Yolo Healthy Aging celebrates 10 years
Help celebrate 10 years of service for Yolo County seniors virtually at the 4th Annual Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance fundraiser set from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5. Tickets are now on sale for this “2020 Vision for Healthy Aging” Spring fundraiser and Senior Superstar Award event. Proceeds from the event will be used to meet the YHAA mission of promoting the well-being of older adults in Yolo County through education, collaboration and advocacy. Guests will enjoy celebrating the YHAA anniversary, providers of services and the many volunteers that help make Yolo County a great place to age, even during these unprecedented times. For more information, to purchase tickets or sponsorships, or to donate go to https://www.yolohealthyaging.org/annual-fundraiser-1. You may also send checks to “Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance” 600 A Street, Suite C, Davis, CA 95616. For more information, contact Sheila Allen at sheila.allen@yolohealthyaging.org or call 757-5583.
Willow Oak 4H Club holds meeting
The Willow Oak 4H Club is coming back virtually. The next meeting date is set for 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 12, and will take place on Zoom. People interested in joining the club can email willowoak4h@gmail. com. The enrollment is underway, but it’s not too late to join. It is open to new members ages 5-18. Some of the projects we have are photography, swine, arts and crafts, sheep, baking and many more.
MOSAIC Wine Grab scheduled at Yolo Fairgrounds
Janet Vaughan, executive director of MOSAIC Children’s Museum is reporting that this year’s Wine Grab Fundraiser is being changed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year’s event took place during a heavy rainfall. This year the fundraiser will be at the Yolo Fairgrounds from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. People should enter the main gate of the Fairgrounds, off Gum Avenue. The drive-thru will be held in front of the Home Arts building. The dinner will be a rotisserie chicken for between three- and four people and includes a salad and two sides, two wine glasses and two kids MOSAIC cups, along with a mystery bottle of wine inside a wine bag decorated by a local child. The cost will be $45. Tickets are available through https://www.brownpapertickets.com./ Once on, enter MOSAIC in Keywords, and select “MOSAIC’s Drive-By Wine & Dine.
Project Linus of Yolo County still making blankets
The “blanketeers” of Project Linus of Yolo County have been busy during this pandemic, making and distributing handmade blankets to children in need up to age 18 years old. This group usually meets at the Davis Senior Center the second Wednesday of each month to sew on the Project Linus labels on blankets, which are then given out to various groups. But since the pandemic, blankets are dropped off on the coordinator’s front porch but only on specific “blanket drop off days” and picked up by various agencies. Since the pandemic began, Project Linus of Yolo County has donated 751 blankets to Fourth & Hope, CommuniCare Health in Davis and West Sacramento, Yolo County Children’s Alliance, Empower Yolo, Yolo Crisis Nursery, Woodland Police, Woodland Fire, United Way, Yolo County Child Protective Services, Family Hui and Woodland Joint Unified School District. Project Linus would like to provide blankets to the children displaced by the recent fires and received a request from the national office on Sunday. Fifty new, handmade blankets were sent to the coordinator in Jacksonville, Oregon, for distribution to children affected by the fire there. If you know of a contact to help distribute blankets to children evacuated due to fires, to make a donation or for any other information please email Diane McGee, Chapter Coordinator, Project Linus of Yolo County at dmmyolo@gmail.com.
Drive-Thru Tri-Tip Dinner funds local Kiwanis
Woodland Kiwanis will hold a Drive-Thru Tri-Tip dinner on Friday, Sept. 25, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at the Woodland Community & Senior Center, 2001 East St. All proceeds from the project will help Kiwanis continue to provide services for young people throughout Woodland. The take-home meal includes a 3-pound barbecued tri-tip, beans, salad, rolls and cookies to serve five. Tickets are $70, which adds up to $14 per individual serving. Tickets are required in advance and are available at the law offices of Kiwanis members Andy Thompson and Chuck Jensen, 535 North St., 662-9144. “The Covid-19 restrictions have made our traditional fundraising events, such as the Kiwanis Poker Tournament and Crab Feed impossible this year,” says Kiwanis community services chairman Dave Sloan. “The Drive-Thru dinner will sustain our programs for children, at a time when they need help the most. We want to express special thanks to our sponsor First Northern Bank and to the City of Woodland for allowing us to use the facility.”