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BEAUTIFUL ARDEN BLUFFS Custom 5 bedroom, 4½ bath home in a gated community on Arden Bluffs Lane. Top of the line appliances and granite counters. Master suite includes ¿replace and sitting area. Downstairs has 2 remote guest rooms with private baths, large game room and swimming pool just steps away. $899,000 CHERYL NIGHTINGALE 849-1220
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y midsummer, most middleschool students aren’t thinking about school. But at one special program in Sacramento, quite the opposite is true. Breakthrough Sacramento is part of a cross-country program collaborative that has changed the lives of tens of thousands of middleschool students. Breakthrough Sacramento’s home and host is Sacramento Country Day School’s impressive campus off American River Drive in Arden. “The program is a partnership that provides a year-round, tuition-free, college-prep program for academically motivated, ethnically diverse students from underresourced schools primarily in Meadowview, South Sac and Del Paso Heights,” says Adolfo Mercado, director of Breakthrough Sacramento. “It is also an innovative teacher-training program for talented high school and college students.” Applying to join in February, 36 new students are selected each year to attend an intensive six-week academic summer program taught on the Sacramento Country Day campus by enthusiastic college students
“I am so passionate about this program because I see myself in many of these students,” says Mercado. Adolfo Mercado, director of Breakthrough Sacramento
from across the country and local high school students. The students continue in the program for six years, until they go off to college. Only 25 percent of those who apply are chosen each year after a rigorous selection process that includes essay writing, teacher recommendations and personal interviews. “The school-year program consists of weekly after-school tutoring sessions in primarily English and math, as well as monthly Breakthrough Saturday events,
including cultural events, outdoor adventures, college visits and community service,” says Mercado, who has directed the program since 2005. Mercado says that grade tracking, high-school options counseling and advocacy ensure that Breakthrough students have the opportunity to enroll in challenging collegepreparatory high-school programs. During their high school years, Breakthrough students participate in SAT prep programs, college
Mercado may be the perfect role model for these students: He grew up in Meadowview, attended Christian Brothers High School and graduated from UC Santa Cruz. “I am so passionate about this program because I see myself in many of these students,” says Mercado. “I’ll never forget the motto on the wall outside at Christian Brothers: Enter to learn, leave to serve. Through my work at Breakthrough, I can help those who were just like me at one time.” PUBLISHER page 10
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PUBLISHER FROM page 9 The program produces measurable results year after year. According to Mercado, 92 percent of Breakthrough Sacramento graduates attend college directly after graduation, compared to 34 percent of low-income students nationally and 29 percent in the Sacramento area.
Breakthrough Sacramento makes a huge difference in the lives of an impressive number of academically motivated students. “Our students’ choices have included St. Mary’s, Harvard, Stanford, Wesleyan, the University of California campuses and more,” he says. “Plus, more than 70 percent of Breakthrough Sacramento teachers plan to enter careers in education after working in the summer program.” Breakthrough Sacramento was co-founded in 1993 by a Country Day parent and former headmaster, who formed a committee of friends dedicated to ensuring opportunities for a college education to a group of students traditionally underrepresented in colleges and universities. Since then, Country Day has sponsored Breakthrough
Sacramento at an annual cost of $250,000. Local school districts and the county office of education at one time provided more than half of the program’s cost. But in 2012, those funds dried up. Now, the school pays for the program with private and school scholarship funding. “We are in effect creating student leaders for our local public school, yet we get no funding in return for our efforts,” Mercado says.” Only by increasing our public and private fundraising efforts are we able to consider expanding our program to serve a greater number of students. We know the demand is certainly out there.”
“We are in effect creating student leaders for our local public school, yet we get no funding in return for our efforts” Country Day’s high school typically has eight to ten Breakthrough students. The school generously pays for their tuition through its $2 million annual scholarship fund. With the inspired leadership of Mercado and Sacramento Country Day School, Breakthrough Sacramento makes a huge difference in the lives of an impressive number of academically motivated
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students from Sacramento’s poorest neighborhoods so they, too, can live the American dream of a college education. Their success helps their families and their neighborhoods. Please consider this special program in your charitable giving
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Keep It Safe ENJOYING THE RIVER MEANS AVOIDING RABBLE ROUSERS
talking about the few daredevils out there who may have had a beer or two and decide to jump from rope swings, banks or bridges into the unknown waters below them. Or the guys who’ve had a keg or two and decide to mud wrestle on what’s known as Mud Island, a place where onlookers have been known to encircle nearly naked mud-covered folks who decide to wrestle each other in shallow pools of thick, brown, yucky mud. In my opinion, this is truly one of the freakiest, scariest sights, especially when the encircling transfixed crowd moans and whoops like a pack of wild dogs, emotionally devouring the sight of the fight while subconsciously physically moving their circle in unplanned unison in order to create a ring around the fighters. Believe me, this is weird!
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ust a stone’s throw from the heart of residential Arden and Carmichael meanders one of Sacramento’s most beautiful treasures. Nearly hidden, often forgotten but flowing steadily all the same, the American River winds along the riparian banks of Fair Oaks, Carmichael and Sacramento. For how close the river is, how beautiful and transformative it can be, it’s easy to forget the many ways the cool, clear waters can soothe our overheated, summer-saturated minds and bodies. If you’re looking to beat the heat on a hot August day, grab a kayak, a little fishing boat, a fancy raft or a little floaty and head over to one of the many launching points. Just remember your lifejacket and keep a few safety precautions in mind. Here are some pointers I have come up with after taking several trips down the river in the past few years.
Kayakers of all ages enjoy wide stretches of calm, cool water and spectacular riparian views for long stretches along the American River beginning at Hazel Avenue. Several locations are available along the route to put in and take out boats.
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Just downstream of the San Juan Rapids is a rope swing that lures daredevils. Every summer somebody gets seriously injured at this site. The white sign on the hill states “Not for beginners.” It also states the current number of people who’ve been airlifted out of the area because of serious injury.
FORGET THE ROPE SWING! It’s scary, too, watching somebody swing from the rope swing. Sometimes jumpers are frozen in their fear when their swing is over the water, and they fail to let go only to come crashing back on the land or a rock. Other times they let go way too early or way too late and hit their heads or bodies on rocks or tree trunks, pass out and slide like a wet noodle into the water. I have seen this myself and watched as helicopter rescue crews flew to assist. The helicopter can’t always land on the same side as this swing because of steep terrain. Sometimes the best place to land is downstream and across the river. So crews then get in a boat, cross the river and finally reach the injured person an
hour or more after the accident. That’s a long time for someone with a life-or-death injury. I have also seen the gigantic bruises that take up somebody’s entire back after they hit the water at a bad angle. And most tragically, people can be paralyzed for life after an accident like this. At one particular rope swing location just downstream from the San Juan Rapids, a white sign is posted stating, “Not for beginners!” It also states how many times each year a jumper has been airlifted out due to injury. As of this writing the number for the summer of 2015 was at three. The moral of the rope swing story is that you have to know your personal limits, the depth of the water below, and whether there are hidden obstacles under the water. It is never recommended to be drinking on the river, jumping or not, so that’s out of the question. And perhaps my favorite piece of advice is to opt for a reality check: Watch a lot of jumping accidents on YouTube so you scare yourself half to
death and out of the idea in the first place.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING! I personally like a little peace and quiet when I kayak, so I like the early mornings—the earlier the better because the beer drinkers are sleeping in. If you happen to be floating late into the afternoon on a weekend, keep in mind that some folks have been burning in the hot sun all day while drinking too much and getting skunked by the wary carp. This is a bad combination. These types of people don’t like it when you accidentally get tangled in their fishing line as my daughter and I did. I believe “river rage” is a true phenomenon. Hence, my preference is for mornings. Alcohol? No way. Lifejacket? Absolutely. Say no more.
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OUT AND ABOUT FROM page 13 Arden and Carmichael moms are coming after ya’. In fact, these “antidote to the heart attack” power moms are the taking a big bite out of the fast-food-onevery-corner mentality, opening their own independent, autonomous small fitness studios, each with its own spin on how to help clients get fit, happy and healthy. The moms I’m talking about are Katherine Benbrook, Biffy Cotter and Pasha Hughes, three fitness fanatics whose individually owned studios are all less than a half mile apart in the Arden area. They’ve each taken the courageous step of enterprising a livelihood by passing along their particular and respective passions for cycling, yoga and body pumping. If you thought the three were competitors, they are. But like successful restaurants that sit side by side, each offers something different. You might be surprised to know these gals are friends who share advice and help each other because they know Arden area folk are heavily invested in working their fannies off. Hey, this is healthy California. If there are fast-food joints and coffeehouses on every corner, there also had better be a fitness studio on every corner, no? Three years ago Benbrook opened the doors to Sacramento’s first indoor cycling studio, Cycle In, at Walnut and Fair Oaks Boulevard. Less than a half mile away about a year and half later, Cotter opened Yoga Shala at the Whole Foods Market shopping center. And just across the street from Whole
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Foods, Hughes recently opened the door to BodyLab California, which offers personal life coaching as well as an array of fitness classes. When I thought about our proliferation of fitness-oriented businesses, I couldn’t help but think of Arden Oaks resident Donna Carlson, who teaches fitness classes at Arden Hills. This mother of two started at McKinley Park teaching dancercize classes when the dancefitness craze was in its infancy. She is still ambitiously working with fatfanny-fighters on a daily basis as well as teaching classes to dedicated indoor cycling regulars. To give you an idea idea of the changes she’s seen in the exercise world, she started teaching so long ago that her husband went to classes with her to help with the music. His job was to change the turntable records after each song. “When I started there weren’t even shoes for different sports,” she says. “We just jumped around barefoot. Now there are shoes for running, cycling, walking, courts, cross training, every sport imaginable. “I’ve stayed with it because I have bad arthritis and if I didn’t exercise like I do I would be in a wheelchair. I’m just trying to help myself and others improve their quality of life through exercise.” As much as things have changes and evolved, all four of these local fitness moms believe in the same basic principle: Movement is magic. They seem to live by the motto: ‘You don’t get old and stop moving. You stop moving and get old.” And they understand one of the basic principles of wellness: Doctors and medications can only go so far to keep people healthy and happy. Exercise is one proven medication that doesn’t come in a bottle.
Donna Carlson of Arden Oaks has taught exercise classes in Sacramento for 33 years. She began back in the day when music was played on 45s.
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Over the years, the band has also orchestrated thousands of high-profile civic events and weddings. “It’s no insult to be called a wedding band,” says Skinner. “We love being part of family occasions. In some families, two generations of brides have had their first dance with us. One client married several husbands and booked us for each wedding.”
NORTHMINSTER SUMMER MUSIC SERIES Piano. Strings. Dixieland jazz, even a little riggity jig. That’s all on tap for Sundays during the month of August at Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3235 Pope Ave. The church is hosting a variety of solo and group artists to perform during weekly worship services. In addition, those artists will be presenting short concerts on the patio during fellowship time. The schedule: Aug. 2: The Dixie Minsters Aug. 9: Camellia String Quartet Aug. 16: Riggity Jig, a Celtic band Aug. 23: Jim Martinez, pianist Aug. 30: Tod & Millie Fortner & Ellen Cochran, vocals and strings Refreshments will be available. Call for times or for more information, (916) 487-5192 or go to northminsteronline.org
ECOLOGICAL ACCOMMODATIONS Fair Oaks EcoHousing closed on the purchase of 3.7 acres (New York Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard) on June 23, with the assistance of a loan from Sierra Vista Bank. The property will be the site of Fair Oaks EcoHousing, a new cohousing community of 30 homes, the first in suburban Sacramento. This environmentally friendly infill project is sponsored by a group of 12 local
“Our first gig there was on July 4, 1975.” Music fans will welcome the John Skinner Band for its 40th year of Carmichael Park performances on Aug. 2
households, who are investors as well as future residents. Construction is slated to begin in the spring of 2016. The group has been working with architect and international cohousing expert Charles Durrett on the design of the community. The homes will range in size from two-bedroom flats to four-bedroom townhomes, along with extensive community facilities and garden areas. The new community is unique in that it is being designed, funded and built by future residents who seek to live in a more socially connected and sustainable neighborhood than traditional suburban developments. The project has received unanimous approval from the Sacramento County Planning Commission, the Fair Oaks Community Planning Council and the Sacramento County Design Review Advisory Committee. Fair Oaks EcoHousing invites prospective residents to
attend a free site tour. Go to FairOaksEcoHousing.org for more information. The next tours are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. on both July 11 and July 25.
SKINNER BAND MARKS MILESTONE John Skinner’s Band has been around the Sacramento music scene for more years than its members care to reveal. But the Carmichaelbased group still draws big crowds. On Aug. 2, the group will celebrate its 40th year of Carmichael Park performances. “Our first gig there was on July 4, 1975,” recalls leader John Skinner. “We were an 18-piece group and we produced a sizzling concert in 102 (degree weather). Since then, bands have got smaller due to budget cuts, but we still feature great horn and rhythm players to get a big sound.”
