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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2023
Three UCD students dead in San Joaquin County highway crash
Yolo County workers receive a shipment of 30,000 rapid test kits in 2022 to be distributed to students and staff throughout the county.
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
Yolo County, courtesy photo/Enterprise file
County recognizes public-health efforts By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors honored the county’s public health workers Tuesday as it proclaimed this week National Public Health Week. But the toll the last few years have taken on that workforce was also highlighted by both supervisors and Health Officer Dr. Aimee Sisson.
The county reported that 61.5 percent of the county’s public health professionals report feelings of burnout often or very often and 59 percent report having a high, unsustainable workload. In thanking county supervisors for recognizing public health workers, Sisson noted that “public health is used to working behind the scenes to make our community safer and
healthier. “Because we’re usually behind the scenes,” she said, “our work often goes unnoticed and, unfortunately, underfunded. “The COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of attention to public health, along with muchneeded short-term funding from the state and federal government. We worry, however, about maintaining adequate public health staffing when
pandemic-related funding ends in 2024. We worry about how to recruit the next generation of public health workers and how to revitalize our current workforce, exhausted from three years of pandemic response.” Public Health Director Brian Vaughn noted that those three years have been challenging but the workers themselves rose to
A head-on crash in San Joaquin County took the lives of three UC Davis students early Friday morning, campus officials reported Monday. The multi-vehicle collision occurred at about 12:25 a.m. on northbound Highway 99 near French Camp Road between Stockton and Manteca, where authorities say a suspected impaired driver, who also died, was traveling in the wrong direction. According to various media reports, the woman’s southbound Honda struck a Subaru in which the UCD students — identified as Minkyu Geon, Margarette Guinto Ventura and Codi Orland Mateo — were riding, triggering a chain-reaction crash involving two other other vehicles. One of the drivers, 40-yearold Nicholas Craggs of Stockton, also was determined to be impaired. The fourth driver was unhurt. The name of the Honda’s driver, identified only as a 32-year-old
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Two in for state Senate race Trustees hear about By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Two longtime local politicians, both Democrats, have thrown in their names into a run for next year’s California Senate race as current 3rd District state Sen. Bill Dodd’s current term expires in 2024. Former West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza announced their candidacies for State Senate District 3, which includes parts of Solano, Yolo, Napa, Contra Costa, Sonoma, and Sacramento counties. Cabaldon was elected Mayor of West Sacramento in 1998 and was the first
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openly gay Filipino elected mayor in the United States. He was also the longest CABALDON serving Former West LGBT Sac mayor mayor in the country. Pedroza has served on the Napa County Board of Supervisors since 2014 when former Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him to replace Dodd. Pedroza was elected to a full term in 2016 and re-elected in 2020. Prior to joining the Board of Supervisors, Pedroza was elected to the
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Napa City Council in 2012, becoming Napa’s youngest council member PEDROZA and first Napa County Latino supervisor ever elected. “I am excited to take the next step in my public service career by running for State Senate District 3,” Cabaldon said. “I look forward to meeting with voters throughout the district, hearing their concerns, and working with them to create a better future for all
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special ed progress
By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer An update on the Davis school district’s special education program will feature at Thursday’s school-board meeting, along with various resolutions and approvals. In a prior meeting, the board received recommendations from WestEd on where improvements can be made to the special education program. The April 6 meeting will feature an update on how the Davis Joint Unified School District’s special education is progressing in the wake of WestEd’s
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recommendations. Alongside that update will be the approval of the Universal Transitional Kindergarten/Extended Day Kindergarten program plan. Back in the fall of 2021, California passed AB 130 which expanded the age eligibility for student enrollment in TK through 2026. This presentation will cover the district’s plan to expand its TK program as well as its implementation plan for extended-day kindergarten. Also in the meeting will be a facilities master plan
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