Financial statements for the two committees in the Measure A campaign filed paperwork with the Yolo County Elections Office by Thursday’s deadline. Measure A is the emergency parcel tax proposed by the Davis school district to provide financial support for existing academic programs. Its fate is being decided in a mail-only election that began on … Continue Reading
Big Screen Cinema presents a screening of “Bag It! Is Your Life Too Plastic?” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Blanchard Room of the Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. in Davis. The 78-minute film follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. … Continue Reading
Humphrey Fellow Ekram Ullah of Bangladesh will give a talk at noon Monday at International House, Davis, about land management on the coast of Bangladesh. This is a free talk open to the public and includes a potluck luncheon. I-House is at 10 College Park. Ullah will speak at noon, with the potluck and an … Continue Reading
Continuing a cooperative arrangement, the city of Davis Parks and Community Services Department and a local ranching family recently released a flock of sheep into the Mace Ranch Community Park habitat preserve. In a no-cost trade of services, the livestock get fed and the city controls unwanted weeds. As part of the management of the habitat area, … Continue Reading
Due to budget cuts, the West Sacramento Social Security Office is no longer able to send a Social Security representative to the Davis Senior Center to help with questions and issues related to Social Security, the city of Davis has announced. This includes cancellation of Wednesday’s scheduled Social Security drop-in date. The Davis Senior Center … Continue Reading
A note of warning: It is illegal, in our fair city, to have a “for sale” sign in a car unless it is a) moving or b) in your driveway. A $43 parking ticket awaits the miscreants who break this rule. Who knew? Who knows what other laws may be lying in wait for us? … Continue Reading
Details What: NAMI-Yolo Sunflower Art Competition and Show When: May 31-June 23 Where: Davis Art Center, 1919 F St. Reception: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 10 Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays Entry deadline: Friday, May 27 Info: (530) 756-8181; www.namisunflowers.org; friends@namiyolo.org Local residents … Continue Reading
The Sierra Club Yolano Group will host a spring potluck and presentation on the Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Conservation Area from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Norton Hall, 70 N. Cottonwood St. in Woodland. The Sierra Club is working with its partners at Tuleyome to spearhead a grassroots campaign to protect more than … Continue Reading
The health benefits of volunteering are not a new revelation. However, much is still unknown about the relationship between giving time and personal health. Certainly, the question “does volunteering make you healthier, or do healthier people volunteer?” has been repeatedly posed. As has its corollary question: “are there health benefits to volunteering that working for pay … Continue Reading
Tickets for Scott Heinig’s memorial service Tuesday evening at UC Davis’ Freeborn Hall will be distributed at the door, UC Davis officials announced today. The service will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets will be limited by the hall’s capacity, the university announced. Freeborn seats between 300 and 1,300 people, depending on configuration. Heinig, 22, a … Continue Reading
Editor’s note: Marion is taking the day off. This column first appeared in March 2002, but it has been slightly updated Attention parents of young children: I am about to share with you one of my most brilliant ideas about raising children. It’s a seasonal idea, so you need to pay attention today. Actually, this … Continue Reading
The good news is my carpets are the same color as cat barf. The bad news is my carpets are the same color as cat barf. Yes, wasn’t I the clever girl, picking out carpets the exact same color as cat barf so there’d be no more stains. Sadly, I wasn’t quite clever enough to … Continue Reading
Davis’ leaders and bugle callers’ obsession with the “Mardi Gras” atmosphere of Picnic Day reeks of petty provincial bourgeois hysteria. Such a reaction doesn’t auger well for Davis’ standing in terms of a place with a secure self-image and a focus on worthy concerns. Maybe it’s just that a sleepy town obsesses with events that … Continue Reading
The announcement that UC Davis Student Housing will shut down the Domes — a Davis landmark and local sanctuary — is rash and unwarranted. Had it not been for the Domes, I would not have gone to UCD for graduate school, or for that matter, met my wife. After receiving my B.S. from UC Berkeley, … Continue Reading
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