-told-you-so from nature, the sort of humbling slap-down that fire behavior analysts in California are experiencing more and more.
“I’ve learned more from being wrong than from being right,” Chavez said. “You cannot do this job and not be surprised by something you see. Even the small fires will surprise you sometimes.”
Scientists say the past 20 years have brought a profound — and perhaps irreversible — shift in the norms of wildfire behavior and intensity. Fires burn along the coast even when there’s no desert winds to drive them, fires refuse to lay down at night and fires pierced the so-called Redwood Curtain, burning 97% of California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods.
The changes in wildfires are driven by an array of factors: a megadrought from the driest period recorded in the Western U.S. in the past 1,200 years, the loss of fog along the California coast, and stubborn nighttime temperatures that propel flames well into the night.
Higher temperatures and longer dry periods are linked to worsening fires in Western forests, with an eightfold increase from 1985 to 2017 in severely burned acreage, according to a
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2020 study. “Warmer and drier fire seasons corresponded with higher severity fire,” the researchers wrote, suggesting that “climate change will contribute to increased fire severity in future decades.”
“What we are seeing is a dramatic increase in extreme fire behavior,” Heggie said. “When you have a drought lasting 10 years, devastating the landscape, you have dead fuel loading and available fuel for when these fires start. That’s the catalyst for megafire. That’s been the driving force for change in fire behavior.”
Illustration by Victor Lowe
About 33% of coastal summer fog has vanished since the turn of the century, according to researchers at UC Berkeley. That blanket of cool, moist air that kept major fires out of coastal areas can no longer be relied upon to safeguard California’s redwood forests.
Firefighters are losing another ally, too, with the significant increase in overnight temperatures. Nighttime fires were about 28% more intense in 2020 than in 2003. And there are more of them — 11 more “flammable nights” every year than 40 years ago, an increase of more than 40%.
The upshot is that fires are increasingly less likely to “lie down” at night, when fire crews could work to get ahead of the flames. The loss of those hours to perform critical suppression work — and the additional nighttime spread — gives California crews less time to catch up with fastmoving blazes.
Also, fire whirls and so-called
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
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
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.
firenados are more common as a feature of erratic fire behavior. The twisting vortex of flames, heat and wind can rise in columns hundreds of feet high and are spun by high winds.
Firenados are more than frightening to behold: They spread embers and strew debris for miles and make already dangerous fires all the more risky. One was spotted north of Los Angeles last summer.
Fires are “really changing, and it’s a combination of all kinds of different changes,” said Jennifer Balch, director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and a longtime fire researcher who tracks trends that drive wildfires.
“We’re losing fog. We’re seeing drier conditions longer and later into the season. And so what that means for California right now is, under these record heat waves, we’re also now butting up against the Santa Ana wind conditions,” she said. “I think we’re loading the dice in a certain direction.”
Among the many specialists at work are fire behavior analysts, who are responsible for predicting a fire’s daily movements for the incident commander. As a fire rages, Cal Fire analysts get their information in an avalanche of highly technical data, including wind force and direction, temperature and humidity, the shape and height of slopes, the area’s burn history, which fuels are on the ground and, in some cases, how likely they are to burn.
Gleaned from satellites, drones, planes, remote sensors and computer mapping, the information is spat out in real time and triaged by the fire behavior analyst, who often uses a computer program to prepare models to predict what the fire is likely to do.
That information is synthesized and relayed — quickly — to fire bosses. Laptops and handheld computers are ubiquitous on modern firelines, replacing the time-honored practice of spreading a dog-eared map on the hood of a truck.
“On a typical day I would get up at 4:30 or 5,” said Chavez, who has served as a fire behavior analyst for much of his career. “We get an infrared fire map from overnight aircraft, and that tells us where the fire is active. Other planes fly in a grid pattern and we look at those still images. I might look at computer models, fire spread models, and the weather forecast. There’s other data that tells you what fuels are in the area. You plug all that in to see where the fire will be 24 hours from now.”
At the fire camp’s 8 a.m. briefing, “you get two minutes to tell people what to watch out for,” he said. Throughout the day, Chavez says he monitors available data and hitches a helicopter ride to view the fire from the air. At another meeting at 5 p.m., he and other officers prepare the next day’s incident action plan. Then he’s back to collating more weather and fire data. The aim is to get to bed before midnight.
“We’re losing fog. We’re seeing drier conditions longer and later into the season...I think we’re
Patricia Anne Alley
April 28, 1950 — May 8, 2023
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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.
Hamilton Brooks, Lila Virginia Brooks and Hudson Grant Brooks.
Patricia Anne Alley, age 73, died on May 8, 2023, while recovering in the post-operative care unit of the Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, Ore., three days following open heart surgery.
She was born April 28, 1950, in Woodland. She attended elementary, junior and senior high schools in Davis and graduated in 1968. She attended Sacramento City College, where she majored in business, graduating in 1971.
Pat worked for a Davis florist shop part time during high school and college. Family and friends were often the beneficiaries of her artistic floral arrangements on birthdays and other special occasions.
Pat’s career in the California Youth Authority (CYA) began after college graduation in Sacramento. Initially hired as a secretary and serving in a support capacity, she assimilated administrative skills and knowledge through on-thejob training, eventually progressing to professional level positions within the CYA. After serving 29
loading the dice in a certain direction,” said Jennifer Balch, director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Photo by Aaron Ontivaeroz for CalMatters
The importance of the fire behavior analyst’s job is reflected by the sophistication of the tools available: real-time NOAA satellite data, weather information from military flights, radar, computer-generated maps showing a 100-year history of previous burns in the area as well as the current fuel load and its combustibility, airplane and drone surveillance and AI-enabled models of future fire movements. Aircraft flying over fires provide more detail, faster, about what’s inside fire plumes, critical information to fire bosses.
In California, the National Guard is entering the fourth year of an agreement to share nonclassified information pulled from military satellites that scan for heat signatures from the boost phase of ballistic missiles. When those heat images are associated with wildfires, the agency’s FireGuard system can transmit detailed information to Cal Fire every 15 minutes.
