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2024 School District Hall of Fame honorees announced News, Page 2
Allison Aguiar elected as FFA region president Features, Page 1
Volume 141, Number 12 — Locally-owned since 1884
Bridge is 2024 Educator of the Year By Angela Underwood Express correspondent Drum roll, please! The 2024 Youth Day Educator of the Year is Sue Bridge. This year, the Winters Youth Day committee included staff nominees from across the Winters Joint Unified School District staff, and sent out ballots for students to cast a vote. Of the 433 students who voted, a notable 235 (54.3 percent of the vote) said they wanted to see Bridge earn the honor of Educator of the Year. “It feels great,” Bridge said of the honor. “Since I am retiring this year, it is the perfect send-off.”
The Winters Middle School physical education teacher boasts praise from the highest up. Superintendent Rody Boonchouy called Bridge “a beloved member of the Winters Joint Unified School District” for serving Winters students for 37 years. “She is respected by her peers and trusted by her students, and she has ensured that generations of our community have been kept in shape in her PE classes,” Boonchouy said. “We know that teachers like Sue make a lifelong impact on students, which is why it’s important that we honor her.”
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The Winters Sunday Farmers Market officially launches its second season this Sunday along downtown Main Street. The Farmers Market is scheduled to run every Sunday now through Oct. 27 on downtown Main Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event features goods and produce from local
farms and vendors in Yolo and Solano Counties. Ahmad (Simba) Baratti of Simba’s Heirloom Farm will continue to coordinate the event. Baratti has experience and knowledge in organizing farmers markets, and Winters DBA will work to market and rally the community to participate and attend. Members of the Winters Downtown Business Association will continue to help market the events. “We are thrilled
See MARKET, Page 5
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Winters Middle School physical education teacher Sue
Express staff writer Winters City Manager Jeremy Craig had to fight with an old safe to find an ordinance passed in 1942. Getting the safe open and finding the safe was not a one man operation, as Craig needed to make a couple phone calls to track the 82-yearold document down. While resolutions are more about making a public statement and not something that carries legal precedence, at the April 16 city council meeting Craig said the council felt the need
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On April 18, the Winters Youth Day board officially announced that the annual Duck Derby event was being rescheduled to mid-June due to the current creek conditions from past storms. However, the Youth Day Opening Ceremony and Talent Showcase will proceed as planned for 7 p.m. on Friday, April 26 on the stage behind the Winters Community Center. Winters High
School senior Kenneth Matheson will kick off the event with an official stage dedication. Matheson worked to rebuild the stage behind the Community Center for his Senior Capstone and Eagle Scout Service Project. Following the stage dedication, the Youth Day committee will recognize Sue Bridge as the 2024 Educator of the Year, pay tribute to the memory of Mike Sebastian
Council rescinds 1942 resolution, Plans to apply for Senior Center funding in fall
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Duck Derby postponed, Opening Ceremonies still planned for Friday Express staff
See BRIDGE, Page 5 Bridge is the 2024 Youth Day Educator of the year.
Winters Farmers Market opens season Sunday
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Winters, Yolo County, California, Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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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Winters City Council members and residents celebrate the rescindation of an 82-yearold resolution calling for the removal of Japanese citizens. to do something. The original minutes showed the 82-year-old Resolution 2-42, unanimously adopted by the Winters City Council on Feb. 17, 1942, urged the “removal of all Japanese from California” and demanded that “immediate steps be taken by the constituted authorities to see that all such enemy aliens be placed in concentration camps and that the land and/or property owned or operated by such aliens be placed under government supervision for the duration of the
war.” Additionally, the resolution further requested that “all schools taught in enermy-axis language be immediately closed” and not be allowed to re-open for the duration of the war. Council member Jesse Loren who worked on Resolution 2024-27 to rescind the 82-year-old ordinance explained its purpose. “I think that government doesn’t alway take responsibility when they get it wrong,” Loren said. “But government sometimes gets things wrong ... and I think tonight that government
got it wrong. And we would like to rescind that decision.” The proclamation explained that Japantown was a part of Winters from 1888 to 1945, noting that after 1942 when the Japanese people of Winters were forced to move to concentration camps in Arizona and Colorado. While they were gone, the high school burnt down and the city decided to take over the Japanese school, sending belongings left there to the concentration
See COUNCIL, Page 5
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