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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Getting crafty
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Creativity looms large at the UC Davis Craft Center on campus. Students and non-students 18 and older can access the Craft Center by taking a class.
Open house highlights Craft Center By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
The “Happiest Place to Craft” — The UC Davis Craft Center — welcomed students and Davis residents to their open house on Wednesday. The open house included studio demos by artists and gallery
viewing where items had been made as hybrids between The Maker Space and the other 11 studios: ceramics, wood, photo, glass, arts and crafts, flameworking, jewelry, photography, screenprinting, textiles, and welding. The newest studio at the Craft
Center, the Maker Space, features a 3D printer, a mini 3D printer, a laser engraver, and a desktop cutting machine that lets crafters make precision cuts in vinyl, cardstock, or fabric. Various other tools like soldering kits, digital calipers and spark boards are available for checkout. Housed in the South Silo building, the Craft Center has
new lobby furniture, new paint, a countertop, a polished concrete floor, and new LED lighting in the lobby and upstairs hall. Admin Coordinator of The Craft Center Sanne Stark Fettinger said the open house allows showing all the possibilities when thinking outside the box. Kicking off the open house, Chancellor Gary May helped the center unveil a large new welcome
Police: Fatally shot man had knife By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer The man fatally shot by police as they attempted to serve an arrest warrant in Dunnigan earlier this week was armed with a kitchen knife, authorities said Wednesday as multiple investigations into the incident continued. Yolo County coroner’s officials had not released the man's identity as of Thursday afternoon, saying they had not yet made contact with his next of kin. The shooting occurred shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, more than four hours after members of the Yolo County SWAT team arrived in the 3000 block of County Road 88C in Dunnigan to serve the arrest warrant. The man faced felony charges of sex crimes with a child, police previously disclosed. Police said the man resided in a trailer on the property and repeatedly ignored commands to surrender. Specific details
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that led to the shooting, including the alleged use of the foot-long knife (including both the blade and the handle), have not been released. According to the West Sacramento Police Department, one of its officers was the sole person to discharge their service weapon, firing two shots at the man, who died at the scene. The officer, whose name was not immediately released, was described as a 7½-year veteran of the agency. "Body-worn cameras were worn during the incident and video will be released in the coming weeks," West Sacramento police said Wednesday in a social media post. State law requires that footage of officer-involved shootings and use-of-force deaths to be made public within 45 days. It remained unclear how many members of the SWAT team — comprising
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Newsom suspends laws to store more water By Alastair Bland CalMatters Facing an onslaught of criticism that water was “wasted” during January storms, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday suspended environmental laws to give the go-ahead to state officials to hold more water in reservoirs. The governor’s executive order authorized the State Water Resources Control Board to “consider modifying” state requirements that dictate how much water in the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta is allowed to flow into San Francisco Bay. In January, after floodwaters surged into the bay, farm groups, Central Valley legislators and urban water providers complained that people and farms were being short-changed to protect fish. They urged state officials to store more water in reservoirs, which would increase the supply that can be delivered this summer to farm fields in the Central Valley and millions of Southern Californians. Environmental activists say Newsom’s order is another sign that California is shifting priorities in how
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mat. May also screen-printed a goose on a T-shirt. The Maker Space has begun collaborating with the UC Davis School of Education as a classroom for students working in the Beta Lab, in which K-12 students are mentored, according to a press release. Fettinger explained that since
it manages water supply for humans and ecosystems. They said the order will likely harm Chinook salmon and Delta smelt. Large numbers of newborn Chinook salmon have perished in recent drought years — the result of low flows in the Sacramento River and its tributaries. Doug Obegi, a water law attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, called Newsom’s order the latest action in “a breakdown of law and order in the Delta.” In every critically dry year since 2012, Obegi said, the state’s flow rules and water export restrictions have been waived. “Now, it seems, we’re going to start waiving them in average years,” Obegi said, adding that it’s the first time that the state has waived Delta outflow standards in a year that isn’t designated critically dry. “The executive order seems to signal the governor’s intention to put his thumbs on the scale in favor of extinction in the Delta.” The state water board’s Delta flow rules are designed to help enforce
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