June 21, 2007 - Winters Express

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June 21, 2007 - Winters Express
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Volume 124, Number 21 - Locally owned since 1884
The hometown paper of Jason Trojanowski
Winters, Yolo County, California, Thursday, June 21, 2007
New bus service
hits the road
By ELLIOT LANDES
Staff writer
The inaugural run of the
Route 221 local bus service took off from Yolo
Housing at 10:34 on Monday June 18, running west
through town, picking up
riders,
including
city
council
member
Tom
Stone, City Manager John
Donlevy,
Yolo
county
Transportation
District
(YCTD) Director Terry
Bassett and others. The
route took them on a 35
minute
double
loop
through the nooks and
crannies of Winters, before heading back to Yolo
Housing.
The medium size bus is
shiny and new, with room
for 20 plus a wheelchair
lift. On board are collapsible grocery pull carts to be
loaned out – something the
district has not tried before. The driver has a computer GPS monitor that
times his route, to tell him
when he is “hot” – ahead of
schedule – or “cold” – behind schedule.
Until Saturday June 23,
fares will be free. After
that, the fares are $.60 for
seniors 62 and over ($42.50
monthly) and $1.50 for
adults
($60
monthly).
YCTD is offering a promotional “Summer Sizzler”
all-summer $15 pass for
kids ages 5-17. The regular
fare for children is $.35.
In addition, riding will
be free on the 15 to 20 days
per year declared “Spare
the Air” days by the California
Air
Resources
Board.
The service will operate
from Monday to Saturday
weekly, with eight trips
from Yolo Housing to
Lorenzo’s Market, the new
pool, City Park, City Hall,
and downtown. There will
be six trips daily from the
pool to Lorenzo’s and Yolo
Housing. There will be
eight trips daily stopping
at Main and Aster, Valley
Oak neighborhood, City
Park, downtown, City Hall,
Main Street, Lorenzo’s,
and the pool. The schedule and route were developed with the help of
workshops conducted by
the YCTD and the city at
Yolo Housing and City
Hall.
Brochures
and
schedule maps are available at City Hall.
The idea for the new service came from discussions between Donlevy,
Bassett, and council member Harold Anderson, who
represents the city council
to the YCTD.
The program is intended
See BUS on page A-12
Public hearings on
next planning agenda
The Winters Planning
Commission will meet on
Tuesday, July 26, at 7:30
p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall. The following items are on the
agenda:
~ Appointment of planning commissioner to
serve on Public Safety Facility Advisory Committee.
~ Update from Granite
Bay Holdings, LLC on Winters Highlands subdivision.
~ Request from applicant Mark Power to schedule a special planning
commission meeting on
Tuesday, July 10, to hold a
workshop on the Casitas
project.
~ Public hearing regarding site plan application
submitted by Piper Gianola for the construction
of a new two-story, singlefamily residence 1,513
square feet in size and secondary dwelling unit 495
square feet in size at 436
Russell Street. Project
also includes Demolition
Permit for demolition of
existing residence approximately 600 square
feet in size.
~ Public hearing regarding lot merger application
See HEARINGS on page A-12
INSIDE
W E AT H E R
Classifieds ..........................B-8
Community .........................A-8
Entertainment .................A-11
Eventos hispanos ...............B-3
Features .............................B-2
Obituary ..............................A-2
Opinion ................................A-4
Schools & Youth ..............A-10
Sports .................................B-1
Weather readings are taken
at 9 a.m. each day, covering
the previous 24 hour period.
Included in this week's issue are
advertising inserts from:
Longs Drugs, Round Table,
Lorenzo’s Market,
McMahan’s, Downtown Davis
(Supplements are sent to Winters,
Woodland, Davis, Capay Valley, Dixon,
Vacaville and Fairfield.)
Date
Rain Hi Lo
June 13
94 67
June 14
102 72
June 15
104 74
June 16
103 62
June 17
90 58
June 18
99 63
June 19
100 63
Rain for week: 0
Season’s total: 10.43
Last year to date: 34.54
Average to June 30: 21.43
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Rosie Ramirez displays the navigation book she must read to her driver while traveling along unfamiliar back roads at speeds up
to 70 miles per hour in an off-road racing sport called rally racing. Ramirez is also a driver in a similar sport called rally cross.
Vroom!
◆ Adrenaline junkies
get their fix racing
down back roads
By DEBRA LO GUERCIO
Express editor
OK, get ready to turn
left, then right! There’s a
dip in the road and then
there’s a bump! Go left
again, another a dip, left
again and a hard right!
Try following those directions in a matter of
seconds while roaring
down
an
unfamiliar
rough dirt road at 70
miles per hour. There’s
no room for error, on the
part of the driver or the
navigator. One misunderstanding for one split second and you could be
plummeting over a cliff
rather than flooring it for
the finish line.
It’s called rally racing,
and while people might
find this much pressure
stressful, others — like
Rosie Ramirez — can’t
get enough.
Ramirez, 34, has been a
car lover her whole life.
As a child, she liked to sit
as close to the school bus
driver as possible to
watch how he or she
worked the clutch and
gears, and still thinks
that the best way to spend
a Sunday afternoon is
washing all the family
cars until they shine.
Most of all, Ramirez likes
to get behind the wheel,
but she’s no Sunday driver. She likes speed.
“I’ve been a little metal
foot since I was able to
drive — even before I got
my driver’s license,” says
Ramirez, recalling the
days when she worked on
cars with her brother,
Joe. Unfortunately, he
discovered girls and “forgot about me.”
However,
Ramirez
eventually
met
her
boyfriend, auto mechanic Jeff Baxman, and she
Courtesy photo
Driver John Crowningshield and navigator Rosie Ramirez compete in a recent rally race.
says “he picked up where
my brother left off.”
Together, Baxman and
Ramirez take worn out
family cars (their favorite models are Volkswagens) and transform
them into rally racers,
not only completely rebuilding, restoring and
detailing every inch of
the body and engine, but
also reinforcing them for
off-road racing, like installing special seat belts
and roll bars. Baxman
has expanded his mechanical knowledge by
See VROOM on page A-3
School board to hold public hearings on several budgets
The Winters School
Board will meet on Thursday, June 21, at 6 p.m. in
the Walnut Room at the
school district office, 909
W. Grant Avenue. The following items are on the
agenda:
~ Public hearing for the
proposed budgets for the
2007-08 school year for
these
funds:
General
Fund, Child Development,
Cafeteria, Deferred Maintenance, Capital Facilities,
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~ Resolution authorizing closure of Building
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~ Increase in breakfast
and lunch prices.
~ 2007-08 property and
liability insurance update.
~ Tenth month ADA,
2006-07.
~ Eleventh month ADA,
2006-07.
~ 2007-08 consolidated
application, part I.
~ Workability I: high
school program, 2006-07
report.
~ 2007 summer school.
~ Resolution regarding
reducing positions and ordering layoffs for designated positions in the
classified service due to
lack of funds and lack of
work.
~ Consent agenda (approved as one item, includes minutes, warrants,
etc.)
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A-2 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Police report
April 25 –June 17
~ On the 700 block of
Valley Oak Drive, a trailer was forcibly entered
and property was stolen.
Loss: $575.
May 20
~ An unknown driver of
a Kia was traveling southbound on Railroad Avenue. The driver made an
unsafe lefthand turn in
front of a vehicle driven
by John Lopez Ramos of
Winters. Ramos could not
avoid colliding into the
side of the Kia. The driver
of the Kia fled the scene.
May 23
~ On the first block of
East Main Street, a Yolo
County Sheriff’s deputy
responded to an assault
call due to the unavailability of a Winters police
officer. As a result, the
deputy arrested a 12year-old Winters juvenile
for assault with a deadly
weapon. The juvenile
was transported to Yolo
County Juvenile Hall for
incarceration.
June 7
~ On the 700 block of
Dutton Street, an officer
responded to an audible
alarm. The business was
found secure.
June 7-8
~ On the 700 block of
Foxglove Circle, a garage
was forcibly entered. It is
unknown if property was
stolen.
June 11
~ A found BB gun was
turned over to the police
department.
~ On the 200 block of
First Street, an unlocked
bicycle was stolen. Loss:
$60.
~ At Mermod Place and
Rosa Avenue, property
was stolen from a vehicle.
It is unknown whether or
not the vehicle was
locked. Loss: $400.
June 12
~ On the 700 block of
Dutton Street, an officer
responded to an audible
alarm. The business was
found secure.
~
Manuel Oceguera
Lopez, 79, of Winters was
issued a notice to appear
for being an unlicensed
driver and a seatbelt violation.
June 13
~ Carlos Juarez III, 27,
of Winters was arrested
for false imprisonment,
obstructing/resisting an
executive officer, and obstructing/resisting a public officer. Juarez was
booked at the Winters Police Department and
transported to the Yolo
County Jail for incarceration.
June 15
~
Kenneth
Ray
Nevarez, 28, of Winters
was arrested on an outstanding Winters Police
Department bench warrant charging him with violation of probation and
failure to appear for jail
time on previous charges
of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended/revoked driver’s license.
Nevarez was booked at
the Winters Police Department and transported to the Yolo County Jail
for incarceration.
June 16
~ On the 400 block of
Pear Place, parties were
involved in a verbal domestic dispute.
~ Roman Perez Gonzalez, 21, of Winters was issued a notice to appear
for being an unlicensed
driver and not having
headlights illuminated
during darkness.
~ Agustin Murillo, 20, of
Dixon was issued a notice
to appear for being an unlicensed driver.
June 17
~ On the 300 block of
Second Street, parties
were involved in a verbal
domestic dispute.
~ On the 100 block of
East Baker Street, an officer responded to an audible alarm. The construction trailer was found secure.
~ Jose Luis Sanchez, 19,
of Winters was issued a
notice to appear for being
an unlicensed driver and
having unlawful tinted
vehicle windows.
Weekly fire department report
June 11
~ Medical aid, 1000
Kennedy Drive. Difficulty breathing.
~ Car fire, Grant Avenue and Hemenway
Street. Brakes overheated.
~ Vehicle accident,
southbound Interstate
505. Vehicle rollover.
June 12
~
Mutual aid/medical, Putah Creek Road.
Elevated pulse.
June 13
~ Public assistance,
100 block of Abbey
Street. Subject of tazer.
~ Medical aid, 400
block of Abbey Street.
Possible heart attack.
June 16
~ Medical aid, Walnut
Bayou Lane and Russell Boulevard. Uncooperative subject.
CORRECTION FROM LAST WEEK
Last
week’s
story,
“Neighbors
complain
about recycling center
noise,” contained incorrect information on hours
of operation. The recycling center located at
Lorenzo’s Market is open
for customers from 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Wednesday, and
Fridays and Saturdays. It
is closed for recycling on
Thursday and Sunday. Recycling containers will be
serviced between 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on weekdays as
needed.
We apologize for any inconvenience this error
may have caused.
Berryessa
drops .58
of a foot
YESTERYEAR
File photo by Mike Franco
Pictured above is the 1993 Winters High School volleyball team which won the championship in the Butte View League. Left to right: Melissa Willard, Jenny Morrison, Christina Mendoza, Coach Polita Gonzales and Heather Rose.
The
level
of
Lake
Berryessa dropped by .58
of a foot during the past
week with a reduction in
storage of 10,594 acre feet
of water, according to
Mickey Faulkner of the
Solano Irrigation District.
He reported Tuesday
morning that the lake was
428.95 feet above sea level,
with storage computed at
1,394,984 acre feet of water.
The SID is diverting 595
second feet of water into
the Putah South Canal and
43 second feet is flowing in
Putah Creek at the Diversion Dam. Evaporation on
Lake Berryessa averaged
379 acre feet of water per
day during the week.
YEARS AGO
35
YEARS AGO
50
YEARS AGO
65
100
June 22, 1972
July 4,1957
July 3, 1942
July 28, 1907
Seven girls are competing for the title: “Miss Winters” in Saturday’s contest.
They are Rose Marie
Lopez, Jean Bourland,
Lynda Marie Dunn, Karla
Timperley,
Patricia
Roberts, Judy Bourland
and Wendy Martin.
Recently elected new officers of the Winters American Field Service chapter
are Mrs. Rupert Sullivan,
president; Noel Peattie,
1st vice president; Mrs.
Don James, 2nd vice president; Mrs. David Harvey,
secretary; John Atherton,
treasurer;
Mrs.
Ernie
Young,
family
liaison
chairman;
Mrs.
John
Greenwood, home selection ch.; Mrs. Barbara
Pede, American Abroad
ch.; and Ruth Rominger,
president of the student
AFS club.
One hundred acres of
barley stubble and pasture land were blackened
by fire on Saturday. Land
involved was on three
ranches, according to Fire
Chief Vernon Bruhn: The
Clem Graf ranch, a P.G.&E.
parcel, and the Walt Chapmen ranch.
Richard Chiles, former
Winters High School athlete, is currently batting
.244 for Oklahoma City in
the American Association.
He has been at bat 131
times, with 32 hits, 14 runs
and 20 runs batted in.
Airman Richard P. Hart,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hart, has been assigned to
Sheppard AFB, Texas, for
training in aircraft maintenance.
After an absence of a
month,
visiting
in
Arkansas and Oklahoma,
Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Nance,
daughter Darla, and the
former’s mother, Mrs. Lila
Nance, arrived back in
Winters last Saturday.
John Abinante left this
week for Washington and
Oregon on a fishing trip.
A.R. Gale and Sons of
Winters was the low bidder when bids were
opened in Fairfield last
Friday for the construction of a new school for
the Wolfskilll Elementary
School
District.
Gale’s bid was $55,304.
Mrs. Joe Diaz and Mrs.
Walter Young have been
named as directors of the
Yolo County Heart Association for the coming
year.
At the Rotary Club
meeting June 27, retiring
president Rod E. Degener turned over the gavel
to incoming president,
Dr. Corbin A. Young.
Water storage yesterday morning at Lake
Berryessa was 123,210
acre feet, 970 acre feet
less than last Wednesday.
The lake is now at the
320.61 foot elevation.
Mrs. Alice Dote came
home on Saturday from
Oakley where she has
been helping with the
apricot harvest for the
past two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Martino and Vicki left Sunday
for a week’s trip to the
southern part of the state.
Mrs. Will Young got
back on Sunday from a
week’s visit in Alameda
with Mr. and Mrs. Elmore
Pearse.
R.O. (Dick) Childers
and daughter, Donna, are
spending a few days this
week in a fishing trip to
Butte Meadows.
Warren G. Tufts, of Winters, has been named as
one of the judges in the
county feature exhibits
at the California State
Fair.
Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Butler
and children, Kay, Glenn
and Dale, arrived home
on Tuesday, of last week
from a ten day’s trip
which took them to Los
Angeles, through Disneyland, to San Diego and
Las Vegas.
Mrs. C.S. Culton returned to Sacramento
Monday. After accompanying a delegation of Japanese evacuees to Tule Lake,
Mrs. Culton visited a few
days with Rev. and Mrs.
George
Kmecik
in
Brownsville, Oregon.
Dr. H.G. Potter of the
Medical Reserve Service
was brief visitor in town
Friday.
Fire destroyed a large
barn Friday afternoon on
the premises of Mrs. Lou
Wilson, northwest of town.
Cameron Girton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Cattermole of Oakland, recently
was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S.
Army Air Force at the Air
Advanced Flying School,
Mather Field.
Bob Crum paid a brief
visit to his home Saturday.
He was being transferred
from Camp Roberts to
Camp Lewis.
The following applications for tires were granted during the month of
May: For trucks, Walter
Jarrett, 1 tire, 1 tube;
Josephine Brinck 2 tires, 3
tubes; J.L. Harlan Jr. 1 tire,
1 tube, J.L. McClish 2 tires,
1 tube; E.C. Fischer 1 tire.
Ted and Jack Mermod
were visitors Friday and
Saturday in San Francisco, and with their aunt,
Mrs. Lucy Berg in Berkeley.
Born in Sutter Hospital,
Sacramento, July 1, to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert A. Young,
a son.
Mrs. S.H. Hoy left this
morning for a month’s visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hoy
in Beiber.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Arnold of Sonoma were
Sunday visitors at the
M.Chulick home.
H.E. Hemenway has finished a big job of painting
the Winters Dried Fruit
Company’s packing house.
J.E. Wyatt and Miss Annie Colmer came up from
Oakland Sunday to visit
friends and relatives, returning in the evening.
The voting on the Goddess of Liberty closes at 9
this evening. Miss Virgil
Gannon and Miss Fannie
Brown are the only contestants, all the others having
been distanced.
Mrs. Frances Taylor and
Mrs. Henry Brinck were
appointed by the Women’s
Improvement Club to prepare a restful place for the
club’s headquarters on the
Fourth.
Dried fruit seems to be
soaring. Dried apricots are
being bought here for 25
cents per pound and the
buyers are offering 12
cents for dried peaches,
with very few sellers.
Mrs. L.H. Woodworth
and daughter, who have
been guests at the John
Griffin ranch, left this
morning for their home in
Yuba City.
YEARS AGO
115
YEARS AGO
July 2, 1892
Just as we were going to
press yesterday afternoon a
report reached us by telephone that the Woodland
Opera House, Jackson’s
block, Democrat office,
Beamer’s block, and several residences had been
burned, and that the fire
was still raging, though
nearly under control.
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VROOM
Continued from page A-1
working on a wide variety
of vehicles every chance
he gets. Ramirez has
learned everything she
knows hands-on.
“This is my school,” she
says, pointing to a glistening red VW Jetta. “I don’t
just sit in the cars and let
the guys do all the work. I
do the work, and I’ve done
the work, and I’m learning
something new every time
I work on a car.”
Through
Baxman,
Ramirez discovered the
world of rally racing and
met his lifelong buddies,
Jason Rohe and John
Crowningshield, and was
bitten by the racing bug.
When
Crowningshield’s
navigator decided to give
up navigating and get behind the wheel, he needed
a new one, and fast. He had
a race in two weeks. Baxman said that besides being able to read and think
quickly, Ramirez had the
main requirement for being a rally race navigator:
she could read in a moving
vehicle without getting
nauseated.
Crowningshield’s navigator, a racing veteran
named
Lee
Sorenson,
spent two weeks teaching
Ramirez everything she
knew. Ramirez, a striking,
petite beauty who looks
too delicate for such a
rough and tumble sport
that is dominated by men,
surprised them all.
“She exceeded all expectations,” says Baxman.
“She fit in perfectly.”
He emphasizes that navigating is a difficult skill to
master. She must be able
to instantly decipher the
shorthand-like notes in a
thick racecourse notebook
and read them aloud to the
driver at precisely the
right moment, all while being jostled about on rough
roads and tight turns. The
navigator must also coordinate the notations to a
dashboard computer that
verifies exactly where a
car is on the course. One
split second of hesitation
or confusion could be fatal.
The key to avoiding injury
or
worse,
says
Ramirez, is trust.
“You have to have lots of
trust. I trust John. I trust
he’ll drive what I tell him
to drive and he has to trust
me to give him the right directions. There has to be a
lot of respect and trust. If
you don’t have that, that’s
when accidents happen.
“Safety is Number One.
It’s about being safe, having fun and going really,
really fast.”
She points out that the
trust extends beyond driver and navigator for a racing team.
“I have to trust in the mechanic to make sure the
car drives well.”
Baxman adds that in rally racing, neither driver or
navigator has ever seen or
traveled the course before.
“You have to do 60 miles
per hour on trust,” he says.
Besides trust, rally racing can be grueling. Some
races last for multiple
days and cover as much as
100 miles in shorter segments each day. Ramirez
says both driver and navigator have to take care of
themselves like athletes
before a race, and make
sure they get plenty of
sleep.
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Another version of offroad racing is called rally
cross, which features a
contained course outlined
by cones, usually on a
large field. Ramirez recently decided to get behind the wheel herself,
and has already competed
in two rally cross events,
placing second in the
Prairie City race, and
plans to race again on
June 24 in Antioch.
“I’ve been in love with
cars all my life, ever since
I can remember. Now I’ve
got an opportunity — now
I’m going for it.”
She also is anticipating
future rally race events as
Crowningshield’s navigator. Together with Baxman, they have formed an
amateur
racing
team
called
Speed
Secrets.
Rounding out the team is
Rohe, who will be a second
driver in the races and
plans to have his brother
become his navigator.
When the four get together to talk about racing,
their enthusiasm and dedication are apparent.
“It’s like a childhood
dream,” says Rohe, a selfadmitted speed junkie.
“To race cars and race
them off road, and with
your best friends. I’m living a dream.
“It’s about having a passion for something — being willing to work for it
and not being scared to go
ahead. You can make it
happen, but you can’t just
snap your fingers.”
“It’s a lot of elbow
grease,” agrees Baxman,
who says his love of cars
began in childhood while
playing with toy cars, then
making models of cars as a
teen. “This is a progression of all that.”
“It’s a lot of work to prepare for a race,” says
Crowningshield. Besides
the physical and mental
preparation, a lot of organization has to take place
before a race, such as securing sponsors for the
car, which are repaid with
advertisements on the vehicle.
“Every car is a rolling
billboard,” says Rohe.
On that note, Baxman
points out that Speed Secrets is searching for sponsors and notes that besides
hoping to cross over into
the professional racing
world, the team is actively
pursuing
the
use
of
biodiesel
fuel,
which
might be an attractive feature to a potential sponsor.
“It could help bring
biodiesel advantages out
into the open and see how
it can work, even at the
professional level,” says
Baxman.
“I want to win with it,”
adds
Crowiningshield,
who hopes that Speed Secrets will help bring the
world of rally racing and
rally cross more into the
public eye, noting that in
Europe, the sport is wildly
popular.
Baxman sums up the
Photo by Debra Lo Guercio
The Speed Secrets racing team, based in rural Winters, consists of, from left, (front) driver John Crowningshield and driver/navigator
Rosie Ramirez, and (back) mechanic Jeff Baxman and driver Jason Rohe.These are two of the vehicles being turned into race cars.
team’s goals succinctly:
“To have a Speed Secrets
Racing Company that supports racing and brings
more people into racing: to
support the sport.”
“There’s a future in this
sport,” says Rohe. “It’s obscure. People in America
don’t know what it is.”
