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Four Ways to Accomplish Your 2021 Remodel Goals T

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But how exactly can you obtain that remodel of your dreams? How do you translate those beautiful houzz.com Ideabooks, Pinterest boards, and saved Instagram images into that space you’ve been dreaming of for years? As I approach my 20th year in the construction industry, I think I’ve seen most, if not all, of the project delivery methods in action. From the homeowner that is still working on that remodel years later to the well-oiled machine that is kitchen & bath CRATE, knocking out projects right and left in a few weeks. But here’s the secret: there is no one right answer. Each delivery method below has it’s place, depending on the homeowner’s knowledge, experience, patience, budget, and risk tolerance. Some people value time, some people value money, and some people value quality! So here we go, the four ways you can accomplish your 2021 remodel.

Do-It-Yourself For the homeowner with a ton of time and construction knowledge, the DIY method might be best. Between Home Depot and

YouTube, the experienced home remodeler can make some serious progress on a project without having another soul work on the job. But while the cost can be low, the time invested is enormous, and many homeowners find they bit off more than they can chew. But if a homeowner has the knowledge, experience, patience, and fortitude to DIY, by all means, this might be a viable way to go!

Owner/Contractor For the homeowner with strong renovation knowledge who lacks time to do the work themselves physically, the owner/contractor method might be a good fit. While the cost is more than the DIY approach (since you’re hiring individual professionals), the project duration should be a bit less since more than one or two people will be working on the project. The drawbacks? Finding the right subcontractors and suppliers can be tricky, and scheduling them even more problematic. The “my cabinet guy won’t call me back” problem is rampant in the home improvement industry. Let’s face it; the owner/contractor is just a small fish for the subs and suppliers compared to their larger general contractor clients. But if you have the knowledge and the connections and want to

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The “Guy in a Pickup Truck” If a homeowner is looking for less hands-on coordination but has a tight budget, the “guy in a pickup truck” might be just what they need. You know whom I’m talking about; it’s the guy you hear mostly good things about who shows up with his nephew and gets a little bit done each day. He may not be the fastest, he may not be the cleanest, he may ask you to go pick out your tile the day before he’s supposed to START the tile, but he’s just so darn nice you can’t get too mad at him, right?

• The highest possible quality of labor and materials • Complete design services integrated into the materials being ordered • An exceptional warranty (at least two years for any company worth their salt) The disadvantage? You guessed it; the price is higher than the other methods. After all, these features and benefits carry a cost, and a company that does not cover its costs does not stay in business very long. That’s simply the laws of economics. So no matter which method you choose, I wish you the utmost success on your 2021 projects. If our team can help, give us a call. We’re here for you!

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grew up in a small Michigan town with a lovely Main Street. Local merchants owned the shops and cafes. My mom and dad were friendly with many of these small business owners. We knew their children and they knew us. A large part of what attracted my husband and me to East Sacramento was the small-town attitude that supported local merchants. When we bought our vintage 1925 home in 1989, one of the first neighborhood shops we discovered was East Sac Hardware at 48th Street and Folsom Boulevard. I’m sad to report the store will close at the end of February. The closure is based on several reasons. I’ve been honored to call owner Sheree Johnston a close friend for many years, and I’d like to share the story. For starters, Sheree is turning 65 and wants to retire from running a

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retail operation. “Retail is always tough because of the need to deal with the public,” she says. “But COVID just made everything even more difficult. We had to deal with masks and sanitizing, stock levels running low from vendor supply chain problems, and, worst of all, an ever-increasing number of rude and cranky customers.” Sheree also blames social media for making the life very difficult for small retailers. “We've been theatened repeatedly with negative Yelp and Nextdoor reviews for just enforcing our very reasonable store return policies,” she says. “Online bullying is a big issue for small businesses.” Her two adult children—Rick and Jo—worked alongside their mother for many years with an eye to taking over the store. But they both have decided to pursue other interests. In recent years, Sheree looked for a buyer. With local retail in decline, she knew the odds were slim. She found no takers. The good news for her family is they own the property that houses the hardware store and adjoining OneSpeed restaurant. Sheree says, “In February, 1984, we closed escrow on the original hardware store and building. Later as the adjoining property sections became

available, we bought down the entire corner block.” Over the years, tenants have come and gone. They included Muffins, Etc., Café Milazzo, Pet Set and Heart Strings. Sheree ran a stationery and gift shop called Austin Chase. OneSpeed has been a tenant for the past decade. East Sac Hardware has faced many challenges over the years. Sheree says, “2008 was a make or break time for us with the recession and a huge downturn in construction. Our business decreased 30 percent overnight. If we were going to survive, we needed a whole new approach to managing the store.” To keep her employees and local trades people working, she decided to revamp the store. Sheree spent the next two years putting a new face—both interior and exterior—on East Sac Hardware. During this time, they never missed an hour of operation. Before the 2008 recession, the opening of Home Depot on Power Inn Road in 2000 was the biggest threat. But personalized service, expert advice, a focus on American-made merchandise and time-tested products worked to make the local hardware store profitable.

“I ran an advertising campaign called ‘We’re Home, No Depot,’” Sheree says. “We also invested in improvements to the outside of the building and the streetscape.” She commissioned a mural painted on the side of the building, emphasizing it’s a family-run establishment. Under Sheree’s management, the store grew in many directions. “We brought in the Benjamin Moore premium paint line and added a garden center in our back outside space,” she says. “Our gift department took time to develop, but ended up a very successful part of the shop.” The addition of a toy and children’s book department became ESH’s biggest growth area. To stay current with the industry, Sheree attended national hardware and gift trade shows each year. “I love Christmas decorations and we grew that department over the years, working as a sponsor for the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour.” More recently the threat has been from Amazon, along with the homeless trying to live on the sidewalks surrounding her store. All is not lost for our community. Sheree plans to redevelop the property with the possibility of a mixed-use

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With all the chaos and uncertainty 2020 brought, practicing gratitude feels especially important. Did you know, research is starting to show that expressing gratitude can actually make you happier? I am trying to practice gratitude more than ever and I have been working to give back to local and national charities. As a supporter of Thistle Farms and the “Love Heals” movement, I am inspired by the work that is being done to help women survivors. Ask me about my new charity project, Conscious Commission Program. Grateful, as always to my clients for their trust and confidence in me. Cheryl

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/DiezandSiggProperties | 7144 Fair Oaks Blvd. # 7, Carmichael project to include a smaller hardware store. She will soon dedicate herself to plans, approvals and getting it built. She adds, “This building is 91 years old and is in many ways worn out. It needs to be updated for future uses, energy efficiency and to meet current codes.” A few of her employees will retire as closing day approaches. She found jobs for the others. Sheree’s career has been diverse. She finds success in whatever she does. She has a business and management background, but earned a master’s degree in education and taught at Kit Carson Middle School for a decade. The Sacramento Business Journal honored her in 2018 as a “Woman Who Means Business.” She has received awards from the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. She’s donated her time and money to Pops in the Park, Friends of East Sacramento for the McKinley Rose Garden and Clunie Community Center, Sacred Heart

Parish School and St. Francis Catholic High School. “I’m looking forward to my next chapter of my life,” Sheree says. “My true interest lies in education and having an impact on young people. I miss working with young people.” She’ll continue working with St. Francis High School’s “Troubies Who Mean Business” club—a concept she developed to advance business and financial literacy among young women. Later in February, items in the store will be discounted. Stop by, find a deal and say farewell to this hardworking and dedicated local store owner, her children and her staff. They have given so much service to our neighborhood over the decades and deserve our gratitude. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublictions.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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he Crocker Park Redevelopment and Expansion Project has hit a bit of a snag due to the pandemic. City project manager Richard Rich and Crocker Art Museum CEO Lial Jones recently announced the project’s 500-space parking garage is on hold indefinitely. The parking garage was part of the expansion project, which includes an art-focused park in the 3-acre open space across from the museum. The original plan was for the Crocker Art Museum Association, which runs the museum, to fund and build the community park and gallery, and for the city to fund and build the parking garage with bond financing backed by city parking revenue. Since the pandemic has caused a huge reduction in parking revenue, bond financing has been put on hold.

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The association will go ahead with its part of the project—funded by more than $40 million raised from private individuals—which essentially decouples the two projects. “We do know that parking demand will return in the future,” Jones says. “We also know that right now, more than ever, good useable outdoor space is extremely valuable for community programming, and we want to be able to move forward and make Crocker Park a really useable community asset in the future.”

NEW COUNCILMEMBERS Three new City Council members have officially been sworn in. Say hello to your new representatives. Sean Loloee has taken over from Allen Warren to represent District 2 (Del Paso Heights, Hagginwood, Woodlake and Robla). The owner of Viva Supermarkets says he wants to “set Sacramento as an example of what a compassionate and giving city is supposed to be.” Katie Valenzuela has replaced Steve Hansen in District 4 (Downtown, Midtown, River Oaks, Land Park, South Land Park and Little Pocket). The environmental justice consultant says, “To all of the activists and organizers and troublemakers—good trouble—that

are out there still doing the work today, my victory is a big thanks to you and the work that you’ve done.” Mai Vang, executive director of the Buck Scholars Association, is taking over for Larry Carr in District 8 (Meadowview, Parkway, North Laguna Creek and Jacinto Creek). As the child of Hmong refugees and the oldest of 16 children, Vang says she’s “always reminded that I am truly an embodiment of my ancestors’ wildest dreams.” For more information, visit cityofsacramento.org/mayor-council.

