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CALIFORNIA LIVING Fabulous Sierra Oaks Vista! Custom home built with extraordinary craftsmanship. Amazing open Àoor plan. Gourmet kitchen opens to huge great room with high ceilings, oak Àoors and tons of natural light. Sumptuous master suite with 2 walk-in closets and outdoor access. Spectacular outdoor pavilion, pool, spa. $1,895,000 CAROLE GOODIN 718-0875

TUCKED AWAY IN ARDEN OAKS 1951 Squeaky Williams home; nestled on 2 acres with rolling hills of grass and lush landscaping. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, beautiful updated kitchen opens to the family room and informal dining room, overlooking the picturesque backyard through a wall full of windows. Vaulted, beamed living room off of foyer. Hardwood Àoors throughout. 4 ¿replaces. $1,949,000 TIPHANNE CROWE 277-8999

LOVELY CARMICHAEL HOME 4 bedroom 3 bath home that seller loved for 17 years. All the space that you desire with high ceilings, kitchen family room combo, formal entry and central hallway, large master suite, formal dining and living room, beautiful backyard with pool and lawn area, 3-car garage all on quiet cul-de-sac street! A very desirable Àoorplan! $495,000 CARMAH HATCH 765-6210

MARIEMONT ESTATES French Countryside meets Sacramento. Formal living and dining rooms are matched with a stunning kitchen that overlooks the backyard. Large entertaining family room with full built-in bar, wine rack, two refrigerators. 5-7 bedrooms, 4½ baths and a large upstairs workspace. Home sits on a full acre w/built-in pool, spa, full guest house and 4-car garage. $1,775,000 TINA SUTER 247-9262

SANTA BARBARA STYLE Custom Santa Barbara style single story home in Sierra Oaks Vista. Attention to detail in every aspect. 3 bedrooms and library in main home plus separate guest cottage. Gourmet kitchen offers gas range, center work island, dining bar and breakfast nook. Beautiful Àoral gardens surround home and feature sparkling pool, Àagstone patio. $2,049,000 PATTY BAETA 806-7761

CLOSE TO ANCIL HOFFMAN PARK Here is your chance to own a home on a private street near the river, the Park and Ef¿e Yeaw Nature Center. 4 bedrooms 2½ baths with a large yard, formal dining room, separate family room, large kitchen with plenty of storage and an open Àoor plan for you to put your personal stamp on. $499,000 KIM SQUAGLIA 205-2681

WELCOME TO CAMPUS COMMONS You will not want to miss this lovely townhome. Light and bright, newer carpet, re-textured ceilings, recessed lighting, crown molding and new paint. Upstairs, 2 bedrooms with huge master and sitting area, downstairs den (no closet, but could be 3rd bedroom.) Conveniently located adjacent to satellite pool for your enjoyment. $395,000 CONNIE PEEL 718-9470

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KEN DYER BUILT HOME From charming barn doors that close off family room, vaulted ceilings in living room, to built-in bocce court in the backyard, this 2015 home is ready to welcome family and friends. 4 bedrooms 3½ baths with the seamless Àow and ease of one story living. An abundance of windows and french doors leading to low maintenance backyard. $1,279,000 NANCY DYER 869-7286

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WYNDGATE Sunshine ¿lls this wonderful home and the location in the back is very desirable! Home was remodeled within the last four years and shows beautifully! High counters in kitchen and baths, beautiful wood Àoors throughout and 2 patios - one with private pool. Downstairs of¿ce or den plus 3 bedrooms and 2 baths make this a desirable Àoor plan. $698,000 CARMAH HATCH 765-6210

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y husband and I enjoy visiting other cities. Ever since I published a book about Sacramento last year, I find myself wanting to see how other cities market themselves to newcomers. This past summer, we embarked on a short road trip of Midwestern cities. We were headed to Indianapolis for a family reunion, so we decided to expand our itinerary to include Louisville and Nashville, both within driving distance. Indianapolis is a top-tier American city with beautiful, clean, wide streets and friendly people. We spent all our time downtown, where the city planning is most impressive. Indianapolis has a gorgeous football stadium and an arena, called Bankers Life Fieldhouse, for basketball and entertainment. The facilities are adjacent to each other and share parking, dining and other entertainment options. We stayed at a newish boutique hotel, part of a Midwestern hotel chain, a few blocks away from the sports facilities. It was filled with work by local artists. When we asked at the front desk for a local map, a member of the staff pulled one off a stack and immediately circled two blocks in the district featuring locally owned businesses.

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Tower Bridge. Photo provided by Steve Harriman. The staffer did not mention any national chain restaurants. As we asked questions, it was obvious the staffer was proud of the area’s dozens of neighborhood restaurants and shops, noting that visitors always comment on the local businesses as the best thing “Indy” has to offer. After our afternoon and night out, we had to agree. Both of the historic districts we visited were beautifully preserved and had ample signage to help us navigate. There was even a “cultural trail”: colorful lines

embedded in the sidewalk designating historic districts, theaters and public art. Tons of locals were out enjoying the summer evening along with us. Our next stop was Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky. Louisville is similar in size to Sacramento. Compared to Indy, it seemed a bit sleepy in a genteel, Southern sort of way. We stayed downtown in the historic district, in a contemporary hotel built inside a vintage building. It had been developed by a local man as a prototype for a Midwestern chain

of hotels called 21c Museum Hotels. The public areas, restaurant and halls resembled the new section of the Crocker Art Museum. Most of the art was by Kentucky artists. Next door to the hotel was the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. Throughout downtown were bronze baseball bats and bases honoring giants of the sport, styled like a walk of stars. In the surrounding blocks, there were many small museums, including one dedicated to native son Muhammad Ali. Only about half of the buildings have been restored in a district that started redevelopment a decade ago. But efforts have been made to restore the buildings’ facades, so the district looked attractive. When we checked in, the hotel provided us with detailed maps and a listing of local businesses in adjacent districts. A few places were excellent; others were marginal. Someone at the hotel suggested we visit the historic district, Old Louisville, which is home to a lovely collection of impressively restored mansions. Sacramento has just as many of these homes, but instead of being located in a small district around a lovely park, they are scattered all over Midtown. Another fun thing we saw were huge banners hanging on prominent buildings all over town, featuring black-and-white photographs of the faces of Louisville “hometown heroes”—people like actress Jennifer Lawrence, golfer Bobby Nichols and bourbon producer Tom Bulleit. Each banner bears the possessive form of the person’s name, followed by Louisville, such as “Bulleit’s

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Louisville.” The banners really added a personal touch to the city. Nashville was by far the most impressive city of the trip—and Indy was a tough act to follow! We found a clean, beautiful downtown located on both sides of the Cumberland River. Tennessee’s capital city is filled with legendary country-music venues, including the Grand Ole Opry and Ryman Auditorium, as well as the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The Johnny Cash Museum was fabulous. Like Indy, downtown Nashville has both an arena and a pro football stadium. A lively collection of bridges crosses the river, including a wide pedestrian bridge that connects the older city with the newer stadium area. Vanderbilt University is located adjacent to downtown. We stayed in the Germantown neighborhood, a small, formerly industrial area where German immigrants lived in cottages while working at nearby factories at the turn of the 20th century. It is just one of more than a dozen neighborhoods the city markets to visitors. We found hundreds of attractive apartment units either recently built or in the process of being constructed. There were easily more units under construction in this small neighborhood than in our entire Sacramento Grid. When we asked about the building boom, we were told that about 100 people a day are moving to Nashville, mostly young folks. This has been going on for a number of years as the music industry has grown and prospered, attracting youthful, creative energy in the process. The small historic inn where we stayed kept a notebook of selected restaurants organized by neighborhood. We enjoyed an excellent dinner in a restaurant, housed in a former industrial building. Local art was proudly displayed throughout the restaurant. In fact, local art was everywhere we went in the city: paintings in cafes and shops, murals on the sides of buildings, public art in civic spaces. The youthful energy was evident in

the other neighborhoods we visited, too. Looking back on our trip, I suggest a few things that Sacramento could do better for those who visit our city. Our business community— including shops, restaurants and offices—needs to do more to support local artists by proudly displaying their original work. Louisville has a great program to commission artists to paint alley and side doors with their art—like murals, but much smaller. Additionally, the map-andbusiness-listing approach at hotels would be useful here for visitors, too. We designed a colorful neighborhood map and list of places featured in our book “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” We hope Sacramento hotels will welcome this curated guide for their guests. We also need to do more to market our city’s neighborhood experience. The city’s visitor guide doesn’t even list many of them on its map. I spoke recently with Mike Testa, the new CEO of Visit Sacramento, and was happy to hear he plans to make changes to our city’s approach to marketing. One thing I know for sure: The folks our publications serve love their neighborhoods. Why wouldn’t visitors feel the same way? One more thing: The day after we returned, I walked through the space between the Community Center Theater and the Convention Center on my way to Esquire Grill for lunch. I found a dusty, dirty space with partially dead trees and bushes and overgrown weeds. I understand we are at the end of a hot, dry summer. But what struck me was the empty, dried-out fountain on 13th Street, which was partially filled with trash that day. With the drought years now behind us, why can’t we get this fountain running again? Think of all those passing through this spot every day. Imagine how refreshing the sound and feel of the water spray would be on a hot summer day. Can’t our city make this happen? Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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Controversial Plan RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS PUSH BACK ON HOMELESS SHELTER

acramento Regional Transit is selling two parcels of land on Arden Way, billing them as “home to a thriving shopping environment and residential community.” The city of Sacramento wants to purchase one for a 200-bed homeless shelter. There’s no debate that Sacramento needs help when it comes to serving the area’s homeless population. On any given day, residents throughout the city and county encounter homeless people. In the Arden area, the homeless population seems to be more visible along Arden Way, Fair Oaks Boulevard and on the parkway. The Nextdoor app for Arden Park and Arden Oaks is filled with complaints and debate about a homeless man living in a beat-up truck, which he parks near homes, parks and stores. This past summer, one of Arden’s most beloved homeless men, Dancing Dan, the spirited sign waver who was a fixture at Arden Way and Watt Avenue as a for-hire dancing billboard, was found badly beaten where he sleeps: on the street. With winter coming, the cold will inflict its own beating on an evergrowing population. So what’s not to like about the city’s proposal to open a homeless

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residents worry the city’s plans might be too far along to stop. According to city officials, the shelter—located a couple of blocks from Woodlake Elementary School— will not be a walk-up facility. Rather, buses and other vehicles will transport homeless people to the shelter. It will also offer referral services for housing, medical care and employment. “This won’t be a place where you have to wake up and leave at 6 a.m.,” said one official. Pets will be welcome, and some type of safety area will be established for them. “Neighbors have had just days’ notice about this. The City Council and the mayor say they want to be open and accessible, yet they are giving the neighborhood less than

Pita Kitchen Plus owner Hosam Khalifeh taught himself to cook. shelter on Arden Way west of Interstate 80 near the light rail station? Plenty, if you ask the estimated 250 people who packed Woodlake Elementary School on Oct. 4 to take on the city’s plan to “export” downtown Sacramento’s homeless problem, essentially moving homeless people from throughout Sacramento to Arden Way. Area residents turned out in force to protest what they see as city officials railroading their shelter plans through, keeping stealthily quiet in order to enter into a purchase agreement without public outcry. Neighborhood

