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TUCKED AWAY IN ARDEN OAKS 1951 Squeaky Williams home; nestled on 2 acres with rolling hills of grass and lush landscaping. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, beautiful updated kitchen opens to the family room and informal dining room, overlooking the picturesque backyard through a wall full of windows.

Vaulted, beamed living room off of foyer. Hardwood Àoors throughout.

4 ¿replaces. $1,899,999 TIPHANNE CROWE 277-8999

FABULOUS WOODCHASE IN GRANITE BAY Custom home has everything you could imagine: Beautiful entry with sweeping staircase; 4 ¿replaces; game/bar room; home theater; of¿ce and library; chef’s kitchen; master suite with sitting room, 2 walk-in closets. Amazing backyard with a guest house, bath and kitchen; pool/ spa; swim up bar; built-in BBQ and bar area! $1,595,000 KIM SQUAGLIA 916-205-2681

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ARCHITECT CARTER SPARKS 1970 custom Sparks home is a work of art. Signature contemporary home has custom woodworking, wood vaulted ceilings, wood Àoors, large picture windows looking out to beautiful private yard and pool.

Wraparound deck gives ample room for entertaining. Main house is 2 bed 2½ bath, 2544 SF. Separate guest house is 2 bed/1 bath, 700 SF One-of-a Kind! $1,300,000 CHRISTINE BALESTRERI 916-996-2244

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EXCEPTIONAL ARDEN OAKS Nearly 2/3 acre lot on an interior cul-de-sac lot. Beautiful open Àoorplan, nearly 5,000 sq ft. Expansive windows, French doors, hardwood Àoors, 4 ¿replaces. Open kitchen with quartz countertops, stainless appliances. Large downstairs master, new custom tile bath. Extensive landscaping front & rear. Sparkling pool has shade structure. $1,650,000 JOHN BYERS 916-607-0313

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CUSTOM BRICK HOME Wonderful designed 4 bedroom 4 bath brick home with contemporary features. Large open rooms with high ceilings yield light ¿lled rooms.

Spacious kitchen open to family room and overlooks backyard oasis.

All 4 bedrooms are en suites. Master is downstairs Private setting in desirable location perfect for family living. 3-car garage. $949,950 PATTY BAETA 916-806-7761

MAGNIGICENT LOS LAGOS ESTATE Spectacular home and yard! Unsurpassed attention to detail. Yard features cascading pool, spa, outdoor kitchen and ¿replace, just breathtaking. Lime stone hardscape, tiered decks and dual curved staircases. 2 master suites, maid’s quarter with separate entrance, game/pool table room, huge family room, coffered ceilings, bar,wine storage, 5-car garage! $1,595,000 MONA GERGEN 916247-9555

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SIERRA OAKS VISTA Beautiful Santa Barbara style single story home on over 1/2 acre.

Timeless design and architectural details enhance the resort-like setting. Two covered loggias and manicured grounds, pool and separate guest house. Well-appointed kitchen features six burner Thermador gas cook top, integrated Sub-Zero refrigerator plus oversized island. $1,975,000 PATTY BAETA 916-806-7761

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WELCOME TO RIVERWOOD Private, gated community, unique homes built on/near bluff over American River. 2342sf home, 3 bedrooms with private bath for each.

1 bed/bath is on upper Àoor with private entrance. 2 private suites are on lower level with their own back deck and view. Beamed wood vaulted ceiling and spacious living room, recently updated kitchen. $519,000 CHRISTINE BALESTRERI 916-996-2244

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LOVELY CARMICHAEL 1st time on the market. Quality custom 5 bedroom 2½ home has been well maintained and improved by original owners. Newer HVAC, water heater, refrigerator and dishwasher. New roof 2006. Hardwood Àoor under carpet, dual pane windows and plantation shutters. Set on a leafy lot with mature landscape and lovely pool. Huge backyard has RV parking. $575,900 JAY FEAGLES 916-204-7756

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NEW LISTING | 1953 CENACLE LANE | $2,995,000 Stunning French Provincial masterpiece in a gated community is impeccably finished with unparalleled quality. Exquisite custom bronze and copper hand-forged railings and 10 ft bronze entry doors, gourmet kitchen, romantic LUXE master suite and loggias that overlook beautiful gardens, Heritage Oak trees and a saltwater pool. The one bedroom guest casita includes a kitchenette and full bath.

NEW LISTING 27 QUAIL POINT PL | $735,000

3701 CLAIRE DR | $3,495,000

This Riverwood home is elegantly appointed with modern, fine Fabulous American River Views! 6500 SF of superb amenifixtures & finishes. Gourmet kitchen, LUXE master suite & 2 pri- ties including a movie theater, elevator, 5 bd + offce, 5.5 ba, vate decks. Views & access to the Am Rvr from common areas. outdoor kitchen, putting green & sand trap and 5 car garage.

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SELLER FINANCING AVAILABLE! 317 WYNDGATE RD | $669,300 Spectular gated home at Am Rvr Prkwy! 3 bd/2.5 ba, new roof, updated kitchen/baths, LUXE mstr suite, 2 lrg patios, 2 car garage! Pool tennis courts, clubhouse!

1813 PARLIAMENT CIR | $1,249,000 Large & gracious at Shelfield Park. Dual staircases, 5-6 Bedrooms 3.5 Baths, upstairs bonus room, office & guest room downstairs. Pool/spa on .26 acre lot.. Walk to Am River Pkwy.

6236 RIO BONITO DR | $2,350,000

8980 ALDERSON AVE |$369,000

At Ancil Hoffman Park, this gated 6972 SF estate is formal & Corner lot! This 4 Bd Rosemont home features an updated rich and offers 5 bd, 4 ba, + bonus room and library. Nearly 2/3 kitchen, living room with a fireplace, large bonus room and updated bathrooms. Covered patio and large backyard. acre with outdoor kitchen, BBQ and a beautiful pool & spa.

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pportunities for photography are as close as our smartphone for most of us. But as digital photography has exploded the volume of photos taken, quality is at an all-time low.

I have a fairly close relationship with photography, as we feature thousands of photos in our publications each year. Most are the work of our wonderful professional photographers, Linda Smolek and Aniko Kiezel. “Inside Sacramento,” the book we published in 2016, features more than 1,000 photos, and I learned to expertly edit them while creating the book.

Both of these publishing experiences have taught me one thing: Photography may look easy, but being a professional requires a great deal of knowledge, creativity and experience.

More than a year ago, Roberta McClellan approached me about sponsoring Sacramento’s firstever photography festival, to be held this month. I offered our help with whatever was needed.

The four-week event will feature exhibitions and educational opportunities throughout the region to encourage people to interact with the art form in a way they never have before.

Photography Month Sacramento is led by McClellan through Viewpoint Photographic Art Center—a Midtown nonprofit—in collaboration with many partners. With approximately 30 events, activities and exhibits scheduled, the month will celebrate the visual arts while creating an accessible and visually exciting collective experience.

Photography Month Sacramento offers new opportunities for galleries, museums, educational institutions, libraries, retail establishments,

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CANDID CAMERA When you read Roberta McClellan’s rĂŠsumĂŠ, the first question that might come to mind is “What doesn’t this woman do?â€?

The answer is, “Not much,� and McClellan wouldn’t have it any other way. “I like to be able to work on a couple things at a time and learn new skills,� says McClellan, who has run marketing firm McClellan Marketing Group for more than 30 years. “The big key for having an interesting career is to keep evolving.�

McClellan has done just that.

When she first came to Sacramento as a student at Sacramento State University, she studied broadcast journalism and went to work for KFBK as a talk-show producer.

After leaving radio, she figured her producing skills would translate well to marketing and approached legendary local PR guru Jean Runyon about how to break into the business.

With Runyon’s mentorship, McClellan founded MMG. But McClellan also wanted to help the arts. “Art has always kept me sane,� she says. “It meant so much to me growing up. I came from a family of four girls, and our mother let us do anything we wanted: sing, dance, draw, paint, play the harp.�

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Because so many nonprofit arts groups have very limited budgets, McClellan offers her services as an independent contractor. The organization pays her on a project-byproject basis instead of a salary, which most arts groups can’t afford.

McClellan ended up working as a consultant for Camellia Symphony Orchestra and for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. She then moved on to Stages-Folsom Dance Arts—a small nonprofit specializing in semiprofessional training for young dancers— and Music in the Mountains, a summertime concert series in Nevada City.

In 2014, McClellan was recommended for the executive directorship at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, a gallery that’s been around since the early 1980s. “The first time I went in, the entire board interviewed me,�

McClellan says. “I thought, ‘Bring it on!’�

She clearly impressed them; she’s the first executive director the group has had in seven years and one of only two in its history.

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“I love the whole vibe down here,” says McClellan, who regularly takes in the sights and sounds of Midtown after the gallery has closed before returning home to Auburn. “We have an amazing group of volunteers. We rotate exhibits monthly in two gallery spaces. We provide free field trips, lectures and workshops and we bring a lot of artists to the community.”

In order to attract more visitors to Viewpoint, McClellan worked for more than a year organizing the launch of Photography Month Sacramento.

“Cities like Denver, LA, Portland and even Belfast are doing photo month events,” McClellan says. “It’s really gaining momentum, which has been exciting to see. We’re coming up with new ways to engage people in the art of photography with various facets so everyone can enjoy it, whether you take selfies or professional prints in a studio.”

The plan is to make the event biannual and partner with local colleges and other arts groups, including Verge Center for the Arts, California Museum, Crocker Art

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“Sacramento likes visual art and loves to take photos, so I think this is really going to work here,” McClellan says.

Here’s a sampling of events for Photography Month Sacramento: Sacramento After Dark, an exhibit starting on Tuesday, April 10, at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center and featuring 80 Instagram images; Mammoth Wet-Plate Photo Lecture

by Luther Gerlach on Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 20, at American River College; Darkroom Bus and Camera Demo by Gerlach on Saturday, April 14, also at American River College; and Photo Fête, a celebratory evening event on Thursday, April 26, at Crocker Art Museum. For more information, go to photomonthsac.org.

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The Future Is Local AN INTERVIEW WITH PUBLISHING POWERHOUSE PEGGY NORTHROP

After attending UC Berkeley, she began climbing the masthead. Her first stop was The San Francisco Examiner, and she moved on to Vogue, Glamour, Redbook and Real Simple before being named global editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest. She co-founded the publishing company Shebooks and recently helped launch Airbnbmag, a joint venture between Hearst Magazines and the online travel website Airbnb.

We are pleased to present our interview with her.

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or 15 years, Sacramento resident Carl Landau, founder of Niche Media, has hosted an annual convention for print and online niche publications. It attracts international publishers, editors and advertising executives, who gather to learn from one another and share insight and ideas. Last month, I attended this year’s gathering in Louisville, Ky., where keynote

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speaker Peggy Northrop, former editor-in-chief at Sunset Publishing, sat down with me to share her insights into the industry and talk about the value of papers like Inside Publications to our community. She clearly emphasized the vital role our five hyperlocal monthly newspapers play in creating, celebrating and preserving the communities we serve.

As the world has been chasing clicks, social-media likes and page views, the yearning for live, local and real human connection has only grown in intensity, she says.

Northrop began her career at her family’s 100-year-old Observer Publishing Company, which publishes a newspaper in Washington, Penn.

Is print dying?

Clearly not. People are reading more than ever. They are reading differently, certainly. We thought e-books would kill books. But e-books have leveled off. They have replaced the throwaway generic product that can be replaced endlessly. But with print, if it’s something that’s beautifully designed and has a weight and a feel, with increasing trim size and beautiful design, it becomes something that’s remembered. Book covers have become so much more beautiful. People put a beautiful book or print publication someplace in their house where other people can see it. It becomes an extension of themselves. Ratty paperbacks and ratty papers get tossed. But a really good-looking publication has value.

I have a friend who says, “Print is the new vinyl.” There’s a specialness about that tactile experience. People remember what they read when they hold it in their hands.

More so than when they read it online?

Being online is a lean-in experience where you’re seeking a quick solution. As a vendor, a person selling something, you need to be there.