GREAT PLATES ART At the end of December, more than 1,000 seniors who were enrolled in the city’s Great Plates Delivered program received a piece of food-themed artwork in addition to their three daily restaurant-cooked meals. One of seven different pieces of art, created by local artists as part of the new initiative called “Art for the Heart,” was given to each Great Plates recipient. The initiative grew out of a project that Kelly Lindner, art galleries and collections curator at Sacramento State, launched last summer. Julius Austin, coordinator of Sacramento’s

Promise Zone, approached Lindner about delivering artwork through Great Plates, and, with the help of the Crocker Art Museum and city staff, “Art for the Heart” was born. The collaborative project provided artists, college students and teens the opportunity to build relationships and honor elders. “We know that seniors are experiencing isolation more than others,” Austin says. “Having the contact of an artist who is thinking of them is going to decrease that isolation.” The artwork was tucked into each meal bag along with a biography of the artist and postcard inviting the recipient to respond. The pieces were created by artists Luis Campos Garcia, Peter Foucault and Aida Lizalde, as well as four printmaking students from Sac State, with creative input from local teens via virtual workshops hosted by the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum and Sol Collective.

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continue without bringing people to the center. “We realized we could do a lot online that we’d never believed possible,” Solomon says. The trial is now virtually all online except for regular blood tests, which can be done at any Quest Diagnostics lab, and MRI scans. Treatment, medical visits and assessments are all conducted over Zoom, which means that “as long as you have internet access, even if you live far away from us, you can get treatment,” Solomon says. Imaging for the study takes place at the Imaging Research Center at 4701 X St. For more information or to enroll in the study, contact the recruitment coordinator at (916) 703-0119 or hsstaarstudy@ucdavis.edu.

WATER FORUM MURAL Check out one of Sacramento’s newest murals. “The Lower American River” is a stunning three-story mural by artist Stephanie Taylor, now on display at the Sacramento County Administration Building at 700 H St.

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live stream programing, photography, coloring books and murals. “COVID-19 has impacted the Latinx community disproportionately, so it is imperative that we use every resource to help educate each other on staying safe,” says Marie Acosta, artistic director of the Latino Center of Art and Culture. “Not since the WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression have the arts been placed in service of community during a national crisis.” New live streams can be viewed nearly every day at facebook.com/ sacartistcorps.

MR. & MRS. ART Archival Gallery presents MR AND MRS, an exhibition featuring works by husband and wife Richard Feese and Jadelle Andrews from Feb. 4–27. Feese’s mixed-media and assemblage sculptures are paired with Andrews’ pastel landscapes and still life inspired by the California wilderness. Visitors are welcome during normal business hours and must wear masks at all times. Archival Gallery is at 3223 Folsom Blvd. For more information, visit archivalgallery.com.

“The Lower American River” by artist Stephanie Taylor can be found at 700 H St. The piece was commissioned by the Water Forum to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The forum is a diverse group of local governments, environmentalists, water managers, business and agricultural leaders, and citizen groups working to provide a reliable and safe water supply, as well as preserve the fishery, wildlife, and recreational and aesthetic values of the lower American River. Taylor’s work depicts the river as a unique and cherished civic amenity— the only nationally designated wild and scenic river running through a major metropolitan area. For more information, visit waterforum.org/20thanniversary-artwork.

MENTOR SACRAMENTO The city of Sacramento and international nonprofit MicroMentor recently launched Mentor Sacramento, a free online business mentoring platform that connects diverse small business owners to volunteer mentors. Available in multiple languages, the platform links thousands of members in the world’s largest virtual community of entrepreneurs and mentors.

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“Especially as we emerge from the pandemic, we need to provide resources to make sure that these small businesses, often owned by women or people of color, have access to strong mentoring to make sure they are on a solid financial path to growth,” says Mayor Darrell Steinberg. Local businesses and business owners can sign up at mentor-sacramento. micromentor.org.

ARTIE AND ZAC ADVENTURES Wilhaggin dad, writer and illustrator Judeh Simon celebrates the power of the imagination in his new book, “The Adventures of Artie and Zac,” for kids ages 7–9 When his dad promises a summer adventure full of magic, young protagonist Zac finds his own intelligence is just as powerful as any magic spell when it comes to saving his new friend, a mysterious talking cat. “I’ve always wanted to write an upturned fantasy book where the main characters in the story are typical everyday people,” says Simon, a former industrial engineer and video game artist who now writes and illustrates

(and homeschools his sixth grader) fulltime. “We traditionally expect the main character in a magic book to eventually develop magical powers, but instead I wanted to highlight our own intelligence, cunning and our ability to do research as our uniquely human magical gifts.” The book is full of beautiful illustrations—Simon grew up drawing his own comic books—that contain tons of little details “to provide fuel for the imagination.” “The Adventures of Artie and Zac” is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers. Follow Simon on Instagram @JudehSimon for “doodles, sketches and half-cooked ideas.”

ARTIST CORPS The Latino Center of Art and Culture, in partnership with Teatro Nagual and Teatro Espejo, has founded Sacramento Artist Corps, a collaborative effort putting artists to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The corps is funded by the city of Sacramento’s Office of Art and Culture and includes more than 40 artists and 60 works of art, poetry, songs, theater,

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT GIFT Women’s Empowerment recently received $75,000 from Wells Fargo—one of the organization’s longest and largest funders—to support programming for women who are currently homeless or have recently experienced homelessness. Women’s Empowerment combines employment readiness, self-esteem courses, health services and education, counseling, housing assistance, job placement and paid job training to help women and their families overcome homelessness. To date, the organization has graduated 1,691 women and their 3,792 children. Last year, 70 percent of graduates found homes and 79 percent secured jobs or enrolled in school or training. For more information, visit womens-empowerment.org.

UNITED WAY DONATION MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is continuing her philanthropic blitz— giving away the majority of her wealth—by donating $10 million to United Way California Capital Region.

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“The Adventures of Artie and Zac” is a new book by Judeh Simon. Scott chose the local United Way chapter because of its work to meet basic needs while addressing long-term systemic inequities that have increased due to the pandemic. “Our team has been working tirelessly to stretch our resources as far as possible to help families in our community through this difficult year,” says Stephanie Bray, president/CEO of United Way California Capital Region. “We cannot thank our staff, donors and volunteers enough for their investment in our work that is now being recognized on a national stage. This gift has brought us to the next level, and we are grateful to have our community of supporters by our side as we expand our Square One Project to create stronger, healthier and more compassionate communities across the greater Sacramento region.”

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METRO CHAMBER HONOREES The Sacramento Metro Chamber will hold its 126th Annual Business Awards virtually on Friday, Feb. 5, from 4–5:30 p.m. to celebrate regional leaders. Honorees include Sacramento County’s former District 3 Supervisor Susan Peters as Sacramentan of the Year; Cate Dyer of StemExpress as Businesswoman of the Year; Randy Sater of StoneBridge Properties as Businessman of the Year; and Savory Café as Small Business of the Year. A special Lifetime Achievement Award will honor the memory of PRIDE Industries CEO Michael Ziegler.

“These awardees exemplify what it means to live a life of service and to use the precious time we are given to leave this world better than we found it,” Sacramento Metro Chamber President/ CEO Amanda Blackwood says. For more information, visit metrochamber.org/events/annualdinner.

COOKBOOK HUMOR Arden-Arcade author Joseph Frizzi has published a humorous cookbook, “Cooking: For Those Who Can’t Boil Water, or Think They Can’t,” inspired by his own journey in the kitchen and funny family stories. “The premise of this book is, ‘If I can do it, you can do it,’” says Frizzi, whose book also includes artwork and some

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of his favorite recipes. “It’s for people who can’t cook because either they have never had the interest in trying, or are intimidated by their lack of cooking skills.” The book is available on Amazon.

art kits to students at 26 area schools as part of the city’s new CARES-funded program, Sacramento HeART and Mind. The art kits contain basic art supplies—paper, colored pencils, Sharpie markers, glue sticks, scissors, rulers and more—to give students tools for self-expression. “I am so glad the city was able to provide these art kits to help students explore creativity outside of school and hopefully bring some brightness to their day during these difficult times,” Melissa Cirone, city arts program coordinator, says. Sacramento HeART and Mind brings together artists, community mentors and mental health experts to assist students most affected by the pandemic and school closures. For more information, visit sacramentocityexpress.com.

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The city of Sacramento recently completed its Wi-Fi in the Parks program, bringing free high-speed internet access to 27 city parks through a public/private partnership with Verizon. The goal of the wi-fi program is to support digital equity and economic development by providing wireless access that some citizens may not have. To access wi-fi during park hours of operation (from sunrise to sunset daily), select “CITY-PARK-FREE-WIFI” as the network on your mobile device. Fremont Park was the first park to have wi-fi installed in October 2019. A section of William Land Park marked

SLOW & ACTIVE STREETS The City Council recently approved a pilot project, Slow & Active Streets, which prioritizes walking and biking by limiting traffic on residential streets. The new $225,000 project is part of the city’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan for reducing Sacramento’s contribution to climate change. Through April, the Public Works department will close up to 6 miles of roads to through traffic to promote walking, cycling and other forms of physical activity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Tools, such as temporary signs and cones, will be used to divert traffic and slow drivers. A section of roadway was closed in Land Park earlier this year between Freeport Boulevard and Land Park Drive as an initial test. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and Berkeley have implemented similar projects as a way to help people get outdoors during the pandemic. Applications to participate in Slow & Active Streets must be supported by a sponsoring organization, such as a business or neighborhood association, nonprofit or faith-based group. Preference will be given to environmental justice areas, multifamily housing with limited yards, and areas with limited access to parks. Residents, delivery drivers and emergency responders will still be able to drive in and out. For more information, visit cityofsacramento.org/ public-works/transportation/planningprojects/slow-active-streets.

