Winters Express Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Council directs city to develop an ordinance on gun-safety

By Jacob Hoffman Express staff writer

The Winters City Council heard presentations on gun safety and firearm storage in the city and engaged in debate on what, and if any, ordinances should be adopted for safe gun storage within the city of Winters.

Winters Police Chief John Miller presented a summary of California state gun laws as well as recent gun ordinances passed in neighboring cities.

“California law actually has the most stringent gun laws in the nation undoubtedly; however many of the violations, especially when it comes to possession of firearms, believe it or not, is just a mis-

demeanor,” Miller said.

Miller further enumerated state law regarding certain “prohibited persons” not permitted to carry guns, including certain violent felons and those under restraining orders, as well as restrictions on how people can carry guns, such as concealed carry laws or laws prohibiting guns in public buildings, as well as the myriad of exceptions for things like police officers, hunting, and certain legal weapons.

Miller also outlined storage laws, including the necessity of keeping firearms in locked containers in cars, and ensuring that guns are safely kept away

See GUNSAFE, Page 6

Police seek public help to identify suspects

By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief

Winters Police Department is turning to the community to help identify two individuals who broke into the Winters Food Mart and Liquor store last Thursday.

At 5:10 a.m. on Thursday, July 19, Winters police received an alarm notification at Winters Food Mart and Liquor. Surveillance video on location captured two suspects who broke the store window (causing $1,000 in damage) and stole

City moves forward to collect delinquent utility bills

By Jacob Hoffman Express staff writer

The Winters City Council discussed taking steps to collect payments not made by city residents toward their water, sewage and/or solid waste bills at the July 18 meeting.

City Manager Kathleen Salguero Trepa explained the background as, “This is an annual process whereby we attempt to collect delinquent water and sewage utility accounts. We do make an effort to reach out to the property owners, we sent letters on May 17 and again on June 7.

The property owners have all been notified that accounts are delinquent…and that if they aren’t paid in full that we do have the ability to lien the property subject to council approval.”

The list of delinquent fees totals just over $44,000.

The staff report states the adoption of this motion would mean “the city council must, by Aug. 10, file a copy of the report of delinquent water and sewer charges with the Yolo County Auditor-Controller. The Auditor-Controller must enter the delinquent amounts against the parcels on the assessment roll. Such charges constitute a lien against the premises against… which the charges have been imposed.”

Mayor Bill Biasi asked if the city had been enforcing its policy of penalties for light payments, which Trepa said has not been the case, with Biasi suggesting this policy be enforced for the delinquent accounts.

Council member Richard Casavecchia asked if there was a mechanism for shutting off services, which the city confirmed was “stayed because of COVID,” but is being reimplemented.

The public hearing began with resident Tina Lowden who said these delinquencies cause the city difficulties, as well as the structure of the city’s financial enforcement being inefficient.

Council member

$2,500 in products.

Based on the camera footage, Suspect No. 1 was wearing camouflage pants, a green hooded sweatshirt with a white shirt underneath, black-andwhite shoes, a red hat, a black face mask and white gloves. Suspect No. 2 was wearing dark pants, a brown hooded sweatshirt, gloves, a dark mask and white and dark shoes. Both suspects left the scene in a vehicle described as an older model gold Toyota Sequoia with chrome aftermarket rims, according to a Winters PD so-

cial media post.

Similar burglaries took place in Dunnigan and Davis within the same time period. Winters PD is working with the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office and Davis Police Department to confirm if the burglaries were connected.

Anyone with information regarding this incident should contact the Winters police tipline by email at tips.winters @winterspolice.org or by phone at 530-795-4561. Callers can remain anonymous, according to the post.

Councilman pleads no contest to weapon allegations

By Lauren Keene McNaughton Media

A Winters city councilman charged with felony weapon possession made a plea agreement Wednesday that reduces his two most serious charges to misdemeanors.

Richard Thomas Casavecchia’s deal won’t be official until Aug. 2, however, as his attorney, who appeared in Yolo Superior Court remotely via Zoom, inadvertently filed a plea form that did not include the required signature. Casavecchia did not

appear in court.

Under the agreement, Casavecchia pleaded no contest to two counts of possessing an assault rifle. A third count, possession of an unserialized firearm, will be dismissed. Casavecchia, 39, is expected to be sentenced to one year of informal probation and 100 hours of community service. He pledged to surrender the two rifles to law enforcement.

Court documents describe both of those weapons as “semiautomatic, centerfire ri-

fle(s) that did not have a fixed magazine. Further, (they) had a pistol grip that protruded conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon, a telescoping stock, a forward pistol grip and a flash suppressor. Both rifles meet the definition of an assault weapon.” His attorney, Michael Wise, could not be reached for comment.

Casavecchia still retains his seat on the Winters City Council. Members of the public have called for his resignation at several city council meetings.

County files lawsuit alleging state CEQA violations

McNaughton Media staff

Yolo County officials announced Tuesday it’s filing of a lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources in connection with certain undisclosed aspects of the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project.

Filed in Yolo Superior Court, the action asserts that DWR violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by failing to disclose the conveyance capacity of operable gates at the Fremont Weir.

County officials

called the lawsuit

“necessary to safeguard the interests of Yolo County residents, protect agriculture and maintain transparency throughout important projects,” according to a news release.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources are partnering to reconnect floodplain habitat and improve fish passage for young salmon, according to the project website. “The Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration Project works to reconnect

the floodplain for fish during the winter season and improve connectivity within the bypass and to the Sacramento River,” the site says. “The project provides seasonal inundation that mimics the natural process of the Yolo Bypass floodplain and improves connectivity within the bypass and to the Sacramento River.”

Currently being built seven miles northeast of Woodland, the operable gates are slated to convey twice as much water from See CEQA, Page 5

Camera footage from a gas stations captured the gold Toyota Sequoia the two suspects left the scent in. The vehicle is described as an older model with chrome aftermarket rims on the wheels.

CalSTA awards grant for Road 32A project

Express hiring staff writer for city, education news

Express staff

The Winters Express is seeking a part-time journalist to cover the city and education-related news.

The staff writer position is responsible for covering the Winters City Council and Winters Planning Commission meetings, as well as assisting in education-related articles. The writer will be responsible for attending the city-related meetings on alternating Tuesdays at 6 p.m.

The writer may also be responsible for assisting with other city-related meetings as assigned or reporting on breaking local news.

Writers are responsible for their own transportation. The editor is looking for an experienced reporter who is familiar with how local government operates, has a strong news sense, a healthy curiosity and an intense focus to pivot quickly between a wide variety of topics. Some articles are brief and informative, while

others require a more investigative and research-driven approach.

The ideal candidate can think critically on the fly, consider no assignment too big or small and will not be afraid to ask probing questions. Throughout the week, the writer is responsible for conducting follow-up interviews based on reports from public meetings.

The staff writer position works flexible hours, typically dictated only by meeting times and dates, and must be able to work with ironclad deadlines in mind. The writer is responsible for writing two to three clips weekly, with additional work available optionally on assignment.

The Express staff writer position is a vital part of the editorial team’s mission to inform the community on local news topics through accurate, thorough, just and fair reporting and writing. This watchdog position plays a crucial role as part of a thriving

local democracy. This is a part-time position. A college degree is required, and a professional or educational focus on journalism should be evident. Previous experience at a daily newspaper or other professional media organization is preferred but not necessary. The job pays $15.50 per hour, and typically takes at least an eighthour per week commitment.

The Winters Express is the community newspaper for Winters, California.

Established in 1884 and locally owned and operated ever since. The Express is part of the McNaughton Newspapers family and the oldest business in Winters. For more information about the job opening, email your resume and links or scanned images of at least three writing clips to Editor-in-Chief Crystal Apilado at crystal@wintersexpress.com. The job will also be posted on Indeed.com and other potential jobpost sites.

WTC hosts auditions for The Miracle Worker

By Linda Glick Special to the Express

Winters Theatre Company planned to put on a production of “The Miracle Worker” three years ago. However, in March 2020, the curtain was about to go up on the opening night for this production, but it was suddenly closed as the pandemic erupted. WTC is bringing this show back with most of the original cast. Some of the original youth cast members have since aged-

out of their original roles they were cast for.

“The Miracle Worker” will open on Nov. 10 and runs on the weekends through Nov. 26 at the Winters Community Center, located at 201 Railroad Ave.

Auditions for unfilled roles will be held on Sept. 5 and 6 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Winters Community Center.

Auditions will consist of cold-reading from the script.

The unfilled roles

for “The Miracle Worker” include:

• Helen Keller (aged 10–12)

• James Keller (Helen’s brother, teen to early 20s)

• Boy (aged 10–12)

• Three young girls who are blind (aged 8–11) More information and contact information can be found online at winterstheatre.org.

Community members can find updates from WTC on Facebook atfacebook.com/ winterstheatre.

McNaughton Media staff

Yolo County announced this week that it will receive a grant of $4.16 million from the California State Transportation Agency for the environmental and design elements of the County Road 32A Crossing Relocation and Grade Separation Project. This project aims to enhance safety, improve transportation efficiency and boost economic growth in our region, according to the county.

The County Road 32A Crossing Relocation and Grade Separation Project will address the existing crossing with the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision. Currently, the crossing’s geometry poses safety and operational challenges, as it intersects with a rail line that carries freight and passenger trains daily. By relocating and grade-separating the crossing, the county will significantly reduce conflicts between trains and those using the roadway.

“This project is a top priority for Yolo County,” Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza said. “Having a grade-separated railroad crossing will significantly reduce the danger posed to cyclists, cars, and trains traveling on Road 32A. These improvements will not only benefit our local commuters but also strengthen our regional economic competitiveness.”

Union Pacific has pushed for change for years, filing an application with the California Public Utilities Commission in October 2017 seeking to move, alter or close the crossing. The railroad argued that the road configuration at the location — where Road 32A and a bike path meet Road 105 — is the primary cause of accidents. Road 32A runs parallel to I-80 on the

freeway’s north side, connecting Mace Boulevard to the Yolo Causeway. But at the Road 105 intersection, drivers traveling in either direction on the frontage road must make a right turn, cross the railroad tracks, then make a left turn to continue along.

Union Pacific contended that too often, motorists overshoot the turn in the road because of speed, inattention or failure to comply with traffic signs. They lose control, leave the road and come to rest on the right-of-way near, and sometimes on, the tracks.

ty of the current road configuration. Following mediation among all of the participants, Union Pacific agreed to put its PUC application on hold while the city and county researched options for moving the crossing closer to the causeway.

The funding provided by the Transportation Infrastructure Rail Capital Program positions this project to be eligible for future federal and state funding programs.

Yolo County officials plan to leverage the grant to secure additional resources toward the total estimated cost of $46 million. The county will request a letter of no prejudice to expedite the process, with the goal of completing the funded phases by 2026.

But simply closing the crossing to motor vehicle traffic — which essentially closes Road 32A — is not an option, according to the city, county and local farmers.

In addition to its use by commuters seeking to avoid traffic on I-80, farmers use it to move heavy vehicles from the south side of the freeway to the north and vice versa.

Shortly after Union Pacific filed its application with the PUC, a number of local agencies joined together to fight the effort, including the city of Davis, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors, the Yolo County Farm Bureau, and the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Bike Davis, a local advocacy group, later joined the proceedings as well, as Road 32A is used by cyclists traveling between Davis and Sacramento via the causeway. Many of those cyclists have their own concerns about the safe-

“We applaud Yolo County’s efforts to address safety issues at grade crossings by seeking new funding opportunities at the state and federal level,” said Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) Managing Director Rob Padgette. “This project will not only improve safety at this location, but also improve the reliability of Capitol Corridor service. Our top priority is for the safety of our passengers, our crews, and the community.”

“Yolo County is immensely grateful for the support and recognition from CalSTA in awarding this grant,” the county said in a news release. “The county would like to assure community members that this funding will directly benefit them by improving safety, reducing travel disruptions, and contributing to our region’s economic prosperity. This is one example of the county’s commitment to promoting transportation equity, sustainability, and the overall well-being of our residents.”