In keeping with its endurance, the group plans a Carmichael Park program featuring hits of the past 40 or more years. The emphasis will be on classic rock with Motown, Chuck Berry and Aretha Franklin covers to please baby boomers and kids rediscovering 1960s music. For those with grayer hair, a few Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller hits will salute the heyday of big bands. John Skinner now leads from the sidelines. Fellow trumpeter Rick Baker is in charge and Skinner’s wife, Susan Maxwell Skinner, is the featured singer. The ensemble will also perform a Pioneer Park concert for Sacramento County Supervisor Susan Peters on Oct. 3. Anyone may attend these free concerts. The Carmichael Park event kicks off at 6:30 p.m.; Pioneer Park music begins at 2 p.m. For information, call 481-0334. n
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to watch. Who wouldn’t love a baby kid?” As protection from coyotes, rogue dogs or, on one occasion, a mountain lion, Olympius’ Great Pyrenean dogs stay overnight at grazing sites. Her human crew visits daily to count caprines and feed canines. Spring is the mobile mowers’ busy time. They recently cleared the La Riviera/Manlove Basin in Rosemont. A 60-acre Orangevale Park Department project followed. Cal Expo Basin was next under hoof. “It’s a short season; everyone wants to get weeds and brush cleared before July 4,” explains Olympius. “Then the goats rest at home until their fall breeding season.” The secret to their happy employment is getting the babies used to travelling as soon as possible. “They’re excited when we load them in the trailer,” says their boss. “They know they’re off somewhere new and interesting with Mommy.” Learn about the KD Goat Ranch at kdgoatranch.4t.com
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f it takes 100 goats two weeks to do what machines and herbicides might achieve in days, American River Drive residents have few complaints. Employed by Sacramento County for brush clearing in Wilhaggin Detention Basin, the herbivores recently were trucked to the plush residential street. Over 14 days, they munched through the 10-acre trough that protects lowland Carmichael/ Arden from floods. “It’s the second year we’ve employed them here,” said county senior engineer Rod Goss. “Goats take more time on the job, but they’re more cost-effective than sending in men and machines. They’re good on steep terrain where human ankles could get turned. They free up county staff to deal with emergency situations at times of fire risk. “After goats do their work, we’ve found weed regrowth is limited. Less ongoing maintenance is needed.” The Wilhaggin Basin is one of five county areas that Debbie Olympius’ KD Goat Ranch herd was contracted to graze this summer. The owner sees her 400 animals as natural fire preventers.
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Goat owner Debbie Olympius herds her flock at Wilhaggin Detention Basin on American River Drive. The Department of Water Resources employed 100 grazers to clear brush from the flood basin. Flock leader Lilly greets her boss.
“Mower blades hit stones and cause sparks,” she explains. “My goats don’t do that. They also cohabit well with wildlife. They won’t hurt quail or turkey chicks in the grass. Their droppings return nitrogen to the soil. Goats eat stuff other animals won’t touch, invasive plants like blackberries or thistles. Machines spread seeds everywhere. Goats grind seeds down so they can’t germinate. They’re also quieter and nicer to have around.” Mostly nannies and babies, the grazers loaned sylvan allure to Wilhaggin Basin. During the flock’s evening stroll to a water ditch near the road, children lined fences.
“It’s like having a petting zoo next door,” said a neighbor. “When they first arrived, the goats practically stopped traffic.” The herd is also educational. “Farm animals are something suburban children don’t often see,” says their owner. “They’re personable and fun
SHOPS MARK MILESTONE A snip without surgery recently helped cancer sufferers and honored one of the American Cancer Society’s top resale stores. Hosted by the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce, a ribbon cutting at
Sacramento’s Discovery Shop (2708 Marconi Ave.) launched a celebratory fundraising weekend. Since its opening, the store is credited with $12 million through sales of “gently used” goods. The 30-year total tops figures for 40 Californian stores. Cancer Society executives, supporters and dignitaries enjoyed much back-slapping; customers indulged a weekend-long shopping spree. By the time doors closed on Sunday, nearly 700 people (more than double the normal weekend count) had passed through. Close to $14,000 was raised through sales. “Our customers got into the spirit of our celebration,” says store manager Alice Mentelos. “They knew they were helping an important cause.” Nationwide, Cancer Society shops have raised more than $308 million in 50 years. “Our stores are windows of opportunity,” approves ACS state executive David Veneziano. “They raise funds and raise awareness. People here provide life-saving information to countless visitors.” The Marconi Avenue outlet has a roster of 165 unpaid staffers, ranging in age from 20 to 90 years old. Last week’s celebration honored two who have volunteered since the 1985 opening: Helen Mahony and Rita Schroeder. Sacramento County Supervisor Susan Peters, whose husband died from cancer, shared pride in the store’s achievements. “As an ASC volunteer 30 years ago, I helped find the (Marconi Avenue) site for the Discovery shop,” she says. “At the time, we had no idea how it would do here. It’s wonderful it’s been such a success. It gives hope in the war against cancer.” Anyone can donate items to the Discovery Shop. New volunteers are also welcomed. For information, go to discoveryshop-sacramento.org
These include the River City Brewing Company, Chris Jarosz’s Patriot restaurant, a fine-dining Mexican restaurant called Mesa Mercado, the Ghiotto gelato and dessert shop, a wine dealer, a coffee house, a specialty burger operation and a pizzeria. When all businesses are operating, the Milagro Centre is expected to add 200 jobs to local employment. A grand opening is planned for fall of this year. For information on the center, go to milagrocentre.com
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American Cancer Society executive David Veneziano (center with scissors) receives assistance from Sacramento Supervisor Susan Peters at the society’s Discovery Shop anniversary
helmet for an exclusive tour of the much-anticipated Milagro Centre. With a forest of mature trees and fountains installed outside, indoor progress remains a mystery to future patrons of the culinary mall on Fair Oaks Boulevard. Melody’s guide was developer/owner Allan Davis. The visitor admired Napa-style stonework, generous skylights and 36,000 square feet of polished concrete floors in vending areas. Builders are also
completing a convention center that will host 250-plus guests. Sparing no expense, Davis and his late wife, Nancy Emerson Davis, imported doors and light fixtures from Italy. The high-profile business couple planned lighting to create an atmosphere of a year-round festival in their Milagro (Spanish for miracle) development. Allan Davis revealed that food purveyors have now spoken for almost all of the center’s rental space.
MILAGRO HARD HAT TOUR Carmichael Chamber of Commerce executive Linda Melody recently donned a construction worker’s
Developer Allan Davis and Carmichael Chamber of Commerce executive Linda Melody take an elevated ride to bask under huge skylights at Carmichael’s Milagro Centre
Wanting a career with orderly routine, Gulf War veteran Scott Gallegos joined the U.S. Postal Service. In his third week as a mail carrier in Carmichael, he found himself covered in blood and being shot at. “It was quite a start to a new job,” says the 43-year-old father of four. “Compared to that, anything in future should be plain sailing.” Following the violence of a shootout on Madison Avenue, the heroic Carmichael mailman and peace officers earned standing ovations at a recent Carmichael Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Completing morning deliveries on April 26, Gallegos was approached by a woman bleeding from gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen. The mailman kept pressure on her wounds and called 911. When the police arrived, he found himself in the line of gunshots from a nearby duplex. He then helped police carry the victim through a hedge barrier to the safety of Madison Avenue. From there, an emergency vehicle sped her to San Juan Medical Center. The alleged assailant, Jeremiah Hankins, was arrested after the five-hour siege that traumatized the entire neighborhood. After weeks of treatment, the injured woman was released from hospital. Hankins is scheduled for a September court appearance. Gallegos was humble at glowing commendations from chamber members and legislators. He thanked IN TUNE page 20
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Mail carrier Scott Gallegos (center) is joined by California Highway Patrol, Sacramento Sheriff’s Department and Metropolitan Fire District officers at the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce.
GRAND AUTO EVENT REVS UP A century-plus of motoring will be reviewed by the California Automobile Museum Car Cruise on Aug. 1. Now in its fifth year, the event is sponsored by the Fulton Avenue Association and is deemed Sacramento’s best car show. For the cruise, an estimated 400 vintage vehicles will travel in convoy from the California State University, Sacramento, campus to Arcade’s auto zone. The procession, which gets bigger every year, leaves the university campus at 4 p.m. and covers 5 miles of sweating tar seal leading to Fulton Avenue. Best observation points include J Street, the Howe/Fair Oaks intersection and Fulton Avenue itself. Later, many thousands of visitors will inspect the vehicles up-close on the cordoned-off avenue. Live music, food trucks and a beer garden add to a carnival atmosphere.
At the Aug. 1 Car Cruise, vehicle accessories will include fans in vintage attire
“You’re around nice people,” says Challenger’s Car Club (Sacramento) president Ed Pimentel. “If you love cars, you love the opportunity to talk about cars.” Registrations and beverage sales annually raise almost $20,000 to aid the acclaimed auto museum on Front Street in Sacramento. See details regarding this event at calautomuseum.org
MAYORAL CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF With 2016 presidential campaigns just heating up, Carmichael mayoral
candidates are already hot on their own election trail. The annual mayoral race is a fundraiser for the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce. Dollars are counted as votes and candidates are actually encouraged to buy their way to victory. The winner has no political power but ribbon cutting, and civic duties are guaranteed. Baby-kissing, dog-petting and pledge-reciting are among heavier responsibilities; an open car in the Carmichael Elks July 4 Parade is a perk. Since the chamber is a business organization, the main reward is exposure for candidates’ companies
and for the nonprofits they choose to help by their campaigns. Two company owners and a banker covet mayoral chains for 2016. Alexander Khoshroshahi (“call me Alex”) is promoting Decalicious, a vinyl sign and décor start-up he brought to Carmichael two years ago. The 25-year-old’s platform is promoting entrepreneurism and community involvement among business owners. The American Cancer Society will receive 10 percent of his campaign proceeds. Julie Hubbs, 59, owns the Woodworker Life Coaching Company, whose motto is, “Be the best you that you can be.” She hopes for a mayoral term that places Carmichael firmly in the spotlight. Mom to a special forces soldier, she has worked most of her career in social, employment and mental health services. Hubbs will donate part of her fundraising to Quilts of Honor, a nonprofit whose volunteers hand stitch quilts for combat veterans. Dan Kellow, 30, has a vision for the community he grew up in to “change for the better.” A Deterding Elementary School, Churchill Middle School and Rio Americano High School graduate, he works as an executive for Comerica Bank and hopes to see his hometown revitalized by new business. He has chosen Sierra Families Forever (a nonprofit that finds permanent homes) as recipient of 10 percent of his fundraising total. The campaign winner will be announced in November. Anyone may donate to the candidates or attend their fundraising events. For more information, go to carmichaelchamber.com
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Running seven markets is now a seven-day-a-week job occupying the Halls and 200 young protégés. For their own financial welfare, the founders continue real estate and teaching careers. All money raised by Be Money Smart is channeled into free educational courses, veteran support programs and wages for the kids who help run the nonprofit. Consolidating their learning, students take business classes with the Halls in their Whitney Avenue headquarters; the nonprofit also offers school programs and workshops. A market byproduct is hundreds of pounds of unsold produce donated weekly to food lockers and senior programs. “Markets are not just a teaching business for us,” says Marie. “They allow students, vendors and the community to come together. Five years ago, we began a program to help young people. Somehow, it expanded. Now we feel we’re supporting youth, farmers, small businesses and communities. “I feel richer from this than from anything else Don and I have ever done.”
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dele Barsotti, the owner of Pacific Design Group Interiors on Fulton Avenue, has always had an eye for design. She could hardly help it, considering she grew up in the picturesque town of Brindisi in southern Italy. “When you are born overseas, you’re surrounded by so much culture, it’s almost impossible not to love design and architecture,” Barsotti says. “You see all of these beautiful buildings and churches everywhere, and because Brindisi is at end of the Appian Way, it has every style you can imagine, since we were invaded by all kinds of cultures.” Barsotti has been in California since 1974, but she brings her European aesthetic to bear on everything she works on at PDG Interiors, from commercial spaces to sustainable residential interiors. After graduating from the University of Italy, she followed her then-husband to the United States to further his computer engineering career, but it wasn’t long before Barsotti struck out on her own in the floor covering industry. She now specializes in commercial floor covering design, but the business she founded in 1998 also tackles window coverings, custom cabinetry, interior and exterior lighting, home and contract furnishings and fine art and accessories. “It’s been part of an evolution,” the Carmichael resident and mother of three explains. “You start in one thing, then a client asks, ‘Can you give me a price on window coverings?’
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Adele Barsotti, owner of Pacific Design Group Interiors, in her design studio
‘I need a price on a sofa.’ So you evolve into other fields to meet the clients’ needs.” Barsotti’s stunning showroom, which moved to its current large, light-filled location last November
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Chambers. The full-service designer showroom is open to the public but also serves as a valuable resource for the interior design trade with its vast libraries of textiles, catalogs and showroom merchandise. “We’re a one-stop shop,” Barsotti says proudly. “Visitors can browse without a designer or work directly with one of our designers by appointment in the studio or in their own home or office. Our staff is incredibly knowledgeable. “And because our showroom is so beautiful, people are often surprised by how affordable we are. We consistently underbid big box stores because we get everything wholesale.” It’s not surprising, then, that Barsotti and her talented team see a lot of repeat business. “We get a lot of referrals,” Barsotti says. “People hear about us by word of mouth, which is the best way to achieve new business. When people are buying thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, they need to trust you.” If her 30-plus years of success are any indication, Barsotti has clearly won over many a loyal customer. Thanks to her upbringing on the Italian coast, her decades of diverse experience—including commercial projects on both coasts of the United States and abroad in Greece—and probably more than a little bit to her Italian charm, Barsotti is pleased to serve Sacramento with the best interior design this side of the Adriatic Sea. Looking to refresh your interiors or tackle a commercial project? Contact Barsotti and her PDG team at 7791115 or visit pdginteriors.com Pacific Design Group Interiors is at 950 Fulton Ave. n
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f you’ve lived in Sacramento for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of McGeorge School of Law. Operated by the University of the Pacific for more than 90 years on a 13-acre campus just 3 miles from the state Capitol, McGeorge has educated thousands of legal-minded leaders who’ve gone on to impressive careers around the world, including right here in the political hotbed of Sacramento. As the landscape of law has continued to evolve, McGeorge is staying ahead of the curve with its newly minted master of science in law (or MSL) degree, a program designed for professionals who don’t need a full juris doctorate but who would benefit greatly knowing more about law in the working world. “Our dean, Francis J. Mootz, III, and our faculty director Clark Kelso created the MSL program two years ago,” says Clémence Kucera, the director of graduate and international programs at McGeorge. “We realized there was a huge need for those who work for companies or in government for basic legal understanding, a way to analyze statutes and regulations. These professionals don’t need to invest four years in a full law program.” Program co-creator Kelso concurs. “It was time for a program like this,” Kelso says. “In my experience working in government, upper level executives have a lot of issues that arise that require some appreciation of law—lots of private sector executives, especially in health care and human relations, have law around them every single day. You’ll
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to the classroom for everyone, faculty included,” Kucera says, who herself holds a law degree from her native France and a master of laws from McGeorge. “We’re enrolling only 20 students this upcoming year, so the program is very hands-on.” It’s part of Kucera’s job to make sure that the program is very international as well, which means that she coordinates overseas internships for the JD students and two overseas summer programs in Antigua and Salzburg, Austria, for all qualifying McGeorge students. “These programs bring a little bit of international perspective,” Kucera says. “You’re always going to have an international component in your career. Maybe that’s why I’m a good fit for this position.” Kucera and her international background are indeed an excellent fit. The France native, who became an official dual citizen last October, moved to the United States in 2004 after completing the equivalent of her JD in Paris. “I met my husband in California 13 years ago,” Kucera explains. “Once I was done with law school, he moved to Sacramento, so I moved here to be with him. I graduated from the master of laws program at McGeorge in 2005 and passed the New York bar exam because I thought I was going to move to Manhattan and live the American dream over there. “But McGeorge hired me while I was waiting for my bar results to manage conferences and international grants at their Global Center. I have now had the privilege of developing programs with McGeorge for the past 10 years. I never thought I would live and have a family in Sacramento. I never thought my little girl would call me ‘Mommy’ instead of ‘maman.’ ”
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Retail Therapy WEAVE SET TO OPEN ‘RECYCLED URBAN’ THRIFT STORE IN MIDTOWN
Sugimoto has worked for WEAVE since 2000. Among other things, she oversaw the Suited for Success program, which matches clients with clothing and other essentials. In 2005, her career took a detour through Bend, Ore., where she worked for Ronald McDonald House Charities. She came back to Sacramento in 2009, spending five years as executive director of the Greater Sacramento Chapter of the ALS Association.