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REMEMBERING PAULETTE BRUCE Last month, Sacramento lost one of its most beloved culinary luminaries, Paulette Bruce. The popular cooking instructor and Land Park resident had moved her renowned Good Eats cooking classes online to make sure home cooks had access to her encouraging instruction during the pandemic. She also was one of the founding members of the Dining Divas, a group of women food experts gathered by late journalist Gloria Glyer who met and ate at local restaurants and dished about the dishes in Sacramento Magazine. Bruce's warm personality and endless culinary know-how made her one of the Sacramento region's best-loved personalities. She will be sorely missed. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Submissions are due six weeks prior to the publication month. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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The county’s chief executive, Nav Gill, was placed on paid administrative leave during a personnel investigation. He became a punching bag for critics who say the county mishandled federal pandemic relief funds. Accusations involving racist and sexist behavior were raised about his performance as the county’s financial watchdog. The Board of Supervisors appointed Ann Edwards as interim county executive. She formerly headed the Department of Human Assistance. The county suffered another setback in December, when chief health official Dr. Peter Beilenson quit

while COVID-19 surged across our communities. Beilenson claimed “family emergencies” prompted his resignation. But the health chief was under criticism for having used a racial slur about Asian people—he called them “yellow folks”—at a county Board of Supervisors meeting. Community members criticized Beilenson for mismanagement of federal stimulus funds. Retired county health services director Jim Hunt was named acting health director. Hopefully, the leadership mashup will be steadied as Sacramento County prepares its 2021-2022 budget.

Unlike past years, the supervisors have scheduled four evening budget workshops in April, ideally to entice more residents to participate. Insiders expect the workshops to be a rehash of the “guns or butter” argument from last year. The debate centers on funding priorities—whether an abundance of general fund dollars should go to the sheriff’s department or social services and underserved communities of color. Testimony pits suburbanites eager to prioritize money for sheriff’s deputies against activists who advocate for social justice and law enforcement reforms.

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The pandemic is a budgetary wildcard. If the virus continues to surge, advocates are likely to demand more money for public health. A counterargument may develop to lessen the stranglehold public health officials maintain on businesses and everyday life. Suburban interests may rise up over the backlog in street maintenance and paving. The $789 million maintenance program primarily impacts unincorporated neighborhoods. It’s being rolled out on an incremental basis that leaves many residents frustrated—especially after the approval of additional gas taxes in recent years. Sacramento County delayed some street repairs last year, claiming a lack of funds. More recently, state authorities told local governments revenue estimates from the gas tax are down due to people driving less in the pandemic. City residents don’t look to the county for answers. They call City Hall for matters affecting quality of life, such as land use, transportation, potholes and getting garbage picked up. Folks in the unincorporated neighborhoods rely on the County Administration Center for most of their municipal services. At last estimate, the unincorporated county population was 593,801—bigger than the city of Sacramento at 510,931. If unincorporated Sacramento County were a separate city, it would be the fifth largest in California. County operations impact all 1.6 million residents of Sacramento County. The county runs numerous programs passed down from Washington and the state, including “social safety net” programs such as child protective services, elder and disabled conservatorships, and welfare payments.

Five elected, nonpartisan supervisors govern Sacramento County. Their workload varies, depending on whether their geographic districts include cities. About 95 percent of Supervisor Rich Desmond’s Third District covers unincorporated neighborhoods. Most of his constituents have no city government to call upon. County authorities fill almost every role. In contrast, Supervisor Phil Serna has only about 3.5 percent unincorporated area. His First District sits almost entirely within the city of Sacramento. District 2 Supervisor Patrick Kennedy has about 37.5 percent of unincorporated communities, with the rest in Sacramento. The unincorporated population represented by Supervisor Don Nottoli of District 5 consists of 17.9 percent. The remainder is split between the cities of Elk Grove, Galt, Isleton and Rancho Cordova. Supervisor Sue Frost’s District 4 includes the cities of Citrus Heights and Folsom. She has 45.7 percent of unincorporated neighborhoods. County governance is further complicated by the presence of three additional elected officials—Assessor Christina Wynn, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert and Sheriff Scott Jones. The Board of Supervisors approves their budgets, but these officeholders have discretion to prioritize spending and manage their allocated resources. They are accountable to voters. In the months ahead, this column will monitor Sacramento County developments, including controversies involving the chief executive and health department leadership, budget debates and street improvements. Howard Schmidt has worked on the federal, state and local levels of government, including 16 years with Sacramento County. He can be reached at howardschmidt218@aol.com. n

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ccording to the wedding website The Knot, the average bride spends $2,000 on flowers for the nuptials—which means two grand gets dumped in the trash after the Big Day has passed. But with the help of Nikki Gray and her floral-preservation company Endless Florals, those flowers and that big investment don’t have to go to waste. “What I’m preserving is a memory,” says Gray, who officially launched Endless Florals at 51st and O streets last May. “Yes, it’s a flower. But it represents a significant one-time event in someone’s life that they can then look at day after day.” Seeing your wedding

bouquet “has a different feeling than looking at pictures—it brings you back to the moment of holding it in your hand. There’s a certain romanticism to it.” Floral preservation is hardly new—in fact, it dates back to ancient times—but Gray says the venerable art form has fallen out of fashion over the last 20 years. Because people often think of “Grandma’s flowers on the wall,” Gray has made it her mission to bring floral preservation into the 21st century with chic, minimalist designs, such as shadow-box and framed bubble-glass displays, resin molds (e.g., coasters) and pressed floral designs that will please even the most modern bride. A native of Granite Bay and one of five siblings, Gray lived in Orange County for 12 years pursuing a performance career after attending music school when she felt the pull back to Sacramento to be near family. As luck would have it, it’s also where she stumbled upon her new career. After one of Gray’s sisters got married, she had her wedding bouquet preserved by a local woman who’d been running a floral preservation shop out of her garage—one of only three such businesses in California. Gray’s sister insisted she meet this botanical artisan and the two women “hit it off like two peas in a pod.” The always-artistic Gray was fascinated by the unique art form and trained for a year before starting Endless Florals. Gray had planned to take over her mentor’s business upon the elder woman’s retirement, but instead decided to pursue her own vision. “It takes six to 12 weeks to finish a product—it’s a very labor-intensive process,” says Gray, who explains that the key to proper preservation is special machinery that opens the cell structure of the flower to remove every bit of moisture. “Some people view it as a hobby because they just hang the flowers upside down and dry them at home, but that actually destroys them. Why invest so much money in something that’s only going to wilt and then be tossed in the garbage?” While Endless Florals is a one-woman operation at this point, Gray plans to expand once weddings that were postponed due to the pandemic are rescheduled. She admits May was not an ideal month to launch her business, but says she’s lucky people have still been hosting micro weddings, elopements and court house ceremonies—events that often include flowers. She’s also diversified her business to include the preservation of funeral flower arrangements, boutonnieres, baby dedication flower crowns, anniversary arrangements and graduation flowers—all with supplies sourced from local vendors. In November, Gray also hosted what she hopes will be the first in a series of virtual events featuring wedding professionals (florists, photographers, caterers, venue representatives, and hair and makeup professionals) in an online forum where brides-to-be can ask questions and get tips for their upcoming nuptials. Tip No. 1? Don’t waste your wedding bouquet. Take it to Gray at Endless Florals. For more information, visit endlessflorals.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail. com. Previous profiles can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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now features an arresting mural by local artist Natalie Sanchez of a Medusa-like figure with flowing locks and piercing eyes that glow at night. Overgrown bushes have been pruned or replaced with bright blooms. The building has been painted, and sleek new exterior lighting illuminates a chic sign for The London Beauty Bar. Everything in the three-tenant shopping center looks brighter and lighter—all thanks to new owner Margaret Levandoski. “After years of being overlooked and unkept, the building just needed a little bit of love and care,” says Levandoski, a Land Park resident who bought the nearly 60-year-old building four years ago with funds from the sale of her automotive and consumer finance data

company Direct Performance Data. “I wanted to do something to help revitalize the area.” The Placerville native grew up in Sacramento before moving to Newport Beach for her work in automotive advertising. She stayed down south for 20 years before moving back to Sacramento to start DPD and fell in love with Curtis Park and the surrounding area. When DPD sold, Levandoski searched for a way to invest in her community—and the Franklin Boulevard building was just what she was looking for. Levandoski spruced up the exterior and rehabbed the building’s existing beauty salon, renaming it The London Beauty Bar after her 12-year-old daughter London (who she hopes will inherit the business one day). The salon concept is just one part of Levandoski’s multifaceted The London Firm, which she founded in 2015 as an umbrella company for her myriad projects in interior design, construction remodeling, branding and new business development consultation. The salon joins existing tenants Curtis Park Spa and VIP Experience Salon & Barber Shop. Now that salons can be back in business, per county COVID health guidelines, “I’ve been interviewing people and sending out postcards to every beauty school in the area,” says Levandoski, who credits her Aries astrological sign with her tendency to jump into things with both feet. “No

matter what I do with it, I wanted to make it look the nicest it can.” The London Beauty Bar will feature salon services, of course, but also a rotating inventory of unique gifts and jewelry. Levandoski, a “hardcore” flea market lover, also plans to host monthly flea markets called Franklin Flea in the parking lot when the pandemic allows, as well as regular food vendors—like a cart, featuring bacon-wrapped hot dogs, she’s procuring as a loving homage to the Los Angeles Garment District. Levandoski hopes to make this corner of Curtis Park just as much of a destination as the iconic Southern California discount shopping district. “This is such a great area—we’re in a great location and we know all our neighbors,” Levandoski says. “My daughter and I will often have mommydaughter time in Land Park where we walk and get our nails done, shop a little, then get ice cream at Vic’s and walk home. That’s what I want our building to be for Curtis Park. “I envision the flea market, hot dogs, donuts (from across-the-street neighbor Yum Yum Donuts), good weather and being the place that people in the neighborhood want to walk to.” For more information, visit thelondonbeautybar.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Previous profiles can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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or Sacramento students applying to college this fall, the future is shrouded in uncertainty. Hailey Kopp, a senior at St. Francis Catholic High School, says, “Things aren’t going as planned, so it has been difficult to adapt.” Local high school seniors have received countless lessons in adaptability as they tackle the complex process of deciding where and when to begin their college careers amid COVID-19. In normal times, the college admission experience involves months of preparation, deadlines and decisions. There are standardized tests, complex applications and invasive questions about financial aid. There are personal essays and campus visits. And there is the wait for acceptance or rejection. Each step heightens anxieties in students and parents. Kopp describes her college search as “a lot of webinars.” She says collegesponsored Zoom calls have taken the place of traditional college visits. For Kopp, the digitization of college resources has positives and negatives. On the positive side, the pandemic opened new doors. Kopp had more

