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Council OKs $409K in upgrades for Arroyo Park

By MonicA StArk Enterprise staff writer

The Davis City Council passed a $409,000 construction bid for a shade structure, concrete pad, six picnic tables, and two barbecues at Arroyo Park at Tuesday’s meeting. With Councilwoman Donna Neville dissenting, the item was pulled initially from the consent agenda after hearing public commenters questioning the cost and urging alternative shade options, like trees.

How EVs can give back to the grid

By AlejAndro lA zo

CalMatters

As a historic 10-day heat wave threatened brownouts across California last summer, a small San Diego County school district did its part to help: It captured excess power from its electric school buses and sent it back to the state’s overwhelmed grid.

The seven school buses provided enough power for 452

homes each day of the heat wave, and the buses were recharged only during off hours when the grid was not strained.

California energy officials have high hopes that this new power source, called bidirectional charging, will boost California’s power supply as it ramps up its ambitious agenda of electrifying its cars, trucks and buses while switching to 100% clean energy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called two-way charging technology a “game changer,” saying “this is the future” during a speech last September, about a week after the heat wave ended.

This year, a bill already approved by the state Senate in a 29-9 vote would require all new electric cars sold in California to be equipped with bidirectional technology by 2030. In the Assembly, two committees

Winters councilman pleads no contest to weapon charges

By lAuren keene Enterprise staff writer

A Winters city councilman charged with felony weapon possession made a plea agreement Wednesday that reduces his two most serious charges to misdemeanors.

Richard Thomas Casavecchia’s deal won’t be official until Aug. 2, however, as his attorney, who appeared in Yolo Superior Court remotely via Zoom, inadvertently filed a plea form that did not include Casavecchia’s signature.

Under the agreement, Casavecchia pleaded no contest to two counts of

possessing an assault rifle. A third count, possession of an unserialized firearm, will be dismissed. Casavecchia, 39, is expected to be sentenced to one year of informal probation and 100 hours of community service. He pledged to surrender the two rifles to law enforcement. His attorney, Michael Wise, could not be reached for comment. Documents filed in support of the motion alleged that police found the assault rifles in Casavecchia’s home on April 2, after Casavecchia’s wife arrived at the Winters Police Department to

approved the bill earlier this month and it is now under consideration by a third.

This two-way charging has big potential — but also faces big obstacles. By 2035, California expects to have 12.5 million electric cars on the road, but it’s an open question how much California can rely on them to feed the grid. Automakers say the technology would add

report a domestic violence incident and request an emergency protective order.

“She then told Winters police that defendant has a concealed weapons permit along with other weapons,” the document says. She initially declined to give officers consent to enter her home and remove the weapons, but later reversed that decision.

About two hours earlier, a Winters patrol officer

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Public Works director and city engineer Dianna Jensen said the project, which was granted to the Stockton-based F. Loduca Company, came in over the engineer’s estimate. “But what we look at is the range of bids,” she said. “All of these came in fairly close to each other.”

Ria de Grassi, a longtime Davis resident, said as a taxpayer, the project amount “is a heck of a lot of money for a picnic area.”

“I don’t know all the ins and outs,” de Grassi said, “but part of my issue is prioritizing what needs attention.” She urged the council to deal with more “pressing issues with the parks” first.

Dominguez competency trial begins on Monday

By lAuren keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND

— Attorneys in the Carlos Reales Dominguez case made brief appearances Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court to confirm a competency trial for the former UC Davis student charged with murder and attempted murder.

DOMINGUEZ Mental status at issue

A jury will determine whether Dominguez, 21, is mentally fit to stand trial for the late April stabbing deaths of Davis residents David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, as

well as the May 1 knife attack on Kimberlee Guillory. Dominguez’s public defender, Dan Hutchinson, declared a doubt regarding Dominguez’s competency back in May, stalling the criminal proceedings while Dominguez underwent an evaluation by a court-appointed psychiatrist who deemed him incompetent.

Yolo County prosecutors disputed that conclusion, however, demanding

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Driver, 20, dies in I-80 crash

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Patrol officers responded to a fatal collision Wednesday night on Interstate 80 east of Davis.

Officer Rodney Fitzhugh said a Honda traveled off the roadway at a high rate of speed and overturned along eastbound I-80 near the Webster interchange at about 10:10 p.m.

The driver, identified by a Yolo County coroner’s official as 20-yearold Nikolas Ramalho of Sacramento, succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Impairment by alcohol or drugs was believed to be a factor in the crash, Fitzhugh said. Contact the Woodland CHP office at 530-662-4685 with any information about this incident.

About us

Bipartisan, and it has a clever name

I'm big on that vanishing part of politics and governance known as bipartisanship.

It's a rare thing these days, which is why I was encouraged to see a story on that very subject by McClatchy's legendary David Lightman, the newspaper chain's longtime chief Washington correspondent.

When the bipartisanship involves an issue of concern to those of us who type for a living, I'm even more interested.

"Will Congress protect journalists from government spying — why both parties agree on the issue," said the headline over Lightman's story in The Sacramento Bee.

"Reporters would gain important new protections under proposed congressional legislation with strong bipartisan support," the story begins.

"The Protect Reporters from Exploitive State Spying Act, or PRESS Act, would bar the federal government from requiring reporters to disclose sources."

Even if it involves Hunter Biden's laptop?

The name of the act does make me wonder how much taxpayer money was spent for congressional staffers to think up that acronym, but I guess every piece of legislation needs a handle people

can hang their hat on.

"Also protected would be information from third parties such as phone companies, a provision aimed at making it harder to spy on journalists."

Preventing AT&T from divulging my phone records will mostly protect me from being publicly embarrassed by how many times I have called what is known around our home as DDDOD — Dad's Door Dash on Deadline.

"The bill came about after the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained information from reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post."

So much for freedom of the press.

Apparently, the Trump Administration wasn't interested in phone records from Fox News, since so many of those calls were placed to the Oval Office to obtain the network's marching orders.

"Advocates for the measure want rules written into law, since that would make it more difficult for future administrations to repeat what Trump officials have done."

What, you think a silly new law will stop Donald Trump from doing whatever it is he wants to do?

But here's the best part.

"Representative Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, led an unusually politically diverse group of House members as sponsors and supporters of the bill."

The "R" stands for Republican, not Rocklin. Wonder if

Mr. Kiley will now get the Liz Cheney treatment for daring to reach across the aisle to do the right thing.

Protect journalists? Some former occupants of the White House think we should all be in jail.

"Kiley called the bill important 'for the protection of First Amendment freedoms.' He predicted its passage would 'secure a core constitutional right and make our government more representative and accountable.' "

Yes, yes and yes.

But why am I so surprised that members of both parties embraced this bill, no matter who

presented it?

I've become accustomed to the fact that if Democrats say it's Monday, every Republican will instinctively claim it's Tuesday. If a Republican proposes something reasonable, every Democrat will feel duty-bound to oppose it, no matter its value. And vice versa.

"The bill was approved unanimously by the House Judiciary Committee, usually a partisan battleground where Kiley and other Republicans have fought Democrats all year."

Not this time.

"Representative Jerold Nadler, D-New York, the committee's top Democrat, called the legislation 'necessary and long overdue.' One of Kiley's chief co-sponsors was Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, who's led the fight to defend the Biden administration against a variety of Republican allegations."

Supporters of the bill in the Senate include Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon and Dick Durbin of Illinois, along with Republican Mike Lee of Utah, a strange bunch of bedfellows if there ever was one.

Maybe there's hope for this 234-year-old experiment in government by the people after all.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

UC Merced grad student appointed as 2024-25 UC student regent

Enterprise staff

The University of California Board of Regents on July 19 appointed UC Merced graduate student Josiah Beharry to be the 2024-25 student Regent.

Beharry is the 50th student Regent, a position established in 1975. He will serve as the student Regent-designate for the coming year, able to participate in all deliberations, and will have voting privileges when his one-year term as a Regent begins in July 2024. Beharry’s appointment carries additional significance, as he is the first student from the

UC Merced campus to serve as student Regent.

Beharry is a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at UC Merced, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies with a minor in Writing, graduating magna cum laude.

Born in Trinidad, Beharry immigrated to the U.S. as a child and as a first-generation student, he brings a unique perspective to the role.

Drawing from his own experiences, he passionately supports students from underrepresented communities, acting as a

peer leader and mentor and fostering a sense of belonging. Beharry has contributed to his community in multiple ways. At the UC Merced Bright Student Success Center, he helped develop the Gateway Scholars program, designed to equip high school students in Merced with the necessary tools for college readiness.

His advocacy extends to organizations such as the Central Valley Pride Center, where he serves as an advocate. He is a fellow with UCLA Dream Summer and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance.

“I humbly embrace the

CalTrans warns of weekend Bay Area closures along Interstate 80

privilege bestowed upon me, as a first-generation DACA student, to illuminate the path for future generations by placing the student voice and experience at the heart of the Board of Regents’ discussions,” said Beharry.

