Sunday, May 20, 2012
The eclipse starts around 5:16 p.m. Peak viewing time is 6:33 p.m. Don't risk eye damage: Never look straight at the sun.
With a big event like the annular solar eclipse coming up Sunday, we'd like to know where you'll be going to view the event. The full eclipse won't be visible in Sacramento or the San Francisco Bay Area, but you will be able to see it partially. So, where will you be going to watch? Let us know below! Here are some safe-viewing tips form the Explorit Science Center: Never look at the sun or a solar eclipse with the naked eye or with any optical device, such as binoculars or a telescope - this will cause permanent damage to your eyes and even blindness. Only telescopes with special filters and proper placement of filters can be used to view the sun. For more information regarding the Sunday, May 20 partial/annular eclipse, or meeting …
Got a home for sale in Davis? Add a photo and details here.
If you're selling a home in Davis, click the "Upload Photos & Videos" button to add an image or video. Include information about the home in the caption. This week's most-expensive listing* is 44910 S. El Macero Drive, a six-bedroom, six-bath home listed at $1.795 million as of May 18. Some new listings (not a complete list): 39861 Barry Road, a three-bedroom, two-bath single family house, $569,000. 4424 Sunrise Court, a two-bedroom, two-bath single-family house, $319,000. More listings for Davis on AOL Real Estate. *A home at 38232 Russell Road is listed at $3.5 million, but it isn't our featured property because the listing does not include a photo.
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44910 S El Macero Dr, El Macero, CA
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39861 Barry Rd, Davis, CA
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4424 Sunrise Ct, Davis, CA
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Today is Davis Merchants Appreciation Day.
Nina Gatewood Our Downtown Merchants have been very supportive of our school through generous auction donations. Through this difficult economy, many are feeling the pinch (or worse) and could really benefit from our support in return. To that end, we have declared this Sunday, 5/20 Downtown Davis Merchants Appreciation Day. Simply put, if you have shopping that can be done in downtown, we'd like to show our collective support for our downtown businesses through a flurry of Fairfield shoppers downtown on Sunday. We'll kick the day off with a family picnic @ Central park @ noon for anyone who'd like to join their fairfield friends. Need to pick up a birthday or anniversary gift? Consider nestware, Teach Your Children or DeLuna's …
Davis High School has created 78 yearbooks. Will there be a 79th?
UPDATE: Davis High School's yearbook class has been reinstated, according to the Davis Enterprise. The class was cancelled in early May along with others that had low enrollment (less than 25 students). From the moment the class was cancelled (with plans of being replaced as a club), yearbook students began recruiting. See how many students they now have in the Enterprise and read about the cancellation below. ORIGINAL STORY: Many Davis High courses with enrollment below 35 students were cut at last week’s school board meeting. Among them was the Yearbook class. The board, which is saddled with the difficult task of cutting expenses by $3.5 million, also cut other low-enrollment classes like Chinese, German and more. The Yearbook class …
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Davis Film Festival is May 23 and 24 at 8:30 p.m. at the Varsity.
UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance The Davis Varsity Theatre presents the Department of Theatre and Dance’s 12th Annual UC Davis Film Festival produced in association with UC Davis Cinema and Technocultural Studies and co-sponsored by Art Studio. This year’s short film submissions include a mockumentary about a washed-up child star, a comedy where three twenty-somethings attain mundane abilities after eating a very old casserole, an existential drama about a woman struggling with her life’s purpose, an animated action hero adventure and a documentary about finding the perfect bone marrow donor. The films will undergo a rigorous selection process to determine which make it to the festival screening. The 12th Annual UC Davis Film …
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Police have not noticed any patters. Do you have information?
The Davis Police Department released the following note on Facebook Friday afternoon: "Over the last two weeks, we have received 6 reports of gasoline theft. The latest two were reported between May 14th and May 15th. 12 gallons were siphoned from a vehicle on San Thomas and an unknown amount of gasoline was taken from a van on County Road 32A. So far we have not noticed any patterns in locations or vehicles targeted." Do you know anything about these incidents in Davis? Is it possible you've been targeted?
"The feeling is that the school board is being very disrespectful to the teachers," one reader said.
I wasn't able to cover Wednesday night's school board meeting, but the Davis Enterprise reported that "restive Davis teachers, upset at a proposal to cut their salary by 5 percent, disrupted Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting by turning their backs while the superintendent spoke and loudly clapping to drown out other speakers." I received an email Thursday from a teacher in the district who elaborated on why the teachers turned their backs during the meeting. According to Dana Sodergren, here's why they did it: "The major issue that was not mentioned [in the Enterprise article] was the reason the teachers turned their backs. The established agenda of board meetings is public comment first. The board suddenly decided to move public …
Celebrate Davis! ended with a five-minute fireworks show yesterday. Here's a sped-up version.
I shot this video on my GoPro camera while breaking down the Davis Patch booth at Celebrate Davis! yesteray. The event was great and the fireworks show was a nice way to end it. The music in the video is something I recorded a couple of years ago using a guitar and some GarageBand loops. It's a bit scattered and crazy. For more local videos:
This kid won't be able to vote for many years. For now, he lets his arm do the talking.
Many local public figures were invited to participate in a dunk tank at Celebrate Davis! yesterday. Among them were the five city council candidates. While I spent most of the day working the Davis Patch booth, I took a quick stroll around the park to snap some photos. I showed up at the dunk tank just in time to watch candidate Lucas Frerichs get dunked by a kid with an impressively accurate arm. Here's our full City Council election guide. (This is the only story about dunk tanks, I promise). To follow the eletion:
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It could reach as high as 89 in Davis Sunday. What are you doing this weekend?
It's going to be a pretty nice weekend in Davis. Today, expect to see temperatures warm up to the mid-80s. (It's 64 at the time of this writing, hence the image to the right). Here's a look at this weekend's weather according to the National Weather Service: Saturday, May 19: It will be sunny with a high near 88 degrees Saturday with a light breeze. At night, it's expected to be clear with a low around 55 degrees. Sunday, May 20: Sunday, we may have a high temperature around 89 degrees, also breezy. Sunday night, we'll have a low around 55 degrees. Looking for something to do this weekend in Davis? Consider heading to KDVS's Operation: Restore Maxiumum Freedom. And there's always the Farmers Market, but you don't need me to tell you that.
Gary Yip
11:31 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012
Check out Mixbook.com and email education@mixbook.com for volume order discount. The yearbooks can cost as little at $12.99! It's worth a shot. more ›