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STUNNING NEW HOME Wow! Open Àoor plan 4 bedrooms, 4½ baths, hardwood Àoors, kitchen and family room combo, 14’-16’ ceilings, plus 3 car garage. 2 suites plus of¿ce downstairs, 2 beds, 2 baths plus loft up. 2 homes have already sold in subdivision for over $1,500,000, and 2 more lots are reserved. $1,235,000 CARMAH HATCH 765-6210
CUSTOM BUILT FAIR OAKS Wonderful Custom Tudor-like home with large formal living room and dining room. Very spacious open kitchen, nook and family room. 4 bedrooms (one remote with bath) and 3 full baths. 2nd Àoor bonus room; private yard with pool/spa and brick patio. $725,000 PATTY BAETA 806-7761
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CURRAGH DOWNS ESTATES 4 bedroom 3 bath home, 3000 square feet, among large, well-maintained homes in a quiet neighborhood. Borders American River Parkway. Spotless home with updated kitchen, lots of storage, spacious game room with full bath and access to pool. Large backyard deck. $565,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495 JERRY KIRRENE 455-1001
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CAMPUS COMMONS Darling Campus Commons Condo, 3 bedrooms 2½ baths, great wood like Àooring throughout plus new carpeting. Remodeled kitchen and baths with granite counters. Downstairs laundry area plus additional laundry upstairs. Home sits on lovely greenbelt in a wonderful location! $295,000 CARMAH HATCH 765-6210
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BEAUTIFUL MODERN HOME A Streng home on American River Drive. Open concept with large dining area, living room, and built-in entertainment center, and gas ¿replace. Private master suite, and 2 additional bedrooms with a full bath and laundry room. Private backyard, large patio and BBQ center. $585,000 CHRIS BALESTRERI 996-2244
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Under the Weather RAIN OR SHINE, THERE’S MORE INTERESTING THINGS TO TALK ABOUT
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s I pen this column, rain is steadily drizzling down, and I am enjoying the pure pleasure that a much-needed stormy day brings. But my joy is tempered when I hear a drought expert being interviewed on the radio. “Don’t get too excited,” the expert says defiantly. “Because unless we have a storm like this every day well into the spring, it will make no difference whatsoever to the drought.” What a buzzkill, I think. Most of us know we are way behind on our rain and snowpack levels. Of course it will take more than one storm to get us out of the drought. But I find this kind of broad-brush admonishment insulting. What do the experts think we will do? Run out and start watering our lawns every day? Resume taking long, hot showers? I think not. I absolutely love the weather in Sacramento. There is just enough change of season to stay interesting and enough sunshine to maintain my own personal solar-powered nature. The drought aside, I pay
little attention to weather except as it relates to my plans for outdoor sports. I get weather forecasts from my iPhone WeatherBug app. It gives me a pretty accurate picture of the next few days’ forecast so I can decide whether or not to cancel a tennis game. For cycling, I don’t even bother to check. Working at home most of the time, I can dress for a ride in the morning and then, when the weather looks clear, hop on my bike. For dog walking, my husband and I do the same, or even just suit up and go out in the rain.
Having grown up in Michigan, I’d had my fill of winter snow by the time I turned 21, when I moved out west to a milder climate. But some of my friends wouldn’t miss the local morning or evening news shows for detailed weather reports. And they can talk about the weather for even longer than the broadcast runs. Having grown up in Michigan, I’d had my fill of winter snow by the time I turned 21, when I moved out west to a milder climate. Snow in winter was just part of the world we lived in. Snow days were built into the school calendar, yet I recall having only a few of them. A snow day meant getting cold and wet but still having a ball playing outside all day.
This past January, a biblically proportioned East Coast snow and ice storm dubbed Snowmageddon was forecast. But it quickly became Nomageddon when it never arrived. The “storm of the century” seems to come every couple of months now. I was at a class with a friend the day before Snowmageddon was expected to strike. When another friend of hers arrived, she exclaimed, “OMG, are your kids OK?” Startled, the woman replied, “They are fine, but why on earth do you ask?” My friend said that she knew the woman’s adult kids lived back east. The lady shook her head and sighed. Years ago I asked my mother how the conversation was with her new dinner companions after she moved to assisted living. “Fine,” she said, “if you want to talk about the weather.” A major storm last fall in Northern California was expected to bring punishing winds and widespread flooding. Even my husband—who takes protecting our home and property very seriously—went out and loaded sandbags at 6 a.m. to block our basement and office from flooding. Thankfully, nothing even close to what was predicted actually happened. I am fairly certain the news media hyperventilation about weather extremes hasn’t always been with us. I recently heard about a study that showed the amount of time spent on weather by national news broadcasts has more than tripled in the past 10 years. The conclusion was that this coverage was being driven by globalwarming or climate-change interests. While I am all for reducing emissions, conserving fuel and
recycling everything possible, I am tiring of the political agenda that seems to blame the habits of our citizens for everything that goes wrong with the weather. This especially applies to weather patterns that are seasonally normal, including lots of winter snow in Eastern and Midwest states, hurricanes and tornadoes in states that have experienced them for hundreds of years, and rainstorms all over the country. Even the rain I am listening to on my rooftop as I write was just yesterday hyped as an “atmospheric river.”
After all, our urban neighborhoods have much more interesting people, places and things to experience than the weather. But then again, maybe I’m wrong and it’s the Weather Channel that’s really to blame. But rest assured, this is likely the last time you will read about weather—other than maybe in our garden column—in this publication. After all, our urban neighborhoods have much more interesting people, places and things to experience than the weather. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n
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Young Patriots Touch Lives RIO AMERICANO TEENS RAISE FUNDS FOR READING MATERIAL FOR TROOPS
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io Americano High School junior Nico Scordakis knows he’s too young to sign up for the military. But he says he’s not too young to help U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. He became particularly interested in our troops’ well-being when close family friend and fellow Arden resident Sam Nelson deployed to the Middle East to serve as a medic. That’s when Scordakis began asking questions. He knew from experience that he could easily help send candy bars to the troops by donating a dollar at the Walgreens checkout counter. But he wondered if Nelson would ever get that candy bar, let alone want or need it. “Candy bars melt,” Scordakis said. You can’t have chocolate in Afghanistan. That’s just not going to work, he said. Scordakis wanted Nelson to feel the love from his hometown, to know that people in the Arden area appreciate his service. “Both my grandparents were in the military and I just wanted to give back,” the teenager said. “I figured I’d start off with something small and hopefully do something big.
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“St. Mark’s Preschool is a wonderful place to help set the foundation for your child’s learning success,” director Lily Andrews said
“They get plenty of food, toothbrushes and supplies. But Sam told us what he really wants is reading materials—books and magazines—to help pass the downtime and keep his mind occupied.” Scordakis got busy and formed Rio Americano High School’s Patriotic Club last fall. With a board of classmates Jordan Anapolsky, Izzy Cook, Noah Martin, Melitta Kauppinen and Sarah Knepshield, Scordakis cooked up an idea: collect donated books and magazines and raise money with bake sales to send them to Nelson. That would guarantee Nelson received just what he wanted. In time, Nelson could help
distribute the reading materials to other soldiers. So far, the young patriots have raised $180 for postage and received more donated books than they can afford to ship. “We’re going to send as many boxes as we can pay for,” he said. “Then we’ll have more bake sales and keep raising money to send more.” With Nelson as a “boots on the ground” contact in the Middle East, the Patriotic Club hopes to get as many books as it can into the hands of troops who want them. In the few months since Scordakis started the group, the Patriotic Club already has earned the distinction of
being one of the school’s most joined clubs.
PRESCHOOL LOOKS TO REBOUND Since 1969, St. Mark’s Preschool, in the heart of the Arden area, has been offering parent participation programs for children ages 3 and 4. It has been a win-win for all. With a rotating crew of parents to help director Lily Andrews, not only are the costs kept down, but parents get the opportunity to be part of their child’s transition into elementary school. Together, parents and toddlers build new friendships, while the kids
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learn to share, wait their turn, follow directions, handle scissors and, yes, not eat the glue. There’s lots of live music (complete with dancing) with Andrews on the guitar, and all kinds of chirping voices from the peewee set. The little neighborhood school has been a quaint tradition for the church that draws in toddlers from Fair Oaks to downtown Sacramento. “St. Mark’s Preschool is a wonderful place to help set the foundation for your child’s learning success,� Andrews said. “We provide a loving Christian environment where kids can learn through active participation with arts and crafts, field trips, age-appropriate curriculum both indoors and out, music and movement.� But with more free public preschool programs, enrollment has been dropping at St. Mark’s. The decline could spell the end of the line for the 46-year-old program. Not one to sit quietly, Andrews is quick to pull out some big guns, including her guitar and a rousing
invitation to prospective parents and toddlers to visit the school any morning during the week to see it’s the right fit for your family. Class starts at 9 a.m. weekdays and continues through noon. Students do not need to be members of the church to attend, nor do they need to be fully potty trained. The school helps with that, too. The preschool is hosting an all-day Play Day on April 11 when families can enjoy live entertainment, arts and crafts, games and food. For more information, call Andrews at 485-6509. The school is at 2391 St. Mark’s Way.
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KEEPING KIDS SAFE As I sit and look out my kitchen window in Arden Park, I remember watching all these little things popping up in the bushes, behind trees, darting across the street, jumping around on the grass, even trying to climb into the kitchen window. They were like little prairie OUT page 14
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OUT FROM page 13 dogs, disappearing in a flash and popping up somewhere else a few moments later. They weren’t prairie dogs. Not gophers or frogs, either. They were kids. My kids, Tom and Kathy Phillips’ kids. Friends, relatives, classmates, teammates. They came out of the woodwork. On any given day, they were outside playing for hours. Weekends were abuzz with their squealing.
Kirk Smalley and his wife, Laura, founded the nonprofit organization Stand for the Silent, after their son took his own life after he was a victim of cyberbullying. But in just five years’ time, it’s quite different. Yes, two of my kids are away at college. But one is still home. Nonetheless, something else has happened that’s happening all over America. More kids are staying indoors, playing inside the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of social media, video games and electronic devices. As parents, we can’t watch them from our kitchen windows. Or can we? Kirk Smalley and his wife, Laura, founded the nonprofit organization Stand for the Silent, after their son took his own life after he was a victim of cyberbullying. Their group recently partnered with TeenSafe, the creator of iPhone, Android and tablet monitoring software for parents. The family’s goal is to educate children and parents about the realities of the high-tech phone world while keeping children safe from what might be on the other end of that 4G communication. Since the company began in 2011, more than 850,000 parents have
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subscribed to TeenSafe. The program monitors electronic devices without modifying them, giving parents the ability to see their children’s mobile interactions through an online account. Parents can see social media channels, Instagram, Facebook, text messages even if they are deleted, web browsing history, contacts, call logs and their location. The Smalleys are setting up speaking engagements at schools around the country, including here in Sacramento. If you’re interested in having them speak at your child’s school, go to teensafe.com or Facebook.com/teensafe or follow twitter.com/TeenSafeCom
SCOTTISH GAMES AND FESTIVAL Who isn’t up for a little haggis hurling? Or a caber toss while drum majors pound it out and fiddlers fiddle? If that doesn’t suit you, what about a game of kick-up-your-kilt tugof-war after an afternoon of whiskey tasting? It’s almost time for one of the world’s biggest festivals celebrating Scotland. The 139th Sacramento
Valley Scottish Games and Festival is set for April 25-26 at the Yolo County Fairgrounds in Woodland. Pin up your kilt, darn those socks, pick a pipe and get ready to see some of the world’s most impassioned Scottish culture enthusiasts who travel the globe to be here. The annual event draws history lovers, performers and competitors from around the world for the two-day festival of games related to Scottish culture. You don’t have to be Scottish to watch the games unfold. Just grab a seat and root for your favorite piper or hurler or drummer as they compete in athletics, highland dance, piping, drumming, fiddling, harp and more, said Susan Scott, a longtime Scottish games lover from the Arden area. “The games offer the flavor of Scotland right in your backyard,” she said. “You don’t have to travel thousands of miles to get a taste of Scotland.” Back by popular demand are The Wicked Tinkers, who have a singalong way of getting the crowd up and dancing. The professional touring band plays a Tribal Celtic style with heart-pounding bagpipes and tribal drums.
The festival begins at 9 a.m. each day at 1125 East St. in Woodland. Tickets are available online or at the gate. For more information, go to SacramentoScotGames.org
FESTA DI VINO Arden’s Point West Rotary is gearing up for the club’s annual wine and food tasting auction, Festa di Vino, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. on March 28 at the California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St. More than 20 wineries and area restaurants will be showcasing their finest while guests stroll through the museum to enjoy antique automobiles and bid on a variety of items that include trips, dinners and gift certificates. Tickets are available online or at the door. For more information, go to festadivino.com Publisher’s Note: We apologize to readers who were offended by a photo and story that ran in this column last month about a deer hunt. While hunting is popular and legal, it also is a divisive issue. We regret upsetting any of our readers. Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com n
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ontinuing a tradition started in 2005, I will resume a series of “office hours” starting in March. They entail my setting up a table at various community events where residents can drop by and talk about items of interest with no appointment necessary. My first 2015 outing will be on Saturday, March 7, at the annual trout fishing derby held in Howe Park, 2201 Cottage Way, being sponsored by the Fulton-El Camino Recreation and Park District. My “office” will be open from 10 to 11:30 a.m. during the angler event to meet with residents that morning on a “first-come basis.” For more information about the fishing derby, call the park district at 927-3802 or visit fecrecpark.com During April, I will hold another no-appointment-necessary “office hours” at the Carmichael Egg Hunt between 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 4. The egg hunt starts at 10 a.m. sharp, rain or shine. In addition, there will be a pancake breakfast that runs from 7 to 11 a.m. The Carmichael Recreation and Park District, along with the Kiwanis Club of Carmichael,
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Accompanied with her dog Ernie, Supervisor Susan Peters will be holding her first “office hours” of the year on Saturday, March 7, at the annual trout fishing derby in Howe Park sponsored by the Fulton-El Camino Recreation and Park District. Her “office”” will be open from 10 to 11:30 a.m. during the angler event to meet with residents that morning on a no appointment necessary first come basis. For more information about the derby visit fecrecpark.com.
