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WONDERFUL EAST SAC LOCATION The perfect home on one of the most desirable streets in East Sac. Remodeled kitchen with Wolf range, SubZero fridge, Miele dishwasher, espresso maker, wine fridge, pantry, custom cabinets and tons of storage. Large master bathroom. Hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows, of¿ce nook and private backyard patio has a spa/pool with water feature $975,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

WALK TO EAST PORTAL PARK Fantastic updated 2 bedroom, 2 bath home in the desirable East Sac neighborhood Wood and travertine tile Àoors, high ceilings, remodeled kitchen with antiqued cabinets, quartz counters and premium stainless steel appliances. Energy ef¿cient home with dual pane windows. Large yard with room for your imagination!! $584,000 KIM SQUAGLIA 916-205-2681, TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

WALK TO THE PARK Updated home with remodeled kitchen featuring Wolf oven, Miele dishwasher and soft close drawers. Downstairs master suite, of¿ce with outside access and 3 bedrooms upstairs. Fireplace in living room and double French doors in family/dining room make this home an entertainers delight. 1/4 basement and 2 car-garage and outdoor spaces. $875,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

BEAUTIFUL HOME QUIET STREET Beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath Home in East Sacramento with gourmet kitchen/family room combo and open plan for ease of entertaining. Newly polished hardwood Àoors and painted walls; master suite with walk-in closet and stunning bathroom! Equipped for ¿ber-based internet service; and energy saving Nest thermostat. $748,000 KIM SQUAGLIA 916-205-2681, TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

DARLING BUNGALOW Desirable East Sacramento. 2 bedroom home has hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows, 2 garden windows in kitchen, indoor laundry, 2 shower heads in tub/shower, and a lovely shaded deck and backyard for relaxing and entertaining. Close to downtown for the arts and concerts, and Midtown for local area restaurants, casual dining! $449,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

RIVER PARK 4 BEDROOM Remodeled 4 bedroom 2 bath home with gorgeous wood Àoors, tile ¿replace surround, bay window, separate family room, energy ef¿cient ceiling fans, dual pane windows, and tankless water heater. Chef’s kitchen, master bedroom with a ¿replace, large walk-in closet and adjoining bath with multiple shower heads. Serene backyard for relaxing! $739,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

A REAL CHARMER This 3 bedroom home with courtyard entry is within walking distance of UC Davis Medical Center. Beautiful picture window in living room, gas log ¿replace, wood Àoors throughout, granite kitchen counters, stainless steel appliances. Energy ef¿cient ceiling fans, dual pane windows, whole house fan! $519,000 KENDRA KNAUER 916-529-2491, TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

ENCHANTING BRICK TUDOR Wonderful 2603 sf Àoor plan with large rooms and Àex spaces with multiple options. Downstairs master and potential 4th bedroom/of¿ce/ nursery. 2 big bedrooms and remodeled bathroom upstairs. Updated kitchen with granite counters and lots of cabinets. Fun backyard - fruit trees, patio w/arbor, lawn and garden areas. $729,000 JAY FEAGLES 916-204-7756

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Tudor on desirable street of East Sac, 3 BED, 2 BATH, 1800 sq/ft

CLOSE TO MCKINLEY PARK BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED TUDOR Beautiful Tudor with Formal living and dining rooms Original details of leaded glass. Features a large kitchen with breakfast nook and a spacious master suite with doors leading to the outside space.

Gorgeous 5 Bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2674 sq/ ft remodeled home in the Fab 40’s. Home features a large living room with Àreplace and sunroom off the side, Hunter Douglas electric shades, formal dining room and Master Suite with Àreplace & stunning master bath. The covered deck features a built-in Lion BBQ grill and large dining area that looks onto the spacious outside space and pool. $1,395,000

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STEPS FROMTHE SACRAMENTO 1927 TUDOR TRANSFORMED The TIMELESS ARCHITECTURE square-footage has created a home that boasts One of the original Wright & Kimbrough RIVER Welcome to Riverside Terrace, an enclave additional 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, artist’s studio/ofÀce, and storage Tract 24 houses built in 1913. This 4 of new single-family homes, surrounded by all of the amenities of the adjacent Sacramento River. Envision the seasonal changes from your own, private balcony. Take a brisk walk on the levee bike trail, just steps from your front door. Most requested upgrade already built in. Custom designed low maintenance backyards. Come see our Model Home today! $472499,000

space. A welcoming and spacious chef’s kitchen is the heart of this open-concept entertainer’s delight. Improvements are numerous, and besides the addition of the studio/guest house, they also include a remodeled bathroom, a luxurious master bathroom, and laundry room. Light accents the architectural details from the 1920’s, blending seamlessly with modern amenities.

bedroom, 1.5 bathroom, 2764 sq/ft, home has all the original details of built-in leaded glass cabinets and bookcases, built-in buffet with cabinets, wide baseboard, intricate staircase railing, large living room with Àreplace and large formal dining room. Don’t miss this opportunity to live in such an historic house. $995,000

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COVER ARTIST MARK EMERSON Sacramento artist Mark Emerson is showing this month at JAYJAY gallery. Emerson is featured in this month’s Artist Spotlight. Shown: “Break Stuff,” polymer on canvas. JAYJAY, 5524 Elvas Ave., jayjayart.com. Visit markemerson.info. 3104 O St. #120, Sac. CA 95816 (Mail Only)

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Nationally Renowned, Humble at Home ICONIC LOCAL ARTIST GERALD WALBURG HAS A HISTORY FEW NEIGHBORS KNOW

erald Walburg is one of Sacramento’s most talented and notable artists. The trouble is that over his long and productive career his local profile hasn’t k kept up with his national one. I’m hoping to c change that. While you might not know Gerald—or Jerry, as he is known—you have undoubtedly seen his monumental public artworks. His largest and most prominent local sculpture is the 40-foot “Indo Arch,” located at 4th and K streets. It was Sacramento’s first art installed under the Art in Public Places program, established more than 40 years ago. The “Indo Arch” was controversial from the start. People called it phallic. Some said it was Islamic. They feared it would further endanger U.S. hostages then being held in Iran. I I’ve always loved the arch, and am grateful the c community now embraces it. Then there is Walburg’s larger-than-life, ni nickel-rich bronze that he donated and installed out outside the entrance to the Crocker Art Museum in 201 2013. As is often the case with Walburg sculptures, the eelements form an open frame through which to see th the world as well as the work. Cro Crocker Art Museum curator Scott Shields explains the piec piece was an important addition to the museum because on either end of the Crocker are sculptures by Bay Area artists. Shields felt it was important to have a Sacramento Sacramento-based artist represented. “I made this piece with this site in mind,” Walburg says. I first met W Walburg a year ago when my friend Cheryl introduc us. We were planning a 40th anniversary Holben introduced Sacr event for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

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Walburg’s extensive East Sac home, garden and studio property were the perfect venue for the private event. I quickly discovered that Walburg, at 82, is an amazing talent, artist, craftsman, designer and thoughtful conversationalist—a true American renaissance man. The day we first met, Walburg was dealing with his contractor and completing a full basement of the third home on his property. It turns out my husband and I had built a full basement in our new home in 2007. We had contracted it ourselves, so I knew all the details involved in construction. We hit it off by sharing basement design and building knowledge! I was delighted to visit with him several times in the past year when attending small, private art shows he hosts for artists he admires. Walburg is an East Bay native. While attending Oakland High School, he pursued a vocational rather than academic path. He was attracted to shop and drafting classes. After high school, he followed a friend to California College of Arts and Crafts. His father had been killed in World War II, and the funds from his father’s military survivor benefits paid the tuition. Walburg was drawn to industrial design. He lacked the math skills for architecture, which was his first love. When his girlfriend became pregnant, Walburg dropped out and worked to support his marriage and child. He was 20 years old. Living in San Francisco, he eventually resumed college and focused on academics while continuing to work. Two more children were born, and the Walburgs moved to Petaluma to be near his wife’s family. He pursued a variety of machine-shop jobs, with an emphasis on metal forming, sheeting, rolling, bending and lathing. These skills would later serve him well. In addition, he worked nights at an architectural office,

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drawing and drafting. Working hard, Walburg eventually bought a home for his family. There was no time for art. With every experience, Walburg impressed his employers. He became a skilled draftsman, praised for his ability to visualize and depict threedimensional objects and details. After a divorce, Walburg moved back to San Francisco to pursue a degree at San Francisco State College. He also worked in engineering for Standard Oil. A summer college class in ceramics transformed his career objectives. “Clay got into my veins,” Walburg says. Still without a degree, he switched to art, minoring in industrial design. Walburg was 29 when he finally graduated. Immersing himself in art, he gave up the idea of teaching, and began a master’s degree art program at UC Davis in 1965. “It was a very exciting and energetic time at the art school with some impressive newly hired teachers, including Wayne Thiebaud, William Wiley and Bob Arneson, just to name a few,” Walburg says. “I was placed in a situation where I learned to question,

challenge and develop philosophies and ideas of my own. This was truly education at its best.” His ceramic work went beyond function and explored a connection to his love of drafting. His work trended geometric and minimal. He explored a wide variety of materials, including corten (or rusty finish) steel that has been a mainstay of his sculptures. After graduating, he invested time and money into his own large-scale works. They were quickly purchased for permanent collections of prestigious museums. He considered, but later dismissed, the idea of moving to New York City. Instead, he accepted a teaching position at Sacramento City College. He continued to create art and experimented with sculptural illusions and materials, including watercolor. His work was praised by critics and became commercially successful on the world stage. When offered a faculty position at Sacramento State, he moved and taught there for 37 years. One can only imagine the thousands of students his ideas and

A watercolor of the "Indo Arch" by Walburg

approaches influenced. He continued to produce dozens of major commissions from around the world. In 2007, San Jose State published a beautiful book on Walburg to accompany a major exhibition of his work. On a recent visit, Walburg shared with me one recollection that was a bit shocking. In his early years, he explained, he had various relationships with Bay Area galleries to represent his artwork. Some worked out better than others. But one gallery owner made him a proposition he had to refuse. “She wanted us to have a personal relationship, and then she’d represent me and promote me to stardom,” Walburg says. “I was single at the time, but wasn’t attracted to her. So I nicely told her I didn’t want to mix business with pleasure. I thought that would be the end of it.” Walburg was wrong. The gallery owner became bitter and blackballed him among other major gallery operators. He was left with no viable gallery representation. “I managed to create a vibrant career despite this,” he says. “But when the #metoo movement came into focus last year, it made me realize that it isn’t always just men using their power to abuse women. It sometimes happens the other way around. It clearly happened to me.” Many decades later, the woman moved to Sacramento and he encountered her at an event. She admitted coolly that what she did to him was not fair. “It did make me wonder how my career might have been different without that unfortunate experience,” he says. These days, Walburg and his lovely wife, Deborah, keep making improvements to their property. They grow vegetables, tend their garden, cook and produce (and drink) their own wine. With age, he has given up sculpture, but focuses now on painting and drawing.

