Winters Express May 24, 2023

Sunday Farmers Market pending county approval

By Crystal Apilado

Editor-in-Chief

Efforts to revive a local farmers market in Winters are underway.

Chris Turkovich, Downtown Business Association President and owner of Turkovich Family Wines, told the Winters Express in a phone call that currently they are waiting for approval from Yolo County to make it official, but Winters DBA received the go-ahead from city staff to begin marketing the Sunday Farmers Market on social media.

Ahmad (Simba) Baratti, of Simba’s Heirloom Farm, is coordinating the

efforts and submitted the application to Yolo County. According to Turkovich, once they receive County approval they will return to the Winters City Council to request a modification to the street closure schedule approved in February. At the Feb. 7 Winters City Council meeting, council members approved that Main Street would be closed from the Railroad Avenue intersection to the crosswalk at Paseo Park from the last weekend in March through the last weekend in October from Friday to Sunday afternoon (before noon) for 2023. City

Manager Kathleen Trepa noted the city has staff scheduled to work until noon on Sundays and the reopening of the street would need to be aligned with the schedule.

Turkovich said that Winters DBA will request the council to modify the Sunday reopening to go back to an allday Sunday closure to accommodate for the Sunday Farmers Market timeframe of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

However, the organizers are waiting for county approval before the street closure can be brought to Winters City Council.

In the meantime, See MARKET, Page 3

Winters councilman denies guilt in weapon charges

By Lauren Keene McNaughton Media

A Winters city councilman facing felony weapon charges pleaded not guilty to the allegations Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court.

Richard Thomas Casavecchia appeared in Judge Tom Dyer’s courtroom via Zoom, as did his attorney Michael Wise, who requested a June 7 court date for setting a preliminary hearing in the case.

“I did want to see if we could resolve it before we set it,” Wise said.

Casavecchia, 39, remains free on his own recognizance in the meantime.

Dyer also granted Wednesday a motion by the Yolo County

District Attorney’s Office to file an amended complaint in the case, adding two counts of possessing an assault rifle to a previous misdemeanor charge of possessing an unserialized firearm.  Documents filed in support of the motion allege that police found the assault rifles in Casavecchia’s home on April 2, after the victim arrived at the Winters Police Department to report a domestic violence incident and request an emergency protective order.

“She then told Winters police that defendant has a concealed-weapons permit along with other weapons,” the document says. She initially declined to give officers consent to enter her home and remove the weapons, but later reversed that decision.

About two hours earlier, a Winters patrol officer initiated

Winters High takes top honors in Travis Spark Challenge

By Susan Hiland McNaughton Media

Winters High School earned the top spot with the highest score for the overall competition at the Travis Spark Challenge hosted by the Solano County Office of Education and Travis Air Force Base’s Phoenix Spark program last Friday. Student teams from

Golden Hills Community School, Will C. Wood (three teams), DeAnza (three teams), Buckingham Charter (two teams), Vacaville, Winters and Vanden high schools entered the competition where they were challenged to select one of three genuine issues that TAFB is currently trying to solve. The three challenge prompts

were to develop solutions for gate traffic flow, dining facility customer flow or flight line perimeter control.

The team solution and presentation incorporated a prototype for fingerprint checking at the TAFB gate stations so those with base access could pass through quickly.

See SPARK, Page 3

an unrelated traffic stop on Casavecchia at Neiman and Main streets and asked Casavecchia whether he possessed any firearms, the motion says. Casavecchia confirmed he did, producing three handguns from a case on his truck’s passenger seat.

“One of the handguns did not contain a serial number or any identifying information,” prosecutors wrote. “Based on the officer’s training and experience, he opined the handgun was manufactured with several after-market parts, none of which contained a serial number.”

Officers went to Casavecchia’s home at about 4:30 p.m. that same day, seizing three AR-15 style rifles, two ammunition magazines and four ammunition rounds, the motion says.

See CHARGE, Page 3

Council discusses safety of fireworks within city limits

By Jacob Hoffman Express staff writer

The Winters City Council discussed the current use of the fireworks booths as well as the potential safety concerns around fireworks in general at its May 16 meeting.

As summarized in the city staff report, “Little League and the Winters’ municipal swim team coordinated separate fireworks booths to sell legal fireworks prior to the 4th of July. The booths were run separately until the city began contracting with a third party to

coordinate the summer swim team and provide recreational swim lessons. For the last two years, Little League has agreed to coordinate one double booth and split the proceeds with the city. Swim parents are requested to help volunteer at the booth.”  Fireworks provided the city with $17,000 last year, which was placed in the Swim Team fund that sits at around $90,000.

City Manager Kathleen Salguero Trepa reiterated that the fireworks sold at the booths are inspected

by the fire department and are of the legal “safe and sane” variety, and on the topic of illegal fireworks stated the city has taken steps in previous years to discourage their usage, including the creation and enforcement of administrative citations for using illegal fireworks inside the city, as well as a platform for reporting neighbors for using illegal fireworks. Since the citations are administrative rather than criminal, the city is more

See COUNCIL, Page 3

Library launching summer reading program, events

By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief

In coordination with the launch of the Yolo County Library Summer Reading Program, the Winters Community Library has big plans for the summer. Ashleigh Torres, Winters Library Branch Supervisor, said residents can officially begin to log their reading for the 2023 summer reading program on June 1.

“We will have a wide variety of programs for

all ages all throughout the summer,” Torres said. “The theme this year is All Together Now, which focuses on unity and friendship, which I think is a perfect fit for the Winters community.”

The Winters Library is introducing a weekly series of All Together Outside programs, which is being funded by a California State Library grant received by Yolo County Library. Torres said the events will focus on local wildlife and

recreational opportunities. This summer, the Winters Library is partnering with Putah Creek Council to provide the Creek Explorers program every Wednesday at 2 p.m. starting on June 7.

“This program is for (youths) 6–11 years old to come and learn about the stream and the creatures that call Putah Creek their home. Participants will also be able to do hands-on activities related to each theme,”

See READ, Page 3

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Ben Nelson, Rayanne Roberts, advisor Dianne Halsey, Jack Tuel and Julian Garcia accept the top award at the Travis Spark Challenge on Friday, May 19.

Mosquito control district warns about upcoming mosquito season

By Jacob Hoffman Express staff writer

The local mosquito control district shared an update regarding a busy mosquito season following the wet season earlier this year at the May 16 Winters City Council meeting.

Luz Maria Robles, the Public Information Officer for the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito Vector Control District, shared an annual Winters Mosquito Control update in the run-up to mosquito season. Herself a Winters native, Robles spoke to the council about what the

mosquito district does to deal with mosquitos and how the community can help.

Robles described what she and her organization do, saying “We are the local district in charge of protecting public health for all of the residents in Sacramento and Yolo counties” with their job being “mainly (to) protect the residents of Sacramento and Yolo County from the various mosquito-transmitted diseases.”

Regarding the coming summer, Robles noted “It’s been a super wet, rainy season,

and it promises to be an even busier mosquito season,”

“Every year we try and come here to give an update,” Robles stated. “And it’s especially important that I come to give an update because here in Winters you have invasive mosquitos.”

Last year, Winters hosted the largest Aedes aegypti infestation since its discovery in September 2019. The invasive container-breeding mosquito is an aggressive species that prefers to bite people during the day and has the potential to trans-

Por Nicole Foy CalMatters

Docenas de trabajadores de bodegas, repartidores, empleados de restaurantes y defensores viajaron a San Diego el jueves para instar a la Agencia de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional de California (Cal/OSHA) a que tome medidas rápidas para implementar un estándar de manejo de calor en interiores.

La Legislatura de California ordenó por primera vez a Cal/ OSHA que abordara el tema de agregar regulaciones de calor interior para proteger a los trabajadores en 2016. Un estándar de calor en interiores reflejaría las regulaciones estatales que protegen a los trabajadores al aire libre, incluido el requisito de que los empleadores proporcionen descansos, agua y otras medidas de seguridad cuando las temperaturas suben hasta cierto nivel.

Las temperaturas ya están aumentando en todo el estado; Se espera que la primera

Lake levels down

Express staff

mit serious diseases including Zika, dengue and chikungunya.

The district uses an integrated mosquito management approach that includes public information campaigns and dialogues like Robles’ presentation to the council, surveillance of local populations for diseases like West Nile virus, biological control for raising and releasing mosquito-eating fish, ecological management to provide landowners tools to manage mosquito breeding areas

See MOSQUITO, Page 7

The water level of Lake Berryessa went down during the past week by 0.23 feet, with a decrease in the storage of 4,134 acre-feet of water, according to Ken Emigh of the Solano Irrigation District.

On the morning of Tuesday, May 23 the lake level was 430.60

feet above sea level, with storage computed at 1,378,518 acre-feet of water. Evaporation on the lake averaged 284 acre-feet of water per day. The SID is diverting 341 cubic feet per second of water in the Putah South Canal, with 44 cubic feet per second flowing at the Diversion Dam.

Paseo Park survey

Community members can share input on potential elements to be included in the design of Paseo Park at https://tinyurl.com/4jfr5rz4t

Eventos hispanos

en interiores

ola de calor récord del año golpee este mes. Pero los trabajadores advirtieron que los climas desérticos, particularmente en Inland Empire y otras partes del sur de California, pueden generar altas temperaturas durante todo el año.

La industria de almacenamiento y

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jando con 115 grados [Farenheit], y la parte trasera de los camiones llega a 140 o 150,” dijo González. “Nuestros cuerpos pasan por mucho estrés. Solo estoy aquí pidiéndoles que pongan todo por escrito, porque las grandes corporaciones están tratando de ver cuál es

“Solo estoy aquí pidiéndoles que pongan todo por escrito, porque las grandes corporaciones están tratando de ver cuál es el mínimo indispensable para nosotros.”

Viviana González, conductor de camión

logística ha crecido en Inland Empire, especialmente desde la pandemia. Algunos trabajadores se quejaron del calor en los almacenes y camiones.

Viviana González, conductora de UPS en Palmdale y delegada sindical de Teamsters 396 Local, le dijo a la Junta de Normas de Salud y Seguridad Ocupacional que en los últimos nueve años ha hablado con varios empleados que experimentaron palpitaciones cardíacas o sufrieron un golpe de calor mientras trabajaban en interiores.

Instó a la junta a ser lo más específica posible sobre los descansos obligatorios, las áreas para refrescarse y los límites de temperatura, porque las vidas dependen de ello.

“Estamos traba-

el mínimo indispensable para nosotros.”

Golpe de calor en el trabajo

Maribel Aceves, una trabajadora de McDonald’s desde hace mucho tiempo, dijo que los empleados de su tienda realizaron una huelga para obligar a la gerencia a reparar un aire acondicionado averiado.

Robert Moreno, un empleado de almacén de UPS de 30 años que forma parte de la junta ejecutiva de Teamsters Local 542, dijo que experimentó un golpe de calor en el trabajo y fue a un hospital en una ambulancia.

“La mayoría de estos depósitos son de láminas de metal y el sol brilla dentro todo el día,” dijo Moreno. “Entras en estos almacenes y hay cero o ningún flujo de aire,

un calor muy sofocante.”

Un estudio de julio de 2021 encontró que en los días en que las temperaturas oscilan entre 85 y 90 grados, el riesgo general de lesiones en el lugar de trabajo era entre un 5 porcentaje y un 7 porcentaje más alto que en los días en que las temperaturas rondaban los 60, dijo Alice Berliner, directora de salud de los trabajadores. y centro de seguridad de la Universidad de California, Merced.

La normativa actual de Cal/OSHA requeriría la mayoría de las protecciones a 82 grados en interiores, pero las regulaciones más estrictas entran en vigor a 87 grados o si son 82 grados en un lugar de trabajo con calor radiante alto, o si los trabajadores usan una cubierta de cuerpo completo.

