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SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2023
Newsom Mother’s Day at Whole Earth restores flood funds to budget By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
Four months ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom yanked $40 million in funding to restore San Joaquin Valley floodplains from his proposed budget, angering legislators from both parties and conservationists. Today, he gave all of the money back as part of a $290-million package to increase flood protection funding statewide. The funding comes in addition to $202 million already included in Newsom’s 2023-24 budget proposal in January. That makes a total of $492 million in investments that Newsom is proposing to protect Californians from flooding in the wake of winter storms that inundated towns in the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Coast. “California is facing unprecedented weather whiplash — we just experienced the driest three years on record, and now we’re dealing with historic flooding,” Newsom said in a written statement today. “Our investments must match this reality of
Whole Earth Festival shoppers may help the event achieve the theme “Sell Out to Love” as vendors interviewed below stated past success drives them to return. Hailing originally from Lake Almanor, Amy Rosemoore, a watercolor painter, has been selling greeting cards with her artwork at the festival since 2017. “It’s a very fun, receptive crowd,” she said on Friday. Pegge Bastress has been making jewelry “forever”. “I was just one of those little girls that strung beads and I’m still doing it, but it is how I make my living.” Bastress works hard, like a farmer, to make it happen, selling at five to six farmers markets a week and then one or two shows a month. She really appreciated that last year, one of her daughters showed up to the festival with a surprise Mother’s Day picnic. When her other daughter attended UC Davis, Bastress got to stay in her apartment. Not coming from a family of gift-givers, Adjowah Brodie, a “designer of thoughtful gifts for clever people,” owns The Weekend Store, where she takes ordinary household items like cooking mitts or cup holders and “makes them extraordinary”
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Is Mom into houseplants? Find those and other ways to connect with the Earth on Mother’s Day at the Whole Earth Festival. Monica Stark/ Enterprise photo
County ceremony, walk Children’s Fund bolsters opportunities honor fallen peace officers By Aaron Geerts By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer Yolo County peace officers who died in the line of duty will be honored at a pair of events Thursday in Woodland. The Yolo County Retired Peace Officers Association will hold its annual memorial event at noon at the Peace Officers Memorial Monument outside the historic Yolo County Courthouse, 725 Court St. Afterward, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office leads its annual Walk to Remember, starting at the monument and continuing for about a
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mile to Heritage Plaza at Second and Main streets. The CORONA public is Slain in 2019 invited to both events, which coincide with National Police Week. Originating in 1962 with President John F. Kennedy, who signed a proclamation designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day, National Police Week has evolved
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WEATHER Today: Sunny and not so hot. High 91. Low 56.
Enterpirse staff writer For more than two decades, the Yolo Children’s Fund has been a fiscal boon to the kids in the county who need it most. While this organization is among many nonprofits that aid underserved children in the county, it continues to make a positive impact one life at a time. The Yolo Children’s Fund originally got started back in 2001 when Judge Donna Petre and former administrative officer Kathleen White prepared a grant application. They became all too used to seeing abused, neglected, deprived, orphaned and desperate children move in
and out of the juvenile justice system and decided to make a difference in their lives. Fortunately, that desire came to fruition in the form of a $10,000 grant.
“They received the grant and that was the start of The Yolo Children’s Fund,” said founding member and current YCF President William Kopper. “Most of the children we provide funds for are in foster care. The requests for the grants come from a courtappointed special advocate (or CASA), and those are people who undergo training and become mentors for a child and help meet their needs. Usually, they meet with a child once a
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week and stay with them through many years. “A foster child might be moving from placement to placement, but the one consistent adult in that child’s life might be the CASA. Those people are very much aware of the needs of the CASA child, and they’re among the people who request grants from the Children’s Fund. The other people who make frequent requests are the children’s social workers.” Essentially, the Yolo Children’s Fund is meant to bolster the quality of life of the county’s underserved, abused, neglected, orphaned and overall disadvantaged children. The
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