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Visit Our Website: mbwalton.com In 2007, San Jose State published a book on Walburg. The couple have good health and a solid and joyful partnership. But for a man whose early years were spent working so diligently with both his head and his hands, my hope is that Jerry Walburg is able to stay active and productive until the moment he leaves this earth. Sacramento is a much richer place because this artist made our community his home.

SECOND EDITION BOOK After selling out of the first edition of our 2016 book “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital,” we have worked on an updated second edition this past six months. The new book is now available for purchase on insidesacbook.com and at local sellers listed in an ad in this month’s Inside. The second edition features about 30-percent new content and some great new features. I’ll write more about it next month. Join us on Sept. 28 for the Farm-to-Fork Festival on Capitol Mall for a book-signing event. Mention

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MORE ON THE BEE In last month’s column, I mentioned the possibility of The Sacramento Bee ceasing print operations at some point in the future. Elaine Lintecum, the McClatchy Company’s vice president of finance and chief financial officer, took exception to my prediction and insisted the newspaper has no plans to curtail or eliminate its print editions. I consider this good news, as I would mourn the day if The Bee were to ever cease print operations. Lintecum is an East Sac resident and longtime Inside reader. She has generously put two of her own homes on the Urban Renaissance Home Tour, which I organize to raise funds for the nonprofit management of the McKinley Rose Garden. We are thrilled that her beautiful, remodeled home will be featured on our 2018 tour Sept. 23. Lintecum says there is no truth to “industry rumors” that The Bee’s print

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operations will wind down in the next year or two. She says McClatchy and The Bee are committed to serving print customers over the long term (as they have since 1857). She offered to send me annual circulation audits for The Bee, although these are not made public. Additionally, Lintecum explained the role of McClatchy regional editor Lauren Gustus, who I described as “the regional corporate editor.” Gustus edits The Sacramento Bee, plus five other McClatchy papers. Finally, Lintecum offered to help me get the digital access I pay for with a print subscription. For all of which I say thank you.

HOME TOUR, ART STUDIOS, SOIL BORN, COVER ART This month we are partnering to sponsor three great community events. On Sept. 23, we will sponsor the Urban Renaissance Home Tour featuring five lovely new and remodeled homes in East Sacramento. Proceeds will benefit Friends of East Sacramento, a nonprofit I co-founded to manage

for the McKinley Rose Garden and Clunie Community Center. Visit sacurbanhometour.com or East Sac Hardware to purchase tickets. We are also sponsoring Sac Open Studios, the 13th annual, monthlong art event in September showcasing more than 150 emerging and established artists in their studios. The event is organized by Verge Center for the Arts. Tours take place over two weekends, Sept. 8-9 and Sept. 15-16. Visit vergeart. com. Additionally, we will sponsor the Autumn Equinox Celebration fundraiser for Soil Born Farms with great food, wine and beer tastings on Sept. 15 at the farm’s historic American River Ranch. Visit soilborn.org. Some of our cover art in coming months will feature the Inside Publisher’s Awards that we selected from artwork in the 2018 California State Fair Fine Art Competition. We are happy to support these great events that truly reflect Sacramento at its best. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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EAST SACRAMENTO HOME REMODELING TOUR RETURNS

Don't miss the Urban Renaissance Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 23.

he Urban Renaissance Home Tour will return Sunday, Sept. 23, after a hiatus of a few years. The tour will feature five lovely new and remodeled East Sacramento homes, including the extensive property of Gerald and Deborah Walburg with a renovated guest house and artful gardens over three city lots. Also on the tour will be a beautiful remodel of a mid-century-design home and a family-style Craftsman, both in the Fab 40s, and two homes near McKinley Park. One features a complete interior remodel, while the other is a newer home with an interior design featuring contemporary art. Proceeds will benefit Friends of East Sacramento, a nonprofit founded to manage for the McKinley Rose Garden and Clunie Community Center. This year’s funds will help establish an

innovative Butterfly Habitat Garden, a project by artist Daniel Tran, in the rose garden. Tran designed and constructed a sculptural structure for the garden and added butterfly-friendly plantings. Tour attendees are encouraged to visit the new garden. To purchase tickets, visit sacurbanhometour.com, East Sac Hardware at 48th Street and Folsom Boulevard or #Panache at 5379 H St. Presale tickets at the stores are cash and check only. On tour day, tickets are available at 1229 45th St. and will include credit card sales. The tour runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information or to volunteer as a docent, email friendsofeastsac@aol.com.

Volunteers are needed to work at the McKinley Rose Garden on Friday, Sept. 21, as part of United Way's fifth annual Day of Caring. The campaign will mobilize more than 1,000 volunteers for 31 different projects across the Sacramento region and neighboring counties.

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STOP AND HELP THE ROSES

Artist Daniel Tran has installed a sculptural structure in the McKinley Rose Garden that will become a butterﬂy habitat. As the weather cools he will add butterﬂy-friendly plants. Proceeds from the 2018 Urban Renaissance Home Tour, sponsored by Friends of East Sacramento, support the garden.

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Join Day of Caring volunteers on the morning of Sept. 21 at the McKinley Rose Garden. Volunteers are needed from 9 a.m. to noon at the rose garden, which is managed by local nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento. Projects will include weeding, raking and deadheading roses. While some equipment and garden supplies will be provided, volunteers are asked to bring a pair of garden gloves and pruning shears if they have them. Coffee, juice and snacks will be provided. Volunteers will meet at the benches in the rose garden located at the corner of H and 33rd streets. RSVPs are requested, but drop-in help will also be appreciated. To sign up, visit yourlocalunitedway.org/day-caring or contact Friends of East Sacramento at friendsofeastsac@aol.com or (916) 452-8011. Day of Caring brings together volunteers from businesses, local nonprofits, schools, community centers and other entities to work on service projects that will have a positive impact in our neighborhoods.

EDIBLE GARDENS TOUR The Edible Gardens Tour, an annual fundraising event by Soroptimist International of Sacramento, will be held Saturday, Sept. 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour will showcase six East Sacramento gardens where fruits, vegetables and herbs have been incorporated into the landscaping. Each garden will also feature music by Sacramento Symphonic Winds and UC master gardeners who will be on hand to answer questions. Food writer, home gardener and longtime East Sacramento resident

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Susann Hadler came up with the idea for the Edible Gardens Tour when she noticed an increasing awareness about locally sourced food. “I started seeing so much interest in including edibles in landscapes, rather than just having it be flowers and shrubs,” Hadler says. “I think more people are open to the concept of growing food in their own backyard, even if it’s just one raised flower bed or a couple pots of tomatoes.” Bobbin and Patrick Mulvaney are two of the East Sacramento residents opening their home for this year’s tour. In addition to plants, Bobbin has decorated her backyard garden with decorative pieces created out of broken plates. “She’s put together some great mosaic patterns, and she has flowers that are good pollinators that attract bees and butterflies to the garden,” Hadler says. “They’re going to have a big canopy of dried Serrano and Poblano peppers strung across the entryway to their garden, so it should make quite a nice, eye-catching canopy as you walk into the yard.” Other home gardeners on this year’s tour will include a botanist who has incorporated California-native plants into her edible landscape, and a young couple with outdoor furniture that was repurposed from recycled items. Tickets to the Edible Gardens Tour are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the event, and may be purchased at Green Acres Nursery, East Sacramento Hardware, Talini’s Nursery, Fair Oaks Boulevard Nursery, The Plant Foundry or online at ediblegardenssac. org. Children 12 and under may attend for free. Proceeds will benefit

Bobbin Mulvaney's garden will be featured on the Edible Gardens Tour. Brewing as Porchlight Brewing Co., located at 866 57th St. The California State Fair Commercial Craft Beer Competition judging took place over four days in June. Judges considered more than 1,600 beers from AWARD-WINNING BREWS 230 California-based breweries in 62 style-based categories. Sacramento-area East Sac-based craft brewery breweries placed in the top three in Porchlight Brewing Co. fared well more than half of the 62 categories, with in this year’s California State Fair El Dorado Hills-based Mraz Brewing Commercial Craft Beer Competition, winning one gold ribbon and two silvers. Company taking home the top prize for Brewery of the Year. Even more impressive is the fact that two of those wins came in extremely competitive categories. LEAVING THE NEST The big Porchlight victory came After five years of operating in East for All Haze Is Not Created Equal, a Sacramento, Parrot Planet on J Street juicy double IPA brewed with tropical closed in mid-July and moved to Citrus hops and a little bit of lactose, which Heights. Ongoing construction near won gold over 80 other beers in the the East Sacramento location was highly trendy New England-Style IPA apparently a motivating factor for the category. Porchlight’s Hardnox, a move. West Coast-style double IPA featuring Parrot Planet, which not only sells, Ekuanot and Mosaic hops, placed second among 84 entries in the popular Double/ raises and boards the colorful, tropical birds, but also offers training, grooming Triple IPA category. A third victory and parrot-related retail items, is now was claimed by GTFO, a Dortmunder located at 5910 Auburn Blvd. Export lager that placed second in the Pale European Beer category. The victories came almost one year after new owner Manuel Cardoza rebranded the former Twelve Rounds SIS programs for at-risk women and children, including St. John’s Program for Real Change and Roberts Family Development Center.

