The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Dominguez, charged with fatally stabbing two men in Davis and wounding a third victim, appears at Yolo Superior Court on Monday in Woodland, where a jury will determine whether he is mentally competent to stand trial.

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UAW-affiliated grad students protest regents meeting

By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer

Hundreds of University of California graduate academic workers with United Auto Workers 2865 and 5810 rallied outside the UC regents’ meeting at UC San Francisco’s Rutter Center on Wednesday, July 19, to protest what they say is “UC’s ongoing failure to implement collective bargaining agreements and their heavy-handed retaliation against workers who speak up.”

Testimony begins in Dominguez trial

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

WOODLAND — Does Carlos Reales Dominguez suffer from severe mental illness, or is the Davis double-homicide defendant just gaming the legal system?

Attorneys offered the dueling theories Tuesday to a Yolo County jury charged with

deciding whether the former UC Davis student is competent to stand trial on murder and attempted-murder charges.

Dominguez, 21, stands accused of fatally stabbing Davis’ “Compassion Guy” David Breaux and UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, and critically wounding unhoused woman Kimberlee Guillory, in late April and early May.

At issue: whether Dominguez is able to understand the nature and purpose of the court proceedings, can assist his attorney in preparing his defense in a rational manner, and whether he understands his status in the criminal proceedings. If found incompetent, Dominguez would undergo treatment at a state mentalhealth facility until his

competence is restored. If deemed competent, his currently suspended criminal proceedings would resume.

"Carlos Dominguez is severely mentally ill," public defender Dan Hutchinson said in his opening statement, telling jurors they’ll hear testimony from the mental-health

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Carloads of UC Davis students participated in the day’s demonstrations, which included a speech by the head steward of UAW 2865, Emily Weintraut, a postdoc in food science at UC Davis, who delivered the message calling on UC to implement contracts signed last December. According to Weintraut, workers filed wage claims and have not gotten raises or the appointments they’re entitled to. “And it varies by worker. It varies by department. It varies by campus. It’s a big issue, and it's one of the many ways UC is not implementing our contracts right now,” she said.

Since this is related to UC-wide bargaining, UCD suggested communication with UC Office of the

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Community college transfers lag behind goals

By Adam Echelman and Erica Yee CalMatters

The community college system is falling short of one of its most important benchmarks: the number of students who transfer to a four-year college or university. It remains well below the system’s own goal, and lawmakers have taken notice.

“Although most students intend to transfer to a fouryear university, few do,” wrote a group of state legislators this year as they asked the state to audit community college performance.

Set in 2017, the goal was to increase the annual

number of community college students who transfer to the University of California and California State University from nearly 89,000 to more than 120,000 by 2022. In the 2020-21 academic year, the most recent data available, nearly 99,000 community college students transferred to a UC or Cal State.

The Community College Chancellor’s Office responded to questions regarding the transfer goal by forwarding a letter that former interim Chancellor Daisy Gonzales wrote to legislators in March as part of an internal negotiation regarding the audit. In it,

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Carlos Reales

Reporting from Ukraine

Vince Sturla, who lives in Davis, is a producer for the NBC News program Dateline. He went to Ukraine in fall 2022 to report on the country’s war with Russia, and talks about what he saw on the latest edition of the KDRT program “Davisville.”

“These are tough, tough, tough people,” he said. “It seemed like everyone you spoke to” had lost someone to the war.

“Davisville,” hosted by Bill Buchanan, appears on Davis station KDRT-LP, 95.7

FM on Mondays at 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays at noon, Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. The current program will be broadcast through Aug. 5, and is available anytime at https://kdrt.org/ davisville or on Apple podcasts.

Embroiderers host lecture

The Valley Oak Chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America will meet Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Unitarian Church library at 27074 Patwin Road.

August’s program, “Linen, from Seed to Cloth,” will held as an in-person/Zoom hybrid meeting. If you are interested and prefer to attend by Zoom, contact Linda Wayne at laws999@ gmail.com by July 28.

Hold on to that Peak Day feeling

Ihave probably spent a third of my life reading “exciting news” via email from the kind folks who provide gas and electricity and occasional heartburn to our humble East Davis starter home.

“Exciting,” of course, doesn’t always mean it’s good news.

Sometimes it’s a scold, as in our household has used “three times” more energy in the last week as our neighbors. Of course, that could be because we have three times as many people in our household as our neighbors.

Or it could be because our massive 72-year-old city mandated hackberry tree blocks so much of the sun that solar panels would be useless.

Seems to me the city should compensate us for mandating a tree that keeps us from living with the proven benefits of solar power, but I’ve yet to see it on the Davis City Council’s agenda.

And never mind that I don’t understand how having full sunlight beat down on our roof at all hours of the day can actually help cool things inside.

Oddly, I’ve lived with PG&E my entire life, having spent the early years of my childhood in Portland, which is serviced by — you

guessed it — PGE. (Portland Gas and Electric). I don’t think the two are siblings, but they might be cousins.

The last communiqué from PG&E world headquarters headlines a result we’ve all been waiting for: “Your Peak Day Event energy savings results for Friday, July 21.”

Silly me, I didn’t know about the Peak Day Event or I would have warned everyone that Big Power is watching and we’d better turn off every light switch, not watch TV and drink only tap water that has not been refrigerated or frozen.

But then, reading on, I came upon the shock of my life, at least as to how it pertains to our relationship with PG&E.

“Nice!” it said, using one more exclamation point than absolutely necessary.

“You moved up to the 57th spot

during the last Peak Day Event.”

Wait. Moved up from where? And who are the 56 people ahead of us? And how many are behind us?

I’m sorry, “We’re No. 57” may be fine for Heinz ketchup, but it is not exactly what we want to hear when we get up in the morning and face the day. It’s also not what we chant around the dinner table after we say Grace. In short, we aspire to be better than 57.

Go off to school, kids, and be sure to score at least a 57 on that math exam. That would be Nice!

“You ranked 57th in energy savings during the last Peak Day Event in your area,” PG&E goes on redundantly.

Just to rub it in and show us how far behind we actually are, PG&E notes that No. 1 on our side of the tracks came in at 0.392 kWh (kWh stands for kids With homework.)

No. 56 came in at 10.563 kWh, we were just a light bulb behind at 10.663 and No. 58 checked in at 10.758. A regular dogfight in the neighborhood. Doing the math manually so as not to use an energy-sapping calculator, it appears we used nearly 27 times as much energy on July

Thompson opens application window for service academies

Enterprise staff ST. HELENA — Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Tuesday the opening of the military academies’ nomination process for eligible students from California's Fourth Congressional District. This prestigious opportunity allows aspiring young leaders to pursue a worldclass education and embark on a path of service.

Congressman Thompson encourages all eligible students in the Fourth District to apply for nomination to the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

"I am excited to announce that my office is

21 as the grand prize winner, but I know something PG&E doesn’t.

The folks who live at No. 1 were at Tahoe all week. I know, because one of our daughters was feeding their cat. Next time she feeds their cat, we’ll be sure to have her turn on all the lights, put a turkey in the oven on broil and start a load of laundry.

“Your Peak Day Events performance this season” is followed by the extraordinarily disappointing revelation that “This Peak Day Event you used 1% more energy than the previous Peak Day.”

They don’t tell us where that ranked in the neighborhood, but I think they may be about to rescind that exclamation point after “Nice.”

“Talk to your household members about Peak Day Events. Come up with a system to let each other know when they’re happening, and agree on what you’ll all do to save electricity.”

Hey guys, it’s another Peak Day Event, so guess what? We’re going to the beach.

“Peak Day Event lengths can vary, which can have an impact on energy use.”

Now they tell us.

— Reach Bob Dunning at bdunning@davisenterprise.net.

Supervisors OK Chávez, Juneteenth holidays

Enterprise staff

THOMPSON Applications

now accepting applications for nominations to our esteemed military academies. These academies provide an unparalleled education while instilling values of honor, integrity, and dedication to serving our country,” said Thompson. “I encourage eligible students to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on our nation and embrace a path of leadership and service."

Interested applicants must meet specific eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship,

age restrictions, and medical qualifications. Additionally, candidates must demonstrate outstanding academic achievements, leadership abilities, and a strong commitment to serving the nation. Learn more here.

All applications, along with the required supporting documents, must be hand-delivered or postmarked by the first Monday in October. It is recommended that applicants begin the process early and gather all necessary materials to ensure a complete and timely submission.

For more information on the military academies nomination process or to obtain an application packet, interested students and families can contact Thompson's office at 707542-7182.

Police arrest two suspects for South Davis wheel-theft attempts

By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer

Police arrested a pair of Stockton men early Sunday morning after they allegedly tried stealing wheels and tires at two South Davis apartment complex.

Officers responded shortly after 3 a.m. to the New Harmony Apartments, 3030 Cowell Blvd., after a witness reported one of the crimes in progress, Davis police Lt. Dan Beckwith said.

“The witness reported that they had observed a subject removing tires from two sedans in the parking lot a short time earlier,” Beckwith said. “The subject fled in a vehicle driven by another subject when

they noticed the witness.”

While conducting extra patrols in search of the alleged thieves, an officer located a vehicle with its wheel removed at the Sorrento Apartments in the 1500 block of Valdora Street, according to Beckwith.