County launches free human-resources hotline

Express staff

Yolo County businesses now have a valuable resource at their fingertips with the launch of the Human Resources Advice hotline. Developed in collaboration with YoloWorks!, the California Employers Association, and the Yolo County Workforce Innovation Board, this hotline offers essential support to employers seeking to maintain compliance, implement effective human resource solutions, and enhance their workforce.

The Human Resources Advice hotline, available in English and Spanish, provides unlimited phone support with seasoned human re-

sources experts, ensuring businesses receive the guidance they need. It operates Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and can be accessed by calling 1-888-9007791.

Through this service, businesses can access a plethora of online resources, addressing key areas that can impact their operations:

• Best Practices for Hiring and Termination

• Understanding Paid Sick Leave Laws

• Navigating Wage and Hour Laws

• Developing Effective Employee Handbook Policies

• Ensuring Human Resources Compliance

• Creating Workplace Accommodations

“This initiative is part of YoloWorks!’s commitment to support our local business community and foster a thriving workforce,” said Erica Johnson, HHSA Manager at Yolo County.

“By providing this free Human Resources Advice hotline, we aim to empower businesses with the knowledge and tools necessary to succeed.” YoloWorks! is a collaborative partnership between the Yolo County Workforce Innovation Board, the Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency, and the American Job Centers of California (YoloWorks Career Centers). The hotline is just one of the many programs offered by YoloWorks! to strengthen businesses and the community at large.

For more information on the Human Resources Advice hotline and other YoloWorks! Programs, contact Erica Johnson at erica.johnson@yolocounty.org or visit yoloworks.org. Alternatively, reach out by calling or texting 530631-2289.

“This project is a top priority for Yolo County.”

Jim Provensa, county supervisor

Mulch to beat the heat

By Denise Cottrell

There is no denying it, summer is here, and it is hot. As a gardener, you might become an addictive weather watcher, checking daily temperatures to respond quickly and provide plants with the extra care they may need during days of extreme heat. One precaution to help your plants withstand the heat is to water early in the day. Watering when the temperatures of the day are cooler will mean less water loss from evaporation.

Adding mulch to your garden beds will also aid the soil in retaining moisture and minimizing water evaporation from the soil surface. Using an organic mulch such as shredded or chipped bark, grass clippings, or straw, in addition to slowing evaporation, will help to keep the soil and plants cool. As organic material breaks down over time, it contributes to the health of your soil. Apply a layer of 2 to 4 inches in garden beds. However, keep the mulch about 3 to 4 inches away from the trunk or stem of the plant to prevent rot. If you require further help with your garden during these times of excessive heat, contact the UCCE Master Gardeners -Yolo via the hotline at 530 6668736 or via email at mgyolo@ucdavis.edu.

The UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo also provide help via their

Questions-and-Answers Desk held throughout Yolo County. In August you will find the UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo on Saturday mornings at the Davis and Woodland Farmers Markets. The Woodland Farmers Market is located on First Street across from Woodland Public Library. Here, Master Gardeners can be found ready to help you from 9 a.m.

t0 12 p.m. At the Davis Farmer’s Market in Central Park, located at 4th and C Streets, UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo are available from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The “desk” is located between the Rose Garden and the Sensory Garden. In West Sacramento, UCCE Master Gardener-Yolo Janet Branaman will be on hand to lead the Question-and-Answer Desk at Lowes, located at 2250 Lake Washington Blvd, on Saturday, August 5, and August 19, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo provides free workshops throughout the month of August. Workshops and talks provide a way to beat the heat and join with other gardeners, those who are just curious, or anyone who wants to learn more about a specific topic. Some workshops are available via Zoom. Think of it as gardening in air conditioning.

If you want someone as a guide for growing an edible garden, Kitchen Garden Chat is for you. Every month

Treva Valentine, of the UCCE Master Gardener Program-Yolo, provides tips and advice on what to do in the edible garden. Attend in August and learn the tasks for the best maintenance of your garden and hear some tips on how to get your winter garden started. In addition, find out what succession planting is and how to use it in the garden.

Join in this monthly meeting on Saturday, August 5, from 10 to 11 a.m., in person at the Leake Room of the Woodland Public Library, located at the corner of Court and College, or via Zoom, at https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763.

Don’t forget to bring all your gardening questions.

Would you like to extend your garden’s cut flower growing season? Attend the UCCE Master Gardeners – Yolo/ Yolo County Library Workshop via Zoom (https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/83818274328).

to learn how to Extend Your Cut Flower Growing Season. On Thursday, August 10 from 3 to 4 p.m., Janey Santos, and Kathy Guerrero, of the UCCE Master Gardener Program-Yolo, will teach how to extend your cut flower growing season by taking advantage of the “Cool Flower Method” for cut flowers. Learn how to achieve stronger, earlier blooms by sowing cut flowers in the fall. Learn tips for successful cut flower gardening, succession

planting, cut flower seed sowing, and soil blocking.

The second monthly UCCE County Master Gardeners-Yolo/Yolo County Library Workshop will be held on Thursday, August 24, from 3 to 4 p.m. Yvonne Rasmussen, Coordinator for the UCCE Master Gardeners of Napa County, will discuss Common Diseases in Plants, and provide information on accurate identification and possible treatment. The Zoom link for August 24 is https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/81941932482. For more information about UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo/Yolo County Library Workshops and to receive

Zoom links, contact Jennifer Baumbach at jmbaumbach@ucanr. edu, or Joan Tuss at Joan.Tuss@yolocounty.org.

The UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo workshop, Gardening for Year-Round Meals will meet on August 12, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the picnic table next to the hoop house at Grace Garden, located behind the United Methodist Church at 1620 Anderson Road, in Davis. The August session will provide specific information about planting beets and enjoying your basil harvest. If you find yourself looking for recipes to utilize for your August harvest,

attend this workshop for summer garden recipes. UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener Pam McCabe will lead the discussion. Gardening For Year-Round Meals is held monthly and meets on the second Saturday of every month.

All UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo events are free and open to the public. If you wish more information about the August workshops, please contact Jennifer Baumbach at jmbaumbach@ ucanr.edu or call the UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo helpline at 530-666-8736.

Yolo Supervisors OK Chávez, Juneteenth holidays

Express staff

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the official designation of César Chávez Day (March 31) and Juneteenth (June 19) as county holidays.

“Yolo County has reaffirmed its commitment to inclusivity, appreciation of its workforce, and acknowledges the invaluable contributions of diverse communities to the cultural fabric of American society,” a news release said.

“Today’s formal designation of César Chávez Day and Juneteenth as county holidays serves as a catalyst for cultural understanding, reflection, and education,” said board Chairman Oscar Villegas. “This milestone reflects our deep respect

for the contributions made by individuals who fought for social justice and equality. By acknowledging these holidays, we foster unity

1995, serves as a tribute to the remarkable accomplishments of Cesario Estrada Chávez, a Mexican American labor leader

conditions of Latino farm workers across Yolo County and the nation,” the news release said.

Juneteenth, a commem-

“By authorizing these two new paid holidays, the Board has shown a very strong commitment toward supporting our workforce and promoting the monumental historical significance represented by both holidays.”

Gerardo Pineda, administrative officer

and inclusivity within our community, recognizing the diverse tapestry that enriches Yolo County.”

César Chávez Day, celebrated in California since

and civil rights activist. “By formally designating César Chávez Day, Yolo County acknowledges Chavez’s tireless efforts in improving the lives and working

oration that has been observed by Black Americans since 1865, gained federal recognition as a holiday in 2021. “By formally designating Juneteenth, Yolo

County leads the nationwide recognition of this celebration of freedom, symbolizing the liberation of enslaved African Americans and honoring their enduring struggle for equality and justice,” according to the release

“I am profoundly pleased with the leadership of our Board of Supervisors in formally designating these important holidays, which reflect Yolo County’s values of inclusivity, equity, and unity. By authorizing these two new paid holidays, the Board has shown a very strong commitment toward supporting our workforce and promoting the monumental historical significance represented

See COUNTY, Page 5

UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo

File photo

UCCE Master Gardeners-Yolo offers a variety of workshops and online events so community members can learn about how to best care for their gardens.

Lake levels

Express staff

The water level of Lake Berryessa went down during the past week by 0.50 feet, with a decrease in the storage of 8,864 acre-feet of water, according to Ken Emigh of the Solano Irrigation District. On the morning of Tuesday, July 25 the

lake level was 427.18 feet above sea level, with storage computed at 1,317,508 acre-feet of water. Evaporation on the lake averaged 314 acre-feet of water per day. The SID is diverting 599 cubic feet per second of water in the Putah South Canal, with 44 cubic feet per second flowing at the Diversion Dam.

Public Safety Report

City of Winters

Fire

The Fire Log is expected to return next week.

Police Arrest Log

Jul. 13: Jack Ken-

neth Graham (Age 35), Charges: Exhibition of speed, Disposition: Released on notice to appear

Jul. 14: Alexis Luna (Age 18);

Charges: Possession of controlled substance without a prescription, Use of a controlled substance; Disposition: Released on notice to appear

~Elvira Maria

Lemus, (Age 30), Charges Assault with force: possible great bodily harm, Disposition: Transported to Yolo County Jail

Jul. 16: Rosdel

Ruiz Cruz (Age 27);

Charges: Driving under the influence of a drug, Possession of unlawful Paraphernalia, Failure to stop at a red light; Disposition: Transported to Yolo County Jail

Jul. 19: Kevin

Coleman (Age 66), Charges: Shoplifting, Disposition: Transported to Yolo County Jail ~Jose DeJesus Co-

Obituaries

varrubias Guzman (Age 27); Charges: Driving under the influence, Driving with a blood alcohol level above .08 percent, no vehicle registration, crossing over double yellow lines; Disposition: Released on notice to appear

Report Log

Jul. 12: 9:58 p.m., Almond Drive/Orchard Lane, Administrative Citation

Jul. 15: 1:46 p.m., 20000 Block of County Road 90, Stolen Vehicle

Jul. 17: 12 a.m., 100 Block of E. Baker Street, Vandalism

~6:48 p.m., 200 Block of Anderson Avenue, Audible Alarm

Jul. 18: 3:06 p.m., 700 Block of Valley Oak Drive, Vehicle tow

Jul. 19: 5:10 a.m., 100 Block of E. Grant Avenue, Burglary

~8:11 a.m., 700 Block of Railroad Avenue, Audible Alarm

~5:52 p.m., 300 Block of Grant Avenue, Domestic Verbal Fight

For our editorial policy on crime log entries, see winters express.com/unpub lishing-policy.

This is something that you just don’t see anymore in Winters, an apricot picker working in an orchard. This picture was taken in 1994 when apricots were in their decline in our area. Winters was known for its early apricots, but they went the way of our peach orchards. When you see walnut orchards, they are planted on the memories of apricot and peach trees of a generation ago. Now we are seeing the older walnut orchards being cut down and sometimes replanted with walnuts, but more pistachios are showing up where they never were before. Have walnuts run their course in Winters? Winters is still the land of fruits and nuts.

130 Years Ago

July 29, 1893

C. A. Stevenson and C. M. Burns were up from Vacaville on Thursday last. Mr. Stevenson informed the Express that he will resume his position as conductor on the railroad between Elmira and Rumsey the first of next month.

George Crandall has succeeded Mr. McDonald as local agent for the Earl Fruit Company.

May and Emily Ritchie went to San Francisco on Monday morning’s train to visit relatives there.

On Wednesday a teamster hauling wheat to the warehouse, passing “Uncle” Ben Ely’s residence at Buckeye, discovered the smoke house to be on fire and gave the alarm. Five minutes work put the fire out, without any particular damage being done.

S. H. Hoy expects to start out on the circuit next Monday with his string of racers.

The Esparto Press says that J. N. B. Wyatt and family of Capay will shortly move to Winters. We will be glad to welcome this estimable family among us.

After a sickness extending over a period of fifteen months Venable Morris passed to the world beyond the tomb on Sunday afternoon last, about 3 o’clock.

Emma Lechleiter, a

Far

Years Ago

Dispatches from the Express archives.

13-year-old girl, has taken charge of and runs the steam pump which supplies water for the town, during the absence of her father who has been in the country for the past two weeks. Emma is the youngest engineer we know of, and is deserving of credit for the skillful manner in which she has discharged her trust.

