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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2023
UCD students plan protest to block Pepsi contract
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The Davis Cemetery hosted its annual Memorial Day commemoration on Monday, May 29. Hundreds came out to honor those service members who have died in America’s military conflicts over the years, and their families.Below, former Army Sgt. Kurt Roggli gives the keynote speech at Monday’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Davis Cemetery. Reflecting on the occasion, Roggli said, “This is the day we pay homage to those who didn’t come home.” Below right, the Davis High School Madrigal Singers perform the anthems of each of the service branches. At right, the playing of Taps closed a reverent ceremony on a beautiful Northern California spring morning.
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
Concerned about the health and environmental impacts of PepsiCo’s operations and products, a group of student activists at UC Davis are protesting against efforts to procure a new exclusive pouring rights contract with PepsiCo, according to a press release from the group Pepsi Off Campus UC Davis. They are planning a demonstration on Thursday at noon on the East Quad, concluding with a march on Mrak Hall. Leo Hecht, the spokesperson for Pepsi Off Campus UC Davis, said, “As students, we must show the administration that we will not stand for a contract that limits student choice and supports the second largest plastic polluter in the world.” A new PRC would lock UC Davis into another decade-long contract that limits beverage choices on campus to only Pepsi products. “A PRC allows Pepsi to promote unhealthy products packaged in wasteful single-use plastic while calling itself the official soft drink of UC Davis,” Hecht Without an exclusive contract, Hecht
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Local Chinese community key to Hyder stepping down Gam Saan Trail’s development from school board *Editor’s note: Due to a printing error, the second part of this story did not run in Sunday’s edition.
By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer Retracing the steps of Gold Rush-era Chinese who navigated across the Pacific and landed upon Gam Saan (Gold Mountain in Cantonese), members of the local Chinese community recently gathered at a new California State Park trail head near where James W. Marshall found specks of gold in 1948 about 36 miles up the American River from Sacramento.
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Run by California State Parks, new interpretive signs at the beginning of the trail share the message: “News of the California Gold Discovery started in Coloma and reached as far as China. Tens of thousands of Chinese were inspired to come here to seek their fortune and began calling California, Gam Saan. Although subjected to severe racism, through their perseverance and ability to adapt to change, Chinese people continue to make contributions to the rich and diverse fabric of America. In honor of those seeking Gold
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Mountain, this trail segment is named the Gam Saan Trail.” While the 2.5-mile trail is now over a year old, back in February, members of the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association Davis Chapter, which serves UC Davis and Yolo County; the Locke Foundation, the Chinese Benevolent Association, and the APAPA Delta Chapter honored their ancestors with a Ching Ming Festival, which includes visiting and sweeping ancestral tombs. Aaron Wedra, Mary Yin
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By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer Davis School Board Trustee Betsy Hyder, in a May 23 letter to her fellow trustees, announced her resignation from the board, effective June 30. The board will carry out a discussion at its meeting Thursday about how to deal with the trustee vacancy. The trustees have the option of making a provisional appointment, hold an election or take no action, in which case the County Superintendent of Schools will call for an election.
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Hyder cited health and personal reasons for her decision. HYDER “Please Announced accept resignation my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to serve Davis Joint Unified School District and the Davis Community in this important role alongside all of you,” she wrote. “It’s been an honor. Above all, I am grateful to each
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