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ELEGANCE IN PRIVATE SETTING High coved box-beam ceilings, gourmet kitchen with prep kitchen, large pantry. Master suite with separate jetted tub and multi-head shower.

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ARDEN OAKS 3 bedroom 2 bath home plus den! Enjoy newer resurfaced pool, huge covered patio/deck. Plantation shutters, wood and tile Àooring, quartz counter, dual pane windows, lifetime composition roof. Quiet street, near small park, close to shopping, and top rated schools. $525,000 DIANA LOCKE 346-3286

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SECLUDED CARMICHAEL ACREAGE Open the gate and drive over the stone bridge thru the redwood forest to an incredible 3.82 acres. An amazing opportunity to own your own sanctuary! Lovely old trees and plantings. Original 2 bedroom home with artist retreat by pond. Very secluded feeling. Access road is a private drive off Landis! $795,000 CARMAH HATCH 765-6210

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COVER ARTIST Earl Boley The California State Fair will feature a retrospective exhibit of the paintings of Carmichael artist Earl Boley, who died in 2013. Worldrenowned artist Jian Wang, a friend of Boley’s, curated the selection of 18 works that show the breadth of subjects Boley painted, both locally and abroad.

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while birches are being attacked by borers. Heritage elms with Dutch elm disease are being removed from city streets and parks at an alarming rate. Dozens have been cut down in recent years in McKinley Park alone.

There’s little doubt the drought has made this condition worse.

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erhaps at no time of the year more than the summer months of July and August do Sacramentans enjoy the lush, leafy canopies of our magnificent urban forests. Their foliage shades our yards, streets and parks and provides cooling relief to hot city buildings and pavement. And as trees grow and age, their value to our neighborhoods actually increases.

But after four years of drought, the media focus seems to be more on lawn-watering restrictions and less on the care needed to save our droughtravaged tree canopy.

With water for landscapes severely restricted, it is key that homeowners prioritize their outdoor water use.

In my own yard, this meant forgoing annual planting in the flowerbeds and in containers, as those plants tend to have shallower roots and need much more frequent water. Lawns will usually survive without water by going dormant and brown.

But arbor experts warn that trees need to be the first priority for water.

Homeowners should have deepwatered their trees before the high

Dead trees are now commonplace in our city parks after a four-year drought.

Can we save those that are still struggling to stay alive with deep watering?

summer heat, continuing the practice every two weeks thereafter.

Watering should be focused around the tree drip line, which can be a challenge with larger trees. Ideal is a spiral of soaker hose left to slowly penetrate the water down deep. But just moving the hose around the perimeter will work, too, although it is more work.

Mulch around the tree’s base helps preserve the moisture reserve.

Mulch materials include wood chips, bark, shredded bark and leaves, and compost, and it should be at least 4

inches thick. To avoid rot, you should leave a mulch-free circle of 6 to 8 inches around the tree’s trunk.

Lack of water creates tree stress.

This manifests itself as needle dieback in conifers and leaf scorching in deciduous trees. Dead branches start to appear, and oftentimes the entire tree sags down.

Trees under stress also are weaker in fighting off pests. The numerous sycamores lining many of our older city streets are suffering from a dramatic increase in scale insects.

Pines are seeing more beetles,

While homeowners can care for trees on private property with extra effort, local governments are facing extreme difficulty with their urban forests in the drought. Public trees make up about 20 percent of our regional urban forest.

Trees in our city parks face a unique crisis. The city’s urban forestry service is charged with the care of the trees on public property, including parks. This department is organized under the city’s Department of Public Works.

Urban forestry employees plant, maintain, prune and remove public trees. Additionally, they perform numerous other functions, including the protection of heritage trees. They also are charged with partnering with nonprofit organizations to expand the urban forest and educate citizens about proper tree planting locations and tree care.

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PUBLISHER FROM page 9 drought. But park trees are generally surrounded by grass that has typically been watered a couple times a week to stay green and lush. This causes park trees to develop shallow root structures. When park lawn watering is reduced during times of drought, the trees suffer as their shallow roots dry out quickly.

According to arborists’ recommendations, our park trees should receive deep watering during drought. This sends water up inside the tree and encourages roots to grow deeper into the ground. This is where the crisis comes in.

City park staffs were decimated during the recent recession, with staff levels cut to 25 percent of prerecessionary levels. Measure U, an extra half-cent city sales tax approved by voters in 2012, was imposed to restore the city’s police, fire and parks departments. It sunsets in 2019.

But even with record high revenues from the tax, this past year city park budgets were restored only to 50 percent of prerecession levels. (Police and fire are considered fully restored as of next year’s budget.)

I spoke with Jim Combs, the city director of parks, and he is deeply concerned. He says the upcoming budget increases fund only 18 new park positions. The money will be used to hire staff to empty trash and clean public restrooms more frequently, a basic service level that the department fell short of this past year.

It is easy to see why, with 226 city parks, the task of deep watering

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thousands of trees at risk of dying is overwhelming.

Councilmember Jeff Harris in my own city council District 3 says, “This is a huge concern to me. We just cannot sit back, give up and let our beloved tree canopy die.” Harris was a long-serving city parks commissioner before being elected to the council last fall.

Harris recently reached out to the Sacramento Tree Foundation. They are jointly planning to hold a series of seminars in his district—working through neighborhood associations— on drought care for trees.

CITIZEN LEADERSHIP NEEDED What is desperately needed is citizen leaders willing to come forward and form a temporary emergency task force using volunteers to manage a tree deep-watering campaign in our city parks. The Sacramento Tree Foundation, along with the city’s parks and urban forestry leaders and employees, need to join in offering their expertise and resources.

Years ago, a poll showed that our citizens value their tree canopy among their top three favorite things about Sacramento. Hopefully, this could translate into volunteers willing to move hoses and manage watering schedules in order to save our park trees.

In recent years, citizen leaders have stepped forward to solve a number of much more complicated civic crises.

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Under his leadership, incredible accomplishments have been made by volunteers. They just finished up their 47th monthly work day. The group now attracts an average 90 volunteers per work day. They’ve cleaned ponds 141 times, removed more than 65 tons of garden clippings and debris and recently mulched every tree and bed in the park.

The work model Powell developed inspired many other neighborhood leaders to do the same in their neighborhood parks. There are now dozens of similar groups.

We need to consider the civic cost of removing hundreds of dead trees in the coming years.

confirmed near death by city arborist Duane Goosen. It may be too late for these trees, but hopefully not for others.

Will volunteers step up in this time of crisis to save our park trees? Will our city leaders and the Sacramento Tree Foundation put in the effort and resources to help organize this task force?

I certainly hope so. Greater civic challenges have been solved with this approach.

Anyone interested in leading this task force should contact Councilmember Jeff Harris at jsharris@cityofsacramento.org or 808-7003. Volunteers interested in helping with watering should contact Mary Lynn Perry, the city’s volunteer coordinator, at mperry@ cityofsacramento.org or 808-8317.

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With Powell’s can-do civic attitude as a model, Lisa Schmidt and I founded Friends of East Sacramento in 2011 to save Clunie Community Center from closure while also fundraising and overseeing the privately funded restoration of both Clunie and the McKinley Rose Garden. We organize dozens of volunteers to help care for the rose garden each season.

The American River Natural History Association stepped up to save Effie Yeaw Nature Center from closing years ago. At about the same time, former Congressman Doug Ose saved Gibson Ranch from closure.

Both of these extraordinary efforts improved the facilities and the experience for park users.

We need to consider the civic cost of removing hundreds of dead trees in the coming years. Just last month, the city removed three huge dead conifers in McKinley Park when we complained that they created dangerous conditions for park users, with dead limbs hanging over picnic grounds, park benches and walkways.

Powell reports that his group has documented nearly 100 historic redwoods in Land Park that were

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Get Ready To Roll LUNAR LUNACY MOONLIT BICYCLE RIDE HELPS ENRICH FOSTER CHILDREN’S LIVES

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shley Wells is an exceptionally gifted musician playing in her high school band, so talented that she’s been invited to perform at the White House this summer.

Todd Hall has an uncanny knack for math and science and dreams of solving murder cases as a forensic scientist. He was just accepted to an exclusive camp for forensic scientist hopefuls.

Ballerina Ella DeFore was handpicked for a role in a major local production.

While we have changed their names to protect their identities, all three are Arden area high school teenagers with great talents, high hopes and bright futures ahead of them. But all three are foster kids whose foster families are stretched so thin that things like plane trips, summer camps and more ballet slippers are out of the question.

They are just three of the nearly 3,000 foster children in Sacramento County. Many of the area’s foster children go without “big” extras like summer camp. But many also go

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without less-expensive things most of us take for granted.

That’s where the rest of us can make a difference. And that’s where Point West Rotarians Tom Slagle and Mike Garcia put their pedals to the medal, stepping up to co-chair the group’s second annual Lunar Lunacy, a moonlit bike ride benefit.

Slagle founded the nighttime ride as an event to be held under a full moon in late summer. This year it falls on Aug. 1 and will begin at 9 p.m. at the state Capitol. Proceeds will help pay for the important extras many foster children have to do without.

Garcia is a Sacramento judge who is all too familiar with the challenges foster children face. He helped select the bike ride’s charity partner, Making Memories, an offshoot of Sacramento County’s Court Appointed Special Advocate program.

“This pays for the little extras that children in foster care might not have available to them such as prom pictures, driver’s education, afterschool care, football equipment, music lessons, field trips, senior portraits,” says Carol Noreen, executive director of CASA. “It’s nice for all kids to have good memories from their childhood, and this program helps that happen.”

Ideally, the Making Memories program would be able to give each foster child about $200 for those important extras. Foster families and sometimes a child’s teacher apply for the funds based on needs or interest.

Funds raised at the Lunar Lunacy bike ride are earmarked for Making Memories and other children’s charities.

“These kinds of extracurricular activities help children learn social skills, build confidence and just have fun,” Noreen says. “But too often,

foster children miss out on these opportunities. While foster parents get aid to reimburse expenses, payments provide a basic standard of living and not much else.

“The children deserve better than the loneliness that comes from not participating in the same activities as their peers.”

Slagle says dozens of volunteers will help with the ride, including members from the CSUS football team, Point West Rotarians, and members of Rotaract, a CSUS youth Rotary group. More than 350 riders took part in the event last summer, helping to raise $24,000 for local charities, including The Society for the Blind. Slagle expects more this year.

“Riding in the moonlight we will be making our own memories so that foster children can have wonderful memories of their own,” he says.

Cyclists will begin gathering at the west steps of the Capitol at 7 p.m. and can enjoy festivities and food trucks before the cycling begins at 9, or join in the after-party. Riders can choose a 6-mile or 15-mile loop and expect to be done by 11 p.m.

Walk-up registration is available, though pre-registration can be accomplished online. Sponsors and virtual cyclists are invited to register as well and join in the festivities as event spectators.

Bike helmets and bike lights are required.

For more information about CASA, go to sacramentocasa.org To register for the event, go to lunarlunacyride.com

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Turns out Sacramento has won official distinction as being one of the best places in the United States to raise active kids.

The doctor-search website BetterDoctor.com commissioned a survey to determine the healthiest cities to raise children, and representatives say our “Playground Score” shot us to near the top. We have four playgrounds for every 10,000 citizens, making Sacramento the 10th highest city for playgrounds per capita.

“The number of playgrounds shows Sacramento invests in infrastructure to support active children and families,” says Laura Pereyra of BetterDoctor.com. “Playgrounds are a great place for parents to take

kids to relax, meet other children and get time away from screens and technology.”

The River City also tallied a high “Bikescore,” she says. The score measures the relative “bikeability” of any given city by examining the number of bike lanes, hills, destinations and bike commuters.

Sacramento received a score of 68.9, putting it in the high end of the “bikeable” section. Undoubtedly, our American River Parkway’s trail factored big in this score.

The list is designed to help encourage families to engage in preventative care, which is the best way to reduce visits to the doctor. The study aims to help families decide to live in areas where daily outdoor physical activity is a way of life for young children.

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BetterDoctor.com’s rankings are: 1. Madison, Wis. 2. Fremont 3. Chula Vista 4. Plano, Texas 5. Reno, Nev. 6. Aurora, Colo.

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sale is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, at 930 Entrada Road.

“The sale started as a little community service project and has grown each year,” says Palmer, an Arden Park resident. “To raise $4,000. Wow, that’s a lot of 25-cent items.”

He says items have been stuffed into his garage, yard and home over the past several weeks in preparation for the event. It just keeps getting bigger, he says.

With the help of about 15 classmates at Rio Americano and St. Francis high schools, Albiani and Palmer are collecting everything from couches to baseball cards from residents in the community. They’ve been canvassing the neighborhood with flyers and can arrange for item pick-up (and during the sale, drop-off)

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President Point West Rotary Rich Graber; Sierra Forever Families representatives: Bob Herne, Crystal Brooks, and Christie Shorrock (all of Sacramento Sierra Forever Families; and Point West Rotary Festa-di-Vino Chair Dwight Chambers. Point West Rotary presented $32,000 to Sierra Forever Families.

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Kids Don’t Float BE WATER-SAFE WHEN ENJOYING RIVER ACTIVITIES THIS SUMMER

Parents and guardians are encouraged to purchase lifejackets for their children prior to going to the parkway to enjoy the water. However, if that isn’t possible or if the lifejacket is forgotten at home, all are welcome to borrow and return them at any of the sites: at Ancil Hoffman Park, Howe Avenue, Sunrise and Watt Avenue Accesses or at participating Metro Fire stations.

For more information about the program, go to regionalparks. saccounty.net

BY SUSAN PETERS COUNTY SUPERVISOR

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he warm weather is here and the Department of Regional Parks is anticipating a great summer of recreation on the American River. To help ensure that youngsters enjoy the water safely, the American River Parkway Foundation is once again generously funding loaner lifejackets available at eight sites for the 2015 Kids Don’t Float Program. This is the fifth year the foundation is providing lifejackets.