“The officer located the suspects in a car parked behind the vehicle, and they were found in possession of the wheel from the vehicle,” Beckwith said.

Both suspects, identified as Jayquan Anthony Tomlinson, 22, and 20-year-old Isaiah Angelus Alford, were booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges including conspiracy, attempted grand theft, theft of a motor vehicle part, possession of stolen property and possession of burglary tools.

New Davis Enterprise website goes live today

Enterprise staff

The Davis Enterprise will launch its newly designed website on Wednesday, July 26. The new website is designed to offer a more user-friendly experience with improved navigation features and functionality for visitors and subscribers.

After months of hard work, staff members worked with BLOX Digital to undergo a digital transformation to enhance The Enterprise’s online presence and bridge the experience between the print edition and a digital newsroom.

The new website was created with the user experience in mind and includes many new features to help

users quickly and easily navigate the site from finding categories and articles of interest, submitting news tips and announcements, to making updates to their subscription.

Additionally, users will create accounts that are linked to their print or digital subscriptions. Visitors will be given the opportunity to opt in to receive digital passes to view content or subscribe online.

The website will be accessible to the public at www.davisenterprise. com on Wednesday, July 26.

Questions, feedback or comments can be sent in an email to newsroom@ davisenterprise.net.

WOODLAND — The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the official designation of César Chávez Day (March 31) and Juneteenth (June 19) as county holidays.

“Yolo County has reaffirmed its commitment to inclusivity, appreciation of its workforce, and acknowledges the invaluable contributions of diverse communities to the cultural fabric of American society,” a news release said.

“Today's formal designation of César Chávez Day and Juneteenth as county holidays serves as a catalyst for cultural understanding, reflection, and education,” said board Chairman Oscar Villegas. “This milestone reflects our deep respect for the contributions made by individuals who fought for social justice and equality. By acknowledging these holidays, we foster unity and inclusivity within our community, recognizing the diverse tapestry that enriches Yolo County.”

César Chávez Day, celebrated in California since 1995, serves as a tribute to the remarkable accomplishments of Cesario Estrada Chávez, a Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist. “By formally designating César Chávez Day, Yolo County acknowledges Chavez’s tireless efforts in improving the lives and working conditions of Latino farm

workers across Yolo County and the nation,” the news release said. Juneteenth, a commemoration that has been observed by Black Americans since 1865, gained federal recognition as a holiday in 2021.

“By formally designating Juneteenth, Yolo County leads the nationwide recognition of this celebration of freedom, symbolizing the liberation of enslaved African Americans and honoring their enduring struggle for equality and justice,” according to the release “I am profoundly pleased with the leadership of our Board of Supervisors in formally designating these important holidays, which reflect Yolo County’s values of inclusivity, equity, and unity. By authorizing these two new paid holidays, the Board has shown a very strong commitment toward supporting our workforce and promoting the monumental historical significance represented by both holidays.” Said County Administrative Officer Gerardo Pinedo. “I am especially proud that this approval comes on the heels of the board’s recent approval and funding for the county’s first-ever manager of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Tico Zendejas. Both actions reaffirm Yolo County’s dedication and strong sense of pride in embracing the multicultural diversity of our great County.”

Boosting ethnic pride helps well-being

By Karen Nikos-Rose Special to The Enterprise

Encouraging Latinx adolescents of Mexican origin to embrace their ethnic pride, cultural values, and connections to their cultural community contributes to positive development and better adjustment during adolescence, a new University of California, Davis, psychology study suggests.

Moreover, researchers said, cultural preservation can help Latinx youth cope with adverse life experiences and social threats such as racism and discrimination.

The study results were published this month in Developmental Psychology, an American Psychological Association Journal.

“We found evidence suggesting that increasing ethnic pride and connection to cultural values may significantly improve psychological well-being for Mexican-origin adolescents,” said Lisa Johnson, lead author and doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain.

In this study, researchers collected questionnaires from nearly 700 Latinx adolescents when they were 14 and 16 years old and in ninth and 11th grades between 2011 and 2014. Participants completed a battery of self-report

measures capturing their ethnic pride and endorsement of traditional Mexican values as well as their sense of well-being across multiple social, emotional and academic domains.

Research on Mexican-origin families

The UC Davis study is part of a continuing assessment of multiple generations of Mexican-origin families living in the United States called the California Families Project. In this group of adolescents, 29% were born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. as first-generation residents, 62% had one parent born in the U.S., and 9% had both parents born in the U.S. Most of the families were two-parent households.

The study was designed as a conceptual replication of the Five Cs model of Positive Youth Development in psychology, which proposes that adolescent thriving is reflected by caring, character, competence, confidence and connection. They reflect prosocial tendencies, socioemotional skills, self-esteem and social connectedness.

One of the goals of this research was to test whether adolescents’ ethnic pride and connection to cultural values promoted adolescent thriving through the Five Cs. Indeed, findings revealed that teens who reported strong, positive connections to their ethnic/racial background at age 14

showed more evidence of psychological well-being at age 16. Findings were consistent for girls and boys and remained the same regardless of adolescents’ generational status.

The findings have significant practical implications, Johnson said.

“Families, teachers and community leaders have a crucial role in supporting Mexican-origin and other Latinx youth by modeling and fostering a healthy, positive and strong connection to their ethnic/racial community,”

Johnson said. “Empowering youth to recognize and draw strength from the cultural wealth of their ethnic/racial background is critical for their well-being, especially during mid-adolescence when they are forming their sense of self by exploring who they want to be, what they value and what their goals are.”

She said programs that engage youth and their cultural community during mid-adolescence can have a significant impact on adolescents’ psychological health and well-being. “These benefits may

Youth Commission announces $160K in grants

Special to The Enterprise

WOODLAND — The Yolo Youth Commission is inviting youth-serving organizations to apply for new grants designed to make a positive impact in the community by addressing the ongoing needs of youth and teens in Yolo County.

Managed by the commission, the $160,000 “Youth Empowered Through Action (YEA!)” grant program offers the opportunity for organizations to apply for four competitive grants in the amount of $40,000 each.

The YEA! grants are available to nonprofit organizations and public agencies, including school districts and county agen-

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cies. The grant program is funded by county cannabis tax revenue. Applications must be received by 5 p.m. on Aug.

7. The commission will review all submitted applications and invite select applicants to advance to a second application round. The grant application and additional materials can be accessed on the Yolo Youth Commission website at www.ycoe.org/youthcommission.

In May, the commission developed the grant process with input from youth collected during public workshops conducted in Davis and Woodland. From the workshops, the commission identified three priority areas for the

Wayne G. Walgenbach

May 14, 1947 — June 29, 2023

Wayne G. Walgenbach passed away peacefully on June 28, 2023, following a long illness. Wayne was born on May 14, 1947, and was a lifelong resident of Davis. He attended local schools and was a high school athlete and football star at Davis Senior High. He also played football for the UC Davis Aggies.

In 1966 Wayne was drafted into the U.S. Army and subsequently selected to attend Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.

Upon receiving his commission as a second lieutenant, Wayne was assigned to Fort Ord, California, as an infantry officer.

Wayne often spoke of his service at Fort Ord on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula as a very happy time.

After duty at Fort Ord, Wayne was sent to Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader with the 4th Infantry Division. He had considerable combat experience especially during the Tet Offensive and was cited for valor when he rescued several of his men under

heavy fire.

After his discharge from the Army, Wayne attended Sacramento State University. He joined the family business, Jake’s Plumbing, in Davis. After several years Wayne and his wife Susan opened their own business, Walgenbach Appraisal, which served several towns in the area.

Among his many activities, Wayne was an early member of the Winters Theatre Company. He began working backstage but soon became a major performer, acting in many lead roles for over ten years.

Wayne was also devoted to his family and their activities including serving as coach for a local women’s softball team for which his wife and several sisters-inlaw played.

Wayne was preceded in death by his wife of 35 years Susan McDermott Walgenbach. He is survived by his daughter Ashley Barnard of Tempe, Ariz., and his granddaughter Alexandria Barnard; daughter Nicole Rockwell and

grants, which include offering free recreational activities, providing additional after school programs with life skills for teens, and expanding civic engagement opportunities for younger youth.

The three priorities identified by the commission were also presented to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on June 27.

Organizations interested in applying for the YEA! grants are encouraged to attend an optional information session to learn more about the grant application process. Two information sessions will be held on July 26 at 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. A third and final session will be held on July 31 at 10 a.m.

All sessions will be held via Zoom and meeting details are located at www.ycoe. org/youthcommission.

The Yolo Youth Commission is a partnership between the Yolo County Office of Education (YCOE), Yolo County, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland.

In May 2022, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to establish the youth commission as a two-year pilot program and authorized YCOE to administer the program. In November 2022, 15 teenagers were selected to serve on the inaugural commission. The commission held its first meeting in January.

last throughout their lives.”

Co-authors of the study include Richard W. Robins, professor in the Department of Psychology; Amanda E. Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and Center for Mind and Brain; and Paul D. Hastings, professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain, all of UC Davis.

