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enterprise THE DAVIS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2023
Supervisors hear update on assistance to farmworkers By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
On the same day Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors declared March 31 César Chávez day, the board received an update on what the county is doing to support its farmworkers, so many of whom worked throughout the pandemic to feed so many. Previous surveys of local farmworkers have indicated food security and housing are among the biggest needs, and efforts continue to address both. But one thing the county has accomplished is a financial assistance program approved by the board that used American Rescue Plan funds to provide $1,000 grants to 200 farmworkers. The demand for that assistance was great. The county opened the application process for those grants on the morning of Feb. 1 and by noon, some 300 applications had come in, according to Tanya Provencher of the county’s Health & Human Services Agency. The screening process that ensued led to 200 of those applicants receiving $1,000 pre-paid MasterCards on March 7.
See FARMWORKERS, Page A4
Jared Davis stands beside his charter fishing boat, Salty Lady, as it sits in dry dock in Richmond on March 8. Martin do Nascimento/ CalMatters photo
No California salmon this year
State authorities shut down fishery By Alastair Bland CalMatters Most summer mornings at first light, Jared Davis is a few miles west of the Golden Gate Bridge, motoring his charter fishing boat Salty Lady over the Pacific Ocean. His eyes sweep
let out their lines.
the horizon, looking for diving birds, but mostly he watches the screen of his dashboard fishfinder for schools of anchovies — a sure sign that salmon are near. When the signs look good, he throttles down to trolling speed and tells his customers to
“Drop ’em down!” Davis calls out the window. “Thirty to 40 feet!” When the bite is steady, the Salty Lady may have 20 customers on board, each spending $200 for the chance to catch salmon. On the best days, fishing rods bend double the moment the lines go down, and
a frenzy of action ensues, often amid a hundred or more other boats. Hooked Chinook thrash at the surface, and the deck becomes strewn with flopping fish.
Last year, California’s commercial and recreational fishing fleet, from the Central Coast to
See SALMON, Page A4
Is Davis really ‘collegiest college town’? By Jeff Hudson Enterprise correspondent What are the implications for families with school-age kids? The Washington Post recently published an interesting “Department of Data” feature story that examined a variety of statistics, then singled out “The Collegiest College Town in Every State.” To hardly anyone’s surprise, when it came to California’s college towns, WaPo data reporter Andrew Van Dam singled out Davis as the best example in the Golden State in terms of embodying the college town experience.
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This sort of survey is, of course, based on a certain amount of subjective analysis, in addition to cold, hard facts. “College towns feel different,” Van Dam wrote. “But how do you quantify a feeling? We’d argue it’s a matter of geography, not just a matter of student population. The classic college town is built around the school at its heart. It respires with the rhythm of the students, inhaling nervously in the fall and exhaling as summer begins.” Specifically, Van Dam’s article in the Feb. 3 Washington Post sized up six
See COLLEGE, Page A4
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Gregory Urquiaga, UC Davis/Enterprise file
Just how “collegy” is the “collegiest” town in California?
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