1: With potential employment just a conversation away, hundreds of eager Yolo County job seekers packed themselves into the Woodland Community College Community Room at the southern end of the campus located at 2300 E. Gibson Road for a local Job Fair.

2: An excessive heat warning has been issued by the U.S. National Weather Service in Sacramento for Yolo County through the evening of Sunday, July 7.

3: The Woodland Police Department’s Woodland Police Activities League wrapped up a fun week for local youth that included trips to the Sacramento Railroad Museum, Query Park, the Woodland Police Station and a morning at Charles Brooks Community Swim Center.

4: The Woodland City Council approved the Police Department’s military equipment use annual report, which highlighted how often the equipment has been used in the last year while also providing a summary of the equipment.

5: Over 1,500 hungry Woodland residents congregated at Fire Station 3, located at 1550 Springlake Ct., for the annual Fourth of July pancake breakfast. From 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., lines up the block and a bevy of activities, including taking photos with vintage fire engines, bounce houses, snow cone vendors, and more, were the first things one saw as the station went all out to host the city’s first planned event of the day.

6: Yolo County experienced another year of growth as reflected in the assessment roll data released recently by the county’s Assessor/Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters, Jesse Salinas. According to Salinas, the annual assessment roll reached $37.99 billion, a 5.16% increase over the prior year, largely on the growing demand for single-family housing.

7: Twenty-one foster youth were feted during a unique graduation ceremony at Woodland Community College for beating the odds and obtaining their high school and college degrees.

8: For the second time in a month, a person has been named to the Yolo County Fair Board of Directors by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Acting last week, Newsom named Ryan Soden of Woodland to the 40th District Agricultural Association. Soden’s appointment leaves a single seat available on the nine-member board, which has been operating three people short.

9: Montana State University’s most prestigious scholarship has been awarded to 21 high school graduates from across the nation and world, including recent Woodland High School graduate Kylie Mills.

10: After a few years of planning and then developing, avid pickleball players now have a beautiful new place to play the game. On a cool Tuesday morning, city of Woodland officials, local residents and Woodland Area Pickleball Association members converged at Crawford Park, located at 1733 College St., for a celebratory ribbon-cutting commemorating the completion of brand new pickleball courts.

11: Corner Drug Co., which has been serving Yolo County since 1897 as one of Woodland’s oldest businesses and the third-oldest pharmacy in California, recently completed its transition to the third generation of ownership. The new ownership team is led by pharmacy manager Sara Shelley.

12: Congressman Mike Thompson, D-Yolo, co-sponsored The End Veteran Homelessness Act of 2024, which seeks to address casework backlogs and expand the eligibility for the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program.

13: Yolo County Supervisors Angel Barajas and Lucas Frerichs hosted a successful second Western Yolo Ag Roundtable on Tuesday, July 2 at the Capay Valley Health and Community Center. The goal of the roundtable was to strengthen relationships with the agricultural community in western Yolo County, present current information on programs and services and provide a forum for discussion.

14: The Yolo Transportation District sough public feedback for its 2024-2031 Short Range Transit Plan through a short online survey.

15: The Yolo County Board of Supervisors received the annual update from Valley Clean Energy at their most recent board meeting. Valley Clean Energy is the locally governed not-for-profit electricity provider for Davis, Woodland, Winters and unincorporated Yolo County that works to provide clean electricity, product choice and greenhouse gas emission reductions.

16: Despite the tough campaign, four members of the Woodland High School softball team were recognized by the Golden Empire League for their individual efforts this season. Junior Addison Tetreault and sophomore Emily Rathjen earned All-GEL selections. Senior Maddy Leach and junior Izzy Loesch received honorable mentions from the league.

17: Earlier this month, members of Ms. Halden’s 1948 fourth grade class at Beamer Elementary School and then later the Woodland High School Class of 1956 got together at The Burger Saloon to celebrate a birthday, life and everlasting friendships.

18: Despite 100-degree heat, members of the Woodland League of Women Voters came out to the Woodland Community & Senior Center to view a commemorative tree and stone reflecting its 50-year history installed in the Legacy Grove near the center’s dog park.

19: United Way held its Woodland KinderCamp program’s graduation ceremony celebrating more than 25 incoming kindergartners Saturday at Prairie Elementary School located at 1444 Stetson St. in Woodland. The four-week program helps children who did not attend preschool prepare for kindergarten.

20: The 2024 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count revealed a “notable increase” in individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Yolo County. First conducted in 2005, the Point in Time (PIT) Count is an unduplicated count of persons experiencing homelessness on a single night within the last 10 days of January, providing a snapshot of the community’s most vulnerable members.

21: Earlier this week, the city of Woodland Planning Commission hosted a ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2024 Heritage Home and Historic Preservation Awards. The Thursday evening ceremony, held inside the City Council Chambers at 300 First St., honored five historic homes and a historical building with a Heritage Home and a Historic Preservation Award, respectively.

22: BerryFest, the renowned celebration of all things berry-related, was thrilled to announce its return and relocation to Woodland at the Yolo County Fairgrounds for its upcoming festival on May 10 and 11, 2025.

23: Yolo County is proactively enhancing the security and trustworthiness of its online presence by transitioning all county professional email accounts and webpages from the “.org” domain to the “.gov” domain.

24: A 20-year-old resident of Grimes was arrested early Tuesday morning in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred over four years ago in Woodland. Dennis Jaramillo was arrested in Colusa County and booked at the Yolo County Jail for murder and participating in a criminal street gang.

25: A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Esparto Community Park to celebrate the installation of a new playground structure, an initiative driven by community involvement. Earlier in the month, Yolo County Supervisor Angel Barajas, alongside his board colleagues, led the event, which saw an enthusiastic turnout of over 150 attendees.

26: A group of citizens has formed the Yes on Measure T Committee, the campaign to finance services for both the new South Davis Library being constructed in Walnut Park and the existing Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library in North Davis.

27: Congressman Mike Thompson announced Thursday he secured $275,000 in community project funding for Meals on Wheels Yolo County to add a second kitchen to its Sutter Health Senior Nutrition Center in Winters to expand its meal production for seniors.

28: It’s taken more than five years, but work on Woodland’s Mosque & Islamic Center is nearly complete. A “Heritage Tree Planting” was held at the brightly colored mosque earlier this week with about 45 community representatives in attendance. The tree planting honors the founders of the Mosque for future generations.

29: For several months, cultural practitioner Diana Almendariz has been showing people how to use tule reeds to recreate a variety of Native American tools. Earlier in the month, Almendariz worked with about 25 people who were weaving tule mats, helping them select reeds and tying them together as part of the Tending and Gathering Garden Steering Committee’s efforts to teach cultural history.

30: Woodland Community College recently announced the selection of Kathy Sorensen as the new vice president of instruction, pending approval by the Yuba Community College District Board of Trustees on Aug. 8.

31: The Yolo County Board of Supervisors approved an increase in water and sewer charges for the Wild Wings County Service Area in Woodland.