But, adds Crowningshield, “It’s the number
one motor sport in the
world.”
At the amateur level,
they admit the rewards
aren’t all that lucrative.
Race winners might receive anything from a trophy to cash prizes in Rally
America events. The bigger the race, the bigger the
cash prize.
Currently, the team is
preparing for a “24 Hour of
Lemons” race in October
in Altamont, which entails
a 24-hour endurance race
on an asphalt track. There
will be six people in the
car altogether, each taking
turns as driver in two to
three hour shifts. The
team is also preparing for
the Laughlin International Rally, which takes place
in November in Laughlin,
Nevada.
Ramirez
and
Crowningshield will be in
one car and Rohe hopes to
compete in a second car
with his brother. Baxman
will drive ahead of both
cars in a separate vehicle
to meet them at designated
checkpoints and inspect
the cars.
The last thing the team
wants people to know
about rally racing and rally cross is that it’s a sport
accessible to the average
person. Rather than requiring expensive race
cars, an abandoned junker
can be refurbished until it
shines like new.
“It can be done relatively inexpensively,” says
Jeff, estimating that about
$10-15,000 will do the trick,
Courtesy photo
Rosie Ramirez (above, courtesy photo) drives in a rally cross event in a VW that she was instrumental in restoring and turning into a race car.
as long as it’s a do-it-yourself job. But that’s part of
the attraction, he says.
“That’s what’s gratifying
— to work on it and then
get in it.”
When they aren’t getting
their adrenaline fix on the
race course, all four Speed
Secrets team members
still have to pay the bills
the old-fashioned way —
with day jobs. Ramirez
works as an administrative assistant also as a
waitress. Baxman is a tractor mechanic. Rohe and
Crowningshield, both residents of Mendocino, are a
house painting contractor
and lumber yard owner respectively. Baxman is also
originally a Fort Bragg
resident.
Ramirez, a lifelong Winters resident, is a 1991
graduate of Winters High
School. She has a daughter, 13, Rosemarie. Besides her brother, Joe, she
has two sisters, Patricia
Ramirez and Irma Perez.
Her parents are Jose and
Francisca Ramirez. All
are longtime Winters residents.
The Speed Secrets team
and shop are based in rural Winters. To find out
more about the team or to
become a sponsor, visit
www.speedsecretsracing.c
om, or call Baxman, 8670898, or Ramirez, 315-3533.
photo by Debra Lo Guercio)
Jeff Baxman shows a Porshe he rescued from the junk heap and
is transforming into a rally racer.
Photo by Debra Lo Guercio
Rosie Ramirez sits in the navigator’s seat, showing the various
safety modifications done on the Speed Secrets car to prepare it
for rally racing.
A-4 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Opinion
LETTERS
Y GUY. He’s the best. But sometimes he
prods me to do things that make me really
uncomfortable. Apprehension curdles in
my stomach as he nudges me along.
“Just try it.”
“I’ve never done that before,” I whimper.
“I know you can do it.”
“It scares me.”
“Come on, you’ll like it.”
I can’t. I just can’t. He sighs, somewhat less patiently.
“Just touch it.”
Touch it? I don’t even want to look at it. I graze it
with a fingertip. Amazing. It didn’t bite.
“Now, turn it on.”
Turn it on. Easy for you to say. That’s foreign
equipment for me, buddy! But I know I must try,
because if I can’t turn it on, he might go find a
woman who can. I gotta just do it.
I reach out again, touch it just where he showed
me and it responds instantly!
“Now what do I do?”
“Anything you want to,” he murmurs with relief
and satisfaction.
I must admit. My freshly discovered power is intoxicating. But short-lived. What if I touch it the
wrong way next time? Will it still perform for me?
And the anxiety starts gurgling.
Ladies, I know you’ve all been there. You know
just what I’m talking about — those things men are
always begging us to play with. Electronics.
It began with a DVD player, two Christmases
ago. I didn’t actually own any DVDs, but let’s not
trip over the details. I’d bumbled along for years
in my technologically impaired little bubble with
a cheap, crappy VCR that did everything I wanted:
play, stop, rewind and fast forward.
I understand the VCR. I have zen with the VCR.
It’s just a big, fat cassette player. I can wrap my
brain around that. That’s why I resisted getting a
CD player for years. I figured they were just a fad.
However, as CDs quickly forced cassettes out of
the marketplace entirely, I eventually had to take
that next technological step.
Next: DVDs. I really appreciated my sweetie’s
gift, so I had to learn to use it. I rented a couple
DVDs and soon discovered the easiest way to start
it: by screaming at one of my kids to do it for me. I
hid this dirty little secret for as long as I could.
And then came the super duper surround sound
system last Christmas, which Joe expertly hooked
up.
Unfortunately, my television is one of the few remaining on earth that’s encased in a wooden cabinet and secretly longs for a simple set of rabbit
ears. Any modern electronics must be routed
through the VCR because that’s the only thing my
TV can communicate with.
So. After wrangling an octopus of wires and
tweaking this and that setting, Joe has it all set. He
hands me a remote with more buttons than the
control panel on the space shuttle and says, “I set
it up so all you have to do is start the DVD player.”
I stare at the remote as if it were a tarantula.
“You do know how to start the DVD player, don’t
you?”
Absolutely.
“Janine!!!”
My daughter storms in, snatches the remote,
presses some buttons, slaps the remote on the
table, commands, “Don’t touch it!” and stomps
back to IM-ing or MySpace-ing or whatever it is
teenagers do for hours on end slumped over the
computer.
Joe’s disappointment and pity were apparent.
As he patiently gave me a lesson in home electronics, he surely envisioned me riding in the little
yellow bus. Just as the cassette player is to the
VCR, he explained, the CD player is to the DVD
player. Omigod, I get it!
W-w-water!
Yes, Helen. Water.
Yes, I can now operate that stack of digital blinking boxes atop my television all by myself and
sometimes, when Lady Luck smiles upon me, the
corresponding stack of remotes too. As long as nobody touches any of the dials or settings behind
my back, which would be perversely cruel. Like
moving Helen’s furniture.
So. I’ve mastered the DVD player. And the sound
system. However, my favorite technophile noticed
that I use all that fancy-schmancy equipment
mainly as a glorified CD player. So, he gave me a
fabulous iPod and matching speaker dock for my
birthday. I love looking at it. Attempting to use it?
Not so much. But I’ll soon be working it like a pro,
or an 8th grader even. My daughter’s coming for a
visit and I know just what to do: “Janine!!!”
M
“Too bad all the people who know how to run the
country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
~ George Burns
Charley’s column will return next week
Thanks for
supporting fire
department
Dear Editor,
I want to say thank you to
so many wonderful people
that donated items to be
sold at this year’s yard sale
to help support our fire department. Without all of
your wonderful donations
we could not have done it.
It’s great to know so many
people wanted to help support the Winters Fire Department. We got donations from people from Vacaville, Allendale, Dixon,
Madison, West Sacramento and, of course, Winters
and the surrounding countryside.
Bless each and every one
of you, because of you. Our
sales were $4,080.60 plus a
sum of $1,800 that is coming in for a player piano
that was sold on Craigslist
before the yard sale. This
will bring our sales to
$5,880.60. Wow. Thank you
so much, Winters.
Special thanks to:
~ Dee Swanson: My little
sister. Dee was here at 6
a.m. each morning and
worked hard all day and
night until 9 p.m. She only
left then because it was too
dark to see anymore. Dee
was always there to go out
with me to pick up and
haul back and take care of
items donated. She gave
me her back patio and part
of her yard to store items
for the sale and her driveway was one of the drop off
areas that was used so
much. She helped for four
months before the sale, going out and hauling items
back. She worked all three
day at the sales as well and
then in the packing and
hauling of the leftovers.
Dee hurt in her back from
so much hard work, but
this did not hold her back,
she was always there to
help. Glad you are better
now. Thank you, Sis.
~ Kathy Hartwell: Kathy
closed her business down
each day at noon to come
help set up for three days.
Kathy owns Katherine’s
Bookkeeping on Railroad
Avenue. Kathy was also
there all three days of the
sale and for the packing
up. She also went with us
to Vacaville and other
places to bring back a
trailer full of furniture.
Kathy put in so much of her
time picking up box after
box that she hurt her back.
So sorry, Kathy, glad you
are better now. Thank you,
dear friend.
~ Debbie Lorenzo: Debbie helped by hauling and
collecting items, and loading and unloading items
that were donated. Debbie
was always there for four
months to help haul items
back. Thank you for help in
setting up the clothing
area and all the work you
did in sales all three days.
The work and the loan of
the tables were of great
help, as was the help with
hanging the signs. Thank
you, dear friend.
I am so grateful to these
three woman, without
them I could not have put
this sale together in time.
In the past three years we
had seven days to set it up
and this year we only had
two and one half days to
get it done in. Thank you,
Dee, Kathy and Debbie
~ Bill Skaggs: My son
came with a great shade
cover for us to use and he
was there to help set up all
49 tables and move furniture. He helped with the
unpacking of items. Thank
you.
~ Jim and Shelly Burke:
for giving your yard and
driveway to help set up the
sale. All the work that they
gave, and Shelly in all the
packing up of leftover
items; all her sales ability,
she was making deals and
selling furniture left and
right. Way to go, Shelly, you
did a great job. Thank you.
I also want to say that you
are going to be very
missed. I wish you and
your family all the very
best in your new home.
Thank you.
~ Robbie Rubio: Thanks
for all the storing of donated items, then for hauling
them over.
~ Terry Karlen: Thanks
for all your hauling of donated items and all the tables that you hauled over.
All 35 of them. Just thank
you for all you did to help
me.
~ Roy Irwin: Roy passed
out fliers to all the town
business’s two months before the sales. Thanks to
him doing that, we were
able to get the word out
more. Roy came on Sunday
to help pack up everything
left over. Great job, Roy,
and thank you for all your
help. Bless you, my friend.
~ Town & Country Market: Thank You for all the
plastic shopping bags and
the loan of one of the trailers that we used before the
sale to go out and bring
back donated items.
~
Winters Express:
Charley, thanks for an outstanding job again this
year. Without the Express,
we could not have gotten
the word out to everyone
about the sale. Your advertising our sale made our
donations come in better
and our sales better, and I
thank you for all that you
have helped with.
~ A very special thanks
to my husband: He always
stands behind me in whatever I do, maybe a grump
or two here and there but,
he always understands my
love for our fire department and my need in supporting them. He gives up 6
p.m. dinners and his driveway, the house and yard,
and has to park down the
street for days on end but
he knows I am doing this
for a very good cause and
he does understand. For
that I am always grateful.
Thank you, sweetheart
I would like to say in
closing that this was the
last yard sale that I can do.
I need now to take care of
my replacements of both
my knees. I will miss doing
the yard sale but, I will
help in any way that I can.
If anyone out there wishes
to take over in my place
having the 5th Annual
“Winters Fire Department
Yard Sale. I will always be
ready to help the Winters
Fire Department. Just give
me a call.
KATHY SKAGGS
Impressed
with Velo City
Dear Editor,
I want to publicly thank
Mike and James at Velo
City Bicycle Center in Winters for the skill they applied to prepare my bike
for the challenge of its life
(and mine). I recently completed a 555 mile bike ride
from San Francisco to Los
Angeles. The ride was
sponsored by AIDS Lifecycle to raise funds for AIDS
treatment. Because of Velo
City, I never had to worry
about the performance of
my 12-year-old Lemond
road bike while on an incredibly strenuous road
trip.
Before the ride, I asked
Mike and team to tune my
bike for the trip. Their
work was so amazingly
great that I had zero trouble with my bike from start
to finish. By comparison,
many fellow riders spent a
lot of time with on-theroad mechanics, including
one guy who had eight
flats!
I have used many bike
shops but never with these
results. We are fortunate
to have Velo City Bicycle
Center in Winters. Thank
you, Velo City!
BOB POLKINGHORN
Appreciated
‘Out of the Box’
Dear Editor,
I’d like to thank Al Vallecillo and Tim Caro for
their consistently well-informed, well-written columns on a wide variety of
interesting topics. “Out of
the Box” has been one of
the features of the Express
which I’ve enjoyed most.
I’m sorry to know that it
has ended. I will miss it.
On another note: having
lived away from Winters
for some time now, I’ve
missed most of the local
gossip. The final “Out of
the Box” was my first exposure to the rumor that Tim
and Al are gay. I’ll bet their
wives and kids were almost as surprised and
amused when they first
heard about this as I was.
As Tim and Al say, though,
it’s the writing that counts.
All the best, gentlemen,
and thanks again.
PETER DYER
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Local solar
energy a drop
in right bucket
Dear Editor:
Charley’s last column got
me thinking about solar
energy, and how developing that energy source
could help our world with
climate changes, fossil
fuel shortages/dependencies, etc. So I did a little research to find out what it
would take to possibly develop that source by using
the information I’ve gathered from my own photovoltaic (PV) system and
looking on the internet.
First, here’s the report
on my PV system: It has
generated just over 8,000
Kwh
and
prevented
140,000 lbs of CO2 from going into the atmosphere
over the last 22 months.
That’s
about
364
Kwh/month generated and
6,364 lbs of CO2/month not
going into the air, on average. My meter read 100,000
in August 2005 and now it
reads under 96,000. My
home consistently generates more electrical energy than it uses, plus it prevents CO2 from going in the
air and the panel array
shades my roof. Can you
see why I believe solar is a
viable energy source and
should be developed for
our better future? PV not
only generates electrical
power, but reduces carbon
impacts to the air we all
breathe and depend on for
livable climates.
I went to www.americanenergyindependence.org, and learned
that 10,000 square miles of
solar panels using technology available today could
supply all of the United
States electrical energy
needs.
Granted an improved electrical grid distribution system would
also be needed, but just
follow me here for a moment. Ten thousad square
miles equals roughly 28
trillion square feet (feel
free to do the math or have
your kid do it for you if you
care to check). The PV system on my house is approximately 280 square feet, so
it turns out you’d need
about 100 billion PV systems like mine to satisfy
this 10,000 square mile requirement.
My system cost around
$25K before rebates, about
$12.5K after rebates. So,
using the after rebate
number, it would cost the
country about $125 billion
to go solar if the government picked up half the
tab, or $250 billion if they
didn’t. Now, you’re probably thinking like I felt:
“Gee, that would be a
daunting task for the
whole country to go solar”
when I got to this point.
And then when you consider other larger developing
countries not caring much
about the environment or
curbing their appetite for
fossil fuels, you may even
be thinking “What’s the
point, we’re all doomed,
it’s
every
man/woman/country
for
their self, let God sort it all
out in the end.”
And yes, my solar array,
Charley’s solar array, other’s here in town too and
the ones planned for Winters Highlands amount to
maybe a molecule in the
bucket that would need to
be filled to have the entire
country’s electrical needs
supplied by solar energy.
But I think it’s a molecule
in the right bucket, not the
bucket we currently seem
to be going to hell in. And
with enough molecules,
maybe a drop gets formed,
then more drops start to
fill up the right bucket...
you get the idea. Plus,
when some hot-shot solar
company figures out how
to capture electrical energy from more than just the
red spectrum of light, the
panels will get much more
efficient, and that bucket
may get a lot more drops in
it sooner than later.
Plus consider this: from
some various recent newspaper articles I Googled,
See SOLAR on page A-5
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — A-5
Tell them what you think
FEDERAL
President George W. Bush, The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.,
20502, (202) 456-1111; fax, (202) 456-2451; email, president @whitehouse.gov
Congressman Mike Thompson (1st District) 231
Cannon Building, Washington, DC 20515-0501; (202)
225-3311;
fax,
(202)
225-4335;
website,
ww.house.gov/mthompson; Yolo County district office, 712 Main Street, Suite 1, Woodland, CA, 95695;
662-5272;
fax,
662-5163;
website/email,
www.house.gov/mthompson
Senator Barbara Boxer, 112 Hart Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C., 20510. (202) 224-3553;
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240, San Francisco,
CA 94111, (415) 403-0100, fax, (415) 956-6701; email/website, www.boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
Senator Dianne Feinstein, 331 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510. (202) 2243841, fax, (202) 228-3954; 1700 Montgomery Street,
Suite 305, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 393-0707;
email/website,
www.feinstein.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
STATE
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Capitol,
Sacramento, CA 95814. (916) 445-2841. Fax, (916)
445-4633; email, www.govmail.ca.gov
Assemblywoman Lois Wolk, P.O. Box 942849,
State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 319-2008;
fax,
(916)
319-2108;
email,
[email protected]; district
office — 555 Mason Street, Suite 275, Vacaville, CA
95688; (707) 455-8025; fax, (707) 455-0490.
Senator Michael Machado, Room 3086, State
Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2407; fax,
(916) 323-2304; district office — 1020 N Street, Room
506, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 323-4306; email,
[email protected]
COUNTY
Yolo County Superior Court, P.O. Box 2175, Woodland, CA 95695.
Yolo County Grand Jury, P.O. Box 2142, Woodland,
CA 95695.
Yolo County Board of Supervisors, Erwin W.
Meier Administration Center, 625 Court St., Woodland, CA 95695.
Mike McGowan, District 1; Helen Thompson, District 2; Frank Sieferman, Jr., District 3; Mariko Yamada, District 4; Duane Chamberlain, District 5.
CITY
Winters City Council, Mayor Woody Fridae; council members, Harold Anderson, Cecilia Curry,
Mike Martin and Tom McMasters-Stone; City Hall,
318 First St., Winters, CA 95694.
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Winters Joint Unified School District, 710 Railroad Ave., Winters 95694, 795-6100. Dale Mitchell,
superintendent; Board of Trustees, Rick Romney,
president;, Tom Harding, Kathy McIntire, Robert
Nickelson, Rodney Orosco, Mary Jo Rodolfa and
Jay Shepherd.
Class addresses global warming
International
House,
Davis will offer a four-session
discussion
class,
Global Warming: Changing Course, on the complexities of global warming and its challenges.
Participants will explore personal responses
to climate change and why
society has been slow to
respond, learn about the
history and science of
global climate change and
new strategies for addressing climate change.
Class members will discuss our individual and
collective power to shape
an effective response to
SOLAR
climate change, enabling
future generations to meet
their needs.
The class meets from 78:30 p.m., Mondays, July 2
and 9, Wednesday, July 11,
and Monday, July 16. The
class is free, although
there is a charge of $16 for
the required textbook,
which participants can
purchase at I-House.
To enroll, call 753-5007,
or
email:
[email protected], or drop by International House, 10 College Park in Davis.
For more information,
contact Judy Moores, 7564639 or [email protected].
changes in our world. So
spend wisely, exercise
your personal power and
Continued from page A-4
let those in politics know
the USA is spending about how you want things to
$4-5 billion on the Iraq war change. We all have the
every month, plus hun- ability to make small
dreds of millions in changes in our little
Afghanistan every month worlds which can cause
too. Granted, we just can’t larger changes in our largdirect all that money into er worlds.
solar energy generation,
JON TICE
we’re stuck in those messes without an easy exit just
like we were stuck in other
past conflicts. I think we
just can’t pack our tents
and go home at this point,
there’s clean-up work to do
first before we go home.
But my big question is:
What kind of “home” are
we going to be going home
to? One that is leading the
world out of this mess by
making a financial commitment for a new better
age of energy usage and
generation, or one that
propagates existing policies that may cause these
kind of conflicts to arise
again and again?
We all know it gets down
to money, power and politics, and the priorities set
by those who control the
majority of those three
things to make significant
Workshop focuses
on agricultural needs
in Solano County
The Agriculture Subcommittee of the Solano
County General Plan Update Citizens Advisory
Committee is conducting a
series of community workshops to address issues
and needs of the agricultural community in Solano
County as part of the
Solano County General
Plan update program. The
community workshops are
designed to give the public an opportunity to provide input in shaping the
future of this agricultural
production region. These
workshops will focus on
future land use issues,
planning, zoning and other issues related to the
special needs of this region.
The community workshop scheduled for the
Winters/Pleasants Valley
area will be held on
Thursday, June 28, 7-9 p.m.
at Stan Lester Farms HQ,
4317 Margret Lane in Winters.
Each community workshop will be interactive,
with participation of community
stakeholder
groups, agencies, residents, property owners
and others and will build
upon the work and information generated from
other regions of the county. Through the communi-
ty workshops, land use
and circulation opportunities and issues of concern will be identified for
consideration in the development of conceptual
land use and alternatives
and policy alternatives for
the area. Based on community review of the alternatives, a preferred alternative will be identified.
The alternatives will be
considered by the Citizens
Advisory Committee for
consideration as part of
the General Plan. Additional information on the
community
workshops
will be available on the
General Plan website:
www.solanocountygeneralplan.net.
Citizens, ranchers, farm
and land owners are welcome to attend and participate in any of the other
workshops sponsored by
the Agricultural Subcommittee. Ideas may also be
submitted to Lawrence
Clement, Chair Ag Subcommittee c/o Department of Resource Management, Planning Services
Division at 675 Texas
Street, Suite 5500 Fairfield CA, 94533. Comments
may also be sent via e-mail
on the General Plan Update
website
at
www.solanocountygeneralplan.net.
Curbside collection offered
In an effort to curb illegal dumping activities
along roadsides and waterways, and provide a
convenient way for residents to get rid of unwanted bulky items, Waste
Management
offers
a
curbside collection of up
to five cubic yards of material as part of your trash
collection services. (Example: one cubic yard = a
washing machine; three
cubic yards = sofa) There
is no additional charge for
this cleanup.
Pickup days are scheduled on July 13, Aug. 10,
Sept. 7, Oct. 19, Nov. 16, and
Dec. 14. Pickups must be
scheduled at least one week
in advance. Residents are
allowed one bulky waste
pickup per year.
Call Waste Management,
795-1201 to schedule a
pickup appointment.
The Earthquake Street Festival
takes place Friday, Aug. 24
5-11 p.m. on downtown Main Street
Call 795-2329 to reserve your booth space
Private individuals and non-profit groups welcome
A-8 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Schools
FFA holds year end banquet
By RAVEN CASTRO
Special to the Express
The Winters FFA chapter
held its annual end of the
year banquet on May 25 to
celebrate all that it has accomplished over the course
of this year. The banquet
took place at the Winters
Community Center where
approximately 200 guests
were present.