The foundation also has provided new signage at the lifejacket distribution sites. Each sign features the message that “kids don’t float,” and if they are under age 13 they must wear a floatation jacket per the Sacramento County ordinance and are invited to borrow a jacket and return it. The signs are in English, Russian and Spanish languages.

Regional Parks has a longstanding partnership with the American River Parkway Foundation and the Kids Don’t Float program is an ongoing example. Together with safety partners such as the Sheriff’s Department, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District and the Drowning Accident Rescue Team

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PARADES, FUN AND FIREWORKS To help insure youngsters enjoy the water safely, the American River Parkway Foundation is once again generously funding loaner life jackets available at eight sites along the American River for the 2015 Kids Don’t Float Program. This is the fifth year the foundation is providing life jackets.

Fireworks will light up the evening sky over Carmichael on the Fourth of July courtesy of the Carmichael Recreation and Park District

(DART), the department and foundation hope everyone is reminded

that safety comes first in and around our waterways.

There will be an abundance of neighborhood activities to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Arden Arcade will hold its annual parade celebration that starts at 10 a.m., kicking off at the Sacramento County Building, 2700 Fulton Ave. The route goes south on Fulton past El Camino Avenue and turns on Cottage Way, continuing west to Bell Street where it will turn north and finish at Howe Park.

Carmichael’s celebration kicks off with a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Kiwanis Club from 7 to 11 a.m. at Carmichael Park, followed by the 57th Annual Elks Club Parade on Fair Oaks Boulevard starting at 10:30 a.m. at Marconi Avenue and continuing to Manzanita and Cypress avenues. The parade features floats, antique automobiles, marching bands, equestrian entries, and much more.

Carmichael also will experience fireworks lighting up the evening at the La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road. The first sky rocket

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is expected to go off at approximately 9:30 p.m. And starting at 7 p.m. there will be plenty of activities before the big show, including music, food and children’s activities such as inflatables.

In addition to my elected duties and responsibilities, I serve as board chair of the Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation, which restored the historic home of California’s eighth governor. The Victorian-era building is at 800 N St. in downtown Sacramento.

The mansion once functioned as the home for the “friendless children” of California through the generosity of Jane Lathrop Stanford, the governor’s widow.

Through the foundation’s work, the restored mansion has been preserved, capturing the eras when it was home to Gov. Stanford, who founded Stanford University, as well as when the building served as an orphanage.

As you can imagine, the historic structure is a must-see attraction for many coming to our capital region.

Recently Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and his wife visited the mansion. Kennedy, when he lived in Sacramento, was instrumental in the transaction involving the state of California purchasing the home from the Sisters of Mercy.

HOOVES TO THE RESCUE Beginning in late May, persons travelling on the American River Parkway may have spotted an unusual sight at the Howe Avenue Dentition Basin: goats and sheep.

Why? Because the Department of Water Resources is using these animals as a natural way to remove vegetation in the floodplain and thereby increasing storm-water conveyance.

Goats will eat almost any vegetation, including blackberry, star thistle, and other invasive species. With continued use the goats will remove thousands of pounds of vegetation as an alternative to mowing. This will help relieve clogging and debris accumulating in our creeks during storm season.

Last year the Wilhaggin Detention Basin off American River Drive was selected for a pilot project since that 10-acre area was challenging to clear due to dense growth of brush, grass and weeds and is surrounded by chain-link fencing on all sides.

The goats and sheep negotiated successfully the steep terrain, so now the animals are being put to work at the Howe Avenue site. Later in June the herd will be moved to the Wilhaggin location.

KD Goat Ranch is the contractor for the project and it is anticipated that approximately 150 head of goat and sheep will be grazing at the two detention basins. Two herder dogs will also be onsite around the clock, and the contractor plans to perform visits daily to ensure the health of the stock.

Besides providing a picturesque setting and successfully munching away unwanted vegetation, the critters are relatively quiet—a plus for neighbors.

PRIORITIZE YOUR LANDSCAPE WATERING Through funding provided by the Sacramento Association of Realtors, the Arden Arcade neighborhoods of Cottage Park and Del Paso Manor now have their names listed under “Sacramento County” on street signs within their residential borders.

PROMOTING NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTITY Through funding provided by the Sacramento Association of Realtors, the Arden Arcade neighborhoods of Cottage Park and Del Paso Manor now have their names listed on street signs within their residential borders.

Neighborhood identity can reinforce neighborhood awareness and assist in crime prevention by building volunteerism through such activities as Neighborhood Watch.

To accomplish that, a contractor hired by SAR applied adhesive decals with the designated neighborhood’s name onto the surface of residential

street signs immediately under where “Sacramento County” is listed.

The two neighborhoods join the ranks of seven other areas previously designated and funded by SAR: Arden Oaks, Arden Park, Carmichael Colony, Carmichael Creek, Mission Oaks North, Sierra Oaks Vista and Wilhaggin.

A number of other neighborhoods have been receiving identification labels as individual street signs in their areas are being replaced by the Department of Transportation as a result of wear and tear.

With Sacramento County’s beautiful and abundant trees, it’s a good time to review how to preserve them during the ongoing dry weather and water restrictions.

First, prioritize your landscape into three categories: 1. High priority. Must-save items such as valuable trees and shrubs that add to the quality of life in neighborhoods and increase property values.

2. Moderate priority. Try to save items such as certain perennials, newer shrubs that can be replaced, and low-water use and native plants that will require little water once established.

3. Low priority. Annuals and lawns often can bounce back in the fall when we get cooler and wetter weather.

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Lastly, adjust your irrigation system to comply with allowable watering days and times established by your water supplier. If your irrigation system has separate zones or stations for your lawn and for your trees/shrubs, adjust each zone in accordance to what is allowed by your water supplier. Some water suppliers may allow more watering days for trees and shrubs. And if your trees, shrubs and lawn are watered on a shared irrigation system, then adjust your watering to comply with allowable watering days and times for lawns.

If your trees/shrubs show signs of distress, then use additional hand watering.

According to the Sacramento Tree Foundation, it’s important to check the soil about 6 inches below the surface around the tree. If the soil feels dry, water the tree deeply. The best way is to run a small trickle of water near the trunk and allow the water to slowly drip into the soil for one to two hours, since sprinklers leave water on the surface and do not deeply water the tree’s roots.

Trees require different levels of care depending on their age. Young trees require more water than maturing and mature trees. Young trees must receive regular water to their root ball for their first three years to establish strong root systems, while mature trees, 15 years or older, may vary in water needs depending on the species. Learn more about how to protect your trees by visiting the Tree Foundation’s website at sactree. com

COUNTY IS CONSERVING WATER, TOO! Residents are not the only ones striving to save water.

As part of Sacramento County’s ongoing green initiatives, we’ve been steadily working to reduce our water consumption through decreased

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To conserve water during the drought, the Sheriff’s Department has cut back on car washes and the patrol vehicles are displaying bumper stickers highlighting their efforts and asking for patience if the patrol cars appear dirty.

On May 1, 1965, Kaiser Permanente began providing health care for the first time in the Sacramento region following the purchase of the 64-bed Arden Community Hospital on Morse Avenue. Recently the medical facility celebrated its 50th anniversary.

irrigation and plumbing in addition to remaining vigilant about the current water situation and increasing reductions wherever possible in our day-to-day operations. Those efforts take place in and around facilities, from the main jail to the 15,000 acres of parks and open space under the care of the Department of Regional Parks, to the buildings that house the 10,000-plus employees.

County Regional Parks reduced water usage last spring by irrigating no more than two days per week per the most stringent local requirements.

Predictive irrigation controllers were installed at some sites to reduce landscape irrigation even further and allow more efficient use

of the irrigation system. Predictive or Smart Controllers use weather forecasts and current soil conditions to calculate that amount of water needed to efficiently irrigate based on the restrictions set forth by the water suppliers. If rain is forecast, the system can be turned off from a central controller.

Further landscape irrigation reductions are being considered, such as reducing watering to one day per week, adding more predictive irrigation controllers, and installing more low-water use landscaping in lieu of traditional landscaping.

The Main Jail upgraded more than 50 percent of the inmate showers to reduce flow and limit the length of

the showers, and upgraded toilets to reduce water use by 20 percent. At Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, shower and plumbing controls will be upgraded this summer to reduce flow there as well. Future efforts for these facilities will include high water use areas such as the laundries and kitchens.

The Sheriff’s Department also has cut car washes from three days per week to one at the downtown and branch center facilities. In addition, similar reductions have been made at each of the department’s patrol stations. With this, you might see the sheriff’s patrol vehicles display new bumper stickers highlighting their efforts and asking for patience if the patrol cars appear dirty.

In county buildings, employees are encouraged to report leaks so that maintenance staff can address them quickly. Low-flow restrictors were installed on many sinks and the effort will continue throughout this year.

We also are working with landlords in leased facilities to implement many of the same measures.

All new county building projects include low-flow water fixtures and low water use landscaping.

Department heads are examining all facets of operations to explore innovative ways to reduce water.

CONGRATS TO KAISER’S MORSE SITE Recently I had the privilege of participating in the 50th anniversary celebration of Kaiser Permanente’s Sacramento Medical Center on Morse Avenue.

On May 1, 1965, Kaiser Permanente began providing health care for the first time in the Sacramento region following the purchase of the 64-bed Arden Community Hospital on Morse Avenue. It started with 13 physicians serving 12,000 members.

Now Kaiser Permanente’s Sacramento Medical Center on Morse Avenue and its satellite medical offices serve more than 230,000 members with 513 physicians and more than 3,700 staff members.

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PROTECT YOUR PETS The County Animal Shelter reminds you that leaving a pet in a vehicle can quickly turn deadly on warm days. Even with the windows cracked, the temperature inside a parked car can jump 20 degrees in just 10 minutes. Being outdoors in temperatures over 90 degrees can also be dangerous.

It’s important to provide your pet with shade and plenty of water if you can’t bring your furry four-legged friend inside. For more hot weather pet tips, go to animalcare.saccounty. net And remember that fireworks can be very stressful for your pet, possibly causing fear and anxiety. Sadly, the volume of missing pets significantly increases during the Fourth of July holiday. Leaving a pet outside unattended even in a fenced yard or on a chain can lead to disastrous consequences. In their fear, pets who normally would not leave the yard may escape and become lost, or become entangled in their chain, risking injury or death.

Also please make sure your pets are wearing identification tags so if they become lost, they can be returned home promptly.

held starting in July and continuing through Aug. 30, consisting of four Saturday night gigs and nine Sunday evening performances. A variety of music will be offered including classic rock, rhythm and blues, ’50’s rock ’n’ roll, and dance band tunes.

All Carmichael concerts start at 6:30 p.m. The summer concert series sponsors include both the Carmichael and Mission Oaks recreation and park districts. A list of all the bands can be obtained by going online to carmichaelpark.com The fall concert fun will shift to the Foothill Farms area starting on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Foothill Community Park, 5510 Diablo Drive.

An encore “Concert in the Park” will be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, at Pioneer Park, 5100 Verner Ave. near Pioneer School. Both events are being co-sponsored by Sacramento County and the Sunrise Recreation and Park District.

And remember the best way to enjoy any of these outdoor concerts is to bring a picnic, blanket and lawn chairs.

on land and in the water within the American River Parkway between Hazel and Watt avenues. An exception exists for Ancil Hoffman Golf Course.

In past years summer holiday weekends had become major problems along the American River making the parkway less of a family-friendly outing because of fights, public nudity, profanity and littering.

The Board of Supervisors restored decorum beginning with the 2006 Labor Day weekend and the ban is also applicable for Independence Day as well as Memorial Day. Since the restriction has taken effect, families I have talked to have expressed appreciation for making these holiday weekends once again a time for everyone to enjoy the American River Parkway.

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One-Stop Shopping 57TH STREET ANTIQUE CENTER SURPRISES

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t’s funny to hear Gary Little describe 57th Street Antique and Design Center as “the bestkept secret in Sacramento.”

The 10,000-square-foot complex, which houses 75-plus antiques dealers, an interior design firm, fitness businesses and a restaurant, is hard to miss between H and J streets right off Elvas Avenue. But somehow, even people who have lived nearby for decades don’t know it’s there.

“I’ve been in the shop helping my wife on weekends and people will come up to me and say, ‘This is wonderful, how long has this been here?’ I say, ‘Thirty-eight years.

Where do you live?’ ‘Four blocks away.’ ‘You don’t get out much, do you?’”

Little and his wife, Jamie, bought the sprawling property nearly four decades ago, when it housed Christy Gun Works and Thunder Machine Works, and added 3,500 square feet 10 years ago when they bought the adjacent property from the city of Sacramento.

Both Littles are native Sacramentans—Jamie is from East Sacramento, Gary was born in Land Park—and they’ve lived in East Sacramento since they got married.

They’ve been dedicated antique hounds for years.

“My family’s been in antiques for the last 50-plus years,” Little says.

“My mom and dad owned antique shops in Sonora, and Jamie and I always wind up antiquing. We’ve got a big red Expedition that fills up easily, and there’s always room for more.”

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Gary and Jamie Little in The Ruralist, one of the shops in the 57th Street Antique and Design Center

But the Littles didn’t necessarily intend to create the vast antique empire that they now oversee.

“The center wasn’t set up to do antiques. It just happened,” Little explains. “We bought the property and the businesses in there. Then, when those folks decided to retire, we thought, ‘Oops, we’ve got to do something with this thing.’

“Gravyboat Antiques opened across the street, so I approached them and said, ‘I think you need more space.’

The owner said yes, I do, but I can’t afford it. I said, ‘Yes, you can. I’ll give you the deal of a lifetime.’

“Then Avanti Pottery became vacant and it all kind of started from there.”

The center is now home to a vibrant mix of antique shops that carry high-quality, curated antiques and interesting gifts; an interior design shop with full interior design services; a high-end rug store; the popular, award-winning restaurant Evan’s Kitchen; a yoga studio and cross-training gym; and a salon and spa, making the complex the oldest and largest of its kind in Sacramento.