The Sheriff’s Department holds regular community meetings to share information about trends in crime and recent activities. These sessions are open to the public and residents are encouraged to attend. The Arden Arcade meeting will be held starting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at the Sheriff’s North Service Center, 2500 Marconi Ave. near Fulton Avenue. The Carmichael meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, at the Del Campo High School Library, 4925 Dewey Drive. Becoming involved by participating in Neighborhood Watch, attending these meetings, and learning about recent criminal activities makes us all more cognizant about how to better secure our property and make our communities safer.
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The former Motel 6 near Ethan Way and Arden Way has been flattened as part of a remodeling effort of the How About Arden shopping center. Before the demolition, a donation of approximately 12 tons of items from the motel were given to various local charities and the County Animal Shelter was supplied with sheets and blankets for animals that come into the shelter.
Motel 6 near Ethan Way and Arden Way has been flattened by the wrecking ball and a new retailer soon will emerge as part of a major remodeling effort involving the Howe Bout Arden shopping center. The old motel was a problem property that required many calls for service by the Sheriff’s Department. It also was the site of the tragic
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murder last year of Sheriff Deputy Danny Oliver, who was a member of the Problem Oriented Policing Team of the Sheriff’s North Division. Before the building was demolished, Sywest Development arranged the donation of approximately 12 tons of items including furniture and fixtures from the motel to various charities in the region. In addition, the Sacramento County Animal Shelter was supplied with sheets and blankets for the lost, abandoned and abused animals that come into the shelter.
U.S. SENIOR OPEN Last month a community meeting was held to explain to residents traffic management and street closure plans for the 2015 U.S. Senior Open Championship that will be held June 22-28 at Sacramento’s storied Del Paso Country Club. The tournament will feature 156 of golf’s elite professionals and amateurs. The event is expected to draw more than 140,000 spectators and is estimated to pump $17 million into the regional economy. All general public parking will be free at Cal Expo, with bus service to the country club. The following roads will be closed during the championship’s hours of operation (5 a.m. to 9 p.m.): Marconi Avenue from Lacy Lane to Watt Avenue; Morse Avenue from Marconi to
Pope avenues; and Pope Avenue from Morse to Watt avenues. Each household directly affected by the road closures will be given four passes that will allow the residents access to the closed streets. Additional information in the form of frequently asked questions is posted on my webpage, bos.saccounty. net/District3 For information about the tournament, go to 2015ussenioropen. com
MORE COMMUNITY MEETINGS During February, I held two other community meetings and had the opportunity to visit with residents. The first one was at the Fair Oaks Water District and was designed for early risers since we met at 7:30 a.m. The guest speaker was County Executive Brad Hudson, who covered a number of topics including the role of technologies such as the telephone number 311 to enhance the delivery of municipal services to residents of the unincorporated area. These community coffee meetings are held four times throughout the year in the district’s conference room at 10326 Fair Oaks Blvd. near Winding Way. The next one will be on Wednesday, May 20, with FBI Special Agent In Charge Monica Miller as the guest speaker.
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Later in February, I held the first of three evening community meetings planned this year for the Arden Arcade area. We met at Arden-Dimick Library with District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert as the guest speaker. She discussed the role of her office in prosecuting criminals and the important role of community prosecutors. The next meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at Conzelmann Community Center in Howe Park on Wednesday, June 10. The guest speaker for that evening will be Sheriff Captain Mike Gonzales, who is the commander for the North Division that patrols the entire unincorporated area north of the American River. A full listing of all the 2015 meeting dates is on my webpage, bos. saccounty.net
CARMICHAEL CHAMBER HONORS I hope you can join me at the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce’s annual awards banquet when it
recognizes several local residents and community members on Friday, March 27. The Person of the Year honors will go to Del Campo High School baseball legend Dusty Baker, who played professionally as well as coached in the major leagues, with the distinction of three times being named major league baseball manager of the year. Milagro Properties’ Nancy and Allan Davis are being honored as Business of the Year for their work in reinventing the old Hillside Shopping Center near the corner of Fair Oaks Boulevard and Marconi Avenue. Dr. Carolyn Getman, Dignity Health’s NICU director at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, is being recognized as Physician of the Year. Publisher Cecily Hasting of Inside Arden has earned the honor of being Media Person of the Year. And the American River Natural History Association, which operates the Effie Nature Center at Ancil Hoffman
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HORTICULTURE CENTER GARDEN DAY Bring your specific plant problems and talk with Master Gardeners at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center during open garden day from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 14. You can learn how to manage pests in fruit trees and grapevines, plus get tips on growing warm-season vegetables as well as starting a compost pile. Fair Oaks Horticulture Center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks
Park. For more information, call 8765338 or go to ucanr.edu/sacmg
EFFIE YEAW NATURE CENTER GALA Mark your calendars for Saturday, May 30, which is the date for this year’s Gala and Art Auction benefitting the Effie Yeaw Nature Center. This special event always features delicious food, wine, music and art depicting the American River Parkway and its natural wonders. Proceeds benefit the nature center and the American River Natural History Association, a nonprofit organization that supports educational and interpretive activities in the American River Parkway. Your support is especially welcomed since the operation of the nature center has been assumed by the American River Natural History Association as the result of a cooperative public-private partnership
with Sacramento County’s Department of Regional Parks. For more information, call 4894918 or go to sacnaturecenter.net
off-peak hours. During construction, access will be maintained to all residences and businesses, as well as for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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The California Dental Association reports that one in three Californians lacks access to dental care, including children and the working poor. You can help make a difference in the lives of families in our Sacramento region by volunteering at the free dental clinic at Cal Expo on March 27-28. Volunteer dentists, with the assistance of other dental professionals, will be providing dental services at no charge to the thousands of patients attending. You don’t need to be a dental professional to help. Community volunteers are needed to assist with registration, clinic setup, data entry, escorting patients, translating and much more. For more information and to learn how you can help, go to cdafoundation.org
PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS Work has begun on Fair Oaks Boulevard to install pedestrian improvements from Day Drive to Arden Way. Plans call for the construction of a curb, gutter and sidewalk on the south side of the boulevard from Day Drive to Jardin Lane, as well as from Elsdon Circle to approximately 600 feet west of Arden Way. There will also be installation of streetlights on the south side of Fair Oaks Boulevard, plus construction of sidewalk ramps at intersections in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Tree removal should have occurred by now and the remainder of the work is expected to begin in April, with completion anticipated in June. During commute hours, two through lanes will be maintained in each direction on Fair Oaks Boulevard. Traffic will be reduced to one through lane in the eastbound direction for extended periods during
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For all of you who have a Facebook account, please feel free to check out my fan page, and I invite you to like my page so you can be notified of my postings. I put information on my fan page periodically about events, activities and constituents with respect to the Third District. The page can be found by searching for Supervisor Susan Peters within the Facebook site, or you can access via my website bos.saccounty.net/ district 3 and click on the Facebook logo under District Links. Susan Peters represents the Third District on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. She can be reached at susanpeters@saccounty.net n
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All in the Family FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, MAHMUD SHARIF HAS RUN A GEM OF A BUSINESS
BY JESSICA LASKEY SHOPTALK
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ewelry is in Mahmud Sharif’s blood. The owner of Sharif Jewelers in Sacramento can trace the origins of his family business all the way back to 1930s Jerusalem. “My great-grandfather started in the business,” Sharif says from his bustling store on Howe Avenue. “Then my grandfather opened the Sharif Jewelers store in Jerusalem in 1932. In the Middle East, you call a business by the family name. The name is still everywhere there.”
Sharif came to California as a young man to pursue his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. Sharif came to California as a young man to pursue his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at California State University, Sacramento. “Every well-to-do family in the Middle East wants their oldest son to be a doctor or an engineer, and I’m the eldest son,” Sharif explains. But it didn’t take him long to realize that he wanted to continue growing his roots in the family business. “I took jewelry classes at Sac State as well as studying engineering,”
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Mahmud Sharif is the owner of Sharif Jewelers in Sacramento. He can trace the origins of his family business all the way back to 1930s Jerusalem.
Sharif says. “Jewelry manufacturing requires a mechanical background as well, so both art and engineering came in handy. I was also making jewelry in the evening and on weekends in my garage, taking it to antique shows, flea markets, swap meets. But I found myself doing a lot
of other jewelers’ work, and I wanted to start doing my own.” In 1980, Sharif made this desire a reality by opening the first of three Sharif Jewelry stores on Howe Avenue. (His brother, Hazem, runs the downtown store, and Sharif’s son, whom he affectionately calls “the champ,” runs the outpost in Folsom.)
Having now served the Sacramento region for more than 30 years, Sharif can safely say that his idea to continue his family’s legacy stateside was a good one. “We’re now at the point that we’re serving two generations of people,” Sharif says proudly. “People who came here to buy their wedding rings
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show that by giving our customers unparalleled quality and personal attention and giving back to charities and organizations all over the region.” Compassion is just as much a part of the Sharif family legacy as fine jewelry, and both are clearly making their way to the next generation.
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Love: All THIS COUPLE COMBINED FAMILY, EXERCISE AND TENNIS
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ill and Margie Campbell’s business might be called Spare Time Inc., but their ownership of 10 sports clubs in the Greater Sacramento region, including Rio del Oro Racquet Club on Scripps Drive, is more than a hobby. It’s become a lifestyle. “We’ve lived for the past 22 years in the Wilhaggin area right by Rio, so I’m there almost every day,” Bill says. “Margie and I both work out regularly and play tennis.” To say that the Campbells are avid tennis players would be an understatement. In fact, the couple met doing just that when they were teenagers. “When I was learning to play tennis, I asked my pro what I needed to do,” Bill recalls. “He told me to play as many matches as I could. My first match was with Margie’s mother, who attended the same club where I played. When she beat me, I asked her who else I could play and she said I needed to play her 14-year-old daughter. I called Margie and asked her to play and the match lasted about 40 minutes, including warm-up. I didn’t win one single point.” Margie’s prowess on the court impressed the then-19-year-old Bill— she was the number-two junior tennis player in Northern California, after all. But it wasn’t until their paths crossed again years later that they became an item. In the meantime, Bill had left UC Berkeley, where he’d been introduced to tennis in the first place as a freshman, with the
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Bill Campbell’s business might be called Spare Time Inc., but his ownership of 10 sports clubs in the Greater Sacramento region, including Rio del Oro Racquet Club on Scripps Drive, is more than a hobby
intention of returning on a full tennis scholarship. “I took a tennis class in my spring semester at Cal and fell in love with playing,” Bill says. “My instructor was the men’s tennis team coach and he told me that I could become a really good tennis player, so I got really involved in it over the summer. I’m kind of driven, so for the next two years, I didn’t go to sleep unless I’d played 10 sets of tennis six days a week. I got a full ride for tennis to go
back to Berkeley, but the NCAA ruled that I only had one year of eligibility left. That would have been a waste, so I went to Sacramento State instead to major in accounting.” Although Bill successfully became a CPA, and eventually the chief financial officer of a development company, his love of tennis kept calling him back to the courts. While researching a paper on tennis and swim clubs for his MBA, he interviewed the managers of 22 local
organizations, which got him thinking about starting one of his own. “After Margie and I got married, we wanted to start a business which combined our many interests,” Bill recalls. “We knew that we both loved family, exercise, tennis and the Sacramento region. We decided that creating active, family-oriented club communities was what we both wanted to do.” Thus, Spare Time Clubs, Inc. was born, taking its name from the very fact that it was a business the Campbells were running in their spare time. They opened Rio del Oro, their first site, in March of 1973 and now have 10 clubs in Sacramento, Lodi and Oakley, almost 200 tennis courts, 1,500 employees and 75 tennis pros to their name. In addition to running their thriving clubs, the couple spend their time on the Rio tennis courts, in the weight room, with their five grandchildren or, in Margie’s case, serving as the president of the U.S. Tennis Association of Northern California. “We’re the biggest provider of USTA facilities in the region and we host about 50 tournaments a year,” Bill says proudly. “We have more than 340 adult USTA teams at our clubs and six of our teams went to nationals this year.” Needless to say, the Campbells have much less spare time than they used to, but they appear to be having a ball. Ready to get in shape and tackle the tennis courts? Check out sparetimeclubs.com to discover the Campbells’ many club locations. Rio del Oro Racquet Club is at 119 Scripps Drive. n
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The Art of the Ask COMPETING TO SHARPEN SKILLS IN THE ELEVATOR PITCH
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his month, 10 local nonprofits will compete in Fast Pitch, a contest designed to help the organizations’ leaders hone their “elevator pitch.” What’s an elevator pitch? It’s a short, concise summary of a request or proposition. The idea: If you’re asking someone for something (like money), you should be able to make your pitch in the minute or two it takes to ride an elevator from one floor to another. Fast Pitch provides a “pitch stage” for nonprofit leaders. The 10 finalists were assigned volunteer coaches from the business community to help them refine and present their pitch. On March 6, each finalist will make a three-minute pitch to a roomful of potential funders and community leaders. The goal: to be able to deliver a clear, concise message about the organization, punctuated with an “ask.” Fast Pitch is sponsored by Social Venture Partners, a group of businesses and philanthropists that works to strengthen the nonprofit landscape. The Sacramento organization, one of 40 SVPs worldwide, was launched in 2008 with
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Social Venture Partners of Sacramento executive director Breanna Cahill and volunteer Jane Tsai Weaver
a focus on education. Since then, it has raised more than $1 million for educational nonprofits. But, says SVP executive director Breanna Cahill, “it goes way beyond the money. These organizations need funding, but they also benefit from being connected to the business community. The executives can help them with strategic planning and so much more.” This is Sacramento’s first Fast Pitch competition. Other cities, including Los Angeles, Scottsdale and Cincinnati, hold their own Fast Pitch events. “We work with organizations that we can make a difference for,” says Cahill. “Most are small, and this gives them a platform to address the community. They need to find a way to explain to the community what they do.” Earlier this winter, the finalists received feedback from the coaches after presenting their draft pitches. The sessions included videotaping and comparative scoring designed to strengthen the messages and their delivery. Teach For America is one of this year’s finalists. A 25-year-old organization, its Sacramento arm is just in its infancy. “We have the muscle of a national organization, but we also need to be integrated with Sacramento and aligned with local efforts,” says its executive director, Nikolas Howard. Howard spent more than a decade working in education in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles before coming to Sacramento. “This is a HEROES page 29
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Persons of the Year CARMICHAEL CHAMBER HONORS SPORT, MEDICINE, BUSINESS, MEDIA AND NATURALISM
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aseball giant Dusty Baker has been named 2015 Carmichael Person of the Year. The Carmichael Chamber of Commerce will award Baker and four other community heroes at a March 27 fundraiser. In this feature, we meet the honorees: Baker; Dr. Carolyn Getman, Physician of the Year; Allan and Nancy Davis, Business People of the Year; Cecily Hastings, Media Person of the Year; and the American River Natural History Association, Nonprofit of the Year. He might be older, a little wider at the waist and sporting designer spectacles these days, but homegrown baseball legend Dusty Baker is no less a crowd pleaser than when he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers or managed the San Francisco Giants. Returning to his childhood roots, the 65-year-old will be named Person of the Year at a March 27 Carmichael Chamber of Commerce gala. At a recent Kiwanis breakfast, he noted the community is more
Dusty Baker (left), pictured with Carmichael Kiwanian Ivory Rubin and Baker’s high school basketball coach, Eli McCullough, is Carmichael’s 2015 Person of the Year
integrated now than in his Del Campo High School days. “When we came here from Riverside in 1965, the Bakers were one of the few black families in Carmichael,” he said. “On my first day at school, I asked my brother, ‘Are there any other black kids here?’ And he said, ‘Just you, brother.’
