I got tired of finding out about Vacaville stuff after it happened, so I built a calendar
Good morning fellow townmates.
I've lived in Vacaville since 1999, growing up in a nearby town. We have four kids, and for years the only things we knew were going on around here were the big ones. Farmer's Market, Fiesta Days, Merriment on Main. So most weekends we'd load everybody up and go do something in another town.
Stuff was happening, I just wasn't aware. My wife is on social media and would mention things to me (usually after the fact), but it was all scattered across a dozen accounts and groups. I barely use social media, so unless I happened to follow exactly the right page, I never saw any of it. There was no one place to just look and see what's going on this weekend.
So I built one: eventsinvacaville.com
It's been live since February, and it's a plain calendar of what's happening around town. Right now there are a little over 100 upcoming events on it, and about two thirds of them are free. Community events, arts and culture, live music, classes and workshops, theater, sports, fundraisers, the markets. You can browse by date or by category, and there's a form to submit anything I've missed.
I have a tech background, so this was really just a way to put it toward something I actually wanted to exist.
Six months in, it is definitely not complete. I know for a fact I'm light on Spanish-language events, and past that, I don't know what I don't know. That's mostly why I'm posting. If you run something, or you know about something that isn't on there, send it my way and I'll add it.
That's all this is. I wanted to share it in case it saves somebody else a few years of driving out of town on a weekend.