Sacramento Regional Transit is selling two parcels of land along Arden Way. The City of Sacramento is proposing to purchase one for a 200-bed homeless shelter.

a month to respond. Why have the neighborhoods been left out of the process?” said Larry Glover-Meade, president of Woodlake Neighborhood Association. “Why not take the time to create a comprehensive plan so every Sacramento neighborhood does its part to help the homeless?” “We are not talking about NIMBY-ism,” said former City Councilmember Sandy Sheedy, who spent 12 years on the council. “This has nothing to do with not-in-mybackyard. This is about all areas of Sacramento sharing equally in the solution, splitting the problem into eight pieces. We will take one-eighth of whatever you have, not 100 percent of what you have. “We have spent millions of dollars on Del Paso Boulevard. We have new businesses there, and now they are talking about moving,” Sheedy continued. “Let’s talk about transparency. All of this has been done without anybody’s knowledge. We have not had enough time to review this, not enough time to look at a PowerPoint. All of a sudden, you are going to council in two weeks. That’s not the way we do business. We have a lot of questions and a lot of answers that need to be had. This

is our community and we need to be fully briefed.” Some business owners and residents in Arden Arcade stretching along Arden Way from Del Paso Boulevard to Garden of the Gods are also concerned about the shelter’s impact. The two properties that are stirring controversy are owned by Sacramento RT. One, facing Arden Way, is set to go into escrow with a Southern California developer to build lowincome housing, sources from Turton Commercial Real Estate said. The other property, at Evergreen Street and Arden Way, will serve up to 200 homeless people nightly. It is next to a 250,000-square-foot building that’s housed more than 800 state workers for 20 years. The building owners say the state may not renew those leases because of potential problems associated with the shelter project. In a vulnerable neighborhood, that’s a big deal, said Glover-Meade. Other area residents wonder about services for the homeless people who are bused in. “We don’t deny the fact there’s a homeless problem. We believe you are displacing people farther away from the services

they need, which are in downtown Sacramento,” said one angry resident. “Why are you putting this in a very vulnerable part of a neighborhood? We are saying no to making our neighborhood the city’s public toilet,” shouted another.

PITA KITCHEN TO EXPAND Hosam Khalifeh was a college student at Loyola University Chicago when memories of his mother’s Middle Eastern home cooking started playing tricks on him. He had never been allowed to cook as a youngster, but he watched and tasted and smelled and even listened to the food as it sizzled and spun around on the shawarma rotisserie. While he was away from home, his only option for dealing with his “home-cooking sickness” was to summon his senses and let smells and tastes guide him to re-create the rich flavors he remembered. Khalifeh was so good at converting his memories into the real thing, he opened a restaurant, bakery and supermarket. His Middle Eastern dishes, pastries and savory pies attracted a wholesale as well as retail market. Things went

so well, Khalifeh was able to put himself through school, getting a degree in political science. “It seems I was storing information without me knowing it,” he says. One day, Khalifeh brought some of his baklava to a Whole Foods Market. The next day, it was on the shelves. By the end of the week, it was in every Whole Foods store in Chicago. His grab-and-go menu was a hit. His juicy, saucy shawarma pita sandwiches, filled with hummus, falafel, lamb, chicken or beef and dripping with fresh garlic and mint sauces, brought in steady crowds. Soups, cucumber salads, spinach and cheese pies, baba ghanoush and baklava rounded out the menu. Despite numerous job offers in the political science world, Khalifeh’s unintended success in the kitchen kept him, well, in the kitchen. Twenty-five years later, Khalifeh decided it was time to trade in Chicago’s wind and ice for some heat and sunshine. Guess who the lucky ones are now? Sacramento’s foodies. Especially Arden foodies who happen upon Khalifeh’s Pita Kitchen Plus on Arden Way. “It was 2009 and a terrible time to open Pita Kitchen because the restaurant sector was severely damaged,” he says. “But I believed in my menu and in my concept of quality fresh food for good prices. Our customers realized that it would cost TO page 16

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you do, it’s not work,” he says. “It’s just what you do. I used to get kicked out of the kitchen as a child. Now, I create recipes just like that. I put ingredients together and cook them. After a while, you have the vision. Just like a fashion designer knows how to match things so the outcome is very beautiful, you match flavors for a beautiful outcome.”

FROM page 15 them much more to make the same fresh quality of food at home. And they loved our product.” According to Khalifeh, “Everything from A to Z is homemade: our own sauces, dips, pita bread, baklava. All 100 percent natural. Our pita bread is the only one made in the United

States without any additives. No conditioners, no oils, no shortening, no sugar. There are only four basic ingredients. That’s it.” On any given day, you will find Khalifeh cooking along with his wife and daughters. His lighthearted smile hints at something complex yet very simple: He loves sharing good food with people. “When you love what

On any given day, you will ﬁnd Khalifeh cooking along with his wife and daughters. This month, Khalifeh will roll out a new grab-and-go deli, bakery and coffee bar at his Arden Way restaurant to accommodate the to-go crowd and people stopping in for a sweet treat or a cup of Turkish coffee. He offers gluten-free foods as well as vegan and vegetarian options and catering for special events, office and holiday parties. Pita Kitchen is at 2989 Arden Way. For more information, call (916) 4800560 or go to pitakitchenplus.com.

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Rio Americano High School will host its 37th annual Playathon on Wednesday, Nov. 8, from 7 a.m. to midnight at the school’s new Center for the Arts.

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The 17-hour-long musical event will feature all six of the school’s awardwinning jazz and concert bands, in addition to soloists and combos from the Small Ensemble program. Free evening performances are scheduled from 5:50 p.m. through midnight. Band students from area middle and elementary school programs are encouraged to bring their instruments and play along with Rio Americano Band from 3:15 to 5:30 p.m. This year’s Playathon has a space theme. There will be an extraterrestrial carnival, intergalactic face painting, crafts, interstellar obstacle course and trivia from the final frontier. Rio Americano High School is at 4540 American River Drive. For more information about the Rio Americano Band program and Playathon, go to rioband.net.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR AT ST. JOHN SCHOOL St. John the Evangelist School will hold its annual holiday craft fair the first weekend in December. The fair will be open on Friday, Dec. 1, from 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More than 150 crafters will sell their wares, everything from handknitted sweaters to gift ideas for grandpa. The fair will be held in the Parish Hall at 5701 Locust Ave. in Carmichael. For more information, go to stjohnev.com/home/craft-fair. Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com. n

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o your holiday travel plans involve going to the airport? A new map on the Sacramento International Airport parking webpage can show you what parking spaces are available—and where. The parking-page graphic uses a green-yellow-red scale: green for ample parking availability, yellow for limited availability and red for almost no availability. The map also shows the number of spaces available at each parking facility. When a lot or the parking garage fills and closes, the map shows it as closed. The maps are updated and refreshed every five minutes. There is no app with this parking information. The information is available only on the airport website, but it can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet. To view the map, go to sacramento. aero/smf.

VIOLENT CRIME DOWN IN UNINCORPORATED AREA The FBI recently released 2016 crime statistics showing violent crime rose about 5 percent in California last year. But according to Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones, violent crime

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Sacramento International Airport’s new parking webpage shows what parking spaces are available, making it easier to park. in the unincorporated area of Sacramento was down 10 percent last year and is down 7 percent for the first part of 2017. Jones attributed much of that reduction to the department’s transition to intelligence-led policing. One of the first areas to implement intelligence-led policing was the Sheriff’s North Division, which includes Arden Arcade, Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Foothill Farms and North Highlands. Capt. Kris Palmer, who was in charge of that effort, will be the guest speaker at my community coffee meeting in Fair Oaks on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 a.m. The

meeting will be held in the Fair Oaks Water District’s conference room at 10326 Fair Oaks Blvd.

OFF-PAVEMENT CYCLING TRAIL OPENED Sacramento County’s Department of Regional Parks recently opened a cycling trail in the Woodlake and Cal Expo areas of the American River Parkway. The trail offers six miles of unpaved maintenance and fire roads for use by mountain bikers. It’s a pilot project that will run to 2020. Mountain biking remains prohibited throughout

the American River Parkway outside of these designated areas. The purpose of the pilot project is to determine whether off-paved trail cycling can be an appropriate permanent use in the American River Parkway. Mountain bikers using the designated off-paved trails must communicate their presence, yield to equestrians, stay on designated trails and obey all signs and barriers.

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REPAVING FULTON AVENUE Construction is underway on the second phase of the Fulton Avenue Overlay Project from Arden Way to Auburn Boulevard. The improvements include replacement of failing asphalt pavement with a two-inch rubberized

asphalt concrete overlay; striped, on-street bicycle lanes; signal modifications and new sidewalk ramps at the intersection of Fulton and Edison avenues; and sidewalk reconstruction at bus stops. During construction, one through lane in each direction will be maintained at all times, and two through lanes in each direction will be

Construction is underway on the second phase of the Fulton Avenue Overlay Project from Arden Way to Auburn Boulevard.

open during the morning and evening rush hours. Access will be maintained to all residences and businesses during construction. Pedestrian and bicycle access will also be maintained. The project is expected to be completed in November. For more information, go to sacdot.com and click on Transportation Projects.

SEX OFFENDERS BUSTED The Sacramento Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) Team conducted a three-day sex-offender compliance operation in August that involved seven law enforcement agencies from the federal, state and local levels. TO page 20

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FROM page 19 The SAFE Team is a multiagency task force, led by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, that supervises, monitors and arrests registered sex offenders who violate their probation or parole status. The team is responsible for approximately 3,800 mandated registered sex offenders in the city and county of Sacramento. Approximately 420 of those mandated sex offenders are currently registered as transient. During the three-day operation, officers made more than 300 contacts and 32 arrests.

FOOD SAFETY RECOGNIZED In honor of National Food Safety Education Month, the Board of Supervisors recently recognized area businesses for their outstanding safety records with Award of Excellence certificates. The certificates were issued to food facilities that had no major violations during their last three consecutive inspections. This year, 676 facilities earned a certificate. To find out if your favorite restaurant and food facility was one of the award winners, go to emd. saccounty.net.

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The Board of Supervisors celebrated National Food Safety Education Month in September. One of the many food establishments earning honors was Sol Cubano.

HOMELESS HOUSING VOUCHERS APPROVED The Board of Supervisors recently approved a recommendation from the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency to issue 68 additional project-based housing vouchers for homeless individuals and families. The vouchers will be used to pay for affordable housing units. They are a key element in Sacramento County’s efforts to provide housing for homeless veterans and their families. The vouchers will be awarded to 11 housing units within the county. Six of the units are existing, and the remaining five are under construction, with move-in dates ranging from 2018 to 2020.

To learn more about Sacramento County’s response to homelessness, go to saccounty.net/homelessness.

YOUTH COMMISSION TO HELP MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL On Sunday, Nov. 5, the Sacramento County Youth Commission will team up with Applebee’s to sponsor a pancake breakfast benefiting Mustard Seed School, which serves homeless children. The fundraiser will be held at Applebee’s, located at 2024 Arden Way, from 8 to 10 a.m. Tickets cost $10 per person. To purchase tickets, call (916) 874-9547 or email youthcommission@ saccounty.net.

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CHECK BEFORE YOU BURN From Nov. 1 to Feb. 28, wood burning is restricted in the unincorporated area and in the cities of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt, Isleton, Rancho Cordova and Sacramento in accordance with airquality regulations. The restrictions apply to fireplaces, wood stoves and fire pits. Implementation of these restrictions has helped reduce pollution and allowed the area to stay in compliance with federal air-quality standards. Before you burn, check the airquality status at sparetheair.com.

