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recently heard a brief summary of three things you can do to help people take a liking to you. First, display an upbeat, positive attitude. Second, take an interest in other people by asking gentle questions and carefully listening to the answers. At the same time, be candid about yourself. In other words, engage in conversational give and take. Finally, be confident. My mother did all of these things and had many meaningful friendships throughout her long life. I recall her saying that making deep friendships later in life could be tough. Hence, it is important to nurture the older connections that give you joy.
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Jane Einhorn and Cecily Hastings enjoy time together. Inset: Jane Einhorn. Photo courtesy of Kent Lacin.
I am very grateful for mother’s positive influence in my life. And when I meet someone who is like her, I happily reflect back on my mom’s lovely personality. A few years ago, I met someone whose life has roughly paralleled
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mine in many ways, and who clearly possesses these likable characteristics. Jane Einhorn is a legend in our city, mostly for her PR acumen. Her former partner (and husband of a friend of mine) introduced us at lunch several years ago, and we
hit it off immediately. For 37 years, she was a partner in the venerable Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn agency (now called RS-E). In 2016, she left the partnership to lighten her workload and strike out on her own. Her departure was in the works for more than a year as she transitioned out of the firm. I had heard lots of interesting stories about her over the years. I play tennis in the park across from
her former home in Arden and first saw her out on her porch in her pink peignoir, letting her dog out in the early morning. The thought of that sight still makes me laugh! And her husband, Jeffrey, played with my mixed-doubles tennis group many years ago. On the surface, we have many differences: She’s short and I’m fairly tall. (I tower over her when we hug!) She’s a fair-skinned blonde with perky short hair. I’m a sun-
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t’s hard to get time to stand still in a garden. Vines intertwine. Grasses grow. Buds blossom and bees move on to a tastier shade of yellow. It all seems to happen so slowly, yet the next thing you know, your garden is doing wild things. It’s ablaze in spring color, alight with butterflies, dripping with raindrops, essentially speaking its own mind, depending on which way the wind blows. One woman wants to capture all those lively nuances of growth and is the very gardener who orchestrated the whole affair. Roberta Neidigh has been shooting “environmental portraits” for years: photos of people in the places they love to be, whether in their gardens, dance studios, by the river or wherever else their heart may take them. She is well known in the community for being one of the first photographers in Sacramento to do hand-tinted portrait work of children. And these days, she’s expanding her horizons by tapping into her roots. Neidigh grew up gardening, alongside her father on the family’s 100-acre organic farm in Indiana. She remembers fondly one night when she was a young girl. She told her father she wanted to grow her own herb garden. The next day, she woke to find her father had tilled a big plot of land just
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Sacramento photographer Roberta Neidigh captures gardeners alongside their handiwork. All photos courtesy of Roberta Neidigh.
for her. No grass grew under his feet when it came to accommodating her wish. “I was laughing so hard,” she recalls. “There was no discussion. He just tilled a gigantic piece of land.” Neidigh seems to understand gardeners’ uniquely passionate relationship with the process of gardening and the fruits of their labor. Now, she is focusing this stage of her artistic career on creating portraits that tell the story of how a gardener comes to life while working with the good earth. “I’m very interested in the environmental interaction between the person and their space and being able to create a composition out of what is given to me,” Neidigh says. “How do the garden and person relate to one another? “I love photographing people in the moment they are most transformed. That moment for many, is when they are in their garden.” What stories are there waiting for interpretation? Neidigh explains it this way: Think for a moment about a studio portrait, one person against a solid background, photographed in a mall studio or a curtain-draped room. What does the background say about the person? What story within the story can that plain background tell? How can it add a new dimension to the photograph? Now imagine such subjects alongside their pride-and-joy garden that’s alive with a beauty they helped create. The setting itself creates the difference of a thousand words. “You can’t just place somebody in a space and expect it to be a ARDEN page 14
PUBLISHER FROM page 11 loving brunette who’s always favored longer hair. She dresses seriously well, favoring designer dresses and separates, complemented by glamorous jewelry. I’m more likely to wear tennis and yoga outfits or rolled-up jeans, and I can count my simple jewelry pieces on one hand. She’s Jewish and I’m Christian. She has a New York accent, while I have a bit of a Midwestern twang. She marvels that I am so domestically hands-on in cooking, gardening and design. I admire that she has sat through thousands of board meetings and helped run a company much, much larger than ours. But far more important is what we have in common. We are roughly the same age, in our early 60s, both with long marriages. Our youngest sons are close in age. We both graduated from University of Michigan and were on the Ann Arbor campus at the same time. We are both voracious readers and exchange book recommendations every week.
When there is common ground and both parties are willing to put care and energy into each other, good things can grow in any season of our lives. And that is just our life histories. It is our similar personalities that have sparked our deepest connection. Both of us really like people. We like meeting them, connecting with them and sharing those connections with others, trying to help others in the process. When Jane left her firm and went out on her own, I admired her ability to reinvent herself. Her confidence stemmed in part from the fact that
she often befriends those she does business with, and those friendships continue. She did seem a bit concerned about the transition in terms of practical matters—the things she took for granted at a large agency. When I asked her about business cards, she wondered if she needed them. I said absolutely and designed her one, taking into consideration her colorful, bubbly personality. Underneath her name, I put the words “Extraordinary Connections in Public Relations & Marketing.” I sent her a proof of the design, and she loved it. I ordered them and had them sent to her. I also had our IT manager help her set up her home office. Jane clearly loves her new freedom and is thriving in her new role, working directly with her business and nonprofit clients. Jane has been an excellent source of suggestions for interesting people and projects for us to cover at Inside Publications. Given her early background as a writer and journalist, she is usually spot-on. When our book “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital” was being planned and released, Jane was very helpful. She connected me with potential sponsors, bucked me up when I hit obstacles and wrote an early recommendation that is printed inside the cover. A few months ago, I chatted over coffee with Ed Goldman, a mutual friend. When I mentioned hitting it off with Jane, he was not the least bit surprised. “You both still have the hustle to make things happen. And that is a powerful asset to have in common,” he said. Jane and I are a good example that one can make new and meaningful friendships at any age. When there is common ground and both parties are willing to put care and energy into each other, good things can grow in any season of our lives. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n
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ARDEN FROM page 12 powerful image,” she says. “I really like working with people to create an image that makes you wonder about the story behind it. How does the subject feel in that space? How are they affected by the environment? It leaves more for the imagination as a marriage between the environment and the person." “The thing I love about growing plants is we try to control them and make the decisions. But just watch what it does. The vine may say, ‘I don’t want to grow there. I am going over here to wrap myself around this other plant because I like this plant.’ Gardening is unexpected and it takes time. It’s so slow, you don’t realize that’s happening. That’s the reason I like photographing the same garden in different seasons.” After majoring in fine arts photography at Indiana University, Neidigh and her college sweetheart, now her husband, Carsen Anthonisen, moved to Sacramento, where they started a family. The photography skills she discovered in a high school
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dark room led her to the forefront of Sacramento portrait work where she used toothpicks and translucent oil paint to add color to black and white. (You may have seen her work on the walls of pediatrician Don Van Schenck.) Like the process of gardening, Neidigh’s process of photographing gardeners in their element takes time. “I like to go visit the garden first,” she says. “Get to know it. Photograph it at different times of day without the gardener so I can see what the light does. And I like to know what’s important to the gardener, who they are, before taking their photograph.” Only then does she bring the two together before the lens. Neidigh also photographs volunteers in public gardens such as those in Old City Cemetery, as well as people known as guerilla gardeners, members of the public who create gardens on a patch of public land such as a center divide, under the freeway or on a strip of dirt along a downtown sidewalk. She shoots portraits of people in their gardens through the
Students at Carmichael’s Our Lady of Assumption School, created a rosary from helium balloons and sent it skyward in a special ceremony of prayer. seasons that help show how things change and evolve as the light and the weather change over time. Simply put, “I’m very interested in people who are constantly working on growing things.”
NEW TEAM FOR SWIM COACH Forget rolling around in bed playing Beat the Snooze Button. For dozens of Sacramento’s hearty swimmers, dawn breaks with a big, cold splash at American River College. The campus is home to DART Swimming Sacramento, a newly formed team made up of nearly 100 developing swimmers who train intensively year-round. Many of the kids used to be part of Arden Hills’ DART program, which no longer exists. The new program is run by Brian Nebeta, the same coach who has guided thousands of Arden Hills swimmers over the years. More than 100 of his former swimmers went on to swim at universities, and many qualified for the Olympic trials. DART Swimming Sacramento invites all interested swimmers to come try the program for free for a week or two, to see if the sport is a good fit. Recruiting is open yearround. The secret to Nebeta’s coaching success is perhaps his philosophy, which centers not necessarily on a swimmer’s result, but on incremental
improvements, giving oneself credit for the time, energy and effort made to realize small improvements and challenging oneself to achieve a personal best.
DART Swimming Sacramento is open to kids ages 7 through 18 of all skill levels and goals. “Swimming is one of the best sports because it can be done from pediatrics to geriatrics,” Nebeta says. “It mimics life and is full of valuable life lessons. You can be doing everything right and it might punch you in the face. But just get up, wipe yourself off, realize you’re on the right path and make changes where necessary. Take pride in the process.” DART Swimming Sacramento is open to kids ages 7 through 18 of all skill levels and goals. And yes, parents attest, there’s ample opportunity and expertise available to the serious swimmer to chase records, scholarships and Olympic dreams. For the younger swimmer, Nebeta provides the basics such as overall wellness training, nutrition and an
can be a difficult practice and even more difficult to understand, let alone explain, to children. But with OLA’s very visual form of the age-old tradition, students at the Carmichael school took the practice of saying the rosary and gave it wings.
“This was such a wonderful visual for the children.”
DART Swimming Sacramento is in its first year operating at American River College under coach Brian Nebeta.
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DART Swimming Sacramento invites all interested swimmers to come try the program, complimentary for a week or two, to see if the sport is a good fit. Recruiting is open year-round. introduction to the intangibles that can make a difference in swimming and life. “Things like the mental and psychological side of how to pull out the best qualities in each specific swimmer,” he says. “We learn discipline, goal setting, time management skills that translate directly to life and to the classroom. I try to help swimmers realize the power of getting out of their comfort zone to hit the next level. “Swimming demands a different challenge than other sports because the athlete is solitary, the only one up
there on the blocks. You can’t fake it. You either sink or swim.” Practices for most swimmers are daily during after-school hours. More competitive swimmers also practice some early mornings. Some 15 to 18 meets are interspersed throughout the year, with the majority of them within an hour’s drive. The team also is active in community service. One of its latest projects created dozens of blankets for those in need. For more information about DART Swimming Sacramento, or to sponsor the team, go to dartswimming.com or email swimdartsac@gmail.com.
