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What's Shakin?

Photo by Tony Clark
Four Barrel will rock this year’s Earthquake Street Festival from 8-11 p.m. on Aug. 22. The members of the Woodland-based group, from left to right are Phillip Lovejoy, Hector Moreno, Timmy Peregoy and Ericka Davis. The Earthquake Street Festival takes place on Friday, Aug. 22, 5-11 p.m. on downtown Main Steet.

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Search on for new school supe

By ELLIOT LANDES
Staff writer
After receiving Dale Mitchell’s resignation at the Aug. 7 meeting, the Winters School Board took up the task of finding a replacement. The agenda packet included very detailed guidelines from the California School Boards Association (CSBA) on how to proceed. The board liked Mitchell’s suggestion that the board recruit and select an interim superintendent from outside the district for the coming school year (2008/09), which would allow a year-long process to find the long term replacement.
Both CSBA and ACSA (Association of California School Administrators) have lists of retired superintendents who are interested in serving as interim superintendents.
Mitchell proposed a very aggressive schedule, in order to find the interim superintendent in time for the new school year. The board will then have many months to do the search for the actual superintendent, who would start the following year. ...

Photo by Debra Lo Guercio
This year’s AFS students met their Winters “families” for the upcoming school year on Thursday, Aug. 14, gathering at the home of Rick and Diana Baker. Students staying in the Sacramento region met there after arriving in California, and many stayed briefly with Winters families before meeting their real “families” from other towns. Top photo, from left are (front) host family members Jane Kays, Chris Kays, Kim Olivas, Morgan Olivas, AFS student Fordella Adams of Ghana, and host family member Carolyn Fjord; (back) AFS students Till Schweizer of Germany, Aleksander Jankovic of Germany and Bjoern Kulseng of Norway. Jankovic, Kulseng and Schweizer will be spending the year in Winters.

Future looks bright for Warrior swimming

By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports

Success is contagious and right now the Winters High School swim team is very contagious. The Water Warriors are back in the pool after the most successful season in school history and are ready to somehow improve on last year’s record breaking season.
People like to be a part of something positive and successful, and that’s no different for the Warriors swim program as the team roster has increased from 27 to 41 swimmers since last year.
“For the 2008 swim season, we are looking stronger than ever,” said coach Kevin Chester.
“For the past five years that I have been coaching here, I have seen a steady increase in students participating.
“On the girls’ side of the pool, we are still looking strong. We lost one senior last year and have gained several incoming freshmen,” said Chester.
He added, “On the boys’ side of the pool, we are looking at the strongest team we have ever had. I feel very confident that not only will we win leagues for a fourth year in a row, but we will also win sections.”