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Sweet Music THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR A REVIVED SACRAMENTO PHILHARMONIC & OPERA

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his month marks the return of Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. The groups joined forces a few years ago but canceled their 2014-15 season when funds dried up. They gave their last concert in April 2014. Now, it looks like our community has a real treat coming up in the next year.

With the downtown renaissance underway, the timing for a newly strengthened, reinvented Sacramento orchestra seems perfect. In the past decade, the orchestra gave a handful of one-night performances at the Community Center Theater during the traditional October-to-April season. That’s pretty sad considering even Modesto and Fresno have symphonies that regularly perform more than 40 times a year. I’ll spare the “world-class city” talk, but it seems to me that a thriving orchestra is an important ingredient in a wellcultured capital city. In fact, last fall Sacramento was the only American city of its size to not have an active symphony.

I am grateful to have grown up with culturally oriented parents who took us to all the family concerts that

Members of Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera at an Art Invasion Performance

my hometown of Detroit had to offer.

My first live musical memory was of a dramatic performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.” It’s a delightful children’s story spoken by a narrator while accompanied by an orchestra. I can still remember the gilded art-deco theater and my adolescent sense of wonder.

Those experiences and my parents’ encouragement led me to learn to play the flute and perform in my high school orchestra. I sold the flute to help pay my college tuition after I figured my talents lay elsewhere. (I held first chair for only one day!)

My orchestral appreciation waned in the ’80s but came back when I moved to Sacramento with

my husband and found we shared an interest in live orchestral performance. The once-thriving Sacramento Symphony Orchestra we enjoyed went bankrupt in the mid-’90s. Like us, many people were deeply disappointed.

When Sacramento Philharmonic was born the next year, it was composed almost entirely of the same orchestra members, but it kept a significantly shorter schedule. Still, the new group stumbled, not because of its musical talent, but because of organizational issues. During its first two years, it was plagued by problems with management and artistic leadership. But over a short time, it developed a reputation as a leading orchestra in the Central Valley, and we enjoyed almost every concert we attended over almost two decades.

Our business was new in 1996, but we sponsored advertising for the orchestra almost every year. We traded ads for tickets and invited employees, friends and family to attend what for many was their first live orchestral performance.

The orchestra’s current revival is led by a new executive director, Alice Sauro, who brings 29 years of career success as a musician and a manager of performing arts organizations.

She was with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (coincidentally the first live orchestra I ever heard) before she moved to the Bay Area last year.

Sauro is bringing together a team of experts from her previous positions in an attempt to build a successful orchestra with an enduring future.

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PUBLISHER FROM page 9 performances all over the city this month. The goal is to reach people who have never experienced a formal orchestral performance.

But that’s just a warm-up.

Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera will kick off its 2015-16 season on Saturday, June 27, with an openingnight celebration featuring Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 2, aptly titled “Resurrection.” Many people consider it one of the greatest musical masterpieces of the past two centuries. The seven-concert season will end May 7, 2016, with Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 9.

Here’s an added incentive to attend: Ticket pricing has been rolled back to 2003 levels—an average savings of 50 percent over previous pricing. It’s all part of the organization’s patron-friendly pricing philosophy. Subscription packages start at $125 for seven concerts and are on sale now at sacphilopera.org

NEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER LOCATIONS IDENTIFIED A civic task force evaluating options for a new performing arts center has been working hard to find workable solutions to replace the Community Center Theater. The group’s preferred design is a 2,200seat theater that has the flexibility to go smaller for ballet, opera and orchestral performances, along with a small rehearsal hall.

Four possible locations have been identified: the east side of 16th Street between J and K streets, the east side of 16th Street between I and J streets, Lot X near Crocker Art Museum and the railyards north of the downtown.

The next three to six months will be much more challenging for the task force as its members attempt to figure out where to find the $200 million needed to construct the center. (This estimate doesn’t include land costs or operation expenses.) Private money could come from the sale of naming rights, corporate sponsorships and foundation grants, plus large private donations and a grass-roots campaign seeking smaller donations. City, state and federal funding also needs to be explored, along with the possibility of a new sales tax (an idea that was floated and then shelved a few years ago) and the possible leveraging of city real estate assets.

Members of the task force agree that building a new center is preferable to spending up to $50 million to upgrade the 2,400-seat Community Center Theater, which at 41 years is well past its prime.

MORE ON FAUX TURF My column last month on artificial turf elicited some interesting responses.

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are everywhere, from our clothing, furniture and carpeting to children’s playthings. The new McKinley Park playground has a significant amount of man-made materials incorporated into its design for durability and safety.

After reading the column, a city councilmember commented that once plastic turf becomes commonplace, the demand for plastic plants and trees won’t be far behind. But turf is different. It has shallow roots that need frequent and ample watering.

Shrubs and trees differ can grow deep roots that keep them alive in periods of drought.

A landscape designer wrote and wondered if faux turf is water permeable. It is. The base material is perforated to allow water to seep through. She said she could see how permeable turf could be incorporated into the palette of materials for drought-tolerant landscape design.

Another reader sent me information from another city that doesn’t outlaw faux turf but still discourages it.

Yet another reader loved the idea of faux turf as a way to preserve the precious water that keeps our deeprooted trees healthy. They provide shade that helps keep ambient temperatures down, which means less need for energy-hogging air conditioning.

A number of other readers reported that they have already installed faux turf in their front yards and that no one—not even their next-door neighbors—has noticed. They all said they love it and reported no regrets whatsoever. Another reader calculated he could recoup the cost of installing a faux lawn within about two years when he considered his annual lawn service costs.

Another reader suggested we need to reconsider our traditional Englishbased landscape design ideas in light of the drought and focus much less on expanses of turf and more on design that uses a variety of drought-tolerant materials, plants and trees. I totally agree. But we have neighborhoods with tens of thousands of traditional thirsty landscapes to convert. It will take time and funds to accomplish.

And while the current drought may be long and painful, history shows

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drought is always followed by much longer periods of abundant rain in California.

I was heartened when several city officials indicated they are not enforcing the current ban on faux turf and said that the law could be changed soon. Faux grass may not be a perfect solution. But in landscape design, there are always trade-offs.

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Women Helping Women GRASS-ROOTS GROUP WRITES CHECKS ON THE SPOT

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very now and again you meet somebody who just about bursts out of her own skin. You may know the kind of person I am talking about. The kind of person who has a fiery passion about a particular thing that virtually explodes from within, nearly electrifying her surroundings.

If you haven’t been lucky enough to know such a person, now is your chance. Meet Jennifer Shaw of Sierra Oaks, a daughter-lawyer-wife-momphilanthropist who turned obstacles in her own life into rungs on a ladder and is now all about giving back.

She’s the founder of 100 + Women Who Care, a grass-roots charitable giving group that meets quarterly to give away cash.

The idea is simple. Shaw, along with her board members, Susan Schepker, Amber Macalam and Roni Stover, holds a quarterly evening meeting at a local restaurant where group members hear a presentation from three charities competing for funding. On the spot, the group votes on which nonprofit group to support and attendees immediately write out

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a check directly to that charity. All aspects of the nonprofit groups are legally vetted.

“I wrote one email to launch 100+ Women Who Care hoping for a few people to become interested.” Shaw says. “My goal was to someday have 100 members. What a surprise when 130 women showed up at our very first meeting and we raised almost $13,000 in just one night. In fact, one man, a judge, the Honorable Thadd

Blizzard, asked if he could come and I said, ‘Heck yeah!’ ” Shaw practices employment law while her husband, Geoff, works as an engineer for the state. Meanwhile, Shaw’s mother, Susan Schepker, helps the couple with their 5-year-old daughter, Ella Shaw.

“I’m so grateful for the life we have. However, something was missing,” Jennifer Shaw says. “I wanted to give back, but my schedule

is so busy, I didn’t have time to do all those fundraising hours and magazine sales.” She knew there had to be another way.

“The fact is men get together in other ways with things like golf tournaments,” she says. “Stay-athome moms donate so much of their time to the community. But with a hectic schedule as a working mom, I was too jammed to figure out how to give back. So this type of group is very attractive to me.”

Shaw says she remembers growing up on food stamps while her single mother worked two jobs. She remembers the homemade clothing she wore as a child. It had elastic waistbands so that she could wear it year after year by just letting out the elastic.

“I remember telling my sister one day I was going to buy her real clothes,” she says.

Shaw saw her mother work hard, even earning her degree while raising two young daughters on her own.

She saw how that education and hard work helped the family pull out of poverty. Shaw vowed to study hard and work even harder herself.

“I am so grateful for the opportunities I’ve had and I feel so fortunate,” she says. “It’s my turn to give back and help others who need a little lift.

“It’s been so interesting that so many women showed up to the first meeting of 100+ Women Who Care, all feeling the same way I feel. Not only is there networking—someone got a job while attending the first meeting—but I know a lot of high-

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IT TAKES TWO TO TRIUMPH There’s a lot brewing for sports fans in Sacramento this summer with some of the world’s best golfers teeing off at Del Paso Country Club this month and new digs in the making for the Kings. And now tennis fans are in for a treat with the return of worldclass tennis.

World TeamTennis returns to Sacramento under the new team name California Dream. The team will be the home of identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan, the world’s topranked doubles players with 104 titles overall and an Olympic gold medal in 2012.

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California Dream’s head coach, David Macpherson, holds 16 ATP doubles titles, including Indian Wells, and reached a career-high ranking of No. 11. He been coaching Bob and Mike Bryan since 2005, guiding the identical twins to 15 of their 16 majors, the 2012 Olympic gold medal and 80 of their 104 titles overall.

He also coached the Swiss doubles team in the 2014 Davis Cup final.

“It is a coup for our team to land such a seasoned coach and a team with deep talent like the Bryan brothers,” says Mike Malone, coowner of the California Dream. “We love that Coach Macpherson has a history in Sacramento, a love for the community, and wanted to bring his winning spirit back to the fans that have been eager to cheer for their own team again.”

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The California Dream’s ownership group includes longtime franchise owner Jeff Launius, who is joined by Harbor Point Tennis Club president Bob Kaliski and Dallas-based investment banker Michael Malone.

Kaliski is well known in Northern California tennis circles for his successful tennis events.

The team will play at Sunrise Mall.

The regular season concludes on Aug. 2 with the Mylan WTT Finals.

2015 marks the 40th season for Mylan World Team Tennis, the leader in professional team tennis competition. Mylan WTT features many of the world’s best players competing annually for the King Trophy, the league’s championship trophy named after co-founder Billie Jean King.

This summer, Mylan WTT becomes only the fifth major professional team sports league in the United States to reach the 40th-season milestone.

For updates and more information on the California Dream, go to californiadreamtennis.com

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The free program will run from 4:30 to 8 p.m. June 8-11 at 3235 Pope Ave. in Sacramento. It will feature horseshoes, cow roping, a shooting gallery, gold panning, a trading post as well as Bible songs, dinner, a nightly raffle and skits.

Children will also get the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, choosing from violin, guitar, ukulele, chimes and recorders.

The week ends with a special worship performance at 10 a.m. on June 14 that features the children’s newly acquired skills.

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ALL BOOKED UP No matter your age, your tastes or your troubles, there’s bound to be something fun and enriching in store for you at Arden-Dimick Library this summer. From art classes for the 55-plus set to story time for those under age 5, there’s a host of goodies to choose from.

A good example is an art series for adults over the age of 55. Interior designer and college instructor Lynn Morrison is busy teaching such tricks of the trade as the properties of graphite, to color blending, drawing techniques and color theory. The series of classes culminates with an art show.

If it’s help with technology you’re after, head over to the library at noon on June 2 for some one-on-one help with those pesky tech questions.

Bring your own device and experts will help you troubleshoot the issues.

Call 264-2920 for more information or to register for future sessions.

If you are a knitter or want to learn more about crochet, the library is the place to be on Tuesdays. Check out the knitting group at 1:30 p.m. on June 2. Expert needle workers will help you get motivated to finish a stalled project or start a new one.

Find out about regular meetings and enjoy a little chitchat along with your knitting. All ages and all skill levels are welcome to this free group class.

World TeamTennis returns to Sacramento under the new team name California Dream.

The team will be the home of identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan, the world’s top-ranked doubles players with 104 titles overall and an Olympic gold medal in 2012.

Mark your calendars for June 3 at 11:15 a.m. when the weekly Toddler Story time starts for children up to age 5. Each week features stories as well as either a craft activity or a “stay and play” time featuring developmentally appropriate toys and sensory materials.

Job skills, anyone? If you are busy looking for a job, the library is providing job coaching. The first session will be held at noon on June 3 and is designed to help answer your questions about things such as writing a better résumé and acing your interview. You can sign up for a one-hour appointment at the library.

Readers ages 6 to 12 will be reading “The Egypt Game” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Club members are invited to the book club at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3. Participants will talk about the book and play related games.

And for those in the market for books, Friday, June 5, is for you.

Beginning at 1 p.m., the library will hold its two-day Premium Book Sale featuring new or slightly used books.

And for those wanting a little help with their e-reader, the library can do that, too! Learn how to efficiently use your eReader to unlock the secrets to e-reader success. Appointments are available for future sessions.

For more information, go to saclibrary.org

YARD SALE FOR A CAUSE Soroptimist International of Sacramento, a service club whose mission is to improve the lives of women and children, will host a yard sale on Saturday, June 20, at the Folsom Boulevard Flea Market.

Proceeds from the sale will fund Soroptimist’s Money Matters program, which teaches low-income, at-risk parents and teenagers how to more effectively manage their incomes.

Appliances, collectibles, linens, clothing, games, sports equipment and more will be up for grabs. “You name it, we’ll probably have it,” says Soroptimist member and lifelong East Sac resident Nancy Wolford-Landers.

The sale will run from 7 a.m. through midafternoon. The flea market is at 8521 Folsom Blvd. Free parking is available. The Soroptimist sale display will be in the back of the property on Row 10. For more information, call 709-6748 or go to soroptimistsacramento.com Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com n

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Loving the Lido Reshuffle OWNER RELOCATES ‘COZY HOLE-IN-THE-WALL’ CAFE AFTER 20 YEARS

BY SUSAN MAXWELL SKINNER IN TUNE WITH CARMICHAEL WRITING & PHOTOGRAPHY

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he year 2015 has brought changes for one of Carmichael’s best-kept secrets: a main street eatery that broadcaster Stan Atkinson dubbed “a cozy little hole in the wall.”

Among the longest serving of area restaurants, 20-year-old Lido Cafe has been relocated and reinvented.

With décor more continental than cottagey, the new place seems a chic version of its funky former self.

“Some customers preferred the old Lido,” admits owner Shawna Rivera.

“But new families are discovering us, and they love us. We simply outgrew the old place. With the move, we left the cozy hole in the wall behind. I wanted a more efficient home.”

The move, a block down Fair Oaks Boulevard, was hardly a quantum leap for Rivera and staff. And some things never change. Early birds still encounter the aroma of fresh cinnamon rolls and (often) a hug from the chirpy restaurateur.

El Camino High School graduate Rivera, 55, feels she inherited her mom’s instinct to make people feel loved by feeding them.

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Lido Café proprietor Shawna Rivera (left) works breakfast with server Amber Lacourse. After 20 years in its original Fair Oaks Boulevard premises, the Carmichael restaurant has found a new home.

A décor detail (left) contains a caricature of Lido owner Shawna Rivera

“I say my prayers every night that my customers are happy and healthy,” she says. “I believe my food is good for them.”

A former hairdresser, Rivera took her first cooking lessons for a hobby and opened a cafe for hair clients. This tiny refuge eventually commandeered three adjacent stores.

“Things got crazy,” she recalls.

“I was cutting hair, cutting bread.

I suffered an oil burn in the cafe and, as I healed, I took time to figure out my life.”

Bequeathing beauty clients to two brothers and a sister who are also coiffeurs, she ditched her blow dryer and completed a culinary degree.

The chef experiments fearlessly.

With each dinner, her trademark focaccia comes doused in sweet brown butter.

“My sister and I have a running competition over our carrot cakes,”

she says. “Her recipe is good. We both know whose is best.”

Rivera’s culinary mantra simmers down to three words: fresh, fresh, fresh.

“Everything on my menu is homemade and we never use substitute ingredients,” she explains.

“Only real butter goes in our cakes and on our toast. You can have the yummy stuff and be healthy.”

Confides the 125-pound dynamo: “Just don’t overdo the yummy stuff.”

Restraint might seem a tall order. Store front shelves groan under homemade gateaux, cookies and cobblers. Rivera’s pastry chef produces a wild berry scone that commands a fan club. Some diners return several times a week. A lately deceased nonagenarian hosted weekly dinner parties for 15 chums at the cafe.

Breakfasts here start around $6.

A soup and salad lunch combination costs $7.95. The dinner menu includes a meatball pasta dish (with soup or salad) for under $15.

“I keep prices down by doing all the shopping myself and cooking from scratch,” says the host.

From home in neighboring Fair Oaks, Rivera heads for work each day at 5:30 a.m. A weekly shopping marathon consumes six hours.

