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Volume 140, Number 32 — Locally-owned since 1884
The hometown paper of Al Hawthorne
Winters, Yolo County, California, Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Winters Festival de la Comunidad is Sept 30, 3:30-10:30 Admission is free
This year our Carnitas plates are available for pre-sale Get ‘em while they’re hot! A deal at $20 a plate, while supplies last
2023
Festival de la Comunidad
*Carnitas Plates are served 3:30 to 6:30 (unless we run out!); Please be in the carnitas line by 5:00 to redeem your ticket
Cause of downtown business Local News Briefs fire under investigation Express staff
City workshop
The Winters Planning Commission is conducting a workshop related to the ongoing downtown visioning efforts on Thursday, Sept. 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers. The meeting will be held via Zoom for residents who are unable to attend in person. The agenda is available on the city of Winters website at http://tinyurl. com/3md97esc.
By Crystal Apilado Editor-in-Chief Quick actions by Winters Fire Department crews helped prevent a fire in a downtown business from spreading late Thursday evening. On Thursday, Aug. 31, at 10:45 p.m., a Winters Fire crew on Engine 26 responded to a report of a building fire on the 40 block of downtown Main Street. On arrival, firefighters discovered La Bodega’s building space with flames and the fire was elevated to a twoalarm status. Fire Chief Jack S. Snyder III said they were fortunate the fire was reported
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Trustee study session
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Fire crews work to mop up the scene after a late evening fire on Thursday, Aug. 31 was extinguished at La Bodega.
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The welded sign welcomes guests at Dr. Sellers Field. Arts at the Yolo County Fair last month. Hamilton plans to attend Western Welding Academy in Gillette, Wyoming, in
early 2024. He plans to pursue a focus on welding pipelines. The sign was hung last week at the Dr. Sellers Field gate.
Index Features ........................ B-1 Classifieds ................... B-4 Community .................. A-2
We at he r Date
Rain
High
Low
Aug. 30
.00
93˚
65˚
Aug. 31
.00
96˚
58˚
Sept. 01
.00
96˚
61˚
Sept. 02
.00
80˚
56˚
Eventos hispanos ....... A-2
Sept. 03
.00
81˚
56˚
Sept. 04
.00
80˚
57˚
Opinion ......................... B-3
Sept. 05
.00
89˚
56˚
Real Estate ................... B-2 Sports ........................... B-6
Rain for week: 0.00 in. Season’s total: 0.01 in. Last sn. to date: TRACE Winters rainfall season began 7/1/23. Weather readings are taken at 9 a.m. daily by local weatherman Joe Bristow.
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School is back in session, which means a steep increase in foot traffic — and good old-fashioned traffic — in town around 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. However, there have been complaints from community member about folks who don’t heed when it comes to safety or treat school zones as a drag racing strip. Winters Joint Unified School District (Winters JUSD) and the Winters Police Department (Winters PD) have collaborated to post trained crossing guards at every school site to bolster student safety. Around a year ago, there was an incident where a student pedestrian walked across the street near the middle school and was struck by a car. Fortunately, it was not fatal, but it did become the spark for Winters PD and Winters JUSD to collabo-
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Crossing guards sport yellow safety vests and hold stop signs out in front of each Winters school site. rate and figure out a way to boost student safety through a crossing guard program. “We signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the school district underlining how crossing guards were to be equipped and we also
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Express staff Chase Hamilton, a Winters High School Class of 2023 graduate, welded the sign for his Senior Capstone Project earlier this year. The sign received first place in the Junior Trades, Technology and Industrial
The Winters Joint Unified School District is hosting a third Facilities Master Planning Workshop on Thursday, Sept. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Winters JUSD
office board room (909 W. Grant Ave.). Jennifer Gibb, Van Pelt Construction Services project manager, and Trent Sommers, CA+SA studio principal architect will continue the in-depth discussion with trustees as they review school sites and identify which opportunities and programs are a priority for the school district to spend $23M on. The regularly scheduled school board meeting is expected to begin around 6 p.m. following a short break from the workshop. Trustees are expected to take action on two Memorandum of Understandings
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offered to do training for them so some of their employees can be certified crossing guards. So, we developed a short training program that’s about two hours on how to direct traffic for their
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