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his fall, WEAVE will open a new retail concept in Midtown. The store will focus on young, fashion-conscious urban buyers. The store will be called TRUE (Totally Recycled Urban Exchange). Shoppers will be able to buy, sell or trade clothing, jewelry and accessories. The organization already operates a thrift store on Arden Way called WEAVEWorks. Proceeds from the new store will go to WEAVE, which provides services for people who experience domestic violence and sexual assault. Amy Sugimoto, WEAVE’s director of retail operations, worked with a retail advisory board of local professionals to design TRUE. The store will be located on the ground floor of WEAVE’s building at 1900 K Street. It’s the ideal location: on a public transit line and wellsituated for foot traffic from young professionals. “We even vetted which side of the street was better,” says Sugimoto. The board decided on a “rustic chic” vibe for the store based on feedback from focus groups of empty nesters and young professionals.
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Drop-off outlets for donated clothing and jewelry will appear throughout the region as early as August.
WEAVE board members Linda Tucker, Amy Sugimoto, Oana York and Lucy Crocker in the space that will soon be the new WEAVE store in Midtown
“Empty nesters will be donating, and young professionals are the target shopper demographic,” explains Lucy Eidam Crocker, chair of the advisory board. “We tested a couple of concepts on them, and now we’re working with students from The Art Institutes on the interior design.” Crocker brings the PR capabilities of her firm, Crocker & Crocker, to the retail campaign. Other members of the board represent retail, advocacy,
financial and other disciplines. “This is a motivated and talented group,” she says. “We’re all committed to WEAVE’s success.” TRUE will sell name-brand apparel and jewelry—without the sticker shock. Unlike most consignment shops, there will be no “walk of shame,” as Sugimoto likes to call it. “If we can’t use an item that someone brings in, we’ll give them a tax receipt and donate it.”
By returning to WEAVE, she has come full circle. “I was so excited to be coming back to WEAVE to work on board development and the retail concept,” she says. “I’ve always been passionate about breaking the cycle of poverty and violence and empowering women. When they have what they need to start a career, it boosts their confidence.” Since returning to WEAVE, Sugimoto has narrowed the focus of the Arden Way store, increasing revenues 40 percent. Although WEAVE will rely on volunteers to run the new Midtown boutique, it will hire paid staff for labor-intensive tasks such as sorting garments and making them floorready. Drop-off outlets for donated HEROES page 31
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Not Your Grandpa’s Downtown THE CENTRAL CITY ISN’T JUST FOR YOUNG FOLKS THESE DAYS
BY SCOT CROCKER INSIDE DOWNTOWN
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acramento’s central city is finally dusting off years of economic malaise and restoring itself as an energetic, edgy home to young adults living in old Victorians, steely lofts and rustic apartments. While they socialize at the latest coffee shops, meet up at restaurants and close down bars, older folks are also quietly moving in to tap into the vibrant energy only metro living can provide. “This may be a new way to age,” says Sandy Smoley, a well-known community leader, 20-year veteran of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and former secretary of California’s Health and Welfare Agency. Smoley had to make some decisions after her husband, Walt, died. In January 2012, she packed her bags and left the ’burbs. After years of country living overlooking Lake Natoma, Smoley decided to move into the city. She’s never looked back. Smoley found a home to rent in Midtown’s vibrant Handle District. She grins while reporting that there are 11 restaurants within a half block of her home. Right across the street is 58 Degrees & Holding Co. Then
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there’s Zocalo, The Press, Aioli, The Rind, Buckhorn Grill, Crepeville and more. “I love to joke with Patrick Mulvaney, owner of renowned Mulvaney’s B&L, that he makes me walk a whole block to have dinner there,” Smoley says. “I love it. I eat out every night. There’s always someplace to go.” She can stroll over to Old Soul for coffee or have food delivered from Edible Pedal. “It’s been a game changer and life-altering experience for me,” she says. “Some of my friends seem lonely or isolated in the suburbs. I couldn’t be lonely if I tried. I could write a blog about how to age and stay active.” Smoley loves the buzz. She also creates her own buzz—on her porch. There, she hosts friends and associates for discussions, chats or to drink wine. When she’s out with friends, they all find their way back to Smoley’s porch. A friend told her to leave up some old Christmas lights in her front window. Smoley turns the lights on as a signal to friends who might be dining or hanging out in Midtown that she is holding court and serving wine. She lists the wines on a small whiteboard. Smoley beams with delight that so many people are willing to stop by to visit or simply say hi. “When I first moved here, I was surprised at the sense of community,” she says. “I know all my neighbors. Everyone is kind, and we look out for each other.” Smoley gained more than community from moving to Midtown; she also gained time. When he lived
Sandy Smoley loves living in Midtown and often invites friends and neighbors over for a glass of wine on her front porch
in Fair Oaks, she spent more than two hours a day commuting for work. Now, she can get everywhere she needs to go within minutes: restaurants, B Street Theatre, Sacramento Philharmonic and more. “The commute really bothered me,” she says. “It was impacted both ways. The drive was ludicrous for me. Now it’s so easy to get around.” Dave Ljung, managing partner of Gilbert Associates accounting firm,
moved to Midtown after his kids were grown. He says it was one of the best moves he ever made. Ljung lives in Tapestri Square, a community of single-family brownstone-style homes in Midtown’s Poverty Ridge neighborhood. According to Ljung, most Tapestri Square residents are empty nesters like him. He loves living in Midtown for its sense of energy, youthful vibrancy and simpler lifestyle. It also
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“It’s the texture of the city,” says Ljung. “We accept the transient element and learn to live with it. It’s not a problem. I think it adds to the flavor of this lifestyle. Some people don’t want that, and Del Webb might be a better place for them to be.” “I don’t feel a bit frightened,” Smoley says. “I’m prepared. I have a security system. Just like anywhere else, you have to be aware. I met a homeless woman on the street. She asked for a blanket. I went into the house where I had many in the closet and gave it to her. She needed it.” Smoley recalls feeling unsafe when she lived alone on the American River. “After Walt died, I wasn’t about to go out to the backyard by myself,” she says with a laugh. “There are a lot of different kinds of animals out there.” Smoley and Ljung don’t plan to move back to the suburbs. “I don’t ever want to leave here,” says Smoley. “It’s just so wonderful. My friends and daughter say they’ve never see me happier. They are right!” n
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Time To Get Moving ACTIVE CITIES AREN’T JUST HEALTHIER
BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE
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e’ve engineered physical activity out of many aspects of our lives. At home, labor- saving appliances have eliminated the time and drudgery associated with laundering and doing the dishes. Gas and electric leaf blowers and lawnmowers (not to mention lawn services) having reduced exercise from raking and mowing. Remote controls ensure couch potatoes planted in front of the TV have no need to bestir themselves. Outside the home, remote megaschools, megamalls and big-box stores have replaced neighborhood schools and shops down the block. What could be reached easily by walking or biking now requires a car trip. In office buildings and malls, escalators and elevators means fewer stairs to climb. In the workplace, there’s been a shift to white-collar desk jobs that entail sitting in front of a computer screen and moving nothing but a mouse. Formerly, a far larger proportion of blue-collar factory jobs demanded manual labor for eight hours a day or longer. Loggers ate like loggers because they were burning scads of calories. They felled trees
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with axes and two-handled saws, not mechanized equipment and chainsaws. In the United States, there’s probably been no more profound reduction of physical activity than in the realm of transportation. Active, people-powered transportation has drastically declined. Most adults drive everywhere. The number of kids who walk or bike to school has dropped precipitously. Buildings, streets and cities have been reoriented toward automobile use, though public transportation plays a prominent role in a few major cities, such as New York. It’s difficult to replace activity that used to be part of daily existence with gym workouts. Going to a gym
is time consuming and can be costly. It seems very likely that there’s been a profound reduction in daily calories expended by most people. While people have become less active, the number of calories they consume has grown. The bottom line is a discernable impact on bottom lines. More people are overweight and obese than ever. The health consequences of that extra weight are not good. Many of the anti-activity changes have been anti-neighborhood as well. Not only is it more difficult to shop or find a school in your neighborhood; out-of-neighborhood trips mean less social interaction between neighbors. When trips are made by car, even within neighborhoods, the ability to
see, meet and talk to neighbors is limited. How do we engineer physical activity back into communities? What are the benefits of doing so? The Active Living Research organization’s report “Making the Case for Designing Active Cities” answers those questions. The report examined research on five critical determinants of activity in cities: parks and trails, urban design, transportation, schools, and workplaces and buildings. The authors assessed not just if these activity determinants affected physical and mental health, but if they also had related benefits such as improved safety and GETTING page 35
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All For One BUSINESSES JOIN FORCES TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR EVERYONE
BY JORDAN VENEMA BUILDING OUR FUTURE
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rowth isn’t always measured by the height of new buildings or the width of boundaries on a map. Sometimes, the greatest signpost of a healthy city is the absence of any sign at all. In recent years, Sacramento has shown fewer “signs” of graffiti, crime and vagrancy, leading to a collective addition by subtraction. From Midtown to Power Inn, and from Fulton to Florin, property and business owners have been improving their districts through cooperative services such as maintenance and security, marketing and special events. Property and business improvement districts (PBIDs) were permitted to organize under California’s Property and Business District Law of 1994. “A traditional [PBID] model is a group of businesses or property owners getting together to fund services or improvements that are implicit to their business. So it is essentially a publicprivate partnership, generally led [and managed] by the business community… but with significant oversight role by the city or county,” explains John Lambeth, founder and president of Civitas, a Sacramento consulting firm that develops PBIDs. With a general consensus between owners, followed by city council hearings and a balloting process, a PBID is formed as a private nonprofit for a five-year term, Lambeth explains. Each property within the PBID pays a fee based upon parcel assessments, which is taken directly out of tax assessment bills.
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R Street Partnership’s administrator, Michelle Smira Brattmille
Lambeth basically wrote the book on PBIDs: He authored California’s Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 and helped organize the state’s first PBID, Downtown Sacramento Partnership,
in 1995. Since then, Sacramento has added 15 more districts. The size of Sacramento’s PBIDs ranges from large to cozy: Power Inn Alliance supports more than 1,300 properties over 6 square miles, while
R Street Partnership includes about 100 businesses over approximately 10 blocks. Big or small, PBIDs usually begin with a conversation between business owners about the needs of their district. And since PBIDs are, in Lambeth’s words, “folks getting together in a common way to protect their common interest,” the improvement is from the ground up. According to Michelle Smira Brattmiller, R Street Partnership’s administrator, that first conversation began with questions about streetscape improvement. Capitol Area Development Authority obtained a grant to provide general street renovations and improvements, “but the grant didn’t include any kind of maintenance after the fact,” explains Brattmiller. “But what happens if a light goes out? Who pays for it? With new improvements, there were new costs down the road.” So R Street Partnership was formed in 2013 to ensure continued maintenance of the district. The partnership has employed its $111,000 budget to increase security, remove graffiti and add benches, bike racks and decorative lighting. But these districts aren’t just about erasing and preventing the eyesores and nuisances; they also determine the identity of the neighborhood. R Street Partnership business owners, explains Brattmiller, felt a “need to be proactive in determining the future of R Street.” Brattmiller says the partnership plans to conduct more events that are “framed around the arts,” reflecting the district’s galleries and artists. Though Sacramento PBIDs create their own identity within the greater
context of the city, they have not become islands separate from the rest of the community. Transience and homelessness have long been issues for the city and businesses. But rather than pushing the homeless to other city blocks, Sacramento’s PBIDs have worked closely with nonprofit Sacramento Steps Forward to address the issue. “We’re talking about people,” says Maya Wallace, the director of external affairs at Sacramento Steps Forward, whose goal is to find housing for the city’s chronically homeless. According to Wallace, Sacramento’s PBIDs have been actively involved with Steps Forward, both financially and strategically. “By way of a history lesson,” begins Wallace, “[Ryan Loofbourrow] was in charge of the security team at Downtown Sacramento Partnership, and he started thinking how to address homelessness downtown.” Loofbourrow, now the executive director of Steps Forward, helped expand the organization’s Homeless Navigators program, which identifies homeless people in frequent contact with hospitals or police and provides them with permanent housing. Says Wallace, “We’re expanding with the help of some of the PBIDS, including River District and Midtown Business Association.” Navigators with Downtown Sacramento Partnership, she adds, “place probably 20 folks a month into housing.” While the city provides much of the amenities that we enjoy, PBIDs connect the lines between the dots. Midtown Business Association organizes historical walking tours, mural installations, holiday events and the Saturday Midtown Farmers Market at 20th and J streets. Its baitbike programs have led to more than 50 arrests of bicycle thieves. Midtown Business Association’s current term ends in December 2016, but the PBID already is working with Civitas to draft a proposal to expand the district into the Alhambra Corridor, where Midtown meets East Sacramento. Currently, the bulk of the district lies between I and N and 16th and 29th streets. It is set to grow to include 30th Street and Alhambra Boulevard between K and S streets,
as well as Stockton Boulevard all the way to Highway 50. “Midtown is looking to expand into Alhambra,” explains Nichole Farley, a project manager with Civitas, “because with the [Sutter Health] expansion, they were starting to see how the area needs to be revitalized.” If the new proposal is approved, she adds, “the clean and safe activities that Midtown has been working on for the past 10 years will move into Alhambra.” For the Alhambra Corridor, the PBID expansion could translate to better security and maintenance, more events and marketing, and a stronger identity. And since Sacramento PBIDs have consistently grown since 1995, expect more businesses to communicate and collaborate in order to reinvigorate their districts, thereby making stronger neighborhoods, which ultimately should make a stronger Sacramento. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com n
GETTING FROM page 32 injury prevention, environmental sustainability, social integration and economic gains. The study found that the benefits of active cities were wide ranging, positive and profound: “When settings are designed to be activity-friendly, there is good reason to expect not only more physical activity, but also other health, environmental and economic benefits.” There are many examples of things that can be done to increase the opportunities for activity. Adding parks, greenways and trails is one. According to the report, “Spending time in green outdoor common spaces is systematically related to stronger social integration and a stronger sense of local community.” The presence and proximity of parks not only resulted in more physical activity; greenery helped with stress recovery, improved mental health and reduced feelings of loneliness. Tree cover decreased energy use. Schools often sit idle after hours and during vacation periods.