Los defensores y trabajadores dijeron que los umbrales de temperatura deberían ser mucho más bajos.

“Es cierto para muchas industrias, pero ciertamente para los almacenes, pero es un trabajo físicamente muy intensivo,” dijo Tim Shadix, director legal del Centro de Recursos para Trabajadores de Almacenes en Ontario. “Entonces, las personas realmente corren el riesgo de sufrir una enfermedad por calor a temperaturas mucho más bajas.”

Varios representantes de la industria rechazaron varios artículos

Vea CALOR, Página 7

Los empleados instan a Cal/OSHA

establecer reglas para el calor

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agricultural-related vendors can contact Baratti for more information on how to sign up to participate in the Sunday Farmers Market by sending an email to simba@simbasheir loomfarm.com.

Turkovich said Winters DBA reached out to Baratti because he has experience and knowledge about organizing farmers markets. Winters DBA will continue to help promote and rally the community to participate and attend.

“This is our

SPARK

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The Will C. Wood “Wildcat Garage” team won in the challenge category for gate traffic flow solutions.

DeAnza High School’s “Air Force Jr. ROTC DeAnza” team won the challenge category for flight line perimeter monitoring.

The Golden Hills Community School “Eagles” team took home the top award for the dining facility flow challenge category according to a press

flexible in allowing fire and building inspectors to write citations as well as police. Last year five citations were given out, and the revenue from those citations goes to the fund for the city’s firework show.  Council member

Jesse Loren asked Trepa about the safest way to use legal fireworks. Trepa advised that legal fireworks “should be used in an area that is clear, free from any weeds or brush or any flammable material, there always should be a bucket of water nearby” as well as noting that “a lot of people like to use their safe and sane fireworks in the streets, which we discourage people from doing because now you’re interfering with traffic flows, they do leave a lot of debris behind” and people,

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Police later determined two of the firearms were not registered to Casavecchia.

Court documents describe both of those weapons as “semiautomatic, centerfire rifle(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.”

Casavecchia remains on the Winters City Council while his court case is pending. Voters elected him to a four-year term last November.

Council discussion

At the May 2 Winters City Council meeting, Council members Jesse Loren, Carol Scianna and Mayor Pro Tempore Albert Vallecillo voiced support to add an agenda item

second effort at a farmers market. We tried it about 10 years ago and it didn’t quite work out. By putting it on Main Street and having the support of the community, we’re hoping this farmers market will last,” he said. Upon approval of the county, the Sunday Farmers Market is expected to run every Sunday from June 11 to Sept. 24 on downtown Main Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Turkovich said updates will be shared in the Winters Express and on the Discover Winters website and social media accounts.

release. The goals of the Travis Spark Challenge are to provide students with fun, interesting, and challenging real-world problems to solve; introduce a challenge that advances both the high school’s academic goals and Travis AFB’s mission; and to tap into a pool of innovators that can bring a novel solution and perspective to the issues being presented in the challenge.

Follow the Winters Robotics social media accounts for updates.

who would like to use safe and sane fireworks should do so on their property.

Loren also asked if having fireworks, even safe and sane legal ones and those in the fireworks show, is a danger to the area that should be addressed, noting some difficulties people have with pets and fireworks.

Mayor Pro Tempore

Albert Vallecillo reiterated Loren’s concern, noting that the Winters area is hot and fire-prone and that fires can quickly become “catastrophic” — which fireworks can increase the likelihood of. But Vallecillo also said he wasn’t proposing the organizations funded by them lose their revenue, instead, the city should look into finding other ways to fund them.

Council member Carol Scianna provided similar concerns regarding safety and the desire to continue funding

at the June 6 meeting to discuss a possible vote to censure him.

In her council member report, Loren said that constituents shared concerns with her about the “council member situation and how it reflects on council.”

“Concerns were expressed to me and I hope there’s a time in the future that we can have a conversation,” Loren said.

Vallecillo expressed he would also like the council to have a separate discussion about options

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Torres said encouraging families to attend together.

Yolo County Library is also offering a series of weekly All Together Outside programs at all Yolo County branches from June 10 to Aug. 15. The free events will focus on local wildlife and recreation opportunities starting with a kickoff festival on Saturday, June 10 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Capay Open Space Park, located at 15603 County Road 85 in Capay. This family-friendly event, in collaboration with the Yolo County Parks Division, Tuleyome and Latino Outdoors, will feature a nature walk, bilingual storytime in English and Spanish, a musical performance by Cascada de Flores, fun activities and a resource fair with information about wildlife, conservation groups, nearby hiking trails, recreational opportunities and more.

The schedule of the All Together Outside events can be found on the county library’s online calendar at YoloCounty Library.org/Events.

these programs while noting that illegal fireworks are the biggest safety concern, which she hopes the citations can help mitigate.

“In our interface with the creek area,” Scianna continued.

“It’s a tragedy waiting to happen.” Regarding the fire safety of fireworks, Trepa noted that safe and sane fireworks are “authorized by the state fire marshal” but that communities in California can and do prohibit them for fire safety reasons nonetheless, and thus the decision to do so would be up to the council.

Council member Richard Casavecchia and Mayor Bill Biasi stated they felt that the issue of firework booth sales and the general fire safety concern of fireworks are separate issues and that neither was in favor of banning the sale of safe and sane fireworks.

or solutions to remedy any future similar situations.

Assistant City Attorney Martin de los Angeles advised that the censure discussion should happen first at a regular meeting, and if the Council wants to proceed with a broader discussion it should be at a different meeting.

City Manager Kathleen Trepa said the City would need to do research on what other cities have done and to look into their municipal codes.

“We need a little bit

The themes of All Together Now and All Together Outside are fitting complements for this summer’s program, as exposure to books and the outdoors from an early age fosters empathy, curiosity and an appreciation for the

go online to register at yolocountylibrary. org/summer.

The Summer Reading Program is free and sponsored by the Yolo County Library Foundation and the various Friends of the Library groups, including Winters

kid’s meal at Raising Cane’s. Prizes will be available to pick up through the end of August, or while supplies last.

Participants are encouraged to track the books they have read, log reading minutes, complete activities to earn badges and prizes and discover new books online through the Beanstack platform on the web or via the app. Parents or caregivers can sign up and quickly log their own and their children’s reading under one main account.

beauty and diversity around us, according to a Yolo County Library media release.

“Both nature and reading offer opportunities to explore new worlds and ideas,” said Yolo County Librarian Diana Lopez. “Together, they are a reminder that we are all connected to the natural world and to each other.”

Community members who are interested in signing up for the Summer Reading Program can visit the library to obtain a paper reading log or can

Biasi continued that “as far as safe and sane fireworks, I’m not in favor of banning them in Winters, policy-wise by the council.” He also said that the organizations receiving funding from fireworks wanted to find other funding that could be up to them, as well as opening that a prohibition on legal fireworks in the city would be difficult to enforce and that illegal fireworks are the biggest concerns for fire safety and pets.

Public comments included little league parent Sarah Shirley whose strongly written comment stated her opposition to pulling the funding source or banning safe and sane fireworks, as well as an in-person comment from Kathy Cowan, who works the firework booths, who acknowledged that as a pet owner, it can be “terrible” for them, but that banning legal fireworks “would be a real mistake.”

of time to do that research,” Trepa said, noting the City staff would need to accommodate the time to do the work to look into the potential remedies for council member actions that could be contrary to the Code of Conduct, which is voluntary and non-binding.

Crystal Apilado contributed to this article

Friends of the Library for local programming this year.

Program participation

All Yolo County residents who sign up for the program can choose a free book from a selection available at their local library branch. Participants who complete the summer reading challenge will receive another free book and a prize, as well as an entry into a final raffle for additional prizes.

Children ages 0-12 will also receive a certificate for a free

The summer reading programs can encourage even reluctant readers to read more of what interests them, and studies have shown that participation helps children and teens to develop a love of reading and retain and improve their skills over the summer. Adult participation promotes a lifelong habit of reading and learning and encourages caregivers and families to support their child’s literacy development by reading with them. View the Winters events on the Yolo County Library calendar to find programs and events hosted at the Winters Community Library.

“Both nature and reading offer opportunities to explore new worlds and ideas. Together they are a reminder that we are all connected to the natural world and to each other.”

Diana Lopez, county librarian

In the summer garden

By Don Shor Special to the Express

With soil and night temperatures finally getting warm, it’s time to plant the heat-loving summer vegetables and flowers.

In the vegetable garden: pepper time

Peppers have been sulking due to the cold temperatures earlier in the month. They’ll be much happier with warmer nights. This is an excellent time to plant sweet peppers and chili peppers.

Interesting fact: the sweet pepper is a relatively new member of the type, historically speaking. There are five to six important species of peppers in the genus Capsicum that we grow for food, and all had capsaicin and other compounds in them that cause the pain or joy, depending on your viewpoint, of eating spicy food.

Though hot peppers have been used in Mesoamerica for centuries and in Europe since the 16th century, modern sweet peppers arose due to a recessive gene in paprika peppers only about a hundred years ago.

Although bell peppers are the most popular variant of sweet pepper, gardeners locally find them susceptible to sunscald during heat waves. You can plant bell peppers where they get afternoon shade; you’ll get less yield, but perhaps more usable

fruit in a hot summer.

Most of the other, thinner-walled sweet peppers are less likely to have the fruit damaged. Alternatives that perform well here include Gypsy, Sweet Banana, Jimmy Nardello, Marconi.

If you want some peppers with mild to moderate heat for salsas, plant jalapeño, Fresno, and serrano.

For cooking, some of the best for our area include Anaheim, a California variety that’s just mildly hot, and the Hatch pepper strains from New Mexico.

Very hot peppers that yield prodigiously here include cayenne (insanely hot), and Thai Dragon (same).

If you want to grow the super-hot peppers, it’s best to wait to plant them until the soil is even warmer. Peppers bred from Capsicum chinense such as habanero, Trinidad Scorpion, Bhut Jolokia, and their ilk contain startling amounts of capsaicin. They need soils about 70 degrees F, which is typically early June.

These are literally dangerously hot. As your mother would say: make good choices.

Plenty of time to plant:

Cucumbers

The most common complaint I get about cucumbers it that they are often bitter here. While that can be exacerbated by insuffi-

cient watering, I’ve found bitterness varies by variety.

Newer hybrids, especially the burpless and Persian types, are rarely bitter and continue producing all summer. Lemon cucumbers, a round heirloom type with especially sweet cukes, is not bitter. I stopped growing regular green cucumbers years ago due to the bitterness problem. All other types have been much more satisfactory. Armenian cucumbers are never bitter. They’re not actually cucumbers, their fruit is a type of melon that isn’t sweet and has a crunchy texture, so we use it like a cuke. They are very vigorous vines, and the fruit are usable even when they’ve gotten quite large.

Eggplants yields are highest from the long, slender types such as Millionaire or Japanese Long. If you pamper eggplants with plenty of water and light fertilizer they’ll yield very heavily.

Tomatoes can continue to be planted anytime through June. I’ve even planted in July with good results.

Corn. Most sweet corn takes 10 to 12 weeks to harvest so it’s best to get it in by mid-June. You can speed it up by buying seedling transplants.

Squash and melons

Summer squash such as crookneck, patty pan, and zucchini squash all can be planted through July, as

they grow rapidly in warm weather and start yielding just a few weeks after planting.

Plant melons and winter squash at the end of May or early June. This includes cantaloupe and other musk melons, honeydew, crenshaw, and more.

Ambrosia cantaloupe is still my old favorite, but I’ve been impressed by the new honeydew hybrids that have firm, orange flesh, as well as the small, extremely aromatic and flavorful Charentais melons.