“All the shop owners are local Sacramento people who have a great depth of knowledge about what they

carry and what they do,” Little says.

“As far as the number of vendors, I say the more the merrier. People can wander around to all the different shops—it’s not all just antiques—then go to lunch, talk about what they saw, then go back and buy.”

They’ll more than likely run into Jamie, who’s owned The Ruralist shop in the center with business partner Tom Kurth for the past two years, and maybe even Little himself when he helps his wife on weekends.

That is, unless the couple is on vacation in Paris, where they were headed just after this interview.

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bby Douglas is not your average high school junior. Sure, the East Sacramento native is a great student at C.K. McClatchy High School (she especially loves English and history), but she’s also done extensive work with the Sacramento Tree Foundation and recently wrapped up a fundraising campaign for the local chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. While Douglas is clearly quite community-minded, her drive to raise funds for the LLS as part of its Students of the Year campaign was also quite personal: Her father, Eric, was diagnosed with lymphoma four years ago; thanks to a drug developed through the LLS’s extensive research efforts, he’s now in remission.

“As I watched my dad going through chemotherapy, I got a much better understanding of the disease,” Douglas says. “I now had personal experience with it, and I very luckily saw him come out the other side.”

When a fellow student got in touch with Douglas about participating in the Students of the Year campaign— in which student pairs across the country raise as much money as they can for the LLS, the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer research—she jumped at the chance to help the society and, more specifically, a little girl named Bailey McFarland.

“What’s so great about the society is that they provide patient support as well as doing research,” Douglas says. “They help you deal with the

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Abby Douglas, Bailey McFarland and Julia Davis

normal stress of cancer plus the logistics, like where to go to get care.

Every year, the local LLS chapters select an honorary Girl and Boy of the Year who represent all of the their fundraising efforts. This year, the Sacramento chapter’s Girl of the Year is Bailey McFarland, a 9-yearold diagnosed with leukemia. We met her early on and she immediately gravitated toward us.”

Douglas and her fundraising partner, Julia Davis—a student at Rio Americano High School and Douglas’s best friend “literally since birth” (their mothers were friends while pregnant, and the girls were born in the same hospital only four days apart)—decided to try to raise $50,000

for a research fund to be named in Bailey’s honor.

“When I pitched the idea to Julia, she was very gung-ho,” Douglas says.

“And we’ve found out we’re actually really good at working together.”

They launched Bailey’s Cancer Busters, a blog and donation page that tells Bailey’s story—she commutes with her family from Reno to UC Davis Medical Center for treatment twice a week—and chronicles the events they’ve held for her, including a one-on-one dunking session with Sacramento Kings player Jason Thompson.

“People fundraise in different ways in this campaign,” Douglas says.

“Some are successful with events;

some are more successful doing personal asks. We had originally planned a foot-golf tournament last month that was supposed to be our main fundraising event, but we didn’t see enough interest from our network to make it profitable, so we canceled it. Instead, we held a different benefit event on May 8—a more traditional party with cocktails and dessert at my family’s house in East Sac—that went much better. We’re still chugging away.”

By the end of May, Douglas and Davis had raised $50,000 for LLS and learned some invaluable lessons along the way.

“This experience with fundraising has been crazy,” Douglas admits. “It’s a different thing to do when you’re 17—it feels very adult. Thankfully, the LLS has been really helpful and clued me in to this really cool infrastructure that’s already in place.

I think this will be a great thing to do even in college.”

While Douglas still has a couple of years before she takes on university life, she’ll stay busy in the meantime with her local activism, be it working on the pilot program to “green” local high school campuses that she co-created with the volunteer coordinator at the Sacramento Tree Foundation or raising funds with her friends for the next person in need.

And thanks to efforts like hers and the blood cancer research bolstered in part by LLS, her dad will be here to cheer her on.

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Yoga For All FREE CLASSES IN THE PARK ARE A LABOR OF LOVE

BY TERRY KAUFMAN

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n a weekend morning about six years ago, Zach Stahlecker found himself in an unusual place: in the middle of a park doing cobras, pigeons and downward dogs with dozens of strangers. He had done yoga previously (“at home with videos,” he says), but there was something revelatory about standing in the open and striking poses with an entire community.

“It inspired me to continue going into it,” says Stahlecker. “I began doing serious yoga at a studio, but I still went out to the park on Saturdays to practice.”

Three years ago, Stahlecker decided it was time to step up his game. He trained to become a yoga assistant, completing a 16-hour course that qualified him to move through the crowd and help participants with their posture. A year ago, he completed the certification program to be a yoga teacher.

As his yoga knowledge and expertise grew, the community in the park grew as well. What started as a handful of practitioners who met in the home of Gina Garcia, the originator of Yoga in the Park, turned into a movement. Today, more than

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Yoga in the Park is offered every Saturday at McKinley at 9 a.m. It's free and open to everyone.

200 people of all ages show up every Saturday morning, rain or shine, to do yoga in East Sacramento’s McKinley Park. During the wet winters, classes are held at the park’s Clunie Community Center. Thanks to Stahlecker, a similar crowd now enjoys yoga during the dry season on Sunday mornings in Tahoe Park. The classes are free.

The Saturday and Sunday groups represent the largest weekly yoga class in Sacramento history, touching tens of thousands of lives since the program started in 2009. In the last year alone, more than 7,000 people experienced yoga this way, and the program is looking to branch out to additional locations.

It began as an adjunct of Yoga Across America, an organization created by Garcia. When that organization began to disband, she reached out to Stahlecker and asked him to take the reins. With a

background in business and a fulltime career as a massage therapist, he says it was a perfect fit for him. “I was already doing management for the program when it was offered to me,” he says. “I don’t see how I could have walked away from it.”

It’s definitely a labor of love.

None of the teachers or assistants is paid. Karen Wilkinson taught yoga at Encina High School but found a real place for herself in the park. “I started there as a student, then as an HEROES page 29

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Sacramento App YOUNG PROFESSIONAL CROWD-SOURCES ‘THINGS TO DO’

BY SCOT CROCKER INSIDE DOWNTOWN

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acramento needs more dreamers and doers like Jessica Kriegel.

We have our fair share of homegrown fans who defend Sacramento like you would defend a quirky uncle. More impressive are the outsiders who have moved here or admire the unique and superior essence of our city from afar. Extraordinarily impressive are the smart, young and ambitious millennials who could live anywhere in the world but see Sacramento through a progressive lens and could very well make Sacramento a worldclass city.

One such phenom is Kriegel.

She’s young, single, adventurous, ambitious and entrepreneurial. She will categorically say that Sacramento is the best city in the world. This is where she has decided to live, work and start a unique new app to highlight Sacramento’s best places for food, drink, events and activities.

While this may sound like a “been there, done that” service provided by others, Kreigel’s app uncovers Sacramento’s hidden gems, hot spots, hangouts and city assets from the perspective of locals who know what’s what.

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Kriegel came from what she calls an adventurous family.

Raised in New York, she has lived around the world in places like Paris, Malibu, Thailand, London, Milan, Boston, Shanghai. And now, Sacramento.

People find themselves in Sacramento for many reasons: They relocate for jobs, college, family or fate.

Kriegel followed a boyfriend. She hung around downtown, not thinking Sacramento had much to offer. It was just another place.

Nothing special. But while walking her dog, she started to sense discovery around every corner.

“I saw a different side of Sacramento,” says Kriegel. “I saw the new bars and restaurants blooming on K Street, and I discovered people with passion. Friendly people. People who care.”

Connecting with the city and its people became a passion. Kriegel was living downtown and working as a senior director of strategic planning at Oracle. She first noticed community

Jessica Kriegel cruises the city in a vintage BMW motorcycle with a sidecar

pride in the Here We Stay campaign to save the Sacramento Kings.

“Everyone was wearing purple,” she says. “The entire community was

engaged, and it certainly showcased a civic pride I hadn’t noticed before.”

So Kriegel got more involved.

She was selected for the Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program, a

10-month professional development program designed to prepare participants for effective and ethical leadership in their companies and communities. NELP opened her eyes.

She will categorically say that Sacramento is the best city in the world.

She joined the board of Downtown Sacramento Partnership as well as MetroEdge, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce’s program for people 40 and younger focused on giving back to the community and leadership development. With more than 500 “Edgers,” the program is trying to redefine Sacramento for young professionals.

It was at a MetroEdge event that Kriegel was inspired. She thought about an app that would highlight things to do in Sacramento. Following a similar program in Indianapolis, she created an app called In the Sac that allows users to find places and things to do in downtown and Midtown based on what “locals” think are best.

It’s not driven by advertising, Yelp or other service.

“Locals really know where to go to find those hidden gems and hot spots,” she explains. “Locals know the out-of-the- way smaller restaurants that are great or the bars with a good happy hour.”

The app, geared toward young professionals ages 21 to 39, also includes farmers markets, arts and culture, virtual curated tours, music, farm-to-fork restaurants, great coffee shops, places to meet friends, parks and other things to do in Sacramento.

Kriegel and her business partner, Eric McIntosh, are recruiting sponsors before launching the app later this summer. They’ve partnered with Sacramento365, the events calendar published by the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, and are getting support from Downtown Sacramento Partnership, Midtown

Business Association, CADA and WALKSacramento. More are sure to follow.

“If younger professionals could see Sacramento through my eyes, they’d see a great city,” Kriegel said.

“It’s a special place. People want to know each other. It’s vibrant. There’s cutting-edge technology going on at Urban Hive and Hacker Lab.” Kriegel has a lot of balls in the air.

She’s working at Oracle, building her app and volunteering with a number of nonprofits.

You can see her cruising downtown and Midtown in a vintage BMW motorcycle with a sidecar. Her dad used the vehicle to operate a messenger service in New York. He would pick his daughter up from school and drive her home in the sidecar. Now she rides her dad’s BMW with pride on Sacramento’s streets.

“I learned how to drive at 12 years old in the little side roads of New England,” she said. “Ten and half years ago, my dad left on a 10-year trip around in the world on his sidecar. He is in the Himalayas today and will never stop. He even has a website that follows his travels.”

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She created an app called In the Sac that allows users to find places and things to do in downtown and Midtown based on what “locals” think are best.

She’s proud of her dad, proud of her motorcycle and proud of the city she loves. And through pride and a search for adventure, she will help transform Sacramento, finding hot spots, cool places and exciting things to do for young professionals like her.

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assistant, and then I was teaching 100 to 200 students every week,” she says.

For Summer Ward, a full-time yoga instructor who teaches classes at McClatchy High School and other locations around the city, the journey has been inspiring. “I did my first teacher training with Gina seven or eight years ago, at the very beginning of Yoga in the Park,” Ward recalls.

“We reached out to other teachers and it just kept going. It really hits home how much it’s grown and the sense of community it’s created.”

When her McClatchy students miss a class, she allows them to make it up in the park. “It’s so nice to be outside,” she says. “There is a mutual relationship between the students and the outdoors.”

Stahlecker enjoys seeing entire families doing yoga. “I’ve seen moms with babies in strollers,” he says.

“I’ve seen moms and dads with 9-year-olds. It’s a great setting for the family, as well as the elderly.”

The classes are geared for all levels, and assistants help those struggling with new positions or physical challenges. “We push them only with their permission,” says Stahlecker.

He recounts the story of a woman who came to a class for the first time, having never done yoga. “She didn’t think she’d keep up, but she actually did beautifully,” he says. “Afterward, she sent me a Facebook message telling me that it had changed how she approached things and how she looked at herself. You really see the subtlety of it. There are a lot of people who find real transformation there.”

When she turned the program over to Stahlecker, Garcia wrote the following on the group’s Facebook page: “This transition is a testament to the power of this yoga practice, and the beauty of this Yoga in the Park community. We are a community of connection, service and love.”

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Vision Zero HOW MANY TRAFFIC INJURIES AND DEATHS ARE WE WILLING TO TOLERATE?

BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE

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o one should have to die simply by trying to get around.” That’s what San Francisco’s pedestrian advocacy organization says on its website.

Can anyone disagree that you shouldn’t have to risk your life to cross a street, go for a bike ride or ride in a car?

Preserving human life should be the highest priority for the transportation system, not mobility or anything else.

Yet that’s the situation we’re in. According to state of California statistics, 51,575 motorists, pedestrians and cyclists in Sacramento County died or were injured in traffic collisions between 2008 and 2012 (the most recent data available). That’s nearly enough to fill Sleep Train Arena to capacity three times. For the years 2008-2010,

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Sacramento County was the third most dangerous county in the state (out of 58 counties) for fatal and injury crashes. It improved to seventh most dangerous in 2011 and 2012.

Among the 13 largest cities, the city of Sacramento was the worst in the state in collision danger in 2008 and 2009.

In 2011 and 2012, the city ranked in the middle of the pack.

Some cities and countries have set a dramatic goal to stop traffic-caused carnage. The Vision Zero program, created in Sweden in 1997, seeks to eliminate all fatal and serious traffic injuries. Norway, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom followed with programs of their own. In the United States, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Portland and San Jose have established Vision

Zero goals. Each locale has set a specific year to reach zero deaths, ranging from 2022 to 2050.

The ethical premise behind Vision Zero is simple. Preserving human life should be the highest priority for the transportation system, not mobility or anything else. Saving a few seconds in getting somewhere shouldn’t outweigh the life of a child or senior citizen crossing the street.

Too often in the past, there’s been a cold, heartless reckoning to determine whether traffic deaths and injuries are tolerable. Traffic engineers have put a dollar value on human life and done cost-benefit analyses to calculate how many fatalities and serious injuries are acceptable. Hasn’t the answer always been none at all?

With Vision Zero, Sweden has reduced fatalities and serious injuries by more than a third at a time when overall miles driven in the country has gone up. To be fair, some other European countries have done even better at reducing fatalities and injuries without adopting a Vision Zero effort. But having a goal of zero, and setting a year to achieve that goal (initially 2020 and now 2050 for Sweden), has been effective and is part of the cultural change needed to make the public and officials think about making roads safer for everyone. It’s too early to measure Vision Zero results in U.S. cities. Most programs were started just last year.