But if you are looking for something inspiring and tranformational, you will go to print. People associate it with pleasure. Surprise and delight me. When I’m holding a paper in my hand, I am relaxing and I want a more relaxed experience. When you stop working, you want to get offline. Do you call your online life pleasurable and relaxing? No. I’ve stopped working and I want to be surprised and delighted.

So what is the future of print papers like Inside Publications?

What is the future in a world where everything is global and transactional? What is the future when you are always online but you’re nobody special? People crave authentic experiences. It’s a basic human need. Publications that are able to tap in to that local energy provide that authentic experience.

Readers can have a relationship that builds over time with their local publication that enables the community to do things they want to do. Readers build real trust with the paper and the local advertisers in it.

Publications enable our advertisers to grow. It’s not about extracting advertisers’ dollars and putting it in our pockets. It’s about investing in one another. That’s the key to

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that local connection. There’s no substitute for that local publication.

It’s a place where we have all chosen to be together. It’s a place that celebrates you for who you really are and where knowledge is real. You cannot do that digitally.

Airbnb seems to understand the value of relationship building while holding a relaxing magazine in your hand. It’s interesting how an online company turned to print to build its brand.

Airbnb wanted to identify their brand with a feeling of community that you can get with human stories in a magazine. It’s interesting they made that move.

What do you see happening to local daily newspapers?

It’s a race to the bottom. Dailies are making the same mistakes that magazines made. Cut. Cut. Cut. If you cut things that readers care about, if you’re not covering your local community, who needs you? People are driven by a sense of place. We all want to identify with our tribe, so it’s important to have stories that lift up the people in the community.

Inside Publications celebrates the people in our community, and we look for the positive, inspirational stories, the heroes in our neighborhoods.

Why is local print such as ours so increasingly valuable to a community?

When we live so much of our lives online, having a beautiful product that you can hold in your hand is

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What can we expect for the future of print publications such as ours?

Any publication that continues to serve its readers has a future.

Truly local print publications are accountable to their communities in ways that big brands are not, but that gives you a lot of opportunity.

The people who are thriving see themselves as enablers and problem solvers. That’s how you build trust, growth and stability.

How can we be of maximum benefit to our community?

As in any business, you have to put your customers at the center.

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CELTIC GAMES COME TO WOODLAND The Woodland Celtic Games & Festival will be held at the Yolo County Fairgrounds on Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29.

This year, organizers have opened up the decades-old Scottish celebration—formerly known as the Scottish Games—to include Irish and Welsh traditions.

Thousands of people are expected to turn out for the event. Some are dyed-in-the-wool Scotsmen and women who travel from Scottish game to game (much like football fans) in support of their heritage. And some are there to take in the sights and sounds of another culture.

In case you wonder whether you have any Celtic blood, there will be a genealogist on hand to help trace your heritage. The event will include Highland dancing and Irish step dancing, caber toss, haggis hurling,

archery lessons, and a whisky seminar and tasting.

The festival begins at 9 a.m. each day. Tickets are available online or at the gate. The fairgrounds are at 1250 Gum Ave. in Woodland.

For more information, go to woodlandcelticgames.org.

LEARN MORE ABOUT SMALL-BOAT SAILING Lake Washington Sailing Club will hold an open house at the Port of West Sacramento on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Established in 1933, LWSC is the oldest sailing club in the region. Its purpose is to promote small-boat sailing.

“Sailing small boats can be a very affordable way to enjoy the water, as well as exciting and fun,” says club member Cynthia Shallit.

LWSC offers classes for beginners, children, youth and women using the club’s small sailboats. Throughout the year, competitive teams from Jesuit High School and UC Davis, as well as other schools in the region, train and race at Lake Washington.

The open house is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Shallit at (916) 533-3708 or cynthiashallit@gmail.com.

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100 Years and Counting CARMICHAEL ELEMENTARY CELEBRATES CENTURY MARK

Carmichael Elementary principal Brandei Smith (back right) and students join the school’s cougar mascot in centennial merrymaking.

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armichael Elementary School will note the 100th year of its founding with a celebration on Wednesday, May 9.

Established on Sutter Avenue in 1917, the school (Carmichael’s oldest school) aimed not just to educate farm children but also to attract more families to developer Daniel Carmichael’s new colony. Carmichael School, as it was then called, began in a wooden building that was uprooted

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and hauled from nearby Winding Way. Because many pupils rode to school, the campus included a horse shed. Farm kids provided hay for their mounts. At recess, impromptu derbies tore up the playground.

Though the school reached its 100year milestone last year, festivities were designed to fit into the 2018 spring semester. Principal Brandei Smith promises some things old and many things new. “We’ll have a history museum, a then-and-now video and student performances,” she says. “The choir will sing our famous ‘Cougar Song,’ which is all about building character and reaching goals.”

Administered by the San Juan Unified School District, Carmichael Elementary has 400 pupils from kindergarten to fifth grade.

Students come from all over the world. Outside the principal’s office, “welcome” is written in English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Arabic and other

languages. “Our diversity reflects what’s happening all over America,” says Smith. “We believe exposure to many nationalities enriches education.”

The centenary festivities will showcase a campus whose 10 original acres were a gift from Daniel Carmichael himself. Crossroads Church will provide hot dogs and treats for the children. A volunteer group from Del Campo High School will supervise a kids zone with face painting and crafts. Fitness professional and children’s author Sami Kader will present a program that includes an exercise circuit.

An event showstopper, predicts the principal, will star kindergarten pupils singing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” complete with sign language.

“We’re opening our doors to show the community how we’ve evolved,” says Smith. “People who attended here love to come back. They’re nostalgic and enjoy sharing memories.

We hope they’ll join us on May 9.

They’ll be amazed to see how our classrooms have changed.”

Eighth-grade graduates pose on campus in 1925. (Susan Skinner archive)

Ed Santillanes (left), retiring drama coach at El Camino High School, with students from his final production.

The planners of the event hope to borrow old photos and memorabilia associated with the school. A 1972 time capsule will be unearthed before the celebrations. “We’ll also bury a new capsule,” says Smith. “Sometime in the distant future, students will dig it up and see what we were like.”

The celebration, open to the public, will begin at 5 p.m. on May 9. The school is at 6141 Sutter Ave. For more information, or to contribute historical items, call (916) 971-5727 or send an email to stacy.boyd@sanjuan. edu.

NICE WORK, COACH Nice work if you can get it. With apologies, Ira Gershwin’s lyrics sum up the long career of educator Ed Santillanes, El Camino High School’s drama coach. After directing 16 shows, he will retire in June. His farewell production was the school’s March staging of the Gershwin brothers’ musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” Santillanes’ swan song was also the final show presented in El Camino’s cafetorium. Though Hollywood star Jessica Chastain and Tony Award nominee actress Kate Levering began their brilliant careers hoofing around its makeshift stage, better things lie ahead. Starting next year, school productions will take place in an $11 million arts center. Santillanes’ exit might seem like poor timing, but he voices no regrets. “I’ve loved working

with my students,” he says. “Their enthusiasm is inspiring. We’ve had a good run together. The new center will be great for them, but I’m ready to retire.”

Staging “Nice Work”—with a cast of 22 plus orchestra and 15 production staffers—was stressful.

“As an actor and director, I’m used to what you must give up,” he says. “But students have all kinds of pressures: homework, family obligations. It’s hard to keep them all together.

Keeping them off their cellphones at rehearsals was the hardest part. The choreographer and I got used to high anxiety.”

Santillanes, now 65, began acting at Hollywood High School as a teen. Later, while teaching at Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks and Winston Churchill Middle School in Carmichael, he moonlighted in Shakespearean productions. He joined El Camino High’s faculty 27 years ago, teaching English and running the school’s radio and TV programs.

Six years ago, he took over the drama gig and directed such plays as Agatha Christie’s “Mousetrap” and Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit.” His musicals have included “Kiss Me, Kate,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Sound of Music.”

His final effort, “Nice Work,” supplied unique challenges.

Santillanes had to coach leading man Adam Severeid to act tipsy in the title number. “It’s hard to direct a teenager to seem drunk,” Santillanes

Betty Cooper and Paul Tebbel (center) recently retired as executives at Effie Yeaw Nature Center. Goodbye gifts included paintings by artist David Peterson (left). The nature center’s new director is Torey Byington (right). says. “They haven’t the experience— or if they have, they don’t want to admit it. In this case, I told Adam to watch Fred Astaire’s famous drunken dance with Marjorie Reynolds in ‘Holiday Inn.’ If there’s any such thing as a graceful drunk, Astaire was it.”

Another challenge was finding 1920s costumes. While the school prop box contained tuxes and gowns, they were more disco than Prohibition.

“Out of the blue, a lovely Carmichael lady offered her late husband’s tuxes,” says the director. “He was a bandleader and kept dozens of dinner jackets. She also donated her own evening gowns for the girls. The cast was thrilled to look so authentic and elegant.”

A free-standing tub for a bathroom scene posed another prop dilemma.

“In the end,” says Santillanes, “we painted a horse trough pink. We stuck it on casters so it could roll around.

It wasn’t quite what we wanted but it worked.” The prop segues neatly to the director’s next step: retirement.

Santillanes owns horses and a Fair Oaks horse property. On his bucket list is driving cattle near the Nevada border this year.

Coaxing equines after coaching teenagers seems like a quantum leap. “Like teenagers, horses can be temperamental,” Santillanes says.

“But they don’t talk back. And in the stables, you don’t have to contend with cellphones.”

EFFIE YEAW EXECS SAY GOODBYE Effie Yeaw Nature Center executives Paul Tebbel and Betty Cooper recently retired after long careers in natural history education.

Cooper, 63, worked at Effie Yeaw for 23 years. After the center lost county funding and settled under the wing of the American River Natural History Association in 2010, Cooper assumed a critical development role.

“ARNHA took a giant leap of faith in taking us on,” she says. “Continuing our operations required tripling their fundraising. We all realized how much people loved this place. For more than 40 years, it’s provided education and tranquil space where you really can connect with wildlife.”

Cooper’s greatest success was in partnership with Sacramento Fine Arts Center. The two nonprofits came up with the idea for the Art Where Wild Things Are gala. In nine years, the party and art auction (scheduled for June 9) has become the most glamorous night of the Carmichael calendar. “Compared to our more family-oriented programs, this event is elegant,” says Cooper. “We sell out almost every year. It’s great to see well-known artists, philanthropists and elected officials in our beautiful preserve. Fine food, fine art and fine people blend delightfully.”

Tebbel, 63, joined Effie Yeaw in 2011 as executive director. His biggest challenge was managing the transition of a county facility to a nonprofit.

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Carmichael musician Wayne Reimers with Arden Middle School band members. The veteran sax player met his wife, Barbara, in the orchestra at Idaho State College.

“We started from scratch in creating staffing and accounting systems,” he explains. “Most importantly, we had to rebuild public confidence. Many supporters thought we would close.

Our job was to convince them we were still in business. Thankfully, our members came back and provided the support that keeps us thriving.

We would not have survived without hardworking ARNHA volunteers and our staff. Betty Cooper has been a fantastic co-leader. There’s nothing she can’t do.”

The retirees’ roles will be taken over by Torey Byington, who previously directed a nature facility in Wayland, Mich. Cooper and Tebbel plan to volunteer at the nature center. “Effie Yeaw is a great mission,” Cooper says. “The staff and

volunteers are like family. That’s not something you can walk away from.”

For more information about Effie Yeaw Nature Center or the Art Where Wild Things Are gala, go to sacnaturecenter.net.

WAYNE’S JAZZY WORLD Wayne Reimers’ vision has become a winter tradition for young jazz musicians. Presented at Rio Americano High School, the Wayne Reimers Jazz Festival recently showcased 230 San Juan Unified School District musicians.

This year, retired teacher Reimers, 84, took special delight in Rio’s new performance facilities. “In past years, we’ve had to use a cafeteria and a little theater,” he recalls. “The distance

between the buildings was a problem when it rained. This year, we had three good venues in one center.

After a cafeteria, hearing a band in a building with acoustical design was music to my ears.”

The 2018 festival featured 12 ensembles from seven schools. “As I listened, I got goose bumps,” Reimers says. “It does the soul good to hear kids playing at such a high level.

Their teachers are doing a great job.