Meteorologist Craig Clements, director of the Fire Weather Research Laboratory at San Jose State University, has chased fires for a decade.
“We can pull up on a fire, and the radar starts spinning and you’re peering into a plume within four minutes,” Clements said. “It gives us information about the particles inside, the structure of it.”
years, Pat retired in 2005 from the post of administrative assistant for the deputy director of the CYA’s Institutions and Camps Branch.
In 1992, Pat married Mark Pistoresi. Together, they loved to cook and entertain friends and family in their home. After retirement, they moved to Oregon where they continued to share their hospitality with others and to volunteer in their community. They enjoyed travelling together until Mark’s death. Pat also fulfilled dreams of traveling through Italy and France with her friend and former CYA colleague.
Patricia was preceded in death by her husband Mark Pistoresi, her father Curtis Alley, her mother Elsie Alley, and her brother John Alley. She is survived by her brother Michael (and Peggy) Alley; Jardai “Kathy” Alley and her husband Steve Culver; stepdaughter Stacy (and Ben) Williams and sons Garret and Alec; and her four nephews and niece, Ryan (and Kristina) Alley and
passed away during their early childhood.
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She leaves behind her two children, Cara Haynes Latham (Elester) and Frank Hamilton Brooks (Jennifer); and grandchildren Morgan Douglass Latham, Annalee Ester Latham, Luke
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.
Any tributes can be sent to your local SPCA.
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family, Jordan (and Leslie) Alley and family, David (and Beth) Alley and family, Patrick (and Amanda) Alley and family, and Elise Alley. In addition, Pat is survived by many close extended-family members.
Family and friends are invited to attend a funeral Mass on July 22, 2023, at 11 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 1275 B St. in Davis, followed by burial of her cremains in Davis Cemetery. A celebration of Pat’s life will follow, beginning at 1 p.m. in the Asmundson Room, across the patio from St. James Church. Please park cars in the parking lot across from the church on 14th St. The church has only limited parking for handicapped people.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made in Pat’s name to your local hospice, emergency food assistance program, Veterans’ assistance organization, or other favorite charity.
The Enterprise publishes brief death notices free of charge. These include name, age, city of residence, occupation, date of death and funeral/ memorial information. Paid-for obituaries allow for controlled content with the option for photos. Submissions may be made via www.davisenterprise.com/obit-form/.
Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is the oldest of four daughters and was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1963. She lived in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood into her teens, but at the age of 15 she moved to Cambridge, Mass., to attend the Cambridge School of Westing on scholarship. There she lived with her grandparents and continued her education.
Ericsson-Jackson mentions that there were multiple events in her school life that led her to the engineering field, one being attending the MIT UNITE Science Program for minority students (now known as the Minority Introduction to Engineering & Science) which she participated in her junior year of high school. It was participating in this program that encouraged her to explore the aerospace field.
After graduating high school, Ericsson-Jackson was admitted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Minority Introduction of Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Science program. At MIT, Ericsson-Jackson was involved in many aerospace research projects and led the research for Manned Mars Mission Crew systems for interplanetary vehicles for her senior project. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in
Aeronautical/astronautical Engineering in 1986.
During her college years, she spent most of her engineering career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where she began as an aerospace engineer in the Robotics group. She was then transferred into the area of Navigation and Control. She played important roles in other space initiatives such as NASA’s Tropical Rain Measuring Mission which observed the weather cycles of El Niño and La Niña to be able to correlate their activity with crop productivity. Her other projects include: the Wilkerson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the ICESat-2 Atlas (Ice, Cloud, & Land Elevation Satellite).
Ericsson-Jackson continued her education at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she focused on developing practical design procedures for future orbiting space structures like the International Space Station. She earned her master’s degree in mechanical engineering, and became the first African American female to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and the first African American female at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to receive a Ph.D.
Enterprise staff
Lots of animals are waiting for “forever homes” at the Yolo County Animal Shelter, 2640 E. Gibson Road in Woodland.
Among them is Finch (A203126), a sassy 13-week-old male tabby kitten who is ready to make you smile everyday with his charming personality. Finch is a singleton who came in alone and is hoping to be part of a loving family soon.
Also hoping for a good home is Zara (A201668), a lovely young shepherd mix who is a survivor. Zara arrived at the shelter hurt and limping and required surgery to correct an injured hip. Zara’s surgery
was successful and eliminated any discomfort she was in. Zara is now a happy, playful, thriving pup ready for her forever family to take her home. For more information on Zara’s incredible story check out AdoptMeApp.
Nkosi (A202607) is a 1-year-old, 55-pound bulldog mix with soulful eyes and unique brindle coat. Nkosi loves walks, lots of playtime and a kiddie pool to splash in on hot days. Nkosi would like to continue his obedience training and show you all his tricks. For more information on Nkosi go to AdoptMeApp.
For information on how to adopt, contact adoptycas
in Engineering.
Ericsson-Jackson assumed the position of New Business Lead for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Instrument Systems and Technology Division in 2017 and has been there since. She currently serves as the engineering representative on the Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Planetary and Earth Science and Cross-Cutting Technology Lines of Business committees. Aprille Ericsson-Jackson advocates for minorities and females to take
an interest in the math, science, and engineering fields, she explains that “Without diversity in all fields the United States will not remain technically competitive.”
In this week’s Junior Builders Summer Camp, campers learned about simple machines and solved building challenges. Following in the footsteps of Ericsson-Jackson, campers spent a day making circuits, building small rockets, and designing space shuttles.
Explorit’s coming events:
n Explorit will be closed to the public Aug. 19-Sept. 1 for the installation of our next exhibit.
n Last day to visit our exhibit “Explorit Rocks!” and explore rocks, fossils, minerals, and crystals is Friday, Aug. 18. Open to the public on Fridays from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2pm. Admission is $5 per person. Explorit Members, ASTC, and those age 2 and under free.
n Now is a great time to donate and help Explorit continue to educate and inspire the scientists of tomorrow: https:// www.explorit.org/donate
n A membership to Explorit grants the recipient free visits to Explorit’s regular public hours, discounts on events, summer camps and workshops, and gives you ASTC benefits to visit other museums throughout the world. To purchase or for more information visit https://www.explorit.org/membership or call Explorit at 530-756-0191.