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At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, Carmichael Recreation and Park District will hold a ceremony recognizing 13 local heroes listed on the Wall of Honor at Patriots Park. The Wall of Honor is a place where members of the public can reflect upon the sacrifices made by those who served in the U.S. armed services, law enforcement and fire protection. Each honoree has a connection to the area. The ceremony is open to the public. Patriots Park is at 6827 Palm Ave. in Fair Oaks. A complete list of honorees is available at carmichaelpark.com.

A Veterans Day ceremony will be held on Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Earl J. Koobs Nature Area. The memorial honors 14 veterans who attended La Sierra High School who died in the Vietnam War. It is the first known Vietnam memorial in California. The memorial was made in metal shop by students remembering their former classmates. Gates to the area will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A color guard ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. The nature area is at 5325 Engle Road.

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MARATHON TO RUN THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS Thousands of runners will race through our neighborhoods on Sunday, Dec. 3, during the annual California International Marathon. The grueling 26-mile race begins at 7 a.m. in Folsom and concludes at the State Capitol. The event attracts world-class competition. Several thousand outof-town visitors travel to the area to participate in or watch the marathon. Fair Oaks Boulevard is part of the route, so Fair Oaks, Carmichael and Arden Arcade residents south of that roadway may find themselves “landlocked” while the race is in progress due to street closures. To view specific street closures, go to runcim.org and click on the Course Information button.

SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT HOLDS COMMUNITY MEETINGS The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department holds regular community meetings to share information about trends in crime and recent activities. These sessions are open to the public. The Arden Arcade meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. in the Sky Room at Country Club Lanes, 2600 Watt Ave. The Carmichael meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. at Del Campo High School’s library, 4925 Dewey Drive.

SHERIFF ASKS FOR DONATIONS FOR TOY PROJECT Sacramento Sheriff’s Toy Project has been serving our community since 1984, providing gifts as well as food boxes to less fortunate families. The program provides a characterbuilding environment for Sheriff’s Work Project participants who spend their court-ordered jail sentence making toys, building furniture and refurbishing computers and donated bicycles. Items are distributed to those in need, including schools for special-needs and homeless children. Referrals for recipient families come through the sheriff’s service centers, deputies, detectives, probation officers, social service agencies,

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State of the Arts DONI BLUMENSTOCK WEIGHS IN ON THE CITY’S ARTISTIC FUTURE

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oni Blumenstock comes from a family of artists: Her mother’s a pianist and painter, her father’s a musician and sculptor, and her brother’s a woodworker, actor and musician. Yet Blumenstock claims she “can barely turn on the radio.” How does someone with little natural artistic talent become an advocate for the arts? “I decided that if I’m passionate about supporting the arts, then the best way I could help would be to work on strengthening our local arts organizations,” says the Pocket-Greenhaven resident, who serves on the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. Blumenstock used her vast work experience in leadership to inform her volunteer arts advocacy. She’s held positions at Advocates for Human Potential in Sudbury, Mass., and the Coalition for a Drug-Free Mobile County in Mobile, Ala. She also served as the executive director of the American Leadership Forum (Mountain Valley Chapter) and, until last June, worked as the consulting program director for the Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program. While at ALF, she got involved in Metro Arts, which promotes and supports the arts in the Sacramento region. “One of the requirements to be an ALF member is to sit on a board or commission,” Blumenstock explains. “I was looking at City Councilmember Jimmie Yee’s website for opportunities for my members when I came upon an announcement for a position with Metro Arts. I decided to put my money where my mouth is and sent Jimmie an email. The next thing I knew, I was appointed to the commission.” ALF is also responsible for Blumenstock’s involvement with Professional Arts Leadership Sacramento, a group composed of the heads of Sacramento’s professional arts groups: Crocker Art Museum, Verge Center for the Arts, all

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Hop to It YOU CAN’T CALL YOURSELF A LOCAL BREWER IF YOU DON’T GROW YOUR OWN HOPS

eese fly overhead in a classic V formation. I take that as a sign of cooler weather to come. I am at a former hop drying and processing facility in Sloughhouse, imagining the old buildings filled with workers and hops. Once I block out the tractor tires, used farming equipment and a red Ford Mustang that hadn’t seen the road for some time, it’s easy to picture. Zeus, a pit bull, suns himself in the soft dirt, oblivious to the history around him. The buildings were once part of a thriving commercial hop farm. Today,

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the farm mainly produces sod, but the owners hung on to a few heirloom hops. In 1894, Sacramento County was the largest producer of hops in the United States. That changed after Prohibition—the Pacific Northwest grows the lion’s share of commercial hops now. But there are people who are bringing hop growing back to life in the valley.

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FROM page 24 (better known as J-E) Paino and his crew. Paino founded Ruhstaller, a local craft beer company, in 2011. The company grows hops, a key ingredient in beer, in Sloughhouse and in Dixon—albeit on a limited scale. There’s also a taproom in Dixon, and Paino is opening another one in Sacramento in the 700 block of K Street. Capt. Frank Ruhstaller, one of Sacramento’s premier brewers in the late 1800s, was the inspiration for the company’s name. Before harvesting, Paino checks his crops a few times a week. He tries not to overthink the process as he picks and smells the hops, which look like fluffy green pinecones. A pheromone scent “oozes out” when the hops are ready, he says, a sign that it’s time to harvest. It can take three years for plants to reach full production. Not far from the old buildings, a half-dozen workers sort leaves and woody pieces from the hops in front of a noisy machine called a picker. “It’s named Darrell,” Paino shouts over the clackety-clack racket. “[Because] it’s all Darrell Corti’s fault.” He fed

smaller bines (not vines) into the top of Darrell, while an 82-yearold worker hung larger bines on a conveyor system that slowly pulled them into the picker. Corti, the well-known owner of Corti Brothers, shamed Paino into growing hops. Paino says, “He told me, ‘You can’t call yourself a Sacramento brewer if you don’t use local hops.’” Five years ago, Paino started growing hops to use in brewing Ruhstaller’s beer, and he’s been jokingly pinning the blame on Corti ever since. “[He] knew there was an opportunity for Sacramento to approach beer in a unique way,” he says. Darrell, the machine, is big, blue and more than 40 years old; it cost $45,000 and arrived in two pieces, like Humpty Dumpty. Paino had to figure out how to weld it back together and assemble the machine’s drums and conveyor-belt system without the owner’s manual. There are only three picking machines like it in California, he says.

Darrell does a lot of the picking and sorting, but it can’t do everything. A few workers wear gloves, but mainly they use their bare hands. Hops turn their hands black. Hop dust coats your hair and gets into your skin. Finding people to help with harvest was a problem after last year’s presidential election, Paino says, as a lot of farmworkers stayed in Mexico or went to the Bay Area to work. This is Xo Pineda’s third hop harvest with Paino. She wears a plaid shirt over a Ruhstaller T-shirt, ripped jeans that look as if they had been ripped on the job, and sturdy boots. The freshly sorted hops drop into plastic trash cans lined with burlap. Once the cans are filled, Pineda weighs them on a bathroom scale, records the weight on a tally sheet and hauls the cans up a ladder to the kiln. A can of wet hops weighs 20 to 30 pounds. The kiln is actually a large shipping container with a heating device and a drying shed on top. Pineda spreads the hops on a screen covered by burlap. It can reach 120 degrees in the shed, hot enough to prevent mold. “The hotter the better,” Pineda says. After they’re dried, the hops are cooled and baled. When I ask what hops smell like, Pineda says matterof-factly, “They smell like hops.” If this were a wet-brewing process, Ruhstaller would brew the beer the same day. But because the hops are dried, they will be placed in cold storage. Ruhstaller makes test batches of beer at its facilities in Dixon, but the bulk of the brewing is done in San Jose. Paino estimates his crew will process about 10,000 pounds of hops this year. Some day he’d like to do more to educate the public about growing hops and brewing beer, but for now he plans to concentrate on “growing the best beer we possibly can”—even though that might take years. For more information about Ruhstaller, go to ruhstallerbeer.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n

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his month marks Mansour’s Oriental Rug Gallery’s 38th year in business. Owner Mansour Yaghoubian knows a thing or two about the handmade rugs he sources from all over the world, including his native Iran. He explains what makes his rugs the perfect piece for any home. What factors should a buyer consider before investing in a rug? The most important thing is the quality. All the rugs I carry have a high knots-per-square-inch count—200 and up. But you also want to consider the color and the pattern and how it will fit with your decor. How does someone choose from so many beautiful designs? It’s very important to see how a particular rug will work in your home, so I always encourage clients to bring in photos of their furnishings, the room itself and the color palette. You can choose four or five rugs and bring them home with you to see what looks best, with no obligation to buy. We also offer a consultation service where I will come to your home and suggest the best rug application for each room. Knowing what fits comes with experience. You don’t get it overnight.

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“There are tremendous amounts of ﬁsh you can catch right in the city.”

Bob Simms hunt nor fish, but I know Simms from his Saturday-morning radio program on KFBK, “The Outdoor Show,” and admire his skill, wisdom and passion.

Simms tends to avoid politics, unless the politics involves hunting, fishing and wildlife management, conservation, habitat and water policies. Then he will speak his

With winter coming, I ask Simms about fishing and hunting opportunities available around Sacramento. He almost laughs because it’s a naive question and because Sacramento has boundless opportunities—the community is a wonderland for outdoor sports activities. “There are tremendous amounts of fish you can catch right in the city,” he says. “Or you can follow the Sacramento River north to Redding or south to the Delta and find some of the world’s best fishing.” He talks about striped bass, which fill up the Delta in the fall. He talks about sturgeon, which make their way up the Sacramento to spawn but must be treated with caution because of their declining numbers.

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There’s another way to learn about fishing and hunting, and that’s to learn from the master himself, Bob Simms. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to sign up or volunteer. It’s all about getting to know Simms and being ready when he decides to set a date. “When I take someone out who’s only fished a couple of times and show them how to catch a few fish, they can’t wait for when they can go out and do again for themselves,” he says. In November, if he’s not fishing, Simms will hunt ducks and geese and turkeys and pheasants and quail. There’s a two-week dove season. And winter brings open season on bobcats and raccoons. All hunting dates and limits in California are determined by Fish and Wildlife authorities. “You have to be careful when you call in a fox or bobcat,” Simms says. “Sometimes you call in a bear or mountain lion, something that you don’t want.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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to start. What will they be looking for this season? And where do they recommend finding it? Here, two chefs share their farm-to-fork secrets:

SWEET TREATS Pastry chef Ramon Perez of Puur Chocolat pines for pears and apples in fall. Perez, named one of the top 10 chocolatiers in North America in 2016 by Dessert Professional magazine, runs a local online chocolate business with his wife, Nicole. They also

sell their gourmet creations at the Midtown Farmers Market most Saturdays. Their success relies not only on the couple’s talents but on the bounty of fresh food available in the Sacramento region. Perez and his wife hunt for apples in Apple Hill and at the Sacramento farmers market under the freeway on Sunday mornings. They look for Cameo or Stayman Winesap varieties to make pies at home. For the business, they want Fuji apples.