On Wednesday last, July 25, Joseph Griffin and Miss Lena DeVilbiss were joined in holy wedlock, Rev. Father Walsh of Sacramento tying the nuptial knot.

95 Years Ago

July 27, 1928

On Sunday, Aug. 5, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson will begin his ministry at the Winters Christian Church. Mr. and Wilkinson have been called from Los Angeles to take the work in Winters. Miss Elsie M. Kain who was very successful as commercial instructor in Winters High School last year

You don’t have to travel far for extraordinary service. All the attributes you expect of a good neighbor – personal consideration, understanding, and consistent support – you can expect from us.

has accepted a position with Armstrong’s in San Francisco at a very substantial increase in salary.

Miss Dadmun will head the history department on the high school faculty next year. Miss Dadmun comes well recommended and with several years experience. An error occurred in the name of the manual training instructor as the item appeared recently in the Express. The name is William Pugh, who is from Campbell, and not Mr. Campbell as the item stated.

Dr. B. E. Hoye and son, Bart, of Seattle, who are on a motor trip south, spent a few days in Sacramento recently where they were the guests of Mrs. S. C. Sanborn and Dorothy M. Niemann, sister and niece of Dr. Hoy.

Rev. Geo. Kmecik left Monday for his summer vacation which he will spend on his fruit farm at Orangevale. Rev. H. C. Culton will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning. There will be no evening service.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sears and little daughter, Olga Mae returned home Saturday after a two weeks’ sojourn at Samuels Springs.

Little Miss Alta May Womack of Oakland has been a guest at the home of her aunt,

Mrs. J. J. Fischer.

80 Years Ago

July 30, 1943

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sears and daughter, Olga Mae were recent dinner hosts honoring Pfc. Laverne Leggett, at home on furlough, who has since re turned to Camp McCain, Mississippi. Mrs. R. C. Snodgrass received a telephone message from her son Jack Djubek in San Diego.

The proposed budget for the Winters Joint Union High School District is $47,576.00, of which $26,600.00 is to be used for teacher salaries.

The proposed budget for the Winters Elementary District for the 1943-44 fiscal year is $21,225.00, of which $14,875.00 is budgeted for instruction.

Rev. E. E. Zimmerman is planning a Spanish evangelistic rally, at his Railroad avenue Mission, Sunday, Aug. 8. Master Sgt. Edwin Neel and bride, the former Dorothy Martin, returned Friday from their honeymoon outing at Tahoe resorts.

C. P. Culton was a Sunday visitor with C. S. Culton and family in Sacramento. The brothers offered song service Sunday evening at Boulevard Chapel, Sacramento.

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Yolo Youth Commission announces $160K in grants

Express staff

The Yolo Youth Commission is inviting youth-serving organizations to apply for new grants designed to make a positive impact in the community by addressing the ongoing needs of youth and teens in Yolo County.

Managed by the commission, the $160,000 “Youth Empowered Through Action (YEA!)” grant program offers the opportunity for organizations to apply for four competitive grants in the amount of $40,000 each.

The YEA! grants are available to nonprofit organizations and public agencies, including school districts and county

agencies. The grant program is funded by county cannabis tax revenue.

Applications must be received by 5 p.m. on Aug. 7. The commission will review all submitted applications and invite select applicants to advance to a second application round. The grant application and additional materials can be accessed on the Yolo Youth Commission website at www. ycoe.org/youthcommission.

In May, the commission developed the grant process with input from youths collected during public workshops conducted in Davis and Woodland. From the workshops, the commission identified three

priority areas for the grants, which include offering free recreational activities, providing additional after school programs with life skills for teens, and expanding civic engagement opportunities for younger youth.

The three priorities identified by the commission were also presented to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on June 27.

Organizations interested in applying for the YEA! grants are encouraged to attend an optional information session to learn more about the grant application process. Two information sessions will be held on July 26 at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A third and final session will be held on

New

July 31 at 10 a.m. All sessions will be held via Zoom and meeting details are located at www.ycoe.org/youthcommission.

The Yolo Youth Commission is a partnership between the Yolo County Office of Education (YCOE), Yolo County, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland.

In May 2022, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to establish the youth commission as a twoyear pilot program and authorized YCOE to administer the program. In November 2022, 15 teenagers were selected to serve on the inaugural commission. The commission held its first meeting in January.

Thompson opens application window for service academies

Express staff

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, announced Tuesday the opening of the military academies’ nomination process for eligible students from California’s Fourth Congressional District. This prestigious opportunity allows aspiring young leaders to pursue a worldclass education and embark on a path of service.

Congressman Thompson encourages all eligible students in the Fourth District to apply for nomination to the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy,

Jesse Loren said, “I support making a motion for this, but also adding that we begin following through with late charges.”

Casavecchia asked about the specifics of what late charges entail, with Trepa answering it’s a percentage of the delinquent bill.

Council members supported a grace period on the bills so that late fees don’t go into effect immediately. Biasi said, “If we give them, say 30 days after receiving this bill…but there needs to be some kind of penalty if people aren’t paying their bill

and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

“I am excited to announce that my office is now accepting applications for nominations to our esteemed military academies. These academies pro-

the whole year. You’re wrecking staff’s time to send two different letters, and we have to go through this process with council, staff and into the county — so there’s a lot of work

vide an unparalleled education while instilling values of honor, integrity, and dedication to serving our country,” said Thompson. “I encourage eligible students to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on our nation and embrace a path of leadership and service.”

Interested applicants must meet specific eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship, age restrictions, and medical qualifications. Additionally, candidates must demonstrate outstanding academic achievements, leadership abilities, and a strong commitment to serving the nation.

staff.

The council members approved the proposal to collect on the charges as well as to add a grace period and implementation of late fees in the future.

that goes into this.”

Casavecchia agreed, adding that with the city’s expected growth rate it will only add to the burden on city

The council also discussed solid waste delinquent charges along similar lines to water and sewage.

Learn more at https:// tinyurl.com/ycynv9na.

All applications, along with the required supporting documents, must be hand-delivered or postmarked by the first Monday in October. It is recommended that applicants begin the process early and gather all necessary materials to ensure a complete and timely submission.

For more information on the military academy’s nomination process or to obtain an application packet, interested students and families can contact Thompson’s office at 707-542-7182.

Additional details are available at https:// tinyurl.com/2674cnhc.

Loren added, “When people have a lot of financial hard times… the thing they aren’t going to pay is probably that bill because they’re still going to get water, they’re still going to put their trash out, I can see the human need for it, but because of all the staff time, again, I support the item.”

Following the passing of the resolution for solid waste, Biasi said, “I would just urge people, if they’re watching this online if you’re having trouble paying your water and sewer bill, come to the city and talk to us and see if we can work out a payment plan,” which is something Trepa said has happened in the past.

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holidays.” Said County Administrative Officer Gerardo Pinedo. “I am especially proud that this approval comes on the heels of the board’s recent approval and fund-

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the Sacramento River into Yolo Bypass farm fields than the DWR previously disclosed to the public, the county said.

According to the news release, the county discovered that the project is being built to release 12,000 cubic feet per second, rather than the 6,000 cfs rate DWR disclosed in public documents.

That, officials say, equates roughly to the entire Sacramento River flow at the Fremont Weir on a typical summer day.

The petition also asserts that DWR violated CEQA by making changes to the project after its initial approval. Specifically, the elimination of levee cutoff walls, which serve as protective features against potential damage caused by water flow, raised concerns about potential impacts on groundwater levels, drainage and agriculture in the Elkhorn area.

Yolo County officials contend these changes should have been subject to public notification and analysis of their potential consequences.

“We were disappointed to learn that DWR appeared to withhold the true scope of the project in public meetings and in the environ-

ing for the county’s first-ever manager of diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Tico Zendejas. Both actions reaffirm Yolo County’s dedication and strong sense of pride in embracing the multicultural diversity of our great County.”

mental review process over the course of several years,” Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza said.

“DWR released over 10,000 pages of material describing the project and its potential impacts, always describing the project as having a 6,000 cfs design capacity,” Provenza added. “I personally met with DWR leadership for years regarding the project, only to recently learn it is twice the size they advised us and the public all along.”

Supervisor Gary Sandy agreed.

“DWR has long known about Yolo County’s concerns about the project and its potential impacts on agriculture,” Sandy said. “A larger project only increases those concerns and changing it to eliminate levee protection features is a step in the wrong direction with the potential for additional impacts to farming in the Elkhorn area to the east of the Yolo Bypass.”

The county’s lawsuit seeks various forms of relief, including a halt to the project’s construction and its operations until DWR resolves the legal issues raised by the county.

Read the entire lawsuit online at https://tinyurl.com/ wktwnf4y.

“I would just urge people ... if you’re having trouble paying your water and sewer bill, come to the city and talk to us and see if we can work out a payment plan .”

Bill Biasi, mayor

Rep. Mike Thompson

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How California fights its unpredictable wildfires with analytics

By Julie Cart CalMatters

Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie wasn’t expecting much to worry about when a late summer fire erupted north of Santa Cruz, home to California’s moist and cool “asbestos forests.” This place doesn’t burn, he thought, with just three notable fires there in 70 years.

Heggie’s job was to predict for the crews where the wildfire might go and when, working through calculations based on topography, weather and fuels — the “immutable” basics. For fire behavior analysts like Heggie, predictable and familiar are manageable, while weird and unexpected are synonyms for danger.

But that 2020 fire was anything but predictable.

Around 3 a.m. on Aug. 16, ominous thunder cells formed over the region. Tens of thousands of lightning strikes rained down, creating a convulsion of fire that became the CZU Lightning Complex.

By noon there were nearly two dozen fires burning, and not nearly enough people to handle them. Flames were roaring throughout the Coast Range in

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from where children under 18 can access them.

Moving on to local activity, Miller explained that three local ordinances were recently passed in the cities of Davis and Woodland, and at the Yolo County level regarding gun storage.

“In Davis’ ordinance” the Chief detailed “it prohibits keeping a firearm in the residence unless it is carried on the person or in close proximity, or it’s stored in a locked container, or it’s equipped with a firearm safety device. It requires that firearms, not including handguns. In other words, legal rifles or shotguns, left unattended in a vehicle…has to be left in a locked container in the trunk, both conditions, so the shotgun has to be in a locked container inside the

deep-shaded forests and waist-high ferns in sight of the Pacific Ocean. No one had ever seen anything like it. The blaze defied predictions and ran unchecked for a month. The fire spread to San Mateo County, burned through 86,000 acres, destroyed almost 1,500 structures and killed a fleeing resident.

“It was astonishing to see that behavior and consumption of heavy fuels,” Heggie said. “Seeing the devastation was mind-boggling. Things were burning outside the norm. I hadn’t seen anything burn that intensely in my 30 years.”

Almost as troubling was what this fire didn’t do — it didn’t back off at night.

“We would have burning periods increase in the afternoon, and we saw continuous high-intensity burns in the night,” Heggie said. “That’s when we are supposed to make up ground. That didn’t happen.”

That 2020 summer of fires, the worst in California history, recalibrated what veteran firefighters understand about fire behavior: Nothing is as it was.

Intensified by climate change, especially warmer nights

locked trunk…it also prohibits that they can’t be left overnight.” Miller noted that the ordinance ”defers to state law for handguns.”

For Yolo County, Miller said the ordinance is “very, very similar to Davis” with the same restrictions on the storage of guns in a residence while having a similar condition for vehicles with the added possi-

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and longer droughts, California’s fires often morph into megafires, and even gigafires covering more than a million acres.

U.S. wildfires have been four times larger and three times more frequent since 2000, according to University of Colorado researchers. And other scientists recently predicted that up to 52% more California forest acreage will burn in summertime over the next two decades because of the changing climate.

As California now heads into its peak time for wildfires, even with last year’s quiet season and the end of its three-year drought, the specter of megafires hasn’t receded. Last winter’s record winter rains, rather than tamping down fire threats, have promoted lush growth, which provides more fuel for summer fires.

Cal Fire officials warn that this year’s conditions are similar to the summer and fall of 2017 — when a rainy winter was followed by one of the state’s most destructive fire seasons, killing 47 people and destroying almost 11,000 structures.

