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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Council races unchanged in latest update
Jerry Jimenez, a runner in Saturday’s Turkey Trot, has fond memories of family get-togethers for Thanksgiving. Below, Alan Anderson, a race volunteer, makes an announcement. Monica Stark/Enterprise photos
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer With just under 4,000 ballots left to be processed countywide, it appears the early results in the Davis City Council election will stand as expected, with Bapu Vaitla winning the seat in District 1 and Gloria Partida in District 4. Both have received more than 60 percent of the vote in their respective races with 4,376 votes counted in District 1 and 5,099 in District 4. Vaitla had 2,632 votes following Friday’s election update to incumbent Councilman Dan Carson’s 1,176 and challenger Kelsey Fortune’s 568. In District 4, former mayor Partida had received 3,178 votes to challenger Adam Morrill’s 1,921. As of Friday, the Yolo County Election’s Office had processed 54,050 ballots, including 11,445 since Tuesday, and had 3,995 remaining. Estimates of unprocessed ballots are countywide and not available by jurisdiction, according to the elections office, “as ballots are received and processed in batches from throughout the county.” So there is no breakdown available for how many ballots remain in either council district. But the outcome appears clear, with vote percentages largely unchanged since the initial results
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Tales from the Turkey Trot By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Getting into the Thanksgiving spirit, Davisites participating in the 34th annual Davis Turkey Trot shared with The Enterprise some of their favorite holiday memories, traditions, and dishes. The race, which got going on Saturday, included a half-marathon, 5K, 2-mile run/walk (with dogs), 10K run/walk, and kids’ races. The A Change of Pace Foundation teamed up to help Yolo County SPCA and Cancer Champions as beneficiaries of this year’s race.
Turkey Trot volunteer and race announcer Alan Anderson enjoys sending runners off at the start line. He said his favorite part about the race is bringing the community together and doing something fun. Having volunteered for many years, Anderson has watched kid runners grow up with the race year after year. “Seeing kids go from being like little runners to then some of them help volunteer. They come back on their reunion weekends to do this,” he said. For many young people, this is their first race, and they increase the distance they
compete in as they grow up. “Not everyone is from the hometown, but it feels sort of hometown,” Anderson said. Regarding his family traditions, he said, “we all go to my mother-in-laws (in Davis). She’s our Thanksgiving headquarters. It’s a really a ‘Friendsgiving,’ so it’s not a nuclear family, but lots of friends participate and bring their dishes to share.” His favorite dish? Mashed potatoes. Norman Coppinger was manning the tent of the Golden Valley Harriers, a local running club, at the Turkey Trot and shared that he is
grateful to be retiring this year and that he will be president of the club next year. When he joined the club about a decade ago, his goal was to qualify for the Boston Marathon, which he achieved after a year-and-ahalf of running with the group. He said he wished he had joined earlier because the club is more social than one might believe. “People have book clubs; people go for coffee afterward. Some guys go golfing, and so you know, it’s kind of social. There are some really fast runners and some very, you
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Newsom U-turns on homeless funding UC grad-student strike
goes into its second week
By Manuela Tobias CalMatters Two weeks after withholding $1 billion in homelessness funding over lackluster local plans, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that most cities and counties would get the funds as early as next week anyway — as long as in the next round, they commit to more aggressive plans to reduce street homelessness. But it’s been a whiplashinducing couple of weeks, triggered by a funding process that frustrated both the governor and the locals. Newsom dissed local applicants for seeming too complacent about a dire California problem, while the applicants retorted that
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By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
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Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media after a Nov. 18 meeting with local leaders on homelessness in Sacramento. the Newsom administration sent conflicting signals — and that in any case, state lawmakers had inadvertently given them a financial motive to lowball
WEATHER Thursday: Sunny and warmer. High 68. Low 39.
their goals. More than 100 local mayors and county officials gathered virtually and in-
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California’s Public Employee Relations Board issued six complaints Tuesday regarding the University of California’s failure to bargain with United Auto Workers 2865 and Student Researchers UnitedUAW over compensation and UC’s changes to worker compensation. The complaints came on Day 9 of the largest strike at an institute of higher education. UC Davis workers began striking on Monday, Nov. 14, calling an end to the University of
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California’s “unlawful behavior,” which they say prevents agreements on fair contracts. These include living wages to address “rent burden, increased childcare subsidies for parent scholars, sustainable transit benefits, and greater rights for international scholars,” according to a statement provided by organizers.
According to a UAW press release from Tuesday, locals have filed more than 30 Unfair Labor Practices against UC at this point. “PERB has found validity with each
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