Melons like warm soil,

lots of room, no competition from weeds or each other, and plenty of water.

Two other heat lovers:  watermelons and okra, go in when it’s quite warm, late May to June.

Most gardeners find watermelons take up a lot of room for little yield, though Sugar Bush is a compact variety with excellent fruit. Sweet potatoes. Need to cover a fence quickly? Sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family. The vines are quite vigorous

See GARDEN, Page 5

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Feeling intrepid? Want to test your endorphin responses? Try growing habanero peppers or some of the other super-hot peppers derived from Capsicum chinense. Often slow to get going because they really need warm temperatures, they end the season with a bumper crop of extremely hot peppers.

have attractive foliage.

Yard-long beans: Unlike green beans, these pea relatives prefer high temperatures. These are also fast-growing vines; they start to produce in August.

Basil grows very easily here and can be planted all through the summer. While bees love the flowers of basil, gardeners usually pinch the blossoms off to keep the plants producing, or just keep planting more every few weeks.

There are new basil varieties that don’t flower at all! Emerald Towers makes a little shrub-like plant with great-tasting leaves right up until frost. Flowers for the summer garden

There are lots of great reasons to mix vegetables and flowers together. Having an abundance of flowers attracts pollinators and provides habitat for beneficial insects. Summer annual flowers can take the same soil and watering as your vegetables.

Some of the summer annuals I routinely plant in or around my vegetables:

• Borage

You only need to plant this once. It

cucumbers. Borage is notably attractive to honeybees.

• Cosmos and Zinnias

These love heat and don’t like cold soil, so they’re best planted during May – June, with blooms from summer through fall.

• Sunflowers Plant anytime from April into mid-summer. Sunflowers, and daisies of all kinds, draw many types of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. For seeds to roast, as well as enormous plants,

able, ranging from those giants down to very dwarf types, in a range of colors from the traditional golden yellow to dark, dark red.

• Mexican sunflowers

If you have room for a large plant with bright orange flowers and want to draw all kinds of butterflies and hummingbirds, plant Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). They can get to six feet tall, branch freely, and bloom all the way from mid-sum-

of cuisine. They also flower very quickly from seed or transplants, have pretty flowers over a long season, reseed freely, and attract bees and butterflies.

Gardeners who work to increase species diversity in their gardens find that their pest problems diminish over time. Having more different types of flowering plants is a simple way to achieve that diversity and natural pest

concerned when we start getting daytime temperatures in the 90s, thinking that it’s too late to plant and they’ve missed the season. Don’t worry, we have a very long growing season here and most of our summer vegetables are subtropical or even tropical species.

You may not like the heat, but it’s what those types of plants thrive on.

• Plant in the cool of the day for your own

Water each plant thoroughly at the time of planting.

• Check daily and water as needed, typically every 2 to 3 days at first.

• Mulch to smother weeds.

Water more deeply and less often as the season goes along (if you can; raised planters may still need daily watering through the summer).

Then just harvest regularly – and figure out what to do with all that surplus produce!

New home construction in Winters is either boom or bust. This is the 1981 groundbreaking for the Walnut Tree subdivision, William Carrion property, north of Anderson Avenue along Railroad Avenue. Pictured are: (standing, from left) Jack Graf, president of the Winters District Chamber of Commerce; Bill Nichols, Ron Merrill, of Merrill Delorefice Development Company; Norman Todd, Mike Jones, Dick Fitzpatrick and Camile Branscum. Front row: Cecil Padilla and Don Delorefice. Forty units were planned for the subdivision, 25 percent custom built and the balance on a build-out program. Merrill said that there would be four models of homes, ranging from $75,000, from two to four bedrooms with two or more baths. Drive through the subdivision today and you will see that it turned out pretty nice. A quick note: there are two streets named after William and Isabel Carrion’s daughters, Pricilla Court and Betty Court, and even a street with the family name, Carrion Circle, but no street for son, Bob Carrion. Life is tough for the youngest member of a family.

Public Safety Report

City of Winters

Fire

May 3: Motor Vehicle Accident, 100 Edwards St.

~Hazardous condition, 400 block of Morgan St.

May 4: Power lines down, 500 block of Edwards St.

May 5: Medical Aid, 800 block of Jackson St.

~Investigation, 1000 block of Kennedy Dr

~Medical Aid, 400 block of Morgan St.

~Medical Aid, 400 block of Morgan St.

~Station coverage, UC Davis

~False alarm, UC Davis

May 6: Public Assist, 400 block of First St. May 7: Medical Aid, 400 block of Morgan St.

~Medical Aid, 400 block of Morgan St.

May 8: False alarm, 900 block of Railroad Ave.

~Medical Aid, 400 block of Russell St.

May 9: Medical Aid, 100 block of Colby Ln.

~Medical Aid, 900 block of Railroad Ave.

Police Arrest Log

May 6: Lopez,

Ricardo Jr. (Age 29), Charges: Two Winters PD war-

rants, Disposition:

Released on Notice

To Appear May 13: Ricketts, Leah (Age 39);

Charges: Yolo SO

Warrant, San Ma-

teo SO Warrant,

Two Solano SO Warrants; Disposition:

Released on Notice to Appear

May 16: Neal, Robert Paul (Age 60); Charges: Win-

ters PD Warrant, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia;

Disposition: Trans-

ported to Yolo County Jail

Report Log

May 12: 8:55 a.m.,

1000th block of Railroad Ave., Petty Theft ~7:49 p.m., 100th

block of E. Grant

Avenue, Petty Theft

May 13: 8:09 p.m., 100th block of E. Baker St., Vandalism

May 15: 5:34 p.m., 100th block of E. Baker St., Audible Alarm ~6:26 p.m., 100th block of First St., Public Intoxication

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

The Winters Senior Center is seeking funding for equipment and programming. Mail checks payable to Winter Senior Center Fund to: Yolo Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1264, Woodland, CA 95776

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Aaron Geerts, Staff Writer

Jacob Hoffman, Staff Writer

David DeLeon, Advertising Director

Taylor Buley, Publisher-at-Large

Charles R. Wallace, Publisher Emeritus

Dispatches from the Express archives.

Years Ago

145 Years Ago

May 25, 1878

(From the files of the Winters Advocate)

On Friday morning the race barn of Theodore Winters near town was destroyed by fire. One horse, one fine new buggy and all of the whips, saddles, bridles, etc., in the barn were burned, besides considerable hay and about three tons of barley; probable loss between five and six thousand dollars. Norfolk narrowly escaped, his keeper having taken him out but a few minutes previously for exercise.

Arrangements, we are informed, are about being made for the erection of a Baptist church edifice in Winters.

Miss Minnie Thissel, our young Pleasant Valley friend, will accept thanks for a basket of ripe luscious apricots.

130 Years Ago

May 27, 1893

Napoleon Vieu of Dixon came down from his ranch in Putah Canyon on Tuesday last. He informed the Express representative that the orange trees on the ranch, five years old, are loaded with fruit.

Robert Clegg of Tehama has purchased lot 20 of the Waughtel tract west of town, of Messrs. Sims and Englehart, assignees, paying $100 an acre for the land. There are 10.08 acres in the

An informal meeting of the citizens of Winters was held in Masonic Hall, Thursday afternoon .... G. W. Hemenway stated that the object of the meeting was to take steps towards incorporation of the community and a committee was appointed to establish a boundary line.

lot and Mr. Clegg will plant it to trees next winter.

W.S. Reed brought eleven boxes of Royal Ann cherries to town last Tuesday. Ten of them were sent to Denver and the other to San Francisco.

The high school will close next Friday. On that evening an entertainment will be given by the school in the Opera House.

Fred Wertner has sold his place in Pleasant valley to F.H. Buck and has purchased a twenty-acre lot in the Wolfskill 1000 acre tract south of town.

An informal meeting of the citizens of Winters was held in Masonic Hall, Thursday afternoon. E.C. Rust called the meeting to order and was chosen chairman. G.W. Hemenway stated that the object of the meeting was to take steps towards incorporation of the community and a committee was appointed to establish a

boundary line.

95 Years Ago

May 25, 1928

By defeating Armijo by the score of 12 to 0, Winters won the championship of the S. C. A. L. for the third time. Haze pitched his last game for Winters High Wednesday and had the Armijo team feeding out of his hand at all times. He allowed only five hits while striking out seven.

A wedding of more than usual interest was consummated at San Francisco Monday evening when Gregory M. Vasey, one of Winters’ leading merchants, and Miss Fay Siler, former Winters high school teacher, were married.

James Daniel Ely, 70 years a resident of the Winters district, passed away Wednesday at about 10 o’clock after only a few hours illness. Deceased was 75 years of age and a son of the late Uncle Ben and Aunt Betty Ely, pioneer settlers of Yolo county. J.D. arrived in California on the 30th day of May 1857 with his mother, three sisters, and one older brother, coming from Ralls county, Missouri by way of the Isthmus of Panama. The father and oldest son, the late John H.

Ely, came by ox team across the plains arriving the 28th day of October 1857, J.D.’s fifth birthday.  Mrs. Horace Mermod and three children are planning to start soon on a trip to her former home in Switzerland. They do not expect to return until fall.

35 Years Ago

May 28, 1943

Principal J.M. Clayton has announced that his 8th grade will hold their graduation program Thursday evening, June 3, in the auditorium. Sixteen girls and 14 boys will receive diplomas from Superintendent, Mrs. Eleanor K. Bandy who will address them  Fire of unknown origin, presumably from a spark, broke out Sunday morning at the Russell street home of A. Crowley, formerly owned by C.S. Culton.  Aviation Cadet James E. Rollins was recently graduated on completion of primary training from the Curtis Flying School, Brady, Texas.  Wolfskill district school closed last night with program directed by Mrs. Idell Reams and Mrs. W.A. Armstrong, instructors, Clerk of board, J.J. Rice, presented diplomas to Margaret Viola Borges, Baldomero Aviala Martinez, Diego M. Munoz, Robert Ernest Thompson.

Five students receiving diplomas of graduation Thursday evening from Union district were Margery Apple, Robert Baldwin, Joe Lawrence, Donald and James Rominger. Mrs. Horace Shriver presented diplomas, and instructor Miss Victoria Encoyand directed a closing program.

Miss Ann Hemenway is up from the city and spending her vacation week with her folks, the F.C. Hemenway.

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Swim season officially open

Express staff

The city of Winters officially launched the swim season at the Bobbie Greenwood Community Swim Center.

Lap swim

The 2023 lap swim season is scheduled to occur now thru Oct. 31.

Lap swim is available for swimmers ages 16 or older who must complete a waiver, which is available on the sign up page. The waiver is required in order to participate in lap swim. This season the payment will be required at the pool during a swimmer’s check-in. Payments must be made with a debit of credit card. The pool is not accepting cash or checks this season. Available lap swim

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on their property, and chemical control who respond to service requests and do inspections around the district.

Though to most people “a mosquito is a mosquito,” Robles explained but there are different varieties with different breeding habits and respective dangers, with invasive species like Aedes aegypti only needing “a bottle cap of water…to breed,” and that these smaller water sources in people’s backyards and properties are more difficult to manage than creeks and farms.

“The kiddie pools, the dog dishes, the flower pots, that’s why we always ask that at least once a week people look around their yard and inspect it and dump out any stagnant water because that’s going to go a long way to eliminate those mosquito breeding sources,” Robles said.

According to Robles, This is compounded by recent rainfall in the area, as “with a lot of rain, that means a

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en las regulaciones propuestas.

Los representantes de la industria de alimentos y restaurantes advirtieron que las regulaciones que requieren ajustes de temperatura para los equipos de alimentos podrían violar los códigos estatales de salud y seguridad alimentaria.

La Asociación de Hospitales de California dijo que las unidades de quemados, que funcionan a temperaturas más altas para ayudar a los pacientes a regular la temperatura corporal, requerirían exenciones de las reglas.

