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STYLISH REMODEL Contemporary, designed for gracious entertaining! 5 bedrooms, 4 ¿replaces, 3 baths; vaulted ceilings, open airy spaces, magni¿cent new kitchen. Remote family room with home gym space. Lovely pool and water feature set on .80 acre with orchard, garden and inviting patio spaces. $978,500 JAY FEAGLES 204-7756
EXTRAORDINARY CUSTOM 4 or 5 bedrooms 3 full; 3 half baths; 24’ entry, limestone Àoors, main Àoor master, bath with onyx counters, jetted air tub and heated Àoor. Granite kitchen, hidden refrigerator, high-end appliances, and butler’s pantry. Home theater, wine room, outdoor kitchen! Spectacular! $1,850,000 COLLEEN WIFVAT 719-2324
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SIERRA OAKS VISTA Sierra Oaks Vista custom built home on ¾ acre lot with picturesque grounds. Features pool, spa, waterfall, tennis court and pavilion entertainment area. Open kitchen with work island and nook area opens to large family room with ¿replace. 5 ¿replaces total. 4 or 5 bedrooms 4½ baths $1,395,000 PATTY BAETA
SHELFIELD ESTATES High ceilings and grand spaces de¿ne this one-owner custom home. Separate large family room has beamed ceiling, ¿replace and wet bar. Handsome maple wood Àoor in kitchen & service areas. Walls of glass overlook huge backyard with pool and spa. 5 bedrooms 3½ baths. $875,000 JAY FEAGLES 204-7756
SIERRA OAKS REMODEL Spacious open Àoor plan, 4 bedrooms 2½ baths. Stainless appliances, ¿ne wood cabinetry, granite counters. Double sliding doors open to pool and entertaining yard. A private master retreat adjoins a spacious bath with lovely doors to backyard. Beautiful pool, Quiet cul- de –sac. $759,000 SIDNEY PORITZ 500-1522
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nearly 4,500 into new homes and more than 1,200 with rescue partners throughout the state. The organization is a private, independent, nonprofit animal welfare organization supported solely by private donations, grant funding and fees for service. The SSPCA shelter is one of three shelters—along with the city and county facilities—in Sacramento. And that is sometimes confusing to folks. Here’s the difference: The city and county shelters are municipal agencies funded by the government to provide animal and rabies control services. They respond to animal-atlarge calls, as well as complaints of animal abuse and neglect. They also shelter and rehome the animals that come into their care. “Essentially, the SSPCA was established to protect animals, whereas municipal shelters were established to protect people,” says SSPCA executive director Rick Johnson. But the SSPCA is more than a shelter. “Our mission goes far beyond animal sheltering and placement to a variety of complementary services,” says Johnson. “We have a number of important programs that focus on strengthening the bonds between
humans and their companion animals. We look at all the factors that impact these relationships.” The organization offers behavior and training programs and a free behavior help line for pet owners. “And our senior service programs, which include free adoptions, in-home care and vaccination programs, help older folks enjoy the companionship of a pet for as many years as possible,” says Johnson. Before they’re adopted, animals receive any necessary medical and behavioral rehabilitation. The organization also offers lowcost, high-quality vaccination and microchip clinics twice weekly. The SSPCA established its first low-cost spay/neuter clinic in 1973. Forty years later, it now performs nearly 24,000 spay/neuter surgeries each year for shelter animals and pets. A friend of mine who rescues and neuters feral cats raves about the SSPCA for providing more than 3,000 spay/neuter surgeries annually to feral and community cats. The group also performs nearly 1,000 spay/ neuter surgeries a year free of charge to owners of pit bulls and pit bull mixes. According to Johnson, the cost of making a difference is high. “We
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No-Pain Painting HOME STORE’S OWNER SHARES SECRETS ON HOW TO REVITALIZE FURNITURE
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Carmichael resident Barbara Bussey teaches easy one-step furniture painting methods at her home décor shop and painting studio at 9906 Fair Oaks Blvd.
harried or harebrained than I already am. I envisioned myself sprawled out on the driveway, tangled in electric sanders with paint dripping off my nose while fainting to the dizzying smell of chemical stripper lotion that I accidentally put on my legs. “Maybe I should forget this project before I ever remember I wanted to do it?” This type of question usually works on me. But just as I was pondering my dilemma, I ran into the Martha Stewart of Carmichael, Barbara Bussey.
Bussey revealed that she herself has a nifty new one-step method of repainting any table or chairs, a method so simple I wouldn’t even need to fire up the chainsaw, let alone the electric sander. She decribes herself as a woman so obsessed with home decor that she opened her dream, The Treasured Home, a shop where she shares her secrets on all things home decor. I know myself well enough to know that on my own, I would never be able to finish a refinishing project. But with Bussey’s help and her promise
that she’ll teach me a no-fuss method of redecorating family heirlooms, I decided to try my hand at her furniture painting class. Those three hours changed my life. First of all, I met some really nice people at her Saturday morning class. Second of all, she served a delicious Chinese chicken salad while our paint was drying. And thirdly, she was right. Her one-step method did not require step after step of stripping, waxing, painting, sanding, painting, sanding, drying, sanding, etc., that I had feared.
Bussey gave each of her students a little block of wood for practice. With a brush and one small paper cup of one-step paint, we were to apply a water-based, no-fumes paint on our piece. We could choose our color from a wide variety of those dreamy new shades meant to look old: pale greens, khakis, grays, taupes, dusty blues, you get the idea. The paint literally went on like water yet dried like paint. Barbara then taught us a trick called “pouncing.” This gave us all something exciting to do while painting. (I can’t reveal the details, but trust me, you just need to take the class and find out why pouncing while you paint will elevate your whole persona.) Next, we had to wait for our paint to dry before adding a second coat. This took about five minutes. What? Am I saying we didn’t have to sand in between coats? Yes! Bussey then showed us ways we could add some finishing touches, such as making our project look like a dusty antique or a gold-leaf collectible, or giving it a clean silky wax finish. I honestly don’t know
which finish I like best because they were all as easy as wiping a cloth. The only two problems I had with Bussey’s class were that I blew my diet on her homemade cookies and I couldn’t keep my eyes (and hands) off all the furniture in her store. She has a fantastic array of pieces she has refinished herself: vanities, tables, dressers, lamps, mirrors, chairs, etc. (Some of them were for sale, so I figured if I botched my project, I could just buy one of hers!) I am proud to say I have successfully finished painting one of my kitchen chairs a nice dusty gray. I did it from the safety of my home in under one hour. (Thirty of those minutes I sat on the couch looking at the chair.) I must say, the chair looks fabulous. Now, I just have to carve out some more time for the rest of my set. Barbara, can you help me with that? For more information about Bussey’s furniture-painting classes, go to thetreasuredhome.com or call 514-5272 for a schedule of classes.
FUELING UP ON GOOD SERVICE “If you do a good job for a fair price, you will never want for business.” Such is the motto of Paul Scott, owner of the family-run Arden Village Service, an Arden area institution that has been driving home the word “friendly” with car-care customers for 56 years. Scott started the gas and repair shop on Arden Way and Watt Avenue in 1958 and moved to “Scott’s Corner” at Arden and Eastern avenues in 1984. All along the way he’s had just a few simple unwritten rules. Every Wednesday is Black Tie Wednesday, where all customers get “full serve” service for the “selfserve” price. “Our business doubles on Wednesdays,” he says. Scott will never open his shop on Sundays because that’s when he’s in service to God. “No employee will ever work for me on a Sunday,” he says while looking skyward And Scott prays the same prayer each day for the family business.
So how did Arden Village Service get nicknamed Scott’s Corner? Well, the story behind the story is that patriarch Paul grew up in a small Kentucky town, Scott’s Corner, where his father had a one-pump gas station called by the same name. A few generations and miles later, the name still sticks. Son Randy took ownership of the Eastern Avenue location several years ago, and this spring son Steve will open a sister repair station at El Camino and Mission avenues where he’ll feature hybrid and specialty repair. For both men, Arden is ground zero. Being able to watch families grow and change with each fill-up is what they call “a blessing.” “We are seeing our third generation of families,” Steve Scott says. “The fathers, their sons and their grandchildren are all coming in with their cars. In many instances, a family just knows they can send their kids up here for a trusted go-to repair. That’s what makes a neighborhood business so special. ARDEN page 14
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ARDEN AREA CHAMPS IN STATE FINALS For seven years running, St. Ignatius School’s decathletes have taken home the top regional prize at the Sacramento Diocesean Decathlon, and once again the team moves on to the state finals held in San Bernardino this month. The students competed against teams from about 20 other Northern California schools and captured first in seven of the 10 categories, giving the school its highest mark to date. Headed up by parent volunteer Elisa Arostegui and fifth-grade teacher Carol Walker, the team took firsts in Logic and the Super Quiz. Five students took firsts in their individual specialty subjects: Peter Sutarjo, religion; Todd Russell, science; Alex Bonilla, social studies; Cade Johnson, current events; and Saunder Salazar, math. Tony
Arostegui earned second in fine arts, Andrew Tilton placed second in literature, and Claire Russell placed third in English.
CARMICHAEL ADDRESSES WORLD HUNGER Carmichael Presbyterian Church is inviting the community to a special speaker event 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the church hall on Marconi Avenue. Dr. James McDonald, president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, will present the free event as a means of reaching out to Carmichael and Arden residents about the need for awareness of global hunger issues. Church volunteer Karen Orlando says the mission of the speaker series is to connect our community with worldwide leaders and educate our population about topics that are relevant for all Christians. “Our aim is for the community to look at the church in a little different way than just a place for a Sunday service,” she says. “We are a mission-oriented church. For example, we have a food closet that feeds thousands of people locally. But we are also trying to explore relevant and timely worldwide topics. What is our responsibility as Christians and individuals living in Sacramento to address worldwide hunger issues? These topics are outside the box, but still relevant to us as Christians.”
Ettore and Meggan Ravazzolo of Ettore’s bakery donated sweet treats to St. Ignatius’ March 1 gala, an annual fundraising event at Sacramento’s Croatian American Cultural Center.
Carmichael Presbyterian offers two free speaker events each year. Over the years, topics have included gang intervention, discrimination and poverty. All events are free and open to the public.
ONE MAN’S JUNK ... So your garage is stuffed with dusty boxes filled with all sorts of “stuff and junk.” But just how junky is that stuff? Are there any treasures in your midst? Find out for sure if what you have been saving all these years is fit for the trash or worth keeping at an appraisal event from 11 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. on Saturday, April 12, at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2524 Sierra Blvd. Among the eight appraisal specialists who will be on hand are Sacramento’s “Mr. Antique,” Gary Cox, and Randy Abbott, who will appraise Asian art; Bob and Mary Hensley will be specializing in Western and native American items; Chuck Breitsprecher will be available to look at gemstones; and Tony DaVigo will be valuing baseball cards. Organizers encourage participants to bring in books, documents, jewelry, paintings, toys, posters, glass, china, pottery, decorative art, timepieces, inherited treasures and garage sale finds. If you are interested in furniture appraisals, contact Lynn Smith at 505-5232 to make arrangements. Organizers suggest a donation of $8 for one item and $35 for 5 items. All proceeds will benefit Welcome Home Housing, a nonprofit housing program for adults with mental illnesses.
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they crack open pods and pop peas in their mouths. The taste is unlike any pea they’ve encountered. “We talk about sunshine and how to consider light when planting,” she continues. “We’ve put in flowers so insects will come and pollinate our plants. The Health Education Council provides a free cooking class each month. For one lesson, the kids each picked a bell pepper and took it inside to use in a meal. One time they made huevos rancheros. The library smelled amazing all day.” As summer 2013 ended, tomatoes grew 8 feet high in Colonial’s garden. Foulk shared the fruit with library customers.
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ood books have plots. So have some libraries— garden plots, that is. At two Sacramento County libraries, hands-on learning gets hands dirty for a good cause. Children learn what makes crops grow, how different plants favor different seasons, how bugs benefit growth, and how fresh vegetables enrich diets. The Sacramento Library Foundation has partnered with members of the Junior League in a Read & Feed program, geared to educate from the ground up. Spurred by hard times and the fashionable passion for healthful food, the garden movement is on the rise across the United States. In wartime parlance, school, church and library plots are 21st century “victory gardens.” And, just as 1940s allotments saved many from starvation, garden gurus hope community plots will improve nutrition and weed out bad habits. “When we considered Sacramento needs, we saw education and nutrition as priorities,” says Sacramento Junior League president Amanda Merz. “Many in the community lack access to fresh produce. Teaching families
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Winter crops flourish at the Colonial Heights Library. Established in 2012, the garden will yield a fourth harvest by this spring.
to grow food may change the way they eat and change lives. We hope the program will influence a new generation to get better food on their tables.” In this effort, Junior Leaguers and the Library Foundation (with a $10,000 injection from Wells Fargo Bank) have so far provided $53,000 to create demonstration gardens at county libraries. The league’s three-year Read & Feed commitment embraces Colonial Heights and Rancho Cordova plots. A further garden is proposed for Arcade Library. Rancho’s allotment got started this fall. Master Gardener Bill Maynard, who coordinates the Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition, supervised AmeriCorps volunteers in stacking 500 concrete pavers as bed walls.
