Food bank gives away food on Tuesday
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 15, 2014 – The Yolo Food Bank will distribute free food items to eligible West Sacramento and Clarksburg residents on Tuesday, January 21. Visit the county building at 500...
View ArticleA tasty trip down Memory Lane in old-time West Sacramento
NEWS-LEDGER — FEB 5, 2014 – Last week a longtime West Sacramento resident and family friend, Sharon Cuff, stopped by the News-Ledger office to give me a book she thought I would enjoy reading. The...
View ArticleNot working or underemployed due to the drought? Help available
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JUNE 4, 2014 – Yolo Food Bank has launched a program to help those in the county left unemployed or underemployed because of the state-wide drought. Many agricultural jobs, for...
View ArticleFood Bank now collecting at West Sacramento library branch
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – The Yolo County Library system is helping to collect food for the Yolo Food Bank throughout the summer. This year’s goal is to collect 2,000 pounds. You may drop off...
View ArticleTwo new factories for West Sac
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JUNE 18, 2014 – West Sacramento hosts a pair of “new factory” events just over 48 hours apart this week. They’re each within what local officials call the city’s mission as a...
View ArticleJune in West Sac: one food plant breaks ground, another expands
FROM LEFT: Mayor Christopher Cabaldon; TOMRA C.E.O. Stefan Ranstrand of Norway; Dr. Volker Rehrmann of Germany, head of TOMRA Sorting; Ashley Hunter, TOMRA Senior V.P. in Belgium and Sacramento...
View ArticleCoyotes: best admired from a distance
NEWS-LEDGER — JUNE 25, 2014 – By Mary K. Hanson Tuleyome Association You hear their yip-yip-yowling in the early evening and you know immediately what they are: Western coyotes, natives of California...
View ArticleFree food in West Sac on Tuesday
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – The Yolo Food Bank will distribute free food to eligible residents of West Sacramento and Clarksburg on Tuesday, July 15. Distributions will be held 9-10 a.m. at the West...
View ArticleYolo’s booth at state fair celebrates farms, earns a medal
NEWS-LEDGER — JULY 16, 2014 – From Beth Gabor Information Officer County of Yolo This year, Yolo County took home a gold ribbon in the California State Fair Counties Exhibit competition, as well as a...
View ArticleCuisine of India & Sri Lanka for sale to support West Sac Buddhist temple
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – Try the cuisine of Sri Lanka and South India, while helping the American Buddhist Seminary in West Sacramento build a new temple. You’re invited to a celebration from 4-9 p.m....
View ArticleWest Sac factory hiring high school grads
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – The new Nippon Shokken food product plant in Southport is hiring high school grads for entry-level work on the production line. Starts at $10.20/hour. Fax resume to 375-6287 or...
View ArticleThanksgiving meals, household goods handed out while supplies last
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — NOV 19, 2014 – The West Sacramento Community Giveaway Day returns this Saturday, Nov. 22, from 8-11 a.m. at Westfield Village Elementary School, 508 Poplar Avenue. About 400...
View ArticleWest Sac man one of nation’s oldest — and liveliest — stadium vendors
NEWS-LEDGER — FEB 18, 2015 – By Al Zagofsky Correspondent The “Nation’s Oldest Stadium Vendor” is what a Bay-area publication calls 74-year-old Howard “Crazy Legs” Lowe of West Sacramento. While Lowe...
View ArticleWest Sac man one of nation’s oldest — and liveliest — stadium vendors
NEWS-LEDGER — FEB 18, 2015 – By Al Zagofsky Correspondent The “Nation’s Oldest Stadium Vendor” is what a Bay-area publication calls 74-year-old Howard “Crazy Legs” Lowe of West Sacramento. While Lowe...
View ArticleWest Sac schools may receive grants for kids to create ‘edible gardens’
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 1, 2014 — The Yolo Farm to Fork (YF2F) organization plans to award $10,000 in grants to Yolo County elementary schools that participate in its “Taste Our Garden” initiative....
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