“With unwavering dedication, I will champion the aspirations and concerns of students, seeking transformative solutions to nurture every individual within the UC community. This opportunity to give back to UC fills me with profound gratitude, and I eagerly anticipate embarking on the journey of empowerment and progress.”

Police, fire units to train at UC Davis’ Yosemite Hall

By andy Fell

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Monday. The same schedule will occur Friday, Aug. 4, to Monday, Aug. 7, and Friday, Aug. 18, to Monday, Aug. 21.

Meanwhile, Amtrak's Capitol Corridor is currently offering a 5 for $5 promotion, in which one full-fare ticket, can be

grouped with five additional riders for $5 each way. Caltrans released the following closure detour directions: From eastbound I-89 at SR-4 in Hercules, exit onto eastbound SR-4. Then, continue on eastbound SR-4 to northbound I-680. Then continue on northbound I-680 past Benicia and re-enter eastbound I-80 in Fairfield. Another detour option would be to take I-780; Cummings Skyway remains open.

Later this summer, tentative plans for westbound I-80 will be closed at I-780 for 104 hours Labor Day weekend, Thursday, Aug. 31-Tuesday, Sept. 5,

according to Caltrans. Traffic will detoured at the westbound I-80/I-780 interchange in Vallejo. Closures will tentatively start Thursday after 9 p.m. and conclude on the following Tuesday no later than 5 a.m. Westbound I-80 closure detour directions are as follows:

From westbound I-80 at I-780 in Vallejo, exit onto eastbound I-780. Then continue on eastbound I-780 past Benicia. Continue on southbound I-680 towards Concord. Exit onto westbound SR-4 towards Richmond/Hercules. Re-enter westbound I-80 from westbound SR-4 in Hercules.

Special to The Enterprise

UC Davis and other local fire and police departments will train for a mass-casualty incident at Yosemite residence hall on Tuesday, July 25 and Thursday and Friday, July 27 and 28. Training will take place between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Yosemite Hall is part of the Cuarto housing complex at the intersection of Russell Boulevard and Wake Forest Drive. Expect to see and hear police and fire vehicles and activity in the area. The exercises will take place within the housing complex and the exercise area will be clearly marked. No public streets will be closed or restricted. The residence hall will be

The goal of the exercise is for Yolo County emergency responders to practice decision-making, coordination and integration with other organizations during an active shooter event. The exercise will provide participants with an opportunity to assess capabilities, plans, policies and procedures.

Agencies taking part will be: UC Davis Police and Fire Departments; Yolo County Fire Protection District and Sheriff’s Department; West Sacramento, city of Davis and city of Woodland fire and police departments; Yolo county EMS and AMR (ambulance); and the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office for Victim Advocacy. — UC Davis News

Kayana Tyson/CourTesy phoTo Josiah Beharry of UC Merced will be the next UC student regent.

Nature’s hard-working engineers

By Kate toBie Special to the Enterprise

What did the beaver say to the tree? “It’s been nice gnawing you.”

Beavers are known for being the largest rodents in North America and the second-largest rodent around the world. Their habitats vary from streams, marshes, rivers, ponds and lakes. They can grow up to 4 feet and can weigh as much as 110 pounds. Beavers have a stocky build; a large, flat, scaly tail; webbed feet; and large incisor teeth. These physical features are very important as they are also known for building dams and lodges.

Beavers can construct dams across a stream up to 2 meters long and up to 15 meters wide to hold back the stream of water. Across the dam they build lodges in a dome-like shape; these can be up to 2 meters tall and 12 meters wide. These lodges have an underwater entrance and a living space above the waterline.

A lodge provides great insulation as the walls are one-third of a meter thick (check out the image above). In between the dam and lodge, a deepwater pond is formed that allows beavers a safe access to their food supply, away from predators. You can find beavers building and gathering food for winter in the summer and fall.

Because beavers can alter their habitat by building dams, they can control the biodiversity in the area, making them

ecosystem engineers. Ecosystem engineers create smaller habitats for other animals in the area and provide accessible food.

For example, insects can live on the lodges, increasing their population; in turn, they are the food source for salmon. Other animals like small rodents and birds can also live on or near the dams and lodges.

Ecosystem engineers are very important — without them biodiversity would decrease and limit the access to resources. Just like our busy beavers, this week’s campers at Extreme Engineering were challenged to work in teams to

solve a variety of challenges.

Explorit’s coming events:

n Explorit will be CLOSED to the public Aug. 19 to 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 2 p.m. 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

UCD: Volunteering late in life may help fight cognitive decline

Special to The Enterprise

SACRAMENTO —

Volunteering in late life is associated with better cognitive function — specifically, better executive function and episodic memory. Those are the findings of a new study from UC Davis Health presented July 20 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 in Amsterdam.

The study group had an average age of 74 and contained 48% Black, 20% white, 17% Asian and 14% Latino participants. A total of 1,167 (43%) of the participants reported volunteering in the past year.

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.

n Now booking school programs for the 2023-’24 school year. For more information, please visit https://www.explorit.org/ programs. To reserve call 530-756-0191.

Explorit Science Center is at 3141 Fifth St. For information, call 530-7560191 or visit http://www. explorit.org, or “like” the Facebook page at www. facebook.com/explorit.fb.

Bohart Museum puts focus on moths and flies

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Special to The Enterprise

Moths will grab the spotlight at the Bohart Museum of Entomology’s open house on Saturday, July 22, but besides Lepidopterists (those who study butterflies and moths), attendees can meet and greet dipterists (those who study flies) and see scores of insect specimens.

The open house, free and family friendly, takes place from 7 to 11 p.m. in Room 1124 of the Academic Surge Building, 455 Crocker Lane. This week is National Moth Week.

Some of the world’s renowned fly authorities will attend the open house. They are participating in the 10th International Dipterology Congress meeting, being held July 16-21 in Reno, Entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidopteran collection at the Bohart, and Bohart associate Greg Kareofelas, will show moth specimens and answer questions

Nazzy Pakpour, who researched mosquitoes, will be at the event to read her

new book, “Please Don’t Bite Me! Insects That Buzz, Bite and Sting,” | and will sign copies. The book is illustrated by Owen Davy.

“All proceeds of book sales will go to the Bohart Museum, thanks to Nazzy’s generosity,” said Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator.

Plans also call for setting up a blacklighting display so that visitors can see moths and other night-flying insects.

The event will be dedicated to the late Jerry Powell of UC Berkeley, an international authority on moths and the former director of the Essig Museum of Entomology. He died July 8 at age 90.

Free hot chocolate and cookies will be served, Yang said.

The museum, directed by UC Davis distinguished professor Lynn Kimsey, houses a global collection of eight million insects; an insect petting zoo, which includes Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and tarantulas; and a year-around insect-themed gift shop.

“We hope these new data encourage individuals of all ages and backgrounds to engage in local volunteering — not only to benefit their communities, but potentially their own cognitive and brain health,” said Donna McCullough, Alzheimer’s Association chief mission and field operations officer.

Volunteer activities — such as supporting educational, religious, health-related or other charitable organizations — allow older adults to be more physically active, increase social interaction and provide cognitive stimulation that may protect the brain. However, there has been a lack of information on the relationship between volunteering and cognitive function, especially in large, diverse populations.

Yi Lor, an epidemiology doctoral student at UC Davis, and Rachel Whitmer, the study's principal investigator, examined volunteering habits among an ethnic and racially diverse population of 2,476 older adults. The participants are in the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences Study (KHANDLE) and the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR).

The researchers found that volunteering was associated with better baseline scores on tests of executive function and verbal episodic memory. This was true even after adjusting for age, sex, education, income, practice effects and interview mode (phone versus in-person). Those who volunteered several times per week had the highest levels of executive function.

“Volunteering may be important for better cognition in late life and could serve as a simple intervention in all older adults to protect against risk for Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementias,” Lor said.

“Our next steps are to examine whether volunteering is protective against cognitive impairment, and how physical and mental health may impact this relationship.”

Volunteering was also associated with a trend toward less cognitive decline over the follow-up time of 1.2 years, but this association did not reach statistical significance.

“You’re not in control of your family history or age — you can’t turn back the clock. But you are in control of how you spend your day and life,” Whitmer said. “Volunteering is about keeping your brain active. It’s also about socializing, which keeps you engaged and happy.”

— UC Davis Health News

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CHARGES: Cassavecchia keeps council seat

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ARROYO: Money, shade options for park at issue

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Another public commenter came to the podium with a hat, stating shade is a “noble cause” and “prevents skin cancer,” but called on the council to “get it done at a reasonable price.”

To offset the project's total, the city acquired a $250,000 state grant from the Recreational Infrastructure Revenue Enhancement Program under Prop 68, a $4.1 billion voter-approved bond measure for park enhancement and water and flood measures.

“Even from the outset, it was estimated to be at least $400,000, and so just the question, because it did cross my mind: Why not trees?

Why not natural shading?”

Neville asked.

Jensen said a community survey resulted in about 66% of the respondents' support of a permanent shade structure outside the aquatics complex.