* Now booking school programs for the ’23-’24 school year. For more information, please visit https://www.explorit.org/ programs. To reserve call 530756-0191.
Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-756-0191 or visit http:// www.explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www.facebook. com/explorit.fb.
@gmail.com. All shelter animals are up-to-date on vaccinations, microchipped, and spayed or neutered.
Staff is available to assist via phone during business hours at 530-6685287. Shelter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. To meet any adoptable YCAS animals, visit friendsof ycas.org. To volunteer, sign up at tinyurl.com/yolovolunteerapp. Follow on at @ ycas.shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.
At Rotts of Friends Animal Rescue, you’ll find Potter, a 1½-year-old, very moldable, purebred Rottweiler who has been through obedience training. He is super-friendly with people and other dogs. Potter is a healthy,
handsome medium-size dog.
Trix is an 9-weekold Anatolian shepherd cross puppy. She has three sisters and a brother also waiting for wonderful homes. Trix is a rolypoly, happy, carefree pup. She is spayed, microchipped and up to date on vaccines. She comes with free lifetime obedience training classes. Trix is ready to go to her new home. To meet her call Renee at 530-681-1326
The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at 34505 County Road 29 in Woodland. Come by 10 a.m., as it takes at least an hour to meet and adopt a dog; everyone who will be living with the dog should come out to meet it.
Bring proof of homeownership, such as a mortgage statement or property tax bill. If you rent, bring proof that you are allowed to have a dog in your home, such as a pet clause in your lease or a note from your landlord.
All dogs adopted from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, upto-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook.com/rotts offriends.
By Natalie Nelson
Special to The Enterprise
At the Pence Gallery
tonight, July 14th, from 6-9 p.m., we invite you to enjoy a vibrant 2nd Friday ArtAbout event in downtown Davis.
As one of eight participating venues, the Pence is opening three new exhibits, as well as offering a wine tasting by Twisted Cedar wines.
July is a wonderful month to stop by the Pence for many reasons. Our organization hosts the fabulous “Exhibit It,” which is a non-juried display of artworks contributed by community members. For 31 years, the Pence has offered 50 artists an open door to display one work of their own art. This show, formerly titled “Community Hang Up,” was where those new to art first shared their work with the public. Currently, I’d say that the display is a blend of established artists alongside emerging artists.
The current exhibit is on view through Aug. 18, and tonight
we’ll have a reception with an award ceremony at 8 p.m. Assistant director Eileen Hendren will give out the Curator’s Choice Award at this time, which is her favorite artwork. Visitors are also welcome to vote for their favorite work of art in the exhibit throughout the run of the exhibit. The winner of this Public Choice Award gets a complimentary Pence membership and bragging rights for a year! The exhibit is sponsored by members Phil & Dawn Daro.
Sayako Dairiki’s exhibit, “Mending Memories” is our second exhibit with a reception on July 14. Dairiki’s oil paintings, created since 2020, reflect a turn towards abstraction from her earlier style that depicted objects
from nature in a more realistic manner. Some of this change was stimulated by the gift of a little cat, named Ku-Chan.
Ku-Chan wasn’t so much interested in her paintings, but she certainly liked clothes, especially nibbling holes in sweaters and blankets. Sayako’s frustration turned to interest in the traditional art form of Sashiko and Boro, as she taught herself how to patch and repair this damage. We included two sweaters with circular designs that the artist patched using these techniques.
The process of mending is very time-consuming, involving repeated patterns of stitching and patches of fabrics. Her piece Requiem for the Countless Thoughts shows the impact of these textile processes on her painting style. Hundreds of short lines are painted in blue, green, and yellow, creating linear patterns much like ‘stitches.’
Sayako will also give an Artist
Talk in the Gallery on Saturday, Aug. 5, from 2-3 p.m. (FREE), if you are interested in learning more about her work. This exhibit is sponsored by Tom Doyle & Kathy Joseph and is on display through Aug. 20.
Part of the wonder of being at the Pence during the school year is seeing children experience the joy of creativity. While we’ve served over 1,300 students this year in our school programs, we’ve missed seeing families at the Pence. It’s been close to 3.5 years since our hands on family art program during the weekends took place. A new monthly program, Art in Action, starts this month at the Gallery, and is sponsored in part by the city of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs
program.
On Sunday, July 23, from 1 to 3 p.m. families with kids ages 5-12 are invited to create unique sculptural creations inspired by food. Using air dry clay and paint, participants will model things that look fun and edible! This is a drop-in program, so no advanced registration is required. A parent or adult must be present for a child to participate, and it is $5 for members to participate, or $10 for nonmembers to participate. Look forward to other programs on Sunday afternoons, in the Art in Action program. For more information, visit our website at pencegallery.org/art-inaction/. Join as a Pence member starting at $65 a year and save 50% off program admission. Our annual juried exhibit
“Slice: A Cross-section of Regional Art” is also open tonight through Aug. 20. Join juror Kelly Lindner, Curator, University Galleries, California State University, Sacramento, at 7:30 p.m. as she announces her choices for awards, and enjoy meeting many of the artists whose work is on display.
The “Slice” exhibit is always a diverse show which celebrates contemporary art in all its manifestations, including paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture by 31 artists working across California. As Lindner wrote, there were pieces that had similar concerns when she was reviewing the over 150 entries, “Certain themes, formal considerations, and surprising conversations between individual works emerged as I sifted
through the images and the descriptions. Investigations of materiality immediately stood out--sculptures constructed from fabric and hand-dyed cloth, an assemblage of hair, ceramic and found objects, fiberglass and acrylic in the form of a couch, ash and grass collected from the site of a wildfire.”
I was taken by the couch, simply titled “Loveseat,” just as the juror was. Created by artist Zen Du, it appears to be a confection of pink fabric, blighted by some destructive urge. I am writing this without having seen it, but from the photo of the artwork, it seems almost alive, with red tendrils that seem to pull it into pieces.
