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Families enjoy Halloween tradition at Jelly Belly Susan Hiland
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FAIRFIELD — Children dressed as witches, evil jack-in-the-boxes, ghosts and vampires descended Saturday on Jelly Belly for a morning of fun, games and candy. They were there for the annual Jelly Belly Munchkin Masquerade and Halloween Breakfast. The breakfast of French toast, scrambled eggs, bacon and more was followed by some activities with Kelly the Clown. Dressed as astronauts were Verna Schuetter and daughter Serence Schuetter, 3, who came out for some fun along
with Schuetter’s wife, Rebecca Mia. “I wanted to do something that encompassed space along with sci-fi,” Schuetter said. Visitors this year got a chance to check out the new Jelly Belly museum after riding a Jelly Belly train around the parking lot. Children at the end of the event got goodie bags with toys and – of course – candy inside. “It is a little different than in years past,” John Jamison, Jelly Belly’s vice president of retail operations, said of the event Saturday. He said most years they expect thousands of
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Walnut trees at Dixon Ridge Farms in northern Solano County are watered using a sprinkler system suspended
Solano Land Trust, state join Lester family to preserve
Dixon Ridge Farms
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The annual Jelly Belly Munchkin Masquerade and Halloween Breakfast brought out thousands of visitors, Saturday. The Jelly Belly Train transported young and old through the parking lot to the new Jelly Belly museum.
in the trees, which helps reduce water loss. The orchard also uses no chemical fertilizer or pesticides.
DIXON — Solano Land Trust, the state and the Russ Lester family have completed the process to preserve the family owned, 913-acre farm. The Solano Land Trust announced the partnership in a press release in which it described the property as “prime farmland.” The farm is owned and operated by Kathy and Russ Lester of Dixon Ridge Farms. A celebration of the completion of the conservation agreement will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday at Dixon Ridge Farms.
State representatives in attendance may include David Shabazian, director of the state Department of Conservation, and Lynne von Koch-Liebert, executive director of the California Strategic Growth Council, along with Nicole Braddock, executive director of the Solano Land Trust. Dixon Ridge Farms sits between Dixon and Winters, an area containing what the Solano Land Trust describes in the press release as “some of the richest alluvial soils and a climate that supports high-production crops.” The agreement protects 913 acres of organic walnut
orchards as well as open irrigated land that produces tomatoes, sunflowers and wheat. Russ Lester and his family have farmed Chandler and Hartley walnuts organically since 1992. At one point, Dixon Ridge Farms was the largest handler of organic walnuts in the United States. To help ensure healthy soils, Dixon Ridge Farms uses a thick cover crop of legumes to trap nitrogen in the orchards. To help save water, Lester developed a watering system by running drip lines through the trees, so less water is lost to evaporation See Farms, Page A9
Zoning changes would allow stand-alone wine tasting centers in Suisun Valley Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — If visitors to Suisun Valley want to sample the wines, they would have to go to where the wine is made or, at the very least, where the grapes are grown. Wine tasting facilities, by zoning regulations, must be an “incidental use” to the agricultural processing or winery, county documents state. A proposed zoning change to be considered Thursday by the Solano County Planning Commission would allow stand-alone tasting facil-
ities in the Agriculture Tourism Centers zoning district of the valley. The change is among 14 amendments to be considered when the commission meets at 7 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors chamber on the first floor of the government center, 675 Texas St., in Fairfield. Another change for Suisun Valley would no longer require “retail space to be contained within a building and allow outdoor spaces to be utilized.” And while not specific to Suisun Valley, public access is an issue that has been aired during discus-
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sions about event centers in the valley. Proposed changes for public assembly locations, according to the county documents, “clarify that ingress and egress may be direct from public road or private road, and if from a private road, then
a recorded maintenance agreement for all property owners served by the private road shall be in effect.” A number of the proposals involve the size, setbacks and other See Wine, Page A9
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