Neville said that though she doesn’t live near that park, she got that survey and was surprised it was focused on color preference for a shade structure rather than alternatives.

Before the vote, Councilwoman Gloria Partida (who first asked the item to be removed from the consent agenda) said she heard “loud and clear” the public’s concerns. “(It’s) been my belief as well that we take care of what we have before we add more things, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t do both of these.”

Councilman Bapu Vaitla mentioned they had received comments regarding accessibility on pavement for wheelchairs and weeds.

One accessibility improvement at the park will featured the addition of truncated dome pads for the parking lot. These pads provide a tactile alert of a transition from sidewalk to roadway.

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GARAGE SALE

Saturday, July 22 8am-2pm

142 Grande Ave & Neighbors

Lots of toys for kids and lots of other stuff too

initiated an unrelated traffic stop on Casavecchia at Neiman and Main streets and asked Casavecchia whether he possessed any firearms, the motion says. Casavecchia confirmed he did, producing three handguns from a case on his truck’s passenger seat.

“One of the handguns did not contain a serial number or any identifying information,” prosecutors wrote. “Based on the officer's training and experience, he opined the handgun was manufactured with several aftermarket parts, none of which contained a serial number.”

Officers went to Casavecchia’s home at about 4:30 p.m. that same day, seizing three AR-15 style rifles, two ammunition magazines

COMPETENCY: This portion of trial kicks off on Monday

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Case Number: CV2023-1347

To all interested persons: Petitioner: Eduardo Johnathan Lopez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing

and four ammunition rounds, the motion says. Police later determined two of the firearms were not registered to Casavecchia.

Court documents describe both of those weapons as “semiautomatic, centerfire rifle(s) that did not have a fixed magazine. Further, (they) had a pistol grip that protruded conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, a telescoping stock, a forward pistol grip and a flash suppressor. Both rifles meet the definition of an assault weapon.”

Casavecchia still retains his seat on the Winters City Council. Members of the public have called for his resignation at several City Council meetings.

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

a jury trial to determine whether Dominguez understands the nature of the court proceedings and can assist his attorney in preparing a defense.

The competency trial, slated to last seven days, begins Monday and will

continue on a week-on, week-off basis until jurors reach a verdict.

Dominguez remains in Yolo County Jail custody. While appearing in court last month, he interrupted the proceedings to say, "I want to apologize, and I want to say I'm guilty, and forgive me."

Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity in a 100-Year Floodplain

To: All Interested Agencies Groups and Individuals

This is to give notice that the City of Davis has conducted an evaluation of the Bretton Woods Senior Apartments Project (project) as req uire d b y Execu tive Ord e r 119 8 8 in acco rdance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55 20 Subpart C–Procedures for Making Determinations on Floodplain Management The proposed project would construct 150 units of aff o r d a b l e s e n i o r h o u s i n g a n d a c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r o n 3 7 1acres within a 5 64-acre vacant parcel located at 39660 West Covell Boulevard (Assessor s Parcel Number 036-060-035) in the City of Davis California The proposed project fulfills the affordability obligations of the 70-acre, 500+ home master development (West Davis Active Adult Community Project) and will support the City’s affordable housing requirements The project would construct two C-shaped four-story 75-unit buildings with a combination of studios 1- and 2-bedroom units The buildings would also include elevators, resident laundry, and bicycle parking amenities A centralized one-story community building located between the two residential buildings would provide offices for property management and resident s e r v i c e s a s w e l l a s m a i n t e n a n c e a n d m u l t i p u r p o s e a r e a s Proposed financing for the project includes HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds

The City has considered the following alternatives and mitigation measures to be taken to minimize adverse impacts and to restore and preserve natural and beneficial values: Alternative Sites, No Action, and the Preferred Alternative Alternative S i t e s o u t s i d e a f l o o d p l a i n w o u l d b e s m a l l e r a n d l o c a t e d i n East Davis which would fail to provide sufficient affordable senior housing and fail to meet the City s goal of connecting the City s senior population to existing services and facilities in West Davis Additionally an Alternative Site would require a rezone General Plan amendment and voter approval under “ M e a s u r e R T h e N o A c t i o n A l t e r n a t i v e w o u l d l e a v e t h e empty lot vacant or developed with market rate housing, both of which would fail to provide needed affordable senior housing and fail to connect the City’s senior population to services and facilities in West Davis The Preferred Alternative would construct 150 units of affordable senior housing and a community center on a vacant parcel adjacent to a hospital and residential uses fulfilling the affordability obligations of the 70acre 500+ home voter approved WDAAC master developm e n t a n d s u p p o r ti n g th e C i ty s a ffo r d a b l e h o u s i n g r e q u i r em e n ts

The activity will not have a significant impact on a floodplain or the human environment for the following reasons:

The site has been elevated 4-5 feet and a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) has been submitted to identify the WDAAC area as outside of the SFHA Although the LOMR has not yet been approved by FEMA approval is expected based on the Conditional LOMR Ba sed On Fill Co mme nt D ocume nt issue d o n March 23, 2020, and the LOMR Based On Fill Determination Document issued on June 23 2023

The master development is constructing a stormwater detention system to accommodate the increased stormwater flows that would originate on and off-site which would minimize the p r o j e c t s i m p a c t o n t h e f l o o d p l a i n e i t h e r a t t h e s i t e o r u ps t r e a m o r d o w n s t r e a m

The City has an adequate emergency system in place to give residents enough warning time to evacuate the project if there is danger of a major storm event and flooding The project will comply with all state and local floodplain protection procedures

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NOTICE OF

TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BEATRICE J SANCHEZ aka BEATRICE JUANITA SANCHEZ and BEATRICE SANCHEZ CASE NO PR2023-0148

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of: BEATRICE J SANCHEZ aka BEATRICE JUANITA SANCHEZ and BEATRICE SANCHEZ

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DENISE SANCHEZ-HUME in the Superior Court of California County of: Yolo

The Petition for Probate requests that: DENISE SANCHEZHUME be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: August 15, 2023 Time: 9:00 A M Dept : 11

Room: Located at 1000 Main Street Woodland CA 95695

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 issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as 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 the file kept by the court If you are a person interested in the estate you may file with the court a Request 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

The proposed project has been designed in accordance with the City of Davis General Plan (GP) and the Yolo Habitat Conservation Plan & Natural Community Conservation Plan (Yolo H C P/N C C P) Th e C i ty m u s t i m p l e m e n t s t a n d a r d C a l i f o r n i a Department of Fish and Wildlife and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Mitigation and Avoidance Measures to prevent mortality of individual plants, b eetles, reptiles, birds, and mammals that may be found in the project area during project activities

The proposed improvements would have no adverse effect on human health, public property, and endangered species

The City has reevaluated the alternatives to building in the floodplain and has determined that it has no practicable alterna t i v e E n v i r o n m e n t a l f i l e s t h a t d o c u m e n t c o m p l i a n c e w i t h steps 3 th rough 6 of Executive Order 11988 are available for public insp ectio n, re vie w, a nd co pying u p on req ue st a t th e times and location outlined in the last paragraph of this notice for receipt of comments

There are three primary purposes for this notice First people who may be affected by activities in floodplains and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool The dissemination of information and request for public comment about floodplains can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks and impacts associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas Third, as a matter of fairness when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in floodplains it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk

Written comments on this notice of activities in a floodplain must be received by City of Davis on or before August 7, 2023 at the following address: Department of Community Development and Sustainability 23 Russell Boulevard Suite 2 Davis California 95616 Attention: Eric Lee Senior Planner C o m m e n t s m a y a l s o b e s u b m i t t e d v i a e m a i l t o E r i c L e e a t elee@cityofdavis org A full description of the project may be requested via mail or email at the addresses above

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GRID: Cost, reliability worries will ned to be overcome

thousands of dollars to the cost of an electric car, and California’s utilities are still sorting out how to pay ratepayers for selling them the kilowatt hours.

The ability to use electric cars, trucks and buses to feed energy back into the grid would be especially helpful during peak times for energy use, such as heatwaves. But relying on vehicles as a year-round power source may not be practical — at least not yet.

“It’s a great idea conceptually…but we haven’t had the time to flesh out the details of what needs to happen for California to be able to power itself on electric vehicles,” said Orville Thomas, state policy director for CALSTART, a sustainable energy nonprofit.

“It should be on the menu of options that California has. Is it going to be the number one option? Definitely not.”

So far, its use has been limited in California. PG&E has a pilot program — the first in the nation — that lets up to 1,000 residential customers with bidirectional chargers sell power back to the utility. Some school districts also are experimenting with it.

Only about half a dozen electric car models currently are equipped with bidirectional capabilities, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Nissan Leaf and Ford F-150 Lightning. Tesla announced recently that all its models will have it by 2025.

Electric vehicles convert one type of energy, alternating current electricity, into another, direct current, which is stored in a battery. Bidirectional charging means that an electric vehicle can convert the energy it has stored in its battery and send it to other sources, such as home appliances or back to the grid.