It’s fascinating how an artist can transform an innocuous object into something that speaks of so much more. Whether you find it humorous, strange, or just plain disturbing, her “Loveseat” is sure to provoke an emotional response. And isn’t that what art is meant to do, at its core?
— Natalie Nelson is the executive director and curator of the Pence Gallery; her column is published monthly.
The Woodland Camera Forum will present a program, “Living Between the Darkness and the Light,” by Woodland-based photographer David Nasater, at 7 p.m. Monday, July 17, at 7 p.m. in Norton Hall, 70 Cottonwood St., Woodland. The presentation is open to the public and free of charge.
Since moving to the Sacramento Valley in the mid1990s, Nasater has been exploring the agricultural landscape of the area. While David is primarily self-taught, his work took a turn when taking a course Beyond Landscape that explored ideas outside the tradition of landscape photography. Since then his focus has been on images that are more intimate and closer to home instead grand landscapes.
“I’m not sure when I began suffering from depression,” Nasater said, talking about his project. “The dark thoughts and anxieties grew gradually throughout my life. I became very adept at hiding behind masks and not letting myself or others see what was going on inside. But inside was a rollercoaster of emotions: Sadness, anxiety, anger, overwhelm, self-doubt and even moments of happiness
and peace. Photography became one of the tools I used to hide from my emotions. It allowed me to detach from the world, viewing it through the lens and not having to interact with it.
“Eventually the depression and emotions became too much suppress, and I sought out help through therapy. It did not cure me of depression but allowed me to live with its ups and downs. I became more aware and accepting of my feelings and emotions.
“With this awareness, I began to see glimpses of my feelings in my photographic work that mirrored the ebb and flow of my depression. Most of the images alluded to the emotion rather than stating it directly. A lone tree on a hill, a chaotic flock of birds, a wave crashing over a rock or a sunflower in the evening light. When making the images, the expression of these feelings was unintentional. They leaked out of my subconscious, like reflections of my inner self in the world around me. My photography changed from a means of escaping depression to a way to explore it and my mental state.
“The COVID pandemic with its lockdowns and limited social contact
brought many of my negative emotions back to the surface, which inspired me to further explore my feelings by creating new work. I don’t intend to make specific images. Instead, I’ve learned to trust my inner self to recognize when a scene resonates with my feelings.
“‘Living Between the
Darkness and the Light’ is a collection of my works old and new that provide glimpses into my life with depression. On a personal level these images are therapeutic. They allow me to give these feelings a name and bring them into the light. On a social level, I want to shed some light on the stigma of mental health issues. I encourage viewers
to both look at and feel these works. Not just to understand myself, but to understand themselves and what lives behind their masks.”
Nasater has predominately exhibited in Northern California and his works are in a number of private collections in the area. He has won a number
of awards for his works, including Best of Show at the 30th Annual Vacaville Juried Art Show and the Juror’s Award at the 2018 California State Fair.
For more information about the Woodland Camera Forum, contact Susan Bovey at 530219-0955, susan_bovey@ yahoo.com.
There’s simply no excuse for a film that runs 163 minutes…
…unless it holds our attention the entire time.
Unlike half a dozen recent examples of self-indulgent tedium, this one delivers
The newest installment in this venerable franchise has it all: well-sculpted characters, a truly terrifying villain, a couple of lethal sub-baddies, jaw-dropping action sequences, and a twisty plot courtesy of director/coscripter Christopher McQuarrie (who, it should be remembered, won an Academy Award for writing 1996’s “The Usual Suspects”).
Mention also must be made of the frequent dollops of welcome humor, intercut with bits of unexpected pathos.
Oh, and running. Showing off his sprinting prowess has long been a Tom Cruise signature, and he gets a lotta mileage outta that here.
He simply refuses to go gently into the quieter phase of less hectic film roles. More power to him.
Cruise’s Ethan Hunt — introduced back in 1996; can you believe it? — is once again joined by his faithful Scooby Gang members: analyst Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), sniper/close combat expert Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and legendary hacker/tech genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames).
On the adversarial side, a figure from Ethan’s long-ago, pre-IMF past: Gabriel (Esai Morales), a stone-cold sociopath who enjoys killing people while their loved ones watch. He’s assisted by the ruthless, relentless Paris (Pom Klementieff), a grinning danger junkie who gets off on hurting people.
Happy surprises include Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), resurrected from this franchise’s 1996 debut, when he was a mere government wonk; he has risen to become the CIA director who sends Ethan on his impossible missions, via an old-school cassette tape that self-destructs in five seconds. Cary Elwes joins the crew as Denlinger, director of National Intelligence, and — in
Rating: PG-13, for intense action and violence, and occasional profanity
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Vanessa Kirby, Cary Elwes, Henry Czerny
Available via: Movie theaters
an amusing early scene — the only person who literally has no idea what the IMF is.
This mission’s threat is ripped right out of today’s unsettling headlines: an artificial intelligence program that has infiltrated all world-wide, Internet-linked communications systems. Known obliquely as “The Entity,” it has developed enough semi-sentience to understand how to manipulate information and events by means both random and calculated.
Imagine — as one character explains, early on — a world where online newspaper headlines cannot be trusted; where email communication can be “spoofed” well enough to fool recipients; where nuclear command codes can be changed and then activated; and where even voices can be imitated, so that one never knows who’s on the other side of a cell phone call.
Scary stuff.
Every world power both fears and desires to control of The Entity, which makes this a truly dangerous assignment.
The only possible hope for salvation involves the recovery of two linked keys believed to access The Entity’s source code … although nobody knows where that is located. Meanwhile, one key is believed to be in the hands of Ilsa, who — according to Kittridge — has gone rogue. Rumor suggests interest from a buyer who possesses the second key.
McQuarrie and co-scripter
Erik Jendresen shrewdly divide
this lengthy saga into distinct chapters, wherein the action is dictated, in part, by the locations themselves. Cinematographer Fraser Taggart and production designer Gary Freeman cleverly turn each setting into its own unique character.
Ethan first heads into the sandstorm-driven Abu Dhabi desert, hoping to find Ilsa; to his dismay, he’s flanked by a squad of mercenaries also after her. How did they know?