“Luckily, I’m a morning person,” she confirms. “But I feel I’ve never had a day of work because I love what I do. I have a great husband (pro boxing official Don Rivera), great children and grandchildren.

“I’ve known some of my customers since they were children. Now they’re bringing their own kids to eat here.

My Lido and my Lido families are my joy.”

Lido Cafe is at 7907 Fair Oaks Blvd., near California Avenue. Learn more at www.lidobarandgrill.com

BABY CLARA’S GIFT HELPS OTHERS “It’s heartbreaking for any parent to lose a baby,” says bereaved Carmichael mom Fenecia Martinez.

“It was worse for us. We had to make the choice to lose our daughter.”

Fenecia and husband Eugene (both 23) brought their angelic baby home from her hospital delivery in February. Within 10 days, they faced the nightmare decision between sustaining their child on life support or removing tubes that kept her breathing.

Six-pound Clara Bella was an unusually quiet newborn. She was nevertheless sent home with a clean bill of health. When she slept for many hours, Fenecia felt blessed.

By her second day at home, Clara would not wake for feeding and did not respond to any stimulation.

The parents bundled her off to the emergency room. A virus was suspected.

After many tests, a worse possibility—a rare metabolic condition called Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia (NKH)—was indicated. Affecting one out of 60,000 babies, the disease has no known cure.

NKH occurs when enzymes needed to break down the amino acid glycine cannot do their job. As excess glycine is toxic to the brain, the neurological system suffers and patients, usually newborns, cannot function normally.

Few survive their first months.

In the hospital, Clara had a seizure and stopped moving. Tests showed no measurable brain activity. Ten days after Clara’s birth, her parents heard their options. One was to do everything to keep the comatose child alive; including surgeries and permanent breathing and feeding tubes.

“We were told she would probably not advance neurologically and would likely die before she was 1,” recalls Fenecia. “The other option was to take her off life support. We could

Fenecia and Eugene Martinez treasure memories of daughter Clara, who died at 12 days old. The couple has a nonprofit to help families affected by the disease that took Clara’s life.

not put our little girl through all this.

We decided to let her go. It was the hardest day of our lives.”

Clara held on for 25 hours without life support. In that time, dozens of relatives and friends visited her tiny bed; one flew from Utah to farewell a cousin she would never know.

“Clara brought a lot of people together,” says her father, Eugene.

“We learned she was a bright, fighting spirit. We worried we might have done the wrong thing. But when doctors explained the results of her blood test, we knew she would not have survived.”

As symbols of her innocent and ephemeral life, friends wore butterfly pins at her funeral service. Having loved children all her life, Fenecia was eager to try again for motherhood.

But by appalling fluke, tests proved both she and her husband carry the NKH gene. The odds on subsequent children being affected are 25 percent; even a healthy baby could pass on the gene.

“We don’t want to have our children or grandchildren die of this horrible disease,” reasons Fenecia.

“For now, we must wait.”

Diverting their grief, the couple (both college students with teaching careers planned) recently established a foundation called Clara’s Gift. The foundation aims to raise awareness of NKH among pediatricians and community. It also hopes to encourage insurance companies to

help cover in vitro fertilization, so carriers of deadly diseases might hope for healthy children.

“We also want to assist possible carriers to be tested,” explains Fenecia, “to make them aware of what might lie ahead if they have babies.”

The foundation’s first fundraiser is “Clara’s Picnic in the Park” on Saturday, June 13. Supporters will gather at noon in Gibbons Park (4701 Gibbons Drive, Carmichael) for an afternoon of carnival fun. Food and ice cream vendors will be on hand and raffles will support the nonprofit.

“Every time I see a butterfly, I feel it’s my little girl coming by to say hello,” says Clara’s mom. “Despite our loss, we hold on to every moment with our daughter and remind ourselves how she lit up so many lives. We’re still her parents. We’re still caring for her. We feel our Clara would want her short life to help others.”

Learn about the Clara’s Gift organization and the June 13 Gibbons Park event at www.clarasgift.org

BLUE RIBBON FOR GREEN THUMBS Having woodland beauty at your doorstep is reward enough for maintaining the acre of Carmichael known as “Pauline’s Garden.”

But after a busy spring and sharing their retreat with hundreds of visitors, Pauline and Irv Faria recently gained a further bouquet.

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NORTH AREA DEPUTY HONORED

IN TUNE FROM page 19 As part of 2015 awards, California

A new name last week joined those

Garden Clubs (a federation of 340

of 16 fallen heroes at a little-known

gardening clubs) commended their

Carmichael memorial.

property as an “Outstanding Private

The private ceremony was one of

Garden.”

several Sacramento events honoring

Featured in this magazine last

Deputy Danny P. Oliver. The 47-year-

summer, the Faria garden represents

old father of two died during a

a triumph after 50 years of green-

criminal incident that spread from

thumbed labor. In this time, the

Arden/Carmichael to Placer County

couple turned a valley filled with oaks

last October. Oliver was shot as he

and brambles into the terraced idyll

and another officer investigated

that is the pride of their Carmichael

activity in a motel parking lot.

Creek neighborhood.

The escaping suspect and a female

While raising a family and

companion then fled. Enroute to

establishing careers, they nurtured hundreds of Japanese maple, dogwood and camellia trees (many from seeds) to form a cooling secondary

Auburn they carjacked two vehicles, Irv and Pauline Faria (third and fourth from left) received a statewide award for their Carmichael garden. Flanking the couple are Sacramento Organic Garden Club members Linda Holmes, Beth Blair and California Garden Clubs representative Carlotta Wixon

valley canopy. Beneath this natural

shooting and injuring one car driver.

Near Interstate 80, the male fugitive fired on two Placer County officers.

One, Investigator Michael Davis, died

umbrella, moisture is retained and

from his wounds.

shade plants thrive. Statues and small

The suspect surrendered to police

ponds augment the vista.

after holing up for hours in an

Garden tourists and many four-

Auburn house.

legged visitors seasonally traipse

At the time of his death, 15-year

through winding trails. Pauline’s

Sheriff’s Department veteran Oliver

Garden was 20 years ago certified as

served with the Problem Oriented

a wildlife habitat and, on their path

Police team in the North Area

to the American River, deer and wild

Division.

turkey protect their offspring in safe

“We hold Danny Oliver in a place

glades. Branches and hand-made

of honor and distinction in the

nesting boxes have sheltered many

department and in the community,”

avian generations.

said Sheriff Scott Jones. “He will

The valley presents stunning

never be forgotten.”

kaleidoscopes in spring and autumn

Surmounted by a “Lasting Peace”

months. “We’ve had an incredibly

rose tree, Oliver’s plaque joins

lush spring,” notes Irv. “Most

tributes to 16 other officers in the

plants and trees bloomed for longer

Sheriff’s Academy Memorial Rose

than usual and the dogwoods were

garden. Establishing the garden in

spectacular.” The Farias’ two-day

1988, then Sacramento Sheriff Glen

April open garden hosted more than

Craig philosophized: “Just as a rose

200 admirers.

brings pleasure, (we should) observe

Gardening partners for 63 years,

the thorns and be mindful of dangers

the Farias were delighted by the

facing peace officers.”

recent state award.

Deputies who died in service to

“It’s pleasing that people appreciate our effort,” says retired

Sacramento County since the 1800s

university professor Irv. “Visitors feel

each has a rose bush and a plaque in

close to nature when they come here.

the star-shaped plot.

The Sheriff’s Academy is at 1000

In Pauline’s garden, we try to live

Riverwalk Way, Carmichael.

with nature and support it.”

For information on the garden, email irvfaria@gmail.com Sheriff’s Deputy Danny P. Oliver is honored in Carmichael. The North Area officer died in a shooting incident last October.

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C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S , C L A S S O F 2 0 1 5 A SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY TRADITION On May 1, seniors advertise their college destinations by wearing shirts from the schools they will attend in the fall.

Ron Cunha (center) leads the Cunha Big Band during a monthly performance at the Clubhouse Bar and Grill in Carmichael.

JAZZY FIRST TUESDAYS In addition to park concert dates this summer, a year-round musical event remains one of Sacramento’s best-kept secrets.

Monthly performances by the all-pro Ron Cunha Big Band have packed The Clubhouse Bar and Grill in Carmichael for three years.

It’s not quite swinging at the Savoy. Space is tight even by sardine standards and solos often compete with televised home runs for applause. But the music is classy, from Billie Holliday to state-of-theart jazz, and the price is definitely right. Without cover charge, 17 top Sacramento musicians blow lips off faces for a few bucks, supper and tips that tumble into Cunha’s muchproffered silver chalice.

“We’re all friends who’ve played together for years,” explains their affable leader. “Tuesday’s an off-night for most guys and I choose charts that are challenging enough to be fun.

Playing at this level is not so much a gig as a sociable experience. Audience support is a bonus.”

Cunha, 58, has played trombone professionally since his teens. Because The Clubhouse lies between his home and his day gig (he teaches at Jesuit High and directs its award-winning

jazz band), Cunha chose the venue for a regular hangout.

“The owner hired rock bands, so I suggested he try a big band once

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Indeed, the event is a hot ticket among diminishing Sacramento jazz spots. Several of Sacramento’s top band singers sing with the high-end ensemble; vocalist Vivien Lee is a regular.

“It’s truly a jazz band,” approves Lee. “So Ron’s charts really swing.

His musicians feel the nuances of songs. They appreciate there’s a singer up there delivering a message.”

Fans arriving early enough to snag a table can order appetizers, burgers, pizza or salads. But first Tuesdays are all about the music.

“It’s an unapologetically big sound,” concedes an audience faithful.

“The volume could fill Carnegie Hall. The musicians are relaxed and friendly; they hang with the fans.

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No Pain, No Disdain UNIVERSAL MEDICAL IMAGING TRIES HARD TO PUT PATIENT COMFORT IN THE PICTURE

BY JESSICA LASKEY SHOPTALK

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f you’re someone who doesn’t like small spaces—I myself get sweaty just thinking about taking the elevator—then the idea of having an MRI (a “magnetic resonance imaging” scan that uses magnets, radio waves and computer technology to produce images of the internal structures of your body) might be too much to bear.

But the nice and knowledgeable folks at University Medical Imaging on University Avenue, have made it their business to make sure patients, no matter how skittish, can successfully complete an exam.

“People generally don’t look forward to medical procedures,” admits Tiffany Redden, who oversees business development at UMI. “MRI and X-ray exams aren’t painful, but some patients can still be apprehensive about their exams.

Throughout the process, we treat our patients with respect and patience, taking the time to make sure they’re comfortable. We even bake cookies for them!”

Snacks aside, what sets UMI apart as a stellar imaging facility is its dedicated and experienced staff.

Robert Smith has been an MRI technologist at UMI since 2008, but his scanning schooling started all the way back in 1990, when he earned his associate degree in radiological technology at Merced Community College. The Minneapolis native had just ended his service as an enlisted member of the Air Force two years prior and was looking for a new career when medicine came calling.

“I knew people who were X-ray techs and they all had positive things

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Robert Smith of University Medical Imaging prepares to scan a patient

to say about the career field,” Smith says. “After completing my schooling, I was immediately offered a position at Sutter Memorial Medical Center in Modesto, where I worked, including my one-year internship, for just under 17 years.”

Smith’s expertise has taken him from that first job as an X-ray tech at the fast-paced trauma center in Modesto to the field of computerized tomography, also known as CT. He worked for more than 10 years with CT imaging before moving to MRI technology in 2006, when he

moved to Sacramento to be closer to his then-girlfriend, now wife. With certifications from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists in both MRI and CT under his belt, he was an ideal candidate for joining the staff at UMI, which he did seven years ago this August.

“It’s a very nice place to work,” Smith says. “We have very good people working here that know their jobs very well, and that creates an atmosphere that’s great for the patients and employees.”

In addition to the collegial work environment, what drew Smith to UMI was top-of-the-line imaging machinery: the 3.0 Tesla highdefinition MRI scanner (“3T” to those in the know), one of only a few in operation in the Sacramento area due to its high cost of purchase and maintenance.

“Our scanner is the strongest magnet strength for clinical use,” Redden explains. “The extra strength and speed translates into clearer images and provides more detailed information for physicians to determine appropriate treatment.

Other machines of this caliber are located in hospital systems intended for research or specialty department use.”

UMI relies on this incredible piece of technology to provide pictures of everything from internal organs to muscles, connective tissue and the central nervous system that are twice as clear and detailed as X-rays or CT scans, giving radiologists and physicians a non-invasive way of quickly and accurately diagnosing a patient’s situation.

That speed and accuracy translates into less time you have to spend lying prone inside a metal tube, which is good news for any avoiders of small spaces.

“The faster scan times are really helpful for those patients that are in pain, claustrophobic or have a difficult time remaining still for a period of time,” Smith confirms. “It’s just better and faster with a 3T.” Even for elevator haters like me.

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It’s your turn for some TLC. Join us for Care Begins with Me, Sacramento’s premier annual health and lifestyle event focusing on inspiration and connection.

Thursday, October 1, 2015, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel.

Attend care talks with Dignity Health doctors, and hear from our featured keynote speaker Melanie Shankle. We’ll also have a lifestyle, fashion, and beauty galleria, along with gourmet food and drinks.

Register today at CareBeginsWithMe.org. And don’t forget to bring friends—because of course you care about them, too.

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Fully in Stride FLEET FEET’S OWNERS ‘STILL LOVE IT’ AFTER YEARS OF SUCCESS AND GROWTH

BY JESSICA LASKEY SHOPTALK

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hen Jan Sweeney says that she and her husband, Pat, are determined to “bring our town to its feet,” she’s being literal. She and Pat are the owners of Fleet Feet Sports and Fleet Feet Boutique on J Street, the side-by-side specialty running and fitness stores that are the go-to Sacramento spots for breaking a sweat in style.

“We are a starting point for those looking to be healthy and wanting to live active lives,” Sweeney says.

“As our manifesto states, ‘We are not a shoe store. We are a starting point to bring our town to its feet. We move people for life. And health. And strength.’”

Fleet Feet Sports was founded in Sacramento in 1976 and has since become a national franchise company, boasting more than 160 stores that are each locally owned and operated.

The Sweeneys bought the original Sacramento store about 20 years ago and added the boutique next door 11 years in.

“It all started back in 1993 when Pat called me at work to say, ‘I know what we’re going to do with the rest of our lives,’ ” Sweeney recalls.

“Honestly, I wondered if he’d been drinking but he had, in fact, just visited Fleet Feet Adams Morgan in Washington, D.C. About a year later, we sold our house, put our yellow lab in our SUV and drove across the country to start working at Fleet Feet Sacramento and have never looked back.”

That gung-ho, pick-up-and-go attitude is one the couple has shared

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Jan and Pat Sweeney are the owners of Fleet Feet Sports and Fleet Feet Boutique on J Street, the side-by-side specialty running and fitness stores

since they met many years ago while working for People Express Airlines, where Sweeney says they “developed our entrepreneurial spirit and our love of business.” The two were living in Fairfax, Va.—Jan worked for the State Department as a database installer and trainer at overseas embassies, and Pat was a project manager for an environmental consulting company—when the Fleet Feet opportunity came up in California.

They’ve now lived in Land Park for 18 years with their son Conor (a C.K. McClatchy graduate and current freshman at Arizona State), and couldn’t imagine a better outcome for their adventurous joint venture.

“From the beginning, Pat and I have run our business together,” Sweeney says. “He oversees the front of the house and I oversee the back. We talk about work constantly because we still love it, even after 20 years.”

They love it so much, in fact, that owning one store wasn’t enough, so they decided to add the Fleet Feet Boutique to their roster.

“Our boutique was created to offer women urban-casual, comfortable fashions for work, every day or travel,” Sweeney says. “We show women they can be comfortable but still fashionable. Many of our sports store customers mentioned that the only place to get some of their favorite casual brands was at REI. Pat and I agreed that we could create a store that could support this demand, but our sports store didn’t have enough floor space. So in 2008, we rented the space right next door to Fleet Feet Sports and launched it that spring.”

The addition proved popular, and the Sweeneys now oversee a staff of 40 employees, three of whom have gone on to own their own Fleet Feet Sports locations; a training groups division that trained more than 2,500 people to walk or run distances from 5K to marathons and triathlons last year; fitness events in which nearly 20,000 people participated last year; and their newest endeavor that launched in February, the Ton of Fun weight-loss challenge.

“It’s a 12-week community program to help people who are trying to lose weight,” Sweeney explains. “So far, in the first 10 weeks, they have collectively lost over 700 pounds!”

This kind of resounding success is thanks in large part to the Sweeneys’ dedicated management staff, including their general manager, Dusty Robinson, who’s been with the company for 12 years.

“Pat and I hope to sell our business to Dusty in a couple years,” Sweeney says. “He loves this business as much

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But most of all, it’s the customer connection that has kept Fleet Feet going strong for more than a decade.

“We got a letter just a few days ago from a customer who worked for the Kings organization who was forced to retire due to a stroke,” Sweeney says.

“He not only overcame the issues from his stroke, he began running again after consulting Pat and Dusty on proper form and footwear and he just wrote us saying that he qualified for the Boston Marathon in December. He’s in the 65-69 agegroup, by the way. Letters like that are what drive us and our employees.”