Willett M. Kempton, a University of Delaware professor who has studied bidirectional charging for more than two decades, said the vast majority of the

time a vehicle is parked and not using electricity.

“Five percent of the time you’re using the car and you want to have enough energy — electricity or gasoline — to get to where you’re going and back. But most of the time, it’s just sitting there and some other use could be made of it,” he said.

Kempton said these vehicles, properly managed, could be sources of reserve energy, supplanting backup sources that burn fossil fuels.

Gregory Poilasne, cofounder and CEO of Nuvve Holding Corp., which sells electric fleet charging services, said a big challenge is that cars are unreliable energy assets. “At any time, somebody might come in and unplug the car,” he said. But he added, as the technology becomes more reliable and affordable, bidirectional cars and fleets should increase.

The cost: $3,700 per car

In Denmark, bidirectional charging earns electric vehicle fleet owners who sell power to the grid $3,000 per vehicle a year, Poilasne said, adding that this reduces the average total cost of electric car ownership by about 40%.

But citing the high cost, automakers oppose the Senate bill that would mandate the chargers for all new cars sold in California by 2030. It would increase the average cost of an electric car by $3,700, according to an opposition letter written by Curt Augustine of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents General Motors, Ford and other major auto companies.

About $3,000 of that cost would be adding battery capacity to meet warranty requirements, while other costs are for hardware and software.

“This technology is a competitive matter between vehicle manufacturers and should remain that way,” Augustine wrote.

“Not all customers will see an advantage of bidirectional charging, and therefore, should not have to pay more for a technology that they will not use.”

Thomas of CALSTART agreed, saying it should be optional.

“There might be a situation where there are people that want to do it and will pay a little extra for a car that is bidirectional, but there will also be people that just want to use a vehicle for driving,” he said.

“Do we raise the price of electric vehicles for everybody?”

But state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Oakland, who authored SB 233, said she wants to ensure that automakers don’t reserve the technology for only their higher-end models. She said since the relatively affordable Nissan Leaf has it, it can be widely available. Skinner said all consumers would benefit from the technology by selling energy to the grid or using the energy in emergencies. But she said another important reason is that it could end reliance on diesel generators during power emergencies like during wildfires.

“If you have an EV you don’t need that diesel generator,” Skinner said. “Why would we want to encourage diesel generators? They’re extremely polluting.”

Jeffrey Lu, an air pollution specialist with the California Energy Commission’s vehicle-grid

integration unit, said the state is working with owners to identify the best times to charge — called smart charging — to protect the grid. Bidirectional charging takes the concept a step further, he said.

The Energy Commission is not yet ready to say how reliant California will be on bidirectional charging to provide sufficient power and meet the state’s 2045 mandate for carbon-free electricity.

“We’re fairly early in this process. California is very committed to load flexibility broadly, but where that load flexibility specifically comes from, how many megawatts or gigawatts are coming from any particular kind of resource? We’re working on that,” he said.

California’s utilities are running pilot projects and studying how bidirectional charging might work and how electric car owners could be compensated for selling energy to the grid.

The California Public Utilities Commission has studied the issue for more than a decade, said spokesperson Terrie D. Prosper, including funding pilot projects and establishing

two working groups.

Last year many utilities signed a “Vehicle to Everything” memorandum of understanding with car manufacturers, state agencies, the federal government and others seeking to accelerate all aspects of bidirectional charging.

Southern California Edison, which serves about 5 million businesses and residences, wants to go beyond using bidirectional charging as just an emergency backup.

Chanel Parson, Edison’s director of electrification, said the utility is working on a rate program that would allow customers to sell their power back to the grid every day of the year.

“By selling it back to the grid when our rates are more expensive, then that actually helps reduce customers’ energy bills. And it could be so economically attractive that they’re actually making money,” she said.

PG&E, which serves 5.5 million electric customers in Northern California, said it is aggressively looking to build what it calls a robust vehicle-to-grid-integration. It has partnerships with BMW of North America, Ford Motor Company and General Motors exploring bidirectional charging.

The utility last year launched the nation’s first bidirectional charging pilot available to residential customers, offering up to 1,000 customers $2,500 for enrolling and up to an additional $2,175, depending on their participation.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power also is conducting a pilot project using a small fleet of its Nissan Leafs. The utility hopes the technology

will eventually provide power during peak load times.

“Five years is definitely within reach,” said José María Paz, the utility’s project manager for vehicleto-grid integration. “Technology is advancing quite fast.”

School buses are a test case

The electric school buses at the Cajon Valley Union School District in San Diego County are among a number of school district pilot projects in California. Experts see school buses as a good option for two-way charging because they have set routes and are often parked during peak load times between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Nationally, Nuvve has about 350 school buses connected to its platform. At the Cajon Valley district, seven electric buses sent 767 kilowatt hours of power back to the grid during the heat wave between Aug. 17 and Sept. 9, according to Nuvve.

Working with Nuvve, the buses power up when energy is less expensive, said Tysen Brodwolf, the district’s transportation director. Brodwolf said there are still several quirks, including the chargers not communicating properly with the grid or someone improperly plugging in a bus.

“But we’re getting there every day,” Brodwolf said. “We’re working through all those bumps and obviously, when you take on a pilot project, you have to take that into consideration that things aren’t necessarily going to go smoothly.”

California EnErgy Commission photo/CalmattErs

A bidirectional V2G charger at the Cajon Valley Union School District.

Help the kids connect with family’s pets

By Ev Elyn DalE Special to The Enterprise

Have kids and pets? Let the fun begin with some of these cool ideas.

n Read aloud to a pet. Children’s reading skills improve while pets enjoy quiet time with kids they love. Bonus: young readers gain self-confidence because pets don’t correct their mistakes.

n Dogs and kids can have fun and cool off with a kiddie pool filled with some water and a few rubber squeaky toys.

n Pup picnics. Invite a few friends with their friendly dogs. Make it special. Provide homemade healthy dog treats and plenty of toys for the pups to share.

n Camp out in the backyard with your dog and a tent. Campouts can be during the day or overnight. Treats for kids and dogs always welcome.

n Build a Cat Fort where kitty can feel safe in a confined space constructed with a few boxes, pillows and blankets.

n Make toys to play with a cat or dog. Kids gain confidence making toys and learn how to

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play with pets appropriately. Pets get attention and mental stimulation. Kids and pets develop a special bond.

n Teach a new trick. Yes, with treats they like, cats as well as dogs can learn tricks.

n Train a dog or cat to walk on leash. Make sure you’ve got a harness that fits properly before training in a secure space.

n Make summer treats. Combine some wet dog or cat food with water or salt-free broth. Freeze in ice cube trays and serve.

Remember to keep pets calm and cool during summer heat. Pets need plenty of fresh water to drink, cool shaded places to rest when indoors or outdoors and maybe a cool treat or two. Cooling pads help pets stay cool inside or outside. Rechargeable phase change cooling mats are especially “cool” because they cool pets by absorbing their body heat when they lie on the mat. These mats are recharged by either placing them in a dark cool room overnight, or in a

Pets of the week

Enterprise staff

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

Among them is Damion (A202797), a unique-looking kitten with a charming personality. Damion is 11 weeks old and can't wait to have a forever family to spoil him. Damion is playful and cuddly, according to a shelter volunteer.

Also hoping for a good home is Flip Flop (A189789), a darling 2-year-old Chihuahua, who has a twin brother named Crocs. They are both sweet lap dogs that love to play, then love to plop in your lap for cuddles. Both dogs are

charming and have bios on AdoptMeApp for more info.

For information on adopting, contact adopt ycas@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/yolovolu nteerapp. Follow on at @ ycas.shelter and Instagram at @yoloanimalshelter.

At Rotts of Friends

refrigerator (not freezer) for 15-30 minutes.

car even with the window cracked during warm weather. When it’s 80 degrees outside, your car will be 100 degrees in just 10 minutes!

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n How to Speak Dog by Understanding Canine Body Language https://outwardhound.com/furtropolis/petparenting/how-to-read-dogbody-language

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original “residence”) in Davis. Despite having never met dogs, he quickly integrated with our crew of 3 adult cats and 3 big dogs. He especially loves Gromit, our Staffordshire Terrier mix, who couldn’t be happier to have a new kitten in the house.

“Our newest addition is a powerful force, so we renamed him ‘Zeus’ and sometimes call him ‘Little Cat Z’ after the tiniest cat in Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Like Little Cat Z, Zeus seems to have ‘Voom’ under his hat.

cue sites. It wasn’t long before

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we spotted an adorable little grey kitten with tufted ears.

“Maybe it was fate. He was originally named ‘Davis’ because he’d been found in a culvert in our hometown. From there, he’d traveled to Santa Rosa to be fostered by a wonderful motherdaughter team through Dogwood Animal Rescue. We met him at his foster home, quickly fell in love, and brought him back to our home (and his

“Dogwood Animal Rescue and its volunteers are amazing. They were extremely responsive and helpful, and Zeus’ foster family did a wonderful job socializing a little kitten who had been abandoned early in life. Having a new, rambunctious, and funny kitten zooming around has helped ease the pain of losing two cats. We are looking forward to many more years together.”