“We mix mushroom compost and horse manure into the soil,” he says. “We stay as organic as possible. We’ll plant kale, chard, beets and turnips before Thanksgiving. Lettuce will be ready to pick in 60 to 80 days. The local garden club meets here so they’ll be garden stewards. “The kids will help. The library’s a friendly place to learn that you don’t need much space or money to make a garden.” With Maynard advising, volunteers ploughed the first furrow at Colonial Heights in 2012. Youth services librarian Amanda Foulk now hosts a monthly children’s group whose 20 members learn much from their garden classroom. “They get dirty and they love it,” she says. “Many live in apartments; they’ve never had their hands in soil. You should see their little faces when
On such fertile ground, great ideas quickly take root and spread. The Junior League hosted a harvest festival, enjoyed by 150 visitors. Colonial Heights and Rancho Cordova have ordered more gardening books and established seed “libraries” to share donated seeds for patrons’ home gardens. On such fertile ground, great ideas quickly take root and spread. A Colonial Heights librarian recently shared burgeoning botanical knowledge with her son’s schoolteachers. The boy’s school now boasts its own winter garden. “For librarians, we’ve all learned more than we expected about IN TUNE page 18
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Portraits of the Past ‘GIBBONS GIRL’ ROBERTA OLDHAM’S PAINTINGS SHOW CARMICHAEL’S RURAL PAST
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street named for her family leads to where an old farmhouse once displayed rose-clad charm. It was home to Carmichael’s famous Gibbons Girls. They are in their 90s now. And while few today know their history, everyone who visits the Sacramento Fine Arts Center (5330 Gibbons Drive) knows their family name. Fittingly, 97-year-old Roberta Gibbons Oldham has art to immortalize her old home and other vanished Carmichael landmarks. A lifetime ago on Gibbons Drive, she and sisters Laverne, Elsie and Betty Gibbons romped among 60 acres of almonds, prunes and cherries. Their father later added dairy cows to the farm and established the Gibbons dairy, another Carmichael landmark. A community pillar, Bob Gibbons cemented his popularity by allowing school tours. Some older Carmichaelites still savor the glasses of creamy milk that rewarded such visits. The farm was built out in the 1960s by residential subdivisions and La Sierra High School. Laverne and Elsie have died, but two Gibbons sisters soldier on. Smiles that endeared them
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Seated beneath a Roberta Gibbons Oldham watercolor, descendants of one of Carmichael’s pioneer families are sisters Oldham, the late Elsie Cosans and Betty Schei.
to rural neighbors are unchanged. So are the hundreds of canvases that Oldham was producing until well in to her 80s. “I liked to paint what I knew,” says the artist. “I never worked from photos, I took my easel out and painted what I saw.” What Oldham saw included Carmichael landmarks since vanished. Her study of the Deterding barn at San Juan Meadows recalls an edifice that sheltered more than farm animals. When Carmichael was an isolated outpost, dances and
community meetings were held under its roof. Here town matriarch Mary Deterding presided over the influential Carmichael Community Club. The decaying monument was dismantled after the county acquired Deterding land for the American River Parkway. Oldham’s painting recalls a red icon of Americana that stood near where Tarshes Drive enters Ancil Hoffman Park. Oldham’s portrait of her own family barn and another of the
Gibbons farm house supports her description of the residence as “a very happy home.” Her mom’s garden yielded glorious bouquets for floral studies. As a young woman, Oldham gained an art and education degree from San Jose State. She taught elementary school, married peach farmer and developer Lewis Oldham and raised four children in Carmichael. It was not until her middle years that she was able to paint seriously. She produced about 400 canvases, including many that took “best of show” ribbons. Most were sold; some are now treasured by her descendants. An artistic mentor was Sacramento artist Richard Yip, who taught evening glasses in various Sacramento schools. “He brought a cane rake to class and broke off prongs for each student,” says Oldham, smiling. “They were perfect tools for scratching detail into paint. I still have mine. I call it a Yip-stick.” Humor and huge smiles characterized her clan. There is much laughter every time the two remaining Gibbons Girls meet. They recount journeys to Del Paso Boulevard to buy ice for refrigeration, roping 50-pound chunks to their car’s fender. They remember Gibbons Drive as a washboard-bumpy path through wildflowers. The farmer’s daughters played violins in the first Carmichael school’s orchestra and enjoyed neighborhood picnics at the pump house end of Landis Avenue. Says Oldham: “One day in 1929, Mother said the stock market had GIBBONS GIRL page 22
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GIBBONS GIRL FROM page 20 crashed. I had no idea what that meant. We soon learned. It was horrible.” In the Depression years, the family counted itself fortunate. “We had plenty of food, with a garden, cows, fruit trees and chickens,” she says. “Dad bought grain and hand-ground it for cereal. We sold some for 20 cents a pound.” Carmichael families traded when cash and food was short. After school, the Gibbons daughters labored in the orchard. “Children learned to work and that was good,” says Oldham. “On Sundays, we rode horses with other farm kids. That—and the swimming and wonderful picnics— were outstanding pleasures of my childhood. Someone would make a cake and lemonade; it didn’t take much to create a party then. “Growing up in Carmichael was a great experience, for which I am thankful.” n
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or Ted Grebitus, his business is all in the family. He owns and operates Grebitus & Sons Jewelers, a fine-jewelry, watch and gift shop that his grandfather started in 1926. Today, Grebitus oversees three retail locations: on L Street downtown, in Lyon Village off Fair Oaks Boulevard, and, new last year, at the Palladio shopping center in Folsom. But it all started nearly 88 years ago with a small shop and his grandparents’ dream. “My grandfather, Edwin A. Grebitus Sr., founded the business not far from our current downtown location,” Grebitus says. “He knew if he got the finest materials he possibly could, people would hear about it and come to the store. He specialized in watches and jewelry and my grandmother knew a lot about bridal products, like silver flatware, so they started a gift department to dovetail with the jewelry. They worked very hard to make connections in the community to grow the business as much as they could.” Their growth also was due to Grebitus Sr.’s dedication to quality merchandise. He would regularly travel by train to New York to pick up new products and forge the working relationships that his grandson continues to this day. “It’s 80 years later and I still work with people my grandfather dealt with back there” on the East Coast, Grebitus says proudly. “It’s an honorable business. People work together for generations, and we work hard to maintain those relationships.”
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Ted Grebitus owns and operates Grebitus & Sons Jewelers, a fine-jewelry, watch and gift shop that his grandfather started in 1926
After serving in World War II, Grebitus’s father, Ed Grebitus Jr., joined the family firm and expanded its expertise to include certified gemologists on staff and continued compliance with the high standards of the American Gem Society (which his son describes as “like the American Bar Association for jewelers”). When Grebitus was born, it didn’t take long for him to learn the retail ropes. “Like a lot of family businesses, we were exposed to it as young kids,” Grebitus recalls. “We helped out at special events, did light office work and learned the many aspects of the business.” In addition to accruing this entrepreneurial acumen, the thirdgeneration owner also met many of
the people whom he would one day count as clients. “People come in who dealt with my grandparents and my parents,” Grebitus says. “It’s so rewarding to have grown up knowing them, and now I’m old enough that I’m seeing their kids come in. It’s a reality check—in a good way.” Grebitus’s love of people goes a long way toward keeping the wellestablished enterprise going strong, as does his keen eye for artistic integrity, something he had even as a kid. “I was always artistically inclined,” he says. “I did art in high school and college, but I ended up being a business major. It was always in the back of my mind that I would like to join the business, but I had to make sure it was really what I wanted. If
you have a passion for something, it’s that much easier to communicate to your customer.” It didn’t take long for Grebitus to figure out that he really did want to follow in his forebears’ footsteps. The trick was to make sure the legacy his relatives left him continued with the same level of quality that had made Grebitus a regional household name. “Lots of things have changed over the years in retail,” Grebitus says, “but our customers expect the same quality they’ve always known, so we work hard to maintain that level of business. We’re one of the oldest stores in the country that carries certain legendary brands, like Rolex watches, Mikimoto pearls and Baccarat and Waterford crystal, under one roof. You can find things here you can’t get anywhere else.” Though Grebitus has hung three shingles in different areas of town, you can still catch him behind the counter at any given location. He makes a point to travel among stores to meet with customers and help out his staff if they need him. Perhaps he gets this work ethic from his father, who, at almost 88 years old, still serves on the Grebitus board despite having retired 10 years ago. Guess it just runs in the family. If you’re looking for one-of-a-kind gems to dress up your wrist or your home, visit Grebitus & Sons Fine Jewelers at Palladio at Broadstone in Folsom (330 Palladio Parkway, Suite 2025); Lyon Village (2580 Fair Oaks Blvd.); or downtown at 1003 L St. Visit grebitus.com for more information.
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A GOOD COAT OF PAINT Sheree Johnston knows paint. She also knows collectibles. And cookware. And tools. As the owner of East Sacramento Hardware, the quaint family-run hardware store that’s one of the last of its kind in the region, Johnston knows the nuts and bolts of catering to her community, whether that means helping a customer fix a leaky toilet, find the right nail or—Johnston’s specialty—select the perfect paint. “We made a large capital investment to bring Benjamin Moore paint to East Sac Hardware, and we are very pleased with the results,” Johnston says. “We now carry six of their paint lines, up from the initial three lines we started with in March of 2012, and we’ve added free in-home color consultations by designer Don Sherwood, whose grandfather was a vice president at Benjamin Moore. Adding this service will allow our customers to take the drama out of developing a color palette and choosing the best colors for their home.” Johnston’s admiration of Benjamin Moore goes beyond just its plethora of paint options; she also appreciates its history. The venerable company was founded by the Moore brothers in Brooklyn in 1883 with a single paint product and a commitment to sell their merchandise only through independent retailers—like East Sac Hardware, which was established in 1951.
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adds up to a very happy hardware store owner. “The Benjamin Moore business model fits with East Sac Hardware’s focus of supporting small business, the environment and the community,” Johnston says. To that end, Johnston herself tries to buy products that are made in the United States, and she created the Partnering With Our Community program in 2008 to help tradespeople stay afloat in the economic downturn.
If you called Andrew Hillman “cheesy,” it wouldn’t be an insult. In fact, the owner of The Cultured and The Cured, a cheese-andcharcuterie outpost in the heart of East Sacramento, has made it his job to be the cheesiest chef in the region, offering more than 90 cheeses in the storefront he opened with his wife and business partner, Kelly Heath, in November of last year. “We pride ourselves on providing people with new cheese that they want to eat and love,” Hillman says by phone as he sets up his shop for the day. “We’ll have people buy cheese they didn’t even come in for. We love to educate people. If you don’t know what a cheese is, you can try it. You don’t have to stare at packaged cheese in the grocery store, wondering what it tastes like. We’ll cut it right off the wheel.” This focus on accessibility and education has been a hallmark of Hillman’s impressive career as a chef and culinary educator. He started his epicurean journey at just 17 years old, when the Santa Cruz native went to work for a classical European bakery. His love of food had been instilled by his grandfather, a farmer and federal agriculture employee, who introduced Hillman to the now-popular concept of “farm to fork” when the two SHOPTALK page 28
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SHOPTALK FROM page 26 traveled together around the Salinas Valley and central coast. Little did Hillman know, those treks would someday influence his own inventory. “The items we’re carrying (in the shop) are concentrated on the resurgence of farm to fork products in the local area and that are not available (anywhere else) or are in limited supply,” Hillman says. “We concentrate on West Coast cheeses and charcuterie from California, Oregon, Washington and Utah and a few from the Southeast and Midwest.” This emphasis on fresh and local has Hillman’s wife, who’s also a practicing psychiatric nurse when she’s not in the shop, driving all over the region to pick up the cheese that they serve in-store. “These farms are small enough that they don’t have distributors,” Hillman explains. “And that way, when Kelly goes out there, she can
taste whatever is fresh and new that they’re making. It’s straight from the source.” Hillman counts on Heath’s palate as well as his own, which has been honed during more than 32 years in the restaurant industry. After training under Danish chef Kenn Leth-Madsen at a restaurant in Soquel, Hillman attended the Culinary Institute of America in New York to sharpen his chef skills. Upon graduation, he worked for world-class and James Beard Award-winning chefs in Colorado, Georgia and Kansas before gaining his American Culinary Federation certification and becoming chef de cuisine at the Sundance Resort in Utah, owned by actor Robert Redford. When he moved to Las Vegas to accept a job at Caesars Palace, he set about realizing his next career goal: to become a culinary educator. While pursuing his academic degree, he managed the kitchen at MESA Grill
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“Everything is cut to order, so you can try before you buy,” Hillman says. So after all that, why did Hillman choose cheese? “Kelly and I didn’t necessarily want to open a restaurant,” Hillman says. “There are more headaches and overhead with a full restaurant. We’d been talking about opening a cheese shop for a few years, and we knew we wanted it to be near where we live in East Sacramento so we could walk to work. There was no cheese and charcuterie shop in town—and
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Lilliput has been at the forefront of the private adoption movement for more than three decades.
The Crans family. Photo courtesy of Diana Miller Photography.
and private agencies, and it has handled more adoptions—some 500 a year—than any agency in the state. “We operate on the premise that children in foster care are better served by a partnership between public and private agencies,” explains Elizabeth Morabito, Lilliput’s community relations manager. “We’re an extension of the public welfare system.” “The placement work is intensive,” says Morabito, “because what sets Lilliput apart is its focus on
permanence for children. If they can’t go to their birth family, we want to find a family that will adopt them.” The agency invests considerable resources doing thorough home studies, as well as providing adoption and post-adoption support services to families. The average length of time between placement and adoption is 10 months. Lilliput’s kinship program focuses on keeping children within their extended families whenever possible. The most common scenario
In May 2006, the Cranses were entrusted with a beautiful 20-monthold baby with whom they fell madly in love. “She was a failure-to-thrive child,” says Crans. “But as she became part of our lives, she began blossoming and thriving. We were worried about attachment happening, so Lilliput put us together with an attachment therapist.” Today their daughter is 9, gets straight A’s and loves to read and play piano. While they waited to finalize Baby No. 1’s adoption, Baby No. 2 entered their lives. “We found out that the adoption process would take longer, so we began to think about a little boy,” says Crans. “A week later they called us.” In January 2007, they
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Crans attributes their adoption success to Lilliput’s social workers. Crans attributes their adoption success to Lilliput’s social workers.
“They really get to know you,” she says. “There are no secrets, so they know what you can handle. They find really good matches for families. I feel like the agency does a good job of making sure couples are ready and know what they’re getting into.” She also acknowledges the counseling and financial help that Lilliput provides to help work through children’s problems. Although Lilliput receives government funds, it relies on private donations. Its biggest source of unrestricted funds is the annual Derby Day fundraiser, to be held this year on May 3 at Mulvaney’s Building & Loan. In conjunction with the Kentucky Derby, prizes will be tied to horses running in the race, and there will be jazz bands, Southern-style food and both a silent and a live auction. Tickets to Derby Day are $60. For tickets or more information about Lilliput Children’s Services, go to lilliput.org. Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com. n
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New Lease on Life ADVANCED HEART TREATMENT
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ebra Lehr was in her 50s when doctors told her there was nothing more they could do for her. Thirty-five years earlier, the once-vital horseback rider suffered an aggressive cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Doctors knocked that cancer down. But the heavy doses of chemotherapy and radiation that cured her then turned on her later and threatened to kill her. They caused all types of heart and lung problems, and she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I couldn’t take care of my husband, my ranch, my animals. I used to ride horses and compete in the show ring. But I couldn’t even breath while walking,” she said. In 2013, doctors told her the only thing that would save her life was an open heart surgery. But, sadly, she was not a candidate. Open heart surgery would be far too traumatic because surgeons would have to crack her chest open, place her on a heart lung machine during the procedure and stop her heart in order to perform surgery. Debra was simply too compromised, too high risk for that kind of trauma, and likely would not survive. “I had what they call a ‘hostile chest.’ I fell into the category of the 90-year-olds who are unable to have open heart surgery because they are so frail. I realized I couldn’t go forward in life. I was completely out of options,” she said. It was winter 2013 and Debra was preparing to die. She didn’t expect to see springtime blossoms or another
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Debra Lehr is riding horses again
barn full of baby goats at her Wilton ranch. With barely the strength to breathe, she planned her goodbyes to her animals, her friends and her family. She was giving up. But across town at Mercy General Hospital, doctors did the opposite. As members of Dignity Health’s Heart & Vascular Institute, they had an idea. “My team of doctors wasn’t giving up. They were like rock stars, going the extra mile for me,” she said. “I had no idea at the time, but Drs. (Allen) Morris and (Frank) Slachman continued to work with their colleagues in Denmark to find a solution. I didn’t know they were working on my case, researching it with doctors around the world.
