Winters Express Youth Day Special Edition - April 27-28, 2018

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Winters Express Youth Day Mini Events Calendar Friday, April 27

5:30 p.m. Duck Derby begins behind the Community Center.

5:30 p.m. Buckhorn honors Youth City Council, Grand Marshals and Sweetheart courts at the Winters Street Meet, outside the Buckhorn 7:00 p.m. Opening ceremonies and Duck Derby awards, Rotary Park Gazebo

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6:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Rotary pancake breakfast (Winters Community Center) 8:45 a.m. Kiddie Parade sign ups (at the corner of 4th & Main Streets) 9:45 a.m. Kiddie Parade (Start: 4th & Main Street, 1st & Main Street, 1st & Baker; End: 3rd & Baker) 10:00 a.m. Main Parade (Main Street) 10:00 a.m. Horseshoe tournament ($20/person, $40/team; by the pits in City Park) 11:30 a.m-5:00 p.m. Autos for Autism Car Show (Main Street along south side of park)

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11:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m. DJRockALot spins tunes (City Park Stage) 12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Kid’s fair in the Park (Little League Field) 12:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Food and crafts (City Park) 12:00 p.m. Winters Express Scavenger Hunt (Ages 2-6; See Winters Express booth for information) 1:00 p.m. Winters Express Scavenger Hunt (Ages 7-10; See Winters Express booth for information) 1:00 p.m. Kelly the Clown (Park Stage) 2:00 p.m. Winters Express Scavenger Hunt (Ages 11-18; See Winters Express booth for information) 2:00 p.m. Parade Awards (Park Stage) 2:30 p.m. Dance-Off (Park Stage) 3:00 p.m. Lip Sync (Park Stage) 3:30 p.m. Singing Contest (Karaoke will not be available, so bring your own music to sing; Park Stage) 7:00 –10:00 p.m. Free concert (The Black Rock Project; Park Stage)

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Oh, the places youth can go! the elected city officials for a week. At the end of the week, espite the rain, a missing a celebration was held with bus and high security, great food, competitive games, nine civics-interested socializing and a “Youth Day students and three fearless Parade” to honor the serleaders made it to the state cap- vice of the elected officers. itol building again this year.

Back in the day, the youth These nine Winters High council was able to have a School students are part of “hands-on-experience” with the City of Winters Youth City their respective city counterCouncil, elected by fellow stuparts. However, with time, dents to learn more about Win- as is such with life, there has ters city government as well as been change. Noteworthy, the future obligations in civics, so- youth council no longer has ciety and business. The youth the opportunity to “take over council foundation was crethe elected offices” or shadow ated by Dr. A.M. Herron, high their elected counterparts, school principal, and Reverend making this year’s youth expeCharles P. Barkman in 1933. rience at the capital invaluable.

Electing a youth city council This year’s Winters Youth is an 82-year tradition here City Council made history in Winters, 20 of which enof their own with their tour compassed a trip and tour to the capitol. They were the of the state capitol building. first Winters youth council to Originally, the youth were visit Assemblymember Cecilable to take over the offices of See CAPITOL, Page 4

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Youth City Council officials venturing to the state capital this year included the following: Victor Angel, City Treasurer; Yolanda Covarrubias, Social Media Director; Fatima Melendez, City Manager; Nataly Hernandez, Mayor Pro Tem; Jackie Ayala, Fire Chief; Itzel Rodriguez, City Council; Karina Del Toro, Sweetheart; and Audrey Saechao, Sweetheart Court.

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an woman to be sworn into the state senate. The security was ia Aguiar-Curry, prior Winters high and the senate room could not be toured, but the immense mayor. Additionally, the tour date was shared with Toni Atkins, power of the LGBT flag under the capitol roof was something the first woman and first lesbiCAPITOL, from Page 3

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no other previous youth council had a chance to experience.

Aguiar-Curry encouraged the students to keep searching, noting that it took her until she was in her 60’s to figure out that she wanted to be an assembly member..

The Youth Day Committee provided the students with a lunch catered by Lorenzo’s Town and Country Market.

The adult leaders on the tour year were Jenny Ramos of the Winters School District special education program, Winters High School Principal Nichole Reyherme and Mike Sebastian, Youth Day guru.

The youth would not have had the opportunity to have been inspired by the leaders, to laugh with Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, to further their education in

the regiment of the assembly and senate, nor made history themselves as the 2018 City of Winters Youth City Council were it not for the perseverance, dedication and creative thinking of these individuals.

When asked why they participated with the City of Winters Youth Council, Mike Sebastian opened up about the spirit of Youth Day: “The whole premise of Youth Day was to teach the kids how city government worked.

