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eaders know my passion for local small businesses. Sacramento merchants make immense contributions to our neighborhoods.

Our sense of community, lifestyles and health depend on their “open for business” signs.

The past four months have frayed the protective fibers of our community.

Businesses and schools were shut.

Healthy lifestyles disrupted as gyms and fitness centers closed. Self-isolation.

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Then our world shifted again with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. His death at the hands of rogue police officers sparked a nationwide reckoning about race and equality. Peaceful protests in Sacramento gave way to violence and looting. Our frayed community was torn further apart.

A trip down J Street in early June told the story: shattered glass, boardedup shop windows and spray-painted epitaphs on walls. Business owners in my East Sac neighborhood boarded their windows in advance. Other merchants around town did the same, hoping to save their investments.

A city can’t consider itself healthy if our elected officials fail to make decisions to protect small businesses.

It took two nights of violence before our elected leaders adopted a curfew designed to stop the looting. Damages to more than 200 businesses exceeded $10

million. Many of those businesses are owned and staffed by the very people the protestors were marching to protect.

The response to COVID-19 also showed inconsistencies in our priorities.

We express concern about mental and physical wellness. Then we block access to gyms and fitness centers. Some were allowed to open in June. But all were given onerous safety rules and protocols.

I was stunned to receive an email from my favorite fitness studio detailing state protocols for re-opening. The small studio has always been a clean and thoughtful organization. But the new rules read like we were preparing to enter an infectious disease ward. My heart goes out to any business trying to bring back clients under such mandates.

The same rules apparently didn’t apply to major retailers such as Walmart, which reported record sales (and pandemic-defying crowds)

and booming stock prices. The aisles were packed despite social-distancing protocols. More than 20 Walmart employees died from coronavirus-

IF OUR HEALTH, FITNESS AND MENTAL WELLNESS ARE SUFFERING, IF NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESSES ARE DISAPPEARING, HOW CAN WE BEGIN TO FIX DEEPER, SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS?

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related complications in two months.

Meanwhile, local gyms were locked down.

Adam Attia, owner of East Sac’s Fitness Rangers gym, has been devastated by the shutdown. He joined other fitness community leaders to lobby Gov. Gavin Newsom for help in getting gyms open.

Attia explained the industry followed state protocols to develop new guidelines. “I guarantee our clients will be safe, feel safe—safer than any other business sector that has already been allowed to open. We are selling health and wellness. We are helping our clients beat diabetes, obesity and providing a mental outlet to deal with the tremendous stress we are all facing,” he says.

Fitness Rangers will need more than a year to financially recover from the shutdown, Attia says. And that’s if the gym is lucky.

As we move forward and think about the people and places in our community that need attention, nurturing and protection, small businesses must be high on the list. As we prioritize our support for all people, especially those we have neglected, we must think of mom-and-pop shop owners—local folks who have poured their hearts and

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investment dollars into Sacramento’s diverse neighborhoods.

And we must protect and support neighborhood businesses that provide opportunities to improve our health.

Those businesses should be allowed to safely re-open.

If our health, fitness and mental wellness are suffering, if neighborhood businesses are disappearing, how can we begin to fix deeper, systemic problems?

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hen gyms, playgrounds, pools and parks are closed and everyone told to stay home, exercise opportunities are foreclosed to all but the resourceful.

One activity I managed to continue during lockdowns was tennis. In the first month of shelter-in-place, courts in public parks closed one by one. Many older players dropped out.

Our tennis club was the last to bar play, but thankfully, they let family members still share the courts. My adult son had to be convinced to play tennis with his mother.

After every public court was shuttered, a friend discovered a pair of unlocked tennis courts in an Arden apartment complex where her daughter lives. The condition of the courts was bad—cracked, faded, with only ghostly white lines. We repaired the nets with shoelaces. But no one complained. We took a vow of silence not to disclose the location of our secret court.

We developed our own safety protocols. This included social distancing on the sidelines and using our own personal ball rather than the usual sharing.

When public courts re-opened, new rules were posted. The Mission Oaks Park District prohibited doubles play.

I see the same people playing doubles nearly every day and I’m confident the coronavirus death toll isn’t attributable to excessive doubles.

That same park district also removed the benches. The new conditions presented a real inconvenience, especially to older players.

I guess we should consider ourselves lucky in Sacramento.

Tennis is inherently adaptable to social-distancing protocols, but courts in some cities—Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and elsewhere—were still not open by early June. Such draconian measures go far beyond the reasonable guidelines created months ago by the U.S. Tennis Association.

Behind these and other COVID-19 edicts is the notion that people aren’t smart enough to use good judgment.

Physical activities, including tennis, are good for the body and mind. Those of us who love being active need our workouts now more than ever.

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I can recall an evening, many years ago, when we hosted another family at our home.

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e love this family, and to this day, we’re close friends with them. But this family consisted of two parents and three boys. And these boys were, well, boys. They were energetic, loud, and all-in-all quite a handful. (They’ve matured into fine young men, by the way!)

Toward the end of the evening, we heard the dreaded sound of silence. And any parent knows that when an unruly group of boys goes quiet, it’s not right.

We all rushed into the bedroom and one of the boys had climbed to the top of the closet insert like it were a ladder, another had removed 100% of the contents from 100% of the furniture pieces, and the third was so very proud up himself because he had fed the fish. Hand lotion. (Fish did not survive the week.)

So when it comes to treating

a home with care and concern, I can’t help but remember this night and how I, as the homeowner, felt a bit violated by these little angels.

Our homes are quite an intimate place, are they not?

It’s where we raise our family, host our guests, break bread, laugh, cry, celebrate, and mourn.

Yes, it’s probably the most important space in our daily life.

So it’s understandable to be a bit nervous about opening our homes to strangers. And we get this. This is why our third of three core values at kitchen & bath CRATE is “remarkable responsibility.”

Quite simply, “remarkable responsibility” means we treat your home as if it were our own.

Here are a few specific ways we do so: • At your pre-construction meeting (we call it a “Launch Meeting”), your project manager covers an assortment of topics with you, from pets to working hours to parking, to be sure we’re operating in the most convenient way possible for your day-to-day life.

• We arrive on time, every day, and make sure we communicate arrival time with you in a manner of your choosing.

• Before we commence demolition, we fully enclose your project work area with plastic and use fans to create negative air pressure, reducing significantly the amount of dust entering the rest of your home.

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Best Foot Forward COMMUNITY STEPS UP TO CLEAN UP AFTER VANDALISM

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undreds of Sacramento community members came together in the early morning hours of May 31 and June 1 to clean up Downtown and Midtown following vandalism and destruction stemming from protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Wearing masks and gloves, and clutching brooms, dustpans, garbage bags and cleaning supplies, volunteers bagged broken glass, garbage and debris, while others scrubbed graffiti off of buildings and other structures.

As many as 200 businesses were vandalized over two nights, resulting in millions of dollars in damage, according to Emilie Cameron with the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, which

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partnered with the Midtown Association to launch the community cleanup effort.

“You would see blocks where every business had their windows broken,” Cameron says.

Volunteers, business owners and city crews cleaned up broken glass, debris and spray paint along J and K streets and surrounding areas at sites such as Macy’s, Tony’s Deli & Mart, Sharif Jewelers, Mike’s Camera Shop, Lofings Lighting, BevMo and several restaurants.

“Macy’s was significantly impacted,” Cameron says. “The whole block of restaurants on 15th and 16th between J and L really got hit hard. Tony’s Deli at 12th and J was vandalized both nights.”

Near the state Capitol, volunteers removed graffiti from the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building, and the California Peace Officers’ Memorial.

At Sacramento’s Downtown Commons, home of Golden 1 Center, city workers cleaned spray paint from two pieces of public artwork.

In addition to Downtown and Midtown, other areas of Sacramento experienced damage, including Land

Park where Target’s glass doors were smashed, and Arden-Arcade where several businesses were vandalized.

“It was very difficult for the businesses to experience the level of damage that occurred,” Cameron says. “But it was really inspiring and restored the spirit of those business owners to have the community come out and support them, be there and help in the recovery efforts.”

To support those recovery efforts, the community may make tax-deductible donations through a grant program under the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. Seeded with a $30,000 contribution by the partnership, the program will issue grants up to $1,500 to Downtown businesses to directly cover the cost of insurance deductibles and storefront repairs.

To donate, visit godowntownsac.com/ donate or mail checks made out to the Downtown Sacramento Foundation to 980 9th St., Suite 200, Sacramento, 95814. Downtown businesses can learn more and apply at downtownsac.org/ recovery.

JOB-READINESS PROGRAM Women’s Empowerment has received $26,500 from U.S. Bank and $12,600 from Union Pacific Foundation to support the nonprofit’s job-readiness program. Under the program, women experiencing homelessness are given support through career skills workshops, paid job training, transportation assistance and mentoring to help them re-enter the workforce.

To date, the organization has graduated 1,635 homeless women and their 3,726 children. Last year, 70 percent of graduates found homes and secured 186 job placements. For more information, visit womensempowerment.org.

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For teaching programs, Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park offers children’s how-to videos and SMUD has online energy-focused lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade. For more information, visit exploremidtown.org.

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The library contains approximately a dozen new and well-loved titles, such as “Green Eggs and Ham,” read

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Other local luminaries include KFBK afternoon host Kitty O’Neal, Sacramento Police Department chief Daniel Hahn and Sacramento Kings announcer Scott Moak. For more information, visit angeliqueashby.com/ story-time-sacramento.

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If you’re struggling and need to talk, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at (800) 273-TALK (8255).

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KEEP IT CLEAN Stage Nine Entertainment Inc. is the first retailer in Sacramento to offer the CleanKey, a small keychain tool with a pointed edge that can be used to touch keypads at places such as grocery stores and ATMs. CleanKey, made from antimicrobial copper alloy, also has a handy hook that can help open doors, press buttons and pull levers.

Stage Nine has five retail stores in Old Sacramento: Stage Nine Entertainment Store, G. Willikers Toy Emporium, The Vault, Old Fashioned Candy and Confectionery Store, and California Clothiers.

