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FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023
California scrambles after State Farm stops selling home policies
The King High School class of 2023 comes to their feet Wednesday as Davis School Board President Leah Darrah formally accepts the graduates.
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“Our staff has diverse strengths that align well with the very needs, interests and passions of our students.
State Farm made national headlines last month, when it said it would stop selling new home insurance policies in California. As California’s largest single provider of bundle home insurance policies — the company had 20% of the market in 2021 — the news struck some as the beginning of a fresh emergency, with insurers abandoning a fire and flood ravaged state. But the retraction of California’s biggest home coverage provider is only the latest development in a wildfire-fueled crisis that has smoldered beneath the surface of the state’s insurance market for years. After the disastrous fires of 2017 and 2018, the number of Californians who were told by their insurer that their policy wouldn’t be renewed jumped up by 42% to almost 235,000 households. The two severe wildfire years wiped out decades of industry profits. Last year, American International
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King High sends grads out into the world By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer Wednesday, June 7, will be the day a special group of seniors recall as the day they graduated from Martin Luther King High School. Taking place at the Richard Brunelle Performance Hall, the King High class of 2023 entered the venue to the roar of applause while sporting their burgundy robes. Among the
audience of friends and family were cardboard cutouts of students’ faces, signs of praise, “Congrats Grad” balloons, flowers and cell phones held high to take photos of the graduates. Also in attendance were numerous members of the school board and DJUSD administration including Superintendent Matt Best. The ceremony itself began with a few words from King
High Principal Rob Kinder. “The staff and I conducted exit interviews with the students on their last day of school, and I ask three questions: ‘What’s next for you? What worked well for you at King High? And what can we do better at King to support future students?’ Without fail, the answer of what worked well involved a list of staff members who made a difference to each
student. My favorite part in this is that throughout the year, every single staff member from our admin assistants to veteran teachers is listed as ‘the thing’ that worked well at King for at least one graduate,” said Kinder.
Temptation at the checkout aisle By Tiffany Dobbyn
Thompson joins Valley Clean Energy event
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We’ve all been there: waiting in line at a store checkout, surrounded by tempting snacks and drinks. Navigating the checkout lane in search of healthy options could be a challenge, according to researchers at UC Davis, who found that 70% of foods and beverages at checkout are unhealthy. For snack-sized options, an even higher proportion were unhealthy — 89%. Astudypublishedthismonthinthe journalCurrentDevelopmentsinNutrition suggests most food and beverage options at checkout consist of candy (31%), sugar-sweetened beverages (11%), salty snacks (9%) and sweets (6%).
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In honor of its five-year anniversary, Valley Clean Energy, the local community choice energy provider, will host a free customer appreciation event Saturday at Central Park in Davis from 4 to 7 p.m. AdobeStock photo
Treats within easy reach of shoppers waiting in the checkout line tend to be unhealthy Healthy items were far less common. Water represented 3% of food and beverage options, followed by nuts and seeds (2%), fruits and vegetables (1%),
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legumes (0.1%) and milk (0.02%). Food and beverage companies consider the
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Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, California’s 4th District congressman, will join the festivities. Thompson was an influential party to the incorporation of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022.
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VCE invites the community to join in celebrating five years of THOMPSON service Backed with this legislation free event. Highlights include remarks from Thompson and VCE Board Chair Tom Stallard, free meal vouchers for the first 100 customers, electric vehicle test drives, pet adoption with Friends of Yolo County Animal Services,
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