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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022
Striking UC students reach tentative deal
Davis creators
Get their game on
Coffee Time ready to take over your table
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer This news is hot off the French presses. There’s trouble brewing in a battle between coffee and tea. Jealous of how popular coffee has become, King Tea seeks to change all world clocks to Tea Time and cause a rift in the realm of time. Cup Joe and his Coffee Time friends (Thermos, Little Miss Hot Shot, Donette) try to stop King Tea from changing the world clocks to Tea Time. That’s the premise behind “Coffee Time,” an introductory strategic board game stirred up by ground-up Davisites: game designers Aaron Wedra and Stevie Price, editor Milly Judd (Wedra’s fiancée), abstract artist Sam Lundholm, game music creator Matthew Wright, and King Tea artist Landon Christensen. In short, Wedra made the board game for a video design class final at Sacramento City College five years ago. The
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As the nation's largest-ever higher education strike approaches its sixth week, graduate student workers reach tentative agreements with the University of California, the United Auto Workers announced on Friday night. The contract will now go to the UAW’s membership for a ratification vote. The ratification vote dates and duration have been set for Monday through Friday. “Our union’s membership is the highest decision-making body, and it is now up to all members to vote on this tentative agreement. We have engaged in an extensive democratic process up to this point, including open bargaining sessions and widelyattended bargaining caucuses,” said Rafael Jaime, President of UAW 2865 in a press release. “The progress we’ve made has been due to mass participation of membership, and it’s the membership who will decide on contract ratification.” “I want to congratulate the parties for today’s historic agreement,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who served as the mediator. “Together, they reached a principled solution to end the difficult impasse.
Aaron Wedra shows off “Coffee Time” a board game produced by a team of creative Davis residents.
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City limits sprinklers to 2 days a week New trustees take seats at school board By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
The City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to restrict sprinkler irrigation for residential and commercial properties to two days per week. The watering restrictions come as signs point to a fourth year of drought ahead. The past three water years have been the driest on record for California, the city noted in a press release on Thursday, and drought has stressed water storage and supplies. In addition to watering restrictions, the City Council last May also voted to adopt Shortage Level 2 requirements following direction from the state,
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By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer
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The Davis City Council voted to implement watering restrictions as signs point to a fourth year of drought ahead. which was requiring all urban water suppliers to do so. That included a ban on washing cars in driveways, requiring instead that
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vehicles be washed at commercial sites that recirculate water or by high pressure/low volume wash systems.
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It was a changing of the guard at the school board meeting on Thursday. Although the meeting was filled with its usual updates, it also featured heartfelt farewells from — now-former — board members Vigdis Asmundson and Tom Adams. With outgoing Board President Adams stepping aside, the position went to Lea Darrah. Oaths of office were taken by the re-elected Joe DiNunzio and the two newly elected trustees, Hiram Jackson and Elizabeth Moon.
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Following that were parting words from Asmundson and Adams.
“It was an absolute honor to serve my community and to be on the school board,” Asmundson said. “I want to thank everybody in this community, everybody in the district office, the superintendent and all of our educators who allowed me to model a growth mindset which is what we want for all our students by being patient with the way we’re all learning when we’re up there on
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