Jane Ricci, one of the staff members at Our Lady of Assumption Parish and School, was particularly nervous about the overcast skies on a Friday in late January. She was one of the organizers of a schoolwide prayer ceremony involving balloons. Students from kindergarten through eighth grade had spent weeks preparing for the special assembly. They created a gigantic rosary built of inflated helium balloons and planned to release it in grand fashion up to the heavens. But the day was gray and cloudy. Ricci knew that meant the white balloons would be invisible against the clouds. They would have to scrap the event that had been in the hearts of many and weeks in the making. But just minutes before the assembly was to begin, the clouds broke and blue filled the sky. The show would go on. For many Catholics, saying the rosary is a solemn practice of sitting quietly in prayer while holding the rosary and reciting a variety of prayers in a specific order. The powerful practice is a form of deep prayer and contemplation of the mysteries, glory and joys of faith. It
In honor of Catholic Schools Week, students en masse, said the dozens of prayers, while praying for the community. When the prayers were complete, they let the rosary go, offering their prayers to the heavens. “This was such a wonderful visual for the children,” Ricci says. “First to make it, then to pray together as a school, then to see their prayers go up to God. It was so powerful to watch. You could see the children’s eyes popping out, watching the rosary rise, parents with tears in their eyes, neighbors coming out of their houses and drivers stopping their cars to watch the rosary go up. It will leave a lifelong memory.” Each day of Catholic Schools Week focused on a different theme. “Every Catholic in the world who is doing the rosary on a certain day is doing it with the same intention,” Ricci says. “So when all of us are focusing on community, our faith community and our geographical community, it has so much power. It shows us that so many people are concentrating on making life better." “How can that not be powerful? Especially with the traumatic times we live in, it’s nice to know so many people are trying, really trying, to make life better for others.” Our Lady of Assumption holds Masses at 8 a.m. weekdays, 5 p.m. Saturdays and 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sundays. Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com. n
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n Saturday, March 4, I will resume holding “office hours,” which involve 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 2017 outing will be in Arden Arcade 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 go to fecrecpark.com. Next month I will be holding two other no-appointment-necessary “office hours.” The first will be on Friday, April 7, at Movie Night in the Park in Old Foothill Farms at Pioneer Park, 5100 Verner Ave. (across from Pioneer Elementary School). “Finding Dory” will be shown that evening at approximately 7:45 p.m. following games and activities for children that will begin at 6:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Sunrise Park and Recreation District and Sacramento County. For more information, call the Park District at 725-1585 or go to sunriseparks.com.
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STOPPING SPEEDERS A POPULAR TOPIC
Supervisor Susan Peters will be holding her first “office hours” of the year on March 4 at the annual trout fishing derby in Howe Park. The second April “office hours” will be at the Carmichael Egg Hunt between 9:30 and 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 15. 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 and the Kiwanis Club of Carmichael are sponsoring
the two activities at Carmichael Park, 5750 Grant Ave. For more information about the egg hunt, call the Park District at 485-5322 or go to carmichaelpark.com. I will be moving my “office” to other locations throughout the year and future dates will be posted on my webpage accessible at bos.saccounty. net.
During February I held two community meetings in Arden Arcade and Carmichael that featured guest speaker Sgt. Troy Rivers of the California Highway Patrol. Rivers is in charge of the CHP’s Problem Oriented Policing Team and Special Investigations Unit for the North Sacramento Area Command. The meetings proved very popular with residents, who discussed speeding at each session—the first in Arden Arcade at the Sacramento Suburban Water District’s Board Room, and the other at the Carmichael Park Clubhouse. While the CHP can temporarily assign officers at problem locations to deter speeding, residents also have the option to participate in the Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Traffic Management Program, designed to improve safety and the quality of life for residents by reducing the impacts from speeding vehicles and careless drivers on residential streets through the installation of devices such as speed bumps. The program provides a systematic approach to initiating citizen requests on a specific street and ensuring residential consensus when it comes to installing such devices. Residents interested in having their street considered for the NTMP can call 311 (875-4311) or visit 311. saccounty.net; be sure to specify your street. I’ll be holding more community meetings later this year on other TO page 18
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FROM page 16 topics. A full listing of all the 2016 meeting dates is on my webpage, accessible at bos.saccounty.net. I hope to see you at any one or all this year.
KUDOS TO CARMICHAEL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Congratulations to the property owners and businesses along Fair Oaks Boulevard and Manzanita Avenue, who have formed a Property and Business Improvement District, to enhance the economic vitality of this core area of Carmichael. The district basically consists of the commercial corridor properties along Fair Oaks Boulevard between El Camino Avenue and McClain Road and along Manzanita Avenue from Fair Oaks Boulevard to Jan Drive. Sacramento County has several property business improvement districts serving the business corridors of the unincorporated area, including the Fulton Avenue Association and the Watt Avenue Partnership. The Carmichael district is operated by the private nonprofit Carmichael Improvement District Inc. Like those other districts, the Carmichael district collects a special property tax assessment on properties within its borders and allocates those funds in accordance with a district management plan. For more information about the Carmichael Improvement District, go to carmichaelid.org.
During February, Supervisor Susan Peters held two community meetings in Arden Arcade and Carmichael to discuss traffic enforcement in the unincorporated area. to access free business classes, make connections with sources to market and develop business ideas, and talk to county agencies for information on permitting. There also will be guidance on how to start and grow a business. For more information about the event and Small Business Week, go to capitalregionsmallbusinessweek.org.
FINDING ROVER The Sacramento County’s Bradshaw Animal Shelter is using facial recognition technology to identify lost pets, by offering county residents Finding Rover, a free app for smartphones and computers. Every dog that enters the Bradshaw Shelter is registered on Finding Rover, and dog owners also can register their cherished pet on it, too. When a user spots a lost dog, he/she can take a photo either within the app, or upload
a photo from a device’s photo album. When a dog has been found and identified through Finding Rover’s facial recognition software, the finder will receive information on how to notify the owner. For more information about this app, go to findingrover.com. And to learn more about adoptable pets and ways to volunteer, foster and support the animals at the Sacramento County Bradshaw Animal Shelter, go to acr.saccounty.net.
TRANSIENT SMART POLICING The Sheriff’s Department recently received a $700,000 Smart Policing Initiative Grant for a three-year period from the U.S. Department of Justice to establish a partnership with Sacramento Steps Forward and California State University, Sacramento, to come up with methods
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS WEEK MAY 1-6 On May 2, Sacramento County will host a Small Business Symposium at the McClellan Conference Center from 8 a.m. to approximately 2 p.m. in conjunction with 2017 Capital Region Small Business Month. The symposium will provide information about business tax compliance by various agencies, including the State Board of Equalization, Franchise Tax Board, Employment Development Department and the Internal Revenue Service. Participants also will be able
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Last year, Sacramento International Airport achieved a milestone by serving more than 10 million passengers.
to reduce homeless-related crime in the unincorporated area. This effort will be piloted in the north area of Sacramento County and involves an assigned navigator (i.e., an outreach worker) from Sacramento Steps Forward, working with the Sheriff’s Department to, conduct vulnerability assessments and provide resource information to help get homeless individuals into services. Sacramento Steps Forward is the lead agency that connects homeless individuals in our area with access to employment, health, education and other resources necessary for providing individual stability. CSUS will evaluate and analyzed the data collected during the pilot project.
SMF AIRPORT SUCCESS Sacramento International Airport served more than 10 million passengers in 2016, a significant milestone not achieved since 2008. The steady growth in passenger traffic reflects airline response to passenger demand for new air service and is another indicator of continued growth in our regional economy. Specifically, Sac International served 10.1 million passengers last year, a 5.3 percent increase over 2015. The airport’s all-time traffic record was 10.7 million passengers in 2007 before the Great Recession hit. During 2016, new or expanded nonstop service was added, including flights by Southwest to Baltimore/ Washington, D.C., and to Boise, Idaho. American Airlines launched service to Chicago and Charlotte, N.C. JetBlue TO page 20
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FROM page 18 expanded seasonal nonstop service to Boston. New or expanded service for 2017 includes seasonal nonstop service by Alaska Airlines to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, beginning June 10. Southwest offers three-times-a-day nonstop service to San Diego beginning in March, plus daily nonstop service to Salt Lake City. Airport officials expect passenger growth of about four percent this year in 2017.
Bye Mattress (visit byebyemattress. com) through the Mattress Recycling Council, allows individuals to drop off unwanted mattresses and box spring foundations, for free at two county collection sites: North Area Recovery Station, 4450 Roseville Road, and Kiefer Landfill, 12701 Kiefer Blvd., Sloughhouse. At these locations mattresses are sorted and loaded into trailers to be picked up by a dedicated mattress recycler. For hours and other information about either location, go to wmr.saccounty.net.
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Members of the law enforcement and firefighting communities will be honored next month at a special concert, to be performed by the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Premier Orchestra, along with a 200-member choir from the four campuses of the Los Rios Community College District. The event will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 2, at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. The performance will include bagpipes, color guard and memorable patriotic songs honoring our firstresponders, concluding with the powerful “1812 Overture” by Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky. Sponsorships are available. For more information, go to sacramentoyouthsymphony.org.
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 on Tuesday, March 7, starting at 6 p.m. at Country Club Lanes in the Skyroom on the 2nd floor, 2600 Watt Avenue near El Camino Avenue. The Carmichael meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, 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.
BYE-BYE MATTRESS Two thousand mattresses on average have been recycled monthly since the free mattress drop-off program was launched by Sacramento County’s Department of Waste Management and Recycling. That means fewer discarded mattresses are stacking up in our landfill and the program has helped to reduce illegal dumping, too. Now, those mattresses and box springs instead, are being recycled to help produce new items such as appliances, building and industrial materials, and textiles. The county’s Mattress Recycling Program, in coordination with Bye
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Old mattresses and box springs are recycled to produce appliances, building and industrial materials and textiles. The program involves weekly classes at the Sacramento City Police Headquarters, 5770 Freeport Blvd. The academy begins April 4 and runs through June 6 during Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9. Participants must at least 18 years old and either live or work in Sacramento County. There is no cost for the program. The deadline to submit an application is March 10. Visit sacda.org for more information and the application form.
