Weekend Wrap-Up and Look Ahead: July 25, 2022
Photo: An aggressive turkey chases a Vacaville Police Department patrol car near the Nut Tree Airport on Sunday, July 24, 2022. (Photo courtesy Vacaville Police Department via Facebook.com)
The filming of a music video turns deadly in Fairfield, and deputies help save a rural Dixon home from a grass fire. This week: CalTrans plans to close a major interchange in Fairfield for roadwork, and a live music and food festival returns to Benicia.
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Over the Weekend
DIXON: The Solano County Sheriff’s Office says two of its deputies helped prevent a grass fire from spreading to a home in rural Dixon this weekend. The fire started in the area of Hawkins Road and Pitt School Road near a residential property, briefly threatening a home and several vehicles on the property. The deputies used garden hoses to keep the flames at bay until the Dixon Fire Department arrived on the scene. It was not clear what started the fire.
FAIRFIELD: One person died, and another person was hospitalized with unspecified injuries after a shooting in Fairfield on Friday. The shooting happened around 11:15 p.m. along the 1700 block of Enterprise Drive. Police say a music video was being filmed in the area when the shooting occurred. It wasn’t clear if the two events were linked. A police spokesperson said no additional information is being made public due to the ongoing investigation into the incident.
VALLEJO: The San Joaquin Fire Authority has recognized a new fire recruit for his life-saving efforts at the scene of a traffic crash earlier this month. Bobby O’Connor was commuting to Vallejo from Tracy when he came upon the crash involving multiple vehicles on the Byron Highway. He immediately came to the rescue of two injured patients, one of whom required extrication from a car. Emergency officials in San Joaquin County said O’Connor’s efforts helped save the lives of the patients he treated.
EUGENE, OREGON: A Fairfield native took fourth place in the World Track and Field Competition in Oregon over the weekend. Luis Grijalva, a graduate of Armijo High School, clocked in at 13 minutes and 10.44 seconds, coming in just shy of bronze. Grijalva competed in the Tokyo Olympics last year, finishing 12th overall with a time of 13 minutes and 10.09 seconds.
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This Week
VACAVILLE: City council members will discuss a resolution that would earmark $700,000 for playground and infrastructure improvement projects at Trower Park near Holly Lane. The park is one of six located in Vacaville that could receive improvement funds through Measure M, which is part of the 8.125 percent sales tax paid by shoppers in the city. The funds under consideration this week would be in addition to $1.8 million allocated by the council last year for Trower Park. That money is “insufficient” for the repairs and revitalization needed at the park, a staff report reviewed by Solano NewsNet said. The council will evaluate the matter on Tuesday.
FAIRFIELD: CalTrans will be closing the connection ramp from eastbound Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 680 for more than 50 hours this weekend. The closure starts Friday evening at 10 p.m. and is scheduled to last until Monday, August 1 at 5 a.m. A detour will see motorists continue on eastbound I-80 past the connector ramp, then exit onto Chadbourne Road, merge onto Chadbourne Road, then make a left onto westbound I-80 where they will be able to merge onto southbound I-680. Additionally, eastbound Highway 12 will be closed from Friday at 10 p.m. until Saturday at 8 a.m., with traffic detoured onto Red Top Road.
BENICIA: The Benicia Waterfront Festival is scheduled to begin Saturday, July 30 at the First Street Green. The event features food trucks, live music, craft beer and wine, kids activities and a vendor village. The cost of the event is $10 for adults and $5 for seniors who are 65 or older each day. Kids under the age of 12 are free. The event continues Sunday, July 31. For more information, click or tap here.
FAIRFIELD: The Solano County Board of Supervisors is set to receive more than $567,000 in grant money from the California Highway Patrol to screen and test drivers for marijuana use. Data from the CHP showed driving while impaired by marijuana increases a person’s chance of being in a traffic crash by as much as 35 percent. Recreational marijuana use became legal in California in 2016; the following year, lawmakers closed a loophole that allowed motorists to escape a DUI charge if they used marijuana before driving. Now, driving while high is treated the same as driving while impaired by alcohol.
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Weather
Monsoonal moisture pushing through the region could generate isolated thunderstorms in the Sacramento Valley on Tuesday, though the mountainous parts of eastern California are more likely to experience storms throughout the week, according to the National Weather Service.
Locally, it will be pleasant this week throughout Solano County, with highs in the mid-90s for the start of the week — not too bad for the summer — and the upper-70s to low-80s in the waterfront cities of Benicia and Vallejo.
Things start to heat up as the week progresses, with hot weather expected on Thursday and Friday. Dixon, Vacaville, Rio Vista and Fairfield could all see 100-degree temperatures on Friday, with our coastal spots offering an escape from the heat.
Next week, we do it all over again, with the early portion of the work week seeing relatively normal temperatures for the summer before the heat returns for the weekend.
The Oak Fire burning in the Yosemite area could throw a wrench into the forecast if smoke drifts into the valley, in that it might help ease the temperature a bit but would generate mostly unpleasant conditions for anyone outdoors. Right now, the smoke is expected to remain well east of the area, and we’ll let you know if conditions are expected to change.
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