Many of their students play better than some adults I know.”

Reimers started the festival in 1982. Then teaching at Arden Middle School, he realized that many San Juan school bands had no showcase for their efforts. A noncompetitive festival, he decided, would allow students to blossom. Co-organizer

Craig Faniani was then teaching band at Rio Americano and persuaded the school to host the festival. The rest is musical history.

“All over the world, there are professional musicians who took part in our festival,” says Reimers.

“They’re gigging in New Orleans, LA, New York. I feel we supported their love for music and gave them an early experience of audiences.”

Reimers also started young. Picking up the alto sax at 10, he played through high school and college and in the 2nd Infantry Division Band during the Korean War. He met his wife, Barbara, while playing in the orchestra at Idaho State College. “He was the first alto chair, and I was way down the section, struggling,” remembers his wife of 60 years. “We finagled ways to sit together.”

They married after graduation and have been sax partners ever since. They also play in a big band sponsored by Carmichael Kiwanis Club. The nonprofit has co-sponsored Reimers’ festival almost from the first note. “Dr. Les Chase was assistant superintendent for San Juan,” explains Reimers. “His Kiwanis Club wanted to sponsor something artistic.

I grabbed at the offer—it was a match made in heaven.”

Through donations from Kiwanians and supporters, the event annually rewards performers with scholarships.

“It’s also the only festival I know that offers free instrument repairs,” says

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Reimers. “I once took a school band to Luxembourg, and a player dropped his sax on a stone floor. He was in tears.

An unplayable instrument can be a disaster.” During 36 years of festivals, Carmichael-based Tim’s Music has provided repairs. “There’s usually a few emergencies,” says Reimers. “The kids are always overjoyed when they don’t have to sit out.”

Reimers—a 50-year member of Carmichael Presbyterian Church— vows to run his festival for as long as the Lord gives him breath. “For 30 years, it was the San Juan/Carmichael Kiwanis Jazz Festival,” he says. “Six years ago, our committee decided to rename it after me.”

The musician accepted the honor gracefully. “It was a real compliment,” he says. “I’m especially grateful they didn’t have to rename the festival posthumously.”

The Wayne Reimers Jazz Festival will take place in January 2019.

LIONS IN WINTER Nature watchers recently beheld hungry sea lions swimming though Arcade, Carmichael and Fair Oaks.

In February, a trailblazing sea lion was often seen at Nimbus Dam in Fair Oaks. “You heard the sea lion before you saw him,” reports an angler. “He roared like an elephant.

Sometimes he surfaced with a fish in his mouth and swallowed it whole— head first.”

Battling against the dam’s whitewater outflow, the muscular visitor gorged. When exhaustion took over, he slipped downstream, only to return to the floodgate again and again.

During an absence of several days, he likely spread the word among his fellows nearer Sacramento. Soon, not one but three of his species were seen laboring upstream near Watt Avenue. At Nimbus, angler Jason Nicholas watched a large steelhead being devoured. “In 30 years that I’ve fished here,” he says, “I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Around 6 feet long and weighing around 400 pounds, the adult male had journeyed more than 130 river miles from San Francisco Bay. Though quite a feat, the trek is not a record. Another of his species reached

Woodbridge Dam near Lodi in 1997.

“They’re saltwater animals who follow the fish,” explains California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan.

The mammals frustrate anglers and occasionally provoke violence from some who regard them as poachers. “They’re the dogs of the ocean,” notes Hughan. “They’re curious and friendly. They’ll steal fish, but they won’t hurt anyone.

“We don’t do anything about them unless they’re distressed. A marine mammal inland is a natural phenomenon. If you see one, don’t feed it. They need to be left alone to catch fish. It’s a cool sight. People should just stand back and enjoy the moment.”

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SHALL WE CINCO? Mission Oaks Community Center will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a dance party on Friday, May 4.

Music, from Latin to American swing and rock tunes, will be supplied by the John Skinner Band. The music begins at 1:30 p.m. Admission is $8 per person.

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DOG DAY PLANNED AT EASTERN OAK PARK The new doggie corral at Eastern Oak Park was liberally baptized when dozens of pets enjoyed the freedom to run and socialize last month.

The park is the first of 17 Mission Oaks Recreation & Park District properties to offer a canine enclosure.

The area provides seating for pet owners. Other perks include pooch drinking fountains and supplies of plastic baggies for waste disposal.

“We’re pleased at how much use the enclosure has already got,” says recreation superintendent Barry Ross.

“We’d earlier surveyed our residents to see what they wanted in a park.

Mission Oaks Community Center will hold a dance party to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.

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She’s All In KELLIE RANDLE PUTS HER TIME WHERE HER HEART IS

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or Kellie Randle, community service isn’t just a concept—it’s a way of life. In addition to serving on several local nonprofit boards (representing Randle Communications, the PR company she runs with her husband) and parent boards, the Sierra Oaks resident is also the president of the Sacramento chapter of National Charity League, which she’s been involved with for nearly nine years.

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“I think everyone should be involved,” Randle says of her passion for volunteerism.

Randle lends her high energy and organizational skills to boards like California Musical Theatre (she’s chairing its 2018 Broadway Gala on May 5) and Shriners Hospitals for Children. She’s also on the parent boards at Jesuit and Saint Francis high schools and the parent advisory council at Vanderbilt University, where her eldest daughter goes to school.

“I’ve been chairing school auctions since the kids were in preschool,” Randle says proudly.

In all of her charitable work, Randle makes it her mission to get others as fired up about helping as she is.

When she became president of NCL’s Sacramento chapter, she amped up the monthly meetings with speakers, hands-on activities and other enrichments to make members excited to attend.

“I thought if I’m going to do this, I need to be all in,” says Randle, who has been active with the nation’s first mother-daughter charity since her eldest daughter was in sixth grade. (NCL is a six-year program—from sixth grade to senior year of high school—in which young women volunteer for local organizations alongside their mothers.)

“It’s like Junior League with your mom,” Randle says with a laugh.

The Sacramento chapter is made up of 250 mother-and-daughter members who serve 18 local philanthropies, including Foster Youth Education Fund, River City Food Bank, Food Literacy Center and Sacramento Children’s Home.

On May 16, Sacramento Children’s Museum will honor Randle at its Inspire! event, which recognizes an inspirational woman each spring for the work she’s done to make a positive impact on the lives of young children.

“I’m so blown away by the award,” Randle says. “My focus has always been to work really hard and inspire and empower others.”

During her year at the helm of National Charity League, Randle instituted the All-Star Awards, which she presents each month to thank members for their service.

“I want people to want to be part of this,” Randle says.

“If you’re going to make the effort to leave your house and come to the meetings, I don’t want to waste your time. I want you to have fun.”

May will be a busy month for Randle. In addition to the Broadway Gala on May 5 and the Inspire! award ceremony on May 16, she’ll attend NCL’s year-end event on May 6 at Haggin Oaks to send off the senior girls.

Hectic though it may sound, Randle wouldn’t have it any other way.

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That’s the thinking behind Advance Peace, a controversial program approved by the Sacramento City Council in December that offers a unique transformational opportunity to suspected gang members prone to gun violence.

Under Advance Peace, as many as 50 young men will become “fellows,” a term often associated with advanced or college-level programs.

These fellows will go through an 18-month program to break the cycle of gun violence by providing them with activities that could lead to a nonviolent lifestyle.

The concept, originally called the Peacemaker Fellowship, started in Richmond, Calif. The organization’s founders say their efforts resulted in a 60 percent reduction in firearm assaults causing injury or death between 2010 and 2016. (They acknowledge that improved policing practices and other anti-violence programs also contributed to the drop.)

Eighty-four fellows were enrolled in the program from 2010 to 2015.

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suspected in any firearms activity, according to the program founders.

Sacramento is the second city to experiment with the concept.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmember Rick Jennings advocated for it, and the City Council unanimously voted for the program and authorized $1.5 million. (Advance Peace will match that money.)

Stockton has also signed on to Advance Peace.

“Our strategy is to engage the most potentially lethal gang members most likely to be using firearms,” says Khaalid Muttaqi, director of Sacramento’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force. “Through collaboration with law enforcement and other agencies, we conclude that most of the gun and lethal violence is being carried out by a small number of gang members.”

The problem, according to Muttaqi, is that many people involved in shootings and homicides aren’t caught and convicted. Since they think they can get away with it, they are likely to do it again. The Advance Peace program focuses on young men who have been identified likely to be involved in gun violence but who have never been caught or prosecuted.

“In Sacramento, we think that more than half of the homicides have characteristics of gang involvement, but we aren’t always sure,” Muttaqi explains. “Gangs have evolved. The younger-generation gangs are small cliques and not necessarily associated with the big, traditional gangs of the past. They may not even outwardly look like gangs, but they are committing a variety of crimes and using firearms.”

Sacramento’s 50 fellows must follow the program’s protocols to stay in. That includes mentorled intervention to stabilize their lives, along with incentives to stop shooting and move toward productive citizenship. Interventions occur multiple times each day. Fellows also need to develop a life plan to work toward educational, professional and other personal goals.

The fellows will have opportunities for domestic and international travel to show them a life beyond the gang.

The hope is that travel will reduce tensions by connecting young men who may have considered themselves enemies on the street.

Probably the most controversial and misunderstood part of the program is the opportunity for fellows to receive a stipend of up to $9,000.

This payment is made available after a fellow has spent six months in the program. To get the money, a fellow must have participated in 60 percent of the activities offered and have achieved no fewer than three goals associated with the individualized plan. The more work a fellow does, the more he can earn. Those who don’t perform don’t earn anything.

Opponents, including people in law enforcement, feel this is simply paying likely criminals for not committing crimes.

In a statement, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said she has serious concerns about the program. “I support the gang prevention task force and the many evidence-based youth mentoring and intervention programs already in existence in the city of Sacramento,” she says. “I have serious concerns with a program that is apparently based upon the payment of money to high-risk individuals in exchange for a promise not to engage in violent criminal conduct. There is insufficient evidence-based data to show this approach is effective in preventing gun violence.”

Muttaqi disagrees. “How many families provide some sort of incentive or reward to their children to get good grades?” he asks. “There are a variety of times in regular life that incentives are used for good behavior. But at the end of the day, we know this is an experimental program. It’s a pilot.”

The travel program has also been questioned. Muttaqi says he has seen positive results.

“Many of these young men have not been exposed to anything outside their neighborhoods,” he says. “We can open up a whole new world to them. It’s transformational.”

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went to Disneyland called it “the best day of his life,” Muttaqi says.

Daniel Hahn, Sacramento’s police chief, is open to programs that help solve the problem of gun violence. He doesn’t think a single program will do it.

“We have gang problems like any other city,” says Hahn. “Sometimes it gets worse; sometimes it’s better. There are a lot of issues at play related to this problem. The community is in the middle of it all, and it will take community solutions to solve it.”

He hopes Advance Peace is successful and says it’s worth a try.

“We have to be willing to try new things,” he says. “We need to measure it accurately, and if it doesn’t produce results, we’ll know.”

Hahn stresses that police are part of the solution but not the only solution. He says Sacramento needs to stop the stream of young people entering gangs and engaging in gun violence.

“It’s going to take social services and community groups working

together,” he notes. “Advance Peace won’t stop all gun violence in Sacramento. That’s not its intent. We don’t want to set this up for failure.

It’s going to play a role.”

According to Muttaqi, one homicide can cost as much as $1.5 million when considering its impacts on people, law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and the DA’s office. “If we can save one life, it would be worth it,” he says.

But Muttaqi knows that Sacramento is different from Richmond. What worked there might not work here.

“Yes, I’m cautiously optimistic,” he says. “But I also think we’ll give these young men a chance for a better life and a belief they can have a future.”

For more information about Advance Peace, go to advancepeace. org.

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Gifts Galore HER DREAM OF OWNING A STORE CAME TRUE

Ruthie McRonald is the owner of Haberdasherie in Midtown.

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or anyone who knows Ruthie McRonald, hearing that she finally realized her dream of opening a shop—the charming Haberdasherie at J and 23rd streets— is anything but surprising.

“I’ve talked about opening a shop for years,” says McRonald, who went

from stay-at-home mom to wine industry expert when she wrote a letter to the late Patty Bogle of Bogle Vineyards offering her help in whatever customer service roles the winery might have available.