Sounds like the Sweeneys are staying true to their motto of getting Sacramento moving—one pair of fleet feet at a time.

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For the Birds THIS GROUP TAKES IN LOST FLEDGLINGS AND VULNERABLE WILDLIFE

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ometimes, volunteering is for the birds—literally. As spring segues into summer, dozens of volunteers are wielding eyedroppers, tweezers and loving hearts to feed hundreds of baby, teen and young adult birds at the Wildlife Care Association’s facility at McClellan Business Park. They also wash towels, prepare kibble and watch their charges move from utter dependency to release into the wild.

It’s a sight: Shelves are lined with bins housing sparrows, starlings, finches, magpies and other birds whose existence is entirely dependent on the volunteers’ efforts. From newborns brought in while still in their shells to adolescents sporting feathers and starting to flex their wings, the place is filled to the rafters with birds. Some are adults being treated for injury or illness, but most are youngsters being readied to fly the coop.

The overseer of this cacophony of tweets, chirps and cackles is Brianna Abeyta, who started volunteering with WCA six years ago and is now its operations manager. Abeyta first became aware of the association when she was 11 years old and Newton, a baby sparrow, fell out of her family’s

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Brianna Abeyta, who is in charge of operations at the Wildlife Care Association at McClellan, feeds a couple of young European starlings

palm tree and “discovered gravity.”

The bird formed an attachment with her family (a biological phenomenon known as imprinting), and the family of birds imprinted itself on her heart.

Today, she’s responsible for just about everything: volunteer training, care management, facilities upkeep.

It’s a never-ending task. Hatchlings

are fed every half hour. As they grow, the feeding intervals lengthen to 45 minutes, then an hour, then two hours. Before release, the birds spend from two weeks to a month in the aviary, where they learn to spread their wings and fly.

“We take extra precautions to keep them from imprinting on us, so we

don’t talk to them,” Abeyta says. “We don’t want them to become tame.”

In addition to birds, WCA takes in small mammals for assessment and treatment. They are sent to private homes for care and rehabilitation by specially trained and licensed caregivers.

That the 40-year-old association is still here is nothing short of a miracle.

Supported entirely by donations, the nonprofit almost closed its doors in 2014 when it found itself with insufficient funds. Formerly run out of a repurposed house off of Auburn Boulevard, the organization had moved in 2008 to McClellan. The larger space allowed it to substantially increase the number of animals it took in, and it went from spring/ summer to year-round operations.

But then, says WCA president Theresa Bielawski, “the economy crashed in 2008 when we moved.

People lost their jobs; donations went down. We had a bigger property that we were running year-round, with more animals, but a lot of our older volunteers had passed away. A UC Davis program that sent us interns went away. Everything got worse.”

With expanded obligations and a shortage of money and volunteers, things came to a head last year.

“It was the peak of the season, and we had $6,000—not enough to pay for our utilities,” recalls Abeyta. “We were asking ourselves what to do with 1,000 animals.” The story was picked up by local media, and the crisis was just barely averted. “The community responded so wonderfully to the news stories,” she says. “They saved us.”

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Entrepreneur for a New Era WHEN THE CALL CAME FOR DREAMERS, SHE ANSWERED

BY SCOT CROCKER INSIDE DOWNTOWN

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na Manzano had a dream, or maybe that dream was thrust upon her by fate and circumstance.

She’s an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. In 2014, she won a contest called Calling All Dreamers, sponsored by Downtown Sacramento Partnership. This gave her seed money and support to open Ana Apple, a children’s apparel company, in Old Sacramento.

Open since April, Ana Apple is a store selling apparel for infants and youth, along with an expansive space called The Greenhouse, which hosts classes and activities to inspire creativity in children and young adults.

Entrepreneurial dreams in Old Sacramento are not new. Within a block of Manzano’s store are the banks of the Sacramento River, which became ground zero for the greatest entrepreneurial movement in the known universe: the Gold Rush. You can say it was about getting rich, but it was more that. The Gold Rush was about pursuing dreams. It attracted people from all over the world, all walks of life, all nationalities, all colors, creeds and religions. They worked alone. They worked together.

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Ana Manzano opened Ana Apple along with an expansive space called The Greenhouse, which hosts classes and activities to inspire creativity in children and young adults, in Old Sacramento

The 49ers made their way into the gold fields in pursuit of wealth, not unlike today’s entrepreneurs. Some got rich. Some made a living. And some changed course but remained entrepreneurs in other lines of work, becoming ranchers, farmers, shopkeepers, bankers, lawyers,

restaurant owners, mill operators and store owners.

Like Sacramento, Ana Apple was founded on a dream.

Manzano grew up in Maui, went to college in Washington, D.C., and found her way to San Francisco to work as a professional staff photographer in her 20s. It was

a tough business and lacked job security, so she became a freelancer.

Business was OK but not enough.

“I had to do something different,” Manzano says. “So I expanded my market area south to San Jose and north to Sacramento.”

Sacramento turned out to be a good market for a freelance photographer. She worked for various local magazines and publications but was always looking for other creative opportunities, so she thought about making fun and creative clothes for her family.

“I was an auntie, and aunties sew clothes, right? So I set up a table in the living room and got to work making some unique items for my two nieces,” Manzano explains. “It was fun. Word got around, and I started making more and more and figuring out if I could make this a business.”

Manzano went from a living room card table to a separate bedroom.

Then it was time to get more serious.

She got a job as a bartender to pay the bills, moved into the basement of an old art studio and started expanding her line. She was selling through the Internet and other retailers and setting up tables at street fairs here and in the Bay Area.

Two years ago, after careful planning to ensure she had enough savings and support, she went full time into Ana Apple. “I thought I had it all down and then, bam, a $2,000 car repair bill that I wasn’t counting on,” says Manzano. “There went my credit cards.”

As an entrepreneur, she took a leap of faith and kept on going.

She operates best under pressure and loves the competition. But her

competition is internal, not with other stores. “I’m not competing against others,” she says. “I’m competing against myself. I challenge myself.

I’m driven. I know I can do it, and I’m looking at what else is possible.”

In 2013, a friend suggested she enter the new Calling All Dreamers contest. She started filling out the application, which required a detailed business model, financial plan and more. She then stopped. She wasn’t ready.

“We had 10 finalists that first year,” says Valerie MamoneWerder, senior manager of business development at Downtown Partnership. “They were very good business models, so we awarded two of them. And it’s amazing that eight out of the 10 finalists opened businesses anyway, even without winning the competition.”

When the second year rolled around, Manzano was ready.

Competition was fierce. After submitting a detailed application, hopefuls go before a group of business experts who scrutinize their plan before a second round of critiques from the final selection group.

Winners, such as Manzano in 2014, receive a business support package valued at more than $100,000 from Downtown Partnership and sponsors.

Prizes include a $10,000 cash prize from the Downtown Foundation, free legal, accounting and marketing services, printing services, advertising from Inside Publications and more.

Winners also get up to a year’s free rent in a downtown property owned

by AKT Development. Manzano wanted to be in an Old Sacramento space not owned by AKT, so the developer gave her $10,000 for rent instead.

“The process really allowed me to focus on the business model and how I would take an Internet business into a brick-and-mortar location,” Manzano explains. “Even if I didn’t win, the process of building and presenting the business plan would have been worth it.”

Upon learning she won, Manzano was shocked.

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Another concern is the lower number of birds this year, a side effect of the drought. “We had 100 more in our care last year,” says Abeyta, “and they were coming in severely dehydrated. Either there are fewer babies this year or they’re dying in the nest. On really hot days, we’re flooded with animals, so we expect a huge spike in the numbers.”

Finally, Bielawski is committed to turning WCA’s finances around. “I’ve been doing most of the fundraising, but we’re working on a bigger plan,” she says. “We need to bring in corporate sponsorships and approach cities and counties to contribute.” As the only year-round care center in the area, WCA cares for wildlife from Sacramento, Yolo and Placer counties, handling more than 2,000 birds and mammals every year. “We’ve been running in the red,” says Bielawski, “but just 3 percent of donations goes to administration. Almost every dollar goes to our operations.”

Paper towel drives by local schools have helped immensely, as have donations of cat and dog kibble and food items. “Hard-boiled eggs, watermelon and worms are favorites of the birds,” says Abeyta.

“It’s never tiring,” she says. “It’s more than fulfilling, beyond enjoyable, to see them return to the wild. Even when I work a 12-hour day, there’s never a dull moment.”

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Depths of Fields ARMY ‘SHOOTER’ TAPS INTO HIS VIETNAM PAST TO SPIN WAR STORIES

STORY & PHOTOS

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n 1967, 21-year-old draftee Robert “Pacho” Pacholik left for Vietnam. He was, he recalls, “the typical left-handed nerd with glasses, the kid from the back of the class.”

A Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, several careers, marriage, kids and a lifetime later, the combat photographer reflects that, as was the case with most veterans, war changed him forever.

“We had a saying when we photographed something horrific,” recalls the 69-year-old Carmichael resident. We told ourselves, ‘It don’t mean nothing.’ But it did. Everything I saw was on film, and in my head.”

He also recalls when, with discharge papers fresh in hand, he was spat on at the San Francisco airport.

“I’d been shot at and wounded,” he says. “I’d shot back at those who would have killed me. My experience was not unique: the individual soldier, struggling to do his duty, displayed courage and devotion to a nation that was in the dark about what was really happening. In Vietnam, I saw bravery and endurance I’ll never forget. Time has not changed that.”

With the spitting incident still in mind, the veteran last year produced a collection of short stories titled “Night Flares.”

“I wanted to show the humanity of people who served,” he explains.

“Some people saw soldiers as mindnumbed robots. But I saw real people who were often afraid. What they did under fire was stunning.”

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Robert Pacholik holds his Hamburger Hill photograph that made the cover of Newsweek and cost the Army “shooter” his job

Bronze Star (left), Purple Heart, Army Commendation and Vietnam Service medals illuminate Pacholik’s vintage dress jacket

Forty years after the fall of Saigon, his book includes a nonfiction

prologue defining a soldier’s tour of duty and an epilogue timeline of the

war’s events. Sandwiched between, his fiction makes for a tough epistle; the disillusionment of recruits when unsullied boots touched Vietnam is palpable.

Catholic-schooled in Chicago, Pacholik dumped college after two consecutive girlfriends dumped him.

He was working for an M-16 rifle parts maker when the draft caught him. From Army Ranger school in Georgia, the corporal was mistakenly sent to Sharpe Army Depot (near Stockton) and found himself jobless.

“I’d once had a basketball picture published,” he confides. “So I went to the base newspaper and told them I was a photographer. They taught me to take and process pictures; 90 days later, I was in Bien Hoa (South Vietnam) with a camera.

“I was in line for chow when three greasy guys jumped off a jeep and asked if I was Pacholik. They said good; their other ‘shooter’ just got killed. I should go with them.” I joined the 9th Infantry and on my fourth day, I was in combat. I raised my Olympus halfway to my eye; a bullet hit the lens and the camera exploded. I didn’t know I was bleeding from shrapnel in my face; the medics told me.”

Awarded a Purple Heart, Pacholik decided he was indestructible. For the next two years, he slogged from battlefield to battlefield. He accompanied the 5th Special Forces (a.k.a. Green Berets) to the Ho Chi Minh Trail and recorded all passages, from enemy convoys to peasant carts.

“I wanted to be another Robert Capa,” he reflects. “I didn’t care

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the unimaginable horrors of war should be tough enough to live life afterwards.”

Robert Pacholik will visit Elk Grove Library at 2:30 p.m. on June 6, and Sylvan Oaks Library (Citrus Heights) at 6:30 p.m. on June 18. His books will be available for purchase and signing. Contact the author at rmpacholik@comcast.net n

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about the risks. The Vietnamese Army Rangers called me Little Tiger. Soldiers accepted me. I ate the same food, dug my own fox holes and we talked. I wasn’t some smart-ass reporter. I was another grunt in the mud.”

On duty with the 101st Airborne Division, Sgt. Pacholik took his best picture during the ferocious battle of Hamburger Hill.

“I was on the next hill, helping with supplies and being shot at,” he remembers. “A wounded private was being carried off. I saw the picture in my head, raised my camera and shot two frames. The Army owned all my film but I kept the best negative. I got permission to release it and it made the cover of Newsweek.”

Because Army higher-ups hated conflict losses being so graphically shown, the gritty snap cost its shooter his job.

“I did 46 days of KP and guard duty and faced court-martial,” he says. Representing himself, Pacholik recalls “winning the living hell out

he shrugs. “They sent the medal in the damn mail.”

Meantime, he studied journalism in Modesto.

“I was a loner,” he reflects. “Nobody on campus talked to me because I’d been in Vietnam. I’d always wake at three in the morning—that’s when Viet Cong raids came.” In such hours, combat memories returned and eventually, between successful careers as a newspaper photographer, a stockbroker, a schoolteacher and veteran outreach volunteer, the survivor got his short ns ai nt co ” es ar stories written. ht Fl Military Pacholik ’s “Nig ’s service. The er ph ra og ot ze Bron In his 2013 e combat ph ve the book its stories from th ica recently ga er Am of y et ci novel called Writers So Medal award.

“Crab Louie,” Pacholik recycles chaotic of a trumped-up elements of Vietnam to a Falklands case.” The victor War scenario. Published last year, the was nevertheless “Night Flares” stories are vignettes honorably from his Vietnam tours. discharged and Though plots meander from sent home. horrific to macabrely funny, a tough Pacholik sinew of humanity binds them. A final summarized his yarn unfolds decades after the war. homecoming On jury service, fractious citizens are mood: “I felt unified by a self-loathing American trampled on, vet and a North Vietnamese Army discouraged survivor. Learning that each nearly and disgusted. died at Hamburger Hill, one-time No part of me mortal enemies are bonded by believed in war.” respect. Now a zealous patriot, the His Bronze immigrant persuades fellow jurors Star Medal to serve their nation and complete (for dragging “their mission.” a soldier from Though Pacholik’s tales are as a burning battle-scarred as his own arms, legs helicopter) took and face, “Night Flares” is not just seven years to about war. reach him.

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“From that moment last year when I heard I won until opening our location a month ago, I’ve had so much support from the community, family and friends. It’s been very exciting.”

Manzano’s store on K Street between Front and Second streets is your typical Old Sac storefront: woodplank walkway in front, hardwood floors, high ceilings and long windows.

Inside, she wanted a general store feel complete with produce carts and apple crates to showcase her apparel and select items from other California makers.

Giving back, collaborating and expanding creativity are all part of her grand plan.

From the main store area, you enter a whole new room called The Greenhouse, a unique feature that differentiates Manzano’s apparel shop from others. The Greenhouse is a space and studio for kids where they “cultivate creative curiosity.”

Manzano named the studio The Greenhouse because it fits the brand imagery of nature and a place where creativity grows. The studio offers classes along with special events such as movie and craft nights for

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Manzano is giving 10 percent of tuition from classes to local childrenrelated nonprofit groups. Giving back, collaborating and expanding creativity are all part of her grand plan.

For most entrepreneurs, dreams never end. Manzano still has one big one on her list.

“If I could have anything, I want to be on ‘The Ellen Show,’” she laughs.

“I know there are Oprah people out there, but I can relate to Ellen and what she’s all about. I want to be on ‘Ellen.’”

In the meantime, you can find her in Old Sac making clothes, selling apparel and inspiring creativity in children and adults. She will become a role model for upcoming young entrepreneurs following their dreams … maybe even help the next round of finalists and the ultimate winner in the next Calling All Dreamers competition.

As leaders try to define Sacramento, isn’t our brand right before our eyes? Sacramento is a lot of things, but on top of it all, one thing is for sure: Dreamers Come Here.

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Who Pays?

MYTHS ABOUND ABOUT WHO BEARS THE COSTS OF ROADS

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yths are powerful, pervasive and persistent.

There are two related myths about who pays for roads.

One is that motorists, through gas taxes, vehicle fees and tolls, pay all the costs of road construction and maintenance. The other is that all other road users, transit riders, pedestrians and bicyclists are freeloaders. They unfairly take advantage of the largesse supplied by motorists and “divert” funding from real needs.

These notions are both wrong, but belief in a myth tends to be stronger than facts. The mind-boggling complexities of transportation funding don’t help much, either. Even an all-star team of CPAs would be left scratching their heads if they tried to untangle the sources and shares of road money.

A recent paper by U.S. PIRG Education Fund & Frontier Group sheds light on the realities of who is, and has been, coughing up the dough for roads. The answer, in a nutshell, is everybody, not just motorists.

Yes, motorists contribute to road construction and maintenance through the taxes and tolls they pay. But the share they contribute

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is actually shrinking. Federal and state gas taxes haven’t gone up for decades. Those taxes are assessed on a per-gallon basis. Because gas mileage has improved and total miles driven have stabilized, gas tax revenue has been declining. Meanwhile, highway construction and maintenance costs have been rising at a rate higher

than inflation. The future will bring more cars powered by electricity or hydrogen, not oil. It’s reached the point, according to U.S. PIRG, where general taxes, such as income and sales taxes, pay about half the costs of roads. Everybody pays those taxes, no matter how much or how little they

drive. They pay even if they don’t own a car.