Numerous FFA and community members were recognized for their dedication
to the chapter. First on the
agenda were FFA Member of
the Year as well as Star FFA
member recipients. The
FFA member of the year was
Amy Cross. This is an admirable award to receive. It
is given to an active FFA
member who has dedicated
herself to the welfare of the
chapter and who is a prime
example of an outstanding
member.
The
Star
Greenhand
award is given to an active
freshman that has earned
her Greenhand degree. This
award was given to Tyler
Pearce. The Star Chapter
Farmer was next awarded to
Katie Eslick. The Star Chapter Farmer is an award that
is given to an exceptional
sophomore who holds both a
Greenhand and Chapter degree.
The Blue and Gold award,
which is given to an FFA
member who is enthusiastic
about the program and acts
as the chapter’s cheerleader,
was received by Sarah Warren. Then the newest honorary chapter farmer, Lynn
Martindale, was recognized.
Lynn has put in countless
hours to help both FFA
members and the chapter
become successful. We appreciate all that she has
done for us and we proudly
embrace her as an honorary
member of our FFA chapter.
Matt Mariani then received
the
Susan
Southworth
Hometown Hero award. This
is award is given to a community member that has been a
longtime supporter of the
FFA program.
As we watched the emotional slide show, our senior
members reminisced on
their lives. We said goodbye,
making sure they had a clear
understanding on how much
they had greatly impacted
our chapter’s success, and
showing them how appreciative we are of all they have
done. We then announced
the FFA Scholarship recipients and the outstanding senior award.
Receiving the highest dollar amount of $1,500 as well
as the Outstanding Senior
award was Breanne Benson.
Receiving
$1,000
Alex
Thompson,; receiving $750,
Ashley Kraintz and Jorge
Huizar; and an amount of
$500 went to Brock Neil.
Kraintz received her Presidents award for being an outstanding president and role
model over the past year.
Finally, we closed the
evening with the installation
of our 2007-2008 FFA chapter
officer team, consisting of
president Amy Cross, vice
president Sarah Warren, reporter Raven Castro, secretary Katie Eslick, treasurer
Ellis White and sentinel
Alex Huizar.
The banquet was a great
success and we look forward
to watching the growth of the
chapter over the year to
come. We hope that it may be
as triumphant as this past
year has been.
Courtesy photo
Ashley Kraintz, right, recieves the Timothy Casson Memorial
Scholarship during Winters High School’s Senior Awards Night.
Kraintz recieves Casson
Memorial scholarship
Yolo Community Foundation announced today that
Ashley Kraintz was awarded
the Timothy Casson Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded each year to
a Winters High School senior
who plans to enter a trade or
technical school.
Kraintz plans to study
pharmacy. She is first in a
the library collection.
The National Commission family of six to attend colon Reading found that chil- lege. Kraintz said, “This
dren whose parents read to scholarship will make it posthem at an early age learn to sible for me to achieve these
read and write more easily goals, but also set an examthan those who have not had ple for my two younger sibthese experiences. Reading lings to attend college and realoud to children helps them ceive an education.”
“We are delighted to award
develop listening skills, vocabulary, and language this scholarship to Ashley,”
skills; imagination and cre- said Cath Posehn, Executive
ativity; positive behavior Director of Yolo Community
patterns and social conduct; Foundation. “The fund was
self-esteem and positive atti- established by Paul and Gail
tudes towards themselves Casson in memory of their
and others. Children who son Timothy to create a legaparticipate in the library cy that touches the lives of
programs will be better pre- others. The Cassons have crepared to enter kindergarten
and will have a more positive school experience.
For more information on
Winters Friends of the Library and the family reading
programs,call
Charlotte
Winters
Community
Kimball, 795-0615.
Christian School (WCCS)
Grant supports family reading programs
By DIANE CAREY
Special to the Express
The Winters Friends of the
Library (WFoL) has received
a $28,900 Special Projects
Grant from First Five Yolo
County to expand their very
successful family reading
programs with outreach,
training and parent education. The goal of the project
is to help prepare young
children in Winters for
learning by providing fun
reading experiences, introducing their families to the
benefits of reading to young
children, providing age-appropriate books, and educating parents about easy ways
to in
The project will focus on outreach to the Spanish-speaking community in
Winters by developing Spanish-language materials and
programs, recruiting and
training volunteers from the
Hispanic community, and
partnering with other community organizations serving families with young children to take programs out
into the community. Project
partners include Yolo County Library, City of Winters,
Winters Hispanic Advisory
Committee, Helping Hands
(St.
Anthony’s
Catholic
Church), Yolo Housing (Yolo
County Housing Authority),
WIC (Women, Infants, and
Children) and GET READY
Nutrition and Literacy Program (Yolo County Health
Department), Winters PreSchool (California Dept. of
Education and Winters Joint
Unified School District), and
Food Bank of Yolo County.
WFoL volunteers currently provide story time for toddlers and preschoolers on
Tuesday mornings, 10:0010:30 a.m. at the Winters Li-
brary, with stories, simple
crafts, songs and movement
games. The grant funds will
be used to add a weekly
Spanish story time at the library, a monthly pajama story time in the evening, and
two outreach events per
month at community locations where families gather.
The funds will also support the Books for Babies
program, which provides a
free gift box for any new
baby in Winters with two
age-appropriate books, a
“Let’s Read” baby T-shirt,
and information on how to
start reading with very
young children. In addition,
the grant will help support a
Family Reading Festival
next spring and a family
reading newsletter. Grant
funds will also be used to
purchase 100 new children’s
books in Spanish to add to
Waste Management reminds customers to
stay safe during summer months
June is National Safety
Month, and Waste Management of Winters is highlighting safety in the community it
serves throughout the month,
reminding customers to put
safety first for themselves
and their families.
As children begin their
summer vacation, they often
spend their free time outside, so it is important to
watch them closely. Waste
Management of Winters encourages parents to talk with
their children about safety
while playing outside and to
watch out for our large waste
and recycling trucks as they
follow their routes through
your community.
“Our customers are wonderfully friendly, and children in particular like to talk
to our drivers while they’re
out on the routes, but it’s important that parents and children not get too close to the
trucks,” said Jason Smith,
District Manager of Waste
Management of Winters.
“Safety is the top priority in
our company and we provide
our drivers with the best
safety training in our industry. People can do their part
as well to insure safety by
staying clear of our trucks
when they are in their neighborhoods.”
Smith offers the following
tips for safety around Waste
Management trucks:
~ Every Waste Management truck is equipped with
a back-up alarm. Whether
you are walking or driving
near one of our trucks, if you
hear this sound (a loud beeping) or see the white back-up
lights, be sure to move out of
the way of the truck.
~ Keep children and pets at
a safe distance from the
truck. Never get near or
climb on the truck -- whether
it is parked or operating. Do
not play or stand in or around
trash bins or cans, since you
may not know when the truck
is coming to empty them. On
your collection day, be sure
to move toys or cars out of the
path of the truck and away
from your collection containers.
~ Try to avoid cutting in
front of or stopping suddenly
in front of a Waste Management or any commercial vehicle. Large trucks require
greater stopping distance
than a passenger car. Extend
the same courtesies as you
would to other drivers and
keep a proper cushion of
space between you and the
truck.
~ Do not follow the truck on
bike, skates or skateboard.
Waste Management trucks
make frequent stops and often back up. While driving,
pass slowly as soon as it is
safe.
~ All Waste Management
trucks are equipped with a
radio or some kind of communication device that connects our drivers to our dispatch centers. If you are experiencing some type of
emergency and need help,
stand at a safe distance away
and wave your arms to motion for help. Do not approach the truck unless the
driver tells you it is safe to do
so.
For more information on
National Safety Month, visit
the National Safety Council’s
Website, http://www.nsc.org.
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leading provider of comprehensive waste management
services in North America.
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and resource recovery, and
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ated a lasting tribute to their
son.”
The fifth annual Picnic in
the Park, a benefit for the
Timothy Casson Memorial
Scholarship Fund, took
place recently on Saturday,
June 9 at Creekside Country
Club in Winters. Proceeds
from the event each year go
to the Timothy Casson Memorial Scholarship Fund of
Yolo Community Foundation
and are used to provide the
scholarship.
Formed in 2001, Yolo Community Foundation is a nonprofit public resource created for philanthropy that
helps donors make a positive
impact on their community.
Contributions can be sent
to the Timothy Casson Memorial Scholarship Fund at
Yolo Community Foundation, PO Box 1264, Woodland,
CA 95776. All donations are
tax-deductible to the extent
allowed by law.
Halbach is first student to
graduate from WCCS
Soroptomist
awards
scholarships
By FRAN PHILBROOK
Special to the Express
The Soroptimist of
Winters
recently
awarded scholarships
to graduating students.
The Gloria Marion
Memorial Scholarship
of $1,500 was awarded
Scholarships of $1,000
each were awarded to
Ronald Lewis, Marty A.
Sackett and Amy Purvis.
Wolfskill students Rio
Zepeda-Tedder
and
Guillermo Escobar, recieved $1,000 each, and
Ashley Quezada recieved $1,500.
The Winters Chapter
of Soroptimists International thanks all who
have supported their
efforts.
For more information, call president
Fran Philbrook, 7954498, or Barbara Cody,
795-2828.
held its first graduation
recently. Eighth grader
Shawnee Halbach, one of
the first students to enter
WCCS at its inception in
2001, is the school’s first
graduate
Halbach’s parents are
Ed and Connie Halbach,
she has an older sister,
Mallory (18), and two
younger brothers, Tommy
(11) and William (9).
Shawnee
attended
Kindergarten at John
Clayton Kinder School
then moved to Waggoner
Elementary School for
first grade. She was homeschooled for second grade
and then entered WCCS
for third grade. “Shawnee
has been at WCCS for the
past six years and has excelled,” said a spokesperson.
“She was an excellent
Peer Partner where she
helped out with the
younger students, was
well liked by everyone
and was a good role model. Shawnee is a great athlete. She received the
Presidential awards in
physical fitness the last
two years. She loves to
swim and has participated on Swim Team for
many years.”
Halbach plans to attend
Buckingham
Charter
School in Vacaville for
high school, where her father is a teacher.
Free breakfasts and lunches are offered in Winters
to all children 18 and under.
Breakfast is offered from 7:30-8 a.m. at Waggoner Elementary
School, 500 West Edwards Street. Lunch is offered from 10-10:10
a.m. at Winters High School, 101 Grant Avenue, from 10:30-10:45
a.m. at Winters Middle School, 425 Anderson Avenue, and 11:50
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Waggoner Elementary.
These meals will be available from June 25 to July 20.
The summer food program is sponsored by Migrant Education,
Region II.
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — A-9
Community
Reece graduates
from basic training
That’s one hot yardsale!
Air Force Airman Aimee
H. Reece has graduated from
basic military training at
Lackland Air Force Base,
San Antonio, Texas.
During the six weeks of
training, Reece studied the
Air Force mission, organization, and military customs
and courtesies; performed
drill and ceremony marches,
and received physical training, rifle marksmanship,
field training exercises, and
special training in human relations.
Reece is the daughter of
Michelle Reece of Rocklin,
and sister of Hannah Reece.
Reece is a 2006 graduate of
Winters High School.
Courtesy photo
In the past three years, Kathy Skaggs has raised over $12,000 toward the purchase of equipment for the Winters Fire Department
by hosting benefit yard sales.This year’s yard sale,pictured,was an equal success.The Winters Fire Department paid staff and volunteers thank Kathy Skaggs along with her helpers Debbie Lorenzo, Kathy Hartwell and Dee Swanson for all their hard work.
Solano County Planning
Commission to meet
The Solano County Planning Commission will meet
on Thursday, June 21, at 7
p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the County
Administration Center, at
675 Texas Street in Fairfield.
The agenda includes the
following local items:
~ Public hearing to consider a lot line adjustment application and certificate of
compliance to Susan Hassett
to adjust property lines between four existing parcels,
where all parcels are under
a Williamson Act contract.
Courtesy Photo
A Distinguished Service Award Plaque was awarded to Lion Renato Massei for the many hours of service as Scholarship Chairman
on Wednesday, June 13.
Lions honor Massei
By: JUANITA RAMOS
Special to the Express
On Wednesday, June 13,
The Winters Lions Club met
at Tomats’. President Frank
Ramos presided.
The newly elected officers
from 2007-2008 were installed by Pres. Frank
Ramos: president John F.
Rodriguez; secretary Andrew P. Pignataro and treasurer Juanita Ramos.
Lion Frank presented a
Distinguished
Service
Award Plaque to Lion Renato Massei for the many hours
of service as our scholarship
chairman on our scholarships award each year. He is
a very dedicated Lion. The
Winters Lions thanks him for
all his service.
Lion Frank was presented
with a Builder key from Lions Clubs International for
active commitment to the
growth and strength of the
association.
Lion Frank reported that a
collection of eye glasses
from May 2006 to May 2007 totaled 238 pairs and was delivered to John Lynch
(P.D.G.) from Reveille Lions,
The Total Blood Drive for the
year 2006-2007: Collection of
144 pints. Total hours, 192.
The next meeting will be
July 11.
The adjustment will result in
three parcels of approximately 2.4, 2.9 and 5.6 acres
in size. The property is located at 8290 Pleasants Valley
Road.
~ Public hearing to consider a minor subdivision application for Richard Harris to
subdivide a 10 acre parcel
into two five acre parcels, located at 4051 Putah Creek
Road in an “RR-2.5” Rural
Residential Zoning District.
For more information, call
(707) 784-6765.
AIMEE REECE
Sheriff’s Department
installs in-car cameras
The Yolo County Sheriff’s
Department recently took
the next step in the law enforcement technology evolution by installing in-car camera systems in its entire patrol fleet. This technology
improvement was made pos-
sible by a grant from the
Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians.
“Tribal Chairman, Marshall McKay, and the Tribal
Council have been strong
See SHERIFF on page A-10
A-10 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Donahue graduates
Courtesy photo
Lauren A. Donahue, of
Davis, graduated from UC
Davis as a member of the
Class of 2007 and a student
of Excersize Biology there.
She is will soon begin graduate school in Los Angeles to
become a physical therapist.
Lauren is the daughter of UC
Daivs construction administrator and Winters resident,
Gary Donahue.
BBQ will benefit
Veteran’s Van Program
The Yolo County Veterans Coalition is having its
14th Annual BBQ fundraiser
on July 14 at the Eagle’s Hall
located at 37650 Highway 16,
in Woodland. The event will
start at 5 p.m. with cocktails
and the dinner will be
served at 6 p.m.
The menu will include BBQ rib eye steaks,
beans, salad, baked potato
and rolls. The price is $15
per person and the proceeds
go to the Veteran’s Van Program.
This program provides transportation to veterans for their VA medical
appointments. The van picks
up the veteran at their home
and transports them to their
medical appointment, and
transports them back home
after the appointment. This
is done at no charge to the
veteran. These two vans
transport an average of 25
veterans a week. This program services mostly elderly
and disabled veterans who
are unable to drive.
This BBQ will feature Assemblymember Lois
Wolk, a member of the Assembly Veterans Committee
as the key- note speaker. She
will talk about veterans issues and what’s new in the
State Capitol, and present
the Veteran of the Year
Award for Yolo County.
Tickets for the event
may be purchased by contacting the Veterans Service
Office in Woodland at 4064850.
SHERIFF
during traffic stops and arrests. “There is widespread
agreement in the law enforcement community that
cameras protect the rights of
our citizens as well as our officers,” said Prieto.
The camera is activated
when a deputy activates the
patrol vehicles emergency
equipment. The system can
also be activated from inside
the patrol vehicle or from a
device carried by the
deputy.
The images from the digital camera can be downloaded into a computer, for
use as evidence and stored
within the Sheriff’s Department. Benefits to law enforcement from this technology will be increased conviction rates, training, and an
overall understanding of
any recorded situation.
“Cameras will remind
both the public and the officers they are being recorded. It will put everyone on
notice that you have to be at
your best,” said Prieto.
“With the camera rolling our
deputies now have a reliable witness right next to
them.”
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supporters of public safety
and continue to partner with
law enforcement to provide
the resources to obtain
equipment that will not only
provide officer safety but
will also be a great evidentiary tool,” said Sheriff Ed
Prieto.
The high resolution, night
view color camera can capture detail in low lighting
conditions even when headlights are aimed directly at
the camera. The in-car system has three different functions, front camera, backseat camera, and audio
recording.
The front camera boasts a
powerful lens, which allows
deputies to focus in and
record license plates. The
backseat camera allows
deputies to record a suspect’s actions and movements while in the patrol
car. The deputy also carries
a small remote recording device that allows the deputy
to record citizen contacts
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Dead bird tests positive for West Nile Virus
The
SacramentoYolo Mosquito and Vector
Control District (District) received confirmation today
that an American Crow
found in Sacramento County
has tested positive for West
Nile virus (WNV). This is the
first confirmation of West
Nile virus activity in the District’s service area for 2007.
“It is important that
residents of Sacramento and
Yolo counties heed this
warning sign,” David Brown,
District Manager said. “We
are increasing our efforts
across the board, from educating the public to treating
mosquito breeding sources.
But what we truly need is
public support and participation. One water-filled
bucket in someone's backyard can literally produce
over 1,000 mosquitoes a
week. People can start by
draining all sources of
standing water that may support mosquito breeding
habitats, adding mosquitofish to small ponds and
bird baths, and reporting
stagnant swimming pools to
the District. We need to continue to work together as a
community to reduce the
mosquito population in our
area,” Brown said.
According to the
Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), West Nile virus
(WNV) is the leading cause
of arboviral encephalitis in
the United States. Originally
discovered in Africa in 1937,
WNV was first detected in
the western hemisphere in
1999 in New York City. Since
then it has caused seasonal
epidemics of West Nile virus
fever and severe neurological disease. West Nile virus
is transmitted to humans
and animals through the
bite of an infected mosquito.
Mosquitoes become infected with WNV when they feed
on infected birds.
Last year, in Yolo
County, 27 humans, 54 dead
birds, 64 mosquito samples
and 26 sentinel chickens
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tested positive for WNV. In
Sacramento County, 16 humans, 1 horse, 89 dead birds,
34 mosquito samples and 13
sentinel chickens tested
positive for West Nile virus
in 2006.
To report a dead
bird or squirrel call 1-877WNV-BIRD (1-877-968-2473)
or visit the California Department of Health Services
online at westnile.ca.gov.
The
SacramentoYolo Mosquito and Vector
Control District provides
mosquito and vector control
services for Sacramento and
Yolo Counties.
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — A-11
Entertainment
Summer Concerts planned
at Rotary Park gazebo
By DIANE CARY
Special to the Express
One of the real pleasures
of the season is to listen to
live music outdoors on a
balmy summer evening.
Winters Friends of the Library invites everyone to enjoy a series of free outdoor
concerts
on
Thursday
evenings in July, from 7-8:30
p.m. at the Rotary Park gazebo.
The series will kick off on
July 5 with Jim & Gary & the
Bluebillies playing original
and traditional country music. The group features Jim
Manry on guitar and vocals,
Gary Potterton on telecaster,
dobro, steel guitar and vocals, Leland Elliot on
rhythm guitar, and Keith
Cary on string bass and mandolin. Jim and Gary have
played together for 25 years
in between their other musical projects.
Gary plays with the California Cowboys, has toured
playing pedal steel with the
New Riders of the Purple
Sage, and has earned a gold
record as a record producer.
For this special show, they
will mostly play their own
original songs, with a sprin-
kling of Hank Williams and
other country classics.
On July 12, the Flatland
String Band pans for musical
treasures in the deep river of
American song, giving a
string band interpretation to
swing tunes and traditional
melodies from the last two
centuries. The band performs old-timey gems such
as “Boats up the River” and
“Cuckoo,” plus American
popular songs from the
swing era such as “All of Me”
and “Java Jive.” The trio’s
lush vocal harmonies are
supported by Mary Neri
King on fiddle; Jamie Knapp
on upright bass, guitar, and
banjo; and Rick Palkovic on
guitar, resophonic guitar,
and mandolin.
On July 19, enjoy the jazzy,
high-energy music of the
Davis Klezmer Orchestra.
Klezmer music is Eastern
European Jewish party music, with influences from Romania, Hungary, the Middle
East, Ukraine, and the Roma
people (Gypsies). Accordionist Elaine Fingerett puts it
this way: “The Jews have
been on the road for 5,000
years and we have absorbed
the musical traditions of the
many places in which we
have sojourned.” The band
has been playing together
since the early ‘90s, and features George Weis on cello,
Julie Partansky on cornet
and marimba, Ralph Libet
on violin, Moreen Libet on
viola, and Elaine Fingerett
on accordion.
The series concludes on
July 26 with The Dropped
Roses,
playing
ballads,
blues, and rock classics. The
band features the striking
vocals of Laura Alexander,
with Rob Gonzales, Marianne Mendez, and Sebastian
Sandoval. With influences
from Bonnie Raitt to Stevie
Nicks, they will have the
crowd on their feet for a fun,
feel-good evening.
Invite your friends and
neighbors, bring a blanket or
lawn chairs or sit on the
grass, sip a cool drink, and
enjoy some fine live music
on a summer evening. The
concerts are free, but donations will be gratefully accepted. The Friends of the
Library will have pizza, ice
cream, and cold drinks for
sale, and all proceeds will
support the Winters Library.
For more information, call
Keith or Diane Cary, at 7953173.
Ball brings the blues
Courtesy photo
Marcia Ball will perform at The Palms Playhouse on June 28.
A Louisiana native who has lived in Austin,Texas, for several years, blues singer and pianist Ball plays a honky-tonk
style of piano that blends the orneriness of blues with the
sweet rolling rythyms of New Orleans and R&B. Her voice is
both husky and sultry.The show will behin at 8 p.m.Tickets
are $22.
Events feature art, agriculture and conservation
“Art and Agriculture” was
created by Organic Farmer
Annie Main of Good Humus
farm in Capay, in April 2006.