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time to research universities beyond California. Her parents had extra time to help her navigate the application process. But lockdowns changed her expectations for the fall. “My image of college is definitely different than before,” she says. Chinh Chinh Nguyen, Kopp’s classmate at St. Francis, has different fears. She focuses on how the pandemic changed the application review process at some colleges, especially for California State University and University of California. The cancellation of SAT and ACT standardized tests and the suspension of score requirements at many schools put some of her friends—who have studied for the tests since their freshman year— at a disadvantage, Nguyen believes. For others, test waivers have been an important aid. Debbie Austin, a college adviser at St. Francis, believes the decreased emphasis on standardized tests has been the “silver lining of the pandemic.” In the absence of test scores, college essays are becoming more important, Austin says. She hopes an increased emphasis on essays will lead to more holistic evaluations. The pandemic disrupted the high school experience for all local students. With campuses closed, teaching shifted

to distance learning. It was a negative transition for many. Ezra Hammel decided to move ahead with his life, graduating early from McClatchy High School. “I spent the spring semester online and I hated it,” Hammel says. “I didn’t want to go through another year of that.” Hammel planned to visit the South Pacific as part of a gap-year program, but those plans were upset by virus travel restrictions. Instead, he’s completing gap program classes online. Local college students—whose traditional collegiate experience was upended by the pandemic—must reckon with a new reality. Dani Wiesenthal, a McClatchy graduate and sophomore at San Diego State, says the pandemic changed her priorities. After moving back home, she was uncertain about returning to her campus. “I feel like if I go back to San Diego, I’m going to be starting over,” she says, noting her freshman year presented challenges and the return home provided relief. Reese Farrell, a Mira Loma graduate and sophomore at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, was able to stay on the Portland campus. Farrell describes herself as “lucky” and notes things “could be worse.”

She says, “I feel like everyone has expectations of what college should be, and I feel like the biggest change is not being as social as we’d like.” In comparison to other friends from Sacramento, Farrell feels grateful to be one of the few who has remained on campus. The pandemic magnified traditional anxieties, adding confusion and new rules. Melissa McClellan, director of college counseling at Christian Brothers High School, says college admissions are “experiencing a state of flux.” Individual experiences during the pandemic are varied and nuanced. Uncertainty is the operative word as the college admission process evolves, student priorities shift and expectations change. Spring brings decision time, when universities send out admission (and rejection) letters and financial aid offers. In 2021, it’s a season when high school seniors weigh their options in an atmosphere of anticipation and uncertainty. Natalie Michaels is graduating this year from Heritage Peak Charter School. She can be reached at nataliermichaels@gmail.com. n

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ven in the midst of a global pandemic, Karla Burgess has gotten a “glimpse of the best in people” thanks to her work as logistics coordinator for Folsom Mask Makers, an all-volunteer group of local seamstresses formed in mid-March to address the community’s chronic lack of pandemic personal protective equipment. To date, the group has produced nearly 65,000 masks, 2,650 scrub caps, 1,310 visual masks, hundreds of 3D-printed face shields, and thousands of crocheted and 3D-printed ear savers. They’ve donated to more than 350 hospitals, medical and dental groups, care homes, schools, nonprofit and community organizations, and emergency service agencies in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties. “I often stop and wonder how we’re pulling this off,” says Burgess, who manages volunteers and supplies, serves as a community liaison and oversees special teams for customized projects. “These numbers are incredible

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in normal times, but now people are doing so many other things and are still willing to give of themselves and their hearts. It’s incredibly humbling to work with these volunteers.” Burgess joined FMM after seeing group co-founder Janet Cottrill’s post on Facebook in early March asking for help making PPE that were in very short supply. Burgess immediately contacted FMM’s other co-founder, Cottrill’s neighbor KC Endeman, to see how she could help. Endeman told Burgess the group desperately needed more volunteers to sew masks, as well as contacts in the medical field to coordinate drop-offs. The request was a perfect fit for Burgess, a former ICU RN off work due to health issues, who was tired of sitting on the sidelines. “I’m a fixer,” she says. “In the ICU, you walk in and it’s full of problems, so you ask, ‘What can I do?’” What she could do for FMM “was help get people masks that allow them to follow protocols and stay safe.” Burgess and fellow administrators Karen Hamer and Cathy Hamman helped FMM develop a network of 200 active sewers—many of whom are experienced seamstresses and quilters donating their own material to the cause—and other non-sewing (but no less crucial) volunteers who are divided into teams for pick-up and drop-off driving, cutting, sewing, kit-making, 3D printing, washing, ironing and more.

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ven for people who refuse to wear masks or treat the coronavirus as the grave public health threat it is, one thing is certain: life will not be the same anytime soon. No one can say when COVID-19 will stop flooding our hospitals, but we know cities such as Sacramento are changing even as we struggle through the pandemic. Disasters like earthquakes, fires and floods tend to cause reconsideration. Some close friends of mine in Sonoma County are moving to Washington state after losing their Santa Rosa home in the 2017 wildfires and being evacuated several times since from their new place a few miles north. On a more macro level, such disasters can change development patterns in

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subtle and not-so-subtle ways. So, too, will this pandemic. Reforms enacted following the 1871 Chicago fire and 1906 San Francisco earthquake made cities taller and more durable. Steel began replacing wood as the primary building material. Parks and open space became more precious and necessary. In Sacramento, after a series of disastrous floods culminating in 1862, the city hauled in tons of dirt and raised the streets. We can see the original street level throughout Old Sacramento. A plaque near the California Railroad Museum tells some of the story: “Imagine how easily flood waters overcame Sacramento when it existed at the courtyard’s elevation,” it says. “Is it any wonder Sacramentans fought back by hoisting streets and buildings on average 10 feet above their original elevations?” More recently, after the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise in Butte County in 2018, a decision was made to put most of the city’s electric distribution lines underground. It’s hard to know exactly how the pandemic will reshape our cities, but

we can already see some impacts just by looking around. The only question is how long they last. With an estimated four in 10 Americans working remotely, countless office buildings are still mostly deserted. Before the holiday surge and cold weather arrived, outdoor dining flourished as the city relaxed its restrictions. Outdoor dining will likely expand post-pandemic. But countless businesses failed. Others remain boarded up following a summer of protests over racial injustice and political divisions, some of which became violent. It’s anyone’s guess how many businesses will come back or what, if anything, takes their place. Just as the city’s Downtown railyards were finally starting to develop, we are now left to wonder about the demand for Class A office space. Will plans for the Old Sacramento waterfront move forward? Sacramento’s nightlife and entertainment scene expanded in 2019. But how will that momentum resume when people are still supposed to wear masks and avoid social mixing?

We will soon have a refurbished convention and community center Downtown. When will they be busy again? When will theater, live music and other pleasures of urban life return? Being able to work from home has been a blessing for people whose jobs enable it, but what cost are we paying for greater social isolation and separation? We are focusing additional attention on the gaps in education and digital connectivity—as we must. California’s “Broadband for All” movement has new currency and urgency. Light has been shed on glaring economic, social and racial disparities in health care, which will continue to be a dominant political issue for all levels of government. Even before the pandemic, some high-profile businesses were leaving California rather than deal with high costs and regulation. In the past few months, Oracle and Tesla announced plans to relocate to Texas. Twitter, Facebook and Google plan to allow employees to work remotely well into the future, changing housing and office markets in Northern California in ways we are already seeing in Sacramento.

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housands of wildfires raged across California last year, burning millions of acres, destroying buildings and taking lives—the majority being wild and farm animals with no means of escape. In mid-August, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine deployed its Veterinary Emergency Response Team to the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Solano and Sonoma counties, and the North Complex and Bear fires in Butte County. The team’s mission was to care for injured animals in evacuation centers and animal shelters—and to rescue those still trapped on scorched ranches, farms and in backyards.

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In the 48 days of deployment, the field team evaluated, triaged and treated more than 2,200 animals, including horses, goats, cattle, pigs, chickens, emus, sheep, alpacas, llamas, donkeys, dogs, cats, geese, ducks, guinea fowl and fish. More than 100 animals with serious injuries—primarily severe burns and smoke inhalation—were transferred to UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital for critical care. “It was striking to see the destruction,” says VERT coordinator Dr. Lais Costa, who joined the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine in 2016 and began working with the disaster team in 2018. “The first few days there was smoke in the air and just the destruction. Then you saw the animals that were burnt. It was really bad.” Only a handful of cases were euthanized in the field, Costa says. “Those were put to sleep because of the hopeless severity of their condition. Any animal that we

thought had even a slim chance of survival, we brought to the hospital.” Working with animal control officers, the UCD team went behind the fire lines before property owners were allowed back in. Sometimes it took days to find animals hunkered down out of fear, stress or pain. The team put out food and water and returned the next day. “If they ate and drank, we knew somebody was there,” Costa says. So the team kept going back until the animal was found. “That’s what kept us going—the satisfaction when we found somebody.” One rescue story stands out. “It was a smoky first day at the Bear Fire deployment,” Costa recalls. “We drove to yet another property that had been completely destroyed by the fire. All structures were burned to the ground and the land had been badly scorched. We started to look for signs of life. In our search we found this bird enclosure. Seventeen dead birds. “After searching the property thoroughly, we finally found two

live ducks. Their feet were badly burned and their feathers were badly singed. We will never know how they survived the fire.” The ducks were dehydrated, hungry and in pain. They had lost the webbing in their feet. The birds were taken to the Livestock Emergency Shelter in Oroville, where Dr. Michelle Hawkins, who led UCD’s Avian Strike Team, evaluated the ducks, bandaged their feet, and gave them antibiotics and pain medication. The next day, the ducks were still in distress and transferred to the UCD veterinary hospital where they remained for two weeks. “Soon,” Costa says, “they got back their noisy and rambunctious personalities. The ducks made an amazing recovery from their injuries.” Despite the devastation and enormous death toll, the team focused on the animals they could save. “We put so much energy and hope into the ones we did find,” Costa says. “We just had a drive that got us to surpass the draining feeling of finding all the dead animals.” Costa commends the contributions of UCD’s new Wildlife Disaster Network. Partnering with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the network cared for many of the wild animals, such as a mountain lion with burn injuries, affected by the fires. “The compassion and hard work that the disaster service workers shared was heartwarming,” Costa says. “Working with all the organizations to a common goal of caring for the animals and supporting the community, bringing them hope by saving their animals, was the best reward anyone could wish for.” To donate to the Veterinary Emergency Response Team, visit vetmed.ucdavis.edu/2020-inu-fireupdates. To donate to the Wildlife Disaster Network, visit vetmed. ucdavis.edu/news/wildlife-disasternetwork. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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$378,000 $385,000 $390,000 $399,950 $411,000 $425,000 $460,000 $475,000 $492,500 $494,000 $495,000 $500,000 $521,000 $549,900 $555,000 $570,000 $574,950 $579,000 $581,000 $604,000 $620,000 $620,000 $642,000 $699,000