Most local roads were built with local taxes, such as property taxes and assessments. Many roads were built before there even were gas taxes—at a time when roads were shared by horse-drawn buggies and wagons, pedestrians, streetcars and playing children. There’s a video available online of the chaotic street scene in San Francisco in 1906. Film taken from the front of a streetcar shows everyone in the street. It’s people who dominate the scene, not the occasional open car that careens through.

Motorists don’t pay all road costs, and they don’t pay for the substantial external costs (costs not borne directly by individual users) they create. Motor-vehicle-generated air pollution and noise affect people’s health and create medical costs. Crash costs and emergency services aren’t always covered by insurance. Road congestion costs time and money.

Parking subsidies increase the costs of goods and services. U.S. PIRG says the average U.S. household pays $1,100 to $1,800 annually in roadrelated costs, whether or not it owns a car.

What about those freeloading bicyclists? They don’t pay any gas taxes or vehicle registration fees or even need licenses. They do, however, pay general taxes and contribute that way. Most bike trips are on local roads primarily funded by non-gastax money. In fact, cyclists are often banned from freeways.

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Reviving Downtown THE 700 BLOCK PROJECT COULD LEAD THE WAY

BY JORDAN VENEMA BUILDING OUR FUTURE

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e’re halfway through 2015, and Sacramentans already are riding a first wave of infill development that could reinvent and reinvigorate the downtown grid. Structures like Warehouse Artist Lofts (WAL) and 16 Powerhouse represent the latest trend in mixed-use development, with buildings that integrate residential and retail spaces. Bay Miry of D&S Development believes these projects are just a part of the larger “development renaissance” occurring throughout downtown Sacramento.

If true, WAL and Powerhouse are just the beginning, and the downtown sports arena is definitely not the end. And if Sacramento is witnessing its own renaissance, then, like the more famous Italian counterpart, this localized movement could have cultural, social and economic impact both within and beyond the city’s limits.

CFY Development and D&S Development, the local developers behind WAL and Powerhouse respectively, are working together on the 700 Block project, a 70,000-square-foot development on the 700 block of K Street.

Construction began earlier this year; developers expect it to be completed at the same time as the Kings’ new arena, just a block to the west.

Consisting of 137 apartments and 15 retail spaces, 700 Block is “an eclectic, mixed-use, mixed-income infill development,” according to Miry, “and encompasses so much of what we want and need in our city.”

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The 700 Block project will host local businesses from the owners of Shady Lady Saloon, Kru, Insight Coffee Roasters and The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar. As such, 700 Block is local space built for local business by local developers. Both CFY and D&S are family-operated businesses with roots in Sacramento. CFY vice president Ali Youssefi was born and raised in Sacramento, and he both works and lives downtown. “I love this city,” says Youssefi. “I’m trying to do all that I can to help this city grow in a positive direction.”

Like Youssefi, Miry grew up in Sacramento, and he echoes those sentiments. Both men see development as an opportunity to invest in their home. Says Miry, “I’d like to see even more sustainable

Renderings of the 700 Block project

mixed-use development in the years to come—projects that focus on the implementation of ‘green’ technologies as well as quality.”

For now, these Sacramento developers are focusing on the

six-story structure rising above the 700 block of K Street. The apartments, which range from studios to penthouses, will offer views of downtown and the Capitol, says Miry.

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“Our goal,” says Miry, “is to have the most exciting retail block in the city.” Youssefi’s projection might be even more ambitious: He hopes that “10 years from now, 700 Block will be the starting point for the Sacramento Kings’ championship parade.”

Championship parade or no, Sacramentans can celebrate that 700 Block will provide affordable, belowmarket housing. The developers are setting aside 60 percent of the project’s 137 apartments as affordable units. “‘Affordable’ means that the units will be leased at below-market-rate rents to tenants who qualify on an income basis,” explains Youssefi. “For example, we’ll have studios starting at around $550 a month [and] onebedroom units starting around $600 a month. The only difference between the [market-rate and affordable] units will be the rent.”

Furthermore, 700 Block will maintain these affordable units for the next 55 years. So even if Sacramento’s renaissance translates to higher market rates in the future, there will be, for a time anyway, livable space downtown for the workforce of Sacramento—and not just its wealthiest.

Since mixed-use, mixed-income development has the potential to provide more inclusive space, 700 Block could also potentially promote the diversity for which this city is known.

Mixed-use and mixed-income spaces certainly offer a more realistic cross-section of a city—more, anyway, than self-insulating suburbs or downtown “urban blight.” And because Miry and Youssefi themselves are representative of Sacramento’s cross-section, perhaps 700 Block will truly reflect the needs of this city by incorporating the needs of all its citizens. That’s the hope anyway, and in time, Sacramento will judge.

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GETTING FROM page 36 of weight. Cyclists take up little space on the road. They are small in size compared to a vehicle. They don’t require the large separation buffer around them that faster vehicles demand. Instead of inflicting high external costs for crashes, air, noise and carbon pollution, walking and cycling create virtually no external costs. As a result, Todd Litman of the Victoria Transport Institute concludes that bicyclists actually pay more than their fair share of road costs.

The myths about who pays for roads are important. Belief in the myths affects attitudes. My wife, while bicycling recently, doing nothing wrong and trying to make a legal left turn, was yelled at and told to “Stay out of the street!” by a driver

whose domain had been invaded. The notion that drivers pay for roads has literally and figuratively marginalized pedestrians and bicyclists. It’s made drivers more aggressive in their treatment of others trying to share the road.

The myth of drivers paying for the roads also influences transportation policies and spending decisions. If drivers pay for roads, then we simply should build more roads when they become congested—even if having more people walk, bike or use transit reduces congestion. If motor vehicles are what roads are all about, then road design should favor vehicles even if doing so creates barriers or safety problems for pedestrians, bicyclists and transit. If motor vehicle use covers road costs, then building new roads for sprawling development is fine.

The US PIRG report cites Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s opposition (as chancellor of the Exchequer during the 1920s) to a British “roads tax” on motorists crafted to help pay for maintenance.

Churchill said, “It will be only a step from this for [motorists] to claim in a few years the moral ownership of the roads their contributions have created.”

Even if drivers did pay the full costs of roads, they wouldn’t own them, morally or legally. The public owns the roads. Roads are public rights of way. Pedestrians and bicyclists have the legal right to use them.

Nonmotorists are not less important users because their numbers are smaller. Their use should be encouraged, not discouraged.

Transportation decisions should be based on what’s best for everybody, not on myths. The good thing is that most everybody is multimodal. Most of us are drivers, walkers, bicyclists and transit users. And despite the myth believers and the negativity of some, almost two-thirds of Americans support more funding for alternatives to driving.

Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n

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All Together Now FOR ROWERS, BEING IN A BOAT IS THE ULTIMATE TEAM SPORT

BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY

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o win a rowing race when the boats are slender and sleek varsity eights and the wind has tormented the water into miniature whitecaps and the adrenaline is pumping, the first and most important thing to remember is that the word “go” is three syllables.

Not “go,” but “g-uh-oo,” as if the sounds are squeezed out in slow motion. When the starter says, “All crews ready. Attention. Go,” the boat should be moving on the “g,” leaping forward under short, explosive pulls from the eight rowers, who will soon enough stretch their arms and legs and elongate the boat’s human engine room to create more power, more efficiency, before hurtling into the sprint to the finish.

And that’s about all there is to winning a rowing race—that, plus another thousand physical and mechanical manifestations that must be processed, aligned and perfected amid the anxiety, sweat and sunscreen of eight unique rowers and a coxswain’s rhythmic urgings.

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Tricia Blocher coaches the junior women and serves as the club’s one employee

Sacramento, cruising on the water near two big merchant ships with a few dozen high school girls who make up their gender’s youthful component of River City Rowing Club.

Technically, the young women are called “juniors,” but there is nothing junior or immature about their approach to rowing, which is

the only sport on earth that has the breathtaking capacity to strain and strengthen every relevant muscle in the human body while the human stays seated.

“They work hard,” says Tricia Blocher, who coaches the junior women and serves as the club’s one employee. “Practice is six days a

week, two hours a day. In winter, we row in the dark.”

Blocher brings an impressive pedigree to her work. She rowed for Ohio State University, one of the nation’s best teams. When she arrived at River City Rowing Club seven years ago, she professionalized and elevated training regimens and expectations for her competitive rowers. She understands the grace and impossibility of competitive rowing, from classic varsity eights to the single scull.

“There comes a point where you get as good as you can be, and it’s never perfect,” she says. “There will always be something to improve. But we’re going to do our best.”

River City Rowing Club occupies a curious place in the Sacramento sports landscape. It provides an inspiring backdrop for fitness— imagine an oar catching glass-smooth water as the day’s first light reveals a Sacramento morning—and appeals to people whose ages span 8 to 70-something. The club has boats and opportunities for rowers of all levels. And while rowing is not exactly a high school sport, the club’s most competitive teens can parlay their River City Rowing success into scholarships at elite universities.

Rowers come from across Sacramento, from Arden Arcade to Davis. I meet Mikhayla Armstrong and Mychiah Teach on the dock moments before they step into their varsity eight boat. They tell me they are seniors at Davis High School, soon headed east to study and row, Armstrong to Williams College, beneath the Berkshire Mountains in SPORTS page 42

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“I had a knee injury and couldn’t play basketball but needed a sport to play,” Armstrong says. “Even though I started late in the season, I felt welcomed from the first day.”

Says Teach, “The team aspect really appealed to me. I didn’t know anything about rowing—I didn’t even know crew was a sport on the water. But it was a natural fit from the beginning. And the opportunity to row competitively at Boston University would not have happened without the club.”

Despite its strawberries-andcream image and legacy ties to elite schools, rowing is not an elitist sport.

It requires working-class values, teamwork and unity. The close quarters of a boat allow for zero squabbles. The club seems to have a positive impact on family members whose feet stay planted on land.

“Whenever a parent complains about having to drive their kids to practice, I say, ‘OK, so you’re complaining about a sport that’s safe and fun and teaches teamwork and discipline and gives your kid an incredible workout,’” says Vanessa Jacobs, a mom who drives her kid to rowing. “What else do you have to complain about?”

Boats are expensive (a new varsity eight boat can cost $45,000), but RCRC memberships are cheaper than competitive soccer, less than $2,000 per season, including all training, coaching and travel.

And there’s the priceless value of knowing how to stay upright in a rudderless boat propelled by your own steam. Teach a kid to row and she glides for a lifetime.

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Lay of the Land THIS CARTOGRAPHER IS PUTTING HERSELF ON THE MAP

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hen Molly Roy says she makes maps, it’s easy to picture her poring over pages of streets and boulevards. But Roy is here to tell you that there’s so much more to mapmaking.

“I make alternative atlases,” Roy explains. “An atlas is usually a book of road maps full of really basic, straightforward information: where things are, how to get to places.

The maps I create include historical scenes, ideas, politics, people’s stories in map form. An alternative atlas is a different way to read a book related to specific places.”

Roy has always been interested in how space fits together. She studied geography at UC Berkeley, which she says “really broad but really interesting in its own right—even though people assume that all I did was memorize the capitals all through college.” During a methodology course, she discovered the subject that would change her life.

“The methodology courses are supposed to teach you applicable skills you can use after school,” Roy says. “I chose a cartography course and didn’t expect anything to come of it, but I found that I’m aesthetically attuned to it. Geography is all about how people relate to and interact with the land, and cartography incorporates those ideas with graphic and design elements. I’ve always loved to draw and make things aesthetically

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beautiful, so I discovered that I really liked cartography.”

The South Land Park native returned to Sacramento after graduating in 2010 and has been making her living as a mapmaker ever since.

“I get to work with different people on different projects,” Roy explains.

“On a day-to-day level, I’m basically

using Adobe Illustrator to draw points on a map. But with cartography, every line that you draw on a map has meaning. It shows where boundaries are, who owns what, who has control.

In a larger sense, I explore how people relate to space and land over history and the things that come out of that.”

Roy’s work has included mapmaking for Rebecca Solnit and

Rebecca Snedeker’s “Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas.” She has edited maps for MissionLocal. org’s “Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas” and served as co-editor for “Food: An Atlas,” a crowdfunded atlas about food politics created by one of Roy’s former UC Berkeley professors. She’s now hard at work on an atlas of New York City by the same authors of “Unfathomable City,” which highlights alternative women’s history and immigrant issues in the Big Apple. With each assignment, Roy’s responsibilities might range from draftsperson to editor to researcher.

For the New York City atlas, her work was pretty straightforward: She was given points and lines to draw. On other projects, she had to do research and interview people as well as draw. For the food atlas, it was mostly editing. “We’d get maps from other people and I’d analyze them and give feedback,” she says.

Now that she has plenty of other people’s projects under her belt, Roy is setting her sights on exploring her own hometown.

“I’d love to make an alternative atlas to Sacramento that focuses on stories I didn’t really hear growing up,” she says. “I want to include immigrant histories, farm and agriculture histories, water-use issues. There’s so much rich history here that I would be interested in delving into.”

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Urban Farmer HE GROWS BOTH FOOD AND COMMUNITY IN SOUTH OAK PARK

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ou can preach farm-tofork all you want, but the bottom line is this: Unless people have access to all those good, healthful foods and know how to prepare them, it’s nothing but talk. And that takes us to Chanowk Yisrael’s mission in life: “Transforming the ’hood for good.”

The ’hood Yisrael talks about is his South Oak Park neighborhood, certainly not an area that pops into your mind as urban farmland. But that’s where you’ll find Yisrael Family Urban Farm. It’s a half-acre of space behind a small house that sits well off the road, hidden behind an orchard of citrus trees. It’s not pretty, but it does fulfill Yisrael’s yearning to provide a place where family, friends and neighbors can gather to learn how to grow, prepare and preserve fruit and vegetables. It is his version of farmto-fork.

The farm started out as a family garden about seven years ago.

“I had a lucrative career in the computer tech industry as a systems engineer. By all intents and purposes, I had made it,” said Yisrael. “I had money, a nice car, nice clothes,

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everything I needed. But I was driving 30 miles one way every day, dropping my kids off at school and then driving to work. All the while, I kept thinking about my parents who both had serious health issues. I really believe

that those health problems were caused by, or at least aggravated by, diet. I wanted to figure out a way to keep my family healthy, which to me meant a plant-based, organic diet.

“I have a big family (nine children ranging in age from 9 to 24). My food bill was just as big as my mortgage,” he said. “Then, with all the things going on with the economy in 2008, I realized I just couldn’t keep things going the way they were. I took a look at this big backyard and decided to plant some vegetables. I thought I could just put in a few plants and they would grow. Everything died.

Then I signed up for a class with John Jeavons, author of ‘How To Grow More Vegetables.’ I learned so much from that class that it really changed the way I think. That’s when the whole idea of urban agriculture began to really make sense to me. I learned that I could take a small piece of land and grow enough food to feed a lot of people.”

Yisrael is a deep thinker, a philosopher of sorts. I’m thinking fried okra. He’s thinking about the impact urbanization makes on topsoil.

I’m thinking caprese salad. He’s thinking organic insect control and natural soil supplements.

“We need to be good stewards of the earth,” he said as he stooped to pull some weeds crowding his summer squash. “To do that, we just need to stop trying to manage the earth and allow it to produce all that we need.”

Most important, he believes that one of the greatest rewards in life is to gather friends and family around the table to share a meal of fresh, wholesome food.

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I realized that there was a lot of interest, but they just didn’t know how to begin. So I invited them into the garden. Soon, along with Judith (his wife), we began teaching people how to grow and produce good food.