She invited Yolo County
artists to her farm to make
artwork inspired by the agricultural landscape. By creating a connection between local artists and farmers, she
hoped to help raise community awareness of the need
for farmland preservation.
After the success of that
event she began to organize
monthly, well-attended artist
visits to various farms in Yolo
County. After six months of
well attended farm visits and
much support and interest
from the local farming, artist
and educational communities, "Art and Agriculture" became an official project with
larger ambitions.
Through a partnership
with The Davis Farmers
Market Foundation, and the
Davis Farm to School Connection, Art and Agriculture
received an Art Contract
grant from the city of Davis to
fund these events this year:
~ Artist Farm Visits. Each
month there are scheduled
artist visits at various farms
in Yolo County. They typical-
ly take place in the mornings
on the second Wednesday
and Saturday of each month.
By generously opening their
farms to Art and Agricultural, Artists are able to intimately experience the precious agricultural landscape
of Yolo County. To attend a
farm visit, call Abby Rubenstein, 908-4015.
~ Art Farm. From Sept. 130, Art and Agriculture will
have an exhibition at the
Davis Art Center featuring art
work inspired by the ongoing
monthly artist-farm visits.
This is a fund-raising exhibition titled "Art Farm." All
pieces will be 12" by 12" and
will be for sale for $150. During the exhibition they will be
arranged in a large grid, mimicking farming plots. As works
are sold, they will be considered "Harvested."
~
Closing
gala
and
fundraising sale at the Davis
Art Center. On Sept. 29 from
6-9 p.m., all works will be for
sale for $150. Artists have the
option of retaining 30 percent of their sales. All remaining proceeds will go to
the Yolo Land Trust, an nonprofit organization that
works to protect the open
Coming up
- Sunday, July 1: Richie Havens
- Saturday, July 7: Jazz Summit
- Sunday, July 8: Golden Bough
- Wednesday, July 11: Mother Truckers
See the rest of our schedule online at palmsplayhouse.com
land
of
Yolo
County.
Rominger West Winery will
be sponsoring this event.
There will be fresh food and
live-music as well.
By limiting the size of each
artwork, organizers hope to
include as many artists as
possible. By keeping the purchase price low, they hope to
make the purchasing of
these works possible for as
many members of the community as possible. Anyone
is invited to participate in
this exhibition. The only requirement is that all participants attend at least one
farm visit and make artwork
inspired by this visit. All
mediums and perspectives
are encouraged.
Rules for participation:
artwork must be 12" by 12"
(two dimensional) and 12" by
12" by 12" (three dimensional) and be ready to hang. It
does not have to be framed.
All works must be delivered
to the Davis Art Center on
Wednesday, Aug. 29, be-
tween 3-7 p.m. The Davis Art
Center is located at 1919 F
Street in Davis. Contact
Abby Rubenstein, 908-4015,
for an entry form and Farm
Visit Calendar.
~ Art and Agriculture at
the Davis Farmers Market.
On Aug. 25, Art and Agriculture will have an event at the
Davis Farmers Market. Artworks created by “Art and
Agriculture” artist will be on
display during the market,
and after at the Village
Feast. There will be a booth
at the market selling art materials for community members to purchase and make
artwork on site. If they wish
to donate their works to the
Art Farm fund-raising exhibition at the Davis Art Center, the cost of the materials
will be waived.
For more information
about any of these activities,
contact Abby Rubenstein,
project coordinator, [email protected]; 9084015.
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Concerts to
honor rock
band legends
The
Woodland
Opera
House Summer Concerts will
pay tribute to some of the
greatest rock and roll legends of all time. The Saturday concerts July 14-28 will
feature
Unauthorized
Rolling Stones: A Salute to
the Rolling Stones on July 14,
Fastlane: A Salute to the Eagles, July 21, and Skynnyn
Lynnyrd: A Salute to Lynyrd
Skynyrd on July 28. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
The Unauthorized Rolling
Stones are the world's leading Rolling Stones tribute
band, with look alike Mick,
Keith, Ron Wood, Bill
Wyman and Charlie Watts.
The Unauthorized Rolling
Stones have recently been
voted by The SF Bay
Guardian as the Bay Area's
favorite tribute band.
The new Reno based Eagles tribute band Fast Lane
is about the best of their
kind. Their harmonies equal
to the job of honoring the
much loved originals.
Skynnyn Lynnyrd Reloaded is a very talented
group of California musicians dedicated to the authentic
Southern
Rock
sound.
Tickets to all concerts are
$16; children 17 and under,
$8. Seating is reserved and
can be purchased at the
Woodland Opera House box
office or by phone with MasterCard or Visa at 666-9617.
The Box office is open from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The
Woodland Opera House is located at the corner of 2nd
and Main Streets in downtown Woodland.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Halau Hula O Lei Hali’a
Will be presenting their
3rd ANNUAL LUAU
Saturday, September 8th 2007
Advance tickets will be sold starting in July.
For more information call 795-3133
21-2tp
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BUS
Continued from page A-1
to serve everyone in Winters, according to Bassett,
with emphasis on kids out
of school for the summer,
seniors, and low income
people needing transportation from Yolo Housing to downtown.
“City staff have been
wonderful to work with,
says Bassett. It’s important to see local support to
get this kind of program
going. It’s really the only
way to do it.”
It can be difficult to get
people in the habit of using a new bus service, and
the number of riders may
be a trickle in the beginning. Bassett has pulled
out every idea in the book
to promote the new service. The rollout includes
multi-page ads in the paper, a slide show to be
shown on the local access
cable channel, bus stop
signs that include stop
schedules, color handout
brochures, and photos of
Winters taken by local
photographers
to
be
wrapped onto the sides
and back of the bus.
One unique feature of
this service is the dial-aride program. People can
call (800) 371-2877 for the
service, which will operate between 11:40 a.m. and
1:26 p.m., and the bus will
Entry deadline
for Yolo County
Fair is June 29
The Yolo County Fair announced recently that
June 29 is the closing date
to submit entry forms for
exhibitions in the following categories: Senior
Baked Foods, Clothing,
Canned
Foods,
Arts,
Crafts & Photography and
Junior
Baked
Foods,
Clothing, Canned Foods,
Miscellaneous, Ag Mechanics, Arts, Crafts and
Photography.
Entry department hours
are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at
the Fair Office, 1125 East
Street, Woodland, CA,
95776. Participants may
also mail their entry forms
to the address above.
For more information,
call the entry department
at 402-2205 or go online to
yolocountyfair.net. Entry
catalogs are available at
the Winters Express.
HEARINGS
Continued from page A-1
submitted by the Pioneer
Presbyterian Church for
the merger of the two lots
located at 205 Russell
Street and 203 Russell
Street.
~ Public hearing regarding site plan and planned
development overlay modification application submitted by GBH-Winters
Highlands, LLC for four
street-loaded
(2,046
square feet, 2,191 square
feet, 2,524 square feet, and
2,887 square feet two-story) and three alley-loaded
(1,931 square feet singlestory, 2,134 square feet
two-story, and 2,897 square
feet two-story) home models in Phase I of the Winters Highlands project.
pick them up from their
door. Priority will be given to the disabled and seniors, but the program
will be available to the
general public as much as
possible.
“The medical clinic has
shown a lot of interest in
the dial-a-ride service,”
said Bassett. “The timing
should make it helpful for
seniors taking advantage
of the senior nutrition
program, as well.”
The
program
has
$383,000 in funding lined
up, enough to run the program for three years, with
$150,000 from the city of
Winters and the rest made
up of funds from YCTD,
state Air Quality and Congestion Mitigation funds,
and $20,000 anticipated in
rider fares.
At the same time, the intercity bus routes have
been changed for the summer months.
“Kids will be able to go
to Brenden theaters six
days a week,” says Bassett.
The
special
summer
schedule will allow students to attend daytime
movies at Regency Theaters in Davis as well. Regency Theaters just donated 50 free tickets for Tuesday movies, to help the
new bus service get going.
The tickets will be given
away to kids ages 5-17, on
Tuesdays, up to 25 per
Free food to be distributed
The Food Bank of Yolo
County will distribute food to
eligible Winters residents on
Friday, June 22, at First Baptist Church, 512 First Street,
from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Commodities to be distrib-
Courtesy photo
You can’t miss this coming — it’s the new Winters bus, sponsored
by the Yolo County Transportation District.
Tuesday, until gone.
After the three year
funding period ends, other
funding will have to be
found, and making the
program successful now
will help in the search for
new funding to make the
service permanent.
Getting married? Just had a baby?
Announce it in the Express — it’s free!
Call 795-4551 for assistance or send
information to [email protected]
uted include peanut butter,
green
beans,
spaghetti,
spaghetti sauce and juice.
Participants may receive
food at only one site.
For more information call
the Food Bank, 668-0690.
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — B-1
Sports
Lucero named MVP
of Optimist game
By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports
The Winters Warriors
baseball team was well
represented last Saturday,
June 9, at American River
College in the Optimist All
Star baseball game for
small schools. The Warriors accounted for six of
the South’s 14 runs, three
of those coming off of home
runs
from
Nathanael
Lucero and Nick Hedrick.
Lucero put the South on
the board in the first inning with an RBI single off
North pitcher Tyler Waldron of Golden Sierra.
Then in the third, Lucero
hit his first of two home
runs over the right centerfield fence. Lucero hit his
second home run in the
fourth, this time a little
more to centerfield by the
390 foot sign.
In the fifth inning,
Lucero hit a double into
left centerfield and in the
sixth scored a runner on a
fielder’s choice hit up the
middle. Lucero ended up
batting 4 for 5 with two
homeruns, a double, five
runs scored, five RBI and
was named the MVP for
the South team.
Hedrick blasted a shot
over the right centerfield
fence in the second inning
off Waldron. Waldron, who
will be playing for UOP on
a full scholarship next season posted an 11-0 record
this season with an ERA of
.663 and had not given up a
home run until Hedrick
stepped up to the plate. After falling to a 0-2 count,
Hedrick took Waldron to a
full count, fouled off three
more then caught one of
his 90 mile an hour fast
balls and lifted it over the
380 foot fence. Hedrick finished the game batting 1
for 1 with a home run, two
RBI and a run scored.
Brock Neil started the
game at first base and then
finished his high school
career on the mound
throwing one and a third
innings and gave up just
one unearned run. Neil
came in for relief in the
bottom of the fourth and
threw the fifth. Neil also
batted 1 for 3 for the South
team with a single.
Alex Thomson also took
the mound for the South
team but his time was cut
short when the game was
called after the sixth inning. Thomson threw the
sixth inning and gave up
just one unearned run and
was scheduled to throw
the seventh. At the plate
Thomson also batted 1 for
3 with a single down the
right field line. The South
won the game 14-5 in six innings.
Winters Aquatic Club offers fitness swimming for adults
By ANNIETTA TICE
Special to the Express
It’s never too late to join
Winters Aquatic Club
masters swimming. The
group has enjoyed over
two weeks of well-attended workouts this summer,
and are looking forward
to more adult community
members joining them in
the Bobbie Greenwood
Community Swim Center
Pool.
Coached workouts for
members
of
United
States Masters Swimming
(USMS) are scheduled
Monday through Friday
at 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and
unstructured lap swimming hours are available
on Saturdays and Sundays from 12–2 p.m. USMS
swimmers not affiliated
with Winters Aquatic
Club are invited to join us
for workouts or lap swimming for $3 per visit.
Visit the club website
at http://wintersaquaticclub.memberlodge.org for
more information or stop
by the pool during a workout for a free trial swim.
Registration forms are
available online and at
the pool.
You need not be an experienced swimmer to
join Winters Aquatic
Club, but you must be at
least 18 years old. Coaches will help you with your
strokes and teach you
how to be a more efficient
swimmer.
Call Dave Kelley, 7952265, for more information.
Winters Jr. Warriors
Photos by Eric Lucero
Nick Hedrick hits a homerun in the Optimist All Star game at
American River College on June 9.
FOOTBALL
SIGN-UPS
Sunday June 24, 2007
At Cody’s Deli
12-4 p.m.
Registration fee: $75
July 19 is the last day
to sign up
Parents Mandatory Meeting
July 19, 2007 at the Middle School at 6 p.m.
For more information contact Rory Linton, 795-3321
CODY’S ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Photos by Eric Lucero
Brock Neil pitched one and 1/3 innings during the Optimist
All Star game played at American River College on Saturday,
June 9.
Nathanael Lucero
Nathanael Lucero is this week’s athlete of the
week. Lucero saved his best for last as he finished his high school career by playing in two all
star baseball games helping the South team win
both games. On Sunday, June 3, Lucero played in
the Bob Busch Classic in Chico with the top players in the northern section and batted 2 for 2 with
a double, a run scored and an RBI. Then on the
following Saturday, June 9, Lucero played in the
Optimist all star game at American River College in Sacramento and batted 4 for 5 with two
home runs, a double, five runs scored and five
RBI. Lucero was also named the MVP for the
South team.
FOOD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Each Cody’s Athlete of the Week receives a FREE Lunch
B-2 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday,June 21, 2007
\
Features
Brown recluse spider Stress, it’s not just for buildings
is timid creature
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
What are the symptoms of
a brown recluse spider
bite? A month ago, I got a
very itchy spot on my foot.
I squeezed it, and two little specks of fluid came
out. It still itches at times.
Could it cause muscle
soreness throughout the
body? — R.H.
ANSWER: The brown
recluse spider is found
mostly in southeastern
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, northern
Georgia and southern
portions of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa. A closely related species lives in
Arizona and California. If
you don’t live in one of
those
places,
your
chances of meeting this
spider are small.
The spider is about 1 inch
long (2.54 cm) and has the
pattern of a violin on its
back. This is not an aggressive spider. Only
when a human disturbs
its home and only when it
happens upon a human’s
skin does it bite. These
spiders like to live in closets, attics, barns and
places like wood piles.
A bite produces burning
pain and redness at the
bite site. The bite gradually turns blue or purple
and an ulcer or blister appears. Both turn black in
time. Bitten people complain of headache, body
aches and often have a
fever. They frequently
feel sick to their stomachs, and they might
throw up.
Emergency
treatment
consists of washing the
bite with soap and water
and then applying an ice
pack to it to slow absorption of the spider’s poison. The bitten site, usually a foot, leg, hand or
arm, should be elevated,
and the person should
then be taken to an emergency department for definitive treatment.
Your bite doesn’t sound
like a brown recluse spider bite. Muscle pains at
this late date are unlikely
to be due to a month-old
spider bite, especially
since no other typical
signs have occurred.
***
DEAR DR. DONOHUE:
My wife is a phys-ed
teacher who spends a
great deal of time in the
heat, wind and sun.
Please provide options
for keeping the skin, especially that of the face,
looking youthful and
smooth. — M.H.
ANSWER: The sun is the
greatest destroyer of
youthful skin and one of
the greatest contributors
to skin cancer. Limiting
the exposure of the skin to
its ultraviolet rays keeps
it
wrinkle-free
and
lessens the chances for
cancer.
Sunscreens are most important. Your wife and you
should apply a sunscreen
with an SPF (sun protection factor) of 15 or more,
15 to 30 minutes before going outside, and you both
should reapply it frequently.
Most sunscreens protect
against ultraviolet B rays,
and that is good. However,
ultraviolet A rays are also
involved in skin wrinkling. Get a sunscreen that
contains protection for
both. Zinc oxide and titanium oxide are two ingredients that provide such
protection.
Formerly,
they came in white ointments that made users
look like they were circus
clowns. Now they come in
fine particles that don’t
draw any attention.
Limiting sun exposure between the hours of 10 a.m.
and 4 p.m., when the sun
rays are their strongest,
limits the amount of skin
damage.
Wearing a wide-brimmed
hat affords protection to
the face.
***
Dr. Donohue regrets that
he is unable to answer individual letters, but he
will incorporate them in
his column whenever possible. Readers may write
him or request an order
form of available health
newsletters at P.O. Box
536475, Orlando, FL 328536475.
Stress fractures are one
thing, but what about a
fractured memory? I remember those cheesy
emails my mom used to
send me about old people
puttering
around
the
house, going from one unfinished chore to the next,
finally completing one
thing and calling it a day. I
could not relate.
Today, I packed my son’s
acoustic bass to pick him
up from his friend’s house
for his lesson in Davis and
drove off without him.
Imagine driving all the
way to the lesson with the
bass, but no kid. I turned
around, got him, then went
to the Davis Co-op for some
Kombucha tea. It’s supposed to support immune
function,
and
being
stressed, it’s the perfect
time to start drinking it. At
the co-op, I started picking
up a few essentials, got
halfway through the store
and remembered to look
for Kombucha; it was
nowhere to be found. I
have purchased it there on
at least five occasions and
I swear the store must
have shifted into a worm
hole universe, because I
could not navigate it without feeling lost. I felt stupid when I found it and
partially
remembered
that I knew it all along.
Well, I knew it in a foggy,
murky kind of way. Stress
will do that.
After the tea, I remembered that I saw some
dried berries at the Whole
Earth Festival and my
friend Debra told me they
were cheaper at the Co-op
and to get them in the bulk
section by the raisins. I
looked up and down the
bulk section and circled it
three times. I decided to
call Deb and ask for the
name of the berries so I
could in turn ask a sales
person for help. Duh, I forgot where I put my phone.
It was in my pocket all
along. I thought about asking someone for help, but
how do you ask for help
with something when you
don’t know what it is
called?
“Do you have
those little orange chewy
things that are good for
your memory, I don’t recall
what they are called?”
There I was trying to remember the thing that
slows aging, helps vision,
blood pressure, oh and
memory. At that point, it
was obvious that I really
needed to get a big bag of
it. Whatever ‘It’ was.
Too embarrassed to ask
for help, I noticed the tea
aisle and saw tea for memory, It was about 18 dollars
a box, you can forget that. I
turned around again to
hunt the elusive chewy, orange berry, and there it
was in a bin. The Goji
berry. Ah, Eureka! I filled
my plastic bag, went to the
check-stand and couldn’t
find my co-op card. The
guy had to look me up in
the member book. He noticed that I neglected to
write the bin number on
the Goji bag, and went
through the whole book of
bulk foods and couldn’t
find it. If you have
whacked your palm on
your forehead at this
point, I think he was ready
to do that too. Rest assured, I went back and didn’t get lost. It was right
there where I left the lid
off and the scoop inside.
Doh! How could the last
person have done that?
As I pranced back to the
clerk with the numbers
6799 on my twisty, I recalled my mom apologizing, years after I had
moved out, for all the times
she yelled at me for leaving the cabinet doors open.
She said it was her all
along! After that episode I
realize the need to reduce
stress, and maybe I should
call my mom and tell her it
probably WAS me that left
the cabinet doors open.
Nah- I’m going to go eat
berries.
Pleased
to meet you
(c) 2007 North America
Synd., Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Name: Alicia Aguirre
Occupation: Manager/
waitress
Hobby: Playing Volleyball
What’s best about living in
Winters: “It’s so peaceful.”
Fun fact: Loves to dance
Ballet Folklorico.
Want to be the
next person of the week?
Just stop by at
the Winters Express
office, during
business hours
and let us know!
ARIES (March 21 to April
19) Recently obtained information could open a
new opportunity for a career change. But temper
that Arian impatience
and act on it only when
all the facts are made
available.
TAURUS (April 20 to May
20) You’re moving into a
more active cycle. So put
your ideas back on the
table, where they’ll be
given the attention they
deserve. Expect a favorable change in your love
life.
GEMINI (May 21 to June
20) A friend might ask for
a favor that you feel
would compromise your
values. Best advice: Confront him or her and explain why you must say
no. A true friend will understand.
CANCER (June 21 to July
22) A relationship continues to develop along
positive lines. Meanwhile, a brewing job situation could create complications for one of your
pet projects. Look into it
right away.
LEO (July 23 to August
22) Your interest in a coworker’s project could
lead to a profitable experience for you both. But
before you agree to anything, be sure to get all
your legal I’s dotted and
T’s crossed.
VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Be careful
whose counsel you take
about a possible longdistance move. Some advice might not necessarily be in your best interest. Stay focused on your
goals.
LIBRA (September 23 to
October 22) Someone
might try to complicate
efforts in an attempt to
work out that confusing
job situation. But don’t
let that keep you from
sticking with your decision to push for a resolution.
SCORPIO (October 23 to
November 21) A disagreement on how to
handle a family problem
could create more trouble for all concerned.
Look for ways to cool
things down before they
boil over.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21)
An unexpected change
in long-standing workplace procedure and policy could provide a new
career target for the
Archer to aim at. Start
making inquires.
CAPRICORN (December
22 to January 19) You’re
finally able to get back
into the swing of things,
as those temporary doldrums begin to lift. Expect some surprising disclosures from a new colleague.
AQUARIUS (January 20
to February 18) Rely on
your innate sense of justice to see you through a
dilemma involving a family member. Other relatives who’ve stood back
will soon come forward
as well.
PISCES (February 19 to
March 20) A new friend
seems to be pushing you
into taking risks — financial or otherwise. Best
advice: Don’t do it. She or
he might have a hidden
agenda that hasn’t surfaced yet.
BORN THIS WEEK: You
love to see new places
and meet new people.
Have you considered
working for an airline or
cruise-ship company?
(c) 2007 King Features
Synd., Inc.
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday,June 21, 2007 — B-3
Nuestras Noticias
Lectura en Verano Nuevo Servicio
Ultima Carta
Así podríamos decir del ultimo intento del Presidente Bush, al tratar de reactivar el debate de la reforma migratoria, que hace dos semanas el Senado puso en
el congelador, es una ultima carta que se esta jugando, a
pesar de que la reforma no era la mejor propuesta, por
lo menos le había dado esperanzas a muchas personas
que no tienen documentos legales para estar aquí. La
reforma fue archivada después de no alcanzar la suficiente votación en el Senado para seguir debatiéndola.
Y prácticamente los conservadores senadores republicanos fueron los que la congelaron. Y como la política
es más importante que las personas, nuestros representantes decidieron que como no les convenía a sus intereses políticos, lo mejor para ellos fue archivarla.