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“These days, kids thank me for helping race relations in this community. I hope I have.” A teenage sports star, Baker was drafted straight out of high school to the Atlanta Braves. After playing for the Braves, Dodgers, Giants, the Oakland Athletics and hanging up his bat with 242 home runs, his career morphed to coaching. It famously included a 10-year tenure as Giants manager. Meeting his old Del Campo basketball coach, Eli McCullough, at the Kiwanis event, Baker recalled a formative career moment. “We had basketball practice on Saturdays at school,” he said. “One Saturday, the steelhead were running in the American River. Another team member and I decided to call in sick and go fishing. On Monday, Mr. McCullough asked how asked me how many fish I’d caught. Another teacher had seen me at the river and, in those
days, any black kid in Carmichael had to be a Baker.” McCullough benched his star for the first half of his next game. “When we won, he told me: ‘Don’t ever lie to me again,’ and that’s what I tell my players as a coach: Come to work on time, do your job and don’t lie to me, and we’ll get along just fine. “For young players, a coach is a big influence. They see more of him than their parents. I am up here because I had a lot of help along the way.” Now semi-retired, Baker and his family live in Granite Bay. He tends his boutique vineyard, co-owns an alternative energy company and, in his spare time, coaches his son’s baseball team at Jesuit High. “It’s great to go back to my amateur roots and see people playing just for the love of the game,” he said. Baker is among the more highly sought speakers in his field. “I’ve had a great ride,” he summarized. “How many kids get to wear the uniforms of their heroes? When you meet one of your heroes and find him down to earth, it increases your faith in mankind. My father told me, ‘Son, your purpose in life is to serve.’ Yeah, I can do that.”
NEONATAL DOCTOR IS COMMUNITY HERO The award of Physician of the Year, says neonatologist Carolyn Getman, 57, is an unexpected perk following 25 years in her field. For the past 15 years, she has directed the Mercy San Juan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that will mark a quarter-century anniversary this year.
Dr. Carolyn Getman tends a prematurely born patient in the Mercy San Juan neonatal unit
“We’re tucked away here in our little world,” she said. “Even in this hospital, many people don’t know what we do. But we know how important it is.” So important, indeed, that 450 tiny lives per year are assisted by Getman’s medical team. “Caring for critically ill babies and eventually seeing them go home doing well, that’s an incredible feeling,” the physician said. “When they’re born with multiple medical problems, their parents are devastated. Helping families through this time gives you a good perspective for the future. I try to treat families the way I would want to be treated myself, to have a personal involvement with them.” Getman speaks not only as a physician but as a mom. Married 22 years to pediatrician Greg Cohen, she had problems during her own first pregnancy. “Thanks to special care, the second pregnancy went fine,” she said. “I was so thankful to be able to take my babies home after delivery. I can only imagine how hard it would be to leave the hospital without your child.” Her first son is now in college, planning medical studies of his own. Getman’s childhood was a career decider, too. The physician’s daughter helped Mom run Dad’s Berkeley practice. Her medical education began
at Stanford University and continued with neonatal training at UC Davis. Moving to Fair Oaks in 1990, she assisted then-director Dr. Robert Kahle at Mercy San Juan’s fledgling NICU. In those days, infants born as prematurely as at 25 weeks gestation occupied six beds. Now the unit has 26 incubators. Some babies treated there are only 23 weeks gestation at birth. In Getman’s lifetime, neonatology has seen incredible advances. Following the 1963 death of President John and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s infant son, science responded in overdrive. “Patrick Kennedy’s death spurred tremendous research,” Getman said. “Premature babies sometimes don’t produce enough of a substance called surfactant, which stops their lungs from collapsing. We can now administer it, through a tube, into their lungs. “In the last decade, nutrition has come to the forefront. We now know babies must be started on IV nutrition immediately after birth; it’s vital for them to receive their mother’s breast milk as soon as they can tolerate feeding.” Each September, she and fellow NICU physicians picnic in Carmichael Park with scores of Mercy NICU graduates.
Pictured at their Milagro Centre development, Nancy and Allan Davis will be Carmichael Business People of the year
“Some of the babies I’ve treated are now my own kids’ age,” Getman said. “For a physician, seeing them again is a reward and privilege. It also allows us to encourage new parents at the hospital. We can tell them we just spent the day with children who had the same problems as their babies; that they are now growing up and doing well. It gives parents hope. “It gives doctors hope, too.”
MILAGRO: THE DREAM CONTINUES An entrance arch is the newest and most ambitious landmark on Fair Oaks Boulevard. It is also a gateway to a dream. Allan and Nancy Davis say contractors will complete their multimillion-dollar Milagro Centre project this summer. For their vision to make Carmichael a culinary and retail hub, the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce will name the couple 2015 Business People of the Year. Hoping for miraculous town center revitalization, the investors purchased the old Hillside shopping mall three years ago. Its reinvention as the Milagro (miracle) Centre has been in progress for over a year and, in that time, Carmichaelites have witnessed steady progress. Partial demolition gave way to the rise of stone and mortar facades.
New walls then surrounded the 4-acre project, and phalanxes of palm trees were imported. Most recently, the 20-foot-high metal monument appeared, announcing the center’s name across its 60-foot span. However, interior progress has been seen only by roosting pigeons and the building crew. My recent inside visit revealed that inner walls that separated eight Hillside shops are all gone. The architect’s open plan for both sides of the center will accommodate more than 20 eateries and food-oriented retailers. At the north end, a 7,000-square-foot event center will enable entertainment or conventions. So who will occupy Milagro? So far, reports Allan Davis, the center CHAMBER page 28
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CHAMBER FROM page 27 has several solid and several more almost-solid tenants. Confirmed is a fine-dining Mexican restaurant called Mesa Mercado, which will extend the successful Mayahuel restaurant from downtown Sacramento to Carmichael. This tenant also plans on-site taco and tequila bars and an artisan food outlet. The Ghiotto gelato and dessert business will occupy the mall’s southeast corner. Other likely vendors include a wine dealer, coffee house, specialty burger operation and pizzeria. Still high on the Davises’ wish list is a breakfast purveyor. “We’d love to include a place visitors can sit down, relax, read a newspaper and enjoy their first meal of the day,” Allan Davis said. “We want the Milagro Centre to provide for all meals; and for all the coffees, snacks and glasses of wine that might come between.” The banquet center will allow sit-down dining for 250; partitions will provide for smaller events. Given the culinary emphasis of Milagro, a state-of-the-art chef demonstration kitchen here is no surprise. Parties can overflow into a patio ornamented by trees, waterfalls and fireplaces. With weddings and family celebrations in mind, the Davises plan indoor and outdoor beauty spots to frame photography. The event area alone will be carpeted; larger mall spaces will have polished concrete underfoot. “It’s a long project and we’ve met many challenges,” Nancy Davis said. “But we’re on schedule for our summer opening. Milagro will be a big event for Carmichael. Our dream is to set the bar high. We’re establishing a standard for how we hope Carmichael will look 50 years from now. ” Learn more about the project at milagrocentre.com
STOP THE PRESSES Publisher and community activist Cecily Hastings will be named Media Person of the Year. Michigan-raised Cecily Hastings arrived in Sacramento in 1989. Her hopes for a media future were stalled,
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Publisher and community activist Cecily Hastings will be named Media Person of the Year
Providing education about natural habitats is among the ongoing accomplishments of the American River Natural History Association. The organization will be named as 2015 Nonprofit of the Year.
but briefly, while she worked on a community newspaper staff. “A new owner took over publication and said my arts degree did not qualify me to work on his newspaper,” Hastings recalled. “I agreed. Then I went home and started my own magazine.” It goes without saying that Hasting’s Inside Publications quickly outstripped anything offered by her former employer. Monthly Inside
editions now cover Carmichael, Arcade, East Sacramento, Land Park and the Pocket. Online or in print, upward of 100,000 people peruse an Inside magazine every month. Based on circulation, she and husband Jim Hastings run the third-biggest publishing operation in Sacramento. “We serve our advertisers by delivering to every home in established neighborhoods,” Hastings said. “We serve our readership with
the quality of our writers and a focus that’s 100 percent local. My garden writer’s column is about gardening right here. Our transportation writer talks about streets in our neighborhoods. “Magazine aesthetics is where my design background comes in. I have the simple philosophy that things should be useful and beautiful. People tell me they love the magazine; they say they even love the ads.” The Chamber award recognizes not just Hasting’s business triumph. Through print and personal service, the 58-year-old mom has championed countless community endeavors. In Carmichael, she is a Chamber of Commerce and Effie Yeaw Nature Center sponsor. She serves on the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and is a friend to many arts-related causes. In 2012, Hastings and her friend Lisa Schmidt formed Friends of East Sacramento to serve their neighborhood. Since charity begins at home, this nonprofit has the greatest claim to Hastings’ energy. In less than one year, the Friends group raised $250,000 to restore both the historical Clunie Community Center and the adjacent McKinley Rose Gardens. Through spring, summer and fall, Schmidt and Hastings rattle clippers to galvanize volunteers to tend the 75-year-old midcity rose haven. An annual “prune-athon” is undaunted by winter frost. A Christian and fiscal conservative, Hastings sees her life as a precious, finite chance to serve. “I feel I have been training all my life to reach this point,” the publisher said. “My mission is to bring communities together. I love to get up each morning and know that almost everything I do that day will be meaningful and helpful to someone.”
ENSURING WE ALL PROFIT Providing education about natural habitats is among the ongoing accomplishments of the American River Natural History Association. The organization will be named as 2015 Nonprofit of the Year.
Nearly five years ago, one of Carmichael and Sacramento’s most treasured resources, Effie Yeaw Nature Center, almost closed. Since the 1970s, the center’s staff and supporters have not only protected American River Parkway habitat but have also educated many thousands of children (and parents) to try to do the same. When cash-strapped Sacramento County removed center funding, the nonprofit American River Natural History Association came to the rescue. Established in 1981, ARHNA’s mission to foster nature appreciation through education, and its stewardship fit the nature center like a glove. Through indefatigable fundraising by ARHNA’s 1,000 members and Effie stalwarts, the center soldiers on. Through the 1950s and ’60s, Carmichael naturalist Effie Yeaw strived to teach new generations of naturalists. “The mission continues, stronger than ever,” said ARNHA’s president, Liz Williamson.