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MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES This has not been an easy time for those suffering from mental health issues. Sacramento County is offering several services for those in need.

Sacramento County residents on Medi-Cal can contact the Sacramento County Behavioral Health Services Division at (916) 875-1055 for overthe-phone assessments and referrals to mental health service providers, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Youth, parents and caregivers of youth can call or text (916) SUPPORT (787-7678) or visit thesourcesacramento.com for an online chat. Support is available 24/7.

For those who need guidance on how to approach a loved one about seeking mental health services, Sacramento County’s Community Support Team can be reached at (916) 874-6015, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Staff support individuals with navigating mental health services, providing fieldbased assessments and giving referrals to other community resources.

Wi-Fi Buses will be rolling through the city to provide free wireless hotspots to communities with limited high-speed internet access, thanks to a partnership among the city of Sacramento, Sacramento Regional Transit District and California State Transportation Agency.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the project in April as part of the state’s efforts to support distance learning and close the digital divide during the pandemic. Approximately one in five students in California lack high-speed internet access and nearly half of all low-income households in the state do not have broadband service at home.

The repurposed Wi-Fi Buses— outfitted with equipment provided free of charge by partners AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Cradlepoint, Sierra Wireless and Aruba—will provide three and a half hours of wireless broadband service at two locations each day, with updated schedules available at thewifibus.com. Sacramento-based Symsoft Solutions also developed a free mobile app that provides real-time updates on the location and availability of Wi-Fi Buses.

To download the free app, visit the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and search “WiFi Bus Sacramento.”

NEW CITY PARK Just in time for summer weather— and socially distant fun—the urban master planned community The Mill at Broadway has opened its new Olympian’s Park.

The 3 1/2-acre city-owned and -maintained park features a large game court, picnic area, walking and biking trails (which will eventually connect to the American River Bike Trail at the Miller Park marina via an I-5 underpass), community center and amphitheater. For more information, visit millatbroadway.com/communitypark.

BALLET EDUCATION The California Arts Council recently awarded the Sacramento Ballet a $32,778 grant to help fund the ballet’s ongoing programs in Arts Education and Youth Arts Action.

Arts Education–Artists in Schools brings ballet to local public schools as part of the daily curriculum. Arts Education–Exposure provides free tickets to “The Nutcracker” to four schools each year. Youth Arts Action provides after-school dance training.

“These opportunities have an enormous impact on children in our local community,” says Amy Seiwert, the ballet’s artistic director. “With these grants, Sacramento youth will have the opportunity to learn ballet, experience live performance, and participate in something that is good for both their physical and mental health.”

To that end, the Sacramento Ballet is offering virtual summer programs on Zoom in the Children’s Division, Student Division, Pre-Professional Division and Trainee Program. For more information, visit sacballet.org/ sb-at-home.

SCHOLARS PLAYGROUND Square Root Academy is celebrating four years of providing free STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs for youth. The academy has also launched the online learning platform Scholars Playground with community partners to increase its reach during the pandemic.

The platform features live tutoring and education segments for kindergarten through 12th grade students hosted by community educators on topics such as STEM, language arts, mindfulness and more.

The classes are available in 30-, 60- and 90-minute increments.

Courses include performance poetry writing workshops with Sacramento Area Youth Speaks, African-American art history classes with the Crocker Art Museum, creative writing workshops with 916ink, Kemetic Yoga with Afro Yoga, and classes with Square Root educators on block coding, 3D modeling and more. For more information, visit scholarsplayground.org and squarerootacademy.com.

WATER VAULT UPDATE The McKinley Water Vault’s build phase is approximately 60 percent done

Square Root Academy has launched Scholars Playground for youth.

“Spirit of California” by Miles Hermann brightens an exterior wall at Archival Gallery. and on track for completion by early fall. Be on the lookout for temporary sidewalk and street closures, and pedestrian and jogging path detours over the next three months.

The water vault, located in McKinley Park, is an underground storage tank that will hold storm water and wastewater during significant rainfalls when the sewer system is at capacity.

This will reduce street flooding and sewer system outflows. The project also includes $1 million in park enhancements, such as new shade structures, trees and bathrooms.

For more information or to sign up for construction email updates, visit cityofsacramento.org/ mckinleywatervault.

CLASS PROJECT The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Leadership Sacramento Class of 2020 has selected the local nonprofit Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps as its class project.

SRCC is Sacramento’s largest education and workforce training program for young adults ages 18 to 25 from high-risk environments.

Leadership Sacramento’s improvement projects with SRCC will include beautifying its campus; designing, installing and cultivating a vegetable garden for SRCC Corps members; and funding for personal protective equipment, including hand sanitizer, masks, protective eyewear and disposable gloves.

Founded in 1985, Leadership Sacramento is a yearlong interactive program of workshops, meetings and community-betterment projects designed to address issues that impact the region’s economy. For more

information, visit metrochamber. org/foundation/programs/leadershipsacramento.

SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA Archival Gallery has unveiled a new mural—“Spirit of California” by Miles Hermann—on its building at 3223 Folsom Blvd.

The mural “depicts the promise California has to offer,” Hermann says. “A place where countless people from around the globe have sought the potential for prosperity and reinvention.”

This is Archival Gallery’s third mural along with “Sting” by Robert Bowen (featured in Wide Open Walls 2019) and “Providence” by Davy Fiveash.

Limited-edition prints of Hermann’s mural will be available for purchase with proceeds benefiting Mercy Pedalers, which reaches out via bicycle to men and women experiencing homelessness.

Hermann’s new landscape and stilllife paintings will also be on display inside the gallery July 8 to Aug. 1, alongside the sculpture and painting installation “31 Days” by Debra Kreck-Harnish and Leslie McCarron.

Information on visiting hours is at archivalgallery.com.

NEW SAC STATE DEGREE Sacramento State will offer a new hospitality and tourism management degree beginning this fall to train students to work in the tourism and restaurant industries—and, hopefully, help those businesses recover from the pandemic-spurred downturn.

The bachelor of science degree will focus on hotel management, tourismdestination marketing, convention

and meeting planning, the basics of entrepreneurial businesses, and the skills needed to work with for-profit and “experience industry” agencies like resorts, theme parks, travel agencies and more. Local industry professionals from the Sacramento Hotel Association and Visit Sacramento (Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau) will work closely with department faculty to provide internships and job experience.

“These industries can absolutely make a difference in how we cope with and recover from global health

emergencies,” says Tony Sheppard, program coordinator and professor in Sac State’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration.

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Approximately one-third of California’s formal child welfare system—59,156 children—are living with extended family members or other relatives. However, records show that in California, more than 285,000 children are being raised by relatives outside the child welfare system. Studies have shown that kinship care can lead to better emotional health, fewer placements and better outcomes.

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ROAD TRIP ART Painter Kathy Dana’s solo exhibition “Road Trip” will be on display at Sparrow Gallery July 10–31.

Two years in the making, the show’s acrylic-on-canvas and wood-panel work features scenes of highways, bridges, small towns and back country roads seen through a car window.

Sparrow Gallery is at 1021 R St. For more information, visit sparrowgallery. com and kathydanaart.com/gallery#/ road-trip.

CROCKER ‘WHITE HOUSE’ Artist Al Farrow’s iconic 2018 art piece “The White House” will be on display July 26 to Nov. 15 at the Crocker Art Museum. Using guns and ammunition as his materials, Farrow transforms tools of destruction into intricate sculptures of architectural monuments.

The Crocker exhibition, composed of just one sculpture, is intended to “remind all of us of the importance of this building and what it stands for,” explains Scott Shields, associate director and chief curator. “It is also meant to jolt us out of complacency, no matter on which side of the political divide we stand.” For more information, visit crockerart.org.

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isiting Sacramento County’s public waterways and rivers is a traditional way to cool off during the summer. But before you take the plunge, remember “Life Looks Good on You” and so does a life vest. Drowning doesn’t.

Putting on a life vest before going into the river is the smart and safe thing to do. Whether you are swimming, fishing, boating, floating or just wading, you should always wear a properly fitting life vest.

If you don't have a life vest, there are free borrowing stations along Sacramento’s waterways and at local fire stations. Discovery Park has two sites with child and adult life vests. Life vests for kids only are at Ancil Hoffman

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Park, River Bend Park, Sand Cove, Paradise Beach, and Sunrise, Howe and Watt river accesses.

Remember, it’s the law for children under 13 to wear a life vest. For more information, visit regionalparks. saccounty.net/rangers, under “Water Safety.”

include ADA ramps, improved bus stops, a new pedestrian-activated traffic signal west of the Annadale Lane intersection, plus traffic-signal improvements at Norris Avenue to benefit pedestrians and bicyclists.

With a maintenance backlog of $789 million for the unincorporated area, not every road in need can be

Sacramento County’s Bradshaw Animal Shelter reminds you that a pet left 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 above 90 degrees can also be dangerous.

Bring your furry four-legged friends inside or provide plenty of cool water and shade.

And remember, fireworks can be stressful on pets, often 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, with the noise from fireworks and other celebrations can lead to disastrous consequences. In fear, pets who normally would not leave the yard may escape and become lost, or become entangled in their chain, risking injury or death.

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

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MORE ROAD WORK Summer is paving season for Sacramento County’s Department of Transportation with a number of road projects slated for our area.

The increased gas tax provided by SB 1, enacted in 2017, is funding paving for Marconi from Eastern to Walnut; El Camino between Mission and Garfield; Ashton from Saverien to Wixford; California from Oak to Palm; Robertson from Walnut to Fair Oaks Boulevard; Watt from Cottage to El Camino; and Madison between Dewey and San Juan.

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annual parking/day-use pass is great for joggers and bicyclists, as well as outdoor and nature enthusiasts who frequent the parkway. The pass costs only $50 per year—and pays for itself after 10 trips.