ART COMPETITION TO SUPPORT LEARN CRIMINAL JUSTICE MENTAL HEALTH May is Mental Health Month and FIRST-HAND Applications are now being accepted for the 2017 Citizens Academy, a 10-week course designed to provide an overview of the criminal justice system. The program is sponsored by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert and supported by Sheriff Scott Jones along with the Sacramento Police Department. The aim of the program is to improve relations and communication with diverse communities and members of the criminal justice system.
Sacramento County will be organizing mental health art exhibits under the theme “Mental Illness: It’s Not Always What You Think.” If you or someone close to you is living with mental illness, here is an opportunity to express the experience visually through paintings, photographs and drawings that could help dispel myths and stereotypes about mental illness and promote messages of wellness, hope and recovery. Individuals must reside in Sacramento County and the art is
limited to one submission, must be wall mountable artwork ready to hang (attached cable or hook), and not exceed 24 by 36 inches. All entries must be submitted by Friday, April 14, along with a completed application form. For more information and to obtain an application form, send an email to infor@stopstigmasacramento.org.
HISTORICAL PHOTO EXHIBIT ON INTERNMENT CAMPS Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the governments of the United States and Canada relocated citizens of Japanese ancestry. Two renowned photographers, American Ansel Adams and Canadian Leonard Frank, documented the relocation of their fellow citizens. Their photos are now on display at the Crocker Art Museum through May 14. While Adams is well-known for his majestic landscapes of Yosemite National Park, these photographs by him, capture the human spirit during a turbulent period of our country’s history. Frank was renowned for his commercial and industrial photography and the British Columbia TO page 22
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FROM page 20 Security Commission contracted him to record the removal of Japanese Canadians from the West Coast. The exhibition has been organized by Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia. For more information about the exhibit, go to crockerart.org.
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The website is a partnership of 19 recreation and park agencies in the Sacramento region, including Sacramento County’s Department of Regional Parks, with the goal to help connect you with the beautiful parks and recreational services available in our area.
PARKWAY VOLUNTEER SUCCESS The American River Parkway Foundation is a valuable partner with the county’s Department of Regional Parks in maintaining the natural habitat and beauty of the 23-mile-long American River Parkway. Last year through the foundation’s efforts, more than 7,643 volunteers contributed 18,000-plus hours to removing 57,747 pounds of trash and 81,650 invasive plants, plus maintaining trails and much more. If you are interested in volunteering or learning more about the foundation, go to arpf.org.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY Are you interested in making a difference in your community or gaining experience in a particular field? Join the more than 75,000 volunteers and interns who have donated more than 6 million hours of service to Sacramento County since 2004. Whether it’s directing customers at the airport, helping with events, assisting seniors, mentoring children, interviewing veterans, doing clerical tasks, or helping with animals, Sacramento County has a project or service that can use your help. Anyone can volunteer. Many positions do not require special skills and training is provided. For general information, call 311 or visit the Volunteer webpage at saccounty.net. 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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Molly Greene SHE JUST KEEPS RUNNING AND CYCLING
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iver Park resident Molly Greene has had her fair share of challenges. Close friends and family members have been diagnosed with cancer. Some have died. Greene herself suffered a severe foot injury that required her to have a bone removed, so now she uses a wheelchair when covering long distances. But that hasn’t stopped the medical malpractice and business litigation attorney from doing what she loves: volunteering for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
While tragedy has hit Greene and her family hard, she maintains a positive outlook. “What I’ve seen my dollars do to help find a cure (for blood cancers) and come up with amazing research and advancements over the past 16 or so years is just amazing,” says Greene, who has participated in more than 20 events for LLS’s Team in Training, which raises money for blood-cancer research through running, cycling, triathlon and hiking events. “It’s necessary for me to keep
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Molly Greene crossing the finish line at America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (left) and the California International Marathon.
going, to raise a little bit of money every year. I’ll never stop doing what I’m doing.” Greene has worn many hats during her years of involvement with TNT: marathoner, cyclist (on a bicycle and, after her injury, a hand cycle), running mentor and assistant cycling coach. But she admits she first started participating “to impress a boy.” “In the year 2000, I had just joined a Bay Area-based band, and the best friend of the guy I liked had a 5-yearold son who was fighting leukemia,” Greene recalls. “Everybody in the band decided to help him out, which is how I first heard about TNT. So I—who had never done anything athletic in my life—decided to join TNT and run the California International Marathon, which happened to fall on my birthday that year. My training had not gone well and it was not a good marathon, but it was my first and I raised $2,500. I cried when I crossed the finish line.” After that race, Greene decided that running was not her favorite form of exercise, so she got involved with TNT’s cycling branch. By this point, the boy Greene had been trying to impress had become her husband. (They wed in 2005.) He, too, was interested in cycling for TNT—for even more personal reasons. “Three days after our wedding, my brother-in-law was diagnosed with leukemia,” says Greene, whose own mother died of cancer in 1994. “He died in 2006, the same year my husband’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My best friend was also diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma around that same time. I wanted to help my new family, so in 2007, my husband and I got new bikes
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“If everybody gave a little bit, imagine where we would be.” While tragedy has hit Greene and her family hard, she maintains a positive outlook. “I’ve met so many determined people who’ve worked through setbacks and still succeed,” says Greene, who hopes to hand cycle in the New York City Marathon this fall with Achilles International, a group that helps people with disabilities participate in mainstream running events. “It really opens your eyes. When I got injured, I had to adapt a lot, but I found a way to keep going. I have pain every day, but I have to remind myself that it could be a lot
worse. That’s kind of the point of TNT. People don’t want to run 26 miles or ride 100 miles. It hurts! But when you think about doing it for the people who can’t, it’s all about perspective.” Greene also serves as vice president of River Park Neighborhood Association. “I have a good life,” she says. “I’ve worked really hard to get where I am, but I believe we’re here to do good. If I can spend a little bit of my time and commit to fundraising, getting the word out on new research or making my neighborhood a safer place to live, I’m going to. If everybody gave a little bit, imagine where we would be.” For more information on the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training, go to teamintraining.org. For more information on Achilles International, go to achillesinternational.org. For more information on River Park Neighborhood Association, go to riverparksacramento.net/rpna. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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Experiencing Art ARTSTREET CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF LOCAL CREATIVES
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here’s something enticing about the raw, organic creativity of aspiring artists bringing enthusiasm, excitement and new thinking to a city’s arts scene. While Sacramento has always had a bubbling visual, performing and literary arts scene, it was recently showcased in a meaningful way through ArtStreet. In case you missed it, ArtStreet was a large-scale art experience that took place for three weeks in February. The exhibit, sponsored by the art collective M5 Arts, occupied the interior and exterior of a warehouse at 3rd Street and First Avenue, on the expansive property once occupied by the Setzer family’s lumber and wood products business. The land is now being redeveloped into a mixed-use community of homes and businesses known as The Mill at Broadway. Like ArtHotel (a smaller installation held last year in an apartment building scheduled for demolition), ArtStreet was temporary. Now that the show is over, some artists will remove their works; other works will be demolished along with the warehouse to make room for new development. But the memory of ArtStreet won’t go away. The labyrinth of individual art exhibits circulated through more than 65,000 square feet of interior and exterior space. Around every corner
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ArtStreet took place last month. was something different and unique— something to think about. For the artists, it was an opportunity to showcase their talents and explore concepts that might not otherwise have been seen outside their own apartments, converted garages and cramped studios. The artists came from all walks of life and ranged across the spectrum of age, gender, ethnicity, income and discipline. “The ArtStreet philosophy was all about flâneur,” says William Ishmael, a member of M5 Arts and a longtime Sacramento artist. “Flâneur is French for taking one’s time and strolling along. That’s the experience we wanted. People could walk slowly enough through the exhibit to take in the sights and sounds.”
Ishmael is excited about the success of M5’s ArtHotel and ArtStreet and their impact on Sacramento. He credits that success to a renewed interest in art and community awareness, driven by art at the new arena and the energy of millennials in the Grid. “It’s amazing to see this all happen,” says Ishmael, who had his own exhibit at ArtStreet. “These artists were pulling all-nighter after all-nighter on shoestring budgets to get their work up before opening night. There’s lots of talent.” ArtStreet attracted national attention, he says, and was featured in two top national arts publications. Jacob Pluckbaum is a 13-year-old Sacramento artist whose works were showcased at ArtHotel and ArtStreet. A student at Sutter Middle School, he
had to apply and get accepted to show at ArtStreet. He then spent seven days creating his piece: a 6-by-9-foot abstract self-portrait made from 1,110 spray paint cans all painted in shades of gray. The spray cans were donated by local artists. “I had a whole weekend and was able to get out of school for three days. But since I couldn’t miss any more, I finished it after school for two days,” says Pluckbaum. “I had my grandpa, Pat Barrett, help me. He did the heavy lifting.” Participating in ArtStreet, says Pluckbaum, is “really awesome. It’s interesting to see people looking at it. At first they don’t see the face, but as they step back, there’s a cool moment of discovery.” He also had some collaborative pieces at ArtStreet. At school, he
is in a weekly art club and a photo class, which created some group projects. Pluckbaum started taking art seriously three years ago, with encouragement from his parents, local artists and mentors like Danny Scheible, Shaun Burner, Franceska Gamez and René Steinke. “I expect art will be a part of my life forever,” he says. Another artist who showed at ArtStreet is Bryan Valenzuela, the winner of the Leff-Davis Fund for Visual Artists and Best in Show prize at the 2015 California State Fair. He was also one of two local artists chosen for a large-scale public-art piece at Golden 1 Center. “Shaun Burner pitched me the idea of participating in ArtStreet, and that sold me,” Valenzuela says. “Overall, it’s turned out amazing. I worked on the ArtStreet concept of flâneur to create a contemporary connection of the lineage of Arthur Rimbaud and David Wojnarowicz, two artist-poets embodying the concept in life and work in 19th-century Paris and 20thcentury New York, respectively.” Valenzuela’s piece was a striking re-creation of Rimbaud’s famous portrait from the photo series “Rimbaud in New York.” “The installation image is an homage to that figure,” says Valenzuela, “an altar to that idea through a largescale portrait of Rimbaud made with handwritten text drawing, boot prints of paint, lips physically sewn shut
and hundreds of gold-painted leaves strewn along a boot-print reflection on the floor.” Valenzuela sees the art scene in Sacramento as a nexus, with up-andcoming artists connecting with those willing to commission and fund them. “We’ve had a lot of great art coming out of our city for a long time,” he says. “It’s been a really cool thing.” While first attracted to music, Valenzuela was pulled toward art. He loves all types of art and has worked in two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms. Now, he is attracted to what he calls “big, amazing public art projects” like the ones at Golden 1 Center. Somewhat new to the local art scene is John Horton, who works as an art director at a local marketing and public outreach firm. Horton was called in at the last minute to create a work for ArtStreet. “A handful of us were called a week before. They said they have some empty space for murals,” Horton says. “I said yes immediately, but since I was traveling for part of that week, I completed the piece in three evenings after work.” The large-scale mural is 15 feet tall. Entitled “Stranded on Earth,” it’s a colorful, abstract portrait of a largerthan-life woman. Horton has murals at Warehouse Artist Lofts, VSP in Rancho Cordova and other local businesses, including LowBrau Bierhall, FVT Bootcamp and Hacker Lab. He’s done murals in Seattle and Denver as well. M5 Arts plans to continue creating new attractions that elevate art appreciation and give local artists a chance to shine. Is ArtCity just around the corner?