“I cook [them] down all the way until I can pipe into my chocolate mold,” Perez says. “The natural pectin in it sets up like a delicious caramel apple jelly.” The tempting innovations at Puur Chocolat rely on such creations, which is why Perez and his wife chose the Sacramento area—and its farm-fresh offerings—as home. They make chocolates in adventurous flavors such as eucalyptus-lemon, raspberryorange, pistachio-lime and lychee-red curry.

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Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fall fruit provides Perez with a playground of new options. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use Pink Lady apples to create apple butter, which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll emulsify to use in ganache.

TRANSITIONAL PRODUCE Kruâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chef de cuisine, Tyler Bond, also draws inspiration from the changing seasons. In fact, he believes creative people thrive on it. There is always something new to be discovered and to cook with. In fall, Bond looks forward to the last transition fruits from summer. Twin Peaks Orchards, which sells fruit at local farmers markets including the Sunday market under the freeway, has two varieties he has his eye on: the September Bright nectarine and the Angeleno plum. During this shift from summer to fall, Bond finds his creativity spike. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We celebrate the peaches and peppers and the tomatoes and pole beans and melons,â&#x20AC;? Bond says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this little time between

September and October thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit odd.â&#x20AC;? The Angeleno plum (also known as a cellar plum) is one fruit that grows during this period. Eaten straight from the tree, says Bond, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only good. What takes this variety from good to great, he says, is its ability to keep until winter. The stone fruit can be stored in a cellar to be eaten in the dreary days of winter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You eat plums in winter!â&#x20AC;? Bond says with excitement. The chef likes to mash, ferment and pickle Angeleno plums. At Kru, Bond works for one of Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top restaurants, where chef/owner Billy Ngo, himself a culinary innovator, has earned high praise for his gastronomic excellence. Staying on top of local farm trends is part of Bondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likely to find him exploring local farms on his days off. This work is fun for him, feeding his creative spirit. On the day I interviewed him, Bond had just spoken with the owner of Twin Peaks. He couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to talk about the September Bright nectarine, which the farmers call

Visit the Mira Loma website for application and other information at www.sanjuan.edu/MiraLoma Contact Rachel Volzer: rvolzer@sanjuan.edu or 971-7427 Mira Loma High School â&#x20AC;˘ 4000 Edison Avenue a â&#x20AC;&#x153;farewell to stone fruitâ&#x20AC;? because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last nectarine variety to be harvested. Bond describes it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;acidic, firm, bright and not supersweet or jammy.â&#x20AC;? Bond will serve them fresh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When fruits are perfect, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do a lot to them,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a pastry chef, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get too fancy.â&#x20AC;? As fall brings summer produce to a close, Bond still celebrates some of the standards, like Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed tomatoes. Yet instead of serving them

fresh, he turns them into sauces to serve as winter specials. He looks forward to the change in culinary seasons that makes Sacramento so uniquely delicious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a beautiful transitional period,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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All About Sex INSTEAD OF THE BIRDS AND THE BEES, LET’S HEAR IT FOR FLOWERS

hen I first suggested giving a tour featuring fall color in the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden, the late curator, Barbara Oliva, scoffed at the idea. “There won’t be enough in bloom to interest people,” she said. “You’d better talk about sex.” This will be the 10th year for the tour, held the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Usually, there are plenty of flowers to see on the roses and companion plants, and colorful

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fall foliage as well. Still, the fruit of the roses, known as hips, takes center stage. They can be very ornamental. Some are tiny and others are the size of a golf ball. They can be round or oblong, and red, yellow, orange or black. There is even a large, yellow, prickly variety. Inside them all are the embryos of the next generation. While children may be taught about the birds and the bees in order to learn about sex, flowers are where the action is. They are a plant’s reproductive system. Flowers have male sexual parts that produce pollen and female parts that, when fertilized with the pollen, develop seeds that contain a plant embryo. Often, the seeds are enveloped in fleshy fruit that encourages animals to eat them and distribute the seeds widely. In nature, a plant must produce seeds

or its species dies out. In the grocery store, you can find some seedless fruits that have been bred to be more easily consumed. Since they can’t reproduce sexually, they must be asexually propagated, most likely by cuttings. Some roses don’t make seeds because their flowers are not capable of being fertilized. They, too, must be propagated asexually. If a rose produces seeds, the resulting seedlings may look nothing like their parents. Most of the roses that we grow are the result of complicated breeding, and it’s anybody’s guess which genes will dominate when a new plant grows. Wild, or species, roses are the exception: Unless they have been pollinated by another species, their seeds will produce

roses with the same botanical characteristics. Species roses almost always bloom just once in the spring and then develop fruit. The Historic Rose Garden has nearly 30 varieties of species roses, and their hips often linger throughout the fall and winter until they are eaten by birds and furry critters or wither away in the spring. Some of the hips resemble crabapples or small pears. That makes sense, because they are in the same family, Rosaceae. So are plums, peaches and other stone fruits, as well as cane berries including raspberries and blackberries. Rose hips are edible, although it’s not wise to nibble them if there is any chance that they have been treated with a pesticide. A few varieties, such as rugosas and Rosa canina, the dog rose, taste much

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the fiber out, a most tedious task. You may also see several little hard objects that appear to be seeds but are actually fruits called achenes. (The rose hip is actually an accessory fruit, if you want to be technical about it.) Inside the hard fruit are the actual seeds. While the term is not widely known, we encounter achenes often. Seeds on the outside of strawberries are actually achenes, as are sunflower and many other seeds. There is no reason for you to remember this bit of trivia, but now you know. You should, however, remember that flowers, fruit and seeds are all about sex. Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg. ucanr.edu. The Fall Color in the Rose Garden tour will be held on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 10 a.m. in the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden in the Old City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway. n

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Learning Through Play LITTLE MAGPIES PRESCHOOL OFFERS HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES

pening Little Magpies Preschool in August was a lifelong dream come true for owner Haley Wilson—literally. The 28-year-old has known she would someday have her own preschool since she was a kid. “I started talking about owning my own school around age 7 or 8 without even knowing what that meant,” Wilson says. “So no matter what school I was working at, I would always pick things up by going to board meetings, talking to the school directors, figuring out what worked, what didn’t and what my own style would be—putting things in my tool belt until I got to start my own school. And now it’s finally come to fruition.” The Davis native who now calls East Sac home has always loved kids. She studied child development at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (working at a preschool during college), then moved to the Bay Area to lead a preschool in Palo Alto. She earned a master’s degree in social work with a concentration in children and families and worked as a clinical therapist at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego until she decided to come home to roost.

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Haley Wilson is the owner of Little Magpies Preschool. “I knew I would eventually come back to be close to family,” says Wilson, a third-generation Davis resident whose mom is artist Cindy Wilson. (You may have seen her work at Tim Collom Gallery and Archival Gallery.) “I got to a point where I said, ‘I think I’m ready to put my roots down.’ I didn’t want to miss out on any more family time.” Wilson’s first item of business: find a home for her future preschool. Because of the very specific vision she’d developed over the years while working at other schools, she knew she didn’t want to buy a pre-existing site. Instead, she wanted to create something from the ground up. When

her commercial real estate agent showed her the building in the back of Dante Club, Wilson saw a diamond in the rough. “I saw so much potential,” she says. “We remodeled floor to ceiling, and I was very involved in the process, so I have a lot more skills in my wheelhouse now. ADA compliance? I know about that. Fire marshal requirements? I know about those. Contracts, licenses—I had to learn it all.” Wilson’s attention to detail shows in the stunning space she’s created. High ceilings let in natural light from a wall of windows that looks out onto the new play structure sitting pretty

on cushiony turf. Shining wood floors, multiple pendant lamps and tons of rustic, whimsical touches—all chosen by Wilson—make the space as inviting to an adult’s sophisticated eye as it is to the 2-to-5-year-olds Wilson and her staff teach every day. And those giant, beautiful butterflies that hang over the nap area to inspire sweet dreams? They were handmade by Wilson’s mom. So were other pieces of art scattered throughout the campus and the logo emblazoned on everything from the front door to canvas tote bags. “Every time I went back to visit the school site—probably about seven times—before I signed the lease,

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Telling Stories INNOVATIVE PROGRAM BRINGS LOCAL HISTORY TO LIFE

ibraries have been called our culture’s collective living room. On 22nd Street, the description comes to life. There’s a charming little public library tucked into the former stately home of publishing magnate C.K. McClatchy and his wife, Ella. The McClatchy family’s circa 1925 living room is a lovely community reading room. But all is not sweet and nostalgic in library land. As the world gets digitized and books find infinite shelf space in the cloud, libraries fight for relevancy among social media platforms and affinity websites. Smart libraries learn to get creative. They turn themselves inside out and slide away from their image as stale repositories of deep thoughts from mostly white, mostly male viewpoints. They embrace digital opportunities for everyone. And they do what libraries have always done, tell stories, but in a diverse and wireless way. A great example is California Listens, a collection of 220 stories from people across the state. The series was organized by Joe Lambert, a pioneer in digital storytelling, and Greg Lucas, the California state librarian. “California has the most diverse group of people who have ever been brought together to form a single tapestry,” Lucas says. “What we’re

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Greg Lucas and Joe Lambert trying to do is capture that by making it easy for people to tell their stories.” California Listens is majestic in ambition. It pulls contributions from diverse individuals throughout the state. But its heart beats in Sacramento, at 900 N St., where Lucas oversees the sprawling research and reference responsibilities of the California State Library—the state’s ultimate house of stories. “Libraries have always been living spaces where people come together and collect materials that are important culturally and socially,” Lambert says. “But they also know they have to change. They have learned about the importance of oral

history and digital storytelling, and the possibilities of it.” California Listens is broad yet simple in its application. Public libraries around the state receive an iPad and microphone. The tablet and gear allow for quick and easy movie and audio production. Average, citizens—an infinite category in California—use the equipment to tell their stories. The process is so simple that most storytellers require minimal technical assistance. The stories are dispatched to the cloud, retrievable with a click or two on a computer. But nothing is ever quite so easy. Libraries are bureaucratic institutions. They are typically

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FROM page 38 “I’m happy to get California Listens to every library that wants it,” Lucas says. “I think the project is that important.” Lucas and Lambert believe the work can eventually tell California’s story from a special perspective— not academic, not historical, not statistical, but straight from people who create it. “California should be leading the nation when it comes to digital storytelling and oral history,” Lambert says. “Greg Lucas saw that when he first became state librarian. But there are capacity issues with libraries. They don’t all have the commitment for media production. We need libraries to make that commitment.” Lucas is a gifted storyteller. For three decades, he wrote stories about California governors and the state Legislature for the San Francisco Chronicle and other publications. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him as state librarian in 2014.