2782 MUIR WAY 3220 - 24TH ST 2516 - 11TH AVE 2782 HARKNESS ST 1964 - 3RD AVE 1429 WELLER WAY 2932 HIGHLAND AVE 2439 DONNER WAY 2762 - 10TH AVE 1861 - 10TH AVE 1832 - 3RD AVE 2761 - 13TH ST 1891 - 11TH AVE 3651 EAST LINCOLN AVE

$705,000 $710,000 $712,000 $735,000 $751,000 $800,000 $810,000 $865,000 $875,000 $1,020,000 $1,085,000 $1,250,000 $1,305,000 $1,325,000

3420 EASTERN AVE 3816 KINGS WAY 3013 BERTIS DR 3618 HILLCREST LN 3910 HILLCREST LN 2249 TAMARACK WAY 4320 RIO VISTA AVE 2612 CATALINA DR 4524 BELCREST WAY 4621 RAVENWOOD AVE 3133 BECERRA WAY 3906 STONESIFER CT 4140 EDISON AVE 3901 HANCOCK DR

$450,000 $450,000 $450,000 $450,000 $482,000 $495,000 $500,000 $540,000 $574,900 $635,000 $669,000 $686,000 $764,000 $790,000

4500 BREUNER AVE 549 SAN ANTONIO WAY 5032 T ST 1346 - 55TH ST 856 - 55TH ST 5900 CALLISTER AVE 3991 MCKINLEY BLVD 942 EL DORADO WAY 4451 MODDISON AVE 1641 BERKELEY WAY 4215 G ST 925 SONOMA WAY 1361 LOUIS WAY 288 TIVOLI WAY 629 - 54TH ST 962 - 41ST ST 5824 N ST 425 SAN ANTONIO WAY 1000 - 41ST ST 763 EL DORADO WAY 1000 - 43RD ST 5418 SPILMAN AVE 5154 E ST 1633 - 42ND ST 5133 DOVER AVE 5261 F ST 801 - 43RD ST 816 - 47TH ST 1028 - 40TH ST 1125 - 43RD ST 1375 - 44TH ST 5249 SUTTER PARK WAY

$475,000 $529,000 $540,000 $590,000 $615,000 $625,000 $635,000 $655,000 $665,000 $701,000 $709,000 $715,000 $715,978 $750,000 $750,000 $765,000 $772,000 $817,500 $817,500 $853,000 $875,000 $899,000 $912,366 $940,000 $952,000 $1,057,820 $1,095,500 $1,175,000 $1,215,000 $1,300,000 $1,650,000 $1,950,000

7372 AMHERST ST 2524 - 47TH AVE 7542 - 29TH ST 1560 ZELDA WAY 5875 GLORIA DR 2758 WOOD VIOLET WAY 2444 ENCINAL AVE 2176 - 68TH AVE 7466 - 19TH ST 6473 ROMACK CIR 5331 - 24TH ST 2024 FLORIN RD 7517 SCHREINER ST 1467 - 64TH AVE 7356 - 21ST ST 2024 - 63RD AVE 2122 - 60TH AVE 1871 NIANTIC WAY 2450 - 27TH AVE 2270 - 24TH AVE 12 CANYON TREE CT 1612 AKRON WAY 2275 MURIETA WAY 5416 SALVATOR WAY 2221 - 22ND AVE 1278 - 43RD AVE 4507 MARION CT 4785 REX CT 4901 JOAQUIN WAY 2309 ANITA AVE 1121 - 35TH AVE 4304 ULRICH WAY 1176 BROWNWYK DR 4040 WARREN AVE 4278 WARREN AVE 3912 BARTLEY DR

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2551 FULTON SQUARE LN #46 2621 ETHAN WAY 3815 ANNADALE LN 2248 EL CAMINO AVE 3321 BLUEGRASS RD 2851 HERBERT WAY 2931 BRYCE ST 3608 FRENCH AVE 2652 BALL WAY 2824 KERRIA WAY 2911 BELL ST 3209 BACK CIR 3536 DOMICH WAY 3700 WEST WAY 3020 TAMALPAIS WAY 3346 SAINT MATHEWS DR 2570 VERNA WAY 2500 CASTLEWOOD DR 3000 YELLOWSTONE LN 2825 CLOVER LN 2581 BUTANO DR 3741 HUFF WAY 4007 NORRIS AVE 3524 POPE AVE 3204 MONTCLAIRE ST 3112 CREST HAVEN DR 3208 EASTWOOD RD 3708 MERRILY WAY 3805 SUNNYVALE AVE 3228 LIBBY WAY 3821 WEST WAY 3624 ARDMORE RD 3626 NAIFY ST 4242 RIO TINTO AVE 4130 WHEAT ST

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973 FULTON AVE #484 788 WOODSIDE LN EAST #5 786 WOODSIDE LN #12 886 WOODSIDE LN #1 1019 DORNAJO WAY #230 2432 LARKSPUR LN #285 546 WOODSIDE OAKS #8 521 WOODSIDE OAKS #6 3209 CASITAS BONITO 1365 HOOD RD 841 E WOODSIDE LN #15 2391 ALTA GARDEN LN 3122 VIA GRANDE 2341 ESTRELLITA WAY 2317 ESTRELLITA WAY 713 E WOODSIDE LN #1 2274 SIERRA BLVD #F 1422 COMMONS DR 2247 MONTE CASSINO LN 1604 WAYLAND AVE 1535 BELL ST 1039 COMMONS DR 29 ADELPHI CT 2242 MONTE CASSINO LN 710 RANCH RD 2312 HIGHRIDGE DR 2238 MONTE CASSINO LN 2770 MONTE CASSINO LN 2076 UNIVERSITY PARK DR 311 RANCH RD 342 RIO DEL ORO LN

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$150,000 $170,000 $171,950 $175,000 $175,000 $188,000 $189,000 $205,000 $207,100 $220,000 $225,000 $230,000 $280,000 $306,000 $315,000 $329,900 $330,000 $340,000 $348,950 $355,000 $365,288 $370,000 $370,000 $371,000 $375,000 $375,000 $385,000 $386,950 $399,000 $410,000 $419,000

819 COMMONS DR 120 RANCH RD 1055 VANDERBILT WAY 2316 CORTEZ LN 503 RANCH RD 1137 VANDERBILT WAY 2263 SWARTHMORE DR 3125 ELLINGTON CIR 1402 COMMONS DR 2324 LOMA VISTA DR 806 DUNBARTON CIR 191 HARTNELL PL 2319 AMERICAN RIVER DR 210 RANCH RD

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$420,000 $425,000 $427,000 $435,000 $439,000 $454,000 $454,000 $455,000 $462,000 $470,500 $505,000 $517,000 $580,000 $590,000

507 ROUNDTREE CT 6241 RIVERSIDE BLVD 543 LEEWARD WAY 6015 RIVERSIDE BLVD 7518 SALTON SEA WAY 42 STARLIT CIR 7324 WILLOW LAKE WAY 6975 RIVERSIDE BLVD 101 STARLIT CIR 80 CAVALCADE CIR 874 ROYAL GREEN AVE 724 BRIDGESIDE DR 6679 SURFSIDE WAY 24 SOUTHLITE CIR 1237 MONTE VISTA WAY 360 HATTERAS WAY 7081 FLINTWOOD WAY 210 PORTINAO CIR 1405 PALOMAR CIR 6120 - 13TH ST 7701 SILVA RANCH WAY 6645 FORDHAM WAY 619 LELANDHAVEN WAY 7625 MARINA COVE DR 7790 OAK BAY CIR 6 STILL SHORE CT

$250,088 $254,000 $286,000 $311,000 $432,000 $435,000 $460,000 $480,000 $486,000 $498,000 $519,000 $525,000 $555,000 $562,000 $570,000 $570,000 $570,900 $585,000 $592,500 $625,000 $685,000 $710,000 $778,000 $925,000 $1,095,873 $1,238,888

3416 TEMBROOK DR 3309 MAYFAIR DR 1501 GREENHILLS RD 1300 SEBASTIAN WAY 3124 WINDSOR DR 1325 SHADOWGLEN RD 929 PATRICIA WAY 3128 BERKSHIRE WAY 1225 RUSHDEN DR 2801 HILLDALE RD 2020 CERES WAY 2418 CATALINA DR 2929 HOLT WAY 2422 CATALINA DR 1406 GLADSTONE DR 1713 ORION WAY 2125 MARYAL DR 2335 MARYAL DR 1 PARK SIERRA LN 4441 ALDERWOOD WAY 801 WATT AVE 751 EL ENCINO WAY 3000 JOSEPH AVE 640 CASMALIA WAY 2823 ROXBURGH LN 3915 EL RICON WAY 1512 STEWART RD 1005 ENTRADA RD 1228 LANTERN CT 2610 KADEMA DR 3755 ESPERANZA DR 2711 LATHAM DR 729 COLUMBIA DR 530 THORNLEY WAY 4620 ASHTON DR 706 MORSE AVE 3317 SIERRA OAKS DR 1711 LADINO RD 1465 EL TEJON WAY 3121 MORELAND CT 1130 LYNNDALE DR

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HELP HERITAGE HENS BY HATCHING AT HOME

inda Easton-Waller has become something of a mother hen. As the founder of GullyRumpus Farm in Rio Linda, Easton-Waller provides eggs from pasture-raised chickens at Oak Park Farmers Market and other locations. Now she has launched a program for families to incubate and hatch their own fertile chicken eggs at home. In addition to offering people the chance to participate in hatching newborn chicks, Hatch@ Home contributes to the preservation of heritage breed chickens.