Bogle hired her on the spot, and McRonald went on to manage tasting

rooms and wine clubs in Napa and Amador counties before opening Haberdasherie, a home goods and gift shop, in early 2017.

“I have a love of beautiful things in my house, so the store is a collection of anything I find that I myself would love to have,” she says. “Nothing goes in the store if I don’t love it.”

McRonald loves to shop, which she says she does “all day long” looking for interesting items to add to her shelves. Her best friend, who works next door at Mojo Salon and helped McRonald find the space for Haberdasherie, also enjoys the thrill of the hunt. The pair spent three days perusing the 14 floors of a popular Los Angeles market to buy the store’s starting inventory. The result is an eclectic mix of items including candles, hostess gifts, napkins, pillows, tea towels, throws, vases, products from Oakland-based artist Rae Dunn, tea sets, beach bags and more. It seems only fitting that the ever-shifting inventory should bear a name as whimsical as Haberdasherie.

“The word ‘haberdashery’ was traditionally used in Europe for sewing notions,” McRonald explains.

“It then morphed into Europe’s version of a five-and-dime in the 13th century, then into an apothecary, then into a store that sold hats, then men’s hats, then men’s clothing.

In my mind, it means anything you want. Plus, it’s fun to say.”

Haberdasherie is at 2318 J St. For more information, visit haberdasherie. net.

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Fledgling Farmer HE WENT TO SCHOOL TO LEARN THE TRADE

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Cuff wishes more people shopped at the farmers market, because he believes the vegetables there taste better. He wants people to fall in love with them the way he has. He also wishes people understood how artificially low the price of food is.

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It was 2013. Cuff started his farm training while still maintaining his teaching job. Then summer came.

“I had summer break from school and never went back,” he said.

Cuff began farming before finishing at Farm Academy. The program offers trainees the opportunity to work on land owned by the nonprofit, and Cuff took advantage of it. He worked with a fellow classmate to start Hearty Fork Farm on a 1-acre incubation plot at the nonprofit’s headquarters in Winters.

A year later, Cuff expanded the farm to lease a 2-acre plot at Collins Farm in Davis. For the next two years, he split his time between the two farms. By now, Cuff’s business partner had left to build his own farm business.

Today, it’s just Cuff. It’s a difficult life, but he’s passionate about it. He can’t afford to hire staff, and when he does, it’s only for a few months, which makes it difficult to find good help.

“It’s difficult but not impossible,” said Cuff. He’s driven to do the hard work because he’s inspired by the end product. In fact, when he talks about vegetables, he lights up.

“I love experimenting and playing,” he said.

Cuff’s top pick among the foods he’s growing right now is kale. He adores it. He and his wife eat it with every other meal. Lately, they’ve been adding it to lots of soups and stews.

Cuff’s recipe of choice: kale and broccoli together as a side dish—a brassica blowout. “Cook the broccoli first, and put kale in it at the end,” he said. “I don’t understand why people don’t eat more kale.” Cuff shook his head in genuine sadness for those missing out on the brassica’s benefits.

He also believes that a great farmer eats everything he grows. He prides himself on being able to describe each flavor in his winter crop: carrots, greens, arugula, chard and cilantro, which Cuff pointed out is a coldweather crop, not a summer one.

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t was a colorless, crisp day at the Sacramento Central Farmers Market. Yet the most dedicated farmers and shoppers were going about their usual Sunday-morning business of buying and selling California-grown products. By noon, Farmelot was down to its last three heads of lettuce. Capay Organic’s tables were scattered with a few remaining conehead cabbages.

Farmer Jason Cuff had only a handful of carrots left.

“I’ve sold everything I harvested!”

Cuff said as he stacked empty wooden boxes. This was a good day for the owner of Hearty Fork Farm. A sellout day means his labor was worth it.

While most farmers report working more than 10 hours per day, Cuff puts in an average of 12 to 16 hours on his land. He has no days off. He’s the owner and sole employee of two leased acres in Davis.

Cuff didn’t set out to be a farmer.

Five years ago, he was making his living as a special-education teacher, which he enjoyed. But he was itching to grow more than a home garden. He wanted to get back to the land—and back to his roots.

Cuff grew up in Oregon. When he was 6, he had his first job picking marionberries and loganberries. He loved it. He continued working on farms until college, where he heeded his parents’ advice to earn a living doing something more stable. “Every parent wants something better for their kids,” said Cuff.

So he earned a degree in psychology and went on to become a teacher.

While he was teaching in Sacramento, Cuff began to learn about small farms like Full Belly, and as the farm-to-fork movement was gaining momentum, Cuff applied to Center for Land-Based Learning’s California Farm Academy, a training program for aspiring farmers. He had loved working on farms as a youth and had continued gardening as an adult. He wanted to get his hands in the soil again.

You can find Jason Cuff at his Hearty Fork Farm stand at the Central Farmers Market at 8th and W streets on Sundays and the Country Club Mall Farmers Market on Saturdays.

Amber Stott is founder of the nonprofit Food Literacy Center. She can be reached at amber.stott@gmail. com. n

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Rock On

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ennis Newhall has a hidden treasure and wants everyone to see it. He needs anywhere from 800 to 1,000 square feet with nice, clean walls. He doesn’t want windows. In fact, the less light, the better. But foot traffic is essential.

Lots of people will stop by and see what he has to share.

Newhall owns one of the most unique and appealing collections of cultural art in Sacramento. His masterpieces encompass the city’s history of rock ’n’ roll and include

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posters and original artwork from 50 years of local performances by such diverse luminaries as Fats Domino, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Donovan, all the way to Jackie Greene.

There are handbills from forgotten groups headlining at Shire Road Pub in Fair Oaks. There’s a rare poster advertising a March 11, 1968, event at Memorial Auditorium, when the Grateful Dead opened for Cream. It was the only time those two bands ever performed on the same bill.

Newhall has five pallets of rock artwork stashed away at a secret location. He’s eager to display the goods. All he needs is a few clean, safe, accessible walls.

“I have lots of ideas, and some of them are crazy,” he says. “I don’t want to display it in a restaurant with big windows or an insurance office where

THIS COLLECTION OF MUSIC ART IS MORE THAN HIPPIE POSTERS

there’s no public access. We really can’t have sunshine, because it will damage the artwork. A basement or an inner space without windows would be great. But we need activity, in an area where lots of people are walking around, so people can wander in, pay their dollar and see the collection.”

If Newhall could choose any site in town to house the collection, he would choose a museum that’s already up and running. Museums have staffers who know how to handle and display art. And they have systems to collect the entry fee, which Newhall insists will remain rock bottom, just a dollar or two.

Not long ago, Newhall discussed his collection with one local museum. He thought the rock-art material would be a good fit, but he couldn’t reach agreement with management. There are about 20 museums in Sacramento.

He’s working his way through a list of potential candidates, so far without luck.

“It’s tricky. It’s got to be the right space,” Newhall says. “For example, the State Military Museum would probably not be the best fit.”

Many people in Sacramento have already seen portions of the collection.

For 17 years, some of the collection’s greatest hits were on display at 20th and I streets, site of the old Crabshaw Corner and Oasis Ballroom music halls.

The building had been taken over by a commercial audio studio, Nakamoto Productions. Newhall worked at the studio as a sound engineer. One day, owner Ray Nakamoto had a brilliant idea: Let’s find old rock posters to jazz up the surroundings.

“I had some stuff that I’d carried around for 30 years in a flattened old water-heater box,” Newhall says.

“There were 40 or 50 pieces, some of which were really collectible. We had them framed, which was expensive.

Then I learned to make frames and do the matting myself. From there, the collection just grew. I found stuff on eBay; people gave me stuff. It just grew and took on a life of its own.”

After a few years, Newhall moved the collection into a building next door to the studios. The Midtown location was perfect for drawing crowds, especially when Second Saturday art walks brought thousands of people into the neighborhood.

“On some of those busy Second Saturday nights around 2010, we would have 300 people an hour coming through,” he says. “We had over 1,200 people one night.”

The collection was never a big moneymaker, and profit was never the motive. Newhall would ask visitors for a $1 donation on Second Saturdays, hoping to cover the cost of buying frames and materials. Even now, Newhall doesn’t expect to make a living with the posters.

“But because I have to make a living, I can’t sit there and collect the money and watch over everything,” he says.

With the right location, the collection will sell itself. Beyond the sheer creativity, historical significance and beauty of the posters, they transcend generations. “It’s not just a bunch of hippie posters from the ’60s,” Newhall says. “There’s a lot of vibrant art. The collection covers 50 years of rock. It’s what happened in Sacramento, Davis, the foothills. It’s the story of our music.”

Let us know if you have a home for Newhall’s collection. It deserves to be seen.

To see some of Dennis Newhall’s music posters, go to sacrockmuseum. org.

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Longing for AC

By Anita Clevenger Garden Jabber

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here have recently been photos of enticing peaches in grocery store ads. They are my favorite fruit. Just looking at them makes my mouth water and my heart yearn. In the stores, reality sets in.

The peaches may look good, but they feel hard and have no discernible fragrance. These aren’t the luscious peaches that I am longing for.

At one time, you could only purchase produce that was in season or would survive long-term cold storage. About 30 years ago, I could not find a single fresh strawberry in Sacramento in my quest to make my family’s traditional Easter strawberry shortcake. Strawberries were out of season, and that was that. Now, you can get virtually any produce you want at any time, grown in other climates and countries and frequently shipped thousands of miles.

Gardeners have known all along what proponents of the farm-tofork movement have more recently discovered: Produce is tastiest and most nutritious when picked at its peak and eaten as soon after harvesting as possible. We say regretful goodbyes to some favorites but greet others with ecstatic hellos.

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Peaches HOW TO PLANT SO YOU CAN EAT WELL ALL SEASON market, but now is the time for the best asparagus. Locally grown peaches are not far behind.

When you are gardening, there are ways of extending the seasons that don’t require long-term storage and long-distance trucking. The secret is what you plant and how you grow it.

The days between planting and harvesting are often marked on packages of vegetable seeds and plants. Some varieties ripen earlier than others. Corn, for example, can mature in as little as 58 days or as long as 92. Easter Egg eggplants bear little, egglike white fruit in 52 days.

Long Asian eggplants are ready about 70 days from planting, while large, oval eggplants range from 60 to more than 80 days. The Early Girl tomato earns its name by ripening in 54 days, while main-crop varieties take at least 70 days, and some extra-large and heirloom varieties make you wait up to 90 days.

Fruit trees may have early, midseason or late varieties. The early peaches that you find in the farmers market are often cling peaches with fruit that grips its stone (pit) tightly.

If you prefer freestone, be sure to ask the vendor or look for a label.

Peaches ripen between May and mid-September. Evocative names

such as Earlitreat, May (or June or August) Pride, Summerset and one of the latest of all, Fairtime, indicate when their fruit will be ready. Home gardeners can select varieties to harvest all summer long or graft different varieties onto the same tree.

Apples can take from 100 to 200 days between flowering and harvest.

Southern highbush blueberries can grow successfully in our area, although you must ensure that your soil is acidic and rich in organic matter, and it’s best to provide some afternoon shade. By planting several different varieties, you can harvest from very early to midseason and enjoy these attractive bushes throughout the year.

Planting times also affect when you harvest. Generally, summer vegetables are best planted when the soil warms up. However, tomato growers are especially aggressive about planting early, devising techniques for warming the soil with protective red or black plastic mulches, protecting their plants and bragging about first harvest. Many of you may already be coddling tomato plants in your garden, but others wait until the soil warms up later this month or even in May. Indeterminate types of tomatoes, which continue

to grow and flower throughout the season, will bear fruit through the fall, but determinate ones grow to a limited size and bear fruit all at once.

Some vegetables, such as snap beans, are routinely planted successively to extend their harvest time.

Continually harvesting your vegetables will encourage them to keep on bearing. At the peak of summer, go out into the garden every morning to examine your plants and pick whatever is ready. We’ve all experienced the shock of finding a giant zucchini or overripe tomato in the middle of a plant, somehow hiding in plain sight until it is too late to enjoy.