This study has support from the National Institutes of Health. — UC Davis News

Peregrine sets October multicultural festival

Special to The Enterprise Peregrine School is excited to announce that artist/vendor applications are now being accepted for the Multicultural Art & Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 14 (4 to 7 p.m).

In addition to several bands performing on Peregrine School’s brand new outdoor stage, the festival also features a wide variety of artists and artisan vendors. The festival is free and attracts Peregrine families and the general public.

The application is easy to complete and there is no application fee. If

accepted, fees for the 10-by-1o-foot space are $30 and $20 for Peregrine families. Vendors may apply online at www. peregrineschool.org or pick up the application during business hours at either of Peregrine School locations (Peregrine School West, 2907 Portage Bay West, Davis and Peregrine School South, 2650 Lillard Drive, Davis). For additional information, contact Peregrine School at info@peregrineschool.org, (530) 7535500 or visit Peregrine’s South Campus during normal business hours or operation.

grandchildren Dillon and Lila Rockwell of Davis; and siblings Germaine Hupe of Davis, Gary Walgenbach of Woodland, Judith Braden of Providence, R.I., and Susan Telford of Oconomowoc, Wis. The sixth of eight children, Wayne is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews and relatives by marriage.

He was loved by his family and friends and his loss is deeply felt. He will be remembered for his sense of humor, his kindness and generosity. He will be honored for a life well lived.

A memorial service celebrating Wayne’s life will be held on Saturday, July 29, at 11:30 a.m. at the Stonegate Country Club in Davis. A military service will be held at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 31.

The family requests that donations in Wayne’s memory be sent to the Yolo Care Hospice, 1909 Galileo Drive in Davis.

Stephen Francis Collins Jr.

Stephen Francis Collins Jr. was born in 1946, in Providence, R.I., and passed away on April 4, 2023, in Woodland.

He was predeceased by his wife, Janet, and his parents; and survived by two stepchildren, a daughter-in-law, a son-inlaw, five grandchildren, and three beloved nieces.

Steve spent his childhood in Taunton, Mass., and relocated to California in his teens, where he graduated from Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks in 1965. After a short stint at American River College,

he served in the U.S. Air Force during the war in Vietnam, rising to the rank of sergeant before completing his service in the Air Force Reserve. In the late 1970s, he moved to Davis, married Janet, and helped raise her two children.

An entrepreneur at heart, Steve was often self-employed, including running a dental laboratory in the 1970s and an awning business in the 1980s and 1990s. Over the years, he worked in a variety of construction management positions utilizing his design skills. He was a

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skilled craftsman who was generous with his talents, often helping friends and family with home improvement projects.

After retirement, he pursued artistic interests, including painting and photography, winning awards from the County Fair and the Pence Gallery.

Those close to him will remember him as creative, kind, open-minded, tolerant, deep-feeling, and always shadowed by a beloved dog sidekick.

Donations in Steve’s name can be made to the Wounded Warriors Project or the Yolo County SPCA.

A family with Mexican roots celebrates Cinco de Mayo.

1946—2023

TESTIMONY: Defense lays out its case

professionals who evaluated him and friends of Dominguez who will detail the progressive decline in his mental state.

Hutchinson said his client’s “most likely” diagnosis is schizophrenia, a condition marked by delusions, social withdrawal, catatonic behavior and a lack of appetite and attention to hygiene, all of which Dominguez began demonstrating just over two years ago, at the end of his freshman year.

He became increasingly reclusive, and would stare blankly into the distance for long periods of time, according to friends. To a few of them, he divulged hearing voices in his head.

But like others with schizophrenia, Dominguez denies suffering from mental illness, Hutchinson said. While on suicide watch at the Yolo County Jail, he’s refused treatment and claimed he's still in good standing at UCD, which expelled him for his failing grades two days before the stabbings began.

At the same time, “Mr. Dominguez was incapable of engaging in any rational conversation” with his defense team,” at one point refusing to meet them at all, Hutchinson said.

“The question is whether he is competent now, and the evidence you hear in this trial will clearly prove he is not,” Hutchinson told the jury.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, say their case portrays a different side of Carlos Dominguez.

“The evidence will show he’s actually toying with the system,” Deputy District Attorney Fritz van der

Hoek said in his opening remarks. “I’ll be asking you to evaluate ‘can’t’ versus ‘won’t'.”

He noted that Dominguez began his alleged crimes not long after receiving an email from UCD notifying him of his expulsion.

“He is making decisions based on what’s going on around him — that’s the evidence here,” van der Hoek said, adding that jurors will learn that “Mr. Dominguez is able to think and respond when he wants to.”

When interviewed by Dr. Juliana Rohrer, the courtappointed psychologist who found him incompetent to stand trial, Dominguez answered “Dr. Seuss” when asked who authored “Hamlet," according to her report. “He’s messing with her,” said van der Hoek, who also questioned whether Rohrer critically evaluated his answer, or used proper legal standards in determining his mental competence. She did, he added, opine that he could act as his own attorney, as he once requested in court.

“Listen to the evidence, and evaluate it critically,” van der Hoek said. “You will find that he’s competent, but he just doesn’t want to go along with the program.”

Testimony begins

As Dominguez sat motionless at the defense table, his face obscured by long, unkempt hair, his friends and former roommates took the witness stand for the remainder of the day.

They recalled Dominguez as being quiet and

reserved when he began his freshman year at UCD in the fall of 2020, but forged healthy relationships and engaged in activities like football and outings to the American River.

That changed the following year, however. Caley Gallardo, his girlfriend at the time, said Dominguez began to isolate himself and drop weight from his once-athletic frame.

At home, he’d insist they retreat to his bedroom, away from his roommates, Gallardo said. When they did venture out, Dominguez believed passersby were talking about him.

“I definitely knew his grades were going down,” leading to multiple meetings with UCD over academic disqualification, Gallardo said. His personal hygiene, once a point of pride, also deteriorated, as did his care for his pet cat.

One day his sophomore year, “he said the devil was talking to him in his dreams,” said Gallardo, who recalled that the statement “freaked me out.” But when she suggested Dominguez might have a mental illness, “he was not very receptive to that at all — he thought he was OK.”

The couple broke up in the spring of 2022 but still spent time together. She last saw him in December 2022, when he gave her a Christmas gift in a shoebox adorned with a “demonic drawing.”

About two months later, Gallardo received texts from Dominguez’s younger brother and sister, wondering whether they’d

PROTEST: Union aims to get UC’s attention

seen or heard from him.

“My initial thought was that he had harmed himself in some way,” Gallardo said, knowing of no other reason why he would lose touch with his close-knit siblings.

By the fall of 2022, Dominguez had moved into a Hawthorn Lane house with three other roommates. One of them, Marc Capito, testified he also noticed changes in Dominguez's appearance since his freshman year, including his weight loss, grown-out hair and stiff, rigid gait.

A couple of times, Dominguez told Capito he’d been hearing voices in his head, and the roommates noticed his frequent blank stares. He returned from winter break this past January “more reserved, more isolated than before," Capito said.

He recalled the three roommates held a house meeting to discuss “how to approach getting Carlos some help.” He said he broached the subject with Dominguez, but nothing ever happened.

He last saw Dominguez the day before his May 3 arrest. He appeared “emotionless,” said Capito, who observed he wore clothing similar to that of the suspect in the recent series of stabbings.

“At that point I didn’t address him,” Capito said.

The competency trial resumes Wednesday morning in Judge Samuel McAdam’s courtroom.

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

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Meanwhile, the UC Office of the President Associate Director of Media Relations Ryan King said that UC “continues to implement in good-faith the contract negotiated last year with our valued employees represented by the United Auto Workers.”

The following UC policy describes the service obligations of all employees of the University as well as leaves of absence: “No compensation shall be paid to any employee of the University unless actively engaged in the service of the University, in accordance with such regulations as the President may establish. No one in the service of the University shall devote to private purposes any portion of time due to the University, nor shall any outside employment interfere with the performance of

University duties. Arrangements for outside professional activities by any employee of the University shall be subject to such regulations as the Regents or President may establish.”

Weintraut said by May 1, she and some of her coworkers did not get their full raises. “All of our cases were handled differently, which just shows that there has been no proper implementation of our contracts.” Weintraut said she received her back pay within the next month, but others haven’t yet received all of their proper back pay.

The protest also was an act of solidarity for UC San Diego grad student workers who were arrested in their homes on felony charges for writing “Livable Wages Now” in chalk on a campus building in June.