Retroceso empresarial

Robert Moutrie, cabildero de la Cámara de Comercio de California, dijo que muchos representantes de la industria entienden la necesidad de algunas protecciones, pero quieren asegurarse de que sean factibles.

Las reglas que incluyen camiones en las regulaciones interiores generarían conflictos con los estándares de calor ex-

pass options include Monthly Pass ($54), Daily Pass ($5) or a 10-visit punch card ($43).

To view the lap swim schedule, and requirements, or to sign up for a lap Swim spot, visit www.cityofwinters. org/swim-schedule.

Open swim

The recreational open swim season is open now through Oct. 29.

Swimmers can register in advance online or can show up at the pool to complete a waiver. Registration and acceptance of the waiver of liability are required in order to participate during open swim. Fees associated with Open Swim are $2 per participant which can be paid

lot of stagnant water” which combined with the already high temperatures “basically creates mosquito heaven.”

“Typically the height of mosquito season is usually June, July (and) August, with the invasives it’s a little bit different, those tend to be active in the fall, but overall it’s definitely going to be a very busy mosquito season,” Robles said.

Typically, the main concern for the mosquito district is West Nile virus, with 208 cases last year leading to 13 deaths in the district, though Robles noted that there were no cases among birds or people in Winters last year.

However, an emerging concern for the district is a number of invasive mosquito species, the Yellow Fever Mosquito and the Asian Tiger Mosquito. These species have been spreading north from southern California and in recent years have been spotted in Winters, and are different from native mosquitos for their aggressive day-biting preferences and the diseases

for in exact change or with a debit/credit card. Swimmers can also pay $20 for 10 visit punch card that can be used anytime during the 2023 pool season. All children under the age of 15 must be directly supervised, within arms reach, in the pool facility by someone 16 years or older, unless they are enrolled in a supervised city program.

For general pool rules and to view the swim season schedule, visit www.city ofwinters.org/recrea tional-swim.

Swim lessons

Registration for swim lessons is being coordinated by SASO. For details, visit https://tinyurl. com/33svuan7.

they carry like Zika, dengue, and chikungunya, as well as their ability to breed in very small amounts of stagnant water, as little as a teaspoon. The eggs they lay can also survive having the water they were laid in removed, being able to remain dormant without water for up to six months.

These factors contribute to the vigilance that the mosquito district has to maintain to keep these invasive species under control, and Robles urged the council and the community of Winters to be amenable to officials from the district searching backyards and properties for mosquito populations.

Gar House, the city’s representative for the Mosquito Control Vector District, also reiterated the importance of the district’s work as well as its quality, calling the district “a well-known organization that’s looked up to throughout the state and the nation, and even worldwide” noting that most recently the Elk Grove district facility was visited by officials from Kenya and Ghana.

“Me preocupa que los que tienen que implementar estas piezas tengan detalles, asegurándose de que sea factible y claro para los empleadores, particularmente los pequeños empleadores, poner esto en práctica.”

Robert

Moutrie, cabildero

terior existentes, dijo. Además, es posible que los empleadores más pequeños no tengan espacio para incluir áreas de enfriamiento obligatorias, y los disparadores de temperatura estrictos no tendrían sentido para los empleados que pueden entrar a edificios calientes solo brevemente, agregó.

“Simpatizamos con lo que se dijo hoy y las historias que se contaron,” dijo Moutrie. “Me preocupa que los que tienen que implementar estas piezas tengan detalles, asegurándose de que sea factible y claro para los empleadores, particularmente los pequeños empleadores, poner esto en práctica.”

Los miembros de

Costly errors bump Warriors from baseball playoffs

By Aaron Geerts Express staff writer

After a first-round playoff win against Trinity High School, the Winters High School varsity baseball club headed up to Colusa High School for Round 2 on Tuesday, May 16. While just a playoff game on paper, the Warriors were looking forward to the grudge match from last year’s section championship loss to the RedHawks.

Although the game had a slow start, with a scoreless first inning, the RedHawks quickly put up six runs while holding the Warriors at zero.

Jordan Calvert had an uncharacteristic outing on the mound that included nine walks, two strikeouts and eight earned runs.

Luis Lara and Miles Mariani also stepped in to pitch for Winters but struggled to quell Colusa’s offense.

Defensively, Derick Olson, Justice Madsen, Jake Woods, Julian Leon, AJ Pignataro and Anthony Duran vied to keep the RedHawks at bay, but errors and walks would only add to the adversity the Warriors were already facing.

The Warriors struggled offensively,

putting up only two hits by Leon and Duran, and a stolen base by Isaiah Pazmino.

The RedHawks scored four more runs in the third inning and another six in the fourth while holding the Warriors to zero.

“The few negatives that were reoccurring throughout the year kind of reared their ugly heads in this game. The combination of free passes and not taking advantage of opportunities is what it was. A team like Colusa is really good, and in order beat a team like that, you have to be really good along with some plays going your way,” said head coach, Austin Calvert. “Unfortunately, we weren’t the best version of ourselves in that game,

had some costly errors, and didn’t execute at the plate with only two hits. So, when you combine those things against a really good team, the result we got is what you’re going to get.”

The Warriors were unable to overcome the adversity. The game was 16–0 and ended via the mercy rule in the fifth.

“It’s unfortunate, but the guys fought their hearts out this year to get to that point and nothing can take that away from them. It was still a successful season, it just didn’t end where we wanted to be. I think the positive that will come out of this is we have a strong and large junior class that will use this as motivation throughout the summer and into next year and will really realize what the cost of not embracing your full potential is,” said Calvert. “ It’s a lesson learned the hard way, but sometimes that’s the best way to learn them. I hope they can take this and use it to hold themselves and everyone around them accountable for only achieving their best because that’s what it’s going to take to win a section championship next year.”

Reece Barbosa

Reece Barbosa, a Winters High School freshman, is Pisani’s Athlete of the Week. A three-sport athlete, this year Barbosa participated in cheer, basketball and — most recently — track and field. Barbosa made her mark in track this season and was the only athlete from Winters to attend sectionals. “Reece put up incredible performances this season with personal records of 16 feet, 3 inches in the long jump and 33 feet, 4 inches in the triple jump,” said head coach Chris Kays.

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la junta de Cal/OSHA dijeron que se necesitan más aportes de los empleados de las escuelas, que sufren las altas temperaturas en los edificios escolares más antiguos o cuando fallan las unidades de aire acondicionado.

No se espera una votación final sobre la elaboración de reglas hasta principios de 2024.

“Creemos firmemente que la norma no debe retrasarse significativamente,” dijo Mitch Steiger, cabildero de la Federación Laboral de California. “De nuevo, hemos esperado lo suficiente. Necesitamos algo en su lugar lo antes posible. Solo Dios sabe cuántos trabajadores han sufrido y muerto porque hemos tardado tanto.”

“It was still a successful season, it just didn’t end where we wanted it to be.”

Austin Calvert, coach

CHP to increase patrol efforts for Memorial Day

California Highway Patrol

Special to the Express Memorial Day weekend is quickly approaching, and many Californians are preparing to kick off the summer with a holiday gathering or road trip. Forty-five people were killed in crashes in California during last year’s Memorial Day weekend, nearly a 30 percent increase from the same period in 2021. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has a plan to help people arrive to their destinations safely, while reducing the number of deadly crashes on the state’s roads.

Beginning at 6:01 p.m. Friday, the CHP will implement a statewide Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP) in anticipation of the increased traffic that often accompanies a holiday weekend. The MEP will continue through 11:59 p.m. Monday, May 29.

“The core mission of the CHP is to provide the highest level of Safety, Service, and Security to the communities we serve,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee. “This holiday, motorists can expect to see additional CHP officers patrolling

Tips for garden watchers this June

By Denise Cottrell Master Gardener of Yolo County

California’s roadways. All available uniformed members of this Department will be on patrol during this Memorial Day MEP. Our primary focus will be to enhance public safety, deter unsafe driving behavior, and when necessary, take appropriate enforcement action.”

In addition to assisting motorists and looking for traffic violations that often lead to serious injury or death, such as failure to wear a seat belt, speed, and distracted driving, CHP officers will be paying close attention to people who are suspected of driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs and/or alcohol.

CHP officers made nearly 900 DUI arrests during the Memorial Day MEP in 2022. Keep yourself and others who are on the road safe by designating a sober driver or using a ride-share service.

If you see or suspect an impaired driver, call 9-1-1 immediately. Be prepared to provide the dispatcher a description of the vehicle, the license plate number, location, and direction of travel. Your phone call may save someone’s life.

Are you a garden watcher? You may have noticed the unprecedented rains of the winter and the recent warm weather have brought super blooms for native plants and for many of gardeners’ established favorites.

Your keen gardener eye might also observe more native bees, hoverflies and butterflies visiting your garden. Look for lady beetles in all their life stages exploding all over your plants, wolfing down aphids, however, make sure you know what young lady beetles look like because they can be mistaken for garden evildoers.

And if you see something that you need help identifying or have any garden issue that gives you pause, do not hesitate to contact the UCCE Yolo Master Gardeners at their hotline at 530 666-8736 or via email at mgyolo@ucdavis. edu.

If you are out and about, you can find the Master Gardeners on Saturday mornings at the Davis and Woodland Farmers Markets. UCCE Yolo Master Gardeners hold a Questions and Answers Table at The Woodland Farmers Market, located on First Street across from Woodland Public from 9 a.m. to noon.

You will find the Master Gardeners at the Davis Farmer’s Market in Central Park, located at 4th and C Streets, from 8 a.m. to noon. Their

table is located between the Rose Garden and the Sensory Garden.

In addition, you will also find a UCCE Yolo County Master Gardeners Question and Answer Desk in West Sacramento, at Lowes, 2250 Lake Washington Blvd., on Saturday, June 3, and June 17, from 10 a.m. to noon.  For more information about the West Sacramento Questions and Answers Desk, contact Master Gardener Janet Branaman, at branamanj4@gmail. com.

Free events

If you have a specific interest, the UCCE Yolo Master Gardener provides talks, workshops and events which are free and open to the public. Listed below are the events scheduled for June.

Beginning in June, the regular monthly meeting of the Kitchen Garden Chat will be held in the Leake Room at Woodland

Public Library, located across from the Woodland Farmers Market at the corner of Court and College Streets, and via Zoom, at https://ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763.

Every month, Master Gardener Treva Valentine provides oversight and tips for the care and maintenance of your edible garden.

The meeting on June 3 from 10–11 a.m. will emphasize garden pests, tomato issues, and how to store your summer bounty.

The Yolo Master Gardener/Yolo County Library Garden Workshops are held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 3–4 p.m. and meet via Zoom. Irrigation, Putting the Pieces Together is the topic for the meetings on June 8 and June 22.

The talk, presented by Maureen Clark of Bright Garden Designs, will provide the information you need to design and install a drip watering system for a wide

range of plant types and circumstances. On June 8, Clark will prepare you to avoid the pitfalls that can cost you time and money or, even worse, water-stressed or waterlogged plants. The Zoom link is https:// yolocounty.zoom.us/j/ 86758445490.

On Thursday, June 22, Clark will present Irrigation, Part II Participants will finish the workshop on everything you need to know about drip irrigation and then dive into the best practices for conserving water in the garden. The Zoom link is https:// yolocounty.zoom. us/j/86565613215. For more information, contact Jennifer Baumbach at jm baumbach@ucanr.edu or Joan Tuss at Joan. Tuss@yolocounty.org to receive Zoom links for this and future workshops.

