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Volume 137, Number 21 — Locally owned since 1884
The hometown paper of John Rodriguez
Winters, Yolo County, California, Wednesday, June 17, 2020
WMS makes changes to master schedule By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief
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Photos of black lives being honored in the Black Lives Matter movement were honored at a memorial set up outside the Rotary Park Gazebo.
Community engages in peaceful protest to support BLM By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief Over 300 people gathered at Rotary Park on Saturday, June 13 to engage in a peaceful protest in part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Lesly Rodriguez, one of the protest organizers, said the goal for the event was to bring the Winters community together to stand up for black lives, as well as to educate them about the prime movement. Local speakers were also given a platform to share some of their experiences as black community members in Winters. Speaker Eli Moore said although she was
asked to share about her experience, she needs to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves anymore. She read a list of names of black individuals who were victims of police brutality, and encouraged attendees to look them up and learn more about their stories. The list included Sandra Bland, Troy Robinson, Randy Nelson and more. She also shared the story of Kendrick Johnson and asked attendees to learn more about his story because his name needs to be known. Tilly Burks, a mother of four and a Winters resident of six years, first thanked
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Winters community members kneel in protest of police brutality and racial injustice for black lives. the youth who organized the events, and for the opportunity. She also spoke to the number of community members who came out to be a voice at a peaceful protest. “Look at us. This is the city of Winters,” Burks said. She said she’s thankful that the rioting and looting hadn’t reached the city. But quoted Martin Luther King Jr. that rioting is the language of the unheard and encouraged members not to wait for an incident to happen before speaking out to support black lives. “Black people, some people, hurt people are trying to get everyone’s attention; emo-
New COVID cases tied to family gathering over Memorial weekend
tions don’t’ know behaviors; pain and hurt don’t’ know how to express themselves. I am here today to say, let us not wait for these horrific events to promote a peaceful and united protest,” Burks said. “The police do not have to regulate our protest. let them stand with us to show the unity of our city. While people are promoting change through terrorizing shopping centers and neighborhoods, let us come together and show that all races, nationalities, status and employment can and will come together to come together to promote change
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Phoebe Girimonte, Winters Middle School Principal, presented changes to the middle school master schedule to school board Trustees at the June 4 Winters Joint Unified School District school board meeting. The changes help to align with the priorities of the WMS site single focus priorities. As presented at an earlier school board meeting, the WMS site focus plan priorities include: ~Access to guaranteed and viable curriculum: All students are enrolled in general education courses and receive essential standards based instruction. ~Access to intervention and extension: Assessment informs decision making and students receive flexible and timely intervention and extension based on their specific needs. ~Collaboration and collective inquiry: Staff have time to collaborate with a focus on learning, a shared responsibility to improve student outcomes, and a results orientation. Changes to the schedule include: ~The elimination of stand-alone electives for English Learners: English Language Development designated minutes will now be curriculum-embed-
ded in core content courses. This change now ensures that English Learner have access to the full elective courses offered. ~The creation of an eighth grade wheel of trimester electives: This change facilitates academic intervention and the completion of three-year Social Emotional Learning and Technology pathways. ~The inclusion of timely data-informed intervention sections: Literacy and mathematics workshop classes in each grade-level wheel provide a means to offer additional instruction and support in response to diagnostic results. ~The offering of revised elective choices: Administrators considered student interest and their teacher credentialing/expertise in order to create an updated offering of elective course options. Girimonte said the goal of the literacy and mathematics workshops is to work in smaller groups of 13-18 students max, and to provide students with targeted instructions based on their i-Ready outcomes and what teachers are seeing in the classrooms. School Board President Rudolph Muldong said the change to give full
See UPDATE, Page 4
Winters JUSD serving free meals this summer By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy McNaughton Media Seven people who attended a Memorial Day family gathering were among the 15 new cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed by the county last Thursday. The gathering in-
cluded family members from multiple households, according to county officials, who did not indicate where the gathering occurred. However, 12 of the 15 confirmed cases on Thursday were from Woodland. “Later today, additional cases will be
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Rain for week: TRACE Season’s total: 13.37 in. Last sn. to date: 39.26 in. Winters rainfall season began 7/1/19. Weather readings are taken at 9 a.m.
reported with several more linked to that same event,” Supervisor Don Saylor said Friday. Between Thursday and Saturday, a total of 21 new cases were confirmed throughout the county. Meanwhile, the cases confirmed Thursday not connected to that family gathering involved individual community members, according to Jenny Tan, the county’s public information officer. Thursday’s new cases — the highest single-day total since mid April — “is a huge jump for us,” Tan noted Friday morning. All but two of the cases involved individuals under the age of 56 and seven were between the ages of 17
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Meal services for Winters families will continue under the COVID-19 emergency plan this summer. Cathy Olsen, Director of Food Service, confirmed the meals are free to all children age 18 and under. Meals are being distributed from the Waggoner Elementary School site on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 10:30 a.m.11:30 a.m. in a drive thru format. Olsen said they moved the start time to 10:30 a.m. to try and prevent congestion down Edwards Street, and to avoid the heat from hot summer temperatures. This summer families will receive the following in part of the summer meal service: Monday: Two breakfast meals and two lunche meals (one be-
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Winters JUSD is including CSEA and fresh produce boxes as part of its 2020 summertime meal service. ing hot). Milk is also provided. Wednesday: Three breakfast meals and three lunch meals (one being hot). Milk is also provided. This year all families will receive a CSEA box and local produce box on both days along with their meals. “I am excited about the CSEA boxes and Farm Produce we are providing,” Olsen
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