— Contact Monica Stark at monica@ davisenterprise.net.

s h i e r ’ s Check drawn on a state or national bank or the equivalent thereof draw n on an y othe r fin anci al i ns tituti on spe cifi ed i n section 5102 of the California Financial Code, authorized to do business in the State of California ALL PAYABLE AT THE TIME OF SALE all right title and interest held by it as Trustee, in that real property situated in said County and State, desc r i b e d a s f o l l o w s : L o t 3 9 9 D a v i s M a n o r U n i t N o 9 f i l e d December 30 1958 Book 5 of Maps Pages 60 and 61 The street address or other common designation of the real property hereinabove described is purported to be: 1301 Pole Line Rd Davis CA 95618 The undersigned disclaims all liability for any incorrectness in said street address or other common designation   Said sale will be made with out warranty express or implied regarding title, possession, or other encumb r a n c e s t o s a t i s f y t h e u n p a i d o b l i g a t i o n s s e c u r e d b y s a i d D e e d o f T r u s t w i t h i n t e r e s t a n d o t h e r s u m s a s p r o v i d e d therein; plus advances, if any, thereunder and interest thereon; and plus fees charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust The total amount of said obligations at the ti me of initial publication of this Not i c e i s $ 5 6 6 7 7 0 3 9 I n t h e e v e n t t h a t t h e d e e d o f t r u s t d es c r i b e d i n t h i s N o t i c e o f T r u s t e e s S a l e i s s e c u r e d b y r e a l property containing from one to four single-family residences the following notices are provided pursuant to the provisions of Civil Code section 2924f: NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off before you can receive clear title to the property You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder s o f f i c e o r a t i t l e i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y e i t h e r o f w h i c h m a y charge you a fee for this information If you consult either of these resources you should be aware that the same lender m a y h o l d m o r e t h a n o n e m o r t g a g e o r d e e d o f t r u s t o n t h e property NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code The law requires that information about trustee’s sale postponements be m a d e a v a i l a b l e t o y o u a n d t o t h e p u b l i c , a s a c o u r t e s y t o those not present at the sale If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed and if applicable the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property you may call 916-939-0772 or visit this internet website www nationwidep o s t i n g c o m , u s i n g t h e f i l e n u m b e r a s s i g n e d t o t h i s c a s e

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TRANSFERS: Patterns persisted

she wrote that the goal “has not been fully achieved.”

She wrote that the UC and Cal State system rejected nearly 30,000 eligible community college applicants in fall 2020 — more than enough transfers to meet the community colleges system’s goal. She wrote there was “insufficient capacity” at the UC and Cal State campuses and asked the auditors to include equal scrutiny of those systems, since everyone is mutually responsible for coordinating successful transfers.

However, there are many ways to measure transfer.

To get a clearer picture, CalMatters looked beyond the chancellor’s office goal and analyzed the raw number of students who transferred every year, which includes but is not limited to those who transfer to a UC or Cal State. Those numbers are reported by four-year institutions across the country and analyzed by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. Undocumented students are not counted because they lack a Social Security number. It’s the methodology that most closely aligns with the state’s funding formula, which pegs the transfer numbers to the amount of money a college receives.

CalMatters then compared those numbers to the total number of students who, upon starting community college, said they eventually wanted to get an associate degree or transfer.

Of the students enrolled in a community college in California who said they wanted to transfer to a four-year university, an average of 9.9% went on to enroll at a four-year institution in 2021, the most recent data available.

There are many reasons why students never transfer. The state’s roughly 1.8 million community college students are predominantly low-income, firstgeneration students of color. Many students, especially older students, must juggle work, children, and for some, even homelessness while attending school.

But certain populations and colleges have a harder time with transfer than others. CalMatters found:

n Students at rural community colleges are less likely to transfer to a fouryear university than students who attend school in affluent parts of Ventura County, Orange County, the San Fernando Valley, and Bay Area suburbs like San Bruno, Pleasant Hill, and Redwood City.

n Colleges separated by only a few miles show stark contrasts in transfer rates. In 2021, the most recent year available, the transfer rate at Irvine Valley College was 16.7%, but just 10 miles away, at Santa Ana College, the rate was 5.4%.

n Younger community college students were most likely to transfer, and the rates drop off the older a student gets. In 2021, students over the age of 50 were more than four times less likely to transfer than their peers between ages 20 and 24.

Uneven hurdles

Lassen College has one of the lowest transfer rates in the state — 4.5% in 2021. It’s more than 10 percentage points below the highest performer, Irvine Valley College.

The reason is easy to see, said Roxanna Hayes, the vice president of student services at Lassen College in Susanville: The nearest four-year institution is over 80 miles away at the University of Nevada in Reno.

“It feels like we’re 2 hours from anything…when you come up to Susanville and you look around, there’s no other educational institution besides us.”

“We don’t have the sort of income that other counties have,” Hayes said. “It’s not just getting accepted to school: I’ve also got to live there and afford it.”

Among the community colleges with the lowest transfer rates, 60 percent are rural, and some are hours away from the nearest four-year institution.

Because of its proximity to numerous four-year institutions like UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton, students at Irvine Valley College come to school already familiar with their transfer options, and most students don’t have to move if they want to pursue a bachelor’s degree, said Loris Fagioli, the director of research at Irvine Valley College.

The rural-urban divide is part of the problem, but it can’t explain everything, said Darla Cooper, the executive director of the Research and Planning Group of the California Community Colleges, a separate nonprofit organization that is funded in part by the chancellor’s office. The income of the student body, the focus and “culture” of the school, and even the economics of the surrounding town or city impact the transfer rate at any community college.

In the 2014-15 academic year, Los Angeles community colleges had some of the lowest transfer rates in the state, but that’s because many of its students were coming to community college unprepared, said Maury Peal, the community college district’s associate vice chancellor for institutional effectiveness.

The colleges enrolled those students in remedial courses, which can take years to complete and can reduce the likelihood of graduation. Backed by research that shows remedial classes to be ineffective, a law passed in 2017 and another in 2022 asked colleges to start placing students directly in collegelevel courses. Pearl said these reforms, plus other efforts like special degrees that guarantee a transfer to a Cal State or UC, have led to an uptick in transfer rates across the L.A. colleges.

West Los Angeles College, for instance, had a 5.4% transfer rate in 2015, among the lowest in the state. But by 2021, it was up to 12.3%, well above the statewide average.

“The fact that it’s improved is something we’re proud of, but it’s still not where we want to get to,” said Jeff Archibald, vice president of academic affairs for West Los Angeles College.

Different paths

Unlike four-year institutions, which are often singularly focused on bachelor’s degrees for young adults, community colleges offer a range of educational opportunities depending on the demographics in the surrounding towns or cities, which can make it hard to compare one community college to another.

Located in Blythe, a rural town near the Arizona border, Palo Verde College has consistently had the lowest transfer rate of any community college. In 2021, just 1.1% of Palo Verde College students who indicated they wanted to transfer succeeded in doing so — but roughly half of the college’s students are in prison. Other rural colleges with low transfer rates, including Lassen College and Feather River College, also enroll a high percentage of incarcerated students relative to other schools.

Rural areas also come with different job opportunities, especially compared to the state’s highly educated coastal cities, Cooper said.

“Do the jobs where you’re

located require a bachelor’s degree?” she said. “Because if they don’t, you’re probably not going to have a lot of transfer.”

In dense urban areas like Los Angeles, students tend to take classes at multiple community colleges, creating a “swirl” in the data that can mask some long-term outcomes, Archibald said. But disparities still persist, even within the same city. Los Angeles Pierce College and Los Angeles Valley College, which are located in the San Fernando Valley, consistently outperform other Los Angeles community colleges.

Pearl said Pierce and Valley College have developed a reputation for preparing students for four-year colleges or universities. He pointed to other Los Angeles

community colleges, such as Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, which are geared towards career and technical training.

A 2008 Research and Planning Group report found that a “transfer-

oriented culture” was a recurring reason why certain community colleges had higher than expected transfer rates.

The report also said those colleges had close relationships with local

high schools and four-year institutions, along with support services for students.

Although the report was done 15 years ago, the transfer rate patterns have persisted.

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Airplanes and helicopters in the Aviation Technology building at West Los Angeles College Campus in Culver City on July 17.

Help with tomatoes showing black rot

Question: Today I have a simple question: why are my tomatoes getting black at the end of the fruit. The tomato is an Early Girl hybrid tomato.

Answer: Thank you for reaching out with your question. Your tomatoes have blossom end rot. This is not caused by a bacteria or other pathogen but rather is a physiological disorder that develops due to a calcium deficiency in the fruit. It is very unlikely that your soil is calcium deficient. The usual cause is inconsistent or inadequate watering which reduces the plant’s ability to take up calcium and transport it to the fruit. Because the problem is inadequate or inconsistent watering, adding calcium to the soil or as a foliar spray is almost never effective.

Calcium is necessary for cell growth and the construction of cell walls. When the supply is inadequate, the cells collapse leading to the end of the fruit forming a dark, sunken almost leathery appearance. Other vegetables that can be affected include peppers, especially thickwalled bells, eggplant and summer squash. Note that sunburn on tomatoes and peppers can also appear as a dry area but it will be light colored, not dark.

Some varieties of tomatoes are more susceptible than others.

Pear-shaped tomato varieties such as Roma are more likely to develop blossom end rot than your Early Girl. But as you can see, all full-sized tomatoes are a candidate if the conditions are right. Cherry tomatoes are almost never affected.

The beginning of blossom end rot generally occurs when the

developing fruit is only one third to one half size even though the symptoms will not show up until later. This is when the water and nutritional requirements of the fruit are highest. Tomatoes do best with deeper, less frequent waterings, as opposed to daily shallow waterings. Be sure to water in the early morning or later in the evening when the temperature has cooled.

This will give the soil time to absorb the water before it can evaporate. While there are probably as many opinions about how to water tomatoes as backyard tomato growers, a total of five to seven gallons of water per week per plant is a common recommendation, especially when the fruit is developing. You can probably reduce the water later in the season, especially If your beds are heavily mulched.