It’s not just the size and power of modern wildfires, but their ca-

bility of keeping the gun “affixed to the interior of the vehicle, or the weapon has to be tethered to the inside of the trunk.”

Woodland, Miller explained “only addresses keeping a firearm in the residence, it requires it be stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock” while “the only difference between state law is with ‘long guns,’ the shotguns and the rifles.”

Miller said that Winters Police Department has reached out to Project Childsafe about getting gun locks provided to the city’s police.

Council member Carol Scianna noted that local gun ordinances on top of state laws “are worth discussing.” “If you’re going to have a gun, we need to stress how important it is to store them safely and make sure unintended consequences aren’t happening” and

pricious behavior that has confounded fire veterans — the feints and shifts that bedevil efforts to predict what a fire might do and then devise strategies to stop it. It’s a dangerous calculation: In the literal heat of a fire, choices are consequential. People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake.

Cal Fire crews now often find themselves outflanked. Responding to larger and more erratic and intense fires requires more personnel and equipment. And staging crews and engines where flames are expected to go has been thrown off-kilter.

“We live in this new reality,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a recent Cal Fire event, “where we can’t necessarily attach ourselves to some of the more predictive models of the past because of a world that is getting a lot hotter, a lot drier and a lot more uncertain because of climate change.”

CalFire has responded by tapping into all the new technology — such as drones, military satellites, infrared images and AI-assisted maps — that can be brought to bear during a fire. Commanders now must consider a broader range of pos-

voiced her support for ordinances similar to those of Yolo County.

Council member Jesse Loren also voiced her support for an ordinance in Winters regarding childsafe locks and other storage measures, with Mayor Pro Tem Albert Vallecillo echoing the previous sentiments.

Mayor Bill Biasi said his opinion is “it seems like the state law covers pretty much everything… if we went forward and put an ordinance in place, to me that’s not necessarily going to educate people…I think we could do that without an ordinance.” Council member Richard Casavecchia also opined that firearm safety ordinances aren’t enough of a problem to warrant the city’s resources.

In public input, resident Nick Walters said ordinances make him “think of the farmers” and questioned if

sibilities so they can pivot when the firefront shifts in an unexpected way. The agency also has beefed up its ability to fight nighttime fires with a new fleet of Fire Hawk helicopters equipped to fly in darkness.

The state has thrown every possible data point at the problem with its year-old Wildfire Threat and Intelligence Integration Center, which pulls information from dozens of federal, state and private sources to create a minute-by-minute picture of conditions conducive to sparking or spreading fires.

“We’re enlisting cutting-edge technology in our efforts to fight wildfires,” Newsom said, “exploring how innovations like artificial intelligence can help us identify threats quicker and deploy resources smarter.”

Scientists say the past 20 years have brought a profound — and perhaps irreversible — shift in the norms of wildfire behavior and intensity. Fires burn along the coast even when there’s no desert winds to drive them, fires refuse to lay down at night and fires pierced the socalled Redwood Curtain, burning 97 per-

these measures would unduly burden a community with so many farmers, as well as noting that new gun owners already have

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to pass a certain number of safety tests.

Mary Lou Rossetto, a member of Moms Demand Action and its lead for Yolo County as well as a former

cent of California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods.

The changes in wildfires are driven by an array of factors: a megadrought from the driest period recorded in the Western U.S. in the past 1,200 years, the loss of fog along the California coast, and stubborn nighttime temperatures that propel flames well into the night.

Higher temperatures and longer dry periods are linked to worsening fires in Western forests, with an eightfold increase from 1985 to 2017 in severely burned acreage, according to a 2020 study. “Warmer and drier fire seasons corresponded with higher severity fire,” the researchers wrote, suggesting that “climate change will contribute to increased fire severity in future decades.”

“What we are seeing is a dramatic increase in extreme fire behavior,” Heggie said. “When you have a drought lasting 10 years, devastating the landscape, you have dead fuel loading and available fuel for when these fires start. That’s the catalyst for megafire. That’s been the driving force for change in fire behavior.”

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police officer and a hunter, stated that she “think(s) there are a lot of things we can do for education, but it’s really important that we have everything in place to keep people safe” and noted that unsecured guns can and do get stolen from trucks. Rossetto also added that Moms Demand Action was involved in all the state ordinances, and would like to work with Winters on education and safety to “make sure that it’s safe as possible for all people.”

Resident Kate Laddish also spoke in favor of ordinances, especially in residential areas. She noted that many of the local farmlands are unincorporated parts of Yolo County, making them already subject to the county’s ordinances, and ordinances wouldn’t affect how people transport guns on their own properties. She said these ordinances can be an opportunity to be proactive rather than reactive to tragedies and encourage a culture of responsible gun ownership in the community.

Vallecillo suggested crafting more specific ordinances for Winters rather than taking any as a template, and Scianna said that implementation of ordinances would likely be more effective if, and when, an education program on gun storage had been implemented beforehand.

Loren moved to bring the item back for discussion as well as for staff to develop a potential ordinance model based on the Yolo County ordinance. Scianna, Vallecillo, and Loren voted in favor, and Biasi and Casavecchia voted against. With the motion approved, city staff will begin work to develop a potential ordinance model and will return to a future meeting with the information.

“There are a lot of things we can do for education, but it’s really important that we have everything in place to keep people safe.”

Lou Rossetto, Moms Demand Action

“If we move forward and put an ordinance in place, to me, that’s not necessarily going to educate people....”

Bill Biasi, mayor

Bayer donates $10K to Meals on Wheels

Express staff

Meals on Wheels Yolo County recently announced receipt of a $10,000 grant from Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., to continue and expand the provision of weekend nutrition to Yolo County’s lowest-income senior citizens.

Arranged and delivered twice monthly as shelf-stable meals supplemented with fresh fruit, the Weekend Food Project “care packages” are intended to sustain recipients in between the organization’s weekday deliveries of prepared hot/fresh and frozen meals. 350 seniors are served currently by the program, with more anticipated over the coming year.

“The demand for food

assistance among aging adults in Yolo County has been relentless over the past year,” said Executive Director Joy Cohan. “More than 8,000 Yolo County seniors are impoverished, according to the 2020 Census, and food insecure as a result. Fixed-income seniors are being particularly hammered by the rising cost of food, as well as housing, medical care, and other necessities that limit the funds that seniors can spare to eat healthy diets. We are grateful for Bayer Fund’s recognition of this unacceptable circumstance, and for providing meaningful funding to increase Meals on Wheels Yolo County’s ability to nourish more seniors.”

Weekend Food Project is one of three programs

the organization operates to address local deficits in senior nutrition and socialization. Meals on Wheels’ signature Home-Delivered Meals program now provides five meals via three doorstep deliveries per week to nearly 675 seniors countywide, an 80 percent increase in service in the past 18 months. Additionally, congregate dining, aimed at decreasing seniors’ isolation, is offered once a week at the Woodland Senior Center and will be returning on a similar schedule to West Sacramento’s Riverbend Manor Senior Housing facility, the Davis Senior Center, and the Winters Community Center by this fall.

“Through Bayer Fund’s giving, we’re enabling and strengthening organiza-

How the body changes with age

Metro Special to the Express

Aging is an inevitable component of life.

Young children often cannot wait until they get older because of the freedoms that seemingly come with being more mature.

On the flip side, adults often wish they were young again. Time waits for no person, and with aging comes many changes, many of which manifest physically.

The following are some components of healthy aging that go beyond graying hair and wrinkling skin.

Bones, joints and muscles

According to the Mayo Clinic, with age bones may become thinner and more fragile. Joints will lose their flexibility, while muscles lose mass and strength, endurance and flexibility. These changes may be accompanied by a loss of stability that can result in balance issues or falls. It’s common for the body frame to shrink, and a person may lose a few inches from his or her height.

A doctor may suggest a bone-density test or supplementation with calcium and vitamin D to keep bones as strong as possible. Physical activity that includes strength

training can help keep muscles strong and flexible.

Body fat

As muscle mass diminishes, body fat can increase. The Merck Manual indicates that, by age 75, the percentage of body fat typically doubles compared with what it was during young adulthood. The distribution of fat also changes, which can adjust the shape of the torso.

Heart

Organs in the body also age, and cells

Memorial Health. Exercise can help keep the heart as strong as possible.

Urinary tract and kidneys

The kidneys become smaller as a person ages, which means they may not be able to filter urine as effectively. Urinary incontinence may occur due to hormonal changes or because of an enlarged prostate. Furthermore, the bladder may become less elastic, leading to an urge to urinate more frequently.

Memory and thinking

begin to die off, making those organs work less efficiently. The heart is one such organ that changes with age. It pumps more than 2.5 million beats during one’s lifetime.

As a person gets older, blood vessels lose their elasticity, and the heart has to work harder to circulate blood throughout the body, reports Johnson

Older adults experience changes to the brain as they age. Minor effects on memory or thinking skills are common and not usually cause for worry. Staying mentally active by reading, playing word games and engaging in hobbies can help. Following a routine and making lists (as multi-tasking may become challenging) are some additional ways to address memory issues.

These are just some of the changes that can come with aging. Generally speaking, exercising, using the brain and adhering to a balanced, healthy diet can help keep the body functioning well into one’s golden years.

tions that are working to make real, sustainable impacts in their local communities across the United States,” said Al Mitchell, President of Bayer Fund.

“Programs like Meals on Wheels Yolo County’s Weekend Food Project help combat the critical issue of food insecurity, and we’re proud to play a role with helping even more people in our community have access to healthy, nutritious food.”

Bayer Fund directs funding to organizations that tackle today’s biggest challenges – malnutrition and food insecurity; supporting STEM education; and health and wellness. In 2022, Bayer Fund awarded $13.4 million in grants to more than 2,700 organizations that span urban and

rural communities across the country. Since 2017, nonprofit organizations across the U.S. have received nearly $90 million. To learn more about Bayer Fund, visit https://www. fund.bayer.us .

Meals on Wheels Yolo County nourishes and engages seniors countywide who experience mobility challenges and/or isolation that disrupts their good health. With a rich, nearly 50-year history of supporting the needs of older adults both at their doorsteps and in congregate settings, Meals on Wheels thrives thanks to donations of funds and time from the community. To connect with services or to offer support, please visit https://mowyolo.org or call 530-662-7035.

Highlights of the latest exercise guidelines

Metro Special to the Express

Since 2008, the Physical Activity Guidelines have been a vital resource for health professionals and policy makers, serving as a foundation for physical activity and education programs. These guidelines, established and periodically adjusted by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, include recommendations for individuals ages three and over. A full breakdown of the latest guidelines can be found at Health.gov, but the following are some highlights pertaining to various groups.

• Preschool-aged children: The ODPHP notes that children between the ages of three and five should be physically active throughout the day to enhance their growth and development. Caregivers are urged to encourage active play that in-

cludes activities of various types

• Children and adolescents: Children between the ages of six and 17 should engage in 60 minutes or more per day of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic physical activity. Kids in this age group also should engage in vigorous-intensity physical activity at least three days per week. Regimens also should include muscle-strengthening activities and bone-strengthening activities at least three days per week

• Adults: The ODPHP urges adults to sit less and move more. The most substantial health benefits can be gained by engaging in at least 150 minutes to 300 minutes a week of moderate-intensity or between 75 minutes and 150 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity each week. Any equivalent combination of the two can suffice as well.

Muscle-strengthening activities also

should be part of adults’ fitness regimens. These activities should help to strengthen all the major muscle groups, and adults should aspire to engage in them at least two days per week • Older adults: Older adults who can still follow the guidelines designed for younger adults can continue to do so. But the ODPHP recommends that older adults also incorporate multicomponent physical activity in their workout regimens. This can include balance training to complement aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities. Older adults also are urged to discuss with their physicians how any chronic conditions they may have can affect their ability to safely engage in physical activity.

The Physical Activity Guidelines can serve as a useful resource for people of all ages as they look to live a healthy lifestyle.

“Physical activity that includes strength training can help keep muscles strong and flesible.”

Firefighters are losing another ally, too, with the significant increase in overnight temperatures. Nighttime fires were about 28 percent more intense in 2020 than in 2003. And there are more of them — 11 more “flammable nights” every year than 40 years ago, an increase of more than 40 percent.