By this point, the principled Ethan has realized that no country — or individual — should have control of something like The Entity; this puts him at odds with Kittridge, who wants the United States to obtain it. When Ethan goes off book, he winds up in the crosshairs of “enforcement operatives” Briggs (Shea Whigham) and Degas (Greg Tarzan Davis). Briggs believes in following orders to the letter; Degas is more thoughtful and inquisitive.
The action then shifts to Abu Dhabi International Airport’s massive, brand-spanking-new Midfield Terminal, where Ethan encounters Grace (Hayley Atwell), a grifter, thief and artful dodger hired as courier for the rumored holder of the second key. Having been a lone wolf her entire life, she’s not big on trust; her involvement unintentionally puts Briggs and Degas — and Gabriel — on her tail, as well.
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Davis Community Church will present Baroque masterpieces for the violin by Maia Silberstein, at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 23, at 412 C St. in Davis.
Silberstein was born in San Francisco and graduated from Davis High School. She began her performing career at 16, soloing with the Sacramento Symphony for the Tchaikovsky concerto.
She received her bachelor’s degree from the
Juilliard School in New York and her master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
SILBERSTEIN Concert on July 23
After two years of collaboration with the Sartory String Quartet, in residence at Kent State University, she decided to pursue her interest in early music. Thanks to grants
from the Belgian American Educational Foundation and the Flemish Community, she continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Sigiswald Kuijken and François Fernandez, receiving her Masters Degree in 2000 with distinction in Baroque violin.
The concert will feature works by Bach, Biber, Telemann, Matteis for unaccompanied violin.
Entrance is free, but donations are gladly accepted.
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Davis Musical Theatre Company presents its Young Performers’ Theatre production of “The Wizard of Oz” from July 21 through July 30, 2023, at the Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center (607 Pena Drive, No. 10) in Davis.
Dorothy Gale of Kansas dreams of what lies over the rainbow. One day a twister hits her farm and carries her away to another world.
Join Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Cowardly Lion and Toto as they travel the universe of Dorothy’s imagination. Including the songs made famous in the classic MGM film, including “Over the Rainbow,” “Ding Dong!
The Witch Is Dead,” “If I
Only Had a Brain,” “We’re Off to See the Wizard,” and “Follow the Yellow Brick Road,” “The Wizard of Oz” is everyone’s favorite movie fantasy, come to life on the stage. The show is for
audiences of all ages. Jan Isaacson will direct and choreograph, with Montana Monroe providing musical direction.
“The Wizard of Oz” plays on Fridays at 7 p.m. (July 21, July 28); Saturdays at 2 p.m. (July 22, July 29); and Sundays at 2 p.m. (July 23, July 30). All performances are at the Jean Henderson
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Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $8 for all ages. They can be purchased online at dmtc.org or by calling (530) 756-3682.
(There is a $2 facility fee per ticket on a purchase, cash, charge, phone, internet, or in person.)
For additional information, visit dmtc.org or call 530-756-3682.
Atwell, easily recognized from many prestige British films and TV shows, plays Grace’s rapport with Ethan as flirty, fun and spontaneous. Every time Ethan thinks she has seen (his) reason, she double-crosses him again. Which gives Cruise another chance to use his deadpan, I-can’t-believe-you-did-that expression of disappointment.
The action subsequently shifts to Rome’s ancient cobblestoned streets and fabled Spanish steps, for an alternately exhilarating and humorous car chase between Ethan and Grace, handcuffed together — first in a BMW M5 Competition, then in an adorable bright yellow Fiat 500 — and Briggs’ crew, dozens of police cars, and the adrenaline-fueled Paris, roaring behind them in a ginormous, military-grade Hummer.
A (somewhat) quieter shift to Venice reunites Ethan with Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby), best known as The White Widow: a morally fluid character introduced in 2018’s “Mission Impossible: Fallout.” This also is where the mocking, quietly lethal Gabriel takes center stage, Morales making him impressively evil.
Everything builds to a dognuts, gotta-be-seen-to-bebelieved climax that involves the Austrian Alps, Ethan’s Honda 300cc motocross motorcycle, a parachute, the Orient Express and a high mountain bridge.
Knowing the degree to which Cruise and McQuarrie insist on real-world stunts, with as little CGI as possible, makes this true edge-of-the-seat excitement. All of this works, of course, because of the rapport we’ve developed with so many of these characters. Rhames’ Luther is calm, philosophical and the voice of reason; Benji is frantic, jittery and prone to emotional meltdowns (played hilariously by Pegg). Kirby’s purring White Widow is seductive and impossible to read; Ferguson’s Ilsa is cool, resourceful and impressively lethal.
Lorne Balfe’s score enhances the thrills but too frequently relies on thundering synth; he does, however, find ample opportunity — during the title credits and elsewhere — to employ Lalo Schifrin’s iconic “Mission: Impossible theme.”
Unlike “Fast X,” which turned out to be a surprise first half that left its characters in cliff-handing peril, this “Mission” entry telegraphs its intentions, and pauses at an obvious chapter break. We’ll need to wait until next summer to see where all this goes.
Based on this thoroughly satisfying first half, I expect great things.
— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.
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The Winters Friends of the Library 2023 Summer Concerts at the Gazebo continue with local favorites Los Tres de Winters playing Norteño-style music on Thursday, July 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Rotary Park, Main Street at Railroad Avenue in downtown Winters. This lively music, with accordion, bajo sexto, and bass, is a hybrid of Mexican and Spanish vocal traditions with waltzes and polkas brought to Mexico by Czech and German immigrants in the mid-19th century. It evolved in the north of Mexico and is now a favorite style throughout Mexico and the U.S. Check them out on YouTube. For more information, visit wfol.org.
Ihave $7,248 in student loans but I’m not disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s attempt to forgive student debt.
I understand that student loan debt is a problem and that I’ll work to repay mine. But given the opportunity again, I’d gladly take it. Lifting a portion of debt off a select group of Americans will add to inflation and lead to the growth of already crushing tuition prices — even at UC Berkeley, where the semesterly cost for a California resident is $9,595, much lower than the nonresident $25,108.
My stance probably isn’t popular among my classmates, but it might help to tell you a little about my family and myself.
