Date Archive: 11-16-2012

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Site-clearing begins for UC Davis recital hall

The UC Davis music department celebrated the site-clearing for a long-awaited new 375-seat concert hall on Thursday, with an outdoor concert that celebrated the demolition of two old, outdated buildings to make way for the new venue.

Donors and longtime local music lovers Grace and Grant Noda and Barbara Jackson donned hard hats and led a demolition countdown, while drums rolled. The Nodas donated $1 million toward the project in 2008, and recently gave an additional $500,000. Jackson, for whom Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center is named, also made a “significant gift” toward the recital hall, in the words of Dean Jessie Ann Owens.

As the countdown ended, a lever was pushed down on a red box labeled “TNT,” triggering a 40-foot-high jet of colorful confetti, while a bass drum sounded thunderous beats. The festivities marked …

Rick Gonzales named Citizen of the Year

Rick Gonzales Jr., who has raised more than $250,000 for scholarships for Latino high school students in Yolo County, has been selected as the winner of the C.A. Covell Trophy, the Davis Citizen of the Year. “Our annual Concilio dinner in the fall” — which raises much of the money that funds the scholarships — […]

Prop. 30 OK doesn’t stop student protests

By Henry K. Lee and Nanette Asimov Public university students in the Bay Area staged protests Thursday against possible tuition hikes, saying the passage of Proposition 30 provided only a temporary reprieve from cuts to higher education. At UC Berkeley, about 200 students and faculty members braved a steady rain at noon on Sproul Plaza […]

Janet Boulware earns Brinley Award

Roberto Patino was 8 years old when Janet Boulware met him. A call had gone out at Pioneer Elementary School for volunteers to work with struggling readers, and Boulware, whose own two sons were enrolled at Pioneer at the time, had signed on to help. Roberto knew very little English and Boulware no Spanish, and […]

Water committee recommends untested rate structure to bill ratepayers

Going first. It just seems to be the Davis way. The Water Advisory Committee voted 8-2 Thursday to recommend a consumption-based, fixed-rate water structure to the City Council, a revolutionary way for public agencies to bill ratepayers to recover the fixed costs of its water utility system. It’s so revolutionary, in fact, that the structure, […]