Gardeners — learn what to do while waiting for spring

By Denise Cottrell

In February, Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog, predicted six more weeks of winter when he emerged from his home and saw his shadow. His prediction did not seem possible a week ago with almond trees blooming and temperatures inching toward the 70s. Yet, he was correct — temperatures have dropped and winter is still here. What’s a gardener to do? There are several tasks that will help to prepare your garden for spring.

WFoL tree sale

If you have always wanted to plant fruit trees in your garden, March still affords the opportunity to plant bare-root fruit trees. If this is on your garden agenda, don’t miss the Winters Friends of the Library (WFoL) bare root tree sale on Saturday, March 4 where a Master Gardener will be available to answer your questions about planting and care of a bare root fruit tree. Rain or shine, the sale begins at 9 a.m., and a pre-sale for WFoL members at 8:30 a.m. Not a member? Join at the gate. The sale is located on the corner

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of Railroad Avenue and Edwards Street where you will find WFoL selling apricot, nectarine, peach, plum, pluot, prune, apple, cherry, pear, almond, walnut and olive trees. The cost is $20 per tree.

Free events

While waiting for spring, don’t forget the UCCE Master Gardeners of Yolo will present a number of workshops, talks, and classes throughout the month of March.

A wide variety of topics are covered, and all Master Gardener events are open to the public at no cost. The events for March 2023 are listed below.

March 4: Kitchen Garden

Chat

The regular monthly Kitchen Garden

Chat led by UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener Treva Valentine will continue Saturday, March 4, from 10–11 a.m. on Zoom only, at ucanr.zoom. us/j/98028723763.

This month’s topic is “What to be Doing in the March Edible Garden” and will include information on everything you ever wanted to know about starting your own plants from seed. Participants are encouraged to bring all their edible garden questions to share.

March 6: Herb Gardening Class

An Herb Gardening Class will be held at on March 6 at 1 p.m. at the West Sacramento Community Center located at 1075 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento. If you want to learn about starting and maintaining an herb garden, this is the class. For more information, please contact UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener Janet Branaman at branamanj4@ gmail.com.

March 9: Yolo Master Gardener–Yolo Library Workshop

On Thursday, March 9, from 3–4 p.m., “Some Tips on Growing Tomatoes in the Garden” will be led by retired UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Gene Miyao. This is the workshop

Eventos hispanos

Resúmen de noticias de la ciudad

Ciudad en busca de comisionados

La Ciudad de Winters continúa buscando candidatos para comisionados. Hay cuatro asientos abiertos en cuatro comisiones de la Ciudad.

Las aperturas son:

Un puesto en la Comisión Asesora Hispana de Winters (Winters Hispanic Advisory Commission) el cual expira el 20 de Diciembre del 2025.

Un puesto en la Comisión Senior Para Personas Mayores de Winters (Winters Senior Commission on Aging) el cual expira el 1 de Junio.

Un puesto en la Comisión de Planificación de Winters (Winters Planning Commission) el cual expira el 1 de Julio del 2025.

Dos puestos en la Comisión de Acción Climática (Climate Action Commission) el cual expira el 30 de Junio del 2024.

Vea los detalles de los puestos de comisionado disponibles en línea en https:// tinyurl.com/2s3t53mx.

Reuniones comunitarias

El Jueves 2 de Marzo a las 6 p. m. se llevará a cabo una reunión conjunta del Concejo Municipal de Winters (Winters City Council) y la Comisión de Planificación. en el Salón Comunitario del Centro de Seguridad Pública (Public Safety Facility Community Room). La reunión en persona es un tall- er comunitario para el proyecto de visión del centro (Downtown Visioning Project). El personal de la ciudad está pidiendo a la comunidad que comparta comentarios sobre posibles recomendaciones y opciones de programas para el centro de la ciudad, específicamente relacionados con cenas y reuniones al aire libre, cierres de calles, estacionamiento, uso de los callejones y recolección de basura.