Gardening For YearRound Meals will meet on June 10, from 11 a.m. to noon at Grace Garden, located behind the United Methodist Church at 1620 Anderson Rd. in Davis, near the back of the parking lot. Join UCCE Master Gardener Karen Slinkard for a discussion that will focus on five topics: summer pests, irrigation, keeping pruning shears sharp, how to keep herbs producing, the edible flowers blooming in your garden, and how to enjoy the bounty from your garden. For more information, contact UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener Karen Slinkard at kslinka @gmail.com.

Your keen gardener eye might observe more native bees, hover flies and butterflies visiting your garden.

FEATURES

Thursday, May 25

Winters Theatre Company: Auditions — Much Ado About Nothing production, 7 p.m., Winters Community Center (201 Railroad Ave.)

Thursdays

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

Tuesday, May 30

Yolo County/Winters City 2x2 Meeting, 4 p.m., ,City Hall Large Conference Room (Abbey Street entrance), Meeting info, check www.cityofwinters.org/2x2

Wednesdays

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

Upcoming

Thursday, June 1

Winters Hispanic Advisory Committee

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

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

Wednesday, June 7

Winters public engagement meeting: 2023 Yolo

Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan update, 2–3 p.m., City Hall Large Conference Room (Abbey Street entrance), Public Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/bdd6xe5n

Winters City Council Special Meeting: Budget Workshop, 6:30 p.m., Council chamber (318 First St.), Zoom Meeting info, www.cityofwinters.org/city-council-meetings_

Thursday, June 8

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

Library Services

Winters Library Open to Public (School in Session), Winters Community Library, Mon/Wed: 8 a.m.–6 p.m.,

Tue/Thu: 8 a.m.–8 p.m., Fri: 8 a.m.–5 p.m. , Sat: 1–5 p.m.

Teen Tuesday (ages 12-18), Second Tuesdays, 13:30 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, Second Thursday, 2-7:30 p.m., call 530-666-8005 to schedule an appointment

Afterschool Adventure (ages 6-12), Third Thursday, 3:30 p.m., Winters Community Library 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 Wide World of Sports exhibit Thursday thru Sunday, 1-5 p.m., Winters Museum, 13 Russell St. 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.

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Chef paves way for new plans

By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief

Patrons of Green River Brewing & Taproom have been treated to a new menu under the guidance of Green River’s new chef.

Head Chef Daniel Ruiz was hired in March, and immediately got to work on revamping the menu with new items and brought back some classic Green River favorites.

From fish and chips to New York steaks and a spicy chicken sandwich — co-owner John Neil said he is excited about what Ruiz is bringing to the kitchen at Green River.

“I threw him in the kitchen and had him do different dishes for me and everything that came out was bomb,” Neil said. Culinary path

Ruiz said he discov ered his path toward a culinary career by helping to cook burg ers at family barbe cues. He worked as a bar back in a restau rant when one eve ning he was assigned to work in the kitchen, and from there it was history.

“It started as a youth and backyard barbe cuing. Once I got hired at an actu al restaurant it all clicked — this is what I’m doing,” Ruiz said.

He began working at a classic American gastropub in Monterrey, and the chef took him under

his wing and taught Ruiz everything he knew up to that moment. Ruiz went on to work in a French restaurant in Sacramento and gained experience in fine dining and working his creative skills in the kitchen. Ruiz said he has been actively working as a chef for about eight to nine years. According to Ruiz, his flavor inspiration come from his roots and the foods his grandparents made featuring Italian, Yugoslavian and Mexican dishes. Ruiz enjoys taking traditional comfort foods and bringing the flavors up a level using the skills and techniques he has learned.

“I would consider my style as street food with a twist

“I respect the farm workers. I’ve worked on farms before when I was younger. I’ve harvested. There’s a lot of agriculture out here and that ties into the food.”

Daniel Ruiz, Green River Brewing & Taproom head chef

Local connection

Ruiz is no stranger to Winters, as he worked in town at the beginning of his culinary career. He said he felt a real connection with the community’s agricultural roots.

“I respect the farm workers. I’ve worked on farms before when I was younger. I’ve harvested. There’s a lot of agriculture out here and

here locally then all the better.”

His goal is to work with the local agricultural community to support local farmers and to feature fresh produce from close to home on the menu.

“I’m going to try to make it as fresh as we can by working with local purveyors, having our meat be fresh, locally sourced. And our vegetables will be coming from our local farmers,” Ruiz said.

What’s next

Once hired, Ruiz began working to revamp the menu and bring back the family-friendly atmo-

“We’re not just a taproom. This is a very family-oriented place. We want to implement that back into our food — bring back the family style and integrity,” Ruiz said.

“We want to let people know we’re on the path to something new here with the base of the original Green River.”

Neil said he brought Ruiz in to help develop a new menu for

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Gathering for community betterment

Irealized just how special the Winters community was when I became an adult.

As a high school student, I volunteered and engaged in community happenings because it was the culture of Winters. Things like Youth Day and the Doug Baldridge Scholarship happened because everyone — adults and youth — joined forces to make it happen. When I moved back to town with four young kids (and unbeknownst to me, two more to come), I truly began to grasp that all of the opportunities I experienced in my youth were because community members worked hard to create them.

I was inspired at the Yolo Community Foundation’s Philanthropy Breakfast when it was pointed out that government funding can only go so far and comes with a lot of red tape and limitations. It’s nonprofits who help to keep the communities thriving through their work and fundraising.

When the opportunity to attend an All In! Session for the county’s Roadmap to the Future for Yolo County’s children and youth came up, I was all in to participate. I have a dream

of seeing more local nonprofits collaborating with each other and with local agencies (the city and the school district) to better serve our residents.

Naturally — and most likely not a surprise to those in the room who know me — I stood up to voice exactly that.

Afterward, council member (and fellow community volunteer)

Carol Scianna walked up to tell me that she has a vision of bringing local nonprofits together for a volunteer fair. I told her I shared the vision and that if she was willing — I’d be more than happy to work with her to make it happen.

Folks, it’s happening.

On Saturday, June 17 from 10 a.m. to about Noon, Three Oaks Park will serve as a

nonprofit hub at the Volunteer Fair. Our goal is to introduce all of our newest residents (and our longtime ones) to our nonprofits. And, for our local nonprofits to share their volunteer opportunities and grow their volunteer lists.

Carol and I are looking for local (Winters and County) nonprofits who would like to participate. Nonprofits can express their interest in participating in the Volunteer Fair by filling out our interest survey at https://bit.ly/44QQpBj.

From cookie bakers to donors to board members, there is an opportunity for everyone to support our community by engaging with any of our local nonprofit organizations.

For those who are intimidated by the role of a “volunteer” — I encourage you to save the date and plan to come out and say “Hi” and meet the community members who make things happen. At a minimum, you’ll learn about something new in our community that you didn’t know about, and maybe you’ll connect with a cause that is near and dear to your heart.

Daniel Ruiz was hired as the new head chef at Green River Brewing & Taproom in March.

Crystal Apilado/Winters Express

Courtesy photo

Carol Scianna and Crystal Apilado first met in 2017 through volunteering with the Winters Friends of the Library board. Carol delivered the Books for Babies box for Crystal's daughter Ella (center) and Crystal served as WFoL's Big Day of Giving coordinator.

Higher rates, low inventory restrain April sales

Statewide median home price ratchets above $800,000

California Association of Realtors

Special to the Express

• Existing, single-family home sales totaled 267,880 in April on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, down 4.7 percent from March and down 36.1 percent from April 2022.

• April’s statewide median home price was $815,340, up 3.0 percent from March and down 7.8 percent from April 2022.

• Year-to-date statewide home sales were down 37.4 percent in April.

• C.A.R. 2023 Housing market forecast revised to 279,900 units sold and a statewide median price of $776,600.

A surge in mortgage interest rates and a shortage of homes for sale suppressed California home sales in

April, while the statewide median home price climbed above the $800,000 level for the first time in six months, the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) said today.

Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 267,880 in April, according to information collected by C.A.R. from more than 90 local Realtor associations and MLSs statewide. The statewide annualized sales figure represents what would be the total number of homes sold during 2023 if sales maintained the April pace throughout the year. It is adjusted to account for seasonal factors that typically influence home sales.

April’s sales pace was down 4.7 percent on a monthly basis from 281,050 in March and down 36.1 percent from a year ago, when a revised 418,970 homes were sold on an annualized basis. Sales of existing sin-

gle-family homes in California remained below the 300,000-unit pace for the seventh consecutive month.

“While home sales declined in April, the market is getting more competitive as we’re seeing time on the market before selling down to 20 days in April from 33 days in January and the share of homes sold above asking price double from one in five at the beginning of the year to more than two in five in April,” said C.A.R. President Jennifer Branchini, a Bay Area Realtor. “This increase in market competition continued to provide support to the statewide median

home price in April, which climbed above $800,000 for the first time in six months.” California’s median home price surpassed $800,000 in April for the first time since October 2022, increasing 3.0 percent from March’s $791,490 to $815,340. Despite the price improvement since early this year, April’s median price was lower on a yearover-year basis for the sixth consecutive month, declining 7.8 percent from the revised $884,680 recorded last April. The sizable drop in median price from last year was due partly to the strong price surge in early 2022 when

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homebuyers rushed into the market to take advantage of low rates before the Fed began aggressively raising rates.

“Home sales remained soft as the lock-in effect continued to tighten housing supply and keep would-be sellers from listing their homes for sale, which contributed to a 30 percent year-over-year drop in new statewide active listings — the largest drop since May 2020 when the pandemic shutdown took place,” said C.A.R. Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Jordan Levine. “A surge in borrowing costs as mortgage rates surpassed 7 percent in late February and early March also contributed to the market weakness, as many transactions that

California’s median home price surpassed $800,000 in April for the first time since October 2022.

opened in those two months were closed in April.”

As such, C.A.R. has revised its 2023 Housing Market Forecast and projects existing single-family home sales to reach 279,900 units in 2023, a decline of 18.2 percent from the 342,000 units sold in 2022. While home prices in general are expected to improve in the second half of the year, the California median home price is projected to decrease 5.6 percent to $776,600 in 2023, down from the annual median price of $822,300 recorded in 2022. The updated projection on the statewide median price is an increase from the estimate of $758,600 forecast last October. C.A.R. also projects the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate to average 6.3 percent for the year.

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That headline is long enough to be a column. I’ll have to wait and see what makes it into print. The Rotary Pancake Breakfast is still fresh in my mind, and I want to thank everyone, again, for supporting your local Rotary Club. Like it says on the placemats, we couldn’t help our community, and the world, without your help. There were new and old Rotarians in the kitchen and several new people to Winters who stepped up to volunteer. We have built a lot of houses over the past 10 years and with those houses come new neighbors. More people whom we can ask to help keep Winters a great place to live and raise our children. I will admit that I haven’t met that many of my new neighbors, but the ones that I have met have been impressive. Maybe that is because I see them already volunteering and trying to help the community.

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Did you know that Steady Eddy’s Coffee House is now open late on Thursday and Friday? You can now enjoy Steady Eddy’s after 3 p.m. twice per week. Every Thursday and Friday evening, they’re now open until 7:30 p.m. A special menu is available featuring salads, sandwiches, a great grilled cheese, wine, beer, and, of course, their wide variety of coffee drinks. Come on down to Steady Eddy’s on Thursday and Friday after 3 p.m.!

Do you ever need just a couple of vegetables for your dinner preparation, and wish you could find them downtown? Well, you can! In addition to their superb burritos, gorditas, tacos and chile verde, El Pueblo Meat Market & Taqueria also has a small vegetable stand toward the back of the store! You can find Roma tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, radishes, lemons, limes and more!

El Pueblo restaurant is a great place to pick up the one or two items you just realized you forgot to get for dinner. Have you visited the two new art galleries in Winters?