California Listens is a natural extension for the state library, which houses a massive collection of California archival material—the good, great, bad and ugly. The state collection spreads beyond the building on N Street. Priceless materials are stored in the basement, where a tunnel runs from the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building on Capitol Mall to N Street. “I’m nothing but a cynical old newspaperman,” Lucas says. “But I’ve never been more optimistic in my life than I am right now, and it’s because of this job I have at the library and projects like this.” He recounts a story he saw on California Listens. A father describes being diagnosed with AIDS and raising his daughter alone. Years pass. He regains his health. His daughter thrives. “The video is about how important his daughter is to his life,” Lucas says. “It’s just a peck on the cheek to her, but there's a lot packed into it.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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n Brussels, I meet Dan Christensen, the 58-year-old assistant pastor from LifePoint Church. Dan asks me a question. “Can you drive a truck?” I raise a suspicious eyebrow. Dan explains how he drives a truck for a place called The Rafael Center. The center is an old hospital repurposed in 1994 to house more than 380 homeless people. Christensen is going out of town for a few weeks and needs me to drive his twice-weekly route to gather donated food from local grocery stores. The foodstuffs will stock the center’s shelves and be distributed among center residents and the community’s poor. I agree to four daily pickups. The following Tuesday, I rendezvous with my navigator, Mathias. Outside the center, we walk around the 25-foot box truck. I check the

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balding tires, then climb into the cab. Mathias slides in beside me with the keys and driving paperwork. Squelching my doubts about the 15-year-old truck, I start the engine and pop the clutch. Our first stop is a popular supermarket called Carrefour. Mathias and I head into the chilled stock room, where we sort through dozens of crates of discarded food. Mayonnaise and yogurt containers have burst, giving me the feeling that we are dumpster diving. Wiping the crates clean so we can read the contents, we find the soured yogurt expired. Still, we find enough usable food to fill three dozen crates. I back the truck into the loading dock, where I quickly realize I’m expected to help load the heavy cargo. We drive to two more stores before stopping at the Brussels Food Bank. This place is more organized, but it’s still shorthanded, so Mathias and I spend a lot of time transferring the food from their crates into our crates, then loading the truck. We return to the center, where center residents help us unload. I accidently bang my head on a metal hinge inside the truck. Rubbing

the forming lump, I flippantly ask Mathias if I can file a workers’ compensation claim. No one laughs. They don’t know that luxury. The following day, my wife, Becky, and I return at 9 a.m. We find residents offloading groceries from the same truck I’d driven the day before. There are probably a few Belgians glad I don’t drive it more often. Center residents come from many corners of the globe. These are folks who’d been unable to establish residency because of paperwork snafus or family matters. They come to the center to snag a last bit of hope in this seedier corner of Brussels. After the truck is unloaded, Becky and I spend the next hour helping pack the food into bags we will allot to the dozens of community residents lining up outside the front door. Finally, at 10 a.m., everyone mans their distribution stations. The doors are opened enough to let people in one by one. Each person shows identity papers, then pushes a rolling cart through our line to fill it with free groceries. It’s a long morning, sometimes filled with arguments from those who feel shorted, while other sad cases are physically unable to stand in line.

Most leave with enough to eat or perhaps trade for things they really need. My back aches from two days of lifting 30-pound crates. I’m exhausted from the work, but mostly I’m fatigued by the enormity of the task. I say a prayer, asking God’s hand with this enormous task. The answer comes in Mathew West’s song, “Do Something.” West’s song screams at God to do something about poverty, slavery and pain: I shook my fist at Heaven Said, “God, why don’t You do something?” He said, “I did, yeah, I created you” If not us, then who? If not me and you Right now, it’s time for us to do something…. It occurs to me that sometimes God gives a hand by allowing my hands to become his, lifting one heavy crate at a time. Such is the daily hand-to-hand work of places like The Rafael Center. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. You can follow his travel blog at burkesbums.com. n

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When the Earth Moves THE FAULTS MAY BE UNDER OUR FEET, NOT IN OUR STARS

ast month, millions of Californians participated in the Great California ShakeOut, a day to practice earthquake preparedness. Fewer than 5 percent of the participants were in the region around Sacramento. Should more of us have paid attention? According to Chris Nance of the California Earthquake Authority, nowhere in California is free from earthquake risk. However, some places are obviously more at risk than others. Sacramento is in the middle of the most seismically quiet region of the state. Sacramento County does

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not sit atop any known faults, but we are surrounded by them. To our west, where the Central Valley meets the Coast Ranges, a complex zone of faults lies underground; a strong quake (magnitude 6.6) struck the VacavilleWinters area in 1892. And the Bay Area’s San Andreas and Hayward faults have the potential to release major earthquakes. To our east, the Foothills fault zone runs along the edge of the Sierra Nevada from about Oroville in the north (scene of a big shaker in 1975) all the way toward Fresno. The Tahoe region is also surprisingly active, with at least three significant quakes since Gold Rush times. And there have been loads of quakes around Markleeville. Nevertheless, Nance says, “We need to acknowledge that we’re vulnerable to earthquake damage in this area.” For those of us who think we can’t be affected by a natural disaster, Vance says, “A lot of people in Houston right now are saying, boy, are you wrong.”

If there aren’t any faults under our feet, what’s to worry about? The first issue is the possibility that we’re wrong. Previously unknown faults trigger earthquakes all the time. And even faults we’re aware of can surprise us. The South Napa earthquake of 2014 occurred on a fault that scientists did not think was ready for any shaking. Second, most of the damage and injury in earthquakes results from seismic shaking. The ground moves, causing things to fall on people and buildings to collapse. How much the ground moves depends on the magnitude of the quake, distance from the earthquake’s epicenter and local geology. The fact is, a major quake miles away can cause significant shaking here in Sacramento. Nance shared this anecdote, which some of you might have experienced: “In 1989 when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck, I was home at the corner of Robertson and Watt. We had whitecaps in our

swimming pool.” Depending on how your home was constructed, this type of shaking can cause significant damage. In a worst case, if a house is not reinforced and bolted to the foundation, it will entirely fall off its foundation. Third, many areas of Sacramento are built on flood plains. The sedimentary soil in these areas is poorly consolidated and sandy. In addition, around the rivers the soil is relatively saturated because the water table is near the surface. These are the two most important risk factors for another type of earthquake damage: liquefaction. Liquefaction is a temporary transformation that occurs when shaking loosens the soil and ground water squeezes into the spaces between the grains. Liquefied soil is like quicksand. It loses its ability to support structures built on top, which may sink by inches or more in an irregular way that leads to collapse. Liquefaction can occur at some distance from an epicenter,

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How Fast? HOW WE DETERMINE SPEED LIMITS NEEDS A NEW LOOK

oes the way traffic engineers determine speed limits maximize the safety of road users? The short answer seems to be “no.” But isn’t the sole purpose of speed limits to increase safety? Here, the answer is “not really.” Engineers also want traffic to move quickly without too many drivers getting ticketed. Safety competes against other goals, creating a tension that is morally fraught. The way most speed limits are set is flawed—and the flaws result in a bias toward higher speed limits

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and faster traffic, not protecting human life. In the United States and in most other places around the world, speed limits are based on the 85th percentile rule. Traffic engineers do studies to determine how fast drivers are going. Speed limits are then set, using 5-mph increments, at the speed below which 85 percent of all drivers are traveling. In effect, the faster people drive, the higher the speed limit. According to the Institute of Transportation Engineers, “The 85th percentile is how drivers vote with their feet.” One of the many problems with this methodology is that vulnerable road users don’t get to vote at all. Pedestrians and bicyclists are completely disenfranchised (although a traffic engineer may use his or her judgment to consider their presence). That’s especially troubling because pedestrians and bicyclists are

disproportionately victims in traffic crashes. The engineering studies that determine how fast drivers are going are conducted where roads are straight, when weather conditions are good and when traffic is “free flowing.” In other words, when and where people are driving the fastest. As a result, over time speed limits can creep up. While it’s logical to assume that most drivers drive at reasonable speeds, it’s also quite apparent that drivers aren’t always the best judges of what is reasonable, which is why there were 40,000 traffic fatalities last year in the United States. The 85th percentile rule is supported by something called the Solomon curve. David Solomon published the curve in 1964 after analyzing crashes on rural roads during the 1950s. The U-shaped curve purports that the probability of

traffic crashes is highest when speeds deviate from the average, in either direction, slower or faster. The safest speed, according to the curve, is the average speed. The curve actually depicts a greater crash risk at low speeds than high speeds. Subsequent research has thrown this conclusion into considerable doubt, but it remains a foundational element in setting speed limits. In July, the National Transportation Safety Board, the organization best known for investigating airplane crashes, said that “the current level of emphasis on speeding as a national trafficsafety issue is lower than warranted.” That’s a very polite and restrained way of putting it, in light of the brutal numbers. Speed was a factor in 112,580 crash fatalities from 2005 through 2014, constituting 31 percent of all traffic fatalities. The speed-

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The NTSB also recommends that California and the other six states that prohibit the use of speed cameras â&#x20AC;&#x153;amend current laws to authorize state and local agencies to use automated speed enforcement.â&#x20AC;? Will these recommendations make a difference in how we manage speed? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to know. Politicians usually make such policy decisions. They may listen to the part of the public that complains about speed traps or to hidebound engineers who for so long have valued pseudoscientific rules. They may listen to, or ignore, the heart-wrenching stories of parents who have lost children or to anyone who has lost a loved one in a crash. Change is hard even when it saves lives. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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The Way of Gratitude ’TIS THE SEASON OF TAKING STOCK AND GIVING THANKS

s a little kid, I thought Thanksgiving was just OK. It got a pass because it was sandwiched in between two of the greatest holidays known to children: the candy bonanza of Halloween and the gift windfall of Christmas. OK, Thanksgiving. You’ve got some pretty hot friends. We’ll let you in the club. The actual day of Thanksgiving didn’t do much for me since I was strictly a Jell-O salad eater with a side of heavily buttered rolls, and Gramma’s homemade whipped cream. (Hold the pumpkin pie.) But you had to give it to a holiday that gave you a week off from school and made for a pretty fun classroom holiday celebration. One of my first memories of school is the four stations of our first-grade Thanksgiving party: candle making, construction paper and feather turkey creation, frosting and eating a turkey-shaped cookie, and welcoming Christmas by gluing glitter all over a pinecone to become a takehome ornament. Needless to say, thanks to classroom celebrations of fall and the trifecta of kid-friendly holidays spanning September through December, this time of year has remained my absolute favorite. I still become giddy with the first chill that lets me finally wear my new jeans and favorite sweatshirt. Anticipation builds into excitement

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my house! Published by Orbis Books, “The Way of Gratitude: Readings for a Joyful Life,” is an anthology on the joys of being thankful. I am so excited and honored to have my essay, “Five Inspirational Ways to Gain Greater Gratitude,” first published at mariashriver. com, included among offerings from amazing writers like J.K. Rowling, Mary Oliver, Anne Lamott and E.E. Cummings.