The upshot is that fires are increasingly less likely to “lie down” at night, when fire crews could work to get ahead of the flames. The loss of those hours to perform critical suppression work — and the additional nighttime spread — gives California crews less time to catch up with fast-moving blazes.

Also, fire whirls and so-called firenados are more common as a feature of erratic fire behavior. The twisting vortex of flames, heat and wind can rise in columns hundreds of feet high and are spun by high winds.

Firenados are more than frightening to behold: They spread embers and strew debris for miles and make already dangerous fires all the more risky. One was spotted north of Los Angeles last summer.

Fires are “really changing, and it’s a combination of all kinds of different changes,” said Jennifer Balch, director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder and a longtime fire researcher who tracks trends that drive wild-

fires.

“We’re losing fog.

We’re seeing drier conditions longer and later into the season. And so what that means for California right now is, under these record heat waves, we’re also now butting up against the Santa Ana wind conditions,” she said.

“I think we’re loading the dice in a certain direction.”

In California, the National Guard is entering the fourth year of an agreement to share non-classified information pulled from military satellites that scan for heat signatures from the boost phase of ballistic missiles. When those heat images are associated with wildfires, the agency’s FireGuard system can transmit detailed in-

formation to Cal Fire every 15 minutes.

Meteorologist Craig Clements, director of the Fire Weather Research Laboratory at San Jose State University, has chased fires for a decade.

“We can pull up on a fire, and the radar starts spinning and you’re peering into a plume within four minutes,” Clements said. “It gives us information about the particles inside, the structure of it.”

Fire behavior deci-

sions are not totally reliant on outside data inputs. Seasoned fire commanders remain firmly committed to a reliable indicator: the hair on the back of their necks.

semicircle of supercomputers. Koontz leads a team of researchers in Boulder, Colo., studying a new, volatile and compelling topic: California megafires.

over a short period of time.” California is a trove of extreme fires, he said.

Fireline experience and hard-earned knowledge still counts when formulating tactics. But it’s a measure of how norms have shifted that even institutional knowledge can fail.

Mike Koontz is on the frontlines of that battle, tucked into a

“We began to see a clear uptick in extreme fire behavior in California since the 2000s,” said Koontz, a postdoctoral researcher with the Earth Lab at University of Colorado Boulder. “We keyed in on fires that moved quickly and blew up

Koontz is using supercomputers to scrape databases, maps and satellite images and apply the data to an analytical framework of his devising. The team tracks significant fires that grow unexpectedly, and layers in weather conditions, topography, fire spread rates and other factors. What comes out is a rough sketch of the elements driving California’s fires to grow so large. The next hurdle is to get the information quickly into the hands of fire commanders, Koontz said.

The goal: if not a new bible for fighting fires, at least an updated playbook.

Andrew Avitt/US Forest Service

US Forest Service teams deploy drones to capture photographs and infrared images, which are used to map fires to find areas where flames are still active and where they might spread.

“We can pull up on a fire, and the radar starts spinning and you’e peering into a plume within four minutes.”

Craig Clements, meteorologist

Wednesday, July 26

Creek Explorers: Aquatic Macroinvertebrates 2 p.m., Winters Community Library

Wednesdays

Eat Well Yolo Drive – Through Food Distribution, Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. As supplies last, Winters High student parking lot, off Railroad Avenue

Thursday, July 27

Summer Program: Triple Raptor Rally, 2 p.m., Winters Community Library

Gazebo Concert Series: Boca do Rio, 7-8:30 p.m., Rotary Park Gazebo

Thursdays Eat Well Yolo Food Distribution, first and third Thursdays, 10 a.m. As supplies last, RISE, Inc., 417 Haven St., 530-668-0690

Sunday, July 30

"Winters Wide World of Sports Exhibit" Last Day, 1-5 p.m., Winters Museum, 13 Russell St.

Upcoming

Tuesday, August 1 Winters City Council Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Council chamber (318 First St.), Zoom Meeting info, check www.cityofwinters.org/ city-council-meetings_/

Thursday, August 3

Winters Hispanic Advisory Committee, 6:30 p.m., City Hall Large Conference Room (Abbey Street entrance)

Winters JUSD School Board Meeting, 6 p.m., School District Office, Zoom Meeting info, check https://bit.ly/ WintersJUSDBoardAgendaCommunitySite

Friday, August 5

WTC Presents "Much Ado About Nothing" Opening Night, 7 p.m., Winters Community Center, winterstheatre.org, 530-795-4014

Library Services

Winters Library Open to Public (No School in Session)

Winters Community Library, Mon/Wed: 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Tue/Thu: 12–8 p.m., Fri/Sat: 1–5 p.m.

Teen Tuesday (ages 12-18), Second Tuesdays, 2 p.m.,

Winters Community Library

Bilingual Storytime (ages 0-5), Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m., Winters Community Library

Virtual English Conversation Group Tuesdays, 2-3 p.m., One time registration required: Contact Nancy Pacheco 530-666-8019 or nancy.pacheco@ yolocounty.org

Mangonada Monday (ages 6-12), fourth Monday, 3:30 p.m.

Tech Thursdays, Thursdays, 2-7:30 p.m., call 530-6668005 to schedule an appointment. Bilingual sessions available upon request.

Saturday Matinee, First Saturday, 2 p.m., Winters Community Library

All You Need is Love Romance Book Club, Second Saturday, 4 p.m., Hooby’s Brewing

Older Adult Programs

Winters Senior Foundation Chair Yoga Class for Seniors, Wednesdays, 9:30-11 a.m., St. Anthony Parish Hall (511 W. Main St.)

Winters Senior Foundation Social Gathering Thurdays, 1-3:30 p.m., St. Anthony Parish Hall (511 W. Main St.)

Ongoing

Winters Farmers Market, Sundays, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., Main Street – downtown Winters, discoverwinters. com/farmers-market

Winters Friends of the Library meeting, first Monday, 7 p.m., Winters Community Library, Margaret Parsons Room, wfol.org

Rotary Club of Winters meeting, Thursdays, Noon,

The Buckhorn

Winters Museum public hours Thursday thru Sunday, 1-5 p.m., 13 Russell St.

Winters Open Mic, third Saturday of the month, 6 p.m. (sign-ups begin at 5 p.m.), Downtown Main Street. Kiwanis Club of Winters meeting, fourth Thursdays, 6 p.m., Hooby's Brewing

Democracy Winters meeting, third Saturdays, 10 a.m.Noon, Meeting details in newsletter, contact info@ democracywinters.org

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings: » St. Anthony Parish Hall, 511 Main St. (back entrance) Tuesdays, 7-8 a.m. and Fridays, 7-8 a.m. » Yolo Housing office building, 62 Shams Way: Thursdays, 7-8 p.m. and Sundays, 9 a.m.

Bermudez returns to WMS as new principal

By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief

Winters students might receive their education in a small school district, but they often receive more care and attention than their peers who attend larger schools. Jose Bermudez said the care and one-on-one support he received as a student in the Winters Joint Unified School District was one of the things behind his decision to pursue a career as an educator and the decision to apply for the principal position at Winters Middle School.

Come this August, middle-school students will have the opportunity to need their new principal, and Bermudez will be bringing back his experiences and knowledge to give back to one of the schools that helped guide him on his journey.

Bermudez is a Winters High School Class of 2001 graduate and was a Winters student starting as a young child. As a student, he said he can remember countless times a teacher stepped in to help him and his family out when they needed it. From donated blankets to support in the classroom, his teachers were there to support and cheer him along his educational career.

“I can remember all of (my teachers) doing more than what a teacher is required to do. As I started working as a tutor in my undergrad, I started seeing a little bit of myself in the kids,” Bermudez said.

He did not always plan on pursuing a career in education. Bermudez’s family migrated to the area, and growing up he knew he wanted to help support his family. He started off working with a construction company. And it was during his lunch breaks, he found himself in conversations with his coworkers talking about what they wanted to do with their lives. Bermudez found himself coming back to wanting to be a teacher because those were the folks who always helped him and his family out when they needed it most.

However, with the knowledge that educators are not a highpaid profession, he started out pursuing a business degree.

“Being the oldest of a migrant family, it was about ‘how can I help my family out,’” Bermudez said.

In his college studies, he reconnected by chance with his first teacher when his family came to the United States and went out to dinner with her and her husband.

“We went out to dinner. In conversation, I mentioned that (teachers) don’t make a lot of money, She said, “I work with a lot of teachers and I don’t know any that are starving. If that’s your passion, go for it,” Bermudez said.

He received his BA in liberal studies which allowed him the flexibility to focus on education as a career and he got his

start as an educator at César Chávez Elementary. He eventually received his administrator credentials and ended up being the principal at Edwin Markham Elementary School in Vacaville before accepting the position at WMS.

This school year, Bermudez wants to ensure that his students are able to come to school, feel safe, and

find connections with both staff and their peers.

“Students are students. They all want to be themselves whether they know what that is or not. The biggest thing I tell everyone is students are looking to make a human connection with anyone on campus,” Bermudez said. “That is my focus — they come in and feel safe and

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they meet someone they feel comfortable going to. It’s about the whole child. I go back to those people who influenced me as a child.”

He said as an educator, he received some letters from a former sixth-grade student who shared about the impact Bermudez had on his life. To Bermudez, he had just been doing his job in having supportive conversations with a student, and to the student — it made the difference he needed at the time.

Bermudez said he has had former students invite him to attend the milestones in their lives.

“It makes you understand the impact you can have on their life — not just reading and writing, but also as individuals,” Bermudez said.

Bermudez would like to strengthen connections between WMS and families as well as the community. He would like to see more parent participation through groups and volunteering on campus. He would also like to connect the school to the community through events on campus, as well as having students go out and do things in town.

“Ultimately, It’s about our kids. It’s how we put them in situations where they can grow and become better. We want to get them ready for life,” Bermudez said.

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Jose Bermudez started his role as Winters Middle School principal in July.

“It makes you understand the impact you can have on their life — not just reading and writing, but also as individuals.”

Making your home accessible

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Ensuring your home is accessible to people with disabilities is a compassionate consideration and can also expand the market appeal and value of your property.

By making targeted renovations, you can create a more inclusive living environment and attract potential buyers seeking accessible homes.

Some are concerned that making home modifications can lower resale value, but that is not always the case, especially if you own a home in an area with a high demographic of older people.

In some places, grants are available to help you renovate your home to make it more accessible, especially if you are a veteran. Check for both state and federal grants as well as those from local

nonprofits who will help defray the cost of accessible renovations. You may also qualify for low-cost renovation-specific loans.

Universal design

What many people are starting to lean toward is “universal design,” which increases property values while making a home more accessible. Also called barrier-free design, PBS defined it as focusing on making the house safe and accessible for everyone, regardless of age, physical ability or stature. The goal is to design spaces that are inclusive and that promote independence for everyone.

Targeted renovations

Start by focusing on the entrance and pathways to your home. Install ramps or gradual slopes to eliminate steps and facilitate wheelchair access. Ensure that

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pathways leading to the main entrance are wide enough to accommodate mobility aids and have a smooth, non-slip surface. Consider installing handrails for additional support and make sure pathways are well-lit to aid visibility for those with visual impairments. Replace traditional doorknobs with lever-style handles, which are easier to operate for those with limited dexterity. Remove any potential obstacles or clutter along pathways to create unobstructed passages. Hardwood floors are easier to move on than carpeted surfaces and is a change that is resell-friendly. People with mobility issues benefit from first-floor laundries and bedrooms. Bathroom renovations make a significant difference for people with disabilities. Install grab bars near the toilet and in the shower or bathtub area to

provide stability and support. Consider replacing traditional bathtubs with roll-in showers, which allow easy wheelchair access. Install a shower bench or chair for added convenience. Ensure that faucets and controls are accessible and easy to operate.

Making the kitchen more accessible involves adjusting countertop heights to accommodate individuals who use wheelchairs. Install lower countertops with open space beneath to allow comfortable access. Consider incorporating pull-out shelves and drawers for easier reach. Install lever-style handles on cabinets and drawers for easier gripping and operation.

Proper lighting is essential for individuals with visual impairments. Install bright, even lighting throughout the home, including hallways, staircases and entrance areas.