I decided why not go a step further and give them a taste of how state government worked. So, about 20 years ago, I got together with then Assemblywoman Lois Wolk and we started the visits to her office and the Capitol tour. It makes me happy to see these kids show interest and stay involved with Youth Day.” ❧

Don’t tell the kids the makeout music starts at 7 p.m.

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he Blackrock Project, a Fairfield musical group, will perform Youth Day, Saturday, April 28th at 7 p.m. in Winters City Park. Enjoy, at no cost, three hours of classic Courtesy Photo rock, music funk, and Motown (mostly music from the ‘60’s and The group has the ability to ‘70’s). The Band covers a wide match its music to the type of range -- the Beatles, Carlos San- audience present. For those tana, Stealers Wheel, Sly and the who were listening to the music Family Stone are examples. The back when, find some energy. group plays well, sings well, and Come early, leave early, and has an extensive musical pediyou won’t bother the party anigree backed by years of music mals and younger aficionados. acumen. You can view some video Better yet, listen in your cars performances at blackrock.com. and make out. Memories! ❧

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The history of Winters High School’s weirdest club

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he safest way to apcompetition – something that proach high school is to had never happened prior. slot yourself somewhere “What was cool about the club among the preexisting social was that it attracted all sorts of cliques and glide through with people,” said Jay Shuttleworth, as little resistance as possible. former Winters High School The story of the Ultimate War- history teacher and Ultimate riors is one that goes out of its Warriors advisor. “These way to skirt that convention. were some of the kindest, most The high school club’s run thoughtful people on campus – was brief (2001-2007, with some accomplished musicians, writwiggle room on both ends) but ers, athletes and scholars. There was no way to typecast them.” resonant. Much of the club’s At their core, the Ultimate history is lost to time, having Warriors were a spirit club that existed just before the arrival performed skits at rallies, but of social media and cell phone cameras. A dozen or so yearbook the execution looked like a messy blend of drama, cheer, debate and pages and Winters Express spreads represent the surviving detention-bound class clown. confirmation of the club’s exis- With no existing blueprint dictating their plans, the lane was tence. As a result, this story is largely built upon the memories wide open for experimentation.

“I remember thinking, ‘You of students, teachers and administrators from that period. guys are crazy, but this is exactly what you should be doing,’” What started on a lark by a collection of rule-bending Win- said Shuttleworth. “Don’t just fit ters High School seniors on their into what exists here already.” way out the door would take on a more refined focus in the years Sanctioned pranksters that followed their graduation.

The two students who foundFuture classes would use the ed the club in fall of 2001, Sean club as a vehicle for prodding Young and Fernando Flores, at social norms and questiongraduated out of Winters High ing administration rules, emSchool the following spring. bodied most notably by their The bulk of its most active nomination in 2003 of a female See ULTIMATE, Page 6 for the popular Mr. Warrior

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members (the author included) also walked the stage that year.

The club very well could have slipped into obscurity upon arrival, but it didn’t play out that way. A group of young, creative students lay in waiting.

“We made it representative of us and it sounds like future classes did, too,” said Young, who said the group offered he and his friends a sanctioned outlet for their tomfoolery. “It became whatever the group of student wanted to make it that particular year.”

Staff at the Winters High School office could not produce documentation of the club’s inception, but the general consensus is that it was born after Shuttleworth played a VHS tape of the Aggie Pack, a quirky UC Davis spirit club that was particularly vibrant in the ‘90s. Members dressed up and performed impromptu skits at sporting events and other campus activities, often times with an element of surprise akin to the flash mob craze that would arrive a decade later.

Sometime around the viewing of that tape, a few friends of Flores and Young did a dance-oriented performance of the Jackson 5 at a rally. Those two events, in some order, birthed the Ultimate Warriors, which borrowed their name from the iconic 1980s wrestler.

In the ensuing years, the club would go on to perform choreographed skits inspired by

the Village People, New Kids on the Block and Riverdance, 2001 Space Odyssey, Monte Python, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Men in Tights, Grease and more.

Mike Paschoal, a year-round athlete, was heavily involved in the club’s formation. He saw it as an opportunity to have a good time with many of his longtime friends who didn’t play football or baseball.

“I think that’s the biggest thing about it,” Paschoal said.

“None of my close guy friends played sports, so it was a place for all of our zany ideas.”

At least 20 of the 28 members pictured in the Ultimate Warriors 2001 yearbook page were seniors, so the club was bequeathed to a loose collection of youngsters when they graduated. By 2003, though, the club was 22 students strong and as organized and inspired as they’d ever been, if not more so.

Ms. Warrior

In the spring of 2003, the Ultimate Warriors gathered to nominate their representative for the annual Mr. Warrior competition. They didn’t go into that meeting with the intention of making a statement, but they came out with one.

Their nominee would be Maggie Brewer, a talented musician and bright student, and the first female ever nominated.