Last year, 438 nature center classes continued the work of namesake Yeaw. Many of these opportunities, given free to children from low-income area schools through ARNHA’s Urban Nature project, were funded by donations to ARHNA. The organization also presented its first University of California Naturalist program that gave 40 hours of training to adult volunteers. “In both new and traditional ways,” Williamson said, “ARNHA and the nature center will continue to bring people to nature, and nature to people.” The Carmichael Chamber of Commerce is recognizing ARNHA with a Nonprofit of the Year award. A portion of funds raised by the March 27 gala will support the center. For information on ARNHA, go to ARNHA.org For more information on the Person of the Year event, go to carmichaelchamber.com n
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HEROES FROM page 24 different community,” he says. “How do I pitch my organization to this community? The real goal for us is not to win the contest but to tell our story.” To make his pitch, Howard received coaching from Linda Cutler, the CEO of Sacramento Region Community Foundation, and Bob Crowley, a venture capitalist who recently moved back to the region. “I tend to make things complicated,” Howard says. “I had the framework, but Linda and Bob have helped me weave the narrative.” Crowley believes the experience is invaluable. “This is a great way to see worthy endeavors in the field of education in one place,” he explains. “The process of having nonprofits come together and pitch has been really rewarding, and the coaches have given selflessly.” Will he be cheering for his nonprofit? “Successful people are competitive, and we all have a vested interest in seeing our nonprofits succeed, but this has been tremendously collaborative,” says Crowley. “I’ve been impressed with the quality and depth of passion of all of the teams.” Cutler was also inspired by the Fast Pitch experience. “What really floors me is that some of the nonprofit directors have been providing
guidance to their competitors,” she says. “They’re all so passionate about not just their mission and their organization, but also the sector that they’re in. A rising tide raises all ships.” Cutler’s foundation has a special interest in Fast Pitch because it manages SVP’s funds. It also provides a database tool for nonprofits called Giving Edge, which helps them hone their message to donors. For Cutler, Fast Pitch has been a perfect fit. “We’re helping the nonprofits develop their elevator speech, culminating in a significant ask,” she says. “We want them to be able to tell their story more impactfully.” At least two and as many as five prizes will be awarded: judges’ award, audience pick, coaches’ choice, a “random act of kindness” award and an online people’s choice. But ultimately, every contestant will be a winner. According to SVP, as many as 70 percent of the finalists will receive some funding in the first month after Fast Pitch, just from having their message heard by prospective donors. Fast Pitch will take place Friday, March 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Lecture Hall at McGeorge School of Law, 3200 5th Ave. For more information about Fast Pitch, go to svpsacramento.org n
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The New DA PUBLIC SAFETY AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES ARE ON HER AGENDA
BY ANNE MARIE SCHUBERT COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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t is with honor and excitement that I serve as district attorney of Sacramento County. I am so fortunate to have found a job that I absolutely love. Even if I won the lottery today, I would gladly show up to the office tomorrow. My commitment to this community is rooted in my upbringing. My family has been in Sacramento for more than 50 years. Growing up in the Arden area, I attended local schools and returned here in the mid-’90s. I am raising my two young boys here as well. As a mother and a career prosecutor, I am both personally and professionally committed to the safety and well-being of every citizen of this county. While I officially took office in early January, my preparation for this job has unfolded over the last 25 years. My commitment to victims, justice and public safety has remained steadfast as I have never had any other professional job in my life. The majority of my career has been spent prosecuting violent crime, including murder, sexual assault and child molestation. More than 20 years ago, I developed a passion
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for the pursuit of justice through forensic DNA evidence and cold-case prosecutions. I believe very strongly that DNA evidence is the greatest tool ever given to law enforcement to find the truth, and it is our responsibility to seek justice for all families that have been victimized by crime, no matter how much time has passed. In 2000, I prosecuted California’s first John Doe DNA case, where we charged a serial rapist alleging only his DNA as his identity. Within months of filing this case, the rapist was identified through California’s DNA Databank, which keeps criminals’ DNA on file to help solve other cases. That rapist was convicted and sentenced to prison. In 2002, I formed the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Cold Case Homicide Unit. The unit was highly successful in solving cases and convicting murderers for horrific crimes from as far back as the 1970s. When not prosecuting violent crime, my goal has been to design new and innovative programs that work to prevent crime and better our community. Since 2009, I supervised our Misdemeanor and Child Abuse Unit. These assignments better prepared me for leading the office as a manager and administrator. Now I am privileged to lead our entire team of dedicated professionals. With more than 400 employees, the District Attorney’s Office is the largest law firm in the Sacramento region. The office receives approximately 40,000 cases a year from dozens of state, local and other law enforcement agencies. These cases include homicides; gangs
and hate crimes; career criminals; child abuse; sexual assaults; major narcotics; domestic violence; human trafficking; elder abuse; public integrity cases; real estate, public assistance and insurance fraud; consumer and environmental protection cases; prison crimes; juvenile cases and misdemeanors. Our office files nearly 25,000 cases a year. In order to effectively prosecute these crimes, our office has a staff of 170 attorneys, 40 investigators, 15 victim advocates and 138 support staff. Our Laboratory of Forensic Services is one of only three in the state where the district attorney oversees and manages the lab. It is essential to the prosecution of many of our cases. Our 38 certified, industry-leading criminalists provide the highest-quality service in trace evidence, toxicology, controlled substances, firearm and tool marks, DNA, and crime scene reconstruction. Servicing all law enforcement agencies operating in Sacramento County, the lab processed more than 13,700 pieces of evidence in 2014. Our office is also active in the community with innovative programs and events. They include: Citizens Academy: Provides an overview of the criminal justice system and allows for critical analysis of issues and exchange of ideas and perspectives. Outstanding Citizen Awards Ceremony: Honors victims and witnesses who go above and beyond to help victims and/or make great personal sacrifices in participating in the criminal justice process.
Parents Against Chronic Truancy (PACT): Identifies chronic truants, educates their parents on the legal responsibility to keep their children in school, and provides them with support services. There is also our Gun Violence Information for Teens (GIFT) program; driving under the influence prevention programs, Before the Impact and Real DUI Court in Schools; high school justice and law programs, Youth Academy and Law & Public Policy Academy; an annual diversity open house and reception for law school students; and an annual public safety and community appreciation breakfast. In addition, we have collaborative courts that offer support services and treatment instead of jail time for certain offenders who have unique needs and circumstances, including drug, homeless, veterans’ and mental health courts. Jan Scully led this office with dedication and distinction for 20 years. We are proud of what her office achieved. As Jan told me often, there is always more to be done to meet the needs of public safety. I believe the role of a prosecutor goes well beyond the courtroom. A prosecutor should not focus just on putting criminals in jail or prison. As I have said often, the blueprint to public safety is prosecution, prevention and innovation. One of my more immediate goals is to build upon our existing programs and create new ways to work with members of the community on crime prevention.
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Power Pair TWO COUSINS JOIN FORCES TO DEVELOP A COVETED PIECE OF LAND
BY R.E. GRASWICH BUILDING OUR FUTURE
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eal estate developers come in many formats: old, young, fat, skinny, entrepreneurial
and so on. But it would be difficult to find two developers who fit the stereotypes less than Katherine and Rachel Bardis. Chic and youthful, one recently out of law school, the other a mom with twins in grade school, the Bardis cousins present a distinctive image in the office they share overlooking the California National Guard helicopter pad at Mather Field. “Don’t let her fool you,” Rachel says of Katherine. “She’s been bred for this.” “And Rachel has a ton of experience in real estate,” Katherine says. “Between the two of us, we have a lot of bases covered.” “We’re a power team,” Rachel says. Today, the Bardis duo is etching its brand on a premier Sacramento infill development: They are building the first phase of homes at the Setzer
Young master builders, cousins Katherine and Rachel Bardis, of the new infill project at Setzer
Forest Products property. The 32-acre industrial site stands at the foot of
role in Sacramento’s agricultural
developers are two investment
includes 16 years in the industry,
Broadway, next to Miller Park and
heyday from the late 1920s through
partnerships: North West Land Park
including time with Corinthian
the Sacramento River. It’s called
the 1960s, when the Setzer family
and Ranch Capital.
Homes and her own real estate
North West Land Park.
built wooden boxes for the fruit and
Thanks to its proximity to
vegetable industry. In later years, the
downtown and recreational
Broadway plant produced fiberboard
opportunities presented by the
and frames for doors and windows.
“It’s an amazing opportunity for us,” Katherine says. The Bardis cousins may seem
management firm, RB Management & Sales. Christo Bardis has been among the
unique as builders go, but only
region’s most successful developers,
superficially. When Rachel mentions
starting in the 1970s with Winncrest
coveted for decades. The prospect of
fanciful projects for the acreage,
Katherine’s real estate breeding, the
Homes and later Reynen & Bardis.
building on the site became tangible
from high-density housing to an
reference runs straight to Christo
Success turned sour in the recession,
in 2006, when the Setzer family
international trade center. When the
Bardis, Katherine’s father and a
when Reynen & Bardis was trapped
decided to sell it.
recession’s dust settled, the Bardis
homebuilding legend in California.
in a collapsing marketplace with too
waterfront, the Setzer land has been
The land is geographically and historically blessed. It played a major
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Various developers imagined
cousins emerged as the choice to serve as master builder. The master
And when Katherine talks about Rachel’s experience, the praise
much land and not enough cash flow. The company was all but wiped out.
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“We had separate offices for awhile
we wouldn’t want to do anything less
brother), the Bardis Homes
than a great project.”
partnership has taken time to settle.
but got tired of yelling at each other,”
The women weren’t close while
Katherine says.
The women have unique concepts
“The relationship works well
upon his experiences. The Mather
for their 282 homes at North West
growing up, though both shared a
office that Rachel and Katherine
Land Park. They envision bungalows,
passion for horses.
share is down a hallway from the
detached homes, duplexes and
patriarch’s office.
halfplexes, each with unique, high-
business, with an impressive ability
end options that belie entry-level
to discuss projects in crisp talking
North West Land Park when model
prices from the high $100,000s.
points. Katherine favors a more
homes sprout from an iconic patch of
informal style, joking and speaking
Sacramento soil.
“We’re making it really hard on ourselves by offering things like a variety of tiles and cabinets, like you’d find at the higher end.”
“We’re making it really hard on ourselves by offering things like a
because we’re different people with
As for personalities, Rachel is all
similar values,” Rachel says. Those values will be on display at
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The Big Leagues SACRAMENTO AND ELK GROVE WANT THE SAME THING: MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
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ow that Sacramento is certifiably nuts about soccer, there’s an interesting race underway between our region’s two largest cities to construct a big-league stadium and bring Major League Soccer to town. One city generates gobs of media attention with overheated press conferences and high-profile investors. The other plods along, buying land and cobbling together the money to actually build a new soccer stadium. If you haven’t guessed, the first city is Sacramento. The second is Elk Grove. “It’s like the tortoise and the hare. We’re the hare,” says Elk Grove Mayor Gary Davis. “Sacramento and the Republic group certainly have momentum, and we wish them the best. But we’ll be ready just in case.” Soccer fever has been driven by the Republic Football Club, which stole hearts with a triumphant debut season in 2014. But for all its marketing skill and cheap-date appeal, the Republic remains an entry-level product, affiliated with the third-tier USL Pro league, playing in
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Elk Grove Mayor Gary Davis
a temporary stadium bolted together on a vacant patch at Cal Expo. The Republic and the city of Sacramento are eager to move up to the big time. They want to convince Major League Soccer to grant Sacramento an expansion team. Elk
Grove is trying to do the same thing. But the approaches couldn’t be more different. The Republic figures that by trotting out some big names as investors (the San Francisco 49ers and Sacramento Kings have
apparently put money into the Republic but won’t say how much), the MLS will approve Sacramento as an expansion city. Elk Grove has deployed a different strategy, basically the flip side of Sacramento. Mayor Davis and company believe that by setting out to build a stadium before they have a team, the MLS will realize Elk Grove is the real deal. “Look at Miami, where the biggest name in soccer, David Beckham, hasn’t been able to get a team because he doesn’t have a stadium,” Davis says. “That shows you how critical the stadium is.” When Davis—or anyone else— talks about a stadium, he’s really talking about site control and construction funding. Without those two components, you can’t have a stadium. Nothing else matters until those two pieces are nailed down. The Republic group has plans for site control at the downtown railyards, but the deal’s not done. As for stadium financing, the Republic has said almost nothing, which probably means there isn’t much to talk about. These facts suggest that, despite the presence of 49ers owner Jed York and Kings owner Vivek Ranadive, the Republic still must overcome the two biggest hurdles in stadium building: site control and funding. By contrast, Elk Grove owns the land for its project and is far along in identifying funding sources for a new soccer facility. The city bought about 100 acres of farmland and annexed it into Elk Grove. As for funding, Mayor Davis is taking a community-first SPORTS page 36
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Palm waving and joyous music to celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
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April 2, 7 p.m.
A service of quiet reflection, singing hymns and reading the scriptural accounts of the last hours of Jesus' life on earth. Included will be the “washing of hands” and the Sacrament of the Last Supper.
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April 3, 7 p.m.