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Joe Marty’s Return SACRAMENTO’S ORIGINAL SPORTS BAR SET TO MAKE A COMEBACK
BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY
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t’s not like Sacramento needs another bar. There are plenty of places to stop for a quick
cold beer or artisanal cocktail, with infinite possibilities awaiting the social drinker and degenerate boozer alike. But we still could use a decent sports bar. More specifically, we could use Joe Marty’s. Tucked into the far western corner of the Tower Theatre building at 15th Street and Broadway, Joe Marty’s was the original sports bar, catering to daytime drinkers, late-night bachelorette parties and everything in between. You could drink, eat and gamble there. Greasy sandwiches were a specialty, as were bar dice and omnipresent bookmakers who would handle your action on the Kings, Giants or whomever. The joint’s run was legendary, from 1954 to 2005. A kitchen fire one warm night in June 10 years ago destroyed the bar and most of the dining area, though city firefighters heroically salvaged much of the cobwebbed memorabilia and baseball photos
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nailed to the walls. Joe Marty’s has
me, because it was always so dark in
arcane nonsense that makes sports so
existed as an empty shell ever since.
there, even during daylight hours.
enjoyable and enduring.
Now, a group of local real estate
Joe Marty’s was always dark, no
investors hopes to reopen Joe Marty’s
matter the time of day. Entering the
me at Joe Marty’s and announced
sometime this fall. The investors tell
joint on a late summer afternoon was
Ralph Sampson was the worst player
me they are working through typical
especially hazardous and required a
who ever wore a Sacramento Kings
hurdles: city and county permits
period of adjustment, lest you stumble
uniform. I begged to differ—Olden
and landlord glitches. But a new Joe
into a barstool while your eyes
Polynice got my vote at the time—
Marty’s would be terrific, even if the
adapted to the midnight blackness of
but we spent an hour respectfully
new operators make the old saloon
the main room. There were shutters
discussing the definition of “worst,”
more family friendly than it was
on the windows, but they were forever
which, when you’re talking about
before the smoke cleared in 2005.
closed, as if exposure to sunlight
the Kings, becomes a hugely complex
would scorch the patrons.
problem worthy of a postgraduate’s
I’ve never been a fan of familyfriendly bars, finding the concept
A stranger once sat down next to
Despite its function as a place to
dissertation. I can’t think of another
somewhat oxymoronic. As a little kid
behave in ways that were patently bad
bar in Sacramento where that could
in San Francisco, I can still recall
for you, Marty’s provided a positive
have happened, then or now.
being dragged by my parents to a
social service for the community. It
place called the Lane Club in Maiden
was a safe haven were sports fans
it was a real sports bar, imagined
Lane, where Mom and Dad made
could gather and reminisce and
and operated by a real sportsman,
me sit in a corner booth and drink a
argue and show off and challenge
Roy Rogers. The Lane Club scared
each other’s knowledge about the
Joe Marty’s was special because
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and opened a bar. He didn’t care
permanently set to silent—an iron
families and craft beer handles by the
bars, which tend to be designed
about investors or trends. He barely
rule that modern sports bars have
dozen.
by hospitality guys with financial
cared about customers.
abandoned to the detriment of all.
partners who measure their
Joe was a pain: He drank too much
And by the standards of Joe
Marty died in 1984 at age 71. The bar
Marty’s, they will be antiseptic and
and maintained racial attitudes that
passed among the founder’s friends
predictable—even boring. You can
disgusted most of us from younger
for the next 21 years. They barely
watch a game anywhere. But put a bet
greatest baseball players (he hit a
generations. But he knew what a
dusted the joint and changed nothing.
down with a bookie? That requires a
home run for the Chicago Cubs in
classic sports bar should feel like,
the 1938 World Series against the
locker-room musty and loud with
blossom downtown when the new
New York Yankees), and when his
laughter.
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enthusiasm by return on investment. Joe Marty was one of Sacramento’s
career wound down he did what great
There was a TV, but it only
athletes did in those days: came home
showed sports and the sound was
Contemporary sports bars will
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Brown Is the New Green WHO SAYS OUR LAWNS HAVE TO BE LUSH?
BY ANITA CLEVENGER GARDEN JABBER
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s our dry spring turned into summer, I was startled by how quickly the grass began to deteriorate in my normally verdant neighborhood. Sure, some lawns were still green, but most of them began showing varying signs of water stress. Instead of a lush emerald carpet stretching block after block, there was a patchwork of varying shades of brown and green.
If you are watering your lawn less, your trees and shrubs that have relied on lawn sprinklers probably need supplemental watering. It didn’t take long to adjust. Now, I’m startled when I see a brightgreen lawn. After all, it’s natural in
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California for the grasses to turn golden every summer. It’s not a sign of death or neglect but part of the natural cycle. Who says that grass should retain the same color all year long? If we lived in a cold climate, we would accept brown grass all winter long. In our Mediterranean climate, why don’t we go for the gold during the summer? Perhaps we are now awakening from a mass delusion that we live in an area with unlimited water and can maintain lawns that look like Wimbledon. We seem to be forming new expectations for how our landscapes should look. Some people are watering less or not at all. Others are reducing the amount of grass or tearing out their lawns altogether,
replacing them with combinations of pavement, gravel, mulch and waterefficient plants. Pavement, especially, worries me. It retains and reflects heat and allows water to run off into storm drains during the winter rather than absorbing into the ground and replenishing the water supply. Rock is permeable, but it too increases heat rather than helping cool our blistering summers. Mulch and plants— including grass—keep things cooler, clean our air and water and help reduce flooding. A lawn can be part of a more water-efficient landscape. It may just be smaller and browner. Like the Munchkins, we need to learn that there is a difference between nearly dead and most sincerely dead. Watering grass deeply
every week or two will keep its roots alive and its blades somewhat green. It will recover when rain finally comes again. If you are watering your lawn less, your trees and shrubs that have relied on lawn sprinklers probably need supplemental watering. It’s especially critical this year, when we started out the summer with the water table unusually low. Check to see if the soil is dry and crumbly 6 to 8 inches below the surface. If it is, coil a soaker hose under the drip line and run it for several hours until the soil is saturated at least a foot deep. You can also water with a trickling hose or oscillating sprinkler, changing its position several times until the roots are watered all around. If you
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varieties. Beautiful trees such as birch, red maple, ginkgo, coast redwood and tupelo require regular water and are not good choices for a water-efficient landscape. Sacramento Tree Foundation, in partnership with SMUD, offers many varieties that are drought-tolerant once established. Newly planted trees and shrubs will need regular watering for their first three years, regardless of how drought-tolerant they will be once established. We’ve seen some stunning cultural shifts recently. It’s no longer cool to smoke in airplanes, restaurants or bars, offices or even public parks. Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. Will we turn away from our green summertime lawns, too? Only time will tell. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 876-5338 or go to ucanr.edu/sites/sacmg. For a list of shade trees available from the Sacramento Shade Program, go to sactree.com n
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Growing Together AT COMMUNITY GARDENS, NEIGHBORLINESS BLOOMS
BY GWEN SCHOEN FARM TO FORK
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he morning I stopped for a visit at the community garden on the corner of 14th and Q streets was a good reminder of why I love living in Sacramento. It was early in the day. The sun had not yet reached the sizzle point, and a gentle breeze was lifting the leaves on tomato vines and swaying the sunflowers. A happy bird serenaded the neighborhood from his perch in a treetop. Under a bench, a lazy orange tabby cat lounged in a sunspot. His job, I learned later, is to keep rodents away from the gardens. If his girth is an indication, he’s good at his job. The garden is beautiful, not just visually, but also because it brings together people living in the neighborhood who love to grow vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers. It truly is a community brought together by the joy of digging in the soil, growing food and sharing what they grow. Gardeners arrive on bicycles and on foot, some pulling wagons to load with their morning harvest. As they tend their plots, they greet each other and proudly show off the results of their efforts. Outside the gate is a box filled with zucchini and fresh dill.
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“We put extras in the box to share with other neighbors,” explained Angela DeShields, one of the gardeners. “People walking by are welcome to pick up anything they might be able to use.” As we explored the plots, checking out the squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, basil and beans growing in raised beds, DeShields told me how, in 2008, the whole community came together to move bricks, shovel soil, build the raised beds and construct compost bins. “It took a lot of volunteers, and we even worked in the rain,” she said. “But it was good to bring the neighbors together to work on a goal, and it was worth every bit of effort. Plus, now we have a place to grow
vegetables and fruit even if we live where there is no space for a garden.” A project such as this doesn’t happen by accident. The garden at 14th and Q streets, called Fremont Community Garden, was developed as a joint venture of the Capital Area Development Authority, Rembold Properties and the city of Sacramento. The land was donated by the California Department of General Services. The Garden Advisory Board, made up of volunteer Fremont gardeners, manages the garden under the guidance of community garden coordinator Bill Maynard. Maynard works for city’s department of parks and recreation. “There are 13 community gardens in the city of Sacramento,” said
Maynard. “We have so many people on the waiting list for garden space that we are planning to add four more. One at the corner of 19th and Q streets will be a combination dog park and community garden.” Most community gardens are divided into plots 10 feet square or 10 by 20 feet. Some plots are raised so that they’re accessible to gardeners in wheelchairs. Participants pay an annual fee of $25 to $50 depending on the size of their plot. At Freemont, there are 50 plots and a waiting list. “We have about eight to 10 people leave a year,” said Maynard. “When a space appears not to be maintained, we send the gardener a friendly note asking if they would like to give up their plot. Still, it can take several years of waiting to get a spot because the gardens are so popular. When we opened the community garden in Natomas, we had 83 requests for space but only 26 plots. We had to have a lottery and everyone else was put on a waiting list.” The idea of community gardens is not new. During World War II, they were called victory gardens. People grew food to aid the war effort. In the 1970s, gardening became popular once again, which helped renew interest in community gardens. The U.S. Department of Agriculture began promoting its Urban Gardening Program. About that same time, the American Community Gardening Association was founded. Maynard is the current president of the association. Besides the bounty and camaraderie, the gardens also provide a wonderful learning experience. FARM page 44
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Living Homelessly TAKING TO THE ROAD FOR A YEAR OF MINIMALISM
four kids, three dogs, two guinea pigs and one corn snake. No more McMansions for us. We’re
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Nevertheless, our life change has
prohibitively high, they’d left most of
made me take a hard look at the
their belongings behind. When they
value I place on my stuff, especially
renting a double-wide mobile home
boarded the plane to Ecuador, most
the stuff I thought I needed but
for the next year to help us transition
carried their life essentials in three
never used. The whole event has me
into an itinerant retirement. We
suitcases apiece.
asking myself, when will a person feel
aren’t taking any children or animals,
BY NORRIS BURKES
With the cost of shipping or storage
Within a few months of getting off
only what will fill two bedrooms. The
the plane, most managed to furnish
move slashes our living space by 1500
their new home with utilitarian
square feet and our monthly housing
essentials from local sources. No
budget by $1,000.
longer stuck in the revolving door
I can hear a sympathetic chorus
satisfied that he has enough stuff or enough money? The answer is never. You’ll never be sure you have enough. The only thing you can really do is
of StuffMart or CostlyCo, many
draw a bottom line on your net worth
of readers asking: “Norris, what
resourceful expats built their own
and determine that it will be enough.
happened? Why would you leave such
furniture or made their own clothing.
You must resolve, “This has to be
his month, my wife and I will
a lovely subdivision? Doesn’t your
enough. I will make this work. I will
take a huge financial step: We
writing pay the bills?”
make it so.”
are going homeless. But don’t
worry. I won’t be on the street corner waving a sign that reads “Will preach for food.”
Actually, it never really has, but that’s not my point. If you ask me what happened, I’d have to say that Ecuador happened.
By homeless, I mean we’ll no
We recently went to Ecuador to
longer own a house or owe for it. By
visit the Galapagos and explore the
homeless, I mean “less of a home,”
idea of overseas living in retirement.
downsized in a big way.
In Cuenca, Ecuador, 8,000 feet
Yes, we’ve gone minimalist. We’ve
into the cool Andes, I met scores
sold our 2,800-square-foot home
of expats who’d drastically shed
where we’ve spent 13 years raising
the consumerism that dominates
Nevertheless, our life change has made me take a hard look at the value I place on my stuff, especially the stuff I thought I needed but never used.