Neither Shuttleworth nor Brewer could recall precisely how the meeting played out – See ULTIMATE, Page 10

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raternal twin boys were born to Tim and Esmeralda Barnett on Oct. 10, 2010. The first to arrive was Evan and after three more hours, Aaron. All vitals for the twins and Mom were good, and the new family traveled back to their home in Winters to raise their newborns.

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Life for the Barnetts went on for a couple of years, but over time, a few things just seemed different with Evan. The twins’ grandmother noticed right away that something wasn’t quite right with Evan.

As new parents, this was hard and upsetting to hear. As Tim put it, “a hard pill to swallow.”

Tim gave and an example of one of the difference detected early on. “If someone would clap their hands behind Aaron’s head, he would jump, whereas Evan would not even flinch.” As new parents they began to question if they had done something wrong and had some self blame initially. An

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Tim said that they at first thought he might be deaf, but then things progressed and their search for what was different about Evan went on for another couple of years.

Tim and Esmeralda sought more answers, and with the help of Alter Regional of Sacramento, Evan was diagnosed See AWARENESS, Page 12

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a boat-rocker. I’m the type of girl who wants to please everybody and follow the rules.”

Shuttleworth wanted to make sure she was up for it, so the two had a conversation in which he warned her that they’d probably run into some friction.

ULTIMATE, from Page 6 only that conversation led the classroom of students to nominate Brewer, who said she was hesitant as the idea materialized.

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Nora Cary was a fellow Ultimate Warrior at the time.

“I remember there being some animosity toward Maggie about it, but mostly toward the judges [and the] school for letting her compete,” Cary said. “I think people felt like Mr. Warrior was the boys’ answer to the typical girls-only beauty pageant.”

Brewer said she was supported steadfastly by the Ultimate Warriors, so much so that it felt like the club as a whole was carrying the nomination.

“It turned out to be super empowering,” she said. “I’m really glad it happened, but it wasn’t something I was really excited about in the moment.”

The school principal at the time was George Griffin.

“I remember there being some grumbling,” Griffin said. “But never anything beyond just some grumbling. I’m not sure everybody thought it was a great idea, but there was no legitimate reason to not allow it other than a tradition that doesn’t mean anything when weighed against gender equity.”

Shuttleworth strongly challenges Griffin’s characterization, saying he and Griffin had several arguments over whether Brewer could be the club’s nominee.

“I think George is being selective in his memory, as he and I bitterly clashed over this,” said Shuttleworth. “George shouldn’t be given much credit for allowing Maggie to participate when he absolutely

blocked her the first go-round.”

Sometime after Brewer was confirmed, another female student, Janell Shafer, was nominated to represent the yearbook class.

When the actual event arrived, Brewer went on to win the whole pageant. The Winters Express recapped it the following week in an article by Dawn Van Dyke.

“History was made at the annual Mr./Ms. Warrior Pageant when Maggie Brewer won the headdress and the title of Ms. Warrior,” she wrote.

“This was the first year that female contestants were allowed to enter the competition, and it was a tough one.”

Several females have gone on to participate in (and win?) the pageant in the years to follow.

Dancing on the line

The group of students who came in behind Brewer’s class carried with them not only the out-of-the-box silliness that distinguished the founding group, but also the somewhat activist bent it added in the ensuing years. Among those students was Andrew Fridae, who would go on after high school to play a major role in local theater and co-own The Palms Playhouse along with aforementioned Ultimate Warriors alumnus, Nora Cary.

“I wanted an outlet to be goofy in public,” said Fridae.

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AWARENESS, from Page 7 with autism at the age of 4.

What is Autism? In the medical field, autism is referred to an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Autism is “characterized by impaired social interactions, complications with verbal and nonverbal communication” as well as “repetitive behaviors or severely limited activities and interests,” according to the National Human Genome Research Institute.

About 1 percent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder. More than 3.5 million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder, according to Bloomberg. Prevalence in the United States is estimated at one 68 births. in

Tim and Esmeralda said they don’t think of their son as having a “disability” and that they deal with differences in the twins “just like everyone else”— as others would deal with differences in raising any other siblings. They said that “hope, love and faith” along with good and ongoing support of family and friends has been amazing.

Both extended great appreciation to Paul and Angela Biasi for being there for them. Tim said the Biasis are “one of the only families that truly understand.”

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Tim explained that “unpredictable loud noises” can “shut Evan down.” He said that after an encounter of an outburst or “tantrum”, many thought that he and Esmeralda were “bad parents.” Tim emphasized that having a child with autism is not being a bad parent or having poor parenting.

There will be a learning curve for the community understanding autism. It is right thing to educate and help people understand it — not only for our own children but for others with the same condition or any special needs, “disability” or otherwise not fully understood condition.

“We want to educate and get all the community to come together and help build awareness of autism,” summarized Tim, adding a special “thank you” to Paul Biasi and family for their help and support to make Autos for Autism event happen on Youth Day in 2018.