Purchasing a pass helps the American River Parkway, a unique 23-mile natural resource that provides a quick escape from the stress of urban life and offers plenty of outdoor recreational amenities. It is a public asset worth protecting and preserving— and your support is needed!

Parks Passes are sold at the American River Parkway Foundation Office in the William B. Pond Recreation Area or online at arpf.org.

PARKWAY ALCOHOL BAN This Fourth of July there will be a complete ban on alcohol consumption and possession both 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 family friendly due to fights, public nudity, profanity and littering. The ban also is applicable to holiday weekends of Labor Day and Memorial Day. Since the restriction, families have expressed appreciation for making these holiday weekends once again a time for everyone to enjoy the American River Parkway.

“Spare the Air” alerts in the Sacramento region will be issued when the Air Quality Index for ground-level ozone pollution is forecast to reach 126 or above.

Clean air is up to all of us and we each need to do our part. When possible, drive less or use alternate transportation. For alerts and forecasts, visit sparetheair.com.

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Never leave your pet in a vehicle on hot summer days.

SPARE THE AIR “Spare the Air” season is now in effect. The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality District asks residents to check the daily air-quality forecast and adjust your driving when high ozone is projected.

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LOCAL PRACTITIONER USES HYPNOSIS TO EASE ANXIETY IN KIDS

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any children live with stress. According to a peer-reviewed study in The Journal of Pediatrics in 2016, 7.1 percent of American kids 7 to 13 years old, or 4.4 million, had anxiety problems. Some show it. Others do not.

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What can parents do to help make their children’s lives less stressful? Anti-anxiety medication is one treatment option; however, there are side effects to consider. Fortunately, other options exist. One is hypnosis. Just ask John Zulli, Ph.D., a clinical hypnosis practitioner based in Sacramento, with 34 years of experience.

Why opt for hypnosis to help kids reduce their anxiety level? “In hypnosis, children in part learn how to relax, mentally and physically,” Zulli says.

“In this way, kids learn how to shift their energy from a fight-or-flight mindset to one of balance and peace.”

According to Zulli, anxiety is largely the absence of relaxation. We cannot be anxious and relaxed at the same time. You do not need an advanced degree in human psychology to grasp that relationship.

Zulli, born in upstate New York and reared in San Luis Obispo, recently spoke about hypnosis to a classroom of kids at Phoebe Hearst Elementary School in East Sacramento. He asked the students to raise their hands if they had experienced anxiety. Many did. One child shared experiencing anxiety over taking a math test. In fact, standardized tests can spur some kids to worry about their scores, high or low, at, below or above grade level.

“Hypnosis gives children a sense of control over their anxiety,” Zulli says. “I teach kids how to use a key word or phrase to shift their energy from one side of the nervous system to the other. Once they know there is a tool they can use to fight their anxiety it diminishes.”

Zulli began to use hypnosis to treat kids with anxiety in 1990. Since then, he has hypnotized scores of children. “Hypnosis promotes your mental and physical relaxation,” Zulli says. “This breaks the cycle of chronic stress and gives the child a chance to calm down and regroup.”

Being calm in the face of stress is easy to say, but can be difficult to do as a kid, let alone an adult. Consider this case at Montreal Children’s Hospital in Canada.

There, a pilot project showed favorable results using hypnosis to help anxious kids who were undergoing stressful medical procedures, such as catheter insertions.

A medical imaging technologist treated a 9-year-old girl suffering from Hodgkin’s disease with hypnosis to reduce her anxiety. Practicing hypnosis in pediatrics came to the attention of the head of the Montreal hospital upon visiting France, seeing that treatment in use and yielding positive results.

Childhood can be a tough time due in part to the scant nature of control kids have over their lives. Adults can and do exercise control over kids. Zulli, the father of a sixth-grade son, is well aware of that power dynamic.

Accordingly, he emphasizes kids’ capacity to help themselves. Though some adults might find it a bit hard to grasp, kids can and do figure out how to use their unique creativity for self-improvement.

“Hypnosis teaches children to use their imagination to help themselves as opposed to allowing it to run away with them,” Zulli adds. “The imagination is the connecting link between the mind and the body.”

In addition to his practice of hypnosis treatment, Zulli is a leadership and management speaker. He serves private firms, small, midsize and large, and public agencies. One day Zulli speaks in Anchorage. Another day finds him in Aspen. His career brims with new faces, names and places on a regular basis.

In his past employment, Zulli worked as a park ranger.

Later he served as president of a private college in Southern California.

No armchair academic, Zulli knows a thing or two about overcoming anxiety. At a young age, he lost both his parents. However, Zulli did not let that loss stop him from developing into an author, father, speaker and teacher who shows people of all ages and backgrounds how to realize their full potential in life.

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or many people—seniors to young students—the neighborhood public library was a second home, a springboard to knowledge.

Today, it’s easy to think libraries have seen their best days. Maybe they should fade away like typewriters, cassette tapes and film cameras. The internet has made libraries redundant and obsolete, right?

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The process began slowly, but quickly gathered momentum under the leadership of Rivkah Sass, director of the Sacramento Public Library system. She arrived in 2009, when the institution suffered from personnel problems, budget shortfalls and relevancy questions.

Since then, Sass has resurrected the library, which includes 28 neighborhood branches that serve 1.4 million people throughout the county. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted operations, but the system was already making changes that provide external and online services.

In winning the $250,000 Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize last October, the Sacramento library was honored as a fully integrated community asset.

New service orientations gave the library creative ways to serve during the lockdown.

“The money was a real opportunity for us,” Sass says. “We had many new strategies already implemented, from remote access to e-books to audio books.

The pandemic has brought people back to the library for learning. We have a different kind library now, from online

storytelling for students to virtual book clubs to author discussions.”

A recent online event with Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state, brought a large remote audience together for a meaningful conversation.

“It’s a very serious time and libraries are positioned to adapt quickly,” Sass says. “Relative to other institutions and other libraries around the country, we have done a lot without a lot of money.

We know how to be creative.”

By using Zoom, crowdcasting, digital books, audio and other technology, the library reaches new audiences without the need for visits. Branches have continued to deliver physical books with curbside pickup.

Sacramento libraries have seen a 20 percent increase in e-book checkouts.

The popularity of new services means the library will reassess how much space it needs for physical locations. You may see library access at hardware stores to learn about home repairs.

“It might be awhile before we can open all our libraries,” Sass says. “We are looking at that now, but we had discussions for years about how to best

deliver services. We can be a one-stop shop for those wanting convenience. We want to make it as easy as possible.”

That includes sharing spaces at schools, coffeeshops and parks. It means changes so people don’t have to stand in line to check out books. High-contact interactions will be eliminated. There will be “touchless” services, drop-off locations for election ballots, access to tutors for students and what Sass calls “the library of things.”

“Many people don’t know about the library of things, where you can come to the library and check out things like yard and garden tools, still and video cameras, GoPros, musical instruments and more,” Sass says. “We even have 3D printers for people to use and we used them ourselves to make hundreds of masks for health care professionals.”

Sass wants the community to view the library as vital. It can help retrain unemployed people. Or help craft a resume. “What we do best, or should be doing best, is listening to the community about what they need,” she says. “When we are successful, they should think of us first, not last.”

Stereotypes surrounding the library have changed. Libraries can still be a place for socialization. But for many, the appeal is online access at no cost for books and more.

“I think we have a great story to tell,” Sass says. “A good community has a good library system. We can be a part of the education system to help with literacy and to make our workforce job ready. Learning and gaining knowledge is a lifelong process. We have a role in that.”

The future depends on money. The Sacramento system is a joint-powers agency whose funding is spread across the county and its cities. The latest budget runs almost $50 million, but cuts are expected. The library has already furloughed some staff.

“We have one eye on the future and one eye on how to serve the public right now,” Sass says. “It’s an evolution, not a revolution. We have new ideas like more virtual programing and ramping up a concierge service. We can focus on education and not just leave that to schools. One day, we could offer daycare and start the learning process early for children. We will adapt.”

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Not Run of Mill BROADWAY HOMES DELIVER SOMETHING NEW

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evelopers are capitalists. They assume risk, borrow money and partner with investors to make a profit and enjoy their piece of the American Dream.

But as anyone can see, there is more than just profit motive driving The Mill at Broadway, a hip and innovative condominium project on an old industrial site a few minutes south of Downtown.

“We don’t build homes, we build community,” says Rachel Bardis, one of two Sacramento cousins who founded Bardis Homes, the project’s builder.

The company is an offshoot of a wellregarded family firm that has built more than 10,000 homes in California, Nevada and Idaho.

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“We’re advocates for creating something more than a house or a living environment because our lives are so much more than that,” Bardis adds.

“When you buy a house, especially for so many of our buyers, this is the first time that they’re making such a big investment. It’s important to us that they feel comfortable with their investment and that they are getting something more.”

If that sounds like developer hype, a visit to The Mill at Broadway illustrates the passion, determination and skill of the Bardis cousins. Rachel and Katherine Bardis-Miry developed a few smaller projects in the area before teaming up with the investment firm partners who own the old Setzer Forest Products factory and mill site south of Broadway at Fifth Street.

With tight streets and straight architectural lines that give the community a quasi-industrial feel, The Mill at Broadway is the type of compact urban neighborhood more commonly found in cities such as Seattle and Portland than Sacramento.

Rooftop decks on eight of the neighborhood’s 24 “penthome” units

provide a stirring view of a city that was teeming before the coronavirus and police-brutality protests slowed things down. But residents can still enjoy being smack in the city and just enough apart from it to find tranquility.

When the cousins began their involvement with the Mill in 2014, condominiums were not the rage in Sacramento. We have long been a place more accustomed to single-family homes and apartment buildings.

But with the latest influx of young buyers from the Bay Area, Sacramento began to experiment. The city embraced different types of housing not seen here in the past.

“If you go way back, people have tried to do condo communities and failed and failed and failed,” Bardis-Miry says.

“We had to overcome and convince a lot of the trade partners we work with to get back into condo, to be part of this.

This movement, to be on the leading edge of what Sacramento is missing, that middle housing type.