American life.
To make such a decision, I take some guidance from the homeless Galilean man who declared in his Sermon on the Mount, “Don’t store up for yourself treasures on Earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” You might say this was Jesus’ version of the modern truism, “You can’t take it with you,” or “You’ll never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul
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Growing Up Saverien AN IDYLLIC CHILDHOOD BUILT UPON A BLUFF
BY TERRY KAUFMAN MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR
W
hen Bart Saverien was a kid, his world was a wide-open expanse
extending from the American River up past the bluff upon which his family’s house stood. The soil was rich for crops and for childhood adventures. There were few neighbors, no bridges and limitless possibilities. “There were about a dozen kids between Eastern and Mariemont avenues,” he recalls, “and during the summer we would all play out in the fields. We’d bike all over the place, but the limit was Watt Avenue.” At the juncture of Watt and American River Drive was an Indian burial ground. “We would hear strange noises and cycle faster!” Saverien’s parents moved to the area in 1932 for his father’s medical
Bart Saverien's family lent their name to a street in the Arden area
internship at UC Davis. His father had graduated from UCLA; his
more than six decades ago. The first
were restored to health and formally
on the bluff and watched the water
mother had her degree in bacteriology
railroad in California ran along the
adopted by the Saveriens.
rush by. Anything in its way was
from UC Berkeley. “They thought
bottom of the bluff, out to Fair Oaks.
that they’d go back to LA,” he says,
Times were tough for many people;
Saverien’s mother opened a bookstore
was built, the American River would
“but they liked it here. My father was
the chimney and fireplace were built
at Town & Country Village. She
regularly dry up in the summer (“One
one of the founding doctors of Sutter
with rocks and bricks tendered as
and her parents acquired 111 acres
could walk across it in many places,”
Memorial Hospital.”
payment for medical services and
between what is now Ashton Park
Saverien recalls) and flood during the
babies delivered.
and Whitehall Drive, extending from
winter months.
They bought three acres on the bluff for a whopping $2,000 and
In 1944, the doctor got a call from
When his father died in 1946,
the bluff to the other side of the levee.
washed away.” Until Folsom Dam
After a challenging onion harvest
decided to establish roots. Their first
Sacramento Children’s Home about
house was built in 1938 at what is
6-month-old twins who were battling
now 904 Saverien Drive. (At that
pneumonia. He took one look at
of 1950-51. “I remember the night
all the way to Sand Bar Circle. On
time, it was 4448 Fair Oaks Blvd.) It
the twins—a boy and a girl—and
the levee broke at the end of Arden
the river side of the levee were two
was the third house in the area, and
decided to take them home. “He
Way,” he says. “We were listening to
pear orchards, one starting at the end
it stands to this day amid trees and
knew that if he didn’t take us, we
the radio when it was announced the
of Estates Drive and running east
plants that Saverien’s mother planted
would die,” Saverien says. The babies
levee broke. We rushed outside, stood
to where the Rio Americano science
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They began to farm in 1949. Saverien recalls clearly the flooding
in 1951, they planted only barley. By 1955, their barley domain stretched
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Saverien and his mother built a house across the street from their first house, moved there in 1963 and stayed until 1986, when they moved to the smaller, one-story house in Bart Saverien and his dog
building now stands, the second
house, but after doing it one time he
starting behind the science building
vowed never again to miss the bus. He
and running east to Sand Bar Circle.
attended San Juan High School for its
Because they lived at the border
agriculture program, but he remained
of the school district, the Saverien
close enough to his childhood friends
children routinely fell between the
at El Camino High that they allowed
cracks. “They always forgot us,”
him to attend their 50th reunion.
Saverien says. As a consequence,
When Fair Oaks Boulevard was
he attended Greer, Carmichael,
widened in 1961, the complexion of
Mariemont, Eastern Avenue, Orville
the neighborhood changed drastically.
Wright, Starr King and Frontier
“I didn’t like it,” Saverien says. “I
schools. He could walk to Arden
liked the wide-open spaces.” The
Middle School without seeing a single
family returned home one evening
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$281,200 $325,000 $363,000 $400,000 $610,000 $645,000 $124,000 $297,225 $340,000 $540,000 $210,000 $235,000 $304,500 $335,000 $559,000 $899,500 $277,000 $116,000 $595,000 $207,500 $289,900 $134,500 $211,000 $640,000 $685,000 $105,000 $265,000 $271,000 $367,000 $750,000 $199,000 $300,000 $425,000 $549,000 $317,000 $379,000 $527,000 $725,000 $330,000 $364,900 $438,000 $605,000 $285,000 $330,000 $480,000 $156,555 $215,000 $327,500 $335,000 $350,000 $320,000 $395,000 $108,000 $375,000
95811 MIDTOWN, BLVD PARK 1725 W SOCAP WALK
$462,139
95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK 330 23RD ST 1966 34TH ST 1304 SANTA YNEZ WAY 1552 36TH ST 2416-2418 D ST 2720 E ST 1447 38TH STREET 223 39TH ST
$615,000 $185,000 $492,850 $530,500 $697,000 $720,000 $895,000 $366,700
1401 33RD ST 2514 CHINATOWN ALLEY 1641 39TH ST 232 33RD ST 616 24TH ST 1545 39TH ST 2701 E ST 1516 27TH ST
95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 3113 39TH ST 4330 8TH AVE 2800 33RD ST 3405 TRIO LN 4130 8TH AVE 3616 36TH ST 4208 U ST 2214 52ND ST 3332 43 RD ST 3215 8TH AVE 5232 U ST 3717 9TH AVE 3431 38TH ST 3985 SHERMAN WAY 2600 58TH ST 4000 1ST AVE
95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK
2915 SANTA BUENA WAY 1853 3RD AVE 2544 SAN FERNANDO WAY 1282 7TH AVE 900 FREMONT WAY 2350 PORTOLA 1820 10TH AVE 2604 16TH ST 1833 LARKIN WAY 2224 26TH ST 2541 9TH AVE 559 JONES WAY 2851 CASTRO WAY 2725 14TH ST 601 JONES WAY 2016 20TH ST 2762 MARTY WAY 1964 3RD AVE 2533 9TH AVE 2130 22ND ST 2415 18TH ST 1808 COMMERCIAL WAY 2331 V ST 2315 W ST 2149 6TH AVE 2712 16TH ST 2784 HARKNESS ST 3677 CROCKER DR
$389,500 $591,250 $1,098,000 $355,000 $485,000 $1,000,000 $445,000 $325,000
$111,035 $185,000 $261,000 $285,000 $98,000 $152,000 $315,000 $478,000 $202,000 $200,000 $370,000 $193,000 $130,000 $280,000 $311,000 $330,000
$339,000 $635,000 $175,000 $480,000 $485,000 $420,000 $600,000 $320,000 $379,500 $385,000 $455,793 $305,000 $555,000 $650,000 $389,999 $415,000 $445,000 $538,000 $541,000 $699,000 $225,000 $410,000 $393,000 $310,000 $395,000 $398,000 $550,000 $786,162
95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK 858 42ND ST 1416 58TH ST 5400 D ST 430 45TH ST 53 TAYLOR WAY 440 45TH ST 461 MESSINA DR
$416,500 $695,000 $504,900 $504,500 $540,000 $565,000 $423,000
3959 D ST 5061 MODDISON AVE 5020 SANDBURG DR 1729 BERKELEY WAY 1509 41ST ST 71 51ST ST 216 SAN ANTONIO WAY 1552 48TH ST 4641 D ST 917 45TH ST 233 TIVOLI WAY
$442,500 $442,500 $450,000 $465,000 $690,000 $609,900 $430,000 $470,000 $490,000 $831,000 $460,000
95821 ARDEN-ARCADE
3708 HUFF WAY $285,000 2828 POPE AVE $320,000 3808 LASUEN DR $330,000 2521 FULTON SQUARE LN #23$115,000 3433 LERWICK RD $173,000 3120 LERWICK RD $262,900 2936 LETA LN $375,000 4137 WHEAT ST $265,000 2510 VALLEY RD $287,500 2901 MORSE AVE $1,330,000 2911 BELL ST $210,000 4533 ROBERTSON AVE $260,000 3434 BRAEBURN ST $370,000 4167 DENA WAY $381,000 3301 LERWICK RD $205,000 2370 MARCONI AVE $107,000 3405 CHENU AVE $275,000 3236 CHENU AVE $275,000 3817 KINGS WAY $171,000 3633 WHITNEY AVE $185,000 3630 CHADSWORTH WAY $249,000 3053 SAND DOLLAR WAY $267,000 3120 CREST HAVEN DR $315,000 3220 EL CAMINO AVE $180,000 2401 SAINT FRANCIS DR $315,000 2421 LESLIE LN $185,000 2398 RALSTON RD $236,000 3600 DOS ACRES WAY $196,000 2617 ANNA WAY $140,000 2310 TAMARACK WAY $180,000 3016 WHITNEY $198,000 3624 SEAN DR $245,000 3205 EASTWOOD RD $269,500 3428 LEATHA WAY $301,000 3942 IRELAND ST $365,000
95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 1473 KITCHNER RD 6035 BELLEAU WOOD LN 17 CASA LINDA CT 2109 56 AVE 2381 MURIETA WAY 4610 LARSON WAY 1425 ATHERTON ST 2600 51ST AVE 2124 68TH AVE 4989 VIRGINIA WAY 7353 STOCKDALE ST 2147 20TH AVE 2287 GLEN ELLEN CIR 1133 LAKE GLEN WAY 2117 STACIA WAY 7463 SYLVIA WAY 7411 PUTNAM WAY 2512 47TH AVE 1448 COOLBRITH ST
$115,500 $167,000 $195,000 $196,500 $279,999 $317,000 $150,000 $155,000 $219,000 $355,000 $175,000 $229,000 $267,500 $476,000 $241,500 $128,925 $187,000 $115,000 $117,500
7337 STOCKDALE ST 1661 BELINDA WAY 7045 WILSHIRE CIRCLE 1450 POTRERO WAY 2521 MEADOW WOOD CIR 7249 17TH ST 4831 DEL RIO RD 1170 13TH AVE 7012 REMO 7041 CROMWELL WAY 7049 WILSHIRE CIR 1408 COOLBRITH ST 6112 BELLEAU WOOD LN 1442 65TH 2039 ONEIL WAY 7516 GEORGICA WAY 1121 34TH AVE 1641 ARVILLA DR
$168,800 $180,500 $231,000 $475,000 $150,000 $220,000 $439,000 $493,000 $202,480 $335,000 $191,000 $150,000 $166,500 $172,000 $185,000 $222,000 $355,500 $320,000
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1107 VANDERBILT WAY $310,000 925 FULTON AVE #429 $54,000 935 COMMONS DR $323,000 2413 POST OAK LN $93,000 2042 EDWIN WAY $140,000 2438 LARKSPUR LN #295 $114,900 2813 MERRYWOOD DR $256,200 2280 HURLEY WAY #40 $107,000 1402 COMMONS DR. $312,000 3209 VIA GRANDE $127,000 1505 BELL ST $144,900 2021 BELL ST $225,000 2120 WELDON WAY $300,000 2470 NORTHROP AVE #4 $140,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #18 $107,500 716 WOODSIDE LN #4 $225,000 2012 BOWLING GREEN DR $199,000 3282 VIA GRANDE $146,000 863 WOODSIDE LN #7 $154,000 973 FULTON AVE #482 $65,000 915 FULTON AVE #452 $70,000 2436 LARKSPUR LN #294 $110,000 809 DUNBARTON $297,500 415 E RANCH RD $325,000 259 MUNROE ST $327,000 2132 UNIVERSITY PARK DR $273,500 2445 GWEN DR $205,000 1125 BELL ST #4 $105,000 1019 DORNAJO WAY #259 $119,900 117 HARTNELL PL. $305,000 2321 AMERICAN RIVER DR $335,900 1006 VANDERBILT WAY $369,000 1113 DUNBARTON CIR $395,000 2430 PAVILIONS PLACE LN #304 $515,000
7756 SLEEPY RIVER WAY 30 ZEPHYR COVE CIR 6670 POCKET ROAD 7052 RIVERSIDE BLVD 56 SPRINGBROOK CIR 6403 NORTH POINT WAY 1015 ROUNDTREE CT 6380 LAKE PARK DR 6430 14TH STREET 718 SKYLAKE WAY 6380 SURFSIDE WAY 7668 MARINA COVE DR 621 BRICKYARD 299 BREWSTER AVE 6310 DAIRY COURT 530 RIVERGATE WAY 261 PORTINAO CIR 7340 BARR WAY 1171 SPRUCE TREE CIR 19 BLUE WATER CIR 7237 LONG RIVER 7717 BLACKWATER WAY 7080 GREENHAVEN DR 7302 RIVER PLACE WAY 7731 ROBERTS RIVER WAY 9 RIVER GLADE CT 365 CEDAR RIVER WAY 31 SHADY RIVER CIR 6594 LAKE PARK DR 1323 SAN CLEMENTE WAY 1209 47TH AVE
95864 ARDEN
$500,000 $335,000 $390,990 $288,000 $390,000 $501,500 $110,000 $342,500 $370,000 $210,000 $392,001 $955,000 $410,000 $449,900 $505,605 $201,900 $388,000 $410,000 $271,500 $305,000 $340,000 $619,000 $280,500 $347,000 $351,000 $370,000 $395,000 $401,300 $435,000 $440,000 $456,000
3412 WELLINGTON DR 3437 MAYFAIR 3001 KADEMA DR 4349 VULCAN DR 4417 ALDERWOOD WAY 4357 VULCAN DR 1400 LAS SALINAS WAY 411 ROSS WAY 3570 LAS PASAS 817 EL ENCINO WAY 4538 JUNO WAY 2321 MARYAL DRIVE 2845 SIERRA MILLS LN 2925 ROYCE WAY 2616 MAISON WAY 3241 ARDENRIDGE DR 2925 SIERRA MILLS LANE 4132 STOWE WAY 545 WILHAGGIN DR 3140 ADAMS RD 4418 ALDERWOOD WAY 2025 MARYAL DR 1625 LA PLAYA WAY 4428 SURITA ST 3015 HOBART COURT 3129 SOMERSET RD 1328 SHADOWGLEN RD 4101 LAS CRUCES WAY 1074 SAN RAMON WAY 833 ROBIN LN 3509 MAPLEWOOD LN 1981 WINDEMERE LN 1308 GREENHILLS RD 1812 WAYSIDE LN 731 CASMALIA WAY
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95831 GREENHAVEN, SOUTH LAND PARK 6700 HAVENSIDE DR 975 ASTRO CT 19 SAIL CT 87 GREENWAY CIR 14 MOONLIT CIR 1217 47TH AVE 787 PORTUGAL WAY 905 LAKE FRONT DR 6745 SWENSON WAY 10 FOX OAK CT 12 TERN CT
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Baby in Eye of Beholder THE DOOB; A MOMMA’S GIRL THROUGH AND THROUGH
including Good Thing You’re Cute
I’ve tried to explain my doting
when she gets in big trouble. We used
logic many times when they get
to call her the family dog when we
exasperated with Darby’s elevated
got her nearly five years ago, but now
family status. “Would you leave a
we’ve all given up the farce.