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Charming Tudor home in beautiful East Sac. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath on a corner lot with attached garage, partial basement, charming original details throughout in excellent walkable location. $449,000

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6320 PENNYROYAL WAY $310,000 6211 VIA CASITAS $129,800 3115 GARFIELD AVE $226,000 3756 KIMBERLY WAY $257,500 5600 SAPUNOR WAY $232,000 4528 MARBLE WAY $285,000 91 COVERED BRIDGE RD $775,000 6518 SAINT JAMES DR $210,000 3908 HENDERSON WAY $222,000 5520 RYAN LN $275,000 5311 FLAGSTONE ST $287,500 4912 COTTAGE WAY $185,000 5050 COTTAGE WAY $305,000 4904 KIPLING DR $474,750 2445 VIA CAMINO AVE $140,000 4028 SANGAMON ST $355,000 1045 HARRINGTON WAY $445,000 3925 OAK VILLA CIR $144,900 6457 MILES LN $285,000 6342 RAMPART DR $355,000 4545 BRANDYWINE CT $359,000 5032 OAK LEAF AVE $390,000 2054 WALNUT AVE $170,000 5109 ROBANDER ST $261,000 4718 COURTLAND LN $229,900 6319 RAMPART DR $327,500 3201 MAYER WAY $335,000 6336 MINERAL CT $589,900 5754 CADA CIR $258,000 2732 LEOLETA WAY $305,000 2736 MISSION AVE $369,000 6249 COLE AVE $490,000 5127 ALMOND WAY $275,000 1833 SAINT ANN CT. $410,000 1744 PARK PLACE DR $453,690 6024 CHERRELYN WAY $299,900 6080 SHIRLEY AVE $445,000 1705 HAGGIN GROVE WAY $1,120,000 4627 CHARLESTON DR $355,000 4728 ESPANA CT $374,000 4201 MARSHALL AVE $509,000 3432 GRANT PARK DR $276,000 6120 MAUER AVE $343,000 5949 CAMRAY CIR $377,500 7008 WOODKNOLL WAY $384,800 6414 ROLLING WAY $409,000 2213 HOMEWOOD WAY $500,000 1841 PARLIAMENT CIR $765,000 6019 VIA CASITAS $135,000 5131 OLEANDER DR $243,000 2909 MARCO WAY $479,000 7032 FAIR OAKS BLVD #25 $99,900 7032 FAIR OAKS BLVD #7 $115,000 3825 OLIVEBRANCH LN $228,000 5955 LINCOLN HILLS WAY $345,000 5527 ROBERTSON AVE $355,000 3521 GARFIELD AVE $359,900 3995 ROCHDALE DR $421,000 4444 MAPEL LN $600,000

95815 WOODLAKE 501 SOUTHGATE RD 181 GLOBE AVE

$293,000 $200,000

95816 EAST SACRAMENTO, MCKINLEY PARK 2730 F ST 2821 SOLONS ALLEY 2418 P ST #E 3248 D ST 817 24TH ST 3119 CARLY WAY 1617 28TH ST 440 34TH ST 1301 34TH ST 1301 32ND ST 1562 34TH ST 1425 37TH ST

95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 2482 41ST ST 2041 36TH ST 4330 3RD AVE 3045-1/2 39 ST 3409 42ND ST 2633 57TH ST 4408 U ST 3256 8TH AVE 3243 11TH AVE 2016 35TH ST 3400 42ND ST 3928 1ST AVE 3019 5TH AVE 5125 2ND AVE 3985 4TH AVE 3111 SANTA CRUZ WAY 3524 40TH ST 2521 51ST ST

95818 LAND PARK, CURTIS PARK 2740 SAN LUIS CT 2930 23RD ST 2677 FREEPORT BLVD 2522 U ST 2650 DONNER WAY 2773 6TH AVE 2532 9TH AVE 2114 26TH ST 1701 U ST 2746 17TH ST 815 V ST 519 ROBERTSON WAY 733 MCCLATCHY WAY 1840 MARKHAM WAY 2779 17TH ST 2932 LAND PARK DR 1149 MARKHAM WAY 919 8TH AVE 2672 18TH ST 2615 FREEPORT BLVD 1715 V ST 2773 CURTIS WAY 2640 CASTRO WAY 2921 MUIR WAY 559 JONES WAY 2633 28TH ST

$469,900 $425,000 $226,000 $815,000 $343,500 $330,000 $412,000 $989,000 $462,000 $223,500 $252,000 $1,124,000

$380,000 $335,000 $222,600 $85,000 $250,000 $283,000 $342,000 $225,000 $270,000 $305,000 $110,000 $312,000 $320,000 $363,000 $277,000 $175,000 $215,000 $359,000

$336,000 $576,000 $320,000 $475,000 $575,000 $505,000 $555,000 $301,000 $400,000 $202,000 $312,500 $410,100 $325,000 $549,000 $537,500 $705,000 $785,000 $900,000 $337,500 $344,000 $585,000 $799,900 $439,000 $440,000 $280,000 $330,000

95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK

5125 TEICHERT AVE $482,500 201 TIVOLI WAY $490,000 79 51ST ST $381,000 1225 56TH ST $353,000 5136 TEICHERT AVENUE $491,000 921 51ST ST $337,500 5001 D ST $414,000 1140 40TH ST $1,150,000 400 42ND ST $400,000 551 PALA WAY $533,000 5420 D ST $390,000 5818 O ST $359,000 5420 D ST $390,000 201 43RD ST $550,000 1216 55TH ST $700,000 1231 57TH ST $389,950 1157 51ST ST $470,000 1613 CHRISTOPHER WAY $395,000 1424 RODEO WAY $510,000 1709 41ST ST $480,000 5236 F ST $564,900 5326 L ST $329,000 5208 Q ST $238,300 5731 CALLISTER AVE $410,000

95821 ARDEN-ARCADE

3975 WOODPOINTE CIR $322,500 3321 SIERRA VIEW LN $180,000 2444 WULFF LN $187,000 3017 TAMALPAIS WAY $299,999 4424 PARK GREEN $390,000 2410 SAINT FRANCIS DR $325,000 2561 FULTON SQUARE LN #57$115,750 2213 FRANCO LN $180,000 3331 ARBOR WAY $190,000 3408 COLEEN CT $160,000 3324 CHENU AVE $400,000 2706 WRENDALE WAY $520,000 4209 HIGHLAND VIEW CT $425,000 2840 ASHBOURNE DR $575,000 3420 LERWICK RD $147,000 3521 MULHOLLAND WAY $263,000 3812 KINGS WAY $270,000 3601 RIDGEWOOD WAY $274,900 3230 CLAIRIDGE WAY $693,000 2810 DANUBE DR $216,000 3011 BELL ST $217,000 2517 DARWIN ST $164,000 3400 BRAEBURN ST $335,800 3744 HUFF WAY $350,000

95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 2230 51ST AVE 1851 60TH AVE 7485 GEORGICA WAY 7547 24TH ST 1621 GLIDDEN AVE 5604 NORMAN WAY 1630 ARVILLA DR 2380 MURIETA WAY 3212 LOMA VERDE WAY

$156,000 $215,000 $220,000 $105,000 $150,000 $220,000 $290,000 $199,900 $224,000

4975 HELEN WAY 6310 HERMOSA ST 4851 DA ROSA DR 1601 FRUITRIDGE RD 2360 IRVIN WAY 6801 27TH ST 2089 WAKEFIELD WAY 2801 69TH AVE 7347 SPRINGMAN ST 3210 ELLWOOD AVE 5653 23RD ST 2097 51ST AVE 2256 KNIGHT WAY 2097 51ST AVE 2630 WOOD VIOLET WAY 26 PULSAR CIR 2010 BERG AVENUE 7334 LOMA VERDE WAY 2500 ENCINAL AVE 7500 SCHREINER 7536 21ST ST 2142 54TH AVE 1835 68TH AVE 2171 MONIFIETH WAY 1618 WENTWORTH AVE #4 7429 AMHERST ST 3260 TORRANCE AVE 6810 27TH ST 7528 LEMARSH WAY 2217 16TH AVE 2174 SARAZEN AVE 2313 22ND AVE 1440 CLAREMONT WAY

95825 ARDEN

$325,000 $175,500 $339,900 $208,000 $310,000 $142,275 $180,000 $184,900 $181,000 $185,000 $235,000 $190,000 $240,000 $190,000 $80,000 $123,000 $164,000 $190,000 $225,000 $107,200 $172,550 $209,000 $216,000 $225,000 $309,000 $215,000 $260,000 $143,890 $152,500 $350,000 $217,000 $297,500 $414,400

310 EAST RANCH RD $325,000 2340 BARCELONA WAY $140,000 2204 MEADOWBROOK $320,000 2243 SWARTHMORE DR $346,500 1248 COMMONS DR $463,000 2052 JOAN WAY $162,075 2298 SIERRA BLVD #H $210,000 1326 OAK TERRACE CT #14 $89,000 504-#4 WOODSIDE OAKS $195,000 2361 SANTA ANITA DR $265,000 2436 BRENTWOOD RD $299,000 238 HARTNELL PL $329,000 2280 HURLEY WAY #61 $90,000 2337 BARCELONA WAY $284,000 2225 WOODSIDE LN #1 $145,000 21 ADELPHI CT $272,500 2357 HERNANDO RD $235,000 3112 MERRYWOOD DR $299,000 2138 UNIVERSITY PARK DR. $305,000 2430 PAVILIONS PLACE LN #611 $475,000 909 FULTON AVE #415 $64,900 2363 ALTA GARDEN LN $65,000 2245 WOODSIDE LN #6 $80,000 2209 TEVIS RD $151,000 2282-C SIERRA BLVD $236,500 2300 BRUNTON WAY $200,000 2447 BURGUNDY WAY $215,000 2060 JOAN WAY $258,000

971 FULTON AVE #571 644 WOODSIDE SIERRA #1 3124 VIA GRANDE WAY 521 WOODSIDE OAKS #4 3137 MERRYWOOD DR 2164 UNIVERSITY PARK DR

95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK 7614 KAVOORAS DR 7283 RIVERWIND WAY 6760 POCKET RD 7524 ALMA VISTA WAY 5 SILMARK CT 7257 POCKET RD 6768 ORLEANS WAY 1048 E. LANDING WAY 911 ROUNDTREE CT 310 ZEPHYR RANCH DR 7115 LYNHOLLEN WAY 800 SHORE BREEZE DR 7702 RIO ESTRADA WAY 7353 L ARBRE WAY 6550 RIVERSIDE 7811 RIVER ESTATES DR 6504 BENHAM WAY 735 RIVERCREST DR 6181 RIVERTON WAY 8060 LINDA ISLE LN 7666 DEL OAK WAY 106 HIDDEN LAKE CIR 6731 ORLEANS WAY 7304 STANWOOD WAY 626 LELANDHAVEN WAY 8075 LIDO ISLE LN 7459 CASTANO WAY 7208 SANTA TERESA WAY 956 SHELLWOOD WAY 895 PARKLIN AVE 27 SPRINGMIST CT 6642 13TH ST

$67,000 $135,000 $144,900 $145,000 $245,000 $323,000

$340,500 $273,500 $346,000 $405,000 $475,000 $370,000 $449,900 $680,000 $120,000 $230,000 $425,000 $595,000 $318,200 $480,000 $260,000 $355,000 $429,000 $460,000 $360,000 $375,000 $441,000 $315,000 $385,000 $308,000 $360,000 $385,000 $399,000 $397,500 $339,000 $340,000 $350,000 $412,000

95864 ARDEN

375 WYNDGATE RD $587,500 4380 VULCAN $255,000 2429 AVALON DR $285,000 4116 LAS CRUCES WAY $540,000 4240 FAIR OAKS BLVD $574,275 3940 AMERICAN RIVER DR $1,000,000 2125 IONE ST $335,000 1224 GREENHILLS RD $170,000 1504 LA SIERRA DR $865,000 4156 CRONDALL DR. $585,000 3256 WINDSOR $180,000 1337 WYANT WAY $205,000 2016 ADONIS WAY $395,000 2812 HUNTINGTON $529,000 928 AMBERWOOD RD $185,000 3848 ESPERANZA DR $475,000 4442 VALMONTE DR $579,000 3404 WINDSOR DR $169,000 500 CROCKER RD $560,000 584 ASHTON PARK LN $1,275,000

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Detour Ahead SOME WAY, THE CHANCE FOR A LONG-DESIRED FAMILY ROAD TRIP SLIPS AWAY

time the smorgasbord of nature that

food and campsite reservations. We

summer road trip would be after

realized it would be half the price to

old to leave behind their friends and

we ditched car seats but before

go to Hawaii. So we did.

joyfully take a road trip with their

they could legally ride shotgun. We

And now here we sit, staring at a

parents, let alone have to be in close

envisioned the ages between 6 and

window of opportunity I swear was

confines with each other for two

12 to be ideal because you’ve safely

only open for two seconds, wondering

weeks out of their precious summer?

entered the vacation years as far as

how it so quickly closed. My babies

I’d have better luck setting up a

the two S’s required: Self-sufficiency

are in high school. The family

colony on Mars.

and Supervision.

vacation has gotten packed away with

However, to get a 14- and 15-year-

MOMSERVATIONS

T

he window of opportunity may not be slammed shut, but it’s definitely been painted closed

and I doubt I’ll get it open again.

I’m talking about my dream family vacation: A two-week RV trip through Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to see Crater Lake, Coeur D’Alene, my mom, and Yellowstone National Park. Oh, the memories we’d make renting an RV, traveling the alpine beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and our family of four experiencing for the first

pricing renting an RV, the cost of gas,

opportunity to take the great family

Yellowstone offers!

BY KELLI WHEELER

We decided our window of

first shoes and first haircuts, pushed

Hubby and I started dreaming

(Test for this: Can I read a People

about this epic family road trip back

magazine cover-to-cover before I need

aside for commitments to summer

when an SUV with a roof-rack still

to worry about my kid?)

conditioning programs for high school

wasn’t big enough to haul all the

Also, kids are game for anything at

sports, summer jobs, and summer plans with friends.

gear we needed to keep a toddler

these ages as long as the occasional

and infant in their happy places on a

Slurpee is thrown in. But once you

Even if I could convince my

weekend trip to Tahoe. During these

hit the surly teenage years? You’re

sophomore son to give up two

trip-not-vacation years when being

driving a half-ton defiant, protesting,

weeks of potential rope swing river

packed and ready to go meant having

eye-rolling bicker mobile that will be

adventures for a family road trip and

300 diapers on hand (and knowing

pulling into bars instead of 7-Elevens

get my freshmen daughter to believe

where the nearest Costco was in

for relief.

it would be worth forgoing a zillion

case you still ran out), it seemed a

When the window for our

Snapchat story opportunities with her

far-off dream to one day pull out of a

Yellowstone road trip opened,

friends, the pound of flesh it would

driveway without instantly thinking

the Great Recession was upon us.

take to resemble, at best, “National

you’ve just made a huge, overly

Vacations were out and staycations

Lampoon’s Vacation”—I’d rather be

optimistic mistake (and needing to

were in. Then the kids got into

at a soccer game on Mother’s Day.

already turn around because someone

competitive soccer and summers were

just soiled their pants).

spent traveling all over the state to

me spend another Mother’s Day at a

get our butts kicked when we could’ve

soccer tournament. I’ll get a crowbar,

done that right here in our own

we’ll pry that window open, we’ll

backyard.

gas up the bicker mobile and start

(Plus, it is a proven fact—or at least by all the major holidays I have spent on a soccer pitch—that soccer

OK, not really. Please don’t make

posting family vacation selfies to our Snapchat story.

God, I hope I’m smiling.

programs believe that people should have no other existence beyond soccer.)

By the time we finally extricated ourselves from soccer the window was sliding shut as our kids became teens. Hubby and I frantically began

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Great opportunity to live between Jesuit and Rio Americano, oversized garage, 4 Bed/ 2.5 Bath, 2088 sq/ft. Lovingly cared for by the original owners! $599,900 Judith Larson Manley (916) 247-0852

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A Lot of Garbage SEPARATING TRASH SAVES LANDFILL SPACE

BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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here does your garbage go?

Into the bin, out to the curb and presto, once a week, it vanishes!

For most of us, household solid waste is out of sight, out of mind.

But Doug Kobold, program manager for the county’s department of waste management and recycling, knows the disappearing trick we take for granted relies on good science and engineering—as well as careful financial planning.

Kobold’s department collects hundreds of thousands of tons per year of virtually every kind of solid waste that area households produce, from used cat litter to grass clippings to batteries. Based on what’s safe for the environment and what’s economically feasible, different types of waste are handled differently.

Customers of the county’s curbside trash pickup program know that the waste “stream” is first separated by people like you and me into containers for green waste (leaves, grass clippings), mixed recycling (which includes clean plastics, paper, glass and metals) and household garbage.

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Batteries, medications, paint, motor oil, fluorescent light bulbs (including CFLs, which contain mercury vapor), e-waste and solvents must not be placed in any of the curbside pickup containers. These and other hazardous wastes can be dropped off (for free) at the North Area Recovery Station near I-80 and Watt. Kobold says, “We rely on individuals to keep toxic materials out of the waste stream. We’re trying to spread the word about putting materials in the right place.”

By separating our trash, we help the county divert a remarkable 73 percent of solid waste from going straight to the landfill. Using the

recycling bins also helps to keep our bills down. According to Kobold, as the market for recycled materials has matured over the past 15 years or so, county recycling programs that used to cost them money are now earning income. Contractors buy 36,000 tons of mixed recycling waste from the county every year, at a price of $15 to $45 per ton.

Components of the mixed recycling bins, or “single stream” recycling waste, do not all have the same value and cannot be used while still mixed.

All of the recycling waste must be sorted, separating the valuable from the worthless, and what’s recyclable from what must go to the landfill.

This process is partly automated, but actual humans do a lot of the work.

People pluck unrecyclable material, or “residual,” from waste rolling by on a conveyor belt. Residual includes items that never should have been put in the recycling bin to begin with, as well as things like paper that’s too contaminated or soiled to be recycled.

A variety of automated sorting techniques are also used. “Star screens” are beds of rotating starshaped disks that separate broken glass from whole bottles or jars by jostling the glass along and shaking out the small bits, which drop through the spaces between the SCIENCE page 62

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SCIENCE FROM page 60 disks. Aluminum cans are sorted by running the waste over an alternating magnetic field that creates an “eddy current” of electricity in the metal and nudges the cans away from the nonmetallic waste.