“It’s not apartment, it’s not single-family detached. Let’s get this movement going and be on the front end of it. It took a while. It also took a while for insurance to say yes, but we are not two people who quit easily on any project.”

The cousins, the landowners and the Bardis subcontractors, most of whom

The Mill at Broadway is the type of compact urban neighborhood more commonly found in cities such as Seattle and Portland than Sacramento.

are women, have produced one of the more significant Sacramento housing developments in recent years simply because it’s so different. It is also priced lower than some other contemporary projects such as McKinley Village, with prices starting at the high $200,000s for studio units to the $600,000s for the higher-end dwellings.

At full build out, the 30-acre site will have about 1,000 units, with the vast majority owner-occupied. The Mill has 11 different housing styles.

The eclectic neighborhood changed direction somewhat with the recent announcement by a Roseville investor of new plans for the 87-year-old Market Club building. That handsome brick structure is now expected to include 22 studio apartments and 9,100 square feet of retail and other commercial space.

The community was recently enhanced with completion of a 3 1/2-

acre city park with bike lanes, two dog parks and several art pieces that tie the neighborhood together. Those pieces, the public market and other amenities infuse the Mill with its cool, modern ambiance so different from just about anything we see in the Sacramento core.

When I cycled through on my bike the past few weekends, the place was alive with walkers, joggers, cyclists, moms, dads and young kids enjoying the amenities and proximity to Downtown.

Speaking at a public forum last year with her developer husband, Bay Miry, who has built several innovative projects Downtown, Bardis-Miry summed up her feelings about the undertaking this way: “Being able to pull off the first couple phases and see this old warehouse logging factory that was really underutilized and that nobody knew existed turn into a thriving community that is

continuing to grow and have new people come in every day is really special.”

That is not developer hype.

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very little bit helps. No one knows aging out of the foster system and into that more than Dawn Dais, their own housing. She also prepares founder of the nonprofit Throwing meals and provides backpacks full of Starfish Foundation. cold weather items for the homeless “People want to help, but they get population. overwhelmed because there’s so much Throwing Starfish really took off need,” Dais says. “It makes you want when the Camp Fire started Nov. 8, to throw your hands up—but the truth 2018. When Dais’ friends in Chico lost is, if we all did a little bit, it adds up to their homes, she began to brainstorm something really large.” ways the nonprofit could help. She Dais has done more than a little raised nearly $200,000 through for those in need. She built houses donations and grants from the North with Habitat for Humanity in Central Valley Community Foundation to America in her early 20s, as well as in provide survivors with cold weather New Orleans post-Katrina, and has essentials, gift cards for food and volunteered for local homeless and gas, home goods like furniture and women’s shelters for years. But her kitchen items to help people set up new career as a graphic designer and writer residences, resources for those living off of political mailers really makes her the grid and much more. crave giving back to her community.

“The Camp Fire let us really expand To counteract “the vitriol of election our network,” Dais says. “I’ve met season,” Dais plans community so many amazing people doing (these projects each year to cleanse her soul projects). I’ve found that if you start of the negativity. doing things—if you She started by plant the seeds—people volunteering with show up who want to be Together We Rise, part of that garden.”

“People want to help, but which helps children These experiences in foster care. As Dais also prepared her to they get overwhelmed assembled hundreds respond quickly to the of Sweet Cases (duffle because there’s so much pandemic. Throwing bags filled with Starfish has assembled essentials to replace and distributed Health need... but the truth is, the trash bag kids Worker Care Kits are often given to if we all did a little bit, it for nurses at Mercy tote their belongings) General Hospital, the adds up to something for the organization, trauma surgery clinic she was pleased at UC Davis Medical really large.” to see how many Center, the ICU at people were willing Kaiser Permanente to donate items, time South Sacramento and money when Medical Center and asked. Dais figured if she put her skills the COVID-19 unit at Sutter Roseville organizing people to good use, she could Medical Center. Dais is also looking into expand her efforts and make an even creating kits for seniors sheltering in bigger difference. place while continuing her other work In 2018, the Roseville resident and with the homeless, foster kids—and mother of two made her intentions anyone else who needs a helping hand. official by founding the Throwing “We have to get involved in our Starfish Foundation. The name comes communities,” Dais says. “We have to from a story Dais heard as a teen about put boots on the ground. We have to an old man who comes across a boy figure out little ways that we can make throwing starfish stranded by high tide a difference. We don’t need to save the back into the ocean. The old man tells world, but we can throw one starfish the boy, “Son, there are thousands and encourage others to do the same. of starfish and only one of you. What And little by little, we can make a difference can you make?” The boy difference.” picks up a starfish, gently tosses it into the water and tells the man, “I made a For more information, visit difference to that one!” throwingstarfish.org.

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Stress-Free Summer ARDEN-ARCADE PARENTS CREATE KIDS’ CAMP DATABASE DJ Waldow with his kids, Cal and Eva. Photos by Aniko Kiezel

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hen school’s out for the summer, you might imagine that parents would breathe a sigh of relief—but you’d be wrong. Planning your child’s summer camp schedule can be even more stressful than keeping up with the regular school year, as Arden-Arcade resident DJ Waldow can attest.

“Three summers ago, I was trying to plan my kids’ summer camp schedule,” says Waldow, who has a 10-year-old, 8-year-old and 5-year-old twins with his wife, a high-risk OB doctor. “The process was so crazy—you’d build a schedule, then go to each individual

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site and cross your fingers that they still had openings. Camps filled up really quickly, which was stressful, plus trying to coordinate our kids going to the same camp as their friends was very, very complicated. There was no simple, easy way to find different camps in Sacramento.”

When Waldow, a freelance tech writer, and his family first arrived in town from the Bay Area three and a half years ago, a neighbor stopped by with “welcome to the neighborhood” cookies. That neighbor was Meghan Phillips, owner of The Honey Agency marketing and design studio in Sacramento. Phillips’ and Waldow’s kids became fast friends—which meant come summer, they tried to match schedules so they could all attend the same camps together. The process proved so difficult that the two parents had an idea. Why not create a searchable database of all the summer camps in the Sacramento area?

“We’re both tech-savvy entrepreneurs,” Waldow says, “but we were still struggling. And if we’re

struggling, I can’t imagine what other parents are going through.”

In March of last year, Phillips, Waldow and a silent third partner (another parent who agreed to run the technical side) launched Simple Summers, a searchable online database that is the “stress-free resource to find the best summer camps for your children—camps that fit your budget, schedule and children’s interests,” as described on the Honey-designed website. Parents can create a free account, add their camper (all that’s required is birth month and year to help narrow the search but maintain privacy) and then use the site’s search functions to find camps by date, type, price and location. Once a camp is selected and scheduled, parents can add it to their online calendar, which can be shared with others for easier coordination.

The site is free to use and most camps are listed for free, though Waldow says camps can pay a fee for their listing to pop up with an image in relevant searches. Last summer, there were nearly 800 camps across

Sacramento County, Rocklin, Roseville and West Sacramento listed on the site—all entered manually by Waldow and the Simple Summers team.

Though this summer will be different due to the pandemic—Waldow says the site is down to about 200 camps— Simple Summers is still offering invaluable services. In fact, they’ve reconfigured the search function to include virtual-only camps, though some in-person camps will be open with modified safety measures.

“We’re still achieving our mission of making it easier to find summer camps—doing the hard work so you don’t have to,” Waldow says.

“COVID-19 is not going to stop us providing a resource for parents.”

For more information, visit simplesummers.com.

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Deep in the Roots

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SMALL FARMS FLOURISH AS COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE MAKES RESURGENCE

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s the community turns to local food sources instead of the global chain, is it possible Sacramento could dig even deeper into its roots as the farm-to-fork capital?

Small farms across the region that have been impacted by the pandemic are seeing some opportunities. To help support America’s farmers and maintain the integrity of our nation’s food supply chain, the U.S. Department

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of Agriculture implemented the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

Announced in mid-April, this $19 billion immediate relief program provides critical assistance to farmers.

The program receives funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Families First Coronavirus Response Act and other USDA existing authorities. CFAP includes two major elements: direct support to farmers and ranchers, and USDA purchase and distribution. With $16 billion in direct support based on actual losses for agricultural producers, the program assists farms that have experienced lost demand and short-term oversupply caused by COVID-19 for the 2020 marketing year.

Produce Express, a wholesale distributor to the greater Sacramento

Valley, experienced that lost demand and oversupply all at once. General manager and part owner Jim Boyce reports that when the pandemic hit, sales dropped 65 to 70 percent. “The night the Kings quit playing our business fell apart,” he says. “It left us with a ton of inventory that nobody wanted.”

While grocery stores were selling out of milk, eggs and meat products, restaurants and the farmers who grew their ingredients were shuttered. Since Produce Express deals primarily with restaurants and sporting arenas, the impact could have been devastating.

Through CFAP, the USDA partnered with regional and local distributors in the Farmers to Families Food Box program. To support those who were significantly impacted by the closure

of restaurants, hotels and other food service businesses, the USDA purchased $3 billion nationally in fresh produce, dairy and meat for distribution to food banks and other nonprofit organizations.

Produce Express was awarded a grant from Farmers to Families Food Box for 3,080 boxes each day. It partnered with CDS Distributing Inc. to send boxes of apples, oranges, potatoes and Romaine lettuce to food banks in Yolo County, San Jose and Concord, as well as some small churches. Produce Express also designed its own program with wholesale-priced Consumer Boxes containing ingredients for fresh meals.

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Nationally, the packaged boxes included $461 million in fresh fruits and vegetables, $317 million in a variety of dairy products, $258 million in meat products and $175 million in a combination box of fresh produce, dairy and meat. The program was approved to run for six weeks beginning May 15, but the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service reports it may be extended up to $3 billion nationwide depending on its success and remaining funds.

COMMUNITYSUPPORTED AGRICULTURE While those selling to restaurants and processors may be struggling to find solutions, direct consumer farms are discovering a resurgence of communitysupported agriculture, an idea that sprouted in North America in the 1980s.