They went to bat for me and made a comfortable risk assessment.” Doctors got FDA approval to perform a revolutionary procedure on a patient of Debra’s age: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR for short. An expert team of Mercy General physicians came together to perform this complex procedure, including cardiac surgeons Frank Slachman, MD, and Kapil Sharma, MD; and cardiologists Joseph Kozina, MD, and Michael Chang, MD. “Debra was caught between a rock and hard place,” said Dr. Slachman. “The traditional procedure would have been very dangerous for her. The idea of stopping her heart and putting her on a heart lung machine
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was out of the question. With TAVR we were able to make a small incision between her ribs, access the heart and actually expand and deploy a new valve right inside her old one. We never had to open her chest. In fact, we didn’t put our hands inside her chest at all.” But would it work? Would it hold? Debra recovered quickly from the minimally invasive surgery and within days was up walking and breathing deeply. She could smell those spring blossoms she thought she might not see again. She welcomed a new crop of baby goats to her ranch and has been busy training her Border Collies. Just one year earlier, she was hanging up her spurs for good. But Dignity Health surgeons, it seems, had not only minds for the science of heart surgery, they had the heart to keep pushing the limits of technology for people like Debra. “Within two months of the surgery, I felt better than I had in years. I even went out and bought myself a new horse. Now I ride whenever I can. It was a new lease on life for me. A true miracle.” In the last two years, Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute physicians have performed 100 TAVR surgeries like the procedure that saved Debra’s life. “We have the lowest mortality statistics and are the busiest heart program in California,” Slachman said. “For years our heart program has scored at the top by independent health grade evaluators. Many people don’t know that Mercy General Hospital has been working on 1,200-1,400 hearts a year with so much success. That’s because we just put our heads down and operate.” n
The Healing Power of Art
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edicated cardiologists, surgeons and specialty nurses tirelessly push the limits to make hearts whole again at Mercy General Hospital. But many of these same health care providers know there’s so much more to healing than hightech procedures and cold, hard science. It is just as important to create areas of soothing calm and restfulness in the hospital setting that will promote a healing environment for patients and families. Thanks to the passion of a dedicated committee of nurses and Sisters of Mercy, the healing power of art will play a key role in the new Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center. “We are bringing in art…and lots of it,” says Doris Frazier, registered nurse, vice president of Cardiovascular Services and the administrator of the new Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center. “Our committee carefully selected pieces to portray the right message of healing, honor the Sisters of Mercy and their legacy, and reflect the uniqueness of Sacramento.” “Nature has a healing effect, but how do you take a hospital environment and infuse nature into it?” Frazier asked. “In keeping within the healing mission of the
Sisters of Mercy – who founded Mercy Hospital in 1925 – we are transforming the building to make it a space for recuperation on all fronts. The outdoor Healing Garden sets the stage with open walkways and a water feature." Inside, gentle flowing river scenes and pathways through gardens are in surgery lounges to calm the natural anxiety felt by families waiting for loved ones during surgery. For patients, hallways are filled with glorious colorful buds and flowers – newness and life beginning again. Recovery rooms have peaceful and expansive vistas that inspire wholeness. The lobby’s columns have been transformed into majestic tree sculptures and the entryway is made to feel like a flowing river with gracefully placed meandering tiles. It’s a tribute to Sister Mary Baptist Russell, founder of the Sisters of Mercy, who is symbolically honored for her ability to remain constant, like a tree by running water, during times of struggle. Frazier becomes extremely passionate about the artwork that’s been selected and describes how it will help families cope with the multitude of emotions that often accompany being in the hospital. She marvels too at the intangible and beautiful qualities patients have – like indomitable courage, the will to survive and the joy of health renewed. It’s clear she sees art not just in paintings on the wall, but in the patients themselves. n
Dr. Stephen Rossiter, Dr. Allen Morris and Dr. Michael Chang
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hen it opens, the Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center will combine the best of two worlds – a state-ofthe-art facility that is home to a nationally renowned cardiac care team. The Spanos Center will be a part of the Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute of Sacramento, which performs more heart surgeries annually than any other facility in California. The comprehensive program serves as a major referral center for advanced cardiac care. In 2013, Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute achieved the highest rankings from the nation’s leading reporting agencies, recognizing excellence in cardiac surgery, cardiac intervention, heart failure, heart attack, cardiac critical care
and rehabilitation. “The Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center will be a tremendous benefit and resource for the community and region,” said Edmundo Castañeda, President of Mercy General Hospital. “Mercy General prides itself in the fact that its heart and vascular program rivals the most renowned, academic hospitals in the country. The Spanos Center will continue to build on that rich tradition by providing physicians access to cutting-edge technology, while offering patients superior clinical and quality outcomes.” The 123,000-square-foot Spanos Center provides a new main entrance for Mercy General Hospital and houses all cardiac care services conveniently under one roof. n
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The gift from the Spanos family
Philanthropic Support CRITICAL TO NEW HEART CENTER
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has encouraged more than 500 other
hope that patients at the new cardiac
individuals and families to support
center would receive the best care and
the project. Son Dean A. Spanos says
that no one would be turned away
the opening of the Spanos Center will
because of lack of space. This is really
mark the beginning of this chapter of
a dream come true.”
his father’s legacy. “We are extremely
To learn more about the many ways
pleased to celebrate with the Mercy
you can support the Alex G. Spanos
community and the region the grand
Heart & Vascular Center and other
opening of the Alex G. Spanos Heart
works of the Sisters of Mercy, contact
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members. To date, $22.8 million
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community.”
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remarkable philanthropic support
businessman and philanthropist Alex
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G. Spanos. Mr. Spanos was a patient
the heart and vascular program
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at Mercy General Hospital,” says
coronary artery bypass surgery. The
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CEO of Mercy Foundation. “Our
him to pledge $15 million – one of
donors recognize the impact this
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In her first one-person show at Elliott Fouts Gallery, Samantha Buller will exhibit more than 30 new paintings. Buller’s energetic work is characterized by her trademark use of vivid color and gestural brushstrokes. Shown: “Pasture Grazing.” The show runs through May 1. 1831 P St.; efgallery.com
“The Free Press,” an exhibition of printmaking by Sacramento artists, runs at SMUD Art Gallery until May 21. Included are works by emerging and established printmakers, including Carol Abbe, Sandra Beard, Christine Meighan, Sally Bullock, Joanna Kidd, Dixie Laws, Barbara Nilsson, Manuel Fernando Rios, Susan Silvester and Katherine Venturelli. Shown: “Circles and Squares” by Barbara Nilsson (top above) and “What are You Looking at?” by Joanna Kidd (bottom above.) SMUD Gallery is at 6301 S St.
Tim Collom Gallery/Atelier 20 will host a unique installation called “essential six—A KVIE Arts Curated Exhibition” April 11 to April 26. The exhibit features multiple works by three rising stars (Tim Collom, Micah Crandall-Bear and Kim Squaglia), two seasoned veterans (Gregory Kondos and Jian Wang) and legacy artist Laureen Landau. Shown above: painting by Kim Squaglia. Each work of art is for sale to benefit KVIE Public Television. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
Works by Linda Gelfman and Jodie Hooker, both American River College art professors, will be featured in an exhibit at Blue Moon Gallery April 12 to May 3. Shown: a raku ceramic titled “Fundamentally Straight Up” by Linda Gelfman. 2353 Albatross Way; bluemoongallerysacto.com
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Old School, New Life VACANT CAMPUS TO BE REPURPOSED FOR PERFORMING ARTS GROUPS
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s the residents of a city’s central core age, people move to the suburbs and demographics shift through the decades, empty schools are often left behind. Over the years, 10 abandoned schools in Sacramento City Unified School District have been repurposed for other uses. Currently, 11 campuses sit vacant in Sacramento with no students to fill their desks, having closed due to budget cuts or lack of enrollment. But the former Fremont School for Adults in Midtown, built in 1921, has another fate coming: that of a rehearsal venue and office space for local performing arts groups.
“It’s an excellent adaptive reuse of a beautiful historic building,” Burg said. The city is leasing the vacant school on N Street from the school district and subleasing the building to the Studios for the Performing Arts Operating Company. This group comprises the Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Opera and Sacramento Philharmonic. California Musical Theatre was expected to be a key tenant but withdrew from the project in early December. The city is investing $5 million to renovate the campus. The center will be called
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Richard Rich, president of the Board of the Studios Operating Company, with a few Sacramento ballet dancers outside Fremont School
the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts. William Burg, a member of Sacramento Old City Association, commended the project during a city council meeting on Dec. 17, when the funding and sublease passed with a 6-0 vote. “It’s an excellent adaptive reuse of a beautiful historic building,” Burg said. “It is a project that will complement and expand the
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FUTURE FROM page 38 prevent that site from decay.” This project is an experiment in arts collaboration and an example of urban revitalization, but the road has not been free of bumps. The city had been moving forward on a $25 million practice facility and performing arts center next to the Wells Fargo Pavilion at 14th and H streets, but that project lacked funding in the bad economy and was scrapped. So the core performing arts groups approached the city with a different plan, agreeing to take on the risks and responsibilities—along with the quest for donors. Construction on the $6.5 million renovation is expected to begin this spring and be completed by the fall. The arts groups have pledged $1.5 million toward costs, and the city is fronting the rest. Half of that sum is coming from the money the city gets for maintaining the Cal/EPA building downtown, and the other $2.5 million will come from future loan payments made to the city by the Crocker Art Museum. If the arts groups don’t raise the rest of the money, the project doesn’t happen. Before the city releases any funding, the studios operating company must present a business plan, establish bylaws, secure tenants for 80 percent of the 49,000-squarefoot facility and be able to maintain a minimum operating budget, according to Rebecca Bitter, a program manager with the city’s Department of Convention, Culture and Leisure. The Latino Arts Network of California voiced opposition to the city’s financial involvement in the project, suggesting it was showing
preference for “Eurocentric” art. The group seeks to ensure access and equity in arts funding from governmental and public sources, according to board chairman Tomas Benitez. “We consider ourselves part of the vital network of all organizations and service deliverers who endeavor to enhance the daily lives of our community through arts and culture. To that end, we seek fair representation and participation,” Benitez said. “We are not enemies of Eurocentric art forms; we are colleagues. The creative expressions of Latino people are for the benefit of all audiences.” Proponents say the new facility will provide increased access to the arts for all people, and all arts organizations. Councilmember Steve Hansen, who represents Midtown, called the partnership an innovative solution to the problem of closed schools and the interest in cultivating Sacramento’s cultural scene. During the December council meeting, he likened the project to the Sierra 2 Center in Curtis Park: That old campus has been repurposed into an events space, theater and classrooms used by the community. “This will be open to more than just the ballet, more than the philharmonic and more than the opera, and I encourage everyone to look at that bigger vision,” Hansen said. “Because the arts should build our community, not pull our community apart … When someone else wins, that doesn’t mean other people lose.” Sena Christian can be reached at sena.c.christian@gmail.com. n
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he first weekend in March, a friend mentioned an egg art show called Passport to Eggventure, taking place at the Crowne Plaza hotel. It sounded intriguing so I made what I expected to be a quick stop for a look-see. The quick stop turned into several hours of bug-eyed astonishment. There were traditional diorama eggs opened up to reveal tiny scenes inside, eggs carved into delicate lace patterns, others transformed into jewel-encrusted Cinderella carriages, some with faces or figures carved into the shells, even a few cut apart and reassembled into tiny hot rods. On one table was a collection of Ferris wheels made with decorated eggs for passenger cars. One artist had made a chess set with decorated eggs for game pieces. Another had transformed ostrich eggs into music boxes that fanned open to reveal spinning ballerinas or tiny framed pictures of grandchildren. Amazed doesn’t begin to describe the experience. The show is an annual event sponsored by the Northern California Egg Artists club, said Diana Macias as she gave me a tour of the ballroom.
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Egg artist Diana Macias shows some of her creations
Macias, an artist and one of the show organizers, said attendees had traveled from Spain, China, Mexico, Australia and South Korea just to show their work and to teach and attend workshops during the fourday conference. It was difficult to imagine traveling such long distances with these delicate pieces. “As far as I know, only one egg didn’t make it,” said Macias.
Still, it seems as though disasters would be common. “Well, if you have any cats or grandchildren in the house, you do need to be careful about how you display them,” said Macias. Speaking from experience, she added, “It’s not good to see something you spent hours creating shatter as it hits the floor.”
Egg art has been part of many cultural traditions for centuries, and many countries claim their own specialized art. Current egg artists embrace traditions, but many have developed some of their own techniques using modern-day tools. For example, there were traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs known as pysanka displayed along with eggs carved using a dentist drill or a Dremel rotary tool. These contemporary artists also manage to include current pop culture trends in their work. “Right now, a lot of artists are creating steampunk designs,” said Macias. “It’s sort of a combination of past technology and futuristic patterns with a Jules Verne or H.G. Wells inspiration. It looks sort of like watch gears.” That seems an odd approach to decorating something as delicate as, say, a dove egg. “It’s an acquired taste,” said Macias, who specializes in etched emu eggs. “Emu eggs,” she explained, “are a dark, emerald, blackish-green color. When carving them, you gently take off layers with a dental tool or a Dremel. That removes a color layer on the shell. The second layer of the shell is gray. The third layer is teal, then white. The shells can also be etched using beeswax. You cover the portions of the shell that you want to remain black with wax. Then dip the egg into an acid solution followed by a water bath. Another layer of wax is applied, then the shell is dipped again. The result is a layering of patterns in the natural colors of the shell.” Why emu? “It’s very strong,” said Macias. “Artists use eggs ranging in size from
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Shades of Gray HOW TO USE WASTEWATER AND STORMWATER DURING THE DROUGHT
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e’ve lived in the same East Sacramento house for nearly 40 years. A major drought was ending when we moved into our home, but the thought never occurred to us that the water that ran off our roofs and driveway could be put to use rather than sent gurgling down the drain. More worried about floods than drought, we spent considerable time and money employing plumbers and landscapers to move stormwater and wastewater off of our property as quickly as possible. Times have changed. The notion that rainwater and some wastewater can be kept on-site to recharge groundwater and to irrigate plants has become increasingly accepted. Rather than letting water flow straight into the storm drains, why not let the soil filter it naturally? Having less water run off our property reduces the risk of flooding and lessens the need for water treatment. When we landscaped our backyard 10 years ago, we decided to use permeable pavement that allows water to flow through it. We installed decomposed granite for our walkways and built a brick patio set in sand. We also formed some gentle
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swales and berms to slow down excess rainwater and to give it a chance to be absorbed. We are now eyeing a depression in our front lawn, thinking that it can be transformed into a “rain garden” that will catch and use rainwater from our roof rather than directing it to the street. Even in a dry year, a lot of rain runs off our roofs. According to the Sacramento Stormwater Quality Partnership’s riverfriendly guidelines, “During a 1-inch rain, 625 gallons of water can be collected from a 1,000-square-foot roof.” Rain barrels can be used to store part of that water. Even if you put them all around your house, you won’t get enough to last through our hot, dry summers, but it’s more than just a drop in a barrel. Rules have relaxed about using gray water, which is uncontaminated wastewater from bathroom sinks, showers, bathtubs and washing machines. California now allows installation of a simple “laundry to landscape” irrigation system without a permit, so long as it doesn’t require cutting the existing plumbing piping. The system needs a three-way valve so that flow can be directed back to the sewer, especially critical if you’ve washed diapers or other contaminated laundry. Pipes and valves must be clearly labeled and must discharge the gray water into basins near trees, shrubs or planting beds, or stone covering. Gray water must discharge underneath a 2-inch layer of mulch, a plastic shield or stone covering. It can’t be allowed to pond
or run off. Human contact should be avoided because there is a risk of harmful bacteria remaining in wash water. According to UC guidelines, gray water should be applied only to nonedible ornamental plants. Studies don’t show any problems with plants, which may actually benefit from some of gray water’s nutrients. Marsha Prillwitz, a Sacramento County Master Gardener and water consultant, says that choice of soap is important. She advocates “garden- and people-friendly cleaning products, shampoos, soaps, and detergents containing no dyes, bleach, chlorine, sodium, boron or phosphate.” She recommends liquid soaps and detergents, and says not to overuse disinfectants since “they kill beneficial microbes in the soil.” Water from kitchen sinks, dishwashers and toilets is considered
black and must be discharged into the sewer system. Recycled water is treated and used in landscapes, flowing through separate purple pipes. In the Sacramento area, it’s only used in the Elk Grove/Laguna areas. Here’s another way to reduce wastewater. Instead of letting cold water run down the drain while waiting for hot water, you can collect it and use it to water a few plants or to flush your toilet. In my house, a half-gallon of water runs at the kitchen sink before it gets hot. About one and a half gallons is wasted in the shower. If you use a clean pitcher or bucket, it’s really not gray water at all, so you can use it wherever you like. You can collect even more if you leave the bucket while you take a shower, but it then becomes gray water due to soap residue.