toddler alone? Would you yell at a
“Mom, we’re just confetti in your
BY KELLI WHEELER MOMSERVATIONS
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parade with The Doob,” is something
the house when she just wants to play
my daughter would say when Darby
ball with the rest of the kids? You
has snubbed the rest of the family
have to treat her like the baby she is!”
again on a beeline to excitedly greet her mother. “Oh, it’s The Baby!” my husband will tease, mocking my high-pitched
t is no secret who the baby
greeting every time Darby and I are
of our family is. There is no
reunited.
question who is the most
“Mom, you’ve ruined Darby,” my
spoiled. There is some debate over
son, Logan, will scold. “All she wants
blatant favoritism. But I will defend
to do is be with you.”
myself to the end that I love all my
To which I say, “Well, if you took
children with equal great fervor.
care of all her needs then she’d want
Even the clearly adopted one who
to be with you. And she’s not ruined.
pretends to be asleep and then
She’s just a baby.”
steals my breakfast when I get up to go to the bathroom. Darby. The Doob. Darbilicious. The Darby Doo. The Baby. The girl who has her mother wrapped around her fuzzy little paw goes by many names,
toddler? Would you lock a toddler in
“She’s not a baby. She’s older than all of us!” my nonfuzzy baby, Whitney, will argue. “She’s like 35 in dog years.”
“But she’s not a baby! She’s a dog!” goes the family chorus. To-may-to, to-mah-to. We agree to disagree.
Very similar to raising kids, I realized, a good dog is a tired dog. Nondestructive behavior comes from being actively engaged or positively stimulated.
But she has the mentality of a 2-year-old. She is a perpetual toddler. When we all decided it was time for a puppy after losing our other yellow Labrador, Kyber, we agreed we’d all take care of Darby. But when Hubby went off to work and the kids went off to school, it was work-from-home Mom who got stuck with the aroundthe-clock needs and demands of raising a well-adjusted, obedient dog. Very similar to raising kids, I realized, a good dog is a tired dog. Nondestructive behavior comes from being actively engaged or positively stimulated. Love, trust and respect are built and maintained by being
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reinforced consistently. Routine, structure and rules are something they may not realize they need but instinctually crave, becoming anxious or making bad decisions without it. So I exercised Darby every day. I took her with me whenever possible. When I couldn’t play with her, I gave her an activity she could do by herself (dog food in a plastic bottle, treat in a Kong dog toy, compressed rawhide bone to chew). I reinforced routines and good behavior with positive rewards (treats, attention, play time). Bad behavior had consequences (put outside or in her crate). Consistency and follow-through were key. Basically, I raised my dog the way I’m raising my kids—with unconditional love, trust and respect for valuing their needs equal to mine. So it’s no surprise to me that my love has become blind to the fact that one of my kids always barks at the pool guy and likes to eat cat poop. Even with their faults, my collective children will always be my babies who need my love and attention, and I will always be happy to give it. So wave to Darby when you see her blond, fuzzy head perennially out the back window of my red Ford Expedition as we run errands around town. She may be a Momma’s Girl, but she’s got love for everyone. And she’s still the baby even when her name is Good Thing You’re Cute. Kelli Wheeler is a Sacramento mother of two and author of “Momservations—The Fine Print of Parenting.” She can be reached at Momservations.com n
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Nature’s Air Conditioning THE DELTA BREEZE IS THE COOLEST THING IN SACRAMENTO
BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
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n other parts of the country, sunset gives little relief from sweltering summer days. Air conditioners run all night long. They don’t have our Delta Breeze. Sacramento lies 90 miles from the coast. But thanks to physics and a quirk of geography, on many hot days we get natural air conditioning from the ocean. The Delta Breeze is a sea breeze that pushes cooler marine air into our backyards and drops our nighttime temperatures much lower than they would be without it. The Delta Breeze is created by temperature differences between the land and sea. In summer, the land of the Central Valley gets very hot. It heats the air, and just like in a hot air balloon, that hot air rises. As it rises, it slightly decreases the air pressure at ground level. Meanwhile on the San Francisco Bay, the surface temperature of the ocean stays about the same year round, day or night, usually in the mid-50s. This keeps the air cool as well as humid or foggy. This cool, moist air forms a blanket called a marine layer sandwiched between
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the ocean and warm, dry air higher up in the atmosphere. The marine layer keeps the Bay Area closer to the temperature of the ocean. It stretches inland and is trapped by the Coast Ranges (mountains), where it forms a wall of cloud that cars going west from Sacramento plunge into. But there’s a gap in the Coast Ranges at the Carquinez Strait, a narrow bit of water spanned by the I-80 toll bridge just past Vallejo. Here, the waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers flow out of the Delta and into San Pablo Bay on their way to the Pacific Ocean. It’s also where the marine layer sneaks through the mountains into the Central Valley as a breeze. The breeze is driven by the tiny difference in air pressure (only hundredths of an inch of mercury) between the hot valley (where air rises) and the cool coast (where air stays low and heavy). It’s enough to generate a wind of at least 14 mph,
with gusts of 20 to 25 mph common in Sacramento. In Fairfield, closer to the Carquinez gap, gusts reach 35 to 40 mph. Once the Delta Breeze reaches the Central Valley, it spreads out, turning northeast toward Sacramento and Marysville and southeast to Stockton. The effects are profound. According to James Mathews, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Sacramento, “If it weren’t for the Delta Breeze, we’d have a lot more 100 degree days.” As proof, Mathews told me that on average, Sacramento experiences 22 such days per year; Stockton has 18. Redding, which is cut off from the Delta Breeze by its elevation in the mountains, suffers through 40. “The breeze is self-regulating,” Mathews says. A very hot day in the valley causes a big temperature gradient with the coast, which drives a strong Delta Breeze. The breeze then cools the valley and
decreases the temperature difference, especially the next day. “In 2013, the breeze gave us our greatest one-day temperature drop ever, from a high of 110 degrees on July 4 to 86 on July 5.” The Delta Breeze doesn’t always come to the rescue. Forecasting whether the breeze will arrive on a given day is particularly important to the power companies. “SMUD needs to match electricity supply with demand,” Mathews says. “If the breeze isn’t coming, they have to buy power for air conditioning.” So why do we get relief some days but not others? The depth of the marine layer is the primary determinant of the breeze. The thicker the layer of marine air over the coast, the more cool air spills into the Central Valley. A thickness of 2,000 feet at the coast is the minimum required to get a breeze here. The location of the “Pacific High” is also important. The Pacific High is a mass
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Spanish Style A YOUNG COUPLE FALLS IN LOVE WITH AN OLD CHARMER BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT
By the end of 2014, William and Cindy Scharffenberg had been sporadically navigating the openhouse circuit for six months. Recently married and living in Natomas, they were seeking the perfect home.
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“We love living in this neighborhood and are blessed to be living in this home."
Viewing a Spanish Revival house in East Sac from the outside only, they dismissed it, thinking it didn’t look like their dream home. Built in 1927, the house had once been a two-story duplex.
But soon, an insistent family member changed their minds. Visiting from Southern California, Cindy’s parents stopped by the house for a tour. Her father called the couple immediately and told them to look at the house again. “We told him we weren’t interested,” Cindy says. “But he said, ‘Yes, you are interested.’” Three days after touring the house, they made an offer. “After coming inside,” says William, “we realized everything was perfect for us.” By the end of January, they’d moved in. William fell in love with the house based on his admiration of older homes with hardwood floors. He imagined himself cooking in the beautifully redone kitchen.
“We love living in this neighborhood and are blessed to be living in this home,” he says. “It was a nice set of events that allowed us to live here.” Cindy loved the location and the spaciousness the home offered for entertaining and starting a family. And the Spanish Revival style inspired recollections of her childhood. “It reminds me of the neighborhoods I grew up in Southern California and stirs memories of towns my family visited on the California coast,” she explains. The exterior exemplifies Spanish Revival style, with Spanish tiles gracing the entryway, an impressive
arched door, clay roof tiles and rustic shutters. Inside are arched doorways and window casings that match the dark flooring. The marvelous 3,200-square-foot house will be open to the public Sept. 28 for the Urban Renaissance Home Tour. The couple undertook an eightmonth-long renovation. During the remodel, numerous walls and one staircase were removed, creating a spacious, modern feeling. The addition of a master suite upstairs added 430 square feet of living space. All the windows were replaced along with the mechanical systems of the house. Original wood flooring was salvaged where possible and
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HOME FROM page 59 Lab to make sure the house would be both stylish and comfortable. “We wanted someone who could work with us and understood our style,” says William. According to Kelly, they wanted a livable design that would integrate the furniture they already owned. “The couple wanted the design to feel authentic and approachable without feeling too staged or formal,” says Kelly. To play off of the contemporary Spanish style, Kelly employed splashes of color and texture using area rugs and pillows. “We also used riveted accents throughout the home as well as
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carved and reclaimed wood features to refine the design even further,” she says. The sumptuous kitchen has custom cabinets, granite-topped counters and an island with seating for four. The gas range features a convection oven that William is still mastering. A cozy outdoor dining area off the kitchen is the perfect spot for casual summer meals. “A few nights ago, three people said hello as they walked by while we sat outside eating,” he says. Upstairs, the two front bedrooms each feature a small balcony, perfect for morning coffee. The luxurious master bath includes two sinks,
a large glassed-in shower and a commodious stand-alone tub.
The sumptuous kitchen has custom cabinets, granitetopped counters and an island with seating for four. Though construction was complete when the couple moved in, the ongoing decisions regarding furnishing their home have strengthened their bond as a couple.
“Melding my husband’s style with all my influences is an ongoing process,” says Cindy. “We have learned a lot about what we like and don’t like and how to come to a joint decision that we can both embrace.” The Urban Renaissance Home Tour, featuring five new and remodeled homes in East Sacramento, will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour is sponsored by Friends of East Sacramento. All proceeds benefit the McKinley Park Renewal Fund. Tickets are available at sacurbanhometour.com If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n
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Connecting Hearts For Life HELPING FOSTER CHILDREN FIND PERMANENT HOMES
Each month The Taylor Center will be presenting a feature story saluting Sacramentans who are making a big difference in the lives of others. If you would like to nominate a Sacramentan or a community group, please email dk@ insidepublicaitons.com
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ho knows where precious Maya Weaver would be today without Sacramento’s Joseph and Tiffany Weaver? One thing is for sure, her life would have been dramatically
different. She may have been one of the thousands of children in Sacramento County who are forced to bounce from one foster home to the next, one bed to another, passing countless days asking herself the heart wrenching questions - Where do I belong? Does anybody really love me? Why don’t I have a mommy or a daddy? Or the simplest of questions: What is a mommy? What is a daddy? And where would the Weavers be without the young girl who in a single day became the love of their lives? Would they still be longing for the moment they could forever wrap their hearts around their baby girl? Sierra Forever Families exists to transform the lives of children by building and nurturing permanent, “forever” adoptions. The organization pairs children like Maya who were destined for a life in the foster care system, with parents like the Weavers who wanted nothing more than to love Maya forever. Not just for a week, a month, a year. Not just until she graduated high school. But forever. In Sacramento there are more than 3,000 children like Maya who live in foster care. For many of these children, life is a steady stream of doors that close as fast as they open. Attachment issues develop fast. A sense of feeling safe and truly loved fades into the background as they are shuffled from household to household. Adding insult to injury, then comes the cruel reality of these children becoming too old to ever find a permanent family or becoming an adult and aging out of the foster care system altogether. This often means the child is now out in the great big world on their own, never to have a family of their own. Tiffany Weaver was adopted herself and knows first-hand the value a loving family provides. She wanted to give back the gift of love to her own daughter. She and her husband, News10 producer Joseph, reached out to Sierra Forever Families knowing the organization could help make their dreams a reality. Sierra Forever Families offers several options for helping connect
Sierra Forever Families helped connect Joseph and Tiffany Weaver with their daughter, Maya
foster children with parents like the Weavers. Parents can adopt and/or mentor children serving in the foster care system. Individuals, groups or organizations can donate funds to help place foster children with loving mentors or permanent parents. There is no fee to adopt through Sierra Forever Families. Single, married or those living in domestic partnerships are eligible to become adopting parents. Eligible parents do not need to own their own home. The only real requirement is to be willing to be a parent to a child not born to you. The organization estimates it costs $5,000 to place a foster child into a permanent home. Sierra Forever Families offers orientations for those interested in adoption on the second Monday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at their office on Watt Avenue and Folsom Boulevard. For more information on how you can enhance a child’s life through giving, contact the staff at Sierra Forever Families at 368-5114 or visit them online at WWW.SIERRAFF.ORG
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rts lovers: Plan to run, walk or simply watch on Saturday, Aug. 22, in beautiful, shady William Land Park while you support your favorite arts program. The 17th annual Race for the Arts benefits California’s nonprofit performing, literary, cultural and visual arts organizations and school music, literary, drama and art programs. Every penny of your pledge will benefit your designated group or program. After the run, stick around for a post-run party and arts festival. The 5k run/walk begins at 8:35 a.m. Registration fees are $30 for adults and $15 for kids by Aug. 17; starting Aug. 18, the fee for adults goes up to $35. To register or for more information, go to raceforthearts.com The event officially kicks off at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, with Off to the Races, a food and wine tasting extravaganza in the courtyard of the Pavilions shopping center on Fair Oaks Boulevard. Guests will listen to music from the Sacramento Guitar
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DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY A Clockwork Ball, otherwise known as Gender Bender Ball, is the biggest annual fundraiser/party for Gender Health Center. The center provides counseling and therapy services to anyone who self-identifies or is perceived to be gender variant. This is year six of the ball, and the theme is steampunk. The event takes place Saturday, Aug. 15, at Sacramento International Hotel (925 H St.). The event organizers say not to worry if you don’t know what steampunk is: Just wear your best Victorian-era gadget-infused genderbending costume. Tickets are $20. For tickets and more information, go to thegenderhealthcenter.org
RAPTORS AND REPTILES: OH MY! If you love raptors and reptiles, August is the month for you. The Wildlife Care Association at McLellan Business Park is offering classes for the public about these flying and crawling creatures, with a session devoted to raptors on Sunday, Aug. 2, and reptile training on Sunday, Aug.