The good news is that fruit that develops later in the year is less likely to develop blossom end rot. Your Early Girl is a dependable producer and should give you plenty of ripe, sound fruit as the summer progresses. And, even the fruit affected by blossom end rot can be utilized by simply cutting off the affected end. The upper part of the tomatoes are wholesome.

We'll include a link to an article that covers blossom end rot in tomatoes. It was written by a farm advisor for commercial growers but the advice is applicable to home gardeners as well. Hopefully this answers your questions. If you have any others, please feel free to contact us again. Happy gardening!

https://ucanr.edu/sites/plac-

ernevadasmallfarms/ files/86509.pdf

Question: We have a hedge of nandina around 10 feet-plus long. I’m not sure how old it is. We have been in our house for 15 years and the hedge was old and not very well taken care of when we moved in. They seem to sucker all over. I would appreciate any advice to keep this plant under control, or just remove the entire hedge. Is it possible to remove the entire hedge?

Answer: Nandina (Nandina domestica) or heavenly bamboo is native to Japan, China and India. It is not considered invasive in California although can spread by seeds and, as in your case, new plants sprouting up from the rhizomes, which are underground stems. If you want to remove the plants entirely, you will need to dig them up, making sure you remove all pieces of the rhizomes because they can grow into new plants.

After you remove the plant, you may want to wait for some time to replant in the area, which will give you time to look for and remove any roots you missed initially.

If you keep the plants, you will want to regularly remove sprouts that pop up to keep them from spreading. Pulling up the rhizomes you expose at the same time should help to contain the plants as well.

On the positive side, nandina is drought tolerant, has few pest and disease problems, will grow in full sun or part shade and sports pretty bright green foliage that turns red in the fall and winter. In the spring it puts up a sprig of white flowers. The foliage is mildly toxic, possibly why deer leave it alone, and the berries that follow the flowers are also toxic. They can harm birds such as robins and cedar waxwings that will gorge on berries so it is always a good practice to cut off the flowers once they start

These tomatoes have blossom-end rot, a physiological disorder that develops due to a calcium deficiency in the fruit.

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to fade. If you do find some berries, dispose of them in the garbage.

If the positives seem attractive to you but you are tired of digging sprouts, you could consider replacing your existing hedge with one of the new cultivars that do not spread through rhizomes. Some of these include Wood’s Dwarf. Gulf Stream, Moon Bay, Plum Passion, Lemon Lime and Flirt. These have various heights at maturity and other characteristics so consult with a good nursery before making a selection.

If you have a gardening question, contact the Master Gardener Help Desk at 530-666-8737. Or send an email, with pictures attached if that would be helpful, to mgyolo@ucdavis.edu Stop by the Master Gardener desk at the Davis Farmer’s Market to ask a question in person.

Zero waste is the goal at FC Davis home games

By Rohan Baxi

Special to The Enterprise

Did you know that athletic events across the United States generate more than 40 million pounds of trash each year? Each attendee of a sporting event generates about 2.4 pounds of waste in a single day. Athletic events, if not organized with environmental sustainability in mind, can negatively affect the environment and worsen the climate crisis.

I am a high school student in Davis and the public address announcer for Football Club (FC) Davis, a semi-pro association football club founded in 2017 that plays in the National Premier Soccer League. I want to be a sports broadcaster who not only highlights sports statistics, athletes, and events – but also someone who makes a positive impact on our society and helps make our planet more sustainable.

With this goal in mind, I interned this season with FC Davis’ owner and founder, Adam Lewin, to develop strategies to help get FC Davis to Zero Waste home games. Zero Waste is a term used to describe practices to conserve resources through recycling, reuse, and composting with the goal of diverting at least 90% of waste from landfills and incinerators.

Five key strategies that are the most effective are fan engagement, placing and monitoring sorting receptacles, volunteer engagement, buy-in from vendors, and Zero Waste communication. The first strategy, fan engagement, is effective due to the magnitude of its potential impact. Thousands of people can be involved in sustainability efforts thereby changing the culture of athletics. Ways to encourage waste management include bringing the “greenest fan” down to the field, highlighting them on the scoreboard, or playing fanfare music when a fan is seen recycling.

The goal of the second strategy of appropriately placing and monitoring sorting receptacles is to make waste diversion easy at stadiums. Placing clearly marked and colorcoded waste disposal receptacles that are labeled compost, recycle, or landfill, and displaying posters with educational messages

in highly trafficked areas in stadiums help attendees sort waste appropriately. I learned from Jennifer Gilbert (City of Davis’ Conservation Coordinator) and Lindsay Rotteveel (Waste Zero Specialist at Recology, an FC Davis sponsor) that collaborating with other community groups with resources and exper-

tise is vital.

The third strategy of volunteer engagement is another effective way of getting to Zero Waste.

Examples include creating a “Green Team” – volunteers who wear green teeshirts on game day and walk through the venue to educate fans about waste diversion. They serve as

bin guards to help fans discard waste in the correct bins, organize waste before it is hauled away, and collect unused food from concession vendors to donate to local food banks and shelters.

The fourth strategy of gaining buy-in from vendors can be a win-win situation for event organizers and vendors. Vendors can switch to compostable plates and cutlery, utilize reusable cups instead of single-use plastics and donate leftover food to food banks instead of disposing it in the trash or composting pile. In return vendors’ environmental sustainability efforts can be recognized and highlighted in event materials and on game day.

Finally, the fifth strategy of Zero Waste communication is crucial to ensure that messages are concise and memorable and that sustainability efforts are continued even beyond game day. Utilizing sports broadcasters to communicate Zero Waste messages

is effective because they have an enthusiastic and engaged audience. This year I created game day announcements and social media posts that included the evidence behind Zero Waste goals. Next year we will use more digital media and signage in the stadium and around waste receptacles, so let us know if you have design skills that you would like to contribute. With even 10 home games each season that bring in 200-300 attendees and athletes each, FC Davis’ sustainability efforts can divert more than 5000 pounds of waste each season! Over the past few years, we have seen how the sports community has raised awareness and brought about social changes in areas such as racial justice and gender equity. Zero Waste efforts in athletics are a critical opportunity to use sports to reduce the negative environmental impacts of human activity and make our world more sustainable for future generations.

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FC Davis soccer player Lexi Zandonella looks to pass to a teammate during a game earlier this year.

Blue Devils begin practices for the 2023 season

By Henry Krueger Enterprise correspondent

The end of the Sac-Joaquin Section’s preseason dead period couldn’t come soon enough for the Davis High football team.

“Players have been writing to me all during the last three weeks just itching to get back,” said Davis head coach Nick Garratt.

The Blue Devils returned to action on Monday, wearing helmets for the first time this offseason. Players ran through drills, worked on conditioning and competed in 7-on-7 action at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium.

“The vibes are good,” said starting quarterback Sawyer Schoen. “I think everyone’s excited to be out here with helmets on, getting the gear on.” Davis High, which hadn’t been allowed to organize practices since July 2, utilized the workout as a way to shake off rust and get newcomers caught up to speed.

“I think our goal was to pick up where we left off and jumpstart the season,” Schoen said. “In ways we did that, but a couple of guys were rusty, a couple of guys didn’t know what was happening.”

While the resumption of practice marked a new phase in Davis High’s preseason preparation, it meant

something more to lineman AJ Hasson. The 3-star recruit, who stands at 6-foot-5, 280-pounds, was a full participant in the workout for the first time since undergoing toe surgery last spring.

“He brings a matter of stability and guys can lean on him,” Garratt said of Hasson. “Just what he’s doing out there, he sets the tone for how the game will be played.

Garratt was hired roughly one year ago with the task of turning around a program that had fallen far from the heights it reached when it finished the 2019 season with a 10-2 overall record, which included winning the Delta League title and hosting a first-round Division I playoff game.

The second-year head coach believes the driving force for change is veteran leadership, which he has observed during offseason practices and competitions.

“The veterans on this team were leaders last year,” Garratt said. “Those guys were put in an awkward position when they had to step up because last year’s seniors were not leaders, so they have that experience.”

The pressure to improve the program has grown more since the announcement in March that Davis

High, along with Jesuit and St. Francis, will leave the Delta League for the Sierra Foothill League, effective May 2024. This would be for all sports.

The SFL includes perennial powerhouses Folsom and Oak Ridge, which have won every single D-I Sac-Joaquin Section Championship since 2017. Folsom defeated Oak Ridge 23-13 in last year’s title game.

With the season fast approaching, the timeline is set for the remainder of Davis High’s offseason.

The Blue Devils, who start wearing pads today, will host their annual blue and white intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 5.

The team faces Vanden of Fairfield in a preseason exhibition, at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 12. The scrimmage is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.

Then Davis opens the regular season on the road against Vacaville on Friday, Aug. 18.

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

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SPOKANE, Wash. —

3 Aggies earn preseason All-Big Sky honors UC Davis earns high rankings in two polls

UC Davis football was represented by three student-athletes on the Big Sky Conference Preseason Team, the league office announced prior to the start of its Media Day at the Northern Quest Resort.