Steps to take before applying for a mortgage

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A home is the single biggest purchase most people will ever make. That’s perhaps become even more true in recent years, when the cost of homes has increased dramatically.

The sticker price of a home may come as a shock to first-time buyers, but few homeowners purchase their homes in cash. Mortgages are a vital component of home ownership for the vast majority of buyers. Mortgages are loans obtained through the conveyance of property as security. When homeowners pay off their mortgages, the title of the property officially transfers to them from their lenders.

Though most homeowners utilize mortgages to buy their homes, that does not mean the process is the same for everyone. A host of factors affect mortgage terms, and there’s much prospective homeowners can do to secure the best agreement possible.

• Recognize why a

low interest rate is important. Mortgage interest rates have drawn considerable attention in recent years, as rising inflation has led to rates that have reached their highest point in more than a decade. Even a seemingly small difference in interest rates can save or cost homeowners thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands, over the course of a loan. For example, the financial experts at Bankrate.com note that the difference between a 5.5 percent interest rate and a 6 percent interest rate on a $200,000 mortgage is roughly $64 per month. That might not seem like a lot, but over the course of a 30-mortgage the borrower who gets the 6 percent loan will pay in excess of $23,000 more in interest than the borrower who secures the 5.5 percent loan. Recognition of the benefits of securing the lowest interest rate possible can motivate prospective buyers to do

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County Road 31 to be repaved?

It is hard to leave Winters and not travel on County Road 31, which might be the worst paved road in California. I can’t seem to remember to take Russell Boulevard. so I get a free Yolo County massage about once a week.

There are now signs warning us about road closers, if you can read the signs while holding on tight to your steering wheel as your eyes bounce up and down. I’m hoping the signs means that the county supervisors are finally going to pave the major road to Winters. I don’t want to see any more potholes filled with temporary patch, but the road ground down and fixed right.

The Sacramento district attorney is threatening to charge, either criminally or civilly, the elected official of Sacramento, both county and city, for not taking care of the homeless problem. If the Yolo County supervisors can’t fix our roads, then maybe we should be asking our district attorney, Jeff Reisig, to lock up and fine our supervisors for dereliction of duty. I have not talked to Mr. Reisig about this issue, but I’m sure he would be willing to at least listen to the proposal, especially if he has driven on County Road 31. I might add that I think our district attorney is one of

the best we have had. Supervisor Lucas Frerichs, who represents Winters, is new to his office so I am cutting him some slack. If he wants my vote in four years, he needs to fix our roads and keep the ditches clean. I don’t think that is asking for too much. Sure, if he wants to volunteer at Winters events, and keep his face in the public, that helps, but talk is cheap, fixing roads isn’t.

You might not have noticed, but every July 1 our gas taxes go up with the cost of living. This year the inflation rate was set at 3 percent. It may only be a few pennies, but pennies add up. When the voters agreed to raise our gas tax every year, the government also agreed to use the money to fix our roads. We’ve kept our side of the deal, now it is our elected officials job to keep their word and fix our roads.

I don’t think that is asking too much, do you?

Enjoy the cool evenings, while they last, and have a good week.

Horoscopes

ARIES (Mar 21/Apr 20) Don’t rush in and act combative this week, Aries. Take a more delicate approach to convince others to see things your way. As the saying goes, “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”

TAURUS (Apr 21/May 21) Are you feeling like you may want to be a wellness warrior of late, Taurus? Start by taking inventory of the foods in your home and making some healthier changes.

GEMINI (May 22/Jun 21) Gemini, if you are looking to make a few new friends, ask others to connect you with like-minded individuals. You never know who you might meet until you give it a try.

CANCER (Jun 22/Jul 22) Cancer, if a delicate issue has been troubling you, reach out to someone you can trust and begin to talk things through. You will likely feel better just getting things out.

LEO (Jul 23/Aug 23) Leo, are you ready to take your project to the next level? Brainstorm with a coworker about the best way to get ahead and make a mark with this endeavor.

VIRGO (Aug 24/Sept 22) It could be time for a move and you just aren’t ready to admit it, Virgo. You may have gotten comfortable in one place, but a move could prove the right decision.

LIBRA (Sept 23/Oct 23) Libra, there are a lot of ideas swimming around in your head. You may need to put some things down on paper to see what really might be worth doing in the days to come.

SCORPIO (Oct 24/Nov 22) Connect with a friend or even your partner for an intimate dinner this week. You’ve been moving in different circles and it’s time to get on the same page.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23/Dec 21) Invite people to stop by and cheer you up, Sagittarius. You’ve been going through a rough patch and there’s nothing like happy faces and new perspectives to bring about a smile.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22/Jan 20) Capricorn, be sure to check your bank account pretty regularly; otherwise, you may lose track of spending and get yourself into a financial mess that could be tough to get out of.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21/Feb 18) Aquarius, you may be your own worst enemy this week, especially as it pertains to thinking that someone may be trying to cause trouble with you at work. Get the facts before acting.

PISCES (Feb 19/Mar 20) Pisces, there is a process to everything. Remain patient and stay the course no matter how excited you are. Rest assured that things will work out

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Youth need more local chances to participate in the arts

The past five weeks I had the opportunity to watch a team of 8–12 year-old dancers, led by choreographer Sherean Maynard and a cast of teens, led by directors Olivia Caserta and Megan Abbanat dive deep into learning dances, and memorizing lines and blocking positions on stage. On top of that, they all worked with music director Nick Carvajal who wrote songs and arranged the musical score for this year’s Winsters Shakespeare Workshop production of “Twelfth Night.”

By the performance nights, I was in awe of these youths. They came together in the most magical and hilarious rendition of a Shakespearean play I have seen. I will be as bold, and possibly biased, to say that it was one of my favorites.

Winters — we need more theater opportunities for our youth.

We have WSW every summer, and the Winters Theatre Company occasionally has parts available for children and teens. But, our neighboring towns have youth theater programs that run year-round and I can tell you that is what my daughters want to participate in.

While they both have their athletic

sports of choice, they also have a strong desire to do theater.

if they were just given the option to participate in one.

I don’t have a big solution in mind. I’m a Girl Scout troop co-leader, and I do what I can to bring that experience for my troop members. However, that is a small and limited number of youth. I would love to see someone who has the experience, knowledge and managing skills and connections to bring something like this to Winters.

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And, I know they’re not alone. There’s a desire for the arts, dance, music and singing lessons here in town. I know athletics and 4-H/FFA have always been our big things for local youths to participate in. Yet there is a whole range of children and teens who would thrive and blossom in a theatre, artistic environment

The Winters Joint Unifed School District currently has Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP) funding to provide enrichment programs and opportunities for Winters students. If partnered with the right nonprofit organization, I’m sure scholarship opportunities could help to provide funding for non-Winters JUSD youths who live in town.

In fact, ELOP funding supported both this year’s

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Sophie promised to have a sequel telling the story of how Winters came to have a sister city in Spain. Following is a brief history of that event as told to me in person by Woody Fridae and from the Winters Express archives. See article “Our Sister City” written by Woody and Rebecca Fridae, Feb. 10, 2023, online. His dream of uniting Winters with a sister city in Spain became a reality when Miguel Ruiz raised the flag of Almogía on the Winters City Hall flag pole in April of 1993. Miguel Ruiz was born in Winters and is a descendent of Spanish immigrants who arrived in Winters in the early 1900s. After receiving an inheritance from his father of a small house and land in Los Nunes, a province of Almogía, Miguel and his wife decided to move back to his father’s homeland to live and retire in Spain.

Miguel had to leave Spain “when his wife had a heart attack because there was no such service available to the Ruiz family in Almogía.”

During the year of 1991 the Winters City Council gave Mr. Ruiz a green light to move forward with his

quest to form sister cities, which came to fruition when representatives from Almogía traveled to Winters and met with city officials. The Fridaes wrote, “Mayor Torreblanca had travelled to Winters in 1993 as a council member to help celebrate the initiation of sisterhood of the two cities, he and two of his fellow council members marched in the Youth Day Parade.”

In January of this year, Woody wrote, “That 30-year anniversary of our hermandad (sisterhood) with the rural town was celebrated this week when Rebecca and I delivered a proclamation (renewing our historic connection) from the city of Winters to the Mayor and two of the Almogía councilors, or members of the ‘Ayuntamiento’ de Almogía’, their city council.” The article further stated, “But we can clearly report that Almogía has not forgotten the Ruiz dream: from the street they named for us, to the plaque on the town hall meeting chambers, to the

living memories of those we met, the sisterhood with Winters is alive and well.”

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Now is the opportune time to honor the rich Spanish heritage of Winters and to especially recognize our Sister City by naming the downtown pocket park “Almogía Park” and designing it in the Spanish fashion. In respect we should also learn the correct pronunciation of the town. Several knowledgeable sources have informed Gramps that it should be pronounced Al-mohee-ah. Gramps has been pronouncing it Al-mo-gee-ah, but he should have known better as Gerald is pronounced Heraldo in Spanish, with the ‘G’ sounding like an ‘H.’ We will all become very familiar with the name Almogía after the city council approves it, as they should, as the official name of the downtown park. Gramps is more concerned about nuances than I am. I will rest easier when

A look into the creation of the Older American Act

By Wally Pearce Winters Elder Day Council

The Older American Act is a federal law that promotes the well-being of Americans 60 years of age and older through relevant local services and programs designed to meet specific needs.

Each year, more than 20 percent of the US population (approximately 60 million) receive services through OAA programs. As of Jan. 1, 2020, in Yolo County, that approximate number is over 13,000 individuals (roughly 17 percent). According to published city of Winters data, of the over 7,000 residents, at least 7 percent represent that number of individuals 60–years–of–age and older.

The OAA of 1965 (Pub.L. 89–73, 79 Stat. 218) was the first federal level initiative aimed at providing comprehensive services for older adults. It created the National Aging Network comprising the Administration on Aging on the federal level, State Units on Aging, and Area Agencies on Aging at the local urban rural levels, like Yolo County and the city of Winters.

The OAA network provides funding based primarily on the percentage of an

area’s population 60 and older for nutrition and supportive home and community-based services, disease prevention/ health promotion services, elder rights programs, the National Family Caregiver Support Program, and the Native American Caregiver Support Program.

The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 14, 1965. In 2020, Congress reauthorized the Act in its entirety (HR-4334), effective through FY 2024. It also extends the RAISE Family Caregiver Act and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act.

OAA programs and services allow older adults to remain independent with dignity. It’s worth noting that the OAA targets its services to those in the greatest economic or social need, with particular attention to low-income minorities, rural residents, and those with limited English proficiency.

Congressional concern about the lack of community-based support services for older people helped spur the passage of OAA.

Like Medicare and Medicaid, OAA was passed in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society reforms. The Act seeks

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to ensure retirement income, physical and mental health, suitable housing, employment, protection from age-based discrimination and efficient community services for older individuals. OAA works to accomplish these goals through direct funding to states and

the most well-known of these programs is the communal and home delivered meals program, referred to as “Meals on Wheels.”

In addition to meals, this program focuses on health and nutrition education.

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“Congressional concern about the lack of community-based support services for older people helped spur the passage of (the Older American Act).”

state services and the creation of federal agencies designed to implement the Act.

OAA created the Administration on Aging, the main federal agency tasked with carrying out the objectives of the Act. The Administration on Aging provides services and programs designed to help aging individuals live independent lives in their homes and communities. Perhaps

focuses on protecting older individuals from elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation through strategic planning and research. The LongTerm Care Ombudsman Program provides full-time ombudsmen, or public advocates, to help represent the interests of people in long-term care environments, such as assisted living facilities.

Each state, like California, receives OAA funds based on the percentage of people 60 or older in the state.

California is home to the largest population of senior citizens, over 5 million. OAA funding, while small compared to programs such as Medicaid, provides an important safety-net for older individuals who might be at risk of hunger, food insecurity or loss of independent living.

In California, it’s the California Department of Aging. State Agencies in turn manage Area Agencies on Aging (AAA), which plan, develop, and coordinate community services for older adults. In California’s 58 Counties, there are 33 AAA’s. For Yolo County, it’s the Agency on Aging Area 4. However, no one age 60 or older can be denied services from OAA programs.