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Big Hand for a Little Hero PRETEEN CAMERON DAX’S FOOD DRIVES BRING ACCOLADES
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he Carmichael Chamber of Commerce will this year add a 12-year-old community leader to its hall of fame. Humanitarian activist Cameron Dax will be named Junior Hero of the Year, joining past VIP honorees such as basketball star Vlade Divac, broadcaster Kitty O’Neal, Sheriff John McGinness and D.A. Jan Scully. Carmichaelite Tina Macuha of “Good Day Sacramento” fame will be overall Person of the Year at the March 24 event. “Wow!” was Dax’s reaction to the accolade. “I don’t do food drives because I want to be recognized. I just want to help people.” Indeed, a formal gala is a big leap from cap-in-hand fundraising and hitting supermarkets to feed the hungry. Not yet in his teens, Dax has done enough grocery shopping for several lifetimes. Since starting Cameron’s Canned Food Drive at the age of 6, he’s been pushing a cart like a pro. Last year alone, he gave 7,000 nonperishable items to food closets for low-income families and the homeless. That gift translates to feeding two families for a year. The homeschooled kid’s annual food collection supports programs run by the San Juan School District and Carmichael Presbyterian and Seventh-day Adventist churches. The benefactor might inspire penny-pinchers to economy. If he can’t find a bargain, he’ll haggle
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Humanitarian activist Cameron Dax will be named Junior Hero of the Year. for one. Two cans for a dollar, for example, is top bid for tomatoes. “When I first learned some people didn’t have enough food, I wanted to give them all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,” he recalls. “I found out food must be nonperishable to be helpful, so I began my annual canned food drives. “I start collecting in October. I leave bins at the offices of friends, at the gym, at our doctor and chiropractor’s clinic. Mom and Dad’s financial adviser also collects for me. A car club in Grass Valley donated groceries last year.” His 2016 collection at Emigh Hardware yielded a palette of food, and 50 crews from Alpha One
Ambulance gathered goods for the junior philanthropist. Many others donate cash to fund Dax’s December deliveries. Planning his year-end shop-a-thon, he locates stores with good discounts. At The Grocery Outlet on Greenback Lane, owner Sarah Wheeler last year obliged the young shopper with a generous break. “He’s the youngest ‘big shopper’ we’ve had here,” Wheeler says. “He is doing great things; he’s an example to everyone.” A GoFundMe account on social media is a useful conduit for out-oftown support. “People know I’m helping others,” Dax explains. “It makes me feel good
inside. If other kids did something like this, perhaps hunger wouldn’t be such a problem.” His mission is not just donationfunded. Throughout the year, he saves his own allowance for December largesse. “I’ve also sold some of my art projects to raise funds,” he says. His precocious humanitarianism has attracted media attention, but ovations were not on his calendar until the Chamber of Commerce award was recently announced. His family and friends have gala tickets and Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert is among their tablemates.
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other kids will see my award and want to make a difference.” His father, building contractor Jeff Dax, is ecstatic to have a preteenager with such a monumental heart. “It’s inspiring when a 12-yearold thinks like Cameron,” says Jeff. “The project has helped him grow. He’s learned to be businesslike and resourceful. He recruits friends to help; he’s confident talking to adults. He tells everyone he meets about the project—even our mailman. Our mailman also brings canned food to the door in December.” Dax’s mother, Coral Dax, reports strategic market expeditions. “Cam sets a budget before he starts and he sticks to it,” she says. “He’s learned to pick components that together make meals. He tries to make good choices for nutrition.”
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on March 24. Other business and volunteer honorees include Macuha, Angela Seher, Dave Leatherby, Layla Seiler, Artie Van Winkle and Sacramento Fine Arts Center. The $75 admission provides dinner and no-host bar. Part of proceeds will assist the Fine Arts Center. For more information, call the chamber at 481-1002. To help Dax’s project, email Daxgirl@surewest.net or call 320-7928. Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com. n
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The Pity of the Parkway A PROBLEM WE CAN’T RUN AWAY FROM
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acramento has two crown jewels for sporting people. There’s Golden 1 Center, which delights sedentary folks who prefer to watch other humans run, jump and sweat. And there’s the American River Parkway, which was designed to thrill the DIY crowd by providing runners, walkers, cyclists and equestrians with hearty, adventurous treks from Old Sacramento to Folsom. The new Downtown arena has exceeded its promise despite inept performances by its master tenant, the Kings. But the American River Parkway is in trouble, weighed down by a perennial problem that devours endless political oxygen while avoiding remedy. The trouble comes from the collision between active, athletic residents and an expanded population of homeless people who build camps in the parkway. For many citizens who love the parkway and its 26 miles of trails, the homeless presence has turned stretches of the American River into a no-go zone, especially near Downtown. None of this is new. And the problem will not find a cure anytime soon. Debates about cleaning up the American River Parkway swallowed significant time and energy during the eight years Kevin Johnson spent in the mayor’s office. Newly
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Homeless camps are a common sight along the American River Parkway. installed Mayor Darrell Steinberg has made homeless solutions a priority. Meantime, parts of the parkway remain frightening and dangerous. What’s an athlete to do? For some parkway perspective, I visited Bob Slobe, whose family firm, North Sacramento Land Company, donated acreage for the crown jewel and helped move the American River Parkway from dream to reality. “It’s getting worse,” he says. “It’s like an army.” Slobe has the advantage of generational perspective. He loves the parkway and has passion for the communities that link to his family’s real estate legacy near the American
River’s northern shore, places that include North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights. “My grandmother donated 10 percent of the parkway, 2.6 miles worth of land,” he says. “All she asked was for the county to pick up the taxes and maintain the gates.” Watching his grandmother’s beloved parkway become unsafe for walkers, cyclists and joggers has not been easy for Slobe. He long ago abandoned any pretense of political correctness when discussing the problem. He avoids the word “homeless” as a noun or identifier. For him, people who build illegal camps, start fires
and leave garbage strewn across his grandmother’s former property are “bums.” “Back in the years 1986 to 1989, I began to ask the authorities in the city and county, ‘Why are all these people camping in the park?’ My point then and now was this isn’t a homeless issue; it’s a law enforcement issue. It’s against the law to camp in the parkway.” Slobe has served on various committees and task forces formed to resolve the problem. They always fail. “They inevitably come back and say, ‘We need more permanent housing,’ which is fine. But it won’t SPORTS page 32
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Not long ago, when local authorities talked about establishing a homeless campground at a former Boy Scout lodge on the riverfront, Slobe jumped in and helped a nature conservancy buy the property. “They wanted to keep the problem right here,” he says. With his real estate office only a few hundred feet from the American River levee, Slobe has made frequent tours of his grandmother’s old land to monitor the homeless situation. He has served as tour guide for politicians and journalists. His guests have been disgusted by discarded needles and trash, human waste, pornographic materials. They’ve been chased by dogs. Often, they end the tour early. Slobe doesn’t tour the parkway like he once did. The centerpiece of Sacramento’s recreational jewel has become too dangerous, even for him. He no longer has the speed to run away. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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The Hunter-Publisher HANK SHAW EATS WHAT HE KILLS, THEN WRITES ABOUT IT
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hen I talked with local author Hank Shaw by phone, he was on tour promoting his latest cookbook, “Buck, Buck, Moose,” a guide to butchering and cooking large animals with antlers. Think deer, elk, antelope and moose. Shaw had just finished eating lunch at a “hole-in-the-wall” restaurant in Oklahoma. His readings often turn into cooking events with local chefs to promote the farm-to-table food or, more accurately in Shaw’s case, noseto-tail food that he champions. It’s not a new concept, yet in the last decade or so there’s been renewed interest in eating all parts of an animal. Shaw practices what he preaches. “If you’re going to shoot something, use all you can,” he said. We spoke before he had to track down a couple of boxes of books that had gone AWOL; he needed them for an event that night. The DIY approach—with its crisis of the day— is a way of life for authors like Shaw who self-publish and go out on tour to promote their books. At readings, Shaw’s audience is filled with young men wearing camouflage, he said, which doesn’t fit the image I had of the typical cookbook-buying demographic. “It’s like being a rock star, but there’s no chicks, no booze and no money,”
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Hunter, chef and author Hank Shaw Photos courtesy of Holly A. Heyser. Shaw joked when I asked him how the tour was going. “I’m working every available moment.” He estimated he’d visit 41 states before he would head back home. There are lots of ways to “work your way through” a deer, according to Shaw, and traditional ways of cooking it, but you can’t run to the store and pick up another one. “Buck, Buck, Moose” came out of a need to create “bulletproof” methods for
cooking venison (and other antlered animals). The whole world eats deer, or its equivalent (he mentioned gazelle and kangaroo, which he called “hopping deer”), in some form or another. “This is something we all share as humans,” he said. “It makes us us.” Shaw’s cookbook trajectory started with “Hunt, Gather, Cook,” which was published in 2011 by Rodale Press, followed by “Duck, Duck,
Goose” (Ten Speed Press) a couple of years later. For his latest book, he formed his own publishing company rather than sign with a traditional publishing house. Even though he had to learn an enormous amount about publishing in a short amount of time, Shaw said he will self-publish his next one. “I’ve already had a baby. I know it’s going to hurt,” he said. His next cookbook will cover small game, like rabbits. He’s a former restaurant cook and he worked as a political reporter for 19 years. When his bureau in Sacramento closed, he went back to what he knew: cooking and writing. “Cooking is like journalism; you learn by doing it,” he said. Shaw started writing his blog “Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook” while he was still working as a newspaper reporter. It won Best Food Blog by the James Beard Foundation in 2013. He has another compelling reason for writing, which addresses the question he posed to me: “If all the markets closed down, how many of us would be able to feed ourselves?” He writes in an approachable, often self-deprecating and humorous style that makes the subject of hunting palatable. His writing skills are top-notch, and his essays have the right amount of sensory details to appeal to nonhunters like me. One of my favorites is titled “The White Coyote.” It has nothing to do with cooking a coyote, or a deer for that matter; it has everything to do with his appreciation for the natural world. Another essay, “On Killing,” eloquently explores the relationship between the animals Shaw hunts and himself. “Even if you’re a vegetarian,
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standing in water. No wonder they looked so miserable! Clay soil has some great gardening attributes, but drainage isn’t one of them. Water penetrates clay slowly, so it may run off into your garden’s low spots or flood your gutter. Once clay is wet, it stays wet for a long time. Watering once a week is often enough if you’ve watered deeply. Before you add more water, dig down 6 inches and see if the soil is still moist.
