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THE WINTERS DISTRICT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESENTS
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October 15th - November 2nd
City Council appoints Trepa as City Manager City of Winters Press Release The Winters City Council selected Kathleen Salguero Trepa as their next City Manager. Following a national recruitment conducted by Peckham & McKenney Inc. of 112 applicants from over 20 states, six candidates were invited to participate in interviews with the City’s leadership team, community panel, and the City Council. The Council approved an employment agreement and announced the appointment of Trepa during their Oct. 20 regular Council meeting. Trepa’s first day in her Winters City Manager role will be Nov. 9. Trepa comes to the City of Winters with nearly 25 years of experience in local government as well as six years in the private sector. Having recently
served as Assistant City Manager with the City of Concord for over three years. She also previously served the cities of Goleta, Claremont, San Marcos, and San Juan Capistrano. Mayor Wade Cowan shared the excitement of the City Council in welcoming Trepa to Winters. “We interviewed a lot of great city manager candidates and are impressed with Kathleen’s specific qualifications and leadership experience. We are ready to have her join our dynamic community,” Cowan said. Trepa expressed her appreciation of the Council’s selection. “Thank you to the City Council for selecting me as their next City Manager. I am excited and honored to join the Winters’ team, and I look forward to getting to know the community and staff,” she said. Trepa received a
Yolo sees upward trend in COVID cases, remains in red tier By Anne Ternus-Bellamy McNaughton Media
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Kathleen Salguero Trepa Bachelor of Arts in History from Boston University, magna cum laude. Her experience covers a broad range of municipal government services including, but not limited to, finance, IT, HR and economic development. Originally from a small town in New England, Trepa is a conversational Span-
Exchanging potted plants is spreading mosquito population By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District discourages the practice of exchanging potted plants as the invasive mosquito population in Winters remains widespread across town.
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In mid-September an adult female Aedes aegypti mosquito was found in a trap placed near East and Main streets. The invasive container-breeding mosquito is an aggressive species that prefers to bite people during the day and has the potential to transmit serious diseases including Zika, den-
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gue and chikungunya. The discovery in Winters was the first of its kind detected in Yolo County, ever. It has since been found in other communities including the neighboring City of Davis. Winters continues to host the largest infestation in Yolo County. “The infestation we have found in Winters is the most widespread that we have found anywhere else,” said Luz Maria Robles, Public Information Officer for the District. “We keep finding both larvae and adult mosquitoes in both inspections and in traps.” At this point the District crews have canvassed the entire town and left informational materials on door knobs. Robles said while they are not trapping to the extent they had been, they
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ish speaker. She has two adult daughters; one works in the wine industry and the other is a second-grade teacher in Oregon. She loves animals and will likely be seen around town with her rescue dog. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors and is looking forward to exploring Putah Creek and the trails in the area.
Yolo County remained in the red tier with substantial risk of COVID-19 spread on Tuesday. It’s the county’s fifth week in the red tier, where a number of businesses have been able to resume indoor operations at limited capacity and schools allowed to open for in-person instruction. However, the county continues to move closer to a return to the most restrictive purple tier — which would require those businesses to close again and prevent additional schools from reopening — rather than toward the less restrictive orange tier. A key metric for the county, the adjusted daily new case rate, stood at 5.4 per 100,000 residents on Tuesday, up from 5.3 the week before and 4.2 two weeks before that. The latest num-
By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief After 32 years of serving the Winters community, Eagle Drug announced they would be closing the doors of both their Winters and Esparto locations on Monday. A letter penned to patients and customers from owners Jodie and Zeb Becker hung on the entrance said they would be closing by the end of October. “We have been involved as owners of Eagle Drug for over five years and it has been a pleasure being part of this small community. We have enjoyed getting to know you and having the support of so many wonderful people means the world to our Eagle Drug family,” the letter stated. Patients who cur-
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Eagle Drug has served the Winters community for 32 years. Their pharmacy closes Wednesday, Oct. 28. rently are using the pharmacy are able to have their prescriptions transferred. Jodie Becker told the Express that Wednesday, Oct. 28 was the last day the Winters location would be open to the public to fill or pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. Afterwards, prescriptions would be automatically transferred to the CVS Pharmacy in Dixon located at 1057
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bers are based on the week ending Oct. 17 and cases reported in Yolo County since then show the upward trend has continued over the last 10 days. Between Oct. 18 and 26, the county has averaged more than 17 new cases per day, according to its online COVID-19 dashboard. The county would return to the purple tier if the daily new case rate hits 7 per 100,000 residents or greater for two consecutive weeks. For Yolo County, 7 cases per 100,000 residents equals about 15 new cases on average per day. No counties returned to the purple tier during the state’s update on Tuesday; rather, a number of counties progressed into less restrictive tiers, including four Bay Area counties (Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa
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N. 1st St. Prescriptions fulfilled at the Esparto location were automatically transferred on Tuesday, Oct. 27 to the CVS Pharmacy in Woodland located at 7 West Main St. The Eagle Drug Winters store will remain open after the pharmacy closes with liquidation sales of non-prescription items available for
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