Anona Art Gallery is located at 14 Main St. The owner and artist, Anona Neville, offers a beautiful and calming facility filled with her artworks — large and powerful modern expressions of colors and shapes. Go visit and see her eclectic collection of abstract art. The Anona Gallery is usually open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays and on Fridays and Saturdays from Noon to at least 5, and often to 8 p.m. And you may find Anona painting there at other times, and happy to show you her art.

Another art gallery is open just around the corner from Ano-

I still meet new people, and sometimes it is embarrassing to ask them how long they have lived here, and they answer 15 years. Maybe it is ego, but I should have met everyone that has lived here for under 20 years. Over 40 years I have covered. I used to joke that you were a newbie if you haven’t been here at least 20 years, but maybe I wasn’t kidding. I found a groundbreaking picture for the Yesteryear page, which should be in this week’s paper, and it just shows you how long Winters has been trying to grow. Well, even I will admit that we are building a lot of houses. Feast or famine. It used to be that if a development got approved in Winters, the next great

housing recession was on the way. When they built the houses on both ends of Main Street, the building was stopped by a housing recession. When the original owners of the land on North Main Street got permission to build they went broke. Not before we got a new million-dollar swimming pool out of them, but someone else is building the new homes northwest of Main Street.

Timing is everything and the current set of developers live under a shining star. I still think the end is near, but like I said last week, I’m having second thoughts about my crystal ball.

One of the newer people helping out at the breakfast was Winters City Councilman

Richard Casavecchia. For the past several years he has made our pancake batter, and it isn’t an easy job. I was glad to see him walk into the kitchen this year and put on an apron.

Richard has hit a few bumps on life’s highway, lately. When someone asked me what we were going to do about him, I didn’t have an answer. Partly because I don’t know anything about what really happened, and I think only a handful of people do. I haven’t talked to him about his situation, and I don’t expect him to be calling everyone to explain what happened. I’m sure his lawyer advised him to stay calm and keep on keeping on. If not, I’ll take the fee for free advice.

As far as I know, he is still on the council, representing his constituents, and going through the legal process that will decide his fate. Isn’t that the American way?

Have a good week.

na. The First Street Studio Collective Art Gallery pops up on a part-time basis at 305 First St. The door to the First Street Studio is almost right across the street from the East side of the former Eagle Drug building. You can view or purchase a variety of art styles, and sizes, from both local and regional artists. The First Street Studio Gallery is usually open from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday, and 11 to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Check the signs on Main Street at First, and at their front door, to find out about special events at First Street Gallery. Looking for a really superb scone in town?

Drop by the Putah Creek Cafe. At the front counter, Putah Creek offers pastries, cookies, pies, and three flavors of really large scones: blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate chip. The strawberry scones are my favorite, but all three varieties are delicious.

And don’t forget to explore our new bakery — Upper Crust Bakery is now serving scrumptious delights at the former location of Lester Farms Bakery. You cannot go wrong with their bread (try the Rye!), and their chocolate croissants. But my favorite item is a special don ut — a lemon-filled jelly donut! It’s like the top half of a lemon bar stuffed into a delightful donut. I have never had a lemon jelly donut before, and I will soon be back at Upper Crust Bakery for another one!

In the need for an ice cream bar or an ice cream sandwich? Then head down to

Winters Pacific Ace Hardware. Look to your left as you enter the front door; Ace Hardware has a small freezer case with ice cream. They even have my favorite — Klondike Bars! And if you want to take a tour of Winters, learn more about our City, and have a great time eating and drinking, check out Yolo365 Tours. Lynda Hinds and Lori Vidales will take you around town in their small open-air vehicles, tell you about the historic buildings in Winters, show you little-known places, and take you to rooftops, basements and ballrooms. They have Wine Tours, Beer and Bar Tours, and Spir-

And if you want to take a tour of Winters, learn more about our City, and have a great time eating and drinking, check out Yolo365 Tours.

its, Porches and Patio Tours, available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And you can also request a special tour on Saturday evenings! Call Yolo-365 at 707-395-5755.

I will be at Steady Eddy’s on Thursday, May 25, around 5 or 5:30 p.m. Come and join me for some fine food and drinks, and great coffee this week!

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California’s fentanyl problem is getting worse

By Don Thompson KFF Health News

California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical care to people who are homeless. The state has an opioid awareness campaign tailored to youths and recently called on the National Guard to help detect drug traffickers.

Yet the problem keeps getting worse.

Driven largely by the prevalence of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 100 times stronger than mor-

phine, drug overdoses in California now kill more than twice as many people as car accidents, more than four times as many as homicides, and more than either diabetes or lung cancer, according to California Health Policy Strategies, a Sacramento consulting group. And the state’s overdose surveillance dashboard indicates most opioid overdose deaths involve fentanyl. Provisional data for last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a small annual increase in overdose deaths in California, to nearly 12,000. Across the U.S., overdose deaths again topped 100,000.

“As a parent, it scares the hell out of me. As a governor, I see it, I recognize the nature of what’s occurred on the streets,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said May 12 in announcing more funding for California to produce its own naloxone.

Despite all the state is doing to reduce drug overdose deaths, public health policy experts say there are no easy or clear answers. Drug policy experts applaud California’s effort to make naloxone as commonly available as fire extinguishers in schools, bars, libraries, and gas stations, but they also recommend diverting more offenders from prisons and jails into treatment and encourage ramping up the use of anti-addiction medication.

“Even if we do a lot of things right in policy, we’re going to have a fair amount of deaths in the coming years,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University and a drug policy expert.

He said lawmakers should examine the underlying, complex causes of addiction if they want to make lasting change. Lawmakers have created a Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention and are advancing a bill to create a Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force. The bill would require the task force to start

meeting next year and submit an interim report by January 2025 and recommendations by July 2025.

“It really is something, like COVID, that we have to focus on and make some permanent structural changes, like to health care, mental health care, and funding to deal with addiction,” Humphreys said.

Newsom acknowledged as much, saying, “We have a lot more work to do.”

The Democratic governor was joined last month by Attorney General Rob Bonta in calling on the California National Guard, California Highway Patrol, and state Department of Justice to crack down on fentanyl dealing in San Francisco, where fatal overdoses jumped more than 40% in the first three months of this year over 2022.

overdose deaths of more than 200% between 2017 and 2021, according to Konrad Franco, who conducted the research for California Health Policy Strategies. Black people make up 6% of California’s population but accounted for 13% of its overdose deaths in 2021.

“We cannot go backwards and fill our prisons with kids of color,” said Assemblywoman Liz Ortega, D-San Leandro, during a special hearing last month on fentanyl-related bills.

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, questioned the effectiveness of increased penalties for people who are largely controlled by their addictions.

San Francisco, supports tougher penalties for fentanyl dealers and said the issue crosses racial lines. She became an activist with Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths after her son became addicted to methamphetamine and more recently to fentanyl.

“When people are doing drugs, it doesn’t see color or racial boundaries,” she said. “It’s killing a lot more people and it’s killing a lot of Black people.”

Daniel Ciccarone, a drug policy expert at the UC San Francisco, said enforcement efforts may be popular with the public but “simply don’t work as well as we want them to.” At minimum, he said, any crackdown should be coupled with an equal public health approach.

Public Hearing Notice

The Winters Cemetery District Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing at their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will take place at the Cemetery Office located inside Cemetery grounds on Cemetery Drive. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the Board's decision for an increase in fees that were previously established on July 1, 2016. The new fees to be effective July 1, 2023.

All interested public are invited to attend and be heard. Those unable to attend may submit written comments to sheila@winterscemetery.org or send written comments to Winters Cemetery District, P.O. Box 402, Winters, CA. 95694, at or prior to the public hearing.

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The move was criticized as “a law enforcement-first approach to matters of public health” in a joint statement from 28 organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.

While the governor has focused on fentanyl trafficking and making naloxone more readily available, state lawmakers have recently been debating whether and how to stiffen punishments for dealers.

Several proposals have already stalled, such as one to send dealers to jail for up to nine years if they sell fentanyl on a social media platform and another warning dealers they could be charged with murder if someone dies taking their drugs. Lawmakers kept alive two bills to boost punishments for dealers of large volumes of fentanyl and those who carry a gun.

Democrats who control the legislature’s public safety committees are reluctant to support tougher penalties for fear of sparking a new war on drugs or reprising steep penalties on crack cocaine that criminalized Black people disproportionately. Black and Latino Californians experienced an increase in

Benjamin said lawmakers should instead support drug courts that promote treatment programs over incarceration, though he said incarceration may be needed to protect the public mostly from violent offenders who refuse treatment and harm others.

Humphreys pointed to the Honest Opportunity Probation With Enforcement and 24/7 Sobriety programs as models. They combine regularly testing offenders for drugs and alcohol with short penalties for violations.

“You use the criminal justice system in a way that in the long run actually reduces incarceration rather than increasing it,” Humphreys said of the approach.

Yet Tanya Tilghman, a Black woman from

“We’ve thrown tens of billions of dollars at the war on drugs over two generations, almost three generations now, and believe it or not, drugs across category — from marijuana to cocaine to heroin/ fentanyl — drugs are ever more pure and ever cheaper despite impressive levels of effort,” Ciccarone said. “The most honest answer is there’s no clear answer as to what to do about the fentanyl crisis.”

He recommended California allow supervised consumption sites where opioid users could legally inject drugs, an idea Newsom vetoed last fall but that Ciccarone said can ease people into treatment. Other harm reduction strategies, including expanding the use of test strips and other chemical analyses to check drugs for contamination with fentanyl, can also save lives, he said.

Humphreys led a 17-member commission that examined the opioid crisis and made recommendations including expanding the availability of prescription drugs such as buprenorphine, naltrexone, and methadone to ease addicts’ cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

Still, some parents of children who have experienced opioid addiction say tougher penalties must be part of the response.

“What they don’t understand is that fentanyl has changed the drug landscape like no other drug has in the history of the United States of America,” said Jaime Puerta, whose only son, Daniel, died from fentanyl in 2020 at age 16.

This article was produced by KFF Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

“It really is something, like covid, that we have to focus on and make some permanent structural changes, like to health care, mental health care, and funding to deal with addiction.”

Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University

“When people are doing drugs, it doesn’t see color or racial boundaries,” she said. “It’s killing a lot more people and it’s killing a lot of Black people.”

Tanya Tilghmane, Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Deaths activist

Yolo

Juneteenth Celebration June 4

Yolo County

Special to the Express

Yolo Juneteenth invites families of all backgrounds to enjoy this annual and early celebration of Juneteenth on Sunday, June 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UC Davis Conference Center, located at 550 Alumni Ln. in Davis. This family-friendly celebration will include live entertainment, a marketplace of Blackowned businesses, academic discussions, music, local authors, theatric dance performances, raffles and Black-owned food vendors.

Juneteenth is a 156-year-old tradition carried on by African American communities all over the nation. Each year the community purposefully rejoices in commemorating the day (June nineteenth of 1866) the last confederate stronghold in Galveston, Texas was overpowered and delivered the Emancipation Proclamation by the Union Army stating that Black people of the South were free. Exactly one year later (June 19, 1867), the first Juneteenth was celebrated in Galveston.

This year, organizers will focus on family and restoration choosing “Together We Heal” as their theme. Central to this idea is the necessity for Black people to maintain a strong solidarity with one another for mental well-being and the perseverance to overcome continued disparities. During the celebration’s program, there is a tradition to honor ancestors, those who have passed from racial atrocities, courageous veterans and the elders who provide wisdom. New this year, Yolo Juneteenth will be honoring youths who light the way to

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the Green River Park patrons during the summer, which would be separate from the menu served in the main restaurant. The goal is to prevent the kitchen from imploding and getting overrun when the park is hosting bands and events.

“When you’re in the park you eat from the park. When you’re in the restaurant you eat from here,” Neil said.