— Evelyn Dale of Davis is a volunteer and advocate for shelter animal welfare. Contact her at pawsforthought.comments@ gmail.com This column appears monthly.

Animal Rescue, you’ll find Trix, a 9-week-old Anatolian shepherd cross puppy. She has three sisters and a brother also waiting for wonderful homes. Trix is a roly-poly, 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

Potter is 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.

The next Rotts of Friends adoption event is from 8 to

11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, 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 from Rotts of Friends are healthy, microchipped, up-to-date on their vaccines and come with free lifetime obedience-training classes. For information, visit facebook. com/rottsoffriends.

Adopted by Niki and Jeff Slaton, Zeus aka Little Cat Z, and his big canine pal Gromit enjoy snuggling on Jeff’s lap.

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Damion

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Potter

S.F. Mime Troupe brings topical new comedy to Davis

By Jeff HuDson Enterprise

correspondent

The much-admired San Francisco Mime Troupe — which likes to stage a midsummer “guerrilla theater” performance in Davis as part of their annual Northern California tour — returns with a new show on Thursday, Aug. 3.

This year’s early-evening performance will be presented indoors, in the Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St. in Davis.

Tickets are free, but should be reserved in advance online at sfmt. org/event-details/richardbrunelle-hall-davis-3. Preshow music starts at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m. A voluntary goodwill offering will be collected at the conclusion of the 80-minute show.

Founded way back in 1959 (in San Francisco’s now famous “Beatnik Era”), the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been staging feisty, ripped-fromthe-headlines satire (sometimes mocking one or two sacred cows) for a long, long time. The Troupe does not perform Marcel Marceau-style “silent mime” — instead, the company cleaves to what it regards as the “original definition” of the word: “The exaggeration of daily life in story and song.”

The SF Mime Troupe’s sheer persistence and longevity over multiple decades netted the company a special Tony award in 1987. (And there is a Davis connection — the UC Davis Library’s Special Collections department hosts a trove of historic papers sprawling more than 77.4 linear feet of shelf space, documenting the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s activities in the 1960s and 1970s, the heyday of the Counterculture movement.)

To carry out its ongoing artistic mission, the S.F. Mime Troupe annually creates an original musical

comedy that incorporates aspects of the revered tradition of Italian Commedia dell’Arte (entertainment for the common folk, dating back to the 1500s, usually spoofing the greedy rich, pretentious nobles and corrupt public officials), while simultaneously emulating selected conventions of cliff-hanger melodrama, mixed together with broad, raucous farce — all the while citing contemporary crises and social tensions prevalent in present-day Northern California. This summer’s Mime Troupe production is an

example. Titled “Breakdown,” the plot centers on a young woman named Yume (the Japanese word for dream). Yume is homeless, and meets occasionally with a good-hearted social worker, but soon finds that receiving public aid involves more bureaucratic paperwork than compassion.

Along the way, Yume encounters Marcia, a young Black woman who is a Fox News commentator, who’s come to San Francisco to do a piece on the city’s filthy streets and “failed progressive policies.” The developing story is accompanied a

lively original score, sung by the cast, and backed by a pit band, each skilled in more than one instrument.

For decades, the S.F. Mime Troupe’s annual summer show in Davis was performed outdoors. But in recent years, the scorching summer sun (heating up the concrete outdoor stage in Community Park), noxious smoke

from raging Northern California wildfires, and the three-year-long COVID pandemic interfered with that tradition.

Many Davis residents (to say nothing of the SF Mime Troupe’s traveling cast and crew) let out a sigh of relief when the Mime Troupe’s annual show in Davis moved indoors a few years ago.

‘Oppenheimer’: Bravura filmmaking

Complex, fact-based story is a fascinating slice of history

By Derrick Bang Enterprise film critic

This is, without question, one of the most ambitiously powerful films ever made.

Director/scripter Christopher Nolan’s attention to detail, and his flair for dramatic impact, are nothing short of awesome. Viewed on a giant IMAX screen, the result often is overwhelming.

This deep dive into the tortured life of J. Robert Oppenheimer also boasts a panoply of wellsculpted characters: many familiar by reputation (or notoriety), others just as fascinating. All are played by an astonishing wealth of top-flight acting talent.

Best of all, Nolan’s adaptation of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” — published in 2005, and written over a period of 25 years — has the political complexity and narrative fascination that we’ve come to expect from Aaron Sorkin and William Goldman. Jennifer Lame’s powpow-pow editing also is terrific.

All that said, Nolan does himself no favors with a needlessly outré prologue that blends ostentatiously surreal imagery — representing the anxiety-laden guilt and terror that later plagued Oppenheimer — with Ludwig Göransson’s shrieking loud synth score. It’s much too intentionally weird and off-putting.

R, for profanity, nudity and strong sexual content

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Tony Goldwyn, Tom Conti, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Matthew Modine, Gary Oldman

Available via: Movie theaters

Göransson’s score and the film’s equally thunderous sound effects remain distracting during the first half-hour, obscuring dialogue while we struggle to absorb the initial character and information dump.

Nolan eventually settles comfortably into a multifaceted storytelling structure that cuts back and forth between Oppenheimer’s post-World War II security clearance hearing, held in the spring of 1954; and the June 1959 Senate hearings over whether former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Lewis Strauss would be confirmed as President Eisenhower’s choice pick for U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

The former was a one-sided witch hunt deliberately kept out of the public eye, the latter a headline-generating circus very much in the public eye.

Oppenheimer, present throughout his 1954 hearing, reads a statement that opens the film’s third — and primary — narrative focus: his own life and career.

These sequences, as Oppenheimer’ history unfolds, are filmed in glorious 65mm color. (It remains true: Well-crafted film stock still is more satisfying — sharper, more vibrant — than digital.)

The Strauss Senate hearings — an event beyond Oppenheimer’s control, in which he plays almost no role, although his presence is felt throughout — is shot in grainier black-and-white. The result feels more sinister and mysterious; first impressions of the key players ultimately prove misleading, as Nolan craftily moves his film into its third act. But that comes much later.

As a young physics student hapless at math and lab work,

Oppenheimer nonetheless earns early degrees at Harvard (1925) and Germany’s University of Göttingen (1927). His life-changing moment comes during a chance encounter with Niels Bohr (Kenneth Branagh, simply sublime), who encourages the young scholar to pursue quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

By 1936, when Oppenheimer

— now played by Cillian Murphy

— becomes a full professor in the UC Berkeley physics department, he has blossomed into a prickly, excitable academic whose huge intellect is matched by impatience and arrogance. He’s adored by students and fellow scientists, who throng to his lectures.

But he’s also difficult to like, as

a person; this is key to Murphy’s performance. On the one hand, Oppenheimer is candid, almost to a fault; on the other, he dismisses any censure of his behavior, even when it comes from his beloved brother Frank (Dylan Arnold), also a scientist.

Murphy’s expressions and bearing are sincere when Oppenheimer insists that his actions always are proper, and he’s genuinely bewildered when challenged; how could anybody argue with one so intelligent? Murphy unerringly nails the man’s intensity and posture, along with the hat and pipe that become ubiquitous.

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From left, Jed Parsario (Demon) and Kina Kantor (Yume) perform in the The S.F. Mime Troupe’s production of “Breakdown.”

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From left, Kina Kantor (Yume), Alicia M. P. Nelson (Saidia) and Jed Parsario (Felix) star in the S.F. Mime Troupe’s production of “Breakdown.” Courtesy photo

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers veteran Leslie Groves (Matt Damon, left), tasked with running the Manhattan Project, is constantly vexed by the demands coming from J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy).

‘OPPENHEIMER’: Superb cast carries mesmerizing film

Given that he always knows best, Oppenheimer tut-tuts when Berkeley colleague Ernest Lawrence — played with gregarious generosity by Josh Hartnett — warns that involvement in social reforms, and raising funds for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, could be politically damaging.

Worse yet, Oppenheimer begins a torrid affair with Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), a Stanford-educated psychiatrist who writes for a Communist Party newspaper. Pugh makes this young woman sensuous and taunting; she’s one of few people who can get under Oppenheimer’s skin.

Her hold on him continues — he’s a moth to her flame — even after he marries Katherine “Kitty” Harrison (Emily Blunt), a fragile soul who nonetheless stands by Oppenheimer’s side during the rest of their lives. Blunt’s performance is raw, tortured and hard to watch. Her pinched and often

shattered gaze is heartbreaking, as Kitty succumbs to the demons of alcohol, and yet — this is important — she also is the rock on which her husband can lean during moments of crisis.

All of this is preamble — a fastpaced first act — to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to rumors that Nazi Germany is developing a “super bomb.” The result is the Manhattan Project, to be chaperoned by Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who has just overseen construction of the Pentagon.

To the surprise of many, Groves chooses Oppenheimer to lead what quickly becomes the project’s secret weapons laboratory. The latter’s mad, pie-in-the-sky scheme: to build a full-blown community in barren Los Alamos — the middle of nowhere, New Mexico — where scientists can work hard while living with their families.