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When she was a teacher, EastonWaller created a program called Hatch a Batch for her students to learn about raising chickens. In 2015, before she had her own farm, Easton-Waller started Rent-A-Chicken Sacramento, a program where local families rented chickens and coops. Even after her own children were grown and she sold everything to live on a houseboat, the chickens still followed. Hatch@Home is Easton-Waller’s current poultry palooza. Each hatching kit contains six or seven fertile chicken eggs, an incubator, brooder box, chick heater, organic feed, a guide and reading material, and an egg candler, a device used to check the chick’s development inside the egg. People can choose eggs from Delaware chickens (a heritage breed), quails or their own preferred type from local breeders. After the eggs hatch, the families will keep the newborns for one week and then have the option to return

them to GullyRumpus Farm or raise the chicks in their own backyards. The fertile eggs come from Dawnridge Farm, located in Grass Valley and a member of The Livestock Conservancy, American Pastured Poultry Producers Association and American Poultry Association. The farm is also certified by the National Poultry Improvement Plan, a voluntary federal and state cooperative that uses diseasecontrol and prevention strategies to improve poultry. Heritage breed chickens include Persian Rumpless, Yokohama, Rhode Island White and Delaware. One reason Easton-Waller chose Delaware is because it is on “watch” status, according to The Livestock Conservancy, which could be due to the increased demand for fast-growing poultry after Colonel Sanders came on the scene in 1952. For example, the genetically altered Cornish Cross is a hybrid bird that grows to full weight in a swift 6- to

8-week period. It can take up to 14 weeks for a heritage breed to grow to full weight—twice as long as the Cornish Cross—which means double the amount of feed before the heritage breed will begin making a profit for the factory or farm. “It’s hard to see them grow up because they’re genetically engineered to grow fast and big,” Easton-Waller says. Heritage birds also don’t lay as frequently as chickens like Cornish Cross, but they are healthier and provide about three happy years of egg-laying. In 2020, GullyRumpus Farm rescued 300 chickens from a facility that was promoted as “cage-free” and organic, but the chickens were kept indoors. “We were shocked when we got those chickens,” Easton-Waller says. “The birds were 1 year old and their faces were totally white and their feet were white. They had been fed organic food but only soy and corn and no supplements.”

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homeschooling groups, families and neighbors are encouraged to sign up for the program together. Families with children under the age of 5 are not eligible for a hatching kit due to the possibility of E. coli and salmonella contamination. While these bacteria are mitigated with handwashing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports people most at risk for severe illness are the elderly and children under 5. GullyRumpus Farm began distribution of Hatch@Home kits in early January. Kits are still available this month as space on the reservation list allows. For more information, visit gullyrumpus.com/hatch-home. Tessa Marguerite Outland can be reached at tessa.m.outland@gmail.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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Words To Live By Barbara and Don Wulf Photo by Aniko Kiezel

Wulf and his wife Barbara, who have been married 70 years, live in Wilhaggin. Over the past several decades, they have collected meaningful quotes and words of wisdom and collated them into three booklets—one for teens, one about marriage and one on success. The couple distribute the booklets throughout the community for free as a way of “giving back and thanking God.” Now 91, Wulf estimates they’ve collected close to 12,000 sayings from all kinds of sources: the Bible, philosophers, poets, writers, motivational speakers, presidents, diplomats and more. The wisdom runs the gamut, from how to have a happy marriage (“Never, never, never criticize”) to how to stay motivated (“Your attitude more than anything else determines what happens to you”). But by far, what is the most important piece of advice according to Wulf? “List chess as a hobby on all applications and resumes,” he says. Wulf started playing chess in grade school in Minnesota and he thoroughly believes it helped him get into college, obtain a full scholarship to Harvard Business School and enjoy a successful 36-year career in marketing with Shell Oil. “If you can play chess, you’re telling the person looking at your application that you’re intelligent, that you can plan ahead, strategize, concentrate and make decisions,” Wulf says. Wulf encourages kids to start a chess club or play online, which helps develop skills in creativity and leadership, as well as lifelong friendships regardless of age, gender, nationality or physical ability. Wulf has made it a point to teach the game to each generation of his family—four children, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren—and he proudly reports that two of his chess-playing grandsons have gone on to successful military careers via West Point. The Wulfs have distributed more than 700 booklets, 1,000 one-page handouts and more than 400 business cards with Don’s Instagram account, @grandpa_don_wows, over the past several years. Each booklet contains checklists, inspiring stories, song lyrics, worksheets and even comics that encourage readers to discover the “Joy of an Extraordinary Life,” a concept Wulf developed while living in Seattle 60 years ago. Wulf details six areas of life—mental, physical, spiritual, family/home, friends/social and financial/career—that must be in balance to live a fulfilling life. “The whole purpose of these booklets is to pass on this information and help people live better, happier, healthier lives,” says Wulf, who’s never accepted “a penny” for any of his work. When Wulf isn’t compiling his next booklet or posting daily words of wisdom on Instagram, he’s Zooming with his far-flung family members, spending time with his high school sweetheart Barbara—and, of course, playing chess. For more information, check out @grandpa_don_wows on Instagram.

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ne of Don Wulf’s favorite thoughts is from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: The meaning and purpose of your life is to help others find theirs. A favorite quote is from Dr. Seuss: To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world. Yet another is from the Bible: Nothing you can desire compares to wisdom. Proverbs 8:11.

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DOES MY BROTHER’S DEATH COUNT? or me, 2020 ended with the worst news. My brother Milton, the one I call “Brotherman,” died from COVID. The year brought us a pandemic, election confusion and economy shutdown, but most especially death. Johns Hopkins reported 300,000 U.S. deaths the week my brother died. Of course, you may dismiss the Hopkins number as inaccurate because it includes people with comorbidities or “preexisting conditions.” If so, you’re also saying my brother’s death didn’t count because he had high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

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That means you may share his most deadly comorbidity—gullibility. He believed all the social media garbage. He followed the anti-masker, anti-vaxxer, anti-science, flat-earth folks who posted, reposted and emailed crap to anyone who dared click a link. As a result, he became “noncompliant,” a medical term meaning he often refused to take his insulin, blood pressure pills or psychiatric medication. In early 2019, I noticed the detrimental impact, so I had him placed in the Southern Nevada State Veterans Home. With its state-of-the art, roundthe-clock attention, I expected him to live another 10 to 15 years. But like many care facilities, it couldn’t keep COVID completely at bay—most especially for my brother because Milton refused to wear a mask. Given his viewpoint, the staff confined him to the safety of his room. Nevertheless, the virus came calling.

When he answered that call, he phoned me. “I’m having trouble breathing,” he said. “This is an emergency! Press your staff call button.” “I can’t find it,” he said. I hung up and called the front desk. That evening, Brotherman was hospitalized, and our phone calls continued. “They’re gonna say I have COVID only because they get more money by padding the COVID numbers,” he said, echoing much of the social media nonsense. “Don’t let them stick a breathing tube down my throat,” he added, referencing the procedure called intubation. I’d helped him complete an advance directive several times, so I knew he didn’t want to be placed on a respirator. “OK, I will do all I can,” I said.

But I failed him there. Not one word from his chaplain brother such as, “I know you’re scared. I’m scared too. It’s ok to be scared.” Or maybe, “I’m 500 miles away, but I’m with you.” Hours later, Milton reversed his longsworn position. That’s because if you ask a person who can’t breathe, “Can we put you on a respirator?” he’s going to say, “Hell, yes!” Milton said, “yes,” and that’s the last I heard him speak. The week before Christmas, the palliative-care nurse called to talk about letting him go. She said my brother could only survive with the permanent presence of a respirator, feeding tube and dialysis machine. I knew from his advance directive that wasn’t what Brotherman wanted, so I gave permission to remove him from life support. He died two hours later. So I ask, does his death count? After all, for years he was a “noncompliant” obese diabetic who wouldn’t take his blood-pressure meds. Perhaps the anti-science community is right. Brotherman didn’t die of COVID. He died of his comorbidities. But those comorbidities weren’t physical. They were spiritual. They are known by many names—denial, gullibility, ignorance and hate. Milton’s real cause of death was the fabrications spread by the anti-science people, anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and 5G coronavirus conspirators. He may not have swallowed their bleach, but he sure drank the Kool-Aid. Milton bought their “health supplements” and subscribed to their YouTube channels, Facebook pages and email newsletters. These people also have names, but I prefer to call them egomaniacal evil charlatans who prey on the weak minded and weak willed. You may Google those conspirators if you must, but I won’t allow them space in the same print as Brotherman. Their lies killed my brother—not COVID. As long as I remain on this earth, I will demand that my brother Milton’s death be counted—and his life always remembered. Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. Burkes is available for public speaking at civic organizations, places of worship, veterans groups and more. For details and fees, visit thechaplain.net. n

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Lasting Legacy HOMEOWNER AND DESIGNER FORGE FRIENDSHIP, CREATE ONE-OF-A-KIND HOME

ulticolored lights against an all-white bathroom. A painting of tiger’s eyes glaring down as you enter the study. An I-beam spanning the entryway ceiling. These were just a few of the eclectic elements you would find in Kristan Otto’s Campus Commons home. The daughter of John Otto, Kristan and her family were well known in the community as the folks behind Otto Construction. When Kristan Otto passed away last spring, she left an unforgettable legacy—part of which was displayed throughout her home. Every feature was unique and custom created, not found in any other house.