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Challenge Accepted MY YEAR OF READING THE HOLY BOOK
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ast year I read the Bible— every word of it. I even have the documentation to prove it: a certificate signed by the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. It says, “Kevin Mims met The Bible Challenge by reading the Bible in one year, January 2013 to January 2014.” I may be the only atheist in town who can boast of having received such a citation. I was part of a group of people that met every Thursday, at noon, in a meeting hall at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento to discuss the Bible verses we had read that week. The Episcopal Church has a program called The Bible Challenge, which divides the text up into 365 easy installments. Each day, we were assigned a chapter or two of the Old Testament, a single psalm and a chapter of the New Testament. The people in my group tended to be older (in their 60s, 70s or 80s) and female. (I was one of only two men in the group.) The group included people who were raised in a variety of Christian faiths: Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc. One woman was
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raised a Seventh-day Adventist and tended to read the Bible very literally. The cradle Episcopalians tended to view the Bible more metaphorically. Because I couldn’t bring any religious faith to these meetings, I decided to bring the next best thing: cookies. I was the only member of the group who didn’t miss a single Thursday session, and I brought cookies to all of them. Our group sessions were presided over by an Episcopalian priest, but she didn’t make any effort to pass herself off as an expert on the Bible or to discourage heretical thinking. We were there simply to discuss our thoughts on what we had read. We were not required to conform to Episcopal orthodoxy—or any other orthodoxy, for that matter. Reading the Bible from cover to cover in a short period of time emphasizes just what an odd document it is. It is less a book than a collection of books, many of which seem to be in conflict with each other. The Song of Solomon, for instance, is a sequence of poems that celebrate sexual love. How it found its way into the Bible, I don’t know. It is filled with beautiful and suggestive imagery: “Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits…” It would be difficult to run a longer quotation than that one without violating the standards of a family newspaper. Because sex is so often treated as a cause for shame and punishment in the Bible, it was refreshing to come upon a book that doesn’t have any Thou Shalt Nots in it, a book that celebrates love and allows its female narrator to talk
openly about her desire without being branded a harlot. The women in my group were particularly fond of it, having endured so many passages in the Bible that condemn women as wanton hussies. Many biblical books seem to be in conflict with each other. In 2 Samuel, we see King David behaving appallingly, committing adultery with Bathsheba and having her husband murdered. But later, in the second Book of Chronicles, many a subsequent king of Israel is criticized for not being an upright, godly leader like David. Again and again, we are told that David never did anything wrong in the sight of the Lord, and yet earlier passages of the Bible have detailed much wrongdoing on David’s part.
So which command should one follow if one wishes to live biblically? I was also surprised to see that the Bible contains some outright errors. In 2 Chronicles 21, we learn that King Jehoram of Israel died at age 40 and was succeeded by his son, Ahaziah, who was 42 at the time. The notes in the New Oxford Annotated Bible disclose that this error occurs in the original, so here is clear evidence that the Bible can be wrong. While reading the Bible, I found it difficult to understand how anyone can claim to follow it to the letter. In Leviticus, for instance, we find
the famous injunction, “Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” But in Matthew 5:39, Jesus says, “You have heard it said, ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also…” So which command should one follow if one wishes to live biblically? You could argue that Jesus’ words trump those of the author of Leviticus. After all Jesus (and later Paul) frequently contradicts Old Testament teaching. (For instance, the O.T. is full of dietary restrictions, but Jesus tells his followers to eat whatever they want. He also rejects the Pharisees’ strict interpretation of the O.T. injunction against working on the Sabbath.) And yet elsewhere in the Bible, Jesus insists that every word of the Old Testament is to be followed: “Do not think I have come to abolish the law (of the Old Testament) … For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law.” So how did the members of my Bible Challenge group resolve these scriptural inconsistencies? We didn’t. The Bible, like humankind itself, is a record of evolution. Its harshest passages and most draconian laws come in its earliest books. Gradually, the Bible becomes less about rulemaking and the punishment of evildoers and more about being kind to others and looking after the needy. In the Old Testament, the list of people who
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meeting with a bowlful of these, I was astounded to hear how many different names my fellow group members had for this one variety of cookie. Some knew them as Mexican wedding cookies. Some knew them only as Christmas cookies. One woman called them Italian butterballs. Another called them pecan puffs. Another claimed they were known as ambrosia balls, while still another woman just called them snowballs. Regardless of what they were called, we all enjoyed them. And no one insisted that her particular name for the cookie was the only truly accurate one. In that regard, the Bible is a bit like a Russian tea cookie. Everyone in my group seemed to interpret the Bible in her own unique way. Rarely were we all in agreement about any particularly troubling passage of scripture. There’s nothing wrong with reading the Bible and trying to live by it. But it’s important to recognize that everyone interprets scripture in his or her own way. We live in a world where few people can agree on what to call a cookie made with powdered pecans, flour, salt, butter, granulated sugar, vanilla extract and a bit of powdered sugar. We’ll only create trouble for ourselves and others if we insist that everyone interpret a book written thousands of years ago by numerous different authors over a period of many centuries exactly the way we ourselves interpret it. That’s what I learned from my year of reading the Bible. Kevin Mims can be reached at kevinmims@sbcglobal.net. n
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Agent of Change EDUCATOR PUSHES EQUALITY IN THE CLASSROOM AND THE COMMUNITY
most the days at Pitney Bowes when I trained or taught my co-workers.” So she went back to school and got a master’s degree in human diversity management from Long Beach State in 1993. In 2002, she got her doctorate in international multicultural education from the University of San Francisco. Carinci’s first professorship was at Cosumnes River College. She herself wrote one of the courses that she taught: Managing Diversity in the Workplace. In 1994, she joined the faculty at Sacramento State. Currently teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses, she also is a master’s thesis and project adviser.
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n our society, we’ve made subtle changes and some improvement with regard to racism,” says Sherrie Carinci. “But sexism is still alive and well.” She would know. As a Sac State professor who specializes in gender equity and multicultural studies, Carinci has written and taught on how gender affects the preschool classroom, managing cultural diversity, women in the workplace, and cyberbullying. She has seen first-hand the negative attitudes and stereotyping that pervade everyday life. “The social construct of sexuality is woven into our society,” says Carinci, who lives in East Sacramento. She cringes when she hears things like “She’s a tomboy” and “She throws like a girl.” “Instead of calling someone a tomboy, why can’t we say ‘that girl is assertive, athletic, strong and awesome’?” she asks. Carinci is as big a champion for males as females. She believes “overmasculinity” is as much a problem as female stereotyping, citing the way society expects boys to be rough-and-tumble and insensitive. “It should be OK to associate boys with being kind and caring,” she says. Carinci has been lecturing in schools about harassment and bullying for the past 20 years, “before it was in vogue,” she says. She has consulted with many schools throughout the state on the issue. “I see the biggest problems when administration and teachers aren’t
She believes that “bullying” is just another word for “being unkind” or “mistreated.”
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on the same page,” she says, “and I see the harm it causes the bullied student.” Carinci’s path to education was not necessarily a straight one. Born and raised in Southern California, she got a bachelor’s degree in human
resources management from Long Beach State. After working at Pitney Bowes for a few years out of college, she realized that educating was her passion. “I knew teaching was my calling,” she says, “because I loved
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6310 SAMOA WAY $355,000 5720 PARKOAKS DR $244,999 6230 RIO BONITO DR $1,300,000 6801 LINCOLN AVE $280,000 1412 MEREDITH WAY $442,000 6454 TEMPLETON DR $120,100 4813 MARIETTA WAY $348,500 5233 MCKENZIE GLEN CT $440,000 6004 VIA CASITAS $159,000 3965 OAK VILLA CIR $114,500 1621 GARY WAY $430,000 1561 ELSDON CIR $530,000 4801 WHITNEY AVE $334,000 2334 WALNUT AVE $208,000 5133 MARCONI AVE $290,000 4828 BOYD DR $274,990 1631 DAY DR $571,000 4913 SAN MARQUE CIR $300,000 5008 ARDEN WAY $545,000 5949 RANGER WAY $330,000 1921 WALNUT AVE $140,000 5012 WILLOW TREE CT $250,000 5201 SHELATO WAY $530,000 6724 RAPPAHANNOCK WAY$325,000 5829 SHARPS CIR $207,000 3439 GRANT PARK DR $280,000 2430 VIA CAMINO AVE $123,000 3906 HORTON LN $200,000 3633 CASA ROSA WAY $226,000 3333 SUNNYBANK LN $1,500,000 6012 LANDIS AVE $309,900 3101 PETTY LN $185,000 1705 MISSION AVE $429,900 4127 PUEBLO ST $365,000 6314 MORAGA DR $325,000
7131 STELLA LN #30 $96,000 4991 KEANE DR $965,000 5011 JARDIN LN $2,300,000 3827 OLIVE LN $345,000 3877 MAUDRAY WAY $329,000 2505 EL VITA WAY $365,000 3020 VALASSTRADA CT $415,000 4244 GOLD FLOWER CT $304,775 6450 BELGROVE WAY $215,000 5886 WOODLEIGH DR $218,500 4705 OAKFIELD CIR $355,000 7134 WILLEY WAY $314,900 2211 WALNUT AVE $190,100 4951 FRANCIS WAY $345,000 6971 LOS OLIVOS WAY $252,000 6228 EASTMONT CT $625,000 6391 PERRIN WAY $389,000 6101 RAMPART DR $376,000 6708 LANDIS AVE $410,000 2748 LEOLETA WAY $320,000 6600 BUSH WAY $285,900 4317 MAPEL LN $399,000 3601 CASA ROSA WAY $315,000 4715 ELI CT $193,000 5425 EDGERLY $200,000 91 COVERED BRIDGE RD $505,000 4540 JAN DR $315,000 6386 PERRIN WAY $385,000 4305 JAN DR $370,000 3201 TERRY WAY $301,000 4742 WHITNEY AVE $175,000 4864 PAISLEY WAY $739,000 3224 SMATHERS WAY $215,000 5901 CAMRAY CIR $305,000 5060 KAHN ST $189,000 2010 AINSLEY CT $975,000
3308 OAK STREAM CT 3119 MAYER WAY 5228 NORCREST AVE 8748 FAIR OAKS BLVD 7131 STELLA LN #31 5604 SAPUNOR WAY 4817 MELVIN DR 5631 BEAUCHAMP CT
$439,000 $210,000 $252,000 $151,000 $100,000 $179,000 $205,000 $241,100
95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK 1740 40TH ST 1617 36TH ST 2230 E ST 614 26TH ST 1420 26TH ST 517 39TH ST 1216 38TH 2210 G ST 1641 39TH ST 3133 T ST 1507 39TH ST 2522 E ST 1146 39TH ST 2117 L ST 3160 H ST
95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 2474 41ST ST 2907 35TH ST 2856 SANTA CRUZ WAY 4346 8TH AVE 3541 38TH ST 3433 E 12TH AVE
$425,000 $433,000 $355,000 $372,000 $330,000 $682,500 $950,000 $485,000 $465,000 $459,000 $623,500 $424,000 $1,400,000 $225,000 $995,000
$258,000 $307,000 $175,000 $142,000 $35,000 $132,950
2509 42ND ST 3500 SAN JOSE WAY 3900 1ST AVE 3225 12TH AVE 4400 N 10TH AVE 2756 35TH ST 3135 43RD ST 3508 9TH AVE 3625 7TH AVE 2530 SANTA CRUZ WAY 3525 37TH ST 3516 SANTA CRUZ WAY 3101 42ND ST 3336 6TH AVE 4036 2ND AVE
95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK 1661 10TH AVE 2117 3RD AVE 957 3RD AVE 1824 BEVERLY WAY 1415 W ST 2132 PERKINS WAY 2533 7TH AVE 2116 23RD ST 2781 13TH ST 2673 28TH ST 2630 LAND PARK DR 2413 27TH ST 614 4TH AVE 2901 LAND PARK DR 2010 21 ST 1070 PERKINS WAY 1020 U ST 1101 YALE ST 821 U ST 2766 SAN LUIS CT 2404 27TH ST 1393 7TH AVE 1825 3RD AVE 3009 6TH ST 2615 FREEPORT BLVD
$245,000 $85,500 $185,000 $66,000 $90,000 $295,000 $163,500 $50,000 $110,000 $215,000 $75,000 $57,000 $210,000 $165,000 $175,000
$609,000 $348,000 $289,000 $310,000 $240,000 $265,000 $450,000 $315,000 $415,000 $295,000 $649,300 $330,000 $373,000 $465,000 $645,750 $439,500 $135,000 $200,000 $422,000 $252,000 $170,000 $440,000 $400,000 $339,000 $225,700
1009 3RD AVE 854 8TH AVE 1100 TENEIGHTH WAY
$415,000 $571,500 $376,000
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733 51 ST ST $480,000 1740 40TH ST $425,000 4155 P ST $609,900 5508 STATE AVE $420,000 1073 57TH ST $575,000 725 SAN MIGUEL WAY $495,000 5669 ELVAS $280,000 517 39TH ST $682,500 1420 58TH ST $589,000 540 SANDBURG DR $515,000 1371 46TH ST $1,114,350 5172 MODDISON AVE $325,000 1900 52 ST $315,000 1351 61ST ST $375,000 1128 43RD ST $779,500 1619 55TH ST $351,500 148 40TH ST $760,000 900 42ND ST $529,000 1201 54TH ST $499,000 5201 H ST $559,000 1001 43RD ST $1,000,000 1733 40TH ST $415,000 148 SAN ANTONIO WAY $345,000 4600 P ST $325,000 4630 BRAND WAY $445,500 874 54TH ST $323,500 1864 46TH ST $342,000 400 46TH ST $417,500 1840 48TH ST $340,000 916 51ST ST $425,000 5340 D ST $460,000 381 MESSINA DR $400,000 1901 52ND ST $475,000 5080 F ST $280,330 88 PRIMROSE WAY $396,000 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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95821 ARDEN-ARCADE 3929 WOODPOINTE CIR 2721 CREEKSIDE LN 2740 MORSE AVE 4149 WHITNEY AVE 3947 SCOTTY WAY 2325 TYROLEAN WAY 3606 RONK WAY 2540 WATSON ST 3514 POPE 3641 WILLIAM WAY 3629 POPE AVE 3341 POTTER LN 2320 CARLSBAD 2285 RAINBOW AVE 4417 BARON AVE 4509 MCDONALD DR 3012 SANDHURST CT 2521 BUTANO DR 3231 BALMORAL DR 2731 CARSON WAY 4622 ENGLE RD 3630 MULHOLLAND WAY 2700 CREEKSIDE LN 3230 EDISON AVE 3330 EDISON AVE 3400 MORROW ST 4204 ANNETTE 3413 MORSE 3529 DOMICH WAY 2848 ALAMITOS WAY 2562 CHARLOTTE LN 3009 MIRAMAR RD 3325 BRAEBURN
$319,000 $283,000 $365,000 $219,000 $200,000 $46,500 $296,800 $182,500 $219,000 $205,000 $251,000 $165,000 $230,000 $146,000 $165,000 $168,000 $244,500 $269,000 $265,500 $210,000 $249,000 $251,900 $281,000 $137,000 $163,900 $317,500 $190,000 $219,000 $179,900 $227,500 $199,900 $315,000 $415,000
3118 MIRAMAR RD 4525 WYMAN DR 3725 SUN SHADOWS LN 3857 TERRA VISTA WAY 3717 HAVEN GLEN PL 3850 BECERRA WAY