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April 5
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to the Kings, the answer is probably going to be no. Ironically for soccer fans, the Kings’ arena deal, where the city contributes about $255 million of the $477 million cost, is the main reason why Sacramento can’t help the Republic build a stadium. The basketball arena gobbled up what was left of Sacramento’s debt capacity. Now, the city can’t responsibly go out and borrow money for a soccer stadium, even if the city council wants to. Republic founder Warren Smith likes to say the MLS won’t expand into a suburb like Elk Grove, because the league prefers an urban entertainment environment with restaurants and bars. He’s right, but he’s wrong. Like all pro leagues, the MLS will ultimately go where the stadium money is greenest. Don’t be surprised if soccer’s greenest field is on Grant Line Road in Elk Grove. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n
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A Decade Later CHANGE IS INEVITABLE AS A GARDEN GROWS AND MATURES
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hether you’ve installed a new landscape on bare ground or changed some part of your existing landscape, you probably have found that things didn’t work out quite as you planned. After all, plants are living things. Or in some cases, very dead things. In the past decade, I’ve worked with two different landscapes from installation to maturity. One is my backyard, which my husband and I redesigned in 2005 after removing our swimming pool. Fair Oaks Horticulture Center’s Water Efficient Landscape (WEL) is a couple of years older, first planted by Sacramento County Master Gardeners in 2003. While the basic layout of both gardens endures, they have, of necessity, evolved. Trees are a significant issue in both of these gardens. We inherited some mature trees at the edges of the gardens and added more to provide shade and privacy. As they’ve grown, they’ve blocked out sunlight and sent out competitive roots that make it hard to grow anything nearby. I was stunned to find tree roots filling up my garden’s raised beds. On my
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plan, the trees by the fence were in one area, and the vegetable garden occupied a totally separate space. The trees had no similar sense of boundaries. According to Robert Kourik in “Roots Demystified,” “A tree’s roots commonly grow one-half wider than a tree’s drip line (canopy), and occasionally to as much as three to five times wider,” with the majority of a tree’s roots within the top 18 inches of soil. Candace Schuncke, the local garden designer and Lifetime Master Gardener who helped design the WEL and who still volunteers as one of its project leaders, says, “We have to think hard about where to put our
trees.” Gardeners often find, she says, that “trees aren’t our friends.” Sometimes, the best solution is to remove a tree altogether, although you can also thin it to open its canopy or prune it for size. Otherwise, you’ll have to change what you grow underneath. Schuncke recommends succulents, which have shallow roots and don’t mind dry conditions and partial shade. She also says that you can put plants in containers in areas choked with tree roots. In my garden, I’ve chosen shade-loving hardy geraniums, liriope and a variety of ferns. We have been surprised by how big plants have grown in each of these gardens. I didn’t realize that a “semi-dwarf” citrus tree would grow
to at least two-thirds the size of a standard, so I didn’t allow enough space for the lemon tree that I planted against the fence. Another of my trees was misidentified. Instead of a ‘Krauter Vesuvius’ purple leaf plum, which grows relatively compact and bears little or no fruit, I was sold the common variety that grows twice as big and bears fruit heavily. Even if plants are identified correctly, they often grow bigger in Sacramento than the reference books say. Roses, especially, get two or three times the size of those in colder climates. Schuncke found that coyote brush and other plants in the WEL grew unexpectedly large, too. GARDEN page 42
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Living the Dream A TEACHER FOLLOWS HIS PASSION AND STARTS AN ORGANIC FARM
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our years ago, Jason Cuff was a happy special-education teacher. One day, he went on a tour of the UC Davis Arboretum. The facility, located on the UC Davis campus, is open to the public and features demonstration gardens where visitors can learn about sustainable and organic farming, among other things. “It was one of those life-changing events,” said Cuff. “I turned to my wife and said, ‘You know how people say if they had their life to do over, they’d take a different path? I’d go back and do something in agriculture.’ Her response: ‘Then you should do it.’” We first caught up with Cuff at the Saturday farmers market at Country Club Plaza in Arden Arcade. It was a miserable morning with gusty wind and pounding, cold rain. He was the most cheerful person we’d ever met, given the circumstances. Recently, we visited Cuff’s Hearty Fork Farm, eight acres of land just off Highway 80 at the Kidwell Road exit a few miles west of Davis. Now, having three years of farming under his belt, he looks as though he’s been farming a lifetime: baseball
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cap, plaid shirt, mud-crusted boots and jeans. That wide grin, sparkling blue eyes and big laugh we had encountered that rainy Saturday at the farmers market told the story of someone who has found his calling and loves coming to work every day. “I grew up in the Willamette Valley in Oregon,” said Cuff. “My family
worked in the ag business, and I worked on farms until I left in the ’90s for college. I loved farming, but I thought it would be impossible to earn a living on a small farm so I went into teaching.” Not long after the arboretum tour, Cuff heard about the programs offered through the Center For Land-
Based Learning, a not-for-profit group that teaches teens and adults how to work in the agriculture industry. There he could learn how to make the transition from teacher to farmer. “I applied and was accepted. After two weeks, I knew that’s what I wanted to do,” said Cuff. “They introduced me to a whole world of farming on a small scale that I didn’t know was possible. I met fantastic people with farming experience and people like me who just wanted to make a life change and become a farmer.” The program lasted a year, but in six months Cuff was so eager to launch the next phase of his life that he quit teaching and planted his first crops on one acre at the center’s teaching farm in Winters. He also met another student in the program, Glen Baldwin, who became his business partner. “Together we leased the eight acres that are now Hearty Fork Farm,” said Cuff. “We bought some seed. Then we decided we needed a tractor, so Glen bought one.” With a puff of pride, he pointed toward the big machine in the middle of a field. For now, Baldwin has decided to postpone his farming adventure, so Cuff is working the land by himself. “I’m 41,” he said. “I didn’t want to wait until I was much older. I wanted to do it now while I’m young enough to handle the work.” His goal is to sell fresh, organic produce at local farmers markets and to local restaurants featuring farm-to-fork fare. “You’d be amazed at how much you can grow on a small plot of land,” said Cuff. “I’ve got seven small fields: one FARM page 44
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GARDEN FROM page 38 In the WEL and at my house, we allowed plants to get too big and woody before learning how much they need to be cut back and when to do so. We’ve ended up having to take some of them out because they were too overgrown or required too much work to maintain. Some of the most successful plants in the WEL have been dwarf varieties, which Schuncke says are “the answer to low maintenance.” We have been especially pleased with a dwarf bottlebrush, Callistemon citrinus ‘Little John,’ and a dwarf pomegranate, Punica granatum ‘Nana.’ Smaller varieties aren’t always easy to find. I brought dwarf evergreens from Oregon for my Asian garden and mail-ordered an especially compact gold-leaved spirea, ‘Dakota Goldcharm.’ The extra effort to find a plant that grows to the right size for its space will save you effort for many years. Even though I tried to allow enough space for each plant in my
backyard, I wanted it all: an Asian garden with bamboo and a ginkgo tree, a wisteria arbor, a pond, a vegetable garden, roses, perennial borders and a woody shrub border against the fence. My husband insisted on a bit of lawn and a shade tree, too. We skimped on the depth of the planting beds and width of the paths to squeeze it all in. I’ve enjoyed the diversity but really need twice the space or half as much garden. I’ve edited out some things and need to do more. Schuncke says that change is an opportunity that we should welcome. “After 10 years, you see things differently,” she muses. Our gardens are different in a decade’s time. And so are we. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call 875-6913, visit ucanr.edu/sites/ sacmg or go to Fair Oaks Horticulture Center during the next open garden on Saturday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to noon. The center is at 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd. n
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When you have a small farm, you need to grow a variety of things so that you always have something to sell.” That seems like a lot of variety for such a relatively small space. “When you have a small farm, you need to grow a variety of things so that you always have something to sell,” he explained. “Large farms can specialize in one or two commodities. At the center’s farm, I learned how much you can actually grow in an acre. It’s a lot if you plan carefully. Plus, the land here is so fertile that it’s easy to grow just about anything.” A storm was headed toward Davis, and Cuff was anxious to get his field turned. Besides, that big tractor was waiting. “And that’s my story,” he said as headed back out to live his dream. For more information on the Center for Land-Based Learning, visit landbasedlearning.org Gwen Schoen can be reached at gwen.schoen@aol.com n
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$577,104 $354,000 $444,900 $631,165 $335,000 $365,000
95819 EAST SACRAMENTO, RIVER PARK 1001 47TH ST 1525 41ST ST 104 45TH ST 4901 C ST 3967 E ST 409 LA PURISSIMA 3997 H ST 1014 42ND ST 1511 CHRISTOPHER WY 89 PRIMROSE WAY 1105 54TH ST 900 54TH ST 941 53RD ST
$650,000 $551,450 $425,000 $545,000 $385,000 $765,000 $535,000 $865,000 $402,000 $300,000 $385,000 $392,000 $390,000
95821 ARDEN-ARCADE 3708 FRENCH AVE 4343 LOCKWOOD WAY 3109 CALLE VERDE CT 2551 IONE ST 3337 EASTERN AVE 3713 SUN SHADOWS LN 3905 ADELHEID WAY 4100 MARCONI AVE 3937 IRELAND ST 2511 MORETTI WAY 2813 LA PAZ WAY 2741 LERWICK RD 4525 ROBERTSON AVE 2581 FULTON SQ LN #72 2613 BUTANO DR 2512 GREENWOOD AVE 3001 RUBICON WAY 4308 ELIZABETH AVE 3125 CREST HAVEN DR 4305 DENNIS WAY 2857 CALLE VISTA WAY 3300 MOOREWOOD CT
$208,000 $305,000 $500,000 $200,000 $259,950 $195,000 $295,000 $233,500 $220,000 $145,000 $198,000 $179,900 $249,950 $113,500 $268,000 $275,000 $435,000 $381,500 $265,000 $235,000 $320,000 $375,000
95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 7071 WILSHIRE CIR 1932 66TH AVE 5110 ELMER WAY
$180,000 $226,000 $580,000
7581 19TH ST 1160 ROSA DEL RIO WY 1279 KENNADY LN 2797 65TH AVE 3200 69TH AVE 4971 MICHELE LN 2264 FLORIN RD 5012 MONTEREY WAY 2628 FERNANDEZ DR 5676 JAMES WAY 2133 ONEIL WAY 5421 S LAND PARK DR 1437 69TH AVE 1524 65TH AVE 3020 BEESTON AVE 2528 50TH AVE 2180 50TH AVE 2437 36TH AVE 5684 JOHNS DR 2981 LOMA VERDE WAY 6850 DIEGEL CIR 1620 OREGON DR 2200 HOLLYWOOD WAY 1113 LA JOLLA WAY
$116,000 $271,000 $440,000 $155,000 $126,500 $565,000 $125,000 $247,964 $185,929 $126,000 $164,000 $405,000 $158,000 $139,000 $173,500 $175,000 $125,000 $143,100 $199,000 $210,000 $187,500 $203,500 $286,000 $345,000
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2017 TERRACE DR $199,500 979 FULTON AVE #494 $70,000 2645 LA MESA WAY $340,000 2121 VIOLET ST $175,000 1100 COMMONS DR $435,000 115 HARTNELL PL $255,000 303 DUNBARTON CIR $450,000 2145 CORTEZ LN $144,900 2535 EXETER SQUARE LN $191,000 268 HARTNELL PL $265,000 1528 HOOD RD $131,500 2449 SANDRINGHAM RD $234,000 2470 NORTHROP AVE #9 $147,000 3211 CASITAS BONITO $160,000 2000 WOODSTOCK WAY $205,000 820 E WOODSIDE LN #5 $55,000 733 WOODSIDE LN #10 $72,508 2238 WOODSIDE LN #5 $83,800 1413 HOOD RD $111,000 2325 LLOYD $220,000
95831 GREENHAVEN, S LAND PARK 6371 SILVEIRA WAY 6912 S LAND PARK DR
$280,000 $325,000
1156 ROSE TREE WAY $267,000 6661 S LAND PARK DR $287,500 6908 HAVENHURST DR $295,000 60 PORTINAO CIR $425,000 23 SAGE RIVER CIR $302,500 14 BLACK RIVER CT $460,000 6963 WESTMORELAND WY $289,000 7408 GOLDEN OAK WAY $305,000 6919 GALLERY WAY $316,800 6990 WATERVIEW WAY $317,500 540 RIVERGATE WAY $330,750 6761 FREEHAVEN DR $290,000 6640 S LAND PARK DR $395,000 6241 RIVERSIDE BLVD #219 $131,000 6775 LANGSTON WAY $425,000 19 QUAY CT $174,000 7757 ROBERTS RIVER WY $320,000 361 AQUAPHER WAY $359,000 7629 MARINA COVE DR $850,000 7356 PERERA CIR $389,900 7476 GREENHAVEN DR $385,000 51 CAVALCADE CIRCLE $430,000 7524 MAPLE TREE WAY $249,000 63 PARK VISTA CIR $355,000 6778 PARK RIVIERA WAY $385,000
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1753 OLYMPUS DR $309,000 3204 HURLEY WAY $112,050 820 PICCADILLY CIR $609,000 389 WILHAGGIN DR $1,150,000 2137 IONE ST $380,000 1008 AMBERWOOD RD $145,000 3120 BERKSHIRE WAY $190,000 1124 AMBERWOOD RD $164,000 800 CORONADO BLVD $595,000 806 TREEHOUSE LN $625,000 1613 LOS MOLINOS WAY $700,000 4341 SURITA ST $455,000 661 CORONADO BLVD $525,000 520 PAJARO CT $775,000 3572 BODEGA CT $501,000 3313 BARRINGTON RD $170,000 4396 DORKING CT $570,000 4206 LOAZELL CT $645,000 569 KEVINGTON COURT $790,000 3677 TOLENAS CT $950,000 1649 EL NIDO WAY $383,000 110 BRECKENWOOD WY $508,000 1825 MERCURY WAY $220,000 3321 NORTHROP AVE $210,000
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MEET OUR CONTRIBUTORS DUFFY KELLY
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Photojournalist Susan Maxwell Skinner began her newspaper career at 16 and spent eight years with the Buckingham Palace press corps before leaving London for Carmichael, where her focus on her adopted town earned her a 2013 Person of the Year award from the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce.
Award-winning family columnist Kelli Wheeler, author of the book “Momservations: The Fine Print of Parenting,” got her start as a writer at Inside Publications.
Gloria Glyer worked for The Sacramento Union until its demise in January 1994 and wrote Sacramento magazine’s Dining Divas column for many years. She now writes a weekly column about community fundraisers for The Sacramento Bee.
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Building Friendship THE HARDEST-WORKING MAN IN CONSTRUCTION IS ACTUALLY NOT QUITE YET A MAN
BY KELLI WHEELER MOMSERVATIONS
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hile I’ve been toiling away in the trenches of motherhood, my husband, Trey, has been bringing up the flank as the primary breadwinner in the construction field. We long ago gave up battling each other over whose job is harder. Agreeing that we are allies for the same cause (providing a stable home for our children), we called it a truce, joining together in a mutual admiration society. At night, as we swap battlefield stories with our feet kicked up and exhaustion weighting our eyelids, we find common themes despite the
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divergent nature of our daily grind: the frustration of an unproductive day; the joy of small successes; feeling like all you did was repeat yourself all day; being too busy to even grab a bite to eat; an appreciation for good help. Recently when we touched upon good help, Trey filled me in on his newest worker at his latest residential-remodel job site. “Joey’s a good worker,” he said. “He has his own tools he brings with him everywhere: a blower, a weed whacker and a mower.” “Sounds like he’s a gardener,” I yawned. “He’s a jack-of-all-trades. He likes to build things, drive trucks and tractors, fix equipment. He’ll do anything. On this job, he’s shoveled sand and gravel, dug footings, collected blocks, picked up garbage. He’s a hard worker.” “Does he get along with the other guys?” “Oh, the guys love him!” Trey said. “How can you not love a guy who can’t wait to show up for work every day? When I greet him, ‘Hey, Big Joe!’ every morning, or when a cement
truck or lumber truck shows up, nobody’s more excited than Joey.”
“He’s a jack-of-alltrades. He likes to build things, drive trucks and tractors, fix equipment. He’ll do anything. On this job, he’s shoveled sand and gravel, dug footings, collected blocks, picked up garbage. ” I smiled picturing Joey lighting up with eagerness to work alongside the guys who could teach him a thing or two. “Does he use your tools?” “I gave him a shovel, level, hammer and box of nails. He had his own wheelbarrow, but he piled it so high with gravel he blew out the tire. Couldn’t fix that, but he had the concrete finisher fix his weed whacker. He’d give anything for a screw gun, but I don’t think he’s ready for that yet.” “Is he full time?” “That’s the problem,” Trey sighed, a smirk tugging at his lips. “Joey’s work hours are 7:30 to 8:30 in the morning. He can work most days 12:30 to 4 p.m. unless he needs to take a nap. And sometimes he’s only able to work from 2 to 4 p.m. because he has Lunch Bunch.”
“Should I tell his mom that that this preschool business is really jamming up Joey’s work schedule?” We both burst out laughing at the thought of 4 1/2-year-old Joey Salvetti telling his mother, my friend Mindy, that he couldn’t go to school anymore because he needed to work with Trey. We had no doubt the towheaded little boy who burst out the door every day at the first sight of the work crew, calling out “Hey Trey!” would gladly choose manual labor over circle time and a man 10 times his age over playground friends. In fact, our hunch was confirmed when Joey’s dad and Trey’s good friend, A.J., sent over a precious video of Trey’s hardest worker. A.J. asks his son, fresh out of a nighttime bath and in his bedtime pajamas, “Who were you just saying was your best friend?” Without hesitation and with absolute conviction, Joey says, “Trey.” “Why is Trey your best friend?” A.J. asks off camera. “Because!” Joey says, exasperated that it really needs to be explained. Looking at the camera, he gives the obvious reason why a middle-aged man and a preschooler would be best friends. “We work together.” That’s my husband. Loving partner. Great provider. Fantastic father. Loyal friend. And to one little boy, whom he makes feel like a valuable member of his construction crew each and every morning, he is the best friend of all. Kelli Wheeler is a Sacramento mother of two and author of “Momservations—The Fine Print of Parenting.” She can be reached at Momservations.com n
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Construction Zone A REMODELING INDUSTRY VETERAN TACKLES HER OWN HOME BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT
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risty Lingner’s creative eye is evident throughout her 1,100-square-foot home in Sacramento’s Poverty Ridge neighborhood. Built as a single-family house in the 1950s, it was turned into a duplex in the 1970s. In 2012, Lingner bought the building and now lives in one of the two units, which doubles as a cozy, art-filled, two-bedroom home and a home office.
travel to Antelope for meetings. So Lingner began looking for a home closer to work. It took three and a half years and seven or eight offers before she found the duplex. “This works out really well for me,” says Lingner, who uses the living room as her home office. “Being close to the freeway makes meetings with all the subs easier for everyone.”