Pero El Presidente Bush salió al paso, en primer lugar quiere rescatar la propuesta, porque básicamente,
salió de la Casa Blanca, y ante tantos reveses que ha
tenido últimamente, Bush espera por lo menos reactivar la propuesta para por lo menos salga del congreso y
pase a la cámara de representantes en donde por cierto
tendrá mayor oposición.
Los Demócratas, con la excusa de que la propuesta
era de la Administración de Bush, muy cómodamente
retiraron la ley de la discusión. Pero Bush se ha mostrado firme y terco en este asunto, cuando prácticamente
su mandato esta por concluir espera lograr que la reforma pase, y así de esa manera mostrar al mundo que si
tiene capacidad para hacer las cosas que un líder tenia
que haber hecho desde el inicio de su mandato.
Quiere rescatar su nombre, no quiere que lo asocien
con la presidencia más desastrosa que han tenido los
Estados Unidos en mucho tiempo. Sus principales partidarios, los republicanos conservadores, ahora lo están dejando solo, y lo están culpando de los abusos y errores que ha tenido el presidente, pero el obstáculo
más grande que tiene el presidente con sus senadores
republicanos, es que los senadores están aterrados con
la idea de legalizar a los indocumentados, y al parecer
nada los va a hacer entender que es necesario tener
nuevas leyes migratorias.
La presidencia de Bush no quiere estar resignada a
ser calificada simplemente como ineficiente o mala,
sino una que pese a todo está decidida a por lo menos
intentar algunas cosas y ejercer poder hasta lo último.
Bush siempre ha dicho que juega para la historia. Muchos de sus predecesores fueron en su momento impopulares y reivindicados sólo después de años de su
mandato. Bush espera tener el mismo destino, más allá
de veredictos inmediatos.
Entendemos que el aprobar una reforma migratoria
no es nada sencillo y que implica mucha voluntad
política por parte de los Senadores y Congresista de
este país. Que sin embargo sabemos que ellos se rigen
no tanto por sus convicciones políticas, sino por sus
compromisos con las grandes corporaciones, con esas
que les patrocinan sus campañas políticas, con aquellas que los encumbran en el poder tan solo por obtener
concesiones y favores, por eso no se debe tener mucho
optimismo a pesar de que Bush haya metido las manos
para mantener la propuesta a flote, hay demasiadas
fuerzas políticas encontradas, que a estas alturas, podríamos esperar algo mas que un milagro para que esta
propuesta siga adelante, mientras tanto los indocumentados esperaran, como ya han esperado muchos años
para poder regularizar su situación migratoria.
La lectura de un libro no
tiene precio, todos sabemos
la importancia de la lectura,
el fomentarla en nuestros
niños y en nosotros mismos
es de mucha utilidad, para
los niños la lectura incrementa las posibilidades de
tener éxito en los estudios,
para nosotros los adultos
aparte de que nos sirve de
distracción de nuestras actividades cotidianas, nos
ayuda para conocer nuevas
ideas, cosas nuevas, y quizá
el modo de vivir y pensar de
otras culturas. Pero muchos
estudiantes al momento de
salir de la escuela, se olvidan de los libros, y nosotros
siempre ponemos el pretexto de la falta de tiempo para
comenzar a leer.
Debemos alentar a nuestros estudiantes para que
lean en este verano, por que
el no hacerlo, quizá en el retorno a clases tengan que
volver a repasar sus habilidades en leer para, para retomar el próximo ciclo escolar. Puede tomarles hasta
dos meses para ponerse al
parejo con el resto de los estudiantes, y como siempre
sucede los mas afectados
suelen ser los alumnos que
provienen de familias de escasos recursos, y a los que de
hecho ya están rezagados en
la lectura.
Puede ponerse como meta
tal ves leer de cuatro a seis
libros en el verano, para no
perder la practica que tal
ves ya adquirió en la escuela. Pero para empezar a
leer, y hacer un habito la lectura, se tiene que dejar atrás
muchos
obstáculos,
el
primero de ellos, la televisión, debemos apagar la
televisión para que nuestros
niños se enfoquen en leer, y
nosotros también como
padres les debemos poner el
ejemplo, tal ves leyendo el
periódico, o algún buen libro, debemos enseñar con el
ejemplo.
Aquí en Winters tenemos
la biblioteca, en ella aparte
de poder llevar libros para
leer en la casa, también
tienen programas de lectura
para los niños, otra buena
idea es empezar una colección de buenos libros, no se
tiene que gastar mucho
dinero para empezar a formar su propia colección,
otra manera divertida de
leer con sus niños es leer recetas de cocina, y como complemento a la lectura intente
realizar alguna receta que
les guste. Nosotros podemos
crear numerosas situaciones
para motivar a nuestros hijos para que se mantengan
leyendo en el verano, y comprobaremos que la transición al próximo año escolar
será más tranquila.
Progreso escolar
Con el fin del ciclo escolar
llega el tiempo para revisar
el reporte de las escuelas
de Winters, el reporte indica que se cumplieron las
metas que se trazaron, indica que el aprovechamiento
de los estudiantes va mejorando, pero no como el distrito quisiera. Y es que el
distrito escolar tiene la preocupación porque no se ha
podido cerrar la brecha entre los estudiantes latinos y
los que están aprendiendo
ingles en comparación con
el resto de los estudiantes,
además se tiene el problema con la inscripción de
nuevos alumnos, se esta
dando la tendencia que la
inscripción de nuevos estudiantes esta declinando, y
este descenso significa que
el distrito estará recibiendo
menos
dinero,
recordemos que el distrito
escolar recibe cierta cantidad de dinero por alumno
inscrito.
El distrito económicamente esta mas o menos es-
table, en parte por todos los
movimientos que se tuvieron al mover las escuelas
el año pasado, y también ha
ayudado mucho la reducción y el cambio de personal administrativo.
Con la esperanza de ayudar mas a los estudiantes, el
próximo ciclo escolar el distrito va a implementar el
programa EXCEL en la escuela Waggoner, el programa ayudara a los niños a
que tengan un buen inicio
en el lenguaje y lectura.
Además otras escuelas han
implementado programas
para ayudar a los estudiantes a llegar o exceder las
metas establecidas por el
distrito en el área de
matemáticas, lectura y
lenguaje. Se espera que los
estudiantes que están debajo de las normas puedan
gradualmente ir mejorando
su aprovechamiento, para
ponerse a la par con el resto
de los alumnos.
Gobierno Federal autorizo el posponer el uso del pasaporte
La semana pasada el Gobierno Federal autorizo el
posponer el uso del pasaporte para las personas ciudadanas que viajen a México, Canadá y las Bermudas.
El gobierno tomo esta medida ante la enorme solicitud
que se ha presentado en las
oficinas en donde se procesan los pasaportes, además
también elimino otros requisitos. Con esto El Gobierno
trata de acallar las protestas
que han surgido porque al
Departamento de Estado le
esta tomando mucho tiempo
realizar el tramite, tal
parece que no calcularon el
alto volumen de solicitudes
que iban a procesar, les esta
tomando hasta tres meses la
expedición del pasaporte, y
esto ha arruinado los planes
de viaje de miles de estadounidenses.
Para finales de septiembre, los estadounidenses podrán viajar por aire sin pasaporte si presentan un recibo emitido por el Departamento de Estado, que demuestre que han solicitado
un pasaporte, así como una
identificación emitida por el
gobierno, como una licencia
de conducir. Las personas
que no tengan un pasaporte,
sin embargo, serán someti-
das a revisiones más estrictas, que incluirían una entrevista amplia y la revisión
de sus equipajes. Si no se
toman las medidas necesarias el año próximo se presentaran los mismos problemas con los pasaportes, ya
que para poder viajar en carretera a Canadá y México, se
necesitara también el pasaporte.
de Autobús
El nuevo servicio de autobús de YOLOBUS, empezó a funcionar aquí en
Winters desde el pasado
18 de junio, el servicio
servirá a la ciudad y al
Yolo Housing, y es para
todo el publico. Con el
nuevo servicio se pretende acercar mas a los
residentes del pueblo,
ofreciendo
transportación a las familias y
jóvenes para que se
puedan desplazar a la
nueva piscina del pueblo,
o ir a los programas de verano que la ciudad esta
ofreciendo en el parque,
e inclusive pueden viajar
al cine a Davis, o a Vacaville.
El servicio funcionara
de lunes a sábado, hará
ocho recorridos diarios,
la ruta es Yolo Housing, la
tienda Town and Country,
la nueva alberca del
pueblo, el parque del
pueblo, City Hall, y el centro de Winters.
Siete viajes de la nueva
alberca a la tienda Town
and Country, y regreso a
la nueva alberca. Siete viajes, cuya ruta es: la calle
Main, el vecindario de
Valley Oak, el parque del
pueblo, centro de Winters, el City Hall, calle
Main, la tienda Town and
Country, y la nueva alberca del pueblo.
De las 11:40 AM a la 1:26
PM, el autobus estará
disponible para quien lo
necesite. Esto ayudara a
las personas de la tercera
edad para que puedan ir
al centro de la comunidad
para el almuerzo que se
sirve ahí, así también
como proporcionar asistencia a personas que
necesiten ir a citas con el
doctor o para otras
necesidades. Si esta interesado puede llamar a
YOLOBUS 800-371-2877
para reservar un lugar.
Esta ruta local se im-
plemento como una respuesta a peticiones que
se le hicieron al distrito
de transportación del
condado de Yolo y a la
ciudad de Winters, durante unos talleres que se
tuvieron en el Yolo Housing y en el City Hall. El
concilio de la ciudad
aprobó el nuevo servicio
el 29 de mayo.
El autobús que se esta
usando, es para 20
pasajeros, y se pueden
acomodar dos sillas de
ruedas, y dos bicicletas,
en las semanas siguientes
el autobús será más fácil
de identificar porque
traerá fotos únicas de
winters.
El otro servicio de
YOLOBUS, el autobús entre ciudades, ha sido cambiado este verano para
ofrecer a los residentes
de Winters la oportunidad de ir a dos de los
cines que tenemos en el
área aledaña. Regal theaters en Davis, y Brenden
theater en Vacaville, el
servicio se ofrece seis
días por semana. Además
sigue en servicio el autobús a UCD.
YOLOBUS esta ofreciendo precios especiales para mantener el
precio
del
boleto
económico. Los niños y
jóvenes de 5 a 17 años,
solo pagan 35 centavos
por viaje, o $15 por el pase
de verano para jóvenes,
el cual es valido hasta el
fin del mes de agosto. Las
personas de la tercera
edad, o discapacitadas
solo pagan 60 centavos, y
el publico general $1.50
por viaje. El pase de verano para jóvenes esta
disponible en el City
Hall, y en el El pase de verano para jóvenes esta
disponible en el City
Hall, y en el Yolo Housing.
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Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — B-5
Gamblers still undefeated at 9-0 National HIV Testing Day is June 27
By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports
The
Tri-County
Gamblers are still undefeated after sweeping the
Napa Sherrifs and the
Middletown Rattlers in
two separate three game
series. On Saturday, June
2, the Gamblers played
Napa in a double header
and won the first game 103 and the second game 142.
In game one, Tyler Enos
got the win for the
Gamblers as he threw a
complete game. At the
plate Alex Galvan led TriCounty batting 2 for 4 with
a double and an RBI. Ray
McIntire also batted 2 for
4. Sebastian Salas batted 1
for 3 with a double and
two RBI. Kyle Tobler batted 1 for 2 with an RBI.
William Enos batted 1 for
2. Tyler Enos batted 1 for 3
with two RBI. Michael
Gleason batted 1 for 2,
while Ian Mistrot batted 1
for 4 with an RBI.
In game two of the day,
Kevin Rowell took the
mound and threw the first
four innings for the
Gamblers to pick up the
win. Tobler came in to
throw the last three
innings and gave up no
runs. McIntire continued
to swing the bat well as he
batted 3 for 4 with a double and four RBI. Rowell
helped himself out batting
2 for 3 with a double and
an RBI. Kannon Smith
batted 2 for 3 with three
RBI. Mistrot batted 2 for 3
with two RBI. Tyler Enos
batted 1 for 1. Nick
Hedrick batted 1 for 1.
Galvan batted 1 for 2 with
a double and an RBI,
while Gleason batted 1 for
2 with a double.
The Gamblers were back
on the field on Sunday,
June 3, for game three
against the Sheriffs and
picked up another victory
with a 15-0 shutout.
Gleason got the win after
throwing the first three
innings for Tri-County.
Neil threw the last four.
Neil also had a big game
at the plate batting 3 for 4
with a double and four
RBI. Salas batted 2 for 2
with a double and two
RBI. Galvan batted 2 for 3
with a triple and two RBI.
Rowell and Patrick Kuehn
both batted 1 for 2 and an
RBI. Mistrot also batted 1
for 2. McIntire batted 1 for
3 with 2 RBI, while
Kannon Smith batted 1 for
3 with an RBI.
On Saturday, June 9, the
Gamblers played host to
Middletown in Willows
and matched up the top
two pitchers in the league
with Gleason of Willows
and
Chris
Cole
of
Middletown who played
for the Gamblers in last
year’s
World
Series.
Gleason threw for Butte
College last year while
Cole played for Solano
College but it was Gleason
who put on the show and
put the Gamblers on top.
Gleason threw a complete
game, allowed no runs, no
hits and struck out 16 batters along the way. Only
four balls were put in play
for the Rattlers.
“Michael was unbelievable,” said coach Jerry
Smith. “He put on a show.
Chris is a great pitcher as
well, but Michael was
amazing today.”
The Gamblers won 3-0
with
the
help
of
Consumnes River College
player Salas. Salas batted
2 for 3 with a double and
two RBI, while Gleason
and Mistrot both went 1
for 3 for the Gamblers.
Sunday, June 10, the
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Gamblers
traveled
to
Middletown for a double
header and came home
with two more victories. In
game one the Gamblers
had 14 hits to help their 11
to 5 victory. Tyler Enos
threw the first inning,
Rowell threw the next four
innings for the win and
Galvan threw the last two.
At the plate Gleason had a
big day batting 4 for 5 with
a home run, a double and
three RBI. Nathanael
Lucero batted 3 for 5 with
two triples and an RBI.
Kaplan Smith and Thomas
Fleming both batted 2 for 4
with
an
RBI.
Alex
Thomson batted 1 for 4
with a triple. Salas batted
1 for 4, while McIntire batted 1 for 5 for the
Gamblers.
In game two of the double header, Tri-County had
to work a little harder to
bring home a 13-8 victory.
The Gamblers started
strong with Neil hitting a
grand slam to left field to
Tri-County up 4-0 in the top
of the first. But the
Rattlers put up eight runs
themselves in the bottom
of
the
inning.
The
Gamblers then scored
seven more in the third
with the help of Mistrot’s
home run and two more in
the fifth while holding the
Rattlers scoreless the rest
of the game. Lucero threw
the first inning, Neil threw
the next five and Thomson
threw the seventh to close
out the game.
At the plate Rowell led
the Gamblers batting 2 for
3. Mistrot batted 2 for 4
with a home run and two
RBI. William Enos batted 2
for 4 with two RBI. Neil
batted 1 for 4 with a grand
slam and four RBI, while
Kannon Smith batted 1 for
4 for Tri-County.
Wednesday, June 27 is
National HIV Testing Day, a
national campaign coordinated by the National
Association of People with
AIDS (NAPWA-US). The
theme of this year’s Testing
Day, “Take the Test, Take
Control” encourages highrisk people to seek voluntary HIV testing and counseling.
The Center for Disease
Control estimates that over
1 million Americans are living with HIV and yet nearly
250,000 are unaware of their
HIV infection. At a local
level, it is estimated that
over 5,000 people are living
with HIV/AIDS in the
greater Sacramento area. In
Yolo County, it is estimated
that over 280 people have
been
diagnosed
with
HIV/AIDS, and over 115
local residents have lost
their lives to the disease.
For people who test positive
for HIV, learning their HIV
test results helps them take
steps to protect their own
health and that of their partners. For those who test
negative, learning their HIV
status can help them get the
information and support
they need to stay uninfected.
While there are no formal
events planned for National
HIV Testing Day in Yolo
County, it is important to
note that HIV testing is an
ongoing project by the Yolo
County Health Department
and its community partners.
In the past twelve months,
over 600 people have tested
for HIV in Yolo County.
There are several sites in
the county that offer free
confidential HIV tests.
Many do not require a blood
sample. Individuals interested in receiving an HIV
test can contact the following agencies:
~ CommuniCare Health
Centers – Peterson Clinic,
8 North Cottonwood Street,
Woodland, 95695l; 666-8960
~
John
H.
Jones
Community Clinic, 500B
Jefferson Bulevard #180,
West Sacramento, 95605;
(916) 371-1966
~
Harm
Reduction
Services, 3647 40th Street,
Sacramento, 95817; (916) 4564849
For further information
on HIV/AIDS education,
prevention, testing, and
treatment, contact the Yolo
County Health Department
HIV/AIDS Program at 6668645. For further information about National HIV
Testing
Day,
see
www.napwa.org.
Heat protection tips
As temperatures are
expected to rise above the
100 degree mark this week
for the first time this year,
Yolo County officials are
reminding all county residents to take measures to
protect
themselves
accordingly. Especially
vulnerable populations
include: people over 65
years of age, children
under 4 years of age, people who work outdoors,
those who are overweight
and those who are ill or
may be on certain medications that can affect their
ability to handle fluids.
“Over exposure to heat
is serious and can be
deadly,” said Yolo County
Health
Officer
Bette
Hinton, M.D.
Residents who do not
have adequate air conditioning may experience
heat-related
problems.
Even a few hours spent in
air conditioning can help
your body stay cooler if
you need to go back into
the heat.
Residents are urged to
protect themselves during
hot weather by taking the
following precautions:
~ Stay cool indoors in
air-conditioned facilities,
especially during the
hottest part of the day.
~ Wear lightweight,
loose fitting clothing and
sunscreen.
~ If you become lightheaded, feel confused or
experience any other
symptoms of heat exhaustion, get to a cool area
until you feel better.
~ Never leave a person
or animal in a parked car.
Temperatures inside a
vehicle can rise to dangerous levels in minutes.
~ Don’t forget that pets
also need extra water and
shade.
CAL FIRE hosts meeting on proposed
Yolo County fire hazard map
The
California
Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection (CAL
FIRE) will introduce a
proposed update to the
fire hazard severity zone
map for state responsibility area lands in Yolo
County at a public hearing
on June 21. The public
hearing will be held at
Woodland
City
Fire
Department Station 3 at
1550 Spring Lake Ct. from
1-3 p.m. All members of
the community are invited
to attend.
California law requires
CAL FIRE to produce
maps identifying areas
that face moderate, high or
very high fire hazard within property for which the
state has financial respon-
sibility for wildland fire
protection. The maps are
used to determine legal
requirements
affecting
property owners including
building
construction
standards. The maps were
last updated in the late
1980s. It is necessary to
update the maps to ensure
accuracy and incorporate
improved fire science and
mapping techniques.
The hearing will include
an overview of the process
used to develop the map. A
large format version of the
map will be on display at
the hearing and on the
CAL FIRE Website at
www.fire.ca.gov. The public will have an opportunity to submit a public comment on the map at the
hearing and by mail or email following the hearing. CAL FIRE will review
and respond to all public
comments before the maps
are adopted or revised by
the CAL FIRE Director.
Comprehensive information on the map update
process is available at
w w w. f i r e . c a . g o v / w i l d land.php. The Website
includes an interactive
map that allows users to
find the proposed hazard
rating for a specific
address. For more information on the public hearing,
contact
Kevin
Colburn, (707) 987-3689, or
Suzie Blankenship, (707)
576-2342.
Football
players ready
for weights,
field
The
Winters
High
School football program
has completed its spring
practices but is now ready
to hit the weights and get
on the field.
The first mandatory
weight training and conditioning is Monday, June
25, at 12:30-2:30 p.m. anyone considering going out
this season must be there.
The Warriors also have
the weight room open now
Monday through Friday
from 9-10 a.m. and will be
on the field running drills
from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
For more information,
log on to the Warriors new
web site at www.leaguelineup.com/warriorsfootball. Players and parents
are encouraged to use this
site to stay informed.
CORRECTION
Last week’s article about
aquatic programs had an
error. Masters swimming
workouts are scheduled
Monday through Friday at
6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Lap
swimming for Masters
swimmers
only
takes
place
Saturdays
and
Sundays from 12-2 p.m.
Swimmers in all Masters
programs — workouts or
weekend swims — must be
registered with United
States Masters Swimming
in order to participate.
The community pool season passes are not acceptable for Masters swimming.
Sacramento Zoo
offers “guided”
cell phone tour
The Sacramento Zoo now
offers a free Cell Phone
Safari Tour. Visitors to the zoo
can now enjoy a “guided”
tour of over 40 animals
around the Sacramento Zoo
using their own cell phones.
To access the Cell Phone
Safari Tour, visitors may pick
up a brochure at the zoo’s
front gate or look for the special signs around the Zoo and
dial the number in on their
cell phones. There are 33 different “stops” throughout the
zoo.
Audio tours offer an innovative tool for reaching the
public with conservation
messages. By presenting factual content in an entertaining and engaging manner,
audio tours reinforce and
enhance the educational message and more fully immerse
the visitor in the park experience. In addition, blind and
visually impaired visitors
gain a richer and more
informed experience.
Thanks to IKEA, the program’s
sponsor,
the
Sacramento Zoo is able to
offer this unique program
free of charge. The number
for the Cell Phone Safari Tour
is (703) 286-6545 and is accessible 24 hours a day, from any
location—not just at the Zoo.
Visitors can disconnect and
rejoin the tour as many times
as they like. The free tour
does not include airtime or
roaming charges from visitors
service provider.
Open since 1927, the
Sacramento Zoo is home to
over 140 native, exotic and
endangered species and is
one of over 200 accredited
institutions of the Association
of Zoos and Aquariums.
Located near the corner of
Land Park Drive and
Sutterville Road in William
Land Park, the Zoo is wholly
managed by the non-profit
Sacramento
Zoological
Society and provides an educational and recreational
resource to the Sacramento
Region. 2007 marks the 80th
anniversary
of
this
Sacramento treasure.