When putting in new plants, it’s a good idea to dig a hole, fill it with water and see how quickly it drains. If water stands for an hour or more, your plants are going into a watery grave. There are several ways to improve drainage. Installing French drains, perforated pipes buried over a bed of gravel, may solve the problem. That’s a major job, especially if you need to trench through existing trees and shrubs. Mixing in organic
amendments, such as compost, will lighten heavy soil and help it drain. Another, perhaps easier way to improve drainage is to build raised beds. They can be as shallow as 6 inches, or as much as 2 or more feet high. It’s best to mix some organic amendments into the soil beneath before filling the raised beds with a well-draining mix of topsoil and compost. Container gardening is the easiest solution of all if you have severe drainage problems. Growing in pots has become very popular, but it has some drawbacks. Containers can be expensive. Many garden plants like to send down very deep roots. They will grow, bloom and produce fruit in large containers, but they probably would do better planted in the ground. Roots of containerized plants can cook in the blazing sun, especially in smaller plastic pots. Clay pots insulate roots better but dry out quickly. To make watering easier, many people run a drip system to their containers. How much should you be watering? There are some rules of thumb, but the only correct answer is “water when your plants need it.” Master Gardeners are often asked how long sprinklers or a drip system should run. It’s impossible to answer that without knowing the type of soil and how much water the system delivers. For lawns planted with “coolseason” grasses such as tall fescue, about 2 inches of water a week is recommended. Bermudagrass, a “warm-season” grass, needs about half of that. Lawns should be watered only two or three times a week, even in the hottest weather. You can measure how much water your lawn is getting by distributing empty
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When the World’s a Stage ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR STREET PERFORMERS
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he street corner violinist, the sidewalk saxophone player and the mime who teases plaza audiences aren’t exactly a Sacramento fixture. But that could soon change. The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, whose mandate involves injecting diverse forms of art into the urban environment, has established a busking committee—the first step toward legitimizing street performances in the Grid. Appropriate for a town with no significant history of sidewalk artisans, the committee is starting with the most basic definition. “Do you even know what a busker is? Most people around here don’t,” says David Sobon, a professional auctioneer and volunteer arts commission member who was enlisted to study street performance possibilities. Yes, I tell him, I’m acquainted with the ancient art of busking. I’ve been delighted, annoyed, entertained and harassed by street buskers in many cities. An early encounter created a negative impression decades ago, when I saw “No Busking” signs in the London Underground being aggressively ignored by people screeching opera and impersonating Elvis. “The Tube is the only place in London where it’s illegal without a permit,” Sobon says. “Busking is one
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Street performer Carter Sobon in Old Sacramento. of the coolest things that happen in public places. And let’s face it, that’s what we’re trying to do here: make Sacramento a cool place.” Sobon has traveled the world. He knows busking can be a mixed bag when it comes to talent. But his overall experiences have been positive. He’s seen some terrific street artists working for handouts. He believes the spontaneity of stumbling upon a sidewalk virtuoso can create joy. Some of Sobon’s best vacation memories involve buskers. He discovered a wonderful student
performer in a Mexican plaza near a college campus. Sobon returned for the student’s evening show, which took place after class. “I had the time of my life,” he says. Another discovery took place in Whistler Blackcomb, Canada, where stages created for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics became permanent locations for street performers. “They even have amps for street musicians to plug into,” Sobon says. As he began to research busking and to review how cities regulate street performers, Sobon soon realized he had wandered into a universe of possibilities. There’s no
limit to how buskers have historically tried to seduce a nickel or franc or yen from street audiences. The busker fraternity stretches far beyond musicians and mimes and includes sword swallowers, fire eaters, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, snake charmers, balloon sculptors and organ grinders who deploy monkeys to collect money. Regulations are equally diverse. Some cities try to keep buskers away from captive audiences in subway stations. Others make buskers reserve and rent the most lucrative, touristfavored sites. A few even require background checks and identity cards.
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There’s no limit to how buskers have historically tried to seduce a nickel or franc or yen from street audiences. “San Francisco charges them to play in certain locations,” Sobon says. “There’s a reason why you always see those same Peruvian guys playing out by Ghirardelli Square. They pay the city to be there. That’s their job.”
Most buskers aren’t full-time professionals, Sobon says, but younger artists trying to improve their craftsmanship and make enough money to explore the world. “My son has been a busker, and he says it’s a great way for a young person to travel,” Sobon says. “They tend to be independent artists who don’t want to be told when, where and how to play.” Sacramento has a modest busking tradition. Several musicians make regular appearances in Old Sacramento. K Street was enlivened by the late bluesman Johnny “Guitar” Knox, and K Street still attracts entertainers who perform for Kings fans. At Christmas, the city pays singers to appear at public locations. One trick Sobon and the arts commission committee will perform involves identifying the difference between busking and begging. Holding up a cardboard sign and asking for money may be an art, but it’s not what civic authorities have in mind when they establish busking ordinances.
Another twist will involve the severity and flexibility of busking rules. Sobon doesn’t think the city would benefit from rigid ordinances. Busking zones marked by paint might be sufficient. “There are literally hundreds of ways to regulate busking,” he says. “Do we have tryouts? Do we have a way of telling performers they aren’t any good? What about background checks? Whatever we come up with, it’s got to be what works for
Sacramento. We want it to be an organic process.” Ultimately, the wisdom of crowds will decide. An open guitar case, an upturned hat. Donate or not. There’s no tougher audition. David Sobon will moderate a community meeting on busking on Wednesday, March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Warehouse Artist Lofts, at 1108 R St. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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Paying It Forward PRAYERS FOR OTHERS CAN BOOMERANG BACK ONTO YOURSELF
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s you might imagine, offering prayers for patients is part of my daily routine as a healthcare chaplain. When they accept my offer, I ask if they’d rather me pray aloud at the moment, or pray for them silently later. I allow this option so as to not put the patient on the spot before staff or visitors. Most choose an audible prayer in the moment, but I can recall at least two octogenarians who countered my offer with a surprising one of their own. The first patient leaned forward from her pillow to ask, “Do you get paid for this job?” “Yes, ma’am,” I said. “The hospital pays me for my work.” “Well, then,” she concluded. “I’ll expect both.” “I’m sorry. Both?” I asked with a confused chuckle that proved me to be slow on the uptake. “I’m answering your question,” she said firmly. “If you’re paid to do this job, you should pray for me now and later.” I shook a finger toward her in the way one does when admitting that a worthy opponent has the upper ground. “You got me,” I said. “You definitely got me.” If she wanted two prayers for the price of one, I would certainly oblige.
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The second prayer patient gave a more serious response. His medical condition wasn’t serious, but as he was nearing 90 years old, his “heavenly discharge” was more likely with each passing year. With a bald head and a small frame, he had a Gandhi look about him and maybe even a touch of Gandhi’s spirit. At the end of our visit, I offered the aging Episcopalian a prayer, but he made a counteroffer that I’ve never forgotten. “Does anyone ever offer to pray for you, chaplain?” His question told me he was looking outside himself at a time when most patients look, understandably so, inside themselves.
“Well, uh …,” I stumbled, embarrassed that he’d focused his attention on my needs. “Have you ever had a patient pray for you?” he repeated with special emphasis on “ever.” “I guess not.” “It’s about time, don’t you think?” he declared with a wink in his voice. Perhaps he suspected that in my position as a caregiver, I imagined myself above receiving pastoral care from others. Perhaps he saw an attitude in me that said, “I’m here to help people, but I don’t need any help.” The wise elder found that while facing his own mortality, other people mattered that much more. And most importantly, he knew that the prayers he offered for others could boomerang and become a part of his own healing.
As he prayed for my work, my family and my health, I recalled the words of an old spiritual: “It’s not my brother, it’s not my sister, but it’s me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.” His prayerful plea multiplied my efforts to pay the blessings forward to the remaining patients on my rounds. At the end of the day, I couldn’t help but wonder if the old man had found the secret to longevity in Jesus’ words, “If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and me.” Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net. n
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Mercury Rising AN UNWELCOME LEGACY OF THE GOLD RUSH
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he California Gold Rush brought fame, growth and prosperity to Sacramento. It also left behind a toxic mess that continues to harm our local environment today: mercury contamination of our rivers and creeks. Mercury (abbreviation: Hg) is a neurotoxic metal that occurs naturally in several different chemical forms. California’s Coast Ranges are rich in cinnabar, an ore of mercury sulfide (HgS). Cinnabar is converted into elemental mercury (just plain Hg) by heating in a furnace. The mercury vaporizes and is condensed into the silvery liquid you might recognize from old thermometers. California cinnabar mines have produced a lot of mercury—more than 200 million pounds since 1848. More than 25 million pounds of that mercury was used for gold mining in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath-Trinity Mountains, primarily for extracting placer gold. In placer mining, large amounts of gold-containing sand or gravel are tumbled with water over some kind of sluice box. Because gold is more dense than other substances in the slurry, it falls out of solution into the box’s riffles. Some gold, however, is lost with the wastewater and rock. Elemental mercury makes placer gold recovery more efficient because
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gold and mercury stick together. Miners would add mercury to their sluice boxes, capturing bits of gold as a heavy amalgam of the two metals. The amalgam would be trapped, and they would heat it (a process called retorting) to vaporize the mercury and purify the gold. Although miners attempted to trap and reuse their mercury, an estimated 10 to 30 percent was lost into the environment—millions of pounds of the stuff. Some went into the air; most entered the water. Studies are ongoing to understand where all that toxic metal is today. Some remains in soils and bedrock at mining sites. Hydraulic mining
sites, where mountains of earth were blasted apart and run through sluices, left behind huge amounts of mercury. According to a U.S. Geological Survey fact sheet, hundreds to thousands of pounds remain at each site. Much mercury was swept downstream with placer tailings and lies in sediments still today. As a result, several local waterways with a history of gold mining are on the Clean Water Act Section 303(d) list of “impaired” waters due to mercury levels that exceed water quality standards. These include the American River (below and above Nimbus Dam), Sacramento River, Feather and Yuba rivers, Cache
Creek, Davis Creek, Putah Creek, Folsom Lake and Lake Natoma. Actual concentrations of mercury in these waterways vary a lot. Generally, there’s more mercury present in areas immediately downstream of old gold or mercury mines, and more mercury after flooding or high stream flow. By itself, tiny concentrations of elemental mercury do not pose a threat to human health. For example, it’s perfectly safe to swim in these waters. Elemental mercury has a hard time entering the human body. It’s not absorbed through the skin, and even if consumed, very little of it gets absorbed by the gut. (The elemental
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concentrations of methylmercury in their tissues, a phenomenon called biomagnification.