This initial meeting is a highlight. Damon’s Groves

systematically catalogues Oppenheimer’s personality flaws and political liabilities, any one of which should make him unsuitable for this assignment, while Murphy delivers the scientist’s best mocking expression, knowing full well that he will get it.

Which Groves also realizes, to his dismay.

(Their second choice exchange comes when Oppenheimer admits that one member of his team has theorized that an atomic blast could ignite a chain reaction that would destroy all of Earth’s atmosphere … although the chances are “near zero.” “Near zero?” Groves replies, Damon’s expression aghast.)

Their prickly first encounter notwithstanding, the two become friends and allies, during what becomes the craziest, most accelerated research project in American history. Worse yet, Groves’ job has blossomed into herding cats: The dozens of newly arrived scientists may not be as intransigent as Oppenheimer, but they’re

all proud, willful and — in many cases — unwilling to play well with others.

By this point Oppenheimer also has met Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.), and their relationship becomes … wary. Both are stubborn, wildly ambitious and, in radically different ways, earnestly patriotic. Downey, his line deliveries electrifying, establishes Strauss as a crafty man who keeps close counsel: his eye on a distant prize, and willing to play a long game to get it.

Additional key individuals includes Edward Teller (Benny Safdie), Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgård), Isidor Rabi (David Krumholtz) and — in a delightful cameo — Tom Conti, as Albert Einstein. Rami Malek pops up briefly as an apparently innocuous advisor, whose presence later proves quite consequential during the third act; Gary Oldman also has a fleeting but crucial role toward the end.

Other supporting players are far too numerous to list, although

Jason Clarke is particularly malevolent, during Oppenheimer’s 1954 security clearance hearing, as AEC attack dog Roger Robb (shades of Joseph McCarthy!).

Although the overly loud score and sound effects continue to be intrusive, Nolan reserves silence for his film’s most dramatic scene, which makes it even more powerful.

I will confess, going in, that the notion that a scientist’s biopic could hold one’s attention for 180 minutes seemed unlikely … particularly when one recalls that Nolan’s previous film, 2020’s “Tenet,” is an incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess.

But he definitely pulls it off this time. “Oppenheimer” is by turns fascinating, mesmerizing, horrifying and even suspenseful: if not quite perfect, darn close.

— Read more of Derrick Bang’s film criticism at http://derrick bang.blogspot.com. Comment on this review at www.davisenter prise.com.

Woodland Shakespeare Club looks back on 2022-23 season

Special to The Enterprise

What a joy it was for Woodland Shakespeare Club to meet on-site again at the Woodland Methodist Church in the postCOVID program year 2022-2023. Following the theme “Living the Shakespeare Life or Greatness

Thrust Upon Him,” Women of the club tackled the question: “How does Shakespeare, after 500 years, continue to be so popular, his plays showing up in so many creative performances and venues?”

In October, WSC discussed James Shapiro’s book, “1599,” an in-depth look at a single year in Shakespeare’s development that proved monumental to his artistic and financial status as well as the course of literature.

November followed with discussion of another pivotal event that further solidified Shakespeare’s reputation and put

Stratford on the map.

“What Blest Genius?

The Jubilee that Made Shakespeare” is Andrew McConnell Scott’s account of the 1769 extravaganza that “was a unique cultural moment — a coronation elevating Shakespeare to the throne of genius … except it was a disaster.” Poor planning, not enough lodging and continuous rain worked to make what should have been a glorious salute to the Bard into a sopping wet, muddy circus. Still somehow it worked.

“Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare Classic Novels,” by Gareth Hinds, a graphic novel adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s more controversial plays was December’s book.

Discussion examined the power of illustration to interpret Shakespeare’s dramatic words and popularize his plays, and in January, WSC studied a new play, “Bernhardt/Hamlet”

by Theresa Rebeck, focusing on male and female roles as well as the dramatic impact of translation and poetry. This play tells the story of Sarah Bernhardt’s courageous quest to play one of Shakespeare’s most demanding male characters at a time

when women had very little power in society, much less the theater.

The rest of the program year highlighted actors who made Shakespeare famous, the controversy over who wrote the plays, and some of the plays’ most famous speeches.

Discussion in February of “Great Shakespeare Actors” by Stanley Wells focused on the life and work of 40 stage actors he believed best represented characters in Shakespeare’s plays. In March, “Mark Twain’s Is Shakespeare Dead?” ignited debate over various controversies about who exactly wrote the plays. And, to end the year, in April, several WSC members recited speeches from some of the Bard’s most famous works, based on selections from “Speaking Shakespeare” by Patsy Rodenburg.

Members were given a compact personalized WSC journal and each

month asked to respond to questions such as “When did you first encounter Shakespeare,” and “What is/are your favorite Shakespeare plays?”

The program for 202324, beginning in October, is “Seven Sisters: Stars Among Women.” The Program Committee noted it is “excited about delving into the lives of women who stepped out of ‘normal’ female roles and accomplished extraordinary feats.” Books for programs include “Love and Fury” by Samantha Silva (October), “The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (November), “The Bohemians” by Jasmin Darznik (December), “The Other Einstein” by Marie Benedict (January), “The Woman Behind the New Deal” by Kirstin Downey (February), “A Woman of No Importance” by Sonia Purnell (March) and “Just as I Am” by Cicely Tyson (April).

The joint venture of WSC and The Woodland Tree Foundation to host Poetry Under the Oak at City Park to celebrate Arbor Day in March was canceled due to rain on two consecutive Sundays. Hopefully, it will return next year with the community encouraged to participate by reading poems about trees, parks, nature ... and Shakespeare, of course.

Membership in WSC is limited to 50 members; prospective members are sponsored by active members who have been in the club at least five years. Two occasions during the seven-meeting program year include the January Tea and April Luncheon. These special meetings are open to guests invited by current members.

Women interested in learning more about WSC can email President Roberta Boegel at 746.43rab@gmail.com.

Odd Fellows present harp concert

Enterprise staff

The Davis Odd Fellows will partner with Robin's Nest Concerts for an amazing show on Sunday, July 3, at the Odd Fellows Hall. Organizers are calling this show "Harp Fest." The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at 415 Second St. and music will begin at 6:30.

Courtesy photo Catch Boca do Rio at the Winters Gazebo on July 27.

Boca do Rio plays Winters Gazebo next

Enterprise staff

The Winters Friends of the Library 2023 Summer Concerts at the Gazebo winds up with with Boca do Rio bringing their infectious Brazilian samba-funk.

After a decade of performing in San Francisco’s live music scene, Boca do Rio has evolved into a multi-layered BrazilianAmerican psychedelic electro-funk party. Their sound is steeped in the traditional rhythms of Brazilian sambas and choros with a decidedly modern and funky edge. Learn more at www.bocadorio.com

This is WFoL’s 25th year of hosting concerts, creating community and supporting the library! Invite your friends and neighbors, bring a blanket or lawn chairs or sit on the grass, sip a cool drink, and enjoy some fine live music on a summer evening. The concerts are free, but donations will be gratefully accepted. Winters Friends of the Library will have delicious refreshments and quality used books for sale, and all proceeds will support the Winters Community Library.

For more information, visit wfol.org.

Cool off with Opera House’s SpongeBob musical

Special to The Enterprise

Jennifer Goldman, D.D.S and Amy Thu Tran, D.D.S.

present “The SpongeBob Musical” at the Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St. in Woodland, Aug. 11 to 27.

Get ready to dive into the underwater world of Bikini

Bottom as “The SpongeBob Musical” comes to the Woodland Opera House this summer. Based on the beloved Nickelodeon animated series, this musical adaptation brings all your favorite characters to life in

a colorful and vibrant production that's perfect for the whole family.

Featuring a catchy original score by a team of renowned musicians, including David Bowie, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, and John Legend, “The SpongeBob Musical” follows the lovable pineapple-dweller, SpongeBob SquarePants and his best friend Patrick Star on a quest to save their hometown from destruction.

Performances are set for

Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seating is reserved, ticket prices are $20 for Adults, $18 Seniors (62plus), and $10 for Children under 17. Balcony pricing is Adults at $12 and Children at $7.

Purchase tickets online at www.WoodlandOpera House.Org and at the box office 530-666-9617. Located at 340 Second Street, box office hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.

The show was originally scheduled to happen in Robin Dewey's backyard, but due to extreme heat, she asked to move the show inside upstairs at the Hall

The concert features two exceptional harpists, Anna Maria Mendieta and Alaina Rose. They will be

performing a variety of styles, both solo and together.

A Global Music Award winner, Mendieta tours the world and specializes in the Argentine Tango. She is the winner of four Global Music Awards, three Clouzine International Music Awards, two Fox Music USA Latin Music Awards, and two LIT International Music Awards, among others. She is the principal harpist with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, and has performed with many symphony orchestras and chamber music groups in the United States and abroad, including the San Francisco

Symphony, San Francisco Opera & Ballet, Russian National Orchestra, and Russian State Ballet. Rose has performed with numerous orchestras and symphonies in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and the University of the Pacific. She is currently performing with the Mariachi De Uclatian band while attending the Herb Alpert School of Music in Los Angeles. She plays diverse genres of music, from Classical to surf, Flamenco to rock, and likes to explore and expand the potential of the harp.

