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After two years of virtual Picnic Day, the annual UC Davis event (picnic lunch optional) takes place Saturday, April 23. Bring a blanket and sit to enjoy the parade, then move on to all the arts you can handle. We feature the highlights. There's plenty of other activity too.
Worthington high schools' in-person commencements slated May 24 and 25 ThisWeek group After a year in which they watched senior classes graduate online due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, seniors at Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne high schools will return to the stage May 24 and 25. The Thomas and Kilbourne classes of 2021 will receive their diplomas during in-person commencement ceremonies May 24 and 25, respectively, at the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the Ohio State University campus. The ceremonies mark a return to normalcy for the most part, according to Worthington...
First, a few words about William Wiley Before we plow into the weekend's (and next week's) great art events, I would like to take a moment to remember first-generation UC Davis art faculty William Wiley. Some of my most fun and interesting days at the UC Davis campus were spent with Wiley. He came back to the university in 2014 to present his iconic "Gong" sculpture to campus. I wrote about that event here. Today, the San Francisco Chronicle published his obituary, which does a great job telling his life story from his days before UC Davis, at UC Davis, and after UC Davis. He was 83, passin...
Pete Scully, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry's fire protection agency, stands next to his camper-shelled pickup truck at a Highway 94 turnoff east of where Campo Creek turns south into Mexico, about halfway between Campo and Potrero. The hill looming on the south side of the road is completely blackened, the aftermath of a wildfire that roared through this area the day before, Monday, September 13. "We could see the smoke, and we could see it was in Mexico. So I held off on the [large-scale] dispatch." By Ernie Grimm, October 7, 2004 | Read full article Sally Snipe...