California is prohib-

ited from denying anyone services because of their income. Older-adult federal programs are administered by the Administration on Aging in the Administration for Community Living within the Department of Health and Human Services. Within the state of California, that administering agency is the California Department on Aging. California has several formal acts in statute. Such as the Older Californians Act known as the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act (AB-2800), signed into law in 1996, which affirmed California’s 33 Areas on Aging organizations. For more information on what older adult services might be available for you if you live in Yolo County or the city of Winters, contact the Agency on Aging Area 4 at 916.486.1876.

“There is a whole other group of children and teens who would thrive and blossom in a theater, artistic environment if they were just given the option to participate in one.”

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Distrito escolar avanza con acuerdo de inmersión en dos idiomas

Por Jacob Hoffman

Durante la reunión de la junta escolar del pasado 22 de Junio, la Junta Directiva del Distrito Escolar

Unificado de Winters (Winters Joint Unified School District - Winters JUSD) aprobó un acuerdo para el Programa de Inmersión en Dos Idiomas (Dual Language Immersion -DLI) del distrito y escuchó una actualización de los planes de emergencia del distrito escolar.

La Asistente al Superintendente Phoebe Girimonte presentó una actualización sobre uno de los dos acuerdos que Winters JUSD tiene con Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL).

“Quiero aclarar que este acuerdo es para nuestra asociación de inmersión en dos idiomas y la capacitación asociada con el apoyo a nuestros maestros en (Waggoner Elementary) y (Shirley Rominger Intermediate) en esta transición de un modelo de ed-

Who

By Adam Echelman CalMatters

Across California’s public colleges and universities, one nearly universal admissions factor — first-generation status — is still up to debate because no one can agree on how to define it.

The phrase “first-generation college student” is about the education level of a students’ parents and it’s a key predictor of that student’s success in school.

For years, California schools have used first-generation college status as a means to boost campus diversity, especially after voters banned affirmative action in 1996. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 decision to end race-conscious admissions nationwide, the term is top of mind.

It’s more than semantics: For those who lack support from family to navigate college, the term “first generation” encompasses an experience, a part of their identity, and in

ucación bilingüe de desarrollo a una inmersión en dos idiomas,” dijo Girimonte.

El primer año de capacitación DLI con SEAL se completó este año y Girimonte dijo: “este acuerdo permitiría que el aprendizaje profesional comience en Agosto del 2023 y concluya en Junio del 2025.”

Parte de este acuerdo incluye una “serie de desarrollo profesional de dos años sobre pedagogía DLI y estrategias en el aula” y Girimonte dijo que el acuerdo también “nos permitirá continuar con la asistencia técnica para SEAL a medida que continuamos ampliando ese programa.”

El impacto fiscal del programa es de $22,500 que se financia a través de la Subvención de Inmersión en Dos Idiomas. Se pagaría en dos incrementos separados el 30 de Abril del 2024 y el 30 de Abril del 2025.

Los patronos aprobaron por unanimidad el programa.

Operaciones de emergencia

Jenny Pinedo, directora de educación especial y servicios estudiantiles, presentó una actualización sobre el desarrollo de un Plan de Operaciones de Emergencia (Emergency Operations Plan - EOP) para el distrito escolar. Hablando sobre el propósito de este plan, Pinedo describió el EOP como “un documento vital que está diseñado para guiar la respuesta de un distrito escolar a diversas emergencias o crisis,” así como para “garantizar la seguridad y el bienestar de los estudiantes, el personal y los vis-

itantes en instancias críticas, incluidos desastres naturales, emergencias médicas, actos de violencia o cualquier otro evento imprevisto.”

Continuando con la forma en que el EOP hace esto, Pinedo dijo que el EOP “sirve como un marco inte-

“Al final del día, se podrá dormir mejor por la noche porque se abordará nuestra prioridad número uno de mantener seguros a nuestros estudiantes.”

Rody Boonchouy, superintendente

gral que describe los roles, las responsabilidades y los protocolos que deben seguir los administradores escolares, los maestros, el personal de apoyo y los servicios de emergencia,” así como para “establecer un enfoque coordinado y sistemático para el manejo de emergencias, ayudando a las escuelas a minimizar

la confusión, tomar decisiones informadas y responder de manera efectiva a estas emergencias.”

El desarrollo del EOP está siendo coordinado por el Comité EOP, un grupo que consta de miembros del personal calificados y relevantes que ayudan a tomar decisiones relacionadas con emergencias “incluidos aquellos con experiencia en áreas como manejo de emergencias, educación, seguridad, salud pública y aplicación de la ley,” dijo Pinedo. El comité evalúa las vulnerabilidades del distrito escolar, desarrolla protocolos de respuesta y establece planes de comunicación.

Una vez que el comité haya redactado su EOP propuesto, Pinedo dijo que ellos lo traerán de regreso para recibir el aporte de los fideicomisarios antes de enviar una versión final a la junta para su aprobación. El fideicomisario

Joedy Michael preguntó sobre los detalles del cronograma,

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a lo que Pinedo respondió que el comité tendrá un borrador para los fideicomisarios en Octubre y que el comité trabajará cada dos semanas y coordinará partes de sus planes con todos los que necesitan trabajar en él para que pueda estar listo en ese momento.

El superintendente Rody Boonchuoy, que forma parte del comité, les dijo a los fideicomisarios: “Estamos sentados alrededor de la mesa con todos estos grupos de interés y expertos, incluidos los departamentos de bomberos y (departamentos de policía) y conversando sobre los peores escenarios” para determinar “qué debemos tener en el lugar para que seamos proactivos para garantizar la seguridad de nuestros niños.”

“Al final del día,” concluyó Boonchuoy, “se podrá dormir mejor por la noche porque se abordará nuestra prioridad número uno de mantener seguros a nuestros estudiantes.”

some cases, access to targeted state and federal services. In the Inland Empire, first-generation students can receive thousands of dollars worth of tutoring and support through high school and college — if they meet a certain definition.

But these contradicting definitions leave some students unsure what first generation means and how they should proceed.

Who counts?

The University of California boasts a higher percentage of first-generation students compared to the community college system, which uses a more restrictive definition of the term. The UC system defines a first-generation student as anyone whose parents did not receive a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, while the California Community College Chancellor’s Office defines it as any student whose parents never attended college at all.

Cal State, meanwhile, includes nu-

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merous definitions on its website. In one scenario, 31 percent of CSU students are considered first-generation; according to another definition, 52% are.

It’s a national problem. In one 2018 study, researchers surveyed 7,300 students using eight different definitions for the term “first-generation student.” Using one definition, 22 percent of students were considered first generation; according to another definition, 77 percent were.

“There’s nothing really clear and centralized,” said Sarah Whitley, who serves as the vice president at the Center for First-Generation Student Success, a national nonprofit and advocacy organization. “It’s something that we’re hoping to get to, but the data is just so messy everywhere.”

Mateo Fuentes’ parents immigrated from El Salvador where his father dropped out after middle school.

Fuentes’ mother enrolled at Mt. San Antonio College, a community college in the Inland Empire, after they arrived in the U.S., but she left before completing her associate degree.

Fuentes qualifies as a first-generation student under the UC definition, but not under the requirements set by the Community College Chancellor’s Office.

He said it’s an unfair distinction. Even though his mother attended college, he said she was unable to help him navigate the system when he applied to college in his senior year of high school and eventually enrolled at UC Davis.

To the Community College Chancellor’s Office, calling Fuentes a first-generation student disregards the education that his mother received: Even students who drop out before obtaining their associate degree may receive certifications, such as for many healthcare or trade professions.

In an email to CalMatters, community college spokesperson Paul Feist said any definitions that exclude associate degrees and certificates — including the UC definition — “inaccurately and unfairly assumes that such experiences are not college.” Other students who may qualify as first-generation status never appear in the state’s data. They may not know their parents’ education, they may decline to share it, or there may be challenges in data collection.

For example, a little more than one in five enrolled students in the 2021-22 academic year did not report their parents’ education, according to the California Community College Chancellor’s Office.

WSW production (a Winters Friends of the Library program) and the Winters Participation Gallery’s history mural project.

Continued from Page 5 “This year, I was overjoyed that I wouldn’t have to decide what activities and buckets of needs would have to go with less thanks to that funding.”

I saw both programs expand their rosters of participating artists and it made my heart happy. It also gave students whose families may not have been able to afford to have them particpate in the past the chance to participate this year. I know from firsthand experience that when you have multiple children who want to participate in extracurricular activities, it all adds up and can overwhelm the checkbook and the calendar. I was fortunate last year to receive a scholarship so that both of my daughters could participate in the WSW production. This year, I was overjoyed that I wouldn’t have to decide what activities and buckets of needs would have to go with less thanks to that funding.

I feel that I’ve gained a lot of knowledge about how our different groups can work together to provide for our community.

The beauty of living in a small-town community is that we can work to gain knowledge about what it is our residents need support with, what it is they would like to have more opportunities to do, and even learn more about local residents who are in need but unsure of how to ask for help just by asking.

I’m not talking about idle gossip or water-cooler chats.

I’m talking about if you know someone in

need of help, ask them if you can help to connect them. If you know someone who has an idea but doesn’t know where to start to take action, ask your local influencers who are connected well in town who they could reach out to. We need to work on our communication and bring it off of social media and into actual actions.

My action step is to reach out to you, my community members. If you have an idea, know of a potential program or person who can help to provide more opportunities in the arts to Winters youth, or even have a connection with someone or something that could help to provide it – I encourage you to reach out to a local nonprofit organization and/or Winters JUSD to see if it is something that can be sponsored by them.

I’d be happy to discuss it over a cup of coffee with you if you have an idea and aren’t sure where to go with it. Sometimes, I know a person who could help fine-tune it.

Our youth are worth it. These experiences bring both enrichment and lifeskill opportunities to their lives.

Traducido por Carol Alfonso

is a first-generation college student? California schools can’t agree

At the CSU system, it’s one in 10, and in the UC system, it’s about 3 percent.

Details ‘tricky’

In many cases, individual schools use their own definitions.

For example, the UC system requires that students seeking first-generation status have parents without a four-year degree. But UC Riverside and a grant-based program at UCLA have a more expansive definition: If their parents have a degree from another country, the student still counts as first generation.

Whitley says colleges and universities in California and other states along the U.S.-Mexico border are shifting to this new definition to encompass students whose parents may not have “the cultural capital” to help their child navigate higher education.

“It’s tricky,” she said. “You don’t want to get into the business of saying, ‘Well, a degree from Canada is okay, but a degree from Nigeria is not.’”≠

Like UC Riverside, community colleges including El Camino College in Torrance and Mt. San Antonio College use the more beneficial definition, only considering degrees from U.S. institutions.

However, the Community College Chancellor’s Office, which controls most student data, doesn’t differentiate which country the degree came from, meaning that El Camino College and Mt. San Antonio College are incorrectly reporting the number of first-generation college students on their campuses.

Some community colleges disregard their chancellor’s office and consider the children of those who received certificates or associate degrees at community colleges — that is, the children of their own alumni — as first-generation students, so long as neither parent ever received more than an associate degree in their lifetime.

Gov. definitions add to disarray

There’s no specific consequence for an individual college or university that defies the definition of its

state leaders. However, the definition of first-generation can affect admissions and the amount of funding that a school receives or allocates for these students.

While the community college system admits all students, the Cal State and UC systems are more selective. Along with grades, admissions staff conduct a holistic review of each applicant, which in the case of nearly every one of California’s selective public universities includes explicit consideration of the education level of the student’s parents or guardians.

UC spokesperson Ryan King said all UC campuses use the same definition of first-generation student for the purposes of admissions. A spokesperson for the CSU Chancellor’s Office, Amy Bentley-Smith, said that individual CSU campuses have the option to use the data that their office collects however they choose in admissions.

Students who meet the federal definition of first-generation — those whose parents did not receive a bachelor’s degree — can get more than $4,600 annually of targeted support services from a federal program called TRIO as soon as they start high school, according to Victor Rojas, the director of TRIO programs affiliated with Mt. San Antonio College. Once those students enter community college, they receive fewer services, he said, worth less than $2,000.

For the 2022-23 state budget, a committee of state leaders, including current Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, proposed aligning the community college system’s definition of first-generation student with that of the UC and federal definitions and tying a substantial portion of a college’s state funding to the number of first-generation students on campus.