The Odd Fellows’ bar will be open to sell wine, beer, sodas and water.

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Mark Twain, aka WSC member Barbara Graham, expounding on his suspicions that Shakespeare did not pen his famous works.

Dealing with the stresses of the bench

By Tim Fall Special to CalMatters

Judges have the third-most stressful job in the country. There’s a reason for that, and it’s got a lot to do with a relatively unknown aspect of the job: the secondary (or bystander) trauma trial court judges experience daily.

Therapists and physicians I’ve spoken to say this is one of the major hazards of the job. If you’re wondering why I have spoken to therapists and physicians about judges and stress, well it’s because I experience bystander trauma firsthand. I’ve also been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder that multiplies the stress of being a judge.

Consider how secondary trauma might come up for a first responder. Let’s say an EMT arrives at the scene of an accident where someone was injured, then taken to the hospital by ambulance. The person most traumatized by the accident is the injured person, of course, but the first responders experience a form of trauma as well.

Judges face secondary trauma in a related fashion. Imagine the cases that are set for hearing each day. The most traumatized people in the courtroom are the victims, survivors and bystanders who saw the situation unfold. A judge experiences trauma alongside them as they retell their experiences.

This takes place in every type of courtroom.

In a sexual assault trial, for example, the prosecutor’s examination of the victim doesn’t stop with merely asking if there was an assault, getting a ‘yes’ answer, and then changing to a new line of questioning. In one of my trials, the victim of rape, domestic violence, false imprisonment and torture was on the stand for three days.

Three days

Every single detail imaginable came out once, and then again and again, as direct and cross examination, then redirect and re-cross examination, requiring the victim to retell details again and again.

Wrongful death trials, family law custody hearings, probate cases between warring family members — they all require judges to hear awful things that people have lived through.

I’ve been on the bench since 1995. That’s a long time to absorb these secondary traumas, and my doctor has warned me there’s no way to reset this trauma-induced stress level back to zero. Secondary trauma builds and builds and builds.

Then there’s the anxiety disorder I mentioned. My brain chemistry does not work the way it should: serotonin does not flow from one cell to another as freely as it should; my cortisol level does not recede following stress-laden events as it should.

My anxiety disorder does not disqualify me from carrying out my responsibilities. I just need to take steps to avoid being overwhelmed by the stress: exercise, rest, eat well and pace myself on the job.

I also talk to my doctor about how I’m doing so she can keep tabs on my medical needs. That’s what an anxiety disorder is, after all. It’s a medical condition. Your brain is an organ just like your heart, and if it needs medical attention, you should seek it just as you would schedule an appointment with your cardiologist.

The stigma around mental health treatment is real, but treatment is vital to be able to engage in careers with huge responsibilities — just as it’s vital for the responsibilities everyone has, whether to your family, friends or community. The stigma that society places on mental health care should not keep people from thriving in their responsibilities.

Tim Fall is a judge serving on the Yolo County Superior Court bench. He is the author of “Running for Judge: Campaigning on the Trail of Despair, Deliverance, and Overwhelming Success.” He wrote this for CalMatters, a public interest journalism venture committed to explaining how California's Capitol works and why it matters.

Secession ideas go to new lows

The idea of splitting California into two states is nothing new. No place as large as California, with its almost 170,000 square miles and its largestin-the-nation population of 39.2 million — even after los ing 600,000 residents in the last few years — will ever be immune from people who believe smaller is better, as ex-Gov. Jerry Brown loudly proclaimed in the 1970s.

As early as the 1940s, some in California’s most northern reaches began seeking a divorce from the rest of the state. Their proposal has never earned a legislative or popular vote above the county level.

Since then, other splitting proposals suggested carving the state into seven parts, or three, or cut it in two along vertical north-south lines that would separate coastal counties from those a little bit inland.

But until recently, all such plans called for large new states – smaller than California, but nothing like Wyoming or Alaska, whose areas are large, but support populations of 700,000 or less.

Now, though, some folks in two counties that feel neglected want out. Last fall, voters in San Bernardino County – with the largest acreage of any American county – voted by a 50.6 percent majority to study separating from California to

form a one-county state. Half a year later, that study has yet to begin in earnest.

More recently, a separatist movement has arisen in El Dorado County, best known for containing part of the gorgeous Lake Tahoe. The El Dorado portion includes what many consider Lake Tahoe’s prettiest area, Emerald Bay, and its rocky Fannette Island, whose permanent population has never exceeded one. That was a sometime 19th Century English sea captain who built his own tomb and chapel on the peaked islet he considered a paradise.

El Dorado County’s population is somewhat larger than that at 193,000, but South Lake Tahoe remains its biggest city, with 21,350 residents. The county seat of Placerville has half as many folks, while other towns like Grizzly Flats, Pollock Pines and Camino are far smaller.

But that doesn’t matter to some residents, who now support statehood for their large, mostly mountainous and wooded county.

Responses to the responses

Gender and race are, as Dave Hart points out, "states of being," distinguishable also as "attributes." As such, John Clark is correct in his view regarding the need to prevent government from from adopting, endorsing or expressing support for particular issues or attributes in the public square, as distinguished from government adoption of duly considered legislation that may affect individuals and groups with such attributes. Governmental celebration of an attribute, on the other hand, is a needlessly provocative, wrong-headed, unlegislated, divisive and undemocratic exercise of governance.

Bob Comarow, in his rebuttal regarding cooking with propane, offers what may be valid options to its use. However, a problem with his assertions is that they are not presented with any credible research, studies or other references to substantiate his claims. The same is true for opinions expressed in the original,

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“We all know that our problem is representation,” complained one statehood supporter. “We don’t have a voice. We don’t have one representative in state or federal government that lives in El Dorado County.”

Her sentiment echoed feelings in many Northern California counties, some of whose people have tried for decades to create a new 21-county State of Jefferson, which would putatively include everything from the Oregon state line south to the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay areas. The state capital would be in Redding, largest city in the area and the Shasta County seat.

Statehood activists in those counties long sought to ally with rural Oregon counties to make a somewhat larger state. But rural Oregon now appears more bent on trying the “Greater Idaho” concept, seeking to move the Idaho state line west to take in virtually all of Oregon east of the Cascade mountain range. Because that, like Jefferson, would probably take a statewide “yes” vote, it’s highly unlikely, but still a fun fantasy for a lot of folks.

That’s also pretty much the situation in San Bernardino and El Dorado counties, which lack many resources needed to sustain a state.

Such realism, though, never dents enthusiasm for independence. That’s how it

offending commentary as well as many (most?) opinions that we are everywhere asked to accept as fact. If the devil is in the details, we should expect many more of them from any source seeking our attention and support.

Jon Sugarman Davis

The concept of time

What is time? Stop and think for a moment. How often do we use the word to refer to something? What time is it?

How much more time is left? Can you check the time? We use this word so much in everyday life, and yet do we really know what time actually is?

Some call time the fourth dimension.

Just like how the other three dimensions are intangible, time is as well. Keeping this in mind, how exactly would you define time? Is it a physical occurrence? Is it simply our way to measure something? Ultimately, as time has no physical tangibility, it is a concept. Now, concepts can be difficult to grasp sometimes. However, when you really think about

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is in El Dorado, where statehood supporter Sharon Durst, 84, believes the county could appeal directly to Congress to separate it from California, even though some western parts of the county are effectively rural bedroom suburbs of the state capital of Sacramento.

“We think we have grounds to stand on (with) the fact that El Dorado was actually a county before California was a state,” she wrote in an online essay. “It is impossible to believe that the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence would be of a mind to hold a people hostage of an oppressive state any more than an oppressive king.”

Much of that could also have been said by Jefferson advocates and those behind all the other 40-odd state splitting plans that have been proposed for California.

So chances are El Dorado and San Bernardino county enthusiasts won’t get any farther than their predecessors. But these days, few things are absolutely certain. Elias is author of the current book “The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government's Campaign to Squelch It,” now available in an updated third edition. His email address is tdelias@aol.com

it, a concept is something humankind invented. We try to put a name to things we don’t understand to have it make sense to our minds. In this sense, time is a concept, which is in turn, human-made. So really, the definition of time is an invention of the human race to mark the passage of various increments. We created this measurement in an attempt to comprehend something that, in actuality, is very difficult to understand. As you go about your day, think about how time affects us and what it really is. Try to figure out what time means to you.

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Members of the UC Davis women’s swimming team get ready to start a race during the spring season.

UCD swim and dive named a Scholar All-America squad

RICHMOND, Va. — For the second time this year, the UC Davis women’s swim and dive team has been honored as a Scholar All-America Team for its collective excellence in the classroom by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).

The CSCAA Scholar All-America Team is given out twice a year, once in the fall, and again in the spring.

