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Da Vinci High School’s environmental science students invite all members of the Davis community to a pair of water education nights intended to educate the community and raise awareness about the myths and realities of Davis water. The students will present information on watersheds, fresh water, water treatment, the Woodland-Davis water supply project, funding for the water supply […]
Davis resident Michelle McKim is scheduled to appear on television’s longest-running game show, “The Price is Right,” on Wednesday morning. The episode airs at 10 a.m. on Channel 13. Currently hosted by Drew Carey, “The Price is Right” has been on air in one form or another since 1956, with contestants guessing the price of merchandise. […]
Gabriel Bick, 12, competed in the Western States Chess Open Oct. 21-23 in Reno, and captured first place in the under 1800 rating section. Bick, an eighth-grader at the Davis Waldorf School, has been competing in chess tournaments for just over one year. This was his second consecutive tournament win. ———— Two Davis students have […]
Do you know a Jewish teen who is changing his or her local community or the world? Nominate that teen for a Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award, and her or she could be awarded $36,000. Now in its sixth year, the Tikkun Olam Awards — which means “repair the world” — are given annually to […]
It’s been nearly three decades since a racially motivated stabbing on the Davis High School campus left one student dead and a community in shock. The murder of Thong Hy Huynh, who was stabbed to death near the science quad at the high school on May 4, 1983, led to much soul-searching throughout the city. […]
For families struggling on the margins of society, facing unemployment, foreclosure, even homelessness, the holidays can seem like just another burden.
Because if there’s not enough money to pay the mortgage or rent or utility bill, much less to buy food or clothes, surely there’s nothing left over to fulfill a child’s holiday wishes.
For 13 years now, Elisa Stone has been doing her part to ensure that such children receive at least one gift during the holiday season, by organizing the Davis Community Church’s annual gift program, which has provided some 350 toys and gifts every year to local children.
As the driving force behind Da Vinci High School’s recent “zero waste week,” senior Andre Almeida found a way to ensure that all garbage produced on the campus that wasn’t being composted or recycled still served a purpose other than sitting in a landfill. Very soon, in fact, students will be sitting on that waste […]
Nearly 40 percent of all California fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders were overweight or obese in 2010, according to a report released this week by the Davis-based California Center for Public Health Advocacy and UCLA. The findings were based on results of the 2010 California Physical Fitness Test, given to 1.2 million public school children last year, […]
Teens with developmental disabilities are invited to participate in weekly bowling sessions and weekend outings around the community in the city’s Alternative Recreation program for teens. This program is similar to the adult program, but provides a bit more supervision and serves individuals ages 13 to 19. A monthly calendar of events can be found […]
Members of Da Vinci High School’s “Team Blend,” which traveled to Nicaragua over the summer to teach residents of a remote village how to build bicycle-powered blenders, will share their experiences with the public during a program at International House Davis, 10 College Park, on Thursday evening. The program runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. […]
One of the most popular local holiday traditions is surely the Children’s Secret Store at the Davis Art Center’s annual Holiday Sale. Here, children leave their parents at the door, enter the Secret Store armed with a list and money, and with the help of volunteers, find and purchase gifts for everyone on their list. […]
Davis is about to bid farewell to yet another bookstore. Sweet Briar Books, the 15-year-old used bookstore in the G Street Shopping Center, will shut its doors by the end of December, the result of a significant decline in business over the past year. Sweet Briar is the second Davis bookstore to close in recent months […]
Families at North Davis Elementary School held their 25th annual International Potluck dinner recently, recognizing and celebrating the many nationalities at their school.
Room 27 at Birch Lane Elementary School smelled an awful lot like a bakery one day last month. That’s because the room was filled with baked goods handmade by Birch Lane students for their second annual Ace of Bakes contest. Like last year’s inaugural version, the contest doubled as a fundraiser for Birch Lane’s Student […]