Sac Open Studios PAINTING WITH THE COMMUNITY

ikki Solone is an artist I met 14 years ago. She was just starting a pet portrait business and offered to paint my two dogs in exchange for advertising. She was so earnest, thoughtful and talented I immediately agreed. For a few years she even worked in our office and was a terrific administrative employee. But eventually her pet and mural business took off to the point she needed to focus on it full-time. I recently spoke to her about a community art project she is hosting. “This is the first time I signed up for the Sac Open Studios, and a friend had said that the artist demonstrations were her favorite part,” says Solone. “That’s when I got the idea of creating a collaborative art piece—instead of showing people how I do my paintings, I would create an event in which I am doing a painting with the community.” The idea evolved into an event titled “What Color is Your Freedom?” She will provide a 4-footsquare canvas with a sketch set up

Visit nikkisoloneart.com to see her online shop of originals and prints. To participate in her Sac Open Studios’ painting project, stop by her studio at 404 Meister Way on Sept. 15-16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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BRICK-AND-MORTAR ACTIVEWEAR Monica Dinon grew her female activewear business by selling from her home and out of a mobile boutique during pop-up events, but now she has opened her first brick-and-mortar location at 3412 Folsom Blvd. in East Sacramento. The 1,000-square-foot Bueno Sport & Swim sits next to Union Boxing and Yoga, with two other fitness studios nearby, making it an ideal location for a store specializing in female workout clothes designed and owned by women. Despite the new digs, Dinon plans to keep selling her tops and workout leggings out of the mobile boutique during future pop-up retail events, while also continuing to offer an activewear delivery service.

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on an easel. Using a color-mixing station, all ages and levels of talent will be encouraged to participate and become artists. Solone will supply participants with an apron, disposable gloves and the supplies needed to mix their selected color. They will then get to add the paint to the canvas, wherever they want. “By the end of the weekend, there will be one large canvas, painted by many hands, representing the Sacramento community,” she says. “The longer I live in Sacramento, the more I love living here and being part of our great community. I’m excited for people to have an opportunity to play with paint and connect with others.” The completed painting will be on display at Clunie Community Center in October and auctioned off for charity. Because Solone has done animal portraits for so long, many people have never seen her other work. “I’ve recently been doing more abstracts, landscapes and I also purchased a portable easel and have done some plein air painting while traveling in the U.S. and abroad,” she says.

in nine different states. Burgerim already has two locations near • Now that The Other Side Taproom Sacramento—one in Auburn and one in + Restaurant by Track 7 Brewing North Natomas. The East Sacramento Co. has been open in the former Les operation across the street from Corti Baux Bakery & Café at 51st Street. Brothers is one of several more outlets and Folsom Boulevard. for nearly two planned for the area. months, I have sampled enough of • For Take-Out Tuesday at the menu to declare it one of the best OneSpeed Pizza, the Rick Mahanrestaurants in East Sacramento. The owned restaurant offers a chef-paired food program was masterminded by pizza, salad and bottle of wine for former Grange chef Oliver Ridgeway, a fixed price of $34. The deal is but the head chef is Noah Mansfield, only available for takeout from the formerly of Mother, Empress Tavern and restaurant at 4818 Folsom Blvd. The Hook & Ladder. His kitchen is cranking seasonal menu changes every week, so out some of the juiciest meats and most check the website at onespeedpizza. decadent side dishes in Sacramento. com/events for each week’s special. Don’t pass up the irresistible Mac ‘N’ • Start your Sunday mornings by Beer Cheese, made with Hatch chilies, getting centered at Sactown Union. garlic crumbs and Track 7 Panic IPA From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., the brewery beer. hosts an hour of yoga in its spacious • Fast-growing chain Burgerim will brewery and tasting room at 1210 66th fill the space at 5801 Folsom Blvd. that St. The best part is that you can finish was originally intended for a Dunkin’ off your stretching session with a crisp Donuts. The Los Angeles-based miniSactown Union #Kolsch. burger chain opened in 2011 and has since expanded to hundreds of locations

• In addition to its weekly live music program, The Shack also has pub trivia hosted by local beer legend Dan Scott every Thursday night from 6 to 9 p.m. Teams of up to four people compete to get a discount on their bill, but even the losers can take advantage of beer specials. The Shack is at 5201 Folsom Blvd. • The beanbag-tossing game known as cornhole has become a staple of American backyards, beer gardens and breweries. But SacYard Community Tap House at 1725 33rd St. takes the obsession a step further by hosting a weekly Cornhole Association League night. Games occur in the spacious outdoor area from 6 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday, allowing competitors and spectators to partake in SacYard’s Tuesday Happy Hour, which offers 10 beers priced at $5 each. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielbarnes@hotmail.com. n

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HOME TOUR SHOWCASES CAPITOL MANSIONS HISTORIC DISTRICT

he Historic Home Tour is back for its 43rd year on Sunday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour is presented by Preservation Sacramento, a citywide nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting Sacramento’s historic places and encouraging quality urban design through advocacy, outreach and activism. This year’s tour will feature six homes built in the late 1800s and early 1900s located in the Capitol Mansions Historic District, bounded by 22nd and 27th streets, Kayak Alley (between Capitol Avenue and L Street) and Matsui Alley (between Capitol Avenue and N Street). Five of the six distinctive buildings— in architectural styles ranging from Colonial Revival and Queen Anne to Prairie Bungalow and Classic FourSquare—have been restored to their previous lives as residences after serving as commercial ventures.

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To begin the tour, stop by the Preservation Sacramento ticket booth at the northwest corner of 22nd Street and Capitol Avenue to receive a program and entry wristband. Limited parking will be available at the 21st Street and Capitol Avenue garage. Secure, monitored bicycle parking will be available at no cost. For more information, visit preservationsacramento.org/hometour.

CALLING MCCLATCHY HIGH 1958 ALUMS Did you know that “America’s Most Typical High School” is right here in Sacramento? According to a 1958 census, that year’s graduating class at McClatchy High School was deemed the “most typical” in America on a “socioeconomic-racial basis,” according to class member Geoff Wong. Over the last 60 years, Parade magazine has followed up with the class of 1958 at their reunions every 10 years to see where they are now—and how they’ve changed. “Over the decades, Parade had several follow-ups on ‘America’s Most Typical’ high school class,” says Wong, a longtime local attorney. “But recently, as the Sunday insert has been shrinking in size, it can

no longer afford to continue this ‘highschool-to-grave’ series.” “Geoff Wong, a shy, retiring ‘fringe person’ at McClatchy, became a big-man-on-campus at Berkeley,” journalist Pam Proctor wrote in the Parade article from 1989. “Now he’s a prominent Sacramento attorney and part owner of The Sterling Hotel. … His transformation was so complete that he has fulfilled most of the dreams on his ‘wish list’: He has been on TV as a latenight talk-show host, written song lyrics and run for mayor.” Curious to see what the other classmates are up to? The 60th reunion will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Valley Hi Country Club on Franklin Boulevard. “We’ve always had tremendous turnouts,” Wong says. “Despite limitations that come with age—this year’s will be a lunch instead of dinner due to the number who are unable to stay awake past 10 p.m.—we still expect a few hundred attendees.” For more information, visit mcclatchy1958.com, call Barbara Cook at (916) 456-6099 or find the reunion page by searching “Class of 1958 CK McClatchy” on Facebook.

SACRAMENTO BALLET TAKES WING This month marks the Sacramento Ballet’s 65th anniversary season—and the first performance under new artistic director Amy Seiwert. Titled “Roots and Wings,” the season is designed to celebrate both the past and future of the region’s premiere professional dance company. “The new season celebrates the Sacramento Ballet’s roots by presenting classical and contemporary full-length ballets at the Community Center Theater and continues to honor the company’s tradition of storytelling at the newly built Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts,” Seiwert says. “We also take flight with innovative approaches to engaging audiences and shifting preconceptions of classical ballet’s possibilities.” The upcoming season will feature works by acclaimed choreographers from around the world, including Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Adam Hougland, Stephen Mills, Penny Saunders, Val Caniparoli, former artistic director Ron Cunningham and Seiwert herself. “The adage states: ‘We stand on the shoulders of giants,’” Seiwert says. “We are mindful of taking on a 64-yearold legacy, following in the footsteps

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Let your young ones play to their hearts' content during Pop-Up Adventure Play Days at local libraries. of Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda-Cunningham and, before them, company founder Barbara Crockett. Their commitment and vision made the company what it is today and I want to honor that heritage.” The Sacramento Ballet presents “Telling Stories,” Sept. 27–30 at The Sofia, located at 2700 Capitol Ave. For tickets and more information, visit sacballet.org.

LEARNING THROUGH POP-UP PLAY Fairytale Town, Sacramento Adventure Playground and Sacramento Public Library have partnered to present free Pop-Up Adventure Play Days at local libraries this summer. This month’s Play Days will take place at North Natomas Library on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.; South Natomas Library on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and McKinley Library on Friday, Sept. 28, from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pop-Up Adventure Play Days are free to the public and designed for children of all ages. Trained “play workers” will help participants use loose parts, materials and tools—from cardboard, fabric and string to wood, hammers, saws and paint—to bring their ideas to life. “Free play is a catalyst for community building, place-making, healthy human development and literacy acquisition,” says Kathy Fleming, executive director of Fairytale Town. “Play is an important way for our youngest kids to learn and grow,” agrees Christie Hamm, youth services

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manager for Sacramento Public Library. “Play and learning go hand-in-hand.” For more information, visit sacadventureplay.org.

LAND PARK GOLF REMAINS OPEN Good news for local golfers: The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously in June to have Morton Golf LLC take over management of the William Land Golf Course in the heart of Land Park. The city finalized a deal earlier this summer with Morton Golf to take over operations beginning July 1. Until then, it looked like the 94-year-old course was going to close after former management company First Tee told city officials it wanted to terminate its lease by the end of June due to heavy financial losses. Thanks to quick work by the city— including Councilman Steve Hansen, who represents Land Park—a deal was struck with Morton Golf, which operates the Sacramento area’s three other public golf courses. “City staff and officials have been working on solutions to continue operations,” the city said in a press release. “And a partnership with Morton Golf will allow for a seamless transition.” The nine-hole, par 34 William Land Golf Course was built in 1924 by William Lock as the city’s first course. Situated in century-old William Land Park, the golf course is beloved for its meandering, oak-shaded grounds and important place in local history. William Land Golf Course is located at 1701 Sutterville Road. For more information, visit williamlandgc.com.