16. Both classes begin at 10 a.m. and are free for WCA volunteers, $10 for nonmembers. To sign up for a class, email your full name, phone number, class name and group affiliation to wcarehabilitation@yahoo.com
BRAIN FREEZE If you haven’t yet gotten your fill of animals, or if you’re just too darn hot, get ready for the Sacramento Zoo’s 31st annual Ice Cream Safari on Saturday, Aug. 15. While you’re licking Baskin-Robbins ice cream and sipping Coca-Cola drinks, you can be exchanging glances with a tiger or following the antics of an orangutan. Just remember to keep the treats to yourself! The event, which is for the whole family, is from 4 to 8 p.m., and the ice cream is all-you-can-eat. The zoo closes at 1:30 that day. Tickets are $17 adults, $13 for children before Aug. 13, $20 and $15 after.
will be a no-host bar, a prize raffle and the opportunity to meet some of the zoo’s Animal Ambassadors, such as an African hedgehog or a ball python. Tickets are $40 by Aug. 22, $45 after. Seating for the event, which will be from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at 2350 Florin Road, is limited, so make reservations. For more information, go to saczoo.org
A PARTY FOR ANIMAL LOVERS Still have an urge to help the four-footed community? Front Street Animal Shelter will pull out all the stops to celebrate the work of local volunteers who save thousands of animals each year. The Paws to Party event will be held Friday, Aug. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m.at California Automobile Museum (2200 Front St.). Guests will enjoy food, wine and beer, live music and a silent auction. Tickets are $50
Get ready for the Sacramento Zoo’s 31st annual Ice Cream Safari on Saturday, Aug. 15.
in advance, $60 at the door. For tickets and more information, go to pawstoparty.weebly.com The shelter, run by the city of Sacramento, does far more than simply care for lost and abandoned animals in the region. Its volunteers transport sick or injured stray animals to the emergency vet, rescue animals locked inside hot cars,
You’ll have another chance to help the zoo on Tuesday, Aug. 25, during Bingo Night at Florin Road Bingo. Tickets include dinner, nonalcoholic drinks and eight rounds of bingo with the chance to win cash prizes. There
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Red Dot Gallery presents Common Threads: New/Recent Work by Lisa Neal, Laurie Vanina and Lynne Cunningham. Shown right: “Going the Back Streets” by Lynne Cunningham. The show runs through Aug. 5 to 29. 2231 J St.; reddotgallery.com
Gallery Atelier 20 is featuring Urban Layers: new plein air paintings by Abigail VanCannon. Shown below: “Marina” by VanCannon. Show runs Aug. 8 - Sept 5. 915 20th St. kristihughesdesign.com
Artspace 1616 presents works by Susan Silvester through Aug 30. Shown above:“Huntress” By Silvester. Artspace is at 1616 Del Paso Blvd.
Tim Collom Gallery presents New Works by Richard Stein from Aug. 8 - Sept. 5. Shown below: “Valley Rivers Confluence” by Stein. 915 20th St. timcollomgallery.com
Patris Studio and Gallery feautures a student/instructor exhibition of the artists who study and teach at the studio in August. Shown below: “Black Vase “ by Patris.. 3460 2nd Avenue.
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In Living Color LOCAL WATERCOLORIST ILLUMINATES LIFE IN ALL ITS HUES
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or Sacramento painter Judy Lew Loose, every canvas begins with “feeling, feeling, feeling.” Her first artistic feeling goes back to kindergarten, when she felt wonder from mixing colors with her fingers. She knew then she wanted to be an artist, but when Loose shared the idea with her parents, they told her no. “It was my first experience of feeling severely rejected by my parents,” admits Loose, who took to drawing under the bed sheets with a flashlight. “My whole life, I felt ashamed that I was an artist.” That rejection didn’t prevent Loose from pursuing her dream, and over the past two decades she’s become one of Sacramento’s most recognizable artists. Her work has been featured in magazines and books, galleries and competitions, as well as on numerous covers of Inside Publications. Loose was born in Sacramento, and after high school she enrolled in San Francisco’s Academy of Art University as a fine arts major. She slept on the floor of her aunt’s onebedroom apartment—“with roaches,” says Loose. “I woke up one morning saying I can’t live like this. I can’t make a living being a fine artist.” So Loose switched to the more practical graphic design major and transferred to New York’s Pratt Institute, where she studied advertising, graphic and package design. After Pratt, Loose worked as a package designer in New York City while living in a basement. “But basically I had moved from one box to another box,” she admits, and under
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Waterolor artist Judy Lew Loose at work in her home studio
the weight of student loans, Loose returned to Sacramento during her late 20s. As Loose worked three jobs as a freelance designer to pay off her student debt, painting became a distant memory. “My focus was not about being, but about surviving,” says Loose. Then she landed a graphic
design position with SMUD (where she’s worked for 23 years), married and had her first child. Life began to settle down, and Loose enrolled in a night course at Sacramento City College studying watercolor painting. “After the kid went to sleep,” says Loose, “I’d have an hour or two to
paint, then get up by 5 a.m. and go to work. That was my routine.” Loose had studied acrylic and oil painting in college, but never watercolor. The night course opened her to a new medium, which in turn opened her to a new way to express her emotions. “There’s just something about water,” says Loose, explaining the allure of watercolor. “I love water, maybe because I’m Pisces; I’m a fish.” She describes the color and texture as smooth, relaxing, soothing, sensations she tries to express in her paintings. “I want people to have a sense of calmness and serenity when they look at my paintings,” she says. Watercolor can be a challenging medium, with a tendency to run or bleed on paper. The process can be slow, since watercolor paints must dry before additional layers are applied. Many galleries told Loose she’d more likely sell paintings if she painted in oil, but Loose says it was never her goal in life to sell paintings, only to paint. Through watercolor, Loose developed what she calls a hybrid style, “a half-and-half” between traditional brushstrokes and pointillism, the method developed by French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat. Pointillism uses small, separate dots, like pixels in a screen, to create a larger image, grasped as a whole. Pointillism provides layers of paints, allowing Loose to use vibrant, nearly neon colors, the hallmarks of her latest paintings. As a watercolorist, Loose recognizes the medium does not command critical attention. She mentions the British painter J.M.W. Turner, but otherwise, says Loose, “there’s not many that stand out.” She would like to see watercolors “garner the same respect as oils,” she says “I want
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Loose's watercolors have been featured on more than a dozen Inside covers
it to have a place in the museum someday.” Her own artistic aspirations are no less ambitious. “I want to find that one angle where it’s so different that no one would ever see it that way,” says Loose. Ultimately, she hopes her paintings touch people’s lives. “That’s why I create what I do,” explains Loose. “As an artist, follow your emotions. It’s honest and real. That’s what real work is about.” In her paintings, Loose has focused on a variety of subjects: flowers, Sacramento cityscapes, children. But seven years ago marked a turning
point for Loose. “I was burning the candle at both ends,” she explains. “I got sick, my mom got cancer, I was going through a separation and divorce.” Simply put, Loose crashed. During a four-day stay in the ER. she asked herself: “If I make it out of here, what would I paint? What would make a difference in someone’s life?” Soon thereafter, she began a series of portraits of Sacramento’s homeless. Through personal relationships, Loose painted about 20 subjects. “I was trying to paint them with dignity,” she explains. “They’re human, just like me and you.” The
series still travels between churches, encouraging donations to support Sacramento homeless. Loose’s paintings are an expression of feeling, sometimes raw emotion, even pain. She doesn’t shy away from admitting her dark periods, though you’d never guess it from her use of bright colors. “But I’m at a different stage of life,” says Loose. “My paintings are different now. I’m doing more shadows and reflections, perhaps because I’m reflecting on my past life.”
Judy Lew Loose will join Inside Publications publisher Cecily Hastings on Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Sacramento Central Library. Hastings will be talking about the history of Inside Publications’ cover art as part of the library’s Art in August program. The presentation starts at 6 p.m. The library is at 828 I St. For more information, go to saclibrary.org For more information about Judy Lew Loose, go to lewloosewatercolors. com n
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Race for the Arts 17TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER LACES IT UP AUG. 22 AT WILLIAM LAND PARK
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trap on your running shoes and pile up the pledges for your favorite California nonprofit visual, performing, cultural or literary arts organization or school music, drama or literary art program at the 17th annual Race for the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 22 at William Land Park. Whether you’re a serious sprinter or more of a fun-runner, the 5k Run/ Walk at 8:35 a.m. will have plenty of picturesque scenery to take in as you jog or walk by. If you have a tyke who wants in on the action, register him or her for the Kids Fun Run at 8:10 a.m. Once you’ve sweated for your cause of choice (although pledges are not required to run the race), enjoy the all-day Arts Festival, which will include an Instrumental Discovery Zone; hands-on activity booths where you can make a hat, get your face painted or learn some new dance moves; a visit from the Sacramento County Library Bookmobile; booths with art for sale; food trucks with delectable fare; and nonstop
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The 17th annual Race for the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 22 at William Land Park
entertainment on the amphitheater stage. Participating arts groups and programs will receive 100 percent of the pledges designated to them. Over the past 16 years, 214 arts groups and schools have benefited from the event. Ready for some pre-gaming? Don’t miss the Off to the Races Food & Wine Tasting event the weekend before the race from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at Pavilions Shopping Center (563 Pavilions Lane off Fair Oaks Boulevard).
Groups of 10 runners or more will receive a 20 percent discount and all registered participants will receive an event T-shirt, refreshments and exclusively designed socks by Trumpette. So what are you waiting for? Register now at raceforthearts. com For more information, call 9668893. William Land Park is at 3800 South Land Park Drive.
THE PLAY’S THE THING The year is 1952. The setting? Sacramento. And you’re the first black family on your block. “When We Were Colored,” a play by Ginger Rutland—yes, the former television reporter, NPR commentator and editorial writer for The Sacramento Bee—based on her mother Eva’s memoir of the same name, premieres on Friday, Aug. 21 and plays through Aug. 30 at Pioneer Congregational Church in midtown.
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The play, like the book from which its springs, tells the story of a middle-class black woman born and raised in the segregated South before World War II who moves West to raise her children in “integrated” California after the war—tough-as-nails Eva Rutland herself. Hear the poignant realities of her trials and tribulations as dramatized by her talented daughter. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. on Sundays, with 2 p.m. Saturday matinees, from Aug. 21-30. For tickets and more information, call 443-3727 or go to brownpapertickets. com Pioneer Congregational Church is at 2700 L St.
‘I JUST MET A GIRL NAMED MARIA’ Ready to have your heart broken and your socks rocked off? The final two shows of the Music Circus season are in full swing under the Wells Fargo Pavilion big top: “West Side Story” on Aug. 4-9 and “Hair” on Aug. 18-23. First up is the Leonard Bernstein/ Stephen Sondheim musical masterpiece “West Side Story,” the 20th century retelling of the ill-fated Romeo and Juliet romance. Timeless tunes in the star-studded score include “Tonight,” “Maria” and “Somewhere,” and this year’s Music Circus cast will include some gems of its own: Carolann Sanita, who has performed all over the country in
regional theaters and starred in the national tour of “The Music Man,” will play Maria; Justin Matthew Sargent, who has spent the past four years on Broadway playing lead roles in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Rock of Ages” and “Bonnie & Clyde,” will play Tony; Desiree Davar, who has danced on “Glee,” will reprise her role from the Broadway production and tour of “West Side” as Anita; and Sacramento’s own Dave Pierini will play Officer Krupke. Make sure to bring your tissues! As a special option to the season for subscribers, and added fun for singleticket buyers, the groundbreaking rock ’n’ roll musical “Hair” will return to Music Circus for the first time since 1976. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam era, the show follows a group of youth revolutionaries in the late 1960s and includes such well-known songs as “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Aquarius” and “Good Morning Starshine.” The cast will include veterans from London’s West End as well as Broadway, several national tours and off-Broadway productions as well as TV and film. For tickets and more information, call 557-1999 or go to californiamusicaltheatre.com The Wells Fargo Pavilion is at 1419 H St.