My parents grew up Amish and, traditionally, kids begin working after eighth grade. I did the same. Instead of going to high school, I stocked shelves and managed inventory at my family’s small grocery shop nine miles outside of a former logging town called Libby, Mont.
I studied for my GED diploma, and at 17, moved on my own to Redding, the seat of Shasta County. I worked multiple jobs, determined to be self-sufficient.
I hadn’t grown up thinking about college. I didn’t know anyone who had gone. But one night during a restaurant shift, I overheard a coworker talking about his classes at Shasta College, the local two-year.
He wasn’t paying tuition – in California, community college is all but free – and I instantly bookmarked the fact for investigation. After many emails, swimming through bureaucratic layers of establishing residency and understanding requirements, I enrolled, and began making up for years of missed high school through algebra Zoom classes in the summer of 2020.
I hated being behind my peers, struggling through algebraic factoring and slopes after work, calling friends who were “normal” college freshmen and loved mathematics for help on ninth-grade problems.
After two years of full-time studying while nannying, freelance writing and tutoring, I applied to UC Berkeley and, to my surprise, started school there last fall. In a thousand small ways, I began discovering what had been out of my reach. I digested political theory, economic history and international relations while working to pay tuition and living expenses.
This spring, I took out a loan. My parents help when they can and I’m deeply appreciative, but generations without exposure to academics meant that education was relegated to a lower rung on the financial priority ladder.
President Biden’s proposed loan forgiveness plan would’ve cost between $300 billion and $980 billion, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model. While many students would gladly have had their loans forgiven — and understandably so — they’re missing the rest of the picture.
As a professor told me last semester, “The history of U.S. public policy is essentially a series of unintended consequences.”
Loan forgiveness gives universities the incentive and ability to raise tuition prices even higher, as students will be more comfortable taking out loans to cover these additional costs, with the potential of forgiveness looming.
College prices rose 31% from 2010-2020, and this plan would’ve worsened the cycle, feeding into the swelling inflation we love to complain about. The U.S. household debt crisis is a concern, but data shows that individuals who hold a college degree earn a much higher income on average, and therefore are more equipped to pay off debt and continue building wealth.
Those without a degree are more often stuck in paycheck-to-paycheck dependence, lacking the skills necessary to climb into a higher income bracket. The accessibility of community college as the spark of an educational journey should not be understated.
Offering two years for free across the country would do more to bring new students into higher education than forgiving debt for those who’ve already had the privilege of attending. I know firsthand the significance of the second chance that community colleges provide.
— Eythana Miller is a student at UC Berkeley and writes for the student-run publication Berkeley Political Review. She is a contributor for Edible Shasta-Butte and Enjoy Magazine.
It was déjà vu all over again when this state’s largest newspaper and three major nonprofits published a study showing 40 percent of Californians are thinking of leaving the state, while 70 percent are happy here.
Oops! How can the total of happy people and those thinking of moving top 100 percent by a big margin?
Easy: Plenty of folks are ambivalent, as always; they’re happy, but wonder if things might be even better someplace else.
That mix of feelings has been fed by a steady diet of sometimes bogus news about California’s dropping population (far less than 2 percent over the last decade), which inspires many to think that if bunches of people are leaving, maybe there’s a good reason for it.
The purveyors of the supposedly newsworthy report never admitted their study is a virtual duplicate of one the Rand Corp. think tank conducted back in 1970.
That was 53 years ago, when researchers found an average of one in seven Californians at the time were moving each year, some within the state, some to other points. That means 49 percent of Californians were considering moves during any typical seven-year span.
The reason given by those long-ago researchers:
Wanderlust.
It was natural for Californians to wonder if the grass is greener someplace else and many still do.
The same wanderlust explains why many folks from other places came to California in the first place. U.S. Census figures show 27 percent of Californians are foreign born, double the nationwide percentage, and 28 percent hail from other states. So more than half the populace moved here from somewhere else. That doesn’t count their children.
Just over half of Californians, a far higher percentage than in any other state, already know what it’s like to move. They’ve demonstrated some wanderlust previously, some curiosity about what life is like in a different place. It comes as no shock that they can get intrigued about the idea of moving again, especially if a move offers the opportunity for big-time financial advancement.
And it can. The same study
that drew the headlines by breathlessly reporting very old news also reported that finances are the main reason Californians move to other states. That’s been reported here and elsewhere for many years; it’s stoked by the fact this state’s real estate is far higher priced than similar properties in other states.
In fact, similar-sized homes in Texas (the No. 1 destination of migrants from California) often cost less than half what homeowners here can sell for. So for some Californians, moving is the best way to make use of equity they’ve built by living in the same house for seven years or more.
Some, in fact, buy twice their prior acreage and floor space in Idaho or Arizona, drawing resentment from longtime local residents by driving prices up to unaffordable levels for natives. Expat Californians then often have enough left over to live sumptuously without needing a job.
Other California emigrants, untethered from their offices by the coronavirus pandemic, live even higher, combining their old incomes with their new profits.
It’s true, anxiety over California’s future and a feeling among some that the state is headed in the “wrong” direction was another factor
showing up in the study. But economics were by far the single biggest push to leave, just as in the last three decades.
And then there are the regrets, not measured in the new study, but well documented elsewhere. Almost half those leaving California, one 2021 study reported, find themselves in shock when their first freezing winter hits in Idaho or Minnesota, or when hurricanes begin flooding neighborhoods in Texas and Florida.
Trouble is, once they cash out, it’s not so easy for emigrants to backtrack and return to California. The same real estate equation that convinced them to move now hinders their moving back.
The bottom line: When you see a well-hyped story about yet another study of why people leave California, always remember the tale is not as simple as any one study can imply. Nor is a new report necessarily anything really new.
— Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It," is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
The first sentence of my letter “the door is open” states, “No federal, state, county or city government can choose a side based on content.” The definition of content used here: the subject or ideas contained in something written, said, created or represented. I suggest those commenting on my letter reread the first sentence again.