SAC OPEN STUDIOS’ PASSPORT TO FUN Make sure you grab your Passport to record this year’s Sac Open Studios, the self-guided tour showcasing nearly 150 artists in their personal studios throughout the region. The tour takes place Sept. 8–9 and Sept. 15–16. “Ten of us have organized as a group since we’re all in Land Park,” says artist Maggie Jimenez. “We’re passing out Passports in our studios and will give each visitor a stamp encouraging them to visit each studio. We will have a raffle and each of the 10 winners will receive a basket filled with a piece of our art, gift cards and other goodies.” During the tour, check out the studios of Jimenez, Mary Bartels, Kathrine Lemke Waste, Ruth HoltonHodson, Libby Harmor, Judith Johnson, Jean Wiley, Mary Kercher, Elaine Bowers and Bob Thompson to snag a stamp. Since 2006, Sac Open Studios has encouraged the community to participate in special exhibitions, events, workshops, performances and parties where they have the opportunity to meet local artists, view artistry in action and gain new appreciation for the creativity of talented local artists. For more information, visit vergeart. com.

IF WALLS COULD TALK Local student artists are invited to participate in “Tearing Walls Apart,” an immersive art exhibit and festival on

Sunday, Sept. 23, at the former Mansion Inn on 16th and H streets. Built in 1958, the Mansion Inn is a cultural and historic landmark. In its heyday, the hotel hosted celebrities performing at the Memorial Auditorium, and was frequented by Gov. Pat Brown and other political figures. In the decades that followed, the Mansion Inn fell victim to suburban sprawl, and closed in 2012. Last year, SKK Developments and The Grupe Company acquired the hotel with a desire to revitalize the historic building with help from the community, including local high school students who will create temporary exhibits that may become permanently incorporated into the new boutique hotel. Students in grades 9–12 from the greater Sacramento area are invited to apply—no matter their skill level or preferred medium—to transform the space before its upcoming renovation. There is no cost to apply, but the online application closes Sept. 5. Students can enter individually or with a group of up to six artists. Entry is free to the art exhibit and festival, with an optional donation of $10 to benefit the Sacramento Arts Education Consortium, a new initiative of the Office of the Mayor, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Friends of SMAC, Sacramento County Office of Education and all 13 local school districts. To apply or for more information, visit tearingwallsapart.org.

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Generous Results BABY BOOMER GROUP RAISES FUNDS FOR LOCAL CHARITIES

tuart Walthhall is a proud East Sac baby boomer. In fact, he was one of five founders of the group of the very same name—East Sac Baby Boomers—in 2015 that brought together local folks born between 1946 and 1964 to raise funds for worthy causes. “A group of us who all went to school together 50 years ago would get together and have lunch once a month to catch up and gossip,” says Walthall,

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who was born (along with his twin sister Beverly) at Sutter Memorial Hospital in 1951. He attended El Dorado Elementary, Kit Carson Junior High, Sacramento High, Sacramento City College and Sacramento State. “Our conversations slowly turned toward the fact that we had a lot of resources among us and that our lives seemed to have drifted toward helping various charities and causes. We thought, why don’t we form our own group and see what we can do?” The first step was to file as a nonprofit to make sure they could accept tax-deductible donations. Then came the question of who to help. “One of our founding members and current vice president, Steve Cippa, was already working with the American Cancer Society, so we went over there to check it out,” recalls Walthall, who became president of ESBB this year.

“It was great, but it was huge! We knew we wanted to help on a more local level. Then we discovered the underfunded Road to Recovery program, which provides local cancer patients transportation to and from treatments. Not only did they need money, they were also very trackable in terms of knowing exactly how many people would benefit from our involvement. We saw that we could actually make an impact.” ESBB has raised funds for Road to Recovery for the past two years through various means, but Walthall’s personal favorite has been Concerts for Life, a series of live music presentations staged at local entertainment venues. As a musician and a piano and guitar teacher for the past 45 years, Walthall has taught more than

1,500 students. He’s worked out of Skip’s Music on Auburn Boulevard for the past 38 years—so music is really his jam. When the group was brainstorming ways to raise funds for their chosen charity, Walthall suggested booking some concerts, where they could not only sell tickets, but also solicit sponsors and donors, and raffle off prizes “to make money in wads instead of dribs and drabs.” The model was a massive success, so this year the group has decided to add another charity to its roster. They selected Society for the Blind’s Senior Impact Project, which empowers individuals 55 or older living with low vision or blindness to achieve their full potential through free services like classes, discussion groups, seminars and excursions, as well as an eight-day intensive training program that teaches non-visual skills and alternative techniques to help clients maintain independence. “We were shocked at how quickly our membership grew,” Walthall admits. “But that means we can help even more people.” When Walthall isn’t organizing benefit concerts or teaching, he’s also donating his time to causes close to his heart in Locke, the historic, unincorporated community on the Delta built by Chinese immigrants during the early 20th century. “I used to be deeply involved in painting 40 years ago,” Walthall says. “And I would visit Locke because it was so picturesque. When I had the chance to move there in 1983, I jumped on it and eventually formed the Locke Foundation in 2003 to educate the public about the history, culture and legacy of this amazing place.” Walthall now splits his time between a home in Locke and an apartment near Skip’s Music, but he loves the communities equally. He reports that one of the most rewarding charity projects he’s involved in is providing Christmas—complete with presents, a visit from Santa and a giant holiday meal—to the children of farmworkers and their families along the Delta every winter. “The thing about being an East Sac kid is that you’re keenly aware that you’re often perceived as entitled,” Walthall says. “That’s why it’s important to give people the opportunity to pay their good fortune forward. For the East Sac Baby Boomers to be the organization that gives people that opportunity—to be thankful that you’ve had advantages and now be able to help other people—and then see the results of their generosity is exactly what we were after.” For more information, visit eastsacbabyboomers.org and locke-foundation. org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Double Your Tax? One Voice Objects COUNCILMAN HARRIS STANDS UP TO MAYOR

t a meeting on July 31, the Sacramento City Council voted 7-1 to place a measure on the November ballot asking city voters to increase the city sales tax by a full 1 percent, doubling the half-percent “temporary” Measure U sales tax approved in 2012. The original measure expires next March. Council member Jeff Harris opposed the 1-percent tax proposal (more about that later). If approved by voters, the overall sales tax rate in the city will increase to 8.75 percent, among the highest rates in the region. The new ballot measure will bear the same label used for the 2012 tax: Measure U. For clarity, I’ll refer to the 2012 measure as “U 1.0” and the latest 1-percent sales tax hike proposal as “U 2.0.” The expiring U 1.0 tax brings the city about $50 million per year. The 1-percent tax hike under U 2.0 would likely bring in $50 million in additional revenue, for a total haul of $100 million annually. In a stunning development, the Sacramento Metro Chamber spoke out in favor of U 2.0, while Firefighters Local 522 sent a letter to the City Council expressing concern that the 1-percent hike was too extreme and might be rejected by voters. Local 522 also believes the tax increase could lead

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to multiple new programs the city won’t be able to sustain.

CITY COPS, PAY RAISES, MORALE PROBLEMS As expected, the Sacramento Police Officers Association endorsed U 2.0. Earlier this year, SPOA landed a rich new labor contract. The contract raised police salaries across the board and gave 20-percent pay hikes to senior officers with at least 17.5 years on the job. Under the new contract, city police officers are paid base salaries of between $33 and $45 per hour, depending on their experience and excluding overtime, which brings the pay for veteran cops to about $86,400 per year. They also receive a valuable benefits package, and salary incentives for items such as college degrees and special training. In recent years, the Sacramento Police Department had trouble filling its ranks due to several factors. Many veteran officers opted to resign and move to new police agencies, a practice known as lateral transfers. Historically, there are many reasons why cops leave. Sometimes it’s to escape disciplinary problems. Other times it’s for more money. Some officers get burned out patrolling a large city and prefer to finish their careers in smaller towns or suburbs. And sometimes department morale and political support—or the lack of it—plays a role. In Sacramento, the exodus has largely stopped this year. However, there is no question the defections were caused not only because some officers wanted more money and better conditions, but because they perceived a lack of support by the City Council in the aftermath of officer-related

shootings of unarmed civilians. It would be smarter— and cheaper for taxpayers—if the city resolved police morale problems directly, rather than trying to continually “bribe” officers to stay with ever-increasing pay packages. Money has a limited ability to solve deep-seated morale problems. And taxpayers have a limited capacity to fund rich police pay contracts.

CITY PENSIONS: A WAY FORWARD The police salary hikes will have a major “echo effect” on lifetime pension benefits for cops, and the city’s pension liabilities and costs. The city’s annual pension bill is already expected to shoot up $64 million over the next four years—effectively consuming all of the $50 million in new revenues U 2.0 would generate each year. (The $50 million in taxes that U 1.0 has been bringing in annually is already baked into the city’s ever-increasing budget.) One pension reform proposal the city could phase in would be to require all city employees to pay one half of the city’s pension costs. Currently, city employees hired after 2013 pick up about 25 percent of the city’s pension obligations. Employees with more than five years on the city payroll contribute less. The pension arrangements for public-safety workers—cops and firefighters—are inequitable, since many current police officers and firefighters can expect to retire with pensions of more than $100,000 per year, something the

average Sacramento resident can’t even dream of receiving. Eye On Sacramento estimates that requiring all municipal employees to pay one half of the city’s pension bill would reduce the city’s annual pension bill by approximately $30 million— which equates to 30 percent of the $100 million overall that U 2.0 would likely generate. But the city’s workforce is unionized, and pension contributions, like salaries and benefits, must be collectively bargained. EOS is preparing a comprehensive package of proposed reforms that would reduce city costs by more than $100 million annually without reducing core services. The package, which will be released early this month as EOS’ “Blueprint for a Post-Measure U City,” will be available at eyeonsacramento. org.