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Farmers in the City CITY COUNCIL GIVES URBAN FARMS THE GREEN LIGHT

BY LAUREN MANNING

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who said that gardening is popular with many members of the Hmong community. He noted that his mother, who grows more fruits and vegetables than she can use, will now be able to sell her excess produce to local grocery stores and restaurants.

BUILDING OUR FUTURE

n March, the city council adopted the urban agriculture ordinance allowing city residents to grow and sell food directly from their properties.

Passed by a 6-1 vote, the ordinance will allow small “urban farms” on vacant lots and private property throughout the city.

To sell goods at an urban farm stand, a resident must obtain a business operations tax certificate, which will cost roughly $31 for a farm stand earning $10,000 or less per year. To address drought-related concerns, the ordinance requires urban farmers to adhere to city water conservation measures.

Despite the nearly unanimous vote in favor of the ordinance, some councilmembers expressed concerns over issues that may arise from allowing farming activities to occur right next to businesses and

Local restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney applauds the ordinance and says it will provide people with a way to feed their families right in their own neighborhoods.

Urban farmer Nina Prychodzko and restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney

To mitigate some of these concerns, the ordinance restricts hours of operation for urban farm stands in residential neighborhoods: Tuesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. An urban farm stand located on a vacant lot may operate at any time.

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residences. To mitigate some of these concerns, the ordinance restricts hours of operation for urban farm stands in residential neighborhoods: Tuesdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. An urban farm stand located on a vacant lot may operate at any time.

Other council members expressed concerns regarding the impact the ordinance would have on communally owned yard spaces, particularly in communities like Natomas where shared yards are common.

District 3 Councilmember Steven Hansen, who has been an outspoken

supporter of urban agriculture in the region, said the ordinance will provide opportunities for urban farmers to become entrepreneurs and to do something positive with many of the vacant lots throughout the region.

“The ordinance gives us a chance to grow our own fruits and vegetables and to take these forgotten spaces and make them something special,” he said. In Oak Park, there are more than 40 vacant lots.

More than 100 people attended the March 24 council meeting to express their support for the ordinance. One of those supporters was Kau Vue,

Food Literacy Center founder Amber Stott says urban farms could help improve nutrition and reduce hunger in the region. “Only 6 percent of our kids are eating their daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables,” says Stott. “Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables they’ve had a hands-on experience with, such as growing and cooking them.”

The Food Literacy Center runs a weekly after-school program for low-income elementary school students throughout Sacramento. “In our elementary school food literacy classes, we know that 70 percent of our kids go home and ask for the produce they’ve tasted in class,” she says.

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According to Stott, the ordinance will increase opportunities for kids to learn about healthy food choices outside the classroom. “Perhaps kids leaving our food literacy classroom could stop by a school farm stand when their parents pick them up from school, right after they’ve fallen in love with their first piece of broccoli or plum—foods my kids repeatedly tell me they’ve never seen outside my classroom.”

Stott isn’t the only mover and shaker in Sacramento who thinks the ordinance will go a long way toward improving the community.

Local restaurateur Patrick Mulvaney applauds the ordinance and says it will provide people with a way to feed their families right in their own neighborhoods. Mulvaney’s B&L in Midtown is a regional staple for food lovers. “Our menu changes every day,” says Mulvaney, “so the ordinance gives us an opportunity to use local, ripe, picked-at-peak-offreshness fruit and vegetables.”

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“Local farms will create gathering places, and those gathering places are what create strong community,” he says.

The ordinance means more to Mulvaney than just an opportunity to enrich his restaurant’s menu. “Local farms will create gathering places, and those gathering places are what create strong community,” he says.

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GETTING FROM page 32 often focused not on preventing crashes, but on protecting automobile occupants after crashes occur.

Seat belts, airbags, headrests and collapsible steering wheels are all examples. These measures have saved lives, but they don’t help the most vulnerable road users: motorcyclists, pedestrians and cyclists. Pedestrians and cyclists are disproportionately represented as crash victims.

We know many ways to prevent traffic crashes. Making it harder to drive drunk or impaired is doable.

Reducing traffic speeds gives drivers and others more time to react and significantly reduces the severity of collisions. Strict enforcement would help. The casual acceptance of distracted driving needs to change.

Better road and vehicle designs can be employed.

Fear of traffic deters parents from sending their children off to school on foot. It discourages adults and kids from going places by bike. Deaths and injuries from crashes cause

immense emotional and physical pain. According to the American Automobile Association, the annual economic toll of crashes is nearly $300 billion.

Adopting Vision Zero would be a way to bring about change. Getting to zero is unlikely to be done easily or quickly. Maybe it’s not even possible.

But improvement is possible. Our region has made admirable progress in traffic safety, but far more could be done.

Vision Zero programs for both the city and county could help reverse the poor track record the area has had for traffic safety. If done right, Vision Zero would save lives, reduce human suffering, decrease vehicle property damage and cut auto insurance rates.

Other cities and countries are leading the way. We shouldn’t be left behind.

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Great Golf SACRAMENTO SHINES DURING FOUR-DAY SENIOR OPEN

BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY

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ears before the golfers who made up the field at the U.S. Senior Open ever saw the 18th hole at Del Paso Country Club, with its three fairway bunkers and approach over Chicken Ranch Slough, a difficult question lingered in the air. The question was about Sacramento.

Could the drowsy state capital, a community without high-powered corporate headquarters and legacies of generational wealth and fountains spewing marketing dollars, really support the second-most important festival in golf?

It was a fair question. And it demanded a truthful answer, not wishful thinking or civic platitudes.

The people who asked were senior executives from the United States Golf Association, the group that runs the U.S. Senior Open.

Dan Spector, a local estate and trust attorney who served as Del Paso’s voluntary point man in negotiations with the USGA, didn’t hesitate with his answer. He recalls, “I said yes, without any question.

They told me they had their concerns,

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Dan Spector served as Del Paso’s voluntary point man in negotiations with the USGA

frankly, about Sacramento. But I knew we could do it.”

Such faith has been validated.

Weeks before the U.S. Senior Open began June 25 at Del Paso, the club surpassed its budgeted sales goals— not by a whisker, but by more than $1 million. The 18 corporate tents along the course were sold out more

than a month prior to the Senior Open’s first practice round. Same with the rentable space in the Del Paso clubhouse—snapped up before the bolts were tightened on the TV camera platforms.

An abiding respect for the tenacity of the Del Paso community—plus the region at large—made Spector

confident in his discussions with the USGA. As a member of the golf club for more than a decade, he understood the resilience and tenacity of his club mates.

After all, these were basically the same 800 or so people who continued to pay dues while the club was closed for 18 months, torn apart and rebuilt from 2004 to 2006. The deconstruction, which saw trees uprooted and all topsoil removed and replaced with packed sand, erased the landscape of Del Paso, rerouted the layout and launched the century-old golf course into the modern era.

“The game of golf had changed,” Spector says. “The course was no longer competitive from a championship perspective. But the membership has always seen itself as a regional leader, and they were ready to make the necessary changes to get back to that level.”

The modern Del Paso has no relationship to the old Del Paso, beyond the name, clubhouse and creek that meanders through the property. The new layout is built upon the contemporary USGA mantra of “firm and fast,” which means old-timers would draw comparisons to playing on a billiard table as they cursed their brassies, niblicks and mashies.

And it means the U.S. Senior Open crowd found plenty of challenges, including prevailing winds that push tee shots into bunkers, a false-front green on the 15th hole that bends like a question mark and a lake that makes No. 17 play like an island.

“The golf course really begins at the final four holes,” Spector says.

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SPORTS FROM page 36 “Those four can destroy a lot of pretty good golfers.”

Not surprisingly, the Del Paso membership roster was delighted to share its little shop of horrors with the best elder golfers on the planet— and TV viewers around the world.

When the club opened sign-up sheets for volunteers at the Senior Open, members flocked to duty. Spector says about 75 percent of all volunteer jobs during the four-day tournament were filled by club members, from crowd control to parking.

The spirit of cooperation extended beyond the gates at Del Paso.

Financial and professional support came from the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and Sacramento City Council, plus public-safety teams from Metro Fire, Sheriff’s Office and Highway Patrol. Camaraderie from local businesses was demonstrated by the brisk ticket and premium hospitality tent sales. Local youth golf programs will benefit with donated dollars.

“It became a partnership between the private and public sectors,” Spector says. “That’s why it worked.”

Spector can rattle off figures that demonstrate the civic benefits of playing host to the U.S. Senior Open: extra hotel nights, increased traffic at Sacramento International Airport, rental car bookings and visitor taxes.

But more than that, the event allowed the community a rare opportunity to show off on a big stage. The presence of a historic and pristine championship-caliber golf course, friendly accommodations for guests and the enthusiastic support of locals—such marketing opportunities rarely present themselves in a town whose primary business is generating governmental policy and writing regulations.

The U.S. Senior Open has shown the world that bureaucrats know how to throw a party.

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Beyond Drought Tolerance HOW LOW CAN LANDSCAPE WATER USE GO?

bulbs and perennials that will thrive in such extreme conditions. Instead of spotting a few big ornamental grasses in the landscape, why not have a Grass Gallery that showcases them together? Finally, he sketched in an Evergreen Grove at the top of the garden, hiding a utility area with trees and shrubs that provide a green backdrop. With some tweaks here and there, we had a plan.

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Volmer wants his landscapes to be consistent with the character of the Central Valley.

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dozen years ago, the Sacramento County Master Gardeners installed a water-efficient landscape (known as the WEL garden) at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center. This garden demonstrates that you can have a colorful landscape with yearround interest that uses less than half the amount of water needed by cool-season turfgrass. Such low water usage has been achieved using carefully selected plants, drip irrigation and a thick layer of wood chips to retain moisture. In the hot, dry months, the irrigation generally runs twice a week.

Chuck Ingles, Sacramento County’s UC Cooperative Extension farm adviser, oversees the Master Gardener program. He was proud of this success but wondered if it could be better yet. Is it possible to have a beautiful year-round landscape that could be irrigated much less frequently or not at all? What overall design would work? How would it be irrigated?

What plants would work, and where are they available? Scott Volmer, a landscape architect who owns Great Valley Design, Inc., worked with

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Ingles and the Master Gardeners to develop plans for an “ultra-WEL.” Everybody involved in this project, including me, is excited by the possibilities.

Volmer develops water-efficient designs for commercial, public and private clients. He wants his landscapes to be consistent with the character of the Central Valley.

While it’s possible to save water by

using widely spaced spiky or gray desert plants (he calls it the “Las Vegas look”), valley landscapes are covered with softer grasses and flowers surrounded by rounded shrubs and trees. Volmer proposed several different areas. Let’s build a Wildlife Cafe, he suggested, full of plants providing pollen, fruit and shelter. Along the sidewalk under the blazing sun, put a Heat Lab of shrubs,

How will the water use be lower than the WEL garden? Referring to the Water Use Classification of Landscape Species, plants selected will require “low” or “very low” water. Shrubs and perennials will be watered with high-efficiency irrigation nozzles, which apply water deeply and efficiently. In some corners of the garden, the nozzles will be turned off altogether once the plants are established. “I’ve never been asked to do that before,” Volmer says.

The plans will become reality this year. Already, Boy Scouts are building an information kiosk. Soon, the area will have walkways, irrigation trenches and irrigation lines. The plants will go in the ground this fall, which is the best time for planting in

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our area. During winter, roots begin to spread into the surrounding soil.

During the first two years, plants will be irrigated regularly until they are fully established. After that, watering will be much less frequent.

The garden will use as little water as needed to keep the plants heathy.

Volmer wants our landscapes to be full of attractive, tough, resilient plants, not just ones that will tolerate little or no summer water. Resiliency means that they will recover if irrigation is inadvertently shut off in the summer or a winter brings heavy rains. “Homeowners shouldn’t need a horticulture degree to keep their plants alive and looking good,” he says. While native plants are a great choice, this garden will not be limited to them. “There is a huge palette of Mediterranean plants from around the world that can work.”

Volmer says that the most expensive thing in landscaping is not doing something when you have a chance. When installing a new landscape, consult a professional if possible. Amend the soil for drainage

and structure, and anticipate future needs. Pick and site plants carefully.

Don’t skimp on irrigation lines. “Pipe is cheap,” he says. Digging things up in the future is not.

Come to the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Harvest Day on Aug. 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., to look at this new garden area and learn what is going on and why. During this gardening extravaganza, you can also examine the existing WEL garden, visit the orchards, vineyards, berries and vegetable gardens, stop at information tables and listen to talks.

The Master Gardeners will be out in full force, eager to advise you and help solve your gardening problems.

If you haven’t yet installed a more water-efficient landscape, this fall is a great time. If you have already done so, how low can you go?

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The Bee Rescuer HE’S SWEET AS HONEY FOR HIS BEES

extensive background in botanical science.

As we walked through his yard, he expounded on what he likes to call “musings of an urban beekeeper.”

His yard dedicates about a third of the property for beekeeping.

BY GWEN SCHOEN FARM TO FORK

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ecently I learned that there are some benefits to being a local barfly. While enjoying a fruity and complex chardonnay at Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro in Carmichael, I noticed a sign on the bar encouraging support of local beekeepers and honey produced by rescued bees. Well, I’ve rescued a fair number of dogs in my years, but bees?

At the bottom of the sign was contact information for Alex Young, a local beekeeper and member of the Feral Bee Society. So I gave him a call, hoping to learn how and why someone would rescue bees. Wow, I’ve never been greeted with so much energy and enthusiasm. It was like walking into a swarm of bees on a sugar high.