“Patience comes in when educating our clients to not only spend their money wisely,” she says, “but helping them narrow down their wants so the home will be their dream home forever, and not just the home of the moment.”
Communication and patience are key requirements for a smooth project, says Lingner. During a remodel, she helps clients through the hundreds, if not thousands, of necessary decisions. Lingner, the CFO and coowner of River City Builders, had lived in Antelope before moving to Poverty Ridge. But her commute between home and various job sites, many of them in Land Park or East Sacramento, became tedious, and subcontractors were reluctant to
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“It’s a little quirky, a little unrefined, a little resourceful and a work in progress—I guess like me.”
The location offers an additional benefit: Lingner is now within walking distance of some of Sacramento’s best bars and restaurants. Lingner got into the construction business in a roundabout way. She began
working as an interior designer but discovered that design wasn’t her strong suit. “I’ve found that my talent lies in taking other people’s ideas and making them happen,” she explains. While working for local architect Michael Malinowski, she met Carl Maloney, who founded River City Builders in 1979. In 2003, when Maloney began contemplating retirement, he asked her to help run the company. After purchasing her home, Lingner painted the interior, which took two weeks. As time allowed, she tackled other projects. “This is different from what I build,” she says. “It’s a little quirky, a little unrefined, a little resourceful and a work in progress—I guess like me.”
A clock made from a collection of her grandmother’s teacups sits over the kitchen stove. Lingner assembled a whimsical kitchen chandelier from pieces of family silverware and revamped an antique transistor radio box into a sturdy storage container. She repurposed silverware she found under the freeway into kitchen cabinet pulls. A small upstairs space, which the previous owner had used as a darkroom, now serves as a craft room where Lingner makes glass beads in a process known as lampworking. (Using a propane and oxygen torch, she “paints” the glass on a rod, adding glass until she is satisfied. Then, she fires the beads in a kiln.) Lingner disliked the duplex’s kitchen linoleum. So she removed
it, then applied a dark stain to the subflooring. Wanting an inexpensive and creative way to bring new life to the room, Lingner stenciled the floor in an intricate lace pattern. She distressed it for a bit of patina, then applied a clear coating. The staircase was steep and dark. Lingner kept tripping, and she worried about her parents’ falling when they visited. She removed the carpet and stenciled the treads in white to add light and definition. In the guest bedroom, she added a set of bunk beds and, on the advice of a friend, designer Cheryl Holben, kept the original knotty-pine paneling as an ode to the original home. Lingner notes her home projects have been mostly cosmetic improvements that she could do
by herself or with help from River City Builder CEO Kirk Todd and River City Building’s construction crew.
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HOME FROM page 59 necessarily do for our clients,” she says. “But I can put the guys to work when they are not busy with paying projects.” Outside, Lingner added a reclaimed wood fence assembled from old corral fencing and deck boards, providing a bit of privacy for her tenant. “The only things I bought were the pressure-treated tops and bottoms and the posts,” she says. Behind the house, Lingner added a gas line and gas-burning logs to an existing brick fireplace. “I didn’t want to deal with firewood,” she explains. Being in the construction business, Lingner understands the challenges of
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living through a remodeling project. After the initial interior painting job, she experienced months of turmoil while her bathroom and kitchen floor were torn up. “That’s OK,” she says. “It’s my house, and I understand the construction process. But living in a construction zone is no fun.” Communication and patience are key requirements for a smooth project, says Lingner. During a remodel, she helps clients through the hundreds, if not thousands, of necessary decisions. “Patience comes in when educating our clients to not only spend their
money wisely,” she says, “but helping them narrow down their wants so the home will be their dream home forever, and not just the home of the moment.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster. julie91@yahoo.com n
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The Notebook PRAYERS FROM A HOSPITAL CHAPEL
BY NORRIS BURKES SPIRIT MATTERS
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s a hospital chaplain, I hear the prayers of patients who are hurting, sick and discouraged. Their private prayers are often so amazing that I’ve wished I could share them with my readers, but their privacy prevents me from doing so. I can, however, share the prayers that are written in the public journal in our chapel. Visitors are encouraged to write their prayers in the spiral notebook so others may pray with them. As you read these prayers, I encourage you to do two things. First, recall similar situations when God answered your prayers and granted his grace. Second, I ask you to offer your own prayer for the writers. Some of the prayers are simple oneliners, like the short prayer of a child asking, “Lord, help me to be a football player.” But most are deeply moving entreaties searching for healing, acceptance and understanding. One of the writers was earnestly searching for meaning: “God, or whoever, I don’t know if there is a Creator/God. I only know
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that my day to leave this life will come. I just hope that the memories of my mother and father will be with me just like my parents were with me the day I was born. If there is a Creator/ God, he/she will know that I tried to live my life with a clean heart.” Some of the petitioners, like this one, were clearly scared: “Dear Lord, I need your guidance now. I don’t have my mom anymore, so my dad and I are lost. My son and his wife have a sick baby girl. I need you to help us. Please hold my family tight. I love you, dear Father. In the name of the Father and Holy Spirit.” Other prayers showed a struggle that no one wants to face: “Dear Lord, Mom’s accident crossed your desk and you approved it. Now we have to turn off the ventilator. It’s the hardest decision this family has ever made. My sister is hanging on with vain hope. Please help her see the truth and let mom go. Mom is your child, Lord. I know she has a mansion waiting for her. The rest of us have peace about letting her go. Please pass that peace on to my sister. Time is a factor, Lord. Finances are a factor, too. The life she’s living now isn’t life. It isn’t fair to mom to have to be like she is. Please help my sister to understand that we are all suffering. Give our family the strength to cross this bridge and give mom a peace that only you can give. Amen.” One writer, likely a caregiver, compared her pain to that of her patients. She expressed the guilt many of us feel when seeing our problems in the light of the tragedy experienced by others:
“Dear God, No one I know is dying or suffering, so I need to stop being a baby about my problems. I should be praying for those who truly need love and support. I’m going through a divorce, and I feel depressed all the time. However, I’m grateful for my health, friends and family. Please help me overcome this feeling of anguish, loss, anxiety and jealousy. It’s not good for my health, and I’m unable to help my patients who truly need it. Thanks for listening. Amen.”
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The Tax Man AT HOWARD JARVIS ASSOCIATION, HE HELPS PROTECT PROP 13
BY JESSICA LASKEY
“Our first home was in the Pocket area,” Coupal recalls. “Quite frankly,
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Coupal spent nine years with
on Coupal says, “Lots of people
Pacific Legal Foundation working on
complain about taxes, but I get
environmental law cases, usually on
paid to complain about taxes.”
the side of property owners impacted
Coupal says this with an amiable
by overregulation. While defending
laugh, but his job as president of
one particular client, Coupal saw his
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
career path changed forever.
is no joke. The association was
“As one of the junior lawyers at
founded in the 1970s by tax revolt
the time, I was assigned anybody
leaders Howard and Estelle Jarvis in
who walked in the door without an
the wake of the passage of Proposition
appointment,” Coupal recalls. “One
13, which decreased property taxes
day, Paul Gann walked in with a legal
by assessing property values at
issue.” Gann was a political activist
their 1975 value and prohibited
who had co-authored Proposition 13
reassessment except in cases of
and sponsored Proposition 4, which
change in ownership or completion of
placed “Gann limits” on state and
new construction. Its primary purpose
local spending. Says Coupal, “I took
is to protect Proposition 13 and keep
the case and won it pretty easily and
an eye on new tax proposals on behalf
got a reputation for handling public
of California taxpayers.
finance cases and taxpayer advocacy.”
“Nothing is more creative than a
Thanks to this initial success
government entity trying to get more
handling Gann’s case, Coupal met
tax dollars,” Coupal says. “We’re
the team at Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
here to enforce the provisions of the
Association. In 1991, they hired him
Constitution.”
as director of legal affairs to oversee
Coupal’s focus for most of his
the association’s litigation and
career has been the protection of
lobbying efforts.
these provisions through advocacy
“I unfortunately never met
and litigation. After graduating from
Howard Jarvis,” says Coupal. (The
Marshall-Wythe School of Law at
association’s founder died in 1986.)
the College of William & Mary in
“But I was regaled with all the
Virginia in 1982, Coupal moved to
stories.”
California with his wife to complete
During his seven years in legal
a two-year fellowship with Pacific
affairs and since taking the reins
Legal Foundation before heading
as president in 2000, Coupal has
back to Washington, D.C., to practice
successfully defended Proposition
law. Considering they’ve now lived
140, the state’s term-limit initiative,
in Sacramento for more than three
before the California Supreme Court.
decades, they clearly never made it back to D.C.
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Jon Coupal is the president of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
In 2005, he won a major ruling before the Supreme Court when it
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62, an HJTA-sponsored initiative
litigation or lobbying anymore, his
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“We have a fundamentally different
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view than others in California when
organizations, homeowners and
it comes to the role of government,”
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Coupal explains. “I’m not anti-
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their homes are their No. 1 asset
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and remember back to the ’70s—or
health, which is why our recovery
remember stories their parents told
is lagging far behind. We have the
them—when high taxes forced them
highest poverty rate in America,
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Risky Bet STREETCARS IN SACRAMENTO: GOOD DECISION OR COSTLY FAD?
BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE
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n last month’s column, I wrote about the main advantages and disadvantages of a proposed streetcar system costing more than $150 million that would run 3.3 miles in Sacramento and across the river to West Sacramento. The chief advantages are the appeal that the permanence of tracks has to developers and the “pizazz factor” of rail transit. The chief disadvantages are its costs, lack of flexibility and questionable utility as a form of transportation. Is a streetcar the best transportation system for the central cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento and the West Sacramento riverfront? A 2008 draft environmental impact report (based on a substantially different route than now proposed) said yes. However, the analysis of alternatives was simplistic and short. The report considered only buses, “rubber-tired cable cars” and light rail as alternatives. All were dismissed in a few sentences. Missoula, Mont., took a more thoughtful and thorough look at streetcar alternatives in its town. Its recommendation was to develop a “downtown circulator” with the “quality of a fixed-rail streetcar,
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but (that) uses more cost-effective technology.” Missoula is a small city, not Sacramento, but that’s something to think about. One technology that might be more effective and efficient than streetcars is bus rapid transit (BRT). Since no tracks are required, capital costs are usually far less with BRT. But to make buses rapid, they need to operate in separate rights of way (at least for portions of the route), not in mixed-flow traffic. Also, a technique called queue jumping can be used to allow buses to bypass stopped traffic at intersections. Separate rights of way and queue jumping could be included to create a rapid streetcar
line as well, but that drives rail costs even higher. BRT vehicles can look just as sleek and sexy as modern streetcars. Unlike streetcars, BRT vehicles don’t require unique and expensive storage facilities and could be used elsewhere in the transit system Regular bus service would also be cheaper than streetcars. Since buses operate in traffic just as the planned streetcars do, they would provide the same basic transportation service at a lower cost, perhaps a bit less smoothly and certainly with less glitz. The knock is that buses are boring, and there are indications that plain-vanilla buses don’t attract quite the same ridership as streetcars.
Bus routes don’t have the same permanence as tracks. Trackless trolleys are virtually silent, rubber-tired vehicles that get their power from overhead wires like streetcars. Since they don’t run on tracks, they have more flexibility than streetcars in getting around obstacles. Modern trolleys can even operate without being connected to the overhead wires. Lower capital and operating costs mean more frequent service is possible at less cost than streetcars. Being electrified like streetcars, they are cleaner than buses, and their overhead wires provide some sense of permanence. GETTING THERE page 69
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More Than Just Puddles VERNAL POOLS ARE LOVELY HABITATS THAT BLOOM IN SPRING
BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
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Sacramento riddle for you: What am I? Bees without hives A bathtub with no drain Flowers mark the end of lives Dry shrimp will swim again. This could be a real stumper. But if you’re one of the thousands of elementary schoolchildren who have visited Sacramento Splash in Mather, you might have guessed the answer right away: vernal pools.