I was strictly a Jell-O salad eater with a side of heavily buttered rolls, and Gramma’s homemade whipped cream. when I see the first wisps of color in the trees, see leaves begin helicoptering to the ground and smell the smoky signal of fall from dustedoff fireplaces. I put the fall decorations up the second the autumn equinox hits while cursing Sacramento’s Indian summers, which cheat this region out of a full season of true harvest weather. My house, to me, is never more cozy or festive than when a succession of decorations explodes in every room to celebrate autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. When it all goes away in January, the bleak bareness of my home makes it look like it’s gone into

mourning, and I always seem to go into a funk too. But something has changed for me as an adult. Rather than seeing November for what I can get out of it (a weeklong break, fun holiday celebrations, the platform to leap into Christmas), I see it instead for what it is intended: a time to pause and give thanks; to count our blessings; to show our gratitude; to remind us it’s not all about what we can get out of this life, but what we can give to others. And wouldn’t you know it? Just in time for this season of giving thanks, There is a new book out that will get you in the spirit just as thoroughly as the holiday decorations that smother

The book is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and orbisbooks.com. I hope you’ll get into the spirit of the season of giving thanks by cozying up with this inspirational book on a rainy day in front of the fire. Who am I kidding? Buy it to read any day! Buy it for friends and family to kick off your Christmas shopping! Buy multiple copies to hand out, bringing joy like whipped cream topping on pumpkin pie! And tell people to start on page 131. Best one. Wonderful writer. Kelli Wheeler is an author, family columnist and freelance writer. For weekly Momservations or to contact her, go to momservations.com. n

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Snap Decision SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A HOUSE AND HAD TO HAVE IT

ove at first sight: That’s what Ione Cutter experienced when she saw a cute Tudor-style house in East Sacramento. It stole her heart. That day in the

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summer of 2016, the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home facing McKinley Park was scheduled for an open house. Cutter made sure the open house never happened. “I walked in and told the Realtor, Chris Little, I would make a full-price offer right now,” Cutter says. “Don’t bother with an open house. I’ll take it.” Built in the 1920s, the 2,400-square-foot house had been owned by the same family for 80 years. Hazel Cramer moved in with

her parents when she was 17 and lived there until her death at age 97. No improvements other than replacement windows and a roof were ever made. In 2015, a pair of local home flippers purchased the house and gave it a refreshing face-lift, gutting the vintage kitchen and bathrooms, and adding modern features. Cutter loved the look of the revamped home. Several walls had been removed to create a more contemporary feeling. New doorways

incorporated arches, which were part of the original design. New windows were installed. Underneath the carpet, the original oak floors were still in great shape. Two built-in hutches with their original leaded glass doors received new hardware. The original front door was repainted. The flippers “did a great job on the house and maintained the integrity of it, which I think is rare,” Cutter says.

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THERE ARE PLENTY OF COZY SPOTS WHERE SHE CAN LINGER AND ENJOY THE OUTDOORS. She noticed right away that her furnishings would fit perfectly. “It was just great,” she says. “I didn’t have to buy a thing.” Cutter especially appreciates the house’s many large windows. “I get sun throughout the day,” she explains. “It really is a happy house.” Those windows have given her a sublime introduction to city life. From the living room window facing McKinley Park, Cutter has a grand view of the passing human and canine parade. Activity begins in the early morning with walkers conversing as they pass by. Then, runners, people with baby strollers, and dog walkers make their appearance. Couples amble by. “I like the scene,” she says. “I feel like it is my little urban environment. It is really nice.” One aspect of the home Cutter felt needed improvement was the landscaping—or, rather, the lack thereof. “There was nothing in the backyard except one single camellia bush,” she says. “I have been working on that.” Cutter designed the back and front yards, and Enrique Rodriguez of Enrique’s Garden performed the work. Cutter has worked with Rodriguez for

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years and praises his skill. No matter what ideas she comes up with, Rodriguez gets it and implements the plan in style. “He does it all,” she says. Now, instead of a barren backyard, Cutter has a lush green landscape that includes roses, bottlebrush, crape myrtle and laurel. There are plenty of cozy spots where she can linger and enjoy the outdoors. A new brick wall provides a bit of noise reduction and also serves as a backdrop for a stylish Restoration Hardware fountain. A new brick fireplace allows Cutter and her guests to sit outside on chilly Sacramento evenings. A pony wall of patterned concrete blocks, once overgrown with weeds, was taken down and reassembled at the back of the yard to create an interesting screen and a bit of privacy. On one side of her property, Cutter planted what she hopes will grow into a beautiful sea of flowering hedges. A whimsical topiary stands at one end

of the installation. This stretch of sidewalk is now a horticultural treat for pedestrians. Cutter is making plans for a small vegetable garden in a sunny corner of her front yard. Rodriguez built a low brick wall in the front yard to create an unobtrusive boundary between Cutter’s private space and the public life of the sidewalk. The wall gave Cutter another spot to sit outside and experience her Sacramento neighborhood. “I didn’t want a massive barrier out here,” she explains. “Now, neighbors go by and we say hello.” Everyone is nice on this street, she says. “This is the best thing about this neighborhood.” 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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3. 1. Friends of the Library volunteers Debbi Burnett, Jane Hagedorn and Anita Scuri helped at an Arden-Dimick Library book sale.

4. Carmichael Parks Foundation board members staged a Dinner in the Park fundraiser.

2. State Sen. Jim Nielsen joined Sacramento ﬁreﬁghter Michelle Cummings at a Carmichael Chamber of Commerce lunch.

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3. Welcomed by owner Chris Jarosz, Assemblymember Ken Cooley dined at The Patriot in Milagro Centre.

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1000 FREMONT WAY 1836 COMMERCIAL WAY 2701 FREEPORT BLVD 3161 16TH ST 1226 ROBERTSON WAY 3233 CROCKER DR 1601 12TH AVE 2649 PORTOLA WAY 1277 7TH AVE 2408 14TH ST 2748 11TH AVE 756 4TH AVE 3600 E LINCOLN AVE 2757 LAND PARK DR 1290 8TH AVE 2537 10TH AVE 3549 23RD ST 1922 5TH AVE 2030 20TH ST 2875 2ND AVE 2701 7TH AVE

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511 PICO WAY 1105 57TH ST 832 52ND ST 660 55TH ST 3992 MCKINLEY BLVD 1388 57TH ST 1000 47TH ST 29 LUPINE WAY 1225 56TH ST 1523 CHRISTOPHER WAY 5417 CALEB AVE 5505 CARLSON DR 924 51ST ST 524 40TH ST 114 51ST ST 4300 A ST 525 40TH ST 548 SAN MIGUEL WAY 107 SAN ANTONIO WAY 5727 MODDISON AVE

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4631 11TH AVE 4231 63RD ST 5417 9TH AVE 5400 VALLETTA WAY 4330 52ND ST 3939 14TH AVE 4129 38TH ST 7081 14TH AVE

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4971 QUONSET DR 4824 BAKER AVE 4921 61ST ST 4651 79TH ST 5313 63RD ST 5372 9TH AVE 4431 69TH ST 4440 55TH ST 3414 19TH AVE 4090 63RD ST 3700 61ST 4013 22ND AVE 4036 42ND ST 4804 YOSEMITE AVE 4971 64TH ST 3120 65TH ST 4941 EMERSON RD 5351 80TH ST 3119 60TH ST 3624 52ND ST 4711 ETHEL WAY 4926 11TH AVE 5501 71ST ST 5220 71ST ST 3924 33RD ST 3425 50TH ST 5331 11TH AVE 4830 TRINITY CT 5101 ORTEGA ST 4031 55TH ST 5331 SAN FRANCISCO BLVD

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2831 ASHBOURNE DR 3576 LARCHMONT SQUARE LN 3630 CHADSWORTH WAY 3570 WILLIAM WAY 3524 POPE AVE 3225 BROPHY DRIVE 3420 MARCONI AVE 3326 HORSESHOE DR 2020 EL CAMINO AVE 4618 BRIARWOOD DR 4025 HANCOCK 2670 AVALON DR 2500 MORETTI WAY 2941 GLACIER ST 3744 HUFF WAY 3115 GREENWOOD AVE 2161 WHIPPOORWILL LN 3605 FRENCH AVE 4042 LOGSTON CT 2715 MARYAL DR 3229 SUNVIEW AVE 3704 NORRIS AVE 3320 MARCONI AVE 2551 FULTON SQUARE LN #45 4624 MCDONALD DR 2000 EL CAMINO AVE 2107 WHIPPOORWILL LN 2910 HERON WAY 4145 PASADENA AVE 2285 MARCONI AVE 3012 CLAIRIDGE OAK CT

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5608 HELEN WAY 5310 HARTE WAY 7486 SCHREINER ST 5520 DORSET WAY 7292 CROMWELL WAY 2608 HING AVE 6048 ANNRUD WAY 1448 KITCHNER RD 5621 HELEN WAY 1681 PARKRIDGE RD 2154 51ST AVE 7232 21ST ST 1632 68TH AVE 7522 LOMA VERDE WAY

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2525 36TH AVE 2336 HALDIS WAY 4420 BABICH AVE 2405 40TH AVE 2000 NIANTIC WAY 7405 21ST ST 1791 FLORIN RD 2378 ANITA AVENUE 4706 JOAQUIN WAY 5120 CARMEN WAY 810 SPAR CT 127 PULSAR CIR 1687 WAKEFIELD WAY 2016 66TH AVE 7367 15TH ST 5905 GLORIA DR #2 7313 WILLOWWICK WAY 2121 ARLISS WAY 7519 24TH ST 7425 FLORES WAY 1724 WAKEFIELD WAY 2628 FERNANDEZ DR 6710 21ST STREET 1401 OAKHURST 3021 MELINDA WAY 2239 66TH AVE 5647 EL ARADO WAY 1520 ARVILLA 960 INEZ WAY 2265 ARLISS WAY 1000 SAGAMORE WAY 2420 FERNANDEZ DR 7470 SYLVIA WAY 2253 ARLISS WAY 5100 25TH ST 2000 NEWPORT AVE 1645 WAKEFIELD WAY 1405 43RD AVE 7516 GEORGICA WAY 4940 CRESTWOOD WAY

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731 WOODSIDE LANE EAST #5 788 WOODSIDE LANE EAST #5 628 WOODSIDE SIERRA #2 2304 AMERICAN RIVER DR 712 HARTNELL PL 2245 WOODSIDE LN #5 501 WOODSIDE OAKS #3 2537 HERNANDO RD 411 DUNBARTON CIR 873 WOODSIDE LANE E #11 2430 PAVILIONS PLACE LN #703 2308 LANSING WAY 1329 COMMONS DR 653 WOODSIDE SIERRA #1 1433 HESKET WAY 3105 VALENCIA WAY 901 FULTON AVE #402 2476 W LARKSPUR LN 892 WOODSIDE LANE E #10 701 WOODSIDE E LN #3 2908 EMERALD CT 925 FULTON AVE #428 931 FULTON AVE #434 925 FULTON AVE #430 931 FULTON AVE #433 923 FULTON AVE #448 923 FULTON AVE #425 989 FULTON AVE #478 2480 LARKSPUR LN #176 625 WOODSIDE SIERRA 915 FULTON AVE #449 2354 ALTA GARDEN LN #B 3208 STREVEL WAY 1326 OAK TERRACE CT #18 2100 LANDON LN 121 HARTNELL PL 1018 DUNBARTON CIR 899 WOODSIDE LANE EAST #1

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871 WOODSIDE LN #3 511 WOODSIDE OAKS #7 2313 ESTRELLITA WAY

95831

6 COASTAL CT 10 OAK RANCH CT 2 GLENEDEN CT 58 LOS GATOS CIR 6751 SWENSON WAY 6791 FREEHAVEN DR 7109 REICHMUTH WAY 18 HERITAGE WOOD CIR 1220 58TH AVE 496 WINDWARD WAY 7674 RIVER VILLAGE 28 GENOA CT 108 BLUE WATER CIR 6320 SURFSIDE WAY 712 RIVERCREST DR 14 SKYWIND CT 19 SUNLIT CIR 1125 WESTLYNN WAY 7068 RIVERSIDE BLVD 9 CEDAR GROVE CT 400 CAMELIA RIVER WAY 748 SHORESIDE DR 6450 13TH ST 7336 SOUZA CIR 6321 HOLSTEIN 639 BRICKYARD DR 1386 PALOMAR CIR 652 CASTLE RIVER WAY 1215 ALDER TREE WAY 27 SEASIDE CT 7101 ROB RIVER WAY 22 HAVENWOOD CIR 6854 ANTIGUA WAY