El Concejo Municipal y el personal discutirán las metas y los proyectos prioritarios en un Taller de Establecimiento de Metas el Miércoles 22 de Marzo de 9 a.m. a 2 p.m. La reunión en persona tendrá lugar en la gran sala de conferencias del Ayuntamiento (Winters City Hall), en la entrada de Abbey Street.

Feria de Salud Comunitaria

Winters Healthcare se ha asociado con UC Davis Latinos United for Cancer Health Advancement, RISE Inc y Genentech para organizar una feria de salud comunitaria para la prevención del cáncer y para educar sobre el cáncer colorrectal. El evento for everyone who grows or wants to grow tomatoes, so bring your tomato-growing questions. In his presentation, Miyao will cover the basics and some of the not-sobasics about tomato planting and watering smart. Join on Zoom at yolocounty.zoom. us/j/81440969077. For more information about this workshop, contact Jennifer Baumbach at jmbaumbach@ucanr.edu or Joan Tuss at Joan. Tuss@yolocounty.org. de la feria de salud tendrá lugar en Winters City Park el Sábado 11 de Marzo de 9 a. m. a 1 p. m. Se invita a la comunidad a unirse y aprender sobre su salud y estar al tanto de los recursos y exámenes de salud disponibles en la comunidad.

Torneo de Baloncesto Capstone

El estudiante de Winters High School, Ernesto Villalobos, está organizando un Torneo de Baloncesto de Olimpiadas Especiales para su proyecto final de Capstone del último año dle Winters High School. Los estudiantes de la clase Winters Life Skills y los miembros del equipo Davis se enfrentan cara a cara en la cancha el Viernes 3 de Marzo. Las puertas del gimnasio de la WHS se abren a los espectadores a las 5 p. m., los jugadores entran a la cancha para jugar a las 6 p.m. La entrada al evento es gratuita. Se aceptarán donaciones durante el evento. Todos los ingresos y las donaciones en efectivo se compartirán para apoyar los programas del Equipo Davis y la Clase de Habilidades para la Vida del WHS.

Logros del Winters FFA and idea and knew it’d be an asset to our town. The special thing about Winters is we love this town and don’t always want to leave it, so it’s nice to be able to come to get a gift here on Main Street and support our local economy.”

El pasado Miércoles 8 de Febrero, los miembros del capítulo Winters FFA viajaron a River City High School en West Sacramento para competir en la competencia de oratoria seccional. Winters FFA compitió contra diferentes escuelas en su sección, incluidas Davis, Delta, Esparto, Woodland, Woodland Pioneer y Woodland Christian. Una nueva competencia este año fue el Concurso de Oratoria del Credo en Español, en el que los concursantes recitan el Credo en Español y responden preguntas en Español. En la división de estudiantes de último año, Guadalupe López quedó en primer lugar y en la división de estudiantes de primer año, Melissa Barrera quedó en segundo lugar.

After weathering a pandemic, wildfires and inflation on top of every other challenge of beginning a business, The Winters Collective entrepreneurs have proven themselves to be as resilient and tenacious as the community itself. Another nomination letter praised the Win-

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Continued from Page 1 to provide input to the two councilmembers on this project.

During the public comment section of the discussion, Paul Kastner inquired about having the ad hoc committee develop a long-term plan with the $100,000 before starting any construction, and encouraged the ad hoc committee to work with the community on this project.

Trepa replied that another architectural firm the city already consulted was of the opinion that the project’s scope was so ambitious that it would require much of the engineering to be finished before they could draw up any plans, which will likely cost far more than $100,000.

Further, Trepa ex- the WPD social media announcement, the supervisors who nominated Kenney remarked on how he would show up to work every day with a positive attitude and is friendly and approachable with citizens on his calls. WPD also emphasized that he’s a team player, burns with passion for his job and inspires those around him.

Some of Kenney’s

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Meaning if they choose the hybrid system and technical difficulties disrupt the livestream, the meeting would have to stop until the difficulties were fixed. With remote access as a convenience, the public could attend and participate remotely, but the council wouldn’t be forced to stop if a glitch occurs.

