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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Final vote tallies not expected for weeks
On Tuesday, Yolo County supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a staff amendment to an ordinance approved in September, which requires that guns stored in unattended vehicles be in a locked container or tethered to the vehicle and prohibiting the storage of firearms in unattended vehicles overnight.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
just in a locked, secured container. As with a similar ordinance enacted by the Davis City Council in July, requiring safe storage of firearms in vehicles proved trickier than in homes. The City Council initially approved an ordinance requiring unattended firearms in vehicles be locked in a container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle, but after concerns were raised by hunters,
It will likely be the first week of December before Yolo County residents know the final vote totals of local races, including the two races for Davis City Council. This election saw an immense number of vote-by-mail ballots dropped off on Election Day, including through the postal service, ballot drop boxes and voter assistance centers, according to county elections officials, and adding to the challenge was “an unprecedented amount of conditional and provisional ballots, primarily due to same-day voter registrations associated with UC Davis students.” As of Thursday, an estimated 22,000 ballots countywide remained to be counted and those conditional and provisional ballots require more staff time to process. “As such, it is estimated that our office will need the entire 30 days to officially certify the election results,” said Jesse Salinas, the county’s clerkrecorder/assessor/registrar of voters. Those 30 days are what the state
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Supes support adding vehicles to gun-storage rules By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County supervisors voiced support Tuesday for an amendment to the county’s recently enacted safe gun storage ordinance. Back in September, the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance requiring safe storage of firearms in homes and asked staff to return with language related to guns stored in vehicles. On Tuesday, supervisors
voted unanimously in favor of staff ’s recommended amendment, which requires that guns stored in unattended vehicles be in a locked container or tethered to the vehicle and prohibiting the storage of firearms in unattended vehicles overnight. The amendment was drafted following discussions with the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Department as well as the Yolo County Farm Bureau and accommodated their concerns. “To add a little flexibility for farmers and rural residents, we
defined an unattended vehicle as one in which the gun owner is neither in nor within sight of,” said John Rowe, a management analyst for the county. “This means if a farmer needs to step away 20 feet to attend to a fence or something on the property, they don’t have to be burdened with storing the firearm they might need to access quickly if they, say, see a coyote.” There is also an option of securing the firearm in a vehicle with a tether or cable lock or some other mechanism and not
Walsh takes reins at Birch Lane UCD terminates longtime By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer The new school year has ushered in a handful of new principals within the DJUSD, and among them is Amanda Walsh. Although she’s new to the leadership role she’s taken on at Birch Lane Elementary, this UC Davis alumna is more than familiar with the community she calls her home. Walsh grew up and went to school just down I-5 in Stockton. From there, she attended UCD where she majored in human development and psychology. After graduating, Walsh shifted from Aggie blue to the baby blue of a UCLA
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Bruin. There, she earned her Master’s Degree in education along with her teachWALSH ing creNew principal dentials and set at Birch Lane forth on her career path as an educator. However, the work ethic that got Walsh to where she is today was instilled when she was just a little girl. “I come from a family that wasn’t in education, but my whole childhood was like a process of teaching. My mom was a single mom and my grandparents
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were very involved too. Everything was a lesson like, this is how you get a job, this is how you dress when you go to an interview, this is what hard work looks like. There was lots of love, but it was shown as an action growing up,” Birch explained her inspiration to enter education. “I have a brother who’s five years younger than myself, and I was sort of like his second mom. I taught him a lot, took him around and cared for him and enjoyed it. Just seeing different families through babysitting and all those opportunities I had in my teenage years, I think that’s
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gymnastics coach By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Two years after allegations of racism in the UC Davis gymnastics program, the university “terminated the employment” of head gymnastics coach John Lavallee on Oct. 18. Tanya Ho, a standout under Lavallee’s tutelage in the late 2000s, has been named the interim head coach through the rest of the academic school year. Ho, “a 13-time all-conference honoree, became the first Lavallee-era gymnast to enter the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of
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Fame,” according to the Athletic Department. According to her biography, a 2010 UC Davis graduate in exercise biology, Ho was the first Aggie gymnast to make three straight trips to the NCAA postseason, the second to make the region meet in back-to-back years as an all-arounder, and the fourth to crack the 39-point barrier in the all-around. While the university hasn’t stated the reason for Lavallee’s termination, the gymnastic coach had been under fire for alleged
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