Yolo County Bulletin Board

Popular ‘Focus on Investing’ Event Yields Positive Results

Brittney Nial is a third year Communications major at UC Davis and one of our two interns for Fall 2023. In the winter of last year, she decided she wanted to volunteer for something that mattered...

Portable Backup Batteries Power Essentials During Climate Change Driven Storms

By Michael Kluk and Leslie Crenna Portable, solar-powered batteries can provide a measure of safety and resilience in the event the power grid goes down and they’re a great way to avoid polluting,...

A Huge Ocean Current May Collapse Soon

The catastrophic, widespread impacts of climate change can no longer be ignored. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a global system of ocean currents that is integral to much ...

Extreme Climate Temps Hard on Unhoused Pet Owners

The unhoused population in Davis and Yolo County is highly impacted by extreme weather conditions, especially extreme temperatures caused by climate change. Most local shelters for people experien...

my train of thought

Last weekend I took an afternoon at the California State Railroad Museum. There was a big rainstorm coming in and I thought that's a good place to spend a rainy day. It ended up not raining until ...

Nominations Sought for 2024 Environmental Awards

The City of Davis is now accepting nominations for the 30th Annual Environmental Recognition Awards with a deadline of March 20, 2024. Nominations will be reviewed by the City’s Natural Resources ...

“you carry on ’cause it’s all you know”

Here are a few downtown sketches from last week. Above is Pinkadot, a clothes shop I've never been in (not really my style), next door to Baskin Robbins, which I have been in once or twice. I real...

trees before the super bowl

I really like drawing two-page panoramas, as you have probably realized, but the format of my blog is not super conducive to looking at them. It shrinks them to around 600 pixels across, making it...

a day up in the snow

A couple of weekends ago we went up to Truckee, in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains a couple of hours' drive from Davis. We don't get snow down here in the valley, but with all the weather at thi...

Davisville, Feb. 19, 2024: Measure N is normal in Davis, unusual in California

Measure N is the latest Davis schools parcel tax to come before voters — the latest in a string that goes back 40 years. Relatively few school districts in California have such taxes, and few levy...

big red mini

I learned something very interesting recently, apparently Albert Einstein's name wasn't actually Einstein, that was just a nickname people gave him because he was really clever. He'd be going all,...

the cats

If I'm at home, there's always a cat to draw. I don't always want to draw a cat, but sometimes they just sit there, and you can't help it. We have two cats, Whiskers is the smaller, Sawyer the big...

trees and fever

On the last day of January I got sick, and stayed home, getting progressively worse. By the first day of February I was laid out in bed with a fever and in no mood for anything. I slept all day lo...

making all his nowhere plans

The start to 2024 has been long and stressful, and full of tiredness and wishing to be far away somewhere with a sketchbook and my headphones on, nowhere that I have to be. But you need the busy t...

Candidate, position statements available

From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action

By Patricia M. Moore, M.A., re-published with permission, see original post on the 350 Sacramento website. Part 1: Understanding Climate Anxiety Climate anxiety is shaping the life experience of y...

playing with pure pink

After the downtown sketchcrawl, I wandered about the shops, and then popped into the Bull'n'Mouth (formerly De Vere's) for a beer before heading home. I'd really wanted to get another sketch in, a...

Clutch

Clutch, a leading woman-owned business specializing in consulting services for both private and public sectors, announced its new headquarters in the state capital of California region in Rancho C...

Davisville, Feb. 5, 2024: The Artery at 50, Cuteware, and painting Putah Creek

The Artery co-op/gallery/store turns 50 this year. Most of its downtown Davis neighbors from the 1970s are gone, so how has the Artery lasted? Heidi Bekebrede and Adele Shaw, two of its members, l...

first street, ten years later

Last week, we held our monthly ‘Let's Draw Davis!' sketchcrawl down at Davis Commons. It was an overcast day, not rainy as it had been, but not sunny. Colours had to be a nit muted, not as b...

winter shadows on the old bank of yolo

This is one from 3rd St, downtown. I stood across the street, there were some workmen around blocking off part of the street to do some work. I have drawn this building before, it's some Thai rest...