JEFF HARRIS’ POLITICAL COURAGE It’s not often that a council member stands up to the almost Rasputin-like grip Mayor Steinberg seems to hold over his council colleagues. I’ve observed that, individually, our council members are, by and large, able and innovative problem-solvers, who bring energy and thoughtfulness

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to problems that affect their districts and constituents. But it’s increasingly worrisome how unwilling these same council members have been to use their skills to deal with citywide problems. Instead, their attitude seems to be: “Leave it to Darrell.” Consequently, there is very little debate on major matters before the council. In some respects, a virtual lockstep council consensus on policy can be viewed as healthy, particularly in contrast to the chaos that persisted in Kevin Johnson’s first term as mayor. But Steinberg is having consistency problems. He frequently changes positions on homeless policy, and convention center expansion and operations plans (first cut from $200 million to $120 million and then pushed back up to $240 million). He seems to operate at one speed: pedal to the metal, proposing new city spending and programs at a dizzying pace with little thought to prioritizing spending in a world of limited resources. Meanwhile, the city’s chronic and growing financial problems, like its ballooning unfunded pension and retiree health care cost liabilities—now a $1 billion debt—are ignored. The City Council needs a loyal opposition who is not bashful about expressing competing viewpoints and who can offer badly needed critiques of proposed Steinberg policies, and smart policy alternatives. Jeff Harris had the courage to debate the mayor on the tax-hike issue on July 31.

After sharing his experience in canvassing voters in his district on a possible 1-percent sales tax hike (Harris said he couldn’t find a single constituent who said they would vote for it), he proposed the council place two ballot questions before voters: first, an option to renew the expiring half-percent sales tax and, second, an option to approve a three-quarter-percent tax hike. Harris made the case that by failing to offer voters the option to renew and extend the current half-percent tax, the mayor would unfairly exploit voter fears of service cuts if they failed to approve a 1-percent increase. Harris also noted that if the 1-percent tax hike fails, the council is likely to schedule a special election to seek voter approval to renew the expiring half-percent tax, but at a cost of $2 million. Such a cost could be avoided by including the half-percent option on the November ballot. The mayor used his political muscle to push aside Harris’ proposal and won a council vote for a straight 1-percent hike in the sales tax. But Harris found his voice on the City Council. We can only hope his council colleagues find theirs. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. EOS is one of the authors of the ballot argument opposing Measure U (2.0). Powell can be reached at craig@eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 718-3030. n

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arlier this year, after he moved into Sunrise Senior Living center on Munroe Street, Al Cooper heard there was a resident who might have a story of survival, bravery and luck to match his own. That would be something. Then he met Gilmore Perla. “They told me there was a guy who wore a World War II POW cap, and I thought I should meet him,” Cooper says.

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From the distance of seven decades, the experiences of Cooper and Perla almost defy belief. Their stories read like Hollywood screenplays: German troops searching for downed airmen, Japanese soldiers marching half-starved American troops though sugar-cane fields toward Bataan, scenes of blazing heroism and narrow escapes. A beautiful coincidence delivered the two warriors to the Sunrise residences, where they live as neighbors and pass the days thinking about families and friends and the endlessly amazing fortunes of their lives. Perla is 97. Cooper is 96. They laugh easily and have bright eyes and vivid memories few of us can comprehend. “There were no bowls for rice,” Perla says, cupping his hands to show how he ate on the Bataan Death March. “They dumped the rice into my hands and it was hot. I dropped it. I picked it from the sand and ate it.”

This was World War II. Cooper was shot down by the Germans. Perla was captured by the Japanese. Cooper parachuted behind enemy lines. Perla was forced into the Bataan Death March. Cooper was rescued by partisans. Perla was beaten. Cooper was liberated by the Russian Red Army. Perla escaped through cane fields, helped by villagers. “I hadn’t had a shower in over three months,” Cooper says. “When we met up with the Russians, they sprayed us for lice, you know, de-loused us.” Cooper was an Air Corps bomber copilot. On his 23rd mission, his B-24 was hit by German cannon fire over Vienna. Flying with two engines and wounded by shrapnel, Cooper helped drive the battered plane for 30 minutes before the third engine died. The crew had to bail out. “The flak was so thick you could walk across it,” he says.

The men landed in Hungary, behind German lines. Luckily, their descent was witnessed by Hungarian partisans, who hid Cooper and crew from German patrols. Traveling at night in horsedrawn wagons, the Americans were taken to Yugoslavia. Cooper met the local army commander, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, and joined up with the Russian Red Army. The Russians delivered the flyers to American authorities in Bucharest, Romania, in early 1945. “I’ve learned in life that you meet some wonderful people and you meet some jerks,” Cooper says. “But most people are pretty good.” Perla was a Philippine citizen when he volunteered for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. From January to April 1942, Perla was part of the legendary Philippine Scouts of the American forces that battled Japanese troops on the Bataan peninsula. The defense was

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Court. Cooper retired as CHP deputy commissioner. Perla joined the Merchant Marines. He served in the Korean War and became an electronics specialist at McClellan, Vandenberg and Mather Air Force bases. He liked working on missiles. Today they enjoy each other’s company—a club with tough entry barriers, two good men, brave and lucky. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Telling Tales CELEBRATED STORYTELLER BELIEVES IN THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF EXPRESSION

Storyteller Mary McGrath recently received the National Storytelling Network’s Regional Excellence Award.

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here is an oracle in our midst. In the 40 years Mary McGrath has called Sacramento her home, the seasoned storyteller has brought relief to abused women, entertainment to classroom-weary youngsters, and self-esteem and confidence to adults yearning to perfect their oratorical skills. This summer, she received a

prestigious award from the National Storytelling Network honoring her four decades of distinguished and passionate work. How and why did she choose storytelling as a career? The twinkle in her eye is enough of an answer. But she also adds, “Well, I’m Irish!”

The Omaha native, who loves Sacramento for its Midwest-style topography and no-nonsense, plainspeaking citizenry, has performed locally, nationally and internationally at a variety of venues, including festivals, schools, conferences and storytelling groups. She has also written and produced several storytelling programs, and has taught the art of storytelling for schools, libraries and museums. She wrote the syllabus for a course in storytelling at Sacramento City College, demonstrating how to incorporate her craft into everyday teaching skills. After earning her master’s degree in early childhood education from Sacramento State, completing extended courses at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, and attending workshops at the National Storytelling Association in Tennessee, she did what every exhausted grad student would do post-degree—she jumped on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship. Not to party, but to offer on-board courses titled “Telling the Story of Your Life” during four-hour sessions at sea. The passengers enjoyed her lectures so much that the cruise line signed her up as an official on-board storyteller. “Pretty tough duty for someone who loves to stare at the ocean all day,” cracks the Irish lass. “Storytelling can be about anything under the sun,” says McGrath in a soothing, evenly paced, crystal-clear voice. There are no strict boundaries in the world of storytelling. McGrath believes in the therapeutic value of being able to express oneself, be it at home among family members gathered around the dinner table or in a more private setting like a therapist’s office. To articulate the story of one’s life, including travails, humor, upsets and victories, is the beginning of personal success. “My favorite collaborator in most of my work,” says McGrath, “is my husband Robin Aurelius, who knows exactly when to finish my sentences in storytelling, and, more importantly, when not to!” The couple live in East Sacramento and have three children and four grandchildren. They have appeared at Luna’s Café in Midtown, the bohemian gathering spot that encourages poetry recitals, as well as at The Avid Reader on Broadway, where McGrath uses her book, “The Healing Art of Storytelling,” as an impetus for verbal engagement. “I can’t emphasize enough,” exudes McGrath, “how women especially seize upon public storytelling as a way to combat their demons from abusive

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he rule was professional boxers paid half price for meals at Georgian’s. Amateurs ate free. But the truth was more generous. No fighter ever paid for lunch, dinner or breakfast at Georgian’s when Sid Tenner was around. Sid grabbed all the checks. And Tenner was always around, a constant presence at the card room, restaurant and bar at 19th and J

streets, wandering the dingy halls with a toothpick dangling from his mouth, hustling tickets from a cigar box for upcoming fights at Memorial Auditorium or Arco Arena. For almost 40 years, Tenner was the heart of boxing in Sacramento—a fight manager and publicist. He helped guide the careers of Bobby Chacon, Pete Ranzany, Tony and Sal Lopez,

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that holds no interest for aficionados of the sweet science. “People are turned on by that streetfighting crap,” Jenkins says. “I’m not enamored of it. If they have to stand and fight with a real boxer, they don’t have a chance. They don’t have the chins and they don’t have the defense. They fight on the floor like a barroom brawl.” The exception to boxing’s downfall is Las Vegas, where casinos and TV dollars attract the world’s best fighters. One of Sacramento’s greatest boxers, Tony Lopez, plans to move to Vegas this winter to train fighters and relocate his bail bonds business. Lopez, who ran for mayor in 2016, never left the fight game. The threetime world champion has maintained a side job training boxers at Center Ring Boxing on Franklin Boulevard. But finding a young Sacramento star—the next Tony Lopez—is frustrating. “I have guys who won’t show up, won’t train hard, and I tell them, I don’t have time for this,” Lopez says. Lopez is a hard man to knock down, and his mood soars when he speaks about his latest teenaged amateur prospect, Alex Miller, a Guatemalan raised in Nevada County. “I don’t train amateurs, but I made an exception,” Lopez says. “He hits hard and he’s not afraid, which is half the battle. He can be a champion at 125 pounds.” Chargin would love that. He says, “You’ve got to latch onto the local guys to make Sacramento a fight town again.” With Lopez moving to Nevada, Miller’s progress may require longdistance tracking. The fight game in Sacramento awaits the next Sid Tenner, the next Georgian’s, the next Lopez. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Sweet Dreams FROM BODY LOTION TO BBQ, CONTEST BRINGS OUT BEST IN BUSINESSES

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ive entrepreneurs with dreams and visions of business success are battling to win the Calling All Dreamers competition sponsored by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. The contestants honed their business plans, found a marketing direction, and displayed passion and fortitude. Now their success depends on a panel of judges and an online public vote. The Dreamers competition has picked up steam since its inception six years ago. Early iterations attracted entrepreneurs whose ideas primarily relied on the substantial cash and support services that come with winning first prize. The 2018 finalists have wellconceived ideas, and many already have their business up and running.