For the second season in a row, Jake Parks was named to the preseason team and is joined by sophomore Rex Connors and junior Zach Kennedy. Parks returns for his final season at UCD after missing the majority of the season after getting injured in the opener at Cal. Parks was named the team’s Phil Wells Award winner despite the injury, which recognizes the teammate of the year.

Prior to his injury in Week 1, the Huntington Beach native had started every game of his collegiate career for the Aggies, reaching 43 straight. In 2021, he was named a first-team all-Big Sky honoree and entered 2022 with preseason All-American distinction from mul-

tiple outlets.

Connors is coming off a breakout freshman campaign that earned him a finalist spot for the Jerry Rice Award. The Utah native earned two fresh-

man All-American honors and first-team all-Big Sky honors after leading the league with five interceptions and 0.50 per contest.

The defensive back paced the team with 92

total tackles and ranked second in the conference with 9.2 tackles per game. He set a single-game program record from at least

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SPOKANE, Wash. The Big Sky Conference Preseason Coaches’ and Media Polls have been released, and the Bobcats of Montana State have been tabbed the league favorites heading into the 2023 campaign.

The polls dropped Monday as part of the 2023 Big Sky Football Kickoff at the Northern Quest Resort & Casino.

The Bobcats, who received 26 first-place votes from the media and 10 from the league’s head coaches, claimed a share of the Big Sky title last season and return a ton of talent on both sides of the ball coming into the 2023 season.

A season ago the Bobcats went 12-2 and 8-0 in conference play. Their season stretched into the semifinals of the FCS Playoffs, where their season ultimately came to a close against South Dakota State.

There was quite a bit of variation between the two polls, setting up what will likely be a season of high-intensity competition.

The league’s head coaches selected UC Davis as the second-best team in the league, followed by Sacramento State, Weber State and Idaho rounding out the top-five respectively.

Sacramento State also finished last season 8-0 in league play, and 12-2 overall.

Weber State and Idaho both went 6-2 in Big Sky play, with UC Davis finishing 5-3 and Montana going 4-4 last year. In the Media Poll, the Idaho Vandals were tabbed the second-best team in the league, followed by Montana in third. Sacramento State and UCD rounded out the top-five according to the media.

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Members of the Davis High football team drink up plenty of water during a break at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Monday. To view more photos of the Blue Devils’ workouts, visit www.davisenterprise.com, click on the Sports tab and look for the story.

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Blue Devil placekicker Thomas Albeck boots the football in between the goal post during Monday’s practice at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium. Albeck is a senior on this year’s team.

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UC Davis football head coach Dan Hawkins, seen here walking the sidelines during his team’s home game against Cal Poly on Oct. 29, 2022, has three returning players earning All-Big Sky honors this year.

Immigration case may help regulate social media

By Karl ManheiM and Jeffry atiK Special to CalMatters

Proponents of social media regulation in California and elsewhere recently received important support from an unlikely place: a U.S. Supreme Court decision on immigration law.

United States v. Hansen involved the prosecution of a fraudster who tricked migrants into believing that he could arrange legal residency for them in the United States. The court rebuffed the assertion that applying an immigration statute criminalizing the encouragement of migrants to illegally enter or reside in the U.S. would unconstitutionally abridge freedom of speech.

By doing so, the court reaffirmed the longstanding view that speech encouraging the commission of a crime is not protected speech. This means the decision provides further authority for ongoing legislative efforts to regulate social media platforms, even as companies attempt to avoid accountability for harms they cause by invoking the First Amendment.

Courts and state legislatures across the country are currently reviewing the liability of social media giants such as Meta, YouTube and TikTok for the damage they have caused to children and other users. These efforts have focused on the use of artificial intelligence-driven recommendations that concentrate and target vulnerable groups with harmful content in the pursuit of profits.

One law proposed in New Jersey would prohibit social media platforms from using certain practices or features that cause children to become addicted to the platform, with penalties up to $250,000. A California bill would go further, prohibiting the use of any “design, algorithm, or feature” that causes a child to hurt themself or others, or become addicted to the platform. Congress is also considering taking action, for what it’s worth.

Social media companies have mounted a vigorous campaign to convince state legislatures, Congress and the courts that this type of regulation violates the Constitution. Undoubtedly much of what appears on social media is protected by the First Amendment. But the platforms advance a vision of the First Amendment that would provide them with almost absolute immunity.

They deserve no such treatment. As we have argued before, the outputs from AIdriven algorithms do not constitute protected speech and can be properly regulated. Certain algorithmic tools used by social media are benign and may often be socially beneficial such as AI-based moderation engines that identify and remove hateful and otherwise offensive content.

But the outputs of AI-based recommendation engines that select and push masses of targeted content can lead to addiction and other harmful effects. The urge to regulate this aspect is justified – and the First Amendment does not limit government’s protective powers.

There is no human speaker behind the output of an AI algorithm. Nor is there any intent to communicate (AI has no intent). A recommendation algorithm mostly reflects back personal data. Even if we worked backward through the algorithm to examine the platform’s intent, it’s not to communicate. Instead, platforms seek to maximize ad-generated revenue through “user engagement.”

The Hansen case is demonstrably different from the usual context of social media regulation. Yet the Supreme Court restated long-established First Amendment doctrine that counters the absolutist view asserted by the social media giants.

The use of human language does not constitute protected speech. The ruling upheld state control of speech that encourages or induces illegal acts – AI-driven recommendations can encourage or induce users to become addicted to content that cumulatively inflicts harm. If social media enjoys absolute First Amendment protection, as the platforms seemingly claim, the next step is for AI to have such rights as well. In that case, all bets are off.

— Karl Manheim is an emeritus professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He has taught artificial intelligence law since 2018. Jeffery Atik is a law professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He has taught artificial intelligence law since 2018.

Webster: A name lost to history

Look at a map of Yolo County east of Davis.

You’ll see two place names — Swingle and Webster — that might be unfamiliar. Swingle is where Road 105 and the UP Railroad tracks intersect. Webster is 2 miles east, where the Yolo Causeway rises and Road 32A and 32B meet.

I’ve long known that Swingle was named for the large landowner and rancher in that area, George Hutton Swingle. What remains a mystery is who Webster was and why a railroad siding — “used for parking a train to clear the main line so another train can pass” — located there had the name Webster.

GH Swingle was born in 1826 in Kentucky. He came to Sacramento from Missouri in 1853, hoping to find gold. After working a few years in the capital and two more in Dutch Flat, he bought 1,120 acres of Yolo County swampland and began his career and a grain farmer and livestock rancher. In 1868, the year Davisville was planned by the California Pacific Railroad, Mr. Swingle agreed to allow the track to pass through his property on which Swingle Station was built. The elevated track was a blessing. It greatly improved transportation to move wheat and cattle to market and helped local residents travel to Sacramento and the Bay Area. It also served as a partial levee to protect land owned by Swingle and his neighbors from flooding.

The Jan. 17, 1862 Sacramento Union tells the story of one such deluge that covered farms from Washington (today’s West Sacramento) to Yolo City (Woodland):

“The well known Tule House and Minnes' house are

both gone, with all their outbuildings. The water in that section is now about eight feet deep, and has been eleven feet. There is nothing to indicate the locality of the ranches about Putah sink but a windmill. Miles of fences have been carried away.

“G. H. Swingle lost about one hundred head of hogs, but the stock generally had been driven back to higher land. Mr. Swingle says that for about three days he witnessed houses, many of them fine one-and-a-half-story edifices, passing down the flood from the north. He should estimate the number about ten or twelve.”

Unfortunately, inundation was a regular problem for everyone in that region in the 19th century. No one tried harder to keep the floodwaters out than Ransom S. Carey, who was the largest landowner in eastern Yolo County in his time. fter the great flood of 1868, Carey led the effort to build a large system of levees, using a combination of his own money and government funds. Slowly but surely the network crumbled. In 1895, when the levees collapsed and his thousands of acres were underwater, Carey committed suicide on his front porch, shooting himself in the head.

George Swingle died of natural causes that same year. Five years prior, he retired and moved to

Alameda with his wife, and their son, George K. Swingle (1875-1955), took over the family ranch. Curious, I began searching for the origin of the name Webster Siding, sometimes referred to as Webster Station. No landholder in that area of Yolo County had that surname. I corresponded with the Yolo County Archives, the California State Railroad Museum and the California State Librarian. They tried, but ultimately could not find the answer.

The museum was able to give me a digital copy of the 1880 architectural blueprints for the Webster tracks. I believe the siding opened the following year. My theory at this point is that Webster was either an executive with the Southern Pacific Railroad — the company that acquired the Cal-P in 1876 — or the original manager of the siding that bears his name.

No males with the last name Webster were buried in Yolo County in the time I figure Mr. Webster died. But I did find 11 Webster men buried in Sacramento County from 1884-1943. My hope was, in reading each obituary, I would find one who had been employed by Southern Pacific. No luck.

I did discover that in 1903, the Stockton Street Railway hired a person called Frank Webster as its new general manager. In 1922, Frank was still running that business, then called the Stockton Electric Railway Company. But I could not find any ties between Frank Webster and Southern Pacific or Yolo County.

