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Community raises $50K for surviving stab victim By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
Mangoes may never become a mainstream crop in the northern half of California, but change is undoubtedly coming. Hustling to adapt, farmers around the state are experimenting with new, more sustainable crops and varieties
As the sole survivor of Davis’ stabbing crimes remains hospitalized, donors have raised more than $51,000 to financially support what's expected to be a long road to recovery. Kimberlee Guillory, 64, underwent emergency surgery for a punctured kidney, internal bleeding and other wounds following the May 1 attack, which occurred as the unhoused woman lay alone inside her tent at L and Second streets. “As a community, we want to come GUILLORY together and support Severe wounds Kimberlee in any way we can,” Rose Hall wrote in a GoFundMe page created to raise money for Guillory’s medical bills and other expenses, including finding a permanent place to live. More than 1,200 people had contributed to the cause as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Winters farmer Gary Gragg examines buds on one of the mango plants he’s growing in the Sacramento Valley. Rahul Lal/ CalMatters photo
Farmers try new crops in new climate By Alastair Bland
mangoes in Northern California.
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“I’ve been banking on this since I was 10 years old and first heard about global warming,” said Gragg, 54, who has planted several mango trees, among other subtropical trees, in his orchard about 25 miles west of Sacramento.
In a world of worsening heat waves, flooding, drought, glacial melting, megafires and other calamities of a changing climate, Gary Gragg is an optimist. As California warms, Gragg — a nurseryman, micro-scale farmer and tropical fruit enthusiast — looks forward to the day that he can grow and sell
Gragg’s little orchard might be the continent’s northernmost grove of mangoes, which normally are grown in places like
Florida, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Northern California’s climate, he said, is becoming increasingly suitable for heat-loving, frost-sensitive mango trees, as well as avocados, cherimoyas and tropical palms, a specialty of his plant nursery Golden Gate Palms. “Climate change isn’t all bad,” Gragg said. “People almost never talk about the positives of
global warming, but there will be winners and losers everywhere.”
‘Aloha Vietnam’: Psychiatrist’s novel searches for home while battling grief By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Month and AAPI Heritage Month, Davis psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Nguyen tells the story of finding one’s identity and place of belonging in a shifting landscape of tradition, heritage, and culture, and the healing power of art, water, and love with her recently released book, “Aloha Vietnam.” “This book is my love offering to the land and the people of Vietnam and Hawaii and the vast Pacific Ocean that connects them. I hope it provides beauty and healing to the trauma and suffering that has come
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through generations of loss and the struggles of mental illness,” Nguyen said. Born and raised in Honolulu, Nguyen’s parents were refugees from Vietnam who arrived in Hawaii in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. Nguyen completed her psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship at UC Davis. She specializes in cross-cultural psychiatry, the intersection of spirituality and mental health, and the healing power of water and the natural world. In “Aloha Vietnam,” Anh Nguyen is 17 years old and a senior in high school, working on a watercolor art series, when she
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Psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Nguyen’s book, “Aloha Vietnam,” tells the story of finding one’s identity and place of belonging in a shifting landscape of tradition and culture. Courtesy photo
experiences her first manic episode. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on medications, and she and her Vietnamese-American family are suddenly thrown into the world of mental health treatment and
recovery. Anh’s mother, Xuan, grapples with understanding her daughter’s struggles while also trying to make sense of her loss and grief of leaving behind her family and motherland of Vietnam to raise her
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children in America. The family finds refuge across the Pacific Ocean on the warm shores of Honolulu, Hawaii; Anh navigates growing up in a refugee family in a new land and culture and deals with the struggles of her mind. She finds solace in her love for the ocean and her art. A journey across the Pacific Ocean from Vietnam to Hawaii to California, “Aloha Vietnam” searches for one’s true home and identity amidst loss, grief, and mental illness. A character in the book, the setting mirrors our natural world. “(It’s) this large presence in our life
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