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or individual then receives a portion of the crops as they are harvested.

The ReFarmery is a small farm in Rio Linda with pasture-raised poultry, eggs, fruits, flowers and about 120 varieties of specialty vegetables. Since The ReFarmery’s market is primarily its CSA members and farmers markets, Jon Kupkowski reports his farm is thriving as consumers become more interested in where their food is coming from and who is growing it. “When you’re using direct consumer farms like this one, there’s no middle man,” says Kupkowski, owner and farmer at The ReFarmery. “There’s no shipping, distribution, processing ... it’s a secure and local food source.”

In May, The ReFarmery’s CSA program was up 300 percent from the previous year. At the Natomas Farmers Market, Kupkowski says he sold out by the end of the morning, along with almost every other farm stand at the market. “It’s a strange time and I’d prefer it wasn’t here, but I’m staying busy,” Kupkowski says. The ReFarmery did not apply for any USDA or other assistance as none was necessary.

During normal operations, produce from West Sacramento Urban Farm is sold at farm stands and to local restaurants and school districts,

including Washington Unified, Robla, Natomas Unified and Davis Joint Unified. Leading the charge at school districts is Fiery Ginger Farm. But with the sudden closure and shift of these expected markets, Sara Bernal, Urban Farm program manager, says they have been compelled to unearth creative solutions to fulfill growing farm and community needs. “Now farmers are trying to launch CSA programs to provide produce without having a farm stand,” Bernal says.

Before the pandemic, Bernal was in the process of creating a new project called the Homegrown Mobile Market.

A refrigerated farmer’s truck would transport locally sourced produce with regular stops around West Sacramento, especially in low-income “food deserts.”

Bernal expected the Homegrown Mobile Market to be operating by May, but it has been delayed due to current nonessential trade restrictions with Canada, where the truck is being manufactured.

She is hopeful that the Homegrown Mobile Market could be in operation as early as July.

The West Sacramento Urban Farm is part of the California Farm Academy’s Farm Business Incubator, which is under the nonprofit Center for Land-Based Learning. The center

has not applied for COVID-19-related grants, according to Sri Sethuratnam, director of the center’s California Farm Academy, adding that many individual farmers in the program are finding it difficult to apply for them. “It’s a lot of paperwork and the grants are more suited to larger scale operations,” Sethuratnam says. “There is a challenge for new farmers and smaller farms.”

Sethuratnam added that while the restaurant market plunged, the demand for CSA boxes dramatically increased.

If the practice of individuals partnering with direct consumer farms continues, Sacramento could see a more permanent change even after the pandemic. Small local farms that are thriving are a result of communitysupported agriculture within a secure and local food source.

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Nesting in Natomas KINGS DEVELOPMENT THREATENS WATERFOWL ROOKERY

Above: Sleep Train Arena Pond. Right: Snowy egret chicks at Sleep Train Arena Pond.

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naware they are trespassing on land owned by the Sacramento Kings, hundreds of snowy egrets and black-crowned night herons have taken up residence in a deserted oasis on the north side of Sleep Train Arena.

From a chain-link fence surrounding the grassland, the birds can be seen gliding among cement slabs and rebar, the foundation for a baseball stadium project led by Greg

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Lukenbill in the late 1980s that never came to fruition.

Because of the high water table in North Natomas, the excavated stadium filled in over the years with a pond, trees and other foliage, creating an inviting wetland habitat.

This is nesting season—April to August—for the long-legged waterfowl who have set up a rookery for their young at the defunct site.

As many as 500 nests are safely perched high within a 5-acre grove of cottonwood trees and the “Sleep Train Arena Pond” of this still undeveloped piece of land.

“Still undeveloped” is the key phrase here. This past October, the Kings presented a draft report to the Sacramento City Council outlining a vision to turn 183 acres, including the site of Sleep Train Arena, into a

mixed-use residential and commercial development.

The 70-page “Natomas Arena Reuse Planned Unit Development” report makes no mention of the pond or rookery.

“The threat to these birds is that they plan to develop the area,” says Christy Berger, president of Sacramento Heron and Egret Rescue.

“The document that was released for the rezoning, what they showed, what they envision for the development, didn’t mention the pond at all.”

SHER is partnering with the Environmental Council of Sacramento and Habitat 2020 to work with the city on a design that would incorporate the Sleep Train Arena

Christy Berger with Sacramento Heron and Egret Rescue.

Pond into the Kings’ vision for the area.

“The ideas presented in the PUD completely ignore that there is a fully functioning aquatic resource (the Sleep Train Arena pond) in the Plan area that is currently providing habitat and nesting opportunities for hundreds of Waterfowl,” states SHER, ECOS and Habitat 2020 in a joint letter to the city.

If incorporated into the plan, “The pond would provide the area with a nature viewing experience that would serve as a recreational and educational opportunity,” the letter notes.

Berger co-founded SHER in 2015 while volunteering for the Sacramento Wildlife Care Association.

“A lady who lived in an apartment complex in south Natomas was bringing us birds every single day— baby herons and egrets,” Berger says.

“She was at her wits end because there were all these injured and dead birds.”

The chicks were falling out of the trees onto the cement, getting hit by cars, and suffering broken bones and abuse. “One day, she brought in a baby that had a stick jabbed into its back,” Berger recalls. “That’s what made us say, ‘OK, we have to do something.’

“We organized a group of volunteers to go out every day and pick up the injured babies—the ones that were too little to survive,” and move them to a rescue facility.

When nesting season was over, the apartment complex cut back the trees to discourage the birds from returning—an example of what could happen if the birds nesting at the Sleep Train Arena Pond are forced elsewhere.

“If this pond is eliminated, the over 1,000 herons and egrets that nest from April to August each year would very likely move to the surrounding neighborhoods to roost and nest, creating issues for residents and businesses,” states the joint letter. “This would also result in hundreds of injured baby birds each year that would greatly strain local wildlife rescues, which are doing the work that our local shelters would otherwise be dealing with.”

When the birds at the Natomas apartment complex were forced to go elsewhere, Berger, who works in the area, was on the lookout for where they might relocate. While out driving, she sighted a number of egrets flying overhead and followed them.

“Low and behold—they flew right toward Sleep Train Arena,” Berger says.

But it was difficult to see past the no-trespassing fence in the parking lot. “I needed someone with a drone to get footage.” Using the video footage and Google Maps, she discovered more than dry grass and bushes. “So many birds—it was just stunning,” she says.

By the end of December, the city had received more than 260 public

Snowy egret at Sleep Train Arena Pond. Photo courtesy of J. Roberson Photography comments on the Kings’ draft development plan, reports Berger.

After reviewing the comments and making changes, the Kings are expected to release a final project plan this summer. The next step will be an environmental impact report.

Habitat 2020, which is the conservation committee of ECOS, is guiding SHER through the process with the city. “They are also helping with this next phase, the environmental impact review,” Berger says.

The arena pond is in city Councilmember Angelique Ashby’s district. “It is important that any proposal to redevelop the arena address the promises made to the community, as well as any habitat conservation that may need to be done,” Ashby says.

In addition to the commercial and residential development, there is talk

about the Sacramento Zoo relocating to the area, which wouldn’t be all bad, according to Berger. “They wouldn’t be the first zoo to do that,” she says.

There are two zoos—Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago— that have active heron nesting sites.

To view the drone footage of birds nesting at Sleep Train Arena Pond and learn more about the status of the proposed development, visit sacheronsave.org/arenasite or SHER’s Facebook page.

Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com.

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5. Jesuit High School seniors (from left) Alexander Maguire, Garrett Heisinger and Caleb Horel spearhead a fundraiser for leukemia and lymphoma research.

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ecessity can spur literary creativity. Just ask Marilyn Reynolds, an author and retired high school teacher who lives in River Park.

As a teacher at what she calls a “last chance” high school in Southern California between the 1970s and 1990s, Reynolds faced a classroom dilemma.

Most of her at-risk students did not want to read. Suggesting classics such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Pearl” failed to change the situation.

Reynolds persisted (a quality that would prove to be more than a teaching tool for her underserved students).

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“I wanted them to gain the breadth and freedom that can come through reading,” Reynolds says. “Giving them a reading habit would be the gift of a lifetime.”

Consider one of Reynolds’ students.

“A very withdrawn girl,” she says.

“Although never disrespectful, she refused to read. I could not find anything for her.”

At that time, Reynolds was drafting her first young adult novel called “Telling,” the story of a 12-year-old girl who is being sexually molested by a neighbor. She later shared it with her students.

They easily connected with the story, Reynolds notes. In fact, her very reluctant reader plowed through the manuscript. It resonated with her because, as the student revealed in a subsequent book report, she had long kept secret her own similar experience.

(Reynolds connected the girl with a trusted counselor.)

The same student became an avid reader, and a bellwether for readers

attracted to Reynolds’ gritty teen fiction. “I knew that I had something important to offer,” she says.

Publishers did not get the memo.

Reynolds did not give up. She persisted.

“Telling” was finally published after 23 rejections and became the first of 11 books in Reynolds’ popular “True-toLife Series from Hamilton High.”

These novels flesh out teen pregnancy, rape, racism, abortion, school failure, lack of family support, sexual-identity crises and mixedrace heritage. Her most recent book, “Eddie’s Choice,” deals with white supremacy and racist bullying on a high school campus.

Critics have lauded the story, noting its appeal to a teen audience. “Today’s high school readers will understand and engage with these characters and their problems,” writes a reviewer for Manhattan Book Review.

Reynolds is also the author of “‘Til Death or Dementia Do Us Part,” which chronicles her caregiving journey with Mike, her musician husband, from

his 2009 diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia until his death in 2014. On a lighter note, she also penned a collection of personal essays, “Over Seventy and I Don’t Mean MPH.” Writers write, but at different places and times in their lives, as personal conditions change. Reynolds, as a fulltime teacher, wrote her first two books in the evenings and on weekends.

Later in retirement, her writing routine shifted from mid-mornings to early afternoons.