Young lives in the Arden Park area, not too far from Matteo’s. He has a large, beautiful backyard—the type of yard attached to homes built more than 40 years ago. His yard is divided by a fence and shrubs, which separate about a third of the property for beekeeping. At the moment he has about 15 to 20 hives buzzing with activity. Young is a landscape architect by profession with an

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Alex Young is a local beekeeper and member of the Feral Bee Society

Why do you call them rescued bees?

Young: Because I took them out of places where they didn’t belong and gave them a new start instead of killing them.

When did you first start beekeeping?

Young: When I was about 11. I grew up along the Jersey Shore and started beekeeping there. I always thought it was fascinating and a good way to practice animal husbandry.

Do you get stung?

Young: Sure. I have a bee suit but don’t often wear it. I do wear the hat. One of the funniest experiences I’ve had was when I was still living in Jersey. I had a couple of hives I needed to move, so I put them into the back of my van. I was driving along with the wind wings open in the van, which was keeping the bees on the back window. When I stopped at a light they all flew forward trying to get out the wind wings. So I stopped and put on my bee suit. Apparently FARM page 44

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What do you call your honey and where can it be found?

Young: It is Arden Hills Gold.

It can usually be found at Corti Brothers, Elliott’s Natural Foods and Taylor’s Market.

How much honey do your hives produce in a year?

Young: Last year we produced 2,000 pounds. One gallon is 12 pounds, so that’s more than 160 gallons. We had so much we couldn’t give it away.

Is your honey organic?

Young: Realistically, you can’t label honey organic because you have no way of knowing where the bees have been. The best we can guarantee is unprocessed, truly raw honey. All we do is strain it to remove the things most people don’t want to eat.

If you don’t know where the bees have been, how can honey sold in grocery stores be labeled as a specific flavor such as orange blossom or clover?

Young: Bees will forage three to five miles. Typically they will go to the place with a high forage value.

So if hives are placed in a blooming orchard, that’s where they will go. My honey is labeled wildflower because the bees work a variety of plants.

They might be on lavender while it is blooming and move on to privet or ivy when that begins blooming.

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We’ve heard a lot about hive collapse recently. What can the average person do to help the bees along?

Young: When a hive no longer thrives and you can’t identify a reason, it’s called hive collapse.

Basically, people can just plant things that bees like: trees that flower such as maples and Japanese maples and flowering hedges. The UCD Pollination Center is a good source for plant lists.

You recently participated in the Good Food Awards competition in San Francisco.

How did Arden Hills Gold honey place?

Young: Good Food Awards 2015 competition is sponsored by Seedling Projects. Arden Hills Gold made it to the finals for the honey category out of over 300 entries. The judging was not just for quality but also recognition of the sustainable management that we use. I’m very proud of how we placed.

Before saying goodbye, Young gave me a taste of his honey. What’s not to like about honey? It was wonderful, with tiny bits of wax that made it slightly grainy but chewy at the same time. “The girls did a good job, didn’t they?� said Young. Yes, they did.

For more information about Arden Hills Gold, go to 2beeyoung. wordpress.com. You can contact Alex Young at 541-0832 or to tobeeyoungapiaries@gmail.com. To learn more about beekeeping, go to sacbeekeepers.org.

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A Thorny Matter WHERE BOOBIES DARE TO FLY

BY NORRIS BURKES SPIRIT MATTERS

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ormally, I keep my distance from anyone acting like a booby, but last month during our Galapagos Island cruise, my wife, Becky, and I had an unforgettable encounter with a booby of the blue-footed variety.

We were two of 10 tourists on a four-day cruise through four of the beautiful islands that sit 600 miles off the humid Ecuadorian coast. Twice a day, crew members helped us into an inflatable dinghy and steered us ashore. Our island guide took us down strictly controlled, narrow trails through habitats teeming with turtles, iguanas, sea lions, crabs and numerous varieties of birds.

On the third day, we disembarked onto the island my birder wife had been eagerly awaiting: the rocky shore of North Seymour. For the next two hours, we wound through large colonies of nesting frigatebirds and blue-footed boobies. Becky lost her teacher demeanor, quickly becoming a wide-eyed student of everything she saw. Suddenly, she pointed toward a tree and said, “I think that booby is dead.”

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Becky Burkes and guide rescue blue-footed booby on Galapagos Island

We all turned to see a booby hanging, blue feet up, while the guide grabbed his binoculars.

“No way that bird should be in that tree,” he said.

“Why?” I asked, being a bit of an ornithological booby myself.

“Those webbed feet aren’t built to land on branches. Looks like he’s impaled those giant feet onto the tree thorns. However,” he said, bringing the bird into sharper focus, “he’s still alive!”

We were stunned to hear it, but not as stunned as we were when he asked for a volunteer to help rescue the bird.

“Take Becky,” I said, inspiring a quick group concurrence.

For the next several minutes, our group shared the binoculars and watched Becky and our guide

disentangle the booby. After a few moments, they placed it on the ground where it would recover or die.

When we returned to our ship, I lay my seasick self down in our tiny cabin to contemplate the booby who’d paid the price for flying into a place he didn’t belong, for trying to gain something that wasn’t his.

The moment inspired this confessional prayer: Lord, There are times when I’m tempted to fly into places I don’t belong, tempted to swoop in to claim a territory not meant to be mine.

There’ve been times when I’ve entered into personal arguments that aren’t mine, and I’ve offered opinions that weren’t sought and made judgments that were uncalled for.

Like the feckless booby, I’ve sought nourishment from barren and thorny sources. While making a seemingly stealthy landing, I’ve only impaled myself on the consequences of being where I shouldn’t.

Forgive me, Lord, for the times when I’ve called out for rescue from those places, somehow hoping that redemption would come without penalty.

Adding a hymn to my prayer, I couldn’t help but hum the Fanny Crosby tune I knew from childhood, “Rescue the Perishing.” While much of the song is steeped in an evangelical fervor I don’t much appreciate, I still found some wisdom in the third verse.

Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore; Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Meanwhile, above my cabin, Becky and the guide sat in the ship’s lounge, a bit bloodied by their efforts.

The thorns were almost as bad for them as they’d been for the booby.

Fortunately, there was another rescuer on board in the person of an emergency room physician from New York. He stitched their wounds with skin adhesive, and we were all, as they say, sailing happily into the sunset.

Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “Hero’s Highway,” about his experiences as a hospital chaplain in Iraq. He can be reached at ask@TheChaplain.net n

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To Save a Hummingbird VIGIL OBSERVES WOODLAND PASSAGE OF TWO EMERGING BABY CHICKS

BY SUSAN MAXWELL SKINNER

and singing. It had not flown far. Had it tarried to say goodbye?

The puffy baby resumed flapping and rose inches, baby steps, to higher branches. Above the maples, it reached towering oaks; with each ascension, it encountered brighter light. The mother hen reconnoitered to deliver breakfast. Through my telephoto lens, I saw the fledgling bathed in its first sunrise. Happy chip-chips reached me below.

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hy were two baby hummingbirds so important?

For me and my Carmichael friend Irv Faria, supporting a hen and her mini family was all that mattered for weeks. From eggs to their first flight, we guarded them. On an unruly planet, the feathered trinity seemed a flawless microcosm of worth.

We found two hummingbird nests in the oak-shaded valley tended by Irv and his wife, Pauline. The first, a miracle of plant down, was secured by cobwebs to a Japanese maple limb.

Despite April’s rain and wind, the hen incubated two pea-sized eggs.

Grublike chicks hatched. Round the clock, she pumped regurgitated insects and nectar into them. Eyes soon opened; spiny skin grew feathers. One day, Irv found the nest mangled, the babies gone. A blue scrub jay had lurked for days. When the chicks achieved meal size, the predator evidently dined.

To us, two babies were enough easy meat for the predator. Near the torn nest, a better hidden cradle held more hummer chicks. We decided these two must survive.

Night offered protection so we kept day shifts. Each dawn, I gave thanks that two tiny heads yet poked from their dainty bulwark. The to-andfroing mom soon ignored us. To the babies, Irv and my voices became familiar as birdsong. We watched and learned. We noted the twins were already potty-trained, elevating

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A hummingbird hen copes with mealtime domination by an alpha chick. Her twins hatched and fledged in a Carmichael Creek valley.

Inset: One inch long, the babies hatch open-mouthed and begging.

tails to jettison waste overboard with impressive force.

One morning, as sunlight fingered the leafy canopy, a ray hit the nest.

The larger chick ventured first wingbeats. I heard pianissimo cheeps, soft as whispers. I recalled the Sistine Chapel ceiling and felt I had witnessed the Creator’s hand.

The alpha sibling was unstoppable.

Two weeks from hatching, its cavernous mouth seemed likely to consume Mom. While its sibling watched in awe, the alpha mounted the nest rim and flapped eagerly.

After one flap-filled afternoon, the alpha flew at dusk. We missed the miracle. Next morning, one tilted face remained.

Feeding her early bird elsewhere, Mom’s protection was now divided.

The murderous jay flitted once to

perch below the untended morsel. I scared it off. Later, a jewel-bright male hummer tried to visit. Hurling abuse, the female routed him. Father had played his part; the nursery was off-limits.

By now, the lonely runt flapped in earnest. Every half-hour, its heartbreaking endeavor repeated without lift-off. Almost three days after the first chick flew, the mom chirped encouragement from a nearby branch. Dusk fell. Her exhausted baby slumbered and I went home.

I returned at dawn to an empty nest. I heard a faint chip-chip from branches below me. Smaller than my pinkie finger, the chick sat, liberated

real world presented accumulated mayhem for our consideration. To us, the big picture had been very small indeed.

In a Carmichael Creek valley, two innocents had survived to make the real world a lovelier place.

Footnote: By late spring, identifiable by their camaraderie, the fledglings flew freely in the valley. They would soon separate and compete for nectar routes. Perhaps they’ll nest here in another spring.

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A hummingbird incubates pea-size eggs for 17 days. After hatching, the babies develop for about three weeks before fledging. Their nest is secured to a tree limb by cobwebs.

1. From their walnut-size cradle, the growing babies contemplate a leafy ceiling.

2. Commanding the nest rim, the alpha chick’s battering wings awe its smaller sibling.

3. And then there was one. The tardy chick experiences solo occupancy.

4. With only baby yet in the nest, mother hen continues a feeding relay in two parts of the garden.

5. Liberated at last, the tardy hummingbird achieves flight with a mixture of puffy baby feathers and adult plumage.

6. Companionable twins forage together. After fledging, they will never return to the nest.

The author thanks garden owners Irv and Pauline Faria.

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95825 ARDEN

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732 HARTNELL PL 2238 WOODSIDE LN 2442 GWEN DR 2092 UNIVERSITY PARK 2202 WOODSIDE LN #6

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Preserving Fun Wednesdays A SUMMERTIME, BOREDOM-FIGHTING TRADITION THREATENS TO SIMMER DOWN

BY KELLI WHEELER MOMSERVATIONS

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adly, we are in the twilight years of Fun Wednesdays.

The reality hit us in the face like a water balloon ambush. This annual summer rite of passage that I gave birth to a decade ago to stop what-are-we-going-to-do-todays in their tracks is getting ready to punch its AARP card.

It all began in a panic when I realized school was about to release my children back to me, halting the forward march of productivity. Fun Mommy was going to be called back into full-time duty just when I got used to paid leave.

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I quickly refilled the arsenal with what the troops liked: Camp Have-a-Lot-of-Fun, Buzzardball, and Soccer Camp. But that was only three weeks of a 10-week summer! I would be surrounded in no time with the whining, bickering and yelling that comes with idle hands and an overwhelmed flank. What could I do to head off the boredom and preserve peace?

Like a general showing why he didn’t get those five stars for nothing, I conceived and launched Summer Fun Wednesdays: Pick a day in the middle of the week so the kids have something to look forward to each week, select fun places or things to do in and around our area, put out the schedule in advance so friends can join us when they can, and lead the troops forward to fun.

Fun Wednesdays quickly became an anticipated summer tradition. Like a free sno-cone on a 100 degree day, no one could get enough. Adults and children alike would eagerly ask me well before school got out, “Are we doing Summer Fun Wednesdays this year?”

We’ve been all over Sacramento and its surrounding areas doing Fun Wednesdays for the past decade. Some adventures are cheap and/or inside to beat the heat: miniature golf at Scandia or Sunsplash, rolling skating at The Rink, bowling at Country Club Lanes, ice skating at Skatetown, lazer tag at Lazer X, trampolines at Sky High, indoor bouncing at Bouncetown, water park variety at the Folsom Aquatic Center.

Some adventures are free: water park play at Seely Park or Swanston Park, Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Jelly Belly Factory tours, free movies at Regal Cinemas (actually on Tuesdays and now they’re $1).

Some adventures are more expensive but a great value: season pass to Raging Waters (buy the day get the summer for free), California State Fair (Poppy Pack), Surf Xtreme (indoor surfing, trampolines and paintball all in one place!), K1 Speed (with annual license and weekday specials for indoor go-karts), Wake Island (Introductory Special to try out their tow system wake boarding).

Some take advantage of our local resources: rafting down the American River with American River Raft Rentals, paddle boarding, kayaking or riding water bikes on Lake Natoma through the Sacramento State Aquatic Center, beach time at Beals Point at Folsom Lake.

But this year when my high school kids excitedly said, “Everyone wants to know when Fun Wednesdays are starting!” for the first time we had a misfire.

Mornings were out because my daughter has a summer job being a junior camp counselor. Afternoons

were out because my son has football conditioning. The first four weeks of the summer were out because many friends are getting a jump on the school year with summer school.

Fun Wednesdays quickly became an anticipated summer tradition.

“But we have to find a way to do Fun Wednesdays! Everyone’s looking forward to it!” my kids pushed, refusing to retreat.

And that’s when I realized the end was near. The kids were trading in boredom for responsibility. The desire was there but the time was not.

Rather than giving in to defeat, we decided we could not let the fun be conquered by commitment and competing schedules. With three summers left until our troops start deserting for college, we will find a way to see our annual tradition, first started in an act of desperation, go out as the celebration of summer that it has become.