With the addition of what Neil called a “world-class smoker and grill,” Ruiz is busy working to craft summer menus featuring family-style barbecue and a new model for Green River’s upcoming inaugural summer launch.

“He’s young, eager and talented,” Neil said. “I’m super excited for Daniel.”

Ruiz said there are a lot of exciting things that they are contemplating for Green River’s future and he appreciates the warm welcome the community has given him.

“It’s a big role to take on, but I have great support from John. I think we’re headed in the right direction,” Ruiz said. “I’m open to feedback, ideas and input — menu, styles, or if someone is really looking toward something. I want to hear it.”

the future. Several performances are planned for the day. The Grant High School Drumline who, last year did a stand-up performance of Kool & the Gang’s hit, “Hollywood Swinging,” will return for two performances. Local choreographer Keith Turk’s company, Kast Academy Dancers, will perform their full production of The Princess and the Frog, as well as a special tribute to Black Lives Matter. Local gospel singer Samona Whiteside will do the honor of performing the Black National Anthem as well as the National Anthem, during which the honored Buffalo Soldiers will present the colors. Other new and returning performers will be local dance

See JUNETEENTH, Page 8

WTC hosts second audition date for ‘Much Ado’ May 25

By Linda Glick Special to the Express

Winters Theater Company is seeking actors and wouldbe actors for its upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”

The second audition date is scheduled for Thursday, May 25 at  7 p.m. at

the Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Ave., in Winters. WTC seeks actors of all genders and backgrounds to bring this vibrant and entertaining play to life. Auditions will consist of a cold reading from the script. If you have

See WTC, Page 8

Artery hosts textile arts in June

Winters Express

The Artery presents “Off the Floor and on the Wall”  with Lisa Erskine’s installation of rag rugs, double weaves and other woven textiles. She is joined by Jerri Erskine-Zilbert showing handwoven creations and Blayney Breckenridge with clay art. The exhibit opens on

June 2 and continues through July 3, with a reception on June 9 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Erskine uses many different weaving techniques including card weaving and doublewe ave pick up. As she pushes the edge of color and pattern, her images often emerge as landscapes or

See ARTERY, Page 8

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The Winters Cemetery District invites the community to attend a Memorial Day event on Monday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m. at the Winters Cemetery to honor 26 local veterans who were killed in action and more than 400 veterans laid to rest in the cemetery.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR JUNE 6, 2023 RESOLUTION 2023-33

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Winters California, Declaring its Intention to Levy and Collect Annual Assessments for Maintenance in the Existing City of Winters City-Wide Maintenance Assessment District, for FY 2023-24, and Setting the Time and Place For A Public Hearing Thereon

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Winters, California has previously formed a street lighting and landscaping district pursuant to the terms and provisions of the "Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 being Division 15 Part 2 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California Article XIII D of the California Constitution and the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (commencing with California Government Code Section 53750) (collectively the Law ) in what is known and designated as City of Winters City-Wide Maintenance Assessment District ( District ); and

WHEREAS on April 18 2023 the District adopted Resolution 2023-22 initiating proceedings for the District s annual levy and ordering the preparation of the Engineer’s Report for the Fiscal Year 2023-24 annual levy of assessments; and

W H E R E A S a t t h i s t i m e t he r e h a s b e e n p r e s e n t e d a n d a pproved by this City Council by Resolution 2023-32 an Engineer's Report (the “Report”) as required by law and this City Council desires to move forth with the proceedings for the annual levy for the District NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Winters California

SECTION 1 The above recitals are all true and correct

SECTION 2 The Report regarding the Fiscal Year 2023-24 annual levy for the District describes in full detail the improvements for the District the boundaries of the District and the proposed assessments upon assessable lots and parcels of land within the District and said Report has been previously approved and is filed in the Office of the City Clerk

SECTION 3 The public interest and convenience require and it is the intention of this City Council to order the annual assessment levy for the City of Winters City-Wide Maintenance Assessment District as set forth and described in the Report and further it is determined to be in the best public interest and convenience to levy and collect annual assessments to pay the costs and expenses of said maintenance of improvements as estimated in said Report The District is located generally within the City of Winters with the boundaries described in Exhibit A hereto and as more particularly described in the Report

SECTION 4 The assessments levied and collected shall be for the maintenance of certain landscaping improvements in the District as set forth in the Report on file with the City Clerk referenced and so incorporated herein The assessments for the District are not proposed to increase above amounts imposed for Fiscal Year 2022-23

SECTION 5 After the public hearing called pursuant to Section 9 below the Yolo County Auditor-Controller shall enter on the Assessment Roll the amount of the assessments and shall collect said assessments a t the sa me tim e and i n the s ame manner as County taxes are collected After collection the net amount of the assessments after the deduction of any compensation due to the County for collection shall be paid to the Treasurer of the City of Winters for purposes of paying for the costs and expenses of said District

SECTION 6 That all monies collected shall be deposited in a special fund known as: SPECIAL FUND – CITY-WIDE MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT Payment shall be made of said fund only for the purpose provided for in this Resolution and to expedite the operation maintenance and servicing of the landscaping improvements the City Council may transfer into said special fund from any available source such funds as it may deem necessary to expedite the proceedings Any funds s h a l l b e r e p a i d o u t o f t h e p r o c e e d s o f t h e a s s e s s m e n t s provided for in this Resolution SECTION 7 The improvements within the District include: the maintenance and operation of and the furnishing of services and materials for landscaping improvements irrigation and drainage systems street lighting and associated appurtenances The Report as previously approved and on file with the City Clerk provides a full and complete description of all improvements and any or all substantial changes to the improvements within the District Said improvements is, in the opinion of this City Council of direct special benefit to the properties within the boundaries of the District, and this City Council makes the costs and expenses of said improvements chargeable upon the properties within the District, and to be further assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof Said District shall include each and every parcel of land withi n the boundaries of said District as shown within the Report as approved by this City Council and on file in the Office of the City Clerk and so designated by the name of the District S E C T I O N 8 A n y p u b l i c p r o p e r t i e s , a s d e f i n e d i n t h e L a w , which are included within the boundaries of the District shall be subject to any assessment to be made under these proceedings to cover any of the costs and expenses of said improvements and maintenance work Section 9 Notice is hereby given that a public hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p m on June 6, 2023, during the regular meeting of the Winters City Council Winters California regarding the annual levy for the district, the extent of the maintenance and improvements within the district and any other matters contained within this resolution Any persons who wish to object to the proceedings for the annual levy should file a written protest with the city clerk prior to the time set and scheduled for said public hearing SECTION 10 That the City Clerk is directed to take all actions necessary to provide notice of the public hearing described in S e c t i o n 9 a b o v e , i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h S t r e e t s a n d H i g h w a y s C o d e s e c t i o n 2 2 6 2 6 ( a )

11 That this Re solution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption SECTION 12 For information relating t o t h e p r o c e e d i n g s , p r

to the highest bidder for cash cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank check drawn by a state or feder al credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association or savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below of all right title and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below The sale will be made but without covenant or warranty expressed or implied regarding title possession or e n c u m b r a n c e s t o p a y t h e r e m a i n i n g p r i n c i p a l s u m o f t h e note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust with interest and late charges thereon as provided in the note(s) advances under the terms of the Deed of Trust interest thereon fees charges and expen ses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below The amount may be greater on

not on the property itself Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien If you are the highest bidder at the auction you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off before you can receive clear title to the property You are encouraged to investigate the existence priority and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by c o n t a c t i n g t h e c o u n t y r e c o r d e r s o f f i c e o r a t i t l e i n s u r a n c e company either of which may charge you a fee for this information If you consult either of these resources you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortg a g e o r d e ed of tru s t on the pr o pe rty NOTICE TO PR OP-

ERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee beneficiary trustee or a court pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be m ade available to you and to the public as a courtesy to those not present at the sale If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 280-2832 or visit this Intern e t W e b s i t e w w w a u c t i o n c o m u s i n g t h e f i l e n u m b e r a ssigned to this case 48073220 Information about postponem en ts th a t ar e ve ry s ho rt i n d ur ati on o r th a t oc cu r c los e i n time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code If you are an eligible tenant buyer, you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase

Clarence Major @ The Avid Reader

@ 6:30pm

Clarence Major will join us on Thursday, June 1, 2023 from 6:30-7:30pm to dis‐cuss his new novel, "The Glint of Light". This event will take place at The Avid Reader: 617 2nd Street in Downtown Davis. The Avid Reader Bookstore, 617 2nd Street, Davis. hello@ avidreaderbooks.com, 530-758-4040

ILLENIUM - Throwback Set

@ 8pm / $59.50-$69.50

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 99 Grove Street, San Francisco

ILLENIUM

@ 8pm

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 99 Grove Street, San Francisco

Justin Vivian Bond Nose Gays (A Pride Bouquet!)

@ 8pm / $30

Feinstein's at the Nikko, 222 Ma‐son Street, San Francisco

Currency w/ Buddy

@ 8:30pm 1015 Folsom, 1015 Folsom Street, San Francisco

EAST BROTHERS

@ 8:30pm

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

Luke Sweeney @ 9pm Kilowatt Bar, 3160 16th St, San Francisco

Trianna Feruza:

LittyDeBungus

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

Mackin The Destroyer

@ 9pm Torch Club, 904 15th St, Sacra‐mento

301 N San Car‐los Dr, Walnut Creek San Francisco Boys Chorus 75th Anniversary Concert @ 7pm / $25-$52 On Saturday, June 3rd at 7:00 PM, we will take the stage at the Cal‐vary Presbyterian Church to per‐form along with special guest artists to showcase the incredible talent of these young singers. Cal‐vary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco. con tact@sfbc.org, 415-861-7464

Opera Parallèle presents "The Shining" @ 7:30pm / $30-$50 Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St., San Francisco

Little Hurricane: Just Ex‐actly Perfect Festival 2023

@ 3pm The Nugget Campground, 7900 S Fork Rd, Placerville

SF Choral Artists: Shakespeare and Friends @ 4pm / $15-$35

Join this acclaimed Bay Area chamber choir, under the direction of Magen Solomon, for an evening of extraordinary music! St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco. mkaulkin@ sfca.org, 415-494-8149

Magician Jay Alexander @ 6:30pm / $50 Marrakech Magic Theater, 419 O'‐

Farrell St., San Francisco

Radio Revolt

@ 7pm DNA Lounge, 375 11th St, San Francisco

Reptoid

@ 8pm The Chapel, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

2nd Friday ArtAbout at the Pence Gallery @ 6pm Don't miss the Pence's monthly art reception on June 9! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. penceso cialmedia@gmail.com, 530-758-3370

Huney Knuckles: Off The Grid @ Fort Mason Center 2023 @ 8pm Off the Grid Fort Mason Center Food Spot, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco

B1 - Food Science @ 9am / Free Jun 5thJun 9th

Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Dr, Sacramento. 916-8088884

Drawing Workshop: Car‐

toon Adventures in Space

@ 9am / $165

Jun 5th - Jun 9th

Empire Oaks Elementary, 1830 Bonhill Dr, Folsom. 916-330-4577

Rotary Club of Davis

Weekly Lunch & Program

Mecca" @ 7:30pm / $12.50

Z Below, 470 Florida Street, San Francisco

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83 Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline Buffalo Daughter @ 8pm Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market St, San Francisco

The But‐lers: But‐lers live. @ 8pm The Board‐walk, 9426

Greenback Ln, Orangevale

Alex Ramon "Magic"

@ 8pm / $46.83

Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

Spirit Mother @ 8pm Great American Music Hall, 859 O'‐farrell St, San Francisco

Comedian Kabir Singh

@ 9:45pm / $15.19-$18.94

Punch Line Sacramento, 2100 Ar‐den Way, Suite 225, Sacramento

Be Brave Bold Robot: Lucid Wines, Nice

Monster improv, BBBR stripped down @ 5pm Lucid Winery & Tasting Room, 1015 R St, Sacra‐

mento

ORGAN ODYSSEY LIVE at the NapaSport SteakHouse

@ 6pm NapaSport SteakHouse and Forge

Pizza present: ORGAN ODYSSY -

MODERN ORIGINALS AND CLAS‐

SIC COVERS INTERPRETED ON THE MIGHTY HAMMOND ORGAN NapaSport Steakhouse and Sports Lounge, 145 Gasser Drive, Napa. info@organodyssey.com

The Butlers: Butlers live.