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Concrete Fact CAN WE PAVE OUR WAY OUT OF CONGESTION?
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t’s intuitive that the way to unclog streets and highways is to widen them and build more of them. Don’t doctors increase blood flow through blocked arteries by widening them with tiny inflatable balloons? Even though it’s an obvious approach, widening roads hasn’t worked well in the real world. Adding asphalt is no magic cure for congestion. That fact, grounded in real-life observations from many cities, didn’t stop proponents of the transportation sales tax on last fall’s ballot (Measure B) from claiming that more and wider roads would provide “congestion relief.” They promised motorists, many frustrated by congestion, that projects such as widening the Capital City Freeway and building a 33-mile SouthEast Connector (located in a distinctly rural part of the county) would ease freeway gridlock. There’s no doubt that roadway expansion is good for the paving industry, homebuilders and developers. More roads are especially good for land speculators. They can buy cheap land and have the public foot the bill to increase its value. For the rest of us, more pavement isn’t so good. More roads mean higher taxes, sprawl, pollution, a diminished quality of life and loss of farmland and habitat. Most importantly, more roads usually mean more traffic. Congestion may be unaffected or even increase.
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The 26-lane Katy Freeway in Houston. Considerable evidence suggests that more miles of paved lanes don’t provide relief from congestion in the long run. Yes, road expansions can provide temporary relief, but that typically lasts only a few years. Further, during the construction period, already-bad
congestion can be made far worse as traffic backs up in construction zones. The reason congestion doesn’t go away is a phenomenon called “induced demand.” Traffic tends to increase proportionately as miles of new lanes are added. With new and wider roads,
people move to more distant locations and take longer trips. They take more trips. They alter trip destinations. They choose to drive instead of walking, biking or using transit. Walking to a neighborhood restaurant may be the best choice when roads are packed. Driving to a distant restaurant is more viable when traffic is less of a deterrent. Essentially, induced demand is the embodiment of the principle “build it, and they will come.” It’s basic economics. People demand more of a good when it’s cheap and available. Interestingly there’s a corollary principle: “Destroy it, and they will go away.” Roads have been narrowed, demolished and removed in San Francisco, Paris, Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere. The traffic hasn’t merely been displaced in those cities and caused gridlock elsewhere; it’s disappeared. Besides the unfavorable and uncertain results on congestion, there are practical limits to widening roads and building more of them. Katy Freeway in Houston has an astonishing 26 lanes, counting access and frontage roads. Congestion on it returned soon after $2.8 billion was spent on widening. Most urban areas don’t have Texas’ wide-open spaces. Space in urban areas is scarce. Peter Samuel, writing for Reason Foundation, blithely suggests accommodating traffic by either building over or under existing rights of way. Decking a freeway or putting roads in tunnels can be enormously expensive and disruptive propositions. Decks and tunnels are also more costly to maintain than surface-level roads.
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Rousseve keeps her day job separate from her volunteer work, yet she loves the intersection the two have on creating a healthier community. Seven years ago, she met Slow Food Sacramento board member Charity Kenyon, and she’s served on the organization’s board ever since. Slow Food Sacramento is one of the international group’s largest chapters due to the community’s interest in the farm-to-fork movement. This year, Rousseve and her board hope to tap into that passion for sustainable eating though several key programs.
Slow Food Sacramento is one of the international group’s largest chapters due to the community’s interest in the farm-to-fork movement.
Mary Rousseve, president of Slow Food Sacramento a degree in English and started her career in marketing. She got a job working with the state of California to launch its five-a-day campaign, which encouraged the consumption of five fruits and vegetables per
day. This eventually led to her current role as communications lead with the Department of Public Health, working on chronic disease prevention.
The Sacramento chapter leads the national movement through its Snail of Approval program, which it designed and helped other chapters across the country to replicate. The program celebrates local food-based businesses for fulfilling the Slow Food mission: to create good, clean and fair food for all.
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Little Free Library STRUCTURE SIGNALS A NEW CHAPTER IN COMMUNITY SPIRIT
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was that kid. Library Day at school was my favorite. I ran to the Bookmobile like other kids ran for the ice cream truck. I became advanced in school by first grade because those who got their work done early could climb up into the library loft. Many times I was the only one up in the gloriously cozy literary hideaway until recess, and I would’ve stayed if the teacher didn’t kick me out.
I needed to find out who had gifted our neighborhood with the wonderful cubby for the book exchange trend.
So when I was walking my dog through our Arden Oaks neighborhood this last year and discovered a Little Free Library had sprung up seemingly overnight, I stopped in my tracks. I felt the old excitement bubble up at the adorable slant-roofed book cabinet resembling
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a dollhouse on a post. I even had the urge to run toward it like my preschool days when my mom would have to yell, “Kelli, slow down!” as we walked to the Monterey library. Walking up to the Little Free Library that encourages neighbors to “Take one, leave one,” it was obvious this addition on Rockwood Drive was built with love and care. Facing the road under the shade of a sweeping oak, not only was there a three-shelved, weather-proofed book cabinet, but also a handmade and painted bench behind it encouraging a reader to stay awhile in the front-yard garden. The LFL contained old classics, picture books for little ones, as well as selections for adults and young adults. The timing of this great community treasure couldn’t have been a better
welcome to the young families finally returning to the urban-bucolic neighborhood where swing sets had long gone still. Suddenly, I was inspired to add my own favorite books to the collection, excited they would find a good new home and appreciative readers. But first, I needed to find out who had gifted our neighborhood with the wonderful cubby for the book exchange trend. It turns out it was a group of book-loving neighbors who were inspired to bring a reading resource to the kids moving in around them. Retired teacher Maren Smith had seen an LFL at the home of another retired teacher and mentioned it to her across-the-street neighbor, Brenda Main, over coffee. Main said her teenagers had been talking about building one, too.
Main enlisted the help of her husband, structural engineer and licensed contractor Dan Whisman, and daughter, Arden eighth-grader Meredith, to craft the library and bench in a week from materials around the house.
“I love the idea of a book. Everything is digital now. I love holding a book.” “As a former teacher and tutor, I had plenty of books to fill the Little Free Library,” Smith said. “As avid
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through. But in 2007, they altered course. “We got on this modern kick after spending every single summer staining the shingles on our 100-year-old bungalow,” Cunningham explains. “We started thinking about other stuff.” Today, she’s a broker with the couple’s company, Indie Capital Real Estate. On the development side of the business, Indie Capital LLC, she works with architects and engineers on design. Nate, a licensed general contractor, oversees construction. Most years, the couple manages a handful of projects. This year, they’ve got 24 in the works. “We’ve had a lot of experience, have made mistakes along the way and figured out things as well,” Cunningham explains.
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“Now we know what we like. It’s all about having the time to do the things you want.” For their East Sac home, the pair worked with local architect Stephen Henry of Henry + Associates. The modern exterior is a combination of stucco, fiber cement siding and weathered steel panels. The interior, while refreshingly free of doodads, still evokes a warm family environment. The decorating scheme is simple and spotless. “I don’t like cleaning, so the less stuff we have around, the better,” Cunningham says. She kept the design scheme neutral, using mainly whites, grays and beiges. She uses the same fixtures and porcelain tiles in all the bathrooms. “When I do the color boards for a house, I like to keep it to four or five materials,” she says. “I think it gets too distracting with more.”
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The home’s most prominent feature is the abundance of natural light. Every room benefits from expanses of large aluminum-clad wood windows. The front door is essentially a large glass panel. A skylight over the staircase drenches the interior with natural light. Both bathrooms have skylights as well. “When we build a home, we put money where it will matter most,” says Cunningham. “And that is usually in the windows and doors.” The kitchen’s exposed structural beam, made of parallel strand lumber, adds visual appeal. The quartz countertops are 2 centimeters thick, rather than the standard 3 centimeters, for a more modern look. The custom-made powdercoated steel wall unit, by local artist Thomas Ramey, stores dishes and utensils within easy reach. A built-in microwave drawer reduces counter clutter. The digitally controlled Electrolux induction range offers more temperature precision that gas. In the living room, the piano, which both daughters play, sits against the wall, ready for family concerts. Suspended from the ceiling is an eye-catching, eco-friendly Fireorb fireplace. “You pop it open and pour in some denatured alcohol, which burns clean so we can burn every night,” she says. Sanded and sealed on-site so there are no seams, engineered white oak flooring, brightens the upstairs hallway. The stair railing (also by Thomas Ramey) is metal topped with a wood cap for a touch of warmth. Storage space is vital to Cunningham’s uncluttered style. The master bedroom’s walk-in closet is enviable for its size and organization. Cunningham dislikes tiny closets where she can’t see everything at a glance. Both daughters’ rooms are impeccably neat. Cunningham noted that since prospective clients often stop by to tour their home, the girls know keeping their rooms tidy is the rule. And since the family moves regularly, possessions are kept to a minimum. Initially the girls were a bit unsettled by the moves, but staying in the same general area allows them to attend the same schools.
“Now they wonder where their next home will be,” Cunningham says. “My girls are nomads.” Outside, an ipe wood deck expands the family living space. The koi pond is a tank painted black. The swimming pool’s deep shelf is a bonus for young swimmers. Native California plants dot the space. Veggies thrive in raised beds. A dining table allows for alfresco meals.