Both proposals failed to pass into law, despite receiving support from the governor and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.

State funding is not tied to the number of first-generation students at any campus, Feist said.

However, commu-

nity college administrators pointed to two state grants, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services and the Student Equity and Achievement plans, that indirectly factor in the number of first-generation students on campus because they ask colleges to outline disadvantaged populations that they intend to serve. Unlike the federal TRIO grant, which abides by a strict definition, the state grants give colleges lots of leeway to determine how they want to define a first-generation student.

Finally, some community colleges have directed their own discretionary funds to create programs, such as the First Gen Initiative at El Camino College.

All told a community college could use one definition of first-generation students for its local programs, another for state grants, and yet another definition for federal grants. The Community College Chancellor’s Office could then use an entirely different definition when reporting the same college’s figures to state legislators or the governor.

Many college officials who spoke to CalMatters were unaware of the Chancellor’s Office definition, or of which definition each of their departments used.

First-hand knowledge

The words “first generation” have a lot of power, said Serandra Sylvers, a counselor at El Camino College. When the college updated its definition of first-generation students to include those whose parents received degrees outside of the U.S., she said students who met the new criteria told her it substantiated their feelings of “imposter syndrome.”

Unlike other boxes a student might intuitively check off when applying to colleges, such as questions about race or ethnicity, students say first-generation status is often something they learned later in life but still holds value.

Luciaceleste Garcia was a first-generation college student who knew that her parents had never gone to college and understood part of why she had been selected to participate in the

John Rominger, a Class of 2023 Winters High School graduate, is Pisani’s Athlete of the Week. Rominger competes on the Winters swim team this summer. He has been swimming for 14 years and decided to continue to pursue swimming after graduation, competing in both freestyle and butterfly. Coach Ricky Silva said Rominger is a great addition to the team because he “always shows up, has a great mentality, and works hard no matter what.”

TRIO program in high school.

But the phrase, “first-generation college student,” didn’t hold special meaning to her until she enrolled at Mt. San Antonio College, where she said she felt unworthy and unprepared at times. She ultimately hopes to transfer to UCLA, in part because of investments that the university has made toward Latino first-generation students like her.

Fuentes also participated in a TRIO program in high school. He realized that he was a first-generation college student after attending a conference in high school for Latino students, and it has since become a guiding principle for him, even outside of UC Davis: Many of his friends are first-generation and he is spending this summer working with Garcia for TRIO. Next year, he’ll graduate, but he ex-

pects that he’ll always identify as a first-generation college student given his parents’ background and education. He’s grateful to them, but knows there are certain questions he can’t ask: “I can’t just be like, ‘Hey, how do I start investing?’” That’s a first-generation problem.

— Adam Echelman covers California’s community colleges in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.

Courtesy photo

Ellie Yeatman (right) and her sisters Eileen and Joan with a copy of the Winters Express in Labrador, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Music Illu‐minated by Music in the Vineyards

@ 5pm / $175

Music in the Vineyards, now in its 29th season, is a nationally-acclaimed chamber music festival held each summer in the Napa Valley showcasing world-class artists per‐forming in winery settings.

Music In the Vineyards, 1020 Clinton Street, Napa. info@musicinthevine yards.org, 707-258-5559

The Polish Ambassador

@ 6:30pm The Flamingo House Social Club, 2315 K St, Sacramento

Wurm Flesh @ 7:30pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Grey Bush @ 7:30pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Chronic Trigger @ 7:30pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

"Liberace & Liza Open

Their Golden Gates!"

@ 8pm / $34-$39 Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐son Street, San Francisco

Funny Femmes & Themsin the Callback Bar

@ 8pm / $15.25

Punch Line Comedy Club - Sacra‐mento, 2100 Arden Way, Sacra‐mento

Silent Pictures

@ 8:30pm

Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Cartoon Hearts @ 8:30pm

Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Benzmixer

@ 9pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

Litty DeBungus

@ 9pm Boom Boom Room, 1601 Fillmore St, San Francisco

Designer Shoe and Clothing Yard Sale

@ 10am Aug 4th - Aug 5th /Size 11 womens shoes (�ats and heels) Ferragamo, St John, Coach, ColeHahn 3275 Avenido Del Lago Way, Fair�eld. rreid1913@ gmail.com, 707-580-7271

Orso @ 9:30pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

Farsight @ 10pm The Hiberna Bank, 1 Jones Street, San Francisco

Gypsum @ 10pm The Hiberna Bank, 1 Jones Street, San Francisco

Regard @ 1pm / $16

Regard is a collaborative dance performance set in The CJM’s

light-�lled Stephen and Maribelle Leavitt Yud Gallery that celebrates authentic, soulful connections be‐tween people. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco. 415-6557800

Artist Talk with Sayako Dairiki @ 2pm Visit the Pence Gallery for an Artist Talk with Sayako Dairki on August 5! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pence socialmedia@gmail.com, 530-758-3370

Noise Pop & Civic Joy

Fund Present: Summer of Music 2023: Oceanography @ Green Apple Books

@ 2pm Green Apple Books, 506 Clement St, San Francisco

Nobuko Miyamoto's 120,000 Stories

@ 2pm / $30-$100

Blending live music, talk story, and compelling imagery, activist and groundbreaking actress Nobuko Miyamoto brings her acclaimed concert to the Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center on August 5. Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Av‐enue, San Francisco. dtsuchida@jc ccnc.org, 415-567-5505

Women's World Cup Village San Francisco (Golden Gate Park)

@ 4pm / Free Street Soccer USA and SF Park & Rec are hosting free community screenings of the 2023 Women's World Cup in San Francisco! Come join for soccer activities, food, drinks, and watch the Round of 16! 14th Ave East Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. alex@ streetsoccerusa.org, 707-3323873

Tosi @ 9pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

DJ Kramer @ 9pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

David Scuba @ 9pm The Great Northern, 119 Utah St, San Francisco

DJ Ricky Sixx: Lookout, SF @ 9pm Lookout, 3600 16th St, San Fran‐cisco

Cassian: Audio @ 9:30pm Audio Nightclub, 316 11th

the Dead‐lies @ Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

@ 12pm Six Flags Discovery King‐dom, 1001 Fairgrounds Dr, Vallejo

Big Sticky Mess: Live at The HIVE! @ 5:30pm / Free Friday, August 4th at 5:30PM, we continue our Live at The HIVE Sum‐mer Concert series with Big Sticky Mess, a kaleidoscopic mix of ex‐traterrestrial hooks, vibrant grooves and potent beats!. The HIVE, 1221 Harter Avenue, Wood‐land. thehive@zspecialtyfood.com, 530-668-0660

Big Sticky Mess @ 5:30pm Z Specialty Food, LLC / The HIVE in Woodland, 1221 Harter Ave, Woodland

THE WORKSHOP w/ Special Guest: Roger Volz @ 8pm / $12-$20 Blue Note Napa, 1030 Main Street, Napa Lady Wray W/Brainstory

8:30pm The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

Cutthroat Comedyin the Callback Bar @ 7:30pm / $15.25

Punch Line Comedy Club - Sacramento, 2100 Arden Way, Sacramento Drainer @ 8pm Kilowatt Bar, 3160 16th St, San Francisco

L9 - Storybook Science @ 9am / Free Aug 7th - Aug 11th Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Dr, Sacramento. 916-808-8884

Rotary Club of Davis Weekly Lunch & Program @ 12pm See website for details. ro‐taryclubofdavis.com Davis Com‐munity Church, 421 D Street, Davis. dawsonlaw@cal.net, 530-758-4500

So Much Light @ 8pm The Starlet Room, 2708 J St, Sacra‐mento Zebuel @ 8pm Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St, San Francisco Jaclyn Lovey @ 8pm The Starlet Room, 2708 J St, Sacramento Tom Constanten @ 8pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

is a nationally-ac‐claimed chamber music festival held each summer in the Napa Val‐ley showcasing world-class artists performing in winery settings. Mu‐sic In the Vineyards, 1020 Clinton Street, Napa. info@musicinthevine yards.org, 707-258-5559

David Rovics @ 7pm House concert, San Francisco

KTJ & CARLY @ 8pm Sofar Sounds, San Francisco

Ciszak @ 9pm LowBrau, 1050 20th St, Sacra‐mento

Nick Paul Magical Comedy: Magic Fusion at The Loft @ 7pm Magic Fusion Show, 1001 Heavenly Village Way #50, South Lake Tahoe Aroma @ 7pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco Paramore @ 7pm Chase Center, 1 Warriors Way, San Francisco Paramore @ 7pm / $60.50-$176 Chase Center, 300 16th Street, San Francisco

Andrea Andrea @ 7pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco Kitten de Ville, Jolie Goodnight, Ruby Joule: Hubba Hubba Monday @ 8pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83 Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline BIT @ 9:30pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

A Positive Approach to Care Dementia WorkshopWoodland @ 10am

This FREE workshop will help you understand how dementia impacts your loved one and will give you practical strategies to improve daily interactions, and better support them as their needs change. Woodland Community & Senior Center, 2001 East Street, Woodland. ljoyce@ yolocares.org, 530-7585566

Eddy St, San Fran‐cisco

Mo Amer @ 7:30pm / $40.25 Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Avenue, San Francisco Mo Amer @ 7:30pm Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Ave, San Francisco light the way @ 8pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Stepdad Passport @ 8pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Rich Amiri , Slump6s, Devstack @ 8pm / $20-$75 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Slump6s @ 8pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

LURK @ 8pm Thee Parkside, 1600 17th St, San Francisco

Music Illuminated: Schu‐bert’s Miraculous Last Year @ 7pm / $25 Music in the Vineyards, now in its 29th season, is a nationally-ac‐claimed chamber music festival held each summer in the Napa Val‐ley showcasing world-class artists performing in winery settings. CIA at Copia (The Culinary Institute of America at Copia), 500 1st Street, Napa. info@musicinthevine yards.org, 707-258-5559

Grateful Dead's Tom Constanten with Hot Mountain Dips, Mark Karan (Ratdog, Other Ones), Angeline Saris, Elliott Peck (Phil Lesh) + More - Brick & Mortar Music Hall SF -

Aug 10th

@ 7pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

Rose Paradise @ 7:30pm Neck Of the Woods, 406 Clement St, San Francisco

Life Support @ 8pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Cassette Idols @ 8pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Martin Diller Quartet with Sara Niemietz @ 8:30pm Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio, 39 Fell St, San Francisco Season Ammons @ 9pm Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐mento

Making the garden pop! Armijo HS community garden, 8/11/2023 930amnoon 824 Washington St. @ 6am Join us on Friday, August 11, 2023, from 930am to noon, as we main‐tain and beautify our garden for the upcoming school year! We are also prepping it for further expansion which will happen this Fall 824 Washington St, 824 Washington Street, Fair�eld. sylviah@ fsusd.org, 707-853-9388

Regard @ 1pm / $16

Regard is a collaborative dance performance set in The CJM’s light-�lled Stephen and Maribelle Leavitt Yud Gallery that celebrates authentic, soulful connections be‐tween people. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco. 415-6557800

Touch Sensitive

@ 4pm Kaiser Railyards Medical Center, 501 J St, Sacramento

Kyle Watson @ 4pm Kaiser Railyards Medical Center, 501 J St, Sacramento

Mammatus @ 9pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

Lipstick @ 9pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Casmalia @ 9pm Public Works, 161 Erie St, San Francisco

David Harness: Lionbabe (Live DJ Set) @ 9pm Public Works, 161 Erie St, San Francisco

Josiah James @ 9am Brave Church San Francisco, 3355 19th Ave, San Francisco

Regard @ 1pm / $16

Regard is a collaborative dance performance set in The CJM’s light-�lled Stephen and Maribelle Leavitt Yud Gallery that celebrates authentic, soulful connections be‐tween people. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco. 415-6557800

2nd Friday ArtAbout at the Pence Gallery @ 6pm Enjoy art, wine, and live music at the Pence's pub‐lic reception on August 11! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pencesocial media@gmail.com, 530758-3370

J. Sirus @ 8pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Kilroi @ 9pm Bottom Of the Hill, 1233 17th St, San Francisco

Sat 8/12