To everything, there is a season.

We often forget that in our modern lives, but gardens and farmers markets remind us to enjoy harvest at its peak and to celebrate each season.

There is a time for peaches, and it’s coming soon.

Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n

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Artistic Edge Gallery features works by Diana Ormanzhi, Jonathan Lowe, Carolyn Junge and Cynthia Hayes through April 30. Shown above: “Angels & Dreams” by Jonathan Lowe.

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Tim Collom Gallery presents a group exhibition titled “Land, Sea, Sky: The Scapes Show” from April 10 to May 3.

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Watercolor artist Elaine Bowers is shown at Elliott Fouts Gallery through April 30.

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Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons presents its annual membership watercolor exhibition. The show, which includes more than 100 original works of art, runs through April 22 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Shown left: “Hand Picked” by Maura Madden Donovan. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacfinearts.org

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Success by the Numbers SQUARE ROOT ACADEMY BRINGS STEM EDUCATION TO UNDERREPRESENTED YOUTH

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hen Curtis Park resident Nicholas Haystings was a kid, he wanted to become an inventor. He didn’t know at the time that the career he envisioned was actually called engineering—and he’s made it his life’s work to make sure other kids like him know exactly what they’re pursuing.

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“No one surrounding me at the time knew to correct me,” says Haystings, who grew up in South Sacramento. “It’s hard to find a support system that knows what you’re trying to do. How do you support this intangible thing?”

So Haystings and fellow engineers D. Theodore Mponte and Christina Carter-Brown launched Square Root Academy in 2016. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to educating underrepresented youth on the fundamentals of STEM—science, technology, engineering and math— while emphasizing collaborative learning, innovation and academic excellence.

“There’s a large inequality in access to that level of education in certain populations,” says Haystings, who met Mponte, an electrical engineer, while studying mechanical engineering at Sacramento State University. “In creating Square Root Academy, we wanted to level the playing field. The jobs of the future will be derived from STEM, so we want to make sure everyone is equipped.”

Square Root Academy’s “bread and butter,” as Haystings puts it, is hands-on education. Students (called “scholars”) are selected through an in-depth application process and then attend classes at no cost after school

and on Saturdays to learn STEM concepts from industry professionals.

“The majority of our team is made up of degreed STEM professionals,” Haystings says. “It’s so important for students to see what STEM looks like in the real world.”

During the group’s “Innovation Expeditions,” scholars take field trips to Sac State, Intel and local engineering firms to see how the knowledge they’re gaining will actually be used when they enter the working world. They also gain hands-on experience with coding, laser cutting and 3D printing. But it’s training in how to think like scientists that Haystings sees as most important.

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Sacramento’s m Sacramento’s most ost eexperienced xperienced d divorce ivorce m mediators ediators & aattorneys ttorneys www.FamilyLawCenter.US (916) 488-5088 “Science is often taught wrong,” Haystings says. “It’s not taught with intention. There’s a disconnect between math and engineering.

Math is a tool; engineering is the application of the tool. But most teachers really only know STEM from a theoretical standpoint. They don’t have a firm understanding, and they pass that uncertainty along to their students. We help make sure scholars understand the entire process to be successful.”

Square Root’s founders have seen high demand for this kind of education. For their most recent cohort of 30 scholars, they had 100 applicants.

The organization fills a gap not only in the curriculum but in the community.

“There’s a large disparity in diversity in STEM,” Haystings says.

“STEM is only 22 percent women, 7 percent Latin-American and 6 percent African-American. That makes you scratch your head.

America is supposed to be this great melting pot, but school districts don’t have programming for at-risk youth.

That means that when they reach the collegiate level, they can barely do geometry. It’s an issue of preparation and access to education.”

Square Root Academy has hosted programs for more than 300 scholars at four area schools, including Valley High School and John Bidwell Elementary School, as well as weekly classes at its makerspace in South Sacramento. The founders are hoping to expand into Oak Park, Twin Rivers School District and beyond to reach as many students as possible.

“We’re open to collaboration,” Haystings says. “In order to inspire and empower the next generation, it will take more than just the academy alone. We’re sending an open invitation to anyone who wants to work on improving access to STEM education. You have an ally in Square Root Academy.”

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Mission Statement JESUS SAVES, BUT EDUCATION HELPS, TOO

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s your daughter’s nonprofit Christcentered?” asks an American missionary here in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

The man is among hundreds of missionaries headquartered within the comforting amenities of a big city. They represent various faiths but most, like the one asking the question, are evangelical.

Most do great work. They bring clean water into villages, build schools, care for orphans and staff clinics with surgeons and dentists.

Most understand that while Jesus saves, education and medical care add much to their cause.

This missionary’s question is likely innocent, but my Southern Baptist roots hear judgment. My daughter’s nonprofit is called Chispa Project. It creates small libraries

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in underserved schools, but it’s not about evangelizing at the schools.

It feels like my inquisitor wants me to say, “You bet it is! We stock our libraries with boatloads of Bibles, Jesus stories and salvation pamphlets.”

I strive to formulate an answer for my examiner but draw a blank.

My mind drifts to the school we visited the day before. Prior to my daughter Sara’s arrival, the school library consisted of a dozen books from the teachers’ personal collections. Few books were in Spanish, and most weren’t suitable for the children’s reading levels.

The school principal escorted us to each classroom. Most bulged with 42 students seated three to a desk at desks designed only for two. A student was excused to go to the restroom, and I watched him head for the wooden outhouse, where there was no running water.

Despite the bleak design, the school walls sprouted spirit posters boasting of the school’s dedication to reading.

The principal led a student cheer with snapping fingers to illustrate

the name Chispa, which means spark in Spanish. During the cheer, the principal told the children that Chispa Project books will spark their education.

Later in the morning, children poured onto the playground. They had no sports equipment, but they squealed delightfully as they played their imaginary games. Kids climbed on and dangled from the small soccer goal posts on each side of the playground, while a few stared down the tall, white chaplain watching them from a bench.

Returning to the missionary’s question, I repeat it to myself. Is our work here Christ-centered? I think I must say “yes” because this is the place Jesus would be. This is the mission Christ put in our hearts.

An educational organization doesn’t become Christ-centered just because it incorporates theology into its written mission statement.

After all, reading is reading whether you’re reading the Bible or a science textbook. Math is math because 2+2 has the same result when added by a Christian, Jew or atheist.

The Christian part, or the “Christcenteredness,” comes not from the organization but from the heart of the one serving. A nonprofit needn’t be parochial to be Christ centered.

Jesus taught that whenever we help “someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.”

“Yes, sir,” I say, regaining my confidence. “Chispa Project is definitely Christ-centered.”

I make that declaration because I’ve been here for 12 weeks and can testify that the mission of Chispa Project beats with the heart of Jesus, who said, “Let the little children come to me … for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

The missionary returns a reserved smile, so I dare ask for a donation. He chuckles at my chutzpah, but so far, no cash. Maybe he’s waiting to read our mission statement.

To read Chispa Project’s mission statement or make a donation, go to chispaproject.org. Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain. net. n

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Summing It Up THE LESSONS FROM FOUR YEARS OF WRITING ABOUT SCIENCE

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or the past four years here at Inside Publications, I’ve been showing you the science in your neighborhood.

Many people think of science as memorizing a bunch of facts, things like the periodic table or the stages of mitosis. While the efforts of scientists in the past have indeed given us many facts that must be learned (lest we be forced to repeat all their experiments!), science is much more than facts. It’s an approach to learning based on questions and open-mindedness to the answers. It’s a way of explaining and controlling the world around us. Once you start

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to look, you’ll see that science—and her practical sister, engineering—are everywhere.

As a scientist, an educator and a writer, I have a habit of seeing science in all things—in my home, my community, my region. But I have blind spots. Some everyday things I take for granted, and I don’t notice how they depend on good science and engineering. I’m sure you have the same problem. And it is a problem.

Just because it’s simple to turn on a tap, flush a toilet or pump gasoline into your car doesn’t mean that the systems behind these conveniences are simple, too. If we don’t appreciate how complex it is to run a utility, then we will resent that it costs us money. If we don’t understand where our waste goes, then we have no reason to be careful about what we throw away.

This monthly column has been an opportunity for me to ask how-does-

that-work? questions on your behalf, and to get answers from local science experts and engineers. I’ve toured restricted facilities like our regional blood bank and the control center for our high-voltage power grid. I’ve interviewed National Weather Service meteorologists and the executive director of the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.

Over and over, I’ve learned one very important lesson: Things are more complicated than you think.

One of the toxic manifestations of our divided society these days is a rejection of expertise. Many people think they know as much, or could do a job just as well, as a “so-called expert.” Let me tell you: Every aspect of your daily life in this community is influenced by the actions of experts who do indeed possess special skills and knowledge that the rest of us don’t. Whether it’s the elaborate system of sensors, cameras and computer algorithms that keeps traffic moving on our local streets, or the massive data collection that predicts runoff into our reservoirs, applied technical expertise keeps Sacramento clean, lit, dry and functional. Without the knowledge and dedication of local science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals (many of them employees of our local governments or supra-government districts), we’d be uncomfortable, sick, isolated in the dark or worse.

Government scientists are now my heroes.

I hope that by reading my articles, you, too, have been impressed by the sophistication required to make things work. I hope you appreciate that just because you can’t see the effort that underlies something as seemingly uncomplicated as, say, digging a hole to bury trash, there actually is complex engineering required to do the job right. And before you grumble about, say, the decision to do aerial spraying for mosquitoes, consider the many layers of less-visible action that have already been taken, and the often-difficult balancing of competing interests that the experts behind the scenes must consider.

This is my last Science in the Neighborhood column for Inside Publications. If you’ve enjoyed my articles about everything from the Great Backyard Bird Count to the science of fruit ripening, look for my new “Science in the Neighborhood” book. Discover citizen science projects you can join, unique local ecology you can visit and places you can hang out with science-minded people.

Expanded versions of my articles show ways to save someone else’s life and how to protect your own while driving, fishing or exercising. But most of all, with this book I want you to see, as I do, the importance of science in our homes and neighborhoods.

Keep up with Dr. Amy Rogers at amyrogers.com or follow @ ScienceThrillers on Facebook. n

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Walking With My Baby IT SHOULD BE SAFE TO CROSS THE STREET

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aking a walk in the neighborhood is a pleasure.

It can be a walk with your romantic baby, your infant baby or just yourself. Granted, some neighborhoods are nicer for a stroll than others. Leafy East Sacramento, Curtis Park and Land Park are special because of their mature trees, attractive homes and scarcity of wide streets with fast traffic. It’s bliss to be outside on a beautiful spring day. It’s stimulating to be outside even on a nasty winter day.

Walking is great exercise and totally free. Sadly, except for Midtown and Downtown and some disadvantaged neighborhoods where people may walk out of economic necessity, it’s hard to spot a pedestrian. Typically, there is only a handful of regular dog walkers and a few other souls walking in more affluent areas. National statistics indicate that walking to work may be increasing very slightly, but still it’s rare to see someone going to a store

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or making another purposeful trip by foot in many places.

Even though people recognize the desirability of living in walkable neighborhoods, we seem to have lost the knack for creating them (or the desire for using them where they do exist). My view is that the essential ingredients for making trips by foot are safety, convenience and nearby destinations.

In the suburbs and most new developments, street designs and how land is used often discourage walking by making it less safe and convenient. There are big roads with bigger intersections—built to move cars rapidly, not to create idyllic neighborhoods. Sacramento County in particular has intersections on the scale of the pyramids, such as at Greenback and Sunrise, where pedestrians are forced to cross eight or more intimidating lanes of traffic.

There are big stores concentrated in malls surrounded by enormous moats of parking instead of small shops just down the street. There are big schools that serve an area too large to reach by foot instead of small schools nestled close by. Some county areas lack sidewalks entirely.

Whether you are age 8 or 80 or anywhere in between, hiking across a giant intersection is no piece of cake. Who can blame a parent for not wanting to have their child walk to school if the poor, bewildered kid

has to cross a wide and dangerous street? Who wants to walk on a street with fast traffic and no sidewalks?