Behind the house is a two-story, 600-square-foot garage. Tucked off to one side is a chicken coop. The garage floor’s epoxy coating resists stains. The second story is a separately metered rental unit. The roof is home to several beehives. The family plans on staying put until next spring. Cunningham doesn’t mind leaving a house as long
as it’s in good hands. But often it’s hard to say goodbye. “We go back and visit neighbors,” she says. We make the rounds and stay in touch.” 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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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN MARCH
Tim Collom Gallery is showing works by painter Whitney Lofrano that explore her first year of sobriety, through the end of March. Shown above: “The Deep End #1,” watercolor. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
ARTHOUSE on R presents “Winter’s Dawn: October in Iceland” by Victoria Veedell, through April 4. Shown right: “Iceland Dawn,” oil. 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com
At Ella K. McClatchy Library, “Mixed Messages: Art Quilts” features the work of Jan Soules and The Pixeladies, through April 26. Shown above: “Blue Morningfull,” a quilt by Soules. 2122 22nd St.; saclibrary.org
New watercolor works by longtime graphic designer Michael Dunlavey is shown through March 31 at Sparrow Gallery. Shown above: “Black Pearl.” 2418 K St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com
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Smith Gallery presents an exhibition of new “Costa Rica and Jungle” scenes, original mixed-media works on canvas by Steve Memering, through April 30. Shown above: “At the River’s Edge,” oil. 1011 K St.; smithgallery.com
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Beyond Charity USING ART TO ENRICH LIVES
Laura Ann Walton is the founder of Women’s Wisdom ART.
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think the process of being involved in creation is the best of the human spirit,” says Laura Ann Walton. “It’s the best thing we do as human beings.” Walton speaks about the human spirit from the perspective of not only being an artist herself—she’s a poet who self-published a book entitled “God Is a Lion”—but also as the founder of Women’s Wisdom ART, a
creative organization that offers art classes for women in need, and as a former nun. After graduating from Catholic high school in 1963, the Sacramento native joined the Sisters of Mercy religious order and later taught high school English while working on her master’s degree in creative writing at Sacramento State. Her experience working at Loaves & Fishes set her on her current course. “I was reading so much about providing for the poor, I thought it was much more important than what I was doing, so I gave up my poetry,” Walton says. Walton had a vision to expand Loaves & Fishes and founded the Maryhouse daytime hospitality shelter for women and children in 1986. Walton served as Maryhouse’s first director, overseeing the daily buffet breakfast and social services that linked women—many of them mentally ill—to services like shelter and rehab. Getting to know the women she served had a profound impact on her.
“Most of the women who came in were seen as people who needed help— objects of charity,” Walton explains. “It was difficult to see beyond the need to the person. As I got to know them, I learned that there was a whole lot more to these women besides needing charity.” In 1991, Walton founded The Wisdom Project, an empowerment program that included art classes and other resource-related workshops that met at the Loaves & Fishes dining room each week. Walton soon dropped the social services aspect altogether because she found that the women were most interested in the classes in painting, jewelry making and creative writing. “We discovered that it gave these women a chance to participate in something not as needy people. It gave them a chance to create,” Walton says. “In that process, they developed selfconfidence and could see themselves as something other than a reject from society.”
The group was funded at first by Loaves & Fishes and the Sisters of Mercy. But when Walton got wind of a grant offered by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for an art show, she applied for and won the grant. “Having an art show in a larger space meant that the people who came to look at and buy the art were able to meet the women as artists instead of as homeless, helpless people,” Walton says. “They were now people in the community instead of victims.” The group—by now called Women’s Wisdom ART—had grown enough that it needed more space to operate, which it found at Sutter Galleria, then at a location in Curtis Park, then at Sacramento Food Bank, where it stayed for 13 years. During this time, Walton decided to leave the sisterhood and took a job with Turning Point Community Programs as a children’s mental health quality assurance manager. In 2012, Walton learned that the Food Bank was going to close the
Women’s Wisdom program. So she stepped back in. Today, Women’s Wisdom ART is based at the Sacramento Poetry Center. In 2015, for its 25th anniversary, the group received official nonprofit status, proving that faith and friendship can take you far. “These women have developed a very strong support community,” Walton says proudly. “Because it’s strength based (we’re not here to fix anybody), a woman can be a member of the community as long as she wants to be. Some have moved on, done better for themselves, gotten jobs. Some of our mentally ill participants have achieved new levels of stability and connection. In the end, it’s all about the women. They’ve made the program work. The courage of these women to try art and transform themselves in the process calls forth the best, most courageous part of the human being.” For more information, go to womenswisdomart.org. n
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One Determined Artist
FROM CHILDHOOD, SHE KNEW SHE WANTED TO PAINT
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never entirely know what I’m doing, but that’s a good thing,” says artist Cherie Hacker. This refreshing honesty is pure Hacker, a Chicago native who’s been in Sacramento since 1983 and who specializes in vibrant abstract paintings that express her love of the environment and the energy of the outdoors.
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“I’ve made it a point to focus on abstraction for the last few years,” says Hacker, who works out of E Street Gallery and Studios with 11 other visual artists in a building that houses 12 studios and an exhibition space. “It expresses a raw, inner energy part of me. It was the way I wanted to paint early on but didn’t know how to accomplish that well. Now, after many years of painting and experience, I think I do it better. The most expressive part of me is always putting something down with paint.” Hacker has had this raw, inner artistic energy ever since she was a kid, when she would save up her allowance to buy herself art supplies
and her first easel. Though she came from a musical family, her strengths were visual, starting with drawing at the age of 5 and eventually showing her artwork at 19. “I’ve had jobs to keep everything going. I’ve worked at frame shops and learned a lot from different jobs. But no matter what I did, nothing was going to stop me from making art,” Hacker says. “Period.” She has an impressive resume that includes studies with Wayne Thiebaud and Roy De Forest when she was an undergraduate at UC Davis, an internship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum while earning her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art, and group
gallery exhibitions and solo shows all over the country, including one at Ardgillan Castle outside of Dublin, Ireland. “I spent two months in Ireland last summer with my boyfriend, Jeffrey DeVore, who’s also an artist,” Hacker says. “We love to do projects together. We actually met when we were both featured in a show at the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary on Del Paso Boulevard. We saw that different castles were having art shows. We approached Ardgillan Castle, which is 20 minutes north of Dublin on the Irish Sea, and even though we weren’t from there, we were given a show. The small villages are very supportive of community art.” To page 66
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Visit Our Website: mbwalton.com From page 64 Hacker has a knack for becoming part of the community fabric wherever she lives. Upon returning to Sacramento after grad school in Maryland, she founded Asylum Gallery with fellow artist Ann Tracy at the R25 Arts Complex at 25th and R streets. She served as Asylum’s gallery director for four years, and while she loved sharing space with the Sacramento Poetry Center, California Stage and Alliance Française, she says she longed “to have dialogue with visual artists.” So when a spot opened up at E Street Gallery and Studios, Hacker leapt at the chance. “We meet once a year to pick which month we want to have something in the exhibition space,” Hacker says. “I’ve worked on student shows, I’ve curated shows and I’ve had my own shows there. We’re very fortunate to have the space available to us.” While Hacker loves her indoor studio, her love of the outdoors has kept her working on more environmental projects as well.
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Hacker has a knack for becoming part of the community fabric wherever she lives. One example of Hacker’s enduring love for the outdoors is her ongoing Lamp and Endtable Environmental Art Project, which she started in 2003 after hearing a report on National Public Radio that sparked her imagination. “I was listening to a scientist talking about his 20-year research
project and I thought, ‘I need something like that,’” she recalls. “So I’ve used photography, printmaking, painting and sculpture to document the same two objects all this time, and
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TO DO THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS
I Gotta Crow! “Peter Pan” and “Viva Vivaldi” presented by the Sacramento Ballet March 24-26 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-5181, sacballet.org Let your imagination soar on a nonstop flight past the second star to the right and straight on to Neverland with the boy who won’t grow up, courtesy of Ron Cunningham’s stunning, high-flying choreography. Join Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily and the Lost Boys, as they outwit the nefarious Captain Hook in this family-friendly classic. Sharing the performance program is the high-energy, tour-de-force “Viva Vivaldi,” the seminal work of Gerald Arpino (resident choreographer and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet) that was part of the dance revolution that catapulted the Joffrey Ballet to international acclaim.
International Men Of Music World Music Series Concert featuring GYANI Tuesday, March 28 at 8 p.m. Capistrano Hall at Sacramento State, 6000 J St. 278-4323, csus.edu/music/worldmusic, gyaniindojazz.com This masterful music group combines Indian raga, jazz, Arabic melodies and global rhythms to make a unique brand of music that blends classic Hindustani (North Indian) forms and cutting-edge improvisation. The group is composed of internationally recognized musicians who are each masters of their own instrument: GYANI founder Pt. Binay Pathak (a classical Hindustani musician and composer whose lineage dates back centuries) on vocals and harmonium; Abbos Kosimov on doira (frame drum); Osam Ezzeldin on piano and keyboards; and Vishal Nagar on tabla. The California-based ensemble brings together world-class musicians who share a passion for exploring and expanding the possibilities of merging Indian music with other genres.
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Luck o’ the Irish Three performances by the McKeever School of Irish Dance: “Irish Social” Saturday, March 11 from 1-5 p.m. Christian Brothers High School, 4315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. thelasalleclub.com, mckeeverdance.com
21st annual Sacramento St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 18 (performances before the parade starts at 1 p.m.) Old Sacramento (Neesham and Front streets) oldsacramento.com/specialevents, mckeeverdance.com
“An Irish Hooley” Sunday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway, Folsom harriscenter.net, mckeeverdance.com The McKeever School of Irish Dance (housed in CLARA Midtown) offers students the opportunity to learn, master and preserve the art of Irish Dancing with founder and owner Nicole McKeever, who toured the world for seven years with shows such as “Riverdance,” before settling in Sacramento. The studio offers classes for children and adults in both solo and team choreography, from beginners through the professional level. Check out performances around town this month to see what that stunning high-stepping is all about!
Picture This “Images in Sound,” a Sacramento Symphonic Winds concert Sunday, March 19 at 2:30 pm. Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave. 489-2576, sacwinds.org The 60-piece adult symphonic band conducted by Music and Artistic Director Timothy M. Smith, will delight your ears and your mind’s eye, with this concert featuring “Three London Miniatures” by Mark Camphouse, “George Washington Bridge” by William Schuman, “The Othello Suite” by Alfred Reed, and more.
Photos by Indian photographer Pranlal K. Patel will be on display at City Hall during March. “Carrying Goods. Kalupur Railway Station, Ahmedabad, 1937” Copyright Pranlal K. Patel.