WINNERS: High school football starts Monday

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football and men’s teams; and David Witte, Lodi News-Sentinel. Fun fact: Davidson was a sportswriter at The Enterprise from 1984 until 1988, then left for The Bee. He worked for Dunning, who was the sports editor at The Enterprise during Davidson’s tenure.

n The sports media in the Sacramento region, as well as others in California, could be counting down the days to Monday.

That is because practices for the high school football season begins.

In recent weeks and months, you’ve seen Davis High and UC Davis football stories in The

Enterprise online and print.

And in upcoming weeks and months, you’re going to be seeing more Blue Devil and Aggies football preview, game and feature stories, also online and print.

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

MEN: Soccer team allowed 30 goals this summer

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more than half of his club’s 14 goals.

FC Davis allowed 30 goals, more than any other team except the last-place Oakland Stompers. The Golden Lions surrendered 16 goals in their first six games, none of which ended in a win.

Even through adversity, Hall always believed his club could accomplish

great things.

“When we were bringing these players in and we got into preseason, I knew right from the beginning that this was a very special team,” Hall said. “And it was a matter of keeping them on the same page, keeping them bought in because wins are not a reflection of development.”

With the season over, many FC Davis players

will return to college for the fall season.

Next year’s NPSL campaign is expected to commence in April.

— Henry Krueger is a Gonzaga University student and working as a correspondent for The Enterprise this spring and summer. He was an intern at the newspaper in 2022. Follow him on Twitter: @henrykrveger.

CLOSE: More home games for River Cats in August

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Neither team scored for the remainder of the game, as Sacramento’s comeback attempt ended when pinch hitter Ford Proctor grounded into a double play to secure the win for the Rainiers.

Closer Matt Festa handled the ninth inning for Tacoma, earning his league-high 14th save. The win was credited to reliever Nolan Blackwood (4-4), who pitched two scoreless frames after replacing Milone.

Tacoma’s (46-47) victory gives it a 2-0 lead in the series, while

extending Sacramento’s losing streak to seven games.

Sacramento (41-51) hasn’t won at home since July 2.

Thursday’s game

Three-run innings for each team set the tone early, and while the River Cats and Rainiers went into the latter third in a tie game, Sacramento capped off a four-run eighth with a pinch-hit homer from Isan Diaz to snap a seven-game losing streak thanks to an 8-5 win.

The Rainiers and River Cats will face off three

more times before the series ends on Sunday.

Then the River Cats will close out the month with six consecutive road game, all at the Albuquerque Isotopes.

The River Cats’ next home stand will start on Tuesday, Aug. 1 against the Reno Aces.

— Henry Krueger is a Gonzaga University student and working as a correspondent for The Enterprise this spring and summer. He was an intern at the newspaper in 2022. Follow him on Twitter: @henry krveger.

The same name and my winners

My random thoughts as we enter this triple-digit weekend.

n Matt Long has been the sports editor at the Folsom Telegraph since 1999.

Matt Long is a senior wide receiver and outside linebacker for the Vista del Lago High football team this season.

Two totally different people who happen to be affiliated with each other. Long, the sports editor, mentioned he interviewed the Eagles’ football player and wrote a column on them having the same name.

n Earlier this month, Sacramento Magazine came out with the 2023 Best of Sacramento Finals, an annual poll for readers to vote on their favorite businesses and individuals.

There is a section of the poll where people can vote for their favorite members of

BaseBall

the media in online/print, TV and radio. That can be found on the magazine’s website.

Sadly, I’m not on the ballot. Maybe next year.

But there are many members of the media who have earned my votes.

Here are my picks. This includes a three-way tie for first place, plus second and third place picks.

River Cats close but Rainiers win

By HeNRy KRuegeR Enterprise correspondent

WEST SACRAMENTO

— The Sacramento River Cats came within striking distance after an early deficit, but the Tacoma Rainiers’ three-run sixth inning proved decisive as they secured a 6-4 victory in game two of their series at Sutter Health Park on

Wednesday afternoon.

Former big leaguers

Didi Gregorius and Pedro Severino were the leading forces behind Tacoma’s power display, scoring or driving in all of their team’s runs.

With two outs in the top of the first inning, Gregorious stepped up to the plate and launched the first pitch he saw over the center field wall for a solo home run. Three innings later, Severino blasted a two-run home run to extend Tacoma’s lead to 3-0.

Sacramento’s lineup came alive in the bottom of the fourth inning, which began with Marco Luciano picking up his first TripleA hit after beating out a slow ground ball to third base. Luciano moved to third base on a double from Isan Diaz, and he subsequently crossed the plate on a single to rightcenter field by Joey Bart.

Following Bart was Heliot Ramos, who hit a flyball to center field, resulting in Diaz scoring from third base. It was a

close play at home after Diaz initially missed the plate, but managed to dive across just in time before the tag attempt was made.

With one out and a runner in scoring position, Tacoma starter Tommy Milone notched a strikeout and induced a groundout to avoid any more damage. This frame marked the completion of Milone’s outing, which saw him strike out three batters and surrender two runs over four innings.

Milone was outlasted by River Cats starter Mason Black, who struck out six batters and allowed three runs in five innings. The 23-year-old right-hander was charged with his first Triple-A defeat.

Black’s replacement, Randy Rodriguez, gave up a two-run double to Severino in the top of the sixth inning as the Rainiers’ lead grew to 5-2. Tacoma tacked on another run in the frame after Severino scored on a sacrifice fly from Sam Haggerty.

The River Cats responded in the bottom of the eighth inning, which opened with back-to-back singles from Ricardo Genovés and Will Wilson. Next up was Tyler Fitzgerald, who drove in Genovés on a double to center field. Two at-bats later, Diaz plated Wilson on a ground ball to second base to cut his team’s deficit to 6-4.

n TV Morning News Anchor: Mike Cherry, KCRA-3.

n TV Evening News Anchor: Lisa Gonzales, KCRA-3.

n TV Late Night News Anchor: Ty Steele, KCRA-3.

n TV Reporter: Brittany Hope, KCRA3.

n TV Sportscaster: Three-way tie with Michelle Dapper, KCRA-3; Sara Hodges, CBS-13; and Kevin John, ABC-10.

n TV Weatherperson: Mark Finan, KCRA-3.

n Morning Drive Radio: The Dog and Joe Show, 93.7 The River.

Fun fact: Dog and yours truly worked for the same company that owned four radio stations in the same building in the Modesto area in the late 1990s. But I started after Dog left for a new radio gig.

n Radio Sportscaster: D-Lo & KC,

ESPN 1320 (AM).

n Traffic Reporter: Jordan Tolbert, ABC-10.

n Alternative Rock Radio Station: 98 Rock.

n Country Radio Station: KNCI 105.1.

n Oldies Radio Station: 96.9 The Eagle.

n Rock Radio Station: 93.7 The River.

n Soft Rock Radio Station: 92.5 The Breeze.

n Sports Radio Station: Tie between Sactown Sports 1140 AM and ESPN Sacramento 1320.

n Best Sportswriter: Joe Davidson, The Sacramento Bee. Tie for second place: Yours truly, Enterprise Staff Writer Bob Dunning who is also a columnist and covers UC Davis See WINNeRS, Page B5

FC Davis’ Benett Olsen-Zwick (10), seen here in a home game last month, recently finished the season that included earning a playoff berth in the club’s six years of existence.

FC Davis men made history this season

By HeNRy KRuegeR

Enterprise correspondent

FC Davis men’s soccer head coach Kris Hall remained positive when addressing his club following its seasonending 4-2 loss to El Farolito in the semifinals of the Golden Gate Conference Playoffs.

“The result of the game for me wasn’t important at that point,” Hall said of the match at Playfields Park on July 8. “I told the team I was super proud of them.” Hall’s message seemed like an appropriate way to cap off a historic postseason run, which saw the Golden Lions reach the semifinal round for the first time in their six-year existence.

“As disappointing as it was to not advance, it’s still a major step for the organization,” Hall said.

While an impressive feat, reaching the semifinals didn’t always seem possible. The Golden Lions posted a 1-7-2 record in the regular season, earning seventhplace in the conference standings.

With all eight teams qualifying for the playoffs, FC Davis was matched up against third-place San Ramon FC in the quarterfinals. The Golden Lions won 2-0 behind goals from Aaron Farnan and Soroush SalariNamin.

FC Davis nearly got past the semifinals after taking a 2-1 in the 73rd minute. However, undefeated El Farolito rallied back with three unanswered goals to secure the victory.

“We just tried to execute the plan and limit our mistakes, which we did for about 82 minutes,” Hall said about his team’s performance prior to when El Farolio tied the match 2-2. “We wanted it really bad, but things just didn’t end in our favor.”

The Golden Lions’ leading scorer was Wumi Aladetimi, who registered eight goals in 11 games, placing fourth in the West Region. Aladetimi accounted for

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FC Davis’ Wumi Aladetimi (right) races toward the soccer ball in a home game against the Las Vegas Legends last month. Aladetimi, had eight goals in 11 games this summer.

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