As I write this, The Sacramento Bee reports that a woman walking with her boyfriend in a bike lane on Garden Highway, which is mostly devoid of sidewalks, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Walking with your baby should be joyful, never a cause for grief.

Pedestrians seem to be an endangered species. The Governors Highway Safety Association recently examined pedestrian fatality data.

The numbers are grim. Pedestrian fatalities have been rising for years— up 27 percent between 2007 and 2016. It’s estimated that there were about 6,000 pedestrian fatalities in the United States in 2017, the same as in 2016. Pedestrians now account for 16 percent of traffic fatalities, up from 11 percent in 2007, representing their largest proportion of traffic deaths in 33 years. While car safety has improved for occupants, fleshand-blood pedestrians remain as vulnerable as ever.

The Governors study authors suggest, without claiming a causal link, that the increase in pedestrian fatalities may be tied to increased smartphone use and the legalization of recreational marijuana. The use of smartphones increased 236 percent between 2010 and 2016, and

the number of messages more than tripled.

In the seven states (Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) that legalized recreational marijuana before 2017, pedestrian fatalities increased 16.4 percent in the first six months of 2017 versus the first half of 2016. In other states, pedestrian fatalities decreased 5.8 percent. (It should be noted that Maine and Massachusetts, while permitting marijuana cultivation and possession in 2017, still don’t allow marijuana sales, and Nevada didn’t allow sales until July 2017, after the period of increased deaths.)

California leads the nation in pedestrian deaths with 352 in the first six months of 2017. That sad leadership position is not unanticipated since California has the largest state population. But California also ranks high in the rate of pedestrian fatalities, 10th among states. That’s something that must change.

Cities and states are focusing more attention on making streets safer for pedestrians. “Complete streets” policies, designed to make streets safer and more accessible for all users, have been adopted by California and other jurisdictions. Sacramento, additional California cities and cities across the country have begun Vision Zero programs aimed at eliminating

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traffic fatalities. San Francisco and New York have had success in reducing deaths.

The Governors Highway Safety Association study says, “Higher vehicle speeds are strongly associated with both a greater likelihood of pedestrian crashes and more serious and fatal pedestrian injuries. For this reason, efforts to reduce speeding on streets with pedestrian activity are a major focus of many municipal traffic safety programs, including Vision Zero programs.”

Crossing a street should be easy, not difficult, and certainly not dangerous. Pedestrians deserve convenience and safety everyplace, not just some places. Walking is

fundamentally human and natural and should be a pleasure. But a little gap in the pedestrian network or a single dangerous street crossing is enough to deter people from stepping out.

I’ve always enjoyed walking (and hiking) with my baby, holding hands, talking about the trivial and profound.

Everybody, in every neighborhood, should be able to walk with their baby everywhere and anytime, in comfort and without fear.

Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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My Little Lady Bird IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR HER TO FLY THE NEST

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ave you seen the Oscarnominated movie “Lady Bird”? You know the opening scene where the mother and daughter start getting under each other’s skin and then Lady Bird throws herself out of a moving car? My daughter and I had a good laugh over that because, as we both said in unison: “You’d totally do that.”

“I’d totally do that.”

Like the daughter/mother characters of “Lady Bird,” my daughter, Whitney, and I just took a college-tour trip together. We decided to go down the California coast so that I could share with my beach-

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loving baby a stretch of her home state she absolutely had to experience while checking out colleges that met her criterion: must be on or near the beach.

Unlike the movie mom and daughter, I think Whitney would agree that currently we have a pretty fantastic relationship. As we’ve grown closer to the friend zone, she has come to respect me as a mother who will always enforce the boundaries, and I’ve come to appreciate her as a daughter who will always test the boundaries. The running joke during our coastal-colleges tour: Me: “Let me know if you’re going to throw yourself out of the car so I can slow down.”

Whit: “Deal.”

It wasn’t always like this. There was a lot of work put into taming my wild stallion. There was a lot of resisting the confines of a corral.

There were tears. From both of us.

There was yelling from both us. There

were typical tween accusations of “You just don’t understand,” and there was hot-button-pushed retorts of “Oh, just try me, sister. The house always wins.”

When Whitney’s apple-doesn’tfall-far-from-the-tree stubbornness showed itself before she was even potty trained, her dad and I had a summit meeting: Me: “We need to channel this into good instead of evil before the teenage years hit.”

Dad: “Good luck with your minime.”

When Whitney and I had a prepubescent blowup (over who knows what anymore) and we both went angrily storming off to our corners, slamming doors behind us, it was up to Dad to negotiate the peace treaty.

Dad: “Whitney, I think you owe your mother an apology.”

Whit: “No. Mom owes me an apology.”

We worked it out, both apologizing, but let’s just say I’m glad we weren’t driving in a car when the showdown happened.

And here we are now. Whitney is turning 17 this month. I could not be prouder of the woman she has blossomed into. The stubborn girl who always needed to push the boundaries and would take a lie to the bottom of the ocean like a captain going down with his ship. Three-year president of her student class, points leader in Speech & Debate Club, Camp Kids counselor—two-year volunteer, two years paid. Friend to any and all.

Powers used for good instead of evil.

Me? I promised to never write about her again unless she approved it. I made sure to bite my lip instead of saying, “See? I told you so.” I learned to be the adult in the room and bury my hot button in the backyard so it couldn’t be pushed.

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I gave her room to grow. I gave her room to make mistakes and learn from them. I took Whit’s suggestion to check my judgmental self and abide by my early declaration.

Whit: “You always say kids are works in progress, Mom.” Me: “Yeah, but so are moms, too, Whit.”

Basically, we learned to cut each other some slack. And in doing so, we’ve put ourselves on the path to mutual respect and friendship. Which we recently celebrated in a fun trip together down the California coast taking selfies along the way in fields of yellow mustard, at a wind-whipped lighthouse, on a Santa Barbara beach at sunset.

Happy birthday, Itty Bitty Whitty Little Girl So Pretty. Let’s do it again sometime soon. But don’t you dare unbuckle that seat belt.

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Modern Meets Bohemian GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS CURTIS PARK HOME ON ANNUAL TOUR

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hat happens when the clean lines of midcentury modern meet the unconventional style of bohemian chic? Step into Reuben Edelson and Kat Haro’s home in Curtis Park and

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find out. The corner house, built in 1936, will be one of five homes featured on this year’s Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour on April 28.

“I tease Reuben that he would love anything that is wood and metal,” says Haro. “That sort of pseudoindustrial look. I’m a little quirky, but ultimately it ends up balancing out.”

Decorative touches subtly scattered throughout the home include ethnic masks and ceramics, wood and metal shelving, framed photos and original artwork.

Edelson and Haro also have timeless treasures from various

family members, including Haro’s grandparents, who used to have a booth at a local antique mall. “I grew up going to garage sales and flea markets,” she notes. “I tend to find things here and there—anywhere from HomeGoods to the Antique Faire. When it all came together, his stuff and my stuff, I think it actually worked out pretty well.”

Edelson purchased the 2,032-square-foot-home home in 2017.

At the time, he was renting in Curtis Park, not far from where he grew up. Haro, whose family is from Land Park, owns another house in the area.

“We lived about 10 blocks away from each other when we met,” she points out.

Edelson, who works in finance at Intel in Folsom, began his homebuying quest while working toward his MBA at UC Davis. “He wanted to buy a house as soon as he graduated,” says Haro, who works in advertising at MeringCarson in Midtown. “But every house he looked at, he found something wrong. He was really picky.”

Then Edelson came across the three-bedroom, two-bath Craftsman home, remodeled in 2012, and he

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knew it was the one. The house was owned by Patrick and Kate Van Buren, who purchased it for Patrick’s mother to live in as she grew older. (The couple live two houses down from Edelson and Haro.) “His mother was very particular and had a certain standard of what she wanted,” comments Haro. “So he poured his heart and soul into this house and did everything up to his mother’s standards.”

The kitchen upgrades include soapstone countertops, a farm sink, stainless steel appliances and a variation of white subway tiles for a backsplash. Original to the

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Sacramento’s senior homes. “I’ve told many friends that I will always have an older, smaller house than anyone else I know because I am paying for the area and the charm of the older

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home, and that’s 100 percent worth it to me.”

The Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour will take place on Saturday,

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home are the hardwood floors in the living room and two bedrooms, as well as the china hutch in the breakfast nook. Light fixtures from the 1920s and ’30s were installed to maintain the charm of the older home.

The spacious master bedroom, which was added prior to Edelson and Haro, also received a full upgrade.

Patrick Van Buren built scaffolding so he could hand-chip the paint off the ceiling’s exposed beams to reveal the true wood. A marble countertop and tiled shower modernize the master bathroom. A freestanding soaking tub is a nice addition to the remodeled guest bath.

Haro, who sits on the board of Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association, loves the charm of

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Glory Days

A LOCAL KINGS FAN CAN’T FORGET BOB DAVIES

Barry Martin

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arry Martin is not the loudest or oldest Kings fan. He’s probably not even the most

loyal.

But it’s a good bet Martin is the only Kings fan living in Sacramento who can describe what it was like to watch the team play at Edgerton Park Sports Arena.

“It was nothing like Golden 1 Center,” he says with a laugh.

Most Kings fans would have a hard time placing Edgerton Park.

Such ignorance carries no shame.

Only the most diehard NBA devotee, or someone of a certain age

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raised around the snowy streets of Rochester, N.Y., would know about Edgerton.

The Kings were big winners when they called Edgerton and Rochester home. In those days, the team savored a level of success unimaginable for the Sacramento losers. The Kings were called the Royals. They won two championships at Edgerton: the 1946 National Basketball League title and their first and only victory in an NBA final in 1951.

Despite a new name and evictions from Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Omaha before settling in Sacramento, they have been shooting blanks ever since.

Martin was a youngster living in Webster, a farm community 10 miles east of Rochester. His father disliked basketball, but his mother enjoyed the game and occasionally bought tickets for herself and her son.

“Edgerton was very dark inside,” he says. “The slope of the seats was slight, not like today, where they go straight up. The court was smaller than regulation size, and there was probably 5 feet from the end line of the court to the back wall. Players would be unable to stop, and they would go through the doors and bump into somebody in the concession area drinking a Coke. At the other end, they’d crash through the doors and be standing outside in the snow.”

Today, Martin is 80 and retired from his career as an attorney. He lives in Arden Park. Two years ago, he channeled his boyhood recollections and love of research into a book about one of the greatest players in Kings franchise history: Bob Davies.

The book, which carries the straightforward title “Bob Davies: A Basketball Legend,” is an exhaustively reported homage to a

humble and heroic athlete forgotten in the modern menagerie of sports celebrities.

“I ended up a lawyer, but my real interest was American history,” Martin says.

In college at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Davies was the most popular basketball player of his era.

He invented the behind-the-back dribble, but he never hired an agent or made TV appearances, unlike Bob Cousy, who did all those things and won credit for the move created by Davies.

Research on the book began decades ago, shortly after the Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985. Martin wangled an assignment to write about Davies for Hoop magazine.

Davies, who died in 1990 at age 70, was unable to meet Martin for an interview, but he sent the author a friendly postcard.

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His work is revelatory: By focusing on one man who helped create the game before television, Martin captures the evolution of basketball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a role model, to use a term thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost irrelevant now,â&#x20AC;? Martin says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He played on integrated teams and he served in World War II on a minesweeper.â&#x20AC;?

Davies scored the winning points for the Royals in their 1951 Game 7 championship victory over the New York Knicks. Fouled by Dick McGuire with 44 seconds left, Davies sank both free throws to break a 75-75 tie.

A layup by Jack Coleman made the Royals 79-75 winners.

The game was the pinnacle not just for the franchise but for Edgerton Park. The 4,200-seat arena at Dewey Avenue and Backus Street in Rochester was pulled down after the Royals moved to Cincinnati in 1957.

Like Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abandoned arena in North Natomas, nobody missed Edgerton. The place had an awful pastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it had been a drill hall when the site was a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prisonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and was never designed for basketball.

But as long as the Kings continue their failure and futility, measured now in generations, Edgerton will live on as the only place where the franchise won a championship.

And Barry Martin, who can still remember watching games on frigid winter nights in Rochester, finds a special connection to the past when he visits Golden 1 Center.