@ 7pm Retro Junkie, 2112 N Main St, Wal‐nut Creek

Opera Parallèle presents

"The Shining"

@ 7:30pm

Yolo June‐teenth

Celebra‐

tion

@ 10am Celebrate with Yolo County on June 4 for this family friendly FREE cele‐bration of African Ameri‐can FREEDOM!! UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Lane, Davis. yolo juneteenth@yolo county.org, 530-757-5593

Yolo Juneteenth

Celebration

@ 10am Yolo Juneteenth is an annual family friendly event to promote and cul‐

tivate knowledge and appreciation of African American heritage. UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Lane, Davis. YoloJune teenth@yolocounty.org, 530-6668005

Botanical Blueprints Workshop with Linda Clark Johnson @ 10am / $125 Register now and make beautiful cyanotypes in this workshop! Pence Gallery, 212 D Street, Davis. pencesocialmedia@gmail.com, 530-758-3370

Bray: Solo Acoustic @ 2pm The Rellik Tavern, 726 1st St, Beni‐

@ 12pm See website for details. ro‐taryclubofdavis.com Davis Com‐munity Church, 421 D Street, Davis. peterlg.rotary@email.com, 530219-8825

Alan Carr @ 7pm Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Colum‐bus Ave, San Francisco

KIELY CONNELL support‐ing the artist ONDARA

@ 8pm The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

ONDARA @ 8pm / $25

The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

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

Sun�sh @ 8pm Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission St, San Francisco

Ondara @ 8pm The Independent(Rebirth Tour), San Francisco

The Johns, Trestles, Sun�sh @ 8pm / $10 Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 1710 Mission Street, San Francisco

Dee Coco & Mixx

Company: Balboa Café's Tuesday Night Music @ 7pm Balboa Cafe, 3199 Fillmore St, San Francisco

GENIUS BAR goes DRK @ 7pm The Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

Melanie Martinez: PORTALS Tour @ 7:30pm / $59.50

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 99 Grove Street, San Francisco

Tanukichan @ 7:30pm

Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 99 Grove St, San Francisco

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83

Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

HOBO JOHNSON

@ 8pm / $25

The Independent, 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco

Modi Rosenfeld @ 8pm Great American Music

Donovan Melero @ Old Ironsides w/ The Sea�oor Cinema, So Much Light Moondough @ 6pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Fancy: Queens of Country Party @ 8:30pm Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St, Sacra‐mento

Jason Bayani- Locus of Control @ 8:30pm / $25 Locus of Control explores the com‐plicated, sometimes fragmented experience of the Filipinx-Ameri‐can background and identity. The‐atre of Yugen at NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. info@s�af.org, 415-399-9554

DJ True Justice @ 9pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

Karega Bailey @ 9pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

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

Dj Epik @ 9pm Harlow's, 2708 J St, Sacramento

The Radical Medicine Project and Theatre Move‐ment International Present an Original Production @ 8:30pm / $25-$28 Artistic Director DeCoy Gallerina joins the SFIAF & presents, "Haunting our His & Her Stories: Indigenous Children’s Boarding School & Related Experiences". Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco. info@ s�af.org, 415-399-9554 Waajeed @ 9pm Monarch, 101 6th St, San Fran‐cisco

Bray: w/ Neon Velvet @ 9:30pm The Rellik

The Sea�oor Cinema @ 7pm Old Iron‐sides, 1901 10th St, Sacramento Moondough @ 7pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

So Much Light @ 7pm Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St, Sacra‐mento

Samara Joy @ 7pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Jacob Collier @ 7pm SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Vertical.Show @ 7:30pm / $29-$75 Vertical.Show showcases the strongest competitive athletes from Pole and Aerial Sports from all over the world Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson Street, San Francisco. management@greatstartheater.org, 415-735-4159

"The Road to Mecca" @ 7:30pm / $12.50

Z Below, 470 Florida Street, San Francisco

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83 Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

So What @ 8pm Kilowatt Bar, 3160 16th St, San Francisco

David Kleinberg Presents, "He Wants to Run" June, 2023

@ 6:30pm / $20-$22

Performer David Kleinberg joins The San Francisco International Arts Festival, with his production, "He Wants to Run". Theatre of Yu‐gen at NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. info@ s�af.org, 415-399-9554

Matt Jaffe

@ 7pm Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St, San Francisco

ESCAPE Aquathlon @ 7am The ESCAPE Aquathlon is back for its third year! For anyone looking to experience the thrill of the ES‐CAPE, the 750 meter swim and 5k run will take place June 10, 2023! Marina Green, 500 Marina Green Blvd, San Francisco. info@es capealcatraztri.com

ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ

TRIATHLON @ 7:30am Jun 10th - Jun 11th The 42nd Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon weekend event returns to San Francisco Bay June 10-11, 2023! Marina Green, San Fran‐cisco. info@escapealcatraztri.com

Crohn's & Colitis Founda‐tion Take Steps East Bay @ 10am Join the Crohn's and Colitis Foun‐dation for their annual Take Steps Fundraising Walk, supporting re‐search, advocacy, and patient support for those suffering from Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis Heather Farm Park, 301 North San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek. ncal@crohnscolitisfounda tion.org

Black Swan Arts & Media and Helen Stoltzfus Pre‐sent, "Dispatches from the Great Burning" June, 2023 @ 2pm / $25-$28 Black Swan Arts & Media Produc‐tions and their artistic director He‐len Stolzfus join The San Francisco International Arts Festival with their production, "Dispatches from the Great Burning". Theatre of Yugen at NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa Street, San Francisco. info@ s�af.org, 415-399-9554

Clyde Leland presents "A Musical Bene�t for Jewish Voice for Peace" - Bay Area Chapter June, 2023 @ 4pm / $25-$28

Musician Clyde Leland joins the San Francisco International Arts Festival in his solo bene�t concert titled, "A Musical Bene�t for Jew‐ish Voice for Peace - Bay Area Chapter". Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco. info@s�af.org, 415-399-9554

Vertical.Show @ 6:30pm / $29-$75

Vertical.Show showcases the strongest competitive athletes from Pole and Aerial Sports from all over the world Great Star The‐ater, 636 Jackson Street, San Fran‐cisco. management@greatstarthe ater.org, 415-735-4159

Alex Ramon "Magic" @ 8pm / $46.83 Harveys Cabaret at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Hwy 50, Stateline

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Veterans, active duty and reserve military personnel from the United States Armed Forces and the National Guard of any state a reduced or free day use at participating state parks. Adobe/Stock photo

State Parks offers free admission to veterans, military on Memorial Day

California State Parks news

California State Parks is honoring the service of veterans, and active and reserve military members, by offering free admission to 130 participating state park units on Memorial Day. The list of participating park units can be found at parks.ca.gov/Memorial Day2023.

“State Parks invites these brave people and their families to enjoy the beauty, peace, and rich history of their public lands,” said California State Parks Director Armando Quintero. “Thank you for sacrificing so much for your nation, for your families, and for our freedom.”

Veterans, active duty, and reserve military personnel must show a valid military ID, or proof of discharge other than dishonorable or bad conduct, to receive free admission. AB 150 (Olsen), signed by Governor Edmund G.

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educator Tina Rogers in her interactive exhibition of “Catch a Beat,” West African Drummer Mamadou Traore, Melanin Day School Academy and gospel singer Ebony Lewis. The committee is also excited to introduce

Brown, Jr. in 2013, authorized California State Parks to offer veterans, active duty, and reserve military personnel from the United States Armed Forces and the National Guard of any state a reduced or free day use at participating state parks.

State Parks is reminding the public that there are other free passes available including the California State Park Adventure Pass for California fourth graders and their families. Since the three-year pilot program began in 2021, almost 37,000 fourth graders have signed up for their free Adventure Pass that allows them and their families free access to 19 select state parks. There is still time to sign up. This year’s fourth graders have until Aug. 31 to enjoy their Adventure Pass. Learn more at parks.ca.gov/Adventure Pass and about other free passes available at parks.ca.gov/ OutdoorsForAll.

the fresh and young new talent DJ TLDSTR to lead in the day’s musical mixes. Also included in the day’s program is a variety of special guests. A panel of scholars from Aggie Black Excellence will share their latest advances in health and healing. There will be opportunities for guests to

participate in a few types of somatic meditations in our healing room. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and talk with local authors Nikki Shannon Smith, Anya Jaleane, Latrice Bankhead and Theanne Griffith. Visit www.yolo juneteenth.org to donate or for more information.

Clean up Lake Solano, Lake Berryessa June 3

Solano Resource Conservation District

Special to the Express

The 13th annual Solano County World Environment Day cleanup is set to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 3 at Lake Solano County Park. Participants will remove trash from Lake Berryessa, plant native vegetation, create take-home seed packets, and enjoy a free picnic lunch.

Registration is required and can be completed through June 1 at cleanupsolano.org. Those who register by May 30 will also receive a free World Environment Day event t-shirt.

“Lake Berryessa, Lake Solano, and the Putah Creek watersheds are lifelines for Solano County,” shared Narcisa Untal, Senior Planner with the Solano County Department of Resource Management. “They provide us with high-quality drinking and irrigation water as well as recreational opportunities, but they are also impacted by the activities that occur within them. Trash degrades water quality, impacts the functionality of the water system, and poses a hazard to boaters and recreators.”

World Environment Day builds global awareness of the environment, draws political attention to environmental issues, and supports individual and community projects. Lake Solano is

part of a constructed watershed delivering high-quality drinking water from Lake Berryessa, the seventh largest reservoir in California, to around 500,000 Solano County residents. This water is also the primary source of irrigation water for growers in the region and companies like Anheuser-Busch and the Jelly Belly Factory selected to operate in Solano County to use Lake Berryessa water. Also filling and leaving Lake Solano is Putah Creek, a vital ecological link between the neighboring mountain range and the

Yolo Bypass. The Solano Resource Conservation District coordinates the annual World Environment Day event in partnership with the Solano County Water Agency, Anheuser-Busch in Fairfield, Solano County, Lake Berryessa Watershed Partnership, and Volunteer Solano/CVNL. Additional support for this year’s event is being provided by Solano County Parks, Putah Creek Council, MCE, and the US Bureau of Reclamation. To learn more, please visit cleanupsolano. org.

a headshot and résumé, please bring them to the audition.

“Much Ado About Nothing” is a dramedy that explores love, deception, mistaken identity, and men behaving badly as two pairs of lovers navigate the ups and downs of courtship. Rehearsals will begin on May 30 and will typically run on weeknights. The performance dates are Fridays and Saturdays from Aug. 4 through Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Winters Community Center amphitheater.

If you have further questions, call 530-795-4014 or email us winters theatre@gmail.com.

abstract art. Blankets, drawings and poetry will also adorn the gallery walls.

On Wednesdays, June 7 and 14, Erskine will be in the gallery to demonstrate weaving on an eight-harness loom from 10 a.m. to noon Erskine-Zilbert credits Erskine, her mother-in-law, for introducing her to weaving. In this show she demonstrates her unique style. Blayney’s cunning little Habit Homes are perfect for a garden glen and maybe little leprechauns.  This June, the gallery overflows with summer colors, cooled by cool blues and greens.