Metals, especially aluminum, are the most valuable material. It costs much less money and energy to recycle an aluminum can than to make one from mined raw materials.

Recycling PET #1 plastic (most soda and water bottles) also saves energy compared to using virgin material.

Glass, on the other hand, while infinitely recyclable, is so cheap to produce from its raw material (sand) that there is no profit to the county in recycling it. Nevertheless, recycling keeps glass out of landfills, which has environmental and economic benefits of its own.

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(branches and such) that can be sent to biomass energy plants to be burned as fuel for electricity generation.

Finer materials might be put to use as cover at the county’s landfill, or shipped to a processor in Durham (near Chico) for composting.

What happens to the rest of our household garbage?

We dig a hole and bury it.

Despite advances in recycling technology and the market for recycled products, much of the stuff we throw away goes to the landfill.

While it sounds simple to dig a hole, fill it with trash and cover it up, managing a landfill that meets current standards for environmental safety is complex. Next month, I’ll introduce you to the civil engineer charged with protecting the air, water and people around Sacramento County’s Kiefer Landfill not only today but for decades into the future.

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The Carmichael Park summer concert season kicks off with a two-day concert band festival on Saturday June 6 and Sunday June 7. This event features 14 ensembles from throughout Northern California. Over the following three months, free performances are scheduled most weekends. Concert downbeat is at 6:30 p.m.

Food is available for purchase. All concerts are held in the band shell, near the North Avenue Park entrance. For information, call 485-5322 or visit carmichaelpark.com

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Saturday, June 13: Unlicensed Therapy (classic rock).

Sunday, June 14: The Bongo Furys (funk/jazz/blues).

Sunday, June 21: Swing Masters (big band swing).

Saturday, June 27: Ma Barker Band (classic rock).

Sunday, June 28: Elvis and the Experience (Elvis Presley tribute).

Sunday, July 5: Metro Swing (big band swing).

Saturday, July 11: Todd Morgan and the Emblems (50s rock).

Sunday, July 12: Bad Catz (rock rhythm and blues).

Sunday, July 19: The Kick ‘n 60s (1960s hits).

Saturday, July 25: Big Iron (vintage country).

Sunday, July 26: Z.O.O.M. (Mardi Gras jazz).

Sunday, August 2: John Skinner Band (variety dance music).

Saturday, August 8: On Air (classic rock).

Sunday, August 9: Lincoln Highway (country/rockabilly).

Sunday, August 16: Capitol Pops Concert Band (patriotic/pops).

Saturday, August 22: Group Therapy (rock/rhythm and blues).

Sunday, August 23: Latin Touch (Latin rock/rhythm and blues).

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1. On August 8, the rock sounds of the On Air ensemble incorporate horns and vocals.

2. Rockabilly veterans Lincoln Highway will perform on August 9.

3. Carmichael heart throb Todd Morgan the Emblems group will take the stage on July 11.

4. A summer tradition, concerts bring throngs to Carmichael Park.

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Light and Bright A STYLISH REDECORATION FOR A POCKET HOME

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hen inspiration knocks, open the door and welcome it in. That’s the attitude adopted by Mark Mason and his partner of eight years, Michael Davis. Their Pocket home’s dramatic transformation began when they installed a hand-forged fire screen in the living room in 2013. Davis set the evolution in motion with a single comment.

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“Eclectic is always good. Your home should be personalized by you and not look like a model.”

“He said, ‘Oh my God, it looks kind of medieval,’” Mason says. “Then we had to change everything.”

The process took a year to complete. About 90 percent of their furnishings went to several consignment shops; the rest was repurposed. Then they set out to find remarkable new pieces, including a hand-forged candlestick chandelier, a dining table with two benches and two high-back chairs trimmed with

studs, a diamond-pattern tuck-androll sofa and chair, shields, swords, an iron-gate bed and an old-world wine cabinet.

Mason, who bought the 1985 duplex in 2002, had already completed substantial renovations before he and Davis began redecorating. His first project was laying brick in the backyard, which at the time contained only one lonely rosebush. He contemplated three different patterns before settling upon herringbone. It took him about a year to dig up the yard, then lay down sand and finally brick.

Today, the backyard contains a gurgling fountain, a birch tree, numerous flowering plants and a cozy seating area, all surrounded by a lighted fence.

“At night, the whole perimeter of the yard is lit up,” says Mason.

Next, he installed a new roof.

He painted the interior using two complementary paint colors in each room, with the lighter color on top and the darker shade below. This

creates the illusion of higher ceilings and adds character to each room.

Mason, a former pastry chef and now co-owner of Michael Mason Salon in Midtown, noted that the kitchen originally had a dated country look.

There were Formica counters, dark brown cabinets and three layers of linoleum that had to be removed.

“It just felt old and dark,” he says.

“I wanted to lighten and brighten up the space.”

Because the house doesn’t have a plethora of windows, Mason chose a color palette of soft yellows, birch and khaki for the kitchen.

A series of can lights illuminates the entire space. Mason installed birch laminate flooring and birch cabinets topped with counters made of green granite with cranberry veining for a clean, stylish look.

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The guest bedroom was repainted and now serves overnighters, mainly Mason’s children and four grandchildren, with a comfy bed, cozy chair and small, stylish workspace. A charming collection of family photos dot one wall.

“I generally don’t like pictures on the walls, but I had to dedicate a wall to my family,” he says.

Both men, self-professed homebodies, appreciate their neighborhood for its access to downtown, proximity to the river and great walking and bike paths. Their lush front yard contains a second fountain that provides a buffer from traffic noise. Davis, who works at the Franchise Tax Board and enjoys gardening, landscaped the front yard with plantings of wall flowers, red hot poker plants, fragrant star jasmine, day lilies and agapanthus.

The drought, he says, has cut into the couple’s plant purchases this year.

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“We have avoided buying plants that need daily watering,” he says.

“We love our yard and wish it would rain.”

Mason and Davis offer these remodeling tips for those considering taking the plunge: Mason favors picking a point in time and working off that era. Chose a color palette that makes you feel good. Begin with items that won’t be replaced quickly, such as carpet, flooring and window treatments. “Then throw your own ideas in it,” he says.

“Eclectic is always good,” he says.

“Your home should be personalized by you and not look like a model.”

Davis feels it is important to go slow when picking out items for your home.

“Don’t feel like you have to do everything overnight,” he says. “We looked and looked around for things we wanted.”

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American Cancer Society Discovery Shop Celebrates 50 Years in California!

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Volunteerism Through the Years fight against cancer, who were at the ready with life-saving information, love, and support that helped move her through treatment and into remission.

After a lumpectomy and radiation, Alice looked into the many programs offered by the American Cancer Society. With the resources at her fingertips and testimonials from fellow volunteers who’d survived cancer themselves, she chose to participate in the Look Good Feel Better program®. It offers female cancer patients free workshops and educational resources providing professional guidance and instruction on beauty, skin care, cosmetics, nail care, hair loss alternatives and styling tips to address the appearance side-effects of cancer treatment.

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Alice Mentelos

t was 2008 when Alice Mentelos signed up to volunteer at the Sacramento Discovery Shop. Eight months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “I believe I was put here for a reason ,” she said. Despite the devastating news, Alice was surrounded by cancer survivors, warriors in the

classes and perform make-overs for groups of cancer survivors.

“The classes made us feel whole again. I walked out of there with such a renewed sense of pride – proud to be a woman again.

Some of us lose a big part of ourselves that we associate with womanhood especially after a mastectomy.

Seven years have passed since Alice’s diagnosis and today she is the staff manager at the Sacramento Discovery Shop.

She organizes the schedules of about 150 volunteers who give their time at the shop.

And in between the scheduling duties, she spends her time passing along to other newly diagnosed people the same gifts of camaraderie and support that were so freely given to her.

To learn more about volunteering at the Sacramento Discovery Shop, please call 916484-0227.

Volunteers Welcome The Discovery Shop is always looking for volunteers and donations. You need not be a cancer survivor to give your time.

Contact Alice Mentelos alice.mentelos@cancer.org 916-484-0227

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Francis West

hree-time cancer survivor, Francis West, is a walking testament to the power of people. She’s been staring down various cancers for nearly 30 years with the help of the American Cancer Society Reach To Recovery® program.

In 1977, doctors found a lump in her breast. That was at a time when they quickly sent female patients into surgery without their knowing if they’d wake up with or without a breast.

Francis woke up without her breast.

A few years later doctors found colon cancer followed by yet another breast cancer diagnosis.

All along the way, Francis knew where to turn. She utilized the American Cancer Society Reach To Recovery® program, which offers people newly diagnosed with breast cancer a free, one-on-one support program to help them through their experience and to assist with day-today and emotional needs. For more than 40 years, the Reach To Recovery® program has

been providing evidence-based support to more than one million women enjoying life after cancer.

After her first diagnosis, Francis became a volunteer at the Sacramento Discovery Shop where she’s forged lifelong friendships and has been able to assist others who are coping with a cancer diagnosis.

“I had never really worked with people in a setting like this.

But every week I am out talking to shoppers and helping others. It’s surprising how it brings you out and lifts your spirits to talk to others and help them. It makes you feel so good. I started volunteering when there were only 15 volunteers. Now, 15 years later we have 168 active volunteers at the Sacramento Discovery shop. It just shows you how much of an impact the shop has in our community.”

“Those days it was almost shameful to be diagnosed with cancer. It was the dreaded, feared, horrible diagnosis that nobody talked about. We whispered the word ‘cancer.’

“I just love the mission of the Discovery Shop, to find cures for cancer and support patients, survivors and their families. It keeps me active and interested in people and things, especially in the fight against cancer.”

Nowadays many people no longer feel the need to whisper about cancer. Research, early diagnostic tests and public education have helped increase survival rates.

Programs help people cope with cancer. And fewer people are getting that dreaded phone call that a loved one has just months to live, thanks in part to the American Cancer Society and people like Rita.

American Cancer Society Discovery Shop at The Taylor Center 2708 Marconi Ave., Sacramento, Ca 95821 Telephone: 916-484-0227 Shop hours: Monday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm The Sacramento Discovery Shop has been located at the Taylor Shopping Center for 30 years.

The Sacramento Discovery Shop ranks #1 for raising the most funds among shops in California, with funds anticipated reaching $1 million a year Proceeds from CA Discovery Shops help to fund lifesaving cancer breakthroughs to helping people with cancer today get the help, support, and resources they need to get well.

Donate clothing, accessories, jewelry, furniture, artwork, antiques, collectibles, and other household items. Every donation helps the American Cancer Society save lives.

Volunteer. Your time saves lives. Whether you’re looking to meet new people, share your fashion sense, or use your retail experience, we’d love to have you join our volunteer team!

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ita Schroeder was only 20 and an only child when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Just four months later, her mother died, leaving a big hole in her heart. Just a few

Volunteer opportunities are fun, flexible, and range from merchandisers to cashiers to donation processors.

Share what you discover. #mydiscoveryshop CA Shop Locations: Visit one of 40 California Discovery Shops; find a location nearest you at cancer.org/discovery Call 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org for cancer information

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So when she read an article about the new Discovery Shop needing volunteers at the Taylor Center, she jumped right in.

Volunteering, she thought, would help her stay close to her parents and help find a cure.

That was 30 years ago and she’s been volunteering every week ever since.

Cancer has long orbited around the life of Tom Neuburger. His daughter died of an aggressive ovarian cancer when she was in her 30s.

Just a few months later, Tom himself was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. Then his wife lost her mother and brother to cancer.

Everywhere he looked, there was cancer. But instead of burying his head in the sand, Tom realized the best way for him to fight the disease that had such an impact in his life was to use whatever time and talent he had to work to find cures. That’s

when he discovered the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop at the Taylor Center. They

needed a delivery pick-up driver who could lift a few heavy items

that were donated to the shop.

“I love being around peoplelearning their stories. I love driving. So I use my own truck; I use my own body and I get out in the community to help.”

It was the perfect storm for Tom. He became the shop’s trusted delivery driver who picks up furniture that’s donated to the store from homes in the area. “Some folks have a wonderful sofa, a dresser or a bed frame but they don’t have a way to get it to our shop. They just call us and we can be there

sometimes that very day,” he said.

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Cancer Survivor and Local Businessman

Key to Shop’s Success

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Cancer Society and its programs and services, advocacy, and research. he Taylor Center wishes the American Cancer Society Shop patrons can enjoy browsing for clothing, furniture, collectibles, jewSacramento Discovery Shop at 2708 Marconi Avenue elry, and the like, or they can come in and get connected with a myriad of a very happy anniversary as it celebrates 30 years at resources the American Cancer Society offers. the Taylor Center. “We are so proud of the Discovery Shop “We are so successful because of the help we have been getting throughand all the good it does for our community,” said Gary out all these years. It’s an honor to be a part of the 50th anniversary of Taylor, owner of the Taylor California Discovery Shop locations,” said Taylor.

Center. The 30 year mark in Gary has been overseeing everything at Sacramento coincides with the the Taylor Center, from tenant leases to 50th anniversary of California parking lot security to building upgrades.

Discovery Shop locations.

He can be found strolling the parking lot Special activities, including a picking up trash, or asking shop owners weekend of deals and discounts, how he can help them, or dining at the center’s restaurants. “We take pride in will be offered to the public making our center and our nearby apartover their anniversary weekend ment complex, Village Green safe, clean of June 12-14. and well-maintained. I personally take “This location is the numpride in seeing people succeed.” ber one Discovery Shop in the entire Taylor himself is a cancer survistate, grossing more money for the vor who has battled bladder cancer and American Cancer Society than any melanoma.

He’s been dedicated to the of the other 40 shops. That’s a big family property which has evolved since accomplishment and we owe it to our his father purchased 25 acres of pasture Sacramento volunteers who make this at Marconi and Fulton in the 1930s. Old shop so special,” Taylor said. “A big timers will remember it was once a pasture thank you goes out to our volunteers.” and dairy with jersey cows.

Th e patriarch The Discovery Shop is more sold the dairy and in 1958 built the center. than a quality resale store. It’s a busIn 1972 the family would convert 13 acres tling marketplace as well as a resource into Village Green apartments behind the center. It’s a place where shoppers center.

In 1985 Th e American Cancer Sosave money and help save lives, a place Gary Taylor ciety Discovery Shop would move in and where survivors become volunteers Gary would throw his heart and soul into helping the shop succeed. and vice versa, a place where healing and hope walk side by side, where Plain and simple, Gary has a soft spot for anything in this world you’ll find the old-fashioned medicine of a warm smile and a sweet friend that is positive and uplifting. “I like helping others be successful. I’m inwho has all the time in the world for you, a place of life. credibly proud of how the Discovery Shop is helping people with cancer.

Since their inception, Discovery Shop locations have been operSo many of us have been exposed to cancer and to give back to support ated largely by volunteers, where proceeds directly benefit the American the research into cures is wonderful.”

Donations Welcome The Discovery Shop is always looking for donations.

We can provide pick-up of donated itmes.

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performing weddings by humorously feigning forgetfulness. During the drive to the ceremony, when

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most ministers: wedding season. In fact, most

memorized his part, he’d say, “Hmm.

wedding I performed gave me a

choice about doing the ceremony.

Does this sound right? ‘Dearly

rubber check. I would’ve let it slide,

Instead, Becky had both sets of

beloved, we’re gathered here to

but my bank charged me a bounced-

parents stand and publicly pledge

mourn the loss of our dear brother in

check fee. In the second instance, the

their support of the marriage.

holy matrimony.’”

groom stopped our march into the

complicated. And recently, when the

pay me.

Supreme Court debated some of those complications, I saw a way to deescalate the argument a bit.

Weddings can get complicated. That’s whenever I perform a wedding.

Most wedding complications could be avoided if all couples followed my first rule: No alcohol before the

than a wedding.

wedding.

I don’t have the rule because

Yes, marriage ceremonies can be

sanctuary because he’d forgotten to

However, my dad had a point.

ministers would rather do a funeral No, it’s not because we’d rather

“I’m not somebody’s property,” she told her pastor dad, who had little

why I have a few rules that I employ his is the season feared by

she was to be given away.

requirement. The couple in the first

playful slap on the arm at that point.

SPIRIT MATTERS

Two incidents inspired that

that we were striking the part where

my mother would ask him if he’d

My mother usually gave him a

BY NORRIS BURKES

Next rule: Prepare my honorarium before the wedding.

Most wedding complications could be avoided if all couples followed my first rule: No alcohol before the wedding.

We would do well to consider the model used in many countries where weddings are accomplished by the state. If couples want a religious ceremony, they can celebrate that in a separate rite according to their own traditions.

I believe that solution offers the

see someone die than get married.

I’m Baptist, but because I once did

It’s because funerals are simpler. The

a home wedding where the best

biggest requirement for preaching

man had to prop up the inebriated

state, as well as the true intention of

a good funeral sermon is empathy,

groom. Another couple brought a

Jesus’ admonition to “Give Caesar

something that well suits the

keg in a truck to the church parking

ministerial personality type.

lot. “Don’t worry, that’s for after the

My father was a pastor who demonstrated his resistance toward

ceremony,” they said, with air quotes around “after.”