He glances toward the player numbers retired by the team and moves quickly past greats such as Mitch Richmond and Oscar Robertson. He settles on No. 11. That was Bob Davies.

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Taking Risks ‘UPSTAIRS AT THE B’ OFFERS ROOM FOR EXPERIMENTING

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t’s been only two short months since B Street Theatre moved into The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts at 2700 Capitol Ave., but a string of sold-out shows suggests the theater company already feels right at home.

On Feb. 4, The Sofia officially opened with a performance of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which sold out every performance including a two-week extension. Follow-up shows, “Gandhi!” and “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” both sold out before their opening nights.

According to Lyndsay Burch, B Street’s artistic producer, ticket sales like those just didn’t happen at the old location.

“It’s amazing, and really a credit to the community’s support of this project and interest in the arts,” says Burch, who managed the theater’s move to The Sofia from its old location at B and 28th streets. “Not only were we not completely selling out before, but now we’re selling more seats.” (The old location had an approximate capacity of 8,800, while The Sofia can seat more than 10,000.)

While B Street’s boost in sales probably has something to do with interest in the new Sofia, Burch says similar-sized companies that relocated to larger spaces have maintained their success, suggesting the trend for B Street will continue. “We expect to maintain at least a certain percent of that increase for the foreseeable future,” she says.

The new $30 million, 40,000-square-foot complex has two separate performing spaces: the 250-seat Mainstage and the 365seat Sutter Theatre for Children.

The Sofia also allows B Street to diversify its productions to include both music and speakers. The center signed a yearlong contract with SBL Entertainment, the agency that books shows for Harlow’s and Crest Theatre. The Sofia’s management

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expects to book at least 80 shows this year alone.

The center had about a dozen concerts in March, including performances by Jon Cleary, Karla Bonoff and Grammy winner Kalani Pe’a. In May, The Sofia will host a range of performers, from indierock band The Weepies to Camellia Symphony Orchestra.

Oddly enough, says Burch, “people are coming in and they don’t even know that we do theater.”

While theatergoers may not realize B Street hosts music, and concertgoers are discovering it also produces theater, The Sofia has a third element that could be news to both groups: Upstairs at the B, the brainchild of artistic director Buck Busfield, artistic producer Dave Pierini and Burch.

“We are all artists, and we were just brainstorming and thinking about what we would love to see,” Burch explains. “What do we think would be fun and interesting for the community? So we started calling it our ‘kitchen sink space,’” she says.

That kitchen sink space, officially called Upstairs at the B, began debuting a hodgepodge of shows in March but has yet really to promote itself. Regularly used as a rehearsal space, it doubles as a 75-seat, blackbox-type theater for experimental shows, readings, improv and stand-up comedy, as well as live podcasts and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.

“It’s more of coffee shop type of venue for taking risks and trying new things,” explains Burch. “We want to say yes to as many things as we can up there and see what works.”

That approach cuts to the heart of theater, which never needs more than an actor and audience anyway.

Upstairs at the B creates a link between The Sofia’s large-scale productions and the original, more intimate B Street Theatre.

Though B Street hasn’t yet promoted Upstairs at the B, Burch expects it to really kick off in June with its New Play Festival. The festival will feature four staged readings of original plays submitted by local, national and international writers. Audience members who see all four can vote on which one should

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be produced on the Mainstage next season.

At the time of this interview, B Street had yet to schedule the readings, but Burch says they will probably happen in the course of a single week. Tickets will cost $12 for each individual reading, but there are likely to be discounts for those who attend all four.

For more information about B Street Theatre, The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts and

Upstairs at the B, go to bstreettheatre. org.

Jordan Venema can be reached at gmail.com.

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JOSE DI GREGORIO WORKS HARD TO MAKE ART

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rtist Jose Di Gregorio is a big fan of the h-word: hustle.

The Puerto Rico native uses hustle in every aspect of his daily life: as an artist, a father of two girls, a resident of Warehouse Artist Lofts on R Street and a member of the Hacker Lab maker and coworking space.

“With art, you don’t ever clock out,” says Di Gregorio, who’s busy fixing one of the laser cutters he’s using in his latest artwork. “I can’t not do it—it becomes so innate.”

Di Gregorio, who moved to California at age 4, didn’t intend to become an artist. A skateboarding and snowboarding aficionado, he was more sports oriented until a ruptured Achilles tendon at age 25 sidelined him. Out of boredom, Di Gregorio started to draw and write poetry. That led to a fascination with film and photography. Before he knew it, he was earning a bachelor’s degree at Herron School of Art & Design at Indiana University-Purdue University.

“I never took school seriously as a kid,” Di Gregorio says. “But when I not only got into art school but also received scholarships and grants, I started to evolve.”

In 2004, Di Gregorio was accepted to a summer program at the PontAven School of Contemporary Art in France. Traveling around Europe and taking in the art at landmarks like the Louvre, St. Peter’s Basilica and Sistine Chapel caused him to consider just what kind of art he wanted to make.

“I started with figurative because I had the technical skills to render a figure with accuracy,” Di Gregorio says. “But seeing all the art throughout Europe made me realize that I didn’t really have an aesthetic that I truly believed in. I started

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doing nonrepresentational line work and drip paintings—more organic and curvilinear in nature. I loved the process of seeing the paint move around.”

After finishing school in 2006, Di Gregorio moved back to California and continued to work on his newfound medium. When traveling with large-scale drip paintings became difficult, he scaled back to drawing, creating mock landscapes with “crudely drawn rainbow lines.”

From there, he started to focus on the lines themselves, creating technically accurate patterns that look like the geometry of a computer program but are done completely freehand.

Di Gregorio’s use of clear, crisp measurements to make his paintings look even more mechanical caught the eye of Hacker Lab co-founder Eric Ullrich.

“Eric said, ‘You create this rad work. Let’s see how that translates from paint markers and wood panels to acrylic, plastic and laser cuts,’” Di Gregorio recalls. He started a residency at Hacker Lab around the same time he became one of the first residents of WAL, the subsidized artist apartment complex completed in 2015. “I’m taking my images a step further now in mechanical renderings

of my work. I put an image of my work into Photoshop, then create a vector file, then I laser cut that.

That’s what’s so incredible about Hacker Lab: It gives you access to all of these amazing tools.”

Di Gregorio also paints murals. He participated in last year’s Sacramento mural festival, Wide Open Walls, painting a wall outside Beatnik Studios. And in 2016, he helped out on a mural by Portuguese artist Add Fuel (Diogo Machado) on the east wall of Faces nightclub on K Street.

“I pride myself on my versatility,” Di Gregorio says. “I try to schedule time for a little bit of everything. If a project comes up, I take it.”

The 44-year-old artist is preparing for several big projects this spring, including shows at First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco and Anohaao Gallery in Goteborg, Sweden; a show and mural workshop in Helsinki, Finland; and a show and a mural in Cleveland, Ohio. Add to that commissions and plenty of projects in process and you can tell why Di Gregorio is such a fan of the h-word.

“I’m really fortunate to be in a place where I can sustain myself just enough to work on my next project,” Di Gregorio says. “It’s fantastic for my daughters to see the inner

workings of everything—to see what it takes to sustain yourself. If you fail, keep going. You do what you gotta do.

Art encompasses everything I do and who I am.”

To see more of Jose Di Gregorio’s work, visit josedigregorio.com.

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Just Two Bachelors ONE MAN’S LOVE EXTENDS TO ART AND A TALKATIVE KITTY

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alk into Ed Goldman’s home in Campus Commons and prepare yourself for two things: to be wowed by his impressive collection of artwork, and to be greeted by a masterpiece in his own right, a 15-year-old feline named Osborn the Magnificent.

Goldman is more than an art collector and cat lover. His titles include author, columnist, playwright, public speaker, songwriter, artist, commentator and all-around man about town. But if Goldman is the art collector, Osborn is the curator—the feline in charge of the home gallery.

And what a gallery. Art—great and miniature, colorful and monochromatic, whimsical and serious—is displayed throughout the living room, into the kitchen, up the staircase, into the bedrooms and out onto the backyard patio. Several creations are by Goldman himself, a few by family members, and the remainder by well-known and not-so-well-known artists from near and far. Canvas paintings, ceramic sculptures, mosaics, glass, metal, even handcrafted and hand-painted furniture, fill the rooms, offering sheer entertainment at every turn.

But enough about Goldman’s love of art. Let’s talk cat.

Osborn, named after the street he was born on in Scottsdale, Ariz., came into Goldman’s life 10 years ago by way of a previous marriage. “He was a lot fatter then,” Goldman says, affectionately pointing out the orange undertones in Osborn’s gray fur. “I still refer to him as my tubby tabby. He looked like an ottoman.”

In return, Osborn calls his dad the “fat guy who feeds me,” or so says Goldman, who sometimes features his beloved cat in a weekly column he has been penning for the Sacramento Business Journal for six years.

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Goldman recently put out a “cry for help” in his column when Osborn began “thinking outside the box”—the litter box, that is. After a trip to the vet ruled out a physical ailment, Goldman reached out to readers as to why Osborn would choose less-than-desirable places to deposit his poop. “All these cat lovers wrote in,” Goldman muses. As a result, he has had many theories to contemplate.

“But I am starting to realize it is somewhat emotional on Osborn’s part.”

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LAP OF LUXURY Osborn is the quintessential lap cat. “He is always in my lap. In the living room, when I am just reading, he will simply jump up. But in my den while watching TV, he has to circle the chair a couple times as if he has to be issued an engraved invitation. I will finally reach down and stick him in my lap. And he’s fine. That’s what he wanted the whole time.”

TV time includes cowboy shows.

“Osborn loves watching Westerns,” Goldman notes with a chuckle. “It is just hysterical.” His favorite? “Reruns of ‘Cheyenne’ with Clint Walker. And if there is a chase, he is glued to the set.”

Osborn also knows when it is time for happy hour. “He comes into my office precisely at 5:30 p.m. I think he just knows it’s time for us to knock off and I’m going to have a martini and he’s going to sit in my lap. And that’s because it’s 5:30.”

LET’S TALK TURKEY Osborn is quite the talker. “When he gets on a run, it’s high pitched like he’s on a rant about something,” Goldman says. “So I sit down with him and I hold him. And he keeps it up for a bit, and then he stops. It’s like it didn’t matter what he had to say, just the fact that somebody let him say it.”

Osborn’s new habit is staring out the front window. “He loves to talk to the turkeys. They will congregate

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on the lawn right out my front door as though I am the one late for the meeting. And sometimes Osborn will make these little chirping sounds that are so cute.”

Goldman agrees that animals are smart by “the mere fact that I clean up after him instead of the other way around.” How about tricks? “He will come when called. But I’ve never liked teaching animals tricks unless it was for their own good. Like teaching bears to ride bicycles and that sort of thing. There is a certain dignity to animals.”

JUST TWO BACHELORS Goldman enjoys coming home, especially when he has been out of town, to his feline friend. “I am getting out of the cab, and I can see his little face in the window—he’s waiting for me. It’s nice when you live by yourself—whether you’re in a relationship or not—to have somebody who can be the object of your affection or the object of your concern. And he is both of those.”

Goldman calls Osborn “a repository for love.” He adds, “Out of 24 hours in the day, he causes me about seven minutes of work. And that seems like a pretty good trade-off for how much affection he provides.

“He and I are just two old bachelors now.”

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Various locations • photomonthsac.org The region’s first-ever Photography Month Sacramento will feature more than 30 events, activities and exhibits at area galleries, museums, educational institutions, libraries, retail establishments, bars and restaurants to celebrate and elevate the art of photography.

“Julius Caesar & Macbeth” Theater Galatea April 5–7 William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St. • theatergalatea.com Four actresses. Two tragedies. One show. Theater Galatea’s groundbreaking new production of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth” will be performed in only two 45-minute acts with an all-female cast. Use code “INSIDE” for $5 off your ticket.

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“Real Abstracts: Photography by Diana Coleman and Anne Miller” Ella K. McClatchy Public Library April 7–May 18 Reception Saturday, April 7, 2–4 p.m.

Artists’ Talk Saturday, April 14, 3–4:30 p.m.