Writers are also readers. As a youth, Reynolds mostly read Nancy Drew mystery books. “I was not a sophisticated reader,” she says. Today, Reynolds enjoys reading fiction authors such as Kate Atkinson, Daniel Mason, Elizabeth Stroud and Anne Tyler. In the nonfiction category, she prefers Mary Roach, Susan Orlean and The New Yorker magazine.

Reynolds is not one to rest on her past work. Her next writing project is generations from young adult fiction.

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She has begun a novel with an 84-year-old woman protagonist. “I guess that I have switched from writing young adult fiction to old adult fiction,” she says with a laugh. There is a symmetry of sorts there.

In sum, readers’ responses to her work are a big factor in Reynolds honing her craft, one idea and word at a time. Nobody achieves success, literary or otherwise, without help. To this end, Reynolds gives a maximum shout out to the robust and nurturing community of Sacramento writers, and to local publishers New Wind Publishing and River Rock Books.

“Nothing compares with the experience of going to the mailbox or opening my email and finding a message from a faraway reader telling me how one of my stories has, in some way large or small, affected that person's life,” Reynolds says. “No one could ask for more.”

For more information, visit marilynreynolds.com.

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CARS BRING PROTECTION, BUT THERE’S A PRICE

ctivists for walking and bicycling sometimes refer to drivers as “cagers” since automobilists are encased by a ton or more of metal and cut off from their environment.

In the age of COVID-19, instead of being a cage, a car seems more like a protective steel bubble in a world that’s turned hostile. When they aren’t staying home, people take advantage of that protection when they venture out, even taking pleasure rides when cabin fever becomes too much.

With movie palaces and playhouses closed, drive-in theaters are enjoying a surge in popularity. In some places, people can attend plays, concerts, comedy shows and church in their cars.

Drive-by celebrations of birthdays and graduations replace large in-person gatherings. Far sadder occasions have been marked by drive-by wakes and funeral viewings.

Restaurants offer “touchless” curbside meal pick-ups for drivers who stay in their car. Pop the trunk or hatch

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and your prepaid food order gets tucked inside. Food banks operate in a similar fashion.

Virus testing is being done for people queued up and ensconced in vehicles.

You don’t have to leave your SUV to have a swab shoved up your nose.

The federal government encouraged private car use as coronavirus prevention. For employers who are reopening office buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially recommended: “For employees who commute to work using public transportation or ride sharing, consider offering … employees incentives to use forms of transportation that minimize close contact with others, such as offering reimbursement for parking for commuting to work alone or singleoccupancy rides.”

Close quarters are typical on public transit. Ride sharing via Uber or Lyft and carpooling add their own risks of virus exposure. It’s impossible to physically distance inside a car and virtually airtight car cabins concentrate the virus. A Harvard study indicates opening car windows three inches greatly reduces, but does not eliminate, transmission risk by circulating outside air.

The idea that everyone will avoid transit and drive alone as restrictions loosen prompted concern, especially in cities such as New York, Boston,

Chicago and San Francisco with relatively high transit use. Cheap gas provides another impetus to drive.

Some transportation planners foresee Carmaggedon—epic traffic tie-ups.

There’s only so much road space. If everyone drives alone, gridlock is the outcome.

But that scenario is not inevitable.

Many employees may continue to work from home. Employers may stagger shifts to cut staff density. Further, the economic consequences of the pandemic mean lots of jobs don’t exist anymore.

No job, no commute.

The CDC recommendation is consistent with past commute patterns in most places, such as Sacramento, where public transit is little used. By far, most commute vehicles have just one occupant. Cars are convenient, offering drivers independence and flexibility despite traffic issues.

But too much independence can become alienation. Too much automobile autonomy can threaten the social fabric. Driving alone may offer protection to solo drivers from the virus, but cars threaten everyone else with their mass, speed and pollution.

CDC’s early recommendation that employers offer incentives to solo drivers was woefully wrongheaded.

Thankfully, CDC now recommends walking and bicycling. It still suggests solo driving, but drops the idea of incentives.

If transit is to be avoided in the shortterm, the first choices for commuting should be walking and bicycling. Those are healthy transportation choices that strengthen the immune system and afford virus protection. Walking and bicycling don’t endanger people the way cars do.

Solo driving is problematic on many levels. Car crashes kill thousands annually and injure millions. Car emissions cause lung and heart disease and harm the environment. Disease control has to be a priority for CDC. The long-term transportation future, beyond COVID-19, can’t be more cars.

Yes, car cages offer temporary disease protection. And cages increase safety for their occupants, though they threaten the flesh and blood of vulnerable road users outside.

But there’s not enough room in cities, or enough dollars in government budgets, for unlimited solo driving. In the long run we need to be caged less, not more.

Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. Previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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o you remember where you were four months ago when our world began to tilt?

I was at Republica De Francia, a Honduran elementary school deep in the gang-ridden neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.

I was there with two dozen of my readers to help Chispa Project establish its largest library yet, one of more than 60 libraries.

All around us, children were behaving typically—teeming, screaming and careening down echoing hallways. Several stopped to hug us, sharing broad grins and cheeky smiles that stretched for miles and miles.

Amidst the recess bustle, I was surrounded by five schoolgirls of single-digit ages, all grinning with unrehearsed wonder. They weren’t subtle. They wanted to see the new books we were shelving.

I handed a book to Maria, likely the oldest of the group. She opened it with some reluctance, but soon began to read aloud the “Fiesta Secreta de Pizza,” the Spanish version of Adam Rubin’s children’s book about a racoon planning a secret pizza party.

All we needed was tea and cookies to really get this new book club going.

If you know the excitement U.S. children express over a new video game, you can conceive the enthusiasm that began to build in these Honduran students upon seeing their first children’s picture book.

It was incomprehensible that someone like Rubin wrote pizza books to especially engage them. And even more incredulous that strangers from another country would think them important enough to personally hand them this book.

I felt a bit overwhelmed by this kid gaggle, but fortunately I had backup nearby.

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Norris Burkes reads to Honduran schoolchildren.

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In the school parking lot, 10 volunteers worked an assembly line offloading 2,000 new library books from the top of our bus. In a side yard, another five painted and assembled bookshelves for the library.

Inside classrooms, volunteers projected and outlined colorful murals to celebrate the school’s newly adopted emphasis on reading. Then they carefully filled in the outline with bright primary colors that brought book characters to life.

On the fourth and final day, Chispa volunteers hosted the library inauguration, a sort of allday birthday party. The busyness returned as students rotated among classrooms for hands-on fun that included puppets, science experiments and storytelling. At the end of the day, the children gathered in the courtyard and dazzled us with a cultural dance in swirling dress.

A few days later, most of us boarded planes to a quickly changing reality with flights half full and passengers donning masks and compulsively washing their hands.

Now, four months later as COVID-19 still spreads, I wonder if Maria is even able to eat, much less enjoy her books. She, like two out of three Hondurans, experience a handto-mouth existence. Quarantine there means her family will likely see their food chain greatly impaired.

The crisis makes books appear irrelevant. After all, if you can’t eat, why would you care about reading?

But Chispa knows that reading offers skills that can change systemic poverty in the long run. Reading helps children develop critical thinking, analytical skills and the imagination to rewrite their own futures. And we volunteers have just provided 2,000 new worlds of possibilities.

To learn more about Chispa Project and how you can help, visit www. chispaproject.org.

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A Century in the Making MIDTOWN BUNGALOW IS HOME AND STUDIO TO LOCAL ARTIST

or 100 years, a quaint bungalow on a corner lot in Midtown has sheltered its occupants and kept watch over a peaceful neighborhood.

The century-old home stands strong while others were demolished to make way for multi-unit apartment buildings.

And for the past 20 years, Pat Orner has been the fortunate guardian of the historic structure.

“These were the homes of the worker bees,” says Orner, who bought the bungalow, located in Midtown’s New Era Park, in 2000. “Those were the doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs in the bigger homes,” she adds, referring to the more spacious dwellings just across the street in Boulevard Park.

In fact, Orner speculates that her two-bedroom, one-bath home may have originated from a mail-order catalog.

“This house was probably a kit from Montgomery Ward or Sears.”

Kit or no kit, the 1920 abode has kept its original charm under Orner’s care.

“It had good bones,” she says, reflecting back on when she first saw the bungalow. “The character felt good.”

Orner, former owner of a Sacramento relocation company and an accomplished artist, has made it her mission to respect those bones when making upgrades to the 1,160-squarefoot house. Changes include removing the “cottage cheese ceiling” added in a previous decade, installing central heat and air, and remodeling the modest kitchen.

“The kitchen only had one wall of cabinets,” Orner says. By removing walls and rearranging the footprint, the homeowner was able to add more cabinets in the kitchen and laundry room. Using basic bases from Home Depot, she had custom cabinet doors and drawers installed on the new and original cabinetry.

The initial kitchen demolition uncovered the old brick service chimney hidden behind sheetrock. “We literally ran into a brick wall,” Orner shares.

“So we had to reboot.” But she kept the exposed brick as a nod to the home’s past.

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The avocado-colored sink had to go.

The addition of a dishwasher was a must. Laminate Wilsonart countertops were added, as were two new garden windows in the kitchen and laundry room. Orner made shelving out of the shallow wall insert that once held a built-in ironing board.

The original windows were replaced throughout the home with energyefficient double-panes. However, Orner made sure the frame designs matched the originals, including the gridded windows that flank the brick fireplace.

The solid wood floors in the living and dining rooms were brought back to life, while engineered hardwood was added to the hallway and bedrooms. The latheand-plaster walls feature a different

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vibrant paint color in each room, but red is the primary accent hue. “I’m very colorful,” Orner says.

A new vanity and floor tiles were installed in the bathroom. The upgraded window has rain glass for privacy to match the glass in the original bathroom door. Solar tubes in the bathroom and dining room provide an abundance of light. “You don’t have to turn on the light, even at night if there’s a full moon,” Orner notes.