John Clark DavisThe Grace in Action Board of Directors would like to thank Soroptimist International of Davis for awarding $1,100 through their Community Grant program in support of our direct services to guests. Grace in Action welcomes those without shelter or basic needs to our lunch program on Mondays and Wednesdays. Guests are provided with a meal, hair cuts, laundry vouchers, and
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bus passes for appointments. We focus on building relationships and trust so our guests will be more receptive to referrals to local agencies for aid to better their situations.
Lorell Hardaker Vice President, Grace in ActionWith the low-income community hit hardest by the economic and health impacts of the pandemic, STEAC’s mission, to ensure that low-income Yolo County residents have access to basic necessities, takes on an even more critical role than ever in helping these vulnerable residents.
While the public health emergency has expired, the economic effects of the pandemic are likely to continue for some time. With demand for STEAC’s Eviction Prevention Program at elevated levels, we are grateful for support from Kaiser Permanente who recently gave STEAC a $25,000 grant to help support our efforts to prevent evictions and help homeless families and individuals get into permanent housing.
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In preventing homelessness, these funds will also improve economic security, health and nutrition for program recipients.
STEAC is grateful and honored to continue its collaboration with Kaiser Permanente to improve the lives of struggling families in our community.
Liane Moody Executive director, STEACApparently, not only am I expected to not believe as climate skeptics do that global warming isn’t true, I’m also not supposed to hold so much as a quiet reservation or doubt.
Let’s back up for a minute. If one of the main accounting methods; the climate models, vary by as much as 400 percent (or more) in their estimates for future climate states, how does that not represent possible serious uncertainty in the model, and by extension, uncertainty in the science?
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Rep. Mike Thompson, 268 Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-3311. District office: 622 Main Street, Suite 106, Woodland, CA 95695; 530-753-5301; email: https:// https:// mikethompsonforms.house.gov/contact/
Governor Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-4452841; email: https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/ gov40mail/
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One of the most decorated offensive forces in program history, Datino still sits atop the record book a decade later.
The first Aggie to win IWLCA All-Region honors in the Division I era, she currently holds the alltime career mark in assists (96), is second in points (245) and hat tricks (30) and fourth in goals (149) and shots (305). Her 2012 season still stands as one of the best years in Aggie history. That season, Datino was the only player in Division I to rank among the national top 10 in both goals (9th, 3.38) and assists (4th, 2.94) per game. She became the statistical champion in points per game at 6.31 per contest. Datino earned her first of two All-MPSF firstteam and IWLCA AllRegion honors that season.
Propelling her to one of the top attackers in the nation in 2012, she set the single-game assist record twice, first with six and then eight against Saint
Mary’s.
In that same contest against the Gaels, Datino posted the second-most post in a single match with 12.
Indart, the 1996 Division II AWPCA National Player of the Year, showcased a blend of toughness and athleticism in the pool.
The water may have been where he made his notoriety as an Aggie, but that athleticism also carried over to the track as well.
Indart helped lead the Ags to their first WWPA Conference title, first 20-win season and first appearance at the NCAA Championship tournament since 1975.
During that 1996 season, Indart scored 54 goals in 26 games, including three against UMass in the NCAA Tournament third-place game, culminating in a final No. 8 national ranking.
On top of being named the AWPCA National Player of the Year, the team captain also earned AWPCA first-team AllAmerican honors and
second-team NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team accolades.
Indart still ranks seventh all-time in program history with 162 goals.
On the track, his high jump leap of 6-10.25 stands as the eighth-best clearance in program history.
Jeff Hogan
The countless hours. Thousands of studentathletes were cared for under his watch during his 33-year career. Hogan dedicated his professional life to the betterment of the UCD student-athlete. Hogan served as the Head Athletic Trainer for the majority of his career, overseeing all athletic training services, and was vital in the transition to Division I.
Hogan also served as the Site Coordinator for the NCAA Drug Testing Program and coordinated the Intercollegiate Athletics Drug and Alcohol Education Program. Known for his leadership and relationship building, Hogan trained, mentored, and developed
numerous assistant trainers and graduate assistants during his tenure. He was credited for the trust and professionalism with the coaches and the bond he built with his athletes.
Hogan developed the comprehensive health program within athletics that included medical personnel (team doctors and directors of the Student Health Center), athletic trainers, sports psychologists from the Counseling Center, athletic academic advisers, sports nutritionists, insurance coordinators and athletic administrators was unique within the world of athletics at that time.
Over the course of his career, Hogan was recognized as one of the best in the field. He received accolades from the Journal of Athletic Training, the California Athletic Trainers Association, the National Athletic Trainers Association, and the University of California.
From no high school sports experience to an Olympian, the road to the
pinnacle of his sport started at the UC Davis Boathouse.
Weil, built like an offensive tackle when he first arrived on campus as a freshman, eventually found his way to the water at the Port of Sacramento and the journey officially began.
All those grueling 5 a.m. practices roughly 12 miles away from the UCD campus was his home for the next six years.
After graduating from UCD with a degree in aeronautical engineering, Weil made his way across the country to the US Rowing Training Center in Princeton, N.J. and also trained at Lake Samish in Washington state. The road to the Olympics began.
In 2015, Weil helped guide the United States to first place in men’s four at the World Rowing Cup II, and for his efforts, he was voted the US Rowing Male Athlete of the Year.
Weil has made three appearances at the World Championships, earning a silver and bronze medal.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Weil helped the United States’ men’s four to a seventh-place finish.
Weil has since donated his Olympic racing jersey to the UC Davis Boathouse and has been a frequent visitor and champion of fundraising for the club sport.
A fixture at UCD football, Burrell was an integral piece to the operations in the press box on Saturdays at Aggie Stadium, now UC Davis Health Stadium. Burrell did a little bit of everything for the UCD athletics communications team, helping with checking in the media, organizing the press materials and keeping track of player participation during the game.
On top of volunteering his time on game day, Burrell was a mentor and championed the UCD student-athletes.
He was noted for helping with professional development, routinely speaking about postgraduate plans and supporting the studentathletes upon graduation.
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UC Davis announced the induction of five new members to the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame.
The 2023 participant class includes Amy Armknecht (women’s soccer, 199396), Jonathan Barsi (football, 2003-06), Elizabeth Datino (lacrosse, 2010-13) and Ryan Indart (men’s water polo, 1992-93, 1995-96).