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When she wanted to remodel her home 15 years ago, she went to Nar Bustamante, president and founder of Nar Design Group in East Sacramento. Throughout their years working together on many redesigns, they developed a great friendship. Bustamante reflects on her personality and the memories they shared. “You had to have thick skin to work with her,” he says. “As the project manager of Otto Construction, she was used to being in charge. But we trusted each other more and more with each project.” Otto’s home was ever changing. She always wanted something new and unique. One time, Otto reached out to Bustamante with a somewhat angry email. “She basically told me off,” he laughs. “She said, ‘You’re gonna take all my money again because I want to do another project with you.’ “I don’t think I’ve ever done the same house so many times. I was redoing my own remodels.”

Otto and Bustamante built a trusting relationship. After several remodels, Otto gave Bustamante the freedom to do what he wanted. “It was totally adventuresome, very eclectic. I found myself branching out into a whole new thought process,” Bustamante says. “She didn’t care about the money. It just needed to be cool and inspiring for her.” Some features stood out as Bustamante recollected the rooms he designed. One of his first projects with Otto was a hammered zinc wall in her kitchen that won national awards, including Best Architectural Feature from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. An office painted a deep, dark charcoal contrasted with a painting of tiger’s eyes to make for a moody workspace. The whole room earned a Crystal Design Award by Crystal Cabinet Works in 2019.

In her living room, rather than installing a typical entertainment center, Bustamante suspended the television from an I-beam, giving it the illusion of floating. Notwithstanding the colorful details throughout the home, the duo decided to create an all-white bathroom. But it was far from simple. Multicolored LED lights made for a dramatic contrast, showing off Otto’s fun personality. Original art was also important to Otto, who was heavily involved in the art scene and always supported local artists. She devoted a significant amount of attention to the pieces she acquired and wanted them to stand out in her home. For example, Bustamante

built a whole wall as a backdrop for one specific piece of art. Otto’s playful, out-ofthe-ordinary home became something on which she could build a friendship. Her headstrong, straightforward personality made things tricky for Bustamante in the beginning, but they soon learned to trust each other. “It was a fun, dynamic process that we both enjoyed,” Bustamante says. “Oftentimes in my career, you do something once and that’s it for that client. The unforeseen thing is that you don’t realize you’re becoming friends with somebody. It’s not only about the projects anymore, it’s about building trust with your clients,” he adds. “It ended up being an amazing relationship over the years because we’d always look for the next project and knew it would be an adventure.” To recommend a home or garden for Open House, contact Inside Sacramento at editor@insidepublications.com. More photography and previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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Kings-Size Woes

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n Inside reader named Ken Poppers serves as today’s example of someone with a good memory. I’ll play the role of the old sportswriter who needs a reminder. Poppers emailed me recently and noted my disdain for the Kings and their avoidance of certain fiscal responsibilities in the pandemic. When COVID-19 hit, the Kings cut staff. They also stopped paying all the rent they owe the city for Golden 1 Center. From a strictly business standpoint, the Kings’ retrenchment is understandable. Home games and concerts were canceled, the arena shuttered by health authorities. Plenty of businesses have trouble paying rent these days. Aside from cash flow denied the Kings by the absence of fans and activity in the arena, the NBA’s TV

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revenue-sharing model imploded. Shared TV dollars are oxygen for the Kings. The NBA normally receives about $2.6 billion a year for broadcast rights from ESPN and Turner Sports. The money is spread among 30 teams. Some of that lifeline was salvaged when the NBA completed an abbreviated 2020 season in Florida. But financial analysts figured the league lost about $1.5 billion to COVID-19 in 2020. The Kings returned to action just before Christmas, but the bottom line hasn’t exactly rebounded. The 2021 season was shortened by 10 games. Fans still aren’t filling Golden 1 Center. Tickets, beer and hamburgers go unsold. Cash registers are quiet. In a world of COVID-19, these problems would be relatively insignificant if not for a discomforting reality. The Kings are a collection of wealthy owners and rich, pampered athletes. They should have the financial depth to sustain themselves. But they must not forget they have a workingclass partner—the taxpayers of Sacramento. When the Kings flail financially, the turbulence shakes the city’s budget. As owner of Golden 1 Center, the city is responsible for paying down the bonds

that produced the money to build the arena. When the Kings skip on rent, bankers and bondholders shrug. They know the city is on the hook for about $18 million a year in debt service. The Kings failed to pay about $1.6 million in rent last season. That number might double this year. In addition to rent, the city uses garage and street parking revenue to pay the bonds, plus money from parking citations. With hardly anyone parking Downtown, Sacramento lost about $3.2 million in fees during the early months of pandemic lockdowns. The shortfalls continue. Luckily, City Treasurer John Colville and predecessor Russ Fehr had a fallback plan. When the arena bonds were issued in 2015, the city built a reserve in case parking revenues came up short. Colville tapped $4.5 million from those reserves to cover the bond payments. I’d like to talk to Colville about his plans for this year, but he hasn’t responded. Which brings me back to Ken Poppers. In his email, Poppers mentions a November column where I discussed the Kings not paying rent. And Poppers reminds me that in 2014, I participated in a series of public policy

debates over the arena. Back then I said the city had no choice but to help the Kings pay for Golden 1 Center. “You debate on the side of committing the city to financing the arena because there couldn’t be any downside. Yeah. Okay,” he writes. He’s mostly accurate. I said the city must help build Golden 1 Center. Without rejuvenation provided by the arena, lower K Street and Downtown Plaza would soon be blighted blocks of boarded-up shops. As for downsides, I said they existed but were worth the risk—the alternative was worse. I still believe that. In upcoming years, the Kings’ rent payments grow significantly. Golden 1 Center bond obligations run until 2050. The partnership must endure. Sports fans know it’s not easy to have faith in the Kings. But now is a great time for the community to remind the Kings that even NBA owners must pay their debts. R.E. Graswich can be reached at regraswich@icloud.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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3. 1. The Carmichael community gathers at the Earl J. Koobs Nature Area to honor fallen Vietnam War heroes. 2. Businesspeople welcome COVID-relief grants from the Carmichael Improvement District. Recipients are (from left) Jim Huynh of Lily’s Nails, Rana Cheema of Papa Murphy’s and Bean Harrah of Urban Flex Fitness. 3. Mira Loma High School pupils Derek Yuan (second from left) and Hemang Dhaulakhandi (second from right) promote Leaders Speak, a program fostering student public speaking skills. Fellow coaches are Chinyce Cole-Henry, Aditya Rajavelu and Chuer Yang.

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Love Blossoms Judy and Jack Foote

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER FOR THESE COUPLES

alentine’s Day brings out friendship and love in many of us. This month’s Pocket Life shares two love stories from local residents as we look to Feb. 14. What’s it like for seniors to fall in love again? One answer came from Mas Hatano, who Inside readers may remember celebrated his 92nd birthday with a bicycle “ride-by” to avoid problems with COVID-19. Hatano has been busy in other ways. He won the heart of a fellow resident at

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ACC Greenhaven Terrace Apartments. His friendship with Yvonne Jung grew out of a mutual fondness for daily walks around the complex. At some point, they realized their friendship was something more—they had fallen in love. It was a yearlong courtship that resulted in an August 2020 marriage. “What I love about him is that he’s so easy to talk to and a real gentleman,” says the bride, who changed her name to Jung-Hatano. “Our first date was lunch at Shari’s restaurant. We walked there and I was impressed that he was so fit at his age.” Hatano smiles at the story. He adds, “I love her sense of humor. We laugh a lot. I’m lucky to have found someone who can make me laugh every day!” Jung-Hatano, 82, didn’t fall easily. Her new husband tried three marriage proposals. The first came in March with a note written in Spanish, which Jung was studying at the time. She declined.

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She had been married and widowed twice. Why get married again? Hatano didn’t quit. He asked a second time, but was turned down. To discourage her suitor, she told him, “I don’t cook, I don’t clean house and I’m high maintenance!” Hatano responded, “It’s OK, we can eat out and I’ll clean house.” For a couple of months, Jung lived with her daughter. Every night at 8 o’clock, she spoke on the phone with Hatano. During one call, she finally agreed to marry—with one condition. Hatano had to promise he would live to be at least 100. “I said sure. Third time’s the charm,” Hatano says. Readers might ask, Why get married now? Simple, the newlyweds say, it’s no fun to grow old alone. Both enjoy having a companion and hope to take a honeymoon cruise to Alaska later this year.

Brittany Yamada, life enrichment manager at Greenhaven Terrace, says, “Most residents move here and hope to make new friends. For Mas and Yvonne, the unexpected happened. They fell in love.”

LOVE MAKES THEIR WORLD GO ROUND Two of my friends, Jack and Judy Foote, spent the past 57 years together devoting much time to music and travel. They met at the University of Oklahoma, where they were members of the “Pride of Oklahoma” marching band. Jack led the saxophone section. Judy played the clarinet. Her father was band director. “It wasn’t love at first sight,” Jack says. “But after one of our band concerts, we danced all night together on a newly built freeway to music from TO PAGE 53

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PETS OR PESTS? HOW TO GARDEN ANIMAL-WISE

haring gardens with our precious pets means coming to terms with diggers, chewers and poopers. Pets can be weapons of mass destruction. A dog chasing a squirrel has no regard for tulips. Cats don’t ask permission to use the vegetable garden as a restroom. Ideally, you can mitigate destruction and keep furballs healthy and safe while the garden stays gorgeous and productive. Acceptance and forgiveness make a righteous path. But where you draw the line is a personal choice. George lounged in the shadows, watching me pot up containers of flowering annuals. His next move was a catnap atop the newly planted flowers. Most of the plants survived the abuse. A cat needs his naps, right? Roxie, as a puppy, chewed all the wiring off the irrigation valves, gnawed

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rose canes to the ground, and repeatedly dug up flowerbeds and containers. She also chewed the edges off redwood planters. Lovely. Dogs tend to roam wherever they wish. Exclusion is a worthy strategy. Erect wire fencing around edible gardens. Pound in a few steel T-poles and attach the wire fencing with zip ties. It’s simple and effective. If you own a nervous pacer, allow an 18-inch or so path along fences. He can pace the fence line all day and not trample plants. Purchase mature plants in larger nursery containers. It’s more expensive, but the root system will be more developed and apt to withstand and survive trampling. A digging dog may be bored or making holes for a cool spot to rest. Regular walks or more time indoors may reduce the digging. Large rocks burrowed into soil or wire barriers along the fence can discourage digging or train dogs to excavate a designated spot. Concentrated nitrogen in dog urine causes dead, brown spots in lawns. Other than immediately and constantly flushing the areas with water, or training exercises, your brown spots are going to remain part of the landscape.