$225,000 $225,000 $190,000 $277,500 $330,000 $250,000
95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 924 LINVALE CT 6232 HERMOSA ST 7430 19TH ST 6060 GLORIA DR #8 6921 27TH ST 2306 50TH AVE 2528 37TH AVE 2128 IRVIN WAY 1972 NEWPORT AVE 951 CASILADA 1264 NEVIS CT 2500 38TH AVE 5648 JOHNS DR 2235 HOOKE WAY 7025 TAMOSHANTER WAY 5401 SALVATOR WAY 7486 CANDLEWOOD WAY 2521 49TH AVE 7467 AMHERST ST 7548 MUIRFIELD WAY 2429 37TH AVE 7516 LOMA VERDE WAY 1720 60TH AVE 6115 25TH ST 6148 MCLAREN AVE 76 PULSAR CIR 51 QUASAR CIR 7255 AMHERST ST 6024 BELLEAU WOOD LN 2204 18TH AVE 2187 56TH AVE
$345,000 $176,500 $120,000 $76,000 $65,000 $150,000 $145,000 $196,000 $145,000 $610,000 $330,000 $185,000 $194,500 $264,900 $170,100 $160,000 $195,000 $143,500 $98,000 $250,000 $170,000 $159,973 $168,000 $177,000 $117,000 $115,000 $110,000 $175,000 $125,000 $240,000 $157,777
1900 SUTTERVILLE RD 5731 S LAND PARK DR 1412 ATHERTON ST 2204 67TH AVE 7534 SKELTON WAY 1400 OAKHURST WAY 5605 CARMELA WAY 1528 34TH AVE 4933 CARMEN WAY 2021 MANGRUM AVE 1555 POTRERO WAY 2629 WAH AVE 5721 MONTEREY WAY 1835 68TH AVE 2136 KIRK WAY 7476 POIRIER WAY
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$285,000 $287,000 $115,000 $135,000 $177,000 $135,000 $180,000 $157,500 $282,000 $136,900 $700,000 $120,000 $265,000 $160,000 $150,000 $160,000
637 WOODSIDE SIERRA #4 $69,000 2387 ALTA GARDEN LN $90,000 2200 BELL ST $165,000 2216 WELDON WAY $247,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #50 $110,000 786 WOODSIDE LN #9 $88,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #63 $112,000 5 COLBY CT $260,000 2245 WOODSIDE LN #1 $87,000 2212 BRUNTON WAY $149,500 2231 EHRBORN WAY $335,000 643 WOODSIDE SIERRA $67,000 643 WOODSIDE SIERRA #4 $67,000 2320 DARWIN ST $144,900 512 WOODSIDE OAKS #4 $140,000 2294 WOODSIDE LN #9 $35,000 214 DUNBARTON CIR $330,000 901 COMMONS DR $315,000 643 WOODSIDE SIERRA $67,000 2022 UNIVERISTY PARK DR $250,000 2104 JUANITA LN $165,000 2436 PARKWOOD DR $215,000 2325 NATIVE OAK LN $96,000 255 MUNROE ST $320,000 3227 CASITAS BONITO $165,000
1049 BELL ST #9 3113 ELLINGTON CIR 3108 SUNVIEW AVE 1616 WAYLAND AVE 2425 TAB CT 1019 DORNAJO WAY #203 2529 EXETER SQUARE LN 2012 ROBERT WAY 2808 BERKSHIRE WAY 2447 BURGUNDY WAY
95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK 40 BINGHAM 6160 RIVERTON WAY 487 PIMENTEL WAY 992 BRIARCREST WAY 115 FORTADO CIR 646 CASTLE RIVER WAY 6709 FRATES WAY 449 RIVERGATE WAY 942 SUNWIND WAY 6933 STEAMBOAT WAY 7640 GREENHAVEN DR 904 PARKLIN AVE 6705 FREEHAVEN DR 6760 STEAMBOAT WAY 6767 FRATES WAY 1411 SAN CLEMENTE WAY 885 FLORIN RD 6515 SURFSIDE WAY 18 LOS GATOS CIR 6360 HOLSTEIN WAY 7292 RIVERWIND WAY 6430 SURFSIDE WAY 7545 SAILFISH WAY 15 OCEANFRONT CT 6781 LANGSTON WAY 2 DONNA MARIE CT 6815 HAVENHURST DR 6161 S LAND PARK DR 1304 MANZANO WAY 286 BREWSTER AVE
$151,000 $314,000 $180,000 $175,000 $182,000 $89,000 $249,900 $87,000 $165,000 $175,000
$195,000 $279,900 $315,000 $371,250 $385,000 $410,000 $349,000 $195,000 $307,000 $280,000 $440,000 $270,000 $310,000 $335,000 $354,000 $389,000 $315,000 $402,000 $470,000 $385,000 $215,000 $379,000 $310,000 $250,000 $317,000 $180,000 $276,500 $330,000 $455,000 $240,000
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3510 BUENA VISTA DR $410,150 3824 DUBAC WAY $255,000 4225 BIRGIT WAY $278,000 2037 MEDUSA WAY $235,000 3204 BERKSHIRE WAY $149,455 1950 MAPLE GLEN RD $980,000 1536 LOS MOLINOS WAY $615,000 3115 BAKULA WAY $136,000 2331 CATHAY WAY $229,000 2900 ROYCE WAY $510,000 2901 SIERRA MILLS LN $279,000 3305 NORTHROP AVE $215,000 2166 MORLEY WAY $595,000 2795 SIERRA BLVD $575,000 1705 MISSION AVE $429,900 2021 ADONIS WAY $329,900 2970 NORTHROP AVE $744,500 1101 MORSE AVE $359,775 3510 LA HABRA WAY $575,000 300 WYNDGATE RD $574,000 848 PICCADILLY CIR $413,500 791 LILAC LN $730,000 900 TUSCAN LN $1,200,000 600 MORRIS WAY $505,000 3245 BRISTOL RD $190,000 1719 PLUTO WAY $396,500 2831 AMERICAN RIVER DR $615,000 2731 KADEMA DR $665,964 117 MERRITT WAY $620,000 4147 ASHTON DR $433,200 4333 BAYWOOD WAY $285,000 541 MILLS RD $500,000 4507 ARDEN WAY $215,299 919 JONAS AVE $875,000 216 BRECKENWOOD WAY $730,000 749 ESTATES DR $1,665,000 4284 N RIVER $492,000 4143 ASHTON DR $495,000 2695 TOWNSEND CT $708,500 1800 CERES WAY $359,000
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True Happiness IT WASN’T HIS TO HAVE OR TO UNDERSTAND
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hair atop a balding head but felt no flash of recognition. Still, with a lingering air of familiarity, he invited me onto the bedside chair as if I were an old friend who’d come to visit. “I’m so glad you came, Chaplain,” he said. “I’m a pastor, too.” It turned out I didn’t know him, but I knew the pastoral pitch and ministerial mannerisms. I knew him. I was looking at myself 25 years from now. “Are you retired now?” I asked, an uncomfortable reference to his weighty encumbrance. “Are we ever really retired?” His mention of “we” felt like a club handshake. “I guess not,” I said. “We definitely signed up for the duration.” “That’s right. Ours is a lifelong service.” During the next half hour he unfolded 50, beginning with his marriage to his college sweetheart. Together they started a church as well as a family. She birthed a baby girl one year and a son the next.
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However, not long after birth, their son started turning blue. They called for an ambulance, but it came too late. “It was congenital,” he told me. The tears were now leaking from his reddened eyes, taking their evacuation route over bulging cheeks. A problem in the baby’s heart shattered the heart of his parents. “It was all so long ago,” he said. His tone became apologetic, as if mystified by the source of his tears.
The old preacher knew the answers were so complex that 10,000 years of deliberation couldn’t bring any real understanding. “You cry because it happened out of order. You’re grieving the loss of potential, for what could have been.” He nodded. “There’s an old Chinese proverb,” I said. “True happiness is: Grandfather dies. Father dies. Son dies. Grandson dies.” Yet, even as I spoke, he was waving a dismissive hand. It seemed likely he’d heard this before and just as likely he’d said it himself. Then, as if announcing another chapter of his autobiography, he said, “There’s more.
“The cancer. My firstborn,” he stuttered. “She died when she was just 39.” “You lost two children?” Mine was half question and halfhearted indictment of our celestial employer for expecting a man to remain in ministry after such tragedy. I guess he caught my meaning because he said, “I’ll be in heaven 10,000 years before I’ll ever understand why.” I sat in silence with that observation. The old preacher knew the answers were so complex that 10,000 years of deliberation couldn’t bring any real understanding. I suppose I could have reminded him that God “… causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45), but he likely knew that. He didn’t need more verses; he needed to know that God still heard his pain. I reached for his hand, asked if we could tell this to God. He nodded. We prayed. We cried. Just as he was wiping his last tear, his wife came into the room. He concluded his story by adding that he was now serving as pastor emeritus and advising the younger pastors. I guess he was right: Serving God is an endless calling. Doing so with such a gaping wound to the soul brings to mind nothing short of the divine. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “No Small Miracles.” He can be reached at ask@thechaplain.net. n
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Niko’s Story GRIEVING PARENTS ON A SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN CHILDHOOD
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n Oct. 21, 2012, Niko Winchell, an honors student and promising jazz musician at Rio Americano High School, was found dead in his bed by his father, who had gone into his room to close the curtains. Niko was just nine days short of his 16th birthday. The morning before, he had awakened early to take the PSAT and had later attended a fundraising party for the Rio band program. He was in good health and had a lifetime of dreams and goals ahead of him. Sonya and Ward Winchell, Niko’s parents, were stunned and shocked. “He came home from the party at about 11, and I was hanging out with some friends,” says his mom. “He visited with us for a few minutes and then went to bed. Ward went to close his curtains at about 8 in the morning, and he ran out of the room shouting, ‘Where’s the damn phone? Niko’s dead!’” The rest of the morning was a blur of police and coroner’s officials. After Niko’s body was taken away, his parents were left with many questions. What could have caused the death of their thriving, healthy son? “I had all this stuff running through my head,” says Sonya Winchell. “I knew that it wasn’t drugs because we had often talked about that stuff. But I didn’t know if someone at the pledge party might have snuck something into a drink.” The surreal day ended with a candlelight vigil at the high
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school, during which Niko’s friends and fellow band members wrote tributes to his short life and tried to make sense of his loss. The Winchells needed answers. A forensic pathologist friend counseled them to have the coroner obtain DNA samples, something not routinely done in Sacramento County. He also connected them with The Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood Program, an organization created more than a decade ago by a mother who lost her healthy toddler during an afternoon nap. The Winchells learned that sudden unexplained death takes more children every year than food allergies, yet pediatricians routinely fail to educate parents about it, and no laws mandate such disclosure. “It boggled my mind that kids are dying and the medical community has known about this for 25 years, but they don’t tell parents,” says Winchell. “You have a healthy child, 15 years of age, just die in his sleep, but people don’t hear about it.” She decided to devote herself to sparing other parents the grief and heartache that she and her husband have endured. She consulted with SUDC researchers and learned that electrical events in the body, such as heart arrhythmias and brain activity,
The Winchell family on vacation in Hawaii (Niko seated on far right) in August 2012 (2 1/2 months before his sudden death).
have been identified as possible causes. A perfectly healthy child such as Niko may harbor a cell mutation that no one knows of until it’s too late.
“It’s my goal that no one else suffers from this horrible and tragic death and the unanswered questions that constantly shadow us during our grieving,” says Winchell. One year after his death, tissues from Niko’s body are still undergoing
tests at Boston Children’s Hospital. His 13-year-old brother Alex is under the care of a cardiologist, has undergone a range of tests and is the focus of his mother’s ongoing concern. “When you have a child who’s still alive, you’re checking them every night,” she says. She doesn’t know if anything could have saved Niko, but she believes “there are things we can do proactively. They should tell parents so that they get their kids echocardiograms and other tests. “It’s my goal that no one else suffers from this horrible and tragic death and the unanswered questions that constantly shadow us during our grieving,” says Winchell. “Parents need to arm themselves with the knowledge that this is possible and ask questions.” Another important step, she says, is to support research and funding for SUDC, along with NEIGHBOR page 62
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Good Bones THIS CURTIS PARK TUDOR NEEDED JUST A FEW TWEAKS TO MAKE IT PERFECT
BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT
“We didn’t choose this house. It chose us,” says Gunvalson.
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ennis Gunvalson and Richard Bay were bicycling through Curtis Park in 2003 when they fell in love with a 1932 Tudor. “We didn’t choose this house. It chose us,” says Gunvalson of the house, one of seven on this year’s Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour. Though the house lacked a master bathroom and there was little backyard landscaping, the pair recognized the 2,000-square-foot structure’s potential immediately. Both were residing in small houses and wanted to buy a home together. The charming, well-maintained brick house met their basic requirements. Still, they were eager to make it their own. “On day one, we began making small changes in stages,” Gunvalson explains.
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They repainted the interior and replaced the electrical wiring and plumbing fixtures. They retained the original leaded-glass windows but replaced others in the master bedroom for comfort and energy efficiency. “It used to get really hot up here before, and functionally we don’t have to fight to get the windows up and down,” Bay says. The pickled wood floors were a grayish color, so the couple redid them in a warm golden brown. Though the kitchen won an award in the 1990s from Good Housekeeping magazine and was still in good shape, the floral wallpaper, fabric swags and linoleum had to go. Gunvalson and Bay installed new a new kitchen sink and appliances but kept the cabinets. Gunvalson, the cook in the family, notes that the kitchen allows for good traffic flow
during parties or family gatherings. The space has plenty of built-in storage with the additional benefit of a partial basement close by. They make the most of the space, using it as a laundry room, pantry and wine cellar. “We don’t really have a lot of complaints over a kitchen that was remodeled over 25 years ago,” Gunvalson explains. Off the kitchen, the slightly curved hallway allows easy passage between the kitchen, living and dining rooms, as well as space for a small bar area, refrigerator and piano. In the dining room, the couple displays some of their extensive art collection, which features works by Sacramento artists C.W. Hurni, Steve Memering, Tina Reynolds, Deborah Pittman, Kristen Phillips Gray and homeowner Bay. The library contains some of their many books, housed on shelves they built themselves. Bay’s sizable collection of DVDs sits under the flat-screen TV. The room opens to the backyard, where they added a deck,
fountain and hot tub. An antique Wedgwood range in the backyard provides space for serving and storage when the couple takes meals alfresco. Adding a gate across the driveway, Gunvalson and Bay created an interior courtyard, which was the site of last year’s Christmas dinner for 12.
The couple’s most extensive project involved converting the unfinished attic into an office space for the pair. The couple added a master bath complete with a large walk-in shower with dual showerheads. The vanity is an antique purchased from Three Women and an Armoire in downtown Sacramento. They chose a vessel sink rather than the traditional sunken unit. With minor repairs, the drawers remained functional.