Technical difficulties have occurred recently. The Jan. 10 meeting had to be in-person only because of an issue with the recording system, and the audio for the Feb. 7 meeting wasn’t recorded, leaving no electronic archive.

Community members Kate Laddish and Ken Britton expressed support for the accessibility that virtual resources have provided to them and other Winters residents. Laddish shared about a coun- ters Collective team for coming up with new ways to draw people to downtown Winters and for providing “space for locals to bring their ideas to life.”

The business thrived and evolved through the launch of the Studio Collective. In the space, Ogando and vendors were able to host workshops, classes and art shows. Outside of the storefront, they brought to life community fashion shows featuring local children and community members. They also host holiday shopping events like a Galentine’s Day event.

The Winters Collective is hosting its plained that the SACOG grant can’t just be used for design, the grant money has to go towards construction in some capacity. annual, Spring fashion show during the Spring open event on Friday, March 24. all women in business together, working together and it’s pretty magical and special

“We need to do a physical installation as part of the $100,000 from the SACOG grant,” Trepa said.

“We try hard not to be just a regular retail store. We try to bring special events for the children and for the parents in town to make it a fun addition to Winters.”

“I’m proud and I definitely could not do it without all the involvement and support from our collective members. It is a cooperative where it’s construction of those elements would incur.

“Any of what was envisioned previously is a very expensive park… so if we’re still trying to get to the concepts that have been discussed through the years…I would recommend that, again, we to see it all happen,” Ogando said, praising her collective members. “I’m honored and value what we bring to the community. We try hard not to committee, and asked Trepa, “Is there anything stopping us from forming an ad hoc to come up with chunks we think we need, disband it at the end of the year, and then just allow the plan that was developed to proceed?” which Trepa confirmed was within the capabilities of the City Council. be just a regular retail store. We try to bring special events for the children and for the parents in town to make it a fun addition to Winters.” Ogando said her vendors go above and beyond to offer private shopping opportunities for the community, especially during the pandemic. She noted that they also have provided personalized and custom shopping for special gift requests, including providing workshops and classes for customers to participate in.

“Mainly, we’re all locals, we care, we know each other, we take the time to get to know our have now, the pathway we have through there, and what do we do moving forward.” customers and where they’re from,” Ogando said. The Winters Collective will be formally honored as the 2022 Business of the Year at the annual Toast to Winters event, planned for Friday, March 31 at the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Sacramento–Winters. Tickets are $90 per person and must be purchased in advance at the Winters District Chamber of Commerce’s website www.winterschamber.com.

“It doesn’t have to be all of the $100,000, but we have to show that we’ve made some physical improvements.”

Trepa reiterated the complexity of all proposed elements of the park and the high cost that a complete notable accomplishments of the year are his industriousness in helping create a one-to-one mentor program for cadets as well as organizing the WPD’s “Shop with a Cop” Christmastime initiative.

“The top highlight for me was organizing the Shop with a Cop event,” said Kenney. “For the first time since the event was introduced, we were able to take two families on a shopping trip for Christmas. They were able to buy their ty initiative, SB 411, that allows legislative bodies with appointed members to continue using a virtual meeting system. Britton spoke on how virtual meetings helped to reduce city officials’ carbon footprint.

Councilmember

Carol Scianna stated her support for the video option as a convenience so they wouldn’t have to cancel meetings due to a glitch and would still allow the community to participate and watch.

Mayor Pro Tempore Albert Vallecillo agreed, and inquired on how SB 411 would interact with the decision. Trepa explained that SB 411 doesn’t overlap with the expiring public emergency measure that allowed for virtual meetings, and noted do it a little bit differently,” Trepa said, and that with the $100,000 currently on the table, the council needs to be focused and deliberate.

Councilmember Richard Casavecchia asked about the framework of an ad hoc siblings and parents gifts for the holidays. Seeing their excitement and joy was the highlight of the year.”