Another possibility is that

Webster Station was named for Daniel Webster (17821852) of Massachusetts, who had served in the US Senate and was Millard Fillmore’s Secretary of State. Yolo County had other places named for esteemed Americans with no direct ties to our region — Fremont, Washington and Madison. It was not until after 1911, when investors led by oilman Benjamin F. Conaway and his son-inlaw, Otis Birch — largely using government funds made available by a new reclamation act — built a greatly improved levee system east of Davis and Woodland and the state’s bypass network was constructed, that flood control worked. Swampland became world-class farmland.

Into the 20th century, floods were still wreaking havoc. This story comes from the Sacramento Daily Union, Jan. 20, 1896:

“Frank Burns, the wellknown hunter and fisherman, who came down the (Sacramento) river yesterday, states that a great volume of water is pouring through the old break in the Yolo levee, about sixteen miles north of here, in a perfect torrent.

“Above that point the stream was about four feet higher than on this side. This shows that the river is being largely diverted into the great Yolo tule basin, and the latter is rapidly filling up. The water is now up against the railroad embankment from Washington as far west as Webster Station, in the direction of Davisville.”

— Rich Rifkin is a Davis resident; his column is published every other week. Reach him at Lxartist@ yahoo.com.

Letters

Tom Elias, Old News?

Awaken, Tom Elias!

In your column of July 14, you persist in dismissing indices of Californians’ dissatisfaction with the quality of life in the state. Exactly one year ago, you criticized “declinists” returning to the California scene with doom-and-gloom about its prospects.

Reprising other of your columns, you claim that bad news about population trends in California is old, bogus and misleading.

Well, beyond opaque statistics, it’s time to wake up and appreciate developments

Speak out

President

that have, indeed and unfortunately, become old news.

Observe state institutions of higher learning as they confess to failed sexual harassment and discrimination complaints.

Notice continuing increases of intransigent homelessness, absurdly high business and personal taxes, oppressive levels of commercial and social regulation, unreliable power and water infrastructure, eccentric law enforcement, failing elementary and secondary schools, universities riddled with cancel culture, massive tech layoffs, redistributive fiscal and social policies, and a one-party political system producing moronic emanations from Sacramento seeping into every nook and cranny of daily life in California –sucking human and commercial poten-

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

U.S. Senate

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

Sen. Alex Padilla, 112 Hart Senate Office

tial out of a once-great state.

You might also take a peek at CalMatters’ recent validation of crime fears in the state as reported in the July 16 edition of The Enterprise.

Common sense necessitates a conclusion that California is in grave trouble, which its citizens and businesses increasingly refuse to suffer and support.

Rather than grumbling about the news, how about making some by suggesting focused, realistic, inclusive and truly bipartisan fixes to some of the state’s critical problems

With those, perhaps you’ll be able to accurately report tangible and quantifiable improvement in the California experience. U-turns ahead?

Jon Sugarman Davis

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

House of Representatives

Rep. Mike Thompson, 268 Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515; 202225-3311. District office: 622 Main Street, Suite 106, Woodland, CA 95695; 530-753-5301; email: https:// https:// mikethompsonforms.house.gov/contact/

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Tips to entertain in total style

Special to The Enterprise

It’s never too early to plan ahead, especially when you are expecting guests in your home. Your family and friends know and might love your style, but it can be important to spice things up now and again to impress your visitors. Factors such as lights, music and food can affect your guests experience in your home.

To remain stylish and keep your party going, consider these tips for fun and festive home entertaining.

Back to basics

Staying organized is key while entertaining guests in your home. Try to plan out every detail before the big event, which can allow things to go more smoothly on the big day.

As you think out your plan ahead of time, making lists can be a helpful way to stay organized and ensure you get everything done. List out your guests, what needs to be picked up from the store and possible decorations you might need to buy or craft yourself.

The possibilities can seem endless, but it’s important to have a plan in place before you start

putting things together.

Think about theme

There are numerous ways your style can be shown while entertaining. One way is to pick a theme or theme-related food dishes.

One way to show your theme is through decorations. Placing them throughout your home can give the party some life and help guests get into the overall theme of the party.

Light up the party

Transforming your home can be made simpler by changing the lighting. It’s typical for lights to be dimmed for parties to set a more relaxed mood.

Other ideas include using candles, lamps or even hanging lanterns if you are entertaining outside. Make sure it’s bright enough so everyone can see, but dimmed enough to set the mood for the evening’s events.

Set the mood with music

Pick music that matches your theme and inspires that same feel throughout

Gerry ImaGes Plan head to make sure to have the best time.

the house. If you’re going for a fun, energetic atmosphere, try something with a quick tempo, such as pop. If you’re wanting to relax, go for subtler, soothing tones. Try making your

playlist before you entertain and listen to it a few times through, that way you can know what to expect and how guests will react to your music selections.

Enjoy it

Through all the anxiety and stress of entertainment planning, make sure you take time to enjoy yourself during the time guests are in your home.

Some guests will notice if you’re not having a good time. Smile be present in the moment. — Family Features. Find more entertainment tips at eLivingToday.com, http://elivingtoday.com/.

Time to bring on the rosé-colored glasses

Last spring-summer-fall I drank maybe half a dozen bottles of rosé. After the first few, I just lost interest. They were fine, a couple much more than fine. But “ho hum” was my general reaction when I perused the rosé shelves of my usual wine sources.

This summer? I'm craving them. I can't explain either response, but I'm certainly enjoying my current rose-colored world.

I started out with a couple of beauties, which perhaps offers a partial explanation. I wrote about them several weeks ago — the Sol Real Vinho Verde Rosé ($15, The Pip) and the Stoller Rosé ($15, Co-op). Since then I've tried a dozen others, and even some of my least expensive picks seemed quite delicious, especially when wellchilled and paired with light summer dishes.

Of the many I bought at Nugget, there were some disappointments (including a rosé of zweigelt that I had great hopes for) but also a few standouts, all under $15.

First the Saint-Guilhem-leDésert Grenache Gris ($14). Saint-Guilhem is a co-op winery shared by many local growers in a narrow valley where one river meets the steep gorge of another. This bottle is 100% grenache gris from 25-year-old sustainably-farmed vines. It was fermented with native yeast and

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aged in a combination of cement and stainless-steel. It's fruity (think melon and lemon) but dry, fresh, and entirely foodfriendly. Way too easy to drink actually.

Too hot to cook? Pick up some of your favorite sushi and pair it with this refreshing bottle. Perfect.

Another: the Chateau de Campuget Rosé, a widely available blend of syrah and grenache noir, a bit less complex and structured than the Saint-Guilhem—and a bargain at $11. Also from the south of France, also fermented in stainless-steel, the grapes were grown in a soil of “gress”--pebbles deposited by floods of the Rhone. This one is more berry-tasting than the grenache gris but equally dry, fresh, and food-friendly. Try it with a fresh shallot quiche or a veggie burger and fingerling potato salad.

I did the same routine at the Co-op, buying up a six-pack of assorted rosés to see what I could find. The Tintero Rosata seemed an obvious choice,

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imported as it is by Kermit Lynch. This northern Italian winery has been around since 1900 when Pierre Tintero met a young widow named Rosina, who was working her family vineyards. They married and passed on the small estate to their children, and it remains in the family. Kermit Lynch also imports the Tintero white and red — all three excellent and reliable bargains at about $12, the least expensive wines in the KL portfolio.

The rosato is mostly barbera — light, fresh, and very slightly fizzy. It's perfect just to sip on the patio but also entirely foodfriendly. We drank it on a very hot summer night with a focaccia, a huge green-and-fruit salad, and sauteed shishito peppers, now available at Farmers Market.

When the temperature at dinner time is 105 degrees, I'm not too picky about the wine — something cold, crisp, and dry works just fine to accompany a tomato, avocado, and aioli sandwich.

Something like the Raza Vinho Verde Rosé. It's a blend of three native Portuguese grapes — arinto, azal, and trajadura. Both fruity and zesty, it has, like the Tintero, a very slight spritz and is a lovely shade of bright pink.

Sure, I would have preferred a bottle of Sol Real from The Pip, but for just $10 the Raza did

pretty well. Vinho Verde, by the way, generally offers good value and excellent low-alcohol (usually around 10%) wines. Try the Raza white, too. Even my least expensive bottle, the Chilean La Playa Rosé ($8.50, Co-op), was fun and refreshing on a hot night with a plate of cold Thai noodles and peanut-sauced tofu. But to celebrate those little breaks from 100+ (my current mantra: at least we're not in Phoenix), I'd pay a bit more for a snazzier bottle.

All the rosés I purchased, by the way, were 12.5% alcohol or under and were the 2022 vintage. If I'm buying an inexpensive rosé or if I'm just experimenting, I stick with the current crop — rosés are usually meant to be drunk young. But if knowledgeable staff at your wine sources urges you to try an older vintage, take their advice. Well-made rosés can age beautifully.

Since there are only so many rosés I can drink in a month, I asked Amy at The Pip and Ryan at Wines in Tandem — my go-to wine experts — for their rosé recommendations. Amy said her favorite rosés right now are both sparklers and both from South Africa — the Boscendal Brut Rosé ($22) and the Simonsig Brut Rosé ($25). “One is racy, crisp and focused, the other one is softer (still dry).”

