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- Help harvest campus produce for Yolo Food Bank
Campus officials confirmed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be here Wednesday night (June 1) for a campaign rally on . The Sanders campaign is paying for all arrangements.
Officials said the field along La Rue Road will be fenced off, with entry gates and security screening set up at the northwest corner. The gates are tentatively set to open at 5 p.m.
The campaign says its 鈥淎 Future to Believe In鈥 rally is free and open to the public, with people to be admitted on a first-come-come, first-serve basis. The campaign advises: 鈥淔or security reasons, please do not bring bags, and limit what you bring to small, personal items like keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, and signs or banners on sticks will not be allowed through security.鈥
Be prepared for traffic congestion between Highway 113 and the field, on streets around the field, and in and around the Pavilion Parking Structure off Hutchison Drive. Faculty, staff and students may want to consider alternative parking or public transit. , with detailed information on routes and stops in the vicinity of Hutchison Field, and a note of caution: "Buses could be crowded, resulting in potential delays and minor service disruptions."
Also note: The pedestrian and bike path along the east side of Hutchison Field will be closed.
Help harvest campus produce for Yolo Food Bank
Besides donating food or money to the Yolo Food Bank, consider this other way to help: Come join 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis students in harvesting a campus field.
The harvest, led by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Arboretum and Public Garden鈥檚 and the , is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, June 10. Meet at the .
The field is being used this quarter for Professor Muhammad Marrush鈥檚 Plant Sciences 5, 鈥淧lants for Garden, Orchard and Landscape,鈥 providing students with hands-on experience in cultivating plants for food as well as establishing and maintaining a vegetable garden.
鈥淣ow this beautiful produce is ready to eat, but we need your help with the harvest,鈥 says the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, which is assisting the student groups in getting the word out.
Plant Sciences 5 students have taken some of the field鈥檚 produce in the past, but there were always leftovers. So, in January, the call went out for volunteers to harvest the field for the Yolo Food Bank 鈥 which end up with .
People interested in volunteering for the June 10 harvest are asked to .
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