The zoo is open daily from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., general admission is $9; children ages 3-12
are $6.50 and two and under
are admitted free. Parking is
free throughout the park or
ride Regional Transit bus #6.
For information, call (916)
808-5888 or visit www.saczoo.com.
B-4 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — B-5
Gamblers still undefeated at 9-0 National HIV Testing Day is June 27
By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports
The
Tri-County
Gamblers are still undefeated after sweeping the
Napa Sherrifs and the
Middletown Rattlers in
two separate three game
series. On Saturday, June
2, the Gamblers played
Napa in a double header
and won the first game 103 and the second game 142.
In game one, Tyler Enos
got the win for the
Gamblers as he threw a
complete game. At the
plate Alex Galvan led TriCounty batting 2 for 4 with
a double and an RBI. Ray
McIntire also batted 2 for
4. Sebastian Salas batted 1
for 3 with a double and
two RBI. Kyle Tobler batted 1 for 2 with an RBI.
William Enos batted 1 for
2. Tyler Enos batted 1 for 3
with two RBI. Michael
Gleason batted 1 for 2,
while Ian Mistrot batted 1
for 4 with an RBI.
In game two of the day,
Kevin Rowell took the
mound and threw the first
four innings for the
Gamblers to pick up the
win. Tobler came in to
throw the last three
innings and gave up no
runs. McIntire continued
to swing the bat well as he
batted 3 for 4 with a double and four RBI. Rowell
helped himself out batting
2 for 3 with a double and
an RBI. Kannon Smith
batted 2 for 3 with three
RBI. Mistrot batted 2 for 3
with two RBI. Tyler Enos
batted 1 for 1. Nick
Hedrick batted 1 for 1.
Galvan batted 1 for 2 with
a double and an RBI,
while Gleason batted 1 for
2 with a double.
The Gamblers were back
on the field on Sunday,
June 3, for game three
against the Sheriffs and
picked up another victory
with a 15-0 shutout.
Gleason got the win after
throwing the first three
innings for Tri-County.
Neil threw the last four.
Neil also had a big game
at the plate batting 3 for 4
with a double and four
RBI. Salas batted 2 for 2
with a double and two
RBI. Galvan batted 2 for 3
with a triple and two RBI.
Rowell and Patrick Kuehn
both batted 1 for 2 and an
RBI. Mistrot also batted 1
for 2. McIntire batted 1 for
3 with 2 RBI, while
Kannon Smith batted 1 for
3 with an RBI.
On Saturday, June 9, the
Gamblers played host to
Middletown in Willows
and matched up the top
two pitchers in the league
with Gleason of Willows
and
Chris
Cole
of
Middletown who played
for the Gamblers in last
year’s
World
Series.
Gleason threw for Butte
College last year while
Cole played for Solano
College but it was Gleason
who put on the show and
put the Gamblers on top.
Gleason threw a complete
game, allowed no runs, no
hits and struck out 16 batters along the way. Only
four balls were put in play
for the Rattlers.
“Michael was unbelievable,” said coach Jerry
Smith. “He put on a show.
Chris is a great pitcher as
well, but Michael was
amazing today.”
The Gamblers won 3-0
with
the
help
of
Consumnes River College
player Salas. Salas batted
2 for 3 with a double and
two RBI, while Gleason
and Mistrot both went 1
for 3 for the Gamblers.
Sunday, June 10, the
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Gamblers
traveled
to
Middletown for a double
header and came home
with two more victories. In
game one the Gamblers
had 14 hits to help their 11
to 5 victory. Tyler Enos
threw the first inning,
Rowell threw the next four
innings for the win and
Galvan threw the last two.
At the plate Gleason had a
big day batting 4 for 5 with
a home run, a double and
three RBI. Nathanael
Lucero batted 3 for 5 with
two triples and an RBI.
Kaplan Smith and Thomas
Fleming both batted 2 for 4
with
an
RBI.
Alex
Thomson batted 1 for 4
with a triple. Salas batted
1 for 4, while McIntire batted 1 for 5 for the
Gamblers.
In game two of the double header, Tri-County had
to work a little harder to
bring home a 13-8 victory.
The Gamblers started
strong with Neil hitting a
grand slam to left field to
Tri-County up 4-0 in the top
of the first. But the
Rattlers put up eight runs
themselves in the bottom
of
the
inning.
The
Gamblers then scored
seven more in the third
with the help of Mistrot’s
home run and two more in
the fifth while holding the
Rattlers scoreless the rest
of the game. Lucero threw
the first inning, Neil threw
the next five and Thomson
threw the seventh to close
out the game.
At the plate Rowell led
the Gamblers batting 2 for
3. Mistrot batted 2 for 4
with a home run and two
RBI. William Enos batted 2
for 4 with two RBI. Neil
batted 1 for 4 with a grand
slam and four RBI, while
Kannon Smith batted 1 for
4 for Tri-County.
Wednesday, June 27 is
National HIV Testing Day, a
national campaign coordinated by the National
Association of People with
AIDS (NAPWA-US). The
theme of this year’s Testing
Day, “Take the Test, Take
Control” encourages highrisk people to seek voluntary HIV testing and counseling.
The Center for Disease
Control estimates that over
1 million Americans are living with HIV and yet nearly
250,000 are unaware of their
HIV infection. At a local
level, it is estimated that
over 5,000 people are living
with HIV/AIDS in the
greater Sacramento area. In
Yolo County, it is estimated
that over 280 people have
been
diagnosed
with
HIV/AIDS, and over 115
local residents have lost
their lives to the disease.
For people who test positive
for HIV, learning their HIV
test results helps them take
steps to protect their own
health and that of their partners. For those who test
negative, learning their HIV
status can help them get the
information and support
they need to stay uninfected.
While there are no formal
events planned for National
HIV Testing Day in Yolo
County, it is important to
note that HIV testing is an
ongoing project by the Yolo
County Health Department
and its community partners.
In the past twelve months,
over 600 people have tested
for HIV in Yolo County.
There are several sites in
the county that offer free
confidential HIV tests.
Many do not require a blood
sample. Individuals interested in receiving an HIV
test can contact the following agencies:
~ CommuniCare Health
Centers – Peterson Clinic,
8 North Cottonwood Street,
Woodland, 95695l; 666-8960
~
John
H.
Jones
Community Clinic, 500B
Jefferson Bulevard #180,
West Sacramento, 95605;
(916) 371-1966
~
Harm
Reduction
Services, 3647 40th Street,
Sacramento, 95817; (916) 4564849
For further information
on HIV/AIDS education,
prevention, testing, and
treatment, contact the Yolo
County Health Department
HIV/AIDS Program at 6668645. For further information about National HIV
Testing
Day,
see
www.napwa.org.
Heat protection tips
As temperatures are
expected to rise above the
100 degree mark this week
for the first time this year,
Yolo County officials are
reminding all county residents to take measures to
protect
themselves
accordingly. Especially
vulnerable populations
include: people over 65
years of age, children
under 4 years of age, people who work outdoors,
those who are overweight
and those who are ill or
may be on certain medications that can affect their
ability to handle fluids.
“Over exposure to heat
is serious and can be
deadly,” said Yolo County
Health
Officer
Bette
Hinton, M.D.
Residents who do not
have adequate air conditioning may experience
heat-related
problems.
Even a few hours spent in
air conditioning can help
your body stay cooler if
you need to go back into
the heat.
Residents are urged to
protect themselves during
hot weather by taking the
following precautions:
~ Stay cool indoors in
air-conditioned facilities,
especially during the
hottest part of the day.
~ Wear lightweight,
loose fitting clothing and
sunscreen.
~ If you become lightheaded, feel confused or
experience any other
symptoms of heat exhaustion, get to a cool area
until you feel better.
~ Never leave a person
or animal in a parked car.
Temperatures inside a
vehicle can rise to dangerous levels in minutes.
~ Don’t forget that pets
also need extra water and
shade.
CAL FIRE hosts meeting on proposed
Yolo County fire hazard map
The
California
Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection (CAL
FIRE) will introduce a
proposed update to the
fire hazard severity zone
map for state responsibility area lands in Yolo
County at a public hearing
on June 21. The public
hearing will be held at
Woodland
City
Fire
Department Station 3 at
1550 Spring Lake Ct. from
1-3 p.m. All members of
the community are invited
to attend.
California law requires
CAL FIRE to produce
maps identifying areas
that face moderate, high or
very high fire hazard within property for which the
state has financial respon-
sibility for wildland fire
protection. The maps are
used to determine legal
requirements
affecting
property owners including
building
construction
standards. The maps were
last updated in the late
1980s. It is necessary to
update the maps to ensure
accuracy and incorporate
improved fire science and
mapping techniques.
The hearing will include
an overview of the process
used to develop the map. A
large format version of the
map will be on display at
the hearing and on the
CAL FIRE Website at
www.fire.ca.gov. The public will have an opportunity to submit a public comment on the map at the
hearing and by mail or email following the hearing. CAL FIRE will review
and respond to all public
comments before the maps
are adopted or revised by
the CAL FIRE Director.
Comprehensive information on the map update
process is available at
w w w. f i r e . c a . g o v / w i l d land.php. The Website
includes an interactive
map that allows users to
find the proposed hazard
rating for a specific
address. For more information on the public hearing,
contact
Kevin
Colburn, (707) 987-3689, or
Suzie Blankenship, (707)
576-2342.
Football
players ready
for weights,
field
The
Winters
High
School football program
has completed its spring
practices but is now ready
to hit the weights and get
on the field.
The first mandatory
weight training and conditioning is Monday, June
25, at 12:30-2:30 p.m. anyone considering going out
this season must be there.
The Warriors also have
the weight room open now
Monday through Friday
from 9-10 a.m. and will be
on the field running drills
from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
For more information,
log on to the Warriors new
web site at www.leaguelineup.com/warriorsfootball. Players and parents
are encouraged to use this
site to stay informed.
CORRECTION
Last week’s article about
aquatic programs had an
error. Masters swimming
workouts are scheduled
Monday through Friday at
6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Lap
swimming for Masters
swimmers
only
takes
place
Saturdays
and
Sundays from 12-2 p.m.
Swimmers in all Masters
programs — workouts or
weekend swims — must be
registered with United
States Masters Swimming
in order to participate.
The community pool season passes are not acceptable for Masters swimming.
Sacramento Zoo
offers “guided”
cell phone tour
The Sacramento Zoo now
offers a free Cell Phone
Safari Tour. Visitors to the zoo
can now enjoy a “guided”
tour of over 40 animals
around the Sacramento Zoo
using their own cell phones.
To access the Cell Phone
Safari Tour, visitors may pick
up a brochure at the zoo’s
front gate or look for the special signs around the Zoo and
dial the number in on their
cell phones. There are 33 different “stops” throughout the
zoo.
Audio tours offer an innovative tool for reaching the
public with conservation
messages. By presenting factual content in an entertaining and engaging manner,
audio tours reinforce and
enhance the educational message and more fully immerse
the visitor in the park experience. In addition, blind and
visually impaired visitors
gain a richer and more
informed experience.
Thanks to IKEA, the program’s
sponsor,
the
Sacramento Zoo is able to
offer this unique program
free of charge. The number
for the Cell Phone Safari Tour
is (703) 286-6545 and is accessible 24 hours a day, from any
location—not just at the Zoo.
Visitors can disconnect and
rejoin the tour as many times
as they like. The free tour
does not include airtime or
roaming charges from visitors
service provider.
Open since 1927, the
Sacramento Zoo is home to
over 140 native, exotic and
endangered species and is
one of over 200 accredited
institutions of the Association
of Zoos and Aquariums.
Located near the corner of
Land Park Drive and
Sutterville Road in William
Land Park, the Zoo is wholly
managed by the non-profit
Sacramento
Zoological
Society and provides an educational and recreational
resource to the Sacramento
Region. 2007 marks the 80th
anniversary
of
this
Sacramento treasure.
The zoo is open daily from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m., general admission is $9; children ages 3-12
are $6.50 and two and under
are admitted free. Parking is
free throughout the park or
ride Regional Transit bus #6.
For information, call (916)
808-5888 or visit www.saczoo.com.
B-6 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
PERSONAL!
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Help Wanted
Autos
Autos
Have a good Paris Trip.
Karen, Gabe and Tara
Education AUTISM Special Ed Teacher for ABC
(non public) School-Fairfield Area Must have a
SP.ED Mod/Sev Cred or
have an internship credential or be eligible for
one Holders of Special Ed
-Mod/Severe Credential
paid at a higher rate! Benefits Paid Breaks & Holidays Email: kathy@ appliedbehavior.com
___________________
DRIVER:
HOSTLER
Class A req’d. Fairfield facility, F/T. $17/hr., bnfts.
Clean DMV req’d. Call
Dee 916/662-3787
21-2TP
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BIOLOGIST/ WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST SOLANO
IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
$4793-$5824/mo. Exc. Bnfts.
pkg. including CalPERS 2.7%
@ 55 Employee portion
District paid. No Social Security Deductions.
Under direction of Water &
Power Operations Manager.
Typical qualifying entrance
bkgrd. is 3 yrs. of responsible
exp. in the administration of
weed & rodent control.
Graduation from high school
with an above average ability to make mathematical calibrations & with coursework
emphasis in science. Degree in one of the biological
sciences (agriculture included) with course work in weed
control and plant identification. Possession of a valid
and appropriate CA Driver
License with satisfactory
record. Must have or be
qualified to obtain (within
one year) a
State of California Qualified
Applicator Certificate with
the categories of Right of
Way, Landscape Maintenance, and Aquatic. Must also have or be qualified to obtain (within 1 yr.) a Pest Control Advisor license with the
categories of Vertebrate
Pests and Weeds.
Must have a thorough understanding of integrated
vegetation management &
the use of a variety of noncrop herbicides. Application
materials may be obtained at
508 Elmira Rd., Vacaville,
CA
95687;
or
[email protected], or
www.sidwater.org. Final Filing Date: 5:00 p.m. Monday,
June 25, 2007 EOE 20-2tp
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DRIVERS
California
Wine Tours & Evans Airporter – Hiring dedicated
drivers for wine tours, bus
driving. Excellent opportunities, flexible hrs.
Class B w/P a plus, will
train. 707-265-4302
20-4tp
__________________
Clinical Assistant Cal
Maritime, Vallejo FT, excellent benefit pkg. Perform standard clinical asst
work
as
well
as
admin/clerical duties in
the Student Health Center. Requires HS/ GED &
health care setting exp.
Visit www.csum.edu or
707/654-1140 for Job #61
& application. EOE
___________________
Winters Joint
Unified School District
Certificated 2007-2008
Elem. Principal, K-3
English, 9-12
Life Science, 6-8,
Special Ed, Gr 6-8
Reading Interven, 4&5
See: www.edjoin.org
Classified:
Asst. Mtce/Mechanic
F/T, $12.67-$13.97/Hr
Deadline: 6/29/07
Swim Coach:
Aug-Oct $2,448
Teacher
Pre-School:
Asst., M-F, 8hrs/Day,
$9.06-$10.00/Hr.
Deadline: 6/29/07
Admin Office: Business
Svs, Tech, F/T, 12 mo’s
per yr. $2630-$2901/mo.
Deadline: 7/6/07
Application Packets at
District Office, 909 W.
Grant Ave., or call HR/
79506103
__________________
Sandwich Chef for Coffee
House in Winters. Must
be a self motivated, responsible, creative, customer service oriented
person who is looking for
a long term position. Food
service experience & basic English skills required.
Full time. Must be 18 or
over and available to work
weekends. Pay based on
experience and availability. Apply in person, fax to
(530) 795-2303 or send
resume to Steady Eddy’s
Coffee House 5 E. Main
St. Winters, CA 95694.
__________________
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Established Coffee
House in Winters Looking
for an investor and-or
partner to help us grow to
the next level (enhanced
menu offering, additional
staff, and expanded
hours). Should be self
moticated and customer
service oriented with
some food service and
business experience. Financial invertment required but negotiable.
Call Edmund at (530)
795-3588 for details or
send inquired to Steady
Eddy’s Coffee House 5 E.
Main St. Winters, CA
95694.
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Welders/Fitters Steel fabricator seeking shop &
field positions. Blueprint
reading, layout & fitting
exp. a+. Comp. sal.,
med/den, 401k & profit
sharing. Fax resume to
707-963-5953,
email:
jelkins@ ogletreecorp.com
or apply in person at 935
Vintage Ave. St. Helena,
CA
21-2TP
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CONSTRUCTION (12)
Certified Comml. or General Electricians for immediate work in Solano
County. Prevailing wage!
Verifiable refs & reliable
transp.
req’d.
CLP,
707/438-3202
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Have you subscribed to
the Winters Expres?
It’s not too late!
Call 795-4551
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Maintenance Northern
California
Distribution
Services operates a lg.
repack line & distribution
center for one of the leading producers of glass for
the wine industry. Currently we have an opening in our Maintenance
dept. We offer a sal. DOE,
401K, med. & dental bnfts, vac. & pd. holidays.
Perform repack line maintenance, which includes
machine adjustments &
changeovers, preventive
maintenance, repairs &
trouble shooting.
This incl. industrial electrical work, machine repair,
PLC troubleshooting &
metal fabrication. Previous programming exp.
with SLC-500 & PLC-5 is
a+. Applicants can send
their resume to, Northern
California
Distribution
C/O Operations Mgr.
2600 Stanford Court Fairfield, CA. 94533
Fax:
707-437-7922
Email: botwell@ pacificdistribution.com
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EDUCATION SUCCESS
Consortium, a Cal-SOAP
program, seeks College
students or College
Grads to serve as Math &
English Advisors for 6-wk.
summer program for 7th,
8th & 9th graders.
Reqs. 30 hrs./wk. Pays
$13/hr.
Contact
SUCCESS
707/693-2004
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SECRET SHOPPERS
To evaluate local stores,
restaurants and theaters.
Flexible hours, training
provided.
1-800-5859024 ext. 6505
21-4TP
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Driver Fuel Driver Universal Environmental, Inc.
has an immediate opening for night shift Bobtail
Fuel Driver. Avail. to work
40-60 hrs./wk. Must possess a Class B drivers license. This is a permanent F/T position located
in Benicia. Will train the
selected candidate. Fax
resume to 707/747-1311,
email
[email protected] or apply in person at 4101 Industrial
Way Benicia, CA 94510
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Driver Fuel Driver & Class
B Drivers Universal Environmental, Inc. has an immediate opening for night
shift Bobtail Fuel Driver.
Avail. to work 40-60
hrs./wk. Must possess a
Class B drivers license.
Also Class B Drivers for
various shifts. This is a
permanent F/T position
located in Benicia. Will
train the selected candidate. Fax resume to
707/747-1311, email [email protected] or apply in person at 4101 Industrial Way Benicia, CA
94510
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‘98 Ford F150 Super Cab,
V6, 5 spd., great work
truck. Runs, straight.
$2700. (707)208-4148
__________________
‘98 Toyota Tacoma. Kg.
cab, V6, a/t, a/c, 95K mi.
Runs exc. Perfect cond.
$4950. (707)208-4148.
__________________
‘90 Honda Civic 4 dr.
#003513. $2880 ‘98 Pontiac Bonneville #218329.
$3200 96 Dodge Grand
Caravan #546607. $3800
‘01 Chry Seabring Conv.
#644006; $5900 ‘90
Dodge Ram 250 PU
#768515. $1700 ‘94 Mercedes E320 #053824.
$3700 ‘95 VW Jetta 5 spd.,
#013757, $2600 ‘96 Olds
Cutlass
Supreme
#335222, $3200 ‘93
Jaguar XJ6 #673236,
$2900 707-448-2400 KAK,
630 Orange Dr #P, Vacaville. 21-2tp
__________________
‘92 Toyota Extra Cab V6
long bed, 5 spd., a/c, cd.
Immac.
$3900
obo.
(707)280-6816
21-2tp
__________________
‘92 Toyota Extra Cab V6
long bed, 5 spd., a/c, cd.
Immac.
$3900
obo.
(707)280-6816 21-2TP
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2000 Toyota Corolla Good
cond. 101K miles, $6000.
Call 707-434-1006
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Limited Edition 1996
Ford Bronco Eddie Bauer,
fully loaded, lthr., PW, PD,
PL, new tires/brakes.Extra
lean runs great. Please call
707-386-8115
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‘82 Dodge Ram Charger
Proof of new motor, new
rear end. Runs good.
$4500 b/o. (707)434-9276
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1984 Corvette ust sell.
$5700. Call 707-718-7856
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‘00 Nissan Xterra SE
97000mi. Blue. $8500. In
good condition. Call Jason
@ 428-3819.
__________________
‘00 Nissan Xterra SE
97000mi. Blue. $8500. In
good condition. Call Jason
@ 428-3819.
__________________
1991 5.0 Mustang. Fast.
Must sell. $2400. Call 707718-7856
__________________
1994 Civic Ex. 4 dr
Sedan.Good COndition.
Best offer. Call 707-4224098
__________________
1996 Taurus Wagon.
Good condition, new tires.
Best offer. Call 707-4224098
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’06 Elantra Ltd. Ed. xc.
cond., a/t, 4 dr., CD, tint,
alarm, 10 yr. wrty. 6,600
mi., $15,200. 386-2868
21-2TP
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‘00 Dodge Ram 3500. A/T,
full pwr., loaded, too many
options to list! 30k mi. $19K
obo. 415/850-3358 212TP
__________________
‘01 TOYOTA TACOMA
SR5 pkg., Leer shell,
ext. cab. 4 cyl. 112K mi.
$9500 obo. (707)290-2307
21-2TP
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‘54 CHEVY SEDAN
Needs restored, 79k orig.
mi., $4000 obo. (415) 8503358 or (707) 446-7945
21-2TP
__________________
‘97 BMW 328i, sunroof, fully loaded, low mi. Needs
some
work.
$6000.
(707)399-7970
21-2TP
__________________
‘93 Legend LS, 4 dr., 129K
mi., all pwr., AC, CD.
Smogged. Remote starter.
$3150 obo. (707)803-2714
__________________
‘04 Escalade, low mi., fully
loaded, 24” rims, billet grill,
sunroof,
$33K
obo.
(707)689-7147
__________________
‘89 Ford F250 Dually
Supercab Runs good.