2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This show presents two distinct but related approaches to our interpretation of what we regard as “real” through photographs of commonplace, decayed or disintegrating objects. This exhibit is part of Photography Month Sacramento.

“Dinner With Queens” Suzette Veneti’s LoLGBT Sunday, April 22, 7 p.m.

Punch Line Sacramento, 2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com Following a sold-out first show, host Suzette Veneti is back for a night of comedy and drag.

Theatre in The Heights will present "Belles."

“Lifted” Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre Sunday, April 22, 4:30 p.m.

Cordova High Performing Arts Center, 2239 Chase Drive • scdtheatre.org Led by founding artistic director Jacob Gutierrez-Montoya, this groundbreaking dance company will present a performance to benefit nonprofits Agape International Missions, 3Strands Global and Saint John’s Program for Real Change to combat human trafficking locally and globally.

Spring Eggstravaganza Fairytale Town March 31–April 1, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This fun-filled family weekend features egg hunts, prizes, hands-on activities and visits with Peter Cottontail.

“European Masterworks” Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacramentochoral.com This talented group led by Donald Kendrick will present Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate,” “Requiem” and more.

Sacramento Beer & Chili Festival Saturday, April 21, 1–5 p.m.

Roosevelt Park, 1615 9th St. • facebook.com/SacBeerandChiliFestival This annual event features chili cook-off competitions in categories like industry, individual, vegetarian and people’s choice; and beer tastings from local breweries. It’s a fundraiser for 4 R Friends, which finds homeless pets forever homes.

38th Annual ZooZoom Sacramento Zoo Sunday, April 15, 6:45 a.m. (registration begins)

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Artwork by Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee will be on display at Tim Collom Gallery.

Sacramento Civic Ballet brings back "Giselle."

“Belles” Theatre in the Heights Through April 8 8215 Auburn Blvd. • theatreintheheights.com This play by Mark Dunn tells the tale of six Southern sisters as they seek to bridge physical and emotional distance via telephone.

41st Annual Bonsai Show American Bonsai Association Sacramento March 31–April 1, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Buddhist Church of Sacramento, 2401 Riverside Blvd. • abasbonsai.org This annual show will feature demonstrations, a benefit raffle, trees and bonsai materials for sale and the food vendor Haole Pig BBQ. Admission and parking are free.

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19th Annual Sacramento Jewish Film Festival Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region and Jewish Community Relations Council April 19, 21 and 22 Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. • jewishsac.org/sjff Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), the festival will showcase six feature films and special events including a hummus-and-pita reception with The KlezMeerkats and a post-film discussion with filmmaker Alexandra Dean.

Easter Egg Hunt Faith Legacy Church Sunday, April 1 Sierra Oaks Elementary School, 171 Mills Road • faithlegacychurch.com Enjoy an Easter Sunday service at Faith Legacy’s brand-new Sierra Oaks campus with Pastor Brennan McCurdy at 10 a.m., followed by a giant egg hunt at 11:30 a.m. featuring costumed characters (including Disney princesses), coffee and a full children’s program.

Sacramento Youth Symphony Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m.

“Giselle”

C.K. McClatchy Performing Arts Center, 3066 Freeport Blvd. • sacramentoyouthsymphony.org Under the direction of Michael Neumann, the Premier Orchestra will perform classical selections from Symphony No. 9 by Dvorak, Waltz from “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky and Mambo from “West Side Story” by Bernstein.

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Hiram Johnson High School Theater, 6879 14th Ave. • deanedancecenter.com Sacramento Civic Ballet (formerly Crockett-Deane Ballet Company) is reviving its 2006 production of love and redemption. Gabriela Smith and Katherine Wolfenden share the role of Giselle in this production, with additional choreography by Don Schwennesen.

Paintings by Guy Rose will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

“Nature’s Gifts: Early California Paintings From the Wendy Willrich Collection” Crocker Art Museum Opens April 22 216 O St. • crockerart.org Bay Area art collector Wendy Willrich recently gifted the Crocker her collection of 41 early California paintings from the 1870s through the 1940s.

The collection will be on view through 2020.

4th Annual Sacramento Flute Club’s Flute Festival Sacramento Flute Club April 6–7 American River College, College of Fine Arts, 4700 College Oak Drive • sacramentofluteclub.org On Friday, April 6, flutist and Sacramento native Gary Woodward returns to town for a recital with Bay Area pianist Miles Graber. Woodward has been principal flutist of the LA Opera Orchestra for 25 years and records for motion pictures and television.

"Real Abstracts" will feature photography by Diana Coleman.

“The Library at Night” All Saints Episcopal Church Sunday, April 29, 4 p.m.

2076 Sutterville Road • allsaintssacramento.org “The Library at Night: A Musical, Literary and Historical Journey Through Time and Place” features acclaimed solo classical guitarist Colin McAllister in an evocative program that explores the intersection of music and history, classics and theology.

“Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning”

“Land, Sea, Sky: The Scapes Show”

Crocker Art Museum Thursday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.

Tim Collom Gallery April 10–May 3

216 O St. • crockerart.org Presented in honor of Photography Month Sacramento, the film “Grab a Hunk of Lightning” tells the story of the passion, vision and drive that made Dorothea Lange one of the most important photographers of the 20th century.

915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com This third annual group landscape exhibition features work by more than 20 Sacramento artists, including Leslie Toms, Jill Estroff, Kathy Dana, Donald Satterlee and Tim Collom.

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A selection of dishes from LowBrau.

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Midtown. It’s the site of the weekly Saturday Midtown Farmers Market, of Second Saturday dance parties all summer long and of the biggest gay clubs in the city. There’s standup, sketch and improv comedy at Sacramento Comedy Spot and live cabaret at Mango’s. Every weekend, you can watch a mass of humanity party like there’s no tomorrow.

All that partying, drinking, dancing and cavorting doesn’t happen on an empty stomach. Which is why LowBrau and Block Butcher Bar, two of the city’s finest meateries, continue to thrive years after moving in.

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The menu has expanded over the years. At first opening, LowBrau served mostly sausages supplied by Morant’s Old Fashioned Sausage Kitchen on Franklin Boulevard. That was about it, other than a few salads.

Now, the menu is filled with sandwiches, clever appetizers and house-made sausages that do not disappoint. The hot fried chicken sandwich is a nice example: buttermilk fried chicken thigh, hot sauce, slaw and pickles on a sweet bun. For an appetizer, deviled egg

toast is a scrumptious, indulgent treat.

But it’s the sausages that bring you here—bratwurst, Polish, spicy andouille—and the sausages that keep you coming back. There are a few special sausages, like the Action Bronson, made with chicken, feta and herbs, and the merguez, a lamb/ harissa/cumin offering that packs a punch.

Of course, what’s sausage without beer? LowBrau has a fine collection of taps and bottles spanning the globe and especially focused on California brews.

At Block Butcher Bar, LowBrau’s next-door neighbor and sister restaurant, the food is simple yet feels complex and sophisticated.

When friends come to visit from Los Angeles, the Bay Area or New York, I take them to Block because the

place has exceptional food, doesn’t try too hard and is relaxed enough that anyone can feel comfortable there. I don’t tell my friends this, but the low lighting is great for hiding the bags under the eyes of the tired traveler.

Block specializes in meats, cheeses and whiskey. It’s a simple expression of mostly American culinary sensibilities with touches of Spanish meats and French cheeses, and maybe a Japanese whisky or two.

The standard meal at Block may consist of an expertly made cocktail (try a Guy on a Buffalo, made with Buffalo Trace bourbon, ginger, lemon, apricot-cardamom preserves and bitters) and a charcuterie board featuring a trio of cheeses and three meats. (Many of the meats are cured or smoked in-house.) The butcher bar in the back of the restaurant is on display behind glass. The butchers

don’t do any dismembering while you’re dining, but the glass room allows you to see, literally, where the sausage is made.

If the party scene isn’t your scene, check out LowBrau for brunch on the weekend or lunch any day of the week. Similarly, a quiet dinner at Block on a Tuesday or Wednesday night will make you feel like you’ve found a special little hall of culinary delights designed for you alone. If, however, you want to join the party, bring a meaty appetite.

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L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • firestonepublichouse.com

Frank Fat’s

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com

1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226 L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

806 L St. • (916) 442-7092

The Firehouse Restaurant

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner 1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450 B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • firehouseoldsac.com

Ten22 1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211 L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897

Hock Farm Craft & Provision

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1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com

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Iron Horse Tavern

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1800 15th St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 448-4488 L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting â&#x20AC;˘ ironhorsetavern.net

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B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service â&#x20AC;˘ cafebernardo.com

Magpie Cafe 1601 16th St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 452-7594 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients â&#x20AC;˘ magpiecafe.com

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 441-0011

1401 28th St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch â&#x20AC;˘ paragarys.com

Revolution Wines 2831 S St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 444-7711 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources â&#x20AC;˘ revolution-wines.com

Skool 2319 K St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 737-5767 L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes â&#x20AC;˘ skoolonkstreet.com

Suzie Burger 2820 P St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 455-3500

Tapa The World

The Rind

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live ďŹ&#x201A;amenco music â&#x20AC;˘ tapathewworld.com

1801 Capitol Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting â&#x20AC;˘ zocolosacramento.com

2115 J St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 442-4353

Thai Basil 2431 J St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties â&#x20AC;˘ thaibasilrestaurant.com

The Waterboy

MIDTOWN

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Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 455-2422

2000 Capitol Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting â&#x20AC;˘ waterboyrestaurant.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte â&#x20AC;˘ biba-restaurant.com

CafĂŠ Bernardo

EAST SAC

2726 Capitol Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 443-1180

33rd Street Bistro

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service â&#x20AC;˘ cafebernardo.com

3301 Folsom Blvd. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 455-2233

Centro Cocina Mexicana

B L D $$ Full Bar Patio PaciďŹ c Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting â&#x20AC;˘ 33rdst.bistro.com

2730 J St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 442-2552

Burrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fountain

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4920 Folsom Blvd. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 452-5516

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1725 I St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 469-9574

5610 Elvas Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 476-5492

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L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch â&#x20AC;˘ easyoni.com

L D $$ Wine/Beer Wine tasting and paired entrees.

Sunday Brunch 10 - 2 â&#x20AC;˘ cabanawinery.com

CARMICHAEL 4701 Manzanita Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ 916-481-0664

Federalist Public House

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters

2009 N St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 661-6134

48th St. & Folsom Blvd. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 451-5181

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ďŹ red pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting â&#x20AC;˘ federalistpublichouse.com

Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months â&#x20AC;˘ chocolateďŹ shcoffee.com

Serving our local communities since 1958

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L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats â&#x20AC;˘ suzieburger. com

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer â&#x20AC;˘ therindsacramento.com

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B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

Clubhouse 56 723 56th St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 454-5656

L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato â&#x20AC;˘ hotitalian.net

B L D $$ Full Bar American. HD sports, kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu, breakfast weekends, late night dining â&#x20AC;˘ ch56sports. com

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OBO Italian Table & Bar

1215 19th St. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 441-6022

3145 Folsom Blvd. â&#x20AC;˘ (916) 822-8720

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

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3135 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 551-1559

L D $$ Full Bar Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere • espanol-italian. com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Raw and refined, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

Evan’s Kitchen and Catering 855 57th St. • (916) 452-3896 B L D $$ Wine/Beer Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • chefevan. com

Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. • (916) 448-5699 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. • (916) 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

Serving the Neighborhood for 55 Years Full Service Auto Care Station

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. • (916) 455-7803 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting • latrattoriabohemia. com

Nopalitos Southwestern Café 5530 H St. • (916) 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting • nopalitoscafe.com

OneSpeed 4818 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 706-1748 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio, Private Room. Artisan pizzas & seasonally inspired menu in a casual, neighborhood setting • onespeedpizza.com

Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. • (916) 451-4000

Arden Village Ser vice At Scott’s Corner - Arden & Eastern • 489-0494 STAR CERTIFIED SMOG STATION

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Fantastic Familyy Friendlyy Italian Try Our New Happy Hour & Kids Menus!

L D $ Wine/Beer Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service • eatatopa.com

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. • (916) 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh.

Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. • (916) 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High-quality hand-crafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar, Sunday brunch• sellands.com n

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