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School board to hear about bond, restart By Edward Booth Enterprise staff writer
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Grazing sheep take care of the grass and weeds on the city of Davis’ South Fork Putah Creek Preserve back in 2012. Now UCD is putting different breeds through their paces to see who’s the champion trimmer.
Sheep take the field By Caleb Hampton
as part of “an academic experiment to see if sheep can eat weeds and grass, fertilize and control pests as well as or better than using conventional landscaping methods,” campus spokeswoman Karen NikosRose said Monday in a press release.
Enterprise staff writer UC Davis is set to begin a landscaping experiment this week. From Wednesday through Friday, 25 sheep will graze Solano Field near the Hyatt Place hotel on Old Davis Road. The sheep will be put to work
In addition to possible economic and ecological
advantages, the researchers will explore whether the presence of sheep on campus brings mental health benefits and if it “creates a sense of place and identity for the campus,” said A. Haven Kiers, an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Human Ecology, who is leading the project.
experiment are from the UC Davis Sheep Facility and are usually used for their wool. There are four breads — Suffolk, Hampshire, Southdown and Dorset — that will participate in the pilot project. The sheep, who sleep in the campus Sheep Barn, will be taken out to
The sheep involved in the
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Vaccine demand down as appointments slacken By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
has come.” Three of this week’s clinics will be administering the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine and one will have both the Pfizer vaccine and the Johnson and Johnson. The first clinic takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at La Superior Mercados, a grocery store at 34 W. Court St. in Woodland. The county will be administering the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at this clinic. A clinic held at La Superior last week offered both the Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson vaccines “and what we saw was a 2-to-1 preference (in a small sample size of 150 people) for the Pfizer vaccine over the Johnson and
Enterprise staff writer Yolo County has four public COVID-19 vaccine clinics scheduled for this week with no appointments necessary as the supply of vaccine locally now exceeds demand. At recent county-run clinics, “hundreds of appointments went unfilled and available doses went back into freezers instead of into arms,” Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson said Tuesday. “It has never been easier to get vaccinated against COVID19 in Yolo County. If you know someone who’s been waiting for the lines to die down before signing up for a vaccine, please let them know that their time
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Yolo County Supervisor Oscar Villegas of West Sacramento receives his second Pfizer dose at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic held at La Superior Mercados, a Woodland grocery store, last week. La Superior will host another clinic where the Johnson and Johnson vaccine will be administered from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.
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The Davis school board on Thursday will receive updates on the district’s facilities bond program and progress toward a return to campus. As part of the bond update, the board will consider naming the Da Vinci Charter Academy Tech Hub the “Pamela Mari Da Vinci Tech Hub.” Mari, who had a long career in the district, was the first principal of the school and took part in naming it, according to the agenda documents. “Since Ms. Mari was the person who originally facilitated the process of selecting the beloved name Leonardo Da Vinci for the school, it is befitting that the process comes full circle to honor her as the namesake for the forthcoming building, which will be transformational to the Da Vinci program that Ms. Mari started 17 years ago,” according to the agenda documents. District staff is also asking the board to appoint Amanda Cattivera and Andrew Cullen to the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee.
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