Step outside to “Pat’s Garden Café,” a peaceful setting embellished with several garden murals painted by the artist homeowner. The café mural is reverse painted on the back of the home’s original front window and hangs near a cozy bistro table for two. Another

painted garden graces the side of the neighbor’s garage bordering Orner’s property. Her latest work transformed the front yard’s worn wooden fence into a blooming Buddhist garden with birds, butterflies and other wildlife.

Orner became known for her virtual gardens and was sought out by clients who wanted one of her mural creations for their own. But the work was “challenging, especially big walls.

My daughter doesn’t like me getting on ladders,” the muralist says. So now Orner, who was an original artist at the Kennedy Gallery where she is still in residence, focuses on fine art with a sense of whimsy and color.

The “old, brown, ugly garage” was updated with two side doors, windows, white paneling and storage cabinets.

The addition of a few extra feet created an artist studio—with a skylight, ceiling fan and track lighting—where Orner paints and holds art classes. A framed photo tribute to her friend and partner,

Keith Hopkins, also an artist who died in 2013, hangs on the studio wall.

A visit to Orner’s garden reveals a trove of family treasures—birdhouses crafted by her son, a wooden panel painted by her grandfather, a volunteer redwood tree that snuck in as a sapling with an angel’s trumpet cutting from her mother. “It’s a gift from my mom,” who passed in 2006. A path along the side yard is paved with hand-decorated steppingstones given to Orner by her grandson every Christmas since he was born.

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It’s All Greek to Him

hen people ask Jay Greenwood how long it took him to write his new historical fiction novel “Race to Marathon,” his answer is simple: a little over half a century.

The Oregon native credits his “fantastic English teachers” in high school with first piquing his interest in Ancient Greek literature and history.

As a freshman, Greenwood recounts that he was assigned “The Odyssey” in class—which he calls “a very heavy lift for a country boy from Oregon.” But when he managed to finish the book and realized he’d just read one of the greatest works ever written, he was hooked—so much so that it changed the course of his career.

Always “red hot” in math, Greenwood enrolled at Oregon State as an engineering major but retained his interest in humanities. When he was told by the dean of engineering to stop taking “foo-foo classes” (meaning English), Greenwood realized that not only did he enjoy those classes more, he was doing better in them—as in, straight-As better. He shifted his major to English and philosophy, and never looked back.

Greenwood’s deft ability to “string my words together” led to a graduate degree in political science at UC Davis after serving two tours of duty in Vietnam as an officer. He then went onto an impressive career writing about political issues and working for the Fair Political Practices Commission, as well as serving as chief of staff for members

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But the call of Ancient Greece was still strong for the Sierra Oaks resident, who was inspired to finally channel his love of history into a manuscript when he discovered his protagonist: Themistocles. Greenwood describes the real-life Themistocles as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Winston Churchillâ&#x20AC;? of the Greeksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;namely for his heroic efforts to save his people from the invading Persians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Themistocles was the heart of salvation of Greece and Western civilization,â&#x20AC;? Greenwood says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was

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like he had a crystal ballâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was a genius of human nature and knew what was coming from the Persians and then outfoxed them all. When I first read about him, I was impressed to the point of being flabbergasted.â&#x20AC;?

Thus began months of research and writing for what became â&#x20AC;&#x153;Race to Marathon,â&#x20AC;? a page-turning historical fiction book that Greenwood says is intended to get people interested in the subject of Ancient Greece and inspire readers to learn about this critical part of our shared history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Americans think of the ancient Greeks, we tend to think of Classical Greece, which was around 460 BCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the time of the famous philosophers like Socrates and the great playwrights,â&#x20AC;? Greenwood explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of the era that preceded it, known as Archaic Greece. It was a fascinating period of time in which strange things are happeningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Greece is figuring out how they see themselves as a culture and how to rule themselves.â&#x20AC;?

The bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC is due to its role as a turning point in history. Had the tiny Greek city-states not managed to stop the invading Persiansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who far outnumbered and out-armored the Greeksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely the Persians would

have pushed all the way to Portugal and England, changing the face of history as we know it.

But lest you think this book is all about war and â&#x20AC;&#x153;ugly, guy kind of stuff,â&#x20AC;? as Greenwood puts it, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be deterred. To balance the story, Greenwood purposefully implemented a â&#x20AC;&#x153;strong womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s themeâ&#x20AC;? surrounding Themistoclesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wife and other female characters who historically helped the fight by keeping Athens strong while its men were away at war. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were two driving forces in Greece at this time: valor and glory,â&#x20AC;?

Greenwood says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And valor was attributed to both men and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t limited to the battlefield. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uplifting for our society to know a little bit more about where they come from.

As the Ancient Greek adage goes, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Know thyself.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

For more information, visit ancientgreecepersia.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Race to Marathonâ&#x20AC;? is available on amazon.com.

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CYCLISTS SHOULDN’T MISS THIS RIVERSIDE TREAT

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t a certain time each day, the most beautiful place in Sacramento is Oak Hall Bend.

Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of it. What really matters is how you get there. You can walk, but the best way to approach this exquisite patch of geography is by bicycle.

Pedal down Riverside Boulevard.

Just past the modest hill that ascends at 35th Avenue, turn right and go onto the levee. Ride 100 yards and behold Oak Hall Bend. From Pocket, catch the levee at Zacharias Park and head north about one-quarter mile. You’re there.

No cyclist should miss it.

Sacramento is a cycling town. This spring, when the coronavirus began to wipe out socialization, bars, restaurants and retailers, a local resident interested

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in buying a bike—or an experienced road biker eager to upgrade—could find six excellent cycle shops between H Street and Sutterville Road.

The options are endless. All price ranges, makes and models. Test rides may be problematic due to contagion concerns, but Sacramento has been lucky in the shadow of pandemic. There were no state-mandated limits on cycling.

A person who wished to ride from Midtown to Folsom on the American River Bike Trail could make the 30-mile trek without detour. The landslide that closed the trail near the Orangevale bluffs in 2017 was finally cleared in February. The trail’s reopening crossed the finish line a month before the virus.

Beyond cycling, we can argue about the city’s status as a sports town. I’ve always thought it was a lousy one, at least compared to Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston. This isn’t Sacramento’s fault.

To be a great sports town, you need great sports teams.

Sacramento is the type of sports community where the accurate descriptor is a cliché that deploys the words “one” and “horse.” True, Sacramento has been relentlessly loyal

to its NBA team, whose championship trophy cabinet hasn’t been touched since 1951. But otherwise? Uh, we almost beat the Lakers.

So forget basketball. The Sacramento cyclist has better options.

Midtown, East Sacramento and Land Park are lovely places to ride, especially for cyclists who don’t clip in.

Downtown remains treacherous, even without the traffic that normally makes J and L streets hazardous for two wheels. Light rail tracks are a minefield for bicycles. Modified Regional Transit schedules prompted by COVID-19 mean fewer trains, but they don’t make tracks less dangerous.

The Riverside trek to Oak Hall Bend is not a perfect ride. Too many motorists treat Riverside as a speedway. But it’s better than Freeport or Franklin. From Broadway, a cyclist without gears can reach Oak Hall Bend in 12 minutes. The golden hour is 30 minutes before sunset.

Oak Hall Bend is a half-mile south of Chicory Bend. It’s where the Sacramento River makes a sharp northwest turn, a jag that must have kept riverboat captains awake on foggy nights in 1928. The Riverfront

Apartments keep watch over the site.

The residents inhabit a special place.

My former Bee colleague Carlos Alcalá discovered the origins of Oak Hall Bend while researching his 2007 book “Sacramento Street Whys.”

Checking the 1909 city directory, he found advertising for a hotel on Riverside Road called Oak Hall. The owner was Harry G. Hoag. He sold cigars, liquor, food—“Hot Chicken Dinners a Specialty”— and rooms. The place eventually became a whorehouse and was torn down in 1949. The river bend behind the hotel endured.

Much of the Sacramento River Parkway is closed for repairs. But Oak Hall Bend is open and must not be missed. Here’s why: It’s where the Sacramento River seems to pause and reflect back on itself, glancing over its shoulder. The setting sun makes the water shimmer and dance. At that moment, the cyclist’s life has no limits.

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I invite other businesses and groups to join the effort as well.

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Too Hot to Handle

GARDENERS NEED STRATEGY TO BEAT THE HEAT

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ummer days in Sacramento, when air becomes insufferably hot and soil bakes to Death Valley beige, can test our gardening superpowers.

The challenge of keeping plants happy and alive is compounded by watering mandates, courtesy of below normal rainfall and Sierra snowpack.

People and pets need protection and ample hydration when summer’s blast furnace goes triple digits. So do plants. Our leafy friends are not able to bolt for an air-conditioned kitchen and refreshing drink.

Once plants are heat stressed, they hunker down into survival mode. Leaves wilt and sometimes drop. Flowers fizzle (especially vegetables) and young tree bark can be severely damaged by sunburn. Miss a watering cycle or two and container plants and raised vegetable beds can cook to well done.

Water is a precious resource. We are reminded every time the specter of drought bellows, “Water conservation!”

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Water districts have scheduled specific days when irrigating landscapes is allowed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports 60 percent of water usage in dry climates is for outdoor purposes. Lawns are especially thirsty.

Dealing with Sacramento restrictions and hot weather pushes efficient watering to the head of the line. Drip irrigation on a controller puts water where it’s needed: at the root zone with little, if any, runoff. Flower beds and borders, trees and shrubs, containers and raised vegetable beds are ideal for drip systems, which distribute water through tubing and emitters in a slow drip. Drip eliminates wasteful evaporation.

Lawn sprinkler systems are more water efficient if run from midnight through early morning when there is less chance of wind, temperatures are cooler and evaporation is much reduced.

Sprinkler spray patterns are tricky to control, so expect overspray and runoff onto sidewalks and driveways. Adjust watering-cycle minutes to reduce runoff.

Mulch is as sexy as a flat tire, but its importance during summer months is right behind proper watering. Spread on top of soil and around plants, mulch performs like attic insulation, lowering soil temperature, retaining soil moisture and discouraging weeds that rob moisture.