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“We are seeing much more vested and dedicated concepts than before,” says Valerie Mamone, the Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s business development senior manager. “We are still focused on storefronts and retail, but less in the food and beverage category.” The champion Dreamer will get up to $10,000 in cash and about $90,000 in support services from more than a dozen businesses. Support comes in many forms and includes advertising from Inside Publications, telecom through Consolidated Communications, legal services from Smith, McDowell & Powell and billboards from Marquee Media. “I think we’ve set the bar pretty high over the years,” Mamone says. “The concepts we’re seeing are very aspirational and a very good retail mix.” The five finalists will go before a panel of judges, all entrepreneurs themselves. Their scoring will be combined with online public voting at downtownsac. org. The winner will be announced in September.

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BLOSSOM BATHHOUSE Developed by Jazmine Bonnett, the concept features a retail store specializing in handcrafted bath bombs, body butters, lotions, shower gels, hand-poured soy candles and body/ facial scrubs. Blossom Bathhouse embodies the “farm-to-tub” movement with fresh, natural and local ingredients. Bonnett believes what goes onto your body is just as important as what goes into it.

KINDRED CRAFT COLLECTIVE Jen Kesler developed a creative workshop and curated-goods space for people who seek stylish, high-quality, handmade local products and modern craft activities. Kindred Craft Collective is a retail storefront and community designed to support local artisans and makers. The crafts on display include a wide spectrum of mediums.

MOONSHINE & CO. NAIL BAR Lien Glankler applied her experience in the nail industry to reinvent the concept for Sacramento consumers. Her nail salon, Moonshine & Co. Nail Bar, provides time for self-indulgence and dedicated customer service in a fun and warm environment. Glankler arrived in Sacramento from Laos as a child. Her work in the nail business convinced her she could provide an experience more appealing than most salons. “We had a concept and idea and it made sense, but we need some validation,” Glankler says. “I just knew we were on to something.”

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NASTY SAUCE Naashon Corbett delighted family and friends with his special sauces. They suggested he take his talents to market. Nasty Sauce produces handcrafted, uniquely flavored sauces perfect for any BBQ with locally sourced ingredients. Corbett plans to expand into chips, slaws and other side dishes. “It was a personal thing for me, but now that I’m in the competition, I’m glad to be a part of it,” Corbett says. “They helped formulate my business plan.” The Downtown Sacramento Partnership has seen various startups, new ideas and business ventures throughout the years vying for top honors in the Calling All Dreamers competition. But there have been some consistencies. “Many of these business owners are putting a twist on national concepts,” Mamone says. “We see millennials seeking artisan shops adding an

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ast winter, my wife and I went to Honduras for three months to help our daughter in a small, grassroots nonprofit called Chispa Project. One night as we left a restaurant, a man followed us to our car. “Por favor,” he said, handing my daughter a note. “PLEASE, can you help me get to America?” the note said. It was signed with a name and phone number. The man’s plea points to the desperation shared by thousands of Latin American families making the treacherous journey north to the southern border of the United States. They come for refuge but are being arrested. Did you ever wonder what makes them take the risk? Why do they trek thousands of miles through harsh

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my daughter, Sara, started Chispa Project. Chispa (pronounced cheez-pah) means “spark” in Spanish. It’s a word Hondurans use to describe people with spark or drive. And what is better than education to spark sustainable change? Chispa Project has a simple mission: sponsor children’s libraries and equip them with quality books in Spanish by working side by side with Honduran community leaders and educators. In the 50 schools where Chispa works, their secret to success is building alliances with communities to design, fund and manage their own libraries. Community members volunteer with the library project and raise a symbolic portion of the funding ensuring sustainability and ownership. Chispa Project, like Hondurans, wants to see children educated and grow up so they can remain united with their families and have choices in their future. They want to see Honduran children dreaming the American dream. Not the U.S. dream, but the true American dream that belongs to all people everywhere. It’s a God-given belief that all people should have the power to prosper anywhere through hard work and community that isn’t stifled by lack of health care, stolen tax money or violence.

Most Hondurans don’t want to leave their home. They don’t want our country. They don’t want our welfare dollars or our jobs. They want their country. They want their home. They want a way to provide for their families. That’s why my new Honduran friends are inviting my readers for an exclusive visit. They want you to sip the best cup of coffee in the world. They’d love for you to scuba dive off the island of Roatan or explore the rich Mayan ruins of Copán or salsa dance in a Tegucigalpa nightclub. Hondurans are incredibly proud of their country. In February 2019, I will return to Honduras. I need 10 volunteers to accompany me and help Chispa establish two more libraries. I need 20 more people to help me purchase 1,500 books for those libraries. If you can help, email me at norris@thechaplain. net or leave a voice mail at (843) 6089715. We are all Americans—North, Central and South. May God help us all to find our American dream! Please visit chispaproject.org/donate. Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain.net. n

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ne of the most intriguing homes in Sacramento hides on a quiet Carmichael lane. Once called Quizas (Spanish for “perhaps”), the compound belongs to Milagro Centre developer Allan Davis. After more than 30 years, Allan is selling his home. Casa Quizas has a history. In 1920, an Armenian physician selected a block of Daniel Carmichael’s Edwardian colony. He brought in Mexican braceros to craft an adobe hacienda. He planted a two-acre garden of exotic specimens. Visitors to Sacramento braved miles of dirt roads to see this botanic oasis. By the 1980s, the property was foreclosed and neglected. Allan and his late wife Nancy (formerly

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Nancy Benvenuti) discovered the home in 1988. They spent three decades restoring and expanding the 6,000-square-foot casa. By Nancy’s death in 2014, the couple had created a showplace that beautifully merged the ambience of Spain with Italy. There are fountain-splashed courtyards. Palms and magnolias shade dainty paths for visiting deer. Vines creep over romantic loggia and salvaged balusters trim every entrance. The main casa is cooled in summer by two-foot adobe walls. Stair risers are patterned with Moroccan tile. Windows allow terracotta rooftop views. Antique lamps and chandeliers are ubiquitous. Reflecting Nancy’s love for glitter, one room is completely walled in mirrors. Allan once owned an antique store, so conversation pieces pop up everywhere: a lion-armed Abyssinian throne crouches in a dining room; a rococo cherub roosts on a kitchen shelf; a Turkish rug brightens the wine cellar. Outbuildings include a guest cottage and generous pool cabana. To visit the estate is to tread—gawping—through wonderland.

4. The property that Nancy and Allan bought for a song is now on the market for an operatic $1.95 million. “We poured our hearts and imagination into it,” reflects Allan. “Our home was central to our happiness. We loved its solitude and gardens, but our kitchen was its heart. When Nancy cooked, the whole house smelled wonderful.

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erald Walburg is a gentle, unassuming man with an extremely large perspective on life. His multiple homes, backyard art studios and sophisticated gardens are proof. But nothing conveys this man’s vast talent for great endeavors more than his art—his really big art. Examples include the 40-foot-tall corten steel “Indo Arch,” installed in 1980 outside of Macy’s on the K Street Mall, and a striking bronze sculpture at the entrance of the Crocker Art Museum. While art lovers can access Walburg’s public creations at any time, the community now has the opportunity to view his private collection during this year’s Urban Renaissance Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 23. Sponsored by Friends of East Sacramento, the event raises funds to support the McKinley Rose Garden. Behind an expansive wall of cinder blocks, adorned with a charming array of rusty metal cutouts (an art piece unto itself), sits Walburg’s three homes, side by side on one large parcel of land in East Sacramento. Also on the property are two art studios, one with a separate rental unit upstairs. Walburg purchased the main house, which he shares with his wife, Deborah, 38 years ago, and completely renovated the home. Ten years later, he bought the house next door and turned it into a guest house and gallery for other artists to showcase their work. When the third house in the lineup came up for sale two years ago, Walburg grabbed that one too and went to work creating a modern, three-story, living and work space he meticulously designed himself. When finished, he and Deborah plan to move two doors down to the new residence.

In addition to the 800-square-foot guest house/gallery, tour attendees will be able to wander the gardens, also methodically designed by Walburg and filled with his larger-than-life metal art sculptures. Most of pieces are bronze and steel, cast and fabricated either in the warehouse-like studio on his property or at Sac State where he was an art professor for 37 years. Walburg, now retired, points to one of the smaller artworks. “This little piece is the oldest in the yard—it goes back to 1970.”

Everything in the garden was either planted or carefully chosen by Walburg. Fast-growing bamboo, deciduous ginkgo and redbud trees, and elegant Japanese maples fill the landscape. A flowering wisteria drapes over an arbor and creeping fig vines decorate the path. The Colorado spruce came from the now-closed Capital Nursery and a magnolia tulip tree with black flowers was acquired at Green Acres. There is a Japanese black pine, a blood orange and a ruby-red grapefruit that is more

than 30 years old. Deborah oversees the vegetable garden, which includes tomatoes and peppers. “I used to do a lot of landscaping, but now I have a young man who is one-third my age,” says Walburg. For the guest house/gallery, Walburg chose rosewood for the floors, sustainable bamboo for the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, and slate for the countertops. His propensity for all things contemporary goes back to his childhood. “At a very early age, I was

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always interested in modern,” he shares. Walburg’s smaller art pieces, such as an assortment of glazed ceramics, can be found throughout the home. Also important to Walburg: music and wine. Both of his studios are wired for sound. The artist’s preference? “Straightahead jazz or classical jazz,” he says. And Walburg has been making wine for more than 30 years. His bare bottles are stored according to the varietal. “I purposely never designed or use a label,” declares Walburg. “I think a lot of bad wine is sold by fancy labels. My attitude is: It’s not what’s on the bottle, its what’s in the bottle.”