The couple’s most extensive project involved converting the unfinished attic into an office space for the pair. They added 10 inches of foam insulation to make the space energy efficient. Two Velux skylights add light, ventilation and a treetop view. A large walk-in closet, still covered in the previous owner’s floral wallpaper, provides additional storage space. “It once held gowns and hats of the previous owner, who was active in Sacramento’s Camilla Owners Richard Bay and Dennis Gunvalson Festival,” Bay says. The pair is adamant about English finials on top of the courtyard their affection for where they live. pillars; woodwork throughout the Neighbors get together once a month house, which appears to be stained for wine tastings and passing along but is faux painted in the style of old family news, such as the birth of a Pullman train passenger cars. neighbor’s granddaughter. “Curtis Park as a whole is great, The 28th annual Curtis Park Home but our street is the best,” Gunvalson & Garden Tour takes place Saturday, says. “It is like a family.” April 26. Tickets are $20 in advance, Details to watch for during the $25 on the day of the tour. Sierra tour: Bay’s remarkable collection Curtis Neighborhood Association of puppets ( he is a puppeteer); a members get a $5 discount. For more sparkling collection of Depression information, call 452-3005 or go to glass in the kitchen; Bay’s mural off sierra2.org. the master bath; antique Oriental rugs throughout the home; an If you know of a home you African throne in the living room; think should be featured in Inside an African headdress in the upstairs Publications, contact Julie Foster at hallway; 1920s English stained foster.julie91@yahoo.com. n glass in the courtyard gate; 1850s
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Poison Control YOU HAVE TO BE VIGILANT TO KEEP YOUR PETS AWAY FROM THE BAD STUFF
BY SUE OWENS WRIGHT PETS & THEIR PEOPLE
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f I had chosen another name for my basset hound, Beau, when I adopted him, it would have been Dyson. Like a Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner, he scours the floor for any morsel of food. There is absolutely nothing this guy won’t suck up, which can be a problem if he finds something he shouldn’t eat. I have to be vigilant about dropping pills on the floor because many human medications can be harmful or even deadly to pets. There are plenty of other substances that are dangerous for pets if not handled with care. Accidental droppage isn’t the only concern with dogs. Some are trash raiders, or you may have an artful counter cruiser like my Daisy was. Her long, slinky basset body was ideal for the job. There was nothing Daisy couldn’t manage to nab from our dining table, but her favorite prize was a stick of butter. I’ve even heard of dogs pushing a chair up to the kitchen counter in order to reach the Sunday roast or Thanksgiving turkey.
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It’s tempting to share people food with our dogs, especially when they beg and give you The Look That Cannot Be Refused. But many of the foods we enjoy are not safe for dogs to eat. The list seems to grow ever longer as people discover, often disastrously, that a dog’s digestive system isn’t the same as ours. Most people already know about the dangers of chocolate, which contains caffeine and theobromine. Although the risk of poisoning depends upon the size of the dog and the amount and type of chocolate ingested (the darker the more dangerous), it’s wise to keep it all safely out of their reach, especially around holidays like Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas, when chocolate goodies are more likely to be found around the house.
It’s tempting to share people food with our dogs, especially when they beg and give you The Look That Cannot Be Refused. But many of the foods we enjoy are not safe for dogs to eat. Onions, garlic, grapes and raisins can also be harmful to dogs. Other things the ASPCA warns against include avocado, bread dough, ethanol, hops (no suds for Spuds!),
macadamia nuts, moldy food and xylitol. Xylitol is the artificial sweetener contained in sugarless chewing gum, candies, medications and nasal sprays. It causes blood sugar to drop and liver failure in dogs (not cats). One of my dogs loved chewing gum, but those were in the days before sugarless gum. Other pet toxins include NSAIDS; over-the-counter cough, cold and allergy medications; prescription ADD/ADHD medications; glucosamine joint supplements like Cosequin and Move Free; and iron-containing oxygen absorbers found in food
packages like beef jerky or pet treats. For a more comprehensive list of what to avoid, go to petpoisonhelpline. com, which contains a wealth of information and includes a 24/7 animal poison center hotline. In cases of suspected poisoning, the sooner your pet is diagnosed and treated, the better the outcome. It’s not always so easy to know whether your dog has overdosed. If your dog is normally hyperactive, it may be harder to tell when he’s showing signs of poisoning. But if your box of chocolates is missing, Sparky is probably the culprit. Dogs exhibiting
more than mild restlessness should be seen by a veterinarian. If your pet is showing more obvious signs of poisoning, like vomiting, diarrhea, drooling, weakness or collapse, don’t delay in seeking treatment. Your pet’s life could depend on your rapid response. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that because he has purged the offending substance he’s OK. He’s likely not. The legalization of medical marijuana poses a new danger for pets. People are coming home to find their canine stoned on cannabis. Though fatalities are fortunately rare, dogs can exhibit overdose symptoms like vomiting, tremors and urinary incontinence. Springtime means people are planting showy gardens for summer, and that can cause trouble for pets who consume snail bait, insect traps, rodenticides or other deadly poisons. Some brands of mulch contain harmful substances like cocoa, which
attracts animals but can also kill them. So can many varieties of plants. If you love growing a garden, make sure you maintain a pet-friendly one and carefully read the warning labels on products before using them around pets. When you have pets, you must guard against potential dangers in and around your home to ensure their safety. Making certain that potentially harmful substances are kept out of their reach can prevent disaster and costly visits to the vet. Extra caution is advised with clever counter cruisers and Dyson doggies. Sue Owens Wright is an awardwinning author of fiction and nonfiction about dogs. She writes the Beanie and Cruiser Mysteries for dog lovers. Her latest book in the series is Braced for Murder. For more information, go to sueowenswright. com. n
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Stop and Go ALPHONSE AND GASTON HIT THE STREETS
BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE
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lphonse and Gaston were early-1900s cartoon characters with a penchant for excessive politeness. Over time, the foolish, fawning Frenchmen were immortalized. People still say, “After you, my dear Alphonse” and “No, you first, my dear Gaston!” in situations in which somebody refuses to act until someone else acts first. Four-way stop-sign-controlled intersections create uncertainty among road users about who should go first. If you throw in an Alphonseand-Gaston routine, the situation gets more complicated yet. When motorists and bicyclists meet at fourway intersections, the results can be amusing, but the outcomes can also be confusing, frustrating, annoying and dangerous. Not all drivers or bicyclists are like Alphonse and Gaston, eager to defer to others under all circumstances. The way I see it, there are at least three kinds of cyclists when it comes to dealing with stop signs at intersections. There are bicyclists who faithfully come to a complete stop at every stop sign. These are a distinct minority. There are cyclists who slow
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down and scan the cross street. They roll through the intersection if there is no conflicting traffic and stop if there is. Then there are bicyclists who flagrantly ignore stop signs and expect the little people to make way for their privileged passage. They blast through intersection after intersection, seemingly without a care in the world despite the risks they are taking. I see four kinds of drivers. There are drivers who fail to stop at all. Thankfully, these scofflaws are extremely rare. There are many drivers who make “California stops,” slowing down and rolling into and through intersections. There are drivers who come to complete stops, ceasing motion in accord with the vehicle code. Then there are the Alphonses and Gastons of both sexes who stop, wait and wave bicyclists through the intersection no matter who arrived first. This courtesy is not normally extended to other motorists, just cyclists. It’s understandable why some drivers wave bicyclists through. They may be considerate. They know that
starting and stopping a bike takes energy. So as to not inconvenience bicyclists, they wave instead of go even if they aren’t legally bound to yield the right of way. They also know any bicyclist they encounter may be a Type 3 “I’m not stopping for anybody” kind of guy. (It’s usually a male, in my experience.) Failure to yield to these idiots could have gruesome consequences. The different driver and bicyclist types make for a large number
of possible encounter combinations. For example, polite drivers may also meet Type 1 or 2 bicyclists who do stop when required and don’t want the rules of the road suspended for their benefit. Then what? I have to admit that I’m a Type 2. I roll through stop signs when there is no other traffic. But if there is a motorist who reaches the intersection before me (or at the same time and is on my right), I yield the right of way. If the driver tries to wave me through, I may shake my head no. Sometimes, instead of a headshake, I assiduously avoid all eye contact and stare at the pavement. This happened one time with a motorist who was far more patient than most. Instead of taking the hint and proceeding, he waited. I waited. He waited some more. I waited, eyes fixed on my feet. After maybe two minutes of this standoff, he rolled down the window and yelled, “Are you all right?” I responded, “Yes. Just go!” One reason I stop and yield is I don’t really trust a wave, or the nighttime signal of blinking headlights, however well intentioned such gestures usually are. Maybe I’m paranoid, overly cautious or don’t know how to reciprocate a kindness. But if I go when I should be yielding and then get hit, it’s my fault. After
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all, the motorist may be waving at a fly or can claim after a crash that he didn’t wave at all.
The different driver and bicyclist types make for a large number of possible encounter combinations. When I’m riding with my wife, things are more complicated yet. Like most bicyclists, she’s inclined to roll through stop signs if there’s no other traffic. But unlike me, if a motorist waves her through, she’s inclined to accept the gesture and extend a cheerful thank-you wave in return. So do we ride together or each do our own thing, one stopping and one going, confusing things further?
I wish everyone would simply obey the law. When cycling, I anticipate that drivers who get to an intersection before me will proceed based on their arrival. I time my arrival accordingly and everything flows smoothly. When, instead, the driver stays put and waves me through, my subsequent refusal and stopping turns us into Alphonse and Gaston. It’s an impediment to smoothly flowing traffic instead of a help. Following the directions of other road users is inherently risky. Gestures can be misinterpreted or may suggest an unwise course of action. It’s your responsibility to determine what’s safe, not someone else’s. Being polite is wonderful, but it’s not always the right thing to do. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. He wishes California law were the same as Idaho’s, where bicyclists are allowed to treat stop signs as yield signs, making legal what usually and safely happens anyway. n
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Who’s That Girl? IF YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE THIS TEEN YET ANOTHER NICKNAME, DO SO WITH AFFECTION
girl, soooooo pretty … but not outside
Green Bean—all are accepted as long
patient Whit who will let you call her
the walls of the house or within 40
as it’s used with affection.
whatever you like as long as it’s used
feet of anyone not immediate family. Otherwise … The Look. Daddy calls her Baby Girl. Not to be confused with Fuzzy Baby Girl (Mom’s nickname for the dog). You
nickname. And as long as you don’t
with affection. Because, trust me, you don’t want The Look.
get The Look, she’ll let you. Like our good family friend, Brian,
Kelli Wheeler is a Sacramento
will get The Look if you accidently
who whenever he saw Whitney (which
mother of two and author of
call the daughter by the dog’s name.
was often) would boom, “Hey, Baby
“Momservations—The Fine Print of
You will also get The Look—a clearly
Whitney!” He did that for a good six
Parenting.” She can be reached at
communicated warning that you are
years before he was given The Look,
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one hangnail from crossing The Line
solidly perfected by kindergarten
t was 13 years ago this month
if you take playful teasing to Hey!-
and surprisingly intimidating from a
that Whitney “Whit” Wheeler
that’s-not-funny-anymore level.
cherubic dimple-cheeked face.
BY KELLI WHEELER
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In her 13 years, it seems people cannot resist giving Whitney a
MOMSERVATIONS
was born. I guess you could call
Whitney’s brother has had a
In first grade, Whitney’s friend
her Da Whit, too. Or Whitster. Or
rotating and long string of names for
Paddy dubbed her Whittle-Sticks.
Whit-Wee. Or Baby Girl or even
his baby sister. When she first started
To my knowledge, he never got The
Itty Bitty Whitty Little Girl So
talking and dubbed herself Nit-knee,
Look, but anyone else who used it did.
Pretty. (Actually, no, you can’t.
Logan switched it to Nit-Cap. Inspired
Those names are reserved for
by an episode of “Full House,” he
Daddy and Mom, respectively.) Now
started calling her Cheesehead. Since
Uncle Ron calls her Da Whit.
that I think about it, this girl has
that one didn’t seem very nice, we
To Gammy she is Whitter Girl, an
more nicknames than years under
started calling him Cheesehead to see
affectionate melding of Whitney and
her belt.
how he liked it. Somehow it morphed
Little Girl.
She was briefly dubbed The
into an affectionate saying and now
Auntie Sandie calls her Whit the Bit.
And then there’s Grampa, who has
Lunker after coming into this world
everyone in the house gets called
called Whitney “Angel” from day one.
at a whopping 9 pounds, 6 ounces,
Cheesehead. We’ve even learned how
He refuses to call her anything else.
23 inches long. If she had perfected
to say our favorite family tagline in
He knows he’s living on borrowed
it yet, I’m sure Whitney would have
Spanish: Tú eres el jefe más grande
time calling her that into these
given us The Look for that one.
cabeza de queso en el todo el mundo
teenage years, ignoring The Look she
(You are the biggest Cheesehead in
shoots him when he uses it around
the whole world).
her friends.
Luckily, her 17-month-old brother, Logan, derailed that tag when he first saw Whitney and adorably
Logan, a constant recipient of The
Only Whitney’s best friends are
pronounced her Whit-knee. And
Look, in true big brother fashion
allowed to call her Double Dubbs (for
despite coming into the world the
has continued to roll through the
the double W’s in her first and last
size of a 3-month-old, Whit-knee soon
nicknames for Whitney over the
names), but just about everyone who
became Itty Bitty Whitty Little Girl
years. Recent entries include Whitney
knows her can’t resist shortening her
So Pretty—something I cooed to her
Sara Wheeler the Third (because
name to Whit.
every time I changed her diaper.
Daddy is the third to be named
And that’s who she is to us and
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Nonprofit Resource Center offers workshops for people who manage nonprofit organizations. This month’s lineup: Going After Grants: Ready, Set, Go! (April 9, April 23); Starting a Nonprofit: What’s It Take (April 10); Board Leadership: The Essentials (April 15); Community Outreach: Ask the Expert (April 16); and Supervising Volunteers: Motivations, Benchmarks and Accountability (April 24). The center is at 331 Garden Highway. For more information, call 285-1840 or go to nprcenter.org.
TRASH OR TREASURE? Want to know if that old thingamajig in your attic is a priceless antique or a piece of junk? Consult an expert. To raise money for its programs, Welcome Home Housing, a housing program for adults with mental illness, will hold an evaluation day from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, at Unitarian
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Universalist Society of Sacramento (2425 Sierra Blvd.). Bring in books, documents, jewelry, paintings, toys, posters, glass, china, pottery, decorative art, inherited treasures and garage sale finds for evaluation by eight appraisers, including experts in antiques, baseball cards and gems. Be prepared to wait; the line to see an appraiser can be long, says Lynn Smith. On the last evaluation day, a woman brought in what she thought was costume jewelry, and the appraiser told her to place it in a safety deposit box immediately. “The jewelry was worth $15,000,” says Smith
Want to know if that old thingamajig in your attic is a priceless antique or a piece of junk? The suggested donation is $8 for one item, $35 for five items. If you want to have a piece of furniture evaluated, call Smith at 505-5232. For more information, go to welcomehomehousing.org.
A SUCCESS More than 240 people attended a human trafficking conference put on by My Sister’s House in February. My Sister’s House works to eliminate domestic violence in the Asian and Pacific Islander community through
family education and by increasing the self-determination of Asian and Pacific Islander women. The 24-hour self-help line is 428-3271—the same number to call if you want to become a Do Gooder for My Sister’s House. For more information, go to mysisters-house.org.
LOTS OF HELP Twin Lakes Food Bank recently announced that it provided assistance to 45,000 people last year. That help was in the form of 541 ham dinners and 1,388 children’s Easter baskets, 974 backpacks, socks and shoes for schoolchildren, 814 Thanksgiving turkeys and all the trimmings, and 870 Christmas baskets. To help the food bank fill this year’s Easter baskets, call 985-6232 or go to twinlakesfoodbank.org.