“Wait,” he cried. Then he extended a $100 bill toward the end of my nose and said, “Here ya go, Bud!” Third rule: Keep the vow changes to a minimum.

Last-minute edits complicate

The whole gang is waiting for you.

things. I remember one bride-to-be who asked to change the vows to “till love do us part.” I referred the wedding to another clergy friend. Five months later, when her groom left on a Navy cruise, she ran off with a land lover.

I did let one bride change the traditional vow wording a bit: my

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wife, Becky. She didn’t want to promise to obey me, and while she was at it, she told both our parents

only true separation of church and

what is his, and give God what is his.”

(Mark 12:17).

If we can make this separation, I think we’ll find ourselves as pleasantly surprised as the crowd was that first heard this wisdom is Jesus’ teaching. For according to remainder of the verse, “Their mouths hung open, speechless.”

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Clothes for Kids FOSTER CHILDREN OFTEN COME WITH JUST ONE SET OF CLOTHES

BY GLORIA GLYER DOING GOOD

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id you know that children who enter foster care often come with just the clothes they’re wearing? That’s because they have been taken out of their homes or schools before they can pack up their belongings. To help local foster kids and their foster families, Sleep Train is conducting a clothing drive. They’re seeking new clothing for infants, children and teens.

Consider donating jeans, T-shirts, socks, sweatshirts and undergarments. You get the picture: Think about what’s on your child’s or teen’s shopping list and buy another to donate.

Sleep Train’s clothing drive ends Sunday, June 21. For more information or to locate a store where you can drop off your donation, go to sleeptrainfosterkids.org

CHANGES AT CHILDREN’S HOME In preparation for its 150th anniversary in 2017, Sacramento Children’s Home is about to undergo a renovation of its iconic

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main building at 2750 Sutterville Road. Work will be done to improve accessibility and administrative efficiency and to bring the facility closer to its historical roots.

The renovations will include installation of a wheelchair-accessible ramp at the main entrance and an updating of bathrooms to meet Americans With Disabilities Act standards. The main conference room, currently located upstairs, will be brought downstairs to make it more accessible. (The building does not have an elevator.)

The commissary will be moved out of the main building into one that’s closer to the children’s residence.

Several offices will be rearranged to improve overall efficiency.

“We are excited to approach a major milestone for our organization, and we look forward to the next 150 years.”

The updates will allow the administration to work more effectively and provide better care for the children and families receiving services from Sacramento Children’s Home.

DesCor Builders is overseeing the renovation. The work should be completed within a year.

Said Roy Alexander, the home’s chief executive officer, “Our newly renovated building will stand as a symbol of our long-standing history in the community, while at the same time positioning us to continue forging ahead, innovating new and better ways to care for Sacramento’s most vulnerable children and families.

We are excited to approach a major milestone for our organization, and we look forward to the next 150 years.”

A PARTY WITH THE BIRDS Wildlife Care Association’s recent fundraiser at High Hand Nursery in Loomis included some wild guests: owls, hawks, falcons, even an eagle.

About 250 humans also attended Wine and Wings, which raised more than $3,000 for the wildlife group. The association helps birds that fall from nests, critters hit by cars and other wildlife that needs a little human help to survive. To volunteer or more information, go to wildlifecareassociation.com

A GALA EVENT It all started in an event-planning class at Sacramento State University when Iyliana Manalo and Adrianna Manalang (philanthropists in the making) decided to test their classroom lessons by putting on a fundraiser. Their Mustard Seed Spin Fundraising Gala, held in April at Haggin Oaks Golf Course, was a family-friendly celebration featuring dance performances from around the

world, dessert, drinks, silent auction and raffle.

The event raised $2,000 for Mustard Seed School, a Loaves & Fishes program for homeless children.

NOTHING LEFT Too much food is a good thing at Seasons 52. Through a program called Seasons 52 Harvest, the Arden Fair mall restaurant donates surplus food to local organizations, including fresh fish, high-quality meats, baked potatoes, soups and fresh vegetables.

Since opening more than two years ago, the restaurant has donated more than 2,000 pounds of food to local nonprofits.

TIME TO READ Sacramento Public Library Foundation wants everyone to read, especially children. That’s why the foundation presented a March 14 event called Authors on the Move.

The keynote speaker was Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. He’s the author of the “A Series of Unfortunate Events” children’s books and, more recently, “All the Wrong Questions; Shouldn’t You Be in School?”

The event featured a champagne reception, a four-course dinner created by the Hyatt’s Jason Poole, and dinner-table conversation with authors. It raised more than $125,000 for the library’s summer reading program, which reaches 28,000 children. Donations are accepted all year long, as you might expect.

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If someone you know has mobility problems or is recovering from an illness, surgery or receiving medical treatment, they can “rest and rejuvenate� at full service senior living communities like the Chateau at River’s Edge, a Hank Fisher Senior Community.

This care can also provide a much-needed break for family members caring for a loved one at home. Perry says he followed recommendations of trusted friends to select the Chateau at River’s Edge. “If it wasn’t for the wonderful staff I don’t know where I’d be,â€? he said. “They got me on my feet even faster than I expected, they really challenged me to start dressing on my RZQ WR WDNH WKRVH Ă€UVW VWHSV RQ P\ RZQ Âľ

Senior Communities. “Our entire staff is dedicated to making these trying times pass quickly. Our goal is to have our guests walk out feeling better than ever.�

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“The Chateau is an exceptional community,� said Joan Georgallis, Perry’s daughter.

She spent countless hours by his side at the Chateau as he recovered from surgery.

Father and daughter say that the furnished suites with private bathrooms truly set the Chateau apart. The pristine accommodations helped Perry feel much more comfortable during a challenging and vulnerable time in his life. He’s still raving about the meals they served him, all specially prepared by a classically trained chef. “The food was fabulous! Their soup, oh gosh, I used to have two cups every night,â€? said Perry. ´:H EHOLHYH WKDW SHUVRQDO DWWHQWLRQ Ă€UVW class accommodations and delicious and QXWULWLRXV PHDOV FDQ KDYH D VLJQLĂ€FDQW impact on recovery time,â€? said Nancy Fisher, President and CEO of Hank Fisher

Phyllis is a vibrant, active woman who thrives on the activities offered at the Chateau at River’s Edge.

She loves the social side of being able to meet people, and Phyllis’ family sleeps better knowing the caring, friendly staff is always there when she needs them. “They are all giving and caring,� says Rick Johnson, Phyllis’ son. “They all know her name, and all the family’s names, and share any concerns with us at any time.�

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Second Chance AFTER A CAREER IN PUBLIC SERVICE, SHE FOUND HER VOICE AS A SINGER

BY JESSICA LASKEY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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he song “The Seasons of My Time” perfectly describes the way Carolyne Swayze sees her life. It should: She wrote it.

Swayze is a singer, songwriter, composer and novelist, though she didn’t start out that way. She spent 30 years in public service, first as a member of the Marine Corps, then as an investigator for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office (she carried a gun and a badge) and finally in the Department of Child Services.

For the DCS job, she commuted 200 miles a day to and from her home in Campus Commons. “It was a ‘lifestone,’” Swayze says with an easy laugh. “Milestones mark your progress in life. Lifestones are burdens you have to deal with. Finally, one day I hit a wall emotionally. I said, ‘No more commute.’ I was loaned to the state here in Sacramento for six months and then I said, ‘I think I’m ready to retire.’”

Retirement allowed Swayze to return to her first love: music. As a child growing up in Chicago, Swayze was surrounded by music, between her maternal grandmother (“a devout Mennonite who played piano and sang only of gospel praises”) and another grandmother figure who sang opera and jazz. But her family was far from encouraging. Her grandfather, the first African-American bishop in the Mennonite Church, told a young Swayze that she should “learn how to type or become a teacher” instead of sing. When Swayze finally got her

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Carolyne Swayze is a local vocalist, composer, songwriter and novelist

mother to drive her to an audition for Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” (the “American Idol” of its day), the pressure was more than she could handle. An embarrassing bout of

stage fright left the 14-year-old all but mute onstage, and Swayze put music aside for years.

“It wasn’t until I came to California that I dared to sing again,” Swayze

says. “I happened to be out one night with friends, having a particularly good time at a dinner house in Fresno, listening to a band. Suddenly I said, ‘I know these songs’ and walked up to the bandleader and said, ‘Do you know “The Masquerade Is Over”?’ He said, ‘What key?’ I looked at him like he had two heads, we did the proverbial ‘Hum a few bars,’ and I ended up working with that bandleader, Dick Scudder, for the next three years.”

Swayze credits Scudder with giving her the formal singing training she’d always longed for: how to breathe, how to stand, how to phrase, how to speak to the audience. She began singing on the hotel and country club circuit while working full time.

“Having a regular job was a blessing and a curse,” Swayze says.

“It gave me a career, but I think I may have gone further into music if I hadn’t had a day job. I’m only now understanding the strugglingmusician thing, but I have no regrets. I feel very fortunate to have experienced both.”

After making it through her second divorce (another lifestone), Swayze found herself retired in Sacramento and wondering what to do next. At the encouragement of friends, she started composing, recording and releasing singles of her own music as well as covers of old favorites.

“As I started to get older, I realized that if you’re going to stay in this business, you have to make your own mark,” Swayze says. “There are lots of wonderful songs out there, but you can’t sing cover songs better than the people who made them. At best, it’s an imitation because it’s someone

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else’s song. I discovered that I had some things to say. I think that’s why it took all these years to literally find my own voice. It has to do with life experience.”

Swayze released a CD in 2010 but found that the Internet provided an even broader audience for her work.

“People are listening to music differently,” Swayze says. “You can download a track to your phone in minutes. That kind of technology was never available to independent artists before. The Internet has changed the music industry. You can make yourself accessible to everyone.”

She is happy with her new lease on life. “I’m very comfortable at this stage of my life,” she says. “I’m not trying to be the next Beyoncé. There’s a small niche for what I do and I’m happy to do that. To share great music with great musicians and great friends, that’s what it’s all about.”

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Wonder of Wonders SOON-TO-OPEN FOLSOM TOY MUSEUM WINDS UP FOR A FAIRYTALE FUNDRAISER

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ver wish you could frolic in a fairytale? On Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 6 p.m., your dreams will come true at The Garden of Wonder and Delight, a fundraiser for the soon-to-beopened Museum of Wonder and Delight in Folsom, held at the beautiful private McMichael estate.

The lush, 2-acre garden will play host to whimsical characters and magical fairies as well as live music, light appetizers and drinks to raise the final funds for the nearly completed museum, located at the lower end of historic Sutter Street in Folsom. It will house Dolph Gotelli’s internationally renowned collection of 19th and 20th century toys, folk art, games and much more.

“The event promises to be an adventure of fun, fantasy and surprises at every turn,” Gotelli says.

“Much like the museum!”

For tickets (adults and their inner children only, please), call 985-2707, go to folsomhistorymuseum.org or purchase in person at Green Acres locations in Folsom (205 Serpa Way), Roseville (901 Galleria Blvd.) and Sacramento (8501 Jackson Road).

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Ever wish you could frolic in a fairytale? On Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 6 p.m., your dreams will come true at The Garden of Wonder and Delight, a fundraiser for the soon-to-be-opened Museum of Wonder and Delight in Folsom.

FREE TO BE YOU AND ME The Sacramento Pride Festival is back and better than ever in its 31-year history from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, at Capitol Mall. Expect exciting entertainment, hundreds of displays and plenty of food and fun to be had, all to benefit the nonprofit Sacramento LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Community Center.

First, the headliner: Belinda Carlisle, former lead singer for the chart-topping, all-girl punk bank The GoGo’s, will serenade Sacramento Pride audiences as she has at Pride festivals all over the country.

“My LGBT fans have long been among my favorite audiences—giving, fun and free—and they always energize and inspire me,” Carlisle says. “As someone with many LGBT individuals in my life, both personally and professionally, performing at

Pride events has always been very important to me. I’ve heard so much about Sacramento’s exciting Pride Festival and cannot wait to be there to make my voice heard for LGBT equality and to show my Sacramento fans a great time.”

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HAVE “INSIDE,” WILL TRAVEL 1. Jim Knox, Dana Dusbiber, and Eva Cedros at Magdalena Island penguin colony in Punta Arenas, Chile 2. Kathy and Andy Kingsbury visit the Japanese Covered Bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam 3. Dave, Amy, Nathan, Ryan, Sierra, and Faith Witte in Partnach Gorge, Bavaria, Germany 4. Janice Crawford, Debbie Haley, Karen Padilla, Nancy Cook, and Kathy Egger on a girls trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, CA 5. Mesa Verde High School (SJUSD) students in Wasilla, Alaska for travel and hoops 6. Allison and Alice Ramsey visiting Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica

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PREVIEWS FROM page 78 “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as well as hiphop artist Cazwell and Sacramento singer-songwriter Andrew Castro, who recently released his new EP album “Inside/Out.” The festival will also feature booths from hundreds of local businesses and nonprofit organizations, a dance pavilion, a pet pavilion (where you can adopt a furry friend), a Kids Zone, an Art Zone featuring the work of local artists, food trucks and plenty of drinks to keep the party going all day long.

To get the day going, don’t miss the Sacramento Pride Parade, starting at 11 a.m. at Third and N streets. It will feature floats, cheerleaders, bands and performers, as well as contingents from among churches, veterans, law enforcement groups and nonprofit organizations.

Sacramento Pride is the largest source of funding for the Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s programs and services, which are open to everyone and specifically aimed to serve marginalized populations within the LGBT community. The center’s many programs promote health and wellness, economic empowerment and education by providing peer support, services for at-risk youths, a free weekly legal clinic, HIV/AIDS

prevention and support services, transgender support and numerous discussion groups and other activities for LGBT adults.

Tickets for Sacramento Pride are $10 (the parade is free) and children ages 5 and younger get in free. For more information, go to sacramentopride.org

GOING ONCE …

GOING TWICE …

Summer is for all intents and purposes here, and with it comes three exciting exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum, as well as the region’s favorite art auction on June 6.

Keep your bidding paddle primed when the Crocker Art Auction gets going from 5:30 to 11 p.m. on June 6.

This year’s event will feature work by more than 100 of the region’s renowned artists, all on the bidding block for you to take home and add to your collection. The evening will start with cocktails, head into a delectable gourmet dinner and end with a lively live auction. For tickets, call 8087843.

If you’d prefer to ogle the art rather than buy it, check out the Crocker’s three new exhibitions, starting on June 7 with the opening of “David Ligare: California Classicist,”

Crocker Art Auction gets going from 5:30 to 11 p.m. on June 6. This year’s event will feature work by more than 100 of the region’s renowned artists

which will stay on display through Sept. 20. Nearly 80 pieces of Ligare’s photorealistic pieces will be on exhibit in this extensive retrospective that includes still-life, landscape, architectural and figurative paintings alike.

Later in the month, take in the stunning porcelain work of Chinese artist Shimo in “Flowers of Fire and Earth: Shimo’s Blue-and-White Porcelains,” on display June 21 through Sept. 6. The beautifully translucent pieces, nearly 40 in all, show Shimo’s delicacy and intricacy working with a medium that aims to “combine ancient traditions with a contemporary spirit” and “to melt the national aesthetics of Eastern and Western art in one furnace,” according to the artist himself.

From June 28 through Oct. 11, feast your eyes on the work of San Francisco native Armin Hansen in the exhibition “Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage,” organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art in collaboration with the staff of the Crocker. Hansen, who was born in

1886, sought to capture the raw power and vitality of the Pacific Ocean and those who sailed it, which resulted in lush still lifes, spirited rodeo scenes, loosely rendered landscapes and depictions of his signature subjects, fisher-folk and the sea. The exhibition features 100 works including oils on canvas, watercolors and etchings.

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

FITNESS FOR FUN Trying to figure out a way to keep those little hands, and feet, busy once school is out for the summer? Fleet Feet Sports’ “Little Feet” Summer Camps on June 15-19 and June 22-26 in William Land Park might be the perfect way to keep your tot engaged while also getting a little exercise.

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

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entering first through sixth grades (no exceptions) the importance of teamwork and sportsmanship through activities such as minihurdles, water relays, silly versions of tag, obstacle courses and the “Little Feet” Olympics at the end of each session.

The groups are small (only six to seven children per group) with one “Big Foot” team leader each. Classes run from 9 a.m. to noon every day and include a camp shirt, a daily healthful snack and plenty of water to keep kids cool and hydrated.

Session I will run June 15-19, Session II will run June 22-26.

Registration is done through the city of Sacramento at cityofsacramento. org Select “After School Programs and Day Camps” or search by bar code #150573 (Session I) or #150574 (Session II). “Fleet Feet Sports: Little Feet Summer Camp” will appear as one of your choices. Select the date

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you would like to participate and complete the registration process.

For more information, go to fleetfeetsacramento.com or email training@fleetfeetsacramento.com William Land Park is at 3800 South Land Park Drive.

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS The Carmichael Park Community Band Festival is a one-stop shop for all band music aficionados, and it’s taking place Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, at the Carmichael Park Amphitheater. Mark your calendar and don’t miss out on one of the largest community band festivals in California for the past 20 years.