Longtime athletic trainer Jeff Hogan was inducted as a non-participant and former men’s rowing standout Seth Weil joins the class as the Aggie Legacy Award inductee.
Tim Burrell earns the Special Recognition Award.
“We are excited to welcome an exceptional class into the CAAA Hall of Fame,” UC Davis Director of Athletics Rocko DeLuca said. “This group of game changers gave Aggie Nation lasting memories, and I cannot wait for them to come back to share their experience and words of
wisdom with us at the Hall of Fame celebration this fall.”
Here is a look at each member.
One of just five Aggies in program history to earn All-American honors, Armknecht was a force in goal for UCD.
In her final two seasons in net, the Ags compiled a 26-10-3 overall record and in her senior campaign, UCD went 8-1-1 in conference play en route to the league title and earned an NCAA Tournament berth.
The record book is peppered with her name as Armknecht, at the time, set the career record for goals-against-average at a minuscule 1.06. She also, at the time, set the program record with 14 career shutouts.
Entering the 2023 campaign for Aggie soccer, Armknecht, nearly 30 years after suiting up for the first time at Davis, ranks third in saves percentage (.805),
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The UC Davis women soccer team’s season will be here sooner than later.
Cal will play the Aggies in an exhibition game on Sunday, Aug. 6.
Then UCD will take on Santa Clara on Friday, Aug. 11.
The Aggies begin the regular season home against Idaho State on Thursday, Aug. 17.
The Causeway game at Sacramento State will be Sunday, Aug. 20.
The other pair of road games during the non-conference stage will have the Aggies close out August with games at San Francisco on Aug. 27 and Portland on Aug. 31.
Then also hosts non-conference matchups against two WCC foes in the form of Saint Mary’s on Aug. 24 and LMU on Sept. 3, before rounding out against Eastern Washington on Sept. 14.
Last season, the Aggies defeated the No. 5 ranked Santa Clara on the road for the program’s first ever win over a ranked opponent in UCD history.
The Aggies will make a journey to Lincoln, Neb. to take on the University of Lincoln Huskers on Thursday, Sept. 7.
That match was just the beginning of a historic 2022 season, which included a 6-2-2 record in the Big West Conference and 9-6-4 overall.
The Aggies will officially open the season against Idaho State, and then also hosts non-conference matchups against two WCC foes in the form of Saint Mary’s (Aug. 24), and LMU (Sept. 3), before rounding out against Eastern Washington (Sept. 14).
The Aggies will open up Big West play on the road at CSU Northridge on Sept. 21, and then head to CSU Bakersfield on Sept. 24 to close out the weekend.
A trio of home games are sandwiched between the Aggies next couple of Big West road games, which will take place at UC Riverside on Oct. 12 and Cal State Fullerton on Oct. 15.
UC Davis will conclude the regular season slate with a road game at UC Irvine on Oct. 26.
and third with her 14 shutouts and 1.06 goals-against-average in career history.
In the single-season annals, she ranks fourth in saves with 86 in 1994, save percentage of .811 in 1996, fourth in shutouts with six in 1996, third in fewest goals against in 1996 with 14, and the secondbest single-season campaign in GAA in 1996 at 0.79.
Jonathan Barsi, known as “JJ”, was everything you wanted in the backend of a defense at free safety.
Called cerebral, tenacious and tough by former head coach and CAAA Hall of Famer Bob Biggs, Barsi was an integral part of the UCD transition to Division I football.
Barsi became the first Aggie to ever earn Division I first-team All-American accolades and the first UCD Associated Press honoree at any division since 1999,
when he nabbed the distinction in 2006. Barsi picked off 11 passes over his career, returning one for a touchdown. His 11 interceptions are tied for fourth all-time with Aggie great Bo Eason.
The two-time All-Great West first-team selection holds the third-highest singleseason interception total at six that he set in his All-American campaign in 2006.
On top of his AP All-American honor, Barsi was also named to the Sports Network 1-AA/FCS All-American second team.
In his final Causeway Classic, Barsi made it memorable as he picked off three Hornet passes, including one for a 44-yard touchdown en route to a 30-16 win.
The Aggies finished that season at No. 24 in the final College Sports News Coaches Poll, marking their 37th consecutive winning campaign.
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Members of the Davis High boys and girls crosscountry teams are putting in their work off campus this summer.
The Blue Devils having been conducting workouts on the south end of the Woody Wilson Track on Toomey Field on the UC Davis campus and around the city of Davis since toward the end of June.
“We have around 30 athletes regularly attending the distance training,” said Davis associate head coach Tim Groth.
There are seven runners who went to the state meet last fall, which include four returning girls and six boys.
Groth also noted that some incoming freshmen have also been taking part in the workouts.
The Blue Devil runners start with stretching near the gate that divides Toomey Field and the open field on the south side of the fence.
After Groth talked to the runners about the AllComer’s meet, which was held at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on the DHS campus on Thursday, they got up
and ran 2-miles around the area of the UCD campus.
“Most of the workouts are steady state continuous running for anywhere from 20-45 minutes, depending on fitness level and how long since they start running coming into the summer,” Groth said. “We’ve also been doing some harder pace workouts known as threshold running.”
At this point of the workouts, Groth noted, it’s a little early to single out any one runner as the leader. Both boys and girls.
“We have a very strong and large group of guys who’ve been training together and have already talked about having big aspirations and expectations this year,” Groth said.
Connor Cougevan, Lucas Tam and Jefferson Wright are the trio leading the way for the boys.
For the girls, Groth noted that there is a mixture of young and new talented runners. Laura Wong and Ellie Ross, both of whom are seniors, are returning this fall.
The Blue Devils open the season at the Lagoon Valley Invitational in Vacaville on Saturday, Sept. 2.
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Davis High associate head coach Tim Groth goes over instructions before the boys and girls teams start running near Woody Wilson Track on the UC Davis campus on Wednesday. Both the DHS girls and boys teams officially will start their season at the Lagoon Valley Invitational in Vacaville on Labor Day weekend in September.