Cat feces can contain parasites and all sorts of awful diseases. They have no place around edible gardens. Placing thorny stems and pinecones or burying plastic forks and bamboo skewers around plants to discourage cats may injure the animal (or small child). Cats need space to scratch and turn to cover up deposits. Arrange stones, garden art or even gallon milk cartons in open spaces to deny needed space. Once plants mature, the open spaces vanish. Pieces of chicken wire cut to size and secured with landscaping staples is a deterrent. This prevents cats from digging and can be covered with mulch. Cats prefer loose soil and are not fond of mulches with larger, rougher pieces. Secured chicken wire or concretereinforcing wire will do the job over a raised vegetable bed.

Low-voltage fencing and motionactivated sprinklers are options, but I don’t recommend either. Cats are nocturnal. And spraying water at night can invite fungal diseases. Electricity around pets does not sound humane. Perhaps you were unaware these plants are poisonous to dogs and cats: azaleas, chrysanthemums, English ivy, some lily varieties, tulip and daffodil bulbs, oleander and morning glory. There are many others with varying degrees of toxicity. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has toxic and non-toxic pet plant lists at aspca.org. Cocoa bean mulch contains theobromine and can cause unpleasant reactions in dogs and cats. Newer products claim to be safer, but it’s best to avoid it if you have outdoor pets. Also avoid colored wood mulches—not because of the dye, but because recycled wood is used to better absorb the dye. Older recycled wood may have been pressure treated. Some colored mulches have been found to be contaminated with chromate-copper arsenate and creosote. Plants, pets and people can be one happy and healthy family with a dollop of planning and patience.

FARMER FRED Fred Hoffman, subject of our January column and Sacramento’s highestprofile gardener, has announced he’s leaving radio and will focus his media efforts on podcasts and social media. We’ll follow Fred’s progress and wish him the best. Dan Vierria is a University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener for Sacramento County and former Home & Garden writer for The Sacramento Bee. He can be reached at masterg29@gmail.com. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UCCE Master Gardeners at (916) 8765338, email mgsacramento@ucanr. edu or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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FROM PAGE 50 a car radio.” After that, they were inseparable. They married 54 years ago, right after graduation. Both pursued careers in education, teaching in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and California. Some readers may have been lucky enough to sit in classrooms with one or both Footes. Judy taught at Genevieve Didion Elementary School for 13 years, then became principal at Alice Birney Elementary. Jack spent more than 40 years at the collegiate level, primarily at Sacramento State, where the professor taught band, saxophone and music education. What’s their secret? Judy says opposites attract. “I’m a talker and Jack is a listener. But we do have common interests. Travel has been a large part of our lives. We love to experience new cultures and meet people.” Jack adds they both have strong commitments to their relationship and family life. They raised two sons in the Pocket. Beyond love, they admire each other. Says Jack, “Judy is my best friend and has qualities that attract everyone to her. She’s outgoing, friendly and highly involved in our community.” Judy says, “Jack is very organized and plans all of our trips. He’s calm in case of an emergency and he has great musical

abilities. He likes to teach saxophone and arrange music for student ensembles. I’m very lucky.” Their advice: Remember what’s really important, look for the positives in your lives and enjoy your time together! Corky Mau can be reached at corky.sue50@gmail.com. Previous columns can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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Ciel is the Limit VISUAL STORYTELLER TACKLES ISSUES WITH ART

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t seems like a happy coincidence that Jessa Ciel’s last name means “sky” in French. The sky is truly the limit for this creative force who is a photographer, filmmaker, professor, activist, Black Artists Fund board member, and owner and founder of visual storytelling agency IAMCIEL. And she’s just getting started. “I often feel like I’m a late bloomer,” admits Ciel, 36, who went back to school at age 30 to earn her MFA in photography from the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. “But I want to have

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the time to come to the choices that I come to and know that they’re mine. That I’m not doing it for somebody else. I’m doing it for me.” Ciel was raised in Boulevard Park (three blocks away from her current home) in what she calls a “matriarchal household.” Both her mother and grandmother were poets who instilled in Ciel a love of words and the social conscience that guides much of her work. The two women founded one of Sacramento’s earliest poetry open mic series in the 1990s at Carol’s Books in Del Paso. Much of their work dealt with issues such as incarceration and Black men being shot in the streets—poems that Ciel points out could have been written today. “What’s happening right now is not surprising. It’s the outcome of anger and injustice in our country that’s boiled over,” Ciel says. “For non-Black people, this is something they’re just starting to be cognizant of. For a lot of us in the Black

community, we’ve been in this space of mourning our Black brothers and sisters for our entire lives—it’s a normal part of what it is to be Black in America. “For me, what’s interesting about this particular moment is to try and see it through other people’s eyes. Everyone is still not on the same page, so we keep coming back. It’s a circular narrative. We have to confront that this is not how humanity should operate. That we deserve better.” It took Ciel some time to figure out her own narrative. After graduating with her BA in film from Cal State Los Angeles and finding work at a documentary film studio, Ciel realized that her dream of making blockbusters at Sony Pictures might not be what she wanted after all. She found the film industry toxic and unwelcoming to her voice as a Black female artist, so she left LA and decided to regroup in Sacramento. Through a photography class at American River College (where she

now teaches as an adjunct professor), Ciel met professor Jodie Hooker, who gave her the advice that would prove to be a turning point. “Jodie said that I have really strong voice, but that I need to channel it into things I care about,” Ciel says. “That’s when I started to learn to express issues I care about visually, and people really responded to it.” After freelancing for a while, Ciel decided to further hone her skills at art school—which proved to be yet another turning point. Cranbrook Academy of Art is located in Bloomfield Hills, one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country just north of Detroit, one of the most economically depressed cities in the country. The culture shock of overt racism and classism Ciel encountered there strengthened her resolve to carve out her artistic identity. When Ciel returned to Sacramento in 2016, her visual storytelling agency IAMCIEL was born. The one-woman company produces all kinds of projects, including documentaries, videos and visual art installations, live streaming and social media content. One such project—a livestream conversation series called Lift Every Voice—introduced Ciel to Faith McKinnie, founder of the Black Artists Fund, who tapped Ciel to sit on the advisory board of the organization that raises money on GoFundMe to support local Black artists. “Now I approach every project by asking, where can I be of most service?” Ciel says. “You can decide what your life is going to be. The less you’re attached to other people’s visions and outcomes for you, the more you can have the life you want. It’s worth it.” For more information, visit iamciel. com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Previous profiles can be found and shared at InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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acramento has an impressive lineup of burger options during normal times. Willie’s Burgers, Flaming Grill Cafe, Burgers and Brew, Squeeze Inn and Pangaea Bier Cafe all boast some notable burgers. Each one, and many more that I haven’t named, brings its own unique take on the humble burger, and serves it up with an admirable lineup of beers and sides to boot. Locals can count ourselves lucky that the selection is still broad—and the quality is still high. Even after we’ve seen several burger-slinging favorites like Jim Denny’s, Nationwide Freezer Meats and Tiny’s close during the last

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few decades, many old joints remain, while new purveyors have hit the scene. A good burger joint is a treat. Sitting at a plastic table while juice runs down your forearm is a joy. But we will be living in takeout land for the next few months—and the overlooked genius of a hamburger stand shines bright. When I think about these old war horses, I think of Cookie’s Drive-In on H Street in East Sacramento and Scott’s Burger Shack on Franklin Boulevard. One place I hadn’t come across in my travels was Village Drive-In, a small burger stand nonchalantly tucked away in Tahoe Park. Village Drive-In seems like a throwback because it is. Despite an updated outdoor dining area and fresh coat of paint, if you look a little deeper you’ll find its midcentury roots. The menu is pretty straight ahead. Burgers, chili, fries and shakes, with a few twists such as fish and chips and teriyaki. But we’re talking burgers— and the “deluxe burger” is as iconic as it comes. A thick tomato slice, iceberg, red onion and American cheese top a larger-than-expected quality patty

cooked to “hamburger stand doneness” (i.e., medium-well). Village Drive-In is only blocks from Tahoe Park with open space and picnic tables. Take advantage of it on a sunny day. Village Drive-In is at 3810 60th St., (916) 457-3196. On the other end of the spectrum is Burger Patch, a newish vegan hamburger spot in Midtown. Normally, it’s a bit more of a restaurant. But during COVID, Burger Patch has been converted to a hamburger stand—one

order window, one pickup window, zero chairs. When my nephew, Joey, told me about a vegan burger stand in Sacramento, I thought I misheard him. But, in his resonant bass voice (he’s an excellent singer), Joey clearly said “vegan burger.” As a vegan himself, he would know (he’s a very healthy eater). Joey led me through the Burger Patch experience, letting me know the burgers are made with a Beyond Meat patty (a tasty, if not 100-percent convincing, stand-in for a beef patty), and topped with cashew cheese (a very

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burger joints. Sure, it’s not made with real ice cream, but neither is a softserve shake that is typically made from milk powder. Unlike the old school joints like Village Drive-In, Burger Patch has a slick online ordering system on its slick website that allows for contactless pick up and a whole “secret menu” to explore. You’ll also find plenty about the restaurant’s ownership, ethics and merchandise. Burger Patch has another location in Davis and a new spot opening soon near Sacramento State. Burger Patch is at 2301 K St., (916) 750-4200, theburgerpatch.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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