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2930 AMERICAN RIVER DR 3719 LYNWOOD WAY 4507 VALMONTE DR 4612 NOTTINGHAM CIR 2917 HOLT WAY 1413 ROWENA WAY 3635 BUENA VISTA DR 4200 BIRGIT WAY 33 SARATOGA CIR 3692 FAIR OAKS BLVD 441 CROCKER RD 10 PARK SIERRA LN 1200 SHADOWGLEN RD 1329 SHADOWGLEN RD 1800 DEVONSHIRE RD 1345 GLENWOOD RD 3928 LUSK DR 4208 CORONA WAY 312 WYNDGATE RD 4235 STOWE WAY 760 EL ENCINO WAY 2917 SIERRA MILLS LN 3743 ESPERANZA DR 1987 MAPLE GLEN RD 4621 FAIR OAKS BLVD 1745 ORION WAY 119 RIVER CHASE CIR 1351 CASTEC DR 2828 BERKSHIRE WAY 1328 WYANT WAY 4009 CRESTA WAY 2909 LATHAM DR. 2651 SIERRA BLVD 4249 AVILA LN 131 MOFFATT WAY 3640 LAS PASAS WAY 3360 ARDENRIDGE DR 3761 LUSK DR 4429 ALDERWOOD WAY 3545 LAS PASAS WAY 38 SARATOGA CIR

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Giving the City an Edge PLANNING TO MAKE ART PART OF SACRAMENTO’S ‘BRAND’

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n Sept. 18, the city of Sacramento hosted a public forum to mark the launch of Creative Edge, a community-driven planning process that will help define Sacramento’s cultural and creative economy. For the next several months, the city will host town-hall meetings before producing a plan that will be submitted to the City Council for approval. City officials say Creative Edge will be a ground-up process, giving Sacramento residents a direct voice in the future of Sacramento’s art community. To facilitate the planning process, the city created a new position— director of cultural and creative economy—and hired Jonathon Glus, who has more than 20 years of experience directing similar programs in cities like Houston and Pasadena. Glus emceed the September forum, outlining the planning process and expressing Creative Edge's goals, which include attracting and retaining creative businesses and making sure the city invests enough in art culture and creative resources. “How does creativity flourish, how do we advance it, support it and bring more resources to you all to make this city a more creative place?” asked Glus. In an interview with Inside Publications, Glus said the planning process should engage the larger community in creative endeavors, emphasize the need for investing in art education, and create access and equity. “In the case of Sacramento, we already have tremendous cultural institutions,” Glus said. But he believes the city is ripe for a cultural plan. “There are a lot of creatives here, and we haven’t necessarily embraced them,” he said. “As a community, we TO page 61

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FROM page 58 haven’t necessarily embraced [art] in all ways, or celebrated it. It certainly isn’t part of our brand.” The planning process is designed, he said, “so that the artist is a part of telling the story of the city.” This should come as welcome news to local artists. Collaborative groups, venues and nonprofits like M5 Arts, The Red Museum and CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) have helped define Sacramento’s emerging art scene, yet many individual artists feel underrepresented by the city. “It’s a lack of communication and funding support from the city,” said Trisha Rhomberg, an artist and owner of Old Gold, a shop that specializes in locally handcrafted goods. “There are a ton of local artists and nonprofits for arts, but no one knows who they are or what they offer or how to get it. Our microphones are broken.” Rhomberg sought information from the city on resources for artists but came up empty-handed. “You can either go from being an artist who spends four hours a day painting,

or you can become an investigative reporter to track down who has the power and money and motivation to help you get your next venue,” she said. “City staff responsible for culture and communication have no clue where to go for the best content because they don’t actually go to emerging-art or fringe-art shows and events.” The lack of communication between city and artists exacerbates an existing paradox: Artists create cool cities that, failing to support their artists, eventually lose their artists. So what is the solution? It’s difficult enough to define art, let alone develop a culture and creative economy around that definition, especially considering Sacramento’s great diversity. But for Glus, moving forward means “that we are ambitious as we can be but realistic. “There will be short-term objectives to move us through a couple years—low-hanging fruit,” said Glus. Grants—and getting artists better access to those grants—are a component of developing this culture, “but it’s also about workforce

development, education, access to higher education. It’s about small-business loans, and it’s about economic development,” he said. In short, the plan should treat the artist holistically. According to Glus, the plan will project seven or ten years into the future and “create an agreed-upon path forward that highlights goals, objectives and tactics to get us to those goals,” which could include code or zoning issues, even grants and loans. Glus encourages artists to show up to future forums. “This is the perfect opportunity to [have their voices heard],” he said. “This is about the creative vitality of the city in all forms and fashions, and this is the forum to steer the conversation.” If the Sept. 18 forum proved anything, it’s that artists will show up. Earlier this year, the city hosted a public art plan workshop that drew maybe two- or three-dozen residents, while Creative Edge had well over 200 attendees filling every seat, standing along walls and pouring out

of the entrances of nonprofit CLARA’s gymnasium, which hosted the forum. Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who addressed the audience, commented on the energy within the room and called the plan the beginning of an important chapter in our city’s history. He added that the process will give Sacramento an opportunity to “make sure we put our money where our mouth is.” After Steinberg spoke, attendees broke into smaller groups to discuss just that: how to ensure the city puts its money where its mouth is. How will Sacramento support artists in the face of increasing rent and cost of living? How will the city encourage and strengthen small, art-based businesses or a budding film industry? How do we bridge the gap between artists on the streets and councilmembers on the board? For more information on the Creative Edge planning process, go to cityofsacramento.org/creative-edge or visit Creative Edge’s Facebook page. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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Ruth Rippon often demonstrated techniques during her many years of teaching.

Feats of Clay RUTH RIPPON CELEBRATES SEVEN DECADES AS A CERAMIC ARTIST ART T IST

o say that Ruth Rippon has patience would be an understatement. The celebrated ceramic artist has worked in the complex medium of clay for seven decades, and she’s loved nearly every minute of it. “It’s always a pleasure to work with clay,” the River Park resident says. (She’s lived in the neighborhood since 1956, when she first got hired at

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Sacramento State University.) “Clay takes time. A lot of my pieces are coil built, which means I form them one coil at a time and then carve them. It takes a lot of patience to do that work.” It’s work that Rippon seems to have been born to do. When she was growing up in Sacramento, her parents told her they would pay her way through art school as long as she earned her teaching credential as well. Rippon agreed. In one of her required courses—a class on clay with famed ceramist Antonio Prieto—she first encountered the art form that would become her life’s work. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees and serving as Prieto’s assistant for a summer at

Mills College, Rippon p ppon took a teaching job at Sac a State, where ac she taught for 31 1 years until retiring at age 62. (She’ll 2.. (S She’ll be b 91 in January.) Att Sacc State, she was the hee sole female faculty ty y member in the early days of the burgeoning ceramics department. Over err the years, Rippon n inspired hundreds dss of students with her down-to-earth th h teaching style and nd d enthusiasm for molding m young minds.

approached “I approac che teaching roots up,” says from the root ts u “When Rippon. “Whe en I’m working beginning with begin nnin students, start I star rt tthem on the th he wheel. Everything Ev E develops from de that. I try to th give them a g broad base to br grow on.” gr Rippon’s own work is ow impressively im mp varied. var rie Because of an early a n ea arly affinity for and biblical myths an sayings, Rippon sayings s, R decorated decorat ted her vessel

Ruth Rippon's sculptures can be found in public places, including the Pavilions shopping center.

work with figures and text from Greek mythology and Scripture. She even developed her own technique, sgraffitothrough-engobe, in which she would apply a colored clay slip (or engobe) to the form, then scratch through to the base layer underneath.

Whether it was wheel throwing, coil building or slab construction, Rippon excelled in many methods and created everything from bowls and plates to jewel boxes and jars and, more recently, small tabletop tableaux of artists in their studios. She’s also well-known for her large-scale sculptures. “The first large-scale sculpture I ever did was a commission for Anne and Malcolm McHenry of a young girl resting on a bench for their garden,” Rippon recalls. “I had done smaller thrown composite figures before, but I hadn’t done any large-scale work until that commission. I discovered that I liked it. It just took a lot longer.” Rippon created iconic sculptures like “The Lollies” (short for “little old ladies”) who sit fountain-side at Pavilions Shopping Center and the life-sized ceramic reader (entitled “Waiting”) at Sac State University Library. Rippon has exhibited her work all over the country, including in galleries in San Francisco and the wider Bay Area, at the California State Fair and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York. An

exhibition of her work titled “Exuberant Earth” is now open at Crocker Art Museum. Rippon is pleased that 90 of her pieces from the 1950s through the 1990s will be on display. But she’s most excited to read the essays in the exhibition catalog, which is funded by Creative Arts League Sacramento, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and exhibiting fine art throughout the region. Rippon was one of the group’s first members (it was founded in 1952), and she had her first retrospective exhibition at the Crocker—in 1971—thanks to the league. Talk about coming full circle. “I’ve enjoyed my career immensely,” Rippon says. “I loved working with clay, I enjoyed the students very much and I’ve enjoyed working with a pretty broad palette of techniques. It’s been a good life.” “Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon” will be on display at Crocker Art Museum through Feb. 4. For more information, visit crockerart.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Artists and Aprons Artspace 1616 Friday, Dec. 1, 5–8 p.m. 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Sixty local artists have painted original art on aprons that will be for sale to raise money for the homeless. The aprons were donated by Dick Blick Art Materials.

“WaistWatchers the Musical” 24th Street Theatre Through Nov. 19 2791 24th St. • waistwatchersthemusical.com After last summer’s successful runs in Sacramento, Walnut Creek and San Jose, and a 40-week national tour, Alan Jacobson’s comedic musical returns to town. Set in a women’s gym and featuring 24 original songs, it takes a lighthearted look at four women dealing with dieting, exercise, plastic surgery and sex over 40.

Annual Quilt Show River City Quilters’ Guild Nov. 17–19 Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St. • rivercityquilters.org The guild’s 40th anniversary quilt show will feature hundreds of quilts—including traditional, contemporary and art quilts—as well as demonstrations and wearable art made by textile artists.

This apron created by Micah Crandall-Bear will be part of the Artists and Aprons fundraiser on Dec. 1. All the proceeds will beneﬁt the homeless in Sacramento.

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“Enshrouded in Mist: Photos by Donald Satterlee” Ella K. McClatchy Library Nov. 9–Dec. 22 Opening Reception and Talk: Saturday, Nov. 18, 12:30–2:30 p.m. 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org Ethereal images of drizzly, foggy and rainy streetscapes in black and white are signature images of Donald Satterlee’s evocative photography. At the reception, he will discuss his methods.

Annual Christmas Boutique and Luncheon Photographs by Donald Satterlee will be on display at Ella K. McClatchy Public Library.

Mercy General Hospital Guild Wednesday, Nov. 15 Dante Club, 2330 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 731-7189 This year’s boutique will include apparel, purses and jewelry, as well as jams, jellies, dips, candles, Tupperware, children’s toys, stationery and handmade crafts. The lunch will feature two menus.