Fifteen concert bands will take the stage during the twoday extravaganza, including the Sacramento Symphonic Winds, the Capitol Pops Concert Band, the Amador County Concert Band, the Auburn Concert Band, and many more. The event is presented by the Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association and is free to all comers.

The Carmichael Park Community Band Festival is a one-stop shop for all band music aficionados on June 6 and 7.

Photo courtesy of Susan Maxwell Skinner.

Bring the family, a picnic, some sunscreen and settle on the grass for a rousing good time.

There will be music from noon to 7 p.m. on June 6 and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on June 7. For more information, go to svsba.net or sacwinds.org Carmichael Park is at 5750 Grant Ave.

PLAYING ’POSSUM If you’ve ever found a critter lurking around your backyard or rummaging through your garbage cans, chances are your first thought is not how you can help your new furry friend, but rather how fast you can get the broom.

But as more and more opossums— those beady-eyed, prehensile-tailed

marsupials—find their way into urban environments, the more danger these harmless creatures encounter.

Best known for “playing dead” to trick potential predators, opossums can’t outrun a car or an angry dog, so many of them get injured and are left to die. The Wildlife Care Association (WCA), a nonprofit resource center providing care, recovery and release of small animals and birds in the Sacramento region, is out to change the opossum’s bad rap and make sure concerned citizens know what to do if they encounter an injured critter.

Classes on how to care for injured opossums—on the way to dropping them off at the WCA, where they can be properly rehabilitated—as well as on how to qualify to become a WCA rehabilitation volunteer will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, at the WCA facility at McClellan Park. Pre-register by emailing wcarehabilitation@yahoo.com or call 965-WILD (965-9453) for more information.

The WCA is at 5211 Patrol Road at McClellan Park.

MAIS OUI! For those of us who aren’t lucky enough to call France home, there’s no reason you can’t keep up with the fabulous French film world from the comfort of home. The 14th Sacramento French Film Festival will kick off with an opening reception at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 19, in the lobby of the Crest Theatre. The first film will start at 8:30 p.m.

Film screenings of the most buzzworthy French films, all with English subtitles, will take place all day on Saturdays and Sundays, June 20-21 and 27-28. Evening screenings will take place on Fridays, June 19 and 26. For a complete lineup, including dates of receptions, breakfasts, film festival parties, special guests and post-screening discussions, go to sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org For more information, call 4763356. The Crest Theatre is at 1013 K St.

Don't miss the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s “Focus on Fiber” annual Fiber Arts Open Show, on display June 2-20 in Carmichael

FOLLOW THIS THREAD If your doctor tells you that you need more fiber in your diet, you’ll get just what the doctor ordered at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s “Focus on Fiber” annual Fiber Arts Open Show, on display June 2-20 in Carmichael.

“Focus on Fiber” will feature exceptional uses for this common material, including basketry, beading, crochet, dyeing fabric, felting, hooking, knitting, knotting, lace making, painting or printing on fabric, quilting, spinning, sewing, stitching, tapestry, costuming and more. Exhibit judge Kristine Buchanan has vetted each piece to make sure that no crafts, kits or production work will be shown, so you can be sure that you’ll be getting the best of the best on your new “highfiber” diet.

Interested in seeing fiber artists in action? Don’t miss the demonstration by the Spinners Group from the

Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 2. You can also meet the “Focus on Fiber” artists and cheer them on as they’re given awards for their work at the Second Saturday reception from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on June 13. For more information, go to sacfinearts.org The Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

GET A START IN THE ARTS Is your teen a theater aficionado, whether onstage or off? Rio Valley Charter School (RVCS)’s Sacramento Arts Guild is now accepting applications for students interested in Performing Arts in Service, a new arts, media and entertainment educational career path offered at its Sacramento Arts Guild satellite campus.

RVCS is an independent K-12 charter school serving students in

both San Joaquin and Sacramento counties and is fully accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

During the 2014-15 school year, RVCS piloted a small arts-focused satellite program here in Sacramento called the Arts Guild, which drew students from Natomas to Elk Grove.

Due to the program’s success, RVCS has added the Performing Arts in Service learning track to better serve those students interested in a career in the theater.

University of California-approved class offerings will combine subjects such as Social Action Theatre, Vocal Performance, Dance, Stage Combat I & II, Video & Film Production and Geometry & Stagecraft with intensive school daytime training opportunities on the stages of the R25 Arts Complex and Access Sacramento’s production studios.

Students will work with credentialed teachers and local experts in this four-year program that leads to a new certificate designed with input from film and theater experts. The mission of the program seeks to broaden the interests and skills of student artists beyond that of fame into the real-world applications of the arts in civic action, social entrepreneurship and community betterment.

Interested? Attend an information night at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, at the R25 Arts complex at 2509 R St. For more information, go to riovalleyartsguild.org or call (844) 368-4934.

READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS See the world through the lenses of three talented local photographers at the “Three Photographers—Three Views” show, now on view through June 26 at the Ella K. McClatchy Library in midtown.

The show features three Sacramento-area photographers who each approach photography with their own artistic bent. Roberta Bailey scans arrangements of real

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Gail Parris creates images focusing on Delta birdlife that emulate Japanese woodprints, Inuit stone prints and even Audubon bird prints, which she achieves by altering the light and applying hand coloring.

Feast your eyes at the Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St. For more information, call 264-2700 or go to saclibrary.org

his studies in flute performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Maryland under the instruction of legendary flutist Maria Piccinini. Audrey Shepherd, 18, of Sacramento will be pursuing a double major in bassoon performance and applied mathematics at the University of Michigan. Lindsay Marty, 18, of Granite Bay received a full scholarship to USC, where she’ll pursue oboe performance and premedical studies.

These are just a few of this year’s successful graduates, with many others set to attend schools such as Boston University, Cornell, the Royal Conservatory of Scotland, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Cal State Northridge and more.

We think Dardis put it best: “When I first joined the Sacramento Youth Symphony, I was insecure about my playing, but the friendship and support I received during my three years there, especially Maestro Michael Neumann’s wise teachings and encouragement, were instrumental to my success.”

Thanks to the SYS, these students will go on to big, bright futures— and that’s music to our ears. For more information on the SYS, go to sacramentoyouthsymphony.org

MISTY WATERCOLOR MEMORIES To see Sacramento through the eyes of renowned local painter David Lobenberg would be a rare treat, and one visitors will get to experience when they take in his most recent exhibition, “Focal Points: Sacramento,” at the Union Hall Gallery on K Street starting on June 13.

“My watercolor paintings reflect some of my most cherished Sacramento memories,” Lobenberg says. “To name a few: taking our daughter to play at Fairytale Town, enjoying a flick and dinner with my wife at Tower, and walking the magnificent grounds of the state Capitol.”

Hobnob with Lobenberg himself at the Second Saturday reception from 6-9 p.m. on June 13. The Union Hall Gallery is at 2126 K Street. To see more of Lobenberg’s watercolor works, go to lobenbergart.com

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS What do you get when you give 20 of Northern California’s best artists a theme based on everyone’s favorite, though often frustrating, childhood game Rock Paper Scissors? You get the awesome new Archival Gallery show “Ro Sham Bo,” on display June 6 through July 2.

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David Lobenberg's exhibit “Focal Points: Sacramento” will be on display at the Union Hall Gallery on K Street starting on June 13

as Al Farrow, William Maul, Corey Okada, Estaban Villa, William Ishmael, Maria Winkler, Richard Feese, Mariellen Layne and more as they wrestle in various media with the decision-making game that defined our childhoods.

Meet the artists in person at the Second Saturday reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on June 13. For more information, call 923-6204 or go to archivalgallery.com Archival Gallery is at 3223 Folsom Blvd.

THIS IS OUR YOUTH You’re probably familiar with the tremendous talents of the Sacramento Youth Symphony (SYS), the nearly 60-year-old nonprofit organization that boasts a membership of more than 400 talented young musicians ages 6-21 from all over the region.

But have you ever wondered what happens to those capable pupils-cumperformers after they’ve aged out of the group?

Good news: Many of them go on to pursue college degrees, in music and other disciplines, all over the world.

Some of the students graduating this year include Drew Dardis, 17, of Fair Oaks, who will be continuing

CALLING ALL ARTISTS If you’re an artist of any kind— sculptor, photographer, painter, et cetera—don’t miss the opportunity to submit your artwork by June 30 to the Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s annual open show, “Magnum Opus XXVI.” This year’s national juried art exhibit will be judged by Linda Gelfman and will offer various accolades for competing artists, including the $1,000 Best of Show Award. Interested artists can download the prospectus and instructions at sacfinearts.org All entries are due by midnight on June 30. The show will run Aug. 4-29 at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael. n

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Artistic Edge will feature works by Bill Lorenz, Pat Orner and Shannon Raney.

Shown: “Wilbur” by Shannon Raney. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

A Still Life Show will be featured through July 31at Patris Studio and Art Gallery.

Shown left: “Teapot” by Patris 3460 2nd Ave.

The Archival Gallery presents an exhibit through July 2 based on “Ro Sham Bo” featuring interpretations of “Rock Paper Sizzors” by more than 20 top artists.

Shown is a work by Maria Winkler.

3223 Folsom Blvd. archivalgallery.com

Red Dot Gallery presents works by 21 artists invited to participate in the theme-oriented exhibition titled Self: Beyond the Face.

Shown: “Ornament”

by Margarita Chaplinska.

The show runs through June 27.

2231 J St.; reddotgallery.com

Helen Jones Gallery presents original seascape and landscape paintings by Robert Wee. “Morning Breaker” by Wee is shown.

588 La Sierra Dr.; helenjonesgallery.com

Atelier 20 features artist Randy Honerlah and his series of impressionist landscape paintings.

Shown: “Free Fallin” by Honerlah.

Atelier 20, 915 20th St.

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Cold Treats and Sweets A ROUNDUP OF NEIGHBORHOOD DESSERTS FOR SUMMER

EAST SACRAMENTO

BY GREG SABIN RESTAURANT INSIDER

Burr’s Fountain: An East Sacramento institution, Burr’s offers all the old-fashioned charm you’re looking for when thinking about a family ice cream parlor. Using ice cream from Vic’s, Burr’s creates inventive shakes, splits and malts.

4920 Folsom Blvd.; 452-5516

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MIDTOWN Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates: Proprietor Ginger Elizabeth Hahn has an international reputation for her exquisite chocolates and desserts.

Lesser known, however, is her annual dive into frozen treats. Every May, the tiny Midtown storefront expands its menu to include handmade “microbatch” ice creams and frozen delicacies. Imagine a frozen hot chocolate parfait, or a Parisian macaron ice cream sandwich, or a sour cream and strawberry ice cream sundae with roasted rhubarb butter.

I know, sounds terrible, right? Best you stay away and leave more for me.

1801 L St.; 706-1738; gingerelizabeth.com

ARDEN ARCADE/ CARMICHAEL The Parlor Ice Cream Puffs: One of the most creative ice cream shops in town, The Parlor offers custom flavors from Gunther’s Ice Cream with a variety of novel presentations. Think about Thai ice tea ice cream served on a giant French macaron, or “choco taco” ice cream stuffed into a glazed doughnut and topped with powdered sugar. The flavors are cleverly addictive and the serving options indulgent.

2620 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 977-3997; theparloricecream.com The Hagen’s Original Orange Freeze: For old-time Carmichael residents, Hagen’s holds the keys to the door of history. Merlino’s original orange freeze has been a part of Sacramento summers for generations.

Hagen’s picks up where Merlino’s left off almost a decade ago, claiming to serve the original Merlino’s recipe.

You’ll find standard snack-shack burgers and provisions, but you’re really going there for the brain-paininducing orange freeze, icy-cold and tasting of history.

2520 Walnut Ave.; 489-7842

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Cleary’s Ice Cream & Candy Bar offers lots of cool treats for a warm summer day

Cleary’s Ice Cream & Candy Bar: A treat for youngsters, Cleary’s, open for only a year, hits the sweet spot with a soft-serve ice cream bar and a ridiculous bounty of newfangled and old-timey candy. You’ll find better ice cream at many other places,

but the visual stimulation of all that brightly colored candy will widen the eyes of the munchkins in your family.

2545 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 900-8251; clearysisters.com

Devine Gelateria & Cafe: Gelato is just Italian ice cream, right? Well, one taste of Devine’s gelato and you’ll rethink that position. With gelatos and sorbettos made fresh daily, Devine serves up some of the most delectable and creative frozen flavors in the region. Go bold and opt for the bananas foster gelato, or the fig/apricot/fromage. Or go traditional and try the best affogato (espresso poured over a scoop of vanilla gelato) you’re bound to have this side of the Mediterranean.

Cleary’s Ice Cream & Candy Bar features a large selection of sweet treats

1221 19th St.; 446-0600; devinegelateria.com

CURTIS PARK/LAND PARK Gunther’s Ice Cream: One of the two granddaddies of Sacramento ice cream, Gunther’s has held down the same corner spot on Franklin Boulevard and 3rd Avenue since 1949. Its iconic neon sign, its huge corner of windows and its absolutely spot-on flavors make it a destination for midcentury-modern aficionados as well as ice cream seekers of all ages. Beyond ice cream, Gunther’s also stands out for its best-in-class eggnog (available as a beverage or ice cream during the holidays), its frozen specialties like mud pie on a stick, and its proximity to one of the best beer bars (Pangaea) in the region.

2801 Franklin Blvd.; 457-6646; gunthersicecream.com Vic’s Ice Cream: The other granddad of Sacramento ice cream,

Vic’s has been dishing out quality scoops since 1941. The small counter and handful of booths have served generations of Sacramentans. Vic’s ice cream, in a panoply of flavors, is available by the scoop, the dish or the quart. Service is quick and friendly, but don’t expect the line to be short.

On a weekday after school, or on any weekend day, you’re bound to wait in a bit of a line to get that creamy goodness. Vic’s also makes a fine sandwich. Try the wiener sandwich or the turkey salad for a classic treat.

One last note: If you’re eating at a downtown restaurant and ice cream is on the menu, it’s probably from Gunther’s or Vic’s.

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Running for Alzheimer’s WHAT THE FAB 40S 5K MEANS TO ME

BY HOWARD POSNER VOLUNTEER PROFILE

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very July, East Lawn Memorial Park stages a 5k run/walk through the streets of East Sacramento to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Association of Northern California and Northern Nevada. Since its inception in 2008, this event has had a special significance for me.

As a longtime runner, I am always on the lookout for local races, and as I advance through the age categories, I have found that the competition has thinned to the point that I can actually win a medal every now and then. As an East Sac resident, I find this race particularly attractive since I can sleep in and still easily walk or bike to the start line before the action begins. And what can be more picturesque than jogging or strolling through our beautiful East Sacramento neighborhood on a sunny summer morning?

But most importantly from my point of view is the cause that the Fab 40s 5K seeks to promote: dementia support, care and research.

Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, killing more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. It strikes one in nine people over the age of 65, and it takes a terrible toll on those with the disease and their loved ones. It is a long, cruel journey from diagnosis to death, and there is no effective means of treatment, prevention or cure.

I know this scourge all too well.

My mother was diagnosed in 1971 with what was then termed presenile dementia and would now be called younger-onset Alzheimer’s. In

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retrospect, it was clear she had been exhibiting symptoms for several years before her formal diagnosis. She died in 1980 at the age of 63 but had really been lost to my family from her early 50s.

East Lawn has recognized the impact of Alzheimer’s on our

community, first by organizing the 5K run/walk and later by establishing an Alzheimer’s Memorial Wall on its grounds where the names of departed loved ones, including my mother, Estelle Posner, are enshrined.

I was honored when East Lawn asked me to serve on the steering

committee for the Fab 40s 5k Run/ Walk. The committee is encouraging our neighbors to come out and walk or run with us on Saturday, July 25. The event has something for everyone.

It’s dog friendly, stroller friendly, has kids’ races, and is a timed city of Sacramento 5k championship race.

We are also asking local businesses to consider sponsoring a booth or otherwise supporting the event.

Proceeds from the 5k will go to the Sacramento office of Alzheimer’s Association to help support Alzheimer’s research as well as care and support services for those coping with Alzheimer’s and their families.

Local services include education programs, an annual conference, support groups, care consultations, online resources and a phone hotline that is answered by Alzheimer’s Association staffers 24/7. As the number of families impacted by Alzheimer’s and other dementias has increased, so has the need for services in our area.

It is the rare family that has not been, or will not be, scarred by this terrible disease. Participating with our neighbors on July 25 is a small but meaningful way to fight back. To learn more about this important event, please go to fab40s5k.org or call 492-8966. If you or a loved one has been impacted

by Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, I encourage you to reach out to Alzheimer’s Association for information and support at alz.org or (800) 272-3900.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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L D $$ Wine/Beer Creative cuisine in a casual setting • Jacksoncateringevents.com

L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

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

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

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Burr's Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

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

Clubhouse 56 723 56th. Street 454-5656

L D $-$$ Thin-Crust Pizza, Deserts and Beer in an intimate setting and popular location

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

Les Baux 5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348 BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960

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

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

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1001 Front St. 446-6768 D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants. com

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com

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