And nothing says epic summer fun like skipping summer school and ditching work and practice to go indoor surfing before lighting your buddies up in a game of paintball.

Kelli Wheeler is a Sacramento mother of two and author of “Momservations—The Fine Print of Parenting.” She can be reached at Momservations.com n

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Treasure From Trash LANDFILL GAS TURNS GARBAGE INTO POWER

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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n a dry, sunny day, I drove past strawberry farms and fields of California poppies in search of a big, stinking mess.

Kiefer Landfill is located amid rolling meadows and vernal pools east of Sacramento, near Sloughhouse.

As the only permitted municipal solid waste landfill in the county, Kiefer Landfill gets virtually all of Sacramento’s household garbage, about 600,000 tons of solid waste per year. I thought it would be easy to spot—or smell.

In fact, if you don’t know what you’re looking at as you drive in on Kiefer Boulevard, the county-owned landfill site appears as nothing more than a small power plant and a set of truck-weighing scales adjacent to a large, grassy hill. The appearance is clean and natural.

Making sure the underground reality matches this surface appearance is the responsibility of Tim Israel, a senior civil engineer with the county’s Department of Waste Management and Recycling. Israel oversees the site’s

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environmental control systems, compliance and monitoring.

I climbed into Israel’s mudsplattered pickup for a tour. The truck skirted a massive hill of grass and lupine punctuated by wells sticking like straws out of the earth.

Pipes webbed the grass. Hidden underneath lay 200 feet of trash.

“The first hole was dug here in 1967,” Israel said. “Conservatively, I’d say we have capacity for at least another 60 years. Maybe longer, if we keep diverting more of the waste stream away from the landfill.”

The main environmental hazard of a municipal landfill is leaching of chemicals out of the buried trash

and into the surrounding soil and groundwater. To prevent this, since the early 1990s the county has lined all newly dug pits with a sophisticated geosynthetic lining system. This begins with a layer of very low permeability clay sandwiched between two pieces of resilient fabric called geotextile. Atop this clay liner is a geomembrane, essentially a thick sheet of impermeable HDPE plastic.

Additional layers of alternating geomembranes and “geogrids” funnel any water leaching through the garbage into a collection system. At Kiefer, they collect 10,000 gallons per day of leachate water.

Only one section of the landfill site is being used as a dump at any time. I

knew we were almost there when we passed through a crowd of thousands of seagulls. “They’re here in the winter,” Israel said. “They leave in May.” Atop a gentle slope, bulldozers pushed piles of garbage over the edge.

Additional vehicles smoothed and packed the load. Scavenging gulls and blackbirds whirled amid the stench I’d expected to encounter sooner.

“At the end of every day, we cover the trash, sometimes as much as 2 or 3 acres,” Israel said. The daily cover keeps out scavengers and minimizes odor. Giant reusable tarps on rolls lie next to the trash heap for this purpose. Green waste that’s not suitable for composting is used as an alternative cover at times. Every few

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weeks, a layer of soil is spread over the trash. When an area of the dump has reached its maximum allowed height of 325 feet above sea level, it can be permanently covered by 6 feet of soil and planted over with shrubs and perennials.

What happens next is up to the bacteria.

Over time, microbes break down buried waste. How quickly depends on what’s in the garbage, the temperature, how much water is present and other factors that affect microbial growth and metabolism.

When bacteria eat garbage, they produce waste products of their own, just like we produce CO2 from our food. In a landfill, where little or no oxygen is present (anaerobic conditions), many bacteria produce methane—otherwise known as natural gas.

Kiefer produces enough methane pumped from wells drilled into the landfill to fuel two power plants with a total generating capacity of 15 megawatts. That’s renewable electricity to power about 10,000

homes. SMUD buys the electricity for its Greenergy program. Unlike solar or wind power, landfill gas feeds the electrical grid without interruption, no matter the weather or time of day, making it a reliable energy source.

Israel and his team have discovered that soaking leachate water into the landfill trash dramatically accelerates decomposition and landfill gas production. He hopes to expand Kiefer’s system of underground infiltration trenches to wet more of the trash.

Speeding up the natural breakdown of buried trash also shrinks the volume of the landfill. “That extra airspace is money in the bank,” Israel said. “The value of a landfill is in empty space, room for more waste.”

Amy Rogers is a novelist, scientist and educator. If you’re interested in microbes and fossil fuels, you might enjoy her thriller novel “Petroplague.”

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Improvement Project AN ARCHITECT UNDERTAKES A PERSONAL JOB: HIS OWN HISTORIC HOME

BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

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The two-story house will

rchitect Mark Huck is a

be featured on Preservation

self-proclaimed old-school East Coaster. That helps

explain his initial attraction to the Craftsman house he bought in 2008 Sacramento’s Richmond Grove neighborhood.

“I am not a native Californian, and my first impression of the property

“There are so many possibilities with an older home. This was one of the things that attracted me to this one.”

Sacramento’s 40th annual Historic Home Tour in September. It features numerous design elements common to Craftsman-style homes, including three built-in benches; a built-in book shelf in the living room; paneling and a beamed ceiling in the dining

was of the two palm trees in the front

room plus a breakfront with leaded

yard,” Huck explains.

glass doors; and columns flanking the

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living room entrance. All the rooms,

little crazy in older homes,” he says.

excluding the dining room, have

“There are doors on every surface,

9-foot-high coved ceilings, another

so sometimes it is hard to place

Craftsman design element.

furniture.”

“The rooms I love the most—the

Huck built a large table for the

entry foyer, the living room and

dining room (the largest room in the

dining room—didn’t need much

house) with an electrical connection

work,” says Huck, who works for the

for appliances or a laptop. “The dining

state Office of Historic Preservation.

room table extends to 12 feet, and I

Thanks to the high ceilings, large

can seat up to 14 people,” he says.

windows, Sacramento’s Delta breeze

The dining room has a beautiful

and an attic fan, Huck hardly has to

beamed ceiling coupled with Douglas

turn on the air conditioning.

fir paneling. Pocket doors provide

Immediately after purchasing the

privacy when needed. Huck installed

house, Huck had the wood floors

sconces where two gas pipes extended

sanded to bring the contrasting wood

out from the wall. “The house

colors back to life. (He speculates the

may have been built during that

floors were made of white oak with

shoulder period that had both gas and

either mahogany or walnut borders.)

electricity,” he explains.

Since then, Huck has completed

The living room has a wonderfully

numerous projects himself, including

large picture window that offers a

building a desk and a back gate

sweeping view of Sacramento street

and removing stains from around

life. The fireplace’s terra-cotta

doorways. He also removed numerous interior doors. “The circulation is a

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Two of the true delights of this home are on the second floor. A cozy balcony off Huck’s office captures the morning sun. Flower boxes filled with lacy ferns and colorful spring blossoms create a living privacy wall.

The perch is the perfect place for early-evening relaxing or reading the Sunday paper.

Down the hallway, a sun porch with windows on three sides provides a treetop view of the neighborhood and is just the right spot for curling up with book. There’s no need to wander downstairs, since coffee accoutrements are stashed in a nearby hutch.

Huck tells people thinking about buying a historic home to consider all the work that must be performed on it. Does the work that’s already been done enhance or detract from the home’s historic value? Have the original features—windows, woodwork, circulation patterns, lighting and plumbing fixtures and door hardware—been retained?

“There are so many possibilities with an older home. This was one of the things that attracted me to this one,” Huck says.

While on tour, watch for the kitchen’s California cooler (a cabinet typical of homes of the period and located next to an outside wall with vents to the outside); scored plaster in the bathroom meant to resemble tile; three built-in benches; and the dining room’s built-in breakfront with leaded glass panes.

Preservation Sacramento’s 40th annual Historic Home Tour will be held Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Richmond Grove neighborhood, which has never been the site of a Sacramento home tour.

Richmond Grove is bounded by W, R, 10th and 19th streets. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 on the day of the event. For more information, go to preservationsacramento.org

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In the kitchen, a functioning

flooring is on Huck’s to-do list. The

surround was constructed to resemble

Wedgewood gas stove also has a wood-

small back porch off the kitchen

stonework.

burning compartment. Replacing

is also part of what Huck calls his

the 1940s-era cabinets and linoleum

“kitchen campaign.”

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Carmichael Surgeon Makes Worldwide Difference Each month The Taylor Center will be presenting a feature story saluting Sacramentans who are making a big difference in the lives of others. If you would like to nominate a Sacramentan or a community group, please email dk@ insidepublicaitons.com

BY DUFFY KELLY

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his is the story of how frustration can be a very good thing.

Take the case of Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Ernie Bodai of Carmichael. As chief of surgery he was called upon all too often to offer second opinions for those diagnosed with breast cancer.

He performed thousands of breast cancer surgeries, everything from lumpectomies to mastectomies to reconstruction. Despite the effectiveness of surgical treatment and advances in medication, Bodai felt powerless against a deadly killer of women.

Those feelings of powerlessness became the very seeds of an idea that would go on to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research.

One night 20 years ago while Bodai was stamping holiday cards, it hit him.

“The idea came to me in a flash,” he says. “I was preparing for a lecture on the history of breast cancer surgery when suddenly it occurred to me: Why not have a stamp to raise money for breast cancer research? The next thing I knew, I had become a breast cancer activist.”

Bodai then set off on a one-man mission to convince the Postal Service to issue the first-ever postage stamp to raise money for medical research. The stamp would be priced slightly higher than a first-class stamp, with the surplus going to the National Cancer Institute and the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. But it wasn’t an easy sell; Bodai would have his work cut out for him.

The surgeon began lobbying major politicos, taking more than a dozen trips to Washington, D.C., to drum up the support needed to get a bill drafted and introduced to Congress. His efforts succeeded.

In 1997, former President Bill Clinton signed the Breast Cancer Research Stamp Act into law, launching Bodai’s Cure Breast Cancer Foundation.

Since then the stamp has raised nearly $90 million, all for breast cancer research. And it’s now sold in 23 countries. The one-billionth stamp is expected to be sold by October 1 of this year, a perfect kickoff to National Breast Cancer Awareness month.

If Bodai had been looking for a way to retire from the work of performing breast cancer surgeries, surely there must have been an easier way, but surely there would be none so universally significant.

Monies from his stamp have funded the discoveries of many breast cancer-fighting trials such as one analyzing tumor suppressor gene therapy, another that’s discovered radiation-free diagnostic

methods, and still another study that helped determine if a woman will benefit from chemotherapy. Because of this very stamp, you can say doctors have discovered that as many as one-third of all breast cancer patients will not benefit from chemotherapy, a fact that will save millions of people from unnecessary misery.

And because of this very stamp, scientists are working on something called nanotherapy. Think tiny robots in a molecular war. Little cancer-fighting robots (nanoparticles so small that more than 100,000 of them could fit on a single hair) are sent marching in to cancer cells to wipe them out. Thanks to Bodai’s stamp, this miniature, microscopic war has begun.

Whitney Sherman of Baltimore, Md., designed the stamp, which depicts the Roman mythological protector of woman, Dianna Artemis, reaching in her quiver for a bow to fend off the enemy. In this case, the enemy is cancer and the quiver can hold many bows.

Its rainbow color reminds us that breast cancer strikes all walks of life.

Sherman is the only person in the world to have her original artwork on a worldwide stamp. Today it is sold for 60 cents, with 11 cents of every stamp sold funding research. The stamp’s price changes periodically with the price of a first-class stamp.

Will you be the letter-writer to buy the one-billionth stamp? Who knows? But it’s certainly worth a try.

For more information about the stamp, go to curebreastcancer.org

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JULY

ARTHOUSE on R presents “Below the Surface,” fine ceramics by Dana Barrow through Aug. 3. 1021 R Street, arthouseonr.com

Artspace 1616 presents works by Julian Faulkner, Richard Blackburn, Anne Veraldi and Reece Metzger through Aug. 2. Shown right is “Behold “ by Metzger.

1616 Del Paso Blvd.

Atelier 20 Gallery features the works of Margarita Chaplinska from July 11 to August 1. Shown is “Santa Monica Freeway” an oil on board by Chaplinska.

915 20th St.

Red Dot Gallery presents Rated F: Fleshing out the Female, an exhibition that explores the spirit of the female essence. Shown left: ArtDivas (Collaboration) “She’s an Open Book,” a collage/assemblage.

The show runs through June 27.

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Helen Jones Gallery presents “Summer Passion”, originals and serigraphs by Sabzi through July 31. “Hot Moon” by Sabzi is shown right.

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Jay Jay presents Trending: New Art from California through July 23.

Shown left: Summer Night, a monotype by Quynh Tran.

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Art Everywhere THIS ARTIST’S WORK IS ALL OVER SACRAMENTO

BY PETER ANDERSON ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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armichael graphic artist and painter Bob Miller is such a prolific illustrator that you may be leaning against, walking past or reading one of his many creations right now. Now 84, he helped produce the splashy murals that line the K Street pedestrian tunnel into and out of Old Sacramento with depictions of pioneers like John Sutter. He drew the illustrations on the historic plaques that grace the riverfront promenade along the eastern banks of the Sacramento River just south of Tower Bridge—illustrations that tell the stories of riverfront development and local history. And he wrote and illustrated the “Guide to Old Sacramento” paperback that has served tourists and residents alike for nearly 40 years.

Born on a Modesto peach farm and raised by parents who urged him to be curious and busy, Miller has spent a lifetime bringing artistic expression to the scenery and businesses of the Sacramento Valley. Equipped with a degree in graphic arts from San Jose State, he started life in Sacramento with his wife and fellow student Anita. The pair raised five children while Miller began work at KCRA 3. He was the station’s original art director the day Channel 3 started airing in 1955. He created all the signage and constructed the sets for shows like “Valley Playhouse” and the live news broadcasts featuring legends like Stan Atkinson.

Says Atkinson of his longtime coworker: “I’m a lifetime fan of Bob’s.

