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By Suleikha Sutter Special to the Enterprise We teenage girls are fortunate to be living in Davis, where we are encouraged to play soccer and many other sports. Unfortunately, that is not the case in many other areas of the world where women and girls live in highly patriarchal contexts that limit their participation in […]
For eight years, Holocaust survivor Bernard Marks has been inspiring students at Holmes Junior High School with his memories of surviving the Lodz Ghetto and the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dachau. During his annual visits, arranged by Holmes teacher Jeanne Reeve, Marks leaves eighth-graders spellbound by the stories of his childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland, […]
It all started as a gag gift from Ed Beoshanz to Sally Maness on her 90th birthday in January: a certificate to go skydiving. “I gave it to her as a joke,” Beoshanz said, “and told her, ‘You have to use it before you’re 100.’ ” Maness said she knew he meant it as a […]
It all started with a conversation between Michael Vernau and his soccer coach, Jammal Anibaba, last year about how kids at Anibaba’s former school in Nigeria played soccer without any of the accoutrements that Davis kids are used to: with a ball fashioned from bunched-up plastic bags tied with a string, barefoot on the pitch […]
Hundreds of Davis kids hit the streets and bike paths Wednesday morning for national Bike to School Day and several schools came out big winners in contests sponsored by the city of Davis Street Smarts program. For the third year in a row, Patwin Elementary School and Holmes Junior High School took home the award […]
Arbor Day was celebrated at Fairfield Elementary School late last month with a ceremony commemorating the Russell Boulevard Tree Project’s bike path tree plantings, as well as by Fairfield students, teachers and parents who planted more than 100 trees and shrubs. 0506tree planting1W 0506treeplanting2W
WOODLAND — Seniors at Pioneer High School got a real-life look at the consequences of driving under the influence Friday when Yolo Superior Court Judge Dave Rosenberg brought his entire department to the school’s theater for a misdemeanor DUI trial that ended with the defendant being led away in handcuffs. Jasbir Singh Brar, a former […]
When Yolo County supervisors voted in November to combine two elected offices — county assessor and clerk-recorder — they set up a classic election battle between representatives from each office. In one corner is Freddie Oakley, longtime clerk-recorder and registrar of voters, and in the other is David Schwenger, a senior real property appraiser, who […]
When the Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted to consolidate the office of clerk-recorder/registrar of voters with that of the county assessor’s office last fall, it did so largely for the purpose of efficiency — to save money and improve customer service. Both the assessor and county recorder deal primarily with real property — the […]
The March Davis Parent University program on youth sports featuring bestselling author John O’Sullivan is available for viewing online now. Watch the presentation, thanks to Davis Media Access, at http://dctv.davismedia.org/dpu-osullivan.
May is Bike Month, and that means the next 30 days are chock-full of special biking activities in Davis, from Cycle de Mayo to Loopalooza, Downtown Bike ArtAbout to the fifth annual Tour de Cluck.
Such is the month of May in a town that’s bike-crazy to begin with.
The fun kicks off this weekend with multiple activities from which to choose.
First off, if you’re in need of a ride, Saturday features a UC Davis Bicycle Auction in The Pavilion parking structure on Hutchison Drive, with viewing starting at 8 a.m. and the auction getting underway at 9 a.m. …
The city of Davis “Smart Cycling” classes scheduled for May have been canceled due to low enrollment. The four-week program for children in grades 3-6 was scheduled to start next week at Birch Lane and Montgomery elementary schools. For more information, call the city of Davis at 530-757-5626.
WOODLAND — One by one they approached the speaker’s podium in the Yolo County Board of Supervisors chambers on Tuesday to voice their support for saving the Yolo Crisis Nursery.
There were nursery volunteers and representatives of the Friends of the Yolo Crisis Nursery; interested community members as well as many foster parents who utilize the nursery for respite care.
But there was also a steady stream of Davis professionals testifying to the critical role the crisis nursery plays in preventing child abuse and neglect — abuse and neglect that often manifests itself in later years, when these toddlers and preschoolers have become teens.
The Davis robotics team made up of local high school students came one step closer to the ultimate prize over the weekend — making it to the finals of the FIRST Robotics world championships in St. Louis for the first time, before falling in the final match of the tournament. Last year, Citrus Circuits advanced […]