WISHES COME TRUE Make-A-Wish says its 26th annual Winter Wine & Food Fest was a success. More than 1,500 people attended the March 1 event at Sacramento Convention Center, raising more than $520,000. “We were hoping to exceed the amount raised last year, $400,000,” said Michele Flynn, director of communications and outreach, “and were delighted to pass that figure.”
HANDBAGS HELP Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary of Sacramento raised more than $123,000 at its annual Helping Handbags luncheon in October. The
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CRABBY NEWS CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) raised nearly $90,000 at its 21st annual crab feed in January. More than 500 tickets
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Tracy Bryan HER AIM IS TO MAKE EVERY SACRAMENTAN A POTENTIAL ORGAN DONOR
someone is in the hospital and death is imminent, the hospital must refer to one of the agencies. In 2003, the four organ recovery agencies came together and decided we needed one coordinated registry. Other states have registries but there was none in California. The legislature then approved one, but without funding. So in 2005, we formed Donate Life California and took on the registry ourselves. We set up an online registry, but it was very difficult to get large numbers of donors. In 2006, the DMV came on board and registrations skyrocketed. It was huge to have that avenue for people to sign up easily when getting their license.
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racy Bryan is the founding president of Donate Life California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry. In honor of Donate Life Month, Bryan talked with Inside Publications about the importance of signing up to be a “hero for life.” Tell me about Donate Life California. Donate Life California is the donor and tissue registry for California. It began in 2005 as an online registry only. Before that, we didn’t have a way to record someone’s decision to give life. We only had the pink sticky dot on your license, which came off in your wallet or your purse. The board of Donate Life California formed a registry and in 2006 partnered with the DMV. Now, when you go to get your license, you are asked if you want to be an organ and tissue donor. We encourage everyone to check yes and be a hero for life. Each donor has the potential to save eight lives through organ donation. You have eight organs: your heart, lungs, two kidneys, pancreas, intestine and liver. You can enhance another 50 lives though tissue donation. Corneas
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can help blind people see, your skin can help burn patients, and bones can help people avoid amputation. So it’s a wonderful gift to give, and all you have to do it check yes at the DMV. How does Sierra Donor Services fit into the picture of Donate Life California?
There are four organ recovery agencies in California. We are all nonprofit and have federally designated territories. We facilitate the entire organ donation process. The organ recovery agencies are in L.A., San Diego, Oakland and here in Sacramento. Sierra Donor Services covers the Sacramento area. When
Talk about the pink dot. The pink dot used to be a little sticker on your license, but now it’s actually printed on your license when you sign up at the DMV. However, if you sign up online, you won’t get the pink dot, but you’re still in the electronic database. It’s all the same database of donors. If you still want the pink dot, you can get it next time you renew your license. The pink dot is a badge of honor for many people. Because licenses are only renewed every five years, you can go to DonateLifeCalifornia.org to ensure your desire to give life is carried out. It will take you just minutes but can mean years of life for someone else. April is Donate Life Month. What special activities are happening to promote organ donation? We are hosting a hospital symposium for 400 hospital
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professionals. April 8 is Donate Life Day at the Capitol, and April 11 is Blue and Green Day, when everyone is encouraged to wear the Donate Life colors in support of donation. Donate Life Month helps raise awareness of the need of organ and tissue donors. And there’s a huge need. More than 120,000 people in the United States now wait for a lifesaving transplant. The tragic fact is that one in three of those people will die waiting simply due to a lack of donors. We have the surgical techniques and the medical technology. Transplants are hugely successful. The issue is we don’t have enough donors. We have the largest registry in the world in California. But in fact only one third of Californians have signed up. We have a long way to go. How did you become involved with donor services and the Donate Life board? I don’t have a personal connection but I always felt like the best gift one human being can give to another is the gift of life. I like to say I’m in
the field of generosity. For families who are losing a loved one, it’s their darkest hour of tragedy, but then they turn around and think of someone else. They want to make sure that another family doesn’t suffer that same sort of loss by allowing their loved one to give the gift of life. It’s the greatest gift we can give one another. It doesn’t cost you anything. How many registered donors are there in Sacramento? There are more than 1 million people signed up in the greater Sacramento area and about 11 million in California. What I would like to see in five years is not only is it universally accepted, but that people see it as a social responsibility to sign up on the registry. And that there is no waiting list, because we have 100 percent of the population signed up to give life.
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Love Affair With Art DURING TOUGH TIMES, MARCY FRIEDMAN FOUND SOLACE IN HER FIRST PASSION
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successful collages. However, she quit painting “cold turkey” to focus on her family. “I was a mom, and I loved it, ” she says. She began painting again in 2011. After participating in a group show at Sacramento Temporary Contemporary in 2012, she received good feedback and inspiration to keep working. Last June, she had a piece in the Crocker Art Museum auction that sold for double the asking price.
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arcy Friedman is running to get her camera. The sun is streaming into the atrium at her Carmichael home and backlighting a Hawaiian ti plant, brilliant red in the morning light. She snaps several photos. “You’ve got to get it when you can,” she says. While Friedman is referring to the present moment, the statement aptly summarizes her life. At age 78, she recently put the finishing touches on a series of acrylic paintings for her first solo show this month at Alex Bult Gallery in Midtown Sacramento. Friedman is widely known as an arts advocate, community activist, Crocker Art Museum benefactor, businesswoman, mother of three successful sons, and wife of the late developer Mort Friedman, who passed away in 2012. A smaller group knows Friedman for her painting, a lifelong passion she’s pursued off and on over the years, but one that was never far from her mind. “Now I’m playing catch up, and I can’t paint fast enough,” says Friedman, clad head-to-toe in black with a singular accent: large silver earrings. Working in acrylic, she has more than 30 figurative paintings ready for the show. She says Bult will likely select about 24 pieces for the April exhibit. The work marks her return to painting after more than 40 years. “I did figurative work in the 1960s,” she says. “We had a young family, and Mort knew I needed
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something else.” He encouraged her to find a creative outlet, and through the San Juan Unified School District she began taking classes with Benny Barrios, a local painter, teacher and gallery owner. “Benny was a very good teacher,” she says, recalling that
he always looked like he was on his way to an IBM meeting. “He always wore a suit, tie and polished shoes, even when we were out painting in the field.” Friedman also studied with the late Ken Morrow, an art professor at CSU Chico, creating a series of
“I’m highly motivated,” she says. She tries to paint 25 to 30 hours a week and completes about a painting a week. “Last night, I worked from 3:30 to midnight.” Friedman hires models for three- to four-hour sessions, then takes photos for reference to complete her paintings. She works regularly with a small group of local artists including Fred Dalkey, Boyd Gavin and Pat Mahony. Her figurative works are lush paintings of female figures often draped in fabrics Friedman collected while traveling. The paintings captivate the eye but also highlight women from the perspective of a woman who has spent her life studying art, collecting art and advocating art. Looking at her career, Friedman says she was never dissociated from
art. “What develops as a person interested in art is that you train your eye to observe,” she says. From the back of her home studio, she pulls out paintings she did in the ’60s, a series of portraits from the modeling sessions Barrios arranged. They are loose, colorful works showing the evolution to Friedman’s current paintings. They help piece together the story of her lifelong artistic love affair. Marcy Lichter minored in art at Stanford University, where she was pre-med major planning to become a medical illustrator. “My father was of the mind that I needed a profession,” she says. Things took a different course when she met Mort Friedman in her sophomore year. “I dropped the art and science and took a summer session so that I could graduate in three years,” she says. She married Mort in 1955, and together they had a family and created a legacy that includes a $10 million donation to the Crocker Art Museum, fundraising to launch Shalom School and volunteer work that helped transform Thomas Jefferson Elementary School into a California Distinguished School. They turned their home into a refuge of beauty with tropical plants, a koi pond and a diverse art collection including a wide range of Northern California painters. They were together 57 years.
“We were the eternal perfect couple,” she says, looking out her studio window at the nearby American River. “We were a team, always together.” Things changed in 2009 when Mort began a three-year battle with supranuclear palsy. “It was a difficult time,” Friedman says. “I was in the middle of this, and I needed to do something for my own mental health or I felt like I would go down, too. I tried to think of what I could do and still be there for him.” She remembered back to the ’60s and painting with Benny Barrios. “I went back to what I used to do,” she says. She put a tarp down in the office of their home and started painting again.
deeper meaning of art and its ability to keep us afloat in difficult times. “Life Lines: New Paintings by Marcy Friedman” will be exhibited at Alex Bult Gallery (1114 21st St.) from April 8 to May 3. The opening-
night reception will be held Saturday, April 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information, go to alexbultgallery.com. Debra Belt can be reached at fab. studio@att.net. n
Looking at her career, Friedman says she was never dissociated from art. “It has been an emotional lifeline,” she says. “Painting was just so important, especially in the year following Mort’s death.” Her show is titled “Life Lines,” which refers to the figurative works, but also to the
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Crown Jewels NEW AND LONGTIME ARTISTS TEAM UP FOR A KVIE BENEFIT SHOW
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re you an avid art collector looking for that next great gem? Then don’t miss “essential six—A KVIE Arts Curated Exhibition,” on display at Tim Collom/Atelier 20 Gallery from Friday, April 11 through April 26. The installation will feature some fixtures on the Sacramento art scene—the late, great Laureen Landau, Jian Wang and a new, never-before-seen piece by Gregory Kondos—as well as up-and-coming area artists Collom, Micah CrandallBear and Kim Squaglia. “Together these works exemplify Sacramento’s crown jewels for art buyers seeking a strong representative Sacramento art collection,” says D. Oldham Neath, KVIE’s art curator and owner of Archival Gallery in East Sacramento. Proceeds from the art show and sale will benefit KVIE public television, the region’s PBS affiliate, and its mission to help everyone explore the worlds of art, history, current events, drama, nature and science through free, accessible television programming.
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Catch Marcy Friedman’s first solo exhibition, “Life Lines”, at Alex Bult Gallery April 8 through May 3. Friedman returned to painting after a 42-year break.
For more information, call 6413663 or go to kvie.org. Tim Collom/ Atelier 20 Gallery is at 915 20th St.
COMEBACK KID What happens when an artist picks up a paintbrush after 42 years of not painting? See the exquisite results at Marcy Friedman’s first solo exhibition, “Life Lines”, at Alex Bult Gallery April 8 through May 3. You might recognize Friedman’s name due to her impressive
philanthropic ties to Sacramento. She and her late husband, Mort, have been among the area’s most generous donors. But this show reveals more than just a giving heart. It reveals the inner artist Friedman had set aside years ago as an arts minor during her years at Stanford University. Upon meeting her husband, Friedman decided to focus on raising their family, growing their business and giving as much as she could to various causes. It wasn’t until Mort
died in 2012 that Friedman returned to her initial interest. “(Painting) was a way to save myself during Mort’s long illness,” Friedman says. “I knew if I didn’t do something, I’d sink along with him.” More than four decades after ending her artistic studies, the prolific painter has returned to her studio, and the outcome is stunning. Meet Friedman and get a sneak peek of her work at the preview from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, or at the
artist reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 12. For more information, call 4765540 or go to alexbultgallery.com. Alex Bult Gallery is at 1114 21st St.
THE YOUNG AND THE GIFTED Lend an ear to the next generation of classical chamber musicians during the performance of the Mondavi Center/SF JAZZ High School All Stars at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, hosted by Sacramento Community Concerts at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Part 1 of the program will include performances by seven stellar student musicians, coordinated by Susan Lamb Cook, highlighting their favorite pieces from the chamber music repertoire. Hold on to your hats for Part 2 of the program: The Mondavi Center/ SF JAZZ High School All Stars will take the stage and blow your socks off. Under the direction of Mike McMullen, the premier jazz group of the Mondavi Arts educational
outreach program is an elite ensemble of up-and-coming jazz musicians, all still in high school, who specialize in jazz of all kinds, from well-known compositions to creations composed and arranged by group members. For tickets and more information, call 400-4634 or go to sccaconcerts. org. Westminster Presbyterian Church is at 1300 N St.
ALL IN THE FAMILY That rootin’, tootin’, guitarstrummin’, joke-crackin’ character is back: Willie Nelson and Family perform at the Mondavi Center at 8 p.m. on April 9 in a recently added performance that’s sure to sell fast. The multitalented Texan has recorded on more than 200 albums over six decades, including his most recent endeavors, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” in April 2013, featuring Nelson and Family, his touring and recording ensemble, and “To All the Girls” last October, which features duets of Nelson and 18 famous female singers, including
Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones and Shelby Lynne. Nelson also has written a book, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” which landed on The New York Times best-seller list. He has appeared in numerous films, often as himself in all his homespun, hardliving glory. See him for yourself when he makes this unexpected tour stop just down the road in Davis. For tickets and more information, call 866-754-2787 or go to mondaviarts.org. The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts is just off Interstate 80 on Old Davis Road.
Theater in midtown—is, “How did they do that?” Four performers will tackle Shakespeare’s arguably bestknown play in a whirlwind two-act production that is sure to leave your head spinning. You might even recognize one of those four actors up there: I’ll be playing Ophelia, Horatio and Laertes as well as producing this production with my co-artistic director and Hamlet-playing husband, p joshua laskey. With minimal sets and props, a soundtrack of contemporary pop hits and a healthy dose of playfulness, this play will surely be the thing to catch the conscience of the King. For tickets and more information, call 261-0262 or go to theatergalatea. com. William J. Geery Theater is at 2130 L St.