Janet Fitch in Conversation With Beth Ruyak Community of Writers and Stories on Stage Sacramento Saturday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m. CLARA Auditorium, 1425 24th St. • communityofwriters.org The Russian Revolution will be center stage for this evening of literature and conversation with author Janet Fitch, The New York Times best-selling author of “White Oleander.” Capital Public Radio’s Beth Ruyak will explore Fitch’s new novel, “The Revolution of Marina M.” The event will include a reading, a book signing and a reception with Russian sweets, vodka and a roving band of musicians performing traditional Russian and Eastern European folk songs. Books will be available for sale. Proceeds will support the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, a nonprofit that assists writers and poets with diverse cultural perspectives.

Fall 2017 Concerts Benefiting Shoes4Sacramento Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave., Carmichael Nov. 5, 3 p.m., Journey Church, 450 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom Nov. 10–11, 7:30 p.m., St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L St. rsvpchoir.org, shoes4sacramento.com RSVP’s fall concerts will support Shoes4Sacramento, which collects new and gently used shoes that can be cleaned and redistributed to the homeless and families in need. At each concert, RSVP will collect new and gently used shoes in all shapes and sizes, as well as laundry detergent.

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Sacramento Youth Symphony will perform classical favorites at the Crest Theatre.

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Witherell’s Wednesday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. • sacramentoyouthsymphony.org The symphony’s Premier Orchestra will perform classical favorites from Elgar, Verdi and more, with music selections from Azerbaijan under the direction of conductor Michael Neumann and guest conductor Mustafa Mehmandarov. The concert will also feature soprano Marziya Guseynova.

300 20th St. • witherells.com Looking for a unique gift? Don’t miss this 100-plus-lot auction of jewelry, watches, coins and luxury goods, including a quarter eagle gold coin from 1853, a platinum ring with two Old European-cut diamonds surrounded by 29 diamonds, a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk, a rare baseball signed by Jackie Robinson and a Locke golf-themed art-glass liquor decanter.

Crocker Holiday Artisan Market 2017 Creative Arts League Sacramento Nov. 24–26 Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St. • creativeartsleague.com Crocker Art Museum and Creative Arts League Sacramento will partner for this annual shopping event. The three-day market will feature handmade gifts from more than 100 artists, including glass, textiles, wood, ceramics, paper, photography, paintings, sculptures, fiber and textiles, jewelry and more.

Festival of New American Music Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Nov. 12, 3 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The annual Festival of New American Music—a project of the School of Music at Sacramento State—showcases musicians performing new works by contemporary American composers. This year’s 40th anniversary festival will feature Andrew Blanton, who combines classical percussion, new-media art and creative coding to offer a unique sonic and visual experience.

The Crocker Holiday Artisan Market will be held at Scottish Rite Center.

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Witherell’s will hold a holiday gifts auction on Dec. 6.

East Lawn Cemetery History Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Nov. 15, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Kayla Delgado will talk about the history of Sacramento’s iconic East Lawn Cemetery. Admission is free.

“Kondos in Conversation” Crocker Art Museum Saturday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org In conjunction with the release of a 2018 limited-edition calendar featuring Gregory Kondos’ iconic landscape paintings, Kondos will have an on-stage conversation with Capital Public Radio’s Beth Ruyak. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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pen for just a year, Wildwood Kitchen & Bar already cuts a pretty impressive figure. The large indoor/outdoor space in the Pavilions shopping center is truly striking. The newest undertaking by restaurateur brothers Fred and Matt Haines, Wildwood is something of a departure from their other, more casual restaurants, and it feels like a step up in profile from their popular 33rd Street Bistro brand. With a focus on the bar and a keen eye toward design, Wildwood comes across immediately as a destination for conviviality. Tucked away ever so slightly in the Pavilions center, the restaurant isn’t immediately visible from busy Fair Oaks Boulevard. A short jaunt into the interior of the retail center brings you to either Wildwood’s modest front door or its expansive patio. Neither entrance really hints at the spectacle

of design and art that makes up the interior. Immediately inside the front door, a trio of bold, eye-popping landscapes by artist Rozer grabs the first-time visitor right away. From the doorway, most of the notable three-sided bar and expansive dining room is obscured by a gorgeous bottle rack. One step around the rack and you will find the slick bar and substantial dining room, draped in subtle hues, sharp corners and gripping art pieces. The Haines brothers’ other dining spaces have always had lovely elements of artistic design about them, but this new room is really a modern beauty. An airy light sculpture hangs from the ceiling. A drapery of heavy braided ropes obscures a wall-sized mirror, giving the impression of a hidden space beyond the reach of the diner. A framed profusion of Irelandgreen moss hangs (grows?) from another wall.

The pieces are uncluttered and unfussy. It’s the type of art that fosters meditation and thoughtful gazes. The large patio offers some nice touches as well but is most notable as a comfortable lounging space, dotted with high-top tables, couches and fireplaces. Spending a fall evening with a well-made cocktail or well-chosen glass of wine next to one of those fireplaces seems the right way to go. The menu is dotted with some lovely small plates and a still-evolving entree selection. Brunch, lunch and dinner are offered. The standout on the lunch menu is, without a doubt, the French dip. Stuffed with shaved prime rib and slathered with horseradish aioli, the soft, yielding bread does an admirable job of soaking up the indulgent peppercorn sauce served in lieu of au jus. I have been quoted as saying that the dip at Bandera (just a stone’s throw from Wildwood) is the best in

town, but my mind may have been changed. On the small-plate side, the chilled smoked prawns are a treat if you like to eat with your hands. They involve peeling. Also, the rather bland-sounding hummus is actually stunning. With bright flavors and gorgeously made naan bread, it’s a surprisingly complex dish. Barbecued Skuna salmon, which shows up on both the lunch and dinner menu, feels like the dish most influenced by the Haineses’ Pacific Northwest roots. A beautiful plate of lacquered salmon outlined by a daring streak of blackberry “paint,” it’s fresh, smoky, sweet and impressive. Also recommended is the rock shrimp risotto. Bright green from the basil pistou and cheesy as all get out from a generous layering of Parmesan, the dish is a dense, indulgent

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN NOVEMBER

Robert T. Matsui Gallery will feature “Fields of Grain: The Art Collection of the California Rice Commission” through Nov. 14. Shown above: “Summer Rice Fields, Colusa County” by Phil Gross. City Hall, 915 I St. (north entrance)

ARTHOUSE Gallery & Studios presents “Moods & Emotions,” featuring works by Traci Owens and Larry Johnson. Show runs Nov. 10 to Dec. 5. Shown above: “The Judgement” by Owens. 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com

Through Dec. 1, Sparrow Gallery presents new mixed-media work by Susan Silvester and Sandy Whetstone. Shown above: a collage by Silvester. 1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com

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Eliott Fouts Gallery presents “Jeff Myers: Larger Than Life” Nov. 4 to 30. This new body of work thematically explores relationships between technology, land, time and humans. Shown above: “Giant.” 1831 P St.; efgallery.com

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Bella Bru Café B L D $-$$ Full bar Casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com

Cafe Bernardo Pavilions Shopping Center B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio, seasonal, European-inﬂuenced comfort food • paragarys.com

Café Vinoteca 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 487-1331 L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • cafevinoteca.com

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B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • ettores.com

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The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Wy. • (916) 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • thekitchenrestaurant.com

571 Pavilions Lane • 916-649-8885 L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting • piatti.com

Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt Ave. • (916) 482-2175

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. • (916) 484-6104 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Thai House 427 Munroe in Loehmann’s • (916) 485-3888

Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com

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

Willie’s Burgers 5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 779-0727 L D $$ Beer/Wine Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Wy. • (916) 488-47794 D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960 L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

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Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

L D $$ Wine/Beer American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

De Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947

Willie’s Burgers

L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

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Downtown & Vine 1200 K St. #8 • (916) 228-4518

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Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. • (916) 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill

L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

Café Bernardo B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605 L D $$ Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

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Iron Horse Tavern

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

1801 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

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Magpie Cafe

1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888 L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. • (916) 442-7092 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net

1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011 L D $$ Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

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L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

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Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450 B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com

South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

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The Rind L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

MIDTOWN Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180

1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

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

Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552

Rio City Cafe 1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226 L D $$ Wine/Beer Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com

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The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

L D $-$$ Bar & grill with American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com

Federalist Public House 2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

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723 56th St. • (916) 454-5656

L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net

BLD $$ Full Bar American. HD sports, kid’s menu, breakfast weekends, Late night dining

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L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

L D $$ Full Bar The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com

The Red Rabbit

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5723 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 457-3679

L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

L D $$ Full Bar Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

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Evan’s Kitchen and Catering

1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737

855 57th St. • (916) 452-3896

L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

B L D $$ Wine/Beer Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chefevan. com

Revolution Wines 2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711

Formoli’s Bistro

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com

3839 J St. • (916) 448-5699

Skool 23195 K St. • (916) 737-5767

Hawks Public House

D $$ Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

1525 Alhambra Blvd. • (916) 558-4440

Suzie Burger 2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500

Frank Fat’s

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Tapa The World 2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live ﬂamenco music • tapathewworld.com

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L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

Kru 3145 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 551-1559 L D $$-$$$ Beer/Wine Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. • (916) 455-7803 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690

Nopalitos Southwestern Café

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com

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2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891

4818 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 706-1748

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer, Patio, Private Room. Artisan pizzas & seasonally inspired menu in a casual, neighborhood setting • onespeedpizza.com

EAST SAC

Opa! Opa!

33rd Street Bistro

L D $ Wine/Beer Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

3301 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Paciﬁc Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdSt.bistro.com

Burr’s Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas Ave. • (916) 476-5492

(Arden and Eastern)

B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2 • cabanawine.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 48th St. & Folsom Blvd. • (916) 451-5181 Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

5644 J St. • (916) 451-4000

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. • (916) 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. • (916) 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality hand-crafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com n

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HAPPY HOUR $10 PIZZAS $5 COCKTAILS, WINE & BEER $10 PIZZAS AVAILABLE MONDAY - FRIDAY 3PM TO 6PM

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Happy Hour! Monday – Friday 5 - 7 pm 2801 Capitol Av Avenue (916) 455-2422 www.biba-restaurant.com

Giving

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Cranberry Cheesecake Pumpkin Cheesecake Harvest Ginger Spice Cake Acorn-Shaped Marble Cake Breads and Dinner Rolls

Leaf Shaped Dinner Rolls

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 freeportbakery.com Please order by Sunday, Nov. 19

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OLD SIERRA OAKS Set on one of the largest, loveliest parcels along most desirable Crocker Road is this engaging, comfortable home in marvelous condition, inside and out. $1,850,000 JOHN GUDEBSKI 916-870-6016 CalBRE# 018544991

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GATED RESIDENCE IN PRESTIGIOUS ARDEN OAKS 4 BR/ ofﬁce/ 3BA, .57 acres, Beautifully Remodeled, resort like rear yard with pool & spa, loggia. $1,149,000 DENISE CALKIN 916-803-3363 CalkinRealEstate.com CalBRE# 01472607

STATELY SIERRA OAKS! 5 BD/3 BA, huge rooms, 2 ﬁreplaces & Private yard. Character, Style & Curb Appeal Galore. $700,000 CARLOS KOZLOWSKI 916-973-4506 CalBRE# 00878571 KozlowskiRealEstateGroup.com

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CHARMING & UNIQUE HOME Beautifully maintained original wooden walls & ﬂoor creates a wonderful living environment. Updated kitchen & baths. Backyard deck w/ hot tub. Excellent San Juan schools nearby. $343,000 GEORGIA MIKACICH 916-947-6638 CalBRE# 00570810

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