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Carmichael graphic artist and painter Bob Miller shown with samples of his art work

Considering all that he was asked to do, he did it in amazing ways.

Back in that day—late ’50s and early ’60s—and long before the remarkable things that technology would bring into graphics, the tools were basic and klutzy. But Bob Miller, the wizard of show cards and rubber cement, could get anything done for the TV screen, in record time and with a first-class look.”

Miller laughs modestly when told of Atkinson’s praise. “What Stan never knew,” he says, “was that sometimes the rubber cement and ink-drawn sketches of the show cards behind his handsome head would melt under the glare of the live TV lamps and start dripping down the screen just past his hair!”

After 10 years at Channel 3, Miller joined Wade Advertising (owned by late Sacramento County Supervisor Fred Wade) and did design and logo work for Sacramento businesses like Raley’s, Country Club Motors, Crystal Creamery, River City Bank, Channel

3, Suburban Ford and Capitol Federal Savings & Loan.

“Through the signage and logo work I was producing,” he says, “I discovered I really liked to paint.

I work almost exclusively with acrylics—occasionally watercolor—

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“I really give Mary Jane credit for introducing me to the wine label side of my art work,” he says. “She was a housewife looking to do something outside the home, and her engaging, very warm personality proved to be an invaluable sales tool in getting me into a new line of work that is fiercely because acrylic dries faster than oil.

I became best known for painting iconic Sacramento images like Tower Bridge, Torch Club, Old Ironsides, Alhambra Theatre, Vic’s Ice Cream, Espanol Restaurant, Club 2-Me, Jim-Denny’s, Club Raven, Jamie’s and many more that people have commissioned me to do, like private residences, businesses, even their personal airplanes.”

Miller stays active in the local arts community. Recent public shows have included displays at Union Hall

Gallery on K Street and Blue Wing Gallery in Woodland.

“I’m very much a realist in my art,” he says, “and it always puzzles me when people try to ascribe something ethereal or spiritual to my work. I like to stand behind folks at art shows and listen to them try to interpret things that just aren’t there. Honestly, I am much more Norman Rockwell than Jackson Pollock.”

In the 1990s, when wine label art became a fashionable and lucrative sideshow for well-known painters, Miller was coaxed into the genre by a friend and fan, Mary Jane Corcoran,

competitive. Like a lot of creative types, I am most comfortable in my studio, which is in my home, so we turned out to be a great team.”

The home is also an empty nest.

Says Miller: “Two of our boys are involved in the arts—one a writer/ photographer and another with a graphic design studio in Manhattan— and the remainder of them are also good citizens and good parents, and we are very proud of them all.”

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f you fancy a cup of coffee and a gander at a great new art exhibit, head on over to The Trade, a new coffee and co-working shop in Midtown, and check out Patricia Araujo’s new painting exhibition, “Tomorrowland Today,” on display through July 31.

Sip on some Blue Bottle coffee while you appreciate the shop’s first art exhibit, featuring 13 of Araujo’s eye-catching, other-worldly images that pay homage to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland.

According to Araujo’s website, Araujo’s father was an architect who worked for Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s and ’80s. Not surprisingly, Araujo visited Disney World every summer and it was there that she became fascinated with amusement parks—in particular with the Space Mountain ride.

After finding photographs of circus arenas in Romania and Dnepr, Ukraine, Araujo realized how similar the structures were to her favorite attraction, and thus embarked on “Tomorrowland Today,” a painting project starting in 2008 that

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The Trade, a new coffee and co-working shop in Midtown, will exhibit “Tomorrowland Today,” through July 31

culminated in a self-published book in 2011 of the same name. Araujo has pulled inspiration from futuristic, classical and industrial architecture from Eastern Europe, Disneyland and her decade spent painting building façades in central San Francisco.

Araujo’s paintings will be on exhibit through July 31. The Trade is open every day from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is at 2220 K St. For more information about Araujo’s work, go to abstractmetropolis.com

MUSEUM MADNESS It’s heating up at the Crocker Art Museum this month—only figuratively, of course, considering it’s actually nice and air-conditioned— and there are plenty of activities for arts patrons of all ages.

Starting on July 2, take a look at the wonderful world of Waldorf in the special exhibit “Camellia Waldorf School: The Art of Learning,” which will be on display until its closing reception on Dec. 6. The 25-year-old school, located in south Sacramento,

prides itself on making art part of the school day at every grade level, from preschool through eighth grade, to encourage creativity and resilience, strengthening students’ ability to think critically, collaborate and communicate. This exhibit will showcase work from students ages 6 through 14 in a variety of media, including clay, wood, fiber, metal, charcoal and ink. Find out what makes Camellia Waldorf so special at this once-in-a-lifetime display.

Quench your thirst at the aptly named Art Mix “Quench” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 9. Your yard may be dried up, but your social life doesn’t have to be: Work up a sweat getting down to live music

by Bonanza King and DJ Larry Rodriguez, cool off and “become one” with the art in Charlie Schneider’s interactive performance, discover fun ways to save water in style, and enjoy food and drink discounts during happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. (As usual, drink specials are only $5 all night.) The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers.

Curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional jazz “matriarch,” Jazz Night will take place this summer every third Thursday through September.

For an afternoon of timeless tunes, check out the Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 12, featuring William Feasley on guitar. Inspired by the art of David Ligare (on display at the museum through Sept. 20), renowned guitarist Feasley will perform a program of works by neoclassical composers, including contemporary compositions by California-based Peter Madlem and 20th century works by Mexican composer Manuel Ponce. Space is limited, so reserve your tickets in advance by calling 808-1182. The concert is $6 for museum members; $10 for students and Capital Public Radio members; and $12 for nonmembers.

Can’t get enough jazz? Don’t miss Jazz Night featuring singer Clairdee at the Crocker at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16. Curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional jazz “matriarch,” Jazz Night will take place this summer every third

Thursday through September. Let Clairdee serenade you from the Main Stage with her unique style combining jazz, pop, gospel, rhythm and blues.

The performer is unmatched at both delighting and educating audiences, given her background as a teaching artist with SFJAZZ and the San Francisco Symphony, a faculty member of the Jazzschool Institute (now known as the California Jazz Conservatory) in Berkeley, and a performer at renowned venues that include Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Monterey Jazz Festival. If you get to the festivities early, the Café Stage will feature the garage soul band Current Personae at 5:15 p.m.; the band describes its sound as “reminiscent of Erykah Badu’s early days, Jill Scott before she became an actress and Stevie Wonder’s funky period.” Don’t miss it! Tickets are $7 for museum members; $12 for Capital Public Radio members and students; and $14 for nonmembers.

Back by popular demand, get your gaming on at the Twisted Sacratomato Salon, which returns to the Crocker from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 23. Join fellow gamers, artists and trivia buffs for a night of pub trivia, drawing games, tours of the galleries and a cash bar for this “adult playdate.” The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers.

Find out what really happens when young people are in charge at “The Takeover: An Art Jam by & for Youth” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 30. But it’s not as scary as it sounds: The program, celebrating its third year as the meeting point of the art, vision and culture of local youth, is offered in partnership with Sol Collective and Low En Theory Collaborative. It’s also free for teens, free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers.

For more information on all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

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MORE THAN SKIN DEEP Ceramics artist Dana BilelloBarrow gets “Below the Surface,” literally, in her first solo show of the same name, on exhibit July 11 through Aug. 3 in the main gallery at Arthouse on R. The local potter is known for her unique surface treatments and large-scale site-specific installations, inspired by the natural and organic ability of rivers and oceans to mold our environment. The show will feature the sculptural and fluid vessel forms that have become BilelloBarrow’s signature.

Meet the talented artist in person at the Second Saturday opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 11.

For more information, call 455-4988 or go to arthouseonr.com Arthouse on R is at 10th and R streets downtown.

HELLO, BIRDIE! It wouldn’t be summer in Sacramento without Music Circus, performed in the circus-tent-cum-

climate-controlled-theater-in-theround Wells Fargo Pavilion. This month, don’t miss “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Peter Pan” as they take River City by storm.

On July 7-12, revel in the musical that made a star out of Dick Van Dyke and gave the world such classic tunes as “Put on a Happy Face,” “One Last Kiss,” “A Lot of Livin’ To Do” and too many more to recount (or hum) here. This production of “Bye Bye Birdie” will be headed by director Glenn Casale (who’s also the acting artistic director of California Musical Theatre, which produces Music Circus) and features choreography by Randy Slovacek.

The cast will feature heavy-hitters, including Janine DiVita, seen on Broadway in “Grease,” “Anything Goes” and “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” who plays long-suffering wife Rosie Alvarez; Larry Raben, the off-Broadway director of “Falling for Eve” and actor from “The Producers,” “I Married an Angel” and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now PREVIEWS page 68

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veteran of El Dorado Musical Theatre. Appraisals and Auctions from July The role of Mr. Darling/Captain Hook 1-15. will be played by Paul Schoeffler, who marks his eighth season at Music Circus and who has performed on Broadway in “Rock of Ages,” “Sweet Charity,” “Peter Pan” and “Beauty and the Beast,” among others.

For “Peter Pan” only, tickets are available for $40 in any section for children ages 4 to 12. For tickets and more information, call 557-1999 or go to californiamusicaltheatre.com With nearly 500 lots, this is due to The Wells Fargo Pavilion is at 1419 be Witherell’s largest summer auction H St. yet. It will include pieces from the personal collection of Earl and Ray Klima, who ran antique stores from ON THE BLOCK Los Angeles to Sutter Creek for more Be a part of history, or at least than 30 years, amassing a vast trove display it in your house, when the of collectibles that includes coinpersonal collection of Sutter Creek’s operated machines, early cap guns, storied Klima’s Antiques owners goes California advertising, law badges, up for auction online at Witherell’s antique clocks, Mexican statues, Tiffany collectibles, chandeliers, American furniture, jewelry and more.

“The Klimas have such an outstanding collection of pop culture,” says Brian Witherell, CEO of the auction house and familiar face from the PBS show “Antiques Roadshow.”

Also on the block this month will be unusual Civil War items, including an 1864 Burnside carbine, from the collection of Lt. Col. Arthur Crego.

(You may have caught Witherell and the collector’s descendants recently on the Fox Business Network show “Strange Inheritance” talking about Crego’s fascinating collection.)

The personal collection of Sutter Creek’s storied Klima’s Antiques owners goes up for auction online at Witherell’s Appraisals and Auctions from July 1-15

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With nearly 500 lots, this is due to be Witherell’s largest summer auction yet.

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Ceramics artist Dana Bilello-Barrow gets “Below the Surface,” literally, in her first solo show of the same name, on exhibit July 11 through Aug. 3 in the main gallery at Arthouse on R

Shirley Hazlett comes from a long line of “makers”—seamstresses and embroiderers, shoemakers and milliners, knitters and quilters—so it’s no wonder that she was destined to express herself creatively with needle and thread. But it’s the amazing patterns she coaxes out of ink and watercolor that are on display in her current solo exhibition “Textural Memory” at the Shimo Center for the Arts from July 10 through Aug. 5.

With this show, Hazlett is honoring the collective memory of the textile arts in her life with a series of largeformat, two- and three-dimensional ink and watercolor works on 100 percent cotton paper, which abstractly

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Change,” who plays Albert, Rosie’s frustrating yet talented hubby; Amanda Jane Cooper, who played Glinda in the first national tour of “Wicked” and had a recurring role on the ABC series “Selfie,” as kissable Kim MacAfee; and Helen Hayes Award-nominated Rebecca Baxter, who played Cinderella at the New York City Opera and guest-starred in ABC’s “The Middle” last season, who will play Mrs. MacAfee.

Local favorite Mary-Pat Green will play Albert’s mother Mae Peterson.

She was in the original Broadway cast of “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide” and has appeared in countless television series.

If you’ve gotta crow, don’t miss “Peter Pan,” playing July 21-26.

The beloved story about a boy who won’t grow up features all your favorite characters onstage at Music Circus for the first time since 1986.

Leading the high-flying adventure in the title role is Jenn Colella, who was most recently seen on Broadway in “If/Then” opposite Idina Menzel.

Jennifer Hope Wills, who earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of Eileen in the revival of “Wonderful Town” and also performed on Broadway in “The Phantom of the Opera” as Christine, is returning to Music Circus for her fourth season to play Mrs. Darling. Brothers John and Michael Darling will be played by Aidin Winn, who performed earlier this year at Dallas Summer Musicals, and local performer Joshua Davis, a

Due to the abundance of items, the auction preview from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 11 will be held in the Witherell’s warehouse at 1925 C St. For more information or to bid on an item, go to witherells.com

Shirley Hazlett's patterns made from ink and watercolor are on display in her current solo exhibition “Textural Memory” at the Shimo Center for the Arts from July 10 through Aug. 5

recreate textures found in stitching, weaving and quilting.

You may have seen her work locally at the Crocker Art Museum, the California Museum, the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Verge Center for the Arts or at Davis’s Pence Gallery and Nelson Gallery or in the collections of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, the UC Davis Mind Center, Kaiser Hospital, Sacramento State, the Carmichael Italian Cultural Center, Hanson McClain and the Grotto in San Francisco.

Meet Hazlett at the Second Saturday reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on July 11. For more information, call 706-1162 or go to shimogallery.com The Shimo Center for the Arts is at 2117 28th St. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event. n

Special Exhibit CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR HONORS PAINTER EARL BOLEY THIS MONTH

BY CECILY HASTINGS

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his month, the California State Fair will feature a retrospective exhibit of the paintings of Carmichael artist Earl Boley, who died in 2013.

World-renowned artist Jian Wang, a friend of Boley’s, curated the selection of 18 works that show the breadth of subjects Boley painted, both locally and abroad.

For more than a decade, Boley’s work was frequently featured on the covers of Inside Publications. He also received numerous awards for work he entered in the fair’s California Fine Art juried competition.

“I reviewed thousands of paintings that fill his studio and the rooms in the house he shared with his wife Susan,” said Wang. “He painted on anything he could lay his hands on:

cardboard, strips of wood, canvases old or new. What was important was that he was able to paint.”

