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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022
DHS Community Club hosts a Fall Festival
Partida leads in latest round of campaign fundraising
By Aaron Geerts
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
The new face of service Enterprise staff writer
Enterprise staff writer
Although relatively new, the Davis High School Community Club is already making leaps and bounds in its mission to strengthen communal bonds through volunteer efforts. Next on its calendar of fun-filled events is the Fall Festival which is open to anyone and everyone — but mostly kids — looking to discover their passions. The DHSCC came to be around a year ago when founder and President Bailey Paquette and some friends came up with the idea to change the perception of volunteering. Rather than being something dreary that students only do because it looks good on a college application, this ambitious Blue Devil wants to shift the view of community service to something fun and positive that everybody can enjoy doing together. Through a collaboration with the Alliance for Education Solutions, this student-run organization achieved its non-profit status and hasn’t looked back. Paquette is the president, Grace
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The Davis High Community Club is looking to redefine the vibe around volunteering.
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Charges upheld in West Sac homicide By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — Joel Flores was at work one August day when his roofing colleague initiated a bizarre conversation. “He asked me if I lost reasoning when I got angry,” Flores said on the witness stand last week in Yolo Superior Court. Then, “he told me why he lost his reasoning.” At first, Flores' thoughts went to Alfonso Rigoberto Ornelas Vazquez’s girlfriend, Diana, and he asked whether Ornelas had hurt her. “He said it was not her. ‘I killed someone else, another woman,’ ” Ornelas replied, according to
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Davis City Councilwoman Gloria Partida led the field of council candidates in fundraising during the latest reporting period, taking in $7,509 between Sept. 25 and Oct. 22. Her opponent in District 4, Adam Morrill, reported $2,045 in contributions during that four-week period, while over in District 1, Bapu Vaitla reported $5,985 in contributions and incumbent Councilman Dan Carson reported $4,130, according to the city clerk’s website, which on Friday did not include a campaign finance statement for that period for Kelsey Fortune, who is also running in District 1. The reporting deadline was Thursday. Partida received 68 contributions of up to $150 each (the maximum allowed) during the four-week period ending Oct. 22, bringing her total raised during the campaign to $17,349. Recent contributors included a number of current or past elected officials such as Yolo County Supervisors Angel Barajas and Oscar Villegas; Davis City Councilman Josh Chapman; Vice Mayor Will Arnold; Helen Thomson, a former county supervisor and state Assembly member; Richard
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Flores. “He said she was homeless. … I asked him, why did you do it, and he said he was wanting to kill someone because he was angry.” Authorities say it was 44-year-old Christine Hushbeck Davenport who fell victim to Ornelas’ rage. A passerby found her battered body on the morning of Aug. 12 near a tent along Sacramento Avenue near Reuter Drive in West Sacramento. She died of multiple blunt-force injuries, having suffered three blows to the head that “all were significant enough to cause death,” forensic pathologist Dr. Sarah Avedschmidt testified.
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On Wednesday, Yolo Superior Court Judge Peter Williams found sufficient evidence for Ornelas, 23, to stand trial on premeditated murder charges following a two-day preliminary hearing. The proceeding included testimony from witnesses who said Ornelas repeatedly told coworkers about his offense, even showing Flores a cell-phone photo he took of his dying victim. Ornelas later tried deleting the “live” photo — actually a three-second long video — but investigators recovered it after seizing his phone. Flores
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Truckers, environmentalists spar over proposed rules By Nadia Lopez CalMatters Environmentalists and trucking industry groups sparred with clean air regulators Thursday over a contentious proposal to phase out California’s big rigs and other trucks with internal combustion engines, and force manufacturers to speed massproduction of electric trucks. The California Air Resources Board held its first public hearing on rules that would ban manufacturers from selling any new fossil-fueled medium-duty and heavyduty trucks by 2040. The
new rules would also require large trucking companies to convert their fleets to electric models, buying more over time until all are zeroemission by 2042. The move is part of the state’s wider strategy to end its reliance on fossil fuels and cut planet-warming emissions. “California is leading the transition to widescale electrification of trucks and buses,” said board chair Liane Randolph. “These actions can show the world how to simultaneously address
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