As the water dries up, the swimming creatures leave their eggs or cysts to wait for next year, and vernal pools put on their showy spring finery. Vernal pools are an extraordinary Central Valley habitat that not enough people have heard of. Eva
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Butler, who founded the nonprofit organization Splash to help local schoolchildren understand and value the natural world, says, “Fifteen or 20 years ago, most people hadn’t even heard of vernal pools. Part of the impact of Splash is now more Sacramentans know about them.” What is a vernal pool? The name gives us a hint. Vernal means spring. The most basic description of a vernal pool is a temporary pool of water that appears during our rainy season (winter and into spring), then dries up during summer and fall. But vernal pools are far more than simple puddles. Vernal pools form only in places lined by hardpan, a layer of clay a few inches to a few feet beneath the
surface of the ground that is so dense, it acts like a bathtub with no drain. Unlike a puddle, vernal pools don’t drain away. Water leaves the pool only by evaporation, so pools linger until late spring or summer. During the wet phase, vernal pools come alive. They are home to a wondrous array of animals and plants uniquely adapted to hatch, feed, breed and die during this brief period. On Splash field trips, children (and adults) are amazed by what they see in a scoop of vernal pool water: an abundance of exotic creatures that resemble tiny aliens, including fairy shrimp (a relative of “sea monkeys,” which you may remember from childhood), seed shrimp, clam shrimp, dragonfly larvae and an endangered
species found only in the Central Valley, vernal pool tadpole shrimp. Interestingly, you won’t see many mosquito larvae in a healthy vernal pool ecosystem. Unlike a bucket of stagnant water on the side of your house, a vernal pool is loaded with predators that eat mosquito larvae and compete with them for food. As the water dries up, the swimming creatures leave their eggs or cysts to wait for next year, and vernal pools put on their showy spring finery. It’s the flowering phase! Primarily in April, the pools turn into muddy ground from which dazzling vernal pool flowers blossom. Species of solitary bees emerge from SCIENCE page 71
GETTING THERE FROM 66 Remember the buses designed to look like cable cars/streetcars that used to prowl downtown? They didn’t seem to attract many passengers and were eventually eliminated. Perhaps streetcars that really are streetcars would attract more riders. It’s quite possible they won’t, though. Some of the passenger volume in the successful Portland and Tucson streetcar systems has come because their routes connect well-populated campuses to business districts. Portland State has 29,500 students, and the University of Arizona more than 42,000 students. There won’t be any such connection to a residential university in Sacramento. In cities without a university link, streetcar ridership has not always done well. After carrying 200,000 passengers in its first year of operation, Little Rock’s daily streetcar ridership is now 340. Tampa’s daily ridership is 500. If funding flexibility existed, the $167 million planned for the streetcar system could pay for a
huge transformation in bicycle facilities downtown. Bikes can be faster than transit in urban settings. Unlike rail systems, bike lanes and paths are cheap to build. Given the large streetcar budget, even bike/ pedestrian bridges could be built. Bike infrastructure is also inexpensive to operate and keep up. With any form of transit, operational costs are significant: Drivers have to be paid and vehicles purchased, replaced, powered and maintained. (Transit costs are still far lower than the cumulative costs of thousands of individuals driving cars.) A bike-oriented investment would address life-and-death safety issues shared by cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. I submit that an equivalent investment in bicycling would result in a much greater shift to nonautomobile travel than a streetcar system. It would be a boon to public health as well. The Sacramento Bee editorialized in its support of the streetcar plan
that it is “a bet on the future of Sacramento.” It is a bet. It is a risky and high-stakes gamble. It’s too bad that transportation decisions aren’t based on better science. Given the state of the art, it is impossible to precisely project streetcar ridership and revenues or to determine whether streetcars really do induce development. If streetcars come to Sacramento, we can hope they perform well as transportation, stimulate economic growth and improve downtown livability. I’m not a betting man, but I’d say odds are that, as currently envisioned, streetcars turn out to be a costly fad instead. More people may be using Google driverless cabs—or something else—than streetcars in the not-sodistant future. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n
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Doing It All CELEBRATION ARTS FOUNDER IS A ONE-MAN BAND
BY JESSICA LASKEY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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he term “renaissance man” may as well have been coined for James Wheatley. As the artistic director of Celebration Arts, the multicultural, multidiscipline arts organization located on D Street in East Sacramento, Wheatley directs many of the company’s plays, teaches classes in theater, dance, music and visual arts for youth, teens and seniors, writes original pieces for performance, directs the Celebration Arts Chorale and still finds time to volunteer his time on several local boards and advisory committees. “I sleep on occasion,” Wheatley says with an easy laugh. “I retired from the state 13 years ago, so it’s great to still be so busy.” His work with the state is in fact what first brought the Los Angeles native to town many years ago, and he held positions with the departments of rehabilitation, employment development and labor relations before retiring in 2001. Even during all his state service, Wheatley managed to maintain a strong connection to his artistic roots in Southern California. “For the first few years here, I was commuting to L.A. on the weekends to continue performing” as a dancer and singer, Wheatley says. “I eventually found some people here who wanted to work together, so that’s when I decided to form a dance company.” When Wheatley founded the informal dance troupe in 1976, he
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James Wheatley
quickly discovered a craving in the community for more arts education. “People heard about the troupe and wanted to be part of it,” Wheatley recalls. “I’d always had the idea of providing training and performance opportunities for community
residents—people who wanted to dance or sing or act but didn’t have access for whatever reason to bigger institutions. So it made sense to incorporate.” Wheatley incorporated Celebration Arts in 1986 and has since built it
into one of the most comprehensive destinations for artistic training for people of all ages in the Sacramento region. In addition to formal classes, Wheatley also seeks to educate the local public through theater performance. “The Celebration Theatre Company has a reputation of doing quality work and telling stories that interest people,” Wheatley says. “Many of the plays we do are local and regional premieres with AfricanAmerican themes. There are a lot more opportunities these days than when we first started, but we’re still basically the only African-American theater company in town. We pick interesting plays to attract people’s attention, but we also do pieces like Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ and ‘Race’ by David Mamet. People recognize the names, which has helped draw a lot of people.” Despite Celebration Arts’ unique niche in the community, it’s not easy to keep an arts organization afloat, especially when it’s overshadowed by bigger companies. “It’s always a struggle because you have to depend on others,” Wheatley says. “We’re a small, 50-seat theater. If we were larger and had more resources, we could probably get corporate sponsors, but at our size, we depend on ticket sales and the largesse of the community. We’re an all-volunteer organization. Getting volunteers is not the easiest thing in the world. Our recent emergency fund drive, the Day of Giving and our fall fund drive helped tremendously. We’re just trying to hang in there.” But Wheatley doesn’t let cashflow woes get him down. In fact, he
appears to be more inspired than ever. He still teaches every class that Celebration Arts offers, he writes every show that the children’s programs perform, and he even wrote last year’s holiday show, “A New Song for Christmas,” which Wheatley describes as “a drama with music.” “I wanted to do a Christmas program but I didn’t see anything that really appealed to me,” he explains. “I thought, ‘Let me try it,’ so I wrote the whole show and did all the orchestration. I had no idea it was going to have music in it, but music is my first love. And I love a challenge.” Thankfully, so do his pupils. While rehearsing for the show, Wheatley encouraged his cast to step out of their artistic comfort zones. “Because the people we have aren’t all singers, I got the opportunity to teach them about music,” Wheatley says. “A lot of them had never been in a choir. They didn’t know how to sing harmony or how to read sheet music, so we provided the training. They ended up liking it because they’d never had that kind of approach. I demanded it from them. They said, ‘We have to dance? I’m not a dancer.’ And I’d say, ‘You know how to walk? You know your left from your right? Good, now move your arm at the same time.’ It’s been quite an educational experience.” Celebration Arts is at 4469 D St. For more information, visit celebrationarts.net or call 455-2787. n
SCIENCE FROM 68 underground nests to collect pollen from a single kind of vernal pool flower upon which they depend for survival. Splash organizes guided walks of the vernal pool flowers on Sundays in April. The abundance and timing of the flowers’ bloom are unpredictable but, says Butler, “No one ever leaves a Mather Field flower walk unsatisfied.” Sadly, this singular natural wonder is in danger of disappearing forever. Thriving vernal pools are part of a
native California prairie (grassland) habitat. Prairie habitat has been utterly devastated across the Central Valley, with less than 10 percent of it left, a victim of urban development and agriculture. Sacramento retains two of the finest remaining vernal pool areas in the state (around Mather Field and Rancho Seco), but our county continues to lose thousands of acres a year of vernal pool prairie wild spaces. According to the Environmental Council of Sacramento, the County Board of Supervisors’ recent approval of the Cordova Hills development outside Rancho Cordova will destroy some of the finest remaining pools in the Sacramento Valley. “There is no local government commitment to vernal pool conservation in Sacramento,” says Butler. In addition to suburban construction, the conversion of rangeland into vineyards is another threat to local prairie. “Agricultural operations (such as vineyards) bypass a lot of regulations that normally protect vernal pools,” Butler says. “It’s legal to plant grapes right around a vernal pool. Technically, the wetland isn’t filled in, but the prairie habitat doesn’t function any more.” Sacramento Splash is dedicated to spreading the word about these local treasures. From their educational facility near Mather Field amid numerous vernal pools, Splash workers and volunteers lead tours, host schoolchildren and maintain a website (SacSplash.org) that is the finest vernal pool education resource on the Internet. “If you take young people to explore the place they live, they let their families know there’s something special to see here,” Butler explains. “Our homegrown habitat isn’t impressive on the scale of mountains or redwoods. But on a small scale, our vernal pools are spectacularly complex and beautiful. “You don’t have to go somewhere else to see nature.” Amy Rogers is a novelist, scientist and educator. She can be reached at Amy@AmyRogers.com. Learn more about her book “Reversion” at AmyRogers.com n
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Thru March 14 Celebration Arts Theatre 4469 D St. Sac 455-2787 CelebrationArts.net This play has been described as “gritty coming-of-age stories,” about love, selfsacrifice and community. It is a tapestry of West African Yonuba cosmology, woven into a contemporary story, engaging audiences in exciting and unexpected ways as they follow Oya, a promising runner, hoping to make something of herself while struggling between duty and her dreams.
HAMLET THRILL-MA-GEDDON March 4 – March 8 STC – Sacramento Theatre Co 1419 H St. Sac 446-7501 SacTheatre.org Lightning-quick, hilarious perversion of the greatest play in the English language. This light-hearted and hilarious play looks into how far a drama club will go to preserve theatre’s age-old mantra, “The show must go on.” To sell out, or not to sell out?
BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY March 9 & March 10 Harris Center for the Arts 10 College Pkwy, Folsom 608-6888 Now in its 25th amazing year, the “World’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll musical” continues to thrill audiences on tour around the world. Features the class songs, “Peggy Sue”, “That’ll Be The Day”, “Not Fade Away”, “Oh Boy”, Ritchie Valens”, “La Bamba”, and many more.
ITALIAN OPERA Thru March 22 California Stage Theatre 2509 R St. Sac 451-5822 Local writer, Leslie Lewinter-Suskind’s zany send-up Italian Opera roasts the art, the business and everything in between. A hilarious operetta will feature Michael RJ Campbell, and Elly Award winning actress Janet Motenko.
Thru March 22 STC – Sacramento Theatre Co 1419 H St. Sac 446-7501 SacTheatre.org This history play concerns the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination, and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle of Philippi. STC’s production will apply a modern concept to this classic text: The Roman Republic was where money and politics were nearly synonymous, and comparisons between pre-Empire Rome and modern America are easy to make.
THE LYONS Thru March 21 California Stage Theatre 2509 R St. Sac 223-9568 When Ben Lyon’s wife, Rita, and their grown children gather to say goodbye, they learn that despite being a family, each of them is utterly isolated. Afraid of closeness and afraid of solitude, Ben’s death becomes a catalyst that propels them into foreign territory: human connection.
EAR FILMS March 19 – March 21 Mondavi Center, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre 9399 Old Davis Rd, Davis 530 754-2787 Audience members are blindfolded, the better to be fully immersed in the 3D sound and cinematic musical score used to create a hyperreal aural experience. Breathing a new life into the tradition of storytelling, EarFilms produced “films” using purely audio and each listener’s imagination. The FIRST EVER feature length EarFilm, embraces the imaginative potential of literature, empowering every listener to participate in the creative process, by filling in the blanks, directing the camera angles and painting with sound.
DIA DE LOS CUENTOS Thru March 29 B Street Theatre 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org This is a world premier show written by Jerry Montoya. This show includes four hilarious, touching and sometimes spooky classic folk tales that are brought to life with music and dance in celebration of California’s Hispanic influence.
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St. Patrick’s Day Tune-up SACRAMENTO MASTER SINGERS CELEBRATE THE BRITISH ISLES WITH ‘CELTIC JOURNEYS’
By Jessica Laskey RIVER CITY PREVIEWS
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he Sacramento Master Singers wish you “Health!” this month with their rousing “Celtic Journeys” program celebrating music from the magical British Isles. Performances are March 14 and 15 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in midtown and at the Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom on March 17. Raise a glass of green beer in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day and toast the Master Singers, under the direction of Dr. Ralph Hughes, and guest dynamic duo Men of Worth as they perform both traditional and contemporary songs from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. The program also will feature recent works by Ireland’s Michael McGlynn, the world premiere of Sacramento composer Clifford Shockney’s “Ye Jacobites,” featuring lyrics by beloved Scottish bard Robert Burns, and some songs fresh off “Celtic Memories,” the Master Singers’ new recording project with Men of Worth’s James Keigher and Donnie MacDonald. Performances will be held at St. Francis of Assisi Church (1066 26th St.) at 8 p.m. on March 14 and at 3
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The Sacramento Master Singers are performing their “Celtic Journeys” program celebrating music from the magical British Isles
p.m. on March 15. Call 788-7464 to purchase tickets. A special St. Patrick’s Day performance will be held at Folsom Lake College’s Harris Center for the Arts (10 College Parkway) at 7 p.m. on March 17. Call 608-6888 for tickets. For more information, go to mastersingers.org
BIRDS OF A FEATHER If you’re squawking with anticipatory delight over the Sacramento Ballet’s production of “Swan Lake,” don’t miss “Inside the Director’s Studio: Timeless Beauty Revealed” with co-artistic director Carinne Binda from 6 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 13 at the ballet’s midtown studios. Binda will give attendees an inside look at the poetic passion behind “Swan Lake,” as well as a sneak peek at the ballet’s version of the piece,
which returns to the Sacramento stage after a 15-year hiatus. For tickets to Inside the Director’s Studio, call the ballet box office at 552-5800, ext. 2. Looking for a way to catch all the fancy footwork without breaking the bank? Check out the ballet dancers’ free, open rehearsals from 4 to 5 p.m. on Second Saturday (March 14) as they prepare for “Swan Lake.” The Sacramento Ballet Studios are at 1631 K St.
“Swan Lake,” arguably the most famous ballet of all time, will take the stage with opulent costumes, stunning scenery and, of course, breathtaking dancing on March 26-29 at the Community Center Theater. For tickets and more information, call 808-5181 or go to sacballet.org The Community Center Theater is at 1301 L St.