TO BE …OR NOT TO BE That may be the question, but the real question you’ll be asking yourself after seeing Theater Galatea’s production of “Hamlet”—running April 11 through May 10 at Geery
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by calling 8081182. How did you see yourself in high school? Find out what this generation sees in itself at the reception for the “High School Self-Portrait Show” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 17. This student exhibition will feature self-portraits from emerging teen artists in collaboration with Chalk It Before Flying Monkey Productions’ new musical “Generation ME” travels to the Hollywood, Washington, D.C., Up!, Christian and New York City Fringe festivals, catch its world premiere at Harris Center in Folsom from April 4-13. Brothers High School and the Crocker’s own “Teen Takeover: PREVIEWS FROM page 81 box office at 608-6888 or go to Spring Break Edition,” an art jam flyingmonkeyproductions.org. Harris that same evening for and by local Center’s City Studio Theater (Stage youth. Teen Takeover will feature ONCE IN A 2) is at 10 College Parkway in Folsom. live bands, parkour demos, an open GENERATION microphone, a hip-hop dance slam, See it here first! Before Flying interactive art making, a youthROCK THE CROCKER Monkey Productions’ new musical produced fashion show and digital Celebrate a slew of artwork— “Generation ME” travels to the photography display. (Accompanying music, dance, theater, photography, Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and a teen? Chaperones can kick back New York City Fringe festivals, catch design, film, poetry and prose—by for chair massages, cooking demos, its world premiere at Harris Center in Sacramento State’s talented faculty art making and more in the Adult of the College of Arts and Letters at Folsom from April 4-13. Lounge.) U-Nite at Crocker Art Museum from This original musical, written For the more mature arts patron, 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. by FMP founding artistic director “Tour, Taste, Talk: Monterey The third annual event full of Julie Soto and FMP musical director Memories” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, exciting new projects, provocative Will Finan, with direction by FMP April 24 is sure to delight— dialogue and artistic unity is sure to founding executive producer Ryan deliciously. After a tour of the keep the Crocker rocking all night Warren, tackles the tough tale of Monterey landscapes in the current long. The best part? Admission is free troubled teen Milo Reynolds. At 15 exhibition “Jules Tavernier: Artist years old, Milo has it all: cool parents, for museum members and Sac State and Adventurer” led by chief curator students, faculty and staff, and is a great girlfriend and plenty of Scott Shields, sit down to sip and included with general admission for popularity. But when he kills himself savor a tasting of Monterey wines on a Monday morning, his friends and nonmembers. and a three-course meal presented by If you’d prefer a different, though family are left wondering just what Supper Club’s executive chef, Matt hardly less dynamic, night of artistic was on Milo’s mind. Woolston. Tickets are $55 for museum endeavors, don’t miss Joanna Marie The heavy-hitting show is back members, $65 for nonmembers. Frankel on violin at the Crocker on the boards after a one-weekend Since space is limited, it’s a good idea Classical Concert at 3 p.m.on Sunday, workshop in spring 2013 and, after to reserve your seat in advance by April 13. The talented musician a year of rewrites and recasting, calling 808-1182. will play pieces including Niccolo it’s ready to shed light again on Oh, baby! If you have an amateur Paganini’s “Caprices for Solo Violin, a generation that might be more artist on your hands who also happens Opus 1” to accompany the ongoing miserable than it appears. to be younger than 18 months old, Sam Francis exhibition. Space is For tickets and more limited, so reserve your tickets soon information, call the Harris Center
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don’t miss “Baby Loves Art” from 10:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15. This new program, which will take place every third Tuesday of the month, engages babies in a visually stimulating experience that’s sure to prepare the next generation of art aficionados. For baby’s best viewing, front carriers are recommended. (Strollers are allowed, but backpacks are not.) And don’t worry if your tiny tot squeals with delight—all baby noises are expected and welcome. No fussy museum hush here. For information on all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org. Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.
CAT GOT YOUR PAINTBRUSH? Have you ever wished you could capture your furball’s fair features in paint, but you’re afraid you lack the skills? Then Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary’s Paint Your Pet fundraiser from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 12 is purr-fect for you. Grab your favorite photo, or clearest image in your mind’s eye, and let Creative Juices lead you in this guided class for artists of all levels. The $65 class fee includes a 16-by-20-inch canvas, paints, easel, brushes and an apron, as well as equally important supplies such as complimentary snacks, wine and other beverages. At the end of the class, you’ll have an original portrait of your pet you’ll be proud to display, and Happy Tails will receive some of the funds it needs to maintain its volunteer-run, no-kill pet sanctuary that finds loving homes for furry critters. For more information, email purrball@happytails.org or go to happytails.org. Paint Your Pet will take place at Sacramento County Animal Care & Regulation at 3839 Bradshaw Road.
THE SCENIC ROUTE Are you passionate about preserving our environment? Do you also enjoy short films? Then make a beeline for the Sacramento Wild and
Have you ever wished you could capture your furball’s fair features in paint, but you’re afraid you lack the skills? Join Happy Tails on April 12 and learn how.
Scenic Film Festival on Tour at the Crest Theatre on Friday, April 25. This unique film festival was started in 2003 by the South Yuba River Citizens League to garner awareness and advocacy for regional environmental causes. This year’s event will feature several short films that address local issues such as sustainable development and energy, food and local agriculture, wildlife protection and conservation, environmental activism and outdoor recreation. If you get hungry just walking into a movie theater, check out the zerowaste reception in the Crest lobby featuring food from the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op and other local caterers, with beer and wine available for purchase. Proceeds from the event will benefit the California Heartland Project, which seeks to “create a connected network of parks, preserves and conservation easements on working farms and ranches—creating access to open space for education and recreation, protecting the unique
biological diversity found in the Sacramento Valley and conserving our agricultural heritage,” according to the project’s event and sponsorship coordinator, Jo Oseman. For more information, contact Oseman at 203-1220 or sacwildandscenic@gmail.com or go to ecosacramento.net. The Crest Theatre is at 1013 K St.
MUSIC MANIA Ready to hear some prolific pros strum those sizzlin’ strings? It’s time for the Sacramento Banjo Band’s annual Banjo-Rama festival May 1-4 at Clarion Inn. This ain’t your grandpa’s banjo playing. These are the best and the brightest of the professional music scene performing exciting arrangements on an array of fourstring banjos to raise money for charities, including Shiners Hospital for Children. This year’s four-day-long festivities will feature Navihanke, a talented touring group from Ljubljana,
Slovenia, as part of their goodwill tour of the United States in cooperation with the Republic of Slovenia. Buddy Wachter, Charlie Tagawa, Steve Peterson, Jack Convery and Bill Lowrey, among others, also will perform. Bring your own banjo and jam with the pros! For tickets or more information, call 412-3020 or go to sacramentobanjoband.com. Clarion Inn is at 1401 Arden Way. n
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n the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of beer-themed establishments and events throughout the region. If your favorite restaurant doesn’t claim to have a world-class beer selection with rotating taps and brewers’ dinners, then it’s out of step indeed. In the wine-centric world of Northern California, beer is taking its rightful place as an equal. And while you will find an incredible selection of domestic and international brews at places like Pangaea Two Brews Cafe, The Shack, Capitol Beer and Tap Room and Flaming Grill Cafe, a new breed of local microbrewer is taking root in the region.
Focusing on beer alone, they’ve left the kitchen duties to the region’s growing fleet of food trucks. Local players like Rubicon Brewing Company, River City Brewing Company and Hoppy Brewing Company have established a presence in the region built around a brewpub experience, serving custom brews along with traditional pubbish fare. These new brewers, however, have gone back to basics. Focusing on beer
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alone, they’ve left the kitchen duties to the region’s growing fleet of food trucks. During Sacramento Beer Week (Feb. 27-March 9), I visited a number of new breweries. Tucked away in industrial parks and office complexes, these bare-bones establishments feel like honest expressions of the brewing culture. They’re laid-back, accessible, well priced and neighborhood-centric.
Here’s a small sampling.
TRACK 7 BREWING CO. One of the first of the new breed, Track 7 opened in late 2011 to decent reviews and a small but loyal following. Fast-forward a few years and Track 7 has become one of the region’s premier beer destinations
Most new breweries suffer growing pains when they first open a taproom. Most. Not New Glory. Open only a few weeks at writing, this joint is firing on all burners. The new taproom feels part clubby man cave, part factory break room. Leather couches and rich wood give way to industrial brewing equipment and corrugated roll-up doors. The beer selection ranges from a simple California common to rich, dark stouts and porters. The selection is impressive. The flavors are impressive. The whole enterprise is impressive. 8251 Alpine Ave.; 760-8306; newglorybeer.com
DEVICE BREWING COMPANY This newish little tasting room is already outgrowing its modest confines. Owners Ken and Melissa Anthony (who are nice and modelattractive, by the way) welcome every guest, most by name.
The simple tasting room sports a few flat surfaces on which you can rest your beer (I suggest the Belgian blonde), and a few board games are scattered around. Children are welcome, dogs are welcome, all are welcome.
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In the wine-centric world of Northern California, beer is taking its rightful place as an equal. There are plans to build an outdoor patio, expand the original footprint and add a few more taps. And, like almost every other small brewery in town, a rotating host of food trucks are available to satiate your hunger. 8166 14th Ave.; devicebrewing.com
BIKE DOG BREWING COMPANY Just a quick hop over the river, Bike Dog Brewing Company is West Sacramento’s shining star of brewing. Open only six months, this startup has plenty going for it. Tucked away in an office park, Bike Dog already has down the brew/food truck/neighborhood vibe. What sets the place apart might be its beers and its branding. The logo (a dog rolling along on bicycle wheels) is whimsical and eye-catching. The merchandise, from sweatshirts and T-shirts to glasses and growlers, feels like a solid consumer investment. The beer, from the humble American wheat to the incomparable milk stout, will easily set it apart in a near-capacity field. 2534 Industrial Blvd., West Sacramento; (916) 432-3376; bikedogbrewing.com
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3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104
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1120 Fulton Ave. 483-7300
L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com
Jack’s Urban Eats
2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225 L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com
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2225 Hurley Way 568-7171
D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com
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D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out
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Roma's Pizza & Pasta 6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-9800
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2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000
B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere
Ristorante Piatti
571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885
L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting
Sam's Hof Brau
2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com
Thai House
527 A Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com
Thai Chef's House 2851 Fulton Ave. 481-9500
L D $$ Thai cusine in a friendly, casual setting
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MIDTOWN
Aioli Bodega Espanola 1800 L St. 447-9440
L D $$ Full Bar Patio Andalusian cuisine served in a casual European atmosphere
Biba Ristorante
2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian
cuisine served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com
Buckhorn Grill
1801 L St. 446-3757
Lucca Restaurant & Bar 1615 J St. 669-5300
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Patio Mediterranean cuisine in a casual, chic atmosphere • Luccarestaurant.com
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. 441-6022
L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting
Café Bernardo
2730 J St. 442-2552
L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com
Chicago Fire
2416 J St. 443-0440
D $$ Full Bar Chicago-style pizza, salads wings served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chicagofirerestaurant.com
Crepeville
1730 L St. 444-1100
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Outdoor Dining Crepes, omelettes, salads, soups and sandwiches served in a casual setting
1501 16th St. 444-5850
Paesano’s Pizzeria
1806 Capitol Ave. 447-8646
L D $$ Gourmet pizza, pasta, salads in casual setting • Paesanos.biz
Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737
D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio California cuisine with an Italian touch • Paragarys.com
Suzie Burger
Harlow’s Restaurant 2708 J Street 441-4693
L D $$ Full Bar Modern Italian/California cuisine with Asian inspirations • Harlows.com
Italian Importing Company 1827 J Street 442-6678
B L $ Italian food in a casual grocery setting
Jack’s Urban Eats
1230 20th St. 444-0307
L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com
Kasbah Lounge
2115 J St. 442-4388
D Full Bar $$ Middle Eastern cuisine in a Moroccan setting kasbahlounge.com
3020 H Street 448-2334
L D $ European and American Frozen Confections, sandwiches, soups and espresso
Clarks' Corner Restaurant
La Trattoria Bohemia
L D Full Bar $$ American cuisine in a casual historic setting
L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting
3649 J St. 455-7803
5641 J St.
Les Baux
Clubhouse 56
5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348
723 56th. Street 454-5656
Opa! Opa!
L D $ Wine/Beer English Pub fare in an authentic casual atmosphere, 17 beers on tap streetsoflondon.net
Thai Basil Café
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer English Pub favorites in an historic setting • Foxandgoose.com
B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties
Evan’s Kitchen
1804 J St. 498-1388
58 Degrees & Holding Co.
1001 R St. 443-8825
La Bombe Ice Cream & More
4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516
The Streets of London Pub
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live flamenco music - tapathewworld.com
Fox & Goose Public House
Burr's Fountain
(With coupon. Not valid w/any other offers. Dine in only. Exp. 4/30/14)
BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com
B L D $-$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Fresh Mexican food served in an upscale, yet familyfriendly setting • Ernestosmexicanfood.com
L D $$$ Wine/Beer California cuisine served in a chic, upscale setting • 58degrees.com
Folsom
402 Natoma Street, Folsom • 673-9085 Live music Fridays & Saturdays
Buy 1 Dinner Plate At Regular Price & Get The Second Dinner Up To $7.00 FREE. Must Include 2 Drinks.
BLD Full Bar $$ American cuisine. HD sports, kid's menu, beakfast weekends
Tapa The World
1217 18th St. 442-5858
FREE DINNER
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2813 Fulton Avenue • 484-6104 Live music Fridays
L D $ Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger.com
29th and P Sts. 455-3300
Ernesto’s Mexican Food 1901 16th St. 441-5850
(With coupon. Not valid w/any other offers. Dine in only. LLimit 1 coupon per party. Substitutions extra. Exp. 4/30/14)
D $$-$$$ Eclectic menu in a boutique setting
B L D $ No table service at this coffee roaster and bakery, also serving creative artisanal sandwiches
Centro Cocina Mexicana
$19.95
(for 2 or more) Includes: Beef Tacos, Cheese Enchiladas, Chile In Rellenos, Rice/Beans, Chips & Salsa
2028 H St. 443-7585
Old Soul Co.
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Casual California cuisine with counter service
Monday–Thursday after 4pm Six Course Mexican Platter for Two
Moxie
L D $$ Wine/Beer A counter service restaurant with high-quality chicken, char-roasted beef, salmon, and entrée salads
2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 1431 R St. 930-9191
Simply Great M Mexican Food!
2115 J St. 442-4353
2431 J St. 442-7690
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com
5644 J St. 451-4000
855 57th St. 452-3896
B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, Kid’s menu, winemaker dinners, daily lunch specials, community table for single diners • Chefevan.com
L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service
Nopalitos
5530 H St. 452-8226
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B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting
5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679
L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere
Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333
Formoli's Bistro
B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar
3839 J St. 448-5699
B L D Wine/Beer Patio $$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a neighborhood setting •
Star Ginger
3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888
The Coconut Midtown
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5642 J Street 731-8888
Istanbul Bistro
L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Food with Thai Food Flair
D $ Wine/Beer Fresh made to order pizza served in a cozy dining room; or to take out
The Waterboy
Italian Stallion
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com
L D $-$$ Thin-Crust Pizza, Deserts and Beer in an intimate setting and popular location
2502 J Street 440-1088 Lunch Delivery M-F and Happy Hour 4-6
2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891
3260B J St. 449-8810
3260 J Street 449-8810
L D Wine/Beer $$ Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in cozy neighborhood bistro setting
DOWNTOWN Foundation
400 L St. 321-9522
Zocolo
L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere • foundationsacramento.com
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com
Chops Steak Seafood & Bar
1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303
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1117 11th St. 447-8900
L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com
33rd Street Bistro
3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233
B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting •
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Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960
Wine Bar, Event Center & Retail Sales, 36 wines by the glass, beer on tap • downtownandvine.com
D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space
Ella Dining Room & Bar
1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226
1131 K St. 443-3772
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com
Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900
Rio City Café
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com
Ten 22
1022 Second St. 441-2211
L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
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Estelle's Patisserie
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256
901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com
Fat's City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768
D $$-$$$ Full Bar Steaks and Asian specialties served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants.com
The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. 442-4772
L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
Frank Fat’s
806 L St. 442-7092
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
Il Fornaio
400 Capitol Mall 446-4100
L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com
Grange
926 J Street • 492-4450
B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com
Hock Farm Craft & Provision
Easter Brunch April 20 8:30 am to 2 pm
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Iron Grill
Carmichael
13th Street and Broadway 737-5115
485.2883
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
Jamie's Bar and Grill
427 Broadway 442-4044
L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
crab Benedict, prime rib hash, bacon, chicken apple sausage, vegetable stratta, waffle bar, smoked salmon, carving station, salads, antipasto, sweet treats, & more ! optional bottomless mimosa
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Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
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Taylor's Kitchen
2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154
D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome. S AC R A M E N TO
Tower Café
1518 Broadway 441-0222
B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting
Willie's Burgers
2415 16th St. 444-2006
L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am Friday and Saturday n
1415 L St. 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com
Claim Jumper
1111 J St. 442-8200
L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American in a clubby atmosphere
Mikuni Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com
Morton’s Steakhouse
621 Capitol Mall #100 442-50
D $$$ Full Bar Upscale American steakhouse • Mortons.com
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