Go big on mulch. Buy a mountain range of bark chips. It’s sold in great quantities by the cubic yard. Bagged bark from the neighborhood nursery will work for smaller gardens. Are the neighbors taking down a tree? Ask for the wood chips. Spread mulching materials 3 to 5 inches deep.

Other organic mulch materials include straw, shredded leaves, dried grass clippings and pine needles.

Inorganic mulches, like gravel, can be used around trees and shrubs. Edibles are most often mulched with straw, shredded leaves and lawn clippings that have not been treated with weed-andfeed chemicals. Hay often contains field grasses and weed seed heads. Straw is the better choice for mulch. Straw is the stalk, minus the seed head, of harvested grains. A straw bale of wheat or rice is about $10 at feed stores.

Plants that suffer from too much hot sun should be sheltered and shaded.

Japanese maple lace-leaf varieties will suffer burned leaves. Hydrangea leaves will wilt if planted on the wrong side of a home (south and west) and receive all-day sun. Large pots on casters allow gardeners to roll small trees, such as Japanese maples, to shadier areas.

Casters, pot feet and pieces of wood placed under containers will protect plant roots from frying through direct contact with scorching hot concrete, stone or tile surfaces. Give containers a lift.

Shade cloth can be purchased to shelter plants or use old sheets and bath towels. In the veggie garden, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, cucumbers and eggplant are among vegetables that can be sunburned by too much direct sunlight. Sunburn, also called sunscald, is a whitish-yellow lesion that can appear wrinkled and is found near the top or sides of the vegetable. It’s not a pretty sight.

Gardeners require protection, too.

When it is rocking 100 degrees, garden during early morning or evening hours. Pull a wide-brimmed hat over the noggin, slather on sunscreen and stay hydrated. Work in short intervals, taking breaks when needed. Hammocks are optional.

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Dan Vierria is a University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener for Sacramento County and former Home & Garden writer for The Sacramento Bee. He can be reached at masterg29@gmail.com. For answers to gardening questions, contact the UCCE Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338, email mgsacramento@ucanr.edu or visit sacmg.ucanr.edu. Previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @ insidesacramento. n

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here are three things that have happened to Dennis Wilson in the past few years that have changed the trajectory of his art career.

“Winning awards in the 2015 and 2016 KVIE Art Auctions, meeting (fellow painter) Bob Miller and joining an art critique group changed things,” Wilson says in the kitchen of his Rosemont home, where dozens of his striking oil paintings share wall space with family photos. “Meeting people and making contacts are key for me.”

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Considering the 78-year-old’s endearing affability, it’s no surprise that once people meet him and see his extraordinary paintings— depicting everything from celebrities and buildings to furniture and farmscapes—they want to work with him in whatever way they can.

That’s what happened when Wilson landed a booth next to celebrated local watercolorist and adman Bob Miller at a pop-up art show hosted by Dunnigan Realtors.

“Bob is the sweetest person,” says Wilson, who hails from Compton but has called Santa Cruz, Monterey and now Sacramento home. “He invited me to lunch with a bunch of other artists who meet at OneSpeed Pizza regularly and now I’m part of that community.”

Community has always been big for Wilson, both personally and professionally. After attending college and serving as an officer in

the Airforce during Vietnam, Wilson decided to go to graduate school and earn a teaching credential. Since he’d already been painting as a hobby, he figured he would teach art. When the only position open at the time was for a special education teacher, Wilson took it—and taught for the next 34 years.

Wilson continued to paint in his free time and even entered a few contests. He won $100 at a competition held at a Fresno shopping mall, as well as various awards in shows for the Central California Art League, Santa Cruz Art League and Society of Western Artists. But his life took an unexpectedly familial turn when he met and married Janet in 1996, bringing her three school-age children into the mix.

“With a bunch of little wild ones running around, I figured I probably shouldn’t have expensive art supplies sitting out,” Wilson laughs.

He happily took a break from painting for the next 15 years as the kids grew up, but recently returned to his calling after retiring and moving with Janet to Sacramento, where he now has a whole room to himself to make art every day. He joined the Sacramento Fine Arts Center and Northern California Arts, and began entering juried art shows, which is when the recognition started rolling in.

In 2015, Wilson won first place in contemporary painting at the KVIE Art Auction, followed by an award of merit in the 2016 California State Fair’s Fine Art Competition. He also won a juror’s award at the 2016 KVIE Art Auction (doled out by nationally recognized muralist Esteban Villa), which convinced Wilson that perhaps his art was “good enough to take things further.”

Other artists also took note of Wilson’s abundant ability to paint

things that “strike me, stop me in my tracks and make me record them,” and he was soon invited into an art critique group with the likes of prominent artists Steve Memering and Sandy Delehanty.

“Critique is invaluable,” Wilson says. “Everyone understands it’s not personal, and it’s amazing to have such good eyes looking at your work from a fresh perspective.”

Last year, Wilson was given his first solo show at The Brickhouse Gallery in Oak Park, which featured approximately 38 paintings that range in subject matter from portraits to landscapes to slightly surreal images of figures juxtaposed against sharply defined architectural elements. But no matter what he’s painting, Wilson knows that there’s really only one reason he’s doing it.

“When I paint, the information and knowledge that’s in my brain just comes forth,” he says. “Words can never accurately describe what I’m doing—I think they actually diminish it. They can’t capture the feeling behind a painting. Ultimately, I don’t put anything out there I don’t like. I have to be inspired.”

For more information, visit denniswilsonfineart.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m writing this piece during the heartrending events of late May/early June that have seen a tragic death in Minnesota ignite a storm of outrage that led to peaceful protests nationwide, that led to violent actions blocks from where I write these words. The circling helicopters I can hear are a constant reminder of the fractures of our society, our unmet duties to our neighbors and the love we fail to hold in our hearts for our brothers and sisters.

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All that is to say, if this piece seems more fatalistic than normal, you’ll know why. And fatalistic it will be, for this piece is about those restaurants, those community gathering places we have lost. But, not to be too dour, this is also a reminder to treasure those eateries, those centers of community that are still here and make Sacramento one of the most vibrant eating cities in the country.

In May, Biba’s owners announced the restaurant was closing permanently.

Within the same 12 months, founder and icon Biba Caggiano passed away, then the restaurant temporarily shuttered due to a global pandemic. It was simply the end of an era.

Biba’s had no peer in the region.

Both sophisticated and approachable, serving Italian white-tablecloth fare in a building that brought to mind an English guild hall, featuring old school piano music and iconic California wines, the place did not compare to anything else.

But Biba’s wasn’t the only iconic restaurant to close recently. Several closures—Jim-Denny’s Diner, Café Rolle, Café Marika, The Press Bistro, Cielito Lindo—left us with a poorer dining scene and are difficult, nay impossible, to replace.

So what can we do to celebrate the heritage, diversity and deliciousness of Sacramento’s restaurant scene? Eat local. Eat 100 percent local, in fact.

Treasure those institutions that make our city the unique dining destination it is.

Do you miss the sophistication, elegance and novelty at Biba Caggiano’s namesake restaurant? Then take the time to sup deep at Rick Mahan’s The Waterboy. Nearly 25 years after a characteristically quiet opening on a characteristically quiet corner, The Waterboy continues to deliver excellent food that stands up to the test of time.

It’s simplicity on the outside, well-oiled machinery on the inside.

Or are you looking for Biba’s fine dining take on Italian cuisine? Try recent local standout Allora. Unlike the host of farm-to-table, let-theingredients-shine, simple-preparation, rustic-kitchen restaurants that have opened in the last decade, Allora has a definite traditional fine-dining bent.

Sure, the tablecloths aren’t white (actually, there are no tablecloths), but the Italian-inspired dishes coming from Chef Deneb Williams’ kitchen are artistic and architectural in their beauty, sophisticated in their flavors and jewel-like in their proportions.

Spend a lifetime in a city and you'll see plenty of businesses come and go. It's always joyous, therefore, to celebrate generation-spanning institutions. And there is no more prominent culinary institution in Sacramento than Frank Fat’s. Claiming the title of "Sacramento's oldest eating

establishment," Frank Fat's has been serving Sacramentans since 1939. Now, 80 years later, the Fat's enterprise shows no signs of stopping.

Coming in well behind Fat’s, but just as historically iconic in my heart, is Sam’s Hof Brau. No matter what you get, it will be a rib-sticking experience.

There is no “lite fare” on the menu.

There is no vegan menu. There is, however, a giant barrel of homemade pickles that my mother swears are the best in the world.

What else makes our food scene unique? According to some demographers, Sacramento is the

most diverse city in the U.S. and our restaurant scene shows it. Take Sarom’s Southern Kitchen, a greasy-spoon Southern diner in the spirit of JimDenny’s. Owner and chef Sarom Doeuk is Cambodian, and only recently started cooking Creole and Cajun fare, which I believe makes Sarom’s Southern Kitchen a particularly excellent expression of California’s inclusive food and restaurant scene.

I’d be remiss without mentioning that most iconic American fare, barbecue. A recent find, Louisiana Heaven, is a small storefront on Valley Hi Drive that serves some of the best ribs I’ve ever had the pleasure of devouring. Add to that an amazing menu of Southern treats, such as turkey wings with gravy, and you’ll be a quick fan.

One more barbecue recommendation is Urban Roots Brewery and Smokehouse. Rob Archie’s fine smoked meats pair rather insanely with his partner Peter Hoey’s ridiculously fine beers.

Fine, one more. For nearly 20 years, this town has had a quiet point of excellence in MacQue’s BBQ. The house-made hotlinks are exceptional, the pulled pork phenomenal, the location invisible. A small storefront on Elder Creek Road hides some of this town’s best barbecue. Seek it out and keep it going as a small business that makes our small city what it is.

Be well. Stay safe. Love one another.

Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. Our Inside Sacramento Restaurant Guide and previous columns can be found and shared at the all-new InsideSacramento. com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @insidesacramento. n

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