A/C, cd, a/t. $2850 b/o.
(707)422-5083
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Help Wanted
Tomats restaurant now hiring part-time server/ bar tender. Apply in person 1123
Grant Ave. Wed.-Sun. After
5 no phone calls.
5-tfn
_____________________
Apartment Leasing Consultant
needed for lg., busy apt. comm.
Leasing or sales background helpful, bilingual/Spanish a +. 24 hrs.
per wk., some wknd work req’d.
Hourly rate + commission. Fax
707-425-7287 17-5tp
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VAN DRIVERS/ INSTRUCTORS for DD
Adult day program in
Solano County. Must
have Class B passenger
endorsement & acceptable DMV printout. Call
Gloria: (707) 448-4574
20-2tp
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Administrative Asst. F/T,
Mon.-Fri, occasional Saturday. Exp’d. in multi-phone
lines & Excel. Must be able to
multi task in a fast pace environment. Apply in person: MF, 9am-4pm @ Clark Pest
Contril 811 Eubanks Dr.
Vacaville
20-4tp
_______________________
CAREGIVER NEEDED for
Eldery man, Sat. & Sun., 810 hrs. each day. (707)4485638
20-2tp
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SECURITY
REDPHANTOM The Premier Provider
of Security Services „
Post/Patrol, All Shifts „ Training Available „ Exc. Pay &
Benefits „ GUARD CARD
REQ 707.256.1810 X 200
[email protected]
20-4tp
_______________________
JUNE OPENINGS Great
Pay $14 base-appt,
FT/PT summer work,
sales/svc., no exp. nec.,
conditions apply all ages
17+. 399-9932
20-4tp
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Apartments: Apartment
Maint. Tech needed for
large, busy community.
Knowledge of all phases
of apartment turns req’d.
F/T, hourly + benefits. Fax
resume to 707-425-7287
20-3tp
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Drivers 150K per yearTeams!
Earn more plus great benefits! Western Regional Solo
and Team-Runs. Wemer
Enterprises. (800) 3462818ext.123.
20-3tcc
____________________
COLLEGE STUDENTS
& ’07 HS Grads $14 baseappt, FT/PT summer
work, sales/svc., no exp.
nec., conditions apply all
ages 17+. 399-9932204tp
__________________
SUMMER IS HERE!!!
Housekeepers Needed! •
Flexible Schedule • Paid
Weekly-Plus Tips • Must
have Car & Phone Call
Today 707/427-7362 A
Referral Agency [email protected]
___________________
Answers!-Answers!-Answers!
AUTOS WANTED!
Cars, Trucks, Semis,
etc. Running or Not. Will
tow, price open. No
Smog or Regist. OK.
916/214-3090
21-2TP
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RVs for Sale
Furniture
‘93 Fleetwood American
38’ Eagle diesel pusher,
with Garmin Street Pilot
GPS, travel 1st class!
New list $203,113, asking $44,000. MUST
SEE! (707)864-8052
12-2TP
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COME & GET ME!!! I’m
cheap & fully self contained!
‘78
Dodge
Beaver,
low
miles,
$5000. (707) 425-3627
21-2TP
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Broyhill twin bed w/matt,
$110. King sz. bed w/1
yr. old matt. & triple mirror dresser, $1200. Elephant back chair & sofa,
$1400. Waterfall bed,
nightstand, dresser &
mirror, $1000 obo. (707)
426-2003
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Daybed
w/trundle,
wrought iron, (2) matt., 8dr. dresser w/mirror &
glasstop shelf, $400
obo. 428-5416
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BIBLE TRIVIA
by Wilson Casey
1. Is the book of
Philippians in
the Old or New
Testament
or
neither?
2. From Mark 8,
Jesus healed a
blind man by
putting what into
his eyes? Sand,
Wind,
Blood,
Spit
3. What elderly
cousin of Mary
was the mother
of John the Baptist? Jael, Rahab,
Sarah, Elisabeth
4. Who wrote the
letter to the Hebrews?
Unknown,
Paul,
David, Solomon
5. What book
foretold the vir-
gin birth? Joel,
Isaiah,
Jonah,
Malachi
6.
Who
was
Shamgar the son
of? Ehud, Samson, Anath, Tola
ANSWERS:
1)
New; 2) Spit; 3)
Elisabeth; 4) Unknown; 5) Isaiah;
6) Anath
Wilson Casey’s
“Do You Know
Your Bible? A
Fun Quiz on the
Good
Book”
(Sourcebooks,
$5.95) has just
been published.
(c) 2007 King
Features Synd.,
Inc.
Go FIGURE!
GO FIGURE!
❖ Activities Asst., Community Services, P/T
❖ Activities Coordinator, F/T
❖ CNA P/T
❖ Concierge/Receptionist, P/T
❖ Cook, F/T
❖ Dishwasher, P/T
❖ Housekeeper, P/T and F/T
❖ LVN, P/T P.M. Shift, Assisted Living
❖ LVN, F/T Night Shift, Assisted Living
❖ RN, F/T, NOC Shift, Skilled Nursing
❖ Server, P/T, A.M. & P.M.
Paradise Valley Estates offers a great benefit
package for full-time employees, competitive wages,
premier facility, professional staff and a
beautiful location in Fairfield!
Paradise Valley Estates is a drug-free workplace.
Pre-employment screening is required.
To apply - applications are available at
PARADISE VALLEY ESTATES
2600 ESTATES DRIVE, FAIRFIELD, CA 94533.
Call 707-432-1100 for directions
or Fax resume to 707-426-0996.
EOE/M/F/V/D
GO FIGURE!
Fictitious Business Name
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID
FILED YOLO COUNTY CLERK/RECORDER
June 11, 2007
FREDDIE OAKLEY, CLERK
Valerie Clinton, Deputy
FBN NUMBER 2007-619
The following person(s) is/are doing business
as: The Tudor Tailor
704 2nd Street, Woodland CA 95695
Jane Malcolm-Davies 704 2nd Street, Woodland CA 95695
Anna Mora Mieskouski 704 2nd Street, Woodland CA 95695
This business classification is:General Partnership
s/J.A. Malcoml-Davies
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the original document on file in this office. This certification is
true as long as there are no alterations to the document, AND as long as the document is sealed with a
red seal.
State of California, County of Yolo
FREDDIE OAKLEY County Clerk/Recorder
Valerie Clinton, Deputy Clerk
June 21,28, July 5,12, 2007
Winters Joint Unified School District
Winters, California
PROJECT: Winters Joint Unified School District
Paving and Seal Coating.
Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the Board of Trustees of the Winters Joint
Unified School District, of Yolo County, California
95694 at 2:00p.m. July 10, 2007 at the District Office at 909 Grant Road Winters, California 95694.
All inquires shall be directed to Gary Cook, Director
of Facilities for the Winters JUSD Phone (530) 7956173.
Required Notice for Exceeding
Disinfectant/Disinfection
Byproduct MCL
Contract documents may be picked up at the District Offices 909 Grant Road, Winters, CA 95694. A
mandatory job walk is scheduled for 9:00a.m. July
5, 2007 at the District Office 909 West Grant Avenue Winters, CA 95694.
The scope of work includes patching damaged asphalt at Waggoner Elementary School, overlaying
the parking lost at the District Office, seal coating
and striping the playgrounds at John Clayton Education Center, and Shirley Rominger Intermediate
School. Work must be completed by August 6,
2007.
“No discrimination shall be made in the employment of person(s) upon public works because of
race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap, medical condition, marital
status, or sex of such person, except as provided in
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR Section 12940 of the government Code, and every
DRINKING WATER
contractor for public works violating this setion is
Este informe contiene informacion muy importante subject to all penalties imposed for violation of this
sobre su agua potable. Traduzcalo o hable con al- chapter.”
June 21, 28, 2007
guien que lo entienda bien.
2tc
Pleasure Cove Resort Has Levels of
Disinfection Byproducts Above Drinking Water Standards
Our water system recently violated a drinking water
standard. Although this is not an emergency, as our
customers, you have a right to know what happened,
what you should do, and what we are doing to correct
this situation.
We routinely monitor for the presence of drinking water contaminants. Average testing results we received between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007
show that our system exceeded the maximum contaminant level (MCL), for Total Trihalomethanes. The
maximum contaminant level for Total Trihalomethanes is 0.080 mg/L. The average level of
Total Trihalomethanes during the period January
2006 through December 2006 was 0.094 mg/L.
As a result of disinfecting drinking water, disinfectant
byproducts may form. Design and/or disinfection
modifications may reduce the level of disinfection
byproducts in drinking water.
What should I do?
You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions. However, if you have specific health
concerns, consult your doctor.
What does this mean?
This situation does not require that you take immediate action. If it had, you would have been notified immediately.
The California Department of Health Services
(CDHS) sets drinking water maximum contaminant
levels and requires the disinfection of drinking water.
However, when used in the treatment of drinking water, disinfectants react with naturally-occurring organic and inorganic matter present in water to form
chemicals called disinfection byproducts (DBPs).
CDHS has determined that a number of DBPs are a
health concern at certain levels of exposure. Some
people who drink water containing trhalomethanes
in excess of the MCL over many years may expeience liver, kidney, or central nervous system
problems, and may have an increaseed risk of getting cancer.
What is being done?
Pleasure Cove marina in February 2007 completed
a comprehensive cleaning and flushing of the water
systems storage tanks and distribution lines to reduce the organic mater that may have accumulated
in the system. Samples taken March 26, 2007 after
cleaning and flushing for Total Trihalomethanes indicates that the levels appear to have dropped to
0.083 mg/ but are still above the maximum contaminant level for Total Trihalomethanes of 0.080 mg/L
We are currently communicating with SRDHS &
Phillips & Associates to resolve this issue.
Would you like to be a part of our team?
We would love to have you join our
growing workforce of over 300 employees:
GO FIGURE!
For more information, please contact Terry Sparkman at 707/966/9600. Alternatively, contact us by
mail at 6100 Hwy 128 Napa California 94558
Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may
not have received this notice directly (for example,
people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and
businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in
a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.
This notice is being sent to you by Pleasure Cove
Resort.
(Public Water System 2810011).
Date Published: June 21, 2007
Fictitious Business Name
FILED YOLO COUNTY CLERK/RECORDER
June 7, 2007
FREDDIE OAKLEY, CLERK
Ava Woodard, Deputy
FBN NUMBER 2007-611
The following person(s) is/are doing business
as: The French Bakery
1144 Longcroft St. West Sacramento, CA 95691
Gary Campbell 1144 Longcroft St. West Sacramento, CA 95691
Karrie Campbell 1144 Longcroft St. West Sacramento, CA 95691
This business classification is:Husband and Wife
s/Gary and Karrie Campbell
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the original document on file in this office. This certification is
true as long as there are no alterations to the document, AND as long as the document is sealed with a
red seal.
State of California, County of Yolo
FREDDIE OAKLEY County Clerk/Recorder
Ava Woodard, Deputy Clerk
June14, 21,28, July 5, 2007
Fictitious Business Name
FILED YOLO COUNTY CLERK/RECORDER
May 21, 2007
FREDDIE OAKLEY, CLERK
Kimberley Barklow, Deputy
FBN NUMBER 2007-540
The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
Fast &Easy Mart #33
1601 Research Park Dr. Davis CA 95616
Shanon Cor 5000 East 2nd St. Benicia CA 94510
This business classification is:A corporation
s/Shanon Ali
I hereby certify that this is a true copy of the original document on file in this office. This certification is
true as long as there are no alterations to the document, AND as long as the document is sealed with a
red seal.
State of California, County of Yolo
FREDDIE OAKLEY County Clerk/Recorder
Kimberley Barklow, Deputy Clerk
May 31, June, 7, 14, 21, 2007
Lien Sale
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned intends to
sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien
imposed on said property pursuant to section 21700 of the
bus. and prof. code section 2328 of the UCC, section 535
of the penal code and provisions of the civil code.
The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive
bidding on the 27th day of June 2007 at 11:00 a.m. on the
premises where said property has been stored and which
is located at Beamer Street Storage 1572 E. Beamer St.
Woodland CA 95776 and which consists of misc. personal
property, housegold, garage and yard items and misc.
boxes (contents unknown) sale will begin at Beamer
Street Storage, all pymts. In cash at the time of purchase.
All items sold as is. Where is and must be removed by
5:oop.m. or make arrangements with the office.
Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party.
Terms and inspection prior to sale
Beamer Street Storage
UNIT#
405 C. Ingold-Scott
110 K. Herrman
40A. Garcia
30 A. Chavez
361 B. Gonzales
339 S. Felkins
Dated this 14th Day of June 2007
and this 21st Day of June 2007
Forrest O’Brien, Auctioneer
Bond #00104533207
SignedDave August for Casey Stone
Date 6/8/07
June 14,21, 2007
Read the Legals!
They are good for you!
Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007 — B-7
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Competitively Priced Insurance
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NEW LISTING: 301 Hampshire Ct. 3 bed, 2
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old Winters PENDING $336,000
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dream home! $800,000.
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26 Main Street * Winters, CA
Ph. 795-4531 * FAX 795-4534
NOTARY PUBLIC
w w w. w i n t e r s e x p r e s s . c o m
Classifieds
AGRICULTURAL
INDUSTRIAL
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
Classifieds
JOSH NELSON
OWNER
Electrical
Construction
LIC #547685 - BOND #661703
(530) 795-3338 - P.O. Box 833 - Winters
Real Estate
Services
Autos for Sale
Autos for Sale
OPEN HOUSE
TV, VCR, stereo & microwave oven repairs.
Call Brad Chapman,
795-1026, evenings &
weekends.
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‘04 Toyota Pre-runner ext.
cab. 54K mi., Racket lumber rack. $17,500 obo.
(707)567-1875
20-2tp
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‘98 Cadillac Catera Super
clean, 30K mi. lthr. New
tires. $4995 obo. (707)8033165
20-2tp
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‘‘74 450SL, red, both tops,
maintained, great cond.,
164K mi., appraisal $15K,
$12,800. (707)428-6141.
20-3tp
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‘Sienna LE, loaded. DVD
syst., 12K mi. Exc. cond.
Ext. wrnty. $25,500. 707437-2546
20-2tp
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‘‘04 Isuzu Diesel NPR.
8’x18’ box van, 67K mi.
$19,900. Call 707-4226237
20-2tp
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‘‘95 Thunderbird, super
charged super coupe,
clean body & int. $3500
obo. (707)249-3288
20-2tp
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‘06 Toyota Sienna LE,
loaded. DVD syst., 12K mi.
Exc. cond. Ext. wrnty.
$25,500. 707-437-2546
20-4tp
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‘‘85 Seville, rblt. tranny, new
exhaust, small V8, great
shape,
runs
good,
smogged & regd. ‘07.
$1200 obo. 707-720-8977;
707-386-0095
20-2tp
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‘‘74 GMC Rblt. 350. 1/2
ton w/3/4 ton susp. Turbo
400. Ugly truck but runs
good.
$1400
b/o.
(707)330-8556
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‘74 GMC Rblt. 350. 1/2 ton
w/3/4 ton susp. Turbo 400.
Ugly truck but runs good.
$1400 b/o. (707)330-8556
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2003 Chevy valanche
Automatic, 4wd, V-8.
$17,000 obo.
(707)428-3299
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‘00
Celica
GTS
6spd.146K mi. Immac.
New tires/ brakes, 17”
rims. a/c. cd, $7900 obo.
(707)280-6816
21-2tp
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‘89 Ford F250 Dually
Supercab Runs good.
A/C, cd, a/t. $2850 b/o.
(707)422-5083
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More AUTOS on B-6!
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210 Almond Dr.,
in Winters.
$519,000.
Open House Saturday
and Sunday 1:003:00p.m. 4bd/2.5ba.,
2438sq.ft.Many amenities & great view!
Richard Paiko 304-3339
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406 Griffin Wy. in Winters
$579,900
Open House 6/23 from
1-4p.m.
4bd/2.5 ba. Call 7959857 FSBO.com
#96869
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Agricultural equip.
Agricultural Eguipment
for sale. Dump trucks,
tractors, impliment trailers and mowers. Call
Emie. 795-2146
16-tfn-c
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Pet Sitting
Granny’s
Pet Sitting
Service
Care for Birds, Cats, Dogs
& Fish, also Plant Care,
Taxi Service to Vet Appointments. TLC for your
pet in your home. bonded
and insured. Call for more
info. 795-5855.
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Pets for sale
Welcome Home!
You won’t want to miss out on this 3bd/2ba
single story home in Winters that offers
RV/boat parking, Corian counters, stainless
steel sink in kitchen, great room that opens
to kitchen, dining area and two car
detached garage.
$485,500
Gateway Realty · (530) 795-4747
www.gatewayrealty.com
American Pittbull Terrier for
sale. Call 795-3742
20-2tp
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3 female dogs! 2 puppies
and the mother. blk labs!
$50 each. 795-3207 or
795-3885.
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BUY-SELL-TRADE
BUY • SELL • TRADE
FAIRFIELD CYCLE
CTR (707)432-1660
18-4tp
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Cortez IV Enterprises Demo, cleanup, hauling service. Reasonable rates 530
304-0077
7-52tp
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Maintenance/Handyman licensed contractor 30 years experience. All odd jobs and repairs including sinks, faucets,
disposals, dishwasher,electrical, plumbing. Free estimates.
Call 795-4883. Ask for Singh.
21-4tc
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Is your checkbook a mess?
Tired of trying to balance your
checking account? Need help
in doing payroll, payroll reports, and sales tax reports?
Give me a call at (530) 7954254.
Katherine’s
Bookkeeping Service
600 Railroad Ave. Ste.B
Winters, CA 95694
(530) 795-4254
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REMODELING
SPECIALIST
Kitchen & bath remodels. Room additions,
major repairs, redwood
decks, etc. Stan Clark
Construction Co., Lic. #
503424. 795-2829.
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Yves Boisrame
Constuction
For All Your
Building Needs
Call 795-4997
Custom homes, major
remodels, storage,
hangers, garages,
all sizes, delivered or
complete installation. 20
years Experience.
Full Satisfaction
Guaranteed
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Real Estate Photography Services Weekdays & Weekends
(707)425-2664; 290-6262
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Mac McKinney
Drain Lines
Cleaned
Reasonable
Rates 795-2321
Free Towing
If you have an unwanted
car you want to get rid of.
I will tow it for free! 7952346.
Si quiere deshacerse de
un carro que ya no le sirva o quiere tirarlo, yo lo
recojo sin ningun cargo
a usted.
17-4tp
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Car or Truck. Running or
Not. Will Tow. Price Open.
No Smog or Regist. “OK”.
916-214-3090 18-2tp
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Used Tools
For sale at the Penmarkers
shop: Exotic Hardwoods-zebrawood, birdseye maple,
wenge and others file cabinets, desks, cabinets, tables. Industrial machineswood bandsaw, lathes,
FADAL mill, CNC lathes. Elliot 795- 2648 8E. Abbey St.
TFN
Motorcycles
‘05 motorcycle trailer &
cvr. from Harley Davidson never used. Paid
$2500, sell $2100.
707/863-7475
20-2tp
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‘95 HD Herritage Softail
Classic 7213 mi. Many
extras,
$14,500.
(707)386-3769
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‘06 Honda CRF50 1 mi.
on motor. Exc. cond.
$1200. (707)422-4432,
lv. msg. on recorder
21-2TP
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Boats for sale
Beautiful 1980 Galaxy 18’
ski boat. inboard/outboard,
351 V8, am/fm cd. Runs
good. Dual axel tandem tlr.
$5800 obo. (707)6889252Beautiful
1980
Galaxy 18’ ski boat. Inboard/outboard, 351 V8,
am/fm cd. Runs good. Dual
axel tandem tlr. $5800 obo.
(707)688-9252
20-2tp
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Child Care
TENDER LOVING
DAYCARE
~Call now to be put on waiting list for Full-Time childcare
(ages 3-12)
~Sign up now for PreschoolProgram
~Starting August 20,2007
~Ages 3 and 4 years old
~Small group
~only 6 spaces available
~8:30a.m.-11 a.m. M-F
$50.wk
~Certified Preschool
Teacher
~Lic# 573607597
~12+ years exp.
~Dawn Stewart 795-3302
35-tfn
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RVs for sale
Washer & Dryer
Washer & Dryer
For Brood Mare
‘88, 3/2, 5 yr. roof, painted, skirting & lots more!
El Matador Park #77,
VV. $98,500. 808-7564001
20-2tp
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23’ Class C 1995 Thor,
7.3 turbo diesel, $19K.
Great cond. (707)3862664.Go to: seemycamper.
blogspot.com
20-2tp
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More RVs for sale on B-6!
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Good Condition! $25
each!
Call 925-247-4163
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Washer & Elec. dryer.
Whirlpool, only 4 mos. old.
Asking $400 for set obo.
(707)386-7272, Russ.
Registered paint 11yrs. old
brood mare. Can beridden
$1,500. call 795-2989
after 6p.p.m.
Real Estate
Real Estate
Real Estate
John Fox
General Contractor #888891
504 Main Street
Winters
Full Remodels to
Fences & Decks
530-979-0490
320 Niemann St., Winters
Recently Remodeled Kitchen and Backyard!!!
This Charming 4 BR, 2BA home has many updated
features such as carpet, tile, interior and exterior
paint, landscaping,etc.
123 Court St.,
Woodland
MATA REALTY
Each office idividually owned & operated
REDUCED $40,000
809 Taylor Street, Winters
This great buy just got better!
5bd/2ba 2454sq. feet. Perfect for a growing family; game room and
large work area for the DIY handyman. Potential fit for a elderly
home or daycare. Come see the possiblities! Don’t miss out on this
greaty deal!
Lori Taul, REALTOR
(916) 256-5154
LoriTaulHomes.com
KAPPEL & KAPPEL
REALTORS INC.
KK
SINCE 1972
1160 Pitt School Road, Suite C, Dixon, CA 95620
A Reputation Built on Friendship and Trust
#1 REAL ESTATE COMPANY
IN SOLANO COUNTY 1995-2005
FURNITURE on page B-6!