Biasi is the owner of Biasi’s Auto Repair and states “he felt like it was something he needed to do” to help others learn about autism so we can be more kind and understanding to those with autism and also their families. Paul’s love for classic cars and the heart he has for his friends over the years seemed like a perfect way to attract and generate awareness. ❧

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Youth Day fun, only 82 years young 2018

mayor Wade Cowan and Youth Day Mayor Emily Ferreira led the special group of volunnd teers leads the 82 Youth Council Delegation. Other counDay Parade: The Project cil members were Nataly HernanPlayground Committee. The City dez and Andrea Gonzales. The Council is represented by Mayor Sweetheart was Kenya Gallo and Wade Cowan, Youth Day Mayor Sweethunk Devon Muldong. This year’s parade marked 75 appearAndrea Gonzales and Council ances by the Yolo Post 77 Amermembers Nataly Hernandez, ican Legion Color Guard. It was Ian Lopez, Itzel Rodriguez and also the final parade for announcKyle Gardener. The Youth Day er and former Chairman Gilbert Sweetheart is Karina Del Toro and Sweethunk is Moises Garcia. Sebastian, retiring after 45 years Parade Chairman Mike Sebastian,as announcer. The parade had 58 celebrates 40 years as Parade An- entries in 2017. nouncer and Committee member.

The Autos for Autism Car Show he 80th Anniversary celewas added to the City Park Festivbration was a huge success. ities this year.

The Youth Day Parade was led by Grand Marshals, The Thomas Sisters. They have been inters Junior Warriors founders Rudy a huge part of the Winters Comand Shelly Baylor led munity from Swim Team to Grad st the 81 Youth Day Parade. Their Nite Chairpersons. City mayor contributions to the Junior War- Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Youth riors and Little League programs See TIMELINE, Page 14 could not go unnoticed. Winters

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TIMELINE, from Page 13 day Mayor Emily Ferreira kicked off the 80th Anniversary parade with Council members Mariah Castillo, Jolie Cintas, Nataly Hernandez and Valeria Serratos.

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he 78th Youth Day Parade was led by Winters Little League Mega-volunteers, Chris, John and Mark Rodriguez. outh Day honored They have led Winters Tawnya McCrackLittle League that was starten martin as Grand marshal for the 79th Parade. ed by their father Rudy Rodriguez. Youth Day She is a longtime volunMayor Fernando Cortes teer for FFA and 4-H, and and city Mayor Cecilia many other organizations.

Aguiar-Curry welcomed Winters mayor Cecilia everyone with Youth City Aguiar-Curry and Youth Council members Ignacio Day Mayor Edgar Chavez Ochoa and Micaela Tweedt. This year’s Youth Day Sweetheart was Alex Cushman and the Sweethunk was Jake Ivory. This year’s theme “May the Youth Be with You” brought out a fleet of Storm Troopers to the supports Winters Youth Day. Parade.

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ushered in Councilmembers Emily Ferreira, Mariah Castillo, Brooke Little and Sarah Hagy. This year’s Youth day Sweetheart was Isabel Angel and the Sweethunk was Chris Kays. The parade had 60 entries this year.

2013

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he 77th Youth Day Parade was led by Grand Marshals Don and Tracy Calvert, longtime community volunteers. Winters

Mayor Cecilia Aguiar-Curry introduced the Youth Day Mayor Nicholas Muldong.

Youth City Council members were Ka’eo Drumright and Paola Calderon. The Youth day Royalty were Sweetheart Yvette Valadez and Sweethunk Ty Spalding. The Youth Day Parade was chosen to host the 2013 California State Horseman’s Association (CSHA) Championship Parade, attracting horse entries from all over California. The parade had 75 entries total.

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inters Music Director Lynne Secrist led the 76th Youth Day Parade, being chosen for her dedication and energy put into the School District program over many years. City Mayor Woody Fridae and Youth Day mayor Kevin Lane led the council delegation. The 2012 Youth Day Sweetheart was Katie Clark and the Sweethunk was Isaac Asak.

Fun fact: 91 year old Vickie Southwick visited for the first time since she was in the first Youth Day Parade in 1933. ❧

Visit our website at www. wintersexpress.com/ youth-day for the full timeline of Youth Day and other useful and interesting family content.

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WINTERS EXPRESS COLORING CONTEST RULES Color & decorate the picture using crayons, colored pencils, poster paints, glitter or felt tip markers. Drop off your completed entry at The Winters Express’ Youth Day booth by 4 p.m..

1 winner will be chosen from each of 2 age groups —Ages 6-10 and under 6.

Entries will be judged on neatness, use of color and originality. The decision of the judges will be final. Immediate family members of the Winters Express employees are not eligible to enter.