Suisun City Public Works

06/12/2026

Come out next Wednesday at lunch, if you are around, and see the great improvements to Heritage Park. :-)

Join Us for the Heritage Park Ribbon Cutting Ceremony! ✂️ 🎉

Come celebrate exciting new improvements at Heritage Park with the Suisun City Recreation, Parks, and Marina Department!

We're proud to unveil a brand-new Mini-Pitch multi-sport court and a beautiful covered picnic pavilion, creating more opportunities for recreation, play, and community gatherings.

📅 Wednesday, June 17, 2026
⏰ 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
📍 Heritage Park, 611 Village Drive

Enjoy refreshments, meet community members, and help us mark this special milestone for Heritage Park. We look forward to celebrating with you!

The Mini-Pitch was made possible through funding from the National Recreation and Park Association's (NRPA) Youth Sports Equity Grant Program.

06/12/2026

Fun, free event at the Suisun Library next Wednesday at 3pm!!

Join the Suisun City Library for a low-tech, high-fun crafternoon! On Wednesday, June 17 at 3:00 PM, create your own painted tote bag. All supplies provided!

06/12/2026

Keep an eye on the young and old, especially.

As temperatures begin to rise during summer, it becomes harder for your body to stay cool. Hot and humid weather can overwhelm your body’s natural cooling system. When you heat up too quickly or lose too much fluid or salt through sweating, heat‑related illness can occur.

Solano County library branches are open as cooling centers during regular operating hours. For additional cooling resources in your area, contact your local city offices.

Stay safe and stay hydrated☀️.

06/12/2026

Summertime dinner and movie starts... TONIGHT!!! See forwarded post for details. The weather should be great tonight. Good free family and community event.

Dinner & Movies in the Park is tomorrow night!

Come out to Heritage Park tomorrow for a fun night under the stars. Bring a blanket and enjoy a free movie in the park — pizza and popcorn will be provided while supplies last. We will be showing Zootopia 2, and the movie starts at dusk, around 8:30 PM.

Get there early, grab a spot, and enjoy a great summer night in Suisun City!

06/12/2026

Grow your own potatoes! It is easy and they grow in Suisun. Consider fabric bags which make it easier to "dig" down to harvest the potatoes which grown below the surface.

That one seed potato in your hand isn't one plant. It's three or four, waiting in the dimples 🥔

Every little eye on a potato is a future stem. A big seed tuber might carry a dozen of them — which means you can turn a single potato into several starts before it ever goes in the ground. The trick is doing it in the right order, and giving the cuts time to seal.

Start by waking the eyes up. Spread your seed potatoes out in a single layer, eyes up, somewhere warm and bright-but-not-sunny about six weeks before planting. Short green-pink sprouts will push out — that's "chitting," and it gives you a head start on the season. Do this before you cut, not after; a cut piece left to chit just dries out.

🌿 How to turn one tuber into several plants:
- Chit first: single layer, eyes up, around 70°F in bright shade until sprouts are about an inch long
- Then cut the large tubers into blocky chunks, each with one or two eyes and roughly the size of a golf ball — leave small tubers whole
- Let the cut faces heal before planting; a couple of days in warm, humid air lets them callus over so they don't rot
- Plant into soil that's warmed up — cold, wet ground rots fresh cuts faster than they can seal

🌱 One thing to watch for:
- Resist over-cutting. Every cut face is a wound the piece has to seal before it can grow, so more, smaller pieces means slower, weaker starts — and if your bed has a history of potato or tomato-family soil disease, skip cutting and plant whole tubers instead

One potato, a sharp knife, and a little patience. That's a whole row 🥔

06/12/2026

New business in town.

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06/12/2026

A mosquito doesn't need a pond. She needs a bottle cap. The saucer under a flowerpot, the fold in a tarp, a kid's toy left out in the rain, a clogged gutter — give a female a week of still water and she turns it into a whole generation of wrigglers. By the time you're slapping at dusk, the next batch is already maturing in water you walked past this morning.

Here's the kind part. The fix isn't a fogger, and it shouldn't be. Spraying the yard doesn't sort the good from the bad — it drops the fireflies blinking over the grass, the bees asleep in the clover, the dragonflies that eat mosquitoes for a living. You'd be paying to kill the animals already working your shift.

So once a week, walk the yard with the eyes a mosquito uses. Tip out anything that's held still water for a week or more. The saucer. The wheelbarrow. The tarp. The toy. The birdbath nobody refreshed.

What you can't tip — a rain barrel, an ornamental pond — you can still rescue. A few feeder fish, or a mosquito dunk (a little doughnut of bacteria harmless to everything but mosquito larvae), keeps the water alive without letting it become a hatchery.

The animals you actually want at dusk are the ones that hunt mosquitoes. Leave them their dinner. Take away the nursery instead.

Tip the saucer once a week. You'll spare the fireflies the fogger would have taken with it.

06/12/2026

Panting is part of the way dogs sweat. But if they are panting heavily, become wobbly, have brick-red gums, or collapse, they could have heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
If you spot these signs, follow these steps:
- Cool them down using a water hose.
- Stop cooling them once their temperature goes down to 103 degrees.
- Bring them to the vet as soon as possible.
Keep our Pet First Aid app handy this summer to keep your furry friend safe in hot weather.

06/12/2026

Thank a possum for helping to cut down on snails, ticks, and other pests

The animal most people swerve to avoid is the one quietly keeping their yard clean — and she's gone before her second summer ends.

A mother opossum is born after just thirteen days, the size of a honeybee, and crawls on her own into the pouch. From there it's a sprint: pouch, then a ride on her mother's back, then the night shift alone. Barely two years, and most of them spent eating the beetles, slugs and fallen fruit nobody wanted, and clearing carrion off the road before it spreads anything.

She almost never carries rabies — her body runs too cool for the virus to survive. Her blood neutralizes rattlesnake and copperhead venom so well that scientists are studying it for a universal antivenom. And when she goes stiff in your headlights, she isn't bluffing — her body faints from fear, something she can't switch off.

The ugliest face on the block belongs to its gentlest worker. 🍃

06/02/2026

** Updated Slurry Sealing Schedule as of June 2, 2026 **

The following is the revised tentative schedule for daytime slurry sealing operations, which will occur from 7am to 6pm:
• June 2: Blossom Avenue segment (completed), and slurry sealing on inside lane on Walters Road has begun.
• June 3 to June 5: Sunset Avenue from Merganser Drive to the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) railroad tracks.
• June 8 to June 10: Resume work on Walters Road from Petersen Road to East Tabor Avenue.

Nighttime resurfacing work is scheduled from 10 pm to 6:30 am from June 10 to June 12, weather permitting and dependent on suitable nighttime temperatures, on the following roadway segments:
• Sunset Avenue from Highway 12 to Merganser Drive (fronting the Sunset Shopping Center and Heritage Park Shopping Center).
• Walters Road from Highway 12 to Petersen Road (fronting Walmart, 7-Eleven, Starbucks and Take 5 Oil Change).