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SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK Dun dun … dun dun … dun dun … If you could name that ominous film score in two notes or less, don’t miss the screening of “Jaws” as part of the Crocker Art Museum’s Courtyard Classic Film Series at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6. The 1975 Steven Spielberg classic that’s made swimming in the ocean traumatic for generations of moviegoers will be screened large for all to see from their lawn chairs and blankets (seating is also provided) in the museum’s E. Kendell Davis Courtyard. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets are only $5 for museum members, $6 for students/youths, $8 for nonmembers. If you’re hungry before the film, tuck into a delicious three-course dinner with wine at the Crocker Café by Supper Club. For reservations and pricing, call 8081289. If you prefer soothing piano to man-eating sharks, don’t miss the Classical Concert featuring pianist Andrei Baumann at 3 p.m. on
Sunday, Aug. 9. The program will feature the landscapes of sound of a Franz Schubert sonata and the Impressionistic imagery of Maurice Ravel inspired by the ongoing Armin Hansen exhibit. Tickets are $6 for museum members, $10 for students/ youths and Capital Public Radio members, $12 for nonmembers. Calling all drag (race) kings and queens! Art Mix Drag is the place to be from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13 when the Crocker’s monthly after-hours party features live music by the Troublemakers, a rip-roaring DJ, electric RC car races and, of course, a special edition of Drag Queen Bingo. The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. Enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all evening. Cool off on a sweltering summer night with breezy tunes from Jazz Night on Thursday, Aug. 20 featuring Cynthia Douglas on the Café Stage at 5:15 p.m. and Ron Moton on the Main PREVIEWS page 72
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CLASS OF ’65, WHERE ARE YOU? If you graduated from the Hiram W. Johnson Senior High Class of 1965, your classmates are looking for you! The 50th class reunion will take place from 6:30 p.m. to midnight on Sept. 19 at the Old Sacramento Embassy Suites, but the reservation deadline is fast approaching on Aug. 1. So, if you want to see some familiar faces from way back—come on, aren’t you curious?—go to the website johnsonclassof65.com or call Fred Claussen at 718-6824. Happy reuniting!
THE (NOT SO) SILENT TREATMENT If the thought of mimes brings up images of sad-faced clowns in striped shirts and white gloves, you’ve never seen the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. For one Sacramento performance only (at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29 in Southside Park) see the mind-blowing storytelling troupe and its newest show, “Freedomland,” which has taken the country by storm. Though mimes don’t generally talk, the troupe’s dynamic description of their frenetic performance piece speaks for itself. “A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their deadly gunsights on … an old black man watching TV on his couch? This isn’t Baghdad or Kandahar—it’s home, and for ex-Black Panther Malcolm Haywood, it’s just another wrong-door police raid in the War on Drugs. Of course, Malcolm is horrified when the grandson he’s tried to protect, Nathaniel, returns from serving in Afghanistan only to find another war zone at home—and one where young black men like Nathaniel are in the crosshairs! “Meanwhile, the mayor and the police chief—one desperate for votes, the other desperate to fund his
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militarized police force—ramp up the fear (and their shiny new tank) to fight the newest drug threat to America …worse than weed, meth, coke, crack or crank, it’s …SNORF! And, of course, the SNORF trade is centered in the darkest part of town. “Are the police out of control? What happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty?’ Is Malcolm’s neighbor Lluis (an undocumented immigrant) actually a SNORF-lord? And can Malcolm convince his grandson that it is safer to re-up and fight overseas than to try to survive here at home in Freedomland?” “Freedomland” is written by Michael Gene Sullivan with music and lyrics by Ira Marlowe. Music will start at 4:30 p.m. prior to the performance. For tickets and more information, go to sfmt.org Southside Park is at Sixth and T streets.
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Don't miss “Spring Awakening” playing at the West Sacramento Community Center. Photo courtesy of Debbie Soto.
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Self-discovery. Budding sexuality. Teen love. And alternative rock? All of these forces collide in the groundbreaking rock musical “Spring Awakening,” which will be produced by Flying Monkey Productions on Aug. 28, 29 and 30 and Sept. 4 and 5
at the West Sacramento Community Center. Based on the 1891 play of the same name by Frank Wedekind, the musical, which nabbed eight Tony Awards for its Broadway premiere in 2006, is set in late 19th century Germany and features a folk-rockinfused score to underline the tumult of the young cast of characters’ budding teenage sexuality. All of the teen roles will be played by actual teenagers, in keeping with the ethos of Flying Monkey Productions, whose express purpose in producing is to give young people the opportunity to run the artistic duties of a theater production as well as perform onstage. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28; at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29; at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30; at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4; and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5. For tickets and more information, call 215-9077 or go to flyingmonkeyproductions.org The West Sacramento Community Center is at 1075 West Capitol Ave.
IT TAKES TWO When you first see the art pieces on display at b. sakata garo gallery in midtown, you might think they
look like the work of two minds on one surface. Well, you’d be right— the pieces are the products of a collaboration between artists and close friends Robert-Jean Ray and Lou Bermingham, which makes the title of their exhibition, “2Thoughts,” all the more apt. When the two first met at b. sakato garo in 2009, neither knew what was in store for them six years later. Ray specializes in extremely small, intricate, mixed-media collage pieces that are the size of matchboxes, while Bermingham creates large, gestural abstract paintings that convey the vastness and wonder of the universe. When the two decided to collaborate this year, there were only a few parameters: After agreeing on a size format, the artists selected surfaces such as heavy stock paper and wood of various sizes and shapes (square, rectangle, horizontal, vertical) and split each in half. Each artist then created an art piece on the left or right, top or bottom, then shipped the completed halves to one another and responded to each of the contributions. (They later discovered they were also both listening to jazz while working. If that’s not a case of great minds thinking alike, we don’t know what is.) The results are stunning and not to be missed. “2Thoughts” will be on exhibit Aug. 4-29. For more information, call 447-4276 or go to bsakatagaro.com The gallery is at 923 20th St.
IT TAKES THREE See California through the eyes of three artists at ARTHOUSE on R’s current exhibition “The Poetic Landscape,” featuring paintings by Jeremy Duncan, James Leland and Judith Perry from Aug. 8 through Sept. 10. Duncan has spent most of his life in Northern California and he enjoys working en plein air in the styles of his artistic idols Edgar Payne, John Carlson and John Singer Sargent. For Leland, his artistic eye is employed not just on canvas, but also in designing homes, communities and cities in his work as a community developer. He ventured into oil
painting in 2011 and has never looked back. “What fascinates me is to attempt to capture the essence of a physical place,” Leland explains. “Whether man-made or natural, there are qualities innate to a place. Those qualities are what we remember when we long to return to a place that is special to us. Oil painting is the perfect medium for that expression.” Perry has been working in the medium of pastels for more than 10 years under the tutelage of renowned artists such as Anita Wolff, Terry Miura, Kim Lordier and Gil Dellinger. Since she loves capturing the beauty of the California coastline, the Sierra mountains and the southern deserts, it’s no surprise that she’s an avid member of the California Art Club. Meet this talented trio in person at the Second Saturday opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 8. For more information, call 455-4988 or go to arthouseonr.com ARTHOUSE on R is at 1021 R St.
B-I-N-G-OH! Want to try your luck and change someone else’s, all while surrounded by the bawdy fun of Sacramento’s vibrant drag queen community? Look no further than the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce’s Drag Queen Bingo event, Sacramento’s long-running monthly charity fundraiser formerly managed by Outword Media Marketing Events. Since its inception in August 2009, this fabulous fundraiser has raised more than $100,000 for local nonprofit organizations, including WEAVE, Alzheimer’s Association, NorCal AIDS Cycle, Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Gender Health Center and Front Street Animal Shelter, to name a few. The do-gooding and fun-having will continue every first Thursday of the month at Mango’s on K Street from 7 to 9 p.m. under the chamber’s new management. “The Outword team and I are very proud of the support we have provided for local nonprofit organizations with Drag Queen Bingo,” says Fred
Palmer, president and publisher of Outword Media Marketing Events. “The event is still successful and more popular than ever, but I have taken on other business and personal commitments, and it is simply time for us to let another organization take it on. “We felt very strongly that we wanted to be sure Drag Queen Bingo would be operated by an organization with a solid staff and volunteer base and the infrastructure to keep it going and make it even better. We have confidence that the chamber will be a good steward of the event.” “The chamber board is honored to take on the mission of continuing this great event that has done so much good in our community,” Sacramento Rainbow Chamber President Paul Weubbe concurs. “We’re excited to have the opportunity and want to use it as a way of connecting our LGBT community and causes with the greater Sacramento community. And we know it will be a lot of fun!” The Aug. 6 game will benefit the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Sept. 3 game will benefit the Camellia Gay Softball Tournament. And as always, the games will be emceed by Sacramento’s favorite drag personalities Rusty Nails, Felicity Diamond and Do Me Moore, which means the ribald fun for good causes will continue in full force. For more information, call the Rainbow Chamber office at 266-9630 or go to rainbowchamber.com Mango’s is at 1930 K St.
I’LL TAKE ‘NOUNS’ FOR $1,000, ALEX Check out the beautiful nouns on display at Gallery 2110 this month, specifically “People, Places & Things,” a new show by artist Jan Winterstein. Winterstein is a native of Northern California who was originally educated in interior design but quickly realized that she wanted to express herself in brushstrokes rather than buildings. Her vibrant oil, watercolor and acrylic pieces showcase her abilities with landscape, still life and figurative work, and
they include a clever nod to her former career in interiors: She uses refurbished frames around her works of art, refinishing and painting each one to uniquely complement the painting it’s paired with. In keeping with the mission of Gallery 2110 to support nonprofit organizations, proceeds from the show will go to the New Life Pregnancy Center, where Winterstein is a volunteer counselor. The center offers compassionate care, practical help and accurate information for those facing unplanned pregnancy. Meet Winterstein in person at the artist preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6 or at the Second Saturday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 8. For more information, call 333-3493 or go to gallery2110.com Gallery 2110 is at 1023 Del Paso Blvd. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event. n
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The King of R Street FOX & GOOSE CELEBRATES 40 YEARS
BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER
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Street is the newest, hippest, slickest stretch in Sacramento, with new clubs, bars, restaurants, artists lofts, even a barber bar. (That’s a bar and hair-cutting establishment in one, not to be confused with a drinking establishment featuring elephants, which would be a Babar bar.) Walk down R and everything looks new and bustling and fresh. However, the old Hollywood saying applies to old neighborhoods: There’s no such thing as an overnight success. Folks don’t just stumble on an empty patch of ground and infuse it with culture, class and desirability. Some group of like-minded people has been laying the foundation, doing the hard work and the small things that make a city a city and not just an overgrown mall. In this instance, the institution most responsible for the flourishing of R Street is Fox & Goose Public House. Opened in 1975, FnG was the baby of Bill and Denise Dalton. Inspired by a 200-year-old pub of the same name in Bill’s hometown of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, Sacramento’s Fox & Goose eschewed comfy, low-ceilinged, country-pub décor and instead made its home in an old paint and glass factory built in 1913. What the hefty brick building lacks in coziness, it makes up for in space and good cheer. With a soaring, thickbeamed roof and a nearly endless façade of brick, there’s no doubting that this place is, first and foremost, a pub. Its history is that of a great watering hole, a place where
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lawmakers and law breakers rubbed shoulders, where many a pint was spilled, where many a fight ended with hugs and tears, where hearts were broken and fences mended. In other words, it’s a proper pub that serves a proper pint. The Daltons sold the establishment to their daughter Allyson in the ’90s. She, in turn, sold the place just this year to longtime employees Jessa Berkey and Peter Monson. There are no plans to make any substantive changes—music to the regulars’ ears. When it first opened in 1975, the R Street row was mainly industrial. The road itself was in constant disrepair, and the surrounding neighborhood was, to use a polite word, transitional.
Through 40 years that saw great transformations in our town, FnG held down its corner at R and 10th. There have been subtle changes (a recent remodel helped with accessibility, expanded the outdoor seating, updated the loo and carved out a lovely back room perfect for large parties and special events), but any visitors from 1975 would walk in the front door and immediately know they were at the ’Goose. These days, Fox & Goose is known for many things: great music, great breakfasts and English expats among them. Breakfast is definitely the best thing coming out of the kitchen. Starting everyday at 6:30 a.m.,
there’s a fine combination of English ingredients and California cooking to be had. Traditional bangers, Heinz baked beans, grilled tomato and all the other fixings make up the “Full English” plate each morning. Housemade scones with Devonshire cream are a rare delight, and there aren’t many other places in town where you can get a hot buttered crumpet. Not all the food is traditionally English, however. Standard American breakfast fare can be had, as well as more modern plates like tofu scrambles and freshly made quiche. The standout, however, is the Welsh rarebit, a housemade cheese sauce so decadent as to be nearly
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This Month at the Market
A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN AUGUST
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This vegetable gets a bad rap for its sometimes-slimy texture. It’s a staple in Southern cuisine, particular gumbo. It’s low in calories—as long as you don’t fry it! To eat: Grill, roast or pickle.
This delicious stone fruit is a relative of the peach, nectarine and (surprise) almond. When dried, it’s a prune. To eat: Eat out of hand, or slice and bake for a cobbler, pie or upside-down cake.
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This root vegetable is packed with beta carotene. Classically orange in color, it also comes in white, red, yellow and purple varieties. Look for tender baby carrots at the market. To eat: For a cooling summer soup, make carrot vichyssoise.
This melon has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It belongs to the cucurbit family of plants, which includes cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes. To eat: Using cantaloupe, Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis makes an unusual and tasty dish called Spaghetti al Melone.
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1131 K St. 443-3772
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com
Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
Estelle's Patisserie
901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com
Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768
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Sun: 10 AM – 2 PM
HAPPY HOUR Tue – Fri: 3 PM – 6 PM
D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants. com
The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. 442-4772
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L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
Frank Fat’s
806 L St. 442-7092
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
Il Fornaio
400 Capitol Mall 446-4100
L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com
Grange
926 J Street • 492-4450 7042 Folsom Blvd ∫ (916) 476-4508 ∫ www.fahrenheitbbq.com
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B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com
1415 L St. 440-8888
Mikuni Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com
Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960
D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space
Rio City Café
1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com
Ten 22
1022 Second St. 441-2211
L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
LAND PARK Freeport Bakery
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256
B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
Jamie's Bar and Grill
427 Broadway 442-4044
L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Riverside Clubhouse
2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988
L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
Taylor's Kitchen
2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154
D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Tower Café
1518 Broadway 441-0222
B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting
Willie's Burgers
2415 16th St. 444-2006
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Coldwell Banker CARMICHAEL RIVERFRONT Heart stopping views up, down and across the American River Parkway from the lovely home on this high bank property. $1,545,000 JOHN GUDEBSKI 870-6016 CalBRE#1854491
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