Greater Sacramento Economic Council Leads Historic International Delegation Trip to Germany

The Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) is thrilled to announce its international delegation trip to Germany on Feb. 5 as part of the council’s strategic expansion into the global market. T...

Yolo County OES Seeks Public Input on Updated Emergency Operations Plan

(Woodland, CA) – The Yolo County Office of Emergency Services is inviting Yolo County residents to provide input on the Yolo County Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) to contribute to the establishme...

DMA partners with WCC on E-Learning Lab

Appreciating this recent article about DMA's multi-year partnership with Woodland Community College on its E-Learning Studio.

go tell it to the trees

It's still January, if you can believe it. It's been a productive month sketching-wise. I wonder what the point of it all is, all this sketchbooking, but then I remember last January, all those tr...

Faye Nabhani (SAFE Credit Union)

Faye Nabhani is President & CEO of SAFE Credit Union and a member of GSEC’s Board of Directors. Learn more about why she values economic development, working with GSEC and living and working in th...

on the corner, a break in the rain

A rainy day, the showers stopped for a bit so I took a late lunch and drew the corner of A and 1st. I've drawn this corner a few times, they've painted this building a few times too. It's some fra...

every day we take another step

Another Sunday where I pushed myself to get out of the house, during a lull in the January rain we have been having. The rain is nothing like last year when all the trees came down, but we've been...

Samsung opens chip R&D office in Greater Sacramento

Samsung Semiconductor has opened an R&D office in Folsom to house an advanced computer lab and controller development team to create technology for artificial intelligence, data centers, mobile ph...

sunday kickaround

While out one Sunday during a break in the rain, I noticed a load of men playing soccer on the field by the university. I've passed by them before and noticed a few good football shirts among them...

DMA to livestream LWV Yolo County Supervisor District 4 Candidate Forum

here comes the sunscreen

I probably should have posted this with my Maui sketches, but it was done after I got back. This is the special mineral-based sunscreen that it's required to wear in Maui county, particularly if g...

Dreary January Sunday

One of those weekend days when it's dreary out, and I struggle to leave the house. The only thing to do is go out and draw, but some days I don't really want to draw any more of Davis, because I'v...

Walker Hall, ten years later

I have been getting the ‘on this day ten years ago I drew this' bug, because it's a decade since my worryingly over-productive January 2024 set of drawings around Davis (I mean, January was ...

Michelle Willard Appointed as Chief of External Relations at Sacramento State, Transitions from Greater Sacramento Economic Council

Michelle Willard, a key executive leader at the Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC), has accepted the position of Chief of External Relations at Sacramento State.

make me understand or i’ll forget

First two-page panorama of 2024, click on the image to go to my Flickr page and see it bigger. In fact you can see all of my two-page (or more-page) panorama drawings in one album there, currently...

Davisville, Jan. 22, 2024: Louie Toro demystifies smartphones

You’ve probably got a smartphone. Does it ever confuse you, or do anything you don't expect? When you have a question, where do you get answers? From friends? YouTube videos? Many of us just click...

January’s gonna January

How's January going for you? Actually no, don't tell me, Januarys are rarely fun. I mean, ours started in Maui so that was fun, but then you have to come home and get on with January. I like being...

Clutch, A Woman-Owned Business, Unveils New Headquarters in Rancho Cordova

Clutch, a leading woman-owned business specializing in consulting services for both private and public sectors, announced its new headquarters in the state capital of California region in Rancho C...

Pa’ia, `Īao, and Up-Country to Haleakalā

It wasn't all beach time in Maui. I mean it mostly was, plus pool time, plus playing the ukulele looking at the ocean time, plus expensive cocktail time. There was a lot of looking out at the suns...