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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2023
Yolo County officials worry about ‘eviction tsunami’ By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Saturday’s KDVS Skate Jam, organized in conjunction with the UC Davis Aggie Hurricane skate club and The Vault skate shop, gave participants a nonstop cavalcade of tricks and turns. Monica Stark/ Enterprise photo
Skate Jam gets air over downtown By Monica Stark
The Vault skate shop.
The cracks on the G Street asphalt didn’t stop skateboarders from showing off their board slides and grinds as roller skaters freewheeled their dance moves and practiced their gnarly tricks at Saturday’s KDVS Skate Jam, organized in conjunction with the UC Davis Aggie Hurricane skate club and
From newcomers to old-timers, the event welcomed all forms of skating — rollerskaters, longboarders, inline skaters, and skateboarders — and allowed “an opportunity for skaters of all backgrounds, genders, and skill levels a safe space to meet others in the community and express themselves freely through the art of skat-
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ing,” Aggie Hurricane Vice President Reese Valle explained. For the first few hours, KDVS played music from the pavement before Exuvia, an East Bay-based queer-gothic metal band, hit the mic, followed by a three-piece band Angelite. Between band transitions, organizers raffled off skate equipment. Throughout the event, handmade art, jewelry, and
clothing vendors sold their merchandise, underlining the core ideal of skaters to “Support Local,” Valle said Aggie Hurricane was tasked with bringing skaters out to the event and supplying equipment such as skateboard decks, trucks, wheels, and bearings to those in need.
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Digging into legend of the Ditch By Monica Stark
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The Ditch is an improvised spot where skaters feel free to let loose.
“The thing is like we prefer
Thursday: Showers, breezy. High 51. Low 47.
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See SITES, Page A4
Monica Stark/Enterprise photo
WEATHER
By Alastair Bland
See DITCH, Page A4
In Davis,
Park, where they say designers didn’t get input from skaters. While they are trying to get a new skate park built, the Ditch is their place to be.
Sites Reservoir plan keeps dragging on
probably skating in the Ditch anyway,” said Luke Turner. “We just like the freedom of it. This is like, you know, a spot in the
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but where?
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Last century, California built dozens of large dams, creating the elaborate reservoir system that supplies the bulk of the state’s drinking and irrigation water. Now state officials and supporters are ready to build the next one. The Sites Reservoir — planned in a remote corner of the western Sacramento Valley for at least 40 years — has been gaining steam and support since 2014, when voters approved Prop. 1, a water bond that authorized $2.7 billion for new storage projects. Still, Sites Reservoir remains almost a decade away: Acquisition of water rights, permitting and environmental review are still in the works. Kickoff of construction, which includes two large dams, had been scheduled for 2024, but likely will be
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his piece is the first installment of an irregularly timed column whereby a photo of something, hopefully, interesting is shown, causing the reader to wonder: Where is that? After hearing from some Gen-X skaters about “the Ditch,” my boyfriend Alex, dog Brownie and I went out to the old agricultural drainage ditch on County Road 32A near the Union Pacific railroad tracks and Dhillon Ranch. As discussed in the article about the KDVS Skate Jam, some skaters prefer to skate at the Ditch over the Davis Skate
Predictions of an “eviction tsunami” following the end of COVID19 eviction protections appear to be coming true in Yolo County. “We are starting to see it hit,” Nolan Sullivan, the county’s director of health and human services, said Tuesday. Moratoriums on evictions, quickly enacted at the state and local level in the early days of the pandemic, have expired within the last year, Sullivan told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, and “we are starting to see a lot more people come through our doors with very large back rent in arrears.” Pre-COVID, folks were coming through the door owing $3,000 or $4,000 in back rent, he said; now it’s $15,000 to $20,000, “massive amounts of back rent — that’s a lot harder to cover. So it is certainly a looming crisis.” The other aspect of the crisis, he
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