Five East Sacramento homes will be featured on the Urban Renaissance Home Tour, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23. To purchase tickets, visit sacurbanhometour.com, East Sac Hardware at 48th Street and Folsom Boulevard, #Panache at 5379 H St. or Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters at 2940 Freeport Blvd. Presale tickets at the stores are cash and check only. On tour day, tickets are available at 1229 45th St. and will include credit card sales. For more information or to volunteer as a docent, email friendsofeastsac@ aol.com. To recommend a house or garden for Home Insight, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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rank Sinatra is singing “The Way You Look Tonight.” At least I think it’s Sinatra. The music has a decidedly Italian vibe, which makes sense because I’m here this evening to learn how to make an Italian dinner. What makes this meal Italian? It could be the dried oregano or fresh parsley in the veggie burgers. It could be the homemade basil buns, herb-and-ricestuffed tomatoes or raspberry Italian sodas. Or it could be the instructor— Lucia Oliverio—as her parents are Italian immigrants. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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For those who haven’t taken a class at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op, I’ll set the scene. The school is upstairs in a light-filled space that could double as a set for a cooking show. In front of the kitchen island, with large commercial stoves, are rows of tables holding bottles of cold water, along with cubed cheese and crunchy breadsticks. Monitors above project images of the wooden cutting boards below, in preparation for the cooking demonstration to come. For $5 you can purchase a glass of wine. Sip it while you read through the recipes and the shopping list. Imagine how you’ll spend the $5 coupon after class (no, you can’t use it to purchase another glass of wine). There’s a complimentary glass offered with your meal, so pace yourself. You haven’t started cooking yet. The Co-Op opened its Cooking School about 15 years ago, offering pasta- and sushi-making classes and teaching knife skills. Instructors still

teach the same “tried and true” classes, according to Julia Thomas, the CoOp’s outreach manager, but have also added new ones. Vegan and Thai are popular. How about Indian, Caribbean or a gnocchi workshop? Take a French cooking class by longtime instructor Jill Simmons. Learn how to make soup this fall with Rick Mahan (chef-owner of The Waterboy and OneSpeed Pizza) or sharpen your knife skills with Mayumi Tavalero. It’s difficult to judge the Cooking School’s impact on the community, but it fulfills a need and occupies a niche. “There are so many people who don’t know how to cook at all,” says Thomas. There’s another way to measure the school’s influence. It offers more classes than most food co-ops in the United States, according to Thomas. The only requirement for each class is that the ingredients come from the Co-Op. Back in the hands-on Italian veggie burger class, we have divided into teams

and tackled three of the four recipes. In my group there were experienced and novice cooks. We diced, measured, mixed, sautéed, and then formed and cooked the patties, while Oliverio supervised, answered questions, and kept everything and everyone moving. When the veggie burgers were done, we made raspberry syrup for the sodas. Staff whisked away dirty bowls and pans. While they plated our food in back, Oliverio demonstrated how to make the basil buns up front. The monitors sprang into action. Gliadin and glutenin “are curly in structure and don’t get along,” she says, so you have to kneed the dough. I’ll never look at dough the same way again. I may never purchase frozen veggie burgers again either. Oliverio’s never had a class that was a food disaster. Recipes always work out. “I learned everything [about cooking] from my mother and grandmother,” she tells me later. At a

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UMP, the bike-share company, is still filling out its fleet of 900 electric-assist bikes in the Sacramento region. Are swarms of electric-assist scooters lurking around the corner, waiting to invade as well? The scooters entering the national scene are the small-wheeled, stand-on variety that made a splash with kids and some adults years ago, not the Vespa-style motor scooters. San Francisco had so many shared scooters on its sidewalks that it banned them in June and instituted a permit system for a pilot program. Only five permit holders will be allowed and the total number of scooters is capped at 1,250. Prior to the ban, scooter company Bird alone scattered 1,600 scooters in

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San Francisco. Rivals Lime-S and Spin added hundreds more. Those three companies were joined by Uber, Lyft, scooter manufacturer Razor and bikeshare company Ofo in the competition for the five permits. In the prior unregulated freefor-all, Bird ruffled feathers by not asking permission for its dramatic foray into the San Francisco market. The city received many complaints about scooters operating on sidewalks (they can go 15 mph). The scooters threatened pedestrian safety and, when left carelessly unattended, interfered with pedestrian travel. Bird in particular came on strong with an in-your-face attitude that mimicked Uber’s initial brash approach in its ride-hail business. Bird has been called the “Uber of scooters.” Despite problematic public relations surrounding scooter rollouts, there are powerful reasons to expect that many more scooters will be coming to cities across the U.S. They might not be coming right to your neighborhood, but for “last mile” trips in central cities, they occupy a niche that no other form of mechanized mobility quite fills.

The economics of the scooter business has proven irresistible to market entrants. The same scooters that Bird uses are available for $500 retail. If rented four or five times a day, companies can recover equipment costs in a month. The potential profits have induced Uber and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) to invest in Lime-S, LimeBike’s scooter subsidiary. It now has a market valuation of $1 billion. Bird is valued at $2 billion. Those are astonishing figures for businesses that didn’t even exist a couple of years ago. There are questions about scooter safety, durability and maintenance, as well as liability issues. Their use can endanger riders, as well as pedestrians. The scooters’ small wheels mean hitting a crack can more than just jar a rider, it can cause a crash. According to a Wired report, Spin says that 2.5 percent of its fleet disappears each month. They can wind up in trees, underwater and in homes. Bird batteries are recharged by gig economy contractors. Bird hunters are paid to find GPS-equipped scooters with low batteries, recharge them at their homes and release them to Bird “nests”

by 7 a.m. the next morning. Reports suggest this work, while having the entertaining aspects of scavenger hunts and Pokémon Go, can be difficult and sometimes cutthroat. Bird hunters have gotten into conflicts with each other. Some try to game the system. But the scooter positives seem to overwhelm the negatives. The consensus is that they are fun to ride. They avoid the delays of car-clogged streets, are more convenient than transit, eliminate parking worries and costs, and are less expensive than ridehailing services such as Uber and Lyft. They can be the right tool for the job. A city worker can get from her workplace to a restaurant for lunch or a meeting off-site up to five times faster than walking. Who knows where exactly we’re headed with this new scooter wrinkle in transportation. Right now, other cities are experiencing and experimenting with this first generation of shared electric scooters. We can expect scooter design and operations to evolve over time—and we can expect them to come here. Lime-S approached West Sacramento earlier this year about putting scooters on the Sacramento River’s left bank. According to transportation analyst Chris Dougherty, the city is working with Lime on potential terms to see if its operation would be the right fit for West Sacramento. No scooter company has yet asked Sacramento for a business permit. Currently Sacramento’s application process has provisions only for bikeshare companies, a category that doesn’t quite apply to scooters. Uber, Lyft and even Ford and General Motors seem to be redefining themselves more broadly as mobility companies, rather than narrowly as car-sharing or auto-manufacturing businesses. After many years of the biggest news in transportation being the look of the latest model of a Ford or Chevy, disruptive changes are occurring at a dizzying pace in how we get around. Scooters (a one-time kids’ toy), bike sharing and ride hailing are in the mix. Autonomous cars and trucks are not quite yet waiting in the wings, but they’ll be rolling down the road one of these days too. 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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Olson Kundig, a leading international design firm, will transform the open space between Second and Third streets, and design a multi-use structure the museum hopes will address the lack of storage, parking and recreational space. There may even be room for weddings. Surfacedesign will focus on landscape architecture. Last year, the Crocker had approximately 275,000 visitors. But the museum shares about 200 parking spaces among permits parkers, visitors and its 94 fulltime employees. The new structure will introduce about 400 new parking spots, approximately doubling current space. Plans also include space to display work from the Crocker’s collection. Of the 18,000 pieces in the museum’s care, only about 5,000 are on public display at any given time. More than providing practical solutions, Calvin believes the development of Crocker Park is an opportunity to create one of America’s great park spaces.

“We do envision that,” Calvin says. “And the hope is that it will provide a multi-use space where we can have additional programing, whether it’s films or parties, or a space to share with other entities out in the community.” Thanks to the unique and diverse nature of the project, Calvin says the Crocker had applications from firms around the world. The design will reflect changing modes of transportation— notably, autonomous and ride-share cars. “The reason we got so much interest from other architects is that we need that garage to park vehicles, but maybe someday not park vehicles, if they decline in use,” she says. “This space has to modify itself maybe to someday not be a parking garage, while it also has to host events and art.” Calvin adds, “So there will be a building, but it will also very likely house our ceramics collection on view, or you very likely can get married in it. It’s also possible that it will have staff offices.”

Thirty architects, landscape designers, board members and donors from the community comprised the panel that ultimately narrowed 50 applicants to three firms, among which Olson Kundig was unanimously selected. The firm recently completed a redesign of the Seattle Space Needle. “They spent a lot of time here,” Calvin says, “and they knew us inside and out. Without us even prompting them, they talked about a future that doesn’t rely on vehicles.” Olson Kundig’s principal owner and lead designer on the project, Alan Maskin, told Inside Publications that the park and structure “will allow the museum to literally spill outside the museum walls. From the design perspective, it’s one of the most interesting, compelling design challenges you can ever be given. In that regard, this will be one of the top projects I ever work on.” According to Calvin, one reason for Crocker’s attraction to Olson Kundig is its reputation for working on “projects in the sky.” In Sacramento, she says,

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“We don’t have enough activation up, with the ability to see the river, the skyline or city-to-city.” “We are just beginning the design process,” Maskin says. “But one initial idea we have is to include a rooftop park or other kinds of elevated spaces. It would be amazing for people at Crocker Park to be able to see the river nearby, the relationship to the Capitol and the urban configuration of Sacramento.” With the design process in its initial stage, Crocker Museum plans to host public town hall meetings. Dates will be announced through social media and the museum website. The Crocker posted

a link in a July 12 blog on its website where community members can share ideas for the park. “We are still in the imagination space, and there will be a lot of community engagement around this,” Calvin says. “We’ll be sure to let media know when that happens. This isn’t meant to be a surprise for the community or an isolated project.” The museum hopes to break ground Oct. 10, 2020, which would mark the 10year anniversary of the opening of the Crocker’s Teel Family Pavilion. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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indirect light and moisture, and are not easy to grow in Sacramento. My husband and I have a long, shameful history as fuchsia torturers. A northfacing wall seemed like a perfect place, but they clung to life there in a straggly sort of way until they expired. When we went on a two-week summer vacation, our neighbor Bill took care of our garden. Upon our return, we were amazed at how good the fuchsias looked, complimented him on his green thumb and tried for years to match his success. He confessed much later that they died while we were gone and he had secretly replaced them. This bit of news ended our fuchsia futility. Kurt and Shelly chose wisely as well. They purchased a bougainvillea for their balcony, where a neighboring cork tree will shelter it from winter cold. At the top of the strawberry pot, they planted lavender, a woody, drought-tolerant plant that does well with sun and good drainage. As predicted, the other plants in the strawberry pot died in short order. The fuchsia is doing better in a more protected spot, but not looking good. Kurt and Shelly are undaunted. “Finding out on your own is some of the fun,” Kurt told me. “We’ve really enjoyed trying things out.”