“Earl’s greatest joy was making paintings.”

Wang’s selections encompass more than 45 years of Boley’s lifelong passion for painting. “Earl’s greatest joy was making paintings. And yet, as a true artist, he never stopped trying to make even better paintings,” said Wang.

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1. Carmichael Park sprouted umbrellas during the “Shades of Carmichael” festival.

Visitors Sadie Massey, Riley Campbell and Mazzy Thompson admire painter Carilyn Moyer’s creation.

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2. The Quick Quack Car Wash spokesduck congratulates workers during Creek Week celebrations at Carmichael Park. The volunteers removed garbage from Sacramento County waterways.

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3. The Effie Yeaw Nature Center’s art gala drew record community support. VIPs included artist Marcy Friedman, painter Greg Kondos, U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, Sacramento County Supervisor Susan Peters, TV weatherman Dave Bender and former county supervisor Muriel Johnson.

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4. The Easter bunny is hounded at Carmichael Park. Dalmatians Belle and Ruby cozied up to their big-eared benefactor during an Easter canine program.

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5. Bernice Holbert (left) and Joyce Holder volunteer at the Carmichael Cactus Society’s 39th annual two-day festival in Carmichael.

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6.Tributes to Carmichael’s nature educator Jack Koobs included seedlings to form a new oak grovein the nature area named for its founder.

Koobs died in February.

His family and friends shared shovel duty.

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A French Connection BRASSERIE CAPITALE OPENS

BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

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here’s a trend in the restaurant industry these days. It’s the equal and opposite reaction to the “local first/local forever” types, the types who consider themselves perfect locavores and insist on questioning others’ loca-motives.

This trend is the celebration of all things old, traditional and, sometimes, foreign.

I’ve seen it in several cities throughout the Unites States, this new desire for traditional cooking from outside the country. Whether it’s a spot-on, brand-new English pub on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square or an “authentic” Barcelona tapas bar in Chicago, this trend is nothing new; it’s just seeing a small uptick as a counterpoint to the “celebrate local” ethos.

Our town’s most recent entry into the contest is Brasserie Capitale, a lovely take on a traditional French eatery, highlighting classic French cooking and dependable French wines.

Since opening in May, the restaurant already has impressed a host of writers and diners. The parties behind the enterprise are Aziz Bellarbi-Salah and his family, owners of Aioli Bodega Espanol and The Grand wine bar. Both Aioli and the Grand are examples of the thoughtful combination of lovely atmosphere, fine cooking and good management.

So it’s no surprise to see Brasserie Capitale putting out fine dishes and professional, competent service in its first month of operation.

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The dining room at Brasserie Capitale on K Street

Taking over the busy corner at 12th and K streets once held down by the venerable beef joint The Broiler, Brasserie Capitale hopes to cash in on a revitalized K Street and the popularity of nearby Ella Dining Room and Bar and Tequila Museo Mayahuel. Between these three fine restaurants, there’s bound to be something to suit nearly every diner.

Bellarbi-Salah, however, has positioned the restaurant to succeed not just with those looking for fine dining, but with lingering evening diners, afternoon business lunchers and early morning grab-’n’-goers.

The key to success might be the informal sister bar/cafe next door,

Cafe a Cote. Offering morning pastries, ridiculously good coffee and to-go fare for lunch, it’s already a popular destination for the downtown workers surrounding K Street. Cafe a Cote also has a full bar open in the evenings for those sticking around after work or coming into downtown to enjoy the nightlife.

Brasserie Capitale’s menu is wallto-wall French classics. In keeping with the brasserie atmosphere (a little more casual and pubby than a white-tablecloth restaurant), the offerings fall on the hearty side.

Saucisson de l’Ail ($9), a sliced garlic sausage served on a bed of lentils, is an absolutely lovely little plate. The lentils, savory and rich, still retain a

little tooth, and the sausage carries enough sharpness of flavor to cut through.

You’ll find both pork and duck pate on the menu as well ($9). The pork is rough and earthy, country-style, with only a mellow hint of liver. The duck, on the other hand, is rich and pungent, indulgent in small dollops on grilled baguette.

Also on the small-plates side of the menu, you’ll find a trio of tartares: salmon, beef and mackerel ($12). The salmon, made mostly from belly, is light in flavor and redolent of dill.

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This Month at the Market A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN JULY

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These fast-growing squash are low in calories, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol, and are a good source of protein, vitamin A and other vitamins.

To eat: Slice horizontally, brush with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and grill over a hot fire.

Pears are packed with dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. They are low in calories, too!

To eat: Slice, top with a dollop of blue cheese and wrap with prosciutto for an elegant hors d’oeuvre.

Related to peaches, these delicious stone fruits are full of antioxidants and provide some B-complex vitamins and minerals.

To eat: Combine with raspberries to make a summery crumble or cobbler.

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This low-calorie vegetable has a surprisingly high amount of vitamin K. The peel is a great source of dietary fiber.

To eat: Peel and seed, then chop coarsely and combine with yogurt, garlic and lemon juice to make the zingy Greek dip known as tzatziki.

This summer treat—practically synonymous with Sacramento!—contains massive amounts of lycopene.

According to a study from The University of Montreal, a diet rich in tomatoes may help reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer.

To eat: Slice, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper for the perfect summer salad.

Low in calories, watermelon contains dietary fiber, potassium, and vitamins C and A. Drink watermelon juice after a grueling workout.

To eat: For a refreshing salad, serve with arugula and feta.

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2015 Our Summer Cooking Camp is a great activity for young people who love to cook!

Monday

JULY 27 to

Friday

Each day’s menu will focus on a different cuisine from around the world. We’ll also take a break from the kitchen each day and incorporate ways to make fitness fun.

JULY 31 9AM-1PM each day

SACRAMENTO

NATURAL FOODS CO-OP

locally owned since 1973

Limited to 18 students • ages 9-15 $350, $300 Co-op owners Pre-register at sacfoodcoop.com

1900 Alhambra Blvd. • 916-455-2667 Open Daily to Everyone • 7am-10pm

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Deviled eggs from Brasserie Capitale

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it melds well with creme fraiche, scallions and lemon zest. The beef is the standout of the trio. Made as classically as you’d expect, it’s a perfect mix of chopped filet, spices and capers, with a raw quail egg perched on top.

On the entree side of the menu, a few options stand out. The grilled pork shoulder ($24), beautifully grilled, sits on an heirloom bean ragout. The pork, tender and lovely, blends seamlessly with the savory ragout. This is an elegant dish, made even more elegant by how simple and hearty it is.

However, steak frites ($27) is the star of the show. Sure, it’s simple.

Sure, it’s classic. Sure, it’s basic. But the kitchen at Brasserie Capitale knows its steak, and it knows its fries.

A few dishes, like the escargot, fall a little flat. And classics like onion

soup need a little tweaking. But overall, the menu is superb.

In only the first month of operation, this is impressive.

Deserving of praise is chef Scott McNamara, a veteran of the Selland empire (Ella, The Kitchen, etc.) whose last posting was as chef of Bistro Michel, a gem of a place with incredible French cuisine.

Unfortunately, that gem was so well hidden in a sleepy corner of downtown that it never received the accolades it deserved. I’m glad to see McNamara back doing what he does best. And I have a feeling he’ll get more business than he might be ready for at Brasserie Capitale.

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INSIDE’S

THIS SUMMER, HAVE YOUR PIE & EAT IT TOO!

Midtown

ARDENCARMICHAEL Andaloussia 1537 Howe Ave. 927-1014 L D $-$$ Authentic Moroccan cuisine, lunch & dinner specials, belly dancing weekends • bestmoroccanfood.com

Bandera 2232 Fair Oaks Blvd. 922-3524 D Full Bar $$-$$$ American Cooking served in an all-booth setting. • Houtons.com

Bella Bru Café 5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ European-style cafe serving espresso, omelettes, salads, sandwiches, dinner entres, full bar, table service from 5 p.m., patio dining bellabrucafe.com

Café Vinoteca 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331 L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com

Café Bernardo Pavilions Center B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Casual California cuisine • paragarys.com

Chinois City Café 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-8690 L D $$ Full Bar Asian-influenced cuisine in a casual setting • Chinoiscitycafe.com

Ettore’s 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

Jackson Dining 1120 Fulton Ave. 483-7300 L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com

Jack’s Urban Eats 2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225 L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

Leatherby’s Family Creamery 2333 Arden Way 920-8382 L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

Lemon Grass Restaurant 601 Munroe St. 486-4891 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794 D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

Monday through Thursday only.

5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727 L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

Roma's Pizza & Pasta 6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-9800 L D $$ Traditional Italian pizza & pasta Family Friendly Catering + Team Parties • romas-pizzaand-pasta.com

1001 Front Street, Historic Old Sacramento 916-446-6768 www.fatcitybarandcafe.com Proof of birthday required. Maximum discount $15. Not valid with any other offer.

Valid June 1 through August 31, 2015. Tax & gratuity not included.

Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000 B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere

Ristorante Piatti 571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885 L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting

Sam's Hof Brau 2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Thai House 527 A Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

Thai Chef's House

Summer Hours 11am - 11pm daily

Family owned and operated!

2851 Fulton Ave. 481-9500 L D $$ Thai cusine in a friendly, casual setting

Willie's Burgers 5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria

33rd Street Bistro

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

If your birthday is in JUNE, JULY or AUGUST, bring your birthday party of two or more to Fat City Bar & Cafe to celebrate. Buy one entrée and get a second entrée FREE! Plus, the birthday person gets a FREE slice of our famous banana cream pie!

Matteo's Pizza

D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

FREE BIRTHDAY SPECIAL

EAST SAC

3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting •

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A new twist on Sacramento’s longest-running summer jazz series. On 3rd Thursdays, enjoy great music curated and hosted by Vivian Lee, regional jazz matriarch and aficionado. Jazz Night makes the Crocker the cool place to be this summer.

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Clairdee THURSDAY, JULY 16, 6:30 PM CAFE STAGE: Current Personae

Ron Moton THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 6:30 PM CAFE STAGE: Cynthia Douglas

Carlos McCoy’s Latin Band THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 6:30 PM CAFE STAGE: Grant Union High School Sextet

216 O Street • Downtown Sacramento 916.808.7000 • crockerartmuseum.org

Burr's Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516

Family owned and operated

Arden’s Best Neighborhood Pizza for 22 Years!

4215 Arden Way (Arden and Eastern)

482-1008 Open 7 days a week Mon - Sat 11am-10pm; Sun 12-9 Dine in,Take Out or Delivery

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

Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas 476-5492 LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com

Clubhouse 56 723 56th. Street 454-5656

Italian Stallion 3260B J St. 449-8810 L D $-$$ Thin-Crust Pizza, Deserts and Beer in an intimate setting and popular location

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

Les Baux 5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348

BLD Full Bar $$ American cuisine. HD sports, kid's menu, beakfast weekends

BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com

Evan’s Kitchen

Opa! Opa!

855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, Kid’s menu, winemaker dinners, daily lunch specials, community table for single diners • Chefevan.com

Español 5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

Formoli's Bistro

5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333

3839 J St. 448-5699

B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar

B L D Wine/Beer Patio $$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a neighborhood setting

Star Ginger

Hot City Pizza 5642 J Street 731-8888 D $ Wine/Beer Fresh made to order pizza served in a cozy dining room; or to take out

3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888 Asian Grill and Noodle Bar • starginger.com

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At the old Marie Callender’s Light Up Your Bike Contest Music & Food

Register before July 1st for special gifts

3129 Arden Way

916-488-8901

Open Daily 6:30 am – 9 pm

Simply Great M Mexican Food!

Six Course Platter for Two S $19.95 Beef Tacos, Cheese Enchiladas, Chile Rellenos, Rice/Beans, Chips & Salsa

WEST STEPS OF THE CAPITAL

Mon–Thurs after 4pm w/ coupon. Some restrictions apply. Exp. 7/31/15

Restaurant

2813 Fulton Avenue • 484-6104 Live music Fridays

Folsom

402 Natoma Street, Folsom • 673-9085 Live music Fridays & Saturdays

FREE DINNER Buy 1 Dinner Plate at B Reg Regular Price & Get Second Dinner FREE With cou coupon. Up to $7 value. Must include 2 drinks.

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enjoy patio dining...

Istanbul Bistro 3260 J Street 449-8810 L D Wine/Beer $$ Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in cozy neighborhood bistro setting

DOWNTOWN Foundation

400 L St. 321-9522 L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere • foundationsacramento.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

Mikuni Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960

Chops Steak Seafood & Bar 1117 11th St. 447-8900 L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com

Claim Jumper 1111 J St. 442-8200 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American in a clubby atmosphere

Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518

Wine Bar, Event Center & Retail Sales, 36 wines by the glass, beer on tap • downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. 443-3772

Fair Oaks Boulevard & Arden Way | 485.2883 click Luna Lounge tab at bellabrucafe.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900

summer coolers . . . freezolatte freezomocha smoothies feeling fit shakes vegan and gluten free chocolate, vanilla, bella berry, chai

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com

Estelle's Patisserie

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Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

LAND PARK Freeport Bakery

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com

Jamie's Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Taylor's Kitchen

1112 Second St. 442-4772

lowest cost item is free may not be combined with other offers valid through 8.31.15

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com

Fat City Bar & Cafe

The Firehouse Restaurant

buy one blended or iced drink get one FREE !

1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226

Riverside Clubhouse

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

bellabrucafe.com Carmichael 485.2883 Natomas 928.1770 El Dorado Hills 933.5454

Rio City Café

901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches.

EstellesPatisserie.com

1001 Front St. 446-6768

BELLA BRU CAFE

D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space

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

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092

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

Il Fornaio 400 Capitol Mall 446-4100 L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com

Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450 B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.

Tower Café 1518 Broadway 441-0222 B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting

Willie's Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am Friday and Saturday n

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