From his service to his integrity as an officer, Kenney is a proud representation of law enforcement everywhere — but especially here in Winters.

“Officer Kenney was one of my Explorers (cadets) at Vallejo Police Department, back in the late 2000s and I worked with his older brother at Vallejo PD as well. He pursued other endeavors in the that there is a difference between the City Council and Planning Commission meetings and the other city committees.

Trepa said there is a strain on city staff when they run multiple hybrid meetings a week and the technology would require extra effort on their part. She did say things may change once SB 411 is passed, and that councilmembers could revisit the discussion once it passes.

Councilmember Richard Casavecchia asked if there was “a functional difference between Zoom as a convenience and full hybrid platform for us?”

Trepa answered that “there’s no functional difference, we still have to go through the same effort, the only difference is the legal

Councilmember Carol Scianna expressed her hope that the ad hoc committee could get the designs finished and work on some screenings and hoped that the community could get involved with the ad hoc committee, as well as informally nominating Mayor Pro Tempore Albert Vallecillo to sit on the committee.

Mayor Bill Biasi summarized the mandate of the ad hoc committee by saying “what we need to do is to focus on what we private sector prior to pursuing becoming an officer and he chose to work at Winters PD because he truly wanted to work at a supportive agency with a supportive community where he could make a difference,” said Police Chief John P. Miller. “He is the quality officer we seek and are trying to retain, and with the drastic shortage of qualified applicants to law enforcement, he literally could go anywhere he wanted — but we hope he doesn’t.” requirement where Zoom is a convenience we don’t have to stop the meeting if we have a technology interruption.”

Council did not have to take action but did express agreement to go back to traditional meetings and to utilize Zoom as a convenience for City Council and Planning Commission meetings only. The other commissions will meet in-person only, effective March 1.

Biasi stressed that the committee should “take input from the community” and,“get as much feedback as possible…and prioritize what’s the most important.” Casavecchia and Vallecillo volunteered to sit on the ad hoc committee, and the council unanimously approved the committee’s creation.

This picture of James “Spider” Thomas was taken in the summer of 1969 — when he was commuting between Pitts eld, Massachussetts — where he pitched for the Pitts eld Red Sox in the AA Eastern League, and McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, where he was assigned with the Air Force Reserves. Spider is one of the top ten athletes

100 Years Ago

March 2, 1878

(From the files of the Winters Advocate)

Observing a rush being made on Thursday last to the drug store of Thomas Keefe, on entering the store we found the excitement to proceed from parties bringing in gold obtained from the foothills near Winters, on the sheep range of J. R. Briggs. Messrs. Seeley and Steward obtained four ounces and a half, by the panning process, the rainfall furnishing the fluid. The existence of gold in the hills around Winters has long been known, and attempts have been made at times to work it out, but want of water rendered the efforts made unsuccessful.

The portion of the railroad bridge across the creek at this point, which was pressed out of line when the centre bents gave way, has been readjusted and connection will again be made in the course of the coming week.

The youngsters who made a raid on the Advocate printing office and carried off a quantity of job type and cuts, are notified that unless they return the same immediately they will be placed under arrest.

Public Safety Report

Released on Notice

City of Winters

Fire

Feb. 9: 5:44 a.m., medical aid, 900 block of Taylor Street

Feb. 10: 12:43 p.m., grass fire, Russell Boulevard/CR 93A

~4:56 p.m., medical aid, 300 block of Railroad Avenue

Feb. 11: 2:56 a.m., investigation (electrical), 600 block of Fourth Street

~8:06 a.m., medical aid, 100 block of Orchard Lane

~10:40 p.m., vehicle accident, Highway 128

Feb. 12: 12:45 p.m., medical aid, 10 block of Edwards Street

~6:50 p.m., medical aid, 830 block of W. Main Street

~6:55 p.m., medical aid, 100 block of Orchard Lane

~9:44 p.m., medical aid, 10 block of Priscilla Court

Feb. 13: 7:50 a.m., medical aid, 110 block of E. Baker Street

~1:11 a.m., carbon