THE MISSING LINK Talk about beautiful music: The Trinity Cathedral Music Series will present its resident organist and canon musician for the past 30 years, David Link, in a pipe organ concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 8 to benefit NorCal AIDS Cycle. For the past five years, Link has participated in NorCal AIDS Cycle, a 330-mile, four-day bike ride that raises funds for local agencies serving those with HIV/AIDS. For Link, there’s a personal connection to the cause as well as a beneficent one: He rides in memory of Kenneth Piercy, a longtime Trinity Cathedral Choir member who died from complications of AIDS in 2011. The suggested minimum donation for the concert is $10 at the door, though donations of any kind will be gratefully accepted, as they go toward funding organizations that provide testing and treatment for this preventable disease. For tickets and more information, go to trinitycathedral.org Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is at 2620 Capitol Ave. For more information about NorCal AIDS Cycle, go to norcalaidscycle.org
the tools and flora you’ll need. But don’t test your St. Patty’s Day luck: Classes fill up fast, so register now at 441-1478. For more information, go to rellesflorist.com Relles Florist is at 2400 J St.
NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE Are you a photography aficionado? Do you want to own a piece of history? Then don’t miss Witherell’s Auction House’s upcoming offering of a rare pair of Civil War photos to be auctioned off between March 4 and 18. The hand-colored tintypes of the 54th Connecticut Troop depict a group of relaxed men and their lieutenant, a rarity considering most photos from the time period depict men in a formal line rather than a casual stance. In the foreground are a large cannon and pyramid of cannonballs. “It is so exciting to have a find like this come into our hands,” says Witherell’s chief operating officer, and “Antiques Roadshow” appraiser, Brian Witherell. “We have been entrusted with the photos of the troop, other photos of Lt. Samuel Thompson and family from the period and his sword.”
Organist David Link will perform in concert on Sunday, March 8
Other items in the auction groups will include the Civil War discharge papers, presentation sword and horse brush of a sergeant in the Illinois Light Artillery, as well as the musket, cartridge box and discharge papers from the sergeant’s teenage son, who joined the Illinois voluntary infantry at age 16 and served until the end of the Civil War.
DIY DESIGN Your green thumb will come in extra handy for the Relles Florist European Design Style Floral Bouquet class from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 14. It’s St. Patrick’s Day themed! Bring an apron and the knowledgeable staff at Relles will guide you through the making of your very own floral display piece, complete with tips and tricks on floral design and flower care, as well as all
The River City Chorale will perform “Steppin’ Out on Broadway,” March 7 and 8
A catalog of the items will be available prior to the auction, so hop to it! For more information, go to witherells.com Witherell’s Auction House is at 300 20th St.
LIFE IS A CABARET If you can’t get away to New York City anytime soon, don’t fret. The River City Chorale will take you straight to Broadway without an iota of air travel with its popular cabaret “Steppin’ Out on Broadway,” performing at the Serbian Church Hall in Fair Oaks at 2 and 4:30 p.m. on March 7 and 8. The performance will kick off cabaret-style with a traditional jazz band as you find your seats and enjoy tableside treats served by the singers themselves, as well as a no-host bar. The program will include individual acts as well as full ensemble pieces featuring thoroughly hummable show tunes from the likes of “My Fair Lady,” “Wicked,” “Les Misérables” and more. Parking is free but tickets go fast, so make sure you call now to reserve your table location by calling 3315810.
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Before you get zany at Art Mix, check out the Classical Concert featuring the winner of the 2014 Mu Phi Epsilon International Solo Competition, harpist Rachel Brandwein, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 8. The internationally acclaimed harpist will play pieces inspired by the Crocker’s ongoing exhibit “Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience.” Tickets are $6 for museum and Capital Public Radio members, $10 for students and $12 for nonmembers. Call 808-1182 for tickets.
If March has given you the munchies, don your bib and pull up a chair for the Crocker’s monthly Farm-to-Fork Wine Dinner from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19.
"The Whole Ball of Wax: Artwork by Members of Sierra Wax Artists," will be on display at Arthouse March 12 through April 7.
PREVIEWS FROM page 73 For tickets and more information, go to rivercitychorale.org The Serbian Hall is at 7777 Sunset Ave. in Fair Oaks.
BLUES PERIOD To hear artist Milton “510” Bowens tell it, “All Blues Ain’t Blue,” which also happens to be the title of his new solo show on display at Gallery 2110 from March 11 through April 4. The Oakland native is regionally renowned for his work depicting the African American experience in contemporary America, from slavery to the black migration north into Chicago and Detroit, where modern blues was born.
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As part of the Gallery 2110 mission to support nonprofit organizations, Gallery 2110 and Bowens will be donating a percentage of all sales to the Leonardo da Vinci School Blues Band and the Leonardo da Vinci Aquaponics Garden Projects. Don’t miss the VIP reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on March 12, where Bowens will share his view of the role of artists as important influences on culture, community and art history. Rub elbows with Bowens again during the Second Saturday Art Walk, unique to the Gallery’s new Del Paso location, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on March 14. For more information, call 476-5500 or go to gallery2110.com Gallery 2110 is newly located at 1023 Del Paso Blvd.
CIRCUS, CIRCUS The circus is coming to town at Crocker Art Museum. “Ooh” and “ahh” at the Crocker’s Art Mix: Cirque from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, as well as at various events throughout the month. Thanks to the ongoing Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit, the Crocker will be transformed on March 12 into an avant-garde circus spectacle complete with performances by Aerial Revolution, DJ Frenchy le Freak, the Element Brass Band, the Sacramento Comedy Spot and spookily spoton free tarot card readings. Drink specials are under $5 all night. The event is free for museum members, $10 for nonmembers, and college students receive a $2 discount.
If March has given you the munchies, don your bib and pull up a chair for the Crocker’s monthly Farm-to-Fork Wine Dinner from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 19. Delectable farm-fresh local fare will be presented with wine pairings that are sure to make you swoon as you swill. Spots sell out fast, so call the Crocker Café by Supper Club for a reservation at 808-1289. Wondering what the wunderkind are up to these days? Check out music by the Camellia Juniors, the youth string ensemble from the Camellia Symphony Orchestra, from 11:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, March 31, in the Crocker’s historic ballroom. The concert is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. For information on all events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum. org Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.
WAX ON The new show at ARTHOUSE presents the whole ball of wax— literally. The show, entitled “The Whole Ball of Wax: Artwork by Members of Sierra Wax Artists,” will be on display from March 12 through April 7. In what is perhaps the largest display of wax art pieces you’ll ever see, the exhibit will feature encaustic, cold wax and Ceracolors (or punic wax) artwork utilizing a minimal palette, repetitive imagery and layers of translucent or opaque wax to create both two- and three-dimensional abstractions. It’s a celebration of the truly endless possibilities of mixed media. Don’t miss the artist reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 14. For more information, go to arthouseonr.com ARTHOUSE is upstairs at 1021 R St. in the Fox and Goose Pub House building.
POETS AND THEY KNOW IT Whether you’re musically or rhythmically inclined, or both, the third annual Poetry/Art/Jazz Concert at 7 p.m. on March 7 at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center will be music to your ears. Produced in collaboration with the SFAC and the Sacramento Poetry Society, the event will feature the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet and Sacramento Poetry Society performance poets, who have composed original jazz and poetry (respectively) inspired by the art in SFAC’s annual “Animal House” exhibit. This highly anticipated concert sells out every year, so don’t wait to snag your tickets. Call the SFAC at 971-3713 or go to sacfinearts.org The Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.
SWEET SUITE Bring your most enthusiastic vocals to the Sacramento Symphonic Winds’ spring concert, “Suite Ol’ Broadway!” The sing-along is at 2:30 p.m. on
Sunday, March 15 at Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast. The 60-piece orchestra led by Dr. Les Lehr will perform selections including Robert Russell Bennett’s “Suite of Old American Dances” and a Broadway sing-along including tunes from “The King and I,” “The Music Man,” “My Fair Lady” and more. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for students and seniors, and free for children under 10. For tickets and more information, call 489-2576 or go to sacwinds.org Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast is at 5321 Date Ave.
OUT OF THIS WORLD Travel the world, and back in time, from your seat at the Sacramento Community Concert Association’s performance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, featuring the Camerata Capistrano Early Music Ensemble and the Sacramento State Jazz Ensemble at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Part one of the program will feature repertoire from the 17th century to the German baroque to the late French composers, all performed by the immensely talented Camerata Capistrano Early Music Ensemble, directed by Lorna Peters. The second part of the program will spotlight the skills of young jazz soloists who are part of the Sacramento State Jazz Ensemble. The students will perform music in a variety of styles, including swing, Latin, ballads and contemporary compositions directed by Steve Roach. For tickets and more information, call 400-4634 or go to sccaconcerts.org Westminster Presbyterian Church is at 1300 N St.
WINGS AND WINE If you love wildlife, and the wild life, be sure to check out “Wings and Wine 2015,” a benefit event for the Wildlife Care Association being held at High Hand Nursery in Loomis at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 7. The Wildlife Care Association is the only nonprofit organization in the Sacramento region that specifically caters to the care of injured wildlife
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BUILDING BONDS Are you curious about what hiring an architect entails? Residential Architects Showcase, presented by the local chapter of The American Institute of Architects, will give you a helpful head start on Saturday, March 14, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at AIA Central Valley Gallery.
“This open house gives them the chance to talk with various architects in an informal atmosphere.”
them,” says Pam Whitehead of Sage Architecture, Inc. “This open house gives them the chance to talk with various architects in an informal atmosphere.” Chat with architects from several local firms who specialize in residential architecture and ask them all your burning questions about the process of turning your design daydreams into residential reality. AIA Central Valley Gallery is at 1400 S St. For more information, visit aiacv.org
DIY DESIGN Your green thumb will come in extra handy for the Relles Florist European Design Style Floral Bouquet class on Saturday, March 14 from 10-11:30 a.m.—it’s St. Patrick’s Day themed! Bring an apron and the knowledgeable staff at Relles will guide you through the making of your very own floral display piece, complete with tips and tricks on floral design and flower care, as well as all the tools and flora you’ll need. But don’t try your St. Patty’s Day luck— classes fill up fast, so register now at 441-1478. For more information, visit rellesflorist.com. Relles Florist is located at 2400 J Street. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event. n
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The Magic Touch AKEBONO OWNER OPENS THIRD RESTAURANT; IT’S A WINNER
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y wife and I have been going to Akebono, the Japanese restaurant on Freeport Boulevard, for years. In fact, we had our first date there. The sushi is some of the best in town, and the ramen stands up to the best in the country. It’s no surprise to find a line out the door there at almost any time of day. When I spoke with owner Sai Wong several years ago, I asked if he ever intended to open another restaurant. He said that he didn’t need the extra bother, that one restaurant was enough, and that he was worried about trying to be in two places at the same time. It was a familiar refrain that I’d heard from other restaurant owners throughout the years. Yet not long after that conversation, I learned that Wong planned to open a ramen shop in Midtown. I guess a man is allowed to change his mind. His second restaurant, RyuJin Ramen House, became a magnet for hungry Midtowners almost immediately after opening. The ramen is, if it’s possible, better than Akebono’s. Much like at Akebono, the service is speedy and polite, and the interior is clean, simple and absent of frills. After he opened his second restaurant, I though Wong might take a break. But not long after, he was looking at the years-vacant space across the street on 19th and S streets that used to be Sweetwater Restaurant & Bar. Apparently,
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Enjoy teppan okonomiyaki, a Japanese-style pancake with thinly sliced pork and vegetables, topped with ginger, bonito flakes, mayonnaise and katsu saice
staring at that empty storefront just yards from RyuJin’s front door was too much temptation for him. By last October, his third restaurant, Izakaya Daikoku, was up and running. Loosely translated, izakaya means sake house or pub, and Daikoku is a Japanese god associated with wealth. Put them together and you’ve got another successful enterprise for Sai Wong. Within weeks of its opening, locals were filling the seats at Izakaya for its hearty fare and vast array of sake.
The menu is diverse, the staff quick and friendly, the interior simple. If you’re not familiar with Japanese cuisine, especially the nonsushi side of the menu, a quick peek at the vast number of dishes offered at Izakaya might seem daunting. Don’t worry; here’s a beginner’s guide. First, almost everything on the menu is served in small, sharable portions. Plan on ordering four to six dishes for a party of two. Second, if you’re a trusting soul, just tell your server the kind of things you like, and she’ll be happy to suggest
dishes for you. Third, this is not a sushi restaurant. There’s sushi on the menu, but it’s more of an appeasement than an aspiration. Fourth, the menu is laid out in sections for easy perusal: rice and noodles, soups, okonomiyaki (more about this later), fish, yakitori (skewered grilled meats), otsumami (again, more later) and sushi. I Let let’s break it down. Start with okonomiyaki. It’s a mouthful, in more ways than one. A thick, savory pancake filled with RESTAURANT page 79
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the Japanese equivalent of a 2 a.m. burrito or a bacon cheeseburger. It’s filling, flavorful and just a little guilt inducing. The fish dishes at Izakaya are simple and straightforward. Typically a simple piece of grilled fish with a light sauce or condiment, these plates are small and shareable. They allow the quality of the fish to speak for itself. The yakitori are also simple treats. In addition to grilled chicken, there
are options like chicken liver, beef tongue and chicken heart. Finally, a word about otsumami. Loosely translated as bar snacks or drinking foods, otsumami is a collection of dishes meant to be snacked on while drinking beer or sake. Simple treats like fried chicken or breaded port cutlet share space on the menu with more intricate bites like fried fishcake and sauteed scallops. They’re small, salty bites to eat between sips and snippets of conversation. If you’re a lover of Japanese food but rarely find yourself going outside your sushi comfort zone, come spend some time at Izakaya Daikoku. Bring some friends and order enough dishes to cover the table. Throw back some sake and beer and catch up with old friends. This is pub dining from across the Pacific. Enjoy.
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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 $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com
Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518
Wine Bar, Event Center & Retail Sales, 36 wines by the glass, beer on tap • downtownandvine.com
Ella Dining Room & Bar
Fair Oaks Boulevard & Arden Way • 916.485.2883
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day March 13 ~ 17 from 1l am to close Corned Beef & Cabbage with Red Potatoes & Irish Soda Bread Green Beer & Guinness Irish Whiskey Cake & Mint Marble Mousse dine in or carry out
1131 K St. 443-3772
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com
Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
Estelle's Patisserie
901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com
Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768 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 $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
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L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
Il Fornaio 400 Capitol Mall 446-4100 L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com
D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space
Rio City Café
1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com
Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
LAND PARK Freeport Bakery
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
Jamie's Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
Taylor's Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Tower Café 1518 Broadway 441-0222 B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting
Willie's Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am Friday and Saturday n
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