McKeever School of Irish Dance will be performing in March.
Refocusing the Lens “Refocusing the Lens: An Exhibit of Pranlal Patel’s Photographs of Women at Work in Ahmedabad” On display through March 31 Sacramento City Hall, 915 I St. dhi.ucdavis.edu The UC Davis Middle East and South Asia Studies Program’s “South Asia Without Borders” initiative, is pleased to announce its 2017 public event with a special focus on Gujarat, India, in partnership with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. “Refocusing the Lens” features images documenting lives of women who were part of India’s labor force in the early 20th century, taken by celebrated Indian photographer Pranlal K. Patel. Commissioned for Jyoti Sangh, a women’s social reform organization dedicated to improving the lives of Indian women, these photographs provide insight into the everyday lives of working-class women engaged in a range of tasks in their homes, neighborhoods, markets or on the streets of Ahmedabad. “These photos show working women very active in the public sphere at a time when it was assumed that women were not permitted outside the confines of the house,” explains Mridula Udayagiri, a member of the UCD Middle East and South Asia Studies Program advisory board. “It breaks down stereotypes and helps us gain a deeper appreciation of why cross-cultural understandings of gender are important.” The exhibition is curated by Dr. Lisa Trivedi, a professor of history at Hamilton College in New York and a cultural and social historian of modern South Asia, who received her doctorate from UC Davis. Trivedi discovered Patel’s series during a sabbatical in Gujarat in 2011 and worked closely with the photographer for two years before his death to create this exhibition for the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, from which it is currently on loan.
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Into the Wood(winds) “Musical Scenery,” a Crocker Classical Concert featuring Trois Bois Sunday, March 12 at 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Enter a pastoral soundscape with the woodwind trio Trois Bois, comprised of oboe, clarinet and bassoon. Drawing inspiration from bucolic artwork in the Crocker’s permanent collection, which includes August Renoir’s “Danseuse au Tambourin” and E. Charlton Fortune’s “Feeding Time,” Trois Bois has created an idyllic concert that is sure to delight the ears with music by Joseph Canteloube and Henri Sauguet, among others. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended. Trois Bois will perform at Crocker Art Museum.
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“Love Heals: Songs of Hope in Trying Times,” a Sacramento Master Singers concert Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 19 at 3 p.m.
DIY Hand-Tied Bouquet Class at Relles Florist Saturday, March 25 from 10-11:30 a.m.
First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St. 788-7464, mastersingers.org Recent tragedies, violence and loss of lives, have spurred the Sacramento Master Singers to offer a choral program to help us mourn together, comfort one another and unite in love as a community. Audiences will be bathed in soothing favorites from John Rutter and Maurice Duruflé; Sacramento writer and spoken word artist Laura “immoBme as.i.be.we” Cook; favorites from Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Eric Whitacre and Pentatonix; fresh settings of “Kyrie Eleison” and “Pie Jesu” by Ken Medema; as well as Jake Runestad’s new work, “Let My Love Be Heard.”
Relles Florist, 2400 J St. 441-1478, rellesflorist.com Calling all budding floral designers, flower enthusiasts and admirers of European hand-tied bouquet design! Join the experts at Relles Florist for a class that explores the principals of hand-tied design techniques with a focus on seasonal spring flowers, including tips and tricks to help you make bouquets that are on-trend and vase-ready. You can even use what you learn to construct a wedding bouquet! Take home your handiwork and impress a loved one. Who says romance has to end in February?
Forbidden Fruit “Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at Meissen” March 19 through June 25 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org In 2012, the renowned Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in Germany, invited Oregon-based sculptor Chris Antemann, to collaborate with Meissen’s master artisans on a series of contemporary sculptures. The results are this grand installation at the Crocker, that reinvents and invigorates the porcelain figurative tradition. Using the Garden of Eden as a metaphor, Antemann has created a contemporary celebration of an 18th-century banquet of “forbidden fruit”— including a 5-foot version of Meissen’s historical model of Johann Joachim Kändler’s monumental “Love Temple” from 1750—attended by a host of semiclothed revelers in a style that evokes the decadence of Boucher and Watteau. The exhibition also includes a pleasure garden, a massive porcelain chandelier and a collection of smaller sculptures.
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The late Darrell Forney is exhibiting at Beatnik Studios.
Going Downton “The Music of Downton Abbey,” a Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra concert Saturday, March 18 at 8 p.m.
Gyani will be at Sacramento State on Tuesday, March 28.
Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-5181, sacchoral.com Enjoy music from the popular TV Series by Emmy Award-winning composer John Lunn, as well as British chorus and orchestra gems from the era by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst, alongside narrations about memorable events from the show. The song stylings of Carrie Hennessey and baritone Kevin Doherty, are sure to delight, as is the pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. by Conductor Donald Kendrick, and post-concert lobby reception with a full English tea service. Don’t forget to attend in your best post-Edwardian England dress. Photo opportunities abound!
Artists In “Repose”
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“Playing Around: An Appreciation,” artwork by the late Darrell Forney Exhibition continues through March 23 Films will be shown on Tuesday, March 14 beginning at 7 p.m.
ArtMix | Vintage Swank at the Crocker Art Museum with TUBE. Magazine Thursday, March 9 from 5-9 p.m.
“Repose,” artwork by Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear March 3 through April 20 Reception on Friday, March 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com Mother Nature’s trash is local artists Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear’s treasure. As this two-dimensional artist and three-dimensional artist come together, totally distinctive approaches to how materials convey “abstract simplicity” merge. Crandall-Bear’s technique for layered painting applied to the normally monochromatic surfaces of Foster’s steel and wood work, delivers qualities of simple, elegant, industrial coalescence. Beatnik also continues its celebration of the late Darrell Forney. In addition to the exhibition “Playing Around: An Appreciation,” Beatnik will screen several of his films along with those of his friend and fellow filmmaker Horst Leissl, courtesy of the Center for Sacramento History. The films will be shown on Tuesday, March 14 beginning at 7 p.m.
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org The Crocker is partnering with TUBE.Magazine, to bring you a wild night of whimsical art, cirque performances, theatre, vintage fashion and lots of surprises. Enjoy magical music by Unwoman and bawdy dramatics by the Green Valley Cabaret Troop, food and drink discounts during happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all night. The event is free for museum members and only $10 for nonmembers. Just make sure you’re over 21 years old! Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
The Light of Day “An Evening of Inspiration and Celebration,” a concert benefitting Shriners Hospitals for Children—Northern California Saturday, March 18 at 6 p.m. Elks Tower Historic Ballroom, 921 11th St. shrinerschildrens.org Grammy Award-nominated singer Andra Day, will share her virtuoso voice, at this memorable performance for the benefit of Shriners’ specialized pediatric health-care programs. The tone and flavor of this exclusive evening will be made all the more delectable thanks to the culinary gifts of guest chef Rick Mahan, owner of The Waterboy and OneSpeed Pizza.
Sacramento Master Singers perform “Love Heals: Songs of Hope in Trying Times.”
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Bring on the Cheese THE RIND DOES DAIRY IN MIDTOWN
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ome studies show that cheese is more addictive than drugs or booze. While I find those claims a bit hard to believe, I will say that a leisurely evening spent with friends, indulgently sampling fine chesses and sipping wines, is an unparalleled pleasure.
sheep’s milk and a creamy number from Vermont—before deciding that the aged sheep’s milk cheese was our favorite. However, the creamy item from Vermont stood out, not only because it had a rind made of birch bark, but because it had the look and texture of brie, but a completely different flavor profile. It was light and tangy without the distinct notes that make a brie a brie—what I typically think of as the flavors of an old utility drawer.
This is a space where the casual diner and practiced connoisseur can rub shoulders easily and without pretense. The Rind, one of the finer cheese outposts in Northern California, is a place where you can spend many a night going through an international sampling of cheeses in an unstuffy environment. This isn’t an intimidating room. This is a space where the casual diner and practiced connoisseur can rub shoulders easily and without pretense. The small Midtown eatery is a cozy delight that brings together a mixed bag of folks looking for a quick bite as well as
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They are gooey and stretchy and molten and altogether indulgent.
The Rind's take on classic mac-and-cheese. those ready for an evening-long tour of dairyland. The Rind isn’t a cheese counter at which you can grab a few slices of things only fit for a picnic. It’s a proper restaurant with an insanely cheese-focused menu: cheese boards, mac and cheese, grilled cheese, salads
(with cheese) and soup (you guessed it, with cheese). Oh, and meats. I forgot meats. You know, to go with the cheese. A cold Sunday night found my wife and me, joined by our friends, Pizza Pat and Carrie. We worked our way through a board of cheeses—two
Speaking of that birch bark rind, I asked our server what is standard etiquette when it comes to eating cheese rinds: eat or discard? He told us, very confidently, that unless otherwise instructed, a cheese rind is part of the cheese and imparts flavor and therefore should be eaten. After a brief pause, he then listed about 25 exceptions to this rule: Don’t eat wax rinds, lattice rinds, linen wrappers, wood rinds, plastic rinds, tinfoil wrappings, cling film, Tupperware containers, balsa wood, birch wood, or really any kind of wood, et cetera, et cetera, which left me wondering if it was really all that much of a rule or just a guideline. But still, it’s good information for dinner parties. We
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This Month @ the Market
A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN MARCH
ASPARAGUS
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NANTES CARROTS
Asparagus plants are perennial; the edible spears are the new shoots that appear in spring. To eat: Steam, grill or roast them and serve with hollandaise or lemon vinaigrette.
California grows 80 percent of the nation’s crop. Broccoli is packed with vitamin C and dietary fiber. To eat: Boil, sauté, steam or stir-fry.
This French heirloom variety has an almost perfectly cylindrical shape, smooth skin, crisp texture and sweet taste. To eat: Use in stocks, soups, braises and salads.
FAVA GREENS
LEEKS
The leaves of the fava bean plant are mildly sweet and buttery. Early in the season, they are tender and can be eaten raw. Later in the season, it’s best to sauté or wilt them. To eat: Mix them into a salad or add to pasta or risotto.
This sweet, delicately flavored vegetable is from the onion family and is related to garlic, chives and scallions. Clean them well before using to remove grit between the leaves. To eat: Braise them whole or slice and sauté for a soup or stew.
CARNIVAL CAULIFLOWER
These multicolored cauliflowers come in vivid orange, green or purple. They are a great source of vitamins C and B6 and are high in folate and potassium. To eat: Boil the whole head briefly in salted water, then drizzle with olive oil and roast at high temp.
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