(Based on MLS Statistics)
TOP 1% of REAL ESTATE COMPANIES
IN THE U.S. 2003 & 2004 & 2005
(Rated by “Real Trends” Magazine)
MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE
MLS
Ernesto Martinez
YOLO COUNTY
REALTY, INC.
SERVING YOLO COUNTY
FOR OVER 40 YEARS
PRIVATE LOANS ON
ALL REAL ESTATE
From
530-304-2444
SPA. NEVER USED. ‘07
model. Warr. 30 jets.
Therapy seats! Worth
$6K, sell $2375. 707778-1831.
20-4tp
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POOL TABLE. New, never used. Italian slate. Can
deliver. Worth: $4K. Sell:
$1075. 707-778-1831.
20-4tp
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For Sale: Small animal
cage perfect for rabbits or
guinea pig. $20. Call 7953492
20-2tf
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For Sale: Porcelain doll
collection. Buy one, some
or all. GeorgeTown and
Hamilton Collection. Sacrifice $30 (originally $75150) each or Make offer
on collection. Call 7953492
20-2tf
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IBM T-30 Pentium 4 Laptop, 1.6 GHZ, 256 Ram,
0 GIG, WIN XP PRO, Office Suite, DVD, CDRW,
$300-$350. 707-7206711
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Window Air Conditioner
12,000 BTU. Used only 3
months, works great,
150. (707) 685-3886.
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Loans
John Fox Construction
Janice M. Curran
Misc. for Sale
Purchase - Refinance
Land
Construction - Rehabs
Non-Conforming
Foreclosures,
Commercial
Industrial
FAST & EASY
INTEREST ONLY
FIXED RATES
NO PREPAYMENTS
Ken Carter
530.681.1465
530.662.8269
LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER
CA. DEPARTMENT OF REAL ESTATE
ID# 01517183
(707) 678-5000
www.kappels.com
FEATURED HOME
~230 Stonyford Dr. Vacaville $369,950
4 bedroom 2 bath cozy home in quiet neighborhood. Open floor plan with large living area and
fireplace. Very private back yard.
2258 Campbell Circle, Fairfield $499,950: Better than new in Travis
USD. Custom int. paint and spacious living areas. Single stor, fully landscaped, 3 bedrrom 2 bath.
1603 Portola St. Davis, $839,000: Great opportunity to move into this
previous Stanley-Davis Model home in the desirable evergreen area. 5
bedrooms 3 baths loaded with upgrades.
425 Stern Ct. Dixon $454,00:4 bedroom 2 baths 3 car garage and it’s on a
court. Lots of upgrades plus an ADD BONUS Lawn maintenance included for one year.
725 Walnut Park Ave. Dixon $499,000: Two houses for the price of one.
Main 3 bed, 1 bath, Second house 2bed, 1 bath. Both have separate front entry, driveway, R/V parking.
6553 Bynes Rd. Vacaville $795,000:Country Property just outside of Vacaville, Two houses on 9.95 acres c lose to interstate highway 80.
7631 Pedrick Rd. Dixon, $1,299,999: Turn Key Horse Property, 10
Acres, large custom single story 4 bedroom 2 bath home. Lots of extras.
Must see!
Serving Your Community Since 1972
With a Reputation Built on Friendship & Trust
William Allard, Cathy DeLaO, Maria Grimes, Julie Marania,
Don Mrochinski, John Guetter, Al Qatsha, David Reese,
Isaiah Shane, Jan Morkal, Susana Median, Michelle Tyler,
Esteban Torres Soria, Melanie Wright
Julie Partain
Call Julie for a confidential Market Evaluation of
your home, maybe its time to buy
a bigger home or downsize, let’s talk!
• 304-4290 • 750-7502
Dick Partain,• 530-400-7569
Broker Associate (Julie’s Father, Real Estate Broker for 47 years!)
Go to www.juliepartain.com for Virtual Tours
TRULY A UNIQUE COUNTRY PROPERTY!
Authorized Carrier Dealer
JIM PEARCE
OWNER
Cell: (707) 689-7324
Fax: (530) 795-3099
State Contractor Lic. #864483
Specialize in Custom Homes, Remodels and
Residential Improvements
New Listing
4862 Jaybee Lane, Winters
$1,475,000
40 ac. ag-zoned property with two homes situated on park-like grounds. Incredible opportunity!
This parcel offers you a 68’x240’x22’ pole barn with oversized roll-up doors, industrial lighting,
40’x60’ enclosed truck shop plumbed for air and water. Partial mezzanine with
office/ storage unit. Separate office with large bathroom/shower. Tons of flat, graveled parking/storage areas. Great well w/10hp submersible pump produces 100+ GPM.
All fencing is 5’ non-climb wow/RR ties every 100’ including cross-fencing w/metal
tubular gates throughout. Pre-plumbed (elec. and water) site for horse barn or ? Main residence
offers 3BD/2BA single story, separate master suite w/jacuzzi-style soaking tub, open floor plan
w/beautiful redwood arbor and deck. Mature landscaping on professionally installed,
automatic sprinkler system surrounded by totally enclosed compound for small
animals or children. Two-car garage with workshop. Both homes have new exterior
and interior paint, floor coverings, upgraded windows and more!
And an added plus is the commercial-grade fueling facility including
containment area and air compressor.
©2003 Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. ®, ™ and SM are licensed trademarks to Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity.
B-8 — Winters (CA) Express, Thursday, June 21, 2007
Advertising is Easy, Just Call 795-4551
455 Abbey St. Furniture, household items,
clothes, toys, bike and
much more. Sat. 6/23,
7-2p.m. Don’t miss
Alec& Garrett’s lemonade stand!
21-1tcc
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201 Suffolk Pl.
(Major Vista) Sat. 6/23
from 8-?
Women, men,teen
girl,and baby clothes.
Toys and books.
Misc.home decor. and
much much more
TAMALES for sale!
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Yard Sale! Sat. June 23.
430 and 432 Russell St.
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Sat. 6/23 Early birds OK
Air hockey table and
more. 321 Hillview
Lane, Winters.
__________________
Sat. 8-1p.m. Lots of good
stuff! 717 Hemenway
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Cottage for rent. Down town
1bd/1ba. 102 Elliot St. #3 $750
available now. Also studio avail.
101 Elliot St. #1 (707)372-9355
9-tfn-c
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Large 3bed/2bath in Winters.
Includes paid W/S/G and
landscaping. No pets/smoking.1400/ mo- nth 1st /last+
deposit. Available Now. 9024865 or 795-4389. 19-3tp
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2 BR/1BA House in the country $1,150/mo. 795-5066 or
795-2431
20-3tcc
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Una traila para rentar para los
que trabajan en temporadas.
Llame a 795-2146
11.tfn
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Shop space 800 Sf. 4575 Putah
Creek Rd. (707) 628-2865 4-tfn
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Trailer Houses for rent, for seasonal workers. Call 795-2146
11-tfn
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Mobile Home 1br, 1 bath,
New, at Winters Mobile
Home Park. $600/month.
Call Sherri, 795-2436.
20-2tcc
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Home in Winters for
rent.2,300sq.ft.
new
home, 4 bed, 2 1/2 bath,
all appliances. $1,800/mo
plus dep. 1-5 year lease
available. 408-410-8296
21-2tcc
3bdrm. Foreclosure. Only
$119,000. For listings 800-7497901 x R348
6-tfn
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400 Sandstone Dr. 4/3,
hrdwds., new kit., peaceful,
est. area, $620K. Appt. only, (707)469-9045.
18-4tp
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Beautiful 2/2, 2 yrs. old,
many upgrades, Sr. Park,
A Must See! $115K neg.
707290-5102, 290-4393
20-4tp
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Parklike lot, 3bd/2ba
home. LR, FR & AC.
$375K. 298 Woolner Ave.
For info: (707)799-5982.
20-4tp
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2000 sf, brand new model
home. 3bd/2.5ba., 2 car
gar., upgrades incl. Looking for good people w/little
or poor credit. We get you
financed. $0 down payment at 6.25% fixed. Why
rent? This is your opportunity to get into your dream
house. Cordelia/Green
Valley Area. $743,000.
707-580-1310
20-4tp
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10,000 sq. ft. Building
space for lease. Call
Ernie - 795-2146
5-tfn
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More
Real Estate
on page B-7
Great 4bd, 3bth. 2 story home in cul-de-sac
stamped driveway and back patio. A must see
with lots of features to list. Offered at $549,900.
3bd. 2bath. “Fixer” on 1 acre lot. C-2 ZONING!
Cell: (530)
383-1185
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NOE SOLORIO
REALTOR
CHARLOTTE LLOYD, GRI
Over 25 years of experience
Visit my website at www.charlottelloyd.com
NEW LISTING: 105 Edwards. Own a part of History!!! Handyman Special 3 bedroom 2 bath home in Historical Winters. Walk to downtown!!! Fix this one up and
make it your own. Priced at only $299,000.
NEW LISTING:508 Creekside. 4bedroom 2 1/2 bath approx. 2000 sq. ft. on almost 1/4 ac. Backs to open space and Putah Creek. If you need RV parking this is
the property for you!!! Lots of upgrades Only $529,900
Beat the heat with this beautiful inground pool: 313 Rosa. Shaded patio area
for entertaining!! Established area with beautiful shade trees. This 3 bedroom 2
bath is priced to sell!!! Home qualifies for 100% financing. Call for details. Reduced
again: $369,000
SOLANO
CONSTRUCTION
30 years in Solano, Napa &
Yolo counties.
Sales-service-construction.
online at www.
solanoconstruction.com
530-795-1080
* Rent based on
income Must be 62,
disabled, or
handicapped
PROgressive Real Estate
63 acres of rolling foothills in Winters. Check it out
at www.bigelowhills.com
Coming soon: 20 acres with lake views, a 2/2
luxurious cottage, horse barn & shop.
Call for information on these or any
other properties: 800.700.7012
New Listing: Great home for the summer months coming up. Enjoy the in ground pool on those hot days. Home has a large Living
room. Cozy up by the fireplace in the family room in the winter. RV
parking available on the side of the house and behind the fence.
Convenient location. $489,900.
Cute little home: located close to City Park and elementary
school. Newer carpet and linoleum. Large fenced backyard, great
for first home buyer. $309,900.
Realty World Camelot Winters
Available Rentals
~Newer 3 bedroom 2 bath home quiet neighborhood $1700.
~3 bd 2 bath, Country Home $1675
~ Cute 3bd 1 bath home $1325
Call us regarding our Property Management Services.
37 Main Street,Winters, CA 95694
795-4183 (work) ~ 795-4000 (voice mail)
217 Creekside Way
$385,000
Charming Home in Historic Winters
Features include 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, open
family/dining room, great workable kitchen and
much more. New interior paint, new carpet &
flooring makes this home move in ready!
For more information or additional photos: Kim
Lamb @ 530.750.7594
www.KimLamb.com
Residential
Farm/Ranch
Commercial
Residential,
Commercial
& Agricultural
Real Estate
(530) 681-2937
Dave Mills
Broker Associate
1039 Roosevelt
True Value- check out this 1244 sq/ft 3bd,
2bath, no rear neighbors, nice location.
Nice appeal. Priced to sell at $349,000.
Check out: Wintersproperties.com
for your weekly updates on all
Winters properties
MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE
MLS
John M. Carrion
Owner/Broker
Explore the possibilities of building a 2nd home
on this 11.77 acre ranchette. The current modular
home is 2 bed 2 bath, and has been completely revamped! New wood floors, granite counter
tops,new air conditioning ,and much, much more!
call for details. offered at $775,000
3 bed 2 bath in North Point Village.This home is
super clean! Large corner lot,New roof.Priced aggresively to sell!! offered at $ 427,000
Awesome colonial style home in a culdesac!
over 3100 square feet 4 bed 2.5 baths. Custom
kitchen cabinets, granite countertops, hardwood
floors, and much, much more~ Call for details. Offered at $779,000.
310 Niemann St., Winters
This home is immaculate! 4 bed 2.5 bath in the
very desirable Dry Creek Meadows. Over 2100
sq.ft. move in condition. Best deal in the neighborhood Call for details. Offered at $529,000.
Rare find! 1/2 acre just outside of Winters with a
Offered at $349,500.
fixer on it.
Call for details! Appointment only!!!
PENDING
Best Price in neighborhood.
3 bed, 2 bath, offered at $429,000
Shows in Excellent Condition.
Too many upgrades to list!!!
Rental Available
2 bed, 1 bath, 1006
Hemenway St.
Available 8-10-07
Call for details
Francisco Arellano
Carrion Properties
Cell 530 517-0623
“Le puedo asistir en español”
Great location! 3 bed 2 bath with 2 car attached
garage. Along with a detached 730 square foot
also has r.v. parking.
workshop! Home
Immaculate in and out! call for details. Offered at
$479,000
SOLD
Vintage home on a corner lot, in the core area of
Winters. Close to school, and walking distance to
downtown. Lots of charactor in this home. Make it
yours. 3 bed 1 bath.Offered at $479,000.
Nice ranch style home on 60 acres of hartley walnuts. This property has a huge shop, with many
other outbuildings. The walnut huller is included,
along with other equipment as well. Appointment
only, Call for details. Offered at $1,950,000.
Member of both Yolo and Solano MLS!!!
Bus: (530) 795-3834 Home: 795-3170
127 Carrion Court, Winters
Winters Country Home Tour
Sunday, June 24th
Noon – 4PM
PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS
& SERVICE DIRECTORY
Accounting, Payroll
Howard R. Brown &
Associates
Accounting, Payroll & Tax
Preparation
19 Main Street, Winters
(530) 795-1283
Email: [email protected]
ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING
ERIC DOUD
Call for details or questions…..See you there!
(707) 761-3343
New Agents:
SPLASH INTO SUMMER
New laminate flooring and stainless steel appliances. 4BD/2BA,
over 2,000 sq. ft. Large master suite with walk-in closet, dual
vanities. Private backyard with in-ground pool. $484,000
BEST RV PARKING IN WINTERS
Jim Smith
Bryant Stocking
Todd Renfrew
Curtis Stocking, REALTOR
International in affiliation with 707-761-3343
Customized home 3BD/2BA, large open floor plan, corian counters,
oversized garage, including workshop area, 3 car garage,
RV parking with electrical and sewer hookups. $485,500
The Real Estate Market has changed.
Call for most up to date information & trends.
Warner & Co. Lic #387764
LAWN EQUIPMENT
Sales, Service & Repair
of Lawn mowers
Chain Saws & Small Engines
801 B Davis Street, Vacaville
707 446-7325
Painting
Plumbing, Electrical, Flooring,
Drywall, Painting, etc.
15 years experience, reliable,
Winters Resident
R & J Home Repairs
Call Bob at 707-761-0646
Andronis Painting
ASPHALT
P.S. ASPHALT
Paving, Grading & Seal
Coating, Concrete. Get
10% off! Free Est. #665676
707-689-4285 or 448-4654
Quality above all.
20 years experience. Any finish available, from basic concrete to
colored and/or tamped decorative.
CA Lc#842561
MAKE A STATEMENT
SOLD
(530) 795-1511
[email protected]
www.ericdoudarchitect.com
Serving all of your
Real Estate needs since 1986
- VACAVILLE LOCATION
Excellent References,
25 yrs. exp. Lic. #743814
HANDYMAN SERVICES
(530) 795-3940 lv. message
NEW LISTING
SUPERIOR SOD
Professional landscaping, concrete work, sod lawns, tree &
shrub installation. Drainage systems. No St. Lic. (707) 330-9353
Custom Homes and Remodeling
General Home Repair
Certified Residential Specialist
4BD/3BA, in newer subdivision. Bedroom & full bath downstairs,
fully landscaped, 3-car garage. $564,000
LANDSCAPING
Don Weins & Son
Construction
15 Main Street, Winters
Ph. 530.795.3506
Cell 530.902.1242
CALASCIO CONCRETE
Nancy S. Meyer
General Contractors
(530) 304-6404
A CONTRACTOR WHO
ARCHITECTURE
DELIVERS!
Minor remodel or major addition
D E S I G N W O R K S 20 yrs. of quality craftsmanship
Concrete
3680 Putah Creek Road
$1,075,000
8445 Coyote Hill Lane
$1,075,000
8505 Quail Lane
$1,100,000
27375 Carmelo Way
$1,200,000
26778 County Road 34
$1,275,000
8393 Pleasants Valley Road
$1,575,000
8251 Winters Road
$1,599,000
Sandy Vickrey
530-681-8939
~ SOLD - FOR SALE ~ 795-4000 ~ SOLD ~
PROPERTIES
Call for advice on staging your home for sale
530-795-3000 HOME
916-849-8700 Mobile & 24 hr. Voice Mail
email: [email protected]
Rare 6.9 acre walnut orchard with circa 1895
Victorian, small shop and water tower.
Call me about VA &
HUD foreclosurers
CARRION
Have buyers looking for the following:
80+ Ac of slightly rolling hills lot of Oak Trees and good grazing for livestock.
Commercial Property in Winters or surrounding area.
Commercial Property in Winters Area would like a
warehouse on property or be able to build one
Is your home in foreclosure? Need a quick sale?
Have a cash buyer.
LET SOMEONE ELSE SETTLE
FOR A GOOD REALTOR
“YOU DESERVE THE VERY BEST!”
Charlotte Lloyd
NEW LISTING: 820 Jefferson. Adorable 3/2.
Granite counter tops, jetted tub. Fire place and
more. $379,000.
CAMELOT
WINTERS
37 Main Street
Rarely Found 157 Ac parcel Beatiful rolling hills with scattered oak trees Easy access to I-505 Only 10 minutes north of Winters. Build your own private estate
MEMBER OF YOLO AND SOLANO MLS
SPECIALIZING IN RESIDENTIAL AND COUNTRY PROPERTIES
Great central location in Esparto with alley access. 2+/2 with detached garage. $430,000
Sandy's Corner
on theMarket!
Taking
Applications
400 Morgan St.
795-1033 M-F 9-1
Every want to live on a golf course? Here is your chance!! Beautiful home located in Wild Wings Subdivision. Backs up to Yolo Fliers Club. 3 bedroom 21/2 bath
with separate office, romantic masterbedroom with sitting area and fireplace, granite counters, cherry wood cabinets, cherrywood floors, 3 fireplaces, over 2500 sq.
ft. beautifully landscaped. Call today for your private showing only $645,900
NEW LISTING: VIEWS! VIEWS! Unbelievable 5 ac ranch located in the Winters
hills. Sit on the front porch sipping your morning coffee while enjoying the beautiful
view. Not only does this property have the view to die for but it also has several
acres of useable property for livestock. Property boasts custom ranch style home,
workshop with office, 2 stall barn with hay storage, fenced and cross fenced. Call
for your appt. today!!! Priced at only $950,000!
Opening doors to successful real estate transactions for more than 20
years.
Winters Sr.
Apartments
Steel Buildings
Cuttin' The Hassle!
M2 &
Company
FOR SALE ~ 795-4000 ~ SOLD ~ 795-4000
~ SOLD ~ 795-4000 ~ SOLD ~ 795-4000 ~ SOLD
Real Estate
~ SOLD ~ FOR SALE ~ 795-4000
Leasing
795-4000
Real Estate
~
Rentals
FOR SALE
Yard Sale
Real Estate
795-4000
Real Estate
Gutter Cleaning
A+ GUTTER CLEANING
WINDOW CLEANING
FREE ESTIMATES
530-758-6891
530-613-6000 cell
Jim Henning, Owner
HARDWOOD FLOORS
AMAZING WOOD FLOORS
All types of hardwood floors.
Installation, refinishing, custom work.
Lic# 859611 (530) 219-4902
LAND LEVELING
or KEEP IT SIMPLE
Your design or ours. Simple finish or
Stamped! Color? Stone & Brick
Driveways l Decks l Trellises
20 yrs. experience. Warner & Co.
(530)304-6404 Lic. #387764
Affordable Int./Ext. Painting
“It’s all in the prep work”
Bonded & Insured Lic#803074
(530) 219-0565
RAMIREZ PAINT
Interior and Exterior
Free Estimates
Ask for Rich
707-373-9106
(707) 435-8551
St. Lic. #852962
Paralegal
MOBILE PARALEGAL
Why Pay More?
Living Trust, Divorce, Support,
Visitation Modifications
24 hrs/7 days/week
(707) 451-3581
Pool Maintenance
HENNAGIN
LAND LEVELING, INC.
Lic. #390827
Editing Services
Proofreading, indexing,
editing, technical writing
L. Ireland
(916) 371-3480
40 years Experience
Grading, Pads, Roads, etc.
Cell (707) 689-4040
Heating & Air
Fencing
(888) 925-8334
Castcon Co. Gen. Contractor
All phases of constr., from your sidewalk to your back fence. For info.
Call (707) 689-4403
#790696
Michael Eads
Toll Free: 1-866-733-3031
Cell: 1-530-308-1986
Lic#: 869925
Fencing
THE FENCE SPECIALIST
LANDSCAPING
(707) 451-9394
Cardona’s Garden
ROTOTILLING
New lawns, sprinkler installation,
tree trimming, clean-ups, hauling,
& regular lawn maintenance,
Call, 795-4406
Your ad could be here
for $5.00 per week
Call 795-4551
Your ad could be here
for $5.00 per week
Call 795-4551
OLLER Construction
Redwood/Cedar/Vinyl
All Styles, 25 yrs exp.
Lic#576472
Weekly Service
Full Service
Mini Service
Chemical Only
Call: Nancy S. Meyer
Plumbing
Quality Plumbing
and Improvements
Repair & New Installation Service
Commercial & Residential
Kitchen & Bath Remodels
Modular Homes “Our Specialty”
530-787-3868
Lic. & Bonded #840327
Retractable Screens
A Disappearing Screen That’s a
Perfect Fit Every Time!
(530) 795-NANC(6262) • mobile & 24 hr. V.M.
“Your Winters Property Specialist”
Call me to line up a tour of area properties or stop by
Pardehsa Store (Corner of Hwy 128 and Pleasants Valley Rd.)
to pick up a flier on properties we have listed.
E-mail: [email protected]
Created on-site so expertly
installed you’ll hardly know
they are there.
530-304-2002
I live in Winters