I love bubbles and pizza, so if it's hot, order up a big one from Upper Crust or Mamma and pop a cork.

Ryan (who took time from a day-after-birth day to answer my question) is excited about the Onward Wines Rosé of Zinfandel ($24), made from Mendocino grapes, by Faith Armstrong. He says it's “loaded with ripe red berry fruit and a tangy acidity” and suggests drinking it with “strawberry, goat cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette salad” on a hot summer day.

His second recommendation I want to quote in its entirety: “For the special occasion, like having a baby girl, Champagne Colin Castile Rosé Premier Cru Brut ($55) was my preferred choice yesterday. It’s incredibly smooth thanks to being 90% Chardonnay with just 10% Pinot Noir.

Everything is in balance, including the aftertaste, and it even pairs with something unusual. The acidity, fruit and light toastiness paired with the tri-tip sandwich and BBQ sauce from the Buckhorn truck that was conveniently parked outside the hospital during lunch on the Thursday farmers market at Davis Sutter :-)”

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

or sleep?”

Answers: Mad, bifocals, to seed (as in seeding a lawn or seeding a watermelon), Centaurus, “Ode to a Nightingale.”

— Dr. Andy Jones is the former quizmaster at de Vere’s Irish Pub and author of the book “Pub Quizzes: Trivia for Smart People.” His pub quiz is now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Dr. Andy is also sharing his pub quizzes via Patreon. Find out more at www.yourquizmaster.com.

Special to The Enterprise

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2nd Annual FREAKSHOW!

Presented by the Menagerie Oddities & Curiosities Market

@ 11am / $10 We put the Freak in Show! Join our strange & unusual cast of artists, vendors, performers, exhibits and workshops during this one-of-akind event in the heart of Sacra‐mento. Library Galleria, 828 I Street, Sacramento. theme nageriealameda@gmail.com, 510365-6024

Seb Wildblood @ 1:30pm Monarch Gardens, 428 11th St, San Francisco

Clementine Darling @ 2pm Welcome Haight & Ashbury, 1500 Haight St, San Francisco

Unof�cial: Pardon The Interruption: Union Square In Bloom Summer Music Series 2023 @ 2:30pm Union Square, San Francisco

Crush MS Summer Celebration @ 4pm / $100 Wineries unite to crush multiple sclerosis Reid Family Vineyards, 1020 Borrette Lane, Napa. kirk wood75@gmail.com, 707-3633639

Blu & Exile, Brainorchestra, Teeko, Umamifunk @ 7:30pm / $25 Neck of the Woods, 406 Clement

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Sofar San

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Luke Null @ 8pm / $25.25

Punch Line Comedy ClubSacramento, 2100 Arden Way, Sacramento

Truth Cult

@ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

GEL @ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

SPY

@ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

X-Raided @ 8pm / $25 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Sam Burton @ 8pm Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

Lift San Francisco 2023

@ 9am / $129

Aug 3rd - Aug 4th Lift Events & Experiences, known for Canada’s number-one cannabis industry conferences and tradeshows, is expanding across the continent, welcoming individu‐als from across the full cannabis ecosystem. Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco. info @liftexpo.ca

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Illuminated @ 5pm

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"Liberace & Liza Open Their Golden Gates!" @ 8pm / $34-$39 Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐son Street, San Francisco

Silent Pictures

@ 8:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Cartoon Hearts @ 8:30pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

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

Cloudii @ 9pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

NUH @ 9pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

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Gallery that celebrates au‐thentic, soulful connec‐tions between people. The Contemporary Jewish Mu‐seum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco. 415-6557800

Mark Harris II

@ 7pm Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa

Bleeth

@ 8pm Kilowatt Bar, 3160 16th St, San Francisco

Hotel Ugly

@ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐farrell St, San Francisco

Gürschach: Bar Con: After Dark @ 8:30pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco

Drevo @ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

Orso @ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

TOKiMONSTA @ 10pm 1015 Folsom, 1015 Folsom Street, San Francisco

Gypsum @ 10pm The Hiberna Bank, 1 Jones Street, San Francisco

Heroes Cup @ 10am / $3.97-$23.18

Join us at Heroes Cup Soccer Tournament for Charity! Celebrate teamwork and support local edu‐cation at Dodd Stadium in Napa on August 5th. Be part of the differ‐ence! Justin-Siena High School, 4026 Maher Street, Napa. michael @theherofoundationus.org, 707225-7792

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Women's World Cup Village San Francisco (Golden Gate Park) @ 4pm / Free Street Soccer USA and SF Park & Rec are hosting free community screenings of the 2023 Women's World Cup in San Francisco! Come join for soccer activities, food, drinks, and watch the Round of 16! 14th Ave East Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. alex@ streetsoccerusa.org, 707-3323873 Sorry Papi Tour: The All Girl Party 18+ With ID @ 8pm / $12.50-$35 Ace of Spades, 1417 R St., Sacra‐mento The Soul Section @ 8pm Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main St, Napa

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Big West honors UCD women’s water polo player

Enterprise staff

After enjoying an incredible career for UC Davis women’s water polo, Sophia Noble was recognized for her outstanding achievements outside of the pool as she received the Big West Service and Leadership award, announced Tuesday by league officials.

This award is bestowed upon a studentathlete that participates in a Big West Conference sponsored sport and who engages consistently in service and leadership activities that impact the campus, community, or regional levels. The awardee makes the most of opportunities presented to them by taking on key roles and is innovative in seeking out meaningful service and leadership opportunities, while keeping their academic eligibility on their respective team.

Noble was selected as team captain for her final season as an Aggie and served as the President of the UC Davis StudentAthlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for two years.

Noble’s resilience and determination was put on display when she received the UC Davis Sarah Sumpter Perseverance award for the 2022-23 season, which is presented to an athlete who has overcome a significant obstacle to return to competition. The award is earned by those who have shown perseverance after a life-altering circumstance while providing hope and inspiration for others who face similar situations.

Noble earned the award for her outstanding comeback season as the Aggies’ goalkeeper when she reached a career milestone as she became the UCD alltime saves leader, finishing with 748 stops in her five years.

Noble racked up a career-best 254 saves and 24 steals in the 2023 season.

With an average of 8.8 saves-per-game, she registered double-digit saves in 12 contests, including a career-high 17 saves in the March 16 win over No. 19 Indiana. Noble was tabbed as an All-Big West honorable mention following her great season.

San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers announced Tuesday they have signed cornerback

Terrance Mitchell to a one-year deal and placed punter Mitch Wishnowsky on the Active/Non-Football Injury List.

Mitchell (5-foot-11, 191-pounds) was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round (254th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. Throughout his eight-year NFL career with the Cowboys, Chicago Bears (2015), Kansas City Chiefs (2016-17), Cleveland Browns (2018-20), Houston Texans (2021) and Tennessee Titans (2022), he has appeared in 94 games (56 starts) and registered 305 tackles, 1.0 sack, nine interceptions, 63 passes defensed, 10 forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.

Mitchell has also played in four postseason contests (three starts), tallying 14 tackles and one pass defensed.

In 2022, Mitchell appeared in 11 games (five starts) with the Titans and finished with 39 tackles, one interception, four passes defensed and one forced fumble.

A 31-year-old native of Sacramento, Mitchell attended the University of Oregon (2011-13).

Sacramento Kings

SACRAMENTO — Kings forward

Keegan Murray was named to the 2023 USA Men’s Select Team, USA Basketball announced Monday.

The Select Team will train daily with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team from Aug. 3-6 in Las Vegas, Nev., ahead of the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup.

A 2022-23 NBA All-Rookie First Team selection, Murray averaged 12.2 points (45.3 FG%, 41.1 3pt%), 4.6 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game in 80 games (78 starts) for Sacramento. He appeared in seven games (all starts) during the 2023 NBA Playoffs, averaging 9.7 points (44.8 FG%, 37.5 3pt%) and 6.3 rebounds per game.

In his debut season, Murray became the NBA’s All-Time Rookie 3-Point Leader with 206 3-pointers.

Among rookie league leaders, he finished the season sixth in scoring, eighth in field goal percentage, second in 3-point field goal percentage and tied for fourth in total steals (61).

For his performance during his rookie campaign, Murray earned back-to-back Rookie of the Month honors in December and January.

AGGIES: Season opener Aug. 31

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2007 with 17 total tackles at No. 2 South Dakota State en route to being named the FedEx Ground FCS Freshman of the Week.

Kennedy also enjoyed a stellar season that culminated with being named a HERO Sports Sophomore All-American, first-team all-Big Sky

and the team’s Bo Eason Award (Most Improved Defensive Player).

As a team, the Aggies were selected to finish second in the preseason coaches’ poll, receiving one first place vote. The media selected UCD to finish fifth in the conference.

UC Davis will open the 2023 season on the road at Texas A&M —

Commerce on Thursday, Aug. 31, in Commerce, Texas.

Football season tickets and mini-plans are now on sale.

For more information, contact the UC Davis Ticket Office at 530-7522471 or visit ucdavisaggies.com, click on Men’s Sports tab, then the Football tab and tickets.

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Sophia Noble throws the ball back into play for the UC Davis women’s water polo team during a home game in 2022.