There’s a lot to be said for learning from experience, although it can cost money and time and be very frustrating. You can’t just buy a plant that catches your eye and assume that it will grow well. You must be aware that not all plants on the shelves are suited for Sacramento or your particular growing conditions. The plants themselves can be problematic, too. As a sales strategy, commercial growers push their plants with fertilizer and put them into stores when they are flowering at their showy peak. Such over-stimulated plants will need continued fertilizer and plenty of water to keep them going. They probably have very crowded roots which need to be loosened and spread out before planting. Plants are offered in the stores when people are planting, whether or not it is the right time of year. For example, you often find parsley and cilantro among herbs sold in late spring, despite the fact that these cool-season plants will bolt (send out flowering stalks and go to seed) as soon as it gets hot. Perennials and woody plants are offered in the spring, too, even though the best time of year to plant them is the fall. Gardeners also learn is that location is very important. Kurt tried for years to grow cactus and succulents in various dark apartments with limited success.

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5971 VIA CASITAS 6336 ASLIN WAY 3736 WINSTON WAY 4627 MEYER WAY 4919 EL CAMINO AVE 6123 ORSI CIR 5212 LYNNADEANE CT 3301 FOGLE CT 4290 WILD WAY 3929 OAK VILLA CIR 4820 DONOVAN DR 4019 MARSHALL AVE 6027 RANGER WAY 2233 MISSION AVE 5112 RICHON VISTA CT 5804 ANGELINA AVE 6144 KENNETH AVE 4011 KNOLL TOP CT 3842 BALLARD DR 5553 KENNETH AVE 5228 CYPRESS AVE 5132 EL CAMINO AVE #106 4045 OAK VILLA CIR 6342 MARKLEY WAY 6104 VIA CASITAS 6210 MEADOWVISTA DR 3611 SARECO CT 4844 CYPRESS AVE 3951 OAK VILLA CIR 5921 MARLIN CIR 4655 PEDERSEN WAY 5231 GIBBONS DR 4753 MELVIN DR 5517 SAPUNOR WAY 2924 CASA NUESTRAS WAY 6454 DORINDA WAY 4920 SAN MARQUE CIR 4546 FAIRLANE CT

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324 11TH ST 500 N ST #406 500 N ST #901 200 P ST #D12

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3240 43RD ST 6018 3RD AVE

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2527 DONNER WAY 1012 YALE ST 1346 7TH AVE 2313 V ST 601 JONES WAY 2706 LAND PARK DR 1812 LARKIN WAY 2665 6TH AVE 871 4TH AVE 3501 CUTTER WAY 2649 FREEPORT BLVD 2749 25TH ST 2616 CLEAT LN 2711 U ST 2600 3RD AVE 2817 FREEPORT BLVD 2547 20TH ST 2510 MARSHALL WAY 1149 CASTRO WAY 1233 LARKIN WAY 2725 13TH ST 1800 3RD AVE 1049 11TH AVE 2666 CURTIS WAY

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4251 MODDISON AVE 4608 P ST 5705 MCADOO AVE 733 51ST ST 1056 57TH ST 1409 54TH ST 5860 CAMELLIA AVE 669 55TH ST 1865 44TH ST 4239 J ST 59 49TH ST 5712 MODDISON AVE 57 TAYLOR WAY 185 TIVOLI WAY 1624 48TH ST 1841 43RD ST 5305 CALLISTER AVE

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$230,000 $235,000 $260,000 $207,500 $605,000 $642,785 $622,000 $625,000 $485,000 $770,000 $460,000 $665,000 $725,000 $1,005,000 $465,422 $910,000 $450,000 $563,000 $804,462 $477,000 $350,000 $541,000 $705,000 $490,000 $675,000 $882,500 $1,153,000 $685,000 $554,000 $525,000 $525,000 $629,000 $690,000 $480,000 $580,000 $465,000 $775,000 $925,000 $637,000 $545,000 $640,000 $850,000 $350,000 $433,000 $530,000

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3718 HILLCREST LN $350,000 2820 SANTA PAULA CT $172,000 2172 RASSY WAY $287,900 3620 POPE AVE $335,000 2440 WULFF LN $295,000 3313 CHENU AVE $325,000 3913 PASADENA AVE $399,000 2690 BELL ST $250,000 4632 SAGAR AVE $510,000 3442 CHENU AVE $270,000 2510 VERNA WAY $345,000 3670 WEST WAY $437,500 3331 ARBOR WAY $270,000 3611 WILLIAM WAY $339,000 2725 MARILONA DR $441,000 2925 BURNECE ST $205,000 2830 AURORA AVE $235,000 4026 CUEVAS CT $377,375 2512 ANNA WAY $230,000 3450 EDISON AVE $395,000 4012 SCOTTY WAY $430,000 2521 FULTON SQUARE LN #20 $125,000 2629 GRANITE WAY $295,000 3521 MONTCLAIRE ST $310,000 3605 RIDGEWOOD WAY $440,565 3300 RUBICON WAY $361,000 3300 MOOREWOOD CT $409,000 4037 ROBERTSON AVE $535,000 3201 NORRIS AVE $470,000 2816 CALLE VISTA WAY $510,000 3840 WOODCREST RD $395,000 2100 JANICE AVE $235,000 4621 ROBERTSON AVE $450,000

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7484 MYRTLE VISTA AVE 307 OUTRIGGER WAY 6852 PARK RIVIERA WAY 6781 ARABELLA WAY 368 DEER RIVER WAY 813 SILLIMAN WAY 6712 TRUDY WAY 7037 13TH 777 HARVEY WAY 149 FORTADO CIR 51 ROSE MEAD CIR 935 GLIDE FERRY WAY 6378 DRIFTWOOD ST 10 RIDGEMARK CT 7044 LAZY RIVER WAY 6625 S LAND PARK DR 721 MELANIE WAY 363 RIVERTREE WAY 1172 SPRUCE TREE CIR 378 MARINER POINT WAY 7104 EL SERENO CIR 462 SAILWIND WAY 6285 FAUSTINO WAY 6470 CHETWOOD WAY 6623 SWENSON WAY 261 AUDUBON CIR 7295 RUSH RIVER DR 1231 GILCREST AVE 16 SEA CT 983 ASTRO CT 7247 FARM DALE WAY 7020 WAVECREST 7659 EL RITO WAY 715 CUTTING WAY

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to be with his fiancée. “But I think it spurs us on to do our work. It’s the question, ‘What’s going to happen when I paint this painting?’ It never comes out exactly as I intended. Making art is like playing golf—sometimes you tee it off and drive it in, another time it’s in the woods. But you have to be open

to the ebb and flow. Discovery is the biggest part.” Emerson’s deep desire to explore his medium—often polymer on panel—is evident in his vibrant color play, as well as in the sharp lines and rhythmic patterns that Emerson describes as being “akin to the development of

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works on small watercolors in a 7-by9-inch booklet during class while his students are working. “When I have a new show coming up, I refer to my notebooks—I have dozens of them now—to say, ‘Oh, I like that rhythm or repetitive thing happening in that sketch,’ and then I translate that to a larger piece.” A rare exhibition of these watercolor sketches will be on display in September at JAYJAY gallery on Elvas Avenue alongside Emerson’s more traditional panel paintings and CSU Stanislaus professor Dean DeCocker’s wall sculptures. The painter says he’s working on a series of small pieces for the show—none larger than 24-by-24 inches—with compositions that are of the “symphonic variety with the counterpoint of jazz.” Namely, motifs of diamond shapes, stripes and rectangles. “After I draw the painting out in pencil, I tape off different areas, paint those sections and move on,” says Emerson, whose most recent commissioned work can be seen hanging at the newly completed Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing on the campus of the UC Davis Medical Center. “When I’m working on something next to an area that’s taped off, I can’t see what’s next to it. When I remove the tape, I get to see if the colors work and readjust if necessary. Sometimes I realize I’ve never seen that color combination before. That’s what makes art so exciting—we can’t control it, which is why we keep going back to it.” Check out Emerson’s work at markemerson.info and at JAYJAY gallery at 5524 Elvas Ave. during the months of September and October. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Well, English is none of those things. He’s a clean-cut, even-keeled Californian interested in serving expertly made, unfussy food at a reasonable price. He runs one of Sacramento’s best restaurants and has no plans to run another. No plans to expand, no plans to change. David English believes in consistency above all else, and it shows after eight years at his restaurant, The Press Bistro. Opened in the uncertain days of 2010, The Press Bistro hasn’t waivered. In fact, whereas you might think opening at the tail end of a recession might be less than optimal, Chef English sees it in the most positive light. “Back in 2010, you could find cooks, contractors, designers and furniture builders all ready to work, and ready to work at a good price. These days, with the local restaurant boom, you’re lucky to get people to return your phone calls.” A few other advantages of opening in times of uncertainty, English says, is that you can be the “new hot thing” for almost two years. These days, you’re lucky to be the new thing for two weeks. As they say, fortune favors the bold, and opening up in 2010 was a bold move. It also happened to be the perfect move for a chef who doesn’t strain for the limelight and doesn’t go in for much self-promotion. “When I was named best new chef in New Orleans many years ago, the restaurant owners wanted me to be part of the public relations campaign. That’s just not me. I don’t like any of that,” English says. “And what’s more, I worried that my ego was more important than the food.” Go into The Press Bistro any night and you’ll see English’s ego, or rather lack of it, on display. There is no job too big or too small that you won’t see him doing in his restaurant. From bussing to grilling, sweeping to serving, you’ll witness English in his white chef’s coat, keeping his fingers in every part of his place. When it comes to the food, little has changed at The Press Bistro in eight years, and English likes it that way.

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